The Sun. — London, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Sabjoined is a memorial presented to Sir Harry Smith by the Board of Defence in Graham's Town, together with his Excellency's reply. It was fol lowed by, another and more lengthy expression of opinion, to which an exceedingly short answer was returned, stating that the views of the Commander in-Chief remained unaltered 1. That the alarming nature of the intelligence received from the upper frontier districts shows, in their opinion, that ithe force now acting within the colony is quite inadequate to the protection of the lives and property of her Majesty's subjects. " 2. That within the last six weeks the enemy has swept off from the district of Somerset alone upwards of 20,000 sheep, 3,000 head of cattle, and 300 horses ; that since the commencement of the war 200 farm houses on the north-eastern border have been re duced to ashes, and that a large amount of bread, corn, and other property has been wantonly de stroyed. "3. That while the frontier colonists have become prostrated by the harassing events of seven months' hostilities, the enemy has received within the present week large accession to his numbers by the deser tions of Hottentot servants, who up to this time had remained faithful to their employers, and being at the present moment in possession of more cattle than before the war, is not likely to be subdued by famine. " 4. That it is obvious that the enemy is rapidly ex tending his operations, while the frontier is receding westwards, so that burgher camps and leagers, which but a few weeks ago were regarded as occupying se cure positions, are now mere outposts : and these too are, one by one, being abandoned, as too weak to re sist the tide of invasion. "5. That the heretofore settled districts are over run by hordes of savage despoilers, before whom the farmers are retreating ; and thus an immense tract of territory, the but recent abode of industry, is relin quished to the undisputed possession of Kafirs and rebel Hottentots. "6. That while these extensive forays have sup plied the Safirs with abundance of food, the re sources of the colony are rapidly becoming crippled and reduced; and that unless this be at once stayed, the quentity of stock will shortly be unable to supply the immediate wants of the inhabitants, who will consequently become subjected to the severest privations, while agricultural operations being altogether sus pended, distress must be increased, rather than dimi nished, as the season advances. "7. It is the conviction of this board that the' burghers of the frontier have been quite unable to protect their own property, which has been already carried off to the extent of several thousand pounds, and, therefore, could not afford your Excellency that personal co-operation in the field which seemed so desirable, and which was so urgently prayed for. Even the population of Graham's Town, so reduced by contingents supplied for the field, for Govern ment escorts of stores to outposts, and by the patrol duties of the Albany Rengers, the Farmers' Club, and Fingoes is, is the absence of any garrison force, regarded by all as unequal to its own defence. The spontaneous and universal desertion of the Kafir servants was a serious misfortune to the border farmers, and being followed by the defection of the Hottentots, the property of their employers could not evi,:h safety be left to their sole care ; it hence became impossible for men so circumstanced to leave their homes, which at the moment of their departure might have been assailed by, or surrendered to the foe, as in too many iestances was actually the case. " 8. That this board is not unmindful of your Ex cellency's expressed intention of maintaining the lie f-nee= forts as a basis of military operations ' but they earnestly intreat your Excellency to tak e the present helpless condition of the colony into your im mediate consideration. " 9. That the establishment of certain burgher posts by your Excellency's orders, in June last, was hailed with gratitude, as a temporary relief; but since that period those posts, so far as established, are found in sufficieut to protect their immediate localities, while the country at large is without any adequate force to resist the hostile inroad. " 10. That recent occurrences in the Orange River sovereignty seem to give indication of the spread there of that combination among the coloured races from which this province is now suffering. The board, therefore, deem it of vital moment that the most energetic me cures for the protection of the colony should be taken, and that without a moment's delay. They are of opinion that the time has arrived when every ablebodied man throughout the colony should be required, in the terms prescribed by law , to enrol himself for the common defence; and that her Majesty's Gavernment should be informed of the urgent and absolute necessity of additional troops being sent hither to avert the calamities which now threaten to engulf the whole of the eastern province. The danger which threatens the country is, in the opinion of the board, imminent; but they confidently trust, by the measures adopted by your Excellency, and by God's help, that the present wicked rebellion may be put down, and firm enduring peace be re stored to this distracted land. " Graham's Town, July 19." REPLY. "King William's Town, July 22. "Gentlemen,—Your memoir' of the 19th inst. reached me yesterday. 2. I have al ways thought that any regular force at my disposal, which could be given for the interior defence of the frontier, would be inadequate for the purpose, although I ordered there every available reinforcement. My proclamations of the 25th of De cember and 33 of February last, the general disre gard of which has led to the misfortunes therein predicted, were issued such being my impression. Had the Levy en masse which I called forth been readily afforded affairs at this moment within the colony would not wear their present disastrous aspect from marauders. lam aware that there is now much difficulty in the farmers on the immediate frontier turning out, owing to the desertion of their servants; but h.'s is not the case on what may be termed the second line ; and I expect much from a commando now in the field under Mr. Cole, the Civil Commis sioner of Albert. "3. It is indeei melancholy to observe the awful state of the country, on which you so truly comment. Major-General Somerset is now detached into the colony from the immediate frontier, and his 'Frontier Orders' of the 13th inst. show that he is ably exert ing himself to meet the evil. " 4. However much I admire the conduct of the Albany Rangers —and I have every reason to do so— I cannot admit that the inhabitants of Graham's Town have done as much as might have been ex pected to contribute towards the general defence, and I ground such an assertion upon their noble conduct in 1835. "5. Your comments upon the defection of the Hot tentots are most just. Lamentable is that defection, and equally unexpected by me as by yourselves. It has cramped my movements and protracted the dura tion of the war, which would otherwise have ere this been brought to a conclusion. "6. I am but too well aware, gentlemen, of the helpless condition of many of the inhabitants of the colony. No one can more regret it than myself; and I feel additional pain because I know that the greater part of the evils which have assailed them might have been averted. Had the burghers at once turned out at the c ommencemen t o f hostilities, we should not have now to d e p ore a ll th a t y ou so truly and lamentably describe. In 1842 I proposed to the colony an im rovement and modificati o n of the system called the 'commando system,' which it most unthinkingly op posed. H a d the force contemplated by that improvi system been at my disposal, the state of affairs would have been indeed far differentosb from what it now is within the colonial border. " 7. The course I have pursued lsw in British Kafraria is the correct one. Had theerved from a persever ance in it, however awfullymarauding parties have recently carried ou t heir ru d s r . edations, there would then have been a general the colony of the whole of the Kafir tribes . In it war that must be attempted which carries with n sped of the greatest g ene ra l benefit to the whonlep. pro n 8, I posted the division of the tr oops under Major-General Somerset at Fort Hare, as a second line for interior defence, and for the burghers to rally round. Mejor-General Somerset has moved this division, with my sanction, into the most disturb e d distric's, and this most ac tive and enter p risin g officer has my authority to establish posts of burghers at every prominent point best calculated to repel banditti. " 9 . You are of opinion that the time has now arrived when every ablebodied man should be requird to turn out. I think this time arrived seven months a g e s and I accordingly then called upon them by my proclamation to what was the result ? to do so. But of post s, burghers will turn out for the occupa tionfeed their horse s, and are aware that 1 ration them and " 10. Two t a u a s n ald their services are important. know, returned to the' of the Hottentot levies, as you of further re in forcements ilr homes. :) from England, and I am in daily expec tationon their arrival, if ihrapeneral Somerset's opera tions should not have the d es i red effect, and if the present d emeanour of the Kafirs, which from the ai recent and combi ne d successe s pondenc Kafraria is decid e dl y t h at of d es against them i n B r i t i sh d on ci t i inue ! , I may be enabled to m a k e a more exte y, tended tion of the force unde r my command spoilt " 11. I have thus ent ere d into .thitssubject w i t h you, gentlemen, with a desire to show tha t, citizan I sympathise in the present calamity,t while "a mcnder•ia-Chief I am exerting myself to the se C t t T to restore tranquillity.—l have the hono ur t o 1 1 3 l e 11 ,3, ut most " H. G. SMITH. 1 " The Gentlemen forming the Board of Defence, Graham's Town." PORTSMOU TH CCT . 20.—Her Majesty's steamer Birkenhead, Cape of Good Hope; John Graham, Har tlepool for M a l ta , leaky. Off Port, Upland, Bremen from New Orleans. THE SUN, ":'"it trti Ulattton SUN OFFICE, Sever: o'Clock. AUSTRIA AND _ THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The following appears in the semi-official Journal de Frankfort of the 18th inst. : " The affairs of France again present a threatening aspect. Revolution will break out a fresh if the President throws himself into the arms of universal suffrage. No one can doubt that in this case M. Louis Bonaparte will only be an instrument in the hands of democracy, which he will then be unable to keep under. 4 , We have said in a previous article that the northern powers were far from meddling in any w ay in the internal affairs of France. If this country , is to be a prey to anarchy, it must undergo the con sequences of such a state of things. We know that the rest of Continental Europe is on its guard against revolution, wherever it may come from. We know, also, that in view of such an event the most perfect agreement exists between the Northern Powers. We know that all the intestine discords now existing in Germany upon material and formal questions will disappear when it becomes necessary to protect home and hearth against the invasion of a revolution which may not be confined to France, but which will be forced to find an issue for its devastating current. "In that case, the political question and the main tenance of society will absorb all other interests. Ger many, instead of pursuing a federal organization. which, indeed, meets with many difficulties, but which is not impossible, will be obliged to have recourse to military absolutism as the sole expedient to prevent a catastrophe with which we are threatened by anarchist absolutism, so soon as France enters into a path in which the safety of the country can no longer depend on the energy of Government, but must fall into the quicksands of popular inconstancy. We repeat, the northern powers will never meddle in the internal affairs of France, but we do not deny that they only await the moment when France will meddle with theirs. "What they fear is a perpetually precarious situation, which may not even offer a gleam of con solidation, which may maintain the rest of Europe on the footing of an armed peace. " May those to whom are intrusted the destinies of France take this state of things into consideration; may they maintain intact their historical missioD ; may they support themselves, not on the sovereign will of the people, which is nothing else but anarchy, but upon the energy of those who have all to lose and nothing to gain, and who perfectly understand that social order only depends on the rigorous accomplish ment of the laws made by those who are interested in their maintenance." This is the return of the Emperor of Austria for the prompt obedience of his orders paid by M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, in refusing to Kossuth a passage through France. We congratulate M. Bonaparte on the great personal advantage he is likely to derive for his voluntary humiliation before the throne of the vassal of the Czar. ITALY. and 27, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Dodge, Liverpool; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. Robert Till, grocer, Worcester, Nov. 1 and 24, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Reas, Worcester; Wrights, Birmingham. Edward Cairns, corn and provision merchant, New port, Monmouthshire, Nov. 6 and Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Addison, Gloucester; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol. John Sykes, jun., tea dealer, Sowerby, near Halifax, Nov. 3 and Dec. 1, at eleven,: at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Bagger, Wal brook-buildings, City; Sutcliffe, Sowerby-bridge; Cour tufty and Compton, Leeds. Jacob Dove, carrier, Leeds, Nov. 7 and Dec. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as signee, Leeds; Shackleton, Leeds. John Deane, chemist, Liverpool, Nov. 3 and Dec. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Peel, Liverpool. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Abraham Kell, labourer, Thames Ditton, Surrey. George Brettell, house agent, North-end, Fulham. Samnel Slater, tailor, Princes-street, Hanover-square. Thomas Files, dealer in boots and shoes, Walcot. William Lindsay, block maker, Liverpool. Alfred Thomas Wood, Baptist missionary, Liverpool. William Jayes, miller, Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire. William Baker, miller, Foleshill, Coventry. Richard Chinn, jun., fishmonger, Knowle, Warwickshire. Thomas Holland, bricklayer, Minster Lovel, Oxfordshire. Robert Martin, tailor, Romford, Essex. John Gathard, journeyman tailor, Newland, Witney, Oxforisbire. William Hughes, painter, Rhyl, Flintsbire. John Swannell, butcher, Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire. Samuel Pilling, coal proprietor, Ince, Lancashire. Edmund Bradley, Cinderford, Gloucestershire. Alexander Hoatson, corn dealer, Halifax, Yorkshire. Stephen Clements, ironmongers' assistant, Bristol. Phebe Roper, Birmingham. The official Gazette, 11 _Monitore Toscano, contains three decrees suppressing entirely the importance of the Tuscan Minister of War, cud putting the entire control of the military resources of the Grand Duchy into the hands of Austria. The first decree is as MARKET INTELLIGENCE and 301 to 311 103 for other sorts. Cod is cheaper, limited parcels sold at 341 105 to 35/. There is a reluct ance to operate in Southern Oil, and common to fine quality can be obtained at from 301 10s to 321. Holders of Sperm, however, yet evince confidence, and several transactions have taken place at from 841 to 87/. Head matter is worth 931 to 951 pee tun. Lard Oil is held for 49a to 51$; Teel Seed at 293 per cwt. THE UNITED STATES' ARCTIC EXPEDITION. (From the Nee, York Tribune,) The annexed letter from surgeon Kane to Mr. Henry Grinnell will be interesting, as giving the opinion of a competent observer in regard to the question of Sir John Franklin's position : " Rensselaer, near Philadelphia, Oct. 6. " My dear Sir, —You ask me whether I have changed the views I expressed to you when we parted in May of last year as to the fate and actual position of Sir John Franklin's party, and you remind me that I then thought the northward passage, by Wellington Channel, the one which they had most probably taken. " I have seen nothing since to change this opinion, but many things to confirm it. You know that Sir John's instructions gave him the alternative of this course, after making a decided effort to proceed to the southward and westward from the neighbourhood of Cape Walker, and I need not renew to you the argu ments that have demonstrated his purpose to avail himself of this discretion. "Now our own observation, as well as all the in formation which we have derived from other sources, makes it seem an almost unvarying fact, that the ice holds much longer in those parts of the Sound which are to the west and the south of Wellington Channel than in the channel itself. I should think it quite safe to say that, under ordinary circumstances, the navigation, though obstructed and difficult, would be practicable some weeks earlier by the northern than the western route. It seemed to me, too, very de monstrable from ascertained facts that the earlier leads occur on the eastern side of Wellington Channel. The currents from the Pole towards the Equator are modified, of course, by the rotary movement of the earth, and our own experience during our long drift down the western shores of Baffin's Bay confirmed the representations of all the whalers we met, that in the first months of the season the greater masses of Polar ice track their way along the western coasts, leaving the eastern comparatively free. " The position of Franklin's party in the winter of 1845-6 has now been definitively ascertained. It was in the cove between Cape Riley and the so-called Beechey Island, which is, in fact, a peninsula, forming the south-eastern Cape of Wellington Channel. His encampment occupied the narrow strip of low land between Lancaster Sound and this channel, and com manded a full view of the ice-clad waters of both. The traces of his parties continued northwardly. We even discovered the unmistakable marks of sledges extend ing toward the north. These were, in one place, well defined on the shingle limestone, and, further on, in the hardened snow of former years. There can be no doubt, then, either that Sir John did in fact proceed north from his first wintering ground, or that, at least, he made observations in that direction to a con siderable, and we do not know how great a distance. " So much for deductions from the immediate re sults of your expedition, jointly with the British ex ploring parties; I say jointly, for you are aware that all moved together, and that the discoveries at and near Cape Riley were made at the same time by gentlemen of both nations. " Whether Sir John Franklin had penetrated to the southward and westward before making harbour at this point is a question of minor importance. We know that he wintered near the Great Channel, and, from what all the world knows of the character of Sir John, it is not in the slightest degree probable that he would rest at Beechey after the ice had opened along the eastern shores of Wellington Inlet, in the mere hope of being able to penetrate to south and west at some later period. If the ice did become detached he would avail himself of the earliest leads even if be was resolved to return on his track when the season should be more advanced, in order then to push his way toward Cape Walker. He certainly did leave his quarters early is 1846, and there are some marks which might support the idea that he did so somewhat hastily, as if availing himself of an unex pected pathway. If there are no traces of him in the direction of Cape Walker, as there are none of later date than 1845-6 in the neighbourhood of Beechey, the inference seems to me irresistible that he passed northward by Wellington Channel, and that be did not return. " He might not be able to do so without having en countered any fatal accident. We were ourselves, as you know, caught nearly opposite poor Franklin's first sojourn, and borne northward in the ice for 15 days, airectly against the theoretical currents, and with great rapidity. We saw at this time high and dome-like ranges of land trending north-westwardly a-head of us, in the latitude of 70 deg. at least, and probably much further. The axis of the polar drift must then be more or less from the north-west,l and must have its seats of greatest ice accumula tion along the northern coast of what we call Cornwal lis's Island. Into the region north and west of this, which for aught we know may be open always, and which must be open sometimes, as we know, a con tinuance of our drift for a few days longer would have carried the American squadron ; and it is net difficult to imagine that Sir John, if caught in the ice of Wellington Channel, may hare been impelled by a like cause in the same direction, as certainly if be was not so caught he would follow the open water. I should say that he is now to be sought for north and west of Cornwallis's Island. " As to the chance of the destruction of his party by the casualties of ice, the return of our own party, after something more than the usual share of them, is the only fact that I can add to what we knew when we set out. The hazards from cold and privation of food may be almost looked upon as subordinate. The , the narwhal, the white snow hut, the fire and light from the moss lamp fed abundant stores of migratory w w i h t a h l e a l u n b d b o e c r , c a s t i h o e n a s l l e y a I birds, would sustain vigorous life. The scurvy, the worst visitation of explorers, deprived of permanent quarters, is more rare in the depths of a polar winter than in the milder weather of the moist summer, and our two little vessels encountered both seasons with out losing a man. " My impressions are, I think, sufficiently definite as to the manner in which such ,an expedition should proceed with reference to its great object ; but I will not inflict on you a longer letter upon topics which it has not been within my official sphere to consider, and on which my friends, the officers with whom I have associated, are better qualified to decide than myself. —I am, dear Sir, very truly yours, " E. K. KANE, P. A. Surgeon, U. S. Navy. " Mr. Henry Grinnell, New York." ollows (From the London New Price Current, Oct. 21.) SUGAR.—To-day there was less excitement in the West :India Sugar Market, yet importers were firm, and obtained rates equal to those of Friday; there was also a good home trade demand. The pur chases are 750 hogsheads, &c., including at auc tion 179 hogsheads 3 tierces Barbadoes, which went at the previous value; fine yellow realising 393 to 393 6d; good mid to goud 36s 6d to 384; mid 353 to 363; ord 33s to 333 6d; and one lot fair grainy 36s per cwt. These are full terms, for auction on Thursday and Friday 2,500 chests yellow Havannah, and 6,000 bats Bengal are declared. REFINED,—To-day Refined Sugar was in good de mand fur home trade purposes; and there are few sellers of Brown Grocery lumps, under 45s per cent. Foreign Crushed Sugar sells freely for exportation but in British, sake are yet small at 278 6d to 283 per cwt. MAURITIUS. —This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was less in request, but full rates were obtained for better sorts of yellow; whilst inferior and brown went rather cheaper. At auction 4,682 bags were sold; fine yellow went at 37s 63 to 38s 6d; good 363 to 37s 6d; and and good 33s 6d to 33s 6(1; low 32a to 335; good to fine brown 293 6(1 to 31s 6d; ord to mid 27a 6d to 295; and Refining sorts from 30s to 36s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—TqIs afternoon there was a decrease in the demand for Bengal Sugar, and rather lower rates were taken for all soft qualities, but dry and grainy g:- ncrally enstained the previous value; at auction of 5,240 bags rather more than half sold, low and mid white Benares at 36s to 38s, damp 34s 6d to 363, mid and good grainy 37s 63 to 40s 6d, date yellow 31s to 355, ord ditto 29s to 30s, fine and superior like Mau ritius 36s 6d to 38s 6d, ord to good 82s to 365. Of Madras a small part only of 4,107 bags found buyers at easier rates, 31s to 31s 6d for fine grainy brawn and common yellow. FOREIGN.—To-day the export demand was good for Foreign Sugar, and full rates were obtained. A cargo of 3,300 bags brown Pernambuco was sold at 28s 6d, and some parcels of Manilla at 29s to 33s per cwt. There is, however, less business doing for home consumption. At auction 82 bags Bahia were sold at 32s for fair yellow. MOLASSES.—In West India purchases have been upon a more extended scale, and prices ceased to decline. Of Antigua 150 puns common quality has been sold at 12s 64 small parcels better sorts 13s to 13s 6d; 100 puns St Kitts and St Lucia lls 7d to 12s 6d. In Bengal and Mauritius sellers are inclined to accept the low terms of is to I ls 6d. The value of Cuba and Porto Rico is 13s " We, Leopold 11., &c.—Considering our decree of this day's date, by which, i❑ consequence of the retirement of Lieut.- General Cuuat Cesar de Laugier, the charge of Minister Secretary of State for the War Department is become vacant, and wishing to provide for the direc tion of military affairs as well us for the defini tive organization of our troops in the manner most suitable to the future wants and circumstances of the state, decree as follows :—' Art. 1. The decree of Oct. 29, 1848, is revoked, according to, the terms of which the general command of the troops of the Grand Duchy having been suppressed, the duties relative thereto were attached to the Ministry of War. Art. 2. The said ge niral command is re-established, with the prerogatives and attributions with which it was invested at the pe riod of its suppression, and more particularly with those determined by the instructions approved by the royal motu proprio of February 19, 1820. We re serve, however, to ourselves the right of adding thereto any modifications which may appear neces sary. Art. 3. I❑ consequence of the preceding articles, the attributions of the Ministry of War will beccme again such as before 1848 belonged to the old Secretary ship of %\ ar. Art. 4. The general inspections of the troops cf the line and cavalry, instituted by the decrees of Nov. 8, 1848, and Sept. 20, 1850, are suppressed, and their duties transferred to the general command. Art. 5. The staff at present attached to the Ministry of War is dissolved, and the individuals composing it placed in dis posability. Art. 6. The present functions cf the Minis ter of War arc to be reformed and recast in proportion commensurate with the restricted duties of this depart ment." The next decree charges provisionally with the Ministry of War M. Baldasseroni, President of the Council and Minister of Finances. The third decree appoints, by its Ist article, the Cbevalier Federigo Ferrari da Grado, formerly lieutenant-colenel in the Austrian army, to the rank of major-general in the Tuscan troops, and invests him with the general military command of the Grand Duchy. The 2d article assigns to General Ferrari the pay attributed to his rank by the Royal decree of May 20, 1850, besides the per quisites formerly attached to the post of commander general. According to the 3d article General Fer rari is to propose and execute all that he deems of most use for the definitive organization cf the troops of the Grand Duchy. The 4th article directs that these propositions are to be presented for the approba tion of the Grand Duke, through the channel of the Minister of War, who will make known to the com mander-general the decision of the Sovereign. It is reported that the Tuscan officers of the guard have offered to resign their commissions. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —Traffic for ,he week ending October 18, 1851: Passengers (20,341), goods and parcels, horses and carriages.. £3,893 16 8 Corresponding week in last year for Glasgow and Ayr, and Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle Railways ••• Glasgow, October 20. ... £3,074 2 9 COURSE OF EXCHA Amsteraam .......... 11 19 Ditto, three months 12 OM Rotterdam • • 12 OS 2S 50 B russels •• • . , 25 80 aamburgh ......M.B. 13 1034 Paris, 3 dayesight 25 30 .NGE.-('PHIS DAY, Ditto, 3 months .... 25 50 Marseilles .. •• •• •••• •• 25 50 Boardeaux•• •• .• •• • • Frankforton.Maino.... 120% •....... •• •• Vienna, effec• fib •• •• •• 12 40 Trieste, ditt0.......... 12 40 Petersbargh,9ll.Rble.. Madrid •• .. •• •• •• •• •• 49% Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 40 Bareeloaa •• •••• •• •• •• SaTilla•••••••• •• •• •• •• Gibraltar...... Leghorn 30 67% denoa..•••••••••.".. 25 66 'Milan .. e• •• •• •• •• •• •• Venice•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Naples ...... •• •• •• •• 404 i •• •• 121% Messina •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 121% Lisbon— •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 53 Oporto— •• •• •• •• •• •• 53 Rio Janeiro guenos Ayres .. • . New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia .. .. • • .. .. VILIOEB OP BULLION, 1U os. Foreign Geld inbars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 4 New Dollars ••.... 0 4 10% Silver la bars 0 5 0% to 13s 6d. Prices of Molasses are 33 to 4s lower than last season. West India Honey continues to be wanted; good to fine at 44s to 58s; other sorts 563 to 42; but the supply is more pleniful of inferior. Prices are low for Tamarinds. West India selling at 24s to 345; and East India from 8s to 14s. COFFEE.—This afternoon Coffee met less attention for home consumption and exportation; prices also declined 6d to is per cwt at public sales, but the chief portion offered found purchasers. Of Jamaica 84 casks 303 bags realised for, fine fine ord 46s to 48s, fine ordinary 42a to 455, low to good ord 3Si to 41s, and triage 36s to 38s: 240 casks and 280 bags Plantation Ceylon, good middling 54s to 555, middling 51s to 535, low middling 49s to 50s, fine fine ordinary 46s 6d to 48s 6d, other kinds 43s to 465, pea berry low to good 51s to 61s, and triage 35s 6d to 425: 262 bags Native Ceylon, low to good ordinary 40s to 41s, and damaged 37a to 39s per cwt. TEA.—Although a good business has been concluded in Congou, yet there is little improvement to notice in rates, there being a heavy stock, and parcels of the new crop having already begun to arrive. The prices paid for low to good ord are 94d to 9-id, mixked blackish loaf 10d to 11d, strung ditto 1 lid to Is Oid, superior and Pekoe kinds Is Id to Is 6d. In Oolong larger :purchases have been made at is to is 7d; yet merchants are inclined to rea lise. Souchong is rather more in request, moderate terms are however acceded to; common to mid selling at 98 to I Id, good to fine is to 2s. There is a reluctance to operate in Green; prices are not lower, but parcels are on offer, especially of inferior and mid, and for which a reduction is looked for. Prices for Hyson rule at is to is 3d for ord to mid, is 4d to 2a for good to fine, 2s 2d to 2s 9d for superior, young Hyson is 2d to 2s Bd, Canton, 10d to Is Id, Imperial ltd to is ld, Hyson kind Is 2d to 2s 7d, Gunpowder is 2d to 3a 6d and Canton 9d to is ld. There are sellers of spurious Scented and Pekoe Teas at low rates, few buyers are, however, to be found. In gcnuine sorts a fair business is doing, but previous terms are wi:lingly acceded to. PEPPER.—To-day at auction 143 bags white realized 6id to 6d for middling and good middling, and da maged 6 3 td to 6-ad ; and three pkgs Cayenne is 6d per lb. GINGER.—To-day at auttion 180 pkgs Jamaica sold at from 4ls to 71s for low to good quality ; 440 bags Af rican 23s 6d to 243 for small, and 50 cs Calicut 28s 6d to 90s for mid, these are all moderate rates. SPIRITS.—Fine Jamaica Rum met with increased at tention, and realised firm rates: the transactions are 300 puns at 3s 2d to 3s 8d for 34 to 38 over proof, with a small proportion at 3s 9d to 4s 2d for choice. Other sorts, however, are purchased with reluctance, and there aro sellers of good 32 to 34 over at 2s 9d to 3s, good mid 2s 6d to 2s Bd, ord and mid 28 to 32 over 2s 3d to 2s sd. In Demerara several transactions have taken place at 2s Id to 2s 4d for 30 to 40 over prcof, and at is ltd to 2s for 26 to 28 over. East India is wanted at la 3d to is 3id proof; few paroels are, how ever, to be obtained. Leeward Island is held fur Is 5d to is 6d proof; there are, however, now few buyers. Havannah is not to be obtained under is lid proof. Ram is id to 2d per gallon cheaper than in the previous sea son. Few transactions have taken place in brandy, and and there free sellers of Cognac best brands of the vin tage of 1850 at 4a 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto 5s to 5s 2d, older 5s 6d to 6s 2d, low and mid sorts 2s 9d to 3s 10d, and Bordeaux 2s 2d to 2s 4d. In the market for British made Spirits there is still firmness, and a good business is doing at 9s 5d to 9s 6d p nett case. Gin at 7s 10i for 29 under proof. Geneva is effering at la 6d to is Sd, fine is 9d to 2s; purchases are trifling. RICE.—To-day full rates were demanded for East India Rice, but few buyers were to be met with.. At auction 3,300 bags Bengal were taken in at 9s 6d to 103 for good middling and good white, and broken Bs, but damaged sold at 6s to 9s ; 200 bags Madras at as 6d to 9s 6d for middling and fine sound Coringa grain, ordinary at 7s 6d to Ss. Of Jamaica Arrowroot 1,000 tins sold at 4d to 7d per lb. INDIGO.—To-day during the progress of the sale 147 chts have been withdrawn, and 1,884 chests, including 808 withdrawn; have gassed. Several paro els of very low Madras and :Kurpah were chiefly taken in at the last sale's prices; the few lota of better quality brought the rates previously established. Proprietors bought in 547 cheats. Of the quantity which has now passed the sale, 16,389 chests, 6,085 have been withdrawn, 2,847 chests bought in, leaving 7,457 chests sold. Cocumw..—Prices have undergone no further re duction, but the home and export demand has been only for small parcels. Honduras silvers, low to mid at 2s 9d to 3s, better kinds 3s Id to 3s 7d, black from 3s 2d to 4s 8d; Mexican silvers, 2s 98 to 2s 5s 11d, black 35 to 3s 8d; and Teneriffe, from 3s 3d to 3s 10d. SALTPETRE.—Prices are not lower, but the private purchases have been small in Calcutta at from 25s 6d to 28e 6d for low to fine quality. At auction 960 bags were taken in at from 25a Gd to 26s for refraction 13i to 14i per cent, and 730 bags Bombay at 25s for 11i to 30 per cent. Operations in British Refined are limited at 29s to 30s. Nitrate of Soda is held for 14s 6d to 155 but there tar few buyers. TALLow.—Although there are sellers of Russian on the spot at a further reduction, yet home dealers cannot be induced to purchase more than sufficient for their present wants. Fine old yellow Candle ik offered at 375, and new 37s 6d to 33s per cwt; from these terms, however, little variation is looked for. Opera tions are limited for delivery, and the rates acceded to are 378 6d for new up to the close of the year, and at 38s for the early part of 1852. Home melted is cheaper, limited transactions having taken place at 37a to 38a net etahseohrii.e are sellers sorts are also lower, and supply exceeds dealers wants. e ra t cwt. The contracts concluded small scale both by shippers and home dealers, although n t s he i m n Linseed dt t Oil continue upon a at purchases have bene oil is draeleivseorfy2a2rse9sdmtoalrast 29sper plentiful. In Rape Oil many 6d, and the sup pl y to 32s ,• Refined ng upward movement continues . ' at 34 at 30s to 30s 6d, pale 31s 6d be much wanted; and Forei gn o 3 d 3s to 54 8 . Palm continues to made, yet no advance has been produced—brown selli ng 28s. Cocoa Nut is g to b p sk e sorts realised 27s to went t a large public sale of 34s to 36 8 for mid There Cnn hi Cochin sA demand, and the t l o oo fin p e ac q k u a a g l e i s ty o . f Olive Oil, and merchants remain firm :Illness doing in Gallipoli 411 10 to 42/10s, and other sorts 4e(ynot o bta 4 in i for tun. For Seal Oil a brisker demand exists i n Iper conse quence of 321 to 321108 having been taken for pale CHARGES OF ADMINISTERING POISON. On Thursday, the 2nd instant, Mary Rowlinson, widow, Charlotte Sparkes, single woman, and two illegitimate children of the latter, who resided with William Rowlinson, the father-in-law of the former, at a place called Sowley-green, about a mile and a half from the village, on the way to Stradishall, dined off dumplings and potatoes ; old Rowlinson, who is about 80 years of age, being absent at the time. Whilst eating the dumpling, they perceived a hot and scalding sensation in the throat, and, being afterwards seized with pain in the stomach and vo miting, they became alarmed and their neighbours were called in, when suspicion arising that they had taken poison, a portion of the dumpling which re mained was given to a cat and a dog, both of which were similarly attacked with sickness. Mr. Baker, surgeon, of Thurlow, was in consequence called in and, by the application of proper remedies, the suf ferers are all likely to recover. A portion of the: vomit of the cat and dog, and some of the flour from which the dumplings were made, were sent to Mr. Deck, the well known chemist, at Cambridge, for analysis, and were found to contain a considerable quantity of arsenic. On Wednesday last, an investigation into the case took place before the Rev. W. Mayd, at the Crown Inn, Great Thurlow, when, in consequence of circum stances which had transpired, a warrant was issued against William Rowlinson, and be was brought be fore the magistrate, and remanded until Saturday. On Saturday an examination took place at the office of Mr. Jardine, the clerk to the magistrates, at Haverhill, when Mr. White, a shopkeeper at Great Thurlow, deposed that the prisoner bought some arsenic of him about a month ago, under the plea of destroying rats and mice, and Mr. Deck, of Cambridge, proved the presence of arsenic in the flour and the vomit. It also appeared that the prisoner not only was himself absent from dinner on that day, but had also cautioned Charlotte Sparkes and her children not to eat his daughter-in-law's food, for fear of sickness. The prisoner, who appeared very dejected, and had refused all food for the first two days after his apprehension, was remanded to Clare station. It appears that Mary Rawlinson and her husband resided with the old man, and after the young man's death his widow continued with her father-in law, and Sparkes and her children were lodgers ; that for some months past a man named Thomas Jar man had bcen paying his addresses to Mary Rowlin son, and they were to be married this Michaelmas, but the old man objected to the match, partly in consequence of the greater portion of the furniture in the house belonging to the daughter-in-law, which she would remove on her marriage ; and she had had frequent disputes with him on the subject. Rowlin son himself was considered a res p ectable old labourer, and received part of his maintenance from the parish, but on his apprehension the sum of 11/. 53. 0,0. w as found in his pocket, with a watch, &c. It appears that for some time past considerable sickness has prevailed at So wle y - g reen, and twenty four persons connected wit h the families re siding there have been similarly affect ed. One p oo r woman, after visiting Mary Rowlinson, her sister, ab ou t Six THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, OCT. 20, 1851. The Qaeen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting the office of a Vice• Chancellor unto Richard Torin Kiodersley, Esq. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed ander the Great Seal of the United King dom, granting the office of a Vice-Chancellor unto James Parker, Esq. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 29. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Busvargus Toup Nicolas, Esq., to b 3 her Majesty's Consul in the Society or Leeward Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to ap point John Augustus Longworth, Esq., to be her Ma jesty's Consul at Monastir. DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 21. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Hens ley, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Prince Edward Island. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, OCT. 18. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant Frederick Cockburn Griffin to be First Lieutenant, vice Carden, deceased, Oct. 3. Corps of Royal Engineers—S e cond Lieutenant John ClaytonCowell, w i t h t emporary ran k , to b e S econ d hWan_lic oEr has appointed L At a . Lieutenant, with per manen t ran k, J une 19, 1850. The Lord C Henry Gray Bry• done, of Petworth, in the county of Sussex , Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the Hi • gh Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. James William Gordon vine merchant, Cullum street, Fenchurch-street. BANKRUPTS. GQorge Frederick Niebour (and not .. Nilbour ~ a before advertised) , m us ic sell er, Slough, Buckinghi am: , shire, to surrende r, Oct, 23, a t eleven, ad Nov. 24 at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy • Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall - street; Linklaters, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house. Joseph Marriott, italian warehouseman, Gracechurch street, City, Oct. 23, at two, and Nov. 27, at twelve,at the Court of Bankrup tc y . Bell, official assigne e , Cole man-street -buildings; Linklaters, Charlotte-row, Man sion -house; _Berkeley, Lincoln's Inn. Emanuel Simon Howard and Thomas Stone, builders, Norwich, Out. 30, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 27, at two, s at the Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott and Wheatly, uthampton-buildings; , s • Miller and Son, Norwich. oc e t. h 3 s o rl , e a fi t Eankrupte Street; vivi.lb Robert Oct. 31, at tweillin of Bankruptcy street; Ithode;, La " Cooper, kre ' cer, High-street, Wandsworth, eleven, and Nov. 27, at ore, at the Court of Johnson, official assignee, 13asinghall vvii7ne, Tooiey-street. Jearrad, jun., builder, Oxford-street, Ye, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Court wards. official assignee, Basinghall . Qeorga Haynes, .and Rhodes, Chancery-lane. -41er s Leek, Staffordshire, Nov, 6 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1851. weeks ago, and partaking of her food, was taken ill and died in about six hours after. The conduct of Mr. White in selling the arsenic, in violation of the late Act of Parliament, will no doubt be the subject of magisterial inquiry.—Bury Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Catherine Abbott, alias Yates, was brought up on the charge of being drunk and disturbing the con gregation of St. Bartholomew's Church, Moor-lane, Cripplegate, during the performance of divine service. The Rev Wm. Denton, clergyman of that church, said—On Saturday morning the prisoner called on me to upbraid me for appearing against her at the sessions, where she was indicted for keeping an im proper house, and in which she imagined I was pro secuting. In the evening she came into the church during the performance of public worship, and seated herself directly in front of the pulpit. She beckoned to her husband, who was standing at the door, but finding he refused to come, she rose from her seat and walked all down the church, bawling out as loud as she could, " You're a pretty clergyman to preach to the poor," and other offensive expressions, to the great annoyance of the congregation and interruption to the service. I was reading at the time, and raised my voice to try and drown her noise, but all to no purpose. I gave her into custody after the service was over, not so much with the view of punishing the prisoner as preventing the recurrence of this nuisance, as several improper houses have recently been routed out of my district, and my congregation may be sub jected to further annoyance unless some example is made. The Verger stated he heard the prisoner as she was leaving the church call out, "Bad luck to you, Mr. Clergyman," but could not make out anything else distinctly, because she made such a noise. Prisoner said, I was drunk, Sir, when I went into the church, or I should never have conducted myself in the manner described. When I was in I felt aggravated, and said to Mr. Denton, " How can you preach to poor people when you took a false oath against me this morning." That was all I said in the church. Alderman SALOMONS said—The law is very strin gent with regard to persons disturbing public wor ship. Mr. Denton is not desirous to press the case against you for severe punishment, but is only anxious to secure himself and his congregation from further annoyance. I shall hot, therefore, treat your case under the stringent provisions of the Act of Parlia ment, but will merely fine you ss. for being drunk, and bind you over in your own recognizances to keep the peace, and be of good behaviour fur six months. WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. William Sadden, a master bricklayer in Charlotte-street, Curtain-road, was charged with having violently assaulted, and thereby caused the death of Thomas John Taylor, a labourer in his service. _ . A young man, named Robert Creese, stated tha shortly after one o'clock on Saturdry afternoon be was passing through Chiswell-street, Finsbury, when his attention was attracted to an angry altercation be tween the deceased and the prisoner, and he heard the latter exclaim, "If you repeat that expression, I'll knock you down." The deceased thereupon re peated the observation, and the prisoner instantly struck him a violent blow under the ear, which caused him to stagger back and fall heavily upon the pavement. He was immediately raised by some of the bystanders, who conveyed him to the surgery of a medical gentleman in the neighbourhood, on reaching which he was ascertained to be quite dead. On seeing the man fall, the prisoner walked off, with the observation "that he had only given him what he deserved," but he was subsequently traced by Hay ward, one of the warrant officers of this court, who took him into custody. • The prisoner, who made no observation in reply to the charge, was ordered to be remanded to await the result of the post mortem examination. TVESTMINSTER. A miserable-looking barefooted woman was brought before Mr. Arnold under the following circum stances : A police-constable proved that his attention was called to the defendant by a gentleman who found her sitting on the previous evening on the step of a door in Belgrave-square. Finding, upon inquiries, that she was in a state of destitution without any place of abode, the constable took her to St. George's work house, in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, when the porter said she had been there before, and refused to admit her. Under those circumstances, the constable took her to the station for shelter. Mr. ARNOLD directed the constable to request the attendance of one of the parish officers of St. George's to give some explanation why a woman found in this destitute condition was refused relief. In the course of the day, Lacey, one of the officers, attended, when Mr. Arnold represented to him the circumstances of the case. Lacey said he was not in attendance when she was brought to the workhouse, as stated by the constable, but begged to put the magistrate in possession of some circumstances connected with her history. She was a short time ago charged at the Marlborough street Police-court with attempting to commit suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine, but she had merely walked up to her middle in water, and then screamed to attract attention until she was got out. As she was then in a state of destitution she was taken to the workhouse and clothed, but subsequently demanded her discharge, and left the place. In about a fortnight afterwards she was again taken before Mr. Hardwick for an act of mendicancy, and com mitted for seven days. She had, besides the occasion on which she had discharged herself from the work house, been clothed from bead to foot by the authori ties. Something, he thought, ought to be done with her, as she was addicted to very indecent and filthy practices. Mr. ARNOLD observed that the point was, the woman was found on the present occasion really in a state of destitution, and taken by the constable to the workhouse, where nothing was done for her. Lacey said he had before stated when she bad the opportunity of being maintained in the workhouse she insisted upon being discharged. Mr. ARNOLD thought that, being evidently in a state of utter destitution, it was the duty of the porter at the workhouse to have relieved her, irrespective of character, and his refusal bad compelled the police to lock her up, because they did not know what else to do with her. It was the porter's duty to have taken her in, to be dealt with as the board of guardians might think fit. The circumstance was one bring ing great odium upon the administration of the poor law. He thought it was harsh treatment to have refused her relief. Lacey said he would take the woman to the work house, and see that she was properly attended to. Mr. ARNOLD observed that it would be as well, in so obvious a case of destitution as the present, that the porter did not act so authoritatively, and refuse admission. John Groves, a chimney sweeper, was charged with disturbing one of the ministers of St. Luke, Chelsea, while performing a funeral service. Upon the case being called on, Johnson, the parish sexton, said that the Rev. W. A. Snake, the minister, who bad been interrupted by defendant, had desired him to state that he wished to withdraw the charge. Mr. ARNOLD observed that he had no doubt the Rev. Gentleman was actuated by the kindest motives, but as it was a matter of public misconduct, and as the Rev. Gentleman was not the person who bad charged the defendant upon the police-sheet, but Johnson, the sexton, he must hear the case. Johnson then stated that while the clergyman reading the burial service at a funeral in the church yard, yard, on Saturday afternoon, the defendant called out ull off your through the rails, "Why don't you p smock ?" and addd something about no fees for The clergyman, at bu rials, baptisms, and churchings. to find the conclusion of the service, directed witness he defendant in charge ; a police-constable, and give t . was teased the greatest Rev. Gentleman, and having expre sexton) had contrition for his misconduct, he (the stated, to solicit his been requested, as he had before which he did. Defendant had since waited upon the discharge. Defendant replied that he was say to the charge ? underthe influence of of the moat extremely Mr. wascommitted the offence, guilty y lated to liquor at the time he Ann so o r e : D y, abskuetdbethe defendant what be had to act know what he was about. Mr. ARNOLD inquired whether be was a dissenter? Defendant, in a faltering tone, evidently ashamed of the avowal after such gross misconduct, replied that he was a member of the Established Church. e nt had o been duc t out rage the feelings of the minister in the highest de gree ; but as that gentleman had expressed his desire to withdraw the charge he would pay attention to the request, which he was sure was dictated by the kindest kindest motive. He hoped the defendant's disligrra.cAefaul"alnd isnadideche of contrition was sincere, and he expression should discharge him upon his entering into his own recogni ' zances to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next six months. THAMES. Thomas Drew, 22, a labourer, residing at Sophia street, Poplar, and Charles Palmer, 19, also a la bourer, of Balsam- s t ree t, Pl a i stow, were c h arge d w ith robbing Joseph Frederic, a Portuguese of colour, of twenty shillings in silver. It appeared that about nine o'clock on Saturday night the prosecutor changed a sovereign at the Harrow public-house, Poplar. Shortly after receiving the silver it appeared, from the evidence of the prosecutor as well as from that of T. Chattell, the potman, that Palmer seized the black man by the throat, holding his head backwards, whilst Drew rifled his pockets. Chattell swore distinctly that he saw the silver between Drew's fingers as he took hie hand from the pocket of the prosecutor. The two prisoners then made off; but being known to the potrnan they were subsequently taken into custody. There were about thirty persons in the room at the time, and a third party, not as yet arrested, blocked up the door while the prisoners made their escape. Palmer denied that he was in the house at the time of the alleged robbery. Drew said he just came ,in and called far a pint of beer, but seeing a disturbance he immediately left, and both vehemently insisted that the potman was swearing falsely—a practice by which, they said, he obtained his living. Committed for trial. In connexion with the above case, John Satcher, an athletic young fellow, forming one of the gang of desperadoes:frequenting the Harrow, was charged with assaulting Chattel, the potman. It appeared L that, on Sunday night, the prisoner asked the prosecutor whether it was true that he had booked the charge of robbery against Drew and Palmer, and on Chattell answering in the affirma tive, he exclaimed, " You —, take that," at the same time giving him a tremendous blow, which smashed his jawbone. Mr. INGHAM sentenced him to pay a fine of 3/. or be imprisoned for six weeks, on which he was locked up in default. The prosecutor here observed that be went in danger of his life, as the " pals" of the prisoners threatened to take vengeance on him with a knife. Mr.INGHAM directed Casey, the constable in the case, to look to the protection of the prosecutor, and told the latter, if the threats were renewed, to apply to the Court for warrants against the parties using them. METROPOLITAN INTERMENT ACT. On Saturday the award of the referee or umpire, Mr. Barnes Peacock, Queen's Counsel, proposed as umpire on behalf of the directors of two of the metro politan trading cemeteries, and accepted by the Ge• neral Board of Health, was officially announced by his determining the compensation to be paid on be half of the public for taking possession of two of the largest metropolitan trading cemeteries for use or closing, namely, the cemetery at Brompten, Middle sex, and the cemetery which was established at Nun head, about a mile from the Bricklayers' Arms, in Surrey, by the same company, which opened another trading cemetery at Highgate. The awards were the first of a proceeding under the Metropolitan Interment Act, which authorised the General Board of Health to take compuhory pos session of the whole of the trading cemeteries, even tually closing them until other, and, as the Board of Health deem it, more suitable places of extramural sepulture can be provided, on the plan set forth in their report on a scheme of interment submitted to Parliament in pursuance of a provision to that effect in the Diseases Prevention Act. _ . The proceedings for the determination of the corn pensations in these cases have been pending for some weeks past, and have been pursued chiefly in sittings before the arbitrators, Mr. Rawlinson, the engineer in behalf of the General Board of Health ; and Mr. Alderman Farebrother, on behalf of the Nunhead Cemetery Company; and Mr. Hardwick, the archi tect, in behalf of the company owning the Brompton Cemetery. B. Peacock, Esq., Q C., acting as umpire. The case in behalf of the General Board of Health was conducted by Sir F. Thesiger; that in behalf of the Nunhead Cemetery Company by Mr. Crowder; and that in behalf of the Brompton Company by Sir Fitzroy Kelly. The evidence heard before the arbitrators was almost exclusively professions!, of architects and others, as to the value of the sites, and the expense and construction of buildings. For the Brompton Cemetery, the sum claimed as compensation by the company was 168,7624 12s. Bd.; the sum offered in behalf of the public by the General Board of Health was 43,836/. For the Nunhead Cemetery the sum claimed was 99,349/. ; the sum offered was 39,871/. On the part of the Brompton Cemetery Company evidence was given to prove the actual expenditure of 107,0001. for works, and proof was given that 63,000/. had been actually expended on the Nunhead Ceme tery. Both companies claimed compensation for pro spective profits on the discontinuance of the practice of intramural interment, and also compensation for com pulsory purchase. In respect to the prospective profits, it was ad vanced on behalf of the companies that they relied, as sources of profit, upon the continuance of " pit burial" for the poorer persons—that is, of piling cof fins upon one another in common graves twenty feet deep ; and as to the middle and higher classes, the rates of vaults and tombs. On the part of the Gene ral Board of Health, professional witnesses were in attendance to prove that the outlays for works had been mismanaged. Among the witnesses were Sir Joseph Paxton, who, it appeared, had been consulted in relation to the preparation of a national cemetery, and was ready to give evidence that superior cemete ries, of the same size, might at any time have been constructed and laid out at far less than the companies stated that they had expended upon them. Various medical witnesses were in attendance, prepared, it was stated, to substantiate the Board's condemnation on the sanitary grounds set forth in their report of the practice of burial in pits or in vaults. But Sir Frederick Thesiger declined cal!ieg any witnesses, and rested his case on the evidence elicited in the course of the cross-examination, that the companies, though established many years, paid only small divi dends; and that the real test of the value of the works proposed to he taken, and the compensation to be given, was not what they cost, but what they would sell for in the market ; in short, the sale price of the shares up to the time when it was proposed to discontinue the practice of intramural interment, and before the Act was passed. The award of the umpire, Mr. Barnes Peacock, now officially notified, was, tor the two : .C. As compensation for the Brompton Cemee try, for which 168,7621. 12s. Bd. was claimed by the company, and 43,8361. offered on behalf of the public ...... • 74,921 14 For the Nunhead Cemetry, for which 99,349/. was claimed by the conepanA and 39,871/. offered by the Boara ...... 42,153 13 Health on behalf of the publi c .1••••••••••••••••••••. Total .......... 117,075 7 being 151,0361. ss. Bd. less than was claimed, and coming within the rate of t he estimate presented by the General Board of Health to Parliam . ent. So far as these two cages go companiese in accordance with the view that the trading have no claims to prospective profits, founded on the assump tion that intramural intern would be discontinued an y provision for the public, and that without making it is not the amount which may have been expended, whether wastefully. or o therwise, which is to form a basis for compensation, but the actual worth of th e property, as sh own by the dividend and the pri • ces of shares at the time the change was proposed.—Sunday Paper. SHIP NEWS. GRAVESEND, OCT. 2 0. — Wind , W.S.W., li g ht, c l ou dy. Arrived —Caroline, from the South Seas; Lady Mar garet, from Sydney; Halcyon and .4 o l us , f rom P un ta Arena s ; Diana, Alecto , and M'Donald, from Callao; Chi n a and Providence, from Calcutta; Racehorse and Zoe, from Patras; Ebenezer, from Dantzic; Friendship, from Riga; Kate Howe, from New Orleans; Chandost from Buenos Ayres; Lively, from St. Petersburgh ; In vestigator,. from Liverpool; Northumberland, from New York; Fair Kathleen, from Honduras; Calphurnia, from Calcutta; Jane, from Patras; Herald, from Taganrog; Indian Chief, from Colombo; John Bull, from Ham. burgh; Maria Somes, from the Mauritius; Sir Edwar Banks, from Havre; City of Paris. from Boulogne; Bur. gomeister Hynd e k oper, f rom R o tt e rdam ; Lion, from Harlingen; Stadt Dordrecht, from Dordt. Sailed—Fame, for Calais. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Hope, from Ceylon and h e Cape of Good Hope, for London, Aug. 29, off St. Helena. Montreal, six months out, with 200 barrels of sperm. Electra, eight months out, with 150 barrels of sperm. Lord Nelson, from Milford, for the Cape of Good Hope, Sept. 15, in lat. 9 N., long. 22 W. Diana, from Callao for London, Sept. 25, in lat. 23 N., long. 35 W. Alexander Stervan, from Valparaiso for Liverpool, Oct. 3, in lat. 36 N., long. 37 W. Benjamin Boyd from Calabar for Liv er p ool, Oct. 3 . Beraza, from Liverpool for Pernam buco, and the in Stein warder, from Valparaiso for H ambur g h, Sept. 20, lat. 23 N., long. 27 W. Stanley, from Bristol for St. Thomas's, Sept. 23, in lat. 25 N., long. 32 W. Sutlej, of and from London, Oct. 15, in lat. 49 N., long. W. James Shepherd, of and from London, Oct. 16, 20 miles south-west of the Lizard Lucinda, Oct. 1 0 , in lat. 34 N., lon g •. 34 W. lantbe, of Yarmouth, from Buenos Ayres for Liverpool, Sept. 15, in let. 14 N., lung. 29 W. Osprey, from Liverp ool for Sydney, New South Wale s , Aug. 3C, in let 13, long. 26. Jane barque, from Hobart Town for Timor and Vaip e . rale°, May 25, in lat. 22 S., long. 155 E. Bidaton, from Munsoorcottah and the Mauritius for Lon don, Aug. 14, in lat. 31 S., long. 35 E. Tinto, from Bombay for London, Aug. 29, in lat. 25 S., long. 3 E. Garden Behow, from Denia for Hull, Sep t. 26, off F MaLiga. Cornwall, from London to New Zealand, Sept. 14, in lat. 8 N , long. 21 W. Chandernagor, for the Mauritius, Sept. 17, in lat. 12 N., Alleoxnagt;d2e6r Stervan Vi (?), from Valparaiso for Liverpool, Oct. 3, in lat. 36 N., long. 37 W. nogarth, from Ceylon for London, July 13, in lat. 9 S., lung. 75 E. Isabella, from London for the Cape of Good Hope, Sept, 15, in lat. 9 N., long. 24 W. Secret, from Moulmein for London, Sept. 30, in lat. 32 N., long. 39 W. London, Aug. 30, in lat. 34 S., long. 28 E. Surge, from Singapore for London, Sept. 2, in lat. 25 S., long. 23 E. Sooloo, from Sumatra, Sept, 5, in lat. 34 S., long, 17 E. Mary, from Calcutta for London, name day. Anglo-Saxon, 32 W. or Arracan, Se It. 29, in 11 THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of t he g uantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the po Essex, from the 13th Oct., 1851, to the 18th Oct., ith inclusive bath inclu sive - C - 1 c q., - • • wi . Ag 2 0 ,21 Ti •,i ti ti , . V, ( 1 1 z 0 P '''' ....-- --- 4V -- 1 - ,- ~., Colchester 1 -- ' --- 7 5 0 Harwich - --- 43 Ai --„,, Leigh 3lO 102 -- —* l 306 4v " Malden 739 175 1 23 --.---- . M --, CAELSFORD, OCT. 17.—Prices to-day were as rfollodw.im Whe, white n , old 40s to to 47s barley, new 59s to 456; e jier 35s to 40s; ew, 5.6 s 40s; 2 ss t o 28a ; c" e s , 53i .., A.- •Ag :In . ta CHELMSFORD, OCT. 17.—Prices to-day were as follewli;id Wheat, white, old 40s to 475; new 595 to 456; red, 35s to 403; new, 36s to 40s ; barley, 25s to c":i t 28s to 30s ; grinding 22s to 26s ; oats les to 256; l e 7 l , t 6 to 553; chevalier 54s to 56s ; peas, partridge,_ 30s ; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 275 to 29s ; old, --s '" tick, dun, new, 26s to 273 ; old. 275 to 295 ; beans, k, to 29s ; harrow ticks, new 27s to 30s ; o ld to --s; zagan, new 25s to 275; old —s to —s per qr. re A d 341 COLCHESTER, OCT. 18.—Wheat, white 403 to4e; . d die to 3 8 s ; oats, 18s to 21s ; beans, mazagan 2 5 s t o 265; 1 81 to and amall 265 to 305; peas, white 26s to 28s, grey, O W 303 ; barley, new, 26s to 30s per qr. n u tad' 111 KIRKALDY, OCT. 18.—The following are the ° for new grain:— Wheat. Barley. First 42s Od 24s Od Second 40s 01 22s Od Third 3ls, Od 19s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs HADDINGTON, OCT. 17.—T1] grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. I Oats. 20s Od 194 Od 16a od imperial, ie followini O Beam 28s " 2 6 3 Od Od '2B Od to aro the Pew ' o d 285 26 5 e i Qn 1 Boallt B ar ley. 1 Oats. 37 , u. 28 3 6d 1 225 9d e . fid 23 3 Od 1 2Js 62 d `:;, Oa 20 3 Od ' 17 s Od 0° fo ld mar k e t 538 qrs./ 3 b °l . ' s old do. 315 qrs., ~I A ; so ld do. 247 qrs., - An oo la do. 60 qrs., 4"'• First 4^s Od Second 3Bs 10d Third .. Total quantity of Wheat i Do. Barley Do. Oats Do. Beans COAL MARK ET.—YESTIEDAY. i6 l n Bate's West Hartley 13s 3d Braddyll ........... ••••• i e „ 6 . 1 Buddle's W. Hartley 13s 6d ~ - 1 etton .......... .. ...... l e d :54 Carr's Hartley ..... )4s Od Haswell ..... .. ........... jsv g A Chester Main l4s Od Keepier Grange .... . 19 1 n Davison's West Hartley 14s Od Lambton ............. pi 0 (le, Hasting's Hartley 13s 9d Russell's Hatton ••• / 16 5 1 Newcastle Hartley.... 14s Od Stewart's ................ I Bo 9 0 1 Howard's NV. H. Neth. 14s (d Whitwell ............. 1 . 6 94 Longridge's W.Hartley 14s 3d Shotton ... ......... ••••". 1 ;56 64 North Percy Hartley.. 13s 3d Cassop ..... •••••• ..... IAI $ 6 Ravensworth'sW. Hart 14s Od Denison .................. I ks _, Redheugh Main l2s Od Hartlepool .............. 1 Os ; South Peareth l3s Od Heugh Flail .......... IPi 0 6 Tantield Moor .. . l3s Od Relloe.. ......... ••••••• .. -10 ~A ranfield Moor Butes l3s Od South Hartlepool .... U'S n Walker's Primrose West Wylam Wylam ... lss Od, Adelaide Tees ....... . t i i s 0,, Wall'a End, Sze. ißackhouse ............. • . ! ., 0 e t Acorn Close ~1 Brown Gosforth .. •. • ...... •••• +,,10 Northumberland Riddell Walker Eden Main ...... Bell 234 ...... Sold, 135. ......------- .611 9. . . RA SHAkir 11 ILWAY 11 ' 1 ' iii — BRISTOL, Ocr. 20. ,rt• ad if : .. STOCK ExCUANGE.—The share market cont.— foal d. pressed. The closing prices to - day were as 1 01 0 Bristol and Exeter, 79 1 ,4—Great Wester n, 80:4" 46',g—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 53%. ..tet LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 20. • blt 4v ;' STOCK EXCITAZIGE.—We have bad a very slugglea pli:,4 to-day, and prices receded. The transactions were as,'", o v Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late Chn i t " 1 , 1, e ßirkenhead), 16 , 1.1—Ditto, 221. Shares, 6'A dis---4/e) 08, ashire, 14 1 / 8 c.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 03 11" l k i and North-Western, 113—Ditto, tes, 2 e • o ri New Qum' Ditto, ,:," Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 253( -- ' u"'" 3; Ot Shares, 104—Midland, 47—Ditto, New Preference, e j b St. Helen's (Railway Canal) , Preference, guarelltelo cent. and dividend, 150 - South - E astern and Defer , ix . MANCHESTER, Ocv. 20. , o ur 9.- Ar BTOCK EXCHALCOK.—The business dove Al - tet t ~.6 market to-day has been very general in its chareota'S, bracing transactions in numerous stocks, but not f: i lir,/ one or two in any. Prices were drooping. Th e sa 6 l A v igli Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 22/. Sb aree,_,,ire fof Eastern Counties, 5% 6 dis.—Lancashire and Yorlomeiterie Junction, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 26'd Bo le unction, 10 5-16 dis.— Sheffield, RotherhaM, 037,1-eirvo, ( f_e N r_e . n. D e.e i , v 7 .) - , l6. 2o—West Ridings, 6 IA dis.—Shaelds '..k))o9e, —Ditto (P' p.—Preston and Wyre, 4 3 % a nd apt —Edinburgh and Glasgow. 26—South-Eastel37,-, 4,. v OO 18',,—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Halves(A), „"1:0)00. London and North-Western, 113—Manchester, P , 8 : 'o l ' Matlock, 2 l A —Midland, 47 'Ai -1\ orth Staffordshire _...ii BIRMINti.HAM, OCT. 20. ueer j: OK, STOCK EXCIIANGIL—The share market be e ...,' ea it dull to-day. The only sale reported on 'O w° Midland Stock, 463/4. Ships at market, te FRENCH RAILWAY l i nf g the 000 The following are the last retur ns - ceipta of the principal French R ailway's -71406110 NORTHERN.—FTOM Oct. 8 to Oct' 14 373,008 E; goods, 296,843 f.; total, 669,85 1 : - . ro ped ° RouErr.—From Oct. 5 to 00,t. 1 g et* 95,095 f.; goods, 97,436 f.; total, 192,531" , fasSe gy 11A.VRE.—From Oet. 5 to Oct. e l l • gel * 33,761 f.; goods, 36,588 f. ; total 70,34972 Pls"-- ORLEANS.—From Oct. 6 to Oct':: , ) : 3of. 126,504 E ; goods, 129,7261 • tota l , 2 " - ' - ~6: BORDEAUX..--FTOM Sept. 30 to et* 92.863 f.; goods, 55,526 f.; total, 143 89 ' rekisell 12 VIEBZON.—From Oct. 6 to Oct. , 46,874 f.; goods, 44,669 f.; total , 91,5434 rose, NANTES...—FrOM Oct. 1 to Oct. 7 40,6131.; goods, 28,4621.; total, 75,075 f. rood STII ASSURG.—From Oct. 8 to Oct. 1 4 : 124,963 E; goods, 83,432 t total, 208,39 5 5f. 1- Ott ALE.—From Sept. 29 to Oct. BALE.—From goods, 25,817f.; t0ta1, 58,464£. Thdofllle MONTEREACT.--FrOca Oct.O 1 to Oot. 7 : 12,7061.; goods, 12,584 E; total, 25,290 f. 111AltSEILLE5.—Fr003 Oct. 1 to Oct. 7: re , 10 , 52,6401.; goods, 23,905 E; total, 76,545 E, LYONS. —From Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 : 00 0 298,042 f.; goods, 95,148 f.; total, 393,190 f. j RESULTS of the GREAT FOREIGN 11 V • br - d Our foreign visitors have neither burnt oar la's about our ears, nor endeavoured to overturn ottrkpnti:i meet, nor run away with our daughters. 1 711 0 0 behaved themselves peaceably and good.nateilotej have borne with our little peculiarities amiably. they have paid for what they have had, like hot 0d l May I be permitted to surmise that from th i rri . 01Td sight-seeing and metropolis-visiting, this W e e tr 1 )0 fete-giving and hand-shaking, some little, 10 0131 Do peAr good may arise? Is it too wild a thought o h P r ie l our children will not quite believe that the Fre ll oot 0 ( 10 sarily oat frogs and are all dancing-masters 03 , 0 11 t 0 Italian gentleman carries a stiletto in his bee ° t GO? bowl of poison in his left-hand pocket -- 03 .,4 .0 babies are weaned on sauer-kraut—that rel'el;rd.V one inevitable passion with which all SPa ll „ frtc,of possessed—and that the unvarying fate of 0 0 " t bo,r, ladies is to be sown up in sacks and cast in t „,dohYo ol , phorns? Is it really impossible that our c- t he 0 0? may discard those legends altogether? l',ll3boeooo hand, it strikes me that our continental lie,tter not henceforward be quite so decided as P i„o! their notions and impressions respecting, t l ,, qtri think we shall be called " perfidious 11.1b1°°of 4 O` frequently. frequently. lam of opinion that the eclitorelio 0004 newspapers will no longer declare that w e „ er o beefsteaks, and occasionally eat the wi i ;:b o olo g .h iti" Derbies; that every nobleman takes his A .ity b y me to court with him; that we are in the " A " - g baV a selling our wives in Smithfield-market; e li " legoor the month of November three-fourths of tha b ot ( yr of London commit suicide. Altogetbert I ,. t t ao 1 0 4 little peace, and a little goodwill, and e ' 1 (0 04 11 00f j hood among nations, will result from the r no or sion; and that it will, in future, be no long , e ,„ O course, that because 50,000 Frenchmen in P clue t ru lf red trousers meet 50,000 Enlishmen to t 0 1 1 . 4 ' and red coats, they must all fell to, an d Irot es. . d each other to atoms.—Dickens's Household to IIMPI•14111•••••=01.•••••...E.M.••• ••• • d 111 Mr. L. Leake (Western Austra an lia) ho- 01,14 with Earl Grey yesterday. , 'll6 br e ..i .,1# 1 1 04 a [ADVERTISEMENT.]--H0110Wa;- 131 O. t ir° e, the most serious Cases of Dropsy.—The i ll Of to 01 various, but it generally arises from an obstruon..o r eiO circulation of the blood through the syster., as there is nothing so effective as Holloway's P' lL° , 4 ' t iiers,so ll ," the blood and strengthen the constitution, en - et ally diminish the collected fluid, and if persolerotiokotoo sure is complete, it is prevented from ace l Many persons that have suffered from dropsy t he efficacy of this medicine, especially females at " g ed r j r'' who at that period are more particularly po:fin: siduous disease.—Sold by all Druggists and gt litotes, loway's Establishment, 244, Strand. London. .11••••••• •••..• BIRTHS. V s OF A DAUGHTEIL _lfAtOlig" On the 15th inst., at Richmond -bill, e"— Mrs. George Wilkinson. - et T. to m mvatOn the 17th inst., at Earnshill , t he wife of tl2 On the Bth inst., at Ma3well-bill, Bore Henry J. Smith, Esq. 'Pe ? ft° • MARRIED. , 0 Sif i lot On the 16th inst., at Bywell St. Andrew ' s , 0,0 , 4 Blackett, Bart ., of Matfen, Northumberlan., Per Estl"-it Vere, widow of the late William 11. Ord , lel Newport, Isle of Wight, and daughter of the late orfoof Loraine, Bart. "a- firl f, i'V On the 16th inst., at St. James's, Irictort,eo,!,o t, Armstrong, Esq., late of the 12th Royal Lev' orrlb Warren, second daughter of the late Robert Hackney-road. , 0 ,4 41' DIED. On Sunday, the 19 th inst., at Susses - te r r B . e iler r/'/ OP Flora, the youngest daughter of T. 14 031 " f e"l aged 16 months. og re „ l ie • vro 0 On the 15th inst., at the Forelands. near ---, der' , Chatfield Tyler, Esq., upwards of 30 Ye 3l:s tie' , ~ te nant for the county of Gloucester. c oo , / l ift On the 18th inst., at Blenheim -lodger, 26 , 0 fil 4 John's-wood, George T. Charley, Esq., age l , e iji, 03 , ' On the 19th inst., Agnes Scarth Lady I. SOW' Sir FitzPioy Kelly, one of her Majesty's u,,,,tritoo• if, On the 17th inst., aged 60, Simon J." Pl' '• Southampton-street, Bloomsbury square' evf-re , On the 17th inst., at Tonbridge-plaeer l'' , r e Elizabeth Susanna Chapman, aged 79. , 1 j3e e/it On the 12th init., at Mornington-roaw , 00 0, 1 In John Jones, Esq., aged 84. ger ° /„. ef On the 13th inst., at the laubits, St. ( „vr Margaret, relict of the late J. 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