The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

L LOYD'S SI-UPPING—(IIfIiS DAY). L O NnoN, JAN. 15.—Wind N.E., fr, ;tole and !Val) with very hard froit and intet,s,ly cold we , ater. DEAL, JAN. 14.—Wi n d I?.`S.E., very ~trotsg. LYMOUTH, JAN. 14.—Wino E.NX., strong galr.— rd. Tory, Calcutta. Off Purt, Wieland, Chariest ,u for Bremen ; Invincible, Rice, Bal.timore. LIVERPOOL JAN. 14.—Wind Xercz.no, B razils; Frederick 13.:,e1im, Sin e apre; Mary Sharpe, katellite, Mobile. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 14.—1 t has blown a la. avy gale all last night and to-day, from E. to tiPALMOUTII, JAN. 14.—1 t has blown a violent gale urc ughout the night, at East , and continues with un d fury; the shipping all ride well. YARMOUTH, JAN. 14.—A scull board, supposed to be ,row a vessel' s s t ern , mar k e d " Balger" in gilt lett is 'lna dark blue ground, has washed on shore. dales, JAN. 14.—Wind E.—Sid. Prince f New Orleans. tilrd -"ill ,JAN. a AN. 14.—The Copy, arrived here yes - ay T N from S myrna , i s l ea ky. P ENZANC E JAN. 13.—1 t has blown a heavy gale all night ' Of at E. to S.E., moderated during the day, but in -.ea . 11 esk as the d a y c l ose s. 14 ISTOL, JAN, 14.—The Hirondelle which was in ;'tiotitaot with the Talbot ste imer and abandoLei was f.llen in with by the latter (on her return t Y l °ll Talbot), off Ilfracombe and talc+ n in tow, but be tug bei ng under writer and blowing hard, and the et iamer ii i ng short o f coa l !, was compelled to abandon her again. James Daly, Africa. to atONDESLY, JAN. 14.—A piece of carved wood apra 'it„tlY the stern of a vessel, with " England Expe " cut N."' 't and a capstern bar, with " Th,mas and lest ella, ;castle," cut on it, have been picked up. p,„ L i `oleinni, JAN. 14. —Wind E. Arrd. Crane "t) Rio Janeiro, with about 20,0001. on freight in gold, diamonds, ,Scc ; Swift, Mtrquand, ditto. lI PENZ AIWE, JAN. 13.—Arrd. Duke of Wellington, ° J 3 3 9 Qs, St. John's, Newfoundland. EAtiIcIA.RIS, JAN. 14.—Arrd. Ann Wise, Port - au - Pr ioce. 11,? 111248 nY, JAN. 14.—Wind E, strong. — Put ba ck, f ro u gh, Shoaling, for Whitby, with considerable damage, Ql onntact with a brig in Hawke Roads. j oh 411310 ETH RoADs.—British Q-een, Errington, St. 6 411 4 :! , New Brunswick. to JAN. 14.—The Planet, hence to Panama., 4- " 4 the ground in going cut, is strained and leaky. Sir I Admiralty, Jan. 12, 18 50 . of the am commanded by my Lords Commissione r s eo Admiralty to state, for the information of the ,raraittee for managing the affairs cf Lloyd's, that W i ii r s have bcen given, should the wind remain at east, k nd r Xlajesty's s hip Superb to proceed from Cork; b ey 'A'ber iSti . jc)sty's ship Stromboli to proceed from , the l i nPort, to the Chopi of the Channel, for the relief of °ln evvard-bound trade. Ca (Signed) W. A. B. HAMILTON. (Signed) G . •A. Ilalsteacl, R.N., Secretary, Loyd's. AItKET NEWS.—(T HIS DAY.) CLYILIC.ACTSi. ditt o . ` ll FlELD.—Mea.dow flay, 2/ lOs to 31. 12s ; • Clover •logdlos to 4/ 12s ; and Straw, 1 1 4 s to 9s per QR. , moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. ditt o EkLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2s 12a co 3 i 14 .. Clover 10 a 31 8 s to 41 8s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 1 / lOs per t ‘ ,l; Trade dull, at about last week's quotations. el 4IT Ectia.PEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 12s ; 10er)ditto,3/12s to 4/ 12,; and Straw,ll3s to 11 per suPply but moderate, and trade dull. Su r , COLONIAL. act',; 4ll .The market fa. British Plantation is less to the small quantity on show ; the salts sit, e I teing only 260 bhds, at 6d to Is advarA.e, r ;fie t his day wick. 2,000 ba,..cs Mauritius sold with by tt at extreme rates ; 940 bags grocery Bengal, 1,800 w itidras, and 2,8 , .0 bags Penang also sold briskly, ri t ;l° latter at fid to is advance. The quantity of W s " Plantation landed last week at the Ea.t and to,e'it Julia Docks was 607 hhds 16 tierces; there were b t i r e r tl i for hom e consumpt i on 1,326 bhds 81 tiercei 587 1,79-24-C tie The :tick in the same place is 11 , 423 hhds. rcei, 2,815 barrels. har ciV i ," 4 --Tt c market continues firm; Native Ceylon to b e ," e en acid priva ely at 655, and the e is now little with at this price; 1,500 bags and 600 cnoks 1.....t4At10n by auction were mostly taken in at high 1111 3 W e „ !..—Th e quantity !andel last week at the East and tio,;44lldia Docks was 80 puns 164 hhds 4 there were po, t, u ,flr home consumption 326 puns 13 hhds, and ex ts2o", 15 8 puns 85 hhds. The stock in the same place • " 43 puns 2,173 hhds. ra 4 ir el •-1,000 uags of Bengal offered by auction o lsed 9s to Ils for mid broken to good white h 't is 1,550 bags Bengal sold very irregularly, te M higher rates, viz , 278 to 27s 6d for 161 to 54- per and at 26 s 6d for 6 and per cent refraction. ti E A. —The market has been firm for most descrip deDi and there is a good business doing. Last week's t veries in Lond•rn were larger. it article is held a little stronger, but 9 9 Particular movement has occurred. P.Y.C. is 3 ad to 39s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 41s. AW INTELLIGENCE. 'CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's 4 4 , 13, and heard cause petitions to-day. The further „tiurneats in the part-heard case of Plowden v. Hyd e , "Pied his Lordship the whole morning. 110' —LLS' COURT —(THIS DAY.) yaT_,lleo Master of the Rolls sat in his Court in the Rolls'. rut t..lay. Th A , WILSON V. EDEN. rtullrtner arguments this part-heard case were Rh y m ed this morning, and occupied the Court the b d ay- This case, in one shape or other, has ee rl ta w ore the Court nearly six years, and it came on aoh u pon a petition presented by Sir William (.. t ri hte E . dert s Esq., of the county of Durham, Maria with 1 , 8 of Athlone, and others, bring lv joint defendants t iqr. e uir ° in a bill filed by Eleanor ilson sister and tl th at law of the late Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Barr., reaci:keutinties of York and Durham, who, in 1843, Of h i nis will, devising to Sir William Eden the bulk * as a e l P r operty, situated in both counties. The bill a iee"T 4 by Mrs. Wilson, in order to take the opi /ise the Master of the Rolls whether, under a de kid - kid I t \ 411 the testatsrs estates in the counties f York soul ltrhaais and all other his real estates in toe said I ter s ti, to William Eden, his leasehold estatse, which SG" aon sidera.hle, passed also? The case eas argued th e at length before the Ma tar of the Rolls, and on the 36th of May,lB4B, his Lordship decided in favour of bkrPiliiiiettff's to the personal estate of the la e te a as heir-at-'aw. His Lordship observed tsaa fa i r Lat of l a y s v , a,. adverse a point, tnat if toe des . 'a s - , lt, who wa, a:. I ty, desired he would . so k - a ease for the decision of thy judges of a court of e h iti tll t of law, to pronounce their opinion upo . n t ‘ h % ? l , ..aa sals t , 'avv. This course t clef •tidai,t, 4 e4 1 " 44 adopted; and it was refori eI to toe NI a-ter, Sir t he e, , upon f u rther direct ons as to the drawins up lOtra e • Be ore the Master that defendant wished to liss t , -a at , the est a t e a nd the laud steward's books for orciVh unconnected wit's t• e inquiry orde e,l, which h e bdaster of the Rolls su•taint d. Finally, a case ( 14 ta - rn up, aid submitted t toe judges of . toe Court tae , -- eatter, but it was fund that a maserial word in 11 '4 - , l la k lial been omit e', aid these Judges asain re 'ne case to too Ma te , to be by him once more 141 (1 e a ,' Inure particularly as to what by the consent use, - p r eetnent of the parties was to be tatseo to e evi lly ittia re sceeeto tha dev i se . : f tea and personal este es r S. ‘ , `le .slat The properly ciaiu.e ILI the plainti 'r b t ' li tleirally leasehold, from tie Dean and Chartsr 4 t4ts ut " h24l, attached or lyihg mar to the t,eeator's 0 hl Windlestone, near Auckla b eas r a . W alpole, M r . Matins, and Mr. Dumergies, were std" Yesterday on b e half of Sir Wm Eden, 1 4er :i t - aided that he was entitled to use tae maps, es- Asst .( ; ) is, and pap e r s , ordered to be produced by the pa ss Ls 41 Whose custody they were found, for the pur ' tet4raf establishing his claim to the least hold. The . tes gs4 treated the whole of those lands comprised in the lahrircial d escription, whether freehold or leasehold, as his I ,reeh,, l , Q , h tooe estate. This comprised 1,182 acres . of NC' land, and 760 i:cred of leasehold, both of which di heed let to several tenants, their farms consisting in tietratlY of freehold and leasehold lauds, parts of t`e. tat e e o f Windl estone. T ne strugg l e here was to obtain th e irk sie evid ence i n aid o f t h e rig h t understanding of ofiords used by the testator, Sir Robert Johnson Ele,, meeirid.,,-r to sho w w h a t particular lands passed under the dill o f, lands at o r near the Windlestone estate by the 4 1 ° '. the testator. kee r e . ,,, I T URNEII. (with whom was Mr. Humphrey) com -`4 an address in opposition to the petition yesterday .. taught o eluded it to-day, contending that the petitioner ke i What the C ourt oug ht n ot to grant. The judg ttete of the C ourt h a d a l rea d y d ec id e d th e c a se up o n the petCt.°x facts then su b m itt e d to it, and the object of the cause n et was now to i m p o rt into the re-hearing of this f ro a the documents B, D, or K, for a purpose different b et a: that f or which they were allowed to be produced ep os Lord Langdale, and the Master, Sir George Rose, tleuirthe hearing on further directions. Tnere was tis) that there was evidence in the book D that the . R4itestZpr treated these lands as different estates, distfn dlet„,l,ng the lands near Windlestone from those at Mid lity and Mesrington, both as to locality and the qua tiois°, the land. The Blundell case, decided in the m4a of L vra s ords, had settled the point that where there 4 tru e . ° , Itl iThigUity in the words the devise must be con hadcii'n the ordinary sense. The Master, therefore, th u eoided rightly in refusing to admit the evidence it t ender d 4 4% e Th e 112 11'1:TREY followed on the same side. 411 a r se appears likely to occupy a day or two teraC, lt aa's as the, e are no less tams nine or ten -- `en Yet to be heard who represent other parties. Iss r a ( ` - ',. t - CIiANCER.Y.—(THIS DAY.) Ts —a fore the VICE-CHANCELLOR cf ENGLAND.) 1 4 Court proceed e d with the hearing of the remain- Itoti e ,, ml4o pet,tione, but no case calling for particular ( " h c arie befor e hi s H onour during the morning. Sc th e Vi ce -Ch ance ll or KNIGHT Bence.) we e 'e o h fno intere s t, except to the parties concerned, Ti tied the Court the wh o l e day. Ties, vi - Chancellor Wigram did not sit in conse kea ti t i ), We understood, of the severity of the weather e delicate state of his health. E T,I A' BEN C H.—(T HIS. DAY.) AND CHAPTER OF ROCHESTER V. WHISTON. 110104 Uefendant in this case is the mute,. of a grammar ha t h_ at Hoehe , ter, of which the Dean and Chapter uf ii?etiester are the trustees and governors. They had him 4. Whiston notice that they intended to remove the Office he held, to which he demurred, con th teep oi ,_ v ats being once appointed, they had uu right to Ulan except they shoe ed him to be an unfit per- son to be entrusted with the education of children whic - i was not alleged against him. Much coLtrole sy has Wien place, and Mr. Whivon's name has teen re peet oily betore V - ie public. He had obtained a rule culling upon tte l.), ,3n and Chai,te.• to show eaure why a riiai,&inius not issue dr manding their right to di sat i, n lo w f - otu his /Ace. Sir FITZROY KELLY uppeii el this morning ti show cause against Ito rule on behalf cf the Dears anti Chapter. As many grave and important matters were involved in the cau e, which must te solemnly arguer.', he was pre pared to n:nsent, on the part if his client , , to the rule Leing male absoluts, f , r the affidavit , , which were most important, rendered such a course absolutely necessary. Sir F. THESIGER, who appeared for Mr. Winston, hoped 11. at in the meantime the order which the Dean and Chapter had issued to the parents of the children edu a'ed iu the school to send them to another place, and not to the school presided ovvr by Mr. Whiston, would be rescinded. Pert aps his Learned Friend would un dertake on the part of his clients to give this pledge. Sir F. KELLY was not instructed t) make any conces sion of the kind. . Considerable discussion ensued upon this matter. The rule was at, length then made absolute. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in 13aneo before Lord Chief Justice WILDE, Mr. Justice MAULE, Mr. Justice CRESSIVELL, and Mr, Justice WILLIAMS.) TiLACKATER V. GILLOTT. Mr. PEACOCK said he had to move for a rule calling upon the plaintiffs to show cause why the judgment in this case should not be arrested. The action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice at the last sittings for Middlesex The declaration contained two counts; the first stated that the plaintiffs had an an cient ferry across the Thames from the Isle of Dogs to Greenwich„ and that the do fondant carried on a ferry; and the second count stated that the plaintiffs were entitled to the ferry, aid that the defendant carried persons across the river near the ancient ferry of the plaintiffs. The verdict was for the defendant on the general issue so far as related to the first count, but for the plaintiffs on the general issue so far as related to the second count, with ls. damages. The question now merely arose on the second count of the declaration, which stated that the plaintiffs, before and at the time of committing the grievances thereinafter mentioned, were and still are, in their capacity of trustees of the Society of Free Watermen of the River Thames, entitled in fee simple and inheritance to an ancient ferry for car rying fiot passengers and goods across the River Thames from the Isle of Dogs to Greenwich, taking for the con veyance of such passenger and goods over and across such ferry one penny for every person on foot; never theless the defendant, on the 7th April, 1849, and on divers other days injuriously and unlawfully, and against the will of the plaintiffs, car ried in a boat of his, the dcfeadant's , divers foot-passengers across the River Thames near the plain tiffs' said ferry. The ground on which he (Mr. Pea cock) submived that this count in the declaration was insufficient after verdict was, that it merely stated that the defendant wrongfully and injuriously carried certain persons in boats across the river near to the place where the plaintiffs had their ferry. He submitted that that was no cause of action. The charge ought to have been, either that the defendant set up a new ferry to the in jury of the old one, or that he fraudulently carried per sons near the old ferry, for the purpose of enabling them to evade ese old ferry. The COURT refused the rule, leaving the applicants to have recourse to their writ of error. EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) (matiags in Banco.) ATTORNEY - GENERAL V. SHILLIBEER. This was a proceeling by the gown ega'.ust the de fendant, the proprietor of & funeral and posting estab lishment, to recover penalties for certain offences against the Excise-laws, whereby the defendant had incurred certain penalties. The proceedings w e'e tedious and expensive, and ultimately the Crown succeeded in con victing the defendant in two penalties of 50/. and 201. respective). The defendant now appeared in person, and moved the Court for a rule to have the costs herein ref -rred to the, Queen's Remembrancer to be reviewed. In the course 01 his statement in support of the application, Mr. bhil libeer alluded somewhat severely to the injustice of his being called upon to pay fees to the Attor ney-General for briefs which he did not _intend to support. Mr. Baron PLATT—We have nothing to do with that. Mr. Shillibeer (indignantly) But somebody ought to have to do with it ; at any rate I don't think I ought to pay it. The other charges iu the bill of costs are also most exorbitant, and are no doubt made with the intention of lading to my destruction. The Act under which he was sued was a very bungling and unintelligible one, and the post masters throughout the country, who were generally ig rant men, could not understand it, and were every day being served out by the Excise-office. There was no necessity, he contended, to bring the case into the Ex chequer, and thus incur an endless train of ex penses, for it might have been decided by a police magistrate at a very small cost. There was something at the bottom of the present proceedings unknown to the Court, but perhaps it would not then be advisable fir elm to make their Lordships acquainted with it. Lie would say, however, tiait a degree of caprice and ill feAing bad been evinced by the Government i❑ conse quence of his determined oppsition to this one-aided and injurious Act. Mr. Baron ALDERBON observed that these remarks were foreign to the real question, and suggested that if he had to complain of the statute, his remedy was with the Legislature af,er the 31st of January. Mr. Shillibeer said that might be so, but he was robbed first and then sent to Parliament for relief.— (Laughter.) He could hardly trust himself to give ex pression to his real feelings on the subject of the scandal ous bill of costs; . and he could only attribute the way in which it had been got up, to a desire on the part of the Government to ruin, and then to get rid of him, because he dared to expose the enormities t f the law. lie paid no less than 2,0001. _a year to the Excise, the duty on each omnibus costing hiu, 2001., and yet railway people paid nothing. The CHIEF BARON said he was of opinion there should be no rule in the case. With respect to the complaints of Mr. Shillibeer they had nothing to do. and had simply to administer the law as they found it. Per sons who were charged with offences against the revenue lays 1., had to pay costs if they turned out to be guilty ; but it they were found to be innocent they di.i nut obtain costs; and if the defendant felt any injus tice in this, his complaints must be taken by petition to the Legislature. He thought the costs had been reason ably and fairly taxed, and saw no ground, therefore, why they should be reviewed. _ _ 'fho other Judg4•s concurring, the rule was refused. Mr. binllineer thanked the Court for the indul gence shown him, and said, that as he stood there in support of the first misters in the country, he should take advsntsge u the hint thrown out about the 31st of Jat.uary, anti present a petition to Pat hament, earnestly hoping th,t, the A ttorne)-Cieneral would take the first opportunity of setting wrong right. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Jtptice ERLE.) THE QUEEN V. JUSTICES OF BATH. Mr. PHYNN applied to the Court tor a rule nisi cal ing upon the justices of Bath to show cause why t ,ey refused to issue their warrant against a convicted offee der under the L'ard's-play Act, passed in the reign of Charles the First. The Learned Gentlemae obtained a similar rule last term, but on its being called on for ar gument as objection was taken to the jurat of the affi davit, upon which the rule was granted, which proved fatal to the rule. The facts of the case were simply these:—One of the porters on the Great West ru Rail way ha I been convicted before the justices or Bath of following his occupation on the Lord's-day, and fined in the peealty of ss. The justices, however, entertaining some doubt that they could lugally enforce the penalty, had refused to issue their wart ant to distrain upon the goods cf the porter, and hence the present application. The Learned Counsel conteudel that, after the convic tion, the duty of the magistrates was purely ministerial, and they had clearly acted wrong in refusing to issue their warrant, Mr. Justice ERLE said, under these circumstances, en action for damages would lie against the magistrate. , but probably no parties had suffered damage by ti e refusal. Mr. PHYNN apprehended that the churchward9ns who prosecuted had suffered damage to the extent of the eF. tine. Mr. Justice ERLE said as the rule had already been granted once, and only bailed upon a technical objection, the Learned Counsel might take a second rule to show cause. Rule nisi accordingly. IN RE DAY. Mr. HUGGINS appled to the Court for a rule calling upon Mr. Wilkinson, an attorney, to show cause why he should not give up to the Messrs. Day an account of the actions he had brought in their name, under the follow ing circumstances: —During the time of the railway mania a project was concocted under the title of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester, and Midland Junction Railway, but although the Messrs. Day were employed to lithograph the plans, at an expense of 4281., no deposit took place, and the scheme became entirely abortive. The provisional committee were then called upon for 651. each to pay off the debts of the concern, but no sooner was the call made, than the majority of them disappeared. Some negotiations were then set on foot l i by the secretary, the 'solicitor, and two or three committeemen of the company to sue the solvent pro moters, in the name of some of the creditors, and ultimately Mr. Wilkinson, who bad previously had no connexion with the project, took the matter in hand, and upon his giving the Messrs. Day a guarantee that that they should not be held responsible for anything in the shape of costs, and their debt should be paid to them out of the first proceeds that could be obtained, they allowed him to sue some of the committeemen 10 their names. Accordingly, it was supposed that Mr. Wilkinson had commenced no less than twenty actions; but the first had receutly been tried at Leicester, and a verdict returned for the defendant ; and the consequence had been that Messrs. Day are comps h d to pay the defendant's costs, amounting to 207/., to avoid an execution. In another case judg ment had passed; against the plaintiffs by default, and they had been forced to pay 281. costs in this in stance; and having 'failed to obtain any inf trmaeon from Mr. Wilkins as t the state of the other actions, they were compelled to have recourse to this mode ef proceeding. Mr. Justice ERLE suggested that Messrs. Day's re medy against Mr. Wilkinson was by an action for breach of contract. Mr. IluGGrets said.no doubt that would; be their ulti• mate.; remedy, but is the meantime they were anxious ,to age,rt tin how far they e-e involved by the other actions . . Mr. Justice Enrr.—You may t:,ko a rule to slow cause why Mr. Wilkinson sl+oull not give you an ac count of the L.,ctioi:s he has comfne.cw( 4 ,and the alone) s, if any, he has received in respect of thew. Rule nisi accordingly. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY). (Bef ire Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN RE HASTINGS. In the case of the baiderupt, who was a wine-mer chant in Limi - -.treet, Ciiy, an application was made on behalf ef a lady named IV:lain:6' to prove fur a debt et' 5,935/. for money lent. Mr. Parnell, the official assignee, in answer to his HoNoun, said that there was no doubt that money had ben advanced to the amount claimed. The facts were these:—After the advance had been made, bankrupt, amongst other securities, gave a bond for 2,000/. and also executed a deed by which he under took, on failure in payment of the bond, to pay a firth, r sum of 3,0001. by way of liquidated damages. The bond was not satisfied, and it was then fund that the deed had not been stamped; and the solicitor, in order to avoid the penalty at the Sterol,- \ffiee—not being able to obtain a r• -:,xecution i f the deed—toek off the font ,kin of parchment and affixed another. It was now cot.- tended by the Solicitor to the assignel th,.t by this act f the solicitor the deed had been cancelled, but they were content to admit the proof fir the amount of the bond. His HONOUR said the debt did not Aliso on the deed, but fir money lent, and asked whether the deed could now be stamped. He did not think it could. The Solicitor said it could, on presenting a memorial to the Commissioners of Stamps, and paying a penalty of 101. The Solicitor to the assignee submitted that the debt had beets compromised by giving the bond which was valid. His HoNoun said the failure of the security, or the irregularity of the deed, did not release the original debt. In equity the claimant was entitled to all she had lent, and she ought not to be the loser by any irregularity. The proof was then admitted. MARLBRO -S'T'REET-(THIS DAY-) CAUTION TO PLAY-GOERS. —George Skinner Evict Alexander Robards were placed helore Mr. Bingham charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance at the Queen's Thcatre, Tottenham-street. James Ettershank, the constable employed at the theatre, stated that last night, shortly after the com mencement of the performance, the prism.e7s came into the gallery in a drunken state, and immediately began t) create a disturbance. He cautioned them not 0 inter rupt the audit9ry, and on their still persisting to make a noise he forcibly ejected them from the theatre, and took them to the sta ion. The prisoners, in defence, said they certainly had been drinking, but were far from being drunk. The noise they made was in consequence of not being able t) get a seat. _ _ Mr. 13INGHAII said it was not to be tolerated for one moment that the audience were t. - ) tie annoyed by two drunken men, for whom the station-house was more tit than a theatre. As a warning to others he (Mr. Bingham) should fine them se. each, or in default to be imprison( d for seven days. POT-STEALING.— Thomas Johnson was charged with pot-stealing. Stringer, 193 C, was on duty in Porter-Street, about nine o'clock this morning, when he saw the prisoner, who appeared to have something balky under his coat. lie stopped him, and asked what he bad got, '►nd, on his declining to answer him, he (witness) searched him and found the two quart pots produced concealed in his trowsers. The prisoner then sa'd, "I'll be d—d if it is not all up now; lam nailed at last." Witness then took him to the station, when he was again searched, and a knife used by pot-stealers to cut ap pots was found upon him. Humphrey Pres.t.(n, a water in the employ of Mrs. Malcolm, landlady of the Two Chairmen, Warwick street, identified the pots as being the property of his mistress. The prisoner was fully committed. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) James Smith was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged 1 / 2 /, ith stealing two belt-crowns and two shillings from the person cf William Harvey. Prosecutor deposed that on the previous night he went with two friends to the Surrey The ttre, and at the con clusion of the performance they went to the Surrey Coal-hole, next the theatre, to partske cf some rc•fresh mentr. While stinding at the bar one of his fiends was having some words with a man at the door, which caused him to inquire into the circumstances; but as soon as he got to the door the prisoner came behind him and pi nioned his arms with one hand, while with the other be picked his waistcoat-pockets of two half-crowns and two shillings. fie instantly called out to his friends, advising them to get out of the house and bring in a policeman; but before they got out an officer came in, and witness gave the prisoner into custody. Mr. A'I3ECKETT—Is the prisoner known? Paine, a police-constable of the L division, said he was tried and convicted at the Surrey Sessions, in Seut•mber las', f a similar robbery at the Surrey Coal-hole. Mr. A'I3ECKETT—This house seems remarkable f robberies of this kind. I should recommend the police to keep a sha-p look-out as to the cust milers, and ac quaint the landlord that his licence isrin peril. Has the prisoner anything to say in answer to the charge ? Prisoner—All I have to ay is that lam innocent of the cha,-ge. Nlr. ATECKETT—I shall commit you for trial, when twelve men will satisfy their minds on that point. Committed accordingly. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. It is only a tew weeks ago since we had to report the loss by fire, at the Glenalbyn distillery here; and now another casualty of the same kind falls to be re corded. In this case the scene of the fire was the f trtn-steading of Cradlehall, within three miles from Inverness, and not far from Culloden Tower. The property destroyed consists of twelve fine stacks ( , f barley and other grain, eleven milk cows, and a bull, with the machinery of the threshing-mill, &c. The farm-house stands apart from the square. The latter is of large extent, and the stable and byre formed two sides, a third consisting of the threshing-mill and straw-house next to the byre. Outside of all, and next to the mill, was the stack-yard, with eighteen or twenty stacks of grain. On Tuesday evening last, the farm servants had been employed at the mill with candles, but the door was locked at eight o'clock, and the candles carefully extin guished, one inside and one outside. The flames were first seen about twelve o'clock at night rising from the roofs of the straw -house, the mill, and the byre—the whole two sides of the square being then in a blaze. The farm-servants turned out, but ap• peared not to know the best way of proceeding ; and in a few minutes the roof of the byre fell in upon the milk cattle, and only one was saved. Eleven fine cows and a bull perished ; and when the flames were got under, the bodies of the animals were found burned to cinders, never apparently having risen from their beds. The horses were got out from the stable, and, with the young cattle, were taken to a place of safety. The fire now extended through the byre and mill ; and, although a strong westerly wind was blowing, driving the sparks in a contrary direction, the heat was so great that stack after stack caught fire. The flames were seen from the high parts of the town, and the first intimaintima tionreached the police about one o'clock The bri gade were got out, and the large engine was hurried to the spot, drawn by four horses. It arrived at Cradlehall shortly before two o'clock. By this tune the whole centre of the stack-yard was one mass of blazing straw ; but the engine was got in, the mill stream afforded a supply of water, and under the di rection of Mr. Msbean (Superintendent Anderson having started for the south, on business, the preced ing evening), the water was so pumped f ro m the powerful engine as to prevent the extension of the flames to the remaining stacks, seven only of all in the yard being saved. This melancholy circumstance is most unfortunate for the young farmer, Mr. Macdo nald, whose first crop has thus been consumed, and whom, we are sorry to hear it rumoured, is not in sured.—lnverness Courier. BRITISH BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.—The Duke o Leeds, the Marquis cf Anglesey, the Marquis of Tho. mond, the Marquis of Stafford, the Earl of Ellesmere, tae Hon. E. H. Stanley, Sir F. Lawley, Bart., Sir W. Ross, R.A., Sir Win. F. F. Middleton, Bart., Sir Henry Marsh, Bart., Sir Felix Agar, James Harmer, Esq., E 4 erton Warburton, Esq., Major-General Caulfield, Sir James Flower, Bart., have recently joined this valuable charity. The illustrious and gallant Commander-in- Chief, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, has expressed his int-ntiou of presenting to the institution a princely contribution ; and, amongst the numerous donors to the charity are found the names of Lord Hardinge, Lord Shrewsbury, Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax, Bart., Sir Ar thur Brooke, Bart., M.P., Colonel Thos. Peacocke, Col. James Brander, Sir H. R. Bishop, Sir W. C. Ross, Lieut. General Sir W. G. Davy, C. 8., the Bishop of St. David's, A. Raphael, Esq. The fJuudation dinner will be held in the spring, and conduct,d on a scale cf mag nificence commensurate with the importance o f a charit y which may, indeed, be so tarmed, as the most fiendless will receive its aid without the aggravation of delay and expense of canvassing the subscribers, and dissevered from the tricks and evils of public elections, the election being vested in the Patrons, Vice-Presidents, and Coun cil only, on the recommendation of subscribers. 301. per annum is the annuity which will be paid to the elected. REFUSAL TO RECEIVE CONVICTS AT MELBOURNE, PORT .PHILIP.—We have, through the kindness of a gentleman in town, been put in posses,ion of a letter which he has just received from Melbourne, Port Philip, dated the 17th of August, which says:— The other day a vessel arrived at our port with 300 convicts on board. They were not all owe d t o l an d, b u t were sent off to Sydney. There is to be another great anti-trans portaton meeting held in the theatre hero on Monday next.”—Scotsman. THE COUNT DE NEUILLY.—On Saturday last his ex-Majesty Louis Philippe and fanily visited Bauvard's Panorama of the Ohio River. At the conclusion of the exhibition his Majesty expresel himself to the le.:turer as highly pleased with the correctness of the scenery portrayed, and, although many years had passed since he was there, yet many of the scenes were familiar to his eye. Tne Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a committee meeting yesterday. NEW RUSSIAN LOAN. A new Russian loan, for five and a half millions sterling, the price of 93 fir a 4 per cent. stock, was announced this afternoon, from Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. This loan is redeemable by n an nual sicking fund of 2 per cent., and will therefore be repaid in fifty years from January, 1852. It is to be applied to complete the construction of the rail road faun St. Petersburgh to Moscow. The following is the circular from the above-mentioned firm : " RUSSIAN LOLN FOR 5,500,0( 01. STOCK, "Bearing per cent. annual fete, est. " Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. beg t ) st it-, that in conformity with the annexed translation of the ukase of his Mjesfy the Emperor of Russia, da'e 1 9th December, 1849 (old style), and in compliance with the instructions of his Excelle;cy ti - e Minister of Finunc-, and of flees: s. Stie B litz and Co., of St. Petersburvb, the bankers of the Imperial Government, they are ready - t ) receive application, fir the load therein at tiorised, cf 5,500,000/. (five millions five hundred thomitad pounds sterling) of stock, bearing .4i per cent. jet !rest, on tLe following t rms and con It ens: " amle, in due f )rm executed in St. Petersburgh will be issued in sums of 1001., 5001, and 1,000/. sterling, re spectively, with twenty half-yearly dividend warrants. payable Ist January and Ist July (new Ity'e) of each year, at tha counting-:louse of Messrs. Baring Brothers and and ni t el=ewLe e, and with an authorization to claim fresh dividend warrants, without charge. " The ha,f-yearly dividend warrants will be respec tively for 21.5. on each bond of 1001., fir 11/. ss. on bonds of 5001, and fir 221. 105. on bonds at 1,0001. " The sterling amount f the bonds will be also reia.- bursed, without charge or ,deduction, at tl e counting house of Niessrs. 13.. ring Brothers and Co., and an annual sinking fund of 2 per cent. on the principal will be ap plied to their repayment at par. " The bonds to be reimburse I will be annually drawn by lottery, in St. Petersburgh, and the first re mburse ment will take place in London on the Ist cf January, 1852 (new style), when bonds to the amount of 110,0001 will be repaid at par, and as a like amount will be reim bursed annually, the whole loan will be repaid in fifty years. " All the bonds will thus be repaid at par, and they bear intorest iu favour a subscribers f, om Ist January, 1850. " The subscription price is 93 per cent , say at the rate of 931. sterling for every 1001. Stock, of which 201. must be pa'd two days after allotment to Messre. Martin, Stone, and Co., bankers, Lombard-street. 10/. must be paid on 15th February. 101. , If 15th March. 101. „ „ 15th April. 101. 15th May. 101. „ „ 15th June. and the remainder, after deduction of the half yearly dividend due Ist July, must be paid on 15th July next. " The failure to pay all the instalments regularly for feits all previous payments. " Subscribers may ray up all, or any of these instal ments, under discount of the respective maturities at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. Scrip receipts will be delivered pith as little delay as possible, on the production of the banker's receipts of payment of the instalment, and the bonds will, at latest, bo ready for exchange against the scrip on the 15th July next. "No application for this loan will be received after four o'clock P.M., on Monday, the 21st January. "8, Bibhopsgate-street Within, 14th Jan., 1850." The ukase referred to above contains no more in formation than is specified in the preceding, being merely the official order for the contraction of the loan on the terms stated. THE RUSSIAN LOAN. MEETING OF THE PEACE SOCIETY. 103, Westbourne-terrace, Monday Evening, Jan. 14. My dear Sir,—Another outrage is to be offered to the moral sense of the civilized world. It is said that a Russian loan is to be raised in the city of Lon don. The Cossack hordes have fulfilled their mission in Hungary : witness her wasted fields, her smoking villages, and her scaffolds flowing with the blood of her noblest patriots ; and now the savage instruments of all this devastation and slaughter are clamorous for their wages. Englishmen—aye, the capitalists of London —are, it seems, to furnish the blood-money ! If so, for the credit of the age and the character of oar Christian country, let an indignant protest be heard in repro bation of this unholy and infamous transaction. The Peace Congress Committee, to whom was intrusted the carrying out of the resolution, passed at Paris, condemnatory of these loans, will, I hope, call a public meeting in the City, at which I will most gladly at tend. Let it be at the earliest possible moment — Friday or Saturday, at the latest. And believe me, faithfully yours, RICHD. COBDEN. Rev. Henry Richard, Secretary, Peace Congress Committee. SPANISH AMERICAN BOND- HOLDERS. The following correspondence has been handed to us by the committee of Spanish American Bond holders, from which it will be seen that, notwith standing the recent letter of the Mexican Minister, announcing a remittance to Messrs. John Schneider and Co. of 35,000 dollars, it is still contended by that firm that the sum of 10,3671. is required to enable them to complete the payment of the dividend due on the ht of January, 1847: `• 13, Austinfriars, Jan. 12, 1850. " Gentlemen,—The committee of Spanish American Bondholders will be obliged by your furnishing them with a statement of tt c remittances received by you on account of the Mexican dividends, showing the sum now in hand applicable to the payment of the remaining fourth of the dividend due the Ist of January, 1847. " I remain, &c., " ALFRED GODFREY, Secretary. " (For Mr. G. R. Robinson, Chairman.) " Messrs. Schneider and Co." " 10, New Broad-street-mews. Jan. 14, 1850. " Sir,—ln reply to the committee's letter of the 12,h imtsnt, we beg to enclose to you a statement of the funds now in your hands applicable to the payment of the re maining fourth part of ihe dividend on the Mexican debt, due on the Ist of January, 1847, showing that the sum of 10,3671. 13s. 7d. is required to complete the provision for that payment. As soon as this sum shall be placed will be paid.—We remain, &c., portion of the said dividend in our hands the rema i ning " JOHN SCHNEIDER and Co. G. B Chairman of the Corn m e soe, sq , Spanish Americ an B on dh o lders."it t ieloboifn BRAZIL. FALMOUTU, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty's packet Crane,: .o Lieutenant Parsons, arrived here this Janeiro, after a tedious passage, h and her date of sailing having sailedinnnigngbef o e r i o i ul advised Nov.vilsed some days ago through a steamer conveying letters to the northern ports of Brazil, which came to England in a merchant ship, no news can be expected by this arrival. She had no pask,engers and but a small freight, con sisting of specie, gold dust, and diamonds, probably amo unting in value to a b out 4 , 0 0 01. Th e R a l e i g h, Commodore Reynolds, sailed i n co mpany from Rio Janeiro for E , gland, but would touch at Bahia. The Hydra, steamer, was on a cruise; the schooner, Spidpr, had left for St. Catharine, and the Griffon for Pernambuco; the Kestrel was to sail November 17 with the branch mails ex Linnet packet, for the River Plate. - A Rio corresponded writes as follows : " Forcign advices both from the United States and Europe coutinue favourable ; and notwithsttading that our prices were previously in advance of those of the principal consuming countries, we have to note a further rise. "We doubt not that of the sales, which we estimate at fully 100.000 bags, the greater part was in execution of unlimited orders, the r esu l t e i t h er o f a confidence in a further advance of pri ces , or i n t h e no n-anticipation of s, the extraordinary high prices which rule in our market; but, notwithstanding the possibility of a further material improvement in the consuming countries, we cannot fail to be apprehensive cf the result of purchases made at prices in advance 17i- per cent. of the best obtained, ac cording to the last advices, in foreign markets. " Exchange, 27/ to a pence. Stock very flat at 88, sellers. Freights, 445. to 455. fur the Channel; inquiry very limited.' THE NEW YORK " LINERS" LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—Two marine disasters have been announced this morning, in both instances in re ference to members of the magnificent New York liners. The following are the details : Shortly after eleven o'clock this morning, the packet-ship Guy Mannering, Captain Edwards, in leaving the Princes-dock, for the purpose of proceed ing to New York, grounded astern on the north edge of the dock gut, near the outer gates. Captain E a wards had the water in the casks started, and every thing removed to lighten the ship, but although four steamers were made fast and tugged at her till the tide began to recede, she remained firmly fixed. The position in which she lies is a very dangerous one, the after part of the ship resting on the stone edge of the gut, which is about three feet above the level of the = basin, and the fore part in the basin, thus leaving the waist, or centre of the ship, wholly without support. The Guy M mnering is full of merchandise, and had a large number of passengers on board. her draught of water aft was stated to be 21 feet, while the depth of water on the dock-sill was marked at over 22 feet, but it is supposed that the strong south-east wind has in some degree prevented the tide flowing to its esti mated height. The following letter announces the loss of the packet-ship Hottinguer " Wexford, Jan. 12. " The ship llottinguer, Captain Burnley, from Li verpool to New York, got on Blackwater Bank this morning, at six o'clock. Part of the crew have landed at Morriscastle. Vessel expected to be a total wreck Crew saved. " Wexford, Jan. 11. " The lugger Adilli, Borgot, master, from Nantes to Liverpool, came on shore last night, about ton miles south of this place, and went to pieces. Four of the crew lost; the master and two others lost. Cargo, wheat and flour. A part of the latter saved, but damaBed." THE LATE LIEUTENAINT WAG- HORN, R.N. This gallant officer, whose sudden and melancholy demise we announced a few days since, was born at Chatham in the early part of the year 1800. At twelve years of age he was appointed a midshipman in her Majesty's navy, and sixteen days before he had attained seventeen he passed in navigation for lieute nant—the youngest midshipman that had ever done so. At the end of 1817 he was paid off, and went third mate of a free-trader to Calcutta. Returning home in 1819, he got appointed to the Bengal marine (pilot service) of India, where he served till 1824, when he volunteered for the Arracan war, and re ceived the command of the East India Company's cutter Matchless, and a division of gun-boat. , , in con nexion with that army and flotilla. He was five times engaged, and saw much service by land and by sen, and was once wounded in the right thigh. He returned to Calcutta in 1827, having received the thanks of all the authorities, kith a constitution then undermined from the baneful f-ver of Arracan, where s. many thousands 'died. Pestilence reduced the farces in six months to one-fifth of their original number; but from the indomitable perseverance that had marked his course, Lieutenant Waghorn rallied to the great project he had secretly at heart, namely, 3 steam communication between our eastern sessions and England. He communicated his plan to the officials, including the then Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government, Mr. C. Lusiington, now M.P. for Westminster, through whom he brought home letters from Lard Combermere, then Vice- President in Council (Earl Amherst, Governor- General, being on a tour in Upper India), for the East India Company, in London, as a fit and proper person to open steam navigation with India via the Cape of Good Hope. On his arrival in England, Lieutenant Waghorn advocated this object in Lon don, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, &c., as he had previously done at MadraF, the Mauritius, the Cape, and Sr. Helena. Bat her Ma jesty's Post-office, at that time, was opposed to ocean steam navigation; and so, unfortunately, were the East India directors (except Mr. Loch), although Lieutenant Waghorn proclaimed its usefulness to all for two years. However, in October, 1829, he was called on by Lord Ellenborough (President of the India Board) and Mr. Loch (Chairman of the Court of Directors) to go to India, through Egypt, with dispatches for Sir J. Malcolm, Governor of Bombay, &c. ; and to report upon the practicability of the Red Sea navigation for the overland route. On that trip he got to Alexandria in twenty-six days ; and so rapidly was his journey to Trieste accom plished (nine and a half days through five kingdoms) that an inquiry was then made by the Foreign-office respecting it. Lieutenant Waghorn'a orders were to join the Enterprise, first steamer from England to India, at Suez, on the 6th of December, 1829. Owing to an accident she did not appear, and as he had im portant Government dispatches, Lieutenant Wag horn had no resource except to return to England, or go on in an open boat down the Red Sea. He pre ferred the latter as a matter of duty, and sailed down the centre of that sea without chart or compass, the north star being his guide by night and the sun by day. Suffice it to say that he arrived at Juddah, 620 miles, in six and a half days, and there first learned that the Enterprise steamer had broken her machinery on the way from Bengal to Bombay, and was not coming. From what Lieutenant Waghorn observed in this trip, he felt convinced that for every purpose of interest, politically, morally, and com mercially, between England and the East, this was the route ; and it were a waste of time to say with what ardour, perseverance, and firmness he worked it to completion. Lieutenant Waghorn received the thanks of three quarters of the globe—viz., Europe, Asia, and Africa, besides numberless commendations from mercantile communities at every point where eastern trade is concerned. Un aided (except by the assistance of the Bombay Steam Committee) he built the eight halting places on the Desert between Cairo and Suez, the three hotels es tablished above them, in which luxuries are provided and stored for the passing traveller, and rendered that hitherto waste the wonder of every traveller. When Lieutenant Waghorn left Egypt in 1841, he had es tablished English carriages, vans, and horses, for the passengers' conveyance across the Desert (instead of camels), and placed small steamers from England on the Nile and the canal of Alexandria. The " Over land Mails" to and from India for two years (from 1831 to 1834) were worked by himself; and he summed up his labours by carrying letters to Eng land from Bombay in 47 days in February, 1834, without any steam from Alexandria to Landon. In 1847 Lieutenant Waghorn showed that England pos sessed another way to India as well as the route through France, the Gallant officer having in the winter of that year effected a saving of thirteen day s in the journey via Trieste. He, moreover, explored a mail route through the Papal States, via Ancona, between England and India; and another route by way of Gmos. Each of these routes is now open (Trieste, Genoa, or Ancona) for such purpose when ever Government may think proper to order mails to and fro between England and India by either. The remains of the gallant officer were privately in terred yesterday at Snodlands, near Rochester. TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir.,—l was distressed to read in the Evening Mail of the 9th inst., the death of Lieutenant Waghorn, R.N., to whose zealous and persevering exertions we mainly owe our rapid and certain communication with most parts of India and China, via overland route. Lieutenant Waghorn was in the prime of life, and might have lookei for ward to years of usefulness to hia country and family, but his once iron constitu tion had been so impaired by his unheard-of zeal in the promotion of England's best interest, that he sank beneath the load he had borne fJr many years, in establishing that which he was allowed to see fully matured; and the least a generous public can do to perpetuate his name is to erect an appropriate monu ment to his memory, and to raise a fund for the bene fit of his widow and children; and I consider this might be done in the most simple way, by all mer chants, traders, and all officers of both professions, with officers of the Indian civil service, and every , one who has connexions or friends in India, subscrib ing from half-a-crown to ten shillings. On my seeing the late Lieutenant Waghorn, a few years ago, at Malta, he expressed to me his most earnest desire to spend and be spent for the benefit of his country, and that his greatest desire was, that when he was no more, his remains might rest on the traffic road be tw(en Cairo and Suez; and although this cannot now he the case, his memory can be handed down to the latest posterity by a suitable column being erected over his tomb. Trusting these imperfect remarks may lead to some one taking them up and carrying them out, I have the honour to be, &c. W. J. COLE, Capt. R.N., K.H. Lechlade, Gloucestershire, Jan. 14, 1850. DIAMOND DUST. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee. But answer those their laughter with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet. Correct taste is always true t.) nature The "beau tiful appearance of the esrth and heavens," the regular change of the seasons, the succession of day and night, fill the heart of him who is influenced by it with rap ture. Tho nearer works of art approach the perfection of nature, the more consonant they are with good taste, and they command lasting and universal admiration. Gravity is ant necessarily a component part of wicked ness. Malignity is often wreathed in smiles. TI are jests which destroy; destroy as surely as the keen edged dagger or the poisoned bowl. In every generous mind there is a string, which, if touched rightly, yields fine Ones, but if struck by an unskilful hand, produces only discord. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Jam. 14.—1 n a congregation holden this day the following degrees were conferred:— MASTERS OF ARTS. Rey. T. C. Southey, Taberdar of Queen's. Rev. 11. G. Merriman, Fellow of New College. R. W. Gilbert, Fellow of St. John's. Rev. T. Podmore, Fellow of St. John's. Rev. John H. P. A. M. Maynard, Pembroke College Rev. E. Coffin, Demy of Magdalen. BACHELORS OF ARTS. E. W. Culsha, Magdalen Hall. 11. B. Earle, Exeter. The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology in tends to begin his course of lectures of the present term on Tuesday, the sth of February. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 14.—The following will be the subjects of examination in the last week of the Lent term, 1851:- 1. " The Gospel of St. Mark." 2. "Paley's Evidences." 3. " The Old Testament History." 4. "Apology" and " Crito" of Plato. 5. " Ars ?oetica" of Horace. 6. " Elements of Euclid," Books I. and 11. ; and Arithmetic. 35 40 40 40 PROSPECTS or CANADA.—Large quantities of Ca nadian produce are now arriving in the Mersey via New York. An inportant element in the commer( e Canada therefore is opening; and although the State of New York will derive the advantage of internal earl iage from the St. Lawrence to the city <f New York, yet to the trade and industry of the colony itself a powerful and momentous impulse will be communicated, more especially during the period when the navigation of the St. Lawrence is closed by ice.—Liverpool Albion. Continued frost has hitherto completely arrested the sporting doings of January, and seems not unlikely to do so for some (lays yet to come. Earl Fitzhardinge's foxhounds have kept close in their Berkeley kennels, instead of coming over, as a week ago it was intended they should do, last Saturday, to resume hunting in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham.--,Cheltenham Looker. on. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. METROPOLITAN HANDICA P. 20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Testator—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Black Eagle—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's Borneo—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Crawfurd'a Glutton—taken 40 to 1 apt Mr. Gregory's Damask—taken The investments on the above event did nor, we be lieve, exceed a pony on each horse. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 15 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Rat-trap 15 to 1 agst Mr. Stevens's Knight of Gwycne 15 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John 25 to 1 agst The Oaks—taken 25 to 1 agst Agitation 30 to 1 agst Mr. Mangan's Farnham—taken 30 to 1 agst Rory be Aisy—taken 50 to 1 agst Mulligan 50 to 1 agst Grand Luna'4l:e All the above prices were taken, and in most cases to about 50/. CHESTER CUP. to 1 agst Lord thwart's Peep-o'-day Boy—taken to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca—taken to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa—taken to 1 agst Mr. Ed:Won na John Cosser-50 to 1 taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Ches:er6eld's Lady Evelyn—take 50 to 1 40 to I agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer—take 50 to 1 40 to 1 apt Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale-50 to 1 taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Whim colt ,000 to 15 apt Mr. Colgan'. Horn of Chase— t siren 000 to 15 agst Mr. Halford's 11.rri.,tt—taken ,000 to 15 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth—taken 2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Meiklam's Wensleydale—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Captain Haworth's The Baroness—t 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Pad wick's The Flea—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Meiklarn's Snowstorm—taken 1,000 to 25 each in one b. t agst Glauca, Clarissa, Peep• o'-day Boy, Ellerdale, Chanticleer, John Cosser, Lady Evelyn, and the Whim colt (taken). The general betting was sot by any means heavy; but Peep-o'•day Boy, Glauca, Clarissa, Lady Evelyn, and Ellerdale were in high favour. The largest outlay was on Glauca and Clarissa. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 300 to 50 agst Beehunter winning the 2,000 Guineas, and The Flying Dutchman the Emperor's Plate—taken. DERBY, 1850. 10 to 1 apt Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum— • taken to 3001. 16 to 1 sgst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian 1,000 to 60 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger-1,700 to 100 laid once 20 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher—taken to 501. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew—taken to 751. 30 to 1 sgst Lord Eglinton's Mayors—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's William the Con queror 2,000 to 30 agst Lord Palmerston's Yew Tree—taken In the ;those quotations the only alteration will be found in the Nigger, who, after he had been backed for about 1501. at 17 to 1, receded to 18 to 1 layers; 10 to 1 was laid to two or three hundred pounds agst Ghillie Callum, 1,000 to 50 twice about Clincher, and 1,000 to 60 about Voltigeur. Bulingbroke was not mentioned. _ THE OAKS. 8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Probity—taken freely 10 to 1 agst Mr. Hobson's Rhedycina—taken DERBY, 1851. 2,000 to 30 agst Lord Eglinton's Juggernaut--taken DERBY, 1852. 10,000 to 75 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhouse-5,000 to 50 also laid INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. CHESTER RACES. CHESTER, MONDAY EVENING. Handicap for the Chester Cup. Age st IL Age st lb Chanticleer a 9 6 Quinine Collingwood Cossack Peep-o'-day-80y... 6 9 0 reflis Surplice Fiatcatcher 5 8 8 Grief Dough 5 8 5C by Verulam...... 4 6 7 John Cosner Ellerdale 6 8 3 Rathmines Wanota Epirote Lady Evelyn Malton 5 8 0 mons Nunnykirk 4 8 0 Melody Inheritress Ballinafad The Horn of Chase 6 7 10 Luxor Hotspur Sylvan 5 7 9 Lady I-am-off 5 6 5 Eszeiarius .... ..... 4 7 9 Gaffer Green a 6 3 Vatican Bo❑-spot 4 7 8 Cauriri 4 6 3 Defaulter 5 7 7 Old Fox Uriel Glenalvon ...... .. 4 7 6 Yardarm a 6 0 The Baroness 4 7 6 Fleur de Seine ... 5 6 0 Lady Hylda 6 7 5 Fern 5 6 0 Vesta Clermont 6 7 5 Andalusian 4 6 0 Loadstone Chatterer 4 7 5 Pity-the-Blind ... 4 6 0 Bellus Rsby Glauca 4 7 5 Diana Dulcet a 7 3 Rodney Ciiitf Baron Legerdemain Wo - olaieh Ellerslie Strongbow 4 7 Langton Vanguard Montague W. stow Idle-boy ' 5 7 Quiz (late Rais thorpe) Fogleman Lambs'-wool Chorister 5 7 Cby Gladiator 4 510 rho Miner 4 5 10 Reception Rarriott ...... 3 5 9 Gulliver Roland 4 5 General Sale Wensleydale 13 fby Vulcan rheodoreHook(hb) 4 5 8 Pitsford King of Oude 3 5 6 Seneca Post tempore Loup-garuu 4 7 0 The Castle 3 5 5 Pelham Osterley Honeycomb 4 7 0 Countess of Albe- Clarissa Miss Ann Snowstorm 4 7 0 Knight of G Wynne 3 5 0 Saucy Dick 4 7 0 Stepping-stone ... 3 5 0 Lady Superior Velox Justice 5 6 12 Jack Briggs The Darter 5 6 12 Little Jack 3 5 0 Midia R Woodlark 4 6 12 ness Thringarth Sir Richard . 4 6 12 Modesty Strychnine Tarn Wadlin ...... 4 6 11 Laura Maid of Team Val- Brennus ley The Cocktail .. ... 4 6 11 Seaman Cockermouth Hagley 5 6 10 Witchcraft Eagle's P1ume... . .. 5 610 lanthe Eiipus Van Dieman Abbot of Meaux... 4 6 10 Sidus Kissaway Priestess The Arab Ada Mary The Alp The Flea 4 6 10 Luxury Chant ey 4 6 10 Baroness Dac de Brabant ... 4 6 10 Deception Newcourt a 6 9 St. George Pantomime 6 6 9 Sprite . 3 4 4 Backbiter Imperatrix Mounseer Giselle a 6 8 California St. Antonio 5 6 8 Wallace Lismahago The Knout 4 6 6 Kennington paid. Acceptances to be dealarel on the Ist of February. BATH RACES, 1850. Handicap fir the Somersetshire Stakes. Age st lb Age at lb Cossack Fernhill Epiroto Essedarius .... Elleralie Hotspur Halo 6 8 2 Old Fox Bon-mot (paid) ... 4 8 1 Red Doe 5 6 7 Sylvan 5 8 1 Seagull Woolwich ... 4 8 0 Gulden Pippin ... 4 6 6 Glendower Montague Glenalvon Strongbow O.terley Due de Brabant ... 4 7 7 Hinds c St. Antonio 5 7 7 Thug Chantrey 4 7 6'Damask Edipus Sunnyside Knout 4 7 4 Taunton Dean ... 3 5 7 Chorister 5 7 3 Won't-you-come- Cockermouth 5 7 3 out-to-Night ... 3 5 0 Eagle's Plume 57 3 i Greenwich Mount , ea Midia Mr. WILLI'S CONCERT.—Mr. Willy's fourtil.a con cert took place last evening at the St Martinr_ 1 was well attended. The vocaliAi were hi s is Ellen Lyor, who acuitted herself favourably) , 24 Kenneth f and orm the Mr. strength L and Land; and Messrs. Sterndale Bennett, Willy, of the the concerts, Wr i :pieces, ea ,t ti e Rd h e i c eb h d . y: Wand, and Z ef i b o i n l i . in T E ti The a p t. i. ) e , c o e n s 0 were . B B a c e h e ,tsh piano forte v eu'ag r and quintett ( . ,_, co ncertos (play ed by M.. b. Bennett, accompanied by Willy.. Zerbint, We stlake, Reed, and Mount), Men delashows grand quartett (in D major, op. 44), an d Mozart's quartett (in B flat), for pianoforte, violin, viola, and violoncello. All these were given in a high style of excellence. Bach's concerto was encored. DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last night a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. J. Buchanan and Co., coach builders, St. Enoch square, which terminated in. the al most total destruction of the property and valuable stock inside. The total loss is estimated at about 8,0001. —North British Mail. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. ___..,____ The holiday attendance at this magnifiz Ki a .... i of science an 1 art continues still to extra ' ----*, vl multitude of visitors that of any previouss ' '''-.?' ... 4 the first opening of the institution. Whit* o s s , .": 1 ::7'" . proportionate increase in the numbed; 'f - 'l*.t*: ... • ~ ...,:.1 wealthier classes who frequent its nobler/11 rs ai4l4 ‘. 1 theatres, the crowds of people of humbler ti ;arhci.:ix pis 4 ,- t . i . fiti4 ‘-).,.. j , ' l ' l now flock hither to enjoy that unexample • _...--- tion cf the delightful and instructive, whi 0 in every part of the entertainments, is unu large, and we frequently hear this remark made amongst the more observing groups : " The taste of the people night," pleisdecidedly improving." Indeed, on “ and irfthe early holidays succeeding, it was pleasant to see the numerous parties cf young lade, evidently cf the class whom one might suppose more likely to relish three-penn'orth of the panto mime from the upper gallery of a minor theatre, eagerly seeking the refi ne d p l easures o f th e Pol . ) - tecnic at a cost so much greater, that the difference must be to them a matter of some consideration. The series of lectures now in course of delivery by the several professors are admirably suited to the season. Peculiarly attractive and instructive to the young and uninformed, they are highly interesting to the more advanced in years and knowledge. Dr. Bachhoffner's beautiful discourses on the phi. lusophy of sciensific recreation, illustrated by curious and striking experiments, serve this purpose with singular elect, and the dissolving views, especially those illustrative of ancient Lon don, are exceedingly efficient to the same end. The varied lectures on chemistry and natural philosophy are, as usual, skilfully adapted not only to what is called familiarly popular instruction, not only to the information of enlightened minds, but to the eleva tion of the less inf4rmed, who are enlightened only when they come to be entertained. The explana tions of the numerous models in every department of mechanical art and practical philosophy, daily deli vered by Mr. Crh3ps, are in a high degree worthy the attention of every visitor. To the various speci mens of ingenuity in the arts of invention there have recently been added some of an exceedingly curious and interesting improvement in the manufacture of cloth, and in what is now-a•days called the " Science of Costume," more plainly the art of tailoring. The invention consists, firstly, of a new method of weaving, by which a cloth is produced with two perfectly finished faces, each of a different colour and design, the shades of one side not in the slightest degree affecting the pure colour of the other, however great may be the contrast. This bi-coloured prodigy is produced in woven fabrics of every description, woollen, silk, or cotton, plain and figured—plain on one side, coloured on the other, and so on. The in vention consists, secondly, of that which both startles and amuses every one who examines those specimens, such an improvement in constructive tailoring as produces two complete and exquisitely finished gar• ments, of different colour and fashion, both exqui sitely finished in a single fabric ! Thus, you have a black waistcoat of a plain cut, upon turning which inside out youpresent (in the same single material) a fancy co• loured and fancy cut waistcoat, completely and ele gantly finished. This is the specimen which we can make the nearest approach to explain in words ; but description is wholly inadequate, and the thing must be seen and examined again and again to be at all understood. The name given to it by the patentees, Messrs. Beckall and Powell, is the " Bisunique." Amongst the specimens exhibited is a very beautiful mantle or paletot for a lady, black on one side and grey (for half mourning) on the other, which may be worn either side out, at option, both aides being su perbly finished. It is an object of much attrac tion, and is truly elegant. Tne greatest wonder is the production of a manufacture by which the pa radox is effected of two garments of different colours and fashions in one material. It cannot fail to give, for a long time, to our manufacturers, a very marked advantage in the foreign markets. We may not omit to observe that the diver and diving-bell, and the submarine explosLms, continue to be as great an at traction as ever, at both morning and evening exhibi tions. The prosperity of the institution, equalling its merits, is highly creditable to the public taste, and highly encouraging to those who desire the elevation of the people. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES. —An inquest, which occupied a considerable time. t ok place yesterday, before Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the Five Bells, Old Ford, Buw, respectng the death z f John Rodda, aged 32. The circums antes cf the unfoi tat ate man's death were reported in The Sun of yesterday. He trespassed on the line to proceed to his empleyment at Stratfird Works, when he wus inn down by the 8.0 morning train fer Hertfird. olr. Chadwick, in answer t ) the coroner, stated ti at none but platelayers those who had business on the permanent way were allowed to walk along the line Nsethout a pass. The dee( axed had no such order, thert fire he was a trespasser. The coroner sad the recent return c f accidents showed the gnat care that was observed in the railway system Ile had read in the newspapers that o! 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 passengers, only 29 persons had been killed—of that number only seven had met their deaths from circum .tences which possibly could have been avoided; the re mainder of the 29 had lost their lives entirely from their own imprudence. After some deliberation the jury re turned a verdict of "Accidental Death," accompanied by a recommendation that the company would adopt every possible measure in preventing the recurrence t f a similar event by having warning beliefs to trespassers erected on certain parts of the line. Mr. Chad% ick said he would lose no titre in laying 0 e recommendation cf tee jury b( fore the proper authorities. THE VACANT COLONELCIEr.— Major-General Douglas Meteor, C.B, and Major-General James Fer gusson, C. 8., ate, we hear, on good authority, to have the t;vo vacant regiments. GLASGOW, JAN. 12.—Cotton Market.—During the wet k a pretty fair business has been done in cotton wool, principally, however, on speculation, in c easrquance of the confirmed accounts, per Hibernia, of a diminished crop. Prices have gradually risen, and may now be quoted id. per lb. over those of last week. Pig Iron.— In the early part of the a eek the market was in a very inactivo state, but towards its close a disposition to sell was evinced, and for mixed Nos. 48s. were accepted. There has been a good demand for bar iron at prices varying from 51. 15s. to 6/. CRICKET ON THE Ica.—A novel and interesting game was played on Wednesday last, on the canal re servoir, in the shape of a match at cricket. The ice being in beautiful condition for the purpose, some of the members of the Carlisle Cricket Club determined to transfer their stumps from the turf to the field of ice, for a little practice, on skates, of their favourite amusement; and they accordingly kept up a vigorous contest in this way for three or four hours. The novelty of the scene attracted many spectators.—Carlisle Journal. THE THOROUGHFARE, FENCHURCH-STREET. —A. correspondent draws our attention to the delay there is in effecting the long-contemplated opening through the tower of Sr. Benet's Church, at the south-west corner of Fenchurch-street, London, and which would enable the authorities to throw part of the present paths into the read and so improve the thoroughfare. At a recent vestry ( f the united parishes of St. Bonet and St Leonard, Eastcheap, we understand Mr. rAnson's design fir this undertaking was submitted and approved, and it was decided, that so soon as the necessary arrangements were complettd, the work should be proceeded with.-- Builder PRESERVATION OF ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS INDIA.—At the Institute of Architects, during a discus siGn, Mr. l'Anson suggested that the Government or the East India Comp any should investigate the architectural works of India.—Mr. Fowler agreed in the necessity of the Government or the Company preserving records of the buildings.—Mr. Godwin sa ( 01, with reference to this, that the periodical press in India had become awakened to the importance of preserving and illustrating the architectural monuments of the country, and were pres sing it upon the Company.—Mr. Fergusson axed that something had been already done by the Company; but the late wars bad checked the operations.—Builder. From the circular addressed by the directors to the shareholders of the Midland Railway, it appears that the total sum expended up to the 30th of June last was 15,127,4581., and that the outstanding liabilities and probable further expenditure are estimated at 770,2401., making an aggregate of 15,897,6981., which will be 1,864,461/. below:the total they are authorised to raise under their Parliamentary Acts. The directors avoid entering into conjectures as to future dividends, except in so far as to express a general confidence in the in herent value of the line, and in the beneficial results to be obtained by abandoning the race of competition and forming mutually advantageous traffic arrangements with other companies. yesterday ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. f the annual general meeting of the prom g e s r h s op O sgate• charity took place at the Lond on Tavern, l meeting having been The minutes of the last genen c i f the institutioa for the read and confirmed, the o street, Mr. Wm. Nottidge, the treasurer, in the chair. vote of thanks was then , residuary legsee'3 cf the passed to Samuel Scott:, Bart., for his munificent donation late Sir Samuel Scott, ar presoot year were electtetid pounds to the institution, and a resolu tion one thousand E ffic ,qA e . rs v, : , of was adopted electing him one of the vice-presidents of the charity. The meeting afterwards proceeded to elect twenty children into the asylum, from a list of seventy candidates, and the names a the successful can• didstes were ordered to be advertised in the daily papers. From the general statement of accounts for the year 1849, it appeared that the receipts (including a balance in hand of 1,3351. 19s. Bd.) amounted to 10,848/. 15s. 4d., and the disbursements to 7,1434 I6s. 7d., leaving • balance ( f 3,7041. 18s. 9d. Of this sum 2,2911. 17s. 6d. had been invested in the purchase t f annuities, thus re ducing the amount f cash to 1,4131.13.3 d. This report having been received and adopted, and a vote cf thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meeting sepa ratel. BIRMINGHAM.—We congratulate our townsmen on the election of Mr. James Corder to the important and responsible office of clerk to the guardians of the poor of this parish, feeling satisfied, from the very efficient manner in which that gentleman has discharged his multifarious dot es fir the last four months, that the guardians have made a wise choice, and that Birming• ham has secured the services of a tllented and z. alous officer. Although there were several candidates, Mr. Coreer's election Ras almost unanimous.-41ris's Bir• minqharn Gazette.