The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-10 00:00:00

I V I ')NEY nn , ' COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QU4RTEI? TO THREE. Tho Cotton Markot at Liverpool yesterday was very attire, prices of American having advanced to id. Per Ih., and other kinds -,vere id, per lb. dearer than on Friday last. The sales were estimated at about 20,000 b al" , , 01 which 11,500:were taken on speculation. The eat,tscoinprised about 17,000 American, 800 Pernam and Ma ranhain at 61. to 7d, 400 Bahia at 61d. to 6id , 200 g 3 p iiin at 71 , 1. to Bd., and 1,500 Surat at 4id. to 4i 1. pvr lb.—Raikay Shares were firm. The qvantity of Wheat so ld in the markets which re gu,",te the official averages was last week 97,913 qrs. The most interesting matter to English readers noticed in the ! , dviccss received from the United States, is th e oll'moced intetion of President Taylor's Go. "eminent t 3 recotrancod an enhance:pent of duties for thePr'Aeetion r)f native indui,try, but which, apparently. t;i•la • ' • I'ture it not likely to sequilsi - ,ie in. The ter liatjoined itiroar..stion rill act re to explain how the mat vends; "The Se;•r9t..iry rec,L,nimeeds important alterations of w), tlifications th., tariff. In his opinion, the rates rl 3 , (l ,iitY are toci low, and the revenue has suffered mate -1:(un that ctrcums atice. He proposes a reiurn to frthev„st"ul of siweilic duties, on all articles on ss hkh be cone en i en ily laid. The Sbcretary says that, th - '" toe returns made to the depirtment, it is his opinion 1, at the opsration of the warehousing system has not teetn- i ant - ficially felt in the general business of the coup rod e It is suggested, in the report, that if the ictependent Treasury system is to be continued, t haPiho-it be so modified, that any person to deposit it rvitki any es , istant treasurer, and draw from haoun t from time to time in such sums as hi' may ! ir e- Th e sieretary i s, i n f act, opposed to t h e w h o l e mln relation to tie present financial and corn- S eere - qateuis of the Government, the report of the t4 Y of the Treasury is precisely of the tone and arseter we anticiPated. Fortunately, however, the it L ll4 eidativ e branches of the Government are so con ruNtd as to prevent any very important alterations or hications- of the three Acts of Congress regulating tri4iff,erynt departments; and we have, therefore, no- T r. L. tear.' , 440 advices from California are very favourable. The t 1 ‘ 1 1 : 1 11 ,, n t, of tonnsge in the port of San Franciso was, on bot 10th Novernbtr last, 120,317 tons. Six or eight new /lie " were being built, and hundreds and thousands of is -11 / 4 ho never knew what it was to possess 100 dollars tun their life, were the possessors of large for boeis' Provisio ns were ver y hi g h i n p r i ce , fl ou r 1 d ft n g risen f rom 15 t o 40 d o ll ars . A n i mmense ;14 of f rock s , ext en di ng for m il es , h a d b een di scovere d, su p ,' it Said with gold ore and veins of gold. It was looll b "ed that it would turn out an ounce of gold to the I` o , k s ,_. of rock. One person, working at the Middle /„'iisd in six weeks obtained 6,500 dolls. elec t ionU the business of the greatest importance is the Ire Nro °I. the new President of that Republic. General TOure i L it is the people's candidate. Echenique is fa- Thd the Government. papal Cestelle. Administration has succeeded in the un- Of maintaining peace and order in the country. th e uor stand' in a position of force. According to eleeetOtis t itution, a two-third vote is required for the are °ll of President, and none of the candidates, who su ch sacral Ehz*ldo and S. Don Norva, have obtained ,Ase a lt ,„ ll 2 : llo iity. On this account, the Vice-President, it ue ,;"" k , has taken possession of the executive power. bor io - ur e a,,terr . ninat e d his . term of presidency, with the Coht i t r having maintained constitutional order in the to d lsturh i • Yt n otwithstanding the attempts of General Flores e k • • Op po the struggle between the Ministerials and the g i h k tien daily becomes warmer. The people are en- Pre, -ere al so i n t h e turmo il s o f t h e e l ect i on o f a new „si od de bt "et " The Government, however, is strong, and Th e e stole to c arr y ou t i ts v i ews . %ho t , St eamer Avon, from the West Indies, brings T h 4,2 00 000 d o ll ars i n spec i e . We re e Iteemants from Amsterdam state that the Funds Per 0 11° t• quite supported. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half 'wits have T he • been °Win English Funds nave been rather fluctuating k i pa g to t he realisation of profits after the late decided 11, 41 11C es' The market, however, keeps up well. Consols 9 71 tanged from 971 to 974- for Transfer, mad 971 to itL f( ir- Accont he latter being now 97i to 91. II; Stock is steady , at 208, and India Stock at 263. The lop - . il 'ee - and•a-Quarter per Cents. have been 99i- to beild'the Three per Cents. to 97i- to 97i. Exchequer kare 595. to 62, and India. Bonds 1001. premium. 49 Foreign 13..nds have been quieter. 11, xieau are ttr ". ) ° ,jo and Equador 31. Portuguese Four per Cents. u'l and Spanish Three per Cents. 37i 1. Dutch T he Ht railway Cents. are 55i /1-. 449 week's receipts areas under 1850. - 1849. 40 ' ll- Western r t ll • Wat ob Western.... 6,954 op t , 6,954 11, 592 6,616 7,405 1 14 - ' pl i4llsbUsine ay as hares look mu c h b e tt er aga i n, and with r doing. ONE G -11I0F.S. O'CLOCK. ' - p r., , ..•;.,Tiriti : UND -, 208 209 " i nk Stu c k .. 97% th 4 977 i od Anna 97% a , Pt : Cent. Reduc 5 , • 1, li 97 / F A - 4 A . 1 - : o e , , 1- 't• Consols Annuities 9a 1 ,4 3: 92 YR 59% 100 ti e 'an - Au .... - ':4 perCcut. na•••• 1., 4 a _ • Jan .1860 I ints. to expire • 26 8 3 % 11-16 9-16 8 26 9 1 16 ii,ada Stock 10 l p 100 p -,11. RG1,4,1,0001. 97 p Ditto und•r 1.0001.- ...... --- - c o am oath s ea st ock - gi Ditto f‘i 7 k -0 vidAnnuities 209 0,,a11k Stock for Account;', 9 7 3 / 4 1 A% 97% 14,i' i ',, i s `,* Account._.... 266 E. , a Gel for Account ... ..... s' - 1 1 , 4 d. &2d -‘elleqtler butt. 92 p k -1,000/. ' T une 59 62:p 62 p la 59 62 p 62 p („500/. June - .... ••- 59 62 p , nisa. aune )1,t.+1,•.% 0142. TRICE'S klets or roktr.auri s. Lucius- cycLoCIC. 6 84 • zil iftn Bo n d s - 87 , bitto, New, 1829 and 1839 _..- 49 Ztlenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent __ 73 4nlsh R 0nd5,1825,3 per Cent. 1 7 ,3 1 101 ~ Ditto 5 Der Cent.... 3 3 4 3% --tltiedor Bonds ..... - x.lean 5 per rent 1846, with Coupons-. Gr, • ',. '-' • -161 i naa fiopals 1 per Cent. 3 3 4 Ditto Deferred - 29% p.tttoo,, Ezco,junant. Coupons ..- 2 9 14 21% 29 3 424 63 -.4l'v'ilth Bonds, 4 per Cent 211 - I, Ditto Deferred - - 97 ° ,, tt . l lßilese 5 per Cents. 37 tAitto,4 per Cent. 37% - 19% 8 Ditto, Small 19 1 A Ink nizli 5 per Cent. 1840 19 3 4 I)itte, Account - 37 1 ,4 3 4 37% I,bitt o , 3 - per Cent I,ll.ztiela Bonds, 21, per Cent - 10 10 utto, Deferred il ~ Dividends on the above payable in London. 89% 56 , Llgen, 41A per Cent. •••••••• -Inch Der Cent., 12 Guild. .• 55% 55% Di to, - 86% 0 , Account 86 bitt o . 4. Certis2ate2- DONE CLOSING Oar den t . ;BUSINESS 441,,Lt1CE,S OF A1 ) ,4 ' 7 , AY SHARES. 50 PAID* AT ONE O'CLOC K . - •• ••• PRICES. I . :dis. , D 0 ' '. 1 ; 11 ... 1 die. ea l b.,_' • reference sa d °r • Nott., Boston, 1 .. - ..... ......... __ 4lfilAlil J:Astern Junction 7 ii ..- _ .... ti - "gira and Galloway- 7% ~.., : t , B, Conn& Down 28 •••••• - N m Hants Extens. - LithLYeat. t'er.s per ct.) 6 fi,"`pfhaui and Om -1.',, 413-net•, calls duly _ tui, or w fth a guaran. 20 - - biri„.!without guarantee 20 4,749,1", Wolverh'ton• -"uildley, calls duly - t , eT with guarantee 10 .. ti r , ° : without guarantee 10 a7,,tlg.,Wolverh'pton, ... - 311..." Stkur Valley +tee*, 131. 14s ... - -i,ead, Lancashire, ... ..•••.. --. ..... 58 lit itid Cheshire June.... 20 444 a E 92 "' '' 68 - , an ter " th, 11 ‘ 0 , Thirds „.. ..... 28i - 167 i ••• - (2" , nghki n ,li,,• e .. 17% 1114 10A3 4 ldoil - .... 50 b i „ len ...... --• 8 ••••• *** b."O, New 101. Pref... 10 - t ttn,el3-desdale Juno 50 •••••• 004 ... Defter 4 and Holyhead... 50 Q 1 "40, Preference l5 ...... -.. 13arehce 0, 1 . ................ _ - b st Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ead Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ••••"' - D, -A sinvernruent Loan, t -.per Cent. - 1 „e London & Ports- O -oa t h lib ••• - lii i "' ••• and Belfast June. 40 "•••• -- - I-Vt 4alk s Enniskillen 30 ' F iti glian, 25/., L. & Th,and D. and D... - 25 - _ La0...18/.., E . & Ei..„ 18 ,'90.,3/. 105., Pref... 31 h ''''' "". uit t o , 7/.. 175., 7 per 4 teeat., Preference... 2 ••-* - 7 IA 14 .... - ••• Ut,err, cou.ti.... ..... 20 .....• _ . b s , "?i,„ li t r iGua.6 per ct. 10 ...... 11% ( ,- •Xtension, 5 per P 4•L el lt, No.l 61.135. 4d.... - .... ..... D I-- di tto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... - °.lNorth. & Eastern, .9.,Per Cent - -- ..••.. •• 0 0 1)1 ,1, 1 °. 5 pe r Cent.... 59 - tea,' '-'nw ............... 43 •erti Union, Class A b.Oate E. 1.1. Shares) 25 - dott o , cl ams . , , a• ditto... 6 bo., Caw s g& c 18 17 % - % cri (6 per cent.) 20 •- lkat La ata ti 25 - •••.. - ...0 •• t01.,h:„ , .. $ ire ....... 25 - ..... .... •••• •• !,to New ....... . i -.. b it tn, New Quarters 6 4 ...... °:, 6 per Cent. Pro- East t er Per Quarters ... 6!q ---- t.dil'intorw .....• 2 5 - • •••••• 1)-74Glasgow 50 --- - ' ... .„it to, b a ld Shares „25.. - - "ITl)llrgia and Northern 25 - - k in „ N e wp0rt......... ....... ~ t` 'n'iteovil & Dorch. 2 5 , R ~,aeter ' 6, - , Alp s and Exmouth... -111. ego .w, D umfries, and , .4114 (..4,, a ....... .. .81.68. 8d.." - i.)!,lCliniar.,& Ayr en ...... - .... . ..... , ••• L , ,u t'referenc. Consul. - - . i,,,yuteht er & Dean Forest 121 A ..... - . `.(Tbat isTo,th " t h "s . 20 ... .. , " Jo. i e n ......... . b o , ,?a A. Deterred ... 12 1 ,4 ... ••• - b.,72 1 3 6 per Cent... 7% lir t : t , , c) Per Cent. Pref. 12% • 10;7 2 974 ,'-nntn: and Welt. 'tOit, %jajld \ ,•,, .... ••• ••••• tIC ? ...1111 ........ " ...... i''r , - ortii of England.loo •••••• - ,L(to, New, 40 /......... 40 ...... - 1 ..' ' , :t1 :' , . Nig ,v,1„,-, / , . „ ... • ...... I:, ~ .. - ........ ..: "cat Weete m 10‘.) - D itto I , c - h ... . . ."-- 4 Ix, , 1 ./1 l= are., ...... •., h." °, .f 4 &taro ...... 23 "'itt°, tiftll3 .".... •• 17 1 / 4 1034 VA 11A 17% r 78 10:% 59 23 13 1 4 101 s Ditto, New ..... 15 .• ...... ••••••• 11&.1 and Selby - ...... 50 — I )itt,o, Half liares ... 25 ......... o. ,i t i fi xter Shared... 12% ..... Lancaster And C•asiisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds LaneashiN& Yorkshire 100 Onto, ditto ..........8 [4 Shares . ..... 49 ..... Quarters .....•••• 231 4 •• ;.the,.. lO Thirds .. ..•. 16%.•••• Do. New Guarantc , 3o i.er Cent. ••• ..... 10 t 0... 12% ......... •••••• Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.).. 5O - • • •• _ - 7% 98 12% (W. Riding Union) 10 .. Do. (Preston & Wyre) ..... ••• D , 2.14 Shares (A.)... 10 and bradtoro ancf ..... .50 1)0. l'rf,fll., 6 pc , r Ct. `O. do. F•ro. 2 7 , , , 2 — •••••• 000000000 do. ......No. 3 5 ~ — ........ •. fret. lti 9 Lic,rpvol, ei - osoy o .. 10 L IT. 6s. 3d 3 3/ lirivnton„ind South Ccast... Do., New 51. ' guaran teed 6 per Cent 100 137 137% 13 7 1 /2 }U.() per Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto ditt0...... 1652 50 3 3 / 4 7 9 ,4 104 tqlenand Greenwich 12115 s ........ atto . 20 L9.4tic.n and N. Western NO 11 1 ,3 112 111 , 4 112 CO, _N e.ll, Quarters.. 'l2 13 0.;. , 1 shlres(L. M) -I-15 tt , „ 101. IL) C 1 Lend. 63 Ditto, New 504 ..,.. .„ _• — t.o. New 44/, New Scrip, IE4B, Plef. 7 per Cent. 4." 0n , i, , r.,.rr.5, A.C. , ,,,era0..1.. 25 . „.„..., . Do. IA 5hare5.......,.... 5 ,ind hums- __ aid . r, 25 —..— Do. 1 ,.; Shares '6 Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 - 40 — Ditto (6 pvr et.) _l3 '4l au.!!“-Aci.Bu:Kton,and Matlock 5 11 Shothela, and Lincolnshire...loo Th. Quarters (No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Do. IA Shares (No. 3) 12% Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 Ditto, Gt. Grirasby 50 Ditto ditto . 20 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . esti Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ...... Do, Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. Mi dl and Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ... 7% 14 .. . . ..... Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......125 Ditto,BrLst. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto . 22'. 75... Do., Erewo.shVal.,Pref. 50 - Ditto, Leieest.& S wan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 7 1 ,4 20 .... 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle anti Carlisle.loo , — .., Do. •.2uarters N.twmarket Do. Extension .• owport, Abergavenny, .113 d H.eretord 6 ...... SeNvry and Enniskillen 7 Mowry, -vVarrenpoint, _ . ant; Bostrevor Noriolk Do. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 / 2 pc. 5 Do. do. Waveuey Val. 2 N ,, rthern Counties Union 4 ...... Sortn British - ..... ... 25 .... ~ ... .. Ditto, Halves .. - ••• 12itto, Quarter., Dili., Third:. ...... - ii .. - ..•- Ditto Preference ...... 5 ..,ort'n Stafiurtisnire ... 17 1 / 2 7% % .... s orth Wales .. ....... .... 3 1 / 2 North-Western . .... ~.. 1334 ...... ... .Ixford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ........ 50 R- ad ufg, Uuildlord, and Reigate - coyttou and Hitehin ... ' - 4 ih.. ... .............. cottish Central .... 25 - ......... ..•••• Scottish Midland Ditto, New ;:ibrewebury and a l3irin... 12 „ ..... Ditto ditto. Class B. S - • Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrtwsbury and Hereld. 5 Shrewsbury & Chester ( N or. W. 'Ain.) Ditto Hal: es ... ditto 9 Ditto Oswestry ...... 18 1 / 2 Ditto New Do. 8 par Cent. Pref. 10 ,3tirvpshire Union vuth Devon Do. Preference Eot•th Statiordshire...... 8 1 4 4X 5... 7 , 01 0:11 P.s.a, - ...... •• •.•.•• Do., No. 2. L, . , ti .. iS ....... ...... 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 ii.uth Wales Suitt Y orkshire, Don- _ _ raeter, and Lioole l2 S'i3ffield, Rotherham, Zsz Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 S sans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stin. Coal. ... 7 Caw Vale Extension ... 8 rkames Haven Dock and Railway ..... gale of Neath .. lO N aterford and Kilkenny 20 - Waterford and Limerick 47% — rV aterfd,Wafrd,Wicklw and Düblin Wear Valley 6 per Cent Guaranteed ... Do. do. do. Do. do. do. 15 ..... ..... West Cornwall hitehaven & Furness 18 W indoor, Staines, and South Western ..... 14 W iits, Somerset, & Wey mouth ... 45 Y ork, owes etle, and Berwick.. . 1, , Newcastle Eaten, 20 ...... 16% 14% 18% 25% .... 11 2 Do. G.N.E.Preterence d ..... 3% 2,7 g Do. Hartlepool Dock rnn Pailway ~ 100 k and North Midlcnd 50 18 t,• Preference ...... 10 OREIGN atAILWAYr. Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian).... 5 11 - A i Boulogne iv:ol Amiens... 20 eentrai 01 France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara 17% — ••• ......... .•• Diitc'i Rhenish ......... 8 East Indian Ditto ..... ..... 20 Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. Do. ... 10s. Louvain a la Sambre ... 7th — Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia 2 ...... 4i,aur and Liege ...... 20 ... 7% 3 4 7 3 / 4Northern of France.. 14/. 8e... Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .... 2O ............. Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and:Havre ...... 20 anture and Meuse 2O ••• .. Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nante5........ 13 Tournay, J nrbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 West Flanders BA 18 6% 7. 18% 2P f i 6A .. ...... 1111 NE. Brazilian Imperial - BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... 1B 12 3 A ...... 12 3 ,4 Cobre Copper General JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New-. .....-.... 10 National of 1re1and...... 22 1 Ai...,.. ... ........ - rrovincial of Ireland ..• 25 x.d THE LATE SIR THOMAS GIBSON CARMICHAEL.— In the notice copied from a contemporary which ap pear.,d in our paper of the 28th ult , of the death of this respected Baronet at Naples, a mistake was committed in saying that Mr. Gibson Carmichael (now Sir Alex ander) who succeeds his father in the titles and estates in Peebleshire, was the issue of the second marriage, instead of the first—his mother having been Janet Mait land, daughter of the late Major-General Dundas.— Scotsman. KENTISH Towx LITERARY INSTITUTION.-0 11 Tuesday last the members held their first annual meet ing and sonde, which was numerously attended, and passed off very pleasantly. Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, M.P., presided, and the meeting was addressed by the president, Mr. Thomas Spalding, Mr. George Cruik shank, Mr. Garvey, Mr. John Cassell, and others. Lat ters were read from Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P., Charles Lushington, Esq , M.P., Charles Dickens, Esq., and Eliza Cook, expressing the r sympathy for the insti tution, and regretting their inability to attend. Com munications were also received from Douglas Jerrold, Mark Lemon, Gilbert i'Beckett, William Howitt, George Dawson, Thomas Roscoe, and others, who were pre cluded from being present. The report showed the favcurable progress which the institution had made in leas than twelve months, and the musical and other entertainments were satisfactory. At the close of the meeting a vote of thanks was moved to the chairman, which was supported by the churchwardens of the pariah. On Tuesday the City side of the Gresham Com mittee entertained the Mercers' aide of the same com mittee at dinner at the Albion Tav e r n , th e Ri g ht Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amongst the company ;.:rt: .i:r. l'afrnt , i, the .Tra.t , r ; Mr. Barnes and Mr. Watnvy, die eNardei:s; Ail. ei. l- ; ....iseiy Palm e r, M r . C.F. Johnson, Mr. Day, Mr. L. P.Vi ilson, Alderman Hooper, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Norris, Mr. G. Smith, Mr.Tite, Mr. *Mr ? AIL Hoppe, gad Air. IL A. Dame. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COUR7I. :Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.) THE TRIAL OF SARAH DRAKE FOR MURDER. Sarah Drahe, aged 36. described as a spinster, was placed at the bar this morning upon an indictment charging her with the wilful murder of Lewis Drake, her son, of the age of two years, by strangling him with a handkerchief. Mr. Bodkin end Mr. Clarke were counsel for the prosecution; and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Collier and Mr. Parry. The Learned Judges entered the court nrecisAy at ten o'clock, and the prisoner was immediately afterwards placed in the dock. She was very respectably and be comingly dressed i❑ a black gown and white muslin cap, with a far boa round her neck. Her deportment was quint and unassuming, and she appeared to be absorbed in deep but silent grief. At the request of her counsel she was accommodated with a seat, and during the trial she sat rockirg cu her sent, with her face buried in a a hite handkerchief, suffering the meat intense emotion. To the indictment charging her with the murder she pleaded Not Guilty, in a voice scercely audible. Mr. 'BODKIN proceeded to state the case against the prisoner. He said the prisoner at the bar stood charged with the crime of wilful and deliberate murder, an offence which was amongst the highest known to the Jute; and that murder was committed on her own child, aged about two years. Ho would content himself with stating the facts of the case as simply as he could, and he feared, if those facts were true, they could leave but little doubt that this unfortunate child met its death at the hands of its - mother. Of the history of the prieoncr very litt!e was known. It appeared she was in the character of a domestic servant, and had the chikl i❑ question about two years before its death; and it not Le!ing known to any of the prisoner's acquaintance that she was ever married, there was reason to beli,ve that this child was the offspring of an illicit intercourse. The LeArticd Counsel then proceeded to state the facts con• fleeted with the alleged murder, as they have been o!ten before the public, and as they will be found in the evi de►.ce given at length below. Jane Johnson was the first witness called. She said —I am the wife of Henry Johnson, and reside at Shirley-common, near Croydon. In January, 1848, I was living at Peckham, The prisoner was introduced to me in the beginning of 1847. She brought a child to me to nurse two years ago this month. The child was then three months old, and a boy. The prisoner at the first interview did not call it by any name, but she afterwards culled it Lewis, by which name it was afterwards baptised. I was present at the baptism. The prisoner did not tell me her own name when she brought the child. She agreed 'to pay me 66. a week for the child. She brought me some flannel for the child, and she came occasionally to sec the child for the first three months. About the end of three months I received a letter from the prisoner. The letter was signed Sarah Taverner. [The prisoner intimated her intention in that letter, dated November 26, to come and see the child at Mrs. Johnson's, on the following Thursday or Friday, calling it by the endearing name of " my dear baby " more than once.] I received that letter in April. I did not see the prisoner again until February, 1849. I had not then received any money from the child, but I received letters from her in the meantime. On her coming to me in February last, she said she could not leave her home be fore that time to come and see the child, as her mother was very ill. She then said she would take the child to an institution in Boulogne. She said the child's father had been brought up there. She paid me 1/., and she was then still owing me 101. lls. She took the child away with her, but left the clothes. I went with her to the Dover station. She paid her fare to Dover. I saw her go off with the child in the train. She came back to my house with the child the next night. She told me she had been to a doctor, who had told her that the child had got the water on the brain, and that it would not. live hag, and that she had better take it back to where the child bad always been brought up. She said she would riot take it away any more if I would keep it, fur she was going to service, and would do the best she could for the chid. I then agreed with her to receive five shillings a week for the child, The child wes then very ill. I did nut see the prisoner again be tween that February and the month of November, but I received some letters from the prisoner in the mean tin w; and 121. was remitt , d to me. In November the b dance due to me was 91. 10s. On Tuesday, the 27th of November, I received a letter from the prisoner, in h;'r hand-writing, dated from Edward -street, Dor sz t-square. In consequence of receiving that letter, I went on the day of its receipt to Edward street, Dorset-square, where I got some information which made me go to Harley•street. I did not know the number that evening. On the morn ing of the 13th, I went to 33, Harley-street, a little after ten, taking the child with me. (The witness here began to cry very much.) I said, " Good morning" to her, and she said " Good morning, Mrs. Joknson, I thought I would see you about my dream." I said she was a very cruel waman to cause me so much pain and trouble. She said she could not help it, and she could not send me any more money. I said I had not come for any money. She said she did not know until the night before that she was not going abroad, and that the family had put it off till the spring. I told her she had no intention of going abroad, and she asked me to go into the kitchen for a few minutes until she had seen her mistress. I staid in the kitchen for a few minutes, and I afterwards went into the housekeeper's room with the prisoner on her re turn. I told her .1 must leave the child, and would not take him home any more if I found where she wae. She asked me to take him home for a week, and I said I would not take him back any more. She said the child was looking much better, and had got much stronger. I told her he had got quite well, and had grown a hearty huh* fellow. I then told her she had better take his bat and pelisse off the child, else he would take cold. She did take them off. There was a little baddkerehief round his neck belonging to me, which I said she had better keep to keep him warm when she took him out. I told her ho would soon want something to eat ; and she said " Very well;' will he eat anything ?" And I said " Yes." Nothing else passed. I then left the child in the housekeeper's room, and went out of doors. As I was going up the area steps, the prisoner calledpn me. I bad already told her my husband intended to summon her for the money. The prisoner called out to me, and asked how much the money was, as I was going up the area steps. I told her 91. 108. She said nothing more, and I went home, leaving the prisoner in Harley-street. I last saw the child alive in the housekeeper's room. The kitchen maid came twice into the room to speak to Mrs. Drake during this interview, but she did not stay. On the following Friday I again called on the:prisoner alone, in the housekeeper's room. She said she had got a frieng who would take the child and would lend her the money; and she would pay us in the fitst week in January. She asked me if I had received a letter. I said, no; but if she had sent one, my husband would receive it about two o'clock on that day. I had brought up the child's clothes with me, and I gave them to the prisoner, along with the bill. She said, " Very well; I'll look at the bill , by and-bye." I asked her to kiss the baby for me, and she said "Yes, I will." Sho told we she had got the child out of the house without any one knowing. She did not give the name of the person to whom she had sent the child. On my return home I found a letter from the prisoner. On Saturday, the Bth December, I went down to Leverton, in Nottinghamshire. A coffin was shown to me there, containing the dead body of a child. That was the body of the child I had had to nurse. There were some clothes beside the coffin hieh I recognised. They were the clothes belon ging the child; they consisted of a frock and black petticoat and some other things, amongst which I recognised a handkerchief, a pelisse, and hat. After I knew the prisoner's name was Drake I called the child Lewis Drake. Cross-examined by Mr. COLLIER—The prisoner psid me for the child's maintenance for the first three months. I never had occasion to call the child by its Christian name. I always called it Taverner. I have heard him called Lewi frequently in my house, and Lewi only. Ite-examincd—When I spoke of him to other people I have always called him Lewis Drake. Mary Ann Wigz , ll said—l was kitchen maid in the service of Mr. Huth, in Upper Harley-street. The pri soner entered Mr. Huth's, as cook and housemaid, on the 26th of November. On the Wednesday afterwards I remember Mrs. Johnson coming to the house and bringing a child with her. She asked for the prisoner, and was shown into the housekeeper's room. That was soon after ten in the morning. Mrs. Johnson came into the kitchen for a few minutes, and I afterwards saw her return into the h ou sekeepera room. I had occasion to go into the housekee p er's room to ask some question, when I saw Mrs. Johnson, the child, and the prisoner there. I afterwards saw Mrs. Johnson leaving the house by the area steps, and the prisoner asking her a question on the steps. Mrs. Johnswe did not take the child away with her. The prisoner on coining into the house went i nto the pri soner's room. In the course of that morning I saw the prisoner again, about half-past twelve, in the kitchen. She told me the woman had caused her a great deal of trouble. She was then speaking of Mrs. Johnson. She said she had been responsible for money to her, and that the woman had said her husband would summon her. About a quarter of an hour after this conversation the prisoner asked me if I bad a small box which I could let her have. I said I had one, and I would let her have it. She said she would get me another soon. She said she had got some clothes which were of no use to her, and which she wanted to send to her sister, as they might be useful for her sister's children. She did not have my box; she did not ask me again for it. The servants dined at half-past ono that day, and the prisoner asked what time the servants' dinner was that day, as she wanted to write a letter, and she would do so whilst the other servants were dining. I saw her about half past two o'clock again, I having been dining in the interval, When I saw her it was in the kitchen, and about half-past two, and she told me she had packed her box. I then west into the bed-room where the pri soner and I slept. I saw there a box in a wrapper all round it, and sewn with white cotton. That was one of the boxes she brought with her when she entered the service on the Monday. The box remained in the bed room all night, and at half past seven o'clock next morning I carried it to the butler's pantry at the request of the prisoner. It was so heavy I could hardly cat ry it down. She told me to take it down to the butler's pantry, and give it to Mr. Glasse, and he would send a boy with it to the station. The butler was in his pantry when I took it down. I told the butler what the pri soner had said to me. I saw the box in the pantry an hour and a half afterwards, and then I lost sight of it. On that same day I put a letter in the post-office for the prisoner. The coverproduced is the cover of the letter. I have :hat box. It was shown to me at the Marylebone Police-court. (T'ne box was here produced and identified.) I have also seen the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1850 wrapper. (That ulso was produced, and identified by tLe witness.) Cross-examined by Mr. COLLIER—The next day after coming to the house the prisoner said she was not very well; she bad a bad cold. She was not s ociable, but kept to herself. She did not appear in good spirits the day after she came to the house. I have fit quEntly seen her reading the Bible when she had an opportunity, and I have seen her at prsyer also in her bed room. She bad been for an hour,in the housekeeper's room by her self reading the Bible. I saw her praying in her own bed-room for half an hour together. She said Mrs. Johnson had so disturbed her that she .did not know what slie was about. That was etyiut half-past twelve on Wednesday. Mrs. Johnson left about a quarter-past eleven. After Mrs. Johnson left it was half an hour be fore I saw the prisoner again. Re-examined by Mr. Boma:l—She never said any thing to too about what she read in the Bible. Sarah Powell—l am housemaid at 33, Upper Harley street. I was so when the prisoner came as cook on the 26 hof Novemb , r. I recollect on Wedimsday following a person coming with a child. I also saw her go out, and about five minutes afterwards I went to the house keeper's. room. I tried the door, and found it locked on tile inside. I said, " Ncvor mind," and I then went a w sty. George Glasse—l am butler in the service of Mr. Huth, and remember the prisoner coming into the ser• vice 071 Monday, the 26th November. She was hired, I believe, on the Saturday week previous. I did not know her wages. She was a stranger to me when she came. On the 28th November I saw the woman Johnson in Harley street with a child. About three o'clock that dry the prisoner told me she wished - to send a box to a sister of her's in thecourtry, containing some left-off wearing apparel of no use. to her, to ahem it might be of use. She said she had intended to send it before she ceree to her situation, but she had cot had an oppottu aity of doing so. She asked me how she could forward it by the railway station from Ruston square. I said I could send it by the footman. She asked me if I could do so that evening. I said it would be incebvenisnt that evening, but I would sent him 'on the following morning. She said that would do. The next cenveration look place in the housekeeper's room. She also risked mo to write a direction for the box, but I did not do so at that time. She told me it was a long direction, and I had better write it down. I took a pen and ink into the kitchen and wrote something at her dictation, which I have with me. (Produced.) What I wrote wa , , " Mr. Theophilus Burton, North Leverton, near Retford, Nottinghamshire." I at terwards copied that upon a card, adding the words "carriage paid," she having said she wished the carriage to be paid. The prisoner did not dine with the servants that day. I saw her about in the course of the afterneen and even ing; she cooked the dinner for the family, which was served that day at half-past six. On the following morning . the kitchen maid brought a box into my room, telling me Mrs. Drake had sent the box to me and that I knew what to du with it. I afterwards asked the pri soner to come into my room to see if the direction was properly written. The direction was sewed to the wrap per by myself. She said the direction was quite right, and gave me two half-crowns to pay the carriage of the box. I gave that box and two half-crowns to the foot men between nine and ten in the morning. The prisoner said to me if any money was returned from the change I was to give him sixpence for his trouble. I asked her, two or three days after, if she had received any letter to say the box had arrived at its destination. She said she had not, nor did she expect one for some days, as the village whither it had gone was some distance from a pest town. William Skelton Bryant—l was the footman in Mr. Huth's service, in Upper Harley-street. On the morn ing of the 29th November I took a box to the .Euston srsrteaton, and paid 3 station, i at the requests6d. carriageoftheb it. I tools my r it to u return home I saw the prisoner, who offered to giro me 6d. for my trouble, but I declined taking it, when she said I should lose nothing by it. William Hall—l drive a coach fr.m Newark to Ret ford. North Leverton is six miles from Retford. The railroad goes no nearer North Leverton than Newark. On the 30th Nov. I carried a box from Newark to Ret ford.—(Looks at a direction handed to him.) This is the same direction. There was a wrapper round the box. I left the box at the White Hart Inn, Retford, about half-past six. William Drake—l am a shoemaker, living iving ne ir r i N name e is tting haroshire. The prisoner is my sister. Sarah Drake. That is her maiden name. She was never married, so far as I know. I have a married sister living at North Leverton. Her husband's name is Theophilus Burton. On Friday . , 30th November, I went by my sister's directions, to East Retford, I went to t h e White Hart, where I received a box covered with a white wrapper, and it had a direction upon it.—(Shown a direction.) I believe that to ha the direction. I carried the box to my sister's, at North Leverton. The direc tion was lost off the box as I carried it home. When I brought the box to North Leverten, I and my brother in-law, Mr. Burton, took the wrapper off. My sister was not present. The box was locked, and it was broken open with a piece of iron. When we opened the box we saw the body of a child in it. I bad seen a letter in my sister's hand the day I went to fetch the box. I cannot prove the handwriting of that letter. That letter was burnt. Cross-examined—l have always resided at North Leverton. I cannot say at what age Ley sister, the pri soner, left her home in the country. She has been ab sent from home eight or nine years at a time; but from her first leaving home she has been absent twelve or thirteen years. lie-examined—She was at home in the country from May, 1848. to February, 1849. Since February, 1849, I have not seen hoz.. Theophilus Burton, a blacksmith, living at North Lever ton, and brother-in-law of the prisoner, proved he saw the prisoner at his house in February of last year. Remem bered a letter coming to his house in November of last year; also remembered a box coming. The letter and box came on the same day. Gave the letter to his wife, who said she had burnt it. The letter said " there is or would be—(witness did not remember which) —a box at Retford; receive it as soon as possible." There was no signature to the letter. He did not know the hand writing. (Witness then corroborated the preceding witness as to the breaking open the box and finding the dead body of a child in it.) The box, body, and clothes were afterwards given to the policeman, Smith. Wit ness took the box to Smith himself. Edward Smith—l am one of the Nottingham County Police. On the morning of Saturday, the Ist Decem ber, Theophilus Burton brought a box to me in a wrap per. On opening the box I found the body of a male child. There was no direction on the box. In conse quence of some information given by Mr. Drake, I sought for a direction, and found one on Grimly-hill, a few miles from East Retford. (Direction produced.) I found a light silk handkerchief round the neck of the child. The inside lap of the handkerchief was tight, the outer lap was not tight. Round the neck on the loft side, towards the left temple, there were dark masks visible. I found an apron in the box (produced) marked "S. Drake, 18." I also found some clothes is the box (produced). I afterwards showed the body of the child, and the handkerchief which was round its neck, to Mrs. Johnson. I afterwards took the box containing the Lody of the child to Mr. Blaggs, a surgeon. Cross-examined—The lid of the box was not close down upon the ehild. Francis Blaggs—l am a surgeon, living at South Leverten, Nottinghamshire. On the 3d of December, I was called in to examine the body of a child by Constable Smith. It appeared to be from eighteen months to two years old. It appeared to have died recently, not longer than a week, if so long. I observed a contusion on the left side of the temple bone, and also one on the right ear, and the face swollen and livid. The tongue was compressed between the teeth. I examined the heal internally and found on removing the scalp coagulated blood corresponding with the mark,on the let t temple. There were also bruises on the left ear. I found srohmoese blowsextrava m sa u t s e t hadbvloeobdeeon cantuhsd the left side of the head. r S 3 in strument in my judgment. There was a fastened twice round the n ec k o f t h e child. The inner fold of the handkerchief was t i g h t an d the outer one was loose. There was a mar k on th e l e ft side of the handkerchiefeblunt neck, but I did not notice it before I took the handker chief, so that I do not know whether or not it was produced by the handkerchief. There were appear ances of strangulation about the child. The eyelids were swollen, the tongue pressed between the teeth, the nails blue, and the fingers contracted. I think the hand kerchief was not sufficiently tight to prevent respiration; but the mark of the ligature round the neck which I saw indicated violence sufficient to cause strangulation., In my opinion the death was caused by the strangulation and the blows combined, but either of them in my opi nion was sufficient to cause death. Cross -examined—Bruises applied to a dead body be fore it was cold would produce discolouration. (The trial was proceeding when our report left.) BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A tall, powerful man, named Flemming, was charged with pielting a lady's pocket of a purse containing shillings. One of the Detective Police Force stated that he ob served the prisoner and several other suspicious looking individuals dodging a lady in Gray's Inn-lane. He watched them, and having observed the prisoner lift the lady's dress and take her purse, he rushed up to secure him, but was knocked down. Recovering him self, however, immediately, be saw the prisoner run ning in the direction of Holborn. He started in pursuit and succeeded in taking him into custody. The prisoner, who had nothing to say to the charge, was fully committed for trial. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of the Hon. Sarah Elizabeth Copley, eldest daughter of Lord Lyndhurst, and Mr. H. J. Selwen, only son of Mr. Selwen, of Down Hall, Essez, were celebrated on Tuesday last. After the performance of the religious rite at St. George's Church, Hanover square, the numerous relatives and friends of both families present to witness the ceremony adjourned to the mansion of the Noble and Learned Lord, in George street, where a sumptuous d4jeuner was given by Lord and. Lady Lyndhurst to celebrate the happy event. The fair bride, who was attended to the altar by her sisters, the Hon. Sophia and Hon. Georgiana Copley, and Misses Mary and Gertrude Selwen, was attired in a bridal costume, composed of a robe of rich white glace, flowered with costly Brussels point lace, and veil of the same. Shortly before three o'clock the newly-married couple, after taking leave of their assembled relatives, started, in a travelling chariot and four grays, for Daw fish. Devon, to spend the honeymoon. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL WAY.—At the meeting of the directors of this company, held yesterday, it was decided to recommend a dividend of 488. per 100/. of Consolidated Stock for the past half year, after laying aside 15,0001. towards a reserve fund, gis no tifi e d i n their last 'Alf-yearly report, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert is under survey in dock by the professional officers of the dockyard. The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Hope, was hauled into the Sidon dock to-day for examination and repair after grounding. She has knocked away the whole of the false keel, with the copper, &c., which will speedily be repaired. Messrs. Poulden and Helby, third-class clerks in this dockyard, the former in the store-receiver's and .. - the latter in the storekeeper's-office, are promoted (being the seniors) to the second class, rice Messrs. Brooka and Mosbc.rry), superannuated. The vacan cies are not yet filled up. The. Myrtle steam-vesacd, Second-Master Braddon, left to-day foriDevonport with supernumeraries. She is ordered to Sheerness to be placed under the orders of Captain Superintendent Price, of that dockyard, until the Sprightly steam-tender is ready for this port. The Ajax, GO, stenrn i guardship, is ordered to be fitted for the first-class orthe steam squadron at this port, i. e., made in all respects ready for commission. An Admiralty order was issued to-day respecting the entry of clerks' assistants in her Majesty's ships, whereby it is provided that in consequence of the great number of unemployed, no further entries of clerk's assistants shall be made ; and in order to find ernidoyinent, or rather means, for some of the clerks novv in want, that an officer of that rank shall be added to every ship in commission bearing clerk's assistants. We are glad of this on behalf of that higidy•deserving, but poorly provided-for class of naval officers. It is not their fault that their list has been swelled to overflowing by the Admiralty, who alone are to blame for having brought them to this low ebb. The profession is becomirg very anxious about the commands so long vacant ; as for instance, the Medi terranean command, which has been "out" some year or two ; the Rear-Admiral Superintendence of Devonport D.:ekyard, which has been carried on now for upwards of two months by a Vice-Admiral; the East India command, which has now been vacant on their hands nearly a month, awl sundry minor ap pointments. APPOISTMENTS. WooLwicx, JAN. 9 —Master—Richard Mowll (1841), to the Phaeton, 50, at Sheerness. Surgeon—John Macleod, M.D. (1847), to the Hermes steam-sloop, at Woolwich. Assistant-Surgeon--Thomas Seccombe (1845), to the Hermes. Midshipman—James E. Hunter, to the Hermes. Ma-tens' Assistants—Herbert 11. Jones to the Centaur steam-frigate, fiag.ship on the west coast of Africa; John Herrifield Tully and George Patterson, to the Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich. Clerk—Alexander C. Faryrer, to the Wellesley flag-ship, on the West Indies and North American station. Gunner—James Hambly, to the Dart, employed on he Coast Guard Service. Lieutenant Jago, appointed to the Enterprise, took up his commission and joined the vessel at Woolwich to-day. The Enterprise, Captain Collinson, C B , and the Investigator, Commander M'Clure, have been so oc cupied in taking additional stores on board to-day that they will not be able to leave Woolwich until 8 o'cl.clt A.m. to-morrow (Thursday, Jan. 10.) Amongst the articles taken on board to-day was a cask labelled " presents," no doubt for the Esquimaux, and its con tents were stated on the top to be 350 files, 800 awls, and 201 b. vermillion. A large package of letters was alto received on hoard in a strong white leather bag, addressed to the officers and crews of her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror, Bhering's Straits. The anxiety to visit these vessels continued unabated all day, and hundreds a persons went on board, al though the vessels were so crowded with stores that visitors could scarcely move on deck, or even below. There is an excellent library on board, and every comfort provided for the officers and crews during the long winter of the northern regions. An experiment took place to-day at the principal entrance cf the dockyard, in presence c f Captain Superintendent Austin, C. 8., Captain Washington, Captain Collin son, C.ll, Commander M'Clure, Lieutenant Robert son, R.N., Captain Stothard, Royal Engineers, and a number of naval and military officers, to exhibit a plan, submitted by Mr. Shephard, for sending dis patches to a great extent over the country in the vicinity of the North Pole. This plan is very simple, and could not foil to be effective, as it merely consists in sending up a small balloon, to which is attached a slow match about a foot in length, and round the slow match several hundred pieces of coloured paper attached by a thread surrounding about one hundred of the pieces of paper in each packet. The experiment commenced by inflating the balloon at the end of the gas tube, in the window of the office of the inspectors of police ; but there was considerable time occupied in filling the balloon, which was only about four feet high, owing to its being made of oiled paper, parts of which were porous. It was at last inflated, but not sufficiently full to carry up the 400 papers and slow match attached to it; the result was, that 300 were cut off by Dr. Anderson, of the Enterprise, and on the slow match being lighted the balloon as acended admirably, proceeding at a considerable alti tude in the direction of Woolwich-common and El- them at a quick pace on entering the upper current, there being scarcely a breath of Jr felt on the ground at the time. The 100 pieces of - paper sent up were each 5 inches long by 2 inches broad, all of blue, red, yellow, drab, and various shades of brilliant colours, without any white amongst them, as the latter colour would be comparatively useless on the snows of the northern regions. Captain Collinson expressed an earnest desire that any person or persons who may find any of the papers after they fall from the balloon to-day will communicate the time and place where they were found to the superintendent or at the dock yard. The balloon was sent up at 11-10 o'clock, A as., to-day. It is said that 150 similar or larger balloons will be supplied to each of the vessels of the searching expedition, with a supply of sulphuric acid and zinc to generate gas for inflating them. As it would take considerable time to write on 500 or 700 of these aerial dispatches, as were exhibited on the slow matches to-day, and writing ink on such soft description of paper might soon be obliterated, a small hand-press, with a moderate quantity of legible type, would be a very desirable addition to each of the vessels, and with a' few reams of coloured paper would not entail a great additional expense to the Lords of the Admiralty who have so liberally fitted out the expedition with every description of stores both fir the searching ex pedition and the missing expedition, should the latter be met with. Had the plan submitted to-day been thought of before the departure of Sir John Frank lin's expedition some of the papers must have been met with, as the high elevation to which the are car ried before they are detached would carry them during a strong breeze over a vast extent of country. and even if they fell in the sea, or on pieces of floating ice, it would be a considerable time before they were all destroyed, and many chances would occur of some of them being found, if not by whalers, by the Esquitnaux. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Hon. Miss Lennox, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel F. H. Seymour, drove to Frogmore this morning. His oyal Highness Prince Albert, with the gentlemen in attendance, enjoyed the diveriion of skating on the Ornamental Water in Frogmore grounds. The Queen and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent were present. The younger members of the Royal Family took their usual airings. An Address of Condolence on the death of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager, from the University of Cambridge, was presented to her Majesty yesterday, at an audience given for that purpose, by his Royal Highness Prince Albert (Chancellor), and the Rev. James Cartmell, Master of Christ College (Vice- Chancellor of the University). The Earl of Listowel (Lord in Waiting), and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. R. Boyle (Groom in Waiting), were in attendance. The Marquis of Breadalbane is expected at the Castle this evening, on a visit to the Queen and the Prince. The royal dinner party this evening includes her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Marquis of Breadal bane, the Earl of Liverpool, the Rev. James Cartmell, and Colonel Hon. C. Grey. MYSTERIOUS CASES AT LYNN.—An officer of the Metropolitan Detective Force has, in consequence of a communication with the Secretary of State, gone to Lynn for the purpose of making a thorough investiga tion of the whole circumstances connected with the dis appearance of the drover Kirk and of Bell. From the shortness of the time which has elapsed since his arrival in that town, nothing material has yet been elicited ; bnt there is every reason to believe that a third indi vidual has, it is said, lately disappeared in a no less mys terious manner. THB LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—The Coroner's inquest held on the bodies of the three persona wbo were killed on this railway, on Tuesday week, has at length terminated, by the jury returning a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Michael Mason, the engine -driver, and John Morris, the guard of the luggage train. A STATION ON THB NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE LINE. —Traveller—" Now, then, boy, where's the clerk who gives the ticket?" Boy (after finishing an air he was whistling)—" I'm the clerk." Traveller—" Well, Sir, and what time does the train leave for London?" Boy— " Oh! I don't know. No time in pertickler. Sometimes one time, and sometimes another."—PuNch. OLYMPIC THEATRE. America is worthily repaying us the dramatic debt she owes us. The seeds of the dramatic art which have been scattered by all our best dramatic artistes, broadcast on the American soil, have fructified and are now bearing fruit. America has, within the last three years, given us Miss Cushman, the great est tragedian at present on the stage Mrs. Mowatt, the most interesting of young tra gedians, the most lady-like of genteel co medians, the only lady who has shown herself capable of taking Miss Foote's line of characters, since Miss Foote left the stage—Mr. Davenport, one of the most energetic and powerful actors of melo drama that has appeared of late years, and whose powers as a legitimate tragedian and as a genteel co median are of no common order, besides a host of excellent delineators of Yankee peculiarities; but America bad not given us, until last night, any play that would stand the test of representation before a London audience. Rough and ranting melodramas have formed the staple of what America had hitherto sent us, but last night this reproach was wiped out, and there was represented at this theatre, with the most deserved success, an original American five-act comedy, the scene of which is laid in New York, and which delineates American manners after the same fashion as our own Gsrrick, Colman, and Sheridan were accustomed to delineate English manners, and which, as re gards plot, construction, character or dialogue, is worthy to take its place by the side cf the best of English comedies. It is from the pen of that most delightful & f actresses, Mrs. Mowatt, and is entitled Fashion ; or Life in .2V( w Fork; and the fol lowing is an; outline cf the plot, or rather of the three plots interwoven with each other, in the most skilful and artisticel manner of this most admirably built comedy. The vulgar wife of a New York mer chant is bitten with the mania to be a leader of fashion; ignorant of the requisites, she takes her rudiments from a French waiting-maid and a .coi-dissant Count, who both fool her to the top of her bent. This Count is the aecer t'd suitor of her daughter ; and, after very nearly marrying the young lady, he is finally unmasked and shown to have been successively a cook and a valet, and the faithless lover (in Paris) of the wait ing -maid, whom he is ultimately content to marry in the hope of becoming an honest man. The extra vagance of the merchant's wife has embarrassed the affairs of the husband, who has bad recourse to forgery to retrieve them. A confidential clerk has discovered the crime of his principal; and throughout the piece the servant uses his secret with a vulgar ty ranny over the master, even to the extent of in sisting on marrying the daughter. sorely against the will of her mother, who of course favours the fashionable Count. This part of the plot is disposed of by the clerk, in the very moment of triumph, being threatened with punishment as an accessory after the fact ; and his compelled silence thus ensured, the principal is allowed to be screened under a promise of repentance. There is yet a third plot in this piece. In the merchant's family there is a go verness, en orphan, who has been persecuted by the furtive addresses of the Count, but, honourably loved by a colonel in the American army. This young lady detects the imposture practised on the family, and in her endeavour to expose it she is placed in an equivocal position. The agent by whom the whole difficulty is finally adjusted is a rich old coun try farmer, a former friend of the merchant's, whose rough, honest nature brings him into collision, from first to last, with the pseudo fashion ables, and who, at the critical moment, is able to vindicate . the honour of the young governess, and at the same time to acknowledge her as his granddaughter and heiress. She has been allowed to grow up among sharpers, and to struggle in the battle of life in obedience to a theory of the old man's —rather dangerous in practice—that she shall thus be taught the value of independence. Mrs. Mowatt deserves the credit of having blended and interwoven these three plots with considerable skill and stage tact, so that each depends upon the other without confusion ; while all steadily progress towards the denouement. The comedy was perfectly acted ; Mr. Davenport. as Adam Truernan, the old farmer, threw a feeling of warmth and heartiness into the part which has not been equalled since the days of Fawcett ; and Mhs F. Vining, as Gertrude, his governess daughter, was most. interesting. Mr. Johnstone acted the part of Mr. Tiffany with considerable power, and Mrs. Marston, as Mrs. Tiffieny, was the pink of vulgarity. Scharf, as the roguish clerk, was full of truth fulness, his abashed manner when threatened with proSecution contrasting most artistically with his pre vious vulgar and overbearing insolence. Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan, acted the French Countl and the French waiting-maid as they alone can act such characters, Mr. J. Herbert was excessively humorous as a high minded Nigger. All the characters grouped round the Tiffanies were admirably sustained, but, to our thinking the character of the group, nay, we are I almost inclined to think that, as far as English audiences are concerned, the cha racter cf the comedy,{ is that of Prudence, the sister of Mrs. Tiffany, a prim puritanical Yankee old maid, who has not " fairly given the matter up," and who, when not making hot love, is making diabolical mischief. She is the chorus of the piece, re minding every one of their faults, and every parvenu of his or her origin ; she is, in fact, "a dreadful woman," and, what is better still an original character, a specimen of American society, to which we had never before been introduced. This character was admirably acted by Mrs. Parker, who evidently revelled in the part. The comedy was admirably put on the stage ; the drawing-room and ball room scenes, in fact, all the scenes of the resort of the fashionables, were quite equal to anything that was done at the Olympic during the most palmy days of the Vestris management. The comedy was perfectly acted, and perfectly put on the stage. The applause was enthusiastic, and at the conclu sion there were loud calls for Mrs. Mowatt, who had taken no part in the performance, but who at length appeared before the curtain to receive that enthusiastic applause which she had so highly merited by the production of this most excellent comedy. The house was crowded to excess. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. The Knight of the Eagle Crest still pursues a career of uninterrupted triumph, and the wonderful performances of that perfect mistress of the manege, Mademoiselle Angele elicit rapturous applause every evening. The graceful dancing of Mdlle. Codone on the tight-rope also excites the admiration of the audience, and the joy of the juveniles at the fun of the pantomime is unbounded. Mr. Batty has adopted a plan which it would be well if other managers would imitate. He once a week has a juvenile night, when . the performances commence with the panto mime. To-night is the second juvenile night of the season. We observe that Mr. Batty has made an important addition to the properties of this the theatre par excellence for spectacle. He has become the purchaser of the private state carriage of the late Queen Dowager, and of the whole of the harness, amounting to fourteen sets. LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS. The twelfth concert of this series took place at Exeter-hall last evening, which was fully as crowded as it has ever been on any former occasion. The "stars" of the evening were Mr. Sims Reeves, who sung the principal solo air in the Sonnambula with his accustomed taste ; Herr Ernst, who played a new fantasia, compossd expressly for these con certs, and Thalberg. The two last-mentioned artists never performed with greater ability, and the applause they met with was immense. The vocalists associated with Mr. Sims Reeves were Miss Dolby, Miss Lucombe, Miss Poole, Miss Eyles, Mrs. Newton, Mr. Leffler, and Herr Formes. Prior to the performance of the selection from the Sonnam bula the principal of the orchestral pieces in Men delssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream were executed by the band. In the course of the evening Mr. Richardson performed a fantasia on the flute, which was much applauded. THE STARVATION CASE AT SOUTHAMPTON.— SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9.—Lord Courtenay has concluded his inquiries into the circumstances at tending the death of Ann Biggs, alias Harris, who was starved to death from the assumed negligence of the relieving-officer, Mr. Edward Henry Simmonds, in re fusing to afford relief when spplied to by the deceased for that purpose. His Lordship examined all the wit nesses in this case who had previously given evidence before the coroner's jury, the court of guardians, and the magistrates, the latter of whom committed Simmonds for trial, on a charge of manslaughter, on Friday last, subsequently, however, accepting bail for his appearance to answer to the charge. No new facts of any import ance were elicited from these witnesses by Lord Courtenay that would tend to alter the g eneral complexion of the o ase as previously reported, but, in addition his Lordship examined several of the guardians, with a view to gain information as to the present state of the workhouse, and the method of conducting its business, to enable him to frame hi s report upon the subject to the Poor-law Commissioners. A meeting of the board of guardians was held last even ing, fifteen members were present, the mayor in the chair, when it was decided by a majority of nine to five to take the necessary stepsfor placing the administration of the poor-house under the operations of the New Poor law, it being held that the increasing extent of pauperism, particularly within the last twelve months, has caused the present Act under which the poor-law is administered in Southampton to be quite insufficient to meet the requirements of the town. The sense of the parish vestries are shortly to be taken on the subject, and it seems to be the ge•seral wish of the inhabitants that the New Poor-law system should be introduced, in place of the present Gilbert Union Act, passed in 1773, under which the administration of the poor-law has been very inefficiently but expensively carried out. MR. COBDEN AT AYLESBURY. FINANCIAL REFORM MEETING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Yesterday Mr. Cobden attended a large meeting at the County. hall, Aylesbury, consisting of tenant farmers of the county of Buckingham, and of persons engaged in the . agricultural and various handicrafts of t he neighb our h oo d , i n pursuance o f t h e i ntent i on, which he declared at the large meeting at Leeds, that he would visit this ancient stronghold of the " territorial aristocracy," and explain to the Bucking hamshire farmers the true causes of the depression they have been suffering under, and th e remedy th e y , ought to apply. he hall, which is a very capacious chamber, was densely thronged with people, who received Mr. Cobden with tr emen d ous c h eer i ng upon his presenting himself on the platform. Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P., arriv ed shortly afterwards, and several gentlemen of distinction_in the county were also present. Mr. JOHN WATSON, solicitor, of Aylesbury, was called to the chair at five o'clock, :and having briefly explained the intention and objects of the meeting, he sought a fair hearing for all speakers. It was on l y for the purpose of developing the truth that th e y h a d been assembled that day, and it w as only th e de velopment of truth which they required to give effect to their cause. Mr. HamivroN, the secretary of the association, stated that he had received many letters from various individuals who had been expected, but who had been unable to attend, amongst whom was Sir George Drummond. Invitations had been sent to the county Members, and those for the borough, and they had been severally informed that the platform was tie: eto all corners. Mr. Cobden had had nothing to do with the arrangements of the meeting, and before Mr. Disraeli made his speech at Marlow it had been appointed for that day. Mr. Disraeli resembled the Buckinghamshire agriculturists in this, that he was rather slow in his movements, and on that account it had been thought desirable to appoint the meeting for five o'clock, in order that he might have good time to perform the journey in.—(Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN said, that as the agent of Lord Nugent, one of the Members for the borough, he could assure the meeting that that Noble Lord would have attended the meeting had he not been abroad. Mr. LATTIMORE said, that the object of this meeting was to put the farmers in a better position. If they did not succeed in obtaining prosperity it could not be for the want of advisers, or of friends. Mr. Disraeli, in addressing his constituents at Great Marlow, said that the tenant-farmers had a right to demand that they should be placed on a footing of equality with their fellow-subjects. He (Mr. Lattimore) quite concurred in that demand, and would himself claim for the tenant-farmers equal rights with the com mercial classes. The great question was how to attain that end ? lie believed, as a practical farm( r, that Mr. Disraeli's mode of attaining it would prove quite ineffectual —(hear.) Mr. Disraeli, speaking on the part of the territorial aristocracy, said that unless they had protection they could not continue to pay their share of the national taxation ; and he contended that the whole extent of his plan would not produce that equality of condition which he professed to be desirous of promoting. He would exhort the farmers to consider the question in a practical light. This was essentially a question of income and expenditure, and as to free trade, he wished them to recollect that there was no example on record of the people of England retro grading on any great principle. There could be no national antagonism between free trade and agricul ture. All the interests of the kingdom were closely interwoven, and it was obviously justice that each should stand upon a footing of equality with the others. The point was, what was the mode of effecting that Equalisation ? There Mr. Disraeli and he differed. It was quite absurd, that while other classes of the community were enjoying the advan tages consequent upon recent changes of the law, the tenant-farmers should be paying, even at this time of low prices, the prices which were obtained under pro tection. The fact was that the landlords had made a bad bargain of it in the tithe commutation, and now the poor tenant farmers were made the sufferers. They must look narrowly into the state of their rela tions with their landlords, and then he was sure they would find much which demanded alteration, and that alteration it would depend on themselves to make. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., then came forward, and was received with loud and prolonged cheering. When silence had been obtained, the Ilon. Gentleman said— Ms. Chairman and Gentlemen, it gives me peculiar pleasure to follow a gentleman who bas addressed you in the capacity of a tenant-farmer—who, to my knowledge in his own business, by the growth of more corn, by the raising of more cattle, and by the employment of more labourers on a given soil—ex cels most of his neighbours. It affords me great pleasure to follow such a man, so well entitled to speak to you on a subject that interests the agricul ture of the country. We are met here today under the denomination of a Financial and Parliamentary Reform Meeting, but it is well known to every one present, that the general impression both here and abroad is, that this is a meeting for the purpose, so far at least as I am concerned in the matter, of discussing the question of protection and free trade, and especially with reference to the interests of the tenant-farmers.—(Hear, hear.) I remember addressing a meeting in this hall six years ago, and, on that occasion, I went through the arguments necessary to show that the corn-law was founded in impolicy and injustice. I remember then maintaining the proposition that the corn-laws had not proved beneficial to any class of the com munity, and ventured to say that the country would be more prosperous without the system of agricul tural protection than it had been with it. Well, I stand here, now, to maintain that by every test that can proclaim the prosperity or adversity of a nation, we stand better now without the corn laws than we did when we had them.—(Cheers, " Yes, yes," and " No, no.") I say by every test, and I am glad to see some dissentients from that proposition here. At all events our opponents won't say that this is a packed meeting. We have got some Protectionists here, and now I shall endeavour to make them Free-traders before they leave us. And I have said by every test which can decide the question of national prosperity or adversity, we stand in a batter position than we did under the corn-laws. —(Cheers.) What are the tests of a national prosperity ? A declining or an improving revenue is one test. Well, our revenue is better now than it was under the corn-laws. Our exports and imports are better than they were under the corn-laws (Hear.) Then take the question of pauperism, and I won't shrink from that test of pauperismeven in an agri cultural district. I have the statistics of many of your unions in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, and I warn the Protectionist orators, who are going about persuading themselves that they have a case in the matter of pauperism, that, when Parliament meets, and Mr. Baines is enabled to bring forward his poor. law statistics up to the last week of the year (for it won't do to give us the accounts from the Blue Books for last year, as the proofs on this question)—l warn the Protectionists, that, in the case of pauperism even, the Aylesbury districts stand more favourably now, with bread at a mode rate price, than they did in 1847, when prices were high, and the loaf was nearly double its present rate. Now take the condition of wages, which is a test of the state of the great mass of the people. Well, what are the people earning now, compared with what they earned in 1847, when the Protectionists were so well satisfied with the high prices ? Well, as a rule throughout the county, more money is being earned now in every branch of business than at the former period; and the working people are getting the com forts and necessaries of life in many cases at two thirds of, and in some at less than half, the prices of 1647.—(" Agricultural labourers.") I will come to the agriculturists by', and by, but what I want is, that you should agree at the outset that the agricul tural labourers are not the nation.—(A laugh, and " But they must be'reckoned.") And if your agriculture be an exception to the general rule, we must find out the reason why it is so; but 1 will come to that presently.—(Hear, hear.) I remember quite well when I came here to see you before, how my ears used to be dinned with the argument that if we had free trade in corn, the gold would be all drained out of the country, because you could e ef the crowded Hon. not bring in five million quarters. — (S ome interrup tion was here occasioned in the ee e dense l yc ph o Gentleman, in consequence of the state of the remote end of the hall ; and the Chair man, after a short pause, came forward for the pur pose of restoring order. He stated that the commit tee desired that everybody should b e accommo d ate d , b u t if they were not quiet, no altern a ti ve wou ld pre rent itself to him but that of or d er i ng th e person causing the disturbance to be taken into custody.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded thus :—I wish to guard against the attempt to create confusion, sometimes resorted to by certain parties, when they have no other means of carrying out their views.— (Here the confusion was renewed.) If any one wishes to come upon this platform, let him give his name, an d If he will not give his name, you may be sore that he is an impostor.—(Hear, hear.) Now I was speaking of wages, and that I know is a subject which interests many persons now present.—(Hear, hear.) I say that in every branch of business the state of wages has improved. You may say that there are exceptions to that rule as to every other, but I do not make an ex ception of any trade in your district, not eves of traders employing women; for I made inquiries and found that in the article of straw-plaiting, which is carried on largely in Bedfordshire and Buckingham shire, families which in the year 1847, when the price of bread was double its present price, did not earn Iss. a week, now in many cases earn 255. at straw plaiting.—(]fear, hear.) I know this is true, be cause we have some of the most extensive manu facturers now in this hall. Then again there is the pillow-lace trade - employing a great number of