The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

, Ito Vattzton TATTERSALL S-THIS EVENING. Six O'CLOCK. CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 ags.t Rhesus 60 to 1 ags; Seaman DERBY. 33 to 1 agst Runnymede. 20 to 1 agst Constellation and Marlborough Buck 50 to 1 agst Lightfoot FRANCE. The Assembly met yesterday at two o'clock, General Bedeau, Vice-President, in the chair. The Assembly presented an unusually calm aspect, owing, no doubt, to the absence of its most eminent members, Messrs. Mole, Berryer, de Broglie, °Ron Barrot, Thiers, Dupin, &0., who, it was said, had been summoned to the Ely, ee. General Chingarnier, wh.) was at his bench, attracted title notice. His dismissal ccntinues the situmbling-block of the forma tion of the Cabinet. The President makes it a sine quit non - condition, and wishes it to be immediate. All ree as to its necessity, but its expediency is questioned by those who consent to enter the Cabinet. and accordingly irked to be allowed to bide their time. M. Rouher was the only member of the Cabinet present. The Assembly resume' the discussion on the Mort gage Reform Bill, in which M. Rouher, Minister of Justice, took part. M. Vatismenil, in replying to a passage of his speech, relative to the credit foncier, observed that the President of the Republic, placing himself above the Legislative power—(Loud murmurs on the Right. " This is a provocation !" exclaimed M. Abatucci), recommended a contrary course to that adopted by M. Rouher. M. Vatismenil then taunted the Minister with having entertained on the mortgage reform an opinion quite at variance with the one he developed to-day. M. Rouher rose and confessed that he had actually changed bis opinion, and declared, amidst the applause of a large portion of the majority, that he gloried in sacrificing his private opinion, when necessary for the furtherance of the great interests of the country. MM. Wilton Barrot, Duoin, Mole, Thiers, Berryer, Montalembert, and Da Broglie were sent for yesterday to the Elpee. The President said, that seeing himself abandoned by the majority, he had no alternative but a Billault Ministry. He stated that he would accept any General—even General Cavaig nac—the Assembly might name, but to General Chan garnier's domination he would no longer submit, nor would he accept any Ministry that did not remove that General. M. Billault has been sent for to the Ely see. This resolution of the President has alarmed the majority, ar.d toe Assembly was agitated at its close. GERMAN Y. The Prussian corps, as well as the Austrian army, are steadily progressing towards Holstein. Accord ing to the Ober Post-Ampts Zeitung, part of these troops with their head-quarters arrived at Cassel on the afternoon of the sth inst. They consisted of the 3d Jagers, one battalion of Wellington Infantry, and one battery. Toe Prince of Thurn and Taxis had gone out to meet these troops, and the Elector, on hor,eback, awaited their coming on the Friedrichs Piatz. General Legeditach was likewise greeted and complimented by Count Leiningen and General Peucker, the Federal Commissioners in Hesse. From Hanover it is stated that the arrangements for the victualling and shelter of the troops on their march through that kingdom are now completed, and that the number of troops which will march through Hanover will amount to 20,000 men. The expenses will amount to 150,000 thalers, which will be ad v inced by Hanover. Thejglamburger Nachrichten asserts most positively that no communications whatever have taken place between the Prussian Government and the Senate of liamburgh on the subject of the occupation of the city by Prussian troops. That paper admits that a Prus sian corps is concentra(ing on the Mecklenburg fron• tier for the purpose of supporting the Austrians in case they were to meet with resistance in Holstein, but it protests that, even in this extreme case, the Prussian troops would enter the Duchies without touching the Hamburgh territory. From Munich we learn that orders have been given to disband the second division of the 2d corps of the Bavarian army. In a proclamation which is dated the 3 , 1 inst., the Sanding Committee of the Diet of Wurtemberg pro tests against two orders in council as unconstitutional and illegal. Tne orders which the Standing Com mittee impeaches are the new Wurtemburg press law and a decree which authorises the levying and the appropriation of the revenue. Re`erring to para graph 109 of the Charter of the Consitivion, the Standing Committee protests against imposing or levy ing any direct or indirect tax without the express consent of the E•ta'es. MILD JEAN'S " FIRt,-KINDLING." In the esoat, of Abergeldie there lives an eld woman, generally known by the name of Auld Jean. Her Maj , sty one day, in passing, did not tail to notice the strange appearance of the building, which looked more like a potato-pit than a house, from the many coatings of divot which bad been laid on, and which bad become green and grassy. Her Majesty entered the hut, which was only composed of one roam, which was to Jean kitchen, parlour, bedroom, and laundry, and upon seeing the bad state of repair the house was in, conde.cendingly offered to build her a more com fortable and substantial house, substituting stone and lime in place of stone and turf, to which Joan replied, in her ain flielao' dialect, " Ni, na, am no seekin' a new house ; a whi.e house widna dee wi' me. I think, an' I had the ane I hae sortit, I would be braw enough?' Consequently, to please the poor old woman, her Majesty gave orders to her commis sioner to get the house comfortably repaired ; and, before leaving her Highland re.eidence, her Majesty went to bid Jean farewell, but did not forget to bring with her many of the necessaries of life and comfort which winter in the Highlands of Scotland require. And, in obedience to her Majesty's command, the repairing of the house was commenced, hut upon taking down the roof, it was found to need all the requisites of a Highlandinan's gun, which caused it to be turn-d out to the foundation, and a neat little cottage built in its place. It is now a comfortable home for Jean. Her lurniture being scarce, and so acted upon by soot, smoke, and old age, that one would think that it had undergone the thorough process of jipanning, an offer was made to Jean to make it all new, but Jean replied—" A wow, weet swat no; I widna want my bed aye, for it was made afore. Calluden, an' three protty lords sleepit in't fen they wai comin' hame." Jean's house being now finished, a number of her neighbours met on the 17th ult., to celebrate what is called in the Highlands of Scotland, the " fire-kindling" of Jean's new house. At eight o'clock, the beaux with their belles were to be seen, neatly . attired, rapidly progressing towards the place of rendezvous, headed by Mr. W. Blair, musician, to whom 'praise is due for the very able manner in which he performed on his violin. After being well regaled with mulled porter and a fair sup ply of Farquharson's celebrated new Lochnagar, the following toasts were given :—" Her Alsjosty the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales;" " Prince Albert, and all the rest of the Royal Family ;" " Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent," " Lord Portman, Lady Portman, and Family ;"" A. Robertson, Esq., Indego -" and " Auld Jean." The old woman and her brother danced at the ball —the one ag ed eighty seven, and the oth er eighty-four years.—Aberdeen Herald. _ - DR. LAAARD AND NINEVEH. (From Bentley's Miscellany for January.) - Maim " Niaeveh and its Remaina" was published two years ago, the very title of the work was certain to excite the utmost curiosity, but the disclosures con tained in it far exce e d e d all the imagination could have conceived. That a city, originally built, as we are informed in the Scriptures (Genesis v , and 12 verses), by one of th e early descendants.of Noah — a city, which for countless, or at least unknown, ages, had vanished from the face of the earth, so that Lot one memorial or authentic record of the manners and customs of its inlebitants had been preserved — that ancient Nineveh should have been, as it were, called up to pass before the eyes of mortals of the ninetieth century, was an event calculated to beget the utmost interest and astonishment. That so mar vellous a work should have been performed by the enterprise, perseverance, and genius of a single un assisted man, was not the least surprising circum stance in the matter. The city of Ninew h was the metropolis of th e grea t Assyrian empire, and there is abundant evidence to prove that it was once the largest and most populous city in the world. Whether Ninus, the builder or restorer of that vast city, completed it bffore or after the overthrow of Zoroaster, is uncertain. It is agreed by all profane Arirers, and confirmed by the Scrip tures, that it exceeded all others in circuit and mag nificence; for it was in circuinfer , rice four hundred and eighty stadia or furlongs ('ixty miles), the walls being a hundred feet tegti, and so broad that three chariots might be driven abreast on the ramplrt;. These walls were adorned with fifteen hundred towers, each two hundred fret nigh. But this city, built in the plains of Assyria, on the banks of the river Tigris, and in the region of Eden, was founded long before the time of Ninus, and, as ancient historians report, was called Campsor, until Ninus amplified it and gave it the name of Nineveh. , 1 The Campsor, then, must have been founded by As.shur, who, as we learn from Genesis, went forth from the land of Shinar, and built Nineveh. Nothing more concerning it, however, is told ih the sacred • writings till the time of the prophet Jonah, who de scribes it as an " exceeding great city of three days' journey." He also indicates its immense population, saying that it contained " more than six score thou sand persons that could not discern between their right hand aad their left hand." Supposing one sixth of the inhabitants of Nineveh to have been in this deplorable state of ignorance, we have a popula tion more than seven hundred thousand in number. The preaching of the prophet Jonah caused the people of Nineveh to repent, and accordingly the city was spared for a time : yet shortly afterwards Nahum was commanded to declare the burden of Nineveh, to proclaim the city's destruction, and to announce the downfall of the Assyrian empire. This prophet speaks of it as a city with many strongholds, and many gates with bars ; that had multiplied her mer chants above the stars of heaven ; whose inhabitants and princes were numerous as the locusts; and whose store and glory of pleasant furniture was endless. The destruction of the city, in the year B.c. 606, by the combined armies of Cyaxares, King of Persia. and Nabopolatsar, who was, asTr. Layard thinks, the Assyrian governor of Babylon, fulfilled this predic tion to ;Ile very letter. Ni, eveh was laid waste; she was indeed " made a desolation, and dry like a wil- lerness." We learn from Diodorus Siculus that the city was destroyed partly by water and partly by fire, and th,t many talents of gold and silver rescued from the flames were carried to Ecbatan. Lucian of Samosata who flourished about A. D. 180, informs us that Ni neveh had perished utterly—that not a vestige of the city remained, and that even the place where it stood was no longer known. We take it for granted that all our readers, having inspected the extraordinary sculptures now in the British Museum, or seen drawings from them, and having formed a due estimate of the obligations this country lies under to the discoverer, will have been anxious long since, to know something of that re markable person, and such information we are happy to be enabled, in part at least, to communicate. Since the time of Lucian nearly seventeen centu ries have elapsed, and the name of Nineveh, until lately, alone remained. Its very ruins were no longer on the face of the land, and in this age of science and inquiry no antiquarian before Dr. Layard ever se riously bethought himself of seeking out the Nineveh and Babylon of Holy Writ, and of searching for the buried palaces of the Assyrian monarchy. True it is, that the notice of travellers in Assyria had been attracted long ago to huge mounds, apparently com posed of earth and rubbish, and that it was conjec tured that these were the remains of the stupendous capitals—Nineveh and Babylon. A mass of brick work, vitrified and rising out of the aggregated rub bi.ll of centuries, was believed to be the remains of the tower of Babel. The Temple of Belus, according to Herodotus, and some mounds in the neighbourhood, were supposed to be the hanging gardens and marvellous structures attributed to Semiramis, the wife of Ninus, who built Babylon; but the difficulty of reaching those locali ties, while it excited the interest of the antiquarian, prevented the traveller from visiting them. Greater curiosity was awakened by the presumed site of Nineveh than of Babylon. Several travellers had noticed the numerous mounds on the left bank of the Tigris, opposite the modern city of Mosul, and what tradition had called the tomb of Jonab, on the top of one of the mounds, gave a certain probability to the conjecture that indiciated the site of Nineveh ; but it is to Dr. Layard that we are indebted for a knowledge of that important fact, confirmed as it is by the extraordinary remains he has forwarded to this country. The Layards are descended from a distinguished family, named Raymond, long settled in the south of France, who claimed affinity with the Raymonds, sovereign Counts of Toulouse; were among the earliest supporters of the reformed religion in that country, and espoused the cause of the persecuted Albigenses. The Raymonds, nevertheless, continued to receive honours and grants from successive sovereigns of France, in termarrying with the noblest families, until the mas sacre of the Huguenots, in 1572, when two of the brothers fell victims in that terrible slaughter, whilst a third (the heir) succeeded in effecting his escape into Holland. The immediate ancestor of the existing branch of the Raymonds, or rather Layards, came over to this country with William, Prince of Orange, and held a high command under that Protestant prince at the battle of the Boyne. From that period the family definitively settled in England. Having already embraced the Protestant faitn, Raymond was content for its sake to give up his country, and relinquish his property in France; but, warned by the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he dropped his patrimonial name, and assumed that of Liyard, probably the name of an estate, as one of the family was subsequently called Raymond de Layarde ; destroying, at the same time, every docu ment which, preserved and transmitted to his descen dants, might tempt any one of them to return to CithGaism, and enable him to recover the estates in France. This, the last of the Raytoonds, was the grand f4tber of Dr. Layard, the late Dean of Brintol, and of his two brothers, both generals in the English Erne. The second son of the Dean of Bristol, Henry Peter John, held for many years a high civil appointment in Ceylon, was a man of great abilities and varied acquirements, and was the father of Austen Henry Layard, the subject of our present memoir, who was born at Paris, during a temporary visit of his parents to that metropolis, on the sth of March, 1817. The early youth of Lsyard was passed at Florence. Familiar with the language of Italy, it is no wonder that the glorious literature of that country subse quently solicited his attention ; or that, born with a love of the fine arts, his taste should have been en nobled and purified by a contemplation of the glorious models of sculpture and painting in which Florence abounds. Was it here that he acquired that command' over his pencil, which he afterwards found infinitely serviceable to him amid the ruins cf Nimroud? This THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1851, faculty was afterwards fully excited "by the appal ing sight of slabs with the noblest sculptures and the finest in , criptions, crumbling into dust before his eyes. No draughtsman had been provided to help him ; and had he not instantly determined to arrest by the quickness of his eye and the magic of his pen cil these fleeting forms, which were about to dis appear for ever, many of the finest remains of ancient arc would have been irrecoverably lost." Lay ard returned from I:aly to his native country for education. That being completed, be devoted himself to the study of the law, which, however, proved little attractive to him. Pope, paying an ele gant compliment to the accomplished Murray, after wards Lord Mansfield, exclaims— " How sweet an Ovici waa in Murray lost!" For our part, we should not greatly grieve if we knew that even a second Mansfield was lost in the Layerd. About the age of 18, Layard's travels in Italy, Rus• sia, and other countries, Excited in,him a strong passion for still more extended adventure, which, accom panied by a❑ ardent desire for knowledge, and an energy which " knew not what it was to intermit," decided him upon abandoning his profession, and settling in the East, where he had family connexions. In the summer of 1839, with a friend for a coin- panion, Dr. Layard left England. Traversing Ger many, they passed through Dalmatia into Montene gro, where Dr. Layard was induced to stay for a brief period, having engaged to aid a young and energetic chief in civilizing and otherwise improving the condition of bis brave but semi-barbarous subjects. From Montenegro his friends made their way as they best could through Albania and Roumelia, an enterprise in which they encountered many adven tures, and finally, and at the end of the year, arrived by Adrianople at Constantinople. We are informed that Dr. Layard proceeded to Bagdad and into Syria but we have no means of following his footsteps with accuracy or certainty during this period of his wan dering and eventful life. At this time bis friend quitted him, and now he was left to pursue his course. We earnestly hope that some day—and that not a distant one—Dr. Layard will give to the world an account of the extraordinary adventures which befel him, when the eager wish to acquire knowledge which he desired to exercise for the profit and benefit of his fellow-creatures, carried him into strange and many Linda. If other men have acquired a larger expe:ience of diversified life, few have encountered and surmounted greater difficulties , and none have ever engaged themselves to the attainment of a nobler by wild Arabs, and was object. Wandering in the Desert,. he was frequently attacked and plundered. con stantly in peril. Now he might be found settling disputed points of geography, or seeking historical remains —now making his way as a Hakim over wilds hitherto untrodden by the foot of Europeans, or some small l i zi eg knowledge a sjourning with th e barbarous Bactyari in their moun ain s ndtea of chi m ng ed t icne a h i ep , eop . e ing the life of ~ their chi e f' s on l y son. le; and, having The foregoi • ng are but brief and faint indications of the varied life and adventures of Dr. Layard previous to the happy accident which enabled him l successfully to prosecute that undertaking which resulted in the extraordinary discoveries that have rend' • so famous. As early as 1841, Dr. Layard name i i- . had ..n -, sp. cted the ruins on the east bank of the • Tigris, which have been generally believed to be the ruins g vet'. Let the DLcror himself describe the of 'Nine sensations will which he viewed them : " He (the spectator) has left the land where nature is still lovely, where, in th e m i n d' s eye, h e can re re build the temple, or the theatre, halt doubting whe ther they would have made a more grateful impres s sion upon the senses than the ruin before him. He is now at a loss to give any form to the rude heaps upon which he is gazing. Those of whose works they are the remains, unlike the Roman and the G ree k, have left no visible traces of their civilization or of their arts. Their influence has long since passed away. The more he conjectures the more vague the results appear. The scene around is worthy of the ruin he is contemplating. Desolation meets desolation. A feeling of awe succeeds to wonder, for there is nothing to relieve the mind, to lead to hope, or to tell of what has gone by. These huge mounds of Assyria made a deeper impression upon me, gave rise to more serious thoughts and earnest reflections, ' than the temple of Balbec and the theatre of lonia." Shortly afterwards Dr. Layard had a second oppor tunity of viewing the ruins of Nimroud, and of ex amining them ; and it was upon this occasion that the thought suggested itself to him, and impressed itself upon his mind, of making excavations. He had. he tells us, hopes that some persons in England might have been induced to aid in the undertaking. It would seem, however, although we are not ex pressly told so, that despairing of fulfilling the vision, or of realising the hopes, which the sight of these mysterious mounds had excited, he had determined upon abandoning his project and returning home. He had reached as far as Constantinople on his way back to England, when, in a happy moment, he ob tained a letter of introduction to Sir Stratford Can ning, her Mjesty's Ambassador at the Sublime Porte. It is not at all wonderful that so distinguished a statesman at once perceived that no ordinary person had been presented to his notice, or that h. should have invited him to prolong his stay in the East, and discharge some extra duties of the embassy to which he has now become officially attached. Neither is it surprising, when the character of Sir Stratford is re membered, and the interest he takes in such re searches* as Dr. Layard had at heart is known, that, in the autumn of 1845, he should have mentioned to Dr. Layard his readiness to incur, for a limited period, the expense of excavations in Assyria, in the hope that, should success attend the attempt, means would be found to carry it out on an adequate scale. During Dr. Layard's stay in England he suffered greatly from an aguish fever, which recurred monthly, and which he had caught in the damp chambers it was necessary he should inhabit at Nim roud. In -pite, however, of this severe indisposition, so inimical to literary or intellectual pursuits, he pre pared for the press, during his brief residence in this country, the "Nineveh and its Remains," and " The Monuments of Nineveh, from Drawings made on the Spot ;" besides a volume of inscriptions in the cunei form character, for the British Museum, which we trust will soon be published and submitted to the ex amination of the learned world. Our readers know the already triumphant result of Dr. Layard's enterprise and perseverance, which have brought into the possession of this country treasures beyond all price. Dr. Layard observes in his " Nineveh," .‘ I need scarcely remind tilt reader that it is to Sir S. Canning we owe the marbles of Halicarnasaus, now in the British Museum. The difficulties which stood in the way of the acquisition of these , invaluable relics, and the skill which was required to obtain them are not generally known. I can testdy to the efforts and labour which were necessary for nearly three years. before the re pugnance of the Ottoman Government could be over come, and permission obtained to extract the sculptures from the walls of a castle, which was more jealously guarded than any similar edifice in the empire. Their removal, notwithstanding the almost insurmountable diffiAilties raised by the authorities and inhabitants of Budroon, was most successfully effected by Mr. Alison. The Elgin mai hies, and all other remains from Turkey and Greece, now in Europe, were obtained with com• partitive ease." CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. ___ William Burgess Swift, 22, and Walter Scrivenor, 21, two Post-office clerks, pleaded guilty to indict ments charging them with stealing letters the pro perty of the Postmaster , General. There were some mitigating circumstances in the case of Swift, and he was sentenced to be transported for seven years ; the other prisoner was sentenced to be transported for ten years. Henry Hooper surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment which alleged that, while a certain ves sel named the Mary was upon the high seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, the defendant maliciously and feloniously cut and da maged the rigging of the said vessel, with intent to render her useless. Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson was instructed to defend the prisoner. Mr. BoDairi, in opening the case, said that the pri soner was a person of respectability, arid be had brought himself into his present position by commit ting an act which was one of great impropriety, al though it would be a question for their Lordships whether it came within the scope of the Act of Par liament under which the present indictment was pre ferred, and which made it a felony for a person to damage a vessel otherwise than by fire, with intent to render her . useless. The circumstances of the case were these :—The prisoner was a mariner, and he was employed to put pilots on board the vessels coming up the river, and on the 15th of December he was with bis boat off Dunge ness with a pilot, and on the look out for an Indiaman which was expected. Another boat, the Mary, was out with the same object, and it seemed that it was the custom for the pilot to be taken from the first boat which came up to the vessel, and when the ship that was expected came in sight both the boats made the best of their way towards her, and they both at tempted to lay hold of her ; but, in const quence of the way filet was upon the vessel they were unable to do so, and both the pilot-boats became entangled with each other, and while they were in this position the prisoner cut the halyards of the other boat, the effect of which was to cause the foresail to fall. The object of the prisoner in doing this was possibly to give his own boat some advantage is getting to toe vessel first, but he failed in that object, for the rival boat having a small one with her, it was made use of; and the persons in her succeeded in getting their pilot on board the ship. The question would be, under these cir cumstances, whether the act committed by the prisoner was done with an intent to render the vessel useless, but it appeared to him that it would be more reason able to suppose that the prisoner only intended to disable the boat for a short period, to enable his own boat to get first to the ship, and that it would be straining the law very much to say that such an act as that imputed to the prisoner amounted to felony within the meaning of the statute. The matter had been investigated by a justice residing in the district, and he had felt it his duty to seed the case for trial, and, the grand jury having returned a true bill, he was bound to appear and state the facts to the jury ; but he apprehended that, now he had done so, their Lordships would be of opinion that it would not be necessary to proceed any farther. Mr. Justice TALFOURD said the Act of Parliament appeared to apply only to the intention to render a vessel entirely useless, and the mere act of doing something with the object of impeding her progress for a short time for a particular purpose would clearly not come within the statute. Mr. CLARKSON observed that his Learned Friend must " drop astern," as the boat did.—(A laugh.) Mr. BODKIN—Yes, but without your cutting my halyards.—(Laughter.) The COURT ruled that the indictment could not be supported under the circumstances, and The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. CLARKSON thought it right to state, on behalf of the prisoner, that he was a hardworking, honest fellow, and that there had never been the slightest imputation upon his character up to the period cf this transaction. It was, perhaps, to be lamented that the prisoner should have been compelled to come all the way from Dover to answer this charge, but it was quite as well he should know that he had no right to make use of a knife in such a manner. Mr. Justice PATTRSON observed that it might be rather a bevere lesson in this particular instance, but he hoped it would have a good effect in future. The prisoner was ordered to be immediately dis charged from custody. NEW COURT. Mores Barnett, the Jew who was yesterday con victed of receiving goods knowing them to be stolen, was brought up for sentence. On being asked what he had to say why sentence should not be passed on him ? The prisoner said that he had been falsely sworn to, and at some length complained of the way in which the charge had been got up against him, de nying that he received the indigo for his own use, but merely to take care of it for the lad. The Ricoansse, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner bad been very properly convicted by a con siderate and merciful jury of receiving the indigo knowing it to have been stolen, and the circumstances were of a peculiar and most atrocious character, and the jury had come to a conclusion which he (the Learned Recorder) had no doubt whatever in his mind was a correct one. Several witnesses had been called yesterday to give him a good character, some of whom did not know much of the pri soner, and some knew him more intimately ; but that merely proved that he bore a good character as far as they knew of him. Still there was no doubt of his (prigoner's) guilt, for his conviction did not rest upon the evidence of the lad, whose character was most auspicious, hut upon the clear testimony of the respectable clerk and officers. In consequence of the character given to the prisoner, sentence had been postponed with this day, in order that f k i ( the Learned Recorder) mi g ht have time to reflect upon the character of the offence; he had done so, and had also made inquiry of the ma gistrates and others, and from what had been learned he f e lt it d ue to the interests of socie t y tha t a sev ere sentence should be passed. His Lordshi p then ad verted to the peculiar circumstances of the case, and added that there could be no doubt but that the pri soner's plan had been to hang about, get into the company of young lads, and, finding them discon tented with thei r s i tuat i ons an d th e wages they were receiving, instigate them to increase their gains by dishonesty; subsequent inquities loved that the case upon which he bad been found guilty was not the only one of which he had been guilty, hut his plan had been not only himself to participate in plunder, but to corrupt others. It therefore was necessary that a severe example should be made. The Act gave him the power to transport him for fourteen ) ears, but he thought the ends of justice would be sati,fied by the sentence he had made up his mind to pass on him, which was, that he be transported for the term of ten years. The prisoner, who frequently kept asserting his in nocence, no sooner heard his sentence than ha said he had been falsely sworn against, and as be was leaving the dock suddenly stopped, and, clasping his hands as if in prayer, said, with much apparent sanctity, " I am innocent," then, turning hiy eyes upwards, he added, "I hope the Aimighty God— ," he then seemed unable or unwilling to finish the sentence. The RECORDER — You had better say no more. He then moved slowly and mechanically out of the dock. The few cases disposed of during the day were totally devoid of interest. MIDDLESEX 'SESSIONS, Jun. 8. (Before - Chairman, end n Bench of _ . Alegistratek.) William Daslanan, :iged 17, was indicted for having stolei, from the person ot Louisa Millard a purse con taining two half-crowns and other moneys, the pro perty ot Thomas Millard. E !ward Totmun, A 393, stated that on the evening of the 231 ult., about seven o'clock, he was on duty in private clothes on the platform of the Great Western Railway Company, at Paddington, when just as a train was coming in he observed the pri , soner, with five or six other boys and lads, upon the platform. As soon as the train had stopped and the passengers had commenced to alight he saw the pri soner walk up to a woman and put his hand into one of her pockets. From that woman the prisoner walked off to another, whom he treated in precisely the same manner. After this he went up to a third woman, who proved to be the wife of the present prosecutor, and put his band into her pocket. The lady moved onwards and the prisoner kept walking by her side. Presently she stopped, and then he saw the prisoner in the act of drawing the purse from her pocket. The prisoner had nearly got char of the lady's dress when she turned round and stood face to face with the prisoner,who thereupon let go of the purse which fell back into her pocket. He then took hold of the prisoner, an 3 inquired or him what he wanted with the lady's puree ? to which question be replied that he had not got it. He then took the prisoner to the end of the platform, where he searched him, and found among other things a memorzndum book in which were entries carefully made of the hours of the arrival of the different trains on the Great Western line, and the times at which certain trains arrived on some of the other lines. The prisoner now denied the attempt to pick the pocket of Mrs. Millard of any intention to commit a robbery. The CHAIRMAN having summed up the evidence, The jury at once returned a verdict of Guilty. The officer of the House of Correction requested that the prisoner might be remanded until the next sessions for judgment, as he expected by that time he should be in a condition to prove several previous con victions against him. The CHAIRMAN accordingly postponed the sentence to the next sessions. Mary Flynn, aged 25, was indicted for stealing a box and other articles, the property of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. Mr. Sirr conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Horry appeared for the prisoner. It appeared that on the 13th ult. two young ladies, one of the name of Davis, arrived at the terminus of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, at Bristol, about ten o'clock in the morning, and, having to pro ceed to Bridgewater, they placed four boxes in the charge of a railway potter tamed Smith, by whom they were deposited in one of the waiting-rooms. The boxes consisted of three large and one small one. About ten minutes after this had been done the pri soner came into the office and asked for a third-class ticket, but as upwards of halt an hour was still want ing to the time when a third-class train would start , she was told she was too early. She thereupon went into the waiting-room, where Miss Davie boxes had been deposited. As the porter was proceeding along the platform, just before the starting of the Parlia mentary train, he was passed by the prisoner, who then not only was carrying the bundle she had brought with her, but a small box which she had placed under her arm. After the train had started, the prisoner having taken her seat in one of the car riages, the porter went into the waiting room, and then discovered that Miss Davis' small box was missing. It instantly occurred to his mind that the prisoner must have taken it; for he then remembered that although he bad noticed a box under her arm as she was going to take her seat in the train, she had only brought a bundle with her when she first made her application for the ticket. He instantly communicated to the superintendent of the station the fact of the loss, and his suspicion that the prisoner was the thief. He accordingly obtained a pass by the express train, and reached the Padding ton station about an hour and a half before the ar rival of the Parliamentary train. When this latter train came in he accompanied the collector of the tickets to the third-class carriages for the purpose of finding out the prisoner, but could nut see her. He nevertheless kept a close watch upon all the women as they alighted, and presently observed the prisoner walk across the platform. He instantly pointed her out to Lindon, one of the detective officers, by whom she was accosted, and asked if she had come from Bristol. She replied in the affirmative, and in answer to another question stated that she had some luggage. Upon this being examined the Bristol porter re cognised the lost box, which bore the address, " Miss Davis, passenger, Bridgewater (Vicar age, Cannington), Somersetshire." The pri soner when questioned upon the subject as to how this box had come into her possession, said that it had been given to her by another woman, as she had herself lost a black trunk at Bristol. She was then taken into custody. The porter in the course of his examination stated that the reason he had not recog nized the prisoner when be looked into the carriage was, that when at the Bristol station she had worn a straw bowlet, but that on her arrival at Paddington she had gat on a pink silk one, the exchange having been made during the journey. Evidence was given which supported the above out line of facts. _ Mr. Hoaar addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The CIIAIRMIiN recapitulated the evidence, and The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Siva, then said that he was instructed to pro secute the prisoner upon a second indictment, for having stolen a victorine, the property of one of the female officers of the Great Western Railway Com pany ; but as she had been convicted upon the first indictment he did not now propose to offer any evi dence in the second case. There was, too, a third indictment, where the prisoner was charged with having stolen property from a Captain Lewis, amounting to 601. He merely mentioned this last case for the purpose of obtaining the order of the Court for the delivery up of the goods by the pawn broker. Cu'lard, the superintendent at the Paddington station, stated that he had received an excellent cha racter of the prisoner from Messrs. Fox and Hender son, the contractors, with whom she lived as servant for twelve months; and that with respect to the in dictment fur the theft at Captain Lewis's, it was but an act of justice he should state that it had been ascertained that the robbery had been committed by her sister. The prisoner then withdrew her pleas of " Not guilty" to the second and third indictments, and pleaded " Guilty." The CHAIRMAN then sentenced her to six months' imprisonment on each indictment, each imprisonment to commence at the same time. Oa the application of Mr. PRENDERGAST, The CHAIRMAN made an order for the immediate discharge of James Gordon, against whom a bill of indictment had been preferred, but ignored by the grand jury, for an indecent exposure in the park; the Learned Counsel stated that his client was a gen tleman of wealth and station, and a scion of a noble family. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A girl, aged fifteen, was brought up a few days ago before the Lord M iyor, charged with having beaten her mother, a widow, who had evidently seen much better days. The complainant, upon that occasion, said her daughter had been at service for three or four years, and had always acted with filial affection until very lately ; she had, about ten days ago, gone out for the purpose of inquiring after a place, and upon her re turn saying she had succeded, suddenly , departed from home, and stopped away nearly a week; upon her second return she proceeded to pack up her clothes in a box, and said she was going to another situation ; and upon being exposiulated with, and requests-d to give some explanation of such extraordinary conduct, she not only used the most revolting langmige in reply to the anxious request of her parent, but was depraved enough to use blows. The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant (who appeared to be in deep affliction), whether she had been able to ascertain at what place her daughter had spent the days of her absence from home ? The policeman into whoes custody it had been found necessary to place the girl said she told him she had been passing along Old-street, and was look ing at an advertisement in a window for a servant, when a woman walked up to her, and asked her whether she wanted a situation, and was immediately joined by a gentleman, who hired her as nurse to his daughter, a child about aix years old ; but, as he pro.. posed to her the performance of services of a very different kind, she had quitted him ; that she was about to go to another place when her mother inter fered ; and that, in her passion, she h:d acted with the unnatural violerce descrit•ed. In answer to questions put by the Lord MAYOR, The policeman said he had reason to believe that there were frequently to be seen prowling about the immediate neighbeurhoods in which offices for the re gistration of servants were kept persons of loose morals, whose practice it was to hire such girls as pleased the eye, and appeared to be in want of situa tions, and who, after convincing the poor creatures of their nihtalte, turned them adrift, upon being able to procure fresh substitutes by similar means. He had no doubt that the girl before his Lordship had been imposed upon by a man of this description. The LORD MATOR—WeII, defendant, what have you to say to this very bad account of you? The girl said it was true the man by whom she had been hired under the circumstances ststsd by the police man had male vile proposals to her, but it was as true that she had rej, cted them, and left his service on that account. She had no idea that the father of a fenrale child, whom she vvas engaged to take care cf, could entertain any bad design against her, although it wac the fact, as she af , erwards learned, that he had been in the habit of getting young nurses for the little girl and turning them away after very short trials indeed. The LORD MAYOR said, he apprehended the case was one of frequent occurrence, and directed Scott, the Mansion-hou•e officer, to make inquiry into the alleged practices of the person, and to report the par ticulars of his investigation. Yesterday Scott said he had ascertained that the girl had been hired by a man who resided in Chart street to attend to his daughter, and that the child was thus made en unconscious pander to her father. Of the unsurpassable baseness of the fellow there could be no doubt, but it was to be feared that, in the present case, it would be impossible to get together evidence, especially as the girl denied that his plans against her had succeeded. Tne LORD MAYOR—How has the girl con ducted herself to her mother since she was first brought before me ? The complainant said the reproof and advice which his Lordship had given to the defendant on the occa sion of the language and assault complained of pro duced a great change for the better ; indeed, so great that she was likely to become a comfort to her family. The poor woman was most grateful to his Lordship for the resolute kindness he had di. , played, ano ascribed to that charitable interference the actual saving of her child from destruction. The LORD MAYOR—I shall take care to have the conduct of the person who has been pursuing these vile practices more closely inquired into. We have now an Act of Parliament which will enable the ma gistrates to protect young women from the fraudulent practices so frequently resorted to for procuring their defilement, and there is no function of mine which I should feel more pleasure in performing than that by which I am empowered to inflict a heavy castigation upon such atrocious malefactors. The girl then retired with her mother, after re assuring the Lord Mayor that his Lordship's kind ness affected her almost as much as her mother's for giveness. GUILDHALL. John Palmer, a well-known character as an asso ciate of thieves and burglars, was brought up, charged with being found in a private dwelling-house for an unlawful purpose. The charge was clearly proved, and several officers happening to be in court who were acquainted with the prisoner's mode of obtaining his living, came for wai d and stated thathe had been previously convicted of similar offences, and had on one occasion been sentenced at the Old Bailey to twelve montns' im prisonu.ent. Webb, a detective officer, said he knew the prisoner as an accomplice of Hoare, who was transported a short time ago for committing a burglary. Prisoner said—lt's very hard, your Worship, that I should be continually taken up for nothing at all. Sir P. LAURIE—But you were found in this house under very suspicious circumstances. Prisoner—l went to see Mrs. Smith, that I thought lodged there. Sir P. LaustiE—That Won't do for us. Mrs. Smith did not live there, and you knew it. You are also well known to the police, and it appears you have been previously convicted. Prisoner—lt's a cruel thing, your Worship, that that one conviction should be al ways brought up against me wherever I go. If I am taken up at Bow street, this conviction is men tioned to prove the charge, and if I come up here it is brought forward in a similar way. I have suf fered imprisonment for that, and I think it ought to be allowed to rest. Webb—He is not very poor, sir, for he keeps a brothel. Prisoner—Yes, Mr. Webb, and I lent you half-a crown one night to give a girl.—(Great laughter.) I wish, your Worship, you could make it convenient to transport me, for I shall never thrive in London. S►r P. LAURIE—I wish I had the power. It would materially benefit the public. • Prisoner—And it would be a great charity to me, Sir, I assure you. Sir P. LAURIE—I shall send you for three months to the House of Correction, with hard labour. Prisoner—l don't mind that, for I am equal to any kind of work. Sir P. LAURIE—But we have a new kind of in strument called the crank, at which we set prisoners to woik : it is rather harder work than the treadmill. Prisoner—Webb has seen me with Hoare, who has had 201. worth of stolen goods in his cart, and Webb has drunk with me in a public-house and told Hoare to take the goods home and get rid of them as soon as possible. Sir P. LAURIE-Why, even now you are admitting a felony. I shall, however, only order you to be kept to hard labour at the crank for the full time. Webb, who denied the prisoner's assertion respect ing himself, was standing near the dock, when, as the prisoner was leaving' he leaned over and aimed a most desperate blow at Webb's head, which he, however, luckily avoided. BOW-STREET. Robert _Penning Cole was charged, upon his own confession, with having embezzled upwards of 7,0001. in America. The prisoner, in reply to Mr. HENRY, stated that he was 32 y ears of age, and had absconded from America, where he held the situation of teller in the Quebec branch of the City Batik of Montreal. Mr. Child, solicitor (of the firm of Wire and Child), stated that he had been instructed by the pri soner's relatives in England to attend on his behalf, and it was his painful duty to suggest, at the onset, that the prisoner was evidently suffering from mental aberration. Mr. HENRY could not attend to such a plea at present. Sergeant Lockyer, of the A division of police, said that he was on duty at about half-past eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, at the police-office in Scotland-yard, when the prisoner entered and said 'that he wi,hed to give himself into custody, as there ' was a teward out for his apprehension. Witness observed that he had not heard of it, and asked him his name. He replied, "My name is Mr. Cole, I have absconded from the Montreal Bank at Quebec, where I was employed as a teller, in consequence of defalcations in my accounts." Witness asked him if he had any relations in or near London, and he re plied that he had a brother living at 6, South-build ings, Clapham-common. He said that he had come up from Dover that evening, and had left his luggage at a house near the Mansion-house. Witness searched him, and found 131 in gold, 14s. in silver, and 60. in copper. The prisoner's representation that he had a brother at Clapham was correct. Sergeant Wh'icher, of the detective police, pro duced a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner, which was left at Scotland'yard on Sunday week by a Mr. Miller, sergeant-at-arms of Glasgow. It was left with Inspospr Field, who was prevented attend ing on the ptlitint occasion. Witness was present at the time. Mr. HENRY, after looking at the warrant, said it ought to have been taken to the Home-office, and de sired the prisoner to be put back until this prelimi nary bad been complied with. Shortly before the rising of the Court the officers returned with an intimation that uo information of the circumstances had been communicated to the Home .office. There being no one present with authority to prefer any charge against the prisoner, Mr. liktiar said that he must be discharged. No magistrate had the power to detain him in the absence of a warrant from the colonies, duly signed and en ilorsed by the Secretary of State. Otherwise, there could be no proof that the warrant was a genuine document. The prisoner, who has very respectable connexions in this country, was then dischargbd. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Last weeidielirev..i:S - I;g,Roman Catholic priest, located at Derby, sent a letter to Mr. Hardwick, denying in the strongest terms all knowledge of a young country girl named Simmons, who had applied tor relief on the ground that she had been induced to leave her home under a promise of marriage made to ber by a young Spanish gentleman, named De la Passes, a pupil of Mr. Sing's, except what he had learned from the public papers, and declaring in the same positive manner that the story of seduction by one of his Roman Catholic pupils was an entire fa brication. Yesterday Mr. Hardwick received the following letters, which appear to throw a doubt on the perfect trustworthiness of the statements in the letter of Mr. Sing : " Abbey-street, Derby, Jan, 6. " Sir, —Having received• from several highly -respect able persons, clergymen and others, letters of condolence endvympathY, owing to the distreneiog dumdum re- Solicitor—Had you any person with you ? Com plainant—l had my wife, and a sister, and a witness who is now in attendance, with me. That witness used to attend worship at that chapel, which was our reason for going into it. 1 never have been a fre quenter of it, and had just left my own place of wor ship before we went there. Selicitor—What books had you ? Complainant— None. Solicitor—Had you tracts? Complainant—None at all. Solicitor—Had your wife any ? Complainant— She bad not. The policeman told me there were two men exhibiting tracts at the door of the chapel. Solicitor—You are not a regular attendant at the chapel ? Complainant—l am not. I went in at the request of my iriend, who formerly did attend there, but who has been away for upwards of a twelvemonth, and who was desirous of seeing whether the same gentleman preached. My friend had but just come up from the country. Solicitor—Was that your only motive fur going in ? Complainant—lt was. I refused to go down the aisle, as I have before stated, because I did not wish to disturb the congregation. I did nothing to interrupt their devotions, The church was not half full ; there was abundance of room, and we did not inconvenience anybody where we stood. We did not intend to sit down. Mr. BRODERIP—Was the motive you have assigned the only one, on your oath, fur entering the chapel? Complainant—That was my sole motive. ['he solicitor put the question through the Magis trate, " Whether, upon complainant's being put out, he did nut say they were a Popish set ?" Complainant —On my oath I did not, nor, any one with me. I was most guarded in every respect, both within the build ing and out. When I remonstrated with defendant I spoke in a very suppressed tone, lest I should distui the cungregation ; but he spoke so loudly that he must have been heard by many of them. Mr. Simms observed, he should not have brought this case forward had he not learned two gentlemen at Pimlico had been recently simil Orly treated. Mr. Edward Longrove, a civil engineer, residing at Caversham, near Reading, Barks, stated that he ac companied Mr. Simms and his wife to the chapel as described, upon entering which they stood in the passage leading to one of the side aisles. Defendant requested Mr. Simms to take a seat, which he declined, saying he preferred standing. Mr. BRODERIP—Wha/kind of church is this ? Witness—A Protestant Thapel, but conducted after the Puseyite form. Witness resumed—Defendant spoke in a tone loud enough to be heard by several of the congregation. Mr. Simms quietly remonstrated with him for dis. turbing them, when he placed his arms round Mr. Simms' waist and forced him from the chapel. Solicitor—Was there no loud talking ? Witness— Not the slightest on the part of Mr. Simms. It was a low whisper Mr. Simms spoke in. Solicitor—What reason did he give for not taking a seat as requested ? Witness—He said he preferred standing. The fact was the service was nearly over ; we stood in one of the side passages, where we con sidered we had a right to stand. Solicitor—What induced you to go there ? Wit ness—Three or four yearn ago I was in the habit of attending there, and having heard that it was now conducted in the Puseyite form, and never having seen it before, I said to my friend, as we were going by, " Let us look in and hear the conclusion of the service." I had heard they had lighted candles there. We entered as I have stated, and stood quietly in the pas Sage leading to one of the aisles. William Millman, 95 B, the constable described in plain clothes—l saw the gentleman come in, and the defendant went and spoke to them, but I could not plainly hear what was said. Mr. BRODERIP—Was the complainant disturbing the congregation in any way ? Constable—Not the least in the world. Mr. BRODERIP—Are you quite sure ? Constable— Quite. George Dewsfield, 73 B—l was on duty outside the chapel, and was called by defendant to remove complainant from the chapel. I stepped inside the chapel, but I did not see anything in his conduct to justify me in removing him, and I stepped back again on the pavement outside, and when I had time to turn round the gentleman was out. Mr. BRODERIP—Was he disturbing the congre• gation, or in any way offensive ? Witness—He was perfectly sober, and conducted himself with perfect propriety. Complainant having stated that he did not consider it necessary to call any other witnesses, Mr. BRODERIP inquired what answer there was to this case ? Solicitor—This is a very trivial thing. Mr. BRODERIP—Pardon me for a moment. I differ from you in that respect. I think it a very serious matter on one side or the other. If this person went into the chapel with the object of disturbing the con gregation, he deserves condign punishment. In an other sense it is very serious, as touching the right of the public to be present at any place of worship while they conduct themselves properly ; but I have no wish to interrupt your reply ; pray proceed, sir. Solicitor—The only explanation I have to offer is, that there had been several persons in the aisle and body of the chapel distributing tracts and disturbing the congregation. About three weeks ago a man rushed into the middle aisle, and, running up it, threatened to do some injury to the incumbent, in consequence of which he deemed it necessary to lay down a regulation that every person should be re. quired to take a seat or be turned out as people about to disturb the congregation. If the incumbent felt that a person had entered the chapel—although pelted only by motives of curiosity—and bed no de. sirs to disturb the congregation, he would be the very last to desire, and the first to regret, that any rudeness should be u3ed towards him. Will you send the case to the sessious ? Mr. BRODERIP (with evident astonishment, in which many of the auditory appeared to join)—Do you wish it sent to the sessions ? Solicitor — Yes, sir. Mr. BRODERlP—Certainly, I will send it to the sessions. The defendant was then ordered to find hail for his appearance at the sessions to answer the charge, which was shortly afterwards put in. It was subsequently stated by an officer who stood near the solicitor, that one of the persons by whom he was accompanied said to that gentleman, just before the conclusion of the case, " We shall get no justice here," which may account for the singular and unusual request that the matter should be sent to the sessions; 1 which there sapped red nothing to justify. lated in the Times and other morning papers of the 2d THE COUNTRY MARKETS. inst., relative to my daughter, I trust that yuu,will cause LEEDS, .TAN. 7.—The supplies cf wheat were mode the enclosed letter from my daughter to be inserted in rate, but, with the restricted demand, were sufficient for the Times end other papers at the earlieit opportunity. the wants of the trade. This morning the market was I m,tlte this request, as lam d-sirous that those p-rsons c via mely slow, and prices remained as last wec It. Bar should not be led to view the statement as a palpable im- lev dot?. not mat rially vary. Oats, shelling,,, and beans position. " Your obedi,mc retvant, st,toly in price. Other vesicles us before. " J. Ilard wick, Rig." " J SIMMONS. NEWCASTLE, JAN. 7.—With tae supplies of " Sir,—l observe: , in. the Times of the 4th 11. k., that hoot nut foreign wheat, the trade ruled dull. Mr. Sing, .1-tnitirt Catholio priest of Derby, hal 7userted the prices of Saturday were maintained. Bsrley therein a letter contradictory of the at:Vernet:a; I wade hal a slow sale, and nu change can be noted ia its value. to you, and which appeared in the 'limes and other Four was, if auythirz. the turn in favour of the buyer. morning tapers of the 2d insiant. object i evi ai3;l ottn r ariclea there was no than e. dentiy to cause the public to believe that the p. Non NEWCA:4TLE CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 7. g The sup makiog applicetioo you was no °Our than a ply of beef this nuoroing comprised 500 head of beasts, wretchi'd impostor.' It would be very easy for me to being about 120 less than last week. Trade was brisk prove that I ant not what Mr. Sing would represent me; at; advanced rates, and ail sold. The number of sheep but, as this could not be done without introducing the o n offer wits 3,000, which also met a good demand at names of certain respectable individuals into the public higher prices. Both kinds of stock were of middling press, I forbear, merely remarking teat the wreteeed quality. Beef Sd to 6I; mutton sri to 6d. Woman craving relief,' &c., is well kn o wn to Mr. Sing, EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 7.—There were in and he has frequent y conversed with an d is personally j the meal market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs. known to her. This he dare not deny; and, !urther, imperial, whereof IL sold th us: -3 a t 1/ e s Od, 7 a t 1 1 7 s 6d, although he can easily plead ignorance as to the fact of and 1 at 11 7s Od; average price of the whole 1/ 73 7d his never have g a pupil of the name mentioned. he can- 1-I2ths. 3 sacks flour, which sold at 295. 14 sacks pot-barley, not assert with inch that he is totally ignorant of the whereof 6 sold thus:-1 at 27s 6d, lat 265, and 4at 255. OatEDINBURGHstress, f, from 'JAY AND to is d STRAW r kern Al i :x o r l r 6 , 8 t J e A n ess. trop; I relative to this affair, or yet of the real 7. name of the person who was his pupil, alluded to by me. w ul h a e y a , t ,m d m iito, • s Od to 7s ud; pe r ditto, l) 5s Od to 6s r 1:3 1 d: I am only surprised,ttiat Mr. Sing showd have taken up r Hid to Is per stone. the mutter in the way in which he has, because he is DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 6.—There were 82 more acquainted with the real facts of the case, and of bags oatmeal, and 12 of barleymeal at this day's market. the real pt retina concerned, titan he is willing to ackuow Oatmeal the same on the top, second qualitiy 6(1 per bag ledge. 1 presume 'oat it I are t h e impostor thus repro dearer; barleymeal fully 6d per bag above last week's rates. sented I must he amenable to the laws; but, as I fear Oatmeal, per sack, of 260 atm. emit 6econd laird nothing from this unfounded calumny, I liken at the foot imperial 25s Od 254 9d 1 253 6d my addres, so that it necessary you may find where I Barleyineal, per ditto ... les 0.1 17. 9.1 sOd may be found. Peasemeal Od —s tid Od " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Flour ... —s Od —a Od —s Od "M. A. SIMMONS. Pot barley ... —s Od Od —s Od " At Mr. J. Simmons's, Abbey-street, Derby." WESTMINSTER. Thomas Doyle, a tall powerful Irishman, employed as beadle at Charlotte-street Chapel, Pimlico, appeared to a summons charging him with assaulting Mr. Ed ward Simms, timber-merchant, residing at 36, Gil linghein-street, Wilton-road, Pimlico. .Mr. Simms, upon being sworn, said—On Sunday evening, the 29th of December, I went to Charlotte street Chapel, Pimlico, and was requested by defen dant to take a seat in the direction he pointed. I re plied,- that as it was so late I would not disturb the congregation by going up the aisle. Defendant, who had a long gown on, and was acting as a beadle, said " You must." I observed that I would rather not. upon which he said, " Then I must turn you out of the place." I immediately said, " Why, lum doing Do harm here," when be pointed to a person,f4vho I was afterwards informed was a police-constable in plain clothes, and said, " He will soon put you out." I remonstrated with him in a whisper not to disturb the congregation, as I did not wish to be made con spicuous. He said, " You shall go out," and, pushing the door open, called police-constable 73 B, who was outside, on duty I suppose. I spoke to the constable, and asked him if he bad instructions to take persons away from that place of Divine worship ; and he said " Nu." Defendant then followed me up, and put me • out of the lobby into the street. A solicitor, whose name did not transpire, who was accompanied by three or four gentlemen, with whom he frequently conferred, and who appeared to take considerable interest in the defence, inquired what part of the service was going on at the time com , plainant entered ? Complainant— It was during the sermon. COAL f►MAt{tibT. -YESTERDAY. Bate's West Hartley... 13s 3d , Haswell l6s 9d Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s Od'',NT. Hetton Lyons lss 3d East Adairs Maio— .. 12s Od Lambton Hasting's Hartley l4s Od Keepier Grange North Percy Hartley.. 13s 3d ,Scarborough ps Od Howard's W.H.Neth. 143 01 Russell's Hatton South Peareth A est Hartley West Wylam Wall's End, &c. (South Hartlepool ..... 16s 3d Baxter .. Bewicke and Co. Brown ... l4s 31 Seymour Tees Gostorth .... Heaton ........... ...... 15s Od Kilmarnock best Stm l3B Od Hilda l4s 9d dartley .......... ..... ... 13s 61 Original Gibson Riddell ... Hutton Ships at roark , ,t. 210. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 8. iIY)CIC EXCHANGE. —We have little change to notice in this share market. The amount of business transacted was very limited, out prices are firm. Caledonian shares closed at 10 1 / 4 —Great Western, 171. New, 13! - 4 • LIVI.II.PoOL, JAN. 8. STOCK EXCHANCOL—The share market was firm to-day. The business done was limited, still we close firmly at the best prices of the day. The transactions were as follow: — Chester and Holyhead, Preference, guaranteed 5 1 / 2 per cent., I 4 1 / 2 —Caledonian, 10 1 / 2 —East Lancashire, 12 5-16—Lanca shire and Yorkshire, 56 3 4—Ditto, Fifths, 7 1 / 2 die.—Lan caster and Carl sle, 70—London and North-Western, 124-- duo, New Quarters, 3% p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 2% p.-- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 26 1 / 2 —Ditto Pre ference, 10 , A—Midland, 47%—Ditto, Halves, 19% t. Helen's Railway and Canal, New Preference, guaranteed 6 per cent., 1 / 2 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B.), 5-- South-Eastern and Dover, 23 1 / 2 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 18%—York and North Midland, 22%. MANCHESTER, JAN. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was firm to-day, and a fair amount of business has been done. The transac tions were as follow : - Sheffield New Preference, Bs. 3d. p.-- London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3% p.—Eastern Counties, 6k—Chester and Holyhead,, Preference, WA-- Leeds, Fifths, 7 5-16 dis.— Caledonian, 10 1,-16—South. Eastern and Dover, 234 East Lancashire, 12 7-16—Great Northern, 78—Sheffield ( No. 1), 11—Ditto, Preference, 104 —Newcastle, Preference, BIRMINGHAM, bc. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE. -- The only transaction reported to-day was—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 5 1 A, die. RAILWAY 'TRAFFIC RE - TURNS. LONDON ♦ND NORTH-WBSTERN RAILWAY.—RetUrII Of Traffic for the week ending Jan. s: Passengers. parcels, &c. Merchandise Cattle ....£24,652 18 1 ... 16,581 5 9 ... 776 7 2 Total ... 11 0 Corresponding week last year 3,,620 13 8 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic or the Huddersfield (lanai and Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and IVyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor lion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Stafforc shire Company. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 Mil" open ) - Traffic for week ending Jan. 5 ....£13,719 5 2 Corresponding week in :last year, (219 miles open) .. 5 5 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. ( Niles open, 112.)"" Return of traffic for the week ending Dec. 29: Railway and canal £4,441 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 3,770 0 0 Note. - The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North• Western Railway Company. SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open E 0 miles.) Traffic for the week ending Jan. 5: PassenAers, parcels, &c. Goods and live stuck ... £295 12 4 ... 107 8 4 Total .£4O-1 0 8 Corresponding week last year ... 370 17 1 CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. (160 miles opened.) Return of traffic for the week ending Dec. 29: Passengers, &c. Goods, &c. ... £2,142 0 7 ... 4,117 15 3 Total .. £(.259 15 10 Corresponding week last year ... 6.632 9 9} SEABORNE MAILS. When made up in From what whe n PLACES. General Poet-office port die- due. London. - patched. Africa (West coast).. America (via N. York by British packet) .. 5 N January 31 .. .. Liverpool .. Jan. 1 6 America (via Boston by British packet) .. N January 17 'Liverpool.. Jan. 29 America (by United f Liverpool &1 States packet).. N,} January 10 , Southampt. . Belgium .. .. • • N 'Daily !Dover .. Daily Brazil .. . • .. 11,9 th of the mo n th Southampt. Jan. 24 Buenos Ayres • • .. 1119th of the month Southampt..Jan. 24 California( via Chagres) MI 17th of month Southampt. Feb. 5 Cape of Good Hope N,January 14 Plymouth• • Central America .. Ml2d & 17th of month Southampt. Channel Lies • • .. N I Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. Th. Ss• Chili .. 111 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 France •M & N Twice daily Dover • • Twicedao9 Ilamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London Tues. Sat. Holland N Wednes. & Satur.,London Mon. Thur• Honduras .. . N 17th of the mohthlSouthampt. J an . 20 Ireland .. M& N Twice daily .. Holyhead .• 1 wicedairi India (via Southamp.) M.2oth of the month Southampt. Jan. 94 India (via Marseilles) N 7thSe 24th of month Dover .. j a m 23 Madeira • • .. Mediterranean (via Southampton) •• M 20th of the month Southampt. Jan. 28 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) . N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover Jan. 23 Mediterranean (by French packet via Marseilles) Mexico 111 2d of the month.. Southampt. Jan. 20 Peninsular.. 7th,l7th,27tholmo Southampt. Jan. 15 Peru .. .. • • .. Id 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 9 0 Best Indies M 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 111,2 d of the month .. ,Southampt. N signifies that the by the night—and M by 12d of the month . mails are sent from the morning—dispa Southampt. the General Post-ofile• itch. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment' and Pills a Certain Cure for Bad Breasts. - Extract of a letter from Mr. F. Turner, grocer, of Penshurst, dated Dec. 3 0 . 1850. "To Professor Holloway. Sir,—lt is with pleasure that I acquaint y ou o f t h e won d er f u l cure e ff ec t e d b y t h e tile of your invalu a bl e O intment an d Pill s; m y w if e su ff ere d for mole than six m on th s f rom a d rea dfully sore breast, and w hich her medic :1 attendant found impossible to heal. She then tried your medicines, which in a little more than a month et' fected a perfect and radical cure, to the astonishment of t h ° many persons who saw in what an awful bad state it had been. —Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Estill" lishment, 244, Strand, London. THE CLOI.•TER6, WESTMINSTER.--WOUld it no t be advisable, now that plate glass is so exceedingly cheap, t° fill the tracery of the bays, and so exclude the damp atinoe; phere ? This would effectually prevent the decomposition o ,' the groined ceilings, and would also make it a fit receptecl for monuments. Perhaps, if parties so desirous were allowed to trect several windows in stained glass, as fittings for th e traceried divisions of the bays, it would not only add to the effect, but would be a good start in the right direction, in encouraging the manufacture of that article; this would apply to the present bare-windows of St. Paul's and the in' terior of the Abbey, as it would, if permitted, soon be re' sponded to by the public, and prove the value they placed upon the privilege.—Builder. . BIRTH& OF A BOW. On the 4th inst., at Thelwall, Cheshire, the lady of Neil Stanton Esq. On the 3d inst., at Addison-road North, Notting-hill, MO' Bernard Bottenhiem. OF A DAUGHTER. At Twineham Rectory, Sussex, on the sth inst., the wife of the Rev. J. W. Conant. On the sth inst.. a t t h e C o tt ag e, Buntingford, H e rm the lady of Henry Goding, Esq. AtetlißlED. At St. Saviour's Church, Bath, on the 2d inst., Janie! Blair, Esq., second son of the late Captain Edward Mete ( ' Blair, Bengal Army, to Frames Belinda Emily, fifth daugh ter of the late N. I. Halhed, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. bp the 6th inst., at North Walsham, the Vey. Thom as Dry, Head Master of the Grammar School, andlCurate of th e parish of North Walsbam, to Susanna, third daughter 4,i. John Prentice, Esq., of the some place. DMD On the 4th inst., at Cainscross, near Stroud, Gloucester' shire, Albert Harris, Esq.. of Great Ormond-street, London . On the sth inst., at Forest-house, Luton, aged 72, Marie°. widow of John Hubbard, Esq. On the 6th inst., Lydia, the wife of W. F. Maitland. k ,84 ,,' On the sth inst., Sophia, wife of Edward Holland, E4 5 (1 , 1' Dumbletun, Gloucestershire, aged a 7. On the 6th inst., at Woburn- place, T. A. Hewson, Esti* On the 6th inst.., in Eccleston-quare, Mrs. Sinclair, r B '' - !let of the late D. Sinclair, Esq., of Etatield-highway, aged 81- On the 6th inst . John Gibbons, Esq., of Clarendon - re e ' villas, Notting-hill. • On the 7th inst., at Cheyne'row, Chelsea, Arthur,. th e eldest son of G. Chancellor, aged 16. _ London: Printed and Published by DIURDO YOUNGO, I No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, NO.- b ai t Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, WON, cotter Middlesex, Thursday, January 9, 1851. 2. M etl Gut action 44 It W eekly "To rilanifef 1411 . T \ ~ ~\ `~~-' __ • It I R "111 inere m , e o Uhli Qu Vl ndo G NO o. The Time 7 Itl % % 1.9% ~ Om sper3 I.lto] --- T he ........ U. k .......... Pa m tft tte 110 l' Ire i A ,cke 8 hui t 04t, E o, Jeat , Ala punch found t raore 41 n4C1( 4 ence. 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