The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

Linos d°' to-dAY. Lists eal° 1116 ' ek 11 were , ke° • Of )o °Bl Intake" mand ban ruled very inactive.—Bee', from 3s to 43 ; Mutton, 33 4d to 43 61; Veal, 33 4d to 3s 81; Polk, 3s 4d to 3s 6d per 81b3. ArtuNDEL, JAN. 14.—The general trade has 'beer, heavy, folifiws;-13 , ?ef, from 33 2d to 3s - 10j;Ity.ton, 3s 4d to 43 4d; Polk, 33 4d to 3i 61 per Blbs. CHICITY.STER, JAN. 15 —Prime Beasts slid Sheip sold at full prices. In other kinds of stock very little was doing. Beef, from 3s to 33 10d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 41; Pork, 33 4d to 3s 61 per B.lbs; (2nm - ter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 203 each. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN . For the Week ended Jan. 9, 1850, made up from the Returns of th Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Efriglano ~nd Wale per Imperial Quarter. ['RICE I WIIEAT. IBARLEY. I OATS. RTE. BEANS. PEAS . .. I Zdi Id 122 s 9d 1 17s 2d 1 22s 24 126 s lld 1275 0.1 DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN, wur.vr, I UARLEY. OATS. I LIE. I BEANS. I PEAS. ,' a d 1 .. Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od ' QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. Wheat,, 73,473; Banle*, 85,285; Oats, 2,6( , 3; 1iye,.73„; Beans, 5 ,0 . 13; Peas, 1,765 quarters. ::': , , • QUANCER.Y.—(THIS DAY.) The Lord Ut s..t in (kin Old, Hall, Lincoln iturd appe4is and appeal ructions to-day. ;~~d~' 1 4 t;7 , : • r 4.'7; FOWLEt V. REYNALL. The further arguments hi this part-heard appeal cc. cupied'his Lordship the greater part the morning. 4"I 7:at; j14147 t 96 'ROLLS' COURT.-CTHIS DAY.) lotions of no general interest occupied the Master o: the Rolls the whole day. ~ 111i'stao 1 i ICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) Etta Honour heard motions to-day, but no case callitie: for special report came before the Court during the morning. (Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CRAIMORTIL) HiS Lordship. after disposing of the case of " robin "on V. Lomond," which was heard !Afore him on excep proceeded to hear motions. (4' 'airi.;., • • • UEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco; before Lord CAmrnELL and Justices PATTESON, COLERIDGE, and WIGHTMAN.) " REGINA. v. THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS., , PEACOCK, Q.C., said he had to move for h rule Low cause why a certiorari should not issue directed • _ . to the Poor-law Commissoners, to remove an order ad elressed by them to the directors of the poor, and the vestrymen of the united parishes of St. Giles-in-the , Telds and St. George, Bloomsbury. Those parishes the Poor. The regulation of the affairs of those parishes Ze.a under the provisions of the 11th Geo. 4, c. 10; and • • „ 71:Tested that the inhabitants of St. Giles were to up orty-five vestrymen of that parish, and the in . _Tztholtatita-of St. George, Bloomsbury, forty-five others. s i n °!° yeqrymen acted separately with resptct to eccle th-81`cal matters, but as oue united body with regdrd to 6 maintenance of the poor in the united parishes. The aPpointment of all the officers connected with a maintenance and relief of the poor was 'vested ..w h in the vestrymen of the joint parishes, °. were al s o em p owere d f rom t i me to t i me to '"s'Pend or remove all or any of such officers and OP tint others in their stead. By section 61 of the same 41 . 0 1 the - vestrymen were authorized to make rules for the tozbcl;goaV neci by section of the several persons employed by section 62 the vestrymen of the joint re try were authorized to appoint directors of the poor, Who were to be elected annually. So that in fact by • that Act of Parliament the appointment and removal of tehlleo:scterryran ; officers connected with the relief of the poor were in and the directors of the poor were merely to exercise the powers relating to the relief, maintt . 13 ebee, and employment of the poor as churchwardens and overseers were usually authorised to exercise, eubj( ct to ti !eappointm ent of alt i n f er i or o ffi cers b y t h e j o i nt vestry ' '°' the parish. By the 4 and 5 Win. IV., cap. 76, under Which the Poor-law Commissioners act, it was provided that from and after the passieg of the Act the adminis ;ration of th e re li e f of the per in England and v ates Should be subject to the direction end control _r the - Poor-la w Commissioners; and for executing th e Powers given to them by the Act, the Commissioners Were authorized to make and issue all such rules, orders, Ind regulations as they should think proper for the me 11eRetnent of the poor, and of their relief in workhouses, and for the guidance and control of all guardians, yes tries, and parish o fficers, so far as related to the manage !lent and maintenance of the poor. And by section 46, the Commissioners were empowered to mite parishes l ilt° unions for the relief and maintenance of the poor. Le rd CAMPHELL said the policy f th e whol e Act wa l k leave the management of the poor in the hands of the lo cal autho r i t i, s . nnl Pisacoeic submitted that the vestrymen of th . ese led parishes, although they might be controlled by the p ,aw Commissioners, oo r , still could 'not have the Powers vested in them by the Act of Parliament trans et ed from them, and given to somebody else. The o `_o , :l ,.h m ic Commissioners di eioners had ma d e an or d er, b y t h e 66th art i cle the vestry men o f t h e j o i nt vestry were auo stlz-el, when ever i t m i g h t b e requ i site, or whenever a ltitil ey might occur, to appoint fit persons to hold cer tain , °rne es connected with the management and relief of. hhaeeor- That he (Mr. Peacock) apprehended was 11- verl3 uCommissioners.' , the powers of the Poor-law "o sy had a right to control the ye trymen in the elec. n of their officers ; but they had eo right to say that • the vestrymen should appoint such efficera as the oirec tore of the poor, define under such vestrymen, should direct them to do. The plain effect of the order was, to ple,e o the directors over the vestrymen. The Court granted a rule generally to show cause. COMMON PLEA S.—(ll-IIS DAY.) - • HARRIS V. HUNT. LUsu movedin this case, on behalf of the de , ien dant, tor 'a rul e to show cause why a new trial 4 , ll° aid• not be ,ranted in the Court of the Under , of Surrey, on the ground of excessive damages. The CAW arose out of the following circum ttlinet's :--The defendant is a pat e nt artificial --.anute manufacturer, and some . ti me a go th e tiail . l tiff WAS . in his employ as collector. During that P erie d. n, a t book was missed f rom t h e p rem i ses o f t h e jonteo charg e d th e pl a i n tiff w i t h h av i ng pur d daot, it, and ultimately brought him up at the South :aarek P olice -court on a charge of theft. The charge, however, dismissed by thn sitting magistrate; def ereti l l oa the plaintiff brought an action against the _ acl ant for fals e i m p r i sonment . Th e case was tr i e d t sc lue la the court o f the U n d er-Sher i ff of Surrey. 0!1 fir st cccasi on a ver di ct w i t h one shilling damages 714 returned, nod in the second 1001. damages were the ". Th defendant had offered to give plaintiff Sot as o • . a c ompensation, but this offer having been refused to,;present application for a new trial was made in order quireyd.uca the amount of damages given on the last in- The L ORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that he was induced th at "' an opportuni t y o f a f res h i nqu i r y w i t h th e hope unit ,b y might be come to in the mean , ,11111" Y utibsoi bc p ,r a a r n ti t e e s d ,.and further litigation prevented. • ( MA I L COURT.—(THIS DAY.) t4N in Banco, before Mr. Justice WIGHTSIAN.) JUSTICES of DEVON. their s o district . c t . t h e e ; tF}Yeßis QUEEN i t p t . tied to the Court tot a rule, calling '. Devonshire acting in and for the f. runes, to show ,cause why a conviction o pu 8"0Uld not be brought into this Court for the Th a r r y ,s' s e . of being quashed. The affidavits upon which td. " ii,; i.on was founded state that a gentleman named as,t74ir'‘, having been threatened with an attack and saila ° Y Mr. Slitchellbank, sought to have his as _ ea t ;", p '' A botlnd over to keep the peace. The threat was Itatai"' in these words—" I will serve him the same , :i r e 1 wheal get hold of him ;" and to explain what was bY that remark it was necessary to explain to the ,11112istrates that Mr. MitAellbank had previously com lalt:ed:k violent assault on Mr. Edwards. When, there he. peace peace summons came on for hearing before fti.Magiitrates Mr. Mitchellbank requested that the first jttittult should be inquired into, but Mr. Edwards ob iiikked,, t ° this as' he intended to carry that matter to atha th;iit't tribuna'l, and he only wanted the protection of I,.•‘ t i tt the Mean time. It 30 happened, however, ftlibpr.Preswell the. clerk of the magistrate, was a . , teat,' ° E Mr. Mite ' lellbank, and he advised the magis - th e ,' t ' i to discard the peace summons and go into the did. , ° II of the actual assault, which they accordingly ot' a tt :; l ., ultimately Mr. Mitehellbank was fined 5/., to beund - over to keep the peace. Now it was ZdZaed that in the absence of any complaint of . Mr. e as „ itdi th e - magistrates had no power to deal with 11 1 8 ,1 t, itnd Mr. Edwards being desirous of conveying . to n ilSPute into a civil court was anxious to have hsd t-cti6 n granted on the ground that the magistrates M r Jun their jurisdiction. —Application granted. . 41 4 r° justice WIGHTMAN afterwards sat at Nisi lfrius dhiposed of several undefended causes. (Ref HEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) ° 3t.es- LoRD CHIEF BARON, and Barons PARSE, A ] .DELSSON, and MARTIN.) This fir . 'WA RE AND OTHERS V. BARNETT. Whi c h theis,to action on an a ll ege d contract,- under tii o -. ereadant undertook to insure the cargo of a prop erty o f the plaintiff, on a voyage from With on to Ibrail and back. The vessel came in collision yoyi schooner near Gravesend, while on her outward epna't g and stank, so destroying her cargo, which 3: 1 „ 4 ted chiefly of carpets, as to render it bior'Y unsaleable. The plaintiffs accordingly stigiti l l'thia action to recover the loss which they' had ~ l ee in consequence, of the defendant having ma pi ti :!--a' to insure' the cargo. The defence was that the lied not furnished him with written instructions B,i,'"ot the insurance, but, on the other side, it was k r " the defendant had taken preliminary steps for that I,ll6l:4o..st,Tbiluet „ ha s d stopped short of completin g the insu a wastried before the Lord Chief Baron I, itt. tlild hall, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff, tetn 135/, damages. r • ICNowLEs now moved, with the permission of the snit; Judge, t o set as i de the verdict Rho o enter a nn- The being -robn ground of th e mo ti on was t h at the plaint.ffs evidenc e ßobert, W are , awl Thomas W;,re, T . O izt ognivtreancttl! prove that they were jointly teaestedh an ware, b th e e en Coura need a . thought the objelLion a io.nad on e , arid_ rule ",tItIPFS' COURT,—( THIS DAY). • : .(Before Mr. Under-S , triff __URcHELL ) This, V. D RUGGAN—FA.LSE IMPRISONMENT. batzt• was an action to recover damages for a.,sault and isonment. Defenda )t suffered judgment to go Mr. twh o uPDLEsTorfE eared the (we for tie plaintiff, k 5 .!k Y o ung man, h a t weep 18 and 19 of age, in er.sPlpy of M y Messrs. Rabert s an d Bon, tobacconists, in • •z'~~ ~:. • St. John-s!reet-roed. Defendant is a tradesman in Thx litl'arned Counsel then called the witne,;ses:— Daniel l'ila:marla. a <tatlf l l he was assistity to a ehrmist. Knew plainiiff . to ho in the.servic,s if Messrs. Il,phert.. and Sm. On the 7th. of D , 7ormber la t , ,t, witne ss , phlintiff; and others had Lem taking . t.a and spending the evening at the house of pkintiff's aunt, in New court, Gospel!-street. They had seen two friends home to the Lowe:-road, and witness, plaintiff, and two others were walking home, about a quarter pEist twelve o'clock, two and two, when defendant and a person nautr:d Elvis met them. Defendant rushed up against the plaintiff violently, and on plaintiff saying it was not gentle manly conduct, defendant sprang out into the road, and said they were a parcel of boys, and he was able to take any two of them at a rally. He after wards kicked one or the young lads, and afterwards got his thumb in his (defendant's) mouth. The police was called, and then d.-fondant gave them all in charge for assault, end an attertv to rob h:m. This was on the Saterday night, and they were all looked up till Mon day-morning, when they wore taken before Mr. Combo, who immediately discharged,tln m. The LEARNED COUNSEL having stated in his ppm ing address that the magistrates had stated that it THE WELSH CUURCH. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. COTTON .1111 LL BURNED. (William Cubitt, E-q , President, in the Chair.) I MANCHESTER, JAN. 15.—Since Friday morning On Tuesday last the paper read was "On th e C o e- lest we have had no lets than six other fires, one of struction of the Building for the Exhibition of the which, last evening, destroyed a considerable portion Works of Indu3try of All ,Natiozen in 1851," by Mr. of the cotton factory of Messrs. Robert Marslaed and M. D. Wyatt, Assoc. Inst. C E. Co., Ancoats. The piper, which was unavoidably of very consider- Messrs. Robert Marsland and Co. are spinners and able length, commenced by characterizing the first doublers, and their premises, called the Ancoats attempt to concentrate, within the compass of a f e w bridge Mills, consist of three parallel buildings, on the acres, specimens cf the productive industry of ail north side of the river Medlock, the middle and prin nations as a " great experiment," worthy of being cipal building being 120 feet long and 32 broad, and tried upon a scale commensurate with the energy of consisting of six stories and an attic. It was in this the industrial resource sof this country. The success larger building, filled principally with spinning ma of this experiment must depend on a just apprehen- chinery, that the fire originated. It was discovered sion of the results to be produced ; a well-digested about a quarter past six o'clock in the evening —the scheme fur producing the results aimed at; and power work-people having left their employment at six—by and dexterity to arrange the whole so as to ensure some persons outside the mill, wh o imm e di a t e ly cow the accordance and wet ki ng o f ail its parts in the enunicated the Lct that there was a strong simplest and best manner. Ti.e suhjeet then natu- light in the top story to the private rally divided itself into the corsiderelion of the re- watchman. Au alarm was given irnmedi • quisites demanded—the design, and the actual con- ately in the neighbourhood, and Messrs. Galli struction of the building, more and Co., whose print weeks are on the The features of ali the buildings in which previcus opposite bank of the River Medlock, sent a private exhibitions had been held, both abroad and at home, fire-engine, which was got into play with considerable were then carefully reviewed, and the points of dif- effect, though some delay occurred owing to the terence between the present cosmopolitan exhibition muddy bed of the river rendering it necessary that and all its predecessors, were distinctly enunciated, the water should he laden into tubs before it could and shown to have induced the invitation to th e world he passed through the engine.. The town fire-engines, at large, to contribute their suggestions for the build- under the direction of Mr. Thomas Rose, arrived at mg, the results of which were shown to the public the scene of the fire about twenty minutts to seven in the Theatre of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in o'clock. At this time the fire, which had commenced the 240 plans there exhibited. None of these plans at the north end of the mill, had extended nearly the being found to embrace the necessary requisites, the whole length of the building, and the two upper Royal Commissioners devised a plan ' for the execu stories—the sixth a n d s even th were a mass of flames.. tion of which te n d ers were i nv i te d i n June, 1850. By the energy of the firemen—who succeeded in The reservation having been made, that bona fide getting at the flames by taking the hose from the tenders for any construction, offering greater advan- engines to the top of the adjoining buildings, and tages than that proposed by the Commissioners, would directing the jets of water immediately into the be considered, Mr. Paxton brought forward his pro- windows of the top stories—the flames were much position; and it being contended, that certain advan- reduced by ten o'clock, and there was a hope that tages in celerity of construction, facility of removal, the damage would be confined to the two top the adaptability of the materials to the required forms, stories of the mill. By an accident which occurred and the amount of cost, were inherent in the design at about this time similar to that at the fire of for the proposed structure, to be entirely composed of Messrs. Wallace and Co.'s, last week, the amount of wood, iron, and glass, the other tenders were rejected, damage was much augmented. The floor and and that of Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., for Mr. other supports of the top stories appear to Paxton's design, was accepted. have been so much injured by the fire, Such was the origin of the present building, which that about ten o'clock they were no longer being adapted to the site selected for it, in Hyde- capable of sustaining the weight of machinery upon park, by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, was shown them at the north end, and the floor, extending along to consist of a nave 72 feet wide and 64 feet high, nearly one.half the building from the north end fall with a series of side aisles, two of 48 feet and six of ing in, carried down corresponding portions of 24 feet wide, of the respective heights of 43 feat and the fifth, fourth, third, and second stories to the 23 feet; the whole spreading to a width of 436 feet. bottom of the mill. Had the fire not been so much A transept, 408 feet long and 72 feet wide, inter- reduced at this time, it is probable that the flames sected the building at right angles in the centre ; this would have extended to the lower stories of the other transept was covered with a semi-circular roof, part of the building, in which case the destruction of springing at a height of 64 feet from the level of the the entire mill would have been almost inevitable. ground, and making the entire height 100 feet. As it is, the fire has destroyed nearly one-half of the The details of the construction were very minutely larger mill, and the two top stories of the remainder, given, from the concrete filling of the holes in the including the entire roof. The whole of the walls ground, under each support, through the base plate, are standing, except a small portion of the top on the the columns, eight inches in diameter, the connecting western side. The other buildings upon the premises pieces, to which were attached the girders for the have not suffered except from water. The buildings galleries, the second and third sets of columns and are insured in the North of England to the amount of the roof trusses, the box gutters and the " P a xt on " 2,7001.; in the West of England for 2,900/. ; in the gutters, which latter were intended to provide at the Guardian for 6001.; and in the Atlas for 600/. ; total, same time for conveying away the rain from the roof, 6,8001. The amount of damage done by the fire is and the condensed moisture from the inside. The estimated at about 5,000/. About two hundred and total area of the ground-floor was equal to 772,784 thirty bands will be thrown out of employment by the square feet, and that of the galleries to 217,100 square calamity. The cause of the fire is not kno wn . It i s feet. said to have originated in some waste rovings at the Details were also given of the mode of conveying north end of the sixth story of the building, but how the rain water, &c., into the adjoining sewers, through they were ignited is a mystery. the interior of the supporting-columns; of the venti lation by means of sets of louvres, of galvanized cast iron, placed between the columns of the side aisles, and in the upper part of the roof; of the supply of water for the extinction of fire, and for the supply of the fountains; and of the experiments for testing the girders and trusses, by the hydraulic press erected in the building, and by which the strength of the whole was proved before they were used. In examining the power and. dexterity with which the design had been realized by Messrs. Fox, Hen derson, and Co., or, in other words, in the actual construction of the building, it was necessary to bear in mind that their tender was only verbally accepted on the 26th of July, 1850, that possession of the site was obtained on the 30th of July, that the first co lumn was fixed on the 26th of September, and at the present time (only 144 working days since the com mencement) but little of the vast building remained to be finished. To give an idea of the vast size of this building, it was noticed, that the width of the main avenue was within 10 feet double that of the nave of St. Paul's Cathedral, whilst its length was more than four times as great. The walls of Sc. Paul's were 14 feet thick, those of the glass building in Hyde-park were only 8 inches. St. Paul's occu pied 35 years in building, whilst the Hyde-park building would be finished in less than half that num ber of weeks. The celerity of the construction was very remarkable. As many as 308 girders had b-en delivered on the ground in one week. Seven of the great trusses of the nave were raised in one day. Each man fixed about 200 superficial feet of glass per day. • TO THE EDITOII OF THE SUN: SIR,—I have caret - a:ly read a palopidet purporting to be a letter to tho Archbi,hop of Canterbury, in answer to Sir B-njarnin Hall's observations on the sate of the Collegiate: Ceerch of 13rec.en, by Conn op Thirlwall, D.D., Bishop of St. David's, and " which 1 believe I may aqsume to have been written" by the Right Revereed Prelate whose name it bears. 1 honour the Bishop for thus courageously entering into the lists, and submitting to have his own cause as defender, and his opponent's as challenger, tried before that public tribunal which must in these days eventually decide every disputed case. But lem astonished that his Lordship, as it ap pears to me, while on the one hand courting the ut most publicity, should on the other hand content himself with comparative privacy. For example, in l,is fifth page, his Lordship states that he has felt himself bound publicly to notice the charge for the sake of that clips of persons "to whom the facts of the care are entirely unknown, and who have no opportunity, even it they had leisure or cu rioiity though, fur ascertaining them ;" while in his 27th and last page he seems so totally to have for gotten this his primary object, that he felt no hesita tion in writing the following words : "1 am aware that I cannot expect this exposure of the Honourable Baronet's misrepresentations to reach one in a thousand of those who have read his letter to your Grace." The truth is, Mr. Editor, that the Bishop's trivial pamphlet might have appeared and would have appeared, had he chosen it, in ..very pub lication, daily or weekly, in which Sir Benjamin's letter was inserted. But his Lordship wanted a griev ance, and tried to establish one, I am happy to say in vain. But before I conclude my criticism on the manner of his Lordship's letter, I must protest In the strongest terms against the indecorous lan guage in which a spiritual Lord in our Church bas chosen to malign the conduct of a layman, who, as I believe, has never had any other object in view than the reform of Church abuses in Wales, and fair play against Saxon encroachments for our native Church and our native clergy. I must now touch slightly upon the material state of the question, of which the chief points may be thus summarily noticed:— Long before the Reformation, a Bishop of St David's had wished to create a theological and literary college for the benefit of the diocese, and had, with the sanction of the Legislature, amply endowed it Al though inefficient, it was one which Henry VIII. not only spared, but actually enriched with addi tional endowments. But administrative neglect was stronger than legislative enactment,* and the colle giate institution did not assume an active or bene ficial form for the purposes of its creation, or the good of the Principality. It was consigned, by the Ecclesiastical Bill of 1840, to the" tomb of all the Capulets," with its Dean, its Prebendaries, and all its property ; and its future revenues were dedicated, by the " Act," to the in crease of inadequate livings, and the cause of high education in Wales, which was then supposed to be intimately connected with Lampeter College. Many a slip occurs between the cup and the lip; the " Act" had passed Lords and Commons, when Bishop Jenkinson died, and Dr. Thirlwall was ap pointed as his successor. Now, mark my words, the " Act" was as sure to receive the Royal sanction as two and two make four, but Bishop Thirlwall forestalled this certain sanction, and by getting himself consecrated on the 7th of August, while the Royal assent was not given until the 11th, entered upon his bishopric with all its ancient rights untouched, and thus became actual Dean of the suppressed college, in the teeth of every principle of equity. Had a Tory and a non-reformer done this there would have been no vituperation, no obloquy, which would not have been poured upon the unhappy delinquent's head ; but I suppose a pet Whig must be defended against all charges (however true they may be) of malversation. I will not enter, Mr. Editor, further into the ques tion in the present state of the discussion, but delibe rately affirm that all the difficulties, all the delays, al] was a case of great cruelty, and expressed a hope that some person would take up the matter, put a quebtion in reference. The L ,, arned UNDER-SHERIFF said it could not be re ceived in evidence from the witness. Arr. livinm.EsToNE said, as 110 person appeared en behalf- ot the dett Ldaht, he should leave the case in the hands of the jury on the evidence of this witness. The jury, aft:.r a short consultation, gave a verdict for '5l. WES TMINSTER.-(TI-IIS DAY.) El,'en Roland was charged with stealing several articles of wearing apparel, the property of her master, Mr. Sloman. James - Abrahams, 296 S, state-I that he took the prisoner in custody last night, when she told him that she had given some of the property to a potman in the neighbourhood. On going there an embroidered waistcoat and two handkerchiefs wero found. The potman stated that the prisoner had given him the things for a present. The prisoner, in defence, said that the potman had asked her, on several occasions, to get him things. The prisoner was committed for trial. THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK.—(THIS DAY.) The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the London Joint- Stock Bank was held this morning, at their Banking-house in Princes-street, City; Mr. George Meek, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read, the minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed, and the following report, together with the accounts, submitted to the proprietors : " The directors have pleasure in presenting to the shareholders the annexed abstract of the liabilities and assets-of the bank, on the 31st December last, with a statement of profit and loss for the half-year. " It will be seen from the latter account, that, includ ing 8,939/. 18s. 11d. brought forward from June last, the net profit.to be appropriated amounts to 28 ; 874/. 16s. 6d., which enables the directors to declare a dividend at the rate of 61. per cent. per annum and a bonus of 3s. 6d. per share, leaving a balance of 3741. 16s. 6d. to be placed at the credit of the guarantee fund, which, with this ad dition, amounts to 137,1091. its. 3d. " The seats in the direction which become vacant on this occasion, are those of William Curling, Esq. • George Holgate Foster, Esq.; George Meek, Esq.; and George Tay ler, E-q.; and these gentlemen offer themselves as candidates for re-election. " The dividend and bonus, free from income-tax, will be pa: able on and after Friday, the 24th instant. THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK. LIABILITIES AND ASSETS, ON TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1850, Dr. X s. d, To caphil paid up, viz., 60,000 shares, at 101. each .., To amount due by the bank ... To atnount of " the gu,rantee fund," 30th June, 1850 £134,714 0 7 To six months' in terest en ditto, at 31. per cent per annum ... CURRENCY REFORM. We have frequently felt it our duty to call the serious attention of our readers to the urgent neces sity which has long existed for revising and altering, if not altogether abandoning, the absurd and ruinous monetary system established by Sir Robert Peel's Currency Bills of 1819 and 1844. We are glad, therefore, to find, by an advertisement in another column, that a public meeting will be held in York next week, in order to promote that important object, at which the Rev. John Twells,who has eminently dis tinguished himself on many occasions, by his able ad vocacy of Currency Reform, will be present. No valid reason can be assigned why gold alone 6hould be allowed to regulate the exchangeable value of the aggregate property and capital of the country. The natural tendency of such a system is to prevent the free circulation of gold, by fixing a price upon it in this country, and insisting upon its retention here at all costs and hazards. And being our principal circulating medium, a sudden drain is necessarily an abstraction of the very life-blood of our internal trade, the export of which has to be suddenly arrested. Whereas, were gold a mere commodity, its export would be attended with the same results only as the export of so much iron, cloth, or calico. ... 600,000 0 0 . . 2,949,869 9 3 2.020 14 2 136,734 14 9 To undivided profit for the last half -3 ear ••• ... ... ... the doubts connected with the revenues of Brecon College have, as far as his Lordship is concerned, had for their sole source the unjustifiable conduct of Dr. Thirlwall in clothing himself with a vested right, contrary, if not to every principle of rational law, at least to equity. However, thanks to Sir Benjamin Hall, the case has at length a chance of being placed before the public in a tangible shape, and the helpless, do • nothing system, which has prevailed for the last eleven years, may now be brought to some satisfactory ter mination. 8,939 18 11 Ti amount tarried to profit and loss account ... 45,848 4 7 £3,741,392 7 6 Cr. s. d. By Exchequer-bills, India Bonds, &c. 479.080 18 1 By bills discounted, loans, and cash ... 3,234,936 9 5 By building, furni ture, &c., in Prin ces-street ... £17,750 0 0 By ditto ditto in Pall-wall ... 9,625 0 0 In the meantime let us hope for better days, for the education of both the laity and the clergy in South %Vales, of which even his Lordship seems to hold out certain hopes. I have the honour to be, Sir, PHIL-ARTEGALL. 1'7,375 0 0 This subject is of considerable importance to farmers, as well as to the trading and commercial interests. Whenever there is a scarcity of the circu lating medium, it is out of the power of the people to pay a high price for agricultural produce, and hence they are driven to consume inferior food, to the great loss of the cultivators of the soil. This has been experienced over and over again, and it will continue to occur so long Rs our circulating medium shell not represent the actual wealth and property of the country. The extension of the cur rency system is especially due to the farmer as an act of justice. It is well known that the landlords gave their consent to Sir Robert Peers Act of 1819, with the distinct understanding that they were to have the corn-laws; and now that the compact has been broken, mainly, we believe, by the distresses of 1847, which were i❑ a great degree to be attributed to the operation of the restricted currency, they have a right to demand that the currency shall be no longer fettered, to add to the enormous losses which they have already experienced. We trust, therefore, that there will be a numerous attendance of farmers on Thursday, to meet the members of the York Farmers' Club, and that they will unite with others in demand ing a revision of our monetary code, and the adoption of such salutary laws as will afford to the nation the • advantages of a currency adequate to the wants and exigencies of the population.—York Herald. The following letter, which uppettred in the Times newspnper cf 3.1 January, may be interesting to our readers, and deserves attention : In order to perform this work it was necessary to devise and employ various contrivances for economis ing labour; such as the sash-bar machine, the gutter machine, the morticing machine, the painting ma chine, the glazing machine, besides many others of an equally ingenious nature—all of which were de scribed ; and, when listening, to the details, it was universally felt that England possessed mechanical and physical energic s far exceeding those which gave form and being to the most celebrated monuments of antiquity. In the course of the paper, Mr. Digby Wyatt (the author), to whom, from the commencement, had been entrusted the active superintendence of the con struction of the building, paid a well-merited tribute of praise to Mr. C. H. Wild and Mr. Owen Jones, who had been associated with hiM ; to Mr. Barry and Mr. Brunel, who, as members of the Building Com mittee, had made very valuable suggestions; as well as to Messrs. Fox and Henderson, and to Mr. Broun ger, Mr. J. Cochrane, and others, for their exer tions in the execution of the construction; and he concluded by reminding the members that the weight of responsibility, the arduous duty of supervision, the honour of acting as the master mind, to weigh the requisites, to determine the design, and to govern the construction of this great apparatus, bad been re served for Mr. Cubitt, the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. It was announced that the discussion of the paper would take place at the meeting of next Tuesday, January 21st. TO THE I.DITOR, OF THE TIMES. SUNDAY TRADING IN BERMONDSEY. A general meeting of the master butchers of this populous district of the metropolis, took place last evening, at the Horns Tavern, Bermondsey-square. for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro visions of a Bill about to be introduced into Parlia ment, by Mr. Williams, M.P. for Lambeth, the ob ject of which is to suppress Sunday trading as far as possible. Mr. J. Hayman presided, and stated, that from communications which he had had with about 300 butchers, he was convinced that they were almost to a man in favour of a measure which should enforce entire closing on the Sabbath. They well knew that if such a measure were passed it would have a most beneficial effect in preventing the working classes from wasting their money on a Saturday night. The fault of all Sabbath legislation hitherto was, that it was im practicable—a character whi c h would be removed by Mr. Williams's Bill. He then . went through the clauses. The Bill had the merit of being very short and definite in its provisions. There are but twelve clauses. The first contains a general prohibition against selling, hawking, crying, or publicly offering or exposing for sale in any shop, warehouse, market, thoroughfare, or other place within the metropolitan police district or the city or liberties of London, any goods, chattels, effects, matter, or thing whatever (the excepted articles are afterwards stated). The second clause continue s the existing statutes as to taverns, steam-packets, club-houses, &c. The third takes away the responsibility of servants. The exempted articles are declared by the fourth clause to be : medicines or drugs for medicinal purposes; milk, before nine in the morning and after one in the after noon ; tea, coffee, ready-dressed food, or other re freshments, in any coffee-shop, &c., before iten in the morning and after one in the afternoon, or at any period of the day to l o dg e r s or res idents ; meat or fish, before nine, between May and Oc tober; fruit, pastry, &c., before nine and after one; newspapers before ten and after one ; and cigars and tobacco after one. The fifth clause prescribes the penalties on conviction-ss. for the first offence; froin ss. to 20s. for the second ; and from 20s. to 40s. for the third; only one penalty to be incurred in a day until the third offence. The 6th clause authorises the goods of hawkers to be seized, redemable on payment of ls. By the 7th clause, no articles, except meat, fish, poultry, fruit, pastry or ice, can be delivered after 10 o'clock: The remaining clauses relate to the enforcing of the Act, and the recovery of the penalties. It is to come into operation on the Ist June. The several clauses were discussed seriatim, and appeared to meet with general approval ; and a resolution was come to, affirming the necessity of some legislative enactment for securing one day's rest in seven. COMMITTEE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE CHRISTIANS WHO SUFFERED IN THE EVENTS OF THE 16TH AND 17TH OCTO BER, 1850. Aleppo, Dec. 7, 1850. TO JOSEPH FLUME, EEQ., ➢r.P., LONDON. The newspapers will, no doubt, have acquainted you ith the terrible occurrences of which our city has been the theatre, and we will not, therefore, enter into details of the horrible scenes which have taken place. It will be sufficient to mention that 500 Christian homes, mostly opulent, were sacked and pillaged, wo men and girls brutally assaulted, men assassinated, and numbers wounded ; five churches were pillaged and three of them burned, priests killed, and the z,y rian patriarch seriously wounded. In a word, that all the barbarities imagination can paint were practised upon the Christians at Aleppo. .Ir. is easy to imagine that in consequence of such a catastrophe, the numbers of people formerly in a state of affluence are now in complete destitution, and that the working classes are plunged into the deepest misery, which calls loudly for aid on all charitable persons. But the efforts and sacrifices of this small European colony and of the natives who escaped this horde of barbarians, are insufficient to relieve so many sufferers, and a committee composed of the six persons, whose names are undersigned, has been formed in order to appeal to the generosity of all philanthropists, whose alms could not be directed into a more deserving channel. Convinced that you will kindly assist in relieving our Christian population, we make this appeal to your generosity, in the hope that you will also induce your numerous friends to co-operate in this good work. We trust, Sir, that you will extend your assistance to us, and need not assure you of our sincere gratitude and the sentiments of high esteem which we entertain for you. (Signed) ALEX. CALDER. LOUIS MOLENARI. WM. RIDDELL. VINCENZO MARCOrOLL TILLEAGE. E. PORTALIS. I hereby certify that the above are the true signa turesof the persons whose names are written above. Aleppo, Dec. 11, 1 850 . (Signed) W. W. WERRY, Consul. We learn that the Roman Catholics of Glasg►ow and neighbourhood propose to start in that city a weekly journal, to be called the Thistle, for the defence and advocacy of their principles. -- Glasgow Heraid. TUE LATE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT WORTHING.- The subscriptions for the relief of the widows and children of the eleven men who unfortunately lost their lives in the Worthing roads, in a fruitless attempt to render assistance to the crew of the Lalla ltoolch, have amounted to the aggre gate sum of 5,000/. The committees appointed at Worthing and Brighton to make the collections and appropriation of the money have disagreed in their notions as to the proper mode of making the distribution, and consequently nothing has yet been done with the money, beyond the administra tion of temporary relief to the distressed families. One of the plans proposes to regard the subscription as a kind of national reward for a brave action, and to make the distri bution of all alike. regardless of age or circumstance, ex cept that the orphans, and in three cases, dependent parents, having each one uhare, the widows should have two; while another, regarding the money as being raised for the relief ' of distress occasioned by the calamity, proposes that all cir cumstances, whether pecuniary or relating to age or other matters, should be considered. Our readers will remember c w i as aimed that the first fatal and unsuccessful attem p t to bo ard the Lalla Rookh was followed by a sec ond, which success ful. The boatmen, 23 in numbe r, have since sal vage, and on Monday last they met, and shared between them 5361. 68. Sd., which had been awarded to them on that account, on the application of Messrs. Irenstonger, of Little hanipton, receives' of the drvite of the Admiralty, PORT WINE FOR ENGLAND —The Oporto Ship• piny List flir 1850 states the total quantity of port wine e 'lea p u o expo; Led to Great Britain in the year to h ave b een 25,100 pipes; total quantity exported to p or t s out of Groat Britain, 1 . 2,067 pipes ; total export, 37,187 pipes. The chief elip:irti?. were, 'Messrs. Sandeman and Co., 4,360 ; M essrs. Quarles, Harris, and Sous, :;,0I6; Directors o f th Company, 9 ,335 , l\tloeosis,rs;l%,elartien, n( e:: , ,G i and Co., 2,068 ; M essrs. Hunt, i ; Messrs. C oc kb urn, S mithes, and Co., 1,728; Messrs. Croft. and Co., 1,335 ; M essrs B runo , Siiva, and Co., 1,327; Messrs. (Miley, Forrester, Weober, and Co., 1,177; Messrs. G. and J Graham and Co., 1,017. The rest of the shipp rs are under 1 .000 pipes. These ten estab.ishments shipped 20;258 pipes, being' mere that half the total export. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —"CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, &c.—Just published, price act., by Dr. CItOiIN, M.D., a Report of some or the most formidable terms of Disease of the 7 hroat, Lungs, Heart, and Stomach.— . • The success of Dr. Cronin's treatment in the cure of those affections which have hitherto generally baffled every attempt at cure, although the ilrst talent had been applied to, and the most consummate skill had been exerted for th a t pur p ose , i s most satisfactorily shown in this re p e rt." — Prcface.—Wertheim and Co., raternoster-row ; Hughes, St. Martin-l e - Grand; and at the autlivee residence, 14, Leicester - plate, Leicester-pillftte. THE SUN, LON DON, TH URS D V EVENING, JANUARY l6, 1851. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 15. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot. ing thin morning, accompanied by Sir George Grey. Lord Waterpark, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour, were in attend ance upon his Royal Highness. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Sixth, the Earl of Abz.rdeen, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Rev. Frederick and Mrs. Anson. _The Queen's private band will attend in the Castle after dinner. The Duchess of Norfolk has relieved the Mar chioness of Douro in her duty as Lady in Waiting to her 111,jesty. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend ance yesterday (Tuesday) evening, and played the folloy..ing selections : Overture, " Le Val d'Andorre" Ilalevy. Waltz, "The Garland" Grand Selection, " Elijah" Mendelssohn. Quadrille, " The British Navy" Jullien. Quick March, " Camp of Silesia" Meyerbeer. Her .Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle and performed the following pieces : Introduzione Andante Maestoso, Allegro Moderato, Scherzo Presto; Sintonia Taeglichsbeck. Selection, " Huguenots" Meyerbeer. Lord John Russell gave a Cabinet dinner last evening, ut his residence in Chesham-place. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the, Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of lan ricarde' and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. Mr. T. B. Crompton and Mr. Borthwick had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. W. Becktord and Mr. Morten had an inter view with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial office. Lord Monteagle had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office, from the Governors of New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TIIESDAY. The investments upon the Chester Cup to-day took a wider range than heretofore, and gave more im?ortance to the proceedings than anything which has previously occurred since the entry and appearance of the weights. Rhesus was in very strong demand, and was backed for a couple of hundred pounds at 15 to 1. Baby was also in good favour at 40 to 1, and Knight of Avenel at the same figure, (he latter being supported for near 501. 900 to 20 was taken about Haricot, 1,000 to 20 about Trouncer, and 1,000 to 20 twice about Flying Gout (late Dahcotab Chief). The Metropolitan Stakes, Liverpool Steeplechase, and Derby were only slightly touched upon. Latest prices : £3.741,392 7 6 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT OF THE LONDON JOINT ST BANK F.:lt THE HALF YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1550. X 8. d. To current expenses, proportion of build ing expenses; dirt ctors rt muneration, bad. debts, income- tax, &c. To amount carried to profit End loss, new account," being rebate of interest on bills discounted not yet due ... ... 11,089 13 6 To amount transferred to the credit of the " Guar:int( e Fund," in addition to the above amount of 136,7341. 14s. 9d. To dividend account for the payment of half-a-year's dividend, at the rate of a per ceirtum per annum, upon 600,0001.. amount of paid-up capital upon 60,000 shares ... ..; ... 18,000 0 0 To ditto for payment of a bonus of 3s. 6d. per share ••• ... 14,823 13 6 ... 10,500 0 0 £54,788 3 6 . . Cr. £. 8. d. By balance brought down ... ... 45,848 4 7 By undivided urofit brought forward from the Lot half-year 8,939 18 11 £54,788 3 6 Tke CHAtratax moved the adoption of the report 'and confirmation. of the accounts, and at the same time declared the dividend on the paid-up capital, amount ing to 600,0001., with the 3s. 63. bonus in addition. Mr. W. BOROUGHDALE complained that the Ex cheqaer-bills were over-valued. He was not satisfied with the general result of the bank's operation, nor did he think it wise to continue increasing the gua rantee fund ad itifinitain. The CHAIRMAN said the directors were well pleased with the present state of the bank ; its business was steadily progressing, and when allowance was made for the higher rate of interest which prevailed in 1849 over that_of 1850, no one could dispute that the past year's operations had proved successful beyond ex pectation. With regard to reducing the guarantee fund, he for one could not approve of such a pro ceeding, as the stability of the bank depended upon its, maintenance, though he did not mean to say-that there was no limit which it ought to exceed. PROPRIETOR asked what was the amount of the one per cent. paid upon customers' balances. The CHAIRMAN said it amounted to about 10,000/. per annum. The Exaequer- bills and bonds which the bank held as securities were, of course, valued at the current rate of the day, which was subject to con tinual fluctuations. The motion fur the adoption of the report was put and carried. On the motion that the retiring directors be re elected, A PROPRIETOR said it would obviate a motion on the subject if the directors would hold out a hope that the guarantee fund should not be carried beyond 150,000/. The CHAIRMAN thought it would be wiser to wait till they got to 150,0001. before discussing how the fund should be dealt with. A PROPRIETOR was at a loss to perceive what advantages the shareholders obtained from the gua rautee fund. A DIRECTOR reminded the proprietor that it secured the stability of the establishment while it took little or nothing out of the pockets of the shareholders, for it was made up of fractional parts of sixpences, which could not be divided, and the interest which annually accrued upon the total amount. A PROPRIETOR—At what rate is it increasing? The CHAIRMAN replied that it was accumulating at the rate of 4,000/. per annum. The motion for the re-election of the directors was then agreed to, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting terminated. FATAL ACCIDENT. AT THE TRAVELLERS' CLUB HOUSE.—Yesterday, an inquest was taken by Mr. Bedford, at the Charing-cross Hospital, on the body of Michael Flanagan, aged 22. The deceased had been at the works now going on in the Travellers' Club House, Pall-mall, and on Friday afternoon he and four others were going on as usual, when the foreman observing they had been drinking desired them to go home. " The deceased had got to the top of the building and was going down a very high ladder, but the foreman suggested a better way by which he had come up by a ladder unly twenty feet high. The deceased as sented to this, and was mksed among the scaffolding, but was soon found 13 ing on the stone fiocring in an insensible state, and bleeding profusely from the ears. He was taken to the Charing- cross Hospital and died the next night, never having been able to speak. On a post wortent examination of the body it was. found that the skull was fractured from ear to ear, and there was laceration of the brain by the bone. The foreman thought if the deceased was incapable of work he ought to have been assisted down the ladder. The jury then returned.a NT( rdict of " Accidental death." • • TUE V 1( INDOW•TAX.—We think there are many worse taxes than that of which a correspondent complains. In one resp ec t, no doubt, it is objectionable—namely, in its tendency to di scou r age the opening of windows, where they would be desirable for purposes of light or ventilation. But if the Goveinment. should adopt the plan, which is under stood to be in contemplation, of adhering to the present as sessment, and Permittin g all parties to open additional win dows without further charge, that objection would be entirely removed.— Manchester Guardian. Sir,—l have read a letter in your paper of Tues day last respecting the state of St. David's Colirge at Lampeter. he writer, under the name of " Ucalegon," sa y s " St. David's College has not been mismanaged." Let me ask " Ucalegon" these ques -374 16 6 I tions:— 1. Was there not a Welsh professor originally ap pointed at this college for the benefit of .Welsh stu dents ? Why was the appointment discontinued, and who has appropriated the revenue for that office? 2. Is it not a fact that such has been the disgrace ful supervision of Welsh instruction in this Welsh College, that at a late examination in the diocese of St. David's, some young men presented themselves for holy orders, and their exercises in the Welsh lan guage were so bad that the Bishop sent those exercises back to the head of the college us a specimen of his teaching, whilst his Lordship, who is visitor of the college, passed the candidates ? 3. Is it not also a fact that last month another batch of students from this " not mismanaged " col lege presented themselves to the Bishop of Llandaff, who also sent back some of the Welsh exercises to the Principal of St. David's College, as being quite dis graceful ? Be it remembered that not long since the Bishop of Llandaff was Vice-principal of St. David's College. Be also passed the candidates. If these are facts the Bishops of St. David's and Llandaff have passed young men for Welsh livings who cannot spell the language of their parishioners, and must, consequently, each time that they have occasion to write that language, make themselves ridiculous in the eyes of their flacks; and yet, says Ucalegon," "this is not a mismanaged college !"—Your obedient servant, January 2. YMOFYNWR. * Christ's College, Brecon. A STARTLING STATEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir,—The ship Warbler, of the port of Liverpool, sailed from the above port on the 17th of May, 1850, bound to New Orleans, with a cargo consisting of railroad iron, slates, bricks, also three hundred and fifty emigrants. On the 18th of June, 1850, she sprang a lea, 1,250 miles E. by N. of Antigua; and after throwing overboard about 100 tons of cargo, and con stantly pumping, succeeded in getting the ship into English Ilatbour, in the Island of Antigua, where every convenience exists for the repairing of ships, it being an English dockyard, and for some years not in use. On application being made to the person in charge for the use of the dockyard it was refused. The governor of the island was then appealed to; his answer was, that he could not interfere in the case. d r t f iec h )pli e a . :re c twc o .fi n o2t s iro l , quence was, the ship, in her sinking condi anlefBoasrreloyi.gfnOuprorhtutnodbreedrespouailrse t d )n . board, had to JOHN B. WEECOTT, Commander. IMPORTATION OP TURPENTINE.—An importation has recently taken place from New York, of a parcel of casks of white turpentine, called in 4merica virgin dip, n consequence of its being extracted from the first tapping of the turpentine trees, the common turpentine being that which is extracted from the trees tapped the previous years, which is called yellow dip, and is the quality of the article usually imported, the article called virgin dip being of much • softer quality. The importers desired the admission of this newly-imported article free of duty as turpentine, but the officers of the revenue, considering it to be liable to duty, de tained it for the consideration and directions of the authori ties, who, having taken the opinion of competent parties in the trade, decided that the article was not to be considered liable to the high duty as oil or spirit of turpentine, but that, it being turpentine of greater value than 15s. per cwt., it was. liable to a duty of 2s. per cwt., and was to be charged with that duty accordingly. It being, however, subse quently found that the article was of the same quality as is usually sold in the American markets under the name of virgin dip, and was not a manufactured article, and in the opinion of highly competent parties in the trade was con siderably under the value of 158. per cwt., it has, on further a ppli c ation, been allowed to be delivered free of duty, as re quested. It is expected that considerable importations of this particular article will take place from the United States, IS.COVE EY OF A DEPOT Et OR, STOLEN PROPERTY. —A beer-house keeper, named George llirht, has been taken into custody at Leeds, under circunistanc,s which induce the belief tha.. the prisoner has been in the habit of receiving stolen property. The prisoner keeps the Angel Inn, in Mar ket-street, in the centre of the town, and in his house the police found a large quantity of property, consisting of woollen cloth, silks, new umbrellas, and a variety of articles; some of which have already been identified. lie at present stands re mandrd till next Tuesday, the magistrates refusing bail for h;s appearance. A letter ft om St. l'Etersburgh states that the books in the Imperial Library, founded by Catherine IL, and which the Emperor Nicholas has thrown open to the public, have just received a new classification. It appears front the new catalogues that it containsL63,l2o volumes and 15,471 manu scripts. The duplicate copies amount to about 20,000, part at which are to . oe given to the Geographical Society of bt. Petersburgli. Such works as remain over are to be sold LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 8 agst Lord Howth's Sir John—offered 100 to 8 agst Mr. Vever's Vain Hope—take 200 to 14 20 to 1 agst Mr. Treadgold's Maria Day—take 25 to 1 No others mentioned. METROPOLITAN STAKES. 100 to 6 on the field—offered CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Rhesus—taken to 2001. 40 to 1 sgst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Metklam's Raby—taken freely 40 to 1 agst Mr. Barton's Haricot-45 to 1 taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Metklam's Italian—tyke 45 to 1 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn—off. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Combe's Trouncer—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's The Flying Gont—taken 50 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—offered 9 to 1 agst all the three yrs old—offered DERBY, 1851. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—offers to take 7 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—offers to take COURSING. BORDER UNION MEETING. The Border Stakes of 3 guineas each (16 dogs) wero won by Mr. Sharpe's Dr. Hornbrook; Mr. Ratcliffe's Splendour ran up. The Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Holliday's Pick pocket. BIGGAR CLUB MEETING. The Abington Champion Cup was won by Dr. Brown's Brunswick. 'T'h© Douglas Stake was won by Mr. Paterson's Craigie Burn. Tbe Upper Ward Stakes were won by Mr. Green shield's Venture; and The Lanarkshire Cup by Mr. Greenshield's ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN DURIIAM.—On Tuesday morning last an explosion occurred in the Black Boy Colliery, about two miles from Bishop Auckland, \dile, unfortunately resulted in the loss of two live!. About two o'clock in the morcing some of the men had proceeded to work, when the overman and a boy entered a drift recently opened; they had proceeded upwards of a mile with naked candles, when it is supposed they had come in contact with a " Wower," or pent-up quantity of gas, which instantly ex ploded, and both were instantly killed by the blast. Hap pily no other men were in the neighbourhood, otherwise the consequences must have been very disastrous. The bodies were taken out during the day without further accident. Mr. Dunn, one of the Government Inspectors, visited the colliery last week, and pronounced the Black Boy pit one of the best ventilated mines he had visited. Au inquest will be held on Thursday. THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE SOUTHAMP TON BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-The adjourned inquest was resumed for the fourth time yesterday, at the Guildhall, Southampton, and after sitting eight hours in hearing addi tional evidence, the coroner further adjourned the case until this day, when it is expected the coroner will sum up the evidence, and the jury will return their verdict. INFANTICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LOWE STOM—A deplorable case of supposed infanticide and at tempted self-destruction occurred here on Tuesday morning. The wife of a twine-spiner, named Isaac Thy, was discovered by her mother with her own and her infant's throat cut. In the mother's case the wound was not fatal, and, being promptly attended by several medical gentlemen, hopes are entertained of her recovery. The mother has been labouring under fever, which produced delirium. WHY QUAKERS WEAR THEIR HATS.—Quakers in variably wear their hats in places of public worship, or in public assemblies, but few are aware how this custom origi nated. Fox, the founder of collarless coats and broad brims, was in the habit of attending the Episcopal Church, when the preacher uttered sentiments of which he disapproved, he would solernoly'put on his broad-brimmed hat, and take it off again whenever more welcome doctrine occurred. If he sat long with his hat on, and the ill-sounding proposition or fulmination continued, he would rise slowly and silently walk out. Thus it appears that it was for the purpose of habitual protest that the Quakers first learned to sit in places of wor • ship with their hat on. DEATH OF A CELEBRATED RACER.—Died on the 9th of January, at Brownstown House Paddocks, Curragh of Kildare, the celebrated mare, Guiccioli, at the age of 30 years—the dam of Birdcatcher, Foigh-a-ballagh, George, May Boy, &c. She was also the granddam of Mickey Free, The Baron, Carouche, &c. She was interred with all due honours, and a suitable monument will be erected over her. EMBEZZLEMENT.—Henry Fordham, an innkeeper, residing at Brotherton, near Pontefract, is at present in cus tody at Leeds, on the charge of having embezzled various sums of money belonging to Messrs. Tetley, common brewers, of Leeds. The prisoner keeps the Punchbowl Inn at Bro therton, and, while acting as agent to the prosecutors, he ap propriated money belonging to his employers. He has not yet been examined by the magistrates, but stands remanded ill the latter end of the present week. CORNHILL WARD.—Monday being Plough Mon day, the inquest for the above ward proceeded to make their presentments to the Court of Aldermen, and afterwards dined with their foreman, Mr. ex-Sheriff Nicoll, who had also in vited the alderman, Sir John Pine, Bart., the members of the Common Council, with other ward and parochial officers. The large room in that ancient and well-known tavern, Tom's Coffee-house, was fitted up for the occasion, and every delicacy in and out of season was liberally provided. After the usual loyal and civic toasts, followed by others de dicated to the rector (the Rev. Mr. Wrench), Messrs. Leg gett, Saxton, and Hoppe, the company separated, having heard some well •ex ecuted glees, &c., from Messrs. Edney, Shoubridge, and Holm, and all seemed well pleased with the worthy ex-Sheriff's hospitality. FOREIGN POTATOES.—The following numerous and large arrivals of potatoes have taken place within these few days, from the foreign ports mentioned : —The vessel Omnibus, from Calais, brought between 50 and 60 tons weight ; the Jeune Anyse, from Calais, 82 tons ; the Amelie, from Rouen, 86 tons ; the Thomas and Anne, from Dieppe, 61 tons ; the Corkscrew, from Dunkirk, 10 bls. ; the Sirene, from Rouen, 100 tons ; the Charles and Caroine, from Calais, 60 tons ; the Pauline, from Dieppe, 60 tons ; the William Frederick, from Rouen, 50 tons ; the Thorea! from Rouen, 180 tons ; the Venus, rom Rouen, 130_ . t . 0 ,9 8 _ , the Venir, rom Rouen, 110 tons ; the Elizabeth B2 llll "" tons ; o e s ' antie frofrmoht imi6e3 St. t o n n Rouen,tFs ei; Pierre, d r r a e M , Middle ton, from Rouen, 70 tons; the Oak, from Rouen, the Dandy, from Rotterdam, 100 tons ; the from Rouen, 112 tons; the Penguin, from joubenn,a9tnyhd tons; e J c an i t e, ; eß.Primrose, from the Savannah, from Rouen, 175 tons; 120 tons ° from Rouen, 113 to ' ns o ; Rouen, 83 tons; the Moun o tc e ha p rl . the Constance Augustine, from Dunkirk, from w o l f l I andbe observed, imported of London, 134 sacks ; hampers ; te Thomas and Diary, the Elvine, from Nantes, 6 the article. It • Rouen, 51 tons weight that, with a few excep toi°f i n v t e h re th th e e produce of whole of these large sup plies of foreign potatoes • bulk, and f • from France, and being i n _ forming the entire car goes of the vessels, were entitled to th e p r i v il eges recently conce ded by the a uthorities for their speedy di sc h arge an d delivery to their destination. IVINPERMERE LA ER. — Windermere Lake on New Tear's -day, during the night and follo w i ng morn i ng , rose one yard in height. Now, supposing it measured twelve miles in length (and we believe it is not far short) and to measure on an average half-a-mile, or 800 yards in breadth. the increase of water during the night would be 118,585,600 solid yards. Again, suppose a cubic foot of water to weigh 1,000 ounces, there would be 14,001,428 tons, 11 cwt., 1 qr., 20 lb. Lastly, Suppose 277,242 cubic inches make a gallon (Imperial measure), there would be 3,127,335,8E8 gallons of water, which fell in six hours Our readers may ima gine what sort of a shower it was.—Cumberland Pacquet. SUPERSTITION IN TEE 19TH CENTURY.—ivvo ap parently respectable women applied at the surgery of a public establishment yesterday (Thursday) to he permitted to place the hand of a man who had been drowned the previous day on the knee of one of the women, as a cure for the king's evil, with which it appears she was afflicted. The surgeon inquired what place of worship she attended, when she re plied, "High Church ;" by which it was understood sho referred to St. Stephen's or St. n Peter's! ..._evonport Z'e .ilegraph. , _ IN TERVIEW WITH KOSSUTH BY A LEEDS GENTLEMAN. (From the Leeds Mercury.) . A private letter, dated Broosa, December, 1850, has just been received by a gentleman connected with the Leeds Mercury, from which we are favoured with some extracts. 'lee writer is an intelligent profes sional gentleman, a native of Leeds, who for the last few years has resided in Asiatic Turkey, and who, it appears, has had an interview with Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, who, with his companions, is now an exile at Kutaya. The extracts nil', be read with interest. The writer says : " You know, of course , t h a t A mer Bey i s now in America as the representative of the Sultan ; the first occurrence of the kind in the history of Turkey. To me it is a particularly interesting fact. I believe he is accompanied by Mr. Brown, the American dragvma to the American Embassy, on his return to .New Y or k a few months ego. I know Mr. Brown well, and in biro the Turkish representative to the United States will find a vauable friend. The American missionaries here (for the East is the special field of American missions) anticipate great results to their own country from this new embassy to America. The United States have done nobly in granting 10,000 dollars to pay the expenses of the Sultan's representative. It will enable him to see the grand achievements of the Franks. " A few days ago the Protestants obtained a firman from the Sultan, for k,ver establishing them in their privilege to build churches like other Christians, as the Armenians and Greeks. This was obtained through the intervention of Sir Stratford Canning, who after the Sultan bad granted the request, called the chief men of the Armenian Protestants to his own house, at Therapier, when he addressed them in the Turkish language, and so affected were they that they all shed tears. The Turks like the Protestants better than other religious sects because of their hatred to images, relics, and other fooleries of the Roman Catholics. Our friends in Leeds will rejoice in this spread of civil and religious liberty. How singular it is that the Crescent of Mahommedanism should be a pro tection to the Cross, as it is the case in thousands of instances at the present time, where the Sultan ex tends the aid of his sovereignty over Christians driven by persecution from their own land. " A friend of mine has just returned from Coniah, the ancient Iconium (see Acts of Apostles) visited by the Apostles. It is eighteen days' journey from here, at the rate of thirty miles a day. The people are little removed from barbarians, and at this day they live in houses built of mud, with flat roofs. In winter the streets are impassable, consequently men, beasts, and cattle all walk upon the roofs, from one house to another, instead of in the streets, .which are filled with snow, thrown every morning from the house tops. Coniah has about 60,000 inhabitants. A revolution in religious opinions is needed to work a change ; they are nominally Christians, but a sad specimen of Christianity, as they live by fraud and deceit. "I have not been to Kutaya to see Kossuth (the Hungarian patriot). I saw him in Broosa. Oh, the spirit of patriotism that circulates in his soul 1 It would almost enchant you to hear him talk in Eng lish. What then must be the effect of listening to his eloquence in his own native language ? My inter view with him was delightful. I don't wonder at the enthusiasm with which he is regarded by his country men. I believe he is yet destined to accomplish great things for his country. You will per haps scarcely believe it, but he seldom sees a newspaper, and is ignorant of many of the trans actions now going on in Europe, because the post is very irregular to Kutaya. I should like to send him two or three numbers of the Mercury, which I occasionally receive. Many travellers in passing to Kutaya call at our house, and thus we have a certain opportunity of forwarding let ters, papers, or parcels, as Franks, American or Eng lish, are not searched. A friend, an American, from Kutaya, called a week or two ago. He says' Kossuth is much dissatisfied with his situation.' He spent two or three days with him. They (the exiles) live in a kind of barracks. 1 believe the Turks do all they can to make him and his associates comfortable, but you can have no conception of the grand diffe rence between English comforts and those of this country. Here there are no household comforts but those of your own creation. Without fur coats you cannot in winter keep yourselves warm, kr the houses are made to let in and not to keep out the cold ; and the winters here are intensely cold. Kos suth, you know, is under the care of Suliman Bey, who is a remarkably nice fellow. I had the pleasure of visiting him here at the palace. He reminded me, in his looks and manners, of George Goodman, Esq. (of Leeds); he is like him, too, in form. He is, I believe, one of the best men Kossuth could have been placed under, for kindness and urbanity. It will be pleasing to Kossutia's friends in England to know that the Hungarian patriot is in the hands of so kind a keeper us Suliman Bey. ",;early all letters to the exiles are opened, ex cept such us we have sent thiough Englishmen or Americans visiting liutaya. Mr. Longworth, an Englishman, has married the daughter of the British, Consul, and next month (January) comes to Eng land to publish the history of the Hungarian strug gle from Kossuth'. lips." FATAL ACCIDLiNT To A SOLICITOR.—On lionday, at Abingdon, an inquest was held to inquire into the death of Mr. Thomas Fcankum, solicitor. and for many years clerk to the magistrates in that town. It scented that on Friday, the 20th ult., the deceased, wall 'Mr. Nichol!, went in a dog cart to Leeblade, elouce,tendlire, accompanied on the way by Mr. E. Harris, diaper, and his servant, who were in another vehicle. When the business which took the parties to Lechlade was concluded they dined and drank mode rately, and returned from there about seven o'clock in the evening. On their way home they stopped at Farringdon and Pusey Furze, at both of which places they had refresh ments. It was about ten o'clock when they left Pusey Furze, and when between that place and Kingston Bag prime Mr. Nicholl's horse swerved from the road and went up a by lane, when Mr. Harris passed him, and the former on getting into the road again whipped his horse, and passed the other vehicle at a gallop, and then his horse slackened his pace, and Mr. Harris again passed him, and they kept in that position at the rate of about twelve miles au Lour, until on coming to a part of the road where some heaps of stone were placed at the side for repairs, the vehicle of Mr. Nichol' Caine in contact with them, and threw both him and Mr. Frank= out violently, and it was subsequently found that the thigh of the deceased was frac tured by the fall. The coroner ordered a post-mot tern ex amination to be made, and the medical evidence showed that death ensued directly from congestion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." DEATH OF THE AUTIIO/1 OF " WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST."—We regret to announce the death of a writer whose genial and sportive pen has delighted thousands. Maxwell, the /ash novelist, and author ot innumerable humorous sketches in the periodical literature of the day, expired on the 29th of December, at Musselburg, near the Scottish capital. His generally vigorous health had of late broken down, and he crept into the retirement of this se questered village to die. He had been in early life a captain is the British army, and was, of course, the deligkt of the mess-room, and a general favourite in social circles. He subsequently entered the Church, and was some years pre bendary of Balla, a wild Connaught church living, without any congregation or cure of souls attached to it; though it afforded what he was admirably capatle of dealing with, piety of game. Of a warm-hearted, kind, and manly tem perament, he made friends of all who came within the range of his wit, or the circle of his acquaintance. He was the founder of that school which counts the " Harry Lorrequera" and others among its humble disciples; but " The Story of my Life" and " Wild Sports of the West" will not be easily surpassed in the peculiar qualities of that gay, off-hand, and rollicking style ot penmanship, of which he was the origi nator. THE LATE PRETENDED POPISH MIRACLE AT LYONS.. The Gazette de Lyon contains the following : -" Wa learn that the Commission appointed by the Arclibithop of Avignon, to examine into the facts affirmed the picture in the chapel of St. Salumin-les-Apt, has decided unanimously that there are no grounds for gnooufncaestOus further in the matter, as the facts hav f e al n t :h a i n n p w ro l c th eedi reg ng ard an t y o conclusionm ira p e r u o l v o es us ho in w the super natural character in them. A letter which we have just t of a miserable intrigue, re ceived, and which emanates from a person as remarkable for goocdi e very sad information his intelligence as for his perfect that everything ' has been given to us• re ported the work phenomenon person i s ofon only t he s of this neces sary it is on all question s . . kind to wat for the deci sion of the ecclesiastical authorities, who are alone compe tent, and, for our part, we cannot too much applaud our selves for having followed the dictates of prudence in our i p atr o ns s R o reserv e on this subject." Cirr f —f thTishcehabriatylf-tyooekarlpylactellyeeesttienrgdayof therien friends an: AY. at the Hospital, 76, Queen -street, C ity; Nathaniel Ainger, Esq., in the chair. I t appeared from the report that this dispensary, whi c h was founded in the year 1789, for the re lief of the sick an d diseased poor, in all cases requiring me dical and surgical , care, had since its opening cured and re lieved upwards of 306,759 patients. Upwards of 83.000 visits had been paid to the patients, at their own houses. The committee thought that the great improvement in the sanitary condition of the metropolis was to be ascribed to the facility afforded by dispensaries of checking incipient sick ness. The receipts for the past year had amounted to 5581. ls. 2d.; and the expenses to 5381.105. ; leaving a balance of 19/. lls. 2d. The report was adopted, some formal business transacted, and a committee appointed for the ensuing year, after which a vote of thanks to the chairman passed, and the Meeting separated. CELEBRATIOrri OF THE EARL OF STAMFORy'S BIRTHDAY.—On Tuesday, his Lordship's birthday, the Earl of Stamford and Wallington, gave a bail and supper to Ina tenantry, at the Cat and Partridge Inn, Enville. THE GREAT (EEPFCTED) SEASO N Of 1851..-_ Every il.-- Every one is expecting to make a tune i n the Great Ex. hibition Season of Vial. Beds are, by anticipation, goi ng up in the environs of London, and a large broker, in Broker's alloy, is selling so many bedsteads t h at lie s making a for tune at full gallop with feur•posters. Solnehodv has even proposed to make the bed of the Serpentine ava il a bl e , and perhaps it woulf nu t be a bad idea to throw a Macintosh cover across the whole turtsce, and thus turn it into one of those water beds which are s ometimes, so stren u o us ly recom mended by ''the facult3 - . rite plan would ha ve the d ou bl e effect of hiding an o ffen sive object and promoting theconveni ence of t h e public i while the Serpentine itself is well adapted for the purpose of repose, as when anyth i ng i s said about cleans i n g the river the authorities seem determined to go to s l e ep upon it.— P unch. SPRING FLOWERS —During the past week, prim roses have been offered for sale in great quantities, wall dowers and polyanthuses may also be seen blossoming in gardens in the neighbourhood. The appearance of these heralds of sunnier days indicates the unusual mildaina of 14i present ontlim.--Sussex oicivertiom __-., 5 1 P 5 1P P fia l eg S‘ l 3 8A ' 86, 1 6 g 5 ii Y.) re° fool ,rider rt °f irgs . octo >F4