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

CANADA COMPANY The half-yearly general Court of proprietors was held yesterday at the company's house, in St. Helen s-place, for the purpose of determining on a dividend, for the election of two directors in the room of James Gooden, Esq , who had resigned, and John Fullerton Esq., deceased, and for the transaction of other bus iness. There was a very small attendance of propietors. Charles Franks, Esq., Governor of the corporation, presided. After the minutes of the last meeting were read, The CHAIRMAN said, the first business was the election of two directors, and they were no doubt aware, that when the number of candidates corresponded with that of the vacancies, the election would take place by a show of hands. The gentlemen who offered themselves on the present occasion were Capt. Charles John Bosanquet and Mr. Alderman Carden. The names of these candidates were then put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN observed that the remaining busi ness to be transacted was the consideration of the half-yearly dividend, and perhaps it would be advisable first to give the court some information with respect to the financial state of the company. The quantity of land sold in 1849 amounted to 5,620 acres; the price per acre of the Crown reserves was 13s. 4d., and of the land on the Huron tract 133., and the total receipts amounted to 24.0001. In 1848 the number of acres sold was 12,260 ; the price of the Crown reserves being 16s. 6d. an acre, and of land on the Huron tract, 13s. 4d., and the total amount of receipts was 31,100/., thus showing a de crease of about 7,0001. in the last year. By far the greater portion, however, of the land was let on lease. In 1848 the quantity disposed of by way of lease was 55,427 acres, while in 1849 it had increased to 71,969 acres. The total receipts of the company in 1849 amounted to 23,9911. 125., and in 1848 to 31,3981., showing a decrease of about 7,4001. The amount due to the company, but yet unpaid, was 35,9501. Up to the present time 133,2001. had been raised upon debentures. During 1849 there had been transmitted by the company, on behalf of emigrants and their friends, sums amounting in the aggregate to 9,3781. 12s. 10d. In the year 1848 the sums so transmitted amounted to 9,5231. Thirty-four thousand emigrants had landed at Quebec in the course of the year. Before stating the conclusion to which the directors had arrived with respect to the amount of dividend, he thought it right to call their attention to the most important feature which appeared in their last report, viz., the extent of distress which prevailed in Canada, and which tended so materially to diminish the receipts of the company. Now he was happy to say a very favourable alteration in their affairs might be expected to take place during the next six months. The colony had just been blessed with a very abundant harvest. It was perhaps known that the farmers in Canada were in the habit of growing large quantities of spring wheat, which, owing to several circum stances, was considered a very convenient and econo mical crop, and was also consumed very extensively. In 1848 this particular crop failed all over the province, and was the chief cause of the distress which prevailed, and the difficulties which they had to encounter in collecting their money:; but a good result had been effected, for the farmers had now gene rally adopted the course of sowing winter wheat, which was of good quality, grew abundantly, and brought a ready price. Fortunately since this change there had been a remarkably good harvest, and as soon as it cottld be disposed of the company would, no doubt, receive a sum sufficient to compensate for former deficiencies in their income. In the United States the harvest had been very indifferent, and a good market would probably be: found there for Canadian wheat, for the Americans would find . that by mixing it with theirs, a better quality of flour would be produced. The company were not in possession of funds to pay a dividend, but they hoped that within a reasonably short space of time they would be in the receipt of a considerable sum; and they thought it right, therefore, to recom mend the continuance of the usual dividend, at the rate of 61. per cent. for the year. Mr. ANDERTON said, as they would require 20,0001. for the dividend, it was material they should consider where the sum was to come from. The number of sales of land had very much decreased, and in pro portion as the sales declined did they glut the market with leases. If they went on granting leases with the option of purchasing after a certain number of years, it would be about 1890 before they relapsed and the capital of the proprietors was redeemed. They had been in existence twenty five years, and it appeared pretty clear that fifty years more must pass before their affairs would be brought to a termination, so that their posterity only would receive the benefit of a heavy and increasing capital. The period had now arrived when it was most imperatively necessary to revise their system of leasing. By this time he had hoped that, in addition to the six per cent., they were creating a fund by which their capital might be redeemed. The CHAIRMAN was understood to state that the dividend would be paid out of advances obtained from their bankers in anticipation of the receipts for the last six months. The directors considered the leasing was the most beneficial mode they could adopt to dispose of lands in such a colony as Canada, because, if at the end of the term the tenant ceased to occupy the land would be much increased in value by cultiva tion, and should he be disposed to purchase its full value would be required. Mr. ANDERTON expressed himself satisfied with the explanation. After some discussion, a motion agreeing to a dividend at the rate of six per cent., payable in January, was agreed to, and after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the court separated. FRANCE. M. Quatremere de Quincy died on Saturday at the advanced age of 95. This venerable litterateur and antiquarian was the oldest member of the Institute. The Estafette states that a split has taken place among, the members of the reactionary club of the Council of State. The parti-pretre, headed by M. Montalembert, wished to induce the members to vote that the discussion on the Education Bill of M. de Falloua should have precedence over that •n the Bill proposed by the Government, ani carried their motion by a small majority. The conduct and language of M. de Montalembert was so offensive to the Ministry that they determined to secede from the club, and they have announced their intention of forming a new club. Among the seoeders are MM. de Broglie, Daru, Leon de Melte vine, and Pi!catory. It is thought probable that M. Mole will join the Bonapartist Club, of which M.M. Dariste, Abatucci, and Vaudrey are members. IRELAND. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, 'SUNDAY EVENING, DEC. 30.—The wea ther still continues intensely cold, and all the still water in city and suburbs is frozen over, but not strong enough to bear Fkaters, who, notwithstanding the noted insouciance of the Irish character, are by no m%-tns so prone to involuntary suicide as the patrons of the treacherous Serpentine. The officers of the Custom-house were all at their poats to day, as per order, to give a meet reception to the "high tide," whiels did not once show its face, nor even give a glimpse of its plethoric entity—the weather still con tinuing most unpropitious for an impressive entree, and the tide at Dublin bar not even reaching the ordinary altitude. But if we have not been inundated by Neptune, the Graces have visited us with a perfect deluge of the ornamental, in dress and bijouterie. In the latter line all Golconda would seem to have been ransacked by an English company, who are selling 0' stones of the first water," at " less than the cost of manage." In the last intim a ti on th ere may b e more truth than is meant, albeit, there is no lack of pur chasers. But the "tremendous sacrifice of bankrupts' stocks, " to the value of 200,0001. sterling," has all Dublin agog. If your witty friend Punch were here, he would indeed have many a joke t o crac k at the expense of agonised Benedicts, impressed into the Rotundo, "only just to look at nothing snore"—the 100,000 shawls of " Messrs. Howell, 33aird, and Co., of London." If this wondrous firm hod not had the good luck to make bankrupts of half your London tradesmen—or if the latter had not become so for their accommodation—the " unprece dented opportunity" now afforded could never have arisen. This "important sale, duly legalized by the scarlet sancti on of the Crown" ' (the phrase, I'll be bound, is more novel than the goods), com prises, according to the advertisement, as many articles as, if heaped together,. would fill all the buildings in St. Thomas's parish, not to talk of the Rotondo. Your leading article and the two letters i n Thursday's number, in r e f erence to the extinction of the law courts here, haveexcited a eircle great sensation amon gs t l egal The entire productions I have heard ascribed to h e o hand—and that hand not one of a n Irish p ractitioner. ne I feel convinced that it is as f e a s ibl e f or landlords to obtain protection, a s f or its advocate s Irish dic e t' s to succeed in the abstraction of Iri s h legal jurisdic tion. In this all Irishmen are unanimous. Th e scenel°Of litigation must still be at their own doors. They all agree that they should fight with each other at home . Another great man has deelared against protection . I shall be accounted j ust i fied i n applying the epithet to the Earl of Rosse—the constructor of the most magnificent telescope in the world, the friend of art and science—a good landlord and an honest ma n . No one, however, differing from the po li tical opinio ns of his Lordship, can with truth deny h im the credit of being just, benevolent, and gi ft ed, in his character of landlord, resident proprietor, and man of science. The Galway Vindicato, of yesterday has a report of A Protection Meeting, called by the High Sheriff, but counter-reselutions were passed at the instance of Mr. M. J. Blake, M. P. and the Rev. Mr. Daly. The Cork Examiner reports a meeting at Dun garvon, in which Mr. Maguire, editor of that paper, addressed the electors, promising to seek their suf frages at the next election, in opposition to Mr. Sheil, Master of the Mint. There is no news in the other provincial papers received to-day, with the exception of a fall having taken place in linens. The Banner of Ulster says We regret to report a still further reduction in the price of linen fabrics during the past week, amounting in some districts to a farthing a yard, and others a half penny. The consequence has been a very general reduc tion of ten, and in many cases fifteen per cent. on the wages of the weavers. The trade is fully as brisk as ever, the decline in prices having been caused by the immense increase of hands at the looms, not by any want of demand on the part of consumers. The export from Belfast during the past week amounted to 1,374 packages considerably above an average." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 31. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF CHARLES W. DAVIS. Davis was the proprietor of the Kent Hotel, in Brownlow-street, Holborn. He came up on the question of choice of assignees. This is Davis's third bankruptcy. The debts were stated to be 1,0001 . , the assets 2401. Assignees were appointed, and Messrs. Linklater are the solicitors. A bankrupt named Francis M'Queen, who was a rectifying distiller in Hounsditch, came up on the question of certificate, which was granted at once, but of the third class. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 31. (Before Mr. Commissioner Puu.urs.) IN RE ROBERT BYGRAVE. This insolvent petitioned under the Protection Act as a trader owing less than 3001. Mr. MACRAE appeared on behalf of a creditor, and took a preliminary objection to the petition, upon the ground that the insolvent therein had not described himself by all the trades and occupations which he had followed. The insolvent described himself as a " milkman," while he was, in reality, a " cowkeeper," selling the milk which he obtained from his own cows. The two occupations of milkman and cow keeper had been created separate trades by the special mention of the last business in the Bankruptcy Act. Mr. DUNCAN having been heard for the insolvent, The Learned COMMISSIONER took time to consider, and this morning announced his opinion that the objection of Mr. Macrae was well-founded, and that the insolvent, not having described himself as a cow keeper, had been guilty of an omission, which put the case out of court. The petition must be dismissed. PALACE COURT, Westminster, Dec. 31. (Before Mr. W. B. BRENT.) FINAL CLOSE OF THE COURT.-At eleven o'clock Mr. Brent took his seat on the bench for the last time, and the court was opened by the crier (Mr. Eley) in the usual manner. The attorneys attended, as well as the officers of the court, but the barristers did not appear. The Deputy Prothonotary (Mr. Hewlett) inquired whether any person present had any business to transact in the Marshalsea or Palace Courts ? No answer was given to the interrogatory. The Prothonotary told the crier to adjourn the courts. Mr. Eley went through the usual form of adjourn ment for the last time, and the Court rose, never to resume its sittings. As soon as Mr. Brent retired from the court, the six attorneys were admitted into his room, and pre sented him, by Mr. Turner, the senior attorney, with a memorial expressive of their thanks for his courtesy towards them whilst he had presided in the court. Mr. BRZZIT returned thanks. The attorneys as well as the other officers of the court had treated him with great respect. He hoped he had always evinced a disposition to uphold the dignity of the court, and to administer justice between the parties who ap peared before him. He would further say that when an attempt was made to infringe upon the privileges of the bar, the attorneys, and other officers, he had done all in his power to protect the same. Mr. Brent took leave of the attorneys; the Pro thonotary called forward the officers and the assistants to ascertain their addresses; the crier, Mr. Eley, left his box, and all departed from the scene of their ac tivity. The doors of the court were finally closed to the administration of justice. The building will pro bably be converted into a kind of barracks for police men ; it faces the office of the Commissioners of Police in Great Scotland-yard, and could be fitted up for the accommodation of thirty or forty men. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A. respectably-dressed man, named William Laid law, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Alderman Sidney, eharged with obtaining goods and money from various houses in the City under false pretences. The prisoner declined saying anything. Alderman Sidney committed him for trial on two charges of obtaining goods under false pretences, and a third for felony. BO W-STREET. Tapley Eggar, a young man who has just com pleted his term of apprenticeship to Mr. S. Shep pard, grocer, at the branch post- office in the Hamp stead-road, was charged with stealing a letter con taining money. Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, prosecuted. Mr. W. R. Sculthorpe, president in the London district department, stated that owing to the frequency of complaints respecting the loss of cash-letters at Hampstead, he was authorised to test the honesty of the servants at the branch office kept by Mr. Shep pard. Accordingly, a fictitious letter was written to a lady at Erith, in Kent, and enclosed, with a marked half-sovereign and a shilling, in an envelope, which was sealed and posted at the office. In the ordinary course of business the letter would have been for warded by the next dispatch to the General Post office, but, not finding it among the others in the bag, witness proceeded with a constable to Mr. Shep pard's, where, after inquiring for the missing letter, they searched the prisoner (who had made up the bag), and found it;with its contents, in his pocket. The constable proved that the prisoner admitted his guilt, and begged them to deal leniently with him, as it was his first offence. Mr. HALL committed him for trial. WESTMINSTER. Jane Manning, a woman 49 years of age, and Harriet, her daughter, a girl between 10 and 11, were charged with stealing a vast number of papers from the House of Lords, the property of her Ma jesty. '3n Wednesday last Police•constable Williams, 45 B, was at the shop of Mr. Blore, a butcher, in Wood street, Westminster, when observing some printed particulars respecting appeal cases belonging to the House of Lords being used for waste paper, he sus pected that something was wrong, and having re quested permission to take a few sheets in the butcher's possession he forwarded them to the proper authori ties, who took the necessary steps to bring the offenders to justice. John Blore, of 13, Wood-street, stated that about three months ago the prisoner came to his shop, and having inquired whether he wanted to purchase any waste paper, he purchased 41b. of her at 2d. per pound. He subsequently bought two other lots of 41b. and 21b. more, the first of these being brought by the younger prisoner • and about a week b e f ore Christmas, another 21b. o f the mother, part of which the policeman (Williams) saw at his shop and took away. _ _ Mr. C. Harris, grocer, in Little Peter-street, Westminster, proved that he bought printed paper of the description produced on several occasions of the elder woman within the last three months. He had purchased in all about cwt. G. Dasson, a cheesemonger, in Masham-street, Westminster, also stated that the elder prisoner had sold him two small lots of similar paper. William Cordwent, of 8, Dean street, Westminster, gave similar testimony. He had bought at different times 81b. or lolb. of paper of the elder prisoner. Mr. W. A. Green, clerk in the Parliament-office of the House of Lords, said, that the papers produced had reference to causes of appeal now pending in the House of Lords. He had missed a great many of these papers from the office. Mr. Lewis, who attended for the prisoners, cross examined the witness at some length, in order to show that as these printed papers were usually sup plied in great numbers from the solicitors on either side concerned in appeals, for the use of the law lords and others, the papers sold by the prisoners might have been obtained elsewhere than at the House of Lords. One, however, of the papers produced had some writing on it by witnesses's son, and other marks which enabled him to identify it. Mr. H. S. Smith, another clerk in the same office, identified a bundle of fine papers sold to Mr. Dasson. In reply to questions from Mr. Lewis as to whether this might not be considered waste paper at the House of Lords, Witness replied that he should certainly say not, as there were amongst the five produced two consent Bills bearing the signatures. These papers had been in the charge of Mr. Courtney, who was dead, and in his (witness's) opinion they were papers which would have been kept in the House, and not considered waste paper. _ _ . Mr. G. Martin, an inspector of the A division, said he found 1441 b. of these printed papers at Mr. Harris's, one of which Mr. Green identified by the writing on it. He took the elder prisoner into cus• tody, who denied that she had ever sold any paper to Mr. Harris, but she subsequently informed him that her husband had brought home the papers, and she understood they were his perquisites. Downey, 46 D, proved apprehending the younger prisoner and finding some House of Lords' papers at the mother's lodgings. The police having intimated that this was as far as they were able to carry the case at present, Mr. BRODERIP inquired what the elder prisoner was ?—Mr. Martin replied, the wife of a watchman employed in the interior of the House of Lords, and in the course of bis rounds he would have to go into the rooms where these papers were deposited. In reply to another question from Mr. BRODKRIP, the police informed him that the husband was in at tendance, but not in custody. Mr. Lewis thought that it would be neither pru dent nor useful to address any observations to the bench at present with respect to the elder prisoner, but submitted that there was no case upon which a jury could possibly convict her daughter, a mere child, acting under the direction of her mother, and of an age at which it - was not likely she could know much about such matters. The case, besides, was extremely slight against her. Mr. BBODEAR asked Mr. Martin whether he was THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1850 likely to strengthen the case against the child ? Mr. Martin having replied in the negative, Mr. BRODEEI thought that the child might have been desired to sell the paper, and obeyed, without any idea of doing wrong, and as he was always most desirous of saving a child from the contamina tion of a gaol, he would discharge her, but remand the elder prisoner for a week. She was remanded accordingly. In the course of the case Mr. BRODERIP expressed his opinion that persons ought to be more careful in purchasing what was termed " waste paper." He had known many a valuable book disposed of under that head. Edward Burgeas, formerly a butler in the service of Mrs. Sawney, 16, Onslow•square, Brompton, was finally examined charged with plate robbery. The prisoner was committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. A well-dressed middle-aged man, named Willi am Nightingale, was char ge d w i t h the following out rageous attack upon Mrs. Eliza Flack, a respectable young married woman, residing in Provost-street, Hoxton. The complainant stated, that while passing through Westmoreland place, City-road, on Saturday evening, she was accosted by the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to her, and after some offensive observations he pressed her to accompany him to an adjoining public-house and partake of some refreshment. She declined the invitation, and requ es t e d hi m to go away, with an intimation that she was a married woman ; but the prisoner persisted in his importunities, and at length seized hold of her, and assailing her with the grossest indecency declared that unless she allowed him to act as he thought proper with her he would tear her to pieces. She screamed loudly for assist ance, and used her best efforts to disengage herself from him, but the prisoner pertinaciously retained his hold, and, after tearing the front of her dress and dragging off her victorine, struck her two violent blows upon the head, and immediately darted away down the street. As soon as she recovered from the effects of the ill-usage she hastened after him, until she fortunately met with a policeman and gave him into custody. Police -constable Gillies, N 98, stated, that at the time in question he perceived the prisoner, who appeared to be intoxicated, proceeding rapidly along followed by the complainant, and on coming up to witness he stopped suddenly, and desired him to remove the woman, as she had been for some time annoying him. The complainant, however, who was greatly distressed and agitated, immediately accused him of having subjected her to the grossest insult and ill treatment, and observing that her dress was much torn and dishevelled, witness at once refused his charge and conveyed him to the station-house. In answer to the charge the prisoner, in general terms, denied that he had at all molested the com plainant, and said, that if she had suffered such an outrage as she has described, it must have been in flicted by some other person. The complainant, however, declared, that she was positive as to the prisoner's identity, as she had not lost sight of him for an instant from the time that he left her until she had placed him in charge of the officer. Mr. HAMMILL said that it was a most shameful outrage, and, as he considered that it had been brought clearly home to the prisoner, he should order him to pay the highest amount of penalty it was in his power to inflict, namely, 51, or to be committed in default for two months to the House of Correction. The prisoner was unprepared with the money by the hour of the court's closing, and was therefore removed in the van. SOUTHWARK. Thomas Pratt, a tall stout young man, belonging to the swell mob, and Charlotte Wilton, a repulsive looking woman, were brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stealing a hat and neck shawl from Mr. Bernard Lee while under the effects of chloro form, suspected to have been administered by the latter prisoner. The compl a i nant stated that on Saturday evening, about seven o ' c l oc k , as he was walking alon g Black man -street t owards London-bridge, the female prisoner came up to him and wanted him to go home with her. He refused to have anything to say to her, and ske began pulling him about, and in a moment she thrust a handkerchief up to his face, when he felt an extraordinary sensation, but, not suspecting at the time what it proceeded from, he went into a public-house close at hand called the Dun Horse, and called for a small glass of brandy and water, in order to relieve the strange symptoms under which he laboured. After having drunk the spirits and water, he became totally insensible, and recollected nothing of what subsequently transpired until some time afterwards, when, at the station house at the rear of this court, he recovered his senses, and then found that his hat and a large shawl which he wore round his neck were gone. He added that he was perfectly sober when the woman first accosted him in the street, and that he felt in his usual state of health up to the time that she passed the handker chief over his face, and that from that circumstance he strongly suspected that there was chloroform upon it, which accounted for the sudden nature of the attack. Inspector—The constables receive orders to call upon householders and caution them as to the necessity of their keeping the path in front of their dwellings clear, and intimations are also given to those who seem indisposed to comply with the provisions of the Act that they render themselves amenable to a penalty; a timely hint with regard thereto has, generally speaking, had a beneficial effect. Mr. BROUGHTON—Now as to cleansing by means of salt, do you give any advice to parties about that being the best way of proceeding ? Inspector— Certainly not; we give no advice whatever respecting the mode of removing the snow ; all that we say is, that it must be cleared away in conformity with the Act of Parliament, which states that it must be re moved before ten in the morning. Mr. W. Johnson, secretary to the Royal College of Chemistry, and who had been in the court for ab , )ut an hour prior to the magistrate speaking to the in spector said that he came forward purely upon public grounds, to give his impression as a practical chemist, in reference to the plan too frequently adoped, viz., that of throwing salt upon the pavement. He was satisfied that the practice alluded to was highly detri mental to health, as the sprinkling of salt by which the snow was dissolved had the effect of bringing the temperature to 32 degrees below zero ; the moisture which penetrated into boots and shoes of the wearers thereof was of such a description as could not be com • pletely got rid of for several days, and he (Mr. John son) hoped that the practice of which the Royal College of Chemistry could do no otherwise than condemn, would hereafter be discontinued. Mr. BROUGHTON—I quite agree with you, Sir, that the practice which you have denounced as an evil is really so to the public; and I hope that the opinion which, as a practical chemist, you have given, will have a due and proper weight and influence over those whom it may immediately concern. Mr. Johnson thanked the magistrate for his attention, and then quitted the court. CITY COMMISSIONERS of SE WERS Yesterday the Commissioners met at Guildhall. In the absence of Mr. Deputy Peacock, the chairman of the board, Mr. Deputy Corney was called to the chair. This body being appointed under the seal of the Corporation, in pursuance of a statute, its constitution differs from that of the committees of the Corporation, which are necessarily composed of members of the Common Council, of whose election no official return is made until Plough Monday. The Court has the power to appoint any persons upon the Commission of Sewers whom they may think fit. The business of the day was confined to the recep tion of the report of the auditors appointed by the Court of Common Council to Examine and report upon the accounts of the Commissioners of Sewers. The accounts were presented to the Court with the abstract prepared by the Chamberlain of London and the balance-sheet made out by the auditors. After some conversation, they were signed by the chairman, on behalf of the Commissioners. Immediately afterwards it was referred to the committee to consider the propriety of adopting certain suggestions made by the auditors as to the manner of keeping the accounts in future. The ac counts, it was satisfactory to the Commission to know, were highly approved of by the auditors, although some objection was made, as was before stated, to the mode in which they were kept. The Court then adjourned. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS OF THE In reply to Mr. A'BECiETT, the complainant said that he had no recollection of the woman Wilson having entered the Dun Horse with him, nor had he aeon the male prisoner until he was afterwards take❑ into custody. Henry Garlick, of 'Change -alley, Cornhill, stated, that on the evening in question he went with Mr Merchant, a friend of his, into the Dun Horse, and saw the complainant lying across an empty barrel in front of the bar, and a woman close by his side, holding him and seeming to be very anxious about him. That woman was the prisoner; and from the attention which she seemed to be paying him, be ;(witness) and his friend thought that she was his wife, and was trying to prevail upon him to go home, as he ap. peared to be in liquor. After some little time the woman Wilson took off the complainant's hat and shawl, and when she thought witness and his friend were conversing together and not thinking of what was going forward, she quitted the house with the articles specified, leaving the complainant still lying across the barrel. Witness, su'pecting that all was not right on observing the prisoner leave the house in the way she did, went out to the door to look after her, but could not see her, and he then called in a policeman, to whom he communicated what had happened. Previously, however, the other prisoner (Pratt) had been for a short time in the house, but the moment the police man was called in he ran out of the place, and was not seen there again. The witness added, that he assisted in bathing the complainant's temples with vinegar, and•using other means for bringing him to a state of consciousness, and that a considerable time elapsed before this was effected, and he (witness) was confident that the stupor or insensibility under which the complainant laboured was not produced by liquor, but by some deleterious article—such as chloroform— which completely overpowered him, and rendered him totally incapable of mental or bodily exertion. John Merchant, who was with the first witness in the Dun Horse at the time mentioned, confirmed his evidence in all particulars, and added that, when he was in the public. house, he observed the female pri soner take the glass of brandy -and-water out of which the complainant had drank to the door, and give it to a man who seemed to be waiting for her, and that she took back the glass aolin, and put it on the counter. Policeman Wild, - L. 94 M, stated that on Saturday evening he was on duty, in plain clothes in the Borough, about 7 o'clock, and his attention was called to the circumstance by seeing Pratt, whom he had previously known, walking up and down in front of the Dun Horse public-house. After some little time he saw a woman come to the door and hand Pratt a glass, out of which he drank something and then walked away. He (the policeman), not suspect ing anything wrong at the time, walked up the Bo rough, and as he was returning he saw Pratt running, and he was afterwards informed of the robbery. Wild added, that about 9 o'clock the same night he took Wilson into custody in the Red Lion public house, Pearl-row, Borough-road, and two hours later he also secured her fellow-prisoner, coming out of the same house. He added that he searched the prisoners, but did not find anything in their possession belonging to the complainant, and that Wilson refused to tell where she lived. LATE MR. PEACOCK. The will of J. H. Peacock (late of Ayot St. Pe ter's, in the county of Hertford), Esq., formerly proprietor of the City of London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, deceased, which passed the seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 14th inst., contains the following charitable and benevolent lega cies, and all of them clear of legacy duty :-5001. to the Worshipful Company of Vintners of London; the interest to be applied for use and benefit of the widows of deceased liverymen, inhabitants of the almshouses at Mile•end belonging to the company ; also his portrait. 5,5001. unto and equally between the 55 charitable institutions, societies or companies, in or near London—to wit, 1001. to each—The London Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, London Orphan Asylum, Infant Orphan Asylum, Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Seamen's Hospital in the Dreadnought, Royal Humane Society, Refuge for the Destitute, Indi gent Blind School, City of London National School, City of London Truss Society, City of Lon don Dispensary, Deaf and Dumb Ayslum, patrons of Charity Schools, Friends of Forelgners in Distress, Jews' Hospital, Scottish Hospital, Welsh Charity School, Benevolent Society of St. Patrick Charity Schools, Marine Society, Licensed Victual lers' Charity School, St. Ethelburga Charity School, London Buok Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge among the Poor, St. Ann's School, London Houseless Poor Society, Hotel and Tavern Keepers' Provident Institution, the Shipwrecked Fishermen's and Mariners' Benevo lent Society, Covent garden Theatrical Fund, Drury lane Theatrical Fund, Worshipful Company of Fishmongers for the benefit of the inhabitants of the almshouses belonging to such company, Worship ful Company of Leathers..-11ers, Westmoreland So ciety for Maintaining. Indigent Children, Infirmary at Hertford, Essex and Herts Benevolent Medical Society, Benevolent Society of Blues (instituted in 1824), Trinity Almshouses, Mile end-road, Company of Cooks, Butchers' Institution for Decayed Master Butchers and their Widows and Children, Company of Carpenters, Company of Cutlers, Company of Skinners, Company Of Salters, Company of Merchant Tailors, Company of Haberdashers, Company of Dra pers, National Animal Friend Society, Lying in Hos pital, City- road, St. Luke's, Old-street-road, Bethlehem Hospital, St. George's Fields, Hospital for Consump tion and Diseases of the Chest (the erection of which was commenced on or about the 11th June, 1844), Society for the Protection of Young Women, Water men's Institution, Musicians' Company or Society, Lisle-street, Distressed Needlewosnen's Society, Society established in London in the year 1801, for the benefit of Decayed Members of the Stock Ex change.—Bell's Messenger. THE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Policeman 43 M said that he was on duty on the night in question, and, in passing the Dun Horse, he saw Pratt eagerly peeping in at the door, as if he was waiting for some one. He (policeman), seeing Wild near the spot on the watch, left the place, and went on his beat, and he was afterwards informed of what had occurred. MAILS FOR JANUARY, 1850. The following are the alterations and dates on which the foreign and colonial mails will be made up at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, during the present month, and when the return packets will be due at Southampton, Liverpool, and Falmouth : For the British and foreign colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras, Nassau, Bermuda, and Havannah), Venezuela, and Jacmel, on the mornings of the 2d instant (to morrow) and the 17th instant ; Bermuda, Nassau, New Orleans, Mexico, Honduras, and Havannah, on the morning of the 2d only ; Ma deira, Grey town (San Juan de Nicaragua), New Grenada, Chili, and Peru, on the morning of the 17th instant only, by steam-packets from Southampton. The Trent for the mails of to-morrow. Next packets due on the 7th and 22d instant at Southampton. Letters and newspapers to the foreign colonies must be prepaid. For Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres, on the evening of the 4th instant, by her Majesty's brig Swift, from Falmouth. Next packet due, her Majesty's brig Linnet, on the 24th instant; her Majesty's brig Crane overdue. For Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, via Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the mornings of the 7th and 17th inst., and even ing of the 26th, by steam-packets from Southampton. Next packets due on the sth, 15th, and 25th inst. For the Mediterranean, Greece, Malta, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, (Mauritius on the 24th only), India, Hong- Kong, and China on the evenings of the 7th and 24th inst , by the fortnightly overland closed mails via Marseilles, due in London on or about the 3d and 23d inst. (letters and papers must be prepaid) ; Gib raltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Mauritius, India, &c., on the evening of the I9th inst., by steam-packet from Southampton; next packet due on the 28th inst. For British North America and the United States on the evening of the 11th inst., by steam-packet via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston, and, on the evening of the 25th inst., to New York (during the winter months, till April, the mails are only made up every al ternate Friday evening, and every Friday during the other eight months). The branch packet for Newfoundland will be dispatched from Halifax on the arrival at the latter port of the home ward packet from Boston, and the branch packet for Bermuda will be dispatched from Halifax on the arrival at that port of the outward packet for Boston ; next packet due the Hibernia, on the 20th inst. (Newspapers for the United States must be prepaid Id. each, or they will not be forwarded) For New South Wales, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand, by ship letter bags, as vessels may sail from London, Liverpool, &c. All newspapers must be prepaid Id. each for these colonies. Arrange ments are making for a monthly mail by steam packets, which is expected to come into operation early this year. France, &c., twice daily, morning and evening (Sundays excepted), by steam-packets via Dover and Calais ; due daily twice (except Sunday). Belem, &c., every evening, (except Sunday) via Dover and Ostend; due dully. Hamburgh, &c., Tuesday and Friday evenings (the navigation of the river Elbe being rendered impracticable owing to ice, the mails for Harnburgh will be transmitted through Holland); due Tuesdays and Saturdays. Holland, &c., Wednesday an d S a t ur d ay morn ings; due Mondays and Thursdays, by the General Steam Navigation Company's packets via the Thames. The mails of last night for Madeira, St. Vincent, Cape Verd Islands, Sierra Leone, and the Island of Ascension, were forwarded this morning by her Majesty's sloop Contest, from Devonport. The landlord of the Dun Horse was sent for, and in answer to Mr. .'Beckett, he said that he recol lected the complainant walking into his house on Saturday night, and calling for a glass of brandy-and water. He appeared to be in liquor, and the woman Wilson entered either with him or immediately after wards. Witness saw Wilson take the brandy.and. water to the door and give it to some person, and she brought back the glass and placed it on the counter. At this moment witness left the bar in order to fetch up a bottle of wine for a customer from the cellar, and when he got back he found the woman was gone, and that the complainant was without his hat and scarf. The prisoners, who merely denied the charge, were remanded until Wednesday, and the police had directions to trace out, if possible, where the female prisoner lived, in order that a thorough examination might be made, not only to discover the complainant's hat and shawl, but also to detect if she had any dele terious article concealed there. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS. Yesterday f'renoon the thermometer, which during the night of Sunday had fallen to 27, rose as high a 3 48 degrees, with a bright clear sky; but at six last evening the mercury had again fallen to within one degree of freezing point, and from the rapid fall of the glass within so short a period, there seemed every probability of the frost continuing for some time longer. The barometer stood at 30.61, with a rising wind from the N.N.W. The frost, which continued during Sunday night, had the effect of freezing over those portions of the ice in the ornamental waters of the various royal parks which had become thawed during the middle of the previous day, making the whole much firmer; but, notwithstanding, the ice was far from being safe, and boards announcing that fact were stuck along the banks of St. J4ITle,'S . B and Hyde parts:. From the sloppy state of the streets in the metropolis during the day pedestrians would imagine that the frost had entirely gole; bat such was not the case in the suburb*, for even at Hyde park corner the roads and footpaths were perfectly dry, and in many cases quite slippery from the ice upon them. Subjoined is a list of the official returns made to Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the Royal Humane Society, detailing the state of the ice. in the different parks, and the number of accidents yesterday. THE SERPENTINE,HYDE-PARK.—TO O ice was inches in thickness, and very dangerous Although this fact was publicly announced by printed bills upwards of 2.000 skaters and sliders went upon it. No accident, however, took place until a quarter to four in the afternoon, when two young children fell through a hole into five feet of water. They were saved by iceman Thomas Dixon, just as they were going out of sight. The children could not tell their names. The only other sect lent happened to two gentlemen, who fell through into eight feet of water, but they were got out by one of the society's men with only a wetting. THE ROUND POND, KENSINGTON GARDENS- -The ice here was described as being an inch and-a half in thickness, and very dangerous. The number of skaters and sliders about one thousand. About three o'clock in the afternoon en accident happened near the island on the north hank, by which the iives of a highly respectable family of six persons were gr -at!y , jeopardised. At that peril Mr. John Nier,iinan, surgeon, of No. 9, Kensington -square, his son Thomas, his two eldest daughters, and two young ladies of the name of White, relatives, were proceed ing arm-in arm across the ice, when it suddenly broke, and the whole of the parties fell into Nigh: feet of water. At first the death of some of tee persons seemed inevitable, and before they could be rescued, one of the Misses White went under the ice. Icerinen Deze and Cook immediately pro ceeded to the scene of the accident, with breaker ladders and the sledge. After considerable trouble the whole of the persons, with the exception of Miss White, were extricated; and to rescue her one of the icemen was obliged to put his arm under water, as far as his shoulder, when he happily succeeded in reaching her, and pulling her out. She was, of course, much exhausted, and had she been under the ice much longer, she must have lost her life. The residence of Mr. Merriman being nearer than the Royal Humane Society's receiving house, the party were taken there. No other accident of any import. ance happened here. THE LONG WATER, KENSINGTON-GARDENS. The ice here was returned as being two inches thick, and, although firmer than in other places, was dan gerous. The noblemen and gentlemen belonging to the Skating Club mustered in strong numbers during the day. There were also about 1,500 other persons on the ice, but no accident happened. THE REGENT'S-PARK.-ollly one portion of the ice in this park could be pronounced as tolerably firm, the other parts being very dangerous ; notwithstand ing, about 10,000 persons amused themselves by sliding and skating upon it. The only accident, how ever, that occurred was to a lady and gentleman, who fell through the ice into deep water, but were soon rescued by the icemen. ST. JAMES'S-PART.—The surface of the ice in the ornamental water of this park having become ice-set during the night, induced an immense number of persons to venture upon it. About eleven o'clock the ice was literally crowded, when it indicated symptoms of breaking in. The Royal Humane Society's men at once ordered the people off, which prevented many an accident from taking place. It was ascertained that M. Soyer, who became immersed the previous day, was, although out of danger, obliged to keep his bed. THE MURDER AT BOSTON, UNITED STATES. CORONER'S VERDICT AGAINST DOCTOR NN EBSTER. (From the Boston Atlas, Dec. 13 ) Yesterday afternoon, a few minutes before six o'clock, the room in the Court House, occupied by the jury of inquest, summoned by Coroner Pratt, in the Parkman case, was thrown open, and the reporters of the various papers admitted. Coroner Pratt sated that in accordance with the opinion expressed by the Attorney• General of the Commonwealth, Mr. Clifford, and by a vote of the jury, in which vote he concurred, the evidence before the inquest wiiuld be kept secret from ever) body until laid before the grand jury. lh remarked that the inquest had been in session ten days, and had examined a large number of witnesses, and that their evidence occupied over eighty large foolscap pages of writing paper. He then said that the verdict which had been agreed upon would be made public, and accordingly the secretary of the inquest, Mr. Andrews, was directed to lead the verdict as duly recorded, which he did, and it is in the following language : " Surrms, ss.— An inquisition taken at the city of Boston, within the county of Suffolk, 13th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1849, before Jabez Pratt, Esq , one of the coroners of said county, upon the view ot sundry parts of the body of a dead man, viz., a thorax, kidneys, pelvis, two thighs, left leg, and sundry bones, there lying dead, by the oaths of Osmyn Brewster, John L. Andrews Pearl Martin, Thomas Restieux, Lewis Jones, and Ilarum Merrill, good and lawful men , w h o b e i ng charged and sworn to inquire for the commonwealth, when, how, and by what means the said dead man came to his death, upon their oaths do say—that they all have been demonstrated to be parts of one and the same person —that these parts of the human frame have been identified and proved to be the remains and parts of the dead body and limbs of Dr. George Park man, late a citizen of said Boston, aged about sixty years—that he came to his death by violence, at said Boston, on the 23(1 day of November last, or between the hours ot one and a half of the clock, in the afternoon of that day (about which time he entered alive and in good health, into the Massachusets Medical College building, situate in North Grove street, in said Boston), and the hour of four of the clock in the afternoon of the 30th day of November last (when a portion of the said remains were concealed in and under the apartments of Dr. John W. Webster, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, in said college building), in which build• ing the residue of said remains were afterwards dis covered ; that he was killed in said college building by a blow or blows, wound or wounds, inflicted upon him with some instrument or weapon to the jurors unknown, and by :means not yet known to said jurors, and that said blow or blows, wound or wound., were inflicted upon him, and said means were used by the hands of said Dr. John W. Webster, by whom he was killed. In witness whereof the said coroner and jurors to this inquisition have set their hand and seals the day and year above said. " Jahn Pratt, coroner ; Osmyn Brewster, foreman ; John L. Andrews, secretary ; Pearl Martin, Thomas Restieux, Lewis Jones, Hamm Merrill." (From the Boston Transcript, Dec. 14.) The verdict of the coroner, pronouncing Professor Webster guilty of the murder of Dr. Parkman, does not seem to have occasioned much surprise. For some days the public mind has been prepared for such a result, in consequence of developments, to which we have already alluded, tending to show that the murder was premeditated. The coroner's jury have spoken their convictions freely and fully, without bias, we believe, from any opinion• outside the room, where their protracted and careful inquiry was conducted. It now remains to extend to the prisoner a fair trial before the high legal tri bunal of the state. And we trust that the agitation which has existed upon this melancholy subject may be stilled during the interval. We learn that Pro fessor Wehster's appearance to day is precisely the same which it has been of late—that althou g h he has read the finding of the coroner's inquest, it has not disturbed him in the least, and he remains perfectly calm and self possessed. He is in good health and apparently quite contented in his situation, and satis fied with the treatment which he receives from the officers of the gaol. It has been reported that his cell was better furnished, and his fare more sumptuous than other prisoners. We are informed that his accommodations are only improved by the allowance of some footmats; but it is true that his food is furnished by his friends from Parker's restaurant in Court-square. Professor Webster's time is wh o ll y employed in reading and epistolary correspontitnee with his friends. [ADVBATISEMENT ]—The wonderful Cures per formed by Holloway's Pills astonish everybody. They remove complaints which the faculty pronounce ebilitated constitutions are by their use completely invigorat e d the ner vous, the delicate, and the weak are made invigo rated,a is no other medicine known that is so certain and e ffec tual in curing indigestion and all bilious, liver, and stomach com plaints as Holloway's Pills. They are also an excellent re medy for dropsical affections and every disease incident to females, and stands unrivalled as an established family medicine, as they purify the blood, cleanse the system, strengten the body, and reinstate it in the soundest health, and often after every other remedy has failed.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Profewr Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1850.51. ANTRlM.—Alexander Montgomery, of Potter's Wall. ARMAGU.—James Harden, of Harry brook,Tanderagee. CARLow.—Beauchamp B. Newton, of Rath wade. CARRICKFERGUS TOWN.—Peter Kirk, of Thornfield. CAVAN.—Hun. H. CaTend:sh Butler, of Lanesborough Lodge. CLARE.—Major William IL Bull, of Fortfergus. CORK.—Sir George C. Colthurst, Bart., of Ardrum. CORK ClTr.—William Wriaton Leicester, of Cork. DoNEQAL.—John Fergasou, of Castle Forward. DowN.—Archibald Rowan Hamilton, of Killileagh Castie. DupluEDe. TowN.—J. Chadwick, of Drogheda. DUBLlN.—Robert Alexander, of Garristown. DUBLIN CITY.—John M'Donnell, Esq., of Marrion square. FERMANAGH. —Thomas Morris Jones, of Belloo. GALwAr.—William H. Gregory, of Coolpark. GALWAY TowN.—Thomas M. Persse, of Newcastle. KERRY.—Maurice John O'Connell, of Lakeview. KlLDARB.—Nathaniel Barton, of StraffAn. KILKENNY.—John De Montmorency, of Castle Morris. KILKENNY ClTY.—Richard Smithwick, of Birchfield. KING'S COUNTY.—Edward John Borr, Ballindolan. LEITRIM.—William Johnston, of Kin lough House. LIMERICK.—Eyre Lloyd, of Prospect Castle, Castle Connell. LIMERICK ClTY.—William Spaight, Limerick. LONDONDERRY CITY •ND COITNTY.—Robert Peel Dawson, Moyla Park. LORGIORD.—John Shuldham, of Moy. LOUTH.—Sir Frederick G. Foster, BALI., New Spring gardens, London. MAYO.—Charles Mahon, of Mountpleaaant. MEATS.—Michael Thunder, of Lagore. MONAGHAN.—WiIIiam Verner, of Churchill. QUEEN'S COUNTY.—Henry D. Carden, of Rathmanna. lioscommoN.—Henry S. P. Mahon, of Strokestown House. Suao.—Bernard Owen Cogan, of Liseonny House. TlPPERAM—Lieutenaut Colonel W. Palliser, Derry besken House. TYRONE.— Henry D'Arcy, of Necairn Castle. WATERFORD.—Edward O'Dell, of Carriglea. WATERFORD ClTY.—Henry Bolton, of Tramore. WESTMEATEL—Sir J. Nugent, Bart., of Balenlough. WEXFORD.—Ed ward W. Nunn, of St. Margaret's. WlCKLOW.—Richard H. Brooke, of Castle Howard. SUPERSTITION AND QUACKERY. An extraordinary development of the existence of superstition and quackery has just taken place in the course of the proceedings of an inquest held on the body of a child at East Dean, Gloucestershire. It seems that the children of a shoemaker, named Haynes were playing together, when one of them, aged four years, named Louisa, put the tongs into the fire, heated them, and then wantonly seized her younger sister, Emma, with them by the neck, thereby inflicting two very severe burns. The children were left in the care of an elder brother, who did not perceive the inten tions of his mischievous sister until too late to prevent them. Flour, linseed oil, and limewater, were ap plied to the burns, and for four days the child's wounds were healing in a satisfactory manner, when, by the advice of some old women in th e neighbourhood, the parents of the child suffered a Mrs. Milling, living near, to apply an ointment spread upon cabbage-leaves to the wounds, in lieu of the previous application of linseed oil, &c. This had the effect of creating considerable local inflammation ; and, after two days, the cabbage-leaves were removed and another quack doctress was allowed to practise upon the little sufferer. The second woman, whose name is Jane Yemen, and who lives at Cinderford, in the Dean Forest, and who professed to have cured many people by the application of an ointment and pronouncing a mysterious charm," got her sister, Ann Bradley, to prepare the salve, which she (Ye men) applied, at the same time muttering the follow ing charm, as she called it, in a peculiar dialect : " Three angels come out of the whost; One cries Fire;' another Frost;' To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." The poor child gradually got worse. The inflam mation and sloughing of the wounds increased, but the infatuated parents believing in the supernatural powers of the woman (Yemen), and putting implicit faith in the pronounced charm, suffered their off. spring to linger in torture for five days longer, when death came to her release. Medical assistance was at band, and might readily have been obtained at any time, but the ignorant parents refused to call for it, and the child died in consequence. Of course, when the facts came to the knowledge of the authori ties, a coroner's inquest was held, and, after one adjournment of the jury, who hesitated whether it was not their duty to find a verdict of manslaughter against Yemen, Bradley, and Milling, returned a special and lengthy verdict, finding, "That Ann Milling had prescribed a dangerous and rash remedy, and was otherwise guilty of negligence." They also found " that Yemen was rash in relying on the ointment applied by her, and in her impious and presumptuous charm ;" and also in prohibiting the parents calling in medical advice at a time when the deceased was in danger and gradually sinking. Lastly, they found that " Although the conduct of Jane Milling and Ann Yemen amounted to great and serious culpability, rashness, and negligence, yet the same does not, in our opinion, amount to a legally criminal and felonious culpability, rashness, and negligence." The jury also expressed their opinion that it was the duty of the parents to have had recourse to better assistance, and to the easily available medical assistance in their immediate neighbourhood, and they expressed a hope that the result of the investigation would lead to a discon tinuance of the system of quackery, which prevailed to a considerable extent in the neighbourhood of the Forest of Dean. ISIPROTEILENTS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.—III these new works the Honourable Commissioners would seem to have taken seriously in hand the Augean task of purifying the Serpentine. In the first ;Lee they have cleared oat the fetid bed which the pre• viously ill-arranged sewage system at the head of that piece of water had so deeply deposited. With the progress of that operation frequenters of the gardens have been familiar. Their next and more recant proceedings have been to bring a supply of pure water (let them if they please, say purior electro) to the rustic bridge head at the Bayswater end by a line of metal pipe communicating with the Artesian well at Charing-cross. This, together with a contribution from the Chelsea water-works, which have hitherto given that strange caricature of a fountain—by which thi s s cene h as bees, but is no longer, disfigured—its aquatic gush, will replenish for the future our metropolitan lakelet. Their united current will he brought through the arch ways of the bridge—and as their volume canrrot, at best, be very copious, its flow being unfortunately a drain of incessant expenditure, measures seem to have been judi ciously taken to give it as much strength as possible. These consist in raising the bed where the waters break forth by a gradual ascent to the mouth of the arches, and, at the same time, drawing in the banks on each side, till narrowed to the breadth of the bridge. This is at once simple and obviously effective. The change, has, however, to be made as yet complete by ornamental details ; in which we trust that the Honourable Commissioners, moving, as they now are, spontaneously in the right direction, will not be found wanting. What has been done tends, pro canto, to com plete the original design with which this regal domain was laid out, in which stateliness and inartificial beauty —the rich in general effect, the beautiful to closer scru tiny —were happily intended to be combined.—Architect and Building Operative. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTR NOTTS.—It is said that, in consequence of the ill-health of Mr. Bromley, a vacancy will shortly be declared in the representation of this division of the county. Several candidates in the Protectionist interest are already talked of. ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM CARNARVON COUNTY GAOL.—About half-past seven o'clock on the evening of Thursday, an attempt was made by six prisoners (who were committed for trial) to escape front custody. A person named James Healey led the way, by scaling the wall of the ward, which is connected with the boundary wall at right angles. Ho accom plished this by lashing together three long brush handles, on which he climbed. He soon suc ceeded in reaching the outer wall, which is only about eight feet higher than the other ; and by means of a rope tied to the projecting spikes, descendedwever,fir. D r into ix o t n he s adjoining premises. Fortunately, ex to cite k d ee d p uri a 'ng el t o h ae e ( d t a h y e , g h a e ole h r a ) d su o sp rd ic e i r o e n d s beenh th a e vin t g urnkey watch upon the prisoners; and when a second party, named Griffith, was preparing to make his descent, the ,turnkey entered and gave the alarm. Mr. Dixon immediately proceeded to the other side of the wall, and having secured Griffith, wtnt in search of Healey, whom he eventually found snugly situated un der a flight of stairs leading from the garden to the parapet of the town walls, resting his body on a plank which projected f rom the prison wall, and sheltered from view by the lath work. The rope, which was in pieces of about two yards in length, must have been thrown over the walls to the prisoners, as there was none within their reach.—North Wales Gazette. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMAIIT IN IRELAND.-.... The Freeman's Journal states, on the authority of a letter received from Rome, dated the 14th inst., that the Very Rev. Dr. Cullen, President of the Irish College in the Holy City, has been appointed successor to the late Archbishop Crolly in the Roman Catholic Primacy of Ireland. MARYLEBONE. After the disp osa l o f so me night charges, the sitting magistrate, Mr. BROUGHTON, addressed Mr. Champneys, inspector of the S division, asking him if he had given any directions to his men with regard to the clearing away of snow from the foot pavement ? THE TIT The following is the ofl corn, &c., received in th Essex, from the 2lth D both inclusive : TRY MARK ETS. Ecial statement of the quantities of le port of London from the ports in lee., 1849, to the 29th Dec., 1849, r 3 6 4 C 6 4:3 2 z, , ;.. 4 p+ Colchester Harwich Leigh Nialdon 30 6& 78 i 133 4 - .) • 3501-!- -I 125 - - 1 376 394 23H 624' 3113 501 - 2081 700 CHELMSFORD, DEc 28.—An advance of Is per quarter was to-d:l3, realised upon the btA , er samples of wheat, and second-rate quali. irs maintained last week's prices. Peas were reduced in value 64 per quarter. All Clip without alteratioo, and a slack trade therein. Wheat, white, old 4013 to 47s ; new 43s to 495; red, old 36s to 41s ; new, :',Bs to 44s ; barley, 26s to 29s ; chevalier 27s to 31s; grinding 18s to 225; oats I7s to 235; malt 51s to 565; chevalier 54s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 27s to 30s; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 27s to 293; old, —s to —I ; dun, new, 26s to 28s; beans, tick, new 25s to 271; old, 285 to 30s; harrow ticks, new 26s to 28s; old 29s to 31s; ma zagan, new 24s to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER, Dme. 29.—Wheat, white 41s to 48s; red 40s to 443; barley 2 is to 30s ; beans, mazagan 24s to 28s; middle and small 2 s to 30s; peas 26s to 28s per qr. HADDINGTON, DEC. 23.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day: Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. First ... 41s Od 24s Od I 2 ls 04 28s Od Second 36s 64 21s 7d I 16s 64 ( 25s Od Third 30s Od 194 Od I 14s 01 23s 01 Total quantity of Wheat in market 763 qra., 721 sold Do. Barley do. 497 qrs., 490 sold Do. Oats do. 528 qrs., 445 sold Do. Beans do. 160 qrs., 72 sold KIRKALDT, Dac. 29.—The following are the quotatioOs up to this date:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas, First 43s Od 23: 61 20s 04 —s Od I-s Od second 41s 6d 2k 64 I7s Od —s Od 1 1-s Od Third ... 32s Od 17s 04 153 04 —s —s Od Oatmeal, uer ba,: of 28011,5. imp.. 243 to 00s Od. GLASGOW, DEC. 27.—Provisions—Cheese, 48s to 50s Od per cwt • retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Ski m m ilk, 18 s t o oO s p er cwt. eountry fresh butter, 9d to Ild per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10(1; country powdered, wholesale, lid to 13d. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 55 6d per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2d Od per pair ; sucks, 2s I )(I. STIRLING, DEC. 28.—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 24s Od; ditto, hume, 2,s d to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 20s to 00s; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 00s Od to Uos Od ; ditto new, lis to 17s 6d ; oats, common, 12, Od to 13s Od ; ditto new, 95 Od to lOs Od ; • ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ciao new, Os Od; malt distillers, 33s to 35s ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 38s • beans, per bull, Os Od to Os Od ; ditt o new , 16 s Od to 175-64 peas, 14, 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 343 to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bid to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb, 8d to 10d ; eggs per dozen, Gd to 7d; hay per ton, 45s to 505. KELSO, DEC. 28.—Wheat, old, 003 to 00s ; ditto, new, 21s to 28s od ; barley, new, 13s to 17s Od ; ditto old, 00s Od to 00s ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, 1 sto 12, Od ; com mon oats, 9s to lisOd ; ditto new, lOs to 13s Od ; peas, 00s to 00s Od ; beans, 005 to 00s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTII, Ditc. 27.—Wheat, 32s Od to 371 Od ; barley, 185 to 20s Od ; oats, 13s to 16s ; peas and beans, 21s Od to 21s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 25s to 265. FALKIRK, DEC. 27. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 539 bolls; wheat at 14s 9d to 21s Od per b.ll ; barley, 13s 6d to 16s 9d ; oats, 9s 3d to 14s Od; beans, 105 9d to 13s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAwicic, DEC. 27.—Wheat, new, 20s Od to 29s Od; barleys new, 15s to 17s Od ; ditto old, 00s to 001 ; potato oats, 12s Od to 14s Od ; common oats, Ils to 14s Od ; peas, 20s Od to 24s Od ; beans, 20s Od to 24s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. BERWICK, Dar. 27.—Wheat, 33s 4 d ; barley, 19s Old oats, 15s 4id ; rye, Os Od ; beaus, 24a Od ; peas, 00s Od ave. , rage per imperial quarter. COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Bate's West Hartley... 15s Od Haswell l9s Od Buddle's W. Hartley.. 15s 6d Hutton Carr's Hartley Chester Main l6s 9d Jonassohns Davison'sWesalartley 15s bd,Lambton El asting's Hartley lss 6d l Lumley, North Percy Hartley.. 15 s (4 N. Hetton Lyons .. New Tanfield l4s 6d Stewart's Old Tanfield Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15s 6d Denison Canfield Moor Butes... 14s Od lleugh Hall Walker's Primrose ... 13s 6d Hartlepool lBs 9 4 West Adairs ....... .. 14s 0,1 Kenos ... 18 s 6d Nest Hartley Wylain ... Windsor's Pontop.... . 14s Od W es t H e tt on l 7s 6_l Wall's End, &e. ,Whit wor th l 4s VI Brown's Gas . l3s Od Adelaide Tees Brown's ... Buraton Killingworth 17s Od Maclean's Tees l6s ',' Hilda l6s 6d South Durham l 7s 01 Northumberland Original Gibson Eden Main lBs Od Woodyfield Lambton Primrose ... 18s Od Cowpen Hartley Harraton Braddyll Hetton .... lBs 9d Sidney's Hartley ...—• los 64 _ _ Ships at parket: 206. RAILWAY StiEl.ittia, BRISTOL, DEC. 31. Sxocx EXCHANGE.—Owing to the very unsatisfactol accounts from London, our mar k et was very flat to-day, and little business transacted. The only alterations in prices 1 have to note are—Great Western, Quarters, 12 1-16 dis, Midland, 43LA —Bristol and Exeter, Quarters, 12? is dis. VEltrooL, DEC. 31. . 4 ,Tocit ExCrIANCEI.—The share market was dull t and little busine,s doing. The transactions were as 101' low. Birkenhead. Lancashire, and Cheshire, 6 p e r cen' I3 l .„—Caledonian, Preference, 71. Bs. 9d.—Lance shire and Yorkshire, Consol, 55—Ditt , unpaid up, 45 dis. -Ditto, Halves, Ditto, Fifths, 7% die.—Ditto 321. Shares, I.l;ic, dis.—Ditto, Fifths (W. IL U), 7t, London and North-Western, lOS 1 / 2 Ditto New Q ua rtert % p.—Midland, 4.3—Ditto, Halves, 16s. 3d. dis.— NorIP Stallordshire, 10 ' is c. dis. MANCHESTER, Dxc. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE. -There hes been lit le business dot , e today, ill consequence of the Christmas holidays. The 0 1 ' lowing aro the quotations:—Manchester and Birminglia o (C) Quarters, I;)-16 p.- London Stock, 108 - Leeds, Fifth* 7% dis. —North :-taffordshire, 10 dis.—West Riding lini ol / 1 7 1-16 dis.—South Eastern and Dover (N o . 4) , s c a 6 7-16 dis. BIRMINGHAM, DEc. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were $. follow :--Coventry and Nuneaton, 1 1 3 p. —Midland (13j5 mingbarn and Derby), 26 So u th Staffordsbires were q uote —buyer*, at 31. 11s. 3d., and sellers, at 3% dis. YORK, Dec. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were follow : Great Northern, 7 1 A, -- Eastern Counties, 6 7 44, York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 16 1 ,i York and North AO' land, 17. • it PROTECTION TO CATS..--A n i mportant CRSe IV- b ref rence to the right of a gamekeeper to destroy ets: B wee decided at the last Blackburn County Court. Tb plaintiff, Mr. Samuel Marsden, a respectable fennel sought to recov er d amages fur the destruction of valuable domestic cat belonging to him, which was fully shot on his farm by the defendant, Joseph Doti' worth, a gamekeeper, in the employ of Mr. J. Feilde* The examination of a ['umber of witnesses pro and CO and the l earne d d e f ence set up by Mr. Ainsworth, t 4 which he sought to prove that cats belonged to the oft' feral natures, and were consequently worse than valise ° less, afforded considerable amusement, to whi c h the judge contributed not a little, by observing that the cal was of too much i m p ortance to b e decided at once, o he should therefore reserve his decision till next coot,: The juelee, Mr. J. Addi son, sa i d that there were certs " ancient dicta, to the effect that cats and dogs were worth:, laws less. relating to dog-stealing; but as the cat in questi/ seemed to be a valu a bl e an i mal to the owner, and Iteis was against his espress prohibition that the defends' shot the cat, he should decide in favour of the plaintiff/ Damages, 2s. 6d.----Kendal Mercury, TDB MARQUIS or SALISBURY AND CORN RE:O 6 ,; —We extract the f o ll ow i ng paregraph from the fin rwinty PrcFc: - -"At the rent Au di t o f the Margaie Salisbury, hell,( 1 at Het field last w,:sk. that Noble Dif f informed his tenantry th a t if any re them s ho u ld pre fe ct it, he hal a° otejecLion to change the present file , money rent of his f arms i nto a corn rent; and at till same time he offered, should any of them require capit', for making improvements in the drainage ur otherto s , of their holding s , t o a d vance t h em money for the pureo at a low rate of interest." BIRTHS. On the 25th ult., the wife of A. B. Richards, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, of a son. On the 26th ult., at Hyde-house, Gloucestershire, MO. Bowstead of a daughter. On the 26th ult., at Chesl— of a son. erts, Mrs. 'William ClaM On the 27th ult., at South Lan.beth, Mrs. G. Hawk of a son. On the 28th ult., at Eltham-pace, Foxley.road, Not t " Brixton, Mrs. J. Bishop, of a son. On the 28th ult., the wife o - Captain A. L. Kupar, It l C. 8.. of South Brent, Devon, of a son. On the 29th ult , Mrs. C. Templer Depree, of Rege/i t ' squA'e, of a s,m. On the 29th ult. in Gloucest er - p l ace, Portman-mug the wif• of G. Jacobson, Esq , of Grarnbow, Mecklenburg'in J of a daughter. iIARRIED. On the 29th ult., at St Jam es ' s, Pa; din ton, Henrynor, sard, Eq., of Lincoln's Inn-fi Ids, to Ellen. ter of G. Burnell, Esq., of Su ,, sex-terrace, itvde- On the -, sth alt , at St. James's, pirk. , te y o ungest - daug" Berson, eldest son of Mr. C. W. 'ixey. New lim,d- street , '' 64 Piccadilly, Charles A, O Caroline Augusta, only surviving daughter of the late Jan' Crubee, Esq., Birmingham. 1 0 .Woosnam, of Soutben , Dlsex' On the '..:7in ult., at St. NlAtk's' Kennington, Mr. Charot, , 0 Ann, only child of Foster, E,:fl, / ___________2_ 't of Coventry, We . wick' Edith On th e 2 4th ult., M r. Daniel Gifts Rose, of 8, Chard ' street , Paddington, fur more than wars the res. ected and confidential clerk of Messrs. John Broadw o An l sons. • t' On the f.%fitli nit., in Uppe r Alb an y- s t rce f, P onson by te. barn, E-q., fourth son of Lord Robert Pon onby Tutte d ham, Lord Bishop of Clogher. 0 / Ou the 2Ttli u t., at Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 21,, Willi 0 , Thornton, eld, st son of R. J. T. Perkin, Esq,, of Ed t grove, New Brompton. On the 27th ult., at Bishop Wearmouth, aged 73, Benjs - Esq., formerly of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 6 0 f Oa th e 28 t h u l t., at S tam f or d- v ill as , Fulham, agtr- A Mrs. Elizabeth Green On the 2;?tli ult., Judith, the wife of J. Johnson, of P c manaworth, Hertfordshire, aged 37. / Islingto n , C°l On the 28th tilt Denham Berry, Esq., of Tyndale-P 1 aged 55, late of the Admiralty. fie tt On the 29th u l t., at Ham-common, Surrey, Mr. Bate' formerly of E psom, aged 73. 1 ,,, nd0n: Printed and Publiehed by 141JRDO TOWN -11 0 No. 112, tr' , trand, Pri nter , at The Sun Office. No.' if strand, in the Precinct, of the Sf.v. , V,tD thoil cs;ralti Middlesex, Tuesday, January 1, 1850. a , -