The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

(The followiw appeared in our,Third Edition of Sault:lay :---] FRANCE. MU. Daru, Barroche, and Benoist d'Azy, have been re-elected Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly for the next three months. General Bedeau was the next highest, but having failed to secure an absolute majority the ballot was to be re• sumed this day. The six secretaries were re-elected. The debate on the La Plata question was adjourned after a speech from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, General Labial, in which he said that the intention of the Government was to send negotiators to Buenos Ayres to continue the negotiations, since they could not accept the treaty of Admiral Lepredour ; and added, that the negotiators would be accompanied by vessels of war to protect the lives of French citizens. M. Raudot denounced all attempts at interference in the affairs of South America, declared that an armed negotiation was a conditional war, and hoped that the Government of Monte Video would be warned that the present was the last subsidy that would be voted to it. Admiral Dupetif Thouars urged the fitting out of a large expedition for the defence of Monte Video, and the vigorous prosecution of hostilities against Buenos Ayres. The debate was adjourned at the conclusion of the Admiral's speech. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal.) The mining share market continues active, and a large amount of business has been transacted during the week. The probability of a progressive improve ment with the new year is fully anticipated from the general inquiries now making for shares sold for in vestment. Heignston Downs Consols is reported to be in an improving position ; some very rich stones of copper have been taken from the 35 fathom level, weigh ing upwards of 1401bs. in a stone. In Tincroft and Tamar Consols there has been some large transactions during the week; the former con tinues improving, and Tamar Consols is at present in a very gratifying position. South and East Tamar reports are of a very satis factory character ; and the pitches, in the former especially, have been set at a low tribute, whilst the men are making good wages. A large number of shares have changed hands this week; and inquiries for them are rather above the supply at present prices. At East Tamar, 70 tons of silver-lead ores have been sold—the highest offer being 141. 15s. 63., being two months' raisings. Cook's Kitchen continues to improve, and a demand for the shares exists. Several Trelawney shares have changed hands this week. A dividend of 221. 10s. per share was declared at the meeting of North Pool. At Balleswidden two monthly account, a dividend of 9s. per share, amounting to 7301. 16s. was de= Glared for September and October, leaving balance of 741. 2s. Bd. to credit of adventurers, exclusivwf balance left from the previous account. The minFis represented in a very prosperous position. At Spearne Console account for September and Ocrober, a dividend of 355. per share for the two months was declared, leaving balance in hand of 1951. This appears to be the 14th dividend in four years, affording an average return of 80 per cent. per an num on the original outlay. The mine is reported to be highly productive and progressively improving. Shares in the following mines have changed hands since our last :—East Wheal Rose, Treviskey and Barrier, Devon Great Consols, Bedford United, Treleigh Consols, South Tamar, Heignston Down, Wheal May, East Tamar, Cook's Kitchen, Wheal Trehane, Tincroft, Lamerhoe, West Providence, Cam borne Console, East Buller, Tregorden, Trelawney, West Caradon, Mary Ann, Condurrow, South Frances, East Wheal Crotty, Herodsfoot, South Tolgus, West Wheal Jewel, and Devon and Courte nay Consols. At Tregorden bi-monthly account, for September and October, a balance of 2691. ss. was found against the company, and a call of 11. per share was made. Arrangements were made for the purpose of erecting a 316-inch cylinder engine, the improved prospects of the mine fully warranting an efficient development. At the Callington Mines' quarterly meeting, held on Wednesday haat, the statement of accounts for the the three months ending September showed a balance of 2,222/. 2s. 7d. against the Callington Mines, and 1,2451. 6s. Bd. against the Kelly Bray sett. The agent's report holds out encouragement of improve ments and increased returns, on the lode being inter sected in the 125 fm. level, and the diagonal shaft being sunk to the same depth. The East Crowndale Mining Company held their annual meeting on Monday last. The balance in favour of the mine amounts to 101/. 105.2 d. The sales of ores during the year appear to be 1,8971.4 e. sd. The committee's report enters into a full explanation of their position last year, and furnishes a very satis factory account of their present prospects, and econo mical system adopted for bringing the mine into a permanent and profitable state of working. In Foreign Mines there has been an average amount of business done, especially in St. John del Rey and United Mexican shares ; in the latter there has been a decline, whilst in the former an advance. National Brazilian, Copiapo, and Guadalcanal shares have also changed hands. The Linares weekly report represents the opera tions as proceeding in a very satisfactory manner. D'eTatches have been received by the Imperial Bra zilian Association to the 3d November. The gold returns have much improved upon last advices ; the produce for 19 days is—Gongo, from 13th Oct. to 2d Nov., lbs., 9 5 6 0; Bananal, lbs., 8 3 7 o=l7 8 13 0: total amount since Ist July, lbs. 69 1 16 0. THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette.) THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON VERSUS EARL GREY. —We have good reason for stating that the manner in which the contemplated reduction in the army is to take place has not yet been determined on, Earl Grey, the Colonial Secretary, on the one hand, urging the withdrawal of troops from the colonies as the most effectual mode, but which is strongly opposed by his Grace the Commander-in-Chief. Tris CAPTAINS' LlST.—Captain Sir Eaton Travers, K.H., has accepted the retirement, under the Order in Council of 1846, with the pay of 18s. per diem. This retirement brought Sir George Back within the half-pay list of 12s. 6d. per diem, so that Captain ISl'Quhae (1835) has succeeded to that grade in con sequence of the death of lord Colville. Major-General Henry Godwin, C. 8., has succeeded to the Unattached Pay of 255. per diem. He is an officer of distinguished service, having served with the expedition to the Ferrol in 1800, and to that of Hanover in 1805. He afterwards proceeded to the Peninsula, and was present at the passage of the Douro, the defence of 'Tarifa, and the battle of Barossa, where he was severely wounded. Previous to this he was a volunteer in the expedition to Malaga, and was present at the attack on Fuengarola. In 1822 he proceeded to Madras, in command of the 41st, and in 1824 embarked for Burmah, serving the whole of the difficult campaign in that country. COMMISSARIAT OF ACCOUNTS.—The establishment of officers under Deputy Commissary General Wil liam Hayward, stationed in Van Diemen's Land during the past six years, has been removed from the Army List. The establishment was ordered home a twelvemonth ago, the new arrangements for control ling and auditing the expenditure of the Commissariat, and of the convict system rendering it no longer necessary. The officers of the Commissariat are expected early in the spring. STRENGTH OF THE NAVY ON THE IST OF JAN., 1850.—We rather understated the force of the royal navy afloat last week. Reckoning supernumeraries and boys in the dockyards and stationary ships, Kroomen employed on the coast of Africa, and en gineers in the different steamers in ordinary, the number of officers, men, boys, and marines in com mission on the Ist of Jan., 1850, was about 39,600. Of these the marines ashore numbered about 6,500. Lieutenant-Colonel Clarke, Acting-Assistant- Quar termaster -General at Kilkenny, has returned to that city from leave of absence in England. Lieutenant -Colonel Brough, Assistant-Adjutant- General at Belfast, is on a visit to his native county, Carlow, at his friend's, Major Cooper, at Shurle Castle. CONVICT GUARD.—The volunteering of the Pen sioners to form companies on board ships for the conveyance of' convicts to the Australian colonies is still being aarried into effect, and the men are all to assemble at Tilbury Fort for organization previous to embarkation. POLICE COMMISSIO NERS ,, — C ap i tain William whose valuable s erv i ces as Inspecting s appointment Superintendent as y, a ha h of Police, have j us tl y l ed to Commissioner, on the retirement of Sir Charles Rowan, passed upwards of twentLdthe years in th e arm y. for me la h st re fi g v i e . He was always in the cava l ry, Lin 1829. years in the sth Drago on Guards, from ment he retired byithe sa l e o f his cominislsZ° RELIEF OF REGIMEN TS .—Th e Indian Mail, arrived on Friday, brings pap ers o f a late date, whichm one of which we extract the following characteristic ro order by Sir C. Napier : " Nov. 3 —His Excellency the Commander-in- Chief has received the most extraordinary letters from officers commanding corps, both regular and irregular, praying to have the destination of their re giments changed. The Commander-in-Chief begs to in form these gentlemen that the troops are moved to suit the public convenience, and not the convenience of indi viduals, and he desire%_o;at such an unsoldier-like and vs. disorderly military pritctice may not again take place, to the disgrace of discipline. The Commander-in. Chief seldom, intentionally, leaves any one letter unanswered, but he will not, in future, reply to letters of such a nature as these; for this once be assures these gentlemen that not one of their unmilitary requests shall be complied with. "By order of his Excellency the Commander , in- Chief, "PAT. GRANT ' Lieutenant-Colonel, Adjutant - General of the Army." THE 50 •GUN FRIGATE " NANKIN."—This splendid frigate, building at Woolwich dockyard, designed by Mr. Lang, jun., will be launched in the present fi nancial year, ending the 31st of March next, end will be forthwith fitted for sea, and commissioned as soon as ready to try her qualities with the Leander, Inde fatigable, and Arethusa. REDUCTION OF THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—We have good reason to believe that the reduction in the Navy Estimates for 1850 51 will be considerable, amounting to more than a quarter of a million. The reduction, it is said, will not affect seamen, but 1 000 Marines less will be voted, and the savings will be in their provisions and pay, and in the decrease of stores, &c. NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Whilst public attention is properly directed to, and interested in, the result of the great work of Mr. Stevenson at the Menai Straits, it may be worthy the attention of the British public to know that in other countries the works of genius, by the extension of science, are progressing also to a great extent. We consider the bridge across the Niagara Falls of that description, and the following account from the Canada papers will be read with interest. It is from the Rochester Daily Advertiser : " Mr. Editor,—Having seen several attempts at a description of the suspension bridge, and all more or less erroneous, I trust I shall be pardoned for a brief sketch relating to said work as it now stands, being merely a temporary structure as compared with the original design. " Early in the spring of 1847, while at dinner at the Eagle Hotel, in the village of Niagara Falls, there were present Charles Elet, jun., the engineer of the bridge, the writer, and several other gentlemen, when the subject came up how the first wire was to be got over the river. One proposed the steam. boat —another, a small boat to take a line across ; another would throw a bomb-shell over, with a cord attached to it, with several other equally practicable projects, were advanced, when Mr. Elet himself suggested the use of a rocket, by which he expected to throw his first line across the gulf. This seeming to be the end of prepositions, Mr. Fisk, of your city, addressing Mr. Elet, said, with your leave, and a promise not to ridicule the idea, if it should prove a failure, he would, in a more simple and cheaper mode, attempt to get a line across the gulf. This being agreed to, those present desired to know what method he should pursue to get a line across. Well, gentlemen, I have not the lest objection to tell you all about it, provided you adhere to the promised conditions—not to laugh at me. Now, gentlemen, says Mr. Fisk, my plan and the instrument used, will be the same kind used ,by Franklin to draw lightning from the clouds, an instrument that any ingenious schoolboy can make in an hour—a kite. _ " Mr. Elet remarked that he did not see why it would not succeed, and gave his consent to have it tried. Mr. Fisk then called upon an intelligent boy by the name of Walsh, who soon had a kite con structed, and on the second trial threw a line across, making it fast on the opposite side, by doubling which a small rope was drawn over, and in six or seven doubles strength sufficient was acquired to take over the first small cable of 36 wires. This was the one used to pass Mr. Elet over in his little iron car, and next himself and lady, and many others passed over on this slight fixture. Since which the present structure has been reared, resting on wooden towers 50 feet high, over which pass 14 cables of the following dimensions :—viz., Five of 36 wires each ; five of 72 ; one of 125 ; and three of 150 wires -1,115 wires in all. " To these is the bridge, suspended, and is capable of sustaining a weight of nearly one thousand tons, yet so slight in its appearance to strangers, that some will not pass it, through fear of its instability, yet heavy ' teams pass it; five at one time were on it, of Colonel Mann's Circus, besides many droves of cattle have passed it. It is now perfectly safe as a common thoroughfare; but will all give way to one of the grandest structures in the world, as soon as it is re quired for railroad purposes, for which, from the exertions now being used by the directors and people on both sides, it seems likely to be required within a year or two. The railroad structure will require 16 cables of 600 wires each, all laid straight —not twisted, as some have it—but wound with small wire, and when completed, with its massivz stone towers, will sustain a weight of more than 6,000 tons beyond its own weight, a structure worthy, as one of art, to stand by the side of nature's grandest—the Falls of Niagara. For this and other improvements contemplated or finished are the public indebted to the Hon. Charles B. Stuart, to whose merit abler pens will yet render to him the honour due." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 5. (Before Mr. Commissioner EvaNs.) IN RE J. CHARTER. The bankrupt was a grocer and general dealer at Grimston, Norfolk. His debts are upwards of 8001., his assets about 2001. Mr. Linklater supported. Mr. DUNCAN, on behalf of the creditors, subjected the bankrupt to a searching investigation, the result of which was that the Learned Commissioner said that there was every reason to suspect that he had been guilty of a gross and wicked fraud upon his creditors, to the advantage of his brother-in-law, and his examination would be adjourned at his own expense. (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN RE PAYNE AND DAVIS. The bankrupts were drapers in High-street, South wark. This was an adjourned examination meeting. The bankrupts bad alleged that goods to the amount of 711. had been sold to a Mr. Owen, of York, upon whom a bill had been drawn for the amount, but which bill had been returned unaccepted, with the intimation that no such person was known at York. Hereupon the bankrupts alleged that the debt became bad, and that the entry in their bill-book was subse quently erased. There was a similar alleged trans action with a party at Chichester, and the entries of both these sales appeared at the bottom of the pages of their books. Mr. Canaan, the official assignee, produced 0 wen's bill, which he said had only come into his hands that morning, when it was brought by one of the bankrupts to his office. Diligent search had been before made for the bill, without success. The month in the date of the stamp was torn out. Payne now stated that he and his partner took the bill yesterday out of a bag in the office of the offi cial assignee. It had been deposited there some months before, with other memoranda. After his private examination, he went into Mr. Cannan's office, got the key of the place where his papers were kept, and found it as described. His partner was with him at the time. The bankrupt further deposed that, when the bill was returned from York, he wrote " can celled" upon it. The case occupied the court nearly the whole day. At the termination, His HONOUR said that every feature of the case was fraught with suspicion, such as the entries in all the books of the transactions being at the bottom of the page; Owen having been previously unknown to the bankrupts ; and the books bearing evident marks of interpolations. He would, however, go through the circumstances carefully, and give his decision on a future day. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupts ; Mr. Pain for the assignees. The bankrupts' trading, it should be observed, ex tended over a period of little more than nine months, their capital being originally 3,51. Their debts are now 2,303/. ; their assets about 6001. An offer of 9s. 6d. in the pound was not acceded to by the cre ditors. The losses, trade expenses, and other dis bursements of the bankrupts during the nine months of their trading, are put down at 1,6171. (Before Mr. Commissioner Gotnalueri.) IN RE WEST AND WEST. The bankrupts were tailors in the Strand. Mr. DUNCAN applied that, before the bankrupts passed their last examination, there should be a private meeting to investigate some circumstances in the case to which it was not desirable to make a public or more specific reference. The application was acceded to. The debts of the bankrupts are 1,330/. ; their liabi lities a further sum of 5701. The assets are 1401. -/ IN RE RUGHESDON AND MACKAY. Mr. Rogers appeared on behalf of Mr. William Kirkman, the trade assignee under this fiat, to obtain his removal from that office. Mr. Kirkman's wish to retire was alleged to be owing to the other assignees and creditors having instituted legal proceedings against Messrs. Henderson far the recovery of certain property which it was alleged belonged to the bank rupt's estate. Mr. ROXBURGH opposed the application. Mr. Kirk. man, he alleged, had been acting throughout as the friend of Messrs. Henderson, and that the effect of his removal would be prejudicial to the bankrupt's estate, by releasing him from the liabilities conse quent upon his position. His HONOUR said he would look into the authori ties before he gave his decision. Mr. Whitmor e , the official assignee, informed the Courtthat the only assets in hand were about 4,0 001 . Messrs. Henderson had become possessed of nearly the whole of the bankrupt's other property. Be was persuaded th a t if his Honour should accede to Mr. Kirktnan's request, the result would be to leave the creditors almost entirely in the power of Messrs. Henderson. His HONOUR said he would give his decision on an early day. INSOL VENT DEBTORS' COURT,,lein. 5. IN RE MAGNIER. This insolvent, a clerk in the Post•uthce. was op posed by three creditors. Re had petitioned under the Protection Act in April last, and a quarterly sum out of his salary was set aside for his creditors. He got involved in a short time on an accommodation bill, and now applicd under the other jurisdiction of insolvency, making his second appearance within a few months. After a long examination, the insolvent read a statement in extenuation. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS addressed him on his conduct, especially with reference to a young woman •froth whom he had obtained Cl. It was high time that he and all others should know, that the Commis sioners had come to the united determination to deal with persons who accepted accommodation bills in a summary manner. In future such debts would be held to have been incurred without reasonable or pro bable expectations of payment. His Honour adjudged the insolvent to an imprisonment of four months, under the discretionary clause. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Daniel Blackmore, aged 60, formerly boot-maker to the City police, was brought up for final exami nation, charged with stabbing Henry Alexander Mattham, City police•constable. Prosecutor having on the 9th December taken into custody prisoner's wife for creating a disturbance, when intoxicated, at a coffee-stall in the Old Bailey, the prisoner had ex pressed an intention to be revenged on the prosecutor, and meeting him on his beat in the Old Bailey on the night of Sunday, the 23d December, stabbed him in the abdomen, just above the navel, inflicting a wound two inches deep and seven-eighths of an inch wide. The knife with which the wound was inflicted w, as afterwards picked up in the Old Bailey, and pro duced in court, showing that it was a very sharp and formidable weapon. Henry Alexander Mattham, the prosecutor, who appeared very weak, and was accommodated with a seat, deposed to prisoner meeting him on the night in question, and to having interrogated him with respect to his wife's incarceration, and in reply having said " take that, you -," at the same time stabbing him. The prisoner, on being asked if he had any questions to put to the respective witnesses, replied with the greatest indifference, " No, sir." On the production of the prosecutor's clothes, which were saturated with blood, it was shown that the knife had struck one of the buttons on the prosecutor's great coat, which it had severed, and thereby weakened the blow. The prisoner, who repeated his previous declaration that he was too much intoxicated at the time to recol lect what took place, was eventually fully committed to Newgate for trial. James Osborne, of 12, Tyton-street, New Kent road, and Joseph Pointer, of 5, St. Andrew's-road, New Kent-road, were brought up for final examina tion, charged with intent to rob a Government pensioner under the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that on Wednesday last, the prosecutor, a Mr. E. Askell, of 20, Henry street, Hampstead road, stonemason and pensioner, from Devonport dockyard, went to receive his pension ; after which, on his return home from the Navy-office, while passing up St. Martin's lane, a pair of spectacles were dropped at his feet, and a 'man picked them up and said to him, " You have dropped something.' The prisoner Osborne in stantly said they were his, and the prosecutor accord ingly handed them to him. The former called him an honest fellow, and insisted upon treating him. They went to various public-houses, and kept it up from one o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening, when Pewter joined them, and than they had more drink, until he become insensible. A cab was called, and at first the prisoners directed the driver to go to the Hampstead-road, but shortly after they told him to turn round and drive to the Surrey Theatre. The cabman looked into the vehicle, and, seeing the prosecutor insensible while the pri soners were perfectly sober, began to suspect that they intended to rob the man, and, acting on that sus picion, he drove them along until ha met two police men on Blackfriars.bridge, whom he enlightened on the subject, and they all proceeded to the station house, the officers accompanying them thither, walking on each side of the cab. It was clearly shown that the prisoners were well known as what are termed " magsmen," and that they were the associates of thieves. Alderman SIDNEY said he had no doubt of what their intention was, had it not been for the upright conduct of the cabman, Charles Butler. He should, therefore, commit them to hard labour for three months. The ALDERMAN afterwards told the cabman that his conduct was highly creditable, and ordered 103. to be given to him as a reward. Alderman WILSON, who was also sitting, told the prosecutor, he ought also to make a present to Butler, as he had been the means of saving all his money for him. The prosecutor was understood to agree with the alderman in the proposition. CLERKENWELL. A very showily-dressed female, named Williams, was put at the bar for re-examination, charged with robbing Mr. Arnoldson, described as a commercial traveller, in Bride place, Liverpool-road, of a gold watch, with a guard chain, his purse containing be tween twenty and thirty sovereigns, and nearly the whole of the wearing apparel he had with him when he became enamoured with her. It appeared that the prosecutor met with the prisoner, who induced him to treat her with brandy and water. He was seen with her by two or three policemen, who cautioned him as to the dangerous character of his companion, but he despised their advice and accompanied her home. Here he undressed, leaving the prisoner to mix him a little more grog. She did so, and from circumstances that have since transpired, it would seem evident that she added thereto some deleterious stuff, as he immediately afterwards became insensible. On coming to himself he missed not only the pri soner but the whole of the property he had with him when he first saw her, even to his wearing apparel. His first step was to obtain wherewithal to clothe his nakedness, after which he made his misfortune known to policeman Coll ins,a detective dicer of the N diiision, who apprehended her after a search of seven hours. The prisoner, who laughed heartily, was remanded. - . - -- LAMB ETU. Francis Aguila, alias Frederick Phillips, an ex policeman, was placed at the bar, before the lion. G. C. Norton, on a charge of feloniously intermarrying with Martha Mary Clare, his wife Mary being living at the time. From the testimony of Sergeant Quinnear, P 1, it appeared that, on the 3d of November, 1837, the prisoner, who was at the time a constable belonging to the K division of police, was married at the parish church of St. George's-in the-East to Mary Bridger, and in the same month he was discharged from the police force. On the sth of February, 1838, the prisoner was apprehended on the charge of obtaining a twelfth-cake, of the value of 31., from Mr. Miner, a pastrycook, in Cheapside, and for this offence he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years' im prisonment. The prisoner, interrupting the officer, said, the Marquis of Normanby, who was then Home Secre tary, had sent him his discharge at the end or ten months. Quinnear, in continuation, said that, on the llth of July, 1848, prisoner was married a second time at Whitechapel Church, in the name of Frederick Phillips, to Martha Mary Clare, and in six weeks after he deserted the young woman, having first ob tained from her a Si. note a'ad all the cash she had. Soon after he joined a gang of swindlers, and in October last was committed to take his trial at the Surrey Sessions on a charge of obtaining two coats by false representations. On the 31 of December he was put on his trial on one of the charges, and having been acquitted on it, he traversed the second offence to the present session. On Thursday last he was tried and acquitted on the second, but on leaving the court was given into custody on the present charge. In reply to a question from Mr. NORTON the ser geant said that the second wife, and her father, who had been present at the marriage, were in attendance, but he had not been able to find out the witnesses to the first marriage; their names were Charles and Mary Pilcher; and he, Quinnear, had to request a remand, to give him time to produce them. The prisoner, who offered nothing in his defence, was remanded for a week. RELEASE OF VERNON, THE CHARTIST.—OH Friday morning a communication was received by Lieutenant Tracy, the Governor of the House of Correction, Tothill fields' from the Home-o ffi ce, intimating that her Ma jesty had been pleased to extend her pardon to Vernon, the Chartist leader, who, it will be remembered, was con victed in June, 1848, with Ernest Jones, Fussell, and others, of sedition, and sentenced by Chief Justice Wilde to two years' imprisonment, wi h other penalties; and, at the same time, the Governor received the Secretary of State's order for his immediate liberation, which, of course, was obeyed. During his incarceration Vernon's Conduct received the warm approval of the authorities, and it is understood that the sentences on other Chartist prisoners will be mitigated. APPOINTMENTS.—Thomas Horne, E•q., Attorney- General at Van Diemen's Land, is promoted to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court in that colony, vacant by the removal of Mr. Montague ; Valentine Fleming, Esq., Solicitor-General, succeeds Mr. Horne Iv= Attorney - General; A. C. Stoner, Esq., is appointed Solicitor General in the room of Mr. Fleming; Francis Smith, E.g., is appointed Crown Solicitor for Van Diemen's Land; Sidney Stephen, Esq., is appointed Judge of the Supreme Court at (Atop, New Z-aland; IL T. Jarvis, Esq., is appointed Superintendent of Con victs at Bermuda; Algernon Montague, Eqq., is ap pointed Stipendiary Magistrate at the Falkland Islands; S. Frazer, Esq., is appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate in British Guiana. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.--We are inc Listed , to Mr. Bright for a , very gre plessure and a still greater disaipointnient in the perusal of his spsesh to hi s I r i s h cons tit uents. I The circumstance were such as taxed his powers to the utmost. Besides the intrinsic gravity of the sub ject, it has been for ages the Gord ian k no t o f British statesmanship. Mr. Bright has just returned from the magic soil which dooms its inhabitants to an endless circle of miserable errors, and with whose rnys'erioue influence its rulers and visitors are also affected. His heart still throbbed with the horrors he had witnessed, when he spoke from its fullness at a meeting of the Society for Financial Reform. What he said on that occasion, however, was of a nature to provoke rather thin satisfy curiosity, and the result was, that while we, on our part, challenged Mr. Bight to propose some positive, practical, and sufficient measures for Ireland, the Irish residents in Manchester and Salford, who amount al - together to 60,000 or 80,000, were equally anxious to :ear him out on so absorbing a theme. Thus stimu lated and primed, piqued and in v it e d, M r . B r i g h t did iris very best on Thursday evening, and we h ave seldom read an address which sustained its iateresr. so well and so long. Yet we must add, and we add it with sorrow, Mr. Right leaves the subject very much where he found it. No sober judgment can assign a higher character to the speech than that of whichf t the e has .0 O inhabitants eloquent and clever electione er i ng h arangue. T ile speaker, as too often happens on th at stage, i s lost in his audience. He sinks into th e o b e di ent mouthp i ece 0 afforded oo them a of the 80,000 men who reme m b er t h e country they l have toinel, avid eftbe w tt i e lo r t fo h r a g n et th t a h t atof of Manchester and Salford, nearly all, like themselves, are exiles, or the descendants of exiles, from over stocked agricultural districts. In fact, it is the post of O'Connell which Mr. Bright here assumes. Lest we should overlook his new character, he writes it himself. " I can never lose hope of a country," he says, " which numbers amongst its sons such men as Grattan and O'Connell. I will never despair of a people that have known how to admire their genius and to venerate their patriotism." What is this but an attempt to ascend the vacant throne of a dema gogue who conducted Ireland to famine and rebellion, and to a tenfold aggravation of all her social ills ? The measures proposed by Mr. Bright, in reply to our challenge, are very soon stated. They are, the restriction of entails to lives in being, and the conse quent diminution of life interests; the equal division of property among the children of those who die in testate; a registry of property, with other arrange ments for its cheap and easy transfer ; an ad valorem duty on settlements; the greatest possible multiplica tion of freeholders; compensation to all existing tenants for any improvements they may henceforth make in their holdings ; the admission of all rate payers to the franchise ; a larger share in the Imperial representation; a fairer distribution of the Irish con stituency ; and the abolition of the Established Church. We are not aware of having omitted anything from the list, yet neither does it present any startling novelty in its details, nor does it show unusual judgment in the :election. Had we been asked to say what Mr. Bright was likely to propose, we think we could have found him a catalogue of grievances very similar to the above, and perhaps we might thereby have saved him his visit to Ireland. All these propositions have been so often discussed that is scarcely necessary to re-open the controversy on their merits till they come before the nation in a more tangible form. So far as regards the emancipation of property, the Le gislature has already taken a very great step. Under the Encumbered Estates Act so large a mass of pro , perty will soon be freed from its encumbrances, di vided, and thrown on the market, that land is in some danger of being unduly depreciated. Compared with this sharp and decisive remedy, Mr. Bright's own measures promise but a tardy relief, excepting only one which would, in our humble opinion, amount to the immediate con fiscation of every acre in Ireland. We mean his plan of tenant-right. Taking the Irish as they are —their want of a conscience in dealing with land lords, who, as Mr. Bright tells them, are their enemies and oppressors—their imaginary arithmetic, their habit of agrarian combination, their invincible liti giousness, and their inexhaustible ingenuity—we entertain no doubt that every tenant would set up such claims as would soon oust the landlord from all interest in his freehold. We expressed this opinion , long ago on the Bill Lord Lincoln brought before Parliament, and unless Mr. Bright can produce a very different sort of measure, our remarks on that ' occasion apply to the brief outline in the speech now before us. Perhaps it is not very necessary to be ever lastingly explaining to the Irish how it comes to pass that they lie at the bottom of European society. The subject should not be very palatable either to ' the lecturer or to the pupil. When, however, an • Englishman of no common ability, and the repre sentative of our largest purely manufacturing consti ' tuency, tells the Irish that all their misery and degradation arise from one cause, and one cause only, viz., British oppression, it is time to throw in a word or two just to save the Irishman from a delusion as hurtful to himself as it is injurious to us. The lamentable result which Mr. Bright refers to one cause is owing to a vast concurrence of causes. The ' unmixed Celtic origin of the people, their excitable and imaginative temperament, their religion, their remoteness from the centres of civiliz ition, their not having passed through the ordeal and discipline of the regular feudal system, the natural fertility of a soil which yields food without tillage, the indulgence of a climate which allows huts to do the duty of houses, and turf to answer the purposes of fuel, the discovery of the potato, and the com parative want of minerals—these and other causes must be added to a cause which confessedly has' occupied a very high place in the authorship of Irish misfortune—viz., the neighbourhood and do mination of a mixed, an energetic, a calculating, and a political race, that which is commonly called the Anglo Saxon, but which does in fact combine the active elements of all the most dominant European families. Ever since Ireland, then in a state of utter anarchy, was annexed to the English crown, it brought a continuous successio n of difficulties to our statesmen, who, often with the best intentions, backed , by the greatest abilities, never attained anything but , a superficial and short-lived success. The necessities ef Government compelled them to adopt rough summary measures, confiscation s , and severe coercive laws, end although it is very easy fur gentlemen in the middle of the 19th century to criticize the conduct of soldiers and statesman in the 16th, 17th, or 18th, or even now, at the beginning of the 19th, it is still possible that the men of those times did the only thing , possible, rough as it was. The difficulty certainly is rather older than Mr. Bright would make it. " To ' tell the literal fact with regard to Ireland," , he says, " the soil of that country has been, for two or three centuries past, in the , possession of the .enemy. The present possessors of the land are the successors of those who were the possessors of it through conquest and through confis cation ; and the laws of this country—of the Imperial Legislature, and of your Legislature, when it was , under the power or the corruption of ours—the laws which have prevailed in Ireland from that time to , this have made it impossible for the Irish people to , become possessors of the soil of their own country. In fact it is in the possession of those who have neces sarily been regarded—if I may quote the very not°- , rious expression of a very notorious individual—' as , alien in blood e in language, and in religion.'" Three centuries ago Spenser described the condition of Ireland at very great length and from actual experi ence; and his description applies to the letter to the present der, excepting that, out of the mass of indi genous barbarism, which has continued nearly un changed from 1550 to 1850, there has meanwhile risen up, under the auspices of British proprietors and settlers, here and there, an Oas i s of indus try and civilization. That such a people, w hit e it derived some benefits, should also suffer some evils from the contiguity and connexion of a more civilized race, is, unfortunately, in a too close accord : ante with a thousand examples to be thought an im probable charge. Alternately corrupted and repressed by British faction, and ever hoping to gain some thing by our intestine divisions, it was always thrusting it . self into scrapes from which it could not fail to come , off the worst. A great deal may be done slowly and gradually, by the application, not exactly of Mr, Bright's measures, but of the general policy indicated by them—namely, the deliverance of the land from settlements and mortgages, and the subdivision of the large estates into portions accessible to industrious and rising men. At present, as if to show the feebleness of political contrivances, the most effectual remedy is that which Providence has applied in the failure of ' the potato and in emigration. For two or three years nearly a thousand a day have quitted Ireland for a country which they may now almost call their own. " In fact," as Mr. Bright says, the export of Ireland consists now of Irishmen." Of course there is danger, as there has already been mischief, in the final alienation and the accession to another state of so many unfortunate men disaffected to our rule. Doubtless, if a war should arise to morrow between this empire and the States, the Irish citizens would hold up their hands to a man against us. Yet, on the whole, the two countries have been drawing closer and closer of late years ; all sober and reasonable parties in the Union wish us well, and even the Irish mobocracy will favour us in the matter of free trade. Nor is it impossible that, on quiet reflection, after the efforts we have made for Ireland during the last few years, they may at length allow the alleged injuries of the 16th and 17th cen turies to descend with their authors to the grave. The true and sufficient reply to the angry memories which our peacemaker has thought fit to conjure up is „hat which he himself has suggested. The great mass of the people of England are, and ever have been in exactly the same social circumstances as the Irish ' populatio—e- Lancashire is a county of outcasts, an Adullanee,4 settlement of voluntary exiles, from every nook and corner of these isle 3, o,lle in that county. they start all fair: and, if a man does rm.; p,;..t on it is his cwi fault. " thi3 neighbourl:r.od," zay.i Bricrl,t, that Pearly all the manur'icturers were '' yen find their fatht7rs, or their grandfathers, in the mks labourers—they were mechanics aol so forth ; through the openings which have ati.ien continuidly in this ilktrict, by their superior skill and industry, aril by something occasionally which men call good fortune,' they have emerged from the ranks in which they found themselves, and have become men t,c tal, directors of great industry, and great lyeiefuctors to the population amongst whom they live" Very true and very w e ll p u t. It exaetly the same with this overgrown metropolis, which is a vast mess of provincialism. Nine-tent - ;s or our tradesmen and merchants are of rural (eight ; so are n'ne tenths of the men you meet in the streets. titey any reaso,i to .hat their fathers grandfathers were younger brothers. anil left ii;iithci. land ; that they were oppre-sed ilefr they could not obtain the steue, teoericv 4 te, farms, and were sent adrift. without c tiip'ns -" for improvements; that as lahouri-rs hid e". of becoming farmers, or as farmers they hail of bec.ening. proprietors; that they paid itiies to a parson they hated ; or that. they tel not the exercise of their religion ? N. feey are now all the better for tilese afferd to smile at their doineAic traditions to . tribul.ition and wrong. S 3 we may say of the Irish and their presenZ troubles. .Forsan et /me neminisse juvabit. POST.—We are by no ,assns disp.ise.l to regtvd with favour those systeens of education which teed to relax the restraints of wholosorw discipline in the training of youth. "Order." s:1) - ' the "iF Nature's first law ," and it is impossible to iiaplant too soon in the human mind a !ease Of the -value of authority. On the general question of punishments it is not our intention here to enter. It is admitted on all hands that they should be proportioned to the offence, and of such a character as not to interfere with the sense of self-respect on the part of the sufferer. Our attention has been called to this sub ject by certain proceedings in the Caledonian Asylum, which have recently been the subject of investigation by the authorities of that noble charity. Our readers are aware that this institution was founded for the support, education, and final settlement in life of destitute children of soldiers, sailors, and marines, natives of S3otland. The good conduct of an esta blishment so valuable to society, and so creditable to the country, is matter of vast importance and universal interest. It is not without deep regret that we perceive, from a mass of corre spondence now lying before us, that the case to which we refer demands more ample explanation, or more satisfactory redress, than it seems hitherto to have obtained from the governing body. It appears that, so long ago as the 29th of October last, the Duke of Buccleuch, as President of the Caledonian Asylum. announced to Captain Charles Forbes, one of the co treasurers, the receipt by his Grace of a complaint preferred by one of the guardians against Mr. Renton, the superintendent of the institution. The statement sets forth that Mr. Renton had caused four girls, inmates of the establishment, to be stripped and flogged, and that not on account of any culpable mis• conduct, but for acts which were the involuntary result of constitutional debility or bodily exhaustion, "for which rest and medical treatment were the pro per remedies." The Duke of Buccleuch observes — I nothing of the case beyond the complaint ; but it is one that must not be allowed to pass without notice—it is one that requires a most strict investigation, which I trust will be instituted without delay, and be strictly and fairly carried out." The matter was accordingly brought by Captain Charles Forbes before a meeting of the directors which had been convened, not for that purpose, but for the consideration of certain al legations made by the superintendent against some of the officers of the establishment. It is of less moment to notice that those allegations were found to be groundless, than that the complaint directed against the superintendent himself was so far established that he was ordered to be admonished by one of the directors. Notwithstanding this decision, a certain number of the directors, whose opinions appear to have been in sympathy with Mr. Renton, succeeded in preventing any record of the affair from appearing in the minute books, and no resolution was passed to prevent a recurrence of the proceedings which had thus been condemned. In short, the investi gation, if, indeed, the proceeding can fairly be so designated, was not conducted in that spirit of fairness and justice so strongly recommended by the Noble President. The girls who had been subjected to the unmerited and degrading punishment were not exa mined, nor was the evidence of the matron, the schoolmistress, or the maid servant who had been pre sent, sought or received. The superintendent himself appears to have been the only witness in his own case. Ile was directed to draw up an account of his conduct in the business, and to transmit it to the president. His statement, we learn was directly at variance with the written account proffered by the matron, whose testimony derived weight from an ex cellent character, proved through a period of eight and-twenty years. Tne statement made by the governess, or schoolmistress (Miss Mackenzie), is to this effect:— Hare " In re,pect to the flogging of girls in this asylum, I beg to state that, on the morning of the day on which the superintendent had the girls flogged, I was informed by the servant of their conduct; and as I have always found it sufficient to act on the emotions of the mind rather than to inflict corporal chastisement, I admonished them ; and it was not until the next day that my atten tion was celled to the fact thet three girls had be€n flogged, in the presence of the matron, during my absence, and without my knowledge; and that they were to stand in the corner of the room while their com panions took their food, and not speak or have any in tercourse for three days, which punishments they un derwent, as I had no power to interfere with the n w e a s s fl oi: g d g e order. On or t h the e sa followingme conduct , without. o:iday s a u n P o c th ri e n r te g n i d r; my knowledge, although I was in the asylum." Mr. Erasmus Wilson is next applied to by one of the directors, and is asked, in a letter from that gentle man, for his opinion as to the " moral and medical effect of such punishments." Of the " moral" effect, the director himself was, or ought to have been, as competent a judge as the gentleman to wh,m he appliei ; on that point, therefore, the reference was unnecessary ; but Mr. Wilson's answer to the second part of the query is pertinent and valuable. He says that " the punishment of flogging for the cause men tioned—namely, for a disease—is in the highest degree cruel and inhuman ;" and he adds, that " where physical punishment is employed as a remedy against the disease in question, and where a state of fear and apprehension is kept up, it is perfectly possible that the result may be an increase of its irritability, and even the establishmentof a permanent and more serious disorder." Such is the character, and such, very briefly, are the facts of this revolting case. The system of flogging girls, especially girls who have attained an age of twelve years, under any circumstances, is offensive in the highest degree to every rightly•constituted mind We question, indeed, if the cause, so there be a cause at all, be of much importance, when we are consider ing the moral effects of so unjustifiable a degradation. But, in this instance, it would seem that the victims of a contemptible and cruel tyranny would have more properly been the objects of increased care and atten tion than of any punishment whatever. The super intendent appears to be entrusted with unlimited authority. In such an institution such a power ought not to rest in the hands of any individual officer. A committee of directors ought to superintend the entire adminhtration of the charity, and so prevent the pos sibility of abuses so fl4grant anti inhuman as this. The business cannot be permitted to rest where it is ; the public who support the invaluable institution which has thus been disgraced will require with peremptory and irresistible authority that such prac tices shall cease at once and for ever. RAILWAY 1 - t s: ~*6 A ETS BRISTOL, JAN. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day was much the same as yesterday. The only alteration in prices was— Great Western, New Shares, TA I dis. LIVERP6(if., JAN. 5. Sroca Excaariots.—But little business was done iu our share market to-day, and prices had a downward tendency. The transactions were as tollow:—Birkenhead. Lancashire, and Cheshire, 16 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consul , Halves, 22 c. Halves (Huddersfield and Sheffield), 28—London and North-Western, 110—Ditto, New Quarters, % p. —Ditto, Fifths, 3 4 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 1 , 34 p. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 7% Midland, 43—Ditto, Halves, 23% dis. MANCHESTER, JAN. 5. . STOCK EXCIIALEr: - -rlle market was flat to-day, but prices are about the same as yesterday. The following are the transactions:— Manchester and Birmingham, Quartets (C ), 1 1 4 c. p. South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 1 / 2 . BIRNIINGHAM, JAN. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was nothing done in railway shares to-day. Quotations remain ne,rly stationary, and few people are inclined to speculate until the approaching dividends are made known. YORK, JAN. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-.day were as follow : Lancashire and Yorkshire, 53 North British, Halves, 47 1 8 —Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 10 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 16X 3 —York and North Midland, 1734:_ NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.- The transactions t• -day were as follow :—Caledonian, Preference, TA —North Staffordshire, THE CASE OF ELIZABETH 13IGGS.—On Wednes day Edward Henry Simmons, the relieving-officer of the Southampton Ukion, Wad charged before the invis trates of that town with having caused, by ❑egtigeoce, the death of Eliztbeth Biggs, otherwise Elizabeth Harris, the untortuuate woman whose case has re cently attracted so much attention. The eviiiesce given confirmed the statements which have already been published on the subject, and the bench committed the aecubed for manslaughter. He was subseqTntly admitted to bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties in 1001. each. THE LATE Mit. PATRICK FRASER TY TLE R. Irded dee.' Our c;bituary re. at Great /Za'vein. in Worcc: , tcrshire, on Christmas Eve, of Mr. Perla Fras;a Tytier, the -well known author of the " liis tory of Scotland." A love of letters may izqs said to have been part of gr. Trier's inbc-ritance. His grandfather, Williain'TytTer, of Woodhouselec (born in 1711, died in 1792), distinguished himself by his " Inquiry lliitiri,.;2l and Critical into the iclence tt.fainst itkry of Scots" published in 1759, , ind reprioted in 176'7); by id , edition of" The Poe, ind Remains ofJames 1. ; ii.l!o;.; of (.7(..thAnd . ' (publi,h,d io 1783,1( printed in 1827) . by his " EsAay on Scottish Mo an, ,DUNE' pmers in the fir3t volume of the " lransactions of the &,ciety of A:itiquaries of Scotiro,d," of vv, ich holy Tytler was ono of the vice presidents. The eldest son of this gentletnari—Alexander rytler—vv zs eminent — lit nit i ietiers. Ile was for many ycars Professor of Ilia tory in the Uoi.v,rsity of Edinburgh, :111 , 1 he, (16 or outlines of the lecEures. ‘vhich he rik-liv,reii funn th4t chair must be funiliar to every ircui the numerous editions winch they h:vep3s<ed Iwh ia this country w.id beyond The Atlnntic. lector , s themsehes, as finelle ri:vised the aw h..r were first published in I,ndon in 1834 (in six sir. l volumes), under the of Umversial llistvrc from the ereati,,n of the World to the Beginning' or the Eighteenth Century," Among Mr. Tytlev", other works we may his " Life at Lord Kainies." and his translatii ri of . S hiller's " The Robbers." lie was one o the early triehils iia Sir Walter Scott, to whose writings ho spoken of, and never without res T-et. H raised to the Scottish bench in the year 1802, rook the • title of Lord Woetnoris,l,., his in,t . here.—the "Haunted " of Scott's ballad of "The Gray Brother." lie died in the year 1811. We are not aware of the precise date of the birth of his son, the future historian of Scotland, but it was probably about the year 1790 Patrick F. aser Tytler was destined to his father's profession, and was enrolled a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1830 —the same year which gave to the Scottish bar the preent duiti ,, guished Profes,, r of Loic in the University of Edinburgh, and the learned an accomplished gentleman who is 'now her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland. But, like Sir William Hamilton, Mr. Tytler (though holding for same years the office of King's Counsel in Exchequer) soon turned from the law to the pursuit of letters. It we may trust ourselves to speak from a vague recol lect4m, his first adventure was a volume of travels in France, in 1814 or 1815, written in conjunction with Alison, who then, we believe, saw for the first time the recent scenes of those wars which he has since commemorated in his " History of Europe." But the work which first gave Mr. Tytler a place of note in the world of letters was his " Life of the Admirable Crichton"--an erudite, pleasing, ate ingenious hook, which reached a second (and much im proved) edition in 1823. The same year saw the publication of another volume of the same stamp— " An Account of the Life and Writings of sir Thomas Craig, of Iticcarton, including biographical sketches of the most eminent legal characters, since the institution of the Court of Session by James V., till the period of the union of the crowns." There successful efforts had plumed the author's wing, and stimulated his ambition for a higher flight—the work by which his name has become most widely known, and by which it will go down to after generations. The first volume of the " History of Scotland" appeared in the summer of 1828—the ninth and last was issued in the winter of 1843, with a touching pet oration which we ina3 here be allowed to quote :—" It is with feelings of gratitude, mingled with regret, that the author closes this work—the history of his country—the labour of little less than eighteen years : gratitude to the Giver of all Good, that life and health have been spared to complete, however imperfectly, an arduous undertaking ; regret that the tranquil pleasures of historical investigation, the happy hours devoted to the pursuit of truth, are at an end, and that he must at last bid farewell to an 010 and dear companion." The work thus com mended to the world recounts the Scottish annal from the accession of King Alexander 111., in 1249, to the union of the crowns of England and Scotland under King James VI. in 1603. A performance of such extent is almost necessarily unequal—there are few men who are at home alike amid the chivalrous wars of the thirteenth and the diplomatic intrigues of the sixteenth centuries. The earlier portions of Mr. Tytler's work, though perhaps tht most popular with the public, will scarcely satisfy th, severe demands of the scholar familiar with th' recent contributions to the study of northern antiqui ties. It is when the historian reaches the times of the fifth James—approaching the confines of the age of whie'l the first works, both of his grandlathei and himself had treated--that he appears it, the full measure of his 'grace and strength. It is with this period, too, that his laborious researches begin to be mos; successful in bringing new sources of information to light, in correcting old mistakes, aed in combating received prejudices. No one ca., turn to the reigns of Mary and James, as related b. Mr. Tytler's pages, without being struck with the vast extent of the contributions which he has made to the true history of that troubled day. His style, too, we think, undergoes in these latter volumes very marked improvement—adding to its invariable imagination, its occasional elegance and frequent vigour, a measure of ease and dignity which we do always recognise in the opening chapters. Mr. Tytler found leisure, during the composition of hi, great work, to give several others to the world. He contributed to Mr. Murray's " Family Library ' one of the most delightful of all his writings, three volumes of " Lives of Scottish Worthies," (1832 3) For the " Edinburgh Cabinet Library" of Messrs Oliver and Boyd, he wrote an " Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the more Northern Coasts of America," (1832) ; the Life of Sir Walter Raleigh." (1832); and the " Life of King Henry VIII." (1837). He edited for a London bookseller two volumes of " Letters illustrative of the Reign of King Edward V 1.," printed from the originals in the State Paper Office. He wrote, we believe, a few versa for one of the " Bannatyne Garlands," about 1829; and in 1833 (in conjunction with Mr. Hog. of Newliston, and Mr. Adam Urqu hart) he presented to the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs a volume illustrative of the revolution—" Me moirs of the War carried on in Scotland and Ireland 1689-1691, by Major General Hugh Mackay." Mr. Tytler was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of Mr. Hog, of Newliston; his second, a daughter of Mr. Bonar, the Russian merchant, still lives. He leaves a family of two sons and a daughter. In private life he was a lively and en gaging companion, of agreeable manners, and in teresting conversation. During the present reign he was more than once a gues t at Wi n d sor, where he was received with a degree of favour which, no doubt, greatly facilitated th e we ll- mer i te d grant o f t h e literary pension of 2001. a year which was conferred upon him a few years ago, during the administration of Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Tytler's constitution was never robust, and it gradually gave way under the exhausting labours of a life of letters. During a lingering illness of mind arid body he wandered over the continent in ssarch of health, and returned to England only to die in the land for the illustration of who3e annals he had done much and contemplated more. —Edinburgh Courant. The Earl of Carlisle's accustomed gift of 100 cart loads of coals was distributed amlng the poor of Bramp• ton, on New Year's Dsy.—Carlisle Journal. THE CHILD MURDER IN HARLEY STREET. —The trial of Sarah Drake, for the murder of her child, Lew:. Drake, aged two years, will, it is expected, take place at the Central Criminal Court on Wedie sday or Thur. day next, and it is considered probable that the prose cution will be conducted by the Attorney-General and Mr. Bodkin. Mr. R. P. Collier and Mr G. W.. Cox have been engsg,d for the defence. The prisoner has behaved herself with great propriety ever since her committal, and we understand that she is frequently visited by Lady Pirie, by ..hum portions of scripture are rend to her, and to which she li,tens with the most devout attention; she strongly denies having made a confession to the searcher at the st , dion-house as to the murder with which she stands charged, and is quite confident of being able to satisfy a jury that the searcher has sworn falsely. None of her relations have called to see her at the prison, but she has received a letter from one of them, in which the writer intimate s th a t i t will not be worth her while to do anything for her as she is almost sure to be hanged; she complains of misrepre sentations which appeared originally in country papers, and were subsequently copied from them in the London journals, as to her former oisaolute career and her m k ing away with one or more infants. Mr. H. rring, her solicitor, is in daily communication with her, and every facility and kind attention has been shown to hire the performance of his duty by Mr. Under-Sheriff M.l - It further appears that the prisoner has for some length of time kept up a correspondence with a highly respectable person, a laud steward, and that in one o , his letters to her (many of which are in the pus ession of Mr. Herring), he implores of her not to thi, k of quitting England, as an union between, them was 0 , , en tint to his future bappinesa. A vast numberrfospcifeapupblii-e cat'ons have been made for " good seats " by pa-sons, who are looking forward with no small degree of interest to the trial. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—DecIaration of a soldier who fought at Waterloo, cured by Holloway's Pills and Ointment. " 1 publicly state that Professor Hollo s ay's Pills and Ointment have cured me of several ulcerous sores, which had their origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle of Waterloo. The pain was of constant duration, and I was con fined to my bed always during the harvest months. I have now for two years been enjoying the best of health, solely in consequence of using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which cured me in a very sho:t time ; 'in gratitude for which I pub lish this testimony. (Signed) J. de Swart, of Lent, on the Vossepels, near Nymegen, Holland, Oct. 4th, 1849." Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 444, Stcand, Leaden. rHE COUNTRY MARKETS. Prices to-day are unchanged 1 , C. 1.1. g Spanish and Italin red and , vidte.. iiu garHn and . Odessa, Polish . Do., hard Egyptian Paley, Euaish,pr 6 imperial quart:r 29 Uto 31 U 3, Trish, cot and , 11 , x,per 6011) J;iiar , aye, I.r •180 lb Engl,sti,pr ~.I.lpr;;.l;lltartr 6 1,5 S ' coteli per .1011).. :orcign, duly Pii 3 2 22 0 - :14 0 1 European, per lin perial quarter .. 6 5 Peas, English, per imperial quartr 32 0 33 '2 • 5 6 5 ts,F,3reign • • ..24 0— 30 •r 5 S -- 6 I , i _Mall, English, per ~ 52 61 imperial quartr 10 0 • • 4 6 4 `•3; Do., Irish • . .. 4 0— 4 5 Do., brown .. Flour, English, pr - 3i - 29 0 - 25 30 0 G 0 54 0-46 :0 0 --52 7 '2 per 1 & '?;,. 0 24 0 4001 b .. 29 0 -3.) tre,h. new 21 ti 12 “1. per 19,11, I 11,1 , old •20 0 . 21 0 • 1:1 • by I 1-I,L': , dra irrs c:.. • ' i . ' w)ed to plus.. t).. the tb -r . • ,•-• 6 ae'ors, ; 41,4 fir.... ,L 1 . • pP.VP h a ai !J . , .0 lip V,I It i :7••• Ur .- Cfl 1 , 1 , "!.`,l! •R wern , ui y dat, ru,te, i k winlst isir mead and tb,• tower (hsetipLious of flJur thu.L again be quoccd he turn d nr,r. WORCESTER, JAN. s.—There was a full attendance ,t turu, ts ..t the first N3,lrket of tip• year, held to-day, ,nd a.thoutt suwpl,s wer, ir,ely in .ffer, pricey were at the advance of last week. Guud ,vli at must now be quoted at 164. Some inferior ;;;;i3- ar taken at 15s, but prime qualities have fetched 16s 6d. Nut much business doing in barley, ut from 3s 036 6i per bushel. Malt in slow demand, ar from 7s to tis p r bushel. E , giisti oats avera4e 3s 3d per bushel, .no Ir sti from 2. 6 i te, 3i. Gout El , glish beans 4s 6d t 4-; 101 per bashed; forego 3i 6d to 48 Peas about 4, per bu,t , el. Winter vetchts 5., 6d to 64. At. Slow bridge market, on Friday, there was a good supply of graM of most d ,, scriptions, and a correspond ,ng d-mand for it on the part of the millers and dealers. For wheat especial!) , the demand was good, and fair r,n‘ii,,ed is per quarter nacre money without difficulty. Barley also was in request, and supario samples advanced Is pe, quarter in price. In beau and peas a Lir amount of basine4s doing, and pries firm. Oats maintained last week's rates. At Stratford-on-Aron market on Friday also there was a good attendance both of farmers and millers, it being what is called the " new market." Wheat wag an.i in good samples is per quarter advance was obLivable; inferior qualities as last quoted. Barley maintained previous rates, but without realizing more money. Beans firm, at last week's prices. Oats dell of sale. At Atherstone the show of Wheat was limited; other grain an average supply. Wheat avenged 5s per bushel; prime qualit!es a trifle higher. Barley cannot be quoted higher than 26s per imperial quarter. Oats were sale able at 204 to 21s per quarter. At Kidderminster market on. Thursday wheat advanced in price fully 15 per quarter. Barley in fair demand, at 6d to Is par quarter advance. Oats and Beans slow of sale. Wolverhampton market was barely supplied with nd an advance of is per quarter took place. READING, JAN. s.—Wheat, per quarter, 30s to 50$ barley, 25s to 28s; oats, 16s to 20s ; beans, 30s to 335; peas, 30s to 325. Fat hogs, Os to Os Od ; porkers, aOd to OsPd per score. Poultry—Geese, each, 5s rd to 6s Od; fowls, per couple, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; ducks, per couple, 3s Od to Si 6d ; butter, per lb, 1s to Is Id; eggs, 10 to 12 for Is. ABERDEEN, JAN. 4.—Grain —Oats 13s 6d to 14s 6d, 401bper bushel ; oats, n, w, Ud to OOs; foreign oats , 00s Od to 008 oa per qr.; barley, 17s t o 18 s Od, 52 l b s per bushel; bear, 17s to 18s, 521bs per bushel ; wheat, 40s to 455; oatmeal, lls 6d to I2s 6d per boll ; flour, 33s to 00s per sack. Provisions—Beef► yid to 8d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 60 1 to 7d ; pork, per lb, 4d to 6d ; lamb, per lb, Od to Od; tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 8d to 10d i hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 7d to 8d; hares, each, 00 to us Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to 8d; eggs, per doz, 10d to Is 2d; cheese, per cwt, ISs to 2.35; hens, P er pair, 3s Od to 3s 6cl; chickens, ditto, is 8d to 2s Od ; ducks, ditto, Is 8d to 25 jd ; ducklings, ditto, Os to Os Od; turkeys, each, 4s Od to 5s Cd; geese, ditto. 3s 6d to 4s ; butt er f o r ex p ortat i on (presen t cure ), per cwt, OOs to 52s • eggs, wholesale p rice , per d ozen , IN to 7d ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 141bs, 3s 6d to Os Od; pork tine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large. 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of '204 lbs, Os to 00 Nieal—Oatmeal, is 2d to Is 3d; barley dust, 6d to 7d; peasemeal, Is 10d to Os Od; aids, 6d to 7d; bearmeal, is 2° to us, flour, is lid tots Od; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; bole! flour, is'id to (is Od. I),Licarret, JAN. 3.—The relative weight per four bushe l ! of the three prices of wheat were IBst 71b, 17st 51b, and 18? 81b. Oats, 13st 2lb, l2 s t Ilb, an d lO s t 51b . Barley, 16st 10113, Isst 121 b, and 14st 51b. Peas and beans, 18st 131 b, 18st 41b, and 18st 3lbs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 4 2 Wheat ...£2... 3 0 £1 16 0 £1 10 0 1570 Oats 0 18 0 0 15 4 0 10 3 1099 Barley 33 Peas and Beans I 8 0 15 0 1 4 Avetag• of wheat.......... 36s 2id. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 3.—At our ma rket -day the butiaueis were—oxen, 532 ; sh ee p, 1,8 04 ' I)Aing to the scerciry of twits sales were dull, but Pr e ' v'ous prices were supported, and a good clearance $ O4 effected. Top price for best ox beer 50s per cwt, Cur, rei.t f 44, to 48s, i n t er i or qua li t i es from 303 to 40 : oer do. The supply of sheep was considerably le% thanlast day, w h ic h caused sales to be much more easily effected. B est aged wethers SFI per lb, ourren 41c1 to sd, middling and inferior from 3d to 4d pe r do. All so d. DUBLIN, JAN. 4.—We had a brisk market at 0111. Corn Exchange to-day. Wheat and barley fully main tamed the pr ices o f Tuesday, and oats were 3d tot Indies"; dearer. There was rather more inquiry • fez. c , rn, but we note no alteration in prices. White whert 19s to 233; r e d di tto, 133 Od to 225; barley, I s 6 1' to 14s 6d; oat s ( o ld) , 9s 3d to 10 3 6d per lad.; oatlne", 103 to 11s 6d; seconds flour, 12s 6d to 16s per Indian c.trn, 26s to 303 per 4801bs. CORK, JAN 4.—We have no arrivals of foreign grails k to report. Th e rece i pts of home grown for the wee d amount to—Whe a t, 1,167 b arrels at 163 6d to 2 ls ' per barrel; barl e y, 1 , 870 b arrels at Is to lie 8d P ei In barrel; oats, 3.935 b arre l s at 7s to 9s 9d per barrel. the Green-market the value of all descriptions of grab is firmly supp or t e d, w hil e for some higher rates ori given. In prepared Irish w h eat we have had but lite ~ business passing, P r i me foreign is in demand, and ' any of . really gore) quality enhances prices are klemard d, There is very littl e ma l t i ng barley offering. In grit narley a few sales have been made at late rates. S °lll ,/ parcels of oats have changed hands at the currency our last. We quote the value of the article 94 to 9 3 • per barrel, tr ee on b oar d . W e cont i nue to exper i ep o.. s good demand for toreign flour which is taken readily late prices. Irish however is ne-glected and dull of 0 :7 0 With but a moderate business passing in Ilo i lo corn its value is f u lly s u pp orte d, t h e c urrn i , prices for the article b e ing 61 12 s 6d t o 6l per ton. Indian meal meets a very restricted Sole. Flour—First 12 s 6d t o 13 s 6d ; extra l os Od' seconds, 11s to 12s 6d ; households 9s to 10s Cd; thirds, 66 per cwt. Oatmeal 9s 6d to lOs ; Indian meal 7, to 7* 3d ; wb e meal. 9e 6d to lOs p er cwt. I n di an corn 132 , 16/Ito 1379 (id per ve, Bran 31 tOsto 3/ 12s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 2ls to 3ls; aver7 o 30s ; dealers 3 : s t o Us Od; average 36s per to n . St t t4sOd to 26s Od ; average <4s ; dealers 345 Od to 005 Od tA) average 00, Od per to n . B rea d—Wh eaten l oaf 6d to Brte household loaf bd to sid per 41b. Fresh butter. M u ... 103 per lb Eggs —55 10d t o 6 s Od per h undred. C a l Newport 15s; Lydney 17 s ; L an d ore 15s ; Best ows, Culm 14s per ton. T a ll ow 39s Od to 00s per .aceit Whisky, 25 o. p., 5 s 9d per imperial gallon. I" 0 —Beef 3id to sd; m u tt on 4d to sd; veal 4d Od ; pork 3bd to 4d; bacon 7d to 8t1; sausages 5(1 lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 31 5 ° r,;1 1 ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ss; Valonia 141 to 01; Frell e. 71 53 ; English 01 per ton. Fl eece W oo l 1 0s to 121 per Po'°,l Hemp 32/ tot*: pet ton. Fish— S co t c h h err i ngs 18s to I f ts ;.. ditto 24s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to r:. ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton; deals, first quality. l, ; second quality, 16s per . 100. Hides—Market 14, to • salted I4s to 206 per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2k4 per Potatoes, white 7d to 9d ; Mi n i ons lid to 12d; Guatl° , Peruvian, 111 10 s; I c h a b oe, 9/ per ton; Tar—A r ebsog , r 19s per bariel. The Duke of Welling►ton commences the neW with fresh evidence of health and strength. Tne day he went out hunting, and ucitially rode between and twelve mike to cover.— United Service Gazette. m On the 4th in-t, at I BIRTELS ore' ag, Charles street, Berkeley...6-s the Countess o f C raven, of son. fig On the .8 h ult., t h e l a d y of Charles Claridge, " Albion-road, Holloway, of a son . On the 9th ult., at th e rectory, Orcheston, St. WO, a Wilts, the lady of C a pt a i n H enry Marriott, of daugh tg er th On the Ist ins ~ at t h e H yde, near Upton-m-3°i' 0 0. Worcestershire, th e l a d y o f M ajor J. P. Woodward, of l o p On the 3d inst., at Ha verstock-terrace, Hampstead, Shoveller, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., a t G reat Yarmouth, Norfolk, the wi fe Dr. Pores, of a daughter. On the 3d inst , at Rabat Rectory, N o rthumberland' t he wife of the Rev H. Hopwood, of a daughter cker. On the inst., in Upp er W oburn-place, vim w. E. a barth, of a daughter. On the 3d in s t. MARRIED. t iO Rev. , at St. Mary's Ch urc h, P a ddingtom re b, W. Cuthbert Barwis, curate of St. James's Cl'hutoo' Leeds, t o M ary, youngest daughter of the late B. Hug Esq. , of Waltham-abbey. o° l On th e 3d inst., at Lympston Church, D evon , Mr. S o T. Sivell, lga'' son of Mr. John Si ve ll, o f L pmps t o n, to . mo hell Elizabeth Ann Edwards, grandd aug ht er o f t h e l a te '— _.../ Coleman, Esq., R.N. DlED.peer On the 2d inst., on the Ilia: ine-parade, Dover, IL ."" Esq., late Captain of the 3d (or King's Own) Dragoon) s , On the 23 Inst., Mr. John Webster, of Huruham, B ile gsV On the 3d inst., at the Nlanor-house, Sheppert` )° ' Barer, wife of James Scott, Esq. On the inst, at East Dulwich, aged 79, James Po tter' Esq. b Wo °4 ' On the 31st ult., a t T etbury, Gloucestershire, Jaco- Esq., aged 65. 3r ! On the ?Oth if t., a t Teignmouth, George Fidde st Shi ' only son of the late Major George Short, of the 45th ment N. L, Bengal Arm Landon: P r i n t e d a nd Published by MURDO .; ie ' ...No. 112, ntrand, Printer, at Thc Sum 01lice,; 001 Ol Strand, in the P rec i nct of the Savoy, in the Monday, January 7, 1850. I f / THE S J N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, /050,