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women in Buckinghamshire, and I am delighted to find that the pillow-lace-makers' wages have advanced since 1847, and they are getting bread at two-thirds of its former price. Why, even the poor chair manu facturers in this and the ne ighbouring localities—a trade which hardly knows what it is to have a revival —are becoming more busy, and their wages are im proving. In fact, I repeat, that without exception, there is not a trade which has not gained advantage by the moderate price at which food is now obtained. —(Not to lace-makers.) —Yes, I say that the lace makers are getting more employment. But now I want to come to a question, which interests you deeply in this immediate neighbourhood, and it is this— if every great interest in' l the State is reviving, and nobody denies that it is, how is it that agri- 1 culture is depressed ? Now that is a question which you will do well to consider with attention. How is it that the interests of agriculture are thus found in antagonism with the interests of the rest of the community ? Why, they have been under a false system.—(Loud cheers.) They have pro• ceeded upon an unsaund basis. Landlords have b een greedy to have legislative prices, when they ought to have been contented with natural ones. Why else should not agriculturists get on as well as other trades ?—(Loud cheers.) We find meetings called, purporting to be those of farmers complaining of dis tress. What is their remedy for that distre ss ? Is it not to go and talk like men of business to the land lords, and ask them for fresh arrangements, in order that they may have the raw materiel —the land—at the natural price, and free from this restriction ? (Cheers) The landlords talk at these meetings as farmers, and for farmers, and they say, " we must go t Parliament, and get protection on corn to pay our rents with." That is what it amounts to. The landlord, as Mr. Disraeli observed at Great Marlow yesterday, is an individual who deals in the raw ma terial, and the farmer ie a capitalist who offers to take this raw material. In feet, the landlord and the tenant stand in the same relative situation as do the cotton-spinners and the cotton-merchant. Now, I never heard of the cotton•spinner and the cotton merchant joining together in common cause, and asking for e.omething which would tend to keep up the price of cot!on.—(Cheers.) I declare, when I hear of these landlords and farmers thus joining together, I cannot help feeling humiliated, and think that there is a want of common sense, if not of common honesty-, on the part of their leaders. Suppose ycu were to 'meet with a combination of the grocers of Aylesbury with their customers, to keep up prices, would you not at once denounce it as ateurd ? (Cheers and laughter.) Now, the plan which I re commend to tenant-farmers to be pursued towards their landlords is precisely the same as that which has been pursued by myself towards my own tenants, and I will explain to you how I have acted. I happen to stand here in the quality of a landlord, filling, I admit, a most insign!fieant character in that capacity. —(flaw much do you farm ?) I farm a small estate of about 140 acres in West Sussex, which is ;ituated in a purely tl:rming district, in the immediate vicinity of the largest Protectionist proprietors in Sussex. The land is inferior in quality, it is not within ten miles of any railway, it has no chimneys nor growing ma nufacturing towns near it to give it value, end this is precisely tee kind of land which we are told by Lord John Manners cannot be Cultivated when wheat is at 40s. a quarter. This property came into my pos7cs siun in 1847. lam indebted for it—and lam proud to acknowledge the fact in a public assembly—to the bounty of nay countrymen ; anti I re juice that I am enabled, by postes deg it again, to light up the hearth of my fathers in the place where I spent my infancy. And I say that no Duke or Lord, wi:,ll a ParliAmen • tary grant, or one proceeding from the Sovereign, holds hip property by a more henourable title than I possess.—(Great cheering ) My first visit to this property after it came into my possession was in 1848, and I then foresaw the competition to which we should soon be exposed. I gave orders im mediately that every hedge row in it should be cut down. I authorised the two occupying tenants to remove every fence on the estate. If they pre ferred to grub up portions of it only, they were to be at liberty to do so; but I said I would rather not see a hedge upon my property, as it was surrounded with hedges. It required draining, and that I have done at my own cost. This small estate being near those of great game preservers was particularly in fested with hares and rabbits. I authorised the tenants on the land to kill the rabbits and the hares. So troublesome had they become in one place that they entered the gardens mei allotments of the labourers, one of whom appeared and gave evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons on the game laws, in 1845 ; and stated that those rabbits not only devoured the vegetables and destroyed the cabbages and peas, but actually dug up his potatoes. —(Great laughter.) At that time, in 1843, the pro perty slid not belong to me; but I made inquiries in 18-18, and explained to the man that if the rabbits injured him and others on my property, the state of the law permitted every man to destroy hares so spoiling his produce,without taking out a licence. I ad vised him, in short, to set snares, and when they had caught them, to be .ure, to put them in their own pots, and eat them.—(Tremendous laughter, and cheers.) That is the way in which I deal with my game. — (Cheers.) I must confess I have no taste whatever for the preservation of that hind cf vermin, which I believe to be quite inconsistent pith good farming ( Hear.) I consider this point to present one of the greatest obstacles to the improvement of the agricul tural labourers, and for my own part had rather see a good fat hog than the best preserve.—(Cheers.) That was the course I pursued in 1848, in anticipation of the competition we are now engaged in. Prices then ranged high. Nothing was settled about rent, but in the course of last year I received a letter from one of my tenants, stating that when he took a piece of land from my predecessor, it was on the calculation of wheat averaging about 565. a quarter, and it was now little more than 405., and under those circumstances he desired a :new arrangement as to terms. I wrote him in reply, that the proposition he made was a reasonable one, that be should have the new arrangement he desired, but that as I was willing to submit to the dis advantage of low prices, I must have the benefit of good cultivation, and therefore that I would estimate the produce of the land to be such as could be grown by good farmers on that quality of land.—(Bear.) Now, I say, that from that very moment of my con ceding a point so reasonable there was not the slightest anxiety of mind, not the least difficulty es to whether our relations came under free trade or pretection.—(Cheers ) Why could not that be dorm in all cases ? Farmers and labourers would then le content. That is the question now. Now, with regard to leases, I say let there be a tenant-right, or a lease amounting together to a tenant right, let us submit to an arbitration as to unexhausted improve ments when the land is left, and I will not bind you with covenants on the land while you possess it. All the answer I would make to Noble Lords and Dukes going about the country, gathering here and there expressions of agricultural discontent, all I can say to them is, let there be new terms of agreement between you, the landlords, and your tenants, and 1 will undertake to assure you that your lands may be cultivated better by far, that farming shall still be as profitable to farmers, and that labourers shall still be employed at as good wages—if you will only let me state your new terms.—(Hear.) Agitation—it ought to be called " moonshine"—(Cheers)--is not without a definite object. If I had been a Protectionist, I should have made money by it, and in this way—when my tenants came to me complaining of prices, and demanding new terms, I would say to them, "That is true, and we will have a meeting at Great Marlow, or at High Wycombe— (Great laughter)— and we will then get up a petition to Parliament to pass . a la* to protect you: Well, we should have had a meeting, and after three hours and a half of talk, it would have ended in three groans for Cobden. —(Here the Hon. Gentleman was saluted with re peated bursts - of applause and the most vociferous cheering.) If I had wanted an excuse for urging grievous complaints of the calamitous state of affairs, I would say to them, go to 17, New Bond street, and then we will take steps to lay our case, not before Parliament, but at the foot of the Throne. And then my tenants would go away to get ready their next half-year's rent, and then some fresh excuse would be found, and instead of memorialising the Queen, they would perhaps agitate for a dissolution of Parliament—(Hear)—and then we might have been safe with our rent for the next three years.----(Cheers.) This is an agitation that will last, and in the meantime what will be th e consequence t o th e tenant-farmers ? with the heart-sick en i ng of Why, what delay—what with the hopelessness inspir e d into soulth h h c by these dreary Protectionist speeche s , i n they cannot cultivate their landswi which they are told that tfrteoe—pawyhatht the old the constant drain on their means rents with new wheat prices, one-half of the tenants w ould very ' likely be rui ne d, end I m not , sure whetber one-half of them will not be ruined is there by these Protectionist tactics.—(llear, hear.) any pretence whatever for saying that the w ill be ruined if the la n dl or d s tenants will pursue same straightforward course whi c h I have done the (Cheers.) Then it is a mere question o f rent, and if the farmers cannot get on with their busi ness , they pay too high a money rent in proportion t o th e . amount of their produce. We want, therefore, to bring landlords and tenants together, to confront them in their proper capacities of buyers and sellers, to make them deal with each other 22 all m e n o f b us i , ness do, and not to play any longer the comedy in which tenants and landlords are heard crying out " We sail in the same boat," when the fact is that N 1.- . l%*y_:s.viii* afferent boats, and in different direetions e-ere- . d roan of laughter.) Now there is a . 5 . ,.. ;:-zry ,larzr,-ke.l.x drawn across the scent of the far. t .'..:,. me . rs .-,:-, ill ,1 r ectiost cannot be hid "just now, but _ ... - ;: : :, , th at 111*., . while they i (---"' ) must have half the local 1,1 4 ,714 1 r' ~ `/. I g THE SUN, LONDON, rates removed, and transferred to the Consolidated Fund. Now, I am really astonished that en y one should have the assurance to have got up in the face of the farmers to make such a proposal to them, for their benefit, such as this is. — (Chee rs. ) But onl y think of this wise proposal of the farmers' friend—" in order to remove some of the tenant-farmers' burdens, I will take off one-half of these twelve millions of taxation, and put it on the Consolidated Fund ;" that is, upon tea and sugar, coffee, tobacco, spirits, and beer, and the rest of the things that you, the tenant-farmers and labourers, are in the habit of using. Well, now, there is a pretty project for benefiting the tenant-farmers.—(Cheers and a laugh.) Ab, but there is another way of doing that. The other way is, that of assessing the rates upon the fluctuating capital of the country. The argument is this ; Why should not the shopkeeper and the manufacturer, and the banker and wholesale dealer, be assessed on their personal property. Why, if you bring in the stock in trade of shopkeepers and maim facturers to be assessed, you must bring in the stock in trade of the farmers.—(Hear, hear.) Now, I will just ask the farmers in this borough of Aylesbury how much they will gain by that ? The farming stcck of the country has been stated to be 25,000,000/. Why, if so, it is only five times as much as is invested in the cotton trade, and yet these agricul• turista say, " we will assess the stock so much, and then we will assess the cotton upon the cotton lords."—(Chters and laughter.) What, now, ought to be the course pursued by farmers at the present time ? If they have leaders in every district like Mr. Lattimore, let them assemble together as tenant farmers, but as tenant-farmers only.—(Hear, hear.) What was it that procured the repeal of the corn laws but that Lancashire and Yorkshire and other places united for the purpose, and had not made the exhibition of themselves or paraded, which the rabble of the Protectionists have.—(Hear, hear.) Now, I will tell them what they should do. Tenant-farmers must meet together exclusively. When they talk of free trade and protection, tenant-farmers ought only to be present. Let them only act towards each other with fairness and justice. Let them act honestly together, and they will find it in the end, not only their own, but the general interest of the community. —(Hear, hear.) We have come hereto day to speak chiefly of financial and Parliamentary reform. I leave others who are here to deal with that subjsct generally, and I have preferred to address myself to that which most deeply interests you—the question of the tenant-farmers and the landowners. The Hon. Gentleman here concluded his speech, and resumed h . s seat amidst deafening applause. Mr. HAUGHTON said, inasmuch as his entire pro perty consisted in land, it had naturally been an object of importance to him to examine closely the particular questions which had reference to it. For merly he had been a zealous Protectionist in principle, and had clung to it as long as he thought he would he justified in doing so, Nchen at length he found that it was an unseaworthy ship, and he zhandoned it. They were their own sheet anchors, and he exhorted them not to be led away by protectionist delusions. Ile himself never employed more labourers, nor was engaged in more itnprovernents, than at the present time. Mr. Ilaughton concluded by moving the Orly resolution submitted to the meeting, which was as follows :—" That. this meeting denounces the attempt to re-impose a tax upon the bread of the people ; that the proi.;er remedy for the distress of which the farmers complain is to he found hi the re-adjustment of terms between landlords and tenants, and in the re duction of taxation; and that, to secure the latter object, it is desirable that the people should possess a com plete control over the choice of the Members of Parlitment." Mr. J. Gums, of Aylesbury, seconded the resolu- tion in a brief appropriate speech. Mr. F. O'Ct NNOR, M.P., sad that perhaps he might be considered an intruder, but he understood that Mr. Disraeli, the great Protectionist Mentor, was to be there that night, and as Parliament was now soon to meet he determined on being present, for the purpose of taking a lesson from him. The lion. Gentleman expressed, at considerable length, his entire concurrence in the objects of the meeting, and his satisfaction at his being able to do so without sacrificing his own political principles. In giving his assent to them, however, and heartily feeling a desire to side with Mr. Cobden in this movement in a Pro tectionist county, he would at the same time retain to the last every point of the Charter, which he had still hypes of one day seeing become the law of the land. le concluded by giving a few humorous :electioneer ing anecdotes, having a political application to the circumstances discussed in the meeting, which were productive of consPerable amusement. Mr. GASKILL said that although a landowner he had come to that meeting to support the views they had that evening heard propounded from the platform The tenant-farmers were not as yet in the same boat, but there was a boat in which both might row if they chose, viz., the repeal of the malt-tax. The re-ad justment of the relation between landlord and tenants was a matter which would not be finally disposed of until much time had elapsed, and it had received considerable discussion, though it was undoubtedly one which would tend materially to benefit the con dition of the tenant-farmers. If noblemen and titled landlords found out that their sons could not have the splendid establishments they had hitherto had, it was likely that they would apply their attention to teach Clem something of farming, and they would then turn out a race of men approximating in their general characteristics to the old class of farmers. With a surplus of two and a half millions, arising from the increased consumption of the country, which it was said would be the case at the end of the financial year on the sth of April, and which would induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to propose certain great changes in the fiscal system of the country, if they (the farmers) were to be desirous of any change in the application of the public revenue, they should unite to procure a remission of the malt and hop duty.—(Hear, hear.) As to the Protectionist plans of Mr. Disraeli, he had denounced them as de luding, humbugging, and unstatesmanlike, to Mr. Disraeli's own face but yesterday, at the Marlow meeting ; and, himself, a landowner in that county, he firmly and conscientiously believed so. He most cordially supported the resolution.—(Hear.) Mr. JAMES TAYLOR, of Birmingham, next ad dressed the meeting, and explained at some length, and very energetically, the political advantages that would result to the Buckinghamshire farmers by a 'opting the freehold land system of becoming holders of land themselves, and _voters at Parliamentary elections. Mr. WILLIS, of Luton, a manufacturer of straw bonnets, also supported the resolution, which was then put from the chair and carried by acclamation, amidst a tremendous uproar of cheers and shouting. Mr. SAMUEL GIBBS then moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, also to the gentlemen who had attended the meeting to address it, and to the sheriff of the county, for his kindness in allowing the use of the County-hall for the purpose of the meeting. The resolution having been passed, The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and the proceed ings terminated with three times three for Cobden. PROTECTION MEETING.—A meeting of farmers and others was held yesterday at Shrewsbury, convened by the High Sheriff of the county of Shropshire, in consequence of a requisition presented to him for the purpose of considering the depressed state of the agri cultural interest. Upwards of 2,000 persons were pre sent, and on the platform, with the High Sheriff, were observed - Viscount Newport, M.P., R. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P., Sir A. Cordell, the Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P., &c. The first resolution, which declared that the agricul tural and other great interests were in a state of distress in consequence of the adoption of free trade, and which would continue to increase if protection was not substi tuted, was proposed by Mr. Benson, and seconded by Mr. Davis. Mr. Slaney , 'M.P., denied that distress was general, but no doubt the agricultural interest was de pressed in consequence of the large free importation of foreign corn. Ile declared himself in favour of a fixed duty, which he regretted the Whigs had not proposed as an amendment to Sir R. Peel's plan.—(The Hon. Member was heard with the greatest impatience, which at length obliged him to conclude.) The resolution was carried, as were others in condemnation of free trade, and the meeting broke up. ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR DRURY-LANE.—On Tuesday night a care of the use of the knife in passion took place in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane. Two tailors, one of them deaf and dumb, had been engaged at work, and from some unknown cause Keeling, the dumb man, exhibited feelings of anger towards the other, whose name is Levy. A scuffle ensued between them, when Keeling took from one of his pockets a painter's putty-knife, and aimed at Levy's throat. The knife entered the right side of the jugular vein, and caused a frightful gash. An alarm was raised, and after some difficulty Keeling was secured, and taken to Bow-street office, when Mr. Henry remanded him. The prosecutor was conveyed to King's College Hospital in a very pre carious state. TUE RECENT Loss OF LIFE AT THE SERPENTINE. --yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest relative to the death of Thomas Drayton, who was drowned from breaking through the ice, while skating on the Serpen tine, on Sunday last. The verdict was—,, Accidental death." B very u s c to K r i m E, y D we E s e t . he 2 r 9 : — Ve wilahheaavvye sheaad; fortunatelydaysof none of the boats on the coast were at sea. Our harbours have both sustained considerable damage , particu larly the East Harbour—this is a wooden structure, built chiefly by funds collected by the fishermen and feuars. The East Head has entirely given way, and only a few fragments are to be seen. The West Head has also given way; about thirty feet of it have fallen in, the beach with which it was filled up having been washed out by the tide. The Old Harbour has likewise got n3i t tt n h hph e meeisy: s w t amprravgpiveeeGni damage.have all reported aphe d e roer dar tide t:ooe. fndw no : payms into vn v at e : toe r f y aethghv h aeeev i ,r g evye b ex , in the harbour ha oee : b e ilhayoi ogo a fi a r l hha d o s ei ntntioh,vgt A good many houses were lashed with onsulerable injury .— lnverness oss eeaspeene?inndst Courier. f r i t g ain t r h tfo oese i:tdaittei o . t e ie :dor they . would come down, but SICILY Letters from Palermo, of the 20th December, re- I present the state of Sicily as horrible. The atrocities committed by Filangieri are equal to those com mitted by Haynau in Hungary; and King Bomba seems envious of the fame of the Red Emperor; but it is not alone to imprisonments, shootings, and , extortions that King Bomba confines his attention ; he has recently put in practice a scheme for obtain ing money, which surpasses in ingenuity the cleverest devices of the swindling community. During the years 1848-9 the Provisional Government of Sicily raised certain sums of money by a voluntary contri bution, for the purchase of arms, ammunition, and, among other munitions of war, of two steam-frigates. A considerable portion of this money, which remained unexpended, was given up to Bomba on the surrender of the island, as were the arms and ammunition, and steam-frigates, which had been purchased by the remainder. Having thus plundered the whole of the proceeds of these voluntary contributions, he now calls upon each person who held the office of Finance Minister to refund from their private property the whole of the sums thus collected, the which sums, or the produce of them, he bad himself seized. Nay, more, he has condemned the Prince Granatelli and M. Scalia, who were the Commissioners sent to England, to pay to him the whole of the amount remitted to them and by them expended in the purchase of arms and ammunition, which arms and ammunition are already in his possession. So that having first of all seized the proceeds of the voluntary loan, he demands it again of those from whom he plundered it ; and in the case of Prince Granatelli and M. Scalia, this most honest, most pious, most brave, and in every sense of the word, most Bourbon of Princes, wishes to extort for a third time, money which he has been paid twice over, and to which originally he had not the shadow of a title. IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, JAN. B.—Mr. John O'Connell made his weekly speech yester.lay, at Conciliation Hall. The attendance was wretched in the extreme. Mr. James Nugent (grocer), Kingstown, was in the chair. Mr. O'CONNELL, in allusion to his recent letter, resigning the representation of the city of Limerick, s,id it was quite true that as far as die British Par liament was concerned, his efforts in the cause of Ireland were at an end; but he would not go so far as to say—should they procure a Parliament of their own—that he would not sit in that Parliament. The feet of his resignation, together with the reasons which had induced him to resign, were set out in his letter; and the important question, there ore, remained to be decided who was . o be his successor ? This was a point to which he was most anxious to call the attention of the people of Limerick, and in doing so, he hoped he would not be considered as intruding I is advice upon those into whose hands he was about to resign his trust. He had seen in the newspapers the addresses of two or three persons who intended to come forward as c .ndidates, but as yet no one worthy of representing a constituency of so much importance had offered himself for acceptance. A son of Lord Gort, a gentleman of high position in society, had come forward, but, as he adhered to the old principles of Toryism, he (Mr. O'Connell) could not advise the people of Limerick to sup port him. The same objection applied with (qua; force to another candidate—Colonel Vereker ; and he trusted, therefore, that he would also be rejected.-- (Hear, hear.) Then came Mr. Ric•hird Russell. This candidate was a gentleman of high standing in society, hut, in his opinion, something more than that was required in order to qualify him to be a represen wive of the people.— (Hear.) In the first place, a public man ought to identify himself thoroughly with the feelings of the people ; and in the nex, instance, he should resolutely advocate the principle which they had most at heart. Mr. Russell, bows ever, did not appear to come up to this definition, for in his late letter to the electors of Limerick he had stated, manifestly in allusion to the repeal of the union, " that he was in favour of all other projects for the benefit of the people which were of practical attein ment." Now he (Mr. O'Connell) begged to tell Mr. Russell that repeal was a project of practical attain ment, and that its attainment was far more practi cable at the present time than it had ever been. But what right had Mr. Russell to assert that repeal was not obtainable until he had himself, first of all, come forward and assisted in the efforts of that association, to carry it ? It was his firm faith that repeal would yet be obtained, for he believed that nothing was im pcmible to men who endeavoured to procure rights by legitimate means, and with an unwavering resolution to succeed.—(Cheers.) The rent amounted to 141. 4s. sd. Rarr,wAy FACILITIES.-The London and North Western Railway Company, with the view of giving increased facilities to the graziers of the south and west of Ireland, for the conveyance of fat stock to London and other large markets in England, are at present engaged, in cenjunction with the City of Dublin Steam racket Company and the Irish rail ways, in organizing a system whereby the sender can book his cattle at once, from any station on the Great Southern and Western, and Midland Great Western, to any place on the London and North-Western Railway. Thi3 will be a great advantage to grazers, as they will thus be enabled to calculate the cost of conveyance from cne point to another, and will save the expense of consigning the cattle to the salesmen of Dublin or Liverpool. Now that house-feeding is likely to be greatly ex tended through Ireland, from the increased culti- vation of green crops, this arrangement is a very prudent one, and likely to be of great advantage both to the public and the railway and steam-boat com panies. WRECK IN THE WEXFORD HARBOUR.—The spring tide on New Year's-day morning: was of sufficient height to float the hull of the American barque Re peater, of Boston, which had lain a wreck for nearly two months, nigh to Wexford Harbour's mouth. She now lies safe alongside the patent slip, and is found to have sustained much less injury than could well have been expected from her perilous position and length of time on the sand bank. ANOTHER SAVINGS BANK DEFAULTER. The depositors of the Savings Bank in Aylesbury have been caused the greatest anxiety and consterna tion in consequence of the absconding of Mr. Henry Stratton, clerk to Mr. James James, solicitor, who is the secretary to the bank. It is greatly feared, from circumstances which have just transpired, that Mr. Stratton, who has sailed for America, is a defaulter to no small amount. In the Aylesbury papers of la,t week appeared a notice, issued by Mr. James, to the effect that depositors in the hank were required to bring in their pass-books for examination up to the 20th of November; the trus tees having appointed the 14th of this month for the commencement of the examination, the depositors were "requested to lose no time in leaving their pass books at the office, where a printed receipt will be given for each book delivered up." Mr. Stratton, it appears from the circumstance of his being clerk to Mr. James, had much to do with the business con nected with the savings bank; and there is no doubt that, fearing the disclosures which would be inevitable upon the books being brought in for examination, he judged it expedient to make himself " scarce." Consequently, a few days since, he left Aylesbury for the alleged purpose of visiting an uncle in Gloucestershire, accompanied by his wife and family, arranging with Mr. James when he left to return to Aylesbury in time to resume his duties on the 14th instant. Circumstances, shortly after his departure, having excited the suspicions of Mr. James as to the integrity of his clerk, in whom he had placed the greatest confidence, he was induced to institute cer tain inquiries, the result of which will be gathered from the following letter, dated January 3, which Mr. James lost no time in transmitting to each of the trustees of the bank :—" Sir,—l regret to inform you that during the examination of the savings bank vouchers, delivered yesterday, a book containing items to the amount of 301., in the hand writing of my clerk, Mr. Stratton, and bearing no folio number for the ledger, nor any manager's cheque, was produced by a person of the name of Falkner. Nly suspicions were immediately excited that he had absented himself from my office under a false pretence ; and on obtaining information as to his movements from his brother, and as to his money transactions from Mr. Self, of the London and County Bank, I was forced to the conclusion that he had absconded with a large sum of money, with which he had been just intrusted by an aged relative. lat once sent instruc tions to London for a police-officer to board the Julindar, bound from London to Adelaide, and which was to touch at Plymouth yesterday; whilst I, in company with Mr. Self, proceeded by the mail train to Liverpool, in the hope of intercepting him there ; but we found, to our mortification, that he had sailed (under his own name) for New York, in the steam-ship Canada, on Saturdey, with his wife and children. I returned by the morning mail, and have since had an interview with the Under-Secretaries of State, in the hope that the. Government would obtain his arrest in America ; but the treaty which exists between the two countries will not authorise any interference, unless he shall be found to have been guilty of forgery, in which case officers will b. immedie.ely sent to effect his capture. Although it is not possible to speak with certainty upon the matter, I entertain a very strong opinion that the defalcations have extended over a very short period, and to an amount exceedingly small, when com pared with the property he has left available to cover them." A meeting of the trustees of the bank has been summoned forthwith by Mr. Jqtre:, 'A hen every fur h - •.. •• .• -• gentleman will be laid before them for their consider ation and guidance. Mr. Stratton, besides being one THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1850 of the proprietors of the Bucks Chronicle, was agent to the Royal Exchange Assurance-office, secretary to the Buckingham Building Society, and also secretary to the Aylesbury Benefit Building Society. It is stated that the books of the Aylesbury Building So ciety have been ascertained to be in a state of con siderable confusion. As regards the books of the Buck inghamshire I3uilding Society, they have not been in his possession, but placed in tha hands of a party of great integrity, so that no fears are entertained of anti• meddling with its funds by the fugitive. There appears to he very little doubt that an uncle of Strat ton's will be a sufferer from the dishonesty of his re lative to a very considerable amount. A large sum of money had been placed in his hands to be invested in good security, the whole of which, it is feared, he has decamed with. — )horning Paper. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAT.—The operations in yarns, o n foreign account, have net been extensive. The buyers of 20's and 30's water twist rather hesitate to pay the required advance of ? E d. per lb. on the late de pressed prices; the producers, however, will bate no thing from their quotations. And, as regards India qua - lities, although the rise upon 40's, 50's, and 60's mule somewhat startles the merchants, yet the scarcity of these spinnings renders them remarkably bueyant. Yarns for home manufacture have been in very fair rc quest, at an addition of id. to the rates of last week. The light and medium qualities of cloth, of almost all descriptions, are so go nerelly under contract as to preclude any great t xtent of business at the present time ; whatever there is in the market goes oft readily at full prices. Printing cloths are scarce , particularly in the lower qualities, which are still hardening in price. All the various widths of shirtings are taken at the quotations, so far as they are offered for sale. Low jacconets are engaged fur some time to come. The stocks of long cloths are now light; but their pre sent value affords no inducement to increase the produc tion. T cloths continue flat. Considerable as have been the sales of stout domestics, for home consump tion, within the last month, it is with extreme difficulty that a trifling . advance has been obtained, and prices continue in a most unsatisfactory 6tate. On the whole, the tone of the market, both in yarns and goods, has been firm and cheerful. Letters from Constantinople to the 22d ult. repre sent the market for our cotton, particularly printed calicoes, as still in the course of gradual improvement, although some slight check had been felt from the intelligence of a backward movement which occurred in our market, from a month to six weeks ago. Roc lIDALE, MONDAY.—This has been what is caPed the new or first market, and every fortnight market from this is called the great Monday, when the oil and wool dealers from other towns principally attend. We have had a fair demand for pieces at former prices, and wool has been much the same as it was last Monday. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have still to notice the favourable appearances of trade which have been manifest some time, the steadiness of which, and the entire absence of failures, testifying a very healthy end sound state of business. Maeufactured goods are freely looked al.er, and there hes been considerable inquiry for thrown silks, at the old rates ; the stocks on hand of this article are very light. The acceunts from Lyons, of the lst instant, report the manufacturers busily eegaged with extensive orders for the Paris houses, and that prices are improving for some descriptions of silks. The dyers remain very btkily emplo)ed for the syring trade. In the raw silk market there is no new feature to observe. The brokers' monthly circulars, just issued, all speak of prices Being . firmly supported. The stock of silk left on hand, of all descriptions, on the 31st December, 1849 (not withstanding the very large imports of the year), being less than it was in the corresponding period of 1848, shows a considerably increased consumption over the previous year. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The year opens well, and to-day's market has been very brisk in almost every kind of goods in woollens. The stocks are very low, and quite insufficient for the wants of the season. At this season business was scarcely ever known to be in a more healthy state. Hanirax, SATURDAY. --- AllhOUgh the inquiry for worsted goods is scarcely so active as it was, yet the new year has commenced very favourably, and there is every prospect of a good steady trade, provided it be not unduly checked by the rapid rise in the cost of the raw material. The manufacturers have not yet been able to obtain, either on plain or fancy goods, an advance equal to the enhanced price of yarns ;_ but as there are no la rge stocks on ha n d, and Lnuit of the business is dune to order, they are thereby better enabled to stand out for a proportionate ad vance. Long wool has again advanced, and considerable sales have been effected. Yarns continue to be in brisk demand both for export asid for home consump tiun, and the spinners are in expectation of their following the rise in wool. Short wools are firm, and rather less doing. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—No change has occurred since last week of any moment. Very few goods sold to day, owing to the dull heavy weather. The manu facturers are well employed, and more is doing in the warehouses than is usual at this season of the year. ICE FLOATS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE Sin ' —Having observed in your journal of Monday, and in the Advertiser of Tuesday, an account of an economical method of saving persons from drowning, by " Hurnanitas,” allow me to tell you of my plan. I will not now say a word about the machines already in use, but I have made since I saw the accidents on Sunday three models, which I will engage to ex tricate persons at any distance, say 60 to 70 feet, within a minute or a minute and a half after the accident. The first plan is—l have a float 30 feet long, I foot 6 inches wide, and 8 inches deep, round bottom, and filled with compressed air. I place weight enough to draw four inches of water, and at each end I have a piece of iron similar to the iron on a skate; that is to make it go over the ice from out of the water. I then send it forth with poles six feet long, with spring joints instead of screw joints for quick ness ; a line is attached on each side of the float to guide it. 'The person immersed lays hold of the rope handles round the float. I then draw it home again and undo the joints. The second is a round water proof belt, filled with- compressed air, with iron skates attached under, and then work it as above with spring joints. The third is ch eaper, b ut not so good. Take a bit of 3 inch deal plank eleven inches wide ; nail rope loops round; place the s k a t es un d er , and work as above. Lastly, I will undertake if I had the means to make my float to save any person, at any distance on a half of i h the water te ▪ nany of th e par k s, w i th i n .a minute and accident ; if no t I w ill (although a very small tradesman) f orfeit for my presumption 51., to be gi▪ ven to the R oya l H umane Society. I saw a person in the water 20 or 25 minutes in St. James's-park on Sunday; and had it not been for the praisewortby treatment o f Mr. M`Cann, the surgeon, assisted by young Mr. M'Cann and the society's men . when b rought on shore, in float been in nthe water one more it travels again, till it meets he e e i iinn w ug o t would h l ; de the have hweomu lo l d o r s e t n o h s t t o s uh l a l p f v e ue . hb H eiet a n d t h e 50, York-road, Lambeth. t o h v e er p i e c r e s , th on.— en l ito a n m, w si a r t , er, over &c.,ice 11. CRAKE _ t t hi 3 road fte . r T r h ds e THE LATE FORGERY IN SOUTH W ALES.—More of the forged notes on the ba nk of M essrs. Bailey and Co. have been detected. .Twe of these we re passed at Rag lan. The swindlers went from Monmouth to Whit church in a phaeton, an i e d h t f h r o e y m t o t o h k e n o hey a w a proceededetopParecneclrsawi They had some game with them, man who appeared at Carmarth en is des cribed as five feet eight or nine inches high , twent y -seve n to thin) years of age, light hair, fair complex i o n, rud dy , marked with the smallpox, Birmingham dia lect, middl e stature. Ho had the following articles of wearing apparel, which he changed—a dark brown Newmarket -cut coat, a d ark brown over coat, a plum or crimson-coloured waistcoat, supposed to be velvet, striped dark neckerchief, with a knot in front, which may be a stock, and dark trousers. While we write Mr. Adams is still from home, pursuing his inquiries respecting them, which we sincerely trust may prove successful. Last week the firm on which the forgeries were committed issued hand-bills offering a reward for the detection of the parties who issued the notes. —Hereford Times. ELECTIONEERING MOVEMENTS IN PERTH. A good deal of idle gossip is current on this subject, which we think it right to meet with a plain statement of things as they are, and of the intentions, so far as we know them, of some parties in the city. It is true that a requisition to Mr. Charles Gilpin to stand for this constituency has been got up, and is now in course of signature. It is true that it has received the signatures of one hundred and fifty of the electors. But it is not true that the requisitionists intend to start Mr. Gilpin in opposition to Mr. Maule, should a dissolution of Parliament or any other contingency lay the Right Hon. Gentleman under the necessity of again appealing to the electors. Mr. Gilpin's requisitionists intend to start him when the present Member retires from the field, but not till then. So, at least, we are informed by gentlemen high in their confidence, and we believe that the information is correct.—Perth Advertiser. IRON SHIP BUILDING IN Coss.—Mr. Pike is building an immense iron vessel at his iron ship building-yard, Hargrave's quay. She is intended for the New York trade when completed, which it is ex pected will be in June next, and it is to be commanded by an experienced mariner, a native of this city—Cap tain Hall. This vessel will be steam-propelled, and her tonnage is computed at 1,400 tons.—ark Constitution. THE LANDING - STAGE.—The waiting and refresh ment rooms on the great landing-stage, St. George's Pier, are at length completed ; and we understand that they will be opened for the accommodation of the public in the course of the present week. The tennnt 11 , ,s to :• Ilex of the 11,1 1 ,1 -ay pe o p l e in We sumwtr time will tend to make the speculation remunerative. --Liverpool Albion. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.) THE CASE OF EDWARD NAIRNE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) The note written by Beeton, the clerk to the pri soner, was then put in and read. and from this docu ment it appeared that the 1,000/. Exchequer-bill formed part of the consideration for the cl;que f)r 2,2001. that was placed to arr prisoner's account by 111evArs. Brown and Co. Mr. BODKIN having called two other witnesses, intimated that this was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CLARKSON said, that there was a witness of the name of Ingall on the back of the bill, and as he msidered his evidence was material on the part of the prisoner, he hoped his Learned Friend would put Lim in the box. Mr. BonxiN intimated that he should not call that person. Mr. Justice PATTESON observed, that it was cus• tomary where a witness's name appeared on the barb of an indictment, for the Counsel for the prosecution, elthough he did not think it advisable to examine him himself, to put him in the box, that he might be examined by the prisoner's Counsel if he thought proper. . . Mr. BODKIN said it was, he belivved, always con :dared a matter of discretion, and it appeared to !T1 in this case not advisable to nail the person referred to, and he should therefore decline to do so• Mr. Jusqc.:l PATTESON said, as this was the case the Court would call the witness. Charles Henry Ingall was accordingly called, and upon Mr. Bodkin declining to put any question to him, he was examined by Mr. Clarkson. lie deposed that in May and June of last year he was engaged as clerk to the prisoner, and Beeton was a fellow clerk, and he used to draw cheques for the prisoner by procuration. He remembered seeing the cheque for 2,2001. in the beginning of June, but he could not say whether it was shown to him by Beeton or not. He said he knew that Beeton sold some Exchcquer bi,ls that were in the strong box, and that Mr. Nairne was not in London when the sale took place. He wrote Mr. Nairne's name upon the back of the cheque, and either gave it to Beeton or paid it into the bankers. Beeton went away the day before the fiat of bankruptcy was issued against the prisoner on the lith August. By Mr. BODKIN—Mr. Nairne's residence was at Richmond. Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury, and he commenced by übserviag that it was a very painful du'y for him to do so on behalf of a gentleman who had for a great number of years borne the highest character for integrity in the commercial world, and who now stood before them to answer a charge of the most serious character; and he could not help ex pressing an opinion that the case had been conducted against him in a most scandalous and infamous manner. They were not on the present occasion squabbling in a County Court about a paltry debt of forty shillings, but the question was, whether or not a gentleman ' who had hitherto borne an unsullied character, had been guilty of an offence which would subject him to the punishment of transportation; and yet his Learned Friend, who he was sure had acted from the in4ructions that were forced upon him, and not from his own judgment, had refused to call a witness who had been examined on behalf of the prosecution before the magistrate, and whose name now appeared on the back of the bill, because, as it appeared, that his evidence might be favour able to the prisoner. He considered that the pri• soner had been most unfairly dealt with through out the transaction. When he became a bankrupt all his papers were seized, and he WAS denied access to them, nail he was thus prevented from showing what number of cheques had actually been drawn by Beeton, although the prosecutors were well aware that the prisoner's defence had always been that Becton was the guilty party. Had the jury any doubt that this person had at a!! events a guilty share in the matter, when they saw what his conduct had been ? With regard to the prisoner it was nut enough to say that his conduct was suspicious, or that it was very probable he had had some share in the transac tion ; but the prosecutors were bound to establish his guilt by the clearest testimony, and if they left any doubt of the fact, the prisoner was entitled to the be nefit of it. Beeton was authorised to draw cheques— he had access to the strong box, and it was for them to say whether it was not extremely probable that he had disposed of the property without the knowledge or sanction of the prisoner ? They had heard that one cheque had been drawn for 10,0001., and for all they knew to the contrary this very cheque might have been drawn by Beeton, but the prosecutors prevented them from showing that fact by retaining all the cheques in their possession. Mr. Justice PATTESON here interfered, and said that before the Learned Counsel proceeded any further with his address, he should wish to ask the witness legall another question or two. Ingall was accordingly recalled, and, in answer to questions put by his Lordship, he said that the prisoner was at Boulogne when the fiat of bank ruptcy issued against him, but he said he only knew this from what Beeton told him. The prisoner did not come to the office for a month before the bank ruptcy, but he was seen a week before at his house at Richmond. By Mr. BODKlN—Witness saw the prisoner at Boulogne. Mr. BODKIN then wished the witness to be asked where he had last seen Beeton, but The Learned JUDGE said that as the question did not arise out of any of those which he had himself put, he did not think it ought to be asked. Mr. CLARKSON, in continuing his address, com plained of the conduct of Mr. Bodkin, in endeavour ing to screw out a verdict by getting evidence from a witness whom he had before rejected as unworthy of belief. Mr. BODKIN said he was surprised that his Learned Friend should apply such observations to him. They were both ungentlemanly and uncalled for. Mr. Justice PATTESON said he certainly considered they were uncalled for, and it would have been better if they had not been made. Mr. CLARKSON said he could not help expressing his opinion that the prosecution had been most scan dalously and unfairly conducted. Mr. BODKIN said he was in the hands of the Court, and he would put it to them whether this was proper language to be made use of ? He could only say in reply to what was stated by Mr. Clarkson, that he considered the case had been conducted in a most proper manner, and if he had to prosecute in a similar case the next day he should do it in precisely the same way. Mr. CLARKSON then concluded his address, by repeating some of the former assertions, tending to show that Beeton was actually the guilty party, and that he was alone responsible; and he argued that, as there was no clear evidence that the prisoner was cognizant of his proceedings, or had sanctioned them in any manner, that he was entitled to an acquittal upon the present charge. Mr. Justice PATTESON then summed up, and having referred to the statute and explained to the jury the precise nature of the charge against the pri soner, he said that in order to support the indictment the jury must be satisfied that the prisoner was a broker or agent, and that the property in question had been placed on his premises for a specific purpose, and that he had without authority afterwards converted the instrument to his own use. The Learned Judge then went through the evidence and said that the material question for the jury to decide was, whether the Exchequer-bill in question hid been disposed of by the prisoner, or with his sanction. It they believed it had, the case was made out against him, but if they entertained any doubt upon the subject, it would be their duy to acquit him. The jury, after deliberating for a short time in the box, retired, and after being absent a quarter of an hour, they returned into court and gave a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Ceetticsoar requested the Court to inquire whether the jury were of opinion that the prisoner had authorised the act of disposing of the property in the first instance, or whether he merely concurred in it afterwards, as in one view it might afford a point for consideration to the Court of Appeal. Mr. Justice PATTESON having put the question to the jury, they replied, that they were of opinion that the prisoner both sanctioned the act in the first in stance, and concurred in it afterwards. Mr. lIUDDLESTONE said there were two other in dictments against the prisoner of a similar character, one of them having reference to the other Exchequer bills that had been mentioned, and the second was the case of a clergyman, who had placed 1,9001. in the prisoner's hands, to invest in Russian bonds, the whole of which sum he had appropriated to his own use. He wished to know whether the Court considered it necessary to proceed with these indictments ? The Learned Judges having conferred together, said they considered it would be more satisfactory that another indictment should be tried before judg ment was pronounced. Charles Franklin, 18, was convicted upon the clearest testimony of an atrocious assault upon his half sister, a child nine years old. It was stated that he was of weak intellect; and the jury recommended him to mercy on account of his youth and previous good character. Mr. Justice TALFOURD sentenced him to be kept to hard labour for two years. PAUPERISM IS ON THE DECLINE IN TUE HENLEY UNION.—At the cloLe of the year 1843, there were in the union 380 persons; at the present time there are only 210, showing a decrease of 170, who are classified as follows:—able-bodied mi], 14 ; women, 30 ; boys under 16 years of age. 47; girls do., 61; old men, 36; deduction of 10 per cent. on the last year's rent of his estates in Kent. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMB NT H. TVilliam Thomas, formerly a beenhop-keerr, but latterly a member of a gang of notorious swindlers, was charged with uttering several 51. and 101. forged not,?s of the Bank of England. Police-sergeant John Harvey, 14 G, deposed that, in consequence of information which he received from Sergeant cluinneer, of the P division, he apprehended the prisoner on the night before. He found him at the Black Lion beershop, in Pear-stre,r, Goswell streei:- road, in company with from 30 to 40 swindlers and persons who lived by fraud of one description or another. On his way to the station house, the prisoner said he had been made the dupe of others, that he had been keeping out of the way fur four or five weeks, and he was glad he (Sergeant Harvey) had come to take him, as he was sick and tired of it. He also said that if his case was out reported in the papers he would soon find the person who employed him. Mr. Johnson Eddington, proprietor of the Arti choke public-house, in Church-street. Camberwell, deposed that on the 25th of November last the pri soner came to his house and asked it Mr. Thorw.s, his uncle, was there? 11-, (witness) replied he was not, but that it was about his time for coming, and he expected him every moment. The prisoner then said he wanted to leave a couple of pounds ier him, but to do so he must have change of a 101. note. Witness anxious to serve the uncle, and knowing tie prisoner from his being in the habit of calling to Ke him, consented to give him the change, and handed him eight sovereigns. On the 28th of November he paid the note away, and on the Ist of December he received it back stamped "forgery Mr. ELLIOTT—Are you sure the note you produce is the same you had taken from the prisoner ? Mr. Eddington—Quite certain, Sir, for the prisoner wrote his name on the back of it in my presence, and here it is. (The prosecutor here pointed out the name of the prisoner in full on the back of the note.) Sergeant Quinneer, 1 P, here said that there were no further witnesses in attendance at present, but on a future day he should have Mr. Castles, landlord of the Salisbury Arms public-house, in Lock's-fields, who had changed a 51. note for the prisoner; Mr. Fudge, a grocer, in the Walworth-road, who had also changei a Si. note; and Mr. Fellows, a gentleman who had given him change for a 101. note, all forgeries, present to give evidence. The prisoner, who declined saying anything in his defence, was remanded until Monday next. 7 !MMES. Richard Wainwright, a carman, of Barkingside . Essex, in the employment of Mr. Smithies, was charged with wantonly and cruelly Musing a horse. Mr Threadgold, a gentleman residing at White horse lane, Stepney, saw the prisoner proceeding along the Whitechapel- road with a horse, tied by a halter to the back of a waggon which ho was driving. The poor animal, whose fetlock was cut, fell fre quently on its knees and seemed to suffer extreme pain. Mr. Threadgold remonstrated with him, but he said he acted under the direction of his master, and that if he refused to du so he should be discharged and (H.: , of want. Mr. YARDLEY (to the prisoner)—lf your master ordered you to knock a man on the head or to commit a burglary, would you do it? Prisoner—No, I know myself better than that. Mr. YARDLEY—Yet you are equally guilty of a bre .ch of the law in what you have bean doing. When Mr. Threadgold asked you how you shouid like to be treated so yourself, you replied, " Not at all." The rule you should do as you would be done by should apply even to dumb animals. Why not kill him on the spot, instead of driving or dragging him in such a state upwards of seven miles ? Inspector Holmes, of the K division, here stated that for several reasons the knackers gave more for a living than for a dead horse, inasmuch as, in the first place, it saves the trouble and expense of sending for the animal, and next, it was more easily flayed when fresh killed. Mr. YARDLEY said it was a most disgraceful thing to find that for a slight amount of profit any man should inflict such an amount of cruelty on a poor suffering animal. lie regretted he could not reach the master, and he would, therefore, fine the prisoner 20s. Mr. Seymour, the chief clerk, called his Worship's attention to an Act, by which the horse and waggon, which were then at the Green-yard, could be at tached for the amount of the fine. Mr. YARDLEY immediately ordered the detention of the horse and cart, and discharged the prisoner. Ile at the same time cautioned the managing man of Mr. Smithies, who was in court to watch the case, that any repetition of the same conduct would be visited with the heaviest punishment. A tall powerful old man, named John Williams. seventy.one years of age, whose head was covered with a profusion of white hair, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding a boy, named Alfred Howard, aged eleven years. It appeared that the prisoner is a jobbing butcher, and was employed by Mr. Dixon, in the Cannon street-road. The peculiar appearance of the old man had caused him to be made the butt of a number of idle boys, who were in the practice of irritating him and calling him " Jowley " and " Whitehead." On Tuesday evening he w as sharp ening a large scraper knife on the pavement, when the boy Howard came by and called him " Jovvley." The old man immediately rose, ran after the boy, and threw the scraper knife, a very heavy and dangerous instrument, at him. The knife lodged in his right arm, inflicting a very deep wound, from which the blood flowed copiously. A policeman, named Payne, 23 H, took the lad to Dr. Meyer, divisional surgeon, who dressed the wound, which was a very severe one It was a jagged wound - , and the knife had penetrated to a considerable depth. The prisoner said he was very much annoyed by the boys, and the lad called him names. Mr. YARDLEY—This is a very savage and wicked act of an old man—a very malicious outrage. It would serve you right to commit you for trial. You, an old man, to throw such an instrument as that at a boy because he used an expression to you, is very bad. You feel not the slightest compunction for the serious injury you have done that boy. I floe you 51., anti, if it is not paid, you will be imprisoned for two months. SAVINGS' BANKS. TO THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—By direction of the Board of Managers of this institution, I forward to you copies of a letter, written by command of his Royal Ilighnesa the Prince Albert, President of the Institution, and of the resolution unanimously adopted thereon by this Board. As the subject referred to is one of considerable importance, as regards savings' banks and provident institutions generally, you may deem it of sufficient public interest and concern to give insertion to these documents in your journal. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD BOODLE, Comptroller and Secretary of the Provident Institution, St. Martiu's-place. Jan. 8. " Windsor Castle, Dec. 27, 1849 "My dear Sir,—l have laid before the Prince Albert your letter of the 24th instant, together with the papers which accompanied it. "his Royal Highness is much pleased to see so large an increase of the number of depositors, and of the balances, which speaks so strongly of the in creased prosperity and feeling of security of the middle and lower classes. " His Royal Highness wishes very much that, after late occurrences, an institution at the head of which stands his Royal Highness's name as President, should take the lead in subjecting itself to some inde pendent audit, of the strictest and most searching kind. " I need not say that this wish is not founded upon the slightest doubt or want of confidence upon the part of his Royal Highness, but he thinks that such an example from such an institution would be of very great value, and would serve not only to raise it very much in the estimation of the public, but would tend to restore the public confidence in savings' banks, which must have been shaken by the disgraceful expose which has taken place in an establishment bearing, up to the day of the discovery, a very high character. " Such a voluntary submission of their accounts, upon the part of an institution standing so high as the St. Martin's-place Provident a institution, would be a precedent of immense importance. "I am commanded to request that you will submit this letter to the Committee of Managers. " Sincerely yours, (Signed) "C. B. PHIPPS. " To Edward Boodle, Esq." "At the special meeting of the Committee of Ma nagers of the Provident Institution, held at their board room, St. Martin's-place, on Tuesday, the Ist of January, the following resolution was unani mously weed to : "That this Committee of Managers cordially con cur in the suggestion of his Royal Highnesss, con veyed to them by Colonel Phipps's letter read at this meeting; and that it is quite ready to submit the account of this institution to the examination of any person or persons who may be appointed for that purpose. MURDER. OF A CHILD.—WARWICK, TUESDAY.— This afternoon Mr. G. Moore, the deputy coroner for the borough, brought an inquiry to a close, at :he Union Workhons'•. respecting the dilith of an illegitimate male ~! ii.:4;. • Alter evidence had been gone through the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Bridget Taweney.', RETURNS of the BOARD of TRAD Thc, returns of tie Board of Trade for the month ending the sth of December, recently issued, show an in erea,e in tie exports of 374,9931., over the correspond ht.; tn-nth of 1848. This result is the more satisfactory, sine. 1)( c-mfmr, 1848, unlike the prr•ceding months cf that year. presentt.ti 4 taii! , nrable total, its exports having been not I,.ss than 132 3461. in excess of the amount in DeceoilJer. 1847. 0 s , :itig to the recent rise in the price of the stafil,!, thy= , -Xport cotton yarn shows a sudden and coiisid.o..blii d,en'ase. Thu ei.tre in , xpo: -- ts (luring the first eleven moat •s of hr y,t-tr 1849, a, compArert with the e•)rte si):,-.diPt; raolvh:; of 1848, i. no 9,631,897/.. :he totals re,.pectivol) being 44,407,9121. and 54,089 : 8091. With respr et to import,;, the total of grqin taken for home eem,aniption stioAs a large increase, which is wird! attriontsbk to the fact of bertVy quantities having been held back (luring the correspowling month of last yeur, until the e.,sation of all dudes on the Ist of Fertirtnr,•-, Tr, :..liowing are the c .inparAtive imports Hnd f prts of r:,.;.7 ccateriul, Alowieg a large increase in wool: Exported Month end, ling Dec S: 1818. 14,514 8,630 40,722 63,664 777,779 1,032,415 Of silk inanu'autures the totals s!ai Imported. Month trading Dec. 5. id thus:— Home Consumption. Month end' Silk manufactures of Europe, lb. .. Ditto of India, pieces .. • ling Dec. 5. 1.318 I 1819 1848. 1549. 39,879 63,966 14,525 34,983 27,006 1 29,789 9,186 I 4,858 As regards other articles of itsport, there has been a consid.ruble increase during the month in all dyeing stuffs , xcept cochineal and indigo. DI glass manufac tures there has been a general decrease. Hides show a slight decrease in untanned, and a large increase in tanned. and in leather manufactures there is a large in crease in gloves. There is a larg.. decrease in unwrought copper, and oils show a decrease in palm and an increase in other sorts. In t tuber there has been again an in-. rc can in British and a decrease in foreign. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. B.—Small attendance, the weather hein.; very severe; great firmness prevails in the trade. The Lusiness doing is on a moderate scale. In prices no alter at:on since Friday can be quoted. LEEDS. JAN. B.—The vessels which had been detained have not made their passage, and the show of samples to day is consequently not large. Since Friday we have had a return ut frosi ; still millers continue to buy very caltiously, and prices of wheat have receded is per quarter from last week's rates. Barley gives way in price; oats, 1 - ems, and other articles without variation. Arra4ls —IV heat, 2,579; oats, 1,054; barley, 967; beans, 200; shillings, 90; pease, 306; rapeseed, 330. NEWCASTLE, JAN. B.—At. this morning's market we have a tair supply of farmers' wheat. The trade for all 3;66 a ruled exceMiugly dull, and finest samples of wheat and barley must to written is per quarter lower, while iur inferior sorts a still further redaction had to be uhrnittrd to. Flour very difficult to quit, though olf.r , ci a'. is per sack less money. No change in other articles. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JAN. B.—A fair s t ypi4 of b good qualtt). Trade dull at former rat, s, to part r ,, np,in On ;heep trade more active, and a shade higher, with a good appearance. Number of beasts and sheep at market same as last week. Beasts, 600; sh, ep. 4,000. Wel; 4s 6d to_ 6s Od per stone. isilotwn, 4d to .sid pvr lb. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. B.—There were in the murket to-day 48 sacks oatmeal, each vktiglting 2801bs .roperial, which sold thus:-0 at 11 6: Od, 0 at 1/5= 6:1, 13 at 1/ 54, 10 at It 4s 64, 20 at 1/4s, and 5 at 113 s 6 , 1; average price of the whole 1/ 4s 3d 10-12ths. 4 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 295, and 2 at 26% 6d. 5 sacks pot-barley, which sold thus:-1 at 11 63 Od. 1 at 11 43 6d, 2 at 1/ 3A Od, and I at 1/ 2s Od. FDINBURGII HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JAN. B. Supplti sof all kinds still large. Oat straw, from 7s 6d to lOi od per kemple of 16 stones tren; wheat ditto, 63 6d to 83 Od; barley ditto, 5s Od to 6s 6d. Hay, from id to led per stone. I)ALKEITH 'MEAL MARKET, JAN. 7.—There were 166 bags of oatmeal, and 19 of barleymeal at this day's market. Sales ready. Oatmeal 3d on the top down, also 3d down on the current price; barleymeal same on the top, 3d down on the current price. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. 23s 6d 22s 6d 22, Od Barleymeal, per ditto ... 17s Od 16s 961 16s 6cl Peasemeal —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —8 Od —s Od Pot barley • • —s Od —s Od —s Od COAL MARKE' Hot) well Ord's Ilcdheugh l'anfield Moor Wylam Wall's End, &e. IT.—YESTERDAY. ;Jonassohns lieepier Lambton v. Hetton Lyons Russell's Hetton Whitwell Caradoc Kelloe iThornley West Belmont l7s 6d West Hetton l7s 3d ,Whitworth l4s 6d Cownden Tees Tees ...... Ships at market, 148. Acorn Close Goforth .. Hutton Heaton Riddell's l6s 9d, Lambton Primrose Bell Braddyll Belmont l7s 9d Lletton ... lBs 9(11 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market was firm to-day. The transactions were as follow :—Great Western, Quarters, 11 11-1 G dis.—Ditto, 17/. Shares, 73i dis.—Caledonian, Pre ference, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 9. STOCK EX CRANGE.—The share market was very firm to-day. The transactions were as follow :—Lancaahire and Yorkshire, Consol , 57 Ditto, unpaid up. 43 dis.—Ditto, 33. Shares, 10% dis.—Ditto, Halves (Huddersfield and Sheffield), 28 1 / 2 London and North-Western, 110%— Ditto, New Quarters, 13s. 9d. p. Ditto, Fifths, X-- Matlock and Midland, 4% die. Midland, 4.3% Ditto, Hialves, 22A dis.—North Union (A), 231 1 h—South-Eastern and Dover, 19—York, Newcastle. and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 185 1 1. 4 3 / 4 dis. MANCHESTER, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The market to-day has fluctuated slightly. The following are the transactions:—East Lan cashire, 11 34—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7t% die.-- Ditto, 321. (late Extension), 10%— itto, Preston and Wyre Sixths, d%—London and North-Western, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 1 , 4 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 8 South-Eastern and Dover (No. 3), 18%—Ditto, (No. 4), Scrip, ‘ , 14. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The only transaction to-day was — Birmingham, 1.1, olverh.impton, and Dudley, 4 p. YORK, JAN. 8. EXCHANGH.—The transactions to-day were AS follow: York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 16 5 4 Ditto (Newcastle Extension). 10: 3 / 4 —North British, Halves 4%--• York and North Midland,Pre:srence, 6%. GLASGOW, JAN. 8. SZOCK EACHANGI. The transactions to-day were as follow: Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 49—Ditto, Halves, (No. 2), 5L,, —Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 6 -Ditto (Newport), 75—Great North of Scotland (Scrip), 3—North British, 11. TKING, READING, AND BASINGSTOKE RAILWAT.--"' On Tuesday, the Master in Chancery, Richards, pro ceeded with the winding up of this company's affairs. and decided that all transferees of the company's scrip were entitled to be placed on the list of contributories. and to share in the surplus assets in respect of the shares transferred to them, in lieu of the original holders, but without affecting in any degree the liability of the latter to be held contributories in the discharge of, if any, out standing claims. The lists were proceeded with on this principle and settled; ai.d the holders of scrip in this visition will be 4-willed to a dividend of 10s. per share, to be &Oared out of the surplus assets in hand. •‘DVERTISEMENT.]— A Lieutenant of Dragoons cured of Rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —This officer, who is in the Dutch army, states, in a letter to Mr. John Straatman, of Bois-le-Duc, wholesale agent for Holland, that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured him of Rheu matism, which appeared to him incurable, as neither sea bath ing, vapour baths, nor preparations vaunted as sure reme dies, did him any good, and the treatment of the doctors, after several menthe' trial, was without success. At this juncture he commenced taking these Pills, and rubbing the Ointment into the affected parts twice a day, which effectually cured him. Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Estab lishment, 244, Strand, Louden. BIRTHS Oa the sth inst., at Harwood-hall, the lady of Captain Hamilton, of a daughter. n the 6th inst., at the Rectory, Kirkby Overblow, York shire, the wife of the Rev. H. Blunt, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., the wife of W. T. Clarke, Esq., of Great James-street, Bedford-row. of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in Gordon-square, the wife of J. Cunliffe Pickersgill, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th inst., of a daughter, the wife of Dr. S. Mason, of York-place, Islington, and Gloucester-lodge, Croydon. On the 7th inst., in Brunswick -square, the wife of James Coekell, Esq., of a son. On the eth inst., in Ebury-street, Pimlico, the wife of G. Lynde, jun., Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst , in Gower•street, the wife of W. Collie , Esq., of a daughter. MARRID. On the Bth inst., a t St. Geor E ge-the-Martyr, Southwark , Alfred, third son of the late Matthew Warton, Esq., of Rat' cliff, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Hart, Borough , Southwark. On the Bth inst., at St. Lawrence, Tbanet, William, second , son of Thom as G roves, Esq., of Manor-house, Bermon d,ep to Susan, second daughter of T. Hooper, Esq., Chilton. DIED. On the 4th inst., at Halton Castle, Cheshire, aged 83, 3. * Smith, Esq , of Longsight, Manchester. On the sth inst., aged 57, at. Burton-on-Trent, the Rev. J• Pegg's. formerly General Baptist iegortary in India On the sth ii:st , Ann, the wife of Mr. Stuart, of Freda rick-street, Gray'3 Inn-road. On the 6th inst., at Hackney, Mr. James Jeffery, formerly of Gracechurch• street, aged 78. On the 7th ins'., a; Kensington, Mr. J. W. Yeates, aged 3 1 ! On the 7th inst., at Walwortb, J. Greenstreet, Esq.. of Oa Inland Revenue-uffice, Old Broad-street, aged 57. On the Bth inst., a t W oo df or d, M rs . C o ll in s, aged 81, relict of the late Mr. W. Collins, of Leytonstone. • ..ot.oft mut Published .150l i a ;q"'":inj i t!7_ , -t , Prechiet of V.* 5t0,77.m. in the or.xlmq htddlesez, Thursday, January 10, leso. Flax, cwt. Hemp, cwt S lb .. Cozion, cwt... Wo I, lb. .. Tallow, cwt. • • Imported Month cacti ling Dec. 5. 1849. 54,`.112 123,010 9'075 78,373 303, 0 7 i 242,C09 170,5 , : , 2 101,444 1,381,407 6,457,402 103,314 229,375 ,~ -. 11: ht, de,