The Sun. — London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

RAMSHAY and OURSELVES. (From the Liverpool Journal of Saturday.) On Saturday last, for the first time in our life, we we re visited by bailiffs. O n Monda y , for the first time in our life, under any circu mstances, we were brought before a court of justice ; and on Tuesday, for the first time in our life, we were sent to gaol. On Wednesday morning we awoke in Lancaster Castle, and found ourselves in prison. On the same morning Mr. Ramshay awoke in some house in areat George-square, and :found himself notorious. Forty-eight hours had served to concentrate . on the obscure judge of a petty court the entire indignation of the people of England. Ile bad outraged public opinion by daring to assum e a power never claimed, certainly never exercis ed, in this empire by any judge during the last hu ndred and sixty years. The fact was so astounding that the electric wires were em ployed to convey it, and the public press everywhere denominated it extraordinary. In Liverpool the excitement kept within the proper moderation neces sary to t h e occasion ; but we do not, we b elieve err in s t a ting that Mr. Ramshay, on Tuesday morning, wa s literally friendless. He had repelled from him even most of those who venerated his office, and startled into anger those who had never cared to think previously about him. So manifest was the public feeling that the officials of the court, mistaking a decided earnestness for popular anger, put themselves on Tuesday needlessly under the personal protection of the prisoner they were con veying to gaol, the man whom Mr. Ramshay had so grossly insulted when that man was judicially in Mr. Ramohay's power. We do not compare for one mome nt in respectability with Mr. Ramshay ; we are prevented from doing so by our own self-respect ; hut the public felt that the language of the bench on that oc casion was perfectly novel in its atrocity—cowardly under the circ umstances —unworthy under any cir cumstances of a gentleman, because it was low and vulgar—such only as " beggars in their drink" resort to, and never heard in a court of justice since Judge Jeffries earned for himself the epithet " infamous" Our able and eloquent, and most judicious advocate, Sir George Stephen, was excluded by the usages of the court from making a reply; and our experience in the respect due to courts of justice, and the sacred ness of the judgment seat, imposed silence on u during and after this outrage on our character and 1 feeling. But— " There is a minute, When a man's presence speaks in his own cause, More that' the tongues of twenty advocates." And we are disposed to believe that the wrong -doer only suffered from this display of mean malice. The question between Mr. Ramshay and ourselves has passed into the keeping of other hands than ours. It is now in the care of the public ; and of the result nobody can' have a doubt. The contest is u nequal; end, as our sympathy is nat ura lly w ith the wea.k , Afr. Ramshay will have our pity w h en we discover in hia.' those good qualiti es h e c l a i ms , but of the exist ence of which we, in common with many, are sc,ehpa t tical. At the same time it is only rgh t t ea to say for our our knowledge of him is extremely i life has been too busy to seek c o_n a c t e u r r n e ira ment in the has obviously or dinary history of nobodies.. IN and he has, denied him the higher qualities I demonstrated within the last few days.' sufficiently nt mind;y sound u judgment. A man that tie is sadly wanting notinn attract public attention ; in his condition could consequence of this, his appointment and, partly in Court in Liverpool took the as Judge of the County public by surprise. His new situation brought him necessar ily within the cognizance of the press, and hi s un f o rtunate temper imposed a duty on journalists to report the proceedings o f his c o urt f ully and fairly. The circumstance which attended his appointment, and the offence given by his petulance on the bench, provoked in us a few comments. The leader will now see—what Mr. Ramshay should have seen long before—the value of our almost pro phetic warnings. How these warnings should have excited in him the intense hatred he undisguisedly entertains towards us will, we suspect, puzzle most of our readers, as they have certainly puzzled our selves. We will not attempt to account for it, but we must be permitted to wonder at the perversity of purpose that could single us out for persecution. Seeking always to uphold the dignity of the profes sion to which we have the honour to belong, we have firmly resisted every temptation to render our paper an instrument of wrong towards individuals. Mr. Ramshay, owing to his infirmity of temper and bad health, was an unfit judge to preside in the County Court; but when, after investigation, the Earl of Carlisle declined to dismiss him, we, so far as we were concerned, resolved that he should have fair play. In this spirit we rejoiced, and stated, as will be seen at the time, that his health was restored, hoping he was a wiser, if not a better man, and that the useful court over which he presided was likely to realize all `_the benefits it was capable of bestowing on the people of Liverpool. A commu nication with a friend whom Mr. Ramshay, we be lieve, esteems, led us to form a resolution not again to make either him or his proceedings matter of comment ; and to that resolution we religiously ad hered. We were solicitous to be in no way accessory to the increase of an alleged infirmity, but which in firmity we are now convinced never existed. In com pliance with our tacit contract with the public, we continued, as usual, to send reporters to his court, but with strict injunctions to be faithful, setting nothing down in malice. A little display of eccentricity—the banquet at the County Court—brought to us a crowd of letters on Mr. Ramshay's blundering invitations, and his coach and four grey horses ; but we com mitted them all to the flames as soon as received ; and had as little intention of " wilfully insulting" the Judge of the County Court, "on his way to or from the court," on Saturday morning last, as we have now of " wilfully insulting" the Queen on Thursday next, oa her Majesty's way to and from the Town hall. It is unnecessary for us to announce that we con sider it impossible for Mr. Ramshay to continue ad ministering justice in our County Court with honour to himself or advantage to suitors. While he remains, however, the people will respect his office, and what ever we may think of the man, the judge shall meet with no wilful insult " at cur hands. If Mr. Ram-- shay has been rendered uncomfortable by the events of the last few days, he has only himself to blame. He assailed us openly, violently, and without provo cation ; bu+, humble as we are, he failed in the attack, d in the brief rencontre he has come to the ground. i'ablic opinion rushed to our support, and has been too strong for hi m . W e did not cross his path ; until within the last few d a y s we di d not even know his person ; and journalists p re f er t o fl y at higher quarry than a judge of a petty court. But Mr. Ramshay has now, however, made his littl e court the worn's talk, and exposed himself to the criticism of those who wir endeavour to f orm a correct estimate of his quali fications. Of these qualifications we are not now disposed to speak. Mr. Ramshay hi mse lf i s o f no consideration to anybody but his friends ; and our quarrel with him refers to a question in which all of us are deeply concerned, and in which the in terests of the commuity are involved. We shall not degrade a great principle by resorting to needless personalities ; and we shall not imitate our opponent by pronouncing judgment in our own case —that is to say whether we have been legally wrong—being at once judge, advocate, and witness. But there is one circumstance which we cannot, in any feeling of forbearance, overlook. Mr. Ramshay on Monday, an . d again on W ednesday, under pretence of excusing himself and strengthening the case aaainst us, insi diously sought to wound the natural affections of the gentleman who instructed our advocate—not an ob scure attorney, but a solicitorrofeaiawho stands besid e those who or nament the p Judge did not h es it a t e to remind hina ri. of T i p . e Learne brother's death, and dared t o insinuate that we e aided in killing him—an a u d ac i ous falsehood , that could be uttered with impunity now h ere but on theben The late judge of the C ounty Court was so rnacchh. respected by us as a lawyer,and so much venerated as one of the best classical scholars in Europe, that not a single word hurtful to his fe e li ngs was ever written by us. Mr. Ramshay has provoked a letter from a son of the late Mr. Lownes ; a n d if M r. Ram. s hay be the man he describes himself, he has imbibed from that calm and dignified remonstrance a bitter ness of heart that will endure till death. The persecution to which we have been exposed, and which had reference less to the alleged offence titan brought to imaginary libels, has to our side troops of old and crowds of new friends, who have maaa our cause th e ir own. In our own profession a genero us neces sity —.even warmth has relieved us from the the possibility—of comment, unless we repeated w h at has been already admirably said; and we need not declare how grateful we are to one and all. We have only the moral of y mo to add, that as we away with the mere decadence of s history do not con sider will pass hero, we cannot regard the which has been aroused intensity indignation e t noe . of the deplorable sity of the ject of it. In these popuslarispropertioned to the ob and the people learn a great l ea citements the actors principles at stake ; and that lesson lasts. value of the lasts. ................ midday from On Tuesday, while the down train at , John Ayr to Glasgow was waiting at the Dairy * u Alacbride, grocer, Salcoats, on his way to Killa n : Qn very narrow escape from being killed. lie was etca*ihnad a the platform awaiting the train from Glasgow to n ike °a flock, when, recollecting that he had forgetten a parcel inn.itthe carriage he had been in, he stepped from the platform, and was crossing the rails in order to regain it, keeping all the while an observant eye on the advancing train from Glas gow, but seemingly quite unaware of the one from Kil marnock approaching behind him. This was within a few yards of him. Shouts of alarm and screams of horror ema < •,.. V. 74 nated from th e on l oo k ers—a l l were unheeded. His fate '• • .!;:." Fterned certain, when a railway guard, disregarding his own nikril, s p ra ng forward, a n d pushed hi m o ff t h e rails. Both -I ta:f Yell together, but quite unhurt. But for the presence of miad. andr apLl resolution of the guard his death would have .. . : 71. 'lb o sen inevitable. Th e name of the guard, we understand, is --r.-,...4 John Auld. His bol d exertion ought not to piths unnoticed. Etlinarnoch 'journal, 1:-,-...1-' ~,- ......; ‘ , ..4%, l' a ... , 4t . s j, ,r 1 . 4. t '› TILE SUN, KOSSUTH'S ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRATS OF MIeRSEILLES. Citiz?ns,—The Government of the French Re public having refused me permission to traverse France, the people of Marseilles, yielding to the im pulse of one of those generous instincts of the French. heart which are the inexhaustible source of the noble ness of your nation, has honoured me by a manifestei tion of its Republican sentiments—a manifestation honourable for its motives, manly for its resolution, peaceable in its ardour, and as majestic in its calmness, as nature, the grand image of God, before the tem pest. I have heard my name blended with the hymn of the " Marseillaise,' and with the shouts of " Vive la R6publique !"—a cry which is the only legal one in France; the only one whose legitimacy has been won by the blood of the martyrs of liberty ! It is so natural to love freedom ! It is so light to suffer for it! It is almost less than a mere duty ; but there is, indeed, a supreme glory in the thought of being identified with the principle of liberty in the mind of the French people. I have no desire for glory—but this glory I accept, in order to merit it. I accept it as a pledge of common in terests (solidarite), and I accept it as a testimony of the fraternity of the French nation with all nations. I accept it as the sign of salvation for my beloved country. To you, Frenchmen ! Republicans ! is the honour of that salvation ! To us, poor Hungarians, the duty of meriting it ! We shall merit it ! My nation will understand the appeal of your fraternity. It will be proud of, and bravely respond to it, as those ought to do who are honoured in being called "bro thers " by the French people. These are the only thanks worthy of the people of Marseilles ; worthy of that manifestation with which they have honoured me—yet not me, but my nation and in my nation, the past less than the future ! Permit me not to speak any more of the refusal of the Government of the French Republic to grant me a passage through its territory. I know that the French people are not responsible for, and are not identified with its acts. I know that neither M. L. N. Bonaparte, nor M. Faucher, are the French nation. I knew, and I know, that the Executive Power is de legated to them, but that the honour of the French nation is not in their keeping. I shall no longer bear in mind their refusal, and I desire that humanity shall not remember it, if by any chance those who have been already in exile, and who, to all appear ance, have forgotten it, should again be so. Last evening one of your brethren (of our brethren), an operative of Marseilles—oh ! I know his name, and I shall not forget it — came, in spite of ? the cold, and swimming through the water, on board the American frigate, to press my hand. I pressed his hand with pity, with emotion, and gently reproached him for his temerity. " Que voulez vous ?" he an swered, "I desired to touch your hand, I could not find a boat, I took to the water, and here I am. Are there any obstacles to him who wills ?" I bowed to these noble words. The love of liberty, the senti ment of duty and fraternity, were mine before coming to Marseilles, but it is at Marseilles that I have found the motto, " There are no obstacles to him who wills." That motto shall be mine. Vive la .Repub lique ! Health and fraternity ! - Louis KOSSUTH, Marseilles Roads, on board the frigate Mississippi, of the United States, Sept. 29, 1851. IRELAND. RETURN OF LORD CLARENDON. D Ul3 LIN, — SA T UEDAY EVENING .—It is authorita tively announced that the Earl of Clarendon returns to Dublin early next week from his prolonged visit in London. Tuesday is the day named for his arrival at the Castle. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS. It is stated that Lord Lismore, an excellent resi dent proprietor, has been nominated Lieutenant of the county of Tipperary, vice the late Earl of Donough more ; and it ii further notified that Lord Carew, Lieutenant of the county of Wexford, has obtained the Riband of the Order of St. Patrick, which the death of Lord Clare had placed at her Majesty's dis posal. BALLINASLOE FAIR-•TIiIS DAY. An "express" at the office of the Evening Freeman brings the subjoined account of the first day's pro ceedings up to ten o'clock this morning : " The sheep fair opened this morning, and, so far, the supply is certainly thin—thinner even then of the fair of last year at the same time of the morning, but flocks are still coming in, but very slowly. That it is a slack fair up to this there is no doubt; bat two trans actions at the hour I write have come under my notice; one was the purchase by Mr. J. Ganley, of Dablin, of 40 two year-old maiden ewes at 48s. each. This, how ever, was a fancy lot, and cannot be taken as indicative of what prices may range at in the course of the day ; but another sale which I witnessed would look as if breeding ewes were likely to fetch remunerative prices. Mr. H. Lahiff, of Gort, in this county, add a lot of 102 indifferent aged mountain ewes, some of the lot were as old as five years; the price was 30s. a-head. I mention these facts merely as they occurred, but cannot, of course, at this early hour pretend to offer an opinion as to what the fair may ultimately prove. I have remarked that ewe socks on the ground are by no means in the usual proportion with the wedders. The number of Mr. J. Smith's (Mason Brook) sheep now on the ground is 2,200, of which 1,450 are wedders and 750 ewes. Chief Justice Monaghan is here, it is said, for the pur pose of purchasing stock for his property of Heath Lawn, in this county. THE RELIEP ADVANCES. The organ of the Irish Government says : " The movement among the indebted unions proceeds with increased activity, with a view to secure a post ponement of the demand for payment of the first instal ment, and a reduction, if not a remission, of the claim for interest upon the sums advanced during a period of unprecedented destitution. We need not further refer to the single instance of an attempt at repudiation, be cause the unions generally have disavowed any such intention, and wisely based their claims upon the pecu liar and calamitous circumstances under which the money had been allocated by the Legislature, and the formidable financial difficulties with which the guardians and ratepayers have still to contend. It has been arranged that advantage should be taken of the great fair of Ballinasloe,which commenced this day,for a general assemblage of guardians from all the unions in Connaught. We understand that a provincial meeting, composed of members of the several boards, will be held at the court-house in that town on Wednesday next, to con sider the recent demand by the Treasury fur the im mediate payment of the first instalment of the sums advanced during the famine for the relief of distress.' The guardians of Belmullet Union, situate in the ex treme west, in which there had been such appalling des titution daring the famine years, have received a com munication from the Commissioners, in which, after the usual demand for repayment, they say they ' are not disposed to insist un the guardians making a higher rate than can be generally collected from the ratepayers.' The Tyrawley Herald, in referring to this official inti mation, mentions that an important communication, to the following effect, was made to the Belmullet guar dians by Mr. Hamilton, the inspector of the union : On the authority of the Commissioners he requested the guardians to include the annuities in the rates to be struck, promising that they would sanction a correspond ing deduction equivalent to the amount of annuities.' " FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR BRISTOL. Oa Friday morning we announced that another fatal colliery accident had been added to the many which have recently taken place in the coal district surrounding Bristol. The accident, it appears, oc curred at the Old Welton Pit, which is situate amidst a cluster of collieries in the parish of Alidsorner Norton, about a mile from Radstock. It is usual at all the other collieries in the neighbourhood to let the men down the shaft, several together, by means of the steam engine, in the " hutch" which brings up the coals ; at the Old Welton Pit, however, the old system is retained of letting the men down three at a time by means of a " drum," the rope being fastened round the thigh of the first man, and the two ethers sitting respectively across the shoulders of the man beneath him ; and the reason assigned for continuing this system is, that the Welton pit is not so deep as any of th e surroun di ng co lli er i es . I n thi s me th o d to between fifty and sixty men and boys had descended their work on the morning of the accident, and about a dozen other s were waiting to go down when about five o'clock when two m en , name d George rope breakingoccurred. It was themselves Taylor, together to the accide n t o f the William Hill, att ac b ed Dal limore and S amuel down, an d i n a few y t o o u t g h o , begun t o l ower them into m inutes the after the drum had t w he ith rop a e Briant, heard a noise as of pit the b a iliff, I saac the pit. H e i mmediate) ransomething falli ng d own y pit and call e d d own the shaft to as the mouth of the the matter, but rece i v i ng no re ceirtain what w as hold of the rope, an d, f rom its slackness i , he cau „ h ceived the fact that it was b roken, and that °ll ce cont- a t h poor fellows had be en p rec i p i tated to the btoteouu t three the shaft and met their d ea th s . T wo other men wee' immediately let down, by means of the drumb r another rope, which is always kept upon it to be used in case of accident, and the engineer, being su m _ 'nosed immediately, let down several other men in a hutch by means of the steam-engine. In a short time the two men Taylor and Dallimore were brought up quite dead; the body of the first was dreadfully crushed, but the body of Dallimore, whose spine is supposed to have been broken, presented few external marks of injury. The unfortunate youth llill was alive when brought to the bank, and was immediately conveyed to his home, but died in about 20 minutes. The pit, it appears, is about 63 fathoms in depth. and whe n the rope broke the men were about 15 fathoms hem the bottom of the shaft. The rope is a round Pe one 3t. • inches in circumference, and has been in us,s'f . up and down o f r o the sole purpose of letting the men fathoms long, serclhe last three years. It was 70 capable of sustainlis said, when new, to have been said that similar class three tons weight, * and it is ,work safely a t t h e pit fo r°pea have been k nown t o lt is stated, h a d been made of Ne complaints, clO Qf the rope, and there was a new one lying at the month of the pit, which the bailiff had been instructed to apply to the drum immediately he found the cne in use in any way defective. The deceased were all steady, well-con ducted men. Taylor has left a widow and three children ; Dallimore was to have been married in a few days, and Hill was a youth of about eighteen years of age. An inquest has been formally com menced upon the bodies, but adjourned in order to allow time to communicate with the Secretary of State. GLASGO ff' AUTUMN CIRCUIT. GLASGOW, FRIDAY.—The Glasgow Autumn Cir cuit Court was opened in the beginning of this week by Lords Colonsay and Cowan. Numerically speak ing, the calendar is a heavy one, comprising 101 cases, in which 129 persons are implicated ; and at the same time there is an increase of aggravated cases, including deaths by violence, and injuries by cutting and stabbing. Yesterday the Court over which Lord Colonsay presides was occupied till a late hour at night in the trial of an Irishman named Archibald Hare, charged with the murder, at Blantyre Works village, of a man named Ronald M'Gregor, by stabbing him in the belly with a knife. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to be hanged in Glasgow on the morning of Thursday, the 23d of October current. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner and some four or five associates, who are all either colliers or iron paddlers, came to the village of Blan tyre Works on the night of the 16th of August, and having partaken of a quantity of whiskey, sallied forth to the street. The prisoner, who is an Orange man, and excited by the Wiseman controversy, com menced exclaimirg, "To hell with the Pope and Popery, and if there is any Popish b— here let him turn out." Whlle in this excited state James Agnew, a dyer, was accosted by the prisoner, who asked him if he was a Roman Catholic. The man replied he was Lot. The prisoner then said, "If you were a Catholic I would rip you up and let your puddings out." The prisoner then insisted on Agnew giving bim the Orange grip, which he was unable to do; but, finally, he got rid of him. Meanwhile Ronald M'Gregor, who was spoken of by the witnesses as a quiet peaceful man, came out upon Blantyre-street to seek his nephew, when he encoun tered the prisoner, who, without any provocation, was seen to plunge a knife twice Into M'Gregor's belly, so that his entrails hung out, and from the effects of which he died in a few days. The prisoner on his way home boasted to his companions that he had stabbed a man, and that " he had used Jack," which is understood to be a cant name for a knifeor poinard. The MD who was thus murdered was not a Catholic after all. After a lengthened trial, the jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty of murder," and Hare was sentenced to death as above recorded. Before the same Court, Peter Browit was charged with murdering his wife, in Great Hamilton-street, Glasgow, by kicking her in the lower part of her belly to the great effusion of her blood and subsequent death. After a long trial the jury brought in a ver dict of " Culpable homicide," and yesterday morn ing the prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life. There are still a number of aggravated cases to try, which may be principally attributed to the great numbers of the lower claw; of Irish who have of late years congregated in and £round Glasgow. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on Oct. 2:— AMTS. ... f. 498,203,767 ... 127,534,212 1,096,919 Cash in hand ... Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ••• ••• ••• Bills discounted, but not yet due, of which 10,754,627 f. oc. were received from the Branch Banta 34,091,387 Bills in the branch banks ~. ... 62,206,569 Advances on coins and ingots... ••• 208,800 Ditto by the branch banes 2,071,000 Ditto on French public securities ... 8,160,954 Ditto by branch banks... ... 3,267,756 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 Rentes, disposable funds ... 42,590,368 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... ... 12,952,725 74 Hotel and furniture of the Politic 4,000,000 0 Real property of the branch n - aiks ... 3,533,211 0 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0 Ditto branch banks ... 108,000 0 Expenses of administration of tie Bank 293,209 13 Ditto at the branches ... ••• 235,721 0 Miscellaneous ... 140,136 48 f. 910,894,737 45 Capital ... ••• f. 67,900,000 0 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 0 Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 14 Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 418,224,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 116,856,700 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 7,659,514 37 Account-current with Treasury creditor 91,295,632 4 Various accounts current 117,996,214 46 Ditto in branches ... 31,282,414 0 Bills payable at sight ... ... 10,501,500 0 Ditto at branches 3,837,424 0 Dividends payable . . 506,186 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank 7,760 0 Expenses anticipated ... 261,782 18 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 1,897,154 83 Ditto of branch banks ... ... 882,963 0 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 96,733 70 Ditto in branch banks ... 227.245 0 Interest on protested bills ... 533,222 93 Miscellaneous 597,540 55 L 910,894,737 45 Certified by the Governor of the Bank, D'ARGOIIT. It appears from the preceding account that the cash in hand has increased by 600,000 f. The commercial bills discounted have increased by 1,100,0001. The Bank notes in circulation have increased by 4,400,0001. Tho balance to the credit of the Treasury has de creased by 5,700,000 f. Sundry credits have decreased by 300,000 f. SEABORNE MAULS. EN signifies that the malls are sent from the General Post-office by the night—end Mby the morning —dispatch.] When made up in! F rom what When PLACES. General Post-office port dis- due. London: patched. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Oct. 10 .. !Liverpool • • Arrived America (by U.S. pkt.) N Oct. 14 .. Liverpool Oct. 8 America (by U.S. pkt.) M Oct. 8 • • .. 'Southampt. Oct. 16 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plyreonth (Oct. 3 Alexandria* •....... N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. :Oct. 18 Belgium • • .. •• N Daily Dover .. Daily Brazil .. • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. lOct. 16 Buenos Ayres .. .. 31 9th of the month :Southampt. Oct. 16 California(viaCisagres) M 2d& 17th of month ! Southampt. Oct. 5 Capo of Good Hope 17114th of month Plymouth•• Oct. 3 Constantinople* .. • • Nl7th 17th 27thof mo:Dover .. Oct, 10 Central America .. llf2d & 17th of mon. ,Southampt. Oct. 5 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri.Southampt. Ta. Th. sat Chill M 17th of the month !Southampt. Oct. 5 France .• 111 &N Twice daily .. ..;Dover Twicedally Greece* . • .. N 7th 17th 27 th of mo 'Dover .. ,Oct. 10 Ilamburgh N Tuesday & Friday !London .. Sat. Holland M Wednes. & Satur. 'London .. Mon. Thur. Honduras .. N 17th of the menthlSouthampt. Oct. 20 Ireland .. M& N Twice daily.. !Holyhead.. Twicedaily India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southarapt. Oct. 23 India (via Marseilles) N Bth& 24th efmonth Dover Nov. 2 Mediterranean (via Southampton) •• M 20th of the month ,Sonthampt. Oct. 23 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) N Bth&24thofmonth'Dover ;Nov. 2 Mexico .. M2d of the month.. ISouthampt. Oct. 5 Madeira • • • • .. M 9th of the month ISoutharapt. 'Oct. 16 Malta* f 7 th,l7 th,l9th,27th Dover Oct. 10 & 30th of month Naples* .. N sth 15th 25th ofme Dover .. ;Oct. 12 Papal States* .. N sth 1 5 th25thefrao!Dover .. 'Oct. 12 Peninsular.. • • .. Mlth 17th 27th of moSouthampt. ! Oct. 16 Peru •• M 17th of the month Soathampt.lOct. 5 Tuscany* .. .. 1.1,5 th 15th 25 th ofmo Dover .. [Oct. 12 West Indies .. M l l7th of the month Southampt. !Oct. 20 West Indies (except Havana & Nassau) 3d c 2d of the month .. Sonthanspt. Oet. 5 * The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles. CALIFORNIA.—MaIIs to and from California, via the United States are now despatched and due by every American nankaf and from Ca. no by every Amer!. via the United. States lean packet. I NOYEL "EXHIRITORS" IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE. [ —As the Great Exhibition will be for ever closed to the sight-seeing public in a few brief days, we shall offer no excuse for speaking at the eleventh hour of what is yet to be seen within its walls. We allude to the domestication of four splendid robins (in the spacious refreshment-room of Masters and Co.), whose powers of song joyously put forth in their extensive flight from end to end of the apartment, can hardly be imagined unless heard. All who doubt what we have so long asserted about the great natural affection, the extreme loveliness, and the musical execution of this bird, may now prove our veracity, and for ever satisfy their own doubts. The birds in question have free ingress and egress; but so truly do they love the society of man (and woman, of course), that they are the last to quit the building after the bell has rung. The best mode of access to this room is through the eastern entrance of the building. It will be found immediately under the American Gallery, or more pro perly speaking, under the Gallery of Stained Glass. We, of course, are often "found" here; nor do we consider, 20,000 though we are no bad hands at "refreshment," that we ever Pay " too dear for our whistle."— William Kidd, in the" Gar ria used were 2, dener3' Chronicle." The new water-works to supply the city of Nor wichwer opened,with[much ceremony, on Tuesday. Their con -4,000 yards in lengstollo,,a svoriuvcet:iien required the labour of several hundred men. It in yards of excavation. The quantities of ma te • l has arrived at sNheismweass, yards of filterin g sand, 7 COO yards of filtering stone, 3,000 yards of concrete, and ' . 40 d toes of lead. The rising main is l 5 inches e s ls in ,ooo dia y m a e r t d e s r. of clay, 5,000 al dea m v i s u lE: sg T iv h e es thec el efborl following gßaocsceo account t obliged to be carried ROSE T preparatory to her undergoing her so ill on her arrival that she was or second trial. into the cell allotted to her. The passing through A • vignon:—" hose 'l'' • • re moved to Nismes. She ar i eimisier has been 8111 0 f i 8 her i e r o'clock in the morning, in a r v c ed . here on Friday, at ten crowd was collected at the door r o ige from Gazagne. A poor girl, who firmly believed herselfthe house to see this destined to perf orm miracles. The sai n t was seat d e on a sofa. ll er stance expressed no p a i n f u l feeling; a al counte reigned on her features ; s h e appeared to be yisntical cal mness a Ciro ecstacy ; her sunken e y es were without exrceosnterepla hands remained motionless, a n d crosse d over her chest. T . h h er e curiosity of the public appeared n o t to affect her in the slightest way, and the natural impassibility was net disturbed. by the numerous yizitors that were AClAlitted tO He the ill u 4- triipm priieller.." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct 6. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.) IN RE HICKMAN AND CO. The bimkrupts, Anue Ellen Hickman and Moses J. Hickman, of Cannon•street•road, and Princes place, Co mmercial-road East, undertakers, applied for their certificates. The balance-sheet showed they owed 546/. They had good debts to the amount of 211., and the doubtful were estimated to realize 1001., and their property was put down at 721. Mr. Linklater appeared for Mrs. Hickman ; Mr. Chidley for Moses Hickman ; and Mr. Cooper, for the assignees. Mr. LINICLATER said the bankrupts were under takers, and in partnership, and the certificate at the last meeting was adjourned for the official assignee to report upon the debts collected. He submitted there was no reason the certificates should be further de layed. Mr. CRIDLEY, for the other bankrupt, asked for an adjournment for a month, to make such an arrange ment with the assignees as would be satisfactory. Mr. COOPER, for the assignees, would not object to an adjournment if the estate were to be indemni fied. He (Mr. Cooper) complained that Mrs. Hick man had rnisconducted herself with regard to the getting rid of some furniture just before the fiat was issued. Mr. LIVIRLATER contended that there bad been nothing stated as a reason why the certificate should be suspended. The bankrupts had carried on a large business among a humble class of people. One great reason of the failure was the Government Bill which prevented burials within the City, which had a great effect upon the property of these persons, which if it had not been for this Bill would have realised more. With respect to Mrs. Hickman's misconduct as to the furniture, there was no evidence before his Ho nour, and he (Mr. Linklater) asked for an immediate certificate. His HONOUR said the bankrupts must stand or fall together ; they must take the consequences of their partnership. There was a large amount of debts, but probably more would be got in. His Honour oould not separate the interest of Mrs. Hickman from that of her son, and there must be an adjourn ment. ford, said his son Montague Turner had an indepen dent income. By Mr. COOKE—His (the bankrupt's) bad health had been greatly aggravated since his imprisonment. Mr. COOKE said this gentleman was made bank rupt the first day this year, since which time he had been opposed with a spirit and an energy which justified him in saying that it generated into persecu tion. He had seldom an opportunity of seeing a case conducted with more vehemence than that which had all along characterized these proceedings. Even to day an attempt had been made to postpone the hear ing, upon a proceeding taken at the last hour almost— only on Saturday they had been served with notice of petition. He (Mr. Cooke) submitted that there was nothing fraudulent proved against the bankrupt, nor that his transactions with Mr. Salmon had been conducted under false pretences. The COMMISSIONER said he would not trouble Mr. Cooke to go into the charge of the fictitious debt. Mr. Coosa continued—The bankrupt had been in custody for two years and a half at the suit of a rela tive of his wife's ; family suits did sometimes assume a vindictive character. The debts were debts of his own family, with whom he had lived in harmony, and now none of his family made any complaint, and they were the only sufferers. He (Mr. Cooke) hoped there was nothing in the bankrupt's conduct to prevent the Court from granting a certificate and enabling the bankrupt to obtain his discharge from custody. In dependent of his family suffering, his imprisonment had been rendered more painful by severe illness, which had been acted upon by the extension of his imprisonment. The Learned Counsel said none of the points had been sustained, and he prayed for an immediate certificate. The COMMISSIONER said, the only question was as regarded the class of certificate, The first objection, that he had allowed a fictitious debt to be proved against him, had not been made out. As regarded the other point, with respect to Salmon it could not be said that the charge of false pretences had been made out, as Salmon was referred to the bankrupt's solicitor, who said the property was in Chancery, and if he had looked about he would have found there was difficul ties about being paid. He did not think the bankrupt could be charged with contracting debts fraudulently. The other charge, of not keeping books, he (the Com missioner) must have suspended his certificate for that, but he had suffered much in prison. With regard to the expenditure, that had been also explained. Under all the circumstances, the bankrupt was en titled to have his certificate granted to him, but as the bankruptcy had not arisen from unavoidable loss and misfortune, he could only award a third class cer tificate. Adjourned until the 11th of November. IN RE MERRYWEATHER. , The bankrupt was described as a brickmaker of West Ham. This was a certificate meeting. The accounts show—debts, 13,4901. for cash advanced by members of his family ; other debts, 3,5141.; liabi lities, 1,8231.; assets, good debts, 621.; doubtful, 1,735/. ; domestic and other expenses for five years, 13,0001. Mr. STAFFORD, who appeared for a judgment cre ditor, asked for an adjournment. It might be said that the petitioner in whose behalf he applied was dilatory in his proceeding, but he thought that could be no objection on this occasion. He thought there could be no hardship in having the certificate ad journed. He submitted that the justice of the case, as set out in the petition, was such as to lead the Court to accede to its prayer. Mr. COOKE said that the justice of the case could only be met by hearing the present application of the bankrupt for his certificate. There had been a spirit of opposition carried on from the first time that this case appeared before the Conrt. On the Ist of Ja nuary Mr. Merryweather was made bankrupt, and his case had been before the Commissioner on several occasions. He had passed his last examination, which was suspended several times, and his accounts at last were held to be satisfactory. The bankrupt had made preparations to meet every opposition, and it would be contrary to all justice if this case were adjourned. The bankrupt had been in custody for two years and a half—and that might have satisfied any vindictive feelings—at the suit of Mr. Turner, who was dead, and had never proved his debt, but his executors still continued their opposition. He (Mr. Cooke) prayed the Court that the case might go on. Mr. Fin' said he appeared on behalf of the execu tors of Mr. Turner. Mr. COOKE objected to his friend appearing on behalf of creditors who had not proved their debt. Mr. Full said that was no objection at all. The COMMISSIONER thought Mr. Fish could not be heard, as his clients had not proved their debt. Mr. STANFORD said he now appeared on behalf of Mr. Salmon to oppose the application for the bank rupt's certificate, upon the grounds Rhich the statute had said should be one of the causes to disentitle the bankrupt to his certificate, viz., that he had allowed a fictitious debt to be proved against his estate ; the other grounds would be of a more general character, such as appearing as a trader when in point of law he was not a trader in the true meaning of the 4ankrupt Act ; be bad never kept any books of account such as this Court required of every trader for the satisfac tion of his creditors. The balance-sheet of the bank rupt showed a reckless disregard of the interests of his creditors, and he had contracted his client's (Mr. Salmon's) debt under false pretences, without proba ble means of paying it at the time of its being con tracted, notwithstanding the income was more or less under the bankrupt's control. He had put his client to unnecessary expense in pleading to an action brought to recover that debt, and he now came to the Court without a farthing of assets, either for his (Mr. Staf ford's) client or any other creditor. In 1849 the bankrupt bad furnished his house at great expense, and then executed an assignment in favour of three children to whom he said he was indebted. In 1849 he applied to Mr. Salmon for plans f u r th e erec ti on o f buildings upon his estate at West Ham. He sought to let the land on building leases, and having no money for the erection of the b u ildi ngs , h e h a d offered to supply bricks on cre di t . H av i ng a quan tity bad by that ac t ma d e hi mse lf a tra odfr bricks. for Mr. 0 Stafford then ref er r e d t o an a d verse to disputes with memb ers o f verdicte ro made, o a d h i s f am il y . Ile bank rupt h ad expressed his intention i to remain n gaol soon er t h an pay the amount of that verdict, and it was not until his client bad presented a petition to the Insolvent Court that the bankrupt's estate should be vested in the official assignee of that c ourt that the petition in b an k rup t cy h a d b een pre sented. The petition in Eankrupt c y was fil e d b y th e anddefendant's son,a if debt there was, it was a debt that bad been kept aliv e f cr the purpose of this bank ruptoY• The bankrupt had been gazetted under the name i o n f I\6lgnryc Chancery-lane n e re the , whereas his son had on hi s door name of Merrywe a th er Turner. He would call M r . S a l mon to prove that the bankrupt had not prop er ly con t rac t e d hi s debt with that gentleman. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREE T. John Whitmore, a respectable-looking middle-aged man, was placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt upon numerous charges of fraud and one of forgery. The prisoner's plan of operations, which appeared to have been conducted upon a very extensive scale and in a regularly systematized manner, was partially developed by the evidence of William Tarrant, in the service of Mr. Maybury, a master carman in Mitre street, Aldgate, who stated—On Saturday, the 23d of August last, the prisoner came to the premises of my master, who, after some conversation with him, or dered me to take a cart and horse and go with him to Mr. Gray's, a publican in the Whitechapel-road, to fetch away some brewer's casks. I accordingly did so, and we went to Mr. Gray's, but we got no casks there, and he then took me to numerous other places, where we were equally unsuccessful in getting them, and he then told me to drive to Cheshire-street, Beth nal-green, where he made me draw up in sight of a public-house kept by Mr. Richard Pratt, to whom he directed me to go and say that I was sent by Messrs. Lockwood, the brewers of Woodbridge, in Essex, for four of their empty casks that were in his possession. I did as he told me, and after being questioned by Mr. Pratt, who said there had been some trouble about casks upon a former occasion, I was allowed to take the barrels away, and set off in the direction of the Eastern Counties Railway, where he had said he would meet me, but before I got 600 yards I was stopp e d by th e pr i soner, who told me to drive to a cooper's in Exmouth -street, Clerkenwell, and there the casks were disposed of, the prisoner assisting me in transferring them to the cooperage. Edward Tracey, in the service of Mr. Dunstan, the cooper referred to, proved the sale of the stolen barrels to his employer, to whom the prisoner had represented himself as one of the Messrs. Lockwood, and gave a written acknowledgment for the amount of the purchase money in the name of that gentleman. Mr. Robert Watson, Messrs. Lock woud's agent, proved that the prisoner had formerly been agent to that firm, but dismissed about five months ago, and that the prisoner had no authority whatever to re ceive or dispose of any of their property. The next charge, preferred by Messrs. Berwick and Co., Scotch ale brewers, of Old Swan-wharf, Upper Thames-street, exhibited the manner in which the prisoner obtained his knowledge of the means to gain possession of such property, and in this case it appeared that the prisoner called at the Birdcage Tavern, in Shoreditch, on Saturday morning last, and after ordering some refreshment went into the back premises, where he was seen by a young woman named Emmeline Purchase to remove some wort from the tops of two barrels there, be longing to Messrs. Berwick, so as to see the names upon them, and then to leave the house. The same afternoon he returned with a horse and cart, and a carman named Smith, in the service of a Mr. Jervis at Mile-end, whom he directed to draw up at the side entrance ; and, having represented that he had been sent by Messrs. Berwick for their empty casks and barrels, was allowed, to remove those in question to the cart, but while driving away with them the landlord, Mr. Mills, entertained some suspicions, called him back and questioned him, and it being perfectly evident then that he was stealing the casks a constable was procured, and he was given into custody ; while the witness carried the casks on to Smithfield, and, after waiting a long time uselessly for the prisoner, at length delivered them up to the police. A third case was then conclusively established against the prisoner, who, it was proved, had in this instance obtained possession of three more barrels, the property of another brewing firm, under almost identical circumstances, from Mrs. Anne Bushell, a licensed victualler in Wellington-road, Mile-end ; and, in addition to all these, it was likewise inti mated by Sergeant Teakle, of the H division, that, if the magistrate considered it necessary that they should be gone into, he could, if the prisoner were remanded, bring forward several other charges of the same description. The prisoner, however, by the advice of his soli citor, reserved his defence, and was ordered to be committed until that day week for the completion of the depositions against him. LAMBETH. Yesterday James Bell and Sarah, his wife, were placed at the bar before the lion. G. C. Norton, on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences and pretending to tell fortunes. Some idea of the extent to which the prisoners car ried their practices may be formed from the fact of the officer who apprehended them finding at their house nearly 10,000 printed bills and cards, of which the following is a copy:— "Your Destiny. —Any lady or gentleman wishing to know their fate through life can have their nativity cal culated or questions answered correctly and in a superior manner relating to the past, present, or future—respect ing love, marriage, friendship, or any other important affair of life. Ten questions answered on receipt of a letter stating age and sex and containing a directed en velope and thirteen uncut postage stamps. Mr. Bell is a qualified professor of astrology of many years' practice, and may be consulted personally at his residence from ten in the morning until nine at night. Advice given in all cases of law proceedings; missing, lost, or mislaid property; and in cases of doubt, trouble, or difficulty.- 1, Holland-place, Camberwell New-road." Sergeant Quinnear, 1 P, upon being sworn, said— In consequence of a letter forwarded to the magis trates of this court by a gen tl eman , and theinstruc tions I received from my superintendent, Mr. Lund, to apprehend the prisoners, I on the 3d of October got two women t o go t o th e ir h o use to have their for tunes told, and gave them some marked money to pay them. The women acted as I had told them I myself subsequently, accompanied by a friend, went to the house of Bell, and the door having been opened by the female prisoner, she, in reply to a question o f mine, said that Mr. Bell was not within. On pro ducing one of the printed cards, however, myself and the person who accompanied me were admitted into the parlour, and Mr. Bell immediately afterwards made his appearance. On his entering the ro om I said, " I presume you are Mr. Bell?" and he replied " Yes ; what is your pleasure ?" I told him I had been speculating and had been unfortunate, and hav ing a few pounds left, and hearing of his being a clever man, I wished to know what I should do. H e asked me my age, and where born. I told him my age was 38, and that I had been born in Glasgow ; upon which he said I was a countryman of his own. Mr. NORTON—He did not discover either by his pretended supernatural knowledge or your accent that you were an Irishman ? Quinnear—No, your worship, he did not discover that, but said I was a countryman of his, when I said I was a native of Glasgow.—(Laughter.) Mr. NORTON—WeII, go on ; what further did he say ? Quinnear—Well, your Worship, he then pre tended to look attentively at a globe th a t was p l ace d on the table, and said, I had been very unfortunate these last two years, and there was a promissory note or bill of exchange that I should not be able to meet, and that as I thought of emigrating I had better cut away immediately. I told him I had a son I did not like to lose sight of, and be asked me his age. I told him his age was ten years; upon which he again con sulted the globe, and said, "Ile i s very delicate, and will not live log.", Mr.examined, said the bank rupt Itself as the propri e t or o f t h e es t a te, and not as an agent f or anot h er party. He bricks. An acti oa against him was settled had Sal representedMon,upon b h e i in g first said he could adva nce money, and then offered to supply by the bankrupt consenting to give a judge's order for 1301., including costs. The bankrupt had not paid any of this. He had been the bankrupt's resid e n ce at Woodeute, which was fit for a gentleman of large property. By Mr. Coosa—Witnessstated he was positive the bankrupt had represented th t property i n quest i on to be his own. He did not tell hi m th a t hi s son h a d b een appointed receiver of his estates under Chancery. The bankrupt represented himself as the owner of lands at West Ham. He used langutge to convey the impres sion that it was his own. ;is claim up on th e bank rupt had been 26 01 . His reason for compr om i s i ng thi s claim was the bankrupt's attorney said he could not pay more. The bankrupt was examired, and said the name of his son, the petitioning creditor, was Marcus William Turner, his name previousty was Marcus William Merryweather. His other sin, Montague, had taken the name of Turner. Mr. CooKs—The Act of ?arliament by which the sons took the name of Turner authorized theta to take that name only. F. Russel, a clerk of I,lr. Stafford's, said tha t Mr. Turner had on his door, in Chancery-lane " Mr Merryweather Turner." The bankrupt, in continuation, said his wife's father died in 1829, and he and hit wife had since disputed the validity of 'the will. One of the executors was Mr. John Turner, the cred,tor at whose suit he had been so long in custody. He (the bankrupt) had published a pamphlet containing an account of the circumstances, for which legal proceedings were taken against him. He (the bankrupt) :had indicted Mr. Turner for perjury, and bill was found against him. Afterwards an agreement was come to that he should withdraw this prosecution of Mr. Turner. Contrary to agreement, he (the bankrupt) was subse quently arrested the suit )f Mr. Turner. Since he had been in gaol his children had offered all the cre ditors, including Mr. Stlmon, five shillings in the pound. He did not consider that Mr. Salmon had a just claim upon him for more than 401. His (bank rupt's son) had proved against the estate for 2,5001. The petition had not been filed at his request. He had offered to pay the costs in Mr. Turner's action, but not the damages. Marcus William Tuner, barrister, upon being ex amined, said that he might have been called by the name of Merryweather—the name of Merryweather Turner, he believed, was on his door. In the Law List he appears as M. W. M. Turner. The COMMISSION E x said there was no doubt the witness was authorised to use the name of Turner only, though he might have used the surname of of Merry weather also occasionally. By Mr. CooKE—Mr. Turner said be had been pre sent on one occasion when his father had distinctly told Mr. Salmon that the property that had been re ferred to belonged to his children. Mr. Salmon knew that his brother was receiver. In omitting the name of Merryweather on filing the petition he had not in tended to deceive the Court the least in the world. The petition was filed in opposition to the wish of his father. Interest upon his debt had been paid within az years. The bAnkropt,, ppm t•-expaluatiou by Stafl TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER v, 1851. Mr. NORTON..—IS it a fact that you have a son ten I years of age, and that he is delicate ? Quinnear— Not at all, Sir. Bell then recommended me to go to Port Philip, Sydney, or New Orleans, as places that would suit me very well. My friend then told his case, which, like my own, was perfectly imagi nary, and he told him he would be in possession, in a short time, of 60,0001. My friend replied that he did not think that he should be in. possession of quite so much, or in so short a time as a few weeks, upon which Bell appeared to consult a map with several figures on it, and repeated that he would. I then, your Worship, told the prisoner we had learned all we re quired then to know, and asked the prisoner what his charge was. He replied, " I don't generally charge gentlemen anything, but receive anything they wish to give," and therefore we might give what we liked. I then said "I am a police-sergeant, and your destiny is to go with me to the police-station ;" upon which he said, " I n d ee d what for ?" I repied, " For ob• taining money under false and fraudulent pretences from two women about half an hour since," and he made no further reply. I then took him into custody and also Mrs. Bell, for acting with him in defrauding their victims. Quinnear added to his testimony that the house in which the prisoners lived appeared to be elegantly furnished, and there were some bottles in the window to give it the appearance of an apothe cary's. He also said he had no doubt, from the vast number of letters found, from different parts of the country, and directed to the male prisoner, that he carried on a most extensive system of fraud and de ception. The male prisoner, who said that he had been un fortunate in business and adopted fortune-telling as a means of existence, was remanded to a future day, and his wife was discharged. LONDON, SOUTHWARK. Elizabeth Hales, a tall, gaudily-dressed woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stealing a purse containing three sovereigns and a half and some silver from John Kennedy. The complainant stated that he is an engineer, re siding at Staleybridge, in Cheshire, from which place he arrived on Saturday for the purpose of visiting the Exhibition; that on the evening of the day in ques tion, as he was walking along Blackfriarn-road, he was accosted by the prisoner, who induced him to accompany her to a coffee-house opposite St. George's Church, in the Borough. Having had refreshment there, she advised him t o p ass h er o ff as hi s w if e, an d by that means they would be enabled to remain there for the night, adding that as her husband was in the country, she had a good opportunity of having a " little pleasure " while he was from home. Complai nant accordingly made up his mind to remain, and at eleven o'clock they were shown up stairs to a sleeping room, the door of which he locked inside and deposited the key in his pocket for security, having heard strange tales in Cheshire about the scenes that occurred in London. He then undressed himself, and before get ting into bed, placed all his clothes at the foot of the bedstead, during which time the candle burnt out, and the prisoner remained sitting on a chair by the bedside. The moment the candle was extinguished the prisoner pretended to be very much alarmed, and exclaimed that she was convinced they would be aobbed and murdered if they remained in that house. Being a stranger in town he felt rather alarmed, as the room was all in darkness, and the more particu larly when he f e lt th e hands of some person outside the bed clothes as if feeling about in order to stab him. He hastily rose up and grasped his trousers, from the pocket of which he missed his purse and money, and then concluded that the prisoner had pre viously tried to intimidate and then robbed him, upon which discovery he made an alarm, and the people of the house came into the room. He told them what had occurred ; and upon examination a portion of his money was found on the prisoner, and she had slipped the remainder into one of his boots, which lay underneath the bedstead. She stoutly denied that she had robbed the complainant, asserting that the money found in her pocket belonged to herself; but, unfortunately for her, there was also found a small ivory knob, which the complainant proved was in the same pocket from which the money was taken. This latter fact strengthened the charge against the pri soner, as the coin discovered in her possession could not be identified by the owner. The prisoner, who still asserted her innocence, was committed. 111URDER 1N LINCOLNSHIRE. A diabolical murder, the circumstances of which remain shrouded in mystery, was perpetrated on Fri day night last in a lone cottage in the parish of Gay ton-le-Marsh. It appears that a person who was passing within about 500 yards of the cottage of a man named Baker, about half-past eight o'clock in the evening, heard a single shot fired. Shortly after wards Baker presented himself at the house of this person with his head bleeding, and stated that his wife had been shot dead through the window, and that ho himself had been wounded. Mr. Heath, the sur geon of Theddlethorpe, examined and dressed the wounds, but found no shot in them, although the wounds bore all the appearance of having been pro duced by scattered shot. Some circumstances led to Baker's apprehension on suspicion of having com mitted the murder. It was known that he and his wife had lived unhappily together, and that they had once been parted. He had wished to go to America, and had with some difficulty prevailed upon his wife to advance him 201., which was effected by mortgaging the cottage and land, which were the property of his wife. It was considered possible that Baker had shot his wife, and contrived to wound himself, and upon these grounds he was arrested. A further examination of Baker's wounds was made by Mr. R. West, surgeon, of Alford, who detected a single shot under the skin of the top of the head near where the hair is parted. This shot had passed in a direction from before backwards, and had loiged about a quarter of an inch from the opening by which it had entered. Mr. West extracted the shot, and took care of it. On Saturday morning an inquest was held on the body of the murdered woman, before Mr. Goe, coroner for Louth. Mr. Heath, who made a post mortem examination of the body, stated that the prin cipal vessels of the neck were lacerated by scattered shot, which had passed in from behind. He found nine shot corns in the neck, and in the shoulder and back of the woman a great many wounds from scat tered shot. A. small piece of glass was found within her dress, having evidently been driven there with the shot from the window. A loaded gun hanging in the house was examined, and presented appear ances which proved that it had not been recently discharged, the cap being rusted on the nipple. Marks were found in the garden about ten or a dozen yards from the window, as of the boot toes and knee of a person kneeling to fire. These marks were in a line with the opening through the window, and with what the man stated were the positions of both himself and his wife when the were shot. The opening through the window was at the side, and a few shot corns were picked out of the window frame. Baker's statement was, that he was s itti ng reading with his face opposite the window, and that his wife was sitting opposite to him on the other side of the table, sewing the sleeve of a flannel shirt. Sud denly he heard the report of a gun, and felt himself wounded in the head. He rose from his chair and felt his head down, yvhich was bleeding profusely. He spoke to his wife, not knowing that she had been struck, and, when he found she did not answer, he looked up and found her lying dead on the hearth. As soon as he recovered from the stupor into which he was thrown he went and told his next neighbour what had occurred. The shot corn found in Baker's head, and the fact that the report of only one gun had been heard, appeared to corroborate the man's state ment. It seemed clear that the wounds on the man's head were really caused by shot. These wounds were not only scattered over his forehead and face, but one was on the very top of the back part of the head, and the shot corn found its the latter wound resembled those found in the woman. Baker was immediately set at liberty by the magistrate who had sanc tioned his arrest, and who was present at the inquest, on entering into his own recognizances to appear as a witness. It is now supposed by some that the murderer, whoever he was, meant to shoot both Baker and his wife, as in order to get them both in a line of fire he had been obliged to graze the window-frame, instead of which, if he had meant to shoot only the Woman, he might have shot through the middle of the window. Baker's friends consider it a providen tial circumstance that he did not escape uninjured, as in that case he might have had some difficulty in proving his innocence of this foul and dastardly murder. Baker does not hesitate to express his sus picions of the "friends" of his wife, who, according to his account, want to get possession of the place— the cottage, and three or four acres of land near it, being her property. It may be necessary to add that Baker and his wife were living together alone, that they had no window-blind up at the moment when the shot was fired, and that the window in question looks into a little garden. A rigorous and searching examination appears to be required into the circum stances of the murder, which has created an im mense sensation in the peaceful district in which it occurred. MELANCHOLY A rpAnt.—On Sunday afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, two boys, named Frederick Hadder and John Willgross, who reside with their parents at Hamp ton Court-bridge, when one of them threw a stone at a barge which was proceeding along on its way to Bristol. There were three men in the barge, in the employ of Mr. Baldwin, of Bristol, and the captain took up a gun, which was loaded with shot, and fired at the boys. The :hots took effect, and it was afterwards found that one of them was dangerously wounded, and the other but very slightly. Three gentlemen were passing at the time, and they narrowly escaped from being shot. The three men were afterwards taken into cus tody, and they gave their names as James Clark, James Evans, and John Croggins. They were examined before the magistrates at the_Staines Petty Sessions yesterday,:and re manded for the purpose of Amami:ling the state of the Maildlid boy* ROYAL ARTILLERY. date WOOLWICH, OCT. 4.—By a G enera l O r d er , -8 the 4th ult., the Master. General was pleased to diree that the following traw,f, rs of officers should take pit in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, viz.:— Second Lieutenant J. W. Collington, from Maj ct Young's company, 12th battalion, at Guernsey, to CO' tain Crawford's company, 9th battalion, at Jersey. Second Lieutenant J. M. C. Vibart, from Capu t Mundy's company, 6th b a tt a li on, at S heerness, to Dlflr Rowan's company, 12th battalion, at Devonport. Second Lieutenant W. M. Yonge, from Captain Cle v9 i land's company, 12th battalion, at Claremont, Ire lsll to Captain Francklyn's company, 10th battalion, 31°° ' treal, Canada. Second Lieutenant E. J. Winn, from Captain Aft lt „ . riott's company, 3d b atta li on, at C lonmel, Captain Forbes's company, 10th battalion (now Dickson's company), at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Second Lieutenant H. R. Porter, from Captain 1t5 065 ,, company, 9 h battalion, at Woolwich, to Major Young company, 12th battalion, at Guernsey. Second Lieutenant J. T. B. Brown, from CeP t . h i; Crawford's company, 9th b at t a li on, at Jersey, to Csl)'' Innes's oompany, 9th battalion, at Woolwich. Captain F. Wodehouse's company, 10th battall marched from th e garr i son at h a l t - past eight o ' cloc k e l Friday morning, the 3d inst., to the Royal Argo headed by the band and drums and flutes of the r e g ii " went, and embarked there on board the Chats hired transport ship for a p assage to B ermuda, w here they are to be stationed and re li eve C apta i n J. R. L°-d, : villa's compa,y, Ist battalion, o r d ere d to return to 10., quarters at Woolwich, having b een on f ore i gn se rfl; at Bermuda since September, 1846. T he Chalb6„/ transport will call at Portsmo u th an d em b ar k the 2'. company of Royal Sappers and Miners, under the 0911/ fc ; wand of Captain H. C. B. Moody. R oya l Engineerg, 0, a passage to Bermuda, where th e company i s to be 5 f tinned, and relieve Captain J. W. Gordon's Ist coalP, ell i f of Royal Sappers and Miners on foreign service si ll September, 1846. Captain Dacre's company, sth b a tt a li on, embarkedb, the Royal Arsenal on S a t ur d a y, th e 27 t h ult , for Le!' and Captain Paynter's comp an y, B t h b at t a li on, on beta relieved from that station returned to head•quarters Woolwich on the 3d inst, Captain Walker's company, sth b a tt a li on, left fool, wish on the Ist inst., and proceeded by railway to Ai' chester. Second Lieutenant R. R. Jones is transferred frl Captain Paynter's co m p an y, B t h b atta li on, to C aP tr o Dacre's company, sth b a tt a li on , an d rema i ns w i t h latter company at Leith Fort. GENERAL ORDER. Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich, ocoi,', His Lordship the Master-General has been pleased, hi appoint S econ d C apta i n C . G . T . Field Adjutant to Po. 7th battalion, provisi ona lly, un d er t h e regulations c°,o tanned in the General Order of February 5, 1826, 1 , 1 , / Second Captain the H on . G. T. D evereux, poste d 10' Horse Artillery. Second Captain C. P. W. Philli ps i s therefore 11°, s to Captain Wright's company, 2d battalion, vice Fie ld. H. D. Ross, Dep ut y Adjutant-Genere'' THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the qua ntiti° corn, &c., received in th e p or t o f L on d on f rom the port,j, Essex, from the 29th Sept., 1851, to the, 4th Oct., both inclusive : ,q 0 IA Colchester Harwich Leigh Maldon 400 303 1476 CHELMSFORD OCT. 3.—Price s to-day were as f;i 10 1 : ;id Wheat, white, Old 40s to 475; new 39s to 465; r e Tlie 35s to 40s; ne w , 36 s t o 40 s ; bar l ey, 25s to 288 ; olle'ol 28s to 308; gr i n di ng 22 s to 2 6s ; oats 18s to 258; Ini.di, t, i 0 to 558 • chevalier 54 s t o 56 5 ; peas, partridge, new ''.„).; 30s; old, —s to —s ; white, n ew , 27 s t o 29 s ; o ld , _ s to 0 dun, new, 26s to 275; old, 27s to 295; beans, tick, o r to 29s ; harrow ticks, new 27s to 30s ; old —s to - -5 ; zagan, new 255 to 27s ; old —s to —8 per qr. t oil ' COLCHESTER OCT. 4.—Wh ea t, w hi te 40s to 44s ; 1..., to 38s ; oats, 17s to 22s ; bean s , mazagan 2 5s to 265; w„i00 and small 26s to 30s • peas, white 26s to 28s, grey, nog 30s ; barley, new, 26 9 s to 30s per qr. tatio ril KIRKALDT, OCT. 4.—The following are the To for new grain :-- Wheat. Barley. O a t s. B eans. I Fe o o 3 First 41s Od 2's 6d 22s Od —s Od - -5 C , J Second 34s 6d 22s Od 20s 6d —s Od I ---3 0 Third 3os Od 20 3 Od 19s Od —s Od I Oatmeal, per ba g o f 2801b s imperial, 31;is Od to 0 0 s v; pl HADDINGTOK, OCT. 3 . —The following are the pric e ` grain at our market to-day : 3' Wheat. Old. N ew. I Barley. I Oats. Beerlo,i First 46s Od ... 48s Od 26s Od I 21s 9d 381 '3S, Second ..,41s 2d ... 38s Od I 23s lld I 193 3d 34 : OG, Third Total quantity of Old Wheat in market 75 qrs ., 5" e id Do. New do. 615 qrs ., 47 5 o • 5 0 ld Do. Barley do. 252 qrs ., 2.-' 50 1 v Do. Oats do. 3_o qrs ., 318 so lj Do. Beans do. 31 qrs., 24 _4 1 DALKEITH, OCT. 2.—The relative weight p er four bro i l of the three prices of wheat were 18st 61b, IBst 01b, and ob , 81b. Oats, 12st sib, 12st 11b, and lOst 31b. Barley, 16 : 1 obi 15st 101 b, and 14st 121 b. P eas an d b eans, 18 s t 121 b, 0 t and 00st Olbs. Qrs. Current. Inferie 0 213 Wheat ... £2 5 6 RI is 0 £1 8 $ 509 Oats 357 Barley 1 4 6 1 4 0 1 0 0 3 Peas and Beans 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 Average of wheat 36s 4id. ABIADEEN, OCT. 3.—Grain—Oats 16s 6d to ••• bb e i 401bs per bushel; foreign oats, 00s Od to 17s Od, 401bs per bit- 0 01 barley, 20s Od to 00s Od, 521b s per b us h e l ; b ear, 20 s Od orl ud, 521bs per bushel; wheat 008 to 425; oatmeal, 143 6d to 1 1, per boll; flour, 30s to 309 6d per sack. Provisions7 -4 '4d 4d to 6d per lb; m u tt on , ditt o , 4d t o 6d ; veal, cbtt o i ;j; to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s Od to 3s 6d; lamb, per lb, 4d to c lii tallow, per ston e , 3 s Od to 3s 6d ; p o t a t oes , p e r P` 01 4cl to tid ; rabbits, each, Od to Od; hares, es eb :oo; to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os t o O s ; b u t ter, per 1 4, O d to i eto eggs, per doz, 3d to 10d ; cheese, p er cw t , 18 s to 23s o ' 2l Cao , 6dper pair, 2s 6d t o 3 s Od ; c hi c k ens, ditto, I6dto 2s Od; ( I ' l° l. 1/ 15 6d to 2s Od ; du c kli ngs , di tto, 2s to 2s 6d; turkeys, Per P 5 se ' 1 0 to 8s Od; geese, ditt o , 7 s to 8 8 ; butter for exportation (Pre 04 cure), per cwt, 70s to 728; eggs, wholesale price, per dol e llbs. to 6d; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, 6d; pork, per stone of I; bie Os od to Os Od; p or k fi ne , sma ll , 5 s t i d to Os Od ; por k, 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os WO Meal—Oatmeal, i s 6d t o I s ;d ; b ar l ey d ust, 8 d to 53 peaseweal, Is 10d to 2s Od ; side, 6d to 7d ; bereraealf i r l eJ to Is 4d; flour, is 8d to is 9d; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; b' flour, Is 5d to Is 6d. COAL MARKET.—YESTZEtDAY. Holy well Fanfold Moor Butes... I3s 9d Wall's End. 33 Townley Ships at market, 5 Sold, 4. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' BRISTOL, Ocr. 6 J. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market continues firtn i , purchasers feel more di spose d to meet the denaanft34l/ holders. The tra nsac ti ons reported to-day were Western, 841,1—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 90 LIVERPOOL, Our. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been w e , active to-day, and prices hi g he r . Th e transact i ons Weri Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshi re (l ate Ches hire ', Birkenhead), 151q—Caledonian, 1216 —L ancash i re and 1,°401 shire, 57 1 / 6 c.—Ditto, Fifths, dis.-_Leeds Northern (1, Leeds and Thirsk), 131 6—London and North- W es tern, 1 14 —Ditto, New Quarters, 31/1 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 25it ,4/ Midland, 49—Ditto, Halves, 17% dis.—North Staffordelll,i dis.—North-Western, 13% dis.—South. Eastern Dover, 19%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19. MANCHESTER, OCT. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share mar ket has been sari, day, and business brisk. Th e t ransact i ons were as follesfier Caledonian, 1216—East Lancashire, 14 3-16—Ditto, Psi once, Quarters, 81 A—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 5 ,; 1 7,/ Midland Stock, 49 1 / 6 —S ou th-E astern and Dover, IT,re. Manchester, Sh e ffi e ld, an d Lincolnshire, 271 A—Ditto Terence, 11 —Ditt o , N ew P re f erence, % p.—Eastern ,COl, ties, 614—Oldha m Alli ance , 1% di s.—Chester and Birlc43o ,1 1 , head, 15 7-16—Great Western, 85 1 4—London and Nor , Western, New Quarters, 3 1 % p.—North Staffordshire, S. BIRMINGHAM, Ocr 6. CSO STOCK EXCHANGE.—The s h are mar k e t was again 1)110,4 to-day, and London prices were we ll ma i nta i ned. Lone o , and North-Western were pa r ti cu l ar l y i n f avour, an d the teen dency generally was upward s . Th e on l y transact i on re por t Was—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3!41 The calendars of the Circuit Courts of Justicil in Scotland, with scarcely an excep ti on, are very duo lighter than for some time past, not only in the numbef crimes, but also in the prop or ti on o f th e more serious charges This, coupled with the general decrease of pauperism, satisfactory sign of the condition of the country. (ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE EARL OF ALDBORO ET GO AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding cure by this mirac o ol medicine, artcr every other means had failed. See extract frotao, Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, Ig f. Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you th a t your pills ha°_, c t fected a cure of a disorder in my liver and st omac h w hi c h a l l the 001 eminent of the facnity, at home and all ov e r th e cont i nent, hat' been able to effect; nay, not ever the waters of Carlsbad or rienbad. (Signed) " Ammonouon." These wonderful pills cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Hono0; 0 4 Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Stra.id, by 9U medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. BIRTHS. OF A BON. On the 2d inst., at Albury -park, the Lady Lovaine. On the 2d inst., at Inchmartine-house, Perthshire, the 11 ' William W. Ker, Esq. On the 4th inst., in Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-Pa r the wife of B. Loder, Esq., of the High Beeches, Sussex. OF i DAUGHTEi. On the 4th inst., at Regent's-park-terrace, Gl o uceste r ' gate, Mrs. Frederick Marriott. MARRIED. Recut On the 2d inst., at St. James's Church, Paddin g t on , , S. M'Neill, Esq., of Caramena, county of D onega l. ei", t e son of the late Major M'Neill, 17th Lancers, to Cliark,l 3 Richardson Moore, daughter of the late M a j or M oo re, "` Dragoons. ea On the 4th Inst., at Eastbourne, the Rev. Henry OW L I M.A.. rector of Haveningham, S u ff o lk, t o A nn i e , secoi ) daughter of the late Davies Gilbert, Esq., of Tredrea, 0 „ °/.1 :1 1 : wall, and of Eastbourne. Sussex, many yea rs M.P. f o r P° min, and President of the Royal Society. DIED. 'Earl On the 3d inst., at Busted-park, the Ri g ht Hon, the of Liverpool. On the 4th inst., at Hampton Court, the Right 13°4. George Lord Stafford, aged 80. On the 3(1 inst., at Balisdon, Berks, the Lady D. G. 118111' burton, aged 74, widow of the Lord Douglas Gordon, Bally burton, of Pitcur, N.B. On the 29th ult., at Truro, Cornwall, Admiral Tancock• On the 3d inst., at Clapham-common, William Laves ° Gower, Esq., aged 73, On the 3d inst., at Aketon-hall, Yorkshire, aged 67, Art bur Heywood, Esq. - - t London: Printed an d P u blish e d b y MURDO YOUNU9 0 0, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The S un Office, No. I ` # l Strand, ia the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cella 1 1 / 14 414441140033 7 1_04i001 7, 1851. r F i ~~`` the cei day 1)e sou fr t oth txii bat, Rati Mel or I 1' I'L• T RE Feu FttiO ten lac] Inez Tr ee con t.t) abc, zat, I ogi ti 7; 'or S -• -__ L 4