The Sun. — London, England, 1851-11-13 00:00:00

FEMALE COSTUME. ii Last night a lecture on this subject was delivered • by a Mrs. T. C. Foster, at the Hanover-square Booms, to an audience composed of about an equal number of both sexes. The lady lecturer was wel comed with applause on her entrance, and _began her lecture by stating that she had no desire to mix up with the question of female costume anything re lating to that which some lecturers on the subject had styled the rights of women. After alluding to the despotic nature of fashion, Mrs. Foster noticed the changes which had been produced by it in female attire in this country, more particularly since 1751. She briefly noticed the absurdities of fashion that ex sted in the days of Elizabeth—the gigantic ruff and lengthy stomacher, and contrasted with them the comparatively elegant and simple female costume that prevailed in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. She then gave a charming descrip tion of the female dress in the time of Charles 11., describing it as a modern costume, which for ease and . elegance had not since been equalled. She then noticed the alteration of the dress in the time of Wil liam and Mary, the introduction of the monstrous hoop in the reign of Anne, and illustrated t he ampli tude it attained in 1751 by a painting of i a lady at tired in the fashion of that day. Other illustrations were exhibited, displaying in all their deformity the to wering and artificial head-dress of a later day, and the short waists, or rather no w aists, and coal-scuttle bonnets in fashion at the beginning of the present century. She then touched upon the Bloomer costume, and, with a modification, pronounced in its favour. Wishing to speak to the eyes of her audience as to the merits of this costume, she gave a living illustra tion of it, and, having retired, re appeared in a rich velvet walking-dress in the Bloomer style, with the skirts considerably longer than they appear in any representation of that costume which we have yet seen. A description of the inconveniences attending the present style of the female dress and a condemna tion of the s y stem of tight-lacing concluded the lec ture, which on the whole was an amusing one. rourtb rtititton PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES, TO SOLICITORS, PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS, &c. SATURDAY NEXT, the 15th instant, is the LAST DAY for giving the FIRST :NOTICE for BILLS in PARLIAMENT ; and as it may escape the attention of parties interested in such matters we have thought it advisable to give this intimation, to put Solicitors and others on their guard. In order to afford every facility to parties who may be delayed by unavoidable circumstances, we shall keep the columns of The Sun open till the latest moment for Post, so that no opportunity may be lost for saving a whole year, by taking advan tage of the last day for giving the due notices. Sun Office, 113, Strand. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. (FROM OUR CORRESrONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY. The Submarine Telegraph communication from Paris to Dover is opened. I inform you of this im portant fact. There is no news to communicate. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.) LIBEL—O'REILLY V. CHURCHILL. This was an action brought by Mr. O'Reilly, of John street, Adelphi, against Mr. John Churchill, publisher of the Medical Times, for an alleged libel in that journal. Mr. Humphreys, Q.C., and Mr. Mathews appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Phips , ,n for the defendant. Mr. HUMPHREYS said the plaintiff was formerly an assistant secretary to a society called the Medical Pro tection Office, under the management of a Mr. Breary. This society having been broken up in consequence of pecuniary difficulties, plaintiff was about to establish another society of a similar kind, called the Medical General Agency Office, tor the purpose of protecting medical men from the frauds practised upon them, and enabling them readily to recover debts due from their patients. The following remarks were made respecting the plaintiff and the new society in a letter published in the Medical Times, from a correspondent signing him self " • " I understand, Sir, notwithstanding all you have written `respecting the Medical Protection Society], one Mr. O'Reilly. the managing man of Mr. Breary'a office, anlwho is, I am told, the getter up and factotum of the celebrated MAil Delivery Office, had the audacity to attempt the establishment of another Medicil Protection Office, somewhere in the locality of Foley-place, and that he actually sent round circulars to the profession, and found men silly eneugh to confide their accounts to him for collection. This hornet's nest ILLI6: be dispersed, and every member of it driven beyond the limits of the profession. It the profesion honestly wish to dissociate themselves from disreputable connexion and to protect their own interests, they will rftectually put duwn all such attempts as those I have referred to. . . . I say, thin, to all my brother members, rally round the Memcal and Surgical Practitioners' Society, and defeat all the efforts made by cunning adventurers to impose upon your confidence. As :an evidence of what this new society is doing, it has collected for me since its forma tion 121,, from among a mass of debts which, while in the hands of the defunct Medical Protection Office, brought me exactly 12 pence." The publisher of the paper had declined to give the name of the writer of the ieter, and the action was accord ingly brought against him by the plaintiff. The sting of the libel was the allusion to plaintiff's supposed con nexion with the Mail Delivery Office, which was pure invention of the writer's; the other statements in the letter were hardly less calculated to injure the prospects of the plaintiff, who was endeavouring to earn his live lihood in an honest and upright manner. Mr. T. Simmouds wai then called. He knew the plain tiff when he wai a clerk in Mr. Breary's office, and he had no doubt he was the person to whom he had re ferred. Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS —Was clerk in the Medical Protection Society's-office, 43, Lincoln's Inn fields, which had been established since tae former society broke up, en aAjgnuaent having been made from one to the other. Witness and plaintiff were both clerks in the former office, of which Mr. Breary was the head. Bad just seen plaintiff and Mr. Breary together iu the hall. Mr. Breary had now an office in John-street, Adelphi, fur the discovery of lost addresses.—(A laugh.) Knew that a great many debts had been collected by the Medical Protection Society which had never been paid over to the parties to whom it was due. The society's books had been lost, and were afterwards found by a waterman in the Thames. The books were in the care of a youth about nineteen years old. Was aware that many subscribers called fur their debts, which had been collected, and were not paid. Their complaints were numerous. Did not know that cheques were re turned dishonoured from Messrs. Dixon, their bankers. Payments were sometimes made by the clerks down stairs drawing cheques upon Mr. Breary, who was up stairs. These cheques were sometimes crossed by the clerks. Was aware that the Medical Times had pub lished an admission of their error with regard to plain tiff's connexion with the Mail Delivery-Office. Plaintiff bad told witness that be was not satisfied with it. By Mr. HUMPHREYS—PIaintiff was only a clerk in the Medical Protection-Office. He had nothing to do with their pecuniary deficiencies. Certain charges had been brought against plaiatiff, but he denied them all. Mr. CHAMBERS commented upen several portions of the witness's evidence which identified the plaintiff with the Medical Protection Society, and contended that the _Medical Times was only discharging a public duty in warning the profession against being induced to trust their accounts to him for collection, as there could be no doubt that he was a party to the serious defalcations of the former society, Ile urged that nothing had been brought forward to show that the Mail Delivery So ciety was ole of such a natu re as to render it libellous to co nriect t h e pl a i n tiff w i t h i t; and that the other re. mar l s in the letter were only such as a public journalist was fairly entitled to make respecting the establishment o f a s o c iety under very suspicious circumstances. having briefly summed up, u His LORDSHIPPd a verdict for the plaintiff—o ne The jury tow) farthing damages. TATTERSALL'S.—THIS :VENING. Su o'ciocx.. Nothing doing. FRAN CE. .... „....._. __ The Pays thus appreciates the relative positions of the r resident and what we must now call the late majority :-___ The state of things has become revolutionary, thanks to tlnt law of May 31; the discussion in the Chamber yesterday h v i port of m. D, N r varned of it, and the reading of the re tail the disturb au u ce confirmect the idea. In the discussion ; neitusein the Allier, no one was in his natural placp echo rithe majority, expression, it s jority, no longer finding its power, nor the Yresidcalattheet Ministers of the executive the Assembly, holding up the Government in the Interior to the ridicule ottl 2" f he Minister of the 1 th e majority; nor the Govern to ment, hesitating between hi c h it must seek to , bring back, and the ro i„ ri `, ll :'i °r i , Y , which it wishes rally; nor the Opposition itsielt between the I it t.Velhi. t w avering to the Minis- ' n ecessity which rnomentaril). against all the principles which ' Minis try, and its yesterday real want former acts of the Government. Thus it a real confusion of tongues in the Chamberwa: of all parties no longer able to find their standard Th law of May 31 causes a kind of vertigo in the standard, e .A bly. We saw one Minister applauded by the opp e Zi: tion, and another provoking the appkuses of the Majo rity. It was in vain that the Mini.:ter of Public Instruc .. - ." .....1 thrpplicy of the new Ministry would be . 4 . • :awe . IT • tte old one. From the denegations of: .7.. * oWeisiellibly the Minister must have under 'Y- '':' 0 was labouring under a compleie delusion. '= . - J1*4 , 9 Pttiinets there is €lll the distance • . 4:4o,Wiii. "l of 4 N. 11 s THE SUN, between the maintenance and the repeal of the law of May 31—that is to say, an impassible abyss. Circumspect as the language of the Mi nistry may be towards the majority, it will change nothing in the position of things, and will have no other result than to compromise the two powers in mutual concessions, which become impossible. The Ministers would in vain promise the majority to cause the law of May 31 to be respected, if it should be main tained. That is no longer in their power, and in pro posing the repeal of that law, the Executive Power has lost the moral force which it would require to secure its maintenance. All condescensions would only serve to compromise men without changing anything in the ne cessity of things. They:may besides have for the result, to authorise the majority in persisting in its obstinacy, by making it hope that the Executive Power will abandon its initiative. This:prescription on the subject of the law of May 31 evidently weighed on the discus sion which preceded the reading of the report of M. Daru. It was like a sort of preliminary skirmish, in which all parties sought their road without any one being able to find it." The Patrie says—" A considerable number of re presentatives belonging to the majority of the As sembly assembled to-day in the Ist bureau. After a long discussion it was decided that if the principal points of the law of the 31st May ought to be maintained experience has evertheless shown that it is susceptible of useful modifications. The meeting agreed that the discussions on the Bill of the 4th November offers an immediate, natural, and regular opportunity to discuss the amendments of which the electoral law is susceptible. The meeting, faithful to the sentiments of conciliation by which its members are always animated, declared that it would vote that the Assembly should decide on a second reading of the Government Bill." We read in the Bulletin de Paris— " The speech of the President of the Republic on Sunday has produced the best effect on the army. The officers of all grades, non•commissioned officers and privates, are all enthusiastic in their prai se of the language of the nephew of the Emperor. The reception at the Elyske on Monday was therefore very brilliant. Never was there so great an affluence of generals in the salons of the President, and the members of the diplomatic corps who were present may tranquilise their Governments respecting the dan gers of the situation, and respecting the disposition of the French army." This speech will, it is said be made the subject of interpellations in the Assembly. General Lamori ciere will ask the Minister of War what is the mean ing of the phrase " Follow me," addressed to the troops by the President, when the Constitution ex pressly forbids the President of the Republic from taking she command of troops. ever personally GERMAN Y. A letter from Berlin, Bth, says—" The Minister of Finance has formally declared that he has re nounced the idea of giving in his resignation. We learn that our Government is the only one which still admits any rights to the Duke d'Augustenbourgh, but if he will not accept an equitable indemnity, the Prussian Cabinet will not be disposed to struggle any longer for the secondary rights of the house of Au gustenbourg. The Government has just addressed to the different states of the Zollverein an invitation to send a plenipotentiary to the Customs' Congress, which is to assemble here next year. The invitation is accompanied by some propositions, on which the Prussian Government wishes to have the opinion of the different states before the meeting of the Con gress. The letter will be shortly published." THE TYROL. FEARFUL INUNDATIONS. Intelligence from Innspruck of the 4th states that the battalion of infantry and the staff were delayed 36 hours by a heavy fall of snow and the accumu lated mass of snow on the road. The accounts of the inundations caused by the overflowing of the rivers from all parts of the Crown lands are very distress ing. In many parts dreadful devastations have been caused. In Murburg the largest bridges haTe been carried away. The rushing masses of water as they passed through Dlurburg carried with them gigantic trees, which were torn up by the roots, fragments of houses, mills, carriages, timber, utensils, boats, and numerous animals. The inundation which caused these fearful disasters appears to have been caused by the bursting of a water-spout in Carinthia. Many places in Carinthia are quite destroyed, churches and hospitals were broken down by the fury of the water, and were speedily reduced to a mass of ruins. Many corpses have been found in the Tyrol—whole districts have been swept away—the telegraphic lines have been destroyed, partly by the water and partly by the fall of immense masses of snow. The mails have been stopped from nearly all parts of the country. The accounts from Agram are of the same melancholy character. The rise of the waters nine and ten feet above the ordinary water-mark, combined with heavy falls of snow and the accumulated masses of water rushing impetuously from the mountains, have caused incalculable damage. NEWSPAPER SUBSCIBERS IN AMERICA. COLLECTING THE ACCOUNTS. The following amusing account of the sort of pa tronage of which the newspaper press in America can boast, appears in a number of a " far West" journal which has just reached us. It is no wonder after reading the report which follows of the progress made in collecting the subscriptions, that our American contemporaries should eulogise to the third heavens, as the noblest being in creation, the " man who pays for his paper." The collector, it will be observed, reports progress to the unfortunate newspaper pro prietor : _ . I have just returned from a tour through this state, and proceed to furnish you with an account of my labours and their success. I have been gone for three months, and assure you, in all sincerity, that I am fully satisfied. You furnished me a list of one hundred and seventeen owing subscribers, as you will recollect. I have called upon one hundred and four of them, and have the honour of paying over to your order three dollars and twelve and one halt cents., being the amount to which your are entitled. I re turn you the list, numbered from one to a hundred and seventeen, and now give you the reply of each : No. I.—ls a minister. He says in the first place, he never got one half of the numbers (a lie accord ing to the account of the postmaster), and in the next place, your joker'. column was too scurrilous. He can't think of aiding to sustain a paper that adver• tires horse race and gander pulling. Besides, he knows from the tone of your editorials that you drink and paying you would only be the means of your ending your days in the kennel. He wonders at your impudence in sending him this bill, after publishing the great prize fight between Left-handed Smoke and Battering Bill. He wants nothing to do with you — never wants to hear from you again. No. 2.—ls in gaol for debt. He has not seen a half-dollar for a year. Says he would pay with the utmost cheerfulness if he only had the money, but had to borrow a shirt to put on last Sunday. Admires your paper wonderfully, and hopes you will con tinue sending it to him. He wishes you to take a bold stand in favour of the abolition of imprisonment for debt, as he think it would be a very popular move with gentlemen in his situation. If you send him any more papers, he hopes that you will see that the postage is paid, as otherwise he will be unable to en joy your lucubrations. Sends his best respects. No. 3.—lt is a young doctor. Says your paper is beneath the notice of a gentleman. Would'nt give a for a cartload. Says you inserted an article reflecting on the profession. Only wishes he could catch you here. Is going to persuade everybody that takes your paper to stop it. Cursed your bill, and says you may collect it in the best way you can. No. 4.—ls an old maid. Says you are always taking a ,fling at single ladies of an uncertain age. Wouldn't pay you if she was rolling in wealth, and you hadn't cash enough to buy a crust of bread. Sent all the papers she had back a month ago, and says now that she sent them back, she don't owe you anything. Says she is even with you, and intends to keep so until the day of :judgment. Asked me not to forget to tell you that you are no gentleman, or you wouldn't undertake to slander a large and re spectable class of the female population of the country. No. s.—ls a gambler—a sporting gentleman—says he_ got completely cleaned out last week at the races. Couldn't accommodate his grandmother with half a cent,ifshe was star v ing. Likes y o ur paper tolerably would like it better if you publish more races, and would occasionally give an account of a cock-fight. Liked the description of the prize fight amazingly—it redeemednot think hard of a multitude of your faults. Hopes you will bimfsoorointothapvaiynging someyou now but has got a prospect of change, as he is after a rich Fayo u young greenhornyour rt bi lbill outan anything thf who nt he arrived here last week. Will pluckings. No. G.—ls an old drunkard. h and never expects to have. Gathered up go all the pe g - , pers that he had, and sold them for half apint of rum to the doggery keeper to wrap groceries in. Wishes you would send him a pile, as they cost him no post age, his brother-in-law being postmaster, and per mitting him to take out letters for nothing. Winked at me when I presented your bill, and inquired if I wasn't a distant relation of „the man that butted the bull off the bridge. No. 7—ls a magistrate. S wore he never owed you a cent, and told me I was a low rascal for trying to swindle him in such a barefaced manner. Advised me to make tracks in a little less than no time, or he would make out a warrant against me as a common cheat, and have me sent to prison. Took his advice. -, 1 !,. by all (odds, the meanest man kbave:seen yet. wV . , o ne B v er go near him again. topublish Is a politician. Says, although you profess a neutral paper, it is not so. Thinks be has seen n een , ° considerable squinting towards the side to , was .onoaed. Meant to have told YOU a year ago to stop the paper, but forgot it. Tells you to do so now, and thinks you are getting off very cheaply in not losing any more by him. Believes you to be a rascal, and is too honourable to have anything to do with you, as it might compromise; him and in jure his prospects. No. 9—Paid up like a man. The only one. Likes your paper first rate, and means to take and pay for it as long as you publish it or he lives. Asked me to dinner and treated me like a king. An oasis in the desert ! A man fit for heaven. No. 10.—Is a merchant, expects to break shortly. Must save all his small change. Offered me a pair of breeches and a cotton handkerchief for the debt. Rejected them with scorn. Had a long jaw. Threa tened to break my head. Dared him to it. Threw a hatchet at me. I dodged it and put out. Nos. 11 to 117.—Mean as rot. Had no money— wouldn't pay—didn't owe. I swore I'd sue. They said I might sue and be hanged. Cursed all the little ones and hurried from the big. Never got the first red cent from one of them. The foregoing is a true extract from my note book. I have not succeeded a whit better with the patrons of the other publications for which I am agent, as it is impossible to collect from those who are determined not to pay. I have said I have been away three months. I have expended in that period two hundred and ten dollars travelling, and my entire commissions amount to eighty-two dollars and forty-five cents. I am willing to do my share towards the propagation of news, but more than that no reasonable man could ask. This business don't exactly suit me—l can't stand it. Please accept my resignation, and strike my name from your list of agents. I admire your paper very much myself, but it would be a queer-looking sort of a concern that would come fully up to the require ments of everybody. One wants independence in an editor—another don't want any. One wants all slang—another wouldn't touch a journal that con tained an irreverent line with a ten-foot pole. One sentimental, lackadaisical miss in pantalettes wanted nothing but love poetry—another never read any thing but the marriages. All kinds of abuse I have to bear, too. I wouldn't mind it so much if they only cursed you and your paper, but they curse me too ! Swindler, rascal, villain, bloodsucker ; these are some of the names they think proper to bestow npon me. I tried fight ing for a while, and thrashed several of your patrons, but occasionally I get licked like thunder myself. Once I was put in gaol for an assault and battery, and only escaped by breaking out. Send me a receipt for the three dollars twelve and a half cents., and believe me yours in despair, .AARON SWEAT WELL. THE WEST MOOR COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—NEW CASTLE, WIDNISDAY.—The inquest upon the bodies of the sufferers by the explosion in this colliery terminated yester day evening, after three days' sitting. Monday was occupied principally in taking the evidence of men who had wrought in the pit, who were brought forward by Mr. Brewis, at the in stance of the Miners' Association, to show that the pit, more especially in the district under examination, was in an un safe condition previous to and at the time of the explosion. The eviC.ence, however, failed to show that the men at any time had complained to the viewer or under-viewer, but proved that the overmen had kept a strict watch over the workings, and had furnished the men with lamps who de sired to make use of them. The regulations regarding work ing with lamps were proved in cress-examination to be very strict. There was a lengthened controversy regarding the comparative merits of the Geerdy Lamp, invented by the late George Stephenson, and the Davy. The men were de cidedly in favour of the Geordy. It seems thisl amp extin guishes itself upon the presence of gas, and that the gauze of the Davy turns red hot. The Davy has been known to explode in a brisk current of air; but in the dis trict where the explosion took place the air was sluggish. The other witnesses examined were unable to speak with certainty as to the exact cause of the explosion. The jury, atter being charged by the coroner, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 12. (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.) SCOTT U. SPASHETT. This appeal from the late Vice-Chancellor of England was argued in February last. The matter came before the Court on petition, and the principal question was, whether the petitioner ought not to have proceeded by bill. The petitioner, Mary Ann Spashett, a married woman, was entitled under the will of John Upton to one-tenth of the residuary es tate in conjunction with her husband, and she was also entitled to a sum of 3461. for her separate use, on the death of a person for whom it was invested, to secure an annuity. The husband received the tenth of the residuary estate, and before the death of the annuitant they joined in a sale of the reversionary interest in the 3461. to one Hardinge, who subse quently assigned it to the Reversionary Society. The husband afterwards became insolvent, and his property vested in the usual manner in the assignee of the Court. After the death of the annuitant the wife pe titioned for a settlement of the fund to her separate use. The Vice-Chancellor, in February 1850, dis missed that petition, on the ground that in such a case the proceeding must b by bill, and the matter was re-argued on appeal. The LORD CHANCELLOR now gave judgment; and having stated the circumstances of the assignments to Hardinge and to the Reversionary Society, he ob served that Mrs. Spashett and her four children now claimed by a petition to have the fund secured for their separate use. The Vice-Chancellor of England, before whom the petition came, held that the pro ceedings must be by bill, and dismissed the petition of Mrs. Spashett, with costs. His Lordship was of opinion that the petition ought not to have been dis missed ; and that, both on principle and authority, the matter at issue could be decided without the formality of proceeding by bill. His Lordship could see no reason for the petitioner being put to the de lay and expense of a suit in equity to obtain a de cision on her claim. There was no question raised by the petition which could not be discussed and de cided with as much ease and as satisfactorily as if the matter was involved in the delay and great ex penditure of a suit. There were no questions raised between the petitioner and the other claimants to participate in the residue, and they could not be affected by the decision on the petition, nor was there any reason to believe that justice would not be done by taking the opinion of the court in their absence. His Lordship had been unable to find any case in which it WPS held that the Court could not so decide on petition, or any authority for a proceeding by bill. ha a case of Greedy v. Lavender, reported in the 19th number of the Law Journal, 496, the late Master of the Rolls made an order of a somewhat similar nature on peti tion. If it was argued that the respondents in the proceedings by petition were not before the Court, it might be observed that the parties so complaining had themselves brought the matter before the Court for its decision. By obtaining the stop order they had availed themselves of the machinery of the Court for the protection of the fund, and having done so, what was there to restrain the Court from coming to a decision on the conflicting rights of the parties claiming the fund, unless there were matters in dis pute which could not be determined without a suit ? Being of that opinion with respect to the form of the proceeding, his Lordship felt himself called on to make one or two observations on the general equity involved in the claim of the petitioner, and on that point also he entertained no doubt. In Salisbury v. Newton, 1 Eden, 370, a wife was held to be entitled to a provi sion against the particular assignee of the husband for valuable consideration of the whole of her equi table interest. So, also, in Macauley v. Phillips, 4th Vesey, 19, the assignment for valuable consideration of the wife's equitable interest by the husband did not bar her equity. In the case of Wright v. Morley, 11th Vesey, 16, Sir William Grant, said—" If the husband has but the right of reducing the wife's interest into possession, how can he for valuable consideration or otherwise convey more than he has ? If he does not reduce it into possession, it clearly survives." Again, in the case of Elliott v. Cordell, sth Maddock, Sir John Leach (at p. 156) says—" Where an absolute equit able interest is given to the wife, the Court will not permit the husband to possess it without making a provision for the wife, or h e r ex p ress consen t ; an d all who claim under the husband must take his inte rest subject to the same equity. In Brett v. Green well, 3 Younge and Collyer, 230, Baron Alderson, sitting in the Exchequer in Equity, held that the money in Court was to be applied for the benefit of a married woman, her husband being insolvent. So also Gardner v. Marshall, 14 Simon, 587, the Vice- Chancellor, in directing the application of the fund as a settlement on a wife, remarked on the fact of a hus band, prior to the question arising, having received or had the benefit of a large portion of his wife's fortune, as making a difference when the Court came to dis pose of the remainder. Being of opinion in the pre sent case on authority, that the wife was entitled to have the fund settled on herself and her children, ac cording to the prayer of her petition, and looking at the fact that the husband had already received a large sum out of the estate of John Upton in right of his wife, his Lordship had no hesitation in allowing the appeal and in directing a reference to the Master to approve of a proper settlement of the fund in Court accruing by the death of the annuitant. Order accordingly. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Ncv. 12. (Sittings in Banco.) THE A TTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCK COM* FANY. --- ALLEGED FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE. At the sittings of the Court to•day Mr. Wild moved for a writ of delivery directed to the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Customs, authoring them to give up to the defendants all the goods mentioned in the indentures of appraisement, and which had been seized on the company's premises in order that they might be entered in the books of the company, and the duty paid upon them. The LORD CHIEF BARON—Does your motion apply to all the cams is Mr. WILDE said that his application referred to all the cases against the London Dock Company, but not to those of the St. Katharine Dock Company. Mr. GROVE, on the part of the Dock Company con sented, and the application was granted. The Court rose at half-past one o'clock for the no mination of Sheriffs by the Privy Council. (Sittings in London at Nisi Prius in Michaelmas Term, before Mr. Baron MARTIN, and Common Juries.) This was the " first sittings" for Michaelmas Term at Nisi Prius. MILLER V. HATCH. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 851. The defendant pleaded the general issue. Mr. Bramwell and Mr. Jones were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Petersdorff appeared for the de fendant. The plaintiff in this cases, it appeared, was foreman and brother-in-law to Mr. Bennett, of Hart-street, Bloomsbury, pencil-brush manufacturer ; while the defendant was a wholesale furrier in Friday-street. It seemed that from the statement of the Learned Counsel who appeared for the plaintiff, that in the month of September, 1848, Mr. Bennett was indebted to the plaintiff to the extent of 85/. for wages, and it was represented that Mr. Bennett bad an interview with the defendant, and had arranged that be (the plaintiff) should draw a bill, which should be ac cepted by Bennett and endorsed by the defendant, and that the proceeds of the acceptance, after it had been discounted, were to be handed over to the plaintiff. The bill was accordingly drawn, accepted, and endorsed, as stated, on thu 4th of September, 1848, and it was then delivered to the defendant to get it discounted ; it appeared, however, at the same time, that various mercantile transac tions were existing between Mr. Bennett and the defendant, to whom, it was alleged, he owed a con siderable sum of money. The plaintiff never received any part of the proceeds of the bill. In the course of October, 1848, Mr. Bennett got into difficulties, and the plaintiff never heard of the bill until he re ceived an application for its payment at the expira tion of twelvemonths, .the date at which the accep tance was drawn. Mr. Bennett and the plaintiff were called, who stated in substance, that the bill was drawn with the express understanding that the money should be handed to the defendant, Band that it was totally ir respective of any business transactions which might have existed between Mr. Bennett and plaintiff. Mr. PETEitspourr contended that the defendant neither contemplated nor intended to benefit the plain tiff, but to get the best security he could for goods which he had caused through his introduction to be supplied to Bennett. The defendant was called, and stated that Bennett was indebted to him to the amount of 6001. in the month of October, 1848, and that the bill in question was given to secure the payment for the goods which he had caused to be supplied. Mr. Baron MARTIN summed up, and in the course of his observations said the jury would have a very painful duty to perform, as the statement of the plaintiff and his witness was totally at variance with the evidence of the defendant. The jury would, however, weigh the probalities of the case, and, after giving it their best attention, deliver their verdict accordingly. The jury, after a long consultation, and having ex pressed a wish to be released from delivering a ver dict in so distressing a case, retired, and eventually returned into court with a verdict for the pleintiff.— Damages 851. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Messrs. Holladay and Clemitson, of Watling-street, appeared before Alderman Sir Robert Walter Car den and Alderman Wilson, on an information, charg ing them NV ith making and selling an article of wear ing apparel, alleged to be a fraudulent imitation of a design called a "Pella," registered by Messrs Phelps, M'Morland and Co. Mr. Ilindmarsh, instructed by Mr. Gray, con ducted the case for the complainants, and Mr. Web ster, instructed by Mr. Parker, appeared for the defendants. Mr. Hindmarsh said that Messrs. M'Morland and Co. were the proprietors, of a registered design for a shawl, to which was attached a hood in such a manner that the combination of the two prticles made them subservient to the purposes of either a cloak or a shawl. The defendants bad brought out an article identically the same, or so closely like, as to render it a fraudulent imitation. The registered article and the copy were then pro duced, and compared, when Sir R. W. CARDEN re marked that he could not perceive the slightest diffe rence between them. Mr. Webster readily admitted that when in wear they were to all appearances precisely similar, only that the alleged copy was an improvement upon the other, in consequence of the hood being removed at the pleasure of the wearer. That, however, was not the ground of the defence. Mr. Hindmarsh said he had received some intima tio❑ that the defence intended to be set up was, that it was not new or original, as the idea of a shawl or a hood separately was as old as the hills. He, however, assured his Learned Friend that Lord Campbell de cided, in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday last, in a case where a registered " button" was sought to be protected—his Lordship said, that though the Queen's arms and the garter, or scroll, with a motto, were each of them in dividually old, yet the combination of those sub jects might be so arranged as to form a pretty and original design, and therefore would have a fair claim to protection. That case was precisely the same as the one in dispute ; though the component parts of the article were old in themselves, the novelty consisted in the combination. It was then shown by witnesses that if the shape and configuration of the shawl or hood were altered by the complainants in their manufacture, no matter how materially, so long as they still remained a shawl or a hood, it would not prejudice the registration, provided that the combination wes retained. Mr. Webster then stated the two Acts of Parlia ment under which these proceedings were taken quite put the complainant out of court. The first was the " Ornamental" Act, and the other was the " Non ornamental, or Utility" Act. He contended, there fore, that the article registered by the complainant was not an article for registration, but ought to have been patented. For as the shape and configuration might be altered without affecting the registration, it was then simply a combination of material parts that ought to have been made the subject of a patent. Alderman WILSON asked Mr. Webster if he thought the complainants would have had a stronger right under a patent ?—Mr. Webster said undoubt edly they would. They ought never to have regis tered it, since they have not done so for its shape or configuration. Alderman Winsost wished to know what was meant by the word "configuration," as two of the chief jus tices had differed upon that point ?—Mr.Webster said he could not give a better illustration than that of the "button" his friend quoted, wherein it was decided that the combination formed a pretty pattern that might be termed a "new and ornamental shape or con figuration." Sir R. W. CARDEN inquired if Mr. Webster meant to contend that complainants could not claim any protection under the registration certificate ? Mr. Webster said he certainly did, and if the complain ants had had any discretion they would never have registered an article of that description. Sir R. W. CARDEN said he thought he could not adjudicate in this case, unless it was proved that the the defendants resided at the premises in Watling street, as in the event of a conviction he could not enforce the order. Mr. Hindmarsh said he was not in a position to prove that, and he would, therefore, leave it to the aldermen whether they would adjourn the summons or dismiss it. The summons was then dismissed without costs. John Tcbbitt, the man who was stated to be con nected with a gang of horse chaunters, and who has been remanded from time to time, in consequence of his being unable to leave the hospital from injuries he received on being thrown from a horse he was charged with stealing, was committed to Newgate for trial. Neil Mac Shane, who was charged with assaulting Margaret Bosphar, by striking her on the head with an immense kitchen poker, and thereby endangering her life, was also brought up and committed for trial. _ _ BOW-STREET. John Mansell Schmidt, a young man who had lost his right arm, and was described as a Chelsea pen sioner, was brought before Mr. Henry, charged with embezzling small sums of money, amounting to 401., which he had received on behalf of Baron de Tremb lay, an exhibitor of China wares in the French de partment of the Great Exhibition. The prisoner had been employed to deliver articles purchased of the prosecutor, and to receive the amounts charged for them. Four cases only were se lected from a great number for prosecution. Mr. E. G. Smith, of Wilton -crescent, proved the payment of 31. 16s. to the prisoner in behalf of Cap tain Archibald Robertson for articles purchased of the Baron at the Great Exhibition. The butler of the Hon. Mrs. Bathurst, of Gros venor•square, deposed to having made a similar pay ment to the prisoner for his mistress. Evidence was also given of similar payments on behalf of Mr. J. Morant, of Park-lane, and Mr. T, Campbell, sculptor, of Marlborough-street. Alexis de Tremblay, the prosecutor, deposed that the prisoner did not account to him for any of these payments, although furnished with the articles to which they related for delivery to the purchasers. The prisoner, who said he should reserve his defence for a jury, was committed for trial. CLERKENWELL. Mr. Thorp Davis, Vernon-place, Baguigge LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1851. Wells-road, who has been several times examined, charged with the wilful murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Dorothea Davis, his wife, was finally examined. Mr. Wakeling, for the prisoner, contended that there was no evidence to prove how the deceased's hand was injured. The coroner's jury had returned a verdict that the deceased died from infisimmation of the arm, but how it was caused there was not sufficient evidence to show. If the prisoner was to be committed for the manslaughter, he suggested that bail might be taken for his appearance at the sessions. Mr. Binns objected to bail. Mr. COERIE said he had given the case his fullest attention, and had decided on committing the prisoner for trial, on the charge of manslaughter ; and as the sessions were so near, he should decline taking bail. The prisoner was accordingly fully committed to Newgate for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday being the day appointed for the re exa mination of an extensive body of alleged swindlers, who were charged with conspiring together to obtain goods and money from merchants, tradesmen, and loan societies, to a large amount, the court was densely thronged with respectable persons from an early hour, amongst whom were, as estimated by the officers, nearly a hundred complainants, who had charges of that kind to prefer against them. The first prisoner so placed at the bar was George Grey Kingdon, but also known under a number of aliases, who was charged with obtaining numerous sums of money from different loan societies under false and fraudulent representations. Upon several cases the prisoner was discharged, as coming within the category of simple contract debts ; upon others he was remanded for a week upon bail and recognisances to the amount of 160/. Matthew Matthews, Charles Richard Burdett Walker, Horatio A.Ctainbridge, Richard Lowe, and Francis Williams, five very respectable looking young men, were next put to the bar for further exami nation. Mr. Lewis, the solicitor, was now in attendance, and stated that he appeared on behalf of the Trades' Protection Society, 170, Regent-street, to charge the prisoners with probably the most widely ramified and systematic conspiracy to defraud the public that had ever been brought within the cognizance of a police court. He was in possession of a vast number of charges against them, but in consequence of being only recently retained, and the complicated and intri cate nature of the facts, he was only at present pre pared to go into one, in addition to those before en tered upon, though at the next examination he should be in a position to adduce such evidence as would con clusively implicate the whole of the accused in a charge of conspiracy. After some evidence, which went to establish the joint conspiracy of the prisoners, the magistrate ordered the whole of them to be remanded, and posi tively refused to accept any bail for their future ap pearance. An elderly respectably dressed woman, named Eliza Bachell, was next charged with being a party to the fraudulent conspiracy of the last-mentioned prisoners. She was also remanded, and ordered to be brought up next week for re-examination with the other prisoners. Four other men, named William lon, George Crowe, James Cowley, and Joseph Johnson, who were transferred to this court from Marlborough • street, upon suspicion of having acted in conjunction with the former prisoners in carrying out their fraudulent purposes, and in whose possession a num ber of documents was discovered, containing lists of names for reference to each other, as fictitious secu rities in their operations, were next brought up; and after a short examination were also ordered to be re manded. child in this house, whose birth was registered last week, is said to have symptoms of the disease. It appears from the statement of my informant that the house is clean, that there is complete ventilation, and nothing to account for the disease can be assigned." On the 6th November, at 67, Esgle•street, Red Lion-square, the son of a bootmaker, aged 4 years, died of " malignant scarlatina (6 days)." Mr. Good hugh, the registrar, observes that " another child in the family has since been taken ill with the same dis ease, and that the malady must be attributed to local circumstances. The house, which is situated on the north side of the street, is let out in single rooms, and at the back is a small yard about 10 feet by 5 in size. In the corner are a dustbin and a privy in a foul state with a cesspool which burst and allowed the contents to run into the back kitchen, where the waterbutt is kept. In the front kitchen adjoining, which is about 12 feet square, badly ventilated and damp, a man and his wife with their four children live and sleep." In 10 cases out of the 59 in which scarlatina was fatal, it is stated that the primary disease was followed by dropsy. On the 29th October, at 41, Sutton-street, Lam beth, son of an Excise officer, aged 13 months, died of "cholera infant= (5 days)." In Bethnal-green, at 25, Emma-street, a tallow chandler, aged 73 years, died of "serous apoplexy (one week)." Mr. Murray states that "the street fronts a large stagnant pond abutting on a dustyard, both of which emit an offensive smell that must be in jurious to health." - At 10, Eagle-street, Hoxton, the daughter of an ostler, aged 10 years, died of `• debility from ptyalism." Two persons died of intemperance, 9 infants from want of breastmilk and inanition, and 4 infants from suffocation, in three of which cases the children were suffocated in bed. STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK. SUNDAY.—The amount of cloud was very variable until night, when the sky became clear; cumuli. cirrostrati, and dark scud. Showers of hail and rain fell at ll h. 30m. A.m., lh. 15m. P.m. ' and 2h. 15m. P.M. Electricity—Active elec tricity must have been exhibited at some time during the day, as the gold leaf of the dry-pile apparatus was cut off. MONDAY.—Three-fourths of the sky were generally covered till near noon; then the amount of cloud was variable till sh. P.M., and clear afterwards ; cumuli, cirrocumuli, and haze. TUESDAY.—The sky was overcast till 10h. A.M., mostly clear till lb. r.ll, three-fourths were covered till 7b, P.M., and clear afterwads ; cirrostratus. Rain and sleet fell at 9h. A M. WEDNESDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was obscured with stratus and thick haze throughout the day. Slight rain fell during the evening. TITURSDAY.—The sky was clear during the earlier portion of the morning, and overcast during the remainder of the day ; cirrostratus and haze. . . FRIDAY.—The sky was for the most part covered with cloud until sh. P.M., and the amount that prevailed afterwards was very variable; cumuli, cirrocumuli, strati, and scud. Rain fell heavily from 2h. 10m. till 2h. 45m. P. M. Electricity —Positive, and very active from 2h. 10m. till 2h. 30m. P.M. ; sparks were shown. Positive, and tension weak at other examinations. SATURDAY.—The clouds were broken during the afterncon, at other times during the day the sky was overcast ; cirro cumuli, cirrostrati, and haze. The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main mast, and read each day at 9h. A.m. was 40•2° ; and the mean reading at 9h. r.m. was 40.0°; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the same times were 38.2 8 and 38.5 Q respectively. The reading of the barometer decreased from 29.46 in. at the beginning of the week to 29.22 in. by 10h. A. u. on the 2d; increased to 29•79 in. by 9h. r.at. on the 3d; decreased during the night, and was 29.67 in. by 9h. A.I. on the 4th ; increased to 2991 in. by 9h. A.m. on the sth ; decreased to 29 73 in- by 3h. ratf. on the 6th ; and remained at about this reading till 3h. r.m. on the 7th; after which time it turned to increase, and was 29.78 in. at 9h. A.M. on the Bth • remained at this reading till about noon, and th en decreased to 29.74 in. by the end of the week. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. N UMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 6,18 M. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*242 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 40 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 171 Diseases of the Bolin, Nerves, and Senses... ... 115 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 40 Diseases of the Liiugs, and. other Organs of Respiration 148 Diseases of the Stome'lh, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ... 63 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••, ... ... 11 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 9 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 8 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 1 Malformations... ... ... 2 ... _ Premature Birth ... ... .. ... ... 26 Atrophy ... ... ... ... ... ... 23 Old Ag e ... ... ... ... ... ... 33 Sudden ... ... ... ... 8 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance . 40 Cruses not specified ... ... ... ... ... 9 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 989 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enomerated, sponding week in the 1851. of 1850. Week West Districts... 376,332 .. 111 ... 140 North Districts.. 490,441 ~. 205 ... 194 Central Dis;;ricts 392,986 ... 146 ... 186 East Districts ... 485,336 ... 214 ... 213 South Districts.. 616,545 ... 245 ... 256 T0ta15........ 2,361,640 Males ... ... Females ... ... ... 989 ... 484 ... 505 SOUTH WARK. Thomas Gregory, a printer, was summoned for re fusing to deliver up a manuscript copy of a lecture on Bloomerism, the property of a Mr. Jobson. The complainant stated that he intrusted the manu script to the defendant for the purpose of printing it, but instead of doing so he used it on his own account. With this view he entered into an arrangement with a lady, made her learn the contents of the manuscript by heart, and introduced her to the public to lecture on Bloomerism. That they travelled the country to gether, and were reaping a rich harvest. He (com plainant) finding how matters were going on, and not having sanctioned such a use to be made of his manuscript, had therefore adopted the present pro ceeding in order to compel the restitution of it, and make defendant and the lady to desist from their con duct. A respectable-looking woman, who described her self as the defendant's wife, said that he was at pre sent out of town, but that she was prepared to deliver up the manuscript, and had brought it down to the court for that purpose. She here handed it to the complainant, who, on glancing at it, said it was not all there. Mr. ATECKETT—Is the manuscript in your hand writing ? The complainant answered in the affirma tive, but said that a copy of it had been taken and detained by the defendant. Mr. A'BECKaTT said, that if the defendant in fringed the complainant's copyright, he had his re medy against him, but not in this court; that the manuscript named in the summons was now produced, and, so far as that went, the purpose was answered for which the application was made. The complainant said that a portion of his manu script was still kept back, and that his principal object was to have it restored, and to prevent the parties from making any further use of it. Mr. A ' BECKETT said that he had no objection to adjourn the further hearing of the case for a week. HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) It was shown in the report for the last week of Oc tober that the mortality was considerably diminished; it now appears that concurrently with a great fall in the temperature it has again risen to nearly the same amount as prevailed during the earlier part of last month. The deaths registered in London in the week ending last Saturday were 989. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1841--50 the aver age was 967 ; but the population has increased since that period, and the averge, if corrected, in propor tion to the increase, is 1,064, compared with which last week's mortality shows a decrease of 75. The increase in the previous week is visible amongst the young, the middle-aged, and persons of advanced life. It is also observed in all those classes of disease which make the largest contributions to the mor tality ; for last week the deaths enumerated in the epidemic class rose from 222 to 242, those in the tubercular class from 156 to 171, those caused by diseases of the brain, spinal marrow, &c., from 78 to 115 ; those by di seases o f th e heart, &c., from 33 to 40; those by diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration, from 105 to 148 ; by diseases of the stomach, liver, and other organs of digestion, from 64 to 63; by diseases of the kidneys, &c., from 6 to 11; by rheumatism and diseases of the joints, &c., from 3 to 8 ; by atrophy, from 16 to 23. As in former weeks, scarlatina and typhus predo minate amongst epidemics, the former having in creased in fatal cases from 50 in the previous week to 59 in the last. Typhus numbers 58, besides 2 from ague, 1 from remittent fever, 1 from infantine fever, and 3 from rheumatic fever, but at present it does not show a disposition to become more fatal. The mortality from small-pox rose from 17 deaths in the previous week to 24 (21 children having died of it last week, and 3 adults above 15 years of age). It is stated in only one case that vaccination had been previously performed. Besides the above, the death of a child of one year occurred from chicken-pox. On 30th October, in Lambeth, at 29, James-street, the son of a wood sawyer, aged 2 years, died of " small-pox." Mr. Dews states that "the mother of the deceased nursed four of her children together when ill with small-pox, and having nursed others under the same disease she did not consider it neces sary to have medical assistance, which was not called in till the child was dying. The medical attendant therefore declined giving a certificate. On asking the mother why she did not vaccinate.her children, she said she had seen three different instances of children breaking out in sores on their heads after vaccination, which were not cured for two or three years. This she attributed to foul lancets being used, which ap peared also to be the opinion of the doctor who attended one of the children." In the sub-district of Somers-town, at 2, Charles place, the daughter of a farrier, aged 7 years, died of " scarlatina (1 day), convulsions (10 hours)." Two sisters of the deceased, and a brother, aged 16 years, died previously of the same disease ; their deaths were registered in the week ending 27th September. In the same sub-district, at 20, Melton -crescent, the son of an engineer, aged 16 years, died of "scarlatina anginosa (6 days), hydrocephalus internus (3 days)." Mr. Matthews states that the drainage in the latter place is bad. At 3, Elizabeth-place, Ball's-pond, on the Ist and sth November respectively, two children, aged severally 9 months and 8 years, died of " scarlatina anginosa ;" and at 1, Crown-cottages, Lipper Hollo way, the daughter of a grocer, aged 8 years, died on 3d November of "scarlatina (9 days)," the sister of deceased having died of it on 27th October. On the 2d and 3d November the son and daughter of a light porter, aged respectively 12 years and 16 months, died at 3, Langley-street, Long-acre, of "malignant scar latina, after illness of 10 and 9 days' duration." In St. Mary's, Marylebone, at 34, Horace-street, on the 4th and sth November, two sons of a labourer died of scarlatina, which in one case was followed by en larged glands. In the South subdistrict of West London, at 1, Dean-street, St. Andrews, the son of a printer, aged 4 years, died on 7th November of "scarlatina (7 days)." Mr. Nason, the registrar, adds that " this is the fourth death in the same house from scarlatina, three having previously occurred in another family, that of a compositor mentioned in former reports. A From ort dt wh e- at hen PLACES. due. G W e n h e e rha made Post -uo cp it e p London. patched. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Nov. 14 .. ...Liverpool • • ,Nov. 17 America (by U.S. pkt.) Liverpool ..'Nov. 14 America (by U.S. pkt.) M Nov. 20 .. ,Southampt. Nov. 13 Africa (West coast).. N,l4th of the month ;Plymouth Dec. 3 Alexandria* ........ Nll9th & 30th of mo.. Dover .Nov. 18 Belgium • • .. NlDaily ......Dover Daily Brazil .. • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Nov. 16 Buenos Ayres • . M 9th of the month !Soathampt. Nov. 16 California(viaCkeres)M2d& 17th of montb!Southampt. Nov. 20 Cape of Good Hope N.l4th of month Plymouth.. Dec. 3 Constantinople* .... N'7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Nov. 20 Central America .. M2d & 17th of men. Southampt. Nov. 20 Channel Isles .• NlMon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th. Sat Chili .• •• . .17th of the month Southampt. Nov. 20 France .. .. M &N; Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily Greece* • • • . • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo D over • • Nov. 20 Ilambargh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Toes. Sat. Holland •• M, Wednes. Satur.Loridon Mea•Thur. Honduras .. . N'l7th of the month 'Southampt. Nov. 20 Ireland .. •• M& N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .. Twicedally India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Nov. 23 India (via Marseilles) N, Sth& 24th efmontßDover • • Nev. 15 Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Sonthampt. Nov. 23 Mediterranean (vla Marseilles) .. •• NBth& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Nov. 15 Mexico • • •• •• M2d of the month.. Southampt. Dec. 5 Madeira • • • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Nov. 16 Malta* I 7 & th 3 ,l o 7 th th o ,l f 9 m th o , n 27 th th Dover Nov. 18 Naples * • • •• •• N sth 15th 2Sth ()rime Dover .• Nov. 12 Papal States* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. Nov. 12 Peninsular.. •• M.7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Nov. 16 Peru • • • • • • • • Mll7th of the month Southampt. Nov. 20 Tuscany* • • •• N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. Nov. 12 West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Nov. 20 Wpat Indira (crinsfo,+ Naples* .. • • • • iT Papal States* .. .. N Peninsular.. .. M Peru • • .. .. Tuscany* .. N West Indies ~ West Indies (except Havanna Se Nassau) M 2d of the month ..ISouthampt.lDec. 5 * The mails to those C ountries thus marked ( 5 ) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles. Ci 4IFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from California, via the 'United States are now despatched and due by every American packl The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... 770 ... 710 Total ... ... 1,480 *ln this number are incided 59 by Scarlatina, 58 by Typhus Fever, 28 by Dhcea, and 1 by Cholera. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signir es that the mails are sent front the General Post-office by the n" ht—and M by the morning—dispatch.] NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Masters—Peter Francis, to the Monarch ; W. T. Mainprise, to the Waterloo, Clerk— G., W. S. Hire, to the Birkenhead. Master's Assistant—James B. Patterson, to the Victory. Assistant Surgeon—Francis H. Blaxall, to the Victory. Foreman of Riggers—Richard Jones, Woolwich yard. Mates—A. K. Forde, to the Rosamond ; J. H. Marrsat, to the Waterloo. Midshipman—J. H. M. Calcraft, to the Rodney. Boatswains--William Huit, to the Fisgard ; Thomas Cutler, to the Waterloo. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 12.—The Simoom, iron troop steam-ship, was docked on Monday for the purpose of having the necessary pipes fitted for Grant's cooking and distilling galley, and also to have her bottom examined. When in dock last December she was coated over with Mr. Hay's composition, and yesterday it was found to be in a most excel lent state of preservation. There was no oxidation on the iron plates of her bottom, excepting some small spots where the composition had been rubbed off by shores, and some patches along her port side ligh lo tl n i g n! of floatation, where the stages when lying a side to remove her machinery had chafed off the com position. Along her lands there was an accumula tion of polypi, which washed off easily, as did the soft and muddy slime, leaving the composition on her bot tom hard and firm. With the officers under her poop, and the crew under her topgallant forecastle—which leaves her spacious decks entirely for troops—she will be the finest and most complete troop transport ever seen. The Tiger, steam-sloop, 400-horse , power, one of the advanced, was taken out of thi s harbour yesterday round Spithead, to test the efficiency of her machinery and engines. The — Hecate, steam-sloop, Commander G. Hand, went out of this harbour yesterday at noon, and an chored at Spithead, where she awaits orders. The old coal depot, the Mersey, is to be brought into the dock, vacated by the Edinburgh, to he broken up by the men in the yard. The Sprightly, steamer, Commander Allen, has been brought into dock to have her bottom cleaned. It was very f ou l, completely covered with muscles and animalcula. She will undock to-morrow. The Helena was at Grenada on the 13th of Octo ber, with orders to leave on the 14th for Bermuda and England, -----"-- , Captain Graham, of her Majesty's ship 10d°,_e." has American o n n g i f k o d r n . i N i c r e a ,w,o l t g y yr l eo e sr a sk :i esfeowr two r York three w e '''' • lumps, eriT T lsi S igph i m o i : s i; o t I - 7 it d no a- l dd a e s a nightt yaitri i, 0 fromrches Dorchester 1 Thawisk b a s e c ,: vi e tt e t n ' e d o s r2ril t ii i: eda at nexte ben sehirpern,,ins o f the old Topaz frigate have o and towed down off Gosport beach, to be CO' 1 p Thebroken up. Stirling Castle convict arget the gunnery ship lent. The Birkenhead pear iron steam-frigate Maste itil wander Salmond, remains ready for sea Oa sailing orders The Martin : bill Luther Indianian, from 1 3 ' m passed the . Wight in the night, dsent in tbe folio an ~....„.ntsie ing passengers to this port in a pilot boat: u'r te. Coates, Captain Sk . Al ane Lieu ippen, Lieutenant e ' L i e ute . nant Douglas, Lieutenant E. I\l. G. Cooper, for re hoiste Deptfordd his flag nant Batterill, & c. :.. J bp, i '' DEvoNpowr, Nov. 11.—Admiral Si , ° N or Onfor bulk (74) is to Eblectebia. day, imanney returned from leave of absence o 9 na g, astht:emsaorning, and resumed his command of t.b. e r w itli Diligence transport, 11.1itchyebl.olarmdatshteer,510ileu rlit' The Nautilus brig, fiL:lige°Un o t dn e l i n ant S• t c v _o ico m e e in in t t h o e hlavrebsotulrntdoi-ems.orro w to refit. Fc ' urte l e : eilt°l B. Polling, 0 of h naval apprentices instructed in this v es , e . or , .drafted to-day to the Rosamond steam -sloop I'm 7L103 ------- ARRIVAL OF THE AuERicAN C sohuirporrw p ra Te n va sa i t l i e a d rit a ic have ship aOtwoonirnneigeerontsftoalthleasrtaspiedarpafsrsoamge Cmh a i d o e , bY the tb r e e ty pes: til t° , SHIP, SURPRISE. Amer to and captains trading ti hl3 i b n r d e t o h f r e the East ec lipse their own bod should this season It will doubtless be in the recollection of tiVs t e :it i our readers who take an interest in mese - .., beck' porta little the Stornoway, thettle s t a o me themnnth, I, opo .. f commanded by Captain d°' ~ii , Phu son, who esprit ny. de corps salo,ladie, ormerly sailed the Liverpool N'ioa• O'G-aunt competitor, _ a ! arrived about a month since froni, ' per ` n'srrers' ' h'.in le" that port on the sth of ifloi, e the Oriental sailed from Sba 0 , tbe 15th of appearan ce, Good Hope although she was spoken oiT the ot ioo, o ri ff ca ß n r s ig hip, called the about seven weeks since --her rePosekA therefore, weh as a fast sailer is considerably do o b . A tli"' Brighton, however, to-day to announce t'. Aden' northward s she 0 : f a:: potli°,2.ri ogaoegYt°ecigln' weigiseperileecti, ton, on the 10th inst., of another Pcutirdeth tbe commanded by Captain being an exceedingly Surprise, ho ho s r oe Durnaresq, W P ' .. putation of b • Sur • when n rise left IVhampoa on the 28th of ° monsoon, We will admit to contend against which tbe StorD4orcoffel made end, was losing its force. The non§ c w nd ell 102 the da passage from Whampoa to tbe vocoth ya, and the Sur •took 105 X s 'o o ' prise tIP o f samelace till fatinhedeesAdumbrpeerrrii.scdeaisndpsoaraetsctsabbroetsb3o°bsol,:cleidiflarefl. tedj3.l•loscit ceed• vigilance a the inglY the vastdifference of size between the,,t:rcoonairoll. difference of build both as regard s '°. oilli 'tile terials, we think the owners of tbe Stor°- a pa • whereas w of ebel ./. Oil' , lio b e great reason to be satisfied with the! 0 $ f ;sitehhbveaeutlt when we take into co; oir zeal o her captain. parries u pif , e ; borne in mind that the Stornovray ed to pner o 200 tons cargo more than her register,. o ke ii i of more thanl reds what she is registered for. th e ' t 13 0 We were beginning to tremble for 000 v „ber , pl ea our mercan • tile marine, but Captain Ps'. 0130 0 roved P that, with fair play, we possess 91301Ptber 00 . eof competing with those of any bilf . in the world. c tb e • 0' It is " t hat ti°, reported at the " Jerusalem f o tec 0 terers of the A cb r I d merican ships are stall° ice. tb t o fists We cannot forio'sg f leo' • n 9 OUT Own Part' our f „ to g can be correct • , for we will not do ye 01),'I'le. injustice to suppose that they would t 4 .11 ja bt ' l O vessels at a monstrously high t ° i ' re " c . 1 )1 11l IS 0 obi i f D number of Britisa oot tel and sound trustworthy readysum quite willing to take in a ettrg coot If paid this to the Oriental and Surpri' e ; m e, ife c i ti ). statement, however, prove f - one : n'clP have any difficulty in accounting o r rOr causes of the of present depreciated state o —Herald. ___.----------'''...--------- SHIP NEW S ' i , h t 6 0e ' d i' GRAVESEND, Nor. 12 --Wind W., ''S fi t f r°' SeP afl' Arrived—Triton f . Os ten d; AO ' 6 sd cfrfi ° , from fl oe d; le . logne; Batavier, from Rotterdam; r ac 1104.10; /, from Patras; Seaflower, from Ne* c ni l°- c.,":„" 11: 0 ° Herman, from New York; 9 Pallas, fr ° ,." - alit iv i t° ' r oi l° Ip,hr)e•dr,erfircokmstaAertc;hangel; Coofntess:::llell°tefics:eft.d zic; Ditakbaarsheid, from Lanscrotal; , lO r° tali , tO' Theodor, from for 1 , from Emden. ilsodelifefilber , _. 1 cot Sailed-Agincourt, for Sydney; C oe d j i p ; • , does; Victoria, ;for the Cape of ljeal'e•4ltte' v+l° George, for Patras; Green Isle, fOr„ to vd;, 0 4 ,0, ° i00 force, for Hamburgh ; Panther, for 0 0 00 0; Boulogne; Lion, ft,r Harlingen; A 61011 130 03e pc 0 Rotterdam; Charles Ferdinand, f„ (4. , 1 14 1 ' r , .0,0 0 s O t t as t e re r ps b ht u ei r mp n ,b , oe f fr r ,N o and Savage, for the Azores; Stadt P°' o. 00 1P ° im N en ' w E Dl a lS ßet S .m E o2 L ee7s s r,aNr S fa. : o o lf x mou nr E s g t (2. 511 ‘ , 5 , ' ,,e i oel t i o I: ' , ie.0 (0 0 ,°:: on the 19th of September, AW• iv / h i is: ta l t i . a h o 2:6r tl,, 1 0 0 : 13 v): w otl f, jo W ma ill d d ra er i lli b e a r r e q , u f e r , o o m f London L:ond o f u or th : ° , l " , ,,7• 28 ( 1, O n 0 ,0, 1° : 24th of September, in lat. 13 S., ' l° M; of 00 On, ISt. 42 N., lon. 15 W. Jo- At. dr Kyanite, of and from Liverpool, for - 2 3 v.• 24th of October, in lo N., looP___ s vr ____-_- t -- Aft ii o ft p...- RAILWAY SHAW , heel' j,0 6 has '' to BRISTOL ~3.e' ,S.--erg "e STOCK ExcitANGE - hare - . The s dO l to-day, and tolerably active. Bristol an at 78 1 / 2 -South Deuon, Preference, 12. 0. 0 beel l IV LIVERPOOL, ICt' s ,„ .. ' m .l:et 13 E4 e s „ le. r rf s h , STOCK EXCHANGE.- The share ".- ..,g `sit viiiy e ri. .... , to-day, but there is not much stock onion' 1,7 n itt o P j : transactions were as follow :-Caleds4-Irtq:11013, Terence, 6%-Lancashire and Yorkshireovtscoot, 8 7-16 dis.-London and North- Westerol,lrre, ~9 0 1: 0 -Manchester, Sheffield, and Linceln 3 ce vt., Atio ll 49%-Ditto, INew Preference, 4 1 / 2 Pd Nor th et Eastern and Dover, 19 +,r-York an li o .„, 0 , k° to-day, follow : -Eastern and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 26 , , , ,0 • ..,--„,- 0., a cti"f,," / STOCK EXCHANGX.-We have bsu - s.l , r,...._e i t: e ci a , 6 ; : lit S i t ici r i g o „h ' it a : w a' c i:o! 4>4 .' pricMescAoNNvuenertellieEsfi,SrraT67, j.: , : . p . 1.6,0;64 plc) Ditto, Fifths, 8 1 / 2 dis.- Manchester 0'11,.-- 1 A vel (3 l ( lie'A numerousbd ui stt r t i o e ta•l alleviate 1 % P.-South-Eastern and over , ''' / Tast 5, to e s 49 1 / 5 -Leeds and Thirks (No. 1), 2 diS. ifil i°l3 ;f rel all ,r Wy re -East Lancashire, 15 - West Biding 29'ii.,,f e ft ''' Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshir:',o).' , ~ 0 11 J O 2 9-16 p. islof. °. ret 111"0611 BIRMINGHAM, ,; vs it l . ~ 0 19 ,0 STOCK EXCHANGE.-The transacbio;,.o, T o. A to. (A), '2%-London and North -AV. 51 to-day have been very limited, and Pr e ' ll ' vote' .1 varied little from those which have b e , ffri ~,veti` et ° few days. [ADVERTISEMENT.] 1 itY S l'tes l ' IV Pills effectual Remedies for Ificerateg : c .t ° stri'm seeel'i l lie a letter from Mr. McKenzie, of ~,'D D ielbairpfrocl,',o' Jamaica, dated Sept. 25, 1851, to Di doubt be 5 011 0 „ , P h ,, , went. It is not to cure any ills of 1.1 1 0 ,- ab°" t ea „ le+,ti' the 11 1 , o icer% bev e , ill'et by their means just caused a dreg dfw J ii iels q e sf e rrok cured, and I have another case in Laud, o rieo ce d at ' 0 twenty-four years, and from former eA je • i ts, I n la, will be healed also."-Sold by all sod , leg ll' C t) r e' Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand , off 0,0 0. 4 A coo r elA,, o l t i3V LOGIC.—A gentleman aske' , ,ipe, d " y -ter fig. " I ready do not know; ' said for the use of his pulpit for a young u i r yalwt, 'OO., to fuse you ; but if the young Oran could V ii°l ll ,l ‘ 1' ' f/ the cle ic r p r esc oo sft o me, my congregation will be dissatis , 0 0 t/ 3 ,s, and if he should preach worse, I " 0 7 .4 0 ii IP t meff. preach at all." , port s o tae A OB I I 4 ,DI ° BLOOMEKISM.—HUDDERSVEL%d g o C t wo " oee A t(' i p a calls t e e altrhm: iasrk:et reultrpio:::g gYiniOlauoy:ill.::;°:::;:ttibi tl3:::::::sgtruie,°;l,:ilile, A lecture on Bloomerism was an nett bq, A re fo so r ef, day week, by a Mrs. Brown, who , v r '„ ov ae., t oe o t . o or were to be exhibited in the " ne w c° ll " 13 ` el 'LI fat tli° 1 iIA ' d o 0 a.,,4 audience tilled the Philosophica-,,rocee,i toy,, Pr f stood at the door, after pocketing tu' e , ro an. to ce 0 , 00 ( son to take his place while he we' ll ' co ve, o bor bo rfo o ,/ the ladies. He went-but he nev e l t c age I° o 3 o 0 ," 0 tp ° audience were left to extemporise t e wh ilst lo af ' that they were done "BroWn , , is ible c° whom they had been done was an is' Halifax Guardian. V II - --- 0 36 ri BRTIrs• l b, 1 , On the 10th inst., 0 , A aog• t v dvi. Wl' 00 , P i orl . PI a t Queen-stree t rt , i ii t ti e ° 'Arid' Blanche Balfour. On the Bth inst., at the Pigee?.l:ilVßogsfilev- wife of Lieutenant-Colonel J. I/. tlLniacey C° ILI6I On the 10th inst., in trotting .- to t ' lady of Lancelot Shadwell, Esq• .. „1, OF A D• t C h G er i l a y l i sa tif i vi V i ti ot. l3lP ~0 V , if l pf * E. O s n t. t jhoeh6nthNienaslet.,,haetrß;luagjeesst•y,s .., „v. ste On the 10th inst., Mrs. Raynbani " tbrolt o o/ 3 , L ABR/E-V• , s , SCA` Cilr ° 4o o V 4 On the 6th inst., at St. Srt4chkebr'eatb,,te°J, cdoeP,l Walton, Esq., of the Paragon, r',.',_ . , of t" .0, ‘,.,tee second daughter of J. Oliver, r-o 4 josh / or od' a t t !ii bridge. i h i e ,,s(l 7,h lat i e nst o . f , f °?le, the late G. S. Elliot, Esq., of Lar 0 0 ~,r fsel'' DIED. d ,soD , fsel'' Do O u n gal t , J . ; • go 0 I ,itt, ,oe' On the 9th inst., Francis At Clapton, on the 10th insw, ed 89. Esq,, 2f near Manchester, aged 50. ~ , Miles 131/r o f Cli c ), merly of the Stock Exehangeqt_.s dams' 01 fe 1 ,, On the 10th inst , Timothy u• ~ f,seP' ~,, e f terrace, Regent's-pat k• it ivragga r " pl 3, C if ' ea il , On the 7th inst., James , CaaticuWilt):,dtsoire...‘elt'otior-i.on, °id On the Bth inst., at ~-, , 000 1 e ..,ter ~0,,, Lyndhurst, pant:, aged sovreiv_psrk-I°l;eett If IV of VPP er "' ‘. lSt 0" ogea e 3' 1 1 Joseph Jellicoe, Esq., . Halo el 00. . , 0 0 On the 9th inst., Eliza ,„„ D „ t wo , ~, eeurt-stre. , Die ii, ' 1). 11. Carroll, E5(1., of Har , Alt% . oet o at h'/ 0 1 o i Bth lye '' 111 i r o ~,1 At Stourbridge, on the Ann t la /4400 o f Bra R e v, W. Trivett, rector __----, - , - „gt , ,. 0 , PAI t.--2___=---___ ,---,--,-, by lA s u . OP - . Or London: Printed end Publisto,u,rhe ui ill ip• On the t inst. at Bustond,wea, res____.o,,o j II Strand, in the Precinct or ; 11 '_. 0, 1,0 Alialloses, :Mu:Way, Noveafro No. 112, Strand, Printer, ~0, - I , _: -,,,„•04y,•,, 7I I t I, ko , d t 411: A