The Sun. — London, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL T') THE DEAN OF RIPON BY THE YORKSHIRE : ME ILINICS' INSTITUTES. (Abridged from the Darlington and StJabn Tidies.) The Annual Some.) of the flourishing aad excellent Mwhauics' Institute which has now for twenty year.' been established in the good old town of Ripon, was celebrated ;vita much feasting and rejoicing, on Tues day last, the 17th inst., at the Public Rooms, Low Skell gate. The eutertaincant then offered to the members and friends of the Institute, highly gratifying and de lightful as it was in every respect, derived additional attraction and importance from its being made the occa sion of the presentation to the venerable and long-tried friend and apostle of Mechanics' Institutes—the Hon. and very Rev, the Dean of Ripon—of the testimonial subscribed for by the Institutes of Yorkskire, as a mark of their appreciation of the benefits they have received from his devoted and arduous services is their behalf. The contributions for the testimonial, which were sub scribed by about seventy Institutions (and so liberally subscribed that, we understand, a balance still remains, after payment of all expenses, to be added to the funds of the Union), were devoted to the production of a work of art highly valuable and tasteful in itself, and, moreover, peculiarly appropriate as an embodiment of the respect and esteem of the subscribers. It consisted, of a splendidly executed full-length portrait of the Dean (the dimensions of the canvas being about seven feet by five) surrounded by a massive, but at the same time chaste and elegant gilt frame, which, whilst it greatly added to the intrinsic value of the picture, did not de tract from its beauty by the slightest approach to a want of taste or of keeping. The painting was in the highest degree creditable to the talents and skill of the artist, Mr. I). A. Williamson, of London. The extreme modesty of the frame-maker precludes us from men tioning his name. At five o'clock, several hundred persons sat down in the large room (at the upper end of which the picture was hung) to a most excellent and plentiful repast of tea and cakes, &c. After the repast, and at intervals during the remainder of the evening, a concert was performed, in excellent style, by the members of the music class. The first part of the concert having been concluded, the more strictly business portion of the evening's pro ceedings commenced, and the Dean and other gentlemen who were to partake therein mounted the platform amidst enthusiastic cheering. Edward Baines, Esq., president of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Insti tutes, was unanimously voted into the chair, the Dean being seated at his left, hand. The following gentlemen were also on the platforms—Revs. Mr. Wray, T. C. Wilson, of Kirby Malzeard; T. Morris, of Knapperton, East Riding; S. H. Atkin, of Studley; and W. Milton, of Manningham; Messrs. A. Erskine (son of the Dean); W. Williamson, president of the Ripon Institute; J. Norman, vice-presid?nt; Alderman T. Williamson; Robert irilliamson, Robert Pollock, and J. H. Shaw, Esqs., of Leeds; G. Linnzus Banks, Boucher, of York; and T. J. Pearsall, agent and lecturer to the Union, &c., &c. The CHAIRMAN, having expressed his sense of the honour he received in being called on to preside over this meeting, and the pleasure he enjoyed in speak ing, as a friend, to those who were friends of me chanics' institutes, and in joining with them, as a representative of the Yorkshire Union of Insti tutes, to pay a just and most deserved tribute for kind and valued services, proceeded thus:—And now Mr. Dean let me at once relieve you by saying that it is by no means my intention to distress your feelings by pronouncing to you any high-flown or elaborate panegyric. I know that, however I might gratify the feelings of those present, if I stated the whole truth in regard to your merits and character, I should by so doing inflict much pain on yourself. I will convey to you that which you will not hesitate to re ceive, —the language of the hearty gratitude which we, the members of the Mechanics' Institutes of Yorkshire, feel to you as our distinguished friend.—(Applause.) It has pleased Providence, air, to place you in the pos session of many talents, of an honoured name, intellec . . tusl power, ministerial office, and a high position; and you have employed those talents not only for that great cause for which you live—the cause of religion—but also in the substantial advancement of the moral and mental condition of your fellow-men in the humbler walks of life.—(Loud applause.) You have seen rising up a class of institutions, popular in their character, capable of adapting themselves to the largest city and the smallest village—institutions which bring together the high and the low, the rich and the poor, the Churchman and the Dissenter, the Tory and the Whig, and cause them to see in each other that which is amiable and admirable, and not to see those things in which they differ.—(Loud applause.) You found these institutions often in a feeble and lan guid condition, not sufficiently regarded by the hum bler classes, or looked down upon by the higher as having a tendency adverse to the cause of religion. Having considered well the claims of these institutions, you have acted generously and truly towards them by throwing yourself heartily into the movement, by doing that which tended to remove the reproach under which they lay; and if they had been (which I solemnly be lieve they were not) liable to that reproach, you have taken the very step to counteract that evil tendency.— (Hear, hear, and applause.) What you have done, Sir, you have done with your heart. You have not stayed at home, or attended once a year, or once in half a dozen years, to grace a meeting with your patronage; but yen have traversed the length and the breadth of this great country. You have not merely s.ttenied where there were high names to attract and a large population to greet you, hut you have given your sanction and aid more especially to those humble village institutes which most needed it.—(Load applause.) Wherever you have been you have left behind you a deep impression of seal, of liberality-, of large-heartedness, and of tharough kind ness; and you have brought over to the cause many who were before indifferent or hostile. You have doubtless, sir, in your many perambulations, sustained consider able inconvenience and desagrement, but you have largely tasted the luxury of doing good. I cannot but express my admiration and gratitude at your having always placed yourself on a level with those you addressed, and addressed them as friends, and in the languaue of whole some and friendly stimulas.—(Applause.) Referring to the late lectures of the Earl of Carlisle at Leeds, the chairman proceeded thus:—Judge, Sir, of the satisfaction with which those who witnessed the struggling infancy of Mechanics' Institutes see now a Minister of the Crown delivering lectures to them, an Archbishop of Canterbury subscribing to their funds, a Professor Sidg. wick promising to come down from Cambridge Univer sity to preside at a soil*, and a Dean of Ripon bestow ing on them his time, his talents, his influence, and his _ _ heart.—(Loud applause.) I hope I may truly say the Mechanics' Institutions of Yorkshire are grateful to and appreciate their friends. I will not say that in their gra titude there may not be some admixture of that which has been defined as "a lively sense of future favours." —(Laughter.) But they have, nevertheless, a genuine appreciation of the past.—(Appleuse.) It was to your own neighbours, who love you most because they know you best, that the happy idea first occurred of presenting to you a portrait which might go down as an heir-loom in your family; and it was with true delight that the other institutes joined in rendering that tribute which had been so well devised here at Ripon.—(Cheers.) I re joice, Sir, to think that the noble portrait behind me is worthy to be presented to you. I think the artist has d me honour to his art, and that his work conveys the expression of the dignity and mildness of the original.— (Hear, hear.) We, the Torkshire Institutes, have now unfeigned pleasure in presenting this portrait to you and to your family. When I look at it, I cannot but see the lineaments of one whom I have been accustomed to reverence as one of the illustrious champions of the con stitutional liberties of England.—(Enthusiastic ap plause.) And when, at a day which I hope may be very remote, this memorial s hill be handed to your de scendants as a memorial of the past, it will remind them of one who has added fresh lustre to the name of Erskine, and who has, among his many claims to be considered a benefactor of his species, been recognised in his day as the apostle and friend of the working man's institution.—Mr. Baines concluded amidst un bounded applause, which was resumed with redoubled spirit when The DEAN rose to respond—He said, Mr. Baines, Mr. President Williamson, ladies, and gentlemen,—You will readily understand that the present occasion is one of very mixed and anxious feelings to myself. I hope I am not wanting in thankfulness for this interesting mark of your kindness, conscious as I am, Sir, however favourably you may have spoken of me, of having utterly undeserved it. I am in a very peculiar position this day; and none but myself can properly and duly feel it. I will illustrate that position by the fact that two ques tions present themselves to my mind; and they are natural questions, pro m pt e d b y s i ncere hum i lity and self-respect. I ask in the first place—What am I that I should be thus singled outf or such an honour?jand in the next place, What have I done to deserve it? These inquiries, I deeply feel, are necessary in some degree to my character. I am a clergyman, a minister of the Gospel; and I find myself on the present occusion honoured, greatly honoured, by the members of a purely secular institution, many of them not at all connected with nay own Church, but associated with all denomina tions of Christians, and some of them, possibly, not attached to any denomination of Christians whatever; the design of all, in their united condition, being to Promote objects of a worldly character. The world may say to me when it shall hear of what has taken place here this evening, How is it that you, not cring ing for and not receiving high distinction from the patrons of your own calling, are receiving distinction from a mere secular body, the object for which you are associated with them having no di rec t d es i gn to pro mote the Christian religion? I admit the furce of such questions; but if, Sir, I could not meet such sugges tions as these with a satisfactory reply, I should feel deep shame instead of pleasure at b e i ng amongst you on the present occasion.—(Applause.) If my co nsc i ence accused me of having grown cold in the sublime and sacred duties of my calling, and of being disposed to substitute for them the inferior interests of merely secu lar matters; if I felt that the love of divine truth was giving way to the more attractive questions of popular progress in scientific recurircments; if I could apply to myself the apostolic rebuke, that " having begun in the spirit, I now de sire to be made perfect in the flesh," and had any misgiving that I bad more sa tisfaction on the platform than in the pulpit,—l should feel that I was invited here to witness my own dis honour, rather than to enjoy the kind sympathies you have expressed towards me. But, Sir, I have no such misgivings, thank God.—(Loed applause.) My prin ciples and tastes have suffered, I believe, no depreciation in this respect. These remarks may, perhaps, appear like boasting; but, if so, I can only add with St. Paul, " I will not give up my boasting; no, not for all the re gions of Acahic." Such then, Sir, is my position. I am well aware of the force of this important Scripture, " Let no man that warreth entangle himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who bath chosen him to be a soldier. If a man strive for mastery yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully;" and I have endeavoured to bear this great principle in mind throughout a long professional life. But, Sir, all persons are well aware that we arc subjected to the difference made upon us more or less by accidental circumstances. These circumstances, in one instance, bring the amiable Lord Ashley, a Member of Parliament, into con nexion with the ragged schools and model lodging houses. In another case they invite an Earl, a Cabinet Minister, to lecture for the improvement of a popular in stitution.—( Applause.) In your case, Sir, they induce you, a distinguished public journalist, to become a de voted teacher in a Sunday-school, and a presiding mem ber of a mechanics' institute.—(Continued applause.) In my owl case, these circumstances lead the Dean of a people to become an advocate—l may say an itenerant advocate—of these institutions. All I say in application of tbat truth is, let every man be persuaded in his own mind, and let him pay very little attention, therefore, to what Mrs. Grundy may say.—(Laughter.) Having ex pressed his great satisfaction in having, in the many institutions he had visited, received much kindness and co-operation from his fellow-clergymen, whom he had ever found to be actuated, even when fears, too hastily entertained, in relation to these institutions, prevented their co-operation—by high principles, and not by low and narrow prejudices—by warm charity in its highest aim and end, and not by cold indifference—he proceeded: If, Sir, I should undertake to answer the secand ques tion which I proposed to myself, What have I done to entitle me to this distinction? I should feel precluded entering upon that subject from its very nature. Suffice it, then, to say, and I say it most sincerely, I have only done what all ought to do at all times and under all circumstances I have followed the guidance of my understanding and the conviction of my heart. (Loud applause.) I have endeavoured to use whatever talents 1 may have possessed, to farther the interests of that ob ject which I felt I ought to aim to promote. I would say, in relation to the present subject, that I accept, most respectfully and most gratefully, the present which you have now offered on behalf of the Mechanics' Insti tutes of Yorkshire. I feel that it will give them an ad ditional claim to my exertions in their behalf; but I also feel that it can add nothing to the assurance which I had previously entertained that their institutions are founded upon wise principles, that they are governed by whole some regulations, and that if persevered in in strict ad herence to those principles, they must be productive of lasting good to the successive generations of the people. The CHAIRMAN having read a note from the Rev. Mr. Lewis, of Trinity Church, whose absence was caused by indisposition, called on J. H. SHAW, Esq., who spoke at some length on the subject of the value and importance of popular institu tions in the elevation and improvement of the working classes. _ _ The Rev. Mr. ATKINS in a very eloquent, and fre quently applauded speech, advoczted the claims of lite rature as a chief means of civilizing, refining, and elevating the human race. The Rev. F. MORRIS followed, and, taking warning by the fate of the Doncaster Lyceum, and of an insti tution which had been under his own care, but which had gradually dwindled away, he earnestly recom mended the study and cultivation of natural history, and of music, as a means of preserving institutes in a permanently successful condition. Mr. PEARSALL next addressed the meeting on some of the means which might be adopted of advancing these institutions. Mr. Poi.Locx, of Leeds, having been announced by the chairman as " burning with desire to give a toast," moved, in a highly eulogistic speech, a vote of thanks to those ladies who had kindly and gratuitously furnished and presided over the trays. Mr. BANKS was the " lucky being" selected to second the motion; and having performed his duty in that re spect, in appropriate terms, he proceeded to make the following observations:—l admire the wisdom which has dictated the proceedings of this night—the spirit of jus tice, interwoven with a high sense of gratitude, so strik ingly exhibited in this spontaneous tribute of the asso ciated Institutes of Yorkshire—because, forsooth, it re verses the old, and I wish I could add bsolete axiom— " Do fifty good deeds, you'll hear of them never, Do one bad deed, and you'll hear of it over." Shakspere might well say— " The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones—" feeling, in the extent and profundity of his grasp the truth of what he uttered; for history and experience unite to show that one-half of human life is wasted in exorcising the good and invoking the bad—in perse cuting the divine instincts of our nature, and bringing out those terrible lineaments which, in proportion to the exact ratio in which they are developed, dwarf man to the standard of the fiend. How many noble and heroic natures, how many pure and brave acts, which to this hour influence every throb of the universal heart, have passed away not only unrecorded but undreamt of—how many angels disguised by poverty or veiled with a timid reserve have been riched and buffetted in the highways of the world, by natures too corrupt or self-interested to comprehend or appreciate the god-like efforts of which they were capable; and yet since our first parents sinned in Paradise, down to the much-bandied aggres sion of the Pope of Rome, when ever was there a bad or foolish deed committed but it was trumpeted to the winds of heaven, on the key-note of merciless censure. The rule has been, if a man wanted to go down to the grave unknown let him do well; but if he wished to make a noise and create a sensation in the course of life's fitful fever, let him do ill—good deeds alone being re corded in heaven, and bad ones only on earth. There fore in this era of cenotaphs and testimonials, deserved, and undeserved, I discover the far and gradually increas ing indication of that better spirit which teaches us to honour those to whom honour is due.—(Loud cheers.) Though many a man has been crowned with the laurel wreath and had his name perpetuated in brass and marble, for whom " a halter gratis," as Gratiano says, and a page in the " Newgate Calendar," would have been more befitting tributes, still I would rather see every building in the land converted into a monumental tablet, and engraven with the story of many and virtuous ex ploits, than make a rolling ball of evil to pick up the slime and filth through which it passes. If Mechanics' Institutions only teach men to be more charitable and grateful—to revere rather than persecute the world's be nefactors—to think less of Dives and more of Lasarus— less of king-making victors, and more of those peaceful, quiet world-reformers whose works as far transcend the loftiest pretensions of wealth or ambition, as the sun in lustre surpasses the taper before me, then we have good reason for increased seal and perseverance, and Mr. Baines may long continue to preside over, and give the benefit of his influence to the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutions.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. WILSON, conceiving he had in a manner been " robbed of his birthright" by the substitution of Mr. Banks' name for his own as the seconder of the pre ceding motion, nevertheless added his quota in its sup port, and the motion was carried with unanimous and cordial applause. Mr. W. WILLIAMSON then proposed, and Mr. JAMES NORMAN seconded a vote of thanks to Mr. Baines for the efficient manner in which he had filled the chair, as also to the other gentlemen who had assisted in the proceedings; and the motion having been put to the meeting by the Dean, was carried with three hearty cheers. Mr. auras, on behalf of himself and th 6 other speakers, havidg returned thanks, some more musical pieces were performed by the band, and, at the ad vanced hour of eleven o'clock the meeting unwillingly broke up. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. '\Ve are assured from an accredited source, and have great pleasure in vouching for the authenticity of our information, that the long-pending and hitherto perplexing and provoking negotiations between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the promoters of steam communication with our colonies in the Southern Pacific have once more been energetically renewed, and with every prospect of a speedy and satisfactory issue. The East India Company, we learn, have agreed to remove the great stumbling block that has so long stood between the desire of Government to do what their sense of duty to Aus tralia in this matter prompted end what their obliga tions under the Leadenhall-street immunities de. mended. The company consent to the almost imme diate surrender of their monopoly of the Bombay and Suez line, thus leaving the hands of the executive free to deal with the subject on its own merits, and to enter into such contracts with private individuals as may seem best to meet the exigencies of the case. in thankfully accepting this important concession to public convenience, we shall not too curiously speculate how far its very obvious prudence may have become apparent to the mercantile mo narchical directorate from their contemplation of the fast approaching expiration of the steam charter, namely, in 1852, and of the great charter itself in 1854; nor shall we seek to analyse how far a renewal of the latter tenure may, in their calculation, be ren dered probable by their yielding this boon with the good grace they certainly have done, especially as there was a degree of temper displayed both in Cannon-row and Downing-street that might have justified a good deal of obstinate adhesion to the letter of their privilege. Doough for us that private consi derations no longer impede the well-being of the community in this particulai., - and that Government are now at liberty to act upon their convictions, which, it seems generally understood, are in favour of the route cid Singapore and the Peninsular and Ori ental steamers. We trust that this will ba but the speedy precursor of steam communication also by the Cape and Panama ; as the rapidly growing im portance of our trade with Australia and New Zea land, as shown even in the emigration from Liver pool, though but the growth of a day as it were, not only warrants but requires the extension of every , facility for intercourse with these magnificent de pendencies, the more so as the importance has been infinitely enhanced in the relationship to the new world of Calif orn i a an d t h e ad j acent l i mitless territo ries on all sides now spr i ng i ng up into inevitable pro gressive prosperity.—Liverpool Albion. TilE NEW BARONET, SIR RICHARD TM-TON.— In creating this gentleman a baronet, her Majesty has re vived a title formerly held by the family. John Tufton was knighted by King James in 1603, and was made baronet by the same in a subsequent year of his reign. His son and heir was Sir Nicholas Tufton, Bart., who, in the second year of the reign of King Charles (1626), was made Lord Tufton, of Tufton, in Sussex, and two years after that was created Earl of Thanet. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, John Tufton, who was the second Earl of Thanet. This Earl married Margaret, daughter and sole heiress of Ann Cliflbrd, Countess of Pembroke, in 1629, and was the first of the Tallow in Westmoreland. SUN, LONDON, TITESVAY EVENING,_ GERMANY. The Berlin letters of the 27th inst. in the Kolner Ziitung state that Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hesse will endeavour to induce the Dresden Congress to consent to a popular representation in the new Germanic Confederation. They will be sup ported by the Thuringian States, and it is asserted that they will oppose any project to establish this Parliamentary centre of Germany at Berlin. Frank fort is the city to which the South-German States attach their Parliamentary projects. The Weser Zeitung has some detailed accounts of the proceedings which have taken place at Dres den. From the statements of this paper it ap pears that Prince Schwarzenberg opened the preli minary sittings of the Congress with a lengthy speech, which did not, however, throw any light on the views and plans of Austria, for the leading points of the question were treated with great reserve and some vagueness. Baron Manteuffel's speech was short He endeavoured to impress his hearers with the absolute necessity of coming to an amicable un derstanding—an issue which, it appears, is much desired, but by no means expected at Dresden. Oa the contrary, the Weser Zeitung states that although all the delegates were well disposed to bring the Ger man affairs to some definitive and satisfactory con clusion, still that there are almost insurmountable obstacles in the way of such an event. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on Dec. 26: ASSETS. Cash in hand ... . f. 347,672,823 0 Ditto in branch banks ._. 124,214,925 0 Bills past due ••• ••• ••• 819, 482 92 Bills discounted, but not yet due, of which 16,439,0711. were received from the Branch Banks ... ... 55,046,156 57 Bills in the branch banks ... 89,770,447 0 Advances on coins and ingots... 3,560,500 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 1,354,573 0 Ditto on French public securities 8,936,396 10 Ditto by branch banks... ... 2,224,728 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions 50,000,000 0 Rentes of the reserve fund 10,000,000 0 Rentes, disposable funds 42,227,238 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... ... 12,952,725 74 Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 0 Real property of the branch banks ... 3,444,418 0 Interest in National Discount Bank 200,000 0 Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 0 Bills protested at Paris 115,658 16 Expenses of administration of the Bank 39,203 0 Miscellaneous ... 1,740,941 7 f. 808,550,215 69 LIABILITIES. 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 ... ... 2,980,730 14 Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 410,802,300 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 85,372,925 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 6,217,305 28 Account•current with Treasury creditor 79,080,163 52 Various accounts current 81,220,669 64 Ditto in branches ... 23,729,135 0 Bills payable at sight ... ... 3,940,000 0 Ditto at branches 2,643,287 0 Dividends payable ••• • • • 255,423 75 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 8,730 0 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 4,762,622 12 Expenses anticipated ... 424,388 73 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 155,054 53 Ditto in branch banks .. 287,620 0 Miscellaneous 1,419,840 98 f. 808,550,215 69 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France, D'ARQOUT. DEATH FROM STARVATION. Last Saturday evening Mr. Wakley, M.P.. held an inquiry of several hours' duration at the Three Johns, White Lion-street, Pentonville, touching the death of John Becknell, aged sixty, Who was starved to death. The jury were horrified at the awful spectacle which the body presented. In a room at 48, White Lion-street, there lay the body, shrivelled, reduced to a skeleton, and cramped up on a heap of sacks, without a particle of food or furniture, or even a cinder in the grate. The awful spectacle not only horrified bat actually sickened the jury. Sarah Debank, who was half-starved in appearance, and was in a state of semi-nudity, stated that the de ceased, who had been in the employ of Mr. Blake, was, through illness, out of work for the last fort nignt. She saw him last alive at midnight of Christ mas-day, and found him dead the following morning, when she brought him some warm milk. He was al lowed by the kindness of the landlord to occupy the empty room where he died, and his master gave him some coal sacks to sleep upon. He would sleep in carts, cellars, or wherever he could. When she found him dead she sent for Drs. Mann and Bayliss, who in stantly attended. When she saw him on the midnight of Christmas-day he was very weak, and suffered from a cough. He complained of hunger. For the last fortnight he had only one meal a day, which con sisted of tea or weak gruel. He belonged to Barnet parish, but was too weak to go to it. She did not know what his wages were.—(Several persons, " Six pence a day.") On Monday night deceased, who was then weak and faint, went to her room and asked her for a piece of bread, which she gave, and made him sit before the fire. Four weeks ago he was very ill, and applied to the workhouse for relief, which he did not get. Mr. Mann, parish surgeon, examined—He was called to see deceased at three o'clock on Christmas day, on a parish order. He found deceased lying in an exhausted state in a room completely denuded of every earthly comfort. Witness soo❑ felt the deceased required food and not medicine. Deceased could scarcely speak. Witness recommended his reception into the workhouse, and on the back of his medical order wrote the following certificate :—" I hereby certify that John Becknell is a fit object for admit tance into the house, or the overseers should make such arrangements as they thought proper. Urgent." Deceased died from exhaustion produced by the want of the necessaries of life. Witness wrote on the back of the certificate, that deceased wanted food, and not medicine. He found deceased lying on a heap of sacks. Mr. Crowder (overseer)—l was in the workhouse when the order arrived, but it was so illegibly written I could not read it. Mr. Mann—l wrote :it the best way I could in deceased's room. CORONER—As a medical man, you have the power to order nourishment. Instead of writing so politely you should have given the order. Mr. Mann—l stand corrected on that point. I was wrong. But being only a few months in office, I was not aware I had that power. CORONER—This will be a lesson in future to you. It was your duty to order deceased every nourish ment. Were I the overseer your order would have puzzled me. Mr. Crowder—l sent deceased a shilling and a loaf. CORONER—What the deuce use was the shilling, when he had no nurse, clothes, or food ?—(Hear.) Mr. Petch (overseer)—Deceased had been twice sent back to his parish, and perhaps was, therefore, afraid to apply for relief lest he might be punished. CORONER—If a sick pauper enters your parish, and you give him a medical order, you instantly acknow ledge him as your own pauper, and he is therefore en titled to relief. A Juror—l understand that he applied for relief, which was refused, and that he was threatened with a prosecution if he again applied. CORONER—The doctor's request should have been complied with, and the deceased admitted to the work house, as he was in a dying state. Mr. Mann—l am of opinion that a bath and nourishment would have done him good. When I saw him he was rapidly sinking. CORONER—It is lamentable to see the poor dying in this way. In future do you (addressing the medical officer), when you meet a similar case, order wine, stout, meat, baths, and everything it requires. Mr. Mann—l shall do so. Mr. Petch assured the Court that such orders were always obeyed. Mary Victory, a most destitute-looking creature, said that she was the mother of four children, and that her husband, a plasterer, had been 11 weeks out of work. She knew deceased, and on last Tuesday applied to the workhouse on his behalf. The porter at the gate said that there were no gentlemen there, and that therefore she was too late. As she had to go out to wash, and had to give the children their dinner, she could not go back to the workhouse. On Wednesday morning she went in search of Mr. Titmouse, the churchwarden, but could not find him. At one o'clock the same day she told Mr. Petch, at the workhouse, that deceased was dying, and that she could not attend him, as she had to earn bread for her own family. lle gave her a medical order, which she gave to Mr. Mann, who soon attended. When she returned in the ening to her home she found in de ceased's room the medical order, which stated that the deceased wanted food, and not physic. She took the order to the workhouse, and begged the deceased might be brought to the house. She was told that they could not fetch him before morning. When she returned there was a great change in deceased, to whom she gave three penny worth of brandy, which he took and said, " It has warmed me ; God bless you." In the middle of the night, accompanied by her sister, she brought him a little gruel ; and raining his head on her arm, put the basin to his mouth, which, ravenous with hunger, he seized between his teeth, and would have smashed it, had she not taken it from him. She then said to him, " you are dying, pray to God to forgive you." He replied, " I have done so," and she then laid him on his side, in which position she found him dead the next morning. A few days before his death he crawled to 8 room where a boy was eating his dinner, and he said to 'the boy, " Johnny, Johnny, I am so hungry." The boy immediately handed him his dinner, which consisted of four slices of bread and butter. But deceased eat only half a slice. On the Monday before his death deceased came into her room and fell down. from hunger. His groans were ter rific. She raised him up. He said he came for food, he was so hungry. She placed him before the fire and gave him a piece of bread. CORONER-4t is a most extraordinary thing that the poor fellow should have been left to die so fright ful and so lingering a death in this wealthy metro polis. The CORONER summed up at at great length, and with great minuteness. At the close of his charge the room was cleared of strangers, and the jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned the following verdict :—" Johr Becknell died from exhaustion, caused by the want of the common necessaries of life. And the jury beg to tell Mr. Mann that he is much to blame for not having acted with promptness and precision, and for not having seen performed what should have been done for deceased • and they hope that in all future similar cases he will act with more promptness, and immediately order admission to the house. The jury further expect that Mr. Mann will act on their suggestions." CORONER—I fully concur in the verdict. _ After the inquest the learned and worthy Coroner endorsed the summonses of the several poor wit nesses who gave evidence, with a certificate of their being proper objects for parochial relief. TAKING A GENTLEMAN'S LUG GAGE TO IRELAND. At the Chester County Court, on the 20th instant, Mr. Bower, barrister-at-law, of Birkenhead, brought an action against the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company for compensation in damages for incon venience and detention at Holyhead, in consequence of the negligence of the servants of the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff, Mr. Bower, was an ex. tensive cotton-spinner at Manchester, and that he brought the present action not for the sake of damages, but on public grounds. Mr. Bower, with a friend named Griffith, his wife, and a party of ladies, were on a tour in North Wales in August last. On the 13th of August they booked themselves at Bangor by the express train for Holyhead, and before starting saw that their luggage was properly placed for transit. When they arrived at Holyhead, the plaintiff and Mr. Griffith got out of the carriage to look after their luggage, intending to proceed with it at once to the hotel at Holyhead. A portion 9f the lug gage was on the platform, and the remainder on the luggage van. Mr. Bower and Mr. Griffith advanced to the van, to get the remainder of their luggage, when Mr. Massingberd, the station master at Holyhead, told them to stand out of the way, or " he would hurt them," or " they would be hurt," as all the luggage must go down to the pier. Mr. Bower remonstrated, but ineffectually ; and the luggage was taken to the pier. The plaintiff and Mr. Griffith fol lowed it, and when they got to the pier the luggage had been stowed in the packet amidst a great deal of other luggage. Mr. Bower got on board the packet, and endeavoured to find his own ; but while doing so the landing stage was pulled away, acid the packet was set in motion, and Mr. Bower, finding himself on his way to Ireland, got on the paddle-box, and with some difficulty managed to jump on to the pier, and save himself the journey. Mr. Griffith and the plaintiff then went to the station, where they saw Mr. Massingberd, with whom they remonstrated on the impropriety of his conduct. He told them, after some rudeness, that if they would describe the luggage, he would send for it, and they should have it the next day. At six o'clock the next evening the luggage was returned. Mr. Bower and the parties had been much inconvenienced. Mr. Bower had no change of linen, Mr. Griffith had to lie in bed while his shirt was washed, and the ladies of the party had neither combs, brushes, or anything else, in consequence of their luggage having been taken away. Had the luggage not been taken away, it was probable that the party might have returned home the same night, as Holyhead was soon found to be a very inconvenient place, and in stead of the sight of a fine open sea (as was expected) there was nothing but a mud bank. For this deten tion, and the inconvenience consequent- thereon, the plaintiff laid his damages at 201. For the defence, it was sworn by the witnesses that the express train on the 13th August was from 40 to 60 minutes late ; that there were about 60 passengers, all of whom except plaintiff and his party were going to Ireland, and many having luggage there was necessarily mueh con fusion : that when the plaintiff -asked for his luggage out of the van it was so covered up that it would be impossible to remove it then without great delay and inconvenience, but that Mr. Bower had been told by Mr. Massingberd that he should be conveyed to the pier by an omnibus free of charge, and himself and his luggage brought back (this Mr. Bower denied :) that when Mr. Bower returned he was very abusive; and threatened Mr. Massingberd that an action should be brought, when the oaths of his eight witnesses would put out cf court his unsupported testimony; that Mr. Massingberd behaved most civilly, and that the greatest diligence had been used in obtaining the restoration of the lost luggage. A porter was called, who deposed that he had received instructions to give up a portmanteau at the pier to a gentleman who was to apply for it, but that no such application was made, or it would hi've been given up. His Honour, in sum ming- up, said it was clear there had been negligence on the part of the servants of the company; fur they had no right to take the luggage to the steamer, when it was only going to the station. The verdict must be for the plaintiff, but the damages the jury must assess themselves. Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 201. LAW INTELLIGENCE: COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 30. (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN EE RUS;ELL AND DOYLE. Mr. Robert, Waller Russell and Mr. John Henry Doyle are proprietors of the Weekly Chronicle news pa:)er. Mr. Lloyd, of Bloomsbury-square, now appeared in support of a trader debtor summons, calling upon them to give security for a sum of 851. due upon a bill of exchange held by Mr. Dives. Mr. Doyle admitted the debt. Mr. BAGLEY, on behalf of Mr. Russell, prayed that the summons might be dismissed. The bill had been given by Mr. Doyle, without the knowledge or con sent of his partner, after proceedings had been taken before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque with a view to obtain a dissolution of partnership. His client was able to pay all his debts in full, and he had a good defence to the action. His HONOUR said that, having regard to the cir cumstances, he should leave the matter to be decided by another Court before he adopted any proceeding which might bring Mr. Russell under the law of bankruptcy. The petition was then ordered to be dismissed, after Mr. Doyle had remarked that the bill bad been only issued for the purpose of averting an execution by the landlord, and for which debt his partner and himself were equally liable. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Two men, named Brown and Goldsmith, were brought before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of having attempted to impose upon a gentleman by a tale of fictitious distress. The complainant said the men walked into his counting-house, and Goldsmith, pointing to Br own , said the poor fellow was suffering from a severe in jury caused by a fall from a scaffold, and many per sons connected with the building-trade were contri buting to his support in consequence of his inability to work. Brown, who had hobbled into the counting house, put on a look of misery corresponding with the statement ; but the complainant had witnessed cases of imposition, and believing the present application to be of that character refused to give any contribution. " Oily look over the list," said the pretended injured Brown, " and you will see the names of several gen , th men whom you know." " I see there are," replied the complainant, "but I don't know that their writing is there, and I think more injury than good is done by ,giving money under these circumstances." Brown then made some insolent comments upon the illiberal treatment he had received and both prisoners left the house, the lame one having, in the course of the short interview, completely recovered the use of his legs. Perceiving that the .fellows were impostors of the most audacious description, the com plainant followed and gave them both into custody. Goldsmith (who had a clean white apron upon him, and a rule in his hand, as if he had just left his busi ness to recommend Brown to the notice of the hu mane), made no resistance, but the would-be cripple made a resolute but ineffectual attempt to escape from the grasp of the policeman. The LORD MAYOR—Are these men known by our officers ? Horsford, one of the officers ofthe Mendicity Society, said he knew them both as most notorious impostors and cheats ; that Brown, whose real name was Clare, belonged to the Westminster gang, who were con stantly practising upon the generous and unsuspect ing, and had not done a stroke of work for the last six years, and that Goldsmith generally accompanied him to detail the multitude of his grievances. Brown declared that he was really suffering from the consequences of a fall, as he had represented, and that he was willing to work. Horsford—Where was the scaffold from which you fell ?—Brown was struck silent by the question. Several officers proved that the prisoners had been for a series of years sturdy and well-fed beggars, and that they generally dined in coffee-houses at fashion able hours after they had done business. The LORD MAYOR said he should, at all events, prevent the prisoners from pursuing their trade for some time, and sentenced each to be imprisoned for three months in Bride well, and to be kept at hard labour. The LORD MAYOR said he thought it necessary to expose another system of imposture. He had re ceived a letter from Redding, by Falkirk, in Scot land, from which he would read a few sentences in explanation : " About three weeks ago an advertisement appeared for two or more weeks in one of the Stirling news papers, stating that the advertiser would be happy to supply several of the London newspapers, on the evening of their publication, at half-price, and the following at so much less. Upon seeing this we sent to know their terms for the Illustrated London .News. To this we received the enclosed letter in reply. Upon this coming to hand we enclosed them a Post-office order for 165., payable at St. Martin's-le-Grand, London. This was done on the 12th inst. Up to this date we have got no acknowledgment. This we would not have noticed had it not been for an exposure in the same newspaper in which the advertisement first appeared, and from which it is evident that a regular system of swindling is going o. 1; and we may add they stated that their business was of fifteen years' standing, leaving no doubt upon our miads that all was right. We don't mind about our 16s. which they have got, if you will take such steps as may bring the part'es to justice and prevent further mischiet. " Should you be able to punish the aforesaid, we shall be most happy to hear of it at your convenience." The following is the note alluded to in the letter by his Lordship's correspondent : " Winchester court, Falcon-square, London, Dec. 7. " Sir,—Yours of the sth inst. reached us yesterday, but press of business delayed us replying. The Illus trated News is a sixpenny paper. The full price per year is 263. We give it out to reading rooms, &c., on Saturday morning. Collect all out by the evening, and then post it for the country. The price is by half-year by the year 16s. These prices are for the paper posted on Saturday evening, so as you will get it next day. We could post you a copy on Monday at half-price, that is 13s. per year. The cause we are cheaper for the year is, we contract to large reading societies, &e. Please to make your post order payable at St. Martin's-le- Grand.—Yours, &c., "C. and J. JACKSON." The LORD MAYOR having given instructions upon the subject to Spittle, one of the most active of the police force, that officer informed his Lordship that he had ascertained that the two Messrs. Jackson had just left a top-room, in the house No. 3, Winchester court, upon compulsion; that they had lived with a woman in the single room, which had two beds in it, and that there was no doubt as to the system of de ception carried on by them. His LORDSHIP then gave the officer further direc tions, and expressed his thanks to those who favoured him with communications so likely to be serviceable to the public. His LORDSHIP said be felt much gratification in stating that he had received 201. for the poor-box from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. BO W - STRE ET. James Clarke, a carman, and James Collins, de scribed as a commission agent, were brought before Mr. Hall for re-examination, charged with being concerned with others in stealing several bags of coffee from the London Docks. Mr. Beverley and Mr. Weale, from the office of the solicitor to the Commissioners of Customs, conducted the prosecution. At the last examination it was arranged by the Court and Mr. Ballantine, who appeared on the part of the Custom-house authorities, that the prisoners should be merely brought up, and that further evi dence would be postponed to a future day, to give time for summoning several other witnesses. Mr. Lewis, on behalf of Collins, submitted that his client was entitled to be admitted to bail, on the grounds that, so far back as July last, be made a written disclosure to the Dock Company, of the vari ous robberies that had been committed, and had done everything in his power to assist the authorities in enabling them to prosecute the real offenders. Mr. Beverley said it was the first time he had heard of any such declaration, and considered that it should be put into his hands to see how far it corre sponded with the statements made by the prisoner to Inspector Bridges, of the Thames Police, by whom he was apprehended. Mr. Lewis said that the document produced had been submitted to Mr. Humphries and the solicitor of the Dock Company, after which he never absented himself, as he might have done if he thought the Custom-house authorities intended to take proceed ings against him. Mr. Beverley felt it his duty to object to any bail being accepted. Mr. HALL said that the subject of the prosecution involved so many interests of the greatest importance to the commercial world, that he could not consent to accept of bail, and ordered the prisoner to be brought up on Thursday. SO U TH TV ARK. An elderly man, named Gale, living in Saunders street, in the parish of Lambeth, applied for the magistrate's advice relative to his wife, who recently died in one of the Borough hospitals, and whose body, he being destitute, he was unable to bury. The applicant, who is 74 years of age, stated that his wife, who was one year older than himself, died in St. Thomas's Hospital a fortnight ago, and that he vs as made acquainted with the event, with directions at the same time to remove the body. He, however, owing to his poverty, having received relief from Lambeth parish, was unable to comply with the above directions,, and he therefore called upon the parochial authorities, and explained to them that his wife was lying dead in the hospital, and applied to them either to bury the corpse, or to give hi,mn the means to en able him to do so. The parish officers, however, re fused to help him in this emergency, and being afraid himself that the body of his poor wife, to whom he had been married upwards of half a century, would be used for anatomical purposes, to which he had a strong repugnance (the old man cried bitterly), if it was not brought speedily away from the hospital, he therefore called at this court, in order to have the magistrate's advice how to act upon an occasion which so concerned his peace of mind. He had ap plied at the Lambeth Police-court on the subject, but was referred to this court for information how to act on the occasion. Mr. Edwin, the chief clerk, said that the appli cant's wife having been removed from Lambeth to the hospital in which she died, he was of opinion that that parish was bound to bury her, and not St. Olave's, in which parish the hospital is situated ; that it would be an enormous expense on the latter parish if they were compelled to bury those patients that died in that institution, and whose bodies were not owned by relations, or who were unable to pay for their interment. A ' BECIEETT said that the woman having died a fortnight ago, it was quite time that measures should be adopted tor depositing the body in a grave by one or the other of the parishes mentioned, instead of permitting the old man's feelings to be lacerated by the fear that the corpee would bc disposed of in a very different way. The magistrate directed Guest, one of the summoning officers of the court, to proceed without loss of time to ascertain the cause of the refusal of the parish officers to have the body of the applicant's wife buried, in order that other steps might be taken if it was not speedily carried into effect. The applicant, who expressed his gratitude for the magistrate's interference, then left the court with the officer for the above purpose. THE RE VEN UE. Thera is every reason to expect that the quarter's revesue will show a very trifling decrease, if any, when compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, notwithstanding the reductions which the Chancellor cf the Exchequer was able to make in the last session. The brick duties, 700,0001. a year, were wholly abandoned, and yet we find the Excise so prosperous, in the other items, as scarcely to miss the total loss in this. The buoyancy of the revenue of Excise is one of the most convincing and conclusive proofs of the wide-spread pro spt rity and occupation of the great mass of the people. The Stamps, although greatly reduced, will not exhibit the signs of that reduction in full in the present quarter, since a great increase of business, which was kept back for the change, will probably show its effect upon the present quarter, which, to its full extent, cannot be hoped for again. The Customs fluctuate, but will show well in spite of the great reductions that have tiken place. These are the chief items which mark the state of the country. The others will probably vary very little, and will be shown by the tabular returns. In the mean time the large amount of public deposits exhibited in the weekly returns of the Bank of England, amounting to the sum of nearly half a million shows that the debtor and creditor ul 4rllor of the Exchequer st an d s we ll , and cdionthcirat hisincrease the e weekly,baan h c a at the end of the financial year is more likely to increase than to be diminished, notwithstanding the taxes he has relaxed or reduced, and the sums that are in course of expenditure in liquidation of the public debt.—Sunday Paper. FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The following are the last returns of the gross re ceipts of the principal French Railways : NORTHER2f.—From Dee. 17 to Dec. 23: Passengers, 166,621 f.; goods, 267,156 f.; total, 433,777 f. ROUEN.—From Dec. 15 to Dec. 21 : Passengers, 53,558 f.; goods, 8-1,942 f.; total, 138,500 f, Havntc.—Frona Dec. 15 to Dec. 21 : Passengere, 17,555 f.; goods, 37,239 f. ; total 54,794 f. ORLEANS•—From Dec. 16 to Dec. 22 : Passengers, 66,622 F. ; goods, 128,3 , 16 f.; total, .194,968 f. 13ormAux.—From Dec. 16 to Dee. 22 : Passengers, 28,815'.; good?, 49,500.; total, 78,321 F. VIERZOIY —l ; rom Dec: 16 to Dec. 22 : Passengers, 34,331 E; goods, 44 2321.; total, 78,563 f. , BOULOGNE.—From Dec. 16 to Dec. 22 : Passengers, 12,336 f.; goods, 17,285 E; total, 29,621 f, DIEPPE.—From Dee. 15 to Dec. 21 : Passengers, 3,052 f.; goods, 7,741 f.; total, 10,793 f. NANTEs.—From Dec. 14 to Dee. 20 : Passengers, 14,2981.; goods, 11 ; 262f.; total, 25,560 f. STRASBURG —From Dem 16 to Dee. 22 : Passengers, 58,4771.; goods, 53,699 f.; total, 117,174 f. BALE.—From Dee. 9 to Dee. 15 : Passengers, 17,6731. ; goods, 20,175 f.; total, 37,843 f. MONTEREAU. —From Dee. 10 to Dee. 16: Passengers, 8,257 f.; goods, 15,842 r.; t'Aal, 24,099 f. MARSEILLES.—FrOM Dec. 3 to Dec. 9: Passengers, 39,084 f.; go..ds, 27,917 f.; total, 67,001 f. LYONS. —From I)ec. 8 to Dec. 14 : Passengers, 102,650 f.; goods, 61,115 f.; total, 163,7651. CIIARTREB.—From Dec. 9 to Dec 15: Passengers, 23,3841.; goods, 13,2351.; total, 36,6191. MAIL STATIONS. SOUTHAMPTON AND THE U.S. LINE• OF-BATTLE-SHIP PENNSYLVANIA. - Great efforts are being made by the Mayor and leading gentlemen of Southampton to promote its interests as a mail station. Memorials have been addressed to the Presi dent of the United States, requesting that Southampton may he made the port of debarkation for the United States' line-of-battle-314 Pennsylvania on her arrival with the contributions of the West to the EKposition of 1851. Negotiations have been opened with the railway company to convey them free to the metropolis; and steam commanders are being moved to publish testimonials to the valuo of Southampton as a port for steamers of all burden. Oar Liverpool readers ,hould reflect on these spirited apd antagonistic exer tions.—Liverpool AN AMERICAN JUDGE.—" When I was travelling to Massachusetts, some twenty years ago," said a traveller, " I had a seat with the driver, who, on stopping at the post office, saluted au ill-lookin g fellow on the step, with Good morning, Judge Saunders; I hope you're well, sir?' After leaving the office, I asked the driver if the man he spoke to was really a judge? Certainly, sir,' he replied. We had a cock-fight last week, and he was judge.'" Our latest accounts from London report that the recent movement on the London and North-Western Line is now almost exploded. Upwards of three hundred applica tions from engine• drivers, &c., have been received by the Directors; and the infatuated course of the employees is ex pected to meet with entire defeat.—Liverpool THE DEcEMBER Bl, 1850. TaAMES. The Rev. J. Williams, the incumbent of the dis trict church of St. James, Rateliff; Mr. Harrie, the parish clerk ; and others interested in the St. James's, Ratcliff, Provident Society, or Penny Savings-bank, attended before Mr. Ingram to hear the explanation of John Harwood, Scripture reader of the district, and late receiver and distributor of the deposits in vested in the society during the year about to termi nate, who was alleged to be a defaulter to a consider able amount and to have absconded. The magistrate having declared his determination not to shrink from an investigation, although there was no actual case before him, Mr. Harwood, the alleged defaulter, vo luntarily came forward, and made a lengthened state ment in exculpation of himself. He would not shrink from an investigation, and, having given Mr. Harrie his address, retired. ANOTHER ROBBERY OF JEJVELLARY, WATCHES, 6 . . c. NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY.—We have again to re cord another extensive burglary in this town, which is the fourth robbery of the kind, exclusive of nume rous others of a different character, within a few weeks. The circumstances connected with this, as with the other burglaries, are of an extraordinary description. At eleven o'clock last night several suspicious look ing men were loitering near the shop of Mr. Lamb, the proprietor of an extensive pawnbroking and jewel lery business in Goosegate, Nottingham. At about half- past eleven some of the neighbours heard a noise, as if some part of the roof of Mr. Lamb's premises was giving way, but, strange to say, took no further notice of it. The premises having been considered by the proprietor to be perfectly secure, no one has been in the habit of sleeping in them ; a bull terrier dog, however, has been kept to guard the shop, and this hitherto has been deemed sufficient. Upon one of Mr. Lamb's clerks opening the shop door this morning, the first thing that met his sight was the dog with his throat cut almost from ear to ear, but alive. Various articles of jewellery were strewed about the floor. On proceeding up stairs, he dis covered that the ruffians had made an aperture in the roof by removing the tiles; they had then descended, and forcing open the shop door were evidently at tacked by the dog, whom they silenced by cutting his throat. The articles stolen were forty valuable gold and silver watches, fifty gold wedding-rings, and other valuable property. Numerous articles of plate, how • ever, remained untouched, and there is every reason to believe the thieves were disturbed. Before reach ing the roof of Mr. Lamb's premises the burglars had to climb to the top of some small houses adjoining, and when on this elevation were necessitated to leap on to Mr. Lamb'spremises, a distance, it is said, of three yards ; if the robbers had missed their footing they would have fallen from a height of three stories. The police express an opinion that the burglars are from London or Liverpool. The town is in such an alarmed state that the watch committee have held several meetings, for the purpose of devising means whereby property shall be rendered more secure ; and the chief constable, who heretofore has held other offices in connexion with that of senior policeman, is from henceforth to hold only this one office. The police force will no doubt be increased, as under the present discipline the property of tradesmen in this locality is not secure. The following circumstance will show what de scription of characters the authorities have to deal with :—On Thursday night last, one of the night watch observed a man, in the uniform of a policeman, near the back premises of Mr. Pierce, an extensive jeweller and dealer in plate, in Pelham-street, Not tingham, placing a ladder against the yard wall. The night watchman challenged the man, who answered that he was Mr. Pierce ' s private watchman. The policeman indiscreetly gave the fellow credit for having spoken the truth, and left him. The man then, with the assistance of his ladder, got over the wall into the back premises of the Nottingham and Notts Bank, where he was again questioned by one of the clerks of that establishment, to whom he returned the same answer. Perceiving that he was watched, he com menced trying the doors of the premises, and then, apparently satisfied, got over the wall into the main street again. In the course of the next day, however, Mr. Pierce being asked some questions about his pri vate watchman, avowed that he knew nothing what ever of the man, who was a burglar intent upon plunder. Several daring attempts at burglary were made last night, but, except in the case of Mr. Lamb, without success. Nothing has been heard of the men who were connected with the other plate robberies. The police seem perfectly at sea in the matter. It has been mentioned that some of the London detectives are to be sent for. Some of the robbers, we are in formed, adopt the female garb. ATTEMPTED MURDER of a PO LICEMAN. This morning, shortly after one o'clock, a des perate attempt to murder a policeman was made by a man having the appearance of a foreigner in High Holborn, nearly opposite Warwick- court. It ap pears that police-constable A 332 (of the reserve force) was on duty near the spot indicated, when he observed a man coming towards him apparently in toxicated. Next moment the fellow reeled up against the officer, who cautioned him to be careful, and admonished him that he did not believe he was so drunk as he appeared to be. The man instantly turned round and threatened the constable if he inter fered with him he would do for him. On the officer advancing towards him, he became more violent, and exclaimed, " You -, I have a stiletto here, which you know nothing about. Your life is my hands, and if you touch me I will have it," at the same time brandishing his hand, and striking at the policeman. The conduct of the fellow was observed by two or three persons, and one of them remarking that he had some bright weapon in his hand, warned the constable to be careful, and ran off to obtain additional assistance. Before he had gone many yards he met police constable 22 F, who, on learning the circumstances, hastened to the assistance of his comrade, who was still parrying with his assailant. Relying on their joint power, they closed upon the fellow, and during a violent struggle which ensued the villain stabbed police-constable 22 F in the groin. The poor fellow cried out that he was stabbed, and the other constable, being assisted by two or three by standers, succeeded in securing the prisoner, who was immediately brought to Bow-street police-station. On being charged before Inspector Dodd, the pri soner first gave his name as Charles Dunn, and after wards stated it to be Charles Smith. He refused to give any other account of himself, and behaved with great violence while the witnesses wete giving their testimony. The names of the witnesses are George Crow, a sailor boy, of No. 4, George -yard, Whitechapel ; and Mr. Alfred Brimble, of King-street, Holborn. The latter picked up and produced an open clasp-knife, about five inches in length, which fell from the pri soner during his scuffle with the officers. The wounded policeman was conveyed in a cab to King's College Hospital, where on a surgical examt netion it was ascertained that he had received a wound in the groin about an inch and a half long and two inches deep, from which the blood flowed profusely. The house-surgeon stated that had the knife entered an inch lower it would have severed the femoral artery, and instant death must have ensued. SALMON FISHING.—A large party of poachers as sembled near Felton on the night of Monday last, and commenced killing salmon with a net in the River Coquet. The keepers being on the look out, and nearly equal in num ber with the poachers, an attack was made upon them, and potters; they yn were Anguspl placed e a fight ensued, which ended in the defeat of the poach ers , who fled, leaving their net, sacks, fish, and two of their p arty prisoners. The thenanlesofi or pelatter are Thomas i)ouglas, both of for the remainder of the night in the lock-up house at F e l ton, and next day taken to Alnwick, before Captain D a l e and Hugh Moises, Esq., two of her Majesty's justi ces of the peace, for ,he offence of poaching in close season ; they were convicted in the penalty of 101. each and 4/. costs, or to be imprisoned in Morpeth gaol, with hard labour, four months. Angus was also fined 51. or two months' additional imprison ment for their duty. - assaul B t erw g k the keepers when i n t h e discharge of ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, DEC. 28.-13 fine young men, under the charge of a non-commissioned officer, joined head-quarters to-day from Scotland, having been enlisted by the recruiting party under Lieutenant C. M. Raynes at Aberdeen. The lion. Charles A. Murray, the British Consul l General in Egypt, and his newly-married lady are shortly expected to arrive in London from Scotland, and the Hon. Gentleman has made arrangements to depart for Alexandria to resume hie consular duties toward* the close of the ensuing mouth. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantities of corn, &c., received in the port of London from the ports in Essex, from the 2'd Dec., 1850, to the 2oth Dec., 1t 4 501 both inclusive : .1 • , . 4 c ,„ 0) 4 1 0 Pcl Colchester 23 86 415 -- 28 12 230 Harwich Leigh 264 45 .131 15-- Blaldon lll 4l 416 250 31 469 181 560 . CHELMSFORD, DEC. 27.—Prices to-day were as follow: -- Wheat, white, old 42s to 465; now 416 to 465; red, old CHELMSFORD, DEC. 27.—Prices to-day were _ Wheat, white, old 42s to 465; new 41e to 465; red, old 36s to 41s ; new, 36s to 40s ; barley, 22s to 26s ; chevalier 22s to 295; grinding 19s to 245; oats 15s to 20e; malt 535 to 55s • chevalier 54s to 565; peas, partridge, n ew 28i 30s ; old, —s to —s ; white, new, 26s to 29s ; old, —s to ---1; dun, new, 27s to 29s ; beack new 25s to 275; old , 25s to 28s; harrow ticks, ne ws to 273; old 00s to 0 01 ; ma zagan, new 24, to 25s ; old 00 s t o 00 s per qr . COLCHESTER, DEC. 28.—Wheat, w hit e 423 to 46s ; red 3 6 s to to 40s; barley 22s to 283; beans, mazagan 23s to 255; and mail 24s to 28s; peas 26 s t o 30 s per yr. IC KIRALDY, Dec. 28.—The following are the quotatio n, for grain : middle Wheat. Barley. First 45s Od 26; Od Second 41s Pd 223 Od Third 36s Od 18s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs HADDINGTON, DEC. 27.—T1 grain at our market to-day : Wheat. Oats. 203 Od 18s 6d 163 6d imperial, le following Beans. Od —s Od —s Od 26s Od to ig are the Pea —a --3 od Od. prices of Barley. Oats. Beans. First ... 41s Od 263 Od 20s 6d 308 03 Second ... 383 2d 23s lid 188 7d T T h o il t .d al quantity . 0f...,7 3 2d Do. Wheat 33 Oink! market Nket6d 64216 s qrs al ., 26s Od Barley do. Do. Oats do. Do. Beans do. 102 qrs., 76 sold GLASGOW, Dxc. 25:—Provisions—Cheese, 40s to 471 Od per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 2080 d to Os per cwt. Country fresh butter, 10d to Od per lb. Irish pow - , dered, in lumps, 9d to 9id; country powdered, wholesale, 81 to Od. Country eggs, is 4d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 8s 6" per 120, or Ild per dozen. Hens, 2s 6d per pair; Ducks, 3 46 73 7 g q r r 9 5 36 4r4 8 , ,0 01 1d d d 2s Od. PERTH, Dice. 27.—Wheat, old, OOs Od to 00s Od; ditto, new, 36s to 42s ; barley, new, 21s Od to 24s Od ; oats, 148 to 188; peas and beans, 25s Od to 008 per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 00s to 28s. KELso, Drc. 27.—Wheat, old, 005 to 0050 d; ditto, new, 24s to 30s Od ; barley, ne w , 15 s 6d to 17 e . ditt o old, 00s to 0)s potato oats, 00s to oO s • d i tt o new, 12sOd to 14s Od ; common 195 Od oats Oos Od to 00s Od ;ditto new, 1 Is to l3s Od ; peas , to 20s Od; beans, 19s to 20s per boll of six imperial bushels. STIRLING, DEC. 27.—Wheat, foreign, 208 to 245; ditto. home, 20s to Os; ditto ditt o new . 18 s Od t o 206 Od; barley , 14r boll of 6 bushels, ON Od to Os Od; ditto new, lb , 6 d t o 17s 3 d. Oats, common, 12, 6d to 008 ; ditto new, NOd to Its 6d; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, OOs Od; ma lt, distillers, 318 to 335 6d ; citto brewers, 3380 d to 348; beans per boll, 13s 9d to 008 Od; ditto new, 128 Od to 14s Od; pease 128 6d to Os Od; flour, new persack, 3180 d to 33s Od; ditt o common ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, 258 Od to 29s Od ; ditto new 26s Od to 27s 6d ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 80 to 9d ; fresh butter per lb, 7d t o 9d ; eggs per dozen, 10d to Is; hay per ton, Os Od to Os ; ditto new, 85s to 00s Od. lizawica ' DEC. 26.—Wheat, 36s Bid ; barley, 225 10Id,• oats, IS: lid ; rye, Oos Od ; beans, 00s Od • peas 00s Od average per imperial quarter. HAWICE, DEC. 26.—Wheat, new, 30e to 31s Od; barley' new, 148 6d to 168; ditto old, 00 8 Od to OOs Od ; potato oar o sj 15s Od to 16,10 d ; common oats, Ils Od to 14s ; peal, 205 to 238 Od ; beans, 208 Od to 23s Od per boll of six =perm busFALhels. KIRK, Dzc. 26..—The supply of grain in this day! , market was 624 bolls; wheat at 16s Od to IN 6d per bol , ti barley, 16s Od to 18 8 Od ; oats, lOs Od to 135 6d; beans, 135 °U to 1480 d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. COAL BURKE' Bate's West Hartley 14s Odl Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d Carr's Hartley ..... 14s 3d East Adairs Main 12s 6d Holywell North Percy Hartley l4s Od Ord's Maiu Ravensworth'sW.Hart 14s Od South Peareth l3s Od Tanfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes las 3d Townley l4s Od' Walker's Primrose West Hartley Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close Hedley Hotspur l4s 6d Lawson Northumberland Original Gibson Braddyll Hetton 17s Od', Scarborough lss 6dl —YESTIRDAY. Lambton ............. • 16 168 Richmund.. ..... litussell's Hatton 164 Stewart's Whitwell Hartlepool l7s Heselden ..... Kelloe South Hartlepool ..... 16s IThornley ........•.••••. 15s Brown's Deanery ...... 'l s s IMaclean's Tees ! Seymour Tees ........ 15s IVernon Tees I Cannel Birchg. Graigola Cowpsn Hartley Hartley ........ 13s Kilmarnock best Stm l3s Nixon's Merthyr and Sidney's Card Cardiff 2 Hartley Hetten 10s Ships at market, 350. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, DEC. 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was not so brisk to-day, still a fair amount of business was transacted at fa' vourable rates. The only variation in prices was — Western, 78. _ Great LIVERPOOL. Die. 30. SvocK Excuatrom.—The market was not so active to-dalf and prices had a downward tendency. The transaction, were as follow:—Caledonian, c.—Chester and Solt'head, Preference, guaranteed VA per cent., 13% C. East Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 7%—Great Northern , 17 1 ,E c.—Lancashire, and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 571 —Ditto, Fifths, VA dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 13% London and North-Western, 124 1 / 8 p.—Ditto, New Quarters, 4 1 % 1 3 * —r , itto, Quarters (C), 2sj 4 p.—Midland, 48—Ditto, Halve , 19% dis. ex int.—North British, 6 3 /. c.—North Stafford shire, 8 dis.—Ditto, P. and W. (No. 1), 42%—Seottish Central, % p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), Shropshire Union (Railway and Canal), 2 15-16 dis.--- South-Eastern and Dover, 23—York, Newcastle, and Iles ' wick (Nos. and 2), Preference, unpaid up, 3 1 ,E dis. BIRMINGHAM, DEc. 30. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was again dull to -day The only transactions reported were—South Staffordshi re, dis.—Shropshire Union. 3/. 3s. 9d. die. YORK, Dac. 23. al STOCK EXCITANG I.—The t ransac ti o ns to-day - k follow : —Eastern Counties, 6% —North British, 914 ....re x Newcastle, and Berwick, 19—York and North Midland, 28 , SEABORNE MAILS. When made up in (From what when 1 PLACES. General Post-office port die- due. London. patched. --- ...------...... . Africa (West coast).. America (via N. York America Abbmyy Stateseßrirci British atpi ashe(( ipyleaat packet)c) Bostonui .e n t i ) e.. . . a . NN January January 17 3 .. .. Liverpool . Arrived Liverpool ..Jan. 9 Liverpool &I i N j January 10 i Southampt. 5, Belgium .. „„ .. N Daily .. „ _ Dover • • 1:6441 d Brazil • • .. 3t 9th of the month Southampt. Arrived Buenos Ayres .• .. M Otis of the month Southampt. Arriv c ed California(viaChagres) M 17th of month Southampt' Jan' " Cape of Good Hope N January 14 Plymouth • • ~ Central America .. 31 2d & 17th of month:Southampt. Jan. 0 _ . „,. Channel Isles • . .. 19 Mon., Wed., & Fri.' Southampt. Tu. 111 0 . Chili .. .. .. . M 17th of the month Southampt. Jar i * cla ili France .. .. 31 & N Twice daily .... Dover • • DffiCe s,t. Hamburgh .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London Tues., lo. 2 1 Holland .. • • .. II Wednes. & Satur. London ••"° n. 0 Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. Ireland .. •.31 & N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead Twlc,e_ . r.' , India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the month Southampt Jan. India ( via Marseilles) N 7th St 24th of month Dover • • Jan. 3" Madeira .. _ N Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Southanspt. Jan. 28 Mediterranean (via 1 Jan . S Marseilles) .. •. N 7th& 24th of month Dover • • Mediterranean (by French packet via Marseilles) Mexico .. .. .. 312 d of th e month.. SouthamP t. Jan ' 5 Peninsular.. • . .. II 7th,l7th,27th of mo Southampt. Jan. 5_ Peru .. .. • • • • 31 17th o f th e mon th ! Southa m p t . Jan. 21 _ l _ West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month ! Southampt. Jan. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 31 2d of the month .. Southampt. ,Jan. 5 —......Aftite Stoue m thampt. !Jas h Gene ral Poit - 0111‘. Ltch. N signifies that the by the night—and 31 by mails are sent from the morning—disp IMPUDENT A TTEMPT AT ROBBERY: On its nd a l r evening a lad went into the shop of Mr. ShepPerleY' 53 :1 - 0 - smith . Long-row, a n d a3 k e d f or a l e ad pencil.t he) was engaged at the b ac k p ar t o f th e shop, rep lie M thatd did not sell them, and th e b o y wen t ou t. Previous to t 3; doing this, however, a woman who was standing nea r v d, entrance observed him take a watch from the work' and as he was comin g ou t s h e s h oo k h er fist at him. Il e 1 7 . ; mediately perceived that his trick was discovered , then without a minute's hesitation, dropped the watch , and het struck the poor woman a violent blow, which knocked down. Some persons end eavoure d t o secu re him, but, bei g gifted with a nimble pair of heels, he managed to escaP e ar. prehension.—Nottingham Journal. c [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills a °( Cure for Dropsy.—Extract of a letter from Mn. Leedh9arnita:ni Leamington, dated Oct. 15, 1850. "To Professor Hollowsto Sir,—lt is with gratitude that I write to inform you a wonderful cure effected on myself by taking your pills for r • severe case of dropsy. The disease appeared about five Y es a since, and notwithstanding the various remedies I tried, au the different medical men I consulted, all seemed u nable tO check its progress. At last I was so much swollen ibl d „, P l ro a reis n or ow H P o could scarcely walk. At this crisis I commenced taking Y e valuable pills, by means of which, and strict attention to yo ur Pl Dr i Strand, London. u n g ted gist d s, ir a e n ct d ion at s, e li r o f;c a t y l cEuirteadch e l e d a t b . y 247, BIRTHS. OF A - 8 - 021. — ef. On the 26th inst., at Wyke, Surrey, the wife of the R H. F. Cheshire. On the 26th inst., a t Salterton, Devon, the lady of G Dalbiac, Esq. George On the 27t1 OF A DAUGHTER. the Rev. R. inet at Radnage Rectory, Bucks , t he wife of On the 27th 14x1Y. Wife of C. A. in York -street, Portman-square, the de valm er, Esq. • On the 28th inst., at St.G li e j ol i g g e P s, Hanover-squa re ' Caplet s Arthur P ac k, 7th Royal Fusiliers, eldest son of tueba- Major. G enera l Si r Denis Pack, K C.B , to Frederica. sa rine, se c o n d d aug h ter of Colonel the Hon. Hely Hutcluou of es At W t ton, Northamptonshire. Gallu• S. Andrew's, Holborn, on the 28th inst., NV. O tba way, Esq., of Glasgow, to Maria, youngest daughter of late R. S. 1 aylor, Esq., of Gray's Inn, London: 01E1). On the 27th inst., at Trowbrid gii Wilts, S. Salter, E°1:1" ".. 0 inst.,Russell-place, ware, On the 26th in Russ 11 l ' Fitzroy- Car Elizabeth Robinson, relict of Thomas Wells, Es+ , - mander, R.N., aged 70. et St.m's, ed On the 24th i ns t, J o h n W . B ury, E sq ., of Charles - s tre 1 OJa the es 27t ag h inst 50. ., Mr. G. N. Bettffer, of Caledonian -Pa ces Coburg-road, Old Kent-road. * al te On the 24th inst., at Trin II Ag, erts, Mr. Thomas Hunt, aged 70. ir pt. reliefs, ]fie Mary the 26th inst , at Abbey-street, F ave Mary Ann, relict of Mr. I. Fairbrass, aged 60: N A 35, On the 23th inst , ,at Onslow-sqtvare, Brotill'O n /. 1116-7 ' Emma, the wife of Neville Wood, M.D. .-__:...:..---' Ann, relict of the London : Printed and Published by MURDO No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No', of Strand, in the P rec i nc t of the Savoy, in the c ounty Middlesex, Tuesday, December 31, 1850. 11 , I. `6 . •