The Sun. — London, England, 1851-11-26 00:00:00

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Sewi °ll l4 Oiri el p o l 06 '" DAV ii 11• 1 0 01 I ° nieg •r 0 01400 ."00. toifoul 0 6 1 :0e. 0, po 00w rob: 0 , po r 1 0 1,1; 1 ;0 0 1 0 fo' 0 1° 0 00 0 ( . 0 164) 100 P r o ideb . o g• i p 844 dlO OPI 0 PA, qo as 17 --- ---......._____, - ibr4 Wire in h is company since 1842, when he went kfi tt b of the ew P ris, perf umer i n the Strand, and b rother '4loproesPlahitiff, deposed to the plaintiff having no i t Wife at he command, to support himself or ' l ceee, f "' the time of and after the marriage. 44;1 16 _ . ether died about seven years Bp ; h..---, kriew k e ' 7o B 6 l: b°4t ,the marriaee a the plaintiff. 4 /i t 's of l k aill e i s n t e r d s by Mr. JAMES-After entering e the I, 6,, tive . Green he WAS home . ev ever year for t i ke en o T.,, months' Re went out last in June, 1851. 43 Y m other ' - " tici he sometimes visited me and some -1444/esr, ere His wife called upon me only , he t°. a ge, to inquire when my brother would re -41:olio kti. That was the last time I saw her. kl i eft, l ,,.:raY, clerk in the office of the plaintiff's em -'4fin %IC' called to prove that the plaintiff's father '"lte' arse se 14,1,-- thr ee firs 14 as premium, outfits, and mess-money, to - , e;j ahr , et voy ages, ~ a r .es and that he only received a N. tb } e o 4 .Is subsequent voyages, barely enough "es ki , charg es f 14 4 es uo or mess and outfits. . . . P ' tied by Mr. JAMES-The plaintiff's wife lit L ti, le tee , ik a l'r fill., of i nformation, but never in distress. I li ti Nd l eft ' tioaes, and she came to ascertain when her 14 1 4 pi a . al ld would return, and nothing more. In Ih t eis t i ff !'. 4 iff was about twelve months in England. 0 1 4 y o ls °Q v' on a voyage to India. He is about lie e4akin ars of age ti k kid dr mined plaintiff's wife never asked me if list tt ird T i t l ," ? a nY Money, Iki t tiad di utgoad, assistant to a chemist and drug is k_4ltl,2g,ton, said-I n 1847 I occupied a house at kClass a b":. Lambeth, and had then apartments to let. IV by / r ' 184 7, a lady came and looked at the tither w 'id not see her • she saw my wife. A few 11% ba ud& she called again ' with a gentleman, who S treet, Spurrier Mr. Spurrier of the Reform Club and thi‘c septic I have since ' called at Bond-street and 11illit, of :cart there ; he is Mr. Spurrier, the wine 1 114, 4 41 /1 urad-street. They engaged the rooms, 11044 e theme as man and wife. They lived with me It ,Itna ai r l ' n 18 48, when I gave them notice to quit, it b 7 b osne ut ..; : i giving up the house. lie used to 447 kit 4 . R a i p le the morning and return in the c ht th 'lse. ',",fa• Warren frequently brought a boy to Irk - " a _kied:," lady who passed as Mrs. Spurrier ittl viltli g ;' lll Y house in March or April, 1848, of a L N„ 10 iiii,;eccasion Mr. Spurrier took an additional " 4 0 H ,iter ed P ill another part of the house. Mrs. I ttift4 ir L t o 44 in i tt n u a r b s o e u . t a Th w e ee i k nfa a n it t er wa i "1 ", for e ‘ was taken t b sk ir e t n h. " M a r ) : habit of leaving home every S d atur ; I N y , 44 h itiro. rawe e c h o t un t t e ry, R b e u e t pe tti ll e -str fe e m et al w e itdhi Mr.no ' Th e Li t k ere saw the lady who passed as Mrs. i L kte. e ° t l se was kept by Mrs. Warren. I 11 7 4e4 ip.,Purrier at Mr. Spurrier's place in Bond tot ) 4 S ow p e d lit there about a matter of business. . et; QM 14 1, - ,, by Mr. JAMES-Mrs. Warren said 0( la i ll C'ta she Crought to my house was two i* 47 . I was told it was Mrs. Warren's `Njli4ls,4aderstood \. k„,g°ed co rroborated the above, and proved )4 4 4i t :Ild a l t ) ,' of birth produced gave the correct date ce pt „ Irth. " , aeat e _ liiol44Nl,ll,st the 753 put in and read, from which it INltilk' eh id had been registered in the name II f. 1 84: 1 I) eaton now a lady's maid at Jersey, k' ll / 4 ' l 2tei," ta 1848 servant' at Mr. Thurgood's, de ° fte g 11 1% Spurrier and the ' lady who passed l, l 4, ti n °4ll Y in the bedroom together. 4iti'li t t,,l) a perfumer in Maddox-street, stated 0 %4,2' Spurrier occupied apartments at his SgtiSs i,'J's believed them to be man and wife. NAli t ," case for the plaintiff, eslicoaddressed the jury on the part of the de- Ikki:kp,,,filititerllo,eretutendateelloqbueeenntlyuannitdeds,etvhearnelyforontthh.ee ttle,,,Pittiotiff in leaving his wife alone . in "st f,.retsthYL.five Years, not only without visiting p 4it t o 7thi h . 'rout voyages, but without contribut -1/4,,iLkete:','o her support; and asked the jury to iNgod, ti ah - e'les the misery she must have suffered Ihki k :adr --- " the inevitable destruction which the r, 'opend her from, by furnishing her with 51,11,.,1 the se comforts which she looked in Sk t qe tt , u sads of her heartless and cruel tt it the ea ted the present proceeding as one pock pose of putting money into . is l oti t i, i t, et, and of disgracing and proclaim -1 61-44,:(ce dishonour of the unhappy lady, to te e-s ' n g his avenged or injured feelings, as ‘ ltitt St. 44kt kk 44 is °r f is\k th, kid hi e i YONVer to bring her in the way o le tittm t 4 eg ad tue defendant was rather to be s 444 \s i i as t i limned for having afforded her, an . SIL 'ter 'e might almost say a house \N , N, 4 . ' I f s home, and the protection 14 'th ' he had not done so she might , ;4a h e,i c t i m of her cruel and necessitous NI " 4 0 firt,e4Lented a picture of those unhappy \ ,4 . t .. 041 , es possible . .111.44ki,%i1etu1ik...": stersestrilopotlitanthorodusgmhafagreess.whiHehe 'Olt 4 j-,:Q Meet the justice of the case. k vi " b ct having briefly summed up the Nkftes ow . C l' Dlsi of a minute's consideration, h found a 4 r"' - •D t amages one tart in b . 44 A f u se dce.Ofy for costs. ttttli to , L cou RT. -(THIS DAY ) ' 1 Vh ,„ O LD COURT. tll..t.ll4tots, charged with the wilful murder Vg:11, bill, discharged,the grand jury hay -1)14, k l kkit °l ,,q i tt e t ? 26 , was indicted for the prisoner Pitinity 44 George Ford. The pr i k 571 4 , 14 4e d % duc ted the prosecution, and Mr. Bal. 6 . 41 eo° Prisoner. Ne,, i 'm Z t 's c tle having briefly opened the case, ti p S 44, l l ,Abrtsei t - , l ' c 'ilowing witnesses:- . liik_''eral ,mePosed that he lived at Maidstone, lih.milo th mealer. On the 19th of August last It 'le t% .at th e m • kii k t4 N it % toxic . Maidstone fair, and the de ilk, A _ctl On _ stted, was there also.the prisoner . was , 4 101 1 , wow, ' gave witness a pot,. but the p i itKvAt-1.4, au not allow him to drink; and the I,lke l i t ° tti, °ld man, told the prisoner that he ;gee twi' o „, cf • The risoner then struck wit ) ttki‘t whe t threw over deceased, who was l i t yt l 24 %it 'et d e r Z was two or three feet high. The ii I ,,ele t "! th h l 'ke Witness was present at the , t,tlt t 'g lt,;,! 4 (1: VI% It was that of Ford. i i i, Stith k RYt..,41.r. BALLANTINE-Was a general ti te t l,teb t, iti e ; l ;ul lit fairs. Never came in contact Ve t .44, 16 li e :it once, and then it was for . driv he tcd to 6 ab as fined 55., but did not pay it. the ' l` 9• Zoe lie are, "'oliger, was in the booth with 'lv Ye'elt,(4,""as) l3 „ 4 i s ed, and . helped to pick the de- 11 ° ' Ails 'ls i o '' n g on his back, and when lifted t. ,;,•ti kbs , tal ler , walk. Lie was taken to the Aged %Wa il ,. - er struck the deceased two or three I Y 4 C I 4 t ti,7te,„ It i :oti e 'Y 8 . °N. cif Guy's Hospital, had seen the de littliit 4 td e `tioo tecce, and found that he bad sus h"te k t ,his: 4l .lary in the neck. The deceased i tt ,,t , t 4 ' 6 r ee 'LI te, - "to until the 21st - of October, when leep ri t i4,Net I I! of the kidneys, produced by the , 4,-, , 4 11 ,114, filtethe booth. 'l)LV)e e i: It 0ur.,11 addressed the jury for the de 'Qltyt74, 4 et, t " 4 "er of witnesses. 44 N ‘kr ;°o, found up, and the jury, after a at tit t4 - " , the prisoner Guilty. ty . 4. / *ith h e ed the prisoner to three months' 0 1414,) ita!).it. 4 bard labour. 4, 1 ' kt°"„ 4, /, „pod 23 , described as a brickmaker, k t l!' 4 ''' s t j : t ' t i' '' Et eci 2 ° , a labourer, was indicted for Ikek;t' r at t ir c i t wounding Edward Earthy ,dry. er h l e le ete„'Dpe,,,, "lie The prisoner pleaded not ect u ote t Z t klei.., - , for the Prosecution,but the pri lill'e '', sigool. ended b„ V- , th j CallElSel. ti tlf 4 i;:o6 4 11 Bth of!tosergeant in the police, and on 0 4 A et t ii p o i' i l l e, ( . l . t ity in toner, th i x b r between e r e e i a g d h t where nine e h e Stip t i tieti t :' kid fc:astable named g ßailey. This was \ki iltjatelj d of i t ,, l scquenee of information which , 4 414 Ll kb o,f th e ,c!gh way robbery, he and Bailey kl lt : tth t'lvii tidge,ktuteves down a lane which leads `lO. 144 ths 1 141 . When they got a few tilet ei trith et Bne they observed two men le l' • hi the 'il it tle t lei teti telt hedge with their faces lietles kl b „_' the u ta no ef ill ,t s its, and the prosecutor im ',th r-ik_, 4 ,04 -en). Ni) sooner, however, had \nth %ell t 0 Os If the prisoners, who was after map gro an the ° and, fired a pistol, the contents klittej. r itt,,,, , "Ni. prosecutor's left thigh, and felled ". /' it '• 11 etc chile on the ground he saw the / '1;114'4 h aul ed rpistol and aim it at Bailey, but , )n in e fir e, viiih r 7;. Bailey struck the pistol out ~. / 4 Etiaa , ts truncheon as he was about to 1 4 I, 14 Serer altervvards succeeded in throwing l i th : c i t fo t% I;: b e f it , 11 : 0 4 r n tiDae the second man made his N„'ili e rit r s shooing the prisoner Round left a ,l'slti ti iO4,; t ptid th e P h la Houndsditcb, but he never Ipi t - ) ' lt t ha - 'hat i " u hd,le was given up to the po ' otl, ,ofikoroh,contained, besides a quantity of Iv ' lA' 'lls e "tef 8, which corresponded with a is aelt e vere c i i til Y f oe 14 41 4 ,n the possession of Harris, a ktilatld ere isound was afterwards arrested. I tat, e prisoners Guilty, but the Court 5 t t ie r e4 tee e , 1 ) 1 S k i li' 42. 1 4 12.9 1 3r own W . „CO tiR 7; Its e ilf4 t te for 45 alias Jeff, ey was indicted for tA t k qit ' 41:41.0:',., with intent to defraud Messrs. 0 to t e tet t ~_,., and pleaded Guilty. ' IN asked what the circumstances of the k ;t ll 4 4 ;t? P k ti lll 'ivhe a ski ll atel ;tile r h,--lpeared for the prosecution, stated ti,ttft s ts on, the au been in the service of Messrs. k ir' . .4,ei:::,talthitltioie_r :roliceeitohrse, of Bedford-row, and had It b : t le, 4 4ly ft their se ece Piing money from their bankers. Presented a cheque at lt,t,litlio account counter. It was signed " Charles ti thi.orktcauj i , e 4,a Messrs. Weston and Son," tk,i 7 i,„ ettsr k ,„ e ueques W ere a l ways si gne d "On I t i l , Olielite et ., " 0 ston and Son-Charles Weston," t' si te he le ft"e° BO • 0 4 r, .._ the excited the suspicion of the I,lo)4„..aiee,_,.counter to consult a superior in ' t i zi ii tit i 4 t i t l e o, oi'wollisile the prisoner took to his heels, Mpg to p ° Was arr attempted fraud was given to the !'ti il l It teh4 c itas kno !, ted while in the very act of at -1449 Ol e h . a otutper forged cheque for 501. On I i ttee s t ta, b u er of these spurious cheques were le re ski . at it had kl., ti th e la 0 been ascertained that he was 414:1144iielilesir,ttelaweailinestaince of uttering, arid in . that th e 11 th e a .la y for 71. 10s. The prisoner i tt ! 4 l4, P. Pre sent . ervice of Messrs. Weston and Son, Ole t , e 14 0 ' charge he had borne an excellent %,,14 0 ,.,. tibe ß , , . N k ` l 't e 'eas ' ' ' 41 itog into consideration the pri dittrlty egoc1)(1 conduct, and believing that his 04, , t ite laf :jed some contrition for this offence, 4 0. 1 14 e. ensto a yea, .s'.. transportation. trit,4l.lClug, fro ni the Colony of Victoria, t ottekll It ew w• .. co, With Earl ,A(l'rey, yoaterday, at the THE SUN, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WAR WICK AN ID LEAMINGTON NOVEMBER MEE TlNG.—TrEsmor. ' Sweepstakes of 5 boys. each, and 20 added, for two yrs old, 7st 31b, and three yrs, Bst 101 b; maidens allowed 3!b, awl fillies and geldings 311 t; the winner to be sold by auction for 100/.; if entered fur 701., allowed 31b; if for 50/,, 7lbs; if for 301., 141bs. Five furlongs. (14 Subs.) Ld. Lurgan's Tightwaist (30/.), 7st 7lb (J. Arnold) 1 Capt. Powell's b c by Cotherstone, 2 yrs (301), 6st 2 Mr. Taft's f by Don John, 3 yrs (1001.), Bst 71b 3 Mr. S. Darling's Stratagem, 2 yrs (30/.), 6st 31b 0 Mr. Dawson's as Fancy Free, 2 yrs (30/.), car. 6st 21b 0 Mr. Theobald's f The Ferret, 2 yrs (30/.), sst 111 b 0 Mr. Winch's Herschel, 2 yrs (300, 6st 3lb Mr. Waring's Gloom, 3 yrs (3010, 7st 71b Mr. B. Austin's Brawn, 2 yrs (701.), 63t 111 b 0 Mr. Bayley's Once More, 3 yrs (301.), 7st 71b Betting-7 to 4 agst Tightwaist, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Won by a neck; two lengths between second and third. Run in 1 min. 13 secs. The Great Warwick Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 1001. added; the second to save his etake. Two miles. (18 Subs.) Mr. Williams's Chief Justice, 4 yrs, 7st (T. Lye) 1 Mr. Osbaldeston na John of Bernick, 6st llb (Iliett) 2 Mr. Palmer's Doubt, 7st 3lb 6lbs extra) (Knott) 3 Mr. Meiklam's Italian, 4 yrs, 7st 2!b (Arnold) 0 Mr. W. Saunders na Trickstress, 6st 101 b (Aldcroft) 0 Lord Waterford's The Marquis, Est 91b...(D. Doyle) 0 Captain Hay's Little George,4 yrs, Est 21b (J. Wynne) 0 Mr. Austin's Miss Julia, 5 yrs, Est 21b (Baker) 0 Mr. Challiner's Master Friday, 4 yrs, Est 21b (Wells) 0 Mr. Isaac Day's Waterfall, 4,yrs, cd. 4st 101 b (011iver) 0 Betting—Even on Doubt, 3 to 1 agst Chief Justice, 8 to 1 agst The Marquis, and 12 to 1 agst any other. Won by half a length, a length between second and third. Run in 3 ram. 57 secs. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added , for three _ _ years old and upwards. One mile. (18 Subs.) Mr. Hind's Young England, 4 yrs (500, 7stB Ib( Weft) 1 Ld. Lurgan's Tight waist (201), sst 111b...(J. Brown) 2 Mr. Winch's Flytrap, 4 yrs (201), 6st 111b...(Wells) 3 Mr. 011iver's Colocynthus, aged (201), 7st 91b (011iver) 0 Mr. Isaac Day's Mignon, aged:(2oo, 7st 91b (Arnold) 0 Mr. Owen's Harum-Scaruni, 4yrs (200,75 t llb (Ware) 0 Ld. Warwick's Grief, 5 yrs (1500,95 t llb (H. Darling) 0 Ld. Newport's Lady Bibina (201), 7st sib( W. Sharpe) 0 Capt. Powell's Amoroso (201), sst I llb (J. Wynne) 0 Mr. W. Cooper's fby Pantaloon (201), Est Blb (Preece) 0 Mr. Dawson's Joe Sutherland (200, 7st 51b (T. Lye) 0 Mr. S. Darling, fun's., Exhibition, 3 yrs (200, sst 131 b 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Amoroso, 3to 1 agst Tightwaist, 6 to 1 each agst Joe Sutherland and Flytrap, and 8 to 1 agst Young England.—Won by a length. Run in 1 win. 52 secs. _ _ _ This race having originally been advertised to be run in heats, and subsequently altered to a single race, the owners of Flytrap, Harum-Searum, Amoroso, Joe Su therland, Mignon, and the Mite filly, determined to run again although Colonel Arthur, one of the stewards, de cided that the alteration was valid, and ordered the star ter, judge, and clerk of the scales not to officiate; a se cond heat was run, and won by Flytrap, Harum-Scarum second. A third heat was run, under similar circum stances, by Flytrap and Joe Sutherland, and won by the former. The case will, of course, come before the Stewards of the Jockey Club. The Leamington Welter Cup, by subs. of 15 sow. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. Once round. (23 Sue, 9 of whom declared.) Mr. C. H. Carew's Agis, 6 yrs, lOst 61b (Capt. Little) 1 Mr. William's Chief Justice, lOst 51b (Mr. Davenport) 2 Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 5 yrs, 12st 21b ...(J. Sharp) 0 Captain na Ormsby, 5 yrs, lOst (Mr. Beville) 0 Mr. I. Day's New Forest Deer, aged, 9st 121 b (Boyce) 0 Mr. Waller's Captain Parry, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b (Wynne) 0 5 to 4 agst Chief Justice, 5 to 2 agst Miss Ann, and 3to 1 agst Agis. Won by half a neck. Run in 3 min. 37 secs. CREWE STEEPLECHASES.—TUESDAY. The Eddleston Free Handicap of 3 soya. each, and 30 added; the second to save his stake. Three miles. Widow Machree, lOst 21b Royal Blue, 5 yrs, lOst Dick Swiveller, aged, 9st 121 b The Grand Annual Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, and 60 added; the second to save his stake. Three miles. Peter, aged, lOst 121 b Barrister, aged, lOst 2 0 Ploughboy, Sged, !Oat 81b The .11atherton Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 15 added; llst each, &c. About one mile and a half. Lallah Rookh Springy Jack , 2 Standard COURSING. CH.A.TSWORTH MEETING, Nov. 20 AND 21. The Chatsworth Cup, for 16 (all aged) dogs, was divided by Mr. Carr's Cardinal and Mr. Jepson's King Charles. The Devonshire Puppy Cup (16 dogs) was won by Mr. M.Naugh ton's Mischief; Mr. Greening's Queen of Dia- moods inn up. The Burlington Cup was won by Mr. Jepson's Beres ford; Mr. M‘Naughton's Nell Gwynne ran up. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Nov. 25. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, took their usual exercise in the grounds at Osborne yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday. Lord Monteagle had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman, at his official residence in Downirg•street. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—Our market to-day shows a more decided improvement than any time during the present reaction from the depressed state of things that existed during the greater part of October. Yarns of every description up to 70's have been sold at id. to id. per lb. above last week's rates, with the exception of 20's and 50's mule, which are unchanged in value. No. 16 to 24 and 30 twist are still in greatest demand, and most difficult to obtain in anything like a reasonable time. No. 30 water has been sold readily, at id. per lb. advance upon last week's prices; and for China orders have been given out that will not be delivered before the early part of February next. The German buyers find great difficulty in executing their orders, not on account of the prices demanded, or of unwillingness on the part of spinners to sell the quantity wanted, but on account of the time ❑ecessary for delivery; and this circumstance has, in some measure, restricted business to-day with other buyers besides the Germans. Our home manu facturers continue their purchases to a fair extent, and rather more is doing in 60's and 70's for the Bradford manufacturers. Cloth is also more active, especially good qualities of every description of printers, shirtings, domestics, and long cloths; and production in most cases being engaged for the greater part of next month, a general advance is demanded, and has, in many cases, been obtained. Low qualities of printers, shirtings, and long cloths are neglected; but of these, production is now comparatively small, and rapidly reducing, especially in low India shirtings. The demand for China in 39 inch 60 and 66 reed shirtings is at present very extensive, and there are no stocks to tupply it. RocrananE, MONDAY.—The flannel market continues dull and inactive, with little or no variation in prices. We have had a quiet wool market, and prices stationary. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There is no change to-clay in the aspect or our piece hall, except that there has been a little more inquiry for lastings, of low quality. There is a somewhat better feeling in the yarn market. A conviction that the raw material is not likely to be lower, combined with the great reduction of stocks arising out of the extensive diminution of production, has induced the merchants to operate with a little more confidence, and to give out more freely the orders they had on hand. There is, consequently, a firmer tone in the quotations. The wool market is steady, but not active. The stocks in the hands of the staplers are not large, but the spinners only purchase from • hand to mouth; and prices have undergone no variation. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market opened very flatly this morning, though rather more has been done in the Cloth Hall during the day than the previous market. Light low goods have been inquired for by the American buyers. The home trade is very quiet, ex cepting orders for a few parcels of heavy goods. Lithe wool market very little has been done, LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market, has been dull to day, but on Saturday last there was a good attendance at the Cloth Hall, and more business was done than for some time past. The clothiers still complain of the lowness of prices compared with the prices of wool and manufacturing. There has been more doing at the ware houses during the past week, principally in heavy winter goods. THE NORTH WALES MUSS EL FISHERY --A ver y remunerative trade is springing up inNorthWales,orignating in the more extensive working of the various fisheries along the coast. The whole of theng country abounds with fish of every dsold only for local use, but seaboard description, ti t e h n i , s w p h a i r e t h o , f un th ti e l very recently, was caught an _ the opening of the Chester and to have created a new market in ytriitept.peaist will scarcely be cre dit e d, that during -H the olyth northernheea Icleaeßt twoi l d w is a m quantity of shell-fish was months no Conway to Dlanch ea t er . Thi s large h made a ton, and were fewer than 330 t ons o f muss els have been sent per rail from packed up in b ags, s i xteen of whic 6d. to 2 s. per bag . disposed of at th e rate o f f rom Is. have been engaged women, and child ren, for even the l a tter Em ployment has th us b een af f or d e d to a large number of men , in the collectio n o f the fish on the s h ore , between high and low water mark ; and there can be no d ou bt that in a short time the valuabl e and hitherto neglecte d fi s heries on the Welsh coast will b e f u ll y and profitably wor k e d, affording to a number of small coasting vessels regular emp l o yment and adequate remuneratio n . O yster dredging is to a great extent i n C ardigan Bay, there being c arried on seventeen vessels employed, which average 1,000 fish per day. THE NAVIG ATION L AWS. _ NO less than 74 new vessels, whose aggr egate tonnage amounts to 32,0 00 , aro on the stocks in th e b u il ding yards on the banks ofthe Wear. 13 of them are 13 years at Lloyd's; 4, 12 Y ears ; and 16, 10 years. Four noble vessels, of an average ap proaching 700 tons, w ere l aunched on Saturday ; others will be launched during the present springs. The gallantry and courage which distinguish the boatmen of our coast have become proverbial, and the boat men of Harwich occupy a prominent position, but among the Harwich men it will be no injustice to give precedence to the Lewes family. How few oak boast of having saved one hundred and twenty-nine fellow-creatures from death! the number saved through the instrumentality of this family during the last twelve or fourteen years. The daring of the Messrs. Lewes has, at last, attracted general attention, and a committee is in course of formation to make arrangements for raising subscriptions throughout the country, for some kind of testimonial to th ese b rave and gallant fellows.— i Norivic4,ltercury., LONDON, THE CAB EXTORTION. A short time ago an advertisement appeared in this paper, announcing that from and after the third day of the present month a certain cab proprietor would commence running his cabs at the rate of sixpence a mile for two persons. Before the time arrived, how ever, a second notification was issued, also through our columns, to the effect that the advertiser had been prevented, by menaces of violence and insult, from executing his project. Threatening notices had been served upon bis premises, assuring him of every species of illegal opposition. His drivers were to be hustled, his horses maltreated, his vehicles damaged, and all imaginable annoyance exercised against him self and servants. In consequence of these warnings, he reported himself as desisting from his scheme, not doubting either its propriety or its prospects, but de terred from his speculation by the jealousy and terror ism of the trade. We are at some loss to imagine how in the year 1851, and under the protection of the A division, any man of business could entertain the dread of being impeded in his lawful calling in the streets of London. No doubt the conductors of our public carriages are remarkably skilled in the exercise of annoyance and abuse, and as far as a little ingenious botheration could go, zealous service might of course be expected from parties combining in their own proper persons the qualities of protectionists and cabmen. Still the opposition, it might have been thought, could be little worseithan that encountered and sur mounted every week by all candidates for public support on the ground of small profits and improved economy. Nevertheless it has been averred by numerous correspondents that the scheme was a bond fide conception, that the calculations on which it was based were undeniably sound, and that nothing but the desperation of endangered monopolists put a stop to so desirable an experiment. Without entering too particularly into these de tails, we venture to affirm, on the grounds of obvious probability, that, whether the plan was projected or not, it most certainly might have been, and with equal advantage to the proprietary and the public. If Bd. per mile was a remunerative rate of cab hire at the time the tariff was determined, it is perfectly clear, from a concurrence of considerations, that 6d. per mile would be a sufficient return in the present day.. Oats, corn, wages, workmanship, and mate rials, the cost of man and horse, of construction and repair, are all cheaper by 30 or 40 per cent. at the very least than they were twenty years ago. All competing trades, too, have lowered their prices ; thus not only evincing the practicability of such reduc tions, but forcibly suggesting the extension of the same principle to other pursuits. When omnibus seats were 6d. a piece, and oars is. a pair, there was no thing unconscionable in asking Bd. for the compara tive lu,xury of a cab ; but now that penny fares are prevailing both by land and water, now that London bridge or the Bank can he reached for 3d. from any suburb of the metropolis, it is no less unreasonable than unwise to maintain cab fares at an exceptional height of extravagance. No person could doubt that cabs, built, horsed, and driven according to the present scale of market prices, supported by a sufficient capital and managed with ordinary judgment, would return a remunerative income to the proprietors at the rate of 6d. a mile. The fact, indeed, has been repeatedly confessed in practice, for over and over again have we received prospectuses of companies proposing to start on these terms, but some " dark influence," as Mr. Grantley Berkeley would say, has invariably interposed and driven us back to the hard bargains of monopoly and combination. Certainly the cabowners must be extremely clever people, and protectionists of more pretension might well take a lesson from their doings. Without any bustle or clamour they have contrived to keep their ground, while every other " interest" has been forced to succumb. They make no noise about their work. We read no inscriptions on the walls of " Cheap cabs and starvation." Their Bookers and Chowlers per form their business with a wholesome dislike to prattle and exposure. They never openly proclaim that England's greatness is wrapped up in eightpenny fares, or that people will be driven to walk about barefoot if " native industry" is discouraged in Pentonville and Bethnal-green. They say nothing, they have no public meetings and no discoverable organization, but they very quietly contrive that their profits shall not be touched, and that no man shall ever get into a cab and pay less than a shilling for it. Of course it is quite notorious why this stand is so desperately made, and why in this one "department of industry" alone there should be so obdurate a reso lution to fight for every inch of margin. It is not the lawful profit but the incidental facility of extortion for which the cab owners are stickling. A change of fare from Bd. to 6d. would involve the loss, in ordinary cases, not of 2d. only, but of thrice that sum. As things go at present, Bd. practically means a shilling ; Is. 4d., eighteenpence ; and 2s. 4d., half-a-crown. Reduce the fare to 61, and fid. would be the whole amount paid, so that the loss to the cab-owner would not be confined to the original retrenchment, but would include the handsome percentage now thrown in for want of change. Under the new system, in deed, it is hardly too much to hope that a cabman might be found with sixpence in his pocket, and that change might be given by these gentlemen from their seats as promptly as by their brethren on the steps of the omnibuses. At present, the gratuitous overplus, almost universally paid, is actually reckoned by cab owners as their legal perquisite. The other day a cabman plainly acknowledged before the magistrate, that if his receipts were confined to the Parliamen tary Bd. he could never .take enough home in the evening to satisfylis master's demand. Now, this is all exceedingly admirable, and no persons applaud a good fight with more sincerity than Englishmen, but we cannot support the nuisance any longer. We want all the sixpences we have got and cannot afford to pay two for one even to a cab-owner. In the name of the public, therefore, we invite our economic speculators to step forward once more. We promise them a faithful and zealous support as long as their practice squares with their professions, and we undertake to say that Sir Richard Mayne will gua rantee them in the undisturbed exercise of their vo cations over any street, road, lane, or passage, within the circuit of metropolitan jurisdiction. More than that, they will have every bystander to back them, and if any little affair should ensue an "eightpenny" cabman would stand no more chance than a Popish bishop. It is amusing enough to be sure that this phalanx of street heroes should actually have done what neither the Great Exhibition, nor the Chartist meetings, nor the " foreign conspirators," could ever succeed in effecting. Our cabmen have literally out run our constables. The police are considered to afford an effectual sec'►rity against thieves and vaga bonds, Socialists and democrats, men in armour and men in beards, but not against cabowners and their servants. At that point the civil force of England's metropolis is thought to fail, and even the spirit of commercial enterprise cannot urge men to a step be yond. This is very striking—perhaps very charac teristic—but we must once more express our hopes that the thing may be again brought to trial.—Times. THE AUSTRIAN LOAN. (From the Morning Chronicle.) • About three months ago the Austrian Government appeared ti atea l oofa itnnh the ap p licants f h a a e p bp olmoneyeightw m an: a ig r i ikri great, a t n s t: o s fat sterling. ng. E u rope t T o h n e e go ur gency- infinite inge nuity was called into requisition to procure them suc cess. The attempt, however, was a failure. In this country not a single farthing was subscribed; and at Amsterdam, Hamburgb, and some other of the leading Bourses of the Continent—where it was, an nounced by the Imperial Government that large por tions of the loan hadbeen taken—it now turns out that the subscribers were, in a majority of instances, neither more nor less than agents of the Austrian Treasury, dispatched from Vienna for the purpose of supporting its credit by the philosophical process of buying its own securities on its own account, and with its own money. However, on the 11th of Oc tober last, the Austrian Ministry deemed it high time to place before the world, in an official form, a state ment of the success which had attended their finan cial experiment ; and, accordingly, in the Vienna Gazette of that day, future historians will read a State paper of which it is difficult to say whether the folly or the falsehood is the most repulsive. The nominal amount of the loan was 85 millions of florins, and it is boasted in the announcement to which we refer, in proof of the unbounded confidence of European capitalists in the Imperial faith and re sources, that not only had the whole of the original subscription lists been filled up, but that the excess of the applications beyond the amount desired was not less than 2k millions of florins —or, in other words, u ll m io p n lb s ta w nw e ta r ms e offered whilst only 85 could be received. B tdh ffiils eanasiyfeseton,abuugthittohwasritbeeeanndexctirrceumlaeltye difficult to find people ready to believe it. In fact it is not often that official mendacity so soon and so pthr fatally ees Ae nut ct e ra c i sa o en i s Exchequer, e j us t iqt its e a r p u , o t s h es o ni r bt s lrei e a ts % a i t n h ai a d yns the e n inbe appearoo the k sfoorf 87k millions of florins of subscriptions to the new loan ; but how were those entries made up ? What do they represent ? Are they facts, or merely figures ? Is it true that money to the extent of 87k millions, or of one-half, or one tithe of that sum, nes been really placed at the disposal of the Austrian Government ? Let us see. In the first place, the Bank of Vienna was compelled to subscribe for ten millions of the loan—no choice being allowed to it in the matter. The governor of that institution (Pipitz)—a dependent, of course, of the Crown—re tused to liberate the directors from their board-room until that amount of subscription had been taken. What may be the exact commercial value of such an engagement, by such an establishment as the Bank of Vienna, we need not pause to consider minutely. In the next place, a nominal sum of 30 millions of florins was wade up by certain intricate maniplatioas of WEDNESDAY class of Austrian liabilities known as "Styrian Do• mestic Invasion Obligations." With the details of the operation by which such a result was extracted out of such materials, we shall not weary oar readers—the general fact is sufficient, that the subscriptions ob tained from the source in question are essentially fic titious. We have already accounted for 40 millions, or nearly one- half of the loan, in a manner which even those who know least of finance will perceive to be in no degree calculated to improve the reputation of a Ministry resorting to such expedients. Of the re maining 45 millions, at least 20 have been obtained, from persons and institutions within the Austrian dominions, by means the most cowardly and flagitious. Impoverished tradesmen, aged men, helpless women, defenceless children, have been tortured and pillaged, to eke out, by the most miserable pittances, the deficit left by the caution or timidity of the capitalists of Europe. The funds of schools, colleges, and benevo lent societies have been dishonestly Ind forcibly ap propriated to the same purpose; and there is probably not a single person of repute and substance within the reach of the Austrian police, who has not felt hims e lf compe ll e d, i n se l f-de f ence, t o sacrifice a portion of his property to this forced contribution. Of the remaining 25 millions, the greater part is described as having been raised in foreign capitals— that is to say, the agents of the Austrian Govern ment have sent in from Hamburgh, Paris, and other places, lists of fictitious subscriptions, which are about equivalent, in point of financial value, to the notes of the Bank of Eleganc e . S uc h i s t h e manner i n which the recent Austrian Loan has beea made up. But even if every farthing of that lean had been poured into the empty vaults of the Imperial Exchequer in sterling silver, it would have been utterly inadequate to cancel the deficit of a single year. For the six months ended the 30th April last, the excess of ex penditure over income was four millions sterling ; and, since that time, but little has been done to dimi nish either the magnitude or the cost of that army of half a million of soldiers, who may manage perhaps to maintain the Imperial Government as it is, until the intolerable burden of this War Department shall break the whole system to pieces. The advisers of the Emperor are doing their best to hasten this catastrophe. At the commencement of October the Vienna Exchange was in a state of almost perfect disorganization. The loan was known to be an utter failure—no imancould pretend to say what new scheme of confiscation might be in pre paration—neither person nor property was secure, and on all sides there were distress and discontent. Even at that time the Government professed to be totally unable to account for the panic which pre vailed among the merchants, and which led to an hourly depreciation of every kind of immovable pro perty. But is there a single person in Europe, out of the Austrian Cabinet, and pretending to the smallest share of information or common sense, who supposes that the price of Stocks, the course of the foreign ex changes, and the agio on silver, can, under any cir cumstances, be settled by police protocols and domi ciliary visits? The whole commercial experience of Europe for the last five hundred years is utterly at variance with so preposterous a doctrine; and it has been reserved for Austrian statesmen, in these days of newspapers and telegraphs, to attempt an interference with trade which is as wicked, dishonest, and ridi culous as the debasement of coinage, the falsification of weights and measures, the enactment of fixed prices, the pillage of private indivi duals, guilty only of being industrious and rich, or any other of the summary fiscal expedients which so often disgraced .the barbarous and beggarly princes of the middle ages. On the 11th instant an irruption of police took place upon the Vienna Bourse, and fifty or sixty of its members, guilty of buying or selling Austrian paper for its real marketable value in hard cash, were fined or driven into exile; and another outrage of the same kind has been since repeated. Of course there is no reasoning with men who can commit follies so indescribably gross and flagrant. Statesmen who have yet to learn that a commercial panic is a natural phenomenon, and only to be dealt with by removing its cause—that where every man is more or less contending for his life, it is impossible but that the price of the means of escape should be enhanced—that it is a law of nature that bread should rise during a famine, and the pre cious metals under a forced and fictitious paper cur rency—must be left to that signal correction which, at no distant date, will assuredly overtake the authors of a policy that is alike cruel, costly, and stupid. IRELAND. REPRESENTATION OF RINSALE. DUBLIN, TUESDAY.--There are no longer any doubts as to the intentions of Mr. Hawes. Mr. Isaac Heard has written to the Hon. Gentleman to inquire whether the acceptance of his new appointment va cated his seat, or if it did not, whether it was his in tention to retain his seat in Parliament. In reply, Mr. Hawes stated that his acceptance of the office did not vacate his seat, but that It was his intention at the proper time to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds. The constituency (says the Cork Constitution) may therefore prepare for the unopposed return of Mr. Heard. Such are the first steps towards the pro mised return of 80 Members pledged to oppose any Ministry hostile to the pretensions of Rome. Mr. Heard is a Whig, and nothing more. The gallant de fenders, meantime, are too busily engaged in intrigues for the paid secretaryship, and other little jobs, to afford any time for the fulfilment of the vows registered at the great aggregate meeting in the Rotunda. THE EXODUS. The thinning of the population proceeds, in spite of wind and weather, as briskly as it did in the month of May last. The quays of Dublin are just now crowded with emigrants, chiefly from the western counties, and the bulk of them of the most wretched class of the peasantry. There are, no doubt, excep tions, but whole hordes of the poor creatures who are taking shipping here have not sufficient covering for the journey to Liverpool, not to speak of an ocean voyage of some 3,000 miles. A. Dundalk paper con tains the following statement in reference to the " flight" of farmers from the northern counties "An M.P. of an Ulster county passing through this town last week stated that the Government were becom ing alarmed at the crowds of emigrants leaving Ireland. He informed the person with whom be was conversing that the Ministry will devise some measure early in the next session to check emigration. It is probable, he said, that they will pass an Act limiting the ports from which emigrants shall sail to one or two, arid compel the owner of each emigrant vessel to pay a tax of 41. or 51. for each passenger taken on board. We give this in formation as we have received it, without vouching for its accuracy." The Waterford papers state that the tide of emi gration from that port is as brisk as ever. On Fri day two steamers left for Liverpool, having on board between them 400 passengers, and those for the most part consisting of the " energetic and persevering portion of the peasantry." In addition to all this an Ulster correspondent of the Western Star writes thus : "In my last I gave an intimation of the extent to which emigration from Ulster was proceeding, although the local journals seem to have taken very little notice of the matter. I have since beard, from trustworthy sources, sufficient to convince me that if some of the landlords do not soon come to some arrangement with their tenants different from that which prevails at pre sent, another year will not elapse before there is as great an exodus from Ulster as from your own province." THE IRISH CHIEF SECRETARY AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. The immaculate electors of the borough of Drog heda, it seems, are about to hold a meeting in a few days, with a view of providing a substitute for Sir William Somerville, who has fallen into disgrace with a portion of his constituents, most probably from the inability of the Right Hon. Baronet to keep pace with the incessant demands of the seekers after the Govern ment loaves and fishes. EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1851. THE LATE SERIOUS COLLISION. WEEDON, TUESDAY EVENING.—This afternoon, at one o'clock, the coroner's inquest on the body of Mr. James Currie, aged fifty. two, one of the unfortunate passengers killed by the serious collision which took place on the London and North-Western Railway, at Weedon, on the afternoon of Saturday last, was opened beforo Mr. H. B. Hicks, coroner for Northamptonshire, at the Globe Hotel, Weedon. Mr. Hayes, of the firm of Parker, Hayes, Banes, and Co., solicitors. attended with Mr. M'Connell, the chief of the locomotive department. Mr. Conker, and other gentlemen, on behalf of the North-Western Company. Mr. Martin attended on behalf of the relatives of the deceased. The CORONER having briefly addressed the jury on the nature of their duties, viewed the body, which lay in the bed-room where he died, at the Globe Hotel, and on their return, Mr. George Currie, a coal and timber merchant, re siding in London, identifi, d the body. Charles Livock examined—l am station master in the employ of the London and North-Western Railway Company, at the Weedon station. The first train that arrived on Saturday afternoon, just before the collision, was the cattle train from Market Harborough. That was at forty minutes past three. It stopped at Wee don, in consequence of its engine being unable to take it on. When I found the engine had not sufficient power to do so, I signalled for an en gine to Rugby, which came up in due course. Previous to that engine arriving, a coal train came up from Rugby. The coal train pushed the Market Harborough train well into the station, sa as to allow room for the engine to come up and get across the points in front of the dis abled train, and as soon as it was attached, the Market Harborough train proceeded. I then brought the coal train to the top points on the south side of the station, and was in the act of shunting it, on to the down line when the passenger train was struck. It is the duty of the policeman, when a train is at the station, to show the signals. I did not myself see if the proper signals were up, as I was shunting the coal train. It is the duty of the policeman to show a red signal. The signal post from the station is distant about 300 yards. I don't know dis tinctly how far those signals can be seen on the Rugby side of the station. A man on an engine can see over the bank for a great distance the red board, but not the auxiliary signal. The latter is worked by the policeman by a wire. It is lower than the board signal. The distance from the signal-post to the auxiliary signal is 567 yards. It is worked from the signal -post. I have printed rules for my guidance from the company, as to my duties. There are times laid down for starting the trains from Rugby. We are to allow ten minutes for a heavy train, to elapse before al lowing another train to leave the station, and five mi nutes after a light train. If I were to start a passenger train after a goods train, I must allow ten minutes to elapse, and caution the guard ; but a great deal is left to the discretion of the station-master in starting trains. As a general rule, passenger trains are to take prece dence of goods trains, and goods trains must not be started from any station when passenger trains are due. The witness here read the rule on the point, at the request of the Coroner, of which the following sentence formed part :—" This regulation, however, will be sub ject to modification, agreeably to the circumstances of the trains, the state of the weather, the weight of the load, and the character of the engine. Thus, a light through goods or cattle train, in a clear day or night, with a good engine, may be started before a passenger train which is due, should the latter have to stop at all the stations." He then proceeded,— Rule 35 states that the luggage trains shall not exceed a speed of ten miles an hour within a quarter of a mile of any stopping place, and on arriving at that distance the engine-man shall give two distinct whistles, and put on the break. We always take the precaution to warn the engine-man of any train that may be before him. CORONER—Was the cattle train that arrived at 40 minutes past 3at its proper time? Witness—No; that was not the proper time for the Market Harborough cattle train, but there are no special times for this train at the Weedon station. The coal train arrived shortly after the Market Harborough train. It ought to have arrived about half-past twelve o'clock. The passenger train for Rugby was about its time—at 4.37. Its proper time was 4.25. When the first train broke down I sig nalled to Mr. Crawford, the locomotive foreman, at Rugby, for an engine to take the train on. The cattle train which ran into the passenger train was a special cattle train to Thrapstone. It would not stop unless the engine required water. I sent for Dr. Campbell and Dr. Swan. There might have been 15 or 16 passengers in jured with bruises or cuts. By the Solicitor for the deceased's friends—The rea son the engine of the first cattle train broke down was, I understood, that the fire had got choked with clinkers and there was no draught. The engine I telegraphed for to Rugby came up before the passenger train from Rugby, and my telegraph message arrived at Rugby before the passenger train started from Rugby. The distance between Rugby and Weedon is 13 miles. The average run between Rugby and Weedon is twenty-five minutes. The time a cattle train would be coming between Rugby and. Weedon would be about three-quarters of as hour. We have no siding at Weedon station. They knew by my tele graph message to Rugby, that the line was blocked at Weedon. The reply to my message was that assistance should be sent. If a break down took place at Weedon, the main line would be blocked. If we had a siding there, I should put all trains, when stopping, into such siding. I had notice by signal on the coal train which was ru❑ into, and the four P.M. passenger train also, that a special cattle train .was following. Whenever there is a special train following, the preceding train carries a aigna!-board by day, and a lamp by night. It is the custom to telegraph when a special train is coming. I had no telegraph of this special train on Saturday. I think, had the line been clear of the coal train, the acci dent might have been less. APPOINTMENT. Charles Parsons examined—l am a guard in the em ploy of the London and North-Western Railway Com pany. I was the guard of the four P.M. train from Rugby on Saturday last, due here at 4.25. We left Rugby at four, and when we were stopped by signal at the Weedon station, we were at our time. We stayed outside the station, and as the coal trai n k e pt d raw i ng out, wo gradually drew into the station. We had not stood still at the station half a minute when the cattle train drove in on to our train. I should say at the time of the collision the cattle train was going at the rate of ten miles an hour. I saw the cattle train at Rugby, and had the signal given me to show a special train waa following. Mr. George R. Colbeek examined—l was on the plat form of the Weedon station, on Saturday afternoon. The first cattle train came up while I was there, and I heard some of the drovers complaining of a " tin-kettle" engine, The first cattle train was out of sight before the accident happened. Mr. William Swan—l am a surgeon residing at Wee don, and was called about half -past four on Saturday afternoon to the Weedon station. I saw deceased, and found him lying on the floor of the station-house. There appeared to be a great deal of blood about the head. On a superficial examination I found a large cut above the right ear, about throe or four inches in length. He was in a comatose state. He was brought immediately here. I was assisted by Dr. Carnball. We continued our attendance, but he never rallied, and died yesterday afternoon about half-past six. I have this day made a post mortem examination. There was extravasation over the external part of the brain, a deep-seated fracture of the skull was found from the right orbit of the eye to the left sufficient to cause death. George Bower, sworn—l am fireman in the employ of the London and North-Western Company. I was fire man of the engine to the special cattle train on Satur day, which was conveying cattle from Rugby to Thrap stone. There were sixteen carriages and the break van in our train. They were all full. I don't know the time we left Rugby. We did not stop between Rugby and Weedon. I don't know the rate we travelled at. I have been on this line four years, and was on the Gloucester line previously. We usually drive at about twenty-five miles an hour. We did not slacken speed until we got to the skew bridge, which is about a mile on the Rugby side of the Weedon station. The engineman shut the regulator to slacken speed before we saw the signal. When we got in sight of the auxiliary signal the engine man whistled, for the breaksman to put on his break, and I put on the tender break, and the engineman shut the regulator, but as we did not slacken speed much, he reversed his engine. The metals were greasy; we should have stopped, but just before we got to the signal-post, the engine flew over to forward gear. The regulator was then open again, and the engineman could not shut it. That prevented the driver of the engine from stop ping the engine; there was no other means of stopping an engine than was done by the engineer, to my know ledge. By Mr. Hayes—The regulator was shut when we reached the Askew bridge. We shut the steam off as soon as we saw the auxiliary signal. The regulator was then in order. The engine is reversed by a long lever with a handle. The driver did not hold the lever all the way. There are some notches into which the reversed lever fits to prevent flying out of gear, and when he went to open the regulator the lever flew out of the notches with forward gear. The driver had his thumb on the lever. I believe if he had held hold of the lever tight by the hand it would still have flown out of gear. There are valves or cocks, which if opened would have the effect of stopping the engine. The driver did not touch them. I have known the lever of an engine fly out of my hand when held tight. I have been on this engine before. Her number is 67. I never knew her get out of order, or her reversing gear spring forward before. All the signals were up. Thomas Robinson—l am a breaksman in the employ of this company. I was breaksman of the cattle train from Rugby to Thrapstone on Saturday last. We had an engine, 16 carriages, and the break in one train—all the carriages contained cattle. We left Rugby at 4.10, and when we arrived at Weedon, and wo were brought to a stand, it was 4.39. I should think we travelled at about 25 miles an hour. We slackened speed and shut off steam at the skew bridge. We did not slacken speed on passing the Crick station. The passenger train started from Rugby nine or tea minutes before us. On approaching a station I always look out for the auxiliary signal, and if the green light is on then we always know that the danger signal is on at the station. We can depend upon i t. The green light was on at the auxiliary signal on Saturday, and I instantly applied my break, and the driver blew his whistle twice for me to do so. We slackened speed a great deal between the auxiliary and the main signal. I think the rails were greasy. I can see whether the steam is shut off from an engine or not from my break. On Saturday the steam was shut off at the skew bridge. Between the auxiliary and the signal post the train started afresh. After the eollision I left my train, and went up to protect the line. I had my break on from the time I saw the auxiliary signal to the time of the collision. Gordon said, I am a policeman in the em ploy of the Neith-Weateru Railway Cowie'', mid am stationed at the up signal at Weedon. My signals were on the moment the first stoppage took place on Saturday afternoon. I was 280 yards above the signalpost when the cattle train which caused the collision passed. It was going at the rate of five or six miles en hour. I think the craLks were on, but I cannot swear it. I think the passenger train might have been in 15 minutes be fore this. The CORONER here said he would now adjourn the inquiry till Friday, as he should require evidence as to the condition of the engines, and as to the starting of the cattle train from Rugby. Mr. M'Connell said he would take care that the Co roner and jury should be satisfied as to the condition of the engine of the cattle train immediately after the shock, and Mr. Bedford, the police superintendent, said the station -master at Rugby should also come forward. Mr. Hayes said, on behalf of the company, that they were most desirous for a thorough investigation, and that all evidence which the coroner and jury required should be forthcoming. The inquiry was then adjourned. We regret to state that the report last night at Wee don as to the other sufferers, leaves but little hope for the life of the poor labourer from Northampton, who was dreadfully injured about the legs and thighs. Co lonel Douglas Pennant's servant is, however, stated to be j progressing favourably. INQUEST ON MR. lINNELLE Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Wak ley, M.P., on the body of William Finnelly, Esq., at the chambers of the deceased gentleman, Old-square, Lincoln's Inn. Deceased was fifty. two years of age, and was for many years connected with the daily press. He was called to the bar in 1827, and was one of the editors of " Clarke and Finnelly's Cases in the House of Lords." The jury, composed of members of Lincoln's Inn, having viewed the body, Olive Humphries, laundress to deceased, stated that on going iuto his sitting-room on Sunday morning about eight o'clock she found him lying on the floor iu his night c l o th es , an d apparen tl y d ea d. Sheimme diately called in medical aid, but life was found to be extinct. Of late deceased had declined in health and appeared much depressed. He had suffered much from expectoratio n an d nervousness . O n a visit to Brighton in October last he had been taken ill, and had never perfectly recovered. He had dined at the Reform Club on the evening previous to his decease. Mr. Dunn, surgeon, stated that he attended de ceased for the fir s t ti me on hi s re t urn f rom Brighton in October last, when he appeared to have an attack of influenza, w ith muc h nervousness, accompanied with symptoms of indigestion and bronchial irritation. He had ceased to visit deceased for three weeks, when he was called in on Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, and found Mr. Finnelly dead. Deceased's counte nance was perfectly placid, as if he had died without a struggle. He had s i nce made a post-mortem exa mination of the body, and found be had died from rupture of one of the small intestines. There was not the slightest reason for attributing death to any other cause. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death." In the course of the inquiry Mr. Sergeant Miller, a friend of the deceased gentleman, stated that no will had been found in his chambers, and that there was not a single relative of the deceased in town. But it was understood that some of his relations resided in Ireland, to whom the melancholy occurrence would be made known. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following officers had interviews with Rear- Admiral Dundee, C. 8., at the Admiralty yesterday:— Captains Sweny, R. Douglas; Commanders Gayton and West; Lieutenants J. Dayman, R. Robertson, Bagley, H. W. Hire, Horatio Nelson, F. C u tl er; D r . B owr i ng; Masters W. B. Mainprise, R. C. Alten; Paymaster W. G. Parmenter, and Mr. T. T. Jennings. Mr. Allen, the master of the late Arctic Expedition, has been re-appointed to the Fisgard, flag-ship, at Wool wich, for surveying duties. A court-martial is ordered to take place this day a Portsmouth, to try Mr. Campbell, assistant gunner of the Helena, 16, Commander De Courcy, on charges of drunkenness. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY..—SiMOOM was taken into the basin under the sheers on Monday, and will come out again to-day. There are no more apprentices to be entered for the present in her Majesty's dockyards. That active and gallant officer, Captain George Davies, R.N. (1851), has been unanimously elected chief con stable of the rural police for Cambridgeshire. The Dutch frigate Prins Von Orange and corvette Mercure anchored at St. Helen's this morning, and saluted the naval and military authorities, which was duly acknowledged. The Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, has hauled off to her hulk to-day to receive her crew. The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. G. Allen acting master commanding, returned from Plymouth this morning, and this afternoon conveyed the Commander in-Chief Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., to Osborne, to pay his respects to the Queen. Mate Marcus E. xx,i ithett(lBsl), to the Waterloo, 120, at Sheerness, making ready for the Mediterranean station. - THE SUSPECTED SUICIDE IN GREENWICH-PARK.— On Monday morning, Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for West Kent, held an inquest on the body of a respectably-dressed man who was found dead in Greenwich-park on Friday last by police-constable 111 S, with a small pistol, bearing the name of " Smith, maker, London," on it, grasped firmly in his right hand, his fore-finger on the trigger, and a wound from a bullet on his right temple. The body has not been identified, neither was there any evidence ad duced to throw the least light on this mysterious affair; aid, by direction of the Coroner, the jury returned an open verdict. DEATH OF C. A. MACKENZIE, ESQ.—We copied yesterday, from a provincial paper, a notice of the death of Lord Mackenzie; to-day it falls to our lot to notice the death of another member of the extensive clan to which the late Scottish Judge belonged. Mr. Mackenzie, whose death we are now called upon to record, was frequently employed by Government on important missions. He was sent over in 1810 to Morlaix, to negotiate an exchange of prisoners with. Napoleon; and shortly after that negotiation was unsuccess fully terminated, and Napoleon had condescended to abuse the English representative in the Meniteur, the Government, to mark their approbation of his services, appointed him to receive and entertain Prince Lucien Bonaparte, who had been taken prisoner of war. After the peace Mr. Mackenzie presided for several years over the Commission for the Inves tigation of British Claims on the French Government, and shortly after the closing of that office, in 1828, he was sent to Portugal to adjust some political differences, at the diffi cult period of the troubles between the brothers Don Pedro and Don Miguel. His health had failed for some time before his death; and though he was frequently seen at the Tra vellers' Club, one of whose founders he was, yet he had almost entirely withdrawn from society for the last two or three years. He died at his house, in Hyde-park• place, in the 73d year of his age, and has, we understand, lett a con siderable portion of his property to found a museum at Dingwall, N. 8., in which his valuable pictures and works of art, and a considerable portion of his library, will be de posited.—lliorning Paper. _ - THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLEGED MURDERER BARE. —This man, in the House of Detention, continues to display the most callous indifference as to the serious offence with which he stands charged, and he eats aad drinks almost voraciously. On two handkerchiefs being taken away from him in his cell to prevent him using them for the purpose of committing suicide, he remarked that he knew what that was done for, but they had no occasion to trouble themselves, as he did not wish to cheat Jack Ketch out of a job, especially as he did not have much work to do now-a-days. CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Much disappointment having been expressed by the merchants and traders of the City at the removal, from the Egyptian Hall, at the Man sion House, of the splendid model prepared by Mr. Charles Pearson, in illustration of his great plan of improving the line of the Fleet valley, notices have been circulated stating that the plan is now deposited in the City Library, in Guild hall, the entrance to which place of exhibition is in the ves tibule leading to the Great Hall, on the right-hand side up stairs. It is to be regretted, that the entrance is so obscure that those who are introduced to the interior would suppose that the authorities, in imitation of the priests of old, were desirous to conceal from the public the view of the deposited treasures and sources of knowledge. REDUCTION IN CAB AND OMNIBUS FARES.—The reduction in fares which lately took place with regard to omnibuses has now extended to cabs. Yesterday the numer ous cabs belonging to Mr. W. Thompson, stationed on the stands at Southampton-row, Russell-square, King's-road, Gray's Inn, and other places, had affixed to each side large printed placards, intimating that they conveyed " two passen gers at 6d. a mile." As Mr. Thompson is one of the most ex tensive cab proprietors in the metropolis, and as the low fares will naturally command preference with the public, other pro prietors will, no doubt, speedily adopt the reduced tariff in their own defence, so that 6d., instead of Bd. a mile for two passengers may be considered as the future price of cab con veyance, unless, indeed, the proprietors, to crash the project recently talked of, of a new company to run at 4d. per mile, should themselves descend to that charge. NEW BRIDGE AT ROCHESTER.---bridg e across ancient across the Medway, uniting the t own o f S trood with the hciatiyghotf in ltoictliseasrteebr,eah)aas c l e o n n s g id b e e r e a n ble fo n u b n a d tru (f e r t o in m n t o the thew riaanta of r time commerce of that l oca lit y. T he roadway above, from the increased traffic consequent on the contiguity of the railway, has become also inefficient, and acco r d ing l y the wardens of the old f a b r i c some time since determined on erecting a new brid ge very near the latter, but high er up the stream. It will be chiefly formed of iron work, from an elegant design by Sir W. Cubitt, who has been appointed engineer, and will consist of three lofty arches. The centre, will open at the crown 50,feet span, Dock bridges, so as to allow vessels Fos,without Henderson,striki ng and t the e c a. masts. w b of, similar large burdenthe London to pass the foundations by sinking The contractors . are Diessorst; o be formed upon a series of arches prin ciple.t In order to relieve the acclivity,ciroonare now actively eroplged iners t u be po a n ' t so forward a state as to admit of a cons l% i h e i r c a h ble aPrper covered with Seyssel asphalte from the companys works. Westminster-bridge. These arches are a good specimen of portionoa alreadychebsbeing i a a i r g n e brickwork, and as in the rest of the works every care seems to be taken to execute them in a manner which the wardens of the bridge may naturally expect from the eminent per sons se whom are they informed hav h e engagedtot h t toe p complete nkeo f the undertaking. Newcastle has We ordered his tenants on the Clumber estate to kill the hares, as intendtshetowhporeleseorfvethethceinbmirbdosr estatesfor are own beinguse. Besides onlyd, andthis boon sundry repairs are progressing upon various farms.—Sheffield Tim es. The British Contributors to the Great Exhibi tion have it in contemplation to present the members of the Executive Committee with a substantial testimonial, to mark their sense of the able and considerate manner in which those gentlemen performed the very arduous and responsible duties which devolved upon them ; and a meeting is shortly to be convened for the purpose of giving effect totheir wishes Oli 0214 AUbjeet. THE STATUTES OF THE SYNOD OF THUBLES. If no unforeseen delay is permitted to interpose, the long looked for decrees of the Synod of Thurles, affirmed by the fiat of the Sovereign Pontiff, are to be promulgated this evening for the instruction of the Pope's Irish subjects. They would have been in the hands of the clergy before this but for some trifling literal errors which crept into the number actually printed, all of which were cancelled by the publisher at the eleventh hour,. and just as the public were gaping open-mouthed for a peep into the revelations of the Vatican. THE ACTION AGAINST THE CHIEF SECRETARY. The special jury (a highly respectable one) was selected yesterday to try the merits of the case of " Birch v. Sir William Somerville." As already stated, the trial is fixed to come off in the after sit tings of the present term, when, according to general belief, the public are likely to be highly edified with the contents of the " bill of particulars" upon which the plaintiff rests his case, and sundry other revela tions which may be expected to transpire in the course of this delicate investigation. SALE OF THE SINGSTON ESTATES. The first division of the vast estates of the Earl of Kingston will be again put up for sale this day in the Encumbered Commission Court. This branch com prises the estates in the county of Limerick alone, containing upwards of 20,000 acres of land, and pro ducing a net rental of nearly 8,000/. a-year. The property will be offered in 58 lots. The sale of the second division is fixed for the 2d of December. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENI NG,—The Limerick estates of the Earl of Kingstown were put up for sale this day in the Encumbered Estates Court. They were offered in 54 lots, all of which were disposed of. The gross sum realised by the sale of the entire was 104,0001., equal to 13i• years purchase on a rental of 7,7831. The estates of Mr. Denroche, in Cork and Limerick, were also sold today, and produced nearly 9,0001. Total amount of the day's sale, upwards of 22,0001. The cold was so intense in IN orfolk on Monday night week that a travelling tea-dealer perished from it, on his fZ9DI Ducking tv Creak.. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS; TIMES.—The most hopeless subject of negotia tion with the Governments of other countries has long appeared to be an international copyright Ism. Intellectual "produce" has been the only descripton of goods excluded from equitable conditions of ex change. With regard to hogsheads of sugar, bE gs of coffee, and bales of cotton, there could exist no ra tional doubt that, sooner or later, the commercial trans ctions of the world would be placed upon a rational footing. The advocates of exclusion and monopoly invariably fabricated an economic system in accord ance with their own views, and endeavoured to invest it with the most fascinating attributes of philosophy and justice. There was error in their calculatiOns, but it was error under the colour of reason, and wrong with the semblance of right. The property in literary works has been regarded from a different point of view. The various Governments of Europe and the United States of America have, from time immemorial, virtually declared that a work of litera ture or art, the property of a single individual in a single nation, was a fair mark for piracy and theft. Genius has been outlawed. The property it should have owned, whether in its most splendid or most trivial productions, has, by the comity of nations, been treated in the same way as the goods of a con victed felon. All this has been done in the broad light of day, under the sanction of the most dis tinguished statesmen of the most civilized nations of the world. Ignorance must not be pleaded in bar of the indignation which such a policy is calcu lated l long sin to and maintain insepeire in any mind not destitute of th e first i mpressions of right and justice. The time passedh a w aywhen that it was c onsidered su ei en fair to r i se in publict copyright law should not Form part of the municipal institutions of each particular country. The United States would protect the property of Mr. Prescott in the " History of Peru ;" France that of M. Thierry in his " Chronicles of the Merovingian Kings ;" Eng land that o f M r . M acaulay in his " History of the Times of Jame s IL an d his Successors." lach Go vernment acted resp ec ti vely against the piratical attacks mad e u p on th e property by its o wn su bj ects. But here the of i d t e s fe o n w ce n s s t u o b red t ! Mr. Macaulay's history would be n re pri ' ted in cheaper for m i n th e U n i ted States ; thatofblr. Pres cott—witha certain possibilities in his favour—in England ; and the chronicles of M. Thierry might be, reissued at th e pl easure o f the booksellers in either' country. Still worse, copies might be, and actually were, multiplied a t a c h eap rate i n Brussels by compo sitors versed in the French language, and then dissemi nated over the continent, to the prejudice of the au thor's legitimate rights. In each State the obliga tion of the Government to maintain the rights of its own subjects against its own subjects was fully re cognised; but at this point all stopped short. Nor, in fairness, can the reprehension be confined to the leading statesmen of the time, no matter what their country, or what their political connexions. The real blame lay with the great bulk of the popula tion, whether in Europe or in America. There has too long existed a profound immorality of thought with regard to the productions of literary genius. Men have said, "It is for our interest to have the readiest means of access to the works of literary men. Their labours cannot be the subject of property any more than the wild fowls of the air. They are firm natures, irreclaimable, and therefore the subjects of dominion to the first person who can reduce them into possession." Such has been the spirit in which the various nations of the world have acted time out of mind with regard to literary property. How short sighted the policy has been the example of Belgium will best evince. The effect of the habitual piracy practised by the Brussels publishers on the works of French authors has simply been the extinction of original literary genius throughout Belgium. We are glad to be enabled to state that a treaty for the suppression of this most disgraceful system has at length been signed between England and France. It is :stated that if the provisions of the treaty are not more complete—if they are not framed with a retro active as well as with a prospective effect, the fault doss not lie at the door of the French Government. The prin cipal provisions of this most important and interesting document may be so effectually condensed that we will venture on a brief recapitulation of their general tenour and effect. The first article absolutely pro hibits literary piracy in either country against the subjects of the other. The second article forbids the importation of piracies of the works of either country from other countries. By article three the same provisions are extended to musical compositions, designs, paintings, sculptured and other artistic works. In the fourth place, translations of original works published in either country, when made on account of or by the author, also translations of works published in other countries, are protected. The concluding article of principal importance puts dramatic produc tions on the same footing as other literary works. It is obviously impossible for us, in the brief space ne cessarily allotted to these remarks, to deal with the details of the measure, such as the forms of deposit at Stationers'-hall in London or at the officer of the Minister of the Interior in Paris respectively—of the nice distinctions with regard to translated works, and so forth. The treaty will, no doubt, ere long become the subject of much comment in literary circles, and we shall have other opportuni ties of considering its merits or deficiencies. Mean while we would suggest, with every deference to the wisdom of the French and English legislators and negotiators, that now the time has arrived for either country to reconsider its own municipal regula tions with regard to copyright in literary works. This description of property will have been much en hanced in value, as far as French and English sub jects are concerned, by the operation of the present treaty. It should consequently be freed as much as possible from all difficulties of litigation, and the tran sitory property of the author be placed upon an equitable basis with regard to its period of endu rance. We question, also, whether the exclusion of all books already published from the effect of the treaty might not be made the subject of future ar rangement. Why, in fact, should the works of living authors which have already appeared be ex cluded from protection ? Who but pirates have a vested interest in piracy ? We cannot see that the ill-gotten gains of wrong-doers should be treated with any peculiar delicacy or respect. This treaty for the protection of authors, so recently signed between Franca and Great Britain, is not the only one afoot. France, more especially, has shown a praiaworthy ac tivity in the affair. Treaties of the same nature actually exist, we believe, between France on the one part, and Portugal, Hanover, and Sardinia. It is said that the French negotiators are upon the eve of achieving a diplomatic victory in a still more delicate quarter at Berlin, and gaining a more facile triumph at Mtdrid. We know not precisely how matters stand between France and Belgium, but even in this quarter rumour says that a suppression of the dis graceful traffic, of which Brussels is the chief seat, may shortly be looked for. So much activity should be a lesson to our own negotiators. What Belgium is to France, the United States of America are to us. The greatest boon that could be conferred upon our own literary men w ou ld b e an ex t ens i o n of protection to their works thr o u g h ou t th e United States. Nor would the advantage be without adequate reciprocity. There are more readers throughout the vast empire subjected to the dominion of the English flag than in the United States. When this question comes to be finally settled, American authors can only expect the same measure of regard to their interests as their own Government extends towards the literary productions of British subjects. For the moment they may have the advantage in our market, but let them be well n a s u s e u d r e i d n that face such o f a r s e ta ck te les o s f d t i h s i h n o g n s e s c t a y n n o o n t the be p c a o r n t t of their own publishers and printers. The example of Belgium should convince all thinking men throughout the United States of the danger of importing worked up literary " stuffs" from another country. So long as they do so they may succeed in picking the pockets of our authors, but they will never have a national literature that deserves the name. inqTuells w"FasitihTeß ldic IDEIN ---- LlVREPOOL.—Yesterday an the body:of William Blunt, who had been stabbed b The had yis brother Joshua, during an alterc ation which h taken place between them on the day p revious . 2 -e jury returned a verdict;of .. Manslaughter" against Joshua Blunt, who was committed for trial at the nest as sizes. ROYAL MARINES—WooLwics, Nov. 25.—The officers of the Woolwich division of this gallant corps enter tained their , late res p e cted and much esteemed Commandant, Major-General Parke, C. 8., at a farewell dinner yesterday evening in the mess-room of the division; and after dinner several appropriate speeches were made testifying the great e Hanover the Portsmouth heQueen. regret the officers felt at the loss of their late commandant , with whom they had alw a y s acted in harmony during the l on g period be had comm anded the Woolwich division. Col. g B d a i e f l i o a s n i n o d t n 0 , i i is about er wil l to retain retire the en good tfullhe servicepay o Commandant James Whylock , of p t . ' that en th sio pension rank. to w h T i h e : h e s ucceeded on the appointment of Colonel Comm an d ant iCharlesconsequence bienzie s, of li the.ll .d, death h b e of a i dteh-e B i ng e- cam p of t o officers of the Woolwich division have postponed their first soiree to the middle of January. THE FRIEND OF THE CLERGY.—Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the promoters of this society was held at the offices of the Royal General Annuity Society, Basinghall-street, for the purpose of electing six pensioners on the funds. The Rev. J. E. Cox occupied the chair, and in opening the bu s i ness, o b served that the ob j ects of the so ciety were to make some permanent provision for the widows and orphan unmarried daughters of clergymen of the Established Church, and to extend relief by loan or other wise to clergymen who were embarrassed by temporary dif ficulties. The question as to the usefulness of this institu tion had long been decided by the large number of candidates at each election, and he was happy to find that there was every prospect of increased and permanent saccess. receivedlle h much pleasure in announcing that the society had acodlolongaet,ioonxofforsdol: and fro alsmto masteran e n from the president and fellows of Magdalen o g e a l n d d on fellows a Co lle of n of It. e, Oxford; t g J u o in hs guineas d to the election of s ix p ensioners from a list of 56 candidates, and the result h av in g been declaim g d j h o e g n u p in co e c a e s e f d r the Dean of Christchu rch. The me et .. proceeded the business terminated. annu