The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) T ITEVJGATE AND LEADENILAX.L. tneee markets have ruled heavy to-day on the fel :Pog terms : —B ee f, f rom 2s 2 d t, 3s 4d ; Mut on, 2s '" to 3s 10d; Veal, 3,3 Od to 3s 10 !; Pork, tis 8 I co 4s Per 8 1b3, by the carcase. 3sCALY VITATILXI73. 31 Bet rrurrELD.—Meadow H a y, 2/ 8 s to 3/ 15:; Clover, Os to 41 Os ; and Straw, 11 Os to 11 6s p...r load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CU . 9DIBERLAND Meadow Hay, 2! 8s t) 3/ lis ; , I "er, 31 O s to 410 s; and Straw, 11 Is to 11 73 io load. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. Clover, —Meadow H a y, 27 5s to 3/ 15s; 310 s to 4/ Os; and Straw, 1/ Is t 1/ 7s per load. full average supply, and a sluggish demand. MEAT raitztirovra. SOIITTIALL, JAN. B.—For each kind of prime stock th zs ® d emandtruc was stearly at full pric-s, otls,rv,ise the trade led very inset' Be ef f 10d to 3 81. Mutton, lye.from 2 s ( Id to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 8d; Pork, 3s Od to u6 , 6 ( 1 per 81bs, to sink the offsls. Ito3iFohh, JAN. B.—Our market has ruled very flat " ( 1 ) %, and prices aro with difficulty supported.- B,f f' from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s Od to 4s 41; Veal, . 2 d to 3 8 8(1; Pork, 3s 24 to 3s 63 per 81bs. Suck '2l,,TlßCalvem, 18s 225• quart , r•old store Pigs, 16s to us ; atid Mitch Cows ;ill their small Calf, 161 to 181 each. 6dL--Es, JAN. 7 Bef from 3s 2d to 4s; Mutton, 3s „ " 6 d; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 6d per 81bs. A moderate supply, r and a slow trade. CORN AVERAGES. ?or ti ( i I e 7 TI MAI. AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN eek ended Jan. 2,1850, made up from the Returns of th pel7etors in the different Cities and Towns in ENgland and Wale . 4rnPeri alQuarter. PR/ex I 'WHEAT. I ' 1 BARLEY. OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS. 28 3 10d 23s Id 16s 6d 1 22s 8d 127 s 5d 1283 I 283 Id W HEAT. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. is o ci I BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. is Od is Od is Od is Od is 04 Skt , COURT.—(THIS DAY). TgE (Bef ore M r. U nder-Sher iff BURCHELL.) 114 aCtIIIS OF SALISBURY V. LYSLEY.—SAME V. Th e=c CHERRY. cases, whicit was d were founded -cittest m T , aas to the right of way, understoo were withdrawn. on 'LI 4 .., ne o werether cases were on bills of exchange, undeftnded, of no interest. WILLIAMS V. BLUNDEN. ri t hit case the defendant was one of six acceptors of 4 of sill exchange. wit me Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that the action p ea s only brought against one, although the plaintiff ap yr" to have got a good many birds to shoot at. erdict was given for the plaintiff. Thi s BLOTT V. PARK. plaint) an an action on a bill of exchange, and the to per 3 a ttorney.applied to the Learned Under. Sheriff tiff t t ifY under the new Act so as to entitle the plain costs, ° t "sts, as there was a clause in the amended Small Cou c i t Act authorizing him to do so where the action h e " 13 ,.ct be brought in the County Court, or where it thi s a Elt case to be brought in the Superior Court. In dei ert e r e the plaintiff resided 38 miles away from the 1 , 4 ant,. %cu r , e UN DER -SHERIFF said that was no reason that the f or 41 could not have been brought in the County Court, 4 ,,..tt person could now travel so quick that he could get Th i that distance before breakfast. rea thl bEll-SnEuirr said that he did not see any ion to inttlfere The %%iv- A TTORNEY said that a Judge at Chambers would ke n ( "4 a matter of course, but as the Act of Parlia gave the p res idi ng j u d ge w h o h ear d t h e cause power to do so it would save expense. to ce "rtify c Le arned UNDER•SHERIFF said he should decline eltim ,INAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. I t (Before J ust i ces PATTESON an d T ALFoIIRD .) dr e , 4 `._ PP.—Samuel Randall, a young man respectably tsar'', a denti st by protess i on , surren d ere d t o ta k e hi s ki i ; on a nindictment charging him with a rape upon i t 'ftheth Reed, his domestic servant. r* Ballantine conducted the case for the prosecution; se aer 7r. Clarkson and Mr. Robinson defended the pri- Xli a gall Sao I l beth Reed, the prosecutrix, a very p re tty g i r l, ' aama single w oma n, li v in g a t 44. N ort h- s t reet , th e sssesEer-square. I was a servant to the pfisoner on trs h October last. lam eighteen years of age. The inner lives at 14, Brunswick-square, and is married. ti t : el ites corns and bunions. There was a nephew and Sa ce l inng in the house with him besides his wife. I mot the only servant in the house. On the ta r . ai ng of Friday, the 28th October, my mis lil° and her niece went out, leaving me and her la nephew, t we l ve y ears o f age , i n t h e h ouse. I was t rey kit c h en , an d I heard the pr i s o ner call for my mis 688* I said my mistress h a d gone out . H e then ca l le d st - sa al mistress's niece, Elizabeth and I said she was out He then called me up stairs and I went to my kilster and mistress's bed-room, leaving the boy in the L e hen- The bed was not made at that time, but I was Otilaing to makelt. I saw my master come into the t a "L a ni, and locked and bolted the door. He then came s Zards me smiling and put one arm across my legs, 4'7, the other at my back. He did . not say anything a ,tote he did that. He then Miele tee up, trying to get ',upon the bed. I saw what he was going to do, and I:4outed out. He then tripped me up with his foot, and 1 4; 411 on, the carpet, my head going under the bed. The ia,:ner then got upon me arid I resisted as much as I [f h ` tt • I tritd to get away from him, but he resisted. sy s ' a wi'ness then reldted certain circumstances which per to show that the prisoner had forcibly violated her cam p 3• The prisoner then unlocked the door, and ill towards toward s me to kiss me; I turned my back to him, s t d T oe did not kiss me. He was going out of the room to laid I would leave. After he went away I sent up tete n 'Y own room. Shortly afterwards I re / i f i ' t d to lay master's room and made the bed. sewn returned to the dining-room, where I saw my to 0"• p I was cryine, and my master attempted again lt t i;t l rae, bu t I wou ld not l et hi m . A k noc k was h ear d litts e d oor, and on going to answer tee door I found it f e l t t nY mistress and her niece, who had returned. rsesaa unw ell the whol e d a y afterwards. I slept with the pp li ", that n i ght, b ut I d i d not te ll her what, had hap- N e e n . I lef t my place on the M onday a f ter t h e occur the' On the S un d a y, w hi c h was the first time atter or oceur reuee happened that I had had leave to go out, tia d n eeeded to 44, North-street, Manchester-square, and thu d d t4 3 7 landlady, Mrs. 13,,nnis , m, what the prisoner 4t ue to Inca My landlady and another person called Ih l master's on the Monday, in consequ , ace of w bat ree t ; bs " B aid to my l an dl a d y, an d as k e d t h e p r i so ner what dog e - T e nse he would make me for the injury be had in th e ' a 9 ; me- Ile was alone with the women and myself tate ,rning-roons, and on their making that request he roei t ' l To bell for his wile, and when she came into the hav e o tl e said ( a dd ress i ng hi s wife), " These women brou ° M e to ext o rt money from me; this girl has wi th got th ese women to me to say I have taken libertses sa his l ? sf ." o r attempted to seduce her." He then asked a tilina - a%"" My dear, do you relieve I would do such a ar i l " she said, " No, my dear;" and he held up "id Li, - an d said, " May my hand wither off if ever I tea B fs" thin g He asked me if he had done anything , loose " Yes . " and he said he would have me exa e s ' a Y a medical man. "tit h • Mr CLARKSON—I am an Irish girl, nne, VI I first came to • Landuu I said 1 was a Scotch I esu 4 4 came to L ou d on about two years and a half ago. VB 4llO , °t s aY how many plsces I have be ei in since I w hoL ,, d , on I have a brother, but I don't know nie tellaser ha is now ' W ales or Southampton. He got 4 0: 1 1 , 1 ",, P the plaePs havo lived in in London. Before tsp . n s .lroln Ireland I was living with my aunt in Bel t a (jai' was then about fourteen or fiteen years of age. l'ielta„ n ot make any charge against any body in na I know a man in that town, a watchmaker, his -4 .14 " e. and who, at one time, kept me much like hit: W i ll , Child, when 1 wa s a little girl. There was only and and his wile in the house ned another servant; Lee,. because only th ere to d o li tt l e t h i n gs . I l e f t M r . she a 7ecause I did not like the place. Mr. Lee had a wi t h 41 High-street, Belfast. I never charged Mr. Lee tee, "Musitting a rape upon me, nor made any other had er, against him. I never told any body that I wi t h d oe so. I never av id th a t I had accused Mr. Le e tdiei a (l ' t g any act to me, and that he had given me 20/. '"'ngia aa ' . t come immediately from Mr. Lee's service to a bout ‘ 4 a I went to my aunt's, with whom I staid for me Year and three-quarters. My brother gut oho,- 4ee situ at i on at M r. G u ld s b oroug h' s , a coffee- Loi4l„lser, in Marylebone-lane, and I came to tools I never said that it was a bad house. They to at hen and women in there as lodgers, who used I w ''' . °P over night, and some of them longer. Oill q -a f il there about six months. I was the a i e raale servant there; but there was a man servant, told - la ' s ° it charwoman, who came occasionally. I never vtt a s"- Dennison, my landlady at North -street, that a li a elnaker had committed a rape upon me, nor that he di ec ig L ren the 20/. Mrs. Goldsborough, my mistress, a , a torteiaht weeks bene 1 left the 1/e .,, h „ or t h ree n I le,e -I) 141 Marylebone-lane. Mr. Go.deborough trt r attem pted to ravish me while my mis tta4a lay dead i n the house . I never accused aaa Goldsb orough of having committed a rape e rn Isle, nor did I ever say to him that I had made one tiesTY late masters pay very smartly for kissing me cn a t.nor anything ot that kind. (The witness was here a °,', " i r onted with Mr. Goldsborough and Mrs. Bennison). 14 d not l eave M r . G o ld a b orough ' s in consequence of ti t ' honesty b e i ng sus p ec t e d . I did not tell Mrs. k e a nison that Mr. Goldsborough had attemted to ravish l td w hon nay mistress lay dead in th e h ouse , nor t h at h e al , offered to give me all his wife's clothes to ravish me e r n sh e l ay dead i n the h ouse . I lived once with a th e S tone, in Homer-street. I said Mr. i tone had a ti en ind ecent liberties w i th me; I to ld Mrs. Bennison th b ed kissed me; m y m istress at Home r - street was el "n li ving; but I never told Mrs. Bennison that he had based me about the house and attempted to ravish rue. ()tt lY before I l e f t M r . St one ' s service I bo ug h t a a i 4 ttslt for 301, a ring for 75., and some new clothes. 1 b r " not teilliaina that I had got those things from my a nsther, who had a Government appointment. I charged Williams, with w h om I li ve d, with an assault upon s t ; On the 16th S eptem b er I did not go t o M a ry le n, police-office to get a warrant against him for a t ea P t ". I cha rge d him with kissing me and putting his I s i 4 no in my mouth and his hand up my clothes; and I h im for that. I told Mrs. Bennison that when I lived at k 'n's Hotel that a foreigner named Graven had kissed of e'; but I never told her that " he had had satisfaction Mimie." My time was up to leave the prisoner on the asC a rd aY morning, but I stopped because the niece ~t s . " Die. I was cut on errands on the Friday and ruarday after the prisoner committed the offence upon S i and saw so me po li cemen, but did not speak to them. ath l -re BALLANTINE here intimat e d th a t f rom t h e ma tt ers th2.eh had com e out i n the cross-examination, and from I?eing little or no confirmatory evidence of the pro t_ Sta.tealeilt , he did not feel ixutified in continu cue lOC She Mention. I--, T II E Mr. Justice TALFOURD said he concurred in what had fallen from the Learntd Counsel for the prosecution, and h) thought it would be very unsafe to convict the prisoner of the crime of raps on evidence such as ad been given in this case, or even of the minor charge of assault. Had she been a person unused to make such charges her story to-day might have been helive.l; but that not being so, he thought it would be extremely dangerous t ) place implicit belief in her story. The jury took the same view of the case and imme diately acquitted the prisoner. IVEW LOURT. (Before the COMMON SERGFANT AI(IPTIT an HUNTER.) CUTTING AND A' OUNDING.—A young man named William Macarthy wail indicted for itil,adou,ly cutting and wounting James Clark, with intent to do Lim some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner was a Scotchman, and a few weeks ago went cut carousing with some of his countrymen. They stopped at a public-house in the suburbs, and over a game of" putting the stone," indulged very freely in eating and drinking. They then returned to town, and dropped into a public-house, kept by the prosecutor, where the prisoner, who was quite drunk, became so gross and abusive in his language, that Mr. Gark or dered him out. The prisoner, however, refused to go. and in the course of a scuffle that ensued the prisoner used his knife, stabbing the prosecutor in a dangerous part of the thigh, and doing him other serious injury. Ile was seen by the barmaid to brandish tt , e knife, and threatened to do for her too if she interfered; but after he had stabbed the landlord, a police man was fetched, and he was given into custody. The wound was some two and a half inches deep, and though Mr. Clark's life was not jeopardized by the cut, it had laid him up for a long time, while one of the witnesses who received a cut from the same knife in attempting to restrain the prisoner's violence had been compelled to lie by. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he had no knowledge of having used the knife, he was so intensely drunk at the time; but even supposing he had, he was provoked to it by the conduct of the landlord or some one in the house. He went there with some money in bis pocket, a new pair of boots on his feet, and a new hat on his head. He fell asleep on one of the prosecu tor's beer butts, which stood in the front of the bar, and when he was rudely woke up by the landlord, ending his money, his boots, his hat, together with his coat and waistcoat, were all gone, ho was naturally exaspe rated at his loss, and though be might have resisted the landlord, he had no recollection whatever of having stabbed him. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, end The COURT sentenced him to seven years' transpor tation. THIRD CO U R (Before the RECORDER and Alderman LAWRENCE ) ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—A girl named Thompson, and a mitioleged woman named ilfacaithy, were in dicted, the first for stealing, and the second for receiving knowing it to have been stolen, a quantity of wearing ,pparel, the properly of Mrs. Beck, housekeeper to Dr. SL erloek. The juvenile prisoner had been in the service of the prosscuter as u maid of all work, but was discharged for z owe misconduct. Some things were missed atter she !ett, and suspicion falling upon her, she was traced to Baldwin's-gardens, Holborn, where she lodged with the elder prisoner. A portion of the lost property was found in the room occupied by the latter, while some of it had been pledged in her name; and the younger pri soner admitted, when taken into custody, that she stole the things at her instigation. This, however, was de nied; but when the elder prisoner was arrested she said the pledged articles were given to her by Thompson, and that admission, c'mpled with the confession of the girl, was the evidence now adduced as to her case. Mr. PAYNE tippettied for Mscarthy, and addressed the jury in her behalf, contending that nothing like crimi nality had been established against her. She had borne an excellent character up to this time. Tee prisoner Thompson made no answer to the charge. The jury acquitted Maearthy, but convicted Thomp son. Sentence was deferred. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Henry Would pleaded not guilty to an indictment ehagtt,g him with obtaining, on the 21st of last month, certain monies by means of false pretences from the London Dock Company. Mr. Ellis stated that on the day in question he paid the prisoner 7s. for three men, himself, Fogg, and Francis. He put down 74. for three more, and the pri soner, who had been paid his wag , -s, took that up be longipg to Cooper and never paid him, and that consti tuted the false pretences. Joseph Cooper said he was present when the prisoner took his money. He had never given him any autho rity to take it. The prisoner had never paid him the 2s 44. for his wages. William Fogg, John Nottage, G. Spinx, and Samuel Egerton, also proved the above. The prisoner said nothing in his defence. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, aad The COURT sentenced him to three months' hard labour in the House of Correcion. WESTIVIIN STER.-(THIS DAY.) ATTEMPTED Mu RDE R.— Charles .11PCatfey, Theresa AP Gaffey h.s wife, aid Ann 14 ebb, w ere charged before Mr. Burrell with having so severely ii jured and wounded J ,, hn Alley, a mulatto, as to place his life in considerable jeopardy. F appeared, from the evidence of a policeman, that on Friday morning last he was attracted to No. 2, Wood's-place, Chelsea, by hearing cries of " Murder," and upon entering the house he found the mulatto (Alley), who cohabits with Webb, and is a lodger of Mr. Cuff. y, bleeding profusely from a number of gashes in the heed. Immediately efier this he became insensible, and while in that state the female, Mrs. Carey, attacked him with her fists, and caught up a large sea-shell to throw at him, but was prevented by witness. Mr. W. Ctimminge, an inspector of the B division, stated that the mulatto was brought to the station, on his way to the hospital, in a truck. The whole of the upper part of his body and Gee vs an covered with blood, aid he appeared as if (lead, and witeeas had him immediately conveyed to the hospital. When the prisoners were brought in they all exhibited bruises and other marks of violence, and had blood about their persons. The two female prisoners were drunk. Webb said that side had lived with Alley for a couple of years as his wife; that he tome down in a violent rage, arid, bier ate mpting to sal) her, gave her an in jury iu the head, and that she merely stood in her own defence. She added that Alley would have murdered her, hut for the ieterfererce of the male prisoner MeCieffey. Theresa M•Caffey declared that upon the interference of her husband to tea:rain Alley's violence, the latter knocked him down with a saucepan, and she took up the shell and struck him on the head with it to make him loose his hold of her husband. The male pri suuer, M‘Ceffey, declared that he had been jumped upon by Alley, and violently ill-treated. Webb bad a black eye and a wound on the side of the head, the female, M.C a ffey, had a c nursed face; and the man, as before stated, exhibited symptoms of having been engaged in some severe struggle. The injured man wore earrings, and one of those was discovered on the floor with some fleeh adhering to it. The pri.soners, owing to the injured man being sa not out of danger. were remanrkd to this day week. THE PLYMOUTH MURDER.--The prisoners, Bar tholomew Harrington and Timothy Donovon, were brought into the Hall on Monday and placed before the bench, there being a very large attendance of the inhabitants to hear the decision of the maOstrates. The Mayor said the bench, after giving the important case their best consideration, had una.. ruinously resolved to discharge Donovon, if he would under take to remain in Plymouth for six months, to answer any charge that might be brought against him ; and he was dis chark.ed on that condition. The prisoner Harrington was committed for trial at the Devon assizes on the charge of beii g concerned in the murder of William Ambrose. FIGHT BETWEEN A FALCON-HAWK AND PART RIDGEs.—A few days since, as a tenant of Mr. Binghanes of Boddington, was engaged in one of his grounds, he dis turbed a brace of partridges, one of which, atter a short flight, alighted under the hedgerow in the same field, and the other topping the fence for the moment disappeared, when a falcon-hawk, almost as instantaneously, was seen to poise and drop over the same spot where the first bird had fallen. A fight immediately ensued, which had scarcely commenced when the other bird came to the rescue, and with his mate boldly took side against their powerful enemy, which latter, after a few rounds of hard fighting, actually reheated a couple of yards, when, again returning, he re newed the contest, but seeing he was watched, a second time made a more distant retreat. Then one of the part• ridges also took wing, the remaining bird being picked up quite dead, with a deep and severe wound on its breast of an inch in length. The hawk for the moment was again seen to hover over the battle field, but, missing its prey, finally decamped. There can be no doubt that, had the hawk not been interrupted, he would have killed both birds, notwithstanding the determined boldness with which they met atd encountered their wily antagonist.—Cheltealiant Examiner. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE ASSISTANT I OVERSEER or WAKEFIELD.— Much sensation has been created in Wakefield during the last few days by the appre hension of Mr. John Prince Hesselton, assistant overseer of Wakefield, on a charge of embezzling various sums of money belonging to the parish, by a systematic falsification of his books. Mr. Hesselton was elected to the office about four years ago, at a salary of 701. per annum, and the Guaran tee Society in London is named as having been bound in the sum of 5001. as his security. Ile has been well known in Wakefield for many years, was a leading member of the Mechanics' Institute, and one of its most active committee men. He was examined at the Wakefield Court-house on Monday, before J. Houldsworth, Esq., and ether magistrates, and on the application of Mr. Macdonald, the chief of police, he was remanded for a week. The amount at present found deficient is said to be very considerable—much beyond the sum for which the Guarantee Society is bound ; but respect ing the truth of this rumour nothing authentic has yet been made public, though it is alleged that the overseers and ex aminers have discovered a large deficiency. AL ssrs. Austin and Manwaring, the poor.law auditors, were in attendance in court. but the case was not gone into at all, the prisoner being remanded tint! Monday next. Such is represented to be the depressed ELatt: of Ilessehon's mind that it has been deemed I,rudent to observe a strict and constant watch over hint in the prison.—Xanehester Guardian. CHARING CROSS LLSPITAL. —Yesterday a •general meeting of the governors of the above institution was held in the board-room for general business, Downes, Esq., in the chair. The annual statement of the operations of the hos pital for the year just ended, showed that 19,105 indigent sick persons were admitted on the books for relief, at a cost of 2,4:i01. 35. 11d., of those 1,210 were in-patieed, and 1 7 .895 were out-patients. Of accident cases there had been 2,766, of which 643 were so dangerous as to require to be immediately admitted as in-patients. The above numbers, with the cases reported in former annual statements, make a grand total of 186,863 sick and needy individuals who have partaken of the advantages of the institution from its com mencement in 1818. ST. ANDREW'S, WELLS-STREET.—Last Sunday two birds, dressed up as a pope and a cardinal, were set loose by some unknown person during the celebration of Divine WQIIIIIIP. SUN MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED) BLACKW 0 OD Ebony for January contains, ns usual, a variety of attractive- and entertaining contributions. As a sort of leading article we have a chapter entitled rather quaintly "The Currency Extension Act of Nature," in which we fancy we can trace both the manner and the arguments of Mr. Alison, the historian. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton furnishes Aiwa with another instalment of his " Novel ; or, Varielies in English Lite." The incident which reduces Doctor RiceAocca to the stocks is deliciously conceived, and told with the truest appreciation of pleasanterie. In a paper headed " Biography," Miss Strickland ob tains an encouraging panegyric on the initial volume of her very remarkable " Lives of the Queens of Scotland"—a work which promises to vie in merit, as well es in popularity, with her celebrated " Lives of the Queens of England." All that is here said in com mendation of her research appears to us to be equally merited in regard to both those great products of erudition. " Tbe Lay of the Niebelungen" is ana lysed in a clear and judicious criticism. Where the humour or point of the political satire called " Addi tional Chapters from the History of John Bull" lie, we cannot fur the life of us conjecture. The whole contri bution seems to us as witless as it is unquestionably coarse and exaggerated. It may be very funny, per haps, to designate Mr. Cobden by the soubriquet of " Dick Devilsdu4 " (a name borrowed, by the way, from the " Sybil" of Mr. Disraeli), but the fun of the thing is to ourselves utterly invisible. So like wise throughout the whole of this heavy and laboured pitce of facetiousness. Surprised as we are to find a prose contribution so totally devoid of merit as the one here particularised in the usually brilliant pages of Blackwood, we are yet more amnzad to see in its leaves (adorned (Sold by Delta, arid B. Simmons, and Miss Barrett, and Thomas Hood), such insipid twad dle in the shape of versification as the lines on "The Voice of Nature." A schoolboy in the fifth form ought to undergo flagellation if he could perpetrate nothing better or more original. For tunately the readers of the January number of Blackwood are in some measure compensated for this effusion by some fine stanzas, bight " The Message of Seth," by our old favourite, Delta. Basides the contributions already particularised, the current number of Maga contains one on " Hungarian Military Sketches," and another on "British Labour and Foreign Reciprocity." EXHIBITION OF 1851. ORDER FOR FITTINGS. TO BE FILLED UP BY THE EXHIBITOR. TO DIESSRS. FOX, HENDERSON, AND CO., BUILDING, HYDE-PARK. Please to prepare the space aliotted me in the building (counter and shelves) according to the accompanying plan; cover the same with (calico, velvet, cloth. &c.), and (prepare g►ass cases); and I will discharge the cost of doing so when completed. Exhibitors' signature Address Note—The Executive Committt e, upon receiving a request and a copy of the plan and instructions sent to Messrs Fox, Henderson, and Co., are prepared to send a certificate that the fittings have been completed, to those exhibitors who may not be able to superintend the work themselves. Her Majesty's Commissioners having decided that ex hibitors will be expected to arrange and fit up the spaces respectively allotted to them in the building, and provide glass moms for articles that may require proti °don from dust, &c.. Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co, the con tractors for the building, have to announce that they are primed to receive and unpack articles for exhibi tion, take charge e.f the packing-cases, fix work, and keep in order machinery and models—to supply glass ca,eB, stands, &c., of particular kinds, to furnish and fit open cases or shelves, and decorate stalls according to the wishes of the exhibitors, on conditions and at prices to be agreed upon, and of which estimates will be given on application—and to afford every facility generally in those arrangements which devolve upon the exhibitors themselves, and respecting which they are permitted by the Commissioners to exercise their own taste and judgment. Foreign commissioners, local committees, and exhi bitors are r.questrd to communicate their wishes a 8 early as possible to Nlessrs. Fvx, Henderson, and Co. Exhibition Building, Hyde-park, London, Jan. - 1, 1851. A HEAVY SENTENCE. At the general Quarter Sessions held at Reading last week, Robert Dace, 22, a well dressed young man, who had been a teacher of music at Abingdon, was indicted for baying stolen a gold pencil-case. Mr. Carrington conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Wildarns defended the prisoner. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the 3d of August the prisoner ♦isited the house of a Mr. James Morris D ivis, for the purpose of tuning a pianoforte. He was left alone tor some time in the room where the pencil-case was. He left as usual, and on the following morning it was missed from the workbox where it had been deposited. About the middle of the month the prisoner offered it for sale to a Mts. Bickinsall, and she bought it of him for 103. Some days after he had sold it he applied to have it returned, as he feared that " the person from whom he had had it had come by it di,honestly." The police then got a knowledge of the affair, and the pri soner was apprehended. Mr. IVill►ams, after addressing the jury on behalf of the accused, called a lad named r 1 heeler, who had been employed at the railway Hotel, Did cot, and he stated that on the 10th of August the prisoner came into the smoking room. A strange man, who wore a frock coat and green and black plaid trousers, was present, and inquired if any one in the room wanted to purchase a pencil-case. He pressed the prisoner to buy it, who eventually bought it fur Bs. Mr. Carrington having alluded to the inconsis tencies in Wheeler's statement, The Chairman (Lord Barrington) summed up the evidence, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty. Ev►dence was then gone into of two previous con victions for felony, upon which the prisoner had been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment The Chairman, in passing sentence, observed that the defence the prisoner had adopted was a most abo minable one, for he feared that the lad had been in duced to state anything but what was true. The Court did not thiuk that the prisoner, occupying such a position as he had, would be likely (having been previously convicted of felonies) to reform and become an honest man. They therefore deemed it necessary to inflict a severe sentence, and that was that the pri soner be transported fur the term of his natural life. The prisoner seemed astonished at the sentence, and a general feeling of surprise appeared to be felt by the crowd which had assembled in the court. MEXICAN AND WEST INDIA MILS.—AS much anxiety may be felt respecting the non-arrival of mails from :Mexico, we have made inquiry' and find that the Great Western arrived at Vera Cruz, and landed there the outward mails as usual, after which she proceeded to Tampico, where she arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d Decem ber, and there being but one hour of daylight left, the mails were landed, and some passengers and specie embarked. In the middle of the following night, however, a viclent "Norther," or Gulf gale set in, when for safety the ship weighed and stood out to sea, the wind increasing gradually. Through all the next day it continued to blow with un diminished strength, and when the packet stood in towards 'Tampico, the bar was impassable. At night, on the 4th December, the ship stood out to sea again. On the morn ings of the sth and tth steamed in again towards the bar, but the storm continuing, and the surf on the bar render ing it still unapproachable, the Great Western at length bore up to return to Vera Cruz; but on the 7th and Bth of December, there being no appearance of any abatement in the " Norther," the barometer remaining as before, and it being eight hours beyond the proper time for leaving Vera Cruz, the captain proceeded to Jamaica, and thence to St. Thomas's, The Trent experienced such heavy storms on her outward voyage in November, that she was forced back into Torbay, and aid not finally reach St. Thomas's till so long after the appointed or estimated time, that the usual fortnightly.dispersion of the inter-c lonial steamers had taken place, with the exception of that for Porto Rico, Jacmel, Jamaica, Havannah, and Honduras ; and, consequently, the 11 , est India colonies, with those exceptions, would receive their 1I th of November and 2cl of December outward mails by the same delivery. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—Tbe usual monthly meeting of this society was held on Monday evening, G. It. Waterhouse, Esq., president, in the chair. Mr. T. A. Preston was balloted for, and elected a subscriber to the society. Mr. Douglas exhibited, on the part of Mr. T. H. Allis, a specimen of the rare 7 , europterous insect Drepanyp teryx Pliakrnoides, taken by him at Bowness. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some splendid specimens of the rare Dynastes Jupita from Columbia; also a foreign Bombyr, with the larva•case of a Tinea attached to its head. Dr. %Vallich read a translation from the elaborate Danish work of Schiodte on the insects and other animals inhabiting the caves of Cainiola : among the insects were some found in the darkest parts of the caves totally destitute of eyes. Papers by Messrs. Walker, Dallas, Douglas, and Stainton were also read. RUMOURED ARRIVAL IN LIVERPOOL OF CARDINAL WisEmaN.— A rumour prevailed yesterday that his Eini• neoce Cardinal Wiseman had arrived, per the London trait vt the pi evious evening, in Liverpool, on a mission to Dublit and Armagh. Credence was gained to the report by the fat that a gentleman resident in Liverpool had ridden from the Crewe junction with the supposed Cardinal, and had seen the " illustrious" stranger received at the railway station by the Rev. Dr. Brown, " Bishop of Liverpool." It turned out, however, that the gentleman mistaken for his " Eminence" was the Rev. Dr. Moore, Prircipal of 0..c0t College, near Bit minghatn.— Liverpool Courier of yesterday. THE BRITISH MUSkUM.—Yesterday the Museum was re-opeued to the public; it will continue open every londay, We.!itesday, and Friday, from ten till four o'clock, until the 31st of April, and from the 7th of May until the 31st of August from ten till seven o'clock, a:td for the re mainder of the year from ten till four. The works not at being complete in the western galleries, the Assyrian anti quities still remain in their t« inporary place of deposit in the basement. Tie celebrated Great Bull of Nineveh is also for the present placed in the vestibule. The idea of erecting a wall in flout of the Museum, facing Great Russell-street, has been abandoned. The building is now to be enclosed by an ornamental iron palitaee, having a central and two other lodges, fronting each wing. ERRATA. —ln our leading article of yesterday on strikes among coalminers, the word "principle" was mis printed for "principal ;" and the strike of 1844 was described as causing "a loss to the collieries, in wages, of BW. O OO/." What was meant was, that it had cost the oilier:, and not 1 the collierice, t h at muu 1 WPM LON DON. THURSDA Y ENV rd LNG, J ANVARY 9, 1851. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. SAN FitANmco, Nov. 1..--rhe news of the ad mitsion of Calaurni4-into the Union has, naturally enough, diffused universal joy throughout thil country. Cowidering the important con equences which must flow from this measure, it deserves the hearty recep tion with which it is greeted. For an account of the rejoicings which the event called forth here I must refer you to the papers sent by this mail. Business, notwithstanding a slight interruption, caused by the " frolicking" and holyda)making of the last two weeks, is quite brisk. Prices are not so high as they have been, but there is a good steady demand, which is a more healthy symptom than the feverishness which sometimes affects our market. We are here, to use a hackneyed phrase, " progressing with giant strides." The few following statistics will tend to justify this remark, and probably be of interest to some of your readers, viz.:—The number of foreign vessels which have entered this port during the quarter ending the 30th of September, last was 152 ; their torimige, 39,927 tons. Of these foreign bottoms 89 were British (chiefly from our colonies of New South Wales, Australia, and New Zealand), 11 French, 3 Coilian, 7 Hamburghese, 5 Russian, 5 Hswaian, 4 Mexican, 4 Danish, 2 Norwe- gian, 2 New Grenadian, 3 Argentine Republic, 2 Austrian, 1 Bremen, 1 Sardinian, 1 Swedibh, 1 Hano verian, 1_ Portuguese, 1 Lubec, 1 Ecuadorian, 1 Peru- vino, 1 Belgian, and 1 Dutch. The largest propor tion of tonnage, as of ;vessels, is British ; it amounts to 25,221 tons. If to the above 152 foreign vessels we add 89 American vessels, and their tonnage, 24,984 tons, which have entered from foreign coun tries, it will give a total of 241 vessels of 64,911 tons (aggregate) burden, wtich have arrived here from foreign countries in the three months. To give a proper estimate of the trade of this place, however, I must add 247 American vessels which have entered during the same quarter from the various ports of the Union, and their tonnage, 84,453 tons, to the above figures, and we have a total of ships entered of 488, of 149,3E4 tons register. Now as to the vessels which have cleared :-147 foreign vessels, of 37,404 tons (the majority B, lash), and 194 American vessels, of 63,649 tons, have cleared for foreign countries ; and 75 American vessels, of 14,973 tons, have cleared in the same period for the various ports of the United States (" coasting trade," to use the Custom-house phrase), making the total number of vessels which have left this port in the quarter 416, of 116,026 tons register. Then, as to the increase of population :—During the same period 11,080 emigrants (a small number compared with former periods) arrived from all parts, of whom 317 were women—the majority of both sexes being Americans. The number of male foreigners in the whole emigration of this period was 2,982. Of the whole emigration 31 persons only are reported as being under 21 sears or age. This is as it should be in the present state of the country. We want ph) sical strength and maturity of judgment to develope our resources. Let us now see what haslieen doing with the gold dust, of which so much is spoken. We will, however, take the imports first. The value of all the specie and bullion entered was 560,000 dulls. only, as mani fested—all brought by the Panama steamers, and chiefly from the ports of the Mexican coast. I should think, however, that at least six times as much arrived unmanifested. The value in dollars of all the specie, bullion, and gold dust exported in the quarter , as declared, is 8,167,880 dolts. (which I may call all golddust). The amounts of the remittances vary in different months more than one would think,—tor instance, 2,120,000 dolls. went away in July, while 5,129,880 dolls. went in August, and only 918,000 dolls. in September. The destination of this treasure was as follows:—To Chili, 295,756 dolls.; to Hobart Town, 22,000 dolls.; to China, 17,000 dolls.; and to Panama, for the United States and Europe, 7,833,124 dolls. Tu the total amount of exported gold dust, us manifested, we can safely add 1,000,000 dolls. taken by passengers for all parts privately, to save paying freight, and by the captains of foreign vessels, who do not often manifest their gold. To form a tolerable idea of the enormous traffic of San Francisco, and of the trade of the country gene rally, your readers will be assisted by knowing that there are on the route between this and Panama 13 steamers, one of which leaves San Francisco twice a month regularly, and oftener occasionally ; their aggregate tonnage is 13,198 tons, and there are five more steamers of large size soon to be added to the number. Besides all this there is a large fleet of steamers and cratt of all sorts and sizes plying on the inland waters of the state, and their number is con tinually increasing. Emigration is for the present evidently checked, for I find that the number of arrivals for the last month (October) has only been 1,227, while the Number of departures has been 5,804. The export of gold dust was 4,439,461 dollars, in cluding. 514,000 dollars taken by the Northerner steamer, which left for Panama yesterday. The amount to he taken by the steamer Panama to-day is not yet declared. The steamers which arrived here during the list month are the Carolina on the 7th, the Columbus on the 12th, the Oregon on the 19th, the Northerner on the 22d, and the Antelope on the 25th. The following British vessels arrived :—The Corsair, on the 15th, from Halifax; the Mercy, from Bahia ; and the Rebecca, from Hobart Town, on the 20th. The clearances of British vessels are—the Agincourt, for China; the Avon, for Valparaiso; the Will-o'-the-Wisp, for San Blas, all on the 16th; the Jane Tudor, for Valparaiso, on the 17th; the Bar- I bare, fur Realejo ; the Camilla, for Auckland, on the 18th ; the Cay uga, for Launceston ; the Lorcbe and St. Andrew, for the Sandwich Islands, on the 19th ; the Artemisia, for Sydney, on the 22d; the Brazilian, for Realejo ; the Amelie, for Mazatlan; the Light ning, for the Pacific ports, on the 24th ; the Portenia, for the Sandwich Islands, on the 27th; and the Ga zelle, for Mazatlan, on the 30th. Her Majesty's ship Dreialus returned from Van couver's Island on the 23d ult., is now here, and leaves for Valparaiso about the 11th. With regard to the mines, the accounts are as flat tering as ever. New discoveries are continually being made. A gentleman who has lived for nearly tw. years in the southern mining districts told me, three days ago, that the gold, although not so abundant, and far more inaccessible than formerly, still exists in immense quantities, both in quartz and in the earth ; but that, until labour cheapens, it cannot be worked on a large scale with profit. This gentleman was en gaged in a gold mine in Chili for seven years, and 1 know him well by character; his report is worthy of the other (the credit. Then, as to the prospects in northern) mining district, from all accounts it is equally good. A piece of stone, richly intersected with pure gold veins, has lately been discovered at Navada City, on Deer Creek, a tributary ot the Juba river, which is likely to lead to great results. This stone has been dug round to the depth of a yard, but it has not yet been ascertained whether it is the head of a vein or only a solitary lump ot stone. Its rich ness is very great, and the finder has refused 40,000 dolls. for his claim upon it. I bad this story on good authority. Exchange—On New Yolk, Boston, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, bills at sight at par. England, sight, 48d. to 49d. per dollar; 60 days, 501. to 52.1. France, sight, sf. Hamburgh, sight. 43 to 44 banco. Valparaiso, 30 days, 6 per cent. premium ; Mexico, 30 days, par to 1 per cent. premium. Gold dust has been abundant during last month. In fact, there was an unusual quantity in the market. l'he price, however, kept firm for good clean dust at 16 dollars per ounce ; for the last three days it has been worth 161 dollars. The interest on money is 5 to 7 per cent. per month. Real estate is very dull. In the backward parts of the town the value has actually fallen, and the fluctuation in the price at present going on has made people very wary in buying land ; hence a general dulness prevails. We had a dreadful accident the other day. A steamer plying between this place and Stockton burst her boiler just at starting from the pier. She was crowded with passengers, of whom about 70 were killed and maimed. We have had another fire, too ; this time, however, only a small one for us. Two houses were burnt—one a house of ill-fame, the other an hospital. The fire is attributed to incendiarism. A good many deaths having lately occurred, has given rise to the belief that the cholera prevails here. 'rhe doctors differ on the subject, and when I recollect that at this time last year there was an equal number of deaths among people who returned from the mines, I am inclined to think that the disease supposed to be the cholera is not so, but a disease of the country. ' In Sacramento city. however, cholera has certainll prevailed for some time hick, and a good many thaths have taken place.—Times. in con- ART UNION or LONDON. — The council, P tinuation of their eflOrts to carry out the principle constantly advocated in their reports, of bringing high art to the aid of ur manufactures, have commissioned the production of a tazza, in tine cast iron. The form selected is one of the mo,t gracthil in the Etru,can room of the Must um, and it is intended to °man - writ the interior of the bowl with figures in low relief, which have been very successfully mo delled by Mr. E. Wyon, after a design from a vase in Sir W tn. Hamilton's collection, representing Hercules and the Hesperides. A certain number of the tazzas will be given as prizes in the distribution of the current year.—Builder. ST. GEORGE'S STEAM•PACKET COMPANY.—Messrs. Blood and Soulby, the official managers of this company, have resigned their appointments ; but his Honour, Master Ferrer, has intimated his intention, should there be no opposition, of re-appointing Mr. Soulby to be official manager. MILDNESS OF THE WEATLIFR.—On the last night of the past year the temperature of the air at the Durham Observatory, about :'SO teet above the sea, was never lower than 54 deg.—considerably above the mean temperature of the whole year. The mean temperature, however, of the month of December has not been higher than ita average deducted from the observation of many years.—Durham Advertiser. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. B.—A letter from Mr. Moore, the Roman Catholic Member for Mayo, to Mr. John O'Connell, has apveared, frean which one might con clude that it would have been better for the latter Hun. Gentleman if he had not invited the former to his proposed meeting of Roman Catholic Members. Mr. Moore :takes the opportunity of settling an ac count with Mr. O'Connell, for a charge which the latter had brought against him of assailing his father's memory. Mr. Moore's writes as follows : " Take my advice, my d, ar sir, and leave your father's memory alone—it can lake care of itself. It is far too great to be affected by a sneer of mine, were I eapable of uttering such. O'Connell has left behind him the me ni,::ry of an illustrious Irishman a memory which I verity believe that Irishmen of every party are inclined to treat with respect. Have better faith in your father's glory, and less confidence in the virtue of such assistance as your own petulant advocacy can supply. As for the expressions which you have thought proper to apply to me, such as Orange,' ' paltry," unworthy," contempt ible,' &c., it would be inappropriate to call them un worthy,' or even • contemptible'—they are simply stupid; and I should be as great a blunderer as yourself if I noticed them further. The tone of supercilious depreciation in which you constantly speak of all your contemporaries does, however, somewhat amuse me ; and reminds me of an illustration which I have somewhere, met with—of a dwarf who had for some time kept company with a giant, and who, from seeing his companion looking down upon those who surrounded him, acquired the ridiculous habit of endea vouring to cast down his eyes upon men, whose middle be could scarce reach when standing upon tiptoe.' With regard to the preliminary meetit.g in Dublin, to which you are so good as to invite me, I think it right to re mind you that the penal measures which are about to inaugurate the Parliamentary aession of 1851, are likely to apply peculiarly, perhaps exclusively, to the English Catholics; and that any mea.ures that 'may be resolved upon, without their concurrence, would be necessarily imperfect, and possibly injurious to the cause which I believe you to have sincerely at heart. " I am, my dear Sir, yours very truly, " John O'Connell, Es.q., &c." " Sales pursuant to the instructions of the Incum bered Estates Commissioners took place in Cork yes terday and on the preeediug day. On Monday the estate sold was that of John Sullivan, of Dunderrow, in the county of Cork, containing 100 acres of land, with a mansion house and (Aces, valued by the poor law valuation at 1471., and subject to a house rent of 801. It was sold to the Rev. J. B. Webb for 8701, subject to the sanction of the Commissioners. The estate sold yesterday was that of Robert Tre sills°, of Bally volane, near Bandon, containing 100 acres of land, with tenants' houses, and yielding a rental of 681. per annum. Mr. Thomas Fuller was declared the purchaser at 7801., subject, as in the preceding case, to the sanction of the Commissioners. A portion or the Earl of Mountcashell's estates were to have been sold yesterday at Belfast. The sales at the court in Henrietta .street commence on Friday next, when seven properties will be put up for com petition. The Rural Deans of Killaloe have applied to the clergy of their district to address the Queen on the " Papal aggression." The Dean of Kilmacduagh has refused his signature. Mr. Corry Connellan, the late private secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant, has joined the Attorney-Ge neral and a fashionable circle at Johnstown Castle, the seat of Mr. Grogan Morgan, M.P. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. Yesterday evening a ball took place at the London Tavern in aid of the funds of this valuable institution. Under the, combined influences of dancing and charity the attendance was unusually large, upwards of 700 ladies and gentlemen being present, and fioting it on the light fantastic toe with an amount of perseverance truly edifying to behold. Weippert's band kept the whole assemblage in a state of uninterrupted activity, which ~reminded one of that long sought for deside ratum •in the mechanical world, perpetual motion. This ball may be regarded as the climax of an un usually prosperous season in the annals of the asylum. During the course of 1850 the li cense d vi c tu a ll e rs, partaking, it is to be p resume d, ef the general pros perity, have, with the assistance of their friends, the great brewers, distillers, and wine -merchants, col lected no less than 7,7331., th e l arges t sum t h ey have ever been able to muster in one year since the founda tion of the charity. This unprecedented success has been chiefly owing to the building of a chapel, which has been erected with a degree of dispatch not unworthy of the Crystal Palace itself, and which has received an amount of support highly creditable to the licensed vic tuallers as a body. They have now the largest trade asylum in England, and probably in the world—an each, asyl andcontainingl47 They separate allow each recipient 6s , a dwellings of three rooms 2 inmates. l3 week when he is entirely destitute, and if he has other means they add enough to raise it to that scale. he is a married man, they allow his wife to live with him, and make the weekly allowance 7s. The expenditure on this account is 1,8001. a year, besides 401. for nurses, and other incidental sources of outlay. To meet this the annual amount of the " endowment tun''," as it is called, has only hitherto been 1,3001., aud the attention of the indefati gable secretary, Mr. Jones, is now directed to raise this fund, so as to diminish the debt at present liquidated from other sources, and also to increase the comforts of those who from misfortune or ocher causes become in mates of the asylum. " The ladies' wing," the founda tion-stone of which was laid by his Royal Highness Prince Albert in June, 1849, is now more than hull completed, and the whole institution, notwithstanding its still acknowledged wants, is managed with a degree of economy which other charities of the kind might imitate with advantage, and which secures its permanent pros perity. At least, it vigorous dancing can accelerate the footsteps of benevolence, the Licensed Victuallers' Asy lum can be congratulated on the success which it last night achieved. THE CASE OF MRS. SLOANE. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. On Tuesday evening last information was received at the station where the warrant is deposited, that Mrs. Sloane was to be found residing in the neighbourhood of Chelsea. Accordingly two detective officers of the City police force were dispatched in company with a ' clerk from the Temple, who brought the information, and they proceeded direct to Ranelagh-street, Chelsea. On arriving there the clerk pointed out the house in Which be believed Mrs. Sloane was concealed, and the officers stepped forward and knocked boldly at the front door. It is as opened, end they were immediately after ushered into the drawing-room, where they found a lady, apparently about 45 years of age, and exactly answering in every particular the description of Mrs. Sloane as it is et forth in the placards offering the reward for her apprehension. The clerk from the Temple felt per fectly satisfied that she was the party they came in search of, and on the officers unfolding their business they were greeted by a volley of abuse, at the termina tion of which the lady complained bitterly of the conti nual armee anco she experienced in consequence of being mistaken for first one disreputable character and then another. Some time back she was recognised as Mrs. Manning, and now she was identified as that horrible wretch, Mrs. Sloane. The officers wero astonished at meeting with such a reception, and the clerk looked on extremely dubious; but at length they were resolved to put an end to the perpkxity they were in by sending to the Royal Free Hospital for the girl Jane Wilbred,in order that she might identify the party. One of the officers accordingly lett for that purpose, teed although past the usual h..ar far the patients, o retire to rest in that establishment, Jane Wilbred was taken in a cab to Chelsea, but directly she was placed before the lady she said, "Oh! that is not Mrs. Sleane." Upon this the lady became more %iolent in her behaviour towards the officers, tell mg them in language not the most polite that if they had done their duty in a proper manner they would have had Mrs. Sloane before ibis, instead of letting her go so easily when they might have taken her in the first in stance. After various apologies on the part of the officers for intruding upon tne lady's privacy, she be came somewhat pacified, and ultimately terminated this singular interview by giving the officers a very pressing invitation to take tea with her on the following even ing. From further inquiries the officers made it ap• peered that this lady was very a ccentric in her habits and confined herself strictli to her own apartments. This seclusion, coupled wi.h the tact of her great resemblance to Mrs. Sloane, and her only recently having taken the aeertmeuts she occupied, has led to the above ludicrous mistake. LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday a special general court of proprietors in the above mutual assurance company was held at the offices, King William-street. Mr. Franks ptesiding. A report was read from the directors, from which it appeared that under the deed of settlement a certain day f Ist July) is fixed for commencing policies and dividing profits, and that seven such anniversaries must have passed betore the assured becomes entitled to any share of the profits in the shape of reduction of annual. premium. The effect of this is that while some become entitled to share after seven annual payments, eight payments become necessary in the case of others. To obviate this injustice the directors propose to reckon from the actual day of entry, without any reference to the Ist of July, and to allow the assured to enter into share of profits after seven annual payments. To carry out these objects certain re solutions were submitted to the Court, wide!), after sore short discussion on minor points, were unanimously agreed to, and, thanks being voted to the chair, the proceedings termi nated. COMPOSITION OF THE FRENCII NATIONAL As- SHAIBLY.—The National Assembly of France contains, ac cording to a statement in the Alimiteur, 43 actual or quondam Ministers of Government, 1;2 ambassadors or persons who have represented France at foreign Courts, 22 members of the hstitute, 6 vice-admirals and rear-admirals, 34 generals, 32 ex-peers of France, 110 f.)rtner members of the Chamber of Deputies. Ut the 9io members of the Constituent As sembly only 330 w ere re-elected, and form part of the Legis lative Assembly. The united ages of the members of the Let islative Assembly amount to 35,613 years, giving an average of 47 years to each member. The eldest member was born in 1769 and the youngest in 1823. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—At a meet ing of the board of directors, held 3 esterday, Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., was elected chairman of the company. An eminent counsel has been consulted on the question of the interest on the preference shares, and the learned gentleman's opinion, r b e a s t t, th v e i z l . l , o l l( l l . e 4 rs s. a 9 r d e . en p t e i r tle: l l l a t r o e: ig hj e en . believembnths that arrea r tl o f e t xtte new preference c4pitat, 3uo,oJut.—which is not to take pre cedence of the exinting pte;erence shares—will take interest at the rate of 5i per cent. per anuum. NORWICH.—On Saturday night a fire took placo on the farm of Mr. James Debenham, at Feltwell, near Bran don, by which two large barns. containing a quantity o f Whig dery consumed. JAMAICA. Our advices from Jamaica are to the 15th. The cholera, we notice, has again broken out in St. Ca tharine's, and there have teen a few fatal cases since its re-appearance is that place. Li Kingston it ha, nearly disappeared, although fears are entertained that this awful scourge will again make its re-ap pearance in that place, in consequence of the great neglect of the authorities in enforcing the sanitary regulations. We observe from the files before us that this fear ful epidemic has made its appearance in every part of the island, and in some districts the greatest misery prevails; thousands are dying from the want of common assistance, and there is neither medicines nor a medical man to be bad on any consideration. The accounts are indeed deplorable, and we believe the misery to be unparalleled in the annals of the sufferings of Jamaica. The Legislature, which bad been adjourned by his Excellency Sir Charles Grey, had resumed its duties on the 10th, and had continued all the Bills which would have expired on the 31st December until the Ist May. Mr. Smith's Bill for the establish ment of an Orphan Asylum was read the third time, and passed. A vacancy having been occasioned in the House by the death of Francis M'Cook, Esq., representative of St. Dorothy, an election took place in that parish, and David Brandon, Esq., of Kingston, was elected by a majority of eight. Mr. Brandon's election, we notice, has been protested aeainst by the unsuccessful candidate, Peter Harrison, Esq., on the ground that it was obiained by bribery and corruption. It was therefore ordered by the House that the said petition be taken into consideration on the 15th January next, on which day the petitioner, his agent, and counsel, and David Brandon, his agent, and counsel, do at tend at the bar of the House. A few days prior to the departure of the steamer the greatest alarm prevailed in Kingston, in conse quence of a report which was circulated that a Grenadian vessel, with the small-pox on board, had been allowed to come up to the harbour, without being boarded by the health officer. On investigation, the rumour was discovered to be quite unfounded, as the health officer had not only boarded the vessel in the stream, but positively declared that she was quite free from any disease. Her Majesty's steamer Alban arrived in Kingston on the 7th December, from Carthagena , but was placed in quarantine, in consequence of her having the measles on board. We regret to notice the death of Mr. Robert Cur rie, agent at Kingston for the Royal Mail Steam packet Company. Mr. Currie died at St. Thomas, whither he had proceeded for the benefit of his health. The Daily Advertiser says that the news was communicated to her Majesty's steamer Alban, at Carthagena, by the Royal Mail Company's ship Tay. The weather was described as being very warm in Kingston for the close of the year. In some parts of the south side it was said to be rather favour able, and in Westmoreland there were strong breezes with a few good showers of rain. A correspondent of the Daily Advertiser says that the plants bane been well established, and, all things considered, have yielded well for the time. Major Grieme, the Governor of Tobago, died on the 14th of December of paralysis, after an illness of a day and a half. A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced at St. Thomas on the night of the 19th of December. Stations of her Majesty's Ships—Her Majesty's steamer Inflexible, at Greytown ; ditto Alban, at Jamaica; ship Persian, at ditto; ditto Scorpion at St. Thomas; ditto Helena, at Antigua. Danish ship. of-war Mercurius, at St. Thomas. Ships spoken with on Return Voyage—The Apollo troop-ship sailed for England from Jamaica on the 6th December, with detachments of Royal Artillery. The Persian was to sail for Nassau and Belize from Jamaica, on the 18th Dec., with detachments of Royal Artillery. The Tay passed and exchanged colours with the brig Mazvpa, of Liverpool, on the 6th inst., in lat. 49, 1 N.; long. 9, 24 W. Stations of the Company's Steam Ships—The Great Western, Captain Wolfe, at St. Thomas, from the Gulf of Mexico; the Thames, Captain Abbott, was passed on 20th December, within three hours' sail of St. Thomas, whither she was bound; the Trent, Captain Clark, Spanish Main route ' • the Con way, Captain Woolley, Honduras and Havannah route ; the Eagle, Captain Wilson, Barbadoes. JAMAICA MARKETS. (From Cordova's Mercantile lntelligencer.) GENERAL REMARKS.—Our market wears a slightly improved appearaLce, consequent on the almost total cessation of cholera in the city, and dealers seem to come forward rather more freely than has been the case for the last six or eight weeks. Business is, however, con fined for the most part to Kingston, there being little trade with the outports, in consequence of the prevalence of cholera in the rural districts. All the accounts from the interior represent the disease as spreading with a degree of violence equally fatal to human lite and the prospects of the coining crops ; very little probability exists of the estates' pi ople being induced to work, panic-stricken as they are by the prevalence of the epidemic. THURSDAY, Twor 3L—Nothing has been seen, up to this moment, of the Royal Mail Steamer. with the mails from England, due h-re since the Bth instant. EXCHANGES.—On London—Jamaica Bank, 90 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 60 days, q per cent. prem.; 30 days, 2 per cent. prem. Colonial Bank-90 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 60 days, 1 per cent. prem. On New York— Merchants' bills, 60 days, 2i to 3 per cent. prem. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 8. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot. ing this morning, accompanied by his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, Lord John Russell, and the Right Hon. C. Shaw Lefevre, and attended by Lord Waterpark, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lord and Lady John Russell, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, and the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. The Queen's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. Lord Waterpark has relieved Lord Camoys in his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore has relieved Lieut.-General Sir Edward Bowater, in his duty as Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The bind of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner in the Castle yesterday evening, and performed the following selection : Overture, " Joseph" Mehul. Valse, "Ls Cot beille Fleur" Barret. Selection, " La Figlia del Regi mento" Quadrille, "Ernani" Jullien. Glee, "Blow gentle gales" Sir H. Bishop. Dlarch, " Carl Baron Prandau . Her Majesty's private band was afterwards in at. tendance, and played the following pieces : Overture, " Stradella" . Flotow. Melange, "Robert le Diable" Meyerbeer. Her Royal Highness toe Duchess of Kent, at tended by Baroness de Speth, arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past eleven o'clock yes terday morning, from her residence, Frogmore. Her Royal Highness paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon left town on her return to Frogmore. THE LOBSTERS. A FABLE. (From Punch.) As a young Lobster roamed about, Itself and mother bt,th being out. Their eyes at the same moment fell On a boiled Lobster's scarlet shell. "Look," said theyoungster, "is it true That we might wear so bright a hue? No coral, if I trust mine eye, Can with its startling brilliance vie; While you and I must be content A dingy aspect to pr. , sent." " Proud heedless fool," the parent cried; "Know'st thou the penalty of pride? The tawdry finery you wish Has ruined that unhappy fish. The hue so much by you &Bind By his destruction was acquired. So be contented with your lot, Nor seek to change by going to pot." ..... on Friday iast FATAL POACHING AFFRAY. rley, William Chew, ' y tbe amt keeper of about noon, three men named GeorgebDa and J. M. Rennison, b engaged in poaching on were observed b 3 Sir Thomas D. Legard, Bart., to Scarborough. The game keeper, estate at Canton Wold.he assistance of Eix other men, with the poachers upon land keeper, having procured i and came up . who held . a gu in his went in pursuit, in the lord,hip of Foxhole. Chew,_ hand, presented it at the keeper, desiring him to stand off or other, however, rot daunted, seized hold he would fire. The _ ~,,, . ! :ndeavot.r.... to wrest it from the poacher, of the weapon and an attempt in which he was seconded by his assistants. Dailey t hen came forward with a large and extremely sharp knife, an d while he caught hold o f th e muzz l e o f t h e gun with his loft hand, attempted to cut the men's hands so as to force them to relinquish their grasp. lie was, however, pinioned from behind by another of the keeper's assistants, and just ift, this moment the gun went off, lodging its con tents in the lower pat of Darley's body. The unhappy man instantly fell back mortally wounded, exclaiming, "D -thee, thou halt done for me now :" lie expired in a few minutes afterwards, before any medical or other assistance could be procured. On Monday last an inquest was held on the body of the deceased, before Mr. E. D. Conyers, coroner of the district, when the facts above cietailed were de, osed to by the nifferent witnesses. Neither the keeper nor the other men engaged in the affray could account for the gun going off, but expressed their belief that the trigger was not intentionally pulled by any one. The jiry hereupon returned a verdict of " Homicide by misadventure." Deceased was a labouring man) Pun, ad unmarried. ____ SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. (From the Morning Advertiser.) "He digs and makes no sign." What has become of the " eminent engineer" of the Times —the genius who discovered that " the 160 ecres of sloping ground be tween Highbury and Hornsey" is, as the Americans would say, the most suitable place in creation, for a new metropolitan cattle-market? Ho is silent. He has not a syllable to say in vindication of himself. His voice has not been heard—no traces of his pen have been discernible since the appekrance cf our article on. Monday week, in which we demonstrated the absurdity of his scheme. Nor has the Times, who formerly stood by him as his sworn friend, come to his rescue. Both seem to have abandoned their positions. Both appear to have re treated from the field, as if conscious that they either bad already sustained a defeat, or were doomed to en counter a signal discomfiture. But though both the Times and its "eminent engineer" have, at least for the present, given up their pet-plan of a cattle-market on the open space between Highbury and Hornsey , the question of e new site for a metro pulitan cattle-market is one which must excite very great and general attention, and occupy much of the time of Parliament in the ceming session. It is, therefore, of the deepest importance to the me tropolitan comteueits , that the matter should be looked fairly in the lace. It must be considered in all its bearings, calmly and dispassionately. We must get at the real merits of the case, and once we have mastered these, the public mind will not be influenced either by the pompous declamation of the Times, regarding the evils of Smithfield-market, or the lofty pretensions of its " eminent engineer," when describing in raptures, which none but that class of persons can feel, the way in which he could destroy the beauties of nature and art with which the neighbourhood of Highbury and Bornsey abound, by cone( ring that d lighdul locality into a huge cattle-market, at once hideous to the sight, offen sive to the soul), and most injurious to the health. Only put the " 160 acres of sloping ground" into the bands of the " eminent engineer" of the Times, and our readers will have some idea of what the locality wouldibecome, through his destructive agency in a year or two, from the frightful trandormatiou which other places in the suburbs of London have been made to un dergo by other engineers—very possibly, indeed, by the same " eminent engineer," as our contemporary has in his eye. Let any one but contrast the spot leading from Battle-bridge to Highgate, as it is to be seen at present, with what it was a few years ego, before it fell into the hands of one of the engineering fraternity, and he will be at no loss to form an idea of what might be expected from the handiwork of the "eminent en gineer" of the Times taetween Highbury and Hornsey. Let the reader start from London-street station, and proceed to Camden-town—it will only cost him four pence—and let him behold the scene of desolation which presents itself to his view before he crosses Maiden lane. What a picture to look at! What scenes of de struction! Mounds of earth, mountains of clay—ruin in every shape, every thing that is hideous to the eye— these are the doings of "eminent engineers." An earth quake could scarcely have caused greater confusion, or committed more terrible ravages, on what was before a scene of order and of beauty. As we assume that the Legislature will not, for a mo ment, entertain the idea of proscribing Smithfield, before another site for a cattle market has been found, the prin cipal point to which our attention ought, in the present position of the question, to be directed, is, to show that as yet no other site has been proposed for a new metro politan cattle-market, combining the requirements, which even the most inveterate opponents of Smithfield are compelled to admit to be indispensable. The very multiplicity, indeed, of the new sites which have at various times been proposed for a new metro politan market, constitutes conclusive proof of the diffi culties by which the subject is sur rounded. Uxbridge, Barnet, .Epsom—every open place, in fact, within ten or twelve miles distance of the metropolis, has, at some time or other, been proposed for the purpose. And now all former sites have been abandoned by the Times and by its friend, the " eminent engineer,"—a plain practical admission that the matter is beset with difficulties which have heretofore been found insuperable. The Highbury and Hornsey plan is not destined to fare any better. There are greater objections to it than to any of the other sites previously proposed. Some of these objections we stated in our article of Monday week. Numerous others, hardly less formidable, could easily be urged. But we du not know that it is necessary to waste our space in pointing out the objections which may be brought against the Highbury and Hornsey scheme of the " emit,ent engineer" of the Times. We have met with no one—literally not with a single indi vidual—who concurs with the Times, and its " eminent engineer," in the propriety of trans erring the metropo litan cattle-market from Smithfield to the " 160 acres of sloping ground between Highbury and Hornsey," They are alone in their glory. Nor dces there seem the slightest probability of any one appearing to share it with them. On the contrary, we hear of but one intense feeling of disapprobation, mingled with a feeling of a still stronger kind, at the bare idea of the Vandalism con templated by the Times and its engineer friend, in the neighbourhood of Highbury and Hornsey. Why, the very sight of an army ot navvies, bricklayers, and hod men, in that beautiful and healthy locality, would almost be enough to make the whole of the population ot the north of London rise in open resistance to the work of destruction. The place proposed by the Times and its engineering coadjutor, is one of the most charming in the neigh bourhood of the metropolis. It is deligntful to spend a few hours on a fine day in that part of London. Its natural beauties aro great, and the tastefully finished villas, with their adjotning gardens, which are studded in all directions, contribute very materially to heighten the effect of what nature has done to bs aunty the place. Nur is the locality in question less salubrious than it is beautiful. There is not a more healthy place within many miles of the metropolis. Transfer the cattle-mar ket, with the proposed slaughter-house's, lairs, abattoir:, Ste., to it, and it will be at once transformed into the most unhealthy place in or about London. Its exposure to the sunny south, would perpetually cause exhalations to arise which, while they would prove most offensive to the olfactory nerves, would be most prejudicial to human health. And the evils thus necessarily incident to a place with a sloping southern exposure, would be very greatly aggravated by the clayey nature of the soil. The site of the market would be a vast field of mnd, from one year's end to the other, with the exception, perhaps, of a few weeks in summer; and then the burn ing heat would be intolerable to men and very injurious to beasts. The transfer of the metropolitan cattle market to the place suggested by the Times, would be frightfully de structive of property in the neighbourhood. Just now, the value of land and houses is rising in that quarter. Let but Parliament decide on removing the metropoli tan cattle market from Smithfield to the locality in qnes tiun, and the value of property everywhere in the neighbourhood will at once become depreciated to an extent which, for the sake of persons who have property there, we forbear to mention. The times admits that if the market is to be removed from Stem-field, persons who.e interest will be affected will be entitled to com pensation. Transfer the site of the market to the " 160 acres of sloping ground between Hightury and Horn sey," and it there be such a thing as justice in the world, the proprietors of houses and lands in the vicinity must receive very large compensation for the injury inflicted on their property. That tneie are evils connected with a large cattle market being held in the centre of a great metropolis, no one will deny. But the questii n is, are not these, in a certain sense, necessary evils? Can they be got rid of without creating other and still greater evils? Will it not be the wiser and better course, as _Hamlet says— " R-ether to bear those ills we have, Thin fly to others that we know not of?" Much may be done to ueodity the evils connected with Smithfield cattle market. We can conceive it possible, that arrangements may be made, and precautions adopted, by which nearly all the objections urged egainst Smithfield being u cattle market, may be ob viated. But this is an espect of the question which we cannot at present bring under the consideration of our readers. In a few days, however, we shall recur to the question generally, and view it in its more comprehensive bearings. _ THE ARMY IN IRELAND ON THE IST 01' JANUARY, 1851.--The following is the official return of the present military force in Irel _did, with the head-quarters of the th uitto, dif ferent regiments :—Cavairy—lst R , giment of Dragoon . Guards, i üblin ; stb ditto, Longford; 6th ditto, ettbir; 7th ditto, Nevs bridge ; 4th Light Dr.mouns, Lublin;a •s; brid re ° . I f ;t 12th Royal Lancers, Dublin ; lith Laticp*a, •.. , me n antry (Enniskillen), Dundalk; ith litnisars.ewß ltinc I 6 i 17th ditto, ditto, •st Regiment of Foot (2d b a ttanon) , L e l ot rick m' 2d ditto, Clonmel ; 3d ditto, Birr; 6th h di c t li t t o to t , d A l hlo co e mpany), Ne 131st ditto, n; Dublin; En 34 ni t s h ki d ll i e t n to ; or 3 k st ; h 4l d s . t. ditto, Cork; 43d nagh ; 9th ditto, tj.ublin ; Galway; 27th ditto. Bel (depot cotn p an y ), ,t9 l :4% '2 t d h ufan d B it r F olC: noy ; am ditto, NewrY; 7 h ditto , Butte 52d ditto, Limerick; rout (under orders for the lonian Islands); 60th ditto (2d battalion), Buttevant; 62d ditto, Dublin; 4.t-- ditto , I' 55th ditto, W a terford; 57th ditto, Fermoy; 09th ditto (deptA xt ) , u r l r li a n ie g e a ; r and Cork ; 66th ditto, Youghal (depbt 68th ditto. Limerick ; 73d ditto cdepOt cow pc°,:3-)", iS Y) aa ; s; 74th ditto, Fermoy; 81st ditto, lemplemore ; act] ditto, Dublin; and 92d ditto, Kilkenny. This force, with the Royal Artillery, Engineers, &c., is an effective of 25,900 men; besides Which are the enrolled pensioners and police. Ireland is divided into the following military dis tricts :-Ist, Dublin county (head-quarters, Dublin) • 2d, Cork district (h ea d- quar t er s, Cork) ; 3d, Limerick ehead q , arters, Limerick) ; 4tb, Kilkenny district (head-quarters, Kilkenny); and Belfas district (head-quarters, Belfast). LADIES CARVING AT DINNER.—Why doesn't some leader of the fashionable world put an end to this bar barous custom? IA hat a eight, to see a delicate little crea ture, or worse, perhaps, a " line woman," in all the glory of her beauty and bedizenment, rise up with a huge knife in her hand, as it she were going to act the part of Judith, and begin heaving away at a great piece of beef For the hus band does not always think it necessary to take the more la borious dish on himself. Sometimes the lady grows as hot and flustered as the housewife in the Winter's Tale, " her face 'cjile with labour." Gentlemen feel bound to offer their services, and become her substitutes in that unseemly war fare. Why don't they take the business on themselves at once ? or, rather, why don't they give it to the servants, who have nothing better to do, and who have eaten their own meal in comfort? A side-table it the proper place for carv ing. Indeed, it is used for that purpose in sonic great houses. Why not in all? It is favourable for additional means of keeping the dishes hot; nobody at the dinner-table is inconveniei.ced ; and the lady of the house is not made a spectacle of, and a sub;eet for ridiculous contiolements. None would regret the reforination but epicures who keep on the watch for tidbits, to the: disactve.utage of honest diners; and whom it would be a pleasure to see reduced from shocking oglers at the hostess iuto, dependants on the plebeian carver, Bunt. T l ig COMMERCIAL DUCKS.—Applications are to be made in the ensuing session for the improvement of these docks. It is proposed to eulalge the east 04,14tt1 polo ! and to carry a tramway from the docks suurtoy to INA t,14 Dana 9f rAilway et Deptford.