The Sun. — London, England, 1850-11-08 00:00:00

+ SUN OFFICE, S&2 en o' Clock. A THREE-DECKER BLOWN UP! A postscript to a letter, dated Ginitantinople, Oct 26, 1860, received this morning, via Berlin, Vienna, and Ostend, states—" That the Admiral's ship, a three decker, has blown up in the Arsenal, and all on board perished."—London, Nov. 8, 1850. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) An accident, attended with loss of life, took place near the railway station, Northampton, on Thursday evening last. About six o'clock an engine leaves Nor thampton Station, to go to Blisworth, to meet the trains that leave Euston-square Station at four o'clock, and to bring part of the train that contains the Nor thampton and Peterborough passengers, and the rest of the train goes on to Birmingham. About a hun dred yards from the engine -shed, where the engine starts from, there is a level crossing of the turnpike road leading from Northampton to Towcester, where a policeman is always in attendance. It appears when the engine had proceeded about two hundred yards the policeman was on the up-line, attending a dowu-train coming into the Northampton Station on the down line. It being dark, the driver did not sae the policeman, and the engine knocked him down and instantly killed him, mutilating his body awfully, one leg being cut off and the body severed into many pieces, his liver and entrails being scattered about the place. The engine-driver went on to Blisworth and fetched the train as usual, and brought3it to North ampton, when the foreman ordered him to take his engine in the shed, and to put the fire out. He then called the driver on one side and told him of the ac ci lent, who immediately fell in a swoon, he being ignorant of the accident until mentioned by the foreman. The deceased was an old servant of the company, hating been some years in the service, and was for merly a sergeant of the police at Irthlingborough station, but by his own request was reduced to a private and stationed at Northampton. His name is Underwood, a single man, about 50 years of age. The body was taken to the White Hart Hotel, Cotton End, Northampton, to await the coroner's inquest. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. ORDER OF -PROCESSION TO-MORROW. Yulicr Ctin4Abies to clear the way. _ The Boys belonging to the Royal Marine Socie;y, with Bgnnem Six Police Constalnleg. TEE TALLOW . CH,NDLERS' COMPANY. Under-Beadle ul the Wor:hivui Coracaay of Tallow Chandle - rs. Watermen bearing the following Banners:— The Royal Standard. The Union Jack. The City Arms. The City Banner. The Arms of the Tallow St. John the Baptist. Chandlers' Company. The Banner of The Banner of Mr. Alderman Humphery. The Late Lord Mayor The Beadle of the Tallow Chandlers' Company in his, Gown. The Clerk of the Company in his Chariot. The Court of Assistants in their Carriages. The Wardens in their Carriages. The Master of the Company, in his Chariot, Attended by his Chaplain. THE CLOTHWORKERS' COMPANY. Drums and Fifes. The Assistant Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers. Captain and Lieutenant of the Band of Pensioners, with Cockades and Sashes of the Company's Colours, bearing Shields emblazoned with the Arms of the City of. London and the Company. Fifty Pensioners of the Company in Uniform, with Cockades, each carry ing a Javelin and a Shield emblazoned with the Arms of a Member of the Company. Barge Master, in Uniform, with Cockade and Sash. The Royal Standard. The Union Jack. The Arms of The Arms of Wm. Thway tes, Rig. Wm. Lambe, Etq. The Arms of The Arms of Alderman Humphery. The Countess of Kent. The Banner of the Bight Honourable the Lord Mayor, The Banner of the Clothworkers' Company. The Band of the Honourable Artillery Company. The Beadle of the Company in his Gown.' The Clerk of the Company in his Chariot. The Court of Assistants in their Carriages. The Wardens in their Carriage. The Master of the Company, in his Chariot, attended by his Chaplain. The Lord Mayor's Beadle. The Lord Mayor's Barge &aster in his State Dress. The Bargemen bearing the various Colours. The ,Banner of the Lord Mayor. The Captain of the Thames Navigtion Barge. The Principal Ataistant Water Bailiff. The Watermen with Colours. A GRAND MILITARY BAND. The Two Under-Sheriffs. The City Solicitor. The Remembrancer. The Comptroller. Police The Two Secondaries. Police Constables. The Common Pleaders. Constables, The Judge of the Sheriffs' Court. The Common Sergeant. The Town Clerk. The Chamberlain. Farrier on Horse- Farrier on Horse back. kack. battle Drums. Guard on Horse Guard on Horse back. back. Trumpeter on Horseback. Trumpeter on Horseback. .Trumpeter on Horseback. Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback. Mr. Sheriff Hodgkinson, in his State Chariot. Mr. Sheriff Carden, in his State Chariot. The Aldermen who have not passed the Chair. The Recorder. The Aldermen who have passed the Chair. THE LATE LORD MAYOR. Trumpeters on Horseback. Page. PE AC E, Page. Having in her Train, EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA. Attendants HORSE OF EUROPE. Attendants on Foot. CAMEL OF ASIA. on Foot. ELEPHANT OF AFRICA.. TWO DEER OF AMERICA. Page. Horse, with Attributes of Industry. Page. Horse, with Attributes of Art. Page. Horse, with Attributes of Commerce. Page. Horse, with Attributes of Manufactures. A CAR, Drawn by Six Cream-coloured Horses, three a-breast, containing FOUR SAILORS, BRITANNIA AND HAPPINESS. A Grand Military Band. The Lady Mayoress, in her State Carriage, drawn by SLY Horses, will join the Procession on its return from Westminster. The Lord Mayor's Servants in State Liveries. The Band of the Life Guards mounted. The Upper City Marshal on Horseback. Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's household. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, In his State Carriage, drawn by six Horses, Attended by the Chaplain, Sword.bearer, Comon Crier, and the Water Bailiff. Guard of Honour on Horseback. table cloth or large towel, put it in cold water, wring ing it out hard as he could, put it round the naked child, and then folded the child up in the blankets. This never failed to do as much as perspiration would do, which was a good deal. He hail never seen the wet sheet fail, or produce harm. He made these remarks about baths and the water cure because he was convinced that at no distant period the whole regimen would be absorbed into the regular practice of medicine. There were at that moment not fewer than from twelve to fifteen of the very first consulting men in London, who regularly recommended the water cure where medicine failed. No one bad a stronger belief in the power of medicine than himself, but still it was not natural. He thought the best plan was to use as little medicine as possible, and to improve the health by every other means. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 6, 1850. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James Foy as Consul at Dublin, of Mr. Day 0. Kellogg as Consul at Glasgow, and of Mr. Joseph Rodney Cruskey as Consul at Southampton and Cowes, fur the United States of America. GERMAN Y. Baron von Rosenburg, Prussian Secretary of Le gation in Frankfort, has left for Vienna, to undertake the business of the Prussian Embassy during the absence of Count von Bernstorff. He is the bearer of a note from the Prussian Government, in which it accepts the proposal for free conferences made by the Congress of Warsaw, but coupled with the con dition that Austria shall suspend her warlike prepa rations ; if they are persisted in, Prussia will continue preparations of the same kind. - The Constitationelle Zeitung states that in the course of the night of the 3d inst. a courier was sent to Vienna with the news that Prus,ia is prepared de finitively to sacrifice the League and its constitution, and no resistance will be made to the Austrian in tervention in Electoral Hesse and Holstein. The same paper states likewise that the Parliament will be adjourned immediately after its meeting. Another Austrian note has been received at Berlin, in which it is demanded that the Prussian troops shall evacuate Electoral Hesse, with the exception of the Etappe roads. General Radowitz, although out of office, was consulted on this point, and his advice was, that the entry of Prussian troops into Hesse ought to be considered as a faitaccompli, and that the Cabinet ought to refuse the Austrian demand. An answer, conceived in the spirit of the above reply, was immediately sent to Vienna. The Zeitung fiir Norddeutschland states, from Hanover, of the sth instant, that among the first acts of the Munchhausen Cabinet is a prohibition of col lections of money for the war in Holstein. Respect ing the position of the Hanoverian Government in the Holstein question, the following declarations have been given :--- 1. The Hanoverian Government will march no troops for the purpose of the pacification of Holstein. 2. It refuses to recognise the federal resolutions on that subject. As to the question of Electoral Hesse, Hanover has promised the assistance of nine bat talions if M. Hassenpflug be dismissed, and the corn-. mand of the army given to an Austrian General. The non-acceptation of these conditions has influenced the Hanoverian Cabinet to refuse taking part in the occupation of Hesse. FEARFUL EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE AT SEACOMBE. Between seven and eight o'clock on Wednesday evening last, a dreadful explosion of naphtha, attended with fatal consequences, occurred in Mersey-street, Higher Seacombe, Cheshire. The house in which the melancholy occurrence took place is used as a Roman Catholic school and reading-room, in con nexion with St. Alban's Chapel, Liscard, and is under the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. Lennon. It appears that on the evening in question, previous to the commencement of the duties of the school, Mr. Johnson, the schoolmaster, and six of the scholars, were in the front room on the ground floor. The master was engaged in pouring some naphtha into a lamp from a tin can, containing about half a gallon ; and a lad named John Crossie, about ten years of age, was holding a candle by his side. Never having before filled the lamp, Mr. Johnson was ignorant of the quantity required, and before he was aware the !inflammable liquid ran over, and, coming in contact with the lighted candle which was held by the boy Crossie, ignited. The scene which followed it is impossible accurately to describe ; but from what we can learn an instantaneous report, like that of * cannon, was heard, followed by a tremendous crash occasioned by the falling of the partition wall, about twelve feet long and nine feet high, which was forced with such violence against the oppo. site side of the lobby that several deep indenta tions were made in the plaster work. In some places large portions of the wall were removed, without being shattered, and forced against the wall forming the other side of the lobby. But the most melancholy and heartrending part of the occurrence remains to be told. In the reading-room, immediately above the scene of the explosi on , were fourteen persons, one of whom was in the act of reading aloud an article from the Morning Chronicle. On hearing the report, and the noise which followed, they thought that the arches on which the houses were built, had given way, and a rush instantly took place to the door and window, through which a safe exit .was made. But what was their horror on beholding the ghastly visages and burning clothes of the poor un fortunate creatures who had previously occupied the apartment underneath ? Mathew Riley, who lived in the house, got out of the window, and the first person he saw was the lad Crossie, who was enveloped in flames, but his features could not be recognised. Riley immediately clung round the lad, and rolled with him on the floor until the flames were extin guished. The poor little fellow was then removed to the Abbotsford Hotel, and afterwards to his own residence, Newton Bridue, Seacombe, where he died between eight and nine o'clock yesterday morning. James M'Geary, a joiner and builder, who was in the reading-room at the time of tee explosion, on A DOCTOR'S OPINION OF THE reaching the bottom of the stairs met Mr. Johnson, WATER-CURE. whose face presented a very disfigured appearance, Dr. J. Stuart 'Wilkinson, who is delivering a course and who was much burnt about the legs and body. of lectures at the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, M'Geary succeeded in putting out the fire, and on " The Philosophy of Eating and Drinking," re pushed Mr. Johnson into the street, when he ex- ferred to the water-cure. After remarking that he claimed, " Don't mind me, look to the children." He was no " water-doctor," and that be had great faith in next met a lad named Riley, and afterwards another the power of medicine, he said that at water-cure lad named Daffy, both of whom he treated in a establishments the patient's diet was attended to, similar manner. M'Geary, on going into the school- he was bathed, he had good exercise, had the purest room, found the chairs, tables, books, &c., in flames, water (and much depended upon the water), and had which ultimately he, with some assistance, succeed e d pure air, and these establishments were generally situ in extinguishing. Edward Burns, a boy twelve y ears I ated in the most healthy parts of the country. He of age, is so much burnt, that little hopes are enter- f (Dr. Wilkinson) could not see how this could be tained of his recovery. A lad named Patrick Riley is I quackery. The truth was that if it were possible to also in a dangerous state. A youth named Cox, about I devise anything for health, he did not think they sixteen years of age, and Mr.lJohnson, are also suffer- i could agree upon anything better than proper diet, ing much from the injuries received ; but it is pro- bathing, exercise, pure water and air, and a healthy bable th a t th e last-named sufferer may recover. situation. These were all that were necessary for Peter Ril ey escape d w ith lit t l e harm. It is I hygiene. Water cure was called " quackery" be impossible, ho wever , t o s t a t e w h a t ma y be the cause certain men, styling them se l ves " water doctors," result to th e su ff erers, as up to the time of t h e pre- I represented it as capable of doing m ore th an i t really sent particulars being collected, not 24 hours had would ; but it ought to be remembered that judicious elapsed from the period of the accident. James Burns, water doctors did not sey it would cure all dis who wa s i n th e reading-room, on seeing his injured cases. They sa id i t wou ld cure c h ron i e diseases, and brother, took him into his arms, and was about get- such as were connected with digestion ; and there tiug over a wall behind the house, which on the inside , was no doubt it would, for it was applicable to them ; was only about five or six feet high, but on the outside but there were fevers, and other complaints, to which Next, adverting (the house being built on an arch), was 30 feet high' the water cure was inapplicable. from the ground, when he was prevented by Matthew I the subject of baths, the lecturer said it was fortunate Riley, who caught hold of his leg and pulled him i that as many peo le were unable to go to water-cure back. Had it not been for the timely interference of est ' ielish they p could use many kinds of baths Riley, both Edward and James Burns would, in all at a home rn a e n n d " thusdo a vast amount of good to the probability, have been killed by the fall into the yard body. The water in the cold bath ought to be between baneath. The houses of the row in which the school 33 and 60 degrees of heat. Many people now went is situate belone,' to Mr. Cornelius Kennedy, and ar e i to establishments where they were furnished with a built on arches with stables underneath. The arch vapour-bath and a shower-bath after it. This was on which the school-house is built appears to have not a new matter, (and staege to say, the water cure given way, and a temporary support of a few post s had introduced scarcely any new mode of bathing), has been erected with a view to secure it; but such that bath had been in use for ages by the inhabitants is the present dangerous appearance of the arch, that ,of California. They dug a hole, managed to patch it unless some proper precautions be taker, it will pro- over, put some hot stones in it, then threw water on bably fall, bringing with it the oiler arches and them, remained a while in the place, which was thus houses above. filled with vapour, and, on coming out, jumped into Drs. Halliday, Shaw, and Horne, and Messrs. Bird the river. The sponging bath was one o f t h e most i (druggist) and R. Parry were speedily on the spot, healthy things he _mew of. A wet sheet, and rendered valuable assistance.—Liverpool Mercury or dripping bath was not by any means such a dreadful application as some people appeared to think. A Catholic library at Seacombe, Cheshire, has been He had used it with children ; and if he ever saw seriously damaged through an explosion of naptha from a magic done it was with that remedy. His mode of la mp th a t was used b y some incautious person, and several management was the following : — He took three or Persons were injured. : four thick blankets, spread them out, then took a The Procession will move from Guildhall at eleven o'clock precisely, and pass through Gresham-street, Moorgate- street, London-wall, Old Broad-street,Thread needle• street, Bishop Agate-street Within, Cornbill, Man • sion House-street, the Poultry, Cheapside, St. Paul's Church-yard, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-hill, New Bridge street, to Blackfrisrs-bridge; thence by water to West minster; and will return from Westminster to Black friars-bridge, and pass through New Bridge-street, Lud gsve-hill, Ludgate-street, St. Paul's Churchyard, Cheap side, and King-street, to Guildhall. At the Obelisk, Bridge -street, the procession, on its return, will be joined by the Ambassadors, her Majesty's Ministers of State, the Nobility, Judges, Members of Parliament, and other persons of distinction, invited to the Banquet at Guildhall. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fer the Week ending on Saturday, the 2d day of November, 1850. LOWE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued• • •• •• •• 29,424,840 Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .. .. 2,964,900 Gold coin and bullion 15,379,173 Silver bullion ...... 45,667 £29,424,840 I £29,424,840 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 7th day of November, 1850. Proprietors'capltal.. 14,553,000 Rest . ........... 3,111,393 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings -banks, and D ividend accounts).. 6,594,381 Other deposits ...... 9,932,226 Seven day and other bills.. :....... .... 1,379,907 X 35,570,907 Dated the ith day of November, COURSE OF EXCH. Arasterciam .......... 11 17 Ditto, three months.. 11 18 Rotterdam .... 11 18 Antwerp ........ 25 40 Brussels.• • • .. 25 40 Hambnrgh .. • .M.B .13 83£ Altona Paris, 3 days'sight 25 17 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 45 arseilles .......... 25 45 80urdeaux......... . Frankforton Maine.... 119 N Berlin • • .. • • .......... Vienna, enc. Bo •••• .• 12 18 Trieste, ditto.... • . 12 20 Petersburgh, Sit. Rblo.. 37 Hadrill •• • • •• • • • • • • • • 49 3 ,4 Cadiz •• •• •• • . .. • • . • .. 49% Barcelona ............ 5evi11a................- BANKING DEPAZTMEN T. Government Henri- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 14,228,901 Other securities .. • • 11,038,486 Notes ••••—•• • • • • • • 9703,145 Gold and silver coin.. 600,375 X 35,570,907 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1850. LNGE.-(THIS DAY.) tc:11bra1tar.............. Leghorn ........ 30 80 (3eaoa ................ 25 96 Milan . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • -- Venice•• •• •• •• •• •• .•.. Naples 41;4 Palermo, peroz 123 X Messina 124 0p0rt0................ 63% Etio Janeiro Buenos Ayres New York, 60 daye'sight Philadelphia .... • • PRIM or BULLION, YES OIL Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9 Porthigal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 4 11 Silver in bars ...... •• 0 5 0% THE SUN, LONDON, WHITEHALL, OCT. 1. The Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of .Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Thomas Walker, of Kes wick, in the county of Cumberland, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commi.sioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by mar ried women' under the Act passed fur the abolition of tines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Cumberland. The Gazette of this evening contains the following:— " fdo hereby give notice that the death of Samuel Dickson, Esq., late a Member serving in this present Parliament for the county of Limerick, hath been certi fied to me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in this present Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the said county at the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette. " Gwen under my hand the 6th day of November, 1850, " CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker." WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 8. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant George Briggs to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tuthill, who retires; Cornet Thomas Nisbet to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Briggs, Nov. 8. 3i Dragoon Guards—Surgeon Henry Mapleton, M.D., from the 55th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Stephenson, who exchanges, Nov. 8. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Charles Wilson Randolph, from half-pay of the sth Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte, who exchanges, Nov. 8. Scots' Fusileer Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Hugh Fit zHardinge Drummond to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Powell, who retires; Henry Charles Fletcher, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur. chase, vice Drummond, Nov. 8. lit Regiment of Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Robert M.Nab, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Sinclair, who resigns, Nov. 8. 13th Foot—Captain Rollo Gillespie Burslem, to be Major, by purchase, vice Wilkinson, who retires; Lieutenant George Henry Tyler to be Captain, by purclmse, vice Burslem; Ensign Robert Peel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tyler, Nov. 8. 15th Foot—Lieutenant William West Turner to be Adjutant, vice Sewell, promoted, Nov. 8. 16th Foot—William Major Cockeil, from half-pay unattached, to be Major, vice Cnarles Murray, who ex changes, receiving the difference, Nov. 8. 18th Foot—Second-Lieutenant Charles William Pow. nail Lillingston, from the 60th Foot, vice Jones, who exchanges, Sept. 9. 29th Foot—Captain John Vize O'Donnell, from the 26th Foot, to be Captain, vice Pakenham, who ex changes, Nov. 8; Lieutenant Barclay Thomas to be Captain, by purchase, vice King, who retires; Ensign Hon. Lucius William Charles Augustus Cary to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thomas, Nov. 8. 20th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert M'Gregor to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Macbeth, appointed to the Stiff, Nov. 8. 49th Foot—Ensign Fanshawo William Gostling to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Richardson, who retires, Nov. 8. 35th Foot—Ensign Charles Monekton Gibbous Quan trille to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Snowe, deceased, Oct. 29; Gentleman Cadet John William Huekisson, from the Royal Military College, to he Ensign, vice Quantrille; Surgeon George Alexander Stephenson, from the 3d Dragoon Guards, to be Sur geon, vice Mapleton, who exchanges, No►. S. .56th Foot—Lieutenant William George Margesson to be Captain, by purchae, rice Conran, who retires; Ensign George Edward Lawes Chartres Bissett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Margesson ; Ensign William Whitmore, from the 72d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Palmer, deceased, Nov. S. 60th Fool—Ensign Henry Mitchell :Jones, from the 18th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Lillingston, who exchanges, Sept. 9. 61st Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Herbert Tay lor Reade to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clark, promoted in the sad Foot, Nov. 8. 64th Foot—Lieutenant William Helsham Candler to be Captain, without purchase, vice Cochrane, deceased; Ensign Francis Fothergill Hood to be Lieutenant, vice Candler, Aug. 28; Ensign Richard Henry Willcocks, from the 81st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hood, Nov. 8. 72d Foot—Gentlema❑ Cadet Hon. Somerset Richard Hamilton Ward, from the Royal Military Cullege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Whitmore, appointed to the 65th Foot, Nov. 8. 81st Foot—Lieutenant James Woods to bo Adjutant, vice Sorel!, promoted; Gentleman Cadet Charles Cynric Wellesley Vesey, from the Royal Military College, to he Ensign without purchase, vice Wilcocks, appointed to the 64th Foot, Nov. 8. 83c1 Foot—Assisismt-Surgeon Frederick Hobson Clark, from the 61st Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Leling ham, deceased, Nov. 8. 96th Foot—Captain Honourable Frederick Beauchamp Pakenham, from the 27th Foot, to be Captain, vice O'Donnel, who exchanges. 97th Foot—Lieutenant Sydney Cosby Jackson, to be Captain by purchase, vice Evaos, who retire, Nov. 8. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant Surgeon Alexander Mackay blacbeth, from the 29th Foot, to be Assistant- Surgeon of the Forces, vice M`Gregor, appointed to the 29th Foot, Nov. 8. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 5. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieutenant Robert Mann Parsons to be First Lieutenant, vice Phillpotts, deceased, Sept. 21. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Augustus Shake speare Oliver Massey, Gent., to be Ensign, Oct. 23. Commissions by the Lurd-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia —James Bird, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Richard Reece, Esq., deceased; Henry James Paine, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice James Bird, appoiuted Surgeon, Oct. 26. , Commissions by the Lord-_Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet the Hon. George Frederick Samuel Robinson Viscount Goderich to be Lieutenant, vice Cavendish, resigned; the Hon. Alfred Joseph Stourton to be Cornet, vice Lord Goderich. promoted, Nov. 2.: BANKRUPTS. William Coles, pastry cook, Milton next Gravesend, to surrender Nov. 14, at one, and Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee; Wilkinson, Gurney, and Stevens, Nicholas-lane, Lom bard -street; Sharland, Gravesend. George olive Searle, apothecary, Tyndale-place, Is lington, Nov. 16, at two, and Dec. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee:Guild hall-chambers, Basinghall• street; Messrs. Smith, Great James-street, Bedford-row. Alexander Black, hi - Mueller, Wellington -street North, Covent-garden, Nov. 27 and Dec. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Mardon and Prichard, Newgate-street. John Rowbotbam, silk manufacturer, Sutton, Chester, Nov. 22, and Dec. 13, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Mackenzie, official assignee, Manchester; Norris, Macclesfield. Robert Garton, shoemaker, Kingston-upon-Hull, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18, at half-past twelve, at the Leeds District Court, Kingston-upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Sidebottom, Hull. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar. com put2d from returns made in the week ending Nov. 5, 1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 30s. 6id. per cwt. From the Mauritius ... ... ... 275. 84d. „ From the East Indies ... ... • ... 28s. 4id. „ Average price of the jointly, foregoi ng de scriptions of sugar, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... ... 235. ad. „ By authority of Parliament, HENRY BICE)] sm., Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, Nov. 8. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Nov. 8.) SUGAR.—To-day British Plantation Sugar was only in limited demand for home trade purposes; but holders are firm and will not sell but at prices fully equal to Friday last, at a small reduction there were large buyers. The purchases are 290, making for the week 1,766 hhds. only public sale of Sugar at present declared for next week is ono of 150 hhds Batbadoes. REFINED.—To-day home dealers were buyers to a fair extent of Refined goods, paying 51s to 53s for grocery lumps. Crushed Sugar is at present not msch in demand. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the small ssles of Ma dras Sugar of 556 bags went at full rates ; mid soft yellow at 365, low 32s to 335, and Brown 30s 6d to 32s per cwt. In Bence' there is little passing privately. still a public sale of 400 bags went at full rates ; erystaLzed 44s to 455, superior at 47s 6d to 48s per cwt. FonEicx.—To-day small parcels of Foreign Sugar were sold by private treaty, but eolders would not sell at a reduction; about 1,000 chests mid yellow Ila.vuunah realised 42s per cwt; at auction 300 chests damaged white Havanneh were all disposed of at 25s Gd to 28s. On 'Change 850 chests brown Bahia Sugar sold at 20s Gd, and 150 casks Pcrto Rico Molasses 15s 6d. MAURITIUS. —To-thy there was no publie sale of Mauritius Sugar, and little was done in the private market; still lower terms are not taken. MoLAssEs. l —There is a firm market for West India, and a fair business has been concluded; West India at 155 to 173; Bengal and Mauritius 12s to 13..; and Porto lilco 15s 6,1 to 16s. Oof Cuba Hour!), 30 pkg 4 at auction, wet tAlte:c in at 43s to 53s for mid anti fine, bui 6 krga Jamitica 'rsmarindii were kOld at 25s for low, COFFEE.—Tbis afternoon the public sales of Cu;AA RCA CAI* , e went off at full rail's, and 3.406 bags of old were di: posed of; low, at 44.5 6d, gooh ord 50s to 51 6j, fine ord 525 to 59s 6d, fine fine ord and low mid 55. 6a to 583, damaged, 46s 6d to 525; of Malabar 110 cases 13 bks 4i5 bags in p . ..rt luund bu) ors at the full valua tions; middling Ms 6d to 53s 6d, interior and low 40s 6d to 465, damaged 383 Gd to 526 6d. Native Ceylon was sold to a fair extent by private treaty, and good ord is not to be obtained under 55s per cwt. For Plantation a good demand exists, and full rates are paid at the public sales of 260 casks; 140 bags low mid and mid selling at 62s to 675, good to fine fine ord 56s to 61s, and Triage 51s 6d to 56s 6d; of My sore 169 bales realised 526 to 54s for good ord; three lots low 39s to 465, and 21 cases Mocha mid 72s 6d per cwt. Coeds.—Grenada continues to attract little attention, and at auction 53s begs were taken in at 43s for lair red. For Trinidad, the demand is however yet good, supply is small and prices are firm at from 47s to 53; a cargo, however, hes arrived. On the part of holders of Foreign there is confidence, and purchases to a fair extent hove been made. Pura and Bahia at 30s to 31s, and Guuya• quit as 32s to 33. RICE.—To-day the market for Rice presented a quiet aspect. At auction 840 bgs Bengal were taken in, very ord white 8s 6d, common 93 6d, mid 10s, but damaged sold at 5s to 8s 6d. 54 bgs Java for export only went at 5s for very low duty; 52 casks American Cleaned Rice were taken in at 19a 6.1 per cwt. 48i barrels Ber muda Arrowroot us is 7d to is Btl per lb. SPICES.—To-day at public sale 484 bags Pimento were taken at 6i; 114 bgs Clover, Bourbon and African 7d; 8 plegt Nutmegs, mid brown 3s to 3s 2d; 3 ,cs Mace, mid 2s 10d; 20 ca dry China Ginger 9d; 48 bgs Nutmegs in the shell 64. TEA. — The market has this week been more freely supplied than for some time past. In consequence of rather lower rates having been accepted for Green, a good demand has been experienced from town and coun try dealers. Holders of Black refuse to make any con cession in the value, there has in consequence been only a limited business concluded, but at a slight reduction there are many buyere. For low and good ord Congou the value is Is 04d to Is Id, medium is lid to Is 2d, and better sorts Is lid to is 7J. Prices are supported for scented and Pekoe Teas ; at the same time there is a quiet market. The quantity of Tea of fered at auction this week has bee 19,100 pkgs. of which 5,000 found buyers, but the biddings were languid, com mon Congou with at! faults went at is to is Old, and medium to fine sound Is 2d to is 6d per lb. At Liver pool a cargo of 475,000 lbs of common Congou has been purchased on speculation. demand has been brisk for Leeward Island hum this week, and an improvement in the value is apparent. About 300 puns have been sold at Is 6id to is 7d per gallon proof strength. Demerara has been much inquired alter, and stiffer rates are offered, but the supply is email, and the business con cluded has been at 2s 2d to 2s 5d for 32 to 40 per cent over proof Jamaica met with greater attention from shippers and home dealers, whilst in seine cases rather higher rates have been obtained. The transactions are 400 puns; plain and mid quality 32 to 35 per cent over proof at 2e 7el to 2s lid, 33 to 37 over good and fine 3s to 3s 9d, and superior 3s 10d to 4s 4d per gallon. In Brandy a good business has been concluded this week, and the market is firm. Prices for Cognac beat brands of the vinte., e of 1847 rule at 5s Id to 5s 3d, 1848 ditto 4s 91 to 4s Ild, 1849 ditto, 43 8d to 4s 10d, and inferior sorts 3s to 4s 6d. Geneva sells more freely at is 7d for common, and fine at Is 9d to 2s. Prices remain at 9e 5d to 9s 6cl per gallon for British made Spirit cash, but the market is brisker. FRUIT.—The market is plentifully supplied with new Valencia Raisins, and sales have been limited at from 38s to 40s per cwt. Currants are, however, in exten sive demand, and there is a further advance, new selling at 45s to 489, and old at 40s to 443 per cwt, there is also much confidence on the part of holders. In Turkey pulled Figs larger sales have been made at 453 to 555, good and fine at 56s to 655. Braces are not much in request, and offered at 25s to 28s. Sultanas are operated in with caution at COs to 625. For Muscatels there are, how ever, ready buyers, bunch at 52s to 575, layers 58s to 70s fine 763 to 80s. French Plums move off steady at 70s to 74s for 4 chests, and at 80s to 100 s for other pkgs. Fur new Jordan Almonds the market is quiet at 8/ lOs to 21 10s, and lower rates are looked for. lerbeco.—Only a limited business has been concluded in East India this week, but t. olders remain firm, and demand an advance on last quarterly sales terms of 2d to 4tl per lb. There are, however, several buyers at the rates of that period. In Spanish little business has been done, at the same time former prices are well up, and supply is not larger. For auction next week 53 bhests Manilla, and 30 eerons Guatimala are declared. COCHINEAL.—To-day Cochineal met with little atten tion, and prices were barely supported. At auction 30 bags Tenerife in part sold at 43 fo 45 3d. BALTPETRE.—None has been offered at suction this week, and privately operations have been small at from 26s to 283 for Calcutta, whilst the tendency of prices is to decline. British Refined met a slow sale at 303 to 363. Nitrate of Soda is held for 143 to 14s 6d, but there is lass doing. TURPENTINE.—SaIes have been more upon a small scale in Spirits, British refined at 29s 6d to 303, and American 30s 6d to 31s. The rates demanded for Rough 7s to 7s 3d, but only a limited demand exists. Tar is again higher; Stockholm selling at 21s, other sorts 183 6d to 19s, American I3s sd, to 14s per brl. TALLOW.—This afternoon there was a quiet market for Tallow, at auction of 225 pkgs South America❑ I; small part only sold at 27s 3d to 37s 9d for fine; 309 casks Australian, partly found buyers at 36s 6d to 37s 9d for fair to fine. OlLS.—This afternoon a public sale of 30 tuns Sperm Oil went at higher rates, line Colonial 871 105 to 81/5, 40 tuns Southern, fine 371103 to 38/, 40 tuns Labrador Seal, tinged 381, straw 361 59, and brown 355 55 to 351 15s. METALS.—There are few buyers of East India Tin, and prices are drooping, Banca selling at 79s 6d to 80j, and Straits 78s per ewt; but British is fair request at 80s to 81s for block and bar. In Tin Plates there is rather more doing; I C Coke at 27s to 28:,, and Charcoal ditto at 32s to 33s per box. For Lead the market has a quieter aspect, and sellers are willi❑g to accept 161 10s to 171 for British Pig, and 161 for Spanish. I❑ Spelter for spring shipment a considerable tusiness has been done at 161, but on the spy t p irations are limited at 1617 s 6d to le/ 103 per ton; the stock here is 4,100 tons, and last year 3,500 tons. Pi ices s are firm for Copper at 831 to 841 for British Tile Cake, and Sheet at •}3 per lb; there is also no f Ming- cff in the demand. owedish Steel has been selling at 141 10s to 14115 s for keg, and faggot 151 ss. There continues so be a good demand for common Wech bar Iron. and sales cannot be made under 41 12s 63; of Rails several parcels have been sold at 41 15. to 41 17s 6d. In Swedish Iron larger purchases have been made at 11110 s to 12/. The market for Scotch Pig Iron has a quiet appearance, and prices tend downwards, ruling at 42s to 42s 6d for mixed numbers; the stock at Glasgow and the neighbourhood is com puted at the large quantity of 300,000 to❑s. Welch Pig is, however, in fair demand; foundry at 60s to 655; forge 404 to 50s. Quicksilver is 3s 9 I per lb. FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1850. THE GOLD MOUNTAIN. gentlem an j us t re tur ne d from California seen a has personally v isited the so•called Gold Mountain," which has b een quite commonly con sidered fabulous. It lie s i n a b ou t let. 33 deg. north, two hundred and fifty miles east of Los lVe have who Angelos in southern California, and per haps one hundred west of the Colorado. The region is as forbidding as can be, with out inhabitants, even aboriginal, though there is a spare population of savages on the Mahav6 River, say SO miles east. To approach it, you pass over the Sierra Nevada, near Mount San Bernardino, across two sand deserts of 60 or 80 miles • , and thence to a region of deep cations and rugged mountains, sterile, almost des titute of grass, and with no timber except the musquit, (something like our alder), which rarely grows to the size of a man's arm. The region is infested with rattlesnakes in incredible numbers, and the earth so full of min erals ( es pecially sal mratus) that the water is absolutely poisonous. There is no water fit to drink within sixteen miles of the " Gold Mountain," s o called, which rises about 450 feet rather steeply from a canon, which has an eleva tion of some 150 feet on the other side of it. The canon is about one-fourth of a mile long, and the two hills are surrounded by sand deserts. The hills are composed of a dark hornblende rock, with perhaps a tenth of white feldspar intermixed with it; and the gold is found in both, generally running in streaks or strings, though sometimes showing bulbs or lumps like a button. it has been found by analysis to yield an average of about 2 dollars per pound of the rock. Eight miles north of this mountain, our informant tried his luck at digging in the usual California fashion —scraping off the surface earth and washing that which lies immediately above the rock. He dug thus with two Indians for four hours, obtained about ten ounces of pure gold, taking only the " lumps," having nothing to wash the earth with. Probably as much was thus left as taken. lie did not try in any other spot, but has no doubt that the gold extends all the way from Sonora, in northern Mexico, to the Upper Sacraninto and Oregon—a distance of full 800 miles. The re gion here described is about 500 miles from the nearest diggings in California, but cannot be ap proached by less than a thousand miles of actual travel. It is very near the boundary line just estab lished by Congress between California and Utah.— New York Tribune. PORTLAND HARBOURofREFUGE Surely it were a projfct worthy the honour of our warlike and commercial island, the empress of the seas, to establish an a,ylutn not only for her own navies, but for those of the whole world, friends or foes, whe n occasional distress might drive them undesignedly u p on her Costs. It will also most effectually counteract the formidable port of Cher bourg, and altogether present a noble specitnen of the riches, the strength, the commerce, and the beauty of everything connected with British sea manship most worthy the renown of England, creditable to her Majesty's Government, a n d very beneficial to the country at large. The Government works exhibit an interesting scene of activity, and attract numbers of visiters daily. Some of the break water in an unfinished state is now seen projecting from the shore, and the deposition of stone from the quareis is regularly and rapidly carried forward by rail way. A number of additional tram waggons have lately been received at the works, with a view to the employment of a still larger number of convicts on the arrival of whom this great national enterprise will be carried on with incteased rapidity. Amongst the re markable machinery to be ob,erved on these works may be mentioned a gigantic crane on a moveable platform, intended for the raising of stones from the recesses of the quarries, and which is capable of sus taining with ease the immense weight of 60 tons. An engine bas also been recently erected for the chemical impregnation of the driving piles for their preserva tion, by a new and ingenious process, by which they are rendered impervious to the action of water. The interest which attaches itself to Portland from its rare and abundant fossils, its striking geological stratifi cation, and antiquarian remains is sufficiently notori• ous. These attractions are now varied and enhanced by the grand exhibition of the fertile resources, the all-conquering ingenuity, and profound achievements of the skilful engineer bending to his uses the most stubborn obstacles, and circumbscribing the power and sway of the mighty ocean.— Vide " Book of Re marks on the subject of an Asylum Harbour, for Portland Roads," as projected by the late Mr. John Harvey, price is., Post-office, Weymouth. LONDON SIGNS. Few casual obseners are perhaps aware of the curious origin of many of the shop and public-house signs, and a still smaller number remember when most shopkeepers displayed signs, which projected far into the street, with iron supports, and upon which large sums were expended. It is stated in the Gentlenktn's Magazine, 1770, that the signs exhibited upon Ludgate-hill cost several hundred pounds. In a paper (No. 28) of the Spectator, written by Addison, and in alluding to this ancient custom, he mentions the sign of a goat before the door of a per fumer, and the French king's head, at a sword cutler's. In the sixth plate of Hogarth's " Industry and Idle ness," the sign of West and Goodchild, who are silk weavers, is a rampant lion with a cornucopia on either side. In the same artist's plate of " Noon," the cook's shop has a Baptist's head; and in the plate of " Night," in the same series, the sign of the barber's shop is, besides his pole, a hand drawing a tooth, the head being in exquisite pain, having written underneath, " shaving, bleeding, and teeth drawn with a touch—Ecce Signion." The well-known sign of the " Good Woman," which is a woman without a head, was a common emblem at oil shops, and it is supposed to have been originally started from a large oil jar, fancifully painted, so as to resemble a headless woman; and at the present day it is very frequently seen over the door, by way of sign. At ironmongers' shops, a dog licking a porridge-pot was the usual sign: an instance might, a short time ago, be seen at a large ironmonger's in the Blackfriars-road. The barber's pole, likewise, is one of the few remaining shop signs, and one which has caused much antiquarian dis cussion: it is supposed to represent (when barbers were surgeons also) the bleeding-stick, the black stripes being the tape wound roiled it. As recently as seventy years since, and perhaps even later, the shops in London dis played signs swinging across the streets, bat from their impeding the free circulation of air they were taken down and placed against the houses, and were, after a time, superseded by the present fashion, of the name and business being painted on the front.—Builder. JERSEY NEWSPAPERS.—Some time since, news papers published in the English language in the Channel Islands, were prohibited from passing through the Post offices in Great Britain as newspapers. They were after wards allowed to do so if ld. stamp was affixed to each news paper, in Jersey or Guernsey. The Lords of the Treasury have now permitted such newspapers to contain writing or marks of reference, provided they contain an additional Id. stamp. The line of railway formerly projected between Windermere and Furness via Newby Bridge, has within the last few days been re-surveyed on the part of the Kendal and Windermere Company, with a view to the extension of their line to Ulverston, &c.—Cumberland Pacquet. LAW INTELLIGENCE. BAIL COURT, Nov. 7. (Sittings at Nisi Prins.) SPRAGUE V. MOORE. Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Shea and Mr. Willey for the defendant. This action was brought by the plaintiff, an archi tect, to recover 1121. ,from the defendant, who was the Roman Catholic priest in the district of the Com mercial-road, for different plans and drawings be had made for some schools and a new Roman Catholic church, which it was proposed to erect in that dis trict. The matter was one entirely of liability, the defendant contending that he was not liable. The following evidence was adduced : The Rev. John Kay—l am the Catholic chaplain in Spanish-place. The plaintiff is an architect. The defendant is chaplain for the district of the Commer cial-road. I introduced the plaintiff to the defendant in 1847. The defendant was building schools, and I having been appointed to the same mission by our bishop, introduced the plaintiff, who prepared plans by which some of the buildings have been erected. The school will cost 3,0004, and 1,0001. has gone through my hands on this account. The money was provided by subscriptions, which were given to the defendant. There was a proposition to build a new district church, as the dis trict was too large. The defendant was appointedito that mission as well as myself. It was arranged that the money received should be funded in the defen dant's name. All bills were to be sent in to him, and paid by him, and he bad the entire control of the money. I paid to him all moneys I received. The defendant gave the plaintiff instructions about the plans for the church. The defendant paid the charges to the Metropolitan Building Commissioners. The plans were altered because they did not give satisfac tion to the parish. Dr. Wiseman also objected to them, as he thought it better to have a permanent structure atonce, and not a temporary church, and the plaintiff prepared fresh plans. One plan of the church had no tower, but the defendant ordered a plan to be prepared having a tower. Upon some occasions the defendant complained that the plans were too long about, and said he must give them into other hands if they were not delivered. The defendant desired to have the plans delivered in time for a meeting on St. Patrick's-day, when the Lord Mayor of Dublin was present in his gorgeous official robes. The plans were then produced, and were much approved of. We first thought of 3,000/. or 4,000/. to build the church, but we doubled that sum as we proceeded. The church was to contain 1,200 sittings, and there were not to be any galleries. The church has not yet been built. Cross-examined—The plaintiff is a convert to our faith. He knew neither the defendant nor myself had any means, but he knew there was money in the parish. The poor are quite as liberal contributors as the rich. There was 1,500/. in the hands of Dean Horrabin, who had charge of another district. Our congregation amounted to 12,000 persons. The sub scriptions amounted to about 5001. a year to pay all expenses. I wanted accommodation for four priests for that parish. There has been a good deal of church building going on in England of late in the Catholic religion. Re-examined-3,000 shillings were stated to have been brought up from the %Yapping boys. Emily Sprague—The defendant came to my father about the plans for the Church of our Lady Loretto. He gave particular directions about a tower. Other witnesses stated they had always heard the defendant speak as having employed his architect (the plaintiff). For the defendant it was urged, that the plaintiff had volunteered to prepare the plans without remu neration upon the expectation of being employed to build the church. It was absurd to suppose that a man like the defendant, who was dependent for his support on the contributions of the poorest of the poor, would give orders to render himself liable for such an amount. Mr. Justice PATTESON having summed up, The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the whole amount. COURT Op COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7. (Sitticgs in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice JERVIS and Justices MAULE, WILLIAMS, and TALFOURD.) HOOPER V. PARKER. This was an action of trespass charging the defen dant with having assaulted the plaintiff, and was tried before the late Lord Chief-Justice at the Guildhall, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff—damages 2001. Mr. Sergeant BYLaS now moved for a ne w trial, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence, and the damages excessive. It appeared that the plaintiff, who was a tea dealer in the city, was indebted to the defendant 547/., and that the defendant, on the 3d of February last year, called upon him to endeavour to obtain pay ment. Not being able to get his m oney a quarrel took place between them, and according to the evi dence of the plaintiff's clerk the defendant struck the plaintiff, and called him a " liar," upon which the clerk ran for a policeman; but the plaintiff would d‘ci n is ‘n: ra,e o aesoav t rti:iid g s. nudwsai examination ohaaho t uines h itse,eh r idn,pne d hluata e astihi f f fi t .iatan n ttiiis d irrr i tsi n aitiwasnr t i i isia n c) ehi t t:n o laindrleikae c isrffdte u s .ean s tirn t liwe c iidisan d latl y ti iit , iwnia;u s renact a :cd y psa. sl i hsat ti cio g miscitojtosi h eigeoffd e lmhnf s t.bwe h aydhaf o i:O u chevoa l ri ne d s: been attributed to that. The COURT thought the question was one to be de cided by e jury, and that the verdict ought not to be disturbed.—Rule refused. Immediately before the rising of the Court Mr. Martin, Q C., entered, and went through the form of being created a sergeant, prior to his elevation to the bench. The Court immediately afterwards adjourned. Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr. Justice CRE'S WELL and Common Juries.) HANDLEY V. THE BANS CANTONALE OF BERNE. Mr. Lush appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., for the defendant. This was an interpleader issue directed to try the title to certain furniture and eff-ets which lied been taken in execution by the Sher 4 of Middlesex. Mr. Lusts said, that the phintiff is a widow lady and the proprietor of several beeses, and among others, of the house 20, Spencer-street, Clerkenwell, which was some time since let to a fbreigner of the name of Bourkinn, at the yearly rent of 40/. The rent was regularly paid up to Christmas, 1849, soon after which Bourkinn, becoming under pecuniary difficulties in consequence of the non •payment of certain instal ments of a debt due from him to the defendants, left London and returned to the continent, leaving his wife in the house in an almost destitute state. The quarter's rent due at Lady-day in the present year, not having been paid on the 3d of June, a distress was put into the premises. At that time Mrs. Bourkinn had not the means of paying the sum due. The dis tress was made by the plaintiff's son, Mr. Sylvanus Handley, under an authority from his mother, and the plaintiff; with consent of Mrs. Bourkinn, took as much of the furniture as was valued at the sum of 101., in satisfaction of the quarter's rent distrained for, and it was further agreed that the remainder of the furniture belonging to Mrs. Bourkinn should bus valued to Mr. S,lvanus Handley, nod that he should become the purchaser, which was accordingly done. Mrs. Handley, being desirous of befriending Mrs. Bourkinn in her deserted state, then agreed to allow her to occupy another and a smaller house, situate in Goswell-terrace, and the furniture taken under the distress, and also the furniture purchased by Mr. Handley, were removed thither, and it was agreed that Mrs. Bourkinn should pay 101. for rent up to the expiration of the then current quarter. On the 20th of July the defendants' agent in this country issued execution against Bourkinn, under which that portion of the furniture agreed to be accepted by Mrs. Handley in lieu of payment of the quarter's rent, and also the remainder which had been sold to the plaintiff's son, were seized by the sheriff. The latter had abandoned his claim, not thinking it worth while to contest the point, so that the sole question was as to which of the parties to the issue was entitled to the furniture claimed by Mrs. Handley. Mr. ylvanus Handley, the son of the plaintiff, de posed to the above facts, and in cross-examination stated that he had formerly kept a few terms at the Inner Temple, but finding his mind " not sufficiently acute for the proper understanding of the law," he abandoned that pursuit, and had since been " absorbed in the study of natural history." He acted as broker on the occasion of the distress simply to save Mrs. Bourkinn expense. For the defence it was contended the distress was put in, not for the purpose of securing the amount of the quarter's rent due at Lady-day, which object would have been effected by the statute which obliges the sheriff in cases where execution is issued against a tenant to pay the landlord out of the proceeds a year's rent, should so much be due, but in reality to enable Mrs. Bourkinn to defraud the creditors of her husband. It was also elicited that shortly before the distress was levied Mrs. Bourkinn called on Mrs. Handley, and informed her that threats of execution had been held out by the defendants' agents, under which she expected the goods would be taken. The hurried manner of the distress was also a stupicious circumstance, the goods being immediately taken possession of and carried away without the period allowed by law for replevying being suffered to expire. The jury, after some hesitation, gave a verdict for the defendants. PREROGATIVE COURT, Nov. 7. (Before Sir H. J. FUST.) IN THE GOODS OF JAMES SMITH, ESQ. The deceased, James Smith, Esq., late of Port Louis, in the island of Mauritius, and Assistant Co lonial Secretary there, died on the 14th of July, 1849, having made a will dated the 10th of October, 1845, with a codicil thereto bearing date the 10th or May, 1849. He had been many years domiciled in the Mauritius. The will and codicil were both signed by the testator, but there were no witnesses to either of them, and they had been duly registered in the proper Court at the Mauritius. A doubt arose whether the Ist Victoria, cap. 26 (the Wills Act) ap plied to the wills of persons dying domiciled in the co lonies, which rendered it necessary to bring the case under the notice of this Court. The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE, in moving for probate of the papers, contended that the rule of law was to fol low the grant of the country wherever the party died domiciled. It was proved by affidavits that the French Code Civil was the prevailing law in the Mauritius. The only question for the decision of the Court was, whether the Wills Act did or did not apply to the colonies. It was laid down by Mr. Justice Blackstone, and sustained by other writers, that a sta tute of the English Parliament did not apply to settled or conquered colonies unless it was expressly extended to them. There were no words to that effect in the Wills Act. The Learned JUDGE, after observing that the case was one of great importance, inasmuch as the prin ciple would extend to all colonies, slid he was per fectly satisfied that the deceased was domiciled in the Mauritius ; that the prevailing law there was the Code Civil Francais; that the execution of the papers was good and valid according to that law ; and there fore he would decree probate of them to pass to the executors. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 7. (Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.) IN RR JAMES ROGERS. This insolvent applied for his discharge, which was unopposed. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS asked insolvent what was his trade ? Mr. COOKE, who supported, said the insolvent had formerly been an Italian warehouseman, but had lately been a jobbing dealer in railway shares. The COMMISSIONER said he saw there were some losses by time bargains, which were just a species of gambling. For a man burdened with 6,0001. of debts under a previous bankruptcy, dealing in time bar gains was a blessed , trade, alid it was no wonder that he came to this court. Mr. Coo's remarked that those who had not lived within the influence of the Stock Exchange at the time of the railway mania could not understand the temptations it offered. The Learned COMMISSIONER said the influence of the Stock Exchange could not warrant a man like this in indulging in accommodation bills. The law allowed creditors every opportunity, and if they did not choose to oppose he (the Commissioner) would not; but if the insolvent bad been opposed he would certainly have been remanded. Insolvent was then ordered to be discharged forth with. IN RE THOMAS JOHN BENNETT. This insolvent, who some time since brought an action against the Oriental Steam-packet Cumpany for a breach of contract in refusing to convey him to Portugal, upon the ground that he was an agent of Don Miguel's, to stir up disaffection in that country, applied to be discharged. Mr. Sargood and Mr. Way opposed. A preliminary objection was taken that the insol vent, having described himself in the petition as Thomas John Bennett, had signed his petition as T. Bennett. Mr. Way said he had bills of exchange and letters in which the insolvent had signed his name as T. Bennett and J. Bennett. The Learned COMMISSIONER said the schedule must be amended, and the insolvent must re-advertise by all the names he had ever used. The case was then adjourned, and the bail enlarged POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Sirrell appeared before Alderman Gibbs for final examination upon the charge of having received stolen articles of plate with the knowledge that they had been stolen. Mr. Bodkin attended for the prose.. cation, and Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for the defence. The justice-room was crowded. Mr. Bodkin said he appeared by the direction of the Government to prosecute, under circumstances which were considered to be of great public importance, and he briefly referred to the evidence Hpon the four cases to which the Alderman's attention had been called as having occurred within the jurisdiction of the Man sion-house. It was not his intention to produce any evidence additional to that which had been taken down by Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, on the cases already entered into. Mr. Lewis requested to be informed whether it was the intention of Mr. Bodkin to bring any further charges against the prisoner, who ought in fairness to be informed if any additional accusation were con templated ; and he proceeded to comment upon the evidence of the witnesses in the four cases which had come under the consideration of the magistrate. He L contended that there were not the slightest grounds 'or attributing guilty knowledge to his client, who bad been for many years carrying on an e x t ens i ve trade as a refiner and dealer in plate, and who had never once shown by his conduct, either as regarded the articles in question, or any other goods, the moat remote di.poeition to concealment or prevarication. Mr. Bodkin left the case entirely in the hands of the magistrate. He said . that, as to th e quest i on of Mr. Lewis, on the suhkct of other cases and other proceedings, he thought it necessary to stat e th at in quiries were in progressinto matters in which the prisoner was interested, but further statement than that he did not think proper to make. He, however, assured Mr. Lewis that whatever steps the Govern ment might think proper t o t a k e, t h e prisoner should he treated with perfect fairness. At the same time, he must say that he th oug h t t h e doctrine laid down by Mr. Lewis was fraught with danger to the public. Alderman GIBBS—The question has been left to me by the Learned Counsel, and without observation whether to commit o r no t to comm i t on the charges which have been brought before me, I have to state --- --3° that I have paid the utmost attention to the but a ; not only Meting the ch , racter of the as alf-ctiorg the in!ereAs of the put)lie , ". 0 a self, and courted an investigation - ef the fact that Mr. Sirrell voluPnit'ai;°illl:rs'abrer3ernidnegreid° Tiilo3o.: the eb"rg ess .:- miht bring any f other charges which the police crward against him. The result has been, ,_en' . ,.. sidering the amount of property, about three to". sand m. or four thousand pounds, toned upon hi' F; raises, and that the only chirgas brought aga.inst n re before me, upon which evidence has been nodegivem'3 O f such as might have occurred in the usual he transacting business, that there is was at all aware of the purchase of the articles, and_. as they did not appear to have been defaced, or par, tielly destroyed, or concealed, I consider it to be tel duty to discharge the prisoner. z gS° Loud applause followed the decision of the In trate, and the prisoner was immediately set at libertP MARLBOROUG fl-STREET• irk no proof tha t ‘, Ferdinand Napoleon de Maillepree and .LoW's el , ro h_elnzina Teichert, two foreigners, w ere brought lof A fr. Binghran, charged with h a ving stole n jewellery art'cies from different jewellers' shops. c ity' a ctive It appeared that Brett and 1 - 135 , don, two scu office-cone on Tuesday last, about teD ().- t ~e , were in Cheapside, when they saw the prisoners °.,00 ther, i and, as they answered the description el P e rod w lo had been going about pilfering in other tradesmen's shops, they watched their mo re cod t rne e nts. The prisoners went t o wards the Stranublie, house s c e onstables saw them go together into a Ti n to / in Bedford-street. After making e 913 , °r „ tr eet, the u wh prisoners came out and went to Rege n ,"„:b r ati, are the woman went into the shop of Mr. '""„„tlio jeweller, ove, jeweller, the male prisoner remained outsideZ,o4 watch. d In a few minutes the woman came outof t"r are e. an spoke to the man, and then hurried off in the(' l o t the tion of Hanover square, followed immediatelYi'oo, male te prisoner. The constable followed, 14° ' Of wed to pass the prisoners in Hanover•squate' Wag not suspecting they were watched, were eltn ° , l ,; re eel some .n articles of jewellery. The prisoners re-ebop u t f to Regent. , street, and went together and went jeweller, named West. They ell a nl n e ssor into several other jewellers' anu t ur ned brokers' ari shops. Afterwards the risoners 1 ' 2 %, the into the Strand,and the male prisoner Went in to the pawnbrokers'-shop of Mr. Vaughan, the feilla n ie el P4 / 8 soner waiting outside for a minute or two , e d tbe also went in. City constable Brett folio ° te ala woman into the shop, and told her be was a e °l3 ,: e lia into the 004 and she must consider herself in custody ib r .„ s-- , a , i n a breguet key and gold locket. The O; TO broken English, constable asked her to give him what she h e ' - 0 1 said, "Me no steal any is lief pocket. The female prison held ' up her dresS e d 0 told him to take what wa e s r there. Wi ti)ess I°ll - money fore Police-constable Ha n corroborated the A t lo going statement, and added that he f °ll°WE Ab illi male prisoner into Mr. Vau han's shop' n i 2 cl , Bs put place k a gold key on the counter, g which w e to ok t' too up and began to examine. Witness ' t i le key' prisoner into custody on suspicion of steali °s • o r rtf, i The prisoner declared the key wa s his own P' 0 go. • lockets jo l s e e ' p s a h n s d e p a ir r os c .f h i e ug d eh, the prisoner, and found Of 061 is au P s e i s s s taTt ion io Mr. 6)c aa hril s lll3'° P ° i ll ' i ß io,cu e k g ese e d n tsa t .y -street, said the woman came into triv inef m A or t n r i v ng o l u as n t t , a a iu nd i asked to look 53°0d105101 ao w sff a ke s er de shown thles s. , her,which price. ee thei toldn n prisoner lockets, s eal`' e 0 came into the shop and refused, she p s r h i e ce sieve: Lett iethfie 9 s 3 r 7 i l r eo About two hours . locket, ess. found . in th pos ssehssu s iwo p ne o d 0 1 i hf c i e rh - c ea o p n iii t o., a o r dri eurtel:e oil ; fl irt immediately recognized the articles as he pro of s . e I ec teads 50505. I. petty of his employer, and in the tray whe n tr igo' it for the inspection of the ferna le nose' 'Witness ha examined the tray and ascertained the f 9,0 4 f Charles Hayward, assistant to Mr. W ee , t h ' e ° i n a t ' ° ,l Regent-street, said the prisoners came te g e " - ai r er the shop on Tuesday last, and asked to see sc to ok ti? lockets. The tray aswlisa o• several lockets, passing them quickly to ettee igg° friend,enamelled locket,makingo and produced, u c e ' d , and th t a i t 3 eiw Quid t t b b e e : hut, as witness They asked for ~o ta i, the •• said it was to 10 0 ' 4 10 they asked for one of the nbutsienneess cards , ell to k. quitted the shop. Shortly afterwards u P lice r e t ° r I ? 4 ' whichH ydo had a d c came ner, and which witness been f t ( o )uu h d im in w h ith a loc.ketor the pri l lei r o stolen from the tray. ttheepnosdseissos o le v n ere d h$Cl roc ker The female prisoner an s d aid sh she f had d link hied d h her to knowledgetake the g o o f l d t key. he much that morning, d r thst ° 3igh- t d r e The ere male prie ,ae bet i been merely asked by his to P ledg tbi d companion soy_ gold key, and he consented, not suspecting wrong. robberies,.and said b e e tlia The prisoners were fully committed. RAILWAY SHARE MAi l c' BRISTOL. Nov. 7. or, 0 STOCK EXCHANGE. -- . 1 ha market to-d a y viP ra to ttog, Ilk tive, but without much r2triation in price. T he re d were as follow :—Great Western, 69% —Wit t° ' Shares, 5 1 %. dis.—Midland, 41. LIVERPOOL, Nov, 7. *OP STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to - TV" - follow :—East Lancashire, 874—Lancashire allodollef Consolidated, 46 1 A—Ditto, Fifths, 8 1-16 dis." - , t North- Western, 117 1 4—Ditto, New Quarters , ,; 61. 6 11,! chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 19 1 A--V e it 200,) Preference, 1 2 4 p.—Midland , 41 c.—Ditto, apes, tP, 0 3 South-Eastern and Dover, 19.74—Sheffield, Ib' "Lan Div., par—York and North Midland, 22% T Carlisle, 61%. don, MANCHESTER, Nov. 7 . ifies l STOCK EXCHANGE.— There was a good bu s e fo day, and prices are firm. The transactions we i r rs, 7 Klor l d li , East Lancashire, 8/„ Ditto , Preference, Qua r aria beot"„ cashire and Yorkshire,_ Fifths, 814—Londoa gsPe rr e(o Western, 117—Ditto, New Quarters, 2 1 ,4 61. Ot e l; j: Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 19% —Ditto, ve dis<4ole ence, 2s. 6d p.—North Staffordshire, 1 " ) Sew Eastern and Dove r , 19 11-16—Di tto ( No' 69-16. •-• RETU RN re RAILWAY TRAFFIC na MANCHESTER, BUXT O N, M ATE . CCK , Ao wee j , TION RAILWAY. --Return of Traffic for to. Nov. 3 : Passengers, &c. Merchandise ... „ 0 x 56 l 9 ' _ ••• 0 Total .. VI! of t of 6 refetitli Corresponding week last year 1 LONDON AND BLACK WALL RAILWAY," for the week ending Nov. 3:— X 73! 5 1 0 ° Passengers Goods ... Total ... •••- a , 5 2 763 1 4 t g,) l Corresponding we e k l as t y ea r ••• NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles °P Return of traffic for the week ending 0ct. 4 27 i 3 10 ,‘ 0 Railway and canal .- u tol ul ter° Corresponding week last ear 4, ` .pts y ••• c ei Note. - The above is exclusive of the r :/00 . a under the agreement with the London an d Railway Company. grlif6C CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD Hmi..w.A.T.' week ending Nov. 3:— 1 0 1 MAIN LING. 48 L 14 ti Passengers ... ..• ..• --' 71 1 8 Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 4 6g t o 3 0 Goode, cattle, &c. ••• 575 Mails ... 4 4:2 164 16 Total --' 6 •• ••• ••• MOLD. £30 5 Passengers,6 21211 Parcels, H. C. an d D. ... 10›..• Goode, cav e , &c, Total ... ••• ••• . €143 1 , 1 ,1 STEAM-BOATS. x!:3, Passengers 11>•-•: Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 1 5 € 1 46 „ c op- Total ... ••• SA Y SHREWSBURY A ND BIRMINGHAM RA IL 7 5 ceipts for the week en di ng N ov . 3 :-- £ 315 6 Passengers ... 17 1 4 It Carl iages, hors es , an d p arce l s 2/ 4 0 Live stock --• "" 19 5 Merchandise and minerals • 5 9 .£55" 6 11° 0 " Total .. ... .•• Corresponding period last year.. BIRTHS. ofi' PO OF A SON. 1 ., s y Ao S f he 1 On the 6th inst., in Devonshire-place, -- -(1 - vr ifell t if o' On the 3d inst., at Wrexham Rectory, t ub . Pfr e A. A. Kempe. , .4 the theOßnetvh.e J s o t h h n in p s a t i , te a s t o L th eonard's-terrace , Ch elsea fis 1:10 0. OF A DAUGHTER. r the (t, t he On the 4th i ns t., at H eav i tree , the lady °'' 10 Addington. m „. 04 pt0.. , On the t,ll inst., at Montpelier-square, P'",-I,,irdg• of W. Locke, F late - jo on L. — atier ° .sq., o f t h e sth rago ITP - of On the 6th inst., at St 4f g -RRlE e P s: ll3"ver-Sclier Ga°P.'ll re, 0 La Touche Hatton, Esq.,.Ca e p o t r afn in the Gir e .: l' ai - (eri' only son of Rear-Admiral Hatton, to 11°31 the ea, daughter of Sir William de Bathe, Bart. a ster , no4:ot On the sth inst., at the parish church, Don e , t he v 0 J. B. Brodrick, rector of Sneatou and chaplain t hit rPe , of Gordon, to Fanny, daughter of the Rev. I?ri,ork. of Doncaster and Broadbworth, and canon cm - - P 171 h DIED ; 1 2 10 8e P „„ I ._ On the Ist inst., at Gosport, Hants, CaPt B-- iPV Larcom, RN., agd 55. ° " F. fi 9 "' 94 On the 4th inst., at Cambridge, Ernest n , fla ke, manuel College, M.A., and son of the lat e O Oll4 Cambridge. t- ge° ll ad On the sth inst.,_ at Shropham•bal., vot f o llt. , e Ilf 10 Hernsworth, Eeq., Deputy-Lieutenant for . ,l‘, bop! gal , ;Oil ) On the 6th inst., at Devonshire-square, -10'' Burleig b ' o d Ann. only daughter of the late Dir. B. ro islle , Hedingbam, Essex, aged 33. ri laplisol. g. cw- On the 6th inst., in Oxford-terrace, •-• stirlo e r; of l i i I Si, Anne, relict of the late J. Bean, , - , s c i'' a geo Jamaica. On the sth inst., in Bell-yard, Lin Veelnev; '...genr la te P' wi Valentine Richard, eldest son of Mr. . (I t o o f tho On the 3d inst., at Dublin, Jannet' aged 73' Fraser, Esq. Sur re y' At Margate, Mr. J. Joy, of Cheam, 0 1 Of P_O 11)151 11(11 L innon: Printed and Publi3nod by 0£6 03, ..... 5 ga ° 4 No. 112, Strrlnd, Printer, s t The Sun t oo vir Strand, in the Precinct o f the Savoft Middlesex ' Friday, November 8, 185th 1