The Sun. — London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

F 1 4 OF 111.4 HZ t o f - 1 / LAra , 1 9 4 ; 4 , g , + SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock STATE OE' TRADE. (Prom the Manchester Guardian of this day. MANCHESTER, JAN. 25.—The New York steamer, which should have been in Liverpool on Sunday night or yesterday morning, has not arrived. The want of her intelligence respecting cotton has rather tended to quiet ness in our market, by disposing parties to wait her coming before they do much. And the advance of the rate of interest to 3 per cent. increases the spirit of caution amongst buyers. Still the general bias of prices, both in yarns and goods, is inclining upward ; and warps and cops of the medium counts, adapted to the manufacture of printing-cloths, are quoted at per pound dearer. Spinners, at large, are well situated as regards orders, as are also the makers of nearly all kinds of goods but domestics ; and this, with the continuance of a steady demand, imparts a tone of confidence and firmness to the market, which sustains even those fabrics just referred to as least favourably situated. All kinds of printers are in good request and very scarce, particularly the lower and medium reeds; and the demand continues moderate for the wider shirt ings, jacconets of low and medium qualities, T cloths, and long cloths; and for all these full rates are obtain able. The Liverpool cotton market is telegraphed as firm to-day, with sales amounting to 6,000 bales. Yes terday's business was 7,000 bAles, at rather hardening prices. HALIFAX, JAN. 22.—With the exception of a few more sales of mixtures, there is to-dayno perceptible difference in the aspect of trade in our Piece Hall. The demand for worsted goods, of every description, is much below the supply, and prices are generally below the cost of production. Yarns are still looking up, and on some few sorts an advance is readily obtained. The price of wool is firm ; and the raising of the rate of discount by the bank has had the salutary effect of giving a check to speculative purchases. HUDDERSFIELD, JAN. 25.--We have no important feature to report of our market this week. Business con tinues much the same as last. There has been a good demand for goods of low class in the Cloth Hall, conse quently stocks are kept extremely low. Manufacturers complain that they cannot obtain any advance in , prices to correspond with the advance in the raw material,, of which the tendency iafstill upwards. The warehouses generally have been very busy during the vveelF. . ROCHDALE, JAN. 24.—We have had a very fair de mand for pieces tts-day, and the manufacturers have ob tained rather better prices, but nothing equal to meet the late advance of the raw material. Wool is scarce, espe cially English wool, and the tendency of its price is gradually upwards. • LIVERPOOL GENERAL PRODUCE MARKET.—JAN. 25. Tea : The market is steady, and sales to a considerable extent have taken place out of the recent arrivals at fair prices. Scented orange pekoes and capers are in request at full rates. Coffee : Operations have been almost entirely sus pended during the week, and there is no change to re mark. Sugar : Plantation descriptions have only been in par tial request until within the last day or two, when rather more has been doing, the sales consisting of nearly 600 hhds Barbadoes, at 35s to 38s 6d ; and Demerara, at 32s 3d to 34s ; 3,000 bags East India, including dates, at 35s to 36s 9d ; Madras, at 30s 9d to 33s 6d ; and graining Bengal, at 38s to 40s 6d ; also 4,250 mats Mauritius (ex quay) at 34s 6d ; 3,000 bags good brown Pernams have been taken, to arrive at an outport, at 18s ; 300 bags and barrels at 19s 6d to 20s ; and 40 cases brown Bahia, at 164 9d per ewt.—Of molasses no sales ; a parcel of clayed Cuba offered to-day was bought in. Rum. The sales are confined to about 150 puncheons Demerara, without material change. Rice has met with ready sale at auction, 4,000 bags and pockets Bengal having found buyers, at 12s to 12s 6d per cwt. Dyewoods.—The market remains very steady, and the business embraces 60 tons St. Domingo logwood, at ; some parcels of Lima wood, at 131. to 151. 5s ; 150 tons Sapan wood, atls/. ; and 40 tons Savanilla fustic, at Si. per ton. Drysalteries : Argols are looking up; and 200 cases Perugia and Bologna white sold at 52s 6d to 568 6d ; 85 cases red Florence at 46s to 52s ; and Sicilian at 428 ; red Oporto held for higher rates. Berries are more inquired for, and small sales, at previous rates. Madders are steady, and few offering. 200 bales Tur key roots taken at steady rates. Several hundred bags sumac have changed hands, Tyrol at 7s 6d to 7s 9d, and Palermo at 14s to 15s 3d. Brimstone continues in good demand, at advanced rates ; about 300 tons sold, chiefly at 51. 15s to 61. per ton. 1,000 bags saltpetre have been disposed of at 28s to 29s 6d, 4 to 24 per cent. viraction ; 100 bales Gambier at 24s ; 200 bags sago frFur at 22 s 6d to 22s 9d ; 40 bales Munjeetat 40s ; a few chests fine gum arabic, at 57s ' • 65 tons St ra it s ti n , at Si.; 1,000 b ags M yra b olams, at 9s 6d per cwt ; and a flaw hundred tons nitrate of soda, at the late advanced price. Of Madras indigo offered last week, 16 chests sold at 3s 5d to 4s 6d per lb. Oils—Olive oil being only in limited supply, holders are firm ; Lisbon brings 651. to 661., and Gallipoli 681. per tun. Fish oils have been taken to a fair extent, at previous rates. Tallow continues very quiet, and P. Y. C. are rather lower. Jute continues in active demand, and the sales for the week reach 2,500 bales, at prices varying from 141. 108 up to 181. 15s. 100 bales Manilla hemp are reported at 411. 10s to 421. per ton. BIILLION.—The next published bank account of bu lion will show an increase. .RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GLARGDPir AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —Traffic re turn for the week ending Jan. 22, /853 £3,792 11 6 Corresponding week last year 3,521 11 7 Increase in 1853 £270 19 -- CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 22, 1853 .2150 4 5 Corresponding week last year l5O 12 7 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. Li V ERPOOL, JAN. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market has been firm all day, and closes with an improving tendency. The following are the latest sales —Caledonian, 323 ; East Lancashire, 18$ ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 780 ; ditto, Fifths, 4} dis. ; Leeds Northern, 151 ; London and North Western, 120 ; ditto, Fifths, 2 p. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 30k ; Midland, ni ; North British, 9 1-16 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23)1 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 174 ; York and North Midland, 2? ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin coln 101 shares, 11; Dutch Rhenish, 2i dis. (From die Weekly Dispatch.) Mn. EDITOR,—It is• useless to disguise the part which the press plays, and must play, in the con cerns of the world. Like all other powers, it must look to be sland ere d, an d i ts answer to libels must be its own conduct. It is built upon the right to make all facts and opinions known, and can only put down perversions with the clear statement of truth. It is the public opinion embodied and expressed in the most wonderful organization of mind and material means ever yet brought to bear ; and its final result ought to be, that, by the comparison of all statements and all reasonings, the world may become one well-instructed Parliament, deciding all disputes by the authority of truth and reason. If it does not eventually become this great tribunal, it will be because it betrays its office, and I look to this much-to-be-desired con summation, because it is the plainest way of show ing its present duties. Just now the French Moniteur is accusing the English press of exciting an enmity between the two nations. It chooses as its examples the Morning Chronicle, the Times, and the Morning Advertiser—an odd conjunction in the estimation of our public. Of course, the injuries complained of are• attacks upon the Imperial Court and Govern ment. The Moniteur affects to quote from the more important of the English authorities the fol lowing words :—" A Senate more cowardly (lathe) than that of Tiberius has given to the Emperor the most exorbitant power, and destroyed by a single blow all the guarantees which remained to the na tion. Favourites gorged with honours, functiona ries without a conscience, unheard-of exactions and crimes—such is the Goverment. But chastisement is preparing ; already Europe is on the alert, and the year will not pass over without something ter rible breaking forth." Now herein is just the mo dicum of truth which would make some believe in the whole assertion. The Times, in a very mis placed and gratuitous sentence, did liken the French Senate to that of Tiberius, not, perhaps to the ad vantage of the former. I remember being struck, in the perusal of the day's paper, with a sense of 'needless provocation. But the sentence given in the Moniteur is atrociously garbled, and the most offensive part of it is altogether invented. What ought to be said of the Moniteur, the official organ of the French Government, whose leading articles are supposed to be inspired, if not written by Louis Napoleon himself, when, in denouncing other journals for writing that which may lead to disturb a good understanding, it forges itself a direct pro vocative to war ? If Louis Napoleon be really the author of the passage in question, there is no doubt whatever that it is his design to plead, at his con venience, a threat against the French nation, as a motive for taking up arms to defend it. Ido not hesitate to say that the entire sentence, threatening " chastisement," is an utter fabrication. Ido not believe that any journal. representing any ap preciable portion of public opinion in this country, has ever tended towards the idea of ar z foreign interference with the affairs of France —of a foreign sympathy, avenging any do mestic party, or any domestic wrong. If there has been one idea, universally predominant, strangely fitting itself to the views of all English factions, it has been that France ought to be left at the fullest liberty to settle its own Government at its own will, and that we have nothing to call in question but its external actions, and the policy. that may lead to them. The acknowledgment of the Empire, instantaneous and unreserved as it has been, was quite as much the act of the entire people as of the Ministry, a homage paid by our states men to the general will rather than any decision of their own. Any renewal of the madness of 1793 has been most repugnant to the convictions, the experience, the feelings of every politician through out the land, and a falser libel upon British inten tions or " desires 'co u ld not be put forth th an th e no tion of chastisement" for the deeds which France may think proper to act within her own territories. Such a provocation, and I speak as a jealous watcher, has certai n ly n ever b een put forward by the Times. If, then, the forgery is the deliberate device of the Imperial Government, we must look to the effects to which it directly leads. The Government may be desirous enough to identify itself with all France in a common wrong, real or pretendad. Louis Napoleon has certainly been looked upon with the greatest distrust by the English press, and he has been subject to the severest censures, some necessary and dignified, some petulant and outrageous - some taking th e easy occas i on for the exhibition of much effective rhetoric in the style of clever young gentlemen discussing, in their orato rical class, the assa ss i na ti on of Caesar by Brutus. Of this latter description would have been the let ters of an "Englishman," published in the Times, had they been written by an Englishman at all ; and not, as I conjecture, by a refugee, eloquent beyond the greater number of gifted men, and burning to identify English resentment with the wrongs of his own country. But all these have been launched at Louis Napoleon and his adher ents ; in no instance has France been attacked, in no instance insulted, unless, perhaps, by pity. The English press has always treated the French nation as oppressed and grieved, and its last thought would have been that of avenging that nation's sufferings, real or supposed, enforced or voluntary, upon itself. When the result of the last "plebiscite " was made known, even this ground was given up. France had either accepted or condoned the deeds of the 2d of December ; and all who were rational among our. public writers, if they wondered at the deci sion, felt bound to bow to it. Thenceforth they ani madverted in a totally different strain. They cri ticised public acts and schemes, exactly as they would treat measures propounded by their own Government according to their value and worth lessness, and they mainly considered English in terests in the consequences likely to result from such proceedings. Some journals, of course, con tinued a vulgar strain of abuse because their readers might be excited and amused by it • but such pub lications have no more to do w ith thei formation or direction of any effectual public opinion, than the poet who furnishes the tragedies to Richardson's company, or the gentleman who exhibits the monuments in Westminster Abbey. If, then, • the French Government would desire to impress upon the French nation, that the nation is the object of threats or of abuse from the English press, or from the English people, the falsehood can only be propagated with the intention of stir ring up hatred, of identifying the people with the empire in one common apprehension of the British power and resentment against it, of securing popu larity in France by raising the spirit of war against England. How base, how murderous, how detes table such a course would be, needs no remark to show ; but unless the Moniteur can disconnect itself from the French Government, or can tell us how it has fallen upon quotations which never ex isted in the original, this is the stigma which it, perforce, brings upon its master. It is still the duty of the English press, and this article in the Moniteur most emphatically shows it, while it abstains from comment or uses it with the most dignified calmness, to give full attention to facts, and to be keenly alive to their natural re sults. There are some indications, which, quite apart from passion or pre-occupation are tho roughly unmistakeable. The confiscation of the Orleans property was one of these. It s t ruc k a t the very basis of right, and the effect throughout Europe was one of profound reprehension and alarm. Lately we have had the establishment of a bank of " credit iciobilier," empowered to raise eight times its paid-up capital by the emission of paper, that it may lend upon inconvertible securi ties. No experienced merchant's clerk in Loudon can misinterpret such an act as that. He would, indeed, be deeply concerned for the honour of his employer's name, if it should appear as connected with such a scheme. A Government promoting such plans may take its choice of being called dupe or accomplice ; but at once it forfeits confidence, and thinking men calculate mainly upon what it will do to avert the consequences which fall forsee —whether it will endure the storm it shall have raised at home, or whether it will seek to conjure it by directing its lightnings abroad. Again, we have two significant facts which should be taken in conjunction. France, with no intercourse with America which is not now well provided for, is about to devote 600,0001. a-year to promoting the establishment of a comm erc i a l pac k e t fl eet, to steam between Cherbourg and the western con tinent. This latter idea is, indeed, questioned, time only will show if it be true or false. I will hope the latter. Cherbourg is a war port—a Portsmouth, not a Southampton ; and Havre and Bordeaux are the real seats of commerce. Let it be frankly admitted that France has every right to provide its naval reserve by the means which are so effective in Eng land, the creation or encouragement of a mercantile navy. Let us believe that France .may be as ap prehen'sive for its shores as we justly are for the perfect security of our own. It is not every step towards naval efficiency in France that should alarm us. But herein is, at least, preparation for con test. Let us look a little further. Our own budget tells to all the world what we intend to do. It is b e y on d the competence of our Ministry to take nuns voted for one purpose a n d app l y them to mother. Till lately the same practice has prevailed n France. But it is expressly provided in the new dition of the constitution, that what the Govern ment may choose to save upon one item, it may appropriate to any other. The gross sum is its own, when once voted. If, therefore, we see a million sterling devoted to railways, while there is a nominal diminution in army expenses, there no security, for France or for us, that MANCHESTER, JAN. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There has been a rather active demand for stock, and a fair business was clone at lower prices :—Caledonian, 32 9-16 ; East Lancashire, 18i ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 79 ; Preston and Wyre halves, 11 prem. ; London and North Western, 20 ; Sheffield, 303 ; Midland, 77 ; North British, 9 ; South Eastern, 23i ; Altrincham, prem. BIinIINGHATtf, JAN. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Railway Share market was more animated to-day, and prices a shade firmer. Shrews b t 11i ury rind Birmingham Preferen ce s h ares were d one a. LEEDS, JAN. 25. STOCK' EXCTIANGE.—We have had another inactive market this morning, and prices still indicate a downward tendency. The following are the closing transactions : North Western, 81 is 3d ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnshires, 101 Prof., 11; South Eastern and Dovers, ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781 ; London and North Western stock, 119 i. ANOTHER, SUICIDIL IN MILLBANK.—Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, yesterday held an inquest at Millbank Prison, touching the death of Joseph Calla chan, aged 20 years, a convict under sentence of trans portation for seven years for robbery and assault. The deceased convict was received into the prison on the 26th of April, 1852, from Glasgow, having been four months in separate confinement before his arrival. He first came under the notice of the principal authorities at Millbank on the 29th of September following, having been reported for making use of threatening language to the officers, and disturbing the wards. The governor, not liking the look of him, sent him to D r . B a ll , b y whom he was ordered into the infirmary, where he stayed a month; but being believed to be shamming insanity, he was turned back to separate confinement, when he con fessed that he did sham, and that another prisoner told . him to do so to get to a lunatic asylum. He began his bad conduct again, and became so violent that it was necessary to put a strait waistcoat on him, having been previously punished with three days bread and water. All the officers who had charge of him said that they believed he was sane and rational enough, an opinion which was also partly shared in by th e higher authori ties. However, on Sunday last he managed to fasten the second round of his neckcloth in a hook i n the wall of his cell, not more than 13 inches he weight o f fromhis the g roun d , and the first round tightening with t body inclining from it he soon became strangled. He had the strait waistcoat on at the time, and from experi ments afterwards made by o found that h e must have hoonkeecolfthe warders it was it on the . hammock hook w ith hi s mouth, ass i ste d par tly by hi s hands. Rendle, the resident surgeon, was instantly on the spot, and t r i e d to restore animation, but without effect. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased destr oyed hi mse l f whilst in a state of temporary insanity, brought on by separate confinement. JEICITT LI/M.—Mind°. Jenny Lind Coldschmidt has just presented 2. Consid erable sum in money, clothes, bedding, and provisions to two charitable institutions recently established at Stockholm—the hospital of St. Magdalen and the institution of the Deaconesses. The celebrated cantatrice, who is at present residing at Dres deras promised to visit Stockholm in the Holy Week, to. c k e part in two religious concerts, which are to be given in the cathedral f or th e benefit of the poor. In ' these concerts Mendelssohn's oratorio of St. Paul, and Handel's oratorio of Messiah., with the instrumentation have n ever yet of Mozart, are to be performed. hey been executed in public in Stockholm THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRESS ' the tables may not be reversed on any caprice, on any pretended provocation, or any necessity provided for the purpose. The doings at Cherbourg may be wonderfully expedited by a little change of application. Look at the article in the &natus Consultum, gentlemen of the Peace Society. And I would also bring to your notice, as an incident of some significance, that the Minis ter of War of the Sardinian kingdom took occasion twice, in his last reported speech upon his estimates to recal to the minds of his hearers in the Parlia ment that " war is not improbable." Perhaps being nearer to the volcano, he has greater dread of the eruption. • In all this there is much to think of, much to treat of wisely, little to dread. The task of the press cannot be mistaken—it is to handle a 'serious subject seriously. This is no time for the exhibi tion of juvenile vigour or of craftily studied rhetoric in stinging sentences. If the press takes upon it self the dignity of statesmanship it must prove itself capable of the office. It must not court the frivolous —aye, and the few —among its readers by a mere flourish of its weapons. The business of life is not a tournament, not a constant exhibition of mere dexterity. The main quality in a journalist is judgment. The higher he places his preten sions, the more certain is this truth. He is a warrior, not a gladiator. He is to look to the purpose and end of his efforts. What can be the aim of such a paper as the Daily News, at the very moment that a grave and eventful dispute exists between the French Government and the press of this country, in comparing Louis Napoleon with Captain Macheath, and telling his English guests at the Tuileries that their host will not become their plundererif his necessities do not compel him ? Is their no more worthy and equally effectual way of keeping the English people on their guard against possible aggression, now that the Daily News has left off opposing the levy of the militia, and believes that the treason which would keep recruits from its ranks may prove a public danger ? Does the Daily News imagine, when it abuses the French Imperial Court, acknowledged now by all the European powers, and makes our own Ambassador at Paris a partner in the dis grace—does it believe that it does this as the representative of any part of the Eng lish public ? Does it think that one voice will join its hue and cry of insane and vulgar pro vocation ? And if it acts without hope of so com promising its fellow -countrymen, to what does it pretend beyond the character of a contemptible brawler offering offence for pure ruffianism Does it hold itself to be pernicious or impotent ? To provoke war or to be despised ? What Englishman is willing to risk the least evil of contest to please the Daily News? What Englishman does not now expect from his newspaper the solid advice and in formation of a friend, not amusement from the grimaces of a hired jester ? The people will not countenance such incitements to great evil. We are, or rather our Government is, the unwor thiest on record, ready for defence. The good of the world is strong enough to hold down the evil, if the well-intentioned possess prudence. We have only to refrain "from all that may disgrace our dis cretion or weaken our means of maintaining peace. CAUSTIC. of a half per cent. upon the amount, was that for the loan of the money for one week ? The Witness-- - Sometimes for a week, sometimes for a longer period. Sometimes I l en t the prisoner money without bills of lading. Mr. Wontner—Did you charge him one-third per cent. for the loan of the money for a single day ? The Witness—Yes, we did. Mr. Wontner—What would that be per annum ? The Witness—l could not reckon it per annum, but for a week it would be the same as for a month. I have been to the lodging of the prisoner's wife since the last examination. I went yesterday of my own accord, for the purpose of expressing my s y mpa th y f or th e s i tuat i on of the prisoner's wife. The mother was out when I called. I did not shut the mother up in a *room, and search her boxes or her basket. I did not search any of her goods. I was accompanied by a messenger from the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. Wontner—Then you did not make any search of her goods at all ? Witness—l did search, but only from erroneous in formation received by me, and I did not find what I looked for. Re-examined by Mr. Ballantine—l went to the, lodgings of the prisoner's wife with a messenger of the Court of Bankruptcy, who was present during the whole time. No search was made by anybody except the messenger. Mr. Millis Coventry, one of the Society of Friends, said '—l am a partner in the firm of Coventry and Shepherd, who carry on business as corn-factors in White Hart court, Lombard-street. I produce eight bills of lading which I received from the prisoner. I received them at different dates. Ido not recollect that I received them from him personally, but I had communication with him respecting them both before and after I received them. I cannot recollect any particular conversation with him, but they were received in the way of business at my office, either by myself, my partner, or my clerk. One of the bills of lading is by the Auguste Adolph, from Dantzic-28 lasts 32 scheffels of wheat ; this is dated the sth of December last. I have three of the 3d of January of the present year, one of the 20th of De cember last, one of the 22d of October, another of the 3d of January, and another of the 28th of December. To one of them I have no date. I have looked over the bills of lading produced by Mr. Schuloff, and find that numbers 1,3, 4, 5,6, 7,8, an d 9, represen t th e same cargoes. I cann o t say that lam very familiar with the signatures of the persons purporting to be the shippers of these cargoes, although I have frequently seen them. I have previously had bills of lading from each of the shippers. I believe the signature to the bill of lading produced not to be genuine. I might have taken them in the course of trade, as one frequently takes them, without examination : After these bills of lading were deposited with me the whole property in the cargoes was vested in me. Mr. Edward White said—l am partner in the firm of Farren, Young, and White, corn-factors in Mark-lane. I produce a bill of lading which was deposited with me by the prisoner. I cannot say with me personally. I may have bad conversation with the prisoner on the sub ject of it, both before and after I received it, and it went to the prisoner's account. I find a duplicate of that bill of lading amongst those now shown to me ; it is No. 2. We received it on the 22d November, 1852. Mr. Schuloff further examined—l cannot mention the precise amount I have advanced on the bills of lading of which duplicates are in the hands of other parties, but it is somewhere about 9,0001. Mr. R. Sutherland : I reside at 13, Gloucester-place, New-road. I was clerk to the prisoner for 14 months. I recollect the Bth inst. I saw my master last at half past three on that day. As he was leaving I asked him if he knew about some bills of which notice had been left by the bankers. He replied that he had taken them up. He did not then, or at any time previously, tell me that he was going to leave for Newcastle, or for any other place. I did not know he was going away, and I did not see him again until he was in custody. Mr. Eallantine : I dare say, sir, after what has been now proved, you will agree with me that it is not neces sary to go to the expense of bringing the shippers of these goods from foreign countries in order to prove that these documents are forgeries, and to show that they were written without any authority, inasmuch as it is quite clear that the depositing these bills of lading with one person is a virtual parting with the property ; that the depositing of duplicate bills with other parties is a representation that the property has not been parted with ; and as that is in itself a very grave fraud, and in volving a very serious punishment, I think it sufficient to ask you to commit upon that charge. Sir R. W. Carden : It is clear from the evidence that money has been obtained from two parties upon dupli cate bills of lading, and therefore the prisoner will be committed for trial for obtaining, by false pretences, 9,0001. of Messrs. Schuloff, with intent to defraud them. On being asked, rafter the usual caution, whether he had anything to say, the prisoner again said he should leave his defence to Mr. Wontner. He was fully committed on both charges. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1853 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ~,,. BOW-STREET.—George Coates and Mary, his wife, were brought before Mr. Jardine for further examina tion, on suspicion of having caused the death of an in fant ohdd. The prisoners lodged at 4, Little White Lion-street, and had the care of the deceased child, whose mother paid them a weekly allowance for nursing it. One after noon last week both the prisoners returned home to their lodgings in a state of drunkenness, and went to bed. About seven o'clock in the evening a woman named Hollis, living in the same house, was called into the room by Coates to help him to look for a handker chief, and she then saw the child in bed, almost black from suffocation, and quite dead. A policeman was sent for, and when he arrived he found the male prisoner ac cusing his wife with the murder of the child, which she then had in her arms ; but afterwards they both declared that it was accidentally suffocated. The inquiry was remanded till after the coroner's in quest, and Mr. R. Stephenson, a surgeon, of Little St. Andrew-street, now attended to state that he had made a post mortem examination, and found that death was caused by suffocation. He had discovered a quantity of vomited food in the child's windpipe, and he was of opinion that death resulted from it without external violence. This being also the opinion of the coroner's jury, the prisoners were discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Randolph, I?outh,, de scribed as a gentleman, and formerly in the army, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having vio lently assaulted Lieut. Alfred Cooper, of the Indian army, at the East India United Service Club in St. James's-square. Lieut. Cooper said he was at the East India Club, No. 15, St. James's-square that day, when the defendant sent to request an interview in the reception-room for visitors, on a subject which formed a matter of dispute between them. The defendant demanded the restora tion of a letter which was in his possession, and on re ceiving a positive refusal he, without warning, commenced a violent assault on him. The defendant seized him by the throat and struck him several severe blows on the side of the head. So violent was the assault that he was quite powerless to defend himself, and was nearly stran gled, and had he not succeeded in attracting the atten tion of the servants of the establishment, his life would have been placed in great danger. Complainant added that, had he been disposed to defend himself, he could not have done so from having recently fractured his arm. He neither did strike nor could have struck the de fendant. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was quite ignorant that the defendant had sustained any in jury to his arm. The assault was of the nature of a scuffle between them, and to prove that it could not have been so violent as described, Lieut. Cooper himself went for the assistance of the servants. With regard to the origin of the affray, that involved circumstances of a painful nature and included pers on s o f th e highest7re spectability. It was to avoid exposure that he begged the complainant, as a father, as a man, and as a friend, to give up a particular letter. It was the refusal to comply with this request which led to the sub sequent struggle. • Lieut. Cooper said, if the magistrate required it, he had a witness in court to rebut the defendant's state ment. Mr. Hardwick considered the assault sufficiently proved, and, as he should send the case to the sessions, any further evidence could be brought forward at the trial. The defendant was ordered to find bail, two in 501., and himself in 1001., to answer the charge at the ses sions. WESTMINSTER.—A foreign gentleman, who gave his name Steph,anos Xenos, was summoned by a cab driver for eightpence under the following peculiar cir cumstances. John Blake stated that, on the night of the 17th in stant, he was called by a servant from the rank at the top of the Vauxhall Bridge-road, to take up at 2, Bel grave-street, South, where defendant got into his cab and desired to be driven through St. James's-park to Palace-chambers, St. James's -street. Complainant told the gentleman that no hackney cab was allowed to go through the park, but that he would take him the other way, which would not occupy him above three or four minutes more. The gentleman said he was often driven through the park at night, and upon complainant's re peating that he could not drive him through that way, defendant desired him to open the door, and got out. Complainant followed him and demanded eightpence, which the gentleman refused to pay, and ultimately gave the driver his card. Mr. Arnold—What distance was it from the stand to where you had to take the gentleman up ? Complainant--About 150 or 200 yards. The defendant said that about a fortnight ago he was driven by the complainant across the park to Palace. chambers, when, although he paid the driver more than his" fare, he demanded something in addition, and con ducted himself in so insulting and offensive a manner that he (defendant) looked for a policeman to give him in charge. When the cab was fetched upon the present occasion he discovered, to his surprise, that the driver was the same man who had so misconducted himself, and when he desired him to drive through the park, he refused. Ho (defendant) had repeatedly been driven through St. James's-park after ten o'clock at night, and after he had got out of complainant's cab and was going to hire another, complainant said something to the man to prevent his taki ng hi m , as h e believed, uless he paid extra fare for the park. Mr. Arnold said that that might have been ; drivers might have eluded the vigilance of the person at the gate at a late hour at night, but that did not constitute a right, nor was it material whether the driver crossed with defendant a fortnight ago ; because if he had done wrong then, it was no reason he should repeat it. He considered the driver was perfectly justified in refusing to take the gentleman across the park, and there was nothing in the case to relieve the defendant from his liability to pay the driver for his being called off the stand. Defendant was ordered to pay the Bd., and ss. costs, THAMES.--Captain Ridley Wilson, master of the brig Fifteen, was finally examined, charged with scut tling and sinking the Essex Lass, of which he had been master two years since last Christmas. Mr. Child, of the firm of Wire and Child, appeared for certain underwriters on the part of the prosecu tion, and Mr. Ballantine, instructed by Mr. Smith for the defence. The principal witness was a lad named Cadmore, who stated that whilst at the helm he saw the prisoner bore three holes with an augur through the bottom- of the Essex Lass, whereupon she began to fill, and, though all hands were called to the pump, she filled so rapidly that they were compelled to take to the boats and row ashore, the captain having previciusly cut away the lar board and starboard pOrts with an axe. This evidence was to a certain extent confirmed by two witnesses named Cook and Masson. After w hearing u evidence b i a s e t o di t d h e n a o m t o a u p n p t e f a o r r w t o h i c b h e the up urged that there was no motive for the alleged offence ; that according to the captain's statement the whole was a gross and wicked fabrication ; and that, as the evidence stood, the magistrate should dismiss the charge. Mr. Yardley said the case was one which prohibited a magistrate from taking upon himself the functions of a jury. No motive for the destruction of the vessel had been as yet adduced, but two facts as regarded the port holes had been sworn to by three witnesses, and it was not attempted to be shown that such a course would lighten or alleviate her. Much depended on the credi bility of the witnesses, referring, as their testimony did, to a fact said to have occurred more than two years ago. The charge was a se - ious one, and he (Mr. Yardley) had, in the first instance, refused to take bail ; but, from the different aspect which the case had since taken, he would now accept bail—the prisoner himself in 4001., and two sureties of 2001. each. The owner of the Fifteen and the owner of the lost brig Essex Lass, immediately presented themselves, and were accepted. In holding the prisoner to bail, Mr. Yardley said that, as far as regarded the underwriters and their legal ad visers, he certainly must say they had pursued•a, proper course on the occasion. The subject was one demand ing inquiry, and he would not prejudice the case by any observations. The depositions were then taken at length, and the requisite bail having been accepted, the prisoner was committed for trial. FROM THE LONDON QAZETTE of YESTERDAY. .~~~ FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 17 The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Stephen Henry Sulivan, Esq., now her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General in the Republic of Chili, to be her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul- General in the Republic of Peru. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Captain the Honourable Edward Alfred John Harris, R.N., now her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul- General in the Republic of Peru, to be her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General in the Republic of Chili. THE FORGERIES IN THE CORN TRADE. At the Mansion-house yesterday, Robert Ferdinand Pries, charged with having feloniously forged account able receipts for goods, namely, 7,313 quarters of wheat, and uttered the same, knowing them to be forgeries, and also for having obtained a large sum of money upon false pretences, was brought up before Sir Robert W. Carden for final examination. The justice-room was crowded with mercantile men. Mr. Ballantine, instructed by Messrs. Van Sandau and Co., and Messrs. Crowder and Maynard, appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Wontner for the defence. The interest was increased by the report which had been spread by some of the newspapers, that there were grounds for believing that the prisoner had transmitted large sums of money to the Continent. Mr. William Frederick Ingelow was then sworn, and stated that the date at which he had called at the house of the prisoner was Saturday, the Bth inst. I have not seen the prisoner write. Mr. Ballantine—ln your former deposition you say, " I am perfectly able to judge of his writing by his cor respondence ;" do you wish to snake any explanation of that answer ? The Witness—l ought to have said from cheques and documents, more than from correspondence. Mr. Wontner—liave you ever seen any of his corres pondence ? The Witness —Yes. Mr. Wontner—Was it in a German character 1 The Witness—l have seen his correspondence in a German character. Mr. Wontner—Have you ever seen any of his corres pondence that was not in a German character ? The Witness—l do not remember having seen any letters in a German character. Mr. Wontner—Have you ever seen any of hisland writing, except on a cheque once or twice ? Witness--I have seen many cheques. Mr. Ballantine--That is, you have seen nothing but cheques ? Witness—At this moment Ido not remember having seen anything but cheques in his handwriting in the English character. I have not been to the prisoner's lodgings since the last examination. Ballantine said he had now concluded his evi dence with respect to this charge, and asked for a com mittal. Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) then proceeded to read the depositions which were taken on the two previous occasions. Sir R. W. Carden (addressing the prisoner)—lt is now forging my dutynamely, o r feloniously 7,si 3 accountable to eccormineiipttsyofourfogrootdrisa,l for quarters of wheat, and uttering the same, knowing them to be forgeries. The prisoner was then asked, after the usual caution, whether he wished to say anything in answer to the charge ; he replied, " I leave it to my solicitor, Mr. Wontner." Mr. Wontner—We do not propose to enter into any defence now, but it is quite right that I should make one observation. There seems to be an impression afloat that Mr. Pries had secreted a large quantity of money arising from the transactions which have been given in evidence. I am sure it will be found in the sequel that nothing of the sort has taken place ; that Mr. Pries has not appropriated a shilling of the money which has arisen from any of his mercantile transactions ; and I am the more emboldened to say thus much, because I see present the official assignee (Mr. Patrick Johnson) who has been through his accounts, and who, if neces sary, will corroborate what I have said by giving the result of his examination. . . Sir R. W. Carden—l am very glad to hear that ob servation from you, because it has been currently re ported that, in contemplation of the discovery of the act, which he must have been convinced must sooner or later have taken place, he had sent' over very large sums of money to Germany, with an intention of providing for future exigencies. Mr. Johnson—l wish, in defence of myself, to say that the books of the prisoner have not been thoroughly examined at present ; but so far as any examination has taken place, Mr. Wontner's remarks are perfectly cor rect. The examination at present is of a very limited description. Mr. Ballantine—The course which is now being taken only shows how very undesirable it is to enter into any matters collateral to the issue before the Court. What the prisoner may or may not have done with the money is totally immaterial. Ido neither adopt the prosecu tion of Mr. Wontner, nor do I put forward any other proposition, as lam not instructed to do so. I wish to confine myself simply to the performance of my duty in showing that these documents are forged, and that the prisoner at the bar has forged and uttered them, know ing them to be so. Whether he has done so for the pur pose of covering large speculations into which he may have previously entered, or whether he has done so with an intention of laying by a purse for the future, are mat ters of which we are utterly ignorant. But I must take the liberty of not adopting any one proposition, be it either in his favour or against him. We do not know the object of these forgeries ; but when a man commits forgeries to an enormous amount, it can hardly be ima gined that he does so without some motive corresponding in his own mind to the enormity of that offence. I re gret very much that I am compelled to make these obser vations in consequence of the learned gentleman who ap pears for the prisoner making statements respecting mat ters which are entirely beside the issue the Court has to deal with. But I must observe that in cases of forgery it would be very wrong that a prisoner should be protected, either in point of law or in point of morality, by asser tions as to anything he did with the money or by any statement of what were his intentions with reference to it. Mr. Wontner—l did not say that the prisoner ought to be protected either in point of law or in point of mo rality, but I thought it fair to him to invite the atten tion of the prosecutors to the fact, that there was no foundation whatever for the rumour that has been afloat of his having appropriated any part of these moneys. Mr. Balla,ntinc—We do not know whether there. is any foundation for the report, one way or the other. Mr. Wontner—Then you can ascertain the fact ; I in vite you to do so. The charge against the prisoner of obtaining 9,0001. of Messrs. Schuloff and Co., was then resumed. Mr. Ignace Schuloff—l produce two bills of lading upon which I have advanced money, in addition to those I produced at the last examination.. Mr. Wontner—What was the interest you charged I The Witness—The interest we charged varied ; it was a half per cent. sometimes, and sometimes only a third per cent. It was according to the length of time that the money advanced was to be lent. We settled it with Mr. Pries himself. Mr. Wontner— You are now speaking of the commis sion, are you not ? The Witness—l am now speaking of commission. Mr. Wontner—But was there interest charged besides the commission. The Witness—At the beginning of our transactions there was ; in April last interest was charged. Mr. Wontner—Now, when yot; charge a commission HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) The number of deaths registered in the metropolitan districts in the week that ended last Saturday is nearly the same as in the week preceding, being 994. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number was 1,084, which, if corrected for in crease of population during these years, gives a mortality of 1,192 for the present time. Last week's return, therefore, exhibits a reduction of 198 on the estimated amount. Last week the births of 790 boys and 787 girls, in all 1,577 child ren, were registered in London. In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1,427. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the, week was 29.468 in. The mean temperature was on every day above the average of 38 years, but it showed much variation, having fallen, on Tuesday to 37 . 5 deg., or only 1 . 1 deg. above the average, and thereafter having risen on Thursday to 49.6 deg., which is 12.9 deg. above the average of that day. On Saturday it fell again to 38 . 9 deg., and the mean of the week was ,41.9 deg., which is 5.4 deg. above the average. On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday the wind blew from the north-west ; on Wednesday from the south ; at other times from the south-west. The mean dew point tem perature was 35 . 4 deg. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills, an Infallible Remedy for Tumours, Swellings, and Con tracted Joints.—Ann Carter, housemaid, residing with a family in Burton-crescent, had an immense tumour in her right knee, which increased to such a size that she could not bend the joint, and was inconsequence obliged to leave her situation. Her medical attendant informed her that there was no chance of cure, and it would be necessary to amputate the limb. This opinion not satis fying her, she commenced using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and, by God's blessing, they have been the means of effecting a perfect cure, and she has resumed her former situation. Sold by all druggists, and at Messrs. Holloway's, 244, Strand. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 22. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Samuel Morrison as Vice-Consul at Londonderry for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 22. - The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether, Esq., to be Auditor-General, and Wm. Harvie Christie, Esq., to be Postmaster-General for the colony of New South Wales, and John Sterling, Esq., to b e A gen t f or Ch urc h and chool Lands in that colony. CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 22. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. ____ -- University of Oxford—The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, of Christchurch, in the said University, Doc tor in Civil Law, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer. • JAN. 24. Borough of Carlow—John Alexander, Esq., of Milford, county of Carlo w , i n th e room o f John Sadlier, Esq., who has accepted the office of one of the Lords Commis sioners for executing the office of Treasurer of the Ex chequer of Great Britain, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. John Brooks , coal, timber, and slate merchant, South ampton, Feb. and March 8, at one, at th e Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, S am b roo k -court ; Philbrick, Basinghkl-street ; Deacon, Stead, and Tylee, Romsey, Hants. Herbert Allen, tailor and draper, Ann-street, Birming ham, Feb. 8 and March 2, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle3ton, official assignee, Birmingham ; Barret, Leeds ; and Benson, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. G. Wyatt and H. Thompson, Portpool-lane, Gray's-Inn. lane, common brewers, Feb. 17, at eleven. In the Country. J. Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, corn factor, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb. 18, at eleven. , PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. G. Burgess, Ramsgate, coachmaker, 2s. 84d., any Wed nesday, between ele ven an d three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghaß-street. G. Staner, jun., Margate, baker, 55., on Saturday, Jan. 22, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Bas inghall-street. J. Hall, Brighton, victualler, is. 2d., on Saturday, Jan. 29 and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Bas inghall-street. R. M. Forbes, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, provision merchant, is. 4d., on Saturday, J an . 29, an d th ree subse quent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. J. Robinson, Nassau-place, Commercial-road, East, a n d Cannon-street-road, wholesale clothier, 3s. 4d., on Thurs day, Jan. 27, and th ree following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall street. R. Billing, Reading, builder, between on Thursday, Jan. 27, and three following Thursdays, eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfekl, Basinghall-street. H. R. Sabine, Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, card maker, is. 4d., on Thursday, Jan. 27, and three following Thurs days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stans feld, Basinghall-street. F. Braithwaite, Hereford, apothecary, ld., on any Thurs day, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whit more, Birmingham. J. perry and W. K. Broadhurst, Fenton, Staffordshire, earthenware manufacturers, Is., on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birming ham. __ W. K. Broadhurst, Fenton, Staffordshire, earthenware manufacturer, 3s. 4d., •on any Thursday, between eleven and th ree , at the office of Mr. Whitmore Birmingham. C. W. Williamson, Birmingham, baker, lid., on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. C. Foster, Club-row, Church-street, Shoreditch, and New Gloucester-place, Iloxton, t imber-dealer, Feb. 22, at eleven—W. Thornton, St. John's-hill, Battersea, carpen ter, Feb. 22, at half-past twelve —T. Fuller, Braintree, licensed victualler, Feb. 22, at twelve —G. Nightingale, Great Dover-street, S ou th wark, Draper, Feb. 17, at one— Feb. 15, at twelv. H. Murray, e. Alfred-place, C amden -road, Islington, In the Country. R. Pritchard, Bangor,Ban Carnarvonshire, druggist, Feb. 16, at twelve, at Court, Liverpool —G. Rowell, jun., Carlisle, painter and glazier, Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —J. Cridland, Sidmouth, Devonshire, grocer and china-dealer, Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter. CE RTIFICATES GRANTED. J. B. L. Bnckland, Thradneedle-stret and Regent villas, Avenue -road, Regent's-park, insurance broker, a certificate of the second class—H. Everett, Colchester, Essex, builder, a certificate of the third class—J. Dobson, High Holborn, mathematical drawing instrument maker and optician, a certificate of the first class—R. Upton, Dawlish, Devonshire, grocer, a certificate of the third class —S. Goodwin, Birmingham, grocer, a certificate of the third class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. C. Colyer, B. Hodges, and T. Hodges, Vincent, Isle of Thanet, farmers—J. Cooper and J. Cooper, Castle Brom wich, Warwickshire, builders—T. Myerscongh, J. N. Rawson, and J. Steele, Manchester and Bolton, counter pane and bed-quilt manufacturers—C. Danby and T. Danby, Coventry-street, fringe manufacturers— P. S. Fogarty, and J. Okell, Liverpool, grocers—R. Hanna, T. Lewis, and B. Jeremiah, Morriston, Glamorganshire, iron-founders Caroline Brasher, Elizabeth Brasher, Fanny Matilda Brasher, and W. Jones, Chester, brewers (so far as regards Fanny Matilda Brasher)--E. Everard, W. Everard, and J. E. Everard, King's Lynn, Norfolk, bankers (so far as regards E. Everard)—W. Roper and J. Parker, Manchester, smallware-dealers—W. Pattin son, T. Davison, J. Greener, and W. Elliot, Hexham, Northumberland, ironfounders (as far as regards J. Greener)—M. Thackray, and W. Thackray, Manchester, booksellers and stationers—T. Walton, T. Cape, J. Wal ton, and W.. Shaw, Manchester, general warehousemen (so far as regards T. Cape)—J. Thompson, H. Thompson, and J. Thompson, Cornhill, ship and insurance brokers (s o f ar as regards H. Thompson)—W.. Richard son an d G . Robin son, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, brick and tile-manufac turers—A. Wivell, E. Finley, T. Rogers, and A. Didier, Birmingham, artists—G. Shreeve and E. Chilwell, Bir mingham, die-sinkers—J. Ridge, J. Shackles, C. Ridge, and W. Ridge, Newark-upon-Trent, booksellers and sta tioners—Mary Ann Shuttleworth and Augusta Bunbury, Liverpool, keepers of a school—J. Fearniey, C. H eaton , and J. Donisthorpe, Horton, and Shipley, Yorkshire, ma chine-wool-combers (so far as regards J. F ear nley)—G. Golds and J. Golds, Warminghurst, and Goring, S ussex farmers—J. R. H. Jaratt and De la Crouee, Water-lane, Tower-street, news agents and tobacconists. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. wheelwri g ht B R i o e l a y s e b n y d , e N n , 0 t K t i e n n g t h . a m s h r Richard Tha Dixon , s Drury, George Bray, Portsea. William Grossmith, Portsea, retailer of beer. William Poole, Landport, Hampshire, bookseller. Thomas Mathews, Brynmawr, Breconshire, innkeeper. John Price, Llangattock, Breconshire, woollen manu facturer. William Welsh, Bristol, licensed victualler. James Field, Ash, Kent, saddler Edward Jones, Pormandoc, Carnarvonshire, grocer. James Allday, H en l e y- on -Th ames, Oxfordshire, chemist, David Morris, Colwyn, Carnarvonshire, draper. John Lamin g , C a ht er b ury, tailor. - Mary Harriett Howles, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, grocer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. M'Gregor and D. Newland s Glasgow, silk printers, to meet w ithi n t h e Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 1, and Feb. 22, at one. J. Taylor, Glasgow, wright and builder, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 31 and Feb. 28, at welve. BURSTING OF THE BOILER OF A LOCOMOTIVE AT NEW CASTLE -UPON-TYNE.—On Sunday afternoon, shortly be fore - two o'clock, the boiler of an engine attached to the two o'clock train, just about to start for Tynemouth, exploded with terrific violence, bursting through the roof of the station, and causing considerable damage. The engineman and stoker, who were on the footboard of the engine, escaped with slight injuries ; but another engineman, who was standing beside them in conversa tion, was so much injured that his life was considered in danger. Two children, who were standing on the platform, not far from the engine, were scalded severely. It is not known how the accident occurred. Th e eng i ne had just undergone a thorough repair. ST. JAGO DE CUBA.—Since the 18th of October las t this city, it is supposed, has lost one-tenth of its in habitants by cholera alone, not to mention the large number of deaths during th e same ti me b y fevers and other diseases. BANKRUPTS. William Colk, spirit-merchant, North Walsham, to sur render, Feb. 5, at eleven, and March 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Bas inghall-street ; Linklater, Size-lane. Henry Simmons, innkeeper, Leicester, Feb 4 and 25, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Ashurst and Son, Old Jewry ; or Motteram, Knight, and E mme t , B irmingham. Charles Fletcher, silk manufacturer, Derby, Feb. 4 and 25, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Bulgay, Nottingham. Robert Tate, jun., miller, Uxbridge Moor, Hillingdon, Middlesex, Jan. 31, and March 7, a t e l even, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basinghall street , • Linklater, Size-lane. _ George Coldwell, boot and shoe maker, Ashton-under- Lyne, Feb. 8, and March 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Brooks, Ashton-under-Lyne. William Donald, cattle dealer, Cumberland, Jan. 31, at eleven, and March 7, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastlo-upon- Tyne ; Steel, Cockermouth ; Watson, Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; Bischoff and Coxe, London. Robert Charles Roosmale Cocq, merchant, late of Co lombo, Island of Ceylon, now of St. George's-terrace, Islington, Feb. 4, at eleven,, and March 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Jewitt, Lime-street. John Fletcher, draper, Manchester-road, York, Feb. 7, and March 7, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Lees ; Upton and Yewdall, Leeds. John Pass, innkeellaer, Far Towt, Huddersfield, Feb. 18 and March 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Sykes, 'Huddersfield. ; Bond and Barw'ck, Leeds. . . SOCIETY AT THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS. The Inverness Courier publishes in its last number se veral letters from respectable people who have emigrated from that quarter of Scotland to Australia. The journal vouches for the authenticity of the ,documents, from which we make a few extracts. The following is from a letter, dated Melbourne, Sept. 6 : " Things will not last for ever in this way. There will be an outbreak here before many years. Nothing but separation from England is talked of. Thousands of Yankees and Californians are swarming in every week, and thousands of the riffraff of all the world. The country is in a fearful state for want of protection, and robberies and murders are committed with impunity. I sleep every night with a pair of pistols under my pillow, my father's big sword hung up by the bed-head, and also an American bowie-knife under my pillow. Our house, to be sure, is in a lonely and romantic situation, and is thus liable to attack at any time of night, but we do not like leaving it to come and live in this vile Melbourne." In another letter the same writer speaks as follows : "It would be utterly impossible to give you any idea of the state of things in Melbourne now. It is such as the world never saw before, and perhaps never will again. With thousands arriving every day from Eng land, California, and America, &c., we have still the same number of houses in Melbourne that we had when the population was only about 24,000, before the gold discovery. You may think what it must be now. A complete wildernesi of tents has sprung up all round the city, in which all the most hardened villains in the colony have their haunts, and through which it is not safe to walk in broad daylight. The whole interior of the country is completely overran with bands of bush rangers, mounted, armed, and thoroughly organised. The murders and cruelties they practise on their victims are fearful. They perform their exploits quite in the same style as. the old banditti ; however, they some times get caught. A party of them, while prowling about the main overland road from Mount Alexander to Adelaide, in South Australia, stopped to rest and re fresh themselves at a shepherd'p hut, and there openly stated that they were lying in wait for a party of dig gers who were returning with a large quantity of gold. Nothing more was seen of them for two days, when two of them returned, one so fearfully burnt all over his body that he died in a few hours ; the other one also died from the effect of a gun-shot wound. The other three of the gang were missing. A few days after, the burned remains of several men were found a short dis tance on the road, and it ultimately turned out that the party they intended to have robbed had overpowered them, and taken a fearful revenge by burning them to death. The men were all old convicts. Is this not a practical illustration of the evils inflicted on these colonies by the continuance of the transportatiOn sys tem ? But, ' there's a goo d t i me coming,' and if it is to be continued, why, the sooner the colonies are independ ent the better. They are already ripe for it. I have no hesitation in saying that the gold diggings have hastened the approach of that event by 50 years. It is not to be supposed that a country which can export twenty mil lions sterling per annum in gold-dust will long submit to be made the sink-hole of England. However, it is no use talking more about that subject. lam writing this in my office, which is splendidly situated, being ,a very high room, and having a view of about 20 miles down the Port Philip Bay, so that I can see every ship and steamer that comes in, and as I have full view of the telegraph station, I can tell at a glance what part of the world they are from. Whilst I am writing, there are three large ships coming in from London, two from Liverpool, one from Bristol, one from the Cape of Good Hope, one from New York, two from San Francisco, and a whole fleet of traders between here and the neigh bouring colonies —all crowded with passengers for the gold diggings. This will give you some idea of the rate at which our population is daily increasing, and this is only the commencement of it. This is not my own opi nion of the state of things ; it is that of every sober, re flecting man in the colony, from the governor down wards. Every day flour is rising by jumps of 51. per ton at a time. It is now 351. a ton; to-morrow, in all probability, it will be 401. Our only hope is in America, from our friends the Yankees. Any one shipping flour here now, would make an immense fortune. Of our own growth there will be little or none this year. In addi tion to this, our social condition is fearful ; only fancy bodies of armed men rushing into the shops and gold offices in broad daylight, shooting at the owner, and making clear off with the spoil ! As for stirring ou after dark, it is madness." rADVERTISEMENT.I—Deafness--- - -New Discovery,-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opposite the York Hotel. The organic vibrator, an extraordinary power ful, shall, newly-invented•instrument, for deafness, en tirely different from all others to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced, being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears are entirely removed ; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired. The Royal Exhibition—valuable newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut, to discern minute objects dt a distance of from four to five miles, which is found to be invaluable, for yachting, and to sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, possessing such extraordinary power, that some 31 inches, with an extra eye piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars They supersede every other kind, and are of all sizes for the waistcoat pocket, shooting, military purposes, &c. Opera and race-course glasses with wonderful power ; a minute object can be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle.—S. &B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe opposit e th e York Hotel. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL. -JA N . 25 There was a small attendance of buyers at the Corn' exchange this morning, and a very limited inquiry for the leading articles of the trade. The few transactions in wheat were at barely so good prices as were obtainable on Tuesday, while the general runs of Western Canal flour were offered at . fully 6d per barrel reduction. Good oats are scarce, and command late rates, but secondary sorts were Ad per bushel, and oatmeal 6d per load cheaper. Egyptian beans also Gd per quarter lower. In barley, peas, and Indian corn there was no change of quotation. IPSWICH—JAN. 25. With a rather limited supply of wheat, the sale w a s not brisk, and prices of new were a trifle in favour of the buyer, while for samples of choice old white wheats veil full prices were given. We had an excellent supply of fine malting barley ; some little dullness was manifested in this trade, and prices were steady, at late rates. Beans and peas firm. PER QI7ARTER. PER QUAT.TEF• Wheat, red (old) 3Ss to 46s Barley, grinding ... 28s to 3 2 s Ditto (new) Ditto, white (new) 50s to 56s Peas Ditto (old) Bailey, malting ... 34s to 37s Flour, per sack AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN. 25, 1853. Wheat Barley Oats „ Beans Peas 45 „ -30 s ld HULL-JAN. 25. The trade seems rather out of joint, and the improve' ment expected with the new year still "looms in the die' tance"; tile open weather, and anticipated early importa' tion, operates, in conjunction with the general bad condition of tire farmers' supplies, against a rise. Thor° was a good supply of English wheat to-day, and f o r the most part out of condition. The market was very heavy , and only picked samples of dry wheat were saleable at the rates of last week, say about 47s to 49s per quarter 63 IV , . Very little inquiry for foreign wheat, but no alteration in price can be noted. Raley is not offering plentifully ; fin e samples are inquired for, and would fetch a good price. For other articles we have a regular consumptive demand. The linseed market is well supported, and cakes are unP ,l " tered in value. Rapeseed is worth more money, and cakes continue in demand for feeding. The following are the present prices of grain : E 3 Wheat, English, red 47 to 49 Ditto white 5O to 54 Dan;;zic and Konigs berg Pomeranian and Ham- Peas, gray and black 00 to 00 Linseed, Black Sea 50 to 53 Ditto Pe'Lersburgh 44 to 50 Ditto Riga and Arch angel Ditto Konigsberg and Memel 4O to 46 50 to 541 'burgh Da.&sh,liolstein, and _ _ Erie Stand 44 to 47 Russian and Odessa 40 to 45 Oats, English Ditto Danish. l7 to 19 Ditto ltriesland Ditto Russian l7 to 20 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 27 to 28 Ber-ns Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel j3B to 40 Per To". Lins. c., Hull 9/ 7s Cd to 0/0! Ditto fine for. 8/ 15s to 91 " Ditto inf. for B/ lOs to 0/ O Rapeseed 2Bl Os to 291 04 Rape cakes Tares, English Ditto foreign Guano 41 71 to 91 00 , Bones 100 s to 000 s 6 ' Rye Meal CORK-JAif. 24. Brig. Currency. White wheat 00s Od to OOs Od Os Od-20 stole' 49 Redwheat 233 ad to 26s Od Ditto 00s ad to OOs Od> 25s 6d-20 do. Ditto OOs Od to 00s Od 240 Barley l4s 2d to 14s 7d Ditto 063 Od to OOs Od 14s 6.1-16 do. Ditto 00s Od to 00e Od Bere 13s 0.1 to 00s Od Os Od 664 Oats 9s 6d to Las 4d 359 Ditto lOs 4d to lOs 6d. 10a 4d do. 145 Ditto ~.10% 6d to lls Od 119aPigs 39s Od to 42s Od OOs Od per cwt. Quantity sold at the highest prices : 0 barrels white whe a t ; 9 re d ; 15 barley ; 0 here ; - 19. oats ; 91 pigs. _ - Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week Wheat, 830. Barley, 1,152. Bere, 0. Oats, 7 ,7 8 5' Pigs, 848. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURRENCY'. First quality 86. Second quality Third quality 9os Thi r d qua lit y Sig . U33g 75$ Fourth quality Fifth quality 72 s Fifth quality _, Sixth quality s Bs Sixth quality 49° • -, Return of cattle sold for week ending Jan. 15 1---:- Pigs, 866. Sheep, 227. Cows, 145. oa; CORR.—Flour—First, 15 s 6d t o 17 s Od ; extra, 1 8 so, seconds, 14s Od to 15s Od ; households, lOs to 13s Od ; thi„ l a; 8s Od to lOs per cwt. M ea l—l n di an meal, Es 6d to 8$ Y ft oatmeal, 11s3d to 11s6d ; wbeat meal, 10s6d to 11s6d fier.l'‘o Indian corn, 81 2s 6d to 81 lOs Od per ton. Bran, 41 i 5 0 4. to 51 per ton. H a y—F armers, 22 s O d to 38s Od ; avert; 31s ; dealers, 33s Od to 40s Od ; average, Os per ton. Str:A7 o Farmers, 17s Od to 28s Od ; average, 22 s ; d ealers, 32s u'l 0 35s Od ; average, Os. per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf, 7 0 :,i to Od ; household ditto, 6d t o Od per 41b.—Fresh butter lld per lb. Eggs, 6s 8d t o 6 s 10d per hundred,,.Meat 'b3 to 4d to 6d ; mutton, 5d t o bid ; vea l , 4 d to 6 n pork, ! L od' 5d ; bacon, 6d to 7d ; saus ages , 5d per lb.—Fish LNew*,lo9; land, 11/. Os to 141 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, Ws to a , Red, do., 30s p er b r l . —P o t atoes, wbite, 8d to 9d; rPi.45 Ild to 12d.—Coals, N ewpor t , 22s ; Lydney, 00,s; POOP Od per ton.—Whisk e y, 25 0 . p . , e s Od par imperi.A.,oll Hides, market, 25s t o 32 s ; S a lt ed, 26s to 32s per cwt, „.. skins, 3,id per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 3L w;ta'pet. m p b el e . re on 3l ; em de e a l, ls S , / i . Fleece wool, 15s to 168 per stone.—Remp, 37/. 1 9„7„.;" : 3 to l n— lo Ti s. 61/°.sto; 1;1d. p p i e n r e h , un 3l - .2 e o d sLy i t r vi ii, are d i l: 71. to 8/. 10s. per tou.—Tallow, 47s to 48s per ewt -- ,, - n al i' o 7/. 10s to 01. per cwt.—Tar, Archangel, 19s. per brl.--•=1""- ' Peruvian, 10/. lOs to 11/. per ton. COURSE OF EXCH. Am 5terdam............ 11 17% Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Rotterdam .......... 11 19% Antwerp .............. 25 30 Brussels . ..... ........ 25 30 Hamburgh .. 13 6 Paris .......... •• • • .... 25 7% Ditto, three months .. 25 27% Marseilles... 25 30 Bourdeaux ......... Frankfort-on• Maine Berlin . Vienna ..... Trieste ..... Petersburgh....... Madrid Cadiz. Barcelona... %ovine ANGE-YESTERDAY. Gibraltar .. Leghorn . ,Genoa Milan .... Venice Naples Palermo ... Messina Lisbon ..... Oporto Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres... New York, GO days' sight Philadelphia ...... •. • • PRICES OF BULLION, PER 0 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 Portugal Gold Coin o° Is Mexican Dollars 0 4 "0 New Dollars 0 0 11, Salvor in bars ...... 0 5 i ...3 05 ' 25 dig •••• 4 1 sa •• • • " 15:3% •• b3!ii 11 2 •-•• .. 11 5 38% 50U 50% SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-sac by the night—and Mby the morning --dispatch.] Day when made up From what wbefi COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port Office, London. Disp a t c h ed. due. America ------- (byllrit.pack.N Jan. 28 .... Liverpool ..• Jan. 2 4 America (by United Sts. packet) ..........N Jan. 25 .......... Liverpool Feb. 3 America (by IT States Australia (via South- Southampton arripton) ..........M eth of each month Southampton Jan. 24 Ditto (via Marseilles N 24th of the month Dover Feb. 1 *Ditto (via Cape of Good Hoe of February.. .. Plymouth_ • jam 30 Africa (West Coast) ...N 23rd of the month. Plymouth .. Feb. 1 2 Alexandria* ........ N 19thSr30th of mon. Dover Jan. 2 8 Belgium ............N Dover .... Daily Brazil .... ........ 31 9th o:the month.. Soathampton Feb. 1 6 Buenos Ayres —lll 9th of the month., Southampton Feb 16 California -d & 17th of month Southampton Fob. t Cape of Good Ilope..N 14thof the month.. Southampton Feb. 2 6 Cape de Verds ......N 14thof the month.. Southampton Feb. 2 6 Constantin 0p1e*...... N 7thi7 th27th of mo.. Dover Jan. 3 0 Central America ....II lnd & 17th of mon. Southampton Feb. 1 Channel Isles .... N Mon. Wed.&.Friday Southampton Tu Tn.. , Chili 31 id & 17th ofmonth "zOutbampt)n Feb. 1 France ........ M & N Twice daily Dover rwiced 3 '' Greece* Nil h 1 7th27th ofthon. Dover ..... Jan. 3 0 Hamburgh Tuesday & Friday Londo n Tues. , Holland Wednesday & Sat London sup.Thur'" Honduras .......... N 17th of the month . Southamp•on Feb. 16 Ireland ........M &'N Twice daily Holyhead Twicedal , India (viaSouthampt.)lll 29th of the month.. Southampton Feb. 24 India (via Marseilles) N Bth&24th of month Dover ....... Feb. 1 India (via Cape of Good 14th of the month.. Southampton Feb. 26 Mauritius ..........N 14th of the m on th .. Southampton Feb. 26 Mediterranean (via Southampton 20th of the month , Southampton Feb. 24 Ditto (via Marseilles).N ith& 24th ofmonth Dover .... Feb. 1 Mexico ..... • Thd of the month. Southampton Feb. Madeira . ..... 9th&23dof the mon. Southampton Feb. 12 i „ T S' 7t11,17th,19th,27th, l ' falta*. •• • ••• • • • Sc3Oth of the month Dover .. •• . Jan. 28 Napless ....N sth lath2sthormon. Dover ...... Feb. 2 Papal States*........N Ithlsth2sthofmon. Dover F eb. 2 Peninsula. 'th I 7th27thofmon Southampton Jan. 26 Peru .•.. .. Tuscany* 50115th25thofmon, Dover Feb. 2 West Indies 51 2d& 17th of month Southampton Feb. 1 Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) on the The mails for Aust alter/pi ra liato via the Cape of G ood Hope are made UP of every th. Those and 24th of each month via Southampton an made up on the 2 00 d Marseilles are sent 13 sailing vessels at present from Singapore, the t Cape Mails of Good Hope. are also me up on the 2d of every alternate month fo r ad * The mails to those countries; thus marked ( 5 ) are coxyeyed by French packet to Marseill es. The West Coast of Africa malls will not be Made up thi s mon° before the night of the 28th insta BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 23d inst. at Bath, th' E sq ., Captain 48th' Regime wifo of E. J. M a a s s On the 22d inst..OF A DAUGHTER. ,at Brighton, the wif e o f Ch ar l e s F' Scott, Esq. At St. Geo rge ' s, Bloomsb MARRIED. my, the Viscount Malden, tho pre sen t Sir Emma M. Roux, youngest daughter of th e l a t e an d sister Park, H er t s. of Henry M ena, Bart., M.P., of Theoha' On tho 17th inst. at St. James's, Paddington Williams Costelloe, Esq., of B e ll coe, county of Fermanagh, to Je.;sl,s' Elizabeth, eldest d aughter of Major Worthy, of H.E.1.C.5., and of Addlestone-grove, Surrey. DIED. On the 20th i nst., in Beiners-street, Ipswich, Gordon S' Tidy, Esq.. late Captain 48th Regiment, aged 40. On the 21 s t i ns t ., at Bloxham, the wife of Joseph COY' Esq., of Croughion-vale Northamptonshire aged 25. On the 21 s t i ns t ., at Gray-hank, Dundee, W. A. Bowel dew, Esq., writer, aged 59. On the 22d inst., aged Ca, Elizabeth, wife of Fote !: Whitfield Bra uc h er, Esq., of Field-house, Wavertr o 0 Liverpool. On the 23d widow of th e late inst., at Hammersmith, aged 88, Mrs. Gibso n, Samuel Gibson, Esq. LONDON : hinted and P u bli s h e d by MURDO YOU N G , of No. 112, S trand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. it' Strand, in the PrecinC't of the Savoy, in the count' Middlesex, Wednesday, January 26,1853. 119%