The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Times.) The press has plenty of advisers, but, whil d e rui we e could never extract from their counsels a g for our guidance. we never had any doubt as to our own proper line. We represent pu bli c opinion. We believe that we express in these columns what Rnglishmen, using that word in a very large sense, feel in their bosoms, avow in conversation, and, with more reserve, declare in their public trans actions. Our countrymen express themselves freely enough one to another, whether at their own fire sides, or in the circle of their hospitality, oFin_clu_bs, or even in public meetings—not to speak of what they put upon paper. What they thus say more or less privately, and what they cannot say in public for want of opportunity, or are afraid to say for want of courage, we have the opportunity and th e freedom to proclaim to the four quarters o f th e globe. That is our vocation, and when it shall come to be said at dinner tables that all the world knows this or that, that all the would feels this or that, but the Times is afraid to say it, then, most assuredly, it is all over with us, and with this nation also. We may then write Ichabod on the British Empire, for its glory is departed for ever. No ; every man whose heart boils with in him at the news of successful violence or fraud—every man who would give all he had for the hand to rescue or the tongue to rebuke, but has no opportunity —expects, at least, the satisfac tion of seeing his feelings expressed in this journal, and rejoices to know that, if there is tyranny on one side the Channel, there is liberty on the other. It is impossible but that this liberty should some times be used in a manner to offend some of our readers, but, if we do not speak out, no one does ; and reasonable people appreciate our freedom and our courage too highly to cavil at the fervour of just indignation. Some such reflections, we have no doubt, had recently passed through the mind of Sir Charles Wood the other day at Halifax, when he described the reaction which has followed the excesses of the mob throughout the continent. " Take our nearest neighbours," he exclaimed ; such a despotism never prevailed in Europe, even in the time of Napoleon the First. The press gagged - liberty suppressed ; no man allowed to s peak h is opinion ; the neighbouring country of Belgium forced to gag her press ; no press in Eu rope free but ours, which, thank God, he cannot gag—(cheers),—and hence his hatred o f our p ress , that it alone dares to speak the truth." Nothing can be plainer and simpler than this language. It claim s f or th e E ng li s h man th e lib erty —we fear we must call it the national privilege— of speaking his opinion about all public men and all public affairs. Such is the rule which Sir Charles Wood, himself a man with great command over his temper and his tongue, propounds for the press. But will anybody tell us what is the rule which Mr. Cobden would give us, and probably enforce on us, if it lay in his power ? Is it the rule of general forbearance, of reverence for crowned heads, respect for the powers that be, smooth speech to dignities, and charitable construction for all kinds of conduct ? No such thing. If a class of his fellow-subjects have an incidental advan tage in an economical law, he does not hesitate to denounce them as maintaining it at the expense of their country for their private advantage. If the Army and Navy Lists are full of noble and honourable names, he does not scruple to denounce our armaments as gigantic jobs for the convenience and amusement of our nobility and gentry. If the Austrian Emperor, in a dire extremity of his affairs, secured the possession of an hereditary realm at the expense of its constitutional liberties, —if the Czar, terrified by the contagion of liberty and revolt, assisted his neighbour to enforce order and submission—no one so prompt or so free to denounce the two tyrants with the utmost violence, contumely, and menace, insomuch that even his own powerful eloquence failed to express his rage and contempt ; and, like the prophets of old, he had recourse to symbolical expressions of hatred and defiance. Lastly, if a newspaper thwarts him, cri ticises his harangues, and crosses his schemes, so ranch as to leave the impression that the Press is not with him—here, too, his wrath knows no bounds, and he does his utmost to persuade the British people to assist him in putting down this intractable power. Mr. Cobden, then, is a man to speak out upon occasion. He proves and uses the Englishman's privilege ; and cares not if, while he is tendering his advice or silencing an opposition, he should at the same time be doing irreparable injury to the position and character of a class, a person, a journal, or a private establishment. So far we understand Mr. Cobden, and we are proud to say that his rule, up to this point, is very much the same as our own. But what we do not understand is the glarin g contradiction which - Mr. Cobden presents to his own usual practice of speaking his mind, in his remarks on our language on one particular sub ject, one nation, one man. He may lampoon the head of the house of Hapsburg, he may crumple 'up the empire of the Russias—both of them ancient, prescriptive, hereditary things—with hardly a choice but to: go on as they have done for centuries ; but we are to beware of a single word that may give offence to a man who entered France scarcely four years ag o with promises and oath s t o respec t a republic, a nd has now founded on p er j ury an d bloodshed the most absolute despotism under the sun. We are not to say of him in these columns what all Englishmen say of him at their tables ; and on this one point, this dark spot on the sun of our freedom, the British nation is not to see its heart reflected in the Times. We may abuse everything distant, ancient, or weak ; Czars far away inArctic seas, or Emperors shut upin the heart of a continent ; Roman Emperors dead and gone two thousand years ago, or Lords and country gentle men beneath our contempt. But we are to be most respectfully silent about the usurper who, by the aid of an immense army, and by the means of universal suffrage and the ballot, has tied the hands of every Frenchman behind his back, and gagged the tongue in his head, till he is himself the only free agent throughout a vast dominion. We are to assume that the great majority of French men are so different from ourselves as to acquiesce - willingly and cheerfully in a subjection which leaves him so far below serfs, as serfs have antiquity and limitations of their bondage, and so far below the African slave, as the African has colour to ex cuse him. And what is the reason for this singular exception from the usual freedom of Mr. Cobden's speech ? Why are we to join with him in denounc ing those who do as their fathers did before them, and speak softly of those who have spontaneously sold themselves to an original bandage ? The only conceivable reason is cowardice. Mr. Cobden is not afraid—he says he is not afraid —of the Czar. He is not afraid— he avows as • much—of the Austrian Emperor. He laughs to scorn our own landed aristocracy. If the Times does not render him all the homage he demands, he has other more unreserved admirers. But he is afraid—he cannot disguise that he is afraid—of the French. He is afraid that they may take of fence at our reproaches, and prove their manhood, mot by asserting their own liberties, but• by en deavouring to crush ours. H e i s afraid of a war, of armaments, of taxation, of closed ports, of pri vateers, of an immensely increased navy and army list, of another national debt, of a demoralised po pulation, and a ruined trade. Doubtless these are disagreeable things, but it is a new thing in morality if they are to be reasons for holding our tongues, and the only reasons. For ourselves we must plead another view of political candour. We hold that by speaking plainly when we may be called to a terrible account, we earn the right of advising those whom we have no reason whatever to fear. The Emperors of Russia and Austria are no more to the Englishman than the Emperor of China, but the Emperor of the French, though he cannot conquer us, can inflict every annoyance short of conquest. If, then, we defy the former, and pass over the tenfold iniquity of the latter, - we expose ourselves to the contempt of all alike,. But that is Mr. Cobden's advice. We are thani . d u i to say that it is not the general instinct of E: Lig li s h_ men ; and that we h ave j ust had a Minister of th e Crown who can teach a very different doctrine. (From , the Morning Post. ) We are now upon the eve of another assembling of Convocation. It is high tune that the question became settled, whether the power s of that assembly. Are to be put into operation for the Church's exten sion and reform. Is the present condition of the Church such as ought to continue ? No one will contend for the affirmative. Then, what is to be clone ? and by whom? The answer to these two questions is worth attention. For the first, what is to be done ? The cathedrals must be reformed, their purpose ex tended, their statutes obeyed, their trusts fulfilled, their services improved, their revenues controlled and re-arranged, their schools and alms'-gifts sup ported with becoming faithfulness and liberality. The large parishes must be subdivided, existing , districts erected into parishes, additional churches built, and stipends provided for additional minis ters ; parsonages require to be built in many old Earishes, and, of course, in all the new on es . Th e piscopate has to be enlarged, and the dioceses re duced in size, and, perhaps, in emolument ; better provision taust be made for the education of the clergy and the increase of their numbers. These are among the most obvious and pressing reforms. Many others of less relative importance also require adjustment. When looked at in the gross, what a work is here ! What wisdom is required ! What instant energy ! What united action ! What funds ! and what self-denial and charity ! By whom is this to be done? By Parliament, will be the answer of many. By Parliament ! Has Par liament the necessary wisdom, when many of its members do not belong to the Church, and know little and care less about its interests and its belief? Has Parliament the energy and the time to spare for the special attention these subjects require ? Can it leave the secular interests of the nation in abeyance the while ? If every day were devoted to these objects, the session would not suffice for them all. How much less when all that could be hoped for would be an occasional, night given to the debate of some modicum of patchwork got up by a particular 'member. Has Parliament the unanimity necessary to carry measures of a truly Church character ? Has Parliament the funds ? If it vote away public money for Church objects, will they not be denuded of all the distinctive verities of the Catholic Church, and so be worse than useless ? The fact is, the Church is not to be reformed by Parliamentary legislation. It may be cut and clipped, and rationalised, and robbed, and degraded, and secularised, and re-distributed, by Parliament, but it can in no religious sense be re formed, nor in any just way be extended by the active agency of the Legislature. Only the Church can reform the Church ' • only the Church can, in any true sense, extend the Church. The powers of Parliament may aid and foster, permit and legalise, but they cannot plant or build. They may form territorial allocations and call them parishes, but a spiritual mission alone can occupy them for God. They may erect buildings and call them churches, but they cannot call down the celestial fire to glow upon their altars. They may appoint ministers, and pay them well, and protect them boldly, and educate them with the latest appliances of the age, but they must go to the successors of the a p os tl es f or th e m i ss i on to ad mit members by baptism, and to minister " the strengthening and refreshing" gifts of the other sacrament. Where spiritual mission "is, there is the Church. But spiritual mission Parliament can neither give nor take away, nor can it kindle that zeal and self-denial without which the sacri fices by which the Church is built up will never be made. It can but legalise the spiritual acts of the Church, and prevent by statute the encroachment of the ecclesiastical and civil power upon the jurisdiction of each other. The Church, then, must turn to other sources than Parliament for the instruments of her extension. By whom, then, shall the work be done ? By societies, will be a popular reply. By voluntary committees and paid secretaries. But what is the source of their authority, the rule of their action, and the pro spect of their success ? Shall we have a society for each object, or one for all ? Reforms in the Church must carry with them a force that shall bind the conscience, and at the same time be good in law. Parliamentary statutes can effect the latter ; but neither Parliament, nor all the volun tary societies that ever existed, could, in spiritual things, secure the former. Besides, experience proves that societies, on the whole, are not suc cessful in proportion to the work they have to do, and the sacred motives to which they appeal. Can a society be found more capable of doing good in our populous parishes, more unexceptionable in its constitution, or more simple in its operation, than the Society for the employment of Additional Curates ? And, yet, at this moment, it has hun dreds of crying cases which it cannot assist ; and a statement has been th e roun d o f th e papers show ing how inadequately it is supported. Take the In corporated Society for Building Churches. What is required to set the work goingis not a paltry sum at the rate oflOs. or 20s. a sitting in aid of local exertions but a large and adequate grant which shall meet the fullest necessities of a new parish. Yet the society just named posseses an income scarcely exceeding 160,000/. The number of churches required to be built is, by a Parliamentary return, shown to be about six hu n d re d. What effectual ' aid can a so ciety so circumstanced afford to such a demand ? Much of the same kind could be proved of all the societies usually called " religious." Some, indeed, as the Church Missionary Society, and the Society for Propogating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, can boast of an income exceeding 100,000/. ; but what is this in relation to the magnitude pf the work they set before them ? What we are concerned to prove is, that, in every case of voluntary societies formed to extend the ministrations of the Church, the means and resources are deficient beyoad all comparable proportion to the purposes proposed to be accomplished. AN INDIAN " IMPOSSIBILITY." We take the following extract from a pamphlet upon the Government of India, recently published by Mr. Dickinson : "Lord speaks of the Court not having been able to provide money for public works, while they were struggling for existence in India, although they could for wars which they were compelled to carry on at all risks. But this begs the whole question, which is—were they, by neglecting the public works, enabled to carry on their wars, or were they so miserably poor and swamped in their means because they neglected the public works ? They are two very different things—the carrying on new and extensive improvements, and the keeping old works in repair. We will first take up the latter. To say they could not find money for them is nonsense. The works themselves provided money from year to year, and if the repairs were not executed the works did not yield their proper returns. Now, Tanjore was the only district in this Presidency where the works were kept in thorough repair. To give you some idea of the extent to which this neglect was carried, the large irrigation works in this district were never cleared out for thirty or forty years, by which an entire dis trict was half ruined, My predecessor cleared out one mile at a cost of 7,000 rupees (7001.), and the revenue of the Talook (county) rose immediately from 70,000 rupees to much above a lac (7,0001. to 10,0001.) Probably 600 rupees a year (501.) would have kept the channels clear ; and for want of this, 30,000 or 40,000 rupees a-year were lost (3,0001. or 4,0001.) This has been the state of things. In 1827 I found a channel that entered two Talooks filled up six feet, so that when it ought to have had eight feet of water in it, it had only two. The revenue had fallen from three to four lacs to one lac ; when it was cleared out the revenue rose in two or three years about one and a half lac of rupees. One or two thousand rupees would have kept this clear. Thousands of works are at this moment out of repair, the repairs of which would not have cost one year's increase of revenue though they have been ne g l ec t e d so man y years. This has been the state of things : what nonsense it is to talk of their not being able to find money. But their own acts answer the question. All buildings are kept in repair. How could they find money for this ? And how did they find money for Tanjore ? About 40,000 rupees a-year were spent in keeping up the works. Where did the money come from ? Of course, from the district itself. If they had not spent the 40,000 rupees, they would have lost two or three lacs ; but further, they spent steadily in Tanjore about 40,000 rupees in improve ments, by which, on an average, they just about obtained a permanent increase of revenue of 40,000 rupees per annum. Thus no outlay at all was required for keeping these works in repair, nor even for a constant course of improvement. Why should not this have been done in every district ? The fact is, the Company were without money for their wars, because they neglected to keep in repair the old works upon which the revenue depended. But they might and ought to have gone much further than this, for without a very large expenditure at once, a system of improvement might have been kept up, as in Tanjore, that would have steadily yielded from 50 to 100 per cent. To confound such a proceeding with the outlay of a vast capital, which after a few years will re turn 5 per cent., and then say the Company could not spend money for public works, is merely throwing dust in their own and other people's eyes. But this is not the strongest point of the case. They did not take the least pains to prevent famine. To say nothing of the death of a quarter of a million of people in Guntoor, the Public Works Committee, in their report, cal c ul a t e th a t the loss in money by th e Guntoor famine was 216 lacs, more than two millions sterling. If they could find money to supply these losses they could have found a hundredth part of the sum to prevent them. But now with respect to works of actual improvement of consi derable extent. These works have much more than paid their own way ; not a rupee has been taken from the general treasury, but, on the contrary, seven lacs paid into it. A schedule of various new works executed of late years has just been printed, the average return from which has been 50 per cent., counting from the first execution of the works, though of course in the first year or two their full effects were not developed, and this in direct revenue. Of course the indirect revenues are increased also ; and the increase of private property far exceeds that gained by Government. But just look at this case ; the saleable value of land in Tanjore has increased much more than a million sterling since the Anicuts were built—the land is now saleable at about 50 rupees an acre. The land in this delta has as yet been unsale able ; it is much richer than that of Tanjore, much bet ter supplied with water by its river, and has a fine safe port, so that when our works are in full operation, and the population has filled up, which it will do with great rapidity, the lands ought to be worth at least 60 rupees an acre, or seven millions sterling for the whole irrigated tract. This will give you some idea of what public works are here. Let us take another case, viz., transit. On the western road from Madras, say for 60 miles be fore the roads divide, there is now a traffic of about 500 tons a day, I believe 180,000 a-year, it costs 30,000 rupees a mile, or about 18 lacs a-year. This might be carried on a canal for one lac ; here arc 17 lacs a-year lost miles of the pr t e rm e s e it, ey and I t s his it is going , erp n risi o eg that on such a system of managing the country, the people are poor, and the Government poor ; how could it be otherwise ? I am tertian that if 50 lacs a-year had been spent in public works here, there would have been all along an immense additional in crease of revenue, and the country would by this time have been a complete contrast to what it now is. Lord thinks it would be better not to blame the Govern ment ; bow can we possibly point out how improve ment can be made without proving that there has been neglect before ? If such immense sums can be obtained, there must have been some stupid, merciless system be fore." (Remember that, reader ! that phrase is written by one of the most distinguished men in India.) "What inconceivable folly it is to shut our ey& to (wets, and not to take advantage of distovery, because if we do, it would imply that those who went before us com mitted blunders, The discovery of gold in California and Sydney proves strange blindness in those who had been living so many years in those localities, but that does not prevent men digging it up now. The mine which exists in this country will bear com petition with. those gold discoveries. An expenditure of 30,0001 ur 40,000 L. in Tanjore, besides the enormous increase in direct revenue, had added much more than a million sterling to the property of the pro vince. If a man who could earn 30/. a-year in other ways went to the diggings, and there obtained gold to the value of 9001. a-year, the world would ring with it; yet it . would not equal the profits in Tanjore ; and here they promise very far to exceed that. Lord wonders at my vehemence about public works ; is he really so humble a man as to think no better of himself than to suppose he could stand unmoved in a district where 250,000 people neglect ha d perished of our Government, miserably of m and see fa famine, e e , xtphorsoeudg every the ery year to a similar occurrence ?" (Remember that, reader 1) at the his time, like n been had o o of u livingor civilians,the m i and h midst of thea(had dis trictoevf hundreds erymorning of dead to bodies c ear he n o e f ig p h o b o o r urh ood creaturesof hiswh who house struggled to get near the European in hopes that there p erhaps would have realised they might find food, he things beyond what he has seen in his —shire park." Once more then, by whom is the grea t wor k , which all a d m it to be before us, to be done ! By the Church, and by the Church alone. The Church only has the right, and the power, and the promises, and the gifts, and the energy, and the means of reaching the motives and con sciences of men. Her seed is in herself. Par liament is not the Church. Societies are not the Church. But the Convocation is the Church by representation. Not that the Convocation of Canterbury is the Convocation of the whole Church; but the two Convocations of the two provinces, in one Synod, or in one purpose and work, are as much the Church by representation as the two Houses of Parliament are the nation. To the Convocation, sooner or later, this w or k must be referred. Why may it not begin at once ? Is it to be maintained fora moment that the Church should need reform and extension, and have within herself the means of both, and yet be bidden to look out of herself to secular legislation or volun tary societies ? Such a principle, we venture to say, is never acted upon in any matter of ordinary or secular interest—then why in this instance ? There is not a shadow of doubt that the Convoca tion of Canterbury can proceed to this work, if only the bishops, and especially the archbishops, will give the opportunity. No licence is required for the purpose, no injury to the State could come of it, and no interference would probably be offered by the Crown to a prolonged session, if the Arch bishop would throw the weight of his high station into the cause. (Prom the Morning Herald.) The straw is moving. The velvet smoothness and repose on which the happy family, for a few days fancied they were destined to repose, have been roughly.-shaken and disturbed, as though by the carpet on which they were so comfortably squat ting being suddenly drawn from under them. Of this there are, as the meeting of Parliament ap proaches, divers ominous and infallible indications supplied by yesterday's newspaper. " A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday. The Council sat four hours." This significant announcement is ac companied in the Times by a long, elaborate, lugu brious leading article, evidentl y dictated from Downing-street after the aforesaid prolonged, and doubtless harmonious, Cabinet Council--the object of which is a vain attempt to bamboozle the Radi cals by staving off the " Reform Bill " for another year ! By turns they are in that article attempted to be bullied and cajoled ; but no one can fail to see the trepidation of the writer and his official in structors. Finally, having dealt as best he may with his quondam allies, whom he sees sternly sheering off as the battle-hour approaches, he turns with an impudent, but piteous whine towards " the Protectionist party"—who are told th a t they. " are able, if they be so minded, to take up a posi tion of dignified and disinterested independence." Oh, dear, how very good of them it would be to do so, in the exact nick of time, and thus cordially respond to the entreaties o f M r. Gladstone on the night of the division which pitched him, for a mo ment, again into power. We say to our friends of the great and true Con servative party, Bide your time. Of faction you are incapable, but forbearance has its limits. Con tinue as you are, united and determined ; and ' us see what thoP,, - , 1 can do, aft er all, who -,tr' earnediet of carrying on the Govelannent by a Cabinet of compatibili.4,l DESTRUCTION OF A VESSEL BY FIRE.—A serious loss took place yesterday morning, off Dungeness, by the destruction of a French vessel by fire. .She was a fine a an g d ene w ra as l -V , w ia i n th d' wi m ne a , st a e n r d b sc o h u o n o d ne to r Lcaolnleddontfhroe from Nantes, between No. 3 and No. 4 stations , so me four mil es to cargo of merchandise. She at l e n g th took the g round the westward of the Ness. The fire had obtained, how ever, too powerful a hold of the ill-fated craft to admit of her preservation. The flames continued to extend over the vessel until at length she was burnt to the water's edge. It is gratifying to add, however, that the crew and all those who assisted in endeavouring to stay the conflagration, succeeded in reaching the shore in safety, not a life being lost. At present the cause of the fire has not transpired. The unfortunate ship and cargo are reported to have been insured for considerable sums. RESCUE FROM DROWNING.-11 1 MANS IND HERQIO CONDUCT OF AN OFFICER.— We ahrnlid, in , ..l ee d, t a k e great shame to ourselves did we on“ J-. to mention, and that in terms of the highest n ° .,ssible commendation, the humane and heroic cor-1 --eruct of of Captain Griermon, com manding officer 0' - ` ll under Pro- . - dence, was the instrument of saving the life °f a - - " ' da last. The "Lord's Hole," a . young lad on Satur y .a the 15th depot, quartered here, who rains of this winter, which, by the continuous and heavy he eastern pool of inconsiderable depth and extent . in summer, er l but has been. 'Oenverted into a lake, situated on t Canal, and apparently supplied by a spring somewhat althe end bf our f a i r gree n, immediately close t o and over the Can near its centre, has been from tune immemorial, C. ..ota) FOUND IN ARRAN,—We 'earn that a course o f fear of broken bones o r wet jackets befo re their e y es, theatre where th e outh of our town , not having the r a ,rospetting has been going on of late on the Island of took lessons in the slippery art of sk atin g and sliding Arran, under the instructio n of the D u k e o f H amilton, whenever frost converted it into a field suitable for such the proprietor, and that gold has actually been found purposes. near the north end ; to what extent, however, we are 'having, in the o • 'of the juveniles , pinion imparted on the not yet able to say.—North British Mail. surface, day named the necessary degree of firmness to its The frost of the two or three preceding nights Clain MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE a considerable nunibet of them were amusing themselvesb MOTHER.—On Saturday, at an inquest taken by M r . upon it, when one unfortunate wight, carried away by raker, the coroner, at the Victory, Bingsland-road, the exeitement of the moment, incautiously approached Shoreditch, information was communicated to him by too near the spring, where, the ice being thin and Mr. Meadows, summoning officer of the parish, of the fol- weak, it suddenly gave way under his weight, at once lowing extraordinary case of child murder in the Regent's precipitating him in the deepest portion of thei depth.pond, Canal, Haggerstone, by the unfortunate mother, and of and where the water was considerably beyond the attempted suicide of the latter, who is at present Rising to the surface, he continued to catch his of lying in Shoredit c h workhouse, where she was removed, the table ice, but either through fright or cold, _or s b e o ifi th ; after having been prevented effecting self-destruction. combined, he made no farther efforts to extricate him. It appears that on Tuesday morning last, about 11 o'clock, and as his companions, influenced most likely by the as some men were passing down Great Cambridge -street same feehngs, also seemed incapable of affotd i i i g him any naggerstone, near the bridge which traverses the Queen's- assistance, contenting themselves rhei* with road, they observed a female, who was holding a bundle part of passive spectators., his situation was everyrilousin the her e hand, plunge into the canal. Several of them went ment becoming not Only there p . ainful but a p C e t. Grierson, toowh.nr assistance, and succeeded in bringing her to the extreme. Pertnnately at this juncture acting m the o. t i g path. While they were so engaged, an infant was who was noming from the barracks, seeing Capt. c.ommo observed to be str 1' • dropped out of theg lin g in the water, and which had tin abont the pond, rushed down, that none of the wrapped. The handkerchief in which it had been Pgrth';us position of the boy, and, also,h,, n umber n'' the wrapped. baby soon sank. Some persons, ') who were in a l) I ystanders, of whom there Afaa ft eddy -- wie ordinary scene, tried state t of astonishment at the extra- banks of the pond, were *illititt tO 'risk their lives or The mother was taker:iand perceiving the rescue it, but without erlecess. subject themselert le tk, wetting with the thermometer at Cambridge-street, where she tothe Acorn pnblic-horse Great the freerL4V. YAM, in an attempt to save the lad, boldly day the unfortunate was put to bed. The n ex t and A MICe plunged into the water, broke up the ice in young woman was Mb:loved tA Ms immediate vicinity, severely lacerating his hands in Shoreditch workhouse, and has been attended to by Mr his effortsand after considerable danger and difficulty Clarke,. the house-surgeon. She still remai ns i n I , ry. ucceededi dragging precarious state. The name of the young Woman ve is condition. s n Not content him ashore in all but an exhausted Mary Ann Capron, and she resided at No. 7, -I -am did even here, but had him at once conveyed to street, Coal Harbour-street, Hackney -road. She is es- r sto house, wrapped up in blankets, and re single woman, about 26 years of age, and very respect! at neighbouring d, 1 . and wasted not even a thought on his ably connected. She was delivered of the child about sownoradirives in ap o. p eo le condition and bleeding hands until he had five o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, unknown to her the satisfaction p of knowing that, under Divine Provi parents, who c h arge d her with having been enciente, and dente, he had been the means of not only preserving a who suspected that her delivery had taken place, which fellow-creature from a sudden and violent death, but also she denied. She left her home unknown tothem,'andworthy family from affliction and hay. a decent POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.—The Rev. John G. Angley one of the curates of Christchurch, St. George's-in-the- East, was brought before Mr. D'Eyncourt upon the charge of assaulting and obstructing two police constables of the H division, in the execution of their duty. Police-constable Hudson, H 78, said—About 8 o'clock on Saturday night I was on duty near the Pavilion Theatre, in the Whitechapel-road, when I saw several girls and boys standing about with baskets of oranges, which caused an obstruction on the foot pavement. As soon as they saw me they fell back into the road, and two or three oranges having fallen out of the basket of one of the girls, I picked them up and threw them to her. I was then proceeding after them for the purpose of driving them away, when the defendant hastened after me, and, seizing hold of my arm, struck me a smart blow over the back with his thick end of his walking stick, at the same time demanding what business I had to inter fere with the poor girls, who were merely endeavouring to get an honest living. The defendant appeared much excited at the time, and, after telling him that he had no business to interfere with me in the discharge of my duties, lat once took him into custody. On our way to the station house the defendant conducted himself in a very intemperate manner, calling my brother officer a liar, and flourished his stick in such a menacing manner that I found it necessary to wrest it from him for self protection. On cross-examination by the defendant the constable positively denied that he had thrown one of the girls down or that ho had used any more violence on the occasion than was absolutely necessary to effect her removal. Payne, 156 H, fully corroborated the above evidence, and added that while he was assisting the other officer to clear the thoroughfare, the defendant suddenly seized him by the shoulder and dragged him round by main force, declaring at the time that he insisted upon taking his number. On being taken into cus tody, the defendant announced himself to be a clergyman, but he exhibited so much violence in his language and demeanour that witness was decidedly under the impression that he was not perfectly sober. George Teakle, an ex -sergeant of police, stated that whilst standing at the door of the Pavilion Theatre at the time in question, he heard an angry altercation between the accused and the first witness ; the latter of whom was afterwards proceeding towards one of the fruit women, when he was rapidly followed by the defendant, who caught him by the arm, with the evident intention of preventing him from inter fering with her. The defendant had a stick in his hand at the time, but he saw no blows struck on either side. h P isc i o e n u d i uCi, Inspector K en d a ll stated that he received the charge at the station-house and whilst he was inves tteignautaintigon th o fe particulars, e at def th e o n d o a o n o t s t: a e h d a , d upsetex ble the girl's oranges, but he did not then charge him with having assaulted her. While he was taking down the charge, the defendant became so noisy and obstreperous that witness came to the conclusion that he had been drinking, but he considered it probable that his violent manner was merely the result of exasperation and excitement. •On being called upon for his defence, the rev. gentle man earnestly assured the magistrate that the facts of the case, as stated by the witnesses, had been grossly exaggerated, and that a most unwarrantable aggression and indignity had been practised towards him. At the hour in question he was passing down the Whitechapel real, when he observed the constable driving several poor orange girls before him with a degree of unjustifi able and unnecessary harshness, and immediately upon his overtaking one of them, he struck her a violent blow on the head, the force of which instantly upset her bas ket and scattered her fruit about the pavement. After remonstrating with him upon his unfeeline , conduct, he advanced towards him for the purpose of taking his number, when he was instantly seized by the officer, who called another one to his assistance, and he was forcibly taken off to the station-house. He denied most em phatically having assaulted either of the officers, and with regard to the unworthy insinuation against his ebriety, he trusted that it was wholly unnecessary for him to repel such a disgraceful imputation. Catherine M'Carthy, the fruit girl above referred to, was then called, and stated that, while she was vending her oranges, one of the policemen ran up to her and struck her a violent blow on the side of the head, which caused the fruit to roll out of her basket. The police man then picked up her oranges and threw them out into the road, and while he was doing so the defendant kindly interfered for her, when two of the constables laid hold of him and took him away by force. William Scott ; a Custom-house officer, stated that he was about to enter the theatre, when he saw the police man rush towards the last witness, and strike her two heavy blows in rapid succession on the side of the head, which caused her to fall forward upon her knees. Wit ness expressed his indigna;:ion at such brutality, and the defendant, who happened to be looking on, intimated that he would take the officer's number ; but on ap proaching him for that purpose, be was immediately secured, and conveyed to the station-house. Mr. D'Eyncourt said, that after attentively consider ing the evidence, he could come to no other conclusion than that the charge had been completely established. He saw no reason whatever to disbelieve the evidence of the officers, who corroborated each other in every par ticular ; whereas the two witnesses, who had been called for the defence, so materially differed in their testimony that it was perfectly manifest that one or both of them had committed deliberate perjury. He should, there fore, convict the defendant of the assault, and impose upon him a penalty of 205., or five days' imprisonment. Tho defendant, who appeared greatly discomposed, lintnediately paid the fine, with an intimation that lie considered he had not been justly treated, and that lie should carry the matter elsewhere. MARYLEBONE.--John lll`Grail, a labourer, was charged with having committed a murderous assault upon Bridget, his wife. - On the Previous night, as. Sergeant Delany, I 6 D, was passing along Oreas-street, Portman-market, he was met by a female, who told him that a man had nearly murdered his wife at 16, in the street alluded to. Witneas hastened thither, and upon the first floor land ing he saw the poor woman leaning upon the shoulder of her son. Blood was flowing from her head, and she seemed quite insensible. Witness lifted her up, and, on questioning her a short time afterwards as to who had injured her, she repli e d i n a faint tone of voice that it was her husband. I went into the prisoner's room, where I saw him sitting by the fire. I asked him how he accounted for the assault made by him upon his wife, when he made answer that some words ensued between them, and that he struck her with a small gridiron which he happened to have in his hand. I took the woman to St. Mary's Hospital in a cab, the prisoner accompany ing us ; and after I had left the woman there to receive proper medical assistance, I conveyed the prisoner to the station-house, the.doctor having certified that he could not pronounce the wife to . be out of danger. I subse quently went to the house, and there learnt from one of the prisoner's sons that his mother was not struck with the small gridiron spoken of, but with a heavy iron im plement used by plasterers, and called a "server." The poor injured woman was not in a fit condition to come forward; and the prisoner, who denied having struck his wife with the server, was remanded. MELANCHOLY CASH OF DROWNING.--OXFORD, SATUR DAY.—The aociety of %O a t en C o ll ege h as aga i n b een plunged into great gi'ief Ly a ratal accident which oc curred to Mr. Giles Datibeny, one of the younger mem bers of that society., a relative o r D r: patibeny 2 profes sor of chemistry and botany, an d a Pei ovi? !:It Magdalen College. Mr. Daubeny, in company with a friend, was in a boat called a "gig," hi a back stream, near Iffiey, when the boat was upset, and Unfortunately Mr. Dau beny was drowned. An inquest was held at Iflley yesterday morning, Wh eq choly occurrence "rg gOr6 into The jury expressed the ortivlars or this themselves SAO 1 . a - • . with the evidence, and without wring the room' returned a verdict of "Acciden tal death by drownink from the upsetting or a boat at the Weirs Lasher Pool." Mr. Daubeny was a commoner of Magdalen College, and a relative of a gen tleman of the same name who was also a member of the same college, and who about two years ago was killed by falling off a railway bridge near Oxford. This was his first term of residence. He had been at college only a few days. The members of Magdalen met on the 3d inst. [ADVSRTIBEIRNTA—Deafness--New Discovery.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opposite the York Hotel. The organic vibrator, an extraordinary power ful, small, 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 powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut, to discern minute objects at 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 34 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, Ste. 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. & fl, Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe opposite the York Hotel. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Parr's Life Pills.—No medicine yet offered to the world ever attained such distinguished celebrity ; it is questionable if there be now any part of the civilised globe where its extraordinary healing vir tues have not been exhibited, The signal succors Is attributablA ro-i- r .4 50...e1y to tne strong recommendat i ons p L a if rt e ie P s ill c s u h re a d y? b n y 9 , : h:l i r use. The proprietors of Parr's letters—several of then iiu frOm v-%' Cre s r E g i y 9 m n of England, many from distinguished Dissenting e u n pw of ar t d h s e o c f h l; h o minis ters, from gentlemen connected with the Army and Navy, also from Members of Parliament, Merchants, and last, though not least, from members of the Medical Profes sion, and a skilf u l A na l yt i ca l Ch em i s t— a ll speaking in the highest terms of the value of this inestimable medi cine. This is a mass of evidence in its favour beyond all parallel, and stamp this medicine as being the most rational and the most useful medicine in the world. Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchya rd ; Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; Sutton and C 0., Bow Church yard ; Hannay and C o ., 61, O x f or d- s t re e t, London ; and by most respectable dealers in medicine. Price 15.10., , 2s. 9d., and in family packets 11s et "ch. Directions given with each box. BANE RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 22d day of January, 1853 : Ave - age PRIVATE BANKS. Amount,. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,221 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. and T. Copeman 4,276 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 25,557 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Rogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L 25,086 9,544 15,957 35,196 11,889 13,750 23,780 .... 11,018 7,363 62,407 13,783 Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par- 4,661 34,474 18,772 rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bath City Bank, Bath— G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co Birmingham Bank. Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon--Wilkins and Co Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington — Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Eury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son. Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter' and Co 105,647 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co 49,486 Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow Round ,. and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham--Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godahning—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead —Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Marxet Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-- Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co. Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, 23,487 71,395 33,371 27,069 3,650 36,244 36,426 12,716 64,515 28,859 12,053 2,548 17,216 39,075 . 34,209 22,307 3,040 17,185 33,725 46,762 7,710 20,88,6 70,110 8,492 12,073 37,063 26,248 10,057 10,573 68,526 79,819 9,879 45,691 44,222 29,616 21,038 6,070 13,333 5,867 5,003 7,345 27,826 34,475 15,476 22,842 20,278 44,147 5,718 23,080 36,275 18,975 20,829 62,980 17,880 25,128 9,080 . 20,239 and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and 40,136 Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—• Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, p,301 5,205 53,622 Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llau dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and 36,600 26,054 32,995 14,330 93,258 18,231 - Co. - Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn and Co Jarvi. Regis— ; Macclesfield—B roc kl e h urs t Macclesfield Ban..! and Co. .............. .... .. .. / . __ CO. .. liiii , d , Matiningtree Bank, Da -uninoree--N unn and -nd Wilts Marlborough Bank, Marlborough a.- -c.„. Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, 11.... -1.- borough Old Bank and Hungerfoid Bank, and Hungorfard Bank, Marlborough—Tan- ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williarns and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and. Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co. Word Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and ed. ~f Old Bank, Toni/ridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank,. Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxiardthire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W and Co.- ,Pease i s Old Batik, lttil, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and 6,004 4,757 32,980 11,961 15,240 2,715 1,780 7,073 12,437 28,735 12,479 27,427 48,973 22,270 18,123 48,816 64,361 10,223 3,633 27,137 13,997 28,064 10,125 33,726 9,961 9,656 41,043 9,938 8,070 W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co.. _ Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. ................... . ........................... Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, 4oches ter—Day and Nicholson 7,259 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 11,190 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 10,046 Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret and Co, ._ 16,879 12,053 30,149 32,140 5,845 4,388 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Prich ards and Allaway 4,386 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Gibsons and Co. 29,907 Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and CA 15,965 .... Scarborough Old Bank. Scarborough—Woodall and Co. 24,048 Shrewsbary Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co. 41,829 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—MaLlison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 14,493 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, 2ell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 420 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co. Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bunk, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock 23,224 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle 10,880 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. 7,000 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton— Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and Co 9,600 Town and County of Poole Bunk and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons 10,267 Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and C 0...................................................... 9,246 Uxbridge Old Bank, - Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, andCo Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and Co, .. 8,791 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick — K. Greenway and Co. 25,937 Wellington Somerset Bank, Welling4-.o n —Fox, Brothers, and Co 4,418 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-- Leatham, Tew, and Co 43,844 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpso n , Chap man, and Co 14,212 Winchester, Alresford, and AL on B an k, Win chester—ulpett and Co 21,605 Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co , 6,645 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce 16,802 Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derby slake Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co 36,504 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co 43,777 Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe— P. and W. Hancock 6,926 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Good ricke and Holyoake 13,415 Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co 7,966 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, K'dderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co 9,685 Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer 11,731 Yarmouth and&ffolk Bank, and Haleswofth and Suffolk. Bank, Yarmoath—Gurneys, Birbecb, and Co 42,999 Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart,, and Co 12,213 York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 46,187 COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—FEB. 5, Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 463 t o 56s ; red, 38s to 50 s ; b ar l .ey , 28 s t o 36 s ; oa t s, 17 s t o 24s ; bean s ' Mazagan, 30s to 32s ; 'middle and small, 34s to 38s ; Pe as ' white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 30s to 325. CHELMSFORD—FEB. 4 Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat white, old 41 s Od to 58s Od, new 39 s t o Ms ; red, old 37s to' 48s, new 3 29 t° 44s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 30s to 36s ; grindi n g' 21s to 278; malt, 55 s t o 56 s ; chevalier , 55s to 58s ; oa ts, . 19s to 25s ; peas, pa r t r id ge , 30 s t o 35 s ; white, 31s to 3? , boiling 37s to 40s ; d un , new , 29 s t o 338 ; b ea ns, tick, „ to 34s ; Harrow tick s , 31 s t o 36 s ; Mazag, 29s to 325• The following is the official statement of the q uantities of corn, &c., received in th e p or t o f L on d on f rom the lam, in Essex, from the 31st Jan. to the sth February, both 1 71- elusive : Colchester Harwich . Leigh Malden :1'.2 I 8 pc4 i la 30 SSA,— I 2s 20 99 30914 180 -- 303 291; 20 157 7 5 807 70; t- 70 9 320 135 COAL MARICET -FEB. 7. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market : 11 60 s. d. s • "' Bate's West Hart1ey......16 0 Walker l6 6 Holywell ....................17 0 Hettou Lyons mixed 17 3 ,, Howard's West Hartley Bell 17 * 1 . :Atherton 16 0 Haswell lg 6 Longridge's W. Hartley 16 6 Kepler Grange l7 3 Talifield. Moor l5 3 Plummer lB o Tanfield Moor Butes 15 0 Russell's Hetton.. 17 West Hartley 16 0 Hough Hall 17 3 West Wylam Trader 15 6 South Hellos 17 1 Wylam 16 0 Clavering Tees l4 ' Willington Hartley l6 0 South Durham l6 9 Wall's End, &e. r 0 Birehgrove Graigola 2 0 a Gosforth 16 9 Derwentwater Hartley 1 6 L',, Harvey Wylam 14 0 Nixon Merthyr's& Cardiff2 s V, Hedley 16 9; Wayne's Merthyr 2 5 v Northumberland E 15 6; Ships at market lB9 1 Sol,l JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kendal.. 9,215 Barnsley Banldng Company, Barnsley 9,437 Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,720 Bilston District Banking Company, W01ver hampt0n.................. 7, 324 Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven 30,735 Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford 20,571 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent 54,343 Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield 8,781 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington 31,952 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pony, Cheltenha- Coventry and Warwimckshire Banking Company, 9,756 Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 12, Chel 350 County of Gloucester Banking Comp an y , 104,895 tenha Carlisle m and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 35,559 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 23,708 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 148,350 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,112 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 38,149 Hull Banking Company, Hull 30,927 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,692 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 45,714 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,393 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,771 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,190 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 53,900 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds 23,664 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 70,438 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 49,787 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors 10,068 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,091 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 31,078 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle upon-Tyne 1,225 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, .Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 406,130 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 45,993 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 68,264 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 33,496 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 47,034 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth. 1,930 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,340 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford 53,864 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 353,569 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 38,735 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge 55,673 Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield 23,592 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, .Shaftes bury 9,193 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking - -many, Wolverhampton 33,718 ' and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake- Coi Wakefielu field.. Whitehaven Join. Whitehaven Banking Company, Warwick and Loaraingtou . .................. 3/,756 Warwick West of England and South Wa:es District Bank, Bristol 73,810 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, S a li s b u :v 76,512 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield 35, 06 Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 4,798 York Union Banking Company, York 70,325 York City and County Banking Company, 92,450 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 124,384 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, January 29, 1853 12,829 ! - -Stock Banking Company, 26,195 2,608 THE CONVICT KIRWAN. —During the present week some very remarkable circumstances have come to light connected with the case of Mr. Boyer, to which re ference has often been made in the police reports. It appears that a communication was addressed, by the secretary of the Police Commissioners, to the actuary of the Abbey-street Savings Bank, with a view of ascer taining whether there was any record of moneys de posited in that bank, in the separate names of Boyer and his wife. After due inquiry it was found that some years since—we have not learned the exact date—a sum of about 201. had been lodged by Mrs. Boyer in her own name, and another amount by her husband in his name. Ithad been stated by Mrs. Boyer that, on the occasion when her residence was broken into, and her furniture aken away, a savings bank book, belonging to her, had been abstracted. It appears, by the records of the bank, that the husband had claimed the amount lodged in her name, and the bank, on the claim being esta blished by evidence, paid the money. A demand was made by William Burke Kirwan for the amount lodged in the bank in the name of Boyer, whose savings bank book he produced, and the whole sum deposited by Boyer was paid to him. The signature of Kirwan, as the recipient of money, appears in the bank book. At that time, the rule of the bank was to pay deposits to the holder of the book, after regular notice.—Mercan tile Advertiser. CORK AND YOUGHAL RAILWAY.—The project of an application to parliament giving power to a new com ny to construct a line of railway between Cork and Youghal has been abandoned by the projectors. America (bylirit.pack.N Every Friday America (by United Sts.l packet) ' 8 . America (by U States packet) N Feb. 16 .... Australia (via South Liverpool ... lAvet pool ... Southampton Southampton Dover ...... ampton) ..........31!4th of March Ditto (via Marseilles N,Bth of March .. Ditto (via Cape of Goo d' Hone) ............N'22d of February .. Plymouth . Africa (West Coast) .. N 23rd of the month. Plymouth .. Al exandria.......... N A, 9,24, & 30 of tn. Dover 11 1 „;""thia • • • • • .....Mi4th & 20th of mon. Southampton la mas •• • • • 3112nd of the month Southampton Belgium ... ....... • • • • • • Dover " " • Brazil.• 9th of the month.. Southampton Buenos Ayres__ „M 9th of the month.. Southampton a ap p e e ooff Good Good hope ..Ntl4th of the motithiPlymouth • • e ..N 2r1.4 of April Plymouth . Cape de Verds ... N 14thof. the Plymouth Ceylon c,10n.(.5ee...1.n.d.i.a?....N 14th of the month Plymouth •• Channel Isles ........ N M on.,Wed southampton ....... M _d & 17th of m China (see nelia) Constantinople*......N 7 ,8,17,21,&27 ofm Cox:stantinople ...... 31 4th & 20th of mon cont. of Europe N't & I!:Trviee daily pt (see India) Ft mice ........ M & N7wiee daily...—. Gibraltar ...H 1,7, 17, 20, 27 ofm. Greece (see India) Greytown ........ M ' , net & 17th of mon.l Southampton Hamburgh .......... N Tuesday & Frid a y London ..... Havannah 2nd of the month Southampton Holland ............ M Wednesday & Sat. London Honduras ..........M 17th of the month. Southampton Julia (viaSouthampt.) 31 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton India (via Marseilles)M Silt& 24th of month Dover lonian Isles (see India) Ireland & N Twice daily ...... Ilolyhead Lisbon ..............M 7,9, 17, & 27 of m. Southampton Madeira ............31 9th of the month Southampton Madeira N 23rd of the month Plymouth .. Malta (see India) Malta 7,17,19,27, 30 of m. Dover ...... - Mauritius (see India) Mauritius •......... N 14th of th e monthiPly mouth .. Feb. vott• Mexico 2nd of the month. Southampton Ist f 9 Naples ..... ........ N sthl 6 tll2sthofllloll Dover .... • • Feb' 1 6 New Granada .. • . .31 2d & 17th of mouth,Southampton'Feb i t s New Zea1and.......... By private ship .. Various port4llTnee t , Papal States*. . , tlllstll2sthofinou. Dover .Feb. ;;; Peninsula , tlll7th27tho.enon Southampton .Feb `; Peru ...• .. • 2d & 17th of mon. Southampton Feb. 16 Pent Natal. ..........N 14th of th e month Plymouth .. Feb' Sicily ......N sthl` th2sthofmon, Dover eb' 1 2 Tuscany . 50)15th25thofmon. Dover ...... Fe b ' 1 6 Venezuela ..........9I 2d & 17th of month Southampton Feb. Van liiemen'S Land (see! Australia) W b West Indies ........Ml2d& 17th of montlilSouthampton'Ft•__,- ver :40ttthampton Dover over ;outhampton FATAL ACOIDENT.—On Thursday a fternoon, -- the boat of the Cambridge, 78, at Plymouth, was beari,n t r i up the harbour against a s t rong nor th er l y b ree ze, and Mr., Mason, master carpenter of the Cambridge, ll three men of the same vesse l, on b oar d , a su dd e n KO struck her, and she instantly filled and went delvile" Speedy assistance was afforded; and the crew w et picked up with the exception of Thomas Clatworthi? who was unfortunately drowned. ent SHIPWRIGHTS' STRIKE. —There is a general moveni at Bristol among the mechanics for an immediate 3 , Vance of wages, a n d a strike, if not acceded to by tll employers. The s hi pwr i g h ts, a most important bodi i o o. Bristol, have issued the following circular, a ddressec l i ., o their employers :—" Respected sirs,—We, the oPer3:lo,t -shipwrights of th e por t of Bristol, beg to draw You' ,is tention to the present commercial enterprise of the. try—its consequent action on the mechanic and arti:ss of every grade—the upward tendency of all the neee'is ries and comforts of life—and hope you will see 11 ° so t consistency in advancing them 6d. a day on their presto rate of wages, to meet the consequent advance °fa re to times. The committ eemen o f th e yar d are delnite wait upon you w ith thi s memorial, and an answer 1 , „ '• eo t spectfully solicit e d b y M on d ay next b y your obel ho servants. For y our p rosper i ty i n tra d e an d f am ilies n i s o iier pray." Th e h ouse - carpenters and j o i ners have t neg issued a similar ci rcu l ar, an d i t i s sa id t h at o th e r tr'iho will follow the example. We know not what will be is; reply of the employers in the case of the shipwrig h s , ql but in the cas e o f th e carp pha enters several masters 10 .T . a . i; i g ready acceded t o th e advance. The trade in shi t t o is at present so brisk that there are not hands enoug do the work. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCFfANG,E.—The share market has undergone l l ' marked change to-day from the tone of last week. - " 1 1 have had a very strong demand for all leading stocks, an we quote a rise in prices of 2to 3 per cent. Quotatious.:" Aberdeen, 14; Chester and Birkenhead, 21i; Caledonia 1,3 32 ; Eastern Counties, 12 13-16 13 ; Lancashire an Yorkshire, 78 ; London and North-Western, 120 ;- (fifth shares), 3 p. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 294 ; Midland, 774 ; North British, 8 1-16 ; South-Easte r and Dover, 23g. MANCHESTER, FEB. 7. t STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been an active marke'r rather bett er p r i ces :—Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 6 1 Leeds, 77i ; Eastern Counties, 12 13-16 ; Sheffield, 2 9 g' Midlands, 77i • Dover, 23 9-16 ; London Stock, 11911 Manchester and Birmingham C Quarters, 1 7-16 Lancashire, 18N ; Caledonians, 324 ; North British, 8 e ' Lake Bathurst, -Ad. • Cheshire Junction 6 1 4 d. ; Shre ws " bury and Hereford,' Isd. ; West Riding, 2id. ; Bla ck burn, 74d: BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 7, • STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was very inactive to; day :—Birmingham and Stour Valleys were done at 1 °,,, 1 ' 3s. Od. ; Sh rews b ury an d Bi rm i ng h am St oc k a t 8/. ; Preference Shares, at ; Shrewsbury and Hereford , 5 " dis. LEEDS, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has again i 13 1; proved a little thi s morn i ng, th oug h but few transactleiL have taken place :—C a l e d on i ans closed at Tz ' • Le e . Northerns at 151 ; Midland Stock at 761 ; and Lancashire and Yorkshires at 76i7r. SEABORNE MALLS. C. O (N signifies that the mails are sent frorri the General Post-offf by the night—and M by the morninq—dispatehl Whey duo j n , Engloo_," COUNTRIES I)ayw'i(ltmadeui in General l'ost _Office, London. From what Port Dis,:atched lEach DV 'Feb. 16 ' Feb- 26 Feb 2 ! APri l ' Bfare h 30 Feb. I L! t•eb• 1 , ‘, Feb' 00• ist of V ° pailY l6 Feb. if) Fe" 26 feb- i i 30 Msr e 2 6 Feb' Feb",ju 26 'a •.1.. • _E-eb Feb. 10 Feb• 2a ua rlfiCeu‘. Twiceo,o IFeb. ib Feb. 16 4 st• Taeg. Mare ll o n.TD , Feb. 16 Feb. 20 Feb. 16 . pa cc uhf Feb. Feb I `,,' Feb. I F e ,,, 10 BIRI'IIS. OF A SON. On the 5t 1 :: inst., at Barnes-terrace, the wife of l i • C. Ellis, ERtl. Litti llei ' On the 30th nii: , Esq., of the Adolph; -terrace , L o ndon. at liamburcr, the wife of W. OP A DAUGHTER. Oft the 3d inst., at Roc.:ltinghani Castle, the Fron• ilfilj. Watson. the On the 4th inst., at 7, Kensington-gate, Hyde-Palk' wife of E. A. Bona, Esq. _......--------. MARLUED. u On the sth inst. , at the. p a i:sh church, PaciallZ,,,icli, Joshua Blackburn , Esq. , of BrockNj ell-hall, near, Dgaff Surrey, and of Lincoln's-inn, banister-at -law, to of Ann, second daughter of the late 269. 3 rd Sm iles ' N ew castle-upon-Tyne. On the 3d inst., at All Saints' Church, tile Rov. C. J. Carr, incumbent of Witten, P, 111 : 4 1;1 1011 Frances Henrietta, third daughter of the late - 1- b e '' , Learaingt°n: to J. Manse'. ---------- • DIED. olly At Rome, on the 27th ult., the Right Hon. Jobax}riell‘ aged 56. 4;foot, On the 31st ult. in St. James's-place, St. James y;'""Lucy, the wife of '3 J. B. Jarman, Esq., of Rosenau, Windsor. fir. the Ist inst., suddenly, at the Bank of E n g lan H. F. P. Voight, of Stoke Newington, aged 6 9 . ng tO nn ir On the 2d instant, at Kennington: i h o use, X e lane, R. P. Games, solicitor, aged 46. sec ond On the 2d inst., in Russell-square, El eanor, daughter of the late J. Teesdale, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Sherborne, Dorset , B. -11 Esq., On the 4th inst., at Richmond, Surrey , La— lowa Dease, relict of the lat e J. D ease , of Turbot son y t Westmeath, Ireland, age d 89. Ontlte e s n th ha in m s , t. a , nAdugltaitseta,of l wifl, eof G• Arbutn o Lon don, of Twicken hill ham, aged 48. hset nr a ed i e l ,in d re P rti l n -t o [ tf ,l e i i sLlc a : , : sr h a i: ::osy M u : Ur nia l o lp tii?„,,Y o o o .l : l 3 l oi . • in the c Middlesex, Tuesday, February 8, 1853. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1853,