The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

CURIOUS CASE. In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, before Lord Campbell, the following extraordinary case was tried HARRISON V. THE MARQUIS OF BATH. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. H. T. Cole, were for the plaintiff ; Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. Milward for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, Adolphus Harrison, sued the Marquis of Bath to recover the sum of 781., which he claimed to be due to him for wine supplied and services rendered to the defendant in the years 18534. The de fendant pleaded the general issue. Mr. M. Chambers, in opening the case, said he felt deep regret that he was obliged to state the circumstances out of which the plaintiff's demand arose. The action was brought to r e cover the sum of 781., which the defendant owed the plaintiff for wines supplied in the years 18534 upon the order and upon the credit of the defendant. At that time the plaintiff was living in Pimlico and carrying on business as a wine agent and merchant. He was then in the habit of visiting at thehouse of Madame Denis, and the wine was supplied at her house on distinct orders, given by the defendant. It would appear that the Marquis of Bath, and other noblemen and/gentlemen of the first quality were in the habit of visiting Madame Denis, but after some time the house was suppressed, and an indictment preferred against Harrison, Madame Denis, and another, for con spiring to bring over to this country young girls for pur poses which the jury might imagine. M adame Denis fled to the continent, but the plaintiff (Harrison) w as . convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard la bour. After his release from prison Harrison made his claim against the Marquis of Bath, and received 51. on ac count, and at the same interview handed over to the mar quis two letters which the marquis had sometime previ ously written to Madame Denis. The plaintiff Harrison would be called as a witness, and he would prove that the orders for the winelsvere given by the Marquis himself, but as he had not been able to obtain payment he was obliged to bring the present action. The defendant had not pleaded, as he might have done, that the contract was immoral, and that the plaintiff knew that the goods were supplied for an immoral purpose. The plaintiff would be obliged to ad mit that he bad been found guilty of a criminal offence, and he would no doubt he exposed to rigid cross-examina tion. He had, indeed, been ruined by the prosecution, but that was no reason why he should not call on those who were indebted to him for payment. Adolphus Harrison was then examined by Mr. Cole — He said—l am the plaintiff in this action. In 1852 I lived in Tachbrook-street, Pimlico. I carried on the bust ness of a wine agent. Some time in 1852 I was acquaint • al with a Madame Denis. Sho lived in 3, Denbigh-ter. race, Pimlico. I several times saw the defendant, the Marquis of Bath, there. About Use middle of 1852 he gave me an order. He said, " Harrison, send in two dozen of port and two dozen of champagne." The price was not mentioned. That was all that was said when he gave me the order. I supplied ;the wines. In 1853 I had a fur ther order. I was at Madame Denise, and saw the defen dant there. He ordered six dozen of port. I supplied it. 1u December, 1853, I saw the defendant. He wished me to go to Paris, to carry some letters. One was from him self to Mademoiselle Gabrielle. I received the letters and went to Paris, and delivered the letters. I brought no thing back. I was absent ten or twelve days. I have charged 201. for that journey, including the expenses. In 1854 I went to White's several times, and delivered letters, for defendant, to Mademoiselle Lamoureux. I have charg ed 101. for that. I had several cabs. In 1854 I received orders from the defendant for four dozen more wine. It was not always from the defendant personally ; sometimes from Madame Denis, who mid, in the defendant's pre sence, " His lordship wants four dozen of wine." It was to h 3 port and champagne. lam not positive about the port. The sums charged are fair and reasonable. I was for some time in prison, under sentence of a court of justice. After I came out I saw the defendant at 44, Berkeley square. He gave me Si. He asked me where Madame Denis was? I said she was in Switzerland, and that she had forwarded to me two of his lordship's letters. I had thd letters with me, and handed them to his lord ship. I add I had called for my claim for the wine. His lordship said ho was certain I was ill-treated, and asked me what was the amount. I told him the amount was 781., and that I thought I was entitled to three times the amount, from the loss I had experienced and the;heavy expenses of my trial. The defendant said he would think it over, and I might call on him in about three weeks. He on that occasion gave me Si. Nothing more passed before I left. Cross-examined by Mr. James—My name is Adolphus Harrison Feistell. I call myself a wino merchant. I dropped the, name of Feistell eight, nine, or ten years ago. My mother is alive, and passes by the name of Feistall. I was arrested on this char. e on the 22d. of Feb., 18 Si on a charge of entrapping a Belgian girl into this house. She went, by the name of Alice Leroy. I was tried in April, and seutenektl to two years' imprisonment with hard la bour. I came out on the Ist of April, 1856. I was tried at the Central Criminal Court. This is my handwriting. The paper was read. It was headed :--"A. Harrison, of Donis and Co., 3, Denbigh-terr ~ co, Pimlico," and pur ported to he an account of wine consumed at the hone° of "Mr. D. by his lorclehi p's-peraonal order." I was not in part nership with Mr. Denis. My partner was in Montevideo. I explain the heading by saying it does not refer to Madame Denis, bat to a man who lived with her named M. Denis. I have known Madame Denis since 1850. She then lived in Stafford-place. I was not present when she was arrested there in 1850 fur keeping a brothel, when Sergeant Loom arrested her. I knew her the day after her trial at . Cler kenwell. The champagne was supplied from the docks on warrants, as walla), and the other by Mr. Dry, a wine merchant. I bought it of him. There were cellars at Denbigh-terrace. Three cr four dozen at a time' were kept there. I slept there a few times. lopened the door a few times accidentally. (The witness was then cross examined on the particulars of his demand, which, among other items, contained ono under the date of May and June, 1854, for attendance on the defendant, and carrying letters to various ladies, for which he charkd 101.) The plaintiff said .in May and June, 1854, I Was in prison. (Tho particulars charged for two dozen of champagno supplieWin July, 1854.) The witness said, I was in prison in July, 1R54, but it was ordered in January. I will swear that. l will swear I saw the &feed:ant at the house in October, 1853. To the best of my belief ho was there. I could almost swear I saw him there in January, 1854. The July, 1854, is a mistake. I swear that in January or Felervere . an order was given by the defendant for wine. I will not swear it eras given personally. The defendant was present when Madame Denis gave me the order. He came on horseback. I was not in the habit of delivering letters to gentlemen at different clubs. I deli vered two letter. In December, 1853, abeut the mid Ile of the month, the defendant sent me to Paris with lettere. I called on the defendant in July last year. I took 20310 letters Lord Bath had written to Madame Denis. I first saw the valet. Ho offered me something in his hand like that, and said " His lordship sends you that." I will not swear that I saw the colour of it. I said I required to see his lordship. I saw him, and gave up two letters. He gave me 51., and, as a matter of politeness, I thanked him. (Laughter.) My attorney's name is Barrow. I instructed him to write this letter to the Duke of Cambridge. [The letter was read, and wag aldressed to Colonel M`Donald, as follows :—] " 15, Clayton-place, Kensington, Dec. 31, 1.856. " Sir,—l am instructed by my client, Mr. Harrison, to apply to is Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge for pay ment of 841. 6s. due from him for wines supplied to him at Madame Denis's, respecting which I understand you have already had some communication. " It seems there is not now the slightest doubt of the au thenticity of the letter of his Royal Highness, which you imagine not, to be genuine. " In the event of proceedings being necessary, favour me with the name of the solicitor of his Royal Highness. " I am, sir, your obedient servant, SAML., H. BARUOW. " The Hon. Jas. McDonald." I swear I saw the Duke of Cambridge at 3, Denbigh-ter race, Pimlico. I swear the Duke of Cambridge gave orders for the wine. He said ho was the Duke of Cam bridge to Madame Donis. I saw the Duke of Cambridge on the bench this morning. I will not swear that was the gentleman. I will swear Lord Somerton (who stood up iu court) was at Madame Denis's. His was only a slight order. I have brought an action against him for wine. I can't swear to the date at all. I had some books. I be lieve they were seized by the police, stolen, or something -- letters and all. This is the inspector who arrested me. I had a pocketbook taken from me, which was returned to me. I bad a lodger, entry-book, a cash-book, and a hank-book at the Royal British Bank. (Loud laughter.) My house was broken into, and the books were taken. They were kept at 3, Denbigh-terrace. I had dissolved partnership with Jackson and Harrison eight months be fore. The inspector said he had only taken the pocket book from me. I have written to several noblemen and gentlemen for wine. I have written to perhaps a doz)n. I instructed Barry to write. I thought he was a r. Those applications were all for wine supplied at Denbigh terrace. I authorised Barry to write, but I did not See the letters. The following letter was then read : " 9, Clement's-inn, Strand, July 23. "My Lord,—The accounts due to Messrs. Harrison and Denis, trading as Denis and Co. at No. 3, Denbigh-terrace, Pimlico, in 1833 and 133-1, have been placed in my hands to collect. " I find your name in the visiting book of that establish ment, together with a claim of 761. due from you and various letters and papers ending to prove the sane. - "May I request the favour of a visit from you any day this week, between 11 and 2 o'clock, in order, if possible, to settle amicably, and without litigation, this claim ? • " I am, my lord, yours respectfully, "To the Marquis of Bath, White's Club." " Wm. BARILY. Mr. Barry has got the visiting-book, and I believe he is paid by their lordships to get out of the way. I saw the book a month ago in the possession of Barry. (His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge here again entered de court and took his seat on the bench.) If it was not his lordship (the Duke of Cambridge) who was there, he had exactly the same features. His lordship gave me orders for wi ne . Re - examined by Mr. Chambers—l never saw Barry's letter after he ha I written it. I hail the N baiting book and gave it to Barry. When Leame out of prison I found the hook among some I said, "Hero islettersthe in a carpet bag in a lumber room. They all prornisedrnee 'visiting book of those noblemen." hin a ,. Government situation— (loud laugh ter)—if I said nig.. Lord Campbell—Wbat situation (lid they offer you ? The witness said it wasilu lt n h d e islands. Mr. James suggested Norfolke Island. Lord Campbell—Was it Norfolk Island? The witness answered indistinctly, and we w understood _a a s at 16, him to say Nova Scotia, near Mont ev i deo. Tachbrook - s t r eet when I was tak en up on this cha rge . was of the firm o f Jackson, Harris on , and Co.,li rge. e w I B roa d- s treet, city. We were merchant s an d foreign agents. When we dissolved partnership I had some of the books. I took them to Madame Denis,. because I ha I no room at I left all my b )o . ks at Madame my apartments. Madame Denis left the country. When I was taken into custody pocket-book and walking-stick back, but I got my down May, the but nothing else. I must have put July. 1854, by mistake. I meant 1853. Ihav_e seen I coneln led defendant drinking wine in the drawing-room._ he drank it. He used to give notice when he was coming, and Mrs. Denis used to let me know. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. Edwin J ames then a dd resse d the jury for the de fendant, and in so doing said, that whatever faults or vices the Marquis of Bath might have been guilty of, he had felt it to be his duty to defend the present action, in order to resist the extortion which the plaintiff was attempting not only against the marquis, but against several other noblemen whom he had sued. It was not to be denied that the marquis bad been induced to visit the establishment kept by Madame Denis; but, though he had done so, lac would come into the box, and deny that he had ever given a single order to the plaintiff Harrison. lie would distinctly contradict the plaintiff upon his oath. It was true that the marquis had several times seen the plaintiff there, and on one occasion he gave him a sovereign, but, beyond that, he had never had anything to do with him, After he (the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEjNING, F4EBRUARY 5, 1857 plaintiff) had come out of prison, be made this claim, and was not satisfied with that, but he bad given instructions to a man named Barry to write to several noblemen and gentlemen making similar demands. One of them, Lord Somerton, was now in court, and was prepared to swear that he had never once been in the house of Madame Daub. He want so far fix to instruct his alter/ley, Mr. Barrow, to write a letter to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge making a similar demand for 84/. 6s. For that de mand there was not the smallest pretence, and his Royal Highness had never been near the house. The learned counsel then commented on the contradictions in the plain tiff's evidence, and referred to the particulars in which he cbargcd the defendant with wine supplied and services rendered during the months of May and June, 1851, while he (the plaintiff) was actually at that time in prison under going his sentence. As soon as he (the plaintiff) found out the difficulty he had got in he endeavoured to extricate himself by shifting the date. But it would be clearly proved that during the whole of the time mentioned in the particu!ars the marquis was abroad. He left England I in October, 1853, and did not return till the plaintiff was in prison. After the plaintiff came out of prison he called on the marquis, and the latter was induccd to give him 5/. for two letters which the marquis bad formerly written to Madame Denis; but even then he ma le no claim upon him for wine. The learned counsel then commented upon the letter which the plaintiff had got Barry to write to the marquis, and argued that, from the false suggestions which it contained, he (the plain tiff) was in the possession of letters and papers which would support his claim; it was a manifest attempt at ex tortion. The marquis felt it to be his duty to expose the deeply laid scheme of the plaintiff, and the Duke of Cam bridge also had come into court to lend his assistance in defeating and exposing it. The Marquis of Bath said—l am defendant in this action. I visited this establishment. I came of age on the Ist of March, 1852. There were French women there. I never ordered any wine of that man (the plaintiff). I may have had some wine in the middle of the day, and occasionally at supper. I knew Madame Denis. I have always paid for the wine, either at the time, or the next occasion. I used to make her a present, which included everything. There may have been three bottles put on the table —one of port, one of sherry, and one of champagne. I never sent the plaintiff to Paris with any letters at all. I left England on the 27th of October, 1853. This is my diary. It was on a Thursday. I went to Paris, and through Paris to Marseilles, where I sent my yacht. I re turned to England on the 22d February, 1854. I never was at the house after October, 1853. I never employed the plaintiff in 1854. He may have brought letters to me at the club, but I never saw him. I have seen him open the door both going in and coming out at Madame Denis's. Madame Denis said, " Won't you give something to that poor Harrison ! He is out all weathers." I gave him a sovereign. In July, 1856, the plaintiff's name was brought up to me in Berkeley-square. There was a long letter brought, which I threw into the fire. I told my servant to give him (the plaintiff) a sovereign and go away. He sent word that he wanted to speak to me. I told the servant to let him come up. When he came up he either said he was sent by Madame Donis or had received a letter from her. He produced two or three letters which I had writ ten to Madame Denis before I went abroad. I took the letters and destroyed them, and gave him Si. He thanked me for it, and seemed extremely contented and pleased. He wade no claim upon me for wine. He did not ask me for 5/. for his . claim for wine. I gave it him as a free gift—as a reward for bringing my letters. He made no claim for wine. Some time after Mr. Barry sent in a claim. That was the first I heard of any claim. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—l was and am a member of White's, and of the Coventry Club. I knew the plaintiff as porter at the house. My impression is that he opened the door as many as six, seven, or eight times. I visited Madame Denis from February, 1852, to October, 1853. I have had wines at supper. There'were not supper parties. Two or three ladies might have partaken of it. I did not meet gen tlemen there. I once met accidentally one gentleman there ; and on another occasion I took a friend there to show him the house. I occasionally made Madame Denis presents. She would suggest that I should give something for supper which the women/Would like. On more than one occasion she has requested that I would order wines. I should say most dis tinctly Harrison was not present. He is not a man I would permit to be in the room when I was there. I have been with Madame Denis in her room on the ground Boor. Ido not recollect the plaintiff ever being in the room. I never saw him except as a servant. Madame Denis has never iu my presence given the plaintiff any order for wine. I had just come to England when the plaintiff was tried. I never sent any letters to Paris. After I got Mr. Barry's letter I received another from him, and then gave them both to my solicitor. 'He gave me up two or three letters I had written to Madame Denis. They were written in French; I cannot tell how many times I was at the house. I generally remained a short time ; two or three hours. Re-examined by Mr. James--The wine was for the ladies. I paid Madame Denis for it. The letters were brought. Mr. James proposed to call Lord Somerton and the Duke of Cambridge to show that they had never been at the house. Mr. Chambers objected that the evidence was irrelevant. Lord Campbell said he could not admit the evi fence. Mr. James said he tendered the evidence on tie ground that the plaintiff had brought similar actions against both the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Somerton, and both those noblemen were anxious 'to deny that they had ever been at the house. Lord Campbell said he could not receive the evidence ; it would be contrary to the rules of evidence. Mr. James said that was the defendant's case, and he would not insult the.jury by adding a single observation. Mr. Chambers, in the course of his reply, said that nothing could be more manly than the conduct of the Duke of Cam bridge, and.nothing could show more firmness than the readi ness which he had shown to meet even the breath of slander. His presence in court that day was enough to give an answer to any aspersions which might have been cast upon his cha racter. Lord Campbell was about to sum up the evidence, when the jury said it was unnecessary, as they had made up their minds to find their verdict for the defendant. Lord. Campbell said the action was a most unfounded and infamous one, and the defendant bad done well in defending the action. A juryman observed that there could not be any entry in the plaintiff's books or they would have been produced. Lord Campbell said. that tho uncorroborated evidence of the plaintiff was contradicted by his own conduct as well as by , the Marquis of Bath, and that he (the plaintiff) was a danger ous member of society. A juryman—And not worthy of credit, Verdict for the defendant. The records in the actions against Lord Bateman and Lord Somerton wekv then withdrawn. TIM -NEGRO INSURRECTION. A. Mr. J. Kingsley supplies the following communication to the Sete York Anti-Slavery Standard of January 17;— " Happening to have occasion to visit Carter County (Ken tucky) last week, I was made the unwilling witness of a scene of barbarity that would have made the bloodthirsty Nero tremble. It seems from what I afterwards learned, that the slaves of ono William M`Minnis, quite an extensive farmer of Carter County, Kentucky, were suspected of being engaged in a conspira.arto rise, upon a certain night, and, iu connexion with the slaves upon an adjoining farm, murder the white people. The report having gained credence, the slaves were arrested and tried by one of those mock-courts so common in the southern country. Our negro, who was sup posed to be in the conspiracy, was closely questioned and threatened with severe punishment in case he did not reveal the whole affair. The negro stoutly denied having anything to do with such a proceeding, disclaimed any knowledge of an insurrection, and begged to be released. But he was doomed to be tortured until ho confessed. In order to inti midate the other slaves it was deemed necessary to torture this miserable creature before their eyes. Accordingly, he was stripped—the weather being cold—and then he received 200 lashes on the bare back. Still the negro swore that he knew nothing about the insurrection. Not yet satisfied, thew inhuman monsters, excited, as it were, by the blood they had already drawn, proceeded to do him up to a stake with the evident intention of burning him. When told he was next to be burned the screams of the poor creature were indeed ter rific and heart-rending ; but, despite his entreaties and cries, a pile of dry wood was heaped around him, and again he was told if he would not confess he would be burned to a crisp; still he refus:d, when the pile was lighted, and soon began to blaze around the victim. Unable longer to witness such un exampled cruelty, I rode away and made an effort to get some neighbours to go and stop the inhuman proceedings, but was told lo mind my own basiness.' I learned after wards that trk negro wLs so burned that he died next day. Scenes like this have occurred in this section of Kentucky before, but the newspapers studiously avoid publishing an account of them, and they remain unheard of, unless some humane passer-by happens to witness them." CONVICTS IN WESTERN AusrBALIA. The following statement, numerously signed by gen tlemen connected with the colony of Western Aut:tralia, was read and presented by a deputation to Mr. Labou chere on Saturday:— " To THE RIGHT HON. HENRY LABOUCHERE, HER MA JESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOB THE COLONIES, &O. " Sir,—We, the unjersigned, having an interest in and knowledge of the resources of Western Australia, feel it a duty we owe both to that colony (whose real capabilities do not appear to be understood) and this country, to put before the Government a few plain facts to prove that it is pecu liarly adapted fur a penal settlement : "1. Because the expense of planting a convict establish ment is always very great) has been already in curred, substantial prisons and depots have been built, and the necessary ofrices prepared to receive a large num ber of convicts. "2. The free settlers (unlike those of other parts of Australia) are willing to continue to receive convicts, to employ them, and to pay them great wages ; they merely require some modification of the present system. Tho con victs can bo beneficially employed in the advancement of the colony, such as making roads, bridges, and tramways into the timber for,sts and to the copper and load mines. " 3. Convict'labour has been the means of producing the necessaries of life, which formerly were very scarce and dear, in abundant supply, and on reasonable terms. The convict cstabliihment has also created a market for food, which is amply supplied by the settlers and at ch ea p ra t es. Flour, as au instanos, was-formerly from 351. to 401. per ton, now (in October last) a contract was taken at 201. par ton, delivered at the depot , and the contractor is prepared next year to supply it at 161. per ton. " I. Western Australia also possesses a fine climate, and is unconnected with other parts of Australia (at present) except by sea, and is as much an island as if surrounded by it. Convicts can only escape by sea, and the natives would very soon bring them back if they attempted the bush— indeed the convicts well know it. _ _ 14 miles from Fremantle, is well adapted for the refractory convicts, and there is ample room for a large number, and employment for years to come in erecting forts and other necessary public works —raising salt, cultivating the land, gardens, &c. " 6. That a large establishment may now be carried on at a very reasonable rate, as the heavy outlay in the colony e been increased principally for buildings, plant, &C.— We have the honour to remain, &c." (Here follow the signatures of the deputation•) chipping T he formation , a o n fthejuropeaU atd American Steam eight ships purchasyelwas Southampton, il w e a .y : or completed yesterday and the from th the General Screw Company were duly transferred to the Hamburg, shal have k They will be placed on and Brazilian line, and the iines as soon as the Bremen, Havre, and necessary fittings completed, The directcr3 of the new company are Messrs.o Clive, and Capta;ns Farquharsonraawnfdord' Round, and is 17,763 tons, Pitcairn. The aggregate capacity of the eight vest W el a s s and the nominal purcLase price less 6,3951. for commissL:n. 33,681 shares of the General paid off, representing the Screw Company have been transferred to the new cony. s p n a m ny 9 , f a 9 n 0 d ,2 1 1 3 8 , 1 5 . 91 have been LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 4. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANS.—CASE OF AN ABSCONDING SHAREHOLDER. This was the examination meeting in the case of John Peter M'Morland Greg, cabinet-maker, of Bartlett's buildinge, Holborn. There were no aciounts, and it was stated that the bankrupt had not surrendered, and was supposed to be out of the country. The peeuiar feature in the case is that the bankrupt has left behind him assets more than sufficient to defray his trade debts, which are little more than 1,000/., and the official as signee has about 1,500/. in hand ; but it appears that, being a holder of 16 shares in the nnforturate British Bank, he had shrunk from the double liability with which he was threatened by the official manager and the official assignee. Mr. Amory (of the firm of Amory, Travers, and Smith) now tendered a proof on behalf of Mr. W. P. Harding, the official manager of the bank, for 12,0001., being the amount of the call of 751. per share on 16 shares. It was supported by the affidavit of Mr. Harding, setting forth his appointment as official manager, and the fact that the bankrupt's name had been placed on the list of contributories. Mr. West, for the assignees, said that this was the first official intimation which they had had of this claim against the estate. He was told that the claim arose in this way. The bankrupt held two old shares in the bank, and be had been inducted, by false repre3entations as to the po sition and prospects of the concern, to take fourteen new shares. The question would arise whether the as signees were not entitlel to claim from the representa tives of the bank in respect of those shares, .on the ground that the contract was tainted with fraud. The Commissioner—This is the first proof of the kind we have had. Mr. Amory—There have been similar proofs in the other courts. The Commissioner—l see it rests simply on the affi davit of Mr. Harding, the official manager. Mr. Amory—And the production of the list of contri butories, as settled by Mr. Pugb, the chief clerk of Vice- Chancellor Kindersley. The Commissioners—That would be a very important addition. What sitting is this ? Mr. West—The last examination. The Commissioners—lt had better be entered as a claim simply, subject to be turned into a proof upon further investigation. As this is not a dividend meeting it cannot affect you. Mr. Amory—Of course we do not seek to put the as signee; on the list of contributories ; we have put the bankrupt's name there. The Commissioner—l think the assignees are entitled to make inquiry as to the justice of this claim 2 • and I don't think that it is necessary even to enter a claim, as this is not a dividend sitting. Mr. Amory—l have no objection to it being entered as a claim, if you will allow that ; but the proper course to adopt would be to apply to the Vice-Chancellor to amend the list of contributories by inserting the assignees. The Commissioner—l don't care what you do in that respect. Alt I say is that the assignees are entitled to have time to consider this claim before they eater it as a proof. Mr. West—lf your Honour will do so, it will be more satisfactory. The Commissioner—Very well. Put the claim on the proceedings, and adjourn it for further consideration. Mr, West-. I will set about the investigation of the matter immediately. The Commissioner—ln the meantime, if you see any good ground for resisting the proof, it will be better to have a private sitting, but do not do it without necessity. Mr. West—l hope it may turn out that we have a claim against the bank. The Commissioner—That I think is very doubtful. The bankrupt, not appearing, was proclaimed in the usual form. NETV ORDERS IN CHANCERY. The following New General Orders and Rules of the High Court of Chancery, dated Jan. 30, 1857, and which wi3 very materially reduce the txpense of pro. endings in Chancery and making a lower and higher scale costs according to the amount in question in the suit, have been issued by the Lord Chancellor : " Whereas sf late years various alterations have taken place in the practice and procedure of the Court of Chan• eery, whereby certain of the fees heretofore allowed to the solicitors of the Court have ceased, and others of such fees have become inapplicable to the duties which the solicitors have to perform ; and it is desirable that anew and revised list of fees should be made. " Now, upon consideration thereof, " The Right. Hon. Robert Mousey, Lord Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, with the advice and assistance of the Right Hon. Sir Jas. Lewis Knight Bruce, and the Right Hon. Sir George James Turner, the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, the Hon, the Vice-Chancellor Sit' Richard Torin Kindersley, the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, and the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, cloth order and direct as follows "I. The several orderi and parts of orders following are discharged, so far as regards all costs incurred subse quent to the time when this order comes into operation ; " The order of the 26th day of February, 1837, except so much thereof as is mentioned in the second schedule thereto. "The sixth schedule to the order of the 26th of October, 1812. "The 121st section of the order of the Bth cf May, 1845, "So much of the 33d section of the order of the 22d of April, 1850, as relates to the fees to be charged by and al lowed to solicitors. " Tho fourth section of the order of the 7th of August, 1852, and the schedule A appended to such order. " The fifth section of the order of the 231 of October, 1832. "11. Solicitors are to be entitled to be charged and be al. lowed the fees set forth in the column headed Lower Scale in the first schedule hereto, in the several cases following unless the Court shall make order to the contrary —that is. to say "In all suits by creditors, legatees (whether specific, pecuniary, or residuary), devisees (whether in trust or otherwise), heirs at law or next of kin, in which the per- sonal or real, or personal and zeal estate, for or against or in respect of which, or for an account or administration of which, the demand may be made, shall be under the amount or value of 1,000/. "2. In all suits for the execution of trusts in which the trust estate or fund shall be under the amount or value of 1,0001. "3. In all suits for foreclosure or redemption, or for en• forcing any charge or lien in which the mortgage whereon the suit is founded, or the charge or lien sought to be en forced, shall be under the amount or value of 1,0001. " 4. In all suits for specific performance in which the purchase money or consideration shall be under the amount or value of 1,000/. " 5. In all proceedings under the Trustees Relief Acts, or under the Trustee Acts, or any of such acts, in which the trust estate or fund to which the proceeding relates shall be under the amount or value of 1,0301. " 6. In all proceedings relating to the guardianship or maintenance of infants in which the property of the infant shall be under the amount or value of 1,0001. " 7. In all proceedings by special case, and in all pro ceedings relating to funds carried to separate accounts, and in all proceedings under any railway or private act of Par liament, or under any other statutory or summary jurisdic tion, and generally in all other cases where the estate or fund to be dealt with shall be under the amount or value of 1,000/. " 111. In all other cases solicitors are to be entitled to charge and be allowed the fees sot forth in the column headed Higher Scale in the first schedule hereto, unless the Court shall make order to the contrary as to all or any of the parties. I " IV. The fees of Court, now cellectel by means of stamps, are to be reduced and varied as sot forth in the third schedule hereto. " The fees set forth in the column headed Lower Scale in the third schedule hereto are to be paid s in all cases in which the lower scale of fees is to be charged by and al lowed to solicitors, under the provisions of the second sec tion of this order ; and the fees of court set forth in the column headed Higher Seale in the third schedule hereto are to be paid in all other cases. " The solicitor or party instituting any proceeding in respect of which he claims to pay the fees of court accord ing to the lowest scale is to file with the Clerk of Records and Writs a certificate in the form hereunder set forth, of which certificate the Clerk of Records and Writs is, at the request of any solicitor, or any party acting in person in the suit or matter, to mark a copy. " On production of such copy of the certificate the offi cers of the court are to receive and file all proceedings in the suit or matter bearing stamps according to the lower scale. " In any case certified for the lower scale of court fees in which it shall happen that the solicitor shall become entitled to charge and be allowed according to the higher scale of solicitors' fees, the deficiency in the fees of court is to be made good. " In any case in which the fees of court have been paid upon the higher scale, and in which it shall happen that the solicitor shall become entitled to charge and be allowed only according to the lower scale of solicitors' fees, the excess of fees of court so paid may b 3 allowed upon the taxation of costa, if the circumstances of the case shall, in the judgment of the taxing master, jnstify such allowances. " This order is to come into operation on the Ist day of February, 1357. " FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR PAYING THE LOWER SCALE OF COURT FEES. (Title of Canso or Matter.) "I hereby certify that, to the best of my judgment and belief, the lower scale of court fees 13 applicable to this case. Dated, &c. " A. 8., " Solicitor for [Hero follow the schedules of fees on the lower and higher scales.] CRANWORTH, C. " J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE, L.J. " G. J. TURNER, L.J. " RICEID. T. KINDERSLEY, V.C. " JOHN STUART, V.C. " WILLI.III PAGE WOOD, V. 0." TIE DOUBLE MURDER IN WALWORTS. Yesterday Thee. FuEer Bacon and Martha Bacon, his wife, were again brought up from Horsemonger-lane gaol, to be further examined—the latter charged on a coroner's inquisition with the wilful murder of Edward Fuller Bacon, aged two years and a half, and Sarah Ann Bacon, aged 11 months ; and the former on suspicion of being the actual perpetrator of the dreadful deed upon which his unfortunate wife stands charged. As early as twelve o'clock the court began to fill, and by one It was perfectly crammed with persons of respec tability, all of whom evinced the deepest anxiety to hear the further proceedings in this extraordinary as well as shocking case. Owing to the absence of witnesses, or some other cause, the case was delayed till half-past two o'clock, at which time the prisoners were brought into court, and given in charge before Mr. Elliott. The male prisoner was brought in first, and as on the former examination he seemed anxious to avoid the gaze of all present, and endeavoured to do so by hurrying to that part of the felon's dock which he occupied on the former day, and a seat in which prevented nearly half of the andienc from having more than a mere profile view of his coun tenance. He is somewhat improved in his general ap pearance since he has been taken into custody, but on entering the dock he appeared pale and dejected. Mrs. Bacon continues to improve, and appears to be perfectly sane and rational. She was accommodated with a seat, with her person in such a position, as she herself requested, that her husband could not see her. When Bacon supposed she had entered the court he assumed a little more confidence, and standing up in the dock looked anxiously towards the place where she sat, in the hope of being able to see her. Finding that he could not do so he again sat down, in a gloomy and indifferent mood. Mr. Woodward, as on the former occasions, attended for Bacon ; and Mr. Bonner, of the firm of Wright and Bonner, of London-street, Fenchurch-street, appeared fer the first time for Mr'. Bacon. The first witness called was Inspector Young, who was examined at considerable length respecting the various mis statements of the prisoner Bacon about the alleged robbery, and the descriptions which he gave of his lost property ; and from his evidence it appeared there was not a statement made by him respecting a single thing in whiel - . he did not grossly prevaricate, and give two or three versions of it. In the first place the prisoner stated that a 51. note stolen was one of four which he received in change for a cheque he received from Mr. Atter, his attorney, and repeated over and over again that these four notes were the only notes he had received, or in fact had had all the time he had been in town ; but when he (Inspector Young) had ascer- trained that the prisoner had changed a fifth note, pri soner, on being challenged with the fact, admitted it, and accounted for his possession of the fifth note by saying he had changed it in the street for a person who was a perfect stranger to him, and of whom he knew nothing whatever. His description of his clothes, which were alleged to have been stolen from his house, was just as unsatisfactory ; as was also the account, or rather the accounts, which he gave of the serious cut on the first finger of the left hand, and which cut, by the confession of his poor wife, he received in the struggle, and while attempting to cut her throat after destroying the children. In addition to his evidence on these points, Mr. Young said that on the evening of Tuesday, the 80. h of December, after the discovery of the murder, he sent a constable to Reigate to bring Bacon to town ; and on his (Bacon) coining to him to the station house, at six o'clock on the following morning, he told him that his wife had attempted to destroy herself by cutting her throat, and was then in custody for so doing. The prisoner appeared very much agitated, and inquired what had become of his children, and he not wishing at that time to tell him the worst, replied that the children were all right. The prisoner said he knew three women who came from the same place who had gone in the same way, and on asking him in what way he meant, he replied, "Out of their mind." Wit ness next asked him where his wife came from, and the prisoner replied, " Stamford, Lincolnshire." Bacon then Expressed a wish to see his children, and he sent a constable with him to the house No. 4, Fouracre-street, knowing that he could not see them, and he returned in about ha'f an hour, saying he had not been enabled to see his children, but added, " I have seen the blood of my dear boy." He then said he should go to the house of his aunt, Mrs. Payne, and witness saw nothing more of him until the inquest. On Wednesday, Jan. 7, witness, accompanied by Sergeant Broad, went to make a further search of the house, and found the prisoner Bacon there. On seeing him, and more particularly on his putting to him varietal questions respecting the lost clothes, he became dreadfully agitated, and trembled violently on his telling him that Mr. D:xon, of Stamford, his tailor, bad denied ever having made for him any coat resembling the top coat he said he lost. On that occasion, while in the kitchen, and in passing from it, he observed a sort of coal-bole with some rubbish in it, and on his expressing a wish to overhaul it the prisoner became again much agitated, and wanted very much to go, saying he bad an app-intment with his brother. He (Mr. Young), however, told him they should have a look amongst the rubbish in the coal-hole first, and sent fur a candle for the purpose of procuring a light. At this time he left the prisoner in the care of Sergeant Broad, while he (Mr. Young) went into one of the rooms, and in a abort time heard a sculling noise in the yard, which at tracted his attention, and on going there he found Bacon in the grasp of the sergeant. He asked the cause, and ' Sergeant Br, ad at once informed him that though he had given Bacon orders to the contrary, he bad rus..ed into the teal-hole, and after rummaging amongst the rubbish came out with a handful, from which he had had taken something, which he deposited in his left • hand trousers pocket. Witness, in consequence, put his hand into the trousers pocket of Bacon, and there found a watch, the number of which he had, and which the prisoner described to be his property, as well as another watch, which, he said, had been stolen, but which had been since found. Mr. Elliott—Do you recollect the prisoner at any time saying that be thought the person had got into the house to commit the murder and the robbery ?—No, I da not recollect his telling me so, but I recollect his saying in this court that he did not think his wife had done it, but that it had beeu done by some one getting in at the door. The witness here produced a pair of trousers which, it was alleged, Bacon wore on Monday, Dec. 29, the day of the murder, on which be had found several spots of blood, and a waistcoat with one spot of blood on it, and also a piece of rope and thick cord which he found in the garden of the house, No. 4, Four-acre-street. In cross-examination by Mr. Woodward, that gentle man asked how it was that Inspector Young had not, in his former evidence given by him, and particularly on the last examination, made the statements he gale in evidence that day ? g—l was not examined on the last day. p ln r s i r on c e t r o_r lu i r r o ,d Prisoner — I nd eed you were examined though. d examination, read over ver Mr. Elliott to Mr. Woodward—You will recollect andth at the ee evidence inspector was had called given o a n t a the fmo r last er to him, and as there was not time to take his further statement it was reserved till to-day. Mr. Woodward —Very well, sir. lam satisfied with the explanation ; but with respect to this garden where you said you found the rope and cord. I suppose it is a garden with a low fence, and that any of the neighbours would have an opportunity of throwing those articles there ? Inspector Young-:-Yes, they could. Mr. Bonncr—l think I understand you to say, Mr. Yew -14., that you saw the rope and cord you produce in the house where the murder had been committed, at one of your early visits to it ? Inspector Young —Yes, sir; I had seen them there. Mr. Woodward—Then why not have carried them away and produced bcithuuaatti t nt o hthee s edr t n 1 1. strangle Inspector Young—Because at that time I was not aware that either a cord or rope had been used, and had c o o u n f t l s y lh become resr. tßharthroat, Bacon, g tsh l b e at her nhde fha b ac y dt att empted p bn u yo u tt i h n e g h sS inspector,e g e t a h n e cant Broad papersraona dd addedtha corroboratedtw were rhea strewn while m u c .la hloro. fuY ou ng t t he h t e e cord round her neck. coal-hole, anarafoloe-sphns exa mining oo t ) n o r the prisoner evinced the most intense anxiety, and trem bled very much at every scrap the inspector picked up. Prisoner—You had better tell what the papers wore. Witness—They were portions of receipts for furniture. Mrs. Ann Hyde, a witness who had been examined on a former day, was recalled. This witness, it will be recollected, bad been sent for to sit up in the house with the prisoner, and Mrs. Payne and her daughter, after the murder, and she deposed to the prisoner saying on several occasions that he did not believe that his wife had done it, if she said anything to implicate him in the matter he would kill her, and the witness acknowleiged that she had her own sus picions as to the real murierer. In addition to what she had formerly stated, she said that two or three nights after goirg to the house, and about 3 o'clock in the morn ing, the prisoner Bacot was standing before a I)oking gloss, with his &bow oil the mantel-shelf, and his fore bead on the palm of he hand, and it might be that he might he dreaming when ho exclaimed, "Good God, how was it that I done it ?" The witness added that Bacon appeared, whether asleep or awake, in a continual state of misery. This witness further stated she had seen the rope and cord produced at the house immediately on her going there. Mrs. Payne, the annt of Bacon, was then called, and, when sworn, she was addressed by The Magistrate, who said that from representations that had been made to him he much feared she had not stated in her former examination all she knew of the matter under investigation. He now, however, hoped that she would give her evidence as she was bound to do, and tell the while truti. The witness here west over a portion of her evidence, that the prisoner had always said that he was certain hi s w if e did not d o i t. and concluded by saying Mr. Bonner—Now, Mrs. Payne, have you not, in the presence of Mrs. Munro, your daughter, charged Bacon with doing it, and not hi s w if e ? ne, Nlrs. Payne—l did sot say so, but my husband did. What did your husband say ?—ln speakicg of it he said, " I don't say you did it or did not ; but suppose your wife was to turn round and say you did it ?" and be said something about her not deceiving him. Were not his words these--" I am sure she won't split upon or deceive me ?"—They were something like that, but I did not hoar them distinctly, as I was in the next room. Mr. Elliott—ls your husband here ?—No, sir. Mr. Edward Bacon, a bighly - -respectable pe rson, de posed to having recei ve d a 51. note from the wale priso ner, his brother, on the 20th N ov . l a st, and this having been proved to be the note a ll eg ed to have been stolen, This terminated th e exam i na ti o n, and the prisoners were again remanded. BARBOUR OF REFUGE FOR MARGATE. The calamitous shipwrecks that have occurred on the coast during the late gales should bring the question of refuge harbours again before the public. That more of these harbours are required upon our coasts than we at present possess cannot be denied, and it is while the disastrous effects of the recent gales are still fresh in the public mind that the matter should be again urged up on the Legislature. No point on the Kentish coast is more in need of a refuge harbour than Margate; and we have, therefore, reprinted the following particulars on the sub. ject, in the hope that some of our Margate readers may think the present a fitting opportunity to make a vigorous stir in the matter. The pamphlet to which we are in debted for our extracts was printed some three years ago, but was not so extensively seen in Margate as could have been desired. Observations showing the advantages in all cases of wind and weather of the proposed situation at Margate for a harbour of refuge, by a late surveyor to the Har bour Company : "Vessels coming from the Downs with the wind S.S.E to S.W., instead of the risk of entering Ramsgate-harbour, might, with safety, run round the North Foreland, and get into the Margate-harbour. Vessels bound down Channel, with the wind from S.S.E. to W.S. W., and blowing hard, instead of anchoring in Margate-roads, would enter the harbour of Margate, and avoid the risk of losing anchors and cables, and otherwise sustaining damage, which so often occurs under the present circumstances. Vessels bound to London, having passed Margate, and drawing more than 16 feet of water, parting from anchors and cables, or receiving other damage, might, at any time of tide, run for the harbour, instead of their being put on the main, or on shore, which is often the case, and thereby causing very great damage and expense in many instances vessels becoming complete wrecks, or being abandoned, are blown to sea and heard of no more. But not the least im portant will be the utility of the harbour at Margate, when, as has already been described, a considerable fleet have sought shelter in the Margate-roads from the violence of the southerly winds, and sudden shift of the wind to the north, or N.N.E., the Margate-harbour would at once re ceive these vessels, and obviate the damage and ruin that otherwise, under such circumstances, happen." Observations on the facilities attendant upon the con struction of a harbour of refuge at Margate : "There are two rocks projecting from the shore, pre cisely in the form to make an excellent harbour ; securing at its entrance a depth of 16 feet at low water, at spring tides. One of these rocks extends in a slightly curved form, from the Westbrook Point to the distauco of 3,700 feet. The other rock, called The Fulsam Rock,' extends from the shore in a northerly direction, so as to leave the entrance of the harbour open to the north-east or east. If piers were built on these rocks, a solid foundation would be found in the native chalk, excepting in a portion of the eastern pier, to a small extent, where probably an artificial foundation might be required ; and the core, or body of the pier, would be constructed from materials close at hand. From the form pointed out by n a ture for The plac ing of the piers —that on the Nayland Rock would com pletely piotect the harbour and town from the north-west, and that to the east would project, so far as it goes, from the east; and the only point exposed would be the imme diate entrance at tho east. This, in the first place, would, if only 300 or 400 feet wide between the piers, leave still the greater part of the harbour in shelter ; and, in the second place, it is stated by seafaring men that there is no sea from the east that they regard as of any consequence, and that there are no sunken sands or shoal water. There is no probability of the forma tion of a bar, as the Nayland Rock may be considered to act already as a pier, and experience has shown that there never was any bar at the neighbourhood of the rock; nor is there any accumulation in the harbour, in which the depth of water has not been increased since the building of the pier, in 1812; but if a bar should by possibility form, there is every facility for obtaining a breakwater. For all these reasons—viz., the groat depth - of water at low water; the chalk foundation, and consequently com parative facility of building; the absence of all current; the slight and only expasure to the eastward, where it is not to be feared, and consequently easy access and egress, which is further rendered perfect, by the absence of sands, or shoal water—and the improbability of a bar forming— it is submitted that there is no situation on the south eastern coast presenting such facilities for the construction of a harbour, for access at all times of tide, and safety when in, as the harbour that may be made at Margate. Fur ther, there is the very considerable and unanswerable fact of the number of vessels annually lost on this dangerous coast for the want of a sufficiently deep harbour. All these fact, can be sink= to by the pilots, seafaring men, and captains of vessels, who can also speak as to the points named in regard to the current, the absence of a bar, and other local information." The opinion of Robert Stephenson, the eminent en gineer, on the special advantages of Margate for a harbour of refuge : "The genial character and formation of the coast may be described as a perpendicular ridge of chalk, about 50 feet in height, lying nearly in a right line, and having a direction east and west open to the north. There is an exception to this description at Margate, where the cliffs on each side fall gradually down to the level of the sea, and a deep indentation in the line forms a bay. Advantage has been taken of this inequality, by carrying out a pier in a westerly direction, to the distance of low water, to form the present harbour. Parallel with the coast, and about four miles distant, is a bank called the Margate Sands, a small portion of which is dry at low tide. The depth of water between them is about seven fathoms. The tide here does not run at a great velocity, and the water is, conse quently, little charged with silt, and there is no moving beach, as upon the southern coast of Kent. These circum stances, in an engineering point of view, render the situa tion a very favourable one for the construction of a harbour. With regard to the particular spot upon the coast which I would select, I should prefer Margate for two reasons— first, on account of the bay before mentioned, with the low ground at the back, affording shelter to shipping, and permitting any extension inwards of a harbour that may be desirable; and, secondly, that it is not exposed to the heavy seas which break upon the coast to the eastward during a gale from the north and north-east, being pro tected from its full violence by the Margate Sands. I consider this a very important feature in favour of Margate —there being no other spot upon the coast of the Isle of Thanet affording a similar extent of grown I. With regard to the naval importance of the situation, I think it can hardly be too highly estimated. At present nothing of the kind beyond a tidal harbour exists between •Portsmouth and the Nore, and vessels bound to the westward and de tained in the Downs by adverse winds have, in case of a gale from the southward and westward, no place of com plete safety to run to, but if they cannot ride it out, are compelled to seek the precarious shelter afforded by the Margate roads. Here, if the wind (as frequently hap pens) shifts suddenly to the north, or north-east, and they cannot again round the Foreland, there is great pro bability of their being driven ashore and wrecked. Considerable losses of shipping have occurred in this manner, and all such might in future be saved, were a commodious and easily accessible harbour to bo con structed at Margate or its neighbourhood. To vessels also trading in the North Sea, such a harbour would prove an invaluable place to run for shelter, and for access at all times, and it would unquestionably form the best port for a communication with the Continent by way of Ostend. In a military point of view, of course I cannot venture to give a decided opinion, but I may remark that, in facili ties for defence, the situation is apparently not surpassed by any other spot upon the coast. Another engineer's opinion on the same subjest : " Margate is unquestionably an eligible site fur a har bour of refuge for the northern portion of the English Channel, the cost of which being at present wholly un provided with such an accommodation, is proverbially the cause of a great protection to shipping in the Downs, when caught in heavy southerly gales, whilst to the vast commerce of the Thames it would offer complete accom modation for wind-bound ships. As a station for the protection of this commerce, and also for observation in time of war, it is equally eligible. The ease with which it may be fortified on the land side (at Foreness Point), and the difficulty of near approach seaward by reason of Mar gate Sands, greatly add to its other advantages in a na tional point of view. To the largest classes of merchant shipping it would be what Ramsgate now is to the smaller classes—a recommendation which surely cannot fail to se cure for it the due attention of commercial men ; while the co-operation of the public authorities should not be doubted, now that attention is so universally directed to the importance of our steam navy, and to the improve ment of our harbours for its safety and accommodation." —Kentish, Observer. 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England's Beauty 3 5 9 Codrington Companion Sunrise D andas Kimburn ch c by Epirus, out of Elcot's darn Charles O'Malley 3 5 6 Ombra 3 5 5 Six and Eightpenca 3 5 5 Fright Madame Rachel Cerva 4 7 7 Porto Rico 4 7 7 Primus December Cockatoo Gortschakoff 4 6 13 Rosati 4 6 10 Chevalier d'lndus trio Nightshade Underhand St. Giles Centurion 3 6 6 Bubble Adamas 3 6 3 Dusty Miller 3 6 3 The City and Suburban handicap. One mile and a quarter. 100 subs, 46 of whom declared. Age at lb Fisherman 4 9 2 Artillery Ellermire Alembic 6 7 9 Porto RieJ The Earl Little Tom West Langton Merlin Zaidee Dramatist Miss Harkaway Westminster Nightshade Barfleur Arsenal Hartley Buck British Remedy Mottiugham 4 6 9 The Cave Adullam 5 6 9 St. Giles Aspasia Centurion Dusty Miller 3 6 7 Strawberry Hollander 5 6 7 Bubble ......... 4 6 6 The Great Northampton 93 subs, 54 of whom decli The highest weight accept been raised to 84 121 b, ai Age st lb Bel Esperanza Mamas . ... 3 6 4 Sir Colin The Western Power 3 6 4 Gitan a Red White and Blue 3 6 3 Pinwiro 3 6 2 Wardermarake 3 6 2 Peeping Torn 3 6 1 Indulgence 4 6 0 England's Beauty 3 5 12 Vaulter John Peel 3 5 10 Dal , :amara Cantrip Beatrix Sunrise Fright 3 5 7 Maid of Athens 3 5 5 Raven Bar One 3 5 5 Sister to Elfrida Ombra Madame Rachel Admiral Lyons Nereus Scour de Charite 'shire Stakes. Two miles. ared, and 6 did not name. Ming being 7st 121 b, it has nd the others in proportion. Age st lb Ago st. lb Alonzo Fnlbeck 5 8 7 Centurion 3 6 4 Assayer 6 8 6 The Borderer Siding Homily 5 8 4 Kimburn Romeo The Earl Bracken 6 712 John Peel 3 6 0 Porto Rico Lawn 4 7 4 Pauli Monti. ...... .. 3 6 0 Tame Deer 4 7 2 Sir Colin Martinet Mamas 3 6 9 cby Epirus out of Brabantia 4 6 9 Elcot's dam Palm Skirmisher .... . ... 3 6 8 Codrington Cormi.oner 3 6 7 Charles O'Malley.. 3 5 10 Verbena 3 6 7 Six and Eightpence 3 5 7 Peeping Tom Worcester The Newmarket Handicap. D. I. (2 miles 119 yards). Thirty•four subs, 16 of whom declared. The highest weight accepting being Bst 71b, it has been raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion. Age st lb Age at lb Aleppo Poodle Pantomime a 8 7 Gortschakoff 4 7 5 Jolly Marine 5 8 3 Barileur .. Manganese 4 8 3 Piocolomini Malacca 4 8 2 Laverna 4 7 3 The Earl 5 8 1 Nightshade Shoreham December The Great Northern Handicap. Two miles. Seventy subs, 24 of whom declared. Age st lb Fandango Neville Warlock 4 8 5 Yellow Jack 4 8 2 Simpson (isi b) Artillery The Assayer 6 7 6 Quince Vandal Siding Pantomime The Eari Porto Rico ... Age 8t lb Riseber Skirmisher 3 5 8 Logie o' Buchan 3 5 7 Gitana Commoner 3 5 7 Odd Trick Br. c. by Orlando out of Ma Mie 3 5 5 Janet 3 5 5 St. Giles The Borderer South-Western Centurion Bashi BAzouk The Dupe Sunrise Sir Colin Princess of Orange 3 4 12 Dalcainara 3 4 10 Codrington Captain Barclay 3 4 10 Charles O'Malley 3 4 10 SixandElghtpence 3 4 7 Actress handicap). R. 31. (1 mile trds). Alma 4 6 Ld. Derwentwater 4 6 Firmament Rosati Lawn Gortscbakoff 4 6 2 Sprig of Shillelagh 3 5 13 Underhand Arsenal Chevalier d'lndus trie 3 5 11 The Spring Oatlande (a free 17y Age st lb Wentworth ...... 4 812 Artillery West Langton 4 7 11 Kestrel Druid. Barfleur 4 7 1 Dusty Miller 3 6 13 Pemba w Knight of Avon Miss Harkaway The Western Power 3 6 10 _ _ Age et lb Eloquence 4 6 7 Media Noce ...... Cantrip 3 6 5 Dn!camera Indulgence Beatrix f Footstool Six and Eightponco 3 5 13 Delusion C by lago 3 5 13 Ombra Admiral Lyons Tiptop Scour de Charite Palm 3 6 9 Peeping Tom Babble HORSES STRUCK our OF THEIR ENGAGE MENTS. Feb. 2, at 1.40 poll—Tame Deer and Hantingtcn out of the Liverpool Spring Cup. ' Feb. 3, at 10.50 a.m.—Double Gloster and Dancing Master out of all Handicaps in England. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT GOODWOOD. The following statement is published in the last num. ber of the official Calendar : "The cnitributions by the gentleman connected with the turf for the maintenance and medical attention to the jockeys who met wi,h serious accidents in the race for the Goodwood Stakes, and for the benefit of the said sufferers, amounting to 4691., the Duke of Richmond and the late stewards—the Marquis of Anglesey and Rear-Admiral Rous—have agreed to make the following distribution, which they tru-t will meet with the general approbation of the subscribers : Chichester Infirmary, including expenses £lOO Bartholomew, concussion of the brain BO Mundy, broken leg Hearnden, very severe injuries Ashmall, broken collar bone J. Steggles, contusion 2O Cresswell, contusion Hall, contusion Salter, contusion £470 "The money will be paid to the above jockeys at Messrs. Weatheroy's office on their personal applica tion." 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(Anvisarissmssrd SIGHT AND REARING ftc l i a rre n v s a , l u 3 a 9 b , l c A a ll n ie d - Po WE RF UL TELESCOPES, OPERA, P A, 4 , 00 p SeC t e te - re "PP :te s n i t ° Ram:Tema GrAssas.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, e tic . the most powerful and ( m w a , r . ) 1e - s ß t y r e herit, Piccadill y. Majesty's Royal Ob ce eouile, Opera, York Hotel extraordinary improvements in and Per shproilcltiaivnot G Te la le gs s e c s ofe t s o , k C n am ow p, the ta possess such extraordinary powers that distances. These telescopes some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece, #'tll show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, an d the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's half distant, and an object fro countenance l three miles and a 18 to 20 miles. They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuableing powers accordingly.—Tho powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the I,e newly-invented, very sta.] , ize of a walnut, by w icr a person can be seen and knownli miles distant; they answer every purpose on the race - course,.and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable , for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to s portsuien, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tour i s t s . Op era, .n co-cotase, camp, and per s p ec ti ve g l asse s, with wonderft.l power. Newly-constrtzted Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired ii preserved and t th s reng ened, and very aged persona are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occr pation—can see with these lenses of a much less magnify. lug power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world, by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can read small newspaper print with it; and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age, Deaf ness. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an e x . traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, to suipa. , s any. thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as toe skin, is not per ceptible ; it enables deaf ponaus to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing i noises in the oars is entirely rem oved ; and it affords all the 1 assistance that possibly could be desirod,,-39, Alt einarle. ;Argot, Piocadill,y , observe—opposite t h e York Rotel, (W,) Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET FEB. 3. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large. Oat straw, from Ss G i l t o 12s o€l per kemple of ti ston e ' Iron; wheat do., 6sOd to 93 Od; barley do.. 7s 0,1 to gi Od. Hay from 12d to ls. 2d. EDINBURGH MEAL—FEB 3. There were in the market to day 14 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imparial, which sold at 37s and DALKEITEI MEAL MARKET—FEB 2. There were in the market to-day 8 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801ba First. Second. I Third. imperial - Od Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —s Od - - s PI Peasemeal, per ditto --s Odl —a Od I—s '— Flour, new, per ditto --s 0(.1 —s Od --s 1 Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s 0(1 a Od KIRKCALDY-SAN. 31. Wheat. I Barley. • Oats. f Beang,', First 6Cs Od 41s al 25s Od Os u" Bodoni sos Od I 37s Od 23s 61 ,Os O d Third 36s Od 33s 01 I 20s od I Os Oatmeal, 36s to 38s per bag of 2801 b. BRISTOL SUGAR—FEB. 4. Transactions are limited to about 140 casks of crystal • ised Demerara, which went at very full rates. The market is quite bare, there being no stocks in first hands. DUBLIN. FRE. 3. Our corn market to-day was generally firmer than oft Friday. Higher rates were demanded for wheat and (AO. but we do not a!ter our last quotations for anything. 12 Indian corn nothing doing. White wheat, 31s 61 to 343 61; red ditto, 31s Od to 3 2 1 6d, ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s to 25s 6d ;-grind ing, 15s to 20 3 61 ; oa t s , o ld, lh to 13s ; ditto, new, - - "Z Od to 153 03 ; oatmeal, 14sto 15s Od; bere, new, 16s to las Od ; rapes d, 303 Oct to 32e 01 per brl ; flour, 19.9 64 to 269 Od per cwt; Indian corn, 31s 01 to 37s Od pe r 480 lin. COAL MAR :ET.-FEB. 4. Priam! of Coal per ton at ,I. d. ~1 ~1.4 0 5 0 15 3 the close of the me-riftt. Walleend, Bell's Primrose Bebside's Hartley Davison's West Hartley Howard's West Hartle , Netherton 15 3 - , I • Tees l9 ° Braddyll lB Kepler Graingo .. •18 3 Framwellgate lB 2 Hetton Lyons Main l7 v Hartlepool Hetton .... . . lB % South Hetton " lB 7, Cassop 17 Hetton ... ~ , . l9 .. —l9 0 Brown's Moor High Main 15 ° Coundon Tees l7 0 Lambton lB C I Thomas's Merthyr 21 " Lumley 17 9 Pensher 17 9 Russell's Hetton 18 0 Stewart's. l9 9 f 501 d..,...,,,.. 103 Walleen& &o Northumberland 15 6 Acorn Close l7 6 Barton . l7 0 Eden Main l7 9 Whamlitre 17 0 Belmont 18 0 South Kelloe 18 6 Eden .17 0 Briely Vale Steam. l5 0 Trimdon Thornley l7 ( Haswell North Hartlepool 15 0 Hartlepool l5 C i `hips at market..,l2, 1 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE,--The market has been inactive to* day, and prices have rather declined, though much inqui l l is made a ft er s t oc k . Blackburn, 8/ 16s. 3d.—Easter o Counties, 9j—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 96a—Lens e d anti North Western, 10.ii—Manchester, Sheffield, 011 Lincoln, 341—Midland, 82¢—South Eastern, 221 — burn 6 per Cent., 21i—Dutch Rhenish pref., 3s. 9d. MANCHESTER, FEB. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was firm, with 1 10 business offering. East Lancashire, 23i —Great Wester* 664—District Bank, 114 prem.—Sheffield; 34i—DoVel l ? 22 5-16—Blackburn, S 13.16. BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was better to-aq' and shares were more in demand. Great Western ) 3 1 miogham Guaranteed Stock was done at 76—London s ll _. North Westerns clo se d a t 106 1061 — Midl an d s a t 82 North Staffords at 4i dis. SEABORNE MAILS. [When the date for making up a mail falls on a Suadit, the mail remains open until the day following ; except in 1 „" ) , case of the India mail, via Southampton, which, on Inv occasions, is m Ie up the previous evening.] WS FOlt ____.---." Made up at W hence By what When a ..Y - what the Post Office. Office. patched . Vessel. expected Ye siel• -- --- ...,....... Lisbon... •. • i 7th,l7th, & Allisu g- Spain • id 27th of the South- Alhara. } Jan. 24 bra. Gibraltar month. ampton bra Gibraltar 1 Malta Egypt ...• I 4th & 20th 4th and Ceylon • • M South- of the Ripon 20th of Jolonlb e India .....• month. am p ton tke Mauritius month. f via Ceylon) China Penang .. • • ---M the South- Ripon Feb 4.. Co 1 ° 81" am ton Singapore rnis, Australla(viaj 34 month. i South. fan. 3 1 Ugh go the Cape) Cape of Good Hope ...... Mauritius .. E Feb. 6.. mouth ger u Dart- Harbin- Tan. 25 sneand: Ceylon .... India . Lisbon Madeira CapedeVerds Brazil BuenosAyres ampton Falkland Is- j Medway Feb. 12 ASO ands Indies (except Ha vana and Honduras). let and 2d and 17th Venezuela M of the South - 16th of Grey Town month. ampton Parana th e Atli" New Granada month. Chili Peru California / Honduras / - S out h - 16th of Nassau... ~ . Feb. 1 7 .. ampton month. ..• , Mexico .... I Feb. 2.... } South- Parana Feb. 1 Atri a* Havana •• .. ampton Madeira .. .. Teneriffe .. Feb. 23 ..1 P moly. •••• • • • - Feb 6 Itthlolo ith • W.C.of Africa British North iver- America .. 1 Every Fri.} L Europa Feb. 2 Alla United States pool United States 1 Feb. 3 and rn tll BritiohNorth alteate 1 Liver- Ericsson Feb. 19 Falc.— America .. Tuesdays. pool United States / South- British North 131 Feb. 25 . • ampton Herman Feb. 19 Aral. America .. er- f et* N' Aiv Canada •• •• I E Feb. 24 .. 7 3 L pool Indian Feb. 4) tics 's. M—Morning. E—Evening. WEST LONDON UNION.—The Guardians of this Uniepr on Tuesday last, on the motion of Mr. Joshua W. - But' terworth, unanimcasly adopted a petition to the Ca' poration of London praying for the immediate establish' rnent c.f Public Baths and Washhouses, as well as Mode l Lodging Houses for the industri a l p oor, on the s ite ° Farringdon Market ; and also for the benefioial apPr° . priation of the numerous waste sites in the Union °coy slotted by the wholesale destruction at the hands of th e Corporation of the dwellings of the poorer classes Bongo' to be relieved by the building of the Model Lodgi.nir i Houses prayed for i n t h e petition. These unoccupied and waste sites were also shown to be at the same time most detrimental to the interests of the ratepayers of the Union, by lessening so considerably the amount of rate able property therein, and thereby causing local burden° which should be borne by the many to be several visited on the few. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—Among a pile of blue books which appeared yesterday, as if to herald the meeting of Parliament, was one containing "further minutes of e v id ence " t a k en b e f ore the select cam mittn! on the Ecclesiastical Commission, with appendix and index. The evidence occupies 200 pages of the book. BIRTHS. 07 A SOX. On the 3d inst., at Lee, Kent, the wife of Penruddocke Wyndham, Esq. On the 2d iost., at 45, Devonshire-street, Portland' place, Mrs. Reynolds. OP A DATIGHTER. On the Ist inst., at Ostend, Belgium, the wife of Freda' rick Mansell St. Amour, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Leamington, the lady of Geo. Maul°• verer Gowan, Esq. M A RRIE D. On the 3d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Sit: Lionel Milborne S w i nner t on Pilki ng t on , B ar t ., o f Cheve i t . , park, York s hir e , to I sa b e ll a Eli za b e th Georgians, o°4 (laughter of the late Rev. Ch ar l es Ki n l es id e , o f Poling , Sussex. On the 3d inst., at Christ Church, Paddington, the Re g ' Wm. Ameers White, 8.A., rector of Northborough, N or ; thamptonshire, to Sarah Anne, fourth (laughter of JoseP Anderson, Esq., of 7, Cleveland-square, Hyde-park. DI ED. On the 3d inst., at 16, Royal Avenue-terrace, King R' road. Chelsea, M. Pybus, Esq , aged 83. On the 3d inst., Mr. John Priest, cutler, of 253, Oxfird' street, aged 43. On the 3d inst., Mr. Israel Bennett, of 21, Arund el ' street, Strand, aged 29. On the 4th inst., at 15, Portman-square, Marianne, the third d aug ht er of the late Rev. Thomas W a rren, A"''' aged 78. On the 4th inst., at Deronport-qtreet, Hyde-W .14 Charlotte A ugus t a, the wife of Mr. Philip H. Lawrence, aged 22. On the 4th inst. at Tottenham, Mr. Charles Nice, ,me dical st u d en t of King ' s College, London, son of Mr. .3-‘lll. Nice, of Tottenham, and Earl-street, Blackfriars, ag"`, 4 - On th e 3d inst., Caroline, wife of Captain Roche, It." aged 59. LONDON : Printed and Pahl:A:hod by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 14° ' 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in thecotte tY of Middlesex, Thursday, February 5, 1857.