The Sun. — London, England, 1847-09-27 00:00:00

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A. lore' ger gain fr o ye ir t NOouru? ill atea r o• „pa t c trot ol ucern- tO be e f P 00 be 9 thO Che t CO °' !lie „eo eV' ", il s r s orlP 101 1 s re' thi t heder f ict if • nifi,,e ritsr f ty r the; t o • ()el' o , ig int biod6oer " rt eri' c° 00- o f " it bo o ; h e b fe ste rs , o bert b i b er, fi of of. 0 1 •0 o°'a- t e rn& ve- r io f 00 1 De r. ce 9, , rids ) ' b): ea r od co oe Vie, D oe ~fi ogpge, leo • „ u eo gt! of tioo jl .ROC/111 RONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW`'. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 3,000 bales, at previous rates. The market was steady. Railway Shares were better, and more business was doing. There are various arrivals to-day, but the Indian ad vices absorb most attention. In many respects there are satisfactory, and not at all calculated to aggravate the existing embarrassments here, although we fear there must be much mischief in the Presidencies, as well as in the Mauritius, hereafter, from the continued failures here, Messrs. Cockerell and Co. being now, un fortunately, added to the list. The respect entertained for one of the head partners, Sir G. Larpent, as a private individual, and quite apart from his political predelic tions, causes the event to be regarded with feelings of unfeigned regret, as well as of apprehension for the future. A very old Hebrew firm in the Morocco trade has also suspended. The least favourable part of the Overland budget is from China, but even there, it is to be hoped, a little timely energy on the part of the British authorities will avert an actual declaration of war. From Brazil we have no very encouraging account of the import market, but in exports there was more doing. The Portuguese mail brings again intelligence of a chequered character, and the state of political parties is very perplexing. From Amsterdam, the report of the Stock market received to-day in more encouraging, some good pur chases having been made ; and as money was easier, biith the Home and Foreign Securities were favourably affected. In the dried fruit report of Messrs. Witherley and Hansen, we have the following information:— " The clearances in London of Currants for home consumption have been very large, in all 770 tons from 22d ult. to 20th inst. against (owing to the exhaustion of our stock) only 230 tons in the like period of 1846, and 410 tons in 1845. At Li verpool they have been rather below those of the pre vious month. Our stock here in bond, which was esti mated on the 21st ult. at 2,170 tons, was, by the above clearances and by shipments reaching 175 tons, reduced to 1,230 tons on the day before the Parga's arrival, against no stock at the commencement of last season, 650 tons on 20th September, 1845, and 2,250 tons on 10th September, 1844, in which latter year the new fruit did not arrive till early in October. " New Muscatels have opened at 70s. boxes of layers, 60s. boxes of bunch. Several cargoes have arrived, but as yet the sales have been on a small scale, the attention of the trade being turned rather to old Muscatels, which are comparatively cheaper, although commanding higher rates than a month ago in consequence of bad accounts from Malaga. Bunches are held at 425., layers, 455. The sal es o f Turkey fruit have been on a limited scale, holders having again raised their pretensions, in conse quence of the high price of Spanish fruit, and the certainty of a short crop in Turkey. New Sultanas opened at 755., declined to 60s. a 655., according to quality, and ure now held at 705." The Public Securities have scarcely suffered to the extent that might have been apprehended from the re newal of commercial embarrassments. Consols opened at for transfer, and have been since 851 I. Time bargains have been made at 851. to 86. It must be borne in mind that there were heavy sales on Saturday, which then depressed values. Exchequer• bills have been quoted 4 s. to 7s. premium. There has been very little passing in the Foreign Market. Mexican Bonds are 18! -; Portuguese Four Per Cents., 23 to 25; Spanish Five per Cents., 19i 1. Brazil Stock is at 81 to 83. Dutch Two-and-a-Half Per Cents, have been 54i to 4. The Market for Railway Shares has been rather Pressed upon by sellers, and the quotations may be con I ldered tolerably stead} under such circumstances. ; r i ftt:tvo CITY, FIVE O'CLOCK. The firm of Messrs. Cockburn and Co. (George Cock burn and Benjamin Williams), army agents, at the West -end, stopped this morning at twelve o'clock. 11- 1 E FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES . ) oNE Pity, , ES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK; No w Cent. Consols Annuities 85 34% c o w 31 4 per Cent. Annuities nsols for Account 8 5 3 /4 86 E xchequer Bills. 2d. 1 ,0001. 6 • CLOSIN PRICES. 85% ex div 86% 85 54 500/ Sin a u 10 13 9p 9 p ONE CLOSIN 0 O'CLOCK PRICES Ilt ke 4 EA OF FOREIGN FUNDS. -ezie all, 5 per Cent. 1846 — _ 3 4% Di tto, Account lB 18% L til asian Bonds 106% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Do., 1838-40, div. frm. May, '4l _ Ditto 4 Ditto, Passive Ditto, Deferred l2 12 Ditto. 3 per Cent - Dividends on the above payable in London. 1 4 D utch 2 1 ,6 per Cent. . Ditto. Account - •••••• ***** 54 1 % 54% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 86% 87 87 Ditto, Account . B7 PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING AULNYA.Y SHARES P.- A — i, •AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES — A berdeen 40 Ani ber.. /Cott., Boston, . and East ern J unct i on 2% 1 dil•yr s hire and Galloway.. 2% — iast & County Down 10 1 1 ,!l ti ' ll-I ninghain and Ox ford. Junction 11111 inghani, Wolver t,arn.►pton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 15 1 4 -trilling., wolveriepton, ~jind Stour Valley.... 8 ....•. . site nhead, Lancashire, 1 3 and Cheshire Junc.... 6% — )3 °4 cm, Stamfd, & Birm. 5 ristoi and Exeter 75 la Ditto, Thirds ec liekin ghamshire Bl. 4s — Dadotu a , i tto, Ralf Sh ares. .... 2% — ••• " ......... ei: itto, Clydesdale Junc 40 e h r i t t r and Holyhead... 32% ..... ••• ****** : * **: Ci a - _ nham and Oxford 2 _ If, "" 7B IA ,00. Ist Class, 6 per CL 10 ....••• ******** - .. .2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 "Jo* Government Loan, - b u m___l Per Cent. lO - 1411 . , and Belfast Junc. 20 R a „.7 44 , 11 .1 & Enniskillen 12% b t , Anglia, 251., L. & '''',Eirld 'o-, 18/., E. & H.... 18 F,— ~to., 31.10 s E. &11. 1 D I Counties 16% 17 1 4 17 17 at, p grp otual, 5 per 20 ...171A - „Cent, N o . 1. 6/ . 13 5. 4d... ... ua to ditto, No. 2 61 13s. 4d... 1 4 p Da ••• • i, *, York Extension.. 10 ...... 8 % 3 4 to-, berth. & Eastern 50 .—••— 2 , Quarters 4 .lit , e" 23 „.ern Union 5O .. ••• ...... "'" n . " ; l 4 tt e , Quarter Shares 12% — East - "to, Thirds ... l3e. 4d Lancashire Ditto, d ew T ~ v 'Jen do Eaten. Scrip 1 1 4 - ast Lin:!- 15% - 5% 29% I A P 83/4 Do.NewExten.(piffk) 2 1 / — .... •••• Leeds and Thii.sk Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%. - ..... Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .... .......... 2 Livorp., Mnchstr& New castle Junction 2%. ••... London and Blackwell-16/.135. 4d. 5%........•• ... Do. New, No. 1 - . ..... .... ••• Do. New, No. 2.. 31 l3s. 4d.... ... Do. Extension l5 London, Brighton, and South Coast 50 Do. Consol: 'Eighths.. 20 Do. Grarantls per ct. 9 Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 ... London and Greenwich 121 15s 4d — Ditto, Preference...lB/. 175.2 d — London and N. Western 1 0 0 l6O 161 Do.,Quarters L. & B. 12 Do., ao., New . ........ 2 Ditto Fifths - Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 20 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (MI & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 — Do. 10/. M. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and: Cheltenham ...... ...... 2 .. - Lond. & S.Western ...411. 6s. 8d 57%... ......... .. Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. Do. New 40/. Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto ....... .... 40 Ditto, Thirds 5 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry& Joleraine 25 . — .............•• Londonderry and Ennis killen 22%...... •••• Manchester • Buxton,and Matlock 425. ...... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% — Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 - •-••••• ...... Ditto ditto . ... -... 7 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and - 51,E 451' 14 8% 49 - 573/4 Lincolnshire 7% Manchest. & Southampt. 2IA ...... Midland 1(X) 115% 117 ll7 Do. Consolidated Pref.100 -., .. Do. 401. Shares Do. 50/. Shares Do. Birm~ and Derbyloo Midland Consul. Brist. & Birming., 6 per;cent.loo l2l Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 Ditto, ditto 71.95... .... Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50 ...... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 25 Ditto N3W Ditto North Shields... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo 43 1 A 121% 7% Do. Quarters 5O ..... Newmrket & Chesterford 13% — Do. Extension .........21. 12s — ••• Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor ........ 10 Norfolk . lOO Do. New 201. - 5 - ~•••• 1 Ito. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk 2 — Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares 12%..-.. 13% 13 .. ...... Do. Quarters 4 34 43i Do. Extension Ditto Thirds . 1 North Staffordshire 7% ..... 9 North Wales North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 27%..... Reading, Guildtord, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% — 7% ... ........ Scottish Central Scottish Midland 17% — • Ditto, New 10 — Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birm... 6 Ditto ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 Ditto Oswestry Ditto New Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ...... Shropshire Union South Devon 4O Do. Preference South Staffordshire 21. 125.... I%dis l%dis youth Eastern & Dover. 33% 31% A% ... 31 3 4 Do., No. 1 Do., Nc. 2. - ••• •• • ..... a 12% Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... 15 Do., No. 4 South Wales ......... ...... 15 south Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 2 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock ih 26 13 4A I 13 8 and Railway Vale of Death ... .. ...... 4 W aterford and Kilkenny 13 1 / 2 . .... _ — Waterford and Limerick 35 Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw , and Dublin West Cornwall ..... - ..... 4 ... .. .... Whitehaven & Furness 8 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 425. 2% p. 3 p Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth ........ ........ 25 — York and Newcastle. ... 25 ..... 3 , 1 1 A% 34% Do. Extension Do. Preference f ork and North Midland 50 Ditto Extension .....• 25 ...... ... Ditto, Preference ...... 6 Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadoes 1 ...... Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 13% Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted).- 4 .. ... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon .. ..- ss. Demerara Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 7 — East Indian ... ..... .... 59. Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Southern of Madras 59. - Great Western Bengal... 5s Great Western Canada.- 31-4 Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... - Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... • -- Luxembourg...... ..... .. 6 Lyons and Avignon 5 — Madras 1 - Madras. Nellore, and Arcot % ..- Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... - Namur and Liege Northern of France. lO ..... 10% l O l /2 Orleans and Bordeaux 6 — Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d — Paris and Lyons .. 10 ...... Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg 8 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 16 •••• ........... ••• 7 1 ,4 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 fours and Nantes ...... 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- den, and Hasselt....... 12 Trinidad - West Flanders .. :. .. .... 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London Joint Stock 13% 45 35 export. With Barley we were again scantily supplied. The best 'Malting qualities were in moderate re quest, at full prices, but grinding and dis tilling sorts were somewhat neglected. Notwith standing the quantity of Malt brought forward was again small, the Malt trade was in a very inactive state ; nevertheless, last week's currencies were pretty generally supported. There were fewer Oats on offer than for some time past. Selected parcels were in mo derate request, at very full prices, but the damp and otherwise out of condition parcels of foreign commanded very little attention. The supply of Beans being on the increase, the demand for that grain was in a sluggish state at previous quotations. The show of all kinds of Peas was very trifling, and the sales wera conducted at full rates of currency. Indian Cora and Meal were very dull, and the turn lower. '1 he Flour trade was heavy ; town-made parcels receded to 45s per 2801bs, and American qualities were is to 2s per barrel lower. SMITECT/ELD. The imports of live stock into London, during the past week, have been as under : From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Harlingen 281 ... 1,981 ... ... 91 Nieu Diep Hamburgh * Rotterdam 4lB ... 2,735 ... 63 139 Ostend Antwerp Total 942 ... 6,422 ... 63 ... 275 • Pigs, 10. t Ditto, 20. At the various outports the arrivals have consisted of about 3,700 head, chiefly from Rotterdam and Ham burgh. We have to call the particular attention of our readers to the fact, that a most contageous disease has been lately introduced into this country by the Merino sheep, imported from Germany. The disease has, we find, been communicated to large numbers of English sheep, and which has resulted in very serious losses to the graziers. As a proof of which we may state that, to-day, some hundreds of sheep (which were turned out unsold on Monday and Friday last, and which had, it appears, been placed in pens previously occupied by some of the foreign breeds), were exhibited in a fright fully diseased state, and were with difficulty disposed of at from 4s to 8s per head, though worth ten days since quite 40s each. The imports of foreign stock at Hull and elsewhere have been again liberal, via., about 800 Beasts, 2,200 Sheep and Lambs, 95 Calves, and 129 Pigs ; but the quality and condition have turned out very indifferent. To-day we had on sale nearly 1,000 Beasts, 4,000 Sheep and Lambs, 120 Calves, and 40 Pigs, with which the trade was in a very inactive state, at barely the late depression in the quotations. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up this morning were extensive, nearly 1,000 head more than at the corresponding market day in 1846. As the general quality of this description of stock was very inferior, the demand for the best Scots, &c., was steady, and, in some instances, the currencies paid on Monday last were obtained by the salesmen, the best Beef realising 4s 6d per 81bs, without difficulty ; other wise the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, and the prices ruled quite 2d per 81bs. At the close of business a clearance was not effected. The droves and railway arrivals from our northern counties comprised about 1,800 short horns ; from the eastern, western, and mid land districts, 1,000 Herefords, runts, Devons, Scots, Irish Beasts, and short horns; from other parts of England, 500 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland, 220 horned and polled Scots ; the remainder of the Bullock supply being derived from abroad and the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The numbers of Sheep were considerably on the increase.; yet, as the weather was somewhat favourable to slaughtering, the Mutton trade was firm, particularly for the best old Downs, the supply of which was small, at the prices quoted on this day se'nnight. The best old Downs sold at 5s 4d per Sibs. The inquiry for Lambs was heavy, and this is the last occasion this year, as the season is now concluded, that we shall make any distinction between their prices and those of Sheep. Calves. though in full average supply, moved off steadily, at late rates. Prime small Porkers commanded lull prices. In other qualities of Pork comparatively little business was transacted. Beasts. 4,581 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. Calves. I 31,660 255 1 Yip, 120 TZBVITGATZI AND LEA.DENHALI6. From all distant parts, the arrivals of slaughtered meat for our markets during the past week have been on a very limited scale; but the supplies on offer killed in the metropolis have been extensive, though of very inferior quality. With the exception of the primest Beef and Pork—the quantity of which on sale has been unusually small, commanding a steady sale at full prices—the general demand has ruled heavy, at a de cline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. Nearly 4,000 carcases of Foreign meat have been brought forward, and sold at comparatively low figures. BOROUGH AND SPIT.A.X.PIELBS. 10 1 / 4 , 10 1 4 Ed...„.4inconasnire "unirgh and Glasgow 50 •••••• LOV A . e . x div. .. 51 .... x.d. Ditto Half Shares ••• 15 ppitto, Quarter Shares 12% —..— --ulhburo & Northern.. 20 Dit to , New Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 —— • t _ dinburgh a Ditto, ditto nd Perth... 2 i i i.j _ Ditto, Extension los. Exeter,YeoYil,& Dorch. 2 5 0 ••• Ditto, N ew . Glasgow, Dumfries, and GlCarlisle 81.6 5. 8d ..... -- ... .. . ... '..'.; ... asg ow , Kiimar.,B6Ayr 50 ..... ............ Ditto, New .. 35 . ..... ...........• .. ... Do., U Shares (5 per , cent. guar.) ... ...... 121/v.... ...... ............. Great Northern ...... 6 London Great and York 2 % — .......... (Ireland) .and West. .............. 35 Great North of England..100 Ditto, New 404 Ditto, New 30/ 30 Ditto, New 151 llh — 1 101 1 , 2 ' Great Western B5 lO2 101 / 2 Ditto, % Shares ..... ... 50 Ditto, IA Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Ditto, New 17/. ....»... 7 Huddersfield &blanches. 22 ...... ••••• Ditto, Thirds •••• ..... 7 Hull and Selby 5O .. ... ........ "''" Ditto, Half Shares 25 Ditto, 1 4 Shares 12% Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 15 ~...... Do., do. and Norwich 12 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2%...... Lancaster and Ca r lisle... 50 - Ditto, Thirds 10 Lancashi re & Y or k s hi re 82 Ditto % Shares . ••• 38 Do. Quarter Shares... 14 1 / 2 — 3 7 1i Do. Fifths B l/z• 7A Do. Sixteenths 6% . i 3 dis Do. Thirds (R eg .)....71 • 4 8 . 3% du Do. Lwerp. and Bury 34 Ditto 1 ( 4 (late Hud dersfield and Shelf.) 28 Do.( Wakefield, Ponte tract. & Goole Do. 42% —l% dis . ... .1% dis (W. Riding Union) 44 2s Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. I A, Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) ... 1 1 % Leeds and Bradford 45 — LLeicester and Bedford. ... 165.....•• eeds, Dewsbury, &c..• • 37%...... ...... ..... Do., Branch % Shares 7 %.• ••• Do. New Branch( blue) 2 %•••••• Do. Extension (green) 2%.. ... LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 27.—Wind N., light breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, SEPT. 26.—A.M., Wind N.N.W., strong. P.M. N.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Fairy Queen, Owen, Cape of Good Hope. Ski. Shakspeare, New York. The In dustry, of Campbeltown, St. Petersburgh to Liverpool, has been run on the main of Sandwith Flats, full of water, and much damage, having been on the Goodwin Sands; cargo discharging. The Navigator (ship) of South Shields, was fallen in with abandoned, in lat. 54 N., long. 4 W., by the Sjourmenta, arrived in the Downs. Sld.. 25th, Alice Maud, Port Philip, and the rest of the outward bound, except Alpha, for Quebec. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Halifax, Singapore; Earl of Hard „lvh.tioecrakfeeyrC: L a m l o c am u d t br t aso a c ; ;k IX., ; P A i zit o hae)a. Tanjore, Calcutta; , C B ap n e rn o b f a3 G , ; o c od ha Lho ot pe te ,• Har rison, Havannah; Levan fii t ae : l P :l hiladelphia ; Richard Cob den, New York •, Hugo Grotius, Batavia; Tweed, Cape Coast Castle; Colonel Howard, Charleston. 1% 5 Notwithstanding the supplies of Potatoes are some what extensive, a very large business has been again transacted, and in some instances the best qualities have produced 5s to 103 per ton more money. Prices now rule from 318 s to 51 10s. per ton. THE SUN, LONDON, _ MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, t 847. Eastern Counties Railway Company, knew the pri soner, and had had opportunities of seeing his hand writing. He believed the note, the cheque, and the endorsement on the back of the fifty pound-note, to be in the prisoner's handwriting. • Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE — The prisoner and witness were in the same office, in the Eastern Counties Company's service, for upwards of: two months—the inward department. Witness had no thing to do with the prisoner being turned away from the service of the company. Reported him when he absented himself for three days. Had broken open the prisoner's desk, by order of Mr. Moseley, the manager. Had heard something about a prosecution for it. Re-examined by Mr. RyLAND—Had no ill will to wards the prisoner, and did not break open his desk until he had twice sent to his house for the key, and he had refused to send it. Witness had a salary of 851. a year, he believed the prisoner had 651. Edward Harrison, a clerk in the luggage department of the Eastern Counties Railway, saw the prisoner in August last, after he had left the service of the Eastern Counties Company. They went and had a glass of ale together, and after talking some time with him about the company, he pulled some money, from 101. to 201., out of his pocket, together with some jewellery, observing that that was better than being in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. Michael Hadden, a City constable, 274, took the prisoner into custody at his lodgings, Hoxton New Town. Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury for the pri soner, and called Mr. George Griffiths, the father of the prisoner, who had formerly been a jeweller, but had since re tired from business, and was now living upon his property. He did not believe that the letter, the cheque, or the endorsement on the 501. note was in his son's handwriting. Cross-examined by Mr. RYLAND—The prisoner had had nothing to do since he left the Eastern Counties Railway. Witness kept him, although he did not lodge in his house. The house witness lived in at Pentonville was his own, and several others in the neighbourhood. Ebenezer Griffiths, the brother of the prisoner, believed that neither of the documents produced was in his brother's handwriting. Edward Stevens, had been in the employ of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. Was there during the whole time prisoner was, and had plenty of opportunities of seeing him write. He believed that the documents produced were not in the prisoner's hand writing. Cross-examined by Mr. RYLAND—Believed that the prisoner told him, on their going:on an excursion to Gravesend, that he had spent 1001. lately. On wit ness asking him how he got it, the prisoner said that he had been left some money by his grandfather or grandmother. Witness did not know which. Re-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—Witness had been living with his mother ever since he left the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and was in expectation of getting a situation in the Customs. Mr. RYLAND having replied on the evidence pro duced on behalf of the prisoner, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up. The jury acquitted the prisoner. COURT CIRCULAR. The royal dinner party at Osborne, on Friday, in cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Sir George Couper, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual air ings on Saturday, and the royal - children walked and rode out on ponies. Her Royal Highness th e D uc h ess o f K en t t oo k an airing on Saturday. Lord John Russell arrived at Osborne on Saturday afternoon, from his residence in Richmond, on a visit to the Queen. Sir James Clark also arrived on Sa turday. The Marchioness of Douro left Osborne on Satur day. The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe arrived on Friday, and has succeeded the Marchioness of Douro as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen. The royal dinner circle on Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, Lord John Russell, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir James Clark. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine service yesterday morning, in Whippingham Church. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine service yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. W. Hall. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, who took his test from St. Mathew, chap. 7, verse 24. The anthem was " Hosanna" (Gibbons). Mr. Turle presided at the organ. The Queen Dowager was attended by the Countess Brownlow and the Earl Howe. Among the nobility present were the Earl and Countess St. Germans, Lords Gosford and Ebrington. His — Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida, Prince Gustavus, and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, attended Divine service yesterday morning, in the German Lutheran Church in the Savoy. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, took a drive in a carriage on Saturday. Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, trans acted business at the Foreign-office, on Saturday. Lord John Russell left his residence at Richmond, on Saturday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a visit to the Queen. THE LATE ROBBERY at ROGERS AND CO.'S., THE BANKERS. EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF THE NOTES. On Saturday, considerable excitement prevailed throughout the City, in consequence of a rumour which was generally circulated that the whole of the notes which had been stolen from the Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and ad by the latter firm been paid into the Bank of Co., England, the amount being upwards of 40,0001. The robbery alluded to, it will be recollected, took place in November, 1844, and cash to the amount of nearly 2,6001. was stolen, in addition to the notes, the numbers of some of the latter not being known. The particulars, as described in the vast number of handbills which have been from time to time cir culated, offering a reward of 3,0001. must be fresh in the recollection of the public. Since the period of the robbery, Isaacs, and several others of the City detec tive force, have been actively engaged in endeavour ing to trace the property and the perpetrators of the robbery, but without effect, for although some of the suspected parties, or (it may be said) the known participators have been long under surveillance, and have been most closely watched, yet nothing oc curred to warrant their apprehension. It was, how ever, expected, on one occasion, that the officers had ascertained where the booty was concealed, when Isaacs and his colleagues discovered, at the house of a party in the Lower-road, Islington, no less than 600 sovereigns hidden under a bed. The notes, how ever, were not to be found, and the gold, of course, could not be identified. The guilty parties, it would seem, have been wait ing all this time, expecting that a larger reward would be offered, one of the parties actually telling one of the officers that he knew they were in it, and they could wait for three years, or until they could get 5,000/. Ultimately, all the notes of which the numbers were known were returned, the thieves keeping the other notes, and all the cash. How the whole has been delivered up has not transpired, but to inquiries at the banking house in Clement's lane, the answer was, that the notes had been returned, and paid into the Bank of England. A great deal of mys tery still envelopes the transaction. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Saturday information was given to Mr. Cartar, the coroner for Surrey, of the following dangerous accident which had happened on the river, and terminated fatally:—lt seemed that two men, named Holmes and King, were rowing in the lower part of the river, when the scull of one broke, and King received a severe blow on the chest, either from the arm of the scull or from Holmes falling back on him, which it was could not be ascertained. King was taken home, when peritonitis came on, and caused his death, the surgeon having no doubt the blow was the primary cause of it, thus showing by what simple means are the vital functions destroyed. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 24.—The trans actions of the week have been small, but this arises chiefly from the limited supply at market, as the demand continues good. Rum has become very dull, and prices have a down ward tendency.—Bristol Mercury. CHRISTCHURCH.—COMMITTAL Or A BANK MA NAGER ON A CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—There has been much excitement in this place for some days past, in consequence of various rumours affecting the cha racter of the manager of the branch of the Wilts and Dorset Banking Company in this town. All doubts as to the truth of these rumours have now been dissipated by the full committal of Mr. Edward Owen Bishop, the gentleman in question, to take his trial at the next quarter sessions on a charge of embezzlement. Private examinations took place before the magistrates on Mon day and Wednesday last, when, it is understood, several clear cases were proved against him by the officers and customers of the bank. Bail to a heavy amount was demanded, in default of which he was on Thursday morning conveyed to Winchester. The investigations were said to have been long and painful ones, and the magistrates, after a lengthened and patient hearing, de cidided on fully committing him on all the charges.— Hants Independent. _ The whole of the cargo of Wheat (700 quarters ex " Johanne," Hanschild, master, from Galatz), offered by public auction by Mr. H. Roper, at Cowes, on the 23d instant, was bought in, the highest price offered for any of the lots being 41s. per quarter. DEATH OF MADAME ALBERTAZZL—This favourite and kind-hearted vocalist died on Saturday morning, at her residence in St. John's Wood, aged 33. Her health, which had been declining for a long time, ended in a rapid consumption. Albertazzi made a most successful debut at her Majesty's Theatre, in Cenerentola, April 19th. 1837. After that she sung at the Ancient and Philharmonic Concerts, and, in 1840, she appeared at Drury-lane, in the opera of La Gazra Ladra, and was eminently successful. She was al so engage d at t h e Princess's Theatre, but her voice was then failing fast. Her maiden name was Howson, and her father was a music-master. She was married to Albertazzi when not sixteen years of age. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH, LEITH, AN D QRANTON RAILWAY.—A melancholy and fatal occurrence took place on the Edinburgh, Leith, and •Granton Railway, on Friday, about noon, within a hun dred yards of Leith Docks. A servant of the company, of the name of Peter Marr, in charge 'of the goods train. anxious to ascertain if the switches were in their proper places, rushed fOrward for that purpose, but, un happily, he was caught by the break of one of the trucks, and whirled round like a cylinder, and in five or ten minutes ceased to breathe. The deceased was about thirty years of age, and has left a widow and two infants to lament his loss. The event has cast a gloom over the minds of the other labourers, by whom deceased was greatly respected. PORTSMOUTH ' PORTSEA, AND GOSPORT HOSPITAL. —His Royal Highness Prince Albert, at the special re quest of the gentlemen forming the committee of ma nagement for building, by voluntary subscriptions, an hospital at Landport, to be called the Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Hospital, has graciously consented to perform the ceremony of laying the first stone. The time fixed for the performance of this ceremony is four o'clock this (Monday) afternoon, when the Prince will come up from Osborne House and land at the dock yard, proceeding to Landport in the commander in chief's carriage. Prince Albert has also graciously consented, at the same time, to receive an address from the Mayor and members of the corporation. THE " REPORTED MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON WITH MISS BURDETT CouTTS."—We think it right to state that the " correspondent" who last week favoured the Observer with the statement under the above head (and which, we see, is going the round of the provincial press) is one of those inventive gentlemen called " reporters for the public press." We received a manifold copy of this " report," but declined to use it. How the " preliminary arrangements of the marriage" could come to the knowledge of such a cor respondent may perhaps form the subject of another paragraph in the columns of our somewhat credulous contemporary.—John Bull. A General Thanksgiving for the late bountiful harvest will be ordered by the Queen in Council, at Osborne, on Tuesday next, when the form will be pro claimed and the day fixed, after consultation with the heads of the Church. So much has been urged as to the propriety of selecting Sunday for the solemnity, instead of appropriating a week day as formerly, that her Majest) will comply with the wishes so expressed. Either the 10th or the 17th of October will most likely be the Sunday decided on.—Obsereer. SOUTHAMPTON.—The Madrid steam-ship, under the command of Captain Joy, arrived at Southampton early on Sunday morning, from the Peninsula, with mails in charge of Lieutenant Inglis, Admiralty agent The latest dates she brings are—Gibraltar, Sept. 16th; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 21st; Vigo, 22t1. The Madrid brings nearly thirty passengers, and a large. cargo, consisting of grapes, lemons, &c., and twelve packages of specie. Stations of her Majesty's ships : At Gibraltar, the Virago steamer; Lisbon—the wick of the experimental fleet, which returned to that pot i crow a cruse on the 19th. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. From Kent and Sussex full average supplies of new Hops still come to hand, but the colour is by no means first rate. Although the principal brewers are short of stock, the demand is by no means active, and prices rule very low for the season. Owing to the tightness in the money market, very few speculative purchases have, as yet, been made. Yearling and old Hops are very dull, and much lower to buy. The duty is ;called 170,0001. Sussex pockets, 4/ 4s to 41 12s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 41 5s to 41 16s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 41 lOs to 51 10s. per cwt. WOOL. The past week's imports of Wool into London bare been on a liberal scale, via., 283 bales from Odessa, 26 ditto from Gibraltar, 1,400 ditto from Port Phillip, 300 ditto from the Cape, 1,600 ditto from Algoa Bay, 300 ditto from Hamburgh, 2,215 ditto from South America, and 19 ditto from Smyrna. Really fine qualities of English and Colonial Wools have moved off steadily by private contract, at full prices. In other kinds we hare very few sales to report. TALLOW. Although there is more inclination on the part of the chandlers to get into stack than for some weeks past, the amount of business transacted since this day se'n night has not been very extensive. A few sales have taken place at a trifle more money. P.Y.C. on the spot is 46s 6d to 46s 9d, and for delivery 45s 3d per cwt. Town Tallow is 47s 6d to 48s 6d per cwt ; rough fat, 2s 9d per 81bs. TAT TERSALL'S-THIS EVENING Six O'CLOCK. CESAREWITCH STAKES. 9 to 1 agst War Eagle 12 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon 12 to 1 agst Rob Roy 20 to 1 agst Reminiscence 20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair 20 to 1 agst Miss Whip Filly 25 to 1 agst Vanity 25 to 1 agst Giselle. 25 to 1 agst Marquis of Conyngham 25 to 1 agst Lightning 25 to 1 agst Inheritress 30 to 1 agst Lazarillo CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES. 12 to 1 agst War Eagle 20 to 1 agst George Hudson 20 to 1 agst Queeu Mary, DERBY. n to 1 agst Surpiice 11 to 1 agst Springy Jack 30 to 1 agst Beverlac HOPEFUL. 5 to 4 agst Blaze 3 to liagst any other DUKE MICHAEL. 5 to 4 agst Conyngham CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS). FORGERY.—Francis Thomas Griffiths, aged twenty, a clerk, a respectable-looking young man, was in dicted for feloniously forging an order for the payment of 1151. 10s. with intent to defraud the London Joint Stock iank. Mr. BODKIN, with whom was Mr. RYLAND, stated the case for the prosecution, and from his observations it appeared that the prisoner was, up to the year 1845, a clerk in the service of Mr. West, a jeweller, on Ludgate-hill, and had, therefore, opportunities of seeing him write, and knowing the manner in which he drew his cheques on his bankers, the London Joint stock Bank, there being reason to suspect the prisoner of committing the offence, the present charge was brought against him. Since leaving Mr. West the prisoner had been in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, but had since left. The Learned Counsel called . the following witnesses in support of the charge : Edward Chilnian, a clerk in the London Joint stock Bank, stated that on the 15th of August a letter was brought to the bank, requesting a cheque-book, purporting to be from Mr. West, of Ludgate-hill. Witness believing the writing to be Mr. West's, gave the party bringing the note a cheque-book, l'co. 24,832. Cross-examined by Mr. BALLA/ITINE, who appeared for the prisoner—lf he had not been told by Mr. West that the writing of the note was not his he should, at the present moment, believed it to be so, and have given the cheque-book. Mr. Kaye, a clerk in the London Joint-Stock Bank, stated that on the 16th of August a cheque for 1151. was brought to the bank purporting to come from Mr. West, who banked with the house. Wit nessoa fn di6 p prhcoi a lifelci i w.d d Arhikny t iuwt h igignad e i cheque ulsoeltsl.whtd. Th ew chequeith ie 5O l. was no d t r e a , w N n oi. in favour the ar gold. Bankitstoe 1. ncw o oo f tuye E l idwd n e g an, a l o a cht n rh d osanw s r i t gen a hag t rt e d fcor rtohsas whether.t payment,onivttilihtee. onln6e fit ness swh prisoner was the party who brough i t n it. in his service up to Ludgate-street,. prisoner\‘r es t , a hjaedwe beenl ler, , sta l t i ed r. t T ha h rth a e s 1845. Witness banked then ?and did now at the London Joint-Stock Bank. The letter and cheque produced were not in witness's hand w in that on nf the t h e pri s oner . 1. note wit ness e bweoliredvsedwythideem, Charing-c r os s, be believed to be also in the prisoner's hand writing. The George West, a brother of the last witness con firmed his statement as to the letter and cheque beig an i i n el t A he n p eo ri n so w ne a r w 's n li;7l o -r er r i ti e ng th . jlrvico of MARKET NEWS.--(THIg DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY. The arrivals of English Wheat np to our market last week were somewhat on the increase, but by no means larger, the time of year co ns i dered . Of all o th er art i c l es of home produce the receipts were on a very moderate scale, if we except those of Beans, which were tolerably extensive, or upwards of 1,000 quarters. The i m p orts of foreign Grain and Flour were again large, viz., 40,119 quarters of Wheat, 3,530 ditto of Barley, 13,438 ditto of Oats, 1,710 ditto of rye, 4,018 ditto of Indian Corn, and 6,254 sacks and 43,926 barrels of Flour, chiefly from ;he United States. Fresh up to-day a fair average quantity of English Wheat came to hand, coastwise, from Essex, Kent, and Cambridgeshire ; yet the stands were by no means well supplied by samples. By l an d carr i ag e very little reached us, owing, howev er , t o th e increased importations of Wheat and Flour from abroad, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was in a very de pressed state, at a decline in the quotations obtained on Mi , nday last of from 4s to fully 53 per quarter, and at which a clearance was not effected. The supply of Foreign Wheat brought forward was very extensive; hence, the sales progressed heavily, at a fall in prices of rum 3s to 4s per quarter. The transactions for con umption were trifling, and scarcely any took place for NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) RODDING LODGINGS.—WiIIiam: Robinson, a well dressed man, aged 22, was convicted of stealing two sheets and a coverlet, the property of Robert Cavis, and another person, who keeps a lodging-house for the poorer class of people in Glasshouse-yard. It appeared that the prisoner became an inmate, and availed himself of his position to purloin the articles referred to. The RECORDER said the offence of which the pri soner had been convicted was of a serious character, inasmuch as he had purloined the property of poor people who let out lodgings, and whose effects were more exposed to depredation than that of others. The offence was one, too, greatly on the increase, and it was necessary that those who committed such offences should, for the sake of example, be severely punished. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transported for seven years; and he hoped the sen tence would be carried out to its full extent. The Learned Judge advised the prosecutor t o h ave bill s printed and affixed in his house, stating that the pri soner had been so sentenced, as a warning to others. Thomas Williams pleaded guilty to purloining several sums, during the last ten months, amounting in the aggregate to upwards of 251., the property of his employer,' Mr. Twitty, a cheesemonger, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. Mary Jones alias Garden, a young female, pleaded guilty to stealing a gown, after two previous convic tions for the commission of petty larceny. The RECORDER told the prisoner that she had ren dered herself liable to be transported for life; he would, however, give her another trial, and sentenced her to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. William Webb, a young man, wearing the garb of a soldier, was convicted of embezzling three small sums of money, which he had received in his capacity as errand lad to Mr. Judd, a cheesemonger, carrying on business at Kentish-town. -------- It appeared that the prisoner received 7s. a week and his board and lodging. He absconded in July, and ;was arrested after he had enlisted in the 22d regiment, in which he was serving at Chatham. Whilst coming by the boat he surrendered himself, and said he supposed he should be transported for the job. From inquiries it appeared that most regiments take men back after conviction. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS PAY.) EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY BY A FOOTMAN. — Henry Pavior , a respectable- looking young man, was placed before kr. Hardwick, charged with stealing a quantity of silver plate, consisting of coffee-pots, tea pots, candlesticks, epergnes, and other articles, of the value of 2001., the property of William Burns, Esq., No. 6, Stratton-street, Piccadilly. It appeared that the prisoner had been a footman in the service of the prosecutor. On the 11th instant the prosecutor, who had been on a tour, returned to his residence rather unexpectedly, at an early hour of the morning. Feeling in want of some refreshment he desired the butler to get him some breakfast. On the latter person going to the plate cupboard to get the necessary articles for the breakfast table, he discovered that the tea and coffee pots had been taken out of' their covers, and wooden dummies" substituted in their places. He became alarmed, and immediately informed Mr. Burns, who desired him to proceed to Vine-street station, and request a constable to come in and inves tigate the affair. Inspector Whale and sergeant Gray proceeded to Stratton -street, and, on making a fur ther examination, it was discovered that nearly every article of plate had been abstracted, and their places supplied with wooden models, so well contrived as to deceive any one not aware of the circumstances. Suspicion of the robbery naturally fell upon the footman who % had the cleaning of the plate, and on the police-officers inquiring for him it was found that he had taken the opportunity of making off. Ser geant Gray was sent in pursuit and traced the pri soner to Wooton, Woodstock, from thence back to London, on to Upminster in Essex, where he lost all clue of him. He then heard that the prisoner was secreted in London, and after a deal of trouble suc ceeded in getting a clue that the prisoner was to be found located in a house in Litchfield-street, Soho. He watched this house closely for a considerable length of time until Saturday night, when his perseverance was rewarded • by seeing the pri soner come out and look stealthily about him, when he pounced upon him and took him into custody. On being told the nature of the charge against him, the prisoner expressed his sorrow and admitted that he had pledged all the articles missing, and delivered into his (Gray's) hands a number of duplicates re lating to the stolen property, which was pledged for various amounts, at Dobrees, Flemings, ltochford's, Stevens's, and several other pawnbrokers, who, if a remand was granted, would come forward and iden tify the prisoner. At the request of Sergeant Gray, Mr. Hardwick remanded the prisoner till Friday. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OWL OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SEPTEMBER 25. ROYAL Y ACIIT RRIVALS SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. A. Sept. 17. Witch cutter, Henry Oglander , Esq., from Hyde• a nd came into harbour to lay up; urora cutter, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq., from the eastward. 23. Merlin schooner, Viscount Milton, from the coast of Scotland, and came into harbour to be hauled up on Mr. Ratray'S patent slip. SAILINGS. Sept. 18. Xarifa schooner, Earl of Wilton, for Ports mouth and Plymouth, left for the season. 20. Camilla schooner, Thomas Halifax, jun., Esq., for Cowes harbour, to lay up ; Capricorn schooner, C. H. M. Talbot, Esq., for Southampton, to lay up. 24. Wyvern schooner, Duke of Marlborough, for Ply mouth ; Flirt schooner, Sir B. R. Graham, Bart., came into harbour, to be hauled up on Mr. Joseph White's slip, to be lengthened by the bow. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Schooners—Ariel, Merlin, Maud, Ma!: ic, Coral Queen. Cutters—Ganymede, Noran, Turquoise, Aurora. Yawls—Flower of Yarrow, Susan. SEPTEMBER 26. H e r Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and suite, attended Divine Service at Whippingham church this morning. The church was crowded, and many could not obtain admittance, but remained outside during the service. The attendance was clearly not to be attributed to any religious feeling. Our earthly Queen was far more attractive to the visitors to .the church from Newport and Cowes thug our heavenly King. OVERLAND MAIL INDIA ANu CHINA. (From the Morning Post.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BOMBAY, AUG. 2. I write you on this occasion by way of Ceylon, per favour of the steamer Braganza, which will in all probability arrive in perfect time to meet the Pre cursor from Calcutta, on her way to Suez. After all, there is nothing of importance to write you about. The English mails of the 24th ult. reached this on the afternoon of the 23d July. India throughout may be said to be perfectly tran quil. An abundant supply of rain appears to have fallen everywhere. The prospects of the riots are highly promising, and general contentment and quiet seem to prevail through the length and breadth of the Company's dominions. From the Punjaub there is next to nothing to com municate. The affairs of the country seem to be settling down to a state of general quiet, while the most rigid economy is being exercised, and no doubt is entertained but that the young Maharaja will find, on attaining his majority, a considerable surplus in his coffers. The French officer General Courtland, who, it will be remembered, was refused employment lately by the Lahore authorities, and who had been subsequently taken into the service of the Jamoo King, has at length been taken into favour again, and had conferred on him the governorship of the whole of the Trans-Indus territory belonging to the Lahore state—the same extending from the boundary of Kohat (the estate of Sultan Mahomed Khan, brother of Dost Mahomed), as far down as Dhara Ghazee Khan at Mooltan. Local magistrates have likewise been appointed for every district, and these again have had placed over them Nazims to look after the impartial administra tion of justice--thus affording a much less expensive and speedier means of obtaining redress to the poor in habitants than that of being compelled to resort to the capital. This measure, of course, judicious as it is, is purely English, and does credit to the administration of affairs by Colonel Lawrence. Even our system of capital punishment, that of hanging, has been patro nised by the Seikhs. Not less than eight murderers were dispatched at once by this means on the morning of the 14th ult.; be it remarked, however, that these were punished for no political offence, nor conspiracy against the powers that be; and the better to ensure their being doubly dead, they were to hang suspended, by orders of the Durbar, for three days together. Our Resident, Colonel Lawrence, is, I am happy to say, rapidly recovering from the effects of his late ailment, which had arrived at such a pitch at one time that his speedy removal to Simla was considered ab solutely indispensable. Lahore, as a residence, is now, since the completion of the improvements lately made by us, much co veted, and the term "filthy city," applied to it when first entered by us, turns out now to be a complete misnomer. It has been thoroughly gutted and drained ; abominable lanes converted into airy and handsome streets, and all the filthiness with which thoroughfares in the east usually abound, confined, where it ought to be, underground. The intelligence from Sinde is still scanty and of no great interest. The navigation of the Indus by steamers appears to absorb the whole attention of the natives along its banks , the river itself has fallen about two feet within three days. Between Shikar pore and Kussmoor a considerable body of freebooters have their abode, and every now and then we hear of some little dashing affair, which, in the present in stance, seems worth recording. Information was given to the police at Shikarpore that a band of these marauders were then a few miles distant from Kuss• moor. Lieutenant Younghusband, in command of the police, set out at daybreak one morning and came up with the robbers a short time after ; these, after a tough encounter, he seems to have completely routed, chasing them as far as the Seikh territory, having killed 29 of them and taken about 25 prisoners. Very few of the Shikarpore police were killed, and on the whole the matter appears to hare been much thought of at head-quarters. The accounts from Sukkur and Hyderabad are every way satisfactory. Those from Kurrachee are equally so. Lady Napier, whose health was so much impaired, so much so indeed as to induce the Governor to apply to the Governor- General for an express steamer to convey her to Europe about September next, has now much im proved, and there is considerable doubt entertained that either Sir C. Napier or his amiable partner will even then quit Kurrachee ; they will not, at all events, till after that month has expired, from the nature of the weather at this season. Matters begin every day to get more gloomy in the Goomsor territory, and the immense sacrifice of human life occasioned by the existence of the Alexiali sacrifice appears to be but little abated. Several tribes, which have hitherto st pod aloof, have, from fear or otherwise, joined the standard of revolt, headed by Chokra Bisshye; so much dreaded, in deed, has this chief become among them, that an order from him to stay all agricultural and other ne cessary operations, to follow his standard, is with them enough; no one dare dispute, none dare grumble at, the behest of their master. The rebel chief is everywhere well seconded both with men and money, and on no occasion has the sympathies of the heathen been better appealed to on the occasion of a religious war (though this is one on a small scale), than has this under the leadership of Chokra Bisshye. That there was something rotten in the manner our local authorities there have hitherto pro ceeded, a short time must show, and from the character given of the new agent, Mr. Grant, you may rest assured of a searching inquiry being in stituted, and the veil drawn up which has so long hid in mystery the real cause of the non-success which has hitherto attended the humane efforts of our Government to stem the sacrifice of human life. We hear of nothing satisfactory in any of our movements in this quarter ; nothing, in fact, saving the daring and successful exploits and defying threatenings of the rebel chief—a village or two burned here, another there—occasionally sacrifices at one spot, and rob• beries at another—and all under the very nose of our sentries. Strange that affairs such as these should not long ago have been finally subdued. Dhoonghur Singh, the Wizard of the West, as he may justly be termed, is still at large, driving a splendid trade by the levying of black-snail on every village he comes across. Poor Colonel Sutherland, our President in the Rajpootana States, with all his aids and strategems, cannot, by any possibility, over take the rogue. He is not, be it remembered, reduced to the necessity of bolting from the approach of our troops. His resources are large, and his private in fluence extensive, and would not at all hesitate, when he can catch an opportunity, of hinting to Colonel Sutherland, when the latter little expected him, "that Doongee was here," and backed with a force, too, sufficient to swallow up, so far as numbers were con cerned, the straggling detachments sent against him. Already has the Colonel lost all patience with him, and no wonder. Information is brought in that on such a day he will be found at Nusserabad—a party is sent off instanter—when, lo ! the wizard is then found to be quietly located at Harrowtee, very far beyond reach from that quarter. As matters are to be, however, it is to be hoped you will soon hear of his capture Instructions have been issued to all officers in corm mand of detached parties our troops to march on without waiting for orders from superior authority. As it is, throughout the independent native states no traveller can pass the roads; life and property every where are alike at stake. The intelligence from other parts is unimportant. Our local news is chiefly absorbed by the investi gation pending in the coal conspiracy case —severe other parties appear to be deeply implicated, and Government seems to have been robbed in this de partment alone to a most alarming extent. The intelligence from China is important thus far, that the rumour of another attack by the Chinese on foreigners turns out to be without foundation. By latest accounts all was quiet at Canton, though busi ness was at a complete stand still. Governor Davis appears to he completely forgetting himself; he seems to have fallen into disrepute with every one— even the Chinese themselves have lost all confidence in him as the powerful representative of the barbarian throne. The affair of Ronan especially, the full and ufticial account of which I append, will best show wherein Sir Jahn Davis - kaa, . forgotten j.iims:2lf. further intelligence from this quarter, I have only room to refer you to the China local papers, which will of course reach you direct with this. BOMBAY, AUG. 6. I wrote you on the 2d inst. by way of Ceylon, I write you now by way of Madras, but for the safety of neither of these documents can I become surety. The weather down the coast just now is anything but propitious, so that for the safety of the former, going as it does by sea, I will not be over sanguine ; for this one, going as it must do over the Ghauts, in fested as they are at this season by bands of barefaced thieves, I can only hope against hope. It matters but little, I suppose, whether or not this reaches you, four days' intelligence at any time —much less in a period of peace, and during the most teazing weather—are never likely to be pregnant with importance. The Punjaub accounts have in them nothing better nor worse than when I wrote you four days since. All is quiet and peaceful; the Queen-Mother alone seems to be the only malcontent at the capital. Col. Lawrence, our able Resident there, continues to im prove in his health, while retrenchment and the most rigid economy appears to be the order of the day in all measures likely to affect the interest of the state exchequer. Considerable gratification has been dif fused among all parties by the announcement of the intended elevation of the Gallant General, Sir J. Littler, to a seat as provisional Member of Council, and to the honours of the Bath ; as much as this, if nob more, has been long expected, and though they have come now, at the eleventh hour, they are not the less very well deserved. The accounts from Affghanistan contain nothing that is new. The Dost appears to be still very much put about by the menacing attitude shown by the Ghilzie portion of his subjects. Sultan Jan seems to be blustering much at Khelat, and is said to have emissaries and sympathisers even as far as Caubul itself. The arrangements, whatever these may be, which have been made betwixt our Government and the Dost, seem to have afforded him every sort of satisfaction, and there can be ao doubt that, now that his turbulent son has been gathered to his fathers, the Dost will make it his best endeavour to foster the good position with our Government which has now been established, valuing, as he must do, at its proper value, the fact that we were the first to act on the initiative. From Peshawur there is also scarcely anything that is new. Lieu tenant Lumsden, our agent there, appears to have met with an accident while crossing the Hooske river on his way to Hussun Abdal. By some accident or other, he fell into the water, and was with difficulty rescued by two natives. Orders appear to have been issued for the division of the territory into thamahs, as has been done in some of the districts within the Punjaub, for the purpose of trying and punishing offences on the spot, by magisterial autho rity, instead of as hitherto, having to prosecute and bring every grievance before the authorities at the capital. The measure, you will admit, is a highly judicious one—affording, as it does, a safe, speedy, and economical mode of obtaining redress to the poor inhabitants, who heretofore had been deprived of all chance of appeal. Robberies still prevail within the Khyber Pass— so much so, indeed, that the place to travellers is virtually shut up. All the accounts from the Goomsoor country give a very melancholy picture indeed of the non-success which ha- hitherto attended all our efforts to stop the sacrifice of human life. Every new day brings fresh accounts of the daring exploits of Chokra Bisshye, the powerful leader of these disturbances ; and it is tnuch to be regretted that the season alone prevents those measures on the part of our Government from being put into more effective operation. There appears to be considerable stir making from the rumours of an outbreak taking place in China ; even our authorities here appear to be among those who put the most reliance in them, and the reported movements of steamers in due course for that direction are keeping every one here on the qui vice for further intelligence, and more authentic we hope it will be than that which has lately found its way hither from China. You will by the arrival of this have much more authentic particulars regarding China matters than any I could send you ; besides you will be aware that this is the route by which my budget must needs be con fined within the smallest limits. In subjects of local interest I have nothing to communicate. The economizing and rigid entrench ment begun by Lord Hardinge has now found its way to this Presidency, and disposal of the services of our junior magistrate of police is one of the first of a series to which report assigns a most extensive field. Since I wrote to you on the 2d we have been blessed with one continued plump of rain. Fortu nately, on the score of health, our Presidency has little to complain of just at present. (From the Times.) We have received from Marseilles our letters in anticipation of the Calcutta mail of the Bth of August. The dates are from Calcutta to the Bth and Madras to the 13th of August. Our advices from Bombay only reach to the 6th of August, by post-office dauk to Madras, there not having been any monthly direct mail from that Presidency in consequence of the South-West mon soon. We have received more precise information as to the amount of retrenchment which the Governor- General has determined on effecting in the army. The Bengal reductions, including one Queen's regi ment, will amount to 30,000 men ; in the Madras army, to 10,000 men, entirely from the native force; and in Bombay to 70,000 men, including a Queen's regiment. The total reduction in expense will amount to a sum of about 1.160,0001., which, with other additions to the credit budget, will this year relieve the finances to the extent of at least 1,780,0001. These retrenchments, which the Governor-General considers it safe at present to adopt, will, with the Five per Cent. Loan, about equalize the revenue with the expenditure. The Punjaub was in repose, arid our influence there in so satisfactory a state as to give promise of its benefits being soon appreciated by the people. Nor are there any complaints from Sinde. The Lower Indus will shortly, as we announced on the arrival of the previous mail, be handed over by General Sir Charles Napier to a purely civil Governor. The only movement of any description in the Peninsula was a combined attempt by small bodies of irregular cavalry to catch the wandering Dacoit chief Doongur Singh. It was expected that after the rains important alte rations would take place in the distribution of the forces on the frontiers. It was also thought probable that at the same period active steps would be under taken for a settlement of affairs in the subsidiary pro vinces of Hyderabad, at present in a most disordered state. The Bombay news to the 6th of August is remark able principally for the disposition exhibited by the journals of that presidency to comment on the pro ceedings of the authorities of the Indian navy. A lieutenant of that navy was deprived of his commis sion for having allowed a steamer (the Cleopatra), under his ccmmand to get aground four years ago in. the Red Sea. The same steamer was lately lost with 300 souls on board, in consequence of having been sent to sea in an unfit state. There appears to be no doubt of the loss of the Cleopatra during the rough weather► in the middle of April last. She has not. been heard of since that hurricane. The Delhi Gazette of the 28th of July contains the following paragraph, descriptive of the state of the north of India : " We believe we have rarely put forth any issue of this paper so singularly barren of news of all kinds as the one that now leaves our hands. There. Is absolutely nothing to record—no plots at L 6.hore, risings in Mooltan, no threatenings from Caubul, Persia, and Russia. All as quiet and lac cable as it is possible to desire, both within and wit:nout our pos sessions." The steamer Auckland was under 'orders to proceed to the eastward ; some said to att , Ack the pirates oft Borneo, but others maintained that she would have to go to China. She is to tnalc , e inquiries about the missing Cleopatra on the voyege. The steamer N emesis, with Mr. Brooke on board, had a severe action on the 30th of May with a fleet of piratical prahui off Labuan. The pirates were com pletely routed, several of their prahus having been