The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

SA'SITARY CONDITION of MARY LEBONE. On Saturday an unusually full meeting of the -vestry of St. Marylebone took place at the Court house, for the purpose of receiving the report from the committee appointed to inspect and report on the sanitary condition of this vast district of the metro- Mr. J. F. Stanford having been called to the chair, Mr. S'CAICE, the parish surveyor, read the report, of which the following are the most important ex tracts : " Your committee find that in the highway dis tricts there are several roads which, from various causes, as the want of proper sewage, Sic., have not as yet been taken to by the vestry, an d are consequen tly not repaired or lighted. Your committee recommend that application be made to his Grace the Duke of Portland and Colonel Eyre, the freeholders of this district, to put all the roads on their respective estates into proper condition forthwith to be taken to as parish roads, under the provision of 3 George IV., chapter 84, section 26." After at very great length entering into details as to the crowded and filthy condition of the houses in the vicinity of Marylebone Police-court, and other dis tricts of the parish, the report proceeds : " The demoralising influence of so many persons of both sexes being under the necessity of so congregat ing cannot be too severely animadverted upon. " Your committee recommend, in order to produce uniformity of cleansing, lighting, paving, and rating, and for the purpose of placing every court, alley, and place in the parish under the direct control of the vestry, that committees of survey be forthwith ap pointed to view all the places enumerated in Appendix 1, in order that all may partake of the benefits of general superintendence, and to compel the landlords, where necessary, to the performance of their duty in this important particular, which, they regret to say, has been in many instances greatly neglected, and which requires, therefore, to be legally enforced. " The report on the subject of nuisances recom mends immediate steps to be taken for the removal of furniture and other goods exposed for sale on the pavement of the thoroughfares, and the removal of slaughter-houses and melting-houses, which frequently render the air of an entire neighbourhood unwhole some. " Your committee report that in several cases dur ing their inspection, they ascertained that swine were kept, to the manifest nuisance and injury of the neighbouring inhabitants. Your committee directed the surveyor to take the necessary proceedings for the removal of the same, and your committee recom mend that printed notices be served upon all persons so offending; and if the swine are not removed within seven days from such notice that legal proceedings be instituted against the offending parties, and that it he the duty of the beadles, from time to time, to endea vour to ascertain if swine are kept, and to report the same in their weekly report books ; and the vestry are recommended to rigidly carry into effect the powers vested in them by Parliament to put down this evil. " Your committee find in many places through the parish accumulations of dust in the yards and cellars of the houses, and there is very general com plaint of the dustmen refusing to remove the same unless they are paid for so doing. Your committee find that thin nuisance of the accumulation of dust, &c., existed to a much greater extent until within these last few months, when, from the•circumstance of the vestry having taken the slopping of the parish into their own bands, the contractors have be come alarmed lest the vestry should also take upon them the removal of the dust, and have become more attentive, but the exactions still continue. Your committee are of opinion that this practice should be suppressed by the vestry. " Your committee regret to be under the necessity of remarking that there appears to be generally great indifference on the parts of landlords of houses to the wants or comforts of the poor, most of the premises in the occupation of the poor being badly drained and ventilated, very dirty, and no attention paid to cleansing or repair. In many cases the basements are so dark as to require candles to descend to the ground floor, there being as few windows as possible, no openings_ over area doors, as such openings, even unglazed, would subject the owners of the house to the window-tax, the law, to avoid the ta x , r equ i r i n g that the passage should be absolutely dark ; the con veniences, in many cases only one for several houses, and where there is one to each house it is generally much neglected. In many parts of the districts, as may be seen by reference to the notes of the inspec tors, as in Gee's-court, Barratt's-court, Gray's-build ings, and Calmel-buildings, the privies of the houses are in a most foul and offensive state, in many cases the tops of these places being removed, or where they remain, the seats, floors, and passages are covered with filth. Your committee, in reference to the pri vies in foul condition, and other nuisances contained in the notes of the daily inspection of the whole of the district committees recommend that th e provi sions of the Act of Parliament 9th and 10th Victoria, chapter 96, he forthwith had recourse to for the abatement of the nuisances. " Continuing their researches into the sanitary con dition of the districts, and turning to those subjects the management of which the Legislature has placed in other hands, your committee approach a subject of the utmost importance in a sanitary point of view, but over which the parishioners have no control what ever, viz., firstly, the sewage of the parish. They regret that while they have through the parish sur veyor obtained now for the first time a complete know ledge of the state of the sewage of this great parish, they are compelled to declare that it is manifestly in sufficient for the smuts of the locality, no fewer than 280 streets and ways in the parish being wholly with out proper sewage, and a great portion of the remainder defective or incomplete. Every person who has at all considered the subject must be aware that the forma tion of cesspools underneath and contiguous to inhabited houses, is a fearful source of sickness and disease ; and yet the formation of these noxious depositories of filth has been for a long series of years absolutely forced upon the public by the absurd prac • tice on the part of the Sewer Commissioners of pre venting any drain from a privy being laid into a sewer; of late, however, and since the evil has caused a frightful a ecumulation, the Commissioners themselves are !oud in their condemnation of cesspools, and even solicit that :the drains may be laid into the sewer. Against the conduct of these irresponsible parties the vestry , have. - repeatedly a n d i ne ff ec t ua ll y proteste d . " T hey recommend that application be immediately made to •erluce th e i r num b ers, and to trap the remainder s and that, if more ventilation to the sewers be require xi, this be obtained from Vie crown of the arch in I,he roadway, and not in the immediate proximit y of the houses. "An( ther evil of the most fearful character in a sanitary point of view is the water monopoly; and your cos nmittee regards the monopoly as essentially differeu t from all other on account of its vast import ance vs an absolute necessary of life. Opposed alike to all monopolies, and anxious to procure for the rate payers supplies, whether of gas or water, at the cheripest rate, add of the most excellent quality, still thew feel that in the matter of lighting, the rate payers having the choice of candles, naphtha, oil, canaphine, &c., are not necessarily at the mercy of the gas companies. But, as regards the supply of water, there is no choice • the rate-payers are corn pilled to sub m it t o a ll the exactions of the water companies, and are entirely debarred from obtaining any other supply. The West Middlesex Company, in particular, who brought their water into the parish under the express pretence of defeating monopoly, of giving a cheaper and a purer supply, after a few years entered into an agreement with the other companies, parcelled out the metropolis into districts, and placed the whole community at the mercy of this great monopoly, both as regards supply and price. " Your committee are convinced that a matter of so much pullic importance should not be left at the mercy of any commercial company, but that a control for public purposes should be exercised by the go verning bodies duly elected in every locality in the metropolis. "The attention of the aggregate committee has been strongly drawn to this circumstance during their recent inspection, from observing that the supply of c wo orn ter as regards p u bli c h ea lth an d com f ort, f orms Pa ts rati v!lY no part of the companies' arrange es indeed it cannot while the law remains constituted as at present, profit b e i ng o f course t h e ruling obje c t of several companies. For instance, they have found .most localities (say in Gray's buildings for examitil thei supply of water is laid on in the depth of thepaodeaun fr t o o nt of the house, the ap proach to which through a dark the pr i vy is in the back assavie,Aile ththe wind"-tax) is yard, as far as p possible from filth es, and there is with drains running through the Supply of water, accumulates in no water to cleanse them; the he cesspools and drains, while the water, which might otherwise be turned ordinarytg wa od ste count in cleansing the drains, runs direct ° into the sewer, sewer, an4l no portion of it through the drains " In addition to the defective supply doled out to the parishioners, at an enormous charge, there are forty-nine public street pumps in the p ar i s h , erected by the vestry, maintained at an annual expe nse of VOL Your committee beg to suggest that it would be highly desirable that paroc hial or district b oar d s, elected by the ratepayers, shou ld be_ empowered b y the Legislature e ither to contract for the supply of water, or, if necessary, to supply it themselves to the several districts, the expense to be levied by a general rate. " Under the head of lighting, and in connexion with the extrems importance of the subj ec t, as r gards all att e mpts at sanitary improvement , your com mittee cannot but call on the vestry most strenuousl y to urge o nce more u p on th e considerat io n of the Go vernment and the Legislature the absolute necessity, if there be anything like sincerity on the part of the proposers of sanitary measures, of repealing that most unjust and unequal and obnoxious tax which places a heavy penalty on the formation of all openings for the admission of light and air, the free admission of which is indispensible to the maintenance of health. So long as the window tax continues to render the habitations of all classes, and of the poor especially, gloomy, fetid, and impure, no attempts at a partial remedy of minor evils can be attended with success. The remedy of this crying grievance is so simple, and so completely within the power of the Legislature, that its continuance can only be regarded as a convincing proof of indifference to the most ob vious and practical means of carrying out real mea sures of sanitary reform. " Interment in towns has engaged the serious at tention of your committee, and they have come to the conclusion, notwithstanding all that may be urged in its behalf, in connexion chiefly with the wishes and feelings of surviving relatives, that the health of the living must be considered in conjunction with the in violability and sacred duty of the interment of the dead, and that the present practice is too highly detri mental to the health of the surrounding neighbour hood to be permitted to continue under a prudent system of sanitary regulations. They trust that means may be devised of putting an end to the prac tice, and of gradually closing the present graveyards, without outrage to the feelings of those whose rela tives have been deposited within them ; and of con ducting funerals at a distance from the metropolis, decently and respectably, with little or no addition to the present cost. " There is also another, and in the case of this parish in particular a most important element in the calculation, which it is impossible for those who have taken a part in the administration of the poor-laws to overlook, viz., the immigration of pau pers from Ireland and from the country districts, bringing with them the seeds of disease and death, already sown by the misery and want which drive them, frequently almost in multitudes, to seek refuge in the metropolis, and whose deaths make a grievous addition to the due and proper average, which it cannot be pretended that any sanitary regulations in Marylebone would prevent. "In making these observations your committee have no wish to deny or to abate the value of proper sanitary regulations ; on the contrary, they are most anxious to recommend and to adopt them .in every possible way. They only wish to guard against the error of enthusiasm or of design, which would sup pose it possible that such regulations can obviate the effects of crowded cities, of unhealthy labour, of dis • sipation, and of want, in the propagation of disease and in the hastening of death. "In the meantime they are firmly of opinion that representative and freely-elected bodies, properly con stituted under the sanction of Acts of Parliament, and armed by the Legislature with sufficient power, are capable, not only of carrying out, but of per forming in the most efficient and constitutional man ner everything possible, and which ought to be done, in the way of sanitary regulation, as a means, and a most important one, of improving the condition of the town population ; and it is with the view of contri buting to that very important end that they submit this report to the serious consideration of the vestry of Marylebone. (Signed) " GEORGE DANIELL, Chairman, " And by the whole of the Committee." Mr. G. DANIELL said he was requested as the organ of the committee, to move the adoption of this report forthwith, consequent on the close approach of the meeting of Parliament, by which, in all proba bility, at an early period, the question of sanitary re form would be discussed. He thought the report would clearly prove the fact that so far as the local authorities had control, sanitary improvement had been efficiently carried out, and it also showed that if extended powers were given to representative boards, like that vestry, there would be no complaints of mismanagement in that respect.—(Hear.) regard to the question of sewage a startling fact had come out in the inquiry of the committee, namely, that there were nearly 300 street in Marylebone which had no sewers at all.—(Shame, shame.) This had been the effect of placing the power in the hands of an:irresponsible and self-elected body of commis • sioners, whereas if the matter had been placed in the hands of a representative body elected by the rate payers, there would have been as much improvement with respect to sewage as there had been in paving, lighting, and cleansing. Another most important fact had come out in the inquiry of the committee, namely, they had proved that the statement which emanated from Lord Morpeth, that Marylebone was the most unhealthy parish in the metropolis—that it was worse even than Whitechapel—was erroneous. Mr. HAKES seconded the resolution. Mr. H. C. WiLsom supported the motion for adopt ing the report forthwith. Mr. V. WILLIAMS hardly thought that the vestry should be called upon to adopt so important a report from a mere reading. He thought it desirable that it should be printed. Mr. JosEru also thought this course necessary, and that there would be plenty of time, as it was not at all probable that the sanitary question would be touched by Parliament before the Christmas recess. lie could, as a medical man, bear his testimony to the ' healthy condition of Marylebone, and particularly of the workhouse.—(ffear.) As a proof of this, only that morning an old woman had died in the work house, alter being there upwards of thirty years, at the age of 103.—(Hear ) Several other gentlemen expressed their earnest de• sire that the report be printed, and ultimately Mr. G. DANIELL withdrew his motion for the adop tion of the report, and moved— " That the report be received and printed." This resolution was seconded and carried nem. con. Sir W. STIRLING, in eulogistic terms : proposed— " That the thanks of the vestry be presented to Mr. G. Daniell and the gentlemen of the committee, for the immense service they have rendered to the parish in the performance of their laborious duties, and in furnishing so excellent a report. Mr. NicuoLar seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously ; and Mr. G. DANIELL, on the part of himself and the committee, acknowledged the compliment. The report of the committee, with reference to the question of the suppression of mendicancy in the me- tropolis, was brought up and read, but its considera tion was deferred till Saturday next. The vestry, after some unimportant routine busi ness, separated. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL BRUSSELS, Nov. 10.—The average price of corn during the week enkling Nov. 6 was—Wheat 21f. 45c., Rye 13f. 98c., being a rise on Wheat of 57c., and a fall on Rye of 3c. VIENNA, Nov. 4.—ln the Bourse to-day the al ready depressed railway shares had a still greater downward tendency, and prices were given which we have not known for years. Towards the close they recovered a little, but there was almost imme diately a reaction, and at the close of the Bourse the exchange could be scarcely maintained. Added to the unfavourable accounts from London yesterday, the report was spread to-day, propagated in the first instance by the Ober Post Ampts Zeitung, and which was of course false, that the Queen of Spain had been poisoned. AluriEcu, Nov. 6.—Our corn market to-day was well supplied, viz., 11,291 sheffels. The demand was great, and the sale rapid, so that only 30 sheffels of wheat and 84 sheffels of rye remained unsold. Hops were rather higher than last week. Marelace.—Both our export and import trade is increasing. The imports come from the Maine and go up the Rhine. The consumption of this place and the environs is supplied by our increas ing large Friday's markets. The average price of wheat is 13{1 18kr. ; oats, 4fl. 35kr. About three millions were actually paid here and in Worms on the 28th of October. We do not yet know what sum was paid in at Frankfort, Cologne, and Berlin. At all events, not more than a fourth part of the share holders have declined their payments and have left the company, forfeiting their already paid 20 per cent. It is therefore clear that the opposition will not triumph, and that the railway will he carried. The returned shares will, according to the statutes, be annulled, and will be put up to auction, or sold to new subicribers at 80 per cent. The yintage has commenced under unfavourable auspices. BRUSSELS, Nov. 10.—CIIAMBER OF REPRESENTA TIVES.—M. Zoude, President, in opening the Cham ber, said that he was called to fill that chair by the privilege of seniority. He had the honour to be President of the Chamber by a title which, according to modern ideas, would be repudiated ; for an age some what advanced was a motive hr exclusion from the Legislative Chambers. Such, however, bad not been the idea of the Congress when it decreed the institu tion of the Senate. He, however, congratulated th e youngest among them, that they might one day enjoy the same privilege. The Chamber then pro ceeded to the nomination of the Committee for veri fying the powers. By the terms of the regulation the Committees, which are six in number, are each F.?_ e mposed of seven members, who are chosen by lot. first emunittee has_ to verify the elections of Alert, Aredenatrode, Eceloo, and San Nicolas ; Ath, and Charlearnoydthose of Ghent, Termonde, the second, Soignies, Tt:t_uhoiosnn ;IzTitdohrowe oaytrhe;inirtdti,oetf;hootushreet fourth fifthft those o A st l eh o o n os s ef , Hug, Liege Virviers, Bastog ne and Antwerp; and of Hasselt, r the sixth giereosf Ypres, and Dinant. Tbest?zne, Brussels, Nivelles, morrow at two o'clock. Chambers are to meet to- HAMBURGH, Nov. 9. -- COMMER c lETELLI GENCE.—The tone of th e Bourse to-id" favourable, and money m ore abundant. to-day un w cl t : "r railway shares firm, with littl e business. - " Ira ' BERLIN, Nov. B.—The funds, as well as the mil way shares, maintain their forEuer prices, though there is not much business doing. PRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE COAST OF AFRICA SQUADRON. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 13.—The Waterwitch, 8, Commander T. Francis Birch, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the west coast of Africa sta tion, where she had been engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, chiefly on the Kabenda station. She is last from the island of Ascension, which she left on the Ist ult., at which time the Tortoise store and guard-ship, Captain Hutton, was the only man of-war at the island. The Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., in the Penelope steam-frigate, was at Kabenda, together with the Heroine, 6, Com mander Edmunds. The Actaeon, 26, Captain Mansel, second in com mand, was at St. Paul de Loando at the above date, and had just previously taken a fine prize, with about 300 slaves on board. The Styx steam-sloop, Commander Chads, was off Congo; all well. The Flying Fish, 12, Commander Dyke, had gone to St. Helena. The Hound, 10, Commander Wood, was off Cape Lopez ; all well. The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, was off Mayumba Bay. The Ferret, 8, Commander Spigg, was off Banda Point. The Ranger, 6, Commander Anderson, had relieved the Flying Fish at Benguela. The Grappler iron steam sloop, Lieutenant Corn mender Lysaught; the Bittern, 16, Commander Hope ; the Kingfisher, 12, Commander Horton ; the Devastation steam sloop, Commander R. C. Mitchell ; the Albratoss, 14, Commander Farquhar ; and the Snap sloop victualling tender, were in the Bights ; the latter had been armed with one of the Water witch's guns, and papers by the Commodore, and put upon the establishment of the slave cruizing squadron. The Philomel, 6, Commander W. C. Wood ; the Favourite, 18, Commander Murray; the Rolla, 6, Commander Ellicombe ; the Rapid, 10, Commander Dixon, were at the Gallinas, or on the Sierra Leone station. The Britomart, 10, Commander W. C. Chamber lain, on her passage from England, had not arrived upon the coast when the Waterwitch sailed. The Dart brigantine, Lieutenant Commander E. A. Glyn, had arrived at Ascension prior to the Water witch sailing thence, and had gone to report herself to the Commodore. The squadron generally was exceedingly healthy. The cruizers had been very fortunate in captures in the Bight. The Contest had taken two recently in those waters. Ascension was particularly healthy; water and turtle were plentiful. The Waterwitch has been especially vigilant in the search and capture of slavers, of whom she has taken twelve, and 1,060 slaves on board of them. Lieutenant Payne, late of the Heroine, has come home by Admiralty order, and Lieutenant Carmichael from the Devastation, inva lided. The Waterwitch has been very healthy all the time she has been out, only having lost one man by sickness on board. She has proved hersellf a fast sailer and an excellent sea boat. Mr. White, of Cowes, built her, and she was a member of the first experimental brig squadron of 1844. She has gone to Sheerness to be paid off. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Rigge, sails this day for Lisbon with dispatches and supernumeraries for Sir Charles Napier, &c. Captain Bruce goes out in her to join the Queen, and Com mander Little to join the Caledonia. The Baretto Junior transport, Lieut. W. Thomas, agent, returned from Cowes to Spithead last evening. An accident having occurred on the Dover packet station, by which the Garland steam-vessel, Mr. Luke Smithett, Alaster Commanding, has been disabled, having been run into, the Undine steam yacht, Master Commanding George Allen, was ordered from this port to supply her place pro tem., and sailed yes terday at noon accordingly. The Sinbad lighter sailed yesterday with stores for the eastern yards. The Birkenhead steam transport, Commander A. 11. Ingram, having at last, after seven weeks' labour, been refitted for service, sailed to•day for Plymouth, to be employed in the transport of troops. The Helena, 16, and the Frolic, 16, have been re moved from the basin, and the Prince Regent and the Retribution will be also removed as soon as the tides will admit, in order that the experiment of docking the Terrible may be tried. His Highness Prince Callimaki will accompany his Excellency Suleiman Pacha, Ottoman Ambassador at Paris, in a visit to this dockyard and the Govern ment establishments at this port to-morrow. They are expected here about half-past one, and will be accompanied by the Ottoman Consul-General. The following arc the appointments of the past week : Captain—G. F. Rich, to the Vanguard, vice Wil les, deceased. Commanders--G. Kenyon, to the Cygnet ; Lord A. Bcauclerk, to Stromboli. Lieutenants—The llt.n. A. A. Cochrane, to the Terrible ; C. R. Bamber, to the Victory F. Go (lenge, 11. F. Mills, W. Creek, R. Ward, T. Bridges, anti A. Grose, to the Blenheim ; W. K. Jolliffe, to the Cygnet ; Waiter J. Pollard, to the Penelope ; Thomas Davies and Henry Harvey to the Strom boli ; J. R. Thompson, to study at the steam factory, Woola ich ; Thomas Tribe, to the Coast Guard ; William Bowden, to the Gladiator. Mssters—S. S. Flinn, to the Blenheim ; T. B. %yells ' Acting, to the Cygnet; W. J. Wood, to th e Coast Guard. Pursers—R. 11. Goddard, to the Blenheim ; S. J. Spark, Acting, to the Rapid ; Edwin M. Stone, Act ing, to the Stromboli. Chaplain—G. R. Lewin, to the Blenheim. Surgeon—Hugh Jameson, to the Blenheim. Second Masters—lV. P. Heins, to the Porcupine; H. J. Josephson, to the Birkenhead ; W. Turton, Acting, to th e Maeander; C. J. Pulfer, Acting, to the Prospero; E. Youell, to the Oberon. Clerks—R. Curgenven, in charge, to the Comet; 11. F. Kirkham, A. Arlington, and C. J. Webb, to the Blenheim ; N. Giles, to the San Josef. Assistant Surgeons—W. C. Patrisk and J. C. Ingles ' to the Victory; J. C. M u r ra y an d 11. L oney , to the Bittern ; H. D. Scott, to the Columbine ; 11. Arnot, to the Scout; Arthur Adams, to the Fisgard; J. Henderson to the Ocean ; J. Muirhead, to the Fly ; E. Adams, to Plymouth Hospital ; R. C. Scott, to the San Josef. Midshipmen—W. D. Garland and John Bushell, to the Fly; E. Smithett, to the Grampus; and E. Dali son, to the Stromboli. Naval Cadets Alexander Macdonnell, to the Acheron ; Philip Patrickson, to the Fly ; W. M. Crawford, to the Terrible ; IV. Parry, to the Trafal gar ; Oldmixon, to the Queen ; Charles Hemsted, to the Stromboli ; J. F. Lenon, to the Asia. Masters' Assistants—G. H. Burney and Edward Smythe, to the Blazer ; Charles M. Palmer, to the Mzeander ; T. C. Jones, to the Birkenhead. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 12. Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. Robert F. Boyle, arrived here yesterday from Pertsmouth, and anchored in the Sound. The merchant schooner Flora, of Exeter, Captain soranges a f n o t r . Pli i m er ou m th a je a s n t d y, E s x st e e t:mr,-sloop W. Pearc e , w hi c h came i n yesterday with wine and Commander James M'Cleverty, and a French gun nery frigate, w ere l y i ng i n the Douro. Political animosities at Op or t o h ave ceased, and business has resumed its wonted course. There are about thirty or forty English merchant vessels in the port. Freights 40s. per ton for London. Wine trade brisk, prices range high. Oranges 7s. to 7s. 61. per box. The grain crop in the neighbourhood is indifferent. The barque Lady Peel, of Falmouth, Captain Johns, which left Quebec on the 14th of October, and arrived yesterday, spoke the Lady Milton, of Liver pool, on the 16th of October, off Cape Cattie, bound to Quebec, and on the 6th inst., passed the barque Catnbria, of Gloucester, dismasted, waterlogged, and abandoned. Nov. 13.—Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. R. F. Boyle, which put in yesterday, last from Portsmouth, bound to the coait of Africa with dispatches, has received so much damage that she is obliged to go into harbour to make good defects. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Tartarus arrived from Portsmouth yesterday, on her way to Malta with supernumeraries for the squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir IV. Parker. Her Majesty's ship San Josef, 110, Commander Hall, is to be paid off, and will be re-commissioned by Captain Sir Henry Leeke for the Flag of Admiral Sir John West. There are belonging to the various clubs 621 yachts, measuring 29,250 tons, and manned by 4,430 men besides 800 masters and stewards. USELESSNESS OF HONG-KONG.-ISt. It can never be a colony, by reason of its limited size (eight miles long by two to four in breadth), rocky, barren structure; incepthility of producing any of the necessaries of life for the consumption of even one day. 2d. It cannot ever be a commercial emporium, by reason of its bad geographical position, distance from any populous or productive territory ; by the poverty and piratical character of its inhabitants; and the absence of all im port or export trade of any kind, after six years' occu pation, and an expenditure amounting to several millions sterling.—Montgomery Martin's China. Mr. Charles Grey, of the Treasury, one of the secretaries to Lord John Russell, has gone for the benefit of his health, with his family, to Malta, where he will spend the winter.—Observer. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—NERVOUS DEBILITY, INDIGES TION, AND LORNBOS OF SPIRITS CURED Br HOLLOWArO FlLM—Ex tract of a letter from Mr. Medealf, of Beverley :—" June 17, 1847. To Professor Holloway.—Sir, For six years I have been troubled w termed the and nervousness, cau s in g a com pl a i n t common l y bed fo, weeks together. frequently so severe th a t I d are d not go to in the edi ogether. I obtain e d a d v i ce f rom t h e most proficient in cal profession without any good result, When suffering from it in its worst sta ge nor o i was prevailed upon to give your pills a life, enjoyedsou nd rnhwear? well ; I never slept better in my tn . t, tAdd , by all druggists, I Professor liolleway'a alto and at 4 Strand, London. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Nov. 13. (Before the VIOE-CITANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) GLENNY V. LLOYD. The plaintiff in this cause was, until the end of June last, the proprietor of a monthly publication celled the horticultural Magazine, which he then sold, reserving to himself the copyright of a number of articles which had been written for, and published in, his work. The defendant is the publisher of a cheap weekly paper styled the Gardener, Florist, and Agri culturist's Newspaper, and appears to have printed in it some of the plaintiff's articles. One especially, on the tropeolum, was reproduced almost verbatim by the defendant in his journal of the 6th instant ; the plaintiff thereupon filed his bill for an injunction to restrain this piracy, and a motion was now made for an order to this effect. Mr. BETIIELL, with whom was Mr. SOUTIIGITE detailed the above facts. His HoNouß granted the injunction. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. 13. (Sittings upon Crown crises resumed before Leal Denman, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Al derson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Colt man, Mr. Justice Maule, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Erle, and Mr. Justice Williams.) THE QUEEN V. HORATIO NELSON WEST. According to the statement in this case, the priso ner was tried before Chief Justice Wilde at the Central Criminal Court on Saturday, the 19th June last, and found guilty of uttering ten forged instru ments, purporting to be scrip certificates of the South- Western Railway Company, with intent to defraud divers persons. The indictment contained ten counts, each charging the prisoner with the utterance of 80 forged instruments, the only distinction between the counts being in the description of the instruments, and in the nam e o f th e p erson t o be defrauded. It was proved upon the trial that it was determined by the company in November, 1846, to create a number of new shares, and that a Bill was pending in Parliament relating to such new shares ; that the new shares had been allotted to the old proprietors ; that the course pur sued in relation to the new shares was this — that letters were written to the old proprietors, giving them the option of subscribing for the new shares, and that new shares were accordingly allotted to such proprietor as desiredit, the allot ment being intimated by a letter to the pro prietor, who was required therein to pay a deposit of Si. per share to the banker of the company. The pro prietor took his letter of allotment to the banker, and paid his deposit of 51. a share accordingly, and the banker gave a receipt for the amount paid, and also signed the letter of allotment as a voucher that the deposit had been paid. The proprietor then took the letter of allotment, so signed by the banker, to the office of the company, and there received in exchange an instrument signed by two of the directors in the form of the eighty instruments, which arc the sub ject of this indictment, and which instruments were denominated scrip, and the instruments proved to have been uttered by the prisoner were the same in form and contents as such scrip. It was further proved that the posses sion of the scrip was the only proof required by the company of the title of the holder and of the payment of the deposit. At the close of the case for the pro secution, the prisoner's Counsel objected that the eighty instruments uttered by the prisoner did not come within the description of those mentioned in the statutes of 2 Geo. IV. and 1 Will. IV., c. 66, S. 4, 10, and 26, and that the utterance of them was not an offence within the statute. The question was re served for the opinion of the Judges. Mr. Ballantine now appeared to argue the case on the part of the prisoner, and was followed by Mr. Hill on the part of the Crown. At the conclusion of the argument, Lord DENMAN said the Court would sit next Satur day at three o'clock, to hear Mr. Ballantine's reply. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Mr, Justice CRESSWELL.) LODER AND ANOTHER V. FURDAY. The trial of this action, which was brought to recover damages for the alleged infringement of the copyright of a musical composition called " Pestal," was resumed this morning. Mr. Sergeant BrLES, for the defence, said the de fendant (Mr. Purday) had never before been charged with pirating the copyright of any person, and in the present case he was confident that he should clear his character from any imputation, if the jury would give the statement he should make, and the evidence he should produce, the favourable consideration with which he was satisfied they had heard the case of the plaintiffs. It had already, he presumed, been proved almost beyond dispute that the melody, or air of " Festal," to which the words and the accompaniment were adapted by the plaintiffs, was not a matter of copyright. The statement of the plaintiffs counsel, therefore, that the melody was a mere stray thing about the world when Mr. Bellamy adapted it to a song, was entirely incorrect ; and he should show that for many years it had been known by its present name, and was arranged precisely in the same key and on the same notes. It was alleged, as one reason for accusing the defendant with piracy, that he had made a colourable imitatbn of the title page of the plaintiffs' edition, so that the public might mistake it for the original. That, however, had nothing to do with the present action, which was for the infringement of a copyright; and, if the plaintiffs had been injured, they might make it the subject of a separate action. The plaintiffs were no more entitled to claim the melody than any other publisher, for he should prove that in 1836 and 1837 the very same air, to which was at tached the same name and a similar anecdote, was played by the Artillery band at Woolwich. The master of that band would tell them that the air " Festal" was well known, that it came originally from abroad, and that it was played by the band, and he would produce the book from which the band then played. The anecdote which preceded the music in the hook was in these words :—" This air was com posed by Captain Festal, a rebel, who wrote it with his chains upon the wall of his dungeon the night before he was executed." Now that, he conceived, was an improvement upon the plaintiffs' anecdote He had also another copy of Festal, which was yes terday handed to one of the plaintiffs' witnesses, who stated that it was almost exactly the same ; anu he should prove that it was given by a gentleman of the name of Jeffries to a Mr. Glover in 1842 or 1843, in order that he might compose a song to the melody. The anecdote prefixed to that copy stated that " the air was composed by Colonel Pestal, a rebel, who scratched it with his chains on the dungeon wall the night before he was executed in Russia." He would further show that the air had been in existence nearly twenty years, and that it was contained in the piece called " The Prisoner's Dream." It was then next alleged by the plaintiffs that the words of their song had been slavishly copied by the defendant. He, owe,l- er ,contended only that there was no general runs totally different from beginning to end. The person who wr o t e th e wor d s identity, but that not it. had never seen the words attached to the plaintiffs' copy. The defendant was next charged with copy ing the accompaniment to the song. Now, there was no great merit in writing an accompaniment, for it was as easy to do that as to commit the alleged pi racy itself. The gentleman who wrote it would prove that it was an accompaniment entirely invented by him from a melody laid before him for that purpose. The Learned Sergeant then submitted that there was no greater similarity between the two than would ne cessarily arise from two composers being engaged in preparing an accompaniment from the same melody. Then, with regard to the title of the composition, they would see that it was as old as the melody itself. It was only known by the name of " Festal," when played by the Artillery band at Woolwich, and it was also the name prefixed to the MS. given by Mr. Glover to Mr. Jeffries. The Learned Sergeant then submitted that, upon these facts being proved by the evidence he should give, the defendant would be en titled to the verdict of the jury. The following witnesses were then called : Mr. W. Collins, the Master of the Royal Artillery band at Woolwich, said the book A produced be longed to the regiment. He was well acquainted with the air called " Pestal," and never heard it mentioned under any other name. The band was in the habit of playing it as many as seven or ten years ago. They played an accompaniment with it, and the accompaniment was almost note by note the same as the plaintiffs'. Had compared the plaintiffs' and the defendant's accompaniment together, and they differed very materially from each other. The band had played a Russian melody for twenty years, which was nearly the same as the plaintiffs'. Cross-examined—Never saw the air of " Pestal" adapted to a song until the summer of 1846. Was quite certain the first six bars of the defendant's ac companiment were not the same as Mr. Loder's. Re-examined—Could not say who the author was that wrote the music of " Pestal," as played by the band at Woolwich. His impression was that it had been brought from some part of the continent of Europe by one of the officers of the army. Mr. Thomas Gilbert, who had been twenty-two years in the cavalry band, said he copied the music of " Festal," which was used by the band, about nine years ago, fr o m a MS. provided by the then master of the band. Mr. Coombes, also one of the band, said, about eight or nine years ago he copied, on the front of the music used by the band, the following words, which he obtained from a MS. :—" This air was composed by Colonel Pestal, who scratched it with his chains on his dungeon walls the night before he was executA." Mr. Glover, a composer of music, said, in August, 1843, he received from a young lady a MS. of the NING, NOVEMBER, 15, 1847 . musk of "Pestal," together with the above anecdote, and he requested his friend Mr. Jeffries to write a song to accompany it. Mr. Charles Jeffries said, he received by post the MS. of the music referred to by the preceding wit ness. He published an edition of "Pestal" in January, 1846, and the words somewhat resembled the " Pri soner's Dream." He preceded it by the anecdote which he received from Mr. Glover. The plaintiffs' words as much resembled those of the " Prisoner's Dream" as his own. Mr. Charles Purday, brother of the defendant, gave evidence to the same effect as the previous wit ncsses with respect to the difference between the plaintiffs' and the defendant's compositions. Mr. IVil:iam Grantham, a musical composer, pro duced a MS. of the accompaniments which he had prepared for the defendant's edition of " Festal," and stated that when he wrote it he had not seen the plaintiffs' copy. Mr. E. J. Gill stated that he was the author of the song attached to defendant's edition of" Festal." He had not copied it from Mr. Loder's edition. Mr. Henry Oakey, and other witnesses, were then called, and they agreed in stating that there was no greater similarity between the productions of the two parties than would arise from their taking the same melody as the groundwork of their compositions. This concluded the case for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied at some length. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL having summed up, The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, 40s. damages, and stated that they found the similarity between the two compositions was not accidental but designed, and that the defendant's was a colourable imitation. A verdict was then entered for the plaintiffs, with leave reserved by the Learned Judge for the defend ant to move the full court to enter the verdict for the defendant upon certain points of law that arose in the course of the trial. ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 13. The Learned Judge sat to-day, and disposed o: ordinary business only. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday the Lord Mayor received from Mr. Hodgson, the Superintendent of the City Police, the following letter, which was written by Assistant- Inspector Scott, and transmitted by the Lord Mayor to the Sanitary Commissioners. It is worth atten tion at the present moment : Moor-lane Station, Nov. 8. " Sir,—l respectfully beg to submit the following report for your information, in consequence of ill ness and death in the neighbourhood of Barbican, Bridgewater-square, &c., supposed to be caused by exhalations emanating from a burial ground situated in Golden-lane, part of which is within the City, belonging to a man named Bamford, who has it on a lease. I sent police-constable 125 (Eade), who is on the beat, to the burial ground on Sunday last, when he saw 11 graves open, about 28 feet deep ; one of them contained nine coffins on each other. The graves are merely covered over with planks, until they are quite full, leaving them about a yard from the surface when the ground is covered in. They are frequently left open, as described, for a week or ten days; the ground is therefore seldom free from an effluvium of decomposed matter. On my rounds at night I have witnessed the obnoxious smell arising from the rear of the graveyard in Sun court, which is almost suffocating. I am also informed by; police-constable 125 (Eade) that a shopkeeper, nam e d Bouverie, 10, Golden-lane, op posite the burial grouni, states, that during the last three or four years he has kept the house 32 persons have died there • and at certain times he has absolutely been compelled to fumigate his shop, the smell from the graveyard and sewers being so offensive. A publican, named Duffy, in Golden lane, is very seldom without a medical man in his house, attending his family. A person, named Par rock, 12, Brackley-street, is compelled to leave his busivess (although a good one) through illness. The courts leading from Golden court, Crown court, Collins'-court, Sun-court, llotwater-court, Turk's; Head-court, and Willis's-court, are thronged by very poor persons, and are much affected by the stench. The houses in those courts are small and thickly inhabited, nine or ten persons living in a room, which causes the fever to rage rapidly. A metropolitan police-constable in formed police-constable 123 (Eade) that six persons are now lying dead and a great number lying very ill in the localisy of Golden-lane, between the burial ground alluded to and another burial ground called St. Thomas's, those grounds being only 300 yards apart in Golden-lane. I further beg to call your at tention to the undermentioned names, persons who have died within the last three weeks in the imme diate neighbourhood of Golden-lane ; also to the names of persons (as far as it is practicable for the police-constable on the beat to obtain) who at the present time are labouring under illness—it iksre- surned fever. [Here follows the list of twelve persons who have died and of twenty-five sick persons, and their addresses, which can be authenticated by the constables on the beat, 125 Eadc, 163 Goodear, and 119 Speck.] " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " CHARLES SCOTT, Assistant-Inspector. " I have endeavoured to gather the above parti culars as quietly as possible, and have no doubt that much more important information could be obtained if a public inquiry were made, arid that it would be found that this report very much underrates the magnitude of the evil." BOW-STREET. On Saturday a young man, named Charles Dibdin, described as a law writer, was placed at the bar, on a charge of being concerned in a burglary on the premises of Messrs. Bullock, auctioneers, of 211, High Holborn, and stealing plate, value 501. Mr. Edward Bullock stated that he was roused at five o'clock yesterday morning by the police, who said his premises had been broken open during the night. On going over the house, he discovered that an entry had been obtained by means of a skylight at the back of the auction-room. The thieves cut out a pane of glass from the office window, broke open a chest, and took away the plate in question, which belonged to his brother. Ile also found some plated articles had been left by the thieves, who had, how ever, torn off the silver rims from several of them. They must have obtained access to the roof of the auction-room from a new building adjoining. Weston, 189 F, proved that about two o'clock in the morning he met the prisoner walking alone from the direction of Holborn. The prisoner observing that he was noticed by him, put on an air of noncha lance and commenced whistling. This induced him to suspect the prisoner was after no good, and he fol lowed him to 24, Parker-street, Drury-lane, where he entered and shut the door. He then returned to hii beat in Holborn, and there found the prosecutor's door open ; and he and his sergeant having satisfied themselves that a robbery had been committed, they went to Parker-street, and took the prisonerinto cus tody. On searching under the mattress in his room they found a bunch of skeleton keys, chisels, and . other house-breaking implements , and his pocket was a key, which he stated opened his door, but the landlady declared it belonged to no door in her house. The prisoner declared that he knew nothing of the robbery, and that he got the keys from a y oung man in 1 at a public-house Compton -street. He was remanded for a week, in order that further inquiries might be made, as the plate had not been discovered. Mr. William Disney Oliver a barrister, in Plow den-buildings, Temple, was charged with driving a street cab without a license. It appeared from the evidence of Thomas Holland, driver of a Ransom's cab, that at one o'clock that morning, Mr. Oliver, who was inebriated, was passing along Picket-street, Strand, and getti ng i n t o hi s ca b, too k h old of the reins, and drove off. A ca b man ran up an d stopped him until Holland arrived, who asked whether he wanted a cab, upon which the prisoner applied abusive epithets to both of them, and was about to run off when he was given into custody. The prisoner denied having taken too ranch drink, and said that being in a hurry to get to the West end he jumped into the cab, supposing that the driver would come directly he saw the horse moving off. Mr. HENRY said it was wrong of the complainant to leave his cab unattended, but there was nothing in his license to allow another person to drive in his absence. He must, therefore, inflict a fine of 405., or three weeks' imprisonment. The fine was paid. Thomas Stiff, a letter-carrier in the Hammers mith district, was charged with st e aling a letter contain ing half-a-sovereign, the property of the Postmaster- General. Mr. Peacock appeared for the prosecution. The case was precisely similar in its main facts to most of the Post-office robberies which have lately occurred, and the prisoner, at the request of the soli citor to the Post-office, was remanded till Wednesday next. TVORSHIP-STREET. On Saturday Anne Williams, a middle-aged woman of repulsive appearance, was charged with stealing four sovereigns, two half•sovereigns, and a pocket book from the person of a portly respectable-looking man named Phillips, who described himself as a dealer in plate in John-street, Whitechapel. The prosecutor stated, that while on his way home, through Commercial-street, Spitalfields, between six and seven o'clock on the preceding evening, he was accosted by the prisoner, with whom he entered into conversation, and who ultimately induced him to accompany her to her lodgings in an adjoining street. He was shown into a very wretched apartment, and while considering whether he would stop there or not the prisoner contrived to adroitly thrust her hand into one of the pockets of his trousers, and take out his money, amounting to the sum abovemontioned. He instantly seized her by the hand, in which he distinctly heard the gingling of gold, and attempted to force the money from her, but she rapidly trans ferred it to her mouth, and although he firmly grasped her by the throat, in which he could plainly feel one of the sovereigns, and use his best efforts to compel her to disgorge it, she struggled herself away from him, and succeeded in swallowing the whole of the money. Witness upon this ran to the street-door and called for a policeman, into whose custody he gave her, and she was conveyed to the station-house, where, while preferring the charge, he discovered that he had lost his pocket-book also, containing a pair of gold earrings and some valuable old coins, which was safe in his breast pocket when he first met the prisoner ; but although she had been closely searched by the woman appointed for that purpose, none of the pro perty had been found. When called upon for her defence, the prisoner denied having swallowed the sovereigns, or even seen the pocket-book, and declared that the only portion of the prosecutor's money that she had had was one shilling, which he had himself voluntarily given her; but this was, of course, refuted by the prosecutor, and the Magistrate therefore ordered her to be brought up again next week, and directed that in the mean time the peculiar facts of the case should be communicated to the prison authorities. Witham Vereday, a tradesman in the Cambridge road, near the Eastern Counties Railway, was charged by his wife with violently assaulting her. The wife, a respectable-looking woman, but who bore the marks of recent ill-usage on her face, -stated that the defendant, Is ho for a long time past had been almost incessantly intoxicated, got up early in the morning and demanded money for gin ; she evaded the request, and tried to persuade him not to have it, upon which he swore at and abused her, and flung a crockery dish at her head. The missile fortunately missed her and was smashed to pieces against the wall, and while she was making her way to the door to escape he seized a loaf and levelled that at her head also, but that likewise missed her, smashed through a pane of glass, and fell into the street. He continued "raving about" for an hour, and she at last gave him money for gin, which he drank and went to bed, but came down in a few minutes, and insisted upon more gin ; she refused him, upon which he beat her shamefully with his fists, and sending out for the spirits, obtained it upon (credit, and drank it. He continued this course all through the day, alter nately drinking, swearing, and ill-using her, until 11 or 12 o'clock at night, when he made another de mand of money for a fresh supply of gin, and on her declining to furnish him with it threatended to pitch her down the stairs and break her neck. She at last consented to give him a sixpence, which he spent in as much gin as he could get for it; but when this had been drunk he renewed his violence towards her in such a fearful manner that she felt her life was not safe in his hands, and she was ultimately compelled to seek the protection of the police. She did not so much want him punished, notwithstanding his treat ment of her, as to have him bound over to insure her own safety. The prisoner, who scarcely seemed sober even while before the magistrate, gave a general denial to all that his wife had stated, but the charge was too clearly established to admit of a doubt, and he was ordered to find two sureties in 201. each to keep the peace towards his wife for one month, or be com mitted in default; and in addition to enter into his own recognizasces in 401. to be of good behaviour fur the next three months ; and, not being able to find it, was removed in the van. LAMBETH. On Saturday Robert Yates, master shoemaker, was charged by Mr. Peacock, boot manufacturer, Walworth-road, with inciting the errand boy, in the service of the complainant, to rob him of boots and shoes. ➢lr. Peacock said, that having found he was robbed, he discovered that his errand boy conveyed a quantity of property, consisting of leather boots and shoes to the prisoner's shop, and on being questioned the lad confessed that the prisoner gave him Is. a pair for men's shoes, and 6d. for women's shoes. The prisoner admitted having purchased some o: the property. lle Was remanded. WANDS WORTH. On Saturday Anne Johnson was charged by the Rev. Edward Whitley, incumbent of Somers-town Chapel, near Wandsworth, with endeavouring to ob tain charitable contributions by fraud. The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner represented to him her distress, with the letter produced. In order to judge of her want, he went with her towards Dunse-hill, where she stated she lived, but after a long ramble the prisoner admitted that all she had said was false. After some resistance he obtained the letter from her. It bore the signatures of Mr. Thomas Cuhitt, Miss Champion, and Mr. Sanderson, all of which were forgeries. The magistrate committed the prisoner for a month to gaol. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND _ SUICIDE AT READING. In addition to the intelligence respecting this dreadful occurrence which appeared in our Saturday's impression, we take the following particulars from the Observer :—" The name of the wretched author of the tragedy is James Hersey. He has for some years past been in the employ of Mr. Rimell, vete rinary surgeon and shoeing smith, of Friar -street, Reading, and until lately resided with his wife and four children (all boys) in a court running out of London-street. About six weeks since he removed with his family to a house in East-street, the scene of the horrible occurrence. From the testimony of parties well acquainted with the deceased, it appears that for some time past he has entertained a suspicion of his wife's fidelity ; indeed, he has publicly charged her with having had illicit intercourse with an old gentleman on whom she was in the habit of attending as charwoman. His accusations were always empha tically denied by his wife, and it is ascertained that there never was the slightest ground of suspicion against I - yr. However, quarrels have frequently arisen between them, and it is only a few weeks since that the de ceased man was brought before the magistrates, and held to hail to keep the peace towards his wife. During the past fortnight the wretched man has almost en tirely neglected his work, stating as an excuse that be was unwell. On Wednesday the keeper of a beershop next door to his own house, having heard that he was poorly, inquired how be was, upon which he replied, There's nothing the matter with me, Mrs. Nutt ; but I have seen things that are wrong, and I have stayed at home to find them out: Mrs. Nutt told him that he. must be wrong in his head to imagine such a thing, on which the wretched man observed, I'm right enough in my head; there's nothing the matter with me.' Yesterday he visited this same house two or three times, and at one o'clock took home a pint o f b eer f or h i s own and his wife ' s dinner. About fo ur o ' c l oc k t h e wretched man and his wife were heard q uarre lli ng b y t h e ne i g hb ours ; and during the altercation deceased sent out his son Charles, who had just come home from school, to fetch his brother, then playing in the street. The poor little fellow had just descended the flight of steps in front of the house, when he heard a great noise be hind him, and looking back he saw his mother rush out of the front door, followed by his father, who at the same instant felled her to the earth with a poker which he held in his hand. The poor woman fell senseless outside, the wretched man retiring within the house, and closing the door after him. The poor boy ran immediately for assistance, and finding a police constable returned with him to the house. The woman was found lying on the door-step in a pool of blood, which was found flowing copiously from wounds in her head. A surgeon was immediately sent for, and she was removed to the hospital in an insensible state. The constable, on ascertaining that the wretched man had retired into the house, raised the door-latch, and proceeded into the passage, at the further ex tremity of which he was horror-stricken at beholding the assassin lying on his face and almost deluged in blood. After groaning heavily twice, he expired in the officer's presence. A medical examination dis covered that he had inflicted a frightful gash across his throat, extending from ear to ear. Mr. Houlton, the superintendent of the ho rough police, having by this time arrived, a care ful examination of the premises was made under his superintendence. The first thing discovered was a poker ; this was lying just within the passage of the house, and from its bent appearance gave dreadful evidence of the violent manlier in which it had been used. In one of the back rooms there was discovered lying on the floor, the deceased's neckerchief, and on a table in the same apartment an empty razor-case. Mr. Houlton then endeavoured to trace, by the marks of blood, the manner in which deceased had effected his object. The appearances were such as to leave little doubt that the wretched man, after having knocked down his wife, closed the door, and supplying himself with a razor went into a shed or out-house in the back yard, and there inflicted the first gash. From this place he appears to have walked half-way across th e yar d , w h ere, from the large quantity of blood which has escaped, he is supposed to have made the final gash. The wretched man then threw down the razor on the pavement, and attempted to return into the house, but in so doing he seems to have stumbled against the door-sill and fallen head lontg• into the passsage, the position in which he was found. The wretched woman, though still alive, has continued in an insensible state since the dreadful occurrence, and on inquiry last evening, it was stated that she was in a very precarious state ; indeed, from the dreadful nat u re o f th e wounds she has sustained, her recovery seems altogether improbable. The poor creature is nearly ten years older than her husband, has a hare lip, and is altogether destitute of any per sonal attractions ; therefore the fatal suspicions which her husband seems to have entertained are the more remarkable. Mr. Blandley, the borough coroner, has appointed the inquest on the deceased for Monday next, and it is said that EOM letters have been dis covered in the house which will throw a light on the case when it comes before this functionary. The de• ceased had four children, the eldest of in hom is 16 years of age." STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, Nov. 12.—We have still to report a continued depression in this branch of trade, the little business that is done being chiefly in colonial wools from the last London sales, and at the reduced rates. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET.—LEEDS, Nov. 12. — The transactions in wool this week have been very small; but there has been rather more inquiry, as the spinners and manufacturers hold very light stocks of wool, and will shortly be compelled to make further purchases, even for their present reduced consumption. LEEDS.—The markets at our cloth halls were ex ceedingly dull both on Saturday and Tuesday ; the latter was about the worst market of the year. 'There were scarcely any goods sold f o r s hipping purposes, and, from the continued mildness of the weather , there was a great falli ng o ff in the demand for heavy winter goods for the home t ra d e . I n this state Of the demand the manufactur e r s are s till f u rther nar rowing the production, although the stocks are lower than usual ; prices in consequence are pretty well maintained. The mildness of the weather induces the drapers to hold off purchasing winter goods, and in consequenc e th e r e h as b een a f a lli ng o ff i n business in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, TB URSD AY, —We regret we cannot hear of any increased business doing in wool ; everything is as dull as it possibly can he, and scarcely a sale making either in Colonial or English. Of the latter the supply is not materially augmented, as the staplers are indisposed to purchase, and the country dealers who supply the commission houses abstain from sending, in the hope of a better demand. Prices are barely maintained for English, but Colo nial has had to share with the recent fall at the public sales in London. Yarns—The trade does not sbew the slightest indication of improvement. It continues to be on the most limited scale we have ever known, and every week adds to the gloom, as the time of working decreases with the shortness of the days, as but very few are lighting up. The embarrassmen t the trade is now labouring under is excessive, es it affects every class, and the--only means of bringing about a decided improvement is the extensive cur tailment now adopted, which must, ere long, tell on wool, as the diminished consumption must increase the supply over previous year s of activity, without which the hope of relief is ex tremely distant, as other substitutes are found ill woollens made from the low-priced colonial wools , and the reduced price of cotton is now telling more favourably in Lancashire, by the resumption of seine very extensive concerns, which had been closed during the continuance of the high price which cotton some, time back commanded. Pi eces —W e d o no t hear of any material alteration in the manufacturers' position, who, for a long time, have had yarns at a very le w , price. The disposition to m a k e t o s t oc k i s a lmost out of fashion, for looms arc stopped and gas abandoned as orders fall off. We rather expect some improve ment, as the business done during the autumn b ss been a short one, owing to the increased rate of 111- terest acting as a:barrier to the shippers' operations. The business done to-day is chiefly in plain red s ' Orleans, Paramattas, &c., at late prices. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY E TENING.—It if quite r out of the question to r e p o rt correc tly th e state 01 our goods and yarn market. If sales have been made to any extent, they have been made under 50u '; peculiar circumstanc es as t o f orm no correc t index of the general state of things; as large quantities are for cash, or bankers' bills drawn, so that very I ° W rates indeed have been taken, especially for yarns. The general opinion seems to be that twist maY„ l3e ,. sold for cash, thou g h no t a t a p a yi ng fi g ure. 11 1 market closes untowardly f o r b o th s pinners an d manufacturers. LEICESTER.—The demand both for the London And country trade has been more limited, and hosiers are still further curtailing their making. Spinners are working short time, and much machinery lies idle. Wools remain flat, and but little doing. Confidence in trade seems quite suspended, and there is DO anxiety to push business until it is restored.—Leices te ,. Journal. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LI VERPOOL, NOVEMBER 13. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction (late C. and B.), 14% —Grea. l Northern, 6 dis.—Great Western, 14 p.—Huddersfield C ana .ind Railway, O v i dis. c. x. int.—Ditto, Thirds, 1% dis. int.—Lancashire and Y or kshi re (late M. and L.), Fifths' dis.—Ditt o , Halves (late Huddersfield and Sheffield), le% (lis.—London and North-Western, 153% c.—Ditto, NeW, Quarters, , p.—Midland Stock, 108% c.-- D i t to, 40t. Shares, 41%—Ditto, Halves, 2 dis.—North British , Thirds, 1 4. dis.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, Pr efereace, guaranteed 8 per cent, 1% p.—Shropshire Union Rai lwa y and Canal, 48s. 9d. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, N eW, /. 1. No. 1, 6',, dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 215. 3d. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2, 1 ' A p.—Ditto G. N. E. Porch , % p.—York and North Midland, 14:I.—Dutch Rhenish, 4% MANCHESTER, Nov. 13. STOCK ExcilANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca . and Cheshire Junction, 6% dis.—Huddesfield 5.4 Manchester Railway and Canal Thirds, 17.16 dis.—Lanca shire and Yorkshire, Quarters, 3 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 7% "' A Ditto (West Riding Union), 2% c. dis.—Manchester s°' Birmingham, Quarters (C), 3 15-16 c. Shares, 59—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Fr i e l; te.rence, c. p. —Huddersfield and Manchester (22 1 . P aiu 2 -I 5-16—North Staff o rd s hi re , 7-16 di s .—S o uth-Eastern Dover, No. 4,2% dis.—York, Newcast'e, and Berwick, .bz• tensions, No. '2, Ip. • LEEDS, NOVEMBER 13. gra" STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a stead)? and e dually increasing tone of firmness in the Stock and Shar Markets during this week, an d quo t a ti ons of moat shares sales where calls are not announc e d, e n d ra th er higher. Th e s are—East Lancashire, New, 5 1 / 4 n. dis.—Ditto, QuarteSs!„),7, n. dis. —Great Northern, 6 n. dis.—Lancashire 5" and TI4 ,ii ire (West Riding U n i on ), 53 5 . 6d. di s .—L ee ds and F_, 16 c. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 2c. 3 d, —North British, Thirds, ss. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, ly s ' A u n. dis.—North Staff o rdshi re , s s . dis.—North-Weste rn, n. dis.—Shropshire Union, 21. 10s. 9d. dis. HULL, Novxsaums 13. _ Ari z the STOCK EXCHANGE -Alth oug h th e t ransac tions for week have been exceedingly limited, yet a better fileunbie. investment, and even for sp ecu l a ti on , h as been ohee rv- nn ee 'Mat parties, should be, ho wever , unw illi ng t o submit e t .' 0 to improved rates, or encum b er themselves with liabilitteeths respects calls, after the experience of the last few of is not surprising. Much is hoped for from the lue e '„"r s oy Parliament. It would b e we ll no t t o b e too sanguine "lions relief the Legislature can afford. The nominal q uota , sih are- Great Northern, 21.-H u ll and S e lby, Halves , :/ -North British, 26 -York and Newcastle, Preference, o ii f e , -Leicester and Bedford, 4s. 9d. di s .-North Staffordsh lOs. dis.-West Riding Union, 555. dis. EDINBURGH, Nov. 12. 26 1 . STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are--Aberdecn , ,,, -Airdrie and Batligate, 31. 7s. 6d.-Arbroath and r° 6d. Ll.-llitto, Halves, 131.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. 2s• . -Caledonian, 35/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 1/. 45.-Caledon!!Z and Dumbartonshire, 11. lOs. Clydesdale Junction , -Deeside, 3/. Bs.-Dunblane, Donne, and Callender , It ! , -Dundee and Arbroath, 341.-Ditto, New, No. 1, -‘„°..,.. Ditto, New, No. 2, 341.-Ditto, New, No. 3,3/. rm.- I Ju n i . dee and Northern Junction, 11. 10s.-Dundee and Pert h, lOs.-Ditto, New. 131. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters, 21. ss. 6d. -East of Fife, 21. 155.-East Lothian Central, IL-Ed' burgh and Batligate, 51. -Edinburgh and Glasgow, 9ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 12 /. s s. ex div. - Ditto , New Ha lves, 6/. 155.-Edinburgh, Leith , and Granton , 151 . - Ditto , Prefe rence, 151.-Ditto, New, 24i152.-Ditto, Quarters, 3e. reg" -Edinburgh and Northern, 171. ss. ex int.-Ditto, Ne w ' V. 17s. reg.-Ditto, Newport, 5/. 103. ex int. ditto, New, IL Bs. reg.-Edinburgh and Perth (1' 1 ; 5 Co.), 12s. 6d. -Ditto, Halves, 55.-Glasgow and Ayreuj 6 : 991.-Ditto, New Stock, 391. 55.-Ditto, Halves, No. 55.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 74 2s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dun', and Carlisle, 71.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 38/. 15 `"o t how General Terminus, 10/. lOs Glasgow and C 11e " 6/ 103.-Ditto, Halves, 81.-Ditto, Preference, 71 .1,• 19 1; -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 3/. N.-Great Dinrth., .1 Scotland, 17s. 6d.- Great Northern (late Direct lie t b ern), 4/. 9s. 6d.-Ditto (late London and York), 21.-Nort British, 251. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 114 10s. ex int.--P it 3 S. Quarters, 41. 3s. ex int.-Ditto New Quarters, S s *.bs, scrip -Ditto, ',Thirds, 1/. 14s. ' 6d. reg.-Ditto, 1 „ . 7, 0( 1 5/. 58.-Scottish Central, 23/. ex bonus-Scottish ur:, Junction, 63.-Scottish Midland, 151. lOs. es ifir ry Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s.-Shrewsbury, ° llres iing and Chester, 18/.-St' I' •• -Dittn , 181.-Stirling in 6 and Dunfermline, • "J e w and Midland, ' 61.-Wishaw and Coltness, 44/. castle, and Berwick, 32/. 10a.-Ditt o , Extensions, • 174ch s od 12/. 155.-Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 101. 10s.--Direct BoinheY, h of Madras, Is. 9d.-East Indian, 11. Os. 3d.-Great N° rjel- India, Is. 3d.-Great Southern of Madras, 13.-Pllsdr es ' lore, and Arcot, ls. 6d. GLASGOW, Nov. 13. vet, STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Caledonia n, -moos 235. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 100-1;00, 401. Shares, 39 3 / 4 —Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 7 1 / 2 —Great No,/ s od BSs. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 345. 6d.—Stirlings h ' r Midland Junction, 63%. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst,, at Lower Clapton, Midd AlbertOn y the 9th inst. a at , Mold, North Wales, the lady ofFr47,oii° R. M. Dawson, Esq., Captain an d Adj u tant of th e I ' Flintshire Rifle Regiment, of a son. v'• • On the 10th inst., at the Rectory, the wife of the — e Bowlby, Rector of Thurrock, Essex, of a son. : fib tr On the 11th inst., the wife of Mr. Knowles, 1 1 . g—ti park, of a son. if e o On the 11th inst., at the Rectory, Long Dittos, th e ir the Rev. Jervis T. Giffard, of a daughter. Wif e On the 11th inst., at Oak Hill Lodge, Woodford, the of Mellor Hetherington, jun., Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at the Old Church, Bright° ll ' hie r of Whichelo, Esq., of London, to Marianne, fourth datig the late U. L. Whichelo, Esq., of Brighton. the On the 10th inst., at Hove Church, near Brighton, Rev. Thomas Hubbard, Rector of Stondon, Essex , t o Emily Fanny, daughter of Sir Woodbine Parish, On the 27th ult., at Teignm DIED. onth, William Chambers, ES(I4 Commander, Royal Nav, ad 45. EastclO It t nh il de e i e9s9ithh inst., i as a til William o pec o S t l t o a a g n e e , , Es q. , late Car tain IL Elliott, late Hon. E. I. C.'s Service, W°rm a le ge . d ll73e c r * a tB 7 ' gs e te : On the 10th inst., at Euxted Lodge, near llckfieldt , Benjamin Ilall, Esq., aged 66. pea On the 11th inst., at York-place, Brighton, Sarah Fra the wife of Mr. Holswortb. On the Bth hist , Sarah, the daughter of Mr. W..- Regent-strcet. ___—...------!. a t London : Printed and Published by MURDO YO— 1111, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The. 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