The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

birb 12XYttion SUN OFFICE, Seven .'Clock. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.) The following appointments were made this afternoon at the Admiralty : Vice-Admiral E. Collier to the good-service pension, rendered ♦acant by the death of Admiral Owen. Captains—The Hon. G. F. Hastings to the Blenheim, vice Pelham ; F. Scott to the Meander, vice Hastings. Lieutenants—W. H. Beake to the Cambrian ; A. H. G•lmore to the Renown ; E. B. H. Franklin to the Ca noes; S. F. Douglas to the Renown. Master—Valentine G. Roberts to the Renown. -- Clerks—C. W. Roache, to the Magicienne ; H. H. Grant, to the Victory ; Bertram Mitford, to the Cambrian. COMMISSION OF LIEUTENANCY FOR THE CITY OF LONDON. ((From the London Gazette of this evening.) WHITEHALL, Nov. 4, 1857. The Queen has been pleased to issue a new Commission fLieutenancy for the City of London, constituting and appointing the several persons under mentioned to be Her Majesty's Commissioners for that purpose, viz.:— Thomas Quested Fionis, Esquire, Lord Mayor of oar City of London, and the Lord Mayor of our said city for the time being ; and our trusty and well beloved Sir Peter Laurie, Knight, Charles Fare brother, William Taylor Copeland, and Samuel Wilson, Esquires, Sir Chapman Marshall, Knight, John Humphery, Esq., Sir G. Carroll, Knight, Sir James Duke, Baronet, Thomas Farncomb, Esquire, Sir John Musgrove, Baronet, Thomas Challis, and Thomas Sidney, Esquires, Sir Francis Graham Moon, Baronet, and David Salo mous, Esquire, Alderman of our said city of London ; our trusty and well beloved Russell Gurney, Esquire, Re corder of our city of London, and the Recorder of our said city for the time being ; our trusty and well beloved Sir Robert Walter Carden, Knight, David Williams Wire, John Carter, and William Cnbitt, Esquires, Sir Henry Muggeridge, Knight, Richard Hartley Kennedy, William Anderson Rose, William Lawrence, Warren Storages Hale, Thomas Gabriel, and Benjamin Samuel Phillips, Esquires, Aldermen of Our city of London, and the Alder men for the time being of Our said city; Sir John Key, Bart., Chamberlain of Our city of London, and the Cham berlain of Our said city for the time being; Henry A. Merewether, Esq., Doctor of Civil Lawand Serjeant-at-Law, Town Clerk of Our city of London, and the Town Clerk of our said city for the time being ; Thomas Chambers, Esquire, Common Sergeant of our city of London, and the Common Sergeant of our said city for the time being; John Lorking, Thomas Corney, Richard Hicks, Walter Anderson Peacock, William Stevens, Thomas Pewtress, John Britten, Daniel Cork, Edward Harrison, Robert Obbard, Samuel Unwin, Thomas Lott, Henry Kebbel, Edward Godson, Thomas Jefferson Holt, William Archer, Eagenins Fanning, Benjamin Bower, William Christie, Robert Butler Whiteside, Win. Hawtrey, Thomas Dakin, James Davies, Herbert Lloyd, John Johnson, George Vir tue, James Michael Barnard, William Rathbone, George Aitcheson, Edward Concler, Esquires, Deputies of our city of London, and the Deputies of our said city for the time being ; John Southby Bridge, Thomas Watkins, Edward Eagleton, Jeremiah Evans, John Briggs, George Meadway, Wm. Tylor, Francis Bennoch, Sheffield Neave, Bonamy Dobree, Thos. Baring, Henry Wollaston Blake, Tra vers Buxton, Edw a rd H. Ch apman, R o bt . Wi gram C raw ford, William Cotton, Benjamin Buck Greene, Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Henry Rucks Gibbs, Thomson Hankey, John Oliver Hanson, John Benjamin Heath, Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Henry Lancelot Holland, John Gellibrand Hub bard, Thomas Newman Hunt, Alfred Latham, George Lyall, Thomas Masterman, Alexander Matheson, James Morris, George Warde Norman, Thomas C. Smith, Thos. Matthias Weguelin, H. Hulse Berens, A. E. Campbell, James Pattisson Currie, Charles Frederick Huth, James Malcolmson, and Thomas Tooke, Esquires, Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esquire, Sir Frederick Currie, Baronet, Charles Mills, Russell Ellice, William Butterworth Bayley, John Shepherd, and Martin Tucker Smith, Esquires, Sir Henry Willock, Knight, Sir James Weir Hogg, Barenet, William Henry Sykes, Elliot Macnaughten, Wm. Joseph Ea,twick, John Harvey Astell, Henry Thoby Prinsep, and J. Pollard Willoughby, Esqe., Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Kt., Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Our right trusty and well beloved Councellor Sir L.Peel, Knight, ou t trusty and well beloved Sir Jas. Lsw Lushington, Knight, Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath, Te m . Wigram, Esq., Sirßobt. Campbell, Bart, John Loch. John Masterman, ;Henry Shank, John Shepherd, John f ceotten, William Henry Chichely Plowden, John Clarmoeit White man, Henry Alexander, William Dent, fr il d Dudley Coutts liajoribanks, Esquires, Charles Franks, and Philip Pleydell Bouverie, Esquires, Sir Richard P . ,aientree Glyn, isronet, Charles John Manning, Will eani Phillimore, Newman Smith, John Thornton, Georg e Whitmore, Charles John B a k er , J ames Wleatnian BOR 313 quet, Frederick Charles Ganssen, Henry Lannoy Hunter, Brice Pearse, George Smith Thorntou, John Ilted Nichol', Ebenezer Fuller Maitlane., Themes Henry Allen Poynder, Henry Vigne, and tiP illiam Pole, Esquires, Baron de Teissier, James Tulloc' e , Henry Jeffreys, Bashby, and John Neville Warren, Esquires, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, Baron Nathan de Rothschild, Sir Moses Mon telore, Bart , John Garnect, Abraham Wildey Roberts, George Carr Glyn, George, Rickards, Jonathan Muckles ton Key, Abraham John . Valpy, and Robert Seeley, Esqs., Sir William Henry Poland. Knight, Thomas Alers Han key, Henry Butterworth. Edward Tyrrell, William Croft, John Alexander ilankey, James An lerton, Daniel Britten, George Dodd, William Hughes Hughes, Francis Bligh IT.ookey, William Hughes Hughes, jun , George Meek, Ambrose Moore, Joseph Oldham, jun., Josiah Wilson-, Alfred Wilson, Cornelius Lea Wilson, Peter Northrll Laurie, Edward Wilson, Richard Lea Wil son, Robert Ellis, Wm. Peters, Jas. Walkiushaw, Joseph &mem, Seanuel Gregson, George Magnay, Jobn Master man, inetior, Daniel Mildred, Frederick Mildred, Richard Lambast Jones, and Charles Pearson, Esquires, Sir James Cosmo Melvin, Knight C mmancler of the Most Honourablo O r d er of the Bath, James Bentley, William Gladstone, John Halbert Helbsrf, John Pem berton Heywood, John Pierce Kennard, Robert William Kennard, Joseph Maynard, William Roper Maynard, Arthur Walford, John Walter, Charles Fenton Whiting, Chas. Hill, Ffeathfield Smith, Chas. Alliston, Geo. Allis ton, Philip Champion Toker, David Henry Stone, Wm. Denison Starting, John Kinnersley Hooper, John Hum phery, jun., William Fowler Monntford Copeland, Joseph Anderson, junior, John Wood, Samuel Christy, Bonamy bobree, junior, John Hill, William Jones Lloyd, Donald Nicoll, John Thomas Norris, Philip Joseph Salomons, John Henry Smith, Thomas Matthewman Challis, William Henry Challis, Alfred Wilberferce Challis, John Ridley Hunter, Robert Bousfield, Edward Jones Williams, Edward Hunter, Edward Masterman, Geo -ge Moore. John Francis Moon, John Garford, Richard Nathaniel Philipps, George Woodhouse Currie, Alex. Henry, Lewis Loyd, Charles Magniac, James Nugent Daniell, Duncan Dunbar, William Schaw Lindsey, George Moffatt, Thomas Parker, John Philip Fincher, John Bones, Samuel Fisher, Thomas Kerr Lynch, Charles Skipper, George Grenfel Glyn, Henry Lowman Taylor, and Charles Wentworth Dilke, Esquires. LONDON GAZETTE —(This Evening.) WHITEHALL, Nov. 26. The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain an Jr - land unto Major-General Archdale Wilson, of Delhi, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bengal Artillery, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. The Queen has also bee❑ pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignit; of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irellnd, unto Major-General Henry Havelock, of Lock now, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. WHITEHALL, Nov. 26. The Queen bas been pleased to ordain and declare that Isabella Neill, the Widow of the late Coloael James George Neill, of the Madras Fusiliers, shall have, hal, and enjoy the same style, title, place, and precedence to which she would have been en titled bad her husband, who fell in the gallant discharge of his duty in India, survived, and been invested with the Insignia of a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, for which honour he would have been recommended to her Majesty, as notified in the London Gaza., of the 17th instant, had he survived. And also to command that the said royal order and de claration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms. [ln substitution of Notice in Gazette of Tuesday last.] BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, Nov. 23. - The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right lion. Edward Granville, Earl of St. Germans, G.C.8., to be Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, iu room of the Right Hon. Frederick, Earl Spencer, K.G., resigned. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 27. 2d Regiment of Life - Guards—Lieutenant -Colon e l William Henry Clinton Baddeley, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Williams, who exchanges ; Major awl Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Mountjoy Martyn to be Lientenant-Colonel, Gy purchase, vice Baddeley, who retires ; Brevet-Major George Howard Vyse to be Major and Lieut.-Colonel, vice Martyn ; Lieutenant Augustus Savill Lumley to be Captain, ;by purchase, vice Vyse; Cornet and Sub- Lieutenant John Henuiker Lovett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lumley. sth Dragoon Guards—Joseph Heremon Persse Fitz- Patrick, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice White, promoted. 7th Draggon Guards—Edward Henry O'Dowd; Gent., -Ad troll e be Cornet, without purch ase . a croons--Cornet Hugh Edmond Browning to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 6thbe Dragoons—Willi am Jocelyn Sbafto Orde, Gent., to Cornet, w ithout purchase. 12th Light Lieutenant witlour —Cornet Erasmus Gower to be the 7th Light DragoLarrf h"ei vice Stinted, promoted in Dragoons—CornetHenry 13th Light Lieutenant, without pureloase,ll" J. Toulmin to bo vjee Kanntze, appointed to the 7th Dragoon Guards ergeant-Majr,r Thomas Geo. Johnson to be Cornet without purchase, vice Savage, promoted. 16th Light Dragoons—Cornet Frock. st oe (H ey to be Lieu tenant, without purchase. 17th Light Dragoons—Edwin Andrew Corbel, Gent., t o b e Cornet, without purchase. Royal Regiment of Artillery-Second Captain Alfred Wilke Drayson to be Captain ; Second Capt a i n c ad _ wallader Elgee to be Captain; Lieutenant William Lambert Yonge to be Second Captain ; Li eu _ tenant Chas Booth Brackenbnry to bo Second C.etain ; Lieutenant Edward Markham to be Second Captain, vice Drayson; Lieutenant Henry Richard Porter to be Second Captain, vice Eiger.. 6th Regiment of Foot—Captain E. G. Waldy, from half pay 28th Foot, to be Captain, vice Herbert, whose ap pointment from half-pay of the 97th Foot, as stated in the Gazette of the 23d October, cancelled. 1857, has been 7th Foot — Paymaster Godfrey Goodman Mosley from the 20th Foot to bo Paymaster. Bth Foot Lieutenant George Corry to be Captain, with out purchme, vi ce G ould, deceased. 4th Foot—James Townsend Edwards, Gent., to be 1 Ensign, by purchase, vice Bright, promoted; Quarter master John O'Connor, to be Paymaster. 15th Foot—Lieutenant Philip A. A. Twynam to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice R. R. Moore, who retires ; En sign George Joseph Maunsell to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Twynam. 24th Foot—Ensign Robert Paterson Fox, from the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnstone, whose promotion, by purchase, on Ang. 25, has been cancelled. 25th Foot—Lieutenant Alex. Strange to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain Walker, who has resigned that appointment; George Terry Carwithen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hill, promoted. 33d Foot—Captain John James Greenwood, from half pay of the 33d Foot, to be Captain, vice Fitz Gerald, promoted ; Captain Anthony Morgan, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Lacy, seconded, being a District Inspector of Musketry ; Lieutenant J. S. Rogers to be Captain, by purchase, vice Morgan, who retires; Ensign G. R. Morgan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rogers ; James Philips, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice G. R. Morgan. 60th Foot—Ensign George Hatchell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Conyers, deceased ; Ensign Henry Brodrick, from the 88th Foot, to be Ensign, vice E. L. Phillipps, died of his wounds. 68th Foot—Captain C. B. Wilkinson, from the Military Train, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Colonel J. E. Lewis, promoted to the Substantive Rank of Major, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1854. 73d Foot Captain John Dixon, from half-pay unat tached, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Bewes, seconded, being a District Inspector of Musketry ; Lieu tenant Spencer F. F. Henslowe to be Captain, by pur chase, vice John Dixon, who retires ; Ensign Hugh Fraser to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henslowe. 80th Foot—Captain Evan Macpherson, from half-pay of the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice G. D. Pitt, seconded, being Captain Instructor of Musketry at Hythe ; Lieutenant J. L, W. Nunn, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Macpherson, who retires ; Ensign W. G. Trevor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nunn; Edward Vaughan Rumsey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Trevor. 88th Foot—Henry Brodrick, Gent., to be Ensign, by par chase, vice Glamor' who retires. 91st Foot—Ensign Walter 0. Wade to be Adjutant, vice Bruce, who resigns the Adjutancy only; Ensign and Adjutant W. 0. Wade, to have the rank of Lieut. ; En sign James Blagg, to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Crampton, promoted in the 2d Foot ; Ensign A. F. Per kins to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Dewell, promoted ; Ensign E. V. Ramsey, from the 80th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Blagg. 96th Foot—Captain Henry Alexander, from half-pay Royal Staff Corps, to be Captain, vice Snow seconded, being a District Inspector of Musketry ; Lieutenant G. B. Cumberland to be Captain, by purchase, vice Alex ander, who retires; Ensign G. K. Hallett to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Cumberland; Charles Edward Wright, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hallett, Rifle Brigade--Lieutenant Henry Blund e ll Hollinshead Blundell to be Adjutant, vice Brett; Ensign Hugh Lawton, to be Lieutenant, without purchase; Ensign and Adjutant Emannel Jeames to have the rank of Lien- tenant ; Ensign W. C. Purdon to be Lieutenant; by purchaie, vice Fremantle, promoted ; Charles Walker Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lawton ; Archdale Robert Palmer, Gant., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pardon. UNATTACHED. The undermentioned officers to have their Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank under the Royal War. rant of 6th Oct., 1854 : Dec. 3, at ten, and Jan. 14, at one, at the Exeter Dis trict Court. Thomas John Green, provision merchant, Mark-lane, Deo. 8, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. - George Smith Jewell, builder, Willow-walk, Bermond sey, Dec. 8, at three, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John William Billson, bookseller, Leicester, Dec. 8 and Jan 12, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. William Henry Duncan Aldridge, tailor and draper, Great Bridge, Stafford, Dec. 10, and Jan. 8, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. , Simon Lucus, the younger, grocer, Digbetb, Birming. ham, Dec. 10 and Jan. 8., at half-past eleven, at the Bir• mingham District Court. William Thompson, miller, Lichfield, Dec. 7, and Jan. 4th, at half-pasten ten, at the Birmingham District Coutt. Johan Heinrich Theodor Stockmarr and Christian Gottlieb Steudel (and not Stendel as before advertised). merchants, Dec. 4, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 7, at at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Bean, hosier, Cheapside, London, Dec. 2 and Jan. 5, at 12 o'clock, at the Court of Bankruptcy. James Warrener, dealer in fancy goods, Burlington Ar cade, Dec. 10 and Jan. 12, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. _ _ tkl;vard H. Hahn and Herman Freystadt, cap manufac turers, Stamford-street, Dec. 8, at half-past two, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Oourt of Bankruptcy. Henry Benjamin Mosely , dentist, Great Vine street, Regent-street, Dec. 8, at twelve, and Jan. 5, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. BANK OF J An Account, pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Wednesday, 19517 S DIP. Notes issued N.B. Of which two millions are issued un der the authority of the letter from the First Lord of the Trea sury and the Chancel lor of the Exchequer. 423,259,145 Dated the 26th day of NoTemb; ENGLAND. 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the 25th day of November, 1857. 'iItTNENT. GoTernment debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities .... 5,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 6,784,145 Slyer bu11i0n........ 1 £23,259,145 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. ler, 107. BANKING D Proprietors' Capital 14,553,000 Rest Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioaers of Nations' Debt, Say ing.' Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 5,788,998 Other deposits ...... 14,9 M ,516 Seven Day and other Bills .. : ... ........ 815,833 Government securities (includg.DeadWeight Annuity) .. • • 5,07,447 Other Securities 31,3.50,717 Notes ....... • .... Gold and Silver Coin 479,527 £39,556,53 £39,556,531 MILESTIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 26th day of Noy., 1857. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Nov. 24, 1837, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. d. From the British Possessions in America 36 01 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-THIS DIY. •• 12 3 Gibraltar •• •• •• •• •• Ditto, three months .. 12 3 Leghorn .•• •• 30 75 itotterdana ............ 12 3 ;Genoa . 26 40 Antwerp •• •• .• •• •• •• •• 35 90 'Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• - Brussels •• •• •• •• op* •• •• 25 S 5 Venice •••• •• •••• •• -- aamburgh ............ 13 14 1 ( Naples •• .• 413( Altona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • Palermo •• •• Par ••• • • • •••••• •• 25 55 ,Messina •• • ... 124% Do. three months •• 26 * Lisbon .. 51ar:01es •• 1,1 •••• •• •• 26 10 ,Oporto •• Bourdeaux ..•• ;Rio Janeiro..... .•• ...• - Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 122 Buenos Ayres •• •• •• .• - Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ' New York,6o days' sight VlO/11111 •• •• •• •••• • • •• •• 11 12 Trieste •••••e•• •• •• a • ••• 11 20 •./1,19,4 Philadelphia •• ...... PILICE9 OF BULLION, FEB OZ: Petersburg ............ 33 Foreign Gold to Bars £3 17 9 Siadrid 47% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Cadiz ............... 48 IA ;Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 Barcelona ............ Seville.. New Dollars .....• 0 0 0 Silver iu bare ...... 0 0 0 NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The following changes have been made in the disposition of the various dep its of the Indian re giments at Chatham garrison :—The 19th depot, under the command of Captain L. D. H. Curri-, from the huts-at Prince Henry's Bastion to St. Mary's Barracks ; the companies of the 64th Re giment, under the command of Brevet Major W. J. Chads, from Brompton Barracks to the huts ; the 90th Light Infantry depot, from Chatham Bar racks to Brompton Barracks, in order to enable the authorities to provide barrack accommodation for the numerous recruits who are daily joining the various Indian battalions at Chatham. The Calypso, 16, was commissioned at Chatham yesterday by Captain F. B. Moutresor (1851.) An evening class has been established at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, for the instruction of the non-commissioned officers of the Royal En gineers in military drawing and fortification. The c!ass, which is under the superintendence of Ser geant-Major J. Jones, R.E., numbers about 50 members. The Persian, 12-gun sloop, Commander John H. Chad 9 is ready at Sheerness for her compasses to b e adjusted. _ _ The Heron, 12-gun sloop, from Chatham, com pleted the adjustment of her compaeget yesterday. She is to be inspected to-day—her crow will be paid their adyanee on the following day ; and her pre aunt orders are to leave SheerLe 53 on Monday next for Portamou'll. SUDDEN DEATH OF ADMIRAL BATEMAN. We regret to announce the death of Admiral iateman, which took place on Monday morning, at his residence at Corston, near Bath. The de ceased, we understand, was in his usual health on Sunday, and went twice to church that day. When he retired to rest in the evening, be made no com plaint of being indisposed, but at half-past eight on the following morning he was found, by his daughter, Miss Bateman, lying dead in bed. From the appearance of the deceased, there was no doubt that he died from an attack of apoplexy. On Tues day an inquest was held on the body by Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner, and a verdict of "Died from natural causes" returned by the jury. Admiral Bateman was born in 1776. He entered the navy iu 1790 ; was in 1792 midshipman of the Penelope, 32, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, in which vessel, when in company with the Iphigenia, 32, he took part, Nov. 25, 1793, off St. Domingo, in a warm action of half an hour, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the Penelope of one man killed and seven wounded, of the French 36- gun frigate, L'lnconetante, Removing next to the Boyne, 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, Mr. Bateman, in 1794, witnessed the reduction of the French West Indi a Islands, and was slightly w unded while employed on shore at the attack ou Point--Pitre, Guadeloupe. He was promoted to a lieutenancy, Oc - . 31, 1795, in the Scipio, 64, Capt. Robert M`Douall, Francis Leforey, and Chas. Syd ney Davers, while under whom he participated in the reduction of the Dutch settiement of Demerara, and on that occasi.ln, as at the subsequent reduc tion of a Spani-h squadron near Trinidad, was again wounded. Was second lieutenant of the Monarch, 74, at Copenhagen, when his captain, Robert Jas. Mosse, was killed. Ho obtained hie commander's rank April, 1802 ; served two years and a hall in command of sloop, and was posted Sept. 25, 1806. Hie subsequent appointments were, Sept. 25, 1809, to the Scipion, 74, bearing the flag in the Bay of Biscay of the Hon. Robert Stopford ; is the course of 1812, to the Revenge, 74, flag -ship of the Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge ; and Stately, 64, off Cadiz, where, on becoming senior officer, be effected the. dismantlement of th e E ng li s h d ockyard ; and April' 12, 1813, to the Impetueux, 74, which ship he brought home and paid off in the following June. His advancement to flag rank took place Nov. 23, 1841, but not having served the whole of the pre scribed time as a captain, ho was placed on the re served half-pay list. A meeting of creditors of Messrs. J. and A. Dennistoun and Co., of Glasgow, with branch houses at London t Liverpool, New York, and New Orleans, whose suspension was announced on the 7th inst., was held yesterday, when a statement of affairs was submitted by Mr. Coleman, the ac countant. I,lr. Murray, their London solicitor, made the ';ollowing ploposition on the part of Messrs. Jpennistoun—namely, that the creditors of the ',souses in Great Britain and the United Stated to be paid in instalments—viz., 3s. in the po - and on or before the 30th of Janu.ry, 1858, ?Is. on the 31st of July, 3s. on the 31st of De comber, 4s. on the 30th of June, 1859, 4s. on the 31st Dec., and 45. on the 30th June, 1860, with 5 per cent. interest on each instalment ; and that the creditors through the Australian house should re ceive 6s. Bd. in the pound on the 30th Jan., 1858, 3s. 4d. on the 30th June, ss. on the 31st Jan., 1859, and ss. on the 3 1 st July, also with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. After a short discussion the proposition was passed unanimously. A meeting was held yesterday morning of the creditors of MesPirs. Edwards and Matthie, who failed on the 17'.;ii inst., with large engagements in the colonial produce trade trade, but there rppoaas to be a desire to conceal the facts of the case, and no particulars have been obtained. It is said, how ever, that a resolution was adopted to wind np under inspretion. At the time of suspension the liabilities of the firm were rumoured to amount to 300,000,. or 400,000 i., and they were alleged to have obtaiued large advances on warrant. Thcze were no further failures in London yester day, and efforts are still being made to resuscitate o ne or two of the houses connected with the trade of the north of Europe which have lately sus pended. '1 he advines from Hamburg mention the follow ing failures :—Mr. TB. Roosen, jun., Messrs. Mul ler and Kessler, My. J. Muller, Mr. Gob. Ruben, and _Messrs. E. Thii 1 and Co. Some measures just adopted. however, 'by the leading mercantile houses hid greatly assi.at t el in restoring confidence. VIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA Y EVENING, NONE 1113 ER 27, 1857 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTHERN. The following further report of the directors will be presented to the half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the proprietors, to be held by adjourn ment at the London Tavern, on let Dec. next : "In the report issued on the 21st August last the directors duly published a scheme showing the profits of the company since the preceding half-yearly meeting, at which a dividend was declared,' (as the Companies Clauses Act requires), after retaining the whole earnings of the last half of the year 1856; 243,9231. 53. Bd. This sum has been appropriated by the Act of Parl►ament of this year, to repurchase the amount of the stocks frau dulently created and issuediby Redpath and to repay all expenses incurred by the company by reason of his frauds and forgeries. Particulars of the expenditure of the 243,9231. ss. Bcl., and of any amount that may be recovered from Redpath's estate, will be published after the completion of the purchase of the fraudulent stocks. It is expected that this account will be ready by the next half-yearly general meeting. "The amount of such profits now to be divided is 183,276/. 15s. Under the recent decree of the Court of Chancery it is only competent for the meeting to declare a dividend on the footing of paying thereout to the pre ference stockholders a full year's dividend, which will be 168,125/. 65., leaving 15,1511. 9s. to be divided among the holders of original stock, including the A. and B stocks. This will yield a dividend of 6s, per cent. on the original stook, and therefore of 12s. per cent, on the B stock, and none on the A stock, leaving a small balance to be carried t) the next account. "The great majority of the proprietors will, no doubt, be much disappointed at this result of the legislation and litigation of this year. The directors can only say they have done their best to carry into effect the resolutions of the meetings of March and July last. It is not their fault that the bill was drawn so as not properly to express the declared intention of the company, and of the coin• mittees of both Houses of Parliament, who unanimously adopted it in the belief that they were thereby making all classes of shareholders contribute to the loss caused by Redpath'a forgeries ; an intention which the Lord Chancellor said in his judgment might reasonably have been entertained by Parliament, 'as the whole act was a compromise' between the different classes of share holders, who were all reduced to an equal difficulty ; only it had not been clearly expressed. "Nor was it the direr ore' fault that after this defect bad been discovered and amended in the House of Lords, the House of Commons was induced to disregard the opinion of their own committee, who had heard the case fully argued, and to defeat the compromise unanimously adopted by the committee of each house, by retaining this technical defect in the "The decision will no doubt seriously affect the re lative poition of the different classes of shareholders is many companies, by giving a new and unexpected value to what have been hitherto called preference shares, and effacing the recognised distinction between these and guaranteed shares. Fortunately, however, this part of the decision is not likely to have any practical effect on the proprietors in the Great Northern Railway Company, since but for some such extraordinary calamity as that which produced all this confusion, there would probably never have been occa• sion to consider whether the preference stocks are en titled to arrears of dividend or not. it has been already stated that the plan of registration and signing of dividend warrants of the company was origi ginally founded on that pursued by the London and North-Western ; and in consequence of the discovery made at the expense of the unfortunate proprietors of this company, all the others have already made alts• rations in their systems, more or less radical and more or less complete. It is probably impossible to invent any system of checks which can be relied upon as a complete protection, where the fraud of one party is helped by the collusion of some and the negli• gence of otherr. It is only after long experience and the discovery of most unexpected modes of fraud that the Bank of England ar,d the Exchequer-bill Office have arrived at their present system, which, after all, can only be pronounced perfect until some new Fletcher, Redpath, or Smith demonstrates its imperfection. But the directors hope that the plan which will be hencefor ward pursued in this company will, at least, de all that can be done to anticipate any conceivable fraud being carried on without being speedily found out." " After all, the original shareholders must remember that the result of these proceedings, however unfairly brought about, is only equivalent to that which was contemplated by the bill first introduced by the directors and stopped by Lord Redeedale, which would ultimately have thrown the whole loss on the ordinary stock, by capitalising it at their expense. The directors sincerely regret the distress which has been occasioned to many of the proprietors by the refusal of one House of Parlia ment (or the person who exercises its authority) to allow that loss to be made easy by capitalising it, and of the ether to sanction the compromise by which the payment of the whole out of one half-year's income was agreed to on the condition of all parties contributing to it. " The directors venture also to remind the proprietors that no good can now be done by further complaints. " At the last two or three meetings of this company, language has been used from which a stranger would-up pose that the shareholders had been brought to the verge of ruin and deprived of all hope of a fair diric'eud ter year' to come. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN- "It is true, that, as usually happens, the greatest noise has been made by those who suffered leas. " Bat the pr.( frreace shareholders who denounced the directors for delayicg their dividends of 2/. 103., 21,, and 11. 4i., until the most important railway question that has ever been tried could be fully beard and decided, have evidently been encouraged in this course by finding themselves in a majority of voices, though always in a minority of vote , , even without the proxies; still a ma jority can in the first instance carry anything and resist anything, as there are no means of counting the votes without the tedious process of a poll on every question, " If the peaceful and rational majority of the proprie tors think the character of the company worth preserving and that the time is corn. to make an end of the business which has caused so much ill-feeling, it is neither pru dent for theinselve.4, nor fair to those who have had to fight their battle for them, to leave their opponents in even apparent command of the meeting. " It is impossible to foresee what course may be taken at the apprJacibirag meeting by these who have created the disturbance at the last two. " But the time is conaing when no company will get persons of character to serve them as directors if they are to be insulted by their eonetituents whenever they meet them publicly, and not even allowed to make the speeches necessary to conduct the business without in terruptions. If the proprietors think their business wou'd be better done by such persons as those who usually distinguish themselves by imputing the worst possible motives to the present directors in all their acts, it is emy for them to say so, and as soon as that opinion is deliberately expressed it shall be immediately acted on, " But they must make their choice, and the proceed ings of the ensuing meeting will probably be taken to indicate that ch,ice in one way or the other. " The proprietors are reminded that among the busi ness adjourned, is Mr. Greening's vote of censure on the directors, which is necessarily connected with the consideration of the report of Me?ers. Giesler, Malins, and Waters, th re e members of th e l ate comm i ttee of inquiry on the same subject, to which the directors now therefore publish their answer and send it herewith.' The Great Northern boardhave issued what they term " The Answer of the Great Northern Railway Board to the report of the Committee of Inquiry." The only really important portion of " The An swer" is the following, in which it will be seen that the directors persevere in their determination to throw the blamo of th e Re dpath forgeries on Mr. Olark, the late share registrar of the company. " The committee are per f ectly aware (though they do 120,5371 ., wh i le Redpat h was t n h o a t t s t t a h t e e f i e t , r g b e o r t i eleave reachit t e b de only a clerk under Mr. W. pick e d out o f documents) Clark, the then H. registrar, and that the largest amount of forgeries in any half-year was committed in the one just before Mr. Clark's . resignation. Yet, so far was that gentleman from even then discovering that he had this enormous and constantly-increasirg amount of forged stock in his books, that (es he ackno sledged to the committee) he was only ' informed a few weeks before he left that there were some comparatively trilling discrepancies So trifling, indeed, did they appear to bim, that be again cer:ified the rester to bee erect, for the 13th time eioce the forgeries began, and left a letter behind him staing that. everything in his office would be fretted correct. "It miebt have occurred to them (the committee) to inquire how far the reei4ration system of this company had been copied from others of greater capital and expo rience, and ales how far the non-discovery of the frauds was due to any system estadlirhed or sanctioned by the directors, and how far to the mode of working it. They have indeed reported emphatically enough, that the secretary signed the dividend warrants without examina tion, and veiliout even rioting the amount ; no that if he had been required to state on the following day what sums he bad drawn from the banker, there was no re cord to give the information.' But they never ae'eed a single question rtee to the directere'knowledge or sanction of tbat practice ; and have so stated the matter es to lead any one to infer that the directors had invented or sanctioned a system by which any amount of false or excessive dividend-warrants might be sent to the secre tary for signature, without the possibility of his disco vering the 5ZC13.15. t , With equal disregard both of the facts and the law, they try to connect the forgeries with the use of the secretary's stamped signatur e , not on the dividend warrants, but on th e s t oc k an d transfer certificates ; whereas there is not the smallest proof that the over issues would have been more difficult if the signature had been printed beforehadd, se the committee know that it is in other companies. Their statement that the secretary's signature was requisite to make the transfers valid in this company is in direct contradiction or con tempt of Sir Fitzroy Kelly's opinion, and Mr. Rochfort Clarke's, and of Mr, Justice Willes's declaration on Redpath's trial, of which opinions Mr. Giesler and his co-reporters cannot pretend to be ignorant, as they have all been published in the company's reports. "It is remarkabl e th a t w ith a ll their desire to throw the blame of this c a l am it y upon the directors, the com mittee have not vent ure d t o spec ify a single thing which the directors ou g ht t o h ave d one to prevent it. If their general insinuations have any defini . e meaning, it can only be that the directors ought to go through the work of .every department over again themselves, in order to be sure that the auditors, the accountants, the secretary, the registrar, and their respective clerks, and indeed every officer and servant of the company have all kept their proper ch ec k s upon ce de other. If the com mittee meant anything of this kind, they had better have said so distinctly, or a t any rate h a ve said what they do mean. Fur even as regar d s th e future, the share holders are requested to observe that if their Pro tection a g ainst similar frauds is to d e p en d upon any improvemen t in the system, or any new mode of control, recommended by this committee, ther e i s no reaso n why the frau ds should not begin again ne x t y ear ; for they have d one absolutel y nothing towards su gges ti ng an y s pecific improve ment or alteration whatever ; th ey h av e added noth in g to the information possess e d b y th e public long b efore their report came out ; th ey have elucidated nothin g . except their own incapacity f or d ea ling with the s et j ect the y professed to investigate. " But although the committee who were specially appointed for thispurpose have failed to point any speofic defect, or to make a n y spec ifi c s uggestion, and have left the matter exactly as they round it, th e directors have done otherwise. They h ave t een favo ure d with informa tion from nine of th e p r i nc i pa l r ailway comp anies Re to them,the systems previou s ly i n use w ith the, and the la 30( c 1 , a cations made by the m s i nce th e discovery of Redpath s fraud. It appears th a t th ere i s no t one in wie s c h freud of the same kind might not have been committed and gone on fur a considerable time with being discovered. Indeed, directly afterwards traced to the shop of Allen, in Bath-street, Ne vvgate-street. The jury found them both guilty, and Coward having been before convicted, was sentenced to 18, and Allen to 12 months' imprisonment. TO BB MAJORS. Captain and Brevet:Lieal:6T J. E. Lewis, 63th Foot. Captain and Brevet-Major Thomas do Conroy Hamilton, 68th Foot. HOSPITAL STAFF. TO BB ASSISTANT-SITRGIONS TO THZ FORCES. William Pirrie, M.D., vice Oliver, appointed to the 60th Foot. Seth Sam, Gent., vice Chapman, appointed to the 37th Foot. Walter John, Gent., vice Mould, appointed to the 83d Foot. James Jameson, M.D,, vice Craice, appointed to the 86th Foot. John Warren, Gent., vice Brown, appointed to the 86Eh Foot. William T^..nner, Gent., vice Farmer, appointed to the 29th Foot. Henry G.)le Peppin, Gent., vice Milne, appointed to the Royal Artillery. George Bouchier, Gent., vice Whitla, appointed to the 99th Foot. Cl'Arlei B. Mathew, Gent., vice M`Letchie, appointed to 'the 26th Foot. James Doran, M.D., vice Heard, appointed to the 67th Foot. William Jackson, Gent., vice Wood, appointed to the Royal Artillery. Byng Thomas Giraud, M.D., ♦ice Bell, appointed to the Royal Artillery. William James Cumming, M.D., vice Skinner, appointed to the 92d Foot. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel] Sir Robert Garrett, K.C.8., half-pay 46th Foot, to have the Local Rank of Major-General in the East Indies. Brae/et-Lieutenant-Colonel Neville Bowles Chamberlain, C. 8., of the I6th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the army. Major James Alexander West, retired full pay 84th Foot, to be Lient.-Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only. Captain John Dixon, of the 73d Foot, to be Major in the Army. Captain Henry Alexander, of the 96th Foot, to be Major in the Army. Captain Evan Macpherson, of the 80th Foot, to be Major in the Army. Brevet-Major John Dixon, of the 73d Foot, to be Lieut.- Colonel in the Army. Brevet-Major Henry Alexander. of the 96th Fnnt, to ho Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Lieutensnt-Colonel Thomas Hall, who retired from the Grenadier Guards by the sale of his Commission, on the 13th March, 1857, to be Colonel in the Army, 11th No►., 1851, instead of 20th June, 1854, as previously stated. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 27. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Edward Collier, C. 8., has been appointed to receive a pension of one hundred and fifty pounds a year, as prescribed by her Majesty' s O r d er in Council of 25th June, 185 f, vacant by the death of Vice-Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen, and the name of Vice-Admiral Edward Collier, C.B , has been removed to the Reserved Half-Pay List accordingly; and in conse quence of this removal, the following promotions, to date from the 4th instant, have this day taken place ; Rear-Admiral of the Red William James Mingaye, to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White James Scott, C. 13., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Francis Greville, C.B„ to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Russell Eliott to be a Rear-Admiral on the Re served List. Captain John Elphinstone Erskine to bea Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Retired Captain Alfred Luckraft to be an additional Retired Rear-Admiral without increase of pay. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 27. The following promotions, dated the 1 th instant s con sequent on the death of Rear-Admiral of the White Charles Graham, C.B , on the 18th instant, have this day taken place Rear-Admiral of tho Blue The Right Hon. Lord George Paulett, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain James Hope, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of th e Blue. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery—John Blain, Gent., to be Quartermaster. sth We®t York Regiment of Militia—John Crokor, Gent., to be Quartermaster. 03:41IISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. County of Cardigan— Lewis Pugh, Esq., to Le Deputy Lieutenant; Thos. Hughes, Esq., to be Deputy Lieuten ant ; Thos. Jones, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Thos. Lewis Lloyd, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. County of Oxford—Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia— Edward Ramsay, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Aston, pro moted. lst Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia-- George WilWain Moore, Gent., to be Ensign. Royal Aberdeenshire Regiment of Militia—Alexander Farquhar, Esq., to be Captain, vice Lord Henry Gor.lon, resigned ; Robert H. Playfair, Gent., to be Ensign ; Ro bertson Gilchrist Marshall, Gent., to be Ensign ; Daniel MlLeod Fullarton, Gent., to be Ensign. Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Ca valry—Lieut. W. E. Royds to be Captain, vice Crook, de ceased; Cornet the Hon. A. E. H. G. Egerton, commonly called Lord Viscount de Wilton, to be Lieutenant, vice Egerton, promoted ; Charles Patrick, Esq., to be Lieut., vice Royds, promoted ; James Dearden, jun., Gent., to be Cornet ; John N. Fazakorley, Gent., to be Cornet, Leicestershire Militia—Frederick James Louis Wyatt, Gent., late of the King's Own Light Infantry Militia, to be Lieutenant; Godfrey P. Hallifax, Gent., late of the Royal Dragoons, to be Lieutenant ; John Alexander Win. Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign; Thomas Alexand er L e i g h Knipe, Gent., to be Ensign ; David Dowie, Gent., to be Ensign. Tower Hamlets—King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Cadwallader Edwards, late Captain, County Dublin Militia, to be Captain, vice Gibbon, resigned ; Armar Lowry, late Captain Armagh's Militia, vice Hunaby, resigned, to be Captain ; Leonard Strong, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Sutherland, resigned; Morgan Calhane, Esq., M.D., to be Surgeon, vice fl acon , res i gned. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia.— Frederic White Christian, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Jones, resigned ; Frederick Pratt Worthy, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Smith, promoted ; Charles Warwick Barnpfylde Wells, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ve vers , promoted ; Horace Arthur Wells, Gent., t o be Ensign, vice Newton, promoted. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia--Roderick M`Donald Campbell to be Ensign, vice Hawkes, resigned. Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—Ed ward Maximilian Bethune, Gent., to be Second Lieute nant, vice Henry Lloyd Nicholson, promoted; Clifford Fortescue Borrer, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice George Elliott Clarke, promoted. _ Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia. —Lieutenant Geurge Meek to be Captain, vice' Henry, re signed. Royal Berks Militia.—Algernon Lewis Medley, Gent., to ba Ensign, vice Smith, promoted. gtirliogshire and Highland Borderers Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—John Thomson, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Gibson, resigned. (This appointment is substituted for tat which appeared in the Gazette of the 20th October last.) Royal Berks Militia—Frederick Everett, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Voulcs, promoted. (This appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Clazette of the 20th init.) King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia— William Lewis Kulbach, Gent., to bo Ensign. BANKRUPTS. surrenderJoseh Hayward, innkeep er , A n l over, S outhampton, to the , D.:O. 4, at h a lf- past one, and Jan. 12, at onQ, John at Court of B an k ruptcy. Moss, grocer, Stafford, Dec. 7 and Jan. 11, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Courk Joseph Teoward, ship broker, Liverpool, Dec. 11 and Jan. 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Ricl ard Hobby and Edmund Walter Briggs, lace mani facLurers, Nottingham, Dec. 8, and Jan. 12, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, llottinghana. jam eleven, a Minchhin, ri milliner, N t ew Cpor, Dec. 8 and, Jan. 5, a t Wn2. ithtonlopoiztodleDalieartriincartoifiucltita.l manures, Plymouth, t\ COLNSHIRE. The receipts and working expenses since the close of the last half-year's working contrast unfavour ably with those for the corresponding period of 1856. The entire working charges for the fortnight ending NOT. 15 (exclusive of the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrinch4m line) show an excess of 1,1891. The total expenditure of the past 6 mouths' working has been 102,7691. ; presenting an in crease, over the corresponding period of 1856, of 12,9541. The receipts on the company's canals for the month of October exhibit a falling-off of about 4001., and upon the three months a decrease of nearly 5001. ; and the expenditure for the same period presents an increase of 2,3001. With respect to the receipts of the South Junction line, there is an increase of 4,8471., while the increase of expen diture has been 1,0021. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Nov. 26. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Baron Watson.) James Bagley, 23, and John Embleton, 43, were charged with forging a Post-office order for 21. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prose cution ; Mr. Rfbton defended Bagley ; Embleton was undefended. Mr. Ribton made a very ingenious address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner Bagley, and he urged that there was nothing to show that the story he told was not the truth, and that some person who had either found or stolen the letter contain ing the money-order bad employed him to get it cashed. He at the dame time observed that a postman was a very likely person who would be employed for such a purpose. The other prisoner said that he had merely pre sented the order at the Post-office, and that he was not aware of there being anything wrong in the transaction. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners, and Bagley was sentenced to four years' penal servitude, and Embloton to be impri soned and kept to hard labour for 18 months. Mark Nicholas Powles, 20, was charged with felony, under a statute passed in the reign of his late Majesty William IV., in having unlawfully entered into a recognizance of bail in the name of another party, without the authority of that party. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for fifteen months. John Grace Leveridge, 26, was charged with stealing an order for 311. 2s. 2d., the property of William Oldham. Mr. Ribton conducted the prosecution; the pri soner was defended by Mr. Sleigh. This case occupied the Court for a considerable time, owing to the line of defence that was adopted, but the facts were in a very small compass. The prosecutor is a wine merchant, carrying on busi ness in London-street, Fenchurch-street, and the p.mner had been in his service for nine years, and was +employed in a very confidential manner. Ac cording to the evidence of the prosecutor, about the 4th of November he gave the prisoner a cheque for 311. 2s. 2d. to pay the duty on a butt of wine that he had sold to the Earl of Leicester, and about the same time he alsogave the prisoner a blank cheque, which he was to have filled up for the sum of 31. for a week's petty cash, but it appeared, that instead of doing so, be inserted the sum of 961. 2s. 2d. on the cheque, and obtained that amount from the bankers ; and he also cashed the cheque for 311. 2s. 2d., and afterwards obtained gold for the notes at the Bank of England, and it did not appear to be denied that the prisoner had appropriated the residue of this money to his own us.. The jury retired, and after being absent about half-an-hour gave a verdict of not guilty. There was another charge against the prisoner of forging the cheque for 961. 2s. 2d., which Mr. Rib ton intimated his intention to proceed with. NEW COURT. [Before the Recorder.] John White, gunalcer, was indicted for stealing 51. the moneys of Thomas Frost. ifr. Platt prosecuted, and Mr. Langford defended. The prosecutor, an °Hedy countriman, carrying on business as a miller at Halsted, in Essex, said, that upon the 16th of November he was in Wel. lington-street, near London-brido, when he asked some one whom he met if he could tell him where a boiler maker was to be found ; the man said ho would take him to his brother, who followed that trade. The man first asked him if he would have some beer, and the prosecutor assenting, they all went to a publ,c-house, vrhere the prisoner and another man joined them ; one of the party then said that be had some money left him, and was up in town to receive it. A lock was then produced, and the man who first spoke to prosecutor offered to bet that it could not be picked. Another one pressed the prosecutor to bet, but he refused. He was then taunted about not having any money, upon which he was incautious enough to produce the sem named, which the prisoner took up and went away wi , h, but was soon after taken into custody. Mr. Langford, in a speech of some length, con tended that the money had been lost fairly in a bet made by the prosecutor. The jury, however, entertaining a diff,rent opinion of the transaction, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months' im prisonment. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) William Moody, 29, soldier, was indicted for robbery with violence upon Joseph Fleck, and stealing from him a watch and chain. Mr. Gout prosecuted. The prosecutor, a German, living in Pembroke place, Vauxhall, was upon the night of the 30th of October proceeding along Victoria-street, West minster, when ho was stopped by the prisoner and another man. He was almost immediately knocked down with great violence, and the prisoner fell upon him. Hs raised an outcry, and prisoner then got up, and tearing the watch and guard fr om pro . secutor's neck, both men ran off. . _ The police said that hearing the prosecutor they went in that direction, and saw the prisoner run- Ding away from the spot. They followed him into Blue Anchor-yard, and took him into custody. Upon being taken into custody he said he had run up that place to escape the observation of a picket which had just turned out. There being nothing found upon him at the station the con stables wont back to the spot where they had ap prehended him, and there among some rubbish found the prosecutor's watch and chain. The jury found the prisoner guilty. An officer of the Guards, to whose regiment the prisoner belonged, said he had been specially sent to inform the Court that the prisoner bore a very bad character in the regiment. fie had been tried several times when in the Crimea, but never con victed. The Court sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. Thomas Eastley, 31, soldier, was indicted for stealing a canvas tent, waggon cover, and three blankets, the property of our Lady the Queen. Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr. Brooke, de fended. It appeared that a police-constable met the pri soner upon the night of the 30th of October coming from the barracks at Woolwich with a sack upoa his shoulder. He (the officer) stopped him, and, opening the sack, found the articles in question, which were quite new, and apparently had been just taken from the stores, and had the Govern ment mark upon them. Mr. Brooke, for the prisoner, urged in mitiga tion the very high character which he bad borne, and the fact that his pension would be lost. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Bodkin requested that sentence might be deferred to afford the prisoner an opportunity of giving information to the authorities, as it was evident a system of plunder was now going on. Sentence postponed. Francis Allen, 35, tailor, and James Coward, 22, labourer, were indicted for gelling 620 copies of the London Journal, the property of Willi am Mark Clark. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Poland prosecuted . and Mr. W. Cooper, Mr. J. P. Doylo, and Mr. Ribton defended. The facts have been very recently reporter]. The prosecutor is the publisher in Warwick-lane, and upon the 24th of Oc+ober both prisoners bad been to his offi.3e. As soon as they left, a quantity of copies of the aboTe work were mimed, and almost MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 26. The November General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Middlesex commenced this morning at Cleikenwell, before Mr. Bliss, Q.C., Attorney- General for the Duchy of Lancaster, presiding fur the Assistant-Judge, and a bench of magistrates. There were 53 cases of felony and 9 of misde meanour for trial. Mr. Bliss in his charge to the grand jury observed that the learned Assistant-Judge had, he wai glad to say, so far recovered from his late serious and severe illness that there were hopes of his being soon able to resume his duties. Alfred Jones was indicted for stealing the sum of 31. in the dwelling-house of William Lowman. He pleaded " Guilty." Mr. Bliss said he had road the depositions, and from the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, who was a paper-hanger by trade, had been em ployed in that way of business at the prosecutor's house, and while so engaged had taken advantage of an opportunity, necessarily afforded him, to steal from one of the rooms a small box in which there were 3/. There was a most aggravating circum stance in tho case. The plisonor, after emptying the box of the money it contained, placed it in the trunk of one of the servants, to avert suspicion from himself and to throw it upon an innocent individual. That was a very base and subtle act, for which, however, he had made some atonement, for by pleading guilty he had removed all doubt as to the guilty person. The sentence was that he be kept to hard labour for six calendar months. The prison©r wished the Court to understand that he protested against the assumption that he placed the cashbox in the servant's trunk with the idea attributed to him. The trunk was empty, and he placed the box in it, so that it should not be found. Charles Pemberton, 20, was indicted for stealing three saws, the property of Henry Fairbank, an engineer in Old-street, St. Luke's. The prisoner was acquitted on this charge, and he was then tried for feloniously receiving part cf a pump made of gun-metal, weighing 441 b., which Stafford Smith, 18, engineer, pleaded guilty to stealing. The latter prisoner wa one of the same prosecutor's apprentices, and the cylinder of a pump being missed from the premises inquiries were set on foot, and ultimately it was ascertained that it had been sold by the prisoners, acting together, at a marine storedealer's, 67, Friar's-mount, Bethnal green. They got 4d. per pound for it, but the pro secutor said it was worth Bd. even for old metal. The marin storedealer gave it up to the prosecutor the day after it was inquired for. The jury found Pemberton guilty in this case, and The Court sentenced him to eight months', and Smith to six months' hard labour. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Orridge for the prisoner Pemberton. John Frooms, 19, was indicted for stealing six bottles of wine, value 11. 10s., the property of Robert Lowden. The prosecutor was a carrier between London, Southall-green and Norwood, and it appeared from his evidence that on the morning of the 25th of October, soo❑ after 12 o'clock, as he was passing the Duke of Northumberland's residence at Isle worth, he observed the shadow of men at the tad board of his cart. He immediately jumped down, and the men ran away. On examining two wine flats which were packed behind the cart he found that one of them had been broken open and five bottles of port and one of sherry, which a short time before he bad seen safe, been taken out. Though be had but a momentary glance at the men, he gave a description of their appearance, the light of the moon being full upon them. A good deal of circumstantial evidence was given to prove the pri soner was one of the pirties concerned. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Abraham Fawlies, 24, journeyman butcher, was indicted for feloniously embezzling several sums of money received by him on account of George Sut ton, his master, from customers. He was found guilty and sentenced to six months' hard labour. Caleb Smith, 28, and Thomas Herbert, 34, wore indicted for unlawfully a.tempting to obtain one sovereign from William Bo3took, with intent to defraud. Wiliam Bostnck, the prosecutor, stated that he was the keeper of the Sir Walter Scott beershop in Brunswick-street, Hackney-road, and on the 31st of October the prisoners came to him and asked if he would purchase any tobacco cheap ; be said he would, and Smith showed him about a quart-r of a pound as a sample of a quantity—about 501 b.— which he said he would sell at 2s. per pound, as he bad obtained it "on the cross"—leading witness to infer therefrom that it was either stolen by him, or wag the prnreeds of a robbery committed by some other person. Smith offered him 121 b. for a sovereign, or the whole for 31. He agreed to take a 121 b. packet, and told them to wait in the bar a short time. He went out and informed two police officers, whom he stationed near Shoreditch church. He then went bsck home, when the prisoners asked him to lend them a bag to fetch the tobacco, and he arranged to meet them at Shoreditch church. In about half an hour• they appeared at the ap pointed place, Herbert carrying the bag. Witness asked them if they bad gut the tobacco, to which Smith replied that it was' all right, and requested that the money might be handed over before he parted with the tobacco. Witness asked them to step over the way to a tobacconist, but they re. fused, and asked that they might have the money then and there. On crossing the way the police took them into custody, and the bag, on being exa mined, was found to contain a small quantity of tobacco only, the great bulk of it being sawdust. The pri-oners did not deny the offence, but beg ged for mercy on the ground that they had never done wrong before. The jury found them guilty, and Smith was proved to have been convicted on a former occa sion of defrauding detective officers by pretending to be able to give a clue to the parties concerned in the robbery of the Queen's plate. Smith wds sen tenced to three and Herbert to one month's hard labour. (Before Mr. Creasy.) Eugene Riordan, 23, millrr, was indicted for stealing half an ounce of gold, the property of John Bacon. The prosecutor is a gold watchcase ma nu f ac t ure r, carrying on business at 5, Charles-street, City-road, and in Great 15 he sent the sw e epi ngs o f hi s s h op t o a mill Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, to be ground, for the purpose of extracting the valuable metal therefrom. He sent a boy to the mill, named John Castro°, to see the process of grinding and while so engaged he saw the prisoner (who was em ployed to grind the sweepings) repeatedly put some thing into his pocket. Upon this he left the plac-, and went and informed his master of what he lit.d pen. The master immediately returned to the mill, and charged the prisoner with having stolen some pieces of gold. He denied that he had done so, and produced from his pocket a piece of copper. The prosecutor persisted in saying that he hid some gold, upon whisk he took out of his pocket several grains, and said that was all ; but on a policeman making his appearance he threw some more pieces on tho floor. These the prosecutor picked up and kept, with the grains the prisoner had before given to him. When the policeman searched the prisoner he found some pieces of metal wrapped up in paper in his trousers pocket, and also some grains of gold in his waistcoat pocket. He was then given into custody for having stolen the gold. Mr. Tindal Atkinson addressed the jury for the prisoner, contending that there was no proof of the identity of the pieces of metal as e ver having be longed to the prosecutor, and alt o g ether the case was - too loose for the jury to act upon. As there was considerable doubt in it, they were in common justice bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it, and acquit him of this charge. Mr, Creasy summed up, and The jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence was deferred for inquiries to be made as to the character, of the prisoner. [AnvaanssmaNT.J—The indefatigable researches of Dr Livingstone have suddenly made us acquainted with one of the happiest people in the world, of whose very existence little was hitherto known in civilised Europe generally. Iu their ailments they never have recourse to cod liver oil, and they are equally independent of physic and the physician, for Dr. Livingston found their staff of life to be the Revalenta Arabica FOod, which keeps them perfectly free from disease, " consumption, scrofula, cancer, &c., having been scarcely heard of, and the smallpox and measles have not been known for 20 years." In England also the Revalenta Arabica has pro duced a wonderful improvement in the health of the people, removing cough, consumption, asthma, nobility, indigestion, (dyspepsia) constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver coin plaints, and restoring the faculty of digestion, and nervous muscular energy to the most enfeebled, as proved by testi monials from the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr, Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Deeies ; the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, and 50,000 other well known individuals, whose health has been restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means of cure had been tried iu vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery abandoned. Its effect on the progress of population is most favourable as exhibited by the Registrar-General,show jog fur London an average of 1780 weekly births mortality of 1200, leavinga happy gain of 580, or near per au against so a cent. in favour of progress ; a result most cheering to classes, as it opens a fair prospect th at b y the more gener a l use of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food the Europeans will soon enjoy the same freedum f r om disease as the West Africans. It is sold in caniste rs, 11b.,; 2 h., 2s. 9d 1 4s 6d. • 51b., 225. Tho 121 b. carr ia g e free, on receipt of post-office order. P arr y Du Barry and Co. 77, Regent-street ; Fort num, Mason, and C0.,182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Grac e Oxford-street ; 330 and 430, Strand, s L tr o e u e d t o ; l3. 63 and 150, SCREW STEAMERS AND SAILING VESSELS. (From the Times.) Never was there a contest in which the victors owed so little to what is called " luck" as that which seems now to be drawing to a close lee India. Everywhere the governing race was surprised, out witted, and reduced to the most terrible straits. Everywhere fortune seemed to go against them — the fortune of position, of opportunity, and of sea son. The largest cities, in which were concentrated the strongest forces of Sepoys, fell into the hands of the enemy ; Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, and Cawnpore seemed irretrievably lost. The time was one when the British force in India was unprecedeutly small, since within a few years kingdom after kingdom had been annexed without any corresponding in crease of European troops. Then the mutiny broke out in the early summer, when the natives of a temperate climate are least able to bear exertion, • and a long march or a hard day's fighting may be expected to lay up nearly every man in bQspital. Our countrymen seem, in fact, to have been placed by fortune under every possible disadvantage, an , to have plucked safety and victory out of danger only by the exercise of the highest faculties neces sary to war. Perhaps the most surprising fact con nected with this great history is that success has been won without the slightest aid from home. When Delhi was stormed, and the Residency at Lucknow relieved, more than 40,000 men were tossing on the ocean, but not one had reached the scene of war. In every kind of steam or sailing vessel which could be adapted to the conveyance of troops, the forces of England had been shipped off batch by batch during three Icing months, but even the swiftest sailer had hardly arrived in thellooghly before the fate of the war had been decided. Now, though we have in thi s case h a p p il y f a ll en on our feet, and though the British name will even receive a higher lustre from the scantiness of the numbers who have won the battle, yet it is not unimportant to point out the fault that has been committed in . sending reinforcements by such slow and antiquated machines as the ordinary class of sailing ships. By the last mail we have intelligence that a num- • ber of vessels, containing about 5,000 mon, had ar rived at various ports of our Indian possessions up to the 22d Oct. It is to the difference in the length of these passages that we would call attention. It may, however, be remarked that all the sailing ves sels have made passages far more tedious than the average, and that winds and waves seem also to have been in a conspiracy with our enemies. We even bear of calms on the Line lasting for nearly four weeks. There had arrived, however, at Calcutta when the mail left, the steam ships Thebes, Golden' Fleece, and Caledonian. The Thebes sailed on 31st July, the Golden Fleece August 8, the Caledonian, July 26. Thus all these steamers had accomplished the voyage understhree months, and the Golden Fleece, one of theslargest and finest vessels afloat, had arrived in about ;two months and a half. The mail steamer passed the ships Areta and Bucephalus the former of which left England a s ear ly as th e 18th of June, while the other sailed on the Ist of July. Thus the Golden Fleece, which sailed more than seven weeks after the Areta, arrived at Calcutta before her e beat ing the Bucephalus also by more than flue weeks. Now, the event has been fortunate, but if it had - been otherwise what would the world have thought ' of an arrangement which produced so intolerable delay ? Seven weeks I What might not have been done in that time ? The mines under Lucknow' might have been finished, and Havelock might have come too late for the rescue; the Punjaub or the Bombay Presidency might have broken into . revolt through a belief that the English succours that were so long talked about had no existence. In fact, the whole fortune of the war, and perhaps the destiny of India, might have been changed by the neglect to use the most familiar application of science at the critical hour. At Madras were the Carthage and United Kingdom steamers, the for mer of whica left England on the Ist of August, and the latter on the 4th , of the same month. At the latest dates no sailing vessel had reached Madras. At Galle there had arrived on the 23d of October the steam-ship Australian, which left England on the 16th of August, and had hi2dstthhetrhee fora made the passage in 69 days ; Csndia arrived in 71 days, while only d s sailing vessels from among those earliest etched .e p had made their appearance.. on two or thine On the whole, it may be said thatstahilg vesselseinaveragedffaned the renc steamersebetween w th il e l pas.pro bably sages of the be found considerably to exceed a month. Of - course, in this estimate we do not include large clip pers like the Lightning and the Jamesßaines, which were taken up at a later period, but only the ordi nary sailing craft in which the troops were de spatched during June and the early part of July. Now, there can be no doubt that the whole of the troops might have been sent in steamers without any sacrifice to the country. The great impulge - which the building of screw-steamers had received would have enabled the Government at any tint' to commandthe services of a dozen or more first-clasS vessels. The owners are always willing to land if the Government will hire. Nor can we believe that the additional expense ought to weigh for a moment in , the choice. In fact, it is doubtful if steam tnensport is not in reality cheaper than by . the ordi nary sailing vessels. The passage is shorter, , and the ship may be returned to its owners within a less time. The loss of the soldier's , services by a long voyage must also be- taken iuto account, aad the chance •of sickness induced by protracted confinement on board. Viewed even ad a matter of money, we may say that the prompt_ arrival of troops is necessarily the first considera• tion. But here the emergency was most presskrig► and yet in defiance of remonstrance troops were sent in ships which have lost seven weeks on the . voyage. If we are rightly informed, the Queen's Govern ment has not been primarily to blame in this affair. The East India Director, have been the - partisa ns of that method of marine locomotion which best accords with their antique traditions. - In fact, the first batch of troops was sent out upon the requisi tion of the Company, the Government being 014 concerned so far that it furnished the men. •Aci'r taM number of troops were made over to the Com pany, which transported them in its own manner. It was only when the danger became extreme that the Directors were prevailed upon to take up the best vessels and to send out the men with the utmost despatch. Of course, the reasoning of the Directors and their partisans has been that Ind;ft belongs to the Company, and that. all which the Government should do is to supply at a fair remuneration men to defend it. But the cenntry can no longer submit to such fictions. t The double Government, which is theype of obstruction and circumlocution, has had its day, and must now give way to some• thing Le•• ter suited to the present time and to actual wants. We are happy to say that as soon as Parliament meets for the despatch of general business the total abolition of the Company's Go vernment will be proposed by Ministers. India will be brought immediately under the control of the Crown and Parliament, with such a machinery of administration as shall be though . ; conducive to its welfare. The greatest dependeecy of the empire will receive the benefits of direct Ministerial respon sibility. Under such a system we cannot doubt th rt the nation which has conquered and recon quered India will soon urge it onward with neW force in the path of improvement. Dr. Livingstone Was to have embarked for Portugal yesterday at Southampton in the Peninsular mail packet. The last advices from Lisbon, however, - con vey so fearful a representation of the ravages of the epidemic there that the doctor has thought Tight to postpone his visit to that capital. The aggregate number of patients relieved at. the Me tropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire-Aquare, city, dur inL , the week ending Saturday, Nov. 21, was--medical, 624 ; surgical, 340 ; total, 964., BIRTHS. • OP A NON. On the 23d inst. at 2, Chester-square, the wife , of Sir- Justin Shell, • On the 22d inst., A Douglas, Isle of Man, the wife of Sir Henry 0. R. Chamb er l a in, Bart., of the Hon: OOP ° of Gentleman at Arms. OF A DAVOTIMP; On the 24th inst., at King's-road, Brighton, the wan of John Brady, Esq., M.P.—prematurely, sti b orit. On the 25th inst., at the Terrace, Camberwell, the wife of Herbert Barry, Esq. MARRIED, On the 25th inst., at St. James's, Spanish-place, and afterwards at St. George's, Hanover-square, Joseph Byron Blackett, M.R.C.S., 28, Oreen-street, Grosvenor-squa re, second son of the late Powell Charles Blaekott, R.N , to Caroline Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. Cutler, 8, over-street, Hanover-square. DIED. On the 25th inst., at Cearles-square, Hoxton, JoshuaHaldren, Esq., aged 76. On the 25th inst , at Hagley-road, Edgbaaton, near Blv mingham James Christie, Esq. aged 72. On the 25th inst., at Ashford', Kent, suddenly, T. Startup, aged 75. On the 24th inst., at Howeham, Yorkshire, George Cholmoley, Esq., aged 75. On the `24th inst., at Farnham, Essex, Mr. John Parris, aged G 5. On the 23d inst., a t A ps l ey H ouse, near W o burn, BOP, Lieut.-Colonel C. Hervey Smith, aged 74. Ou the 22d in , t., at Potter's Fields, Southwark, Mr. J. Graves, aged 69. On the 25th i ns t., a t L aura -pl ac e, Clapton, Joseph Curtis, Esq., aged 88. 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