The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

BELIEF YOB THE INDIAN SUFFERERS. KINGTON. A public meeting was held on Monday last at Milner's Bete in this town for the purpose of pro moting a subscription in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian mutiny. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir- G. C. Lewis, occupied the chair, and there was a good attend ance of the aristocracy and gentry of the town and neighbourhood, including Rear Admiral Sir T. Hastings, C. 8., Mr. J. IClCang, M.P., Lady The resa Lewis, Lady Hastings, Mrs. and Misses King, Mrs. Pilkiugton Dawson, C. Sir G. C. Lewes said—lt seems to me that this is an occasion which at once recommends itself to all your feelings, which does not require any rheto rical amplification on the part of the person whose duty it is to state to you the object of the meeting. We all know what a great catastrophe bas fallen upon our Indian empire. Every one who reads the daily papers must have perused with a shudder the dreadful details of the atrocities which have been oommit - ed by the insurgent soldiery of that coun try, upon our unhappy countrymen, upon military' officers and upon civil servants, their wives and children, who have been suddenly attacked by those whom they believed to be their faithful and obe dient servants and defenders. We know from these details that the English residents in India—a class of persons habituated to an affluent and comfortable life—have suddenly, by the cruelty-and treachery of the Sepoy regiments, been many of them deprived of their property, that others have been treacher ously assassinated, that their families in many cases have been reduced to want and severe privation, and that misfortunes have accumulated upon them `Which would command the sympathy of an English and Christian public. Plunged suddenly in the ex treme of suffering by this unexpected blow, they have displayed the utmost heroismand courage, and :itt no respect have they been wanting in those qua litkile which an English soldier or the servant of len 'English Government, placed in such circurn :lattices, ought to have exhibited. (Hear, hear, 4teitr.) In this state of things can it he dotitted the,tele response to the appeal which has been maW-tra the country will arise from all quar ters. 'Etedirthe condition of our countrymen were less deplorable than it is, even if we did not know that such Sad cases of distress have arisen, we should at all events be willing to exhibit our sym pathy with the sufferings of which we read the daily accounts in the newspapers. Perhaps there may be some who may be inclined to take a less favour able view of the merits of our unhappy country men, who may say that they were the means of carrying on a Government oppresiive to the native population of India. We read effsvions to such an effect in some of the Irish papers, and some of the organs of the ultra-Catholic party on the Continent. Far from exhibiting any sympathy with the suffer ings of Englishmen in India they exult over them as a righteous retribution for what they represent as so much tyranny and oppr. ssEen exercised by our Government. So far, however, from any such feeling- having been generally exhibited, I think that England may justly be pr nid of the sympathy which has been exhibited in her favour by the voice of the civilised world. When I read articles which have appeared in French, in German, and in- Ame rican newspai ers, not expressing any ungenerous exultation in. the temporary misfortune of this country, but sympai hiring with the suffer ings of the servants of the English Government in the East, I cannot but rejoice, though I scarcely expected ever to see the day when the base feelings of international jealousy would have been so much weakened among the great nations of the worl f. (Hear.) Nevertheless, there have been symptoms of a different feeling. Now, we naturally ask our selves what it-is that the natives of India complain of when they have raised the standard of revolt, when they have committed atrocities which the pen must refuse to write, the tongue refuse to utter, and over which the decorum of mo dern civilization compels us to throw the veil ? What is it that the natives allege as their justification for committing these atro cious cruelties I haye been much struck by reading a proclamation which appears to have been posted up in the town of Cawnpere by one of the leading insurgents against English government in India, whose name unhappily has become too fami liar to us—l mean N ana Sahib—a man with respect to whom it would be a libel upon the brute creation if we were to describe him as a mixture of the ser pent and the tiger. I think that proclamation throws some light on the motives of the Hindoos for at tempting to throw off our government, and its au thenticity does not appear doubtful. The right hon. baronet here read the notorious proclamation of Nana Sahib, and then continued—lt is very curious that the Sultan of Turkel-, who is here supposed to have a sympathy with the Indian insurg nts, has shown his sympathy with the sufferings of English men in India, by contributing 1,0001. towards the fund which we are met to promote. That procla mation shows the cause of the insurrection to be one of religion, for ne complaint is made that the English have plundered the natives of their posses sions, that justice has not been administered, that the civil and military officers whose wives and chil dren have been so treacherously murdered have not properly discharged their duties. Noth'ng of this sort is alleged, but it is said that an attempt is being made to destroy their religion. Now, un doubtedly there was a measure taken by the mili tary authorities upon the introduction of an im proved musk-t into the army which led to the un founded belief that there was an intention on the part of the Government to destroy the creed and the caste of the Hindoos. That intention, I need not say, did not exist ; but the appearance gave an opportunity to designing men to create among the native soldiery the beliet that such a design was en tertained by the Government. Intriguing men worked upon the simple minds of the sepoys ; and the fact that such an event was used as the meansof poisoning their minds against British rule proves that there was no suhstantial ground of complaint, —that the formidable mutiny that now exists did not arise from any ground of misgovernment which could in any sense be said tojustify or to excuse au insurrection, or a resistance to Government in any firm. to say nothing of the atrocious cha racter which this insurrection has assumed. But whatever may be the c eu-e of the insurrection we must all agree that the investigation of it must `• • 'be postponed until a future period. What we are now called Upon to do is to assiet our countrymen, and to suppress the mutiny by all the means in our power ; to restore tranquillity to the country, as well as to afford protection to our countrymen. I do not suppose that frow:olie end of the country to the other a sing'e voice has been raised in fAvour of suhm;t ing to the resistance which has been made to our legitimate authority, yet let us put an hypo • thet;eal case, and ask what would he the condition -of India if we were to withdraw from the country an-1 leave it in the power of the Sepoys. The Chen ' "miler here read extracts from a letter of a native which was published in The Sun of the 18th Sept., showing since Delhi was in the hands of the muti neers every species of oppression had been prac tised, therich houses and shops had been plundered, a number of poor shopkeepers killed for asking the proper price for their things, that the bazaars were n opened, that the shopkeepers and citizens curse the mutineers from morning to evening, that work. men starve, and widows cry in their huts, &c. Now I can hardly (continued the right bon. bart.) con ceive a more striking picture of anarchy, of confu sion, of injustice, and of rapacity than is penned in these few lines ; and we may hence judge to what we should leave India if the protecting power of the English Government . were withdrawn—for be it observed that India has for centuries past been hoverned by foreigners. It i s l ong s i nce th e peop l e ave been ruled by native princes, and it is merely a question with them whether the Government should be transferred fronethe English to the Mll3- sulmin` invaders, who preceded our rule. It has been said that property has its duties as well as its ' rights; and so it'may be s tid with equal truth that . conquests has its duties as well as its rights. By eonquering and keeping the continent of India we • have contracted certain important obligations to •w4ras the natives and inhabitants of- that country. Without any reference to our own interests it is our ' • duty, so li e as we are able to do so practibally, to- govern justly and to the advantage of the vast population cf that extensive country. The struggle which is going on in I n di a is not, in-y op inion, t o r egaided simply as a struggle t he British . ' against the Malsomedans and the Hindo not a against th e 84, 0 struggle simply y mutineers nor is it still-lees t h e struggle' of Christianity a gainst Mahorvedauism and liindooism, but it is the con test of civilisation against barbarism. (Rear.) It i s an attempt Of the European Government to intro duce just and equ itable rule among a great O r i e h tal population. (Applause.) If the account co u ld b e made up between England and India, and the balance - struck of the benefits which Englan 1 ha f t derived from India, and the benefits which India has derived from England, I cannot doubt it would be found that the preponderance would lie.iu favotn of India and against England ; that our ru'e? what evex &ejection may be made to it in detail, would foutd to ha - 6 conferred greater benefits upon the people of India than England, in its turn, has derived from the Government of those large pro vinces, (Applause.) Mr. K. KING, M.P., moved a resolution expres sive of sympathy with the sufferings of our fellow countrymen and countrywomen in India, and re marked 'That there could be no doubt that the re nb eirenrs would 1- ad to a very-extensive change '4llll4lovernment of the country, and to the reor gan;sa :on of the lid an army. . • - Mr. C. W. ALLEN eetsonded the resolution. sic T, iiASZ/11;01, C. 8., melted the next re3olu- I'H E tion, appointing means for raising a subscription, and contended at some length against an assault of Delhi, depicting in glowing language the horrors which must inevitably ensue. Mr. MYNORS seconded the resolution. Other - resolutions were also proposed, and at the close of the proceedings- the Chancellor of the Ex chequer expressed the satisfaction with which he heard so eminent authority as Rear-Admiral Sir T. Hastings state his opinion that no advantage would be derived from a precipitate assault upon Delhi, and that the ultimate reduction of the town might be considered a matter of certainty with the ap pliances and resources of,civilised nations. He would not say one word which would seem in anyway to deprecate criticism, either in public meetings or in Parliament, upon the conduct of the present Go vernment of India. They would be prepared at the proper season to defend.their conduct, and to show that they had used all proper means for main taining the legitimate authority of the Crown in India, and for defending the lives and properties of its subjects. (Hear.) But he must remark - upon the slate of things' when this mutiny broke out. We bad an army consisting, of 290,000 men, of wh;ch 50,000 were Europe ins, and 240,000 were natives. The population of India was reckoned to be about 150 millions, and he believed there were about 10,000 civil:ans. Everybody must see that such a state sot' things was most perilous, although it had been successful for many years. Neverthe less, to attempt to govern so extensive a region and so vast a population with an army of only 50,000 Europeans, together with a native army of 240,000, on whose allegiance we had hitherto implicitly relied„—and relied, too, with the concurrence of the best. judges of the Indian character and the Indian population—was a perilous experiment ; and when that native army, at least that portion of it in the provhices of Bengal, suddenly turned against us, it was hardly to be wondered thafthe state of things should become very dangerous. We had, however, the gratification of seeing that the insurrection had been almost exclusively confined to the army—that the native population, which we wera accused of having so grievously misgoverned, had for the most part shown no disposition to join the mutineers. (Applause.) The subscription list was then opened, and up wards of 2004 was soon realised, the Chancellor of the Exchequer heading the list with a subscription of 100 e. Naval and Military intelligence. Yesterday Gen. Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C. 8., R.E , Inspector-General of Fortifications, and Major-General J. F. Love, K.C.8., In spector-General of Infantry, arrived at the head quarters of the Royal Engineer establisment, Brompton-barracks, Chatham, for the purpo;e of inspecting the 4th, 100, 11th, and 21st compa nies of Royal Engineers,' who are about to em bark for India. The four companies were drawn up on the parade ground under the com mand of Major L. Nicholson, and received Generals Burgoyne and Love with'a general salute. Nearly all the men were decorated with the Crimean medal, with three and four clasps. After being inspected the companies marched past in Plow and quick time, and executed some other mauceuvre3, at the con elusion of which Ger.. Sir J. Burgoyne addres•ied the troops. He expressed the gratification it afforded him to witness the high state of discipline of the troops before him. In a few days they would em bark for India, and he had every confidence that the'officers and. men of the Royal Engineers would d'stinguish themselves as highly there as they had done wherever they had been called to serve. He be'ieved that the officers and men of the Royal En gineers' on arriving in India, would add farther lustre to that branch of the service, and in bidding them farewell he wished them every success, and that they would all return again safely to England. Gen. Burgoyne and Gen. Lore then inspected the 18th Company of Royal Engineers, under the corn wand of Capt. E. M. Grain, which only arrived from Nova Scotia the previous day. They then proceeded to Chatham lines for the purpose of in specting the A. mounted troop of the Royal Engi n. er Train, under the command of Capt. H. T. S.borne. Sir J. Burgoyne and Sir J. Love also in spected an invention in the shape of a portable ob servatory for the use of troops when on the line of march. The invention, we believe, is that of Capt. Noble, R.E., and is constructed entirely with the scaling ladders used by the Royal Engineers. The observatory was erected near the slope of the glacis at Fort Amherst, and rose to a height of about 50 feet, instruments for taking observations being placed on the top, so as to enable a spectator to re connoitre the movements of tro nos at a great dis tance. One of these observatories can be erected by about 20 troops in half an hoer, and when com pl-ted will accommodate as many as half-a dozen persons on its summit. The Generals inspected a portion of the field works of the Royal Engineers, where the mining operations are teing carried on. The 4th and 11th companies of the Royal Engineers will leave Brompton for India on Friday, and will be forwarded overland. General Gough, C. 8., with Captain Warburton, aide-de-camp, is at present in Belfast, commanding the troops s ationed in that distric-. No instruc tions have as yet boon issued from the Horse Guards, so that it is uncertain whether Belfast will be reconstituted a military district or not. The first division (aead 7 qu3rtt.rs) of the 17th Lancers will leave Island Bridge-barracks on Fri day next for Cork, and will embark !h3 same day at. Queenstown, in the Great Britain. The second division will proceed on Saturday, and will also embark in the Great Britain for India. The Bth Hnssar3 are abo expected to leave New bridga on Monday 'rat for Cirk, to embark in the Great Britain for India. the Great Britain arrived in Cork harbour on Saturday. In addition to the Bth Hussars and 17th Lancers she will take on board 40 men cf the 10. h Royal Hussars, who have volunteered for India. The Horse Guards h ive at length decided on de spatching a portion of,the Royal Artillery by-the overland route.to India, an order having bean rei ceived at Woolwich for the embarkation of Captain Tiiring's and Capt. Calvert's cotnpanias of Royal Artillery on board a Southampton steamer, on the 10th of October, for Alexandria, to proceed thence via Suez and Point de Gall , , for Bombay. Col. Maberley, L'eut. F. B. Strange, 5111 battalion, as quartermaster, and an adjutant of the Royal Ar tillery also proceed by the s ime route. The Koh-i-noor freight ship sail,d from Ports mouth yesterday for China, with provisions for the fleet, shipped from the Royal Clarence Victualling yard. The Diadem, 32, screw fligate, Capt tin Moor som, C. 8., will b 3 ready to le we the steam basin, Portsmouth, on Friday, to try her rate of speed at the measured mite, in Stokes thy. The result is looked for with much interest, owing to her error- . 112D113 horse-power (1,000.) The Alban, 3, steam vessel, Lieut. the Hen. W. B. do Blaquiere, left Porsmosith yesterday morn ing for Sheerness, with supernumeraries. The keel of the Royal Frederick, 120, sailing three-decker, which has been nearly 20 years on the stocks in Portsmouth Dockyard, is found to NI entirely rotten, and has b !en nearly all removed. The Prince of Wales, 131, ne a , screw three• decker, building at Portsmouth, and the 51-gun screw-frigate Bacchante., building on au adjacent slip, are very forward in their construction. The Sidon, 22, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, under refit at Portsmouth, is in a very bad state, espe cially forward, and will take some time and ex pense to repair. The Bulldog, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, is found so little worthy of repair, although only a dozen years old, that it is reported she will be broken up. The City of Limerick merchant steamer embarked on Monday the following detachment of the 77th Foot for Jersey, and sailed with them the same evening :—Capt. E. M. Long, Lieutenants .R. P. Armstrong, J. M. Daly, A. T. But's, J. Dooley ; Ensigns J. Jordan, C. P. Stour, R. Jackson, J. Bridger, J. L. Davis ; Ass;stant-Surgeon .M`Gill, 5 sergeants, 2 drummers, 7 corporals, and 124 pri vates ; 22 soldiers' wives, and 38 children. The froop transport Spitfire, Capt. Williams, has arrived at Woolwich from Halifax, bringing Capt. and Mrs. Grain, 40 non-commissioned office's and privates of the Royal Engineers, 10 convicts, de serters from the 62d and 63d Regiments, 10 New foundland Vt.lunieer pensioners, 27 women, 68 children ; Lieut. Anther, 63d Regiment, in com mand of the pensioners and convicts ; and Mr. Wood, staff assistant surgeon, in medicatcharge. The Spitfire sailed from Halifax on the Ist of the present month, and made a successful and speedy passage to s tbe chops of the Channel, where she was detained eight days by contrary easterly winds. The ship is spoken of as being well fitted out and thoroughly adapted for the transport service. She belt tken u Pa p e ags to A. G. Robinson, and was built for the ordered her stear a by th e service. It s expected she will ba to las survey ed. East India Company who have Captain Grain and his detachm en t 0 head - quarters, ChathEngmears have proceeded to A-garrison order tO thy foil!,Woolwicheffect was S-es terdaY iqsuEd at Wool: —Her Majesty has been graciously plealed to approve the following promo tions in - lhe ßoyal rt.-gitnent of Second Capt. P. D. Mare,son, A rtillery, f viz. : nu merary Let, to be Capt: in, vice from Scutt de s upe r ce ed, dated Sept. 1 4 , 1857 ; 0 pt. P. A. Camp bell, the supernumerary list, to be Lieut.-01. ; eal t. H. Gordon to be Lieut. - C . . 1 . , vice Thomas retired 'upon half-pay ; &wont Capt. M. .A.oketell to b e Captain, vice Street ;_Secol d Capt. A. M. Calvert , to be Captain, Tice .Brevet Lieut.-Col J. 0. SUN, LoNDON, WEDNESDAY E,v,tzNING, SEPTEMBER so, 1857 Fortescue, promoted to ba Major unattached, un der the 13th clause of the Royal warrant of Nov. 3, 1854 ; Lieut. G. S. Harward to be Second. Captain, vice Calvert. His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in- Chief has been pleased to appoint Second Captain and Brevet Major P. W. L'Estrange to be Adjutant provisionally under the Royal regulations contained in the General Order of Feb. 5, 1826, in the room of Street, promoted ; dated Sept. 15, 1857. Capt. Anketell is therefore posted to Capt. Evan's com pany, sth battalion, vice L'Estrange. Lieut. W. T. Moore bag been permitted to resign his commis sion, dated Sept. 18, 1857. Lieut. S. Dunlop, 6th battalion, is raised to increased pay therein, vice Moore, resigned. In consequence of the above-named promotions and appointments officers commanding the Royal Art llery at the stations and in the districts con cerned will obtain the sanction of the officers com manding the troops to the following removals— viz., Lieut.-Col. Graves, from Malta to Woolwich ; Capt. Street, from Woolwich to Malta; Second Captain Harward, from Woolwich to Malta ; Lieut. De Moleyns has been ordered to rejoin Major Len nox's company, Ist bat., at Guernsey ; and Lieut. G. Arbuthnot, of Capt. Crofton's company, 7th battalion, has been posted to Major Grant's com pany, 11th battalion, in his stead. An exchange of c mnpanies has been sanctionedbetween Lieu t. A. P. Joy, of Capt. Boltoa's company, 4th battalion, and Lieut. H. B. Maule, of Brevet Major Booth by's company, 6th battalion. The following named transfers of officers have been ordered to take effect, viz., Lieut. R. H. Newbolt, from Capt. Bent's company, 3d battalion, to Capt. Wrazge's company, 2d battalion ; Lieut. R. Biddulph, from Cap'. Leslie's company, 11. bat., to Capt. Child's company, 2d battalion ; Lieut. F. E. Shea, from Capt. Romer's co mpany, 10th bat., to Capt. Colomb's company, 9th bat. ; Lieut. W. L. Yonge has been posted to Capt. Nixon's company, 2 bat. The freight ship Demerara has commenced ship ping targets from Woolwich for Hobart Town, and the Malabar, in the London docks, is embarking military stores for the Ea=t India Company for Bom bay. The convict hospital ships Unite and Sulphur, lying off the Arsenal, Woolwich, are ordered to be conveyed to Chatham to be broken up. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Lieut. C. B. C. Dent, to the Urgent ; Alex. T. Collier, midshipman, to the Diadem. Tneßight. Hon. Sir C. Wood, M.P., arrived at his official residence at the Admiralty last evening from Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Sept. 29. (Before Mr. Creasy at Westminster.) William Brewster, 46, was indicted for feloniously embezzling three small sums of money, which ho had received on account of Henry Lovibond, his maser. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Rib ton for the prisoner. The prozectator was a brewer at Chelsea, and the prisoner was in his service as carman and collector. The receipt of the money he was charged with appro priating to himself, instead of paying over to his master, way clearly proved. The Jury found him Guilty, and Mr. Creasy sentenced him to ten months' hard labour. The prosecutor stated that his loss altogether amounted to about 1501. Isaac Hadfield, 22, midehipman, was indicted for steal ing two rings, of the value of 1/. 55., the property of Mary Ann Medley, single woman. Mr. J. P. Doyle prosecuted. Mr. Metcalfe 'appeared for the prisoner.. It appeared that the prosecutrix, who belongs to that class f females termed "Ray," fell in with the prisoner, who had th recently come ashore, in Regent-street, and they proceeded to the Surrey Gardens, and ulti mately passed the night together at a house where she lodged, in Milton-street, Dorset-square. Next day he took her to the Crystal Palace, paid the fare and all expenses out of his own pocket, treatsd her well, but - , un fortunately fell in love with two rings which she was wearing. While playing with her hand he asked her to take the rings off that he might try if they would fit his fingers ; she objected to do so, but at last yielded to his solicitation, and took them off. He got them on his fingers, and then protested he could not get them off, and regarding this as a mere joke, she allowed him to wear them for the day. On arriving► at London-bridge on their return from Sydenham, be toll her to wait for him a few minutes; but having waited nearlyan hour she gave up all hope of his return, and wended her way home ward minus the rings. Some weeks afterwards she met him in the Haymarket, when she took him by the collar, and said she would give him into custody. He twisted himself out of her grasp, dodged under a cab horse, and got clear away. A week afterwards she again met him in the Haymarket, and demanded her rings. He refused to give them up or say what he had done with them, and on her threatening to give him into cast .dy he said if she further annoyed him he would give her in charge. A policeman was close by, and the pro secutrix charged the prisoner with the felony, and he was locked up. He addritted having had the rings, but de nied that he had acted feloniously. .The prosecutrix stated in her evidence that the money with v hich the prisoner paid for what they had at the Crystil Palace be obtained from her, and in fact took her purse" as well as the rings. . . . . Mr. Metcalfe, in his address to the jury, said what ever opinion they might enter►ain of the prisoner's con duct, it would be going too far to say that be had been guil.y of a deliberate felony. He was a midshipman, bound on a merchant ship, and having leave ashore, he got into the cHnpany of- this young woman, and bad foolishly got himself into this scrape. There could ba no pretence for charging him with felony. Witnesses to character were examined. Mr. Creasy told the jury they must acquit the pri soner, unless they were clearly of opinion that at the time he induced the prosecutrix to part with the rings, it was his intention to steal them and make them his own. Even if they thought he had no such intention at the time, there could be no doubt that hii conduct was shabby and contemptible in the ea•reme. . The jury found the'prisoner Not Gail y. Mr. Creasy told the prisoner that if he had any manly or proper feeling about him, he would nia , te restitution of the rings, or give the prosecutrix their fu'l value. Mr. Metcalfe said the solicitor who Instructed bim would take care that such should be done. The prisoner was then discharged! He bad been in custody since Aug. 4. Jeremiah Callaghan, 23, was indicted for attempting to stab Robert White, a police constable, in the execu tion of his duty. The prosecutor was on duty in the Broadway, West• minster, when the prisoner knocked him down, and pu led out a knife. Alter he had knocked him down, and while he was on the ground, he made several stabs at the policeman's legs, but the thickness of the leather of his boots prevented the knife penetrating. His trou t.ers were cut through in several places.• The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Cree=y said in every can which came before him wherein a kite had been used, or a person had been kinked in a brutal and unmanly manner, he should with out hesitation pars a severe sentence. In this case ho phouli give the prisoner double the term he should have d•mne had he not used a knife. He then sentenced him to one year a hard labour. Will am Harris, 30, draper, pleaded guilty of em bezzling the sums of N. 14: 6i., 11 74. 6:1 , and 51 Br., received by him on account of John Casper Ruttingen, his master. Mr. Creasy sentenced him to ten months' hard labour. Mary Glidden, 40, anfJosiah Gliddell, 32, were in dicted with Ann Brown, 18, for stealing a copper, value 16i., the property of David Seward. Tao copper was seen safe at past ten o'clock one night, and was soon, after missed. The police traced footmarks to the door of a room where the three prisoners lived, and inside they found the stolen copper. The two Gliddells, 'in their defence, said the other p•i,oner lodged in the same room as they, and brought the copper there without their knowledge. They called a li.ile boy, son of the female, to prove their assertion. Brown said the Gliddelis did the robbery, and were trying to screen themt•elves by putting the blame upon her. They had tutored the boy what to say. The jury found them all guilty, and previous °envie , Lions were proved against Brown and Josiah Glidden. A sergeant of the D division stated that the elder pri soner had been for years a tutor of young thieves in the neighbourhood of Lisson-grove, and doz-ns owed their ruin to her. There was no previous conviction against her. Mr. Creasy said it was clear they formed part of a confederacy of Weyer, which it was necessary to break up. He sentenced Mary Glidden to eight months' bard labour, Josiah Glidden to four years' penal servitude, and B own to three years' penal servitude. Josiah Giddell said every word Brown had said was false, and if his lordship had t iven her 20 years, it would ❑ot have been a bit too much. There was another indictment against the prisoners. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 29. BOW-STREET. THE CHARGE AGAINST THE SERVANTS OF CLUEING CROSS HOSPITAL. —ShortIy after the night charges were dieing:id of, ! , tr. E. A. Bennett, house Burgeon at Char ing-crone HoFptal, waited on Mr. Jardine, in order to mai.* a statement rehtive to the charge preferred by Nlr. Sprague, of Valiere-.trot, against the servants of that hstitution. Mt. Bennett, after referring to a communication made by his worship to the secretary, said—ln consequence t your note, the secretary wished 1113 to cal and offtr an explaLe,tion of tte facts, that there might be an in vestigation if you" think it neces-ary. There appears to have been s ,me little confusion and tni;unders:and log. Toe gentleman brought the girl round at about 1 o'clock. The porter was asleep in his room, and being woke up out of big sleep was perhaps a little confused. Instead of bringing the woman in at once he went to fetch me. The gentleman was Idlowtng him into the private part of the hospital, when the nurse stopped Li'n and told him that ho could not go that, way as it was private. I put on some of my clothes and went down, when I found the gentleman had gone away. I fo!. lowed and spoke to •hity, but be was so agitated that I do not think he noticed me in the c mfn , ion. lie says the porter we's intoxicated, but he decidedly was not. 1 never knew him otherwise than sober. Mr. Jardine—Of course I cannot tell which way the truth is, but the constable also said the porter Was drunk. • I have no power to order any investigation, but I think it ought to be inquired into by the authorities at the hospital. Mr. Bennett—The secretary has inquired into it, sir, and is satisfied that the man was sober. The nurse, too, is a very respectahle woman. Mr. Jardine—lt has gone bah that the porter was drunk. The report in the papers is c)rrect. The con stable, the complainant, and another gentleman, all three stated thil he was drunk. However, I do not wish to say anymore about it. Mr. Bsonett, after observing that the witnesses were certainly mistaken, as the man was perfectly suber, bowed to the magistrate a7d withdrew. MARYLEII3ONE.—THE LATE GREAT FRAUD IN BANKRUPTOY. — The court was ranch crowded, in conse quence of its having ,been the day appointed for the re examination of John Mark., coachbuilder, Bell-street, Elgware road; S.tmuel Marks, his brother ; and Abra ha,u Simmonde, alt of whom stood charged with having been concerned in the disposal of property to the amount of upwards of 16,0001. after a fiat of bankruptcy bad been issued. _ _ Mr. Poland, in the absence of Mr. Giffard, attended on the part of the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh for Samuel Marks and - Simmonds ; and Mr. Solomon for the pr.', soner John Marks ; Mr. Wildy also attended to watch the case on behalf of toveral creditors. After some disnussion as to the course of proceedirg, it was agreed that evidence should be given with respect t) the goods which had been placed in Kent-street, and th , nee transferred to Reigate. Alfred Mandev.lle said be lived in Kent-street, Birougb, ani that his business was that of a ropemaker, and that Sitnmonds, with whom he had been acquainted seven or eight years, came to him in November last, and requeste l that he would oblige him by t skin charge of some goods, which he consented to do, and the; were delivered to him on his premises. A carman shortly afterwards brQu•bt some goods to his h iuse in a van, and he believed that the said van•was accemdanied by Satnutl Marks and Simmonds. He imagined that some of the cases c intained something light. Samuel Marks tild- him that he bad purchased the goods from a person who was in want of money, and that be would require him to keep thern•for six months, as be did not wish to send them to market immediately. There were abut eight packages delivered to hi:r. In August as S,moel Marks called on him in Kent-street. It was he, b:- lieved, on . Frii!ity ; and he stated that he intended t► fetch asay his things oa the following Monday. Oa the latter day, be (Hark) did call, and engaged him (Nitnese) to take away the goods in the van, al stated by the witne.,B Molloy, who was examined on the previous Tuesday. Some offi!ers from the Court of Bankruptcy came and esiarnined his premises to.diecover it any of the bankrupt's property was there, but they t found none. .Some days aflerwards Samna Marks Icalled onhim and 'stated th . at ho was" sorry laihad been nconvenienced by the caliing of the officers from the. cause alluded to, and that it would be his ruin if the goods were seized as he had paid for them. George Fairman, receiving clerk at the Bricklayers Arms Station of the South EAsteru Railway, said that he received a large number of packages from Samuel Marks, about the 15th July last, and he remembered at the latter date, being instructed by some other of the parties to forward the goods to Reigate Station, and by their direction addressed cards, which he placed on the backs of the cases, addressing them to " Mr. Fordiclo, Reigate." Mr. Bennett FOrdicks was called, and proved that be received the goods in question at Reigate, by request of Simmonds. lie placed them in a barn, not having ac commodation for them in his house. Simmonds subse quently removed them. He (witnes-) could not under take to swear what the packages contained. Tnere was a large number of them, and many were very bulky. The additional evidence was in a great measure corro borative of the preceding testimony ; and, after some further proceedings, Mr. Poland said he felt called upon, on the part of the prosecution, to request that the magistrate would not allow Samuel Marks and Sinamonds to be again admitted to b it ; and he grounded his application upon the addi tional evidence of so strongly criminatury a nature which had been adduced. Mr. Sleigh c )ntended that hia clients, having attended on previous occasionF, were entitled to be allowed to renew their bail. _ _ Mr. Broughton, having carefully reviewed the case, and paid the most particular attention to the evidence throughout, did not feel himself justified in acceding to the request of the learned counsel (Mr. Sleigh), the offence charged being of a most grave and serious nature. Toe prisoners were then all remanded till Tuesday next. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GRgAT NORNIERv RAILWAY. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST. TUXFORD, Tuesday. Again this morning, at the hour of 11 o'clock, ae pre viously agreed upon, the county coroner and jury assem bl-d at the Newcastle Arms Inn, by adjournment irsoi Friday. After a great mate of evidence had been gouu through, Col. Wynn, the Government Inspector of Railways, was sworn. He said he had been inspector to Govern ment about 10 years, and was directed by the Board of Trade to inquire Into the circumstances of this accident, and came here on Saturday morning about eleven, and spent between four and five hours on the road. He fund the whole di,tence on the line had been reformed. He had it opened out again - and every sleeper swept. From the north end of the bridge, and going north, he per teived the places where the carriage wheels had struck the sleepers. At 24 yards further, except at the end of one sleeper, there were no marks. The marks corres ponded with the line in which the telegraph post was knocked down, 15 yards beyond. 48 yards from the bridge there was ballast knocked in the hedge, indicating that a carriage had been off the line. Tne indentations on the sleepers were pointed out to him, but he did not place much cenfileece in them. Going over the bridge, and south of it, there were indicitions that carriages had is en off theliee. He thought the order of the accident was, that the van went off first. At the point (43 yards) where it struck the sleeper it threw off the two carriages before it, and when they struck the bridge it would de tach the tivo carriages that went over the bridge. Be believed the van itself was first detacaed by striking the sleeper t 63 yards from the bridge. Re had ex twined the carriages and found but one bent axle, which he be lieved had been done by the accident. The carriages were in excellent condition and made of first-rate materials, and very strong He had this morning found that one of the axles of the second-class carriage was heated, but he did nut see that whorl it was in the garden ; and be believed the heating took place in going back to Sheffield. There was no indention of the wheels. From Retford to the place of accident he had ridden on an engine at a speed of over 60 mi es an hour, and never went steadier. He bad travelled over a good deal of the line, and it was almost steadier than any other he knew. He had not tried the experiment, but he was satisfied that a train of itself could not travel at a speed of 55 miles per hour down an incline of lin 200. He was a great advocate of the communication between the guard and the driver, hut in this instance he did net believe it would have been ofany use. He did not believe there was anything in the speed f these trains on the Great Northern, considering the state of the line, at all to alarm the public. Too danger is increased at the same ratio as the speed. He thought it would be well if there was a maximum speed beyond which drivers should not drive ; but the locomotive euperintendent thought the speed here was not too great. What they bad to deal with was the momentum in going down an incline, and if the weight of the engine was counterpoised by a heavy break it would not add to the steadiness of the tram. Looking at the good state of the road where the accident took place, he believed that a similar accident might hare befallen a train travelling at only 40 wiles per hour. In reply to a juryman, Col. Wynn said it was unasual to make any change or alteration who; o the accident had taken place until the jury had seen it. It was stated that the guard could not give evidence. . . The Coroner then summed up. Ile said the cause of the ac , ..ldent could not be ascertained, but he had no doubt that the jury would arrive at such a conclusion as would satisfy in every possible way the mind of the public.• There was no law as to the epee i at which they should travel, and the people who travelled at that, speed took the responsibility up an them6e ves, if all was done that could be done by the company to convey them with proper cau:ion to the pace they bid contracted to take thew. If they (the railway company) neglected this point and were careless in what they did, then they were answerable for it. THE VERDICP. The jury, after half an hour's cocsiderati in, returned a verdict of " Accidental death ; and also that in giving their fullest consideration to the details connected wzth this melancholy accident, wecannet srparate without stat ing that it appears there is not sufficient caution given to the engine-drivers working express trains, and that they are entrusted with the exercise of a very large and dangerous discretion, and that there should be a maxi• mum speed at which the driver of an engine shall not tinier any circumstances exceed ; and we further desire the coroner to communicate the verdict to the B and of Trade, and request them to bring the subject under the ear:y consideration of Government." We understand that niece this most unfortunate acci dent, her Majesty the Queen has written, through Col. Phipps, to the Great Northern Railway officials, inquir ing into ,the cause of the accident, and requsting that t%e result of the inquiry should be iornesiia.tely made ,flown to her. Any. 1, July 29, -- 1357. 1857. Increase. Decrease. £ ££ _ Bank of England 1 9 ,855,858 19,368,311 £ _ 49',587 Private Banks Joint-stock Banks • • 2,939,031 2,900,755 : 8,259 -.... Total in England . • Scotland •.. 3,992,177 3,932,997 59,480 Ireland .. ••. • .... 6,453,705 6,224,810 208,895 .-----. —.—. __—_— --. United kingdom .... 36,844,029 35,893,205 950,1124 Showing a decrease of 632,4491. in the &I-en lation of notes in England, and a decrease o; 950,8241. in the circulation of the United Kingdom, when compared with the month ending the Ist oi August; and, as compared with the month ending the 30th of August, 1856, the above returns show a decrease of 808,8871. in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of 634,358/. in the circulation of the United Kingdom. The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 29th of August was 11,318,6951., being a decrease of 283,3911. as compared with the previous month; and a decrease of 1,124,7631. when comparel with the same period last year. V * The stock of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 29 of August, was 3,821,426/., being a decrease of 38,3511. as compared with the previous return, and 'an increase of 9,1251 when compared with the corresponding period last year Major-General the Exrl of Cardin.n the I ,a; eet or General of Cavalry, has returned train hi 3 visit to the French camp at Chalvnr. From the London Gazette of Last Night. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 26. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of tip United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto James, Earl of Fife, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Skene, of Skew), in the county of Aberdeen. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Moss as Consul at St. Helena for his Majesty the King of Sardinia. THE MILITIA. The West Yorkshire Rifle Regiment of Militia is under orders to move with as little delay as possi ble to the Curragh Camp. The 7th Royal Lancashire Rifle Regiment is at present in training at the barracks at Bury. More than 500 men answered to.their names on the clay of muster. The 2d Regiment of War wicksbire Militia will, according to present arrangements, assemble at Lea mington on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The regiment is to be supplied with the Enfield rifle. The Royal North Gloctster Regiment of Militia, including officers and non-commissioned officers, now numbers nearly 1,000 strong. We understand both officers and men are anxious to be embodied. The Royal Wiltibire Militia will assemble for embodiment at Devizes to-morrow. RUSSIAN OPINIONS UPON THE INDIAN MU TI IV IBS. (From the 11 orthern Bee of Sept. 3-15.) Shortsighted. would those people in Europe be who should wish England to suffer sensible losses in East India. In the present state of industry and commerce England is indispensable for Europe. It is true that she receives great advantages for herielf from such a state of things, but at the same tine others as well are benefitdthereby. To the enterprising -pirit of the English, Europe is indebted for the development in its centre of manufacture and industry. The example of England, the advan tHges drawn by her from the working up of raw produce, have shown to others what the position of civilised European society is in an industrial point of view compared with that of societies which are less civilised and developed in what relat e I to indus try and commerce. In England, at the present time, that universal stetm-machine has taken up its place, which puts into movement enormous capi ta', encouragescommercial speculation in all coun tries of the world, and thus procuresbenefitsnotonly to private individuals, but to kingdoms, the reve nues of which are increased in proportion as private industry flourishes. To the litter great liberty is given in England, which it cannot obtain in the other kingdoms of Europe, and this is the cause of s great a development of the commercial and in dustrial strength of England. If h-r strength be comes tottering the other people of Europe feel it also in different degrees. The political relations of England to Europe and the other parts of the world are another affair. It is indispensable that England should change its form of action. To effact this she must have greater confidence in other Powers, and endeavour to strengthen this confidence by her own actions as well. It is easy to remove every understanding at its commencement, to render justice to the just, to show the wrongdoer his error, and by possible concession terminate a dispute. God's world is still so extensive that there is sufficient room for all to enlarge and extend their influence. Russia, England, France, and the - United States of North America have before them a broad field for their views of domini n. By a peaceable policy, by re quiting evory one with his due, the apple of discord may be destroyed both? in America, Africa, and Asia. There is a limit to the strength t. f every kingdom. The extension of their limits to that given point alone is both beneficial to the people and without danger to the kingdom, because the utmost endeavours on that path terminate like the case of the frog who wished to beeline a bull in size. (From the North,ern, Bee, Sept., 5.17.) From the conflict of opinions truth arises. The war of 1853-6 was indispensable in order to per suade Europe anew of the necessity of peace for her; and of all the benefi's which flow from it both for kingdoms and for people. The revolt in East India was indispensable in order to shlw . England that in her possessions, too, there exist those pernicious a'mses of power which engender discont. T mt and re volt. A general demand for peace has shown itself, a wish to strengthen it on firm foundations an I to prevent those occurrences which may give a pre t,xt to new and important conflicts in Europe. The principal means to effect this are she removal of al! ambitious projects and the restoration of mutual confidence between the four head Powers, Russia, Fiance, Enl,land, and Prussia. The journey of the Emperor Napoleon to Osborne and then to Ger many, where he may have an interview with ano ther Imperial persodage, must have important re sults in the future. We s?e in this the pledge of the consolidation of peace in Europe, and we observe with pleasure that even in England it elf the ne cessity is felt of friendly relations between these four Powers. We wish that such a manlier of think ing, drawn from experience, may be consolidated on the firmest foundation, and not be a momen'ary allurement, the echo of the events which ara taking place in East India. (From the Northern Bee, Sep`., 2.14.) The English papers are attempting tn persuade their readers tbatin Russia, more particularly than in other European countries, people rejoice over the East Indian events, and that our'country espec'ally will gain by 'the losses wh'ch are brought upon England onthis 'occasion. Tons, for example, even the organ of Lord Palmerton, the Morning Post, lately expressed itself. We have already had oc casion to declare that in some other countries the ill success of the English in East India is more likely to be read with delight, but not in Russia. We should. be justified in considering those bloody dramas as a retribution for Kertoh, Odessa, Uleaborg, &c. ; but we do not venture to take such high ground, and in the decrees of the Most ugh to read what is incomprehensible for us. As men, as members of a civilised. community, we burn away with horror from the picture of the events in East India. With disgust do we read the letters of the English respecting the barbarity O! the Sepoys, but at the same time we do not join in the cries of England for . a bloody vengeance. By justice, by justice alone, can the equilibriudi be tween the outraged and the outrager, between the victim and the bloodthimy, be restored. We shall not 'rejoice at England's losses. - Our commercial relations and those of England are so mutually dependent that, while rejoicing at ano ther's loss, we d raw it upon ourselves. We have learnt much froax England. 'Much remains for us tn learn from her, and wo havo ever con:* -red England, and not France, at the head. of 1 i satiora of the day. We do not reckon as Ci-.:- • . . n the superfkial abstract ideas of the 1 1 1 - 4: , il.si . nd Germans respecting our cnarnuniiy, but;:: :. 4 ": ! 1. - tive dedActions of the Eng ish respecting 410 , : eats Of :man, his welfare, and the applicatit - .4", of the newest acquirements in arts and sciecicas: for his . advanitage and the. li g ht en i ng of his I.4boim. In this rOspect the English have gone far;l4Sri : _md even the .Ni firth Americans, becaus, wi'll the latter the equilibrium - La:tlveon'Alie . advantage acquired by wan through money, its - necessity for him, and his exclusive endeavours 'After it, is completely de stroyed. In a w o rd, in. Eng'and there is no such bctwills befdre the%cilcleti calf as has infatuated all People in North .America and a portion, of France. This is wh a t bi n ii s us oilleP countries. . . - - to England in preference to PRIVATE AND JOINT-STUCK BANKS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 29th of August, 1857, and gives the following as the average weekly cir culation of those banks during the past month, viz.:— • Private banks 23,4'36,312 • Joint-stock banks 2,900,775 Average weekly circulation gti 367 0 On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed issues the following appears to be the comparative state of the circulation : The private banks are below their fixed issues £,991,095 The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issues Total below the fixed issue £1,392,677 The returns of circulation of the Irish and Scotch banks for the four weeks ending the 29th of August, 1857, when added together, give the following as the average weekly circulation of these banks during the past month, viz. : Average circulation of the Irish banks £6,221,810 Average circulation of the Scotch banks ... 3,932,997 Average oircul tion during past month .:.210,1"1,807 On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks, a 4 given in the Banking Almanac, the following appears to be the state of the circulation : The Irish banks are above their fixed issue £129,684 Me Scotch banks are above their fixed issue 815,788 Total above tho fired issue... £716,104 The amounts of gold and silver held at the head offices of the several banks during the past month have been as Gold and silver hold by the Irish banks £2,215,415 Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks. Total of gold and silver held £3,821,426 The above statements complete the returns of the cir culation in England, Scotland, and Ireland for the month ending the 29th of These returns, c of the Bank of En the following resul United Kingdom, month : August. ombined with the average circulation gland for the same period, wiil give Its of the circulation of notes in the when compared with the previous DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 25. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Gaetano Scior tino, 'Esq., to be Collector of Customs for the Island cf Malta. At the Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of September, 1857, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Coun cil. This day, upon a representation of the Right Hon . the Lords of the Committee of C .nnc:l on Edna ttion, her Majesty was pleased to appoint the Rev. Simon J. G. Fraser, M. A.., of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Rev. Henry Martyn Capel, B. A.., of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to be two of her Majesty's Assistant Inspectors of Schools. COPYRIGHT CONVENTION BET WEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN. The Gazette contains a copy of a convention between her Majesty and the Queen of Spain for the establishment f international copyright. The treaty was signed at Ma drid on the 7th of July, and the ratifications exchanged on the sth inst. BOARD OF TRADE, WRITEFfALL, SEPT. 29. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations bave received, • through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, ex tending to the 30th June, liSsti, the permission to impost into Spain free of duty, wheat, flour, barley, maize, and other grain used for the purposes of food. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 29. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, enclosing a copy of a Spanish Royal Order, .fixing, .as follows, the duties up , n the importation int) Spain of pitch, tar, and pine rosin : Foreign flag Nat flag. or by land. reals c. reals. c. Piteb, common, white, black, or red, and pine rosin 6 50 14 50 Pitch for c:►ulkin:; ships, or tar (mine ral or vezetable) REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL•DEBT. The Lords Commissioners of her 111 , jesty's Treasury having certified to the Commission ere for the It of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10 G o. 4, c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of thelJuitel Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 30th day of June, 18W, amounted to the stun of three hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and eleven pounds six shil lings and sovenpence; Tue Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of seventy-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven pounds sixteen shillings and sevenpenco, being one-fourth part of the said surplus of three hundred an I eleven thousa❑d one Iv , - dred and eleven pounds six shillings and seven pcnoe will be applied, under the provisions of the said Act, between the Ist of October, 1857, and the 31st day of December, 1857, to the following purposes, viz.' : -- To bo applied towards the 'Reduction of • the National Debt £77,777 16 7 And Interest re3eivable on account of Donations and Bequests , to be applied to the purchase of Stock £81,047 19 I National Debt Office, Sept. 26, 1857. A. Y. SPEAELMAN, Comptroller-General. WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, SEPT. 29. B REVET.- In cimsequence of the eminent services per formed by Colonel Henry Havelock, C. B. in command of a division of her Majesty's Army engaged active opera tions in the Field in India, the Queen has been graciously pleased to command that he be promoted to the rank of Alajor-General in the Army, in conformity with the 10th clause of the Royal Warrant of the 6th October, 184, and that his Commission shall bear date the 30;h of July, 1857. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS sth Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant Henry William Sole to be Captain, vice•Brearey, resigned.; Thos. Mills Beaumont, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Bridges, super seded; Henry BAguy, Esq., Adjutant, to serve with the rank of Capt :in. Gth Regiment of West York Militia—George Goodwin Norris, Gent., to be Ensign. 2,1 West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry— The Venerable Charles Musgrave, D.D., .Archdeacon of Craven, to be Chaplain ; Joshua Thomas Horton, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Rayner, resigned. East Kent Regiment of Militia—Duncan Tylden Chis holm, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Brai , lley promoted; Alfra I Sinclair Leathatn, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Castle, pro , . motel • Ensign Jahn Mink Bridges to be Lieutenant, vice Lowell, promoted. NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Adinir dty, Somerset-house, Sept. 28, 1857. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distil button of proceeds arising from the Russian brig Greta, captured en the lat August, 1835, by her Majesty's ship Berraeouta, will commence on Monday, the 19th October, 1857, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House." Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of any captor, serving in the above named ships, are re quested to present the same at this office. Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs or Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On Prize Busi ness, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in which letter his• own place of residence i 3 to be precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector of Customs or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be convenient to receive such share of prize money. The following are the shares due to an individual in each class : Flag share Commander 223 410 Seventh class ... 10 8 2 Third class Fourth class Fifth class ...... .. 17 6 101 Tenth clais BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED James Gardiner, cloth manufacturer. York. Henry Lancaster, ironmaster, BANKRUPTS. James Francis Hookham, licensed victualler, Eyre. street-hill, Leather-lane, Holborn, to surrender Oct. 8, at eleven, and Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Colea an-street-buildings; Sidney, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Emanuel Passmore, licensed victualler, King-street, West Smithfield, Oct. 12, and Nov. 10, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official aseignee, Sam brook-court ; Marshall, Redcross-square, Cripplegate. William Glover, innkeeper, Liverpool, Oct. 12 and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Liver 00l District Court. Merger), official assignee, Liverpool Evans and Son, Live. pool. John Hall, tentmaker, Dudley, Worcestershire, Oct. 15, and 30, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Cour. Christie, official assiLnee, Birmingham ; Coldieott and Canning, Dudley; Smith, Birmingham. Benjamin Will mutt, Gabriel, cotton spinner, Stockport, Oct. 13 and Nov. 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Cooper and Sons, Manchester. Charles Hall, poulterer, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, Oct. 13, at two, and Nov. 10, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. E ]wards, official assignee, Sam brook-court ; King, King-street, Cheapside. Joseph Harrison, corn chandler, Epsom, Oct. 10 and Nov. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed wards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ; Jacinet, New inn. Frederick Robert Paul B tecke, g'ldetaith and jeweller, Oxford-street, Oct. 12 and Nov. 10 at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official gueignee, Aldermanbury ; Chidley, Basinghall-street. William Freeman, bookseller, Fleet-street, Oct. 9, at one, and Nov. I', at half-past one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Besieghall-street ; Spicer, Staple-inn. Richard Batley, timber merchant, Gifford - street , Cale donian-road, Oct. 9, at half-past eleven, end Nov. 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 8,11. official assignee, Coleman-street.buildings ; Parker, Rooks, and Parker, Bedford-row. • SCOTCH SEQUESTRITIONS. James Elder, baker, Tarbert, Argyleshire. Thomas Wilson, grocer, West-p , rt, Dundee. Henry Cowa;), flax merchant, Ureengairs, Herriot, Brothers, bat and cap manufacturers, Glasgow. Samuel Adams, merchant, Arbuthnott. John Hay, grocer and weaving agent, Perth. BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our Paper headed A Fact for Pby.iologists," in which the Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to send free to all applicants the Botanic Thinedy for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by Proffssor Web-tor, 'of Philadelphia. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —'SPORTSMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ARMY AND NAVY.—S. and B. So omons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly West. Observe— opposite the York Hotel. —Portability; combined with g eat power in the Field, Race course, Opera, and general out-door day and night powerful waistcoat-pocket Perspective Glasses, weighing only four ounces, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass, will show distinctly a person's countenance two and a half and three miles. They servo every purpose on t'.3 race-course, and at the opera houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen_ at eight to ten mil s. They are also invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, and yachting. Single ones, the size of a walnut, possessing the same great power. Her Majesty's Coast Guards are making use of them as day and night glasses, in general use by gentlemen of the Army and Navy. and by sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. The most powerful and brilliant telescop s, possessing such extraordinary power that some, three and a half inches, wilt an extra astronomica eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ing, and the double stars. 'With the same telescope can be seen a person's coun tenance three and a half miles distant, and an object from 11 to 16 miles. All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers, and are secured by Her M a j est y' s Royal Letters Patent. Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The valuable advantage de rived from this invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened ; very ag,d persons aro enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with these lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not re quire the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most re mote part of the world by sending on o of the glasses out of their spcct cies in a letter, and stating the distance from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness-- A newly-invented instrument for extreme eases of deafn ss, called the Sound Magnifier, Organic Vibrator, and invisible Voice Conductor, It fits so into the ear as not to be in this least perceptible. The unpLasant sensation of Fining noises in the head is entirely removed. It affords instant relief to the deafest pers..ms, and. enables them to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies. ' 39, Albemarle-street, Pic cadilly (opposite the York Hotel) W. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LOWESTOFT AND BECCLES. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Lowestoft ; Mr. E. Leathes in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that the directors had approved the terms proposed by the Etstern Counties Company for working the traffic on the line, and had authorized the preparation of an agree ment for carrying the Faroe flute Effect. The arrange ment was not to prejudice the provisional agreements already entered into between Sir M. Peto and the com pany. A third call of 21. per share had jest been made to en ibis the contractor to proceed with the works. The whole of the land required for the hue was purchased, and the works were progres,ing. The directors felt coarident that the line woull be completed and opened at the same time as the East Suffolk ReiLeray. The aecounti showed that 6,4911. had been received to the 30 , h June, and 6,3821. expended, leaving a balance of 1091. On the moton of the CHAIRMAN, the report was opted, Mr. T. Peto and Mr. Loathes, the retiring di re ciors, were re elected ; and Mr. C. Welton was elected auditor in the room of Captain Andrews. The direators wera authorized to rai-e 23.000/ on debentures. Tito proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to Sir M. Peto ler the satisfactory manner in which he was tx,euiti,g the works, ar.d to the directors for their at tention to the interests of the company. BR!DPORr. The report of the direcc,,rs of this company congratu• later the shareboldere on the near and certain comple of the railway. The line w"uld probably be opined in the cour:se of a few days. The cost of the line bad considerably exceeded the origiiml estimate, but it 'frau Lop that i.he ultimate development of the traffic vululd prAuce to the shareholders a lair return f. .r their outlay.. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL-SEPT. 29. At this day's market the lost tone of Friday, as . regards the wheat tr vie, was recovered, having a fair attendance of millers anti dealers, and a moderate amount of business was transacted at fully Fsid..y's rates. Good American flour has stood firm through the week, and has been scarce an i dearer. Country and Irish sack flour has met a dull silo at tid to is cheaper. Indian corn moves .only in re tail, and prices barely supported. Irish new oats and new oatmeal being in full supply, declined ld per 45lbs, and 1 5 to is 6tl per 210 lbs. Peas advanced full 2s, good Bahia being now held at 438 p e r 501113 s—some prime Danzig sold at 504. *Barley and beaus rather easier in price. HULL- SEPT. 29. At to-day'a market there was a fair supply of English wheat, which met flee sale at - prices which about recover the decline on the week. Foreign held too high, and transactions therefore limited. Every article of Spring corn in improved demand, with an advance of fully,la to 2s p,-r qr upon beaus and peas. Wheat, English red, s:s to t:yBs ; white Vs to 635; oats' 2iis to 32s ; barley, 40s to 46s ; Indian corn, 39a ' • linseed cakes, Hull, 11103 to —1 —s Od; ditto, foreign, 81 15a to 10/ 103; rape cakes, 6/ 5s 0 , 1 to Cl 103 ; guano, EL to 154 ; bones, 1408 Od.; flour, —s to --s; tares, —s to —O. LEEDS-SEPT. V. A good show of wheat, and from the better feeling in th 9 trade holders commenced by asking an advance on late rates ; this, however, willers refuse, and the market rules slow, at prices not above those obtainable on Friday. Fil l / Barley unaltered, and other sorts slow sale. Beaus' entA other articles do not vary materially from last week. NEWCASTLE-SETT. 29 We bad moderate supplies of wheat offering this mow ing, and which was quickly clered off by millers at 2s to 3i per qr. advance on the prices of last Saturday. A sloW trade in factors' wheat, without alteration in price. Flour is per sack dearer, and a fair sale. Other articles unchanged. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. materclam 11 16 Gibraltar.. •••• • • • 5 Ditto, three months .. 11 194 Leghorn .. •• • • •• 3 ? iL aotteraam ............11 1 :I* Genoa Intworp •.••e••••e •• •• 25 .... ••• • •• •, • • Brussels .... 25 42% Venice •••••••••• —423 i ilvPiurgh .• 13 8% Naples •••••••••....... mu-11a ..•• •• .• •• •• .• •• • • Palermo •••• 127% Faris• •••.• •• ••••••• .• 25 27% Messina • • I Do. ,tree months W, 63 Lisbon .. •• •• 2 25 65 Oporto .. e••••• •• 27`6 Biurclesux •••• •• •• •• ••• • • l itio :Janeiro eeeee • ••.... Fraakfort-on-Nluine •• .. 119 !Buenos Ayres...• •....• Wriln • • INew York,6o days' sight .... 10 35 Philadelphia •• Tr -iste•• •• •• •• •• •ft .• 10 36 PRICES OF BULLION, pEll PalirsbUrg 36% 'Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 .0 Cidiz •• •• •••• •• .„.• 50 Mexican Dollars •.•• 0 0 n •elons, New Dollars •••••• 0 0 A " Sevale • • •.• • , LOCAL BIIARE VARKgri. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 29. STOCK EXCIIANGE. —The market to-day has been stesaY4 and prices tolerably firm. Great Westerns, 531-B°g! St itford3, flti--North Stafford, 4 dig.—Stour Valleys , ,° 4 -Birmingham Canal, 89 A Ditto Banking Co., 94Tia mingltaui and Staffurdshire Gas, 992. LEEDS, SEPT. 22. ST3tll ExotiAzir-re.—The market rather inactive_, and the quotations ahont the same. North Eastern, 231-2.li , llatids, 80. —North Western', Preference, 14t--- Leeds, 95;—Gooles, 20. i. LEVRRPOOL. SEPT. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tranmations in this market to-day in the leadiog stocks are quiet, and prices are Tl 6, he r lower. London and North-Westerns, 96 i—Caledonia u, 42 c.—Great Western of Caukla, 20 -Midland, 80 4 -- • London and North Western, Eighths, new, dig.—Lsir cashire and Yorkshire, 95 4—North Eastern, Berwick, 22i - Eastern Counties, 11q---Dutch Rhenish, ;1i dis -- Grand Trunk of Canada, 11.3.9.—50uth Eastern, 111. MANCHESTER ; SEPT. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was inactive to-cIaTA and prices rather lower. The Indian news has atiect 4 the market unfavourably, and but little business doinß ‘larichester ' Sheffield, and Lincoln, 408—Ditto, net per cent , 65—Dovers, 19i—Great Western, 54 Lancashire, 92i —Grand Trunk of Canada, rli—Leel Usl—London and North Western, Eighths, laa I, 80i. DUBLIN, SEPT. 28. e w STOCK EXCFIANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols, Three per Cent. Stock (shut), 691 a; ditto for accou nt, D u blin •-1 10 10, 89i—Miuhig Co. of Ireland (i/. pd), 15 14 i --Du and Belfast Junction Railway, Irish South E sster° l no-ow:it, 7a Midland Groat Wcztern and Royal C:l4 • 0/. paid), 494 Great Southern and Western, 98---Pii" Stock, 2321. [ADVERTISEMENT.} —The salutary effect of Du BarrY'e d (Doer -- ee cions Revalenta Arabica Food in removing Indigesti on pepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and ;1,. complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility g: out Medicine, is admirably displayed by the following letter' nidlington Rectory, Norfolk, June 10, 1850. No. 4,208. ; Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with ererujji; spasms; and nausea, have been effectually removed by Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be happy to eur.;„, any inquiries. Rev. J. W. FLAVELL." " Bury, Lancasui Aug. 17, 1851. Gentlemen, — For a considerable time ht,o suffered severely from a violent pain iu 'my left side , extr e; flatulency, accompanied by au intolerable sensation of be ~as burn, and other disagreeable symptoms of dyspepsia. Ve r ,'„ o g remedies, alleged infallible, were tried in vain, and fora " 0 • time I was never twenty-four hours without violent P u ,: e ; in:lee 1 I was unfit for the performance of my daily d n , I was induced to try your food. In less than an hour I ' ° ,., - 01 relief, and my recovery was very rapid. The duties `ff'i l t• previously had been an intolerable burden became a del i gth exercise, and I have since accomplished more labour 'O3O less fatigue than I ever expected to be able to perform. I b ,, never had a return of my complaint. —I remain, &c., D. ToolO"' o f Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Pro f e ssore , Chemistry, Dr. A ndrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. lia___„ . r l %: Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. 'Wurzer ; Dr. tug" - ,..1e: Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of CO'. id stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other reslol i er persona, whose health has been restore:l' all by it, after e" in • means of cure had failed; Suitably packed wan f ull 51b, strnetions. In canisters, 11b, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d.' co 11s ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage , on receipt of Bost-011ice order.—Barry Du Barry , t the 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION agai n° col fearful dangers of spurious imitations : —The Vice -Chan the for Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on ioo As 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for uni t • Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." —O4 BIRTHS. OF A BON. On'the 27th inst., at 55 , Grosvenor-place, the Lady cA r ` r ling Ricketts. On the 28th inst., at Peters&ld, the wife of J. --- 11 ° 13"131 Cuter, Esq., ALP. OF A DAUGHTER, On the 23th inst., at St. John's-woad, the wife of Whiteside, &q. f On the 28th inst., at Surbiton , Surrey, the wife ° .. A t. Charles Greenwood, Esq., of Lincoln's - inn , barrister law. MARRIED. Jobs On the ? ,n th inst., at St. James's, Clapham-park, or Beubow, Esq., of Cowley, Middlesex, to Adela, datig of the late D. Tookey, Esq. On the 2 , th inst., at Mark's, Surbiton, Kingston- ,seo, Thames, Geo. Arbuthnot, Esq., son of the late Lieut Sir R. Arbuthnot , K .C.8., to Louisa Anne , second Ja n es, ter of the late Lieuten.dit-General zir Richard C.B. DIED. o ld , On the 28th inst., in Upper Brook-street, H. . 019- Ls On the 28th 51. e 28th inst., at Ashbrook, G o d a lming, ttf Stedman, aged 75. , pn the inst., suddenly, Mr. James Corderop .11 - ewcastle-place, Elgeyrare-road, aged 67. lan d, Oa the 28th inst., at Dartford, Kent, Mrs. C ° P aged 71. P cl " 0.. the 27th inst., at Coventry, Clcophas Ratliff, a ;ed 61. f Oil e° On the 26th inst., at Youngsbury, Herts, L a. (l Puller, aged 85. „ i ge ' On the 25th inst., at Richmond,' General Sir tl e— a DP F. Berkeley, K.C.8., Colonel of the 35th Regt., an M.P. for De ~ o uport, aged 72. On the 22 , 1 inst., at Mitcham, Surrey, Anti:lol9oot, Denny, Esq., Lieut. R N., aged 39, grandson a CU' Lord Cullingwood. LONDON : Printed and Published by KURD° I ( ' /40 of No„ 112, Strand. Printer, at 27ie Sun Offieet ° taits 112, Strand, in tle Precinct of the Savoy. i n tb ; of Middlesex, Wednesday, September 3 0 , 18'51. otlhe hall 01 given the er the di of this hospit and ti liberal especi lion of the di: uffer /nieces nest are dt Fredei which • and A operat pcor IN cised t their I and fo clas.sel ing Dew)! vpplic Tbi Com p and Fur Comp street C the 7 that DAY, day, Tra Day's event ST..T Hon. I and hrir brlnc prech The bat IN The at 9.4 The Oxfori p.m. '1 jesty railars a.m. B the et IN a, ,! al and br vrfeet - The guard. Fold Londo and St cbante N.B grid Pl Fpq ,1 and d follow he eor of ner' send ti ed en% Thom T * pcnsal issue, .. Ti Vim, " T 1 41 T i th. 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