The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

Tifittb Xbritioit SUN OFPIC.E, Seven, o' LONDON GAZEIVE—(rnis Evening.) WINDSOR-CASTLE, JAN, 16. His Royal Highness The Prince has been pleased to appoint. Lieutenant-Colonel He nr y F re d er i c k Ponsonhy, Grenadier Guards, to be Equerry to his Royal Highness. . WHITEHALL, JAN. 16. The Queen nas been pleased to grant unto Arthur John Pack, Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of I the Bsth, Lieutenant-C o l one l i n h er M a j esty ' s Army , an d Assistant-Quartermaster-General to the Army in the Cork District, her royal licence and authority that he and his issue may take and henceforth use the surname of Reynell. in addition to and before that of Pack. , And to command that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms, otherwise to be void and if no effect. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 15. The Right Hon. th e L o rds 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 Minister at Lisbon, enclosing a copy of a Portuguese Royal Decree reducing to five per cent. ad valorem the duties on t he importation into Portu gal of charcoal and other fuel , as fixed b y Article 4 of the recent decree. WAR -DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, JAN. 1.5. Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieut. and Captain the Hon. Roger Mostyn to be Instructor of Musketry. 3d Regiment of Foot —Ensign the Hon, James Wilfrid Hewitt, front the 4th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Eames, who exchanges ; Lieut. Eristace Greg has been pe r mitt e d t o resign his Commission. 4th Foot—Ensign Richard Fairfax Eames, from the 3d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hon. J. W. Hewitt, who ex changes. Bth Foot—Captain Richard Raphael Meade, from the 94th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hartley, who exchanges. 21st Foot—Lieutenant Henry Wellington Hartford, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice de Ruvignes, who exchanges. 234 Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Wells, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Lysons, who exchanges. 24th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Carroll Dem mat er, from the 4th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hollo way, appointed to the Staff. 25th Foot—Brevet-Colonel Daniel Lyeons, from the 23d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Wells, who exchanges. 30th Foot—Lieutenant Charles John Moorsom to be Instructor of Musketry. 40th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Mines, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ligertwood, promoted ea the Staff. 46th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John George Fraught, from the Hospital Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Dempster, appointed to the 24th Foot. 51st Foot—Ensign Riland W. Oldham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gloag, who retires; Robert Norton Cobb, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oldham. 62d Foot—Captain G. W. Bulkeley Hughes, from half pay 62 , 1 Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Cooch, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854. 65th Foot —Assistant-Surgeon William Snell, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Park, promoted to the Staff. _ _ _ 74th Foot—The surname of the Ensign promoted to a Lieutenactcy, by purchase, in the Gazette of the 9th inst., is Deere and not Dear, ae previously stated. 77th Foot—Lieutenant Rawland Broadhurst Hill to be Adjutant, vice Le Feuvre, resigned. 81st Foot—Sydney William Bell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sehlotel, promoted. 89th Foot—Lieutenant Savage Hall to be Captain, by purchase. vice Brevet-Major Mercer, who retires ; Captain Edmond Morris, from half-pay 89th Foot, to be Captain, ♦ice Hall, placed upon half-pay ; Assistant-Surgeon Julius Wiles has been permitted to resign his commission. 94th Foot—Capt. Richard Wilson Hartley, from the Bth Foot, to be Captain, vice Meade, who exchanges. 95th Foot—Lieut. John North Crealock to be Instructor of Musketry. 99th Foot—Lient. Allan Macdonald to be Captain, by purchase, vice Montgomerie, who retires ; Ensign Win. John Kempson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mac donald ; James Wardle Harman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kempson ; Lieut. T. Hollingsworth Clark son to be Adjutant, vice Macdonald, promoted. Rifle Brigade—Lient. Henry Martin Moorsom to be Instructor of Musketry. 2d West India Regiment—Lieut. Charles Henry Theo dore Bruce de Ruvignes, from the 21st Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice Hartford, who exchanges. Gold Coast Corps—Ensign Charles Hewett to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Kysh, appointed Paymaster 91st Foot. D2POT BATTAr.roxs--To be instructors of Musketry— Captain W. J. M. Caninghame, Rifle Brigade ; Captain George H. Twenalow, 7th Foot; Captain Edmond W. Sargent, 18th Foot ; Captain John Drysdale, 42d Foot ; Captain William Joseph Carden, 77th Foot ; Captain John Charles Sweny, 91st Foot; Captain Alex. Bruce` " Wallis, 33d Foot ; Captain James Spratt, 68th Foot ; Captain John S. Swann, 54th Foot ; Captain Stephen B. Gordon, 45th Foot. _ - UNATTACHM—Major George Robeson, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieut.-Colonel, without pur chase ; Brevet Major Charles Cooch, 62d Foot, to have his brevet rank converted into substantive rank, under the Royal Warrant, 6th Oct., 1851. HOSPITAL STAFF. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Samuel Maitland Hadawayofrom half-pay, to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, vice DVAntirew, promoted. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Alex. Sheriff') Macdonell, from half-pay, to be Deputy-Inspector-Geueral of Hospitals, vice Dartnell, who retires upon half-pay. A seistant Surgeon James Lewis Holloway, from the 21th Foot, to he Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Faught, appointed to the 46th Foot, _ - The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons to be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces :—William Meyler Mil ton; Washington Patton; John James Homy, vice Moue, resigned. BREVET. The undermentioned officers, upon half pay, to havo tho honorary rank of Inspector General of Hospitals : Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals John Richardson. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals John Miller, M.D. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard Dowse. The undermentioned promotions to take place in the East India Company's Army, consequent upon the death cf Lieutenant-General Thomas Morgan, Bombay Infantry, on 6th December, TO BE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL. Mojor-General James Perry, Madras Infantry. TO BE MAJOR-GENERAL. Colonel Henry John Wood, C.B , Renal Artillery. The undermentioned officers of the East India Com pany's Service, retired upon fall pay, to have a step of honorary rank as follows : TO BE LIETSTENA.NT-COLONELS. Major John Hamilton Kennedy, Madras Infantry. Major George Scott, Bengal Light Cavalry. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LO RDS-LIEUTENANT. Queen's Own Royal Regiment' of Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, Esq., to be Major Commandant, vice the Duke of Hamilton, resigned. The Right Hon. Washington Sewellis, Earl Ferrers, and George Jones Barker, Esq., to be Deputy-Limtenants of Staffordshire. Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry and L4ncasbire Hus.ars—Lieutenant John Janson to be Captain, vice Haliburton, resigned. BANK OF ] Au Account pursuant to the Act ' the Week ending on &della: ENGLAND. 'th and gth Victoria, cap. n 2, for • tho 10:11 clay of Jan., 1817. LETMENT. 11181311 DE➢, $ N0t1411111114 ..... . • • 24,031,465 Government debt.... I 1,015, Ino Other securities :4,4*,! , 01 Gold coin and bullion 9,556.465 Silver bu11i0n........ -- £24,' , 31,465 31 Dated the 15th di of January, £23,031,4r5 if. MAIBITAI.T.,, Chief Cashier. , 1857. TIATMENT. Government seenritiel (includg.DeadVP4li Annuity) 11,513 161 Other securities...... 16,342 612 Notes • • .... • • ...... 4,6r , 3,475 Gold and silver coin.. 624,319 #23,033.767 d. MARSHALL, Chief Castacr. 107. BAWILI/10 DI Proprietors' capital 14,5i3,000 Rest .... • • • • • 3,335,254 Public deposit e (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of • Rational Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 3,7 f 5,379 Other deposits ...... 10,644,674 Seven Day and other 8i1111............ ... 845,460 Z 33,083,767 Dated the 1 ith day of January, AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Averag e Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Jan. 13, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Gastonia paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s, d. From the British Possession s in America 36 3 Muscovado, the produce of the Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 39 6i Average of th e a b ove three descriptions ' :?8 2.1 BANKRUPTS. Robert Henry Hill, George Robert Hudson, and Fred erick Hudson, importers, London-wall, to esurrender,oni Jan. 27, at twelve, and F e b. 28 , at eleven, at is rtipt3y. Johnson, ocial assignee, Basin h l‘l'ffsßtraenetk; Madox and Wyatt, Clement's-lano, Lombard -street, - Horatio Bunting, scedsman, Colchester, Jan. 21 e ' t, City : and Feb. 24, at half-past one. at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ;Jones, C o l c h ester. Joseph Gelsthorp, builder, Nottingham, Jan. 27, and Feb. 17, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Watson, jai l ., Nottingham. Joseph Baxter, victualler, Gooch-street, Birmingham, Jan. 29, at half-past ten, and Feb. 2), at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Suckling, Birmingham. Joseph Henry Clarke, hatter, Leicester, Jan. 27, and Feb. 17, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Spooner, Leicester; Bowley and Ashwell, Nottingham ; Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham. _ . William Duckworth, cotton manufacturer, Church, near Accrington, Lancashire, Feb. 5 and 26, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Potter, Manchester. William lurch, lastmaker, Back hill, Hatton-garden, Jan. 2T, at half-past one, and Feb. 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Sidney, Lincoln's-inn -fields. Richard Harrison and John James Cole, barge builders, Twig Folly, Bethnal-green, Jan. 30 and Feb. 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Hilleary, Fenchurch-buildings. John Oldham, currier, Long-acre, Feb. 2, at eleven, and March 2, a t t wo , at the Court of Bankruptcy. _Nichols on , official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Llo y d, Bloomsbury- David Shove, tallow chandler, Croyden, Surrey, Feb. 4, at half-past twelve, and March 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basin3hall street ; Long, Clifford's-inn. William T Gravenor, hatter and milliner, Birming ham, Jan. 28 and Feb. 18, at half-past ten, at the Binning ham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birming- 1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY him ; A3hnrst, Son. and Morris, Oil Jewry, London ; 1 Hodgson and Allen, Birmingham. Theodore Rnbinson Kenway, broker and comrnissica merchant, Birmingham, Feb. 5, at ten, and Feb. 20, Ai half-past eleven, at the Birmingham DiEtlict Cart. BizAlestoo, 0r.7&al assignee, iirmingham ; W. H. Reece, Birmingham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Adam Watson, coal merchant, Hutchesontown of Glas gow ; Faculty Hall, Glasgow, Jan. 23, at ono. Alexander Aitkenhead, baker, Glasgow; Victoria Hote', Glasgow, Jan. 23, at eleven. Emil Golaton and Co., importers of foreign goods, Glas gow, Jan. 24, at twelve, within the Globe Hutel, Glasgow. Begbie, Wiseman, and Co., merchants, at the Faculty hall, Glasgow, Jan. 21, at twelve. COITESE OF EX( Amsterdam •-• 11 14 "ANGLE.- TIES DAY. Gibraltar ...... •••••• •• Ditto, three months .. 11 17 l Rotterdam 11 17% Antwerp .............. 25 32% Brussels .... • • ........ 25 32% Elamburgh ............ 13 6% Altona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Ditto, three months .. 25 65 MarseiheS 25 C 7 1,.., Rourdeamt • .... •... Frankfort-on-]fain •• .. 118 % Berlin •• •• ..•• •• • • •. Vienns.•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 10 42 to 43 Petersburg •• . • •• •• •• 37 Madrid .. • •• • • •• 49 Cadiz 49 % Barcelona Lezhorn ••••••••••—•, 29 5734 Genoa 000000 •••••••••• :5 75 Venice•••••••••••••.•• Naples •• • ..• •.. 43 Palermo ..... 129 Messina. .. Lisbon .. ••.. • . 51 1 ,4 Oporto ................ 51 Rio Janeiro ..... .•• •• .• Buenos Ayres ..... New Tork,6o days' sight Philadelphia .. ...... PRICES OR BULLION, :PA OZ. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Ccin 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars f) 0 0 New Dollars 0 0 0 Sfloer in bars RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The directors of this company have decided upon re commending the payment of a dividend for the ha!f•year ending the 31st of December of 4 per cent. on the consolidated stock of the company, inakirg the total di. vidend G per cent, for the year 1856. THE UNITED STATPS. (From a Correspondent of the Time.) NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 1836.—The revolution of time brings me once more to the usual review of what the dying year has done for the United States, and what the United States has done for it. This time I have no wars or victories, no commercial crashes, no civil convulsions (beyond the border struggles in Kansas), as food for the pen. No great statute has this year changed the political balance of the country, to call into action bitter sectional strife. No statesman of towering strength has passed away, leaving the country without the restraint of his power. No successful railway Samson 'has fallen, pulling with him the pillars of public confidence and secnrity. Instead ,of these we have this year the national election-27,000,000 people working themselves into a gradually increasing excitement for four months, quietly voting at the close, and sinking the next day into an appa ren tl y profound apathy until the incoming Administration shall deve!ope iis policy. Tlae year began with faint murmurs from the plains of Kansas—murmurs of outrages and oppressions —of the grossest abuses of stolen power in the hands of brutal men—murmurs faint and discredited. Soon the stories took visible shape, and before the first of the political conven tions met we saw actual civil war ; fortified Law rence surrounded by Missouri invaders, and de fended by Free State rifles. The Federal power was interposed on behalf of the Missourians, and the Free State men were obliged to succumb. The different political conventions next met and put forth their nominees and their declarations of principles. The Ostend Conference, endorsed at Cincinnati, was denounced as " the highwayman's plea" at Phila delphia. The not-extension of slavery, proclaimed at Philadelphia as a cardinal article of faith, was winked out of sight at Cincinnati. The canvass was conducted with a greaterfluctuation in the chances than was supposed possible in the outset, and Mr. Buchanan was at length elected in the face of the most imposing opposition vote ever given in the States that threw their electoral votes for Colonel Fremont. The year has also produced great changes in the relations between Great Britain and this country. January, 1856, was more than a " *inter of dis content." Let us hope that January, 1857, is the beginning of a perpetual spring. A year ago the enlistment embroglio was in its worst phase. I think it was a year ago yesterday that Mr. Marcy sent the long defence of the American position upon the question which effectually shut the door against any settlement, except by with drawing Mr. Crampton and the offending Consuls. The Central American question also was in about as bad a way as well could be. Mr. Buchanan and Lord Clarendon, having failed to agree about the construction of the Clay - ton-Bulwer Treaty, had laid down their pens in despair. Lord Clarendon had proposed arbitra tion ; Mr. Buchanan had said there was nothing to arbitrate ; and Mr. Crampton had quietly stowed away in his portfolio a similar offer which he was instructed to make at Washington. Now all these questions are happily disposed of. Mr. Crampton was dismissed without disturbing the diplomatic relations of the two countries. Mr. Dallas replaced Mr. Buchanan, filled with the spirit of conciliation, and armed with plenary powers. A treaty was concluded with Honduras, by which the sovereignty of the Bay Islands was definitely vested in that Republic, on a plan the possibility of which was first foreshadowed ts the Times when the troubles seemed most difficult of adjustment ; and another treaty was entered into between Great Britain and the United States—which still awaits the action of the Senate—by which prospective arrangements are made for defining the limits of the Mosquito occupation ; for establishing a free port at Greytown ; f or open i ng t h e navigation of the San Juan to citizens of Costa Rica; for settling the territorial disputes of Costa Rica and Nicaragua by arbitration, if they cannot be otherwise disposed of; for the recognition of grants of public lands ; for an annuity to the Mosquito Indians ; and for defining the limits of that hitherto very vaguely bounded territory, the Belise. Thus, after the lapse of seven years, and the expenditure of any quan tity of best hand made linenpaper foolscap diplo matic pattern, to say nothing of convincing argu ments and bad temper, these question's are adjustLd on the precise basis which the late Mr. Abbott Law rence on behalf of the Government of the United States offered in 1849. Meanwhile, however, power has changed hands twice in this country, and is soon to pass again into new hands. New men have come up in the Senate,new interests have been created, the national wealth and commerce hay., expanded beyond the belief of those who have not seen it, and the nation has become more conscious of its strength, and less willing to submit to a cur tailment of the foreign influence which it feels to belong to it upon this continent. There is said to be some doubt whether the settlement which in 1850 would have been acceptable to everybody will be palatable to the Senate in 1857. At the last advices from Washington the opposition to the rati fication was giving way, and I hope soon to be able to advise you that the last obstacle in the way of the adjustment of these annoying questions is removed. The year 1836 has been a fortunate Year for the commerce of the country. Although its imports. are greater than those of any previous year, and now exceed 50,000,0001. a-year, the exports are still larger by 512,000,000, counting Californian gold as a domestic production, which, economically speaking, it is. This is a fact indicating a healthy condition of trade, and confirfns the views I hav e invariably taken—that tine and its business, although expanded and expand ing, is on a healthy basis. The constant demand for - money for the construction of new and enlargement of old railways keeps a tight money market. There is no sign of want of prosperity. Railways in the West take the place of common highways and turnpikes in an old country. They penetrate tracts of land before inaccessible to mar kets, and carry with them and distribute the ra pidly increasing population of the United States. Though they may not pay the shareholders they increase the wealth of the country more than four fold the cost of construction. The cotton lands of the South have been visited by many adverse influences during the year, un favourable to a large crop. Though we still have no certain information as to the whole crop, we know euoulh to say with a proximate accuracy that it will be under the average. The agricultural lands of the West, on the other hand, have been busy there, also, getting large new tracts into cul vation, and if the new year have genial sunshine and refreshing rain harmoniously intermingled we may look for an increased production of cereal crops. In the east, our city has continued its expansive strides with undiminished energy. New streets stretch their thin arms out on the rocky waste to the north. Old streets "down toun" lie in ruins preparatory to appearing next year in the splen dour of marble and sandstone. Pophlation still pours in ; wealth, churches, poverty, and crime in crease side by side, and croakers, here as every where, mourn over the rottenness and predict the speedy downfall of this Babylon. But in spite of all we grow, and grow rich, and growing rich spend our money—in houses that are palaces, in equip ages, silver, servants, and wines. New ships lie at our wharf,, new warehouses receive now con signments, and we continue to prosper. The yel low fever hung at our door for months, threatening to chock our growth, and unquestionably did do injury to our trade, but not enough to be percep tible. With that exception the past year has been one of unbroken prosperity. Most noticeable of all is increase in the good feeling towards England—not the good feeling of cabinets, but the more solid good feeling of popular will. I see it in el-cry part of the country where the public mind has an opportunity to express itself. There is little localnews of interest for this packet at this time. Congress will not be in session until the holidays are over. The House will try to get hold of the Pacific Railway in some form or other ; and as they will jumble together a variety of grants, and. thus combine a variety of interests, it is possi ble that something may pass. The modification of the tariff will also come up, upon the reports of Mr. Leacher and of Mr. Campbell. Mr. Letcher's bill, taking the tariff of 1846 as its basis, transfers ma nufactured silks to the 30 per cent. schedule ; flax and blankets to the 25 per cent. ; raw wool to the 10 per cent. ; and raw silk and dyestuffs to the free list, and then a uniform reduction of 20 per cent. upon all the duties levied under the tariff of 1816. Mr. Campbell's bill puts on the free list raw materials and dyestuffs used in American manufactures, and leaves blankets in the 20 per cent. schedule, and woollen goods and silk goods in the 25 and 30 per cent. schedules. _ _ _ --- A most remarkable criminal trial is going on here, the result of which, not known as I write, will probably be known before the mail leaves Boston. One Huntingdon, a billbroker of Wall-street, who robbed the " note-shavers" to th e amount of half a million and lived en Prince on the proceeds, is on trial for the forgeries. His counsel admit the exe cution of the paper, and set up insanity, because no sane man ever would have committed so glaring from a career of swindling can lay hands crimes. To prove every e tl r ) i i u s li t n h a e l y a r e a t k t e b 14p on (of which there seems to be plenty), and ask the jury to believe that so great a rogue must be au honest man. The Baltic brought us the news of the appoint ment of Mr. Matthew as Consul at Odessa. It will gratify his many friends in this country to know EXETER AND YEOVIL. It appears the works on this line are satisfactorily progressing. The tunnels at Crewkerne and Honitun are in course of formation. In the course of a few weeks the works on the line at Whipton, near Exeter, are to be commenced with a view to carry on the line towards Honiton, and to facilitate the conveyance of materials from Topsham to the Honiton tunnel. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 11, 1857 L'55,3,74 0 0 Corresponding week last year GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traf f ic return for the week ending Jan, 4, 1857 £21,463 11 11 Corresponding week last year 20,674 3 11 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 11, 1857 £4,570 0 0 Corresponding week last year 4,253 0 0 Increase in 1856 . £314 0 0 LANCASUIRE AND YORSSIIIRD lIAILWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Jan. 11, 1837 £21,857 310 Corresponding week last year EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE AND SCOTTISH CEN TRAL RAILWAYS. —Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 11, 1857 £6,012 15 8 Corresponding week last year 5,330 12 6 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week ending Jan. 10, 1857 £2B7 15 0 Corresponding week last year LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic re turns for the weelt ending Jan. 10, 1357 £10,642 13 6 CONVEYANCE or MAILS.—The charge for the convey ance of the Poet-office mails was, in the year ended March, 61G,596/. VALUE OF BRITISH DANK DEPOSlTS.—Yesterday, at the Auction Mart, Mr. Shuttleworth offered to public auction a balance of Account amounting to 25L/. 19s. 61., in the Royal British Bank, with the warrant for the first dividend, which sold at 11g. 61. per 11. Three similar balances of 1711. 9s. 11d., 3871. 14s. 9d., and 871. 2s. 9d., respeotively sold at ss. the 1/. Flns.—Yesterday morning, about one, a fire broke out at 'the Fortune of War public-house, East-street, Manchester-square, in the occupation of Mr. Chapman, licensed victualler, and was nearly attended with the loss of several lives. It was first observed by a police constable in the lower part of the house, when he gave an immediate alarm, upon which the inmates, who were asleep, appeared at the windows. Mrs. Chapman was at the first floor, rt hen she was urged to wait till the arrival of the engines, but she refused to do so, and got out. She grasped hold of the lamp-iron and dropped from it. A police-constable tried to save her, in doing which they were both thrown to the pavement. They were both so seriously hurt that it was necessary to take them to the hospital. The barman lowered himself from the second floor by tying two sheets together, but before he reached the pavement the fire escape arrived, by which he was rescued from his perilous position. WINE DUTIES REDUCTION.—Mr. Oliveira, M.P., in a communication dated Oporto, Jan. 5, says :—" At Lis bon the prices cf wines havo very much risen in conse quence of the last vintage baying been a very short one, and stocks held by merchants are much reduced ; whilst here, in Oporto, the stocks are reduced to about 80,000 pipes, and only 15,000 have been entered as the produce of last vintage, and the exports last year were 42,000 pipes. Many influential persons both in Lisbon and Oporto favour the principle of a reduced duty in Eng land, and it is not improbable that local committees will be formed in both cities to correspond with the committee in London, and to assist in bringing about a mutual re duction of tariff. The new Chamber has among t its members a considerable number who are inclined towards free trade principles, and they intend to advecate their views. The export of cattle from Oporto increases very much, having last year amounted to 4,268 head, as under :—To London, 3,427 ; to Liverpool, 127 ; Southampton, 712." • . . _-. THE RUSSIANS IN Cie!came. —The gftzette of the Cauccts7l3 relates in the following style the mighty deer's of the Nogais Militia : " Forty men of that body, under the command of Major Doubiega, and accompanied by Captain-Lieutenant Potou:off, left Fort Kaladjineki, situated oa the Great Laba (a southern tributary of the liouban river), in order to march to the banks of the Chedok, a stream that - flews into the La..le Labs, where a detachment of Russian troops was engaged in the construction of a new fort. This small feice had already passed without opposition over a great part of the distance between the two forte when it was attacked, about a league from the Chedok, by a troop of 300 Cireassians. To alielat from their horses, to form a hollow Kitten, and open an effective fire, was for cur 40 brave fellows the work of an instant. The splen did coolness of Major Deubiaga wins tee best en c nira.gemeet for his men ; as for M. Potoe'off, known as a crack shot in the Caucasne, he had ahorady eeiptied the saddles of eight men, when several bullets bit him in both his legs and his head ; he incontinently attempted to get up again, hut being unable to stand, he eat down anal recommenced shco'.ing. The Cireas, ians did not dare to attack this handful of brave fellows in close fight, and were satisfied with firing on them from a distance ; nevertheless the position of the Nogais became critical ; three of their comrades had already fallen, and 25 were wounded more or less severely; among the latter were lalejer Donbiaga and M. Potonloff ; 14 men alone re mained on their legs. The firing bad lasted upwards of half-in-hour, and the Circassians were preparing to cut down the militiamen, when by a providential chance two sotniae of Cossacks from the fort of Chedok, arid one eotnia from that of Kcladjinski, where they had beard the firing, arrived in aid of their comrades. When they saw the Cossacks issuing frein the forest, the Cir. c,aseians took to flight, and thanks to the speed of their horses, which had thus to rest during the combat, they escaped from certain death. The Cossacks pursued them as far as the River Khodae, and killed more than a score of them." It may be as well to compare this boastful narrative with the statements of our Constantinople cor respondent to-day about the indifferent success of the Russian arms in Circassie. CONVICTION AND SENTENCE FOR WILL FOF.GERY.— At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Wednes day last, Dr. Dionysius Wielobycki, who had been con victed on the Friday previous of forgery and utteringof a fabricated will, was sentenced to 14 years'transportation. The prisoner, originally a Polish refugee, had for 12 or 13 years practised as a homoeopathic physician in E tin burgh, his income having latterly approached to 1,2001. He had borne a respectable character, and bad generally won the confidence and regard of his patients. He hed been called some years ago to attend a family of elderly per sons in Portobello, of whom only one, Miss Isabella Darling, now survived, and so 'great influence had be obtained over them that he had managed to eccure pos session of all their funds, about 4,0001,, with the view of will to o n his nephews h t e w w o s investing them for th e i r b ene fit. Th omas Darling, who died in April, 1856, left his property by w sisters, Margaret and Isabella, exchmeeg and nieces by other sisters. Margaret died in the Oct. following, and, after an opinion bad been obtained from counsel to the effect that, Margaret having died intee tate, the nephews and nieces could not by Thomas's will be excluded from their proportion of Margaret's share, the prisoner next day uttered a document pre tending to be a will of Margaret conveying her property , to Isabella. Fromt he faeile, a nd evidence ignorant it appeared h t a n d a t . t r l a s n a .- belle, a weak, scribed the will from scrolls supplied by tli t e h i a ir i i. b on et e n r and forged the signature, and that,.. .o,[ec as i a forgery l urgery uttered by the prisoner and caeller, .1 soner and Isabella Darling destroyed it between them, by the agent for the nephews and nieces, thepri al72dooa/ . The evidence also showamerul share , co w m h p ie r h om ne is a e rly was made with the claimants for I will in his favour from Isabella Darling, that he had re attendance, neency, See. ; tnhtaetd theto tphreiisrorniegrhtf bad got a . re ceive I considerable sums from the family for medical him about 500/, is notes a t n h d at si t l h ve e r y hoarded, without receiving any receipt or acknowledg choaind,awlshoicinhtrtuhsetyedhatdo meet. All the correspondence of the family in dismis sing the former and employing a new law agent, and in transacting their pecuniary affairs, fora year and a half, was either w r itt en b y the prison e r or by Isabella from scrolls supplied by hi m, Isabella stating in the witness box that she very often did not understand what the doctor gave her to write. In passing sentence, tho Lord Justice Clerk remarked that the offence was not only of the gravest description of the class of for gery, but it was all the more flagrant that is had been, committed by a medical adviser intruding himself into the pecuniary affairs of his patients. The judges at the trial had in this case consulted all the other judges of the Court, and they found them all firmly and decidedly of opinon that, notwithstanding the recommendation of the jury to leniency on the ground of former good character, no exception to the course of practice could be made in this case, and the Court felt they had no alternative but to sentence the prisoner for the period of 14 years. The trial and its result have occasioned great sensation in Edinburgh, where the prisoner was extensively known. EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1857. that be is once more cared for. There was a gene ral feeling that Mr. Matthew was hardly dealt with in the enlistment business. His case was different from that of the Consul at this port. There was no barque Maury blunder on his part, and the Phi ladelphia Board of Commerce, so far from being disposed to make representations to the Govern ment for the withdrawal of his exequatur, as hero, were his personal friends. communication. He could not have told us those dc tails except his story bad been a true one ; and, for my own part, 1 he!leve every w rd of his evidence from beginning to end. On you, Pierce, I ain unfortunately compelled to ioflict a punishment lees severe than upon the other prisoners. They were servants of the cone• pany, and you wi re not. By a strained construction o the law you might, p reaps, have been got into the saute category with the other two ; but I am unwilling, and my brother Willes agrees with me, to strain tee law agaiest you. But I do declare that if I stood in that dock to receive sentence I should feel mere degraded to be is your pkiee than in that, even, of either of your associates. You had been long connected with this man Agar ; he trusted you, and he gave you 3,0001. stock to be invested fer the benefit of his child and its rusther, together with 6001, his share of the produce of this robbery, and the rest of the gold which had not been sold. Io all you must have get out of him about 15,0001. This you stole and appropriated to your own use. It is a worse offence, I declare, than the act of which you have just been foui d guilty. I would rather have been concerned in stealing the gold than in the robbery of that wretched woman—call her barite', if you will—and her child. A greater villain than you are, I believe, does not exist. (ale strong langaa,ge was re ceived by the audience with a loud burst of applause.) I greatly regret that I have it not in my power to inflict a heavier punishment upon you ; but the heaviest sen tence which the law allows for your offence I will 'ass upon you, and that is that you be imprisoned with hard labeur for the space of two years, and that during t tree months of that time—the Ist, 12th, and 24th month— you be kept in solitary confinement. As for you, Bur gess and Tester, there is no manner of doubt that your case is that—not unfrequent of late—ot men who, having good characters, and being placed by your emplpyer3 in situations of trust, were unable to resist the temptation of getting possession of a large sum of money all at once. Whether Agar tempted yus or whether yen were tempted by Pierce, as is most likely, and that then Agar was applied to as a man noted for his skill and ability in Such matter!, it is impossible for us to know how. That you Burgess, a man who had been 15 years in the service of the company, and were receiving good wages, and that you Tester, the son of a most respectable man, should have yielded to this temptation, is greatly to be de plored ; but we should be departing from our duty to the public, particularly after what we have seen taking glace during the last few months—the robbery of the Crystal Palace Company and other offences of a similar nature, if wo did not visit you with the severest punishment. You knew when you engaged in the commission of this crime that, though if you were successful, it would place you in the possession of a large sum of money, yet that if you were detected you would be liable to the severest punishment. You were willing to play the game, and you must pay the forfeit. The learned counsel who have addressed the jury on your be half have spoken in the st ronges t terms of Agar's charac ter. No doubt ho deserves all they have said, but let it be said in his favour that he remained true to you, that he said not a word about this robbery until he heard of Pierce's base conduct. As he gave his evidence he did not appear to feel towards you .that bitter animosity which was so clearly manifested in him, and, I must say, not unnaturally, under the circumstances, towards Pierce. He had no motive to accuse you falsely, and this to my mind is an additional proof of the truth of his story. The sentence of the Court upon you, Burgess and Tester, is that you be severally transported beyond the seas for the term of 14 years. The prisoners received their sentence without any change of demeanour, and were immediately removed free) the her. Mr. Bodkin, addressing Mr. Baron Martin, said, in reference to his lordship's observations on the possibility of Agar's release, it was only just to Mr. Rees, the soli citor for the prosecution, to mention that, when he saw Agar at Portland, he had distinctly stated to him that he was not to expect any remission of his sentence in re turn for the evidence which he had consented to give. The learned counsel at the same time applied to the Court that the property found in the possession of the prisoners should be handed over to the South-Eastei n Rail way Company. Mr. Baron Martin declined to make any such order at present. The Turkish bonds found in the possession of Pierce had been clearly purchased with the money en trusted to the prisoner by Agar, and if be had the power he should certainly order those bonds to be handed over to Fanny Kay. Mr. Bodkin said the company had no desire to take possession of any property which was not the produce of the robbery. Mr. Baron Martin said that if•the solicitor for the prosecution would specify on affidavit what property they thought themselves entitled to, he and Mr. Justice Willes would then make whatever order seemed right to them under the circumstance. In order to facilitate Redpath and Kent's caseithey were placed at the bar, and arraigned ; they pleaded not guilty to each of the indictments. (From the Ti.me.) Thebullion robbery on the South-raliterießeailway will certainly take a hi;h rank in the romance of crime. As a general rule, larceny is not an offence which excites much interest. The gentlemanly embezzler of other people's funds, and the hardened murderer whose name lives in the remembrance of high and low-, are the heroes of the prison and the sessions -house, while the thief is even by the fraternity of wrongdoers considered to be ion to an inferior clam. But it seems that even to the lower departments of mime a deree of ingenuity can be applied which may fit them to be the material for inte resting causes. The theft which Agar, Pierce, Burgess, and Tester planned and completed was no ordinary crime. Well might the cxatisel for the prosecution de care that it was lamectable to see such skill, dexterity, and perseverance employed in the execution of a criminal design. The case, more than any with which we have been recently acquainted, shows the deliberation, the professional spirit, and, more than all, the pecuniary re sources of the modern offender. The revelations of the police and sessions courts have been certainly of late sufficiently astorashing. We find the members of orga nised gangs lodging money with solicitors, drawing cheques on their bankers, and buying or selling foreign stocks ; but as an instance of capital deliberately in vested in a criminal undertaking we know of nothing which equals the case just concluded. On the night of May 15, 1g55, gold to the value or 12,0001. was stolen from the van of a train oa the South-Eastern Railway between London aid Folkestone. The boxes were weighed in London, and again at Boulogne. At the second pace the weight, as it was subsequently discovered, differed from the weight in London. The weight in Paris corresponded with the weight at Boulogne ; consequently the boxes must have been tampered with between London and Boulogne, or, as it was impossible to touch them while in the boat, between London and Folkestone. When the boxes were opened bags of shot were found in the place of gold. Of course the surprise was great and the search after the offenders earnest. But, what ever may be the skill of detectives, we know from sad experience that the criminal world is more than equal to them in craft. Fur 10 months the pursuit was in vain, and the robbery was well nigh forgotten, when an un expected revelation throw light on the matter. A man named E Iward Agar was convicted in Octo ber, 1856, of uttering a forged cheque, and sentenced to be transported for life. This man seine time since stated to the authorities that he could give informs ination respecting the great gold robbery of 1855. On being questioned ha announced himself as one of the perpetrators, and named as his accomplices Pierce, formerly in the service of the South-Eastern Company ; Burgess, a guard ; and Tester, a clerk in the traffic department. Agar is 41 years of age, and has, by his own confession, lived by crime for a term of from 14 to 20 years. His evidence is that Pierce first euggestei the scheme, and that he himself thought, it impractic able. Pierce said he believed he could obtain impressions of the keys of the Chubb's locks by which the iron safes were secured, and Agar then answered that if that could be done he thought the thing might be effected. Now comes the executi of the plan. Time, skill, and capital are all at the disposal of the plan ners. Pierce and Agar go down to Folkestone as casual visitors for the benefit of sea-bathing. Toey take lodgings and employ themselves in observing the arrival of the tidal service trains, and the delivery of the lugeage from the trains to the boats. This is in May, 1854, twelee months before the actual commission of the rob bery,—so long a time can modern depredators afford to spend on their preparations. They went down daily to the pier, as if to enjoy the fresh air, but their constant observation of the trains and the station aroused sus picion, and they left, but not before they had discovered "what Chapman, who had the custody of the key of the iron safe, did when the trains arrived and the luggage was removed to the boats." By these means it was as certained where the key was kept the impression of which it was desirable to obtain. But to know where the key was kept and to obtain possession of it were very different things, and Agar, ac cording to his own story, was much disheartened. Not Pierce. Pierce knew a young man named Tester, who was in the office of the Superintendent of Traffic, and Tester could get possession of the keys for them.' How ever, time rolls on, and we are in August, when Pierce discovers that the locks are to be altered and that the new keys will be in Tester's hands. Tester was the clerk who corresponded with Mr. Chubb on the subject, and by his means the impression of key which opened one lock of each box was obtained. But, as each box bad two locks, it was necessary to obtain the impression of another key, and the following device was adopted --Agar was iu possession of no less a sum than 3,000/. It was arranged that a box of bullion of the value of 2001. should be conveyed in the iron safe in the usual way, and that it should be delivered to him under tho name of Archer. Agar goes for the box, and it is delivered to him by Chapman, who opens the safe with a key which he takes from a cup board. Thus Agar learns where the second key is kept. Now, how are they to obtain an impression of the key ? Two months have elapsed since they got the impression of No. 1; this is October, and they are still without, No. 2. But they are not disheartened. Pierce and Agar go down to Dover and put up at the Dover Castle they walk over to Folkestone, and arrive just when the train is coming in. In the confusion of an arrival the at tendants leave the office for a few minutes. Pierce g oes boldly in, opens the cupboard which c , ntains the key o the iron safe, and hand s it t o A gar, who takes animpres sion and replaces it. Thus five months after the recon naissance at Folkestone they have surmounted the first difficulty which suggested itself to the reflecting mind of Agar—they hav e o bt a i ne d wax impressions of the keys. Everythi ng e l se remains to be done. The next thin g , o f course, was to make keys from the impressions. F or that purpose lodgings are taken in Lambeth and Kennington. Pierce Owulees himself in a bleok wig, an d th e next two months are spent in filing keys. When the keys were completed to a prolyib's similarity with the masterpieces of Chubb—no easy task, it would seem, for two inexpert operators with common files—it woe necessary to try thorn. Agar went down several tim,-s in the van with Burges;', the guard. They did net fit at fire% but they fitted more nearly every time he went.. At last tliey fitted and the deed was ra , iolved on. Of course, after nearly a year's labour it was rot worth their while to fly at any paltry genre—they would wait until a large sum was to be coat. Taal chests would hold about 12,0001., and they heard that 12,0001. wise shortly to be sent. They then buy shot to replace the gold, Aar and Pierce are admitted ii to the van by Burgess, and on the 15:.h of May, 1855, 12 in , ..nths alter the deed woe plaice 1, the boxes of Messrs. Spielman!), Bu t, and Abel are securely rifled. .No.etten months after the crime is committed, and more than two years and after it is planned, just tice has overtaken the delinquents. Their crime is chiefly interesting no account of the ingenuity employed ; 'ut its mot t alarming feature is that men so determined and so skilful should be possessed of the means of aeb• sistence for so long a time. Agar with his 3,0001., Pierce with his house at Kilburn, all of them driving about for a year in cabs, and journeyina , up and down the south-Eastern line with first-cia.ss tickets, form a picture of criminal prosperity which we hardly looked for. With all this, however, and even with the frui!s of their sue cess in.. full possession, there was among them that element of insecurity on which, with such adroit thieves, honest men have principally to depend. Agar, pursuing the career of crime which he describes himself as having deliberately adopted, had been at last detected ; he bad invested the proceeds of his many crimes for the benefit of a woman whom he seems to have loved with all the fondness of which such a man was capable. Pierce was his trustee, and Pierce, like a true thief, betrayed his trust. The woman was left destitute, and hor paramour, the hardened felon whom no scruples of conscience would have mo►ed, denounced the half-forgotten robbery from his cell at Portland. None of our readers will fail to sympathise with the manly indignation with which Baron Martin denounced the villany of Pierce, or to share his regret that the sen tence of the law falls lightest on the basest of the vil lains ; but it is to this very baseness, to the impossibili!y, as it would seem, of maintaining perfect complicity in guilt, that the public has most to trust for the detection of such accomplished scoundrels as those who were con victed yesterday. THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT--JAN. 15, THIRD DAY. The following is a mere extended report of :NT.r. Barn Martin's " summing up" of the evidence in this trial, and of his remarks in passing sentence, than we were enabled to give yesterday : Mr. Baron Martin then proceeded to sum up the evi dence. Ho said—Gentlemen of the jury, my learned brother and myself are both of opinion that the prisoner Pierce cannot be convicted on the first count, which charges him with larceny as a servant, seeing that at the time of the robbery he had ceased to be a servant of the company. The only offence, therefore, of which he can be found guilty is simple larceny. With regard to Burgess and Tester, however, the case is different. They were both servants of the company, and were placed in situations of trust. You have been very properly de sired to dismiss from your attention all the remarks which have been made by the press in reference to this trial, and I also will make that request of you, though I have no doubt that the evidence which you have lis tened to during the last two days must have made a much greater impression on your minds than anything which you have read in the newspapers. This case, it has been truly said, is one of thegreatest public importance. It is one of a class which has unfortunately become very numerous of late, and for which I think the Legislature ought speedily to make ,some special provision, where the great joint-stook companies which have come into ex istence in such numbers within the last quarter of a century have been plundered by their confidential servants. It seems as though the feeling of attachment and fidelity which ought to exist between clerk and employeris wholly wanting in the case of those companies and they appear to be regarded as a public spoil. This case rests mainly, no doubt, on the evidence of an approver. To use his own expression, Agar is, and has been for years, " a pro fessional thief," and he was known to the prisoners as such. He was no common thief, however. Before he engaged in this transaction he was in the possession of 3,0001. stock, besides Spanish bonds to the extent of 7001., and he appears to have been applied to on account of his great professional skill to undertake this business, just as one would apply to a great physician or a great lawyer, or any man of great professional reputation, for assistance in his particular walk. My learned brother Shte told you very properly at the beginning of this case that, for the purpose of convicting any one on the evi dence of an approver, it is necessary that 'ne should be corroborated by other witnesses. If you are convinced from the evidence of other witnesses that the story which Agar has told is a true story, if you are of opinion that there are circumstances connected with it which must have happened, and which he cannot have invented, and that nto control,heminu then it is undoubtedly your duty to find minute details which he has narrated have been corroborated Lyi n d epeu d ent w it ncss a a w i t h w h om he c an have had no communication, and over whom h e can h ave n ihe t t h h e e s p e risoner s gu il ty ; b ut if y au h ave any doubt upon thrsitty: sif oli A m ug us u t st a:q lB u so itsthanemd.heAwgaasr con victed arreste p d oi on ts . victed at the October Sessions at this Court, and from that time he has had no possible opportunity of making up a concerted story with any one, nor indeed is there any one of the witnesses, except Fanny Kay, who would ba likely to enter into communication with him on the subject. His motive fur coming forward now is perfectly clear. He is actuated by a violent feeling of animosity against the prisoner Pierce for the breach of trust which he committed in appropriating to himself the 3,0001. intended for the support of Fanny Kay and the child. Revenge is his object. Against Burgess and Tester he appears to have no feeling of animosity, and it will be for you to con sider how far he would be likely, if his story were a' false one, to inculpate two persons who do not appear to have given him any cause of offence. My learned brother Slice contended that even if Agar's evidence were atrnck out altogether there was still a case to go to the jury against all the prisoners. I think my learned brother erred there as respects Pierce and Tester. Against them there would be no case, I think, without Agar's statement, but against Burgess I am of opinion that there would be evidence to the jury even if Agar had not been examined. If you are of opinion that the robber took place between London and Folkestone—of which I think the evidence leaves very little doubt— then conies the question how could it have been cora• witted without Burgess's knowlete, seeing that his station was in the compartment in which thegold was serried ? Bat with regard to the other two, I am of opinion that there would be no case if y ou disbelieve Agar's story. Sub s t an ti a lly, h owever , th e case against all the three prisoners rests upon .Agar's evidence, and it will be your duty carefully to consider that evidence, not starting. with the assumption that ii; is false, but looking at it with great suspicion, and noting : how far it is corroborated by the evidence of independent witnesses. If you are then of opinion that it is so com pletely confirmed in all its important points by the testi mony of persons with whom he can have had no commu nication and no opportunity of concerting a story as to make it perfectly certain that hie ace aunt of the mode ' in which this robbery was committed is true, then it will be your duty to find the prisoners guilty. The learned Baron then went through the whole of Agar's evi dence, pointing out those portions in which it was cor roborated by other witnesses. His account of the visits of himself and Pierce to Folkestone was confirmed by Mrs. Hooker, at whore hou•c they lodged on their first visit ; of Haael, the police inspector at Folkestone, who had watched them , ; and of Sh arman, Ch apman, and Ledger. Chapman s evidence in particular as to the receipt of the parcel of gold by Agar at Folkeston e , and his pretended inability to write a receipt, be cause of his wounded finger, agreed in every particular with Agar's statement. Agar said he had been informed by Tester that one of the keys of the iron safe had been lost, and that it had been sent to Messrs. Chubb to have the lock altered, i theered, and this was confirmed by M r . Ch u bb , w h o pe correspondence relating to this transaction, which was in Tester's handwriting, showing that Tester was acquainted with this circumstance, which it was not likely would have been generally known among the company's servants. In like manner, the unusual cir cumstance of Burgess acting as guard to the mail train 80 much longer than his regular tern of duty (during whi c h ti me Agar was going up and down the line fitting the key to the safe), was shown to have been arranged by Tester himself'. Tester was shown to have travelled on the line from Red-hill to London that night, and to have had a little black bag with him, by the testimony of Jones and Russell, just as was alleged in Agar's story ; and Agar's accotnit of the return of Pierce and himself from Dover to London by the two o'clock train was confirmed in all particulars by the wait:r at Dover and the porters at the Dover and London stations. Agar's description of the manner in which the gold lead been carried from the station and melted down was con firmed by the evidence of the cabmen and the carter, and Also by Mr. Rees, who found the firebricks behind the grate, the burnt flooring at Agar's old residence, and the box of tools at Pierce's. The evidence of the Bank clerks respecting the six 1001. notes, and of the stock brokers, of Lee, the stockjobber, and of Stearn, the publican, were all confirmatory of Agar's evidence as to the division of the plunder ; and the Spanish bonds, of which Agar bad spoken, had been in the same manner traced to the possession of the prisoner Pierce, and of Tester's father. Having thus pointed out those parts of Agar . 's evidence which were confirmed by other wit nesses, the learned Baron dismissed the jury at a few minutes to five o'clock to consider their verdict. After an absence of little more than ten minutes the jury returned into court, and the foreman delivered in their verdict, Guilty on the second count (simple larceny) against Plerc-, and Oitilly on the first count against Burgess and Tester. The prisoners having b.. •—•n placed at the bar for judgment, Mr. Baron Martin proceeded to deliver the sentence of the Court. Addressing the prisoners he said — You , William Pierce, James Burgess, and George Willia m Tester h ave a l l been convicte d , u p on pretty nearly the most conclu s i ve evidence w hi c h it was possible to lay before a jury, o f th e o ff ence w ith which you were charged. The man A gar i s a man who i s as b a d, I dare say, as Lad can b e , b ut that he is a man o f mos t extraorainary ability no p erson who hear d hi m exam ined can for a moment deny- Ido not entertain a doubt t hat it was because he was extraordinary skill, that - he was applied to by ym for It is obvious, as the purpose of gutting this robbery effected by his instru mentality. Something has been said of the romance an old. experienced thief, noted for his con nected with that man's character, but let those wh 0 fancy that there is anything great in it consider his fate. I have said that he is A man of extraor dinary tale n t ; that he gave , to this, and perhaps to m a n y other robb er i es, an am o unt of care and perseve r a nce, one-tenth of which devoted to honest pursuits must have raised him to a respectable station in life, and, consider ing the commercial activity of this country during the last 20 years, would probably h a ve enabled him to realise a large fort une. Put look at the consequences of his career of cri me. Instead of being a respec t e d w ealthy man, as he rate for eve r f rom all he holds most dear. li is perfectly clear that h e was fond of associating w i t h person s o f might have been ho is a slave for life —sepa the other sex, but he is entirely cut off from all such associations. ~, lie is condemned to a wretch ed and miserable , me. Ile is d ea lt with as a complete slave , and has no more control over h i s own ac ti ons than the veriest slave that has existed sin ce the world began- I did not think i t r i g ht to notice, while the trial w as going on, the observations w hich were made by counsel on the probability of his g e tt ia g his discharge as th e price of the evidence h e h as g iven here to-day. That is entirely in the breast of the Crown ; we have nothing to do with it ; but it does not at all follow as a matter of course that a man of his character will he released from prison because t!e has give.: evidence which has had the effect of bringing you to jus tice- Ile Las related to us the various circumstaneea of this robbery, and has narrated minute details which have been confirmed by upwards of 30 witnesses, with whom it was perfectly impossible that he could have had any POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 15. MANSION.HOUSZ—CHARGE OF FORGERY.—Ed ward Horace Montefiore, described as a civil engineer, was again brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 5,3001., with intent to defraud the Cape of Good Hope Bank, Cape Town ; also with having obtained the sum of 7941. from the said bank, by means of a forged letter of credit, pur porting to be from the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury ; and also with obtaining EL from Messrs. Hamilton and Rims, merchants, Cape Town, by means of a forged letter purporting to be from Messrs.. Guthrie and Chalmers, merchants, London. _ _ Evidence in support of these several charges had been gone into very fully on previous occasions; and on Sa turday last the prisoner was remanded in order to give the Lord Mayor time for consideration upon points which had been raised by Mr. Lewis for the defence, in questioning the jurisdiction of the court. Upon the prisoner being now placed at the bar, The Lord Mayor said ho had given very full attention to the case since the prisoner was last before him, and from the facts adduced, had come to the conclusion that he had no jurisdiction, and that, therefore, the prisoner must be dicharged. . _ _ Mr. Itoy, solicitor to the London and Westminster Bank, said be wished before the prisoner was discharged to thank the Lord Mayor, in the name of that establish ment, as well as on behalf of Mesrs. Baring and Co., and Messrs. Chalmers, for the patient attention which be had given to the case, and also to f tate that the London and Westminster Bank had instituted the prosecution solely upon public grounds. Neither that bank nor either of the firms to which he bad referred had lest a shilling by the prisoner, but as ho had made use of their names in carrying out his trai-isactious, they had thought it due to public justice to proceed as they bad denae. The prisoner then quitted the bar, and was accompa nied f rom t h e court by Scott, the detective, who had him in charge, through the clerk's room. He took the offi cer's arm as soon as they were dear of the outer door, and went chatting and laughiJig down the steps leading to the street, when, to his surprise, he was tapped on the shoulder by a sheriff 's officer, who arrested him for a deb; of 250/ , at the suit of a gentleman in the Isle o f Wight, of whom he had bought a vessel' for 3001., for which he paid 50/. in cash, and gave his acceptance for the balance, payable at the Bank of England, where he had no account. GUILDHALL.—ROBBING AN EMPLOYER. —George Martin, a man in the employ of Mr. Win. Clark, of Unioe.street, Blackfriars, was placed at the bar before Sir R. W. Carden, charged with stealing a quantity of type, the property of his master. dr. Taylor said he was manager to Mr. (lark, in whose employ the prisoner had been about four months. In consequence of having missed some type, witness suspected the prisoner and watched him accordingly, when he was leaving his work witness stopped him, and inquired if he bad any objection to be searched, upon hearing which the; Prisoner almost fainted, and then took off his coat, in iht: pockets of which several pieces of metal, stereotype-blcck:3 and type, belonging to Mr. Clark, were found. The weight of the metal so discovered was about 12ibe. The prisoner begged to be forgiven ; but as Mr. Clark bad been robbed of similar property to the arnouut of about 1001., lie felt it Lie duty to give the prisoner into custody. Sir R. W. Carden said this was one of those ewes in which the injury done to the towter was considerably greater than any pecuniary benefit the prisoner cou.LI obtain by plundering his employer, as the property stolen was of little value when said as old metal com pared to the value of it to Mr. Clark. He should, therefore, send the case for a jury to deal with. The prisoner was there committed I,r trial. ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF TYPE.—JOh.TI Junes, a lad 17 years of age, was brought Up charged with having a quantity of type in his possession supposed to be stolen. Police-constable Hubb:e 149, said be saw the prisoner offering the typo metal for sale, and took him into custody. The prisoner refused his address, and on being asked in whose empl,y he had been, he declined to give his j master's name. Sir R. W. Carden said, if the prisoner would n o t say fcr whom he had worked, it would be necessary to fled his master for him. He, therefore, remanded the prisoner till Saturday. ALLEGED DETENTION OF PAIIOELS.—On Wednesday, just before the alderman left the bench, a gentleman, who stated he was the manager of Messrs. Holloway's establishment, near Temple-bar, applied fiat the tnagis. trate's advice and assistance, under the following circum- stances Ho stated that they had vent about 900 parcels to Mr. Crouch, the railway carrier, of Beth-street, Nevegate street, for delivery in different parts of the country, and, notwithstanding the carriage had bee❑ paid upon all of them, comer us complaints had been received by Messrs, Holloway of the non-delivery of parcels. He the (ma naget) accordingly proceeded to Mr. Crouch's premises, in Bath-street, and, on inquiring fur the goods in ques tion, he was informed that a few packages in the front °trice were all the goods they bad by !hem. The manager, however, stated that he found about 150 parcele, and upon which upwards of 121. for carriage kiwi been paid. Some of these p.ickages had been sent to N.Jr. Crunch's as long as four months ago. Uuder the circurastanc , s, he took away the 150 parcels belonging to Messrs. Hol loway, and now wished to know what redress he had in the matter. S . r It. VT. Carden said it was a very extraordinary circurnstatice, but he had no power to interfere in the matter. If Messrs. liolloway had not taken back the 150 parcels they might have had a summons for unlaw fully detaining the goods, but at present the only remedy they had was by a civil action to recover the 12/. fur carriage of tho goods in ,question, and the amount for da-nage these goods bad sustained by the neglect of the party cotnplaired The applicant said it was a very important matter, and he thought it his duty to make it public. The applicant then retired. CLE RIK EN WELL.—EuRoas IN THE OFFICIAL BOOK OF •Cnie FARES.—Dr. O'Connor, of Montague-street, Montague-square, one of the physicians of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road, who was summoned last week by William Clarke, a cabmau, badge 390, for re fusing to pay him his legal fare of 61., but whose case was remanthel for the purpose of having the ground measured, again attended before Mr. Tyrwhitt to hear his decision. This case has excited a considerable degree and this was the third time that it has been inter es t, before the Court. It appeared that Dr. O'Connor has frequently ridden is a cab from the stand at the corner of Francis street, Tottenham-court-road, to the Royal Free Hospi tal, for which he has paid a fare of 6d. Some weeks back cabman William Clarke, 390, obtained two sum monses against him for two faros of Gel. each, which, on being heard before Mr. Tyrwhite were decided accor d. ing to the official b oo k o f cab fares, which states the wstance to be 420 yards more than a mile, and De, O'Connor was obli ge d t o pay Bs., including the costs of the two summonses, the cabman's loss of time, and the two sums demanded. In a few days after, Dr. O'Con nor appeared at this office before Mr. Tyrwhitt, when he stated that, having some doubts as to the correctness of the book, he walked the distance in 1,582 steps, and subsequently had the ground measured by a competent person on two several occasions, when it was found to ee only 1,580 yards, that is, 180 less than a mile, and he therefore thought the case a fit one for re-investiga do n. This the magistrate declined doing, and Dr. O'Connor continued to ride the same distance, giving only sixpence for the fare, with the view of again bring ing the matter under the notice of the magistrate fur further investigation. 'iLast Monday week Dr. O'Con nor got into the cab, 390, the driver of which had pre viously summoned him to this court, and, on refusing to pay more than Gd., another summons was issued against him, which came on for hearing on Wednesday week, on which day it was arranged that the ground should be measured by the officer of the court, and it was accord ingly adjourned for further hearing, when the magis trate, alter the officer of the court had stated that be measured the ground, and found it to be 390 yards short of a mile, that the book was wrong, and therefore his jugdment must be in favour of Dr. O'Connor and against the cabman. The cabman of jected to the decision as being in op. position to the act, which stated that the official book of the commissioners was to be considered coaolusive in all ca , es of disputed fares. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that view was pet f.ctly vrrect un. til the book was sound to be wrong. In this case, owing to some accident, he supposed, the book is found to be wrong, and ht s could not decide in favour of what is wrong against fro fact. His judgment, therefore, must be is favour of .0 r. O'Connor, until corrected by a superior trihunal or authority. Dr. O'Cont .or contended that the act must be inters preted it. its F , opolar meaning and intention, which was to est a.hlish a correct autlyTity in dispu , ed points between cabmen and t he public. It could not be supposed that the Legislatu 7e ever intended the act to give support to that, which, whether by accidez.t or carelessness, was grossly incon .ect. He had gone to some expense and of tirtie i a this matter, for the purpose of getting it c o rrected by the proper authorities, and be was glad he ha lso far en :seeded. The eabira n applied for his expenses and the costa of the pre:ent e amnions, which the magistrate declined to grant. . Dr. O'C,,n, ior, iu reply to a question, declined to press for his exp2n , ;es against the cabman, although be eonsi dered the ca bman deserved some punishment, for he admitted he vas aware the distance was under a mile, and that he v ras taking advantage of the error in th• commissioner s' book of fares, which he supposed, right or wrong, wa s conclusive authority in his favour. Mr. Tyrwh itt, under these circumstances, advised the cabman not t ) say any more on the matter, lest it should turn out that he would be the sufferer. He hoped this error in rhe b ook of fares would be represented to the Commissioner aof Porice, with a view to its correction. The parties then left the court. WORSHIP- STREET. --IMPUDENT RosazßY.—Henry Williams, an i 11-favoured youth, of peculiar aspect, was charged with .he following impudent and cruel robbery: H anna h Mi, ler, a dejected-looking woman, in widow's weeds, living in Great Conduit-street, 13ethnal-green, said that, since the death of her husband, she had con verted her sittii . 10. b room into a small s h op f or t h e sa l e o trifling articles of chandlery, by means of which she had endeavoured tc obtain a scanty subsistence for herself alld her fathei -less children. On the previous evening the prisoner a nd another lad presented themselves at the counter, E tnd purchased some nuts and sweet meats, on sup! )lying them with which, she expressed a hope that tl ivy would not serve her in the same manner as she had been treated on the prior night, by two wicked boys, who had made a similar purchase, and after an a rtful contention as to which of them should pay for it, they both started off without plying her at all. .The ► prisoner clo, , ely listened to her simple narrative, at the conclu;iun of which he etclaimed, with a broad grin, 1 Thy I was one of them ero chaps, but I means to make , t up to you now, mother, and so hand me over some baccy,' and I'll pay you 'ansum.'" Witness accordi ugly served him with half an ounce of tobacco, from wl iich he filled a short pipe, and made his way to the firep !ace, with the observation that he did not wish to trot ible her, and would help himself to a light. The etbe r lad, in the meantime, engaged her in conversation, an, d was pretending to condole with her upon her recent I oss, when she heard something fall upon the hearth, and on turning her head she discovered that the prisoner, in the cour s e o f his e ff or t s t o d etac h h er silver watch iron a a hook to which it was suspended over the mantel-piece y had brushed' off an inkstand with his sleeve, and before 3 she bad time to reach him, he managed to secure the wa . ':eh, which he handed to his companion, and both of ther n rushed out into the street. Witness hastened after t hem, raising the cry of " Stop thief !" and after a protr acted chase the prisoner was intercepted by a policeman, but his confederate succeeded in effecting his escape. Th a witness added that the watch was of inestimable valu 3 to her , as it had b e l onge d to h er d es ceased husband, but it b a d not been recovered, and she feared it was irr strievably lost. The prisoner, who was recognised as a notorious young thief, declined c iffering any defence, and was remanded for depositions. I Country Markets. DER] BY SMITLIFIELD.—JAN. 13. Our market • was well supplied with fat beasts to-day, but the greater 1 part were only of the middling sort, and some few were 1 eft unsold owing to the high price asked. The number of i ;beep was about the average, and realising a good 'nice. 1 fat calves were again scarce. A better supply of pigs. The following were the quotations a—Beef, 6d to 61d; mutton, 7d. to 34 ; lamb, —d to Od ; vea l , 7d t c 8d pet lb. ; pigs, 0:4 6d .to 1.1. s al per score ; rough fat, 5s 6&t to ON per 1411) : ; hides , 4id to 6.d per lb ; calbskins, 41c1 to 01 per le. - EDO "BURGH GRAIN.—JAN. 14. A large supply f of grain in the market to-day. Wheat, and barley had i eady sale, while oats and beans were dull- A. decline on las• t week's quotations, excepting barley. Wheat, on th e top, 12a up, and on the average le 6a down. Barley, 6d up on the top, and —d up on the .I,verage. Oats on the top Gd down—on the average 6a .town. Beans o a the top 8s 6d down, and on the average 2s 2d down. • AVER AGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £2 1 4 4-12th. Do. new -12th. Barley Oats 1 2 19 1-12thei.. Beans BOSTON-JAN. 14 . mostarweaggbe noted is r q r. great t urt ii for wart dullness: pro. b c v cheaper lt a eh p fdea e i r grar o t na n dyw a e n etrhra l s a : s e' 'b t C le w leunt e a e u k t dry th . i et ys Da wheatof grai n andit spring corn mov ad off steadily at late rates. Prices :—Whi At, red, 48s Od to 608 Od; new, ass s to — 0 white, 503 Od o t 62s Od ; extr a , 655. Barley, 38e Od to 465 ; Cd. O 188 ':0 2 68. Peas, 36. to 40s Od Beans, 3111 Od to 46s Od pei qr. NEWARK —JAN. 14. A e t our i corn e7cchange t c . lay trade was very fiat, TO littlness d )ne was at late prices. Wheat, white its to 68 s, ; red 603 to 625; barley, rua ltint 463 49 5, grind'lng 40 8 to 425; oats, 24st. 31s to 37 8 , 22stv 283 to SO3 ; bean 8 , 489 t o 523 ; malt, 75s to 80s a, 3 6 s to 38 3 .tares, 50 _ ,3 to 51s per qr. ; pea ,B EABO.RNE MAILS. [When the date Or makilg up a mail falls on a Sunday, thellg l remains open u n ti l the day following; except in the case i , 'ot.os (ii its mail, via S outhampton, which, on such occasions, is made up , evening previous.] ...... .. Feb. 4 • " ::::tili.; ipso 111 Fos I___...-•• hat Made up at Whence By what When Sy whet the des- Vessel. expected Vene l * ........." Lisbon i al A Mau l. Tagus Jan. 24 bra. Spain ampton Gibraltar Gibraltar • 1 1 Malta 4th and Egypt ...• South- 20th of LOUD Ceylon • • ampton Pena the India mouth. Mauritius 'viaCeylon) China Pen a n g „„ 7 .17 ' 7; to;htifi'h&c, ei patched. South- Singapore Australia(viai AT ...... Jan. 31 bi , , ?!. ampton the Cape) .. 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Arabia lan. 19 Earop4 Tan.2(and) Liver- i Baltic Jim. la Baltic L p i . v oo er l - America Tuesdays. Pc* United States Bri tish North M Jan. 14 ..) South- ' 1 Ara America Feb . 19 Az* . ampton America Canada I E Jan. 27 .. } L Anglo- %Anse Saxon Feb. 4 4 1 rican. p l oo ve l r- .3forning• E—Evening. BIRTEfs; On the 15th inst., at W 01 , A 843 . Vincent J. Collie r . ickham. House, Clspton, Mrs. Jordan Knight On tbe 12th . inst., at 37, Camden-road Villas, Mn.s O On the 14th inst., a t 4 A 5 DAUGLITNIt- Mrs. Ja nes S . Walker. , Dor c h es t er - square , Hyds'lm/4 GlOoces n the :sth inst., at the Parsonage, Temple Gnyting• tershire, the wife of the Rev. Edward Da l're: R R I.E On the 15th inst., at St Paul's Knightsbridge, Sir Ed: D. ward Colebrook°, Bart. 'to Eliz a beth Margaret, daughter of John lemma Richard son, Esq., of the Kirkland " , On the 15th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Pimlico, W illiam Sandford Pakenliam . Es the D ean of St. Patri c k' s e , son of the Very Rev. un tO H q nrietta Constan, the youngest daughter of Colonel Sir William Verner, t's Bart. , Rozburghshire. wOjiniiteEl4lltihotitnt., Bla B n Di Blackfriars, London, and S' t. Petersburg-place, Bayswater, aged 13 . c ut l n:sb s p ci a . .t , h House, Somersetshirst On the 14th inst at EH Mrs. Ann Webb, relict of William Webb inst., ghton, , . aged 79. B 9 Fulham. of New Bridge-street, , Es , late of Purser s ern . On the 13th inst., at Weir Cottage, Maidenhead, Barks, wJaienlii:sageTclu, EN, formerly of Kingawood Lodge, Dui' On the 12th inst., at 11, Princes-street, Leicester-squars, Arr. Wrn. Peake, aged 43. Vill , On the 11th inst., George Willi ams, Esq., 10, Clifton s, Maida-hill-west,ll and of 147, Leadenhall-street. ken On the Bth inst., at Plymouth, Rear-Admiral R. - E rg t e ., r , l . ig ß ed . ' 7 . i. third son o f th e late Sir F. Inman Rogers. ONDON : Printed end. Pul,lilhoci by INIURDO lii:OTTN(4 of No. 112, Strand, ?tinter, at The Sun Otiice. No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cotta of Middlesex, Friday, January 16,