The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-22 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday orders were received by the officers commanding the first and second battalions at Chatham garrison, directing the following rein forcements to proceed this morning to Gravesend, to embark on board the Salamanca for Bombay and Kurrachee :-18th Royal Irish, 61 non-commis sioned officers and men ; 51st Light Infantry, 53 men of all ranks ; 83d Regiment, 2 men ; 86th Royal County Down, 23 rank and file ; 98th Regiment, 5 men. The following officers are ordered to embark with the detachments, viz. : —Capt. G. H. Adams, 86th Regt.; Lieut. E. L. Dillon, 18th Royal Irish; and Ensign E. M. Crowe, 51st Light Infantry; Assistant Staff-Surgeon A. R. Kilroy will embark in medical charge of the re inforcements. The whole of the troops are to be fully armed and equipped with the Enfield rifle. A large supply of clothing has been forwarded to Chatham for the purpose of being dis tributed among the wives and children of those soldiers who have proceeded to India, pre viously to their being forwarded to their respective homes. The articles have been sent to Mr. H. T. Jones, storekeeper at Chatham, for gratuitous dis tribution to the wives of (soldiers, on recommenda tion of the several commanding officers. In addition to the detachment of the Medical Staff Corps which proceeded from Chatham to Cal cutta for the purpose of being employed as assistant dispensers in the hospitals in India, a detachment has likewise embarked for Hong Kong. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Urgent, 6, Com mander M‘Donaid, arrived at Portsmouth yester day from the Mediterranean.. She left Malta on the 11th and Gibraltar on the 16th inst., bringing the following passengers and invalids :—From Malta garrison and the fleet—Commander the Hon. H. Moreton on promotion ; Mr. R. W. M. Jones, pay master, R.N., invalided from the Curlew ; Mr. B. D. Connor, second master, R.N., invalided from the Conqueror • Mr. It Tregelges, assistant engineer, R.N., from Malta Hospital ; Mr. G. Ares, gunner, R.N., on promotion ; Mr. R. D. Lys, late paymaster of the 55th Regiment, 25 naval invalids, 2 seamen, to join her Majesty's ship Brunswick ; 7 ditto, for passage to England ; 6 ditto, on completion of service; 4 ditto, unfit for duty ; 2 ditto, prisoners ; 9 ditto, discharged with disgrace ; 2 distressed British subjects ; Lieut.-Col. Spence ; Lieuts. Waldron and Gould, and Ensign Tibbetts, 31st R.egt. ; Mrs. Gould ; Capt. Bray and Lieut. Cochrane, of the 96th Regiment ; Lieut. Thompson of the Ist Royal Regiment ; Lieut. Thompson, of the 57th Regiment ; Lieuts. French and Shakerley, of the Royal Artillery. Troops, (kn., from Corfu :—Royal Artillery.-4 27 transfers, 5 women, and 8 children. 3d Buffs. —4 invalids, 7 transfers, 2 women, 1 child, 1 ser geant, wife, and family. 47th Regiment.-3 in valids, 6 transfers, 1 woman, 1 child. 68th Regi ment, to join the depot.-21 men, 3 women, 7 chil dren. 91st Regiment.-17 invalids, 1 woman, 1 b knack sergeant invalided, 1 ditto transferred. b'rom Malta : Assistant-surgeon O'Callaghan, Medical Staff Corps ; 56 ward masters and orderlies, 3 women, and 8 chidren, 27 invalids from the 14th Regiment, 2 of the 21st, 3 of the 28th, 12 of the 57th, 1 of the 71st, and 1 prisoner from the 21st. From Gibraltar.-7 invalids, 1 woman, and 5 chil dren, from the Royal Artillery ; 2 invalids and 1 woman from the Royal Eugiuers, 1 invalid fro& the 31st Regiment, 3 from the 48th, 5 and 1 woman and 1 child from the 92d, 12 recruits, iu charge of a non-commissioned officer of the Ist R3yals. The Urgent spoke nothing on her way home, and went into Portsmouth yesterday afternoon to land her troops, &c. The result of a garrison court-martial held at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, on Thursday, Lieut.-Colonel N. Freese, president, has again been the infliction of the lash. The delinquent in the present instance was a man named Vance, gunner, 2d battalion of the Royal Artillery, who was acting as helping man to Sergeant-Major Taylor. It ap pears that the prisoner, having the run of the ser geant-major's house, managed to extract a sove reign from an open desk lying in the bedroom. The act was promptly detected and laid to the prisoner's charge, and the sum of 18s. was found in his pos session, the remnant of a sovereign changed at the canteen. This he accounted for by asserting that it had been given to him by a woman. On her being called as evidence at the court-martial she denied the assertion, and added moreover that she had ze ceived a number of letters from the prisoner since he had been under arrest, begging and entreating her to confirm his story. A bombardier, a s e cond witness produced by the prisoner, and whom he had solicited to bear false testimony in his favour, was likewise examined. The guilt of the prisoner having beenclearty proved, he was condemned to receive 50 lashes, and on his being discharged from the infir mary to be imprisoned in Fort Clarence for the term of 84 days. The sentence of the court-martialhavin.g been confirmed by Major-General Sir W. F. Wil liams, commandant of the garrison, the prisoner was publicly flogged yesterday morning in presence of the troops assembled in the Riding-house. Seventeen artiPerynien now under arrest at Wool wich will be brought for trial at the ensuingweekly court-martial. The half-yearly term of the Royal Military Aca demy at Woolwich was brought to a close yester - day, when th e company of Gentleman Cadets paraded in review order under Captain Shekespear, fur the inspection of the Governor of the establishment, Col. Wilford, R. A., who was received with a general salute %t 2 o'clock. The cadets then marched past in the usual manner in slow and quick time, and were put through the manual and platoon exercises by Gentleman Cadet Traill, Gen tleman Cadet Cobbold acting as Adjutant. The command being then taken by Captain Shakespear, they were put throughseveral battalion mauwuvres, firing with blank cartridges, afterwards forming on original ground, advancing in line, and perform ing a general salute. They were thi n marched into the dining-ball to witness the interesting ceremony of awarding the prizes for proficiency iu the differ ent branches of study. The Governor, before dis tributing the prizes, addressed the cadets, compli meeting them upon their uniformly good conduct and their steadiness under aruie, and theailed the progress of the company during the past half-year. He pointed out in an encouraging manner the im portant nature of their future career asofficerz, and urged them to persevere in their studies. The prizes were then presented to the cadets to whom they hid been adjudged, tha Governor addressing to each one au appropriate remark. Gentleman Cadet Sitwell was especially complimented upon receiving the sword, the prize for general good conduct. The remainder of the prizes were delivered in the fol lowing manner, viz. : Mr. Sitwell—General good conduct and land scape drawing. Mr. D. Jones—Fortification (practical class). Mr. Innes--Firat mathematics, first fortification. Mr. Armstrong —Second mathematics. Mr. Woodward_. Second fortification. Mr. Stevens—.]) , scriptive geometry. Mr. Althorpe—French. Mr. Burnett—History and geography. Mr. Wilmer—Topographical thawing. Mr. Johnston—Landscape drawing. Twenty-nine cadets of the practical class in this academy have been recommended for commissions in the Royal Artillery and Engineers, making an aggregate number of 85 commissions from the esta- Llisbmeut (luring the last half-year. The vacation will terminate on the 3d Feb., 1838. Brevet-Major Smith's company of the 4th batta lion Royal Artillery arrived at he ad-quarters, Woolwich, yesterday, and Capt. Blo3se's company, 12th battalion, arrived on Saturday, having Leen relieved from duty at Purfieet and the Tower by Lieut.-Colonel Hamley's and Lieut.-Col. Morris's companies. The Australasian steamship arrived at Potts _ mouth from Southampton, and went into harbour to prepare for the embarkation of the head-quarters of the 68th Regitnent and other troops for India. She hauled alongside Portsmouth dockyard jetty yesterday afternoon and commenced shipping the baggage. Her Majesty's state yacht Vict , )ria and Alb-Jrt - , kitpt. the Hon. Joseph Denman, is or let ei to be Prepared for the special service of conveying the Plineess Royal and the Pzince of Prussia to Pius . Ilia after their marriage. T he Curac • Mal lon , 1135 o h a, 31, screw frigate, Cep'ain T. M. Ove _ „__ Inas ot3r topmasts pointed and the.rigging 2000 1 1 7: er I,laads, aad has entered upwards of P rl a i rulPlinent. the Wellesley at 3 b t e h e u appointed paymaster to The follow in g ap po i t r . at the Adadrakty uuentiweremale yesterday Tully to the. Ina u.try. Stcond Master — John H. • Mr. James W. _ ohnston, t o 1 3 ., D ePuly-In s p te t or o f tba Marines at Weelarich. The Nora British Daily lied announces the sum o , eion of Messrs. Schwabe and Cu., of Giasr , o., • liabilitioa for about 30,0001. 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Thomas Williams, gunmaker, was indicted on two counts, first, for having at Birmingham, on 25th Sept., 1857, knowingly sold and delivered to Charles Clarke, certain stores of war and ordnance, the property of her Majesty, the stores being mew or not more than one-third worn ; secondly, for having on 12th Oct. feloniously and fraudulently caused divers persons unknown to obliterate certain marks, denoting the property of her Majesty, in certain ordnance stores, for the purpose of conceal ing her Majesty's property therein. Mr. Sergeant Hayes, Mr. Bodkin, Q. C. (specially retained), and Mr. Bittleston were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Elers for the defence. Mr. Sergeant Hayes having opened the case for the prosecution, the following evidence was called : Charles Clarke, examined by Mr. Bodkin, Q.C. —I live at Stepney, and am a gunmaker. In the first or second week in August last I went to Bir mingham. I know a gentleman named Goodman, the chairman of the small arms department. I put myself in communication with his partner, Mr. Cooper. I saw Williams at the King's Arms, Wit tall-street. He called me from a room on the 9th or 10th August, and desired to speak to me. I had known him before; when he was at work at a glove manufactory. I knew he was at work at the Tower at Birmingham. When I went out of the room he asked me if was a buyer of rifles. I said it depended on what they were. He said he knew a person who had some to dispose of, the same pattern as the Go vernment Minie rifles, and very good guns. I ar ranged to see a sample the following day. That appointment was not kept, but the dayafter 1 went to his residence. He showed me a sample gun. It was in what is technically called "A screwed together state ;" that is, all the parts of the gun are put toge ther provisionally ready for finishing. That is the state in which the guns are issued by the contractor for finishing. On the barrel of the gun I saw there was a bright place, apparently where a mark had been taken out. 'art of the Government marks were in the barrel. In places where I looked for the Government mark I found traces of marks having bean recently effaced. He mentioned 235. each as the price. It was worth 555. in the state I saw it. I told him I would be happy to purchase one case of guns, and wished them to be sent as soon as possi ble. I requested that the proof mark might bo lelt in, as without it it would be difficult to have them proved. I then saw Mr. Cooper, in the absence of Mr. Goodman, and communicated what was goiug on. 1 then left for London. I received the letter produced on the 23d Sept. (The handwriting of the prisoner was here proved by a witness named Eve rard. The letter was to the effect that the guns were ready.) Upon the receipt of that letter [ went to Bir mingham, and saw Williams. He took me into a side room and showed me 20 guns in a case. I exa mined the top row, and found them same as sample. I left that room for the front room, and wrote my address on a card, which was affixed to the case. I afterwards wrote to him to say I- would take the other portion of the guns, pressing him to get them done as early as possible. i received a letter in an swer. (This letter said the prisoner would accom modate Mr. Clarke with the remaining guns, and, as he wished them out of the way as quick as pos sible requested the latter to go on Friday.) I wen t on iriday. He told me that 17 were ready, and that some person having been round taking stack, be could not supply the others he had intended. We went to his house, and he showed me 17 in rough stock state and three screwed together. The marks had been erased. The Government proof mark, which is different from proof marks on other guns, was erased. I did not pay him but gave him 31., and paid him the rest on Monday, at the rate of 13s. each for 17 guns, and 235. each for three. He objected to be paid in notes. The guns were conveyed the same as the others. All of them had ramrods and bayonets. After I got to London T wrote again for the other guns, which he had promised I should have. I re ceived two letters in reply. I afterwards saw him, and he told me the clerk had taken stock iu the place where he had the guns from, and they would not let him have any more. He told m© he could let me have some locks and other materials. I knew from my own knowledge that the guns were Government stores. I told him I believed he was being watched. He said it was a mere fancy of mine. I communicated with Mr. Cooper, and for warded to him the letters. Cross-examined—l carry on my business at my house, Stepney. Ido not carry oil business now at Upper Berners-street. I left it some time since. I have only fire or six men employed, at a tempo rary place lent me by the London Armoury Com pany. I had carried on business at Upper Ileruers street. I had no communication with Mr. Goodman before I came to Birmingham. I went there to engage men for the London Armoury Company, and with no other object. I engaged some work men. I knew many of the men in the pub'ic house. I had never bought military guns at Bir mingham except of Messrs. Cooper and Goodman, military contractors. I might have had a glass of ale before Williams spoke to me. It is possible I may have mentioned to people in the public-house that I wanted guns. Williams called me out of the public-house before any conversation took place be tween us. I was acting under instructions. I drank with him. I told him on several OCCa3iOT/S he was watched. Though I was acting under instruc tions, I felt I was only giving him a fair chance of escape by warning him. Pressed the prisoner to deliver the guns under the instructions I received as a detective. The money I paid him I received from Messrs. Goodman and Cooper. I have not been paid a farthing myself, nor do I expect to be, for what I did. I certainly do not like the job. I have been to a person named Jones for the purpose of buying waste materials, but not for my own pur poses. Never bought but one barrel in Birmingham in my life from men in the prisoner's position. I was in constant communication with two detectives from London while I was at Birmingham. Have bought many " wasters" from gumnekers, but none from men. Ido not know that thousands of wasters are sold by men. There are no wasters amongst those I purchased from tho prisoner. None of them hal condemned marks. I have sold many guns with the doub e R (t he mark of rejec tion by the Government) on them. Ido not gene rally take the double R off, becau-e it cannot gent l i - rally be done without taking the proof mask off also, and that involves the necessity of proving again. There were double R's upon other parts of the gun as well as on the proof mark, but I have generally taken that out before selling such guns. Wasters with the double R upon them sell as well as guns from a private manufactory. The double R is placed on the proof mark and where the gun is defective. The latter is generally taken out and the former left. Wasters have all the Government marks upon them as well as the mark of cond:m naeions By a Juryman—The Government mills were erased on the sample gun, and the condemned mark might also have been erased. Thomas Toone, the carter who convey e 1 the goods to the canal, was next called to prove that fact. - Charles Blanford, a tailor, examined by Serj ant Hayes, said lie was engaged by detectives to watch Brueton's house on the evening of Oct. 9, and saw Williams go in and afterwards time out with a bun dle of guns. Had seen him the previous night go from his own home to Bath-street with a wheel barrow, which contained a case. Cross-examined—l have been employed on and off for the detective force since 1842. I have been engage i in th s job for five or six weeks. By Mr. Bodkin—l acted under Mr. Smith's in stinetions, and took my measures accordingly. (Laughter.) John Peacbek, clerk to the Bridgewater trustees, proved receiving the case, which was sent to Mr. Goodman's. A man named Davis proved that he took the two cases from the office of the Bridgewater traslees t Mr. Gcodman'ti.- Adam a uce, Win. Mattison, and Wm. T , ylor also gave evidence to prove that the cases delivered at Mr. Goodman's, and produced, were the same as received at the caul:. _ _ -Wm. Smith, a sergeant in the London dete:tive ‘ force, produced the cases and guns. Mr. Goodman examined by Mr. Bodkin—l am chairman of the Birmingham small arms trade. In Sept. and Oct. I was in communication with Mr. Clarke, who sett me the lette:s. The guns were sent to my place by my order. By Mr. O'Brien—The first interview I bad with 'Clarke was about the end of Sept. Ite-:xamined—l had been absent about a week. When I returned, Mr. Cooper, my iartner, made, a report to me. - —I am tnl G h e e o. aa V v i i tt e c w e e n, r t at ex t a h m e i T ne o d we b r y rg i S u e ßir e m an i t ug ila ha y m es . l have screwed t examinedogee r t h g e uts were government guns i duce l il stores. The twenty They aro net was ers, either the whole or part._ Thera i s a g.-wernmect proof mark partly erased.... beli eve the trati: 13 have never bleu wasters, becluse the re le no a p pearance of a condemned mark having been placed on them. I find no trace of ar , j etted mark on anY-portio n of the guns. There are marks ofgovecuraent viewers not erased on two of the guns. There are pl tees On °titers where the viewers' marks have beer; erased. The g o vernment proof mark re inainA upon nearly the Whole of the guns. The :.uns L r i o odfuone a a gns— no t made np by a bar of an of another. I never k new cedr e n ( o i a i g s i t n o a e l k entire gu n wa b s y te. Mr. Brien —Th e govern - Cross-examined r. MC G proof mark would be upon wasters. Wasters are C )f two classes, and when they are condemned for bad workmanship they are returned to the con tract or, who generally reurns them to the work men, Guns are rejected after the viewers' marks are p laced upon them. If the barrel is rejected for bid workmanship the condemned mark is put be side t he lock ; if for bad material, under the bar rel. I say the guns produced were not con der,nl3.6 3, partly from not seeing the condemned nd partly from personal knowledge. I will take upon ~m yself to say the condemned m►rk has never been +re, because such a barrel would not be rejected :4 That mark could be totally erased. I always c v.nsidered the prisoner a respectable honest man. Other K;tnesses were called to prove the mark ing of the g uns by the viewers, and that they were not waste. Detective • officer Lockyer, of London, proved that he appr el tended the prisoner. The case I or the prosecution being closed, Mr. O'Bri, 9n addressed the jury for the defence, and was doik; so when our report was despatched. IHE , UN, LONDON' miISDLESEX SESSIONS. The sittings o the court for the December Gene ral Session were resumed yesterday morning at the Guildhall, Weste ainster, before Mr. Pashley, Q. C', Assistant-Judge, and a bench of magistrates, by adjournment from Clerkenwell. There were 48 cases for trial ; 41 of fel any, and 7 of misdemeanour. George Nathan 'el Hoskings, 35, surgeon, was indicted for havin 6 embezzled the sums of 41. 3s. and Si., received by him on account of Win. Henry Gardner, his master, He pleaded guilty. Mr. Sleigh and 1/1::. F. H. Lewis were for the prosecution. Mr. liiietcalfe was instructed on be half of the prisoner. It was stated to the court by Mr. Lewis, in the absence of Mr. Sleigh, that the prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutor, a surgeon of exten sive practice, aboir t two years and a half, and he had embezzled money, amounting altogether to near upon 3001., the fre .uds extending over a period of two years. He ha Id been in the habit of sending letters requesting .payments and intercepting thd answers returned by the patients. A betting book was found upon him - when he was given into custody. Mr. Metcalfe challenged the production of any such book, and said all the sums the prisoner was charged with having embezzled were 41. 3s. and 51., and the whole amount that could have been placed in the indictment was much less than had been stated. The prisoner was a highly respectable man, a licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company, and had been medical officer to the Bath Hospital. He had been in practice at Bath, but he gave it up, and entered upon a brewery speculation, which proved unfortunate. He came to London and took the situationof assistant to theprosecutor, at the salary of 801. per year at first, but utterly the pay had been increased to 1001. a-year. The prosecutor had two practices, ono of which, at Bayswater, was en tirely under the prisoner's control, and he had to attend upon first-class patients, to keep up the po sition of a gentleman, find fodginet4, and support his family, uponsostuallan.inceme. t 'He complained that the prosecutor had bean harsh to the prisoner, who had been a good servant to him, as was evi denced by the fact that he sat up with one patient, an admiral, 20 nights, for which the prosecutor charged at the rate of two guireeal per night; while he stave the prisoner not a penny for this extra ser vice. The prisoner was rather closely pushed by creditors, and certainly did make use of the prose cutor's money, but he did so under the expectation of receiving a sum of 5001., in which he was unfor tunately disappointed. Ia a legal point of vie v the prisoner had been guilty of the offence of embezzle ment, but he (Mr. Metcalfe) thought he had not been dealt with by the prosecutor in that liberal spirit his position would have justified. The prosecutor was put into the witness-box to answer several questions put by the court as to the amounts, and he wished to contradict some parts of what prisoner's counsel had stated. He did give the prisoner something for his extra services, and the greater part of the nights his sat up he was at a billiard table. The Assistant-Judge thought that had no direct bearing on the case. He would consider what sen tence to pas!. William Hilton, 65, pleaded guilty of having at tempted to defraud the Right Hon. Lord Panmura of 3s. 63. The prisoner went to his lordship's re dence in Chesham-place with a parcel which he s +id had just arrived by railway, and demanded 3s. 63. for the carriage. The valet took the parcel to his lordship, who opened it and found it contained 134 an old hat. The prisoner ran away on seeing the valet return. He threw another old hat down the area of au adjoining house. The court sentence' him to three months' hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dac. 21. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor, upon leaving the bench on Saturday, said—l feel that I way state in this room that I have received several communications upon the subject of the approaching holidays in consequence of the fact that th's year Christmas-day will fall upon a Friday, and suggest ing that the Saturday also should be kept as a public holiday. This would give Friday, Satur day, and Sunday, and it would, lam convinced, be a boon and a blessing to thousands in this great city, whc', under ordinary circumstances, have few opportunities of getting suck holidays, or in fact any holiday at all. I understand that several most extensive houses in the city have decided upon cicsing their warehouses upon the Saturday ; and if any arrangement can be made by which the plan can be carried out generally—that is, where ever the successive days can be allowed without great inconvenience to the principals, it will, as I said before, be of essential service to thousands. If this' 4 can be accomplished, I w o uld als o f ur th er sug gest that employers, in giving this holiday to their men, should not stop their pay for the Saturday. Of course, there may be some who will not have it in their power to adopt this suggestion, but it is an occasion which occurs only once in seven years; and lam sure th..t if persons who can do so with out injury or inconvenience will take the hint their men will requite them well by increased diligence in pursuing their labours on their return in the fol lowing week. Ido not at all wish to be supposed as dictating from this chair to the public upon the subject, but I feel myself quite justified in offering these suggestions, and I hope they will not be en tirely without effect. Applause, which was with difficulty checked by the officers of the court, followed the observations made by his Lordship. Henry Flint was yesterday brought up in the Custody of George Webb, the detective officer, upon a warrant charging him with having embezzle] money belonging to his employers, Messrs. Grind lay, the proprietors of the .Home News. The prisoner was committed for trial at the Cen tral Criminal Court. Mr. Kilby, the brother of Mr. F. Kilby, who was on the 170 inst., charged by Mr. Francis Worrell Stevens, stockbroker, of 3, Royal Exchange, with having attempted to lob him of several bun clritds of pounds, appeared before the Lord Mayor in very deep affliction. _ _ It Will be recollected that the Lord Mayor, after - having questioned the accuser very closely on the day of examination, dismissed the case, assuring Mr. Kilby that he would leave the court without the slightest taint upon his character. The applicant - of yesterday said that his unhappy brother became dreadfully prostrated on returning home at the idea of having been locked up in a static) I upon such a charge, and notwi , h-tauding every effort to cheer him, grew worse and worse, and on Sunday morning put an end to his exi•tenae by cutting his throat. • The Lord .Mayer said, he, greatly regretted so deplorable an event. He had supposed that the result of the examination as published in the news papers would have had the effect of at least allevia ting the _pain of baying been charged with the offence. Mr. Kilby intimated that he would in all pro bability petition the Court of Aldermen on the subject, and left the justica-room in great agita!ii.n, and much compassionated by all who were present. BOW STREET.—Mr. William Pitt' • Bowler, formerly adjutant and paymaster of the Donegal Artillery Militia, was brought before Mr. Jardine, in custody of Inspector Whicher, of the detective force, • on a warrant charging Ifni with having embezled. 1,233/. of the public money. The defendant was remanded for further in.veiti g-ttion. CLE RKENWELL.—WiIIiam Jennlngs, a yoting felloW described on the police sheet as a laboilier i residing at 54, Red Lion-street, St. Pancras, vas cha-ged with burglariously bre 'king and entering the dwelling house No. 54, Red Lion-street, and stealing therefrom one gold watch, eight woroa's dres,sep, 71. 16,i. lid., one silver snuffbox, and a quantity of other apparel, tho property of Agnes Baker and Georgina Baker, waitnesses. It appeared that that morning, Policy-serge nt ro Bwn, 10 E, was passing near • the prosecute x's li residence, when he ascertained that an entry lad, been" made into the house. The robbery of !the above articles was then found out, and frcmlthe active inquiries that had beeumade - by the police sergeant he entettained a suspicion that the ri goner was the math and 'upon his proceedin to 21 ..klbert-mews Hoxtm, lie discovered the ti senor in a hay loft there. When Sereant Brown . inquired of the piisener about th e matter lie denied all knowledge of the transaction, but afterward- - ; admitted that he was the man, and the trunk was found ix a corner. - Upon examining the place the sergeant fouud the gold watch and other valuable articles on the roof. The prisoner, who did not deny it, said he should reserve his defence. Mr. CO/Tie committed the prisoner for trial. THAMES.—Captain Robert M'Eachern, the owner and master of the brig H eather Bell, now on her voyage to Barbadoes, and who left the vessel in the Downs for the purpose of meeting the charge against him, appeared for the second time before Mr. Selfe to answer a charge of committing a series of assaults on John William Norris, a boy who was apprenticed to him by the Marine Society previous to sailing on a voyage to the West Indies. -After hearing the evidence, Mr. Selfe said, —I think it a matter for the consideration of a jury. Three witnesses !have sworn most distinctly to many assaults. In all a Tfie ee' captain has bet there are tshoemeli main ttle discrepancies.facts sthey cer tainly met the serious charge against him most man fully, and nothing can be better than his conduct in coming here and giving up the voyage, but what ever inconvenience it may inflict upon individuals, a ju? y under the direction of a learn e d j u d ge mus t gay whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty of the serious assaults charged against him. Mr. Pelham—lf that is your determination I will reserve the defence and not call any witnesses now. Mr. Selfe—l ought to say this, that the father of the deceased may make his mind perfectly clear that his boy did not commit suicide. There is no pretence for saying so. The boy was aloft on a stormy night, and, not being a very expert sailor, fell overboard. The depositions, which were exceedingly vo luminous, were then formally taken by Mr. sitcrak and read over, and called upo n t o fi n d b a il-•-• sureties in 1001. each to h CB i e da f °n M n 2 tE o h o ea I c . hj appear anti take his trial at th e nex t Old B a il ey u ea n rnn i d o junior two sessions. Bail was immediately tendered and accepted. LAMBETH.—A powerful and ruffianly-looking fellow, who gave the name of George Jone 4, was placed at the bar bafore M r . Elli o tt on the following charge:— POlice-constable Charles Revelle, 175 L, deposed that on Sunday morning at 7 o'clock he was in company with Sergeant Broad in Carlisle-street, Lambeth, and saw the prisoner and another man going on towards Royal-street, and from their ap pearance and manner they were induced to follow and watch them. In a short time they observed the prisoner's companion go up to the door of 45, Royal street, put a key into the latch, and en deavour to open it, but ho did not succeed, and rejoined the prisoner. At this time they must have observed Broad and himself watching them, for they hurried off in different directione. The witness turned up another street, and, having met the prisoner, he asked him what it was he was loitering about the streets at that hour of the morning for, and he denied that he was loi tering at al', but was going to his house in Princess street, near the Elephant and Castle. Observing something bulky under his coat, he asked the pri soner what it wa%, upon which he replied, "I'll show you," and drawing alife-preserver from under his coat aimed a desperate blow at his head with that weapon. It fortunately missed his head and struck him on the side of the neck, which stunned him for a few moments, and the prisoner started off. He called out " Stop thiet" as loud as he could, li and the prisoner was stopped and secured. Sergeant Broad corroborated the testimony of the last witness, and added that on hearing Revelle call out he ran to his assistance, and just came up as a civilian was in the act of stopping the prisoner, and saw the latter strike the former with the life preserver on his forehead. He (Broad) at once closed with the prisoner and they went down toge ther, and while on the ground he disarmed him of the life-preserver. The prisoner was then removed to the station-house and immediately after he (Broad) received from a woman the bunch of skele ton keys he then produced, and which she said she picked up close to the pace where the prisoner was apprehended. Witness subsequently tried the keys with the latch of the door the prisoner's companion had attempted to open, and found that two of them would raise the latch, and of course open the door, if there had been no additional fastening to it. The witness here handed the life-preserver to the ma gistrate for his inspection, and a most formidable instrument it appeared to be. Mr. Wm. Robinson said, that hearing the cry of " Stop thief" on the morning before, and seeing the prisoner running, he stopped him, - and ho in stantly struck at him with the life-preserver -pro duced ; fortunately his head was so close to him. at the time that the prisoner's fist struck his forehead es well as the instrument it hold, and therefore the blow from the preserver was not so severe as it otherwise might have been. Mrs. Thoruby, the lady residing in the house 45, Royal street, said that about 7 o'clock on the morn ing before she heard some persons move a key iu the front door lock as if endeavouring to open it, but did not succeed, and Mrs. Louisa Smith deposed that on the morning of that day mouth her house, 23, Allen-street, in the same neighbourhood, was ,entered by thieves by means of skeleton keys, and plundered of a good deal of property. .Sh e saw th e thieves leave the premises, and the prisoner so strongly resembled one of them that she believed him to be the same. _ The prisoner, who said be was a blacksmith, and cnly six weeks from Birmingham, was remlnded for a week. Dr. Iliff, one of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Mary, Newington, waited on Mr. Elliott, and informed him that on that morning the baby of Frances Paisley or Parley, about the burial of which complaints had been ma de at thi s cour t, h a d b een exhumed at the Victoria-park Cemetery, and iden tified by her fiends, who expressed themselves per andthe parish auth or i t i es were anx i ous be made p u bli c as soon as pos tfhectttlythae t rest,fae should pos sible. With respect to the. extraordinary circum stance of issuing two certificates for the burial of the same body from the workhouse, that matter was still under strict investigation. SECOND TRAGEDY IN S7'. PANCRAS.-r- INQUEST ON MRS. MACDONALD. ' ardwick-place, Harrington -4 o'clo c k, M r . W a kl e y heldYe a s tne inquestday afternoon a t5,1l at Harrington square, Hampstead-road, the residence of Mr. Frederick Macdonald, on the body of Mrs. Char wife, aged 34, who, afterlotte having Augusta i flinflicted Macdonald, seti eu his up o n him and her servants, flung herself out of the second floor window. • The jury were summoned and the panel sworn at the Southampton Arms Tavern, but in consequence of the inability of Mr. Macdonald, on account of his injuries, to attend to give evidence ' the pro ceedings were adjourned to his house., The Rev. Mr. Jennings, M.A., the deCeased's br law, and other relatives were "presen , . - • Elizabeth Anson, servant to the deceased, said, during the last•three nights prier to Saturday morn ing she had slept on - the sofa in the front room on the sec end floor, on account of the restless conduct of her mistress, who said she could not sleep, as her mother was dying. Mrs. Macdonald's mother died on Thursday night, and she was aequaint?d With it "on Friday morning, and became much-ex cited. About half-past se ven o ' c l oc k on S a t ur d a y morning she was awoke by the cries of her master, who cried out, "My Gad, my wife is getting out of th window." He jumped out of bed, and, with witness, rushed towards the window. Deceaied was partly on the window-sill, and she exclaimed. " It you comp near tne, , I will kill you. , I have this raz r." He seized her, and told witness to take the razor from her ' • but, in trying to do so, s h e Was cu t i n th e h a nd and arm. Mr. Macdonald .vas still holding her while she bad only one foot on the inside of the window sill, and all the rest of her body out, when, there being no sash line, th e w i n d ow -f e ll d own upon his back. He called t o h er t o lift it up while he pulled her mistress in. F ur a m inute or so she was unable to move the sas h, - an d h e r master cried out " Police," and witless ran' to the blby who was screaming. She saw her master's hauds streaming with blood, and afterwards saw the deceased lying in the front area on her back. Wihles 3 had beea but three weeks in the deceased's service and saw nothing strange in her conduct. Dr. Fraat r and Mr. Collins were called in, but the deceased died in about half an hour. On the Coroner desiring to examine Mr. Mac donald, Mr. Collin , . his medical adviser, was cut vela , sliokiegly, and he was in such a state that he could not be brought' down with safety. said his hind Dr. Fraser, of 15, Harrington-square, said, when called in deceased had beeu removed from the area into the kitchen. Both fore arms were broken, the tight having a compound fracture, and the lefc single fracture. One of .the spikes of the railings had entered the fleshy anterior part of the right thigh. She died. in about half an hour, Mr. Macdona'd's hands were bleeding, and left band and Iv , ist was cut right a ;ross the bac'T, the tendons and ve ins being divided. No doubt the injuries from the fall were the cause of death. Mr. Julius Collins surgeon, of Morn ington-place, said he had attende I Mrs. Macdonald and her f a mily for four or five years past up to about six weeks back, when, under his advice, she was re moved to a private lunatic asylum at Bow. He certified for her to go there. She had continual delusions that 'she was poisoned, or about to be poisoned. A few days before she went to the asy lum she s3nt for him, and declared some medicine she had been taking was poison, and she had taken it in mistake. She did not exhibit symptoms of a dangerous tendency calculated to make him believe she contemplated suicide. At the sanao time, how ever, lie-advised precautionary and watchful mea sures. The first witness was recalled, and identified the razor as her master's. They had missed it about a week ago, and it could not be found anywhere. The deceased must have secreted it. The Coroner said, with the evidence of the ser vant and that of Dr. Collins, he thought the jury had heard enough of this very deplorable catas trophe, without inflicting further torture on the unfortunate gentleman, the deceased's husband, to enable them to come to a conclusion. The jury concurred with the Coroner, and imme diately returned a verdie, " That the deceased cmunitted the shocking act which led to her death whilst in a state of insanity." THE FIRE AND LOSS OF THREE LIKES IN SHOREDITCH. CORONER'S INQUES P ON THE SUFFERE RS. Last night, Mr. W. Baker, the coroner for East Middlesex, and a highly respectable jury assembled at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Bonner's-road, Victoria park, for thepurpose of inquiring into the circumstances attending the respective deaths of Mr. John Metcalf, aged 52 ; Ann, his wife, aged 44 ; and his daughter, Julia Maria, aged seven years ; who wore burnt to death at a fire which oc curred on Saturday morning last, at No. 27, marcher-street, Shoreditch. Owing to the many rumours in circulation as to the origin of the fire, the investigation excited a painful degree of interest, and the large concert room in which the inquest was held was densely crowded during the whole of the proceedings. Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the fire brigade ; Mr. Fogo, foreman of the A district ; Mr. Baddeley, inspector, and Mr. Sampson Low, secretary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, attended to watch the inquiry ; and Mr. Inspector Henley, of the II division, was in attendance to report the case to the Commis sioners of Metropolitan Police. William Opency, a weaver, of 13, Hare-marsh, identified the bodies, when Police-constable GonVison, No. 38 11, said that on the morning in question he was on duty in Ar cher-street, and on going his rounds he met Mr. J. A. Harman, who did not rent the house himself, but his mother-in-law did. He asked witness if lie knew him or not, and he replied that ho did. They then walked down the court, and he said that he was going t 3 the west-end for his brother to take charge of his premises, He also said that his house bad been broken into, and 601. of goods had been stolen therefrom. Witness had seen him two or three times before on the same morning ; he told him the first time that he had been robbed at half pa-it 12 o'clock the overnight. By a Juror—He was not at that time sober. He also told him that he suspected his wife and his mother-in-law of having robbed him, and that they must have taken the goods backwards, as none of the neighbours had seen them taken from the front. He wished him (the constable) to go in and search the place, but he refused, and advised. him to go to the station-house. At half-past one o'clock M.. Harman offered him something to drink, which he refused to partake of. Ho saw no more of him from that time until three o'clock, when he saw what he considered to be the gas burning in Mr. Harman's house. He said to him, " Are you going to leave the gas burning," and he replied, " Well the gas is alight." Upon looking towards the top of the house he saw smoke coming from the shutters, when he said, " Harman, your place is on fire, and you know it." He made no answer, and witness took out his rattle and gave the alarm, when Mr. Har man forced the shop door open and ho tried to get in, but witness seeing that he was intoxicated pulled him back as the flames were then too great for any one to pass. By the Coroner—His first impression was that the whole c)f the shop and parlour were on fire. In pulling Harman back they both fell clown together. When they got up Mr. Harman attempted to break open the side door by pushing bodily against it. Ho kept pushing him back and also springing his rattle. He then went into the next house. Other police offic,.,rs coming up he sent them for the fire-escapes and enTine.. He looked at the second-floor, and saw the female and the child at tke window. He called out to the elder female tp make her escape, but not to attempt to come down stairs. He ex p3cted that she would have made for the attics, as the house was three stories high. He next went into the adjoining house, and saw Mr. Harman there. By a Juror—The reason for witness going into that house was for the purpose of trying to rescue ' the other parties in the burning house. He heard an exclamation, " They are all out." Sergeant Edinger and the Royal Society's Escape conductor at that moment arrived, and the escape was placed next tho house on tire, but he lost sight of the conductor for a moment or so, when he noticed him on the roof of the house, but he could not tell how ha got there. By the Coroner—The parish engine and fire escape arrived together. The latter was supported by Shoreditch parish, but was under the control of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire. If he bad placed the escape in front of the burning house it would have beendestroyed, as the fire was coming half way over the street. Sarah Harding, a widow, said that she resided at N 0.13, Archer-street, nearly opposite the house where the fire took place. About twenty minutes after the alarm was given she saw the female at the window, who cried out to Mr. Harman, "Oh, you wretch ! Oh, you villain ! You have been the cause of this." The Coroner—That looks something like a dying declaration. Was any further remark made ? Witness—Yes, ho replied, "Make your way to the top of the house." Several qUestions were put to the witness by Mr. Harman, but nothing of importance was elicited. Robert Cathorn, of 10, Archer-street, said that the reason for ,placing tho fire•escape• against the next house was owing to the flames coming so fiercely out of the windows. Police-sergeant Edinger, No. 124, of the H division said that on Saturday mornin. , at three o'clock, ho was on duty in High-street, Shoreditch, when he received information of the fire. He pro ceeded to the spot at once, and noticed flames cross ing the street. The fire-escape man and the parish engine came about the same time. By the Coroner—He thought that the escape man pai more attention to the escape than he did to the escape of the inmates. He, however, thought th .t from the distance the machine had to come from, it could bo of no avail in saving any of the lives. The whole of the parties must have perished before he arrivea. Upon queltioning Mr. Harman, he denied CIA lie had been out in Archer court on the night preceding the fire, or that lie made a statement to the constable that he had had his house robbed. Mr. Thomas B. Crystie, M.D., proved that the three persons hal died from thetornbined effects of suffocation and burning. He thought if the escape upon its arrival had been at once used, it would have been of no use in rescuing the deceased. • Barton, the .escapeman, proved that when he reached the spot the fire was coming out of the windows, and he tried all that was possible to get the deceased persons out. Mr. Low said that Barton was one of the beat conducted and most active (scapemen they had in their establishment. The fact was he had saved upwards of 40 persotis in five years, and it was only at the express wish of the leading men in the parish that he was appointed to take charge of the parish escape. Several other witne3ses having been examined, it was proved that Mr. Harman was insured for 3001., in the Liverpool and London Fire•oflice. The jury nut being satisfied with the evidence adduce.l, adjourned the inquiry to a future day. [AuvEnrisumENT.]---We have read with much Pleasure Du Barry's report on the cure of diseases without medicine by Du Barry's Food, of Indigestion( Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipa tion, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility. 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Bun Fire Ditto Life United Mingdom Universal Life . • • ..... Victoria Life Name of Company. A.ustralasia Rank of Egypt Rank of London British North American Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch. City........... Colonial Commercial of London EMT. Scot. & Aust. Ch Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus Do. New .. • ..... London and County .. Lon. & Eastn. Ilnkg. C. London Joint-Stock ... Londn and Westmin3tr Nat. Provincial of E n g . Ditto, New ........ Ditto . dit to Natiolni Bank New -oath Walee Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New... ...... Ionian•••• •• •• •• •• .• •• South Australia ...... Union of Australia.... Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Unity Mutual Western Bank or Londn. 51. per cnt. 61. per cnt. 4/. per cent. 51. per cent. 41. per cnt. 51. per cut. 41. per cent. BRIDG: Dividend per Annum. 103 per cent. •• .. 1 11. 123. Od. IL 3s. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend . per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 1 51. Os per c. rRANCE CO. Dividend . per Annum. Amount of Share. Price. 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. 1. p.c. & 1)5. 15s. Oa. & bs 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. 1/.. per share 18s. ss. 5t4 per cent 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent 121. per cent. *p. ct. &bs. 2s & 2s bons per sh. 4s. per share 18s. & bs. 1% per cent 51. per cent. I 'sl. per cent. 6 X per cent 5/ p. ct. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 1234 per c. 7s. p. c. & bs p. c & bs 11. 14s. 41. & bonus. 51. & bonus. 51. & Lonus. INT-S SOCK Dividend per Minum. 801. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 4t. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. p. c. SG bs. 41. per cent. 5/. percent. !el. per cent. G!. per cent. 28 per cent. 18 per cent. 16pc.&bs il.per cent. 20'. per tent. tOl. per cent. 41. p. ct.Stbis. 81. per cent. 5L per cent. 101. per cant. 11/. per cent. 51. per cent.l 4 s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Sh are. X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 GO 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 stock. 3tock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 PANIES. £ a. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 (1 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 G 5 0 tOO 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 £ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 47 5 u 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 9 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 B &NYS. Amount of Share. X s. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 1 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 , 1 20 0 0 20 0 0 5 20 0 " O 100 0 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 2000 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 II 1 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 , 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Z s. d. 100 all X o. d. Stock. 00 - 6 0 00 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 500 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 Paid. X a. d. All 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. s. d. s. d. Bank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 187/05 British Linen Company 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 215/05 Caledonian Bank ..... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 210 031 15s City of Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 Os Clydesdale Bank .. •• 53v/. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0' 11/ 5s C Anmercial Bank •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 - 100 0 0 222/ 0 Eastern 8ank........ 61. par cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 111 5s Edinb.& Glasgow.... 3;4 I. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 31 185 National Bank ...• •• 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180. Os Northof Scotland Bank 5/.per cent 20 0 0 210 05/ 105 Royal Bank of S cotl. .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1371 s Union Bank of Scot... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 751 10 Western Bank— .• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ---/ 0 Alliance Fire and Life.. 8;41. pr cont. 100 0 0 11 0 0 171 Os British Guarantee . 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 1/ Ils Caledonian Fire Inuit'. 10e.per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite.. Gl. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 II Os Co'onial Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 71 Os Edinburgh Life Inuit*. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 281 Os Eng. & Scot, Law Life 510er cont. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41 Is Life Assoc. of Scotland GL per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 061 15s National Fire and Life W. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0210 s, North British Insur... 71. per cen t. 200 0 0 20 0 0 3 71 O s ' Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 12s Scottish Provincial 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/ 17s Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%/. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 011 133 Standard Life •• ••.. •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 271 53 SOCIETY OF ARTS. At the last meeting of the Society of Arty, Mr. :an Underwood read a paper "On the history and chemistry of writing, printing, and copyin g letters, and a new plan of taking copies of written and printed documents, marls , charts, plans, and drawings." Mr. Underwood noticed, in the first place, the quality of the inks in ancient manu scripts, and the attempts that had been made to analyse their composition, observing that the ink in some manu scripts of most ancient date bad retained its colour much better than that of the manuscripts of the 14th or 15th centuries The opinie,n generally entertained that all the inks which have longest withstood the test of rip, are composed of lamp black and a mineraloginous liquid, has been proved not to be correct; for thou g h many of them were so formed, it appears, on applying acid tests, that iron galls were employed as at the pre sent day, with the addition, in seme instances, of vas pended carbonaceous particles. The difference that is observable in the preservation of the legibility of manuscripts was attributed by Mr. -Underwood, in a great degree, to the different qualities of the parch ment on which they are written. With respect, how. ever, to the manuscripts on papyrus, the ink eroph.syed on them was formed of powdered carbon, mixed wi th * gummy liquid, and it was most probably used with a fi ne brush. In the preparation of ink for modern purposes, and fitted for the use of steel pens, the plan recommended and adopted by Mr. Underwood is—first to bruise t he galls very small, but not into powder, and to steep them for several days in distilled water, the purity of the water being considered important. To that infusion there . is added a quantity of iron in filings or coiled wire, whi ch after a short time turns the liquid black—iron being preferred to copperas (sulphate of iron), which is com monly used, biicame the sulphuric acid of the sulphate becomes disengaged from its combination with the and tends to turn the ink brown. Logwood and gum are subsequently added to give a blue colour . and adhesiveness to the ink. The new plan of copy ing writing consists principally in preparing the paper, by steeping it in a weak solution of chromate of potass, which facilitates the .transfer of the ink ; and wit it, h a paper so prepared, and a been taken of the original writing, by allowing the paper to remain a short time in the ordinary copying press. Specimens of writing so transferred were exhibited, of some of whic h 25 copies had been taken. In the discussion that ensued lir. Lloyd, after alluding to the importance, to the legal profession particularly, of obtaining copies that would retain their legibility, suggested the application of pho tography to the purpose, and mentioned several instances in which it had been so applied successfully. Mr. May observed that the chlorine now used in bleaching writing paper had the effect of destroying all vegetable colouring matter in the ink, and he conceived that no ink would be durable that depended on a vegetable colour. ?Ir. Ste phens advocated the use of blue ink, made with Prussian blue, as more durable than black ink, and he ridiculed the objection to the use of blue ink in legal documents which had been raised by the judges. Mr. Atwell, the inventor of anastatio printing, contended that when a large number of copies was wanted, especially of maPss his process is more applicable than the common plan of copying from paper, as the original, when transferred to a metal surface, can be multiplied to a greater extent and with more perfect resemblance to the originaL After some observations from Mr. Underwood, explain ing the peculiar fitness of his plan of copying for railway purposes, the meeting adjourned. Country Markets. CHELMSFORD —Dec. 18. A little more animation in the wheat trade to-day, and the best samples 18 higher. Spring corn of all description"' unaltered. Wheat, white, old, per s. qr.sl now 43 old 43 new 42 . s. s• 54 i Oats, per qr. 54 Peas, Partridge 4O 43 47 White 8 46 47 Boiling 39 46 31 Dun b 8 40 41 I Beans, Tisk 39 0 32 I Harrow ticks 40 44,„ 75 I Mazagan 36 4u 39 red, Barley '33 Chevalier 34 Grinding 29 Malt 72 Chevalier 74 Ditto; Dew... 36 Official Statement of the Qua] in the port of London, fro] Dec. 13 to Dec. 19, both in Entities of Corn, &c, •m the following 134 nolusive. received nie, fora Colchostor Harwich B ll Leigh 1389, Maldon 11 i __. 32 1 1 5(4 30 20 108) 79 , 525 COLCHESTER— DEO. 19. The wheat trade was firm, a moderate supply, and prices same as last week. Malting barley is dearer. Beans and, peas is lower. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 50s to 56 ; rod, 44s to 60s; barley, 36 s to 43s ; oats, 24s to 30s •; beam., Mangan, 36s to 38e ; middle and small, 40s to 42s ; p e as, white, 44s to 46s ; grey, 40s to 445. KIRKCALDY—DEo. 19. To-clay we had fair supplies of di sorts of grain, and the sales ready, and all extra qualities 6d to is dearer. Wheat. I hari ey. 1 Oats. 1 Beans. First s2s Od 3-is 01 r, 24s Od I Os Od Socond 27s Od 22s 01 Os 0 1 Third 3os (hi I 20s 01 18s Od ( Os Od COAL MAR' Prices of Coals per ton al IT.—DEo. 21. the close of the market Wallsend, &o. s. d. Bebside's Hartley 14 9 s el. Howard's West Hartley Nixon's Duffryn. ......... 21 6 Netherton 15 0 1 Ru h i 11' Hetton .......... 18 6 Longridge's Wst Hartley 14 91se 6 Hartley 13 1 Tantield Moor Butes 13 01Whitworth ...............16 w W Ta e n s i t e i l i d aa to e o y r l3 0 Eden Main ............... 18 0 Groy's 14 0I Riddell ..................... 16 ! Htl'pool West llartley 15 0 Acorn Close ............... 17 1 1' Bates's West Hartley ..14 6 Haswell 9 9 6 Davison's West Hartley 15 0 South Hartlepool ........ .18 .. North Percy Hartley ...14 6Lainhton ......... . l9 ,1 iWylam . l5 t Wallsend, Ate. i Walker Primrose l3 6 Shincliffe Ships at m1a7rke°,116°21751i01d.,5..6. .. ............15 6 LOCAL SHARE 111A11-1"2111 LIVERPOOL, DEO. 21. STOCK EXCLIANGE.—The market opened active to-day, with a marked improvement, and prices of all the leading shares have advanced in value. Caledonian, 41i —Grand Trunk of Canada, 104 11 i Loudon and North Wes. terns, 96i 97—Sheffields, 3 9 1 — Gr eat Westerns, Great Great Western of Canada, 18 2-16—Midlands, 89 — Luxembourg constit., 7 i — North Un ion, A, 220—South Eastern, 201. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Business in the market generally brisk to-day, with the pri,es in advance. Londons, 97—* —Midlands, 89 90—Holyheads, 30—Great western,. 54i —Shropshire - Unions, 4, 48 MANCHESTER, DNo. 2t. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were very much improved, but prices closed rather weaker. London and North Western, 97—South Eastern, 205 1- East Lancashire, 92 — Black burn, 9A B —North British, 71. Guaranteed, par—Grand Trunk of Canada, 11h—Dovers, 21 20 h—Midlands, 89A 9—London and South Western, 954—East Lancashire New, 5, dis.—Sheffields, 40 39i — Leeds, 94 I—Blackburn, 9i —Great Western of Canada, new, 2 d—North Staffords, 3 s—Eastern Counties, BIRTHS. BARRY —On the 19th inst., at 8, Gray's-inn-place, the wife of Arthur E. Barry, solicitor, of a daughter. CLIRK—On tho 19th inst., at Arundel House, Arundel. square, the wife of Mr. Alexander Clark, of 15, street, Lincoln's-inn- fi elds, of a daughter. DixoN—On the 18th inst. , at Astle, the lady of Lieut.. Colonel Dixon of a daughter . gottingdon, WAUD—On the 18th inst., at the Rec tor y , Essex, the wife of the Rev . S. W. Wand, of twin sons, Gate. MARRIAGES. ANRGAN—BRIDGES—On the 19th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Daniel Morgan, Esq., of Capelhir Tal. ley, Carrnarthenshire, and Giltspur-chambers, Newgate street, London, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mrs. Bridges, of Bow, Middlesex. DEATHS. BROWN —On aged 70. Edward Brown, Esq. , Lynn, r , the 19th in , t., at The Firs, A s ht on - un der, f the Adjutant-General's t G ' Robt. Cannon, w Esq., late o 3n - eneral's Office, So G u ards, aged 65. C A NNON-- On the 19 t h inst . , at Lee, Rent N , riEit —On the 19th inst., at Shanklin, Isle of Wight , Lady Napier, wife of Admiral Si r Ch as . Napier, apier, S.C. 8., MP. PowELL —On the 20th inst. at his residence, Lark Sill; Worcester, 73. Rear-Admir a l Herbert Brace Powell, aged TILBURY -0u the 19th inst ,at 31, Mornington-road, Re* gent's-park, N. NV , Mr. 'Thomas Tilbury, aged 81. WHITMORE—On the 19th a t Charlton, Kent, Coy inst., delia, the wife of General Sir Geo. Whitmore, Jit• ti i' l a Royal Engineers. LONDON Printed and Published by fiIURDO YOUNC, of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Moo, Not 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho count,' of Middlesex, Tuesday, I;4ml:thus 22, 1857. Price Paid. .£ a. d. Price. Paid. Paid. Price. 49% 365 120 3g 7% 277 Price.