The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-10 00:00:00

THE MURDER OP A POLICE-CONSTABLE IN HERTFORDSHIRE. STEVENAGE, Nov. 9. The inquest on the body of John Starkins, of the Hertfordshire county constabulary, who was found barbarously murdered in a pond, near St , venage, a few days ago, was resumed to-day at the National School-room in that town before Mr. C. Times, coroner. The case up to the present time is one of entirely circumstantial evidence as against the man appre hended. The crime has caused the deepest feeling of horror in the neighbourhood. It appeared on examination of the body that such had been the strength with which the knife was used that it had actually penetrated to the vertebrae at the back of the neck, and the head was nearly dropping off. Captain Robinson, the chief constable, attended to watch the proceedings. The first witness examined was Mr. Dunn, sur geon, who made the post-mortem examination. He stated that he had found on inspection of the body that the scalp had been removed, the head sawn off, and the brains examined by another prc feasional man. On the day o f th e i nquest he had a communication with Captain Robinson, who desired him to make an immediate examination, as it was important that it should be made at once. Witness said that he could not do it that evening, but was prepared to do it early next morning. Finding that the body had been partially examined, he com municated with the coroner, who directed him to proceed with it. On the following Thursday, when he presented himself to make the examination as directed, he was refused admission to the room by the police until Mr. Smith, the other practitioner who had been called in, arrived, when they pro ceeded to make the examination together. The deceased was 5 feet 9 inches high, about 25 years of age, and of a robust constitution. The bcdy appeared to have been caking a day or two in water, the hands and feet in particular being quite sodden. There was a piece of skin knocked off the joint of the little finger, apparently by a blow. There was also a wound on the lips, as if they had been torn by a point of a knife. Below the chin was a wound about two inches long, and an oblique out on the left side of the neck. The principal wound was one in the throat, about six inches long, extending from one angle of the jaw to the other. The wound had irregular edges, and appeared to have been done with three distinct cuts of a knife. The commencement of the wound was on the right side. The knife appeared to have been thrust two inches deep into the neck and then violently drawn across the throat. Both the internal and external carotid arteries were divided, as well as each of the jugular veins. The knife appeared to have cut close down to the spine ; consequently the head was almsot severed from the body. On the left side the jugular veins were also divided. In con sequence of the length of time that life had been extinct the rigor mortis had nearly disappeared. The carotid artery on the left side was not divided, the consequence of which was that the head being lower than the body some blood might have run into the head and caused the general extravasation visible in the skull. It did not appear to have re sulted from strangulation. No doubt in case of strangulation the brain would be greatly congested, but he was of opinion that in conseqc nce of the large vessels being cut the blood would have run out of the body very soon, and the extravasation would disappear. There was no doubt that the large wound on the throat mint have caused almost immediate death. Probably the mar was dead in less than a minute after the wound was made. It appeared to have been caused by a pointed instru ment, but not a very sharp one, though sufficiently sharp, with the exertion of some strength, to have caused the cut. His reason for supposing that it was not a very sharp knife was because it appeared to have pushed aside some of the cartilage, which a sharper one would have cut through. There was no doubt in his mind that the wound could not have been inflicted by the deceased. Witness saw the body soon after it was taken out of the water, before it was undressed. The collar was cut as if by a pointed knife, such as was sometimes used by labourers. The coat and also the stock of the deceased were here produced and shown to the j ury, and the witness said that, from the mutilated condition of the coat collar, and the fact of the stock being bent down, it appeared to him that some person had grasped the deceased by the collar, forced him down, and then cut his throat. There were also no traces of blood from the place where the marks of a struggle were visible to the pond in which the body was found ; whereas, if it were possible to suppose that the man crawled to the pond, there must have been a distinct track of blood. The wound appeared to bave been made when the man had been brought to the ground by another leaning over him or while standing in front of him. By the Jury—The wound was much deeper on the right side of the throat, and the cut on the coat seemed rather to have been made after the knife came out of the throat. By the Coroner—The back of the coat appeared to have been drenched with blood, as if the wound had been made either when the man was standing, and that he had fallen on his back, or that the wound had been made when he was he was lying on the ground. Witness thought that from such an incision as appeared to have been made a great quantity of blood would have spurted on the person who inflicted injury. When veins of that descrip tion were cut the blood jetted out with considerable force. The elasticity of the stock would probably have prevented a good deal of the blood • from covering any person near, because after the person had let go his hold the stock would go back again to its original position. When the body was found the stock completely covered and almost concealed the wound. If blood jetted out from the neck of one man on to the body of another it would depend upon the distance whether the blood would be in spots or patches upon the clothes of the other. Witness thought that the hands and wrists of the murderer must have been covered with blood, especially if one hand grasped the stock of the man. The Coroner then addressing the jury, said th it it was quite clear that th e decease 1 had met his death by foul means, and not by his own act ; therefore it now became their duty to investigate the matter further. Mr. Chalkley, ore of the jury, demurred to this course of proceeding, stating that he thought all they had to do so was to say whether the mau ha i com mitted suicide or had been murdered. The Coroner reminded the jurymen that they were bound to inquire by what means tLie deceased came to hi 3 death. Mr. Chalkley appeared incline I to clißpute this ruling, and was about to raise a discussion on the question, when The Coroner said that, as 14 jurymen had been sworn, h 3 might retire if he thought fit. Mr. Chalk!ey accordingly adopted that alternative, and retired from the room. Thomas Cooper, a flydriver, living at Stevenage, stated hat last Friday evening week he took a lady from the Stevenage station to to Chapel Bury be tween five and six o'clock. As be passed. Norton green lane be saw a policeman standing on the rail way-bridge, looking about. Although he did not like to swear to the fact, he was pretty well sure that it was Starkins. Elizabeth Rowe, the inhabitant of a cottage situated in a field a short distance frOm the pond in which the body was found, stated that she saw a person answering the description of the policeman pass down alone at the bottom of the field in which her cottage was situated, and go on in the direction of the field called Cooper's Braches, in which is the pond in question. She knew a meta called Jere miah Carpenter, who had been apprehended on the charge of murder, but did not see him pass her house that evening on his return from work, though she remained outside the door till six o'clock. Mr. Edward Horn, the occupier of a farm in the neighbourhood of Stevenage, called Norton-green Farm, deposed that he employed Jeremiah Car penter, the accused person. Witness was present at the time the body was found last Monday, and in the afternoon of that day, on making an inspec tion of the field, he found some wheat on the ground in a place where there seemed to have been a scuffle. The wheat was of the same description ofwheat that he had been sowing, and was mixed with some barley. He finished sowing the day before the murder. It was a very unusual thing for barley to be mixed with wheat. To the best of his belief the wheat belonged to him, and he sup posed from that circumstance that it had been stolen from him. Some wheat which had been found in a neigh bouring wood was here produced, and compared with the wheat picked up at the placa at which the struggle occurred, and with wheat taken from Mr. Horn's barn. This wheat was closely examined by the jury, most of whom were farmers, and who de clared all the samples possessed a general resem blance. _ Examination resumed. —The sample taken from the wood did not seem to be exactly the same in his opinion as the other. Carpenter was employed by witness on Friday week in a field on Norton -free❑ Farm, and Cooper's Britches would be in a dire u t line to Carpenter's cott lore from that spot. Car penter's cottage was in the high road near Steven age, a little under a mile from the field in which he was at work. It would take him about 20 minutes to walk to the field in which he worked. From the place at wbich the marks of the struggle were visi ble to Carpenter's house was about 150 yard., and it might take him two minutes to walk there. Car penter left work at half-past 5 o'clock. On Th urs ay, the 29th of October, Carpenter was assisting in sowing the red wheat. He was a very poweiful man. William Red examined.—l work for Mr. Horn, and am foreman. On Thursday, the 29th of Octo ber, I was at work sowing wheat. Catpenter was employed on that morning to assist in sowing, and in the afternoon, at 3 o'clock, w e sen t him to the farm to fetch some wheat, as we thought we should not have enough. He brought the wheat and re mained in the field till 4 o'clock, when we finished the field. I then went to the farm with Sheppard, and Carpenter went to the farm a different way. When I got to the farm I found Carpenter there. He remained until half-past 5, and then went away with some other men named Sheppard, Flint, and Spicer. They went down the lane together. On the following day, the day of the murder, Sheppard and Carpenter were employed in Chalkdale field, but I called Sheppard away, leaving Carpenter to finish some work in a field called the railwayfield. If when Carpenter left work at half-past 5, he was in the mid dle of that field, he went to his cottage. The way through Cooper's Braches would be the most direct. In all probability I should take that course. On the following Saturday when Carpenter came to work, I observed that he was lame. I told bun to go into the barn, but he was unable to work from his lame ness, and I saw him going home on that morning about half-past 7 ' • he was then walking very lame. On the following day I called at Carpenter's house to inquire how he was, and he told me that the police bad been to see which way he had come home the previous night, and he said, " I came across the wood, and by the cottages." I understood the front of the cottages on Wilmer-common. I did not notice what dress Carpenter had on when he came home on Saturday morning. Wm. Sheppard, a little boy 9 years of age, was then called, and having been tested as to his know ledge of right and wrong, and the obligation of an oath, he was examined, and stated that on Friday week night he saw Carpenter come home from his work about 6 o'clock ; he walked lame. About half an-hour after Carpenter came home Mrs. Carpenter came to his house and asked witness's father to go and get off a block of wood which had fallen down on his (Carpenter's) boot ; that he was going to pull a bit out of the middle and that it fell down toge ther. Witness and his father went to Carpenterand found him lying down , with the root of a tree which had been grubbed up ying on his foot. His fat her lifted off the root easily—it was rather heavy, more than he (witness)could have lifted. His father took Carpenter's gaiter and boot off, and the foot was very much swelled. Witness was looking on, when his father told him to go home to his plait—that he wasn't wanted there. When Carpenter was lying on the ground with the root on his foot hehad his best smock and "willie" on, and witness heard him say to his father, "I've put my best smock and willie on to go to Stevenage to get some pigs' victuals, but now I can't go." He left school at half-past 5, and when he got home his father was home before him. W. Sheppard, a labourer in the employment of Mr. Horn, stated that he left the farm on the Friday in question rather later than Carpenter. He did not notice his smock frock that day. After be got home Carpenter's wife came to him and told him that he had thrown down some blocks of wood upon bis foot. Did not notice whe ther Carpenter walked lame when he came home. He usually wore bis smock frock tied round his shoulders by the sleeves, but he could not tell whether it was tied in that manner on that parti cular day. It was about 20 minutes after be came up the garden before Carr enter sent for bis assist ance. When he went there and took off the block he fell round on his back. Witness on taking him into the house and taking off his boots said the .leg was very much swollen, and advised him to send for a doctor. The next morning he went to in quire after Carpenter at five in the morning. when he found him up with his smock frock on, but he did not know whether he had his best wide awake on. He still complained of his lameness, but had his boots on. He asked witness to carry his spade. He could not tell whether the spade he saw was the same spade with which he was at work the previous day. He had many times seen Carpenter's nose bleed ; as many as three times a-day. Could not say how long since. Mr. George Monies, a corn-dealer, was then called, and depo se d that to the best of his judgment the wheat found on the spot at which the struggle took place, and that taken from Mr. Horn's gra nary, were from the same bulk. At this stage of the proceedings the inquiry was adjourned. THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT MILL WALL. INQUEST ON JOHN DONOVAN. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Poplar Hospital, on the body of John Donovan, aged 70. who, with Anthony Mayer, John Brown, Henry Stacey (still remainino , in this hospital), and Henry Wise, received such extensive injuries at the attempted launch of the Leviathan steamship from Mr. Scott Russell's yard, at Millwall, on Tuesday last. Mr. Baker, coroner for the eastern division of the county of Middlesex, presided, and the inquest-room was greatly crowded. Amongst the persons present wen Mr. Brttnel, chief engineer of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, and several of the directors. I The jury having been sworn and viewed the I body, which was lyin g i n th e d ea d-h ouse o f t h e I hospital, The Coroner said, before they entered into the examination of witnesses in this case he thought it his duty shortly to call the attention of the jury to the state of the law in reference to such cases as it existed at the present day. A. few years ago there was an alteration of the law under which a deodand was levied upon any machine moving to wards the death of any person, and through which he might be deprived of life. Even a ship as large as the Leviathan would have become the property of the Crown, if it were to be so decided by the jury. In later seen the Government and the Par liament had thought fit to alter that law, and in lieu of the levying of a deodand, had given to the friends or administrators of the deceased the right of actioo against the parties for the loss the friends of the deceased had sustained through his death. That law, however, framed by the wisdom of their ancestors, had worked well for centuries ' • but, as he said, a few year: a go th a t l aw was repealed, as it was considered that it sometimes dealt hardly to wards the owners °l:property who were not them selves to blame. He thought that such a law, might have been modidel so as to afford some check on improper conduct by which human life might be sact;ficed. The learned coroner tben alluded to the law as it existed in reference to rail way cases, where, on its being proved that negligence oc curred, the friends of those killed were entitled to compensation, and the same principle applied to the Leviathan steamship, a principle which had been very clear:y laid down by some of the most eminent judges of the land. He then cited several cases which bore upon the point, and remarked on the fact that they had no precedent to guide them as to the launch of a ship, as they never heard of such a mode of launching being adopted on any former occasion, so that there would be all new matter before ;heel. He uederst)od that there were persons who had charge of the launch present, and he thought it would hardy beproper that they should close the inquiry without hearing Mr. Brunel's explana ions ; but he should reserve to himself whether he would put him upon his oath, unless he desired to make his statement upon oath ; but if in the course of the inquiry it should assume a criminal charge, then it would be necessary to have a post mortem examination of the body, as it was essential that the fullest information should be laid before the jurytowhom might be entrusted the trial of the person supposed to be implicated iu the death of the deceased. George Ross was the first witness—He said—l live at No. 10, St. Ann's-street, Limehouse, and I am a labourer. I knew the deceased, John Dono van. He was a labourer, but not of any particular character, that I am aware of. I saw him last alive when I carried him into a public-house. I was pre ' sant when an attempt was male to launch the Le viathan, on Tuesday, the 3d of November, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon. That was in the parish of All Saints, Poplar. I was at work there from the commencement, and I believe the deceased was there also. We were stationed about 11 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day. The men engaged on the launch were placed in their respective positions. The attempt to move the vessel did not take place for an hour afterwards. John Donovan, the deceased, was about 20 feet from me when the accident took place. It is his body which has been viewed by the jury. The Coroner—When the men were placed, had you any particular instructions given to you ? Witness—Yes. Coroner—ln writing ? Witness—No. Coroner—What was the nature of your duly ? the chain d u ty was t o ass i s t i n eas i mg the chain when the ship was going. The chain was at tache, to a 5-inch rope. That was to ease the ship on her launch. The tackle was there for the purpose. Alt the instructions I had we e to unhook the tackle when the ship started. I had these instructions from Mr. Ewing, the foreurin. After that, as soot) as I turned round from unhooking the purchme I saw the de cease d . There was a man. place I be tween the ship and the drum_ man do not recol lect his name —who was to give me instructions, by holding up his hand. Mr. Ewing told me tha` , a man would hold up his hand, and then I was to unloose the tackle. That man did hold up his hand, and I unloosened the tackle as ordered. The chain was unhooked altogether, so that the purchase might operate freely. Ido not know if that man was acted upon by anybody else. Immediately after I saw the deceased, Donovan, thrown up by the handle of a winch connected by the drum. I saw the winch going round with great velocity. Donovan was thrown up about 8 feet from the ground, and fell on his back quite insensible to all appearance when I picked him up. I carried him to a public-house in the neighbourhood, and from there he was taken to the Poplar Hospital. Ido not know if he was taken with others. He died at the hospital on Friday morning, at three o'clock. The Coroner—What was the cause of the winch going round violently, as you have spoken. Witness—The ship began to move, and caused a strain on the check chain. I saw the ship move about 4 feet, as near as I could judge, down the incline. I believe the incline was 1 foot in 12. The ship was then stopped bodily by the breaks. When 1 let go the checks I did not give rise to the motion of the ship. The hydraulic ram caused the motion of the ship. I saw the hydraulic power in action. That was at the stern launch. I did not take particular notice whether the stern was the lowest part. I saw the red signal given to stop the ship, and it was stopped immediately. It was given from a platform about 5 feet from the ground, and about 50 feet from the ship on the l an d side. The Coroner—Have you been told the purport of the red flag ? Witness—ft had been signified to me before that the signal of the red flag was to put the breaks down. That signal was obeyed momentarily, and the effect of it was that the ship was stayed imme diately. I could not see the signals made to ves sels in the water that were to head the ship. I could not see them from where I stood. As far as I was observant of the transactions I ascribe blame to no one whatever. The Coroner—As far as you judge, were the means and appliances efficient for the purpose ?—Yes. The Coroner—And properly attended to ?—Yes. A Juror—Was the deceased leaning or sitting on the handle of the winch at the time of the acci dent ?—I think he was leaning upon it. The Coroner—Could he not have stood there without leaning upon it ?—I believe he bad to hold it. I cannot say how many other men were hold ing the winch-handle at the time. The Coroner—Mr. Brunel, do you wish to ask the witness any question. Mr. Brunel—l would rather not. I came here to assist your inquiry, and I would rather not act as an advocate. A Juror—Mr. Ewing is foreman to the Great Eastern Company. Mr. Matthew Brownfield, examined—l am re sident surgeon of Poplar Hospital. The deceased was brought here on the 3d instant, at about 20 minutes to 3in the afternoon. He was insensible and was suffering from a comminuted fracture of the left leg, contused left arm, and contused head, on the upper part and left side. lam clearly of opinion that those injuries caused his death. They are quite sufficient to cause death. I think he was upwards of 65, but I have been told that he is 75 years of age. He died on Friday morning at half-past 3. He was seen by Mr. Webb, another medical gentle man. He had every attention. No operation was performed. Mr. I. K. Brunel was the next witness—He said —I reside in Duke-street, Westminster. I am a civil engineer, and was employed on the construc tion of the Leviathan. I directed these works of the Great Eastern steam ship. At the time of the attempted launch it was christened the Levia than. I have been an engineer for about 30 years. I was employed by the Eastern Steam Navigation Company. Her tonnage measurement by the go vernment measurers is 33,000 tons. She is 690 feet in length, 83 feet in width, and 56 feet in depth. She is the largest ship known in the universe. Her weight is 10,300 tons. She is an iron built ship witti wooden deck. It would not have been possible to have launched a ship of her length in the ordinary way, and the operation is not n e w, as all large American ship s are launched broads.de on. The long iron floating stages at Liverpool are all launched broadside on. The one at St. George's pier was launched so. It is a common thing to launch ships in this way, and there is nothing new in it. The machinery that was used principally on that occasion consisted of two hydraulic presses, one at each launching way ; by them I mean the cradles. One was a 10-inch press, and the other was a 12-inch. The pressure could not have ex ceeded 100 tons at one and 150 at the other, but I do not think so great a pressure was put on. At each lauching way was a powerful chain ta c kl e , with a doubl sheet purchase block. The chains weighed about 500 cwt. to the fathom. They were made for the purpose. These chains were wound round large drums, 1.8 feet long, and about 8 feet diameter. They were powerful breaks besides this. There were chains from the ship, fore and aft, from barges moored in the river. These chains were brought to the shore and worked by steam engines. The chain was brought back to the shore to an ordinary windlass, worked by machinery. There were four barges, with powerful chains and pure lases worked by band. These were to assist, if required, but were not used for the purpose of easing the launch. At tached to the great drums were checking chains, with some ordinary wheel- work and handles, which had been used for winding chain on to the drums, and were kept on for the purpose of unwinding the drum, so that the ship should move easily. To each drum there was, at some distance behind it, an ordinary " crab," with rope tackle, to assist in overhauling the great chain in the event of the ship not moving on our wish to slacken. That was the tackle to which the witness Ross referred, but it had nothing to do with the starting of the ship or the machinery, and his busineis was merely to unhook it, if not wanted. The rope ho alluded to was not a thick rope, but a small one, as thick as a man's thumb. The ship was not affected by it, nor was the signal alluded to by him of any importance ; but he was in a very good place to see the accident. The principal engineer on the works, Mr. Dixon, stood in the centre near the stage the witness re ferred to, and which was placed half-way between the two drums, in order that any signals from it might be clearly seen from both. The operations which I directed to take place, and which led to the accident, were as follows directed a certain length of each chain to be eased out from each drum, and the breaks to be put gently on. A light strain was then put on the two presses, and a small strain on the tackle at the stern. As soon as the pressure came the ship moved more freely than I had an ticipated, and the pressure on the breaks was barely sufficient - . That on the foremost drum was just sufficient to check the ship, and but for the accident at the other end we should probably have gone on slowly ; but the afterniost drum had rather the heaviest end of the ship. The pressure on the breaks was not sufficient, and a sudden strain on the chains moved the big drum a little beyond the slack given out, and by the jerk made the handles revolve rapidly. That caused four men who had hold of the handles at the time to be struck. About ten men belonged to these handle', of whom the deceased was one, and the bulk of them had. very properly withdrawn from the handles as di rected. The instant it occurred the breaks were put on tighter, and the operation of the launch was altogether suspended for the time. The Coroner—And you ascribe the accident to the motion of the ship ? Mr. Brunel—The ship moved morn freely than I expected, and the breaks were not so hard on as at the time when the launch was again attempted. In the meantime the ship was prevented from sliding down by means of chains. There are now two pre ventive chains on her. I believe that the deceased had been put where he was by the men out of cha rity, and had really no business there. He would not have been engaged, for he was an old man. By a Juror—l believe the other three men who were injured had a right to be there, but they were told to stand aside. If I had been there I should have had no hesitation in laying hold of the handles, awl therefore I cannot say the men were to blame. At the time they had nothing to do. The Coroner—Do you believe that it was purely accidental ? Mr. Brunel—l do ; but I may say that I blame myself, as I did not anticipate it would have gone down so rapidly. The ship went down five feet at one end and three at the other. Andrew Ewing called—l live in Carlisle-street, Millwall. lam foreman over the labourers in Mr. Russell's yard. I wa3 so on the launching of the ship over the men stationed at the drums. At half-past five on Monday night I showed the men their stations at the drumq, and told them the duty they would have to perform. Each was told what he would have to do. The orders at the drum were in writing, which were to attend to the signals at the breaks. A white flag was the signal to slack the chain out from the drums, and the red one was to atop the break. Thera was no disobedience of the directions, and they were all attended to. The Coroner—How did the accident occur 1 Witness—When the ship moved it caused a jerk on the drums, which caused the handles to turn. There were about 40 tons of chain on each drum. Six mEar were appointed to each break and ten men to the two handles, for the purpose of w!sisting to slack the chain off the drums. While they were slacking. the chain they were to lay hold of the handles. When they had slackened the chain off the drum they were to stand back. I did not employ the deceased to attend to the drum. He was appointed to a crab, and if he had stop p'd there're would have been out of all danger He had no business where he was found, He was at the drum about a quarter of an hour, and had come away from the place where he was stationed. The ship was stopped by the breaks, and they are sufficiently strong for that purpose. The ship moved quicker than Mr. Brunel expected. Tht Coroner—From what has occurred do you consider this perfectly accidental I—l do. Ido not attribute blame to any one. The Coroner—To what do you attribute one end of the ship going lower than the other ?—Because there was more weight at one end than the other. The Coroner—Do you consider all reasonable precautions were taken to prevent accident ?—I do, both as to strength and durability. I agree with Mr. Brunel that sufficient pressure was not applied to the breaks. The accident happened at a quarter past twel ve. The breaks stopped the handles from turning round. Richard Webb—l live at 19, Copenhagen-terrace, Salmon's-lane. I am a labourer, and was employed at the late launch. I was stationed at one of the breaks. I was looking at Donovan, who was in a sitting position on the end of one of the handles. I knew that he was not appointed to that duty. The other men might be struck by the handles. I heard the order given by the engineer who had charge of the drum to stand clear. I saw the de ceased about five minutes before the accident at another station, where he was employed. The Coroner—What do you think was the cause of the accident I—A. sudden jerk on the slacked chain, which made the handles go round. The Coroner—You believe it to be accidental, and ascribe no blame to any one !—No, sir. The Coroner—Would not the operation of the breaks be to get the ship to go gently I—Yes ; but the breaks had no hold until the slacked chain had run out, and that was the cause of the accident. The Coroner then said they had heard the evi dence, and it would be for the jury to say whether proper precaution had been used, or whether any one was to blame. Our duty had elicited from Mr. Brunel the fact that more strain could be put upon the breaks on the next occasion ; but it seemed the man had been the author of his own accident, and therefore there was an end of the charge against anyone as far as he was concerned. There was no no doubt that Mr. Brunel was a man of great ex perience, and if they could not rest upon his judg-. ment he did not know where they could rest. In these days, with the mighty works in steam and electricity before them, it would be impossible to control measures for producing works of this mag nitude, and if, in coming to their verdict, they should add any observations which would have the effect of checking the hand of science, he did not think they would give rise to any feeling that would ba responded to by the public. The jury considered their verdict, when The foreman said the jury are unanimously of opinion that the death of the deceased was acci dentally caused by his own imprudence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 0. MANSION-HOUSE. —George Jones, an expert thief, was charged, before Mr. Alderman Hale, with robbing Mr. R. J. Davis, a clerk in the Bank of Eng land, of his watcb, at the time of the passing of the civic procession. J. Golding, a carpenter, said—About 12 o'clock to day I was near Finch-lane, when I heard the cry of a robbery having been committed. At that moment I saw the prisoner pass to another man a silver watch. I collared him, and was immediately bonnetted and kicked by his companions. He succeeded in passing the watch away. The prosecutor said at the time in question he beard a snap, and on putting his hand to his pocket he missed hi 4 watch. The prisoner was standing close to him. The prisoner, who refused to give his address, and said he was innocent of the charge, was fully committed for trial. Charles Heath, an impudent laoking fellow, was charged with stealing a silver watch from the waistcoat pocket of Mr. W. E. Staunton, of 19, East-street, Lamb's Conduit-street. James Cotterell, metropolitan police-constable P 401, said that at half-past 12 o'clock he was in Upper Thames street, when, just after the procession passed, be saw the prosecutor bounetted by a lut of thieves. He next saw the prcsecutor's watch in the prisoner's hand, but before he could lay hold of him it was passed to some com• panions, who escaped with it. The prosecutor corroborated the evidence of the last witness, and said he found the prisoner's hand on his watch, although he did not actually see it passed. Two other witnesses gave similar testimony, and the prisoner, who made no defence, was fully committed fur trial. Alderman Hale disposed of, in addition to the above, about 20 charges of picking pockets of watches and handkerchiefs, committing some of the delinquents for trial, and sentencing others to various periods of im prisonment. BOW-STREET.—In the course of the afternoon about a dozen persons, chiefly young men, were brought before Mr. Jardine for picking pockets in the crowd assembled to witness the Lord Mayor's procession. With the exception of three women, who were dis charged for want of sufficient evidence, and one youth committed for a month for *stealing a handkerchief, the prisoners were remanded for further examination. In four instances the property stolen consisted of watches, and in one instance of a portmonnaie with its content•. CEER,KENWELL. Joseph Martini was re-exa mined ou the charge of obtaining articles of ironmongery from Mr. Fowler, 38, Skinner-street, Sower's-town, by false pretences, and with having otherwise defrauded several tridestnen. After hearing some further evidence, Mr. Currie said that there was no case against the prisoner. Though he did not believe the story of the prisoner— that the goods would be paid for—still they might, and he should discharge him. MA R.LBO ROUG H-STRE ET. —BURGLARY. —Cases Jones was brought before Mr. Beadon charged with burglary. Mrs. Austen, No. 2, Charles-street, said about two o'clock that morning she was awakened by a loud noise resembling the fall of a heap of crockery. Feeling satisfied that thieves were in the house, she threw up the window and called " police." A constable imme diately made his appearance, and she went down and let him in. The constable proceeded upstairs, and from a room on the second floor brought down the prisoner. On looking about she saw evidence of robbery. Papers and articles were strewn about in confusion, and a writ ing desk had been broken open. There was also an empty decanter on the table. The decanter was full the overnight, and it soon became manife-t that the burglary had been detected in consequence of the pri soner having drunk the contents, and, becoming► intoxi cated, had rolled against some crockery and knocked it down. Police-constable Redmill, C 114, said he heard the cry of police from No. 2, Charles -street, and being ad mitted by the last witness he went upstairs, and found the prisoner standing near a window, evidently the worse for drink. Tue prisoner said, " Its a bad job. I've made a d--- fool of myself in drinking so touch sherry." Witness found property scattered over the room. The parlour floor was covered with paper, and a desk bad been forced open. Several drawers and places had been ransacked. There was a quantity of broken crockery on the floor, which accounted for the noise heard by the first witne , s. The prisoner had pained accePs to the house by climbing over the area railings, and forcing the parlour window. Witness picked up a chisel which fited to the marks on the window. The prisoner said to him he was glad his two companions were not with him, as he wanted to go over the herring pond by himself, bet had he not drunk so much sherry no policeman could have taken him. The prisoner reserved his defence, and was fully com mitted. SOUTHWARK.--CONVICTION OF A JUVENILE THIEVES' TUTOR -THE PATENT WATCH PEOTECTON. —William Harris, well known to the police as a tutor of young thieves of both sexes, was brought before Mr. Burchatn for final examination, charged with stealing a valuable watch from a lady named Martha Farren, at the opening of the Suow's-fields Ragged Schools, on Wednesday evening last. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrx that she was present at the opening meeting, which was pre sided over by the Earl of Shaftesbury. About half-past eight o'clock she left the body of the hall to get her bonnet and shawl, and in passing along the passage she heard a kind of Snapping noise close to where her watch was, and on looking down she saw the prisoner's hand leaving her chain, which hung down minus her watch. She him immediately seized hold of him, but there being a crowd of persons about, he had every opportunity of passing her watch without her perceiving him. She, however, kept hold of him until a constable came up, when she gave him into cuatcdy. Her watch had been broken off at the baw, and she would not have missed it bad not she heard the snapping noise which induced her to look down. At the last examination Doanis Clark, 108, proved that th e pr i soner h a d a house in Bond street, Borough-ro a d, i n w hi c h res ided boys and girls whom he instructed i n t h e ar t o f p i c ki n g- pocket'. In fact, Le attended pub is meetings and theatres with them, and he had no doubt the watch was passed to one of his pupils. The prisoner having beard the evidence, pleaded guilty, when Mr. Burchatn remanded him until yesterday, to see whether his associates would assist him by restoring the watch. On his being placed in the dock, his worship was in. formed that nothing had been heard of the watch, which had been stolen in the usual way. It was also an nounced as a remarkable fact, that out of the number of thieved taken into custody for watch robberies, there had never been found on any of them any instrument for cutting the bows or chains of the watches. Cense quently the robberies must all be committed by the breaking off of tit() bow. At this stage of the proceedings, Mr. H. S. Gilling, of 1, Upper Cuarles-3treet, Nirthampton-square, handed in f.. 0. his worship's i nspect i on an invention that he had recently patents 1 an d b roug h t ou t for the protection o f watches from the depredators of such thing:. It consists of a small elegantly contrived chain, one end of which is fixad to the handle below the bow, and the other end is attached to the end of the wateo-chain, so that if the thief succeeds in breaking off the bow, much to his stir plise, the protector prevents hint from possessing him self of the watch. Mr. Burcham, after carefully ex :mining the invention, considered it an excellent contrivance, and which ought to be publicly known to be appreciated. He believed that all the thieves brought before him for watch steal ing effected their purpose by breaking off the bow, but here they would be prevented from carrying off the pro perty . Mr. Gilling observed that, had the lady had one of his chains affixed to her watch, she would not only have saved it, but still she would have captured the thief. Mr. Burcham had no doubt of that, and he must say that the contrivance was so simple that every person carrying a watch ought to be possessed of one. Watch robberies had of late become so numerous that it was really a boon to the public, and he had no doubt that the gentlemen who represented the newspapers in this court would take notice of this excellent invention. It deserved to be made public. As for the prisoner, he had p:eaded guilty to the charge, and the watch had Passed to some of his companions—perhaps to one of his pupils. He had remanded him, thinking that as he had pleaded guilty, some of those thieves with whom he was connected would have restored the watch with the view of reducing his punishment. But they had not, and they preferred that be should suffer a heavy sentence rather than give up the stolen property. Taking the whole of the circumstances into consideration, he should inflict the full punishment allowed by act of Parliament —that was, six months' hard labour in the House of Correction ; and he was only sorry that he could not double it. As for Mr. Gilling's invention, he trusted that its utility would be made known, and that the pub lic would see the benefit of having one attached to the watch, especially in large meetings and public places. The prisoner, who seemed quite unconcerned, was then committed to gaol. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA. Since the Prince cf Prussia has assumed the Government, certain sections of the Press, in vari ous countries, have been making the most vigorous applications of the sponge of oblivion to his ante cedents. They set themselves right heartily to work in the not very easy task of whitewashing hiufin the eyes of Europe, and bedaubing him before men as one of the most amiable scions a Royal House has ever blessed the world with. The courtly journals of Germany are, of course, the loudest in this chorus of laudation—whilst those entertaining any opinion to the contrary, the reader will easily understand, are condemned to silence, or to the faintest and most innocuous expression of their sentiments. In France, too, astonishing efforts have been made to deceive the public as to the character of the Prince. Foremost among the French organs that thus endeavour to get up a little enthusiasm to order, stands the Journal des Debats. Under the well-known signature of M. de &toy, it brings forth an article of such nauseous adulation, that we on this side the Channel have hardly the patience to peruse the fulsome production. But, unfortunately, we must confess with shame and regret that even our own Press is not wholly free from this reproach of toadyism on the Prussian Regent. At least, in the reactionary portion of British journalism we find suspicious pens busy manufacturing panegy rics for the Prince ; and the barefaced fashion in which they assert " the thing that is not," has at tained so colossal a degree, that any one conversant, with the facts must be astounded at the effrontery with which truth is thus set aside. What the flatterers of Prince William chiefly re joice to dilate upon, is the mildness of his nature, and the cleanness of his hands from the blood of his fellow-men. On this point the writer in the _Mats gives edifying assurances. Fate, says he, willed that the Prince should march, in 1849, against a popular insurrection ; but after having succeeded in suppressing it, he refrained from indulging in revenge, and pacified Baden and the Palatinate "almost without the shedding of blood." Such is the deliberate statement of the Orleanist Gazette. Not less formal are the assertions in our own Tory prints. One of them, in extolling to the skies the amenity of the Prussian Regent, congratulates his idol on the energy he displayed in the putting c'own of democratic attempts—" an energy," the journal continues, " the more commendable as it was totally free from the effusion of blood and from those sanguinary reprisals which disgraced the vic tory of Austria over the rebel Hungarians !" These statements are really too flagrant to pass unnoticed. What would be said if a man stood up among us, defending the Ruler of France from all participation in the events of December, main taining, moreover, that a coup d'etat never had taken place—that the whole story was a fable of the Revolutionists—that the streets of Paris were not red with blood on those memorable days—that not a single Frenchman bad been shot, nor thousands transported by court-martial ; in short, that there was not a meeker lamb upon earth than Louis Bono parte, tile much-calumniated! Why, any one prating with such flagrant nonsense would be set down, without much ado, as a madman, if not worse. Precisely in the same predicament stand M. Da Sacy and his English fellow-scribes, who propagate the monstrous story of the absence of bloodshed in the career of the Prince. A short review of the facts will at once decide the case. It was in 180, when the Princes of Germany had made up their minds to break their oaths, and to overthrow by force institutions they had sworn " before God and man" to maintain, that Prince William was nominated Commander-in-Chief of the army destined to act against the popular movement. At that time the German Parliament was still legally in power, Its decrees being laughed to scorn by the perjured Monarchs, the inhabitants of the Palatinate and Baden rose in support of right, defending the cause of Freedom against the treasonous plot of dynasties. This noble attitude of the people the Prince of Prussia was employed to overcome by the brutal agency of his troops. In spite, however, of the free use he made of the 'ultiemci ratio of ings, his task proved no easy one. The entire army of Baden. having joined the good cause, and the country rallying to a man under the Democratic standard, numerous battles had to be fought in the open field, and before the fortress of Rastadt, ere despotism became triumphant over liberty. Thousands and thousands met an untimely death in this desperate struggle. There remained scarcely a hearth in the country not rendered desolate by the loss or suffer ings of scene of its cherished members. At last the Prince, at the he id of some 80,000 men, over whelmed his opponents, who numbered but a fourth part of that force. His victory once established, lee initiated a system of terror, before which the crimes of the Neapolitan despot grow pale, and the dungeon scenes of Austria are cast into the shade. We refrain from depicting in detail the horrors inflicted by his hands on the vanquished population. We content ourselves with the dry recital of facts : they cry out loudly enough against the sanguinary tyrant. Baden was no sooner at the feet of the Prince than the Court-martial began to reap its terrible of er-harvest. The blood of the thousands who had fallen on.thedield was not sufficient to appease the princely appetite for slaughter. Still further food must be found for grim Death, busy as he had already been. For weeks the trenches were made familiar with the ominous rattle of the mus ketry of the executioner. Within barely the come pass of a month, 2 7 of - the best and bravest were thus ruthlessly shot at the command of the Prince. Thus fell Dortu, the valiant young officer of the national ; Gen. Tiedemann, the Governor of Rastadt ; William von Trutzschler, the eloquent member of the German Parliament ; Elsenhans, the Secretary of the Baden Ministry of War ; Von Biedenfield., Colonel of the 3d Reciment of Infan try ; the venerable Boening, the Commander of the Democratic Legion ; Jacobi, the courageous Major of Artillery ; the Professors Hoefer and Neff, de voted friends of the people • grey-b ea d e d S treu b er, the Communal Councill or of Mannheim • and Pre sident of the Neo-Catholi c community; /4niewsky, Major of the Polish Legion ; Reilly, Schade, Len zinger, and Bernigau, all officers ; besides a num ber.of other patriots, who received the deadly bullet with equal courage. All these were sent to the grave by the orders of the Prince whose victory was " totally free from the effusion of blood and from sanguinary reprisals !" It may be conceived that, under such a rule, the country became a wilderness truly. "He made a desert, and then called it peace." Out of a popula tion of not quit e one m il l i on and a-half upwards of 60,000 were' dtiven into exil e b y the humane policy of the Prince, In describing that history of blood and tears, the pen almost refus , -s its office. How shall we speak of those countless executions that took place unrecorded in the dark casemates of Baden—of the massacre of prisoners hurled from a church tower, to be picked up by the bayonets Iteneath ;- a feat which the lireuz-Zeitung felt pride in recording,—of the confiscations of property that fell' alike on the inhabitants of the cmtage and the mansion—of the sentences of years of solitary imprisonment inflicted upon ten der women, for having per:brined their holiest mission in ministering to the sick and wounded— and of similar demoniacal cruelties perpetrated at The law of marriage had , hitherto been so loose that all kinds of hurried and clandestine unions could be formed all over England with more facility than they are now at Gretna green. No notice or publication of banns was required, no licence was looked for, and any parson might perform the cere mony at any time or in any place, without consent of parents or any other preliminary conditions what ever ; and the worst or the most needy of the clergy would often forward the most rash or disgraceful marriages for the sake of the paltry fee. The great temple of the pseudo Hymen was the Fleet Prison. Parsons confined for debt, scoundrels fuddled with gin and tobacco, would marry in three minutes, and for the small charge of 2s, any couple that presented . . themselveS, c - In walking along the street in My youth," says Pennant, on the side next to this pri. son, I have often been tempted by the question: Sir, will you be pleased to walk in and be married ? Along this most lawless space was hung up the fre quent sign of a male and female hand conjoined with " Marriages performed within," written be neath. A dirty fellow invited you in. The parson was seen walking before his shop ; a squalid pro fligate figure, clad in a tattered pla;d night-gown, with a fiery face. and ready to couple you for a of gin or roll of tobacco." To put a stop to these the brought aiis.p crying abuses a bill wasprepared by the j udges under icPs of Lord Ch ance ll or Hard.wicke, and Mn. FITZROY AND THE OMNIBUSES.—Mr. Fitzroy,lnto the Upper House. It provided that all who distinguished biniFelf a year or two ago in connexion marmes should hen ce f orw ard take place either 0 e with the regulation of cab tares, has upon his anvil a ' by banns published on three successive Sundays, or mea , ura in refer, , nce to omnibuses and their fares, whi c h by licence granted iu a regular manner; and that he intends to introduce as early as he possii)ly can in the all other marr i ages s h ou ld be void, and the parson next pas.ion of Parliament. The main object of the mese , that solemnised any such transported for seven pure is an equa!isation and sys . . , ini , iaLiou of fares, will but years. —Kni g ht' s Picto r ial history of England. 1 there are other portions of t:te proposed bill which have for their olject an improvement of the vehicles ' The amount paid into the treast ry of the East India thernselveF, with a v i e w to increased accommodation for Company for bills on India from the 25 th of October to the public , the 9th inst. is 5,8271. the bidding of the Prince ? Such is the Man whom the sycophants of thrones delight to honour. Such are the clouds of that Prince who has pacified South-Western Germany. " without the' shedding of blood." Truly it re quires no small contempt for poor truth and her sad story, to daub over the records of history with pigments of such servile falsehoods. —Advertiser. CHEVALIER COMING AND THE LADIES. (From the New York Herald.) The knights of old were in the habit of wasting a great deal of valuable time by defending at sword's point the reputation cf some particular damsel to whom they inclined. The Chevalier Cushing goes further, and enters the list to do battle for all the ladies. He declares that they are not at all respon sible for the present financial revu'sion ; that their flounces and furbelows are only a bagatelle in the question of exports and imports ; that their crino line did not stop the Erie Railway ; that their silks did not break the Ohio Life and Trust Company ; that their kid gloves and Lilliputian bonnets bad nothing to do with the stoppage of the great dry goods houses ; and further, that their style of dress is quite the correct thing in every way. And he, the said Chevalier, makes public proclamation that he will defend this issue after the good old chivalric custom. Hear ye, all men ! the Chevalier, armed at all points, his vizor down, his lance in rest, awaits the combat. The Knight of Salamanca again is in the field. Now, we do not yield to any man in devotion to the fair sex, but we are bound to say that nearly all our countrywomen who have money or credit, or could obtain either, have been for several years shamefully extravagant ; that they are almost re sponsible for the excessive imports of articles of luxury, which imports have drained our specie reserve and loaded down our warehouses with articles which are of no earthly use ; and that they are even now spending too much money for articles they do not need, but which they buy simply on account of a decline in price. Let us see the r fie-tires T he total value of the imports—for the fiscal year endin g June 30, 1856, w a s 314,639,942 d o l s. , o f I which, for articles of luxury consumed by women, we have spent 43,624,558 dols. Forty-three millions of dollars ! That is equal to the whole product of the gold mines in California for one year, and that would have more than sufficed to save us from the crisis. Of this sum 31,218,766 dols. were paid for silks and manufactures of silks ; 6,376,853 .dols. for laces and embroideries ; shawls, 2,529,771 dole. ; gloves, 1,344,550 dols. ; furs, 864,731 dole. ; jewellery, 844,630 dols. ; silk and worsted piece g oo d s , 1,336,247 d o l e . We ex pended two millions more for silk than for sugar, and so on. We have omitted many items which would tell against the women, as it may be urged that men consume a portion of the articles above enumerated. The articles omitted—bijouterie, ar tificial flowers, French shoes and boots, fancy ar ticles, and a thousand and one fripperies that make up that wonderful mystery, a fashionable woman's attire—would more than balance the account. There is a little item of 42,000 dols. for perfumed soap, which is quite a good index to the whole thing. Again, it must be remembered that these figures are taken from the Treasury reports, and that the articles are valued at something under the whole sale rate, while our fair count r y women are c h arge d upon all such matters as laces at least 100 per cent. profit. A set of laces which cost in Paris 20 dols. could not be bought here in flush times for less than 60 dols. It should further be remembered that 20,000 or 30,000 of our women either i aside abroad or go to Europe nearly every sum mer. The amount of rich stuffs—silks, satins, vel vets, shawls, and jewellery—which they run through the Custom-house free is something enor mous—not less than a million dollars' worth a-year ; and all luxuries of not the slightest use to anybody on the face of the earth. We have seen on board one ship a lady enter as her personal baggage 20 large trunks. No princess in the world would have so much. I The travelled American cannot fail to have no ticed the marked distinction between the prome nade dresses of our women and of those abroad. The French and English women go out to walk in plain, neat, serviceable dresses, while ours drag their heavy silks in the gutters. American women are guilty of shameful extravagance and bad taste in wearing fur walking dresses robes—which are made for the carriage or the drawing-room. More we might allege, for the subject is of the deepest importance ; but, statistically, quite enough has been proved. The worst fact of all remains to be stated. As far as the question of fashion goes —how a robe shall be cut, or the exact size of a hat, or the measure of circumference to be allowed to a skirt—that is no great matter. If women desire to make themselves the targets of coarse jokes, it is not for us to deny them that luxury. But we will put to the Chevalier Cushing and those who think Kith him the plain proposition that, as the women of America are placed. on a pedestal but a little below the angels, as they toil not (we mean who are guilty of extravagances such as we have noted), neither do they spin, the men have to pay allthebills—whether so much money can be spent for luxuries and be a mere bagatelle in the question of exports and im ports. We do not know that crinoline and kid gloves broke the Ohio Life and Trust Company— probably the president and directors can tell better. But the majority of our women in good circum stances are drags upon their husbands instead of being helpmeets to them. If one does her duty simply it is trumpeted through all the papers as an example of Spartan virtue. The inference is plain that such examples are almost unprecedented. Women rarely throw away their own money ; no one is more prudent and careful than a woman who has a fortune in her own rights but once her taper fingers close on another's cheque-book the grasp of Hercules could not unloose them. The Chevalier Cushing asks, " Did the women break the dry goods houses ? Yes. Tue women iu the flush times of '54-'55, spentt w ice as much money as they ought ; they were capricious and difficult to plesse—they demanded new styles—the rhagasins of Paris and' the manufactories of Lyons and Valen ciennes and Brussels were ransacked for them. The importations were double what they should have been. There was nothing to pay for them with. The crisis came. The houses broke, and their soun tors groan with stuffs for which there is no market. Nowhere in the world are the women dressed so badly and so expensively as in America. When we go abroad we are astonished by the simple morning and promenade costumes of the daughters of the English nobility —men with rent-rolls to which an American fortune is a drop in the sea. A French Countess, with a fixed income of 100,000/. a-year, will not spend half so much on her dress as the wife of a New York merchant whose business may give him a profit of 10,000 dols. a-year, and may bring him iu debt to double that amount. Let not the Chevalier Cushin,‘ look at the vulgar display made at Saratoga, and compa re Newport, or Cape May, it with the modest attire of the aristocracy at Baden, Brighton, or Biarritz. The fact is, our wo men t a k e French lorette fashions at second hand, and were they so attired in a European city they would be taken for what they seem to be rather than what they are. We trust that both the women o f A mer i ca and their champion will think seriously of these things, for they are the truth, and just now we must drink th e cup, however bitter it may be. We do not be lieve that there is anything radically wrong in our women ; we are willing to believe with the sage of Newburyport, that any one of them, were she pro perly instructed, would be "as prompt to please by frugality as by luxury, and proud to make any sacrifice of fashion at the voice of duty and love." We believe that many good women in the land will make this sacrifice cheerfully, for the sex is quick enough in perception and prompt enough in action. We hope they will all remember the lesson they are now learning, but we cannot sincerely say that we believe in the working of any such miracle. The eleventh satire of Juvenal is as true now as it was 18 centuries ago. MARRIAGE FACILITIE3 ONE HUNDIZED TEARS AGO. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY. A large majority of metropolitan sportsmen having left London for Liverpool, the room was very thinly attended. The betting was not brisk, and no animal way in decided demand for the Liverpool Cup ; 6 to 1 would have been taken about either of the favourites — Underhand or Special License. El Hakim was sup ported at prices ranging from 100 to 6 to 100 to 5, but the investments in the aggregate were very trifling. For the Derby, the odds quoted against Kelpie were bo6ked to 1001,, and those against Lord Clifden's lot to 2001. Closing prices : LIVBBPOOL CUP. 11 to 2 aget Underhand (offered) 11 to 2 agst Special License (offered) 6 to 1 agst Cotswold 7to 1 apt Wardermarske (taken) 9to 1 aget St. Giles (taken) 20 to 1 agst El Hakim (taken) 20 to 1 aget Sir Humphrey (taken) 20 to 1 aget Victoria (taken) 20 to 1 agst December (taken) DEBBY. 18 to 1 agst Kelpie (taken) 25 to 1 agst Ditto (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's lot (taken) UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nor. t. CARES GREEK TESTAMENT PRIZE.—This prize has been adjudged to Dr. Rees, St. Join's College. The examiners are of opinion that D.r E. T. Hoare, of Caine College, acquitted himself in a manner deserving special commendation. The subject for the Le Bag Prize is for the present year, " The religious policy of Aurangzebe wavered with that of Akbar." Tho Norrisian Professor gives notice that the subject for the present year for the Norris Prize is " The inter nal evidence of the antiquity and inspiration of the Pentateuch." UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The Council held their first session for the academical year on Saturday last. On the report of the examiners for the Andrews Scholarships—viz., Mr. Joseph Gouge Greenwood, Prin cipal of 0 wen'e College, Manchester, for Classics ; and Mr. Wtn. Bower Todhunt er , Professor in Lady H un ti ng . don's College, Chesh un t, for Mathematics—both Fel lows of University College; and the Professors of Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy of the College—the Scholarships were awarded as follows : The 1001. Scholarship to Mr. Alex. Waugh Young, Jf London, and the 601. Scholarship to Mr. Samuel H. Behrend, of Liverpool. The report of the Faculty of Medicine on the qualification of students for the Long ridge Prize of 401., for general proficiency in Medicine and Surgery, was also presented, and the prize was awarded to Mr. Edward Wynne Thomas, of Oswestry. OPEN SCHOLARSHIP AT OXFORD.—A scholarship of the value of 751., tenable for five years, and entirely open without restriction of birth, is now vacant at Exeter • College, Oxford. Candidates, who must be members of the Church of England, arid under 20 years of age, must call on the Rector of Exeter College on or before Mon. • day, Nov. 16. • 'UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—We have much plea sure in announcing that the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh have extended the Tutorial system by the appointment of a Class-Tutor to each of the following classes in the Faculty of Arts : Greek, Humanity, Mathematics, and Logic.—Edinburgh, Courant, Country Markets. CHELMSFORD—Nov. 6. reduction. Everything else remained about the same. Our market to-day was rather dull, every sort of wheat being at last week's decline. Fne malting barley is per qr. cheaper. But very few beans and peas at market, and last week's rates were barely maintained. Wheat, white, old, per s. qr. 56 new 46 red, old 46 new 46 Barley 34 Chevalier 37 Grinding 33 Malt 71 Chevalier 73 s. I. Oats, per qr 24 30 Peas, Partridge 4l 44 White 38 46 Boiling 4O 47 Dun 40 42 Beane, Tiek 40 43 Harrow ticks 41 45 Mazagan 37 41 Ditto, new 37 40 Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c, in the port of London, from the following pi Nov. 1 to Nov. 7, both inclusive. received )rte, from ---....1-- .---- Colchester .. ....... l9 /141— Har w ich 135 85 g— Leigh 566 105 _ M a ld en 11426,143 68 176 a ~~ i 200 COLCHESTER— Nov. 7. There was a small supply of wheat at our market to-day. Best wheats were taken at last week's rates. Best barleys nearly maintain their value, inferior 2s cheaper; beans and peas a very dull sale. Prices to-daywero as follow :—Wheat, white, 563 toe() ; red, 50e to 51s; barley, 40s to 48s ; oats, 26s to 32s ; beant, Eazagan, 40. to 44e; middle and small, 44s to 48s; peas, white, 468 to 608 ; grey, 44s to 48s. KIRKCALDY —Nov. 7. To-day we had good supplies of grain of all descriptions. Sales readier, but prices generally is per qr. under last week's rates. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. J Beans. First s6s Od I 34s 6d ; 26s Od Os Od Second 4Bs Od 32s Od I 24s Od Os . 0 1 Third 31s Od I 23s ca I 201 Od I Os US ET.—NOy. 9. t the close of the market Wallsend, _ s d. [Tough Hall lO 3 Cassop 20 0 Russell's Hatton 19 9 Nixon's Dnirryn. 21 E Framwellgate l9 3 Kelloe 19 9 Keiper Grainge 2O 0 Brown's Moor Haigh __ . _ Main - 16 0 South Hetton 2O 9 Eden Main l9 g 'Stewart's 2l 0 Hartlepool Hetton 20 0 Hutton Lyons Main IS 3 Tees 2l 0 ,t, 94 ; sold, 56. - COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at a. d. liolywell l6 Morpoth West Hartley 17 0 Tantield Moor l4 0 Wylain Walker Primrose ..... ..15 0 Davison's West Hartley 18 0 Haswell Gas 14 6 Wallsend, Acorn Close - 19 6 Eden _'.l9 6 Gosforth . 18 3 Squbor wen Merthyr 21 0 Pluin►ner lB 6 Hetton 2l (, Whitworth l6 6 Ships at mark& 'M . T!t! LOOAL SHARE MA.RICAT4 LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9. STOCK EXCEIANGE.—Every transaction, especially sines' the announcement of the advanced rate of discount, has boon at lower rates. MANCHESTER, Nov. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened firm to-day, but gave way on the receipt of news that discounts had been raised. Grand Trunk of Canada, 9—Londons, 941 Eastern Counties, 10i—Dovers, 18i—Leeds, 90i—Ditto; new, dis.—Sheffields, 36i—East Lancashire, 89d—Mid lands, 80I—Blackburn, 7i—Caledonian, 37i. BIRMINGHAM, 'Nov. 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices in the market geierally lower to-day, and business depressed. London and North Westerns, 94—Stour Valleys, N—South Staffords, 91. There is no foundation for the report that Captain Milne is about to leave the Admiralty for an appoint ment at Devonport Dockyard. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIioway's Pills superior to all other remedies for stomach complaints.—Mrs. Baker, of Addington-street, Rochdale-road, Manchester, bad suffered severely for many years from a weakness in the stomach, and a generally debilitated constitution. Although she had the best medical advice, and tried every available remedy, yet she derived no benefit, but by the use of Holloway's pills a perfect cure has .been effected, as she now enjoys the best of health ' • and is gratitude for which she desires publicity should be given to her case.--Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York; by A. Stamps, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. BIRT HAS. OF A SON. On the sth inst., at the Newarke, Leicester, the wife of Sir Mylles C. B. Cave, Bart. On the Bth i us t., at 24, Ladbroke-square, Notting-hill] Mrs. William BantiMg. OF A DABOTITNR On the Bth inst., at It, Stratford-place, the wife of Louis W. Desangos, Esq. On tho Bth inst., at 25, Itlyddleton•square, the wife of C. Dofries, Esq. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Elandford Forum, A. Clench, of Braintree, to Mary Jane, diughter of Mr. R. Alison, of the former place. On the sth inst., at Papplewick, Notts, Philip Ainslie Walker, Esq., third son of Joshua Walker, Esq., of 40, Upper Harley•atreet, to Constance Anna, fourth daughter of the late J. Ashton Case, Esq., of Papplewick Hall. DIED. On the Bth inst., at Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, Guy Warwick, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at -law, aged G 9. _ _ On the 9th inst., at 13, Tavistock-square, Thos. Stymy Esq., aged 7,;. On the Bth inst., at Grove-hill, Camberwell, D. Stewart Dykes, Esq., aged 28. On the 9th inst., at Brighton, P. S. Manico, Esq., R.N.' late of Rio Janeiro, aged 69. Olathe 6th inst., at- Ifighfield, Major-General William Cooper Rogers, formerly of the Queen's Bap. On the 6th inst., Geo. Braithwaite Lloyd, Esq., bankers of Birmingham, aged 64. On the sth inst. at Streath am , Eli za b e th, th e Wife of Edward Hilton, gig., and the eldest daughter of Sir jOha Key, Bart., Chamberlain of London, aged 37. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO yOI7NC, I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offioe, NC. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count! of Middlesex, Tuesday, November 10,1857.