The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

THE CORN TRADE. (From the Mark-lane Express.) The weather has throughout the week been very cold and ungenial, and on several occas ions sharp night frosts have been experienced : vegetation has, conse quently, been kept back, and from present appearances d there is not much prospect of an early season. We o not, however, regard this as an evi l, a p remature luxuri ance being generally attended with dange r. It is, of course, at present impossible to ascertain whether the young wheat has been injuriously affected by the low range of temperature., but from the hardy charac ter of the plant, we feel little apprehension on that hand, and the only circumstance which can be viewed as unfavourable is the probability of the next harvest being late, which might, in the position of the country in regard to stocks, prove very inconvenient. The sowing of spring oorn having reeeived but little interruption , nearly the whole of the month of March having been hi g hl y aus picious for field work, most of the barley. and oats have been got in, and great progress has likewise beer_r.inondes with bean and pea planting. These important lab having been nearly brought to a close, farm earesdhitavies again directed their attention to tlaraske pl ing, ace in the probable that an increase will s hortly ta The time has now deliveries of grain from the arrived for testing w h e ther g t T he w s er l - r k t s , hands of the producers be really h c i a n n th b e e for w th he e a re t the very first opportunity no question that if they are hofoldesrs to any great extent, they will avail themselves sh. The i n ducements to of turning their wheat into v a lue of the a rticle and the realise are the still g i ll as to the future ; if, there state of uncertainty. fore, the markets inerin felt agrricultural districts be not • the month, we shall no plentifully supp lied doubts on the question of stocks, it as longer entertainthe strongest possible evi but look up h o n qu antity remaining in the country deuce that t i s actually as has alt as represented. The re g ular course of the trad e e b ee n more or less interrupted this week sm in consequence of several of the markets having been held off the accustomed day (owing to Good Friday), and the amount of business done has not been important. The value of wheat has, as might have been expected, felt the effect of the recent fall at Mark-lane, and prices have tended downwards in all parts of the kingdom. At Liverpool further arrivals of flour and Indian corn have come to hand from America, bat the receipts of foreign wheat have not been large either there or elsewhere ; whilst the demand for export, though on a somewhat de creased scale, has nevertheless continued. The advices from the port just named are not quite so dull as last week, the important reduction which has lately occurred there having attracted buyers from the interior. In wheat a fair amount of business appears to have been done on Tuesday, at rates 3d. to 6d. per 70Ib. below those current on that day se'nnight ; and subse quently a portion of that abatement was recovered, several sales having been made on Thursday on terms not obtainable earlier in the week. United States flour, which was, it will be recollected, at one period of last week sold at Liverpool at 36 s., has since been in request at 375. per barrel, and many holders have even refused to accept the latter price. Indian corn seems also to have met with attention at improving rates, 50s. to 525. per 4801 b. having been paid fur fine, and 483. to 50s. for mixed American. At the leading towns in Yorkshire stocks of wheat are unusually small ; and the supplies having barely kept pace with the demand (tardy as has been the latter), sellers have declined submitting to a greater reduction than Is. to 2s. per quarter. The business done at Hull and Leeds on Tuesday was, however, very circumscribed. At Wakefield, on Thursday, the operations were also on a restricted scale, and the few sales of wheat effected were at prices Is. to 2s. per quarter below these current the preceding week. The accounts from Bristol, Birmingham, Gloucester, and other towns in the vicinity of these places, are of a similar character to the reports above referred to; but whilst there has been no speculation, and the buyers for consumption have confined their purchases to as narrow limits as has been permitted by their pressing wants, there has, on the other hand, in most cases been a degree of firmness on the part of holders, which has prevented prices giving way more than 2s. per quarter. In the north the weather has been even more severe than with us, and the letters from Scotland speak of rather sharp frosts ; this, however, had produced no in fluence on the corn markets, and quotations of wheat, as well as prices of spring corn, were lower at Edin burgh and Glasgow on Wednesday than on that day week. From Ireland we learn that Indian corn, which has become the staple article of consumption with the poorer classes of that country, had been freely offered at about 505. per quarter at several of the principal ports, and that a corresponding abatement had occurred in the interior. This great fill has tended to alleviate the distress; and as further supplies of this useful article of food are likely to be sent from Liverpool and other English ports to the sister isle, besides what may still be on passage from America, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean, prices of Indian corn will probably remain at about their pre sent level. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have been moderate ; and the show of samples at Mark-lane on Wednesday by land carriage from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk was small. The greater portion of the wheat exhibited consisted of white, and as the French buyers have all along directed their attention more to red, there was not much done for export ; the town millers were, however, pretty free purchasers at Monday's decline, and a fair clearance was made. Good qua lities of foreign red wheat were inquired for on French account, but the high pretensions of holders pre vented extensive transactions. We stated last Monday that sellers of foreign had refused on that occasion to submit to a reduction corresponding to the decline on English, and on Wednesday they showed less inclination to concede than previously, or bargains to some extent might have been concluded. The arrivals from abroad have during the week ending this (Saturday) evening consisted of 10,719 quarters, whilst the exports have, according to the bills of entry, amounted to 6,111 quar ters. English flour was on Wednesday to the full as difficult of disposal as earlier in the week; and, in the absence of business of importance, quotations remained nominally unaltered. United States flour met with a moderate share of attention, the relatively low value of the article as compared with that of wheat having at length brought forward a few buyers. Good brands of Western Canal, which had previously been freely offered at 365., were not obtainable below 375. per barrel ; and unless the supplies should he very large, a further improvement is not improbable. The barley trade was wretchedly dull ; the seed de mand appears to be nearly over, and the principal mal aters having left off work, the finer sorts were almost as difficult to place on Wednesday as the ordinary kinds. The quantity of English on sale being, however, small, Monday's currency was about supported for the best, but secondary sorts and foreign barley might easily have been bought at a reduction of ls. per quarter. Malt was totally neglected, and to have succeeded in effecting sales ls. to 2.3. per quarter less must have been taken. The arrivals of oats coastwise and from Ireland were scanty; having, however, a good supply from abroad, the display of samples was rather large. The quality of the foreign oats of last year is much inferior to the usual growth, which circumstance has unquestionably assisted to produce the existing depression in the market. Some of the Dutch feed do not weigh more than 281 b. to 301 b. per bushel, and the sales having been pressed from on board ship to avoid incurring landinz expenses, the dealers have had it all their own way. R ally good corn was not cheaper on Wednesday than in the com mencement of the week, but to place the inferior sorts less money had to be taken. The quantity of beans exhibited proved more than equal to the demand, and the turn was again in favour of the buyer. White peas, suitable for seed, brought 60s. to 635. per quarter, being fully their previous value ; but gray and maple peas were rather easier to buy. The continued du 1 accounts from Ireland relative to Indian corn, caused that article to be pressed on the market, and it has become difficult to give correct quotations. The decline which occurred in the value of wheat about the middl e o f t h e month of March in all those hi caused by the fine France,te and in Belgium, w as , i n the instance,first fine weather which was experienced coun tries about that time ; a n d t h ough the fall whi e n i early since taken place in the te m p erature renders a harvest, to say the least, imp ro b a bl e , still prices have continued to tend downwards as well a b roa d as at home.e The most recent advices from Dantzic (28th of March) state that the dull accounts from this side had caused prices of wheat to recede 3s. per quarter from the ex treme point, and even at that abatement there had, it appears, been little disposition to buy. Fine high-mixed parcels were then held at 675. to 695. per quarter, and other sorts at corresponding terms. The ice had mostly disappeared, and a few vessels had arrived out in search of cargoes. The Vistula was still partly frozen, and would not, it was thought, be open much before the first week in April. At Stettin, on the 29th of March, the navigation was entirely free from ice; still business was then, and had for some days previously been, very dull. Holders of wheat had, nevertheless, remained very firm, and for red, weighing only 591bg. per bushel, 60s. to 675. per quarter, free on board, had been demanded. Barley had met a moderate degree of attention, for local consump tion, at a price equal to 38 s. per quarter, f ree on b oar d . By the accounts from Rostock and the neighbouring pl a ces, it appears that, though stocks of wheat wore' generally short, and the deliveries from the growers had not been large, the prices had, nevertheless, rather tended downwards, in consequence of the dull English, French, and Dutch accounts. At Hamburgh, on Tuesday, there was, however, again some inquiry for wheat on French account, but to effect sales it was necessary to accept lower terms than those current the preceding week, and 70s. per quarter had become the current value for good 601 b. red. In the Dutch markets prices of both wheat and rye appear to have under one a considerable fall. At Am sterdam, on the 29th of March, Polish Odessa wheat was quoted 785., and Norder 803. 10d. per quarter; these rates, though high, were from 4s. to 6s. per quarter below the quotations of that day week. Oats were very scarce there, and not cheaper, feed being then still held at equal to 385., and thick at 395. to 40s. per quarter. The advices from the southern and south-eastern parts of Europe are generally of a firm character, and the value of wheat appears rather to have risen than fallen at the principal ports in the Mediterranean. Letters from Marseilles, of the 27th of March, inform us that, notwithstanding the enormous arrivals of wheat which had taken place there durinc , the winter months, I f ro m the interior had b een so extensive as the dema n( ck on band. The small quantity to leave but little sto rem iinine,o• had, consequ. ent u l i y ry , been hroaltdhewritfahllmenueohrf,fiarmnd ness; and though the i ci ng several vessels grain-la en had . again entered the port, prices of wheat had not receded. At Leghorn, on the 26th ult., the article was also held TEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, leo. 4 at full terms, witmore inclination to buy than to sell. / From Malta our letters are of the 24th of March ; in consequence of the very reduced stte of the stock of • wheat at that place, barley had beeu e a x tensively used for home consumption as a s ubstitute, and Indian corn had been in so much request as to drive up the l s price the to spot 555. SA. for future delivery, whilst for parce on still higher rates had been asked. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, APRIL 5, 1847. Notice is hereby given, that her Maje,ty will hold Di awing -rooms, ut St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock, viz. :—Thursday, 15th April ; Thursday, 27th May next (to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day ). N.B. The Knights of the several Orders are to ap pear in their Collars, at the Drawing-room on the 27th THE ROYALHOSPITALS. received the following C re port at te occasion of the preaching of t On Mond a h y r hi t ae h t fl e a r sllt Lord spi it at A l s a , e y ru o z r 00 nn r e at Christ Church:— r l Royal Hospitals A true lerempoaritetol t e h d e in nu t m he be a r ev o e f children a and other poor peoP of the Cittreorfa Mayor, Aldermen, theen,paind governors ouacareoft heltight Hon. the thereof, the year last past. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. Children put forth apprentices and discharged from Christ's Hospital the year last past 194, some whereof being instructed in mathematics and navigation were placed forth apprentices to commanders of ships out of the mathematical school founded by his late Majesty King Charles II.; children buried the year last past, 11; children now under the eare and charge of the hospital in London and at Hertford, 1,410; to be admitted on presentations granted to this time, 248; total, 1,658. The names of all which, as alio when and where they were admitted, will appear in the said hospital books. The support of this hospital materially depends upon benefactions and bequests. As that part of its income which is permanent is far short of maintaining the usual number of children whose education qualifies them for the Church, for naval service, and for every station in life, according to their abilities ; and as the principles of religion, as well as the due order of civil society, are points to which their attention is constantly directed, it is hoped that all charitable persons will readily contri bute to an institution which is not only of local but of national good. of ulay. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOMS, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The Ladies, who purpose attending her Majesty's Drawing• Rooms, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's rage in Attendance in the Presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the L')rcl Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her Majesty. And those Ladies, who are to be presented on Thurs day, the 15th of April, are hereby informed, it is abso lutely necessary that their names, together with the names of the Ladies who are to present them, should be sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before 12 o'clock on Monday, the 12th of April, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation ; it being her Kijesty's command, that no presentation shall take place unless the name of the Lady presenting, 'together with that of the Lady to be presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, which names shall correspond with those previously sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's Office. It is particularly requested that in every case written cards only be delivered. [ The following article is substituted for that which ap peared in last Tuesday's Gazette.] WHITEHALL, MARCH 29. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend James Taylor to the church and parish of Monzie, in the presbytery of Auchterarder and shire of Perth. vacant by the transportation of the Reverend George Hutchison, late minister thereof, to the church and parish of Ban chory Ternan. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieut.-Colonel Charles Oldfield Bowles to be Colonel, vice Gore Lang ton, deceased, April 3. WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. The expense of repairing and keeping up the build ings of this hospital (many of which are very ancient, and originally formed part of the Old Grey Friars Monastery) having been found to be extremely burden some, a fund was established in 1802, by subscription of the governors and other friends of the hospital, with a view to the gradual and complete rebuilding of the whole fabric, and a great part has accord ingly been restored in a most commodious and substan tial form, notwithstanding the number of children upon the establishment during the progress of the works. Much, however, yet remains to be done, and the Gover nors regret to state the fund originall y subscribed has been completely exhausted, and a very considerable sum expended from the general funds of the charity ; but they are willing to hope that the generosity of the public will afford the means of completing this great work, and prevent the necessity of encroaching further upon the permanent income of the hospital, and thereby diminish ing the scope of its usefulness. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. Patients admitted, cured, and discharged, during the last year, 5,831 in-patients ; 19,758 out patients ; 31,536 casulty patients, most of whom were poor, sick, and lame persons, and many of them being destitute of all relief have been supplied with money, clothes, and other necessaries, to enable them to return to their seve ral habitations ; amounting together to 57,125 ; died, 383 ; remaining under cure—in-patients, 493 ; out patients, 2,798. The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Pint., Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Richard Pidcock, of Woolwich, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking te acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the sub stitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Kent. BANKRUPTS. Frederick George Wilson, draper, Pangbourne, Berk shire, to surrender April 21, at one, and May 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Peddell, Chetapside. William Henry Mackey, attorney, Southampton, April 15, and May 13, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street -buildings; Walker, Lombard-street. Mary Deacon, of the tirm of Mack and Company car rier, Norwich, April 14, ar, one, and May 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, C o leman-street -buildings ; Wilkinson and Rasch, Nicholas-lane, London. Thomas Symes, scrivener, Bridgwater, Somersetshire, April 20 and May 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Messrs. Trevor, Bridgwater; Messrs. Holme and Co., New-ian, London; Stogdon, Exeter. John Cartwright, iron founder, Shrewsbury, April 14, and May 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Smith, Wolverhampton; Smith, Birmingham. James Bryan Ward, cheese factor, Birmingham, April 17 and May 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Hiern, Stafford; James, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. B. Oram, clerk to a wino merchant, West-square, St. George's-road, Southwark—first div. of 3s. 2d. in the pound, on Monday, April 12, and two following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City. J. E. Green, appraiser, Whitecross-street, Cripplegate —second div. of 3s. in the pound, on Monday, April 12, and two following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Caunan, Birchin-lane, City. A. Yeatman and A Lunn, chemists, Fore-street, City —third div. of lid. in the pou nd, on Monday, April 12, and two following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City. A. Yeatman, chemist, Fore-street, City—second div. of 2d. in the pound, on Monday, April 12, and two following Mondays, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin lane, City. R. Mann, chemist, Huntingdon—first div. of ss. in the pound, on Saturday, April 3, and two following Satur days, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. This being the most ancient hospital in the city and subui bs of London, and having escaped the great fire in the year 1666, the building, by length of time, became so very ruinous that in the year 1829 great part thereof was necessarily taken down. A subscription was then entered into by many of the realthy governors and other charitable persons, for defraying the expenses of rebuild ing the hospital, which was progressively eff, cted. The funds fur this purpose having been exhausted, and the building still being inadequate for the purposes of the charity, it was found necessary to make a considerable addition thereto ; and the: Governors have removed withi❑ the last six years valuable pro perty on the north side of the principal entrance in Smithfield, and have erected on the site thereof a spacious surgery, which is open at all hours of the day and night for persons requiring medical and surgical assistance, with additional wards, and an operating theatre adjoining, whereby a very large sum has been expended, and the fulfilment of the intentions of the benevolent founder, to afford immediate relief to the multitude of poor diseased or injured applicants, has been effectually promoted. All fees on the admission of patients have been abolished ; the sisters and nurses placed in situations of comfort better adapted to the nature of their duties ; and the accommodation for the in-patients so extended as to admit 560, while their diet and general com forts have been very materially improved. The accomplishment of these objects, so essential to the welfare of the patients, has occasioned a very heavy increase of annual expenditure. The Governors, therefore, earnestly represent the strong claims of this an cient institution to the public, hoping that by their con tinued support and encouragement they may be enabled to render relief to the annually increasing necessities of the poor, and the urgent calls upon this charity. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. There have been cured and discharged from St. Thomas's Hospital, in Southwark, the last year, of sick, wounded, maimed, and diseased persons, 3,692 in patients, and 26,928 medical and surgical out patients, including casualties, some of whom have been relieved with money and necessaries at their depar ture, to accommodate and support them in their journeys to their several habitations; total, 30,620 Died. after much change in their sickness, 249. Re maining under cure, in-patients, 428; out-patients, 1,504. So that there has been, during the last year, of poor miserable objects under the care of the said hos pital, and destitute of proper care, in all 32,801. The Governors think it their duty to state that on the rebuilding of London-bridge and the formation of its new approaches, they made, at a considerable expendi ture of capital, large purchases of ground and buildings adjacent to the hospital, and rebuilt two new wings, affording, accommodation for about 160 patients, and, at he same time, secured such ventilation and acconamoda ion as were deemed necessary for the health and corn 'on of the patients, &c. BRIDE WELL HOSPITAL into Received this hospital during the last year, under commitments by the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen of this City, as criminals or disorderly persons, who have been kept to hard labour, or to receive correction, 1,222; apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for confinement, 32; received into the hospital during the same period sundry poor persons who had been found wandering abroad and begging in the city of London,l6B. THE HOUSE OF OCCUPATION OF BHIDEWELL HOSPITAL. Remaining in the House of Occupation at Christmas, 1845-101 males, 92 females; admitted in 1846-48 males, 38 females; discharged in 1846-50 males, 29 females. Remaining at Christmas, 1846-99 males, 101 females. Of the number discharged, 3 were expelled, 3 absconded, and all the rest left the house under favour able circumstances. BETHLEM HOSPITAL. Remained in hospital, Ist of January, 1846, including those out on leave of absence, 204 males, 396 females ; admitted during the year 1846, 142 males, 171 females. Discharged—Cured, 67 males, 96 females; uncured, 25 in ales, 62 females ; by request of friends,3 males, 12 females ; improper objects, 17 males, 16 females. Died, 5 males, 10 females. Remaining December 31st, 1846—Out on leave, 1 male, 5 females ; in hospit a l, 216 ma l es, 174 f ema l es. The sub-committee meet every Friday, at Bethlem Hos pital to admit and discharge the patients from all parts of the United Kingdom, without expense to their rela tions or friends. DARING BußGLAßY.—Considerable sensation exists in the garrison at Chatham, on account of an audacious burglary having been perpetrated, during the night of Friday, the 3 i instant, by breaking into the Invalid Depot Pay-office, at the Casemate Barracks, at Gilling ham. The entrance was first discovered by the orderly on Saturday morning, on his going to prepare the office for the clerks, when he found it in the utmost eisorder. Papers and books were strewed about the floor, as also a quantity of lucifer matches, some of which had been burnt; and it was evident, from the drops of tallow about, the party bad had a candle. The cashier's desk was the only one brokers open; and, from the destruc tion of the lock, some strong instrument had been used. The whole of its contents were taken out, including a number of India remittances, bills belonging to invalids returning from India, amounting to about 12,000 L ; and a large bowl, containing a quantity of copper coin, was gone, as also several coats belonging to the clerks taken away. The thieves, not content, took away the whole of the keys of the several departments. No clue as yet has been obtained of the offenders, although a strict in quiry is on foot by the police and military authorities. During the day of Saturday the remittance bills, and some of the papers belonging to the officers were found in the trench, as also the bowl which contained the copper money. The entrance, it appears, was effected through one of the windows. The office is placed in a very secluded situation, being by itself and totally un protected, not a sentry near it. By the cashier's desk being the only one destroyed, it is evident that this bur glary must have been committed by some one who well knew the place. It was fortunate that on the evening of the robbery a considerable sum of money was removed on the clerks leaving their duty at four o'clock. THE LATE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF STAIR.—The funeral of this lady, who died on the 17th of February, took place on Wednesday. The funeral moved from No. 4, SL Andrew-square, the residence of her brother, John Gordon, Esq., of Cluny, and was deposited in the tomb of the Cluny family in St. Cuthbert's churchyard. The body was enclosed within a coffin covered with fine black cloth, as also a leaden coffin, lined with white satin, and both were placed in an outer dress coffin of oak, covered with purple silk velvet, richly ornamented. On the top w as an engraved subscription ' plate, with her Ladyship's armorial bearings , surmounted with a massive coronet.—Edinburgh Paper'''. 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We understand the Governor, Trustees, and Com mittee of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Vic tuallers. have again appointed their grand annual school banquet to take place at Mr. house's, the White Conduit House Tavern. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME ClRGUl7l—Eingstori, April 6. Both courts were occupied to-day in dispo,ing of the remaining common jury causes, none of which possessed any feature of interest to justify a report. BOYLE AND WIFE V. TARN. This was a special jury cause, tried on Monday before the Lord Chief Justice. The action was brought to recover damages for the false imprisonment of the plain- tiff's wife. Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Ogle were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Edwin James for the defendant. The circumstances under which the alleged false im prisonment arose were these :—lt appeared that the de fendant is a lineadraper, and the plaintiff and his wife went to his shop and ordered a quantity of goods, which were to be paid for on the Monday following. When, however, the foreman went to receive payment, the par ties could not be found, and the plaintiff's wife, being afterwards met accidentally, was given into custody ; but it appeared that the charge was dismissed by the pelice-magistrate, and the present action was brought to recover damages for the imprisonment she had thus, as it was alleged, wrongfully sustained. Mr. E. JAMES, for the defendant, characterised the action as a most Shameless and improper one to have been brought, and said he was satisfied the jury would consider the lowest coin of the realm a sufficient com pensation for the damage that had been sustained. The jury found for the plaintiffs—Damages, id. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, April 5. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Hannah Thomas, a young woman, about 25 years of age, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegiti m4te child, James Thomas. Mr. Rickards and Sir Thomas Phillips appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cooke for the defence. The prisoner became an inmate of the Usk workhouse in December, and continued there till March, when she was delivered of the child in question. She appeared kind and attentive to it , and it was a fine healthy child. On the 20th March it became unwell. On the next day it died, and on the following day a post mortem examina tion was made, by which it was discovered that death had been caused by the use of diluted sulphuric acid. The peculiarities of the case were, that there was very little of the acid in the stomach; that the mouth was altogether untouched by it, though the parts of the throat, gullet, &c., between the lower part of the mouth and the stomach, were severely corroded and inflamed, as if the liquid had been put into the child's throat on a spoon, without touching the mouth, and the poor child had, as soon as it felt the pain, attempted to throw up the offensive matter, and so prevented much of it from reaching the stomach. There had been a bottle of diluted sulphuric acid lying for days before the child was taken ill in the kitchen of the workhouse, and the prisoner had access to it, and had heard of its poisonous qualities; and a woman who had left some in a cup on the 20th of March, after having washed the heads of some children who were afflicted with ringworm, on returning again and looking for it found that all the liquid was gone, and the rag with which she had washed them left, and some spots from sulphuric acid were found on the child's cap and face. The principal question raised on the trial was, whether the appearances on the body of the child could be accounted for by natural causes. The verdict was Not Guilty. This closed the business of these assizes. It was not over before three o'clock. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee had risen soon after two. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. _ _ Mr. Bampton, a coal-dealer in Brackley-street, Golden-lane, attended on summons before Aldermen Hooper and Weod, to answer the complaint of Edward Kimpton, a porter to ble,srs. Christie and Manson, the auctioneers, for detaining a chest of drawers delivered to him and his sister by mistake. The complainant stated, that Mr. Bampton's sister was a purchaser of lots at a recent sale, and the defendant attended with her to clear them. A chest of drawers was delivered by mistake, she not having purchased any mahogany chest of drawers. They were missed next morning, and one of the porters remembered that she inquired for the keys of them. As a ruse, a porter was sent to ase.Ttain whether she had them, by taking a bunch of keys, and offering to see if one of them was the proper key. She immediately said she had sent them to her brother's, in Brackley-street. The man went to the defendant, who said, what he had he should keep ; and he would produce nothing. William Wells, a porter, deposed to assisting in load ing and putting the dust of drawers in the van in which the defendant and his sister removed their purchases. He also assisted in unloading the van at her house in Great Warner-street, Clerkenwell, and in putting this chest of drawers into the van again, that the defendant might take them home to Golden-lane. The clearing note, enumerating the lots the defen dant's sister had paid for, was put in, to show that she had not purchased the chest of drawers. The defendant said he had no doubt his sister had paid for what she had. Ile had lent his sister money, and she had transferred goods to him in payment. What he bought he had a right to sell, but he did not admit that be bad now or ever had the said drawers. The 'Magistrates concurred in making an order that he should restore the property forthwith. Ile retired, intimating that he did not mean to submit to their order. liloucever, April 5. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee opened the commission here this evening at six o'clock. Business commences at an early hour to-morrow. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 5. JURIES.—It is high time that some alteration should be made with respect to summoning juries. At present it would seem that juries are selected from the most ignorant class in the community, and while we are ob taining information as to the state of education of prisoners, it would not be very improper to extend our inquiries to the jury box ; and we question very much whether the prisoners would not beat the jury in point of learning. From the present mode of select ing juries it would seem that the middle men get cff quite free. The special juries are taken from the aris tocracy of a county, and the petty juries are composed of little farmers and small shopkeepers, whose attention is never by any chance riveted to one object for more than 10 minutes at a time, and whose minds, therefore, are incapable of undcrst :riding a matter lasting over as many hours.] %Another thing is, that keeping these men from their homes for a week in au expensive assize town is a great cruelty upon them, both as regards their absence from home and this outlay to which they are subjected. We can new give an illustration of the men tal capacity of a jury. At Bodmin a jury found a pri soner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Mr. Justice Williams wished to know their reason for the recommendation. The jury replied that 11 were for finding the man guilty, but one was for acquitting him and so they recommended the prisoner to mercy. To day a prosecutor, in giving his evidence, said, that the Court had misunderstood something that his servant (a previous witness) had said. A juror wished to know kow the prosecutor was aware of what his servant had said. The prosecutor replied, that he heard him give his evidence. The juror then appealed to the Judge to know whether this was legal. Mr. Justice Cresswell told him it was perfectly legal. It was his wish that witnesses should always be out of court; but there was no accommodation for them, and they were subjected to much inconvenience if they were without the court. In another instance a jury found a man guilty of forgery, but not with an intention to defraud. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL ) Thomas Perral was indicted for killing and slaying William Holland by throwing a stone at him, thereby cuisine a compound fracture of the skull, of which he lingered and died; and Henry Brake, George Chant, and William Frampton for aiding and assisting him. Mr. Moody was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Edwards for the prisoner. It appeared that on the 7th of September several per sons belonging to the two villages of Odcombe and West Coker, being members of a friendly society, dined together at a public-house. They remained drinking for some hours, and, as is too commonly the case on such occasions, there was a quarrel between the two sets of villagers, and the West Co ke r men had the worst of it. The deceased belonged to that party. They left the house, and were proceeding on their way home, when the prisoners and others of the Odcombe party came after them and attacked them with stones. Perrall threw one stone which knocked the deceased down; he was taken home, and medical aid was procured. The skull was found to be fractured. Another medical man was called in, and the operation of trepanning was per formed. After this the deceased apparently rallied, but he afterwards grew worse, and died on the 26th of Sep tember. The medical men were of opinion that the death was occasioned by a blow from some blunt instru ment or stone. An abscess had formed on the brain after the operation. In the cross-examination of the medical witnesses, the question set up on the trial of Lieut. Pym at Winchester was sought to be raised—namely, that the operation was the immediate cause of the death, and not the injury by the stone; that although that injury might eventually have occasioned the death, yet that the death was has tened by the operation. and, for the prosecution, M r . Justice Erie's dictum on Li eu t. Py m ' s soenacuetidoins,cussion took place upon thi s , trial was relied on. The prisoner's counsel, however, would not say that the wound was not a mortal wound. Mr. Justice CRESSIVELL observed, that it was admitted the wound was mortal, and that the deceased might have died in a month, but that be had died in less than a week in consequence of the operation. The wound being mortal, if that which was done by the surgeon was what he considered right to be adopted, there would be no question raised upon that point. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. Mr. Justice CaEsswzm. said the prisoners bad already been in prison six months; he therefore sentenced theta to be imprisoned for one month. on, SOUTHWARK. Joseph Sparhwood, a cab driver, and Alfred Duckett, a printer, were charged with assaulting and robbing Eli zabeth Hunt of a gold brooch, in the Equestrian Coffee house, Circus, adjacent to the Surrey Theatre. The complainant stated, that she accompanied a female friend to the Surrey Theatre on the preceding evening, and that when the performances had concluded they went into the Equestrian Coffee-house to have a little refreshment. Having remained for a short time in the parlour, they came out together, and on passing the end of the bar she (complainant) saw the prisoner Sparkwood throw some beer over a woman with whom he was having an altercation. She (complainant) feel ing alarmed, hurried forwards towards the door, but before she got there Sparkwood made a rush towards her, seised a gold brooch out of a handkerchief which she had round her neck, and immediately ran out of the house. She followed him, crying "Stop thief," and saw him cross the road, and run down the Borough-road, and in a short time he was brought, in the custody of a policeman, to the spot where she was waiting. On see ing him the second time she knew him to be the man who had robbed her, but a crowd of persons collecting, Sparkwood was rescued for a time, but was eventually recaptured and taken to the station-house along with the other prisoner. The complainant then proceeded to de scribe the part taken in the transaction by Duckett, whom she saw with the other prisoner in the Equestrian Coffee-house. When she ran after Sparkwood, his fellow-prisoner came up to her, asked her what she wanted of the man, and when she answered that he had robbed her, he (Duckett) immediately seized her round the waist, and threw her with force to the ground. Her assailant then ran away, but he was pursued, and also secured. Mrs. Eliza Gatelas, the person who accompanied the complainant to the theatre, and afterwards to the aho,,P house for refreshment, corroborated her evidence, and said she distinctly saw Sparkwood make a snatch at the cotnpl kivant's brooch in passing out of the house. She added, that she also saw the other prisoner in the same house, and that she could not be mistaken in the idea NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 5. HOWDEN V. STANDISH. This was an action against the late sheriff of the county of Lancaster, to recover the amount of a debt due to the plaintiff from a certain Professor Keller, against whom process hid been sued out, the officer having, as was alleged, failed through his own negligence in exe cuting the warrant. Mr. Knowles and Mr. J. Henderson were for the plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Atherton for the defendant. Professor Keller, as he was called , was , it app eared, the manager of, and principal performer in, a group of artistes who in the course of the last year repre,ented, in various parts of the country, subjects taken from the antique and celebrated paintings, the figures, male and female, b e i ng arranged on a pedestal which turned round, so as to exhibit the composition to the spectators in all its different p o i nts o f v i ew. M r . Keller was a powerfu l man, with large bea r d an d m ustache, and posse ssin g a singula r comman d over the musc l es of the forearm, by the movement o f w hi c h h e b e at time to the music. The professor, however,unfortunately' had got into debt, his p er f ormances in Lon d on not having been very successful. He came down to B irmin g ham, and thence to Liverpool, where he was eng a g ed to p er. form at a theatre erected in the Zoological Gar dens. Th e pl a i nt i ff (Mr. How d en ) was a creditor, to whom the " pr o f essor " owe d something better ( or worse) than 1001 ., and, in t h e hope of enforcing the payment of hi s money, had followed M r. Keller to Li verpool. A wr i t had been sued out, a nd, under a j ud g e's order, the pl a i n tiff was empowere d to hold Mr. Keller to bail, on the g roun d of his be i ng a b o ut to leave the coun try. The w arrants reache d the hands of the officer, a person of the na me o f L awton , on Wednesday , the B th of July. On that very evening Mr. Keller was to per form at the theatre in the gardens, and thither Mr. Law ton, in the company of Mr. llowden, repaired. Mr. Lowden pointed out Keller, who was exhibiting studies from the ancient statues, and perso nated Cain in a group of " Cain and Abel." Me. Bowden, with little reverence for the ideal, saw nothing in Cain or the antique statues but his simple debtor, Mr. Keller, and pressed Mr. Law ton strongly a t once to execute h e r Majesty's writ on the First H o m ic id e , or the Apol l o, o r the Dying Gladiator, . as might be most convenient. Mr. Lawton, however, " albeit unu se d," seemed to have been restrained b y a kind of sup ers ti t i ous awe from an ything so profane—to say nothing o f th e f act that t h e s tage was some six feet awo above th e groun d , and t h at the troupe were aware of the danger of the chef, and prepared fo r r esistanc e , toge ther with the a d vantage of beingmid the labyrinths of the able to leave the aggres sors, in a twi n kli ng , in th e d ar k, a :, 'cenes, should a se i zure b e attem pted. Mr. Lawton, there fo.,e, thought it better to wait and intercept his victim as he left the gardens. Accordingly after the performance was ove l' they waited for this purpose between the gardens and'. the hotel adjoining, at which Mr. Keller was staying. la i jus time a hat, cloak, beard, and mustache, which could helorg to no one but that gentleman made their NE W CUSTOMS REGULATIONS al-R.:armee, and their identity was corroborated by the AT MANILLA. fact, that on the arm of the figure that bore them leaned, beyond all doubt, Mrs. Keller. The officer intimated in the usual way his desire for a further acquaintance with Mr. Keller. Mrs. Keller wept, presented the pro fessor with some money—a matter, she was aware, ne cessary to one's comfortable existence in a lock-up—and Mr. Keller, after a hurried embrace to his child, was snatched away in the clutches of the law. On arriving, however, at his place of durance, the "caption" pro ceeded to disembarrass himself of his beard and mous tache, and appeared in a new character, as Frederick Huson, a German artiste—a member of the troupe. Again, on the Friday following, an attempt was made to seize the professor. He again made his appearance on the stage, the house being densely crowded ; again, a muffled, bearded figure (this time more stealthily) was seen hurrying from the garden ; again the officer made his seizure, the person being actually pointed out by the plaintiff himself, and again it was found that Mr. Keller had rung the changes on his pursuers, the person seised being one Goodman, and not the professor. The pro fessor himself remained in hiding for some weeks, having sacrificed on the altar of liberty his beard and moustache, and thus thrown the officers off the scent. He afterwards left Liverpool with his company, and proceeded direct to Ostend. For the defendant it was contended that the officer had used his very best exertions under the circumstances to effect a seizure, and evidence was called to show that it was by the express direction of Mr. Howden himself that no attempt was made to arrest Keller on the stage an attempt which, it was urged, must necessarily have been unsuccessful, and would probably have resulted in a terrific uproar. A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff. An action on a promissory note concluded the business of the assizes. The following regulations recently brought into operation at Manilla will be of interest to parties connected with the trade of that port : Attention having been called to the practice ob served in the Custom house of this capital by the captains or consignees of vessels, of not expressing in the manifest the contents of the bales, packages, cases, and other sorts of packages of goods which they con vey, before their introduction into the Custom-house, and in order to correct a practice which, although founded on the tariff in force, in these islands may give room to very great abuses, it has been decreed as under : Art. 1. The manifest that according to rule No. 24 of the present tariff, captains, supercargoes, or consignees of ships, national as well as foreign, are bound to present within 30 hours after being visited in this port, and 48 hours if in covite, shall contain -Ist Class, country, name, tonnage of the vessel, and number of crew. 2nd. The name of captain or mas ter. 33. The port or ports from whence she comes. 4th. The name of consignees to whom the cargo is directed. sth. The bales, packages, casks, barrels, hogshead, &c., of all kinds, with their corresponding marks and numbers, expressing the quantity of each class by figures and letters. 6th. The different des cription of goods or contents of the packages. 7th. The number and kind of those that contain goods prohibited from importation by the tariff, expressing the foreign port to which they are destined in the manner permitted by the law. 9th. That the ship does not bring any other gods, and that none of those on board are prohibited from a fear of plague. Art. 2. Goods which on account of their nature cannot come baled or packed up, as iron in bars or sheets, metal in slabs, logs or beams of wood, planks, seeds or other like articles, shall be expressed in the manifest by the descriptions without specifying the quantity. Art. 3. In the continuation of the manifest, but separately, shall be put a circumstantial note of war like stores and provisions, and marine, on board such vessels. THE DOCKYARD BATTALIONS.--The artisans, &c., of this dockyard have this week been organised into 12 companies of infantry, and 10 companies of artillery, each company consisting of 85 men, making a total of 1,870 men. The infantry corps is under the command of the master shipwright, with the rank of lieutenant colcnel ; to each company will be attached a captain, two lieutenants, two sergeants, and two corporals. The captains will be constituted of the foremen and clerks, the subalterns of the junior officers and clerks, and the sergeants of the leading and single station men. Of the artillery companies, six companies are for land and four companies for afloat service, the latter to be cal►ed the boat brigade ; the whole under the command of the master attendant, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. These companies have also the same complement of offi cers attached to them as the infantry companies ; the captains of the boat brigade companies are the foremen afloat, the boatswain of the yard, the master rope maker, and the master rigger. The men of both corps are to have canvass dresses for fatigae duty ; and it is understood that it is intended they shall wour a uniform on show occasions.—Hampshire Telegragh SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTIONS ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S STEAM VESSELS SHEARWATER AND TOR- ToisE—Official information has just been received at Woolwich Dockyard that fires having broken out on board these two vessels, through spcntaneous combustion. The first occurred on board the Shearwater steam vessel (2 guns), Commander Sir G. Webster, Bart., stationed at Oban, where, on the 20th of March last, a fire broke out in her coal bunker, and on the next day in the opposite one; with the united exertions of the offi cers and crew, after some hours' working at the pumps it was extinguished, but not before great damage was done, and the fear of being compelled to run her on shore and scuttle her. It is expected she will be ordered home to Woolwich dockyard fur repairs. The second was on board the Tortoise (2 guns), store•ship. Capt. Hutton, stationed as guard-ship at the Island of Ascension, for the supply of the African steam squadron with coals. The fire broke out among the coals, a signal gun was fired, and the whole troops in garrison were put in re quisition, when, after four days and nights' hard work tity of either of the parties. Policeman 83 M stated, that on the preceding night, while he was on duty in the Borough-road, opposite the Circus, he heard the cry of " Stop thief," and saw Spark wood running from the direction of the Equestrian Coffee-house, and he continued his career until he fairly tun into his (the policeman's) arms. Sparkwood made strong efforts to disengage himself, urging his innocence of any crime, and saying that he was running home, where he was in a hurry to arrive, after witnessing the performance at the Surrey Theatre. The policeman, however, brought him along towards the " Equestrian," and while the complainant was relating the attack made upon her by him, Sparkwood was rescued, and he first ran into the public-house, and then out by another door, and was running with great swiftness up the Blackfriars road, when he was again pursued and taken into custody. The policeman added, that when he had Sparkwood in custody Duckett came up, and he saw the former pass something into the hands of the latter, who was also subsequently taken into custody. Sparkwood said he was aiming a blow at his wife, when he missed her and struck the complainant in the breast; that he knew nothing of her brooch, and that this was the first time he ever had been in custody; that he had driven a cab for years, and was known to be an honest man, which could be ascertained at the Stamp office, Somerset-house, where he was in the habit of depositing property of various kinds, left behind by mis take in his vehicle; that he had no acquaintance with his fellow-prisoner, and never saw him in the Equestrian Coffee-house. Mr. CoTTINGEA?!—Why did you run away on strik ing the woman ? If it was an accident, why not have remained in the house, instead of rushing out and then down the Borough-road ? Sparkwood said, although appearances might be against him, yet that he was perfectly innocent of the offence laid to - his charge. Duckett, in answer to the part he took in the transaction, denied that he had been in the Equestrian Coffee-house on the night in question, and said that he was walking along the Borough-road, and on approaching the . Circus tie saw a mob collected, and went over, " like other fools," when he was immediately charged with being concerned in the robbery and taken into custody. He added that he was a printer, had worked in some of the most eminent printing establishments in town, and that his character stood high ; that his friends were not apprised of the predicament in which he was placed, otherwise ho was confident they would rally about him. He added that the complainant was entirely mistaken when she asserted that he had thrown her down. The complainant and her witness were recalled, and questioned by Mr. Cottingham as to whether they were confident that they had seen Duckett in company with the other prisoner in the above tavern, and as to whether complainant might not have been mistaken in her identification of Duckett as the man who had thrown her down, and afterwards assisted in the rescue of his fellow-prisoner ? Both complainant and witness, how ever, still adhered to the accuracy of their testimony, and The MAGISTRATE said, he had no other alternative than to commit the prisoners for trial, but be added, that he had no objection to THAME S. take bail for their appearance. Lieutenant Archibald Campbell, R.N., was charged with committing a violent assault on a woman of the town named Caroline Thompson. The prosecutrix exhibited a sear on her nose and face, and stated that she was leaving Stepney-fair between one and two o'clock in the morning, and met the defend. ant in Arbour-street, near the Police-court. He was very drunk, and in a state of great' excitement, and as she passed him he took a bottle half full of rum from his pocket and struck her a violent blow on the nose with it. She was knocked backwards by the force of the blow, and the blood flowed copiously from her nose for some time. She had given no provocation whatever to the defendant. The Lieutenant cross-examined the woman in a very imperious manner, and endeavoured to make it appear that she had provoked him, but this was distinctly denied, and she stated that the defendant was making a good deal of noise, and acted very strangely in and about the fair. After a long and incoherent harangue from the de fendant, Mr. YARDLEY said he regretted to see a man of the lieutenant's rank giving way to intemperance, and so frequently misconoucting himself. It was a great pity he did not learn to be a peaceable man. The assault VMS quite unjustifiable, and he sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 405., and in default committed him to prison for fourteen days. TEE ISLAND or LABUAN.—The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman, dated Labuan, east coast of Borneo, December 25, 1846 :—" We are now at the island of Labuan, which was taken possession of yesterday by Captain Mundy, of the Iris, in her Ma jesty's name. There is to he a grand expedition against the pirates r.ext April, and we may be detained on the station till May. The treaty ceding the island of La buan was signed by the Sultan (sealed rather). I have no doubt that there will be a flourishing trade here in a few years. There is a brig laden with long-cloths in the harbour, so that the merchants of Singapore have their eyes here already. If the piracy could be suppressed, a large market would be opened." her hold was cleared, and the fire extin , ;,nished, but not till nearly all her beams were burnt from three to five inches through ; as it was, had not the united exertions of the officers and men of the marines and naval crews of the vessels been prompt and with alacrity, she must have burnt to the water's edge ; had she not been lined with copper inside she must have been a wreck. It is ex pected from this circumstance that the Lords of the Ad miralty will order all vessels to have a copper lining which are employed under similar , circumstances. AN IRISH RAILROAD.—A correspondent of the Railway Record gives the following sketch of a locomo five establishment on the Great Southern and Western at Inchicore :—" On my approach to the locomotive work at Inchicore, to my astonishment I saw, in the midst of a large field, a building to all appearance tumbling to decay. There were no workshops of any description. The blackaraiths were working in canvass tents - the pattern makers in a temporary wooden shed (the offices comprising a part of the same) ; the fitters tumbling about in the half-finished running-engine shed ; and valuable machinery lying about exposed to the weacher." He also gave a narrative of the style in which they run sp cial trains. On Sunday, the 30th, a special train, from Dublin to Salins and back, was engaged by a party of gentlemen. On the return to the Dublin station, neither station-master nor porter was to be seen. The carriage doors were locked, and the party could not get out. After a short p riod of excite meta, a gentleman was seen crawling out of one of the windows. The example was soon followed, when the whole got out in the space of three minutes. If you had witnessed the scene, you could not, while you condemned, but have laughed, for the last was a gentle man remarkable for rotundity, and it required three of his friends to drag him out. If this had been a stout lady, or any lady at all, she would have been rather awkwardly situated. SINGULAR DISCOVERIES AT IPSWICH. A few day since, as some workmen were digging for a cellar in the premises of Mr. Charles Meadows, in Tavern-street, they discovered a considerable number of human bones, not placed in the usual manner of sepulture, but laying heaped together. Upon examination, it appears that a place, about ten feet deep and two feet wide, had been made for the deposit, at the bottom of which a fire had been made with wood, and the bodies placed over it and burnt, as those in the lower part show evident marks of the fire. Upon making further search, the remains of an urn, apparently . of Romano British workmanship, was found, containing ashes, charred wood, and some brass instrument, but so exydised that it could not be made out, some bone pins, with plaited work twisted over them. From the bones collected, many of which are very large, it is ascertained that the remains of at least thirteen bodies were here deposited. Several of the sets of teeth are very perfect. Over the narrow chamber containing these mysterious remains, and at about six feet from the surface, was laid a round stone, containing a large aperture in the centre ; it was, however, unfortunately, broken into five pieces. A gen tleman, who is a competent judge, says it is evidently a stone that was used for placing over a large mortar, in which it was customary to pulverise grain, &c., and that the pestle was passed ° through the hole in the centre to steady it. The stone is of a vey coarse material, and is very similar to a small rough grindstone ; it is about four feet in circumference. The bones occupy a space of feet in depth, and must have been intered hundreds of years. Mr. Meadows informs us that workmen have just found another similar depository. —lpswich Express. PORTLAND.—Within the past week a ground sea swept the beach of Chisel-beach quite clean, and enabled searchers after curiosities, &c., from an old wreck oppo site Chisel Town, to realise a few rich prizes. Some have picked up a dozen or so of dollars, amounting in all to sixty ; some, two large pieces of bullion, valued at 10/. each ; others, some large pieces of gum benzoin, weigh ing from 201 b. to 101 b. This ship ran ashore at Chisel Town some fifty years ago in the dead of night ; the captain was the only hand saved, and he, through his experience of this coast, as nothing can come ashore here but it is dragged off the breakers recede, owing to L the underground current. He took his station on the bowsprit, and leaped clear of the sea. The others, buf feting to and fro with the waves, were soon all drowned. Should this meet the eye of any distressed navigator in Chisel Bay it may be a guide for his preservation. We hope some slight harbour of refuge or cavity will be ul• timately constructed off Brandy-row, to which vessels driven in may run for shelter. Whilst it would afford the mariner security, it would give security to the now helpless town of Chisel, only protected by a mud bank, over which, on every spring tide, wind setting in west, the sea breaks, and threatens destruction to life and pro perty. One day it will go if not strengthened by a sea wall, and then good bye to Weymouth, for Chisel beach is its breakwater.—Sherbourne Journal. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND). —It appears, from a Parliamentary Paper, issued on Saturday, by order of the House of Commons (having been presented by her Majesty's commaud), that, during the week ending March 13, there were employed in the Public Works (Ireland) 708,002 persons, on roads, &c., and 20,736 on drainage, making a total of 728,738 persons. The cost of labour was 236,922!., of superintendence (charged to Baronies) 17,102/., and of superintendence (charged to Government) 5,081!. ; total cost 259,105!. The daily average number of persons employed on public works, in Ireland, for the same week, was 128,181 in Leinster, 303.614 in Munster, 86,446 in Ulster, and 210,497 in Connaught; making the gross total of 728.738 persons. PROGRESS OF PUBLIC AND OTHER BUILDINGS. ----- ThenesvhEsil and staircase of the British Museum, to aid the interior effect of ‘s hich polychromatic decoration has been called in, and with considerable success too, will be opened to the public, it is expected, on Monday next. The exterior of the northern wing of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, is fast approaching completion. Re port says, that a design to elevate the Horse Guards has been approved by the Government. At the Carlton Club, a part of the new facade is up ; and the lusetini of Economic Geology, described last week, is showing itself above ground. Mystery still shrouds the proposed addition to Buckingham Palace ; rumour speaks of an alteration in the elevation, but we have no certain information concerning it. The public must pay their money before they see the sight ; and instead of commenting in time, with a view to obtain excellence, must be contented with abusing the result, when too late to amend, and sighing grumpily over Lst oppor tunities. When Mr. Disraeli's new Act comes into ope ration, these things will be better ordered. " Hang an architect," and all will come right.—The Builder. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Gilpin, army clothier, Villiers-street, Strand, April 27, at eleven—J. Johnson, grocer, Chelmsford, April 27, at eleven—J. Bickerton, hat manufacturer, Castle-street, Southwark, April 27, at half-past twelve —C. Ashby, tailor, Bishops Stortfurd. April 28, at two —J. Knights, cattle dealer, Great Melton and Thur. garton, Norfolk, April 27, at one—H. J. Carr, Lieu tenant, RN., Bradwell Lear the Sea, Norfolk, April 29, at eleven—J. A. Willson, baker, Old-road, Stepney, April 29, at eleven—W. H. Benfield, publican, Bedford bury, King-street, Covent-garden, April 29, at eleven. In the Country. P. A. Hannaford, bookseller, Exeter, April 29, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. Prior, tailor, Saint Blazey, Cornwall, April 29, at one, at the Exeter Dis trict Court—J. I. B. Wright, druggist, Liverpool, April 30, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—W. 13tekerton, timber merchant, Ilull, April 28, at ten, at the Town-hall, Hull—H. Buckeridge, dell:, Castle Church Staffordshire, May 4, at twelve. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day herein mentioned. J. S. Flaxman, tailor, Ludgate-street, City, April 28 —E. Axford, milliner, St. John's-wood terrace, April 27 —F. Il atch, iron-plate worker, St. John's square,C lerk en well, April 28—Ii. Leonard, ironmonger, Cheltenham, May 4—J. Hall, innkeeper, Carlisle, April 29—J. W. Hance, architectural ornament manufacturer, Liverpool, April 27—J. Bailey, builder, Stalybridge, Cheshire, April 29—J. Hudson, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, April 27—J. T. K. Sloan, tavern keeper, Manchester, April 27—J. Taylor, rope manufacturer, Manchester, April 27—A. Thorn, oilman, High Holborn, April 27 W. Cleversley, floor-cloth manufacturer, Old Kent-road, April 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Anning and J. Deane, millers, Axminster, Devon shire—W. Jackson and T. Wood, wood-screw manufac turers, Darlaston Staffordshire—H. Kenyon and J. Poyser, glue manufacturers, West Leigh, Lancashire— Ft. Cana and B. Moulton, appraisers, Woodbridge, Suf folk—E. Halle, M. 11. Steinthal, L. Steinthal, and T. Hertz, Manchester (so far as regards T. liertz)—W. Ridgway, E. J. Ridgway, and L. J. Abington, earthen ware manufacturers, Hanley, Staffordshire—H. Oppen heirn, jun., and S. Oppenheim, Mansell -street, White chapel—S. Cary and R. Leonard, jun., attorneys, Bristol —S. Woodhouse, T. Ward, and J. Priest, warehouse. men, Manchester—W. Jackson and H. Collier, comb manufacturers, Sheffield—J. R. Symons, G. T. Symons, and S. T. Iliddle . on, grocers, Newlyn East, Cornwall— H. and T. Hilditch, grocers, Shrewsbury—W. Theak stunt and H. Umplehy, surgeons, Bedale—lL Clark and J. Contecin, lithographers, Pancras lane, City—S. T'nornely and J. Dod, tailors, Liverpool—R. and J. Davicon, builders, Manchester—W. B. Hills and R. W. Alldridge, provision merchants, Rood-lane, City—W. Dicker and G. Met k, lithographers, Crane -court, Fleet street—W. T. Probyn and J. Sloper, jun., carriers, Pontypool, Monmouthshire—S. Diggle, W. Tuer, W. Hodgson, and R. Hall, ironfounders, Bury, Lancashire (so far as regards S. Diggle)—G. Thornton, B. Ginisor and J. Gimson, pressed cotton reel manufacturers, Lei tester—G. Martin and E. Cade, linendrapers, Exeter— J. Barns and R. Smy, brickmakers, Bristol—E. Shrigley and J. Williamson, painters, Lancaster—E. Rollins, C. Veltmann, and 11. LMarsland, cotton manufacturers, Manchester—T. Sperrings, S. Sperrings, W. Sperrings, G. Sperrings, J. Bennett, and H. Milsotn, stone quay tiers, Frenchay, Gloucestershire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Robert Ilenderson Robertson and Company, manufac turers, Dunfermline, April 14 and 30, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Ronaldson, Dunfermline. Alexander Robson, surgeon, Dumfries, April 12 and May 11, at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Gordon and Whitelaw, Dumfries. William Stewart Donnan, draper, Whithorn, April 12 and May 3, at one, at th e c h am b ers of Mr. Black, Wigtown. Fairley and Thomson, ironmongers, Glasgow, April 12 and May 3, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Gourlay, Glasgow. Robert Thomson and Company, copper merchants, Glasgow, April 12 and May 3, at two, a t th e c h am b ers of Mr. ourlay, Glasgow. Thomas Wallace, wright, Edinburgh, April 12 and May 3, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Dunn, Edinburgh, LADVERTISEMENTIITHE GAME-LIW NOVEL.— Th:: very distinguished success of Mr. Carew's novel, " The Poacher's Wife," has arisen not merely from the undoubted genius it displays, nor from its thrilling inci dents, its breathless situations, its pathos, its mirth, nor its dramatic force of individual character—but because it illustrates a great principle, and exposes one of the most glaring abuses yet remaining of civilised England— namely, the game-laws--which have done more to de moralise the peasantry, than any other offspring of an cient feudal tyranny. The Court Journal, in its review of the work, says, " Truth stares us in the face at every fresh page we open, and we shudder as we close the volumes, because we feel that, as it is in the power of the country to destroy such frightful sources of crime. every man is accessory to their existence. The Weeny Disvitch observes, that " the author has manifested as much good feeling in exposing the evil effects of the game laws by means of a ta!e, as the great commenta tor, Blackstone, did when he denounced them with his Vgal philosophy." AFFECTING DEATHS OP TWO FEMALES (MOTTLE& AND DAUGHTER) AT INVERNESS SUPPOSED FROM STARVATION. —We learn that two females, of the name of Logan, residing at the Shore of Inverness, are re ported to have died last week from actual starvation. We believe they were, at one time, in comfortable cir cumstance,—the knowledge of which, in addition to their recent depressed circumstances, and their anxiety to conceal their actual condition from the knowledge of the public, rendered th em averse to asking parochial or other relief, The r esu l t therefore, has been that they • were both found dead in one bed.—Ross-A ire Advertiser. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APEICL 6. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New, p.-Ditto, New Scrip, 11 1 ' 3 p. -Great Northern (Nos. I to 108,000), 1,4 dis.-Hudderstield Canal and Railway, 2% h.-Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 2 p.-London and North-Western, 175 1 ,x-London and Manchester and Bir mingham, Quarters (B), p.-London and Brighton and South Coast, 53 , 4-Manchester and Leeds (late Hudders field and Sheffield), 2 3 4 p.-Ditto, 321. Shares (late Exten- • sion), 2% p.- Ditto, Halves (late L. and B.), 4 1 4 p.-Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 1 1 ,4 dis.-Mid land, 401. Shares, 4 p.-Ditto, New, 23/ 8 p.-North Stafford shire, 2 1 /s p.-Preston and Wyre, 34% -Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 9/. 12s. 3d. Shares (B), Is. 3d. dis.-South- Eastern and Dover, 36 3 4 ex div.-Ditto, New (No. 4), % p.-Tork and North Micisnd (East and West Riding Ex tension), 11% p. MANCHESTER, APRIL 6. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Birkenhead, Lan cashire, and Cheshire, par-Eastern Counties, 1914-Ditto, York Extension, 1,4 c.-East Lancashire (late B. and P.). New ( scrip), 1 1 % -Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 14-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, -Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 1%-London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 6-Ditto, ditto (B), 6 1-16 c.-Ditto, ditto (C), 6-Ely and Huntingdon, 1,4 c.-Manchester and Leeds, Halves (11. and S.), 21, 4 -Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby Dock), 2%-Manchester and Southampton, 11-16-North Staffordshire, 2 15-16-Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), Ditto (B), %-Scottish Central, 7% -Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1-Shropshire Union, '2ss. 91-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, %-West Riding Union, 1 9-16. HULL, APRIL 6. STOCK EXCHANGIL-The sales are-York and Newcastle, Preference, 3/. 165.-Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3 1 A West Riding Union, 31s. p. EDINBURGH, Arita. 5. STOCK EXCHANGX.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 27/. 17e. 6d. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 18s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 27/. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 21. Is. Caledonian, 271. 10s.-Ditto, New, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire; 2!. 75.-Clydesdale Junction. 391. 59. -Deeside, 31. 55.-Direct Northern, 2/. los. 6d.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1/. 12s. 64.-Dundee and Arbroath, 42/. 10g.-Ditto, New, No. 1,30 L-Ditto. New, No. 2, 30/. -Dundee and Perth, 371. 10s.-Ditto, New, 191. 17s. did. -Eastern Counties, 201.-Ditto, York Extension, 41. 155.-•-• • East of Fife, 2/. 165.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 6/. 108.-- Edinburgh and Glasgow, 711. 15s. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, , 191. 15s. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 17s. 6d. ex Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 201. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Prefer ence, 211.-Edinburgh and Northern, 16/. 7s. 64.-Ditto, New, 4/. 2s. 64.-Ditto, Newport, 7/. 10s. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, 2/. 125.-Edinhurgh and Perth (New), 31. Is. Glasgow and Ayrshire, 621.-Ditto, New Stock, 381.-Ditto, Quarters, 161. 10s -Ditto, Halves, 81.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, Si. 155.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391.-Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 55.-Glasgow and Greenock, 18/. -Ditto, New,,91.-Ditto, Preference, 8/. 55.-Glasgow ' Kil marnock, and Ardrossan, 5/. 18s.-Great North of Eng land, 2331. 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 2/. lls.-London and York, 21.5x.-Manchester and Leeds, 1081.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick, 28/. 58.- - North British, 33/. 15s. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 173. 6d.-Ditto, Thirds, 31. Bs.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 19s. Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 1/. 6s. 6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 6 1 . 155.-Scottish Central, 221. 155.-Scottish Grand Junction, 1/. la.-Scottish Midland, 211.-Stirling and Dunfermline , 4/, 2s. 6d.-Stirling and Midland, 21. 95.-Wishaw and Coltness, 491.-York and Newcastle, 34/. 153. ex Ditto, New, 15/. 7s. 61-Ditto, Preference, 81.-Direct Boni bay and Madras, 2s. 9d.-East Indian, Bs.-Great North of India, 35.-Great Southern of Madras, 35.-Madras, lore, and Arcot, 2s. GLASGOW, APRU. 5. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Ayr and Galloway'- 415.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 3s. 9d.-East Indian, 7s -34.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 6% -Edinburgh and Perth ( New Co.), 58 s. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves. No. 2, 7% -Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 5/. 16s. Great North of Scotland, 515.-Madras, Nellore, and Ar• cot, Is. 64.-Manchester and Southampton, 265. 6d.--York and Newcastle, New, 151. EVERY DOG HAS ins DAY.—A singular apparition is now constantly witnessed along the highway of Clif' ton—namely, a carriage, splendid in all its app ments of horses, harness, coachman, footman, 80-1 driving about in the fashionable hour of the day, its sole tenants being two handsome small white dogs, some' what of the poodle breed, which look out at each will' dow, with rert and important air, as if conscious ass they were " No puppies, mongrels, whelps, or hounds, Or dogs of low degree," but " curled favourites of fortune," for whose conve' nience or comfort no expense is spared. The owner of the equipage, poodles, &c., is a lady of noble family , who is so fond of her canine pets that even a carriage kept as much for their accommodation as 'her own, let it is driven up to the door, and when the lady herself le unable and indisposed to go out, the footman will throw down the steps, and the curled darlings, descending tb° well• carpeted stairs, jump into the chariot in a style only to be attained to by quadrupeds after long custom and practice. The steps are then put up, the doer closed, and the dogs driven off for their airing, return' ing, with a brisk and self satisfied bark, the valedictory band-waving of their benefactress in the balcony shovel —Bristol Times. NEWS FOR ANGLERS.—Mr. D. Lipscombe, th e well- known angler, caught in the Teme, at Broadwas, o n Saturday, with an artificial fly, a fine salmon, l2i l b; weight. The fish was taken with a common fly rod used for trout fishing, after a gallant fight which lasted en_ hour and a half. This is the first salmon known to b!,./.7 been taken in the Teme with the artificial fly withinullro. ing memory. The event was celebrated by a few u $ thers of the angle dining off the prize, who were net , little elated at so good a commencement of the aRISOn campaign.—On the same day a gentleman of this chi caught in the Severn at Holt, while angling with the worm, a splendid trout weighing 411 b., 1R the finest eon" dition, measuring only twenty-two inches in its extreme length. The fish was taken with a very small hook (No. 8) attached to the finest gut. Last week, a trout of a similar kind was taken in a trap at P o wick Welrt which weighed upwards of 51b.— Worcestershire ChN n ' t AN AGED FROG.--A few days ago, as a. man e t the name of John Hally, of Abergavenuy, was in thes e of sawing a large block of freestone, the saw came in contact with some hard substance, which entirely r sisted further progress. It was turned upside down , el l the saw entered in an opposite direction, and after pre" ceeding to within a few inches of the centre it enconn . tored the same obstruction as before. After being cut 0 far as practicable on each of its four sides, a wedge sr°, applied, when after a few strokes with a sledge hartune: it burst asunder, and a living frog was discovered in small cavity in the centre of the hard flinty substance which had resisted the saw. The frog must have beel l confined there from a very remote period, without Ai r : food, or light, as the stone is without any fissure or jell:: within at least two feet and a half of the place where l'' was enclosed. It is still alive, and appears much tc° l4 active than when first discovered. — Hereford Times. FORTIFICATIONS OF HARWICH.—The means of de' defence at thi, seaport are so exceedingly deficient as ° induce the military authorities to make a strong reprei sentation to the Board of Ordnance on the necessity " placing the defences on a more efficient state. It apper, that there are ten 24-pounder guns on traversing Pew: forms, and the only force to work them consists of master gunner, one non-commissioned officer, and tbr e .: gunners of the Royal Artillery. In consequence of th. l representation, an experienced officer of Artillery wel l , 1 0 is stated, be sent next week to examine the state of tit defences, and report to the Bord of Ordnance what . necessary to be done. It is expected that some pounder guns, or others of heavier calibre, will ...Dv mounted, and that a company of Royal Artillery wi ll u " stationed to take charge of them.—Essex Herald. et FEVER ON VIE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. —r e V of the very worst kind, we are informed, has broken c,'„, among the railway labourers employed on the Cal' s donian Railway, at the Cut at Evenhead. A gr ea o number of deaths have taken place. Some of the ru r ., inhabitants of the districts have been attacked with t and in a shepherd's family on the farm of lieweleucV four deaths have taken place during the last fortnigh; The huts are not fit abodes for men. Let the director look to this!—Glasgow Argus. The mortality of London, and indeed, of Engittl i t generally, shows a gradual annual decrease, whilst it is I te f known the population increases considerably-. The rates premium for life insurance have been greatly reduced durirt the last few years, yet the offices continue as prosperous: formerly. These 'acts clearly demonstrate that some es l l;,. either unknown or unheeded, must have produced .. .t;d favourable results. Amongst these causes, the inTsco knowledge of anatomy, and the many very valuable veries in medicine, will stand most prominent. The 5111 69 . pox, that annually carried off thousands, has been sue fully combatted by vaccination; and Gout, that used to cla l L its numerous victims, has been thoroughly vanquished w Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. Of [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A REMARKABLE CURS DROPSY, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. — At Wootton, near Bedford. ;i6 re i sides Mr. John Robinson, sen., an opulent farmer, w h o some tip ago. was in a most dangerous state, from dropsy, being nearly det his ordinary size. He was given over by his me di ca l attondaat,+ is was, at the time, not expected to live three days • yet froin — Ar hopeless state he was cured by t a ki ng H o ll oway ' s Pills, This „ tletnan is well known in all the market towns of the county. ,„r. wonders that this fine medicine does in all cases of dropsy is truly sue { prising, and those who are labouring under this dreadful corn Or.., should certainly try this remedy. Sold by all druggists, and at fessor Holloway's Establisbinent, 244, Strand, Loudon. BIRTHS. On the sth inst., in Hamilton-place, Viscountess BraeW e / of a son and heir. thi On the 4th i ns t., i n Che s ham-place, B e lgrave-square, Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, of a son. On the Ist inst., in Upper Harley-street, the wife of Lie d tenant-Colonel Percival, of the 3d Guards, of twin sons 6 ' a daughter. • r 0 1 On the Ist inst., at Rayleigh Rectory, Essex, the woe theOn t Rev. W. Twyne of a sn. he 2d inst., at , Derry, o the wife of Captain Leach, of tb g Royal Engineers, of a son. On the 3d inst., in Upper Harley-street, Mrs. Howl Reynolds of a son. On the 3d inst., at the Vicarage House, East Ham, Esser, the wife of the Rev. W. Streatfeild, of a daughter, stillt; On the 4th inst., in Devonshire-place, the lady of r Augustus Browne, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. Th e o( On the 3d inst., at St. Pancras Church, John Peter T h- 0 ( hal( 1 , Esq., of Camden-road-villas, to Miss Matthews, Thatchain, Berks. DIED. On the 13th ult., in Dorset-place, Weymouth, James r ° " - ft. bury, Esq., aged 82. ii nif" 0 On the 28th ult., in Calvert-street, Norwich, tt -1 Smith, Esq., aged 78. 1010 On the 30th ult., at Rose-villa, Driffield, Yorkshire. &yes, Esq., aged 71. On the Ist inst., at Uxbridge, North N. Savery, E. , 1• t he On the 3d inst., in Cloudeslev-street, Islington, AO' wife of Mr. Richard C. Ward, flied 57. i i- to On the 3d inst., James King, Esq., of Surrey-place, l'b e road, aged n 75. A 0 0 On the 3d inst., at Axminster, Captain George .- --e Paterson, aged 35. On the 4th inst., Mrs. George Cooper, relict of Ilir G e°r-ge Cooper, of Piccadilly, aged 56. London: Printed and Published by IMMO YOUNG, of Strand, Printer, at The Bun Moo, W 0.112, Strand, in the r a 1r of the Savoy. In the Ootulty Of 3ilddlesex.Wedneidsi, AP 1847. I (