The Sun. — London, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENO_,E. MAX SION -H01) SE. John Bray, aged 68, formerly an extensive livery stable keeper in Moorgste-street, but reduced to the condition of a bailiff's follower, was b ought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempted to violate the wife of a person in whose house he was appointed to keep possession. Mr. T. C. Lewis, music-seller, of No. 96, Cheap side, said—The defendant was left in possession of my premises from the Sheriffs' Court, upon a judg ment for 191. odd, and has been in possession three weeks. Since he has been there I slept out, my wife, two children, and a servant being left on the premises. On Friday morning, at nine o'clock, I came home, and could find no one except the defendant and my young man and boy in the shop. My bedroom was in disorder, and the bed and bedstead were in the middle of the room; the drawers against the door, and all in confusion. In consequence of a communication from my housekeeper, I said to the defendant, t r. Bray, what has transpired during my absence yes ehr day ?'' He said, " Oh, you have heard part of t e tale, and I can only tell y ou y our wife is a -- she has slept with me t hese last ten nights., I said, " I'll knock you d own if y ou say that again," and he replied, " Oh, I'm in possession, and I dare you to do it ; I have arms about me, and I will use them." He a f terw ards repeated the offensive words with still more disgusting additions, in the presence of the sheriff's officer, who ordered him out, and I knocked him down in the shop. He then declared that he would cut my throat, and my wife's throat too, and be the death of the pair of us. Mrs. Mary Ann Lewis, wife of the last witness, said—l had disehargod my servant, and got my sister-in-law to reside with me. On Friday I went to a friend's house, and returned home at ten o'clock. I took off my bonnet and was going up stairs, and the defendant, who was in the kitchen on the second floor, said, " Stop a minute, have some bread and cheese." I refused, and he stood between me and the door, and said, "Now, my dear creature, you can't pass with out giving me a kiss." He used exceedingly gross and offensive language, and I threw up the window and 3crcana ad ft.r the police. lie followed me and seized me by the arm and pulled me away, and I ran up stairs to my bedroom and put a chest of drawers against the door, and he tried to get in. I was in such a state of agitation I could not go to bed at all, and he remained outside the door. The witness then stated that she felt reluctant to increase her husband's troubles by telling him what occurred. The defen dant, however, continued his solicitations on another night, regardless of the presence of Mrs. Lewis's sister-in-law, who, seeing an open razor in his hand, threw up the window and called out " Murder." The police, however, would not take him into custody as he was in possession. For the first time then he used expreasions against her reputation, and the an noyance became so intolerable that exposure became indispensable. Mrs. Hughes stated that she went to sleep with Mrs. Lewis, in the absence of that lady's husband, and witnessed the extraordinary nature of the perse cution with which the old fool harassed the poor woman, and from her description it would certainly appear that Bray had taken leave of his senses. It struck several persons present during the exa mination that the tvo women might have easily punished the defendant for the filthy language he had used. He, however, frightened them both by his brutality. Bray said that the story had gathered a great deal in the telling, and that he had never used any threats, for, indeed, there was no occasion for any. The LORD MAYOR said the case was a very aggra vated one, for the defendant had not only taken ad vantage of the distressed condition of the family, but was base enough to reflect upon the character of a woman upon being steadily repulsed. tinder such circumstances it was necessary to commit him for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Committed accordingly. Three men, named Cambridge, Rahe, and Chip, who have been employed on board the Venezuela steamer, from Ostend, were charged with having on board a quantity of tobacco, upon which the duty had not been paid. C. A. Davis, officer of the Customs, stated that in consequence of information which he had received he went on board the Venezuela on Friday morning, at one o'clock, accompanied by Inspector Evans. In the bow of the vessel they discovered a sack, con taining 65 packages of leaf and 3 packages of manu • factured tobacco. When Rake saw them he shook most violently, and upon being asked w hether he had got the ague, made some confused and u nintelligible answers. Chip, however, talked about a little cold steel for them. Inspector Evans confirmed the account given by the officer. The witnesses were cross-examined at some length, but the evidence was not at all affected. The prisoners were each of them convicted and fined in the penalty of 1001. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Sergeant F. White, of the Smithfield police, solicited Mr. Alderman Musgrove's directions with respect to twenty merino sheep affected with the smallpox, which had been brought to Smithfield for sale. He had caused them to be separated, but he:did not know whether he ought to seize them with a view to the prosecution of the owner for sending them to market knowing them to be affected with an infectious disorder. Mr. Alderman MuscatovE said he had not heard of sheep being subject to such a disease before. The sergeant should first get the opinion of the surgeon appointed by the City to attend to complaints arising in that market. The sergeant said that Mr. Nias's appointment only related to the horse-fair. He was a veterinary surgeon. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE observed that he could only act upon a competent opinion that the sheep were diseased, and the disease contagious. He directed the officer to request the surgeon's attention to the case, and report immediately thereon. In about an hour the sergeant and the surgeon at tended. The sergeant stated that during his absence the sheep had been sold to butchers at 16s. a head, but they were not removed. kr. Nias stated that he had read of some sheep having been lately discovered to be infected with smallpox, and upon inspecting the twenty sheep in Smithfield he found them to be similarly affected. There was an eruption on various parts, but particu larly under the shoulder, and it had an appearance like the eruption of smallpox. There were a number of small ulcers, but they were healing over, and he should say the sheep had got well over the disease. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE inquired if the disease had run to a stage at which the danger of infection ceased. Suppose he had a flock of sheep, should he have any objectitin to these twenty sheep been turned amongst them ? Mr. Nias said he should not suffer them to be mixed with a flock if he possessed one, and yet he should hesitate to say that they wsuld certainly infect a flock. He had had no experience in the disease. Sergeant White said they were imported from Spain mine weeks ago, and had since been grazing. They had been kept till they were supposed to be healthy again. The salesman had rejected ab ou t th ree hun dred sheep that morning that were labouring under the disease in the inflammatory stage. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE said, that under the evidence he had heard he could only direct that those who had bought them should immediately remove them, and he very much doubted if the butchers would be justified in killing them, and exposing them for sale in their present state. The officer had done his duty very properly in bringing the matter under his notice, for it was an offence to bring animals labourin g under contagious diseases into a public market to the danger of all the animals there. CL ER ICE N E L L. mudmurder of Matilda Clinton, his wife, aged 38. William ;Henry Martin, deposed that o'clock, he received yesterda y information about half-past one husband that a woman been ill-used by her had Beacham-street, St. Andrew's, at a house, No. 6, on makingi Holborn. He pro ceeded thither, and, Surgeons had that the woman was dead, and that he heard oraoleir:iftasothe house, Matilda been there, and that the wOrnan's n e t Clinton. He left a constable at the :I , and went to Mr. Pollock, surgeon and saw his assistant, who said the wornanTjtarden, ceived a blow and a kick. Witness returned a i d th e l4- house, and found the prisoner in the watercloseto. R e went up stairs with him to the back attic, where he found the deceased lying on a bed ; there was blood on the stairs and floor. When in the room with the prisoner, witness said, " I must take you into custody for this." The prisoner said, " Very well, I am sorry for it, she was drunk at the time, and she aggravated rae ." He repeated this at the station-house. He found 13s. 7d. and two penknives and a key in his pos ,,,sion. The body of deceased was laid out. She was without her clothes. Mr. TYRWIIITT asked the prisoner if he wished to put any questions to the witness ? Prisoner (de- Jec t e dly)—l hare none, Mr. S. Caldclough, surgeon and assistant to Mr. Pollock, deposed that he was called upon to attend the deceased at half-past two o'clock in the morning, at No. 6, Beacham -street. Did not see the person who called, but thought it was the prisoner. He went to the house, and noticed, on two of the upper stairs, blood and water. Saw a woman lying on her right side on the floor, and another woman by her side. The face of the former was palli I, and she was almost insensible. Asked her what was the matter ? She replied that she was ill. Asked her if there was any cause for the illness, and she used a digusting remark. Witness heard she had been pre viously ill, about half an hour. Asked if she had ;s-i.e.:sets/es-. see.s—v......si -..--..."e5- ---- - - been drinking liquor : she said she bad. The irn- 1 Pressien of s' itness was, that she had been drinking. Witness went into the adjoining room, and found the prisoner sitting on the side of the bed. Asked if he knew the cause of his wi fe ' s illuess. A little girl, his daughter, said her m other had been quarrelling with her father. She had been ill for two or three days. She said her father had kicked her mother behind ; but her:illness had began before he kicked her. The deceased wa s q uite restless. Witness left the place, and sent medicine, w ith instructions how to be used. The prisoner inquired of witness if he thought it a serious case? Witness replied, " In deed it is." The prisoner said, "I am sorry for it ; she -was a dreadful temper. She had quarrelled with me, because I would not let her have more liquor. She threw a knife, a shovel, the poker, and the tongs at me ; the poker struck me on the nose, and I kicked her." Witness received information that she died at four o'clock in the morning. The prisoner declined putting any questions to this witness, saying, " It is quite right ; I went for the surgeon." Mrs. Margaret Goodwin, a lodger in the first floor of No. 6, Beacham-street, deposed that the deceased's daughter came and requested witness to attend upon her mother in her room. She went and found the prisoner supporting his wife. She was sitting on the floor. Saw blood before she entered the room. She was insensible. There was blood near the room door. The prisoner requested her to go and fetch a medical gentleman. She told him to go himself, and he did so immediately. The deceased continued insensible until he came back, and the surgeon followed instantly. By Mr. TRYwHITT—There was not less than a quart of blood. Asked the prisoner how it happened. He said they had been quarrelling. She had drunk a quartern of gin off at a draught, and half a pint of beer. The prisoner supported his wife whilst witness s tbu herwith strike a shovel. andke t six o w cl a ock administered the medicine. The deceased was a quar relsome woman when sober. O n Saturda y ni g ht, at twelve o'clock, heard them qua rrellin g whilst witness was in bed. During the abse nce of the doctor the deceased said she was very i ll, and desired her to raise her up. She said nothing about ho w it ha pp ened in the presence of the prisoner. She was very ex hausted. Witness could not say whether she was conscious of her 'danger at the time. Did not observe the appearance of wiping away blood until after Mr. Pollock had been. The deceased's clothes were satu rated with blood. Thomas Ennis, a lodger in the house, heard the screams of the prisoner's daughter about two o'clock in the morning, and cries of " Oh, come to my mo ther !" It was not unusual to hear such quarrelling. He confirmed the above testimony. Elizabeth Clifton, the prisoner's daughter, twelve years of age, was called, but not sworn. S he said that her mother came home with her fa ther about ten o'clock. She slept in the front room , and h er parents in the back room. She was asleep when they returned home, and they awoke her. They were kind to one another at first, and then they began to quarrel.hterre, He . h Her mother began the quarrel, and it con tinued for some time, when her mother called her tither a very had name. They were sitting at the table at supper. There was a quartern of gin and a pint of porter on the table. Her mother drank the gin and then the beer. Her father was sitting still before this. She table-knife thel her mother -a Skhs same n e g i of then ei ngaewould v. away,eo callednu him,ilnd gnota nhd him letrthenen bad gmoi himgngo n. a to e n hit not mother toldAshe should nat live till the mor n i ng , and gave her a piece of black riband to wear a s m ourning for her. Her father kicked her mother after having been oh te m s called the names, and the blood came on the top of the stairs. Her back was towards him at the time. She was running out of the way when he kicked her. ' By Mr. TYRWHITT—IItr father had not threatened to kick her, or kicked her to make her go out of the room. Her mother cried out immediately after her father kicked her. She did not fall after the kick. When she cried out, her father put his arm round her neck and supported her into the room, and the bleed ing commenced at once. There was a light in the room and she could see. Her father cried at the time, and said he had no wish to do it. He said, " How foolish you were to suffer me to kick you; I did not wish to do it, but you are such a bad temper." Mr. TYRWHITT said he should remand the prisoner, and he cautioned him that he was not bound to say anything. The prisoner, who was much affected, said nothing, and he was remanded. The poor little daughter left the court crying bitterly. The body of the deceased lies for a coroner's inquest. T . HE SUN, TURigrizi‘r_ EVENIN,G3 OCTOBER a i 1 1® THAMES. Stauro Cuzzi, a Greek, and captain of the Grecian brig Belle Esperanza, from Malta, was brought be fore Mr. Yardley, charged on a Custom-house in formation with illegally unshipping 1501bs. of cigars in the Downs. Mr. Beverly, clerk to the Soliciter of Customs, ap peared on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Hobler attended for the defendant, and Mr. Major, Consul-General of Greece, was also present. The circumstances which gave rise to the prosecu tion of the defendant and the seizure of the vessel under his command were detailed in this journal of Friday last. It will be recollected that on the ship arriving at Falmouth, she was boarded by the Cus tom-house officers, who finding an unusual quantity of cigars shipped as stores, suspected that an at tempt wculd be made to run them on the voyage, and placed under the official seal in 11 sacks 19,000 cigars, leaving 5,000 more for the consumption of the crew. All hands were at the same time warned not to break the seals. On the arrival of the ship in the London Docks only two sacks with the official seal on them were found, and the whole of the cigars amounted only to 6,500, leaving a deficiency to be accounted for of 15,.500, which the crew, fourteen in number, could not have consumed at the liberal al lowance of twenty per day, the number alleged to b . e smoked by each man. Inquiries were made, and in consequence of information given by two seamen Nicholas Stonut, the chief officer, was first proceeded against, and upon conviction was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Giorgio Snarovitch and Francisco Kovanovich, na tives of Dalmatia, who gave their evidence in the Italian language, which was interpreted, repeated the statements they made on Thursday—that while the vessel was lying at anchor in the Downs on the 18th of September, a boat came alongside three times dur ing the day—on the first occasion with four men, on the second with three men, and on the third with two men. On each occasion two men came on board, and received from the mate in the cabin a great many boxes of cigars, which were deposited in bags, carried into the boat, and covered over. The mate bargained for the sale of the cigars, and received gold from the boatmen. The captain was present in the cabin when the cigars were handed to the men and the bargains were made, and it was urged by Mr. Beverly that he was fully aware of what was going on, and acquiesced in the transaction. Mr. YARDLEY said, there was one new feature in the case—that the cigars were transferred to the boat in the boxes, and some other variations, but it must be remembered there were continual interruptions of a somewhat indifferent interpreter, who acted in the spirit of a partisan last week. He thought would have been more suspicious if the two foreigners had literally repeated the same story as they had done on Thursday. If they had done so it would have been said they had their lesson by rote and invented state ments. Tomaso Casingenna, the Italian pilot of the Belle Esperanza, who brought her from Malta, was called merely to prove that the ship was in the Downs, within a league of the coast of Kent, on the 18th, and after he had done so he was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Hobler, with a view of showing that the two seamen who gave evidence for the Crown were ill and confined to their hammocks on the day in question. He answered with great caution, and said the men were ill, and he only knew of their coming upon deck when a pressing necessity com pelled them. He was alternately in the cabin and upon the deck on the 18th of September, and did not see any strangers on board, but they might have been conversing with the captain and mate when he was asleep in the cabin. He believed a boat did come alongside once, but he saw no one leave it. In answer to questions by Mr. YARDLEY, the pilot said there were eleven sacks containing cigars, sealed by the revenue officers at Falmouth. He could not exactly say how many boxes were in the sacks. He believed the sacks contained 150 boxes, containing 100 each box ttir, zlobler said, the evidence of the pilot in a great measure contradicted the statements of the two seamen, and trusted that the case would not be pro- Mr. Beverly n The ceeded with . f submitted he had p rove d th e case on the part of the Crow 18 th ofa reason he had not p u t t a h n e y s q h u ip es vN ti , o a n s sontotthhee pilot September was, th a t when knew nothing, and shrugged " -house he said he his Shoulders Mr. YARDLEY—I can't shut my e .„„., that he is more reluctant to st a t e the to the fact real number of cigars than he was last week. Robert Gray, a tide surveyor, stated that he found 6,500 cigars on board the Belle Esperanza i n the Lon don Dock, on the 24th of September. Mr. YARDLEY said it was a matter entirely for the Commissioners of Customs whether they would miti gate the punishment or not. Certain circumstances, if proved, drew with them certain consequences. The only question was, whether the circumstances did exist. He found they did, nor had he any doubt of the scienter on the part of the defendant. It was his painful duty to convict and sentence► the defendant to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months, the minimum punishment awarded by the; FATAL ACCIDENT ON DRILL.... An accident oc curred to a party of the 38th depot, at ball paactice on Monday last, by which a corporal named Bradshaw lost his life. The manner of its occurrence is best detailed by the persons who witnessed the melancholy scene, as given at the inquest, held by C. Wallace, Esq., R.M., on the following day. Private Michael Sands, of the 38th Regiment, being duly sworn, states that he re collects yesterday, the 20th instant, when deceased came by his death; that he was next but one to the deceased when he fell. The party had been firing blank cat tridge before they commenced firing ball; and, after firing nine rounds of balls, examinant asked did any other person want one. Private Lawson said he wanted one, when a recruit named Bradshaw said he would give him one, when he did. Deceased asked Private Lawder why he did not shoulder his firelock the same as another man. Lawder put his musket at the position for capping, and, having put a cap on, the musket at full cock, it appeared to examinant that Lawder was in the act of letting down the cock of the piece, when it went off, and the corporal immediately fell. The jury returned the following ver dict: —" We find that the deceased, James Bradshaw, came by his death by reason of a gun shot wound, accidentally inflicted by Private Robert Lawder, while practising ball-firing on the 20th of September, 1847 : " The deceased was horn in the regiment at Bordeaux, in 1814, and continued in it up to the melancholy termina tion of his career; he was distinguished by good conduct marks, and was much esteemed in the corps; he has left a wife and two children to deplore his untimely end.— Westmeath Guardian. Tin CANINE POSTMAN.—We (Worcester Journal) have lately missed from our office on publishing nights a much-respected customer—who, if not a very " con stant reader," was, at any rate, one of our most " regular subscribers." We allude to a noted little terrier, be longing (or rather we should say that 'did belong—for the poor dog was malieiously poisoned) to Mr. Powell, of the Cross. This sagacious little animal has for the last six years regularly presented himself every evening at our counter, and with an inquiring whine—signifying, as plain as man can speak, " Is your highly valuable Journal out yet ?"—waited the moment when his five pennyworth should be presented him. The Journal once given him, no dog, large or small, would he suffer to approach him, but would gallop off, proud of his literary burden, and deliver it to his master. The many feats which this pattern of dogs was in the habit of performing would appear incredible. He was the general messenger in his master's househould ; he would carry letters from one house to another, deliver his correspon dence, and return with a reply; he would bring brushes, knives, slippers—in fact, anything he could carry —upon receiving his instructions, and was, in short, gifted with instinct little short of many a man's reasoning powers. The destruction of the poor animal was, to characterise it in the lightest terms, an act of unfeeling cruelty. INSCRIPTIONS ON THE WALLS OF SIIAPSPERE'S HOUSE.—Every inch is covered. Names clamber over names, in endless confusion of manifold caligraphy. One side of the chimney appears to have been especially appropriated by theatrical celebrities. Here you find the names of Edmund Kean, Charles Kean, and several others, to which have been added, within the last few days, the signatures of Buckstono and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. The aspiring hand of Macready has mounted to the ceiling, while various members of the theatrical profes sion (many of them inscribed very recently) are scat tered over the walls. The name of Scott, written with his diamond ring, is traced upon the window ; and Schiller?, stands out on the side-wall in bold relief from amidst an indefinite group of ambitious obscurities. All classes and orders of men and intellects are here clus tered together ; minor poets (I detected one or two nestling in the corners), statesmen, actors, gentlemen at large, dramatists, people of some repute and people of none, famous men and noodles—a just reflection of the universality of that genius to which they have all come to render homage, after their own speciali ties.—Atlas. RESTORATION OF STEPNEY CHURCH.--In accord ance with a request on the part of several correspondents, we journeyed last week to the old church at Stepney, to learn what was being done, and found it completely gutted, preparatory to a general restoration. The galleries, which projected in front of the arcade columns, are taken down, and though unfortunately there are still to be side galleries ; these are set back three feet from the columns, and supported independently. The present west gallery, which projects over the space of two bays correspondentsof pe w raig i'a tne nave, is to be r em o v ed, a nd a s m a ll ~ne , p r oj ec ti ng but a fm little from th e t ower , i s t o b e su b st it ute d. Th e o ld the body o f t h e c h urc h, w hi c h one o f our feared ceilin gs o wou f ld th b e e put roofs upaaregatio be again, is r t e o m b o e ved re modelled. Th e far as w© can learn:eand stained, &c. In short, as as thecichurch will be restored to its and the timbers expo c ircumstances will permit. Mr. original state as fully needs careful handling-. • The Viennabuilding the appears Ferrey is the architect ern to 13- in a very shaky state, in e t A Th l e o ß u d u Bu ilder. b o7t n he explosion was heard in caused by the bursting ult. t) f the boiler o t i u l e r turned e o t i f a ou l, t ,c t , o )m h o a t v iv e e n after itz Railway, which had been placed apart i s e nn a in an a d s h G o l d ° having come in from a journey, were carried through the roof to of , the pieces a great distance, but fortunately no person was hurt. Act. He felt great pain. in inflicting . such a sen- A:MAN MURDERED by SOLDIERS. tence, but t was necessary for the protection of the Sas:mean, OCT 2.—One of the most disgraceful revenue that such offences as these should be severely aggressions which has occurred in this town for some punished. j considerable time past took place a few days since, Mr. Hobler and the Greek Consul e arnestly appealed i and was attended by circumstances of almost unpa to the alagistrate to suspend the sentence until a peti- ralleled cruelty to a person named Thomas Morton, a tion was sent to the Bsard of Customs, but grinder by trade?, who has since died from the effects Mr. YARDLET had no power to do so. of the violence he received. The nature of the case It was then represented that the Magistrate could will be understood from the subjoined evidence, taken remit the hard labour on account of illness, and yesterday evening before the corcner for the district. Mr. YARDLEY said he would gladly do that, and the Mr. T. W. Rodgers, solicitor, attended on behalf sentence was altered accordingly. of the officers of the 40th (Foot) Regiment, to watch SOUTH WARK. the proceedings ; and Mr. Branson, solicitor, attended William TValls, a well-dressed young man, was on behalf of the friends of deceased. charged with stealing two leathern bags, containing The first witness examined was Maria Roberts, who clothes and documents of importance, the property cf deposed that she resided in Infirmary-lane, and knew Mr. Allen Maconochie, Professor of Law in the Uni- the deceased. On Saturday night, the 11th instant, versity of Glasgow. she went to her husband, who was transacting some The complainant stated that he had lately returned business at the Army Hotel. She left, in company from Italy, and that on his arrival from Dover by the with her husband, the deceased's brother, and two train at the London-bridge terminus, he left his lug- other persons, between twelve and one o'clock on the gage on the side of the platform in order to hire a cab Sunday morning. The deceased remained in the to take him to the west-end of the town. He had not house for a few minutes, when he followed, walking been gone exceeding a minute when he returned and about ten yards behind them. As they were turning missed two leathern bags containing various articles, the corner of the barrack-lane they heard some per and at first supposing they were removed in mistake sons singing, and when they got up to them they by some passenger, he proceeded towards the upper noticed that they were two foot soldiers. The de end of the platform, and observed the prisoner with ceased's brother asked them why they were singing two bags resembling his, but was unable to ascertain songs on a Sunday morning. The two soldiers and the fact until he stopped him. The prisoner on being the deceased's brother began scuffling together, and spoken to seemed confused, and laid the bags down, she called for the watchman. After calling some when he (complainant) at once discovered that time the relief guard came down from the barracks. they were his own, and that the prisoner carried She was positive they were the guards, as two were them in such a manner as to conceal the brass of the foot regiment, had pepper-and-salt over-coats, plates with his name inscribed on them. When and hats on; the other two belonged to the horse the prisoner was subsequently questioned on the regiment, and had red cloaks an d caps. Th e foot subject, he said that he had just arrived by the soldiers had bayonets. One of them went up to her Brighton train, and that a gentleman, a passenger, asked husband, pointed his bayonet, and told him that he him to carry the bags a short distance for him, which had a good mind to run him through. One of them he was in the act of doing when he was stopped as said to the deceased, " your eyes, I'll run you above described. He, however, said that he could through." She then saw the soldier knock de not point out the gentleman, and this latter admission, ceased down with his bayonet, and the whole six coupled with the fact of the prisoner asserting that he soldiers surrounded him. She was unable to see had come up in the Brighton train, whi c h it w as found anything else, but heard several heavy blows given by did not arrive until after that of the D over , induced com- them. The watchman afterwards came to the place, plainant to give him into custody. The complainant and ran to the soldiers. added that he did not wish to press the charge, as he By the CORONER—The deceased was perfectly had his property restored, and that he had important sober, but his brother John had been drinking. The duties to perform at Glasgow, to which place he was two soldiers who first began scuffling had no bayonets desirous of immediately proceeding. or arms with them. Those who had come from the Mr. UOTTINGLIAM said that it was important to barracks. She did not see any of the soldiers try to protect the public from robberies of the above prevent the blows. The deceased had not come up description, which were of frequent occurrence, and when the affray first commenced. that he could not think of permitting the prisoner George Roberts, the hu s b an d o f th e l as t w it ness , to be discharged, and let loose on te town again confirmed her evidence, and added that one of the without punishment. He (the magistrate) had caused soldiers told him that they had leave for the night. some inquiries to be made respecting the prisoner Witness had been drinking, and could not tell which since the first examination, and discovered that he soldier knocked the dece ase d d own . H e r e collected had told gross falsehoods, having asserted that he that one of them threatened to run him through with had recently been in the employ of a gentleman his bayonet. at Cromer, in Norfolk. Unger all the circumstances John Morton, stove-grate fitter, said that the de he thought it incumbent on him to send such a person ceased was his brother. On the morning in ques for trial, for it was evident he had obtained access tion, when he heard the soldiers singing, he told to the platform of the railway when the train arrived them that it was S unday morning, and not a for the purpose of st e aling some of the passengers' proper time to sing. 'They both went towards luggage, and that his appearance was calculated to witness, and one of them replied that "he could deceive the people as to hi s rea l character. There sing or do any thing else better than he could." was another circumstance in the case which plainly Witness told him that he thought otherwise. One indicated that he went to the terminus to plunder, as, of them then laid held of witness by the hair of a hen he possessed himself of the complainant's bags, the head, and held him down. IN'hen he lett he took special care, even in the hurry of the mo- hold witness went towards the Barrack Tavern, ment, to turn that part of them which bore the and at the bottom of the lane he saw four owner's name on the brass plates towards his own soldiers coining from the barracks. They stopped at body, so as to conceal it from view. the bottom of the lane, and went up to a man, and Mr. Maconochie said that he would prefer losing said they had a good mind to run their bayonets the bags and their contents altogether than to prose- through him. He did not then know who that mat , cute, as his duties as Professor of Law at Glasgow was. He saw the gun of one of them lifted up over reauired his immediate att e ndance at the University the other's head. Heard Mrs. Roberts scream out to commence his season of lectures. He was aware " Watch !" and Thorpe, the watchman, came up, and of the importance of a prosecution of this sort, but took one of the soldiers away. He then saw that the still it was of more importance to him to repair at man they had been ill using -was his brother. He once to Scotland, to perform duties which, in his was covered with blood. He assisted him up, and estimation, were paramount. He therefore trusted conveyed him to the Army Hotel, and he was put to the magistrate would deal summarily with the charge, bed. A surgeon had attended him, but he died on and permit him to proceed on his journey. Thursday. Mr. COTTINGIIAM at length assented, the solicitor William Thorpe, the watchman, said that, about of the railway company having stated that the direc- twenty minutes past one o'clock, his attention was tors were only anxious to consult the convenience of attracted by hearing a female scream. He went to the complainant on account of the onerous duties he the spot the sound came from. He there saw a man had to perform in Glasgow. on the ground, and a soldier on the top of him. He The prisoner was then asked what he had to say in seized him by the collar and pulled him off. He answer to the charge, and his reply was, that he had asked him if he was going to murder the man ? when been given the bags to carry, but could not bring he replied that he had been insulted. The sergeant forward the owner ; that he could bring forward no soon came up and insisted upon witness giving the witnesses on his behalf, as he was an utter stranger soldier up. in town. Corporal Johnson said, that on the morning in Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that it was with consider- question he was on duty as sergeant of the guard at able reluctance he consented to deal summarily with Sheffield Barracks. He ordered privates John John ' the case, as he had no doubt the prisoner was con- son and John Greene to take their bayonets off their nected with confederates in robberies of the above fire-arms and put them in the scabbards. They did description, and that the public had a right to be so , an d went w i t h w i tness through the gate. A few protected from such plunder. It was a fortunate yards outside he heard a disturbance on the road. circumstance for tke prisoner that the complainant Near the Barrack Tavern he saw the watchman and was not in a situation to prosecute him atthe sessions, private James Rennyson. They had hold of each for if it had not been that he was called away to at- other. The watchman was pulling him, and he was tend his professional duties in another part of the resisting. He directed the guard to seize Rennyson, kingdom, he might depend upon it that he would have and to take him to the guard-room and place him been sent before a jury for trial. The sentence there- under confinement, which was accordingly done. fore was, that the prisoner be committed for three Two men, Mulrannon and Rennyson, are now in months to the House of Correction. custody ; they had leave of absence that night. He inquired of Rennyson how the affair took place. He said that he was coming along with Mulrannon, and they went to the Barrack Tavern to get a glass of ale, but could not, as the place was locked up. As he was coming away he was struck by a civilian and knocked down, and he fought the best way he could out of it, and was taken by the watchman. Mulran non said that he took no part in the fight, but got some blows, and made the best way he could to the barracks to inform witness. When he came he told witness that some civilians were beating his comrade. The CORONER said that they were placed in an awkward position, the two soldiers being in custody, and they could not hear the evidence against their,. He should, therefore, adjourn the inquiry to a future day. The inquest was accordingly adjourned. BRUTAL MURDER. (From the Carlisle Journal) Much excitement was created in this city on Sun day morning last by a report that a wom an h a d b een found murdered in a field near Greystone- cottage, on the Blackwell-road. It appears that as two men of the name of Hodgson were taking a walk, about seven o'clock in the morning, they saw a woman's bonnet and shawl, and a quantity of human hair, lying on the hedge at one side of the road, and a sheep's liver near them. On looki ng aroun d t h ey saw in a field on the opposite side of the road the body of a woman, lying, apparently dead, w ith h er b onnet and cap off, the latter saturated with blood. The men immediately gave an alarm. On raising the body up they found that the woman s till b reat h e d , b ut ap peared to be totally insensible. She presented a most shocking spectacle, her face bruised and covered with blood and dirt, and her dres s t orn and d i sordered, and parts of it covered with blood. She was immediately removed to Greystone-cottag e , an d a messenger dis patched, for the police. Two officers were speedily upon the spot, and one of them ret urne d aga i n to t h e town for a surgeon. On his way up to Botchergate he found a man, having the appearance of a tr ave lli ng tinker, dr un k, and creating a great disturbance, and took him into custody. The ma n su b sequently turned out to be Peter Bailin), the husband of the murdered woman. The woman was removed to a l o d g i ng h ouse i n Botcher ga te, where she died in ab ou t 1 0 minutes, without haying exhibited any signs of consciousness. Inquiries were set on foot, and the following par ticulars obtained :—The deceased and her husband were travelling tinkers, and with their two children, and in company with Charles M'Minnis, his wife, and four children, had arri ve d i n t h e neigh b ourhood on Friday, and pitched their tent in a bye lane, near Durbar. On Saturday morning Hanlin and his wife, and 111‘Minnis and his wife, came to Carlisle, leaving their children in the camp. They were all seen in the course of the day wandering about the streets in a state of intoxication, the deceased carrying small articles of hardw are for' sale, and, in particular, being very drunk. About four o'clock they left the town, and deceased attempted to ride on a donkey, but fell off, and had to be supported, or, rather, dragged along by h er companions, and they then started forward agai n on their way to the camp. After proceedin g a b out a mile, the two husbands appear to hav e quarrelle d, or go t up a fi ght. I\l‘Minnis had a w hi p i n his hand, and was seen to strike Hanli n a blow on the head with the butt end of it. They then rose, shook hands, and declared themselves good friends, Hanlin bleeding from the wound in his head. 111`Minnis and his wife went forward, leaving the deceased sitting against the hedge, too drunk to proceed any further, and her husband standing near, also much intoxic a t e d. Hanlin was als o seen str iki ng his wife, and heard threatening to take her life, by persons passing on the road. The parties appear to be all of the lower class of travelling tinkers. M'Alinnis and his wife were both taken into custody on Sunday, but liberated after the adjournment of the inquest. On the person of .M.Minnis was sound 161. and a few shillings. A very severe wound was observable on the forehead of Hanlin, which he says was given to him by four men who, he says, attacked him and his wife, but which there is little doubt is the effect of the blow given with the whip by M'Minnis. He is at present very unwell from the effect of this blow, and is not entirely out of danger. A coroner's inquest was held on Monday, and was resumed on Friday ; after a lengthened inquiry, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against T. Hanlin. A few days ago a large whale was left by the tide between Hilbre Island and the sand-hills at Hoylake. Ile was seized by some parties, who extracted upwards of fifty tuns of oil out of the animal, which now lies on the 84 W 1-1415 at 110Y1wke.—LivorpoolAThions MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, INI(ENDAT EYEINIZCG. TIMES..—This has been one of the most extraor dinary days ever witnessed in the Stock Exchange. Owing to the way in which they have been taken by surprise, the parties called upon to repay loans to the Bank (upon a possible renewal, of which they had calculated up to the 14th of October) have been com pelled to part with stock and Exchequer-bills at any prices, and the dealers, seeing their position, and par ticipating, moreover, to some extent, in the panic, have made their own terms. Hence, at one time, while the quotation of Consols for money was 83k, the price for the account was 841, the difference being quivalent to the rate of interest of 36 per cent. per annum. At the commencement of business the market wore an appearance of comparative firmness, Consols having opened at an advance of a half per cent. on the closing price of yesterday. But from 84i they dropped almost immediately to 84/, whence they rallied to 841. From this point a general demand for money set in, and the pressure gradually in creased until the price went to 831. Towards the close of the day, however, another rally took place, and they left off at 84 to I. For the account Consols began at 84-1 to 85k, whence they declined to 841, the final quotation being 841, buyers. Exchequer bills during one portion of the morning were almost unsaleable. The first quotation was 20s. to 103. dis., and they were afterwards sold at 275. dis. In these, however, as well as in Consols, some reaction took place, and the last price was 265. to 20s. dis. Bank Stock left off 190 to 193 ; Indian Stock 222 to 227 ; and India Bonds 30s. to 20s. dis. At the Bank the pressure for discounts was extremely heavy. The excitement caused by the urgent demand for money has been increased by two additional failures, the first being that of Rougemont Brothers, an old established house, whose liabilities are supposed to he of moderate extent ; while the second is that of J9lin Thomas, Son, and Lefevre, which will prove ex tremely serious. The liabilities of this firm upon ac ceptances amount to 350,0001., of which 150,0001. fall due during the present month, 120,0001. in No vember, and 100,000/. in December, and the imme diate cause of the stoppage is understeod to have been the non-receipt of expected remittances from their house at St. Petersburgh. By many persons, how ever, the business of the house has long been supposed to have been extended beyond the amount warranted by its capital ; and it is, therefore, feared that the results will not prove so favourable as •night have been expected if the disaster had originated in some merely temporary circumstances. l'he blow is expected to fall most heavily at Man chester, whence the firm, in connexion with Messrs. i)e Jersey and Co., have been large exporters of , cotton-twist to St. Petersburgh and Moscow. Within a recent period they had erected a cotton spinning establishment at St. Petersburgh, which is -tated to have cost 60,000/., and which (this branch if business being known to be one of the most pro ritable in that city) added considerably to the confi dence of those who regarded the position of the 'louse as a sound one. John Thomas and Co. is the itle of the firm at St. Petersburgh, and it has two partners, Messrs. Maingy and Forcemann, who are .iticonnected with the house in London, but as it is lot expected that they have independent capital to any extent, and as the present suspension has been iaused by their want of punctuality, there is little :own to hope that the event may be mitigated by anything that may transpire from that side. It may he added, that notwithstanding the distrust which las been felt in some quarters, the firm have gene rally been held in much esteem, since (setting aside the undue extension of business to which we have ►lluded) then• are believed never to have mixed in speculations of any kind. This, however, rather adds to the apprehensions that may be entertained as to the ultimate liquidation, since there can be little doubt that, from the feeling entertained for Mr. Le ' Fevre, any reasonable assistance would have been at , his command if the difficulties of his house could have been clearly shown to be such as by time and good management might have been overcome. the closing quotation 841 As the settling takes rilllce on the 16th instant, it will at once be obvious that the price for account has been entirely sup ported by the speculative operations, and chiefly under the impression that the executive Government will, in one form or other, interfere in order to sup port commercial credit. So long as the Bank of England was able to make advances upon Stock and Exchequer-bills on loan, leaving only a small margin below the market price, the jobbers were at no loss to purchase, without hesitation, to any amount. But now when they are limited to their own re sources, it is easy to perceive that the price of public securities must reach their level, as compared with other property equally secure. In order that the actual state of the money market may be understood, it may be necessary to explain the principle upon which a large amount of the dis count business of the metropolis is transacted in or dinary times. In the ordinary course of business it is estimated that the London discount brokers, or rather discount bankers, transact business to the amount of 150 millions sterling per annum, exclusive of the regular banks. The capital to carry on this important branch of trade is almost exclusively de rived from money lodged by depositors, either re turnable at fixed periods or on call, and in this way the subdivision has been extensively useful. A large portion of the money is often furnished by the country banks situate in dis tricts where surpluses are being thrown off, and bills are re-discounted for other banks in districts where capital is deficient. The London discount houses, in consequence of their always paying depo sitors within a small fraction of the interest current in the market, have of late years been growing rapidly in importance as the most efficient distributors of capital in the world. In the ordinary state of things, they often receive large advances from the Bank of England on the deposit of commercial bills lodged as security, accompanied with their own guarantee, and their profit is made from charging their clients ap plying for discount a little higher than the Bank rate. Now, in the present state of discredit all these houses may be said to be virtually annihilated for all practical purposes. Nearly all their deposits have been withdrawn, and thus the means of discounting commercial bills to the extent on the average of about half a million per day is extinguished. Bankers and merchants are compelled, for their own security, to call in and retain their resources, and keep them under their own immediate control until the storm blows over, so that in such an emergency there is no resource for them but the Bank of England, or a most tremendous sacrifice of their property. To such a length has mistrust been now carried that the latter resource can scarcely be considered available without producing ultimate ruin, whilst, on the other hand, the Bank of England is disabled from affording the required aid by the shackles imposed by the Act of 1844. There is no other alternative, therefore, but to relieve the Bank from these trammels, tempora rily at least, or to permit the sacrifice of hundreds of industrious deserving families that must soon succumb to the storm. The Liverpool letters received this morning give the particulars of the stoppage of Thomas and Henry Murray, a highly respectable firm in the East and West India trade. The occurrence is attributed to the failure of Samuel Phillips and Co., and the lia bilities are stated at 150,0001., of which 130,0001. is upon acceptances. Their balance-sheet is understood to show a surplus of good assets to the amount of 80,0001. With regard to the general bills which have ma tured to-day in consequence of its being the 4th of th© month, it is understood that, on the whole, they have been met in a very satisfactory manner. Advices from St. Petersburgh to the 24th of Sep tember quote the exchange at 38 5.16 to From Riga, under date the 25th of September, the ex change comes 38t. All the markets were very flat. Supplies of new flax seen were coming forward, the price being 6i roubles per barrel. Papers from the Mauritius to the sth of August refer to the dulness which had prevailed in business during the previous month, though it appears that usually there is not much doing at that season of the year. The weather, however, having proved exceedingly favourable for the new crop of sugar, it was anticipated that b e f ore l ong there would 1:e increased activity. In political cir cles a movement was being made for petitioning the home Government in favour of establishing an elec tive council. A return of exports and imports for the year ending July 5, showed the former at 1.569,2131. 14s. 10d., and the latter at 1,234,6001. 12s. 10-1. Accounts from Rio de Janeiro have been received to-day, via France, as late as the 13th of August. The Antelope steamer, which arrived ou t on the even ing of the 10th, would , it was thought, sail on the Ist of the following month for Liverpool. The rate of exchange 111 on England was 27+d. Freights were firm. The Penguin packet, with the July mails, had not reached Rio at this date. In reference to the state of affairs in Buenos Ayres, it is added, " there is no thing new fromLa Plata." The adv ices from Constantinople of the 17th ult. mention the unfavourable effect which the news from England of failures, coupled with the circumstance of 3 destructive fire at Pera, had exerted upon the various markets of that city. The transactions in grain were of the most limited nature, purchasers for export hav ing recently dwindled to a low point. From Smyrna also, under the same date, it is stated that the mer cantile interests were greatly alarmed for the result of the depres.;ed condition of business here, as it was ap prehended that the little activity just then apparent in the fruit trade might be interfered with. Wool was quoted 150 to 155 p.; Payambol silk, 130 p. The rate of exchange on England at Constantinople was 110; and at Smyrna 1081 to 109. The Alexandrian letters of the 19th of last month merely intimate the absence of any remarkable fea ture in the position of business. Wheat was selling at from 50p. to 58p. ; beans were maintained at from 550 p. to 53p.; buyers having taken ,small quantities for shipment to the Mediterranean. Freights were declining. For England I Os. to 9s. was the quota tion for grain, and id. for cotten. We have received a number of letters expressing surprise that meetings have riot been held in the metropolis to urge the necessity of a relaxation of the Bank Charter and Currency Acts on the imme diate attention of the executive Government. We have no difficulty whatever in assigning a very suf ficient reason for this apparent apathy. There is no Chamber of Commerce or other commercial corporation in the metropolis that can make a col lective or concentrated movement, and individuals are deterred from making themselves prominent from an apprehension that it will be presumed they are actuated by the difficulties of their own position. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how ever, infers from the seeming indifference that there is nothing very materially wrong or urgent to be redressed, he has no just conception of the actual state of things, nor of the extent and strength of the opinion which exists that not a day should be lost by the Go vernment in taking the responsibility of relaxing the currency restrictions in order to restore confidence. The lesson conveyed by the operations on the Stock Exchange to-day will probably, however, come a little closer home to the conviction of Sir C. Wood than the fall of a dozen mercantile and manufacturing houses. The commercial intelligence received by the Indian mail is as favourable as could have been expected, considering the state of things at home when the last accounts reached there from England. We are now, however, witnessing the results of the continued sales of our manufactured productions below cost price in the Asiatic markets—results which for upwards of three years past we have with every convenient opportunity pointed out as certain ; but our admonitions remained unheeded, until the sad reality has left no room for scepticism on the subject. In the teeth of those admonitions mill was added to mill in Lancashire, with a degree of rapidity beyond all former example, whilst the merest novice might have seen at a glance that it was in the nature of things impossible they could obtain equivalents of corresponding value for their products throughout the globe. There is in reality, therefore, no roum for congratulation on the tenor of the accounts, and more especially when we consider the results which must follow the occurrences which have and are now taking place at home. CIIRONICLE.--On the Ist of October the price of gold in Hamburgh was 433 per'mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London, at short date, being 13 11, it results that gold is 0.92 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. On the 2d of October the premium on gold at Paris was 8 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 35,, and the exchange at Paris on London, at short date, being 25 45, it results that gold is 0.40 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The aspect of the Money Market has been gloomy in the extreme to-day, but a trifling amendment was perhaps visible towards its close. The Public Funds, as will be seen by reference to our quota tions, have again declined, and the extraordinary difference of 1 per cent. between Consols for money and the account has, we believe for the first time since the disastrous season of 1825, been the rate of business transactions. Ten per cent. has been paid for money in the Stock Exchange to-day, and its scarcity throughout the City has rarely, per haps never been exceeded. The cause for uneasiness did not however stop here. We have much regret in announcing two failures which were made known during the day—one of Messrs. Rougemont, Brothers, of Broad-street-buildings' exchange broker s ; th e other of M essrs . Thomas, Son, and Lefevre, a house connected with the Russian trade, and we understand importers of cotton twist and sugar into that country. The large outlay by the firm in the establishment of a factory at St. Petersburgh is the cause which, we have been informed, has led to this disaster. This day, as the 4th of October, is usually important as regards the number of bills which become due, to which the present occasion formed no sort of excep tion. We h o p e , h oweve r, that our anticipations of its having passed over witholt serious difficulty may be found realized to-morrow morning. lIERALD.—The proceedings on the Stock Ex change have exhibited features to-day which have not occurred for a long series of years. From an early hour in the morning sales of Consol stock for money continued to be pressed upon the market until the price went down from 84i to 831. At some periods of the day the difference between the money price and that for account amounted to one per cent., the said difference being about the rate of 45 per cent. per annum. Exchequer-bills were at the same time pressed forward for sale until they were done at 275. discount, and considerable amounts were offered that could not find purchasers even at that rate. India Bonds went down to 255. dis., and the jobbers would not make any nearer price for Bank Stock than Si. between buying and selling. The range of Consols for the account was from 851 to 84k, and NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Firefly, steam sur veying -vessel, Lieutenant D. A. Buchan, acting Commander, arrived this morning from Plymouth, bringing Mr. C. P. Bellamy, Assistant Master- Attendant, and the party of 20 riggers, who sailed from this port in the Birkenhead on the 7th of August last to assist in getting off the Great Britai❑ from Dundrum Bay, and have since been employed in rigging the Lion, new 80-gun ship, with jury masts, and navigating her to Plymouth from Milford. Tht Firefly was sent here to be surveyed, being supposed to be detective ; but has been found, on examination, to be capable of temporary duty. The Genah Bahiri, Egyptian 20-gun corvette, Captain Mtbtapha, sailed this morning on her return to the Mediterranean. The Dasher, steam surveying -vessel, Lieutenant J. T. W. French, acting Commander, is ordered hence immediately for Sheerness, and will sail this morning. _ _ _ S.E.; weather, very fine and clear. BRITISII NAVY IN COMMISSION, OCT. 1. At Home and Fitting—Line of battle ships, 3; frigates, 2; steam frigates, 2; sloops, 5; steam sloops, 3; sailing packets and smaller vessels, 12; small steamers and packets, 35; store ships and stationary, 8. Mediterranean—Line of battle ships, 5; frigates, 3; steam frigate, 1; sloops, 3; steam sloops, 3; small steamers and packets, 7; store ship and stationary, 1. East Indies—Frigates, 7; steam frigate, 1; sloops, 8; steam sloops, 2; sailing packet and smaller vessel, 1; store ships and stationary, 2. Brazil and Pacific—Line of battle ship, 1; frigates, 6; steam frigates, 2; sloops, 5; steam sloops, 2; sailing packets and smaller vessels, 3 ; small steamers and packets, 2; store ships and stationary, 3. North America and West Indies—Frigates, 4; sloops, 4; steam sloop, 1; sailing packets and smaller vessels, 2; small steamers and packets, 2; store ship and sta tionary, 1. Cape and Coast of Africa—Frigates, 5; steam frigate, 1; sloops, 21; steam sloops, 4 ; sailing packet and smaller vessel, 1; small steamers and packets, 2; store ships and stationary, 2. Particular Service—Line of battle ships, 6; frigates, 2; steam frigates, 5; sloop, 1; steam sloops, 5; small steamers and packets, 5; store ships and stationary, 4. Discovery Ships—Sloops. 2. Troop Ships—Line of battle ship, 1; frigates, 3. Surveying—Frigates, 2; sloops, 2; sailing packets and smaller vessels, 2; small steamers and packets, 7. Yachts—Steam frigate, 1; sloop, 1; small steamers and packets, 2. Lakes—Steam sloop, 1; small steamers and packets, 2. Totals—Line of battle shies, 16; frigates, 35; steam frigates, 13; sloops, 52; steam sloops, 21; sailing packets and smaller vessels, 21; small steamers and packets, 64; store ships and stationary, 21; making together 243 ships in commission, including 98 steamers of all sizes, with a power of 22,122 horses. WOOLWICH, OCT. 3.—The following new regula tions have been made relative to the promotion of engineers brought up in the service : Third class assistant engineers to complete three years' service at sea before they are eligible to be ex amined for or promoted to the second class. Second class engineers to complete two years' ser vice at sea before they are eligible to be examined for or promoted to the first class. First class assistant engineers to complete three years' service at sea before they are eligible to be ex amined for or promoted to ch ief engineer. Engineers, therefore, who have been brought up in the service, will not be eligible for promotion to the rank of chief engineer in the Royal Navy until they shall have completed eight years service at sea as assistant engineers. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.—A lawyer, retained in a case of assault and battery, was cross-examining a wit ness in relation to the force of the blow struck. " What kind of a blow was given?" asked the lawyer. "A blow of the common kind." " D escr ib e the bl o w." " I am not good at description.': , Y B o h u o m w u rn s t e .' l , It was." " I cann o t." lawyer appeal e d to t h e Court. The Colau, t rlt k w i t noodln,dot the blow wre wit ness ness that if the counsel insisted upon his showing what kind of a bl ow i t was he must do so. "Do you insist upon it?" asked the witness. " I do." " Well, then, since you compel me to show, it was this kind of a blow!' at the same time suiting the action to the word, and knocking over the astonished disciple of Coke upon Littleton. TIIR CREVIOTS.—In the course of the last week the Cheviot Hills have been clad in their winter mantle. On Tuesday afternoon the neighbourhood of Wooler was visited by a storm of thunder and hail, which lasted nearly an hour, and which was experienced with greater severity by such persons as reside nearer to the Cheviots, where the thunder and lightning were truly terrific. On that evening and the following morning these lofty heights wore covered with hail and snow.—Newcotle Advertiser. , - RAIL WA Y SHARE IvIARKEI LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER 4, STOCK ExcnANcsm.—The sales are—Great Northern, 5 1 A dis. —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 321. Shares, 41/ dis.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 2% did —London and North-Western, New, Quarters, 6 3 / p.—Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire Preference, par—Midland, 401. Shares, 40 3 /—Ditto, Halves, jr dis. —North British, Thirds, par- North Staffordshire, is p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, (issued as Thirds at 6 2-3 dis.), 2% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase, guar. 6 per cent. till 1850) 11Q p.—Ditto (N. and B.), New, % p. MANCHESTER, Oc - rourre 4. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction, 1 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 51 dia.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 321. (late Extension), 5% dia.—Manchester, Sheffield. anti Lincolnshire, 73—Ditto. Quarters, No. 1, % p.—North Staffordshire, is dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,2% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions No. 2, % p. LEEDS, OcroBER 4. STOCK EXCIIANOE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 1% dis.—East Lancashire, 5(: 2 Ditto, New, s►/2 dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 255. dis.—East and West Yorkshire, 6 dls.— Great Northern, 5% dis.—Lauca shire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 565. die.—Leeds and Thirsk, 18:1 t c. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 31s. s. Leicester and Bedford, ss. dis.—North British, Thirds, is. 6d. dis.—North Staffordshire, par—North-Western, 955. dia. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2, 153. p. EDINBURuI4, OCTOUER 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales Are—Caledonian, New, 264 —Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 53s.—Edinburgh and Glas gow, Halves, 1531 ex div.—Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters, Regis., ss. 9d. —Edinburgh and Northern, Now- port, 744—Ditto, ditto, New, Regis., 20s. 6d.—North British, New, Quarters (scrip), 1 ls. 3d.—Ditto, Thirds, Regis., 235. —Ditto, ditto (,crip), 225. 6d.—Scottish Central, 25 3 / 4 ex bonus. GLASGOW, OCTOBEE 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, 313%..... Ditto, New, 265. 6d.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 555. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, VA ex int. —Great Northern, 625. 6d. ex int.—Great North of India. is. —Manchester and Southampton, 108. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 225. 6d. Price 23. 6d., with Coloured Plates, MARRIAGE and COURTSHIP, in Four Parts, from the French. Also may be had, Hints to Young Married People, 2s. 6d., plates—Lignac's Pyhsiolygy of Marriage, 10s. 6d., 17 plates—La Lanterne Magique, 15 coloured French prints. 30s.—Life of Betty Ireland, 75.. coloured plates—L'Enfant du Bor del, 305., coloured plates—Caroline St. HiHare on the Beauties of the Palais Royale, '2l. 25., coloured plates—Coal Hole Songster, 55., co loured plates—Gentleman's Love Songster, 55., coloured plates—ln trigues of a Footman, 305., coloured plates—Life, &c., of Madame Vestris, les., coloured plates—Beauties of Venus, coloured plates, l Is.—Nigger Songster, 2s. Gd., plates—Venus's Album, 55., coloured. plates. —Sold by John Wilson, 25, King-street, Covent-garden. Let ters with remittances attended to. Catalogues gratis. A E. 31 - One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing tllem married, questionably contented. Diffidence, er sense of right detererne the former, and miscalculated hopes em bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself wider the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the Indissoluble, regret en comprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness cal social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set tlement. honour and justice demand that health shouldform an in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little MEMOIRS On Single and Married Life, " pub. is 2 vols., Is. each (by cost, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor he hindered by mistnterpretatior. of their supposed contents, from obtainine them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, bat for the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to wheel they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrlcal trash put fertls en the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which aisle or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little publications claim your attention (same price Is. each. by post Is. 64.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and, Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hoar, but the study of the anther's life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would ineulcste—ta do unto others as he would he done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carralho, 147, Fleet .street ; Main, 39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all Book el I ere. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. ON PHYSICAL Di SQITALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., t by post, direct from the EstabliNhment, 3s. 6d. in posta ge s tamps. THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the Infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain die qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehborno street, llaymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leadeuhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive Indul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated 13.3 Three Explanatory Engravings. Pala 111. Treats •t the diseases resulting front infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abase of mercury, are also clearly pointed sat. This section is illastrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PAaT IV. Treat 3 of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the us• of which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power on the system. PART V. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its duties, The causes of unproductive union, are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically Inquired into. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is exclusively employed in treat ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., l Is. and 335. per bottle. The Concontrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4e. Gd., and 11s. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhoea, elect, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Perry's Preventative Lotion, an application to obviate the danger of infection, 33e. a bottle. Consultation fee, if by letter, 1/. 51. Packets with advice tubs had at the Establishment only, by whick the fee, 11., is saved. Attendance daily at 19, lier ners•street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sandare rem Eleven to One. THB NEW DECORATIONS OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE. —These are simple, although exceedingly effective. The ground of the whole is a faint blossom colour, approach ing a white, and the ornaments, which are ail appliqué, are gilt. The fronts of all the boxes are laced with a trellis of large mesh, formed of an enriched moulding gilt, and upon this festoons of detached flowers, very nicely modelled, and also gilt, are suspended. On the dress boxes the festoons are looped through wreaths; oe the next tier, tied with a gilt riband, and on the front of the third tier the festoon consists of riband only. The fluted Corinthian columns which form the prosceniums two on each side, have their caps and bases gilt; and the flutes entwined by a continuous wreath of flowers gilt, as have also the small columns which support the boxes throughout the house. The whole of the ornaments, fruit and flower work, are of papier mcichi---the orna mented moulding which forms the trellis being of a new patent machine-made kind, and were made, gilt, sod fixed, in five weeks, by Mr. 13ielefeld. The ceiling it painted to represent the sky seen from a roofless build ing, and much ingenuity is exhibited in the endeavour. A continuation of the gilt trellis work, rising from the walls, forms an inclosure around the lower part of the circle; and the central glass chandelier, a new one, is made to present, by masses of drop, six flags, with the lines of the union-jack marked on each of them by light. It is kept close up to the ceiling, and is seen to be held by six flying cupids. For colour, entire dependence is placed on the draperies, in respect of which Mr. Frederic! Gye has taken a bold step. Acting probably on the proverbial partiality of the fairer portion of the British public for a red coat, he has adopted nothing more not less for his draperies than bright scarlet cloth with yellow edging, which must produce a brilliant effect. The boxes are lined with a yellow-patterned paper on a crimson ground. The " family boxes" have been cleared away, so as to form an enclosed area for standing spec tators.—The Builder. THE COMMAND OF THE MADRAS ARMY.—Lieu.• tenant-General Sir George Henry Frederick Berkeley. K.C.B. has obtained one of the Indi an pr i zes , t h e com mand of the Madras army. It is a lucrative command (about 10,0001. a year), and ono which from its 'naval tude calls all an officer's energies and capabilities into play. Sir George Berkeley will not have less than 70,000 men under his control.—United Service Gazette. The celebrated banker, M. Maurice d'Ullman, of Pesth, has just died from apoplexy, at the age of seventy; he leaves a fortune of four millions of florins (ten mil.. nous and a half of francs). rADVERTISEMENT.]—THE EARL OF ALI:MOROI:10g AND IloLLoway's rius.—An astounding cure by this miraculous medicine, after every other means had failed. Sec extract from hle Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, ISO. Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had not been able to effect ; nay, not ever tho waters of Carlsbad or MA' rienbad. (Signed) " Amanoaouort." These wonderful pills will cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway l Establishment. Strand, and Oi by nt ail me m nt e ) d a ie t in P e ro v f e e n ssLr rsuir. Holloway'su u thro ughout e BIATHS. On the 29th ult., at Lyndhurst , Hampshire , the Lady Mar. g aret Lush ington , of a son. On the 3 0 th ult. , at Brighton, the lady of Robert Clutter' buck, Esq., of a daughter. On the sOth ult. , at St. Mary Cray, Kent, M rs . T. U. Smith, 30th on ntheomet ason. On ult., the wife of Willi am Gibbs, Esq., Grove ' lane, Camberwell, of a son. 3d inst., at E as t Sh een, Surrey, Lady Eardle y ctah Wilmot, of a son. On the the 27th ult., at Clonmel, the wife of Anthony Trollope, Esq., of a son. On the 30th ult., at Backwell House, the lady of Colonel Burrowes, of a son. On the Ist inst., at St. James's-crescent, Winchester, the lady of Thom as L ea d er H arm an, Esq., of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Streatham-hill, Brixton-hill, Mrs. E. Wallerstein, of a son. On the 2d inst., Lydia, the wife of William Elphick, Esq.? of Newhaven, Sussex, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 23d ult., at Sedlescombe, Sussex, Samuel Birch Bucknill, Esq., M.D., of Rugby, to Marianne, fourth daughter of the Rev. J. Pratt, of the former place. On the 29th ult., at Marylabone New Church, August* Mary, second daughter of M. A. Keene, widow, of Berkeley' s treet, Hyde-park-square, to Edward Stone ary.ll, of Al' bion-street, Hyde-park. On the 30th ult., at Hugglescote-in-Ibatock, the Rev. C.. 1. Betham, 8.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to Char. lotte, second daughter of the Rev. Charles Goddard, D.D.. Rector, Sub-Dean of Lincoln. DIED. On the 21st ult., at Holles-place, Fulham-road, Mr. T. Wilson, aged 74. On the 24th ult., at Darmstadt, Sir Lewis Moeller, K.G.H. On the 29th ult., at Stretton-en-le-Field, Louisa ;Rea• mond Sophia, the eldest daughter of Sir John and Lady Cara Browne Cave, aged 23. On the 30th tilt., at Rotherhithe, John Stansfield, Esq. On the 30th ult., at Bootle, in Cumberland, the Rev. Alex* ander Scott, aged 68. On the 30th ult., at Brighton, Mrs. Ann Randall, aged 7S. On the 30th ult., at Southern-hill, Reading, ilarbers Lewis, Esq., aged 71. Lon4on : Printed and Published by AfUltDO YOUNG, of I. 11 1 f Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112. Strand, in the ?redo! , Of the SaToy, is the County Of Middlesex Tuioctip, 000001 if 1344 MIT of TIFI( 10 psi He Za G B 1 13: