The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

LORD BROUGHAM AT LEEDS. Lord Brougham presided at the soiree of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Library Society, which was held in the Music Hall of that town, on Tuesday evening last. The noble CHA TRIKAN reset° address the assembly, and was received with loud and reiterated cheering. After the applause had subsided, he said—Ladies and gentlemen, I assure you it gives me the most unfeigned satisfaction to find myself once more among my old and valued friends an d cons tit uen ts. (Cheers.) It carries me back seven-and-twenty years ago, when I received at the hands of the people of Yorkshire the greatest and proudest memorial of my country's approval and of their kindness the highest and most prized honour of my life. (Loud app l ause .) But as nothing is more useless than vain declamation ; as nothing could excuse it un less the expression of my heartfelt sense of the kind ness of tee people of Yorkshire ; so nothing would excuse my prolonging it for an instant to the exclu sion of more useful, arid therefore more important matter—for we are here met upon a practical sub ject, the education of the people, and especially of the working classes of the people, not excepting those immediately above the working classes—viz., the middle classes, without whose education, aye, let . me add, considerably improved education, there is no safety either for those above them, or for those beneath them, in the scale of society. (Cheers.) It is neither upon the improvement of the higher classes, nor the improvement of the humbler classes but upon the improvement of the middle classes, that the security of both depends. (Applause.) Now it gives me unfeigned satisfaction to reflect on the very material change that these last 27 years since I last addressed you have wrought upon the condi tion of the people of Leeds. I then hail occasion to complain, when I attended the meeting,,of the very small beeinnings of this institution at that time—l had then occasion to complain, perhaps I might even say to chide the people of Leeds, that so tittle had been done, that so faint a beginning only had been commenced ; but now I find that that small beginning has ripened into the great and flourishing ins itution which we are now nett .to night to commemorate the progress of ; and though I grieve to hear from your worthy president that there are difficulties, and of a most important nature —financial difficulties—in its affairs, I hope and trust that these, like all the other difficulties, will before long be overcome, and that then we shall have that without which no mechanics' iat tution, no literary society, no institution or society of any sort, can long hope to flourish—a due accurate balance of the two sides of the account, the expendi ture and the revenue. But now on the progress that has been made, and of the existing state of things as regards the instruction of the working and other chews it is most gratifying to find that in various parts of this great community, in almost all of the great towns, in es;nae inferior towns, even in some villages, this great work of instruction goes on and prospers. (hear.) Now, one thing that I com plained of before, and I have in other parts of the country since I last addressed you here, is that these institutions have been too apt to be diverted from their original intention—that their primitive design having been somewhat neglezted or obscured by other designs, they have grown up and thus come in to take the benefit of such foundations—of such voluntary assoliations, for none of them can be called foundations—for whom originally that be nefit was not designed. But nothing can be more gratifying than to find, what I have had access to see, the results of these most judicious and most wholesome—not only most wholesome, but most useful-:-proceedings in conjunction with the Society of Arts in London, which have been carried on for some time past, and nevermore successfully carried on than very lately in this great county. (Hear.) I will first say a word about the lectures. The original intention of all such institutions, whether called mechanics' institutes, or a prentice libraries, or literary societies for the working classes or other clauses—the original design no doubt was to en deavour to obtain the benefit, the great benefit, of lectures, .as well as the benefit of libraries. (Hear.) Now lectures are of two descriptions, either what mey be called partial, and even, to use a me dical phrase, sporadic , that is to say, not continued courses of lectures, but lectures taking up one sub ject now, and t ine up another subject then. such lectures, though infinitely inferior in their use to continued courses of lectures, con tinued courses of instruction—thoughincomparably inferior in their b netitsto those—are by no means to be despised. On the contrary, they hive verygreet uses ; first of all, in stimulating men to exert them selves to a'tend courses of lectures when they can have access to them ; next, to stimulate them to improve themselves by that which it is to be hoped, more or less, they always can have access—by read ing useful works, and to withdraw them from worse practices, and worse courses, into tho course o! proving their minds, without neglecting, Heaven forbid—without neglecting the cul , ivation of their bodies by attention to their health, and even to their amusement, to their rational recreation, for nothing can be more title than the old maxim, "All work and no play make; Jack a dull boy." (Hear.) Therefore, I fir from wish to exclude these; quite the contrary ; but on one condition, that they are wholesome recreations—(mar, hear)— e:OVo all, that they are innocent recreations, that they withdraw men from the went of all possible indulgences, indulgences in excess I only say in excess, for I do not even exclude alto getherfirinented liquors—but indulgence to excess, or anything approaching to excess, of that the greatest curse that can befal any community. (Ap plause.) Now, these lectures have been delivered by many, some by pi raons employed by the York shire Union of 130 institwes, others by volunteers, public-spirited men of learning, of ability, and zeal in the cause of popular instruction and improve ment, and to tho greatest possible benefit of all c'esses to whom they have been delivered. But the great advantage to the class t 3 which I am par ticularly referring—the u orking classes, [ mean particularly the class of skilled 1 abourers, artisans— the greatest of all these advantages is education classes—(applause)—sueh classes as may snag's those of a proper age, from between 16 and 17 to somewhere about 23 or 24, to obtain the inesti mable benefits of a good literary and scientific education. (Applause.) And the advantage is in calculable which has resulted frem the examina tions that have been undertaken in various parts of the country, of which reports have bees made from time to time—and latterly a very full report by tee institution at the head of whet is my excellent f. iend Mr. Edward Baines—to show in what way these examinations have been carried on, and I re joice to say have prospered wherever they lave gone. Now, I will take one int ince, for it not only shows the benefit of it, but it els) shows hew great is the evil which I a short time ago adverted to, of these institutions not being confined to those for whom they were really designed, but being, I will not say perverted, but to a certain degree diver ted for the benefit of other class s. The resaltof what has taken place in these examinations plainly shows that these difficulties no longer to any considerable degree exist. Now I find, upon looking at the re turns, that the results of the examinations over the whole district wi - h which the 130 institutes are connected, are, that there have been somewhere he tween 35 and 40 prizes dstributed, and, including the certificates as well as the prizes that have been distributed, there have bees somewhere between 80 and 90 during the course of the last examina tion. How many besides those who received prizes and certificates--how many candidates came forward at these different examinations? Very near double the number—l should say from 160 to 200 candidates. But we should form a very inadequate, I might say not only an inadequate but a very in accurate estimate of the result of these examine tions—of their general effect in practice upon the encouragement of education and the stimulation of persons to attend these education classes, if we con fined ourselves merely to the number of candidates who thus come forward, even supposing that that number was nearer 200 than 150; for probably every one of those candidates you may reckon 30 or 4tY others—other youths—who are devoted to educa tion, who are educating themselves at those &uses, but who were not ripe to come forward to be ex lwainel, and to be candidates fur the honours, but who next year, or the year after, will attain that maturity, end will swe'l the I.st of candidates for honours and certificates. (Applause.) Now , I will tor sh illustration,. an tike one Case as an that sall let not Leed. field. I ind that etd' but it shall be Rudders to be prepared to 1,100 prt, s attend those classes be c a n didates for the plias and certificates, theuen Lev above 23 or 30 ac tually come forward a'sjaPe th i e dates in order to ob tain those prizes. But an rest were i n course were of education _; all the rest study leg • all the res t passed their evenings at th e echo ls, a n d 9 were prepa•ing to be next year, or tee y ea ,„k, r candi dates for those prizes . (Applause. ) isgra tifying to ob , erve in what way these 1,100 or 1.2001 are composed. Not ab )ve one-purer of the whole are other than young men belonging to the working classes—the artisans of Find lersfirld. (Ar plauee.) Twelve hundred and odd being the whole number of pupils thus engaged ed nee' between 93o and 1,000 are mernbere—young men of the working classes, the rest being clerks or pereons in a station superior to that of the working classes ; but 900 or 1,000 are entirely young men belonging to the skilled labourers, that is, the working artisans of the great town of Huddersfield. (Hear.) And so, when your worthy t president to-night, who read his statement givin g the average per cent ige of those who iu this ne se a an i e 2 rary society pail lee., and institWion and lite rary those who paid and 83., I took leave to interrupt him in order to ascertain, for it escaped me when he read it, what per centage there was of the whole number of sub scribers who paid 12s. and Bs., because those pay ing 12s. and Bs. are the mere working classes, men living, he said, by daily working wages and by weekly wages, and I was highly gratified to find that it was considerably above one-third. (Hear.) I mention, therefore, these things as holding out the greatest possible hopes that we are in the right path, and that we are assisting in the education —or, rather, what is much more important, that they themselves —the working classes—are assisting in their owned u ca`ion, because unless they do that we may wish till we tire ourselves with wishing, we may toil till we fatigue ourselves to no purpose, and we shall do little or nothing—whatever expense of time, of labour, or even of money, we bestow upon it—we shall do nothing solid and substantial to help the education of the people unless the people will educate them selves. (Cheers.) First of all, it breaks in upon their independence. (Hear, hear.) Next, even!ii it had not this vice, it is not within the limits, humanly speaking, of possibility, that it could succeed. But they must themselves succeed in providing for their own instrution, and with very little help, rather in the way of advice and suggestion than of anything —I was going to say more substantial, but than good advice and wholesome and useful suggestion there can be nothing mare substantial—anything wiser, anything more certain than their benefiting by that, or anything more clear than their being unable without that to secure their own instruction cannot be imagined. Now, there are several ways in which the middle classes may greatly help them selves, without anything that can break in upon their independence—without anything that can at all be reckoned visionary or speculative—and one or two of those thin g s I will take leave, upon the present occasion, sho rtly to mention. (Hear, hear.) I have had an address presented to me this morn ing from the Early Closing Association, with which my mind, my judgment, and my feelings, I must say, entirely go along. (Hear, hear.) Very far be it from me to require of those who employ young . persons in labour—in manufactories for instance— or even to recommend to them, how respectfully soever, to give up any considerable portion of the time for which they pay their workpeople ; but only let us consider what a very considerable proportion of young persons, of both - sexes, in a town like Leeds, are employed, not by manufacturers who pay them wages for their work in order by that work to make a profit, but by shopkeepers and others, who might very well so arrange matters as not to require 13, 14, and even 15 hours' work a day from the young men and young girls in their employ. (Hear.) This matter bears immediately upon the ques tion of instruction, because if a lad or a girl go to a shop at seven in the morning, and is kept there not merely until 7 o'clock in the evening, meals included, but until ten o'clock, making 15 hours ; reading, school going, or any education in any Lroa whever, is wholly out of the question. (Hear, hear.) The utmost you can expect is, that when they come home, fatigued with their day's services in the shop, they should be too glad to get to bed, and rest themselves, in order thatthey might be able to gat up at six o'clock the next morning, to get to the shop at seven. Why do I say that this might be altered without difficulty, and avoided by an easy arrangement on the part of the em ployers with those young people in their employ I For this reason—l address myself not to the shop keepers but to the customersiof the shopkeepets. (Hear, hear.) Let the customer, instead of going between seven and ten o'clock at night, buy what ever goods he may require before seven (hear, hear)—and then those young persons will be released in time either to attend the school or to go home and read. (Hear.) The half-holiday is a great success in various parts of the country, and in none more so than in Loudon. At first it was said; "It is perfectly out of the question—the shopkeepers cannot afferd it, they will be obliged to shut up their shops. But had that been s)? No, the only difference is, that the customer is obliged to go before two o'clock instead of at ten, the shopkeeper sells what he has to dispose of, the young people have their half-holiday for the recrea tion of their bodies and spirits, and I hope, though I am afraid not always, for the improvement of their minds. I don't want every day to be a holi day—God forbid—but I want every day to be so arranged by the customer and the si opkeeper as to give a little time every evening to those behind the counter from seven o'clock in the morning. (Hear, hoar.) I would go a step further, and say that even the manufacturer, though my observation applies less to him than to the shopkeeper, might so arrange as to give a litt!e mere time, and to press a little less hard upon his workpeople than at present, without the 1.-ssening of wages, and with out, I hope, lessening his profits. I di not recom mend either to the shoplceepi;r or the manvitac turer a sudden chancre. (clear.) It eh )uld be done gradually. (Hear, hear.) Suppose that the man who employs his workpeople 15 hours a day reduced the hours to 14, my opinion is that you would not find less work done. Let it be explained to the assistants, and let them be fairly told that instead of 15 hours a day they are only to work 14, and 1 have no doubt they will work all the hard-r, and better. (Hear, hear.) There is an old maxim which may be applied to all persons living a labori ous and industrious life—and that is, that time is money. Thera is another old prove. b, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of them saves. So I say of time—take care of your mi nutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. (Hear, hear.) Do not let the minutes be wasted, no more than the hours, and depend upon it you will profit by the suggesrion. (Applause.) Any listlessness orcessation of work at times which ou g ht to be devoted to work, is not only mischievous from its lessening the profit of labour—mischievous both to the employer and to the person employed —it is not only so far hurtful, but it is also hurtful to the mind. It begets habits of listlessness—it be gets habits of inattention, and therefore I say, "Attend to the minuses." It is the bust advice I can give you ; it is the advice which, if I may quote my own instance—(applause)--I have observed throughout life. If this economising of time ba constantly kept in view, you might hereafter reduce the hours of work from 14 to 13, and aft.rwards to 12. I don't, however, stand upon a par ticular hour, or half-hour, or quarter of an hour, but I would gradually go on reducing the time until we got the hours within a reasonable compa.s both for the shopkeeper and those whom he employs. (Ap plause.) I ought to apologise for dweling so lung on this subject, but as I began by saying that nothing is m are useless than a sp:euh of deolaine.- tien, it is much more useful to attend to the facts before us. (Applause.) A remark has been maile upon various occazions, that one very great defect in schools of all descriptions, and particularly in schools for the humbler classes, is the want of qualification in the ieachers. (a. ar.) I presented a petition to the Hence of Lords at the end of last session, signed by my noh'e friend the then member for Middlesex, and by other warm friends of popular impro cement, having reference to this subject, and the statement of the memorialists was this, that in every walk of life you require the test of examination as to who shall be qualified to exercise a particular calling, excepting in the case of schoolmasters. To begin with the highest and most important class, I mean the reverend clergy, they don't become capable of obtainingrchirchprefer - tnent without receiving holy ceders?, and those holy orders are only to be obtainedafter due examination by the prelate of the diocese, such examination being preceded by a course of academic study, and an examination testing their fitne,s for the lie port aet function they wish to discharge. Then, as to medical men, you do not slow an apothecary to miv up drugs by a prescript;on from a physician, or a surgeon to perform au operati on , or t o attend to his patients surgically, without duo precaution having been taken that they shall be reasonably qualified to exercise the important duties of their profession. So is the learned profession to which I have the honour of belonging, tlya4h it may be truly said there would be no great risk in allowing any person to go the bar, inasmuch as, • if he were not fit for it, he would not be very likely to thrive —(hear, hear, and laughter) —at least he would have to make up his mind to live eipon very short commons—(renewed laughter)—neverthel ess there are previous steps taken by members of both brancbes of the profession, both solicitors and at torneys, before they can pa's their examination, such as a clerkship for a number of years with a master. There is this kind of training, though lat ly ther3 has bceen complaint made that the ex amination in one branch of the profession is very far from sufficient ; and I must say that I entirely agree with the doctrine that examination ought to be compulsory, and that in the case referred to the degree of barrister-at-law ought not to conferred upon any one who has not 'undergone previously au examination sufficiently searching to test their knowledge of the law. (Hear, hear.) Then, why should it be that the important office upon which so much depends —that of a schoolmaster—should ho taken up by anyofle, how utterly incapable from characttr,virtolh .'never they may b 3 from previous habits, from knowledge or from ability, aye, or exerciat that important offiee. (Hear, hear.) mod important isa ion , t) y it that there is no examina tion in that profe due peiformance of the which, of all others, is the of which Sc much de Community; and upon the e high and useful functions fsn e ! for i e i n t A'a l'i nc n e o , t a so previous v o i t o h n e i r countries. In FranPc?i, examination is required b the House of scho d of any sort. Now theapP:trt'"°ll can take a petition had . the honour to present to require that the examination, at all even s in tt.e first ins!anco, should b 3 compulsory ; but it in,.st justly said, that if a proper and due provision were ' made for all those who chose to present themselves voluntarily, in order to have their fitness for school keeping tested, and who would receive from a pro perly constituted board a certificate of their qualfi cations, the result would be that none would keep schools but such certificated persons, and that, con sequently, without making it compulsory, the ex amination would in the end become so, and the evil complained of would entirely cease. (Hear.) When I stated the number of young people at Hud dersfield (though the proportion there is more than in any other town in Yorkshire) who were enjoy ing the benefits of a good education, and are dis tinguishing themselves by their progress in attend ing the schools, I omitted to mention what I am therefore now bound to mention, that there will n )ev be more encouragemeet than ever for young persons to qualify themselves in those branches of knowledge, of science, and of literature, which, in these schools, are making such material pr. gress. • I will take one instance. Those most deplorable events that have taken place in our Eastern Em pire must lead sooner or later (I hope rather sooner than later, because it must be on the extinction of that foul and execrable rebellion) to such a new modelling, and such an increase of all the civil and other offices in that vast dominion as must afford the most important, extensive, and valuable en couragement to all persons well educated. It is impossible for me at any time, and more especially at this moment, after the, recent in telligence which has reached us from those coun tries to avoid saying a word upon that rebellion before I sit down. (Hear.) That most foul and exe crable rebellion differs from anything that we have ever known before, and in two particulars it is most remarkable—one is the suddenness, the instantane ous, and without warning, suddenness, with which it broke out. It is a common thing to compare it, and I have heard it so compared to the sudden ex plosion of some great volcano, laying under ruins by its devastation the fertile plains beneath, but it dif fers most materially from that, because volcanic explosions are always preceded by some warning. The giant who is fabled to groau beneath Etna, moves and heaves the mountain—gives a warning —before the torrent of liquid fire is poured forth to lay waste the plains below. To find anything like the recent, the sudden, the instantaneous outbreak of what has taken place in India, we must go to the East itself for a comparison. There is nothing like it but the typhoon, which suddenly seized upon the ocean, rippled by no ware, and instantly raises that ocean, without further warning, mountains high. So the whirlwind of rebellion which broke out in the East burst forth without the whisper of the breath of a breeze to warn any one of what was ab oit to lay in devastation the whole of that su perb dominion ; and yet, sudden as it was, unpre pared as all parties were, without the possibility of the least preparation, our countrymen, both civil and military, were (to their eternal, immortal, and imperishable glory be it said) ready instantly to rise to do their duty and to sacrifice themselves. (Long continued applause.) Observe in what part of our dominions it was that this atrocious rebel lion broke forth—in the very portion of all India which was the best cared for, and the best governed by us—(hear, hear)—the north-western province, where we hid fixed a certain rent, on a moderate scale, proportioned to the actual velue of the pro duce, a rent for 30 years ; where we had can that traversed the country, and joined togetherthe great rivers ; where we had built, rather than construct e roads, some of them as fine as any roads in England itself ; where we had begun to construct a railway and established the electric. telegraph ; where we had planted schools and colleges—in that district it was that this atrocious mutiny, broke out. It needs no more to prove that it could not be tho pe. - ple themselves (I hope and trest iu Heaven it could not be), but only the armed rabble whom we ourselves had taught —to a certain degree spoiled —and who had turned against ourselves those weapons which we had taught them to use, but who were met by the unconquerable valour of both civil and military Englishmen (bud applause). It was in Allahabad that one regiment, which had been thanked by the officers for having joined against the mutineers, in the evening of the same day rose upon its officers and massacred them at their mess, and afterwards performed atrocities to which no reference can now be made, but as bid as any com mitted at Cawnpore or at Delhi. (A voice from the bottom end ,of the room—" They did right with the efficers.") Whoa I say that civil at' well as military Englishmen deserve the credit of having stood against this mutiny, against this rebellion, I speak not without book ; for it does so happen that the civil servants of the company marched in the same line wish the infantry, and were for some time the only cavalry who were available to put down the revolt (hear, hear). It Is to support and aid such countrymen to complete the suppression of such a rebellion, that we have a right now to call upon all England to imitate the example, I ejoice to say, of a part of Yorkshire—l mean Sheffield—which, to its immortal honour, has sent forth, or is a .nding forth, 500 men to join the armies of the East (hoar, hear). Do not let it be supposed that because Delhi is taken that all is over and that all is settled. Part of the north west provinces still remains in the hands of the rebels. Oude is not reconquered. Luokaow, I feel unspeakable anxiety even in mentioning the name of Lucknow—Heaven forbid that there should be ground for that _ anxiety—but Lucknow, we do not yet know to be relieved. Then there - are those hordes from Delhi, scattered over the coun try, carrying on a kind of guerilla war against us, which we know from experience in the Penin sula, was far more fatal to the French than our own unconquered legions (hear). Now all this is still to do, and all this requires a large increase of our military force, but will Englishmen ever hesitate to give their aid to increase the number of thes e who shall go to augment the army in India, when they recollect what his been dme there by their countrymen in arms, as well as their country men unarmed? I speak first of their countrymen in arms. Four and twenty battles were fought by those gallant men before Delhi fell, every one -of which was equal to the battle of Alma or of Inker man ; and the siege of Delhi itself was equal to more then the siege of half a dozen Sebastopols. I say this, Heaven knows without the slightest wish to depreciate—God forbid—the great merits ,and the glories of our troops in the Crimea, but while I fully and freely admit their gletios, it is impossible iu the circumstances in which the liter triumphs of our arms have been achieved, to conceive what in calculable, unspeakable, and eternal claims upon the gratitude of ,their country our soldiers there have. (Applause.) Then never let it for a mo ment be supposed that we dare abandon our hold of India, though upon that neither our wealth nor power in the slightest degree depends. (Haar, hear.) Some of our ill-wishers on the Continent have a noticie that if we lose India we are done. There never wasa greater delusion. Long b e f ore we gained India 17e stoed as high in the nations of the world as we have stood since, and if we lost India to-morrow, should stand as hi;la as we d ) now—(applause)_bat if we lost it, we abandon millions and neilions to the most cruel of alt fates.— the anarchy, the rapine, and the blood of their own contending chiefs and tyrants; and if we loss it after being defeated, our reputation is gone for ever and we aro safe in no quarter of the world. There fore it is that I do most devoutly hope, most hear tily, and I will add most confidently, that the example set elsewhere will be followed throughout ' the country, and that no lack whatever will lee found of mkn' to increase those just proportions which the army—the now absolutely necersav army of the country requiros. (Applause.) I mew apologise for having detained you a few minutes on this subject, but I could not find myself once more amongst my of l constituents of Yorkshire without giving vent to those feelings which prevail upon that subject in my bosom. The noble lord then resumed his seat amidst the hearty and gene ral plaudits of the audience. THE StIN, LONDOIN, THURSD'A!Y EVENING _ NOVEMBER 5, 1857. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LON'DON AND SOUTH-EASTZRA RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Oct. 31, 1857 £19,145 19 4 Corresponding week last year Decrease in 1857 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOIITH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending Oct. 31, 1857... 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Under the Scotch Bankrupt Act of 1856 the es tates of all persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Sessioa may be sequestrated at the in stance of the bankrupt and a concurring creditor. It had become a common practice for English debtors to visit Scotland, reside in it for a short time, and then, with the concurrence of a creditor, avail themselves of the statute to obtain sequest, a tion, The present application, made by Major Walker to recall the sequestration of the respon dent, Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh, raised the question of the competency of an award of seques tration in such circumstances. The bankrupt, Bur rows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh, Esq., was usually designed by the military title of Colonel, but of what regiment was not known. He was editor and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, and his only office, or place of business, Re, orally known to his creditors, was 253, Strand, London, where he conducted his newspaper. In his petition for s, questration, and in the st stu tory notices, he was designed merchant, of 39, West Campbell-street, Glasgow, and recently of 17, Melville-street, Edinburgh, and the address in the Strand was not given at all. It was now admitted that the Glasgow address should have been 139 instead of 39 , and the petition for recall alleged that he had lived at these lodgings in Glas gow only a week, and in Melville-street only a fort night, during May. He had been at Ltiss, on Loch lomend, fishing, and in May and June last he was at' Helensburgh. In July, according to his London solicitor, he was abroad, and in the beginning of August ho was seen in London. The date of his return to Scotland is not known, but on the 21st Aug. he presented his petition for sequestration, which was awarded in the usual course. In February of this year he was a candidate for the representa tion of the burgh of Greenwich, and in his state ment of assets the property is omitted which gave him his qualification. He has given up a list of 52 creditors, of whom all reside in England except one, and that one is creditor to the amount of 3/. only, the debt being ineeirred for printing prospectuseis for a society in Paris for the sale of land in New Grenada. His entire assets amount to 2001. worth of small book-debts, and his debts dae to these 52 cre litors to 'about 4,000/. Mr. P. Fraser applied for the recall of the se questration, because, before coming to Scotland at all, be had applied for and obtained protection from the Bankruptcy Court of London ; because there was no residency in Scotland proved, nor any trading ; because there was no assets in Scotland, and only one Scotch creditor of very small account. Mr. Gifford, for the bankrupt, stated that Sleigh had cut all connection with London in February, 1857 ; that, after selling his paper, he went to Fr ince, and left it for Scotland to establish an agency for this Paris New Granada Laud Society ; that he was introduced at the Royal Exchange; Glasgow ; that he went to Helensburgh in summer, returning almost daily to Glasgow, like other Glasgow merchants at that time of the year ; that his business was bona fide ; that he had lost his English domicile, and that his concurring cre liter was an English creditor. The Lord Ordinary inquired, Where, was he at the date of the sequestration ? Mr. Gifford could not answer ; and on the Lord Ordinary remarking that he had no funds, and that it was a mockery and abuse of the law to grant sequestration in the circumstances, Mr. Gifford submitted that the 29th clauses of Act makes the granting of sequestration imperative. The Lord Ordinary said it did not, however, pre vent the Court from granting a recall. When a party applies, with a prima facie title to sequestra tion, we cannot know whether he has assets or not, therefore there may he no course but granting the sequestration ; but then a creditor may apply for recall within forty days. The Legislature may say, You shall grant it in the first in stance, but if good cause be shown it may be recalled. There may be cases where no objec 'tion could be offered, as for instance, when a man has money in the funds in consols, which may be as well administered here as in London, and when the bulk of his creditors are here, then there would be no disadvantage. But then there is another class of cases—like that of Robertson—where only a vague descripfon is given. That is put in the Gazette, all his creditors are in Eaglaed, except, perhaps, those to whom the man may owe his lo lgings here for forty days, and his creditors never hear of it. If the Court are to have no discretion, then it must be in cases where full particularsare given in the petition._ His Lordship - required Mr. Gifford to give in a ininut, within six days, stating specifically the bankrupt's pinups of residence for at least forty days prior to the 21st Aug., the date of his pe tition for sequestration. Agents for the petitioner—Messrs. Miller and Crawford, S.S. C. Agent for the bankrupt—Mr. Wm. Dalrymple, W. S.—Scotsman. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Nov. 4. OLD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Wm. Ryan, a respectable-looking young man, said to be a ca►b-driver, surrendered to take his trial for assaulting Thomas Mears upon the 21st of Septemb.:r. . The prosecution was at the instigation of the London General Omnibus Company ; and in con sequence of there being an indictment against Mr. lii e, the promoter and principal of another line of omnibuses running against those of the company, for a conspiracy, in procuring and instigating the above-named defendant to commit the assault, the proceedings crea'ed considerable interest amongst the friends of both parties. The court was very touch crowded throughout the whole trial. The prosecutor to the indictment is a servant of the London General Omnibus Concpsny, and upon the night of the 21st of September, at about twelve o'clock, he and several other servants belonging to the corn pany we-e at the Lamb public-home, Kings land, in the concert-room. Prosecutor bad just sung a song, and was about to repeat it, when Ryan came in and began speaking to a man name Cop pard, formerly in the employment of Kite, but now the Fervent of the ccmpauy, Ryan said to him, " Are you the man who struck my cousin P Cop pard said, "He struck me, and I struck Lim again." Ryan then said that he meant to fight ; but Coppard said he would not. Ryan then tamed to the prosecutor and said, " Oh, it is you, r. Mears, you are No. 1," end instantly struck M k the pipe from his mouth, following it up with a blow upon the mouth and another upon the nose. Ryan then seised him by the arms, dragged him over the table iii front, and fell upon him with his knees upon his chest. A mob rushed into the room, and a general row ensued. Kite came i n w ith em, and said, " You are on the wrong msn," and coming up to Mears, said, " Oh, Tom, I would not have had this happen for anything." Mears bad his coat torn, and Kite said he would give him his coat, and others, if lie would come home with him. Kite gave him something to drink, and expressed great sorrow for what had taken plaza. Some short time after that, the landlord of the Lamb having givenßyan anti a mau named Hockey into custody, he (Mean) went up to the station, and charged them both. Hockey was let out the next day, at the police court, upon Mr. Kite pay ing the expense of the damage done by him. Mears was for eight days under the doctor's care. Mears, in cross-examination, said he wished to prosecute Ryan, but had no wish to prosecute Kite, and should not have gone on with this if the com pany had not caused him to do EO. Mr. Sleigh, for the defence, most energetcally s denounced th e con d uc t o f t h e O mn ibus Company, who had instituted pimpl y roceedin;s for the purpose of crushing Mr. Ki te, b eca use he had been e successful in p revent i ng t h e com p a ny from monop hieing the wh o l e o f the traff i c upon the road where their omnibuse s ran, an d t h ey so ught to do so by fixing a cha rge upon the defendant at the bar that they might p u t K ite upon his t r i a l, which was th e , main object they h a d i n v i ew. Mr. Kit e was called and h© racist positively denied what had been said as to the part in the af- Each of th e l earned counsel h av i ng been heard i n ftir, or that h e made the remar k s i m puted to hi m . reply, Tho July almost i mme di a t e ly acquittel Ryan ; and the other in di ctment, in w hi c h Mc. Sleigh an d Mr. Metcalfe (f or Ki te ) appear/ was postponod until next session. This casa concluded the busiees'. POLICE INTELLIGENCtrI—Nov. 4. MANSION-HOUSE.—John Edward Kauffman, --..-- a clerk in the G eneral Post-o fa ue) St. Martin's le- Grand, w as summoned f or the second time, having failed to appe ar on the first occas i on , charged with having on the 24th ult. unlawfully affixed a to a letter certain and frau litlent!y postage -stamp, which had been gotte n o ff a certa i n other letter, whereby he had incurred a penalty of 201. He again failed t, appear, and the Post-effice soli citor decided on proceeding in his absence. Evidence wasthereforeeven, co nclusivelyproving that the defenthnt on the day in question rem o v ed a cancelled peuny'poSlafre-stamp from a letter about to be sent out for delivery, and affixed it td a pri vMe letter of his own, with the intention of send ins that letter also for delivery, as if it had been poste i• in the ordinary way. He was detected in the act, and being suspended by the Postmaster- General in consequence, had absented himself from his ussual place of abode. Alderman Cubitt inflicted a penilty of 20s. ' with Bs. 6d. costs. for which (if not paid) the body of defendant will be answerable, provided he can be found. GUILDHALL—WiIIiam Barrett was charged with the following desperate assault upon one of his fellow workmen. James Wainwright, said—l was working at Whitecross-street prison yesterday af'ernoon, and while upon the outside scaffold, knocking a hole for a window, the prisoner came up, and told me to knock off work. I did not so, but put down my chisel to look round me ; and when I sought for it again it was gone. I looked through the window where the prisoner was standing upon the inside scaffold, and, the instant I ditso, the prisoner, who was standing behind the wall with my chisel in his hand, swung it round and struck me with all his force upon his head, and nearly knocked me off the scaffold. If I had fallen I must have been killed. I went down the ladder, and as soon as I reached the ground he threw something at me which struck me on the head, and this heavy hammer I had been working with was found where I was standing This is an old grudge sir, arising out of another job. James Bryan said I was at work upon the same scaffold with Wainwright, and saw the prisoner, who is one of the smiths, upon the inner scaffold. Ha was drunk, but he had no business on that part of the building. There was no one (Ilse there. Alderman Humphery—What have you to say, prisoner, to this charge ? Prisoner—l do not know anything about, sir. I neither sAw the hammer nor the chisel. The two weapons were produced ; and being wielded by a powerful man like the prisoner, the only wonder was that such formidable instruments did not produce more serious injuries. Alderman Humphrey fined the pzisoner 40s. ; or in default 21 days' imprisonment. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—James Ead;e, a betting-man, was charged with creating an obstruc tion in Tottenhame-court-road. Police-constable Gordon said I great many com plaints had been made by the inhabitants on ac count of, betting-men congregating in certain tho roughfares to make their horse-racing lets. lie was in '43tterkm-court-road that day, when he saw the defenN;nt with a betting-book and a pencil in his hand, surrounded by 30 or 40 batting-men. He t ld the defendant to go away, as he was creating an obstruction. The defendant refused, and he took him into custody. The defendant said he did not intend to commit any offence, nor was he attars that he had done wrong. Beadon said his colleague and himself had repeatedly stated what the law on his queiti•)n was ; and he could assure all parties concerned that where a case was brought within the reach of the act he would inflict the heaviest penalty. He should re quire the defendant to enter into his own recog nisances to be of good behaviour for the future. The defendant, having done this, was liberated. SOUTHWARK.---Edwin Finn, a tall, powerful looking Irishman, was charged with committing a mu , derous assault on Joshua Thomas, police-con stable, 259 M. Ile was also charged with being concerned with others in assaulting George Cole, 62 M, while in the execution of their duty. The first constable, whose head was bandaged up, and who appeared to be very much injured, stated that about half-past two in the morning he heard a disturbance in Ever-street, Gravel-lane, and on proceeding there he saw several persons quarrelling together, among whom was the prisoner, who ap peared to be the most violent of the lot. As soon as he approached to quell the disttirbance, he re c-ived several blows, and was knocked down. While on the ground the prisoner kicked him seve ral times on the body, and as he was endeavour ing to recover himself some one threw a chamber utensil at him from a window, and it stuck hie head, cutting him in a frightful nrinner. At that time the prisoner escaped, but on another police constable coming up they forced an entry into his house and took him into custody. Mr. Burcham asked him whether he was much hurt. He replied that be was. As soon as the prisoner was secured he went to the divisional surgeon, who dressed his wounds and sent him home to bed. The doctor could not tell the extent of the injuries at present, thinking it better to let them remain for a little while. Ho was, however, in much pain, and unable to perform his duty. Cole, the eecond constable, whose face was much disfigured, said that a little before 3 o'clock his attention was attracted to a disturbance and cries for assistance in Ewer-street. He proceeded there, and found last witness on the ground, the prisoner holding him and kicking him. Witness seized the prisoner by the collar to pull him away, when a mob collected around him and he, was pulled into the passage of a house awl the door shut against him. He caught hold of the prisoner to secure him, when ha said if he did •not let him go he would kick his - head off. He then escaped, but afterwards he assistad last witness in securing him, The mob at the time was so violent that he, really wondered that murder had not been committed. In answer to the charge the prisoner said that he was attacked by a party who lived near him, and he got away from and escaped into his house. He denied being the party who assaulted either of the constables. Mr. Burcham told him that the constable bad been most serious'y assaulted, and any amount of punishment ho could inflict would not be adequate. He should, therefore, commit him for trial to answer the two charges. THE MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY LA, ESSEX. HALSTEAD, WEDNESDAY. The excitement occasioned by the robbery and murder of Mr. Isaac Butcher, farmer and cattle dealer, on Saturday evening, while on his way from Colchester market to his home at Colne -En gaine 0 small village about three miles from this t )wn), has greatly increased by the result of the post-mortem examination. The inquest was held yesterday before William Code], Eaq., coroner for the northern division of the county, and a jury of farmers from the neigh bourhood. The most important witnee4, excepting the medical testimony, was a young man named Butler under gardener to Robert Hills, Esq., of Colne Park, the late high sheriff for the county. Butler states that he left work just after six o'clock, and when within fifty yards of the lodge gate he heard a noise as of persons scuffling in the rowl, and a faint cry of " Oh, dear," or " Oh, don't," followed by several groans, and a sound like a person chok ing. He quicken his pace to about 20 or 30 yards , through the gate, when ho stopped to list,n, and distinctly_ heard the footsteps of two or three p r sons running away. About 20 yards further on he' came to a man lying on his back ; and running a 1 ttle further he again heard footsteps in a small plantation, but fearing he might be himself at tacked he gave up the pursuit, and returned to the deceased, who appeared at that moment to breath his last. After the deceased had been conveyed home, his cheque-book and pocket-book were found in his coat pocket, apparently undisturbed ; and thelatter, with other papers, contained a receipt far upwards of 6001. paid sto the Halstead Bank on the previous day. Mr. Taylor, surgeon, of Earl's Colne, who had been sent for when the deceased was first found, made an immediate examination of the body, but could detect no injuries beyond a contus on of the nose and a cut on the inside of the upper lip, as if from pressure upon a broken tcoih. Of course neither of these was sufficient to account for death, and not only report was in circulation that the de cetsed died from a fit, but the coroner, upon the statement of the circumstances made to him, ar rived at the same conclusion, and consequently did not give an order for a post-mortem examinati. until the morning of the inquest. This was moat minutely and carefully performed by Dr. Taylor, assisted by another gentleman of Heist° .d. They found congestion of the brain, but without any appearance of injury to the skull. The tongue was neither protruding or swollen, which might be ex— pected from ordinary ..atrangulition ; but there were black patches on both an es above the elbow, as if he had been pinioned from behin 1, and tbere Was an oval patch upon the angle of each jaw, re s.mbling in shape a thumb and finger, ono being larger than _the oilier. Both medical gentlemen were saeisfied that death arose from asphyxia, the result of violence, and as far as they could foim an opinion, it was that a band was presed over the mouth and nose, so held as to cause suff;eatiun. The Jury, without hesitation, arrived at a verdict of " Wilful Murder by come person or persons unknown. - - The description obtained by the police of the two men suspected, and who had been observed at Halstead fair, on the preceding day, corresponds very closely with that of two men who committed a highway-robbery upon a farmer named Palmer, who had been attending East Harling fair, in Nor folk, on the 24th ult. They are apparentl y rail road leboUrers on tramp. The Norfolk arid E'sex police are acting in concert in the search for them, but at present , no clue has been obtained as to the route they have taken, beyond the fact that a man • res?mbling one of the parties took the train for London on Sunday morning from the Kelvedon station. THE GREAT P R. 71 LAND-ST REET ROB BER Y.-G APTUR Ll OF THE POLICEM AN A.A KEY. The papers contain accounts of the arrest of a man calling himself Henry Williams and Matilda Ross, charged with having committed the robbery at 68, Great Portland-street, to the value of up wards of 1,0001. The following are the particulars of the arrest :—On Saturday ;he head constable of Cork received information that the prisoners had got into the train at Lucan, and travelled by a third-class as far as Kild.sre, where they gat out, and Williams stated there that he was going to Killarney, and would wait for tile mail train, but when the usual train arrived he took a ticket for Cork. The two parties put up at the Wellington Hot I, stating that they intended staying there fur the night, but they only remained until three er four o'clock, when they sent for a car, and directed the ca man to drive them to some village three or four miles outside the city, where they could be ac commodated for the night. In the meantime the inmates of the Wellington Hotel began to enter tain suspicions about tbe pair. The man presented the appearance of a Londan policeman in plain clothes, and the youthful and interesting appear ance of the young lady induced the idea that an elopement had taken place—that the female was some romantic boarding-house Miss who had run off with him. Information of the circumstance was con veyed to head-constable Roe, who, on hearing a de scription of the parties, recognised it as answering to that of the male and female who bad committed the rcibbery in London ; and, having made out the carman and ascertained from him where lie had driven them, he stared for Midleton about one o'clock at night, in company with sub-constable IW.Manua, and found the pair in bed in lodgings there. Dis turbing their soft repose, he desired them to dress themselves, and questioned them separately as to who they were. The female admitted at once that she was the person described in the Police Gazette, namely, Matilda Ross alias Duval ; but the male prisoner, who was described as James Satkey, per sisted in stating that his name was Henry Williams. There could be no doubt that they were the same parties, for their dress and appearance were exactly the same as described iu the Gazette ; and though none of the stolen property was found with thew, yet a trunk and some luggage fully identified Sankey. It appeared that the latter had been, up to the time of the robbery, a London, policeman, and that having been placed in charge of the house, which belonged to a lady named Aitkin, he took advantage of his position to abscond with the pro Fem.} , mentioned. • A sum of 50/. was offered for the arrest of both parties, it having been ascer tained that the female prisoner had accompanied bin on his flight, but they bad eluded all search until head constable Roe got on their track. An- j other party has els) been arrested in London, on a charge of having been connected with the robbery. rhe magistrates decided on remanding the parties for the purpose of having them sent back to Lon- ! don, the mayor remarking that the head constable deserved great credit for the activity and sharpness he had displayed in the affair. TEE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S REPORT, That particular branch of the national accounts which falls under the superintendence of the Regis trar-Geeeral is kept with great ability and success. Items are promptly entered, returns scientifically digested, and a balance struck at very short dates. Already wo know the rate at which births and deaths proceeded in Euglana up to the 30th of last Sept, and we have an accurate statement of mar riage transactions up to the 30th June previous. It happens, too, that the results are generally favour able, and that the coedition of the country, rela tively speaking, is such as to inspire satisfaction. The marriages exceed the average of the quarter for the last ten years—a sure proof of popular prospe rity and well-doing. The births exceed in number any previous return for the like period, whi'e the deaths amount to less than the average mortality of the season. If we add to these announcements that the price of wheat is 17 per cent., of beef 81 2 per c.mt., of mutton 4 per cent. below the average of the two summer quarters last past, we shall have said enough to establish the agreeable character of the return before 114. As our readers were pre sented with the details themselves in our columns of yesterday it is unnecessary to enter upon any recapitulation of items ; but one or two points of peculiar interest deserve attention. The season has been a remarkable ono. So very modern is the science of statistics that trustworthy records of temperature do not extend to a remoter period than the year 1771, but the 86 years which have elapsed since that date present very few exam ples of greater heat than prevailed last quarter. In the whole of that interval 13 years only have been fund in which a July was hotter than the July of 1857, and six years only in which the September xceeded in temperature the September of the pre sent year. As to our ramth of August, it carries eft' the palm without a rival, so warm an August having never ben known. Taking the three months together, the average temperature prevail ing is exceeded by that of one year only out of all the 80—viz., the year 1818. It may surprise some of our readers to learn that, as a general rule, there is no month out of the twelve in which a thermometer placed with its bulb upon the grass does not show a fall of the mercury below the freezing point at some moment or other ; but it is now recorded as a notable fact that during the quarter last past this n ever h appene d a t a ll — or, at leas , , did not occur atthe place where observations were taken. The rainfall does not appear to have been excessive ; indeed, it seems to have been re ser-red for the present quarter. July and Au.fue together were not so wet as usual—September somewhat wetter, but not much so. Now, the question is, what effect was produced by these atmospheric conditions on the public health, and it certainly does not appear, on the whole, to have been 'an unfavourable one. The Registrar-General, indeed, distinctly enunciates the doctrine that "a summer of unusual warmth in our European climates. not only promotes the growth of corn and wine, but is p obably salutary to the human frame." This proposition however, is &- pendent on car ain conditions. Perhaps we may dis cern some evidence.of its general truth in the feet that the deaths of •the quarter really were below the average, but we are told that they exceeded the rates of the two previous summers, and it appears beyond doubt that diseas es were prevalent indi cating an unusual action of the sun. To deprive solar heat of its injurious powers we need only pay attention to the rules of cleanliness. The sun's rays have no noxious properties in them selves ; they are fraught nat ura lly w ith v it a l warmth and comfort only ; it is when they are permitted to act upon undrained soil or decaying refuse that pestilential exhalations are produced. The Registrar-General takes more account of our shortcomings than our performances in the way 'of sanitary irnprovement4, and records with a moni tory severity the avoidable loss of lire during the last quarter. According to his figures, upwards of 17,000 of the deaths in England during this periol may be regarded as untimely. Probably war never cost us so much in the same space of time. If something hes e been done, therefore, much more remains for ns to do, and we are urged, above all things, to establish pure water supplies and good systems of drainage. These are the first rules of sanitary science, and we may well be shamed into wisdom by the Chinese, whose' waters, even amid the population swarming on their banks, are still kept uninfec'ed and wholesome. It is impossible to (NCO .stiwate the iml 'Wane° of these observances. The deadliest scourges of humanity are not, as we have repeatedly observed, those tremendous demice which expend their fury in short periods and at considerable intervals. What we have most to fear is the quiet incessant march of death under ordinary forms, but in default of sanitary precau tions. The Lew wasting fever in its varieui types, the marry shapes of agues, and the thousand • phases of general infirmity resulting from impuri ties of air and water—these are the agent., which, without always operating immediately to the destruction of life, infallibly curtail its duration and truremit ingly impair its vital powers. The Reyi s . trar-General speaks with a terrible cemprehensive ness in enforcing the maxims of Cleanliness. "if says he, " the English race could lose strength, dbeauty,wel dwelling-places -hpelaalctehs, witha nd impunity, life i the the imagination impurities of o its f Swift alone could conceive—his pencil depict—the depth of 'degradation ti which the nation might fell." There is more truth ita thiskind than in most such p rop h ec i es. It isa common thing enough for enthusiasts of all sorts to connect na tional ruin with inattention to their own sayings ; but we need little reflection to assure us that the destinies of England must indeed depend upon the vigour of Englishmen, and the vigour 9f English men upon the conditions ef-English life. The acuteness of modern observers has brought the fruits of the year into immediate connection with the subjects of the Registrar-General's re turns ; so completely so, indeed, that the pi ices of various articles of food are recorded with as much interest as Vie numbers of mat r,ages or 13Xths. We have already said that wheat and butcher's me 0 have become cheaper than they were, but, on the o her side, there is a serious decrease in the potato crop. Potatoes are now costing nearly half as much again as they did two yeas ago, the difference being no less than 42 per cent. in' favour of 1855. Nor is the loss merely one of aliment, simply considered. The fact is that the potato discharges a very impor tant and necessary function in the nourishment of m ,n. It is an excellent anti-scorbutic, and unless its action in this te-pect can be replaced by that of some other vegetablo, the greatest abundance of I real and meat will not mike up for the deficiency. Fortunately the crop of apples has been plentiful in the extreme, and the cheapness of this wholesome fruit may help to establish the wholesome equili brium in our elements of food. The actual increase of the population in the United Kingdom may probably to computed at 1,000 souls a-day, but against this must be set the elliux of people by emigration. The returns from the ports at which Government emigration-offices are stationed show that somewhat above 50,000 , emigrants, left these shores during the period under review, but ir, is calculated that of these only some 20,000 wore of English origin. The tide still sets towards the United Sates, but by no means so s . rorig'y as in former years. Not quite half of the Engli , h emigrants betook themselves to the terri • tories of the Union, while almost half-8,947 proceededlto Australia, and 1,707 to our own North American colonies. Such are the principal features of tho last return, and if there is still much in our sanitary position to be deplored and amended there is also much to be thankful for in the actual state of In reality, we have done and are doing a respectable amount of work in the way of sanitary improvement, but the arrears of past years were so vast, and the tendency of people to inaction or in dfference except under immediate pressure, is so strong, that the Registrar-General performs a very prudent part in keeping our omissions and our obligations prominently before our eyes.—Times. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING. Handicap Plate of 25 soya. Entrance half a soy, to go to the second horse. Five furlong... 19 subs. vtr. Bates's Jane by Mickey Free, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Bray) 1 Mr. Mellish'e Rotterdam, 3 yre, 7st 21b ...(Cuetance) 2 Mr. Evans's Amorous Boy, 3 yrs, 7st 2lb (Crewmen) 3 Mr. Webb's Eardrop, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Prior) 4 The following also ran :—Mitraille, Keneidy, Earth stopper, Stormy Petrel, S D'Arcy, Chaperone. Betting.--4 to 1 agst Jane, 6to 1 agat Eardrop, 7to 1 agst Kenerdy, 7 to 1 apt Amorous Boy, 8 to 1 net Rotterdam, Bto 1 agst Mamas. Won by a neck, half a length between the second and third; good fourth. Autumn Flying Stakes of 5 Bova each, with 40 added. The second to save his stake. About half a mile. 27 snb4. Mr. La Mert's Admiral of the White, by the Flying Dutchman, 3 yrs, 64t 91b (D uc k er ) 1 Mr. Dray's Little Gerard, 6 yrs, Est 131 b (car. 7.t) (Prior) 2 Mr. J. Dawson's Agra, 4 yrs, 7st Blb (Snowden) 3, The following also ran :—Olympus, Presthury, Lord Nelson, Prince's Mixture, Ella, Raven, Captain Wed derburn, Lass of Richmond Hill, and Magnus Troil. Betting-3 to 1 agst Captain Wedderburn, 7to 2 agst Olympus, 4 to 1 agst Lord Nelson, 7 to 2 agst Little Gerard, 8 to 1 agst Magnus Troll. Won by a head ; half a length between the second and third. Raven was a good fourth. Worcestershire Steeplechase Handicap of 20 sows. each, h ft, and 5 only if declared, ac., with 100 added; the second to save his stake. About four miles. 17 subs, four of whom declared. Mr. B. Land's Theodine, by Them, aged, 9,t 41b (Nightingale) 1 Mr. Pringle'sForest Queen, ages.l,lost 81b(Waddington) 2 Mr. S. Williams's Omar Pacha, aged, 9st 71b (Green) 3 The following also ran :—Minor, Evington Lass, _ Hindley, Al ltrshott, Bellman, and Peacock. Betting-3 to 1 apt Forest Qneen, sto 1 agst Omar Pacha, sto 1 agst Minor, 6to 1 agst Bellman. Won by a head ; good third ; the ethers beaten off. The Selling Steeplechase, a Sweepstakes of 5 Novi each, with 40 added. About two mil es . 3 su b s . _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Black's The Farmer, aged (301.), li.st...(iieaver) 1 Mr. B. Land's Vestige, 6 yrs (300,115 t (B. Land, jun.) 2 Mr. Dart's Innkeeper, aged (30/ ), list (G. Stevens) 3 Betting— sto 4 aget Vestige. Won by two lengths. The winner was sold for 90 guineas. The Worcester Hunt Stakes, a Sweepstakes of 5 Boys each, with 25 added. Two miles. 4 subs. Mr. J. B. gtarkey's Laverne, 4 yrs, list 111 b (Mr. Dart) 1 Mr. Price's Brongpton, 6 yrs, 12st 4!b (Owner) 2 Mr. Halford's Kingfisher, 4 yrs, 12st 4lb (Mr. Edwards) 3 Ciowee's Conrad, aged, 12st sib (Mr. Woodhouse) 4 Betting-5 to 4 each agat Kingfisher and Laverne. Won by a length ; bad third. On returning to scale an objection was lodged agst Lavern% on the ground that she had gone the wrong side of a post. Country Markets. EDINBURO - 11 RAY AN 3. D STRAW MARKET Nov. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 8s Od to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stones trou ; wheat do., 6s Od to 7s 6d ; barley do., 51 01 to 7's Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL—Nov. 3. • There were in the market to-day 14 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 38s Od and —a. RKET—Nov. 2. •dsy 13 bags of oatmeal, 0 of Sales dull. DALKEITH MEAL There were in the market tc barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. J Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —s Od —s, Od Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —s Od —s• Od Fot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od • s Od —s. (d DUBLIN, Nov. 3. Our market to-day was very poorly supplied with wheat, and but few samples of fine quality. A good demand, and an advance of 6d per barrel obtained on all but the lowest qualities. Oats in moderate supply, and easily fold at the last day's prices. Barley met a slow sale; malting samples declined 6d and grinding is per brl. In Indian corn and foreign wheat no change. White wheat, 303 01 to 323 Od ; red ditto, 281 Od to 301 6d; ditto now, 30s 61 ; barley, malting, 17s Od to 20s; grind ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15. 6d to 18s; ditto, new, 14s 6 t to 15s 01 ; oatmeal, 14s Od to 16s. bere, new, 15s to-16s 6.1; rapese , d, 26a Od to 28. Od per 1;0 ; hakeis flour, 18s Otto 24s oa per cwt ; Indian corn, 36s 01 to 37. 8,l per I,io COAL MARK. Prices of Coals per ton at El.—N ov. 4. the close of the market Wallsend, te.e. s. d.I Bell's Primrose l4 0 Hastings Hartley 17 9 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 6 North Percy Hartley l6 0 RavensworthW. Hartley 17 6 fan field Moor Butes 14 3 Wylam ' 'l6 6 1 • s 41 flengh Hall .19 Cassop 20 to Russell's Hetton..... 2O 0 Jesmond Nixon's Duffryn . ..... . ....21 0 Framwellgate l9 0 Plummer •••••• Kelloe 19 9 South Kelloe 20" 0 Keiper Grainge 2O 3 Hetton in 0 South Hetton 2 0 ! Barton ......._ lB 6 South Hartlepool I9 0 Larabton .. , .20 0 ~ 72 ; sold, 61. Wallxencl, Killingworth East 16 0 Itraddyll .20 0 Eden Eden Main l9 9 Stewart's Tees Condon Tees lB 6 Ships at market, LOCAL SHARE MARKST4. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. — The tone of the market haa'been active to-day, and but few sales. Prices still remain low. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln , 37, -South Ea s tern, 18.13.16.—Eastern Counties, 10 1116.—North British, 11 —Caledonians, 38 B Midland, 82 14 i—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 92 B--Great Western of Catada, '18 — Grand Trunks, q —London and North Westerns 94 i --North Eastern, Berwicks, 24—D u t c h . Rh en i s h, , p d-- Great Western of Canada, new, fi d. MANCHESTER, Nov. 4. STOOK EXORANGE.—The market was doing a moderate business to-day, but prices declining. Dovers, 1813 . -16 -- Great Western of Canada, 18—East Lancashire, 89— Sheffielda, 374—Blackburn, 84—Eastern Counties, 14— —Grand Trunk of Canada, 91. 106.-.-;-Midlands, 51g Leeds, 92—Illinois Central, 9 die. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Prices in the market gezerally not so firm to-day, and very little business was transactv. 4 Birmingham die B ir mi n g l i u s a m r a G n t a s s e d Co., S t n o c e kw, shares,— G N t o e r a t t h S W t a e ff s t o e r r i ds', 1857, at 10 pm. BIRTHS. OR A SOX. On the 3d inst„ at 7, Curzon-street, Mayfair, Mrs ! Joshua East. On the 4th inst., at CaYendi,h- roa d, St. J o h n ' s -wood s the wife of Georgeflorne, Esq. • 91 , A DAUGUTER. On the 4th inst., at 7, nt. George's•terrace, Rogent'r park, the wife of Lundy Walters, Esq. On the 4th inst., at 18,3fontagu-street, Portman•squares the Hon. Mrs. Spencer Ponsonby. MARRIED. On the 3d inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Richard Hassell, Esq., M.D., to Alicia, fourth daughter of Charles God• dard, D.D., late Archdeacon and Sub-dean of Lincoln. On the 3d inst., at St. Martins-in-the-Fields ' Mr. A. S. Jones, third son of S. Jones, Rag. , of Dulwich, to Han• nab, third daughter of the late Mr. D. Bristow, and niece of C. Davis, Esq., city. DIED. On Tuesday, the 3d inst., in Chapel-street, Grosvenor square, in the 57th year of her age, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. W. Ingle, deeply and sincerely regretted by all who knew' her. On the 3d inst., Henry Eaton, Esq., of 3, New-inne London, aged 59. On the 4th inst., at 57, Thornhill-square, Islington, Mr. M. T, Hooker, aged 65. , • - On the 2d inst., suddenly, in the vestry of Argyle Cha p:l, whilst in the act of prayer, Richard Parker Lemon, Esq., of the North Parad e , Bath, aged 57. On the 3d inst., at her residence, 13, James-street, Buckingham -gate, London, Katherine Roberts, wife of Mow bray Morris, Esq., barrister of the Inner Temple, a nd a second daught e r o f S amuel Jackson Dallas, Esq., sill maim, aged 33. On the Ist inst., John Grandin, Esq., of Spencer Lodge, Battersea, aged 71. On the 2d inst., at Donnington, Suffolk, Mr. Harvey, late of Baddiogham, aged 85. 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