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 CHAIR/lAN rose to address the assembly, and was received with loud and reiterated cheering. After the applause bad subsided, he said—Ladies and gentlemen, I assure you it gives me the most unfeigned satisfaction to find myself once . and constituents. among my old and valued friends more (Cheers.) It carries me back f seven-an -twenty years ago, when I received at the hands of the peop Yorkshire the greatest and p roudest memorial of my le o country's approval and of their kindness the highest and most prized honour of my life. (Loud applause.) But as nothing is more useless than vain declamation ; aet nothing could excuse it heartfelt sense sense of the kind less the expression of ney ness of tee people of Yorkshire ; so nothing would excuse my prolonging it .cor an instant to the exelu sion of more useful, and therefore more important matter—for we are here m 'et upon a practical sub ject, the education of the p eople, and especially of the working classes of the people, not excepting those immediately above the erorking classes—viz., the middle classes, without who se education, aye, let me add, considerably improved ,education, there is no safety either for those above s'itern, or for those beneath them, in the scale of so ciety. (Cheers.) It is neither upon the improvement of the higher classes, nor the improvement of the bumbler 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 2'4" years since I last addressed you have wrought upon the condi tion of the people of Leeds. I then had occasion to complain, when I attended the meeting, of the very small bocinnings 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 little 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 institution which we are now met 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' institution, 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 classes, it is most gratifying to find that in various parts of this great community, in almost all of the great towns, in some 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 tkat these institutions have been too apt to be diverted from their original intention—that their primitive design having been somewhat neglected or obscured by other designs, they have grown up and thus come in to take the benefit of such foundations—of such voluntary associations, 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 aeprentice libraries, or literary societies for the working classes or other classes—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 may 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 taking up another subject then. such lectures, though infinitely inferior in their use to continued courses of lectures, con tinued courses of instruction—though incomparably inferior in their benefits to those—are by no means to be despised. On the contrary, they have very great uses ; first of all, in stimulating men to exert them selves to attend 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—byread ing useful works, and to withdraw them from worse practices, and worse courses, into the course of im proving their minds, without neglecting, Heaven forbid—without neglecting the cultivation of their bodies by attention to their health, and even to their amusement, to their rational recreation, for nothing can. be more true than the old maxim, " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." (Hear.) Therefore, I far from wish to exclude these ; quite the contrary; but on one condition, that they are wholesome recreations—(hear, hear) — above all, that they are innocent recreations, that they withdraw men from the weest of all possible indulgences, indulgences in excess I only say in excess, for I do not even exclude alto getherfermented 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 persons employed by the York shire Union of 130 institutes, others by volunteers, public-spirited men of learning, of ability, and zeal in the cause of popular instruction and improve ment, and to the greatest possible benefit of all classes to whom they have been delivered. But the great advantage to the class to which I am par ticularly referring—the working classes, I mean particularly the class of skilled labourers, artisans— the greatest of all these advantages is education classes—(applause)—sueh classes as may enable 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 from the examina tions that have been undertaken in various parts of the country, of which reports have been made from time to time—and latterly a very full report by tire institution at the head of which is my excellent friend Mr. Edward Baines—to show in what way these examinations have been carried on, and I re joice to say have prospered wherever they have gone. Now, I will take one instance, for it not only shows the benefit of it, but it also shows how 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 classes. 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 with which the 130 institutes are connected, are, that there have been somewhere be tween 35 and 40 prizes distributed, and, including the certificates as well as the prizes that have been distributed, there have been 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 2uo 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 40 others—other youths—who are devoted to educa tion, who are educating themselves at those classes, but who were not ripe to come forward to be ex amined, and to be candidates for the honours, but who next year, or the year after, will attain that maturity, an d w il l swell the list of can did ates f or honours and certificates. (Applause.) Now, I will take one cas t e o a r s s a h n illustration, and that shall be not Leeds, e jeld, but it shall be Hudders field. I find that to be prepared to beillett)Pa'li attend those classes candidates for the prizes and certificates, though not above 25 or 30 ac tually come forward as' candidates in order to ob tain those prizes. But all the restt u dwyeinre i . n course g of education ; all the rest wer e all the re st passed th it evenings at th e ec h o - Is, a ' n a were preparing to be Lext year, or the y ear atter, candi dates for those prizes. (Applause.) Noe it is gra tifying to observe in what way these 1,100 or 1.200 are composed. Not above one-quarer of the whole are other than young men belonging to the working classes—the artisans of Huddersfield. (Applause.) Twelve hundred and odd being the whole number of pupils thus engaged m education, between 900 and 1,000 are members—young men of the working classes, the rest being clerks or persons in a station superior to that of the working classes ; but 900 or 1,000 are entirely youne . men belonging to th e skilled labourers, that is, a the working arti sans of the great tow n of Huddersfield. (Hear.) And so, when your worthy pr esident who read to-night, his statement giving the average per tentage of those who in this mechanics' institution and lite rary society paid 155., and of those who paid 12s. and 83., I Wok leave to interrupt him in order to .........--e------- - as f the le nuer of ascertain, for for it escape d me when he. read :it, what p e r centage there w scr ib e rs who paid 125. 0 and Ss., who becau m se b thcee pay ins, 12s. and. Bs. are the mere working classes, men living, he said, by daily working wages mid by weekly wages, and I was highly gratined 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 rightpath, andthat we are assisting in the education—or, rather, what is much more important, that they themselves —the working classes—are assisting in their own edu cation, 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 l 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, evenlif 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 instrutioa, and with very little help, rather in Ole way of advice and suggestion than of anything —1: was going to say more substantial, but than good edvice and wholesome and useful suggestion there can be nothing more substantial —anything wiser, anything more certain than their beue6ting by that, or anything more clear than their being unable withou!; that to secure their own instruction cannot be imagined. Now, there are several ways in which the middis 1 classes may greatly help them selves, without anyth,ng that can break in upon their independence —wig bout anything that ca n at all be reckoned visionary or speculative—and one or two of those things I will take leave, upon the e ) present occasion, shortly to meettion. Hear, ear. I have had an address presented to me this morn ing from the Early Closing Association, w ith which my mind, my judgment, and my f ee li n gs, I must say, entirely go along. (Hear , hear.) Very far be it from me to require of tho se who ete.pdoy young persons in labour—in manufactories for i ',stance— . 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 considerabl; proportion of young persons, of both sexes, in a town like Leeds, are employed, not by manufacturers who pay them gages for their work in order by that work to make a profit, but by shopkeespers 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 f because if a lad or a girl go to a shop at seven :n 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 ai7.9r education in any form whatever, is wholly out of the question. (Hear, hear.) The utmost you can exrct is, that when they come home, fatigued with their day's services in the shop, theyshould be toogladtoset to bed, and rest themselves, in order thatthey might be able to get up at six o'clock the next morning, to gat to the shop at seven. Why do I say that this might be altered without difficulty, and avoided by au easy arrangement on the part of the em ployers with those young people in their employ ? For this reason—l address myself not to the shop keepers but to the customerejof the shopkeepers. (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 afford it, they will be obliged to shut up their shops. But had that been se ? 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 shopkeeper as to give a little time every evening to those behind the counter from seven o'clock in the morning. (Hear, hear.) 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 little more time, and to press a little less hard upon hie workpeople than at present, without the lessening of wages, and with out, I hope, lessening his profits. I do not recom mend either to the shopkeeper or the mummiram turer a sudden change. (Hear.) It should be done gradually. (Hear, hear.) Suppose that the mall 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 I have no doubt they will work all the harder, 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. There is another old proverb, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of them selves.' 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 suggestion. (Applause.) Any listlessness orcessation of work attimes which ought 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 minutes." It is the best advice I can give you ; it is the advice which, if I may quote my own instance—(applause)—l have observed throughout life. If this economising of time be constantly kept in view, you might hereafter reduce the hours of work from 14 to 13, and afterwards to 12. I don't, however, stand upon a particular 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 compass both for the shopkeeper and those whom he employs. (Ap plause.) I ought to apologise for dwelling so long on this subject, but as I began by saying that nothing is more useless than a speech of declama tion, it is much more useful to attend to the facts before us. (Applause.) A remark has been made upon various occasic us, 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 teachers. (dear.) I presented a petition to the House of Lords at the end of last session, signed by my noble friend the then member for Middlesex, and by other warm friends of popular improvement, 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. Te begin with the highest and most important class, I mean the reverend clergy, they don't become capab!e of o htaining church prefer - ment without receiving holy orders, and those holy orders are only to be obtained after due examination by the prelate of the diocese, such examination being pieceded by a course of academic study, and an examination testing their titne's for the im portant function they wish to discharge. Then, as to medical men, you do not allow an apothecary to miv up drugs by a prescription from a physician, or a surgeon to perform an operation, or to attend to his patients surgically, without due 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, though 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 won very short commons—(renewed laughter)—nevertheless there are previous steps taken by members of both branches of the profession, both solicitors and at torneys, before they can pass their examination, such as a clerkship for a number of years with a master. There is this kind of train ng, though lat _ly there has beeen complaint made that tee 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 he compulsory, and that iu the case referred to the degree of barrister-at-law ought not to code) re 1 upon any one who has not undergone previously an examination sufficiently searching to test their knowledge of the law. (Hear, heir.) Then, why should. it be that th© important office upon which so a much d e p en d s — t h at o f a sc h oo l mas t e r—should be t a k en up by anyone, how utterly incapable soever they may be from previous habits, from knowledge or exercise fro t m h at important abili ability, aye,ur from character, to office. , (dear, hear.) Why -o is it that there is no examina tion in that p ro f es most import an t i n the n' which, of a ll o th ers , i s the due performa nce o f the_. community, and upon the of which so much depenhdisgsill and useful functionscountries. In Fra nce , for instance, is n o t so i n o th er ,t examination is required b e f ore a anee'a previous person can school of any sort. Now th e petition i take a honour to present to the House of Lords had the 1 did not require that the examination, at all events in the first instance, should be compulsory ; but it most justly said, that iif a ptoi)er and due provision were made for all those who chose to present themselves voluntarily, in order to have their fitness for school keeping tested, al id 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 teertilicated persons, and that, con sequently, withon I making it compulsory, the ex amination would in the end become so, and the evil complained of would entirely ceaec. (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 )ve be more encouragement 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 progress. I will take one instance. Those mist 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 educa'ed. It i 3 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 groan 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 wave, 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 about 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 had fixed a certain rent, on a moderate scale, proportioned to the actual value of the pro duce, a rent for 30 years ; where we had canals that traversed the country, and joined togetherthe great rivers ; where we had built, rather than constructed, 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 the per.- ple themselves (I hope and treat iu Heaven it could not be), but only the erased 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 (loud 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 bad as any com mitted at Cawnpore of at Delhi. (A voice from the bottom end of the room—" They did right with the officers.") When I say that civil as 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 with 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 rejoice to say, of a part of Yorkshire—l mean Sheffield—which, to its immortal honour, has seut forth, or is sending forth, 500 men to join the armies of the East (hear, 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. Luck - now, 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 g ive their aid to increase the number of those who shall go to augment the army in India, when they recollect what hes been,done there by their countrymen in arms, as well as tt:eir 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 Taker man ; and the siege of Delhi itself was equal to more than 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 glories, it is impossible iu the circumstances in which the later 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 o ur ill- w i s h ers on th e C on ti nen t have a notic" that if we lose India we are done., There never was a greater delusion. Long before we gained India we stood as high in the nations of the world as we have stood since, and if we lost India to-morrow, should stand as high as we do now—(applause)—bet if we lost it, we abandon millions and millions to the most cruel of all fates— the anarchy, the rapine, and the blood of their own contending chiefs and tyrants ; and if we lose it after being defeated, our reputation is gone for ever and we are 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 be found of men to increase those just proportions which the army—the now absolutely necessary army of the country requires. (applause.) I must apologise for having detained you a few minutes on this subject, but I could not find myself ()nee mo7e amongst my old constituents of Yorkshire without giving vent to those feelings which prevail upon that subject in my bosom. The noble lord thou resumed his scat amidst the hearty and gene ral plaudits of the audience. THE SUN, _LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 5, 1851 RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. 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COLONEL SLEIGH. _ Under the Scotch Bankrupt Act 411856 the es tates of all persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Session 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 sequestra 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 Culonel, but of what regiment was not known. Ho was editor and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, and his only office, or place of busiuoes, ger orally known to his creditors, was 253, Strand, London, where he conducted his newspaper. In his petition for sequestration, and in the statu tory notices, he was designed merchant, of 39, West Campbell-street, Glasgow, and recently of 17, Melville-street, Edinburgh, and the address lin 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 Luss, on Loch lomond, fishing, and in May and June last he was at Helensburgh. In July, according to his London solicitor, he was abroad, and in the begiunieg of August he was seen iu London. The date of his return to Scotland is not known, but on the 21 s t 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 31. only, the debt being incurred for printing prospectuses for a society in Paris for the bale of land in New Grenada. His entire assets amount to 2001. worth of small book-debts, and his debts dee to these 52 creditors to 'about 4,0001. Mr. P. Fraser applied for the recall of the se questration, because, before coming to Scotland at all, he 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 France, and left it for Scotland to establish an agency for this Paris New Grenada Laud Society ; that he was introduced at the Rnyal 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 creditor 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 ho has assets or not, therefore there may be 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 iu 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 description is given. That is put in the Gazette, all his creditors are in England, except, perhaps, those to whom the man may owe his lodgings 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 particulars. are given in the petition. His Lordship required Mr. Gifford to give in a minute, within six days, stating specifically the bankrupt's places 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 cab-driver, surrendered to take his trial for assaulting Thomas Mears upon the 21st of September. The prosecution was at the instigation of the London General Omnibus Company ; and in con sequence of there being an indictment against Mr. Kite, the promoter and principal of another line of omnibuses running against those of the comp an y, for a conspiracy, in procuring and instigating the above-named defendant to commit the assault, the proceedings created considerable interest amongst the friends of both parties. The court was very much crowded throughout the whole trial. The prosecutor to the indictment is a servant of the London General Omnttius Company, and upon the night of the 21st of September, at about twelve o'clock, he and several other servants belonging to the company were at the Lamb public-house, Kings land, in the concert-room. Prosecutor had just sung a song, and was about to repeat it, w h en R yan came in and began speaking to a man name Cop pard, formerly in the employment of Kite, but now the servant of the company, Ryan said to him, " Are you the man who struck my cousin ?" Cop pard said, " He struck me, and I struck him 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 i s you, M r. Mears, you are No. 1," and instantly struck the pipe from his mouth, following it up with a blow upon the mouth and another upon the nose. Ryan then seized him by the arms, dragged him over the table in front, and fell upon him with his knees upon his chest. A mob rushed into the room, and a general row ensued. Kite came in with them, and said, " You are on the wrong man," and coining up to Mears, said, " 06, Tom, I would not have had this happen for anything." Mears had 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 place. Some short time after that, the landlord of the Lamb having givenßyan and a man named Hockey into custody, he (Mears) went up to the station, and charged them both. Hockey was let out the next day, at the police c ourt, upon Mr. K its 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, b u t h a d no w i s h t o prosecute Kite, and should not have gone on with this if the com pany had not caused him to do to. Mr. Sleigh, for the defence, moat energetically denounced the conduct of the Omnibus Company, who bad instituted proceedinQs for the purpose of crushing Mr. Kite, simply because he had been successful in preventing the company from monopo lising the whole *1 th e traffic upon the road where their omnibuses ran , an d t h ey sou ght to do so by fixing a charge up on t h e d e f en d an t at the bar that they might put Ki te upon hi s t r i a l, which was the main object they h a d i n v i ew. Mr. Kite w as ca ll e d , an d h e most positively denied what had b een sa id as to t h e p a rt in the af fair, or that he made the remarks imputed to him. Each of the learned counsel having been heard in reply, The jury almost immediately acquitter) . Ryan ; and the other indictment, in which Mr. Slegh and Mr. Metcalfe (for Kite) appear, was postponed until next session. This case conclulecl the busines-t. POLICE lATTELLIGENTig.—Nov. 4. MANSION - HOUSE.—John Edward Kauffman, a clerk in the General Post-oflice, St. Maitin's-le- Grand, was summoned for the second tune, having failed to appear oil the first occasion, charged with having on the 24th ult. unlawfully and fraudulently affixed to a letter a certain postage-stamp, which had been gotten off a certain other letter, whereby he bad incurred a penalty of 201. Ho again failed to appear, and the Post-effice soli citor decided on proceeding in his absence. Evidence was thereforegiven, c• - mclusic elyproving that the defendant on the day in question removed a cancelled penny postage-stamp from a letter about to be sent out for delivery, and.aflixecl it to a pri vate letter of his own, with the intention of send ing that letter also for delivery, as if it had been poste] 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 Onbitt inflicted a penalty of 205., with Bs. GI costs. for which (if not paid) the body of deftudaut will be answerable, provided he can be found. GUILDHALL—WiIIiam Barrett was charged with the following desperate assault upon one of his follow workmen. James Wainwright, said—l was working at Whitecross-street prison yesterday afternoon, 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 did so, 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 au old grudge sir, arising out of another job. James Bryan said I was at work upoa the same scaffold will Wainwright, and saw the prisoner, who is ono of the smiths, upon the inner scaffold. He was drunk, b u t h o h a d uo business on that part of the building. There was no one else 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 prisoner 40s. ; or in default 21 days' imprisonment. MARLBOROUGII-STREET.—James Eadie, a betting-man, was charged with creating an obstruc tion in Tottenhame-court-road. Police-constable Gordon said a great many com plaints had been made by the inhdbitant3 on ac count of betting-men congregating in certain tho roughfares to make their horse-racing bets. He was i'n Tottenham-court-road that day, when he saw the defendant with a betting-book and a pencil in his hand, surrounded by 30 or 40 betting-men. Ho told 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 aware that he had done wrong. Mr. Beadon said his colleague and himself had repeatedly stated wila,t the law on the question was ; and he could assure all parties concerned that where a case was brouf:iht within the reach of the act he would inflict tie heaviest penalty. Ho should re quire the defendant to enter into his own recog msances to be of good behaviour for the future. The defendant, having done this, was liberated. SOUTHWARK.—Edwin Finn, a tall, powerful looking Irishman, wau charged with committing a murderous 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 Ewer-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 disturbance, he re ceived 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 struck his head, cutting him in a frightful manner. 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 he 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. He was, however, in much pain, and unable to perform his duty. • Cole, the second constable, whose face was much I 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 and the door shut against him. He caught hold of the prisoner to secure him, when lie said if he did not let him go he would kick his - head off. He then escaped, but afterwards he assisted 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 had been most seriously assaulted, and any amount of punishment he could inflict would not be adequate. Ha should, therefore, commit him for trial to answer the two charges. THE MURDER AND HIGIIWAY 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 (e small village about three miles from this town), has greatly increased by the result of the post-mortem examination. The inquest was held yesterday before William C(idd, Esq., coroner for the northern division of the county, and a jury of farmers from the neigh bourhood. The most important witness, excepting th e medical testimony, was a young man named Butler tee r ei pt)s ' aots ‘ co O koapf h tp;) :eti d dwiat O on n t2dooo : it ' urhs nt3reoni followed d under gardener to Robert Hills, Esq., of Colne o dais Park, the late high sheriff for the county. Butle r states that he lefc. 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 road, and a by several groans, ahwea y again. a d A ab heard eu u autrn2ddof yards oa k_ tr e sd ts a e p p s e r i s n en a esc small o ea k rl pac running sad ' a s faint t i cd n uais g turte . ieun c g ;H olt y il ya e t o hm q f h e l ea ‘ t a i gn c r O a l d : ty l e l n : hn d gew h e i h a o s f en r o he might b 3 himself at tacked nt n hi , negr but fearing further . on he sp:ltantinsetrafutuin l i ie gave up the pursuit, and returned to the deceased, who appear e d a t th a t moment to breath his last. Aft e r th e d ecease d bad " home, his chequ e -b oo k an d pocket-book were con foundve y ed o 6 r surgeon, Earl in his coat po c k e t, apparen tl y un di stur b e d ; an d Halstead colne , whoßa n the latter, with othe r p apers , con t a i ne d a receipt f..r upwards the previous day. mr. . Taylor, ayl f 0 0 , 0 1. paid nthe Bank on b-3e .n sent for when the deceased was first found, made an immediate examination of the body, but could detect injuries no beyond a contus on of the nose and a cut on the inside of the 3 upper lip, " 1 f from pres sure upon a b ' roeeen tcoth. Of course neither of . • liese was sufficient to account for death, and nut only report was in circulation that the de co .sed died frous a fit, but the coroner, upon the statement of the circumstances made 1 • to him, ar-.. rivel at the same conclusion, and consequently did not give an order for a post-mortem examination Until the morning of the inquest. This was most minutely and carefully performed by Dr. Taylcr, assisted by another gentleman of Halstead. They foiled congestion of the brain, but without any appearance of injury to the skull. The toilette was neither protruding or swollen, which might be ex peceed from ordinary strangulation ; but here were black patches on both arias above the elbow, as if he hal beer pinioned from behind, and there was an oval patch upon the angle of each jaw, re s:anblieg in shape a thumb and finger, one being larger than the ocher. Both medicel gentlemen were sai-fied that death arose &An aslayxia, the result of violence, and as far as they could fOrrn an opinion, it was that a band was Ares-ed over the mouth and nose, so held as to cause suffocaticn. The Jury, without hesitation, arrived at a verdict of " Wilf ii Murder by sonic 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 P a l mer, who had been attending East Harding fair, in Nor folk, on the 24th ult. They are apparently rail road labourers on tramp. The Norfolk and Essex police are acting in concert in the search for them, but at present ro clue has been obtained as to the route they have taken, beyond the fact that a man resembling ono of the parties tock the train for London on Sunday morning from the Kelvedon station. TIM GREAT P RTLA NO-ST 1:1 1 1ET ROB BERY.-GAPTURj OF THE _POLLUX AN SAAKEY. 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 the 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 Kildare, whore they gut out, and Williams stated there that he was going to Killarney, and would wait for the mail train, but when the usual train arrived he took a ticket for Cork. The two parties put up- at the Wellington Hotel, stating that they intended staying there for the night, but they only remained until three or ! four o'clock, when they sent for a car, and directed the ca , man to drive theirs 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 the pair. The man presented the appearance of a London policeman in plain cloth-s, and the youthful a,rill interesting appear ance of the young lady induced the idea that an elopement had taken place—that the femal;) 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 had committed the robbery in Lond on ; and, having made out the carman and ascertained from hits where ho had driven them, he staved for Midleton about one o'clock at night, in company with sub-constable M‘Manus, 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 Sankey, 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 in 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 perty mentioned. A sum of 501. was offered fur the arrest of both parties, it having been ascer tained that the female prisoner had accompanied him on his flight, but they Lad eluded all search until head constable Roe got on their track. An other party I;as also been arrested in London, ou charge of having been connected with the robbery. rite 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 BEGISTRAR-GENERAL'S REPORT, That particular branch of the national accounts which falls under the superintendence of the Regis trar-Gee oral is kept with great ability and success. Items are promptly entered, returns scientifically digested, and a balance struck at very short dates. Already we know the rate at which births and deaths proceeded in England 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 co.idition 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, wkile 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 8i per cent., 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 us. 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 bas been a remarkable one. So very modern is the science of statistics that trustworthy records of temperature do sot 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 found in which a July was hotter than the July of 1857, and six years only in which the September exceeded in temperature the September of the pre sent year. As to cur month of August, it carries off the palm without t rival, so warm au August having never been known. Taking the three months together, the average temperature prevail ing is exceeded by that of one y e a r on ly ou t o f a ll the SO—viz., the year 1818. It may surprise some of our reaers 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 Fist this never happened at all —or, at least, did not occur at the place where observations were taken. The rainfall does not appear to have been excessive ; indeed, it seems to have been re ' served for the present quarter. July and Au !us'. 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 probably salutary to the human frame." This proposition however, is de pendent on certain conditions. Perhaps we may dis cern some evidence of its general truth in the fact that the deWlis 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 diseases were prevalent indi cating an unusual acti on o f th e sun . T o d epr i ve 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 naturally with vital 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 performancaa in the way of sanitary improvements, and records with a moni tory severity the avoidable loss of life during the last quarter. According to his figures, upwards of 17,000 of the deaths in England during this perio,l may be regarded at untimely. Probably war never cost us so much in the same space of time. If something has been clone, therefore, much more remains for ua to do, and we are urged,- above all things, to establish pure water supplies and good systems of drainage. These ara 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 over-.stitnate the imt ortaece of these observances. The deadliest scourges of humanity are not, as we have repeatedly observed, thOse tremendous epi demicswhich 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 defaillt of sanitary precau tions. The wasting fever in its varieus types, the many shape.; of agues, and the thousand plisses of general infirmity resulting from impuri ties of air and water—these are the agents which, without always operating immediately to the destruction of life, infallibly curtail its duration and uuremit.ingly impair its vital powers. The Regis trar-General speaks with a terrible comprehensive— ness says he, " the English race cou'd lose strength, beauty, health, and life in the impu r iti es of its dwelling-places with impunity, the imagination of Swift alone could conceive—his pencil dpict—the depth of degradation t) which the nation might fall." There is more tr ut h i s t hi s kind of warning than in most such prophecies. It isa cowmou thing enough for enthusiasts of all sorts to connect na tional ruin with inattention to their own saying ; but we need little reticttion to a.-sure us that the destinies of England must indeed depend upon the vigour of Englishmen, and the vigour of English men upon the conditions of 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, inde.xl, that the prises of various articles of food are recorded with as mudi interest as ttie numbers of mat rages or births. We haVe already said that wheat and butcher's meat have become cheaper than they were, but, on the other side, there is a serious decrease in t he potato crop. Potatoes are now costing nearly half as much again as they did two years ago, the difference being no less thaw 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 man. It is an excellent anti-scorbutic, and unless its action in this re , pect can be replaced by that of some other vegetable, the greatest abundance of bread and meat will not *make up for Ile) 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, bet against this must be set the efflux 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 it is calculated that of these only some 20,000 were of English origin. The tide still sets towards the United States, hut by ne means so strongly as in former years. Not quite half of the English emigrants betook themselves to the terri tories of the Union, while almost half-8,947 proceededito Australia, and 1,707 to our own North American colonies. Such are the principal features of the last retail), and if there is still much in our sanitary position to be deplored and amended there is also much to be thankful for it the actual state of affairs. 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 difference, except under immediate pr e ss u re, i s so strong!, thati 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 furlongs. 19 subs, Mr. Bates's Jane by Mickey Free, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Bray) 1 Mr. Mellish's Rotterdam, 3 yrs, 74 21b ...(Custance) 2 Mr. Evans's Amorous Boy, 3 yrs. 7st 21b (Creasman) 3 Mr. Webb's Eardrop, 4 yrs, 84 121 b (Prior) 4 The following also ran :—Mitraille, Kenordy, Earth. stopper, Stormy Petrel, S D'Arcy, Chaperone. Betting.-4 to 1 aget Jane, 6to 1 agst Eardrop, 7to 1 agst Kenerdy, 7 to 1 agst Amorous Boy, 8 to 1 net Rotterdam, Bto 1 aget Mitraille. Won by a neck, half a length between the second and third ; good fourth. Autumn Flying Stakes of 5 sous each, with 40 added. The second to save his stake. About halt a mile. 27 auto. Mr. La Mart's Admiral of the White, by the Flying Dutchman, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (Duck er ) 1 Mr. Dray's Little Gerard, 6 yrs, Est 131 b (car. Tat) (Prior) 2 Mr. J. Dawson's Agra, 4 yrs, 7st Sib (Snowden) 3 The following also ran :=Olympus, Prestbury, 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 aget Olympus, 4 to 1 agst Lord Nelson, 7 to 2 aget Little Gerard, 8 to 1 agst Magnus Troil. Won by a head ; half a length between the second and third. Raven was a good fourth. Worcestetsliire Steeplechase Handicap of 20 Bove. each, h ft, and 5 only if declared, &c., 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. Prin gle's Forest Queen, aged,lost 81b(Waddington) 2 Mr. S. Williams's Omar Pacha, aged, 9st 71b (Green) 3 The following also ran :—Minor, Evington Lase, Hindley, Al it rabott, Bellman, and Peacock. Betting-3 to 1 agst Forest Queen, sto 1 agst Omar Pacha, sto 1 agst Minor, 6to 1 agst Bellman. Won by a head ; good third ; the others beaten off. The Selling Steeplechase, a Sweepstakes of 5 130 , 73 each, with 40 added. About two miles. 3 subs. Mr. Black's The Farmer, aged (301.), ilst...(Weaver) 1 Mr. B. Land's Vestige, 6 yrs (300,115 t (B. Land, jun.) 2 Mr. Dart's Innkeeper, aged (300, list (G. Stevens) 3 Betting— sto 4 agst Vestige. Won by two lengths. The winner was sold for 90 guineas. The Worcester Hunt Stakes, a Sweepstakes of 5 NOVI each, with 25 added. Two miles. 4 subs. Mr. J. B. Starkey's Laverne, 4 yrs, list 1 llb (Mr. Dart) 1 Mr. Price's Brompt,n, G yrs, 12st 4lb (Owner) 2 Mr. Halford's Kingfisher, 4 yrs, 12st 4lb (Mr. Edwards) 3 Col. C,owes's Conrad, aged, 12st sib (Mr. Woodhouse) A Betting-5 to 4 each aget Kingfisher and Laverne. Won by a length ; bad third. On returning to scale an objection was lodged agst Laverna on the ground that she had gone the wrong side of a post. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY Nov AND STRAW MARKET . 3. Supplies of all kinds these last . six days lar ge . Oat straw, from 8 s Od to 99; Oa per lzemple o f 16 a t ones tron ; wheat do. , 6 s Od to 7 s ; barley do., 5s Od to 78 Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL—NOV. 3. There were in the market today 11 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 38s Od and —ll. DALKEITH MEAL 1 There were in the market tc barleyineal, and 0 pot barley. EARKET—Nov. 2. •dtty 13 bags of oatmeal, 0 of Sales dull. . --- , Oatmeal . , per sack of 2801bs First. -- Second. Third. =penal Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —a Od —3 Od Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od —a 04 —a Cd DUBLIN, Nov. 3. Our market te-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, 30s 01 to 32s Od ; red ditto, 28s Od to 30s 6d; ditto now, 30s 6d ; barley, malting, 17s Od to 20e; grind ing, —a to —s ; oats, old, 15s 61 to 18s; ditto, new, 14. 6d to 15s 01 ; oatmeal, 14s Od to 16s; bore, new, 15e to 16s ; rapes , , d, 26s Od to 28s Od per brl ; bakers flour, 18s Od to 24s 01 per cwt; Indian corn, 3Gs 01 to 37e (id pa 180 lbs. COAL ILARK ET'.—Nov. 4. Prices of Coals per ton a s. Bell's Primrose l4 0 Hastings Hartley 17 9 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 6 North Percy Hartley _l6 0 RavensworthW.llartleyl7 6 Canfield Moor Butes 14 3 Wylain the close of tho market Wallsond, tzo. s d. Eleugh Hall .19 9 Cas3op .20 9 Russell's Hetton 20 0 Jesmond • 17 0 Nixon's Duffryn. 21 6 Frainwellgate l9 6 Plummer Kelloe 19 9 South Kelloe 20 0 Keiper Grainge Hetton 2l 0 South Hetton 20 9 Harton South Hartlepool ...... l9 9 Lambton 2O ;, 72 ; sold, 61. Wnllsend, &c Killingworth East 16 0 Braddyll 2O 0 Eden Eden Main l9 9 Stewart's. 2l C Tees `"1 0 Coundon Tees lB Ships at market, LOCAL SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL, Ncy. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. — The tone of the market has bees active to-day, and but few sales. Prices still remain low. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 371 -South Eastern, 18.13.16.—Eastern Counties, 10 11.16.—North British, 11 —Caledonians, 38 4' --- Midland, 82 la a —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 92 ;1- -Great Western of Catada, 18 — Grand Trunks, 9—Lonclon and North Westerns, 94 —North Eastern, Berwicks, 221—Dutch Rhenish, 5d — Great Western of Canada, new, d. MANCHESTER, Nov. 4. • STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was doing a moderato business to-day, but prices declining. Dover!, 18 13-16 -- Great Western of Canada, 18—East Lancashire, 89i — She !fields, 374 —Black burn , Bi--Eastern Counties, lOg - -Grand Trunk of Canada, 91. 108.—Midlandr, Leeds, 92—Illinois Central, 9 die. BIRMINGHAM. Nov. 4. STOOK EXCHANGE.—Prices in the market generally not so firm to-day, and very little business was traniseteo, Great Western, Birmingham Guaranteed Stock, 0 1 - North Staffords, 4 dis—Birmingham Gas Co., new shares, 1857, at 10 pm. • BIRTHS. • of A 110 X. On the 3d inst„ at 7, Curzon-street, Mayfair, Mn; Joshua East, On the 4th inst. , at Cavendi s h- roa d , S t. John ' s-woo d s the wife of George Horne, Esq. OP A DAUGHTE. Oa the 4th inst., afs. 7, Et. Geor X ge's-terrace, Regent's• park, the wifd of Laundy Walters, Esq. On the 4th inst., at 18, Montagu-street, Portman-squares the Hon. Mrs. Spencer Ponsonby. MARRIED. On the 3d inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Richard Ransil, Esq., M.D., to Alicia, fourth daughter of Charles G.d• 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, Esq., of Dulwich, to Han• nnh, third daughter of the late Mr. D. Bristow, and niece of C. Davis, E9q., 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-inn, London, aged 59. On the 4th inst., at 57, Thornhill-square, Islington, Mr. M. T, Hooker, aged 65. _ On . the 2d inatT, suddenly, in the vestry of Argyle Cha• pd, whilst in the act of prayer, Richard Parker Lemon, Esq., of the North Parad e , Bath, aged 57. On the 3d inst., at h e r res id ence, 13, J ames - s t ree t, Buckingham-ga:e, London, Katherine Roberts, wife of Mowbray Morris, Esq., barrister of the Inner Temple, and second daughter of Samuel Jackson Dallas, Esq., of Ja maica, aged 33. On the ht inst., John Grandin, Esq., of Spericer Lodges Battersea, aced 71. On the 2d inst., at Donnington, Saffolk,ifr. J. Ifarivis late of Baddingham, aged 85. LONDON : Printed and Pubibthed by MITRDO YOUDIC of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Otbee, No 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cent! o Middlesex, Thursday, November 5, LW. I