The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

MURDER IN BALL'S-POND-ROAD. Yesterday morning having been appointed for the examination of Thomas Robert Davis, aged 39, a carpenter, residing at No. 11, Dorset-street, Pall's-pond, who stands charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Mary Davis, in Dorset-street, in the parish of St. Mary, Islington, by cutting her throat with a razor, the Clerkenvrell police-court and its avenues were at an early hour crowded to excess, notwithstanding the untoward state 'of the weather, by persons who were anxious to catch a sight of, and to hear the evidence against the pri- toner. The prisoner, who is a short, miserable-looking man, hal since he has been incarcerated in the Kinagand police-station, where he has been under the care anA inspection of Inspector Langdon, of tho N division, been very sullen and downcast. Before he was brought to the police-court he was so overcome that it was found necessary to give Lim some brandy as a stimulant. The prisoner has expressed his thanks both to the superintendent of the N division (Mr. Beckerson) and to Mr. In spector Landon, of the same division, for the kind manner iu which they have treated him. It would appear from the letters found at the prisoner's resi dence that the wife has same very respectable con nexions both in the countiesof Dorset and Somerset, and the police at once communicated the melan choly facts to them. Of the prisoner not much is known, except that he has lived in his present resi-. dente for nearly four years, and that he has con stantly been in the habit of getting drunk. The deceased was well known as an honest, respectable person, not a ddicted at all to drink, and it is stated that the cause of the present lamentable affair is that the husband was jealous of a soldier, but without the slightest cause whatever. Shortly after 1.2 o'clock the prisoner, who seamed in a very dejected: state, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, and upon the charge being read over t) him by Mr. Motrid, the chief clerk, he made no reply. Mr. Superintendent' Beckerson and Mr. Inspec tor Landon were in at ;ltendance to watch the case on behalf of the Commitn.ioners of Police. Mrs. Sarah Stromp wa:4 the first witness called, and said—l am married, a aid am the wife of John Stromp, and we reside in the same house as the pri soner. I live on the second floor, and the prisoner and his wife lodged on the flint floor front. I have resided there about two years and a half, but the prisoner resided there before I - went there to live. On Thursday night last, about half-past 17, I was in bed and heard a scuffling in the prisoner's bedroom, which was on the first floor back. I heard him call his wife a b--- —. The deceased replied, " No, Davis, I have enough of you; o ne is quite enough for me." Prisoner then said, " I will go and get it." I said to my husband, " For God's sake get up ; he is going to kill her." My husband got up and ran down-stairs as he was. I followed, as did another lodger, who resided in the next room to me. I heard the deceased call out " Murder!" three times. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Was that as you were going down stairs Witness—No, air ; the first cry was when my husband opened our room door for the purpose of going down-stairs. Witness continued—When we got down to pri soner's door we found the prisoner standing close against his bei-rcom door. The wife was also out of the room, and staggering along the passage with her child in her arms. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Was the wife dressed ? Witness—Yes. She and the prisoner had not been in-doors more than an hour. The deceased ran out of the house with the child, which is four years old. My husband took hold of the prisoner and said to him, " What have you done, Davis?" The pri soner replied, " Now I have done it I am a happy man. I have done it for her at last. I have done for her." He then produced a razor and said, " This is what I have done it with," and he gave it to my husband. _ _ _ Mr. Tyrwhitt—Can you give me any idea ho w long it was before you heard the cry of " Murder P' and saw the prisoner with a razor in his hand ? Witness—about two minutes. Mr. Tyrwhitt..—Just explain to me how it was that you could hear so distinctly. Witness—Because my baby was awake, and the prisoner was speaking very loudly. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did the prisoner appear to be sober ? Witnesi—He seemed to have had a drop, but he was not so drunk as I have seen him sometimes. Mr. Tyrwhitt—How was the woman for drink Witness--I do not think she had had a drop. Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask th's witness anything? The prisoner in a dejected tone said—l do not recollect seeing the witness there at all. My wife and myself had been drinking all day. Mr. John Stromp said—l am the husband of the last witness, and was in bed about 11 o'clock on on Tuesday night. I did not hear the prisoner and his wife come home. I had been asleep about two hours and a-hall when my wife awoke me. I heard a kicking at the prisoner's door and loud screams of " Murder !" The voices were those of Mrs. Davis and her child. I got up, and following my wife downstairs, saw the prisoner standing close against his bedroom door with a razor in his hand, which was covered with blood. 1 said to the prisoner, "Bob, for God s sake what have you done?" He replied, " I have done for her at last. Come here, Jack ; I will give myself up to you. I have done the deed, and I will die for it." 1 took hold of the prisoner and said, " What a foolish man eou must have been." The razor was in his hand, half open and half shnt. I took it from him, and he said, " That is the thing that has done the deed." The prisoner then said, " Stand on one side a minute or two, Jack, while I go out into the back yard." I said, " No, Bob ; you are in my hands, and I will not let you go until a policeman comes up." A few minutes afterwards a policeman ar rived, and I told the policeman all about it, who took the prisoner into custody, when I gave him the razor, which was coveredwith blood. When I gave the prisoner into custody he asked me to fetch Police-sergeant Bovis, which I did. I saw the deceased go down the passage bleeding from a wound in her throat. The prisoner was rather the worse for liquor. The prisoner here said—When the witness saw me at the door my wife was in the bedroom. I was coming out to get some one to attend to her. Mrs. Sarah Ann Day said—l am married and my husband is a sweep. I live in the same house as the prisoner. About 11 o'clock on Tuesday night I heard the' prisoner and his wife come home. I heard hint say to his wife in the passage, " You —= sol dier's whore." She said, " No, Davis, do not say that. I have enough of you ; I want no more." They then went into the bedroom and shut the door. I heard a grumbling and beard hialssay, "You whore, I will go and fetch it." The pri soner then locked the bedroom door, and I heard hirre go to the front room door and burst it open. I heard deceased say, " You b— rogue, you're going to murder me !" I then heard screams of murder three times from the deceased, the child screaming at the time. I ran downstairs, and saw the prisoner standing close to the bedroom door. He had an open razor in his hand covered with blood. I then saw his wife stagger through the passage w;th her child in her arms. The prisoner then said, "I am now a happy man. I have done for the --ss wretch. Here I stand like a man, and I do not and shall not flinch." Mrs. Mary Ann Harmon said—l had been to the William public-house, and on my return I opened my whitlow, which is exactly opposite to the house in which the prisoner and his wife resided. I heard Mrs, Davis cry out "Murder 1" and I also heard the child say, "My father has killed my mother." The deceased, when she tan out iu the street, held up her arms and said, "Oh ! my dear Mrs. Harmon !" and I said, " How can I gat to you F ) The blood was pouring down her as fast as it meld - from a wound in her throat. By the time I le el got down stairs she had staggered into a gen t) em in.'s arms opposite. Ito ,k hold of hor, and, e.cc)rduie to a g esture she made, I took her towards her ownqiouse, when she died in my arms in the street. I believe the prisoner was drunk. She was al:rmt 35 years of age. Mr. James Williamson am a member of Luc, College • of Surgeons and of the Hall, and .. rer.,ide at 6, Mddmay-place, Jay night, about half vast 11 Ball's p end. Oa Tues sa sr the deceased lyingl was sent for, and on the'in I) , t etreef. She waspavement orsc dead at the time,. but was quite wane. I examined the t hroat,iwbich had a pccket handkerchief tied round it. found a wound ex tending from the end of the right side to the large e wound was thedrip muscles on the left le. The e‘t on the left side. It had di v id ed the aulle jugu!ar veins on both sides, a n d th e deep one o r n e tl a e l left side. The windpipe was also d ee pl y cut, and in fact it was cut nearly through. The wound would account for the death of the deceased. There was a great loss of blood. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Was the wound you saw in the beck such an one as might have been inflicted with a razor ? Mr. Davidson—Yes, most decidedly. Mr. Tyrwhitt--There was nothing that could be done for the deceased ? Witacass--N o , she was quite dead. Police-co ns t a bl e James Haliday, 518 N, said—l heard cries of "Murder !" and " Police !" and upon running down Dorset-street I saw the deceased on the ground, bleeding. I received the prisoner into custody. He made no observation either then or afterwards. Police-sergeant Henry Bovi s of "Murder !" and "Polil N—l heard cries Polic e !"'a n d about three mi nutes afterwards I arrived on the spot. When I riaß SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, got there the prisoner seat three times to see me. When I first went into him in the room, he said, " Well, sergeant, shake hands with me," which I at once did. He called me in a second time, and again asked me to shake hands, and, as before, I did so. He called me in a third time and said, " Well, sergeant, what am I charged with ?" I re plied, " With the wilful murder of your wife." As he was about to speak to me upon the matter I cau tioned him, and told him that what he was about to say I should take down in writing, and might use it against him. The prisoner then said, " I wish I was far away in India to kill some of the b-- brutes ; sergeant, I wish for you to take charge of everything I have got, for I shall want it for coun sel to defend me." He then pointed to a workbox, and told me to take care of his certificate of mar riage. On his way to the station-house he asked me if his wife was dead. I replied, "Yes 1" when he said, "Ah, it was a bad job -" and when I had again cautioned him he added, "Well, it cannot be helped now; it was all done in a minute." Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did you consider the prisoner was drunk ? Witness—l should say he was decidedly drunk. Inspector Langdon, of the N division said—On Wednesday morning, about ten minutes to one, I entered the Kingsland police-station. The prisoner, who was in one of the cells called to me, and said, " Mr. Langdon, I want to speak to you." I went to him, and, finding him the worse for liquor, said, " Davis, you are not a fit state to say anything to me ; go and lie down, for I decline to listen to you." About half-past 3 the same morning, after the pri soner had been to sleep, he called to me again. When he began to speak to me I cautioned him as to what he should say, when he said he was thankful. He then said that he and his wife had been out all day ; that he had taken home some work to Peckham ; and that he and his wife had been very comfortable together. After he had gone home he went out to get some beer and rum, and some beef for their suppers ; and added, "Mr. Langdon, if you go to my house you will find what I say correct, for I had not time to drink the beer." He then asked if his wife was dead, and when I told him she was he ex claimed, " Good God ! a better wife never walked English ground. It was done momentarily, but I did not do it. I liked her too well to serve her like that." On their way that morning to the police court, in a cab, the prisoner said " Well, it is a very bad job, but I can assure you that I did not do it." Mr. Tyrwhitt, this being the whole of the evi dence, asked the prisoner if he had anything to say, at the same time informing him that anything he might say would be taken down in writing, and might be used against him at his trial. The prisoner, who seemed in a very dejected state, and who had been seated during the exami nation of the several witnesses, rose and said, " I shall reserve my defence for another place." Mr. Tyrwhitt, in committing ine prisoner to Newgate for trial for the wilful murder of his wife, complimented the police upon the way which they had cautioned the prisoner previous to taking his statements. The prisoner, when he was leaving the dock, turned round with his eyes and asked to be per mitted to see his dear child—a request which was at once acceded to. duty in the Waterloo-road, when he saw the pri soner and another man turn sharply into Herbert's buildings. The former was carrying a heavy carpet bag. Witnes followed him, and having stopped him he asked him where he got the bag from. He replied that he met a gentleman in the West minster-road, who asked him to carry the bag for him to the Obelisk in the Blackfriars-road. In passing along there was an obstruction in the read, where he missed the gentleman. Mr. Burchatn told him if such was tho fact he should have taken the bag to the station-house. Instead of that he was going in an opposite direc tion, and quite away from the Obelisk. The prisoner said he intended to have taken it to the station-house, but he thought he would have his tea first. (Laughter.) The constable said he believed the prisoner to be connected with a gang of thieves who dressed them selves as porters, and loitered about railways and hotels, to pick up travellers' luggage, and if he was remanded no doubt he would be able to obtain fur ther evidence. Mr. Burcham accordingly remanded him until Monday next. WANDSWORTH. A boy named named William Gawthorne, who has been frequently convicted, was brought before Mr. Dayman, charged with absconding from a Re formatory Asylum with the clothing of the institu tion, and embezzling 3s. 6d. Mr. John Layland, the superintendent of the Bridge Home Reformatory Asylum in Wandsworth stated that the prisoner was admitted on the 25th April last, from Horsemonger-lane Gaol, at the in stance of Mr. Puckle, the magistrate, in consequence of his having been convicted so frequently. The rules of the institution were explained to him, namely, that he could leave when he thought pro per, but not with the clothes of the asylum. The prisoner's clothes, which were in a ragged state, were taken from him, and a suit of clothes belong ing to the institution was given to him in their place. He continued in the asylum until the 28th of July last, when he absconded with the clothes of the institution, in the company of another in mate. Witness was in town at the time, and his assistant, not knowing his (the prisoner's) charac ter, sent him out with another boy to take some wood to tradesmen in the town, which had been ordered. The two never returned, and absconded With the 3s. 6d. they had received in payment for the wood. He placed a notice in the " Hue and Cry" for their apprehension, and the prisoner, who had since been to Wolverhampton, was appre hended on Friday evening last at Stockwell green. The prisoner then stated that they had both sold the clothes of the asylum on the follow ing day in Petticoat-lane.' The prisoner, in defence, said the clothes of the asylum were not new, and belonged to a boy who died, and were patched. He also denied taking the money. The other boy took the money. The superintendent said the clothes were quite new, and were taken from the store when he entered. There was a constable in court to prove at least ten convictions against the prisoner. Mr. Dayman said he should remand the prisoner for the depositions to be taken. TEE AI3OMINATIONAS GE. OF A STEERAGE PASS We take the following from some " Observations by a Surgeon on the Disgraceful Treatment of Emigrants to North America," written for the purpose of showing that the Passengers Act Amended, by 18th and 19th Victoria, affords no protection. The letters appear in Mona's Herald:— " If there were some summary mode of proceed ing for the protection of emigrants, the number of applicants for redress, and the publicity given to such applications by means of the press, would have a most salutary effect in diminishing the vice and crime in those emigrant ships, which are alike disgraceful to this country and America. The editor of The Tablet newspaper (I think) has called them 'floating hells ;' in one respect they are no thing less, for the torments of hell may, in some degree resemble the sufferings of emigrants ; but crime is punished in hell, whilst in a North Ameri can emigrant ship it flourishes without check or retribution. No ; take all the stews of Liverpool, concentrate into a given space the acts and deeds done in all for one year, and they would scarcely equal in atrocity the amount of crime committed in one emigrant ship during a single voyage. The promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, the breaking open of trunks and boxes, and rubbing everything of value ; the ill-treatment of the males ; the starva tion from insufficient food, and other evils to which these poor creatures are subjected, altogether form a picture like nothing on earth but what it is. I have been engaged during the worst years of famine in Ireland ; I have witnessed the deaths of hundreds from want ; I have seen the inmates of a workhouse carried by hundreds, weekly, through its gates, to be thrown, unshrouded and coffinless, into a pit filled with quick" lime, in order to make room the sooner for the recep tion of others; and, revolting to the feelings as all this was, it was not so shocking as what I subsequently witnessed on board the very first emigrant ship I ever sailed in. In the former instance, every exertion was made to save life ; in the latter, to destroy it. When I com plained to the master that the passengers .were dying of want, my answer was, " I'm if I care. Do you want me to go and cook for them ?" Being unwilling to injure individuals, I reluctantly omit, at present, the name of this ship ; but, for the sake of distinction, I shall class her as No. 1. "Let us just inquire who are those monsters in female form who have just been shouting, jse7ing, and laughing with the sailors, whilst throwing over board the body of one who so lately was amongst them ? Three weeks before, those girls were quiet, apparently well-conducted, aed some mild-looking, with faces in which the physiognomist would iu vain look for indications of the savage depravity which he now sees depicted there. They were mo dest girls—many of them brought up virtuously and religiously ; strict in the observance of their religious duties ; their character and conduct above all suspicion ; but, in a fatal hour, they were in d uced to emigrate to America—some from neces sity, others, perhaps, from the invitation of rela tives who had preceded them, and many feeling that all exertion in their native home was insufficient to relieve their parents from the burthen of their support, with the laudable ambition of achieving independence, and contributing to the relief arid comfort of their parents in the decline of life. Some few, perhape, who, in an unguided moment, had fallen victims to the snares of the seducer, feeling that they could no longer conceal their shame, emi grated to hide it in another land ; and, taught by sad experience, might probably have become useful and exemplary members of society, had they not had to pass the ordeal of that sink of infamy and pollution, an American emigrant ship. "It may be worth pausing here to inquire into the system adopted to bring about the destruction of those young women, which is exactly alike in all the cases I have witnessed. During the first two or three days passengers are perfectly terrified by the atrocities and frightful bodily injuries which they see inflicted around them. They themselves getting a few drives and knscks and plenty of curses, they soon perceive that they are now embsrked on a long and dreary pas sage, helpless and unarmed, perfectly at the mercy of miscreants, whose acts have so frequently of late been brought before the public by the press that I need not more particularly describe them. When night sets in, each passenger retires to rest with a foreboding mind ; when all is quiet and sup posed asleep, a sndden shriek or shrieks are heerl from a female ! Some gather round her, whilst others hurry for the medical officer. He arrives, and finds a girl, generally very young, say about sixteen or seventeen, lying on the floor of the be tween-decks, with pale and terrified countenance gazing wildly around from face to face ; he interro gates those around as to the cause ; they shake their heads, but are dumb ; he asks the girl her self ; she turns her eyes quickly around ; they rest for one moment on some object, and are as quickly averted ; she shudders, makes an effort to sit, and ea y s she is better ; she turns to look again, and sees an officer of the ship, who has most officially attended, lantern in hand, standing a little aside. The mystery is now perfectly intelligible—at least to any medical man who has been twice across the Atlantic with passengers. In all cases inquiries are useless, because terror has taken possession of the unfortunate passengers. The next night there may be a repetition of the same scene and with the same girl. I have not known it occur oftener than twice ; but watch that girl ; ask her, during the day following, the cause of her alarm. She was frightened, she says . ; but at what ? No art can extract from her an answer, but before one week has elapse I that girl has become the wort prosti tute in the ship ; she is perpetually about the gal ley and forecas'le in the midst of the salon.. Ski has been visited at night, end, not being found a ready victim, WAS upon the alttrn threatened with the knife, or thrown overboard if she told. The threat had its effect on her, and on her c.)mpaniont around her also. This :cow of atrocious viilauy occurred in the last ship I sailed in. The girl was no t more ; than between fiftee n and s ixteen ; and, although I daily conversed with her for four days during my visits between-decks, nothing could induce her to give me the tightest information ; but a male passenger,. who Wept in a bunk ad joining hers, said, 'She is all right now ; v e k 1.1 all have no more screaming ; It is all right, Do - tor.' There was no mistaking his manner and mode of giving this information ; and the poor girl's con duct was sufficiently confirmatory of it, for she became one of the most unblushing prostitutes on board. " Others fall easier and quieter victims ; and, at once, are prime favourites with the men. Their food is properly cooked, and some choice bits about the galley are their reward; those more intractable aro pushed and shoved about ; their food is scanty and uncooked ; till at last starvation does its work, and many give in, perhaps relying, in addition, on promises of marriage wheia they land. The class of victims may be recognised by their weeping and prief when the ship arrives at her destination—the imploring look, the agonising grasp of one of them plainly shows her soliciting the fulfilment of the promise ; whilst the leer of the seducer and his triumphant look as he turns to his companions, after having assisted her over the side of the ship, sufficiently shows that he has no intention of fulfil ling any such engagement. Sae has no redress ; she knows she is forsaken ; she sees nothing now before her but a life of misery and vice ! How bitterly must that poor, weeping, forlorn young creature curse in her heart that iniquitous syste m which forced her to yield virtue, honour, character, pe ace of mind—all forfeited to preserve an e x i s t ence which is now miserable, indeed. No one green spot remains on which imagination can base a single hope. All is one gulf of profligacy and pollution ; and having once entered the stream, she feels that she must go wish the current, and add another unit to that vast multitude which, subjected to the same ordeal, now disgrace the streets of that magnificent city, which may be likened unto the whitened se pulcre—beautiful without, but within full of vice, corruption, and profligacy. Th 9 interested in difference of some, the criminal connivance of others in authority, the sure and certain escape from punishment for crimes committed on board ships have contributed to swell prostitution to such an amount es to h we gainedforNe wYork the unenviab'e notoriety of being the most immoral, abandoned, ate profligate city in the known world ; and for this pre-eminence in vice she is deeply indeb:ed to the defective state of the emigration laws. Were there a cheap and summary law, frame 1 specially for the protection of emigrants, such crimes could net he practised with impunity; but now there is little or no check upon them. Sometimes, indeed, redress, if it can be properly so calle3, may be ob tained ; and, in illustration, I shall give a case, as related by the delinquent himself :—The master of a packetship, belonging to what is called one of the most respectable firms in Liverpool, and engaged in the emigration trade, was exhibiting a trayful of daguerreotypes of females, to amuse two of his com panions in the cabin. I may here observe, by the way, that almost every max er and mate can show numbers of those likenesses ; and it is with no small degree of pride that these symbols of depravity are displayed to their admiring companions, the pos zessor of the greatest number being declared the king among them.' According this title, in its fullest sense, to the deployed proprietor of the tray ful, let us select one portrait, of which the following is the history, in his own words Well, I put all these through their facings ; but with one I was afterwards put to a great deal of expense. She be came in the family way, and, stopping in New York, she was always seeking money, which, to keep her quiet, I gave. Being master of the ship, I could not escape from her ; but at last getting tired, Irefueed her suppli es . A n a tt orney t oo k proceedings for her. and altogether it cost me 600 dollars. But I often saw her afterwards as a prosti tute, she having taken to the streets for support.' ' Ex uno discs) omnes'—it is the fate of all. " The above is the master's narrative. Now, let us hear the second mat e o f th e same s hi p :—' A re spectable girl in the second cabin, and with money, took my fancy. I made up to her, and had her every nigh tin my room during the vo y age , b ut h a d t o promise her marriage before I succeeded. When we got to pert she used to be down at the ship every day, annoying me to fulfil my promise, which as I had a wife already, I could not do ; and, as I knew the boarding-house master with whom I recommended her to lodge, I bribed him to get a man to go into her room and take liberties with her ; and whilst there, that the boarding-house master should enter, and appear very angry, and swear he would tell me. It answered very well ; for, when she came down to the ship next time, t told her to go to —• She went away, and I never saw or heard of her after.' It is very likely that the ruffian never did hear of her again ; but, under such circumstances, it is not improbable that the coroner did. Being merely a cabin passenger home in the ship to which th's miscreant belonged, I can only endeavour to imagine the condition of the vesiel when outward bound with her freight of passen gers ; but I should like to see the medical gentle man who acted as her surgeon for several voyages subjected to the alembic of a few interrogations by such a man as Mr. Roebuck." IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS. BIRMINGHAM, ThURSDAY. The principal and most important meeting of the quarter was held in the Town Hall to day ; but, c msidering that the one usually held at Wolver hampton on the previous day was, iu consequence f its be:ng the day of National Humiliation, abau iloaed, the attendance was not so numerous as had been anticipated. Members or representatives of the leading firms 'of South Staffordshire, East Worcestershire and Shropshire were present, but the resolution adopted at the preliminary meeting held nine days ago—to abide by the prices of the last quarter—appeared to have rendered unneces sary the attendance of parties who might calculate upon a fall. But, although the Company in the hall did not reach more than au average attendance, the busi ne-s transacted was understood t o b e un usually large. It was represented by the chief houses of the district that the demand for South Staffordshire iron for home consumption was remarkably steady, and one firm in particular was stated to have orders already in hand for this market, which will occupy them until Christmas in their execution. The de wands from the Loud )n and Liverpool merchants are decidedly on the increase ; and from all we heard to- day before the close of the quarterly meeting at Dudley on Saturday evening, there will be a still further improvement in those markets. It is unne cessary to state that the leading orders for rails go ge nerally to Wales; thoseforsheetsinto Scotland, while those for manufactured iron required for shipbuild ing and other purposes of common use are brought generally in to Staffordshire. 'lt was stated in the hall to-day that tenders were out by s3veral of the p r i nc i pa l fi r ms of the district for extensive supplies of iron for Loudon houses connected with the East Indian, American, n n d tr Australian ra l trades. Thi se supp li es were, if intended to b e con ti nuous , but c a oc t l for,ia un fortunately the competition wh ch has recently taken place between the London and North- Western and Great-Western Railway Companies, f r the conveyance of goods between these districts and the ports, has created difficulties and interposed obstacles which threaten serious injury, more especially to the iron trade. Tho ironmasters admit that the redu e'_l tariff cannot pay the rail way proprietors, and that some day, sooner or later, there will be a considarable advance even upon old charges. Further than this, the London and Nor th Western Cumpany refuse to ent:r into any con traet i f,r the conveyance and delivery of iron at the present reduced rates beyond the dty of convey ance, and the ironmasters, to whom these charges are cif great importance, as constituting no me,n item in their contracts, are consequently unable to COlll9 to satisf ac t ory terms w i t h their London and Liverpool corre s p on d ents. Th e ra ilway companies, present charges as in fact, look up on existing only from day to d ay , an I will enter i n t o no engagements by which th ey for the transit of iuc nivenieuce and annoy goods when present difficulties are arranged. The ironmasters and merchants ap pear fully to understand how matters, stand ; and will be prevented from raising pric e s they state that the existing traffic tariff conse qu-ntly, instead of bein , an advantage, is a great harm instead of good ap eared was the conclusion to-day, and. in the opinion most of the influential ironmasters present ince to the trade. Such ' twined with security the conveyance of heavy articles of South Staf to concur. The reduction of charges fur forcilshire in.anufactura had as they stated, done of the dist r . t to le q, for, under present circumstances, no contract for any 1 the various s aplo trades length of time could be enter fa cturer. b;either merchant or maim- The coal trade was represented to bs brisk, but t'is branch o f local industry will in allits bearings be more fully discussed at the meeting to Le held at. Slontbridge to-morrow, and to which we will ref , tr here ifL,r. The ab andonment o f t h e quarterly m ee ti ng a t Wolverhu nplon, to which we referee 1 on Moudav, occasioned considerable inconvenience at the Wall -11 quarterly 111 Cetill a ..0' on Tuesday. Tradespeople I &Used to pay their accounts until Tuesday next ; the reason being that their meeting usually pre ceded that at Wolverhampton ou Wednesday. From this it would appear that as this year there has been no October q uar t erly meeting at Wolverhampton, theme will be no quarterly October settlement dur ing !he present autumn at Wallsall. BOTANIC RUIEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention ( f our rco,lers is requested to an advertisement . i r n our ',p er h ea d e d " A Fact fcr Phy-iologists, " in whh the No tingharn Medical Reform Society propose to send free Li all appl cants the Botanic Remedy for I,diges t o) Professor. 13 ii w u d t e L r, i Li ver Philadelphia rCo tr: p ' a i nt s,. lately discovered 14 BANK RE T .RN S. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, is , Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 26th day of Sept., 1857 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,494 Aylsham Bank, Aylsha,m—G-. and T. Copeman -- Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 28,750 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Ilogge, and - Co 29,566 Barnstaple Bank. Barnstanle—Marshall and Co 10,654 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke-- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons 31,838 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford _ . _ Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb 14,841 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham --Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,430 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons 7,772 Blandford. Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. 6,413 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 79,708 Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co 14,905 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co 31,873 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son 30,437 Bath City Bank, Bath- C. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Ohl Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and C 0.... Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, • and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank Burlington— Harding, Smith, and ;o Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—gortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co 17,727 69,043 36,842 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and 28,589 11,439 57,459 Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood. and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke 15,480 12,643 11,645 49,549 29,936 and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co._ Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster --Cocke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—•Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Rink and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—H. and H. Williams Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos- 22,147 2,594 18,207 36,810 48,490 6,634 19,818 75,585 8,476 10,172 37,725 ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and C 0... Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk 26,112 8,552 10,154 beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. Godalming Bank, Godal►ning—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, llitehin Sharples, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, lierefOrd— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, 68,466 89,050 9,574 46,712 95,398 52,166 43,870 26,07 G 6,937 10,515 6,075 4,947 12.321 25,515 19,035 and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. Lane End Staffo rdshire Bank, L ane End — C . Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and C 0..... Leeds Union Bank, Leeds —W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Lla,ndovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lyming-ton Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn R e gis--Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Macclesfield. Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst -- and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and 16,944 53,113 4,495 30,893 26,410 20,988 66,113 9,675 25,937 - ,0,801 42,930 5,274 48,105 37,785 25,292 18,105 86,300 32,073 7,869 3,677 38,755 13,340 15,221 1,460 Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hun,rerford Bank, and Hung Irford Bank, Marlborough. —Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Willimhs and 50n..... Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyam s and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck 102,182 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton —Craddock and Co. Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum —Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham —Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford —Robinson, Parsons, and Co. 011 Bank, Tonbridg,e, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the 'Anil Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and C 0.... Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0.... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter boroue-h—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters... .. Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Stroud Bank, Roches ter—Day. and Nicholson Royston Bank,. Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye B unk. itye—R. C. Pomfret, & Co ....... Ross old Bank, Herec"Vordshire, Rose Allawa,v and - Mactiour;•al ••• Saffron, Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden—Gibsona and Co. .... Salop Bank, Shrewsbury Buri ... .......... and Co. , ................. 10,958 18,82 20,333 16,868 19,313 47,282 19,647 18,124 48,255 9,425 2,620 20,042 9,0'34 29,986 12;397 25,806 5,827 11,320 47,365 10,293 11,804 13,845 t'.3,324 28,775 6,148 4,303 7,893 13,477 9,485 11,087 4,431 26,378 15,017 MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Oct. S. MUSIC AND DANCING LICENSES. The court sat yesterday at Clerkenwell to hear and determine applications for licenses for music and for music and dancing, under the 25 Geo. 11., c. 36. The number of applications for the renewal of licenses for music oply was 282 ; for music and dancing, 53 ; new applications for music only, 95 ; acid for the double license for music and dancing, 11. Mr. Pownall . presided. The cases of Cremorne Gardens and the Argyll Rooms, in which there is opposition, were fixed for Friday (this day). In several cases where dancing entertainment had been given, the license being for music only, the court refused the renewal. George Reeve applied for the renewal of a music license for the premises formerly known as the Lin wood Gallery, but now called the Cafe-Chantant, in Leicester-place. Mr. Bodkin opposed on behalf of the parochial authorities. The complaint was that the pledge upon the faith of which the court originally granted the license—viz., that the place should be closed at 11 at night—had been entirely disregarded, and music had been going on until 2 or 3 o'clock of a morning, to the great annoyance of the neighbour hood ; that it was open on Sundays for music, and was the resort of low and immoral characters. Mr. Sleigh addressed the bench in sapport of the application, but the license was refused. The Chairman said it was entirely ag ainst the tenor of the license for a place to be open for public musical entertainment on a Sunday. An application was made by Mr. Bodkin for the transfer of a license from Charles Cooper to Wm. Palmer in respect of the Adelaide Gallery Exhibi ton-rooms and Marionette Theatre, described as of Adelaide-street, West Strand. It was reported to the court by Inspector Mitchell, under the direction of the commissioners of police, that the rooms in question had been used for " sparring" matches for the benefit of pugilists, and an association they had formed ; that upon such occasions characters cf the worst description collected there or in the neigh bourhood, and that robberies were of frequent oc currence. After some discussion the Court granted the license, upon Mr. Palmer's assurance that the rooms should not again be let for any such purpose. The followinc , learned counsel were engaged in various cases :—Sergeant ° Ballantine (who opposes the Cremorne license against Mr. E. James, Q.C.), Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Ribton, Mr. Giffard, and Mr. Poland. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 8. WORSHIP-STREET.—Mary Lewis, 14, was charged before Mr. Hammill with unlawfully pos se3sing 7/. 18s. 7d. _ . Sergeant Webster, 48 N, stated—On Tuesday last I was at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, when one of the check-takers told me a girl in the stalls was in possession of several sovereigns, which she kept c I called her to me and questioned. her. She produced four sovereigns and four shillings from her right hand. I asked if that was all, she said " yes." At the station I found in her hand 3 sovereigns and 14s. She informed me that she had found it in the Mile-end-road. She carried a dark leathern reticule, and in it was a dram bottle and glass. I noticed she was partly intoxicated. On the same day I learnt from our "informations" that a lady had been robbed in an omnibus ; and when I inquired of the person who sat near her, she informed me a girl about 14 years old, carrying a black bag. The lady is present. On the prisoner I found an omnibus correspondence ticket. Mrs. Emma Mayhew, a widow residing at 8, Barnsbury-street, Islington, deposed—On Tuesday last, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I entered a Paddington omnibus and proceeded to the Bank, then got into a Hackney omnibus. While in the latter I distinctly saw a young girl sitting next mo on the side where was a pocket containing a purse with a 5/. note, 8 sovereigns, two rings, and some memoranda. I cannot positively swear to the pri soner as that person, who was much better dressed than the prisoner, but I can almost swear to the bag. I dont't know when the girl entered or alighted, nor did I miss my property until at a gentleman's residence in Durham-terrace, Hackney road, at 8 o'clock in the evening. I gave informa tion soon after to the police. The accused, who insisted on having found the money, and with a portion of it got some gin and peppermint at a ;public-house in Shoreditch, was remanded. MARYLEBONE.—Wm. Dwyer, residing in Thayer-street, Manchester square, was charged with wilful and malicious damage to the extent of 5/. A cabman stated that the defendant took his cab wit' was being (Liven to his house when he observed h's feet on the cushions ; he expostulated with him, and then noticed that he was cutting and slashing the cushions with a knife. He drove him home, and was told by a woman to call next day, when the damage would be made goo I. He did so, but could nit see defendant. Fined 5/. for the damage and ss. costs. SOUTHWARK.—Richard Pichett, a smart looking young fellow, was brought before Mr. Burcham charged with being concerned with others in stealing a carpet bag, containing wearing apparel and other property of conslderabl) value, belonging to Mr. Andrew Eagleson, a gentleman residing at 76, Hatton Garden. t "f eesr h te e m p in ro st s .e e r c , utor stated thtt he had been staying for \v a short . time at a hotel in the Bridge-road, co a n n s d itte o d n Tuesday he h to his own residence. Previous to that he engaged two men to remove . his luggage to a cab. His luggage large heavy removed from car pet-bag, into the cab he missed t i l e t ag a trunk, and a few tr e fi f. articles. When he got men. He returned to the hotel, and and the two property, he proceeded to ~ and . not finding his the police-station,, and gave information of the robbery. On he was sent for at the police st%tion,wh ea e n d h n e " s t y v the prisoner in custody with hi s carpet bag. Mr. Burcham asked him whether thegPriSoner was the man he engaged ? Mr. Eagleson replied that he could not exactly swear to him, as it was dark at the time. John Measures, 160 L, said that on Tuesday evening, about 20 minutes to seven, he was on 857 Sof ; r ho r yGgli Old Bank, Scarborough—Wood all !“.1 Co Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Sh:ewsbury— Rocke, Ey ous, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbune. —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co.. Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Staaord—Stevenson and Co. Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford —Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton -- Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and 22,988 38,223 2,846 9,925 11,186 2,637 325 12,364 27,905 24,000 27,815 9,659 9,034 11,465 11,358 13,956 7,652 Co Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons 9,376 Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co 15,719 • Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co 12,404 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and Co. 6,807 War wick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick — K. Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co 5,940 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield— Leatham, Tew, and Co 46,550 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,384 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co 18,055 Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co — Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce 15,026 Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co 34,407 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co 60,050 Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W. Hancock 7,241 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake 8,731 Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co 5,125 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 63,447 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer 11,333 Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co 43,964 Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,761 York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 39,079 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, 8,850 9,243 47,567 9,600 26,381 19,305 Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- 46,158 35,695 ington Co c ve o n v t e ry ntr a y nd Warwickshire Banking C om p an y , 26,58 C C u v e n n t y t r Y o f Union c e ß s t a e n r k ß i n a g n k C i o n m g p C a o n m y p , tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Comp an y , 26,586 Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlis le Dudley and West Bromwich Banki n g Com p an y , 35,364 Dudley aCnvo,vecnhteryi 14,760 Derby an d Derbyshire Banking Comp an y , 19,519 Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 25,381 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 155,694 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,050 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,525 Hull Banking Company, Hull 23,723 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 14,089 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helaton Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,390 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,576 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 52,033 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 66,240 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 51,715 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors 8,649 Ludlow and Tenbury B an k, L u dl ow 10,043 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham 28,11 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 436,127 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 42,582 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 87,510 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddlcworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,405 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,88E Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 360,900 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 49,95/ Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 51,266 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond . Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Company, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake field •Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, 25,230 Whitehaven Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 74,686 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 74,829 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 6, 1 7 7 Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 6,568 York Union Banking Company, York 71,657 York City and County Banking Company, 89,875 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 118,547 J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Oct. 8. 42,252 1,368 27,026 33,528 20y 289 . 66,595 E 2,680 56,328 Banking 33,16 14,261 32,161 , THE COST OF SUPPRESSING DANCING SALOONS.—At the meeting of the Liverpool Select Vestry on Tuesday, considerable discussion arose relative to the payment by the overseers of upwards of 601. for the prosecution of a dancing saloon in Lime-street. It was stated that, un• der an act of George 11., any parishioner could insist upon the overseers of the poor suppressing anything contrary to morality ; but the overseers were not bound to pay the expenses unless a conviction was secured. In this ease it was stated that the persons giving informa tion had returned to the overseers the 201. due to then: al the informers. 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The folio wing novelette is from a correspondent of the Cork Southern Reporter : "On WednesCay, the 30th Sept., the hitherto quiet and peaceable neighbourhood of Badyhooly was thrown into a perfect state of confusion by a report getting ii to circulation that a gentleman in that locality was about asserting his right to a limestone quarry, situate on part of the demesne of Convamore, in the occupation of the Countess of Listowel, her ladyship baviog declared that she would assemble her tenantry and worlcpeople, and resist by physical force any attempt to enter fif r territories. At an early hour the tenantry surrounding the village of Bellyhooly, and also the re tainers of the house of Hare, assembled before the ball door of Convamore, on the south side of the Blackwater. Uer ladyship was on the field at an early hour, addressed the crowd in language which touched the hearts of her hearers, and exerted herself with great energy, spurring eu the tardy villagers ; in fact throughout the day she was everywhere exhibiting her well-known skill in hone mans-hip, whipping her beautiful ponies, and calling on the people to protect her rights ; also promising rewards to those who should act with the greatest courage. At about one o'clock the c .nstabulary at Ballyhooly marched to the scone ; on arrival they found from 400 to 500 men assembled, and armed with bludgeons, her ladyship's steward having directed every man not properly pro vided to help himself to the fine oak saplings growing on the demesne. The well-fed English formed a grena- We: company, armed with pia , els as well as bludgeons. A police-constable instantly hastened to the residence of the nearest magistrate, and informed him of the assembly, and perfectly astonished the poor justice when he tuld him that it was to resist the attack of the magis trate himself, and all his people, that the immense crowd were assembled at Convamore. I will leave it to the reader to imagine the surprise of the quiet justice when informed that 500 men were within half a mile of his residence threatening to give hint arid hie people a swim in the Blackwater—a service which would he particularly dangerous on that day, as there was a tremendous 11 Aid in the river, caused by the late ratite. The con table asked for an order to get more police or military, but could not help violating the gravity of discipline so far as to burst into a fit of laughter when told by the magistrate that he had no intention of in vading on that day the lordly demesne of Convamore, and that he never gave an order to any his men to do so; that he respected himself and the commi s si on h e held too rain') to head a lawless mob, and that lie preferred continuing the oecupati n in which the constable inter rupted him—namely, thinning young trees. The day wore on, evening came, the expected assailants did not Ippear, and at 7 o'clock p.m. her ladyship having made ,nother appropriate speech, thinking her retainers, in vited them to drink three large barrels of porter pre oared for them in the village of Ballyhooly, and returned in triumph to the mansion-house of Cunvamore." Country Markets. MANCHESTER-O,T. 8. The market moderately attended, and wheat and flour sold slowly owing to the high prices asked. A very limited business doing. New oats and oatmeal declined 2d per 151bs and is per load respectively ; in old there was uo change. Beans ruled steady. LINCOLN, OCT. 6. Thera was a fair supply of wheat in the market to-day, a considerable portion being sprouted. For the beat sam ples a fair demand at is per qr. decline, and inferior sorts neglected. Barley also receded ls. NEWARK—OcT. 6. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of millers and dealers, and a moderate amount of business dine at about last week's currency. Wheat, white 60s to 625, red Ms to 58s; barley, maltirg 46s to 48s, grinding 38s to 40s; oats, 24st. 36s to 38s, 22st, 32s to 348; beans, 52s to 51s ; malt, 73s to 80s ; peas, 44. to 46s ; tares, 56s to 608 per qr. LOUTH-Our. G. The corn trade was active to-day, and prices much the same as last week. Wheat, 52s to 57s ; extra, —s ; barley 41s to 45s ; oats 21s to 2Ss ; beans, 45s to 495. BOSTON-OCT. 6. A moderate supply of all kinds of grain to-day. An improved demand for wheat, and the transactions in wheat were at a slight advance on last week. Peas dull of sale. Barley, oats, and beans steady, but higher in value. ----- Prices :—Wheat, red, 49s Od to 56s Od; new, —s to —s ; white, 56s Od to 58s Od, extra, 60s. Barley, 33s Od to 451 01. Oats 21s to 295. Peas, 40 , to 45. Od. Beans, 46s Od to 51s Od per qr. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—OcT. 6. There was a large market to-day. Sales dull, and the prices about the same as last day. Wheat, on the top, 3s 6d up, and on the average Is 9d down. Barley, 6d down on the top, and 2s 3d down on the average. Oats on the top is 6d up, and on the average 03 2d down. Beans on the top Os 6d up, and on the average is 3d down. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £2 7 5 2-12th. Do. new -12ths. Barley Oats 1 9 0 1-12ths. Bean■ -12ths. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1555 qrs sold KO qrs Barley 2430 qrs sold 1795 qrs Oats 12 7 6 qrs sold 1130 qrs Beans 62 qrs sold 36 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD.—Oer. 6. A large supply of fat beasts to-day, which were in good request, and last week's prices fully maintained. The attendance of buyers was large. The number of sheep and lambs was much larger, and high prices were asked ; some few left unsold. Fat calves plentiful, and readily dis posed of. The supply of fat and store pigs fair, but a heavy sale. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to 7d: mutton, 7d to 'lid ; lamb, 8d to —d ; veal, 7d tc 74d per lb. ; pigs, lOs Od to lOs 6d per score; rough fat, 6s Oa to Oa Pe- 141 b. ; hides, 41d to 6 4 d per lb ; calf•skins, 6d to 73 per lb. LOCAL ,SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL. OCT. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.— As might have been anticipated, the market was exceedingly dull, and prices of all the leading shares are considerably lower than on Tuesday. Caledonian, 428—Nortb Eastern, Berwick, 22a—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 164 —South Eastern, 191. 8s 9d—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 944 Blackburn 6 per cent., 22i—Eastern Counties, 114—Great Western of Ca, ada, 204 I—Ditto, new, d.—East Lancashire, 91 — London and North-Westerns, 91 soi Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 404 Grand Trunk of Canada, 10g. LEEDS, OCT. 8. STOOt REOHANGE.—The market rather inactive, and the quotations about the same. North Eastern, Leeds, 241—Midlands, 81—North Westerns, Preference, 144 —Londons, 89. MANCHESTER, OCT. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was rather active to• day, with reduced prices. Eastern Counties, 11g—Leeds, 94 Leeds, New, 1 d.—Sheffields, 40—Dovers,. 19 4 Grand Trunks, 10 i—Londons, 93 o—East Lancashire, 911 —Midland, 80 A —Great Western, 53i —North British, 111 —Gloat Western of Canada, 20 5'16. . ... BIRMINGHAM ; OCT. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Prices in the market heavy, but local stocks in fair demand. Midland Derby, 464 London and North Westerns, 9 5i—Great Westerns, 54 i —Birmingham Guaranteed, 694—Stour Valleys, 8} Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas, Halves, 49t. • ELECTION LANGUAGE.—The landlady descended the •stairs. Was her guest a candidate for the tepresentation of the town at the next election "March with the times—spread of intelligence?" Ail candidates she ever knew had that way of expresti,g themselves—" March" and "Spread." Not an address bad parliamentary aspirant put forth to the fr . emen and electors at Gates boro', but what " March" had been introduced by' the candidate, and "Spread " been suggested by the committee. Still she tbouglit that her guest, upon • the whole, looked and bowed more like a merpber of the Upper House. Perlap4 onenithe•amiable though occa -i ,nally prosy peers who devote the teeth of wisdom • to the cracking of those very hard nuts—" How to edu cate the masses," " What to do with our criminals,'' and suchlike problems, upon which 'already have been broken so many jawbones tough as that with which Samson slew the Ybilistines.—Sir Bawer Lytton's New Story. BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the 7th inst., at 9, Portman-square, the Hon. Mrs. Townley Mitfoid, Esq. On the Bth inst., at 14, Sussex-square, wife of John Lewis Bonh o t e . Hyde-park, the OP A DAUGIITER. On the 7th inst., at Epaom, the wife of George aiberne, E.q. _ On the 6th inst., at Little Glemham Rectory, the Wife of the Rev. R. H. King. MARRIED. On the sth inst., at St. Paul's Church, Rothesay, Bute, Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.R.C.S., F.S.A., of Upper Grosvenor-street, G r osvenor-square, to Emma P. Maning, niece of George Ballard, Esq., of Lansdowne-place, Brigh ton, and Woodend, Bute. On the Bth inst., at Marylebone Church, Charles, son of the late John Dunn, Esq., Scarborough, to Sarah, only daughter of the late Charles Reeve, Esq., Carlton Cleve land, Yorkshire. DIED. On the Bth.inst., Benjamin Walker Lacy, Esq., of Clap• ham and West zsmithfield, aged 80. On the Gth inst., at Dover, the Rev. Matthew Irving, D.D., canon of Rochester Cothedral, and one of her Ma. jesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, aged 79. On 6th inst., at Greenhithe, Kent, Richard Edwd. West, Esq., aged 63. VII oto Dist., at Brighton, Charles Baird, Esq., the eldest son of Francis Baird, Esq., of St. Petershurgh, aged 28. Oa the 7th inst., at R - kling, Clara Marianne, the wife of Mr. James Parker, aged 33. On the 7th inst., at Margate, Anne Elizabeth, wife of Charles Kemp Oyer, Esq., of St. Alban's, aged 35. • On the 7th inst., at Stoke, Devon, Annie, infant daugh ter of G. Leslie, Esq., ]L M. LONDON : Printed and Published by MUILDO VOL NU of No. 112, Strand,. 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