The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

TELE IYDIAN MUTINIES. RETRIBUTION. The Aberdeen Herald has published the follow ing letter from a soldier of the 78th Highlanders, to a relative in Perth : " We arrived at Benares en the 25th June, a distance of 421 miles, in eight days and nine nights. On the evening of the 27th June, there were 240 of tie 78th—I was one of them—and 100 of the Sikhs, and 30 of the sowe rs, that is, native cavalry, were sent ' from renares in carts, except the hors emen At 3 o'clock p.m., n ext da y , we were rr divided in three lots to scoter the country. The division I was in went to a vill a g e, which was deserted. We were coming back when a gentleman came to us and said that a village over about two miles was full of them, and they weee drawn up to give us battle. We marched, or rather ran, to them ; we got within 300 yards of them when they ran. We fired after them, and .shot eight of them. We wer e going to the village when a man came r unning out to us, and up with his hand and saluted our officer. We shouted; he was a sepoy—that is, a native soldier—to seize him. He was took, and about -twelve more. We came back to the carts on the road, and an old fat wan came to us, and wanted to be paid for the vil lage we had burned. We had a magistrate with us ; he found him out of harbouring these villains and giving them arms and food. Five minutes settled it ; the sepoy and the man that wanted tieneey were taken to the roadside .and hanged to a branch of a tree. We lay on the road all night be side the two men hanging. Next morning, we got up and marched some miles through the fields, the rain pouring down in torrents. We came to an other village, set fire to it, and came back to the road. By that time, the other divisions were not idlc. They had done as much as us. When we came back, the water was running in at our necks, and coming out at our heels. There were about eighty prisoners I six were hung that day, and about sixty of them flogged. After that, the magistrate said that there was a Holdar that he would give 2,000 rupees to get, dead or alive. We slept on the road that night, and the six men hanging beside us. At five o'clock p.m , the bugle sounded "fall in." The rain came down in torrents. We fell in, and off we marched up to the knees in clay and water. We came to a village and set it on fire. The sun came out and we got dry, but soon got wet again with sweat. We came to a large village, and it was full of people. We took about 200, and set fire to it. I went in, and it was all in dames. I saw an old man trying to trail out a bed. He was not able to walk, far less carry out the cot. I ordered him out of the village, and pointed out the flames, and told him as well as I could that if he did not he would be burned. I took the cot, and dragged him out. I came round a corner of a street or lane, and I could see nothing but smoke and flames. I stood for a moment to think which way I should go. Just as I was look ing round, I saw a house and the flames bursting out of the walls, and to my surprise I saw a little boy about four years old looking out at the do 'r. I pointed the way out to the old man, and told him if he did not go I would shoot him. I ru-thed to the house I saw a little boy at. The door was by that time in flames. I thought not of my se'f ; I thought of the poor helpless child. I rushed in, and after I got in there was a sort of square, and all round this were houses, and they were all in flames ; and instead of seeing the helpless child, I beheld six children from eight to two years old, an old dotal woman, an old man not able to walk without help, and a young woman about 20 ye rs old, with a child wrapped up in her bosom. I am sure the child was not above five or six hours old. The mother was in a hot fever. I stood and la ked; but looking at that time would not do. I tried to get the little boys to fly but they would no-. I took the infant ; the mother would have it ; I gave it back ; I took the woman and her infant in my arms to carry her and her babe out. T 1 e children took the old woman and old man. I took the lead, knowing they would follow. I came to a place that it was impossible to see whereabouts I was, with flames. I dashed through, and called on the others to follow. After a hard fight, I got tb m all safe out, but that was all. Even coming through the fire, part of their clothes, that di I not cover half of their body, was burned. I set them down in the field, and went in at at other place. I saw nothing but flames all round. A little further, I saw a poor old woman trying to come out. She could not walk ; she only could creep on her hands and feet. I went up to her, and told her I would carry her out ; but no, she would not allow me to it ; but, when I saw it wv.s no use to put off with her, I took her no in my arms and carried her out. I went in at the other er d, and came across a woman about twenty-two ye in old. She was sitting over a man that, to all al.pearance, would not see the day out. She was wetting his lips with some siste. The fire was corn in; fast, and the others all round were in flames. N,.t far from this I saw four women. I ran up to them, and asked them to come and help the sick man and woman out, but they thought they had enoueh to do, and so they tad, poor things ; but, to save the woman and the dying man, I draw my bayonet, and told them if they did not I would kill them. They came, carried them out, and laid them under a tree. I left them. To h ok on, any one would have said that the flames were in the clouds. When I went to the other side of the village, there were about 140 women and about 60 children all crying and lamenting what had been done. The old woman of that small family I took out came, and I thought sh 3 would have kissed the ground I stood on. I off , -red them some biscuit I had for my day's rations ; but they would not take it ; it would break the'r caste, they said. The " assemble" sounded, and back I went with as many blessings as they could pour out on anything nearest their heart. Oat of the prisoners that were taken, the man that the 2,000 rupees were offered for was taken by us for nothing. We hanged ten of them on the spot, ar:d flogged a great many—about 60. We burned another village that night. Oh, if you had seen the ten men march round the grove, and see them looking the same as if nothing was going to happen to 'hem ! There was one of them fell ; the rope bloke, and down he came. He rose up and looked all around ; he was hung up again. After they we re all hanged, the others were all taken round to see them. Then we came marching back to the carts. Left Benares with few on the 6th July, or rather the night of the sth. We had to turn out std lie with our belts on. On the 6th we, a num btr of 180, went out against 2,000. We came up close to them ; they were all drawn up in three lines ; it looked to many for us, lout on we dashed, and in a short time they began to run. We set fire to a large village that was full of them ; we surrounded it, and, as they came rushing out of the flamee shot tt em. We took 18 of them prisoners ; they were all tied together, and we fired a volley at them and shot them on the spot. We came home that night, after marching 20 miles, and fighting nearly 30 to 1. In thi s c o u n t r y, we are told that we Lad killed 500 of them ; our loss was one man and one horse killed, and one man and one horse wounded. TWO ENGLISH LADIES SAVED BY AN INDIAN MUSSULMAN. "An English Lady" writes to a contemporary : "At a time when the public prints are teeming with o'er true tales of the treachery, ingratitude, and cruelties of the Indian soldiery, it will be a relief to all right-minded people to hear a contrast "a, lug story, and oue equally true, of the generosity and good faith of an Indian Mussulman, a sowar of th=e Hyderabad. Contingent, to whom I and ano thai Exaglish lady owed our safety on the night of the mutiny o f th e I s t C ava l ry at Aurunga b ad. There are few indeed of such tales to break the monotony of horror of the story of the revolt of the Bengal army, and it seems an imperative duty not to hide under a bushel this welcome little ray of light shining in a dark place. " On the 12th of Jane, the day preceding the mores open mutiny of the Ist Cavalry, Hyderabad, Contingent we beard that some part of that corps had armed itself on the previous night with the in tention of advancing on the cantonment, but that from the absence of unanimity among the men the 1 11 %II had been, for the time abandoned. We heard that they had spoken of murdering their offi e ys• These and other reports made us feel very ul.la5 Y ; but i n th e course of the morning a sowar o . the 3d Cavalry, g Booran Buck.hry .:vhom y d w e.abad geul 2 named 1 known for some li Ale time, an d wh( se echaracterhad knowit for some lLtle time, and wh.ae character he had always re svected for its truthfulness a h n e d n s e t e m d pl f ici i ty, came to my husband and ta hension for his familyd him , for h e had t ci e no appre everdy pro- Vi3ioe for their safety an d for th?taofe a i Nvls staying with us, t o w h ose husband he hewas who g eatly attached. He said, They sh a ll travel to A hniednuggur as my family,' an d , looking up to I leaven, he swore by Allah' th a t h e would never reach that place alive alone. He added, I will leave my children behind, and if any evil happen to yours you may destroy them.' " Ou the evening of that day we thought it pru dent to go as usual to the band to avoid th e appear ance of suspicion, and as it became dusk we ob strved some horsemen watching us from a distance, a'id on going home we heard that some of the "ar 4 of the Ist Cavalry had been in the lines of the 2d Infantry to inquire which of the houses in tl!e cantonment were occupied by English officers (the corp 8 ll ' a---- . o plyrecently arrived at Aurungabad) and also to ascertain the state of feeling on the 2d, and their intended line of conduct should they re ceive orders to march towards Delhi. ilea" and other facts which had come to our knowledge A creased our anxiety, but faithful Booran Bucloh I THE A SUN, LOND'ON THURS DAY EVrNENG, OCTOBER 22 had said, Fear nothing, I will watch day and night , sleep quietly, and the moment danger approaches I will be with you.' We implicitly re ied on him, and my husband having issued some necessary orders for the night to a native officer of the 2d retired to rest. At 11 o'clock that night Booran returned to us, and said we must prepare to leave, as the cavalry were again arming. My hus band, hastily commending us to his care, left us to make preparations to man the bridge between the cavalry and infantry lines, and Beoran, placing us in a country cart and covering its open front and back with sheets, in the fashion practised by the families of Mussulmans when travelling, armed himself, and, mounting his horse, proceeded at our side to a place some 30 miles distant, where we halted for a time. We continued the journey for several successive days, till we reached Ahmednug gur, and he endeavoured the whole time, by the most vigilant attention and kindness, to lessen the discomforts of the road. In the course of the four or five days I several times offered him a bag of rupees, which I begged, nay, besought him to take and use as freely for his own wants as for ours, but I could only persuade him to take very small sums from time to time, as they were requireclifor our expenses. Again and again, in the course of our subsequent intercourse, knowing him to be much embarrassed by a large and una voidable addition to his usual expenses, I begged him with great earnestness to allow me to relieve his necessities, or even (as I foundit impossible to induce him to listen to this proposal) to accept any sum he might re quire for a time, and till, possibly, he might be in better cirounastances ; he said it would be a great disgrace ' to him to accept money from me, and that he only_ desired that his name might be good' among the English, and neither by tears nor entreaties could I ever persuade him to change his mind. I had some difficulty in inducing him even to accept as a memorial a ring of little value which I chanced to have on my finger when I bade him farewell, but the tears streamed from his eyes when I told him I felt I owed him more than I ever could re pay, and that to the latest hour of my life I should consider him one of my most valued friends. Since the above circumstance occurredßooran's house has been burnt down, as it is supposed, by some one inimical to the English. "Up to the time I left India, about 2 months ago, this good and true-hearted man had not been promoted, but I hope and trust he may be so ere long, for surely both policy and gra titude would suggest that in times like these no in stance of fidelity and attachment on the part of the Indian soldier to the English should fail to be both publicly and privately recognised and rewarded. We (Daily News) are permitted to publish the following letter : . Calcutta, Sept. —. In my last letter to you I alluded to the fact that sundry of the natives who had been appointed to judicial offices in those parts of India which are now in a state of insurrection have been exercising their functions by hanging their official superiors and other Englishmen who have been so unfortu nate as to fall into their merciless hands. The mode in which some of these murders were committed shows how utterly unfit these natives are to be trusted with thepower over Englishmen which it was proposed by the authors of the Black Act to confer on them. In some cases, it is said, when the victims were brought up for their mock trial, the question was asked whether any one could state anything against them ? The answer that the prisoner had beer, known to do some act contrary to the injunctions of the Mahomedan or Hindooreligion was sufficient to produce the order to hang, or otherwise put to death, the Feringhee Soor. I do not mention this as an instance of cruelty on the part of these people. If I wished to do that I could relate things regard ing the treatment of women and children that would make the blood curdle in your veins'• but I men tion it to connect it with another fact, and that is, that although the natives of the country, and the Mahomedans especially, in the most marked way by acts of the direst and most insulting cruelty ex hibited in the day of their power the hatred that they bear against our race, yet the Bengal and Agra governments continue to confer offices and power upon them. The appointments and increase of powers are regularly gazetted, and men who only want an opportunity to follow the example of some of the up-country native officials are, to the disgust of all unconnected with this rotten government, placed in positions from which every one of their class should be at once displaced. Some of these appointments are perfectly absurd. It is hardly cre dible, yet it is the fact, that the Calcutta Gazette of July 15 announces appointments of five Maho merlans to the office of principal sudder ameers of Cawnpore, Moradabad, Furrackabad, and Bareilly the whole of the_e places and the surrounding coun try being then in the power of the thew gents. But those who have the influence to direct the Govern ment would rather do anything than a.elcnovrleage the error tiaiwy have commutedcommutedin the employment of the natives in preference to Englishmen out of the exclusive covenantedservice of the East India Com pany. This country, instead of being regarded as the conquered dominion of England, has been ruled as if it was a petty borough for the exercise of the East India Company's patronage. The servants of that company, in their selfish feeling, have taught th*natives to despise uP, and the natives ' have learned their lesson we'l. We trust, however, that the East India Company's rule is comink to an end—that the people of England, aroused by the murder of their countrymen, the gross insulting barbarity practised against Englishwomen, and the fiendish torture of children in their parents' sight, will at last insist upon the inquiry which indepen dent Englishmen in this country have so often asked for in vain. A petition, numerously signed, in three days is going home by this mail, praying the Houses of Lords and Commons to remove the government from the East India Company, and substitute the government of the Queen, with an open legislative council suitable to the require ments of the country, compatible with British su premacy, Queen's courts, presided over by trained lawyers, and English the court language. If we get this, there will b e swep t away f rom th e admi nistration, or mal-administration, of justice, not only a number of incompetent men of an exclusive service, but - crowds of natives unfit in times of peace, but traitorous in times like the present. People in England who know nothing of this coun try must find it difficult to understand why a pre ference has been given to natives over Englishmen in the disposal of judicial offices, but we who re side in India have no difficulty in discovering rea sons for this. If Englishmen were generally em ployed in the uncovenanted services, awkward questions would frequently arise as to the reason why a qualified Englishman, performing the office of a judge under one name, should receive some times less than one quarter the salary drawn by another Englishman in the exclusive service who was performing a similar office under another name. I do not attempt to give you the news—you will learn that probably from your own correspondent and from the overland papers, one of which (the Englishman) I send you. All hope of Lord Can ning, who had energy to gag the press, but not to remove an incompetent general, may be recalled. The date of the following letter is a few days later than that of the preceding : I offer no apolosy fur troubling you with another letter, because I know you will agree with IBC in thinking that in the present state of affairs in India, and with a gagged press, it is the duty of every man residing here to make known at home, through the medium of his friends in England, those facts which the government will not disclose. No one whose opinion is worth anything believes that a restriction was placed on the Ern lisp press because it published matter that was dangerous to the inte rests of England. The belief is that those in power feared unrestricted comment on their own folly and imbecility, and the effect which suzh comment would have in England. The consequence is that every Euglish resident of Calcutta writes home a political price current, and I address you because I do not know anyone to whom I could wore usefully write at the present crisis. You will perhaps be surprised that there should exist a feeling of insecu rity in th:s town of Calcutta, yet such is the case, and many people are in consequence sending their families home. I do not partake in this feeling to the extent that I observe in others, but at the sane time I can well account for itsexistence. The safety of the town is left to people in whom the inhabi tants (I speak of the Europeans) have no confidence. The public have no voice, no influence, in directing the arrangements for their own protection. It was not until the government found that unless they embodied the volunteer guard the Europeans would band themselves and make their own arrangements for mutual, protection, that that step was taken. Until then they were told, with but sliglat courte:y to depend on Mr. Wauchope, the Com missioner of Police, and his myrmidons ; the native pertion of ff . which are susp e cted not without reason, of disa es tion. I will give you an instance of the little reli ance that is to be placed in the vigilance of this official. Fortunately for him he belongs to that ex elusive service in which incapacity is not a disquali fication.the e ditori — a l l f e e o w lu d m a s y o s of thego statementa Englishman that 1,000 stand of arms had been purchased by a native in Calcutta. The s tothe appearedeffeiciti satement attracted the at tention of the g o vernment,a n d Mr. Waucbope, as Oommissioner of the Police, on the matter. He did rep or t t w t a h s directed to report taken place, and that so large a at e n l o e such sale had not have escaped the observationa or thearms could This os-hand way of treating the matter police. . was not considered satisfactory, and he was directed to make inquiry and then report. Re sent in a second reports stating there was no foundation for the statement made in the Englishman. Somehow or 'another this did not exactly satisfy Lord Can nil ig, or it may have been that he was desirous of vv siting with his displeasure the originator of the report. The report was traced to Mr. A. G. R—., this gentleman who succeeded Mr. C. in charge of the Military Orphan Press; he was called up on to a ccount for having assisted in spreading the report, ai id he gave, as his authority, our friend Mr. D—, at id from him, at last, Lord Canning has learned the truth of a matter which escaped the vigilance, or perhaps was concealed by the treachery, of the police. Messrs. T. E. T. and Company a short time ago received a consignment of 1,000 Enfield rifles, complete with all apparatus. D., hearing of this, went to purchase four of them, and was then told that the whole 1,000 had been sold together to a native. He talked about it as a strange cir cumstance, and so it got into the columns of the Englishman, and to the knowledge of every one in terested in the fact except the Commissioner of Po lice, whose business it was to know it. Can you wonder after this that there is a feeling of insecurity in Calcutta ? You are aware how, of late years, the government of Bengal, with Halliday at its head, has sought to advance the natives, and place them in offices of trust and authority not expressly re served for the members of the East India Company's covenanted service. Well, among others of these ap pointments, they have been placed in charge of the post-office throughout the country, the security of which has not been improved by the change. It was discovered the other day that one of these native postmasters had been opening letters and making use of their contents for seditious purposes. He was banged by a military officer. But how many are undetected. . . . Do you remember a w or k that appeared several years ego, called "Revela tions of an Orderly, by Panneh Kowrie Khan," exposing the abuses of the Company's courts ? Its author was a Mr. Wyatt, one of the oldest and most respected of the uncovenantad judicial officers of Government. The poor man has been hanged by the Kotwal, a Mahomedan, at Bareilly. This man has given the Government another practical lesson of the trust that ought to have been reposed in the natives. Besides poor Mr. Wyatt, this ras cally native official put Mr. Robertson, the judge, Dr. Hansborough, and Dr. Hay (son-in-law of the late lieutenant-governor, Mr. Thomason), on their trial, and caused them also to be hanged. Will the people of England, after they come to the know ledge of such facts as these, suffer their country men in this land to be subjected to the jurisdic`ion of courts presided over by natives ? I hope not, and that you and other good men will bestir them selves to prevent a repetition of the attempt. Similar sentiments are expressed in the following letter : Calcutta, August, 1857 You will have read, I doubt not, with intense interest, the dreadful accounts that have gone home by this last two or three mails. I thank God, matters are brightening now a little. But it is fearful to think of the imbecility and indecision that have marked, and still rule in many quarters, the councils and acts of our governors and of men holding important commands. Gen. Giant is leav ing for Madras at this moment, under a salute from the guns of Fox t William, and he goes terribly dis gusted, I hear, at the opposition he has met with from Government in the plans be proposed to meet the present crisis. Sir C. Campbell, I believe, is a man not likely to allow himself to be snubbed, and one may expect to see something like energetic measures being adopted soon. We have been peti tioning for martial law for Calcutta and neighbour ing districts, but have not yet got it. The Mohur rum commences to-day, and the volunteers, of which I am a humble member, have lots of duty before them. MIDDIESEX SESSIO NS.—Oct. 21. (Before Mr. Creasy.) James Harris, a boy, and Williatn Snoxhill, 20, were indicted for a mis lemeanour. The charge was framed under the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 97, sec. 15, which enacts " That every person who shall wilfully do, or cause to be done, anything in such manner as to obstruct any engine or carriage using any railway, or to endanger the safety of any per son conveyed in or upon the same, or shall aid or assist therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court before which such person shall have been convicted, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years." The offence charged against the pri soners was that they did unlawfully discharge a loaded gun at a train, with intent to endanger the safety of the persons the❑ passing along, and being upon the Great Northern Railway, near Potter's bar, in this county. Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Poland defended Harris. The younger prisoner, when called upon to plead, said, "I am not guilty, for I only fired at a bird over a quick hedge and didn't mean to hit th e train." Snoxhill said he was there by accident, and had nothing to do with the gun. From the evidence of several witnesses it ap peared that on the 2d instant a ballast train was ou its way towards London on the Great Northern Railway-15 platelayers and labourers being in the break van. About a mile from Potter's-bar there are two cuttings, with a short piece of level between them, and, as the train emerged from one and was entering the other, a gun was fired, and the persons in the break were startled by a number of shots striking the side. On looking out they saw the prisoners in a field, the younger one with the gun in his hand, and the other pointing to the train and laughing. The train was stopped at Potter's-bar, and on an examination. of the break twelve shot marks were found. The gun had been charged with small stones, about the size of peas, and several were extracted from the side of the break, having penetrated nearly half an inch. The under guard, who had charge of the break, ...a ee-eLai. LA. Ut Intel, went back to where the gun was discharged, and there they found the prisoners, who were taken into custody. The gun was then loaded with small stones. The defence set up by Mr. Poland was that the boy was sent into the field to scare birds with the gun, and was entrusted with powder, but not shot ; that, seeing a bird on a hedge, he put a handful gravel and small atones into the gun and fired, when the train came out of one cutting, and be fore it completely entered the otherAttle contents struck the break, which was at the end of the train. The jury, after the learned Judge bad summed up, adopted the view suggested for the defence, and acqu:ted the prisoner. Mr. Creasy quite concurred in the verdict, and sail sucl a boy as Harris ought not to be entrusted with a gun, and he hoped would not he again. Joseph Knight and William Cole were indicted for having st•..len eight coil sacks, the property of 1.4? a, and Co., coal merchants, of Highbury, and other places. _ - Knight pleaded guilty. Colt was found guilty. Mr. Creasy deferred the sentence. Mr. Poland prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton appeared for Klight ; Mr. Metcalfe for Cole. POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 21. MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Stewart Mills, a young nail of about twenty years of age, formerly clerk to Mr. A. T. Hewitt, so!icitor, of Nicholas lane, wts brought before the Lord Mayor upon re mand it custody of Huggett, the detective officer, charged with having feloniously forged and uttered a cheque of his master's for 2501., with intent to defraud Messrs. HankeY and Co., the bankers. Mr. Mullen, solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for Protection from Forgeries and Frauds, again appeared in support of the prosecution. The prisoner was not defended by a legal adviser. Mr. Hewitt, the prosecutor, was further exa mined, and said—l now produce my cheque book. The forged cheque for 2501. fits with the counterfoil at the end of the book. When I was out the pri soner ;lad access to the drawer in which the cheque book was locked. About once in every six mouths it was the prisoner's duty to sort the cancdled cheques tnd tie them up in a bundle. I have missed several cheques from that bundle. I cannot say whetherthe body of the cheque is in the handwrit ing of tte prisoner, but it certainly looks like it. I have extmined the 1001. note produced and the 501. note numbered 40,030. The latter has written on the back of it " Robert Silvester, Manor-street, Clapham." Mr. Silvester is a client of mine. and ( the endorsement is not in his handwriting. It is my strong belief that both the writing and the figures have been put there by the prisoner. The same remark applies to the other 501. note, which is endorsed " Robert Farley, 3, Newcastle-street, Strand, 13-6-57." Ate. J. J. Bunning, clerk to Messrs. Clu , ton and Co., solicitors, in High-street, Southwark, said—l was clerk to the prosecutor at the time that the pri soner was in his I am ~ vell acquainted wick the prisoner's handwriting. The body of the forged cheque very much rksenables my own haudwritit.g. I see no resemblanc e in it to the writing of the put o and figures on the two 501. notes e that of the pri s on e r. k in the i,sua d t p a st men t o f th e st i r r .. I tvbe T. The lTi eovled , to e writing ib e Ba o n PrDved that the one 1001. an d th e w b!en exchanged at the Bu l k f o r gold. Mr. R. Farle y — ltveinNevvcacitle-streef, Strand. two 501. of Engla nd, ote had The endorsementouthe hack of one of the 501. notes purporting to be min e was not made by me, nor was it written by my authority. About a month since t coffee-shop, and was sup plied with it rump (18', my eak supper, which he had no money prisoner entered to pay for. Ithok off his cap, and detained it, till he sent for a ihilli ng an d pa id f r hi s IN past. e Mr, coffee-house-keeper, of 24, H. Thompso l, lea'knienatme of Fred. Rutland. (This prisoner s'ayed at my house left on the 6th ult. in my debt. been obtained by the prisoner, the bills bt3i e a made fwiC(iallresatprhaiaursegsleiedltvrt:beeseyslicit:h, the same name at Ryde, where he inAhage i to out "Fred. Rut and, Esq.") victimise several hotel-keepers, at who-e establish ments,albpassed under however. he had previously spent large sums of money, the produce of the forgery, when he visit-d that fashionable w.:tering-place for the pur pose of counteracting the effects of the d-b iuchery in which he had twou revelling in the II Lyinarket. .11ug , ett, the (ieteetive other who apprehended the prisoner at a coffee-shop in Farringdon-street, produced a letter he found on him, sigued. "Fred. Rutland." Thy prisoner, who declined putting any questions to the witnesses, an I said he should resef ye his de fence, was fully cc intnit'ed for trial. As the prisoner was in the act of leaving the dock, a Wier, whose name did not transpire, entered the box and said—" My Lord Mayor, pry whit am I to do for my money? I made the prisoner the middy's uniform he now wears, and I have never been able to get the money fir it, though it fits him exactly." _ _ The Lord Mayor—The clothes appear to fit him very well ; but I think you must wait till we have done with him at the Central Criminal Court. (Laughter.) The appl'cint bowed, and retired. John Briley and James Pritchett, who had been several time remanded upon the charge of felo niously receiving a case of bristles, of the value of 801., which had been st.deu from the premises of Messrs. Joseph and Turner ' bristle merchants, i n St. Mary-axe w ere b roug ht up for final examina tion. Mr. Won' ner appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Levis, km., for the prisoners. It will be reimuriberel titanßriley is a green grocer in Kent-street-, Southwark, and Pritchett, who livei opposite him, carries on a very ex tensive business as a brmllimaker. Briley eceived the property of a man named Harding, Ln 4 took it to Kent-street, wht•re it was purchtsed by Prichett, at abaut litlf its value. Frim inforina n which reached the police, two oflic-rs, accom panied by Mr. Cohen, the prosecutor's clerk, visited Pritchett's premises, and asked him whether he had in his posse-lion stolcn br sties. He declared h e h a d not. T he o fli c - rs we r e not sa ti s fi ed with lin denial, and upon making a search they found Priche t's foreman. in the act of buryittg tub in the e ar th a t the rear o f th e w areh ouse. T his they fothwitli exl , uired, and upon bri aking in its head dtscov red abou - . 351. wot th of the Iris - Licit which had b een s t o l en f rom the prosecutor'spremises. M. Au us t e Cheville Lodde, a manufacturer of hristle4, li v i ng in identifi e d th e _ the officers as p . irt of a case of brist!es which he had forwarded to the pro3ecuto rs , eati r p r s is, pr w e a d s u y; d ste b r y day called. H o Cuar;es Brown, constable, No. 654, corroborated the evile nce of Watkins, 660, w i th respect to the discove r y o f t h e tub in the hole. This being the wh o l e o f the evidence., Mr. Go o ti tnan proceeded to read the lengthy depositions of the witnesse , and the prisoners, who .said they s h ou l d resfrve their defence, were fully committed for trial to the Central Criminal Court. Mary Cane, a woman who bore the app..arance of having had her legs amputated at the hip joint, tn.l who carried a child in her arms, was brought before the Lord Mayor on a stretcher belonging to h rsf•lf. Policeman Stride, 556—Yesterday the prisoner was beggini, by the railway station in B shopsg-ite, and as she ohstrudted the pavement I was obliged to take her into custody. Several people complained of a woman in her condition being suffered to beg in the srreets. Prisoner—l was confined on the roadside and lost the use of my legs. They have not been cut off. Policeman--They seem to be tucked under her. The Lord Mayor—What is she sitting on ? .1 3 ,11cennan—It is a stretcher or rather the bottom of a chair ; and as she can't walk, a person with whom she is connected is in the habit of carrying her from her lodgings and setting her down in a public thoroughfare, where people are likely to give her halfpence. She is a notorious beggar. The Lird Mayor—Prisone-, whose chill is that you are carrying Prisoner—lt's my own; and no mistake. Whose do you think it, is ? The Lord Mayor—l don't think it is yours. I believe you carry it about with you for the purpose of exciting commiseration. Where do you belong to? Prisoner—My parish is Devonport. The Lord Mayor—You must not beg in the streets of London. You will be taken to the union, and will be sent from there to Devonport. Prisoner (impudently)—l won't go to Devon port, although you may send me to the union. Ann Sullivan was brought up on remand charged with having begged in the city. The evidence of the officer who had charge of the prisoner was to the effect that on Saturday afternoon last he saw the prisoner who was carrying two children, one in a most emaciated and filthy state, begging near the Mansion-house. It was evident that one, if not both of the children, had been starved almost to death for the purpose of exciting public sympathy. (A. more haggard, emaciated child never was seen by any of the officers of the court in the arms of the most incorrigible professional beggars.) The officer took her into custody, and by direction of the Lord Mayor the children were t iken to the union. One of the children belonged to the pri soner's sister. The prisoner, who had the impudence to say that she was totally unable to provide for either herself or the children without begging, was sent to prison for 21 days. The Lord Mayor reques'ed that the press would ackno sledge the receipt of 1/. from the jury at the Mayor's Court (per Christopher Fitch) as a dona tion to the poor-box. GUILDHALL.—George Blabey was placed at the bar, before Sir George Carroll, charged with robbing his employers, Messrs. Baker and Co., of L?adenlall-st reet. Police-constable Hubble, 149, said—Last night, about a quarter to ten o'clock, I saw the prisoner with a basket in his possession. I asked him whose property it was, and he said it belonged to him, and it contained about 31b. of sugar which formed part of a perquisite allowed him by his employers. Mr. Bernard said—l am book-keeper to the firm of Messrs. Saul, Baker, and Co., colonial mer chants, and the prisoner has been in their employ as messenger and clerk about 12 months. The sugar found on the prisoner consists of samples which we have received of shipments made to us from the colonies. He had no authority particu la to remove those samples, but I believe he had an implied permission, as he had the care of the office, and probably thought in clearing up he might take it away. Sir G. Carroll recommended the prisoner to be more careful for the future how he meddled with samples, and discharged him. Aman named Andrews was brought up, charged with embezzling 2/. 48. 3d., the moneys of Mr. Botisor, a meat salesman, of Newgate-market, his master. Emily Wilson said—l am barmaid at the Salu tation Tavern, Newg,ate-street. The prisoner called yesterday morning between ten and eleven o'clock, and I paid him 2i. 4s. 3d. on behalf of Mr. Bonsor. I did not take a receipt, as it is not cus tomary. _ _ Sir - George Carroll—Do you wish to ask this witness any question ? Prisoner—No, sir. It is quite right ; I had the money. George Dolling, potman at the Ram Inn, Smith field, said—The prisoner came to me in the middle of the day and gave me 1/. 4,4. to take care of for him. He stayed there until 12 o'clock at night, at which timm he was very drunk, and gave me another 1.08., saying it was not his money, and wished me to mind it for him. Mr. Martin (ihe chief clerk)—What made you put up this witness, officer ? Officer—Because he was the only other witness in attendance. Mr. Martiu—But he is the prisoner's witness, and un!essyou have another it puts the case out o co ~rt. Mr. Bonsor—The prisoner returned after he re ceived the money from .lat witness, and ,on going to his lodgings this morning with a policeman, I found the prisoner in bed, having been drunk the night before. He told me where he left the money. The prisoner was dischaiged. BOW-STREET.—A respectable-looking man, about 35 years of ago, who gave the name of Sin clair, and described him4ell as a traveller, wag charged, together with a mtn named Lloyd, with committing a burglary On the night of the 12th instant, on the premisee of Mr. Grouse, tailor, 549, New Oxford-street. At seven o'clock on the 13th, Sergeant Egerton, of the E division, saw Lloyd and another person in Upper King-street, Bloomsbury. Lloyd 'was carrying a bag, which he gave to his companion, who, on seeing the officer, dropped it and ran away. Lloyd was taken into custody, and the bag was found to contain clothes which had been stolen from Mr. Grouse's premises. Lloyd was brought before the niat-zistrate,_ and remanded. The officer went to 18, Wakefield-street, Brunswick-square, where Lloyd had occupied a garret, and apprehended Sinclair, who was occupying the drawing-room. Sergeant Egerton now expressed his firm conviction that Sinclair was the man who had dropped the carpet-bag. Sinclair had been apprehended on his description. Mr. Lewis, of Ey-plac?, asked the witness how he described him ? Witness—l lie was a short man, dark com plexion, dressed in dark clothes, and respectable looking. Mr.Lewis—lndeed. Then lam very glad the officers did not meet me, or they might have ap prehended me on your description, for I am a short man, of dark complexion, I wear dark clothes, and I should hope-I look re•pee - able. (A. laugh.) Mr. Lewis drew his worship's attention to the absence of any Mention of the features in this description, showing, as he contend-d, that the features had made no impression on his mind. Mr. Lewis called witnesses who I roved that Sin clair travelled to Cambridge by a train which left London at six o'clock a.m. on the 13th, and the magistrate discharged him. Lloyd was committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET.—William . Clarke, de scribed as an engine -driver in the service of the Eastern Conn Railway Company, was charged under the 16th section of the act 5 and 6 Viotori', cap. 98, with having unlawfully neglected to stop his engine in obedience to certain dange.-3ignals which were exhibited for his guidance, wht.reby he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 101., or two months' imprisonment. The prix ,ner, who was driving an em.iine, paid no attention to a danger-signal at the Mile 7 end sta tion, requiring him to reduce his speed to 4 or 5 miles an hour, and went rapidly towards the Brck lane station. Thera he also neglected a danger signal and, dashing past the station at the rata of 20 miles an hour, ran into a goods' train, the engine of which, and his own tender, were both smasbefl by the collision. John Fairchild, an engine cleaner, who was act ing as prisoner's firem an a t th e ti me of the accident, admitted that he understood nothing about signalF, and only knew that the red light was a danger signal on Saturday last. John Adams, an engine driver, admitted, in cross-examination, that it wag the custom of the compaoy, when hard pushed for hands, to employ firemen as drivers and engine men as firemen, and that it was the duty of both to look out for signals. It having begin proved that the prisoner was in toxicated at the time of the accident, , Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he was decidedly of opinion that the defendant had been guilty of most culpable negligence, but at the same time it was equally apparent that the wi:tre , s Fairchild was al together incompetent to act as fireman, and he fel bound to say -that a want of pr .per caution had been exhibited in his appointment to that position. He found,. on referring to the act, that he was em powered to commit the prisoner, without the inn positibn of a pecuniary penalty, and he considered the case as one of su .h a serious charactr, that he had no hesitation in sentencing him to hard labour for six months in the House of Correction. WESTMINSTER.—A native of India, who spoke very goad English, was charged with causing a disturbance, while under the influence of liquor, in the Broadway, Westminster. Police-constable Burnett, B 146, said that on the previous evening he was on duty iu the Broadway, when he was informed that the prisoner was in danger of his life. There was a crowd of men, women, and childrei about him, all of whom SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. ' KINGSTON, OCT. 31. (Before Mr. E. Penhryn, Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates.) The court was occupied to-day in hearing applica tions for the renewal of music and dancing licenses. Upon the application of Mr. Knapp a license for music and dancing was granted to the Royal Gar dens, Vauxhall, but with the restrictions that there should be no baloons and that the gardens should be closed at 12 o'clock. A similar license was granted to the Royal Surrey Gardens, the same conditions being annexed to it% Mr. napp then applied for a renewal of the license for music for the Flora Gardens, Wyndham road, Camberwell. Mr. Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division of Police, informed the court that although a license had only been granted for music for these gardens, dancing was constantly carried on there, and a regu lar dancing platform was erected. Mr. Knapp said that the present proprietor of the gardens, Mr. Hallwell, only came into posses sion of the premises in April, and Irz was not aware that he was doing wrong, and, under these circum stances, he trusted the court would renew the license, upon the understand , ng that there should be no dancing in future. _ _ Mr. Halleiell said that under the former proprie tors there had always been dancing, and he conse quently thought that he was justified in having the same sort of amusement, particularly as no com plaint or caution had been made by the police. The Chairman, after consulting with his col leagues, said that the license would be renewed on the present occasion ; but it would only be on the understanding that no dancing should be permitted in future. Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the license for music for the Surrey Canal Tavern, Old Kent road. Superintendent Lund informed the court that in this case also dancing had been constantly going on in the house, al , hough Mr. Gilliam, the propriet was perfectly aware that he had only a license for music. Hs had kept the house for a great many years, and must have be-n perfectly well aware that he was infrint;ing the law. The Chairman said the court considered that in this case there had been a wilful infringement of the license, and they would therefore not grant a renewal. License refused. Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the license for music and dancing for the Manor House Tavern, adjoining the Royal Surrey Gardens, Walworth. Mr. Lund also opposed the granting of this li cense, upon the ground that the place was resorted to by prostitutes and other disorderly persons ; that it was kept open to unreasonable honr,, there by annoying the inhabitants of the neighbourhood ; also that the groundshad been used fur the purpose of holding an illeal fair, and that the proprietor, Mr. Wale, had been fined for assaulting and ob structing the police. Mr. Knapp, in addressing the court in support of the application, said he was instructed that there really were no grounds for the opposition to it made by the police, and that the real object of the course that had been taken was to benefit the Surrey Gardens, which were close adjacent to the premises of Mr. Wale, and give them a monopoly. With regard to the complaint respecting the fair, all that was done was to have what was called a fancy fair—a proceeding which took place every day, and which was patronised by some of the highest and most respectable portions of the com munity; and, although Mr. Wale was summonel before a magistrate by the police f having this fair upon h's premises upon the supposition that it was illegal, the magistrate at once dismissed the com plaint. With reference to the assault and obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty, he was instructed that all that was done was that Mr. Wale refused to allow the inspector to go out of a private door, and detained them for two or three minutes ; and although, of course, he would not at tempt to dispute that the magistrate was justified in deciding that this amounted to an obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty, still he submitted that it really was a very trifling matter, and that there were no grounds for refusing a re newal of the license. Mr. Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division, and an inspector named Worels, and a s ergeant named Coppen, were then summoned by the court ' and they stated that the gardens of the Manor house Tavern were constantly resort:d to by pros titutes, and that they left at ono or two o'clock in the morning, and that they were frequently very noisy, and that the inhabitants had made repeated complaints to the police upon the subject. In answer to questions put by Mr. Knapp, the officers admitted that amuserneirs of a similar na ture had been carried on at the Surrey Gardens, but they said that the audience attending those gardens always left at a much earlier hour. Mr. Wale, the proprietor of the tavern, was then sworn, and he stated that he had always endeavoured to conduct the establishment in a re pectable man ner, as he had laid out several thousand pounds upon the premises, and it was his interest to do so. He had been offered money by the proprietors of the Surrey Gardens for his premises, and because he refused the offer they were endeavouring to destroy the property, and lie asserted that they were the real parties who were opposing him on the present occasion. The Chairman, after consulting his colleagues, said that the Court were of opinion that the police were only doing their duty in giving information to the magistrates in reference to these matters, and they were of opinion that Mr. Wale had not quite con ducted his establishment in the manner he ought to have done. They would not, however, go to the Extent of depriving him of his license altogethe r, but would restrict him to having music only. A license for music only was accordingly granted. 7 1 - $ 5 '7. appeared in a very excited state. He went to the prisoner, who was exclaiming, "Me Sepoy. Me killed your sister ; me killed your sister's child." He (con-table) was obliged to take h.m into cus tody for his own safety. Had he n.:t done so he believed the prisoner would have been killed. The Magistrate (to the prisoner)—What have you to say ? Prisoner—Some boys followed me, calling out, " There goes a Sepoy." Me said, "Me no Sepoy. Me no Sepoy." lam Lot a Sepoy, sir. The Magistrate (to the constable)—Did you hear any one call him a Sepoy ? Constable—No, sir. The prisoner repeatedly shouted out "Me Sepoy, me Sepo)." There were between 700 and 800 persons around him. Many used very threatening language towards the pri soner. Some of them Lad sticks, and . were about to use thew. The Magistrate—Was he drunk ? Constable—He had been drinking. The Magistrate—l shall discharge you now. You must not cause such a disturbance again, or you may receive some very serious injury. The prisoner thanked his worhiP, and left the court. MARYLEBONE.—John Marks, coach builder, Bell-street, Edgware-road, Samuel Marks, his brother, and Abraham Simmonds were again brought up on the charge of fraudulently disposing of property subsequently to a fiat of bankruptcy against the first-named prisoner. The previous examinations have been given at considerable length in our paper. After some father evidence, Mr. Solomons observed that between 4,0001. and 5,0001. had been paid into the Courtof Bankruptcy to the credit of the bankrupt. Mr. George Butl r, an accountant in the case of bankruptcy in question, gave evidence to the eff ct that admitting John Marks's statement which he had made was correct as to the property, there was still a deficiency of 6,6291. 17s. 9d. which had not as yet been traced. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. LAMBETH.—Benjamin Bonnet, a middle aged man, in the garb of a mechanic, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of attempting self-murder by swallowing a dose of laudanum. Police-constable Lewis Bat'y, 314 P, deposed that this morning he was called off his heat to the residence of the prisoner in Weymouth-street, Wal worth, and on going into his room his mother said that he had taken laudanum for the purpose of de srroying him-elf. The prisoner admitted that he had done so, and said he much regretted he had not taken a greater quarstiT, and his mo , her informed him (witness) that he had been drinking for two or three days. He took the prison rto the station house, and charged him with attempting to destroy himself, and it was found that by keeping him walking ab ,ut there was no necessity for a doctor. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his mind was in such a state from the effect of drink that he scarcely knew what he did. Re was remanded for a week. THAMES.—Mr. James Golding, the Reeretary of the committee of the People's Suhstniption Band, waited o❑ Mr. Selfe with a deputation, and said that on the last performance of the band in Via toria-park, eight guineas were collects d from the people assembled by the sale of programmes and tickets. It was intended to present the same to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, near the en trance of the Victoria-park, and it was refused by t'le committee of the hospital, on the ground of disapproval of Sunday bands of music in toe parks The money was next offered to Queen Adelaide's Dispensary, in Bethnal-green, and was refused by the commit ee of thst charity on similar grounds. The committee of the People's Subscription Bind then determined to divide the money b -tween the Thames and Worship-street Police-courts, and he had now respectfully to tender four guineas for the poor-b9x of the court. Mr. Selfe would most cheerfully accept of the money, and was much obliged to the deputation. The poor were very much indebted to the committee for their subscription. He did not care where the money came from; so long as it was honestly ob tained. Mr. Golding—lt was obtained by the sale of programmes of the music ; and we should have ob tained at least 201. for charitable purposes, if the committee of the Hospital for diseases of the Chest had not adopted the ungenerous proceeding of cau tio❑ing people not to give money. • Mr. Selfe—l have nothing whatever to do with that. I shall gladly accept your money, but I say nothing of the propriety or impropriety of playing music in the parks on Sunday afternoons. I give no opinion at all. LUSSIA TN THE EAST. Since the Treaty of Paris Russia hail become a power occupied exclusively in making interior im provements, and the friends of civilisation congra tulate this power on itS%'tntry on this new line. European capitalists are going to, throw over these vast countries a network of railways, and this gives us a motive for glancing at those of Asia. The East, even the farthest East, which touches the boundaries of Asia, is now a great battle field, where the different interests of European policy come in contact and battle together,,dragged on as they are by commerce, the mighty mover of the age. It is true that, from whatever point of view e look at them—from whatever silo we consider them—all Oriental questions call our attention to wards Russia. Siberia, that immense and myst.rious tract of country, in which European fancy sees but a desert without end, is to Russia a grand base for impor tant operations. In comparison o its extent, the population is very small ; ou 220 square -leagues scarcely 3,000,000 of inh ,13,t ;nts are to be found ; but in many places the very fertile soil, the tempe rate elima. e, . the inexhaustible vegetable and mi neral riche a;;ove all, the f toil& ei for com munication occasioned by rivers—have given to these oases of the Siberian desert a certain eleva tion with regard toogriculture, industry, the mines, co mmerce, and navigation. Vor the last 15 years steam-boats navigate the largest rivers of Siberia ; and on the banks of these rivers, which are more like lake., or rather inl-Ind seas, and even on the shores of the ocean, fortified f o rts and military anienals are bdug raised. A short time since a fleet built in the ports of We tern Siberia obliged Japan to make with Russia a treaty very advantageous to her. Lately a detachment . of troops, frotn the interior of Siberia, advanc d to wards the river Amoor and the frontiers of China, and acquired for Russia a rich and fertile country, rendered still more important by its touching the Sea of Japan, and thus enabling Russia to create a fleet which, until it procures for her a prepon derating influence over the Pacific, will at least pro tect the commerce of China and Japan. Russia now possesses in Asia four stations, which are at the same time both naval and _military. These stations are situated on the Caspian Sea, on Lake Aral, on Lake Baikal, and at the mouth of the Amoor. THE FINANCES oF ROME. The following letter bag been received from Rome : " Rome. Oct. 9. "You have probably read in he Roman Journal of the 2d of this month a resume of the Buogi t of Finances, by which there would appear a surplus of some millions of scudi, notwithstandin g the heavy remissions made to various provinces by a special circular from Monsignor Ferrari, Minister of Finances. Another circular from tie same Minister boasts of the very advantageous loan contracted with the House of Rothschild. Certainly, if all the fibs that Monsignor Ferrari chooses to publish were ready money it would be impossible• to deny - to our State the merit of being a very model to the rest of the world in regard to finances. But they are right to draw a veil over the exchequer ; it is always on the de cline. It would be easy to prove that we are on the road to ruin. The deplorable state of our finances is so patent that I will not waste time in refuting the false hoods of the Minister of Finances by examining each category of the budget ; but I give you the following fac , , for the authenticity of which I can vouch : "The Commons of Rome being burdened with the expense of lodging the French troops, the Municipality at first provided for the a Arge by an extra tax on liquids and forage, which, from 1854 to 1856, produced 195,000 Roman crowns ; then, by another extra tax on pro perties, whether houses or lands, which gave in the same years 123,000 crowns; making altogether 318,000. You gilt allow that that was a tolerably heavy sum to pay for barrack room, the net expenditure on which amounted to 276,986 crowns, so that there was a surplus of 41,014 crowns, What has become of this sum No one can tell, and the municipality itself would be very much puzzled to account for it, because, although it is permitted to ar range the levying of the taxes, it is not allowed to gather them. But that is not all. All the provinces of the State that have not the expense of barracks to pay are obliged to contribute half as much as Rome itself pays— that, is to say, 138,000 crowns ; so that the Government has a surplus at the expense of the population of Rome and the provinces. This surplus consists of 41,019 crowns, raised from the commune of Rome, and the 138,000 crowns contributed by the provinces, amounting to above 179,000 in the total, and that without taking into account the late reductions made in the expenditure for barracks for the French garrison. After all that, it does not require a conjuror to produce a surplus of 1,429 crowns in the budget of 1858. _ "The following circular has been addressed to the gen darmerie by Monsignor Milelle, Apostolic Delegate at Macerata, which shows an intention of prolonging the state of siege in spite of the noise made about its sup pression not long since : " MUNICIPAL POLICE.—NO. 181. Sir,—Notwithstanding the convantion signed be• tween the Pontifical and the Austrian Governments for the cessation of the state of siege, the law on disarming id no less in vigour, and you will comprehend, sir, all the importance that the Government attaches to its scrupu lous execution. It is your duty, therefore, to renew to all the chiefs of brigades or detachment dependent on you the order to watch, in the most scrupulous manner, the execu tion of the said law. Your subordinates are authorised to make domicilihry visits, and to employ all the means they may judge convenient, in order that the laws have effect. All the arms which may to) found in the houses of inhabi tants who cannotshqw any authority for keeping them, and delivered by the provincial direction of police, will be se questrated. Arms found in the houses of persons having au thority to keep them for personal protection will also be se questrated, if it should be found that they are used for the chase, or for any other purpose than that indicated in the permission. The arms to be sent to the governor of the province, to whom a❑ account of the circumstances con nected with the seizure will be forwarded, and a proce3 vevbal of the same will be remitted to the direction of the police of the provinces. " MILELLE, Apostolic Delegate. ." Macerata, Aug. 6,1857. " ' To the Captain commanding Gendarmerie of Country Markets, EDINBITROH BAY AND STRAW MARKET 011 T. 20. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 78 Od to 9 a 6ci per kemple of 16 stones fron ; wheat do., 7s Od to 8s Od. ; barley do., 6s 01 to 70 Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL-00T. 20. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2301 b imperial, which sold at 42s Od and s• DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—OCT. 19. There were in the market to-day 29 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. , Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs Firsi. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od --a Od --8 Od Peaaemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto --a Od --s Od —s C 3 Pot-barley, new, per ditto —2 Od a Od —s Cd DUBLIN, OCT. 20. There was a small supply of all kinds of grain, with the currencies of Friday generally supported. Rather higher prices were realised for best feeding oats. Indian corn met a very slow demand at last week's quotations. White wheat, 309 Od to 33s Od ; red ditto, 28s Od to Sls 01; ditto new, 30s 6d; barley, malting, 17s 6d to 225; grind ing, —e to —s ; oats, old, 15s Od to 18s; ditto, new, 12 ,. ° 6d to 14s 6d ; oatm ea l, 15 s Od t o 17 s; b ere, new, 15s to 1 1 1. 11 ; r tnest• d, 28s Od to 30 8 Od p er b r l ; b akers flour, 1' 6d to 24s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 35s 01 to 37s Od Per 180 the. COAL MARK :ET.—OoT. 21. the close of the market Wsllsend, &o. Prices of Coals per ton a s. d Ward's West Hartley ...16 9 • , 0 'J. 0 Wylain Hastings Hartley 18 3 pe es Wsllsend, St, Hebburn 6 Riddell 2O 6 Nixon's Duftryn.] . : ................ 2 221 1 111 Shincliffe. 2l 0 Ships at market ;, 18; sold, 17. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL. Oar. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of the market has bee° lower to-day, and only a limited business done. L o - n doo, and South Western, 90—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 9 3 ,, , -- Eastern Counties, 101 —Midland, 81i 2'13 / —Gie" Western of Ca_ada, 188 London and North-Western sf 95 I—Dutch Rhenish, 4 d —Grand Trunks, 1011 s. 3d." South Eastern, 19- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 3A t i—North British, 11 —North Union A, 220—EirkW head, Lancashire,, and Cheshire, 65—Caldonians, 3 9 1 1-- Ber wicks, 211. SILASCHESTER, OCT. 21. tip STOOK EXORANGE.—o The market is exceedingly „, to-day, with lower prices. L on d ons , 96 Sheffields, —Midland, 81i —Eastern Counties, 10 g—Leeds, 93, Dovers, 19 East Anglian, 4i—East Lancashire, or o t Grand Trunk of Canada, Blackburn, 7s--Gr eat Northern, 24—Great Western of Canada, 18g. BIRMINGEAM, OCT. 21. • STOCK EXCHANGE. —Prices in the market firm at th e opening, and impruved towards the close. Great Weste rl4 54 6--London and North Westerns, 954----Ditto, Eightht 1 d.—Midland, 81i 2 k — Birmingham and Derby, 55 6' South Staffords, 4—Cryital Palace, 12s 6d, 13a. Worcester and Birmingham Canal, 15 A letter from Frankfort 'states that the result of the late explosion of a firework -manufactory in that city ir e ,, more serious than was at first mentioned. Seven bo4i s '; have already been taken out from the ruins-4hose M. Schunk, the owner, three of his children, two works men, and a servant. The removal of all the rubbish bi ll not been yet completed, and it is feared that others al etill.buried beneath it. The . wife and the foartlichi` of M. Schunk, and the other persons who had been g °t .. ut and conveyed to the hospital, still remain in a p er " critical state. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills should be tall for the cure of dropsy.—Females at a certain "period ° G , life become liable to this complaint, w hi c h fi r st make l/ A i ; appearance by the swellin g of th e f ee t, l eg s, and hap'''": and thus making strong inroads on the constitstion ; numbers of dropsical patients, even when their cio e , were pronounced hopeless, have been by taki n b Holloway's Pills ; and' this medicine having stood t h e . test f years as a certain remedy for this malady, no on so afflicted shoal delay giving it a trial.—Sold by 0 1 medicine venders throughout the world ; at Professog Holloway's Esthblishment, 244, Strand, London, sad 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constar tinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. In the Caspian Sea, within the last few years, the number of merchant and naval ships has been dou bled. At Astrakan have been erected gigantic buildings for the fabrication of steam-engines and ship-building; on the shores and on several islands have been raised forts and military ports. The Orenburg corps d'armee has been augmented and reorganised. A steam fleet plies the waters of Lake Aral, and chains of Russian forts extend along the banks of the great rivers Sihoon and Jihoon, which fall into this lake. Steam-ships of war also navigate Lake Baikal, fortsand timber-yards are being constructe 1 on its shores, and in the neighbourhood military colonies are being formed on the plan of the corps d'armee of Eastern Siberia. On the banks of the Amoor a corps d'armee is being organised, fleets construcked, fortresses forti fied, and the Emperor Alexander, after examining the report of the scientific and military commis sioners sent to reconnoitre the province of the Armor, gave orders for the rebuilding a fortified poi t on the plan of Cronsiadt. This Asiatic Cronstadt is to- terminate the line of communication commencing near the European Cronstadt. The carrying out of this line of communication, thus carried on land and water by means of steam, presents few d-fficulties. • The Fr nch capitalists intend continuing t.) Nishui Novgorod the railway That has been 1 id between St. Pet -rsburg and Moscow ; from Nishni Novgorod by the Volgoa and its tributaries the Kama and Tobol. The Russian engineers have traced the plans arid counted the cost of thes works. The Tobol leads to the Obi ; the Obi to the Yenisei. There are only a few lea.oes by land ; short tract of rail will unite the two rivers. Tue river Angart, or Upper Toungouse, one of the t,i buta,ries of the Yenisei, joins the latter river to the Lake Baikal, and only tune miles dist int the ma jestic w a ters o f th e Amoor are rolling towards the walls of New Cronstadt. By this immense artery the Baltic will be joined to the Pacific, and from the centre of Russia even the capital of the Celesdal Euipire may be leached. The Russian Government is planning another line of communication mote to the south. ' The river Jihoou (the Oxus of the ancients), L NDON Printed and Punlighed by Mint () YO No, wirch fills into Laic , ' Badial, formerly ex ended o 0 Frirtar. Ef t e 47.,!11 the Casp an Sea. Its now dry arid sandy bed can Strand, in the i recinzt in tae c°llll be cleared.out and rendered navigable. . of Middlesex, Thursday, October 22, 1.34. BIRTHS. OF A SON. • On the 21st inst., at the Grove, Hi g h ga t e, th e w if e Of Wm. Boyer Morgan, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Kunst e d, G o d a h n i ng, t h e w if e 01 Charles H. 'Parkes, Esq. of ADd House Guomuit., Clapton, On the 21st in s t„ Sion 3frs- Meyer. On the 20th i ns t. a t 138 , Cambridge- street, Warin square, the wife of Win. Dennis, Esq. MARRIED. % On the 20th inst., at the parish church of St. Gl ea n= Camberwell, John Fisher Eastwood, Esq., of Surbitoto Suirey, to Frances Mary, only danghtet of the la Charles T. Pearce, Esq., of Grove-hill, Camberwell. o On the 20th inst., at Shermanbury, Sussex, De ell • Fi.her Lyne, Esq., of the Middle Temple, to reneot, youngestWheler, younest daughter of John Cotton , Esq., of 5 boure•terrace:London. DIED f On the 19th inst., at North Runcton, Thomas ~ Ifso, Troubritige, the infant son of Sir Thomas Troubrioe Bart., C. B. On the 19th inst., sudlenly. at 12, Westbourne - P ark' tot race. Fountaiue Hogge, Caotain 2d Life Guards. ca l. Oa the 11th inst., John William Tongue, Esq., of lan ton-hill, llolloway, and St. John-street, West Suiitu'"" aged 64. Oa the 10'h inst., at Cotham, Bristol, Jacob rPlay &urge, aged 6') LC E .On the 18th inst., Lieut-C o l.W m l Mi n t o , l a t e IL • Service, aged 60. OOP P On the 19th in. at Grantham, Th omas Wyles, aged 69. On the 20th inst., at Binfield-read, Stockwell, Ge ° ' Jenson, Eiq ., formerly of Brussels, aged 63. On the 20th inst., at Barnsbury-square, Islington , Thomas Pvrry, aged 71. 1