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Rif;PORT OF TH...c; COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MONEYS. Vie‘ re port of the select committee of the House of Comimons, "appointed to inquire into the receipt, issue„ and audit of public moneys in the Excheper, the ray-office, and the Audit Department,' was issued Yesterday, together with the proceenin di among ngs of contai the con.:L v ittee, and an appen dix, g, other valuable matter, a long memorandum on financial cc mtrol, put in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Th e following is a copy of the report Your Comm fee have considered the evidence and s c ,ted by the select c ommittee on p ublic: document; colic Inch have been - referred to them, as moneys in 1856, , rtant rapers laid before them, which well as further inal_ n will be found in the appendix ; and they have agreed to submit the following _recommendations to the house: I.—ExcIIEQUER ISSL '3 AND PAYMASTERS' PAYMENTS. Your committee are , sat tisfied, from the evidence taken before them, that the ,10 nsolidation of the pay depart ments ha 4 been atfended , vi . th public benefit ; that it has diminished the balances k ft in the bands of the public accountants to the Crown ; that it has increased the security of the public money, and promoted economy ; and that the regulation which. requires the Paymaster- General to make all his pays tet lts from a single cash balance has been attended with be neficial results. As the issue of money from the exchequer in amounts sufficient to maintain a constant • balance in the hands of the Paymaster, on each separa to grant or head of service, over and above the balances' in the Exchequer at the credit of such grants and services,, would entirely de feat these objects, your committee rec „commend that issues worn the Exchequer shall be made in oro l er to adjust the payments under every head of service, by placing each in eredit in the books of the paymaster a s frequently as Possible, consistently with retaining tiee emeallest cash balance, and that Buchan adjustment shall be completely made at least at the close of every month ; that the pay master should be required to make up for the commis sioners of audit accounts to the end of every month, eleov.ing the balances for or against every hea d of ser vice ; and that any provision of the Exchequer Regula tion Act of 1834 which way appear to be at variance with this mode of conducting the public payeenentsshould be repealed. Your committee are of opinion that the Pay General should cease to be a political officer ' discharging his dut i es by deputy ; and. that he should becoeue the noting and efficient head of the Pay-office, performing his duties in person. 2.—PAYMENTS OF THE GROSS REVENUE TO THE EXCHEQUER, Durieg the progress of the inquiries of the committee of 1856, an act was passed (19 and '4O Vic., cap. 59) for rotcovin 1 from the gross revenues elertain ouperannua tione and other charges which had rem wined payable out of those revenues after the passing of the Act 17 and 18 Vic., cap. 94, under which the charges of collecting the revenue and various other expenses we es transferred to the annual estimates, or placed on ti me Consolidated Fund. With the exception of the charges on the land revenues of the Crown, the net receipts of which m a only payable to the Cthisolidated Fund under the Acl , 10 Geo. IV., cap. 50, sec. 113, and under the Act 1 and 2 Vic., for the settlement of the Civil List, the only payments which. can now be legally charged upon the public revenues are drawbacks, bounties, repayments, and disc ants. Although your committee have uo reason for believing that any expanses have been defrayed out of those revenues in their progress to the Exchequer which were not legally chargeable thereon, they are revertl , eless of opinion that it is esential to a proper Parliamentary control of the public money that the law should distinctly require that the whole revenue, after provitlim for those charges, should be paid to the Con solid Fund, from which it cannot be issued without Par li - tmentary anction ; and with regard to the charges of the land revenues, the committee are of opinion, un le.s3 some constitutional difficulty should be involved in the change, these charges should be brought under the same Parliamentary control, and under the system of vote for expenditure, as the charges respecting the other branches of public revenue. They recommend that the payments of revenue should, as far as practicable, be paid direct into the Exchequer, and that those payments made into the Pay-office should be transferred to the Exohequer account with as little delay 33 may be consistent with the public service. They further recommend that moneys in deposit in the Pay-office should be carried to a separate account at tho Dank—as they neither form part of the public revenue, nor are voted by Parliament as ways and means. The payments may still be made through the general drae hog account. A statement of the receipts and payments included in this deposit account ought annually to be laid before Parliament. 3.—DEFICIENCY DILLS, Ta the present state of the law (57 Geo. 3, c. 48), it is neceasary that Exchequer Bills (deficiency) should be issued to the full extent of the deficiency which may appoar on making tip the account of the income and char.re of the Consolidated Fund to the close of the quar ter, although it constantly happens that the growing produc, of that fund for the subsequent quarter is suffi cient to meet all charges without the aid of deficiency bills. Under such circumstances the Exchequer bills are issued to the Bank, and are paid off on the same day ; but although this practice obviates the charge for inte rest on these advances, the money is nevertheless bor rowed from the Bank hen the public service does net require the loan. Your committee therefore recommend that whenever the defici.ncy of the Consolidated Fand for the quarter, or any p Art thereof, can be directly provided out of the growing produce of the fund for the following quarter, the iseue should be made directly out of the public bal ance without the aid of a loan, nominal or otherwise rom the Bank. Your committee further recommend that when actual advances by the Bank become necessary, either for Con solidated Fund services, or for supply services, the amount should be placed to the Exchequer account without an issue of Exchequer bills, but upon a requisition to the Bank by the Comptroller of the Exohequer, and that it be issued from the Exchequer account by the Exchequer to the onbl:c service as at present; also that the advances should be treated as book debts, and be subject to all the existing provisions of the law as to redemption. Trt calculating the interest to be paid on deficiency bills, your committee observe that the amount of Exche quer credits undrewn, and the balance at the Bank to the Paymaster's account, are not taken into considera ti yie ; it would be cf advantage if these sums were consi dezed as well as the Exchequer account ; but your coin. mitteeal)etain from making any positive recommendation nn the snhject, as the arrangements subsisting between the Beak of England and the Government must necessa rily c,,rne into consideration in connection with the Bank Act of 1344, now under the review of Parliament. 4.—ExcllEczuza BILLS (ScPPLY). A vete in supply is taken every year to pay off all out , tending Exchequer bills; and ways and means in Excheqo - r bills are granted to provide for such payment. The effect of this arrangement is, that the bills of the current year are issued to pay off the bills of the past year, except in those cases in which holders demand pay ment ia money. It has been shown to the committee that this annual renewal of Exchequer bills is attended with. trouble and inconvenience to holders, and with ex pew) a:ld risk to the public; and, moreover, that the Par anent of Exchequer bills in money outof the ways and means granted for army, navy, and other supply services leads to complicated adjustments between the money grants and the Exchequer bill grants of ways and means which it appears desirable to avoid. As a security to holdere, Exchequer bills charged on aids or supplies may after the expiration of 12 months from their respective dates, ha tendered in payment of any of the public re venues, aids, taxes, or supplies —a regulation which has the erect of applying revenue in its progress to the Ex cherluer to the:payment of debt. Your committee are of op;.eion that the law, as regards these E xc heq uer bill s , may be simplified; they have therefore to propose Ist. That the principal of Exchequer biils be redeemable out of Ur) Consolidated Fund in those cases in which the holdere can demand payment of their bills in money, or pav them ip for taxes under existing regulations ; and that the interest be payable also out of the Consolidated Farad. 2d. That the Government be empowered, as at present. t') issue new bills in lieu of those which may be paid off in money, the proceeds of such bills, however, to be placel to the credit of the Consolidated Fund. 3d. That the annual renewal of Exchequer bills be d►scontinued, the bi Is running on from year to year, with the consent of the holders, until cal'ed in for re telt al; that the rate of interest be advertised annually, and that Lhe bills be issued with coupons for the annual ante►ebt_ 5 . SYSTEM iJPON WHICH THE PUBLIC IiCCOUNTS MOULD BE KEPT. Yo',:r committee consider that it is the necessary l !trot' o d wor k of any really important i mprovemen t b st tl:e % h oly of the public accounts shou'd be kept on *Mc ut.t, and, as far as p rac ti ca bl e , un if orm sy s t e m. llh,videnct: ' before h cometent w a 4 ' 4 "" i, e , lthetu lveli that the th comme emy rcial s p ystem of itnesses book ""P" , g ',,y double entry, wherever it bas been applied in tit, ' M. ;ie department 4, has materially aided in intro- Her and regyJarity ducir % / had 4 a ,, I,' in their financial transactions, • , •ated the audit of the accounts, and has pro ., Mot, ,t c rrect appropriation. mactor of the ATI ,it, °l The I ice app o i n t ed to check the appropriation of the u , as .,l ~,, military expenditure, has borne testimony to .the ,;fi..,t.,,,,y o f the te,n of ao:ount in operation in ti;(t N ay .,,,, DttpartinGnt, to successful manner in whic., i' nag s:tood tLe test of great expansion during the lato V' ar, t the punctualitywi wl,l-3ivceh the sn - ,ual ac cour ;, ‘,l receipt and expenditure... heen presented , I the facilities which the system h as t i 7 ,',,ri a 11,?,Ut, an...to the concurrent audit of the naval a f furdcti in conducting txpeiiditure. Your committee therefore earnestly recommend the rxqusien of that system to the accounts of the public d epart.i,entEvin which. it has not yet been adopted, aiiri tti., pro v i s i on of a secu rity, through the control of the Treasury, for the maintenance of the system, 14 % a l.ri,iviplti of uniformity, when it shall have been gecerally established. Your committee feel a3sured " 41 ; wea.tever Lev securitis may b' 3 for V- ' r public money, devised •k . 1 ( .a.tioril appropriation of the . ~ "" e Y 44. 1 I,e incomplete uules.4 they are ae.c.)mpaolea L '.7 a 'lre. , -in of public accounts founded on the principles they., Lase suggested. aw E XTIvIIitION OF THE APPROPRIATION CHECK, AND PRPSENTSTION OF AUDITEEO ACCOUNTS TO PARLIA- 1 IleisT, f:uncurrent auait, or appropriation check, first app:is'i to the expenditure of the grants for naval ser vices in 1332, and subsequently extended to the several army grants, was a new security introduced for ensuring tb aAi let appropriation of the grants of Parliament. It 'Wits intended to limit the discretion of the responsible departments of the executive government in which it THE SUN, LO DON S SATTTR,DAY EVENING. - - - was established, but to secure a revision of t' .ieir mounts by an independent authority, invested w i t h sufficient powers of investigation to detect any . misap plication of the votes, or any deviation fr' am the appropriation sanctioned by Parliament. TWA check noW applies to the naval and military expendite re, and is regulated by the provisions of an act (9 and 10 Vict., c. 92) passed in 1846 ; also to the expendit are of the offices of Woods and Forests, and Public Works ; and the Commissioners of Audit transmit annually to the Treasury, for presentation to the House of Commons, accounts of naval and military expenditure, compared with the grants, accompanied by reports, in which they direct attention to every departure fro m the provisions of the Appropriation Act. Your committee recommend that this important check upon the application of the income and money be extended to the accounts o f the and expenditure kept at the Treasury, to the accounts of the revenue departments, and to the various accounts comprising the expenditure of the vot es for civil services, including civil contingencies. Fo r the latter service two accounts should be presented ; one showing the final payments charged against the vote for civil contingencies, and the other showing a balanced account of the trans actions of the year, including the outstanding advances at the close of theyear, and the balance unissued brought down to the following year. These accounts were pre sented for the past year along with the estimate for civil contingencies for the current year. Your committee are also of opinion that the whole of these accounts, finally audited, shoull be presented to Parliament before the close of the year succeeding that to which they relate. In order to strengthen the check upon the Government in regard to issues of money, for any service whatever in excess of the sum voted by Parliament, your committee recommend that all payments of the Paymaster-General shall be checked from day to day, in the departments in which they are authorised or made, by an officer to be ap pointed by the Commissioners of Audit ; it will be the duty of this officer to follow from day to day the appro priation of every payment to its proper account, and to report immediately to the commissioners any excess of the vote sanctioned by Parliament, or other irregularity. And your committee further recommend that these audited accounts be annually submitted to the revision of a committee of the House of Commons, to be nomi nated by the Speaker. It is desirable that an annual account of all guaranteed loans, including the payments made, and the arrears, if any, due to the Consolidated Fund, shall be presented to this committee, and that they do report thereon specially to the house. Your committee suggest that the Audit Board should no longer transmit through the Treasury those accounts which they are bound to lay before Parliament, but should communicate them direct, and that the appro priation and inspection of army and navy accounts, the selection of officers for the respective duties, their re moval or dismissal, should rest entirely with the Audit Board. Your committee has recommended a large extension of the duties and powers of the Board of Audit. If these suggestions be adopted, it will be necessary that the composition and zelative position of this board, as a great department of the State, should be reconsidered by the Executive Government. The Board of Audit is responsible to Parliament alone, and the station and emoluments of the personist the head of it should be equal to the importance of the duties to be performed, and not second in rank to any of the permanent officers presiding over other principal departments. 7.—PRINCIPLE UPON WHICH THE VOTES FOE CIVIL FREEDOM OS THE PRESS IN INDIA. (From the Times.) As it was never imagined that India was to be governed precisely as we govern ourselves, so it wls never supposed that the Press stood on the same ground there as at home. The liberty of the Press has in this country been exalted to the rank of a sacred principle, the Palladium of the Constitution, an inherited right, the safeguard of personal freedom, and the only check upon political tyranny and offi oial abuse. These are indefinite and absolute expres sions, but they who employ them have an honest and wholesome conviction that a free Press is necessary to a free State, and that there is some thing intrinsically honourable and beneficial in a state of society in which everybody may publish, within reasonable limits, his belief and his ODilli.ol3S. The freedom of the Press is, however, a practical question. We maintain it on such practical and assignable grounds as that it throws continual light on the administration of public affairs, ou the proceedings of official personages, and the working of the whole system ; that it gives a vont to feelings which might otherwise smoulder in a more malignant form ; that, on the other hand, it provides a check for its own excesses in the constant opportunity of reply and contradiction, and the disgust which calumny and falsehood will always excite in the mind of a free and generous people. Such a defence is true as far as it applies to such a State and such a people. We believe that, iu mat er of fact it is impossible for the Press of this country to do any amount of mischief at all to be compared with the evils certain to ensue on a withdrawal of this check. The Press cannot damage a good measure ; it cannot overthrow a good Government ; it cannot destroy a well grounded reputation. The least symptom of a malicious design to attain these ends is certain to recoil on the authors. These things it cannot do, though they are quite within the ordinary scope of public men, and aro the frequent, aims of parties and politicians. The public at large are far more ready to accept the rhetorical exaggerations of some enthusiast or partisan on a platform, of some adventurer or rival in the Senate, than of the nameless writer who sits down to a dispassionate discussion of persons and things. The " we" to which some alarmists have attached so tremendous an influence, and which it has been proposed to rob of its dark terrors and clothe with some vulgar im personation, is, perhaps, the most cautious and scrupulous writer of the day. In the absence of a great name the pen is found to appeal to facts and considerations within everybody's knowledge and reach, and to go no further than the public is pre pared to go with it. Once it transgresses, once it aims to be an independent authority and an organ of mischief, it finds everybody'shand turned against it, and it has to defend its ground against a thou sand writers and talkers only too glad to find a common butt for their invective. For the truth of these remarks on the real impo tence of a free Press in a free country for any evil purpose we need only refer to the fact that none use it so freely as they who in moments of petu lance have thought fit to denounce it. It is a matter of frequent occurrence for men who but the other day were abusing the newspapers, and putting anonymous writing ou a par with assassination, to make the freest use of these or other columns, and, as often as not, find by their own experience that it is no easy matter so to write as to incur neither contradiction nor rebuke. These are practical considerations, and they apply to England, but not to India. Though our govern ment of that country is infinitely more conducive to happiness, freedom, and elevation than any government that its former rulers or the people themselves over devised, yet it cannot be called self-government or constitutional in the same sense as ours. In fact, India cannot govern itself ; it never did ; and the first step in the attempt would be a war of extermination between Ma homedan and Hindoo, then betweon the dif ferent sects of the former creed. So we govern India, and impartial authorities have said there is no country in the world so well governed as India, and that England herself cannot exhibit such proofs of government at home as can be' shown iu her great dependency. We are the lords of India, and bold the balance of power between innumerable races, religions, dynasties, laws, and pretensions of all sorts. In doing this we have to appeal to the gratitude, the fear,- and respect of two hundred millions of peopld. who are, perhaps, the simplest and most credulous on the earth. It is the very soil of delusion. The religion of the vast majority is not merely an ancient mythology, believed be cause it is there, but a living source of the most preposterous inventions. Indeed, there is hardly anything that the Hindoos may not be made to believe. They will accept with equal facility, on any or no authority, and without the least investi gation, a tale of private scandal, a libel upon a Go vernment, an astounding miracle, a now revelation, the deification of a plant, a stream, or a stone, a prophecy, the decline of a dynasty or the decay of a godhead, a curse, a code of morality, or anything whatever, so long as the appeal is made directly to the faith, and ieascn be carefully put out of the question. All that is spontaneous in the social sys tem of the Hindoos is of the most imaginative and irrational character. From the highest Rajah to the lowest mendicant they yield their faith, their conscience, their purse, and their lives to the leader who makes the most extravagant demands upon them. Accordingly for themselves, and among themselves, they altogether eschew freedom of discussion. As for the Mahomedans, they know no such thing as liberty, and can have as little to do with a free Press as with a House of Commons. In such a population, then, there are wanting those checks which we have admitted to be necessary, and which we have asserted in our own instance. Our direct hold upon India is our military system, and the chief material of that system is a native soldiery. As it is the most powerful part of the people, so it is the most in formed, the most gregarious, the least occupied, and the most liable to have a stock of grievances against us. If it is assured by designing persons in a tone of authority that we are planning to destroy caste by the secret use of forbidden materials ; that we are preparing to take the Sepoy to the ends of the earth ; or that this is the prophetic period of our expulsion, it will most probably believe what it is told. It may never see the contradiction or may not credit it. At all events, it is not competent to detect the imposture, and consequently has not the requisite safeguard against the abuses of a free Press. Such are the considerations that have determined. —indeed, we may say compelled, the Indian Go vernment to restrict for the present the liberty of the Press. It does not by any means give up the principle, and it expressly reserves the grounds upon which a free Press was given to India, now twenty-two years ago. That Act was avowedly an experiment, or temporary concession, made with the full consciousness that it might be abused, and that circumstances might arise to compel its suspension. The present Act of Council, there fore, is, happily, not retrogressive, and merely implies that an occasion has come such as was eontemelated. by the authors of the Act of 1833. When it is found that the native journals pub lished in Hindostanee and Persian contain, besides the incendiary proclamation known to our readers, the most lavish abuse of the Government and its agents, promises of immediate emancipation, and directions to the native army how to further that object, it becomes a matter of oommon sense and obvious necessity to prevent the Press from being the organ of rebellion. That is all that is intended. - The only difficulty of the question is its bearing on the Anglo-Indian press. To the home imagina tion there is a certain necessary convex on betwei n the English language and liberty of speech. But everywhere and every native regiment there are Sepoys who read English, schools where English is taught, and native officials quite ready and compe tent to translate sedition into any Indian language that may answer the purpe as. In fee', there are two journals at Calcutta, published and edited by natives in the English language, and these journals have contributed their share to the insurrection. Practically it matters little, or nothing, whether dangerous arguments, treasonable counsels, and useful information are given in English or in any native tongue, or whether the publishers be Dig lish tat Indian. In the present critical sAuat . oe of the Indian Government it must take a plain, not to say a military view of the question, and silence not only the mutineer in arms, but the writer who blows the blast of war. The Indian Government have carried out the- present measure with great moderation. It would be mere pedantry, then, to ascribe to it a settled design on the press, or on those principles of liberty which we all cherish at home. What course it may have to take for the future is a matter for further consideration. A respeotable-loOking man went, a few days ago ) through the different villages in the neighbourhood of Chateau-Thierry (Aisne), with a large register under his arm, for the purpose, he said, of engaging workmen fur a railway which was to be commenced immediately from the above town to Soissons. A number of countrymen anxious to obtain employment during the winter months, when the operations in the fields are almost at a stand still, eagerly came forward and had their names set down. On leaving the cottage of oz,e of his dupes, the recruiter took from his pocket-book a bank-cote for 500 f., and asked whether he could have cash for it. On being told ikat they had not so much money in the house, he ap peared annoyed, saying that he had 801. to pay, and he had only 39f., which he drew out of his pocket. He then asked whether he could have the loan of 41f. until the next day, to make up the sum. This was acceded to, un fortunately, as he never returned, and has not since been heard of, LAW INTELLIGENCE—Sept. 11. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) INRE --..-....-........, This was a trader debtor summons. The case involved an important point in respect to practice and costs. The debtor was served with a writ for 441. on the 28th August. No further proceedings could be taken under that writ before the 24th of October. To meat this the debtor was also served with a trader debtor summons. Payment of the debt and costs wera tendered, minus the cost of the trader debtor summons. it was urged that the debt being under 501. no adjudication of bank ruptcy could be made, and that the Court could not allow the costs consequent on this summons. His Honour held that the debtor must pay the costs under both the forms of proceeding, and that although the amount of the debt was under 501. an at of bankruptcy would be committed if the claim were not forthwith settled. It follows that the law vacation allows no protec tion or respite to debtors where creditors take pro ceedings in this court by summons. IN RE TYLER. The bmalctupt W 3 s formerly lessee of the Royal Surrey Gardens. This was a meeting for the choice of a trade assignee. Mr. Southby, pyro technist, was appointed. SERVICES SHOULD BE TAKEN. The difficulty which has hitherto prevented the ex tension of the principles of account and appropriation check applied to the naval and military accounts to the accounts of expenditure for civil services, has arisen from the delay which takes place in Parliament in voting the estimates for civil services. These votes being passed generally late in the session, it has been considered im possible to adopt the principle applied to the naval and military grants, of providing only fur the" payments to be made in the financial year. Your committee are of opinion that this difficulty may be overcome by taking one aggregate vote, upon account, for such civil ser vices as have already been sanctioned by Parliament in the previous session ; and in order to facilitate this practice, it is recomme.,ded that all salaries for the last quarter shall be payable on the 31st March in each year. The amounts thus made applicable to each separate vote for civil services should be stated in a schedule, and deducted from the amounts to be voted to complete the grants for the year, A course similar to this has been adopted in the present year, except that the votes have not been limited to the provision required for meeting the payments to be made in the year. Under this arrangement, the accounts could be closed soon after the termination of the year for all home ser vi:es ; and as regards payments made abroad, imme diately on receipt of the accounts of payments made up to the 31st March, all unexpended balances should be surrendered; and grants unapplied, but required for the cc mpleticin of the services to which they bad been ap priated, should be revoted. 8.-Tir ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OF INCOME AND EXPENDI TURE TO BE FOUNDED ON ACTUAL RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS. It is provided by the Act 10 Geo. IV., c. 27, that, for the purpose of ascertaining the annual amount of surplus revenue, the Treasury shall cause to be prepared, after theexpiration of each quarter, an annual account, showing the actual revenue and expenditure of the United King dom, in the four quarters for the whole year imme diately -preceding such quarter-days respectively, according to the actual receipt and issue of moneys at the Exchequer ; and on the 24th section of the Exchequer Act (4 Will. IV. c. 14) requires that the expenditure iu such account, so far a; it relates to Great Britain, shall be made up from the credits granted to the Exchquer. Your committee are satisfied from the evidence taeen before them, that an account of Exche quer credits cannot represent a true account of expendi ture; they therefore recommend that the basis of the account should be the actual payment of the several paymasters to whom those credits are granted. 9. —REGULATION OF THE TREASURY CHEST FUND. Full information as to the nature of this fund, and the stops taken to Lring it under proper regulations will be found in the Appendix, No: 3, to the Report of the Com mittee, in 1846, pp, 589 to 613; This fund was formerly known as "Army Extraordinaries," and subsequently as the " Commissariat Cheat Fund." The object of the fund is to provide the means of carrying on the public service abroad. Under existing regulations a royal warrant defines the objects for which it is to be em ploye3, and prescribes that accounts shall be prepared annually by the Commissioners of Audit, showing the sums paid in and out of the fund in the financial year, and the assets and liabilities of the fund at the close of the year. These accounts have been regularly laid before the House of Commons since the let April, 1846. Your committee sonar in the propriety of the regula tions under which this fund is administered and the accounts are prepared ; but they recommend that, in stead of relying on the security of a royal warrant for the maintenance of those regulations, they should be confirmed by an Act of Parliament. The objects to which legislation should be directed in regard to this fund are the following :- Ist. To limit the amount of the balance to be retained at the credit of the fund, and to provide that, if it shall at any time exceed the limit fixed by law, the surplus shall be paid to the Consolidated Fond. 2d. To provide that no final expenditure shall be charged upon the fund. 3i. To provide that the fund shall only be employed for the legitimate banking operations of the Treasury chests, and for advances for public and colonial services, repayable out of votes of Parliament, or other funds applicable thereto. 4th. To provide that accounts shall be laid before Parliament every year, showing the cash operations of the fund at home and abroad during the financial year, and the assets and liabilities of the fund at the close of such year. Your committee are aware that the important and ex tensive changes which they have suggested cannot all be immediately carried into effect ; but they believe that the continued attention of Parliament and of the Execu tive GovernmeLt to the subject will secure at no distant date ali the objects embraced in their recommendations. August 18, 1857. LOCAL SHARE MARKETZ. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions in this market have been moderate, but an improvement in tone is mani fest, and prices of all the leading stocks closed steady. Eastern Counties, 11i -Caledonian, 411—North British, I2l—North Union (A), 219—Chester and Holyhead, 17i — Lancashire an'i Yorkshire, 1001—Midland, 82i a London and N, rth-Westorns, 100 99i—North Eastern, Berwick, 231----Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 66i —Great Western of Canada, 21A —Sheffields, 411 / Gland Trunk of Canada, 12A —South Eastern, MANCHESTER, SEPT. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE. - The market was rather inactive to-day, and a less amount of business doing ; prices lower. —:)fanchester, Sheffield, and Lincol❑, 42—llovers, 21 3-IG Blackbuins, pref., 22 11-IG—Eastern Counties, 114 Gr-rat Wester❑, 551—London and North Westerns, 100 1 -EaSt Lancashire, 961 --Grand Trunk of Canada, 121 — Leeds, 100 :1 --Sheffield Pref., 1181. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE. - The market has been dull to day, and rriees have been the turn lower. Midlands, 82 —London and North - Western, 100.}—Shrewsbury and Herefords, 84—E-ostern Counties, 11.} 14—Shropshire Unions, 49i—Great Westerns, 54 55 —Birmingham and Stour Valley, 8. COURSE OF EXCHANGE,YEsTERDAT. 5m5terdam............ 11 17 Gibra.ltar ......•• •••• •• -• - , I A Genoa •. ~„•••••••• Ditto,tterda m thre . e .. m .. o . n . t . h .•• 1 5 . .. 11 1 18 , Lenhorn —•••••• •• •• 24 25_75 . _ _4244 finrusistweel7 •••• •• . •• •• .. L ... 2 2 5 5 40 40 V tl e i n la i n ce ...............::::....••••• llarriburgh ............ 13 8k kaples .... —..•• • Alt. na ......., . Palermo .... ...... .... 127 128 P4rls •• •• •••...... • ... 25 25 Messina ••• lu D r o „ ..t u t i r , : e month; .. .... 2 25 5 6 6 5 2 y. OportoLisbon .... • ....... •• : : 5 . „ 3 2 11Ferariniknf°,4)...n...11..a.i.a.e.•••••••• 119.1'; Dourdeaux . • ••• •• ••••••••••• •• 1,,, 1 i t i lue o we n J oy a s n oA e r Janeiro ...... , 0 r6 . 00 . 3 . . d .. a. • y: 1; • , .• 6 i . g. h .. .. t _-_—_ Vicuna.. •• •• •• •••• •... }0. 34 Philadelphia •• . •• • rrie.te•• •• •••••• •••• .... 10 3t , ?PICEA OF BULLION, FEB oz. Petersburg .••••••••.. a6i4 Foreign Gold in Ball £3 17 9 P eter ••••••• •• •, •••• 49 Portugal Gold Coin OO 0 GILL.: .•• •• •• •• •• •• 1 , 6 • • 50 Me xican Dollars •• •• 0 0 0 B -Jealous •• •• .. •..• •• • • I :New Dollars .• •• •• 0 0 0 Seville.... „... „ LONGEVITY.—We (Brechin Advertiser) have four in dividuals residing in our ancient city, with" distance of each other, whose united a ges amount years. One is 93, one 96, a nother 94, and a fourth 3 L We may also mention, that we can produce ii;x indivi duals within a very short distance of each other, wh ose united ages amount to 547 years. IN RE J. F. GOODERED. The bankrupt was a wine merchant, of the Pic cadilly Saloon. This was an examination meeting. Mr. Lucas appeared for the petitioning creditor, Mr. Murrough for the assignees, and Mr. Law ranee for the bankrupt. The accounts have al ready appeared in The Sun. The bankrupt examined, said—On the 23d March he gave a bill of sale over the whole of his effects at the Saloon to Messrs. Seale and Co. The consi deration was a sum of 8621., and he gave a receipt for that amount. He only received 1501., the difference being money that he owed before. Seale and Co. did not take possession under the bill of sale, but under a warrant of attorney which he had given them on the same day that he gave the bill of sale. The power of attorney was for the whole 8621. The Commissioner—Who are Seale and Co. ? Mr. Lucas—The proprietors of a loan aid dis count office who have since milel themselves bankers. Examination continued—He was in prison at the time of the sale, and the Sheriff got his consent to sell. It was six or seven weeks aft •r having given the bill of sale that Seale and Co. took possession. The bill of sale was not given to protect the pro perty. He bad resided at Westmorland-villa, Kensington with a lady. The furniture there did not belong to him, but to the lady. The furniture had been deposited with Mr. Tingey for 2001.. and he had signed a memorandum, upon permission of the lady, that the property was his. The furniture , included a table which he had made a present of to the lady on her birthday. He had kept books showing his profits at the saloon, and he was now attending at the saloon fur his brother. Messrs. Seale and Co. had let the premises to his brother, and he was acting as his servant. Persons were admitted to the saloon by refreshment tickets of ls. 61. each. The Commissioner—Are visitors bound to take refreshments 1 The bankrupt explained that they were required to take the ticket only as a desirable regulation. He had kept betting-rooms at Doncaster as admi ❑istrat A. of his father. Mr. Lucas—Do you make bets in the character of administrator ? Mr. Lowrance submitted that the learned coun sel should not make sport of his client ; and The Commissioner decided that the question need not be auswt-red. Examination of bankrupt continued—The rooms at Donca4ter were carried on by himself and a Mr. Atkins. Had never kept books showing the profits of the rooms. The receipts of the last races were only 5751., not 800/.—it was a bad year. Mr. Lucas—Have you not taken as much as 10,000/. ? The bankrupt—No ; he had not kept books of the receipts, neither had Atkins• that he was aware of. Mr. Lucas called the attention of the Court to the circumstance that, although the bankrupt had carried on an extensive trade he now appeared with accounts showing only two debtors to his estate. The bankrupt —It was a ready-money house. (Laughter. ) The bankrupt, examined by Mr. Lowrance, said, he succeeded his father, who had carried on the business for a great many years. Ho hal charged him. , elf with profits 3,C00/. during the last two years. The Doncaster betting rooms were sup ported by sub etibers who paid 17. ls. each. He hal kept a list of the members. It was not neces sary to keep any books beyond this list. Every thing was vouched except the Doncaster business. Mr. Lucas remarked upon the manner in which the bankrupt's property had passed to Messrs. Seale awl Co. Mr. Murrough said, it was but just to the bank rupt t• state that the a=signees were of opinion that he had correctly stated the position of affairs be tween himself and Messrs. Seale. Mr. Lucas submittal that the property obtained by Messrs. Seale and Co. was recoverable for the creditors generally. The bill of sale given to them was an act of bankruptcy itself. It had been de cided in the case of Graham and Chapman, that a bill of sale, part of the consideration for which was a by-gone debt, was an act of bankruptcy. The trade assignee was the bankrupt's own surgeon on a debt part of which was nearly ten years old. The Commissioner—What is his name ? Mr. Lucas—Robins. The creditor for whom I appear wishes to be allowed to investigate the bank rupt's affairs and to bring an action against Seale. A meeting is asked at which Messrs. Saye and Sele may be examined. The Commissioner—Who did yon call them— Saye and Sele ? . Mr. Lucas—l was thinking at the moment of Lord Saye and Sele. I meant to say Seale and Co. There are no ass Sts wherewith to defray the ex penses Mr. Nathan o a Ia breimbursed. of h e meatin l g t is or th b e y w w ish iliP o il f Mr. however, howver, to examine Messrs. Says and S e l e . I b eg your honour's pardon. (Laughter.) Mr. Lawrance—You ought rather to ask his Lordship's pardon. Mr. Lucas proceeded to urge that Mr. Robins had overtopped Mr. Nathan in the choice of assig nees and elected himself to that office. Mr. Lawrance—lt was, unquestionably, a very fierce contest. Mr. Nathan tried his strength, and Mr. Robins beat him. I ;do not object at all to your bringing an action on giving an. indemnity against costs. Mr. Lawrance proceeded to urge that the application was foreign to the business of the day ; that all the creditors who had furnished the bankrupt with either money or goods were per fectly aware of the nature of his business, and that the bankrupt should be allowed to pass his last examination. Mr.. Lucas—Seale h►s got all the London pro perty ; a person named Wood has got all the Don caster property. The bankrupt ought not to be allowed to pass until there has been further inves tigation, Mr. Murrough said the assignees were satisfied that the bankrupt's transactions with Messrs. Seale and Co. were bona fide. Mr. Sea'e would attend with great pleasure to be examined. It was not right that the assignees should be accused of laxity. They thought that the property could not be re covered. They had no objection, however, to Mr. Natlian prosecutiilg an action in the names of the official assignee and the trade assignees—whose names must necessarily be used in ay action—on receiving an indemnity. Mr. Cannan (the official assignee) said he had the strongest objection to his name being used in any such action. It was his opinion that nearly the entire value of the property held was in the form of the good sill of an infamous trade, and that any action must fail. Mr. Luca;--The goodwill is said to be worth 1,8 o'. a-year. Mr. Lawrance contended that the case of " Graham and Chapman" was nut analogous to the one before the Court. The Comtnisioner—Mr. Cannan objects to the usa of his name in the matter. Mr. Lucas urged that, although that was natural enough, an official 'assignee was bound to allow an action in his name on receiving an indemnity. His client was desirous by every means in his power to rtc )ver the property. Mr. Lawrance--My friend Mr. Lucas is really miainsttucted. Messrs. Seale and Co. sold under the warrant of attorney, not under the bill of sale. The cane of " Graham and Chapman" cannot ki)ply. - The Comtnisionor thought that whether the pro perty had been taken under the bill of sale or under the warrant of attorney was foreign to the point. The question was whether the property had been diverted from its proper course. He eily no objection to Mr. Nathan having a meeting at his own expen,,e for the examination of Mr. Seale, and he might em pl oy his o wn solicitor to prosecute the in qu i ry . Mr. Lucas—l n th e mean ti m e the bankrupt's examination will be adjourned. There is not a 'farthing for the creditors. After some further discussion an adjournment SEP TEMBER 12, 1857 until the 29th of October was granted, with re newed protection to the bankrupt. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-SEPT. 11. (Before Mr. Commissioner Murphy.) IN RE JAMES DIGBY WRIGHT. Tnis insolvent, described as of no trade or pro fossion, was opposed by Mr. Reed for Mr. Yeat man, hosier in Regent-street. Several c editors appeared in person, named Reeves, Bonthron, Ed miston, and Porter. Mr. Sargood supported. In 1851 the insolvent was discharged under the act. He now owed about 2,0)01,, and had 103 creditors on his present schedule. He had been seven months in prison, and was in a bad state of health. He had been a lieutenant in the Artillery, and, with the exception of two years ended in 1856, when he was in the service of the Great Western Had way Company, he had been in no business or profession. He had assistance from his friends, and was entitled to some reversionary interest. Hei ob. tained hosiery goods of Mr. Yeatman's shopmau to the amount of 181. some odd shillings in the name of Captain Digby Wright. He took apart ments at the house of a working man named Reeves, one of the opposing creditors, where he had " five servants" and owee44l. Mr. Bonthron, a baker, had a trade bill and cashed a check of a person named White, who was now iu Australia. Mr. Edmiston, waterproofer, of 69, Strand, com plained that he got an opera glass from him and a waterproof coat ; and the other complainant was a washerwoman. On the part of the opposition it was urged that the in3olvent had pursued a reckless career of ex trava,gance, and had no reasonable expectation, if he over had the intention, to pay his numerous creditors. Mr. Sargood made an appeal to the Court on ac count of the insolvent's state of health and the im prisonment he had already suffered. Mr. Commissioner Murphy said he meant to give a long judgment. It was a case of reckless extra vagance. He found among the debts one for an ice-pail for his wine. Ho could not consider the insolvent's state of health so as to prevent him pass ing a long remand. The learned Commissioner gave a judgment of 12 calendar months, remarking that had he not been in prison seven months he would have given him 18 months' imprisonment. From the London Gazette of Last ii tight. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 14. The Queen has baeu phased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, and to the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Ebury, of Ebury Manor, in the county of Middlesex. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 10. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto the Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay, and to the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Maucaulay, of Rothley, in the county of Leicester. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 10. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Helsingfors, re porting that the Imperial Senate of Finland has notified that rye, corn, oats, meal, and grits of those cereals, peas, and potatoes, may be imported, duty free, into the Grand Duchy of Finland, until the 31st December next. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT 11. Regulations to be observed at the magazines, Liverpool, during the repair of one of the magazines, authorized by Master-General of Ordnance, as per Gazette of 25th Feb ruary, 1852, an l to continue in force until the magazine is again moored for tho reception of powder :- 1. All vessels having gunpowder on board are to hoist a red flag, which to be kept up until the whole of the powder is discharged. 2. The import vessel is not to anchor within a quarter of a mile of the magazine; before anchoring all fires are to be completely extinguished, and they are not on any account to be relighted until the powder is discharged. 3. In any lighter used for the temporary accommodation of powder during the repair of the magazine, all iron bolts, nails, &e., in the hold or other part of the vessel, which may be at all liable to ba brought into contact with the powder barrels, are to be carefully covered with sheet lead or pieces of leather, secured by copper nails ; and the mas ter is enjoined to assure himself by frequent examination that such is the case. 4. On receiving powder on board the lighter, the master is to see that the platform in the vessel's hold and the gangways and coverings of the hatchways are covered with tanned hides, the hold having previously been carefully swept and freed from grit or dust. 5. While any powder continues on board, the vessel is ou no account to be left without either the master or the mate, and one other man. 6. The Iran employed in receiving or discharging the powder are to be clothed in canvas frocks and trousers, and to wear magazine slippers, such clothing to be worn at no other time. 7. No lights are to be allowed, except the signal one ; another for the watch, which is to have water under it ; end a temporary light in an approved hand•lantern, which is to be brought from the shore for the purpose of lighting the signal and the light for the watch, and which is then to be extinguished. Smoking is strictly prohibited, and under no pretence whatever is any lucifer match to be per mitted on board. 8. Import vessels with mixed cargoes are to observe the same precautions in approaching the lighter and discharg ing their powder as as they would do under similar cir cumstances at the magazine. 9. Printed copies of these regulations are to be given to the masters and placed in conspicuous parts of the vessels. 10. Any lighter used for the foregoing purposes is to be under the direction of the authorised storekeeper of the magazines. By order of her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War. J. R. GODLEY. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 11. Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Gen. G. Cobbe to be Colonel Com mandant, vice Lieut.-General Thomas Hutchesson, de ceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 11. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Henry Mapleton Hockin, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Park, promoted. 2d Dragoons—Cornet Thomas Gonne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mills, who retires ; Charles Hill, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice GOnne ; Nicholas Mills, Gent., to be Riding Master. Military Train—Captain William Alfred Swift, from half pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Henry Alexander, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards. Royal Artillery—Brevet Colonel John St. George, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Bell, promoted; Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel John Miller Adye, C. 8., to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice St. George ; Second Captain George Hat ton Colomb to be Captain, vice Adye ; Lieutenant John Donald Geo. Higgon to be Second Captain, vice Colomb ; Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas Park to be Surgeon ; Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Real, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bowen, resigned; Assistant-Su/gem Robert Lewer, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Daniell, resigned. The undermentioned Probationary Veterinary Surgeons to be Veterinary Surgeons : -George Longman, Charles Steel, John Tatam, and John Baldock. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Hon. A. F. Egerton to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Hervey Hopwood, who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant P. K. Murray to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur chase, vice Hon. A. F. Egerton ; Hugh Henry Chol _ _ meley, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Murray. 21 Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Money Bright, from the 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ewens, ap pointed to the 60th Foot. 3d Foot—Lieutenant Wm. James Newton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Floyd, who retires; Ensign Alfred George Huyshe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Newton ; Felix Thomas Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Huyshe. sth Foot—James Vaughan Gooch, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fitz Roy, promoted. 14Lh Foot—Lieutenant Charles °Min to be Adjutant, vice Alexander Gordon, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 15th Foot--Lieut. Frederick Edward Lock to be Captain, by purchase, vice Walmsley, who retires; Emiga Henry Jardine Hallowes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lock. 224 Foot—Francis Edward Holyoake, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Cobham, who Miles. 31st Foot—Francis Wm. Henry Davies Butler, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Phillipson, appointed to 7th Light Drrgoons. 44th Foot—Lieut. Arthur William Staveley to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Micklethwait, who retires • En sign Henry Norman Salis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Staveley. 57th Foot--Lieut. Wm. A. James Shortt to be Instructor of Musketry. 60th Foot—Major R. B. Hawley, from a Depot Battalion, to be Major, without purchase ; Ensign C. H. Cox, from the 57th Foot. to be Ensign, without purchase. 65th Foot—A. W. Crozier , Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bates, promoted. 71st Foot—Ensign Edwin Sergeant Swainson to be Lieu tenan, by purchase, vice Mirehouse, who retires ; R. Kane, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Swainson. 75th Foot—Brevet-Lieut.-Col. Chas. Herbert to be Lieut.- Col., without purchase, vice) Brevet• Col. Hallifax, de• ceased; Brevet-Major Edward Knollys to be Major, without purchase, vice Harbert ; Lieut. George William Muriel to be Captain, without purchase, vice Knollys ; Lieut. Browning Drew to be Captain, without purchase, vice E. W. J. Knox, killed in action ; Ensign William Crozier to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Muriel; Ensign Charles Melville Pym to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Drew. 77th—The undermentioned officers have been superseded, having been absent without leave ; —Ensign Richard Butler Clarke, and Ensign James Peacock. 94th Foot—Assistant-surgeon Edmund McGrath, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Martin, promoted on the Staff. 97th Foot—Captain Roger Swire, from half-pay 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Charles Henry Lumley, whose Brevet rank has been converted in'o Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 ; John Rudgo, Gene., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Alderson, who retires. Rifle Brigade—Brevet-Colonel Henry Penleaze, from half pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant Colonel ; Brevet- Lieut.-Col. Frederick Robert Eirington to ba Lieute nant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Penleaze, who retires ; The surname of the Captain restored to full-pay on the Ist instant, is Norris, and not Morris, as stated in the gazette Of the 4th instant. 3d West India Regiment —Ensign Charles O'Loughlin L. Prendergast to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice de Ruvignes, promoted in the Gold Coast Artillery Corps ; Robert John Stewart, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur- chase, vice Prendergast. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Lieut. Charles Henry Theo doro Bruce de Ruvignes, from the 3d West India Regi ment, -to be Captain, without purchase. DEPOT BATTALION. For Major D. G. A. Darroch, from half-pay unattached, vice Drevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Pretyman, appointed to GOth Foot, which appeared in Gazette of 4th instant. Read, Major D. G. A. Darroch, from half-pay unat tached, to be Major, So. IN RE THE HON. SUSSEX LENNOX. This insolvent (Lord Sussex Lennox) applied to be discharged. Mr. Oliver, a tailor in Piccadily, appeared to oppose. Mr. Sargood supported. An objection was taken to the opposition as the debt was incurred for clothes, 4 - 7:!., in 1843, and was consequently barred by the Statute of Limita tions. Mr. Commissioner Murphy held that Mr. Oliver could not oppose. Although a debt wai barred, an insolvent was bound to insert the debt in his schedule. The debts in the schedule were 1,9361., and the appearance was partly attributed to his connexion with railway companies. He had an allowance of 1751. a year from his brother, the Duke of Rich mond. The insolvent was discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 11. MANSION-HOITSE.—James Moore, a fero cious-looking fellow, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having bitten off the top joint of the finger of Ellen Sullivan, the wife of a shoe maker living at 55, Halfmoon street. The prosecutrix, who carried her arm in a sling, and appeared to be suffering severe pain, upon be ing sworn said,--The prisoner is a stranger to me. Last night, about half-past 12 o'clock, as my hus band was going downstairs to the yard f heard a disturbance between him and the prisoner, and my son went down stairs with a lighted candle to turn the latter out of the house. He thereupon struck my son and tore the front of his shirt off. I went to my son's assistance, upon which the prisoner caught hold of my hand, dragged it towards his mouth, and bit my forefinger off at the top joint. The Lord Mayor.—What became of the end of the finger ? Prosecutrix.—l did not know. The Lord Mayor.—Did you not find it ? Prosecutrix.—No, my Lord ; we looked for it everywhere and it was not to be found, so I sup pr.se he swallowed 1 afterwards went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where my finger was ex amined by the doctor, who did not dress it, on account of its inflamed state. lam in dreadful agony, and the pain extends all the way up my arm to the shoulder. I think the prisoner had had a glass of something to drink, but nothing to Burt him. The Lord Mayor—Have you ever seen him pre viously to this ? Prosecutrix—Nevor ; he was a perfect stranger to me. He said he had come to see his father-in-law, who lived on the first flow-. Prisoner—How came you to put your finger into my mouth when I was down and was being kicked and struck by about a dozen of you ? Prosecutrix—You Were not down when you pulled my finger into your mouth. John Sullivan, the husband of the prosecutrix, said—Last night, about half-past 12 o'clock, as I was going down stairs, I fancied I saw the shadow of a man in the corner of the staircase. I said, " Who is there I" and the prisoner replied with an oath,. " What do you want to know for ?" I said; " Whoever you are, you are very saucy." He was about to strike me, when my wife and youngest son came to my assistance, and the latter, knowing that I had an abscess on my back and was unable to protect myself, threw off his coat and offered to fight the prisoner. About a dozen persons rushed downstairs at the same time, most of them un dressed, and a regular row ensued. I heard my wife scream violently, and bag of the prisoner to let go her finger. A light was brought and I saw her finger, which was bleeding profusely, and looked as if it had b'en gnawed off at the joint by a dog. I never saw the prisoner in my life before. Cross-examined by the Prisoner.—l did not know till last night that your father-in-law lived on our first floor. James Sullivan, jun., the young man alluded to in the foregoing evidence, corrvbated the state ments of his father and mother. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said - --Last night I, went to the house in question, for the pur pose' of seeing my father-in-law, and just as I knocked at his bedroom door the witness John Sul livan came downstairs, and asked me what business I had there. I told him that that was nothing to him, upon which he gave an Irish howl, and in an instant at least a dozen men and women, most of them i❑ their nightdresses, rushed downstairs and kicked me all over my body, and jumped upon me. (The prisoner had a black eye, and was a good deal cut about the face). The prosecutrix got her fingers into my mouth, and tried to gag me, and to tear the flesh from the roof, and in order to release myself I was obliged to bite her. If my father and mother-in-law had not let me in I am sure I should have been killed. Several of the persons who attacked me tried to rip up my cheeks by putting their fingers into my mouth. - The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial upon the charge of unlawfully wounding the pro secut rix. BOW-STREET.—A• young woman of ill-repute named Mary • Ann Taylor, was charged with a savage as3ault on Ellen Downey, one of her com panions, and biting her under lip off. The complainant, whose lice was bandaged and pressnted a frightful spectacle; deposed that on Thursday morning she went to an eel-stall in Jamei-street, Covent-garden, to make a purchase. She took a half-sovereign and some change out of her pockets and was about to pay for what she had b-iughP, when the prisoner rushed upon her suddenly and tried to snatch the money out of her hands. Failing to do this she then flew at wit ness like a tiger, se'zing her by the bater and biting away her under lip. "She bit a pis te quite out of my lip," continued the complainant, " and then spat it out of her, mouth and kicked it down a sink." After she was taken into custody she threatened in filthy language that she would do for witness directly she got at liberty again. The wound had been since properly dressed. Police constable F 159 stated he was on duty at the time near the spot, when be saw the prisoner deliberately rush at the complainant. She was very drunk. Both the wAneu lived in the vicinity of Charles-street, Drury-lane. Prisoner—l was drunk, and don't remember anything about it. Sit 3 was spending my money, and I tried to get it from her. Comp'ainant said the money was her own. It was stated that the prisoner had been fre quently in custody. She was once committed for biting a constable's nose partly off in the same savage manner. Mr. Henry, after cominNit'ng upon the brutal character of the assault, ordered the prisduer to pay a fine of 41., or be committed to prison for six weeks' hard. labour. The-fine not being forthc)ming the•prisoner was sent to prison in default. ----- EXTRAORDINARY YIELD OF WHEAL—We learn that a farmer, residing within a short distance of Glastonbury, has this season reaped .the extraordinary yield of 56 bushels of wheat per acre off two and a half acres of land ; and that another farmer in the neighbourhood has reaped 54 bushels off one acre. Tua CLARE SCHOOLS.—The Suffolk Herald announces that the Queen has graciously been pleased to contribute towards the erection of schools in Clare the Eum of 251. out of the revenues of her Duchy of Lancaster. STAFF. Brevet-Colonel the Honourable W. L. Packenham, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay Unattached, to be Deputy- Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in the East In dies. Brevet-Colonel Ed►vard Robert Wetherell, C. 8., Major half-pay Unattached, to be Deputy-Quartermaster-Gene ral to the Forces serving in the East Indies. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon Henry Clinton Martin, from the 9lth Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of tho Second Class, vise Park, appointed to the Royal Artillery. The Commission of Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Leslie, M.D., to bear date 7th May, 1855, instead of ht August, 1857, as stated in the Gazette of the 28th ultimo. BREVET. Major-General Alexander Cavalie Mercer, Royal Artil lery, to be Lieutenant-General, vice Hutchesson ' deceased. Colonel William Bell, Royal A r till er y, to be Major- General, vice Mercer. The undermentioned Officers , to have the local rank of Lieutenant-General in the East Indies : Major-General Marcus Berestbrd. Major-General the lion. Thomas Ashburnham, C.B. In consequence of the promotion of Col. of W. Ball to be Major-Goneral, the following officers on the Retired Full ply List of the Royal Artillery, who stood above him on the Effective List to have the honorary rank of M•ijor- General, viz. : Brevet-Colonel William Dunn. Brevet-Colonel James Gray. Brevet-Colonel James Fogo. Brevet-Colonel Hon. Wm. Arbuthnot. Brevet-C,lonel Henry Blochley. Brevet-Colonel George John Belson. Bievet-Colonel Robert Fr a nck Romer. Brevet-Colonel Richard C. Molesworth. MEMORANDUM—The Christian names of Mojor the Honourable Clifford, on -pay Unattached, ha lfare " Henry . Hugh." ADMMALTY, SEPT. 8. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Adjutant John Horndon . Parry to be Captain, vice Savage, de ceased. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Ross, Caithness Sutherland, and Crommty Regiment of Militia—James Ewing, Gent., to be Quartermaster, as from 27th July, 1857. com,rdisroNs SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. Royal Merionoth Militia —Ensign Arthur Edward Mor gan to bo Lieutenant, vice William Ellis, resigned. Royal Brecknocli Rifle Regiment of Militia.— Morisco° Lloyd Freddriek, Gont.; . to be Lieutenant, vicce Gwynne, resigned; Loftus Neynoe, Gant., to be Ensign. —JallieS Ist Devon. Regialt2ot of Yeomanry Civalry Templer to b 3 Cornet, vice Brown, resigned. Ist Devon Regiment of Militia—Richard Marker Mirka to be Ensign. NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Sept. 7, 1857. Notice is hereby given, to all parties interested therein, that preparations are now making for the intended dis tribution of proceeds arising from the grant for the destruction of pirates in the Chinese seas. by her Majesty's ship Bittern, between the 27th June, 1851 and the 30th March, 1856. .• Agents or other persons having any just and legal de mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other persons holding powers of attor ney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the sbaTe belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Depart ment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi ralty, Somerset-house. • t Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the commence ment of distribution ; and at the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the respective classes will be announced. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Lowden and William Lowden, ship owners, Coles hill-street, Pimlico. BANKRUPTS. William Harding, builder, Lewisham and Margate, Kent, to surrender Sept. 23 and Oct. 23, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptev. Cannan, official assignee, Alderrnanbury ; Towne, Broad-street-buildings; Towne, Margate. Edward Small, plumber, St: Gregory, Kent, Sept. 17, at eleven, and Oct. 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Walker and Son, St. Swithin's lane. John Badham, builder Ruislip, MiAdlesex ' Sept. 12, at twelve, and Oct. 30, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Pool and Gam lin, Gray's-in-square, London. John Hamilton and Robert Hamilton, wire workers, Halifax, Sept. 24, and Oct. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, La eds ; Wavell, Philbrick, and Foster, Halifax. Ho ward Gill, merchant, Gloucester-crescent, Bayswater, Sept. 23, at half-past, one, and Oct. 23, at three, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Ed wards, Coleman-street. Thomas John Marshall, engineer, Bishopsgate-street Without, City, Sept. 23 at one, and Oct. 29 at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Linkhiter and Haekwood, Sise-lane. Samuel P. Diprose, grocer, Saint Leonard's-on-Sea, Sussex, Sept. 23, at two, and Oct. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Link later and Hackwood, Sise-lane. Thomas Taylor, grocer, Blackheath, Sept. 24, at eleven, and Oct. 29, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Stalls fold, official assignee; Atkinson, Chancery . lane. John Passam Smith, grocer, Coventry-street, Haymar ket, Sept. 23, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 28, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. G 1 aham, official assignee ; J. and J. H. _Link later and Hackwood, Sise-lane. George Ward, hotel keeper, Sandgate, Kent, Sept. 24, at two, and 23d Oct., at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Froy and Loxley, Cheapside ; Wightwick, Folk°. stone. Watson White, grocer, Bisnop Wearmouth, Durham, October 2, at one, and October 28, at twelve, at the Nevi' castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Forster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Bolding and Simpson, Gracechurch-street. Thomas Gutteridge, innkeeper, Wilt on , Wilt s hire, Sept. 25 and Oct. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Gilham, Bartlett's buildings, Holborn. James Scruby, grocer , Bishopstortford, Hertfordshire, Sept. 25 and Oct. 30, at twelve, at tho Court of Bank ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Harrison and Dobree, Hart-street, Bloomsbury. Robert Hall and Thomas Hyde, mill manufacturer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Sept. '25 and Oct. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, offi cial assignee, Birmingham ; Caldicott and Canning, Dud ley ; Smith, Birmingham. Henry Hunt Sayer, corn and seed factor, Bristol, SoPt• 22 and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling , Bristol. ~.„..,„„_. Richard Burge, bookseller, Manchester, Sept. 25 and Oct. 15, at twelve, at the Manchester Di s t r i c t Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Hickson and Robinson, chester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Israel Guttstam, manufacturer, Glasgow. The Montrose Foundry Company, Montrose. Alexander Macintosh, coal merchant, Edinburgh. John Mather, merchant, Aberdeen. William Ruthven, shipowner, Dundee. John Baxter Stuart, wine merchant, Edinburgh. John Bannerman, baker, Glasgow. David Alexander Bruce Murray, commission merchant, Glasgow. rendrei g h and Daly, drapers, Glasgow. James Alexander, draper, Airdrie. Mrs. Catherine Ponsonby, editor and proprietor of the Christian Family Advocate and Literary Review, E din. burgh. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturda ENGLAND. Tth and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the sth day of Sept., 1857. &ATMXNT. 160176 11/6/f £ Notes issued —125,311,410 Government debt .... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 10,836,410 Silver bullion . • • • • • • • - $25,311,410 I £25,311,41 0 ff. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 10th day of Sept., 18-, BANKING DE Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest ........ .... 3,893,251 Public deposit s (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and ;PLaTMENT. Governmentsecuritios (includg•Dead Weight Annuity) • • • • .. .... 10.593,6 53 Other securities .. . 18,351,9 90 Notes .. ...... 6,06 ;,5/ 0 Gold and silver coin.. 654,903 Dividend Accounts) 7,087,314 Other deposits ...... 9,350,219 Seven Day and other .Bills•• •• .• •• •• . 771,332 -__-- f 35,60 ,116 3f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 10th day of Sept., 1857. £35,665,116 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn• puled from the returns made in the week ending Sept• 8, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid on payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : 8. d. From the British Possessions in America 36 51 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 44 6 Average of the above descriptions. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—SEPT. 11. There was a poor attendance at market to-day, and , millers and dealers seemed indifferent as to purchasing wheat, and were content to suit their wants to the extreme prices of Tuesday. Flour was better in value than for some time past. Indian corn declined 3d per qr., but the article commanded a better sale. Oats were dull, and oat meal barely sustained Tuesday's prices. The weather •i 1 unsettled, and a lower barometer. WAKEFIELD-SEpT. 11. The belief that the lain would in some measure injure the northern harvest, led factors to ask is more for wheat; but it checked business, and the prices obtainable were scarcely in excess of iast week's quotations. Now barley in moderate demand at late rates. In oats and shelling no material alteration. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 57s 11d ; bailey, 4611 6zd; oats, —s —d; beans, 46s 94d; peas, —s —d; rye, —s. Od. EXETER—SEPT. 11. CORN.—Wheat, 7s 3d to 7s 6d ; barley, 5s to 5s 6d ; grinding do., NOdto Os Od. Oats, 3s Od to 3s 3d. Beans, Os Oto 0 Od. Peas, 00s Od to 00s Od. FLOUR.—Fine, 42s Od to 43s Od; seconds, 40s Od to 410 Od per sack. CATTLE. —There was a small supply of bullocki. Best beef, from lOs 6,1 to lls per score ; inferior, 7s Od to 8s per score ; fat calves, Od to 7d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to OA 01. per score ; cows and calvet, 121. to 20/. Ls ; butchers' calves, Od to 7d per lb., rearing calves —s to s each; shedp, ewes and lambs, 2/. 5s to 3/. 5s per couple; ewes, Od to 6Ad ; wethers, 6d 41; lambs, 70 to 0 per lb. Pigs, largo size, —s to —s ; second size, —s to —s ; slips, — 0 to —s ; suckers,, —s to —s. Rough fat, 5d per It. Pork carcases from 10s 6d tolls 6d per score. BRISTOL SUGAR--:SEPT. 11. We are still unable to report any improvement in the tono of the market ; on the contrary, prices continue to declin), and a cheap purchase to-day is dear to-morrow. Refiners' produce still sells to a moderate extent, at about former rates, but the dealers limit their purchases to their positive wants. Rum firm, and wanted. Proof Deme. rams have heels sold at 2s ; Jamaicas are particularly scarce. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 10th inst., at the National Gallery, Ws. Wornnin. On the 10th inst., at 2, Thornhill square, Mrs. R. P. Steele. On the 10th inst , the wife of the Rev. J. C. Ryle, recta of flelminghani. OF A DAUGHTER, On the 9th inst., at Lincoln, the wife of Captain Bicknel On the 11th inst., the wife of Mr. Sidwell, Notting?hilk MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dor chester, John Griffith, Esq., ]sth Hus ars, to Sarah Sophia. youngest daughter of William Lewis Henning, Esq., of From! Whitefield, Dorsetshire: On the 9th inst., at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Hillingdon, Henry Fryer, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn-fields, solici tor, to Sarah Anne, youngest daughter of Thomas Gardiner, Esq., of Pen Close, Uxbridge. DIED On the 9th inst., Samuel Bayley, Esq., of the Avenue , Ellesmere, Shropshire, and f ormer l y of Didsbury, Lanca shire, aged 78. On the 10th inst., at Studley, Warwickshire, Letitia, relict of the late Edward Lee, of Wroughton, Wilts, and mother of It. E. Lee, printer f the " Morning Advertiser," aged 77. Ou the Bth inst,, at Douglas, Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., of Elen Uske, Monmouthshire. On the 10th inst., Anne, wife of Mr. Christopher J. Pallor. of 2, Brunswick-crescent, Coldharbour-lane, Camber Well, and 13, Milk-street, Cheapside, aged 51. On the 7th iust., at Stepney, Mr. John Wright, coal meter, aged 48. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YO UN( it of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Not 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Saturday, September 12, 1357. P Coat, IVaisl in!'A Depos and (1 Thi Camp Ful Como street I ' -A for 29 for tt tions. WES 28 d the A Fare) MA2 Man, Pr DC Bean Wat SOU' Jour from 455., WA] the cher eipej Seco] Z-a~