The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-14 00:00:00

v ceu g°l4 v ice sse ls ' fro° NII° I ,Sselid4 , ________ ' n.S SIA AND TURKEY 41/ER • ,• INTELLIGENCE URRISH DEFEAT. Ile s 4 , l '"' our Second Edition of Yesterday,) s a b lv s of the Russian victory was brought to 1 th e l, a n aid-de-camp of Prince Menschikoff, ,beau forwarded to Vienna by telegraph. It !Itx N4. arm e d by , advices from Bucharest. kit we ' . MorinAv.—The last Turkish vessels 4 .„ 1 ,e, destroyed had each 800 soldiers, be bey, rerYinen, on board, and a large sum of ~ A e ing bound for the east coast of the Black 'lle fourteenthb vessel escaped undamaged. i i e. a r ,ttle began at an hour's distance from Nat C onstantinople.unthe 2nd, nothing was known of the itt4 i The Turks were success ,. 7 , :n . ttatit., H i es contains a most important leading arti ‘„„ligthat the news of the naval victory has now ~,roborated by several channels, and by a he', a nnouncement in the official journal of ti o War has begun in earnest; hostilities ci e °nfined to the occupation of the Principali to a few partial encounters of the hostile the appear to have assumed on the Black e ( ..,h_ , ro ,. at acter of direct aggression, and the. • i '' of Russia has thrown down the gauntlet iil ar atime powers, precisely on that element ell th e y are best prepared to meet him. . T unes has thought it its duty to uphold and 'tithe,, cause of peace, as long as peace was t r y ule with the honor and dignity of the t 4) and feels no regret that to the very last it k r e red to a course of policy which a just con iltz, the best i n terests of England, and of the ~4 World prescribed. 'But the Times has never 1 41 i its opinion that the events in the East t 'olN e re long compel us to meet by it more j , ; Measure, such an alternative, and 'et i : s ies has repeatedly urged upon the t y a gent of England and France the ne .4 of being prepared with a plan of op ‘i: adapted to such an. emergency. If the , ; t received be confirmed in the manner leas the ti me f or these resolutions to take , 4 tt, l a already come. The article then re ' I„ t ile great perplexity and uncertainty 44: 4 ging over the details of this unfor '4l. %pat. The accounts received are alto t,, ,-Kussian statements. The squadron f, ) ,`'ahl a convoy, bound with troops and tt "" Some point on the coast of Asia, and the it .probable version of the story . appears to be %Russian cruizers pursued this convoy into a " of Sinope. It has also been suggested k.' 1 Sinope is a naval arsenal, it is pos , that some of the vessels destroyed were i t ?, that port. After some further comments . ity 'e reported details, the Times proceeds t here can be very little doubt as to the 4 4 , l 'ad political consequences of the action. ;11 1 9 s to give the Russian navy an ascendency black Sea, which the-Turks have hitherto q1 1 (1, and it calls upon the maratime allies 3,„ Porte in very . positive . language to , I ,'nat naval protection of which she more iiir stands in need. If it should turn out , Russian squadron fell in with a convoy i 4 li' i or the army in Asia, and pursued those 1 4 , 14 ,t0 Sinope—this act may, in some mesure, 141 e,y,resent state of warfare, be considered justi t r lliti' 4 ls tit if, as is equally probable, that these Alio ships were sent out from Sebastopol r t", sink, and destroy, - the Turkish ° t „,, l a, not on the high* seas, nor on the ii4,,,"' Circassia, but at anchor in their own ',lll l , 4 ',harbour, this proceeding of the Emperor . -s I ts • goes to the last extremity of aggressive Ae rti ,,,:isPoses at once of the assurance, till now 's', i ,hceiousl repeated, of his desire to stand L ati n d efensive only, ever since the Turkish de- A; 11 of war. A more violent and offensive I.q - 1 ?„, Could not have been resorted to, ; , i e ,"" importance attached to it by e 1 , 111 „.ay be inferred from the fact that I l th e '' - enschikoff hurried to St. Petersburg to ett e ll „T v s of this victory at the feet of the Czar. ou s. - -,' this news will have on Europe is not less ,io il., ~it dispels the hopes of the success of pacifi % s uc t°l. the Times cannot share the opinion t that or l ew ees s w i ll lower in any degree oes s th trepe temper allied "4 I ° l l2 of Russia , and it . imposes ;indeed asthis duties upon blow 11 t'CNerealP t°l7 .1 tunic vA resources of Turkey interrupts . its . v -de ation with Trebizond and Batoum, it is . 1 1 1inrious to her Asiatic army, and all will : 8 ,,,b if the command of the Black Sea were red to pass into the hands of the enemy. , vßritish government and its allies will have, It:e moment this news is confirmed, to deal state of .affairs far more decided than any 4 ,\, , 411 s qyestion has as yet assumed; and the 'ikki !arnestly trusts the cabinet will prove itself is . " 4 ~'‘o the emergency. It indeed scarcely de et: 'ion the ministers of the crown to deter - Wltat positive steps are to be taken, because te f i ell voys on the spot will probably have It4t °n. the powers given them in the 4 ,..`,4'46 °1 a direct aggression by Russia on the 'Ai, t 'u Coast It will remain 'with her Majesty's i lei4,, er e to afford •an , effectual support to that lit, -11, by the usual communications to parlia kh and by placing our present relations the Otto man E m pire in their true t 4 Every means of restoring peaCe being k lle. , ~,,A e d but the honor and naval force )IN'giand pledged to bring this dispute to a tici s sful termination by other means, if all ne- N t ‘ t ions for peace should fail; it would be un qkit,, of us to hesitate when' the course is clear k l, ' t - 6 11 , , 41Q5. The English people . are resolved that t;'ve t Aiall not dictate conditions to Europe, or ,i,.,'110u 1 ; the Black Sea, with all the 7 0 4 3 . , ' a. "' interests encompassing its shores, -I I? - Russian Lake ; they desire that a itfr se 0 f , ea b f consummate hypocrioy should be pun ',llt t n 3 r a signal defeat, and that a stop should be 1' 4 4 6Plese aggressions. The Emperor who be 14Ptki', 8 war without a disguise, and without a i4r ef ,;' , is carrying it on without disguise, and it A c kt i r e becomes the imperative duty of the e' ~,Wers, who have so recently recorded their Nek s —( dnation to put an end to it, to take all the 4, 3 -11 , r ea which that object may demand. 0, l ater news of importance from the Danube. 4 41 1 ,'Ossitin major was killed in a skirmish near e1 0 , , r). , 3 11° , '" fr°' %to ieo , fIE a I it, er io. , 0: 1 33 1 ' leer s :I_l3j Jt' ,0! If OF THE (Prom our Third Edition of Yesterday.) h tit r '"SCE, Paris , MONDAY.—A private [dispatch, t he requires confirmation, mentions that t C i tssians lost in the affair at ,Sinope, two ships ti a ',7 line three frigates, and two steam-boats.- that, their force consisted of twelve c' e t S, a brig, and five steam-boats, besides the u I,'N''Ps of the line as mentioned in the IVlOnice r. ,`tik°ther private dispatch mentions that the "Y„ had obtained - some important advantages ` 4, e Russians in the neighbourhood of Tiflis. :,,T4 FURTHER PARTICULARS. ~Nt t i c' naval conflict at Sinope, of course occupies .i „ 71 tt i h ° ns share of attention in connection with t ',, 4 4 . t't the East; but the public anxiety for full ‘(43,t;eule.rs is not likely to be gratified for some I t te ti - ) „, ) when. intelligence by the more slow but more o ',te ordinary channels of communication may `kt e 'llected. It is not too much to hope that the °f . the disaster to the Turkish forces may be • 11 c ° „'^erated. This hope rests on the fact . th h at d th t e 11dr ench consul at Odessa by the author tes }, and jby him transmitted to his government in f ilte a - b • a lle in which it appeared in our columns yes ‘,4q The only fresh news regarding the con ; "ich has reached us is comprised in ou e ll .;;ns this morning. It should be observed that 4 qAtch is most probably of Russian origin, " 11 41, 4 - ' as it does, that the Turks had not yet b ee n „_ It - aware of their disaster. Ztla tb W°ll ld appear likely that the force attacked rkto - u ` La t which - left Constantinople on the 26th for ‘, l cr - ,, t11 ' and which had on board 5,000 men, as re °lllae-", nts for the Asiatic army. Probability 1 .4 4 t 1 . 1 , also seem to warrant the assumption -44 41 e - „ 6 Turkish commander, on being attacked, O r Sinope to land his troops. ;Whether he It toy s ' e e r led in doing so before his vessels were de• • ) 0 1 , e ''''. 1 elnains to be seen. , N , c) cn „ c l gn letters received in London on the after- VtlielYesterday, say :—" The news of the defeat • trZ v ison of the Turkish fleet by the Russians ted an immense sensation, but it is difficult • n t to say what the ultimate effect of it will °tli' e +2 l.(l ing to some it will be an inducement Wend 'LLe belligerent parties to bring the war to Ville it according to others it is a disaster which, 44 117 hutnilie.es and exasperates the Turks, i ll ti ti at n, diminish their means of resisting the (AC i 'orces. Some of the Paris papers are cry What are the French and English fleets about? Why are they at Constantinople? And it is evident they do not consider the, protection afforded to the' Turks by the presehee of the united fleets in the Bosphorus particulary efficient. At the palace Of the Tuileries the news of the defeat of the Turks has caused deep disappointment, and some ofthe French Ministers have openly expressed their opinion that the French fleet should at once enter the Black Sea,.and afford efficacious as sistance to the Sultan, Nothing is, however re solved upon. - Louis Napoleon, as is his wont, is silent and imposSible ; and it is understood that no resolution will be come to until it be ascertained what effect this event has produced on the Eng lish Cabinet. Some people imagine that the Emperor Nicholas will be more tractacable in con sequence of the glory he gains by this naval victory ; but the probability is that he will not withdraw one iota of his pretensions. Nicholas will readily agree to the conference, but he will take care not to evacuate the principalities. As respects Turkey, it is not likely that after a defeat she will be.better inclined than before to enter into negotiations, The Turkish ambassador in Paris has declared that, without prejudging the opinion of his government, he feels convinced that the Sultan will not consent to suspend hostilities on any other condition but that of the previous evacuation of the principalities, and the withdrawal of the pretensions put forward by the Czar, in as far as they are incompatible with his sovereign rights." Another telegraphic message, dated Bucharest Nov. 30, says :—" The Russians are pushing their troops forward on the road to Kalafat. The Turks are still engaged in fortifying that place. On the 26th a Russian major was killed in a skirmish hear Giurgevo, The Turks are still holding the island of Malian." We have given elsewhere some description of Sinope, the scene of the recent conflict, considered in its topographic aspect; the following regards it in a stratagetical point of view :—The position of Sinope, about half-way between Constantinople and TrebiZond, and the promontory at which it is situated, and:which, on the land side, may be said to form its harbour, or rather open 'roads, mark it as a site of importance in a naval war on the Black Sea. This was perceived by General Sebastiani, Napoleon's ambassador to the Porte in 1808, and who showed the same promptitude in commencing fortifications at Sinope, as in improvising defences at Constantinople . . Since that period, the defences of the place have never been completed; and those which were constructed have fallen into decay. It so happens that Sinope never was attacked in former wars between Turkey and Russia, upon which seems to have been founded the somewhat gratuitous assumption that it never would be. This assumption was natural enough for Old Turkey ; but it may be hoped that Young Turkey, aided by Western strategical counsels, will practically repair the error, with a view to the future. Nothing can be less surprising than what has now occurred in an open roadstead, covered by no sufficient land defences. Six ships of the line walked with perfect ease into the ram parts and shipping of such a place. Its importance, besides its commanding situation on the coast, consists in the fact that it is the site of the only Turkish dockyard, for the construction of vessels of war, except Constantinople. The oaks of the neighbouring mountains supply timber more durable than the Russians employ for their perish able craft at Sebastopol. In every point of view, it is of the first importance to put the place into a state of defence ; though this has been unfortu nately deferred till it rather too much resembles " shutting the stable door after the steed is stolen." FRANCE. Letters from Paris speak variously of the effect of the disastrous intelligence of the Turkish defeat on the opinion of that capital The following would seem to affo\d a fair represensation of its phases :—On Saturday, after the close of the Bourse, the. news from Odessa of the destruction of several Turkish ships produced among the stock-jobbers a slight fall in prices. To-day the news is confirmed, and the funds have risen. The 3 per cents. were at one time as high as 76f. 15c. for cash, and they closed at 75f. 90c. The 4-} per cents. closed at 102 f. 50c. The improvement is evidently founded on a belief that the recent dis aster of the Turks will make the Divan more will fng to consent to an armistice; and that point being gained, it is thought that in two or three months a treaty of peace will be concluded, It appears certain that the basis of the treaty must be the note of Vienna. All the letters from Vienna. agree in stating that the Austrian cabinet has joined the conference on that condition. SPAIN.—SUSPENSION OF THE CORTES. The intelligence from Madrid is of a very serious kind, and may be considered as porten teous of an approaching coup detat. By a tele graphic despatch of the 9th, we learn that the senate had adopted, by 105 votes to 69, the reso lutions opposed by the government, and recom mended by the majority of the committee. These resolutions, it may be remembered, are to the effect that the senate ought to proceed with a bill before it on the railways, instead of, in compliance with the wish of the cabinet, dropping it, and wait ing until a new bill on the subject, presented to the chamber of deputies by it, shall be sent up to the senate. In consequence of this unmistakeable defeat, we learn, by electric telegraph, on the 10th, a royal decree suspended the sittings of the Cortes without, as is usual, naming a day for their meeting again. The customs board has decided the question of the import duty on accordions in favor of the importer. THE LONDON CORPORATION INQUIRY.—The royal com missioners did not meet yesterday. The inquiry, we are in- formed, is adjourned sine die. DESERTION OF A WIFE AND CHILDREN.—CharIes TFrat. kin, who was stated to be a law-clerk, was sent to prison for a month for deserting his wife and children. CRUELTY TO A WIFE.—A rough coachman named Anthony Wild, was charged with abusing his wife, kicking and threatening to murder her. After some recriminatory statements, the prisoner was ordered to find two sureties in £lO each, to keep the peace for three months. SHOP ROBBERY. —Bridget Walker was charged with hav ing stolen a pair of stays from a stay-shop in Deansgate. The prisoner was apprehended in Salford, on Saturday. A pair of new stays was found upon her when searched, and were distinctly sworn to as the property of the occupier of a stay-shop in Deansgate.—Committed to the sessions. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A respectable young man, named Edmund Bastard, met with his death, last Friday, at Torrington, in the North of Devon, under cir cumstances as remarkable as they are melancholy. At twelve o'clock on Friday night, a person passing a toll-gate (,n a bridge which crosses the river Torridge, observed something, which he at first thought was a woman's cloak, hanging to the side gate of the toll-bar; and as it was late and he was in a hurry, he passed on without further noticing it, but communicated his fears to a friend of his that it was the body of a human being that he had seen. Next morn ing a boatman, named Arnold, was passing that way, and discovered the young man Bastard, with his neck broken, and hanging to the side gate, quite dead. It appeared that the poor fellow had passed through the toll-gate in the early part of the day, and on returning late in the evening, he found the large gate shut, and, as he thought, locked. It is conjectured that not liking to arouse the toll-gate keeper, who was gone to bed, he tried to get through the shuttles of the side gate. In doing so, by some means or other, he caught his chin in the upper shuttle and broke his neck. GENERAL POST -OFFICE, December, 1853.—After the dispatch of the contract mail packet appointed to leave London for Rotterdam on the 14th inst., the correspondence for Holland, which has hitherto been conveyed, as a rule, by the direct packet, will be forwarded from London daily (Sunday excepted) by the route of Belgium, unless specially addressed to be sent by any other route. On and from Thursday, the 16th inst., the postage upon letters trans mitted between the united kingdom and Holland, either by the route of Belgium or by private ship direct, will be re duced to Bd. for a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, increasing for heavier letters according to the scale in operation for charging letters in the united kingdom. This postage will include both the British' and foreign rates to destination, and it may be paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender, except however, in the case of registered letters, the postage upon which, as well as the registration fee, must always be paid in advance. The same rate of Bd. per half-ounce, &c., will be chargeable on letters between the united king dom and any Dutch colony or country beyond sea, addressed via Holland, but on such letters the postage must be pre paid. The British postage on a letter addressed to be con veyed via Holland between the united kingdom and any cou ntry on the continent of Europe, when sent either by the route of Belgium or by private ship direct, will be re duced to 4d. the half-ounce, and so on, which rate must also be pre-paid. Newspapers for Holland, whether sent by way of Belgium or by private ship direct, will continue liable to a postage of Id. each, which must be paid in advance. Periodical works, not of daily publication, which have here tofore been conveyed by the direct packet to Rotterdam at a reduced rate of postage, cannot be sent by way of Belgium excepting at the usual rate chargeable for letters. THE NORTHERN DAIIX TIMES. 1 4 HE PRESTON STRIKE. MEETING OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES. [FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.] PRESTON, TUESDAY.—With the view of obtaining in creased support from the inhabitants generally, the leaders of this movemement deemed it expedient to convene a meet ing of the middle classes, in order that they might be made acquainted with the origin and present position of this dis pute. That meeting, which was called by circular, took place in the theatre last night. The spacious building was crowded to excess in every part ; the audience including many tradespeople and other respectable inhabitants of the town. Mr. Councillor DIXON consented to preside. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, remarked that he had taken no part in this movement, either on one side or the other ; and nothing but the vastlimportance of the subject would have induced him to stand before so numerous an assembla g e as he then saw before him. It was too well known that for a considerable time a dispute had existed between the employers and the employed in this town. That dispute unfortunately became more fearful in its consequences as days and weeks rolled on; and a man indeed must have a callous heart if he could not feel for the distresses and wants of those who were involved in this struggle. (Hear, hear.) He knew very little of the merits or demerits of the case beyond what he had read in the public papers. But he appeared before them as an Englishman, anxious for an amicable settlement of this disastrous dispute. (Hear, hear.) The object of the meeting was to give the inhabitants of Preston a full and fair explanation of the question at issue between the contending parties ; and he hoped that no per sonal or offensive remarks would be indulged_in by any of the speakers on that occasion. (Hear, hear.) He congra tulated the operatives on the very peaceable and orderly manner in which they had hitherto conducted this most serious struggle ; he hoped they would continue to pursue the same creditable course, and that under no circumstances should the peace of the town be disturbed. (Cheers.) The chairman then introduced Mr. COWELL, who sketched the history of this movement from its commencement to the present time, adding that the operatives were still willing to refer the matter to arbitration. After intimating that he .should be happy to answer any question which might be put to him, the speaker concluded by moving the first resolution, which was as follows : " That this meeting is of opinion that the master manu facturers of Preston have not acted in accordance with justice by . debarring so many thousands of their operatives from earning their daily bread, and thus bringing on our town that amount of poverty and privation we are sorry to find ourselves placed in." Mr. GALLAGHER seconded the resolution, stating that the masters of Oldham, where the work was similar to that performed in Preston, paid their operatives between ss. and 6s. per week more than the hands received in this town. In Blackburn, also, and in many other places which he might enumerate if necessary, higher wages were paid than in Preston. It had been alleged by the millowners of this town that the state of trade would not allow them to advance their prices. In reply, he begged to ask how the millowners of other towns were enabled to pay so much more than themselves ? (Hear, hear). In conclusion he appealed to the meeting to lend the operatives their sympathy and support in the present struggle. (Cheers). Mr. GEORGE ECCLES supported the resolution. He con tended that the spinners were justified in seeking an equali sation of prices. There was a certain millowner in this town who paid 2s. 32d. for spinning 100 lbs of 32's twist; there was another, with the same kind of machinery, who paid 3s. 32d for the same work. (Shame). whilst working for one gentleman, the largest manufacturer in Preston, all he could earn by his utmost exertions was 10s. 6d. per week. He was informed that he spun by length so much per thousand draws ; but he had nothing to tell him how much he spun. At other mills they had indicators ; but at the place he was speaking of, the hands knew nothing about the amount of work they had done until the end of the week. If he had worked exceedingly hard, he was patted on the shoulder and thus addressed —" good lad George, thou's done a good week's work; here's twopence for thee." (Laughter) On going to another mill in the same town, with the same kind of work, and similar ma chinery, he was able to earn 16s. (Expressions of surprise). Under these circumstances, he asked whether the operatives of Preston were not faithful in claiming a standard list Of prices ? (Hear, hear). He appealed to the middle class to aid the operatives with their subscriptions, remembering that "The smallest help, if rightly given, • Will make the impulse stronger." And he certainly did hope, with the poet, " It will be strong enough one day. So wait a little longer." (Loud applause). Previous to putting the resolution the Chairman repeated Mr. Cowell's offer to answer any question that might Too poi. to him. Upon this, A person in the gallery asked whether Mr. Cowell was prepared to show that the Blackburn prices for weaving were higher than those paid in Preston. Mr. Co WELL I =actin uummumueut vu Ciatuiday that the hands employed by Messrs Horrocks, Miller and Co. received from 15 to 20 per cent. below the operatives of Blackburn. I also beg leave to state that the gentlemen named paid considerably less than some of the manufac turers whose miils are now running. lam sorry to say that a correct list of the prices paid at the various mills is very difficult to obtain; but I have a return of the prices paid by Messrs Horrocks, Miller and Co., and Mr. Paul Catterall. I gave a sovereign for it, and we are going to publish it. We'll post upon the walls the prices paid in Oldham, Stock port, Blackburn, and Preston, and then the public shall judge between us and our late employers. (Cheers.) Mr. B. HUMPHRIES introduced the second resolution : " That we, the people of Preston, deeply sympathise with the factory operatives in their present unhappy dispute with their employers, and pledge ourselves that so long as they continue to be governed by the same good conduct as has hitherto characterised their proceedings, they 0,8,11 have our sympathy and support." The speaker observed that having worked in a mill 26 or 27 years, he had had some little experience of that kind of life ; and he did not hesitate to declare that factory opera tives were the greatest slaves in the world. He worked at one mill in Manchester, where jie was paid Bs. 4d. per cut of 100 yards. Since then he had worked for a mill in this town, and for 190 yards he only received 4s. 6d. (Surprise.) If the factory operatives of this country did not arouse themselves they would soon be in as degraded a position as the poor Irish. Mr. JAS. WADDINGTON seconded the resolution. Mr. ROBERT RICHARDSON supported the resolution. He said there was not an operative cotton-spinner in Pres ton better paid than himself ; and he could prove that h e was just 101 per cent. under the standard list of prices paid by the associated masters of Bolton. Having got the ten per cent. and not having been locked out, he felt that he had a duty to perform, that he ought to do what he could to make those who were paying less than his employer to raise their wages. It was for that reason that he came forward to take part in the proceedings of that meeting. (Hear, hear). With regard to trades unions, he put it to the middle classes whether, possessing votes, they should approve of their land lord telling them they should not extend the franchise as they thought proper, but should vote for his particular friend, Lord Tom Toodle-brain, on pain of being turned out of their houses. The case of the factory operatives was simi- , lar. The law said they could have their trades union, but the masters said they should not. They, however, were de termined to have their union ; and he though: they were only acting like Englishmen in maintaining that determina tion. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GitimsnAw proposed the third resolution :—"That the trades of this country having so nobly come forth to aid the factory operatives of this town in withstandine• the. onnrnanilmnnto of +ha r....-4o4o» uu rue wages of their workpeople, we pledge ourselves that we will, in union with the trades, exert ourselves in supporting the factory' operatives until we ultimately place them in that position they are justly entitled to occupy as producers of an aug mented national prosperity." . Mr. K. SMITH, in seconding the resolution, remarked that if the manufacturers would agree to refer this dispute to arbitration, neither party could boast of gaining a victory, because the result would be governed by reason, justice, and truth. Mr. RHODES briefly supported the resolution,ldescribing the origin of the wages movement in Stockport. The whole of the resolutions were carried unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting which commenced at seven, terminated at ten o'clock. THE RUGBY ScnooL.—The scholars of the public school at Rugby, have been more successful this year at the uni• versities than even in the best of previous years. THE TEA TRADE, Dec. 12.—The deliveries of tea in London during the week to which the latest official returns are obtainable were 580,7271b5., being nearly as large as in the preceding week. THE NEW PLANET.—Mr. J. R. Hind states that he has named the new planet Euterpe; that its period is 1,315 days, and its mean solar distance about 224 millions of miles. THE NEW COMET.—The Rev. Mr. Straton, of Ayleston rectory, in a letter to the Times, says he has seen this comet which appeared near Venus on Dec. 10, at 4.45 p.m. It has one coma, and he thinks its resplendance must be of "no ordinary character." It can be seen only through a telescope. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. —A station-master and guard on this line have been fined, the one in £3 16s. and the other in £2 75., for taking two passengers into custody who pro tested against an undue filling of a carriage with passengers beyond the number allowed by the company's regulaticns. THE SWINDLE UPON MRS. ONsLow,—William Morton has been found guilty at the central criminal court, o/ hav ing swindled Mrs. Onslow, the widow of a clergyman, of several sums of money, upm the deposit of bills, mortgages, and other securities, most of them pretended mortgages, upon the property of a person named Wright, of Northum berland, but who was in reality a pauper. Sentence has not been passed until Crutchley, an accomplice, shalt have been tried. Wright is not in custody. The whole can has been before the London police. COUNTY COUIiT.---YESTtRD-Alti (Before JOSEPH POLLQCK, ESQ., JUDGE.) JONES V. BRISCOE.— This was an action brought by John Jones against Thomas Briscoe, to recover a sum of 18s., alleged to be due by the defendant. The defendant denied ever having owed money to the plaintiff, and entered into a long and rambling statement about a partnership which had existed between plaintiff and himself for the buying and selling of casks. Plaintiff stated that the money was lent by him to the defendant, and made an equally long and unintelligible address. Neither party could be got to give a direct reply to a question. At last His HONOR said : You are very intolerable pair. My only doubt is which of you is the worst. You have occu pied ten times as long as ought to be occupied in a case of the kind. You are two of the most stup d persons I ever had to deal with, or else the two most determined not to let me know the truth. There is only one point to lead me to a conclusion. You, the plaintiff, swear that you gave this man certain money. I have endeavoured to get him to explain it. The PLAINTIFF here interrupted and proceeded to make some observations. His HONOR : Remain silent, sir--if you do not I will find you, or, if that is not sufficient, I will commit you for contempt of court. I have endeavoured, in vain, to get this other man to explain how it happened that he received money from you, and as you positively swear to it, and he cannot explain it, I will give you a verdict. Now retire without giving me any more trouble upon either side. SILBODEN v. BRADLEY.—In tills case the plaintiff claimed to be paid for loss of time in two, days'. attendance at the borough court under a subpwna. M 11,Ymmt appeared for the defence. His HONOR . No action for loss of time can lie under a su?pena, and therefort I must give a non-suit. The PLAINTIFF : I would be fined £2O if I did not attend. His HONOR : The law requires that all parties should attend under a subpoena. The PLAINTIFF : But there are some funds, your Honor. His HONOR : Ido not care what funds there are. You have no grounds of action, and I therefore nonsuit you. LONSDALE v. HEATH.—This was an action brought by Joseph Lonsden, printer, against the Mr. John Heath, proprietor of the Royal olosseum, Paradise-street, to re cover the cost of printing some bills, alleged to have been ordered by a person In die einpltrymont of the defendant. Mr. POPE appeared for the plaintiff. The evidence of the plaintiff and his witnesses was to the effect that Mr. Heath usually printed his bills at an estab lishment of his own, but that when there was a pressure of business a person named Keenan in the employment of Mr. Heath ordered some bills to be printed by plaintiff, announc ing the engagement of " Mr. Baker, the Red Man." It was admitted that Mr. Heath had not given any order for these bills himself, or for any other printing work, but it was stated that upon one occasion plaintiff had supplied some chases and type to the establishment of Mr. Heath upon the order of Keenan, which Mr. Heath paid for. Mr. HEATH said he never allowed any man to order any printing for him. He might have got goods, and when the invoice came have paid for them, but he never allowed any one to order printing to be done for him. He had a place for printing his own bills. Mr. Heath also stated that the bills produced in court could never have been intended for Liver 'pool at all, and that they were-never delivered to him. His HONOR said that the plaintiff had only proved that Keenan had authority to order matters which were necessary for Mr. Heath's printing establishment, but had not shown any authority on his part to get printing done. The case was therefore nonsuited, Mr. Heath to receive his costs. FRENCH POLICE CASE. A. M. V—, aged 36, formed towards the end of 1846, an intimate liaison with a young woman, whose mother kept a furnished lodging-house. A child was born, and the liaison continued, but the young man's family would not allow him to marry the girl. At length, however, in December of last year he married her. The newly-married couple took up their residence in the Avenue des Champs Elysees, received a good many visits, and gave many parties. They also got into the way of giving balls once a week, and it was at one of the'm a young actress of the Odeon accidentally set fire to her dress, and was a good deal burned. On Tuesday last, M. and Madame V— held one of their usual receptions, and the latter, though not very well, danced to one o'clock in the morning; after which she seated herself at a card-table, and complained of a violent head-ache. Her husband also, for some time past, had not approved of the balls, only appeared for about an hour in the salon, and then retired to his own room, in which he fastened himself. At five o'clock every one withdrew. One of the guests apologised to Madame V— for having stopped so late. " You have rendered me a service," said she, "as for three nights I have not closed my eyes, and I shall not h r bleep ' , Why ...A. Lake a drive in a carriage ?" asked a lady. "Take a drive ! Why, if I did so, my husband, who is already very jealous, would say fine things of me. In fact, if I were to go out at such an hour, even with you, I should have ceased to exist before the evening." In the course of the day, M. V— went out several times. At four o'clock he began writing in his room. The femme tle chamOre noticing that he was pale and agitated, asked him if she should carry his Ltter for him.. "No," he replied, "I will carry it myself. Go away. The servant obeyed. When liehad concluded his letter, he went to the boudoir of his wife. He found her seated near the window, occupied in embroidery, and having her little girl, aged six, seated by her side. It is not known what took place between them, but in the course of a few minutes, the child was heard crying to the servant, "come, come! I don't know what papa is doing to mamma." 'l'he ' femme de cnambre hastened to the room. _She fonnd Mdme. V— lying on the floor, and her husband lying over her. When he saw her he rose, threw a poignard which was covered with blood, into the middle of the room, and saying, " I am going to the commissary of police," went away. Madame V—, who was covered with blood, said, " Louise, help me to rise—l will see if I can walk." The femme de chambre endeavoured to raise her, but was unable to do so. "Ah !" cried the mistress, " I am lost " A medical man Was sent for and one soon arrived. He found that Madame V— had received two wounds near the heart, and others much graver in the loins. In moving her, an internal hemorrhage was brought on ; she vomited blood, and in a few moments expired. In the meantime M. V— had taken a cab and had caused himself to be conveyed to the commissary of police, of the district. On the road the feverish energy which had possessed him gave way, and when the cab stopped he was unable to alight. The cabman informed the commissary that the gentleman in the cab had told him to drive to his office, but that he feared he was dead. Two persons aided M. V —to alight, and conveyed him before the commissary, " I have just murdered my wife," said M. V—. " She deceived me with several persons whom she received. I have killed her, and constitute myself a pri soner !" He then fell into a state of profound discourage ment, and not another word could be got from him. Another journal says that M. V— is a partner in a com mercial house at Marseilles, and that his wife was formerly an actress at the theatre of that city.--Galignani. THE POST OFFICE, THE RAILWAYS, AND THE GLASGOW MERCHANTS. The hint-Lbroad enough certainly for even the North country—with which the following document agreed to by the Glasgow merchants concludes, will no doubt bring the railway companies "to their senses" before the time spe cified. Here is the history of the annoyance and the de claration. A good deal of annoyance continues to be felt by commercial men connected with Glasgow and Manches ter at the present postal arrangements. In the early part of the year the Manchester Commercial Association repre sented to the late postmaster-general that less time was given after high change on market days at Mpchoter tto post ieuers ft cia. 6 ow than might reasonably e amoram. 'Some of the post-othee officials objected to any change, bit their opposition was set aside, and the departure of the post was changed from the middle of the afternoon till late in the evening. Then came an obstruction by the railway people, who took off the evening mail train altogether, so that letters have recently had to be posted by half-past one in the afternoon. In other words there is no communica tion with Glasgow after the Manchester market is over, at two o'clock in the afternoon, until the following day, so that the commercial parties are in a worse position than be fore. Whether the Glasgow mercantile community suspect the change has been the result of collusion between the post-office and the railway companies, or not, they are now disposed to take strong measures to counteract the move ment, as will be seen by the following document, bearing their signature, and a copy of which found its way to Man chester on Saturday : " Glasgow ' Dec. 8, 1853. " We, the undersigned, being merchants and dealers who regularly send and receive cotton, wool, goods, yarn, or other merchandise, by railway, to and from Liverpool mid'Lanca shire, finding ourselves greatly annoyed, and our business retarded and interrupted, by the very unreasonable time that elapses between posting of letters in these quarters and the time of their arrival here, as well as the great irregu larity of such arrival ; and further, understanding that the late alteration of the mail trains was made at the instanct of the railway companies, and not by order of the postmaster general, we do hereby resolve : " That, unless measures are taken by the railway com panies to arrange their mail trains so that letters posted in Manchester and Liverpool—say by four o'clock, afternoon — shall arrive in Glasgow not later than seven o'clock next morning, we shall, from the Ist of January next, give in structiOns that all our goods shall be forwarded by steamer via Liverpool, and we shall continue this arragement until the railway company see fit to comply with our reasonable demands ; of all of which we now give intimation to the railway companies that are concerned." DISORDERLY CONDUCT AT THE WORKHOUSE.-A great lazy fellow named John Benson, was sent to prison for 21 days for breaking two squares of glass at the workhouse. ROBBERY OF CIGARS.— A boy named Robert Cranshaw, who stated that he was a factory weaver, was charged with having, the previous morning, about half-past 9 o'clock, stolen a box of cigars from the shop of Mr. Goodman, cigar and snuff merchant, Market-street. To be imprisoned for 21 days, with hard labour. IRELAND [FROM 01111. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, TiIkSDAY, . CLONMEL EtEdTlON.—Owing to an informality in the speaker's warrant, the writ for this election, which was to have been forwarded on Friday last, has not yet been transmitted from th Hanaper Office. The writ is expected to be ready for trans mission this day or to-morrow, but in consequence of this delay the election can scarcely take place before next week. PRIEST AGAINST PARSON.—Rather a curious action was commenced in the Common Pleas yeterday. The plaintiff is a Roman Catholic priest, the defendant a Presbyterian clergyman, and the cause of action was an assault committed by the latter on the former. The circumstances were, that on the 12th of July last the plaintiff, whOse name is Foy, was going out to shoot in company with a man named Hall, when, on his way, he shot some small birds, close to the defendant's, the Rev. Mr. M'Collum's house. On this the latter came out, and, after some altercation, he opened the priest's eyebrow with the cut of a stick. A scuffle then took place, which was only interrupted by the interference of Hall. The defence was, that M'Collum had received a great amount of provo cation—that Foy, who had always been an enemy of his, had tired the shots near his house purposely —that the bird shot (a yellow-hammer) had fallen within two yards of a servant girl who was standing at his hall-door at the time,—and that when he remonserated with the plaintiff, the latter used the most opprobrious language, and directed M'Collum's inquiries to an indelicate part of his person. The case had not concluded when the court rose. . . vv RYAN V. KELLY.—In this case the jury yesterday found a verdict for the plaintiff, in the full amount claimed—namely, £5OO. THE DARGAN INSTITUTE.—You may recollect that, from the commencement, your correspondent anti cipated that the project of founding an industrial college in commemoration of Mr. Dargan, would prove a failure. How far he has been correct, will nppoar from the following notice of motion. which has been given by Lord Talbot de Malahide, in the Dargan memorial committee : " As it appears to this c-,mmittee that provision is already made through the medium of the several schools, colleges, and other public institutions already in existence for pro moting industrial education, so far as the same can be done by providing teachers and professors, but that a public gal lery for the exhibition of the works of art and industry is still much required in Ireland, and, if established, would tend to improve the public taste, as well as to advance these numerous branches of manufacture in which beauty and originality of design are requisite. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this committee that the best way of applying the funds placed at its disposal, and the most suitable mode, under all the circumstances, of com memorating the Great Exhibition of 1853, and its generous and patriotic founder, Mr. Dargan, will be by erectinc , a suit able building for the exhibition of works of art and industry, to be called the Dugan Institute.'" A full meeting is called for Monday, to consider the matter. BANK OF IRELAND—A dividend of 4 per cent., free of income tax, has been declared on Bank Stock, at the meeting held yesterday, leaving £ll,OOO to be added to the rest fund. The election of Mr. Spaight, as mayor of Limerick, has been pronounced informal, and Alderman Watson (proprietor of the Limerick Chronicle) has been declared duly elected. DEEP SEA FIsaING COMPANY.—The Cork Con stitution says :—" English capital has at length been induced to further this undertaking ; and within the last week Mr. Howard, of Essex, and Mr. Dillon Croker have been inspecting the entire southern coast from Kinsale to Crookhaven, Bantry, and Berehaven. On their return to Lon don, they will make their report to the committee. Mr. J. E. Saurriers, the eminent fish factor, Bil lingsgate, will be the sole English agent. Mr. Howard, who hag fur over twenty years been en gaged in fishing in the North Seas, and has £20,000 embarked i the trade. iQ f" akc c a o s m u ;r a t n e es h t e o r e ,thaen amount m h a o s u f i t t k e o n i. £lO,OOO. Mr. Croker is to have the superintend iesin managementth e nf ne +h w o superintend ence. It is believed that the committee will make Kinsale the chief port for conveyanc' of fish, on account of its contiguity to the Bandon Railway, and its convenience for conveying fish to Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Liverpool, and Milford. A large and influential meeting was held in Newry yesterday, for the purpose of providing for the improvement of Carlingford bay. The Mar quis of Downshire, and many of the northern proprietors and members of parliament were present. THE MISSIONARY MOVEMENT. Whatever good this movement may do in the may of religion, it is quite certain that its disciples have not the quietest path, in the world to travel. In the classic region of Kilkenny, they appear to be peculiarly unfortunate. Between altar denuncia tions and the mere physical displays of the populace, their endurance is wonderful, and the last account of their misfortunes does positively give them some claim to that semi-martyrdom so much desired. It appears that there is in Graigue, a suburb of Kil kenny, a parish priest named Doyle, who if we may credit the evangelical journal on Sunday week last denounced " Tresham Gregg's devils" in the most emphatic language. The effect of the rev gentle men's eloquence showed itself on the following Wednesday, when two scripture readers were assaulted by a mob, and on one of their number being arrested, a riot took place, which was very nearly productive of most serious consequences. The police were obliged to load with ball, and to send for re-inforcements, the ruffianly mob, all the while flinging stones, and crying out for the lives of the scripture readers. It was not until the latter were safely enconsed in the barracks for five hours that the riot ceased. Two children were smothered by a fire which broke out. in a house in Moss-street, yesterday evening. The flames were subsequently extin guished, without further destruction. SPLIT AMONG THE BISHOPS.—In consequence of the Rev. Mr. Williams, of St. Columba's College. Meath, having signed the memorial against Bishop Gobat, the Lord Primate has withdrawn his coun tenance from tleat institution. His grace had at various times expended sums to the amount of £7,000 in the college which educates young gen tlemen for the foreign missions. The widow and children of the late Mr. Jelly, who was killed at. Straffan have received £4,500 com- pensation from the railway company. There have been several additional deaths from cholera in Cork. At the 10.4- place, at which upwards of twenty persons were more or less injured. LORD CAMPBELL IN GALWAY--Every body recol lects the crow of delight with which the Lord Chief Justice of England was received some time ago on his Connaught estates. It appears, however, by the statement of a local paper, that his lordship is not " the man for Galway" after all. In autumn last, Lord Campbell feted his tenantry in Galway, and elicited their loudest cheers by stating that he would have all his lands valued, and charge his rents accordingly. .If the rents then paid were over the value he would reduce them, if under the value he would raise them. Now, it so happens that in many instances they have been raised, and Lord Campbell's praises no more resound over the hills of G alway. STRONG LANGUAGE.—In the last number of the Tablet, Mr. Lucas writes, in propria persona, that " every priest who uses his influence in support of the present government is a destroyer of the souls of the poor, and answerable for the consequences here and hereafter." THE IRISH MAGISTRACY.—The Irish magistracy have just had a lecture from the Irish Chancellor. Two gentlemen in the commission of the peace in Meath had been operating in this way. A hum ble man in their jurisdiction had become the pur chaser of a piece of land and he had a powerful neighbour, Lady Rich. The lady, or somebody her, laid claim to a portion of land, the humbl e man supposed to be his. An act of ownership was exercised upon it which he opposed, and was summoned before the magistrates. Now this was a case of " disputed title,' and therefore they had no right to interfere. But then they did interfere and fined the poor man. Again he resisted a simi lar act and was met by another charge and a quadrupled fine. He has appealed to the chan cellor to stop this method of proceeding, and the answer of the magistrates' counsel was that he had no jurisdiction. The lord chancellor upon this observed, " I certainly have power to issue my writ of prohibition, and that I shall do ; and more, I am determined, and at once, to put a stop to a practice so frequent throughout the country, of magistrates trying as it were cases of ejectment on the title." This is a.lesson- which Irish magistrates should - ber. taught any time durivg the present century, ---:;--) 1 Mr. Augustus Godby; "who• died • recently iii-.'.. ,1 England had been secretaryto the Irish post-office, . nr,j - ,= and enjoyed a pension of £6 1 30 a year. . . - i 3 THE -IRISH EXHLBITION.—Some time since you iff noticed the presentation of a service of plate to . r Mr. T. D. Jones. the head of the financial depart-•; ment of the Irish exhibition. The . value of the : v ) , i .i z plate was £lOO, and was the spontaneous and.- r,,,,y unanimous offering of the good feelings which Mr . Jones had elicited towards him, from the various other officers connected with that great industrial , . exposition. - The presentation was formally made on Friday last, in Dublin, by Sir C. P. Roney, on , behalf of the officers, together with an address. Mr. Jones expressed his acknowledgments for both. The whole scene was delightful. The " drapers' assistants" of Dublin, as they . are termed, have commenced a provident associ ation, to which, one house—that of Todd, Burns, and Go.—bas given £2OO. Mr. Halpin, inspector of lighthouses to the Irish ballast board, had a narrow escape from drowning a few days since, on the coast of Galway. He had gone out in a light curragh, or canoe, of canvass, tarred, and extended over light ribs of • wood, to visit a lighthouse in course of erection ; and the canoe having been upset, he was, with difficulty, saved. SINOPE-THE COAST OF PONTUS IN ASIA MINOR. •. The following notice of Sinope where the resent battle was fought between the Turks and Russians, will at the present moment be read with interest : "A stroll on shore to see the place and sketch it from the circling beach agreeably filled by .a long lovely evening. The sun had veiled his bloodshot eyes behind a dark bank of clouds, leaving lurid tints of purple and yellow to pervade earth, air, and water. The wind hushed ; the bay, as frozen over ; town silent as sleep or death, not even one twitter - - ing bird, to break the stillness of our walk; fisher-. inert elrAwing their nets languidly, pendent sails wooing the breeze in vain, and lazy oars unim proved along boats' sides ; all Sinope the embodi ment of calm repose in its highest ideality,. The tempt nalaces, and porticoes, erected by a power - . tfai line of I ^ave been levelled with the dust. Nought remains of so ml,l- magnificence save a dirty oriental town of a thousand wrt" - ' , 4(1 houses,: surrounded by crumbling walls, and towers of Byzantine construction. Almost equally a wreck is. the enormous hull of an embryo-two tovker, wh i ch staids unlaunched on the stocks ; built here where timber and work are cheap ; never, finished; allowed to rot. Does this fact elucidate, the subject? Alas for Sinope. " The ancient capital of Pontus under that great man Mithridates Eupator, - and the birth-place of that great beast Diogenes the Cynic, originally a colony of the Milesians, and deriving its name from an amphibious young lady who was the un natural offspring of a river and a town, the Asopus and Methone, after she eloped hither with a third element, Apollo or the Sun, shows, indeed, but few traces of such illustrious antecedents. Many fragments of ancient architectural art, however, such as broken columns, mutilated cornices, and half-defaced inscriptions on architraves and sepul chral stones, have been made use of in raising these feeble fortifications, and they still attest what Sinope once was ; while the quarries above the town,' whence one of the - calcareaith beds in the trachytic rock overlaid by a black volcanic forma tion seems to have furnished its buildina.materials, tell an eloquent tale of its sudden dOwnfall, for large blocks he there hewn and ready for removal, some sculptured, and some_ actually on their way to the city. We saw also the picturesque r ains of an aqueduct, designed by Pliny tho rounger to supply the Sinopians with good water from a dis tance of sixteen miles ; and the amient moip ate sea, enclosing a consi derable space along the shore, and leaving only a narrow entrance for galleys, but many of the great square stones composing it have been worn and displaced by the action of the waves with the aid of that universal destroyer, Time." T.HE REV. H. S. BROWN'S LECTURE. Last evening the Rev. H. S. Brown delivered another, the last but cue in tho series, of hie lectures, "On the Religions of the Eastern World," in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. The subject of the lecture was " The History of the Armenian Church." Having described the many Controversies on minute points of doctrine, which from its outset distracted the Eastern church, the lecturer gave a graphic account of the scenes which, took place at the synods assembled to determine the mooted quescions. At those synods, quitting the war of words they had recourse to "Apostolic blows and knocks"—patriarch tusselled =With patriarch—bishop:pitched into bishop—priest grappled with priest, until the sanguinary stream flowed fast and thick from many an ecclesiastical nose. These scenes, he did not mean to imply, were confined to the Church of Rome. No, they were shared in by all the churches—Romish, Greek, Arme nian, and Protestant ; and we learned this one great lesson from all their controversies and strife—a lesson illustrated a thousand times over in the pages of ecclesiastical history, that it is not safe to:trust any ecclesiastics with any measure of temporal power. (Applause). The lecturer then briefly sketched the rise and progress of the Nestorian church, de tailing by way of episode the main features of St. Cyril's life, and how fast and furious the controve rs y on the M " onophosite " doctrine, or the unity of our Lord's human and divine nature, waged between him and Nestorius. Having alluded to the progress of the Nestoria n creed throughout the nations of the East, the lecturer alluded to that mythical being —" Prester John," and created much amusement by reading that hero's•" bouncing" letter to Alexis Commenus, descriptive of the magnificence of his kingdom. The lecturer, in conclusion, described with much minuteness the differences, or rather the " distinctions without a difference," which separated the Armenian from the Greek and.other Eastern churches, and its present form and government. The rev. gentleman was enthusiastically applauded at the conclusion of his address. CHARGE OF SEDUCTION AND FRAUD AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. On Friday last the Rev. Henry Francis Hewgilt, curate hf Crofton, near Fareham, Hants, was brought up before the magistrates at Fareham, Lord El. Cholmoudley, M. P., in the chair, on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences. On the 17th of November last the accused who has resided in the parish about eighteen months, and is a married man, thirty-four years of age, having a wife and four children, suddenly left Crofton with a young woman named Macfar lane, the daughter of a pensioner living in the village, who has lately filled the office of mistress at the village school. During the absence of the rector for the benefit of his health, at Bournemouth, the general duties of the p arish and the ten vi d n e o nce ua o u f , tl u t u ctalS , sx , x+nrtnnitioGt OT school devolved upon the curate, conversing with the schoolmistress, and a close intimacy sprung up between them. In a diary found subsequently to the elopement upon the young woman she had made entries, such as " Dear Harry kissed me for the first time," describing date, time, and place The missing pair were traced to Boulogne, where they remained for about a week, living in the first style, and frequenting the theatre and other places of amusement. From Boulogne they returned to England, and having spent some time in London, afterwards visited various parts ot7the country, until at length the young woman was deserted by the clergyman, in the metropolis, without a penny in her pocket. A warrant, however, having been issued against him for having obtained money under false pretences, it was placed in the hands of superintendent Harvey, who was soon upon his track, and apprehended him under the cir cumstances detailed in his evidence. He conveyed hint to London, where:he was locked up for the night at the Vine street station, and on the following morning brought before the magistrates at Marlborough-street, and directed to be conveyed to Faveham, where a crowd of two hundred persons had assembled at the railway station, and expressed their disapprobation by hooting, hissing, and groaning. Mr. Harvey at the same time brought Miss Macfarlane with him to Fareham, and handed her over to her relatives ; and the family of her companion in guilt having . been under the charge of Mr. Turner, a gentleman living in the district. At the examination on Friday, evidence was gone into in support of the charge of obtaining money, and the clergyman was committed. The magistrates said they would take b ail 1 himself in L5OO, and two sureties in £250 each. or THE FRANCHISE IN BELFAsT.---The Parliamentary fran chise in Belfast this year amounts to 3490. NEW COPPER COINAGE.—In consequence of the applica tion made by Mr. Davison, M.P., on the part of the Belfast merchants, for a supply of the new copper coinage, twenty eight boxes, weighing about 'a ton and a-half, of the new coin arrived in that town a few days ago. In a very short time afterwards the entire quantity was divided among the merchants, and put into immediate circulation. SUDDEN DEATHS.—Yesterday morning a clerk employed at the Wapping station, Whose name is William Lee, fell down and almost instantly expired at the station. He re sided at Huyton, An inquest will be held on the body this day.—Martha Robinson, who keeps a tobacconist's shop in Great Howard-street, was found dead in her bed yesterday morning. There is every reason to suppose that sherdieel from congestion of the brain.