The Press.
London, England, 1858-05-15 00:00:00

TUE PRESS, MAY 15, 1858.

the consideration of the meeting there was no bishop,
no dignitary of the Church, to contribute one single
word of commendation on behalf of a body of zealous

but poor members of their Church, whose dependence
on public sympathy is their surest reliance to pro-
vide an asylum and education for their children
when their own means did not suffice for that pur-
pose, or for their orphans, should a premature death
remove them from the world. Thirty boys, sons of
poor clergymen and orphans, are now under the care
of the Rev. L. P. Merciar, M.A., at Walthamstow,
where they are maintained and educated free of all
cost and charges whatever where the parents are
dead, and at little more than a nominal expense in
cases where the father is living. The total receipts
for the past year were 2,3001. lls. 11d., which left
7001. for investment, after defraying all the expenses
for that period.
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY held
their 53rd annual meeting on Monday, in the School-
room, Boraugh-road ; Lord John Russell in the
chair. There were also on the platform Lord Gran-
ville, Lord Ebrington, the Earl of Ducie, Sir J.
Boileau, Sir Walter Stirling, Proiessor Pilland, the
Rev. Dr. Angus, the Rev. W. Cadman, &c. The re-
port stated that 252 young persons had attended the
classes of the Normal College during the year, of
whom 102 had been appointed to schools, 120 were
under training, and 115 were Queen's scholars. At
the Christmas examination for certificates of merit

113 of the students presented themselves, of whom
95 were successful ; 55 obtained prizes for drawing,
and 5 certificates of full competency. In the model
school the average daily attendance of boys was 603,
and of girls 350. The total number admitted since
the schools were opened was 62,102. During the
year 119 grants of money and school materials had
been made to schools at home and in the colonies.

THE ANNUAL DINNER of the supporters of the
German Hospital took place on Monday, and pro•
duced upwards of 2,0001. Lord Cran worth presided,
supported by the diplomatic representatives of
Prussia and Hanover. Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., Mr.
Meinertzhagen, V.P. ; the Revs. Dr. Cappel and A.
Walbaum ; Mr. Walno, consulting surgeon, Dr.
Weber, physician, and Mr. De Meric, surgeon to
the hospital, were also present, and a numerous
party of zealous friends. The stewards must have
made great and meritorious exertions to produce such
a result.

A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT happened on Monday to
an express train on the Trent Valley line of the
London and North-Western Railway, and resulted
in the immediate death of three persons, and the
more or less severe injury of a large number of
others. The accident was caused by the engine
striking a bullock, or cow, that had strayed on to the
line, and it is the first fatal accident that we remem-
ber to have beard of in this country from any similar
cause, although such occurrences are not unlrequent
in the United States. The nine a.m. train from
London, known as the Scotch express, seems to have
kept time as far as Rugby, where it was due at 10.50,
and had to s, ay five minutes for refreshments- There
was to be no stoppage between Rugby and Stafford;
but when a point about thirteen and a hal;
miles from the former place, and a mile
south of Nuneaton, had been reached, the driver
caught sight of a bullock, or cow, upon the six-
foot space, in the act of crossing to the down line, on
which the train was running very rapidly. As the
lines there are upon a sharp curve, the animal was
not seen until the train was almost close upon it ;
but the driver is said to have done his best to pull
up, by sounding the whistle very loudly with a view
of startling the beast, and also as a signal to the
guards to apply the breaks. The engine break was
screwed down ; but the speed was only slightly
checked, and when the engine struck the animal the
shock to the train was most severe. But this was
nothing compared with what resulted. The engine
kept on the line; but the tender and four or five of
the carriages got off, and were by the momentum of
those behind almost literally crushed to pieces and
piled in a heap. The result was that three passen-
gers were killed on the spot, and four others
severely injured, viz.:—

Mr. Richmond, a gentleman, about 60 years of age, who
was accompanying his invalid daughter from London to
Maryport, in Cumberland, where he resided with his family.
He was dead when discovered.

The Rev. Thomas Miller, a Presbyterian clergyman,
about 30 years of age, who was en route for Belfast, where
he resided.
Mr. Morgan, barrister-at law, aged 28 years, who was
proceeciing on a visit to his friends, near Shrewsbury.

INJURID.

Mr. Henry Brett Ince, barrister•at law, aged 80. This
gentleman, who is the son of the publisher of the Law
Journal, has sustained a compound fracture of the right
wrist, and suffers from cerebral imtation. He is lying at
a small alehouse in the village of Attleborough.
Mr. Bryson, of the firm of Robert Bryson and Co., of
Glasgow, aged 80 years. This gentleman is suffering from
a severe contusion over the kidneys and from a general

shook of the system. His injuries are not considered
dangerous.
Mr. Dallas, of Glasgow, aged 58 years. This gentleman
was sitting in the same carriage with Mr. Richmond, whn
was killed. He has had a sib fractured on the right side
but hie case is not dangerous, and he is considered to be
doing well.
Miss Richmond, aged 17 years, daughter of the decease
Mr. Richmond. This lady has received several severe con
Unions about the face, and has some indication of having
suffered cerebral mischief. Her distress of mind on learn.
ing the fatal result of the accident to her father was pain-
fully acute ; but she has since exhibited uncommon forti•
tude under her accumulated distresses.
The inquest will be proceeded with next week.

Along market rn tztg

FRIDAY EVENING.
THE return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday last, the 12th inst., shows the
following changes compared with that for the week
preceding :

Decrease in Circulation

Decrease in Public Deposits
Increase in Other Deposits
Decrease in Government Securities 738,918
Decrease in Other Securities
Decrease in Bullion
Increase in Rest
Decrease in Reserve
Bullion in both Departments
Circulation, including Bank Post
Bills
The principal features in this comparison are the falling
off in the Public Deposits and the diminution in the
Bullion. The former is owing to the provision for the
redemption of the Exchequer Bonds, and the latter is
caused by the continental demand, concerning which some
observations are made below. The Private Securities are
again lower, showing that the transactions of the Bauk in
discounts are still diminishing.

Nothing has occurred during the week to change the
character of the Money Market, although the fact of a con•
siderable drain of gold having set in for transmission to
the Continent has induced an opinion that no very long time
will elapse before the Bank Directors will resort t o advanced
rates of discount in order to check the outflow. The sup.
plies of capital waiting
employment are very great. They
were enlarged in the early part of the week by the money
received by the public in redemption of the Exchequer
Bonds, nearly 2,000,0001.; and in the last day or two the
East India Company have loaned out a considerable per-
tion of the 750,0001. which they received on Moodily as
the second instalment of fifteen per cent. of the deben•
tore loan recently contracted. Owing to these accumu-
lations on the market, the tendency to higher rates which,
under ordinary circumstances , would be created by the
foreign demand for gold, has been neutralized. We do
not, however, anticipate a continuance of this state of
things beyond next week, as the commercial inquiry,
though apparently quiet, is gradually absorbing large
amounts in trade ; and it certainly cannot continue if the
overdue gold ships from Australia do not arrive in time
to arrest the activity of the purchases from the Bank for
for export. As it is, the rates for the best bills average
from two and a quarter to two and a half per cent., the
latter price rather predominating, though there is a scarcity
of really first-class paper.
Besides the 372,0001. noticed in our last as having been
withdrawn from the Bank for the Continent, principally
France, the withdrawals up to yesterday amounted
co
421,0001. more. This makes an aggregate redaction in
the Bank stock of 793,0001. in snout ten days. To this
amount must be added about 22.5,0001. purchased in the
open market out of supplies that have arrived in the coarse
of the present week. The gross sum thus abstracted is,
in round numbers, 1,018,0001. These transactions are
still continued, and they naturally excite a good deal of
attention. Last week, when they first began to be per-
ceived, they were explained as arising out of settlements
with America, in which we were merely agents; but the
magnitude of the subsequent operations, and th eir con-
tinuous character, prove this theory to be insufficient. The
drain is now explained by the assumption,
which we
believe is partially correct, of large purchases of goods and
produce in Marseilles, Hamburg, and other ports, on
English account, the prices of which were likely to resull
in ultimately large profits. The movements of the bullion
market are, under these circumstances, regarded with
in-
tense interest, because they may very speedily saase an
alteration in the value of money by the demand that sooner_
or later must be made upon the market for the means of
continuing them.
The specie arrivals since our last amount to 338.4_5?!:.
exclusive of some amounts from Russia. About 700, .
ouvi

is en route from Australia, the greater part of :which may
arrive any day.
Considering the inveterate hostility with which the
present Government are assailed by their adversaries, and
the resolution to oust them from office for their disap-
proval of Lord Canning's policy of confiscation, the value
of public Securities has been maintained wonderfully well
throughout the week. A Ministerial crisis invariably
affects the Funds adversely, bnt in this instance they
have been less affected than on any similar occasion within
our memory, for a fractional fall of about one half repre-
sents the exact amount of prejudice they have sustained
from the factious combinations which, after having driven
Lord Ellenborongh from office, are now seeking to di,.
place the whole of the Administration. That their efforts
do not meet with the sympathy of the moneyed and corn
mercial classes is proved by their inability to produce any
real impression upon stockholders. If, es they allege, the
policy of the Government in disapproving Lord Canning's
harsh measures is endangering our supremacy or our rule
in India, how happens it that not the Funds only but
Indian Securities in general are so firmly held by the
classes usually so sensitive to political dangers? How
happens it that some Indian Securities, the debentures of
the new loan, for example, are so eagerly sought for by
capitalists of all classes as a very desirable investment?
Consols, which left off last Friday at 97f to f, have
receded to 97* to I. They opened at this quotation this
morning; and closed at 97f to I.
Foreign Stocks have, on the whole, been steady. The
principal change has been in Turkish Six per Cents., which
have declined about one and three-eighths per cent. upon
statements that Turkey is about to contract a new loan.
Railway Shares, from sympathy with Console, and partly
from dulness of business, are fully one per cent. lower
than this day week. The business of the week has been
principally speculative.
The other markets have not materially changed.
Several new Joint Stock undertakings have been an-
nounced during the week.

The Trade Reports are still rather improving. The
increase in business is small, but manufacturers are fos-
tering it, and it is safe. There is now only legitimate
trailing going on.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, May 11.

BA Si RV PTOY AN'

EDWIN HUDSON

Jourrz, Bristol, chemist.
BANKRUPTS.—HARRY WILLIAM ATKINSON and THOMAS,
WILLIAM KING, Sutherland•gardens, Maida•vale, Paddingumt
builders—S.orue/, JOHN BURCHMAN, Paradtse•street, Bother.
bithe, corn deaIer—WILLIAM Bums, jun., Stratford, Essex,
cutler—THomas Rom Olbraltar.walk, Bethnal-green, contractor
-WILLIAM TOLL/T, Yieweley and Uxbridge, Middlesex, livery
stable keeper—WILLIAM WHEELER, Broadway, Worcestershire,
and RICHARD WHEELER, Evesham, Worcestershire, corn
mer-
chants—JOHN CLARKE MormaN, Hereford, innkeeper—JAMßS
ALLEANDER WILLS, Birmingham, sadler--RICH•ED SEATON,
Birmingham, draper—James Lumsnes and WILLIAM LUMSDEN,
South Shields, Durham, china manufacturers—MlCHAEL FLOOD,
Liverpool, boot maker—THOMAS BLILEIT, Dowry, Yorkshire,
farmer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—Jessie LARNACH, Edin-
burgh, hotel keeper--JoHN CURRIE, Mermaid, near Paisley,
starch manufacturer—PETEß MlNTosii, Aberdeen, manufac•

turer— DAVID B*AID PATON. Dundee, if—raper—Tau:aria WHITS,
Learnwhogo, grocer—Jouw Hat Boss, Aberdeen
cIothier—PETZICOWIZTOM, Macduff, draper.

Friday, May 14
BANKRUPTCIES ANN ULLED.—THOMAS BIAXLAND, Maid-
stone, grocer—HErisT ScHwAsx, Liverpool, merchant
BANKRUPTS.—MARTHA HULBERT, Caversham, Oxfordshire,
parchment manufacturer—Jour+ Jouss, High Hol }orn, stationer
—ARTHUR (II LBEY, Charlotte-terrace, Lambeth, grocer—ELIJAH
WYETT, Shipdham, Norfolk, miIIer—MICHELE CONSTANTINIDI,
Manchester, merchant-- JAates GRAY SOPPET, North Shields,
miller and shipowner—EDWlN BARWI CK, Snaith , Yorkshire,
printer—Jour BUXTON, Brassington , Derbyshire, grocer—
FIRM MOORE Owes, Gloucester.road, Croydon, wine merchant
--JOHN SEDDON, Liverpool, shipwright—AUGUSTUS THOMAS
GOODCHILD, Three Colt-street, Limebouse, ironmonger—Jour
DUNHAM, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, licensed victualler.

DOUGLAS—On the 27th ult., at Lynburn, near Ratho, N. 8.,
the wife of Captain the Hon. G. H. Douglas, R.N., of a eon.
GLYN—On the Ste instant, at Cheltenham, the wife of Lieut.-
Colonel Olyn, 9rd Battalion Ride Brigade, of a daughter
NAPIER—On the 2nd Instant, at Naples, Lady Milliken Napier,
of a son.
MARRIAGES.
CARP—KE:IGHLY—On the Ilth instant, at Paddington, the
Hon. Lucius Cary, son of Viscount Falkland, to Sarah Chris-
tiana, daughter of the late Major Henry Peach Keighly, Judge
Advocate-General of the Madras Army.
HIGGINS—JEPSON—On the 11th instant, at Hampton,
Warner Charles, son of the late Colonel Sir Samuel Gordon
Higgins, K.C.H., to Sophia Susannah Portia, daughter of
Henry Jepson, Esq., of Hampton.
ROUTLEDGE—BELL—On the 11 th instant, at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, George Routledge, Esq., of Farringdon-street, to
Mvy Grace. daughter of the late Mr. Alderman Bell, of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
WHITE—SMITH—On the 12th instant, at St. Peter's, Eaten-
Square, Colone: Henry Dalrymple White, C. 8., to Louisa
Mary, daughter of Martin Tucker Smith, Esq, M.P.

DHATEIS.
EDWARDES—On the Sth instant, at Sealy Ham, Wm. Tucker
Ethearles, Esq., senior magistrate of the county of Pembroke,
aged 74.
GHEY—On the 9th instant, in Eaton-placo, Mary, wi,low of
the late Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., K.C.8., see,l 88.
"EEN—On the 6th instant, at Rustington. the Rev. John
Chesle Green, M.A., for Se years vicar of that parish
aged 4.

Mats—Ou the 6th instant, at Newport, North Devon, Lieut.•
Colonel J. T. Lowis, aged CS.