The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1863.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—The Committee of
the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION
earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable
them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Inatitatiotes
M Welled establishments. Thew the past 18 months nearly
SOO shipwrecked sailors have been saved by the AmletVs life-
boats. Coutribuilons err received by all the Loudon and coun-
try bankers: and by the secretary , EICHAED LEWIS. at the
Itutitution, 14 John-street,

N PIZE
OVIW ZEAL AN 1).
NCE of ',roman) fIOiILESIMEE WAN,
a 340,000.
The BANK of NEW ZEALAND, BanketA to the Genera
Government of New Zealand and to the Provincial Government
of Auckland, GIVE NOTICE that hey are authorised to HELL
hy PUBLIC ElLiDeat the FOCHT IhsTAI.IIENT of £lOO,OOO of
the 11.iLF-111LLION LOAN, issued under the authority of the
Auckland Lou Act of 1883.
LTo yi,,heigurei. with Coupons attached,Care lien." :•• -tams of
3:10o. 8.230, daoo, and £l.OOO. bearing interest at the rate of
• per rent per annum, COCOraeschng on Ist April, 1883, to 1
nriciined h, 33 years by a sinking twill ofax2 per cent. on the
sum borrowed.
Tue principal is made payable &Ville :option of the buyer,
either at the °Mee of the Bank of New Zealand, London• or at
tha. odlce of the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.
The interest half-yearly at the Bank of New Zealand, London.
Tender. will be received until 1 o'clock on, Thursday, Ist
tk•whr, 184, specifyirg the total amount of Debentures re-
quired, and the premium per cent, which will be divan for the
sum, to be Wintered to the Directors of the irtok of New
Zealand, with the words "Tender for the Auckland Provincial
Govcrunient lean" r ritten on the outside.
A deposit of d 5 per cent. 012 the amount of each ten er must
be previously paid to the Bank of London, Threadueedlestroet,
and receipt for same enclosed in letter of application.
Tenders will be opened in the preemies of all persons inte-
rested at 1 o'clock en Thursday, lit October, 1803, at the Bank of
New Zealand. The highest kidders shall be deemed the pur-
ch.dieril, provided the prices are not lower than the minimum
placed in • waled paper on the table before the tenders are
opeued. Where tender, are murk upon the same terms, • pro
rata distribution on such tender. wilt be made.
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of London, Threadneedle-street, on Friday. 23rd October, be-
tween the hours of eleven and two o'clock, upon payment of the
balance due thereon,

Arvs:ortiel4oVinee la about 17,000,0008er%.
European territory, 1,8711,46e1 acme.
Native territory 15,111,1543 send
It is the object of the Provincial Government of Auckland to
obtain funds to purchase from the natives the waste lauds of tho
above 15,121,617 acres, and to plant upon them a European
populatian; and it is calculated that the revenue accruing Dom
each ...real of populatioo would of itself he sufircient to liquidate
rite lorn now sought to be negotiated
Ins:ribution of Load
Redemption; of Provincial Debentures due May Id.
P.vor

Public But dings
11=4Tattoo autl Purchme of Land

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£315,000

To be advanced by sway of loans to road boards and
sautucipahties for the execution of public a orks....

i5:..000

L.?00.C?0

The principal and Interest of this loan are charged and nada
payable oat of all revenues of the said prompts,.
In lain the revenue of the province of Auckland eras 5.45,601
in 1031 it attioillited to ae; 2. no Meer atheist 'sauna here
been compact. but the revenue has materially lacreased since
that date. .

Fortes of tender may be had at the office of the bank, together
with copies of Luau Act, F.mpoweing Act, and Letter of Vontir-
mstrou by the general government ; also Sketch of the present
position of the Province of Auckland, statiatfcany and flaimelay
compiled by the U_ pasty Waste Lauds Commissioner.
F. La RB WORTH V. Slaunglng Director.
sank of New Zzahind, fat, tad Broad•street,
Sept. 21. 1823.

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LO_VDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.

IT may be hoped that the subject of Infanticide
in England will not be absent from the list of
topics for discussion at the approaching Meet-
ing on Social Science. Since the last meeting
there have been proposals and movements in the
direction of a new experiment of the old in-
stitution of Foundling Hospitals, as a preventive of
child-murder ; and, though there will probably not
be any person in the assemblage at Edinburgh who
needs to be instructed in the oonstant and neces-
sary operation of those establishments, it may not
be a waists of time to bring up the evidence once
again, hr the sake of the kind-hearted but inex-
perienced persons at a distance who are anxious to
be doing something to reduce the amount of in-
fanticide.

Many who understand the fatal operation of
Foundling Hospitals are still disposed to believe
that there must be something to be done. If the
separation of the infanta from their mothers, under
the Foundling scheme, kills half, or two-thirds, or
nine-tenths of them, might not the children and the
mothers be taken care of together, nulled and com-
forted till the temptation to the unmarried mother
to destroy her infant may be supposed to be past
Such • proposal has actually been made, and
there are persona ready at this moment to support
such a scheme ; and while there is such blindness
to inevitable consequences among us as is thus
shown, and so monstrous a miscalculation of the
proportion of the means to the desired end, it may
be no undue condescension in the Social Sautes
Congress to treat of the facts of the practice of
infanticide among ay without that total neglect of
its causes which so regularly distinguishes tbs dis-
cussion of plans of charitable relief for the evil.
The view which has to be dealt with is this—
Child-murder, always shockingly common, is be-
lieved to be on the increase. Those who propose
to stop it by means of charitable asylums under-
stand by child-murder one particular branch of it,
the murder of infants immediately or very soon
after birth by the hands of the unmarried mother,
overwhelmed with shame and poverty. Seducers,
their victims, and society are the parties concerned,
in the view of these benevolent projectors. What
has to be pointed out to them and proved to their
satisfaction is, that the child-murder which they
are contemplating ie but a small portion of the
whole ; that even that portion arises from causes
much less simple than they suppose ; and that
every attempt yet made to check the evil by chari-
table intervention has manifestly and prodigiously
aggravated the mischief. When all this is proved,
as it may easily be, it will not follow that we are
to sit down in despair under the horrible curse ;
but it will from that moment become • sin to try
to deal with the difficulty in such a way as cer-
tainly to aggravate it.

Foundling Hospitals always and everywhere
exhibit such a mortality among infants that they
have been justly called institutions for legalised
infanticide. But this is the lightest part
of the mischief. They act as a direct premium
on desertion of infants ; and for every child
that dies in the Hospital there are said to be
twenty outside of it. The spread of profligacy
within the range of influence of this charity ren-
ders this supposition probable. The seducer finds
his scruples relieved ; his victim is eased of her
fears for the fate of her offspring; and the charge

of all the profligacy of a parish, a town, or •connty
is thrown on the Hospital authorities, who cannot
deal with a hundredth part of it. However many
infants they admit, there is an ever-growing multi-
tude thronging to them, for whom they can do
nothing ; and, though three in four of the little
ones admitted die off presently, the rush to fill
their places becomes more and more desperate. Of
the rejected a larger number is murdered than
ever was murdered before the institution existed.
Such is the process in the case of the particular
clasa—the seduced. But it was not this effect
only which caused the closing of our Foundling
Hospitals, and those of other Protestant
countries where charity is regarded as an
affair of the judgment and the conscience.
Everywhere the effect on the married poor has
been disastrous. Everywhere a large proportion
of the foundlings has consisted of the children of
idle and selfish married parents. The home-life
of the cottage has been found to be poisoned by
the very atmosphere of a Foundling Hospital.
The worst sort of parents get relieved of their
infanta in this way, or are under new and strong
temptation to get rid of them otherwise ; and the
better sort are irritated when they see the off-
spring of guilt and shame set forward in life to
more advantage than their own respectable fami-
lies. When it is found how everything is going
to ruin within the range of these pernicious chari-
tic; the patrons atop—generally quite suddenly
—in their panic at what they have done. They
turn their institution to some better purpose—as
we did in Ireland when we converted all the
Foundling Hospitals into the Union Houses °stab-
filled to meet the famine.

Then follows the surge of /the profligate element
so cagily generated, and so difficult to put down.
There is an outcry that encouragement to btu-
tardy had been afforded, only to be withdrawn
in bad faith to the poor innocents now doubly de-
serted. After having gone through the complete
experiment in a former social period, having wit-
nessed the corruption and death, and felt the
bitterness of the error and the remorse, our
country wql surely not enter on the same experi-
ment again under any modification of form.
The modification now proposed is extending the
charity to the mothers. The victims of seduction
are to be received into • hospital, to be nursed
through their confinement, and are to be dis-
missed free from the burden of their infanta ! Such
is actually the proposal which English gentlemen
and ladies are not ashamed to produce in the face
of the honest poor, struggling to rear their young
children in honour and independence ! More than
that, these patrons of sin and sinners declare that
the paltry half-crown • week receivable by the
mothers by law is too little to keep up their spirits
and courage, and divert them from murdering
their infants ; and they propose that " the miser-
" able 2s. Gd. per week shall be exchanged for
" substantial and continual support." There is no
need to spend words in exposing such madness
as this. We need only remind our readers
that under the old Poor-law the allowance of
Is. W. per week for illegitimate children was
found to raise that particular profligacy to the
footing of a professional resource ; and women,
instead of killing off their infants because they had
so little as half-a-crown, added to the number till
the respective eighteen-ponces reached • certain
amount of income. This was one of the crying
disgraces which led to the reform of the law.

Those who dream of dealing with such a practice
as infanticide by any one device or appliance are
unfit to meddle with it at aIL Anything short of
the right method must be exceedingly mischievous.
Let the projectors look beyond the line within
which they indulge their sympathies. Let them
look at the child-murder which has arisen out of
burial clubs, to appal society throughout the
country. Let them look at the poisonings of whole
families in their infancy by the mothers who sent
them all—whether one or two, or eight or ten—to
the grave, because "they would be better off with
" the LORD." Let them learn from those who beat
can tell whether the new-born infants of certain
classes of poor married parents have any ordinary
chance of life. Let them try to gain some notion
of the extent and the various aspects of this kind
of murder before they dare to propose to patronise
one class of sinners, and render the sin a source of
prosperity.

" For the purpose of preventing infanticide."
Such is the account given of the aim of the
new Society just advertised. " The National
" Society," it calla itself ; but we trust such a
monument of folly will never be recognised as in
any sense " National." As the Medical Times',
observes, the first good to be hoped from the
Society is the enlightenment of its supporters, who
have everything to learn which it is most neces-
sary they should know. Child-murder can be
prevented only by dealing with the deep-seated
causes which render the child unwelcome to those
to whom it should be most dear and precious.
Not only the profligacy but the subsequent mur-
der is directly and invariably increased by the use
of the means once more brought forward to " pre-
'
" vent" it There can be no sudden prevention
of a crime which proceeds from a bad social habit
of mind, or from an outraged human instinct, or
from the combination of sentiment and interest
which is so common in the osse—so subtle, so
intricate, so entirely beyond the reachof superficial
charity. When a generation comes forward in
life which is really an educated generation, trained
to honour and to industry, as well as to intellec-
tual exercises and arts ; when the advancing pros-
perity of our country shall have reached that de-
gree which will enable its youth to marry in good
time ; and when the fearful and obstructive tradi-
tions of a dreary period of hardship, depression, celi-
bacy, and license shall have lost their force, the
crime of child-murder will be reduced to its lowest
point In the interval there is much to be done,
though no one panacea for this fearful social ma•
lady. We can all help to drive it out by pro-
moting in any way the health of the community.
The Social Science authorities may guide us well in
the work ; and if they see any promise of good by
the oas of any special dealing with this crime, t►ey
will call upon ns to listen to their views, and will
find willing hearers.

EAST SITEIZT RZONTZATION.—TAStartiIIy Mr
B. A. Greenwood, the revision barrister. bald a court at the
Lambeth Vestry-hall, Kensington-grown, to revise the lists
of voters fee the parishes of Lambeth, Clapham, Street.
ham, Tube-hill, Norwood. Ito. Mr. Oltribl appeared is
support of the liberal isterest, Kr. E. IT. Sealy in behalf of
conservative claimants. There were a large number of new
claims allowed, and a very considerable somber of Totem
were struck off the lists is oonaequence, in meat iosteoces, of
death or removal from the district. The result of the day's
hop, accordion to the libeml arontiot. wow so follows: rebZioaw claims allowed, 145; conservative, 41 ; liberal
voters struck off the minister, 43; comervative, 59
neutral, 51.
Taz lINTOD RINSDON RAILWAY OPTICZIUtAWS
SiZTANTS' actimori.— Yesterday the half-yearly meat.
beg was held at the Loadoe.bridge Noses Hotel ; Mr. W.
Dyne in the chair. About 300 members were precast. A
long report was reed, stating that the anticipations of
some which had beim cheri.bed by the committee had
bees more that. realised. They asked, however, fee
still more arelotis, energetic, and prompt assietanos and
their report was adopted unanimously. It was resolved
that a hamar 'amid be held next year, for the hermit of
the Association. Rome elteratims were made in the roles,
sod the motion onocluded with a vote of thinks to
the chairman, nominate**, sad secretary.

SW Court.

BALMORAL, la% 27.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Prin-
cess Louis of Hare and Princess Beatrice, drarre to
Alt na Oultbsack yesterday.
Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, at-
tended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Milne. Bauer, ascended
Lochnagar.
The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Majesty
and the royal family at Balmoral.
This morning Divine service was performed by the Bev.
Dr. Caird, one of her Majesty's chaplain., who is staying at
Balmoral. The Queen and royal family were present, at-
tended by the household. The Prince and Princess of
Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Heels, and Rinser
Helena, also attended the parish church at Crathie.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Coloaial•otfice
from the Governors of the West India Islands, Vancouver's
Island, and British Columbia.

MR. HUBBARD, H.P AND SIR H. VISRNEY,
M.P., OH POLAND.

At an aviculturist dinner at Buckingham yester-
day, Kr. HUBBARD, LP., took oocasioa to congratulate all
preset* cm the recent declaration of oar Foreign Secrebuy
Juno ambiguous language that this country need be under
no apprehension of being ergo* in war on account of any
Polish question which could arise. (Hear, hear.) He
would venture to my that there ought never to hare been
any cause for such an apprehension. Non.interventica was
the true policy of this country —non.intervention in every
case in which the direct interest or honour of England did
not call upon us to go to war. (Hear, bear.) But he must
confers that the course not only of the debates in pasha.
MODS, but every official communication made from time to
time by our government to the court of Russia was of loch
• complexion as to give rise to serious apprehen-
sions. And he would state this as a matter
which came within his own personal knowledge
that while the tenor of these communications was raising
apprehension here they had raised in Runde expectations
so poeitive of • coming war that the Rummies government
made immense efforts to strengthen not only Its army but
its navy, and the fortifications by which the approach to its
capital had been hitherto defended. He regretted thee,
circumstances, because they would act meet injuriously
upon this country, because the alarm which existed in
Russia did a great injury to our trade. He therefore
woody congratulated the country that these alarms had
ceased. Bat ceased with what prospect s, to the future?
Poland was still in • state of insurrection, and there
were not wanting calls in our lend as well as in
Poland for intetlerenoe oa the part of our govern.
meat. He thought it important that that ques-
tion should be considered in a truthful and dispassionate
spirit ; and he would say this, that peg Injustice had
been done to Russia by the way in which the question had
been debated, both in the House of Commons and in every
public maltase which had been lied in the country. It had
been represented that in this matter Russia wee the great
aggressor, and that her character was marked not only by
breach of faith, but by great inhumanity ; and we had pre.
seeded to her, in combination with two other ;great powers,
a scheme of adjustment. What was that scheme? The
very first proposition that was presented to the absolute
ruler of 70,C30,030 or 80,000,C;:3 of men was a propasiticin
for en entire ~cation of beetAliales. Between whom? The
Emperor of Russia, to whom the request was ad.
dressrd, was perfectly competent to act on the
suggestion. Bat who were the parties on the
other Bias by whose 'occurrence alone that sugges-
tion could be realised? Where was the representative of
the Polish government! The Polish government was repre-
sented by au ides—its only sign of power was the dagger,
and its moans of action ware assassination. (Oh, oh.)

RussialuiTlbeen blamed for taking rigorous meunns, but
i. would be remembered that the first outbreak was the
midnight senuniaation of Russian troops quartered in •
Polish province. He admitted that in one instance Runde
had made • vest mistake. Russia had ordered a partial
ooneas:ption. But that mistake was mode at the suggestion
of a Pole who had been chosen by the government of. Russia
became be was supposed to know the intimate
of his country. However that question might end, he
taJotel that nothing would move our government from
the course of son-intervention which they had now so
distinctly adopted. (Hear, bear.) Russia was supposed to
be animated by nothing but a thirst of conquest. Now only
the other day 120 had read an account of the issuing of •
ukase sanctioning the formation of a company to carry a
railway from Moscow to the Black Sea at Sawstopol. That
naval arming was to be converted into a harbour for oem-
merce, into • pledge of pacific policy.
Sir H. Varner could not help ex pressing his dissent from
the opinions which had bees advanced by his hon. colleague
en the subject of Poland. (Beer, hear.) He did not wish
the country to •in war. At the same time he would
rather havebeard that our Foreign Secretary had used Isa-
ias's of constraint against Ramis than to have averted that
01211,111 'many danger of our country being involved in war.
(Hear.) His conviction with regard to Poland and Ramie
wee this. Those who went toßnuria were kindly deceived.
(Laughter.) The Russians were so talented and agreeable
that he was not astonished that any one who visitor them
should believe Russia to be in the right and Poland in
the wrong. In his opinion them was no country is the
world that had been so dreadfully tyraonised over as Poland
bad been by Russia. (Hear, hear.) And we ought not to
permit such a state of things to go on without protest. It
vas oar duty to take every step in our power in favour of
Poland. (Hear, hear.) Poland was given to Rama by
treaty to which we ware parties, and we were bound to see
that treaty executed. (Hear, hest.) Polish institutions
were promised to the Poles, but they never bad been given,
and the Polish insurrection Lad taken place merely on the
legal, proper, and due determination and exist tion of •
country to obtain for itself those privileges without which
• country was not worth living in. The state of Poland
governed by Russe was a standing menace to Europe, and
peace could not be insured in Europe so long as Poland wet
tyrannised over by Ramis. (Cheers.)

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again to W., mode- 'treas. amtally.
rate to dram.
S.& to W., frank to Warr Courts. Illa W. to Njr.w.,
strong. equally, to
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North-last.Ctithness to Noel*lk. West= Metegal to Cas-
well. Sooth=ellatitiel ma By Oink. Itootla-Evote.Stralt of
Dover to Norfolk.

The death of Senor Cairo Asensio, an eloquent
member of the Spanish Cortes, and director of the liberal
journal the /feria, is reworded. Thepopnlatlon of Madrid,
without distinction of clue or opinion, attended his funeral
is great numbers. The Spanish papers also reeled the
death of the Duke of Ilijar, a grandee of the AM clam.
The deceased duke belonged to a family which posimesee the
curious privilege of receiving every year the clothes worn by
the King. and Queer of Sonia cm the day of the Epi-
phany. The muses= in which the " old elo " ere pined
is ea object of much cariosity to visitors to Madrid.

Hories are cheaper in ths south of Eugland than
they have bon kaowa for • post Dumber of yarn.

THE EXTRAORDINARY MA I L.BAO ROBBERY

BY4 L~iDY.

Yesterday (Tuebday), at the Hull Police-court,
before the stipendiary magistrate, Mrs. Maria Cooke, the
lady who is charged with being concerosal in the robbery of
the South Cave mail bag, and • letter containing cheque to
the amount of 7001., was again brought up. Mr. F. F.
Ayre appeared for the prosecution, aid Mr. F. Semmes
forlh.i.i_p2soner. The following evidence was called :
rea=Mackintosh, • morchaat's clerk. stated that he
red being in Whitsfriargate, Hull, on Friday
morning last, about • quarter peat ten o'clock. The prisoner
came up and spoke to him, • Are you in • harry!' He
replied, " No. She said, • Will you get • cheque cashed
for me!" He said, " I don't suppose they will pay me."
She said, " Yes, they wilL" He said, " 1 shall have tosign
my name." She said, " Oh, no, you won't," While she was
speaking she produced an envelope with a cheque in it, out
of a bag, and gave it to witness. He said he would take it,
and ho asked her where the bank was. She said, "The
Yorkshire Banking Company, corner of Parliaineetetreet."
Witness went to the beak with the cheque, which was in
the envelope. It was for 28/., and down by Thomas
Jackson, of North Shields, upon the Natiooal Provincial
Bank of England at Shields. He presented the cheque to
the bank clerk, who refused M cash it. He then left the
bank, and went back to the prisoner, sod told her that they
would Oct cash the cheque, and be handed both the
envelope and cheque back to her. He thee left, and imam-
diately afterwards pointed her out to two hank clerks who
had followed him. One of these clerks went up to her mud
asked her if she had just sent • cheque to the bank. She
replied in the affirmative. He asked to see the cheque,
when she handed him what appeared to be the same
envelope and cheque. He asked her to stop back to the
bank, and she went, witnes accompanying them. In the
bank they coked her where she had got the cheque from,
and she said a gentleman had given it to her in a railway
carriage, as she was coming from Howls, the uight before,
by the last train, and in • second-class carriage. She was
asked if there were many people in the carriage, and she
replica that it was full, and that the gentleman, who was
sitting opposite to her, threw it across to her. She had net
seen him before. The lady was then tiken into custody by
a detective who was pessent in the bank at the time.
William Boyes,of Beverley, haulms' clerk in the Yorkshire
Banking Company, at Hull, said he remembered Friday
lest, the 25th inst., wheel the last witness brought a cheque
to the bank to he cashed, but it was not cashed, and it was
returned to Mackintosh, and the latter left the bank, fol.
lowed by witness and another bank clerk. The poisoner
was pointed out to them as the penon who had sent the
cheque to the Mak. Witness asked her if she hat sent a
boy to the Yorkshire Banking Company with a cheers on
the National Provincial Banking Company. She astd yes,
one of Hr. Popplewell's (the person to whom the cheque was
payable). Witness mkt I her to show him the cheque. She
then produced an envelops en which was • cheque oe the
York City and County Book at Goole. Witness told her
that this was not the cheque he wanted, and he asked her if
she had another. She then produced another envelope with
the cheque on the National Provincial Bank. Witness told
her there was some =Wake about the cheque she had pre-
, mated to the bank, and would she return Maw? She said
she hoped that there was nothing wrong about it, but she
would go. When iu the bank, the manager asked her the
I questions deposed to by the last witness. She said when in
the train the gentleman said to her •• There, young woman,
there's some cheques for you ; get some money for them if
you like." She was asked if she had not given something
' for the cheques. She said no. She was asked what was his
appearance. She said be was tall, but she would not know
him again. She was then given tato custody.
Elizabeth Jane Taylor, wife of Mr. Taylor, of Spring-
arch, Spring.street, was next examined. She knew the
prisoner, and she came from Perriby station with her on
Thursday. evening, in the Let train. They rode in a third-
class carnage, and wither sat opposite prisoner. There
were eight women (including the prisooer) sod two rasa
in the compartment. During the journey she never saw
anfthieg given to the prisoner, and if there had been she
most have seen it. Witness west to the gaol on Saturday
last, and identified the prisoner from amongst several other

Mary Eleanor Ward mid she knew the prisoner. She was
with bee between three mid four o'clock ou Thursday after.
noon last, and went with her to the Hull Railway Station.
Site said she was gaiety to Heathe and intended to walk
back at night Winless advised her to return by the last
Maim, and the. left her.
John Wilson, of South Cave, sleek in the breech bank of
the Yorkshire Banking Company at that place, was next
celled. Oa Thursday last he made up a letter coetainim
seven cheques, addressed is the Yorkshire Banking Com-
pany at Beverley. The two cheques found upon the pri-
mmer when t►ken into custody were two of the cheques he
placed in the letter. The letter was sealed and posted
between a quarter and ball-past five o'clock- He knew the
prisouer, having seen her et South Cave.
Henry Michael Daly. U, Seville-street, Hall, said he wee
clerk I. the General Post•offce, London, sad acting post-
, master of Hull. (Witness was here shown the envelope in
which the cheques were placed before being posted at Smith
Cave) This envelope. be said, was again ported in Hall on
Friday morning, between 9.15 and !0.15. There was a
South Cave postmark on it for the 24th led. It did not
beer the Brough postmark, which it ought to have dome is
its tomtit from Cave to Beverley. [This' evidence was to
show that the letter °Detaining the seven cheques was stolen
at South Cave and re-posted at Hull, for Beverley, minus the
two cheques found in possession of the prisoner.]
The 'videos* of bow the robbery was effected, and the
receipt of the five cheques at the Beverley Yorkshire Bank-
ing Company, was postponed until next Monday.
Bail was applied for, but refused, the magistrates remark.
ing that there was ton much mystery about the case.

An attempt to cultivate cotton has been made in
the Jardin des Plantes at Clermont. in the deportment of
the Pay de Dome, and has been attended with success.
Several feet of ground were sown with cotton seed brought
from America. The cotton plant has blossomed, and should
the weather prove One in autumn the director of the garden
expects to gather a plentiful crop.

. _
Amongst the sights of Paris there is now open
at the great Exhibitioo building is the Champs Elysium an
exposition of schools of design as connected with hones deco-
rations, furniture, and, in fact, the useful arts. The galle-
ries are hung with drawings contributed by the Paris and
prosiucial schools of design, whilst the ground door of the
building is filled with shops, where the tradesmen of Paris
show their goods and take orders.

A neat of greenfinches, dodged and ready to fly,
hes just been found in a barley rick at Gusbery, in Dor-
setehire. finch a circumstance, so late in the season, is
soy remarkable.

It is estimated that the crop of wheat this year
is equal to the crop of 1861 sad that of 1962 added
together.
Cover or CHANCERT.—The Accountant-Gene-
ral's °Moe will be open no Thunder, the 15th ; Friday, the
16th ; and Saturday. the 17th October, for the delivery out
of any regular interest draughts which have become payable
is respect of the October divideada, sad of say other
minim interest draughts which shall have become payable
during the closing of the office.
WIITTICHATEL CHURCH YOUN4 MEN'. AMBOcIA-
TION.-00 Nostlay evening last the first of • guise of lec-
tures In conrectios with this osiociatino was delivered Ware
• somewhat numerous endience, at the Large School Room,
Saint Maryetreet. Wisiteehapehrred. by the Rev. James
Cobs., M.A. ; the subject was " A month in Egypt." sad
the lecturer—who gave • very intereeting acroliat of his
recent travels in that part of the world—described many el
the customs of the inhabitants. A rots of thanks wr
given to the lecturer. The next will be by the Roy. Dr.
Cumming, on "The Bible and Modem Srieece."
WHAT IR TO BE DONE WITH THE GREAT SHIP?--
A meeting of the shareholders in this thitrict of the Great
Ship Company was bald yesterday, at the Clarsoes Hotel,
Mancheeter,for the purpose of discussing the oreeent position
and future prospects of the Great Shi:, Mr. Edeltoo took
the chair. Mr. Blair said there was to hes general meeting
of the shareholders in London. ou Friday, and the directors'
report, which be held in his ham!, would only mach
the majority of the shareholders no Sunder last. On
reading the report he thought it of so serious a nature
an to invite a few shareholders together in his office to dis-
cuss it, and from them emanated the advertimment calling
that meeting. The report elated, first of all, that the
directors wanted a sum of 301.11/. ; and that rum was
merely • rough reckoning, or rue.% as to what wneld to
wasted. The three months of Mar, JOOlll. and August,
which ware as favourable as any in the year, yielded
37.00/. in voyages to America: and nevertheless the
company sustained • loss of 10,C3)/. This was partly
owing to the competition of that line. There was
another matter which was rather .ingular, with re-
spect to the accident which occurred to the vessel
on Montauk Point. There was an insurance on the vexiel
at the time which had pet 5,8001.. and yet the directors
had hems advised they could sot recover &avails' because
thee bad a pilot out tionoi. In answer to a shareholder, Mr.
Blair said there were 330.600 nrdiaary pound shareholders.
and 700.000peetenameharebolirs. It was else stated that
from 70,000!. to 80.000 L would be remind to staid' the
ship to go on her next voyage. Wane gentleness expressed an
opinion favonrable to searlin; the great ship on beg
voyages—to India or Australia—but it was sated on the
authority of the chairman of the commis, that 20,0001.
would he required for coal alone for a voyage to Australis.
Mr. Ono reseed "that it be a energestion from this meet-
ing that the leading shareholders form amongst themeless
a new company for the purehaee of the ship, and all the
existing shareholders who desire to join the new company
be invited to do An ; that a deputation from thin meeting
attend the general meeting in Loudon to advocate this
policy." Mr. Mainland, of Stockport, who bell 4.000 ordi•
nary shame, seemided the motine. which was agreed to
unanimously. A committee wee then appointed as • &PIP
titian, sad the meeting closed.
On Monday the 100-pounder Armstrong gun on
the Reek Perch battery. Bear Liverpool. was fired for the
first time by the mise of the Coast Brigade, ander the coal.
.eked at Lieut. Marshall. B.A. The rearm was :kW Pies
Throughout tbes practice a strong wind was blowing.
vl.F49T.4m94Jralnimanaryer tvttomi.flea.rtz.beirrp.i.4lo, thfriLyNear..,
Tork. of which 5,625,626 gallons were for the United
Kingdom.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrsr Winslow.)
IN RE BRANDON AND NOAH.

The bankrupts, Jonathan Brandon and Phillips
Nosh, were wine merchants of Atichurch lane and Laurence
Puuotuey-lane, trading seder the firm of Jonathan Brandon
and Co. Thin was the first sitting. The liabilities are con-
siderable, upwards of 56,000 i. ; the meta are estimated at
'b,00.0. Numerous proofs of debt were made, and the
followiag gentlemen were chosen creditors' assignees :—Mr.
Edward Putt, of the firm of Francis and Co., cement manu-
facturers of Vauxhall ; Mr. W. 8. Ropley, manager of the
City of London Bank ; and Mr. W. F. Newton, wine
merchant, Silver-street. Mr. Chatter* accountant, was
appointed manager of the estate under the provisions of the
Bankruptcy Act of 1861; and Messrs. Reed and Phelps ate
the solicitors to the assignees.

On the application of Reed, the bankrupts were
ordered to futuisb, in addition to the usual cash and goods
accounts, accounts of their dealings in stocks and shares,
of their consignments to the Confederate States of America,
and of the vessels chartered by them.
(Before Mr. Registrar Haett.)
IV BE W. H. B. PAP;
•

This was the cue of a solicitor, practising in Great James-
street, Bedford-row. Re rune to the curt on his own
petition with &statement showing debts of 538/. He Mtn-
bates his faibre to bad debts and insofficieocy a income to
meet expenditure. This was the first sitting asd as assignee
was chosen.