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THE LONDON GAZETTE, Oct. 8

DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 8,
_1852.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Ker Baillie
Hamilton, Esq., for some time Lieutenant-Governor of
the Island of Grenada, to be Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the Island of Newfoundland and
its dependencies.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 5.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr
William Boutcher as Consul-General in London for the
Argentine Confederation.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 6.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William
Alexander Anthony Archibald, Duke of Hamilton, to
be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of La-
nark, in the room of Alexander, Duke of Hamilton,
deceased.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
The Honourable Autfustus Henry Vernon to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; Charles Holland, Doctor of
Physic, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Herbert Taylor,
Doctor of Physic, to be Deputy Lieutenant; James
Bagnall, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Michael
Thomas Bass, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John
Bolt, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Morton Edward
Buller, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Richard Croft
Chawner, , to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Wil-
liam Devonport, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
Charles Forster, Esq, to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
Lorenzo Kirkpatrick Hall, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Thomas Percival Heywood, Esq., to he Deputy Lieute-
nant; Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram, Esq , to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Edward Kinnersly, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; Rowland Mainwaring, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Tonman Mosley, E,q., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant ; Robert John Peel, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; Robert Philips, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
John William Philips, Esq, to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Thomas Thorneycroft, Esq , to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Thomas Fletcher Twemlow, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; John Aysbford %Vise, Lsq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; Thoaass Edward Whitby, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Philip Williams, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; Francis Whitgreave, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant, Oct. 4.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire.
Thomas Browne Browne, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; John Davies Corrie, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; John James Turner, &q., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; John Ofdey Crewe Reade, Esq , to be Deputy
Lieutenant; Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Davis Jones, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
Royal Montgomeryshire Militia—William Pryce
Browne, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Oct. 4.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
John Fletcher, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 2.
2nd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Mi-
litia—James Wardlaw, Esq., late Captain, 24th Regi-
ment of Bengal Native Infantry, to be Major; Peter
Slingsby Fitzgerald, Esq., to be Captain; Thomas Brad-
shaw, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Joseph Peel, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant; Henry Clarke, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant; Hugh Neil, Gent., to be Surgeon, Oct. 4.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia
—john Bentham, Esq, late Brevet Major, 47th Foot,
to bo Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir John Gerard,
Bart., resigned, Oct. 4; Lieutenant James German to be
Captain, vice Greenhalgb, resigned; Henry Newsbam
Pedder, Efq , to be Captain, vice Heskedi, Oct. 1; John
Bayly, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Sept. 29; John Hender-
son,Gent., to be Lieutenant; James Sidgreaves, Gent., to
bo Lieutenant; Ensign William Ayrton, to be Lieute-
nant; Edward Monk, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Thomas
Woodcock, Gent , to be Ensign, Oct. 1; Thomas
Richard Crosse„Esq , to be Captain, vice Hulton, re-
signed, Oct. 2.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
George Schonswar, jun., Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant, Oct. 5.

Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry R-giment of
Militia—Richard French Slegg, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Milieu, promoted, Oct. 4.
Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Charles
Castle, Esq., to be Captain, vice Hay thorne, resigned;
Davyd William Nash, Gent,, to be Lieutenant, Oct. 5.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding
of Yorkshire.
Barnard Hague, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant;
Thomas Price, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; George
William Tireman, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Ed-
ward Tew, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 1.
Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Charles Mus-
croft, Esq., to be Surgeon, Sept. 28.
3d Regiment of West York Militia—John Lister,
EAq., to be Surgeon, Sept. 28.
This Article is substituted for the ono which appeared

ruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Lawrance, Plows, and Bayer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Theodore Roe, upholsterer, Suff. )Ik-place, Inwer-
road, Islington, Oct. 23, and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street; Angell, %Vat-
hng-street.

William Steel, inn keeper, Birmingham, Oct. 19 and
Nov. 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Thorn, Wolverhampton; Motteram, Knight, and Em-
met, Birmingham.

Robert Shelton, saddler, Wellington, Shropshire, Oct.
23 and Nov. 15, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birming-
ham; Phillips, Shiffaall; Motterisra, Knight, and Em-
met, Birmingham.

Francis Lewin, engineer, Ragland, Monmouthshire,
Oct. 27 and Nov. 17, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Bevan, Bristol.
John German Harrison, dealer in locks, Liverpool,
Oct. 21, and Nov.ll. at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Beard, official assignee, Liverpool; Norton,
New-street, Bishonate, London; Lloyd, Liverpool.
Alfred Astley, glass dealer, Manchester, Oct. 19 and
Nov. 9, at 12, at the Manchester District Court. Pots,
official assignee, Manchester; Makinson, Manchester;
Twigg, Burslem.
John Rhodes, jun., tailor, Oldham, Lancashire, Oct.
22 and Nov. 18, at one, at the Manchester District
Court. Lea, official assignee, Manchester; Sale. Wor-
thington, and Shipman. Manchester.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall• street.
J. Fairman, Great St. Helen's, commission agent,
Nov. 2, at eleven—S. Wagstaff and T. Baylis, Kidder-
minster, carpet maaufacturers, Oct. 30, at eleven—J.
Wheatley, Kennigton-cross, livery stable-keeper and job
master, Out. 30, at aleven.

In the Country.
V. Cooke, Worcester, cabinet maker, and upholsterer
and furniture dealer, Nov. 9, at half-past eleven, at the
Court, Birmingham—J. Phillips, Longton, Staffordshire,
grocer, Nov. 2, at half past eleven, at the Court, Bir-
mingham—J. 'reset and T. Peate, Oowestry, Shrop-
shire, drapers and grocers, Nov. 2, at half-past eleven,
at the Court, Birmingham—J. Price and J. Lavender,
Birmingham, paper dealers, Nov. 4, at half-past eleven,
at the Court, Birmiogham—J. A. Boden, Sheffield, razor
manufacturer, Oat. 30, at 10, at the Court, Leeds—Anne
Belles, Sheffield, licensed victualler, Oct. 30, at ton, at
the Council-hall, Sheffield.
_ PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

C. Roope, Liverpool, wino merchant, id., on Wed-
nesday, Oct. 13, or any subsequent Wednesday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
A. 11'Kerrow, Kingston-upon-Hull, draper, 25., on
Tuesday, Oct. 5, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull.
W. B. Frankish, Kingston-upon-Hull, linendraper,
9s. 74d., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, or any subsequent
Tuesday, between &even and two, at the office of Mr.
Carrick, HUI.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall•street.
M. S. Hooper, Billiter-street, City, teadealer, Oct. 29,
at half-past one—J. B. Capper, Blackheath, chemist and
druggist, November 2, at eleven—J. Wheatley, Ken-
nington-cross, Lambeth, livery stablekeeper, Oct. 30, at
eleven.

In the Country.
W. J. Conway, Carnarvon, chemist or druggist, No-
vember 9, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Dod-
son Liverpool, Nov. 1, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool
—H. Taylor, Waterfoot, Lancashire, coal dealer, Nov.
1, at twelve, at be Court, Manchester— W. Burman,
Birmingham, bricknaker, Oct. 30, at half-past ten, at
the Court, Birmingham.

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
C. R. Pottinger, Hardwick-place, Commercial-road,
East, wine and spirit merchant, a certificate of the
second class—C. King, New BoLd-street, revelenta ara-
bica importer, a certificate of the second class—W. A.
Watson, Whitacre, Warwickshire, builder, a certificate
of the second class, two months after Oct. 5—W.
Wheeler, Clecbury Mortimer, Shropshire, miller and
maltster, a certificate of the second class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
George Smith and John M`Lachlan, of Liverpool,
hosiers—George Sm.th and Robert Forrester, of Liver-
pool, hosiers—William P. M'Andrew. Robert M'An-
drew, John William Pilcher, R. N. Cunningham, and
James Child Ill'Andrew, of Liverpool, fruit merchants
(so far as regards Janes Child M'Andrew)—Ebenezer
Price and Charles Thomas Kean, of 1, York-street,
King's-cross, eating-louse keepers—John Fouler, Janet
Ponder, and Hugh Stalker Ponler, of St. George's-place,
St. George's-in-the-last, timber merchants (so far as
regards Janet Ponlec)—Thomas Hoskins and Richard
Hales, of Bath, butchers—Robert Harrison and John
Boddington, of Manchester, hop merchants—Alexander
Collie and Thomas Faker Bicknell. of Manchester, com-
mission merchants—William Aylott and John Morris
Jones, of 8, Patermster-row, City, booksellers—Wil-
liam Pickford and Peter Simon, of Newport, Monmouth-
shire, provision merchants—John Towle and Thomas
Barton, of Hampton Gay Mills, Oxfordshire, paper
makers—John Harris and John William Harris, of Ex-
eter, surgeons—Wiliam Henry Darby and Wil-
liam Fisher Sim, cf Liverpool, merchants—Alex-
ander Bewley and Gaylard Hadwen, of Liverpool, whole-
sale tea dealers—James Smith and Arrow Smith, of
Sydnope, Derbyshire, nurserymen—Joseph Cowell and
John Kay, of Prestwich, Lancashire, calico manufac-
turers—Henry Peet and Alfred Puckle, of Birmingham,
accountants—William Barton and William Windus, of
Shevington and %Vesthoughton, Lancashire. coal pro-
prietors—Marcus Hill Bland and James Middleton, of
Gibraltar, merchants—Henry Scott Richards and James
Sunderland, of Birmingham, woollen drapers—Henry
Higham and Joseph Nightengale, of Stockport, bobbin
turners—Caleb Smith and Charles Nevens, of Liver-
pool, shipwrights—Maria Bullen and Brett Wrier, of
Yeovil, Somersotshiro, inkeepors—John Thornley and
and Edward Lancashire,
jtuorhiringlicithenna' iosft's Bolton-le-Moors,
Portmant c ;ne -.LDsMquaouci oriaarr: se: and C. Sedgwick, of
livery stable keepars—
jßß(eirsrmekpeihniegYjhaammmee,wslinßeennjand woollen drapers—Robert John-
ston and Robert hunter, of Manchester, joiners—Wm.
Green and John Gott, of Kendal,Westmoreland, gentral
drapers.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
William Howatt, of Glasgow, ironmonger, Oct. 12
and Nov. 2, at two, at the Glasgow Stock Exchange,
Glasgow.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn.
pnted from returns made in the week ending October 3
1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon'
on the importation thereot into Great Britain:--
.s.
From the British possessions in America 225. 6id. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... ... ... 225. Bd. „
t
From the East Indies ... ... ... 225. 9d. „
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions
above,
:and of
exclusivesugar,
i_ jointly, ionft
authorityl
dutyy , co computed ). Ued a
of
. 225. 7id. „
Parliament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company
Grocers'-hall, October 8.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Arthur Kendall, the cashier of Messrs. Gray and
Woodcock, of 20, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was brought
up for re-examination on several charges of embez-
zlement.
Mr. Gray, of the Oxford Circuit, who conducted
the prosecution, stated his intention to proceed with
two indictments, each containing three separate
charges. The Learned Counsel then gave evidence
in detail of a number of payments which had been
made to the prisoner on behalf of his employers, but
which were never carried to their account.

Henry Ryland, a clerk in the prosecutors' office,
deposed to having received a cheque for 171. 7s. Bd.
from Messrs. Fearon and Co., on the 22d of Septem-
ber last. He handed it to the prisoner, who made an
entry of the same in his daybook. It was his duty
subsequently to have paid the sum, with others, in to
the bank.

Mr. Joseph Woodcock, the junior partner of the
firm, stated that on the Bth of September last he gave
the prisoner a cheque on Barnard and Co. for 321.
6s. 10d., with instructions to pay it over to Messrs.
Stevenson, Salt, and Co., their bankers.
It appeared that this defalcation was subsequently
met by the appropriation of another cheque for 321.
Bs. 3d., the prisoner receiving the difference (I s. 5d.)
in cash.

Evidence was also given respecting some cash pay-
ments, which, with the above, were appropriated by
the prisoner.
Mr. Slade, clerk to Messrs. Cox and Greenwood,
the army agents, stated that iu September last a sum
of 50/. was received by him, for Captain Evelyn, of
the 72d Regiment. The cheque deposed to by the first
witness formed part of the sum paid. It was brought
by a woman, and the payment was made in the name
of " A. Kendall, Esq."
Mr. Gray, the senior partner of the firm, repeated
the statements made by him at the first examination,
relative to the prisoner's admission of his guilt, on
being requested to explain certain discrepancies in
his accounts. lie was asked to state the probable
extent of his defalcations, and he said that he did not
think it was more than 1,0001. 'Witness had ascer-
tained that the amount actually exceeded 1,5001.
Mr. HENRY observed that it was unnecessary to go
into the cases ♦ery fully, after the prisoner's voluntary
confession.

The depositions were taken by Mr. Burnaby, and, 11
by the direction of Mr. Henry, the chief clerk ap.l
wedastofobuenadcihnartghee
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for entertaining eleven of his friends with a dinner
and dessert at Dubourg's llotel,in the Haymarket.
The charge for eleven dinners was 11/. lls., and the
remainder of the sum was the cost of 39 bottles of
wine (chiefly champagne), &c.
Mr. HENRY considered that the judges ought to
have an opportunity of seeing how the prisoner spent
his employers' money, and for this purpose he had
desired this bill to be placed before them.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Mr. Wallace Harvey, who described himself as a
special pleader, of 2, Middle Temple-lane, was placed 1
at the bar charged with obtaining 2101. by forgery.
Mr. HENRY—Yon say you are a special pleader,
but I do not see your name in the Law List. The
prisoner—I am a member of Gray's lon of six
years' standing, and am just about to take out my
certificate.
Mr. HENRY—Then you are not, at present, what
1
you have represented yourself to be.

Mr. 'Wontner, the solicitor, conducted the prosecu-
tion, and stated the material facts of the case as fol-

lowi

Toe prosecutrix' Catherine Wood, is the widow of
Dr. Ralston Wood, who died in December, 1850,
and wbo, although a Scotch physician, was chiefly
engaged during his lifetime in literary pursuits,
especially upon the newspaper press. At the time of
his death his wife was left in London without friends,
and it seems that the prisoner, having known her hus-
band, called on her immediately afterwards and offered
to assist her in her embarrassing situation. She gladly
accepted his services, and from this time he took the
management of her affairs upon himself, availing
himself of the advantages thus afforded him to secure
the possession of a great deal of money to which she
was entitled, including one sum of 801., another of
5001., and an annuity of 201. due to her from the
merchants of Scotland, her father having been one of
that body. Out of the property thus accumulated
the prisoner had been in the habit, since that time, of
paying her some trifling weekly pittance, not ex-
cee ling 2s. or 3s. at a time. Among the rest of her
property, she was entitled to some in Glasgow. The
prisoner, however, persuaded her to sell it and pur-
chase a life annuity, and, after some reluctance, she
at length consented to do so. The sum realised" by
this sale was 2141., and on the 26th of July, 1851,
she attended at his chambers, in Middle Temple-lane,
where the deed was executed, and received the amount
from the hands of the persons who had conducted the
transaction. After their d:Tarture she was left alone
with the prisoner in his rooms, and then he said,
" Now, I advise you not to take this money
home, for you may have some mischance
with it. Be advised by me, and go at once
to the Commercial Bank and deposit it there in
our joint names." She agreed to this,and immediately ac-
companied the prisoner to the bank, where the amount
(minus 4/.) was deposited in her behalf. The four
sovereigns were deducted from the 2141. because she
had expressed a wish to have a small portion of the
money for immediate use, but before she had left the
bank many minutes the prisoner actually borrowed
one of the sovereigns from her on some pretence, and
never repaid it. The next day he went to the bank
with a cheque bearing the forged signature of the
prosecutrix, and drew out 251. of the money. Two
days afterwards he took out 801. in the same manner.
Oa the Bth of August he took out 551. more, and
subsequently, at short intervals, the remainder of the
money. Soon after the prisoner was in possession of
a handsomely-furnished house at Chiswick, where his
friends were entertained with a degree of liberality
that surprised them ; for he had suddenly emerged
from a position of obscurity to one of comparative
opulence. In the meantime the poor widow made
useless attempts to see him at his ehambers, and wrote
constantly for information respecting her affairs, or
some assistance in money. In answer to her appeals she
received a great number of letters, dated from Chis-
wick, and occasionally containing ls., 35., and some-
times 43. "on account," out of the money he was
receiving on her behalf from Scotland.
The prosecutrix, a middle-aged woman, very plainly
attired, gave her evidence nearly to the foregoing
effect, and was then exposed to a long cross-examina-
tion by the prisoner, as to the private habits of her
husband and herself, to both of whom he imputed acts
of constant dissipation. She denied the charge, and
also an assertion made by the prisoner that he was
requested by her late busband's brother, the Rev.
James J. Wood, to take the management of her
afEtirs upon himself. The prisoner declared that the
husband died of delirium tremens, and that his wife
(the prosecutrix) was drunk the same day ; and that
the brother had expressly told him not to intrust
either of them with more than ls. 61 per day.

A number of the prisoner's letters were handed up
to the magistrate for perusal, after which
Mr. HENRY said that this prosecution ought to be
taken up by the bankers who had been defrauded, and
who were certainly liable to pay the prosecutrix the
whole of the money which had been obtained by the
prisoner's forgery. It was quite clear from the pri-
soner's own letters that the poor woman had been
most cruelly defrauded of every bit of her property,
and it would be too bad to visit her with the expenses
of the prosecution.

Mr. Wontner thanked his worship for his sugges-
tion. He had been anxious to prevail on the bankers
to do so.

A gentleman who represented the Commercial
Bank promised to represent the matter at the next
meeting of their board, pending which
Mr. HENRY remanded the prisoner for a week.
Before his removal from the bar a gentleman ap-
plied for the permission of the Court to have an inter-
view with the prisoner respecting the chambers in his
occupation, which had been sublet to him by a mem-
ber of the Middle Temple, who had never received a
farthing's rent, but now hoped to get possession of the
rooms.

The prisoner (very coolly)—Oh, just so. I shall be
very happy.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH in INDIA.
Vigorous measures are being adopted by the court
of directors of the East India Company for the for-
mation of electric telegraphs in India, and before the
end of next year telegraphic communication will be
established through the length and breadth of our
eastern empire. Active preparations have been
making during the last four months for providing in this
country and sending out the necessary wires and appa-
ratus ; and the company's depot at Warley, near
Brentwood, has for the time been used as an experi-
mental and educational department, where the soldiers
who are going out to India may be instructed in the
mode of laying down the wires and in the working of
the instruments, so that they may be perfectly effi-
cient. On the common at Warley three or four thou-
sand yards of wire have been mounted on posts,
according to the plan that it is proposed
to adopt ; and other wires, insulated on the
plan used in this country, have also been set up,
for the purpose of comparing the two systems. The
kind of instruments to be used remains yet a question
to be determined. It is intended to give a fair trial
to all those that possess special merit ; and on Tues-
day the inventors of different telegraphs were invited
:0 send instruments to Warley for the inspection of
the court of directors, who paid a special visit to the
eeptat on that day to view the telegraphic arrange-
ments. It is desirable, however, before we describe
tLe proceedings at Warley, to glance at the circum-
stances which have more immediately influenced the
court of directors to establish the electric telegraph in
In lia.
The prime mover of the undertaking we believe
to to Dr. O'Shaughnessy, of the company's medical
department, who had long taken great interest in the
invention of the electric telegraph, and who perceived
at cnce its vast importance to the Indian Govern-
ment. Ha succeeded in interesting the Governor-
General in the matter, who was so impressed with the
advantage of this means of communication that he
instructed Dr. O'Shaughnessy to proceed at once
to construct an experimental line without wait-
ing fer the apparatus from England. The only
materials at command for making the lines were a
number of iron rods; these were fastened together,
and supported on bamboos, and in this manner an ex
tempore, but very effective, telegraphic line was
formed.
It is fortunate that Dr. O'Shaughnessy was thus
compelled to have recourse to the use of iron rods, for
it enabled him to determine at once that the wires
employed for the purpose in England would be quite
inadequate to the Indian telegraph. In this country,
where the lines are carried along railways, and where
there are no living obstacles to contend with, the
thin iron wire, called No. 8 gauge, answers its pur-
pose passing well; but no sooner were the rods
mounted on their bamboo supports in India than flocks
of that largest of all birds, the adjutant, found the rods
convenient perches ; and groups of monkeys congre-
gated upon them; showing clearly enough that the
ordinary wire would be insufficient to bear the strains
to which the telegraphic lines would be subjected. It
was found also that not only must the wire be
stronger, but that it must be elevated higher, to allow
loaded elephants, which march about regardless of
roads or telegraphic lines, to pass underneath. Pro-
viding against the difficulties as they occurred, D. r.
O'Shaughnessy succeeded in forming a good working
line of telegraph for a distance of eighty miles from
Calcutta.
The instrument he employed was of the simplest
kind. It consisted of a galvanometer made from the
needle of a packet compass, round which a coil of
thin covered wire was twisted, and a strip of
card was
fixed on the needle to serve as an index. With instru-
ments of this bind, which did not cost more than half-
a-crown, signals were transmitted along the line with
great ease at the rate of seven or eight words in a
instead
of The needle of this galvanometer,
of being fixed vertically, as in the ordinary needle in-
struments, was laid horizontally in the magnetic meri-
dian, and a permanent magnet was placed at one of
the poles to cause the needle to return to zero quickly
after each deflection. When the telegraphic commu-
nication had been thus practically effected, it was
subjected to attacks to which the telegraphs in this
country are but little exposed. Storms of lightning
destroyed the galvanometer coil 4, and hurricanes
laid prostrate the posts. Undaunted by the opposi-
tion of the elements, Dr. O'Shaughnessy contrived a
lightning conductor for the instruments, and strength-
ened the supporting props. Having thus vanquished
all difficulties, and shown that telegraphic communi-
cation could be established in India independently of
railways, the Earl of Dalhousie urged the court of
directors to complete the work on a comprehen-
sive scale. The court acted so promptly on this
recommendation, that within three months of the
date of the dispatch from the Earl of Dalhousie, in-
structions were received in India to commence the
work without delay; and at a few days' notice Dr.
O'Shaughnessy Was sent to England to make the
necessary preparations. He has been actively en-

gaged since his arrival in this country, about four
mouths since, in makinz the necessary arrange-
ments for laying down 3,000 miles of thick galvanized
wire ; and in instruci2g the sappers and miners
at the East India Company's depot at Warley in all
the manipulations in which they will be required to
assist. In about three months the wire and all the
other materials required are expected to be com-
pleted and shipped for India. A large body of men
will be immediately set to work, and, commencing at
twenty diffrent points of a line, it is estimated that it
will proceed at the rate of twenty miles a day. One
of the first lines undertaken will be from Calcutta to
Bombay.

On Tuesday the court of directors, who had in-
vited a number of friends and scientific gentlemen
to accompany them, proceeded to Brentwood by the
eleven o'clock train from Shoreditch, and on their ar-
rival at Warley were escorted by the yeomanry cavalry
to the depot on Warley common. After witnessing some
military manceuvres and inspecting the barracks gene-
rally, the chairman, Sir James Hogg, put himself under
the direction of Dr. O'Shaughnessy' who conducted
the party to the common, where the experimental
lines are erected. Ooe of the peculiar characteristics
of the railway lines intended for India, as contrasted
with the English lines, is the greater distance be-
tween the posts, which are higher and stronger
than those generally used. The thick wire is
raised to a height of fourteen feet, on posts nearly
the eighth part of a mile apart. To obtain the
necessary strength to bear the strain, the posts
are fixed with screw piles. To show the strength
of the wires thus extended, a rope was hung to the
centre of the wire of largest span, and a soldier
climbed up it, the weight of his body producing but a
slight curvature. The common defl-ction arising
from the weight of is wire of a furlong span does not
exceed eighteen inches. Dr. O'Shaughnessy's plan
of underground communication, when such a mode of
laying down the wires is desirable, is very economical.
The copper wires coated with gutta percha, instead
of being inserted in iron tubes, are inlaid in wooden
sleepers, well saturated with arsenic, to protect
them from the white ants, and they are then
laid in a trench about two feet deep. An un-
derground system of two wires may thus be
laid down for 351. the mile. After the mode
of constructing the lines had been shown, Mr. Sta-
tham, the manufacturer of coated gutta percha wire,
exhibited his plan of firing cannon with a gutta percha
fusee. Ten thousand yards of coated wire were laid
in coils on the common, and a cannon was three times
fired through that length of wire by means of a vol-
taic battery, the flash of the powder being instanta-
neous with the contact of the wires.

The party then proceeded to a room fitted up
as a workshop, where the men are instructed in
the modes of making joints, soldering, and other
operations connected more particularly with laying
coated wires underground. The plan adopted for
joining the lengths of the thick galvanized wire
was also shown, and it is well deserving of imitation
in the formation of joints on the lines in this country.
The two ends having been turned, so as to link into
one another, they are introduced into a mould, like a
bullet mould, and an ingot of zinc is cast over them,
forming a most substantial joint, and perfect metallic
connexion.

In an adjoining room various telegraphic instru-
ments which it proposed to try on the Indian lines
were exhibited. Dr. O'Shaughnessy briefly explained
the principles on which the different instruments are
constructed, and the inventors were called on to ex-
hibit and explain them more fully. Among the indi-
cating needle instruments was the simple galvanometer,
originally used by Dr. O'Shaughnessy in India, that
had conveyed the intelligence to Calcutta of the cap-
ture of Rangoon. Mr. Allen showed his needle-in-
dicating instruments ; Mr. Bain exhibited his dot-
ting instrument, working at the rate of 1,500 letters
a minute ; Mr. Bakewell explained and showed in
action his copying telegraph, which transmits fac-
similes of writing ; and Mr. Brett exhibited his
printing telegraph, which prints the message from a
type-wheel.
When the inspection of the apparatus was com-
pleted, the company repaired to the White Hart Inn
at Brentwood, where a cold collation was provided.
A few toasts were drunk appropriate to the occasion
of the visit, and Sir James Hogg, in pro-
posing the health of Colonel Hay, the com-
manding officer of the depot, highly complimented
him, Colonel Leslie, and the other officers, for the
very efficient manner in which they regulated the es-
tablishment, attending as well to the comforts as to the
discipline and good conduct of the men under their
command. In proposing the health of Dr. O'Shaugh-
nessy, Sir James took credit to the court of direc-
tors for their promptness in acting on the recommen-
dation of Lord Dalhousie. In this instance, at all
events, he observed (excited, perhaps, by the sub-
ject-matter), the court had shown that they were
not so slow to move as they were often accused of
being.
A special train conveyed the court of directors
and their friends from Brentwood at half-past
four o'clock, after a most satisfactory and interesting
visit.

THE WRECK OF THE MOBILE.
The following is an account of how the survivors
of the Mobile were picked up ; it is from a commu-
nication to the Glasgow Constitutional :—" The
schooner Rebecca, of Glasgow, Captain Gibson, has
just arrived in the Clyde from Cadiz. On Thursday
last, when a little above Tuskar, Captain Gibson saw
a black 01-ject on the water, about four miles to wind-
ward, the wind being at the time about N.N.W. He
at first took it to be a fishing-boat, or some craft
that had left a vessel in distress; but on his going to
the masthead he di.covered that it was part of the
wreck of a large ship. He immediately ran up his
ensign, to let it be known that he had seen the wreck,
and would render assistance. He then made more
sail, as the vessel was double-reefed at the time, and
in a short period came close to the raft. He, as soon
as possible, sent the small boat to the raft, and on
their approaching it it was found that there were
nine persons on it. As the sea was running very
high at the time, the whole of them could not be
taken into the boat at once. Accordingly, five
were taken first, and the remaining four left to be
taken off again ; but before the boat returned
a brigantine, seeing what was going on, bore
down, put out a boat, and took off the four persons
already mentioned. The five picked up by the Re-
becca consist of four seamen and one passenger. Two
of the seamen are American, one French, and one
Irish. The passenger belongs to Cornwall, in En-
gland, and was proceeding to California. From the
survivors on board the Rebecca we learn that the ill-
fated ship was the Mobile, of Bath, in America,
Captain Tarbox, from Liverpool to New Orleans.
There were on board in all 78, consisting of 54 pas-
sengers and 24 of the crew. The Mobile cleared out
from Liverpool on Tuesday, about twelve o'clock at
noon, and was going at nine knots an hour when she
struck the Arklow banks, about two o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning. The small boats were broken by a
heavy sea running at the time, and in a very short
period the ship was broken up. The survivors, along
with seven others, who were subsequently washed
off, adhered to a large part of the ship, and were
about thirty hours on it, when they were taken off
by Captain Gibson on Thursday morning, about half-
past ten o'clock. The sea was running very high
the whole time they were on the raft, making a clear
passage over them, and it was with the greatest
difficulty that they kept on it. Some of
them were very much cut and bruised, and on their
being taken on board they cried for joy. They were
treated in the most kindly manner by Captain Gibson
and his crew, who supplied them with dry and com-
fortable clothes, and provided such comforts as were
necessary for them in their weak state. On their
reaching Lamlash Bay, on Saturday night, they were
supplied with more clothes by the inhabitants, who
Andrew
also made a subscription to assist them on their fur-
ther journey. The following are the names of the
survivors :—Robert J. Wheeler, seaman ;
sse
er .
Curtis, seaman ; Archibald Woods, seaman ; Tous-
saint Breusk, seaman; Christopher Faull, passenger.
In contrast with the above may be mentioned the dis-
graceful conduct of the captain and crew of a large
steamer coming up Channel. Early on Thursday
morning (the morning on which the men were picked
up) a large steamer, with a white funnel, coming up
Channel, passed close by the raft; a boat was put out,
but, as if no one would venture into it, was sent
adrift, and, by mere accident, it struck the raft ; it
was, however, stove in by striking, and no effort was
made to save the unfortunate sufferers. Had a boat
been sent from the steamer and properly managed,
more might have been saved, as some dropped off the
raft, seeing that they were left to perish when assist-
ance might have been rendered."

EMIGRATION
OF HANDLOOM WEAYERS.—The emi-
grants from Paisley left the railway station on Tuesday
morning at half-past ten o'clock, when the vicinity of the
railway was densely crowded by the sympathising inhabi-
tants who had assembled to witness the exodus of 200 of
their fellow-townsmen, and give them a hearty farewell.
The emigrants were preceded to the station by a flag bearing
the following inscriptions:—" Paisley emigrants—Scotland
for ever ! - Advance Australia—Extra Scotiam Scoti Agentis
—God bless the Queen." The emigrants reached the
Breemielaw in the forenoon, and embarked on board the
Lyra. They were accompanied by numerous friends, who
gave them three hearty cheers as they sailed. The appear-
ance of the emigrants waa very respectable, all circum-
stances considered, but we are informed that only 11. was
allowed thetas for outfit, while the pauper outfit is 3/.
North British Mail.
REMARKABLE CASE.—While the steamer Briton
was lying at Stranraer quay on Tuesday, the men engaged
in cleaning out the hold, when at the farthest extremity of
the ship, underneath the bows, to their astonishment found
three fine lambs, doubtless part of a former cargo, huddled
together behind some boards. One of the lambs was in a
very weak condition, but the other two when brought out
showed more lively symptoms. They had been on board
the Briton for the space of seventeen days without any food
what-nat.

THE COITNTRY MARKETS
WAKEFIELD, OCT B.—We have again a large supply
of wheat; there is an improved tent) in the trade for this
article to day, and nu:,..ers are tree to pay last week's
rates, but a small advance is generally demanded, and
obtained, on the finer qualities. Choice barley is rather
dearer in consequence of the small show; we riow antici-
pate a good demand for nice malting descriptions. Oats
and shelling as before. Beans bring extreme prices.
Old season made malt is getting scarce and much in-
quired for,
Old. New.
WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel:— s. s, a. s.
Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red ..• —to 39 to 40
Ditto, white ... —— 42 —44
Norfolk and Hunts., red ... —— 35 —33
Ditto, white ... —— 37 —3B
Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red ... —— 34 -38
Ditto, white ...... 37 40
Yorkshire, red ... „,„ 38 40
Ditto, white ••• —— 40 44
Dantzic and Konigsburg, white 44 —46
Lower Baltic and liamburgh, red.,, 39 —4O
Mediterranean, red ... 36 —37
BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:--
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire 29 —3l
Grinding per 50 stone 24 25
Foreign —— 26 —25
BEANS, per qr. 631bs to the bushel :
Small, tine ... —— 37 —3B
Ticks
Foreign ... 30 —34
OATS, per stone:—
Mealing . —d to —d 9d to 100
Feeding ~, „ —d to —d 10d to lid
Foreign to —d 9d to 10d
SHELLING, per load of 2611 b ... 24 —25
MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 37 39
PEAS, per Imperial Quarter:—
Blue and white boilers
Grey and Feed

Qrs.
Rapeseed ...
belling ... ... ... 501
Linseed ...
Malt ... • IBA • • •••
Flour ... ... ... ...

AR RIVALS.
Wheat ... ..• Qrs.
••• 11,561
Barley ... ..• ... 2,308
Oats ••• ... 325
Beans... ... 293

... 30 - 34 - - --
... 23 - 29 -- - --

Peas ~
fares .

LIVERPOOL, Our. B.—At our Corn-Exchange this
morning we had a healthy demand for wheat and flour
for neighbouring consumption, and for shipment to Ire•
land and coastwise. The advanced prices of Tuesday
last were well confirmed to-day, and the trade generally,
has a stronger aspect than of late. Oats and oatmeal
were in fair request, at extreme prices. There was an
improved demand for Indian corn, at full prices. Barley,
beans, and peas command extreme quotations.
NEWBURY, OCT. 7.—The supply of wheat to-day is
very large; the quality and condition are rather deterio-
rated. Old and the finest parcels of new are a ready sale
at full rates, and other sorts were a fair sale at about
late rates. Beans and peas, short supply, mostly of in-
different quality, and rather dearer. Oats, full supply,
and of rather inferior quality. Anything good com-
mands full rates, whilst other sorts are difficult to quit.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. B.—The supply
offering is so small that we can scarcely call it a market;
the few lots brought forward this week have found
ready buyers at rather improved rates, and a large busi-
ness has been done in London for this port, from whence
our refiners are now drawing the bulk of their supplies.
Refined in excellent demand, and rather dearer. Rum if;
stead y. tol Mercury.
EXETER, OcT. B.—Cattle Market—A good supply of
sheep, but not so large of cattle. Prime beef sold at
8s 6,1 per score; inferior 7s 9d to Bs. Barreners as last
week, Cows and calves not so plentiful as last weeks
from 91 to 121 12s; butchers' calves, Sid to 5d per lb,
sale not brisk. Sheep, small wethers, 54d; large ditto,
54-1; ewes, 4id to sd. Pigs about the same as last.
Alphington Fair on Wednesday affected the supply and
demand at our market. That fair was very abundantly
supplied, and stock sold well, at prices near the same as
those quoted above. Pork Carcases—The supply was
tolerably large, and prices ranged from 6s 6d to 8s per
score. Pannier—Turkeys, 5s to 69; geese, 4s 6d to 65
each; ducks. 4s 6d to 59 6d; fowls, 2s 9d to 4s per couple;
pheasants, 7s; partridges, 3s to 3s 6d per brace; bares,
3a: rabbits, 10d each; pigeons, 10d; roasters, 4s 6d t°,
5s each; butter, 10d to lid per lb; eggs, 16 for Is. Wool
—The ruling figure for this article is still Bid per lb.
Corn Exchange—Sellers have slightly raised their pre"
tensions, and 6s 3d for old has been asked for prime
samples; 6s was, however, the ruling figure. New wheat,
4s 9d to 3a 9d; barley, 33 to 3a 6d; old oats, 2s 8d to 39;
new ditto, 23 to 25 3d; fine flour, 32s to 35s per sack.

COAL MARK ET. —YKSTERDAY.
Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :—..
Pate's West Hartley.. 15s 6d Lambton Primrose l6e au;
Carr's Hartley ..... ... 16s Od Belmont l6s 9,!,
Hasting's Hartley ... 16s Od Braddyll
Wellington Hartley... 14s 9d Hetton
Holywell
Hartlepool W. Hartley 15. 6d Lambton
Jonassohns Hartley ... 15s Oci Lumley
North Percy Hartley.. 15,9 6d Pensher
Old Pelton Main
New Pelton Main l3s Odßichmund l6s oa
Ravensworth'sW. Hart 15s 9d Scarborough l6. 66
Redheugh Main ...... 13s 9d B.tewart's .. , 17. 6d
South Peareth
Canfield Moor ......... 149 3diCassop
Canfield Moor Butes... 149 od Hartlepool l7e 3d
Townley
Tees Tantield .... .... 139 Od Kelloe
West Hartey
West Wylam Trader.. 15s ed Thorniey
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. IPease's West l4s
„,93,
Bensham ... 16s Od Seymour Tees ...... .. 16e r,
Grosforth ..... .......... 163 3diSouth Durham.......,, 16s 01
Lawson lss 9dlSt. Helen's T--- ' 93

.....
Northumberland
Ditto East lss 6d Clowmy Tees 155 6A
Riddell

.ees -
Walker
Wilton Park lss 3d Derwentwaterllartley 15s 9'l
Eden Main
Ships at market, 130 Sold, 100.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, OcT. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a considerable amount of
business done to-day at firm prices The transactions re'
ported were—Bristol and Exeter, 101;4—Great Westeral
95%—South Wales, 41—Taff Vale, 10/. paid-up Shares,3

LIVERPOOL, Our. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market presented an WI.
proved appearance to-day, and prices generally had a ten-
dency upward. The transactions were as follow :—Caledo•
nian 233,1—Ditto, Preference, 10 3-16—Chester and Holy'
head, 21—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 35—Lancashire aB3
Yorkshire, 85—Ditto Fifths, 31,i die.—Lancaster and
Carlisle, 25/8 dis.—London and North-Western, 119-- Ditto, Fifths, 3 p.—Midland, 76%8—South-Eastern and
Dover, 229/s.

MANCHESTER, Ocr. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done to-day was veil
limited, but prices were firm. The transactions were as fol-
low .—Caledonian, 233 Z. —Edinburgh and Glasgow, 35
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 85—London and North-Westerlio
119' —Midland, 76 V,—South-Eastern and Dover, 22 5-16'
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was an improved feeling 0-
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business
done at higher prices. Shrewsbury and Birminghams were
done at 701—South Staffordshires, dis.—Shropshill
Unions, 31. 3s. 9d.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At a montb/Y
general meeting held on Thursday at the society's house id
Hanover-square, Mr. W. J. Broderip, vice-president, in the
chair, the Baron Raoul d'Epr6mesnil and Messrs. T. C'
Hutton and F. H. Janson were elected Fellows; and Messrs-
Henry White and H. B. Heath were proposed as candidate!
for the Fellowship. The report of the Council stated they
the socie,y, among other interesting acquisitions to the We:
nagery daring the past month, had been fortunate enough
to obtain a perfectly new and very curious mammal from the
Cameroons River, in West Africa, of which it is believed that
no specimen as yet exists in any of the museums of Europe'
This animal has been described by Dr. J. E. Gray, in tbe,
" Annals of Natural History" for the present month, undo'
the name of " cheiropotamus pictus."

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills, an effectual
Cure for Dropsy.—Extract of a letter from Mr. W. Tomlin'
son, of Bangor, dated May 1, 1851. "To Professor Rollo:
way. Sir,—For several years I was severely afflicted with
dropsy; at times my feet and legs were so much swollen that f
was quite unable to walk. I consulted many doctors, and trio
remedy after remedy with hopes of obtaining relief, but I woi
disappointed in all until I tried your invaluable pilih
which I gatefully acknowledge have been the sole means of
effecting a cure of ray complaint, and I am now in the enjoy'
men.; of excellent health.—Sold by all Druggists, and at pro'
essor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
k WON* ARTILLERY COMPANY.—A detachment Of
the artillery division of this regiment, under the command o,`.
Captain Robinson, left their head-quarters for Woolwi0)
Marshes yesterday, and manned a battery of light 6'
pounders, from which they made excellent practice. The
desire lately expressed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the colonel, that this important branch of the regimen!
should be augmented as much as possible, has led to greaf
oaccessionotreepr
recruits,
htst,aanndutehn.
the practice yesterday was curie
n with more
IMPORTATION
OF OPIUM.—FrOTCI returns Just
issued it appears that there has been a great increase in the
; Ini
nt
thehe month ended
period
of t
ht hee
psrtehneduilvt•
year, 6,6121 b ; and in the month ended the sth of September'
23imp,o9r1tiabt.iowneroef
iomp ipuornr d
1850, only 3,5841 b.

BIRTHS'.
OF A SON.
On the sth inst., at Milton-hill, Berks, the wife of Job
Samuel Bowles, Esq., of an heir.
On the 6th inst., at Barnes, Surrey, the wife of G. A.
Shadwell, Esq.
OF A DAUGHTER.
On the sth inst , at Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzror
square, the wife of J. F. Grace, M.D.
On the 3.1 inst., at Stoneham-park, Southampton, the wife
of Thomas W. Fleming, Esq.

MARRIED.
On the 7th inst., at St. John's, Clapham-rise, Charlo3
Thomas Marzetti. of Percy-place, Clapham-road, fourth 8012
of J. G. Marzetti, Esq., of Dulwich, to Helen, fifth daugil.
ter of F. Sharp, Esq., of Brooklands, Clapham-rise.
On the 6th inst., at Christchurch, the Rev. William Wolfe
Fletcher, of Throop, Hants, to Sophia, second daughter 0
the late J. King, Esq., of Christchurch.

DIED.
At Windsor, aged 70, Lieutenant Henry Griffiths, ii
Military Knight of Windsor, formerly of the 15th Hussars;
with which regiment he was Present at the Battle °`
Waterloo,

On the.4th inst.. Jane Maria, the wife of W. 11. Jackson'
Esq., of Eccleston-square.
On the sth inst., in Russell-square, Charles W. Tay'lor'
Esq., aged 51.
On the 6th inst., Mr. Jonathan Fiske, aged 73, of Cool"
market-street, Oxford.
At Finchley, on the 6th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Edward
Rouse, and eldest.child of S. VI, imbush, Esq , of that place.

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