The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1852.

W. Hilliwell, Jackson Pitt, Oldham.
S. Todd, Inglewhite, Lancashire.
J. B. Spence, Manchester.
Jane Taylor, Liverpool.
S. Thomas, farmer, Carmarthenshire.
J. Thomas, farmer, Carmarthenshire.
J. Smith, assistant to a butcher, Warwickshire.
A. Robertson, publican, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Lewis, farmer, Nolton, Pembrokeshire.
J. Glossop, leather seller, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
M. Kear, carpenter, Ellwood, Gloucestershire.
F. Primavesi, Southgate-street, Gloucestershire.
G. Wilson, commission-agent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Clark, licensed victualler, Chinon, Northumberland.
M. Hudson, greengrocer, Sunderland-near-the-Sea.
J. Martyn, joiner, Hartlepool, Durham.
J. Ward, labourer, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire.
R. Place, book-keeper, Hinckley, Leicestershire.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
E. Kretz3chmar, King•equare, manufacturing jeweller,
Nov. 2, at twelve.

In the Country.
J. S. M'Calloch, Liverpool, draper and hosier, Nov. 4,
at eleven, at the Court. Liverpool.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. _

T. Williams, Epsom, Surrey, draper, Is. 2d., on
Thursday, Oct. 14, and three' following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basin ghall- street.
J. Fuller, Ely, Cambridgeshire, stonemason, 6s. 2d.,
on Thursday, Oct. 14, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basic, ghall- street.
A. B. Fraser, Lime-street, City, merchant, 12s. 6d., on
Thursday, Oct. 14, and three following Tnursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basinghall-street.
J. Roden, Stamford, Lincolnshire, draper, 3d., on
Thursday, Oct. 14, and three following Thursdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
Basinghall-street.
S T. Jay, Badley, Suffolk, miller, 2s. 11d., on Thurs-
day, Oct. 14, and three following Thursdays, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basing-
hall-street.
J. Simmonds, Blandford Foram, Darsetshire, builder,
3s. 3d. on Thursday, Oct. 14, and three following Thurs-
days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stans-
feld, Basinghall-street.
J. Clark, Soham, Cambridgeshire, dealer in flour,
1011, on Thursday, Oct. 14, and three following Thurs-
days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stans-
feld, Bssinghall-street.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the C )urt, Basinghall-streot.

H. Gurney, Pitfi&lkl-Q:rLet, Horton, victualler, Nov. 3,
at one—E. Binghaaa, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square,
printer, Nov. 3, at half-past one—A. B. Fraser and C.
Lightfoot, Lime-street, City, merchants, Nov. 3, at
twelve.

In the Country.
J. Dodgson (and not Dodson, as before advertised),
Liverpool, Nov. 1, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—
F. James, Walsall, Staffordshire, ironmonger, Oct. 4, at
half-past eleven.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
R. Whalley, Accrington, Lancashire, mercer, certifi-
cate of the third class, after eighteen months from Oct.
B—R. Brierley, Rochdale, Lancashire, innkeeper, certifi-
cate of the third class—J. Earp, Uttoxeter, Stafford-
shire, brewer, certificate of the first class—T. Shaw, Bir-
mingham, stationer, certificate of the second class after
six months from Oct. 9—C. F. Bailey, Burslem, Staf-
fordshire, boot and shoemaker, certificate of the first
class—R. W. Lishman, Shenstone, Staffordshire, sur-
geon, certificate of the second class—T. Doorbar, Brad-
ley-green, Staffordshire, wheelwright, certificate of the
third class, after ono month from Oct. 7—W. Barker,
Wakefield, Yorkshire, railway contractor, certificate of
the first class, after twenty-ono days from Oct. B—T.
Dilger, Bradford, Yorkshire, general dealer, certificate of
the second class, after twenty-one days from Oct. B—J.
Burnley, Batley, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer, certifi-
cate of the first class, after twenty-one days from Oct.
B—S. Nelson, Sowerby, Yorkshire, builder, certificate of
the third class, after twenty-one days from. Oct. B—E.
Clarkson, Horton, Yorkshire, worsted spinner, certi-
ficate of the second class, after twenty-one days from
Oct. 8.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Walker and J. Dunlop, New Mahon, Yorkshire
corn and coal merchants—M. Beale and J. Crossley,
Bishop:Tate-street Within, City, chemists
Moore and G. Norman, Langdale-street, Cannon-street.
road, Middlesex, engineers—G. Law and F. Earl, Man.
cheater, commission agents—J. Grout, J. Brown, and
R. Tidewell, Foster-lane, City, crape manufacturers (so
far as regards the said J. Grout)—J. Clarke and W. H.
Bird, Liverpool, shipwrights—R. Buncombe, J. D.
Goodchild, and 0. Buncombe, Reading, Berkshire,
millers—E. Halliday, J. Wilkinson, T. Knowles, and R.
Winder, Bolton, Lancashire, tanners (so far as regards
the said E. Halliday)—E. Reynolds and H. Andrews,
Birmingham, livery stable keepers—J. W. Bowe; A.
Vasey, and S. Vasey, High-street, Wapping, Middle-
sex, bonded store dealers (so far as regards the said J.
W. Bowes)—C. Mills and W. Webster, Leeds, engravers
—R. Moyle and J. Yate, Penzance, Cornwall, surgeons
—S. Lowe and T. Adams, Derby, silk manufacturers—
M. Stilwell and W. Holdsworth, Kingston-upon-Hull,
wire workers—W. Greenwood and T. Greenwood,
Dukinfield Bridge-end, Cheshire, grocers—T. J. Mar-
shall and J. Cowell, Bishopsgate-street Without. City,
engineers—W. Collier and T. Faller, Salford, Lanca-
shire, machinists.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Charles Cooper, Openshaw, Manchester, builder.
Samuel Furnivall, Openshaw, Manchester, builder.
Charles Dyte, Manchester, commercial traveller.
Daniel Cooper, Tostoek, Suffolk.
William Hooke, Long Stratton, Norfolk, baker.
John Little Mason, Great Burnstead, Essex, baker.

Richard Hickman, &Mon, Staffordshire, carpenter.
Edward Sutton, Wolverhampton, engineer.
William James Snmmerland, Lichfield, draper.
William Davies, Brymbo, Denbighshire, farmer.
John Creffield, Slough, Buckinghamshire, conch builder,
Thomas Porter, Strattord• upon-Avon, common porter.
Benjamin Nicholas, Southsea, grocer.
John Way, Winchester, boot and shoemaker.

to 2s 103, good mid to good 33 to 3s 7d, fine 3s 8d to 4s
3d, and limed from is 104 to 2s 6d. Several transactions
have taken place in Cloves; Bourbon and African
at 6.1 to 60, Penang 10i to Is; Amboyca 7d to I
Bd. Ia good Cinnamon little is doing, but several
parcels of inferior have been sold. The value of
Ceylon, first is is 10d to 2s 104, second is 3d to 2s,
third and fourth Is to is 7d. There aro buyers of good
to fine at 1184 to 1225, and inferior 113 s to 117 s per
cwt. Cassia Vera is wanted at 36s to 60s for low to
fine, and is yet in scanty supply. Buds are selling at
81 15s to 9/, and supply remains scanty. Of Pimento
supply is not adequate to dealers' wants, and the parcels
sold privately were at kid to 6d for common to good.
SPlRlTS.—Leeward Island Rum is again much wanted
at Is sid to Is 6d, and fine brown ditto at is 6i-cl per
gallon proof. East India is in good request, and
cannot be obtained under Is 5d proof. There is no
rise for Jamaica; choice marks 36 to 39 per cent
over proof at 36 64 to 4s, fine ditto 2s 10d to 3s 4d;
32 to 3$ over good mid to good 2s 4d to 2s 9d, and
mid 30 to 34 over 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Supply remains
plentiful of sorts under 2s 6d. Several parcels of
Demerara have been sold at 2s to 2s 3d for 32 to 40
over proof, and holders are firm. Havannahs in
fair request at Is 44 to is 4id, and the quantity on
offer here is small. For Brandy demand remains active,
and there is a further rise. Cognac best brands of
the vintage of 1851 selling at 5s 5d to 5s 7d,
1850 ditto 5s 7d to 5s 94, 1849 ditto 5s 10d
to 6s, 1848 ditto 6s 2d to 63 44, older 6s 63
to 7s, low to mid quality 4s to 53, and Bordeaux 2s 8d to
2s 9d. Geneva is wanted—common at 2s to 2s Id, and
fine at 24 3d to 2s 64 per gallon, the market having a
firm appearance. British made Spirit finds a more
ready sale at 9s 6d to 9s 84, and Gin 17 under proof 8s
8d to 83 94, 22 ditto 8s 2d to 8s 3d per gallon.
INDIGO —To-day during the progress of the sale 1,055
chests have been withdrawn. 1,770 chests (including
977 withdrawn) have passed the sale this day. There
is no alteration to notice from the prices quoted in our
previous report, and the rates of last week are fully sup-
ported, viz , 94 to is ou good to fine shipping qualiths,
and 61 to 84 on defective and consuming sorts. Pro-
prietors have bought in 350 chests, leaving 433 chests
sold. Of the quantity that has now passed the auction
(8,308 chests) 3,305 have been withdrawn, and 2,630
bought in, leaving 2,373 sold. This afternoon the public
sales of 200 serous Guatemala Indigo went at 2s 9cl to
5s 44 per lot, being rather lower rates.
COCHINEAL.—This afternoon Cochineal met with little
attention, still lower rates were not accepted. Of 320
bags at auction not above one-half sold; Honduras, low
to tine Silvers at 3s 7d to 44; Teneriffe 3s 104 to 4s,
Black 4s ld to 4351
TALLOW.—An extensive demand prevails for Russian
on the spot for actual consumption; there are also still
many export buyers, and prices have further improved,
fine old yellow Candle realizing 42s 64 to 42a 94, and
new 43s to 43s 3d per cwt. A large business has
been transacted for delivery —the prices paid are 42s to
42s 3d for next two mon'tis, and not free sellers. Of
home melted supply is not sufficient for dealers' wants;
the price has advanced to 45s per cwt, subject to usual
allowances for cash payments. Other sorts of Tallow
met with ready buyers, at an advance on previous rates
of Is per cwt. At auction 330 casks Australian were
sold. For auction 1,000 cks, &c., of Tallow are declared.
OILS.--Few transactions have taken place in Seal Oil,
although pale can be obtained at 33/ 103 to 34/, and
other sorts 311 to 331. Cod is cheaper, and purchases
are limited at 31l lOs to 32/. Southern is held with
firmness, and is more in request at 32/ to
341 lOs for common to fine. Sperm is yet operated in
with reluctance, and can be obtained at 83/ to 861 10s.
The value of Headmatter is 881 to 901, and not much
doing. A lively demand prevails for Palm, and rates
have risen to 30s to 31s per cwt, to good to fine.
Cocoa Nut is much wanted, and the rise continues; Co-
' chic selling at 36s to 375, and other sorts 33s 6d to 35s
64; there i 9 a further decrease of supply. Olive is
cheaper, yet many parcels have been sold; Gallipoli at
55/to 56/. and other sorts 52/ to 54/ per ton. In conse-
quence of a further reduction having been submitted to
tor Liasccd Oil large transactions have taken place at
28s to 283 3d on the spot, and at 27s to 27s 9d for deli-
very. There is less doing in Rape Seed Oil, and a desire
is evinced to sell, brown at 32s 6d, and refined 33s 64
to 34s 64 per cwt. Lard Oil is worth 55s to 565, and is
yet in scanty supply. The value of Spermacetti is is
por In.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
BOW-STREET.
Robert Gadsmark, aged 28, an assistant letter
carrier in the Walworth district, was brought before
Mr. Jardine, charged, upon his own confession, with
stealing letters containing post•office orders.
Matthew Perke, the constable attached to the Ge-
neral Post-office, stated that the prisoner was formerly
a receiving-house keeper in the same district, but had
become reduced in circumstances. He had been lately
employed, in consideration of this fact, as an assistant
to the person who succeeded him at the receiving-office.
The prisoner gave himself into custody for stealing
two letters, one of which contained a Si. post-office
order, and the other a 2/. order.
The prisoner, who said nothing to the charges, was
remanded for further examination.
WESTMINSTER.
John Murphy and Joseph Smith, two men having
the appearance of labourers, were charged under the
following circumstances :
It appears that Mr. Elzer, the proprietor of large
property in the neighbourhood of Cremorne Gar-
dens, Chelsea, reqeires a penny toll of persons pass-
ing, for convenience or pleasure, across his estate, but
the workmen engaged in buildings upon the property
and others are exertpt on the production of a pass.
Nionday night the defendants pre-
sentedA t half-pastthemselves ix on
5; the toll-bar and claimed their
right to exemption,
alleging that they were at
In the course of erection, but as
was confident that this was
payment of the penny,
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and as they were utiprovided with the required pass,
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from the bar, and Smith struck
him three violent blot's on the side of the head with
a large metal instrument somewhat resembling a pole-
roeurgehfuly, refused
forced tohim admit
whereupon they seized him
pole-
axe, the effect of which was that his ear was much
lacerated and he bled profusely from the head.
Murphy, baying lost his hat in scrambling over the
where it was., and struck him. Police-con-
bar, charged a young man named Folbegg with
knowing
stable Church, 256 B, came up at the moment, and
the accused were given into custody.
Defendants, in reply to the charge, said they con-
sidered they had a right to pass toll free.
Smith was held to bail, and the other admitted on
his own recognizances to answer the charge against
them at the sessions.
WORSHIP-STREET.
William Bagster,
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Alias Wilson,
middle-aged
n ,alias Stephens,
alias man,
was placed at the bar upon the following charges :
The prisoner was first taken into custody by Ser-
geant Langdon, of the N division, who met him in
the streets a few nights since carrying a bulky sack,
which was found to contain the fragments of a large
copper, which had been broken into pieces to be dis-
posed of as old metal, and, after lodging him in the
station-house, the sergeant proceeded to the prisoner's
residence, in Mansfield-street, Kingsland-road, upon
entering which he discovered that all the property in
the place, including even a quantity of coats, had been
packed up and placed in readiness for immediate re-
moval. The prisoner was at that time simply charged
with stealing the copper, which was identified by the
landlord of the house as his property, but he was sub-
sequently recognised as having practised a long-
continued series of frauds upon the secretaries of dif-
ferent loan societies and other persona, several of whom
were now in attendance to prefer charges against him.
John Norris, secretary of a society called the Al-
bion, deposed that on the 23d of August last the
prisoner called at his office in Abbey-street, Bethnal-
green, and after stating his name to be Charles
Stephens, and describing himself as: in business as a
carpenter in the Hackney-road, applied for an ad-
vance of four guineas, and at the same time tendered
as surety for its repayment a Mr. William Pearson,
of Sherborn-cottages, Islington. Having ascertained
upon inquiry that both parties to the transaction re-
sided at the places described, and were persons of
apparent respectability, the amount required was paid
at once to the prisoner, but it was shortly after dis-
covered that both of them had given fictitious names,
and that both had also absconded about the same
time.
William Hudeburgb, secretary of another asso-
ciation of the same description in Pollard's-row,
Bethnal-green, also proved that on the 10th of the
same month as in the preceding case the prisoner had
obtained a sum of 3/. 103. in the same name and
under almost identical circumstances to those just
detailed.
Sergeant Bruce stated that be should be able to
establish numerous other charges of a like description
against the prisoner, and it had also been ascertained
that he had carried on an extensive system of frauds
upon tradesmen for a long time past, in the course of
which be had succeeded in obtaining a chronometer
and clock from a watchmaker in the Hackney-road,
to whom he gave the name and address of a Mr.
Morris, in Gifford-street, Hoxton, and from Messrs.
Smith and Co., of the New North-road, besides two
casks of ale from a brewer at Walworth, under the
fictitious name of Bagster.
Hayward, one of the warrant-officers, stated that
he had known the prisoner, whose real name was
William Wilson, for the last twelve years, and that he
had been in custody some time since at this court,
on which occasion he was committed, convicted, and
sentenced to a lengthened term of imprisonment.
Oa being called upon for his defence, the prisoner
at once admitted that he had received the several sums
referred to in the evidence of the witnesses, but con-
tended that no false pretence whatever had been made
out, as he had in each instance given his proper ad-
dress for the time being, and that the various persons
had been perfectly satisfied with the result of the in-
quiries they had thought proper to institute with re-
gard to him.
Mr. HAMKILL, however, said the prisoner would
probably find that he had adopted rather an erro-
neous view of the law relating to such cases, and he
should therefore commit him until that day week, to
afford time for the production of still more charges
against him.

SEAMEN'S WAGES.
A very important case, arising out of a claim for
seamen's wages, was decided at the police-court, Li-
verpool, on Thursday last, before Messrs. Evans and
Benn, the presiding magistrates.
In December last Captain M‘Bride, of the ship
Tory, the property of Mr. Duncan Gibb, of Liver-
pool, jumped overboard, and afterwards died, while
the ship was proceeding on a round voyage from San
Francisco to Bombay. The first mate, consequently,
took the command ; and the present claim for wages,
of 63 dolls. 4c., was now made against the owner,
Mr. Gibb, on an order or bill of exchange drawn
upon him in favour of one of the seamen named Hugh
Roberts, signed at Penang, by the mate, then in
command, and backed by the signatures of two Pe-
nang magistrates.
Mr. John Yates, sen., attorney, appeared in sup•
port of the claim ; and Mr. John North, attorney,
defended on the part of Mr. Gibb, who was present
during the whole of the inquiry.
Mr. Yates, on behalf of the complainant, produced
the bill of exchange.
Mr. North admitted the handwriting on the bill to
be that of the mate of the ship.
The Bench then intimated their intention of at
once deciding in favour of the complainant, when
Mr. North contended that they had not jurisdiction
to decide upon a bill of exchange.
The Magistrates dissenting from this view of the
case,
Mr. North proceeded to show that the document
was obtained in an improper manner, and appealed to
the magistrates whether, under these circumstances,
they ought to act upon it. Supposing he could prove
that it was obtained by the mate of the ship having
had his life placed in danger by the crew, would the
magistrates feel themselves justified in acting upon
such a document?
After some discussion, the magistrates ruled that
Mr. North should examine the mate. _

Robert Hocking, the mate, was then examined.
He stated that he was the first officer on board the
ship Tory until the death of the captain, which took
place on the 9th of December last. The ship was off
the island of Penang, when the captain threw himself
overboard. Their voyage was from San Fran-
cisco to Bombay, touching at Manila. The com-
plainant Roberts, with six others, shipped at San
Francisco, signing articles with the captain for the
round voyage. After witness had taken the command
of the ship, on nearing Penang the complainant and
the other men who had shipped at San Francisco said
they would go no further with him. He asked them
why ? They replied that they wanted their wages.
He was obliged to put into Penang on the 12th. At
eight the men went on shore and got drunk. They
did this for two or three days. They demanded their
discharge and their wages, and refused to do any
more work. At last he was obliged to complain to
the magistrates. On the 15th of December the men
were taken before the magistrates, who told them that
their wages were safe, and advised them to go to their
work and let the vessel proceed. The magistrates
threatened them with imprisonment if they did not go
_to work, and gave them until ten o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning to consider. Oa the following
morning the men again appeared before the magis-
trates, and he told them that witness had promised to
settle with them. The magistrates then ordered their
discharge, and desired witness to give a bill of ex-
change on the owners for their wages. Afterwards
witness signed bills, being afraid of his life.
Mr. Evans—Did they compel you to put into
Penang ? Witness—Yes. I should have pro-
ceeded on my voyage if they had not forced me to
put in there.
The entry in the logbook; showing the whole of the
proceedings while the ship was lying at Penang was
then read, after which
Mr. North asked permission to address a few words
to the bench before closing the mate's examination.
He said the case before them was one of vital import-
ance to shipowners; and that was the sole reason
why he was then present. It involved nothing less
than the momentous question whether a crew, having
once signed articles and shipped for a voyage, were at
liberty to leave their ship. In this case, for no rea-
son, either expressed or implied, the complainant, and
those who shipped with him at San Francisco, had
forced the master of the ship to put into a port not
named in the articles, and then left the ship under the
circumstances now before the Court. All that could
be believed was, that the men did not wish to go on
with the ship to Bombay, but to proceed somewhere
else, where they thought they could obtain more lu-
crative employment. He was in a position to show
that the bills of exchange, as well as the signatures of
the magistrates to them, were only obtained after re-
peated threats from the men, and were, consequently,
of no legal force.

The mate was then further examined, and stated
that it was under threats that the bills of exchange
were ultimately given. When the men went before
the megistrates to get the bills backed they were in-
solent to them, and insisted on the magistrates back-
ing the bills. He was compelled to engage a number
of Lascars to navigate the ship, which was effected
at great expense and risk to the ship. Was aware of
the effect it would have on her insurance.
Mr. Evans—Then there were other bills besides
this given ? Mr. Gibb—Yes; some of them have
been presented in London, and all treated in the same
manner as I have treated this—rejected.
A copy of a protest sent by Lloyd's agents at
Penang to the magistrates was here read by Mr.
North.
Drummond, the carpenter, who sailed with the
Tory from Liverpool, corroborated the mate's testi-
mony as to the conduct of the complainant and the
other men who shipped at San Francisco.
In the course of the inquiry it transpired that the
mars were first before the magistrates on the 15th, and
that the bills were given on the 27th of December.
Mr. Yates, in reply, contended that the bill of
exchange was binding upon the defendant. It was
given 11 days after the men had been before the ma-
gistrates, and the allegation of its having been ob-
tained under a threat was therefore idle. The mate
had chosen his own court in Penang, and he (Mr.
Yates) urged that the bench was bound to act upon
the decision of the magistrates there with regard to
the bills.
Mr. Evans (the presiding magistrate), in giving
the decision of the Bench, said, "I consider that this
is a case of the very worst description of unqualified
mutiny ; but it seems to me that the mate has com-
mitted himself by signing the bill of exchange ; and
it becomes a question whether we are not bound by
the ultimate decision of the two magistrates at Pe-
nang. It is, perhaps, a legal question ; but lam ap-
prehensive that the law compels us to act upon the
decision of the two magistrates there. It is so as
regards this country generally, and I apprehend that
all the dependencies of the British Crown are, in this
respect, in the same position as we are at home. I
must say, however, that I consider the conduct of
the magistrates highly inconsistent and reprehensible;
because, in the first place, they order these men to go
to their work, telling them that their wages are
secure, and after wards they order their discharge,
and recommend a bill to be drawn upon the owners
for the amount of their wages, and then sign this
bill. I think I never heard of such inconsistent
conduct on the part of any magistrates. Still we
hold ourselves bound by it, and order the payment of
the amount of the bill.
Mr. Benn expressed his concurrence in Mr. Evans's
opinion.
Mr. North—But you do not hold that the decision
of these two magistrates is legally binding upon
you ? I think your olerk will tell you that it is
not so.
Mr. Evans—The way in which the mate gave in to
the men was an error.
Mr. North—Admitted. But he did it under a
threat of violence.
The Clerk—Not at the actual time of signing the
order.
Mr. North—He says they threatened his life.
The Clerk—He does not say that in his letter.
[A letter from the mate to the owners, detailing the
circumstances, had been read.)
Mr. North—lt is a pure question of law. I deny
that the decision of any foreign magistrates is bind-
ing upon you, and, as you admit that the merits are
in our favour, --
Mr. Evans—The equity of the case is decidedly
with the owners ; but the mate committed himself
by signing the order, and I do not see how we can
refuse to order the owners to pay the amount of
the bill.
Mr. North intimated that Mr. Gibb would appeal
against the decision to another court.
Mr. Evans—l hope he will, and I should be happy
to hear that he was successful.

The Marquis of Salisbury arrived in town yes-
terday.
DEATH FROM Cmouoronsc.—Another death has
occurred from this potent agent. The patient was a Mr.
under the influence of the agent by Dr.
Brown, of the
latter place. The operation performed consisted in destroy-
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Escarp OF CONVICTS AND RECAPTURE.—Op
Tuesday afternoon as a gang of convicts were at work, exca-
vating mud from the main sewer in the Royal Arsenal, two
of them made their escape up the sewer, which runs in
various directions under the locality. Search was made by
the convict authorities and the arsenal police. One of the
convicts managed to get up the trap drain by the Ordnance
Arms, and made his escape down the Plumstead-road, but
was captured near the railway bridge. A man having seen
him get up the drain and cover it over again, he gave infor-
mation to the police, who were searching a drain not six
yards from the other. The other convict was discovered by
a guard in the same drain. The two convict guards (Jes-
sep and Cook) volunteered to search for the men in the
drain, and they were occupied upwards of six hours before
the convicts were discovered. They were both secured and
taken on board the hulk.—Kentish Mercury.

LORD DERBY.

The Mayor of Liverpool and his Conservative
friends have had a very great treat, but they have had
it all to themselves. The Premier has unbosomed
himself to them after dinner, and the etiquette of their
Town-hall, which is as the laws of the Medes and the
Persians, forbids the least disclosure. Nothing leaves
the walls of that genial inquisition. Those chartered
libertines the gentlemen of the press range free as air
over all that pertains to the public. Liverpool alone,
which fifty years ago, was the stronghold of the slave
trade, and has since that sent many a pretty
craft to the slave coast—Liverpool, the capital
of Protection in every possible form, shuts its
doors to those quiet representatives of the people.
The guests themselves drink a cup of Lethe before
they leave the walls. None of them can report a
single word of the men who has the next turn to
speak in the greatest of modern political controver-
sies. They remember the brilliancy of the flash, and
they believe they were very much affected, but the
particular impression has passed off with the mo-
mentary stimulus of his worship's champagne.
Perhaps the very excitement that expanded their
intellect and melted their hearts to the reception
of Lord Derby's splendid sentences at the time,
has since helped to effsce them from the memory,
for it is proverbial that " soon learnt is soon for-
got." However that may be, the Prime Minister
of England might as well have addressed a hundred
boarding-school misses, or as many coal whippers,
for any good the people at large are likely to get
by it. When a maniac, as sometimes is the case,
gets returned to the House of Commons, and moves
the exclusion of strangers, it invariably happens

that not only one, but several Members present
report the proceedings, valueless as they are,
and enable us to supply the gap in our Parliamentary
intelligence. At Liverpool, it appears, there was no
one who could do this, no one who could carry away
ten ideas of a speech he had just heard, or who,
having them in his head, had also the smallest wish
to communicate them. In fact all seem to hive

thought that the best thing to do with the
speech was to suppress it. So Lord Derby buzzed
for that evening like a bee in a bottle. lie made
a dinner table wild with delight, set the glasses
jingling and the waiters staring. He even kept
awake, or at least in a mesmeric wakefulness, some
score gentlemen who would otherwise have been
dozing round the embers of their own dining.room
fires ; but there the effect ends. He sparkled like a
diamond in a mina. Bands that the rod of empires
not only might have swayed, but actually do sway,
were buried for that evening where at least they were
quite powerless. " Little or nothing transpired of
a political nature," says the local press, " nothing in
the slightest degree indicative of any Ministerial in-
tentions, and nothing to show that the First Minister
of the Crown and the leader of a powerful
party was present. It is true that the noble
Earl delivered ass extremely brilliant and in
one part a most affecting speech—when did Lord
Derby acquit himself other wise ?—but his Lord-
ship most carefully avoided any allusion to that
line of ;policy which the nation is awaiting
and discussing with intense interest." We don't believe
it. When did Lord Derby speak without declaring
himself? So fluent a tongue must always speak out
of the abundance of the heart. Is it conceivable that a
man whose own opinions are so finely distinguished
and so strong that he has saved their integrity at the
cost of two Administrations, and who has quarrelled
with literally every statesman in the country for
concealing his real sentiments, can have spoken at a
political banquet, long, eloquently, and affectingly,
and yet left his hearers not one whit the wiser. No.
He did speak out. The merchants of Liverpool
know a good ship when they see it; they know a
good bill of exchange, and a good man that is
a solvent customer when they see him ; but
they are not quite up to that nice employment
of words which indicates this or that policy ;
they want things broadly stated, with even a little
exaggeration; but Lord Derby was too Parlia-
mentary to be understood. At the very lowest sup-
position, this was what our neighbours would call a
" grave silence ;" that is as to matter, for there was no
lack of words. Bat when a man holds his tongue to all
practical purposes we usually supply a significance.
It is taken for granted that he thinks " Least said
soonest mended ; ' and, considering the remorse-
less vigour with which Lord Derby has not hesi-
tated to lash his former colleagues when he has
found or fancied himself misled by their professions,
it is not surprising that he should profess as little as
possible just now, when there is nothing to be got by
professions. In truth, why need Lord Derby say any-
thing, or why need he do anything, till the exigen-
cies of Government compel some positive measures ?
The Conservatives will be only too happy to see
their friends in power, and will wait for relief, or
whatever they call it, as long as it may suit the
Ministerial convenience. Nay, the matter moat
immediately pressing—the funeral of the Duke—
can be deferred fur months ; and it is stated, in
fact, that no orders have been given, or are to be
given till the meeting of Parliament. In this
and most other matters the less done, as well as
the less said, the better, and a grave inactivity
as well as a grave silence is the highest wisdom.
The instant Lord Derby has committed himself
to any definite proposal he stands pledged to its
soundness, and must abide the result of a dicus-
sion upon it. So long as Mr. Disraeli's line lay
in attack he made way every day. It was only when
the impatience of the agriculturists and the curiosity
of the public forced him to say what ought to be done
that he exposed himself to ridicule. There are par-
ties, as there are races, whose strength is the want of
position. So long as Bedouins have no city or strong
hold and move freely on the face of the desert, they
are invincible ; as soon as they have houses and pro-
perty that they cannot pack up on their camels'
backs, and defences that they cannot carry on their
saddles, they have given hostages to fortune, and are
assailable by the slow and heavy warfare of civilized
States. This, then, very possibly, is the position, or
want of position, which our political Bedouins mean
to take up. Next month they will have to state some
sort of a case to the country. They will have to
say what they are and who they are, and why they
are to govern instead of the retiring Ministers.
Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli are both
sufficiently masters of language to make a good deal
out of nothing, and dupe the country into the belief
that they have announced a policy when they have
said nothing at all. Perhaps the speech at Liverpool
the other day was an exercitation with this view—
viz., to obtain all the results of a good speech and
say actually nothing, as when a man obtains posses-
sion of a good horse by the exhibition of a flash note.
We are prepared to see this course tried, possibly
with some degree of success, next month. The spec-
tacle will not be creditable to the nation ; but we
beg to warn the Conservatives that they will be the
only people taken in, as Lord Derby, once in power,
will soon find he can only hold power by a Liberal
policy, and such a policy he, therefore, will adopt
without much ado.—Times.

IMPORT DUTY ON FOREIGN RABBITS.
When the late Sir Robert Peel reformed the tariff
so as to free the people's food from those particular
duties which during a long period of protectionist
rule had made it systematically dear, the item
" rabbits" was omitted. The import duty on dead
meat was abolished ; poultry and game were ad-
mitted at a certain ad valorem duty, but rabbits,
dead or alive, in which there had hitherto been no
trade, were not thought of sufficient importance to be
specifically excluded by a high duty, or to be ad-
mitted by a specific mention of them as one of the
articles of food on which in future no import duty
was to be charged. This omission has given
rise to much doubt and inconvenience to a new
branch of trade which the reformed tariff has created.
The small two and three -acre farmers of Belgium—.
who are probably amongst the most enterprising and
indefatigable of the farming race—the moment
our restrictions on foreign imports were removed
commenced the breading of rabbits to a large extent,
and have produced those immense supplies which our
poulterers'
.shops have been of late years displaying on
Saturday nights for the behoof of the working-
' classes, under the name of Ostend Rabbits. But a
question has arisen with the Custom-house authori-
ties as to what is the precise description under
which this new description of foreign food
shall come in, and Custom-house zoology has decided
that dead rabbits are poultry, and as such are
subject to five per cent. ad valorem duty. This de-
cision has occasioned much inconvenience to the sales-
men engaged in this trade, and has tended to restrict
the supply, not so much on account of the duty as the
Custom-house regulations, which often pre-
vent the introduction of the animals until
they are unfit for human food. To memorialise the
Board of Trade on the subject, a meeting of the im-
porters and salesmen connected with Lead. enhall-
market was held in September last, at which cer-
tain resolutions were passed, appointing a "depute-
, tion to confer with the General Steam Navigation
Company, to induce them to facilitate the convey-
ance of the article, and to consider the propriety of
applying to the Board of Trade to remove the duty
levied on rabbits, meat being free. And on Mon-
day night a supplementary meeting took place at
the Rose and Crown, Leadenhall-market, to re-
ceive their report. The chair was taken by
Mr. G. Brooke, common-councilman for the ward,
who stated that so important had the trade in 0 +tend
rabbits become that, wherea-, 15 years ago, the article
was hardly saleable in London, now there were from
fifty to a hundred tons a weak imported, affording
animal food for 100 000 people at the rate of Vb. each.
The great market was of course Saturday, but in con-
sequence of the Customs regulations, the rabbits were
frequently not &livered till 9, 10, and sometim-s 11
o'clock at night, and the consequenca was that they
were often rendered unfit for human food before

they could be sold ; and the persona engaged in the
trade (numbering some 1,000 persons, including
salesmen, porters, and others), were deprived of their
ordinary Sabbath rest. Tho duty was not of itself
very serious item, but as the Ostend packets came is
frequently after Custom-house hours on the day pre-
ceding the market, and as extra payment was
required to obtain the delivery of the goods on
the same evening, the freight of 4s. 6d. per case,
was thus raised to a charge of 155., which was a serious
matter. To show the severity with which these regu•
lations pressed upon the trade he might mention that
one salesman, Mr. Davenes, lost 1201. in two weeks
last season in consequence of the delay they occa-
sioned. The Steam Navigation Company had met
the deputation in the most handsome way, and had
undertaken to sail their boats from Ostend not later
than twelve o'clock on the Friday night, so that they
might arrive in London by the middle of the Saturday
at the latest, which ;vas all the salesmen required ;
and all that was now needed was the removal of the
vexatious Custom-house restrictions.

Resolutions confirming the proceedings of the
meeting of the 24th of September, and authorising
communications to be entered into with the Board of
Trade in furtherance of the object, were agreed to, and,
after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the mcating
separated.

THE iit)lJ iN fel.A
IPSWICH-, OCT. 12.
We had an animated market to-day; wheats must be
called fully is per qr. dearer, and not a have quantity
on male. Barley was in great demand, which caused
high prices to be paid, 34e being given for select samples.
Beans and pass also dearer.
PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER*
Wheat,red (old).. 40s to 4isl Barley, grinding 26s to 280
Ditto (new). 225s to 40s Beans .
Ditto, white (old). 50s to 54s Peas 325 to 335
Ditto(new)
Barley, malting ... 30a to 34s Flour, per sack
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 9, 1852.
Wheat
Barley
Oats • ........ 17 „ 17s 5d
Peas
Beans. 55 „ 30s leld
HULL, OCT. 12.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states ;—Tho
weather has been cold, with stormy westerly winds. A
large amount of damage is reported from the coast. The
trade for all articles has been firm during the week, with
an upward tendency, and some advance paid for all fresh
descriptions of wheat. To-dev, being our annual fairs
the usual business was a good deal interrupted, but there
was a free sale for best runs of tow wheat at Is. advance
upon last week's rates, with a good demand for till other
descriptions. Not much pTtt sir g in foreign wheat, our
import of which continues insignificant. Barley is again
Is dearer, and getting very low in stock. Oats are fir
and recover previous depression. Sellers obtain further
advantage in both beans and white peas. Not much bu•
siness, and no life in the linseed market. Cakes expo'
Hence further advan with an ini.:,va-411 censurnptiv
demand. Rape cakes have been sold at 105.
The following are the present prices el e;rain.:
8. 8. B. f;
Wheat, English, red 39 to 41 Peas, white and yel. 32 3.5
Do. white .....
Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 44 —4"
nigsberg 42 46' Do. Petersburgh ... 42 45
Pomeranian and Do. Riga& Archngl. 3S —42
Hamburgh
Danish, Holstein, & Per ton..
Friesland 36 38 Lins. c., Hull 01 Os to 817 s 64
Russian and Odessa 34 38 Do. fins for. ...81 Os Od to 0/ 011
Oats, English
Do. Danish.... .l6— 18 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland lB 20 Rape cakes...l 05s Od to Os Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 16 —lB Tares, English 37ls —OO
Barley, malting 2B 31 Do. foreign Qss 309
Do. grinding 25 26 Guano
Beans 32 37 Bones, do
Do., foreign 3l 31 Rye Meal Os
CORK, Om 11.
_ _

Barrels.
29 White wheat 22s 3d to
113 Red wheat 2oe ed to
71 Ditto 2ls 6d to
Ditto oos Gd to

101 Barley 103 8d to
777 Ditto lls 4d to
272 Ditto ...11s 8d to

23 I,d to

Currency.
224 9d ODs Od-20 stens
21a 6d
223 3d} 21s 6d-20 do.
OOs Od

118 4d
Ile Bd} 11 s Bd-00 do
12a Od

00s Od

006 Od

1579 Oats Bs 6d to tts 3d
564 Ditto
420 Ditto
4 Pigs °Os Od to 348 Od 00a Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:-
18 barrels white wheat; 37 red; 41 barley; ti bere; 45 oats;
1 pig.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week --
Wheat, 1,820. Barley, 7,919. Bere, 0. Oats, 17,888. Pigs, 52.

PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT. CURILINCT.
rirst quality
Second quality
Third quality
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality
Return of Cattle sold for week ending Oct. 2.
Pigs, 671. Sheep, 270. Cows, 127.
Coax.—Flour--First 125 6d to 13s 6d; extra 14s Oa;
seconds,' ls to 123 Od; households 94 to 10s 6d; thirds, 7s to 91 Pee
cwt. Oatmeal 10s0d to 1 Oi 6d; Indian meal7s 3d to 7s 6d; rile*
meal, 9s 6d to 10s 6d per owt. Indian corn 71 Os to 71 5s pe PO'
Bran 80s to 82s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 205 to 2850 d; averse
245; dealers 27s Od to 331; average Wis per ton. Straw— Farina°
13s Od to 23, Od ; average 18s ; dealers 005 Od to 00r 05'
average 00s 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to O'n
household loaf bd to 05 per 41b. Fresh butter, 9d 1°
10d per lb. Eggs-4s Od to 4s 25 per hundred. Coals'
Newport 151 Od ; Lydney 155 ; Landore 00s ; Celve,
129 6d per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 425 per ely"i
Whisky, 25 o. p., 58 9d per imperial gallon. Mee
—Beef 40 to 7d; mutton 55 to 6id ; veal 4d to
7d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. floPe
7110 s to 0105 per cwt. Bangor slates 2/17s 6d to 310 s per toll•
Bark, red 71 to 81 10s per ton. Fleece w 001165 to 00s per stens;
Hemp 291 to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 161 to 005; re
°
ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 101 Os to ill per
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 315 s ; yellol
ditto, 31 155 per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. Hidesr"
Market 22s to 281; salted 231 to 30, per cwt ; calf skllo
3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 9d to 10d ; pin"'
lld to 12d. Guano— Peruvian, 101 105 to 111 por ton. Tar''`
Archangel, 19s per barrel.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Oct !2.
STOCK ExcuANGE.---Our share market was more actis!
to-day, with prices not quite so firm. The sales were-'I
Aberdeen, 271,/ —Bristol and Exeter, 1001/2—Midland an‘
South Devon, Preference, 16 3-16—Taff VAle, 170.

LIVERPOOL, Oar. 12.
STOCK EXCKAITGE. —There was an improved feeling 02( 'f
hibited in the share market to-day, but the amount c
business done was limited. The transactions were as fol
low .—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late Cheste r
and Birkenhead), 21 %—Caledonian, '23 —Eastern Counties
11 N—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 845/B—London and North;
Western, 119%—South-Eastern and Dover, 2258—York aII
North Midland, 25:V5.
MANCHESTER, OCT. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was quiet to-da7r,
Little business was transacted, and there was only a tritlie4:
variation from yesterday's quotations. The sales were-,
Caledonian, 237/B—East Lancashire, 181A—Lancashirq and
Yorkshire, 845/B—Ditto, Fifths, 31-/, dis.—London and North-
Western, 119 - Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 31
—North btaffordshire, 414 dis. —South-Eastern and Doven,
22 7-16.

COURSE OF EXCI
Amatcrd %Ca . • • • • • • • • 11 19
Dtt to, three months .. 12 014
Rotterdam 12 0%
Antwerp 25 50
11 russets . • • . ...... 25 50
Damburgh . • .. • • 13 13U
Altona • • ........ • • .. • • •--
Paris, 3 daye'sight 25 30
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 52%
Marseilles • • •• • • • • .• •• 25 52%
Bourdoatus.. . • • •
Frankforton,Mains.. • • 12031

EIANGE.—TITEBDAY.
Gibraltar.. •••••.......
Leghorn •• •• •• •• •• .• • • 30 72'4
Geßoa 45 66

Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 4
Venice...... •• •• •• •• •• 7,4
Naples •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Pelermo,peroz— .• .• 12311,.
Messina •• •• •• •• •• •• • • 123 i,
Oporto•• ..•••••.•... 53

Rio Janeiro ...... .. --
Buenos Ayres ........ --

B3rlin•• .. ••.• .• •• ••
Vienna, effect. f 10...... 11 52
Trieste, ditto.. •••• .... 11 54
reterabargh 37%
Madrid •• •••••• • • • • • • 49%
Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• 493 i
Barcelona
Seville•• •• Oa epo •• •• •• a•

New York, 60 day- s'sight
Philadelphia • .....
PRIM OF BULLION, pES
Foreign Gold inbars .../3 17
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 u
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New D011ar5......0 0 ud
Silvor in bars ........ 0 5 °A

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BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
At the Oaks, Dalston, near Carlisle, on the 6th inst., the
wile of William B. Ciirwen, Esq.
On the llth inst., at Cavendish-road, St. John's-Wo°
the wife of L. Dolan, Esq.

OF A DAucnzn.
At Cheltenham, on the 9th inst., the widow of Lieutenaot-
Colonel George Hutchinson, Bengal Engineers.
On the 9th inst., the wife of Henry Wilde, Esq., Hertford-
street, May-fair.

ICI AR EUED. 0
On the 6th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, Job f
Cornthwaite, Esq., of Holt-hill, to Miss Ellen Houston,
Birkenhead.
On the 9th inst., at Chiswick Church, Stephen W. Leachil:
Esq., of Turnhana-green, to Harriett Eliza, youngest cliolg
ter of Dr. John Jackson, of Kew.

DIED.
On the 10th inst , at Hackney, Thomas Wilzoo, of

Woodhouse, East Ham, Essex, formerly M.P. for the City
London, aged 85. 45,
On the 10th inst., at Dalston, Mrs. Sarah Dcroub,ror.
aged 82, relict of the late A. 11. J, Deroubaix,
merly of Shacklewell.
On the 10th inst., aged 76, Emily, wile of Saltine
Zoete, Esq., of Gower-street, Bedford-s
liquare.
On the 11th inst., at Bedford-hill, a'hain, John
Winstanley, Esq., aged 72. late
On the 10th inst., at Ewell, Mrs. John Vickers, sen.,
of Surrey-square, Old Kent-road.

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