The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty had a dinner party on Wednesday at
Buckingham Palace. The company included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, her Serene Highness the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Duchess of Inverness, his
Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, his
Excellency the Greek Minister and Madame Tricoupi,
Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Lord and
Lady Foley, Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mit-
ford, the Right Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Bulwer, Lord
James Murray, Major the Hon. James Macdonald, and
Mr. Gibbs.

The Queen's private band attended in the Palace after
dinner, and played the following compositions :

Overture (Op. 143)
Selection " Postillon"

Kalliwoda.
Adam.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive yester-
day afternoon in an open landau and four. The Equerries
in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie and Captain the Hon.
Dudley de Ros, attended on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday morning, attended by Captain the Hon.
Dudley de nos.

The Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth was present
at the levee held by Prince Albert on the part of her
Majesty-, on Wednesday, at St. James's Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the
Princess Alice, and attended by the Countess of Charle-
mont, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Beatrice
Byng, the Marquis of Ormonde, Colonel Bouverie, Cap-
tain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, and Mr. Gibbs, honoured
the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening.
The Countess de Neuilly and the Duc de Nemours
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yester-
day at her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's.
A deputation on the subject of the application of the
Public Health Act to Worcester, had an interview with
Sir William Molesworth yesterday, at the office of
Works and Public Buildings, Whitehall-place. The
deputation consisted of Messrs. Edward Evans, J. W.
Lea, and Peter Hardy, and Aldermen Lewis, Helm,
Elgie, and Webb. The deputation were introduced by Mr.
Osman Ricardo, M.P., and Mr. William Laslett, M.P.
Colonel Myddleton Biddulph had an interview with
the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from Egbaston, Birmingham, on the
subject of parish vestries, consisting of Mr. Alderman
Martineau and Mr. Arthur Ryland, accompanied by
Mr. Muntz, M.P., and Mr. Scholefield, M.P., had an
interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day from the Governors of Sierra Leone and the Gold
Coast.

DEATH OF GENERAL SIR B. KERRISOS,
BART., G.O.H.

Sir Edward Kerrison, the Colonel of the 14th Light
Dragoons, died on the 9th inst., aged 79. He entered the
army in 1796, as a cornet in the 6th Dragoons ; became a
lieutenant in 1798, a captain the same year, a major in
1803, a lieutenant-colonel in 1805, a colonel in 1813, a
major-general in 1819, a lieutenant-general in 1837, and a
general in 1851. He served at the Helder in 1799, in-
cluding the battles in September and October of that year.
In 1808-9 he served in Spain under Sir John Moore, and
was present at the battle of Corunna. In 1813, 14, and
15, then Colonel Kerrison, he commanded the 7th Hussars,
and was present at the battles of Orthes and Waterloo.
He was severely wounded at Orthes, and slightly at Water-
loo, where he had a horse shot under him. He received the
gold medal for Orthes, and the silver medal with two clasps
for Sahagun, Benevento, and Toulouse.
Sir Edward Kerrison was for nearly 40 years a member
of Parliament, and from 1824 to 1852 sat for Eye, Suffolk.
He was created a baronet in 1821, nominated a K.C.B. in
1840, and a G.C.H. in 1831. In 1830 he was appointed
Colonel of the 14th Light Dragoons, which colonelcy is thus
vacant by his decease. He is succeeded in his title and
large estates by his son, now Sir Edward Clarence Kern-
son, who was first returned for Eye in July, 1852, and was
a supporter generally of the late Derby Ministry. In 1844
the present Sir Edward Kerrison married the youngest
daughter of the Earl of Ilchester. Viscount Mahon mar-
ried a daughter of the deceased.

IMPORTATION OF SPECIE.—The importation of specie
will be very large this week at Southampton. 800,000
dollars were landed on Monday from the West India
steamer Thames ; 80,0001. sterling was landed on Tues-
day from the Alexandrian packet Ripon ; a million and
a half of dollars were landed on Wednesday from the
West India steamer Orinoco ; and 80,0001. sterling is
expected hourly
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landed at SoUthampton this week will be about 600,000/.
sterling.
COST OF SEABORNE MAlLS.—According to the last
Admiralty Packet List just published, the following is
the present annual cost of conveying Seaborne mails by
the contract vessels of steam navigation companies,
viz. : —To and from the West Indies and Brazils,
270,000/. ; the East Indies, China, and Australia. via
Singapore, 199,600/. ; the Peninsula, 20,5001.; America,
173,340/. ; Chili and Peru, 25,000/. ; Cipe of Good
Hope and Calcutta, 56,400/. ; Australia via the Cape of
Good Hope, 26,0001. ; West Coast of Africa, 23,250/. ;
Hamburg and Rotterdam, 17,000/. ; between Bermuda
and Newfoundland, 10,600/. ; Bermuda and St. Thomas,
4,100/. ; Holyhead and Kingstown, 25,000/. ; Liverpool
and Isle of Man, 850/. ; Aberdeen and Lerwick, 9001. ;
Alexandria and Beyrout, 1,5601. ; Southampton and
Channel Isles, 4,000/.
THE SCREW STEAMER CLEOPATRA.—A private letter
has been received at Liverpool from Valparaiso, dated
January 14, stating,that the screw steam-ship Cleopatra
was hourly expected at that port from Sydney, and would
sail in a few days after arrival for that port via Brazil.

--FRENCH INVASION.—ARRIVAL OF A FRENCH FLEET
AT PLYMOUTH.—On Saturday morning last, ten French
ships arrived, almost simultaneously, at Plymouth ; not,
however, with a hostile intention, but, thanks to free
trade, laden with the good things f this life, which are
now being distributed among the inhabitants of that
populous neighbourhood.
EMIGRANT SHlPS.—Complaints are received from
many of the emigrants to Australia by private ships of
a gross disregard of the promises held out by the owners
previously to their departure. These letters are dated
from the Cape and other places, wherever the unfortu-
nate passengers could find opportunities of transmitting
them, and it seems to denote much neglect at the offices
of the Commissioners for Emigration that the sufferers
in such cases should be unaware of any mode of stating
their grievances, except through the Times. It can be
of little avail that the Government inspectors examine
vessels before they proceed to sea, if the emigrants are
not instructed at the same time as to where they may
obtain summary redress in the event of the laws which
provide for their proper treatment being infringed during
the voyage. There are said to be methods which may be
adopted in the colonies upon landing, but only at the
expense of much time and trouble. Such as they are,
however, they should be fully made known, and, mean-
while, some more simple contrivances for the purpose
should be brought about.—Times.

HOPS.—The customary return respecting hops was
issued on Thursday. In England and Wales last year
there were 46,1571 acres under cultivation. The duty
on hops, the growth of last year, was 447,1441. Bs. lid.
Between the sth of January, 1852, and the sth of
January last 955,8551 b. weight of British hops were ex-
ported. The total number of hops charged with duty
last year in the several collections of England and Wales
was 51,102,4941 b. The return was obtained by Sir W.
Moles worth.
THE PROPOSED NEW BURIAL-GROUND AT NORWOOD.
—Yesterday a meeting of the parishioners of Lambeth
was held, in the Vestry-hall, Church-street, but owing
to the crowded state of the hall, the meeting was
eventually adjourned to the boys' school-room, Lambeth-
green. The Rev. Mr. Dalton, the rector, presided.
The meeting was called to decide whether they would
agree to the purchase of a piece of land, at Norwood, for
the burial of the inhabitants, at the rate of 5001. per
acre. Mr. Churchwarden Taylor proposed, that as the
measure had not met with so much support fivm the
parishioners as had been expected, he should be allowed
to withdraw the proposition. From the plan which had
been formed, the purchase of ground, forming roads,
enclosing the ground, building chapels, law expenses,
&c., would amount to 27,4361., or it might reach
30,000/. ; seeing, however, that some of the parishioners
were averse to it, he did not wish to press it, but would
rather that the vestry would allow him to withdraw the
motion, and the burial board would look after a more
suitable piece of land in the parish if possible. A vote
of thanks to the rector closed the proceedings.
ATTEMPTED MURDER FROM STARVATION BY A NEE-
DLEWOMAN.—This morning, about 10 o'clock, the neigh-
bourhood of Goswell-street was alarmed by the report of
a woman having made an attempt to destroy her child,
and on the constable on duty in the neighbourhood has-
tening to the house, No. 4, Apple-yard, Seward-street,
he found a male infant, 14 months' old, bleeding fiom a
wound in the throat, and lying in the arms of one of
the lodgers, who stated that the mother had a few mi-
nutes previously brought it to her in that state, saying
that her heart had failed her in the attempt to take its
life. A table-knife stained with blood was found in her
apartment, which was quite destitute of food, and exhi-
bited the strongest indication of extreme wretchedness.
The child was taken to Doctor Dempsey in the
Goswell-street-road, who ordered its immediate removal
to the hospital, and on taking the miserable woman to
the station-house, she admitted having purposed to
murder her infant. She gave her name Elizabeth
Higgins, 39 years of age, stating that she was separated
from her husband, who had the care of her other chil-
dren, and that in consequence of distress, and not having
tasted food for five days past, she had on her return
home after a fruitless endeavour to obtain a few half-
pence, resolved on killing her boy and then taking her
own life, but upon seeing the blood issue from the wound
remorse ensued, and she was unable to complete her
purpose. The unfortunate woman described herself as
a needlewoman.
REGENT GALLERY.—The proprietor has with great
liberality invited the household troops quartered in
London to inspect the Diorama of the Life and Exploits
of Napoleon, and yesterday about a hundred of the
Guards, under the command of their non-commissioned
officers, attended at the representation of this highly in-
teresting exhibition.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales. The market closed
heavily. The sales comprised 4,000 bales Ameri-
can, 200 Pernam and Maranham at 61d.. to 61d.,
250 Egyptian at 61-d. to Eid., and 300 Surat at
3id. to 4d. per lb. Railway shares were rather
firmer.

In the Colonial Markets this week the principal
staples have been well maintained, though not
brisk. Sugar has been steady, Coffee in good de-
mand privately, and the useful sorts of Tea much
inquired after. In Cotton scarcely anything has
been done. Spices have had a slow sale. In Tal-
low there is no particular change. Rice has been
quiet.

The Australian news is considered very favoura-
ble, and the steamer, therefore, is expected now to
bring intelligence calculated to support Australian
investments.

The Greek Bondholders have received a promise
from Earl Clarendon that our Minister at Athens
shall be instructed to use his good offices on their
behalf.

The English Stock Market is much more buoy-
ant, and the payment of differences has chiefly
occupied attention. Consols have been done as
high as par. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been at 1031 to ; and the tranfer
books are closed for many of the principal stocks,
including Reduced Three per Cents., Bank Stock,
Long Annuities, and South Sea Old Annuities.
East India Stock is at 267. Exchequer Bills are
10s. to 14s. premium, and those dated June, Bs. to
12s. premium.
Foreign Securities have been quieter. The
Spanish Committee's Certificate has not been
higher than 7f to A meeting of the Committee
is to be held to-day, it is said, to determine upon
the sum which it may be advisable to accept for
this security, in the event of their being received
in part payment of a new ' railway loan which M.
Salamanca is said to be negotiating. The
Swedish Loan is at 11 discount. Mexican
Bonds have been 25g- to /, being better.
The Greek Bonds are quiet at 84- to t. Equa-
-1 dor Stock is worth SA, and Buenos Ayres 64. Sar-
dinian Bonds are firm, at 981- to 99. Dutch 2
per Cents bring 66t.
Railway Shares have been brisk again, and the
transactions are at advanced prices, although the
improvement is not very material. The French
Shares are higher, and Upper India in demand.
The Land Company's Shares have risen mate-
rially. Australian Joint-Stock Banks are dearer.

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY,
(Prom the Official List.)

. _
Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities........: shut
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuit'es, Expire sth Jau., 1860..... shut
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct.' 1859 .... shut
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6l
South Sea Old Annuities shut
Consols for Account 13th April
India Stock for Account 267
Exchequer Bills, lid. March. June.
£1000
Ditto Advertised — 8 12
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 64
Equador Bonds 53
Greek ex over-due Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 43 per cent 1033
SArdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 99 81
Spanish Passive (Converted) 5l
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 7il i P e
Swedish Loa-i IA d
Dutch Exchange 2?
-per Cent 664
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.....,.., ~

Consols .
Ditto April Account .

HALF-PAST TWO.
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, March 11.—Wind at Noon, E.S.E., fine.—
Mary, which waived in the River on the 6th inst., was in
contact, on the 3d, off Dungeness, with an Ordnance
cutter, when she lost her stern boat, and received other
damage.
DEAL, March 10.—Wind, S.E., light and fire. Arrived
Afriktt, Batavia ; James Peddie, Cuba ; Cuba, Woolley,
Algoa Bay ; Galine, Breckwoldt, Chesina and Smy...na ;
Queen of the Chase, St. Michael's. Arrived from the
River President Ram, for Adelaide, S.A. Sailed—Eras-
mus, Port Philip ; Arabella, Ascension ; Ranneys, Monte
Video. Put back—Salisbury, and Kate.
LIVERPOOL, March 10.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Jane
Glassier, Simpson, Bombay ; Providence, Rio Grande ;
Elizabeth Moore, Patrickson, Bahia; Eliza Killick, St.
Domingo ;• Seagull, Savannah ; Alceste, Manson' Singa-
pore ; Australia, Campbell, Calcutta • John Bull, Richard
Battersby, and William Gibson, Bombay ; Allei ton, Bed-
ford, Mauritius ; Thomas Miller, Pernambuco ; Johnston,
Demerara ' - Britannia, Robertson, Goneivcs ; Midas, Devon-
port, and Charles Walton, New Orleans ; Jacob Gross,
Cambria, and Eylla, Charleston ; John Cumming, Phila-
delphia ; Centurion, Harswell, St. Michael's • Forget-me-
Not, M`Laren Alexandria; Palermo and Georgiann (?),
Smyrna ; Sphynx, Tarragona ; Eugene, Morlaix. Off
Port—Princess Royal, _Mika. Sailed—Lady Jocelyn,
Melbourne; N. S. de Begona, Rio Janeiro; Oberon, New-
foundland • Mary Nixon, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Py tho,
Africa; Walton, Valparaiso; Teingal, New York.
FALMOUTH, March 10.—A brig of about 300 tons, laden
with deals and staves, waterlogged and abandoned, stern
completely gone ; windlass marked "Richard Flinn and
Co., North Shields," with a patent purchase ; " Pow and
Dawcus, No. 17," on the palls, was ppssed 4th March, in
lat. 44, long. 12 W., by the Boachcea, Weatherley, arrived
here. Arrived—Atalaga, Giguons, Rio Grande, Formi,
Island Lady, and Victoria, Ibrail ; Druid, Cousins, Akyab,
Bother, Morris, Paraiba, and Eliza, Bahia. Off Port—
Brischboch, Alkemada • Fame, Pernambuco.
COWES, March 10.—Wind, . Arrived—Adeline, Klem-
worth, Havannah.
BRISTOL, March 10.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Ocean
Queen, Thomas, Africa. Sailed—Brilliant, New Orleans.
SWANSEA, March 10.--Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—Ann
Porter, Hunter, Caldera.
STORNOWAY, March 3.—A bottle containing a slip of
paper, on which was written as follows, was found this
afternoon by some fishermen, off the mouth of the harbour :
—" The ship is sinking fast ; six feet water in the hold.
We do not know where we are if we are not in the West
of Ireland.—James Shearer, Captain. 1852."

LETTERS FOR MELBOURNE AND HOBART TOWN.—
The Post-office authorities have advertised that ship-
letter bags will be despatched for Hobart Town and
Melbourne by the steamer Tasmania, which leaves this
country for those ports on the 31st inst.
SMUGGLING. SHEERNESS, March 9.—Seventy-two
bales of unmanufactured tobacco, weighing 1 ton 16 cwt.,
were seized in an open boat in the upper part of Long-
reach, in the river Medway, early yesterday morning,
by Lieutenant Steady of the Coast-guard, stationed at
Bridge-reach, Rochester. There were three men in the
boat, all of whom were taken ; two of them are former
convicted smugglers.

WAGES IN BOHEMIA.—A report recently made by the
Chamber of Commerce of Reichenberg, the principal
manufacturing town of Bohemia, contains some state-
ments regarding the current rate of wages in that coun-
try, sufficient to denote that the present scale of pay-
ment for labour in England can scarcely continue for
any lengthened period without attracting a supply of
artizans from the continent. In the Ticiner and Leip-
paer district the rate in the cotton and linen manufac-
tories is stated to be for an adult 1 to 11 kreutzer (a
halfpenny sterling) per day, and the whole yearly earn-
ings of a family of five, as weavers, amounts at the ut-
most to 145 florins, or about 141. In some trades, such
as those of tailors, smiths, carpenters, wheelwrights, and
butchers, as much as 3 1-3 kreutzers (about a penny) is
paid, accompanied with board, but no lodging. Shoe-
makers and was-drawers, however, only receive 2
kreutzers.

SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLlND.—Yesterday this
charity, instituted in 1799, for the purpose of imparting
to the indigent blind a sound moral and religious educa-
tion and instructing them in a trade by which they may
provide wholly or partially for their future subsistence,
held its annual general meeting at the London,Coffee-
house, Ludgate-hill ; Lord Radstock took the chair.
The report stated that the present number of pupils in
the school was 75 males and 69 females. There were 27
candidates for admission. The receipts for the year
amounted to 4,2171. is. and the disbursements to
2,544/. 9s. 3d., leaving a:balance of 1,672/. 11s. 9d. in
favour of the institution. An announcement was made
by the "secretary that a donation of a grand pianoforte
had been made to the school by John Melhuish, Esq.,
of Tooting. It was resolved unanimously,
subjoined be made a bye-law :—" That in hat the
consideration
of an application on behalf of his Royal
.Highness the
g
Prince of Wales and a donation of 300 guineas to the
corporation, he be entitled to the privilege of having one
nominee always in the school, such nominee to be
subject equally with other P
regulations of this school." Some
to the rules and
ebusiness of a routine
character having been disposed of, a cordial vote of
thanks was passed to the noble lord for his courtesy in
the chair, and the meeting separated.
SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENTepate
rard.
TURNHAM-GREEN.---yes-
terday afternoon, a man named James Harrington, aged
28, was brought to St. George's Hospital under the fol-
lowinc,
circumstances :—Harrington is a garden labourer
l'n the service of Dr. Lindley; the well-known botanical
author, and, with his wife, resides as care-taker at a cot-
tage in the occupation of his master at Turnhani-green.
On the previous afternoon, a little before five o'clock,
the doctor was amusing himself in the presence of his
family by firing with a rifle and the new conical shot at
a target about 120 yards distant. After having fired
several shots, the doctor sent his daughter with a small
square piece of board to place near the target, and when
she returned ho levelled his rifle to fire. Just at that
instant Harrington, who was standing on one side to
mark the hits, suddenly sprang up to rectify the posi-
tion of the small board just as the discharge took place.
The shot struck him and passed through the back of his
right hand, then through the left thigh, afterwards per-
forating a thick board, and has not since been dis-
covered. The distressing scene which followed may be
imagined. Surgical aid was instantly obtained, and
yesterday it was thought safe to remove the wounded
man to the hospital. Happily the ball missed the femo-
ral artery, and there is reason to hope the sufferer is
doing well. It is a remarkable fact, that last year
another eminent botanical writer, Professor Schleiden,
of Berlin, had the misfortune seriously to wound an
assistant while rifle shooting.

ELECTION COMMITTEES-(THIS DAY.)

SOUTHAMPTON.

The committee re-assembled at 11 o'clock this morning
.Mr. H. Herbert in the chair, when

Edward Atkins, manager of the Southampton Bank-
ing Company, proved that on the 20th of August last
Mr. Harman had paid in 4551. to his own credit. No
sums had been paid in during the year to Mr. Harman's
credit by Sir Alexander Cockburn except the two cheques
for 3301. and 1251., making up the 4551. The witness
also proved the payment of various small sums to Bland-
ford and other persons.
Mr. Harman was re-called, and stated that he had
given 6001., the proportion of Mr. Willcox, to Messrs.
Sharpe and Harrison. Sir Alexander Cockburn's pro-
portion was 6701., most of which he paid away himself.
The examination of Mr. Atkins was proceeding when
our report left.