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require very large supplies of breadstuffs from
abroad. The harvests of our own colonies have
rarely been more than sufficient for our own wants
even m old times, and before the recent vast addi-
tions to our population. The consumption of flour
for this colony alone has been calculated to amount
to upwards of 100 tons a-day, and our own produce
will go but little way to meet such a demand as
this. Hitherto we have received no extraneous as-
sistance whatever.
Intimately connected with this subject is the
anomalous condition of the colony with respect to
the difficulties in the way of settlement and occu-
pation of the waste lands. Tens of thousands of
successful miners are willing and anxious to invest
their drofits in the most natural mode—the pur-
chase of a farm or garden near the scene of their
successful labours as gold-diggers. By the absurd
system, however, of locking up theAlands in the
hands of the squatters, this most natural and ne-
cessary process appears to be surrounded with suf-
ficient difficulties to prevent our Executive from
taking any means to give a settled character to our
population, or removing the very great evils neces-
sarily resulting from continuing to place nearly
the whole adult population of the colony in the
position of mere reckless and scrambling adven-
turers.

LAW IETELLIGENC,E.

action on the promissory note, and now summoned the
defendant under the Small Debts Act.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-JAN. 19.

The defendant represented the case as a very hard one,
that for Bs. he should have been put to all the law costs.
He had waited on the Rev. Mr. Dalton, and that gen-
tleman interceded, and was willing to give 51. to get the
matter settled.

CONSTANT DEBRA DE MERODA V. DAWSON, TINDAL,

PEYTON, AND RYLAND,

This was an action on the case brought by the plaintiff,
a young man of Hungarian family, against the four de-
fendants, who were residents of the town of Birmingham,
to recover from them compensation in damages for
having falsely and maliciously, and without reasonable
and probable cause, charged him with having, by false
pretences, obtained a sum of money from one of the de-
feßdants. The cause was tried before Mr. Baron Alder-
sox at the last summer assizes at Warwick, when it
appeared in evidence that the plaintiff had come over to
England in 1851, in order to see the Great Exhibition,
and that while here he had become acquainted with a
lady who was known as the Baroness Von Beck. This
lady had published a work, entitled "Personal Adven-
tures of a Lady during the late War of Independence in
Hungary." She bad engaged to publish another work,
and for this new work she desired to get subscribers.
A considerable part of this work had been written,
and was in the hands of an English gentleman
for the purpose of being translated. Madame Von
Beck went down to Birmingham, and was there
introduced to Mr. Dawson, who, on reading her
papers of introduction, subscribed for her work,
and paid her the sum of 1/. 4s. Through Mr. Dawson,
Madame Von Beck was introduced to the other defen-
dants, and especially became acquainted with Mr. and
Mrs. Tindal. She was received among them with
apparently the greatest kindness, and this kindness con-
tinued for between a fortnight and three weeks, till, on
one Friday night, when Madame Von Beck was a guest
at the house of Tindal, one of the defendants, she was
suddenly apprehended on a warrant issued by a Mr.
James, a magistrate of Birmingham, on the information
of Tindal and Ryland. She was charged in the warrant
with the offence of obtaining money under false pre-
tences ; the false pretence being that she called herself
the Baroness Von Beck, without having any legal right
to that title. The present plaintiff,. who had accom-
panied the Baroness and appeared to be her intimate
friend, was included in the charge, and was likewise appre-
hended. The Baroness Von Beck, who had previously been
in a very poor state of health, and had been staying at
Tindal's house in consequence of indisposition, died
immediately afterwards. The plaintiff was taken before
the magistrates, where the charge against him was
heard, the defendants and a Mr. Toulmin Smith appear-
ing in support of it, but it was instantly dismissed.
When these facts had been proved evidence was required
to show the warrant, and to connect the defendants with
the issuing of it. This evidence was attempted to be
supplied by calling a policeman named Tandy, but he
stated that though he made the arrest, he did it in the
presence of his superior officer, and never had had the
warrant in his possession. The officer who had possession
of the warrant had not been subpoenaed, and the warrant
was not in court. Mr. Baron Alderson thought the evi-
dence defective in this particular, and that there was not
in the rest of the case enough to go to the jury to show
that the defendants had made the charge, though he ex-
pressed a clear opinion that the charge itself could not
be supported, for that there was a want of reasonable
and probable cause. His lordship nonsuited the plain-
tiff. In the course of Michaelmas term, Mr. Sergeant
Miller (with whom was Mr. Field) had btained a rule
to show cause why the nonsuit should not be set aside,
and a new trial granted on the ground, first, that -the
plaintiff had been taken by surprise by the policeman's
evidence, and next, that even without the production of
the warrant there was enough to show that the charge
had been made, and had been made by the defendants.
Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Mellor, and Mr. Hayes now
showed cause against the rule. As to the ground of
surprise, they contended that that was answered on the
face of the affidavits put in by the defendants, which
showed that the person who on behalf of the plaintiff had
subpoenaed the policeman knew that the superintendent,
Stevens, was in possession of the warrant, for though
he had not subpoenaed Stevens, he had obtained from
that person a copy of the warrant. As to the other
ground, the insufficiency of the evidence to connect the
defendants with the issuing of the warrant, they insisted
that the evidence merely showed that the defendants had
made a statement before a magistrate, and did not show
that they had made a charge of obtaining money under
false pretences. If the magistrate thought fit to convert
their statement of facts into that substantive charge, and
to issue his warrant in that form, they could not be made
liable in this form of proceeding for his acts.
Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. Field were not called
on.

The plaintiff alleged that two years' tithe-charge was
due by the insolvent. He had not proceeded, and had
charged less than he was entitled to, through charity.
Mr. Doyle was a Catholic, and had perhaps made a vow
not to pay it.
Mr. Commissioner Law said they would not talk of
"charity." Practically, it bad been a great oppression.
It was very lamentable that the few shillings owing by
the insolvent were not paid ; and although the rector
was entitled to his rights, he could not believe that he
knew of the great expenses that had been incurred.

The matter was adjourned to Friday next for further
fai mutation.
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—EIijah. Eagle, a young man in the
employ of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, the news-
agents and publishers, of the Strand, was charged with
embezzling several sums of his employers' money.
It appeared that the prisoner was a clerk to Messrs.
Smith, and it was part of his duty to keep a registry of
the parcels delivered at their establishment, but neither
the prisoner nor any one else had authority to open them
unless in the presence of one of the firm. The parcels
in question contained the money remitted from the va-
rious stations on the South-Western Railway—being the
produce of the sale of newspapers and books. They
were delivered to the prisoner' who always signed the
porter's receipt-book, and was further required to make
an entry of the same in his own private book ; after
which it was his duty to hand the parcels to Mr. Smith,
jun. The prisoner was first detected in having appro-
priated 101., the contents of one of the Windsor par-
cels, but was now prosecuted on one of 13 other cases.
Mr. Joseph Sutton, the station-master at Barnes, de-
posed to having sent a parcel to Messrs. Smith and Son,
containing 31., and produced an acknowledgment of the
sum in the prisoner's handwriting, which was brought
back to him the same day (the Bth inst.).
William Staples, a lad in the employ of the prosecu-
tors at the Waterloo-station, proved that he delivered the
above with two other similar parcels on the Bth inst. to
the prisoner, who signed the receipt book.
Mr. W. I. Smith, jun., having explained the mode in
which the remittances were made from week to week at
the stations of the different railways which the firm
supplied with newspapers and railway literature, de-
posed that the 31. in respect to the Barnes parcel was
not entered in the prisoner's private book, nor had ever
been paid to him (prosecutor). There was an entry of
the amount in the daily ledger, in the prisoner's hand-
writing, which showed his knowledge of the contents of
the Barnes parcel. The probable object of this entry
was to prevent an application to Mr. Sutton for the
money.

But, while all sorts of difficulties are thrown in
the way of the miners investing their newly-gained
wealth in the soil, or in the erection of houses for
themselves and their families, our Government can
distort the Land Sales Act so far as to alienate
large tracts for the gratification and enrichment of
their friends the squatters ; and the monstrous
anomaly is thereby exhibited of land being with-
held from the people to be given to the personal
friends or political supporters of the Government.
The digger, with his few hundreds, may " knock
down " his earnings at the public-house or seek an
investment for them in other colonies, while the
pampered squatter may claim his hundreds of acres,
valued by a probably friendly commissioner, lock-
ing round the digger an iron circle of monopoly,
preventing him from raising sustenance for himself,
and interrupting his supplies of animal food, &c.,
when coming through any other than the favoured
channel.
This great injustice, and the absolute necessity
for immediate measures being adopted to adapt our
land regulations to the rapidly progressive condi-
tion of the colony, are shown by the fact that our
population is increasing at present at the rate of
some thousands a week. Since our last summary,
about six months ago, the balance of arrivals
against departures amounts to more than 20,000
souls actually entered through the customs ; but,
as the captains of many vessels conceal the real
number they bring, in consequence of their infrac-
tion of the Passengers' Act, the number actually
added to our population will very greatly exceed
the number we have stated. When, then, it is
recollected that our whole population, previous to
the discovery of gold, was only about 80,000, and
that additions to our inhabitants are taking place
at the rate of at least 200,0001. a year ; and when it
is also borne in mind that our exports, represent-
ing the income of the community, have been raised
in one year from a little over 1,000,000/. sterling
to a rate of something like 15,000,0001. or
16,000,0001., and that for all this enormous sum of
annual wealth there is scarcely any other possible
investment than is afforded by the public lands of
the colony, the cruelty, the injustice, and the wan-
ton impolicy of locking up these lands in the hands
of a few hundreds of squatters are so transparently
manifest as to render such a national robbery, we
should hope, impossible.
With regard to our social condition, we regret
that we cannot speak much more favourably than
before. Crime still continues fearfully rife, and
neither life nor property is' invested with anything
approaching to proper. security. An act has just
come into operation for the purpose of cutting off
the ready access to our gold fields, hitherto afforded
to the felons which England still so wickedly and
foolishly persists in sending into our immediate
neighbourhood. The act has yet, indeed, been in-
operative, as most acts are in the hands of our
feeble Government, and while we continue to be
deluged with escaped or conditionally-pardoned
criminals, it is not to be wondered at if our streets,
and roads, and villages supply constant scenes of
outrage and villany. The soldiers, considerately
sent out by the English Government, have indeed
arrived, and will, we dare say, when called upon,
endeavour to force down the throats of the colo-
nists some of the absurd crochets of a very
shallow executive, but as thief-catchers they
are as useless as soldiers always are, and, how-
ever ornamental they may be, we have yet to
record many instances of their practical inutility.
Our police arrangements, indeed our whole sys-
tem of Government, is as bad as it well can be. It
is one complete tissue of the grossest favouritism
and jobbery. A mean, cringing sycophancy is the
only passport to viceregal favour, and, as is always
the case under such circumstances, the whole
course of Government is a complication of shifti-
ness, of faithless neglect of duty, and of disregard
to the public interests. Our Lieutenant-Governor
writes home laboured dispatches, which are got up
with sufficient art to succeed in persuading the
Downing-street clerks that he is a very able and a
very zealous man. Bat here, surrounded as he
habitually is, with a circle of incompetent idlers,
incapable of earning a livelihood for themselves,
and therefore fattening upon the public, both his
Excellency and his advisers are invariably spoken of
and thought of in a strain of contempt, which is
sadly opposed to the feelings which ought to be en-
couraged in the minds of good citizens towards
those in authority over them.
A motion of want of confidence in the Adminis-
tration of M. Latrobe is to come on immediately
for discussion in the Colonial Legislature, and con-
taining, as that body does, a large proportion of
Government officers and nominees, there is little
doubt that the votes will be passed by a large ma-
jority. This, as a constitutional protest against
the employment of the pack of incapables con-
stituting the favourites of the Lieutenant-Governor,
may act as a timely warning to him from continu-
ing to make his Government in these critical times
an asylum for the very lame, halt, and blind of
the political world. Failing this effect, we must
look elsewhere for reform, and we should pro-
bably require larger doses in proportion to the
distance which we have to go. We perceive large
concessions in the way of self-government have just
been made to New Zealand, and we would
urge our claims for at least an equal share of
that most necessary right. At present we are little
better than mere slaves, subjected to the follies and
caprice of a nominee of some irresponsible power in
England. This, resulting, as it naturally does, in
bad government, with all its myriad evils, is irri-
tating in the highest degree to a people conscious
of what freedom is, and quite capable of taking
care of themselves. That the universal anxiety to
get hold of a certain quantum of the gold which is
now so profusely scattered around us prevents
people from paying much attention to public affairs,
is no proof that they are satisfied with them, or
believe that they are administered with even decent
honesty and vigour. The time will come when
things will settle into more regular channels, when
the money value of time will not be quite so high
as at present ; and if by that period measures are
not taken to enable us to govern ourselves, which
no one else ever can or will do properly, the result
will be neither very certain nor possibly very satis-
factory.

The prisoner, who implored the mercy of the court for
the sake of his wife, was fully committed for trial.

THAMES.—Mr. James Duncan, a respectable trades-
man, residing at Wapping, appeared to show cause why
he did not assist in the support of his son, who is at pre-
sent an inmate of the lunatic establishment at Colney-
hatch.

The case was one of a very peculiar nature. The
young man alluded to by Mr. Sergeant, the relieving-
officer of Wapping, has occupied some position in the
public eye as the laureate of Chartism, and one of the
most strenuous supporters of all the points. Having
been brought before the magistrates upon various occa-
sions, charged with breaches of the peace, and with even
assaulting his own father—they decided that he was a
person no longer fit to be trusted with his liberty. He
was accordingly removed to the county lunatic asylum.
Mr. Duncan, who keeps a chandler's shop, pleaded his
inability to pay. He had other children to provide for,
and though he had to pay 351. a-year and taxes, he had
to make up the rent by letting the principal apartments.
Mr. Yardley— Up to a certain time you did all you
were bound to do. You have given him a superior edu-
cation, but it beconies you to take care that he is not
chargeable-to the'parish.- .
Mr. Sergeant—The cost to us is Bs. fid., but we will
halve it with the defendant.

Mr. Duncan—My income is not 11. per week, and
with the other claims on me, I do not see how I can af-
ford Anything.
. _

After some further discussion, it was agreed that the
defendant should pay 4s. 3d. per week.

Lord Campbell said that the question for the Court
was whether there was any evidence to submit to the
jury, that the defendants, or any of them, had made this
charge against the plaintiff of obtaining money under
false pretences. If there was no evidence to go to the
jury on that point, the nonsuit was right, but if there
was evidence to that point, then the non-suit was wrong.
The learned judge here had very properly said that there
was no probable cause for making this charge. There
was therefore a want of probable cause, and from that
alone malice might be inferred. So that the two ingre-
dients for maintaining this action were here malice and
want of probable cause. The action was, therefore,
maintainable. He did not say that there was strong
evidence of this. It was enough for the purpose of
this rule that there was some evidence to go to the
jury. Could it be doubted by any reasonable man,
from what was given in evidence, that a charge
was made by some one against the plaintiff for
having obtained money under false representation ?
There could be no doubt that some one did make that
charge. Then, was there not some evidence that that
charge was made by the defendants As the case was
to be tried again, he abstained from entering minutely
into the evidence or into the question of the weight to
be given to that evidence, but he had no difficulty in
point of law that there was some evidence to go to the
jury against these defendants. The jury would have
said what interpretation was to be given to the state-
ments made before the magistrates. But the case was
withdrawn from the consideration of the jury by the de-
cision of the learned judge, and the plaintiff was non-
suited on the ground that there was not any evidence to
offer to the jury. He thought that the case should have
been left to the jury. The jurymen might or might
not have found for the defendants; but as the case had
been withdrawn from their consideration, he thought
that a new trial ought to be granted.
Mr. Justice Wightman ,was entirely of the same
opinion. The only question for the court to consider
was whether there had been a charge of obtaining money
under false pretences, and if so, whether, as the charge
was made by some body, it was not made by the de-
fendants. Taking the whole of the evidence together,
it seemed to him that there was evidence to go to the
jury on both points. If each part of the evidence was
taken separately, it might be said that there was not
enough on that part to make the defendants liable ; but
taking the whole together, there was enough to go to the
jury on the question whether the defendants had not
made this charge.
Mr. Justice Crompton concurred. The only doubt he
had ever entertained was, whether the court was tied up
to consider only the information taken before the magis-
trate. He thought that the court was not so restricted.
Rule for a new trial absolute.

"CAPTAIN" JOHNSOA' AND .MATRIMONIAL

ADVERTISEMENT&

Amongst the numerous letters and varied correspond-
ence brought forth by the apprehension and examination
of Captain Johnson, in connection with the adroit swin-
dling transactions of that remarkable personage, are the
following, which have been received by Mrs. Stewart,
and which have been handed by that lady to her solici-
tor, Mr. Binns. The letters are given verbatim, with
the exception of the name and address, but these, for
obvious reasons, are omitted :

House Castle, Palverhatch, near
Shrewsbury, Jan. 15, 1853.
" Madam,—Having seen, a short time since, an adver-
tisement in the Hereford paper of a matrimonial adver-
tisement of an English retired officer, advertising for a
wife, I immediately answered it in behalf of a young
lady, and, in reply, received the enclosed letter, which
now I have every reason to think was written by the
person who goes by the name of Captain Johnson, who
was last week brought up for conspiring with other per.
sons to cheat and defraud you of several railway shares.
I should feel greatly obliged if you would favour me by
writing a few lines, stating whether the enclosed letter
and the advertisement correspond with his handwriting
and appearance.

" Ever yours, truly,
"Mrs. Stewart, 20, Brunswick-place, Canonbury-
road, Islington, London."

The following is the advertisement alluded to, which
had, evidently been cut out of a newspaper, and which
was inclosed with the preceding and following letter :
" Matrimony.—An English retired officer, with a
foreign title, in which his wife would share, is desirous
of forming an alliance with a lady of education and ac-
complishments. The gentleman is in the prime of life,
and enjoying excellent health ; speaks several foreign
languages, and is otherwise highly talented; travels
much in the finest climates of Europe, and is in the pos-
session of a genteel income. The lady will be expected
to have an adequate fortune ; she will be treated in
every way most affectionately, and rendered as happy
as the most ardent mind can desire. Address, in the
first instance, by letter, post free, in the strictest con-
fidence, to L. A. F., 13, Frances-street, York-road,
near Waterloo-road (care of Mr. Miles), London."
(Confidential),
" December 31, 1852.
" Dear Madam,—l am in receipt of your letter. It
is not sufficiently explicit, but I have no doubt you
will rectify that point when I shall next have the plea-
sure of hearing from you. I can assure you every-
thing stated in the advertisement is bond fide true.
As to sending my picture, it is at present along
with uniforms and other valuables in Paris. In
a correspondence of this nature, of course, I am
aware it is necessary to be exceedingly cautious, as there
are many idly-disposed persons who write merely to
practice a hoax, although I do not for one moment sus-
pect you of anything of the kind. With regard to my-
self, imagine a young-looking man of 36, fair, middle
height, moustachios, and a dashing hussar uniform ;
have been presented and kissed hands; accomplished,
eloquent, and of the kindest disposition. You. will find
me disposed to meet you in the most candid and liberal
manner. What do you say to an interview with the
lady ? At Paris ? London ? or half way between this
and your present address ? Let me have your decision,
and speedily.—Ever yours faithfully,
If
FREDEIRICK DE

BAIL COURT.-JAN. 19.

MACKINTOSH AND WIFE V. MACKINTOSH AND ANOTHER

ASSAULT.

Both the plaintiff and defendant were railway contrac-
tors, and this action was brought for an alleged assault
by the defendants on the plaintiffs.
Mr. Chambers and Mr. Petersdorff were for th©
plaintiffs ; and Mr. James and Mr. Pearson for the de-
fendants.

It appeared that on an evening in March last the de-
fendant, Hugh Mackintosh (a brother of the plaintiff ),
and a person called Mackay, went to the plaintiffs'
house, and having taken supper, and remained some
time, rose up to leave at half-past twelve o'clock, when
the defendant, Hugh Mackintosh, under the influence of
brandy-and-water, began to swear and seized the plain-
tiff's wife by the arms, using very disgusting language
towards her. She made her escape from him and
ran into her bed-room, when the plaintiff and the
defendant Mackay, who had been waiting below for
Hugh Mackintosh, came up stairs, and as soon as the
plaintiff entered the room he was assaulted by the de-
fendant, his brother, and Mackay, who inflicted such
severe injuries upon him that he was confined to his bed
for some weeks. His wife, who was in a delicate state
at the time, was also very ill after the assault, and their
doctor's bill and other expenses amounted to about 301.
It was urged on the part of the defendants that the
case of the plaintiffs had been greatly exaggerated. The
defendants stated that they had all spent the evening in
a very friendly manner ; but, as they were going away,
the plaintiff, Robert Mackintosh, took up a pocket-book
from the table and put it into his pocket. Hugh Mac-
kintosh claimed it as his own, but the plaintiff refused
to give it up. He put his hand on the plaintiff's pocket
who thereupon hit it so severely that he had since lost
one of his nails. Both defendants denied having had
their hands on the female plaintiff.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff against Hugh
Mackintosh for putting his hand on plaintiff's pocket,
damages one farthing, and for the defendants on the
other part of the case.

The handwriting and style of this note is decidedly
more mercantile than gentlemanly, and does not re-
semble in any way the specimens of his writings that
have been put in during the hearing of the case ; but at
the same time it should be mentioned that the captain
could vary his writing and style in a very surprising
manner, so much so that very excellent judges could not,
on comparing two notes of his, discover that they had
been written by the same hand.

Before concluding this hasty summary, we must
again advert to the evils arising from the sending
out of large numbers of passengers in single ships.
We lately alluded to several cases in which the
mortality during the voyage had arrived at a fright-
ful extent. Since then, large English vessels have
arrived, also furnishing a sad list of deaths. Seve-
ral vessels are now in quarantine, among them the
Ticomleraga, which recently arrived with the ter-
rible loss of 104 lives. When she anchored in our
port many scores of passengers were still ill, the
doctor and his assistant were both laid up, and the
medical stores were all consumed. From the result
of such experience it seems improper that any ship,
however large, however splendid her accommoda-
tions, should endeavour to bring many hundred
passengers for so long a voyage. Those vessels
which have conveyed 200 or 300 passengers each
have usually arrived without any very serious loss
of life ; but those conveying 600 or 700, and up-
wards, have frequently furnished such a list of
casualties as to lead us strongly to recommend ship-
owners to abstain from sending them, and passen-
gers to avoid coming by them.
fA

, SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE NIAGARA.—The
Lockport Journal says that labourers are busily em-
ployed in pushing the Niagara suspension bridge to
completion. Imagine a span 800 feet in length, forming
a straight hollow beam, 20 feet wide, and about 18 feet
deep, with top, bottom, and sides. Thera will be an
upper floor to support the railroad and cars, 20 feet wide
between the railings, and suspended by two wire cables,
assisted by stays. The lower floor, 19 feet wide and
15 feet high in the clear, is connected to the upper floor
by vertical trusses. The cohesion of good iron wire,
the towers
ng t quality.
a The limestone when properly united into cables or ropes, is found to
be from 90,000 to 130,000 pounds per square inch, ac-
ill bear
cording
pressureo
f suosoe used inns constructingupon
every
r
square foot. The towers are 60 feet high, 15 feet square
at the base, and 8 at the top. When this bridge is
covered with a train of cars the whole length, it will
sustain a pressure of not less than 405 tons. The speed
is supposed to add 10 per cent. to the pressure, equal to
61 tons. The weight of superstructure added, estimated
at
782 tons, makes the total aggregate weight sustained
1,273 tons. Assuming 2,000 tons as the greatest
tension to which the cables can be subjected, it is con-
sidered safe to allow five times the regular strength, and
providing for a weight of 10,000 tons. For this 13,000
miles of wire are required. The number of wires in one
cable is 3,000, the diameter of cable about 91 inches.
The bridge, we believe, is the longest between the points
of support of any in the world.
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-JAN. 19.
JONES V. DOYLE.

This was a proceeding under the Small Debts Act,
arising out of extraordinary circumstances. The de-
fendant, a clerk in the Post-office, was summoned to
show cause why he should not pay the plaintiff, an at-
torney, 161. 10s. on a judgment in one of the superior
courts.

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perceproduced,ptible
;
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at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singinc,
noises in the ears are entirely removed ; and it affords'
possibly could be desired. The
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all the assistance that
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powerful waistcoat pocket glass,Ytlusevesnit;ll'
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to discern minute objects at a distance oef°tfotroam four to
that somel.
five miles, which is found to be invaluable,
and to sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers.
Tele-
scopes, possessing such extraordinary power,
Si incises, with an extra eye piece, will show distinctly
Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars
They supersede every other kind, and are of all sizes for
the waistcoat pocket, shooting, military purposes, &c.
Opera and race-course glasses with wonderful power ; a
minute object can be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles
distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle.—S. &B.
Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, observe opposite the York Hotel.

From the examination of the plaintiff and defendant
by the Court, it appeared that the insolvent had rented
a small house in Lambeth, which he took of a Mr. Por-
ter, who was solicitor to a lady named Hart. A claim
of 16s. was made on the house by the Rev. Mr. Daltca,
the rector of Lambeth, under the Tithe Commutation
Act, as a rent-charge. The insolvent was out of
town, and the members of his 'family did not pay
the money. He alleged that he only owed Bs. as the
rent-charge, which was ono year's rent as tithe-charge.
An action was brought against the insolvent, and
the expenses were 141. lOs. Subsequently. proceedings
were taken to get possession, and the sheriff turned the
defendant and his furniture into the street. The articles
were put into a waggon, and in the care of some neigh-
bours, until a house could be taken. Being in posses-
sion, the rector, under the 6th and 7th Wm. IV., was
was
sp
agreed to his landlord,
between
the and so get rid
d of h.
Tones)and
liability. It
that attorney the
defendant
he should give a promissory note for
161. lOs., and pay 21. 10s. in cash. The note was given,
which was to be paid at 21. per quarter, hut no further
payment had been made. Mr.
Jones thoni brought an

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1$ 58.

COLLISIONS ON THE LANCASHIRE AND
YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.

On Tuesday, two collisions took place on the Bolton
and Preston line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way Company, but fortunately did not result in any loss
of human life. In the morning, as a goods train was
standing at the Chorley station, on the down line from
Manchester, a coal train came up behind, and ran into
it with such force as to make considerable havoc with
both trains. Mr. Blackmore, the superintendent at
Manchester, was sent for, and was present during a
considerable portion of the day, for the purpose of taking
the most prompt steps to get the rails cleared, to pre-
vent interruption to the regular traffic. It appears that
the collision resulted entirely from the neglect of persons
in charge of the Chorley station not turning on the pro-
per signal.
Mr. Blackmore was standing on the platform at the
Chorley station in the evening, ready to return to Man-
chester, when information reached him that, three
quarters of a mile short of Chorley, the express train
from Preston to Manchester had run into a cattle
train coming in the same direction. The latter con-
sisted of nineteen waggons filled with cattle, and the
express train, which left Preston at five o'clock, con-
sisted of five first and second-class carriages. It appears
that the cattle train was ascending one of the steepest
gradients on the line, at the time, and had been impeded
by the slipperiness of the rails. 'The express train came
upon it in a very sharp curve of the line, and, conse-
quently, its conductors could not see any great distance
in advance, but the driver succeeded in arresting the
train so as to prevent the collision being a severe one.
Three of the cattle trucks were smashed, and six sheep
were killed, but in the express train the passengers were,
some of them, scarcely conscious of the shock. Some
ladies in a first-class carriage said they did not feel it all.
A gentleman, named Dalrymple, from Manchester, who
was travelling in a second-class carriage, got a blow on
the left cheek bone, which blackened his eye ; and being
in a delicate state of health and under medical treatment,
he perhaps felt the shock more severely than he other-
wise would have done. Mr. Blackmore procured the
assistance of a surgeon from Chorley, and Mr. Dalrymple,
after the train had been detained about an hour, was
able to go on to Manchester by it, and appeared to be
doing well. None of the carriages of the express train
were thrown off the line, nor were they apparently in any
wayinjured. A strict investigation into the circum-
stances by the directors was expected to take place yes-
terday.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
MANCHESTER, JAN. 18.—The New Orleans markets
declined ic. to c, per lb. on the receipt of unfavourable
advices from this side to the 10th December ; but ac-
counts hence of five days' later date caused that loss to
be regained, freights having fallen to id. The excess in
the receipts is now 445,000 in all, and for the week
42,000. In various circulars, the excess is expected to
reach 465,000, and then to fall off very materially ; and
they talk of not more than 3,100,000 being ultimately
realised. But there are others, of the highest name,
who do not at all diminish the late extreme estimates ;
and, in general, the best informed parties in this
district can see nothing whatever, in the known facts
of the case, to warrant a reduction of estimates.
As a curious illustration of the arts adopted to influ-
ence prices on this side, and of the origin of those
arts, we make the following quotation from the advice
of the highly-respectable firm of M'Connell, Wanroy,
and Co. of Mobile, dated 25th December :—" The Liver-
pool letters of 26th and 30th November reached here on
the 19th and 21st inst., and yesterday those of the 4th
December came to hand ; these letters bring us the first
intimation of severe killing frost over the entire cotton
legion, in the middle of November, also of injury to cot
tan by floods, and a wet picking season, all of which we
were entirely ignorant of before."
Surely, with a statement like this in their hands, with
a stock of cotton in Liverpool exceeding that of this time
last year by 200,000 bales, and with an excess in the
receipts at the American ports of near 450,000 bales,
while the price of the article with us is /d. to Zd. higher
than it was a year ago—our spinners will not now, as
they have too often done, allow themselves to be made
the instruments for transferring money out of their own
pockets into those of speculators on this side the Atlan-
tic, and planters on the other side.- They are, at this
moment, suffering from prices gratuitously raised by the
ill-advised orders they themselves sent out some time
back, without sufficiently restricted limits. We are
glad, however, to see that a more wary and guarded
spirit is prevailing among those who arc most deeply in-
terested in this matter.
Still, these advices have contributed with other and
more legitimate circumstances, to impart a hardening
tendency to our yarn and cloth markets. The advices
from the East, which will be found below, together with
an apparently permanent improvement in the weather,
have had a greater share in inducing some increase of
demand, and slighly strengthening the hands of pro-
ducers in regard to prices. We had mere inquiry for
mule twist and shirtings for. Calcutta ; for shirtings for
Shanghae ; and for water twist for Canton ; and a mo-
derate business has been effected for those markets. This
has operated favourably in other departments by an in-
direct influence. The continental houses are taking
rather more yarns, and so are the home consumers.
Slowly, too, the buyers of domestics appear to be ap-
proaching towards business.
ROCHDALE, JAN. 17.—We had a rather still market
to-day, and the amount of business transacted has been
more limited on account of the prices demanded by the
manufacturers, who ask more money for their pieces to
meet the extra price of wool and oil. There is little
change in the wool market worthy of notice.
MACCLESFIELD, JAN. 18.—Business has been done to
a fair extent in silk manufactured goods during the past
week. The shippers are free buyers of anything that will
come at their prices. Stocks continue low, and the
prospects for the spring trade are favourable. Thrown
Silks.—There has been more business transacted for the
home market. The demand for the continent is, how-
ever, on a diminishing scale for the present, but as
prices at Lyons and St. Etienne, are ranging high, a re-
sumption of purchases is shortly expected. Stocks here
are insignificant, and in the finer descriptions a great
scarcity is felt. Raw Silks—There is no new feature to
notice. The China mail just in, reports shipments to
the extent of 21,000 bales. Prices were slightly lower
at Shanghae, owing to our advices of August and Sep-
tember reporting :fall here. Italians, remain firm, and
Brazils without alteration, excepting the coarse and in-
ferior descriptions, which are in demand.
HALIFAX, JAN. 15.-0 wing probably to the very heavy
rain which fell all the morning, there was but a slender
muster of merchants and manufacturers in our Piece-
ball to-day, and the sales of goods were consequently
extremely limited. There is no material change in
still
aspect of the yarn market, and the spinners are t
struggling for an advance corresponding with that on the
raw material. Wools are scarcely so active, andthe
quotations are again somewhat higher.
HUDDERSFIELD, JAN. 18.—The attendance of buyers
to-day at the Cloth Hall has not been so numerous as
last week • still a fair trade has been done
this one
week.
mostly
in
spring goods ; more has been done to o
Stocks in the cloth hall are extremely low. There is at
present no run upon any particular class of goods. Union
cloths have been enquired for, and found purchasers at
from 2s. to 2s. 6d. During the week there
most of
rehas beetnhae
good trade doing in the warehouses,. a
shippers are extremely busy with orders
for the Ameri-
can markets. •
BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 17.—The quarterly meetings of the
iron trade of last week passed off with spirit, and prices
have been well maintained for every denomination of iron
—indeed, in some instances the figures that have ruled
have been in advance of the declared rates. Plates and
sheets are reported to have reached 141. per ton, and rails
121., delivered in Liverpool. Some temporary misgivings
were felt, or at least were expressed, in the early part
of the week, which induced consumers to give out rather
dribbling orders at Wolverhampton, but confidence re-
vived as the reports from different localities came in,
all bearing a favourable aspect. In our Town-hall, on
Thursday, the attendance was very numerous, with an
improved inclination for doing business ; and the aggre-
gate result of the meeting shows as full an amount of con-
tracts negotiated as the previously crowded state of
order books, and the precarious ability to execute,
would admit. The insufficiency of the supply of coals
for the requirements of the trade is daily becoming more
apparent. Iron manufactories cannot be kept at full
work for want of fuel, and several blast furnaces, after
working for a time upon a reduced scale, are now report-
ed to be upon the eve of being put out from the same cause.
Ironstone also, though not so much in request, fetches
exceedingly high prices ; aud, under the circumstances,
the probability is that the present amount of make, either
in raw or finished iron, cannot be maintained ; while the
demand, especially for export, still continues to
increase. Pig iron has realised unwarrantably high
prices. The determination of one or two usually exten-
sive purchasers to abstain from buying, seemed to have
little or no influence on the market. The furnace owners
in Shropshire fixed their rates at 61. per ton, and the
same was obtained for the best Staffordshire snakes. In-
ferior qualities were sold from Si. 10s to Si. ss. Pecu-
niary engagements have on all hands been unexception-
ably satisfied, and the closing feeling seems to have been
one of cheerful acquiescence in the present advancedprices.
The position now occupied does not appear to be beyond
the actual progress of the trade, and is fully justified
the relative amount of demand and supply. So long as
this continues unaltered, there is no cause for uneasiness,
and no reason to anticipate any approaching retrogression.
iron, and the In consequence of the high price of
prin-
cipal metals used in the manufactures of Birmingham,
manufactured goods of various descriptionsof
aanreldravpaindclye
advancing. The merchants, in anticipation
in the price of locks, have issumeedelttrgge oofrdtehres,
laonckdminakcoerns-
sequence of this demand, la
v
will be held this evening
consider the present state(l‘.?fotnhdec) at Wolverhampton, to
trade. The currycomb
makers issued circulars during the past week, announcing
and advance to from 20 to 25 percent. on best combs, and
severed other articles have gone up in price. The cop-
per trade is still much agitated. Another advance of Si.
tan has taken place, and we understand that large
per
orders: even on that advance have been refused. Many
Persons in the trade are therefore unable to enter into
contracts, unless subject to the price of copper at the
time of delivery.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette.

Mo RE DEATHS FROM YELLOW FEVER,—The man on
board the Parana, who was so ill of the fever when the
ship arrived at Southampton, died on Wednesday ever -
ing. His wife was allowed to come on board to attend
on hor husband in his last moments. The poor man
name was Daverstock. He was the baker of the ship.
Intelligence has reached Southampton that Mr. ThomaF,
a midshipman on board the Conway, died at Navy Bay,
of yellow fever, on the 18th ult.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19

The Prometheus, 5, steam-sloop, Commander H. R.
Foote, arrived at Spithead this afternoon from the west
coast of Africa station, bringing a freight in gold dust
and ivory, from Lagos, Accra, and Cape Coast Castle,
estimated, we are informed, at about 10,0001. sterling.
She left Sierra Leone on the 27th ult., at which date
her Majesty's steamer Penelope, 20, Rear-Admiral
Bruce, Commander-in-Chief ; the Firefly, 4, steam-
sloop, Commander G. A. Seymour ; the Polyphemus,
5, steam-sloop, Commander C. G. Phillips ; the Blood-
hound, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander H.
Christian ; the Ferret, 8, sloop, Commander Macdonald,
and the Pluto, 4, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
H. West, were at that station. The mail steam-packet
Propontis arrived on the night of the 26th. Commander
Heseltine, of the Britomart, 10, was senior officer in the
Bights, with the Cygnet, 8, Commander R. D. White ;
and the Alecto, steam-sloop, 2, Commander Crofton. On
the south coast were the Harlequin, 12, Commander
Wilinot ; the Waterwitch, 8, Commander A. H. Gard-
ner ; the Volcano, 5, steamsloop, Commander Coote ;
and the Spy, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Beresford. No
slave trade is reported as going on. The Prometheus
left Teneriffe on the 7th inst., and Madeira on the 10th,
having put in at these places for coals. She brought
mails. She has only made one slaver prize during the
two years and seven months she has been in commission.
Lieutenant G. W. Towsey, senior lieutenant of the Fire-
fly, has invalided in the Prometheus, which vessel has
been very sickly, having never been without fever since
employed on the coast. She has sent upwards of 50
cases to the hospital (of whom several were invalided),
almost all from fever, and has lost two officers—a lieu-
tenant and the gunner—and three men by death. She
has had a fine passage home, with the exception of having
experienced a heavy gale of wind for two days in the Bay
of Biscay. Her Majesty's ship Linnet, 8, Commander
H. Need, was reported to the Prometheus, by the mail-
packet Propontis, to have been at Teneriffe on the 23d
of December, after a heavy gale, in which she had lost
three men overboard. The boats of the Polyphemus
steam-sloop had landed at the river Shebar, and had
burnt some slave factories and captured 10 slaves. The
Prometheus will come into this harbour to-morrow to
coal, and will then proceed to Woolwich to be paid off.
Advice has just reached Messrs. Smith, the owners of
the Marlborough, 1,600 tons, frigate-built Indiaman, of
her safe arrival at Port Adelaide, on the 4th of Novem-
ber last, after a passage of 78 days from the Lizard. It
will be a source of much satisfaction to the friends and
relatives of upwards of 300 passengers who emigrated in
this noble ship to know they all arrived at their destina-
tion in excellent health and spirits, and expressed their
warm admiration of ship and officers. The Marlborough
left Plymouth on the 14th of August, 10 days after the
Royal Mail steamer Sydney, and arrived at Port Ade-
laide two days before her !