The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

TIfE SUN, LONDbI4, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY im

THE ROYAL EDEN BOSPITAL
(TBIS DAY.)

This inquiry was resumed at ten o'clock this morning.
The court was, as on former days, densely thronged by
professional gentlemen and others.
Mr. J. B. Angenven, one of the house surgeons at the
Roy al Free Hospital, stated he performed the post mortein
examination on the deceased a few hours after death. He
discovered that the instrument, instead of passing direct into
the bladder, opened the uretha. Ho found a stone in the
bladder. From the position of the wound the forceps did
not appear to have clutched the stone. It is much more
difficult to enter the bladder of a child than in that of an
adult. He had known with the best of operators the
operation taking over half an hour. After taking the cal-
culus from the bladder he gave it to Mr. Cooke. The
bladder was taken away from the body and kept in the
museum two or three days, after which it was buried. (The
stone taken from the bladder was produced.) Mr. Cooke
was a very fair operator. Such a mistake, as the knife
missing the bladder, had frequently happened before. Sir
Astley Cooper had mentioned such cases in his treatise on
lithotomy. It was impossible to say how long the
child might have lived, with such a stone in its
bladder. He (witness) considered such an operation
necessary. He did not witness the operation, for
while the operation was being carried on he was en-
gaged administering the chloroform. The patient under
the influence of chloroform would not be susceptible to pain
at all. He saw nothing during the operation of gross igno-
rance or incapacity on the part of the operator. Such cpe-
rations were always very dangerous, and fatal consequences
were not to be wondered at. Fatal results would ensue
notwithstanding the best of skill. The operation on a
child sometime takes two or three minutes, and at other
times muchlonger. Before commencing, the operator should
have all the instruments required in the operation laid
upon the table. Some delay in the operation in question
ensued, through the instruments not being at hand. It
was Mr. Sanbell's duty, as 'senior house-surgeon, to have
the instruments in readiness. He (witness) certified the
cause of death in the case of the child as resulting from
inflammation of the internal surface of the abdomen,
which inflammation was not all an uncommon occurence
after operations for lithotomy.
Mr. Wm. Coulson, surgeon, and an eminent operator,
who performed a second post mortem, examination a
month subsequently to the preceding one, said he found
the bladder was gone. He could not, from the condition of
of the body, form an opinion as to the cause of death.
With the most eminent surgeons such mishaps as the in-
strument missing the bladder and passing elsewhere had
occurred. The instrument frequently, or he might say
occasionally, passing between the rectum and bladder,
was not an uncommon occurrence. Such might occur to
himself to-morrow. In children such mishaps were more
frequent than in adults.
By Mr. Ballantine—He (witness) made the post-mortem
examination by order of Mr. Wakley. Any delay in the
procuring the instruments necessary for the operation
tended to endanger the patient under operation.
Mr. F. C. Skey, surgeon, residing in Grosvenor-street,
Grosvenor-square, was next examined, and after having
undergone a cross-examination at the hands of the counsel,
the inquiry was adjourned for a brief period.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DIY).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
APPREHENSION OF A BANKRUPT.-EXTRAORDINARY

CASE.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE FIELDING.

This morning Alfred Fielding, described as of Nelson-
street, Greenwich, jeweller, &c., against whom a petition
in Bankruptcy had been filed, but who had absconded, was
brought up in custody of Mr. Hamber, the messenger of
the Court, having been apprehended by him yesterday
afternoon. From the statement to the Court by Mr. Ham-
ber, it appeared that the bankrupt absconded, and from
the information received, it was discovered that lie had
gone to Paris, but returned, and traced by Mr. Hamber to
a house in the borough, where he was taken into custody.
Property had been taken under the bankruptcy, amounting
to between 3001. and 4001.
The bankrupt underwent a very rigid examination, and
admitted that he had been in the habit of selling goods to
a person whose name he believed to be Levy, but he never
asked his name or where he lived.
His Honour directed the examination to be taken in
writing, for unless the bankrupt gave more satisfactory
answers, it would be his honour's painful duty to commit
him to Newgate.
The examination was resumed, and the same answers
given.
Mr. Hamber produced some memoranda and duplicates
found on the bankrupt. One of the papers was a stamped
receipt, made out in favour of James Scott, and signed by
the bankrupt, for 8591. 2s. 6d.
The bankrupt, on being questioned on this subject, per-
sisted that he had only written it for " amusement," and
that a list of items amounting to that sum was all ima-
ginary.
His Honour said this was the most extraordinary ex-
planation he had ever heard, that a stamped receipt should
be made out for mere amusement, by a man who had
absconded. He would adjourn the examination to give
time to look through all the documents, and removed the
bankrupt into custody. He entreated the bankrupt to
reflect, and consider the consequence of his adhering to his
present story. He should have the examination, so as not
to say ho had been mistaken. The bankrupt had better
take timely advice.
The case was adjourned accordingly.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY).

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Charles Watt, 24, artilleryman, pleaded guilty to steal-
ing a purse and 51., the property of John Martin.
In answer to the Recorder, the prosecutor, a corporal in
the Artillery, said that the prisoner had been for 7 years
in the regiment, and had borne a good character. He slept
in the same room as prosecutor, and the money had been
taken from his (prosecutors) box, which was underneath
his bed. When the money was missed, prisoner tried to
lay the charge upon two other soldiers in the same regi-
ment.

Tho Recorder in passing sentence said, that he was
sorry that a man, who had borne a good character, had
been guilty of such an act. It was a bad offence to rob a
comrade, and that aggravated by endeavouring to affix the
guilt upon other persons. Prisoner being drunk at tho
time he committed the offence, could not be taken as an
excuse for his behaviour.

He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

Caroline Hazen, 44, married, a miserable looking woman
with an infant in her arms, pleaded guilty to stealing a
watch, value at 151. 155., from the dwelling-house of Wal-
ter Searle, it being his property. It appeared that, on the
19th of June, the prisoner was taken upon a stretcher,
quite drunk, to the Greenwich Union, and upon her was
found the duplicate of a watch, pledged for 3/. 10s. Tho
police having received information that a watch had been
stolen from prosecutors's, which is in the neighbourhood,
the pledge was inspected, and found to be the one in
question.
The prisoner said she was in great distress, and had
called at prosecutor's to solicit alms, and seeing the watch
hanging up she was suddenly tempted to take it.
The Recorder asked how the pawnbroker could take in
such a pledge of so poor a woman ?
The pawnbroker said they made every inquiry. The
prisoner came to their shop to buy a wedding ring.
The Recorder sentenced her to three months' imprison-
ment and hard labonr, and said he would not order the
money found upon the prisoner to be given to the pawn-
broker; it belonged to the Sheriff.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT lAND LOSS OF
LIFE.

FALL OF THREE HOUSES-(THIS DAY.)

This morning, shortly before 12 o'clock, an accident,
which it is to be feared will be attended with the loss of
several lives took place at the back of new Victoria-street.
It appears that the houses on the right side of Saffron-
hill, which are to he removed for the purpose of erecting
large houses on the left of new Victoria-street, were to-day
being pulled down, and the old materials carted away. A
little before 10 o'clock eight men were on the roofs of three
of the houses removing the roof prior to taking down the
buildings. Two men were in the act of fixing up a cross-
tree or pole for lowering the materials, when the roof of
the lower house fell in with a tremendous crash, forcing
out the walls, which had the effect of carrying away the
two adjoining houses, and burying under the ruins seven
human beings. Up to 12 o'clock only three had been got
out. With respect to the others, from the weight of mate-
rials upon them it is not likely they will be got out alive.
The three poor unfortunate men who were got out were
immediately placed in a cot and taken to Bartholomew's
Hospital. At 10 o'clock the face and shoulders of another
man had been cleared, but a large beam was lying across
the lower part of his body, and as that was completely
embedded in the debris of the ruins, there was very little
chance of his being got out for some hours ; at the same
time they were administering restoratives to him, but
with very little chance of his surviving.
The spot under which the other bodies are buried has
not been ascertained, but a very large body of men are
engaged in clearing away the immense body of materials.
The men at the hospital are so badly wounded that it
is feared none will survive.
At the time of going to press men were busily engaged in
endea vouring to find the other bodies.
As most of the men were employed by different masters,
and as they are strangers in the neighbourhood, their
names have not been ascertained with any degree of cer-
tainty.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at from 8,000 to 9,000 bales,
including 1,500 American taken for export, and on
speculation. The market closed with a hardening
tendency. The sales comprised 7,000 American,
300 Egyptian, at 6d. to 9d., 1,000 Surat, at 3d.
to 40., and 200 Sea Island at 91-d. to ls. 3d. per
lb. Railway Shares were dull, at lower prices.
The following report upon the silk market is by
Mr. Henry W. Eaton :

"Since the public sales, the result of which was re-
ported to you on the 22d ultimo, little or no change has
occurred in our matket.

"The deliveries of silk in June, it will be observed,
exceed those of any previous month, however unprece-
dentedly large, and the slightly-improved position of the
trade then alluded to may be fully confirmed, a consi-
derable business having been done in Chinas during the
month.

"The unusually heavy total imports and stocks na-
turally deter consumers from buying as freely as in
previous years, but with so much to select from, the
difficulty of supplying individual requirements is almost
incredible, the bulk of the stock not being suitable
to the present general consumption.
" The last letters from China quote prices as lower,
but the advance in the exchange would more than
counteract any advantage in that to shippers.
"In Bengal silk there is no alteration ; by the ac-
counts just received from Calcutta, the market was dull.
"In Brutias and Persians there has been nothing
doing."
The screw steamer Queen of the South, which
left Southampton April 4, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope May 21, consequently in 47 days.
Further tenders for steamers to convey stores,
(tc., are invited by the Admiralty to be made to-
morrow.

The Board of Trade returns are very satisfactory,
the increase upon the month, compared with the
corresponding period of last year, being as large
as could be expected now the war is in progress.
The following is a synopsis of the commer-
cial treaty between Canada and the United
States, a copy of which has been submitted
to the provincial Parliament by Lord Elgin.
Article first throws open the fisheries of British
America, except those of Newfoundland, and
shrubs, pelts, fish, oil, rice, broom, corn,
barley, gypsum, ground or unground bar or grind
stone, hewn or rough, wrought or unwrought,
dye stuffs, flax, unmanufactured tobacco, and rags.
Article fourth throws open the river St. Law-
rence, and the Canadian canals, to American ves-
sels, the American Government undertaking to
urge the State Government to admit British ves-
sels into their canals ; both nations to enjoy the
navigation on equal terms.
Article fifth provides for the ratification of the
treaty within six months, or sooner, if possible.
Great Britain may withdraw from Americans the
right of navigating our waters, in which case Ame-
rica can annul article second. _

Article sixth provides for including Newfound-
land, with her consent, and salmon shod and shell
fisheries to American citizens.

Article second provides for settling fishing dis-
putes by arbitration, and also gives to the British
a right in the American fisheries to the thirty-
sixth parallel of north latitude.
Article third provides for the free exchange of
flour and breadstuff's, all kinds of animals, all kinds
of flesh, smoked and salted meats, cotton, wool,
seeds, and vegetables, dried and undried fruits, all
kinds of fish, and the products of fish, and of all
other creatures in the water, poultry and eggs,
furs and skins, undressed stone, and marble in its
under or over-wrought state, slate, butter, cheese,
tallow and lard, horns, manure, ores of all kinds,
round, hewed, or sawed, and manufactured
in whole or in part, firewood, plants, trees.
The shareholders in the Carson's Creek Mining
Company, in conformity with the invitation of the
directors, have sent in their votes either for pro-
ceeding with or abandoning the undertaking, and
the following is the result :
Total number of votes 53,200
For proceeding 37,465
For abandoning 15,735

Majority for proceeding... 21,730
These numbers do not include the shares held by
directors. _ _

The London Dock Company this day made a
dividend of 2/. 10s. per cent. for the half-year,
leaving a considerable balance for the next ac-
count.

The English Stock market is rather inactive, and
prices opened heavily, Consols being 93111 1, but
they have since been 931 to 93i. The reported
refusal by the Czar of the Austrian mediation acts
injuriously upon the market. Exchequer Bills are
is. dis. to 2s. prem. Bank Stock is 207 to 208 i.
The New 31 per Cents. have been 93 to 93k, and
the 3 per Cents. 93k to
Foreign Stocks are quiet, but generally firm.
Peruvian 4k per Cents. are supported at 69, and
the 3 per Cents. at 53. Brazilian Small Bonds re-
main at 100, and Itussian 5 per Cents. at 100.
Spanish 3 per Cents. have improved to 38± and
38k, and the New Deferred to 19g. Dutch 24 per
Cents. are per cent. higher, being 60 ; and the 4
per Cents. steady at 9012 to 914.
Railway shares tend downwards. Caledonian
have receded' about 55., Lancashire and York-
shire 10s., North-Western 10s. to 11., Midland
10s., and most others have been rather weaker.
South-Eastern and York and Berwick, however,
have slightly improved. French shares are steady
generally.
Mining shares are neglected. Pontgiband have
declined. Joint Stock Banks are heavy, and Land
Companies flat. Crystal Palace are without parti-
cular variation.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
( From the Oficial List.)

- Business done.
Bank Stock
per
Cent. Reduced Annuities • 9301 I i
3
31 per Cent. Annuities . 93iiiiiti
Bonds.
21000 .. .. . - ................. 3 p par
£lOOO . ....... .........
---ClODdnisoiatlß::dfor Opening 19th. duly
India Stock for Account 237
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£lOOO
2ma500 2 p par 3 p
Sll 2
Exchequer Bonds Scrip, 1858 — p
Ditto 1859 i P
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Russian
Dgiovrtiddesn,"lBo2n2t,
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Small ...... ..... . .... .
Ditto New, 1852, 4,3; per Cent. 93
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 69
Peruvian 3 per Ceat.
Spanish Bondsl3 per Cent 383 $ i xd -,
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. l9a 19
5 per Cent. £St lOO 90
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 0 x d
Ditto 4 per Cent. certiffeates
........
Consols for 0 iHR.E.E O'CLOCK.
930 i i d
Lein7l:tphaysaublleyin...Lo n.d..on.

FRENCH COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.--It appears by the
letters from France that the weather last week was,
upon the whole, very propitious, and although rain fell
at a later period, it was not to an extent calculated to
do harm. A great fall in the price of flour occurred at
Havre, amounting to 3 to 4 francs per barrel upon
American descriptions ; but this was recovered after-
wards to the extent of Ito 2 francs. The wool-fairs in
Germany have been going off tolerably well. At Ham-
burg, there were 12,000 stone of domestic qualityoffered, and 5,000 stone foreign. The sales of the for-
mer ranged from
cording to ml3upto 16 rix-dollars per stone, ac-
quality. The English are stated to have
been the chief buyers, but the Swedish manufacturers
were also in the market.

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good,Charles Beresford,' Congleton, Cheshire ; Albert Bryan
John Penfold Morris, Lewes, Sussex ;
Day, Isleworth ; Douglas Arthur Reid, Southsea,
Hants ; Joseph John Godfrey, Turvey, Bedfordshire ;
William Henry England, Leeds.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Yesterday a number of coal-
porters in the employ of various firms in Upper Ground-
street, Blackfriars, and Bankside, with their wives and
families, visited the above building, their employers
liberally defraying the expenses thereof. One firm pro-
vided a portion of their men with new duck for smock-
frocks, fustian waistcoats, and trousers ; in addition to
which each man was presented with 6d. for himself, ad.
for his wife, and the same for each of his children. The
neat and clean appearance, and orderly behaviour of the
men, attracted general attention.
RUSSIAN FORCES.—The German papers in the inte-
rest of the enemy still circulate the most fabulous state-
ments as to the numbers of the Russian forces. It
is actually asserted that 400,000 or 500,000 men are
ready to face the Austrians, together with the Turks
and'their Western Allies ; but the experience of the past
year sufficiently shows the true characterof such muster-
rolls. The dispirited and baffled army which has retired
from the Danube may perhaps amount, as it falls back
on its reserves, to 120,000 men, and an equal number
may possibly be collected in the southern parts of
Poland ; but there is no reason to suppose that a single
regiment can be spared from the neighbourhood of the
capital. The French land forces which are to embark
immediately for the Baltic will render it necessary to
guard the coast with additional care ; and when the
Emperor Nicholas meets his Minister of War at Kiew,
he may, perhaps, find that the contingency of having to
bring forward his last man and his last rouble is not so
remote as his flatterers may have suggested,—Morning
Chronicle

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

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THE WAR.
VIENNA, Monday Evening.—The Archduke Albrecht
has joined the army.
General Leiningen, as Adlatus, acts as Governor of
Hungary.
It is believed that General Coronini has this day en-
tered Little Wallachia, from Orsova, with 24,000 men,
and that a brigade from Transylvania has passed through
the Tomosch Pass into Great Wallachia.

All the troops in Russian-Poland have been ordered to
march towards the Galician frontier, and a levy
en masse has been ordered in Poland. Each landed
proprietor is to supply 24 men, 12 of whom are to be
armed with scythes.
Notification of the Convention between Austria and
the Porte has been sent to St. Petersburg.
Baron Meyendorff is permitted to go to Gasteen, but
must then retire to his estates in Finland.

The Gst. Deutsche Post has every reason to believe
that the Russian answer to the summons has at length
arrived.

THE CZAR'S ANSWER TO AUSTRIA.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Berlin, yesterday, says:
—'The substance of the Czar's answer to the Austro-
Prussian summons has been communicated, although
the document itself has not yet arrived here. The Em-
peror Nicholas expresses his readiness to negotiate with
the Four Powers on all the points in dispute, with the
exception of the privileges of the Christian subjects of
the Sultan. On this subject he will only treat directly
with the Porte, and he refuses to admit the interference
of the Four Powers. He also refuses to give any gua-
rantee for the evacuation of the Principalities As the
privileges of the Greek Christians constituted the osten-
sible ground of the whole dispute, and the pretext for
the war, it is evident that this is equivalent to insisting
ou the Menschikoff ultimatum."
The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, under date of
Berlin, 29th ult., says :
" The reply of the Emperor Nicholas to the Austrian
summons, is no longer a secret, although the official text
of it has not yet reached Vienna. The Cabinet of Ber-
lin and that of Vienna perfectly well know on what they
have to calculate, as they have received positive infor-
mation on the subject from their Ambassadors at St.
Petersburg. The reply of the Emperor Nicholas may
be in the words of Count de Nesselrode The Emperor
leaves to the choice of the German powers to declare
war against him ; he himself wishes for peace. The
Emperor will explain himself in an autograph letter,
which he will write to the two German Sovereigns.' On
another occasion, when speaking of the additional article
of the Austro-Prussian Convention, Count de Nesselrode
said This is not now the time to conceal what is
wished ; for our part we know what Austria wishes.' It
is now also known at St. Petersburg what Prussia wishes.
The autograph letter above alluded to is looked for with
impatience. Colonel de Manteuffel will, it is said, be
the bearer of that for Berlin, and Prince Gortschakoff
of that to Vienna. The latter is expected to reach
Warsaw on the 2d July. The delay in the arrival of
the reply arises, it is said, from the nervous state in
which the Emperor Nicholas is at present, and which
causes him to see things in a different light almost every
hour. It is consequently possible that the official reply
may be very different from the non-official one. No one
either here or at Vienna allows himself to be led away
by illusions. The nomination of General Hess has caused
a great sensation here, and every eye is turned towards
Austria."

The .Hamburg Correspondent gives a letter from
Berlin, which states that the Emperor Nicholas has
declared that he would regard the occupation of the
Principalities by Austria as a casus belli, and that as a
preliminary to any negotiations for peace, he will require
guarantees from the powers before offering any to them.