The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

BOW-STREET----(THIS DAY).

SERIOUS CHARGE.—A man and his wife, named Coles,
residing at No. 4, Little White Lion-street, Seven-dials,
were brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having,
while in a state of intoxication, caused the death of a
male child six months old, with which the woman was
intrusted to nurse.

It appeared that yesterday evening, about six o'clock,
the prisoners, who had been out drinking nearly the
whole of the day, returned home in a state of intoxica-
tion, and directly we nt to bed, taking with them the
child. After some short time had elapsed, the male
prisoner got out of bed, and called to a woman in an
adjoining room to come and find his handkerchief, as he
wanted to go out, and on this woman going into pri-
soner's room, the man said she would find the handker-
chief in the bed. She then turned up the clothes at the
foot of the bed, when the first object that presented itself
to her notice was the dead body of the child, which ap-
peared to have been smothered by the prisoners over-
laying it.
Mr. Jardine said it was a serious charge, and he
should remand the prisoners till the result of the
coroner's inquest was known.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HARBOUR DEPARTMENT OF
THE ADMIRALTY.—This morning a painter who had re-
sided in the Walworth-road, expired in Westminster
Hospital, from the effects of contusions and fractures,
occasioned yesterday by falling from a height of above 30
feet. It appears that the deceased was employed to
clean the windows of the offices of the Admiralty Har-
bour Department, No. 15, Duke-street, Westminster,
and whilst engaged in a second floor back room, cleaning
the outside of the windows which overlook St. James's-
park, he incautiously sat on a low iron balcony that pro-
jected from the sill, holding the sash with one hand to
steady himself. Unfortunately the woodwork in the
frame was decayed, and the beading giving way, the sash
came out with a jerk, causing the deceased to overbalance
himself, and he was precipitated from his frail seat to
the ground, a distance of more than 30 feet.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF THE
LAw.—A special meeting of this society was held at the
rooms, in Regent-street, last evening, to resume the ad-
journed debate on the proposition of a committee of the
society for transferring the jurisdiction of the Eccle-
siastical Courts, in matters relating to the grant of
probate, and of letters of administration, to the County
Courts and the Court of Chancery, together with the
various amendments moved thereon, which we have
already published. Mr. Pitt Taylor presided; and, after
considerable discussion, it was resolved, on the. motion
of Dr. Spinks, to refer the whole matter back to the com-
mittee for further consideration—it being understood
that Mr. Pritchard, Doctors' Commons, should be added
to the committee. The meeting was then adjourned by
the vote of the members, upon which Mr. Stewart, ap-
parently with a view of making his own views the ground-
work of the committee's report, moved that Mr. Web-
ster take the chair. Mr. Webster having accordingly
taken that position, Mr. Stewart moved his resolutions
as an instruction to the committee, as he had vainly at
tempted to do before Mr. Taylor left the chair ; upon
which another motion for an adjournment was put and
carried on a show of hands by 10 to 7. Mr. Stewart,
upon this demanded a division, when the adjournment
was negatived by 11 to 10—above three-fourths of the
member having left the room upon Mr. Webster being
voted to the chair. Mr. Stewart once more proposed his
resolutions and the adjournment was again moved as an
amendment, and carried by 11 to 10—thus reversing the
majority, and bringing the meeting to a close, about 10
minutes after 11 o'clock—nearly three-quarters of an
hour having been wasted in a profitless and most un-
seemly discussion.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN DIVIDEND.--The Lon-
don and North-Western dividend is currently reported at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum only, owing to the
Quarter Shares coming in for dividend this half-year for
the first time.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND BUCKINGHAM-
SHIRE.—The Parliamentary declaration of the London
"and North-Western Railway Company with reference to
this bill, sets forth that the cost of the undertaking is
to be defrayed by means of funds they are authorised to
raise by shares, and by borrowing on mortgage or bond,
amounting to 35,546,9581., of which 23,951,6201. are
authorised to be raised by shares, and 11,595,3381.
by borrowing or shares, and of which there
will remain unexpended, after deducting funds under
other acts and funds for works proposed under other bills
this session, a surplus of 60,000/. to be applied to the
purposes proposed by the Buckinghamshire Bill. The
schedule referred to in the declaration refers to 43 Acts
of Parliament obtained by the London and North-
Western for its establishment.
RIO DE JANEIRO.-official intelligence has been re-
ceived by the Government of the discovery of a gold
mine of extraordinary richness in the Serra of Botuca-
baru, between Iguape and Sorocaba.
DEATH OF THE HON. B. C. YELVERTON.—w e have
to announce the death of the Hon. Barry Charles Yel-
verton, eldest son of Viscount Avonmore, of Belle Isle,
in the county of Tipperary, and Hazel Rock, in Mayo.
The sad event took place on the morning of the 11th
inst., at Hazel Rock, after a short illness of only two
days.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCLXIII.

Epsom, with its winter meeting will, if the weather
continues fine, gladden the hearts of many of the metro-
politan turfites, who are tired of inactivity, with a day's
good sport to-morrow. The movements of those inte-
rested in the result would seem to infer that the race. for
the Free Handicap Steeple Chase,.which is over the visual
steeplechase course will be confined to the CARDINAL GEO.
ING, QUICKSTEP, the Screw, and Half-and-Half--those
being the only horses which have been backed by those in
the secret ; consequently we may expect to see them .p
the post in something like the order I have placed them•
The Free Handicap Hurdle Race is booked as being
pretty nearly a certainty for GULNARE ; Lady Bibina and
Odiham, being supported, however, with tolerable
spirit.
The latest betting prices Quickstep at 2 to 1, the
Cardinal Gelding at 3 to 1, and the Screw at 4 to 1 for
the steeple chase ; Gulnare at 5 to 2, Lady Bibina at 7
to 2, and Odiham at 4 to 1 for the hurdle race. G°l3(l
odds against any other in either race.

OUNDLE STEEPLE CHASE.
The handicap for this race is considered a very iii
ferent one ; and Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader, Jr•
Hursley's Talisman, and Mr. Hudson's Poll were de-
clared non-starters almost as soon as the handicap W
published.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
I am given to understand that Lord Derby's Umbria
in all probability will not start for this, or any other
race before the Derby.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF•

TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
25 to 1 agst Grapeshot.
30 to 1 Pug Ocrock.
30 to 1 Lampedo.
30 to 1 Psaltery.
30 to 1 —• Snowdon Dunhill.
EPSOM STEEPLECHASE.
3to 1 agst Cardinal.
3to 1 Quickstep.
4to 1 The Screw.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
20 to 1 Knight of Gwynne (taken).
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARER
9to 2 agst West Australian.
CHESTER CUP.

20 to 1 Lady Evelyn (taken).
30 to 1 agst Constantine, (taken).
30 to 1 Scarecrow,. (taken).
50 to 1 Indian Warrior (taken).
50 to 1 Trifle (taken).
50 to 1 Finn-Ma-Coul (taken).
50 to 1 Black Doctor (taken).
50 to 1 The Hatchet (taken).
1000 to 15 Merry Bird (taken).
1000 to 10 Talfourd, (taken.)
1000 to 10 Sanita, (taken.)
1000 to 10 Woolwich, (taken.)
1000 to 10 Banshee.
1000 to 10 Ammonia.
1000 to 10 Charity (taken).
1000 to 10 Shropshire Lass (taken).
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst West Australian (taken).
15 to 1 Pharos (taken).
16 to 1 Umbriel.
20 to 1 The Reiver.
25 to 1 Cheddar. •

THE BALLOT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE.

Stn,—Your very able article the other night regal:rya
the "ballot" has been suggestive to me of the fonoAian
reflections upon our representative system, which I :;-tit
be happy if you consider deserving of a place in,

paper. b 9 so
If all the members of Parliament were elected
equal number of voters, the House of Commons, inbs
of legislating, as it is supposed to do at present, Would
benefit of the various classes of the community, Lot
have but one object in view—to develope to the 117„.690
the resources of the country by promoting the /lib,—
of the majority of the people. tatVe
Capital should be the foundation of our represell, i 4
system, and not acres, or even intelligence only ; for
upon the successful investment of capital that the volo
of the labourer and artizan depends. The workilla
is really as much interested in the security of esl:4l—
possessor. *lit
Thus universal suffrage would be an inky," —toes
more particularly to him who depends for his exist
upon daily labour ; that is to say, upon the sumo
investment of capital, for the votes of those vro°oolcl
rendered cautious from having something to lose
be swamped by those who, having nothing, are beoji
paratively careless, and government at times wow !Zed
the hands of charlatans who have gained an uninot
popularity by deceiving the people into the belief who
their interests are antagonistic to the capitalist, and
would endeavour to retain power by recklessly pan6""^i
to the unjust prejudices they have created. 110
1
I imagine, then, that as the security of capital l_jj
necessary to the interests of the working man, he wow"
willingly allow that the majority of the House of COr,
mons should be elected by those who have something r
stake— all those we will say, by way of illustration, vi:Lio
pay the income tax—but acknowledging that labour 70
its rights, a certain number of representatives should or
elected by universal suffrage ; that the requiremeot-d
complaints of the poor man could be made known,
that he might feel that he is not neglected, but hew,
voice in the Legislature. A Government support%*
a majority elected upon this principle would be alickiibe
popular, always a strong one ; we should never vie Woo
disgraceful anomaly of a House of Commons, 5uPP.,,410
to represent the interests of the people, refusing t°l",
those changes in the tariff upon which the existe!Vol
the country depended until it was absolutely intirrauut of
by a pressure from without. Bribery would be Ad be
the question, and the ballot unnecessary, for it we'.cior
so evidently to the interest of the voter to vote eoti:
tiously, that he would be as likely to sell his plug
the contents for a quarter o: the value of the worm
contained as to barter away so important a privile‘l6:o4
Thus, sir, as clearly as I am .able, in the restrisoir
limits of a letter, I have drawn your attention to /011‘
ject of great interest, which, perhaps, you may
proper more fully to develope.
elf, 9S,
In conclusion, permit me to subscribe rare' "9.
respectfully, C.
Cambridge-street, Hyde-park-square.

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THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—The monthly ineet
the Statistical Society was held last night in their ideott
bers, St. James's-square ; Lord Overstone, the Presleit
in the chair. Among those present were--Lord StanAff,
of Alderley, Vice-President of the Board of Trade
Holt Mackenzie, Mr. W. L. Melville ; the C,lle oplr
Hebeler, Consul-General for Prussia ; Messrs. 1-I,' 004
bage, F.R.S., C. Jellicoe, F. Goldsmid,
F.R.S., F. G. P. Neison, and Dr. Guy. "5' attl
read an elaborate paper on the subject of the Prtipea
and Income Tax, in which he contended that introt
ought to be taxed according to their naturet_and„ loli
was not an English love of money but the Epp% Ste
of justice which had excited dissatisfaction wl,B welt:
existing arrangements. Mr. Babbage re-stated I'o3ol
known views, and urged the necessity for an ogre_rortie'
in certain principles before the question could be lslott,
with the hope of arriving at a satisfactory conies Pr'
Dr. Guy, Mr. Jellicoe, Mr. Grove, Mr. Venabor
Trueman, Mr. Neison, the Chairman, and Mr. I‘°cof
zie also took part in the discussion, which W 9 00
technical character, and was finally adjourned "-
next monthly meeting. Green'
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FATAL MISADVENTURE AT MANCHESTER.-- -1- e-c,ireet‘'
morning, a bricklayer's labourer, named Thomas gir
wood, was charged before Mr. Maude and other repot
trates, at Manchester, with killing Michael Kerr, a ,o,t°
man, on Saturday night. The case was one to.tell' tba
deep concern among all who are acquainted 111 hes
tc °
brutal and degraded position of the class to which
men belor3. For no better reason than that both bt,pet
partly intoxicated, they could not pass in the sy-to
without accidentally elbowing each other ; they calliere,
blows, and went down upon the pavement. Serrkhe
gained his feet first, when the other kicked him in :.:„
t of his stomach, and the blow proved fatal almost Ike
pit of his stomach, and the blow proved fatal almost
mediately. This took place at about a quarter to tweet,
o'clock on Saturday night, in Great Ancoats-stre_,(
Kerr had accompanied a woman to a grocer's shop 1170
the place, and was lounging about when the prisoelp
came up. The encounter between the two scare%
lasted a minute. The prisoner told the magistrates,
defence, that the other man attacked him first, and, Po,
ing knocked him down, got hold of his smock, in cola
quence of which ho kicked hint, but had no idea it w 11,3.
be fatal. He was not apprehended till yesterday Weir
ing, when Police-Sergeant Campion took him in Breliethe
street. The prisoner was committed for trial at
Spring Assizes at Liverpool.
001°
NEW IRON SCREW STEAMER BENGAL.—The 4,00
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's new Or
screw steamer Bengal, Captain Powel, arrived at So got
ampton on Sunday from the Clyde, and is to heZji
ready at once for the Southampton, Malta, and des ofl
dria mail service, and will start from SouthamPtel
of
her first voyage to the Mediterranean, on the 20 aod
February. The Bengal is the largest screw stealne',Aor
the longest ship that has ever entered the Southaeirati
Docks, and in every way a noble vessel, her tone
being 2,300, and horse-power 450. During the P3storf
from Scotland her performances were very satisfac 010
although the weather was most unfavourable. ,elO
Bengal is reported to have made a seed of over th
at
knots in slack water, and steamed eight knots aeilleire4
heavy head wind and troubled sea. This is, we
the greatest speed ever achieved by a screw 11.f,e'oetid
ordinary de"
and it is confidently expected that the Bengal wii"
circumstances, run from Southampton teeo,
andria in eleven to twelve days, including StOPP4yrit
REMITTANCES FROM THE GOLD REGIONS.--°ll t
no less than 78 'registered letters were received hots
Limerick post-office, all conve in he remittance:
Irish emigrants to their families and friends in ",,titi0.,,13"
ther country. A Galway paper (the Packet)„;; he
an instance of good fortune in Australia : the
fr°o
seen a person in town to-day who has just arril-he sti f
Llle Australian gold-diggings, where he realised tont
of
of 2,800/. He had in town bank bills to the '13%60
Inane
830/., for which he obtained cash. He is nsm 0 Ballinrobe, and a few years since was not worth at,
shillings as he now is pounCls. He states tlnbtioe,ei,
counts which reach this country regarding t h3e0.0-ero` of
quantities of gold obtained are by no means e% r's oloeio,
He intends to return immediately, taking out the
his friends but he gives an awful account:Ant
prayed and licentious stase of society a the vilgr

THE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 17.—The Royal mail steam-ship
Orinoco, Lieutenant Hast, R.N., commander, took her
departure this afternoon with the usual mails for the
British and foreign West India islands (excepting Ha-
vannah), Honduras, the Bahamas, the Pacific, Central
America,. and California. She took out 60 passengers,
specie value 10,0001., 10 bottles of quicksilver, and
about 100 tons of general merchandise. The next home-
ward West India and Pacific mails, now due, will, it is
expected, be brought by the Parana, Captain R. Revett,
but, as that steamer has probably had to wait some days
at St. Thomas's for the return of .the intercolonial
packets, which were delayed at the central stations
by the protracted outward voyage of the Magdalena,
it is estimated that the incoming packet cannot reach
Southampton till several days after her time. The
Magdalena is in the Southampton Docks almost dis-
mantled, and is to be denuded of the patent paddle-
wheels, in the place of which wheels on the ordinary
construction are to be fitted to her. A similar alteration
having been effected to the Parana has been, it is stated,
attended with favourable results in an increase of speed,
and a general improvement in her steaming properties.
The patent feathering wheels, now about to be discarded,
are of immense size and weight, and 100 tons dead
weight are saved by the application of the common
paddle-wheel. Notwithstanding the unfavourable nature
of the experiment with these wheels in the case of the
new West India Mail steamers, it is the opinion of com-
petent judges, that they offer great facilities, in many
respects, over the old wheels, but that their efficiency
has been destroyed by their being made enormously too
large and cumbersome ; so much so with respect to the
Parana, Orinoco, and Magdalena that they have been an
actual impediment rather than an acceleration of the speed
of those vessels. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi-
gation Company's ship Madrid, Capt. John Weeks, sailed
with the usual mails for Vigo, Oporto,
at 2 p.m. to-day,
Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, a fair cargo, and 10,000/.
in specie on freight. Among the passengers by this
vessel are his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg,
the Baron de Sayal, Commander Beckford, &c. The
Tagus, with the next mails from the same ports, is due
here on the 24th inst. The Indus, Captain Soy, will
leave on Thursday next, with the outward East India,
China, and Mediterranean mail; and the Ripon, with
the heavy portion of the East India and China mails,
will probably reach Southampton on the 20th or 21st
inst. The Sultan, Captain George Brooks, left this
port on Saturday for Gibraltar and Marseilles, to take
up her station, in conjunction with the Euxine, in
conveying the mails between Marseilles and Malta.'
The Peninsular and Oriental Company have char-
tered the fine steam-ship City of London to run a
few voyages between Southampton, Gibraltar, Malta, and
Constantinoplc, haying no availahlA ship of their own
to occupy that station in consequence of the demands
made upon their fleet for performing the new mail con-
tract. The City of London is to leave Southampton on
the 29th instant. The scarcity of steam coals at this
port continues, and is caused by the long prevalence of
stormy winds preventing a great fleet of colliers bound
for the port from getting round the Land's End. Great
inconvenience has been experienced by the large steam
companies, and, in addition to 1,400 tons of coals pur-
chased in the London market, and sent by rail for the
West India mail steamers, the Peninsular and Oriental
Company have just contracted for 1,000 tons of coals
from Wales, to be brought to Southampton the whole
distance by railway. The contract price for these coals,
including railway carriage, and all expenses to the ship's
side in Southampton Docks, is, we are informed, only
218. per ton.

GREAT _DELIVERY OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD AT
THE BANS OF ENGLAND.

The Australian, screw steam-ship, arrived with her
valuable freight at Blackwell, between two and three
o'clock' on Saturday afternoon, and was immediately
boarded by Mr. Superintendent Evans, of the Thames
police, acting under the direction of the Commissioners
of Police, and a party of river constables, for the pro-
tection of the bullion on board. The Australian entered
the East India Dock the same evening, and was hauled
to the west quay in the import dock, for the purpose of
discharging the bullion. A pal Ly of the Thames police
remained on board till yesterday morning, and no person
but the officers of the ship and the directors of the com-
pany to which she belongs were allowed to remain in the
vessel. Many attempts to board the ship by gentle-
men of undoubted respectability in the mercan-
tile world, who were impelled by motives of
curiosity, were repulsed by Mr. Evans and his men,
who never relaxed their vigilance until all the gold,
consisting of about 400 packages, weighing nearly 10
tons, was delivered over the quay, and deposited in 2
covered tea waggons of the East and West India Dock
Company. These waggons were barred and locked, and
at one o'clock they left the dock for the Bank of England
under an escort of mounted police, commanded by Su-
perintendent Steed, of the H, and Superintendent Howse
of the K, divisions. Each waggon was drawn by three
horses, and they proceeded Ni ithout interruption until
they reached Limehouse Church, where the off wheel of
one of the waggons came off, which caused a detention
of three quarters of an hour. An immense crowd soon
collected on hearing that the gold waggons were on the ,
way to the bank. The wheel having been replaced and
again fixed to the waggon, the procession again began
moving amidst loud cheering from the assembled multi-
tude,
and no further accident took place. The waggons
containing the most valuable freight that ever entered
the Bank of England at one time, arrived there about -
three o'clock, and the gold was safely deposited in the
coffers of the establishment.