The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-18 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT AGAIN !

(From the Times.)
Many people may be aware—and many people,
We trust, are not aware—that for some time past
rumours have been afloat to the effect that the
Prince Consort has meddled in the most out-
rageous manner with the affairs of the State. It has
been said that Prince Albert has cancelled instruc-
tions prepared by the Ministers at home for Lord
Stratford at Constantinople ; it has been said that,
When Ministers refused to admit of these altera-
tions, the Prince despatched a messenger on his
own account to the East, concurrently with the
emissary of the Foreign-office, and in contradic-
tion of the despatches of which he was the bearer ;
it has been said that Prince Albert warned the
Russian Ambassador of the contemplated move-
ment of the combined fleets into the Black Sea,
and thus enabled the Czar to save his ships by
Withdrawing them to Sebastopol ; it has been said
that the reigning Prince of Saxe Coburg, not the
Autocrat of All the Russias, is the ogre of whom
united Europe should stand in dread. Saxe
Coburg will invade us all, Prince Albert pre-
Paring the way for the triumph of that great
military Power by his most " base, bloody,
brutal," and perfidious machinations. For the
last few weeks the town has been entertained with
such skimble-skamble stuff as this. A portion
of the press has not been ashamed—though we
are almost ashamed to record the fact—to give
Publicity to as silly and unsupported a calumny as
any which we can remember during a long
course of years. What are the proofs ? There can
be no proofs of these charges as they stand at
present. Has the Queen turned Queen's evidence ?
--or Lord Aberdeen ?—or Lord Clarendon ?—or
Lord Palmerston ? or Lord Stratford ? Who heard
the order given to " Jerningham" to bring the
garters ? No man of candid mind could originate
or for a moment entertain against his fellow any
accusation not susceptible of proof. In the pre-
sent case it is absolutely impossible that there
should be anything like direct testimony. What
is there of circumstantial evidence ? Is there so
much of proof in either shape as would induce a
Jury to convict a little boy of stealing a pewter
Pot ? " But everybody believes it," says Tom
Foozle, of the Travellers, to Sir Marmaduke
Olodpole, of the Carlton. We simply reply, that
a few months ago everybody believed that tables
Were endued with prophetic power, and were in
the confidence of the Prince of Darkness—whether
they are made of rosewood, mahogany, or even
walnut, mattered not. Is there any man in the
three kingdoms who could put down upon a
sheet of paper such grounds for believing in the
guilt of the Prince Consort as would induce any
other person of sane mind to admit the fact as
true ? Raised eyebrows, shrugged shoulders, pre-
sumptions by the cartload, are not arguments,
still less proofs. If they were, there is not a
plan in all England who might not be executed
at the Old Bailey for participation in the Acton
murder ere six weeks were out.
The accusation as it stands is one far more inju-
rious to the Queen and to her Ministers than to
the Prince Consort. What is he, after all, but the
first subject in the realm ? If the Queen have be-
trayed her coronation oath—if Lord Aberdeen and
his fellows are traitors to their country—English
history is not devoid of precedents which may
guide our conduct even under such circumstances
as these. These, however, are very grave matters
indeed ; the people of England are happily endowed
With too great a sobriety of temper, as well as with
tae clear a judgment, to proceed to such extremi-
ties without due cause, and without very sufficient
Proof. No one presumes that in the confidence of
married life the Queen and her husband may not
converse upon public affairs. When the English
nation deliberately accept a foreign Prince as the
consort of their Queen they must needs accept this
consequence,—this inconvenience, if they will. It
is a lesser inconvenience than would arise from
the adoption of any other course. But, because
it is not to be expected from human nature that
two persons in so intimate an alliance should never
Open their lips to each other upon subjects of the
greatest interest to them both, does it therefore fol-
low that the Prince Consort must necessarily be mad
enough to propose, and the Queen be mad enough
to acquiesce in, suggestions contrary to the inte-
rests of the country ? Besides, what becomes of the
Ministers of State and of majorities in the Houses
of Parliament ? The wicked and silly people who
Bet these rumours afloat were so ill-instructed in
their trade of calumny, and so ignorant of the
'natter in hand, that at the outset they literally
confounded together as the same thing the Cabinet
Council and the Privy Council. Because Prince
Albert was a member of the " Privy Council,"
therefore he was supposed to exercise a great and
decisive influence upon the councils of the Cabinet.
Such is the state of this ridiculous controversy,
Which was hatched up by the despair of one
extreme political party, and greedily caught up
by another. The same rumour which accused the
Prince cast the province of accuser upon Mr.
Roebuck. " Roebuck was to get up in the
Souse of Commons, and then we should see
what we should see." We had just the same
reason for believing that Mr. Roebuck had under-
taken the functions of accuser as we had for be-
lieving in the guilt of Prince Albert. The real
nature of the case, as far as Mr. Roebuck is
concerned, may be seen in another portion
of our columns this day, in the form of a most
manly and sensible letter which he has just ad-
dressed to that one of our contemporaries from
Which he had received his brief. " Rumour,"
Ys Mr. Roebuck, " has taken an unwarrantable
liberty with my name." His is not the only name
with which rumour has of late occupied itself, and
lich in the same way. We have no doubt that a
ew days will silence the most obstreperous and
determined grumblers among all those who have
stood forward to bring accusations without proof
against an innocent man. The Prince Consort is
surely
well aware by this time that he has nothing
meows
do with the duties of government. He well
that any attempt to step out of his legiti-
mate province would be firmly repelled ; and he is
far too wise a man to sacrifice his well-earned po-
Pilarity for any such foolish schemes of political
,Power as his calumniators have imputed to him.
As to what remains, when the mob of accusers
Who have been so busy with his name have re-
covered from their temporary vertigo, they will be
eager to make him fulsome amends for their pre-
vious injustice.

THE HORSE GUARDS.

(Front the Morning Advertiser.)

In any discussion of the subject of Coburg In-
fluences at Court which may take place in the
Souse of Commons, it is to be hoped that the
question of the Horse Guards will not be mixed
uP with it. The state of affairs at the Horse
Guards must form a separate subject of itself for
the attention of the Legislature. Should any in-
quiry be ordered into that subject, and witnesses
examined, the public curiosity, as well as that of
the army, will be abundantly gratified by the reve-
lations which will be made. We are much mis-
taken if the Commander-in-Chief does not, in the
supposed case, appear in a light which will be
the reverse of dignified. Not only is his manner
represented to be captious and crabbed ; but he
goes through the business of his high office, as
if labouring under some unaccountable con-
fusedness of mind. This, it is unnecessary to
say, is exceedingly unpleasant for those who
have business to transact with them. But, in
addition to this, if report speaks truth, he has not
only been in the habit of placing himself, but also
Prince Albert, in a wrong position in the eyes of
his subordinates ; for it is said that a common re-
mark of his is, when expressing a wish, or giving
instructions, that the Prince wishes so and so to be
done. An inquiry would settle the point, whether
Or not it be true, that General Brown, the late
Adjutant-General, on being spoken to by Lord
11,ardinge in this strain, replied, on one occasion,
with great emphasis, that he was aware he had
sworn allegiance to her Majesty, but that he could
not recognise the authority of the Prince in any
/natter connected with his office at the Horse
Guards. If the reports in question be correct,
Lord Hardinge has not only acted in a way unbe-
coming his position as regards himself, but has
made a very injudicious and uncalled-for use of the
name of the Prince.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Jan. 18.--Wind this day s.t Noon, S.W. ;
light airs, and dull, cloudy weather.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—H.M.
steamer Volcano, Eastward.
SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Mag-
dalena (s), for the West Indies.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 17.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Java,
from Batavia , Thor, Bahia ; Sierra Nevada, Havannah ;
J. J. Cobb, Baltimore, with loss of sails, leaky, and part
of cargo thrown overboard. Off Port—•Colgrean, from
Cochin.
GLOUCESTER, Jan. 16.—Arrived—Prince of Wales, from
Quebec.
BRISTOL, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Josephine,
from New York ; Rialti, do.
SHIELDS, Jan. 17.—Wind, S.W. Arrived —Cawton,
from Girgenti ; British Tar, Dalhousie.
SWANSEA, Jan. 17. -Wind, S. Arrived—Lady Pirie,
from St. Jago de Cuba ; Pascoe, do.
CLYDE, Jan. 15.—Arrived—Statira Morse, from New
York ; Vortex, St. John's, N.B. ; Home, Montreal ; Shan-
don, Savannah ; Cordelia, New York ; Advice, St. John's,
N.B. ; Lord Byron, Dalhousie ; Emily, Newfoundland ;
Dart, do. ; Mohongo, Philadelphia ; British Princess, St.
John's, N.B.
NEWHAVEN, Jan. 17.—Arrived—Boadicea, from Callao.
TROON, Jan. 17.—A rrived—Eliza, from Calcutta.
ABERDEEN, Jan. 16.—Arrived—Margaret Milne, from
Cape of Good Hope.
HALIFAX, N.S., Dec. 29. —The Patriot, of and {or Port
Medway, from Nevis (cargo—rum, logwood, coffee, and
pimento), was fallen in with, Nov. 2, on the southern edge
of the Gulf Stream, in a sinking condition, and the crew
taken off by the General Washington, from Jamaica, since
wrecked at Prospect. Dec. 31—The Margaret Price, from
Sydney, C. 8., for Augusta, has been lost at Little Hope;
crew saved ; cargo, coals.
STRANGFORD, Jan. 14.—A full•length gipsy figure-
hea.,l, with gipsey hat, scarf round the crown of the hat,
and belt round the waist, and a pack of cards in the
breast, has been picked up at Newcastle, inside the South
Rock Light. The John, of Belfast, from Maryport, which
drifted on to the beach, 2d January, and canted over, has
been righted ; and having one foot list in with high
ground inside, it is hopod she will hold on. A head board,
10 or 12 feet long, black, with City of Worcester, in gilt
letters, shaded in blue, has been picked up at Bully
Quenton Point.
MARANHAM, Dec. I.—The Auguste Marie (French
brig), from Cayenne to Caere, to load cattle, has been
totally lost on the shoals, called the Pregnicas ; master
and one man drowned, the rest of the crew saved.

SHARE MARKETS.-(THLS DAT).

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Paid)

St.
20

100
st

100
100
all
all
all

RAILWAYS.

50
50
20
20

all
all
1100
1100

Closing Prices
yesterday.

20 - 21

!Aberdeen ........
Ambg. Nottng. Bost.
di Eastn. June.......
Belfast & Ballymena
Birmng. Wolverh &
Stour Valley
Birkenhd. Lancsh di
Cheshire Junct
Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O di £25 Cons
Do., £2O.
Blyth & Tyne original
£25 (iss. at £45)....
'Bristol & Exeter
Caledonian.
Chester & Holyhead
.Cork and Bandon
!Cork, Black. E Pass
'Cornwall
Dublin&BelfastJuno
'Dundee Perth &Aber-

4i - 514

9 96
12 10 d

16 18
6 5 d

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, WedlleSl9.7, 10.30 A.M.

94 - 96
52 -53
14 - 16
14 - 15

8 - 9

dem Junction .......
Do. New .
jEast Anglian (£25 L.

IDdr E. &I. & D.)
0., (XlB E. & H.)
'Eastern Counties
Eastern Union,A. stk.
IDo., do. 8...... .
Do.NewA(lateThirds)
East Lancashire
(Edinburgh & Glasgow
Edinb. and Peebles
Edinb. Prth. &Dundee
Forth and Clyde June.
Glasgow & S. Western
Great Northern Stk
A. Stock
Do., B. Stock
Sth. &West.(lre.)
Great Western
(Irish South-Eastern.
Lancaster &Carlisle
Do., Thirds
La.ncash. &Yorkshire
Do., Fifths
Do., Wst. Riding Un
Leeds Northern
Liv. Crsby. &So utbpt
London & Blackwall
bond. Tilb. & Sthend.
Lond. Bright. & S. Cst.
London & N. Western
Do. Fifths
Do. ,16/. 5h.,M&8... C
Do. Eighths
London 4e S. Western
Do., £5O
Do., .£40.. . .......
Lnndrry. iColeraine
Lndndrry. & Ennisk.
Manch. Shef. &Lineln.
Do., Man. &Lin. Un.
Midland

4i - 5
12-1 -
3i- 42
26 - 28

61 - 63
61 - 63

21 - 22',

83 - 84
58 - 60
127 - 129
100 - 102
81i - 82

92 - 951
124 - 4p
63 -13
634
71 -

Wind, S.W., fresh breeze, and fine.
The United States steamer Pacific was off the Great
Ormshead at 9.30 this morning, with dates from New
York to the Rth. She will arrive about 12 o'clock.
Arrived—Dauntless, from Buenos Ayres; Premier,
Mazagan ; Argus, New Glasgow, making much water.
HOLYHEAD, JAN. 17.

The hull of the John O'Gaunt has disappeared. All the
crew were saved, after remaining on the rocks till 2 p.m.
QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 16.

Wind, S.W., strong breeze.
Arrived—Ellen, from Halifax ; Mercury and Queen,
Mauritius ; Wandsworth, Moulmein . Superior, St.
Michael's ; Ernesto, Marinopoli ; Helena Catterine, Ara-
cabo ; Iris, St. Michael's.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10 a.m.

Wind W.S.W., hazy ; tide, last hour's ebb.
Arrived-17th—Jean Baptiste Marie, from Santander ;
Furet, Gravelines ; Thetis, Calcutta ; Queen (s), Gir-
genti ; British Queen, Guernsey ; Leander, Caen; Dili-
gence, Rouen ; Rose, Guernsey.
Sailed—Belgium (s), for Ostend.

DEAL, Wednesday, 9.35 a.m.

Wind, W.S.W., fine.
Passed—Lamartine, from Trieste, for London.
Anchored—Eliza and Charlotte, from Manzanilla, for
Bremen, on account of ice in the Weser.
Sailed—The Tigris and Joseph Howe, both for the
river; the Electric Flash, for St. Michael's.

12i -13 i

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

7i 8
par —gyp
97i —98 i
1014 102
1 d par
par i p
g a
75 77
13 12 di
10 9 di

CORN EXCHANGE.

Notwithstanding that the show of English wheat in to-
day's market was very moderate, the demand for all kinds
was exceedingly inactive, and to have effected sales lower
prices must have been submitted to.
We were well supplied with foreign wheat, which moved
off heavily, and the quotations had a downward tendency.
In floating cargoes, very few transactions took place.

Barley Was crull;andlower to purchase. In malt next
to nothing was doing.
There was a moderate sale for oats, at Monday's
currency.
In beans and peas very few transactions were reported.
Flour was dull, and rather lower.

12i
St.
50
40

21 - 22

61 -61 i
33 35

Do. Binning. & Derbyl
Midland G. West. (Ir.)
Do. 2 Shares
Newcastle &Carlisle
Newmarket.... .......

Do. Bury Extensions
Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd
Newry & Enniskillen
Newry Warrenpoint'
& Rostrevor
Norfolk..
Northn. Counties Un
North British
North Devon, No.l
Do., No. 2.
De., A Deferred
Do., B Guaranteed
North London
N. & S. Wstn., Hamp-
-1
stead, and City Jn
North Staffordshire
North Western
N. do S. Westrn. June
Nuneaton, Hinckley,
and Leicester

54 56
i d par
5 4 d
2i - 3 i

6 8
47 49
31 3i d
29A —30 i
8 10

- 24
6 -
52 ... 55

5 sicl
8 8A
1 d par

Oxford Worcester &
Wolverhampton
Portsmouth
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury & Birmg
Do., L. & N. Westn
Guaranteed Stock
Shrewsby. & Herefd
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Do. Halves, do
Do. Oswestry
Shropshire Union
Do. A, B,C, & D, fully
paid up at per cent
South Devon
South Eastern ...
South Wales
S. Yorksh. RivsrDun

35 - 37

2.2
100
100
100
100

English ..
Irish ....
Foreign ..

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. I Barley. I Malt. f Oats.
410 ) 480 I 780 I

B asiaess done
this day.

53 21

12i 13

994
1011 i

61i i

48 7

x in

St.
20
12i
St.

12i
12i
25

12i
124
12i
St.
St.

30i 30

100
100
,100
6
100

- I 190
17,080 320

WHITECHAPEL.

Flour.
750

3,800 —
420 10,090 b

The supplies being large, the general demand ruled
heavy at this market to-day, at the following quotations :
Beef from 2s 10d to 4s 2s ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; veal,
3s 6d to 4s 10d; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the
carcase.

all
100
all
15

2.2
all
16i
100
8
100

91 - 93
56 - 57
55 - 60

55 60
2i 2dis
13 15
64 74
10 12

Do
Staines,Wok.,&Wol,:.
Stockton & Darling
Stockton & Hartlepl
Taff Vale
Do. £lO shades

all
all
10i
100
100

15
8
10

100
100
100
100
all
100

BOROUGH HOP.
About an average business is doing at our market, and
prices are well supported.

St.
10
St.
25

20
174
20
20
20
20

all
51s.
100
20
111,
100

Do. Pref., No.
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway
Vale of Neath

Waterfd. & Kilkenny
Waterford&Limeriek.
West

'West End of London
and Crystal Palace
West London

14 16
59 -- 60
32 33
3 -- 2 d
4 5

ii 7 _ io

2i 2il
14i - 15Ai
5 -
25 - 27
64 7A

IWmbledon &Croydon
York Ncwctl. &Berw.
Do. Extensions.......
Do. G.N.E. Purchase
York & N. Midland..

6 - 7

63 64
9
43/4 4 d'
45 46

2i 2 d
1
3i 2id

12 - 14

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21 2tp
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100
100
20

10
20
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33

I...pPi

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all
13.5
24i
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15

16
all
all
all

all
all
15
11i
all

all
all
all
all
122.

7i - 8

321 = .32

a in

8 -- 9
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45 - 47
39 - 41
308 - 308

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18 19 1

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20
50
20
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20
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35

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22i
all
all

LINES LEASED AT FTXRD RENTALS.
Leasing Closing Prices Business
Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. Compans yesterday. this day.
50 all Bedford and Ln.&N.W.
Bletchley
St. 100 Buckghamsh L. &N.W. 101 103
50 all Clydesdale Jc Caledon ... 50 52
St. 100 E.Lincoln. gr
6p. cent ... . Gt.Northn 140 143
25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian.
Neils. Direct. •••
25 all Do. New Do •••
25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Elt.lrestn 3O 32
100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New
Railway & Berw..
50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 109 111 no
25 all Do. i Shares Do .
12i all Do. 4 Shares. Do 27 28
121 all Len.&Greenw S. Eastern 134 —14 i
20 all Do. Preference Do 244 254
St. 100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent... Norfolk
St. 100 Do. 6 per ct... Do
54 all l(anch.Bxton. Lu.&N.W
and Matlock & Midld 2j 3
50 all Mieldlesbro' & Stckton
Redcar Darlingt.
100 all Midld.Bradfd Midland... 99 100
50 all Northern and
Eastern sp.c. E. Count.. 60 62
5 all Do. 6 per ct Do • •••
54 all Do.Fixedsp.e Do . . •••
DE •Gr000.80:41.04g.W5 Shares..p.Yrec DL .o
&Ludt Yk
21) alll2.
S 100 Roystn.&Hit. Gt.Northn 140 143
5 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do l4O 143
2 , Shef. Roth. & Lancash.&
Yorksh —
12 9?, S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean 2 14c1
50 all WearValleygr Stockt. &
6 per cent ... Darling. .
25 all Do.. Do
11. _ .
St. 'OO Wilts&Sonsrst Gt.Wes—t.n 95 97 96 5

ENTERING LANDSMEN FOR THE NAVY. Yesterday,
by Command of the Lords of the Admiralty, placards
were extensively circulated throughout the metropolis,
Inviting landsmen to enter for the Royal Navy. The
description of men to be entered is as follows :—They
lust be between 19 and 24, active, stout, and able-
bodied
; five feet seven inches in height, and in all re-
-BPects healthy and fit for the naval
service ; the pre-
ference being given to those young men who have been
used to boats. In addition to the Royal Naval Rendez-
vous on Tower-hill, and the Crocodile receiving-ship off
the Tower, men will be received and entered by their
nlooking application on board the flag-ships at any of the
al ports, or at the rendezvous at Liverpool and
Bristol, ands t
the agents for transport at Leith. The
ships now manning are the Diamond, Boscawen, Juno,
-erincess Royal, Frolic, Duke of Wellington, St. Jean
d' Acre, Medea, and Cyclops.
A NEW CRIME.—The Parlament° of Turin states from
Florence that a crime of a new kind was committed
there last week in the public audience hall of the Cri-
Zama). Tribunal, when the crucifix used by the judges to
administer the oath to witnesses was discovered to have
been4_
stolen just a few minutes before the judges had
ken their seats. The perpetrator of this audacious act
has not yet been discovered.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1854,

Agua Fria ... •
Anglo Austria. Gold,
Anglo Californian
Australasian
Australiar
Australian Cordillera
Australian Freehold
Ave Maria
Baden (Gd.Dachy of)
Blamarvon Iron and
Coal
British Austria. Gold
British Iron
Brazilianlmp.(issued
at £5 pm
Do. Cocaes & Cuiada
Do. St. John Del Rey
Carsons's Creek
Cobra Copper
Colonial Gold
Copiapo .
Copper Min. of Eng.
Do. Pref. 7i p. cent.
English and Austin.
Copper Smeltg. Co
General

Gt.NuggetVoinSerp
Do. Registered
Great Polgooth
Lake Bathurst ,
Liberty
Linares

Lo nd. &Californ. Gold
Quartz Crush. Co
Mariquita ........
Mexiean&S.Americn
New Granada

New Linares Mining
and Smelting Co
Nouveau Monde
Pontgiband Silver
Lead Min. & Smelt
Port Philip

Quartz Rock
Rhymney Iron
Do. New
Santiago de Cuba....
South Australian
Tin Croft ..........
United Mexican
Waller
West Granada
West Mariposa.... .
Worthing Mining 01
Australia
Yuba

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9 - 11

Australasia
British Colonial Bank
and Loan Company
British N. American
Chrtd. Bnk. of India,
Austral., and China
Chrtd. fink, of Asia.
Colonial
Commercial of Lond
English Scottish and
Australian Chrtd..,
London Chrtd, Bnk.
of Australia
London and County
London Joint Stock
Lond.andWestminst
National Provincial
of England

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New South Wales
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FREE TRADE FREEHOLD LAND
SOCIETY.

Last evening a very fully attended public meeting was
held at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Brixton, to receive
an explanation from a deputation of the directors of this
successful society.
On the motion of Mr. JONES, seconded by Mr.
UNwIN, the chair was taken by

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B. EvaNs, Esq., who, in rising to address the meeting,
said he accepted the office of chairman with pleasure, as
he felt very great interest in promoting the freehold land
movement. He wished success to all, but to this one in
particular, because its affairs had been prudently ma-
naged. The directors were men of the greatest integrity,
their secretary, he knew, was a gentleman who had great
experience in freehold land societies, and such was the
high estimation in which he was held in Herefordshire,
that he had received from the gentlemen of that county
two handsome testimonials, not alone for his assiduity in
furthering the freehold land movement, but for his exer-
tions in improving the morals and education in that
locality. The benefits to be derived from entering a
freehold land society were far greater than any found in
investing hard-earned money in a savings' ba❑k, where
the directors had been known to decamp with the
funds, and the unfortunate depositors left without
a remedy. The interest received where the security was
undoubted was about 2/. 10s. per cent., while in free-
hold land societies that sum was nearly doubled, and
with a far better security, and this f .ct alone was one
which deserved the greatest consideration on the part of
every man who had the foresight to provide for a rainy
day. One of the benefits conferred by the society to
those resident in this locality was, that it placed it
within the reach of all to obtain a freehold near the
metropolis. The Vassall-road, and Camberwell New-
road, were now considered to be in the suburbs of Lon-
don, but the great progress which building was now
making, would soon incorporate these places as parts of
the metropolis, and this society was so fortunate as to
have secured an estate a few feet from the house in
which they were assembled. He believed he was cor-
rect in stating within three miles of the Standard, in
Cornhill. The surveyors were present to afford every
explanation that might be required, and should
any gentleman feel disposed through him (the Chair-
man), to put any questions to those gentlemen,
he had not the slightest doubt but that they would re-
ceive a satisfactory answer. He had great pleasure in
calling upon the secretary, Mr. Smith, to address a few
observations to the meeting. (Cheers.)
Mr. SMITH then proceeded to explain the nature and
objects of the Free Trade Freehold Land Society. All
or most of them remembered the first establishment of
freehold land societies ; they had now increased to a very
great extent—indeed they sprang up like mushrooms, and
like mushrooms they would perish, unless they had that
security which the public knew how to estimate—a really
good and bona fide board of directors. Freehold land
societies were originally started for a political object,
but that object was fast falling into the shade. The
society with which he had the honour to be connected
had no such object— it was open to anybody and every-
body, to Whigs, Tories, Radicals, &c. &c. No man
joining was asked to what party he belonged; whatever
his political opinion might be, that opinion, he main-
tained, was entitled to respect. (Cheers.) The great
object this society had in view was to see how far they
could turn his saving to the best advantage, not only
to provide him with land, but to enable him to get a
freehold house, a freehold home—(cheers) not lease-
hold, but that which would be his heir's for as
long as the world would last. (Cheers.) When
a working man possessed a freehold, he would find even
the peer, at the time of an election, glad and anxious to
shake him by the hand. (Laughter.) This society had
purchased two estates ; they might have purchased
twenty, but when land was so greatly increasing in
value, the directors deemed it prudent to hold their
hands, until they could do so with advantage to the
shareholders. The security that land societies offered
was far to be preferred to savings banks, where the de-
positors got a mere trifle, and the security was not so
great as had been imagined ; land, as Mr. Cobden
said, was the safest investment in the world, because it
could not run away. (Laughter.) The Free Trade Land
Society was not established for the mere purpose of put-
ting money into the pockets of the directors ; they had
a higher and a nobler object in view, and although they
had been established so short a time, he was sure he
could not be contradicted in stating that no society had
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length into the plans of their estates. The Camberwell
estate of 101 acres would be divided into 345 plots, the
maximum depth was 105 feet, the minimum 56 feet, with
a frontage of 16 feet, some more but none less. Land
in the immediate neighbourhood was fetching ss. to Bs.
per foot, and when the drains are laid down and the
roads made, they would be allotted at 4s. per foot, or 60
per cent. profit. The Anerley estate consisted of 78
plots, each plot containing nearly a quarter of an acre.
The maximum depth was 280 feet, the minimum 138
feet, the average would therefore be 199 feet. The fron-
tages on this estate varied from 65 feet to 52 feet 6
inches, the average therefore would be 58 feet. This
estate was situated about a mile and a half from the
Crystal Palace, in the vicinity of which land was now
fetching 1,0001. per acre, or one guinea a foot, and this
attractive estate would be alldtted at W. per foot.
Within the last few days, 50/. premium had been offered
and refused for an allotment on the estate, so any person
joining the society as a commercial speculation would
have no reason to be disappointed with his investment.
Mr. J. JONES, in moving the first resolution, said he
thought that if he attempted to address the meeting,
after what they had heard from the chairman, the secre-
tary, and the surveyor, he would not be tolerated for a
moment ; the preceding speakers having completely
exhausted the subject. He would, therefore, merely move
the resolution, which was to the effect that the success
that had attended the progress and principles of the
Free Trade Freehold Land Society was based on secu-
rity, and also alluded to the estates they possessed.
Mr. DICKINSON briefly seconded the resolution, which
having been put to the meeting, was carried unani-
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The second resolution, that the society was worthy of
support, was moved by Mr. UNWIN, and seconded by
Mrs PMOR, and carried in a similar manner.
Mr. JONES said, to show the value the exe-
cutive committee attached to the purchases made,
they had immediately doubled the number of their
shares, and in six weeks after the purchase had beer►
completed, the number of paid up shares had increased
to a very large extent.
The SECRETARY then announced that the ballot was
fixed to take place at the Whittington Club, on the 30th,
and all shares taken prior to that time, would participate
in it.

Thanks having been voted to the chairman, and a
number of shares taken up, the proceedings terminated.

THE SUSPECTED MURDER IN HOLBORN.—Yesterday an
inquest, adjourned from that day week, was resumed and
concluded before Mr. Brent, deputy coroner, at the Wil-
liam the Fourth, Brook's-market, Holborn, on view of
the body of Mary Anne Allan, aged 63, a spinster, who
was living in apparently destitute circumstances, in a
back room of the second floor, No. 4, Beauchamp-street,
and who was discovdred on the morning of Sunday, Jan.
8, laying on the floor, with two severe wounds on her
nose and forehead, which led to her death, and which
are alleged to have been inflicted with some blunt instru-
ment. The evidence adduced yesterday, In addition to
that which appeared this day week in The Sun, threw
little light on the object of inquiry, and the jury returned
a verdict, "That the deceased was found dead, with cer-
tain wounds and injuries upon her nose and head, and
that her death was caused by them, and an effusion of
blood, but by what means the said injuries and wounds
were caused there was not sufficient evidence to show."
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT HUNSLET. —The ad-
journed inquest on the body of Mr. Thos. Longbottom,
who was found drowned in the River Aire, at Hunslet,
in the West Riding, on the morning of Sunday, the Bth
inst., under such mysterious circumstances, took place
on Monday night last. The following outline of this
tragic affair embraces many facts omitted from our
previous notice :—Some time ago Mr. Joseph Long-
bottom, father of the deceased, purchased some land of
Mr. F. Armitage, of Harlington, Barmbrough, near
Doncaster, farmer, and commenced sinking a coal pit
there, being joined in the undertaking by his sons
Thomas (the deceased), William, James, and Edward.
One of the consequences of this was the formation of
an intimacy between two of the sons, Thomas and
William, and Miss Armitage, and a cousin of hers.
The interference of water in immense quantities led
to the abandonment of the coal-pit scheme, and the
family removed to Himslet, where some collieries
were taken and worked by them. They resided in
Jocelyn-terrace. The front door of the house was ap-
proached by a stone platform, below which was a garden,
the platform being protected by iron palisades. On
Christmas-day Thomas and William terminated their
courtships of the two females, namely, by marriage at
St. George's Chapel, Doncaster. We have already de-
tailed the circumstances connected with the finding of
the son Thomas, drowned on Sunday morning, and his
wife on the platform fronting the house in a state of in-
sensibility, both having come out of their chamber
window, and being injured by the spikes protecting the
platform from the garden. The wife was not so far
recovered as to be able to give evidence on Monday
night, and the facts connected with the finding of the
body having been deposed to, the inquiry was adjourned
for a fortnight.
FlRES.—Yesterday morning, a little before six o'clock,
a fire, attended with great loss of property, broke out at
the residence of Hado w Patrick Douglas, Esq., No. 49,
York-terrace, Regent's park. The inmates were aroused
by a strong smell of fire, and on proceeding dowtt stairs
found the ground-floor stairs on fire, and with some dif-
ficulty managed to make a retreat. The London Fire
Brigade engines from Watling-street, King-street, and
Well-street were quickly on the spot, but, owing to a
very scanty supply of water from the West Middlesex
mains, the fire spread rapidly. It was not subdued until
it had destroyed the ground floor, and until the front
rooms on the second and third floors were burned out,
and the rest of the building severely damaged. The fire
originated from the flue of the hot plate. Another fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Richard Wiseman, No.
1, Wilstead-street, Somers-town. The fire was not ex-
tinguished until the front shop and upper part were
destroyed ; cause unknown ; contents insured in the
Sun. Another fire broke out at Mr. J. Peat's, Blue
Anchor Tavern, which did considerable damage ; cause
unknown. One also happened at Mr. Taylor's, 118,
Church-street, Bethnal-green, caused by an explosion of
gas ; and, lastly, one broke out at No. 2, Corbett-court,
Gracechureh-street, in the occupation of Mr. Davis, boot-
maker, caused by an explosion of gas in the flat floor,

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Loss OF THE JOHN O'GAIINT.—LIFEEFoory Tuesday.
—Accounts were received here this morning of the total
loss of the well-known ship John o'Gaunt, on the rocks
near Rhoscloyn, about five miles S.S.E. of Holyhead, at
an early hour this morning, together with several of her
crew. The John o'Gaunt sailed from Canton, under the
command of Captain M'Donald, on the sth of August
last. Before reaching St. Helena Captain 'Donald
died, and the command of the ship devolved on the mate
(Affieck). All went on well until the ship made Holy-
head this morning, when she unexpectedly struck, as
above stated. The latest accounts from Holyhead state
that seven men and Captain M'Donald's widow had
been saved, and also that there were 14 men still alive
on the rocks. The number drowned is not stated. The
John o'Gaunt was the property of Messrs. Gladstone, of
silkthis port, and had a large and valuable cargo of tea and
.

THE ARMY.

CHATHAM, JAN. 17.

Robert Fimley, private of the Royal Marines, was
tried on M:aiday by a district court-martial (Major H.
Brewster, 76:11 Regiment, president), for disabling him-
self from being a soldier by cutting off the fore finger of
his right hand, on the 4th of December last, during the
time he was under medical treatment in Melville Hos-
pital. The wardman Goodchild produced the finger,
which was enclosed in a bottle, and which had been
taken off below the second joint. It appeared during
the temporary absence of Goodchild from his room, the
prisoner entered and took up the hatchet which Good-
child kept for cutting wood, and laying his finger on a
table chopped it twice before he succeeded in taking his
finger off, as the cuts in the finger denote. The pri-
soner had been only six months in the service ; his cha-
racter during that time has been very bad.

Private Ed ward Poole, alias John Smith, of the Royal
Marines, was next tried for deserting on the 21st July,
IS4O. During his absence he had enlisted into two re-
giments, and he had been tried, and was marked with
the letter D on hi-, arm. He enlisted in 1848 in the
Royal Marines, and his character is had.
Reuben Giles, 51st Light Infantry, was tried for de-
serting from the depot at Chatham on the 14th July,
1853, taking part of his regimental necessaries with
him. It appeared that on the 30th of August last he
enlisted in London in the 10th Hussars in the name of
Smith. After four months, the prisoner gave himself up
as a deserter from the 51st Regiment. Colour-serjeant
Murray gave the prisoner a good character. He has
been seven months in the service. The ser.jeant from
the 10th Hussars also spoke highly of the prisoner's
conduct during his stay with them.
The issue of the above trials will not be known until
the proceedings are confirmed by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty and the Horse Guards.

Captain Campbell's company of the Royal Artillery
embarked this day for Sheerness, to do garrison duty
there. The following officers also embarked :—Lieut.
Woodthorp and Lieut. Hutchinson, Captain Campbell
in command, Lieut. Singleton being away on leave of
absence. The above is succeeded by the arrival of
Captain Henry's company, 11th battalion, from Wool-
wich, and taking up their quarters in Brompton Bar-
racks.