The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-09 00:00:00

DR. GARDNER'S WORM ➢ZEDICINE.
Removed from 71, Long-acre to Mr. Prout's, 229, Strand,

London,

It i 3 a Melancholy feet that thousands are suffering the privation
of health, and are ultimately brought to a premature death by a cause
so prevalent as that of worms in the human body, and which is so
frequently wterlooked or improperly treated, from either prejudice
or mistake It is, therefore, of importance that every person
should be acquainted with the common symptoms of wormllatts, ,siltisl
are--disagreeable odour of the breath, leveret! tullgtte;ie tffrix
heavinsss or languid bluish appearance about the eyes, swelling and
paleness of the lips, especially the upper lip, frequent itching of the
nose, an unequal state of the pulse, appetite very irregular, and the
bowels also, pale and emaciated countenance, and at other times the
face will be flushed, griping pains, a short, dry cough, great thirst,
vomiting, startings during sleep and grinding of the teeth, frequent
pains in the sides, listlessness, and want of inclination to take ex-
ercise, inflammation of the eyes, &c. &c. These are some of the
general symptoms of being afflicted with worms; adults as well as
children are subject thereto. Youth or age may with the utmost.
safety have recourse to this old-established medicine, which is
adopted by numerous families as a general medicine, particularly in
spring and autumn.

- Sold in boxes, at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d., and far children at Is. 11,4 d
Also, the Cordial Tincture, to be used with the pills, but which wit]
be found an invaluable family medicine for complaints of the stomach
and bowels, bile, cholic, spasms, &c.]—ls. 1 d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.,
and 10s. 6d. each bottle.

Observe the name of "Thomas Pratt" Is printed in the Govern
ment stamp.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. B.—At Gloucester and Worcester
markets on the 3d, the wheat trade ruled dull, but lower
prices were not submitted to for any description. Bar-
ley in fair request at the currency of that day se'nnight.
Oats 6d per quarter cheaper. Beans in good demand.
Peas inquired for, and few offering. During the present
week we have had a fair sale for good wheats at former
prices. Barley unaltered in value, but not so much in re-
quest. Oats still tend rather downwards. Beans held for
some advance, which has nearly stopped the sale. An
improvement of is per quarter has been realised on peas.
At this day's market there was only a moderate supply
of wheat from the farmers, and the trade ruled dull,
but all qualities were quite as dear. Barley 6d to is per
quarter lower. No progress could be made in oats, ex-
cept by submitting to a further decline. Higher prices
being demanded for beans and peas, very few changed
hands.
BRISTOL, Nov. B.—The market was but moderately
supplied to-day with English wheat, and the generality
of the samples shown were more or less out of condition,
owing to the damp weather. Prices remained much the
same as on this day se'nnight. English may be quoted
from 38s. to 445. per imperial quarter. There was a
more active inquiry for the better qualities of foreign,
owing to the deteriorated condition of the English
growths; and, although no advance took place, prices
were evidently firmer. Foreign white realised from 44s
to 50s per 4801bs; foreign red (fine qualities), 40s to 43s
ditto ; foreign red (ordinary qualities), 35s to 38s
per ditto ; and foreign hard, 355 to 39s per
ditto. There was not so good a demand for flour,
but prices must be quoted much the same as last
week. English seconds brought from 29s to 31e
per sack; and American, &c., sweet, 23s to 25s per
barrel. There was not a very brisk sale for malting
barleys, and prices were the turn cheaper. For grinding
parcels holders were firm, and the late quotations were
maintained. English malting must be quoted from 28s
to 33s per imperial quarter, and English and Foreign
grinding from 203 to 24s per 400 lbs. The market for
oats was extremely dull, buyers only taking just suffi-
cient for their present necessities. Devon and Welsh
must be quoted 14s 6i to 15s per imperial quarter; Irish
white, 16s 6d to 18s per 320 lbs; Irish black, 14s 6d to
15s 61 per imperial quarter. In beans there was not
much doing, and prices were stationary. English brought
from 28s to 32s per imperial quarter, and foreign from
25s to 28s per 480 lbs. The arrivals for the week have
been—Wheat, 3,215 quarters; oats, 540 quarters, 5,655
barrels; barley, 1,112 barrels, 1,683 quarters; beans, 50
fitoouthrel
accordingl:l e rs ;
inspector's
pbeacrtroerl,ss,
weekly
kslaycks.
official T hree
return. have
beer—Wheat, 41s 2d; oats, 163 6d; barley, 29s 3d;
beans, 30s 7d.
UPPINGEIAM, Nov. 7.—Wheat 38s to 435; barley 27s
to 295; oats 18s to 245; beans 34s to 38s per qr. Butter
Sid to 10d per lb; eggs 15 for is.
LOUTH, Nov. 7.—Wheat 36s to 41s; barley 23s to
265; oats 13s to 17s; beans 30s to 35s per qr.
LONG SUTTON.—Return of sales for the week ending
Nov. 3—Wheat, 431 qrs, 0 bush, 8281 Os Od (average
38s sd); barley, 124 qrs, 4 bush, 1251 6s 6d (aver. 20s
lid); beans,4 qrs, 4 bush, 51 17s Od (aver. 26s Od); peas,
4 qrs, 41 16s Od (aver. 24s Od.)
LYNN, Nov. 6.—Wheat, 36s to 38s, fine 40s to 425;
barley, 24s to 265, fine 28s to 30s per qr.
SLEAFORD, Nov. 5.-.--Wheat, white 37s to 403 ;
red 35s Od to 39s Od; now Os to Os; barley 24s to 28s;
oats, 14s to 18 j beans, 28s to 30s per qr.
NEWARK, Nov. 7.—Wheat, fine white 44s to 475,
old 495, fine red 41s to 435, second 36s to 395; barley,
malting 28s 29s to 30s, extra 31s to 00s, grinding
24s to 275, foreign 23s to 245; oats, new 16s to 17s, old
22s to 245; beans, new 26s to 28s, old 36s to 375,
peas, white 38s to 40s, blue 40s to 42s per qr.
ROTHERHAM, Nov. s.—Beef, 5s Od to 6s Od per
stone; mutton, 44d to sid per lb; stock sheep, 00s to 00s
per head.

DERBY, Nov. 6.—The market was most scantily sup-
plied to-day, there being scarcely a well-fed animal.
Such being the ease, there was but little doing, and if
the best quality of beef becomes scarce, it must ultimately
lead to an advance in the price. Tho number of fat
sheep was alio numerically small and the demand equally
fist. The supply of fat pigs was good and of excellent
quality; there was one lot of Irish shown (the first this
season), all of which were porkets, yet but few of them
were sold, the price being higher than our country pigs.
Beef made from 4id to sd; mutton, 44d to sd; veal,
5d per ib; Pigs, 7s 6d to 8s per score. Rough fat, 3s
64 per stone of 141bs. Hides, lid per lb. Calf-skins
2d to 3id per lb.

EDINBURGH, Nov. 7.—The quantity of wheat brought
forward this day was 1,204 qrs, being 142 qrs less than
last week. Top price 2s, and is 8d down on the average
—306 qrs unsold. The quantity of barley brought for-
ward was 1,668 qrs, being 97 qrs less than last week.
Price on the top 6d down, and the average 10d up-
-302 qrs unsold. Of oats we had 1,586 qrs brought forward,
or 149 qrs more than last week. Top price 10d down, and
the average 7d-328 qrs unsold. The quantity, of
beans was 63 qrs, or 3 qrs more than last week. Price
on the top 1 sup, and the average 1I d down-7 qrs unsold.
Top of wheat ... 641}Ibs 50s Od
... Barley ... ... 57 lbs 285 Od
... Oats 46i1bs 22s 6d
... Beans' ... ... 65 lbs 34i Od

EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, Nov. 7.—The supply
of cattle this morning was 405, being 45 less than, last
week. Sales brisk, and prices compared with last week
up 3d per Dutch stone. A good clearance effected. The
top price of the best beet 7s 9d ; current 7s Od to
7s 6d; middling and inferior 5s to 6s 6d per Dutch stone.
The supply of sheep and lambs this morning was 3,008,
being 600 less than last week. Sales dull. At the
close a clearance was not effected. Good aged sheep
fully maintained former prices, but ewes and inferior
kinds were difficult to dispose of at barely late rates.
Top price of the best mutton sid per lb; current, 4d to
4id; inferior, 3d to 3id.
DUNDEE, Nov. s.—Wheat, 46s Od to 49s Od; foreign
ditto, 47s Od to 50s Od; barley, 22s Od to 23s Od; oats,
18s 6d to 19s ed ; peas and beans, 23s Od to 25s fid.
DUNBAR, Nov. 6.—Wheat, weighing 61ilbs,
brought 36s Od, and prices to 30s Od ; barley,
weighing 001bs, brought 25s Od, and prices to 17s
Od ; oats, weighing 441bs, brought 18s Od, and
prices to 16s Od; beans and peas, weighing 001bs,
brought 00s Od, and prices to 00s Od.
CORK, Nov. 7. Flour.—First 13s Od to 14s Od ; extra Iss ;
seconds, lls 6d to 12c 6d ; households Os to lls; thirds, 6s to
8, per cwt. Oatmeal lOs to 105 6d; Indian meal 7s to Os Od; wheat-
meal. 103 to lOs Gd per cwt. Indian corn 127 s 6.1 to 132 s 6d perton.
Bran 31 I Os tc 31153 per ton. Hay—Farmers 21s Od to 3 Is; average
30s ; dealers 32s to 38s Od; average 3le per ton. Straw—Farmers
188 Od to 25s Od; average 20s; dealers 25s Od to 27s Oil;
average 09s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 61d ;
household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
9d per lb. Eggs-5s 5d to 5s 6d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best Neath
Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to s}d; veal 4d to
Od ; pork 4id to bd ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d pot
lb. Hops 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 3/ 5s 1)01
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 ss;to 8l ss; Valonia 141 to 01; French
7/ 53; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone.
Hemp 341 t 0351 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 213 to 008 red
ditto 25s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 00/ 00s to oth pet
ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s,
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12s to 18s;
salted 13s to 18, per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 24dper lb.
Potatoes, white bid to 8d ; Minioni lld to 00d ; Guano—
Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe 91 per ton ; Tar—Archangel
19s per barrel.

RESPITE OF CHARLOTTE HARRIS.—A respite ar-
rived at Taunton Gaol on Tuesday morning for this
wretched Wage, ccuseqvently there wig heir:, MagtiliOn.

A collision of an alarming character took place on
the Black way Railway on Wednesday evening, which
occasioned serious, if not fatal injuries, to many pas-
sengers. At five minutes to five on the evening in
question a train, consisting of seven carriages, drawn
by a locomotive (the old systen of traction by rope being
abandoned), left the Black wall terminus for London.
Having called at two or three intermediate stations, it
reached that at Stepney at about six minutes past
five. At this point the newly-formed junction to Bow
leaves the main line, and the passengers for the
branch have to change carriages at this station. On
the train from Blackwell coming up, that from Bow
had not arrived. A delay of two or three minutes
occurred, when the beating of an engine—attached,
as it was afterwards ascertained, to two goods' trucks,
and proceeding from the Poplar luggage depot to
the London warehouses—was hoard coming up on the
same line of rails on which the stationary train
was standing. From its " beat" it was apparent
that its rate was rapid, and it was soon evident
that a collision must inevitably ensue. A red signal
hand-lamp stood at the end of the platform behind
the passenger train, and although a more perfect
signal might be adopted, yet it is affirmed the light
could be seen 200 or 300 yards down the line, a
distance quite sufficient to bring an engine to a halt,
as great care was enjoined to be observed on passing
the junction, more especially when a train was known
to be only a short distance ahead. As before men-
tioned, however, the goods' engine came on with but
triflingly reduced speed, and with fearful force dashed
into the hind carriage of the train for London. The
shock is described to have been terrific, and the resi-
dents near the line state that it resembled the firing
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second-class, in which unhappily were several pas-
sengers, was smashed to an alarming extent. The
next, and second and third, suffered almost as much,
and the third from the rear was also crushed in,
while the violence of the concussion had a powerful
effect over the other portion of the train. Pro-
bably the force of the collision may be
conceived, when it is stated that the coupling
which held the engine in front of the train was
severed, and the ponderous machine forced some forty
or fifty yards along the rails, while the chimney of the
goods engine was knocked off and otherwise crushed.
The position of the passengers in the carriages in the
rear, more especially in the last one, with the hissing
locomotive almost on the top of them, was most pain-
ful. The fragments of the crushed timber had fallen
upon them, and their cries excited much commisera-
tion. It is scarcely necessary to mention that those
who could escape from the train, precipitately did so,
and, with the guards and officers of the station,
rendered immediate aid in rescuing the sufferers from
the debris of the damaged carriages, which completely
blocked up the up line. No fewer than eight were
found to be seriously injured. Three men, who are
represented to have been in the last carriage, were
much hurt. James Dewster, of 6, Lawrence
Pountney-lane, Cannon-street, had his collar-bone
fractured, two ribs on the left side broken, and
was greatly bruised about different parts of the
body. James Gadd, of Raven-row, Mile-end-
road, had a severe 'cut over his left eye, and was seri-
ously bruised about the body. J. Bristowe, an engineer,
was also cut and bruised. These unfortunate persons
were removed in flys to the surgery of Mr Taynton,
of the Commercial-road, and, their injuries being
dressed, they were removed to their respective dwell-
ings. Probably, however, the most severe injury
was sustained by a young lady named Hill, residing
in Copenhagen-place, Limehouse. She was in the
first-class, and going up to town with a Spanish gen-
tleman of the name of Hilliott, of Great Portland-
street, who had been visiting her parents in the course
of the afternoon. They were seated on each side of
the carriage, and the shock of the collision threw them
against each other, when the rim of the gentleman's
hat struck the young lady on the upper part of her
face, and nearly cut her right eye out. When ex-
tricated blood was flowing copiously from the
severe gash. She was otherwise much bruised, and
in an afflicting condition was taken to Mr. Gill's,
surgeon, White Horse-street, near the station, who
had her immediately removed to her own
residence. At present her sight is gone, the in-
jury of the right eye having affected the vision of
the other. Mr. Hilliott was also so much injured as
to render his continuing at Mr. Gill's for the night
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seriously
injured about the chest and legs, and the poor man,
wishing to be taken home, was at once conveyed to
his residence near Bermondsey church. We are given
to understand, however, that the above do not include]

all that were injured, :as there were several who at

once proceeded to their homes without seeking the
aid of the company's officers. As quickly as practi-

cable after the- collision the usual precautions were
adopted in respect to the approach of both up and
down trains. Some of the directors, with Mr. Ken-
net, the secretary, promptly visited the scene of the

deplorable event, and proceeded to institute an in-
quiry into the cause. We have not the means of
knowing what testimonials are required by the com-
pany in the engagement of engine- drivers, but we have
it from credible authority that the man who was act-
ing as driver to the goods' engine had not the ordinary
qualifications for the office ; and, to illustrate his
incompetency, we may mention that, after the colli-
sion, he absolutely went on to the up line of the
junction at the time of the Bow train coming up, and
if the driver of the lat!er had not fortunately per-
ceived the engine light, another and more disastrous
accident might have happened. The delay of the
Bow train was a most providential circumstance, for
if it had arrived at its proper time the passengers
would have been crossing the line—for they had to do

so over the permanent way—to the London train at

the moment of the goods' engine coming up, and the
probability is they would have been cut to pieces.
Another miraculous escape happened to the fireman
of the passenger engine • he was under the locomotive
oiling the cylinders, and had scarcely left a moment
or so when the collision took place. Throughout the
remainder of the night the south line of rails could

not be used in consequence of the shattered carriages
blocking up the road. In the morning, however,
they had been removed, and the trains ran as usual.
....

The sufferers were going on favourably yesterday
afternoon.

DANGEROUS EXPLOSION.—Last evening a serious
explosion took place at Hill's chemical works, Deptford,
which resulted in great damage to the premises, and, it is
feared, fatal injury to one of the workmen named Henry
Fletcher, aged 25, who was most shockingly burnt, and
otherwise injured, by the action of the fire and the
violence of the explosion. It appears that about six
o'clock Fletcher had directions to procure an article
from one of the warehouses containing a large quantity
of chemicals, and the place had not been opened for a
considerable period; when he entered with a lighted
candle, the warehouse was suddenly enveloped in a mass
of flame, accompanied by a loud report, which fortunately
brought a number of men to the aid of Fletcher, who
was completely surrounded with flames, and his dress
nearly consumed. Ono man rushed in, and in a praise-
worthy manner succeeded in dragging the injured man
out of the fire. Ile was conveyed to the nearest surgeon's;
but such Nv,is the serious nature of the injuries he had
sustained, that the medical gentleman ordered his im•
mediate removal to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was
placed under the care of the house surgeon, who ascer-
tained that both his arms were dreadfully burnt, and his
face, with other portions of his body, blackened and
charred by the fury of the flames. Additional aid was
soon brought to the spot, and with great exertions the
flames were happily confined to the part above named.
Fletcher is going on very favourably, but he is still in a
dangerous condition. The explosion is attributed to an
accumulation of foul air.

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY. -- Yesterday
evening a public meeting of the ratepayers and inha-
bitants of the parish of St. Pancras was held in the
vestry-room, King's-road, for the purpose of takinginto
consideration the proposition of the Metropolitan Water
Supply Association :for organizing a parochial move-
ment in St. Pancras district to aid in improving the
whole water supply of the metropolis, and placing the
entire control thereof in the hands of the inhabitants
themselves. Tho chair was taken by Mr. Frazier,
churchwarden; and Mr. J. L. Tabberner, who attended
on behalf of the Metropolitan Water Supply Association,
explained the object in view. It is in contemplation to
purchase the interests held in those companies which at
present supply London and its suburban districts with
water, and establish a public board to take the mauag,
ment of a system by which what is termed " monopoly"
in the case may be put an end to, and the metropolis
furnished at a reasonable price with an adequate supply
of pure water. Resolutions in favour of the project
were adopted, and the meeting separated.

CITY POLICE. —The following was agreed to
unanimously :—"Friday, November 2d, 1E49. Coal and
Corn and Finance Committee. Resolved unanimously,
that the thanks of this Committee he gived to Daniel
Whittle Hai vey, Esq., Commissioner of the City Police,
for the exemplary manner in which he performed the
arduous duties devolving upon him on the occasion of
the opening of the New Coal Exchange, on the 30th
October last. And this Committee request that the
Commissioner will communicate to the Superintendents,
Inspectors, Sergeants, and tho other members of the
Police Force, the expression of this Committee's high
approbation of the courteous and efficient manner in
which they performed their duty at and near the Coal
Exchange upon that day. (Signed) MCINWICTHEL"

Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business. It was the last Court of the mayoralty.
THE CEREMONY or OPENING THE COAL EXC MANGE.
Alderman SIDNEY said, he wished to put a question
to the Lord Mayor. It appeared that his Lordship
had, on the 30th of October, upon the occasion of
opening the Coal Exchange, preceded Prince Albert,
carrying the city sword, a ceremony exclusively con-
fined to cases in which the person of the Sovereign
was concerned. From the best sources to which he
could apply for information as to the practice, he had
learned that the practice to which he alluded had been
confirmed by a celebrated instance which had occurred
in the reign of George 111. Now, his object in
calling his Lordship's attention to the circumstance
was that he might 'ascertain whether such a proceed.
ing as the Lord Mayor had thought proper to adopt
was to be drawn into a precedent ?
The LORD MAYOR said, he was sure he could not
answer that question ; but he could inform the Court
that the ceremonial of the day was entirely conducted
by the Remembrancer, and that the particular cere-
mony adverted to had had the sanction of that officer.
Sir P. LAURIE said, the question had been very
much agitated in the mayoralty of Sir James Shaw,
who had asserted the privileges of the mayoralty on
a memorable occasion. Ile considered the matter of
privilege, involved in the observance of ceremonials
in the case of the representative of the Sovereign,
was one of great importance, and he should, there-
fore, move that the subject be referred to a com-
mittee with directions to examine and report as to its
merits.
The motion, seconded by Alderman SIDNEY, was
unanimously agreed to.
The Remembrances- was not in court at the mo-
l-mentthe subject of the ceremonial was entertained,
but he entered soon afterwards, and stated to several
of the members who questioned him, while other
matters were under discussion, that his Lordship bad
misapprehended his meaning.
THE REFUSAL Off' THE SOLICITOR TO THE MINT TO

PROSECUTE.

Some documents were read, from which it ap-
peared that certain charges were necessarily required
to be made to defray the expenses of prosecutions
for uttering base coin, the solicitor to the Mint
having refused to prosecute upon the part of the Go-
vernment.
Alderman FAREBROTHER, said he could not see
why the officer appointed by the Government to
undertake such prosecutions should refuse to perform
a duty so important to society, or why the city
magistrates should throw such a burden upon the
shoulders of their fellow-citizens as that of paying
the law charges in cases of smashing.—(Hear, hear.)
The solicitor to the Mint did not, he understood, at-
tend very frequently the examinations of persons
charged, and when he did attend he merely selected
cases for prosecution.
Alderman MusGaovn said he found that prosecu-
tions of this kind were much more frequently insti-
tuted in the city than they used to be. He regretted
that such practice was increasing, and he should
therefore move, in order to arrive at a precise know-
ledge on the subject, for the production of the
accounts of the expenses incurred for the last seven
years in prosecutions for uttering base coin, costs, &c.
Alderman SIDNEY was of opinion it would be found
that the city had been paying for a great number of
years, annually, upwards of 2,0001. in their own
wrong. He wished the Court to apply to Government
for the restitution of that annual sum for the last 23
years.

- Alderman and Sheriff LAWRENCE said, he consi-
dered it to be the duty of a magistrate to send any
case which he believed to be satisfactorily proved for
trial, whatever might be the determination of the
solicitor fur the Mint upon the subject. The case
might be brought to trial in the ordinary way, and
costs might he saved by placing it before a jury
without employing either counsel or solicitor in the
prosecution. He would leave the matter to a jury,
and not permit the city to be taxed one shilling.
The CITY SOLICITOR, in answer to a question from
the Lord Mayor, said, there had been recently two
cases of uttering base money tried at the Central
Criminal Court upon the prosecution of the city, and
in both verdicts of guilty had been recorded. These
cases had been rejected by the solicitor to the Mint.
Alderman PAREEROTHER, under all the circum-
stances, counselled a bold application to the Govern-
ment, and agreed with Alderman Lawrence that the
city should not incur any further expense by prose-
cuting in cases which fairly belonged to the Mint, and
ought to be undertaken by the solicitor to that depart-
ment.

A motion to the effect, that no further prosecu-
tions in Mint cases be ordered by the City authorities,
was then agreed to.

CONVICTS IN NEWGATE.
The Sheriffs having made their gaol returns, some
observations were made by the members as to the
necessity of supplying laborious occupation to the
convicts when the Government had not present facili-
ties of sending abroad, or to the destination finally
allotted to them.

Alderman LAWRENCE said it was unnecessary to
enlarge upon the enormous evil which must inevi-
tably spring from the confinement of numbers of men
in the same room, wholly without employment, and
destitute of the resources which social life provided.
Impressed with the belief that serious mischiefs would
ensue if some measures of prevention, in the shape
of industrious occupation, were not very soon adopted,
he should move

" That application be made to Government to suggest
and supply such means of employing the convicts in
Newgate as would be likely to counteract tho formidable
consequences he apprehended."

THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
Sir PETER LAURIE gave notice of the following
motions :

" That the Clerk of the Central Criminal Court do
lay before the Court, at its next meeting, the number of
days on which each of the three courts at the Central
Criminal Court have sat during the last sessional year,
with the number of cases disposed of in each court, in
each session, during the same period."
"2. A return of the expenses of prosecutions daring
the same year."
Adjourned.

MURDEROUS ATTACK IN THE MILBANK PENI-
TENTIARY.—A most desperate and murderous attack,
from the effects of which there is not the slightest hope
of the unfortunate victim's 'recovering, was made on
Wednesday afternoon upon Thomas Hall, one of the
warders of the Milbank Prison. The circumstances are
briefly these:—About half-past four o'clock in the after-
noon John Francis, an incorrigible convict, returned
from the hulks to this prison, requested Hall to let him
out of his cell for an usual purpose. The warder imme-
diately complied. As Francis was returning to his cell,
in a minute or so afterwards, he suddenly rushed upon
the warder and felled him to the ground with a heavy
earthenware utensil, much resembling a very large
paint-pot, and followed up his murderous attack with
a succession of desperate blows about the head with the
same utensil. The attack was witnessed by some of the
other prisoners from the gratings of their cells, but as they
had all been locked up, with the exception of Francis,
they were unable to render the unfortunate warder any
assistance, although they repeated called to Francis
and implored him to spare the poor man's life. Finding
their entreaties vain, as the ruffian still continued his
murderous attack, they rushed to their windows, when
their cries brought some of the other officers to the spot,
and the miscreant Francis was still found standing over
his bleeding and prostrate victim. Francis was imme-
diately secured and conveyed to the refractory cell,
where he has been closely guarded ever since. The un-
fortunate victim of his fury was taken up insensible, in
which state, notwithstanding the greatest passible me-
dical attention, he has remained ever since, nor is there
the slightest chance of his recovery, the skull having
been literally beaten in, in different parts, a portion of
the bone of which it has been found necessary to take
away, and he altogether exhibits the effects of the most
ferocious violence. We regret to say, that in reply to
our inquiries yesterday evening, it was stated that it was
scarcely possible that the poor man, who has a wife and
six young children depending upon him for support,
could survive the night. This is the second time the
malefactor Francis has been sent to the Milbank Peni
tentiary, and we understand that while at the hulks he
attempted the life of the surgeon, upon whom he in-
flicted some very serious injuries.

PEPYs' DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCB. EDITED
BY LORD BRAYBROOKE. 5 VoLe.—The new, enlarged,
and cheaper edition of this celebrated Diary is now
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this lief edition, observes :—" These volumes of Pepys'
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tatingly characterise this journal as the most remarkable
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world. Pepys paints the Court, the Monarch, and the
times in more vivid colours than any one else. His
Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events
of the age, and the pople who bore a part in them, and
gives us more clear glimpses into the true English life of
the times than all the other memorials of them that have
come down to our own."

Wuo is llarNAu ?—This is a question that we
have often been asked of late. All we can say in
answer is, that Haynau is one of the Emperor of Austria's
hanger's on.—Punch.