The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-17 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER IY, 1840.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

TEM BOMNAY STEAMER AGAIN.—OR Saturday, a
miserable-looking min, apparently in the last stage of
cousemption, with hardly a shoe to his foot, applied to
the Lord Mayor under the following circumstances:—
Applicant stated he had been engaged by the Prince
Castelcicala (the Neapolitan Minister) to procure evi-
dence to condemn the Bombay steamer; that the Prince
agreed to give him 11. per week fur his services, and that
he had been actively employed for upwards of 22 weeks,
when his claim amounted to 221. les.; that on this
claim he had received 101. on account, having a balance
of 121. 10s. unpaid ; that he had for months been en-
deavouring to obtain. payment, but that the Prince re-
fused to pay him until he had received instructions from
the King, his master. Applicant further said, that
hearing the Minister was about to leave England for
Siberia, and being unable to summon his Excellency
before the Court of Requests, he being protected as a
Minister, he had ventured to apply to his Lordship for
advice, as he was actually starving in the streets.
lie further stated that-his name was Cato. He was a
native of Amsterdam, in Holland, and had been in
England twelve years; but as he spoke English very
imperfectly he had made out a written statement of his
case, which he bad addressed to his Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR, having perused the statement,
said it was certainly a hard case, but regretted he had
no jurisdiction to interfere, as Prince Castelcicala did
not reside in the City, but in Princes-street, Cavendish-
square.
The applicant then left the court, loudly expressing
his determination to bring the case before the public,
and to expose the Prince in every possible manner.
GUILDHALL.
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On Saturday Mr. Alderman COPELAND entered the
court, and taking his seat on the bench, addressed S.r
Peter Laurie, stating that Mr. Herring the celebrated
animal painter, had applied to him for advice under rather
peculiar circumstances, which he considered of such im-
portance, not only to Mr. Herring, but to the public at
large, that he thought it would be better it should be
mentioned publicly. It appeared that Mr. Herring had
discovered that some parties had been disposing of copies
of his paintings for large sums of money, representing
that they were original ones, and bearing his name.
Under those circumstances that gentleman wanted to
know what course he ought to take, particularly as his
name had been forged to these spurious paintings, some
of which he could lay his hands on, from information
he had received.

The Chief Clerk asked if tho handwriting could be
proved ? -
Mr. Herring said it could not. He had been in-
formed that two copies of his paintings were sold as
originals for 1001. each. Another person asked him
whether a certain work was his painting, and he in-
stantly informed the party that it was not, as he always
had his canvas from a house in Long-acre, whereas the
canvas which he inspected came from Rathbone-place,
Oxford-street. Again, a gentleman named Turner, re-
siding in Gloucester, had given a large sum for one of
these sham originals, and, therefore, he considered some
stop should be put to such a system of deception.
Sir P. LAURIE said it would be most desirable that
frauds of this description should be put an end to.
Alderman COPELAND said that the complaint did not
apply to Mr. Herring alone. It applied to both Mr.
Landseer and Mr. Stansfield, copies of whose works are
sold to an enormous extent as originals.
Mr. Herring said, that a gentleman going to America
purchased what he supposed to be an original painting
by Mr. Stansfield, and mentioned the circumstance to
Mr. Macready, who doubted its genuineness, and a letter
being written Mr. Stansfield said it was not his work.
The Chief Clerk observed, that he recollected an instance
where a picture of General Lord Heathfield, by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, belonging to the Corporation, was lent to be
copied. The artist returned the copy, which was excel-
lent, but nothing whatever had been seen of the original
since, and the painting now remained hung up, with the
words not "by Sir Joshua Reynolds," but " after Sir
Joshua Reynolds."
Sir P. LAURIE consulted the Chief Clerk as to what
course could be adopted, and the Chief Clerk said, that
with respect to Mr. Turner, the party who sold the paint-
ing could be prosecuted for obtaining money by false
pretences, but he was of opinion that a charge of
forgery could not be established, there being a decision
that a signature on linen to a deed was not binding.
Alderman COPELAND said, he had no doubt the public
would now be upon their guard, when making what they
considered purchases of original paintings.
Sir P. LAURIE had no doubt the public would be
thenkful for the pains Alderman Copeland had taken in
bringing Mr. Herring to the court, and placing the com-
munity at large on their guard.
Mr. Herring thanked Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman
Copeland, and the Chief Clerk for their advice, and
then retired.

BO TV-STREET.
Henry SoMick, a conductor in the service of the Ful-
ham Omnibus Association, was summoned before Mr.
Jardine for having violently assaulted a lady named
May, residing in Sloane-street.
It appeared that the complainant, who was in very
delicate health, about twelve o'clock on the sth instant,
was in the Strand, when seeing three omnibuses coming
along she put up her parasol to hail the first, but the
next one having driven up rapidly at the mo-
ment, she was seized by the conductors of each, one
laying hold of her round the waist, and the other
ound her neck, and kept fighting across her face
with such violence that her dress was torn, and being
thrown on the footway sho was much bruised, and could
not recollect anything more. Subsequently she found
herself in the shop of Mr. Ackermann, the publisher,
where every kindess was shown to her, she having been
quite exhausted and in a fainting condition from the
rougif usage she had received.
Mr. Adolphus Ackermann proved seeing the com-
plainant knocked down twice, and her chin having bit
against the kerbstone, but the confusion was so great
Sat he could not speak to the defendant's identity.
Mr. J. B. Proctor, landlord of the Woolpack public-
house, Gravel-lane, however, swore to the defendant
being the person who followed the complainant into Mr.
Ackermann's shop, and said, " You recollect you hailed
me first."

Air. JARDINE said, much as he was accustomed to hear
complaints against conductors, he had never met with a
more atrocious outrage upon a woman in one of the
most frequented
,thoroughfares of the metropolis. He
should commit the prisoner for six weeks, with hard
labour, and suspend his licence for three months.,
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE CHARGE or ATTEMPTING TO EXTORT 5001.—The
gentleman, and a lady whom be represented to be his
daughter; who were charged at this court, on Saturday
last, with attempting to extort the sum of 5001. from
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co., bankers, St. James's-
street, Pall-mall, and who refused to give either their
names or addresses, were again brought before Mr.
Broughton (who sat in the afternoon for Mr. Hardwick),
in order to have the depositions taken on the last exami-
nation read to them.

A lengthened report of the former proceedings has al-
ready appeared in this journal of Monday last, and it will
be in the recollection of our readers that the case was
adjourned till to-day, in order to allow time for the depo-
sitions to be completed, and also for the officers who had
the case in band to make inquiries as to who and what
the prisoners were. Smith and Shaw, the detective
officers employed in the case, now stated that they be-
lieved the male prisoner's name to be Pym, but that he
had gone by at least twenty other names. The female
prisoner was not his daughter, as was alleged, but
merely a woman of loose character with whom he was
living.
The depositions were then read, and the prisoners
fully committed for trial.

THE RECENT CONCEALMENT Or BIRTH AT HOR-
nuRY.—On Monday last Mr. Craven, the reputed father
of the young female who was delivered of a child at Hor-
bury recently, the discovery of whose remains attracted
so large a share of public attention, delivered himself up
to the Wakefield authorities. He was examined in pri-
vate, together with the several witnesses, and his exa-
mination resulted in his committal to York for trial at
the next assizes. Bail was accepted for his appearance,
and some circumstances were alleged in his defence
which raised a doubt as to the truth of the grave charge
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or immorality involved in the supposition of his behig
, the father of the child. It was alleged that Miss Craven
had been receiving the addresses of a clergyman and
others, and the inference drawn from the allegations was,
that some one of her suitors was the probable parent.
The case drew together a considerable number of per-
sons. Miss Craven is still at large.—Leeds Mercury.
THE BOARD OF HEALTIL—The prevailing epide-
mic has been much felt at Westminster, where persons
in high places have been attacked. Many persons in
Government offices have suffered severely. A very large
proportion of the staff of the Board of Health have been
amongst the sufferers, from the fatigue and anxiety to
which they have been subjected, owing to the great in-
crease of their labours and responsibilities. Mr. Chad-
wick was obliged to be absent for two days on account
of a very serious attack, and Dr. Southwood Smith for
more than a week. Mr. Austin, the secretary of the
board, was also absent for a week and seriously ill, as
was the chief clerk, Mr. Edwards, for three days One
of the inspectors and the chief office-keeper at Gwydyr-
house have been confined by fever, and another has lost
his wife by an attack of cholera. During the vacation
Lord Ashley has been most anxious and unremitting in
his attention to his duties as chairman of the Board of
Health. He was relieved by the Earl of Carlisle, who
took his seat as president of the board on Friday and on
Saturday. Many deputations have been received, and
scientific persons, native and foreign, constantly con-
sulted. The duties altogether have been of a most ha-
rassing and laborious nature.
ALIVE ! ALL ALIVE OI—A clergyman at Oxford
who was very nervous and absent, going to read prayers
at St. Mary's, heard a showman in High-street, who had
an exhibition of wild beasts, repeat often, " Walk in,
walk in, ladies and gentlemen! All alive, all alive, 0!"
The sound struck the absent man, and ran in his head
so much, that when he began to read the service, and
came to the words " and doeth that which is lawful and
right, he shall save his soul alive! (the clergyman then
called out with a louder voice) shall save his soul alive!
all alive! alive Or —Horace Walpole,
RAILWAY PARES.—It is pretty extensively under-
stood that a combined move will be made next session
by the great railway interests, in part to repair the
madness of 1845 and 1846, by getting powers to charge
higher fares. The Government is considered not to be
averse, provided reductions are made in the charges for
the conveyance of the mails.—Herepath's Journal.
DEAL, SEPT. 15.—Wind W. to W.N.W.-IGth. N.E.
—Arrd. Marquis of Bute, Bannatyne, China ; John
Oldham, Cannays, Jamaica; Sir Robert Peel, Chadwick,
New York ; Loyalist, Jamaica ; Swan, Newfoundland.
Arrd. from the river various vessels, and sailed with the
rest of the outward-bound.

CHOLERA. IN THE CITY.

On Sunday the Lord Mryor sent for the City
Solicitor in order to ascertain what had been done by
the committee on health subsequently to the meeting
on Thursday, and the following ad3reas from that
body to the inhabitants was laid before his Lordship
for his approval preparatory to its circulation through
the City.

The Lord Mayor said he entirely concurred in the
sentiments expressed in the address. He thought
such a document was calculated to allay, and not to
excite, alarm in the minds of the citizens. The state-
ment that the disease was on the decline might be even
more strongly expressed, but that circumstance would
not warrant the committee in relaxing their efforts.
The capricious character of the disease was one of its
peculiarities, and it appeared to him that while the
various authorities took advantage of the duration of
the calamity to tranquillize the public mind it became
their peculiar duty to adopt every measure which
prudence suggested to avert its progress and mitigate
its force.

" DUKE, MAYOR.

" The Committee of Health of the City of London
respectfully but earnestly invite their fcllow- citizens to
peruse, and consider in a spirit of candour and confidence.,
the following brief remarks upon a subject of eqoal im-
portance and interest to all.

" This committee was appointed by the Court of Com-
mon Council to watch over the sanitary state of the
city during the visitation of the cholera, and it received
authority to employ the influence and resources of the
corporation in cases of emergency, to aid the efforts of
the local authorities, who, under the superinteradence of
the Government Board of Health, were empowered to
make all requisite preparations.
" The committee have endeavoured from the date of
their appointment quietly to discharge the primary duties
that had been devolved upon them, and they had hoped
that the calamity would have passed away without the
necessity of calling into action any of the other powers
vested in them by the Court; but this is not now the case.
" On Wednesday last the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
received through the city officer of health au offi.dal in-
timation from the Government Board, that their expe-
rience in the provinces, and in some of the districts of
the metropolis where the epidemic most prevailed, had
demonstrated the fact, that frequent visitation by medical
officers from house to house to detect, and subject to im-
mediate treatment, incipient cases of cholera and diarr-
hcea—cases which, if neglected, would lapse into that
disease—afforded the only means of checking that
calamity, and had been rendered instrumental, under the
blessing of the Almighty, in saving a vast amount of
human life which might have been sacrificed if aban-
doned to thoughtless carelessness and neglect.
" This communication from the Government Board of
Health was accompanied by a strong statement that
the local boards who had been required by them to
carry this system into execution in the city had partially
omitted, or entirely declined, to comply with their re-
quirement.

" In this emergency the committee, under the sanction
of the Lord Mayor, and in concurrence with the recom-
mendation of the officer of health for the city, have au-
thorised that gentleman to obtain the services of an
adequate number of medical practitioners to carry out
the proposed system in conjunction with the medical
officers of the three city unions, and the committee pre-
sent this appeal to the good feelings of the inhabitants of
the city of all orders and degrees to give them their
sanction and co-operation in the prosecution of this un-
dertaking.

The committee are acqu doted with the spprehen-
sinus expressed by some persons (whose opinions are
entitled to consideration) that the system of house-to-
house visitation by medical men, perhaps strangers to
the neighbourhood, is calculatei to do mischief, by
creating unnecessary alarm, and by abating the zealous
exertions which are put forth in every quarter by the
medical practitioners within their localities.

" The committee are of opinion that these objections
to medical visitation, when fairly looked in the face,
will pass at once from the judgment of the intelligent,
and will not be allowed a place even in the minds of the
less-educated part of the community.
" It is not proposed that the suggested medical visita-
tion shall supersede, but only act as auxiliary to the in-
estimable services which have been constantly reneered
by night and by day by the professional men of the
city, as well to the poor as to the rich, during the pre-
valence of this calamity. The medical gentlemen to be
appointed for the intended service will co-operate with
the medical officers in their several districts; and at a
meeting of those gentlemen. which has been recently held
they have expressed their entire satisfaction with the
suggested arrangement; and this committee rely with
confidence on the enlightened views and feelings of the
members of a liberal profession, whether in official or in
private practice, to give their generous co-operation to
the proposed plan.
" That accompanied by these explanations, the pro-
posed system of domestic visitation will excite no un-
founded alarm the committee feel confident. They are
assured by the officer of health that the disease is on the
decrease, and that, judging from its course in other
countries and the period of its departure from this coun-
try in 1832, there is reasonable ground for hoping that
the approach of the cold weather will terminate the pre-
sent visitation; but whether the Almighty Disposer of
events shall allow a longer or a shorter duration to the
calamity, the committee are assured that a calm and
humble confidence in Him who holds in his hands the
issues of life will not be weakened by the adoption of
measures which prudence and experieuce may suggest.
" By order of the Committee,.
THOMAS BARKLEY, Chairman."
Twenty thousand copies of the appeal have been
ordered to be circulated in the City this day. A
similar address, which was issued from the City Board
of Health, appointed by the Corporation in 1832, had
the effect of removing all apprehension from the minds
of all classes, and the house to-house visitation, which
was prosecuted with great vigour, inspired the
afflicted with singular comfort and confidence at that
period of calamity.
Mr. Barnard, a member of .the City Committee of
Health, ascertained that from the 17th of June to the
13th of September there were received into St.
Bartholomew's Hospital 404 persons afflicted with
cholera, of whom 160 died ; of the remaining 244 the
great majority have been cured, and the rest are under
treatment; that 48 have been buried at the expense
of the hospital, and 112 by the various parishes and
friends of the deceased; and that since the 23d of
August no cave of cholera had been interred in the
ground belonging to the hospital, the authorities
having determined to send the dead to cemeteries.
It must be understood that most of the fatal cases
were brought to the hospital in such a state of disease
as to defy the ordinary remedies administered there ;
and the opinion of the medical officers is, that if they
had been prescribed for at the commencement of the
disorder, in all probability there would have been
very few victims.

The reports made to the Lord Mayor of the state
of the city prisons as to the health of ate inmates is
very satisfactory. Mr. Burden, the Governor of
Whitecross-street Prison, states that he never recol-
lects a period in which the debtors' gaol was more free
from disease ; that not a single case of cholera has
occurred, and that the few cases of diarrhea which
have taken place yielded in a very short time to the
skilful and prompt treatment of Mr. Wadd, the
medical officer of that establishment. Mr. Cope, the
Governor of Newgate, describes the condition of that
prison to be no less favourable ; and Giltspur-street
Prison, although the most incommodious and crowded
place of confinement in the metropolis, enjoys like
exemption from the inroads of the fatal malady. Mr.
Childs, the medical officer to the city police force,
has not lost a single patient, although the men have
been constantly day and night doing duty in the most
unwholesome neighbourhoods in the city districts.
We understand the course uniformly adopted by him
is to attack an incipient disorder with doses of ether
and laudanum, a mixture which he seems to consider
to be a specific in cases of diarrhea. At the same
time that intelligence of the favourable state of the
health of the city districts reached his Lordship, it
was intimated that there was not one Jew case in
Petticoat-lane or its filthy neighbourhood.

nig CONSUMPTION or BaANDT.—In the Board of
Trade Tables, which we publish this day, there is a
striking evidence of the rapid increase in the consump-
tion of brandy during the month ending the sth of
August, and which we have no doubt will be even more
perceptible in the month ending the sth of September,
when the accounts are published. In the single month
ending the sth of August, the quantity of brandy duty
paid for consumption was 205,968 gallons, against
136,379 gallons in the same month last year, thus show-
ing an increase of no less than 69,589 gallons in the
month; so that the additional duty derived from brandy
for the single month was no less than 52,191/. In the
quantity imported the increase is even more striking.
In the same month it amounted to 552,178 gallons in
the present year, against 57,325 gallons in the cor-
responding month of last year. The quantity imported
in the first seven months of the year amounts to no less
than 2,407,117 gallons, against only 1,623,096 gallons
in the same period in 1848. The effects of the prevail-
ing epidemic are here most strikingly seen by the in-
creased consumption of this spirit.—Economist.
The new novel, by Mrs. Trollope, entitled " The
Old World and the New," in 3 vols., is published this
day by Mr. Colburn, and may be had at all the
Libraries. Also, just published-2. The Fortunes of
Woman, edited by Miss Lamont. 3. British Homes
and Foreign Wanderings, by Lady Lister Kaye. 4. The
King and the Countess, by S. W. Fellow, Esq. 5. Va-
lerie, by Captain Marryat. 6. Rockingham; or, The
Younger Brother, second edition. 7. Mordauut
by the author of Angela, and Emilia Wyuhatn, second
edition. 8. The Midnight Sun, by Miss Bremer, 1 vol.
STAMP ALLOWANCES.—On the 10th of October the
present stamp allowances on the purchase of stamps of
"7i per cent." will be discontinued, and "1 per cent."
substituted. In the year ending the sth of January last
the allowances amounted to 43;5681. 10s. 3d., which have
been considered excessive, and hence the alt,ration.
Supposing as many stamps to be purchased under the
new regulation, Goverrnre nt will obtain a large annual
sum by the diminution in the rate of alio Nances under
the new Act, which will come into force from and after
the 10th proximo.

A RICH VAGRANT.—On Wednesday morning, an
itinerant organ player, who had been sleeping on the
public green, discovered that ho had been robbed during
the night, while asleep, of no less than 17 xovereigns, a
half-crown, and some coppers.—.Norih British Daily
IVeziss.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.--The Inflexible steam-sloop,
Commander Hoseason, arrived yesterday from the
East India station. Her dates of sailing are—from
Hong Kong, May 25 ; Singapore, June 2 ; Point de
Galle, 13q1; Bombay, July 4; Mauritius, 22 ; St.
Helena, August 18 ; Ascension, 21 ; Madeira, Sept.
8. She did not put in at the Cape of-Good Hope,
but found the Brilliant from that station at St. He-
lena, with dates down to the 4th of August, being 25
days later than those in The Sun of Saturday, by
which we learn that the colonists have assumed an
attitude of determined hostility to the convict impor-
tation. So universal and threatening in appearance
was the manifestation upon the subject that Sir Harry
Smith, the Governor, had made arrangements on the
arrival of the Neptune for 'her convicts to be turned
over to her Miijesty's receiving hulk Seringapatam,
in Simon's thy, to await further instructions from
the Home Government. The colonists, however,
insisted that they should be sent away the moment
they arrived.
The S-Juthampton, 50, Rear-Admiral Reynolds,
C. 8., the Geyser and Dee steam sloops, and the
Seringapatam depot ship, were in Simon's Bay on the
2d of August. The Eurydice, 26, was at Mauritius
when the Inflexible touched there, and the Orestes,
14, was in the Mozambique Channel. Admiral
Reynolds was daily expecting the arrival of the
Castor, with Commodore Wyvill, to relieve him in
the command at the Cape, when he would proceed
to Rio and relieve Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
R.C.B.

The Randolph convict-ship put into Simon's Bay in
the middle ofJuly for medical assistance, in consequence
of her late surgeon superintendent having committed
suicide by jumping overboard at sea while labouring
under temporary derangement, caused by erysipelas
in the head. Mr. Lawrence, senior assistant-surgeon
of the Southampton, 50, was appointed by the Admiral
to fill the vacancy when the Randolph proceeded to
Australia.

The Calypso's freight, amounting to about 2;700,000
dollars, in specie and Californiaa unrefined gold, was
conveyed to the Bank on Saturday by special train
on the South Coast Railway, in charge of Mr. Super-
intendent Sutton. The Calypso sailed on the previous
evening for Chatham to be paid off.
The Arrogant, 46, Captain Fitzroy, sailed yester-
day for a cruise at the back of the Wight to try her
machinery, &c.
The Philomel, Commander Wood, sailed at sunrise
on Saturday morning for Plymouth, to be paid off.
The Commander- in• Chief returned from leave last
evening, and re-hoisted his flag on board the Victory,
Captain B

The Vernon, Blenheim, and Gloriana, three splendid
specimens of naval architecture of the 50-gun frigate
class, arrived at Spithead yesterday, and are preparing
to sail for the East Indies. The Vernon is already
under weigh.

Mr. Edward Waller, R.N., late secretary to Rear-
Admiral Reynolds at the Cape, has been compelled,
from ill health, to resign his appointment, and come
home passenger in the Inflexible.

Wind S., light airs and cloudy.

LOVE AND ASSASSINATION.—A dismal tragedy
was enacted at Orleans, in the Rue de l'Aiguil-
lerie, on Sunday last. M. Desbordes, a young man, 20
years of age, residing with his mother in the rue Na-
tionale, was desirous of marrying Mdlle. Estelle Hareem,
a youthful workwoman, of that city. Some time ago he
addressed to her a love-letter declaratory of his affection
and his honourable intentions; the young girl asked
" time for reflection," knowing well that to wed in haste
was to court unhappiness for life. At length, in spite of
the ardent appeals and passionate intreaties of the gal-
lant lover, Mdlle. Estelle decided adversely to his suite,
on the ground that she aas too young to marry. On
Sunday morning the distracted youth presented himself
to the father of whom he still called his betrothed,
and asked to see her. lie was told that she was working
at her atelier, in the rue de l'Aiguillerie, and immediately
repaired thither. He asked permission to speak to the
young girl, and was allowed to retire with her to an ad-
joining epartment. M. Desbordes forthwith locked the
door, put the key in his pocket, and asked Estelle to re-
turn him his first letter, declaratory of his flame. She
replied that it was at home, but that she would return it
at her earliest convenience. Tlfb lover, pale and dis-
tracted, hereupon exclaimed, " AEI! Mademoiselle, you
know that I love you dearly, and the love of a man is
not to be trifled with. You must die!" Suiting the
action to the word, Desbordes seized the unhappy girl
by the head, drew forth a pistol, and fired at her twice.
lie then retired to the other end of the room, took from
his pocket two other pistols, and administered the same
deadly discharge to his own person. The report of the
firearms alarmed the neighbours; they rushed in, and,
seizing Desbordes, conducted him to the mairie, whence
he was remanded to prison. The young girl was but
slightly wounded by one of the balls, but the other pe-
netrated to some depth into the nape of the neck. Des-
bordes fired into his mouth and temples. Estelle was
promptly attended to and is now out of dang..r. It. is
even hoped that the wounds of Desbordes are not mortal.
Estelle Hareau is a girl 19 years of age, and of remark-
able beauty.
FUNERAL OF WILLIAMS, THE CHARTIST CONVICT.
—Yesterday the remains of Joseph Williams, the
Chartist convict, were conveyed to their last resting
place in the Victoria Cemetery, Bethnal green. A
mourning coach followed the hearse, containing his
father, mother, and other relatives. There were
several private cabs in the rear, which were followed to
the cemetery by upwards of 10,000 persons, the twen-
tieth part of whom were carrying the Chartist staffs of
office. In accordance with the wish of the convention,
Williams was interred in the same grave with the young
weaver, who was killed on Sunday, June 4.1848, wLen
attending ti-e, Chartist meeting held in Bishop Bonner's
Fields. The usual religious ceremonies over the de-
ceased being gone through, the concourse left the ground,
contributing liberally as they departed to a fund being
raised for the ben, fit of Widow Williams and' her six
children. The boxes for the subscription were held by
females, and had inscribed on them " The Liberty and
Victim Fund." There were a strong body of police
present, but their services were not required.
DEATH FROM CHOLERA OF ANOTHER CHARTIST
CONVICT.—On Saturday morning, at six o'clock, James
Sharpe, who was tried for sedition at the Central Cri-
minal Court with Ernest Jones and others, and sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, died in the Westminster
House of Correction, Tothill.fields, from an attack of
Asiatic cholera. Mr. Langham, the deputy coroner, has
fixed this day for holding an inquest on the body of the
unfortunate men.—Wee/try Chremiele.
THE SPECIAL FORM or PRAYER.—Yesterday being
the day appointed for the offering up of a special suppli-
cation to the Almighty to remove from this country the
pestilence which at present rages in it, the different
churches in the metropolis were densely thronged, and
in all of them a more than usual solemnity was observed.
The visitation has in itself been so severe as to leave
comparatively few who have not suffered directly or
indirectly. It was probably owing to this circumstance
that the recital of the form of prayer seemed, iu many
of the churches, to excite an unusual feeling of devotion.
The sermons, either of the morning or evening services,
and in some cases both, had especial reference to the
existence of the plague, and contained innumerable
examples of the visitation of sin by the Divine ven-
geance, and of the efficacy of prayer, repentance, and
humiliation as a means of removing the wrath of the
Almighty and the suffering consequent upon it.
TOWER HAMLETS REGISTRATION.—On Saturday
Mr. Thomas Young M'Christie held a court at the
Court-house, Wellclose-square, for the purpose of re-
vising the lists of voters for Members to serve in Parlia-
ment for the borough of the Tower Hamlets. Neither
the Conservative nor the Liberal party was represented
by an agent. There were forty-eight claims made,
thirty of which were allowed, and eighteen rejected.
Only one objection was taken, and it was sustained. In
the course of the revision Mr. M`Christie remarked
upon the charges made by the overseers for cab hire,
&c., which in some instances amounted to four and five
guineas, and he reduced the sum in each case to 53.
ANTIQUITIES FOR THE BRITISH M usEma.—A
vessel which has arrived at Chatham from Bansbay hiss
brought twenty tons weight of antiquities from Nineveh,
which are intended to be forwarded to the British
Museum for deposit in that national establishment. The
authorities of the Treasury have given the necessary
directions for the unshipment and tree delivery of the
antiquities to the Museum, and arrangements have been
made for the packages containing these valuable relics
to be forwarded direct to the Museum without being
previously disturbed, and there opened and examined by
the proper authorities, in order that every care may be
taken that no damage should be sustained by them.
DEATH or ONE OF NELSON'S FAVOURITE
OFTICERS.—Died, August 27, at Little Hampton, Sussex,
Augustus B. P. P. Hamilton, Esq., second son of the
late Admiral Charles Powell Hamilton, of Fir Hill, in
the county of Hants, and grandson of Lord Ann Hamil
ton. The deceased, who was father of Alfred Hamil-
ton, Esq., of Gidea Hall, in this county, was born in the
year 1781 ; he was one of Lord Nelson's favourite
officers, and served under that great commander with
much gallantry and distinction in the late war, during
which he was frequently and severely wounded. For
his intrepid conduct in one of those actions he received
a medal. Nursed in the cradle of war, when peace was
re-established the service had few attractions left for
the deceased, and he withdrew into private life, where
he lived and died admired and beloved by all who knew
him. He has left a widow and large family to deplore
their loss.—Essex Standard.
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.--The congrega-
tion assembling at St. John's Chapel, Broad court, Long-
acre, presented to their minister, the Rev. Henry Anders,
on Saturday last, a very handsome silver pocket Com-
munion Service, together with a Book of Offices, beauti-
fully bound. The inscription expressed that the testi-
monial was presented by the subscribers "as a mark
of their affectionate regard."
AUOLITION or OATHS.—There is a clause in the
New Bankruptcy Act abolishing oaths, so far as a bank-
rupt and his wife may be concerned. By the 246 sec.
tion, it is provided, " That all persons who are now, or
shall hereafter be declared bankrupts under any fiat or
petition for adjudication, and the wives of such persons
respectively, shall and may be examined before the Court,
after making and signing the declaration contained in
the schedule to this Act annexed, without being sworn
' on oath.'"

The Baron and Baroness Nahays, and Sir Henry
and Lady Willock, embarked at Blackwell o❑ Saturday
morning, on board the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's mail steam ship Columbine, for Rotterdam, en
route to Bonn, on the Rhine.

THE COVNT
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 15.
to-day:—

Wheat, per 701 b

a. d. a. d

,Y MARKETS.
.The following prices ruled

I. d. e. 41:
Barley,Feeding... 3 2 to 3 4

English, white .• 6 S to 7 Olßye, por 4801 b .. 22 0 21 °
Do. rt:d.. .. 6 6 6 8 Beans,English,pr
Irish, now •• 5 0— 6 0 imperial quartr 34 0— 36

Do., old • • • • 5 8— 6 0 Irish and Scotch,
Dantsic. • •• .. 6 6 6 91 per 4801 b.. • • 30 0— 31
Do., good mixed .. 7 0— 7 4 Foreign, duty pd. 24 0 24 6
Lowerßaltie,white 6 4 6 6'European, per im-
Do. red.. 6 6 6 8 perialquarter.. 32 0— 33 °
American . • • 6 4 6 SPeas, English, per 0
Canadian .. 6 0— 6 81_ imperial quartr 32 0— 33

_
Spanish, red and Foreign • • .. 28 0— 30 0
white.. .. • • 6 3 6 G Malt, English, per
o
Tuscan and Bar- imperial quarts 56 0 --6-
n
_ . _

letta, rut .• 60— 6 4 D 0..., Irish .. Ei
.• 5 0— 5 4, Do., brown .. 54 0 —57 °

Odessa, Polish .. 5 0 -- 5 61Flour,English, pr
1)0., hard.. • • 4 6 4 9 2801 b •• 34 0— 36 ?,
EgYptian .. 4 0— 4 3 Irish, extra fine.: 35 o. 37
Oats, per 451 b Unded States, per
EnOish and Scotch 211 3 1 barrel .. .23 0—24 o

Weish . .. 2 7 2 91Canadian .. 23 0— 24 v
Irish, new .. 2 G—2 61 Oatmeal, English,
Do., old .. • • 2 7 2 s & Scotch,pr24olb 23 —24 °
Barley, English, pr Irish, new .. • • 23 0 —24 0
imperial quarti:r 26 0 —2B 0 Do., old . .20 0— 24 0
Irish, Scotch, and Indi in corn, per
Marx,per6olb.. 3 2 3 4 4801 b 26 —29 °
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 15.—The improved demand for
the best descripti'..ns of flour referred to in our report of
this day se'nuight, has been fully confirmed during the
present week, a read, sale having been found for such 01
full prices ; whilst for the few: parcels of new of prime
quality which have come forward extreme rates were
realised, and the supplies have not equalled the require'
ments of the trade. Good middling kinds likewise
moved off more freely, on terms which were not Pre"
viously obtainable ; but as regards inferior sorts, ne
arnend,eent can yet be noticed. Oatmeal has been In
fair request, and for ceeice Irish, new, 25s per load Wl5
readily realised. Of Irish oats, oatmeal, and fl•air, the
arrivals at Liverpool are somewhat on the increase ; but
from our own coast the supplies continue on the rp°s`,
limited scale. The imports of foreign wheat and flour
are large, but of other articles only moderate. At out
market this morning old wheat was held for rather more
money, and new fully maintained the currency of this
day week. Tne best qualities of flour, being in scants'
supply, and much sought after, must be noted is Per
sack nearer, and on other kinds the turn of prices $O5
decidedly in favour of sellers. In oats no change was
observable. New oatmeal, of which but little has Ye,,
:
come forward, was in good demand at our quotations,
old mot a slow sale at previous rates.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 15.—The market
throughout the week has remained in nearly a complete
state of inactivity; the transactions have been unimpor,
tent and without alteration in prices. Refined goods are
only in limited demand, even at the present very /ovt
rates. The rum market was, however, rather firmer, and
several sales at better prices were effected. Tne arrivals
during the week have been—From Barbadoes. is the
Marianne, 262 hhds 51 barrels of sugar, 4 casks soil'
and 14 barrels and 14 packages of ginger.
MONTROSE, SEPT. 14.—The weather has now become
very fine fur harvest operations, which are going
rapidly. There has been very little business doing i 0
corn today. Wheat, 621bs, 455; Barley, 531bs, 22';
Oats, 401bs, 17s 6d per quarter.
GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 13. —At our
market today the numbers were—oxen, 314; sheep'
2,150; and lambs, 4,082. The supply of cattle viek
small, owing, no doubt, to the occurrence of Falkir
Tryst this week. A good many dealers being absent'
sales commenced rather briskly at in advance on lad
week's prices. Best beef brought 505 per cwt, seal°
46s per ditto; cow, bull, and inferior beef, from 375
425. All sold. The number of sheep was large. Til?Ci'4 1,
of good quality sold readily, but middling and infer'
were not in such request, Best aged wethers 50le, , °tr,
rent 4d to 51 per lb, sinking the offal. We had a to°a
rate supply of lambs. Best 14s each, current from 75 to
I Is, and inferior 3s to 5s each.
ABERDEEN, SEPT. 14.—Grain—Oats 17s to 17s 6d, 401 b per
bushel ; barley, 22s to 235, 521bs per bushel; bear, 22s to 2,7
521bs per bushel ; wheat, 46s to 52s ; oatmeal, 14s 3d to 153" f
per boll ; flour, 37s to 45s per sack. Provisions--1311
5d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 5d to 7d ; veal, ditto,.,,,
to 6d ; pork, per stone, 4s 6d to Sc; lamb, per lb, tid to 't
31 :11
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 6d to 00
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, eacb, ,
to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 9d to I°e;
eggs, per dcz, rd to 10d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; henstPteof
pair, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducks, die
2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducklings, ditto, Is Gd to Is 8d; turkeys,re't
Od to 7s Od; geese, ditto, Os to Os; butter for exportation (Pl,l
cure), per cat, 60s to 625; eggs. wholesale price, per dozenito,
to Od; 4b loaf, 6d; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 14 0,
3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork 113,
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to
Meal—Oatmeal, is 5d to Is 6d; bearmeal, is 4d to is
peasemeal, Is 1 td to 2e; side, 7d to 8d ; barley flour, is 6 lb,
Is 7d ; barley dust, 7d to 9d ; flour, is 10d to 2s; barley, Per
1-11,1 to 2d.
ll
DALKEITH, SEPT. 13.—The relative weight per foulbusbe,t
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 131 b, 18st 41b, and 81b,
81b. Oats, 12st 41b, 12st 01b, and I Ist 41b. Barley, 16't
15st 111 b, and 14st 31b. Peas and beans, 18st 111 b, 17st 11
and 17st bibs.

_
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
0
155 Wheat ... ...... £2 14 0 £2 9 0 £2 1
251 Oats
121 Barley 1 6 6 1 4 6 0 IS
53 Peas and Beans 1 14 0 1 11 6 1 8 0
Average of wheat 46s 7id.
CORK, SEPT. 14.—The trade during the week 114
been characterised by great inactivity and dulness. Iv
accounts from the English side, as well as the very largo
arrivals of foreign grain here, having had a most df"
pres,ing effect upon this market. The supplies of bora°
grain are not on so liberal a scale, the receipts for the
week, owing to our farmers being busily employed with
harvest work, amounting only to:—Wheat. 2,281 bar'
refs, at 16s to 20, 9.1 per bar, el ; barley, 637 barrels, II
9s to Its per barrel ; oats, 6,471 barrels, at 7s to 9s 6°
per barrel. So very little barley has yet appeared at
market that it is difficult to predicate of prices. As Yec
they have ruled low, but our brewers not having coo!
into the market, we must regard the present quotation:
as being quite nominal. Oats fully support their vat
and are taken freely at the rates of last week. Of
prepared article a few sales have been made at about
83 93 per barrel, free on board for blacks; 8s 9d 1° i
being their current value. In white oats we have 13,
transactions to notice. Flour, with the same restricted
demand, meets only a moderate consumptive, sale f
er
se
immediate wants ; our bakers, in the prent conditlne
of the market, being altogether indisposed to roa
speculative purchases. Indian corn is totally negleotei;
and though prices are nominally the same, the artiee
must be considered as a mere drug, the imm,el3B
arrivals taking place, and the cheapness and gwvn„-
,00li
of the potatoes, combining to render it totally /:
saleable. Of Indian meal the same may be %lid;
Flour—Firsts 13s 6d to 14s Od ; extra 14s v
seconds, 12s 63 to 13s ; households es to 115 6d; thirds, 75,°„t..
per cwt. Oatmeal lls 6d to I 2s.' Indian meal Is 6d to 7s Od;
meal, lOs Od tolls per cwt. Indian corn 6/ to 617 s 6d per t°_
Bran 3/ 5s Od to 3/ lOs per ton. Hay—Farmers 20s to 305; avers,
5
00s; dealers 00s to 00s Od; average 00s per ton. Straw--FarOnt
12, 03 to 16s Od; average 20s; dealers 25s Od to 281 614 ;
average 15s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6i
household loaf 5d to 5/d per 41b. Fresh butter, 73,,,
83 per lb. Eggs-4s 6d to 4s 8d per hundred. 02.,a,,th
Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best oe".0.
Culin 13s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to ON per e,"st
Whisky, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. ill'eto
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to 51d; veal 4°
„or
Od ; pork 41c1 to 5d ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages bd r r
lb. hops 51 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 3159 Peels
ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to Si 10s; Valonia 14/ to 01; Fren
7/10s; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 105 to 12s per 'toll
Hemp 31/ to 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 17s to 18s; rel.
ditto 265 to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ lOs to 12/ Pe
ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 181
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12s to 1",
!
salted 12s to 18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2#d per
•
Potatoes, white s&d to 7d; Minions 00d to 003; Guano''
Peruvian, 11/ 10s; Ichaboe 9/ per ton; Tar—..Archangel',"
19, per barrel.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sh are market was very dull to-da,P
and prices were consequently lower. The sales are—Cale-
donian, Preference, 101/2—Great Northern (B). 3!.4i
Lancaster and York, Consol. Fifths, 6 dis. London Alld,
North. Western, 114 c.— Ditto, New Quarters, % 1:6-1„1.1
land, Halves, 181/2 c. dis.— Ditto, Consol. (B and C), "40-c
North British, New Preference, par—Oswestry and Chester,
New 101. Shares, 1 dis.—South-Eastern and i'over (No•
6/. 3s. Pd.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Far
chase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 41. 18s. 9d.
BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 15.
AS STOCK EXCHANGE were
The transactions to-day ••
follow :—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 5 dis.-
„- th
Staffordshire, 4d/4 dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, SEPT. 15.
IS
STocK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were
follow : —Great Northern, 71/2—London and North-Western,
113—Newcastle and Carlisle, 921/2 ...Ditto, Quarters, 233/4—..
North British, Halves, 5 Ih—Ditto, Thirds, Be.lls. 3d—
Quarters, 2.7—North Staffordshire, 10.
S L Ditto,
(3

T. UKE'S, KING'S- CROSS.—The Queen has 91):
ponated the Rev. H. C. Rudely ffe to this newly formed
district in the parish of St. Pancras.

BIRTH'S.
On the 10th inst., at Barwell, Leicestershire, the lady of
111*r T. H. Pearson, of a son.
On the 11th lust., at Bloxham-grove, near Banbury, the
lady of the Rev. G. Warriner, of a son.
On the 13th inst., in Charterhouse-square, London, the
lady of John Mann, Esq., of a son.
On the 13th inst., at Canterbury, the wife of Lieutenant..
Colonel Hutchinson, Grenadier Guards, of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., at Torrington-square, the wife of T. D.
Archibald, Esq., of a son.
_

On the 14th inst., at Park-road, Regent's-park, Mil"
Crawford, the wife of J. 'l'. Crawford, Esq., her Majesty
Consul-General in Cuba, of a son.

3IAR.RIED.
On the 12th inst., at the Episcopal Church, at Elion,
Charles Elphinstone Dalrymple, fourth son of the late Sir,
R. D. H. Elphinstone, Bart., of Logie Elphinstone, to Harriet
Albinia, eldest daughter of Alexander Gordon, of Ellon,
Aberdeenshire.
On the 13th inst., at Abbots Leigh, near Bristol, Captain
Edward Arthur Somerset, M.P., eldest son of the late Ge-
neral the Right lion. Lord Edward Somerset, to Aga
second daughter of William Miles, Esq., M.P., of Leigh'
court, Somersetshire.

DIED.
On the 14th inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, aged
71, the Right Hon. Lord Methuen.
On the 12th inst , at the Rectory, Warburton, aged 42r
the Rev. J. F. E. Warburton, M.A.. rector of Warburton.
At Purbrook-house, on the 12th inst., aged 16, Arthur
Bu'keley Blackwood, midshipman of her Majesty's ship
Victory, sec. nd son of Captain Sir Edward Blackwood,
Bart., R.N.
On the Ilh inst., at Fdward-street, Walwortb, Williaul
Hoar, Esq., late Captain of her Majesty's 10th Regiment o
f
Foot, aged 70.
On the 14th inst., llannah, relict of the late Rear-Adalll.4l
Peter Puget, C.B.
On Saturday, the 15th inst., after a few hours' illness,
Mary Anne, the youngest daughter of John Strutt, Esq.' "
Buckingham-street, Aclelphi.

London: Printed and Published by BIURDO YOUNG' ~f
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The sun Office, No. "
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the count,'
Middleaes, Monday, September 17, 1849.