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London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

HERBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS
.?RESENT PAR•

LIAMENT.
said
OF TAUllo.—Humphry Willyams, of the
said borough, Esq., in the room of Edmund Turner, Esq.,
deceased.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 15.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal of the United King-
dom constituting and appointing the Right Honourable
Sir Francis Thornhilllßaring,lßart. ; Rear-Admiral Janes
Whitley Deana Dundas, C. 8.; Maurice Frederick Fitz-
hardinge Berkeley, Esq.,
Navy; Lord John C.., Captain in her Majesty's
Hay, C. 8., Captain in her Majesty's
Navy; the Hon. William Francis Cowper; and Alex-
ander Milne, Esq., Captain in her Majesty's Navy, her
Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of High
Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories
thereto belonging.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 15.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Colonel Wil-
liam Wylde to be Colonel, vice Cleaveland, deceased;
Brevet Major Burke Cuppage to be Lieutenant Colonel,
vice b e
Captain, vice CuPPa
,
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tWJinohtenn
g__e vice De Winton;
vice Wylde; Second Cap.taFinirsTt hijomieaustenDa
ilman to be First
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en
d L Elgeeieut e ntoa n tb George
Lieutenant, vice Elgee, Jan. 8.
S e oe Cd
earps toani nm,
'commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire.
Warwickshire Regiment of Militia—Theophilus
William Biddulpb, Esq., to be Captain, vice Lucy, de-
ceased, Dec. 26, 1848.
LUNACY.
Office of Commissioners in Lunacy, Jan. 11.
The Lord High Chancellor having appointed
Samuel Gaskell, E,q. (Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, and lately the Superintendent of the
Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum), to be a Com-
missioner in Lunacy, in the room of Doctor James
Cowles Prichard, deceased; Mr. Gaskell was thereupon
uly sworn in as Commissioner, on the 9th January
instant, and on this day took his seat at the Board ac
( ordingly.

By order of the Board,
R. W. S. LIITVIDGE, Secretary
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Mawer, banker, Lower Team, Durham.
BANKRUPTS.

William Broady, commission agent, Halken-street,
Ilelgrave-square, to surrender Jan. 24, at two, and Feb.
27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, offi-
cial assignee; Clarke, George-street, Mansion House.

Lazarus Congdon, pain ter, Spring-street, Paddington,
Jan. 30, at one, and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Depree, Law-
rence-lane, Cheapside.
Christopher Joseph Snapping, cattle dealer, Eastwood,
Essex, Jan. 23, at one, and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Chid-
ley, Guildhall-chambers, Baeinghall-street.
Thomas Carpenter Dixon, oilman, Gravesend, Jan.
25, at twelve, and Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane;
Philp, Great St. Helen's.
John Coles, baker, Launton, Oxfordshire, Jan. 27, at
one, and March 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Green, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-
street; Lawrence and Blews, Old Jewry-chambers.
Edward William Hunt, victualler, Newgate-market,
Jan 30, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 27, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Vaughan, Lincoln's Inn-
fields.
Zebulun Leigh, tea merchant, Manchester, Feb. 1, at
eleven, and Feb. 16, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester;
Johnson and Co., Temple; Hitchcock and Co., Man-
chester.
Horatio Kemp, discount agent, Threadneedle-street,
City, Jan. 27, at one, and March 3, at half-past
is elve, at. the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official
assignee, Sambrook-court, Basingball-street; Chilcote,
George-street, Mansion House.
Robert William Hunter, baker, Praed-street, Pad-
dington, Jan. 22, at twelve, and Feb. 22, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. ,Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall•street; Knight, Basinghall- street.
William Childerhouse, jun., builder, Montpelier,
place, Montpelier-square, Brompton, Jan. 26, at half- '
past one, and March 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Gibbon, Great
James-street, Bedford-row.
William Thornley, grocer, Ripley, Derbyshire, Jan. 26
and Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Not-
tingham; Ingle, Belper.
William Parrott, stone mason, Leicester, Jan. 26 and
Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court,
Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottinghan ;
Dibben, Leicester; Bowley, Nottingham.
John Jackson, farmer, Clifford, Herefordshire, Jan.
31 and Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Pugh,
Hay, Brecknockshire ' • Chaplin, Birmingham.
Henry Richard Benbow, veterinary surgeon, Malvern
Wells, Worcestershire, Jan. 30 and Feb. 27, at ten, at
the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee,
Birmingham; Bloxham, Birmingham.
Daniel Boit, sharebroker, Bristol, Jan. 13 and Feb. 27,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Rennie, official
assignee, Bristol; Crosby, Bristol ; Jay, Sergeant's Inn,
Fleet-street.
John Menhenitt, builder, Plymouth, Jan. 25, at one,
and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Kelly, Plymouth;
Stogdon, Exeter; Harris, Sone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn.
Robert Lodge, miner, Starbottom, West Riding of
Yorkshire, Jan. 29 and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Bell
and Co.. Bow Church-yard, London ; Watson, Sad-
bergh ; Bell, Leeds.
John Serjeant, grocer, Worksop, Nottinghamshire,
Feb. 3 and March 3, at twelve, at the Leeds District
Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Moss, Ser-
geant's-inn; Branson and Son, Sheffield.
William Garret, bookseller, Newcastle a)on-Tyne,
Jan. 24, at half-past one, and Feb. 22, at at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official
,ssignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Birkett and Son,
Cloak-lane ; Jobling and Fleming, Newcastle-upon-
Ty ne.
William Adam Massey, wood turner, Liverpool, Jan.
29 and Feb. 26, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Cluster
and Co., Staple Inn; Bradner, Liverpool.

COURSE OF EXCRA
Amsterdam ...... •• .. 12 2%
Dit'.o, at sight • • .... 12 0%
KcAterdain .......... 12 2%
25 80
Hamburgh • • M.B. 13 11%
Altona • . ••••••
i'aris, 3 days'sight •• 25 37%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 62%
'ifarseilles ••• • .. •• 25 62%
Bourdeaux.... •.... • 25 65
Frankfort on Maine.... 121%
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble .. 36%
Vienna, effec. fio •• • • 11 30
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 33
Stadrid ••••••• • • • •• • • 47 k;
Cadiz ••••••••• • • • • • • • 48%
Barcelona •. • • .. • • • • .•

Seville.. ••

NGE. -( THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.. • • ..........
Leghorn ........ •• .. 32 5
Genoa .. •• • • ...... •. .. 26 30
Milan ...•...........,
Naples . • •• • • .... • •
Palermo, per cos
Messina ..............
Rio Janeiro • • ...... • •
Buenos Ayres .. ••.. • •
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia .... • • ..

1183
11” j
51%
52

PRICES OF BULLION, MI OZ
Foreign Gold illbars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 4 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ••.. • • 0 4 10
Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11%

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED LS
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1548.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*407
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... „. 58
Turbercular Diseases... 210
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 150
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 42
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ••• ... 325
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ...
Diseases cf the Kidneys, &c. ••• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations.—
Premature Birth ... .. •I
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• •••
Old Ago ••• ••• ••• ••• ••
Sudden ... ..• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...

Population
Enumerated,
1841-
West Districts... 300,711
North D.Aricts.. 375,971
Central Districts 373,653
East Districts 392,444
South Districts.. 501,190

63
•••, „

1,448

Totals... ..... 1,948,369

Average weekly Deaths
Deaths, 1843-7. in the
Five Summers. Week.
. 142 ... 209
. 182 ... 251
. 178 ... 221
. 219 ... 302
. 251 ... 465

... 1,448
... 697
... 751

Males
Females ...

sold at fully former terms, indeed some parties will not
sell thereat. and the market has a firm aspect.
Rim—To-day there was no public sale of East India
Rice, and privately little business was done.
SAGO FLOUR.—This afternoon at public sale 141 bags
of damaged went at lOs 6d to 14s 6d per cwt.
SPICES.—To-day black Pepper was dealt in with more
readiness, at *d advance, and 386 bags Sumatra at public
sale sold. Of Aftican Pod, 12 bags sold at 42s for
ordinary. Ginger. only a part of 323 bags of Malabar
sold at 24s for good export sort.
COOEINEAL.—The market has again been well sup-
plied, and prices have suffered a depression of Id per lb,
although a good demand has been experienced. The
parcels submitted to public sale amounting to 175 bags
were for the most part disposed of.
INDlGO.—Although the quantity of the E. I. declared
for public sale is large amounting to upwards of 10,600
chests; the market has a firm aspect, and holders appear
sanguine in their expectations as to future operations.
Spanish met with rather more attention, and cannot be
obtained upon former terms.
FRUIT.—A much better demand has been experienced
for Currants, and prices have assumed an upward ten-
dency. Raisins are dealt in with greater freedom, and
holders evince more firmness; Valencia realize from 36s
to 375. For other sorts of Fruit there is generally a
better demand.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the parcels of Saltpetre sold
privately were upon stiffer terms, and 172 bags of Cal-
cutta at auction fetched 27s to 27s 6d for good strong
grey 41 per cent refraction, and not refracted 25s 6d
per cwt.
TALLow.—Russian on the spot is offered at further
reduced rates, still Soap,makers and Chandlers operate
with, caution, and 41s to 41s 6d :per cwt is the
value of fine P Y. C Candle. For forward de-
livery scarcely any demand exists. Home melted
is dull of (sale at 41s 6d to 42s nett cash, and at which
a desire is evinced to sell on account of large supplies.
Other sorts of Tallow have fallen in value, whilst a
greater quantity has been brought forward. At auction
782 pkgs of South American were nearly all sold ; 375
clis of stranded P. Y. C., first sort 38s 6d to 39s 6d ;
120 cks of Odessa 40s to 40s 6d ; 8 cks East India
41s 3d to 43s 9d, and 9 casks of Italian 42s per cwt.
Rough Fat is dull of sale at 2s 5d per ;stone, and is in
plentiful supply.
Oras.—A greater disposition has been manifested to
operate iu Southern Oil, and the parcels sold privately
were at firm rates. Seal is held with firmness, but at pre-
sent there are few buyers, and of 105 tuns at public sale a
part only sold. For Cod there is a good demand at 231105,
and supply ismoderate. Of North West Whale 30 tuns at
auction realised 271 to 281 5s for good and fine. For
Sperm the market is brisker, and at former rates a
fair business has been concluded privately. At suction
12 tuns of Colonial went at 801 to 801 10s, and at
811 15s for Headmatter. The value of fine Oil is 81l per
tun. Of all sorts arrivals have been small since
this day week. For Linseed Oil the home de-
mand is not so active, and there are few export
orders in the market, whilst prices are not so
firm, and rule at 22s 6d to 22s 9d on the spot.
Rape Oil finds a ready sale. Of Cocoa Nut there are
further arrivals, and the market has a dull aspect. Palm
is little wanted. At auction 60 cks were withdrawn.
Olive met with a ready sale and at better prices. Lard
Oil is dull of sale.

MONSTER COD.—There was brought ashore, by a
crew of Buckie fishermen, on Wednesday last, a
monster cod, measuring in length 42 inches, in girth
30} inches, and weighing 391bs. It was presented to a
fish curer, as a Christmas present.—North British Daily

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMEVSTER.
As Mr. Broderip was about retiring last even.
ing, a respectable looking man rushed into tour
and requested to be allowed to speak to the magis
trate for a moment. His request was immediately
complied with, although it was long after the usual
hour of closing the court, and he then hastily com-
municated to the magistrate the following frightful
case of distress. He stated that a man and his wife
who had been brought up very genteelly had en-
countered great reverses, and came with their family
to lodge in a house belonging to applicant, in York-
street, Westminster. For a short time they endea-
voured to procure a subsistence, the mother by knit-
ting worsted cuffs, and the father, who had been a
tchoolmaster, by writing small labels for shop win-
dows, both of which two of their children disposed of
in the streets; but the slender profit derived from
these sources was totally inadequate to supply the wants
of their children; and, to fill up their cup of misery,
both were taken ill a few days ago, and were unable
longer to assist, in the slightest degree, themselves or
children. Death had that morning released the poor
man from his sufferings, and the picture their abode
at that moment presented was frightful. Next to the
poor man, who had breathed bis last in the whole of
the few articles of wearing apparel he possessed, lay
the wife, apparently in a dying state, without a bed
or an article of clothing to cover her, food, or firing,
with her six poor children, mourning in starvation
the death of their father, and probable bereavement
of their remaining parent. On being acquainted with
these circumstances, applicant hastened to the work-
house of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster,
that afternoon, in order to make the authorities ac-
quainted with the matter, and implore them to ad-
minister to the extreme necessities of the afflicted
mother and children, and perform the usual decencies
to the deceased. All his attempts, however, to
obtain an audience at either the workhouse
or the relieving-office were unavailing. At the
former the menials told him they were only
servants, and could not interfere, and directed him
to go round to the relief-office, where he knocked in
vain, and having gone to and fro for nearly two
hours, without the slightest chance of making the
appalling condition of the family known, he had
hastened to this Court in the hope that if he were
successful in arriving before the Magistrate left,
something would be done to alleviate their sufferings.
Mr. 1311,0DERIP, who was evidently much affected,
inquired whether applicant knew the nature of the
disease of which the poor man bad died.
Applicant replied, it was a sort of cramp, brought
on, he too much feared, by starvation.
in BRODERIP rose hastily from the bench, and
addressing the chief usher, directed him to go imme-
diately to the house of affliction, not to lose a moment
in doing so, as by prompt attention the poor woman
might yet recover, to procure for her all the neces-
saries and comforts time would allow, to see that she
had proper treatment in every respect, and let him
know the expense.
SOUTHWARK.
Elizabeth Salter was brought up for re-examination,
charged with robbing Mr. Charles Wade of a watch,
gold guard-chain, and a coat, containing a purse with
41. 103.' and Samuel Pudney, described as a builder,
attended in discharge of his bail, as being concerned
in the offence. Mr. Games attended on the part of
the prisoner Pudney.
The complainant stated that on Wednesday night
he met the prisoner in the Waterloo-road, and accom-
panied her to a house in Cornwall-road. On entering
a room in the house he deposited his purse and money,
and also his watch and guard, in the pocket of his
great coat for safety, and placed the garment on the
back of a door in the apartment. He had not long
been there before he missed the coat and its contents,
and charged Salter with robbing him. She, however,
denied the charge, and as he was apprehensive that he
would be maltreated in the house, and could not open
the room door, as it was locked, he commenced smash-
ing the windows to give the alarm. He, however,
had not broken many panes of glass before Salter
opened the door, and he then descended to the passage
where he was met by the other prisoner, to whom he
related that he had been robbed and mentioned the
property; but instead of that person rendering him
assistance, he remonstrated with him for breaking the
windows, adding, at the same time, that he should
protect the women from violence, and thereupon he
seized complainant and attempted to push him out of
the house into the street. A struggle took place be-
tween them, in the midst of which a policeman came
l up, and both the prisoners were clamorous in charging
him with breaking the windows and gave him into
• custody on the charge. He (complainant) described
the true nature of the case at the station-house, and
I gave Salter in charge for robbing him of the property
above enumerated, and on the following day, when
the circumstances were brought under the considera-
tion of the Magistrate, Pudney, who was in attend-
, ance as a witness in Court, was ordered into custody
for the part he had taken in the transaction. On that
occasion the latter prisoner at first denied having any
intimacy with Salter or a woman named Moreton,
the landlady of the house, but upon being closely
pressed on the point, he admitted that he had slept in
the house, the landlady of which, he said, be became
acquainted with as he passed along, having had some
houses to repair in the street. He further said that
he was a builder, and lived in Holborn, and declared
that his only motive in interfering upon the occasion
was, on hearing the noise of the window breaking, and
being called upon by the landlady of the house and his
fellow prisoner to protect them from the violence of
the man that did the damage, and who, at the time,
appeared to be in a state of great excitement. He
also added, that he knew nothing of the robbery, and
admitted that he and the complainant had a scuffle
in the passage in his attempt to expel him from the
house.
Mr. COTTINGHAM inquired if the complainant's
coat, or any of the property it contained, were traced
since the last examination, and the reply was in the
negative.
A Mr. Nelson, who was in the complainant's com-
pany on the night in question, and parted with him
shortly before the alleged robbery took place, proved
that the former had his purse and money, and also
his watch and guard chain when he left him.
In the complainant's cross-examination by Mr.
Games, he admitted that after he had quitted his
friend INTr. Nelson, he went to the Feathers, and that
it was after leaving that house that he met with Salter
at Ch., corner of Stamford street, anti a,conq, m cl 1)-r
to the house where he was robbed. He had not been
in the company of any other female but Salter; had
no recollection of Salter leaving the room where they