The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-10 00:00:00

TICE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1849.

it was the threatened advance of Marshal Wittgen-
stein's army that enabled Prince Metternich to inter-
vene with effect in favour of the Ottoman Empire in
1828. How long could Turkey hold out single-
handed against her old enemy leagued with her old
ally ? Her troops may be brave and her coffers well
filled; but a nation in the transition state between bar-
barism and refinement, has lost the force of fanaticism
without acquiring that of civilization ; and fearfully
outnumbered, as she infallibly, must be, she might be
crushed, unless France and England were to hurry
to the rescue in good earnest, and back her with both
an army and a fleet. Could they, or either of them,
do this, without virtually making common cause with
the insurgents in Hungary and Poland, as well as
with the dissatisfied population of Germany and Italy?
And then (ask the French movement party) would
England—orderly, insular, self-seeking England—
co-operate in such a course ? Nay, would Lord Pal-
merston himself, fond as he is of exciting an occasional
disturbance in an allied State, cons ent to kindle what
Canning wisely deprecated as " a war of opinions"
throughout the world?

" -- Beware
Of entering in a quarrel, but once in
Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee."
If (which we earnestly deprecate) a hostile interven-
tion should be forced upon tie, we must abide all
consequences; and Great Britain has more than once
succeeded (as in the cases of Spain and Portugal) in
upholding or restoring the independence of an op-
pressed nation, against far greater odds than she
would have to enconnter as the unflinching ally of
Turkey. As to the dispositions of the French people
we believe that the best of them, including most of
the higher and nearly all the middle class, are ad-
mirably disposed towards this country.- The Presi-
sident, so far as his personal feelings are concerned,
would certainly prefer the English alliance. But an
influential section of the Moderates, headed by Count
Mold, are favourable to the Russian alliance ; M. de
Lamartine, whose voice still finds a ready echo in
the breast of Young France, terms it " the cry of
nature," because it would exile England to
Asia and the Ocean ; and no one can deny
that the volatile character of our peigh•
hours across the Channel renders it impos-
sible to calculate on their steady adherence to any
set of opinions, or any line of policy to which their
Government for the time being might stand pledged.
It is understood that the French Government have
ratified the proceedings of their representative at the
Porte, and have promised to second the remonstrances
addressed by the English Government to the Czar.
But they decline joining in the note dispatched by
Lord Palmerston. The tone of this note appears to
be earnest, dignified, and conciliatory. Ample justice
is done to the intentions of the Emperor in seeking
to make himself the bulwark of social order and the
champion of stability. There is no approach to me-
nace, and the possible consequences of obduracy on his
part are shadowed out with a degree of vagueness
which does the highest credit to Lord Palmerston's
diplomatic penmanship. This is surely the wisest
and most effective mode of addressing a Sovereign who
possesses an army of 700,000 men, and is revered
and obeyed by more than 60,000,000 of human
beings as a god. The only check or limitation on
his authority is one mentioned in the Memoirs of
Lord Cloncurry, who relates that one evening at
Rome, in a private circle, " the comparative merits
of democracy and despotism being under debate, the
risk of mischief at the hands of a senseless ill-condi-
tioned tyrant was urged as more than a counterpoise
fur the good that could be done by a bene-
volent and wise autocrat. Against that risk,' ex-
claimed Count Pahlen, we have a safeguard. Here
is the Constitution of Russia!' and starting up he
closed the argument by drawing a dagger from his
pocket and flinging it upon the table." The dagger
and the cord have certainly played a prominent part
in Russian history ; but the present Czar is idolized
by the hulk of his subjects, and perseverance in his
late demand would certainly cause noim-
mediate diminution of his popularity. Fully
admitting, however, the giant strength of des-
potism, and perfectly conscious of the habits of
occasionally uncontrollable self-will engendered by
it, we are as far as ever from believing that reason,
justice, and humanity will be deliberately disre-
garded or defied. We say, with Mr. Webster, the
American orator :—" This reasoning mistakes the
age. Moral causes come into play as the progress of
knowledge is advanced ; and the public opinion of
the civilized world is rapidly gaining an ascendancy
over the mere brute force. No matter what fields
are desolated, what fortresses surrendered, or what
provinces overrun. There is an enemy that still
exists to check the glory of these triumphs. It fol-
lows the conqueror back to the very scene of his
ovations : it calls upon him to take notice that Eu-
rope, though silent, is still indignant : it shows him
that the sceptre of his victory is a barren sceptre :
that it shall confer neither joy nor honour, but moul-
der to dry ashes in his grasp. In the midst of his
exultation, it pierces his ear with the cry of injured
justice : it turns to bitterness the cup of his rejoicing,
and wounds him with the sting which belongs to the
consciousness of having outraged the opinion of
mankind." Will the enlightened and cultivated
Emperor of Russia recklessly confront such an
enemy ? We deliberately repeat our conviction that
he will not.
HERALD.—In another part of our journal of to-
day will be found a most interesting letter of Louis
Kossuth, the late Dictator of Hungary, dated Wid-
din, Sept. 2,0, and addressed to Viscount Palmerston,
her 'Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. 'When it is remembered that this man, lately
the Dictator of his country, and within the last six
weeks all-powerful from Presburg and Pesth to the
frontiers of the Turkish Empire, is now a wanderer
and a fugitive—a suppliant for a resting-place to men
of a race and a faith different in all respects from his
own—one is tempted to reflect on the mutability of
fortune—to remember how fleeting is political fame
—to consider what a mere echo is political renown
even in countries not labouring under the throes of
revolution or great and sudden political changes. At
any time, however, the eloquent words of Kossuth
would find a ready acceptance and echo in England.
Though forced into extreme opinions by the nature of
his position and unfortunate conjuncture of cir•
cumstances—yet men of all shades of political
opinion in this country have felt that the original
cause for which Kossuth combatted was founded in
law—in charter—and in prescription—that he at first
sought to obtain fur Hungary that to which Hungary
was clearly entitled--her ancient laws—her ancient
constitution—her separate administration. Though
the Dictator may have since gone beyond his original
intent in pronouncing the deposition of the House of
Hapsburg, yet there are not wanting those who would
justify so extreme a step, and the majority of even
moderate men are not slow to allow, that, if not jus-
tifiable, there are many palliations and excuses to be
offered for a proceeding which, at the first blush,
seems to have been rash as well as unwise, and politi-
cally inexpedient. Without, however, entering into
these debateable questions—every generous, candid,
and noble mind will be inclined to pause on the
words of a remarkable, though a fallen
man—on the words of one who, if he
have erred, has suffered, and is new suffering,
for his error—an the words of one who, it is
certain, has not enriched himself by the ruin of his
country. Kossuth states, and we believe he states
truly, that the Hungarian insurrection was not
prompted by the spirit of disorder, or the ambitious
views of a faction. Hungary has ever been loyal to
her Sovereigns in the worst of times, but Hungary
has ever felt that if subjects had duties, so had
Sovereigns, and it was not until she was threatened
with utter annihilation as a nation that the kingdom
of Hungary remembered that she owed a faithful
adherence to her own charter and to the House
of Hapsburg only so long as that charter and that
constitution were preserved inviolate. In the
struggle so long and so gloriously maintained
Hungary has fallen ; but she has fallen by a success
which must in the end be more untoward to Austria
than defeat and disaster now are to Hungary. Be
this, however, as it may, all the most prominent of
the actors in the Hungarian quarrel, and many of
the troops, have taken refuge in the Turkish terri-
tory. They received the assurance that they were
welcome guests, and that they would receive the pro-
tection of the Padisha of Widdin. For four weeks

this protection was accordingly accorded to them.
But at the end of that period a fresh demand having
been made for their delivery by the cruel Czar of
Russia, it was intimated to Kossuth, to Casimir
Bathyani, to Messaros, to Perczel, and to the other
civilians as well as military men, that they would be
surrendered unless they abjured the faith of their fore-
fathers in the religion of Christ, and at once be-
came Mussulmen. Thus, as Kossuth says, five
thousand Christians are placed in the terrible
alternative, either of facing the scaffold or of
purchasing their lives by abandoning their faith.
How much less civilized—how much more hard-
hearted are men in Austria in 1849 than in 1739, just
110 years antecedently. The true-hearted wife of
lhio3suth—his poor old mother—hs innocent and
elpless children—far from being permitted to join
him, are, like Madame Guyon—like Countess
lcetzriz and her two children—like Countess Orezy,
Madame Cz,,,,kor*
h:fan's
theird. of the Austrians. Perhaps we
and
tmh ma r nexthein being
hear
more
mercifully
prisoners in the
return to the letter of Koss scourged, perhAps of
tshhot or decapitated. To
mournful as it is, well repay. al That document will,
enanattentive perusal.
The subject touched on in so melancholy
the Hungarian Dictator is not exhausted, a strain by
shall have occasion to recur to it agaianuanePageanidn. we

jatsH PRODUCH.—The vessel Geraldine, arrived
in the river from Tralee, has brought 127 tons weight
of slate slabs, forming the cargo ; and the ship Adam,
arrived on the same day from Londonderry, has brought
72 tons weight of muriate of potash, forming her entire
cargo,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
GUILDHALL.

Aker the business of the court was concluded a
Mr. Fowler, of the firm of W. L. Nicholls and Co.,
16, Alderqgate street, London, entered the court, and
addressing Sir Peter Laurie said, that knowing his
desire at all time to expose anything like fraud or
deception, he had thought it most advisable to call his
attention to a person in Dublin who was now trying
to victimize the tradesmen of London, and who he could
prove was nothing better than a swindler. If Sir
Peter had. no objection, he would read the letters, and
it would then be seen what sort of a person the indi-
vidual was to whom he had alluded. Tha first was as
follows :

"Dublin, August, 20.
"Mr. Nicholls : Sir,—Please to sead me a sketch and
prices of Fuirbank's weighing machines.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
" Jour; CRAWFORD, Merchant.
" Mr. Nicholls, 16, Aldersgate-street, Loudon."
Mr. Fowler said, that on the 24th of August an
answer was sent, stating the prices, with 15 per cent.
discount, and an extra 5 per cent. for prompt cash
with good references, or cash before delivery. On the
25th they received the following letter :
" Dublin, August 24.

" Gentlemen,—ln reply to yours of the 221 inst.,
please to forward, per British and Irish Steam-packet
Cimpany, six weighing machines, 5 cwt., 51. 55., with
wheels, and one ditto, 10 cwt., 81. Bs., without wheels.
"Discount, 15 per cent., and 5 per cent. off net for
prompt cash.—l am, gentlemen, yours respectfully,
"JOHN CRAW WORD.

" Messrs. W. L. Nicholls and Co."
He (Mr. Fowler) answered this letter on the 27th of
August, requesting some references, or a banker's
order, before the goods could be sent to a stranger.
Sir P. LAURIE—A very proper precaution.
Mr. Fowler—On the 28th we received the following
communication :

"Dublin, Aug. 28.
" Messrs. W. L. Nicholls and Co.
"Gentlemen,—Agreeable with your request, I beg
reference to Mr. Maurice Nolan Cordwood, merchant,
11, Hawkins-street, or Mr. James Clancy, discount office,
10, Anglesea-street, both of this city.
" I am, gentlemen, yours respectfully,

"JOHN Ca-A.W FORD.
"Messrs. W. L. Nicholls and Co.,
16, Aldersgate-street, London."
He might here remark that neither the first or third
letters were paid, although there was something like
the appearance of a stamp having been on. His sus-
picions were aroused, and he wrote back to Mr.

Crawford on the 29th of August, saying that he
should prefer references in London or cash, and also
should like that he paid for his letters, and would
forward four postage stamps for those unpaid. Not
receiving any answer, and seeing the report in the
papers, which came before Sir P. Laurie, respecting
the attempt by Gilmour to obtain goods from Mr.
Fidinarsh, of Eyre street hill, Holborn, under similar
circumstances, he suspected that his customer might
be in some way connected with that person, and
therefore he called on Mr. Tidmarsh for the purpose
of comparing the handwriting. They, however, did
not agree ; and by Mr. Tidmarsh's advice, he wrote the
following letter to the Mayor of Dublin :
" 16, Aldersgate-street, London, Sept. 29.
"My Lord Mayor,—ln consequence of some proved
swindlers having within the last few weeks attempted to
obtain goods from London tradesmen, but which attempt
was frustr&ed and exposed by Sir P. Laurie and the
Mayor of Liverpool; and having also received an order
from a stranger (to us) of your city, whose letters bear
a suspicious appearance, we have taken the liberty to
address your Lordship, thinking you will feel happy in
protecting the characters of respectable parties from
unfounded suspicion, sad equally willing to expose to the
world all trickery and fraud.
" Herewith is enclosed three letters from the party
who has written to us, with our answers at the head of
each. You will please to observe that the postage of
two of the letters was unpaid, and for which we had to
pay double-4d.; also, that we have received no answer
to our letter of the 29th ult., which was a_reply to that
dated Dublin, Aug. 28, 1849.
"We remain respectfully,
"Your Lord hip's obedient servants,
"W. L. NICHOLLS and Co.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
of the city of Dublin."
On Saturday last they received the following letter
from the secretary to the Lord Mayor of Dublin :
" Dublin, Mansion-house, Oct. 5.
" am directed by the Lord Mayor to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your enclosures of the 29th ult., and
is reply, to inform you that his Lordship, on inquiry,
has learned that your correspondent, Mr. Crawford, of
Dublin, is a person of no means or character as a trader,
and there is much reason to suspect that his referees,
Mr. Clancy, of Anglesea-street, and Mr. Nolan, of Haw-
kins-street, are in collusion with him for the purpose of
defrauding London merchants.
" The affair is in the hands of the proper authorities
here with the view of identifying those persons with
these malpractices.
"I have the honour to be, air. your obedient servant,
TixoTav 0' Baimm, jun.,
" Secretary to the Lord Mayor.
" Mr. W. L. Nicholls, 16, Alderagate-street, London."
Sir P. LAustiz observed, that the tradesmen of
London ought to bo exceedingly obliged to the Lord
Mayor of Dublin for the promptness with which he
had attended to Mr. Nicholls' letter and the informa-
tion he had forwarded respecting the parties. He
(Sir P. Laurie), however, did not see bow be could
be of any beneficial good.
Mr. Fowler said, that he merely called for the
purpose of publicly exposing such a person before
tradesmen should be taken in previous to his charac-
ter being known, as there were many tradesmen who
were most anxious to execute an order speedily, with-
out taking the very necessary precaution of making
inquiries. He held in his hands some numbers of

:he Trade Protection Record, and he there found

that from the 30th of June his name was published as
being a bad character, and well known to all the
protection societies, and there could be little doubt
that he was carrying on a regular system of swind-
ling. _ _

Sir P. LAURIE said, that cases like the present
could not receive too much publicity; and he
always was of opinion that the vigilance of the
press in exposing such persons did more good
than all the trials at the Old Bailey in defeating
the schemes of such parties. Although be had no
control over the matter, still he was exceedingly glad
Mr. Fowler had come forward and made the state-
ment which he had done that day.
Mr. .Fowler thanked Sir P. Laurie for his atten-
tion and withdrew.

did walk before me, holding my hand in his. He
stopped three times, and appeared to be listening, and
then went on again. Going along he put his arm
round my neck several times and kissed me, and at
last he put his arm round my neck, kissed me, and
then stuck something sharp into my throat. I put
up my hands directly and fell on the ground, and
while I was down he kneeled on me and put his
fingers on my throat, and held me down. I tried to
speak, but could not. I also tried to bite his hand,
and succeeded in thing so slightly, but he held my
throat so tight that I could not close my mouth to bite
him hard. I tried to say " You wretch," but could
not. I got his hands away and got up o❑ my knees,
and then he knocked me down with a pistol. I saw
it was a pistol. I got on my knees again and got
hold of his right hand, and found there was some-
thing sharp, I thought a knife, in it. I got hold of
it, and as I held it he put his hand to the back part of
my head and his knee to my back, and so held me
down while I had hold of the knife. I held it until
it snapped to pieces. I felt something sharp cut the
side of my neck. I got on my knees again, and then
found he was gone. I did not hear or see him go.
When I got up to walk away I felt that my throat
was cut, and took up my gown and held it to the
wound in my throat, but every time I breathed I
felt the blood rush out. I got back over the
same stile, and walked and ran until I got to a small
cottage, and afterwards I was taken to the house of
Mr. Ray, a surgeon, at Dulwich, where my wounds
were dressed. I had no quarrel with the prisoner,
but on the Monday before this happened I wrote to
him because he had not come to see me as he had
promised, saying I should write to my grandmother
and go home to my friends ; that I had forsaken all
for his sake, and that he ought not to serve me so ;
and, as we were walking together, ha said —" What
did you send me such a threatening letter for ; did
you mean it ?"—and I said " No, I didn't mean it."
He said, " Well, I thought not." I told him I only
did it to frighten him ; and it passed off then, and he
said nothing more about it. Going through Dul-
wich, he said he had only got three halfpence snore
than was necessary to pay the train, but asked me
to have a glass of ale, which I refused, saying
I should do without it until I got to Croydon. He
said there was something there for supper that
he knew I should like, and some brandy also.
There were no angry words between us at all.
.1 knew he was in the habit of carrying pistols
about him. I recollect every word in the letter
I received that day from the prisoner. I gave that
letter to him when I met him at Brixton, as he di-
rected me, and I have not seen it since. The letter
said—" My dear Sarah, meet me at Brixton Church
at eight o'clock to-morrow night. Don't come if you
don't bring this letter with you. lam going to take
you to Croydon. Don't tell Airs. Chapman where
you are going. If you don't bring this letter don't
come. I remain, yours for ever,---S. Jordan." I
read the letter over so often that I am sure that was
what was in it. I read it over so often because I
could not tell what might be meant. He had dated
it the 17th, but it came to me o❑ the morning of the
19th at nine o'clock, and so I thought he meant that
night. The letter was written in pencil. I was in
service until the 25th of July, when I left, by the
prisoner's direction, to be married to him. I had
given notice at the Registrar's office at Lambeth
workhouse by his directions, and on the 25th of July,
when I left my service, I went to Mr. Fraser's chapel,
in Regent's-street, to be married to him, but he did
not come at the time appointed. I saw him on the
same evening, and he told me that his master had
taken him out to work at three o'clock in the morn-
ing, and he could not come to me.
William Hunt, a labourer, residing in a small lodge
on Dulwich-common, within fifty yards of Dulwich.
wood, deposed that, on the night of the 19th ult.,
at about a quarter to ten o'clock, he heard a noise
resembling that of a person wheezing, or who had
been moaning and was out of breath. The noise
came from the wood in the direction of a stile leading
to Dulwich-wood. He was in the back garden at the
time, and heard the sound of footsteps come to the
front door. his wife opened the door, and on doing
so screamed aloud, upon which he (witness) went to
the door, and saw a person whose face was covered
with blood. He was somewhat alarmed at first, but
thought it was a trick to frighten himself and family,
and pushed the person, who by this time had entered
the house, out of it. Observing, however, that it was
a woman, he followed her, and came up with her at
the toll-gate. He they got a light and looked at her,
and perceived that she was holding her dress to her
throat. He asked her if her throat was cut, and she
replied it was, upon which he took her to the house
of Mr. Raye, the surgeon.
Mr. Edward Raye, surgeon, of Dulwich, deposed
that on the night of the 19th ult. the prosecutrix
was brought to his house, and on examining her he
found her bleeding from a wound in the throat, and
other wounds on her face and hands, and her whole
person was covered with blood. The wound on the
throat was three or four inches in length, and pene-
trated the windpipe just below the root of the
tongue. On the right side of the neck there was

another wound of about the same length, but only
skin deep. Those wounds were produced by a cut-
ler's instrument. Her head and face were extensively
bruised, and upon the scalp were several small
wounds in the centre of the bruises, which were pro-
duced by blows of a blunt instrument. There were
several wounds on her hands, made by a cutler's in-
strument, one of which laid open the joint at the
root of the forefinger of the left hand. He dressed
her wounds, and had her conveyed first to the police
station at Camberwell, and next to Guy's Hospital
The young woman's life was in danger from the
wounds in :the throat, and also from the blows
on the head, which appeared to him to have been
given with great violence. A pistol-stock would in-
flict such injuries, and a razor would make such
wounds as those he saw on the throat and hands of
the young woman.
Police-constable John Wood, 131 P, deposed to
having on the night in question found a bonnet, shawl,
and other articles of dress, in Dulwich-wood, about
360 yards from the style close to a pool of blood, and
all these articles were very much stained with blood,
as well as the bushes on both sides of the path. The
witness also found on the spot a razor-handle broken
into two pieces, and a bottle of blue ink, which he
produced.
John Jeffreys, another constable, produced the
blade of a razor and the stock of a pistol which he
found near the spot.
Sergeant Pritchard, 22 P, said that on the night
in question he went to the house of the prisoner's
father, and from there to a house in St. Ann's road,
Brixton, where he found the prisoner in bed. On
entering his room, and before he (Sergeant Pritchard)
spoke, the prisoner said, It's all right, I know what
you have come for," admitted that he had been to
Dulwich-wood, and that he knew all about it. On
examining the fire-place be found some paper, which
had recently been set fire to, and beside it was lying
a small portion of a postage-stamp.
John Plowman, a labourer, said the prisoner lodged
in the same house with him at the time of his appre-
hension. The razor, or rather remnants of a razor,
produced was his, and he had seen it safe in his
room on the day of the night upon which the pri-
soner was apprehended. This witness also identified
the pistol-stock produced as belonging to the prisoner.
Mr. Charles Sanders, assistant to Mr. B. Cooper,
the senior surgeon at Guy's hospital, under whose
care the prosecutrix has been since the 19th of Sep-
tember, described the injuries she received, and said
that for some time her life had Leen in great danger.
This was the whole of the evidence, and the prisoner,
under the advice of Mr. Games, his solicitor, offering
nothing in defence, was fully committed for trial.
The prisoner, who is of small stature and very
juvenile appearance, seemed to treat the serious charge
against him with the most perfect indifferenee. In
fact, while the evidence was being taken against him,
he seemed much less moved than any person in the
court, and since his apprehension he seems to have
very much improved in his appearance. At the con-
clusion of the case the unfortunate young woman,
who so miraculously escaped from the assassin's
hands, and the doom for which she was marked as the
victim, was directed to be taken back to the hospital.

THAMES.
The two brothers, Joseph Hadley Riddell and
William Moore Eclipse .Riddell, who stand charged
with committing most extensive depredations on the
premises of Messrs. Edmund and William Pontifex,
of the whitelead and chymical works, Mill-wall,
Poplar, were again brought up. They were formally
remanded until Tuesday.
SOUTHWARK.
William clew, a respectable-looking young man,
who wee described as a commercial traveller, residing
at Bexley-heath, where he has a wife and family
living, was brought before Mr. Seeker for final exa-
mination, charged with administering poison to Helen
Ealing, a young woman with whom he cohabited,
with intention of destroying her.
The prisoner was discharged.

STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER —The market
to•day has been very quiet. The advance of cotton i❑
Liverpool on Monday was id. per lb. Tho large sties
made are inducing the spinners and manufacturers to
hold off buying at the present prices. Tha sales effected
in yarn at the advanced rates were very limited, whilst
the demand for heavy goods WAS slight. It is said that
should the present high pric e of cotton continue, the
millowners will be compelled to resort to short time, or
a reduction of wages. As many of the manufacturers
are averse to adopting the latter alternative, it is not im-
probable that the operations of some manufacturers will
be suspended for the present. Yarns may be considered
id. to id. per lb. worse today, and considerable trans.
actions are reported to have taken place. In goods a
small advance has been asked, rather with a desire to
check a disposition to business.
_

The elevation of mind in its maturity is valuable,
most especially from the discriminate retrospect it com-
mands ever bite fairy scenes of childho)d,—,Eliza Co_it's
journal

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF TUESDAY.

At the Court at Osborne-house, Isle of Wight, the
611 day of October, 1849. Present, the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty io Council. Her Majesty in Council
was this day pleased, upon the representation of the
Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council on
Education, to appoint the Rev. John Pilkington Norris,
M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to be one
of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.
ADMIRALTY, Ocr. 3.

Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Adju-
tant William Stratton Aslett to be Captain, vice Captain
and Brevet-Major Charles Robinson, deceased; Second
Lieutenant Charles Roberts to be First Lieutenant, vice
Aslett, promoted.
Commission by the Lord• Lieutenant of Durham.
Augustus Sussex Milbank, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant, Oct. 2.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 6.

The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wille, lint., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, bath appointed Henry Bunny, of New-
bury, in the county of Berks, Gentleman, to be one of
the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re-
coveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance, in and for the county of Berks.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Henry Bell, woollen draper, Leeds.
BANKRUPTS.

Reuben Michael, merchant, Bury-street, St. Mary-
Axe, to surrender Oct. 18, at one, and Nov. 23, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee;
Gresham, Castle-street, Holborn.
Daniel Slater, cabinet maker, Preston, Rutlandshire,
Oct. 15, at twelve, and Nov. 26, at half-past two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole-
man-street ; Barber, Furnivai's-inn.

Thomas Tidy, cheesemonger, Woolwich, Oct. 15, at
half-past one, and Nov. 26, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall-
chambers; Fitch, Union-street, Borough.
James Bickerton, jun., hat manufacturer, Bread-street,
Cheapside, Oat. 16, at eleven, and Nov. 15, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Luttly and Batt, Dyers'-hall.
Daniel Holttum, sen., and Daniel Holttum, jun., car-
penters, Westbere, Kent, Oct. 18, at two, and Nov. 22,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall street; Buchanan, Basinghall-street.
Henry Clark, cabinet maker, Leicester, Oct. 12, at
eleven, and Nov. 16, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Cuurt, Nottingham. Bittleston, official as-
signee, Nottingham; Hardwick and Davidson, Weavers'.
hall, London; Hodgson, Birmingham.
Joseph Birley, grocer, Doncaster, Oct. 27, and Nov.
24, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman,
official assignee, Sheffield ; Lammin, Adclphi;
Collin-
son, Doncaster.

Edward Brien, cabinet maker, Bristol, Oct. 25 and
Nov. 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; White, Eyre, and
White, Bedford-row ; William and Charles Bevan,
Bristol.

Thomas Knight, silversmith, Bristol, Oct. 23 and
Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol; King, Bristol; Jones, Blax-
land, and Jones, Crosby square.
George Bodington, chemist, Birmingham, Oct. 23,
and Nov. 14, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Mot-
teram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham.
Joseph Jones, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Oct. V),
and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court,
Turner, official as,ig,nee, Liverpool; li":.!ightley ar,d Co.,
Chancery•lane; Woodburn, Liverpool.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Pearse, Andover, Hants, ironmonger, Nov. 1, al
two—A. Bohte, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, tailor, Oct
30, at twelve.

THE PASSENGERS ACT.
(From la At night's Gazette)
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
6,h day of October, 1849. Present : The Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament
held in the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign
of her Majesty, intituled the "Passengers Act, 1849,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for her Majesty,
by any Order in Council, to be by her made with the
advice of the Privy Council, to prescribe such rules
and regulations as to her Majesty may seem fit, for
preserving order, and for securing cleanliness and
ventilation on board of passenger ships proceeding
from the United Kingdom to any port or place in her
Majesty's possessions abroad, and the said rules and
regulations from time to time in like manner to a!ter,
amend, and revoke, as occasion may require ;
And whereas it is expedient to revoke an Order in
Council made at a Court held at Osborne House,
Isle of Wight, on the 15th day of April, 1848, in
virtue of the provisions of an Act (now repealed)
passed in the eleventh year of the reign of her
Majesty, intituled " An Act to make further provi-
sion for one year, and to the end of the then next
session of Parliament, for the carriage of passengers
to North America," and to make a new Order in
Council which shall exterd to passenger ships pro-
ceeding from the United Kingdom, not only to North
America, but to any port or place in her Majesty's
possessions abroad, out of Europe, and not being
within the Mediterranean sea ;
Now, therefore, her Majesty cloth, by and with the
advice of her Privy Council, and in pursuance and
exercise of the authority vested in her by the said
" Passengers Act, 1849," order, and it is hereby or-
dered, that the said Order in Council of the 15th of
April, 1848, be, and the same is hereby revoked ; and
that the following shall henceforth be the rules for
preserving order and for securing cleanliness and
ventilation to be observed on board of every passen-
ger ship proceeding from the United Kingdom to any
port or place in her Majesty's possessions abroad, out
of Europe, and not being within the Mediterranean
sea.

1. All passengers who shall not be prevented by
sickness, or other sufficient cause, to be determined
by the surgeon, or in ships carrying no surgeon by
the master, shall rise not later than seven o'clock A.M.,
at which hour the fires shall be lighted.
2. It shall be the duty of the cook, appointed under
the 26th section of the said " Passengers Act, 1849,"
to light the fires, and to take care that they be kept
alight during the day, and also to take care that each
passenger, or family of passengers, shall have the use
of the fireplace, at the proper hours, in an order to be
fixed by the master.
3. When the passengers are dressed their beds shall
be rolled up.
4. The decks, including the space under the bottom
of the berths, shall be swept before breakfast, and all
dirt thrown overboard.
5. The breakfast hour shall be from eight to nine
o'clock A.M. ; provided that, before the commencement
of breakfast, all the emigrants, except as hereinafter
excepted, be out of bed and dressed, and that the beds
have been rolled up, and the deck on which the emi-
grants live properly swept.
6. The deck shall further be swept after every meal,
and after breakfast is concluded shall be also dry
holystoned or scraped. This duty, as well as that of
cleansing the ladders, hospitals, and round-houses,
shall be performed by a party taken in rotation from
the adult males above fourteen, in the proportion of
five to every one hundred emigrants, and who shall
be considered as sweepers for the day. But the single
women shall perform this duty in their own compart-
ment, where a separate compartment is allotted to
them, and the occupant of each berth shall see that
his own berth is well brushed out.
7. Dinner shall commence at one o'clock P.M., and
supper at six P.M.
s. The fires shall be extinguished at seven P.M.,
unless otherwise directed by the master, or required
for the use of the sick, arid the emigrants shall be
in their berths at ten o'clock P.M., except under the
permission or authority of the surgeon ; or, if there be
no surgeon, of the master.
9. Three safety lamps shall be lit at dusk, and
kept burning till ten o'clock P.M. ; after which hour
two of the lamps may be extinguished ; one being,
nevertheless, kept burning at the main hatchway all
night.
10. No naked light shall he allowed at any time or
on any account.
11. The scuttles and stemports, if any, shall,
weather permitting, be opened at seven o'clock A.M.,
and kept open till ten o'clock P.M. ; and the hatches
shall be kept open whenever the weather permits.
12. The coppers and cooking utensils shall be
cleaned every day.
13. The beds shall be well shaken and aired on
deck at least twice a week.
14. The bottom boards of the berths, if not fixtures
shall be removed and dry-scrubbed and taken on
deck at least twice a week.
15. A space of deck-room shall be apportioned for
a hospital, not less, for vessels carrying one hundred
passengers, than forty-eight superficial feet, with two
or four bed-berths erected therein; not less, for ves-
sels carrying two hundred or more passengers, than
one hundred and twenty superficial feet, with six bed-
berths therein.
16. Two days in the week shall be appointed by
the master as washing days ; but no washing or
drying of clothes shall on any account be permitted
between decks.
17. On Sunclaylifornings the' passengers shall be
mustered at ten o clock.A.st , and will be expected to
appear in clean and decent apparel. The Lord's day
shall be observed as religiously as circumstances will
admit.
18. No spirits or gunpowder shall be taken on
board by any passenger ; and if either of those arti-
cles be discovered in the possession of a passenger, it
shall be taken into the custody of the master during
the voyage, and not returned to the passenger until
he is on the point -of disembarking.
19. No loose hey or straw shall be allowed below
for any purpose.

20. No sm- ()king shall be allowed between decks.
21. All gambling, fighting, riotous or quarrelsoine
behaviour, swearing, and violent language, shall be at
once put a stop to. Swords and other offensive wea-
pons shall, as soon as the passengers embark, be placed
in the custody of the master.
22. No sailors shall be allowed to remain on the
passenger deck, among the passengers, except on duty.
23. No passenger shall go to the ship's cook-house
without special permission from the master, nor re-
main in the forecastle among the sailors on any
account.
24. In vessels not expressly required by the said
" Passengers Act, 1849," to have on board such ven-
tilating apparatus as therein mentioned, such other
provision shall be made for ventilation as shall be
required by the emigration officer, at the port of
embarkation, or in his absence by the officers of
customs.
25. And to prevent all doubts in the construction
of this Order in Council, it is hereby further ordered
that the terms " United Kingdom" and " passenger-
ship" shall herein have tha same significations as are
assigned to them respectively in the said " Passengers
Act, 1849."
And the Right lion. Earl Grey, one of her Ma-
jesty's principal Secretaries of State, is to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly.
WM. L. BATHURCT.

RAILWAY Stittltk. MARKETS.
BRISTOL, OCT. 9.
STOCK EXCHANQE.—The share market was mare active
to-day, the sales being—Midland, 50—Great Western, 58
Ditto, Quarters, 1134 dis.
MANCHESTER, Oar. 9.
STOCK ExcnAsiGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 1% p.
—North Staffordshire, 7X—Caledonian, Preference, 93g
North Union (B), 156—West Riding Union, 6LA o d. Dover
(No. 4), Scrip, 5 15-16—Great Northern, 12% n.
woods, 7 dis.

BIRMINGHAM, Oar. 9.
STOCK Exmaxon.—Although there was little variation
in prices to-day, greater confidence existed in our share
market. The prices of the principal lines of railway main-
tained the quotations of yesterday, but both buyers and sel-
lers were scarce. There appeared to be little inclination on
the part of either the one or the other to speculate.
YORK, Ocr. 8.
STOCK EXCHANSE. —The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Caledonian, 1334 Great Northern, 71. 13s. 91--
North British, Preference, 54 is. 6d.—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (Newcastle Extension), 11%.
GLASGOW, OCT. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as fol-
low :—Aberdeen, Preference, 6% Clyde. dale Junction, 6214 —Monklands, 59—North British, Halves, s—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 51. Os. 6d.

WILFUL MURDER AT SOOTRILL.—On the 30th of
November last, James Buckley, son of Abraham Buckley,
a manufacturer, sought shelter in the house of John
Watkinson, a person residing on Leeds road-side, at
Soothill, about half-past seven o'clock at night, saying
that he was shot. Watkinson went into the house with
him, and helped to take off his jacket-sleeve. The
sleeve had holes in it like those made by shot, and some
shot fell on the floor. Buckley said there were three
young men on the road in the deep cutting leading down
to Dewsbury, and when he passed them they said, " This
is the man we want," and he turned round and saw one
of them had a gun raised to his shoulder, which was fired
at him. Watkinson's house is at the bottom of the cut-
ting, about 200 yards below where Buckley had been
shot at, but the report of the gun had not been heard.
Dr. Hemingway was called in, and has attended the un-
fortunate young man until his death, which occurred on
the 26th ult. There were 29 perforations in the right
arm, and seven in the back. Inflammation of the lungs
came on with relapses, in May and July last. The
deceased did not recognise any of the persons who
attacked him. Mr. Lee, the coroner, held an inquest on
the body of the deceased, on Saturday last, when the
jury, after hearing the evidence of Watkinson and Dr.
Hemingway, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder
against some person unknown."—Leeds Mercury.
Mr. De Sails had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday At the Colonial-cacc.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
IPSWICH, Oc r. 9.
Farmers are unwilling to snhinit to a reduction in the
price oC wheat to-day, and millers not inclined to pur-
chase only at lower prices. The sales made were not
extensive, at prices scarcely so good as last week.
Barley and peas rather cheaper. Oats and beans no
variation in price. Malt a little upon the decline. Flour

PER QUARTER. r PER QUARTER.
Wheat 36s to 45s Beans 2ss to 32s
Barley... 22s to 29, Peas 2ss to 32s
Oats
Rye.. ....... . 21s to 24s Flour, per sack 3ss to 445
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 6.
Wheat
Barley
29s 6d.
Oats
Beans ... 115 77 26s 9d.
Pea 5............ 177 If 30s 53.
Rye . . 5
27s Od.
HULL, OCT. 9%
Messrs. Tayl,r and Bright's circular states,—The
harvest, with the exception of a few beans, is now
secured throughout the whole of this district, and it gives
us much pleasure to be able to report without hesitation
as to its general good character. As regards wheat, there
perhaps never was a year when draining and general good
farming reaped so marked a reward. With hardly an
exception such farms show a good crop, both in quantity
and quality, while on naturally wet strong soils, and un-
drained, this is not ti.e case; but any deficiency here is
more than compensated by the superior character of
other land, and on the whole we have no k,earaation
in
writing the wheat crop at least a full average; weights
are various, say from 60ilo to 651 b. per imperial
Barley is less rown in this district than in forme: jeers,
and is not of so general good character as repel tea la
other parts of the kingdom. Oats are goad in colour,
condition, and weight, but generally thought to be defi-
cient in jit Id. Beans, though not full harvested, are
likely to turn out the best crop this district has knoan
for some years, both as regards quality and yield; the
same applies to peas, which are secured in good condi-
tion. As regards the all-important article of potatoes,
we feel great diffieu!ty in writing with any degree of
confidence, opinioes are so various, and even from the
same districts so very contradictory; we fear, however,
that they are to a considerable extent affected with the
disease of former years, but the quantity planted was less
than usual. The importations of foreign grain, seed,
and cake into this p,,rt during the twelve months ending
from September 29, 1849, were as foil )ws:—Wfieat
298 803, barley 304.579, oats 5.440, beans 83,153, peas
57,780, tares 10,732, linseed 291,644, rapeseed 31,549,
oil cakes 13,405, bones 12,730. It might naturally be
thought, that with such imports the stock on hand at the
present time would be considerable; but such is by no means
the case, indeed we hardly ever remember commencing
on the new crop with so little old grain in warehouse,
and we relieve the same remark applies to the stocks of
farmers also. It is indeed astonishing, how rapidly our
large imports have gone into consumption, and how very
small a portion has found its way into the warehouse.
The import of the week has been small of all articles,
and but for the dulness of different inland markets,
partly owing to increased deliveries from the farmers of
new wheat, we sbould have obtained more money for
fresh old, which is campararively scarce. Grinding
barley has brought 1.5 more money. Our farmers
brought a good supply of wheat for to-da)'s market,
chiefly new, and such wits free sale at fully last week's
prices ; an improved demand for best runs of old foreign,
with but little offering, except from warehouse, and that
is held for 2s to 3s above current prices. We have lit-
tle inquiry for mating barley, but for grinding sorts a
laae.,e sale at fully the advance noted. Good con
ditioned beans and also peas, meet a fair consump
tive demand at our currency. Indian corn is more in-
quired for at the currency of last week. A good sale
for linseed at last week's rates, and for cakes a fair
demand, chiefly canfined, however, to English make.
Rape cakes go off at 85s to 87s 6d, as in quality. No
transactions in bones are la ported.
The following are the present prices of grain :
Wheat, English, red 40 to 421 Peas, white and yel. 25 27
Do. white 42 —45 Do. grey
Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea. 40 42
nigsberg 44 47 Do. Petersburgh ... 37 41
Pomeranian and Do. Riga & Arclingl. 36 —3B
Hamburgh . 4O —42 Do. Konigsberg .... 35 —37
Danish, Holstein, & Per ton.
Friesland .. 31 —3B Linseed cakes, Hull 715 a Od
Russian and Odessa 32 38 Do. fine foreign
Oats, English
Do. tatnish.
Do. Friesland l6 —18 d cakes.. 85s Od to 87s 6d
Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 I6Tares, English oos —00 s
Barley,malting 24 —26 Do. foreign ............ 20s 24,
Do. grinding l9 —2! Guano 6/ to 91 lOs
Beans 2B —32 Bones, do 85s 05 to 87s 6d
Do. foreign ...... 26 —30.14 e 6105
Co tr, OCT. B. Flour—First 138 6d to 14s Od ; extra 15s ;
seconds, 12s 01 to 13s ; households 10s to 1Is; thirds, 6s to 8s
per cwt. Oatmeal 10s Od to I Is; Indian meal Cs 9d to 7s Od; wheat-
meal, lOs Od tolls per cwt. Indian corn tit to 6/15s Od per ton.
Bran 3/ I Os Od to 3/ 15s per ton. Hay—Farmers 20s to 30s; average
28s; dealers 30s to 34s 03; average 31s per ton. St! avv— Farmers
16s 08 to ess Od ; average this; dealers 26s 04 to 00s Od ;
average 23: Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten lost 6d to fitd ;
household loaf 5d to std per 41b. Fresh butter, 7d to
93 per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 5s 8d per hundred. Cos.ls—
Newport I4s; Lydney 16, ; Landore 14a ; Beat Neath
Clam 13s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whi.lcy, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 43 to bid; veal 4d to
Od ; pork 4td to 5d ; bacon 78 to 8d ; sausages Id per
lb. Hops 51 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 3/ 5s pa. ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8710 s; Valonia 141 too?; French
7/10s; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 19s per stone.
Hemp 34/ to 351 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 171 to 181; re
al
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 101 to 121 per
ton. Timber—Alernel, 851 per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s;
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12, to ISa;
salted 12s to 18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2itl per lb.
Potatoes, white 6d to 8d ; Minions 10d to 008 ; Guano—
Peruvian, 11l lOs; Ichaboe 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel,
19s per barrel.

A SINGULAR DUEL.—The following anecdote,
narrated by a Bromberg paper (Grand Duchy Posen),
cannot fail to gladden the hearts of the University
Peace Association. It is to be regretted that the
names of the parties are not given in order that the
actors might receive the Association medal: Two
young men, members of a political club at Bromberg,
fell into dispute upon the German question. One, an
uncompromising ;German unionist, argued that, much
as he loved his native land (Prussia), he loved
Germany infinitely more ; that unless German unity
could be accomplished, Prussia would be lost ; and
therefore he declared himself against all specific Prus-
sian-doms, and consequently against the Prussian cock-
ade, i;s symbol. Toe other, who is what is called, a
stock-Preussier (Prussian to the back-bone), took fire at
the last words, which he regarded as an insult to the
Prussian cockade and colours, and so, in lieu of
argument, he retorted by saying, Sir, you are
a pitiful fellow.' Whereupon the Unionist, though
sorely vexed at seeing his argument thus uncivilly cut
:Alert, bowed calmly and said, I never reply to an insult
by insults; but you shall hear from me.' After twenty-
four hours' consideration, and in perfect harmony with
the maxims of universal peace, he sat down and ad-
dressed the following letter to his antagonist;—, Sir,
your yesterday's insult demands satisfaction; but
as I am a married man I do not choose to set
my life on a chance. I therefore propose that
we shall fire with pistols at—a mark—in the pre-
sence of our seconds, and whoever makes the best shot
shall receive a one hundred dollar share, bearing five per
cent. interest, in the Voluntary Loan. By this means
you can satisfy your patriotism and my honour. Yours,
Btc."The Prussian laughed in his sleeve at this singular
challenge—more singular than the beer duels of univer-
sity students—and accepted it; little disposed, however,
to change his ' pitiful' opinion of the challenger. Well,
out they went, seconds and all, to the shooting ground.
And as it was declared tkat both were unpractised shots,
the chances wero equal. So, after measuring distance
and loading pistols, with all the gravity of a murderous
conflict, pop went the challenger, and hit the bull's-eye,
and bang went the challenged and missed the target;
whereupon the seconds interfered, and condemno.j the
loser to book up, and there tho affair ended, to the
universal merriment of the otherwise pugnacious town
of Brom berg."

SUICIDE—THROUGH A SMASHER —FOr some time
past a poor, but respectable, man, named James Horatio
Nelson Miles, aged forty-three, endeavoured to procure
for himself and family a subsistence by basket making.
One day last week he came across a smasher, who passed
off upon him a bad half-crown, which greatly effected
his spirits, for, trifling as it was, it was to him a suvere
loss. Speaking of the occurrence, and of his poverty, he
said, " That when he died his body would be carried to
the grave in one of Mr. Darke's dustcarts." Ou
he was found dead in his workshop, with his throat cnr•
and a razor, the blade of which was secured to t-,e hi srflu
by a string, firmly grassed in his hand. A coroner
if
jury return2d a verdict of Insaniry.

7718.
On the 6th inst., at 12, Bryantone-square, the Hon. Mrs.
Charles Lennox Peel, of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Great Marlow, the wife of Robert Harry.
mond, Esq., of a daughter, stillborn.
On the d inst., the wife of Joseph Lucas, Esq., Upper
Tooting, of a daughter.
On the sth inst., at Edinburgh, the lady of the Rev. T.
Coombe Williams, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at Barnet, the wife of the Rev. T. Tun'
stall Smith,M.A., of a son.

. . _ _.,....
On the 7th inst., at Castelnau-villas, Barnes, Mrs. Richard
Stonnill, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 29th ult., at Epsom, Mr. William D. Taylor, of
North-end, Croydon, to Esther, only daughter of George
White, Esq., of Arthur-street, London-bridge, and Ashley-
house, Epsom.
On the 6th inst., at the Congregational Church, Middleton-
road, Edward Mackley, Esq., f 18, De Beauvoir-square, to
Jane Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Captain William
Crowe, of Yarmour h.

On the 3d inst., at Warender-lodge, Edinburgh, Alexander
Gibson Bowie, third son of Robert Bowie, Esq., of the General
Register-house Edinburgh, to Georgina St. Clair, third
daughter of Archibald Millar, Esq, Medical Staff, British
Army, 11. P.

DIED.
On the 7th inst., Mr. Richard Baggbaw, of 31, Brydgei
street, Covent•garden, age i 43.
On the 27th ult., at Douglas, Isle of Man, Frances Sophia,
relict of the late George Ick, Esq., formerly of Antigua,
aged 51. _

—On the 30th ult., at his residence Br -okland, St. Helier's,
Jersey, Captain Henry Fage Belson, Royal Navy.
On the st inst., Margaret, the wife of John Otridge, Esq.
of Newington. place, Nurr, y, aged 79.
On the 3d inst., in London, John Turton Fereday, Esq.,
late of the Ellowes, in the county of Stafford, aged 63.

London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, °1
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112 r
Strand, in Pi. Precinct of the Savoy. in the county
MidcUeeez, Wednesday, October 10,1849.