The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-03 00:00:00

HAY DIARTEETS.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 31135; Clover ditto,
Si 10s to 41 I4s ; and Straw. 112 s to 1/ 9s per load. Supply
moderate, and trade rather dull.

CU3IBERLAND.— Meadow Hay, 21 10s to Si 15s;. Clover
ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 11 3s to 1/ lOs. per load.
A full average supply, and a steady demand.
WSITEECHAPEL. —Meadow Hay, 218 s to 3/ 14s ; Clover
ditto, Si lOs to 41 16s; and Straw, 112 s to 1198 per load.
Trade tolerably steady, at full prices.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. FITZGERALD.

The Solicitor-General, Sir F. Thesiger, and Mr. Wat-
son appeared for the Crown, and Mr. Willes for the defendant.
This was an information filed by the Crown to recover
penalties for evading the payment of duty upon about
3,0001bs of soap. It appeared that, in consequence of infor-
mation obtained by the Excise, a search was made upon the
defendant's premises in Golden-lane, which led to the dis•
covery of a small trap-door, under a manger in the stable.
Upon this being forced open it led to a dark chamber,
where two frames of soap were found containing the quan-
tity mentioned. A number of candles were fixed upon the
wall, and on a further examination of the place another
opening was discovered under the vats in which the soap was
made. This room or cellar had not been duly entered under
the statute for the manufacture or warehousing of soap, and
for this evasion the information was filed. The daty charge-
able upon the soap seized was 23/. 2s. 10%cl.
A verdict was found for the Crown for 9001.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

William Walton, a private in the Grenadier Guards, was
charged with having assaulted a policeman, named Hayes.
The prisoner, on the evening of the assault, was turned
out of a West-end public-house in a state of intoxication.
The policeman endeavoured to prevail upon him to go quietly
home. The prisoner turned round, knocked the policeman
down, and then beat him savagely.
The jury found him Guilty, and the Court sentenced hi°
to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
antitY
Thomas Jill dge was indicted with having forged a cl,a herd
of " tasting orders," which empowered the parties wo°
them to visit the London Docks, and taste the wine in the
vaults.

The prisoner, representing himself to be a wine merchant's
clerk, waited upon Messrs. Vincent and Pugh. wine im-
porters, to solicit a tasting order, which was readily given to
him ; he made several far-similies of it, and distributed them
amongst his friends. The forging was detected, and the pri-
soner was given into custody.
In reply to a question from the Court,
Mr. BALLANTINE, who prosecuted, admitted that he could
find no case where a tasting order had been described or de-
cided to be an instrument for the delivery of goods within the
meaning of the Act.
The facts of the case having been established,
Mr. HUDDLESTONE, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted
that the indictment could not be sustained, inasmuch as s
tasting order was not perfect, and would not justify the dock
authorities in allowing parties to taste the wine to which it
referred until it had been countersigned by one of the dock
officers. No evidence had been adduced to prove that it was
so countersigned, and therefore the indictment must fall to
the ground. But there was another objection to the indict-
ment : a tasting order was not an instrument authorising
the delivery of goods, and it could not be maintained that
the prisoner had obtained and carried away wine by means
of these spurious orders.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL remarked that the prisoner might
have drunk some of the wine, and thus carried it away with
him.—(Laughter.)
Mr. HUDDLESTONE submitted that if that were to be taken
in the light of a carrying away, simply smelling the wine
would be a sufficient carrying. But he contended that there
was no delivery nor carrying away of goods, and that objeo'
tion was fatal to the indictment.

Mr. Ballantine having been heard in support of the
dietment. .

Mr. Justice CRESSWELL gave it as his opinion that a tasting
order was not an order for the delivery of goods. The order
authorised the delivery of wine for a special purpose, and did
not enable the prisoner to carry it away or do with it what
he pleased. He doubted, therefore, whether the indictment
was good in law ; but as the point was one of importance to
the commercial world, a verdict of guilty had better be taken,
subject to the opinion of the Court above, and the prisoner
liberated upon his entering into recognizances to appear et
the next sessions to receive judgment, should it be pressed
against him.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE accepted the suggestion of the Court,
and the prisoner having been bound over to appear at the
next sessions, was discharged from custody.

NEW COURT..
Mary Tracey, for stealing a frock and other articles, valued
at 275., the property of William Pullen, her master, WWI
sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.

RAILWAY RETURNS
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of 8411.
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which to
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the flaw
week in the previous year:

Week
ending

Last
week.

VI .
El!
0"1
,51_

Ellen,

laide,

loord,

mrgh,
avi ng
urged

V.)

tables
1, from
Is 6cl
!r half

angel,
bles—
to 5s ;
5s per
tatoes,
dozen

)pions,

Savoy
arrots,
aches;
Sd to
forced
) Is 3d
russels
8d per
Ludles;

nches

:o-day,
3s6d;
Pork,

Ducks,

8d to
Surrey
-n-door
to 12s;
1 is 3(1

is 6d;
2s 6d ;
I, 8d to
Is 6d;

; Veal,

; Veal,

s, 3d to
; Soles,
to Is 3d
I to Bd,
,er doz ;

from 7d

to 721 b,
801 b to
961 b to
It Skins
I Sheep,
Downs,

er ditto,
Supply

Clover
aer load.

; Clover
per load.

Er. Wat-
fendant.
recover
a about
of infor-
ipon the
the dis-
e stable.
:hamber,
ie quan-
npon the
1 another
soap was
ed under
soap, and
charge-

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rds, was
Hayes.
s turned
xieation.
;o quietly
olieeman

need him

who heldty
:le in the

lerchant's
wine im-
given to
tted them
1 the pri-

t he could
ed or de-
vithin the

lubmitted
much as a
the dock
which it
the dock
hat it was
ist fall to
se indict-
Ithorisiug
lined that
by means

ner might
way with

I be taken
the wine
that there
hat objet'

of the io.

t a tasting
The order
;e, and did
h it what
ndictment
ortance to
• be taken,
Le prisoner
appear At
he pressed

the Court,
;ar at the

les, valued
aster, was
I labour.

pts of B 112:
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r.) .....20.04,

669
791
654
412
528,315,870
%Jo
3,g1
1, 546
bated the let day of February, 1
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BANKING D
95'!
X•
1,7 roprietors' capital 14,553,00
Rest .. ..• •••• • • • • 3,458,107
Public deposits (in-
-0
shading Exchequer,
1'605
Coding Exchequer, of
,6,0 •
~ los
National Debt, Say-
-8,16: lngs-banks, and Di-
-1,11-
vidend accounts) .. 3,877,648
Other deposits ... • • • 11,642,799
03A
Seven day and other
50-
bills .......... •• . • 1,112,840
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GREAT and DISASTROUS FLOODS

/.1i THE COUNTIES OF INVERNESS, ROSS,
AND SUTHERLAND. . _

(From the Inverness Courier.)
We have this week to discharge the sad and painful duty
of recording the most unexampled and disastrous series of
floods ever experienced, according to oral and written testi-
mony, in the north and west Highlands. Long-continued
and heavy rains, accompanied by a remarkable prevalence of
lightning, had fallen over the various districts in which our
Principal rivers have their sources, and from which they
derive their ordinary supplies. The floods extended as far
west as Lochourn-head, and included the districts watered
by the Quoich, the Garry, the Arhaig, the Oich, and lesser
streams
, whence they were precipitated into Loch-Oich,
Loch-Lochy, and Loch-Ness. The river running from the
first of these lakes has carried off the bridges of Aberchalder
and Fort-Augustus, besides occasioning several breaches in
the banks of the Caledonian Canal. The streams entering
the Lochy have broken up the roads and devastated fields
ande plantations, including the picturesque grounds of
m'ehnacarry, the seat of Lochiel. Loch-Ness, over its wide
ne
,eaPanse of twenty-four miles, rose about fourteen feet—a
ight unprecedented in the district. On its banks various
•
land-slips took place, and much damage was inflicted , but
these have been trivial compared with the effects of its
waters en
flood. It attained its
Riess the river and town of Inverness. Never was the
e'eas seen in such fearful volume and
full h eeight more rapidly in consequence of meeting with the
waters of the Canal. All were placed on one level, and a
breach was made in the Canal banks, above the lock at
I)°abgarroch. By unrernitted and strenuous exertions this
breach was
reverted from widening;
d
waters rushed down their course of five Irdes, overflowing
the adjoining grounds, and finally destroying the important
stone bridge at Inverness and submerging nearly one-third
of the town. The alarm of the inhabitants was indescrib-
able—the losses and privations have been great—but in
the whole circuit and course of these floods we have heard
of no loss of life. To the real calamities of this awful oc-
currence visionary or exaggerated fears were superadded.
tlost of our townsmen entertained an apprehension that, by
the flood overmastering the powers of control at the Canal,
the whole waters tof Loch-Ness would be poured down upon
the devoted town. Now, it may be admitted that a serious
breach occurring in the Canal simultaneously with a great
flood (and of course it is then that there is the greatest risk
of such a breach), might have the effect of throwing an in-
creased volume of water down the river, but by no means to
the extent that is commonly believed. The quantity of
water that can run out of Loch-Ness must be limited by the
capacity of the upper outlet at Bona, namely, the narrow
channel which connects Loch-Ness and Loch-Dochfour.
This was, no doubt, deepened and widened to render it a na-
vigable channel of the Canal, but perhaps not to a greater ex-
tent than the increased volume of water which the river has
in flood, as compared with its low-water level in the natural
state—therefore, the utmost capacity of the present chan-
nel at Bona would be but equal to the discharge of a flood
of double the ordinary maximum. Again, the capacity of
the river channel itself from Loch•Dochfour downwards to
the town of Inverness is insufficient to discharge more than
a given quantity of water, which is limited by the size of its
narrowest part; nor in certain places would it derive any
great addition to its dimensions by having the width occu-
pied by the Canal (as the possible effect of the supposed
breach) annexed to it. There are a number of impediments,
however, which would gradually have to be overcome before
this effect could completely take place ; and although a new
and deeper channel might in some places be formed by the
rapidity of the current, yet even this would be a work of
time, and probably would not be finally brought about
before the gradual and simultaneous discharge of
the lake would restore matters again to their former
relative bearing, and render the rise and fall of the river
exactly similar to what it was in its original condi-
tion. It seems highly improbable, therefore, that any
sudden irruption of the waters of Loch-Ness could overtake
the valley below without giving of itself sufficient indicatinns
of its approach ; and although it might be attended with
considerable damage to property, it would not be like!)
serious) y to endanger life. It is impossible, however, to
describe the effect which this alarm, caused by the breach in
the Canal, had upon all classes of our townsmen, and we
devoutly hope that we may never again witness so awful and
distressing a crisis.
, Turning from our own severe calamity, we find that,
further north in this country, the district of Strathglass
also suffered. Glen-Affrlck, Glen-Cannich, and the course
carried off,
Lord Levet farms have been destroyed, embankments
heav y mills and steadings ruined. His Lordship will
11,
loser b calam visitation. In Ross-
euire, the sources of thethis Orrin, theitous Garve, and the Conan
ii°lBe to an unprecedented height. Several houses were
nl Mown down in the village of Conan, and roads and fields
mu h injured. The high grounds of Badenoch, in which
d e SPey takes its rise, have also been flooded, and much
anearre ,
the ' donee to embankments and farms. In all parts of
co_nnorth, indeed, floods have been rife, but it is in the
u •-e of the principal mountain rivers that the results have
beenirte so remarkable. The loss in many instances will be
be
all severe; and years must elapse before they
be freely exerted, but much will still remain undone. We
the State wish to see our northern communities pensioners (a
but there never was a time when the bounty of a
lanee...,
d "at Government was more required to assist our High-
eoe;:t.aapital and its neighbourhood than at the present mo-
atheir
in, „ A peaceful and loyal people have been overtaken by
„a tiSttortune altogether unprecedented and extraordinary,
fo appears impossible that they can, unaided, regain
proceedtrier position. With these general observations we
additigatred
ave detail the circumstances of the flood, which we
has visited to pains to render accurate and complete. In
;hat fell under our own observation, our reporter
ort
we have be Augustus, Beauly, and other localities, and
en assisted by the kind communications of various
correspondents.
11M:ice tli;--
Tita Neee. .„,
re e had barely time last week to an-
on Wednesday evening the river Ness
'va_dvieittained to a height unsurpassed at any period since
the Year 1834. Before our impression was worked off, the
10'._seing-machine was three inches in water ! The
anuses
the
on both sides of the river were partially flooded,
taine,le_hanks impassable. Fears were even then enter-
ilateede Mr the safety of the Old Bridge, but no one antici-
that the flood would be so wide-spread and so dis-
astrie
waerk,tis in its results as it has proved. The night was wet,
ank, and stormy, and with every gust 01 wind the
Leiner Continued to rise. By eleven o'clock it had at.
ih,'',l a fearful and unprecedented height. It had over-
,;//,.,.ed the gardens and grounds in front of the houses
in
Bank occupied by Mr. Shortt and Mrs. Hunter,
C.,' Partially entered the premises. Higher up some small
Were two
from the Haugh road to the river-side
u niture floating furniture
two feet under water, the tires extinguished, and the
of th
streets and about. In Bank-street, the lower floors
e premises occupied by the Bank of Scotland, and
Part of our own buildings, were flooded. The low-lying
foot
back anes extending from Huntly-street as far
eeP, and as
Fairfield-lane, were under water in some places a
are neither boarded' the ground floors of the houses are
almost invariable
melancholy tsk beneath the level of the roadway, and
shifts and expedients. nor paved, the poor people began the
rise ot.prepNaorinegheforextheecreoctrstthbaet ttehmepofireaefed-
would '
and by Much higher. It continued, however, to advance,
niost midnight, the river rushed on in a magnificent but
• awful and, .
Its banks to alarming flood. It covered the roads on
hou
tholes, "sing' as from the sea, on both sides. The lamps,
discoloured.l
ugn partially submerged, continued' to burn and threw
M reet, but
a strange a d
sickly glare on the waters now foaming and
. Some families in the exposed localities retired
Work of the great majority, if not already engaged in the
anxiet removal, watched the progress of the flood, their
them. Y increasing as the waters rapidly swelled around
Lights were seen glancing from doors and windows,
and the il
about as of anxious and distressed women flitted
silent they continued their preparations or looked on in
winter level?'
dismay.ViTane,,
tinned , KS"; JAN. 31 Since Saturday the river has con-
. atom .—
to fall, and it now flows at nearly its usual
water. „v. The ruins of the bridge are partially above the
various 4-'1i.112,e service was on Sunday performed in the
tone preachers in town. The clergymen of all denomina-
sad calamity sermons appropriate to the occasion, and the
irgs. vi Y was reviewed and consecrated by pious feel-
le orktnen
feel-
,.e Bridge t are now actively engaged in restoring the
~
I.herrYebOat o a safe state for the passage of vehicles, and
zsridge. s to
from side to side below the site of the Old
tit es Sr Ey. , .
ales u
.. .teain seems to have fallen in immense quan-
dent aeonethe Badenoch side of Corryarrick. A correspon-
511artee teetFgah says—" The rain fell in torrents in this
teriniesior The
20th to the 25th instant, without any in-
ceVerina +,_ the Spey rose to an unprecedented height—
atrange?,e,u_e whole glen to the depth of several feet. To a
tossed in,`,L,'o, whole district would have appeared—the water
to
the rcorn's
A,.e outlet from it.
the sea eu roam by the fearful winds—to be a great arm of
At
oe ACerdverikie great damage has been done. The Marquis
lodge was surrounded with water, and injury•
boat amount of about five hundred pounds inflicted. The
The pwrasoe_shattered, and the chain-bridge broke to pieces.
way
ha,
varate
bleat i..eerty ee Cluny has escaped; no part of his embank-
With vvater.°"
On t'fitteljured.
of Glentruim the embankment has given
places, and the meadow is wholly covered
higheratrheadnesltrhoeieSdp.ey- is half way up the Badden, much
on the burn eArs it was known before. Two bridges—one
ease_ -oi eseeackachy, and the other a little to the

13A(F-Nroi. UN' ibrLAND•
Account, pursu
the Week endin
an
ant to the h and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,f0r
a onalsaltausrtdAay na 7ight's Gazette.)
Notee issued.. ... 28,315,270
rasus DEPARTMENT.
thet 27th day of January, 1849.

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • '2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 13,813,798
Silver bullion .• .• • • 502,072

28,315,870
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1849.
,EpARTMEN T.

Government seen/4-
i ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 15,882,267
Other securities •• .. 10,427,581
Notes .. .......... 9,638,345
Gold and silver coin.. 726,201

£31,674,394
lIIRSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
1849.

UestnnlDGE 1-10Nou,-----------1h
the present year bears a 113.evo'L. nahire name—Mr. Pell—the
senior wrangler of
second wrangler is of trpueheDaevonshire breed—he is Mr.
yr,enowh
Phear, son of the Rev. J.
grit," as Jonathan would s of Suffolk, but " true
sides
feast—h his
a Dmeovtohnef
being sister of Dr. Budd, of Eixet::,uannocciitheshl
thehave tAken high
in fact,g distinguished member
shire man; five of Mr. Phear's
themselvesii at
honours at Cambridge—he is,
eon (it.r wrangler
rst saw
of the same family who have distin
this university. It is rather odd, but the senior
Western
is a native of California. In that distant region
the light, and traced the golden path to learning,._
Times. .
.._ ACCIDENT TO WILLIAM HOPE JOHNSTONE, Esq.
early on Tuesday morning week, as Mr. William Hope
Johnstone was returning to Rachills, in company wills one
of his brothers, a gamekeeper, and others, who had been out
Watching for night poachers, he accidentally slipped, and fell
over a bank 20 feet in height. When taken up, it was found
that he bad been severely bruised about the face and neck;
the medical attendants are afraid that his spine has been in-
ured. Moffat, Jan. 28.—We deeply regret to state, though
I,r. Johnstone is still alive, that his medical attendants en-
;nail), great doubts of his recovery. Illr. Johnstone is the
ha
son of J. J. Hope Johnstone, Esq., of Annandale, and
n., .
_esided for some years at Moffat House, Moffat.—Scot-
114h Guardian..
A dividend of ls. in the pound has • 't been ju.,an-
nouncedu on the estate of Messrs. -. ,:, zer And
Ulle4°'
14
4Cicti • Perkuls) t,chlue ,
tL9I4 t 9 7§, already paid.