The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday
morning in the plantations of Osborne.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby ar-
rived at Osborne yesterday afternoon from town, on
a visit to her Majesty.
The Royal Children took an airing yesterday, and
rode on ponies and walked on the sea beach.
Sir James Clark has left Osborne.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re-
turned to town yesterday, from honouring the Mar-
quis of Salisbury with a ♦isit, at his seat, Hatfield
House, Herts.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Charles Russell,
Chairman of the Great Western Railway Company,
Mr. Saunders, and Mr. Brunel, had an interview
with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt yesterday, at
the office of the Commissioners of Railways in the
Board of Trade.

Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and Mr. W. M. Christy, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke had an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.

Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governors of New South Wales,
South Australia, New Zealand, and the Mauritius.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council re-
sumed, yesterday, the hearing of an appeal from New
South Wales, " The Bank of Australasia v. Breillat."
Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. Hill (Queen's Counsel),
were heard. The case was adjourned. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord
Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE
MR. LISTON.

Yesterday the funeral of this celebrated surgeon took
place. The procession set out for Highgate Cemetery
at half-past nine, from deceased's residenoe in Clifford-
street. and it consisted at first of five mourning coaches,
the
and fifteen private carriages. In the former were the
relatives
nv e rosfi
tyCollege, deceased,llge
,and in fellow w
anda h slatter
medicalere professorsfriends
of uof
eminence in the higher ranks. At Swain's-lane, near
the cemetery, the cortege was met by upwards of four
hundred of Mr. Liston's former pupils, and by about
200 medical gentlemen and others. In order to accom-
modate that large number the rector of Highgate con-
sented to have the body admitted into his church, and
prayers read there, instead of in the narrow precincts of
the Cemetery chapel. The ceremony was solemnly im-
posing, rendered so by the saddened demeanour of the
vast numbers assisting. The family vault, newly taken,
in which Mr. Liston was interred, is in the
" Terrace
Catacombs," and on Saturday last it received its first
tenant, the body of•
Mr. Dalrymple, sen., the father-in-
law of one of Mr. Liston's daughters,
From the post-mortem examination of the. body, it
appears that the cause of deaths as.: an aneurism of the
as an orange, pssing on and running
aorta, as large
into the trachea. The first alarming symptom occurred
while Mr. Liston wr.s receiving patients; and, when per-
fectly
quiet, ho suddenly felt his mouth filled with fluid,
and, retiring into his dressing-room, he coughed up
between 30 and 40 ounces of arterial blood. Drs. Wat-
son and Forbes attended and examined the chest, but
without detecting anything morbid, either in the lungs
or circulation, and the deceased was himself the first to
suggest the formation of an aneurism; but, in the ab-
sence of physical signs of such a lesion, a favourable view
was taken of the case.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, Dac. 13.
STOCK EXCHAYGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties
(York Extension), 2 dis.—East Lancashire, New, 3% dis.
—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, Thirds,
li dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Halves (H. and S.), 9%
dis.—Ditto, West Riding Union, 2% dis.—Preston and
Wyre, 341,4—Leeds and IThirsk, New, 131,i dis.—London
and North-Western, Quarters: (13), p.—North Bri-
tish,(Quarters, 1j dis.—North Staffordshire„ 3-16—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 1 11-16 dis.
EDINBURGH, Dac 11.
STOCK Excllastax.—The sales are—Dundee and Perth,
Quarters. 465. 61—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 94—Edinburgh
and Northern, Newport, New, 11. 153.—Great Northerns,
41. IN.—North British, 271.—Ditto, Halves, 121 51.—Ditto,
Thirds, Quarters, 41.
36.
41.10s.—Ditto, New Quarters, I Is. 9d.—Ditto,
i

GLASGOW, Die. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—This has been a duller week than
has been experienced on the Stock Exchange for some time
past, caused partly by the continuance of heavy failures,
particularly that of the Ayrshire Iron Company, by which
many individuals are compromised, and the losses in con-
nexion
clip which will be very great. Caledonian Halvea
have declined 2s. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow 21s. ; Glasgow
and Ayr 14s. ; Dumfries and Carlisle 6s. 6d. ; Great
Northern, 4s. ; North British, Thirds, 43. Ed. ; Ditto, Quar-
ters, 7s. 6d. The sales are—Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Halves, New, 61. 7s. 6d. ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Grantors,
141. 15s.—Edinburgh and Perth, 10s. ; Glasgow and Garn:
kirk, 38—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 1/. 2s. ; North British,
27 ;Ditto, Halves, 12/. 78.6 d. ; Wishaw and Coltneas, 44.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 13.
The Lord Chief Justice sat to-day at the Guildhall, to
try common jury cases. The Court was engaged all the
morning in trying an uninteresting case of alleged illegal
distress.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

The LORD MAYOR intimated that he had received
papers from the secretary to the institution called the
Sailors' Home, containing matter interesting to the
service, 'sad therefore to the public generally. He re-
joiced to find from the statements made by the ship-
owners that the operation of the new Act of Parlia-
ment, inflicting penalties and imprisonment upon seamen
who, in foreign countries, deserted the vessels which
they engaged to work the voyage, both outward and
homeward, was most efficacious, so that at the same
time that it was the determination of the authorities to
protect the owners and masters from the consequences of
desertion, it would be seen that the utmost solicitude
prevailed with regard to the comfort and protection of
the men.

The following is the correspondence :
" Sailors' Home.

"My Lord, The directors of the Sailors' Home
having had under their consideration the evils resulting
from the present system of issuing advance notes to
seamen, take the liberty of forwarding to you the en•
closed statement of the view in which the practice
presents itself to their observation, in the hope that if
you shall concur therein the subject may be deemed
worthy the attention of the shipowners.
" The directors are encouraged to hope that the
Sailors' Home has.been the means of promoting habits
of thoughfulness and prudence among seamen, from
which an- increased feeling of self-respect is sure to
follow. They, believe, therefore, that every means which
can be taken to remove such hindrances from the seaman's
path as the advance note system raises and perpetuates,
will be found to have a most useful tendency.
" The directors are happy to state that the savings'-
bank at the Sailors' Home is extensively used, by
seamen.*

" I am your Lordship's. obedient servant,
" GEORGE PIERCE, Secretary.

"To Shipowners.—Consith,rations on the Advance-
note System'.
—Promissory notes for one or two' months'
wages in advance, are given by captains of merchant
vessels to seamen, before they proceed on foreign voy-
ages, and these notes are payable only on the condition
that the men shall have proceeded- to sea in these vessels.
" For these advance notes the seamen generally re-
ceive from slopsellers and ozhers, who are in the habit
of cashing them, a small portion in money and the rest
in articles of clothing (frequently of very inferior
quality) for which they are charged the full price. This
arises in some measure from the temptation to drive a
hard bargain with the sailors, and also because if they
do not sail in their vessels, or the captains neglect to
advise their agents that the men are on board, the notes
are not paid.
"But as our seamen, when they return from foreign
voyages. receive from 101. to 301. wages, this sum judi-
ciously laid out, would not only pay all their expenses
while on shore, but would amply fit them out for another
voyage; while the prospect of the advance note, too often
induces them to waste that portion of their hardly earned
wages which should be devoted to the purchase of their
next outfit.

" But the advance-note system net only injures the
man in a pecuniary point of view, it exercises a most
pernicious influence on his conduct. It places a
sum of money in his possession which he has
not earned, just at the moment of his sailing.
This fee quontly leads to intemperance ; he neglects to
perform his contract. and thus loi,es his ship, and some-
times hii'clethes. The circumstances et. having received
wages in advance is also, from various caus;:s, a tempta-
tion to insubordination ; and thus quarrels arise before
the ship has left the Channel, obliging captains to come
to London, from Gravesend, the Downs, or Ramsgate, to
replace those they have been obliged to discharge. It is very
probable that many of these disturbances would not have
arisen if wages for unperformed work bad not previ-
ously been received, and even when the ship makes the
port of discharge abroad, the sailor having so small a
sum due to him, is often tempted by the evil advice of
the crimp (many of whom are in every foreign port), to
smuggle his clothes out of the ship, place himself under
the crimp's protection until the ship has left the port,
and then again engages himself with, perhaps, higher
wages, and a further advance, out of which he reim.
burses the party who has trepanned him into this act of
desertion.

" this reckless proceeding ships are often detained
in port, and ultimately obliged to sail with very infe-
rior crews, at very increased wages. It is, therefore,
respectfully submitted that the advance of wages to
seamen, by promissory notes, according to the present
practice, should be abolished. By so doing a great
advantage would be conferred on the sailor—better habits
would be Onurated—the discipline on board merchant
ships would be more easily maintained—the men who
sail from Englund in a vessel will return in her—and
the seamen generally will, is a short time, find that
they have bean greatly benefited by the alteration, as
at the end of the voyage they will receive a much larger
amount in solid money instead of the inadequate com-
pensation, they have been in the habit of obtaining for
their advat:ce notes.—Sailors' Home."

" * During the last" seven years 700 seamen have in-
vested money in the savings' bank connected with
the Sail.;, -e Home, and no amount at present deposited
is 2,440/. 15s. 71'

GU"ILJILiLL

Mr. Alderman WILs3N acknou!edge the receipt of 51.
from C. V., Watch the donor begged, might be men-
tioned in the.neffsptlpers, that others might be led to
help tbe,poor: _ ,

_ .
Joseph Brown, a carman to Messrs. Jensen and King-
ham. varnish makers, Barbican, was charged•with steal-
ing l'Oths. of gum, the property of his employers.
John Mark Bull, a City poixce buustabie, stated that
about one o'clock yt sterday afternoon, he" saw the pri-
soner come cut of a gatelvayfin.Barbican,: with a bag
under his'arni.. He turned into Aldt.rsgate-street, and
ran as last as' he'cGuld, but witness overtook him, and
asked` Win whit he-had in the bag ?He said it was some
gum, which he was. taking to A hiersgate-strcet to be
dried.- Witness 'aSked him if it required to be dried,
and wherehe brought it from. The prisoner said he
brought it from his master's stables. Witness took him
to his master, who gave charge_ of . the prisoner for steal-
ing the property. ..
Mr. Kingham stated that the prisoner had been em-.
ploye4 by the firm nearly two yeare.. The stock of gum
of the-tiescripLon produced was kept at tlie premises in
Barbican, and the prisoner had no right to have any of
it at; the Stables. •
Mr. Alderman WiLsorr asked what character they
had of the prisoner when they engaged him ?
Mr Kiagham stated that they took him without a
character, having at first employed him as an odd man.
Mr. Alderman Wilson remanded the prisoner that
his lodgings might he searched.