The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-21 00:00:00

COURTS Or ALDERMEN AND

COMMON COUNCIL. • ----
'Yesterday about 120 members of the Common Coun-
cil assembled in the Council Chamber, for the purpose
of receiving the suggestions of the sub-committee ap-
pointed by them to consider the most advisable mode of
proceeding on the next Common Council day, with re-
spect to the Bill, the third reading of which, at the last
Court, the Lord Mayor refused to put.
It appeared, Mr. Ashurst said, desirable to the sub-
committee, and they recommended accordingly, that at
the next Court a committee of privileges should be
moved for, before they proceeded to call upon the Lord
Mayor to put the question of the third reading of the
Common Council Qualifications Bill, in order that the
objection that they were not a legally constituted body
might not be started against them, &c. It also appeared
to them to be advisable to assert their right to have
the question put the moment after the committees were
appointed.
Mr. R. L. JONES supposed the case of the departure
of the Aldermen, which was a very possible contin-
gency, upon the motion for the appointment of the Com-
mittees of Privileges, and asked what ,in such a case,
would the Court do ? He suggested whether it would
not be preferable to have the committees appointed in
the first instance, and then to move for the appointment
of the Committee of Privileges. If the Aldermen then
chose to depart, the Court would be convinced they went
away for the purpose of avoiding the question, and they
could determine upon a mode of settling the difference.
The time was exceedingly eventful, and he thought it
necessary to caution the Court not to plunge itself into
a vortex in which great danger might be apprehended.
Mr. AMU:MST said he no more than stated the recom-
mendation of the sub-committee. There was no resolu-
tion proposed. Every member would, when the time
arrived, act for himself.
Mr. R. L. JONES asked whether the sub-committee
had taken into consideration the fact that the notice of
the third reading of the Qualification Bill was not upon
the paper of the business of the next Court ?
Mr. ASHURST answered in the affirmative, but ab-
stained from discussing the subject, a course which
seemed to be approved by the meeting.
Mr. HARRISON said be thought it necessary to state
that it was his intention to move upon a subject in which
he believed he had the sympathy of all the members
before the third reading of the Qualification Bill should
be put. He meant the distressed condition of the Irish,
to contribute to the relief, of which as soon as possible.
he should move that the sum of 2,0001. be voted. lie
intimated so much to the members, in order that it
mi;_ht not be supposed that he meant to throw any diffi-
culty in the way of the Qualification question.
Mr. R. L. JONES put the case that the Lord Mayor
should refuse to put the question. He wished to know
in what condition the Court would be in that event?

No distinct answer was given to the question. V—.•
Mr. DE JERSEY believed that the motion for the ap-
pointment of a committee of privileges, would be an
interruption to the proceedings which the Court had
commenced.

Mr. KING said the reading of the minutes of the last
Court, would be the first part of the business of the next.
Those minutes were to his knowledge improperly re-
corded, and would prejudice the question if permitted to
pass. If; therefore, they found that there was existing
inaccuracy, it would be advisable to move a committee of
privil. ges upon that matter. _ _

TheCHAinstex said that he bad been merely in-
structed to state the recommendations of the sub-
committee, and having fulfilled his instructions, and
advised that the meeting should make no resolution, but
proceed with unanimity to the attainment of tbeirobject,
he considered the business of the committee at an end.
Mr. Ashurst then vacated the chair.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT
ASSEMBLED.
The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Merchants,
Bankers, Brewers, Distillers, and other Traders of the
City of London,
Sheweth,—That inasmuch as your Honourable House
has repeatedly declared, more particulary at the passing
of the Canada Corn Bill and the late opening of our
markets to the sugar of foreign plantations, that her
Majesty's subjects in the Colonies ought to be placed
on a footieg of equality with the subjects of the United
Kingdom, particularly with regard to commercial and
inct.strial privileges, including more especially the fair
and free disposal of the produce of their soil and la-
b or, and
lirt esmuch as the present dearth of every species of
f,od in Great Britain and Ireland, and most other coun-
tries of Europe, renders all legitimate efforts for pre-
venting needless or premature consumption of the
existing scanty stocks of grain, a paramount duty of
humanity and policy, and
Inasmuch as the present high and still advancing prices
of barley and malt, threaten a partial if not lota suspen-
sion of brewing and distilling, as well as a material
defalcation in the public revenue derived from those
sources.
We, your humble Petitioners, for these reason, pray
that your Honourable House will immediately be pleased
to rescind the penalties to which Public Brewers and
Distillers are at present liable for using Sugar and Mo-
lasses, and allow henceforth the free and unrestricted
use :of those commodities whereby your Honourable
House will greatly encourage and benefit the Colonists,
and cnncLde to them the right, as British subjects,
to di pose of their produce in a more enlarged and
better market • cause a com,iderable saving in the con-
sumption of Barley and Other Grain. : secure to your Pe-
titioners, and her Majesty's subjects generally, the con-
tinued enjNyment of their usuol beverage at a cheap rate;
protect, and probably augment, the public revenue, and
extend the shipping and commerce of the British empire.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray
N. M. Rothschild's Sons Thomson, Hankey and Co.
Magniac, Jardine, and Co. Fletcher, Alexander and Co.
Heath, Furse, and Co. Hibbert and Co.
Forbes, Forbes, and Co. P. ard C. Van Notten and Co.
Fre,lerick Muth and Co. Davidsons and Co.
Thomson, &liar, and Co. Finlay, Hodgson and Co.
Sir J. W. Lubbock and Co. Boddington and Co.
Barclay Brothers and Co. John Henry Deffell and Co.
Reid, Irving and Co. Bosanquet and Co.
Cockerell, Larpent and Co. Anthony Gibbs and Sons
Jehn Thomas, Son and Lefevr• Archibald Hastie
Palmer, Mackillop, Dent and Samuel Dubree and Sons
Co. Truman and Cook
Morris, Prevost and Co. James Pattison and Sons
John Henry Schroder and Co. Arbuthnot and Latham
Gregson and Co. A. Colville
A. A.Gower,Nephews and Co. Gledstanes and Co.
De Lisle, Janvrin and De Lisle John Hubbard and Co.
Crawford, Colvin and Co. Cavan Brothers
Scott, Bell and Co. R. and R. Thornton and Wes
IL D. and J.Blyth and Greene.
And !miner

•ous others.

The Chambers of the Cour Royale, assembled to-
gether, had to decide on Saturday on an application of Prince
d'Eckmulh, Peer of France, to be freed from the control of
a judicial counsel, imposed on him in 1837 on the demand
of his mother. It appeared that when the applicant had
come of age, he owed money to a great amount, for follies
incidental to youth, such as gambling, horses, &c. So ex-
travagant had he been, that an application to the law courts
was deemed requisite, and eventually General Contard wa,
nominated judicial counsel. The Prince then determined to
absent himself from France for a few years, and he ac-
cordingly set out on a voyage round the world. He was
absent six years, and had never during that period either
gambled, kept horses, or indulged in any other expensive
pursuit ; he had, in fact, saved IBo,ooof. out of the income
allowed to him by his judicial counsel. He at last returned
at the request of his mother, and after some time applied to
her to have the judicial counsel removed, and the manage-
ment of his affairs placed in his own hands. She declared
that she had no objection, but that she should affix one con-
dition to his release—that he should marry. He replied
that to marry under such circumstances would not be worthy
of his name ; that it must not be said that the Prince d'Eck-
mulh had married in order to recover the administration of
his property. Such was the case, as sustained on Saturday
by M. Paillet for the Prince, in an appeal against a former
decision refusing his application, whilst M. Baroche, for
General Contard, argued against the demand. The ut,
after ten minutes' deliberation, maintained the Prince under
the control of his judicial counsel —Galignani.
®Amost exaggerated representation having appeared
in some of the papers of a fire on board the Bonafide,
the owners of her request it may be stated that the brig
was light and dismantled, being laid up for the winter,
that the damage sustained was confined to the blistdring
of the paint around the fire-place in the cabin, and does
not amount to twenty shillings, the fire baying been ex-
tinguished in five minutes, with half a dozen buckets of
water. The mate of the vessel, who, in defiance of the
dock regulations, had placed some varnish near to-the
steVP, has been punished by the dock authorities.
THE Mummy. Hoo.—At the police-court, on Wed-
nesday, a diminutive Irishman, named Francis, minus
an eye, was charged with gaining admission to the
different colleges with a forged order purporting to be
signed by the Vice-Chancellor, granting him permission
to show to the students a mummy hog which he had
"embalmed." The fact was that Francis displayed his
novelty to some collegians at a private house, who were
so well pleased with it, that they gave him the note,
which, of course, was a hoax. He asked a man to read
the note to him when he came out of the house, who ex.
claimed that his fortune was made, and told him the
great privilege granted to him. The forgery was, how-
ever, soon detected, and Francis was given in custody.
When the charge was stated to him, the Vice-Chancellor
being presf nt, the unhappy man dropped on his knees,
and bursting into tears, exclaimed, " I'm innocent, your
honours—as innocent as my poor mummy hog in this
here box, and which can be seen for the small charge of
twopence, for ladies and gents.; and poor people for one
penny ! This mummy hog, gents., has a double
body, eight feet, and two heads ; it has been
scientifically embalmed, and is one of the greatest
wonders of the animal creation. Were it not
for my mummy, I should certainly starve.
Gents., I have been very unfortunate. I was a
keeper of wild beasts ; I came to this town with my
menagerie ; but they have all died since I've been here.
My poor tigers, that bounded so cleverly through the
hoop, died of hooping cough ; my Polar bears, that
climbed the pole, caught violent fen agues, and followed
the tigers ; my wolves grew dainty, and wouldn't eat ;
my noble lions roared with pain, and we knew not their
ci,mplaint ; my monkeys, that dressed so primly in
scarlet jackets, died of scarlet fever ; my elephant, my
panthers, all have gone ; my boa constrictor was suffo-
cated swallowing a rabbit ; my birds, too, all died, and
left me scarcely a feather to fly with. I have only my
mummy hog now ! Would you like to see it, gents.?
lan3as, astonishes all who behold it. I won't
charge you
oltrinyeosuaidm—ayNogo;
;weyoduonh'tavweaenvtidtoenstely
been imposed e
youtrinalguin"mMyri
upllia;)yne.a. Vice-Chancellor said that
those who had
punishment for '1! e hoax upon the poor man de-
servedaving broumpeght him into trouble
from off his knees,
so unnecessarily. The man
_tne real mummy
shouldered his mummy, rustiicr
began, " Hoy, hoy, hoy—only pen:yn! Btairs, and then
hog !" and customers eagerly ex°,
god around him,....
Cambridge Independent Press.

Tii_E SUN, LONDON,

spring.
At Hamburgh, on the 9th of January, the frost was se•

vere, and the-Elbe was then completely frozen over. The
transactions in grain since the previous post-day had been
quite unimportant, but the prices of both wheat and spring
corn had further advanced. The very great rise which has
within the last month taken place in prices here, has placed
quotations of wheat in this 'country above those of Mar-

seines and other places in the Mediterranean.
At Marseilles, on the 10th of January, common Polish
Odessa wheat, deliverable in March, was obtainable at equal
to 5:25. to 545., and superior at 58s. per qr. free on board ; and
Marianopoli, on the spot, might then have been bought at
555. per qr.
From Leghorn we have letters of the Bth Jan.; a pur-
chase of 4,000 sacks of Marianopoli wheat had been made
there for shipment, at equal to about 50s. per qr. free on
board. Ia most of the French markets wheat and flour

have undergone a further rise, and prices are now too nearly
alike in this and that country to allow of business being done
with advantage.
Since writing the above the Hamburgh mail of Tuesday
has been received, by which we have letters of more recent
dates from the Baltic. What way still rising. in value;
notwithstanding which, the growers were bringing forward
suppliep but plowly.—.Dark-lana Exprem

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN
TRADE.

The value of Wheat has risen day by day for many weeks
consecutively without a single pause, and prices have now
obtained an altitude calculated to induce caution on the
part of buyers. Prudent tradesmen consider speculative
investments at present rates hazardous; and parties who
purchase only in the regular way of business are gradually
restricting their operations, being generally unwilling to
take more than just sufficient to keep their customers sup-
plied. When affairs arrive at this position a reaction
usually follows; but, owing to the peculiar circumstances of
the present season, we greatly doubt whether such will in
this instance prove the case. The fact that large shipments
of grain continue to be made from England to Ireland-from
which country, in the ordinary course of events, we are in the
habit of drawing a considerable proportion of our supplies-
is alone sufficient to upset all previously-conceived notions.
But the singularity of our position does not end here. The
loss of the potato crop in Ireland, and the consequent neces-
sity of feeding several millions of people not generally in the
habit of consuming grain, on so expensive a substitute, is cer-
tainly one very powerful reason for concluding that prices can-
not well recede ; but when to this is added the present ,tate of
France, and other continental countries where the crops of
corn have proved so short as to oblige the different Govern-
ments to have recourse to such expedients as those lately
adopted by the French-first altering the navigation laws
to encourage importation, by admitting flour under flags
of all nations, and subsequently taking off the duties of
thin altogether - there are certainly grounds to appre-
hend that it will be necessary. to pay. very high prices
abroad to induce our continental neighbours to part
with a commodity they stand in such urgent need of
themselves. We are, therefore, inclined to think that,
unless the spring should prove extraordinarily propitious,
and the arrivals from the other side of the Atlantic more ex-
tensive than we have reason to calculate on, the value of all
kinds of food will remain high up to the time of next har-
vest. The trade in wheat has not been quite so excited this
as the proceeding week, the very high term,: demanded
having bad the effect, as stated above, of causing all par-
ties to exercise more than usual prudence in their operations.
But, notwithstanding a somewhat. diminished demand, the
tendency of prices has been steadily upwards ; in proof of
which we shall quote the advance realised at some of the
leading provincial markets :-
At Liverpool on Tuesday there was a good attendance of
buyers from the manufacturing districts and from Ireland;
and the quantity of wheat on sale being moderate, rates 6d.
per 701b5., or 35. 6d. per quarter, above those of that day
se'nnight were obtained without difficulty. Later in 'the
week a further enhancement of 2d. to 3d. per 701bs. was
established, several parcels having been taken on Friday by
speculators, at the price last named.
The reports from the leading towns of Yorkshire inform
us that business in wheat had been mote or less checked by
the advance; still, needy buyers had had no alternative,
and had been under the necessity of paying the terms de-
manded. At Leeds, the article was on Tuesday quoted 2s.
to 3s. per quarter higher; and at Hull, on the same day,
the rise was nearly as great. From Wakefield we learn
that a tolerable extent of business was done there on Friday
in Wheat at prices 2s. per quarter above those of that day
week.
At Birmingham, Bristol, and other towns in that direction
the upward movement has been equally important, although
purchasers have declined taking more than has been abso-
lutely necessary to supply their immediate wants. In the
foregoing observations we have confined our remarks more
exclusively to Wheat; but we need scarcely state that all
other articles have participated in the rise. Barley has, in
many parts of the country, sold at the unusually high rates
of 60s. to 655. per quartet, according to quality; and the
scarcity of Oats has now become so great that farmers have
refused to sell this grain altogether, being well aware that if
they were to part with the little they may still hold, they
would afterwards have to pay relatively higher prices to pro-
procure food for their stock.
The advices from Scotland are of a similar character to
the reports from other parts of the kingdom. Not only
wheat, bat all species of grain, is rapidly rising there; and
it is certain that no supplies of oats (the staple article of
shipment to the south) can be expected, that article being
worth quite as much, if not more, at Edinburgh as in the
London market.
The accounts from Ireland become from day to day more
distressing, and the temporary decline which a large arrival
of Indian corn caused last week had again been recovered,
the supply having proved inadequate to the demand. With
the people starving in many parts of the island, shipments
of provisions from thence to England are, of course, out of the
question.
The arrivals of English Wheat into London have again
been moderate, the high range of prices at Liverpool and
other northern markets having caused the shippers on the
east coast to direct their consignments to those place rather
than to the metropolis. The quantity, brought, forward at
Mark-lane by land-carriage samples from the home counties
since Monday has also' been small ; and the millers' wants
having again become urgent, increased anxiety to get into
stock has been manifested by bu'ers. The few lots left over
on Monday, principally from Essex and Kent, were easily
placed on Wednesday at rates rather exceeding those
obtained in the beginning of the week. OR Friday fictors
again raised their pretensions, which checked the demand-;
but having scarcely anything fresh up, needy purchasers
were under the necessity of paying the terms asked. In
free foreign Wheat a fair amount of business has been done
during the week, the lower descriptions having been in
request for the manufacture of meal for Ireland, and
the finer sorts having excited attention for local use.
The continued demand from the other side of the Chan-
nel, and the smallness of the stock remaining on hand,
together with the certainty that no foreign supplies
can for a month or two be calculated on, have all
tended to give an upward tordency to prices, and the
rise since last Monday cannot be estimated at less than,
Is. to 2s. per qr. Prices being now as high, if not higher
here than in France, the export to that country has ceased ;
notwithstanding which, holders of bonded Wheat have con-
tinued to ask prices within is. to 2s. per quarter of those of
free, for parcels under lock. This can only be accounted
for by the supposition that the Legislature may, on the
meeting of Parliament, take off the existing duty of 4s. per
quarter.
The sale of town-made Flour has been more extensive this
week than was the case earlier in the month, which has pro-
bably been caused by bakers having become apprehensive
that the millers may again put up the price : hitherto, how-
ever, the top quotation has remained stationary at 655. per
sack. Ship Flour has been in fair request. and has com-
manded full terms. For American the inquiry has been
lively, and a further enhancement of Is. per brl. has been
pretty generally realised on the best brands.
The arrivals of English Barley have been very trifling ;
and though 12,551 qrs. have come to hand from abroad, prin •
cipally from the north of Europe (from whence the vessels
were dispatched previous to the setting in of the frost), the
high rates of last Monday have been maintained. Very
thin foreign Barley has realised 465., good grinding qualities
505., and for superior English malting qualities very close
upon 70s. per qr. has been paid. Such prices are well calcu-
lated to draw supplies ; but the Baltic ports being frozen up,
with little prospect of becoming free till March, whilst in the
interval nothing of importance can be expected to reach us
from other quarters, we see no chance of a material reaction.
Malt has moved upwards in value quite as rapidly as Bar-
ley, and 90s. per qr. has been insisted on for fine qualities.
The supplies of Oats during the week ending this (Satur-
day) evening amounted to only 4,473 qrs. ; and the receipts
having for several preceding weeks fallen materially short of
the quantity required for consumption, great inroads have
been made on the dealers' stocks-indeed, so bare has the
market become of this grain, that holders have experienced
no difficulty in obtaining very high rates. The extent of the
advance will, perhaps, be better understood by giving the
quotations obtained for some particular sorts than in stating
the rise in shillings per qr. Archangels have sold freely at
365., good heavy Irish at 38s. to 395., and fine Scotch feed at
40s. per qr. and upwards, with more anxiety to buy than sell
at these rates.
Beans have participated in the general advance; and for
floating cargoes of Egyptians 445. to. 455. per quarter, cost,
freight, asd insurance has been given.
Peas have likewise been held at enhanced terms, though
the demand for the latter article has not been particularly
active.
Floating cargoes of Indian Corn have again been much
sought after on Irish account, 'and important bargains were
closed on Wednesday and Friday, on terms hardly procur-
able in the commencement of the week.
THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
By the Cambria steam ship, we have ativices of recent
dates from North America. Shipments of wheat, flour, and
Indian corn, on rather an extensive scale, were still being
made to England ; but the very high freights demanded
had interfered a good deal with business. The New York
letters are of the 31st of December ; the stock of flour in
store was then becoming very small, and as in conse-
quence of the close of the inland navigation 'no supplies
from the interior were expected till spring, holders had raised
their pretensions from 12ic. to 25c. per barrel. The ad-
vanced rates demanded had, however, been very reluctantly
paid, and for some days the actual transactions had been
on quite a retail scale; Genessee Flour had been held at
5 dolls. 561/0. to 5 dolls. 62ic., which with charges added far
buying and storing till spring, and calculated at the ad-
verse rates of exchange then prevailing, would make
the cost on board, in English money, 265. to 275. per
barrel. The total exports from New York during the year
1846 had been-Flour, 960,534 barrels; Wheat, 1,200,598
bushels; and Indian corn, 1,243,668 bushels. At Baltimore,
on the 29th ult., the flour trade was dull, and prices had
then rather a downward tendency; the last sales of Howard-
street had been at 4 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. 87c., and City-mills'
had also been sold at the latter rate. The export of flour
from that port to Great Britain during the year had not
exceeded 50,000 barrels. From Philadelphia the shipments
had been mach larger viz., 360,844 brls. of flour, 223,947
bushels of wheat, and 272,768 bushels of Indian corn. At
the last- named port business was far from brisk; on the 26th
of December holders of flour generally demanded 4 dolls.
874 c. per barrel, which being rather more than buyers were
disposed to give, only retail sales have been made. Of Indian I
corn a couple of cargoes of new' southern yellow had been
bought at 57c. to 58c. per bushel.
Owing to the non-arrival of the Hamburgh mail of Tues-
day last, our advices from the northern parts of Europe
are, not of such recent dates as usual; we have, however,
Dantzic letters of the 9th instant. by the way of Holland,
from which it appears that the continued advance on this
side had had the usual effect, prices having run up quite
as rapidly there as with us. For fine high-mixed wheat
holders had refused to accept below 60e. to 613., and for fair
high-mixed 58s. to 595. per qr. had been demanded; whilst
the most ordinary descriptions had been held at 50s. to 525.
per qr., free on board, in spring. Rye had been much in-
quired for, and, having come very sparingly to hand, had
realised equal to 425. per qr.
At the Lower Baltic ports the stocks of grain are said to
be extremely small; and by the most recent accounts from
Rostock, Stettin, &c., it appears that the supplies from the
growers had been on a restricted scale, in consequence of
which comparatively little business had been done, though
the demand had been lively. At the first of these ports
barley was, on the 7th instant, quoted 325. 6d. ; and at
Stettin, on the sanie day, 31s. per quarter, free on board, in

HUEtSDAY MORNI

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
THE SPHYNX.-LOSS OF EIGHT SEAMEN.

JAN. 19.—Three steamers are lying at anchor off, Where
the sea is as smooth as glass, but there is a heavy ground
swell on the beach. The Sphynx lies well in on the flatners,
and appears not to have been so much damaged in her bottom
as reported.
A barge, with eight men from one of the steamers, cap-
sized yesterday while rowing round her, and all were
drowned. . . .

To-day sixty shipwrights and engineers with their tools,
from the dock-yard, are leaving Cowes in waggons for Mot-
tiston. The ill-fated vessel's masts were cut away yesterday.
Arrived, the Swedish schooner Robert, Gerfstrom master,
from Charleston for Bremen, with rice and cotton, having
been run into on Sunday last by a large vessel, name un-
known. She carried away her bowsprit and foremast, and
did her other damage. She makes a good deal of water.
She had been in tow of a Dutch ship, but was towed here by
the Glasgow steamer.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Major Stevens, of the Roya:
Marine Artillery, is appointed Inspector of Dockyards, it
conjunction with a naval officer who will hereafter be no-
minated. _ _ _ _

Courts-martial will be held to-morrow on board the St.
Vincent to try Lieutenant Gill, of the Mutine, for drunken.
ness, and Lieutenant Heath, of the Hyacinth, who was offi-
cer of the watch when that vessel ran foul of the Wanderer,
merchant barque, for his participation in that accident.
The Hyacinth, 18, Commander Scott, will be paid off on
Wednesday, and the Wanderer, the vessel with which she
came in collision, is under repair at the expense of Govern-
ment; so that it appears they are satisfied the Hyacinth
was in fault. _

The Crocodile, 8, Lieutenant-commanding S. R. Protheroe,
will be paid in advance on Thursday.
Thirty of the St. Vincent's crew have been sent in charge
of an officer by train to London, thence to proceed to Sheer-
ness, to fit the Cyclops steamer, recently paid off at that
port, for immediate service in carrying provisions to Ire-
land. _ _

The officers and crew of the Sidon steam-frigate, Captain
Henderson, have received orders to complete the filling of
the Dauntless, commenced by the dockyard riggers, and,
when ready, to navigate her to Glasgow to get her engines.
They commenced operations to-day.
PORTSMOUTH, TUZSDAY.—A court-martial, comprising
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, President; Captain Chads, of
the Excellent; Captain Henderson, of the Sidon; Captain
Milne, of the St. Vincent; Commander Tryon of the
Mutine ; and Mr. G. L. Greetham, Deputy Judge Advocate
of the Fleet; assembled this morning on board the flag-ship
St. Vincent, to try Mr. Heath, third lieutenant of the Hy-
acinth, 18, Commander Scott, who was officer of the watch
at the time that vessel ran foul of the Wanderer, merchant
bark, on the morning of the 12th inst., for alleged neglect of
duty on the said occasion, whereby considerable damage was
sustained by both vessels.
Captain Pasco, of the Victory, was ordered to sit as a
member of the Court, but was objected to by the prisoner,
he (Captain Pasco) having, after an inquiry, made the report
to the Admiralty upon which the present trial was founded,
and Commander Tryon, as next in seniority, was sworn in
his stead.

Mr. James Hoskin's, solicitor, of Gosport, officiated as the
prisoner's " friend."
The charge was, " For that you, on the 12th day of
January, 1847, being at the time in actual service and full
pay off her Majesty's fleet, and officer of the watch on board
the said sloop (Hyacinth), did improperly omit to have the
helm of the said sloop put down as soon as a certain bark,
called the Wanderer, steering down channel, was first seen
from the said sloop as going before the wind, by which omis-
sion the said sloop and barque came into collision and re-
ceived damage."
After a most patient investigation, and eloquent defence,
the Court acquitted the prisoner.
On the conclusion of the above, another Court ;Was sworn
in, comprising Captain Pasco in the room of Commander
Tyron, but as Senior Captain, to try Mr. Gill, Second Lieu-
tenant of the Mutine, 12, Commander Tyron, on a charge
of drunkenness, preferred by his commander, which was
proved, and he was sentenced to be dismissed the service.
The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander J. C. Caffin, returned
to Spithead last night at nine o'clock, having been detained
at the wreck (for we must now call it so) of the Sphynx,
since she left this harbour on Sunday morning. She came
up for more assistance, and a dockyard lump, with anchors,
cables, and a gang of riggers, have been sent by the Scourge
to-day at noon. About sixty shipwrights, and a number of
engineers, under the direction of Mr. Watts, one of the
builders' assistants, together with a detachment of marines
to guard any property that may be landed from her, have
also been dispatched.
A dreadful accident occurred at the wreck yesterday. A
cutter belonging to the Scourge, under the charge of Mr.
Harris, gunner of that vessel, while in the act of endeavour-
ing to reach the Sphynx, was caught in the curl of the surf,
instantly capsized, and Mr. Harris and six men were
drowned. Two were with difficulty saved, mainly by the ex-
ertions of Mr. Wallis, master of the Sphynx, who was se-
verely cut about the face, and had two of his ribs fractured, '
in his act of humanity. The Sphynx is about 300 yards to
the eastward of Brook Coast Guard station, and is forming
herself a bed in the clayey soil of the beach, close to the face
of the cliff.
A party of hands, from the Sidon, to assist in manning the
Avenger, sailed in the Vulcan revenue steamer this morning
for Plymouth.

The Adventure naval transport and the Sinbad lighter
sailed to-day with provisions for Cork.
Mr. John Mallard, late senior clerk of the St. Vincent,
died in Haslar Hospital, after three days' illness, of pneumo-
nia, aged 45. The deceased officer was formerly Lr many
years, and indeed until lately, young gentlemen's school-
master upon the old system, but being past the age to qualify
him for the position of naval instructor on the new system,
he returned to his original position as a clerk in order to
obtain his rank ultimately as paymaster and purser, which
he had long been entitled to, having passed for that rank in
1833. He had beenoin various flag ships at this port during
the last 11 years, and ,was much respected in them all, par-
ticularly by his messmates and the youngsters, of whom he
always took a fatherly charge. His remains were interred
yesterday at the cemetery at Kingston, in the same tomb as
his wife, and were followed to their last resting-place by
some of the ward-room and most of the gun-room officers of
the ships in commission in this harbour. His own messmates
in the gun-room of the St. Vincent each subscribed hand-
somely according to his means towards the funeral expenses,
as did two officers in the ward-room (the surgeon and purser)
not from the necessity of a subscription for that purpose, but
to mark their respect for his memory.

PRICE OF GOLD, TUESDAY EVENING.—The pre-
mium on gold at Paris is 11 per mille, which at the English
Mint price of 31. 17s. 101/2d. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exc:tange of 25.42 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25.35, it follows that gold is 0.28 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 4321/ per mark, which, at
the English mint price of 3/. 17e. 101Acl, per ounce for stan-
dard gold, gives an exchange of 13.8% ; and the exchange
at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.51, it follows that
gold is 1.50 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London.
Yorkcent. againstbeibeing
forbillbills
England.
at 6 130 u t
days'th quotedsight,
The course of exchange at New York on London is 1051/2
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change
giee 4.08 at Npeewr
the interest must be deducted from the above difference.
THE LATE FATAL ON THE EASTERN
COUNTI RAILWAY. It
the whole of the sufferers in the accident' L plac
e
at took
wAicliclbDeE
gratifying
at the Stratford station of the Eastern Counties Rail; ay,' in
the month of September last, have been fully compensated
for their injuries by the company. Amongst the sufferers
was a poor woman named Smith, residing at Ch' II igwe ,in
Essex, who unfortunately had both her legs broken, and tor
whose recovery the company Was
most solicitous,ll
Roney, the secretary, and some of the directors, frequentlyr.
visiting her. On Thnrsday h
the
become'
convales
cent, she was presented with 600 guineas by th
as some amends for the injury she had sustaineed.
company,
request of Mr. William Cotton, who. we regret to t
the
still feels the effects of the injury to his head by the hear,
um of money was paid by same
accident, a large s the company
to the Bethnal-gre:n schools, instead of to himself, he wit-
drawing the action he had commenced against the company.
SUICIDE IN THE PUBLIC STREETS FROM STARVA-.
TioN. —An inquest was held on Tuesday, before Mr. W.
Payne, City Coroner, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the
body of Robert Bland, aged 34, who committed suicide in the
public streets under the following circumstances :—John
Nicholls, police-constable 240, of the City police, said that on
Monday morning, about half-past four o'clock, he was on
duty in King-street, Snow Hill, when he saw a man lying on
the pavement, and on going over found the deceased. On
questioning him he said that he had taken some laudanum,
which he had procured at six different shops. The sergeant
COM mg up they took him to the station .house, and then con-
veyed him to the hospital. He stated that his name was
Robert Bland, and gave his address Salford,near Manchester,
and that he was a coach painter by trade; he said he was
destitute and had no friends to go to, and that he had done it
from want; that he was tired of his life, and that he thought
he might as well die. as live in the wretched state he was
then living in. Mr. r.
J Hurlock, resident medical • Officer at
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, said he saw the deceased about
twenty minutes before
five o'clock, and seeing him very cal_
lected, addressed him upon the impropriety of the steps he
had been taking, when he said he had been driven to it by
parting with his last. shilling. There was a wanting of the
strongest evidence of his having taken laudanum, by the eyes
not being contracted. Upon the stomach pump being ap.
plied, he fell back in his chair.and immediately expired. It
was his opinion that the coldness of the night, with his irre-
gularities of life, namely, insufficiency of diet or no diet at all,
had, as much'as laudanum, produced death. He had not
made a post mortem examination, and, therefore, could not
state what was the cause of death. Two drachms of lauda-
num upon an empty stomach would be enough to destroy life.
In answer to a juror, Mr. Hurlock said he never saw a person
die under the application of the stomach pump before, but he
thought it might have been eaused by the difficulty of
breathing usual on the stomach pump being applied, and also
to its being a very cold night. He was of opinion, that if a
post mortem examination was made, he should not be able to
trace laudanum, but he thought that, jointly with other
causes, had produced death. The inquiry, after lasting acon-
siderable time, was adjourned fora post mortem examination,
thejury being most dissatisfied with the medical evidence.
The church for the seamen of the port of London,
now building in Dock-street, near the London and St. Ka-
tharine's Docks, though nearly finished, cannot be consecrated
until the whole amount of its expense has been subscribed ;
1,2001. being still wanted to pay the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests for the site, and 1,500/. for the endow-
ment and repairing funds.
THE LORD-ADVOCATE AND THE EDINBURGH
AND GLASGOw RAILWAY DIRECTORS.-- We learn that last
week Dr. Christison, the eminent Professor of Materia Medics
in the University of Edinburgh, was requested by the law offi-
cers of t heCrown to proceed forthwith to Stratiraer,and make
an official report to them immediately on his return to Edin-
burgh. Arriving in Glasgow by the railway train on Friday
on his way to Stranraer, he took the precaution to intimate
to the railway people that, in case he could not get
back in time to catch the latest train for Edinburgh
on Saturday night, he would require a special train on
Sunday morning, and he requested to know whether
they would be ready to provide him with one. The
directors or at least one or other of them
tively refused ; and as Dr. Christison was thus prevented
from reaching Edinburgh till Monday, he reported the cir-
cumstance to the Lord-Advocate. The Lord-Advocate im-
mediately held a consultation with her Majesty's Solicitor•
General; and the Solicitor-General, we understand, has
directed some communication to be made to these
directors. We do not, of course, know the precise
nature of it. But we hope the Government of
the country will soon sweep away these directors, or take
the entire management of this railway out of their hands.
For supposing that occasion might arise for a body of troops
to be sent from Edinburgh to Glasgow, or to other stations
upon this line, are these fanatics to be permitted to arrest
the Queen's service, or to mock the Executive Government
of the country, with their canting resolutiona?—Scerch Rea.
fortme s gag*.

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