The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

the bank and of the currency of the United States may be
confidently expected. A gentleman of Mr. Morrison's
prudence and sound practical business knowledge would
hardly have engaged in such a responsible agency without
b:ing well sa isfied of the means of the Bank to resume
and sustain specie payments. A sum of from 700,0001. to
800,000/. has recently been placed at the disposal of the
Bank of the United States, to be applied for its engage-
ments here, or to increase its power in the United States,
as the Director, may decide. Mr. Jaudon will remain in
London some months for the purpose of closing the busi-
ness heretofore under his charge, and of assisting in com-
pleting the arrangements
with the new agency, and gene-
:ally superintending the interests of the bank in Europe.

TIM E S.—lt is understood in the city that Mr. James
Morrison, of the firm of Morrison, Cryder, and Co., has
accepted the agency in London of the United States
Bank, formerly held by Messrs. Baring, and of late years,
ince the stoppage, by Mr. Jaudon, the cashier of that in-
stitution, who had an office in London for the transaction
of that business. The high character of Mr. Morrison as
a merchant will naturally cause his acceptance of the
omen by the English
good
trust in this infamously
shareholders
ew
iricog
havear de dp aa se
cad
tghoeoi
managed bank, and whose interests have appeared to want
protection during the whole progress of its difficulties; but
something mere than character will be required before the
confidence which has been thus severely shaken can be re-
stored. A total change of system in the management of the
Bank must be resorted to. Cash payments must
be resumed, trading speculations in cotton and other
wise abandoned; post-notes called in and redeemed and
no more issued, so as to restore to the concern its legiti-
mate functions of a lender, and not of a borrower ; all the
accounts with the other banks must be wound up, and the
practice of loose credit with all rotten institutions put an
end to, with many other obvious reforms, the list of which
might be extended to a much greater length. There
ought to he, further, some plan adopted for giving to Eng-
lish and European shareholders generally some influence in
the choice of directors at the chief station in Philadelphia,
and arrangements made by which honest and intelligible
accounts shall be periodically submitted to their inspec-
tion. The European holders of stock in this bank exceed,
in fact, the American, being estimated at 4,000,0001. out
of the 7,000,000/. which constitutes its capital. The new
agent has therefore a most difficult and responsible part to
play, for, unless he has both the will and the influence to
effect all this, and more than thie, he would have done well
to abstain from undertaling the agency.
At a meetlng of the Agricultural Society in Calcutta,
mentioned in the papers received by the overland mail, a
reply was read from the Government, stating that the ap•
plieatien of the Society fora reduction of the duty on
sugar and tobacco grown in India was approved by the
Governor-General in Council, and would be sent, with a
strong recommendation, to the home authorities. The
military Board had sent a communication, asking for in-
formation relative to the growth of hops, since it was
found desirable that beer sheuld be provided for the sol-
diers in preference to spirits, but the price of English beer
had precluded its use. A latter, dated as far back as 1839,
was read, to show that the hop had been found to thrive
in the Dhoon. It was said that there was no
doubt that the hop would succeed at Dorjeeling
and elsewhere, while, in the mean time, dried
hors might Lie obtained from New Saudi Wales.
A plant from St. Domingo. called in Spanish
" Libidibbe" (Cisalpina Carraria), and abounding in
:stringent matter, which renders it useful for tanning pur-
poses, had been introduced into the botanic garden in
1835, bet it had blossotned this year for the first time.
Some fine specimens of potatoes and other plants were at
the came time exhibited.

An improvement in the trade of the towns of Scindc
s, according to the Indian journals, looked forward to
with some degree of confidence. All the river duties
towards the northern frontier arc abolished, and a state-
ment of revised duties to be levied on the merchandise on
the Indus and the Sutlej, between that frontier and
the Himalaya mountains, has been published. It is
said that nothing can exceed the security from mo-
lestation experienced by boats going up and down since
the commencement of traffic on the rivers in 1838.
The late impulse to trade has been given, by the consent
of the two Chieftains through whose territories the
lino of navigation runs, to a remission of their duties
on certain specified articles. The result of this concession
is a moderate rate assessed conveniently for trade instead
of the toll of a fixed amount, which used to be levied
without reference to the size of the boat that was taxed.
Lahore was the first to reduce the toll, a reduction which
took place last May, and the effect has been that the
boats that have left Ferezepore since that time have been
more than ten times as many as those that left in the 12
previous months. The rernision of duties which the
Sheiks formerly levied en grain, when brought by the
river, has been found very beneficial, for the banks of the
Sutlej are very proi!uctive, and this has encouraged its
exportation to a great extent. The resources of the
f-rests on the same river will, it is expected, be opened by
the removal of the river duties which obstructed the
timber trade, and already this and the importation of
lime brought from the head of the same river ab rut
Roopur have proved a great assistance to the buildings at
Ferozepore, which are now numerous.

HERALD.—Rumours have been latterly current re-
specting changes about to be made in the agency depart-
ment in this country of the United States Bank, which
the presence of two of the Directors in this city seemed
to counteranee, but it is only within the last few days
that the proper nature of them transpired. It is now
ascertained th,t on Monday or Tuesday articles of agree..
,icnt were formally signed by which the United States
Bank agency was transferred from Mr. Jaudon to the
house, newly constituted, of James Morrison and Sons,
a•e Morrison and Cryder, who are to have the bmefit of
the assistance of Mr. Shaw, late of the firm of Thomas
Wilson and Co., in the management, a gentleman of con-
siderable experience in American commercial and money
affairs. It is stated as one of the conditions
and foundation of the new agency that a sum of
750,0001, realised by the sale or pledge of same portion
i.f that vast amount of States stocks with which the hank
has so imprudently ineumbered itself, is deposited in the
nands of the new agency as a guarantee lodgment to be
drawn against. It would seem from this that the bank is
wisely providing for a return to business more nearly ap-
proximating to that of banking, that is, dealing in foreign
exchanges, which skilfully managed may undoubtedly be
productive of profit, although it may still be doubted whe-
ther, as so imm4diately connected with and forming a part,
of mercantile operations, they would not be more appro-
priately left in the hands of mercantile men ; the proper
sphere of banks, purely as such, being s to lay out their
monies at usance at home
and inni
domestic bill and on,y
dealings. Be that as it may, it may be owned, with •
out offence to Mr. Jaudon whose conduct hero as the
United States Bank agent has acquired him justly
universal esteem, that this transference of the agency
to so wealthy a firm as that of the Morrisons cannot
but tend to reinforce the credit of the banking establish-
ment, or principal, although that object would have been
accomplished more efficiently still if the great house of
Barings, the foreign agents, could have been induced to
resume the agency, which however was probably not
offered, as it is understood that the best understanding
does not exist among the different parties. The con-
nexions of the Barings arc so extensive in all parts of the
world, and their credit of course sa universal, that it is
clear much greater facilities could be afforded for ex-
change business through their intromission, than perhaps
could be accomplished through any other parties, however
powerful, and the Morrisons are in that respect all that
could be desired. For not even the Rothschilds enjoy
the standing or possess the extensive connexion through-
out the new world of the two Americas and the
Indies East and West, as the house of Barings. It
becomes naturally an object of inquiry what becomes
of Mr. Jaudon as the result of the new arrange-
ment. The report is that the talent he has displayed
in the management of the United States Bank business
under the most trying circumstances, and the reputation
he has justly earned in consequence, have attracted the no-
tice of the now ruling party in the United States, and that
it is not unlikely his services may be called for either in
the Treasury department of the Federal Government, or in
some other high political capacity. Wherever he goes and
whatever his destination, he may be assured of carrying with
him the respect of all parties in this country without dis-
tinction, not excluding those who have been most uncom-
promising in hostility to the course and projects of the
United States Bank. As a last word upon the subject,
and by way of friendly advice to the new house of agency,
it may be hinted that the sooner an accredited statement
a statement of so authentic a character as to defy suspicion
or attack—of the actual situation and affairs of the United
States Bank is published, the better for all concerned. It
is an imperative act of justice to the long-suffering share-
holders here, much too long delayed already.

POST.--The Bank of England returns for the month
ending the sth inst., arc comparatively satisfactory. The
circulation shows a further reduction of 334,0001., the
difference between 16,446,000/. and 16,112,0001. The
securities have increased 284.0001., the difference between
22.078,0001. and 22,362,000/. The deposits have in-
creased 712,0001., the difference between 6,337,000/. and
7,049,000/, The stock of bullion is greater by 46,0001.,
the difference between 4,511,0001. and 3,557,0001. Thus
whatever variations there are in the averages prove to be
on the right side.
A change which has been for some time contemplated,
with respect to the London agency of the United Sates
Bank, was effected yesterday. It appears that Mr. Jaudon
resigns the trust in favour of Messrs. James Morrison
and Sons, of Broad-street-buildings, a reconstruction
of the late eminent house of Morrison and Cryder. Mr.
Gabriel Shaw, formerly of the firm of Cope, Ellis, and
Shaw, of New York, and more recently, a partner in
that of Thomas Wilson and Co , of this city, one
of the four American establishments
which yielded to the
financial pressure of 1836, will assist in the management.
The new agency commences with a deposit in its hands of
the sum of 750,000/. sterling to face the drafts which are
to be passed upon it from the United States, the cash
having been realized out of a portion of the mass of those
American securities with which the United States Bank
imprudently
encumbered itself. The transfer of the agency
to a house of the well-known opulence of that of the pos-
sessor of the Fonthill and other valuable estates is an ar-
rangement which is undoubtedly calculated to aid the con-
cern most materially in extricating itself from its embar-
rassments.

Mr. Jaudon remains in London for a fem weeks or
months, for the purpose of giving what facilities he may
be able to his successors ; after which it is supposed his
services will
be employed in a different sphere. His
abilities arc thought to qualify him for the higher duties
of diplomacy, and he
the office of one of the leading European embassies ; but
this point has evidently yet to be determined. It is not
unlikely that he may be charged with the helm of his own
bank at Philadelphia, may possibly be called upon to fill
or, in --the event of a national bank
being founded under the new presidentship, that his talents
may be made available by the appointment of him as its
principal director.

SALAION.—On New Year's day the first salmon
shown in our market this season was sold whole at 3s. fjd.
per lb.—. Carlisle Patriot,

FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCI

DENT.

SEVERAL PERSONS DREADFULLY LACERATED.
The melancholy intelligence, we arc about to com-
municate to the public may be depended upon, it having
been sent us by a gentleman who arrived this morning
at the Euston terminus, and was one of the passengers
in the Birmingham train to London ; from whose state-
ment it appears that a frightful collision took place
between the Birmingham and North Midland trains at
Rugby, whilst the shifting of the carriages took place,
on which occasion two of the latter carriages were
smashed to pieces, and three persons were so dreadfully
injured that they were expected to survive but a few
hours.

The accident is stated to have arisen from the neg-
ligence of the officer on duty who had the care of the
red light, which he neglected to display. The officer,
it is stated, was immediately taken into custody.
The Birmingham train was uninjured, and the whole
calamity fell upon the North Midland. The scene was
of the most appalling nature, and nearly the whole of
the passengers in the two carriages were more or less
injured. Ercry attention was paid to the sufferers,
who were conveyed to the head inn, and a surgeon
was in immediate attendance.

Dr. John T. Veitch was one of the passengers in the
train, and afforded his professional assistance, for which
he was remuner►ted by the Compaay on his arrival at
the Euston station.

The statement of the servant of the Company having
been apprehended, as stated above, we have since been
informed is erroneous.

'ltie fallowing is the official account :
The mail train which left the Euston Station at
half-past eight last night, on arriving at Rugby detached
two carriages, which were to proceed on to the Midland
Counties Line. The carriages were in the act of be-
ing passed from the London and Birmingham down line
for this purpose, when the mail train, which leaves Bir-
mingham for London at 12, p.m. arriving very slowly
at, the station, ran unfortunately in contact with the
crossing carriages, and caused contusions to four of the
passengers, and c slight fracture of the collar-bone to
a filth.

Surgical attendance was at hand, and every care
taken of the parties.

The immediate cause of the accident is now under
investigation.—Eve►►in Paper.

WEATHER IN THE COUNTRY,

(From the Papers received in town to-day.)
WESTMORELAND. -_"The state of the weather during the
last four or five weeks is a very good illustration of the
absurdity of weather almanacs. We have had, on the
whole, very fine weather in Westmoreland until about ten
days ago, for the dry, frosty weather, with a little snow,
which marked the end of December, was too mild to be
considered as really winterish. Yet, while we enjoyed
comparatively fine weather, the inhabitants of Paris and
London, of Edinburgh and Glasgow, have had intense
frost and dense fogs. At present the frost continues more
intense than it has been known in this neighbourhood for
several years. The Edinburgh mail has bQen, each day
this week, two or three hours later than usual in passing
through Kendal.

flauFax.-0a Monday evening the frost set in with
intensity, and has continued up to the time of our going to
press. The consequence of such a long protracted snow
storm has been to retard travelling, and the mail and
other coaches have been thrown some hours out of their
usual time, and several of them have travelled their dif-
ferent routes with six horses. We believe four years have
elapsed since so great a fall. of snow was experienced in
this country in the same length of time. Our accounts
from various quarters describe the drifts as being of from
we to three yards in depth, according to locality.—
liaWax Express.
WALES. —We have an intense frost, and the fall of
snow is larger. Thursday night was the coldest which
has been experienced for many years in this neighbour.
hood. Yesterday (Friday) morning, as late as nine
o'clock, whilst the sun was shining brightly, the th►ermo.
meter stood in the shade at 11 deg. (or 21 deg. below
freezing point.) The River Usk at Brecon is frozen
over, even the 13%11 Tro under Llanvaes Bridge, being
covered by a sheet of ice, a circumstance which has not
occurred within the last 25 or 30 Fears.—Silurian.
SCGTLAND.--.The frost has been very keen the last few
days, and several falls of snow have taken place, but not
of long duration. Nearly all the mails have been retarded,
the snow in some parts of the country being of consider-
able depth. On Tuesday the mail from Inverness to
Perth was upset in a snow•wreath, hut fortunately no
damage was sustained. The cold, during the last two
days, has been intense.—Scotsman.

IRELAND.--in the afternoon of Wednesday, and during
the early pat t of the night, we had a heavy fall of snow ;
after which a sharp frost set in, and has since continued
without cessation. The canals are frozen, and the health-
ful and delightful, though dangerous exercise of skating,
is pr,ceeding on all the locks and ponds in the neighbour-
hood of the metropolis. It is the first severe frost we have
had fur a considerable time, there bring for the last fire
years scarcely as much ice procurable as was sufficient to
supiiy the confectioners and fishmongers. In the after-
noon there were some indications of a thaw.—Dublin
Evening Mail.

snow and sleet storms of Sunday and Nlonday have
be,m succeeded by are intense frost. Already the Lough
is a sheet of ice, in many parts sufficiently strong to sus-
tain skater>. The thermometer stood, at 9 o'clock this
morning, at 25, being 7 degrees below' the freezing point,
with bright blue sky, sunshine and perfecly calm. "The
drinezA of the atmosphere." writes an este,rned corres-
poml, "prevents the cold from being dis+greeable, and
dr7 ,!&drs!ss, th :ugh it checks vegetation, is rarely hurtful
at ; muly period of the year."—Corh .ilepoi ter.

COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

EDINBURGH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8.

Akxander M•lia or M•11.4c, charged with as,aulting
an,! ravishing IMay or Marjory M.[ntosh, daughter of
Donal.] M`latosh, lock-keeper on the Caledonian Canal,
on ti:e 2Stli of August, 1840, at or near th'! Dockgarroch
Loch, on the Caledonian Canal, in the county of Inver-
ness, pleaded not guilty. The Court was occupied with
this c,:se with closed doors till a late hour, and the Jury
reiurtkid a verdict unanimously finding the panne' guilty
as libelled.

Lord Meadowbank, the presiding Judge, then put on
the black cap, and addressed the prisoner—Alexander
M' Eta or M'lZae, you have had an opportunity ot hearing
the opinion I had formed from the evidence that has been
to-day adduced aguinst you, and the very admirable
manner in which your case was defended by the
able counsel you employed ; who, however, found
that without a foundation to rest upon, all hia
ability, knowledge, and learning could not save
you. The evidence was clear and conclusive, leaving not
a doubt upon the minds of the Jury—nor, lam sure, a
d ;übt upon the minds of any who have heard and attended
to it--of the atrocious guilt you had contracted on this de-
plorable occasion. Tile crime you have committed infers
the punishment of death ; and it is my most painful duty
to announce to you the dread sentence which the law pro-
nounces in your case. That sentence gives you but a very
short time to live; and let me urge and entreat you to be-
stow it in repenting of this and all other crimes of which you
may be guilty. It is but a very short period indeed, and
let me entreat you not to waste it in thinking of the chance
or possibility that the law will not be permitted to take its
course. The Jury have not recommended you to mercy, and
it is proper in mo to tell you that I have not seen the vestige of
a ground upon which such a recommendation could have been
given. In these circumstances, you must prepare for a
far more dread judgment-seat than that at which you at
present stand—you must prepare to appear before the
throne of Almighty God, there to answer for all the crimes
Y
ouhave done in the body. Let me recommend you to
apply to the ministers of the Gospel, who, I am sure, if you
do not know your duty, will teach you it. 'rho sentence
of the law is —that you be carried from this bar to the pri-
son of Edinburgh, and be forthwith transmitted, under a
sure guard, to the prison of Inverness, therein to be de-
tained till the 29th of January current, and to be taken,
between the hours of 8 and 10 forenoon, to the common
place of execution of that borough, or such other place as
the Magistrates may appoint, and to hang on the gibbet
till you are dead; and may Almighty Gad have mercy
on your soul.
The prisoner was then taken from the bar.

"[LIE TEMPERATURE.—The weather here has
been extremely severe since our last. Wednesday was
cold, but the temperature became still lover in the even-
ing ; and, about midnight, Mr. Ronchetti's thermometer,
kept in the open air, though nithin the town, namely, at
the top of his house in Greenwate, Salford, was down
to 12 deg. Fahrenheit, or 20 Seg. below the freezing
point. The cold, however, became still more intense on
Thursday morning, end the minimum temperature seems
to have been attained between seven and half-past eight
o'clock, A at. Knowing the careful and constant observa-
tion of the temperature continued during many years by
our illustrious and venerable townsman, Dr. Dslton, we
made inquiries of him and learned that his thermometer,
which, though in the air and shade, is in a central part of
the town, indicated the lowest temperature to be about
eight o'clock on Thursday morning, when it had fallen to
15 deg. The Doctor added, that, in the country, he had
no doubt the temperature would be full 10 degrees lower.
Indeed, we find that, in the vicinity cf this town, several
observers, in different situations, found it much lower.
Mr. Ronchetti's thermometer indicated 9 deg. as the lowest
I point, which was attained about seven o'clock. Mr. T.
Gale, engraver, of Irwell-place, Lower Broughton, had a
thermometer in the air, which, about the same time, indi-
cated the lowest, temperature to be 7 deg. And Mr. J.
E Bowman, F. L. S., F. G. S., observing that the cold
was intense, suspended two thermometers outside his re-
sidence, Elm-place, New Stretferd.road, abeut half pest
seven o'clock, at which time they stood at 9 deg., but
subsequently both of them fell to the remarkably low point
of 5 deg., somewhere about eight o'clock, or a little after
that time.—Manchester Paper.
FUNERAL OF LADY RENDLESHANI.—The
interment of the mortal remains of the above much.
lamented lady took place on Friday last, at Woodbridge
Church, Suffolk. The mournful cavalcade left Rendle-
sham Hall at noon, Lord Rendlesham following as chic.
mourner, with Lucy Dowager Lady Rendlesham, Hon.
F. Thellusson, and other members of the family attend
ing. A great many of the villagers were present, and
seemed much affected at the premature death of an excel-
lent and truly amiable benefactress. Lord Thomas Hay
was the officiating clergyman;
DEATII OF MR. SHERIFF BOSWELL.—WC
regret to announce the death of William Boswell, Esq., ,
Sheriff' of Berwickshire, which took place on Thursday
morning at his house in Castle-street. Mr. Boswell had
been complaining for several weeks previous, but until the
last fortnight, his disease had not aFsunw,d an alarming
aspect,—Zlinburgh Courant.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO SCOTT,

THE DIVER.

This unfortunate man had announced that he would
perform his usual diving feats from Waterloo Bridge
yesterday, and consequently a great crowd collected
to witness them. After performing several of his usual
tricks, which he did successfully, on attempting to re-
peat the performance about three o'clock, and while
going through the operation of hanging by the feet and
neck alternately, it appears that the noose round his
neck slipped, and he remained suspended for several
minutes.

The spectators not aware of his danger, and believing
that he was only going through his usual manoeuvres,
remained quiet, while one man, more attentive than the
rest, seeing Scott struggle, leaped upon the scaffold, and
cut him down, apparently quite dead. A surgeon was
sent for, and an attempt was made to bleed the unfor-
tunate man, but with only partial success ; he was con-
veyed directly to Charing-cross Hospital, with scarcely
the slightest hope of recovery.
The accident, we have since learned, has terminated
fatally, the exertions of the surgeons at Charing-cross
Hospital having been unavailing to restore animation.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, JAN. 11.—It thawed very fast during the whole
of yestcraay, and continues to-day.—Wind this day at
neon, light airs, at S. W. by W.
DEAL, JAN. 9.—Strong breeze. 10.—Wind S., fresh
breeze.—Arrived the Eleanor, from Quebec.
DOVER, JAN. 10.—Arrived off, the Superb, Shannon,
from Batavia.

DUBLIN, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Transit, from Quebec.
Cultic, JAN. 8. —The Brilliant, M'Kenzie, Greenock
for Port Philip, has put in here ; the crew and passen-
gers having insisted upon the vessel being taken into
port, on account of its having been impossible to work her,
from the lumbered state of the decks.
THURSO, JAN. 4.—The sloop Young Alexander, Ste-
phen, hence to Rosehearty, was driven on shore during a
severe gale this morning, and is expected will become a
wreck.
BLYTH, JAN. B.—The Alice, from London, in making
the Tyne this morning, got on the rocks and bilged, and
is expected to become a wreck.

DUNDEE, JAN. 8. —The Prompt, sunk at the entrance of
the river Ness, has been raised and brought up to North
Ferry Beach.

SHIELDS, JAN. 9.--Arrived, the Arrew, Tristram, from
Taganrog. Sailed Cowslip, Savannah.
SUNDERLAND, JAN. B.—Arrived the Defender, Duncan,
from Quebec.

SCARBOROUGH, JAN. B.—The Industry, Turner, which
was ashore near Tiley, has been got off, and will proceed
to Newcastle. 10. The Emma, Clarke, from London to
Newcastle, was totally wrecked on Bland's Point this
morning ; crew saved. The Sovereign, Whitby, from
London, went on Tiley Brig in the night during a snow-
storm.

FALMOUTH, JAN, B.—The Thames (steamer), from
Dublin to London, was totally wrecked on Rosevear
Cern, (Scilly) on the morning of the 4th instant. One
man and three women saved ; about sixty persons are
supposed to have perished.
HULL, JAN. o.—Wind S.W. by W.—Arrived] the
Lord Wenlock, Mitchell, Miramichi. 10. It blew a very
heavy gale this morning at S.S.E. The Edward,
Darnston, from Sunderland to London, was totally
wrecked on the Bull Sand this morning ; crew saved.
10 a. m. light airs at S. S. W., nearly calm.
RYE, JAN. 10.—The Ivan, Kea, Grotins, horn Hon-
fleur to Sunderland, was driven on shore last night dur-
ing a heavy gale, at south, about three miles south of
this harbour. The Dove, Hynes, was drivea on shore at
the same time, but both vessels arc expected to be got off
LYNN, JAN. 10.—About 140 sail were driven from their
moorings by the ice yesterday morning, and drifted in all
directions. The Peggy, of Whitley, drove foul of the
Eancut-bridge, and was totally dismasted. The Wood-
field, of this port, was also totally dismasted. The Pene-
lope, lying on the opposite shore, fills. The Queen of
the Isles, Celerity, and Sally, and many other vessels,
have received material damage. The shipping is secured
for the present in a temporary manner until the frost
breaks up.

MARGATE, JAN. io.—Arrived off port the Superb, from
Jam pica ; Mary. Williams, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. M.—Wind S.—Arrived the Ann
Mary Ann, Lane, from New Orleans; Elizabeth, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Esk, Paraiba ; Hanover, Balti-
more. Sailed the Montezuma, Selkirk, for Valparaiso ;
Jane, Temperley, St. Thomas; Ocean Queen, Wilson,
Savannah ; Belvidere, Spear, Baltimore ; Bombay, Spuir,
Africa; Mary, Kemp,Sydney ; George Ileng, Hanis n,
Wetherell, Hubert Town. Off port, the Eliza, Radcliffe,
from Lima.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9 —Wind S. to S.S. E., fresh
breezes, and squally.—Arrived the Adelnar, Noltee, from
Batavia ; Diamant, Rio de Janeiro ; Alhion, Harrison,
St. John's, New Brunswick; 'limbo, Wooldridge, Africa.
GI,cr.,CESTEK, JAN. 9. Arrived Bruce, Wright, Quebec.
HARWICH, JAN. 10.—The J.;fin B3rroev, from London
for Whitby, has put in here ieaky, having been on the
GunfLet Saul.

THE ASHTON MURD ttli.S, AND
THE TRADES UNION COMBINATIONS.

A SIITON, SATURDAY.--It is now fully anticip_►ted tha
the perpetrator or perpetrators of the shocking murder of
Benjamin Cooper, the sawyer, will be discovered. Thirteen
individuals charged will conspiracy have been admitted
bail, themselves in 1001,, and two sureties of 501. each.
The first four who were committed to Kirkdale, for want
of bail—viz , Davis, Wiliiams, and the two Hardwicks,
were liberated from tha: prison yesterday, some one hav-
ing provided them with sureties ; but no sooner had they
reached the outside of the prison, than they were again
taken into custody charged with wilful murder, and were
cony( yed to Ashton, where they will undergo an examina-
tion before the Magistrates on that charge some day dur-
ing the next week. The circumstances which have led to
their apprehension I believe are (although the police of
Ashton are very chary of giving information), that
for the last few days a man named Holmes, alias " Brass
Met al Jack," a desperate character, has been in custody on
suspicion of being the man who actually fired the shot at
Cooper. He has net been taken before any Magistrates,
and few of his captors know anything of his apprehension.
Whilst in Kirkdale one of the four committed for conspi.
racy above alluded to (Davis) manifested a desire to dis-
close something connected with the murder inculpating
parties then in custody, which led to their re-appre-
hension.

Trio murder of Garland, which took place about two
months ago, has caused the Government to issue the fd-
lowing proclamation
" ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.—When.sas, on Sa:.
turday evening, the 31it of October last, Thomas Gar-
land, a sawyer, was most barbarously murdered by some
evil-disposed person or persons, who are also supposed to
have been sawyers, and who effected their murderous pur-
pose
,pn the toad between AshtJe.under-Line and Man-
chester. The circumstances of such murder having been
represented to the Marquis of Normanhy, the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, his Lordship has inti-
mated that a reward of 100/. will be paid by the Govern-
ment to any person who shall give such information as
shall lead to the discovery and conviction of the murderer
or murderers; and his Lordship has further intimated that
he will advise the grant of her Majes'y's pardon to any ac-
complicei (Hot being the actual murderers), who shall give
such evidence as shall lead to the same result. Informa-
tion to be given to Captain A. W. Sleigh, Chief Super-
intendent of Police, Manchester.
" January 7, 1841."

A NEW WAY OF INCREASING A FAMILY.—
On Thursday week, a tradesman from Huddersfield, in
Yorkshire, whose name we could give if necessary, was
coming from Liverpool to Manchester by the railway train.
A respectable looking woman, apparently from twenty.
five to thirty years of age, and who had a female child
about fifteen months old on her knee, travelled in the same
carriage. The tradesman took the child and dandled it
on his knee, and said it was worth a sovereign. She said
she would take the money for it; and, after some joking,
he handed her the money, which she put into her pocket.
Arriving near the end of his journey, be wished to put an
end to the joke, and asked her f)r the sovereign back, which
she gave him. When they got to the station, the woman
got out first, leaving the child with him, and when he got
out and looked about for her she was gone, and hp could
discover no trace of her. Being a married man, and pro-
bably deeming it imprudent to take the chid home, he
took it to the Manchester police.office, where lie informed
the officers how he became possessed of it, but could give
no decription of the woman, except that sho was a good-
looking woman, of from twenty-five to thirty years of age.
Ile left the child at the office, and a sovereign to defray
the expense of its maintenance until the mother should be
discovered. The child, which we understand is a very
fine girl, is now at the house of one of the officers ; but
nothing has yet been heard of its mother.—Manchester
Paper.
kVILL OF LOltD JOHN CHURCHILL—The
will of the Right Hon. Henry John Spencer Churchill,
commonly called Lord John Spencer Churchill, late Cap-
tain of her Majesty's ship Druid, deceased, has just passed
the seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, in Doctor's Commons, to his Royal Highness
Prince Frederick Duke of Sussex, and the Hon. John
Frederick Gordon, commonly called Lord Frederick Gor-
don, the executors. The personal property of the de-
ceased has been sworn under 12,0001., and which is given
to the executors, to Sir Francis Molyneux Ommanney,
and the Right Hon. Lord Churchill. Sir Francis died
in the lifetime of the deceased, so that the whole of the
property becomes divisible between the executors and the
Hon. Edward Lord Churchill, being 4,000/. each.
COINAGE AT IVIANCIIESTER.—We were
pretty well aware that certain of her Majesty's subjects,
resident here, occasionally employed themselves in fabri-
cating base shillings and sixpences; but we did not know,
until very recently, that a legitimate coinage of money is
at the present time going on in the town. We have now
lying before us some specimens of copper money for the
island- of Sumatra, now coining by Messrs. Vivian and
Sons, copper merchants, of this town. The coins are
about the size of an English farthing, but much thinner,
and probably not more than half th weight, and bear a
rather strange mixture of English and native devices and
inscriptions ; some part of which, at any rate, will puzzle
the Surnatrans more than a little.—Manchester Guardian.
Early on Thursday morning, as a boy was
skating on Lochend, the ice gave way, and he fell into
the water. A gentleman passing went to his assistance
with a hook, which he obtained from some men engaged
in carting ice, but he also got immersed, and both would
have been drowned had it not been for the activity of Mr.
Miller, of Leith, who undreasA himself and jumped into
the water and rescued them. The boy, when taken out,
was to all appearance dead, but afterwards recovered,—
Edinbtfrlli Courant,