The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-16 00:00:00

AUGUST 16, 1847.
MONDAY EVENING SU N,

LORD PALMERSTON'S FOREIGN POLICY.

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" PALMERSTON'S SPEECH to the
ELECTORS of TIVERTON, at the Recent Election. An
Authentic Report,
" A most amusing history of the affaizs of the whole world, at
home and abroad, for the last thirty years."—Examiner.
London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND
SUICIDE IN THE CITY.
A most deliberate attempt at murder took place on
Saturday afternoon, between the hours of three and
four, in Mark-lane, City. The following particulars
connected with the dreadful affair were obtained
from parties who were eye-witnesses of the same,
and may be relied upon as being perfectly free from
exaggeration :
It appears that the person whose life has been
placed in danger is Mr. George Crawley, a highly
respectable wine merchant, carrying on business in
the lower part of the house numbered 12, Mark-lane,
just above the New Corn Exchange, on the opposite
side of the way. The intended assassin is named
John Ovenstone, and has for some considerable time
past carried on the business of an upholsterer in Great
Titchfield-street, Marylebone. From what could be
learned from the friends of both persons, it seems
that an execution had been sent into Ovenstone's house,
which had greatly exasperated him. Mr. Crawley
having been the plaintiff in a suit, the ac-
cused went, at the time above stated, to his
place of business for no other purpose than to
murder him. Upon arriving at his offices, he
saw one of Mr. Crawley's clerks, of whom he inquired
whether or not his employer was within. Having
been answered in the negative, he expressed his regret
that he was not; and desired the clerk, if he could,
to send for him, as he had business of great import.
ance to transact, which could not be delayed. Un-
fortunately Mr. Crawley was at a friend's house in
the City, and the request of Ovenstone having been
made known to him, he at once returned to his offices.
Upon (.:,...tering ha inquired oLOxenstone what his
business was, when he raved out in a great passion,
" What do you mean by doing what you have done ?"
The unfortunate gentleman only had time to reply,
" Why, Mr. Ovenstone, you know that I have only
done—," when Ovenstone cried out, " Take that l'
at the same moment discharging the contents of a
loaded pistol at Mr. Crawley. A cry of " Murder !"
was immediately raised, and Mr. Crawley ran bleed-
ing into the street. A great crowd soon congregated
round the wounded man, who took him to the sur-
gery of Messrs. Harris, Duplex, and Co., in Fen-
church-street. Upon an examination being made, it
was ascertained that a bullet had entered the cheek of
Mr. Crawley, and had torn away a portion of the
roof of the mouth, but the ball had lodged in the
cavity. Seeing the dangerous state he was in, Mr.
Harris advised his removal to the hospital, which was ,
forthwith done.
When Mr. Crawley's clerk saw his master was
wounded, he closed the door and locked the at-
tempted murderer in. He had hardly done so before a
second report of fire-arms was heard to proceed from
the place. A party of the City police immediately
repaired to the house, and Constables Strickland and
Edmonds entered, and found Ovenstone sitting in a
chair, with a couple of pistols near him, and blood
flowing in copious streams from his head and face.
,They immediately secured both the pistols and
Ovenstone, and, having placed him in a cab, they
took him to Gay's Hospital. Mr. Cocks and Mr.
Wilkes, two of the house surgeons, were in instant
attendance. They found that the injuries he had in-
flicted on himself were of a most frightful character •
the ball appeared to have entered at the mouth, passed
in an oblique direction, and lodged over the left
temple. From the fact of the bullet remaining in
the head very little hopes are entertained of his re-
covery.
Mr. Crawley made the following statement respect-
ing the affair, which, it will be perceived, fully sub-
stantiates the report :—" Yesterday afternoon, about
half-past three o'clock, whilst conversing with a
friend in the wine trade, my clerk came to me and
said that Mr. Ovenstone, of Great Titchfield-street,
wanted to speak to me. I immediately went into my
room, where I found Mr. Ovenstone, to whom I said,
' Well, Mr. Ovenstone, I understand you want to see
me.' He replied, Yes, Sir, I do. I inquired what
his business was with me, when he shouted out,
What do you mean by doing what you have done ?
you are a pretty fellow, I think. My impression
was that he was alluding to a sale that had taken
place at his house. I told him that I had nothing to
do with it ; that I had left my case in my solicitor's
hands. I had no sooner uttered these words, than
he put his hands into his pocket, for the purpose, as
I imagined, of drawing out his handkerchief, instead
of which he pulled out a pistol, presented the mouth
at me, and before I had time to get away he dis-
charged the contents in my face. I immediately ran
out into the street, and cried Murder,' and after-
wards went to Mr. Harris's surgery, and thence I
came to this hospital in a cab. When I ran out Oven-
stone was in the room, and I understand from my
clerk that he locked him in to prevent his escape.
What afterwards took place I do not know of my own
knowledge, but I have been told that Ovenstone shot
himself the moment after I ran into the street."
It is understood that the medical gentlemen have
been successful in extracting the ball which bad
lodged enitsstonhea'in head,
been the intention of the
and that it is now in the
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care of Edmonds, the officer. There seems to be no
dwretched man to kill Mr. Crawley, and then destroy
care of
about i a
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himself, as, in addition to the fact of his going to
that gentleman's counting-house with two heavily
loaded pistols, a written statement was found in his
coat pocket, which was evidently drawn up so as to
give a full explanation of the several reasons that had
actuated him to attempt the commission of the crime.
In it he states that he is tired of the world, and,
after detailing his many misfortunes, expresses his
desire to die. It appears that Ovenstone, in conjunc-
tion with a Mr. Cremer, was the assignee of a bank-
rupt, manager of an inn in Holborn, to whom Mr.
Crawley had supplied wine and spirits, but Oven-
stone's co-assignee failing, Mr. Crawley proceeded at
law against Ovenstone for the amount due to the
estate, about 1501.
SUNDAY EVENING..--.Upon making inquiries this
evening at St. Thomas's Hospital as to the state of
the unfortunate sufferer, Mr. Crawley, it was ascer-
tained that a change had taken place for the worse.
When Mr. Solly, the senior assistant surgeon, made
an examination of his patient, he found that the bullet
from the pistol, after passing through the cheek and
fracturing the jaw-bone, had then lodged in the skull.
To extract this required considerable care, but with
the aid of forceps Mr. Solly succeeded in extracting
the ball. Messrs. Barwell and Elborough, two of the
assistants, sat up with Mr. Crawley the whole of Sa-
turday night, but, although no immediate danger is
apprehended, from the change that had taken place
during the after part of Sunday, it is feared that ery-
sipelas will supervene, and if so the worst conse-
quences may be expected.
With respect to the intended assassin, it was
learned, upon inquiry being made last evening at
Guy's Hospital, that he was considerably better.
The bullet, which had entered at the mouth, had
passed obliquely through the thick flesh of the cheek
to the top of the scalp, without injuring the brain.
By merely removing a small portion of the skin of
the head the ball was extracted without much diffi-
culty.
Mrs. Crawley, the wife of the unfortunate sufferer,
called at the hospital yesterday afternoon, for the pur-
pose of seeing her husband, but from the dangerous
state he was in she was not allowed to enter the ward
in which he is, the surgeon fearing that sudden excite-
ment may aggravate his case.
Mr. Yates, the managing clerk to Mr. Crawley,
stated yesterday to the reporter, that when Ovenstone
entered his employer's house he appeared in a dread.
fully excited state, and on one of the parties on th.e
premises asking him if he knew
he merely raised his arms, and with a vacant gaze re-
plied, " Oh, no ; oh, no. Ovenstone, it appears, is a
single man, and his sister for some time acted as
housekeeper to him, but she died about six months
since, and he has ever since been unfortunate in
business.

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THE ARRIVAL or THE 63D FROM INDIA.--014
Wednesday evening the 2d, stb, and Sth companies of
the 63d regiment ( West Suffolk) arrived at Chathera,
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above ship
garrison from India. The strength consists of 14 sot'.
geants, 4 drummers, 12 corals, and 175 privates, 1
with 10 women, and 16 children, under command, of
regimentatter the
Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. Smedley. These troops em.
barked at Madras on the 7th of April, on board tb,e,
voyageoshfifpouLromndoonnth,sa;ndthearronivlyeddeaatthGsrdauverisnegndthaefte
wegre
three children ; about five men were sick, and taken to
the hospital. The Lady Flora, containing the remain-
hder d
soafi i thee regiment,
is 682, all:
ranks. Upwards of 300 volunteered into other re,i...
meats in India. It left Chatham in 1828. The remain-
der of the regiment is expected daily.
The strength left
Mehemet Ali, it is said, has refused to allow th 0
Mofadthraes
European population of Alexandria to erect an eques.-
trian statue in his honour ; suggesting as a better an d
more welcome monument, the erection of a public edifice,
to comprise an exchange, theatre, and club-house. TI is
facades are to be ornamented with bas-reliefs represent-
ing that great work of territorial rodemption, the bar-
rage of the Nile, and the emblems of agriculture and corn_
memo intermingled with military trophies. A marl I
bust of the Viceroy and marble tablet recording 3 e
a
founders' g ':120
names are all that are to minister to the i
of individuals. ",nity
The number of persons arrested for taking ~.•„ -
the riots at Troyes, on Saturday and Sunday, -IPa" In
40. Great part of them will, it is believed be
s about
liberty, as their participation in the distu' .'
.set at
very slight inclead,Gaugaani. ,fiances was

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, AUG. 4.—The Volcano was dispatched to
' Marseilles on the 24th, with the overland mail for
England, brought on the same day by the Ariel from
Alexandria, and the Erin went to Southampton very
early on the following morning ; but the Ardent,
with the mails from the lonian Islands and Patras
(bringing the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar), did not
arrive until late on the 25th, and her mails were con-
sequently too late for the homeward packets, much to
the prejudice, at this season of the year, of the fruit
merchants. The Barretto Junior, with a cargo of
meal for Ireland, sailed for Cork on the 24th, and
will be followed in a few days by the Austrian ship
Amalia Guiseppina, chartered by the agent victualler,
for a like cargo. The English screw-steamer Water
Witch left for Alexandria on the 24th—the first of a
new line from Liverpool. The Hecla arrived from
Constantinople on the 27th. Just before her depar-
ture thence she rendered important service to the
English barque May Queen, which had got ashore at
Buyukdere, laden with a cargo of grain from
Odessa bound to England, and indeed this vessel and
cargo were saved entirely through the exertions of
Commander Starmer, his officers, and ship's com-
pany, and under such circumstances theyare decidedly
entitled to salvage. The Ottoman steamer Vassitelly
Tidjar at arrived from Plymouth and Gibraltar on the
30th, after a splendid run of some hours short of ten
days. She left again for Constantinople on the day
following.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.
. .

.
At Lisbon, the Hibernia, 104, bearing the flag of
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, the Commander-in-
Chief; at Madeira, the Thetis, 36, and Amazon, 26;
at Oporto, the America, 50; at Gibraltar, the Virago
war-steamer. At Malta, the Ceylon, 12, receiving-
ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius
Curtis, second in command, and superintendent of
Malta dockyard; Hecla war-steamer, and Wee Pet
steam-tug. At Corfu, the Muting, 10 ; at the Pincus
of Athens, the Fantome. 16; Harlequin, 16; and
Locust steam-sloop. In the Bay of Phalerean, the
Albion, 90 ; Rodney, 90 ; and Vanguard, 84. In the
t4rulf of Zeitun, the Volage surveying-vessel, with
her tender, the Research cutter; at Beyrout, the
Spartan, 26 ; and at Constantinople, the Meteor
steam-sloop.

MAIL STEAM-PACKETS.
At Malta, the Spitfire and Ardent ; at Corfu, the
Flamer ; and at Marseilles, the Volcano.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S MEDITER-

RANEAN STEAM-PACRETS.
At Malta, the Ariel. On her way to Malta from
SoutisAmpton, the Sultan ; on her way from South-
ampton, to Gibraltar, Genoa, and Leghorn, ths Mon-
trose ; on her way from Malta to Southampton, the
Erin ; between Constantinople and Trebizond, the
Tagus ; and between Trebizond and Smyrna, the
Tiger. At Southampton, Indus, Pottinger, Achilles,
Oriental, and Iberia ; and at Alexandria, the Ripon.
The Ripon arrived from Southampton and Gibral-
tar on the 31st of July, a few hours before the
Flamer, from Marseilles, with the overland London
mails for India, with which the Ripon left for Alex-
andria on the Ist of August.
The Egyptian corvette Genah Bahri sailed for
England on the 30th of July, having on board a
number of naval cadets.

The Locust was despatched to the Piraeus of Athens
on the Ist of August, and the Flamer to the lonian
Islands and Patras on the 2d.

The cutter yacht Sapphire, Mr. C. B. Blades,
owner, touching the safety of which some fears were
entertained, there having been no tidings of her arri-
val at Algiers for some length of time after her sailing
from Tunis, arrived from this latter port, having her
owner on board, on the 3d; on which day the French
steam-frigate Pluton, Viscount De Kerourartz, ar-
rived from Naples, announcing that the Prince de
Joinville with a part of bis squadron of line of battle
ships was at Castellamare, whilst the Jupiter and
another liner were at Tunis, dispatched thither from
Palermo, under the usual summer rumour of the fear
of an expedition against that Regency from Constan-
tinople, though it is notorious that the Ottoman fleet
is not destined further westward than the shores of
Albania, the blockade of which is officially announced.
Within the past few days a rumour has circulated
in Valletta, that a report had been made to the au-
thorities that three ships of war had been seen dodg-
ing about the back of Malta, and that a launch had
been sent in by one of them to take soundings in
Marsa Scirocco Bay. We have been at some pains
to get at the truth of the story, and find that beyond
doubt two or three large vessels had been observed
cruising on and off the S.E. end of Malta (though not
seen from the Palace Observatory), and that a large
boat had entered and taken soundings of the bay of
Marsa Scirocco ; but the report of the native officer
on duty at the fort there does not appear to have
reached the Palace through the roundabout channel
in which it was sent, until too late for measures to be
taken to ascertain further particulars, though the Wee
Pet steam-tug (the only available vessel in port—a
mere line of battle ship's launch, with a small engine)
went out with Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis and
the Governor's Aide-de-Camp on the 2d inst. to re-
connoitre.

PRICE D.

The following are the promotions and appointments
of the past week :

Mates—Thomas B Han ham
a (1845) and Norman
P.rtosroTroxs.
Bernard Bedingfield (1845), to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.
Commander—Henry Gage Morris, to the Cambrian.
Retired Commanders—J. Roscow (1830), J. B.
Howman (1830), and N. Ratsey (1830).
Lieutenants—J. P. Branch, to the Excellent; F.
L. M'Clintock, to study at the Naval College; T. D.
Sullivan and W. F. G. Fead, to the Cambrian ; G.
M. Smith and R. J. St. Aubon, to the Penelope ; E.
E. Morgan, to the Britomart.
Masters—T. C. Pullen, to the Cambrian ;J. Penn,
to the Imaun, vice Gahan.
Paymaster and Purser—J. Beal, to the Cambrian.
Acting Deputy Medical Inspector—A. Allen, to
Plymouth Hospital.
Surgeons—J. Moody, to the Cambrian ; E. H.
Cree, to the Fury ; W. R. Dalton, J. G. Risk, and
A. Brown, to the Crocodile; J. Andrews (a), to the
Marion, convict-ship.
Mates—F. M. Frazer, to the Trincomalee ; H. F.
M'Killop, to the Queen ;' F. H. Lambert and G.
Stratton, to the Royal William; R. G. Craigie, to
the Excellent.

Second Masters—W. Peddell, to the Victory; E.
Richardson, to the Firefly ; J. Wage, to the Ven-
geance ; H. Hutchings, to the Amphitrite.
Clerks—C. Rose, to the Fury ; T. W. Millery and
T. Orieve, to the Cambrian ; J. N. Wicker, to the
Trincomalee.

Assistant-Surgeons W. U. M'Lure, and J.
Fayrer, to the Victory ; C. G. Campbell, to the
Avenger ; C. S. Hugo, to the Trincomalee ;H. C.
S. Wilson, to the Fury; J.L. Johnston, to the Cam-
brian.

Midshipmen—G. Visconti, G. J. B. Bartelot, and
G. Eden, to the Victory; H. H. Morgan, to the Cro-
codile ; A. K. Forde, to the Ocean.
Masters' Assistants—E. Haines, and J. Ross, to
the Trincomalee ; H. W. C. Wise, to the Camorian ;
G. A. F. Day, and F. M. Dyer, to the Vengeance;
D. Brown, to the Firefly ; J. T. Hart, to the Croco-
dile; John Dyer, to the Dee.
Naval Cadets—George Worafold, to the Imaum ;
F. F. Waddington to the Amphitrite.
Coast Guard—The appointment of Lieutenant R.
F. Lewis, R.N., has been cancelled ; Lieutenant H.
A. Corneck to be chief officer at Jury's Gap; Lieu-
tenant Edward Maxey, to be ditto at Dunang Point.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Wil-
liam H. Marsh to be Captain, vice Law, retired on
full pay. Second Lieutenant Henry T. Fox to be
First Lieutenant, vice March, promoted.
The following have been admitted in the Excellent
as Marine Cadets :—Mr. J. E. Lock, Mr. H. ,N.
Tinklar, Mr. G. Gill, Mr. W. T. Savary.

THE FIRE AT MANCHESTER.
The amount of dansage in the first pile destroyed,
and in Messrs. Cunliffe's property, is estimated to be
not less than 30,0001. The statement of losses is as
follows :—Mr. George Grimshaw, Goston, the loss
it estimated at 5,0001., which is covered by insurance
the Manchester Fire Office to the extent of 4,0001.
lir. Smith's stock is destroyed to the extent of
1,5001., the amount of insurance in the County
Office. Messrs. Clark and Co. sustained damage to
the amount of 350/., to whiali amount they are in-
sured in the West of England. Mr. Junes Redfern
is insured in the Royal for 650/., which will about
cover his loss. Mr. J. B. Lee is insure in the
Alliance for 5001., and in the North British for 2,0001.,
and his loss is estimated at nearly 3,000/. Messrs.
Latrey will suffer to the amount of 5001., to ti Men
amount they were insured in the Imperial. Mewrs.
J. Farrar and Brother suffer a loss not covered 11,y
an insurance to the amount of SOU Mr. Thomas
Haigh, woollen cloth manufacturer, estimates his loss
at nearly 5,000/.; he is insured in the Sun for 2,000/.,
the Guardian for 1,0001., and the Yorkshire for
1,6001. Mr. Robert H. Dowson Nfirnates his
damages at 5,000/., which is covered by
iNßurance in
the West of England. Mr. James Shari?,
woollen
cloth manufacturer, is insured for 1,000/. in 'We
perial Office, and suffers to about that amount.
Henry Hewitt estimates his loss at 3,5001., which Is
covered by insurances of 1,5001. in the ScottitV
Union, and 2,0001. in the Birmingham Office.
Messrs. Porteus and Co., silk manufacturers, suffer
to the extent of 2,0001., covered by insurance in the
West of England to that amount. The loss of
Messrs. Cunliffe and Brooks, to whoizi the
building
belongs in which Mr. Hewitt's and Messrs. Porteus:
rnd Co.'s shops were situated, is estimats.l at 1,5007.
for the building. There are several pa," ties who
suffer to smaller amounts. The origin of the' fire is
unknown.

FOREIGN COIN AND HARVEST•

BRUSSELS, OM 12.—The average price of corn
daring the week ending August 7 was—Wheat,
28f. 69c., and that of rye 15f- 990- being
_a diminu-
tion in wheat of 6f. 74c., and in rye of lf.
Very little is doing in the market, and the
prices continue to fall both on wheat and
rye. We continue to receive complaints daily
of the great want of common honesty and fair
dealing in regard to the fall in bread. Alt"ough its
many parts of Germany and Flanders the prices are
almost everywhere on the old level, yet the price in
the fall of bread has not been in proportion. This is
maintained by the bakers under the apparerrly plau-
sible plea that they cannot reduce the price till
they shall have exhausted the stock of corn which
they had :a hand when it became cheaper. It is a
matter of surprise that the Government and respective
local authorities do not interfere and put a stop to
this abominable fraud—we can call it by no milder
term—upon the poor. They are entitled now to
have their bread at moderate prices, and they ought
to have it. What can we say to such a declaration
as this from the llamburgh market, for instance
INotwithstanding the immense importations, the price
of rye has again risen, become scarcely anything is
brought to market—all is put into the storehouses.
Is this as it should be ? Is there not an evident de-
sign on the part of the sellers to keep up the prices
as long as they can ? for the same account goes on to
' state, although several vessels have come from Bre-
men freighted with corn, they all turned back
because they found the prices of corn too low here.
If the price of corn is low, why is bread so dear f
and why are the people cheated in two ways—first,
for having to pay high for their bread, and, secondly,
by having that bread made up into loaves which
certainly are far less than the usual size ? In making•
these remarks, let us not, however, be supposed to
speak of corn dealers and others engaged in the corn
trade in general. There is nothing more unfair, or
unmanly, than to attack men as a body, without
giving them the advantage of individual defence ; and
we know, as a fact, that immence harm has been done
by these general accusations, so much so, that per-
sons, judging from the observations incautiously made
on this head in the public journals, have considered
them as infallible, and universally applicable, and
have, not only been most abusive to dealers when
they brought their produce to market, but we verily
believe that many of the riots and incendiarisms hare
arisen from the same incautious, though well-mean-
ing, remarks of the newspapers. He, who in these
days writes for the public, should bear in mind that
he is writing for all classes, and not for any particular
class of persons.—lfamburgh Papers, August 10.

CLOSING or THE THANSFEH-HOOES.—.NOtiCe was
issued on Friday at the Bank of England that the dos-
ing of the Transfer-books for the under-mentioned an-

ntiities, due on the 10th of October, will be es follows .

—Bank Stock, Friday, September 10, to Friday, October
15; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, Friday,
September 10, to Wednesday, October 20 ; Reduced
Three per Cent. Annuities, Thursday, September 9, to
Wednesday, October 20 ; Long Annuities, Friday, Sep-
tember 10, to Wednesday, October 20 ; Annuities .. for
terms of years, Friday, September 10, to Wednesday,
October 20.

AS'TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. William Batty.
THIS EVENING

/ grand Grecian and Fairy Legend entitled THE PRINCE OF
45TPRITI5 ; or the Hors* of the Elements, Earth, lir, Fire, and
Water.

Entirely new Scenes In the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the
Establishment, in the various modes of eqaestration.
To conclude With a favourite Afterpiece.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Representation of SEIAKSPERE'.3 MUTT-I
-PLACE.
The Harmonic Rock Band every Evening.
On MONDAY, August 16, and
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
The telebrated Band of the Establishment, seleeted from the
quee';i's Private Band, the Coldstreams, and the elite of M. Jullien's
Ba'ad, will perform a Grand Selection of Ancient and Modern Music,
kellieht View of Gibraltar. Splendid Menagerie. Shakspere's
~,____l3lrth Place, from Drawings by Alfred Crowquill. Ihe Celebrated
xiliruicelcon Budd will also perform at intervals, concluding with the
Oleg, of Gibrp:itar.
Feeding trA. Animals at Five; Jullien's Concert, Quarter-past Six;
l'lrewrk% Quarter-past Nine.—No extra charge.
Admission to the whole, One Shilling.

111 E WEATHER.—SIIN OP ICE, AUG. 15.
Telmato-HETEn, Lowest, 52; Highest. 70 ; Noon, 71
BAROMETER, 30.28.—W1ND N.N.E.; fine.

AVOUST 16.

Tuxll3loWeinit, Lowest, 55 ; Highest, 74 ; Noon, 63.

BAROMETER, 30.15.
Virm N. ; morning, rain: afternoon, cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning.• 6= 1111 Buttes after 4. i Evening .. S ,rdnincs eft& 5.