The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

On Saturday Edward Austin, formerly a bookbinder
in the Walworth road, was finally examined on a
charge of forging and uttering forged cheques.
Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, at-
tended on the part of the London and Westminster
Bank.

It appeared that on the 19th ult. the prisoner went
to S. Sullivan, of No. 16, Great Peter-street, West-
minster, and produced to him a letter, purporting to
be from the prisoner's solicitor, containing a cheque
for 101. 10s., which the prisoner said was part of the
money for some property he had sold. Sullivan, be-
lieving that the prisoner, whom he had known for
some years, had some property, at his solicitation ad-
Tanced him 12s. 6d., until he could get the cheque
changed, and detained the cheque for that purpose.
On the following morning Sullivan went with it to
the Borough branch of the London and Westminster
Bank, when he found it to be a forgery. It further
appeared that on the 20th ult., the prisoner also went
to Mr. Hythe, a bootmaker in Little Chapel-street,
Westminster, and producing a cheque for 201., pur-
porting to be signed by a Mr. Chester, wanted to
borrow seven shillings, under a similar pretence, but
be fortunately only lent him sixpence. When taken
to the bank it was found to be a forgery. Mr. Chester
having proved that neither of the signatures was his,
several other cases of a similar character were gone
into, and the prisoner was committed to Newpte for
facial upon the whole of them.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, OcT. 10.—The Kite steam-vessel,
Commander Henry Dumaresq, sailed yesterday for
Jersey, for the protection of the oyster fishery.
The Blazer steamer, Lieutenant.Cemmanding E.
Wakefield (acting), arrived yesterday from Woolwich
with seamen and seamen gunners recently paid off
from the Fisgard at that port. After disembarking
these men she proceeded after dark for Plymouth,
having on board a considerable number for that port
from the same ship.
The Emerald tender returned yesterday from Cork,
after an absence of upwards of six months, on the
coasts and rivers of Ireland, conveying provisions to
the distressed districts.

The Arab, 12, Commander W. Morris, arrived this
morning from Chatham. She is to form one of the
squadron of escort for her Majesty the Queen
Dowager.
The Alban steam-transport, Master-Commanding
M. Bradshaw, arrived this morning from Woolwich
with a floating fire-engine in tow.
Wind south ; strong breezes and hazy, with rain
at times.

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

PROMOTION.

Lieutenant—Arthur Davies (1808), to the rank o
Commander on the retired list of 1830.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—Robert Mann, to the Madagascar.
Lieutenants—David Miller, and the Hon. P. F.
Pellew, to the Howe ; Abraham Parks, from the
Cuckoo, to command the Dasher; Samuel H. Hem-
mans and Thomas Woods, to the Poictiers ; Shirley
Apthorpe, to the Vindictive; W. C. Marshall, to the
Asia ; H. S. Hamilton, and Francis Willoughby, to
the Hecate ; Matthew Peppin, to Coast Guard ;
Henry Lloyd, to the Cambrian; S. S. L. Crofton, to
the Howe.
Master—George F. Charles, to the Blenheim.
Surgeon—Dr. George J. Fox, to the Bellerophon.
Naval Instructor—H. A. Speed, to the Cambrian.
Mate—G. H. Mansell, to the Asia.
Assistant Surgeons—Evan Evans, and William
Cuthane, to the Bellerophon ; Dr. Robert Fulton, to
the Spider.
Clerks—Edward Davidson, to the William and
Mary ; D. P. Macnamara, in charge, to the "Viper ;
Willis Price, to the Bellerophon; Edwin Smith, to
the Cambrian; H. J. Barlow, to the Hecate; James
C. Mottley, from the Cuckoo, in charge, to the
Dasher.
Midshipmen—Arthur R. Owen, to the Victory ;
Robert H. Boyd, to the Fisgard ; Charles Sidebottom,
to the Recruit; Simcoe, to the Excellent ; G.
Viscomti, G. H. Back, and C. D. Robinson, to the
Bellerophon ; Charles White, to the Geyser; F M.
M. Wynford, to the Dolphin.
Masters' Assistants—William Dillard, to the Kes-
trel ; Matthias Parsons'and Thomas Mansell (acting
second master), to the Bellerophon ; Charles Mark
Palmer, to the Trincomalee; J. G. Budd, to the
Oberon ; W. J. Redden (acting second master), to
the Rhadamanthus ; E. P. Cox, to the Petrel; John
Gregory, to the Albion ; Daniel Roberts, from the
Cuckoo (acting second master), and A. E. Parks, to
the Dasher.
Naval Cadets—G. E. Massey, to the Fury; H. T.
Burgoyne, to the Asia ; Henry Grey, to the Howe.
COAST GUARD.

Appointments—Mr. Henry Webb, to Southwold
station, as chief officer ; Lieutenant Edward J. Bel-
lenden Clarke, to command the Hillhead station ;
Lieutenant Herbert Blachford Gray, to command
the Mundesley station ; Mr. Charles Cleveland, to
command a station; Lieutenant R. Lowcay, and
Lieutenant 11. B. Gray, to command stations ; Lieu-
tenant E. H. Kennett, to command Woodbridge
Haven ; Lieutenant S. Stirling, to command No. 2
Battery, Deal.
Removals—C. G. Clarke, from No. 2 Battery,
Deal, to Westbrook station ; Mr. J. Hungerford,
from Crandfield Point, to Newcastle station; Lieute-
nant R. J. Turner, from Oyster Haven, to Greystone
station, vice Lieutenant Poole, appointed to the Active
revenue cutter; Lieutenant J. B. Clarke, from Hill-
head, to Brixham station.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. B.—Her Majesty's frigate Ame-
rica, 50, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, hove in sight
this morning, and under single reefed topsails rounded
Penlee Point in gallant style, about eight oclock. She
left Lisbon on the 16th of September, and has had
either light contrary winds or stiff south-easterly gales
all the passage home. Sir Charles Napier's squadron
l!eft Lisbon on the 10th of September for a cruise.
The Vixen returned frum the squadron on the 13th,
and sailed for England. Her Majesty's ship Caledo-
nia, 120, Captain Manby H. Dixon, and the Jackall
steam vessel, Commander Western, were the only
British men-of- war in the Tagus on the 16th ult. The
Ville de Bilbao, and another Spanish frigate, with the
French gunnery ship Iphegenie, and other foreign
sailing and steam vessels of war, were frequently
cruising into and out of the Tagus. The Miguelite
generals Gatez, Povos, and another, continue to re-
side at Lisbon.

On the passage home the America spoke, 26th
September, lat. 43 30 N., long. 17 32 W., the
schooner Cossack, of Penzance, from Waterford. Ist

October, lat. 48 30 N., long. 11 40 W., passed the
bark Asia, outward bound, with top-gallant masts on
deck, it having been blowing strong from S.E. 3d
October, long. 11 29 W., lat. 48 48 N., signalized
English bark, second distinguishing pennant, No.
_ _ _

4,819, 136 days from Madras for Condon. 3il Oc-
tober, lat. 48 30 N., long. 11 30 W., exchanged
colours with a Dutch ship. 4th October, lat. 4010 N.
long. 11 12 W., exchanged colours with a Dutch
barque. In the chops of the Channel saw a great
number of merchant vessels homeward bound.

In the Bay of Biscay, on the 28th September, one
of the hands lost his hold on the main yard, and after
being twice struck in his descent, fell, apparently
stunned, into the sea. A boatswain's mate, named
Ward, a most active sailor, instantly ran aft, jumped
into one of the boats, coolly took off his trousers, and
although it was blowing a stiff sea at the time, with
pretty much sea on, the noble fellow, having sighted
his unfortunate messmate, deliberately plunged into
the sea and saved his life. Ward has at various times
jumped overboard, and in this manner saved the lives
of six men, one of whom was his father. Th
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The America, under command of Captain Gordon,
was commissioned in the spring of 1844, after which
i she went nto the Pacific and visited Vancouvers and
several other islands in that ocean. She returned with
freight to England in September, 1846. Captain Gor-
don having taken the retirement, her command was
given to her present captain, Sir Thomas Maitland.
About the latter end of August, in coming out of
Vigo, with a Government pilot on board, she struck
on a pinnacle rock, and carried away her fore foot, in
consequence of which she made about three quarters
of an inch of water hourly. She is now perfectly
dry, but is ordered alongside a hulk in Hamoaze.
The America is very light, having leftr allth the last
twospare
stores and provisions at Lisbon. For
days, in consequence of her long pase. sage,
Shet hashemena
have been put on two-thirds allowanc
very fine set of fellows among her crew, and will in j
All probability be paid off her..

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER 9.:
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead (late
• Chester and Birmingham, 5 per cent., 22/. ), 5 dis.-Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Fifths (late Manchester and Liverpool),
1,12 p.-Ditto Fifths (late West Riding Union), 234 dig.-_
Leeds and Thirsk, 17% dis. -London and North-Western,
152-Ditto, New Quarters, 7 p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, No. 1, 3/4 p.-Midland 111-Ditto, 40/. Shares,
4034-Ditto, Halves, % dis.-North Staffordshire, la p•-• North Union, 204-South-Eastern and Dover, 29 ex div.
-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extension, No. 2, 1 p.-
Ditto, G. N. E.. put. (guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850), 1,13
p.-York and North Midland, Preference, 4% p.
MANCHESTER, Ourottaa 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 5 dis.-Birmingham. and
Dudley, 4 p. -East Lancashire, New Quarters,l% dis.-Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire. 1% p.-Ditto, 321. Shares, 6d.-Ditto
(West Riding Union), 2 11.16 c.-London and North-
W estern, New, c.p.-Ditto ( Manchester and Birmingham )
Quarters (C), 334 p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, Preference, dis.-Ditto (Grimsby), 201. Shares,
4,4 dis.-Midland, 50/. Shares, par-North Staffordshire, par
-Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),3% dis.-South-Eastem
and Dover, 29t/4-Ditto, No. 4,2 A dis.-York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, No. 2,1% p.-Ditto, ditto, Preference, 1% p.
LEEDS, OCTOBER 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The panic of last week has is some
degree subsided, and a little rebound attendant on the previous
excessive depreciation has been experienced for a few days.
The appearances at to-day's market are less favourable, and
purch kses are rarely made except for the purpose of closing
former transactions. The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 365. dis.-East Lancashire, Quarters,
245. 6d. dis.-Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 10s.
Ditto, (West Riding Union), 234 dis.-Leeds and Dewsbury,
Extension Scrip (green), 245. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk. 17%
dis.-Ditto, Preference, 303. dis.-North British, Thirds,
Is. 6d. p.-Ditto, Quarters, 6s. dis.--North Staffordshire,
4s. p.-North-Western, dis.-York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, No. 2, 235. p.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, OCTOBER 9.
STOCK ExcHaNcie.-The sales are-Caledonian, New,
2/. 16s. dis.-North British, 25% ex d.-Ditto, Quarters,
55. dis.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, New Shares (No. 2),
I%p.
EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 30/. 108.
-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 7s. 6d.-Arbroath and Forfar,
261.-Ditto, Halves, 13/.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. 10s.-
Caledonian, 36/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 11. Is. 6d.--Caledonian
and Dumbartonshire, 1/. IN.-Clydesdale Junction, 531.-
Deeside, 3/. Bs.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1/. 6s.•••••
Dundee and Arbroath, 351.-Ditto, New, No. 1, 271.-Ditto,
New, No. 2, 354-Ditto, New, No. 3,3/. U.-Dundee and
Northern Junction, 1/. 10s.-Dundee and Perth, 321.-Ditto,
New, 16/.-Ditto, Quarters, 2/. 17s. 6d.-East of Fife, 41. ss.
-East Lothian Central, IL 73.-Edinburgh and Bathgate,
51.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 511. ex div.-Ditto, Halves,
15/. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 12/. 12a. 6d. ex div.-Editis• burgh, Leith, and Granton, 161. IN.-Ditto, Preference,
204-Ditto, New, 3/. IN.-Ditto, Quarters, ss. 6d.--
Edinburgh
and Northern, 184-Ditto, New, 1/. 175.-Ditto,
Newport, 71.25. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, 14 a-Edinburgh
and Perth (New Co.), 14-Ditto, halves, ss. 9d.-Glasgow
and Ayrshire, 99/. 10s. ex div.-Ditto, New Stock, 381.
15s. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 61.-Ditto, Halves,
No. 2, 84-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 71. 155.-Gilas.
gow and Garnkirk,3B/. 155.-Glasgow General Terminus,lll.
-Glasgow and Greenock, 17/. 2s. 6d. ex div.-Ditte, Halves,
8/. I Is. 6d.-Ditto, Preference, 71. 19&-Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 3/. 95.-Great North of Scotland, 17s.
6d.-Great Northern (late Direct Northern), 21. 19s. 6d.
-Ditto (late London and York), 11.-North British, 261.
ss. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 134-Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 155.-.
Ditto, Quarters New (scrip), 10s. 9d.-Ditto, Thirds, 11. 2s.
-Ditto, Fifths, 54 78. 6d. ex div.-Scottish Central, 25/. 10s.- Scottish Grand Junction, Bs. 6d.-Scottish Midland,
17/. 8&-Shrewsbury and Hereford, IN.-Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Chester, 19/. 155.-Stirling and Dunfermline,
31. 10e.-Stirling and Midland, 71.-Wishaw and Coltness,
454-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 136/. IN.-Ditto Ex-
tensions, No. 1, 12/. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 111.
Direct Bombay and Madras, Is. 9d.-Ea3t Indian, 1/. Os. 3d.
-Great North of India, 2s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras,
ls.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, ls. 6d.
GLASGOW, OCTOBER 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New,
223.-Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 555.-Edinburgh and
Northern,
18L-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 100/.....
Ditto, 401. Shares, 394 -Great Northern, 58s. ex int.-Man•
chester and Southampton, Bs. 9d.-North British, Thirds,
245.-Ditto, Quarters, 955.

The Observer, Sunday, October 10, contained near
nine folio columns of the state of the money-market
during the past week, including the official revenue
tables issued from the Treasury, to the latest hour oa
Saturday. Price of the Observer, 40 columns, 6d.
There is scarcely a club-house, institution, library, or
news-room, in all England, Scotland, Ireland, the Con-
tinent, East and West Indies, America, &c., in which
the Observer is not taken in, and frequently duplicate
copies. The extensive publication of the Observer com-
mences at six, and concludes at ten o'clock, on Sunday
morning. A Monday edition of the Observer, with sc•
curate markets, best adapted for the country and abroad,
is regularly published at four o'clock on Monday after-
noon.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY Or A NEW COALFIELD.
—The towns of Park-gate and Newton, in Cheshire, were
on Friday the scenes of considerable rejoicing, in conse-
quence of the complete success which attended the trials
made to prove the field of coal on the Cheshire side of
the Dee, on the property of the Hon. E. M. Loyd Mos-
tyn, M.P. We understand that an extensive field of
coal, of most excellent quality, and which, no doubt, is
a continuation of the Flint and Bagilt coal-fields has
been proved. Should this be the case, Birkenhead will
be enabled to derive from this newly-discovered field
the extensive supplies of coals required for the use of
that rising port, and for exportation, on far easier terms
than from any other quarter.
A VIPER IN A CARRIAGE.-011 Saturday after-
noon Miss Catherine Hayes, daughter of Captain Edgar
Hayes, of Lauder House, Brompton, accompanied by a
female friend, Edgar, her brother (in his 9th year), and
the governess, were proceeding in a carriage to a friend's
in Burlington-street, when, at the corner of Sloane-
street, the young gentleman imagining that he saw
something move in the pocket of the coach, drew his
sister's attention to the subject, placing his band at the
same time within the pocket, but almost immediately
withdrew it, exclaiming that he had been bitten in the
wrist. The governess was about to order the carriage
to be stopped, when a small viper sprang from the pocket
and fastened itself upon the fur mantle of the friend of
Miss Hayes, wounding her just above the shoulder. The
screams of the ladies brought several persons to their
assistance, and a young man, of the name of Brodie, *
waiter at an hotel in Bow-street, seized the viper and
destroyed it, the creature measuring seven or eight
inches in length. Medical assistance was procured and
the wounds of the young lady and gentleman dressed,
that of the latter being of rather an extensive character.
Not the slightest idea can be formed as to the means by
which the viper had got into the carriage, the vehicle
having conveyed the father of the young lady to the
railway station only the day previous, and the stables are
supposed to be free of vermin.
COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND
SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on
Saturday on the Brighton railway which might have
been attended with very serious consequences, but fortn-
, nately such was not the case. The most exaggerated re-
ports were in circulatiou, but on inquiry we learn that
two parties were only slightly injured ; one of them
proceeded to town by the express train—he had re-
ceived a blow on the temple ; the other walked away
from the place of accident, and our informant did not
see him. An empty horse-box was shattered, and one
first class carriage had a panel broken. Neither engine
received any injury of importance, and one of them pro-
ceeded with the train. Neither of the enginemen nor
other servants of the company were at all injured. The
accident took place at the point of junction of the main
line with the Kerner branch, the down-train from Lont
don at seven, A.m., and the up Hastings at twenty mi-
nutes past seven, A.m., having come into collision. A
strict inquiry will be made into the matter, and it is its‘
dispensable such should be the case.

Dr. Nichol, the Professor of Astronomy to the
University of Glasgow, was entertained at dinner at th•
Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, on Thursday, by a numerous
party of friends. Mr. J. Leadbeater occupied the chair.
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BIRTHS.
On the 3d inst., at West Cowes, the lady of C. R. M.
Jackson, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son.
_. _

On the 41h inst., at Highgate, iii-e. J. S. Scrimgeour,
of a son.

On the sth inst., in Mansfield-street, Cavendish-square,
Mrs. William Bodkin, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Leek, Stafford, the lady of John Mor-
timer Keppel, Esq., of a_girl.
On the 7th inst., at North-villa, Regedt's-park, the lady
of Colonel Miles, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at Paradise-row, Stoke Newington, Mrs.
John Barnett, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Compton-terrace, Islington, the wife of
Mr. James G. Winn, of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Lee, the wife of S. H. de Zoete, Esq.,
of a boy.
On the Bth inst., at Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, the wife
of John Lindsay Lawford, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 2d inst., at St. Mary, Blandford, Alfred Baker, En.,
of her Majesty's Customs, Southampton, to Mary Emni
eldest daughter of W. Wiseman, Esq., of the former place.
On the sth inst.. at Blockley, Worcestershire, W. V. Beadle,
Esq., M.D., of Tewkesbury, Gloucester, to Caroline Matilda,
only daughter of Edward Banbury, Esq.