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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1848.

in two or three years with proper treatment, but if the
a-m had not got well it would not have produced death.
Irritative treatment was bad practice, and showed great
ignorance. Cutting it was grossly injudicious, and so
was putting hurds in the hole; and, in short, the treat-
ment of the case by the prisoner manifested the
grossest ignorance, and entire absence of skill.
Two other surgeons gave similar opinions.
Mr. PICKERING (Mr. Foster with him) addressed the
jury for the prisoner. He said the charge was that of
want of competent skill; there was no pretence that the
prisoner had been in any degree negligent. He called
witnesses as to the prisoner's skill.
Mr. OVEREND replied, and
Mr. Justice MAULE explained the law with great care
and minuteness, which was in substance, that if a per-
son without necessity took upon himself any art or
business requiring skill, and for the management of
which he bad not the ordinary and requisite skill, and
death ensued, he was guilty of manslaughter. his
Lordship then went through the evidence. He had shown
in his affidavit overweening confidence in his own attain
ments, having shown he believed himself capable of
curing all curable diseases. If surgery was, as believed
to be, a progressive art, that confidence was in itself a
proof of the prisoner's ignorance.
If the spelling of
the affidavit was a copy of his original, it disclosed ig-
norance of his mother tongue, but he might for all that
be a skilful surgeon.
The jury retired, but were not long absent. They
found the prisoner Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, addressing the prisoner, said it was
an aggravated and cruel case ; the deceased had been
misled by his preposterous pretensions. His treatment
of the case manifested the grossest ignorance. He bad
cut off a young man in the flower of his youth by his
gross ignorance and overweening conceit; and the sen-
tence was, that he be imprisoned for a year.
John Foster, aged 30, was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of Robert Slater, at Bradford, on the 2d of October
last. He bad been a soldier, but eighteen months ago
was discharged, because he was subject to epileptic fits.
Ile had since then worked as wool-comber. He was not
defended by counsel.
Mr. Orerend and Mr. John Smith were for the prose-
cution.
The circumstances of the ease, which will be fresh in
the recollection of our readers, were, that Foster and
Slater, after spending the evening in company, at Brad-
ford, left together. The next morning the body of
Slater was found in the river, and soon after prisoner
gave himself up, and confessed that he had thrown de-
ceased over the bridge.
The statement made and signed by the prisoner, before
the coroner, was then put in and read as follows:--"The
a bole of what Tilley has said is true. I was not sorry
for myself,tbuLl was sorry for the man. I had no ill-
will against him, but I had been desirous for a long time
to do something to bring me to the gallows, and if I
could have found a smaller crime I should have been
glad to have done it, but I could not find one that would
hang me.

HIS LORDSHIP recalled Tilley, who, in answer to his
question, said the prisoner, as far as he ever saw him,
knew well enough what he was about. He was sober
when he made the confession to him. He seemed in good
earnest.

Mr. Hopton, a surgeon, in answer to questions by his
Lordship, said he only just saw the body, but he be-
Levet!, from the blueness of the face and bands, that
death was caused from drowning, He could have better
known if he h3d made a post mortem examination.
Apoplexy would produce blueness, but he thought not to
the same extent.

Mr. Justice MAuLE told the jury that the indictment
charged the prisoner with having caused the death by
drowning. The mode of death was not proved, as de-
sirable, by the strongest evidence of which it was
capable. The surgeon who had men the body had
of iy just looked at it, understanding there was to be
an inquest, and the examination of the body by a
competent person had been omitted. It was an
essential part of the present inquiry that they should
b., satisfied that the deceased came to his death by
drowning. They, of course, in considering that point,
were entitled to take into consideration the prisoner's
statement. He then remarked on the very extraordinary
nature of the case. It was, he said, a very round about
aay that the prisoner had taken in committing suicide,
if he even had done the deed. He would have thought
it would have been a less objectionable thing for the
prisoner at once to have destroyed himself, than to have
tr ken away the life of another man, if he had any
ish to die. _ _

The jury retired, and after being absent one hour
and three-quarters, returned a ♦erdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner on the whole seemed pleased for a
moment.

His LORDSHIP told him he had better beware in fu-
ture. If the jury had found him guilty he would cer-
tainly have been hanged.
The prisoner said that would not have been a bad
thing if he were prepared to die. While he was a sol-
dier, and when on sentry, he had a fit and the bayonet
of his musket had run in at the frout on the left side
(ot his clothes or body, it was not clear which), and
come out under the shoulder. lie was in the Guards.
lie was then discharged with a pension of sixpence a
day only, and no one would employ him in his trade on
account of being subject to fits, lest he should fall into
me dye-pan.

o;erend said that his friends had offered to pro-
cure counsel to defend him, but he sent word if they
did, he would plead guilty.
Mr. Noble, the governor of the prison, said he had
hA many fits since he came into custody. He consi-
ch red him insane, and wholly unfit to be at large. The
prisoner smiled at that.

his LORDSHIP said he should not at present discharge
him.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.
THE MANCHESTER CHARTISTS.—The proceedings
couimPnced this morning with the cross-examination of
the witness Cookson, by the Counsel who appeared for
dome of the defendants, and by the other defendants in
pr rson .

n answer to Mr. JAMES, he said he sail been in the
police force since January last, and was previously a
draper's assistant. He never attempted to take notes
before he went into the police force. He was acquainted
with McDonough previously to hearing him speak on
the 21st of April. Was sure he never attributed to one
s[ esker what was said by another. The meeting on the
21st of April lasted about two hours.
James A. Ball was the next witness called. He bad
bi en brought from gaol, being under committal on a
cl arge of conspiracy. He said he was a printseller at
Manchester. Had been four times in gaol for neglect-
ing his family and advocating the People's Charter.
On the evening of the Ist of April a committee meet-
ing was held at his father's house, to raise money for
agitating the People's Charter. On the following day
another meeting was held at Tinker's-gardens, attended
by unemployed Irishmen. On the 11th of April another
m ,eting was held, at which Rankin took the chair. Dr.
McDowell, West, White, Grocott, and, in fact, all the
defendants were present, with many others. They had
ascertained the failure in London, and said it was foolish
in them to attempt opposition to the authorities with de-
stroying property. Rankin said they were not strong
egough unless they did so. McDonough proposed that
there should be empty cellars taken in the neighbour-
hood of High-street—two at the corner of Turner-street,
and one under Mr. Stevenson's shoe-shop, in Market-street.
Leaders were appointed for the purpose of carrying out
these objects. There were McDonough, Donovan, Leech,
Crupper, Chadwick, Schofield, Nixon, and others. The
leaders were to place in each of the cellars one parcel of
gunpowder, containing one cwt., one cask of naptha, con-
taining 36 gallons, and one cask of turpentine. Shavings,
mixed with straw, were to be placed next to the casks,
and those were to be set adjoining the door, well steeped
in naptha, for the purpose of being instantly ignited and
the places fired. It was also agreed that an empty shop,
formerly occupied by Dr. Balley, phrenologist, should be
taken, adjoining the gas-works in Lower King-street.
It was to be taken under the pretence of carrying on the
provision trade. After getting possession of the shop,
thsy were to bore under the ground so as to get to the
gas works yards, to place five cwt. of gunpowder under
the boring, blow up the gas-works, and put the town
in complete darkness. Several persons were appointed
to superintend this, and M‘Donough was to act as their
leader. A resolution was agreed to on the motion of
Cropper, seconded by Downey, that persons should be
appointed to secrete themselves in the churches, and to
be provided with implements to break open the doors.
Other persons were then to be admitted, provided with
nsptha, to fire the churches. Leaders were appointed
for particular churches, as follows: St. George's
Church, Scholefield; St. Paul's, Chadwick; St. Ann's,
D moven; St. Mary's, Leech; St. John's, Cropper. Per-
sons were also directed to let off the reservoir at Bes-
wick, and also the canal. Lecturers were appointed to
go through the country to make the plans known. Arch-
deacon ar,d Rankin went to Oldham; Cropper, to Brad-
ford; Chadwick, himself, and Leach to Ireland; and Do-
novan, to Birmingham. Witness went to several places
in England, and then to Ireland. He had seen ADD°.
noueh train men, and there were drilling places ap-
pointed. The drilling generally took place at mid-
night. He had also seen Cropper and Rankin engaged
in drilling.
Cross-examined-by Mr. JAMES—Was once charged
with Stealing a cash-box and acquitted. He had been
a fool to himself and his family for advocating the dan-
gerous and abominable principle of Chartism. Had been
we
de nai ttein great
an Owenite. Did not. now believe that there was any
reexaalmOia
xistre. The witness was cross-
manism and Chartism, a ads to his connexion with Ro-
made violent speechesnadnaitted that he had fre-
quentlywhich contained state-
ments akin to reasonalel '
The witness was requesteadnryar Lordship to iden-
tify the prisoners, and excused was self from doing so
on the ground that his eyesight was now defective. The
witness was here assailed with a shower of hisses, on
which,
His LORDSHIP severely reprimanded the parties, and
threatened to clear the court if it was repeated. If
saw any man that dared to defy the law, he would
punish him. Though he sat there alone as ajudge, he
would remind them that he sat there with the whole
msjesty of England in his power, and whilst men were on
th it trial for an offence like that charged against the
prisoners, he cautioned all present not to repeat such an
offence as had been committed.

Eventually the witness could only identify M Donough
and White. He admitted having made a speech at a
Chartist meeting, and advising his bearers not to sign
any more petitions to Parliament, but that the next
inches
long, signed should be with a steel pen sixteen
long, and a handle nine feet long, and that that petition
be signed in the heart's blood of the aristocracy of this
country. At the close of this witness's evidence,
The ATTORNEY. GENERAL intimated that the case On
the part of the Crown was closed.
Mr. JAMES then addressed the jury for the prisoners
M`Donough and White, after which,
Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON followed on behalf of his clients.
The prisoners who defended themselves in person

then proceeded to address the jury, and the case was
proceeding when our report was dispatched.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION HOUSE.

A man named Henry Jones, was brought up for re-
examination on the charge involved in the following
statements. Another man was also put to the bar as an
accessory, but as a clear alibi was proved by Mr. Nobler
upon the part of the latter, in whose behalf a number of
respectable persons attended to give evidence, we omit
his name.
Samuel Obee, 649, said, on the evening of Monday,
the 11th inst., I went on duty, at nine o'clock, in Bevis
Marks, Bury-street, and as I walked along my beat I
came to an empty house. I observed the door par-
ticularly, as I had made some private marks on it, and
they had been removed. I heard some one inside, and
listened again, and heard footsteps approaching the door
within the house, and the door was then opened from
the inside, and two men, one of whom was the prisoner,
came out. I asked them what they wanted there, and the
prisoner's companion said they had been to look over the
house. I said they had no business there, and they must
come along with me. The prisoner's companion said,
what the devil are you going to do? We have only been
to look over the house. I seized both the men, when
they came to the door, and one seized me on one side
and the second on the other, in order to get from me.
The other man hit me on the arm with his hand or fist,
which made me leave my hold, and be ran off to the
corner and looked back. He did not run fast, and I did
not see him afterwards. I still held the prisoner, who
struggled with me, and whilst doing so pulled out a lot
of picklock keys and flung them about the road. He
then pulled out an iron bar or jemmy, and struck me
with it across the head a dozen times. I tried to get it
from him, and he threw it away. I fell several times,
and my head, forehead, and nose were cut open. I could
hardly see from the blood, but I still kept my hold.
When I first laid hold on the two prisoners I think there
were about six men near me, and I called out for help,
but no one came to my assistance, nor while I was
struggling with the prisoner's companion. Whilst I was
struggling with the prisoner his hat fell off. I succeeded
in taking him along Bevis Marks into Camomile-street,
where I put him into the custody of two constables. I
then made my way back to the place in which the keys
were thrown down, and when I got there I fell and my
senses left me.
Mrs. Solomon, who resides at No. 16, Bury-street, four
doors from the empty house alluded to, identified a
shawl which was produced. She last saw it about a fort-
night ago, in the wardrobe in her bedroom, on the second
floor. She was not at home on the evening of the 11th
instant. The shawl disappeared that evening. She also
lost a 10/. bank-note and four sovereigns, which had
been wrapped up in it, a diamond ring, a pearl brooch,
a card case, a striped French shawl, and a small silver
pocket knife.
Sarah Becket, servant to Mr. Emanuel, the owner of
No. 15, Bury-street, was at home on the evening of the
1 1 th. There was only a little girl with her. She did
not hear any noise until about half-past nine, when she
beard a great disturbance iu the street.. She then went
up to close the attic window, which she had forgotten to
shut. The doors of the bedrooms were kept open in
the evening. About half-past ten she went to her mas-
ter's room, and found some papers on the bed, and re-
moved them on to the drawers. She had not been into
the room since the morning.
Samuel Sykes, 71, was called into Mr. Emanuel's
house at eleven o'clock on the night of the 11th, by the
servant girl, and in the second floor front room he saw
papers strewed about on the bed. He then went to the
third floor, and observed footmarks on the bed steps,
under the window. Ho could not discover anything
particular outside. At the station-house Mr. Emanuel
identified a silver candlestick.
William Jarvis, a constable, deposed as to having seen
Obee, the policeman, and Jones, struggling together in
Bevis Marks, and the latter given in charge to c f&ers
in uniform. He followed Obee to Bury-street, when
Obee became insensible, having the jemmy produced
and two skeleton keys in his hands, and being much cut
about the head. Witness took Obee to a surgeon, and
afterwards went to the spot where the struggle had taken
place, and found three picklock keys there.
Henry Ashley, who had the care of the empty house,
said it was to let, and the keys were left in his counting-
house at the time, and no one had a right to be there
that evening.
Mr. Henry Emanuel said, I left home on the 11 th
inst., about half-past seven in the evening. I returned
at about ten, and went to bed about eleven. On going
into my bedroom, I discovered the contents of my box
scattered about on the bed. I then sent for a policeman,
and went with him to the station house, where I was
shown a silver candlestick, which is my property, and
which is usually kept in another bedroom. I observed
about my room some drops of green wax, apparently
from a taper. I also found a key in one of our bed-
rooms, which did not belong to me. My own keys had
been taken from an unlocked drawer in the dressing-
table, and the drawers had been opened, and the things
pulled about; but I believe nothing was taken away ex-
cept the shawl. I observed footmarks upon a mahogany
piece of furniture which stands against the wall, under
the window, and from the outside of which a person
could piss along a ledge or gutter to the other houses.
Abraham Soman, trimming-maker, was passing by at
the end of Bury-street, and saw Obee (the policeman)
and the prisoner struggling together. He heard a voice
call out to pick up the hat and keys, and he looked on
the ground and found an empty canvass bag and the pri-
soner's hat, in which was a silver candlestick covered
with a shawl. He saw the prisoner several times strike
Obee with some weapon on the head. He was going to
assist Obee, but was told by him to look for the keys.
The depositions were then ordered to be made, and
the prisoner Jones to be committed for trial.
The spirit of Obee, the policeman, in seiz'ng and hold-
ing the prisoner, notwithstanding the denerate attack
made upon him, was much commended, and some sur-
prise was expressed at the fact that there w& re several
persons in the immediate neighbourhood, to whom that
officer had called for assistance in vain.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Eliza Devine, the wife of a journeyman weaver, was
placed at the bar, before Mr. Hammill, charged with
having been concerned with others in stealing 1,600
bobbins of silk, and a quantity of skein silk, of the value
of 200 Z, the property of Mr. George flay, trimming-
manufacturer, in Abbey-street, Bethnal-green-road.
It appeared that during the night of the 9th inst. an
entrance was effected into the prosecutor's warehouse,
which was completely ransacked, and property to the
above amount carried off. A reward of 301. had been
since offered for the discovery of the thieves, and it
having been ascertained that a portion of the stolen
property had been offered for sale by the prisoner, in
structions were given to the police which led to her ap
prehension.

Mrs. Rebecca Downes, the wife of a master weaver,
stated that on Monday, the 11th inst., the prisoner
called at her house, in John street, Bethnal-green, and
produced a number of bobbins, containing altogether
about a pound weight of silk, which she offered for
sale, and stated that it was merely a sample of a large
quantity of the same description, in the possession of a
person with whom she was acquainted, and who had
employed her to dispose of it. Having heard of the
ro'•bery, and observing that the prosecutor's initials,
"G. II.," were stamped upon the bobbins, she re-
quested the prisoner to return back in the evening with
the property, and she would probably treat with her
respecting it. At the time appointed, however, instead
of bringing the same silk, she offered her several other
bobbins of a different description, which witness declined
to purchase, and the prisoner then lett, with an intima•
lion that she would return next morning with the
original sample, but in the interim she was taken into
custody.
Sergeant Teakle stated, that after leaving the house of
the last witness, the prisoner was traced to the shop of
a greengrocer, where she left her basket, which was

afterwards secured, and found to contain several bobbins

of silk, the property of two other manufacturers, who
were now in attendance. Witness then proceeded to
her lodging, and charged her with having attempted to
dispi)se of a portion of the silk, which she at first denied,
but afterwards admitted having done so, and said she
had received it from a person whom she accidentally
met in the street, and with whose name and address she

was unacquainted. On searching her apartment he dis-
covered 400 bobbins, bearing the private marks of
nearly all the manufacturers i❑ the metropolis, and he
had reason to believe, if the prisoner were remanded,
that several other cases would be established against
her.

The warehousemen in the service of Messrs. Carter
and Co., Russia-row, Milk-street, and Messrs. Sanderson

and Co., Gresham-street, identified several of the bob-

bins in the prisoner's possession, as the property of their
respective employers, but were unable to state in
what manner they were abstracted from their master's

premises.
The prisoner was then ordered to be remanded for a
week to afford further time to the police to presecute
their inquiries.
William Roioerk, an inmate of the Bethnal-green
Union Workhouse, who stood charged with an aggra-
♦ated assault upon a young married woman named Jane

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Walden, was placed at the bar for fuel examination.
It having been intimated by Mr. Fairfield, the master
of the worklAuse, that be was instructed by the Board
of Guardians to leave the case to the decision of the

Magistrate, as they had no funds at their disposal to

carry the prosecution into another court,
Mr. HAMMILL sentenced the prisoner to pay a penalty
of 51., or to be committed in default for two months to

;he House of Correction.

Jeci ASHORE.—A few days since her Majesty's
steam-frigate Driver landed at Portsmouth 120 of the
crew of the Superb, lately paid off at Portsmouth. The
jolly sons of Neptune, with purses well lined, and ripe
for fun and frolic, fully maintained the character gene-
rally attached ito sailors, in their position of reck-
lessness in the expenditure of their hardly-earned
pay. One of the petty officers, who had received 78/1
was advised by a friend to lay it up for "a rainy day.'
"What!" said he, " and go to sea and get this nutshell
(pointing to his cranium) cracked three weeks after! No;
I've entered on board another ship, and shall join her in
about five weeks, and before I go I'll spend every penny
I've got.'*—Poole Herald.
MOIiEY MAREET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 10 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.40; and the exchange at Paris on London
caetnsthor being 25.42 i, it follows that gold is 0.10 per
Hamb ueragrhe rtihaePparcriisethan advicesfr
atom
the English Mint of gold is 437 per mark, which,
price of Si. 17s. 100. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.111,
it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer in London
than
Thien
Chancellorilamburgb of the Exchequer left town yester-
.
day for his seat, Mickleton Hall, Yorkshire,

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

RELATING TO AN ARRANGEMENT RESPECT-
ING THE DANISH LIGHTVESSEL IN THE
GROUNDS NEAR ELSINORE.
" Admiralty, Dec. 14, 1848.
" Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to send you herewith, for the informa-
tion of the committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's,
an extract from a letter addressed on the 23d of No-
vember by her Majesty's Consul at Elsinore to her Ma-
jesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, reporting
that the Danish lightship in the Grounds' will be al
lowed to remain at her station until the 31st of De-
cember in each year, instead of the 21st, unless prevented
by ice.

" W. A. B. HAMILTON.
"Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's."
" Extract from a letter from her Majesty's Consul a

Elsinore,

" Elsinore, Nov. 23, 1848.
" I have the honour to inform your _Lordship that, ac-
cording to a decision recently come to by the Danish
Government, the lightship in the Grounds-(Drogheden)
will remain at her station until the 31st (instead of tht
21s t ) of December in each year, whenever the state of
the ice shall not render it necessary fur her to seek a
harbour of safety at an earlier period.
" The same concession, however, has not been granted
with reference to the other Danish floating lights, which
it is expressly ordained shall be removed as heretofore on
the 21st of December."

NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT DARSZER-ORT.
" Royal Prussian General Consulate,
1015, Fenchurch-street, London, Dec. 15.
" Sir,—l beg leave to transmit you my translation of a
notice issued by his Prussian Majesty's Government at
Stralsund, concerning a new lighthouse at Darszer-Ort,
on the promontory of Darz, and I shall feel obliged b)
your giving publicity thereto for the benefit of mariners
frequenting that part of the Baltic.
" B. HEBELER, Prussian Consul-General.
" Capt. G. A. Halsted, RN., Secretary, Lloyd's."
" At Darszer-Ort, in the Peninsula of Darsz, a light-
house, with two lights, has been erected, which will
burn throughout the whole year, to begin on the Ist of
January, 1849. Both lights will be lighted every day at
sunset and extinguished at sunrise.
" The first light is 105 Prussian feet above the level
of the sea, and consists in Fresnel's apparatus of lenses
of the second order of rotatory light, with darkness per
minute. The upper and lower part of the star remain
in sight during the darkness, in order that navigators
may not lose their direction while it prevails. It is,
therefore, only the centre of that star which is subjected
to the darkness. The light illumines the entire horizon,
and serves the navigators who lose sight of the light of
Arcona in the east, on approaching the shore, clearly to
mark the promontory point of Darszer-Ort.
" The cond is a fixed light, 40 Prussian feet above
the level of the sea, and is formed by thrcgorgand
lamps, with reverberatory refl. ctors. This Tight, in
connexion with the Gyedser light on the Danish coast of
Falster, marks the passage between the sandbanks mar
Darszer Ort and the rocky reef Trendelen, and lights
an angle of 40 deg. from W. N. to N.W. by compass.
" Darszer-Ort, where the lighthouse is erected, is
situate in lat. 54 29 N., long. 12 31 E. from Greenwich.
" This lighthouse is situated at a distance of 57 rods,
or 114 fathoms, from the sea, the tower being 100 feet
high, built of red brick and not plastered, on which the
lantern is placed, and serves also for a landmark.
" Stralsund, Nov. 16, 1848."
QUARANTINE NOTICES.
" Cagliari, Dec. 8.
" Sir,—ln consequence of the existence of cholera
morbus in England and Scotland, departures from Lon-
don and Hull since the Ist of October are to be subjected
to a quarantine or 15 days for the vessel, and 21 days fur
the cargo in the lazaretto; all other places in Great
Britain and Ireland, up to the 9th of October, to eight
days of observation, alter which to be subjected to the
same quarantine as London and Hull.

" W. S. CRAIG, Lloyd's Agent.
" Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's."
"Lloyd's Agency,
Terceira, Dec. 8, 1848.
" Sir,—Referring to my letter of the 22d inst., I have
to report that I have on this date been officially inti-
mated by the Health Department that, in pursuance of
instructions received from the Government at Lisbon, no
vessels proceeding from the ports of England, Scotland,
Ireland, and the Channel Islands, will be admitted to
pratique unless they shall have performed quarantine,
and be properly fumigated at either of the accredited
lazarettos of Brest, Vigo, Genoa, Marseilles, Port Ma-
hon, and Malta ; and further, that this measure extends
to all vessels coming by the way of the islands of this
archipelago, so that a vessel from England, calling at St.
Michael's and performing quarantine there, and after-
wards provided with a cleau bill of health, even so will
not be admitted to pratique at this port, as the instruc-
tions state that the ports of Sunderland, Newhaven,
Leith, and London are declared as infected with Asiatic
cholera, and all the others of England, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the Channel Islands as suspected ones.
" JOHN READ, Agent.
" Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's."

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
At the Court at Osbone House, Isle of Wight, the
16th day of December, 1848, present the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council
was this day pleased, upon the representation of the
Right lion. the Lords of the Committee o f Council on
Education, to appoint the Rev. William James Kennedy.
M.A., the Rev. Harry Longueville Jones, M.A., and
Thomas William Marshall, Esq., to be three of her Ma-
jesty's Inspectors of Schools.
WRIT FOR THE BOROUGH OF TRURO.
The Gazette of this evening contains the following
notice:—

" I do hereby give notice, that the death of Edmund
Turner, Esq., late a Member serving in this present Par-
liament for the borough of Truro, hath been certified to me
in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in
this present Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant
to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the
electing of a Member to serve in this present Parlia-
ment for the said borough, at the end of the fourteen
days after the insertion of this notice in the London
Gazette.

" Given under my hand the 15th day of De-
cember, 1848,
" CHARLES SHAW LEFETRE, Speaker."
DOWNING-STREET, DEc. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Gregory,
Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and
over the Bahama Islands and their dependencies.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEc. 19.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT. •
County of York, West Riding-Edmund Denison, of
Doncaster, in the said county, Esq., in the room of the
Right Honourable George William Frederick Howard,
commonly called Viscount Morpeth, now Earl of Carlisle,
called up to the House of Peers.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent.
Kent
Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry-Major
Viscount Sydney to be Lieutenant-Colonel;
John Captain% V c
Robert o h
James Chapman to be Major, vice Viscount'
Sydney,
promoted; William Joseph Berens, Esq., to be
lsie er
Captain, vice Chapman, promoted, Dec. 13.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeo-
manry Cavalry-The Right Hon. Granville George Earl
Granville to be Second Major, Dec. 12.
BANKRUPTS.
John Shields Gomine, cabinet-maker, Hammersmith,
to surrender at half-past eleven, and Jan. 30, at
one,at
the Coljuerc. 2
Court
Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official as-
signee; Tate, Basingnall street.
John Teal!, corn dealer, Bampton, Oxfordshire, Jan.
2, at two, and Jan. 30, at half-past two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's.
place, Old Jewry; Close, St. Mildred's-court, City; Rose,
Hampton.
John Morrison, coal merchant, Beiuliew• hill, Nor-
wood, Jan. 1 and 29, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall.
chambers; Silvester, Great Dover. street, Newington.
Gilbert Currie, grocer, Upper-street, Islington, Dec.
29, at twelve, and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Birchin-lane;
Cattarns, Mark-lane.
Roger Upton, grocer, Dawlish, Devonshire, Dec. 28,
at one, and Jan. 31, at eleven, at the Exeter District
Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Terrell,
Exeter; Terrell, Gray's Inn.
George Lockyer Betty, baker, Taunton, Somerset-
shire, Dec. 28, at one, and Jan. 31, at eleven, at the
Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter;
Stogdon, Exeter; Penny, Taunton; Baker, Ruck, and
Jennings, Lime-street, London.
Henry Douglas Cooke, dealer in paper hangings,
Liverpool, Jan. 5 and 23, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Gre-
gory and Co., Bedford-row; Hampson, Manchester;
Woodburn, Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS. •
At the Court, Basinghall- street.
W. Pyman, St. Osyth, Essex, corn merchant, Jan. 11,
at one-E. Read, Great Marylebone-street, Marylebone,
tailor, Jan. 11, at half-past twelve-J. Foster, Barge-
yard, Bucklersbury, City. East India merchant, Jan. 11,
at half-past one--J. Speller, High-street, Sboreditch,
cheesemonger, Jan. 11, at twelve-E. Butt, Croydon,
ironmonger, Jan. 11, at twelve-W. Williams, Colches-
ter, hat maker, Jan. 11, at eleven-D. H. Morgan,
Peckham-walk, Old Kent-road, coal merchant, Jan. 11,
at half-past eleven-G. Gloge, Portsmouth, tailor, Jan.
11, at eleven-W. Wilkins and J. E. Evans, Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, woollen drapers, Jan. 18, at two-J. Pearse,
Andover, Hampshire, ironmonger, Jan. 11, at twelve-
A. H. Chambers, sen , New Bond-street, and South
Molton-street, Banker, Jan. 12, at twelve-H. Hill,
Gray's Inn-lane, brewer, Jan. 12, at eleven.
In the Country.
D. Hughes, Tredegar Iron-works, Monmouthshire,
grocer, Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-R. M.
Toogood, Cwm Brane, near Newport, Monmouthshire,
Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-R. Kay, Tot-
tington Lower-end, Lancashire, corn and flour dealer,
Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester-D. Green-
wood and J. Bateman, Bury, Lancashire, joiners and
builders, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester-
J. Broadbent and J. Hughes, Waimersley cum Shuttle-
worth, Lancashire, paper makers, Jan. 11, at twelve, at
the Court, Manchester-C. D. Matthews, Chipping
Norton, Oxfordshire, and Chipping Camden, Gloucester •
shire, hanker, Jan. 16, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham
-C. Robson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer, Jan. 12, at
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-W. Em-
merson, North Shields, banker, Jan. 15, at one, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-W. Smith, jun.,Stockton,
Durham, manufacturer of earthenware, Jan. 12, at half-
past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
E. Cahan, Strand, tailor and draper, 9d., on Wednes-
day, Dec. 20, and three subsequent Wednesdays, be-
tween the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Tur-
quand, Onai!dhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.

J. Every, sen., Lewes, Sussex, ironfounders, lOs , on
Wednesday, Dec. 20, and three subsequent Wednesdays,
between the hours of ten and two, at the office of sir. Tur •
q sand, Guilihall• chambers, Basinghall-sireet.
G. F. Arnold, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, carpenter,
3s. 2d., on Wednes lay, Dec. 20, and three subsequent
Wednesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the
office of Mr. Turqaand, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-
street.

J. Eckstein, Notting-hill, ironmonger, *l., on Wed-
nesday, Dec. 20, and three subsequent Wedm sdays, be-
tween the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. 'Tur-
quand., Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
J. Webber, Wood-street, Che-apside, warehouseman,
Bd., on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and three subsequent Wed-
nesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office
of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basin.: hall street.
W. Watts, Ashton under-L3 ne, draper, 55., on every
Tuesday, betwo n the hours of ten and one, at the ffice
of Mr. Hobson, Manchester.
J. Acomb, Blackburn, Lancashire, and York, draper,
55., on every Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one,
at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester.
E. Edmunds, Lowndes street, and St. George's place,
Knightsbridge, hosier and glover, 24d., on Thursday,
Dec. 21, and three following Thursdays, between the
hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld,
King's Arms-yard, Moorgate street.
S. Solomon, Strand, tailor, 4d., on Thursday, Pee 21,
and three following Thursdays, Letwcen the hours of
twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, King's
Arms-yard, Moorgate- street.
W. Maunder, Peel place, Kensington Gravel-pits,
baker, 2s. 6d., on Thursday, Dec. 21, and three fol-
lov+ing Thursdays, between the hours of twelve and
three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, King's Arms-yard,
Moorgate-street.
T. Blenitarn, Chancery-lane, law stationer, 6s. Bd., on
Thursday, Dec. 21, and three following Thursday, be-
tween the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr.
Stansfeld, King's Arms•yard, Moorgate-street.
IL H. Marshall, Plymouth, draper, third dividend, 6d.,
on Thursday, Dec. 21, and three following Thursdays,
between the hours of twelve and three, at the office
of Mr. Stansfeld, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street.
J. D. Hill, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, seed merchant,
Is., on Friday, Dec. 22, or any subsequent Friday, be-
tween the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Carrick, Hull.

J. Harper, Dudley, Worcestershire, and Walsall, Tip-
ton, and Bilaton, all in Staffordshire, mercer and draper
45., Tuesday, Dec. 26, and any jibsequent Tuesday, be-
tween the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr,
Fraser, Manchester.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

J. Hubbard, Dorking, Surrey, linendraper, Jan. 10, at
eleven—l. Battie, Eriih, Kent, licensed victualler, Jan.
10, at one—J. C. Chappell, Great Marlborough-•street,
surgeon, Jan. 11, at eleven—W. Bignell, Cudicute, Here-
fordshire, tailor and draper, Jan. 11, at eleven—J.
Evans, Gilbert-street, Oxford-street, wine merchant,
Jan. 11, at eleven—J. R. Mann, Adam-street, Adelphi,
lithographic printer, Jan. 11, at eleven—W. Shackell,
Regent's Canal, St. Pancras, and Hammersmith, coal tar
and naptha manufacturer, Jan. 12, at twelve.
In the Country.
C. Turk, Stow-in-the-Weld, Gloucestershire, inn-
holder, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—
W. Smith, jun., Stockton, Durham, manufacturer of
earthenware, Jan. 12, at eleven, at the Court, New-
castle-upon-Tyne—R. Kay, Tottingtiam Lower-end,
Lancashire, corn and flour dealer, Jan. 12, at twelve, at
the Court, Manchester—N. Denton, Gorton, Lancashire,
hat manufacturer, Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—M. Sibsen, the Grove, near Wrexham,
Denbighshire, cattle and sheep dealer, Jan. 10, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—W. Martin, Birkenhead, inn-
keeper, Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—
H. Glynn, Liverpool, broker, Jan. 10, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool.
At the Court of Review, Jan. 9.
J. Betts, Winchester, upholsterer and cabinet maker
1). G. Porter, Great Tower- street, wine merchant--W.
11. Stray, Lambeth-walk, hat manufacturer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Rigg and J. Bottomley, Bradford, Yorkshire,
worsted stuff manufacturers—W. Jones and S.
Rad!ord, Liverpool, rupemakers—Mary Murray,
Emma , Jessie Russell, and Ann Orr, Port-
man-street, Portman-square, dress makers M.
Bromhead and J. Merryshaw, Brooks- market, butchers
—J. Poyser and S. Poyser, junior, Manchester,
engravers—G. Von Zablensky and E. A. Von Dorp,
Great St. Helen's, merchants— J. Taylor and T. Briggs,
Milnethorpe, Westmoreland, flax and tow spinners—C.
M. Crooks and J. R. Stree, Buckingham-street, Strand,
licensed victuallers—W. Wader and T. Livsey, Roch-
dale, brassfounders—G. Knight and J. Knight, Tewkes-
bury, builders—Mary H. Toms and H. Webber, Ply-
mouth, coach proprietors—W. Butler and J. Hopkins,
A klermanbury and Goulston-square, Whitechapel, wad-
ding manufacturers—W. Wurd and J. Hart, I3ankside,
Southwark, fire brick merchants.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
William Cox, Yatton, Somersetshire, butcher.
Thomas Jones, Wolverhampton.
William North, Wolverhampton, mine agent.
William H. I3iddlecombe, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, pro-
fessor of music.

John Rowe, Manchester, stone mason.
Robert Wilson, Manchester, saddler's labourer.
William Hartin, Worcester, tobacconist.
John William Lewis, Worcester, victualler.
Henry Hubhard, Norwich, labourer.

Thon-iss Bennett, Norwich, upholsterer.
Joseph East, Tealby, Lincolnshire, wheelwright.
John Goulding, Swinathorpe, Lincolnshire, farmer.
Robert Ross, Shaldon, Devonshire, Lieutenant in the
Royal Navy.
Thomas Clarke, Bristol, licensed victualler.
Thomas Parsons, Maidstone, butcher.

John Saunders, Little Dean, Gloucestershire, carpenter.
Thomas Chappell, Denby Dale, Yorkshire, beer-house-
keeper.
George Edward Marston, Sr. Alban's, baker.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
E. Piper, Edinburgh, coach contractor, to meet Dec.
26, and Jan. 15, at twelve, within Du well's Rooms, Edin-
burgh.

J.
Fenton and J. Johnston, Leith, shipowners, to meet
Dec. 22, and Jan, 15, at twelve, within the New Ship
Tavern, Leith.

W. Anderson, Leith, merchant, to meet Dec. 26, and
Jan. 16, at two, within Stevens's Rooms, Edinburgh.
J. Wilson, Airdrie, grocer, to meet Dec. 27, and Jan.
17, at eleven, within the Royal Hotel, Airdrie.
S. M'Kean, Fordo!, Fifeahire, merchant, to meet Dec.
26, and Jan. 16, at twelve, within Mrs. Hunt's New Inn,
Dunfermline.

A. Angus, Batbgato, merchant, to meet Dec. 28, and
Jan. 18, at one, within the Star and Garter Hotel, Lin-
lithgow,

Lloyd and H. Simpson, Edinburgh, wholesale
stationers, to meet Dec. 25, and Jan. 15, at two, within
the Commission and General Sale Rooms of P. S. Fraser,
Edinburgh.

is 3d, good and fine Is 4d to 3s 3d; Hyson ord and mid
Is to is 10d, good to fine 2s to 3s 4d; Hyson skin 8d to
Is 6d; Twankay ord 3d to 4d, better sort 6d to Is, and
Cai er 7d to Is 6d. Other sorts of Tea are not much
wanted, low as prices are—Orange Pekoe of low and
mid quality can be purchased at 7d to Is, good and fine
set nted Is 3d to 2s; Pekoe black leaf 6d to is 9d,
fiosery is to 3s. Prices are still under those of this
time last year, and dealers in both town and country hold
limited stocks.
RICE.—To day there was no public sale of East India
Rice, and privately little business was done, still lower
rates are not taken.
Sabo.—The quantity offered at public auction has
been 660 cases and 425 bags; fine white Pearl went at
the high rates of 24s to 263. Other sorts, however,
were only in moderate demand, and a part sold. Sago
Flour has been dealt in eith caution, and prices are on
the decline : of 650 bags offered at auction a part only
sold. Tapioca is cht aper. Farina is dull of sale.
SPIRITS.—The value of Cognac best br4nds of the
vintage of 1845, is 5s to 5s 2d, 1846 ditto 4s 8d to 4s 10d,
1847 ditto, 3s 8d to 3a 10d, inferior 3s to 3s 4d, Bor-
deaux 2s 2d to 2, Bd, Spanish 2s to 2s 4d, and French 50
per cent over proot 2s to 2s Id. Geneva is :till only
in limited demand, export strt at is 10d, and fine for
home use 2s 4d to 3s per gallon. British made spirit is
quoted at 108 per gallon cash, which, is a reduced price
To-day several parcels of Rum were sold, proof Lee-
wards at 23 41 to is sd, East India Is 3id, Demerara
30 to 38 over 2s to 2s 4d, Jamaica 2s 8d to 3s Bd, fine
and very surerior 3s 9d to 4s 6d per gallon.
SALTPETRE.—To-day Calcutta was less in demand,
and 1,592 bags at auction were only in part sold, still
full rates were obtained ; fine grey 34- per cent. re-
f, action went at 27s to 27s 6d, 3:4 ditto 275, middling
9i to 9i per c,nt. 265, 15 ditto 25s 6,1, not refracted 23s
to 26s per cwt.
FRUIT.—To-day there was a material falling off in the
demand for all sorts of Fruit, and as supplies were large,
prices suffer a depression. Prime Valencia Raisins will
not fetch above 36s per cwt. At public sale 4,912 pkgs
of Muscatel Raisins were offered, and a very small part
only sold at 46s to 60s, better sort 80s to 105 s ; 123 bskts
Denia damaged-_ went at 22s ; 175 bxs Jordan Almonds
withdrawn 6110 s to 61 16s; 12,107 drums 192 bxs Turkey
pulled Figs a small part sold 48-s to 655, better sort 70a
to 90s; 189 drums Sultana Raisins 67s to 68s; 1,629
plegs Valencia old 265, new sound 34s to 355, but of in-'
ferior quality; 100 boxes of Sunn 335; 1,100 cases of
Eleme 38s to 425; 389 pkgs Prunes 20s to 255; 55 bls
Faro soft-shell Almonds taken in at 50s; 100 bskts Nor-
mandy Pippins 565; 55 bxs Grapes 225; 94 pkgs Patras
Currants, a few lots only sold, new 34s to 375; 4 pkgs
Zante, new 33s to 355; and 905 pkgs Cephalonia 35s
per cwt.

COCHINEAL.—This afternoon all kinds met with
greater attention ; 150 bags Honduras at public sale
were all sold—ordinary and middling silvers 3s 10d to
4s, good and fine 4s Id to 4s 6d, black, tine, and good,
5s Id to 5s 6d ; and 48 bags Mexican—good silvers
3s 9d to 3s 10d per lb. These rates are Id to 2d per lb.
above those current on this day week fur low and
middling silvers—all other kinds realising fully former
prices.

SPICES.—There is 'a better supply of Nutmegs at a
decline of 2d per lb. At public sale 32 cases found
buyers; fine went at 3s 3d.to 3s:6d, good 2s 10d to 3s 2d,
middling 2s 5d to 2s 9d, small 2s 3d to 2s 4d, mouldy
Is 6d to is Bd, slightly mouldy 2s 8d to 3s 4d, and
wormy 7d to is Id. Of limed a small portion only
of 28 packages was disposed of ; fine bold at 2s Bd,
good 2s 5d to 2s 6d; 6 bags in the shell went at is 3d.
For Mace full rates are obtained, and there is a good
demand. At auction 38 cases were nearly all sold,
ord at is 10d, mid Is lid co 2s Id, good 2s 6d, blood
red slightly mouldy Is lid to 2s, mouldy is Bd.
Of Pimento the supply is getting larger, and as there
is not much demand prices have suffered a further
depression of kd per lb. At auction a part only of 384
bags found buyers; good quality at 4id to 44d, mid 4d,
and damaged 31c1 per lb. There is much duiness in the
market for Ginger. Jamaica is quoted at from 21 to 6/
10s, fine 71 to 101, African 28s to 30s, Barbadoes 28s to
295, East India home trade kinclBos to 903, and shipping
sort 23s to 255. For Cinnamon there are few buyers,
and prices are looking down for most sorts. For Cassia
Lignea prices are still uncertain, as there is none
here, but a large parcel is near at hand. 125 bags
of Bourbon Cloves sold at bid to 7d for middling
arid good, and ordinary 6d; 1,324 bags Malabar Ginger

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255, damaged 17s to 20s 6d. Black Pepper has met with
a better &mend; 1,722 bags Malabar Pepper sold at
stiller rates; 41 bags of White Sound, 41-d; 50 bags of
I Pod taken in at 50s to 565; 144 boxes Preierved Ginger

sold at 10d to 1Id; 53 cases of Preserved Nutmegs 2s
to 2s Id; 27 packages Malabar Cinnamon sold 3id to 4d;
96 boxes of Cayenne Pepper, damaged 2d to Is lcli; one
lot sound at Is Bd.

01La.—Although Palni can be obtained at a further
reduction still buyers do business with caution, and fine
is not more than 31s per cwt. At public sale 99 casks
were sold at from 25s 6d to 28s 9d for low to mid.
Cocoa Nut is yet little wanted, and further parcels have
ce•me to hand. Rapeseed is in good demand, and at
firm rates; pale selling at 36s to 36s 611, brown 35s 6d
to 365, and pale Foreign at 37s to 38g. Linseed is held
with firmness, and home buyers have made purchase s
to a lair extent. Olive finds a more ready sale, still
better rates are not to be obtained, as further arrivals
are near at hand. Lard Oil is in fair demand at 46s
to 48s for exportation, and American 42a to 445.
Ground Nut is worth 325, and there are few buyers.
There is no improvement to record in the position of
business in common Fish Oils, although imports have
been light for several days past, and home trade deli-

veries upon a fair scale. For Sperm the market has s

a firm aspect, and a good demand exists. Fine Colonia

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realises 841 to 851 per tun.

TALLOW.—A further decline is visible in the value
of Russia❑ on the spot, and the amount of business con-
cluded has been small for all purposes. The
rates accepted are 43s 61 to 43a 9d for fine P.Y.
Candle. Fcr the early part of next year few buyers
are nak t with, and sellers are willing to accept
43s 3d. Home made is cheaper, and is offered at
44s net cash, yet little business hes been concluded, and
the
.supply is plentiful. Other sorts of Tallow met with
little attention, and are d, pressed in value. At auction
1 012 packages of South American were sold at 39s 3d
to 425, better sort 42s 6d to 43s 6d; 294 ditto of New
South Wales, low to fine 39s 3d to 43a; 31 ditto North
American were withdraw❑ at 40.5; 50 casks Cape were
sold, fine 43s 9d to 445, and 40 casks of Italian at 41s per
cwt. For public sale the quantity declared is 800 pkgs.
Rough Fat is readily offered at 2s 6d per cwt.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

IPSWICH, DEC. 19.

Our wheat market was in a very heavy state to-day.
Millers not inclined to purchase without a reduction of
2s .per quarter. Malting barley scarcely so good in
value as the past week; other cotalities cheaper. Oats
steady. Beans and peas is to 2s lower. Late prices for
malt arc barely maintained. Flour looking downward in
price.

PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER.
Wheat 4os to 50s Beans 283 to 323
Barley 2ss to 32 Peas 29s to 37s
Oats. 2os to 25s Malt . 505 to 56s
Rye.. ....... 28s to 30s Flour, per sack 403 to 453
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 16.
Wheat 2,063 quarters at 48s 9d.
Barley
Oats
Beans BO 30s ltd.
Peas ll7 „ 36s 41.
HULL, DEC. 19.
Messrs. Taylor and Brig hts circular states that the bu-
siness in every article of the trade has been most limited
during the past week, and in every respect unsatisfac-
tory. To-day's market was met by a large supply of
home grown wheat, the bulk in bad condition; farmers
were rather anxious sellers, and this, added to a previous
disinclination to buy on the part of millers, made the
trade very heavy, and 2sjto 3s less hail to be submitted to
a here sales. were effected for the damp wheats—good
wheat was barely lower. More inquiry for good foreign
wheat, but at low prices; the bulk of our stock being
chambered, is virtually withdrawn for the present. In-
ferior wheats are almost unsaleable, though offered on
very low terms. Barley remains very dull, and low
prices are taken for both malting and grinding qualities;
a good deal of Saal is going to granary. Beans, though
offered low, are a drug unless quite hard and dry.
The bulk of our supply is new foreign, generally soft in
quality. Nothing doing in either oats or any kind of
peas. Linseed and linseed cakes unaltered in value.
Rapeseed more inquired for, but cakes difficult to sell.
Good bones are fair sale.

The following are the present prices of grain :
8. t.. Linseed cakes, English, per
Wheat, red
Do. new do 42 44 Do. foreign, do 7l to 815 s
Do. white 46 50 Rape cakes, do ..87s 6d
Do. new do 45 48 Bones, do 85s Od to 873 6d
Do. Dantzic ..... ... 50 54 Guano 4/ to 9153
Do. Lower Baltic & FOREIGN GRAIN IN BOND.
Harnburgh . 42 46 The free prices
Barley,malting 26 28 duty.
Do. grinding..
Oats... l6 22 Do. Lower Baltic & Hamburgh
Do. Danish
Do.Friesland lB 21 Barley, Saal and Magdeburg
Do. Russian
Beans 3O 33 Oats, Russian
Do. foreign 2B 34 Do. Danish and Pomeranian...
Peas
Linseed, crushing 34 38 40 Do. do. feed
Do. feeding
Rapeseed, per 10 qrs. 241 to 26/ Peas
HULL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN OF THE

less current

WEEK ENDING DECEMBER. 12.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
660 Qrs at 47s Od 315 at 30s 9d I 119, at 17s 5d
Rye. Beans. Peas.
I
0 Qrs at Os Od 00 at 00s Od 0 at Os Od
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—There is no alteration in the
duties this week. The arrivals from Ireland and coast-
wise during the past week, were very limited; from
Canada there were good supplies of peas and flour; and
from foreign ports they are large of wheat (5,46' quar-
ters of which are from Egypt) and flour. The exports
in tho same time amount to 1,210 quarters of wheat,
10.726 quarters of Indian corn, 74 barrels of corn meal,
313 sacks and 3,183 barrels of flour. There has been a
moderate consumptive demand for the leading articles of
the trade, and prices of wheat, flour, oats, and oatmeal
have not materially varied. Barley, beaus, and peas—
probably in consequence of the mild weather—have been
slow in rt quest at about previous rates. Indian corn
was in less request, and the few buyers that appeared
had a slight advantage. We did not hear of much
bonded wheat being offered, but there were a good many
inquiries for it, and the few sales mad.) were at ld to 2d
per 701 b advance. Bonded flour was dearer, 26s being
realised for Western Canal. This day's market was
petty well attended, but the depressed accounts from
Mark-lane caused the transactions to be very limited for
all kinds of free produce. Wheat gave way Id to 2d
per 701 b, and flour 6d per barrel and Is per sack. Oats,
being scarce, enpported previous rates; but oatmeal Was

rather lower and extremely difficult to sell. Englig
malting barley was scarce, and saleable at our quotations;
but the demand for other kinds was quiet in retail, and
prices a little easier. Beans and peas were scarcely
asked for, and the value nominal. Indian corn and oat-
meal were likewise in very slow request. although of-
fered at is to is 64 per 480Ib, and is per barrel &cline.
There was less activity in the d, wand for bonded wheat
and and fl,,ue, and few sales reported. 7s per 701 b was of
and refused for American white wheat, and 25a 6il
per barrel was accepted for Western Canal flour.
LEEDS, DEC. 19.—We are largely supplied with grain
bere to day. There is av• ry limited demand for all ar-
ticles, and upon the little buainess passing a decline of !s
to 2s per qr was submitted to. There was a very this
attendance of merchants at our cloth halls this morning,
and the business done was correapondingly small. The
goods which changed lian,!s were a few wool. d) ed blacks
and woaded blues, with a few cloakings for assortment..
"rites remained firm.
lIECHMONDWIKE, DEC. 19.—Thera was an improved
attendance of merchants at the Blanket-ball this after-
noon; and a little more business was done for exportg-
lion; but as regards t!,e home trade, the buyers pur-
chased sparingly, and chiefly to keep up assortments of
stock.

SALISBURY MARKET, DEC. 19.—Although this was
not what is usually denominated the large market day,
it was much better supplied and attended than generally,
from its being so near Christmas. The shows of Messrs.
Smith, Marlowe, White, and other city butchers, were
greatly admired for the great quantity of splendid meat
exhibit( d for sale : the prices asked were from Id to 2d
pur lb under the charges of last Christmas. Sates were
good at from 7i I to 8d per lb for both beef and mutton
of best quality, and from 6d to 7d for second-rate ditto.
The Pig market was crowded with both fat and lean
swine; the former sold at 9s to lOs per score, the latter
were of dull sale, at a reduction of 2s each. A great
quantity of veal from Dorsetshire sold at 8s 6d per score
.
pounds. Dead fat pigs, large and small, were also la
great number, selling at from 8s to 9s 6d per score ; the
greater proportion was purchased by Smitn and Daps
for Newgate market. Cheese was in good supply and In
fair demand.. The best double Somerset and North
Wilts sold freely at from 64s to 7Gs per cwt; second rate
ditto and Dorsets at from 54s to 56s ditto; best single
new ditto, 50s to 52s ditto ; half-cowards of best qua'
lity, 56s to 48s ditto; poor ditto, 44s ditto ; best skins
were disposed of at 30s ditto; ditto common ditto 26s to
28s ditto; American at from 44s to 45s ditto. Best po-
tatoes were sold at from lOs to 12s per sack of three
bushels; common and small ditto, 8s ditto.
CORK, DEC. 18.—Flour—First quality, 16s to 171;
second ditto, 14s 6d to 15s 6d; household, 11s to 14s;
third ditto, 9s to lOs per cwt. Oatmeal, 12s to 12s 6d per
cwt. Indian corn, 81 lOs to 8115 s; Indian meal, 91'5s to
91 lOs per ton. Bran, 415 s to Si 5s per ton. Hay—
Farmers', 25s to 46s Od; average, 38s ; retailers', 42s to
48s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Far-
mers', 12s to 28s; average, 203; retailers', 30s to 005
per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, 25 over proof,
6s 3d per imperial gallon. Bread, 6id to 8d per 41bs.
Fresh butter, 10d to lid per lb. Beef, 3d to 6d; mut-
ton, 3id to 5d ; veal, 3i-d to 4kd; pork, sid to 7d';
bacon, 6id to 9d; sausages, 5d per lb. Coals--New-
port, 17s; Lydney, 18s. Culm, 16s per ton. Potatoes,
white, lid to 13d; Minions, 18d. Hides—Market ditto,
Ils to 17s; salted ditto, 123 to 17s per cwt; market !dons,
2d to 24c1; calf ditto, 2d to 2/d; veal skins, 3d to 3d
-per lb. Tar—Archangel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebec
red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 31; deal, 171 to 20/per
hundred ; Bangor Queens, 31 2s 6d per ton. Scotch
herrings,l9s to 20s per barrel; Norway ditto, 001.. New-
foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 121 lOs per ton. Tallow,
475. Wool, 10s-to 12s per stone.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS
BRISTOL, Dac. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was very firm to-day+
and there was an upward tendency in prices. The sales are
—Great Western, Quarters, 3% dis.—Ditto, 171. Shares'
2% dis.—Bristol and Exeter, Original Shares, 35 dis.
LIVERrOOL, DEC. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been firm,
but not so active as yesterday. A good business is doing.
The sales are— Birkectlead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June"
tion, 31/. Shares, 9 g dis.—Caledonian, Preference, % C. 1:477
East Lancashire, 64 Preference, 6A—Great Northern, 104
dis.—Ditto (B Shares), 2 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire
(late Blanchester and Birmingham), Fifths, 3% die'''.
Lancaster and Preston, 9% dis.—London and North'
Western, 123—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto, Quarters
(C), 2'4p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 101..
Preference, 10i4 —Ditto, 201. Shares, 10% dis.—Midland
Stock, 85—Ditto New Halves, dis.--Midland (Mr'
mingham and De'rby), 60—North Staffordshire, 5% die•—•
North union (A), 206—Scottish Central, 26
Eastern and Dover, 244—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 71. 35. 9d...
dis. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase)'
dis. 4—south-

BIRMINGHAM, DEc. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire.
51. Bs. 9d. dis.—North British, Thirds, 4%—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (B), 4 dis.—Ditto, Preference, %
shire Union, W. Is. Bd. dis.—South Staffordshire, 4IA

YORK, DEC. 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day.w"
as follows : —Great Northern, B—North British (Extension)'
No. 1, 44—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension), No.
I, •144—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 1414—Ditto
(G. N. E. Purchase), 7%.
GLASGOW, Disc. 18.

STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, 7%—Glasgow General Terminus, 10—Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, s—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr,
47—Ditto, 5 per cent. guaranteed, 9113k—Ditto, Halves,
No. 1, s—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, s—Glasgow and Greenock,
Halves, 7'4—Great Northern, 81. 3s. 6d.—North British,
Thirds, 91s.—Scottish Central, 26—Wishaw and Colt-
ness,

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evening a tire broke out in the model room of the ex-
tensive premises belonging to Mr. Clayton, engineer and
boiler maker, and which are generally known by the
name of the Soho Foundry. They are situate at the
north end of the town, close upon the canal bank. The
fire was discovered by Mr. Clayton, who, with his book-
keeper, proceeded to the fourth story of the building,
where it appeared to rage, but as they did not succeed
in putting it out they gave an alarm. Within a short
time a number of engines arrived on the spot, and to
consequence of the ample supply the fire was extin-
guished after the destruction of the fourth and fifth
stories of this extensive fabric. The damage done i 5,
estimated at the least at 10,0001., as a vast number of
patterns which have been accumulated for the last fifteen
years have been destroyed. A man of the name of note'
bury met with a severe accident in attempting, with the
assistance of some other labouring men, to remove 11_,
large cog wheel. It unfortunately fell upon his legs and
broke both of them. Very slight hopes are entertained
of his recovery.
CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELL.ERB.—A gentle-
man, who had left this town on the preceding day, had
his pocket picked on Wednesday last, at the railway
station, Birmingham, of six 50/. Bank of England notes,
dated Newcastle, 19th August, 1845, and bearing the
numbers from 3,456 to 3,461, inclusive, together with
601. in 5/. notes, in a pocket-book. The payment of the
notes has been stopped. The police have been informed
of the circumstances, and are now on the alert to dis-
cover the thief.—Newcastle Journal.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Ipswich, the wife of the Rev. George
Jackson, Chaplain of her Majesty's ship Ocean, of a son.
On the 15th inst., at Stonehouse, Plymouth, the lady 0
Captain John Foote, jun., of her Majesty's ship Rosamond,
of a son.
On the 15th inst., at Broad Oak, Accrington, the wife of
John Hargreaves, Esq., of a eon.
On the 16th inst., at Montague-street, Russell-square, Mrs.
John Philpot, of a son.
On the 17th inst., the wife of Henry Barrett Lennard, Egl•
of Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Stationers'-hall, Mrs. Greenhill, of A
daughter..

MARRIED.
On the 14th inst., at Long Melford, Suffolk, the Rev
Charles Chapman, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridg
and vicar of Prescot, Lancashire, to Mary, eldest daughter 0
the late Richard Westhorp, Esq., of Long Melford.
; On the 16th inst., at Enfield Church, Robert Bruce Ken-
nard, Esq., to Ann Grace, eldest daughter of John Davies,
Esq., of Devonshire-square and Enfield.