The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 301_ lB4B.

CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.

Tuesday a Court was held.
Mr. Deputy STEVENS gave notice that he should, at
the next Court, move for the appointment of a special
committee to inquire into the question of procuring a
cheaper supply of gas to the city of London.
An application was made for permission to lay down
a sample of Welsh stone as pavement in the Poultry.
The petitioners stated that the article was twice as
durable as the York stone, so that for the 20 years which
the latter might stand the Welsh stone would last 40
years.—Referred to the surveyor for examination.
Some conversation took place upon the subject of pre-
venting the continuance of what appeared to be a regu-
lar system of obstruction in Love-lane, which was stated
to be frequently blocked up with baskets and trucks,
&c., by tradespeople, in such a manner as to make the
difficulty of ingress or egress, as regarded the market,
insuperable. It was finally resolved that the inspectors
should warn the parties who caused the obstructions to
remove them upon pain of being made liable to the in-
fliction of the Green-yard expenses, and other penalties.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 29.
FALSE IMPRISONMENT-OSTERMAN V. EATEMAN.

In this case, which had not concluded when our After-
noon Edition went to press yesterday, the jury, after an
absence of an hour, returned into court with a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT. _ _ _

William Hill, 32, plumber, was indicted for feloniously
cutting and wounding his wife, Sarah Hill, with intent
to do her grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson appeared
for the prisoner.
The prosecutrix deposed that the prisoner was her
husband, but they had separated, and she had gone to
reside with her mother at Woolwich, and assisted her to
carry on her business of a fruiterer. About eleven
o'clock at night on the 18th of November she had been
engaged in the shop, and was outside talking to a person
named William Hammond, when the prisoner walked by,
and as he passed made use of an opprobrious expres-
sion to her. About a quarter of an hour afterwards he
went by again, and she observed that he had a knife in
his hand, and when he got close to her he made a stab at
her breast, but the knife struck the steel in her stays,
and the point was broken. She fell from the violence
of the blow, and the prisoner again attempted to stab
her, and she received a wound on one of her fingers.
Cross-examined—She' had been obliged to leave the
prisoner because he would not support her, and he had
been the means of getting her turned out of two houses
which she had provided for herself, by his extravagance
and getting into debt. Mr. Hammond was merely a
customer of her mother, and there was not the least
ground for supposing that there was any improper inti-
macy between them, and the prisoner had never quar-
relled with her on his account. The prisoner appeared
to have been drinking at the time he assaulted her, but
he knew perfectly well what he was about. Her husband
was very angry with her because she would not allow
him to come and live at her mother's. She had offered
to go and live with him in any home he might provide
for her, if it was only one room, but she would not let
him be a charge to her mother, who had enough to do to
support herself.
Some other evidence was adduced confirmatory of the
evidence of the prosecutrix, and the constable who took
the prisoner into custody said that as they were going to
the station•house he told him that he " meant to stab
the —."

Mr. ROBINSON, in addressing the jury for the prisoner,
said, it was a lamentable thing to see a husband and
wife appearing in a court of justice under such circum-
stances as had been detailed before the jury; but he
submitted that upon the evidence the jury would not be
justified in convicting the prisoner of a felonious assault.
He would not attempt to insinuate that there was any
ground for supposing an improper intimacy existed be-
tween the prosecutrix and Mr. Hammond, but it was
clear that thei prisoner was aggravated by seeing his
wife talking to that person, and, in a sudden fit of jea-
lousy, he committed an assault upon her, but without
the felonious intention imputed to him by the present
indictment. _ _ _

The LORD CHIEI JUSTICE, in summing up, said it
was very possible that such a motive as that alluded to
by the Learned Counsel had actuated the prisoner, but
there did not appear to be the slighest foundation for
such a suspicion, and, even if it was well founded, it
would afford no justification for a husband to take the
law into his own hands and carry out his feelings of
vengeance by an act of this description. A violent as-
sault had certainly been committed, and it was for the
jury to say whether the prisoner, at the time he com-
mitted the act, contemplated the felonious intention im-
puted to him.
The jury, after a short deliberation, found the pri-
soner Guilty of an assault, and acquitted him of the
fel. ny.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, told the prisoner
that his conduct had been most disgraceful, and in order
to protect his wife from violence in future, and as an
example to others in a similar position, he felt it neces-
sary to pass a severe sentence upon him, which was, that
he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years,
and at the expiration of his imprisonment he should
require him to enter into his own recognizance in 1001..
and two sureties in 501. each, to keep the peace for two
years.
Elizabeth Rogers, 26, Isabella Jennings, 30, and John
Jennings, 23, were indicted for steeling a silver teapot,
coffeepot, two silver waiters, 24 forks, 42 spoons. and
other articles of plate, of the value of nearly 200/., the
property of Cranston George Ridout.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, Mr. Ballantine defended Ro-
gers, and the others had no counsel.
It appeared from the evidence in the case that the pro-
secutor, who is a retired military officer, resided at No. 11,
Wimpole-street, and on the 29th of August he had made
pre pe.rations for leaving town, and had packed up his
plate and placed it in a clout, resolving, contrary to
his. usual custom, to allow it to remain in the house
daring his absence, instead of sending it to his banker's,
which had always thereto.bre been his custom. The pri-
soner Rogers was engaged as housemaid in the family,
and the other prisoners stood in the position of sister and
brother-in-law to her, but the prosecutor was not aware
that she had any such relations, and when he left town
he gave her permission to allow another married sister
to visit her, but forbade any one else being admitted
to the house. The precise period when the robbery
was committed was not very clearly made out, but it vas
shown that very soon after the prosecutor and his family
left London the Jenningses frequently,went to the house,
and upon several occasions bundles were seen to he
removed by the female prisoners, and taken away in a
cab, and the woman Jennings was proved to have pawned
a considerable portion of the stolen plate at different
pawnbrokers' shops, giving false names. It further ap-
peared, as against the prisoner Rogers, that on the 2d of
October she called in the police, and stated that the
house had been robbed, telling a very lame story upon
the subject, and denying that the other prisoners had
ever been to visit her during her master's absence. It
likewise appeared that when Jennings's wife was taken
into custody her husband went to a person named Os-
born, and told him that he had committed the robbery
himself, and that he had buried the plate, but he should
say nothing about it until he was in custody, and then
he would say where the plate was hid, in order that it
might be obtained, for the purpose, as he said, " to pay
counsel." He afterwards, however, said that,it was not
he who had buried the plate, but another person; but he
said he did not know where to find that person. Several
other facts were also deposed to which left no reasonable
doubt of the guilt of the whole of the prisoners.
The jury, after a short deliberation in the box, ex-,
pressed a wish to retire, and they were absent nearly
an hour, when they gave a verdict of Guilty against all
the prisoners, but recommended the women to mercy,
upon the ground that they had been led into the com-
mission of the offence by their male companion.—Sen-
tence was deferred.

NE W COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Jeremiah Burke, aged 48, a labourer, was indicted for
stealing a ream of paper, valued at 165., the property of
Charles James Jeffreys, and John liuddard, a grocer,
was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have
been stolen.

The prosecutor, who is a music publisher, stated that
the prisoner Burke was a porter in the employ of a
printer engaged by him, and a part of his duty was to
fetch paper from his (witness's) warehouse to be printed
upon. Baying a suspicion that he was being robbed, he
watched Burke on the 4th of November, and saw him
take two reams of music paper away. Witness followed
for some distance, until Burke turned up a court, and
ho then went on to the printer, and awaited the arrival
of Burke, who shortly came, having only one ream
with him. When witness asked him where the other
ream was, he said he had dropped it in the mud, but
subsequently admitted he had stolen it, and begged for
mercy. He then gave information, which led witness to
a small grocer's shop in Crown-street, Soho, where he
found the other ream, hidden between some barrels and
canisters. Amongst some other paper found by the
police was some music-paper, which resembled some
that had belonged to him, made into sugar bags. Hud-
dard was then taken into custody, but admitted to bail,
and this day surrendered to take his trial.
Mr. BALLANTINE, for the defence, said that he was
instructed to deny that the paper had been feloniously
received. The fact was that the prisoner turke had
entered his client's shop, and, laying the paper down,
requested he might be allowed to leave it for a short
time, and that a person who was in the shop being served
had moved the paper to where it was found. The
Learned Counsel then called a respectable woman named
Scott, residing in Crown-street, who corroborated this
statement, adding, that she moved the paper that it
might be out of the way of a child who was in the shop.
Two witnesses were called, who gave lluddard a good
character, and, a written statement put in by Burke cor-
roborating the defence, the jury Acquitted him.
The prosecutor having recommended Burke to mercy,
he was sentenced to three months' imprsonment.
James Howes pleaded guilty to stealing property be-
longing to the Great Western Railway Company, his
masters.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said, they had but one duty
to perform where servants of large companies robbed
their employers, and that was to make an example of all
so convicted.
He was then sentenced to seven years' transportation.
Henry Savage, aged 19, was indicted for stealing a
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niously receiving bread and boots, knowing the same to
have been stolen.
Savage pleaded guilty, and it appeared that he lived
in the service of the prosecutor, who is a schoolmaster,
and Dickens (who is a very simple-looking little fellow,
and stood in the dock seemingly unconscious of what ho
was placed there for) is his nephew. The only evidence
of the guilty knowledge against the boy was, that he
was seen seated in a field, and had the things in question
in his possession, and, when asked what he was doing,
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Acquitted the child.
The COMMoN-SERGEANT AN T told the constables that they
would get themselves into a mess if they
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prehending boys in that went about
way and advised them to be
cautious for the future.

Savage w•as then sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment.

Four strong able-bodied fellows, whose ages varied
from eighteen to twenty-four, were indicted for stealing
three loaves of bread, the property of Thomas Vooght.
They pleaded guilty.
It appeared that the prisoners, who had just come out
of the union, had gone into the prosecutor's shop and
taken the bread, which they at once divided and com-
menced devouring.
One of the prisoners handed in a written state-
ment, and
The COMMON-SERGEANT, after perusing it, said he
wished Government were made acquainted with its con-
tents, and then they would know the meaning of such
offences. The reasons assigned by the prisoners for the
commission of the offence was, that they only received
eight ounces of bread in the union, which was not half
what they had had in the prison hat morning. It was
very evident that they considered they would be better
kept in goal. They were all able-bodied paupers, and
to imprison such as they were was but to hold out an
encouragement to persons to commit such offences to be
kept in gaol, where he, for one, thought the prisoners
were too well fed; he knew they were much better fed,
and had more of the necessaries of life, than many poor
hardworking honest labourers. The fact was pretty well
known that persons got bread enough in a gaol, and not
in an union.

Having consulted with the Judges, ho added that he
did not think there would be any punishment so bene-
ficial to the ends of public justice, and which would
so well serve to check such offences, as the punishment
he was about awarding them, which was, that they be
imprisoned four days in Newgate and then discharged,
but that they previously be all well whipped.
The prisoners seemed exceedingly chapfallen at the
sentence.
Henry Muitz Goldschntidt was indicted for forgery.
The prisoner, a gentlemanly-looking foreigner, was
described as an agent. The case had been remanded
from last session.

The prosecutor not being in attendance,
The COMMON SERGEANT inquired where he lived, and
asked the reason of his non-attendance?
The officer said he resided in Fleet-street, and it was
evident he did not mean to attend, as he had called on
him several times.

--
The CommoN SEBGEANT directed an Acquittal, and,
in estreating the prosecutor's recognizances, directed
them to be returned with a special endorsement of the
officer's statement upon them.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

William Hart, a servant employed at the University
Club-house, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, by
James Gould, 76, F division, charged with obstructing
him in the execution of his duty.
The complainant stated that about three o'clock in
the afternoon he was on duty in New-street, Covent-
garden, when, observing the thoroughfare obstructed by
a number of carts, and a cab, which was unattended, he
inquired of persons standing by where the driver was,
and was informed that he had just gone into a hosiery
shop with the prisoner, who had been riding in the cab.
The moment he proceeded to take the number on the
plate the cabman came out of the shop, and on his calling
him to account for leaving the vehicle unattended in
such a narrow thoroughfare, the prisoner rushed out of
the same shop and said " D— you, how dare you take
the number of that cab; the driver has been em-
ployed by me." Witness told him that he was
obliged to do so, the driver not being present to take
care of the cab and horse; upon which he re-
replied, " You are a thing—you don't know your duty;"
which immediately caused a crowd to assemble, and,
although some gentlemen pressed the prisoner to go
away without more interference, and also witness re-
peatedly desired him to cease using offensive language,
he still persisted to conduct himself in the same manner
until he was taken into custody.
The prisoner denied having made use of any improper
expression, but hearing the complainant call the cabman
to an account, he remonstrated, saying that he was the
person who was in fault, and then the complainant ad-
dressed him in very offensive terms.
A young man who was driving a cart proved that
when the prisoner expostulated in the mildest terms
with the complainant for taking the number, he said,
" Get away, you pumped-up Johnny," which caused the
prisoner to tell him that he ought to be taught his duty.
John Stevens, the nab-driver, said that on his return
from the shop, where he had not been three minutes, he
apologised to the constable, seeing him take the number,
and upon the prisoner interfering the constable used the
words imputed to him by the last witness, at the same
time placing himself before the prisoner in such a man-
car as to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace.
Thomas Jepps, a tailor, who said he watt a stranger to
both parties, proved that the constable's conduct was
very harsh towards the prisoner, having pushed him
along and seized him by the collar, in such a manner
that he was obliged to hold his hat to prevent it fall-
ing off.
In answer to the magistrates, the complainant said he
had been in " the force" only seven months.
Me. HENRY said he could entertain no doubt of the
truth of the evidence given by witnesses, who could Lave
no interest in the matter, respecting the offensive words
used by the constable, who had no right to take the pri-
son, r into custody, although ho was justified in taking
the number of the cab, which, it had been admitted by
the driver, was left unattended.

The prisoner was then discharged.
LAMBETH.

[ For some weeks past a great deal of the time of the
magistrates of this court has been occupied in hearing
summonses taken out at the instance of the trustees of
the Surrey and Sussex Trust against parties passing
through the Vauxhall gates without paying the usual
toll, under the plea of exemption.
It appears that about eighteen months ago a discovery
was made by an individual that all vehicle, might pass
to and from the Nine-elms station of the South-Western
Railway without the payment of toll, and the ingenious
discoverer at once made application to the then lessees
of these tolls for 5001. as the price for his silence. The
lessees finding that his representations were correct,
deemed it their interest to allow him 301. a month, and
this sum was regularly paid up to the time at which their
lease expired. The lessees declined to retake the tolls
on two grounds—the first was the awkward discovery
above alluded to; and the second, that the passenger
traffic was about to be removed from Nine-elms station
to that of Waterloo-road, and the consequence was
that the gates were left on the hands of the trustees.
These gentlemen, on assuming the power, discharged
some of the collectors of the former lessees, and
the consequence was that the right to go to and from
the station without payment oozed out, and the result
will be the loss of some thousands yearly to the trust.
It appears that a street, called Bond-street, which is si-
tuated between the South Lambeth and the Wandsworth
roads, is not included in the trust, nor is Mile-street at
the top; and vehicles coming over Vauxhall-bridge, or
from High-street or Vauxhall-walk, have a right to pass
through the gates into either of those streets without
paying a farthing toll. On reaching the end of Mile-
street, they can also cross the Wandsworth-road, and reach
the Nine-elms station, without travelling 100 yards on
the turnpike-road, and are therefore exempt from toll.
A number of persons claiming the exemption to go into
Bond-street and Mile-street, but who subsequently tra-
versed a greater distance than 100 yards on the turnpike-
road, have been summoned and fined. Amongst the
number was Mr. Daleman, a solicitor, residing at Stock-
well; and from the evidence in his case, it appeared that
on the morning of the 9th of November the coachman of
the defendant, by his master's desire, drove from his re-
sidence at Stockwell into the South Lambeth-road, then
through Mile-street and Bond-street, and returned the
same way in the evening, without paying. 'The defen-
dant was convicted in the full penalty of 51. and costs,
which he at once paid.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Owen Moran and William Jones' were charged with
having been concerned with four others, not in custody,
in committing a criminal assault and robbery upon the
person of a poor widow named Anne Coxfield, living in
Quaker-street, Spitalfields.
The prosecutrix, who was in such a state of debility
and suffering that she was allowed to be seated during
the examination, and was scarcely able to give her evi-
dence, deposed that she obtained a living by selling fish
at a stand is the City, and that shortly after one o'clock
on the preceding morning, while returning to her "home
through Wheeler-street, Spitalfields, she was closely
followed by the prisoner Moran and five other men,
until they reached the end of a dark passage with-
out a thoroughfare, where one of them • suddenly
snatched her basket from her, and ran up the court
with it. She was at the same moment surrounded by
the others, who forced her up the entry, where one
of them struck her a violent blow in the face and
knocked her down, and before she could recover her-
self two or three of the fellows seized her by the shoul-
ders and held her forcibly down, while another of them
proceeded to acts of violence which cannot be described,
and in spite of her screams and struggles completed a
capital offence. She was afterwards assailed in a similar
manner by three of the other ruffians in succession,
during the perpetration of which, upon each occasion,
they placed their hands upon her mouth to stifle her
cries. They next proceeded to rifle her pockets, from
which they abstracted all the money she had, consisting
of a shilling and some halfpence, and were in the act
of stripping off her clothes, when they wore disturbed
by the sound of approaching footsteps, and having torn
off her shawl, the whole of them ran away. Several of
the inhabitants of the court, who were attracted by her
cries, then came to her assistance, and carried her home,
where a surgeon was sent for, and she had ever since
remained in a state of acute suffering from numerous
contusions upon every part of her person.
John Norton, porter to a tabaeconist, stated, that hav-
ing been alarmed by the screams of a woman at the time
in question, he looked through a small aperture in the
woodwork of his house, commanding a view of the en-
trance of the court, where a man was stationed, who
called out " Muzzle her, and stifle her cries;" and the
shrieks were then partially suppressed, as though the
woman's voice had been forcibly stopped. The prisoner
Moran shortly afterwards emerged from the passage
with a large basket, which he placed upon the ground,
and said something to the other man, who disappeared
up the court, and the screams of the woman were vio-
lently renewed fur several minutes, but were ultimately
stopped in the same sudden manner, and the second man,
having returned to the mouth of the court, called the pri-
soner Jones, who also entered the passage, and the same
screams and struggles were again repeated. The whole
of the men soon :afterwards disposed in diircrent direc-
tions, and the prosecutrix was subsequently brought out
of the court by some of the inhabitants, who carried her
away in a state of insensibility.
Sergeant Kelly and police-constable Gifford, of the
H division, stated that in consequence of the description
i the prosecutrix had afforded of the dresi and personal
appearance-of her assailants, on the face of one of whom
she had inflicted in the course of her struggles a severe
laceration with her nails, they succeeded on the pre-
ceding evening in apprehending the prisoners, one of

whom exhibited an extensive abrasion under the eye,
which had been evidently recently inflicted. Both of
them at first denied all participation in the outrage, but
on reaching the station Jones admitted that several
others had been engaged in it, and that he stood by
laughing at them. The prisoners were then searched,
and some halfpence were found upon Jones, one of which
was immediately identified by the prosecutrix, from
some peculiar marks upon it, as having formed a portion
of the money of which she had been robbed after the
perpetration of the outrage.
Neither of the prisoners offered any defence, and they
were ordered to be brought up again in a week for the
completion of the evidence.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS.

An extraordinary meeting of this company was held
yesterday, at the offices, Guildhall-chambers, for the
purpose of confirming the forfeiture of certain shares—
the Earl of Lonsdale in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said, there ware three distinct ways
to proceed in disposing of the forfeited shares. One was
to distribute them rateably among the proprietors who
had paid their calls, but he feared, in the present state of
things, shareholders would not be willing to take them;
the second would be to sell them in the market, but it
was probable there would be no biddors; the third was,
they thought the best, to keep them in reserve, and not
dispose of them until after the shareholders were called
together again, when he hoped the times would be more
favourable. The number of shares forfeited on former
occasions ►ere 1,376, upon which 4,868/. had been paid.
The 2,365 shares the forfeiture of which was now to be
confirmed had 6,4501. paid upon them, making together
11,318/. the amount forfeited.

A resolution confirming the forfeiture of the shares
was then passed, with the understanding that the shares
would not be disposed of until after the next general
meeting.
In answer to questions it was stated that they had ex-
pended up to the present time 152,3001.; that about eight
miles would be opened in February next, and about 17
miles to Ravenglass in the course of next summer; that
about 40,0001. would enable them to complete that length
of line. The amount already received on calls was
159,0001.; they expected to receive 8,0001. from the calls
next month, and about 8,0001. in February, which would
moke 175,0001. They would then be enabled to bring
their borrowing powers into operation. The line would
be about 31 miles in length, :and about 21 miles of it
would be executed for a sum between 6,0001. and 7,0001.
per mile. Every effort had been made to recover the
arrears due on the calls, nothing more could be obtained
from those whose shares had been forfeited.

After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.—An extraordinary
meeting is to be held at Euston-square, on the 13th of
next month, at which it will be proposed to create 26,000
shares, of the nominal value of 251. per share, in the
London and North-Western, to be divided among the
proprietors in the Leeds and Dewsbury, lately amal-
gamated with the London and North-We.Lern; and 5,522
shares, of the nominal value of 301., and a further
number of 23,125, of the like value, together with 18,900,
at 10/., in the London and North-Western, to be appro-
priated among the shareholders of the Huddersfield and
Manchester, also amalgamated with the London and
North-Western.

GREAT NORTHERN.—This company have issued what
are called " market tickets," similar to the return or day
tickets, upon other lines, at reduced rates, to accommo-
date the agriculturists and farmers attending the Louth,
Lincoln, and Boston markets.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—The works on the Great
Britannia Tubular Bridge, which are of twice the stu-
pendous character of those over the river Conway, have
been put in full operation this week, and are already in
an advanced state. The platform for this purpose, across
the Menai Straits alone, is half a mile long, and four
large tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly
completed. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have
to be floated half a mile along the Straits, and then
raised 106 feet home. The total weight to be raised
this height will be 1,800 tons, which is 300 tons more
than the weight of the Great Britain steamer, with her
hulk, rigging, engines, and boilers. The end tubes are
also much advanced, and they are constructed on the
largest mass of scaffolding ever erected. The scaffold or
platform on which they are being put together is 100 feet
high, 230 feet long, and 60 feet broai, capable of sustaining
a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The cast-iron work
of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, and the
elnins used fur raising it will alone weigh 100 tons. It
will be floated on eight pontoons. Two of them are of
iron, 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep, and capa-
ble of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier, rising
out of the water, from the Britannia rock, atter which
the bridge is named, is 62 feet broad, by 53 feet square.
The blocks of stone are seven and eight feet long, and
they rise, stone upoa stone, until the pier is 230 feet
high. There are two other piers of the same elevation,
and the entire length of the tube bridge across the
Straits, is 1,420 feet, or nesrl3 one-third of a mile. The
entire experiments and processes are carried on under the
superintendence of Mr. Edwin Clarke, C.E., who is en-
trusted with them by Mr. Robert Stephenson, the emi-
nent engineer.

ttAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Nov. 29.
_

SrocK EXCHANGE. —The market remains in much the
same state as yesterday. Some business was done in Great
Westerns and Bristol and Exeters at former prices.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-We have not had such a good de-
mand for shares to-day as yesterday. Prices are a point
lower. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 14 c. dis.—
Dundee and Perth, 25—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Man.
cluster and Birmingham), Fifths, 41/2 c. dis.—Ditto, 101.
Preference, Bs. 9d.—Midland Stock, 781/2 c.—Ditto, New
Halves, 101/2 c. dis.—Scottish Central, 251/1—Shropshire
Union, 635. 9d. c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.
E. Purchase),l% c. dis.—London and North. Western, 1171/2
c.—Ditto, New Quarters, lls. 3d. p.

THE BRAZIL MAIL

FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—The Express packet, Lieute- I
nant Lory, arrived last evening with the Brazil mails.
She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of October.
Her passengers are, Sir Manuel Rodrigues de Oliveira,
Blanco, Messrs. Canto and Meyer, Captain Bunce, R. 51.,
and three miners. She brings in freight about 120,0001.,
a considerable portion from the River Plate and the
Pacific.

On the 7th October the late Government retired,
when Viscount de Olinda was commissioned to form a
new Ministry, which had been completed from the high
aristocratic party, but the only name reported when the
packet sailed was Senor Joaquim Jose Rodrigues Torres,
Minister of Finance.

The Exchange Market was animated on the 6th and
7th, when 50,0001. were negotiated upon London at
231 d. to 24d., of which 20,0001. were taken by the
Treasury, since which dates little was done to the time
of the packet's departure. Bills to a moderate amount
had passed upon Paris at 400 reis, and upon Hamburgh
at 720 to 739 reis. Discounts continued easy at 6to -a,.
Stock little doing at 86i to 87, and at 85i to 86 for pro-
vincial. In specie, business was tolerably brisk, several
large parcels had been sold. Doubloon at 31,550 dolls.
to 31,800 dolls. Dollars at 2,020 dolls. to 2,050 dolls.
Old Ports at 18,500 dolls to 18,750 dolls. Sovereigns at
10,000 dolls.

In the freights little doing; some few vessels had left
in ballast, but the quantity of foreign bottoms still at
Rio Janeiro was enormous, and amounted to 160, of
which 110 without destination.

COFFEE.—The market was brisk, chiefly for the
United States. The sales from the sth to the 14th Oct.
amounted to 40,000 bags. The exports since the sth
were:—For Antwerp, 6,910 bags; Copenhagen, 2,583;
Falmouth, 1,900 ; Genoa, 1,681; Gottenburg, 2,004 ;
Hamburgh, 1,742; Havre, 4,502; Jersey, 2,952; Lisbon,
1,281; Malta, 3,263; New Orleans, 19,630; New York,
8,210; Philadelphia, 4,000; Trieste, 2,513. The price
of washed coffee on board was 295.; superior, 235. 4d.;
Ist good, 225.; Ist ordinary, 20s. 2d.; 2d good, Iss. Bd.;
SUGAR.—The receipts of Campos, all packages in-
cluded, amounted (from the sth) to 230 cases, and the
sales to about 400 cases, of which 150 -were for Portugal,
and the remainder for home consumption. White, 2,800
dolls.; brown, 2,100 dolls. to 2,200 dolls. for new.

THE DEAD SEA.
TO THE EDITOR, OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l read in your issue of the day before yesterday
(the 21st) a short account of Captain Lynch and the
American expedition to explore the Dead Sea, from
which it would appear that the. descent from the Lake of
Tiberias to the Dead Sea by the Jordan had now for
the first time been accomplished. But, Sir, this is not
the case. Our gallant countryman, the late Lieutenant
Molyneux, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, two years ago
conveyed a small boat overland from Caipha to the Lake
of Tiberias, and thence by the Jordan to the Dead Sea,
upon which he remained two, if not three days; he then
took his boat by Jerusalem to Jaffa. Poor fellow! he
died six weeks afterwards at Beyrout of fever contracted
during his journey. The difficulties encountered by the
American expedition were mere child's play compared to
those which poor Molyneux met with and triumphed
over. On one occasion the three seamen he had with
him were separated from him, and were seized, beaten,
and stripped of their arms and clothes by the Arabs, and
found their way almost Baked and with difficulty to
Tiberias. Still Molyneux persevered, although he had
literally to fight his way down. When at Jerusalem in
April I saw a letter from Captain Lynch, in which he
speaks of fully appreciating Molyneux's daring and per-
severance, and in which he refers to his having the same
Arab pilot who was with Molyneux. I never met Lieu-
tenant Molyneux ; but as I thought the impression might
go abroad that the Americans were the first to navigate
the Jordan between the two lakes, whereas an English-
man had preceded them, I have taken the liberty of
troubling you with these few lines.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Cheltenham, Nov. A W. E. E.