The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-07 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1845.

taken in at 46s for fine; 563 casks of wrecked first sort
P. Y. Candle were sold at lower rates.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Oct 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the Ist day of January, 1848.
ISSUE DTPARTXENT.

Nut. s issued.. .. .... 25,790,820

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .... '2,954,900
Gold coin and bullion 10,4 43,761
Silver bullion ...... 1,347,058

.£26,790,830

Z 25,790,820
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 6th day of January, I;

RANKING D
Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,000
Rest • •• • . ... • 3,639,863
Public depw,:ts (in-
elading Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sal--

oTPAZTKEN T.

Government secnrt-

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 11,061,422
Other securities • • • . 16,989,221
Notes .. .• .. 7,865,830
Gold and silver coin.. 613,470

ings-bank a, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 9,011,568
Other deposits ••• • .. 8,523,108
Seven day and other
bills .•• • • • •.... 805,364

£36,532,903

1 £36,532,903
M. MARSIIA.LL, Chief Cashier.
1348.

Dated the 6th day of January. I.

COURSE OF EXCH

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
31bra1tar.......... • • ..
Leghorn .............. 31 40
Genoa ....—.... ...... 26 15
Naples .......... .... 393¢
Palermo, perm ..... , . 119
Lisbon.. .. .. .. .. .... .. 52
0p0rt0.... ...... .... .. 52 ►%
Rio Janeiro —
Bahia ................
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .... • • ....

Amsterdam ...... •• •• 12 6%

Dita,, at sight • • .... 12 33r,
Rottcrdain .... ••.. • • 12 6%
&ntwerp.............. 26 10
Liamburgh .... • • 3/.8. 13 153¢
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 70
Ditto, •••• .. • • ...... 24 0
illarseilles -••••• • • • • • • 26 10
Mourdeaux.... ••• • • • • 26 10
Frankfort on Maine.... 1233{
Peter sbnrgh, Sil. Itble..

Berlin....

Vienna, effec. flo• • •• •• 10 20
Trieste, ditto.... • • • • •• 10 21
liadild •• .. •• .• .• •• .• 46%
Cadiz .. • •—•
Babso.. • • .... •• ......
Barcelona •• •• •• •• •• ••
.3avElle.• •• •• •• •. •• •• •.

PEICEM OP MULLION, PEE OZ.
Foreign Gold 1a bars ...£3 17 9

New Dollars .... • . 0 4 934
Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... 6 4 11%

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, JAN. 7, 1848.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Sunday
next, the 9th instant, for her late Majesty the Arch-
Duches Duchess of Parma, viz.—

The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain
linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear rings, black or
white shoes, fans and tippets. The gentlemen to wear
black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords
and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on
Thursday, the 13th instant, viz., the ladies to wear black
silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with
black ribbons. Tne Gentlemen to wear black coats, and
black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and
silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and
buckles. And, on Sunday, the 16th instant, the Court is
to go out of mourning.
WHI TEHALL, JAN. 6.

The Qucen has been pleased to appoint Doctor John
Scott to be one of her Majesty's Physicians in Ordinary
in Scotland, in the roum of Doctor Andrew Coombe,
dt ceased.

' CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 7.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR•

LIA3IENT.

City of Wells—William Goodenough fluter, Esq.,
her Majesty's Judge Advocate• General.
WAR OFFICE, JAN. 7, 1848.

44th Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet William
Thomas Baker, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Strode, appointed to 61st
Foot, Jan. 7.

58th Foot—Lieutenant Isaac Rhodes Cooper, to be
Adjutant, vice Al‘Lerie, who resigns the Adjutancy only,
Jan. 7.

61st Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Philip H. Fitzmayer,
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bligh, deceased;
Ensign Robert Greig to be Lieutenant, vice Fitzmayer;
Nov. 20 ; Ensign Julius George Mangen Strode, from
the 44th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Greig, Jan. 7.
94th Foot—Ensign Samuel Sexton, from the 2d West
India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Farrington, appointed
to the 98th Foot, Jan. 7. _ _

98th Foot—Lieut. John Alfred Street to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet Major Grimes, deceased;
Ensign Charles Ilill Fresson to be Lieutenant, vice
Street; Ensign Donald Macleod Farrington, from 94th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Fresson, Jan. 7.
2d West India Regiment—Robert Grigg, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Sexton, appointed to the
94th Foot, Jan. 7.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant Charles
Caldwell Grantham to be First Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Drake. deceased, Oct. 23; Second Lieu-
tenant Charles Edward Kiagsmill to be First Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Grantham, whose appointment
has been cancelled, Dec. 17; Robert Seymour Croxton
Sillery, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Kingsmill,
Jan. 7.

Royal Newfoundland Companies—Lieutenant William
Long Wrey, from half-pay 19th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, vice Mason, promoted; Ensign Martin Pe-
trie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wrey, who re-
tires; Thomas Johns, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Petrie, Jan. 7.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Ebenezer Alfred Jenkin, Gent., to
be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, Jan. 7.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire,
and of the City and County of the City of Gloucester,
and of the City and County or the City of Bristol. ,
Rod al Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry
—Charles Colquitt Godwin, Esq., to be Captain, vice
Guise, resigned, Jan. 1.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 29.
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Frede-
rick Charles knight to be First Lieutenant, vice Bur-
ney, deceased._ _ _ _

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 30, 1847.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Charles
Barker Parke to be Second Lieutenant ; Gentlema❑
Cadet John Yate Holland to be Second Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Nugent Macnamara to be Second
Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet James Elphinstone Lock
to be Second Lieutenant.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 4.
Corps of Royal Marines—Lieutenant-Colonel Abra-
ham Henry Gordon to be Colonel Second Commandant,
vice Thom-as Peebles, deceased ; Brevet Major James
Irwin Wines to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Gordon,
promoted ; First Lieutenant Robert Murray Curry to
be Captain, vice Willes, promoted ; Second Lieutenant
Frederick Edward Budd to be First Lieutenant, vice
Curry, promoted ; Second Lieutenant Thomas Quin
Meade to be First Lieutenant.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The Lords Commissionevs=of her Majetty'EA'reasuf7
having certified to the Commissioners for the Reductio❑
of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act 10th Geo.
4th, c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual expenditure of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland exceeded
the actual revenue thereof, for the year ended the 10th
day of October 1847, by the sum of three hundred and
twenly--six thousand six hundred and eight pounds eight
shillings ;
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice that no sum will be applied by
them on account of the Sinking Fund, under the provi-
sions of the said Act, between the 7th day of January,
1848, and the sth day of April, 1848.
S. HIGHAM, Comptroller General.
National Debt-office, Jan. 3, 1848.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 1.

The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde,knt., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas
at Westminster, has appoigted Edwin Clarke, of
Longton, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to
be one of the perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to be executed Is), married
women, under the Act possed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries and for the substitution of more simple
mode of assurance, in and for the county of Stafford.

Exeter; Kelly, Plymouth ; Stogdon, Exeter; Harris,
Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London.
Samuel Paul, grocer, Bodmin, Cornwall, Jan. 17, at
eleven, and Feb. 10, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzell, official assignee ; Pearce, Bodmin ; Stogdon,
Exeter ; Atkinson and Co., Church court, Lothbury,
London.
Henry Hill, brewer, Gray's Inn-lane.
Morris Lumley, commission agent, Trinity-lane.
Catherine Barclay, confectioner, Birkenhead.
William Nicholson, licensed victualler, Leeds.
Maria Barn, otherwise Baker, milliner, Wells, Somer-
shire.
Mark Seton Synnot, merchant, Liverpool.
Richard Porritt, banker, Huddersfield.
William Barns, flannel manufacturer, Milnrow, Lan-
cashire,
William Gregory, hosier, Liverpool.
Thomas Matthews, millwright, Shrewsbury.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending January 4,
1848, is 265. IIA d. per cwt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THAMES.

Mr. 11. T. Gray, rope manufacturer and ship
chandler, of No. 2, Marine-place, Commercial-road,
Stepney, came before Mr. Ballantine, and stated that,
in compliance with his worship's kind advice, he had
allowed five days to intervene before he applied to Mr.
R Duke, a canvass merchant, in Lower East Smith-
field, who had purchased a large quantity of rope of
which he (Mr. Gray) had been defrauded, for the
restoration of that part of the rope which Mr. Duke
had not paid for, and that Mr. Duke had refused to
give it up. On Wednesday afternoon he sent his
foreman to Mr. Duke's warehouse for the rope, think-
ing that five days were sufficient for him to cool
upon the matter, but, instead of delivering the rope,
he said he would not restore it without a written
order, and a written guarantee to bear Mr. Duke
harmless against all legal proceedings which might
hereafter take place.
Mr. BAI.LANTINE said he had already expressed an
opinion upon the case, the only one he was justified
in announcing. He would most willingly make an
order for the restoration of the rope unpaid for if he
could do so, and he fully appreciated the great sacri-
fices Mr. Gray had made in bringing the swindlers
to justice. He was afraid he must leave Mr. Gray
to his remedy by action.
Mr. Gray thanked the magistrate, and put in the
following letter he had that day received from Man-
chester :

" Manchester Guardian Society for the Protection of

Trade.

" Manchester, Jan. sth, 1848.

" Sir,—Having noticed your advertisement in the
London Times of the 14th ult. relative to the enor-
mous expenses incurred by you in prosecuting to con-
viction certain parties whose object was evidently to
defraud any one who came within their reach, you
have rendered most essential service to the commer-
cial community throughout the kingdom by bringing
these parties and their practices so prominent before
the world, and it is the duty of commercial men ge-
nerally to see that you do not lose either for your
own valuable time, for legal expenses, or the loss of
articles out of which you have been defrauded. I
brought this matter before the committee last evening,
and they desired me to express their high estimation
of your spirited exertions in this case; and I was in-
structed to place five guineas at your disposal as the
contribution of the society towards the expenses in-
curred. If you can point out any way in which I
can be of service in making this matter more public
in this quarter, you may command my best services.
" I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
" SAMUEL EBOI'HAM."

Several mercantile gentlemen, who accompanied
Mr. Gray, said the conspirators obtained goods to
the amount of 30.0001. by fraudulent means before they
were detected; that a respectable Scottish firm was
cheated of one consignment of goods to the amount
of 1,1711. by them; and that Halliday, now in New-
gate, who was once connected with a respectable house,
and who had some years since acted bona fide and
paid for goods on delivery to a large amount, became
the chief of the gang, and by the influence of his name
put tradesmen, manufacturers, and warehousemen off
their guard.
SOUTHWARK.

Five stout young women, inmates of St. George's
Workhouse, were charged with insubordination, and
breaking upwards of forty panes of glass, in one of
the wards.

Several of the board of guardians attended to re-
present the violence of these young women. It ap-
peared that after prayers that morning the defendants
caused an uproar in the ward, and when one of the
officers went to request they would desist they became
more uprorious, used the most filthy and disgusting
language, and commenced smashing the windows,
and broke upwards of forty panes before they were
secured from doing further injury.
The Chairman of the board of guardians said, as
the Magistrate might perceive, the defendants were
all strong and healthy young women, and could earn
their bread by industry if they pleased ; that situa-
tions had been provided for them on several occasions,
but they remained in none, owing to their bad con-
duct, and always came back to the workhouse, pre-
ferring the kind of life there to that which they
ought to pursue, to obtain their livelihood without
being a burden on the parish.
The defendants, one and all, began to exclaim
against the treatment they experienced in the work-
house, but were silent when told they were not
compelled.to remain there, but might go out and earn
an honest livelihood.

Mr. SECKER having in rain remonstrated with the
defendants on t violence of their conduct, during
which they onlziade a laugh at what was addressed
to them, sentenced them to pay for the damage they
had done, and in default committed them for two
months to the House of Correction. The moment
sentence was passed on the defendants they broke
into loud denunciations against the workhouse autho-
rities, and their infamous language was infinitely
worse than that of the lowest women of the town who
frequently stand at the bar of this court.
LAMBETH.

Mr. Norton received a letter from Sir W. P. Call,
Marten, and Co., Old Bond-street, enclosing the half
of a. 51. note from "E. P." for the poor-box, and
stating that on acknowledgment of the same the other
half would be sent.

THE MURDER IN GOLDEN-LANE

The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two
children who were recently found murdered in
Golden-lane was held yesterday at three o'clock, before
Mr. William Baker, coroner, at the William the
Fourth public-house, Golden-lane.
Jeremiah Donnoghue, labourer, was the first
witness called, residing at No. 9, Cupid's-court, who
stated, that about one or two o'clock on Saturday
morning last, he distinctly heard the voice of Amine
Blake, one of the deceased, cry " Murder" several
times. About four o'clock on the same morning he
was apprised of the murder of the two childrer,
Amina Blake and her brother.

Mrs. Blake, the mother of the deceased, deposed
to their being two of her children by her lawful hus-
band, Robert Henry Blake, under whose protection
they were left in London. She was at present living
apart from her husband at Birmingham with another
of her children.

Mr. Wright, surgeon, stated that he was
called in to see the deceased shortly after four
o'clock on Saturday morning last. He found
the body of Thomas Henry Blake, the younger,
lying upon a bed on the ground floor of the house,
the bedclothes were in the greatest disorder(; the body
was warm, but life was extinct. There were several
scratches on the tip of the nose and the nostrils, on
the right side of the mouth, and upon the left cheek,
and upon the throat near the windpipe; there
were no other appearances of external violence
on the body. He examined the chest and
found the lungs perfectly healthy, but gorged
with a dark coloured black fluid, the intestines and
abdomen appeared also in a perfectly healthy state.
On removing the scalp he found that the dura mater
was covered with numerous bloody points, from
which dark-coloured blood issued. The vessels of the pia
mater were gorged with a dark-coloured fluid. The
substance of the brain, when cut in two, also pre-
sented numerous bloody parts. There was no blood in
the ♦entricles of the brain. Upon examining the
body of Amina Blake, he found, with a small
difference, precisely the same appearances, and
in both cases he was led to believe, as the result of
the examination, that death was caused by forcible
compression of the mouth and nostrils.
Mr. Courtenay, surgeon, of Whitecross•street, gave
evidence of a similar nature.

The CORONER proceeded to sum up, and in doing
so, completely exonerated the father of the children
from any actual participation in the dreadful crime.
There appeared to be no doubt that the murder was
committed by Harriet Parker, who had been living
with the father of the children for some three or
four years. The only course for the jury to adopt
would be to return a verdict of wilful
murder against her. It appeared from her own state-
ments that she had contemplated the atrocious act for
some months past, and that, since she had committed
it, she had stated that she gloried in what
she had done, and had made use of the
extraordinary expression, " That she could die on the
gallows like a trump for it." With respect to any
plea that might be set up on the ground of insanity,
that would be a question to be tried in another place.
The Coroner then proceeded to read over the whole
of the voluminous evidence taken during the three
sittings of the Court, after which he said, he would
trouble the jury with no further remarks, but leave
inatteiiu Laeir haud4 to return a true wail proper
verdict.

After a short coksultation the jury returned a
unanimous verdict of " Wilful Murder" against
Harriet Parker, in both cases.
Some of the jury wished to add to their verdict a
few words expressing their views of the conduct of
Blake, which they conceived to have been most repre-
hensible both towards his wife and children.

The CORONER said he could not permit the addi-
tion; he was sure, however, that the publicity which
had been given to the facts would sufficiently answer
the purpose contemplated by the jury.
The Court wa3 then dissolved.

BIRTHS.
On the 30th ult., at Leamington, the lady of Kevill Davies,
Esq., of a son and heir.
On the 30th ult., the lady of Philip T. Gardner, Esq., of
Conington, Cambridge, of a son.
On the 31st ult., on board the Mary Louisa, and en her
passage to Borneo, the wife of the Rey. W. B. Wright, of
a son.
On the 3d inst., at Queenhithe, the wife of F. L. Palling,
Esq., surgeon, of a son.
On the 3d inst., at Mickley Parsonage, ➢irs. Dalton Har-
rison, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., Charles Chad Tumour, Esq., of Tatter-
ford, Norfo►k. to Frances Louisa, youngest daughter of the
late Lieut.-Colonel Master, of Catten, in the game county.
On the 4th inst., at Walcot Church, Bath, Captain Edward
Lionel \Volley, of her Majesty's 51st (or King's Own) Regi-
ment of Light Infantry, to Emily Georgina, youngest daugh-
ter of the late William Scott, Esq., of Camden. place.

DIED.
On the 27th ult., in Springfield-place, Bath, Mrs. Mary
Ewing, aged 82.
On the 31st ult., at Rise Cottage, Dawlish, Elizabeth,
daughter of the late Sir James Pennyman, aged $3.
On the Ist inst., at Wonford House, near Exeter, Henry
Manning, Esq., aged 78.
On the 2d inst., in Duke-street, Bath, Mrs. Catherine
Smyth.
On the 3d inst., at Woolwich, Colonel Thomas Peebles, of
the Royal Marines, Second Commandant of that division.
On the 3d inst., Mr. J. Miller, of Ipswich, aged 84.
On the 4th inst., at Portsea, Frederick Siddall, Esq.. Pay.
master and Purser, R.N.

At Camden •town, Lieutenant-Colonel Waldograve Tane,
R.M., aged 83.