The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

lIAMUUTIGII, JAN. 10.—The corn trade is flat, as
little or nothing is done in the export trade, and our
agriculturalists want their usual impetus from abroad,
and are therefore more tardy in bringing their sup-
plies. Wheat is low. About 200 lasts of rye were
sold from 48 to 50 marks banco per last. The
hitherto prevailing frost, anti the want of snow, ap-
pear to he the cause of speculation being so dull.
Sr. I'ETEIVBURGH, DEC. 31.—Trade continues
very dull, nor is there any appearance that there will
be a speedy improvement. Nothing whatever is done
in the export trade, and yet our Russian traders per-
sist in keepiMg up their prices, and du not seem at all
disposed to give in. There was a great demand for saw
sugar during the last few days, and several parcels of
white Havannah were sold at twenty-six roubles.
Broken loaf sugar has been prohibited after 1848.
The regulation that yellow and brown raw sugar
shall pay less duty than white, will probably not
come into force till 1849.

BRESLAU, JAN. B.—We have not much to report
respecting our corn trade, nor do 'natters look very
encouriging. The arrivals are small, and bargains
for later deliveries are totally wanting. This is not
owing to the want of corn, but to the expectation
of the holders to obtain higher prices. In this ex-
pectation, however, our country people will probably
be disappointed, for even this week there was an evi-
dent tendency to depression ; for although at the be-
ginning of the week the holders maintained their
prices, yet to tvards the close there was a sensible re-
action.

TUREET.—CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 22.—DEATIE OF
OSMAN PACllA.—During the past week the cholera
has Leen again on the increase, especially in the
quarters towards Estamboul, in the Turkish circles
of Pert and Galata, cases are frequent. Osman Pacha,
Seraskier of Anatc;lio, who was attacked very violently
with it last week, 'died to-day. Mona Mehemet Ali
Khan, Envoy Extraordinary to the French Court,
will pass some time here, on his return from France
to Persia, and it it supposed that the exchange of the
ratification of Erzerouni will not take place till that
time. Colonel Shiel, British Ambassador at the
Court of Teheran, has arrived here on his re-
turn to England. The Ministerial journals
state that the Porte has again purchased a
landed property on the Bosphorus, for the purpose
of presenting it, is addition to its former gift, to the
British Embassy. If, as is affirmed, the treasury
paid 4.50,000 piastres for this estate, it has not only
made a munificent present to the Embassy, but also
to the seller, a banker, and consequently one of its
members, who paid 135,000 piastres for the estate in
its present condition, and, to our knowledge, would
have been but too happy to have sold it again at cost
price. Not very long since we read in the English
journal an account of a judicial proceeding respecting
a British officer, some time resident at a small Indian
Court, who was proceeded against by England and
sentenced to ten years' imprisonment beside■ a large
fine in money, because, during the exercise of his
office he had accepted a present to the value of
some 1001. sterling. According to this it would ap-
pear that in this respect the English law grants that
to the embassy, which it positively interdicts to the
ambassador.

KARLSRUHE, Jaw. 9.—The Government has ac-
ceded to the proposal of the three large manufacturers
supported by the house of Haber and Co., and intends
to give a loan of four per cent. payable in ten years.
The equity of this procedure of Government to
these firms is called, in question. We regret to state
that the banking-house of Kusel stopped payment.
The house had a very good name—its fall is attri-
buted to the rt cent failures which have taken place.
DENMARK, JAR. 8. —The budget fur 1848 shows
that the receipts were 16,709,285 rix dollars, and the
expenditure 16,686,502, leaving a balance of 22,783
rix dollars.

STOCLHOLM, JAN. cunsequence of the pub-
lication of the royal edict by th• Governor of St.
Bartholomew that slavery was for ever abolished in
those islands, the liberated negroes have presented an
address of thanks to the King and the Government of
S weden.

NOYWAT CHRISTIAXA.—A large fire broke out on
the 28th of December in the city of Droutheim, and
destroyed twenty-three houses. Th• loss is estimated
at 27,690 E—Brussels Papers.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—/SERLIY„TAY. 12.
Bills. Money.
St•Schuld Sch., 3% percent • •••••• • • • . • 924 r 2
lire!. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent ••• • • •
Foreign Exchanges • •
EzchiNge on London, Li Sterling, 3 Menthe fi S
ITELOIAN FUN DlL—Bistioexte, JA2e. 14.
Actor(' Debt. .11.4 per Cent •-.•• • • • • •
liothaehilel's Lo.an, Five per Cent • • •
ot Thirty Millions, FonrperCent.• .•
Ditto Th_reeper Cent.
Ditto Thirty- even Mallions,ditto ••• • • •
Ditto, ditto,lB4fi • • •• • qg
L
Dittoolitto,lB42 ••••••• • • • • • • ••. ••• • • • 9a%
Ditto, ... 92
Ditto, 1838 ..................... 67%
Ditto or the City, 1832 •••••• • • • • • • •• "
Ditto, 1843 ••••••• • • • • • • ''''' ••"• • • :77!
Bank of Seiglain •• •• • • •• • " • • • '•• • • • I;,ri
—3ruisels Pipers, Jan. lb.
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • • •
Gloggnitz • •
Vienna-3/1180 • • ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 87

bi

Leghorn• • • • • • ••
Sienna •• • • • ......
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Orosetto ...............
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Oldenburg • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • •• ..........
Teeth Bridg•
ApnaLatu 94

STORY OF A FLIRT.
Mrs. Bradley was born a flirt. Of all the evil
--
spirits which possess a woman the spirit, of codutry.-----ee
is the most difficult to " lay" or to manage, „ ,r
she was only three years old she woultrAtiss one
cousin whom she hated, just to tease the little.boy she
then loved. She was so fortunate as to possess a rest
earnest lover; who loved her for what he imagined,
in his ignorance of her real qualities, to be herself—
a sort of ideal of his own creation—rained Blanche
Derrick ; she fancied he so loved her that nothing
could " cut him adrift," and she played him as an.
angler would a trout ! Perhaps she did really lore
him; but that would be a problem difficult to
solve. Once, in the presence of a companion (as
she turned to enter her aunt's dwelling), she tore up,
and flung him his declaration of love—the earnest out-
pouring of his gentle and noble heart—maintaining a
serious aspect the while. "He will surely come
back," she said to her friend. " You may stay and
witness his submission—it was a ruse of mine ! lie
will come back—entreat me to bear him again ;
he will surely return !" But he did not ; and then she
tried to pique him back ; but it would not do ; he
loved too truly not to feel. So she became en-
tangled in a net of her own weaving; and, to save
her reputation, married a man she despised. Her
aunt, who enjoyed the distinction of bringing this
piece of coquetry to perfection, shook her bead and
smiled, and sighed a little, and said, " After all it
was the way of the world." Of course she was un•
happy as a wife, What coquette ever was happy,
either as maid, wife, or widow ? Again her repute..
tion was in peril, greater than before, when, at the
very juncture, her husband obliged her—by dying!
the very first obligation he ever conferred upon her,
so she was exceedingly grateful. If she had
been twice as old, she would have had just as
many adorers, would have been quite as
much admired by the particular class of persons
who crowded about her ; a widow with a rich
dowry is a target for every spendthrift's arrow ; and
the amour propre which forms the coquette pre-
vented her seeing as clearly as she might have done
the object of the attentions she received. She could
not hear the half laugh which followed her carriage
in the Park ; self satisfaction prevented her reading
the expression with which many a face turned either
to her or from her. For once " the way of the world"
was taxed with reason; it is the way of the English
world, properly so called, in all its phases, circles, and
degrees, to do homage to wealth ; it is this, and this
only, that lowers us in the moral scale of nations. Rank-
worship rather elevates than depresses ; hero-worship
of all sort, ennobles ; but mammon-worship invari-
ably degrades. Mrs. Bradley had a cap and a dahlia
called after her; and even on the turf " Blanche
Bradley" ran for the Derby ! Lovers of all ages,
tints, and classes were admitted and coquetted with !
but Blanche Derrick's naturo remained with Blanche
Bradley ; she had not learned wisdom ; she enjoyed
all these triumphs, but she longed for another ; she
wanted to see her old lover again at her feet; and
she condescended to labour to bring him there. At
this time a nobleman, whose name only proved how a
long line of ancestors could be degraded by one man,
an old roué, whose fortune was as dilapidated as his
character, and whose age was considerably in advance
of her, paid the lady the usual attentions—attentions
grown so continuous, that her only astonishment was
when they were not paid. She was as weak women
always, and wise ones sometimes, are—ambitious of a
title ; and as the elderly gentleman's vices had never
shaken his position in society, whatever his embar-
rassments might have done, she considered a good
deal as to the pour et contre of this marriage, and
quite resolved that, if nothing more brilliant offered,
she would marry for position. This did not
make her the less anxious to recal her old lover ; she
said it was the " way of the world" to forget old affec-
tions ; she talked, in his hearing, of the strength of
old ties ; she flirted her fan as if she bad studied its
eloquence at Madrid ; she sighed more in a week
than she had ever done in her whole life before; she
asked him if he had quite forgotten how to write
poetry ; and at last, one summer's evening, during
the progress of a little fete, she got him to sit beside
her and talk of old times. Every one laughed
at Mrs. Bradley's sentiment; it was " the way of the
world," they said, for rich widows to play for
titles if they could get them, but it was not " the
way of the world" for them to recal penniless
lovers. But Mrs. Bradley flirted on ; not that her
former lover believed in her. He saw it was a whim
of which he was the destined victim ; he determined
to avoid a declaration, and she determined to bring
him to one. At last, while she detained him upon
one plea or another, her " ancient" made his appear-
ance; he was somewhat ruffled by the presence of a
rival, who would have departed, but that the widow
insisted upon his remaining. He stood behind the
chair, while she coquetted with the recent arrival, as
she had done with him ; and, at the moment when
his disgust was at the highest, she extended her
hand to him, while leaning on the old man's shoulder;
he pressed it-- it was retained ; and when she turned,
the expression of him who had been her lover
Droved that all her efforts had been vain ; she
struggled to free her hand—it was impossible. "My
lord,' said the younger, "you see that this lady's
hand must have sought mine ; I could not otherwise
have taken it. It' you will do me the favour to more
to this side, 1 will gladly relinquish it to you." It
was the most bitter lensou the coquette had ever re-
ceived, until the coronet of a peeress pres+ed upon the
brow it did not even adorn, then indeed she found
that the sins of men make them still more usmer-
ciful to the errors of women. They knew each
other, and persecuted each other. Heartless as she
had ever been, she had too much spirit to endure
the treatment she had received. "It is the way
of the world," said some of his Lordship's aristocratic
friends, " for her to forget the dignity which her
husband had bestowed on her." " tt was the way of
the world," repeated others again, " for the woman
to be made the sacrifice." Now " the world" had
nothing to do with the affair : the woman's destiny
was throughout ruled by herself, and so was that of
his Lordship. The chalice was filled and poisoned
before they put it to each other's lips, but it was their
own will and pleasure to drink thereof. Whatever
goes wrong is stated to be " the way of the world ;"
whatever goes right is attributed to our own virtues
and deserts.-2llrs. S. C. Hall.

Till HUNTERIAN ORATION.—Mr. R. D. Grainger,
F.R.S., the lecturer on Physiology at St. Thomas's
Hospital, has been appointed by th© council of the
Royal College of Surgeons to deliver the annual oration
on the 14th of February next, in memory of the founder
of the Hunterian Museum, that day being the anniver-
sary of the birth of John Hunter.

ALARMING FIRE IN CROWN-STREET, ST. GILES'S--
Yesterday morning, between the hours of one and two,
a fire, nearly attended with a lamentable loss of life,
broke out upcn the premises in the tenure of Mr. J.
Powell, wine-cask and bottle-merchant, carrying on
business at No. 37, Crown•street, :St. Giles's. Owing to
the exertions of the firemen, the flames were extin-
guished, but not until that portion of the promises in
which the disaster occurred was burned out.
ADULT DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION.—On
was held at On
the
Fri-
day evening a meeting of this society w
nlmooamtessbuarty.
present The
Board t room,
stated 2s,t
h a Red e
there
eLrieo n
were- gu ar e , B
20
1.
Teaming trades in the asylum, in addition to a number
of deaf and dumb who are employed at their own homes.
The expenditure of the institution was stated to have
exceeded the income by nearly 4501., and to liquidate
the debt incurred a petition had been presented to the
corporation of the city of London. The routine busi-
ness having been disposed of, several inmates of the
charity were examined as to their knowledge of religious
subjects, Sze. From the replies set forth, it would ap-
pear that the deaf and dumb were exceedingly apt and
forward in their learning; and in the course of a short
time several would be able to sustain themselves by their
own exertions.

DEPUTATION ON Till TEA DUTIES.*--At • the
public meeting held here on the 28th ult., a committee,
consisting of the Mayor, the president of the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Association,
and several other gentlemen from Liverpool, Leeds,
Hull, Blackburn, &c., were appointed to arrange a depu-
tation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputa-
tion was subsequently appointed, and we understand that
Lord 'him Russell has intimated that he will receive the
d. putation in Downing-,treet, on Wednesday next, the
19th instant.—Manchester Guardian.

" SATE ME FROM MY FRIENDS.".--" I weeded my
friends," said an old eccentric gentleman, " by banging
a piece of stair carpet out of my first fluor window, With
a sheriff's sale fixed. Gad! it had the desired effect—l
soon saw who were my friends. It was like firing a gun
near a pigeon-house ; they all forsook the building at
the first report, and I have not had occasion to use the
extra flaps of my dining-table since."
RESTORATION OF WELLS CATIIEDRAL--The
sutn
already subscribed towards a fund of 6,0001. for re-
storing the choir of Wells Cathedral, amounts to nearly
5,0001. The subscriptions are rapidly increasing, and in
a short time it is proposed to commence the work.
DIN AUSTRIAN FORCE IN ITALY.--The Yrussinn
Gazette announces that the army of Italy, o~~ing
to successive reintercem( nts, is now prepared for all
..
events. It includes 45,000 men, whereas,
in ordinary
times the number is only 30,000.
TILE INFLUENZA IN SPAlN.—According to a state-
ment by a physician of Madrid, in one of the journals
or that capital, about 60,Uu0 persona in thatcity were,
a week 'ago, aufteting front the grippe. At
third the poptitation, and at luicia great numbers,
were suffering severely from the same malady.
ROBBERY or TUB " STABLE AT BETFILRAEM."—
The lo.rgc silver star, !Sunk in the place supposed to have
been the site of the manger where Christ was born, has
been stoles. The Latins and Greeks accuse each other
of the robbery.
- ARRIVAL or SPECIE.—The line of packet ship
American Eagle, arrived in the docks from New York,
has brought seven boxes and one keg of specie, con-
signed to six individual firms of commercial eminence
in the metropolis. This vessel has brought a cargo of
provisions of immense extent and variety, the production
of the United States of America.

The Earl of Carlisle, we are happy to state, has
rallied, and his medical attendants hare hopes of hie
ultimata recayery.--Leeds Mercury.

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.SOUTHWARK COUNTY COURT, Jan. 15.
(Before C. NEALE, Esq., Judge.)
THE WATERMEN'S COMPANY V. WHITE.
This Was an action brought on behalf of the Water-
men's Company against the defendant, a licensed
waterman, to recover the sum of 11., due by the de-
fendant to the company. The case created much in-
terest amongst the above-bridge watermen and
occupiers of Sunday ferries.
Mr. Banyon, the clerk of the company, stated that
under the 43d section of the 7th and Bth of George
IV. (the Watermen's Act), the company were
authorised to form and let Sunday ferries on the
river between Chelsea Reach and Bow Creek and the
river Lea. These ferries were let from time to time,
by tender, fur one year, and the whole of the pro-
ceeds arising from them were devoted to the relief
of aged, infirm, and decayed members of the com-
pany, and in the year 1830 the proceeds arising
from these ferries amounted annually to 1,120/. ;
but since the introduction of the numberless steam-
boats on the river, they did not yield more at the
present time than 3001. per annum. In the year 1841,
the defendant, in conjunction with one James ‘Var-
wood, sent in a tender to the company for the renting
of two ferries, one from the Surrey Canal to King
James's Stairs, and the other from Shadwell Dock to
Kim, and Queen Stairs, at a rent of 61., from the sth
April, 1841, to the sth of April, 1842. The tender
was accepted, and the defendant and Warvvoo:l at-
tended, and paid the amount of deposit (31.) in lieu of
security, and entered into possession of the ferries,
and continued to do so, the ferries being worked by
six persons, each of whom received a warrant from
the company, but the defendant and Warwood only
being the tenants of the company. Warwood, in
addition to the 31., paid 21., leaving 1/., since which
both had been lost sight of until lately.
Mr. Hill, one of the Court of Assistants of the
company, stated that the object of the company in
pressing the present claim was to protect their aged
poor. It was a common occurrence for owners of
ferries to refuse paying for the latter portion of
their terms in the ferries, and the company had
determined, on behalf of their poor, to sue every de-
faulter. The defendant was well able to pay, and
ought to be compelled.
',rive defendant denied renting the ferry. War-
wooi was the only tenant, he (the defendant) work-
ing under him. He never signed any tender, or
authorised any one to do so. The name attached to
the tender was not in his handwriting, and he had
never attendEd at Watermen's Hall to complete the
tender. Had he been indebted to the company, they
would have claimed the amount when he paid his
quarterly dues on binding his apprentices.
Harwood, on being called, deposed that the de-
fendant authorised him to sign the tender, and held
the ferry jointly with him.
JUDGE said he should give judgement for the
full amount and costs.
Judgment for the company entered accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
AVANSION-HOUSE.

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On Saturday, John Jacobs, who was brought before
the ;,ord Mayor some days ago, chiarged with having
rraudulently obtained clothes, value 8/. 19..!., from Mr.
Muses Juda, under rather peculiar cireutnstances,
.„vas brought up for final examination. The justice
r,"ma was crowded with members of the Jewish re-
Air. Buchanan appeared fur the prosecution, and
Mr: Mellor fur the prisoner, who has, up to the
acemiation, borne a very respectable cha-
ractt.o:.

hart said—Beti,veen 10 and 12 oclock on

',tie .aorrsing of th
fetidant anadnamLe 7th of December, I saw the de-
scangireement
employer together on Mr. Juda's
pre,zlises,
feadant to have, was made for the de-
Juda gave the defeilagoods on sale or return. Mr.
theatinh
oitnletyheortv,Tnet6rtsvil'
goods, and the latter
language that he would
rh:t)ukr 'ni n o
day, and took them aw4"°(lis. On the following Mon •
defendant returned to the shop, about ten mie the
wAs then abent, an I askurimfr,oln which nutsda
the wareroom, and
when I
vtnt•
uto go up stairs into
"I have seen your employer, t,/,,r /he said to me,
more coats, three more waistcoats, airl to have two
and supposing
pairs of
trousers," in consequence
of
which,
had come from your employer, I let hitilill \e the
osing he
articles. I did not discover that he had obtained
the
goods without permission for some days afterwards.
Cross-examined by Mr. Mellor—The defendant
1
has been known to me for a considerable time, and,
had goods from the house upon sale or return
several times. He had only sold goods for us once
in the country, and when he came back with the
monev I settled the account off the slate. I knew
the 4fefendant's address. On the first occasion, on
the. 7th of December, he wanted more goods than he
f.i.t.ii,rom Mr. Juda, but he was refused, and what
~1-1,,,
cen had was the largest amount he ever had.
IV,/.1, n We give out goods on sale or return, we don't
enter the account in a book, only on a slate, but
what I receive cash for I enter in a book. We give
them a ticket with
a number on it with the article we
give out. I wrote tohe defendant, informing him
that if he did not pay the Mr. Juda
amount
and from me, he
or return 'Jail the
goods he had got from
should be apprehended. I
would not, I assure you,
trust my own brother without of my
the permission
employer.
Moses Juda confirmed the state
foreman in its essential parts, and said made
by his
articles delivered by Hart formed said none of the
pa
him have. I did not authorise the prisonerrtofthose I let
my foreman to get these goods, and I kne to go to
about it for five or six days, , I went to Manchester
nothing
lanchester
and gave the prisoner in charge for this offence.
The witness's cross-examination rather confirmed
than invalidated his statement, and he concluded
saying, the defendant's wife came to me, ardasked
by
me to forward to the defendant an invoice
to Co-
ventry ; but I said, no ; I should t ' cer only refuse to
give any invoice for them.
Michael Deady, City policeman, said I
took the

blicliael Haydon, a constable of the City Reserve
Police, stated that seeing the prisoners in King Wil-
ham-street on Tuesday evening, and having some
previous knowledge of their character, he followed
them through Princes-street, Bartholomew-lane,
Threadneedle-street, Bishopsgate, Gracechurch-street,
King William-street, again to Moorgate. Here they
accosted a gentleman. Williams went up to him
first, but he shook her off. Then Wright overtook
him, stood before him, caught hold of him, and
resisted effectually his efforts to get rid of her. The.
gentleman turned into Ropemaker-street, and broke
away, but Wright fastened on him again, Williams
keeping close by, and passing and repassing them.
Presently he saw Wright's hand in the pocket of the
gentleman's trousers, and then she dropped off and
joined her companion. Witness was watching at a
distance, and having ascertained that the gentleman
had lost his purse, and desired him to wait at a
particular spot, he overtook the prisoners. He desired
a young man to seize Williams while he seized
Wright. They both made a desperate resistance ;
and when he took the purse from her hand, Wright
said, " Now you have got it, there is no occasion to
pull a body about." He took them back to the
place where the gentleman was to wait, but he was
gone.
This statement was corroborated by 'Alfred Salis-
bury, who secured Williams.
Wright said, the gentleman gave her the purse;
and Williams said, she was walking with Wright,
because she promised to give her something to drink.
Sir JOHN Puss said, the prisoners were known to
be dangerous characters, and he should direct the
City Solicitor to prosecute, that there might be no
failure of justice from the absence of the owner of the
property. He committed them for trial.
Joseph John Warwick, the foreman of the book-
binders at the establishment of Mr. Orr, the book-
seller, in Amen-corner, was charged with obtaining
money by false pretences from his employer.
Mr. Wontner conducted the prosecution, and ex-
plained that it was the prisoner's duty to take an
account of the work done by the male and female
bookbinders employed on the premises, make up a list
of the wages, receive the amount (from 301. to 401. a
week) from the cashier, and pay the workpeople. In
making up this list he had charged the full week's
work to men who had lost time, and actually received
a smaller amount by ss. or 75., and sometimes he had
charged wages for men who were absent altogether,
either having been discharged, or being ill, in these
cases putting 28s. in his pocket at once. This had
been going on since July, but as he had destroyed
instead of filing the weekly bills made out by the
workpeople themselves, the amount he had embezzled
could not be traced. About 201. only had been
traced.

The evidence was rather bulky, but conclusive, and
the prisoner offered no defence. When he was ap-
prehended he accounted for the discrepancies by.say-
ing he was muddled when he made out the account.
Sir John Pine committed him for trial.
BOW-STREET.

With the view of removing as far as possible the
nuisance which has resulted from the enormous and
increasing traffic to and from Hungerford-market,
the great source of the twopenny omnibuses, Mr.
Henry sent for the superintendent of the divi-
sion, Mr. Pearce, to direct that a large number of
police-constables should be placed on daty in: the
arket in future, to preserve order and decorum
among the rival conductors and. drivers, and to pre-
vent the obstructions repeatedly arrising in the tho-
roughfare leading to the Strand, complaints respecting
both of which have been of continued recurrence at
Bow-street.

Mr. Pearce intimated that, inasmuch as the market
had hitherto been regarclid as private property, and
the omnibus proprietors paid for the privilege of
making it their starting point, the police had felt
themselves unable to interfere.

Mr. HENRY could not listen to such a plea as this.
The market was, to all intents and purposes, a public
thoroughfare, and as long as the public were admitted
thereto without restraint of any kind, they had a right
to expect, and shouldYhave, the protection of the police.
Ilis Worship was determined to put a stop to the
brawls and scenes of confusion occurring there every
day. The police should attend with instructions to
summons the offenders to that court, and he would
take care that, by suspending or wholly revoking their
licenses, the nuisance shoulu be put an end to.
The superintendent said that an additional force
should be accordingly sent there, and he doubted not
that this course would be effectual.

Our reportir was requested by Mr. Henry to ac-
knowledge a donation of 21. received through
rdessrs. Gosling and Sharpe, for the poor-box, from
" J.ll 11."

Mr. COTTINGHAM said that a stop must be put to
such practices, as the railway property must be pro-
tected. He should sentence him to three days' im-
prisonment, and order him to be privately whipped.
LAMBETH.

Three of the servants of the South-Western Rail-
way Company were brought into the court in Cus-
tody, by order of the directors, on a charge of having,
by their negligence, caused the serious collision
on the line on Friday night, which led to the death
of David Markland, the engine•driver of a passenger
train.

The prisoners, upon being placed at the bar, gave
their names Samuel Brownsmith, guard ' •William
Jones, engine-driver ; and Lewis Fleming, fireman.
The first witness called was Mr. William Hadken
Young, the Assistant Superintendent of the South-
Western line, who deposed that on the preceding
evening he left Southampton at six o'clock, on the
up-passenger train, and on arriving on Purbright-
common, which is situated between the Farnborough
and Woking stations, something was found amiss
with the engine, and the train was stopped. The
engine. driver (Markland) and the fireman got off for
the purpose of repairing the injury to the engine,
and Whiting, the head guard of the train, gave di-
rections to his under guard, the prisoner Brownsmith,
in his (witness) presence to go back and signal the
up-train on the same line of rails to stop. The pri-
soner did so. When he had been gone about twenty
minutes witness heard, and, in fact, saw the lights of
a goods train coming towards the stationary train ;
and perceiving that the steam was not shut off, he
(Mr. Young) sent a clerk belonging to the company
to stop it, but it came on at a tremendous rate, and
ran into the passenger train. The shock was so
great that the carriages in the passenger train were
separated, and some of them were forced on the line
to a considerable distance. Markland, the engine-
driver, who was unfortnnately under the engine at
the time, was found to be quite dead, having received
so serious an injury on his head that his death must
have been instantaneous. The fireman was severely
injured, as were also several of the passengers.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Did you see the prisoner Brown-
smith after he had been sent to signal and stop the
corning train ?
Mr. Young—Yes, Sir, he came up after the ac-
cident. Said he held up his hands with the red light,
and called out as loud as he could, but could not
make the driver or fireman on the goods train see or
hear him.

Mr. ELLIOTT—Was it the duty of Brownsmith to
have taken any other signal with him than that of the
red light ? Mr. Young—Yes, Sir. Your worship
will see by the 47th rule of the regulations, which are
in the hands of every servant of dee company, what
his duty was.
Mr. ELLIOTT read the 47th rule, which was as fol-
lows :—" In case of any accident occurring, so as to
impede the progress of any train, the under guard
shall be dispatched to the nearest station astern the
train, to give notice thereof, and in his progress
thereto shall fix, at a distance of 600 yards from the
point of observation, a signal to stop, and fog signals,
so as to indicate danger to a coming train. Measures
should also be taken by sending the fireman, or any
other available person, to advise the agent at the nearest
station ahead of the occurrence."

The fog signals Mr. Young described as detonating
balls, which were to be placed on the rails at a dis-
tance not greater than 100 yards apart, and which
the engine in passing orer broke, and caused an ex-
plosion N. \ hich alarmed the persons in charge of the
train. Mr. Young, in conclusion, said the directors
of the line felt it to be their duty, under the circum-
stances, to send the three prisoners before a muistrate.
William Whiting deposed that he was head guard
of the passenger train that left Southampton for
London, at six o'clock the evening before. The train
came at its usual pace until about eight o'clock, when
it arrived at Purbright-common, when the driver
blew his whistle for stopping, and did stop. Witness
got from his usual place, and found Markland, the
engine-daiver, and the prisoner on the line, and the
former said there was something the matter with the
engine, which must be set to rights. He then re-
quested witness to hold his lamp, and got underneath
the engine. Previously to this, however, witness
dispatched his under-guard, Brownsmith, to signal
the next up train to stop. Marklaed, on examinint,
the works of the engine, said the " executor " hadc
broken away, but he thought he would be able to set
it right in three or four minutes. He observed him
take away a portion of the engine that had broken
awry, and soon after he said, " All is ready ; now see
that your passengers are all right." Witness then
left the light alongside the engine, and went to look
after the passengers, and immediately afterwards the
goods train came up and ran into them. Had the
deceased come from under the engine at the time he
said that all was ready, his life would have been saved,
and he could not say what was the cause of his re-
maining there, but that he had been under the engine
at the time of the collision there could be no doubt.
In reply to the questions of Mr. ELLIOTT, the
witness said that he had not seen Brownsmith until
after the accident, and he then stated what the last
witness, Mr. Young, had repeated, namely, that he
could not make the driver or fireman on the luggage-
train see or hear him. The witness here begged to
add that besides the signal sent out by Brownsmith,
there were three signals at the back part of the pas-
senger-train, that could be seen on such a night as
that of Friday at a distance of a mile and a half, at
havefo stopped and
least, if not double the distance; and he (witness)
rwthaesrthexe!dmoi
Was at a loss to understand why it was, more parti-
cularly as they were on a high embankment, the pri-
sonerssignals,distancefrom Jones and Fleming did not see them in time to
prevent the accident. On being
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George Tofield, an inspector of. Police on the line,
stated that he took the prisoners Jones and Fleming
into custody at the station, at an
early hour that
morning, and Brownsmith he also took into custody

➢lr. Gray said he was not sufficiently versed in the
law to discuss legal points, but he would state for the
information of the magistrate, that the appeal he had
made to the merchants, warehousemen, manufac-
turers, and tradesmen of of London had not been re-
sponded to in the way he anticipated, in enabling him
to meet the great and unavoidable expenses he had
been put to in carrying out a most important prose-
cution, and that the subscription at present only
amounted to 2001., leaving him 5001. out of pocket
by the affair. He had, :however, received letters of
thanks from all quarters. He wished it to be under-
stood that he had been bound :over to prosecute, not
only for himself, but for many others who had been
defrauded by the same gang, and that a Judge's
warrant was in existence to apprehend Herman
Cusell, who had forfeited his recognizances to the
amount of 8001.

Mr. BALLANTINE stated very clearly the difficulties
which stood in the way of any further interference on
his part, and said, much as Mr. Gray disliked an
action at law, he could suggest no other proceeding
against Duke, who, perhaps, might yet relent,
and restore the rope to the owner. lie could not, as
a magistrate, take cognizance of the subscription, but
he hoped it would meet the expectations of Mr.
Gray, who had made such great sacrifices for the
public weal.
Mr. Gray thanked the magistrate, and retired with
several merchants and gentlemen belonging to the
Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade,•.who
appeared much interested in the affair, and spoke in
high terms of Mr. Gray's exertions.

The SOLICITOR. GENERAL having replied on behalf
of the Crown,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE charged the jury, tell-
ing them that unless there was the grossest 'perjury
in the case they were legally bound t 4 convict both
prisoners.
The jury retired at half-past five o'clock, and in a
few minutes returned with a verdict of conviction
against both prisoners, who received the announce-
of their fate perfectly unmoved.
They were remanded until the following day for
sentence.
ARRAIGNMENT OF PRISONERS.—The Court then
proceeded to arraign prisoners in the several cases in
which bills of indictment were found by the grand
jury, amongst whom were five men charged with the
wilful murder of a person named M`Mahon. When
the Clerk of the Crown asked the prisoners in this
case whether they were guilty or not, four of them
said " Not Guilty," and the fifth pleaded Guilty.
Mr. O'lls.k said that the prisoner was evidently
under a misconception as to the nature of the charge
against him, and asked pertnission- for him to be al-
lowed to plead again, and withdraw his first plea.
Mr. BENNETT—The Clerk of the Crown can put
the usual question again, and let him be told that if
he persists in pleading guilty he will be hanged.
Clerk of the Crown—How say you, prisoner, are
you guilty or not ? Prisoner-1 am Guilty.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—Do you know that you must
be hanged if you plead guilty of the crime of which
you are charged ?
Mr. Frost, the attorney for the four men who
asserted their innocence, informed the prisoner of the
nature of the charge for which he was indicted. He
said it was murder and not manslaughter, as he might
have supposed ; he should, therefore, consider well
before such a plea was recorded.
The prisoner again persisted in stating that he was
guilty. He said that he and five others—not the men
on trial—committed the murder ; however, after
some further explanation to him, he withdrew his
plea and pleaded Not Guilty.
Several other parties having entered pleas, the
Court, at six o'clock, adjourned to the following day.
FRIDAY, JAN. 14.—The Chief Justice sat this
morning at ten o'clock, and proceeded with the trial
of the prisoners. The Chief Baron did not sit, owing
to slight indisposition.
APPEARING IN ARMS.—Patrick Cusack, a young
man about twenty-five years of age, was convicted
of having, on the 18th of October, at Crannaher,
appeared in arms, to the fear and terror of her Ma-
jesty's subjects ; the prisoner was arrested after firing
two shots at horses employed in carrying corn.
The prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment with hard labour. The Chief Justice observed,
that if the indictment had been framed under another
statute he would certainly have been transported.
ATTACKING A D WELLING• HOUSE ARMED.—John
Liddy, Patrick Canny, Michael Hickey, and Michael
Skeean, were found guilty of having, on the Ist of
August, 1847, at Traugh, with others, attacked the
dwelling-house of William Walsh, and stolen a gun
and pistol, his property.
The CHIEF ,JUSTICE sentenced them to transporta-
tion for fourteen years. His Lordship addressed
them in very feeling terms (similar to his address to
the convicts in the county Limerick), and said he did so
not for the purpose of wounding them, or adding re-
proach to their punishment, but fur the purpose of
reading a lesson to the unconvicted criminals of the
county Clare, and warning them against the commis-
sion of crime.
The Court was sitting at the post hour.
The Limerick Reporter of Friday says—" Sen-
tence of death was this day passed upon Hayes and
Ryan (Small), for the murder of Mr. Watson."

WILL OF THE LATE DEAN OF RIPON.-" This is
the last will and testament of me, the Very Rev. James
Webber, D.D., of Dean's yard, Westminster, Dean of
Ripon, and one of the Prebendaries of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter, Westniinster. I give, devise, and
bequeath to my wife, Caroline Francis Webber, all my
real and personal estate, of whatsoever kind or nature,
and wheresoever siteate, and all that may be due and
coming to me as Mater of the hospitals of St. Mary
Magdalen, and St. John the tvangelist, Ripon ; to hold
the same unto my said wife; .her heirs, executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns iibtolutely, and appoint her
sole executrix of this, myo4ll.—Witness my hand this
18th day of June, 1847." This venerable dignitary
died on the 3d of Septemberlast, and besides his estates
and property in the province of York, was possessed of
personal and funded property within the province of Can-
terbury, amounting to nearly 4,0901. He has held the
vicarage of Kirkham, in Lancashire, from the year 1813,
the annual value is returned as exceeding 9001. with the
patronage of seven benefices. He was appointed a Pre-
bendary of Westminster in 1816, and was occupying a
prebendary house at Dean's-yard, to which three of the
Prebendaries are entitled; from this appointment there
is a participation in a large revenue of about 20.0001
annually divided among the clergy, comprising the Chap-
ter, consisting of the Dean and twelve Prebendaries. In
1828 he was raised to the dignity of Dean of Ripon;
attached to this office there is an income of between
3001. and 4001.

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NEWS FOR THE " NATIVES."—ReaIIy there seems
to be no end to the objects to which the new invention
of chloroform is likely to be applied. Lately we heard
an ultra mercy monger seriously proposing tha lit
should be applied to capital criminals, in order that they
might be hanged "with sensations rather pleasurable ;"
and we are now told it is an excellent substitute for
the oyster knife. It is right our Colchester
friend should know this. A little chloroform, it is
said, applied to the shell, sends the dear little delicious
creatures into a deep sleep, even though they
be just out of their beds, and in the unconsciousness of
their dreamhood they gradually open and let in the
enemy. Ladies may thus amuse themselves by opening
oysters at the work-table ; and it is said that some
young spendthrifts in the town, hearing of this new ap-
plication of chlorofot m, propose to apply it to parent,s,
and guardians, as it will make the old folks " shell out.
—Chelmsford Chronicle.
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THE ANCIENT MONUMENT IN TRAFELGAR-
SQUABE.—Some of our Contemporaries have been foolish
of the Nelson monument had been sent to Woolwich to
be cast, and that there really was a chance of seeing this
finished before they
unlucky monument of many things
enough to believe that the sculptured tablets for the base
partner, the excellent Member for
it would puzzle us to tell. We shall
die. In truth, however, we believe there is nothing yet
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waived his promotion to the rank of Vice-Admiral, to
wieh Hospital. Sir James Gordon has, however, re-
ceived official notification from the Admiralty, that should
health, or other circumstances, compel him to give up
the Lieutenant-Governorship, he will be placed in his
proper position as a Vice-Admiral.

ECONOMICS WITHIN THE RE-
COLLECTION OF A SEXAGENARIAN.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
The following comparisons of the state of things in
1847 and from 1787 to 1797—fifty or sixty years ago
—has been made by an intelligent correspondent :
TRAVELLING BY COACII.—Stage-coaches were then
much slower, so that there was both loss of time and
increase of expense at inns. Between Edinburgh
and Glasgow, and Edinburgh and Perth, was a regu-
lar day's journey; and there was also dinner by the
way. Then there were no outside seats as we have at
present. Now stage-coach travelling is of quite an
opposite description, and is in a great measure super-
seded by railway coaches; the outside of the stage-
coach being advantageously compensated by the
second and third class carriages.
SEA CONVEYANCE was then by sailing vessels, the
very swiftest being sometimes a week or ten days
between Leith and London. Steamers now accom-
plish the same distance in little more than a day and
a half. One advantage the old mode had to people
whose time was of little value—such as half-pay
officers and the like—that in the event of a tedious
passage, good provisions were included in your two
guineas passage money. It is told of a Berwick
citizen that, going to London in a smack on one
occasion, the vessel having made a quick passage of
little more than forty-eight hours, it was announced
to him in the evening that they were in the Thames;
instead of expressing satisfaction, he growled out,
"Is this all we have got for our money I'
CLoTnes.—The substitution of cotton for linen in
shirts, and also the great fall in the price of cotton
cloth of all descriptions, within the two periods, is
particularly applicable to women's dress. The com-
mon use of black clothes by men—in this way one
good suit and one more common is sufficient for ordi-
nary use : then, a good cap and a good black suit
were thought necessary. Hats which look well and
wear well are much cheaper now.
HAIR POWDER was then in general use among the
younger men of the middle classes, the daily em-
ployment of the friseur being absolutely requisite, as
the hair had to be dressed and tied behind in a queue.
With the common soldier in the army precisely the
same dressing of the hair was enforced, only, instead
of powder, they used common flour, and they had
to act alternately the part of friseur to each other.
Elderly men wore often powdered wigs, with stiff
curls. About the end of last century the use of hair
powder among the younger people was given up very
suddenly. The first change was a fashion from
France of curling the hair very much, in imitation of
the heads of the ancient statues. Military hair dres-
sing was also abolished in one day, by a mandate by
the head medical department of the army.
SHOES are about the same price now as then, but
wear better; the upper leather then giving way soon.
Boots are now much more generally worn. In this
respect, therefore, the old school had the advantage
in economy.
STOCKINGS.—By the general use of trousers, any
kinds of stockings, even of the most ordinary
description, may be worn. Formerly trousers were
only worn by sailors. With the middle and
higher classes breeches were universally worn.
and a superior and much more expensive kind of
stockings were necessary and always in use. In short,
we have the picture of a fashionably-dressed young
man of 1787, when we observe the costume of the
usher who attends the Queen.
WRITING MATERIALS.—Writing paper is now
much finer and cheaper than formerly. Pens—The
use of steel getting gradually universal, being not
only cheaper, but requiring no mending, saves a great
deal of time, particularly where good penmanship is
necessary. Quills require good eyes and sharp knives,
and will hardly hear above twice mending.
LIGHT AND HEAT.—Of coals we have now a much
more ample supply by canals and railways, and the
article is, upon the whole, better and cheaper. Gas
generally takes the place of candles, and certainly
yields more light for the same price, and has the ad-
vantage of the light being more uniform, without
snuffing.
CURRENCY.—Formerly, there was a large propor-
tion of lead, copper, silver, gold, and notes. The
silver was both bad and light, the gold light, and the
notes some in bad credit and all liable to forgery. The
case is very different now.
ARTICLES or FOOD.—Neither the prices of bread
or corn have varied so mucd that one period does not
very well admit of being compared with another.
Thus, the price of 1847 differs more in 1846 than it
does in 1797. Butcher meat, upon the whole, is cer-
tainly higher priced now. It is rather curious, indeed,
thatf or some time Scots beef has brought the highest
prices in the London market. Neither is mutton
equal in flavour to that of the old blackfaced breed,
more attention being now paid to the quality of the
wool. Three articlea, however, which, with pro-
priety, may be called necessaries—tea, coffee, sugar,
—are likely to be more permanently cheaper than
formerly.
In one important article we spend more than we
did formerly—that is to say, house accommodation.
Our houses are more roomy, better aired, and have
more conveniences than in old times.

PRISON COMPANIoNsinr.—How long the lamp of
conversation holds out to burn between two persons only,
is curiously sot down in the following passage from
Count Confalonieri's account of his imprisonment :
" I ens an old man now; yet by fifteen years my soul is
younger than my body! Fifteen years I existed (for I
(lid not live—it was not life) in the self-same dungeon,
ten feet square! During six years I had a companion;
during nine I was alone! I never could rightly distin-
oalcilldi
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distin-
guish the face of him who shared my captivity in the
' eternal twilight of our cell. The first year we talked
incessantly together; we related our past lives, our joys
for ever gone, over and over again. The next year we
all subjects. The third year we had no idea ton
communicate ; . we wore beginning to lose the
power of reflection. The fourth, at the interval'
wetolie,
h of
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it .were indeed possible that the world went on as gay
and bustling as when we formed a
communicatedll t month o r so ,
The fifth, we were silent. portion of mankind.
The sixth, he was taken
away, I never knew where, to execution or to liberty,
but I was glad when he was gone; even Bolande its
better than the dim vision
of that pale, vacant face.
Afteralone;only
One o
that I was ne event broke in upon
my nine years' vacancy.day (it must have been a
year or two after my companion left me) the dungeon
door was opened, and a voice—whence proceeding I
know nut—uttered these words, Bye
order of his Im-
perial Majesty, I intimate to you that your wife died a
year ago.' Ihen the door was shut; I hoard no more;
they had but flung this great agony in upon me, and left
me alone with it again."
FRENCH EGGS.—There have been very numerous
arrivals of eggs within these few days from France. The
Belfast, front Calais, brought GG cases ; the Neptune,
from Gravelines, 97 cases and 4 baskets ; the Lion, from
Gravelines, 61 cases ; the Carolinda, from Caen, 99
cases ; the Poule, frein Cherbourg, 181 cases; the Hy-
polite, from Gravelines, 81 cases ; the Coq, from Cher-
bourg, 182 cases of the article. The price of eggs in the
metropolis, at the present time, is about half that of the
corresponding period of last year, notwithstanding the
great demand. which must have obtained during the
recent festive season for this useful article of food.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 14.--The trAde
continues to show a disposition to get into stock, and a
stearly business has been dune since our last, at full
prices.—Bristol Ali eery,