The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-11 00:00:00

DECEMBER ll, 1848,

to be worth 5001. above the payment of all his debts.
He trusted the magistrate would accept Mr. Boucher
now, and that in the course of Monday another gentle-
man would be procured to enter into the other surety for
his keeping the peace.
Mr. bECKER refused to comply.
Mr. Dunn, who exclaimed against this decision of the
magistrate, then withdrew with one of the tipstaffs of
the Queen's Bench.

THE STANFIELD - HALL
MURDERS.
(From the Norfolk Chronicle.)
We have this morning received the following letter
from Air. Nichols :

" Norwich, Friday, Dec. 8.
" Deer Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry lam happy in
being able to state that Mrs. Jenny has passed another
tranquil night, and is, this morning, as well as I could
expect. The continued absence of unfavourable symp-
toms up to the present time (now nine days since the
injury) leads me to hope that such a state of things may
continue.

" The poor servant still remains in a most precarious
condition. Mr. Tunnaly agrees with me in the above
opinion. " I am, very sincerely,
" W. P. Nicnoi.s."
LATEST PARTICULARS.
It being positively stated in Norwich that the pistols
had been found in the moat on Thursday, our re-
porter proceeded to Wymondham, and ascertained that
such was not the fact. The moat has been nearly
emptied, and a number of men have been searching in
it every day this week ; but up to four
o'clock on Thursday no pistols had been found. The
whole ground between the hall and Potash farm has been
carefully examined without success ; but it is believed
that the pistols must be secreted somewhere within a
circle from the hall. It has been ascertained from the
statements of two parties named Proctor and Theke,
who were employed about a fortnight since doing work
on Rush's premises, that two large pistols, brass mounted,
were then in the house, and that they were removed
into the wheat shed. They cannot now be found any-
where.

The ramrod found in the hall on the night of the mur-
der is of a description exactly suited to the pistols seen
in the house. One of the superintendents took this
ramrod to London, in order, if possible, to find the
maker ; as it is believed, being of a very peculiar con-
struction, that it would be easily identified by him, or
by any one who ever saw it. As yet the most active in-
quiries of the metropolitan police have not produced any
satisfactory result.
' It has been ascertained that a person answering to
the description of Rush, when in London, frequented
ono of the shooting-galleries, and practised shooting at
a mark. He asked the proprietor where he could ob-
tain a good pair of duelling pistols? And the proprietor
remarked the man, as he believed he intended to fight a
duel. We are also informed that Solomon Savery is in
custody; that he now tells a different story about the
shoes, and about the fastening to the back kitchen
door, to what he did at first, and says that his first
story was prompted by his master. It is believed that
Emily James can divulge a great deal more than she has
yet done.

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It has just been communicated to us that a pair of
pistols has been found in the wheat shed, but the police
think they were not the weapons used.
The inquiry before the magistrates is proceeding. Re-
porters are not admitted.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
On Thursday a Court was held for the dispatch of
public business. The principal matter to which the at-
tention of the Court was drawn was the report on the
reference with respect to the poor-laws, a subject of late
become one of paramount importance to the citizens of
London.

The clerk who originally lost the note to pay ...
The clerk who failed to detect the alteration of
the number to pay ...
The inspector who had to examine the goodness
of the note, regardless of the number, to pay...
The clerk who omitted to insist upon a more de-
finite address than "James-street " to be
written on the note to pay ...
The clerk who paid the gold, and mistaking the
party ter a banker's clerk, omitting to inform
his principal, which he should hove done where
the amount of gold required is above 2004, and
the party unknown, to pay ...

Total ... .• 1,000
Their salaries are as follows, or thereabout.—
First clerk mentioned 2001. a year.
Second clerk, the oldest cashier, 500/. a year.
Third clerk, 280/. a year.
Fourth clerk, 300/. a year.
Fifth clerk, 250/. a year.
Thus five families are the innocent sufferers from this
oversight in not detecting an ingenious forgery.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on the 7th of December, 1848:-

ASSETS.

Cash and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due
••• ••• •••
Bills falling due in Paris, of which
17,115,575 f. 63c. are from the branch
banks
..• ... 57,483,390 42
Bills in the branch banks 107,680,943 28
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 14,338,486 00
Ditto on French public securities ... 33,654,146 65
Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,540,537 00
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions 50,000,000 00
Rentes of the reserve fund
... 10,000,000 00
acntes, disposable funds 34,786,288 62
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... ... 12,806,741 39
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 00
Real property of the branch banks ... 2,611,621 00
Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris 5,500,000 00
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00
Ditto branch banks ... ▪ 230,000 00
Bills protested at Paris ••• ••• 12,300,258 13
Ditto at the branches ... ... 6,750,881 00
Expenses of administration of the Bank 582,143 59
Ditto of the branches ... • 466,885 00
Miscellaneous ... •
536,394 46
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds ... 7,906,247 36

f. 137,562,627 71
. . 109,495,229 00
257,627 92

f. 669,680,448 53

LIABILITIES.

Capital . • ... £67,900,000 00
Ditto of the new Branch, Banks ... 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund •.. ... 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 00
Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 383,765,500 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... 19,724.725 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) 448,789 00
Account-current with Treasury creditor 26,545,738 38
Various accounts current 77,020,500 66
Ditto in branches 26,097,688 00
Bills payable at sight ... ... 2,367,300 00
Ditto at branches 1,251,548 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... 5,341,235 64
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,065.505 00
Dividends payable ... 184,904 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 383,264 04
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,362,552 18
Ditto branch banks 2,667,725 00
Re discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27
Ditto in branch banks .. 633,773 00
Miscellaneous ...
... 166,018 11

£660,680,448 53

IVe remark with pleasure that it is the intention of
the Members of the London Mechanics' Institution, near
Chancery-lane, to celebrate their twenty-fifty anniver-
sary by agrand concert in their theatre to-morrow even-
ing, devoting the profits to the increase of their library.
Such .entertainments deserve support, affording as they
do, both intellectual amusements, and the means of ad-
vancing the efficiency of such institutions. The names
of Misses- Birch, Dolby, Miran, R. Isaacs; Messrs.
Loekey, Leffler, F. Bodda, John Parry, Her Kcenig,
Viotti Collids, and Charles Severn, are in the pro-
gramme, and with such talent scarcely a doubt can be
entertained of the success of the concert.
. VEGETABLE SOUP.—lnto two quarts of cold water
put three pounds of pumpkin or gourd, cut into thin
slices, peeled, and with all the seeds removed; two large
onions, also peeled and sliced, with a small stick of celery,
cut into very small pieces. Boil these together slowly
for two hours and a-half, and then, after adding an ounce
of dripping, two large table spoonsful of flour, and of
pepper end salt as much as pleases the taste, boil for
half an hour longer; stir frequently during the whole of
the boiling. We have the testimony of our palate that
it is one of the most agreeable, and it is certainly the
cheapest of soups. The pumpkins saved for seed are
better for this purpose than those which are less ripe
and more watery. We may as well remove from such
of our readers' minds as happen to entertain it, the
false prejudice that no vegetable food is so nourishing
as the flesh of animals. This is a very great error.—
Cottage Gardener.
MILFORD HAVEN.—The mail-packet station be-
tween this place and Waterford is fairly abolished. The
last of the steamers, the Jasper, left during the past
week for Woolwich to be paid off. The services of
Com. Dunn, R.N., borne on the books of the Royal So-
vereign -yacht- to superintend the establishment, have
also been dispensed with, all the engineers sent to
Woolwich, and each of the packets paid off at that port.
The two' light vessels placed on the Weir tongue and
the Carr rocks for their convenience, have been also re-
reeved and aro now offered for sale by the Admiralty.
Buoys, however, for the navigation have been placed at
their moorings. By these arrangements a saving of
nearly 30,000L.a year has been effected.
EARLY CLOSING IN ALL TRADES.—A very nume •
rously attended meeting for the furtherance of the above
object was held on Thursday evening last, in the Na-
tional School-rooms, Hoxton-square. The Rev. T. S.
Diens, vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, was in the
chair, and expressed his entire concurrence in the object
of the meeting. The late-hour system was one of those
many Abuses ,existing in society, which it was one of
the characteristics of the present age manfully to meet.
Resolutions condemnatory of the late-hour system, and
calling upon the public to purchase early, and to deal
with those employers who Close at a reasonable' hour,
were proposed and seconded by several leading employers
of the neighbourhood, and unanimously assented to.
The Rev. Mr. Jones, perpetual curate of St. James,
Curtain-road, delivered an argumentative and eloquent
address on behalf of the early closing movement. He
once looked upon it with suspicion, but now viewed it as
one of the first steps towards the intellectual and more
regeneration of society. A .vote of thanks was passed
to the chairman, which was appropriately acknowledged
when the meeting separated.
CALEDONIAN CANAL.—The traffic on the. Cale-
donian Canal is daily increasing. On Wednesday last,
there were no less than thirteen schooners, one brig, and
five sloops, in the basin and Muirton Locks, besides the
fine barque Mersey, of Liverpool, which arrived the pre-
ceding evening. This large vessel measures 364 tons
registers but carries upwards of 600. She is from
Dantzic, bound for Belfast, with a cargo of wheat and
linseed. She has been a month on the passage, and met
with severe weather. Shortly after.leaving Dantzic, she
encountered a terrific gale, and, with about fifty other
vessels, was driven ashore in the Baltic. The master,
Captain Cubbin, supposes that several of the vessels
would become total wrecks. In the North Sea, the
Mersey was, in consequence of the very tempestuous
weather thrown upon her beam ends, with her yards in
the water, and the master was compelled to throw over-
board 440 bags of linseed, in all amounting to forty tons.
This fine ship is to remain for a few days to refit. We
believe she is the largest that ever entered the canal.-
North British MaiL

' THE ABDICATION AND THE FLIGHT.—Never had
jeurnalists to announce, as happening in one week, such
' intelligence as that which we communicate to our readers
—the abdication of the Emperor of Austria and the
flight of the Pope—the ono representing the holy Ro-
man Empire, the other the holy Roman :Church: Em-
peror and Pope friendless—and Empire and Church
beset with difficulties threatening destruction! These
are eventful times indeed! —Ch urch and State Gazette.
RUNNING MATCH.—Yesterday afternoon, notwith-
standing the unfavourable state of the weather, a large
number of persons assembled on Lansdown to witness a
running match between " The Welsh Champion " Davis,
who was a wineer on a former occasion, and a runner
called "Birmingham Matthews," for 1001. aside. The
report of such a match "coming off" having got abroad
far and wide among the speculators in sporting bets, it
brought to our city a large influx of strangers, among
whom were many of Davis's countrymen, ardent in
backing him against his antagonist; and, as is usual in
such contests, much money was lost and won in the re-
sult besides the principal stakes. The distance marked
out for the race was three-quarters of a mile on the
turnpike road, and the time in which it was run was
about three minutes. At starting both competitors
evinced an equal prowess, and kept abreast till they got
about half way over the ground, when Matthews
slipped past his opponent, and gradually gained upon
him throughout the remainder of the race, winning by
five yards, amid the uproarious applause of his friends
and backers. As the occurrence did not fail to attract
the attention of a certain class of persons whose pursuits
are of more than dubious character, we shall not be
surprised to hear of unguarded pockets having been dis-
possessed of loose cash on the occasion.—Bath Chronicle.
DUTY oFr WINES.--The Medical Times, a paper
published in this city, of high medical authority, in
writing on cholera, after alluding to the diet recom-
mended, thus says of drinks, the safest and best by tar is
a little old port wine, but Lisbon and Spanish wines are
also excellent. It were a humane and even prudent
measure for the public, to demand the removal of all
duties, even nominal, on Spanish and Portuguese wines.
There are wines sold as the growth of Teneriffe and
Oratavia, of the value of which against the diarrhoea of
infanta we have had some experience.

BANK OF FNGLAND.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The stolen 1,0001 note that was cashed after the
number was altered, reported in your piper of Friday,
has caused great loss to five of the Bank clerks, who
will have to toil many, many months before their sala-
ries will make up the amount, the Committee of the
Bank of England having decided (and their decisions
are unalterable) that the clerks are to make good the loss
the Bank of England has sustained as follows: