The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-03 00:00:00

THE sill% LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1848-

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKETS, FROM

THE 15TH TO THE 30TH OF NOVEMBER INCLUSIVE.

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK, Nov. 30.
Since our report per last mail, our market for im-
ports generally has been very steady, while that for
exports has been quiet, pending the arrival of the
overland mail from London of the 25th of October.
This reached us only yesterday, and the accounts
brought by it have realised the worst apprehensions
that were created by the intelligence received by
the two preceding mails. A confident hope is, how-
ever indulged in that the ensuing one will be the
messenger of more welcome tidings, in consequence of
the measure that was resolved upon being adopted by the
Bank of England, at the recommendation of Government,
for alleviating the commercial distress of the country, and
restoring confidence, by discounts and advances upon
approved securities. Bombay has escaped in a most
wonderful manner the consequences of the fearful crisis
at home, for, with the exception of one firm, which has
been under the necessity of suspending its payments, we
do not hear that our mercantile community have suffered
losses to any serious extent. Our market for imports is
not likely to be much, if at all, prejudicially affected by
the intelligence received, as most descriptions of
British manufactured stocks are now low, and, as far as
we can ascertain, in the hands of parties not disposed to
realise hastily, except at paying prices. On the other
hand, the effect of the home accounts upon our export
market, and upon freights, must be of a very depressing
a attire, but it is yet too soon for its development. The
exchange upon London has experienced a decline, ap-
proved bills having become much dearer since the arrival
of the mail yesterday.
Cotton Piece Goods—The demand has been steady,
but scarcely so general or brisk as in the first week after
the I)ewallee. Holders, however, have shown great
firmness, and the sales made have been at full, and for
some kinds of grey goods slightly improved, prices : the
inquiry has continued to run upon 40-inch shirting of
low quality, Madapollam, low to middling, and jaeconet,
all in the grey, and for the two first named a further
advance has been established—say, for shirting two
annas, and for Madapollam one to two annas per piece,
the same being scarce. Coarse heavy domestic 40-inch
is still wanted by the Arabs, but 36-inch width does not
participate in the demand, nor do the finer makes,
owing to the continued absence of the Persian dealers
from the market. Longcloth for dying is also inquired
for, and prices are well supported. In bleached goods
there is a good inquiry for low shirting and Madapor-
lam, but without improvement in prices, and the offers
being low and unremtmerative, holders are very tena-
cious of selling, so that sales of these are limited, as-in-
deed they are of all kinds of bleached goods from the
same cause. For low to middling Jacconet there is a
fair demand. but at low prices. All descriptions of fancy
goods are as before reported. Dyed twill cloth in
Turkey red of all widths is much wanted, and would
command higher,prices. Plain cloth is without change,
the range of prices for current qualities of 23 124 inch
28 yards, being 8i- rs. to 84 rs. per piece. Prints of all
kinds are very dull, and difficult of sale.
Cotton Yarn—The large sales made on the eve of the
last mail's departure has given a quiet tone to the market
since, and the transactions reported for the present one
are limited, but at prices similar to last qq,otations.
Dyed--Orange is again inquired for, and some of,
good quality is reported as sold at from annas 118 to 12
per lb., for an average of 405., say 100 bales containing
40,000 lbs. at the former, and 12 bales containing
2,200 lbs. at the latter price. Turkey red of the best
quality, in 12i1b. bundles, has also been sold to the ex-
tent of 55 bales, at 1 r. 9 as. per lb. ; but inferior con-
tinue unusually depressed.
Woollens—Since last mail there has been no transac-
tions, but in the early part of the month a somewhat
large sale of cloth was effected, say 250 pieces scarlet, at
1 r. per yard ; 250 pieces ditto at 18 r. per yard ; 300
pieces ditto at 11 r. per yard, which prices are rather
under previous ones for smiliar qualities.
Metals—There has been a demand for Swedish bar
iron, and sales to the extent of 2,000 candies have been
effected at 49 rs. per candy. British is dull and not in-
quired for at present. Nail rod, both round and square, is
steady, but only a sale of 150 candies of the former re-
ported at 46i rs. per candy. Of sheet, 600 bundles have
been sold at 7 rs. 3 as. per cwt —this description is rather
dull just now. Hoop is steady, as are also nails, but in
neither have we heard of any transactions. Swedish
steel is very dull, and has further receded in value,
900 cwt. tub with 100 cwt. Faggot' haying been sold at
8 rs. 13 as. per cwt. bpelter has been sold to the
extent of 2,500 cwt. at rs. 121, and 250 at rupees 12 rs.
5 as. per cwt. There is some disposition on the part of
dealers to ship this article to Calcutta, where the price
is much in advance of our quotations. Lead in de-
mand, but no sales. Copper—Nothing has been done
in it, and the market looks somewhat dull for it just
now.

Cochineal— There is none in first hands, and the price
is nominally, 41 rs. per lb. Further sales to arrive have
been effected at 4lt rs. at 3 -16ths per lb. deliverable in
two months.
Saffron continues saleable at 13 rs. rer lb., at which
2001bs. are reported sold.
Spirits—The inquiry for brandy is still limited, and
the sales made show a further decline in price.
Beer—The stocks of all kinds in importers' hands
are exhausted, and until the new makes its appear-
ance in April next, no further supplies can be looked f'or.
Marine Stores—We have heard of no doings under
this head, but prices may be considered as quoted.
Sundries-1W Lead has been sold to the extent of 300
cwt. at rupees 13i and 200 at rupees 13i, per cwt., at
which the market is steady. Of Lametta, 25,000 corges
have, been parted with in one sale at A rs. 9 as. per
corge, for silver and gold, which prioo it a slight
provement upon the last sale.

passing events, can regain its usual calmness, so as to
admit of business proceeding with customary regularity
and in the usual channels, and the immediate effect
of the present unfortunate state of affairs will doubtless
be a severe tightness of money and a general fall in
prices.
The Import Market has been less brisk than its active
opening after the holidays promised. This lessened
animation may perhaps be attributed partly to the
occasional holidays which have interrupted business,
and partly to the disorganised state of credit and want
of confidence which has prevailed. Towards the end of
the past week, however, a good deal of business was done
in cotton goods and mule twist, generally at previous,
but in some instances, at slightly advanced rates. Metals
have maintained their position.

In our Money Market there is but little change to
notice ; accommodation has been readily available on
undoubted security, and in the Bazaar advances could be
procured on Government securities at 6i to 7 per cent.
The news by the mail will have a very unfavourable
influence in the Money Market, which for some time
may be expected to continue tight and unsettled, there
being a considerable amount of acceptances now consi-
dered bad or doubtful, floating in the Bazaar. A further
decline of S annas per cent. has taken place on 2d 5 per
cent., 3d 5 per cant.. and on Company's and sicca rupees
4 per cent. The Bengal Coal Company have announced
a profit at the rate of 17 per cent. per annum, one half
of which is to be divided, and the remaining moiety
retained by the directors as a working fund, an equiva-
lent for which will be given in newly created shares. A
dividend at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum for the
past half-year is now in course of payment by the
North-Western Bank. For the current half-year 16 per
cent. is expected, 5 of which will be carried to the re-
serve fund, in conformity with the resolutions passed
some time ago, and under the operations of which the
reserve fund, already existing and invested in Govern-
ment stock, amounts to nearly 8 per cent. on the paid-up
capital of 40 lacs. The Bank of Bengal's profits for the
past four months are equal to rs. 10-11.3 i per cent. per
annum on stock.

Exchange has been in a most anomalous state, and
we can quote no ruling rates. Uncovered mercantile
paper is quite neglected,tand bills of the Agra, Oriental,
and North-Western Banks are much sought after.
Transactions have taken place in this kind of paper at
1-15 to 1-101 for six months sight. Bills covered by
shipping documents are inquired for, and at six months'
sight would command 1-11 to 1-14.
Freights have been firm, and tonnage has been in
good demand; a slight fall took place after the arrival
of the last mail, but afterwards rates regained their for-
mer level, and have continued firm at our quotations.
Indigo—The new indigo has begun to arrive. There
isinothing to add to our previous reports as to the ex-
tent of the general crop, which we are still inclined to
think will be rather under than over 113,000 mds. We
have to report a sale by private contract of 100 chests
Boogie W.W., at rs. 125 per md. It is understood that
this sale was made in connexion with a bill transaction,
which may perhaps have had some influence in fixing
the price. A public sale of 260 chests was announced
to take place 'yesterday. The news by the mail, how.
ever, induced the proprietors to withdraw them ; 2OO
chests of this parcel were from the new crop, and con-
sisted of Kishnagur K.D. The quality of this parcel is
so, far promising, that it possesses a mellow paste, but is
wanting in brightness and richness of colour. The re-
maining 60 chests were from last year's crop.
Exports from Ist instant up to date:—
Chests. Fp.
To Great Britain ... 0 ... 0
France ... 0 ... 0
North America ... ... 5 ... 12
Foreign Europe ... 0 ... 0
Red Sea, Bombay, and China 0 ... 0

Total

Sugar—Transactions in this staple have been compa-
ratively of small amount. Prices have given way to the
extent of 4to 6 annas per maund. The market is bare
of fine qualities, and the stocks of inferior sorts are in-
creasing by the accession of fresh arrivals.
Exports from Ist instant up to date:
To Great Britain ... 107,730 mds.

Saltpetre—The stock of this article in the bazaar is
estimated, at present, at about 20,000 bags. The demand
for the North American market continues good, and
there has been some inquiry for French ports. There is
nothing doing for the English market.
Export from Ist inst. up to date :
To Great Britain ... ... 27,053 mds.
France ... 666 „
North America 12,557
. .

Rice.—The shipments of rica consist of parcels pre-
viously contracted for, and there is nothing doing in the
way of purchases ; some of the recent failures in London
have disturbed the trade of the Mauritius, and there is
therefore but little hope of any amendment in our trade
with that island for the present.
Exports from Ist instant up to date :
To Great Britain ... 11,730 mds.
Mauritius .. ... 15,035 ~
Mauritius, 15,525 ; and Bourbons, 23,000.
Raw Silk—The stock of the staple is unprecedent-
edly small. There is no transactions to report, and the
article is entirely neglected.
Exports from Ist instant up to date :
To Great Britain 70 mds. ; North America, 3 mds.
Silk Piece Goods—The stock of Corahs goes on in-
creasing, while there is no outlet in the shape of sales,
of which we have none to report. Exports from Ist in-
stant up to date :—To Great Britain, Corahsi 19,332
pcs. ; Chappas and Bandanas, 1,014 pcs. North America
814 pcs.
Shell lac and lac dye--Shell lac is entirely neglected,
and the trifling shipments reported are for America.
The only demand for lac dye is for the same qwixt.r.
Exports from Ist inst. up to date—Toy, Great Britain,
35 mds. shell lac., 396 mds. lac dye ; France, 23 mds.
lac dye ; N orth America, 298 mds. shell lac, 523 mids

lac dye.
Oil Seeds—The inquiry for America continues steady,
but freights are too high to admit of shipments being
made to England with any prospect of margin. For
the best cleaned rs. 2 to 24 can be obtained, and rs. 1 to
1-10 for uncleared.

Exports from Ist inst. up to date :
Linseed. Mustard Seed.
To Great Britain
France .
N. America

Jute—The shipments of this article are going on
briskly, and tonnage for it in eager request. The cur-
rent rates rs. 12 8 13 per bale.
_ _

Exports from Ist instant up to date :
To Great Britain, 10,106 raids.
Hides—There is still a disinclination to operate freely
for the British market, yet several good lots have bean
placed since the last mail wont out, such as the Ameri-
cans could not reach at. Fair to good quality slaugh-
tered have been purchased for 28 to 35 rs. per corge, but
as there are only a few parcels of that description come
yet into the market, the quantity procured is not con-
siderable. Several parcels have also been taken of dead
green, at rs. 12 t) 20, but very few lots have yet arrived
of the better descriptions of this kind of hide. The
Americans are still considerab)e buyTrs; latterly, how-
ever, they have been operating with more caution. The
French are doing but little.
Exports from Ist inst. up to date:—
To Great Britain ... ... 29,282 pcs.
North America 30,734
Safflower—The market is quite bare of this vegetable
dye, and nothing can be done till the new crops arrive.
Exports from the Ist inst. up to date are—
To Great Britain •36 mds.
Cotton—The late news from England has discouraged
operations in this wool, and there is nothing doing. The
accounts received from the China market are rather
better, and some shipments are in progress for that
quarter.
Exports from Ist instant up to date are—
To Great Britain ... 248 bales 875 mds.
Singapore and China 1,560 5,688
Opium—The news from China, per Bintinck steamer,
via Gallo, caused a fall of 20 to 30 rs. per chest, and the
tendency is still downwards. Stock in the Company's
Godown on the evening of the 18th inst.:—Patna, new,
30 chests; old, 5 chests—Benares, new, 83 chests.

To London—Saltpetre, 6Z 10s. to a 15s. ; to Liver-
pool, 6/. 10s. to 6/. 12s. 6d. per ton of 20 cwt.
To London—Sugar, 61. 15s. to 71.; to Liverpool, 6/.
10s. to 61. 15s. per ton of 20 cwt.
Rice nominal.
Oilseed ditto. _ _

To London-:Rum, 81. to 81.; to Liverpool, 8L to 81.,
ditto 5 hhds.; to London, juice and hemp, 5/. 7s. 6d. to
5L 10s.; to Liverpool, Si. ss. to W. 7s. 6d., ditto 5 bales.
Indigo, silk, and silk piece goods, nominal.
To London—Hides, 51. 10s. to 51. 16s. ; to Liverpool,
5/. 10s. to Si. 10s.

To London—Shellac, 5/. 10s. to 51. 103.; to Liverpool,
5/. 10s. to 51. 10s.

To London—Lac dye, 51. 10s. to 51.155.; to Liverpool,
Si. 15s, to 51. 15s.

To China—Cotton, 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 750.; opium
7 dolls. to 8 dolls.

To Mauritius----Rice. Company's rs , 2 dolls. Bc. to 2
dolls. 10c. per bag; Areas, Goods, Company's rs. 32 dolls.
to 35 dols. per 50 cubic feet.
(From the Bengal Hurkaru, of Nov. 19.)
Nothing of particular moment has occurred since the
7th instant, to give our present dispatch an interest be-
yond that of the average of many of its predeceseors.
It will hardly be expected that we should have much
to report of the state of trade ; the great uncertainty
which has prevailed, together with the intervention of
several holidays, has kept business nearly at a stand still
since our last.

MONEY MARKET.
Bank of Bengal—Discount on Government Accept-
ances (three months), 6 per cent. Ditto on Private Bills
and Notes, (three months), 10 per cent. Interest on
Deposit of Company's Paper 8 per cent. ; Ditto on Cash
Credit Accounts 8i per cent.
Government Securities—Transkr Stock Paper, Five
per Cent., 7 to 8 pm. ; Bombay Five per Cent., 3 to 4.
dis. ; Old Sicca Five per Cents., according to numbers,
3 to 4 dis. ;.New Company's Five per Cent., 0 8 to 1 0
dis.; Third, Four Sicca, 131 to 141 dis.; New Cy., Four
SIMI, 12 to 13 dia.

Bank Shares—Bengal Bank. Co.'s rs. (4,000) PM.,
2,500 to 2,550 ; Union Bank, Co.'s rs. (1,000) dis., 550
to 600 ; Agra lank,•Co.'s rs. (500) pm., 190 to 200 ;
Oriental Bank. Co.'s rs. (1,000) (509 rs. paid up), pm.,
140 to 150 ; North Western Bank, Co.'s re. (500) pm.,
100 to 130.
Price of Bullion, &c.—Sycee Silver, Co.'s 100 rs per
sa. wt., 104 to 104 13 ; China Gold Bars, per sa. wt.,
16 11 to 17 6 ; Gold Dust, per sa. wt., 15 4 to 16 14;
Spanish Dollars, per 100, 220 to 220 ; Mexican Dol-
lars, per 100, 219 4 to 219 10 ; Sovereigns, each, 11 1 to
11 2 ; Madras Gold Mohurs, 16 3, to. 16 4 ; Old Gold
Mohurs, 21 5 to 21 6.

NEW YEAR'S DAY AT WINDSOR

CASTLE.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.,--Yesterday (New Year's Day)
a distribution of the Queen's bounty of food,
,coals,
and clothing to the aged, infirm, and necessitous poor
of Windsor and its vicinity, took place in her Ma-
jesty's Riding-school. Several hundred families had
been selected as deserving objects of the royal charity,
by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, assisted
by the clergy of Windsor and Clever, and a member
of each family was in attendance at the Riding-school.
The Queen and Prince Albert entered shortly be-
fore ten o'clock, accompanied by the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Roy&, and the Princess
Alice. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
was present; and the royal visitors at the Castle,
together with the Ladies and Gentlemen of the royal
household, were also present at this interesting pro-
ceeding. Amongst those present were his Serene
Highness Prince Lowenstein, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Abercorn, Viscountess Canning, Hon.
Miss. Stanley, Hon. Miss Davison, Marquis of Or-
monde, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Nrs. Anson, Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Admiral Sir Edward Codring-
ton, Major-General Bowles, Captain Francis Seymour,
Colonel Bouverie, and Dr. Meyer.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort, together with
their illustrious circle, having inspected the dif-
ferent articles, the distribution commenced.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay was present,
and officers of the Lord Steward of her Majesty's
Household, attended to arrange the distribution, which
consisted of the following articles of food :

1,684 lbs. of meat.
2,094 lbs. of bread.
228 pecks of potatoes.
478 lbs. of plum pudding.
There were also given away 456 cwt. of coals.
Blankets, winter cloaks, and calico were also
bestowed on the recipients.
The ceremony occupied an hour, and on its conclu-
sion her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Royal
Family, followed by the royal suite, returned to the
Castle ; and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
returned to Frogmore LOdge.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday morning.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene High-
ness Prince Lowenstein, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Abercorn, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the
Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Mary Howard, Baroness de Speth, Mr. G. E. and
the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and
Mrs. Phipps, Captain Francis Seymour, Captain the
Hon. A. Gordon, and Dr. Meyer.
The band of tho,.*.oyal Horse Guards performed ,
during dinner. After dinner the Queen bad an
evening party. The company arrived at the Castle
soon after nine o'clock. The following had the honour
of being present :—The Marquis and Marchioness
of Downshire, Lord Marcus Hill, Hon. Henry and
Mrs. Ashley, Hon. Miss Lyttelton, Miss C. Pole
Carew, Sir George and Lady ,Couper, Miss and
Mr. Couper, the Dean of Windsor, and Lady Char-
lotte Neville Grenville, two Misses Neville, the
-Provost of Eten and the Hon. Mrs. Hodgson, the
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hawtrey, Rev. William and
Mrs. Canning, the Commanding Officer of the Royal
Horse Guards (Colonel Bouverie) and Mrs. Bouverie,
the Commanding Officer of the ' Grenadier Guards
(Lieutenant-Colonel Craufurd), Mr. and Mrs. Chal-
loner, Mr. Glover, and Lieutenant Colonel Charles
Bagot.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert gratified their
noble visitors with the choral ode of Sophocles and
the harmonies of Mendelssohn, by the performance of
an abridgment of the dialogue of the Antigone, which
was most expressively and effectively read by Mr.
Bartley, aided by Mr. Bartholomew, the author of
the English version, who assisted him as the speaker
for a large chorus of the best-selected professional
and amateur vocalists.
Her Majesty's private band, most ably conducted
by Mr. Anderson, and increased by the chief perfor-
mers of the Philharmonic orchestra, completed the
admirable ensemble.
The beautiful ode to Eros, as Originally written by
Mendelssohn, was for the first time (in this country)
charmingly rendered by Messrs. Genge, Peck, Beale,
and Smithson.

At the conclusion of the performance her Majesty
and his Royal Highness Pride{ 'Albert expressed their
approbation to Mr. Bartley, and were graciously
pleased to pay a similar compliment to Mr. Bar-
tholomew.

The performance of the Antigone was preceded by
a monody to the memory of the departed Mendels-
sohn, expressly written for the occasion, and printed
by command of the Queen for the company assembled,
to whom it was recited by its author, Mr. Bartholo-
mew, who in it alluded to the principal compositions
of this great lyrist.

MONODY.
Come, music-making Pan, from thino Arcadian meads;
Come with a cluster of thy deep toned reeds,
Cull'd on the merge of Ladon's limpid stream:
0, bring them hither,—bind them side by side,
And breathe in them thy sweetest, saddest theme!
Methinks it should be that which Echo sigh'd,
Plaining responsive:y
Thy strains of melody,
When she consenting thus, becarie thy bride.
Or, let me rather hear the mournful lay
Attuned by thee on that unhappy day,
When Death changed Syrinx to the sweet pipe, that
sings
When Zephyr breathes, or fans i with his wings.
Repeat again that love-lorn dirgoto me ;
And I will sing wits thee,
A melancholy song for ONE who lied,—
Died in the splendour of his manlood's
Died, undecay'd
Died in his prime !
Tell Oberon, Titania, Puck the snite,
And all the Fays who danced tha summer night
Upon the flower-etbroider'd green,
Where Theseus wooed his amazolian Queen ;
Tell
great Apollo, Bacchus' and hs Choir,
HE that restrung the Sophocleanlyre
Of agdipus, and sad Antigone ;
Who beautified the solemn pomp)f Athalie
who re-sung thy Druid' minstrelsy,
To charm the theme of their WaDurgi's night—is dead
yes;
in
HE who blended his harnious lays
In orldless Songs, and Zion's,knan of Praise
To Great JEHOVAH—
Pagan Pan hath fle ;
He bath vanish'd, like a vision of he night;
Thus Fable fades in Revelation's ight;
Thus Bads priests on Baal vainlpall ;
They and their God before JEHOlkil fall.
Alas, the Bard who sung these thanes is gone !
His lyre remains, but vacant is hi throne;
who now can strike its chords lik Mendelssohn?
Oh, minstrel of Elijah and St. Pal
Where shall we find a geniuso entwine
Cecilian harmonies profound a thine?
Where is thy mantle? Did'st tha let it fall
Upon that fatal day
When thou avast snataed away?
Or did's thou only leave behind
The emanations of thy mind ? -
Such as we sing this eight by he command,
Who sways the far-famed sceptr of our land :
Whose presence here
Attended by the fair, the bravepad great,
Graces these halls of her ancestal state,
To greet the new-bcn year.

THE CHARTER Houss.---W understand that the
Archbishop of York will be th new Governor of the
Charter House, in the room of th late Earl of Harrowby.
The Duke of Buceleuch hasicen elected President
of the Caledonian Hunt.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household,
attended Divine Service this morning in the private
Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L,
Courtenay officiated. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent also attended the service, attended
by her Lady in Waiting.
Yesterday Mr. Moon was honoured by submitting
to her Majesty and Prince Albert, the engraving by
Sl,muel Cousins, A.R.A., of his Royal Highness
Albert Prince of Wales, in the dress of a sailor,
after the original picture by F. Winterhalter.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
EPSOM SPRING MEETING. 1848.
Nominations for the Great Metropolitan Stakes.
Prospect, 5 yrs—Walmgate- bar Without, 4 yrs—
Rattrap, 5 yrs—Sweetsauce, 4 yrs—Remembrance, 3 yrs
—Jericho, 6 yrs—Shawn Buidhe, 4 yrs—Atluntic, 4 yrs
Moga for. 4 yrs—Eagle's Plume, 3 yrs—Glen Saddel, 3
yrs —Alboni, 4 yrs—Executor, 4 yrs—Gannet, 6 yrs—
Sutlej, 6 yrs—Auricula, 5 yrs—Vesta, 3 yrs—Antler,
LNawigaoehs
ndsi ,
3 yrs—Peep
sied_r7)4s ofe_3e.
rLyme,
:an)ys,e,,Ba3bgo•
yrybs
:—Db4yCoynor yrs—Congress,
John,rieepysrs
e,
no14(7)
Moloch,
yrs—Tim
out of
Chelsea Lass, 5 yrs—Crernorne, by Muley Moloch, out
of Chelsea Lass, 4 yrs—Britannia, by The Tulip 6 yrs
—Marquis of Conyngham, 5 yrs—litughter of the Star.
4 yrs—Self-Defence, 3 yrs—lnheritress, a,ged—Liht-
ning, aged—Best of Three, aged—Rowena, 6 yrs—En-
chanter, 4 yrs—Snuff Box, 3 yrs—Prince Charlie, 3 yrs
—Tufthunter, 3 yrs—Tortoise, 3 yrs—Queen Mary, 4
yrs—Joe Lovell, aged—Sultana, 4 yrs—The Question-
able 4 yrs—Bacchanalian, 3 yrs—Slug, 3 yrs—Mor-
peth, aged—Jonathan Wild, 5 yrs—Mirmillo, 4 yrs—
Sir Arthur, 6 yrs—Blackbird, 5 yrs—Rufus, 5 yrs—,
War Eagle, 4 yrs—Marietta, 5 yrs—Clumsy, 6 yrs—
Passionate, 4 yrs—Clermont, 4 yrs—Latitat, 3 yrs—
Catherine, 4 yrs—Tit-bit, 5 yrs—Pottinger, 4 yrs—
Milliner, 5 yrs—Columbus, 6 yrs—The Tartar, 4 yrs—
Pyrrhus the First, 5 yrs—Marie Louise, 4 yrs—Moscow,
5 yrs—Blackball, 3 yrs—Cracow, 3 yrs—Spectator,
aged—Reminiscence, 4 yrs—Fergus, 3 yrs—Joc o' Sot,
4 yrs—Bourton, 4 vrs—Miss Elis, 6 yrs—Antagonist,
4 yrs—Mountain Dew, 4 yrs—Widred, 5 yrs—Good
Boy, 3 yrs—Vampyre, 4 yrs—Reflection, 3 yrs—Pro
jectile, 4 yrs—Crozier, 4 yrs—Sagacity, 4 yrs—Bletch-
ington, 3 yrs—Senga, 3 yrs—Sister to ./Egis, 4 yrs—
Stultz, 4 yrs—Lady Wildair, 6 yrs—Sampson, 3 yrs.
Nominations for the Chester Cup.
Cawrouch, 5 yrs—Keleshe, 4 yrs—Magnet (Irish), 4
yrs—Shawn Buidhe, 4 yrs—Gamester, 4 yrs—Eagle's
Plume, 3 yrs—Glen Saddel, 3 yrs—Foxwhelp, 6 yrs—
Lyme, 4 yrs—Great Western, 3 yrs—Sir Peter Laurie,
4 yrs—Bantam, 5 yrs—Clermont, 4 yrs—Executor, 4
yrs—Newcourt, aged—Counterfeit, aged—Milliner, 5
yrs—Grimston, 5 yrs—Comme-il-faut, 4 yrs—The Ad-
miral, 4 yrs—Blaze, 3 yrs—Peep o' day Boy, 4 yrs—
Woodpecker, 5 yrs—Gannet, 6 yrs—Premier, 4 yrs—
The Premier, 5 yrs—Malt, 5 yrs—Maid of Lyme, 5 yrs
—Crim Con, 6 yrs—Sunny Side, 3 yrs—Primrose, 5 yrs
—lnheritress, aged—Lightning, aged—Ulysses, 4 yrs—
Poynton, 5 yrs—Antler, aged—Clarendon, 4 yrs—Queen
Mary, 4 yrs—Tim Whiffler, 4 yrs—Conyngham, 4 yrs
—Walmgate-bar Without, 4 yrs—Brit-Innis, 4 yrs—
Deloraine, 4 yrs—Duke of Richmond, 5 yrs—Hawke-
stone, 4 yrs—Lady Hylda, 4 yrs—Brandy Face, 4 yrs—
Wanota, 4 yrs—Best of Three, aged—Foinnuala, 5 yrs
—Chat, 4 yrs—Pantomime, 4 yrs—Valiant, 6 yrs—Tom
Jolly, 4 yrs—Giselle, 5 yrs—King of Kildare, 3 yrs—
Ballinafad, 4 yrs—Oxonian, 4 yrs—The Swallow, 4 yrs
—Chanticleer, 4 yrs—Maid of Mothers ell, 4 yrs—King
of the Forest, 4 yrs—Jock o' Hazledean, 3 yrs—Whin-
stone, 6 yrs—lntrepid, aged—Ennui, 5 yrs—Grand
Seignor, 5 yrs—Rufus, 4 yrs—War Eagle, 4 yrs—Otter-
burn, 3 yrs—Slug, 3 yrs—West Countryman, 5 yrs—
Enchanter, 4 yrs —Rowena, 6 yrs—Black Ball, 3 yrs—
Shelforth, 5 yrs—Spectator, aged—Snuff-box, aged—
Cossack, 4 yrs—Foreclosure, 4 yrs—Pyrrhus the First,
5 yrs—The Tartar, 4 yrs—Joc o'Sot, 4 yrs—Reminis-
cence, 4 yrs—Fergus, 4 yrs—Cracow, 3 yrs—Mathema-
tician, 4 yrs—lonia, 4 yrs—Good Boy, 4 yrs—Widred,
5 yrs—Resolution, 4 yrs—Rainbow, 3 yrs—Dulcet, 6
yrs—Mongrel, 6 yrs—Pillage, 4 yrs—The Widow,
aged—Collingwood, 5 yrs—Red Hart, 4 yrs—
Vampyre, 4 yrs—Hornpipe 3 yrs—Crozier, 4 yrs—
Projectile, 4 yrs—King of Morven, 4 yrs—Clumsy, 6
yrs—Geraldine, 5 yrs—Jonathan Wild, 5 yrs—Clemen-
tins, 4 yrs—Lady Wildair, 6 yrs—Stultz, 4 yrs—Mrs.
Taft, 3 yrs—Sampson, 3 yrs—Sultana, 4 yrs—Tit. bit,
5 yrs—Bingham, 4 yrs—Self-defence, 3 yrs—Latitat,
3 yrs—Prince Charley, 3 yrs—Sir Tatton Sykes, 5 yrs
—c by Hetman Platoff, 3 yrs—Black Dwarf, 4 yrs—
Infringe, 4 yrs—Montpensier, 4 yrs—Sally Maggs. 4
yrs—Raisthorpe, 4 yrs—The Conjuror, 5 yrs—Swiss
Boy, 3 yrs—Sylvan, 3 yrs—Liberator, 4 yrs—Rob Roy,
Bedlam, 4 yrs—Maid of my Soul, 3 yrs—Pet of the
Fancy, 3 yrs.
The above are supposed to include the final nomina-
tions; it is not impossible, however, that we may have
some corrections or additions in the course of the day or
two.

MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN
IN ST. LUKE'S.
At Clerk sn well Police Court, on Saturday, Har-
riet Parker, a repulsive downcast looking woman,
between thirty and forty years of age, was placed at
thebar before Mr. Tyrrwhitt, charged with the.wilful
murders of Armenia Blake, aged between six and
seven, and Robert Blake, her brother, between four
and five years. The case excited considerable inte-
rest, and at an early hour the court was crowded in
every part. The prisoner was allowed to sit in the
dock in consequence of her weakly state, as she was
evidently labouring under severe remorse and coin-
, punction of mind.
Mrs. Jane Moore, of No. 9, Cupid's court, St.
Luke's, deposed that on Saturday morning, about
four o'clock, she and her husband were awoke, by a
loud knocking at the door. On looking out of the
window she saw the prisoner, wh3 was very much
agitated, and she exclaimed, " Oh ! Mrs. Moore, I have
done it." Witness asked what she had done ? She re-
plied, " I went out with Blake last night, intending to
go to the play, when he met with a little strumpet,
and took hold of her arm, and he immediately
left me." Witness told her e had nothing to do
with that, and why had she come to speak to her
about it. The prisoner was leaving the street-door,
and she said, " I shall go and deliver myself up to a
policeman." Witness said, " 'Why, Mrs. Blake, you
do not mean to say you have done it ?" She replied,
" I have murdered the two children." My husband
sent for a policeman. The prisoner cohabited with a
man named Blake, to whom the ahildren belonged.
Went to the house where the prisoner lived, and saw
them lying dead.
Mary Mathews deposed that she was alarmed by
Mr. Blake this morning at four o'clock, who said that
her mistress had murdered her children. Witness
procured two policemen; they entered by the parlour
window, and found the children; they only had on
their shifts and stockings. They were warm. :There
were scratches on their throats. There was no living
person in the room with them, except the policemen.
Mrs. Lucy Mathews, of Cupid's-court, saw the
prisoner knocking at Mrs. Moore's door. I asked
her to go indoors. The prisoner said, " I shall never
go in any more ; my heart is bleeding." I think she
had been drinking the over night, as she was much
excited. She complained that Blake had taken her
out to go to the play, and he left her to go with
another woman.
Sergeant Standed, 11 G, received information of
the affair at twenty minutes to four o'clock that
morning. He found the children lying dead on the
bed in the parlour. They were warm. Witness
sent for a surgeon, who instantly came.
Brown, 223,G, confirmed this evidence.
Mr. Charles Adams, of the Duke of Bedford,
Golden-lane, saw the prisoner and Blake at his house
on Friday night last. Whilst there Blake slipped
away from the prisoner. She left, but shortly after-
wards returned with the deceased girl, when the pri-
soner said, " I will 'have my revenge of the children
if I cant have it of him. She had it in her mind for
some time past. She would go to the gallows and die
like a trump for him." She looked at the clock, and
said to witness, " Mark the time, it is now twenty-
five minutes to eight o'clock." She had two small
drops of gin, and she left with the girl. The prisoner
had cohabited with Blake for three years. There were
other persons present when she used the threats to-
wards the children.
George Fowler, 161 G, deposed that at four o'clock
this morning the prisoner ran to deliver herself into
his custody. She would not tell what for. She sub-
sequently said she had murdered two children. On her
way to the station she said " It was my intention to
do this nine months ago, and I have done it now to
my sorrow ; but I knew what I was about."
Mr. Francis Wright, surgeon, of 110, Whitecross-
street, St. Luke's, deposed that he was sent for at a
little after four o'clock, and the children must have
been dead about an hour. He examined the bodies,
and found marks of violence on their throats near the
windpipe. The marks or scratchings arose from
some one grasping their throats tightly with their
fingers. He should say that death was almost in-
stantaneous.
Policeman 26 G saw the prisoner rush out of her
house, calling out, " I have murdered the children to
revenge their father; they were innocent ; through
my vindictiveness I have done the deed." Witness
cautioned her to say nothing. She said, in reference
to Blake, " I doted the ground he walked upon, and
he knew it." She also said, " I was not like a person
who was drunk ; I knew what I was about. I was
quite sober."
Mr. TTRRWRITT now asked the prisoner if she
wished to say anything to the charge. He cautioned
her that she was not bound to say anything?—She
faintly replied—Nothing.
She was then remanded, and supported from the bar
in a wretched and dejected state, and conveyed to
prison in the police van.
INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
At twelve o'clock Mr. Baker, the Coroner, opened
an inquest on the bodies of the two unfortunate
children at the sign of the William the Fourth,
Golden-lane. Previous to the bodies being viewed
by the .jury,
The CORONER observed that he was informed the
witnesses who were able to give evidence against the
accused were then at the Cterkenwell Police-court;
ne therefore should n )t pursue the inquiry any fur-
ther than to obtain an identification of the bodies.
The Coroner then, accompanied by the jury, pro-
ceeded to view the bodies, which lay on a bed on a
turn up bedstead in the front room on the ground
floor at the house No. 3, Cupid's-court. They were
in the exact position they were left by the accused.
The elder child (the girl) was at the foot of the bed,
with her head near the wainscot, in a position from
which, it was evident, a struggle must have ensued.
It was the opinion of the jury that the poor
child had been suffocated by a pillow having been
placed over its mouth. There was a scratch across
her throat about three inches in length. The other
child was at the head of the bed, and presented
appearances of his death having been caused in a
similar manner. The bed clothes were in a state
which showed that a most violent struggle had taken
place on the part of the murdered children for the
preservation of their lives. There were no other
marks of violence about the bodies than those above
alluded to.
Upon the return of the jury to the inquest room it
was found, upon the examination of the father, that
the Christian names had not been rightly given. The.
jury were accordingly re-sworn to the right names,
and they were again under the necessity of viewing
the bodies. The following evidence was then taken :
Robert Blake, No. 3, Cupid's-court, Golden-lane,
being sworn, said—l am by trade a grinder. The
deceased were my children, and were born in lawful
wedlock. I have been separated from their mother,
who is residing at Birmingham, about four years. I
was married to her in the year 1836. I was living
with a woman named Harriet Parker, who passed as
my wife. I cohabited with her shortly after I and
my wife parted. I have been living with her in
Golden lane about two years and a half. She is a
widow.
CORONER—When did you last see your children ?
Witness—On Friday evening, between five and six
o'clock. I put them both to bed. [The witness was
here much affected, and seemed overpowered with
the anguish of his feelings. Mr. Garner, the sum-
moning officer, gave him some water.]
CORONER—What state of health were they in ?
Witness—They made no complaint, and appeared in
good health when I left them.
CORONER—Was there any one with them at the
time you left? Witness—Yes; I left them with
the woman
,who is charged with having murdered
them.
CORONER—HOW came you to leave ? Witness—I
intended to have gone to the theatre last night with
a friend, and I went out for that purpose.
CORONER—Was it a male friend or a female friend?
Witness—A male friend, Sir.
CORONER—Did any words pass between you and
Harriet Parker ? Witness--No serious worth arose.
She followed me out with an intention of annoying
me, and said I should not go.
CORONER—Did she say why she would annoy
you? Witness—She did not say why, but I can
explain her ideas.
CORONER—You must not say a word about her
ideas; anything she said may be evidence against
her. Witness—She wanted to prevent me going to
the theatre, as I would not take her with me.
CORONER--Did she say anything at that time ?
Witness—She said she would follow me step by step,
go where I would.
CORONER—Did she do so ? Witness—Yes, sir ;
she followed me to several places, and I tried to get
rid of her.
CORONER—Did you succeed ? Witness—After
going through several streets I went to the Duke of
Bedford public-house, in Golden-lane, which I am in
the habit of using, with the intention of staying there,
and of having a glass of ale with my friend, with
whom I was going to the theatre. She followed me
in. I told her to go home, observing that I did not
mean to go to the theatre. Then, while she was in
conversation with a person I escaped. I have not seen
her since.
Juror—Do you know anything of the circum-
stances attending the death of the children ? Wit-
ness—Nothing. I know nothing about it.
Juror—What time did you return home, and when
did you become acquainted with the deaths of the
deceased ? "Witness—l slept at the house of a friend
in Goswell-street. About eleven o'clock that morn-
ing I was going down Golden-lane with a shopmate
to my work, when a person my shopmate knew told
him of the murder.
CORONER—Then you never saw Harriet Parker
after you left her at the public-house, nor heard any-
thing about her nor your children ? 'Witness—No,
Sir, not till my shopmate heard of my poor children

being murdered. That was the first discovery of it
by me.

Mr. Garner said- that he (the witness) must bring
that friend forward at the adjourned inquiry. The
witness replied that he would. (The witness left the
room.)

The CORONER here inquired of the officer who had
the accused in custody, if she was present ?
Policeman Haynes, G- 155, said that she was not.
He had the accused in custody in the cell.
CORONER—What did she say ? Witness—She
asked me if I was not afraid to sit with her ; when I
replied that I was not. She then looked at her hands
several times, after which, she evlaimed, "Is it
possible that I could have committed-such a crime ?"

CORONER—Did she say how she did it, or make
any confession ? Witness—No, sir.
The CORONER here observed that he should then
adjourn the inquiry to Monday next, and that in the
meanwhile he should issue his order to have the
bodies of the children opened. He thought it ma-
terial in a case of that importance, where there were
marks of violence from which to infer a cause of
death, that post mortem examination should take
place.

The jury said that they entirely concurred with the
suggestions of the Coroner.
The inquiry was then adjourned until Monday (this
day).

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE OF A
TRADESNINN AND Ills WIFE.
Throughout yesterday the greatest excitement
prevailed in the neighbourhood of Fitzroy -square, in
consequence of a report being generally circulated
that Mr. Alexander Toms Williams, proprietor of
the Star Coffee-house, Cleveland-street, had been
found during the night by his wife hanging in his
bed-room, and that she having alarmed the inmates,
then rushed down stairs into the shop, where she
destroyed herself by nearly severing her head from
her body with a razor. The report was unhappily
found to be too true. The deceased Mr. Williams,
who was only 31 years of age, was formerly a sergeant
in one of the regiments of the line, and subsequently
a constable in the E division of police, which he
left about ten months ago, and with his wife, who
was three years his senior, and to whom he seemed
much attached, took the above premises. They
there carried on a good business, which daily seemed
to increase, and which, from having had no family,
their whole time was devoted to,lliving apparently on
the happiest terms. The deceased Mr. Williams was
at intervals low spirited, for what reason or cause is at
present unknown, while, on the contrary, his ill-fated
wife was always possessed of a flow of good spirits.
On Saturday the business was conducted by both the
deceased as usual up to afew minutes to twelve o'clock
at night, when the time of closing being near, the
last customer, a man named Taylor, left the shop,
wishing them " good night," to which they (having
for some time previously been laughing and joking
together) responded. The male deceased was heard
to enter his bed room, the first floor back room,
about half-past twelve, and in a quarter of an hour
afterwards a lodger in the house, named Mathews,
who was in bed, was alarmed by Mrs. Williams ex-
claiming, " Williams has hung himself." He in-
stantly arose, and as quick as possible hastened to
deceased's apartment, where he found Mr. Williams
hanging by a cord tied round his neck, and fastened
to the top rails of the bedstead, but Mrs. 'Williams
was not there. Having cut deceased down, other
lodgers went to his assistance, and Dr. Hatfield, re-
siding at No. 41 in the same street, was sent for, who
promptly attending, pronounced life to be extinct.
Up to that time Mrs. Williams not making her ap-
pearance, and no answer being returned on calling
her by name, search was made for her, and on enter-
ing the shop a horrible sight presented itself. The
deceased woman was found at the extreme end of the
shop, lying on her back, on a mat, in a pool of blood,
which was then flowing from a frightful wound in
her throat, extending nearly from ear to ear, and a
razor, with which the suicidal act had been committed,
open by her side. The cause of the double crime of
self-murder cannot be conjectured. Information of
the lamentable and shocking affair was last night
communicated to Mr. Wakley, M.P., the coroner of
the district, and the bodies await an inquest.

DELIBERATE MURDER NE AR
Is 7 AIL SEA, SOMERSETSHIRE.
WESTTOWN, JAN. I.—An inquest was commenced
at noon this day, before R. Uphill, Esq., Coroner,
and a respectable jury, on the body of a man named
John Wall, who was murdered in the most cold-
blooded manner, in his own house, and in broad
daylight.
The jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the
body, but it was subsequently found necessary to ad•
journ the inquest in order to admit of a post mortem
examination of the body, and to procure the attend-
ance of the magistrate's clerk, who had taken a dying
deposition of the murdered man, but the facts, as
they have been deposed to, are as follows :—The
deceased, who was a man of inoffensive character, and
steady and industrious habits, occupied a cottage and
some garden ground, which is situated midway be-
tween this village and the Nsilsea-road, and his wife
keeps a stall in the Bristol norket. The
motive which led to the perpetration of the
daring deed which resulted in his death is
supposed to have been plunder. The un-
happy man had been fattening some pigs, which it was
understood among his neighbours, he intended dispos-
ing of shortly before quarter-day, for the purpose cf
paying his rent, and it is believed that his murderers
thought that he had the proceeds of the tale in the
house, and that had they killed him on the spot, they
would have rifled his house. At about a quarter past
three o'clock on the 18th of December, it being then
broad daylight, the deceased man was in the sitting
room of his cottage, and his wife being absent on
some temporary occasion, he was engaged in watch-
ing a saucepan in which some food for the pigs
was preparing. lie was in a stooping position
before the fire, and in the act of lifting the saucepan
from the bars, when he heard the crack of a pane
in the window which was about a yard and a half
distance from where he stood. Upon looking round
and seeing a gun pointed through the broken
glass, he started to his feet and immediately heard
the report of fire-arms, and received the charge
(which had evidently been aimed at, and but for his
sudden change of position would probably have en•
tered his head), on the inward part of his thigh. The
account which the wounded man was enabled to give
of the occurrence, and the minuteness with which he
described the person of the fellow whom he saw
through the window, led to a suspicion against a
family named Manfield, the younger members of
which had long been suspected of various lawless
proceedings in the neighbourhood. Upon inquiries
being instituted, the suspicion was strengthened, by
the fact of some of them having fled the place. Intel-
ligence was immediately communicated to the con-
stables of the neighbouring villages, and on the follow
ing Monday Charles Manfield, a youth of some 16 or
17 years old, was apprehended by Mr. Day, the con-
stable of Nailsea, who also found the gun with which
the offence was perpetrated, and traced it into his
possession. Upon being taken into the presence of
Wall, he at once identified him as the one he had
seen gazing through the casement. The injured man
lingered on till the evening of the 27th, when lock-
jaw came on, and on Wednesday night last he ex-
'red from the effects of the wound. While in cus.
tody the prisoner, C. Manfield, did not deny his
participation in the crime, but said his was not the
hand that fired the gun, and that he ought not to go
to prison alone. Upon being asked who ought to
accompany him, he said, " My cousin," alluding to a
young man who is said to be his half-brother, named
Robert Jakeways. He stated at another time, that
they were out in the grounds with the gun shooting
blackbirds and thrushes, when Jakeways said, " Come,
and let us shoot the old fellow," and they then went
to the cottage garden, and Jakeways put in the gun
and shot him, and he looked through the window
afterwards to see if he was dead. Wall then said to
them, " Thee hasn't done it," upon which they all ran
off, and as Jakeways could not run so fast as him,
he took the gun from him. He further said that his
younger brother, Anthony, was with them, and that
in order to have the place clear to shoot Wall, they
told him to go into an orchard and get them some
Christmas, as they were going to shoot a wild duck
down by the drain, and that he went away from them
accordingly.

TOWN AND COUNTRY; OR, THE DAYS OF THB
REGENCY. BY MRS. TROLLOPE.—Tio3 Court of George
aRi
eetg n Ls),
lhe ansd
oautrt,ai
andnetl
the Fourth (while he was Prince
considerable celebrity for the A p
elegance which were so peculiarly its characteristics.
It likewise became somewhat notorious for the dazzling
dissipation which infested it, owing to the conspicuous
example of its accomplished and seductive leader. The
period was indeed a remarkable one, and we rejoice to
see that Mrs. Trollope has given, certainly " no scandal
about Queen Elizabeth," but sparkling and vivid sketches
of courtly society and life during the renowned regency.
This delightful and very clever novel is not, however,
occupied exclusively with such subjects. Admirable
descriptions of town and country society, in its widely-
varying phases and characteristics, are given in the
authoress 's happiest style. On the one side are the
Regent and his courtly associates, admirers, and the
fashionable world in general: on the other, the veryper-
feetion of rural simplicity, happiness, and purity of
nature. The contrast is maintained very cleverly
throughout, and produces constatt and powerful effect.
The volumes will be assuredly perused with eagerness
and deep interest.—Morning Paper. _ _

DARING ROBBERY AT MR. FARREN'S,I TEE Co.
MEDlAN.—lnformation was received by the police on
Saturday, that between nine and ten o'clock that fore-
noon, a most daring robbery of plate was committed at
the residence of Mr. W. H. Farren, the well-known
commedian, 30, Brompton-square. The robbery 18 be-
lieved to have been committed by two young men with
hare-skins, who were seen to enter by the area gate,
which, as well as the area door, was left open, and who
left 0 bare-skin behind them hi the area.