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The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-09

GUILDHALL.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.— WM, Morris, a
private of the Tower Hamlets Artillery, was charged
before Sir Chapman Marshall with being drunk and
violently assaulting th• police.
Police-constable 143 deposed that he was called last
night to a house in Old Broad-street, where he found
the prisoner in a state of drunkenness, and incapable of
taking care of himself. He succeeded in getting him out
of the house, and on his way to the station-house he
appeared suddenly to recover from his helpless state,
exclaiming, "he would show him what he could do,"
squared up to witness, and struck him several blows.
Police-constable 116, who was called to the last wit-
ness's assistance, described the violent conduct of the
prisoner, which it required four policemen to manage ; in
the scuffle the prisoner kicked him severely on the cheek,
the effect of which was still visible, and caused much
pain to the officer.
Sir C. Marshall said such conduct as that proved
against the prisoner could not be passed over lightly.
He sentenced him to a fortnight's imprisonment.
A HARD CASE.—John, Taylor was charged with
stealing four haunches of mutton, the property of James
Webster, Old-street, St. Luke's.
The charge having been investigated, it was found
that the presiding Alderman could not dispose of it,
under the late act, passed for facilitating summary con-
victions, and the prisoner had to be remanded till Satur-
day next, the day " specially appointed " to suit the con-
venience of two aldermen to sit in petty session, and
dispose of such cases. We believe this inconvenience is
obviated in the metropolitaa Courts, one stipendiary
magistrate having power to act.
London, England, 1856-01-09

AMUSEMENTS FOR FAMILY PARTIES, &C.

OUND GAMES for all PARTIES.
A Collection of the greatestvarlety of Family Amusements
for the Fireside or Pic-nie —Gaines el Action—Games of Memory—
Catch Games—Galnes requiring the Exercise of Fancy, Intelligence,
and Imagination —Directions for Cry ng Forfeits, &c. be , cloth gilt.
2. ACTING CHARADES. By the Brothers
MATHEW. New Edition, bs.

3. A CRACKER BON-BON for CHRISTMAS
PARTIES; consisting' of Christmas Pisces for Private Representa-
tion. By ROYSZAT B. Buorou. 3s. Ed.
4. PARLOUR MAGIC. New Edition, revised
and enlarged, with the addition of several Tricks from the Perfor-
mances of Messrs. Houdin, Robin, &c. With Engravings, 4s. bd.,
cloth.

David Bogue, Fleet-street.

NEW BOOK FOR BOYS BY HENRY MAYHEW.

Now ready, fep., Ga., <loth,

THE WONDERS of SCIENCE ; or, Young
Humphry Davy, the Cornish Apottecary's Boy, who taught
himself Natural Philosophy, and evantually became President of the
Royal Society. The Life of a Wonderful Boy, written for Boys.
By HENRY MATHEW, author of " The Peasant Boy Philosopher," &c.
London, England, 1856-01-09

GUILDHALL.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—TVna. Morris, a
private of the Tower Hamlets Artillery, was charged
before Sir Chapman Marshall with being drunk and
violently assaulting the police.
Police-constable 143 deposed that he was called last
night to a house in Old Broad-street, where he found
the prisoner in a state of drunkenness, and incapable of
taking care of himself. He succeeded in getting him out
of the house, and on his way to the station-house he
appeared suddenly to recover from his helpless state.
exclaiming, "he would show him what he could do,"
squared up to witness, and struck him several blows.
Police-constable 116, who was called to the last wit-
ness's assistance, described the violent conduct of the
prisoner, which it required four policemen to manage ; in
the scuffle the prisoner kicked him severely on the cheek,
the effect of which was still visible, and catsed much
pain to the officer.
Sir C. Marshall said such conduct as that proved
against the prisoner could not be passed over lightly.
Ho sentenced him to a fortnight's imprisonment.
A HARD CASE.—John, Taylor was charged with
stealing four haunches of mutton, the property of James
Webster, Old-street, St. Luke's.
The charge having been investigated, it was found
that the presiding Alderman could not dispose of it,
under the late act, passed for facilitating summary con-
victions, and the prisoner had to be remanded till Satur-
day next, the day " specially appointed " to suit the con-
venience of two aldermen to sit in petty session, and
dispose of such cases. We believe this inconvenience is
obviated in the metropolitan Courts, one stipendiary
magistrate having power to act.
London, England, 1856-01-09

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day).

CORN EXCHANGE.
ytelimnsClittniersYs was
Very little Bagbah wheat was on sale here to-day. The
business doing iu all kinds was, therefore, limited, at Mon-
dav's currency. The condition of the samples was inferior.
Foreign wheat may he considered steady. In the quo-
tations no change took place.
for barley, at full quotations.
Floating cargoes supported last week's currency.
There was a moderate inquiry for oats, at previous rates.
Beans and peas were very dull, at Monday's decline.
doing.
Flour c,onamanded full currencies.
I nWe
malt had
a sac :r scarcely moderate
ARRIVALS THIS VrgEK.
Barley. f Malt.
1,370 1,670

wbeat.
910

Oats. I Maur.
83 550
aka
1,860 — bill

Znglish ..
Irish •• • -

Foroign I I

BOROUGH HOP.
The demand may be called steady. Prices generally rae
supported.

WELITECHAPEL.

Beof, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 3d to 4s 6d ; veal,
4s Od to 5s 2d ; pork, 3s 4d to 53 Od per 81bo by tho
carcase. Trade dull.

DEPARTURB OF TUE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—The royal
plelc;4.4llir 411;v„r
Cqpflio Mundell, belong-
ing to the Black Ball line, sailed from Liverpool for
Melbourne yesterday, at half-past 12, with a large mail,
about 130 paesengers, and upwards of 1,200 tone of cargo.
London, England, 1856-01-09

19 Australian Agricul
all Australn. Royal Mai'
8i Berlin Water Works
40 Brit. American Land
:42i Canada
1.00 Canada Gov. 6p. ct
Jan. aim July
all Crystal
5 Do. Preference
all Crystal Pal. of Franc.
Duston Iron Ore
li Eastern Steam
all En.&Aus Cop Sm Co
24 Electric Telegraph...
all Electric Teleg. of Ir.
all Gen. Iron Sc Collier
14 Gen. Steam Navigat.
all General Screw Steam
10 Irish Beetroot Sugar
10 Magdalena St. Navig
all Moditeran. Elec. Tel.l
9 Moxicau&S.Americn.
all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuei
5 Netherlands Land....
all Do. Do.
1 Do.Bpel'issatld
1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter.
Steam Navigat. Co.
80 New B. & N.S. Laud
all N. B. Australasian
15 Nrth. of EuropeStears
all Oriental Gas
2s. Do. " New Shares"
all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl.
I all Peninsular& Orients
10 Do. New
all Portland Iron Co
60 Royal Mail Steam
all Scot. Austral. Invest
Ditto New
all Soutb Austral. Land
ILK Submar. Tel. Scrip...
all Do. Registered
5 Trust& L. Co.U.Can
Di 28 VIA Dlemeu'e laud
London, England, 1856-01-09

JOINT-S'

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Chrtd. Bnk. of India,
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Corporation
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Union of London
London, England, 1856-01-09

DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

Benjamin Newton, of Brighton, brush manufacturer,
first dividend of 2s. 10d. in the pound, payable at 20, Al-
dermanbury, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, and three subsequent
Wednesdays.
Henry Adams, of Uxbridge, mealman, first dividend of
ss. 9d. in the pound, payable at 2, Basinghall-street, on
any Wednesday.
Francis Lloyd Bayley and Samuel Milner Barton, of
Manchester, small ware manufacturer, first dividend of
6s. 2d. in the pound, payable at 69, Princes-street, Man-
chester, on any Tuesday.
James Fenton, of Crawshaw Booth, Lancashire, cotton
manufacturer, first dividend of is. 10id. in the pound,
payable at 69:Princess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
Alexander Jackson, of Manchester, clock manufacturer,
first dividend of 10s. 3d. in the pound, payable at 0, Prin-
cess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
William Riley, James Lupton, Robert Halstead, and
John Haworth, of Burnley, Lancashire, cloth manufac-
turers, first dividend of Bs. lOid. in the pound, payable at
69, Princess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesi ay.
Isaac Thorniley, of Bardsley:Lancashire. cotton spinner,
second dividend of 101 d. in the pound, payable at 69,
Princess-street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
John Manley, of Manchester, machine maker, first divi-
dend of is. sid. in the pound, payable at 69, Princess-
' street, Manchester, on any Tuesday.
Charles Phillip., of Weston-super-Mare, and of Burn-
ham, Soraersetshire, potter, dividend of ls. 10d. in the
pound, payable at 19, St. Augustine's-place, Bristol, on
any Wednesday.
Geo. B. Ponting, Devizes, Wiltshire, innkeeper, a divi-
dend of 3s. 6d. in the pound, payable at 19, St. Angus-
tine's-place, Bristol, on any Wednesday.
London, England, 1856-01-09

LEEDS, JAN. 8.

- - -
STOCK EXCHANGE.—A very inactive business to•dayr•
Midlands, 63—Leeds, 76I—Eastern Counties, Bl—Thirok
Quarters, 1 pm.

DUBLIN, JAN. 7.
STocir EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols, 86; I
—Ditto for Account, Feb. 7, S 6; i—New Three per Cent.
Stock, 864 ;I—Ditto, for Account, o—Bank Stock, 218—
Midland Great Western and Royal Canal (501. pd.), 4sl
—Great Southern and Western, 51i f —Ditto, 4 per cent.
paid in full, 18—National Bank (221.105. paid), 324—Royal
Bank, 10A—Dublin and Wicklow, 5R i—Waterford anal
Limerick, 22—Mining Co. of Ireland, 13a—Irish South
Eastern, 51.

Ma. W. H. BARBER.—Dr. Elliott, the Mayor of Car-
lisle, has consented to act as a local member of the cow•
mittee formed to present a testimonial to the above gen•
tlernan, the dupe of the accomplished will-forger, net-
ch cr. —Carlisle Patriot.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.

On the 7th inst., at Capel Rectory, Suffolk, the wife of
Hume Nicholl, Esq., 7th Dragoon Guards.
On the 4th inst., the wife of Charles T. Dimond, Esq.,
Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square.
London, England, 1856-01-09

With Illustrations by John Gilbert.

" A better hero for a boy's book bit: INiayhe; could not have
found, and no writer would have treated the story more successfully
than he has done. We had long been in want of a " young people's
author," anti we seem to have the right man in the right place in the
person of Mr. Mayhew."—Athenitum.
David Bogue, Fleet-street.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SCALD.
H UNTERS."
Now ready at all the Lirbrarles,

THE WHITE CHIEF : a Legend of Northern
MEXICO.
By Captain MAYNE REID,
Author of " The Rine Rangers," " The Scalp Hunters," &c.

" We can recommend' The White Chief' to all readers who desire
a novel that shall make their hearts beat and take them entirely out
of the ordinary way of novel reading."— Athenmum.
David Bogue, k'leet•strect.

NEW EDITION, INCLUDING " THE GOLDEN LEGEND."

Now ready, CTOWIIBro., cloth gilt, 215.; morocco, 305.,
LONGFELLOW'S POEMS. Illustrated with
One Mildred and Seventy Engravings on Wood, from
Designs by Birket Foster, Jane E. Ilay, and John Gilbert.
**. This is the only Illustrated Edition containing " The Golden
Legend."

David Rogue, Fleet•street, of whom may be hal

LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS.
The only complete edition published ; containing the New Poem,
"The Song of Hiawatha." With plates, fcp., 6s.

CAPTAIN "MAYNE REID'S NEW BOOK FOR BOYS.
Now ready, fcp., is., cloth,
THE BUSH BOYS ; or, the History and
Adventures of a Cape Fanner and his Family in the Wild
Karoos of Southern Africa.
By Captain MArwE RECD,
Author of " The Bey Hunters," " The Young Voyageurs," Sse.
With Twelve Illustrations.
David Bogue, Fleet street.

FOURTH EDITION.

This day is published, in crown octavo, boards, pp. 400,
price 3s. 6d., by post 4s.
BRITISH MINES CONSIDERED as a
MEANS of INVESTMENT.

By J. H. MURCHISON, Esq., F.G.S., F.S.S., !cc.
Fourth Edition, with an Appendix, giving a Review of the
Progress of British nines, and the Dividends paid, during
the year 1855, with their present Position and Prospects, Sec.
This Edition contains full particulars of about 150 of the
principal Dividend and Progressive Mines in England and
Wake.
Copies may be obtained at Mr. Murchison's offices, 117,
Bishopsgate-street Within, London.
OPINIONS OF THY. PRESS ON PREVIOUS VITIONS.
" Mr. Murchison's new work on British mines is attracting
a great deal of attention, and is considered a very useful
publication, and calculated to considerably improve the posi-
tion of home mine investments."—Mining Journal.
4' This is a valuable guide to investors in mines."—Hera-
path's Journal.
" A very unpretending but useful little volume, and con-
tains much information, which cannot fail to be interesting."
—Morning Herald.
" A valuable little book."—Globe.
" The book will be found extremely valuable."—Observer.
" A book extremely useful to the mine adventurer."—
Plymouth Journal.
" This is a very valuable book."—Cornwall Gazette.
" A most admirable compendium—both of progressive and
dividend mines—fall of information."—Waterford Mail.
London, England, 1856-01-09

KERTCH.

Our latest advicesfromKertch state that, the town
is occupied by the First Brigade of the Turkish Con-
tingent, under Brigadier Holmes, and the Second,
commanded by Brigadier-General Evans, is no less
comfortably quartered in the outskirts. Theirlhuts,
it is said, are admirable—the roof consisting of
planks and iron plates, and the walls of stone for
the most part. The floor is sunk 3 feet below the
level of the ground, and the troops contrive never-
theless to protect themselves against the damp,
which prevails more or less necessarily under such
circumstances. Such are the accommodations of
the sth, 6th, 7th, Bth, and a portion of the 10th
Regiments of the Second Brigade, and when it is
considered that it is hardly a month since the re-
moval of these troops from Yenikalo to Kertch,
they deserve great credit for the arrangement of
their winter quarters, as well as for their general
state of discipline and efficiency. Their labours
and activity in the trenches are, moreover, a gene-
ral subject of applause. Patrols have been estab-
lished, and pickets posted on every important point
—from which sentinels issue, rigorously insisting
on the watchword.

THE BALTIC.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 2.—Although the blockade of
the Russian ports has been virtually raised by the
return home of the Allied fleets, and officially by
the announcement in the Gazette, it is incompre-
hensible why the Government did not leave a
couple of fast-sailing steamers to watch any suspi-
cious-looking vessels, and search them for contra-
band of war. For this piece of—it appears almost
wilful—negligence, the Russians may be grateful,
as it enables them to obtain a seasonable supply of
arms, if not ammunition, from the United States.
Long before the return home of the fleets, a large
and deeply-laden three-masted (clipper, under the
American flag, arrived here from Boston, and an-
chored in the deep water of the so-called Rinne, out-
side the Trekroner Battery. The ship is called the
`'Volga, and the commander (Captain Holm) is a
native of Copenhagen, and well acquainted with
the navigation of the Baltic. Whether he has be-
come naturalised in the United States, and thus
obtained a right to command a vessel under the
flag of the republic, and whether the ship's papers
are in order, and would pass muster with the lieu-
tenant of the Driver, who last year so keenly over-
hauled the Sammy Appleton, after landing her re-
volvers at Baltish Port, is more than I cau say.
A few days ago, however, he weighed anchor dur-
ing the thaw and sailed up the Baltic, and a vessel ar-
rived here from Bornholm reports having exchanged
signals with her off that island. It is generally stated
hero as a well-known fact that she has arms and
ammunition on board, which being contraband of
war would have been liable to confiscation, although
the blockade of the Russian ports has been aban-
doned for the winter.

According to a telegraphic despatch received
hero by one of the foreign embassies, a Russian
vessel, loaded with salt, which was in the act of
leaving the harbour of Elsinore last spring when
the arrival of the advanced squadron in the Sound
London, England, 1856-01-09

LEEDS, JAN. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—A very inactive business to-day.
Midlands, 63—Leeds, 76i—Eastern Counties, Br;—Thirsk
Quarters, 2 pm.

DUBLIN, JAN. 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols, 861
—Ditto for Account, Feb. 7, 861 i—New Three per Cent.
Stock, 861 a—Ditto, for Account, o—Bank Stock, 218—
Midland Great Western and Royal Canal (501. pd.), ISt
—Great Southern and Western, 51 I—Ditto, 4 per cent.
paid in full, IS—National Bank (221.105. paid), 324—Royal
Bank, 704—Dublin and Wicklow, 5a i—Waterford and
Limerick, 22i—Mining Co. of Ireland, 13i—Irish South
Eastern, si.

31n. W. H. BARBER.—Dr. Elliott, the Mayor of Car-
has consented to act as a local member of the com-
mittee formed to present a testimonial to the above gen-
tleman, the dupe of the accomplished will-forger, Flet-
claer.—Carlislc Patriot.

BIRTHS.
011' A SON.

On the 7th inst., at Capel Rectory, Suffolk, the wife of
Flume Nich‘,ll, Esq., 7th Dragoon Guards.
On the 4th inst.. the wife of Charles T. Dimond, Esq.,
Ilenrietta-street, Cavendish-square.
London, England, 1856-01-09

BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 8.

STOOK EXCHANGE.—The Market was dull to-day, SO
prices tending downwards. Midlands closed at 63—South
Staffords at 2i d.—London and North-Westerns at 11 die.
—Birmingham Old Canals, 90i.
London, England, 1856-01-09

TO THE EDITOR or THE SUN.

Sin,—On the subject of the pension recently granted
to this gentleman, so justly commented upon in The Sun
of yesterday, its monstrosity will appear greater when
it is known that, on Easter Tuesday last, Joseph Haydn,
employed at the time by the Admiralty in bringing up
the records of the Secretary of State's letters, was struck
with paralysis, which has prostrated him to the present
hour.
Lord Palmerston, the moment he heard of it, enrolled
himself among that noble band who "do good by stealth
and blush to find it fame," by sending him 1001., while
Mr. Disraeli and a few others added to this sum enough
to purchase for Mrs. Haydn and family a shop for the
sale of stationery and newspapers (No. 13, Crawley-
street, Oakley-square). In this house, the pious, learned,
and resigned paralytic now lingers on a bare subsistence ;
but were you to give this fact the influence of your large
circulation, it would be the means of prolonging his
valuable life, and of mitigating its many sorrows.—
I have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant,
London, Jan. 8. A. B.
London, England, 1856-01-09

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ,SEDUCTION,

(prom the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
IlAsiensiG, Jan. 4.—The arrest of Id. Campe, which I
mentioned in a former letter as having taken place some
days ago at the request of the Prussian police authori-
ties, and acceded to by the Hamburg senate, hailed to
great excitement among the citizens of this so-called
" free republic," and is likely to give rise to very
serious questions as to what right the police authorities
have for the future to comply with similar requisitions
from any confederate state, without the consent first of
the Frankfort Bund. In fact, the senate having become
satisfied that it had acted contrary to the ancient law of
the republic, which forbids such an arbitrary proceeding
and as such having a votein the nomination of the against any citizen possessed of " freehold property,"
mem-
bers of the civil administration of the state, has after the
' presentation of a numerously-signed pstition for the im-
mediate liberation of M. Campe, thought it best to
comply with the request ; and, in c.nisequence, on the
evening of the 2d inst., M. Camne was set at liberty,
without any further restrictions, on proof being rendered
of his holding freehold property.
The arbitrary conduct of the senate in this matter has,
however, aroused among the citizens a spirit of great
hostility towards the senate, and the wbole body of free•
holders are now determined to bring the matter of their
individual and collective rights before the Government.
With the exception of the Russo-Prussian party here, all
classes of citizens are loud in their praise of M. Campe,
for his firm and manly conduct in opposing the ex-
tremely vindictive course of the police senator, in par-
ticular, in attempting to trample upon the rights of an
individual citizen to favour Prussian despotism.
"The whole offence committed by M. Campe consists
in his having published a verdict passed in the judicial
courts of Meeklenburg-Sehwerin,case of seduction
brought against Prince William by the relatives of a
young girl, with whore he pretended to contract a mor-
ganatic marriage, such as are usually adopted by royal
personages, and whom he subsequently deserted. It
was discovered that the ceremony was performed by
persons employed for the occasion to answer the prince's
purposes, under false colours. Should the matter be
brought before theme civil courts of justice here, by which
M. Campe has demanded to be tried for the supposed
- libel, it will be the means of causing some curious reve-
lations.
All Germany is anxiously awaiting the issue, and great
is the interest manifested on all sides, according to the
public papers of this day.
London, England, 1856-01-09

TO BUILDERS.—SeaIed Tenders for BUILD-
ING 13Aillt,riCK3 at Bull Point, near Devonport, for a
specific sum, will be received by the Director-General of Contracts,
'War Department, Pall-mall, London, on or before the 25th January,
1856, at Noon.
Detailed Drawings and Specielcatiops of the above, with every
requisite information, ray be obtained at the Royal Engineer Office,
Bull Point, daily (-undays excepted), between the hours of 10 and 4
o'clock, from the 10th to the 24th January, 1856, both days inclusive.
Royal Engineer Office, Devonport, 27th December, 1855.
London, England, 1856-01-09

SOUTHWARK.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY FEMALES.—A an Hurley, a
powerful-looking female, and who has been in custody
at least a hundred times for street robberies, but who
generally escaped through the absence of the prosecu-
tors, was brought before Mr. Combe charged with being
concerned, with another female not in custody, in steal-
ing a watch from James Patterson, with force and vio-
lenceq
The prosecutor stated that on Monday night last he
was proceeding home in Blandford-street, Dover-road,
after spending the evering with some of his fellow-
clerks, and when he was crossing Deverell-street he
slipped down accidentaly. As he was attempting to
get up the females came to him and said they would as-
sist iu lifting him up. Instead of that, however, they
pushed him down again with great force, and while
one held him there th 3 other wrenched his watch
from a silver guard-chain, and before he could
recover himself they made their escape. He did not see
the faces of either of the females, therefore he could not
identify the prisoner as one of them ; but a lad who
helped him up saw the whole transaction, and
give material evidence agsinst the prisoner.
The lad in question with great preciseness stated that
he was passing Deverell-street, on Monday night, when
he saw the prosecutor on the ground, and the prisoner
and another female pulling him about. Witness dis-
tinctly saw the prisoner snatch his watch from the guard
chain, and they both decamped. He went and assisted
the prosecutor to get up, and then a constable came up,
to whom they gave information of the robbery. 'Witness
believed that he should be able to identify the other
female, who was much shorter than the prisoner.
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night. In fact she was at the time in a public-house in
Tooley-street.
The lad was recalled by Mr. Combe, and he swore
positively to her being the female wbo stole the watch.
After she had taken it she ran towards Tooley-street.
The constable who apprehended her informed his
Worship that the prisoner was one of the most desperate
street thieves in the Borough, and if she was remanded
he believed ho should be able to find her companion and
obtain further evidence.
Mr. Combo accordingly remanded her.
London, England, 1856-01-09

With Illustrations by John Gilbert.

.' A better he;,-;for a boy's book Mr.-Mayhew could not have
found, and no writer would have treated tie story more successfully
than he has done. We had long been in wtnt of a " young people's
author," and we seem to have the right mar In the right place In the
person of Mr. Mayhew."—Athenaeum.
David Bogue, fleet-stret.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR O.? " THE SCALP-
HUNTERS."
Now ready at all the Lirbatries,

THE WHITE CHIEF : a Legend of Northern
MEXICO.
By Captain MAYNE RlaD,
Author of " The Rifle Rangers," " The Stain llunters," Etc.

"We can recommend The White Chief' to all readers who desire
a novel that shall make their hearts beat and take them entirely out
of the ordinary way of novel reading." Athenaeum.
David Bogue, Fleet-street.

NEW EDITION, INCLUDING " THE GOLDEN LEGEND."

Now ready, crown Bvo., cloth gilt, 215.; morocco, 305.,
LONGFELLOW'S POEMS. Illustrated with
One Hundred and Seventy Engravings on Wood, from
Designs by nirket Foster, Jane E. Hay, and John Gilbert.
*,.* This is the only Illustrated Edition containing " The Golden
Legend."

David Bogue, Fleet-street, of whom may be had

LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS.
The only complete edition published ; containing the New Poem,
"The Song of Hiawatha." With plates, fcp.,

CAPTAIN MAYNE REID'S NEW BOOK FOR BOYS.
Now ready, fcp., Is., cloth,
THE BUSH BOYS ; or, the History and
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London, England, 1856-01-09

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)

Mary M'Neill, 25, was indicted for the wilful murder
of George M'Neill, her son, a child four years old.
There was a second indictment against the prisoner
charging her with the murder of another child.
The prisoner, who appeared in a very weak state of
mind and body, was seated during the trial.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Ballantine.
The circumstances of this case were of a most distress.
ing nature, and the learned counsel for the prosecution
admitted in his openinga,ddress that there was little doubt
that the prisoner was in a state of insanity at the time the
dreadful acts were committed. It appeared that the pri-
soner lived at Shoreditch, and was in very good circum-
stances. She bad three children, and after the birth of
her last child in September, 1855, she suffered from milk
fever, and was in a very low and desponding state, and
appeared to be under the delusion that she was in a
distressed state, that her children had no clothes to wear,
and that they would come to misery. She attempted
some act of violence to one of her children a short time
before the dreadful occurrence, in consequence of which
the child was sent into the country, but the two un-
happy deceased children remained with her, and during
the night of the 29th November she destroyed both of
them by cutting their throats. She at once admitted
that she bad committed the act, and a razor which she
had used, and which she had taken from the room of
one of the lodgers, was found in the room.
Mr. Gibson, the surgeon of the goal, stated that from
what he had seen of the prisoner he had no doubt that
she was insane at the time the act was committed, and
evidence was adduced to show that her father was con-
fined in a lunatic asylum as an incurable lunatic. _

The jury acquitted the prisoner, on the ground of
insanity, and she was ordered to be detained during her
Majesty's pleasure.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day).

MANSION-HOUSE.

The business of this court commenced at an early
hour, and by the usual time (12 o'clock) for the sitting
of the court, the whole of the charges had boen gone
through and disposed of. Would it not be more con•
venient for a certain hour to be fixed for commencing
the business, and in no case departed from ? Why
should not the City Aldermen sit at 10 o'clock in the
morning (instead of 12 o'clock as now), the same as the
stipendiary magistrates of the metropolitan police
eourtsl
London, England, 1856-01-09

the public sentiment appears to be undergoing a, change
as regards the navy. Should this spirit acquire strength
in the mind of the nation, and reconcile it to the ex-
pense, there is no country in the world that in the course
of a few years would be their equal at sea. Little
more than 20 years hence their population will reach
50,000,000, and their wealth is increasing in a far more
rapid ratio. Is it wisoon the part of the nations of the
OM World, placed at such a disadvantage by their
colossal debts, and the necessities they are under for
keeping large standing armies, to fasten on themselves
a hostile naval rivalry with this Transatlantic people S
To abate such an impolitic provocation, as well as its tit
interest of European peace and propriety, I would en- -
deavour to promote a general reduction of naval estab-
lishments at the close of the war. Russia has been
sometimes cited, heretofore, as an obstacle to such a
policy ; but after the abortive, nay ridiculous, exhibi- :I
tion which her huge navies have afforded to the world
during the present war, the utter want of confidence
.;
and enterprise displayed by them, from the moment
that a hostile force appeared on her coasts, and which ry
has more than justified the prediction that in six !1
months she would, in the case of a war with England, t
or any other maritime nation, be crumpled up' as a
naval power ; after such proofs of the folly of attempting r,
to become a first-class power at sea, without the posses- •-f
sion of a mercantile marine, the Government of Russia —4
would, I should expect, be the first to embrace an ho-
nourable pretence for voluntarily limiting her naval ar-
mament within the most moderate and economical -
1
dimensions.

" I should endeavour, then, on the advent of peace,
to promote, as far as possible, an approximation on tho
part of the European Powers to the naval standard of
the United States—the country possessing the greatest
amount of mercantile tonnage. Should the close of the
war be signalised by such a general reduction of warlike
armaments in Europe as would be involved in this
arrangement, it would in all human probability confer a
lasting benefit on posterity, and amid the crimes and
errors of the last two years' diplomacy might fairly
claim for such a peaceful triumph the respect and grati-
tude of mankind."
London, England, 1856-01-09

CHRISTMAS IN THE CRIMEA.

A correspondent writes, under date Balaklava, Dec.
24 :—" It is to be hoped that all the grand folks in
England are as well provided for Christmas as we in
every department are here. It does one's heart good to
see the grand preparations for the festival. Geese,
turkeys, pigs, sheep, and bullocks are in great plenty,
and it is a charming sight to see the steamer coming
into Balaklava, garnished all round with dead poultry,
which is soon sold. The Earl of Durham had a strin g
of geese hung round her. lam sorry, however, to say
she lost on the voyage about 12 bullocks and 500 fowls.
I fancy other vessels had lost the same in proportion,
for yesterday, cff Balaklava, I passed through quite a
sea of dead poultry.
"By a vessel arrived from Kertch we bear that the
sea in the neighbourhood is frozen over. The weather
here is beautiful. An American barque arrived yester-
day, from Now York, in 60 days, with a cargo of flour,
which cost there 8 s dollars the barrel. Flour was sold
at Kadikoi shortly ago for 81. the barrel. The flour by
the American is for the commissariat."

JOSEPH HAYDN.
London, England, 1856-01-09

MANCHESTER, JAN. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGK.—The market to-day has been doing
a moderate business, and at rather easier prices. Leeds,
764—Dovers, 17—Midlands, 63s i—Eastern Counties, Si
—East Lancashire, 17 7-10—Manchester, Sheffield. and
Lincoln, 236--Ditto (101. Pref.), l3R—London and North
Westerns, 91—Ditto (tithe), 1 1-16 c. d.
London, England, 1856-01-09

THE CRIMEA.

The following letter from Kamiesh, in the
Semaphore of Marseilles, gives some idea of the
price of articles of food in the allied camp :
" The wines of Frame are abundant ; and the sales
made in the course of the present month have been at
from 115 f. to 135 f. the piece, according to quality. Our
present depot being about 25,000 casks, and various
vessels being expected from Marseilles, Cette, and
Toulon with more, a new decline i❑ price is to be ex-
pected. This week, several sales of Cognac in casks
and cases have been made ; one was of 400 casks at
lf. 55c. the litre, and another of 200 cases at 20f. the
case of 12 bottles. The stock of brandy is so abundant
that no rise in prices is likely. Rum is sold accord-
ing to quality, at from lf. 30c. to lf. 50c. the litre.
Absinthe and Vermouth are very abundant, and
not in demand. Bordeaux wine in cases of 12 bottles
is from 15f. to 24f., according to quality ; champagne,
from 36f. to 42f.; and curagoa and other liqueurs are
abundant. Flour is at from 100 f. to 115 f. the sack
of 122 kilos. GruyZire cheese is offered at lf. 75c. the
kilo.; sausages at sf. the kilo.; white beans and fine
potatoes, 701. the 100 kilos. ; wax candles, lf. 70c. to
lf. 80c. the lb.; tallow candles, 20f. the case of 10 kilos.;
good coffee, if. 50c. to lf. 75c. the kilo.; and refined
sugar, If. 70c. the kilo."
London, England, 1856-01-09

David Bogue, Fleet-street.

NEW BOOK FOR BOYA BY HENRY 'MAYHEW.
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THE WONDERS of SCIENCE ; or, Young
Humphry Davy, the Cornish Apothecary's Boy, who taught
himself Natural Philosophy, and eventually became President of the
Royal Society. The Life of A Wonderful Boy, written for Boys.
By llsrtav MATHEW, author of " The Peasant Bey Philosopher," &c.
London, England, 1856-01-09

or ♦ DAUGHTIB.

On the 6th inst., at East House, near Romford, Essex,
the wife of Worthem Hitch, Esq.
On the 6th inst., at Guernsey, the wife of B. B. Lux-
moore, Esq.—twins.
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LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.

The appointment of Second Captain William Handyside
to bear date the 7th Sept., 1855, instead of the 25th of
that menth, as previously stated.
The surname of the Cornet appointed on 23d Nov..,
1855, is Gatt, and not Galt, as previously stated.
London, England, 1856-01-09

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The following telegraphic despatch has just been
received here :

" BERLIN, Jan. B.—The reply of the Cabinet of
St. Petersburg to the propositions of peace commu-
nicated by Count d'Esterhazy have been sent off to
Vienna."

General Bosquet dined on Sunday at the Tuile-
ries.

BOURSE, Jan. B.—The following are the last quo-
tations :

Cash. ft. s. End of Month.
4i per Cents 9l 75 —f. __c.
3 per Cents 62 85 63 5
New Loan 63 85
Bank Shares 3175 Roman
Credit Mobilb3r 1235 Austrian
Belgian Five 5......., Spanish Throes
Piedmentese B6 50 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOR CASH.

fr. C. 0
Orlimns ... ............ 1120 Western 745
Northern
Lyons ...... 1105 New Ditto 740
Mediterranean - Grand Central 1563 75
L-ons Geneva ...... 675 Teste
Cette 665 Austrian Com. 712 50

PRUSSIA.
A correspondent of the Weser Gazette writes from
Berlin as follows :—" In the communication which
the King of Prussia has addressed to the Emperor
of Austria, it is said that he has expressed his re-
gret that Prussia was not invited to aid in drawing
up the propositions sent by Austria to Russia, and
asks for some explanations as to their object and
motives. Prussia, he says, though ever ready to
co-operate in the restoration of peace, refuses pro-
visionally to adhere to conditions agreed to with
the Western Powers without her participation,
and. communicated to her with the express under-
standing that they do not admit of any further
modification."

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna, in the Post 4mpt Gazette
of Frankfort, says :—" Count O'Donnell, aide-de-
camp to the Emperor of Austria, has not left Dres-
den on private business, but with a political pur-
poso in view ; as, before returning to Vienna, ho
wql visit some of? the smaller German courts. Col.
Manteuffel is likely to prolong his stay until the
middle of next week. Count Coronini, the com-
mandant of the Principalities, will leave for Bucha-
rest about the 15th."

A letter from Galatz of the 26th ult., in the
Moniteur, says :
" It has been already announced that the reigning
Prince had instructed the administrative council to pre-
pare a bill for the emancipation of the serfs belonging to
private individuals, and to fix the indemnity to be paid
to the latter. If this principle of indemnity be gene-
rally accepted, the total expense caused by the measure
will be considerable, however small the sum fixed for
each slave may. be. According to the calculations of
the great Logotbete Nicholas Sontzo there were, in
1849, 4,163 families of serfs, which at 5 persons to each
family will give more than 20,000 slaves. This number
has not much changed since, as the freedoms granted
have been very few. An expectation, however, appears
to be now entertained that the majority of the persons
possessing serfs will nut accept any indemnity, and this
expectation is founded on the fact that several boyards
have already given freedom to the whole of their serfs,
without waiting for the promulgation of the now law."
London, England, 1856-01-09

DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED.

Francis Wm. Fawcett and Wm. Parrott, Lisle-street,
Leicester-square, boot and shoe manufacturers—Geo. A.
M`Lean, High Holborn, tailor, Jan. 29—Thos. Heywood
and John Heywood, Wood-street, Cheapside, and of Mel-
bourne, New South Wales, lace warehouseman, Jan. 30—
Thos. L. Powell, Romsey, Hampshire, cabinet maker—
Thos. Giles, Saint John's-lane, Clerkenwell, wire worker
—Wm. Poynter, St. Paul's Churchyard, warehouseman—

Henry Alex. Douglas, Old Broad-street, merchant, Jan.
29 Crole, jun., Rood-lane, East India, merchant—
P. Cattell, Long-acre, coach maker—G. C. Long, Dartford,
Kent, draper, Jan. 30—Wm. Woods and Samuel Thomas,
Cheapside, wholesale hardwaremen, Jan. 29—Henry New-
son Brewer, Deptford, Bermondsey-wall, Bermondsey,
mast and block-maker, and South-eastern Arcade, South-
wark, tobacconist—Wm. Ayres, Blackheath, nurseryman
—Henry Brett, Portsea, grocer—Jas. Loneragan, Cam-
bridge-terrace, Lower-road, Islington, corn dealer—Edwd.
Green, Cork-street, St. James's, Westminster, tailor—
Noake Baker, Southampton, timber merchant—Samuel
Adams, Wm. Bridges Adams, and Gerard Ralston, Fair
Field Works, Bow (the separate estates of Samuel Adams
awl Gerard Ralston), engineers—Win. Pearce, Clerken-
well-green, gas-fitter--Rich. Lawrence Sturtevant, Church-
street, Bethnal-green, soap manufacturer—Wm. 3.l`Curtin
and James Scoble Riley, Liverpool, commission merchants,
Jan. 31.
London, England, 1856-01-09

OP A DAUGHTER.

On the 6th inst., at East House, near Romford, Essex,
the wife of Wortham Hitch, Esq.
On the 6th inst., at Guernsey, the wife of E. B. Luz.
moore, Esq.—twins.
MARRIED.

On the Bth inst., in the church, Gordon•square, Simnel
Rawson Gardiner, Esq., eldest son of Rawson Boddam
Gardiner, Esq., of Gorden-street, Gordon-square, to
Isabella, only surviving daughter of the late Rev. Edward
Irving.
On the Bth inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, Edgar Sydney,
Esq., of Hyde Vale, Greenwich, and 20, Mark-lane, to
Jane Catherine, secondydanghter of Thos. Norfolk, Esq.,
of Deptford.
London, England, 1856-01-09

DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED.

Francis Wm. Fawcett and Wm. Parrott, Lisle-street,
Loicester-square, boot and shoe manufacturers—Geo. A.
M`Lean, High Holborn, tailor, Jan. 29—Thos. Heywood
and John Heywood, Wood-street, Cheapside, and of Mel-
bourne, Now South Wales, lace warehouseman, Jan. 30
Thos. L. Powell, Romsey, Hampshire, cabinet maker—
Thos. Giles, Saint John's-lane, Clerkenwell, wire worker
—Wm. Poynter, St. Paul's Churchyard, warehouseman—
Henry Alex. Douglas, Old Broad-street, merchant, Jan.
29 —Wm. Crole, jun., Rood-lane, East India, merchant—
P. Cattell, Long-acre, coach maker—G. C. Long, Dartford,
Kent, draper, Jan. 30—Wm. Woods and Samuel Thomas,
Cheapside, wholesale hardwaremen, Jan. 29—Henry New-
son Brewer, Deptford, Bermondsey-wall, Bermondsey,
mast and block-maker, and South-eastern Arcade, South-
wark, tobacconist— Wm. Ayres, Blackheath, nurseryman
—Henry Brett, Portsea, grocer--Jas. Loneragan, Cam-
bridge-terrace, Lower-road, Islington, corn dealer—Edwd.
Green, Cork-street, St. James's, Westminster, tailor—
Noake Baker, Southampton, timber merchant—Samuel
Adams, Wm. Bridges Adams, and Gerard Ralston, Fair
Field Works, Bow (the separate estates of Samuel Adams
and Gerard Ralston), engineers—Wm. Pearce, Clerken-
well-green, gas-fitter—Rich. Lawrence Sturtevant, Church-
street, Bethnal-green, soap manufacturer—Win. M'Curtin
and James Scoble Riley, Liverpool, commission merchants,
Jan. 31.
London, England, 1856-01-09

IPSWICH-JAN. R.

A moderate supply of wheat, more tone and firmness in
tho trade, and prices rather against buyers. Barley a fair
supply, but a large portion of it was of very secondary
quality ; a ready sale, however, at is and 2s per qr. ad-
vance on late rate.. Best malting qualities brought the
same advance. Beans and peas a trifle cheaper.
PIM QUARTER, PER (111ARTit
Wheat, red (old) '76s to 78s Barley, grinding ... 37s to 38e
Ditto (now)
Ditto, white i-ets to 866 Peas
Ditto (old)
Barley, malting 39s to 426,F10ur, per sack —s to —a

AVERAGES FOR THE WINE ENDING JAN. 5, 1855.
Wheat
Oats 5O „ 289 04
Peas
Barley
Beans

HULL-JAN. 8.

A very small supply of wheat, condition bad ; farmers
very firm, and for all good-conditioned samples fully last
week's prices were paid ; other sorts neglected. Foreign
more looked after. Spring corn of all kinds dull, and
without demand. Linseed firm ; cakes in moderate sale to
consumers.

s s
Wheat, English, red 74 to 76'
Ditto white 7B to 84
Dantzic and Konigs-
berg
Pomeranian and Ham-

'Peas, grey and black to
Linseed, Black Sea 77 to 80
IDitto Petersburgh 74 to 76
'Ditto Riga and Arch-
angel

burgh
Danish Holstein, and

Friesland 74 to 78
Russian and Odessa 70 to 72
Oats, English
Ditto Danish
Ditto Friesland
Ditto Russian 2B to 30
Barley, malting
Ditto grinding 36 to 38
Beaus
Ditto foreign
Peas, white and ye) 5O to 541
London, England, 1856-01-09

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—On the subject of the pension recently granted
to this gentleman, so justly commented upon in The Sun
of yesterday, its inonstro4ity will appear greater when
it is known that, on Easter Tuesday last, Joseph Haydn,
employed at the time by the Admiralty in bringing up
the records of the Secretary of State's letters, was struck
with paralysis, which has prostrated him to the present
hour.
Lord Palmerston, the moment he heard of it, enrolled
himself among that noble band who "do good by stealth
and blush to find it fame," by sending him 1001., while
Mr. Disraeli and a few others added to this sum enough
to purchase for Mrs. Haydn and family a shop for the
rale of stationery and newspapers (No. 13, Crawley-
street, Oakley-square). In this house, the pious, learned,
and resigned paralytic now lingers on a bare subsistence ;
but were you to give this fact the influence of your large
circulation, it would be the means of prolonging his
valuable life, and of mitigating its many sorrows.—
I have the honour to be, sir, your faithful servant,
London, Jan. 8, A. B.
London, England, 1856-01-09

CERTIFCATES TO BE GRANTED.

Wm. Attwood, 8, Old Dorset-place, Clapham-road,
grocer, Jan. 29 John Pattison, 31, Alpha-road, St.
John's-wood, and 12, Park-street, Gresvenor-square, sur-
geon, Jan. 29—Thos. Dalby, Hythe, Kent, builder, Jan.
30—J. Laker, Maidstone, Kent, builder, Jan. 31.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
W. Armatead, Settle, Yorkshire, licensed victualler—
W. Fifield, Romsey, Hants, out of business—G. Haines,
Nessington, grocer—W. Blackler, Cornbe, Devonshire,
cooper—H. Shaw, Wortley, Yorkshire, commission agent
—H. Parker, Wattisfield, Suffolk, blacksmith—W. New-
bury, Wangford, Suffolk, innkeeper—J. Lincoln, South-
wold, Suffolk, boot and shoemaker —R. Squirrel', Rattles-
don, Suffolk, shoemaker—W. H. Head, Worthing,
Sussex, nurseryman—R. Ternant, Trimdon
Durham, screenman—J. Smith, Yam, Yorkshire,
hoot and shoe maker—W. Coats, South Shields,
Durham, publican—H. Brooks, Warminster, Wilt-
shire, grocer—S. Astle, Fulshaw, Cheshire, butcher—C.
Pitman, Bath, licensed brewer—J. Biss, Frome, Somerset-
shire, gardener—G. Hallet, Brighton, carpenter—E
Huckerby, Brighton, plasterer—R. Rofe, Brighton, baker
—J. Geary, Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, chand-
ler's shop keeper—T. Ives, Woburn, Buckinghamshire,
last maker—S. Harris, Plymouth, chief engineer, of the
first class, of H.M.S. Royal William.