The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN

BANK OF

(From this n 4
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7
the Week ending on Saturday, 1
ISSUE DEP.
X.
Notes issued 28,643,895

£28,643,895

Dated the Eth day of November,

B•NSDIG D.
Proprietorecapital .. 14,553,000
Rest . .. • ..... .. 3,153,016
Public deposits (in-
chiding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-

ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accoam,s).. 5,437,553
Other deposits •• •• •• 10,337,231
Seven day and other
Bills .•••• • • • •- .... 1,269,656

£34,750,706

Dated the sth day of Nov6mber,

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 7, 1851.

The gven has been pleased to appoint Alexander
Williams Anderson, Esq., to be Inspector of Schools for
the Island of Trinidad.

WAR•OFFICE, Nov. 7.
3d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Charles Hocd to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Coble, who retires, Nov. 7.
1 Ith Foot—Captain Alexander Henry Louis Wyatt,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Cockburn,
who exchanges, receiving the difference; Assistant-
Surgeon Nesbitt Heffernan, M. 8., from 60th Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice Chapman, promoted on the Staff; Nov. 7.
38th Foot.—Ensign Archibald Campbell Snodgrass to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Green, who retires,
Nov. 7.

57th Foot—Quartermaster•Sergeant James Balcombe
to be Quartermaster, vice Morrow, deceased, Nov. 7.
60'.h Foot—Assistant-Surgeon David Ogilvie Iloilo,
M.D., from 18th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Fielf,•rnan, promoted in 11th Foot, Nov. 7.
61st Foot—Acting Assistant• Surgeon Colin Matheson
Milne Miller, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bris-
coe, deceased, Nov. 7.

85th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Maunsell to he Captain,
by purchase, vice Parratt, who retires; Ensign Sir Henry
H ape Edwardes, Burt., to be Lieutenant, by purchase
vice Maunsell, Nov. 7.

91 vt Foot—Staff Surgeon cf the Second Class William
Arden to be Surgeon, vice Reid, appointed to the Staff,
Nov. 7.

3d West India Regiment—Colour-Sergeant George
Alexander 'Moorhead, from 7th Foot, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Robinson, promoted, Oct. 31.
Sr. Helena Regiment—Captain Henry Gallisr, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Bolton, who
exchanges, Nov. 7.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff-Surgeon of First Class,
Archicald Shanks, M. 1)., to be Deputy Inspector-
General of Hospitals, vice Roe, deceased; Surgeon John
Strange Chapman, from the II th Foot, to be Staff-
Surgeon, First Class, vice Shanks, promoted; Surgeon
Francis Reid, M.D., front 91st Foot, to be Staff-Sur-
geon of Second Class, vice Arden, appointed to 91st
Foo►, Nov. 7.

BREVET.—Captain Alexander Henry Louis Wy&i
of the 11th Foot, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 9.

ADMIRALTY, Nov, 6.

The Naval War Medals (not including those for the
Burmese War) for which claims were preferred prior to
the Ist September last, wilt be ready for issue, either on
personal applicati,:n, or by letter addressed to the Se-
cretary of the Admiralty, on and after Monday, the 10th
instant.

By command of their Lordships,
J. PARKER,
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

William Buddle, timber merchant, Irongato Wharf,
Paddington.
Richard Edwards, linen draper. Sudbury, Suffolk.

BANKRUPTS.

Ely Kitson, sadder, Fenchurch-street, Nov. 14, al
halt-past eleven, arud Dec. 16, at eleven, at tho Court o,
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Babinghall.
street; Buchanan, Basingh.lll-street

Joseph Battye Luis Buckland, insurance agent,
Regent-villas, Regent's-park, Nov. 14, at one, and Dec.
16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Cox, Pinners'-hall,
Bread-street.

George Smith, corn merchant, Old Kent-road, Nov,
15, and Dec.l3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Moss.
Gray's Inn-square.
William James, builder, Plumstead, Kent, Nov. 19, at
twelve, and Dec. 16, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Hensnaau, Col-
lege-hill.
William Simmonds, grocer, Brighton, Nov. 18, at
half-past ore, and Dec. 15, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court, Basinghall-street; Kennett, Brighton; So wton,
Great James-street, Bedford-row.

Augustus Radcliffe, jun., merchant, Chichester-place,
Gray's Inn-road, Nov. 21, at two, and Dec. 15, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch•lane, Lombard-street; Taylor,
South-street, Finsbury-square.
Francisco Frei' ciscowitz Braggiotti, merchant, High-
bury, Middlesex, Nov. 25, at one, and Dec. 18, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee,
Abchurch-lane ; Cottenll, Throgmorton-street.
George Moredey Mowbray, builder, Hove, Sussex,
Nov. 25, at twelve, and Dec. 15, at elven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lsae;
Eversbed, Brighton; Sowtou, Great James. street, Bed-
ford-row.

Dec.ohn Toy. innkeeper, Wolverhampton, Nov. 18 and
!? 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Vour,..i,
et; Whitmore, official assignee,
.Birmingham;
'a. ,a , Wolverhampton.
District miller,
Tipton, Staffordshire, Nov. 20
f.,,,,,,,tat half-past eleven, at the Birmingham
and Dec. 16 ,
mutteratiap,hxliiilit,Vt,a!tinpdy,Eotnfti,atl,
Birmingham.
John aßmi.rmiogiaam;
John :Istuggist, Birmingham, Nov. 1?, and
Dec. 9, at half-past
ten, at the Birmingham District
I Court. Christie, official assignee,
gßbiarmm.ingham;
Chap-
lin, Richards, and Stubbinl
Joseph Bally Cadby, ~tatronainner Malmesbury, Wilt-
shire, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18,
Distric C. Hutton, ocia;.3ven at the Bristol
Church andourt Son, Bedford-row.ffi
at eleven
,
assignee, Bristol;
Charles Isaacs, furrier, Bristol, Nov. 21, and Dec. 17,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official
assignee, Bristol; Bevan, Bristol.
Henry Cenniford, innkeeper, Ottery Saint Mary, De-
vonshire, Nov. 19 and Dec. 10, at one, at the Exeter
District Court. Hirtzel, official-assignee. Exeter; Cole-
ridge and Son, Ottery Saint Mary; 'Ferrell, Exeter.
Edward Hindley, coal merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 18,
and December 8, at the Liverpool District Court.
C:aenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Fletcher and
Hull, Liverpool.
Austin Robert Stace, ironmonger, Strood, Kent, Nov,.
31, and Dec 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, cfficial assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Law-
ranee, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Williira John Miall, cement manufacturer, Ingram-
Court, Fenehurch-etreet, Nov. 21, at two, and Dec. 18, at
eleven, at the Court of aankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee. Sam hsr7sok:court, Batinhall-street; J. and J.
H. Linklater,
PRICE BFilele
Patteson, Bedford:ne,
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SUGAR.
The Cobbald and
pricere of
___Br9wu or Muscovado Sugar, cora-
Threztearagfrrvm e
twns maga in the v.-eek ending Nor. 4,

1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain:—
From the British possessions in America 235. Bd. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... 225. lOid. „

From the East Indies ... 268. 2id.
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 245. 101 d. „
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, Nov. 7.

SHOCKING MURDER OF A FARMER
BY 1118 SON.

STOW-ON-TrIE-WOLD, WEDNESDAY.—This quiet
and retired district, in the centre of the bleak Cots-
wold range of hills, has been thrown into a state of
consternation by the murder of a wealthy farmer, Mr
George Hambidge, by his illegitimate son.
The circumstances as elicited in evidence at the
coroner's inquest terminated yesterday before the dis-
trict coroner, Jos. Lovegrove, Esq., are as follows :
The deceased, Mr. George Hambidge, was a respect-
able farmer advanced in life, and resided at the village
of Iccombe, near this town. The prisoner, whose
mother's name was Fisher, and who was an illegiti-
mate son of the deceased, was also a farmer well to
do in the world, and living in the same neighbour-
hood.

On Saturday the prisoner went to the house of a
Mrs. Watts, a neighbour, residing at Churchcombe,
and asked her to go to his father's house, as he wished
her to keep house for him while he went out with
him (the prisoner). Mrs. Watts accordingly accom-
panied him to his father's, and there she found the
old man in the kitchen by the fire. The
prisoner's wife was also sitting with him, with her
child. Mrs. Hambidge, or Fisher, went up stairs
with Mrs. Watts and the child to dress, and left the
father and son together in the kitchen. This was
about one o'clock in the afternoon. They had scarcely
been up stairs ten minutes when they heard the re-
port of a gun in the kitchen, and Mrs. Fisher, fearing
some catastrophe, ran down stairs, and there to her
horror beheld her husband standing in the room with
a gun in his hand, and his father lying a mangled
corpse in his chair. She screamed out for help, and
on Mrs. Watts going down she found the prisoner
supporting his father in the chair, but he was quite
dead. Others of the neighbours rushed in, and found
the poor old man in the state described, with his blood
flowing on the floor of the room, and his daughter in
a violent fit, from which it was some time ere she re-
covered. The prisoner, who had been drinking, but
was described as in a state to know what he was
about, repeatedly exclaimed that he " had killed his
father," and he added, in an apparently cool and
collected manner, " I nicked the gun twice, and it
didn't go off, but it went off the third time.'
The police shortly afterwards arrived, and took the
prisoner into custody, and while in the house be
went to a cupboard in one of the rooms, and took
from it a paper. The policeman immediately took it
from him, and replaced it. It proved to be the de-
ceased father's will. When in custody of the police-
man he said, "I have shot him, and must take the
consequences. I shall be tried for my life. It was a
good thing my wife was up stairs, for it was as likely
to be her as him. If Mary Ann had not snatched
the gun out of my hand I should have shot myself."
Mr. Jenkins, the surgeon, who was called in to exa-
mine the body, described its appearance and the cause
of death. There was a gunshot wound in the upper
part of the chest, and two of the left ribs were frac-
tured. The wound was three inches in length and
two in width. The immediate cause of death was
perforation of the windpipe. When he first saw the
body he found a piece of flesh attached to the wall
behind the chair in which the deceased was lying. Mr.
Jenkins thought the muzzle of the gun must have
been close to the deceased at the time he was shot.
The shot passed completely through the clothes and
the body, coming out at the back.
At the close of the inquiry the Coroner addressed
the jury, who after a short consultation found a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder against John Hambidge,
alias Fisher ;" and the Coroner thereupon committed
him for trial at the next Gloucester assizes.

being looked at, and dancing with loose legged cava-
liers, picked up Heaven knows where—a sight such
as I shall never forget, so painful, so absurd, so
hideous. And this was a ball ! If Bloomerism is
not utterly discredited and extinguished by this, I
shall be amazed. Who could for a moment com-
pare the costume there worn with that of an ordinary
ball dress ? No one but a child or a bumpkin who
thinks the actresses at a fair are " radient forms of
light."
About one o'clock there came an accession of
Bloomers, a bevy of Gauls, somewhat better dressed,
but the Bartholomew Fair stamp ineffaceable on all.
As the men seemed to get more and more riotous, I
thought it time to depart, and I did so, convinced
that Bloomerism was quashed. I remembered that a
lady correspondent from Dresden had told me how
the tailors there have taken a large building in the
Altmarkt, which they christen Academie der Kleider-
kunst, or Academy of the Art of Tailoring, and are
there occupied in inventing a sort of national costume,
in order to do away with French fashions, against
which their pride revolts. Success to them ! But
this appears to me to be the case with all reforms,
whether of politics, language, or costume, viz., they
must pass to a higher stage through modifications of
existing things. Bloomerism will fail as the Phonetic
system failed—the change is too sudden, the leap too
great.
Home I drove, sad and thoughtful. My expecta-
tions had not only been disappointed, but I had seen
human nature under aspects by no means favourable.
The mob outside, the mob inside, and those pot):
creatures flaunting in satin, driving one's thoughts in
upon one's soul to brood there in sadness. Above
shone the cold stars, distant and dim. Around all
was silent. My wearied head was soon reposing on
the pillow, and I too passed into silence.

ABUNDANCE OF GOLD.
The question as to the probable effects of an
abundance of gold is again in agitation. California
has thus far realised more than was expected by the
most sanguine, the product at the end of each year
having exceeded the highest estimate at the com-
mencement, and there are now indications of a
similar promise from the new regions in Australia.
A disposition, however, still prevails to believe that
DO extraordinary changes in the relations of money
are impending. When the Californian mines were
first discovered it was admitted that if anything
like eight or ten millions sterling should annually
be produced for a series of years, there could be
no doubt strange effects would be witnessed. But
it was contended that instead of this continued
yield there would be a gradual decline after the first
year or two. The idea being now effectually set
aside, a new argument is adopted. The exports of
gold from California for the twelve months ending the
31st December, 1850, were equal, it is supposed, to
12,000,0001., while for the present year, judging
from the first nine months, they may be estimated at
15,000,0001. In the face of this supply there has
been no very observable disturbance in the measure
of value. It is therefore assumed that the aug-
mented quantity has been met by an augmented de•
mend, and that with the increasing traffic of the
world a like annual addition will henceforth easily
be absorbed.
This inference, although it is urged by some able
economical writers, appears altogether unsupported.
The only tests of the result of the increased supply
would be an alteration in the relative value of gold
and silver, or a general and unaccountable rise in the
prices of all articles. But the extensive displacement
of silver which has occurred in France, and which was
plainly foreseen, has prevented the first of these from
being available, except to a very limited extent, while,
with regard to the second, the changes in our com-
mercial system have been such as to produce a rapid
fall in all commodities far more than sufficient to
neutralize any moderate influences of an opposite kind.
Apart from free trade, moreover, there is quite
enough to account for the increased influx having
thus far produced no palpable manifestations. The
Bank of France at this moment holds 8,000,0001.
sterling in excess of what she possessed in 1849 ; the
extent to which hoarding both of gold and silver has
been carried on all over the Continent during the past
three years, and especially in Italy and throughout
the Austrian empire, has perhaps been unprecedented ;
a drain no less remarkable has been caused by the
Irish emigration, which has carried large totals to
western America, where much of it will long remain ;
and finally, there has been the return to India of a
great portion of that specie which was suddenly drawn
to Englard after the panic of 1847.
Exceptional circumstances exist, therefore, suffi-
cient to render it unnecessary to assume that an in-
crease in the demand for gold has suddenly sprung up
to an extent such as steadily to absorb fifteen millions
per annum. The tendency of civilization is to render
needless the use of the precious metals for purposes
of barter, and although new colonies and settlements
for a time create fresh demands, there is no reason to
suppose that they more than counteract the econo-
mical influences elsewhere in progress. Even Cali-
fornia herself is not believed to have absorbed, in the
shape of circulation, more than two or three millions,
while on the other hand we have to bear in mind the
effects of extended banking accommodation and the
use of money orders, postage stamps, and other similar
contrivences, which are more or less being imitated in
every part of the world.
Hence we may still infer that previously to the dis-
covery of California the production of gold, increased
as it had been by the large supply from Russia, was
equal most probably to the annual demand; that its
value is consequently liable to be reduced nearly to the
extent of the exports from California, and that such
reduction will of course be measured by the propor-
tionmay bear to the existing
What the amount of that stock may be is
stoek. which the new supply
wholly unknown, but there can be little ques-
an insignificant addition to it. Some in-
tion that fifteen millions per annum is not rela-
tively
gators have surmised that 400 millions is
about the total in circulation throughout the world.
If that can be taken as in any degree correct, it will
v
easily be understood that the Californian supplies
must soon make themselves seriously felt whenever
the condition of Europe shall cause the quantities now
eagerly secreted to return to active purposes.
But it is, after all, not a
question of an addition
of fifteen millions per annum. If any reliance can
be placed on ordinary evidence, the production from
California alone is only likely to be limited by the
amount of population able to reach the State and
the rapidity of the arrangements for obtaining ma-
chinery. It is impossible to name any other reason
why the fifteen millions should not be increased to
thirty or sixty. No word of failing supplies has yet
reached us. On the contrary, the miners seem dis-
posed to welcome as many fellow-labourers as may
see fit to join them, and every one asserts that the
whole country is rich, and that as far as the present
generation are concerned it may be pronounced inex-
haustible. The old impression that gold is never
found in large or continuous quantities is wholly dis-
pelled, and scarcely any news could now arrive from
take the public greatly by surprise.
, InCalifornia,
ae Be
oolfi'vtihaO Pseceriru or Australia, that could
circumstances it must be in-
jurious to encourage the tendency, always too strong
in the majority of minds, to believe that the old
routine of things is to go on as it has always gone.
the
It can do no harm to keep the possibilities of the case
constantly in view, so that people may learn gradually
and quietly to adapt their interests to whatever may
occur.

At the same time it may be questioned if the
changes destined to be produced will not be so
balanced in their operation as greatly to diminish
the relative disturbance among the various in-
terests that must be affected by them. On the 22d
February, 1849, the Times gave an outline of the
primary effects to be looked for from any striking
alteration of the relations between the precious
metals and property in general, and the subject has
been dealt with elsewhere and on other occasions
until the public have become familiar with it. But
although the fact is understood that real estate and
all properties the rent or charge for which can
be raised at will are secure from depreciation in
case of an increased currency, while the property of
annuitants, on the contrary, will be exposed to it,
there are a vast number of modifications to be taken
into account by which this course of affairs may be
singularly influenced. The impulse of many, when
they first glance at the question, is to sell annuities
and buy land. Others think justly, that railways,
steam-vessels, houses, machinery, &c., must be equally
or still more desirable. The march of progress, how-
ever, which has brought about the late discoveries
of gold must also bring changes that will affect in
some measure the fixedness even of these possessions.
While the distance between the United States and
England is being lessened year by year in a way
that bids fair to constitute them neighbouring coun-
tries, the fact that lands are to be had in abundance at
ss. to 20s. per acre on one side must operate power-
fully on the value of similar holdings on the other.
The improvements in modes of building, such as have
been foreshadowed by the construction of the Crystal
Palace, must likewise import a more temporary cha-
racter to existing house property. The same is to be
said with regard to ships, railroads, canals, and all
things that come within the range of scientific advance-
ment. In this way it will be seen that while the annui-
tant will be unable to rely upon the perpetuity of his in-
come furnishing him with an exemption from the ne•
nessity of vigilance, labour, or enterprise, the same
fate awaits most of those who are embarked in diffe-
rent investments. The alarm of one class, therefore,
may be mitigated by the fact that all others may be
more or less affected by analogous conditions ; and the
promise for the future is that while it will be difficult
for persons of wealth to find any secure resting place
for indolence, the universal activity that will be called
up will furnish continuous rewards to sagacity and
exertion such as have never before been offered in
any age.—rimoi City Article.

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1851.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 6.
FLIGHT V. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
The suit in this case was ins'itutei by Mr. Flight,
the plaintiff, on behalf of himself and all other judg-
ment creditors of the Duke of Buckingham, subse-
quent to the 27th of May, 1847, and registered be-
fore the Ist of May, 1850, the object being to enforce
payment of their judgments, and to set aside a deed
of conveyance by the Duke of Buckingham to his
son, the Marquis of Chandos, bearing date the 27th
of May, 1847, and executed, as the bill alleged, to
defeat the claims of the plaintiffs. The bill stated
that the Duke possessed large estates in England and
Ireland, some of them in settlement with a life interest
to the Duke, while over others the Duke had an ab-
solute power of appointment, and that there was also
large personal estate, the whole property of the Duke
being over 2,000,0001., and the personal estate
500,000/. The conveyance was made to the Marquis
on certain trusts, and, as the bill alleged, for no va-
luable consideration.

1 ~

The plaintiff, Flight, it was stated, was a simple
creditor of the Duke, and obtained the Duke's pro-
missory notes for 21,0001. in all, and having brought
an action to recover this sum, after the date of the
deed, he obtained judgment, and now filed his bill
to have the benefit thereof. To this a plea was put
in, in which it was averred that the conveyance was
for good and valuable consideration, and made bond
fide, and that this was a sufficient bar to the whole
of the relief prayed, and to part of the discovery
sought, and an answer was put in covering the re-
maining part. The validity of the plea now came on
to be argued.
Mr. Elmlie and Mr. C. Hall for the plea. Mr.
Roupell and Mr. Rogers for the bill.
The MASTER of the ROLLS postponed judgment till
Monday next.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 6.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EYANS.)
IN RE SCHOFIELD.

The bankrupt, James Schofield, of Aldermanbury,
warehouseman, came up to pass his last examination.
The accounts, extending over a period of 10 months,
show the following :—Creditors, 610/. ; ditto holding
security, 421. ; profits, 269/ ; liabilities, 331/. • defi-
ciency November 1, 1850, 322/. ; property taken by
the assignee, 123/. ; property in the hands of credi-
tors, 72/. ; trade expenses, 97/. ; private expenses,
163/ ; losses, 88/.

Mr. Linklater supported the bankrupt; Mr. Reed
appeared for the assignees, and offered no opposition.
The bankrupt passed.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.)
IN BB FOLLIT.

The bankrupt, W. E. Follit, of Chenies-place,
Somers'-town, carver and gilder, applied for his cer-
tificate. The accounts from the Ist of September,
1849, to July 25, 1851, show the following :—Cre-
ditors, 1,9761. ; ditto holding security, 313/.;
bilities, 427/.; profits, 1,2631.; surplus September,
1849, 4201 ; debtors good, 601.; doubtful, 5571. ;
property held by creditors, 131/.; trade expenses,
1,2521. ; rent and taxes, Sol/. ; law expenses, 2051. ;
house and personal, 6601.; losses, 6011.
Mr. Lawrance supported the bankrupt ; Mr. Link-
later, for the absent solicitor to the assignees, offered
no opposition ; and _ _ _

Mr-. Moss, a creditor who opposed, said he had sold
bankrupt goods in February, taking a six months'
bill. The bankruptcy occurred in July.
The bankrupt, on examination by Mr. LAWRANCE,
said he had never sold any goods at auction-rooms ; he
had never sent goods to auction-rooms; some were
sold in the ordinary way, others under the execution.
He had made considerable alterations, as London was
becoming very full on account of the Exhibition ; and
he had great expectation of doing a very good busi-
ness. He had taken two cottages out of London,
also, for the purpose of letting to the visitors to the
Exhibition.

Mr. LAWRANCE said he did not know if the time
had arrived when the Exhibition would be charged—
His HONOUR, interrupting—l suppose it made rail-
ways solvent, and other people insolvent.
Mr. LAWRANCE said the bankrupt had been in-
duced, on account of the Exhibition, to make great
alterations in his premises, and, on account of the
number of visitors to the Exhibition, he indulged in
the hopes of doing a greater business. With respect
to the amount of debts, it was a singular fact that the
bankrupt was only opposed by one creditor, his other
creditors having no complaint to make, and there was
no objection to his general conduct as a trader.
His HONOUR (to the bankrupt) —What did you
owe the National Linen Company 1521. for? The
bankrupt—For furniture for my cottages.
The COMMISSIONER—Then, this National Linen
Company are dealers in furniture ?
The Bankrupt—Yes ; I bought linen as well as
furniture.

The COMMISSIONER said there was no circum-
stance in favour of the bankrupt. Upon looking at
the accounts he owed about 2,700/., and he did not
produce fur his creditors any property whatever, at
least only 71. had been received by the official as-
signee. His insolvency bad been as decided as any
insolvency could be. After a seizure bad taken
place a person had attempted to make him a bank-
rupt, and, instead of submitting to his bankruptcy,
as he ought to have done, he actually took proceedings
for the purpose of resisting the bankruptcy. So much
for his general conduct. 'With respect to the oppo-
sition by Moss, it appeared that the bankrupt took
goods upon sale and return. Moss became alarmed,
and entered into arrangements by which he obtained
a bill. Moss felt he was very much wronged, and so
he certainly was. There was no one circumstance in
his favour, as he had said, and, under the circum-
stances, it was his (the Commissioner's) duty to
postpone the certificate for two years from the date
of the bankruptcy, and he should withhold protection.
Upon the application by Mr. Lawrence fur pro-
tection,

His HONOUR said, if he should he sent to prison he
should release him within six months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.,
If A AIME R OH TH.
William .Harris, aged 33, and .Henry Round, aged
20, were charged with having on the 7th of October
last, feloniously shot police-sergeant Edward Earthy,
19, T division, and with stopping a gentleman named
Frederick Bashford on the Queen's highway, and pre-
senting a loaded pistol, and threatening to blow that
gentleman's brains out if he did not give up his pro-
perty ; the prisoners were further charged with steal-
ing a silver watch and gold guardchain, together
with a purse containing two sovereigns and Lee half-
sovereigns, on the evening of Tuesday, the 7th ult.,
shortly after that gentleman had quitted the Southall
station, on the Great Western Railway.
The prisoner Round was further charged with hav-
ing stopped Mr. E. Long, a baker, of the Uxbridge-
road, Ealing, on the Bth ult., and robbed him of four
sovereigns, two half-sovereigns, and about six shil-
lings in silver. To this person he prisoner presented
a loaded pistol, which was found in his pocket by the
police, and still loaded with two bullets or slugs.
Police-sergeant Edward Earthy, 19 T, was the first
witness examined, and, being very weak from the
wounds he had received, was accommodated with a
chair. The witness spoke in a low tone of voice.
He said :—On Wednesday, the Bth ult., he was at
East Acton, Middlesex. About eight o'clock in the
evening he met policeman Bayley in Acton-lane. They
proceeded together about 200 yards along the lane,
when he saw two men standing together under the shade
of a large elm tree. They (the officers) made towards
them, and, by the light of the moon, he saw they were
both wearing black masks. He had received infor-
mation that a highway robbery had been committed
on the previous day, and from the description of the
robbers, he suspected these men. Witness went up
to one of them, saying, " What have you there ?" and
at the same time pulled his mask aside. The prisoner
Round then placed a pistol close to his body and
fired. The ball or balls entered the left side of the
left thigh, and passed through into the right. The
prisoner held the pistol in his right hand, and in the
direction the shot was fired. He fell to the ground
immediately after he was wounded. He then heard a
wrestling behind, got on his knees with difficulty, and
saw Bayley scuffling with Harris, who was also on
the ground. The prisoner still held the pistol in his
right hand, and pointed it direct to his (witness's)
head. He called on Bayley to strike him, and he
struck him on the right hand, and the prisoner Round
seized the pistol by the left hand, and he could not
wrest it from him. The pistol did not go off. He
called to Bayley, the prisoner Round endeavouring all
the time to raise it to his (witness's) head. The pri-
soner Round escaped with the pistol.
By Mr. PAYNTER—I can swear to the tall man,
Round. He was not dressed as he is now. He had
a round jacket on over a Guernsey frock.
Police-constable Bayley, 150 T, corroborated the
testimony of the previous witness, and stated that on
the night in question he saw the two prisoners in
masks, evidently made from a silk apron, and having
a stiffening, with black tape to pass round the head,
and fasten at the neck. After the prisoner Round
had fired and wounded Earthly, he closed with
Harris, who tried to pull the trigger. The pistol
was loaded with two bullets. He was not positive
which fired, but he thought the taller one. On search-
ing Harris he found a powder-canister and a piece of
lead from which the bullets had been cut, and rounded
in a rough and jagged manner. He also found three
new silk handkerchiefs.
Inspector Cooke, T division, proved he was on the
ground soon after, and found a black mask, which he
believed belonged to the prisoner Harris.
Mr. Joseph Collard, Superintendent of the Great
Western Railway police, stated that in consequence of
information he received from Mr. Bashford, a member
of the Great Western Company, he was directed by
the directors of the Great Western Railway to assist
the police, and he saw the pistol which had been
found on Round. On Friday a man was given

into custody for attempting to pass a brass medal
for a sovereign. He went to the Paddington station
and saw the prisoner. lie identitisd the pistol now
shown him as being similar to the one found on Round.
They were made by the same maker. He toll the
prisoner he had a more serious charge to prefer against
him than that of attempting to pass a medal ; it was
being concerned with attempting to murder a police-
officer; and he said in a hasty manner, "Do they say
I did it; is he dead ? " Mr. Collard then told him the
police-sergeant was not dead. 'Witness afterwards
brought the prisoner to this court, he being sent by
the magistrate at Marylebone Court. On the way he
said he knew nothing about the pistol or the case.
From the neck of the prisoner be took the silk hand-
kerchief he produced. It corresponded with three
others found o❑ the other prisoner.
Sergeant Lees, of the Great-Western police, proved
that about half-past eight o'clock on Friday morning
last the prisoner was going to Southall, when he
offered a medal for a half-sovereign, and was given
into his custody. He found a pistol on him ; it was
loaded with two bullets.
Dr. Henry Day said he resided at Acton. He was
called in to attend a wound in Sergeant Earthy's
thigh. The bullets had passed through the limb, and
a piece of cloth was discharged eight eays afterwards.
They had not touched the main artery ; there were
four wounds ; three in the right thigh and one in the
left. The pistol must have been fired close to the
body.

/Clr. PAYNTER asked if the bullets had been found ?
Sergeant Earthy replied they had not.
Police-constable Dowling, T division, proved that
he was locked up with the prisoner Round. About
half-past ten o'clock he asked how the sergeant was,
and if be was dead. Witness cautioned him not to
say anything, but he then said, "It was his own fault
be was shot. My band was knocked up at tLe time,
and I did not know that the pistol was on full cock."
He wished that Harris should not be accused, as he
had fired the shot. He wished to see Harris before
he came to that court. He thought it was of no use
stopping there to defend Harris. He heard him call
for him. Re loaded his pistol and went towards
Ealing. He met a gentleman and demanded his
money. He got some sovereigns from him. He did
not tell witness how much he took. He said he had
no crape on him then. He kept on walking all night,
and in the morning he went to Petticoat-lane, where
he bought another suit of clothes, changing his own.
He also said he robbed a gentleman on Monday night,
and threw his watch and guard into the canal on
Tuesday.
The clothes worn by the prisoner Round were pro-
duced, and identified by Sergeant Earthy.
Mr. Edward Long stated he was a baker, living in
the Uxbridge-road, Ealing. O❑ Wednesday night,
the Bth ult., he left the train at Brentford, about half-
past nine at night. He proceeded down Drum-lane,
leading from Brentford to Ealing, and had crossed a
field, when a man came up to him and said, " Your
money or your life." He gave him 6s. or 7s. The
man held a pistol close to his cheek, threatened him
again, and said, " I will search you ;" and he did so,
taking four sovereigns and two half-sovereigns from
his waistcoat. He said, " You can go now." A
policeman afterwards came up, and he ran after him,
and took a man named Mumford. He told the con-
stable he had made a mistake. Witness afterwards
went to Brentford station. The man wore a round
jacket. The prisoner Round was the man who
robbed him.

The prisoners were again remanded for the attend-
ance of Mr. Bashford ; Mr. Nicholls, the second
clerk, proceeding to take the depositions for the
felony.

HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The week ending last Saturday exhibits a consi-
derable decrease in the mortality, compared with the
amount in any of the three previous weeks of Octo-
ber. Lately the deaths in London have never been
less than 950, and they have generally risen much
above that sum, but last week they declined to 861.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1841-50
the average was 956; and if this average be raised in
proportion to the greater amount of population at the
present time, it will become 1,052, compared with
which the last return shows a decrease of 191.
The zymotic or epidemic class of diseases, though
it produces more than a fourth part of the total mor-
tality, exhibits a decline on the preceding week, the
number having fallen from 208 to 222. The cor-
rected average is 248. Typhus and scarlatina indi-
cate a slight reduction on the previous week, but
they still number considerably more than any other
disease in the same class ; to the former 60 fatal cases
are referred, to the latter 50. Small-pox was fatal
to 12 children and 5 adults; measles to 13 children,
hooping-cough to 19, croup to 5, thrush to '2, cholera
to 1, purpura btemorrhagica to 2, intermittent fever
to 1, remittent fever to 1, infantile fever to 1, syphilis
to 2, and noma, or cancrum oris, to 1. One person
died of influeuz t and seven of erysipelas.
With reference to a case of " malignant small-pox
(14 days' duration)," it is stated that the deceased, a
girl six years old, had not been vaccinated because
her mother bad previously lost one of her children
about six weeks after vaccination, which she blamed
as the means of its death, though the real cause was
inflammation of the lungs.
Diarrbcaa was fatal last week to 26 children and to
8 persons of mature age. It seems to prevail at pre-
sent to nearly the same extent as has been u-ual
in corresponding weeks of the last five years. On
the 25th of October a child of three weeks died at 7,
Tyssen-street, Bethnal-green, of " cholera infantum
(5 days)."
Oa the 30th October the son of a labourer, aged
7 years, died in the Middlesex Hospital of " otitis,
fabric, scarlatina." He had been brought from 59,
Castle. street East. In the same street, at No. 14,
the daughter of a cooper, aged 3 years, died on the
26th of October of " hooping-cough (6 months),
pneumonia (1 month.") With reference to this latter
house, Mr Wallington, the registrar of Alt Souls,
Marylebone, reported three weeks ago, that it was
very defective in ventilation and drainage, in a
dirty condition, and let out in single rooms, and
that five deaths had occurred in it since the 13th
of May, three of which were from scarlatina.
A sixth death has now been registered as
stated above, and the medical attendant in
this case states that he happened to attend a
delivery which took place there under the most painful
circumstances many months ago, and on that occasion
he forewarned the tenants of the consequences that
would result from the "filthy and disgusting" con-
dition of the house in which they lived. Having been
superintending inspector of Bilston and Darlaston in
1832, and of various metropolitan districts in 1849, he
adds that a worse case of nuisance than the present
never came under his observation, and that in his
opinion it would fully justify the strongest measures
of repression.
In Hoxton Old Town, at 24, Upper John-street,
three sons of a salesman, aged respectively 13 years,
11 years, and 13 months, died, two on the 29th of
October, an d one on the 30th, of scarlatina, followed
in one case by hydrocephalus, and in two by hydro-
thorax. Mr. Packer, the registrar, mentions that
four deaths from scarlatina have occurred in this
family within the last ten days, and that two other
children are at present lying dangerously ill of the
same disease. The drainage is good. Typhus and
scarlatina are now very prevalent throughout tha
whole of the sub-district.
At 13, Woburn-mews West, a coachman, aged 34
years, died on the 31st of October of " typhus (20
days)." Mr. Yardley, the registrar of St. George's,
Bloomsbury, observes that his " informant had men-
tioned nothing regarding the state of the premises
which was likely to generate typhus, except, what is
not unusual in stables, the existence of a common
privy under the stairs leading from the stable to the
loft, from which a very offensive smell sometimes
proceeds." The wife of the deceased is now lying ill,
and so far as the registrar could learn, her complaint
appears to be of a typhoid character.
In this return the number of deaths ascribed to
phthisis is 111, which is less than the average ;
from
other diseases of the lungs the aggregate mortality
is
105, showing a great decrease on the ordinary
amount
at this season, for in correspondinglwasese weeks
stand deaths
ranged from 120 to 189. In this
laryn-
gitis and laryngismus stridulus,ew ich were fatal to
5 children.
One person died of intemperance,
nce,iik. one of destitution,
destthiteu2ti4otnr:
and 5 infants from want of breast
of October a surgery attendant, aged_. 50 years, died
“
in Westminster Hospital from a dissection wound,"
after 10 days' illness. Erysipelas occurred 3 days
before death.
Note by Mr. Goodhugh, registrar of the sub-district
of St. George the Martyr and St. Andrew Western
(Holborn)—In the week ending Ist of November I
have registered only one death in a population of
18,809, a fact which, indicates the healthy condition of
the
sub-district. 2he deaths registered between the
19th of March and 29th of October are 185; the
births during the same period 337, showing an excess
of the latter over the former of 152.

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING TIIE PAST WEEK
stinAv.—The sky was generally covered with cloud till
near noon, during the afternoon the amount of cloud was
variable, and at night the sky was for the most part overcast.
loNDAy.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was covered
with cloud until 9h. P.M., and it was generally clear after-
wards; stratus and haze.
TUESDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
Rain fell heavily after 9h. P.M.
WEDNESDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was
covered with cloud throughout the day; cumuli, strati, and
haze. Rain fell occasionally during the evening.
THURSDAY.—One-half of the sky was covered till near
noon, during the afternoon the amount of cloud was variable.
and the sky was generally overcast at night ; cirrocumuli,
cirrostrati, and scum. Thin rain fell occasionally during the
evening.
FRIDAY.—The F.ky was free from cloud until lib. A.m.,
three-fourths were covered generally till 6h. P.M., and ever-
clot afterwards; Cumuli, cirrocumuli, cirrostrati, and light
Nude