The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FEB. 11.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half-past
two o'clock, in the Castle.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President),
the Earl of Minto (Lord Privy Seal), Lord John Russell
(First Lord of the Treasury;, Sir George Grey (Secretary of
State for the Home Department), Viscount Palmerston
(Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), the Earl of Carlisle
(Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde (Post-Master General), the Marquis of Westminster
(Lord Steward), the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Cham-
berlain), the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse), and the
Marquis of Abercorn (Groom of the Stole to the Pi ince).
At the Council her Majesty pricked the list of Sheriffs for
the different counties of England and Wales, for the present
yoar.

Her Majcs'y having been pleased to appoint Sir R. Nil.
Hams Bulkeley to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Car.
narvon, the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon were ad.
ministered to the Honourable Baronet.

The Hon. William Bathurst was tile Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
At the Court a deputation of Protestant Dissenting minis-
ters of the three denominations had an audience of the Queen
to present an address to her Majesty on the Papal aggres-
sion. The deputation was introduced by the Right Hon. Sir
0. Grey, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
_State for the
Home Department.
The deputation was comprised of the following :—The
Rev. Dr. Steane, the Rev. R. Littler, the Rev. Edward
Mannering, the Rev. Jos. J. Freeman, Rev. William
Groser, Rev. George W. Fishbourne, Rev. Josiah Viney,
the Rev. William Brock, Rev. J. C. Gallaway, A.M., Rev.
William Alexander Blake, Rev. Clement Dukes, A.M.
(Dalston), Rev. Joseph Rothery, Rev. Robert Redpath,
A M., Rev. S. B. Borgne, the :Rev. John Staughton, Rev.
John Hoppus, LLD., Rev. George Smith, and the Rev.
Israel May Soule.

Ibe Dtilte of Newcastle had an audience of the Queen,
and delivered to her Majesty the ensigns of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter, worn by his father, the late Duke of
Newcastle.

The Marquia of Lansdowne (Lord President) had an
audience of the Queen.

--Lord Lovat, Lord Dormer, and Lord Vaux, of Harrowden,
had an audience of her Majesty.
Lord John Russell bad an audience of the Queen. Her
Majesty was attended by Lord Dufferin, Lord in waiting, and
Lieut.-Col. lion. R. Boyle, Groom in Waiting.
A dejeuner was served in the Castle to the Ministers and
officers of state present at the Court, and also to the Pro-
testant Dissenting ministers of the three denominations.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord
Jobn Russell, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Minto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, and the Hon. W. Ba-
thurstrtravelled from town to attend the Council by a spe-
cial train on the Great Western Railway, arriving at the
Castle at eight minutes past two o'clock.
The Ministers took their departure from the Castle at five
minutes before four o'clock, and returned to London by a spe-
cial train on the Great Western Railway.
The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the Princess
Alice and the Princess Helena, drove out this morning in a
pony carriage in Windsor Park, Lord Charles Fitzroy at-
tending on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out bunting,
attended by Lord Dufferin and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. A.
Gordon.
The younger members of the Royal Family took their
usual airings.
The Royal dinner party this evening included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Baroness de Speth, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, and the Marquis and
Marchioness of Abercorn.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the Castle
and performed the following pieces during dinner :
Overture, " Oberon" ................ . ...... Weber.
Valse, ".Rose de Mai" .................
Selection, " Zanetta"
Quadrille, "The Hungarian"..........
,
Bridal Song, or Chorus, Mountain Sylph"
Polka, " Lallab Rookh" v....,,,,. Cooper.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards atteaded this
evening.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards performed the fol-
lowing selection at dinner yesterday (Monday), at the
Castle:—
Overture, " Les Diomans de la Couronne" Auber.
Waltz, " Jubel Mange aus Albion"
Finale, Ist act " Mountain Sylph" ......... Barnett.
Selection, " Exhibition Quadrille" Jullien.
March," Midsummer. Night's Dream" ......... Mendelssohn.
Her Majesty's private band, with several eminent artistes
from the orchestras of the Philarmcmie Concerts and Royal
and Italian Opera, afterwards attended and performed,
under the direction of Mr. Anderson, the following pieces:
Overture, " La Muette de Portice ....Auber.
Adagio and Presto Scberzando (from concerto
D minor)—pianoforte Mr. W. G. Cusins ...Mendelssohn.
Hocbziet's March...... ...••••••
Fantasia sur un Theme Original—Violin,

..... ..Weber.
..Beethoven.
Sainton ............ . .......... .
Scherzo Moho Vivace and Adagio Moho e
JubileeCantaobiviee'r(tfuminre ..S. ..........

The Soh6°l of Design had a meeting yesterday, at the
Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial- office,
from the Governor of Gambia
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. The petition of the Electric Telegraph Company,
extension of patent (part heard), was resumed and again
adjourned.

8t 1,17e2 P 12521. ,
and
property and
gtloanad
PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX.—Accordhlnugn
have been, in the
areturn iaslseuse, dzo,se s yesterday,sed undtehresl;hueoriltes oAf
oi propertyfB
income tax were, in the years ending April 5, 1814 and 1815,
53,495,375/., and for the years 1842. 1845, and 1846, they
911
,vse3B,4been t respectively
years 1814 and .1815, 6,642,955/. ; in 1842, 9,481,763/. ; in
5i
h 8002,734/.
amounts,
1845. 9,734,546/i; and in 1848, 10,714,42/.
Scotland,
CALAMITOUS OCCURRENCE AND LOSS OF LIFE NEAR
PORTMAN- SQ UA RE .-- Yesterday afternoon. a gentleman,
named Samuel Parnell, who resided at No. 7, Baker-street,
was noticed sitting in front of the fire reading the news-
paper. Soon atter that time an acquaintance called to see
the unfortunate gentleman, when, on some one proceeding
to his room and opening the door, Mr. Parnell was found
sitting in his chair completely enveloped in flame. A young
lady rushed into the house for the purpose of rendering
assistance ; but, being unsuccessful, and owing to the density
of the smoke and the body of flame, she dropped senseless
on the floor, where she would soon have been suffocated had
it not been for the exertions of some of the other inmates.
The flames were extinguished, but not until Mr. Parnell
was burnt to death. The unfortunate deceased was 88 years
of age. . . .

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-9 to 1 agst Ab-del-Bader.
(t), 12 to 1 agst Sir John (t), 12 to 1 agst Vain Rope, 14 to
1 agst Rattrap, 15 to 1 agst Peter Simple (t);10 to 1 ag:t
Half and-Half (t).
CHESTER Cur.-17 to 1 agst Rhesus (t), 20 to 1 agst
Haricot (t), 2 to 1 agst Flying Gout, 25 to 1 agst Montague,
30 to 1 agst Black Doctor (t), 30 to 1 agst Italian (t), 33 to
I agst The Knight of Avenel (t), 33 to 1 agst Brother to
Dough (t), 40 to 1 agst Raby (t), 50 to 1 agst Nancy (t).
DERBY.—Offers to take 30 to I about Marlborough Buck.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—EPSOM SPRING
MEETING, 1851.
Weights for the City and Suburban Handicap, of 15 soya.
each, 10 ft, and five only if declared on the '27th inst.
Yrs st lbl Yrs st lb
Mildew
Pitaford
Elthiron
I 5 6 It)
Uriel
Snowstorm 5 7 12 Eva
Raby
...... 6 6 9
Rhesus 5 7 10;TheJuggler. ..... . . 5 6 9
The Moor
' Cyprus
The Swede 4 7 10 Teeswater ...... ..... ' 4 6 9
Mark Tapley
LI agl ey 4 7 81Brington 4 6 4
Maid of Team Valley 5 7 81F1are- up ......... ..... 4 6 2
Clermont a 7 6!The Swindler .... .... 4 6 2
Woodlark
Alonzo 4 7 6'Duster,i by Yaxley... 3 .5 4
Christiana ..
Cheerful
Kathleen 4 7 2;Tightwaist
Knight of Gwynne.. 4 7 2111enrietta 3 5 2
Dulcet a 7 0 Britannia 3 5 2
Ch cby Gladiator, out i Theorem
of Khorassan's d... 4 7 oBc by Sir Hercules,
Gladiole ... ....... ... 4 701 out of Empress
Zadoc
Bc by Sir Hercules, The Incurable 3 4 8
out of Dark Susan. 4 6 12 Scar 3 4 6
Windhound 4 6 12
Forfeits to be declare,

on or before Feb. 27.

PE NIS
WALKING TO KENDALDES
ANDTRIA BACKU
IN TWENTY-FOUR
HOURS.—On Monday last this feat, the accomplishment
of which by Tim Ingham, a few weeks ago, caused con-
siderable excitement in sporting circles, was attempted,
and, as we learn, completed, by an inhabitant of this
town, of the name of Wm. Durham, a potter, 5l years of
age, who accepted a challenge to perform the task for
a wager of 201. a side. As the clock struck twelve,
at noon, he left the Preston Town-hall, two or three
hundred persons being in attendance to witness the com-
mencement of this arduous undertaking, for which, we
understand, Durham, who has never been famed for any
pedestrian exploits, had undergone no training whatever.
Ile set ()fiat a good speed, and accomplished the first two
miles in twenty-two minutes, and reached Gersten in
little more than two hours. He rested there about a
quarter of an hour, in order to obtain some tea, by way
of refreshment, when he resumed his journey, and
reached Lancaster at a quarter past four, lie remained
there only for a few minutes, when he commenced his
task, and having reached Milnthorpe, he again
rested a short space of time, and arrived in Kendal,
forty-four miles, at ten o'clock at night, being then,
as his friends say, very fresh and hearty. His agree.
went was to go to the Town-hall, so having touched
that building, he rested for about half an hour at
the O&M-flows' Hall. He set off on his return
home at half-past tee at night, meeting with no particu-
lar adventure, by the way, beyond being for a few
minutes unwell at Milanthorpe, and requiring a little
rest there. He resumed his journey, taker lying down
about hall an hour, and continued his walk at an even
pace, reaching Preston at twenty minutes past ten on
I'uesday morning, having completed his task in an hour
and thirty-two minutes within the appointed time. The
weather during the time was most unfavourable, and the
roads were very heavy.—Preston Chronicle.

NARROW ESCAPE.
About five o'clock on Saturday evening last a frolic
was performed at Wilford Ferry which very nearly re-
sulted in a fatal termination to one of the persons con-
zsrned. Two individuals, who apparently had been
imbibing rather freely, having arrived on the Not-
tingham side of the ferry, one a knight of
the anvil, the other valet de shambre to a
neighbouring baronet, just as the boat had at-
tained the middle of the stream in one of its many
voyages "from pole to pole," proceeded, "just for a
lark," to work their own passage, by passing across the
chain hands and heels upwards, heads and tails hanging
down. The foremost of these adventurers had not gone
ten yards, however, when, in consequence of the weight
upon it, the chain sank into the water, leaving
nothing but the tips of his toes and the ends of his
digits visible—all the remainder of his person being
completely submerged. His companion had not loco-
model above five yards, when his legs lost their hold of
the iron, and down he tumbled from an horizoetal to a
perpendicular position, much less agreeably than pre-
ciptately, sinking up to'his waist in the water, and hang-
ing like a herring at the end of a toasting-fork. The
scene would now have been in the richest degree ludi-
crous, had it not been alarming. There was the first
voyager jerking and working about under water like some
huge porpoise playing at " blind hockey," vainly struggling
to get his nose above water; while the second, sub-
limely unconscious of his companion's danger, sus-
pended by his arms from the chain, with the water up
to his middle, was singing out, " Go it, Jack; go it, my
boy! hurrah!" to a man who certainly appeared going
much faster than he liked to a place for which he had
evidently no inclination. Happily the ferryman per-
ceived their peril just as the boat had touched the
Wilford shore, and, without waiting to discharge his
cargo, put about the helm, burned to the rescue,
and was in time. Another minute and the formost tra
yeller would, perhaps, have been in eternity; when
hauled into the boat, staring like a galvanized porcu-
pine, he still clung to the chain convulsively, and some
minutes elapsed before his bands relinquished their
tenacious hold. His companion in adversity was hauled
aboard with not much further inconvenience than having
the truth pretty emphatically impressed upon bie
memory, viz., that those who begin by taking too much
bf er sonittimes end by getting too much water.—
Nottingham Review.

POOR RELIEF (ENGLAND ANDWALES).-According
to official returns just published the total amount tor in-door
maintenance of the poor in the 606 unions of England and
Wales was for the half-year ending Michaelmas, 1849,
378,1681., while for that ending Michaelmas, 18 ":0, it was
312,066/. The out-door relief for the same periods amounted
respectively to 1,468,6901. and 1,337,646 t. The total decrease
in both kinds of relief, comparing the two periods together, is
197,1461., or 10.7 per cent. The total number of poor re-
lieved on the Ist of January, 1850, was 931,328; on the first
day of the present year it was 862,749. In regard to the
counties of Cambridge, Hereford, Lincoln, Monmouth, Rut-
land, Salop, Anglesea, Brecon, Carnarvon, Merioneth, Mont-
gomery and Radnor, there is exhibited an increase of paupers
amounting to a total of 2,604; in all the other counties a
decrease is shown amounting to 71,183. Thus the general
decrease, after deducting the increase, is 68,579. The total
number of adult able- bodied poor relieved within doors on
the Ist of January, 1850, was 26,151; on the Ist of January,
1851, it was 23,322. The numbers of the same class of poor
receiving out-door relief on the Ist of January, 1850, were
155,008, of whom 54,000 were widows; on the same day in
1851 they were 131,203, of whom 50,600 were widows.
The total general decrease in this class of paupers is 26,634,
after deducting the increase in the counties of Monmouth,
Salop, Anglesea, Brecon, Merioneth, Montgomery, and Rad-
nor, amounting to 738.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORSHIP OF ADDISCOMBE.—
Lieut.-Colonel F. Abbott, C. 8., late of the Bengal Engineers,
has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the East India
Company's Seminary at Addiscombe. Lieut.-Colonel Abbott
had served many years in India, and was particularly men-
tioned for his services in the Sutlej campaign of 1545-6.
In consequence of the inconvenience which has
been occasioned through the number of persons visiting the
model of the Central Cattle Market, which has been placed
at the corner of Cheapside, the association have felt it neces-
sary to limit the privilege of admission to holders of tickets,
which, however, can easily be obtained from any of the com-
mittee—Mr. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; Mr.
Sweeting, Cheapside; and booksellers at the West-end. The
public generally will be admitted gratuitously at other hours.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSRIRE RAILWAY.--It is
expected that the Lancashire and Yorkshire dividend at
their forthcoming meeting will be 2 per cent. per annum.
This, besides leaving a reserve to meet the claims of the
holders of fifth shares (should the decision on the question
pending in a court of law be adverse to the company), will
leave a very large surplus to be carried to the replacement
fund.

WHAT IS THE WINDOW DLITT ?-Why, it's the
duty efCiPvernment 10 take it alf•—rtatch•

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
On Thursday evening a very interesting paper, pre-
pare-el by Mr. Dickenson, on the supply of water from
the chalk stratum in the neiebbourhood of London, was
read to the members of the Royal Society. Mr. Dicken-
son records therein the results of observations extending
over a space of 40 years, and of careful experiment. ear-
ried on fur a period of 15 years. The locality withu
which his inquiries have been chiefly made is thee
whence the Clue and the other chalk streams on fhb
north side of the London basin take their flight. II ts
peer hava two-fold object—first, to explain and flits,-
trate the supply of subterranean water .which is toned
at certain 'depths in the chalk stratum, together wish
the circumstances that influence its natural outflow by
spt lege and river-; secondly, to exatuibe the
practicability of draining off that water by e
nott-natural mode of exhaustion, and the changes that
would be produced by carrying such en operation into
effect on a large scale. The first and most elaborate
pert ct the paper will prove chiefly interesting to geolo-
gists; the last is of great practical importance ai the
opinion of a close observer most intimately acquainted
with the subject on one of the schemes scoot for a bet-
ter supply of water to the metropolis. Mr. Dickenson'.
paper begins by explaining that the outcroppings of
the chalk in Kent and Surrey on the south side of
the Thames, and in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire,
and Essex on the north side,.are the uplifted margins of
a great bed, the hollow of which is filled with strata of
sand, gravel, and London clay. This trough-like form
of the chalk stratum is combined with great absorbent
powers, water percolating through its fissures acid cre-
vices till arrested by the argillaceous beds which
extend beneath it, and which are impervious.
Thus are formed those subterranean reservoirs vfhiCh
Dr.,' Buckland describes in avnyr Treatise, and.
.froin wain tpineat*
pumps, a copious supply of water could obtained for
the metropolis. In order to form an estimate of the
capabilities of the reservoirs in the chalk stratum. Mr.
Dickenson's paper furnishes some interesting data, the
result of experiments chiefly made with Dr. Dalton's
gauge for estimating the supply of perennial
springs and rivers by percolation from the surface.
These data, as Mr. Dickenson very properly observes,
"show the necessity of extreme caution in making pro-
spective computations as to the flow of water resulting
from an average amount of percolating rain." They,
however, furnish some results which are worth
recording. The replenishment of the great reser-
voir appears from these data never to commence
sooner than October, and is found to terminate
almost invariably in March. But of an average sum-
mer fall of rain, amounting to 12.17 inches, the percola-
tion amounts only to 62 decimal parts cf an inch, the per-
colation during winter being 9.61 inches, Mr. Dicken-
son argues that it is by continuous heavy rains that the
subterranean reservoir is supplied, and that water
in descending does so perpendicularly through the
crevices until it arrives at the depth where they
are all filled with water. The reservoir fills up
in winter and spring from the rain falling, and sub-
sides in summer and autumn from the outflow of springs.
The highest level of subterranean water, therefore,
Mr. Dickenson places between April and June, the
lowest in December; and this, he says, confirms the
old proverb that "as the days lengthen the springs
strengthen." He points out that, owing to the re-
plenishment of the internal reservoir depending al-
most entirely on winter rains, the supply of the
springs and rivers derived from it is not only variable,
but in a certain degree precarious; the irregularity in
the supply of water, however, being far beyond that
in the annual fall of rain, and that irregularity de-
pending upon the uncertain manner in which the
process of percolation goes on. From a length-
ened experience, Mr. Dickenson lays it down that
the springs and rivers of the chalk formation are the
sole natural outlets of its subterranean reservoir, and
that, judging from the flow of those outlets, the
Dalton gauge indicates pretty accurately the rate at
which the reservoir is supplied. His paper proceeds to
show bow, by the influence of hydrostatic pressure,
water which has percolated down to the point of satu-
ration is kept in continual though gradual move-
ment towards its natural vent, the half-yearly alterna-
tion in the flow being compared to the high and low
services of tho water companies; and it being ob-
served that when the spring-heads of the streams
are found highest up the valleys, then the numerous
springs which augment them through almost every yard
of their course contribute an increased supply propor-
tioned to the increase of power by which the water is
impelled towards them. From experiments made ley
him Mr. Dickenson comes to the conclusion that a de-
clivity of 13 feet 6 inches, or thereabouts, in the mile
is requisite Z.° overcome the natural obstructions to
lateral percolation. He thinks that " the whole of the
summer rain is evaporated or required for vegetation,
and that the rain of winter is made availab.e for a
great hydraulic system of most admirable contri-
vance, and preductivo of inestimable advantages in
the districts of country supplied throughout the
year by this formation of springs and rivers. On the
second branch of his subject—viz., the feasibility of
tapping the chalk stratum at its outcrop, in the
valley of the Colne. near Watford, and pumping from
one or two large and deep wells a supply of water suffi.
cient for the metropolis, Mr. Dickenson pronounces a
decidedly adverse opinion. He thinks the supply would
be very far short of that obtained by the New River,
and that the upper part of the valley of the Colne
would have all its springs and wells destroyed there-
by, and some space of the river entirely dried up. The
paper was illustrated by a very beautiful and ingenious
model showing a section of the chalk formation and the
action of w .tor within it, and the connexion between
the subterranean reservoir and those external
springs which form its natural outlets and con-
stituted the river. Mr. Dickknson briefly ex-
plained this model, which was examined with great
interest by the members of the society present. A short
discussion then ensued, in which Sir Roderick
Murchison, the Bishop of Oxford, and others took part.
Sir Roderick thanked Mr. Dickenson for the careful and
valuable observations which his paper contained, but
seemed to imply that these observations applied rather
to superficial waters issuing from the chalk than to
the great subterranean reservoir which Dr. Buckland
had described, and which rested upon the chalk marl,
the lowest stratification of the chalk formation. The
Bishop of Oxford also spoke briefly with reference to
the flow of chalk streams from either side of the escarp-
ment on the south of the London basin, and also with
respect to the phenomena of " levant." or springs,
which, though for the most part dry, gush out suddenly
after a period of much rain falling, and flow steadily for
a short interval. The discussion was closed by Mr.
Dickenson, who confined himself to exposing the adsur-
dities broached by a Mr. Homisham, a gentleman who,
thuugh permitted to address the society, is we believe
not a fellow.

DISASTERS IN THE IRISH CHANNEL.-KINGS-
TOWN, FEB. 6.—The master of the schooner Cambria ar-
rived this day from Bristol, bound to Nantz, picked up a
Greek seaman floating on a spar, and much exhausted,
twelve miles south of Wicklow Head, at four r.x. yesterday,
who belonged to a Greek vessel from Liverpool to Alexandria,
with a general cargo, which vessel was wrecked on Tuesday
night ou the Arklow Bank, he being the only survivor of
the ill-fated vessel, sixteen in number. The master of the
Cambria could not learn the name of the vessel wrecked,
from the man saved not knowing his language; but it ap-
pears the vessel soon broke up, us the master of the schooner
observed large quantities of wreck floating about. The man
saved was put on board the Eltinea, a Greek brig, which
sailed immediately after for Cardiff. Later accounts state,
that the vessel to which the poor fellow belonged was the
Greek brig Maria Terpsitha, Dimitro captain. The master
of the brig Delight, from Workington, bound to Cork, which
put into Kingstown Harbour on Thursday night from stress
of weather. reported his leaving on Wednesday, the sth inst.,
five miles S.E. of Wicklow Head, picked off a part of the
wreck of the ill-fated vessel seven of her crew; one poor
fellow had one of his legs broken, and two others some ribs
broken. The wounded men were sent to the hospital. The
crew consisted of seventeen persons, the master and eight of
whom were drowned. The master of the Delight did every-
thing in his power to alleviate their suffering.
IMPORTS OF GRAIN, FLOUR, AND LIVE STOCK,
—A return has been published of the quantities of grain,
flour, and live stock imported into the United Kingdom in
the year 1849. The aggregate of trade between the United
Kingdom and foreign countries and colonies, exclusive of the
above items, amounted during that year to 84,632,522/., ac-
cording to official valuation. The quantities of grain and
flour of all sorts imported amounted to 10,669,661 quarters,
and the imports of live stock amounted to 185,368 heads, the
official value of both classes of imports being 99,170,6021.
The exports of British produce and manufacture during the
period referred to amounted, according to the declared
value, to 60,152,6071.

present
CLOAKED PICKPOCKETS.—Early in the
week a party of pickpockets were pursuing their voc-ationai:
Sheffield in a novel manner. The operator was a neatly
tired, innocent-looking little boy in hat and cloakhismoer ;
accompa-
nying a respectable looking woman,
apparentlykeeing• generally
and a man acted in conjunction with themenoup_h to apprize
at a respectable distance, though near
dodi3g„
was for the
them telegraphically of danger. h
walkany
likelyinto a shop
person,an d
ed little innocent while he
andlatilei The
her standthe
ample
ooufnht ee ir
woman
alongside o of
cloak to conceal the neatly-dressed
Their visit to Sheffield
quietly rifled the victim's k
discovered, and therefore
Perhaps this tribute to their skill,
proved an unprofitable spetcluoelc;itdioisnc,feoeritillyeilr_aahrtisfuhledtahcteifcosrewtehree
entrap them• police could, • reputation, will be of service to the
- u LINEN TRADE.— Since our last Con-
siderable excittenet a nthaos
umbeheenr
of
produtcheed
lienedtihoeg teraodmembiysstiohne
circumstance ha i
houses have so altered their rates of discount on yarns as to
cause an advance of fully 3d. per bundle on nearly all num-
bers. This change is considered to have been precipitate, and
an impression prevails that a serious reaction must inevitably
take place ill the manufacturing districts should the advance
be generally insisted on. With this exception the business
of the week does not require any special notice. Large sales
of yarns are still being effected, and in the cloth markets the
demand keeps fully equal to the supply. In Ballymena on
Saturday, spinners and bleachers bought largely on spec,ula-
tion. We have received later advices from the United States,
where we are glad to find the sales are brisk at remunerative
prices.—Banner of Ulster.
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.--The number of pensions
charged upon the civil list between June 20,1849, and June
20, 1850, is 12, and amounting to a total of 1,2001. The
Parliamentary paper giving this information was omitted to
be presented at the proper time last session.