The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1851.

" King William's Town, Feb. 1, 1851.
" ' Sir,—l have the honour to report, that at day-
break, on the morning of the 34th January, I proceeded
from this station with a force, consisting of 300 men 73d
Regiment, 150 men Cape Mounted Rifles, 1,400 Hot..
tentot levies, 300 Fingoes, and one six-pounder—in all
2,200 men—for the purpose of throwing supplies into
Forts White and Cox.
" About eight miles from this place a considerable
number of Kafirs attacked our rear-guard, consisting of
a troop of Cape Mounted Rifles and Genadendal, Al-
bany, and Riversdale levies. This attack was repulsed
in a very spirited manner. Shortly afterwards large
bodies of the enemy appeared on our left, evidently
bent on contesting our march across the Debe Neck,
Two shells directed with great precision by Major
Wilmot, of the Royal Artillery, were thrown into
the midst of a large group, and did great execution.
No further attempt was made to impede our march on
that day, and considerable numbers of the enemy were
killed by the flanking parties of the levies and Cape
Mounted Rifles. I arrived at Fort White about 2 o'clock
P.M. On the 31st January I proceeded with the same
force to Fort Cox, which I reached without any opposi-
tion. Whilst the troops were at the post a lorg© body of
Kafirs appeared upon the brow of the hill which over-
looked the Keiskamma, on the road to Fort Hare, ap-
parently in the expectation that we intended proceeding
to that post. Two shells were again accurately directed
by Major Wilmot, and caused them considerable loss.
" 6 After supplying Fort Cox, I returned without
molestation to Fort White, and this day to King Wil-
liam's Town. I found the garrisons of Forts White and
Cox in good health and spirits. These posts are now
supplied for six weeks each, and I have removed from
them all the men who are not absolutely necessary for

their defence.
" I have the satisfaction of reporting to your Excel-
lency my sense of the efficient conduct of every corps,
regular and provisional, who were engaged in this service.
" I have, &c.,
(Signed) " ' GEO. MACKINNON, C 01."

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

The April sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
opened this morning in the Old Court, before the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alderman Carter,
and Sheriffs Carden and Hodgkinson, attended by the
Under-Sheriff and other civic functionaries.
The calendar contains the names of 225 prisoners.
The grand jury having been sworn and empanelled,
The RECORDER proceeded to charge them as follows.
He was happy to say the calendar which they were
about to inquire into was not very heavy in the charac-
ter of the offences, but he was sorry to say the cases
were more than usually.numerous. There was, however,
only one case of murder, and that was one of those pain-
ful cases that occur so frequently, namely, the murder
of a child by its mother, and the question which the
grand jury would have to decide was whether or no
there was sufficient proof that the child was born alive.
If it was, why then of course they would have to
find a true bill accordingly. There was one
other case involving the destruction of human life,
but this case assumed more the aspect of manslaughter
than murder. It was the case of a child who bad been
put out to nurse, and who had died, as it was alleged,
from the ill-usage of the nurse. If they found that the
death really did result from her violence or neglect, it
would be their duty to return a true bill fur man-
slaughter. There were three cases of unnatural crimes,
and a case of forgery, in which there was this remark-
able circumstance. The name fixed was stated to be
fictitious. Now it was equally a forgery to sign the
name of a fictious as a real person, for the purposes
of fraud; but if inthis case it should turn out that there
was such a person as that mentioned in the forged in-
strument, and that it was issued with his consent, why
of course there would be an end of the case of forgery.
These were the only cases that called for any comment
from him, and therefore, without detaining them further,
he would at once dismiss them to the discharge of their
important functions.
The grand jury then retired.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(T HIS DAY.)
ALLEGED MANSLAUGIITER.—James Goman, a young man
in the employ of Mr. Floris, Jermyn-street, was placed before
Mr. Bingham, charged with having caused the death of Julia
Foley, a child eleven years of age, by driving over her with
a horse and cart.
Police-constable 180 C deposed that on Saturday night,
about half-past eleven o'clock, he was on duty in Cran-
bourn-street, when he heard a cry of " Stop thief," and on
turning round saw a horse and van proceeding along Castle-
street, followed by several people. The prisoner and six
others were in the van, and the former was driving at ab.,ut
six miles an hour. Witness inquired of the people what was
the matter, when he was informed that the prisoner
had run over a child in Newport•market, Witness imme-
diately stopped the prisoner, and told him that he had driven
over a child, and that he must go back with him to New-
port-market. The prisoner said he was not aware he
had done anything wrong, or that he had driven over
any one. On arriving at Newport-market witness
found the child at the shop of a druggist, who directed wit-
ness to take her to Charing-cross Hospital. He procured a
cab and conveyed her there, and she died within a few hours
after her admission.
Hannah Foley said on Saturday night she and her sister
were standing near her father's stall in Newport. market,
when she saw a van, which was driven by the
prisoner, coming at a quick rate towards them, and before
her sister could get out of the road the first wheel of the van
caught her on the shoulder, and knocked her down, and the
other wheel passed over her body. A. cry was raised, but
the prisoner drove on as fast as he could. She and several
others gave the alarm, and pursued him until he was stepped
by the constable.
The prisoner expressed his sorrow for what had occurred,
bdt could assure his Worship that it was purely accidental.
The reason he did not stop was because the noise made by
the people calling after him made his horse, a spirited one,
very restive, and it was as much as he could do to keep the
horse from bolting.
Mr. BINGZAK said he should leave it to the coroner's
jury to decide whether it was a case of accident or man-
slaughter, and remanded the prisoner for a week, but agreed
to accept two sureties in 401. each for the prisoner's appear-
ance. The defendant's master tendered himself for the full
amount, and was accepted.

LLOYD'S SHIP PING.—(THIS DAY
LONDON, APRIL 7.—Wind at noon N.E., light breeze
and tine dry weather.
SALCOMBX, APRIL 6. Wind N.E.— Ski. Margaret,
Quebec.
NEWPORT, APRIL 6.—Sld. Governor Harcourt, Jamaica;
Mary Campbell, Apalachicola; Thomas and Elizabeth,
Havannah ; Escort, New York ; Charles Hamilton, Portland ;
Victory, Quebec.
SWANSEA, APRIL 6.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Sunbeam, Cuba.
SWANAGE, APRIL 6.—The Leffey, London to Madeira, is
on the Rocks at liimmeridge, and is bilged; crew and some
stores saved,
CLYDE. —Sid. Hercules, Singapore; Glencairn, Montreal.
BRIDLINGTOM, APRIL 6. —The Miner, London to Newcastle,
has received considerable damage from the Spartan, of Lon-
don, off Lowestoft.
DOVER, APRIL 5 AND 6.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Rosalie,
New Orleans, for Norway. Off port, Cortgene, Batavia, for
Rotterdam.
Ponssmouvr, APRIL 6.—Wind E. to N.E.—Arrd. Her
Majesty's steamer Rattler, St. Philip's; Bonnet, and sailed
eastward.
COWES, APRIL b.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Venezia,
Rio Janeiro. Sld. Laurvig, Philadelphia.
POOLE.— Sld. Solve,Newtbundland ; George, Newfoundland.
TortsAT.—Sld. Transit, Trinidad. Off port, Graaf Dirk
3d, Dordt, for Batavia; Cicelia Maria, Hamburgh for Buenos
Ayres;Ai ti
Mississippi, Havre, for Guadeloupe.
D amour,
APRIL s.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Chanticleer,
Newfoundland.
DEAL, APRIL s.—Wind W. to E.N.E., fresh and squally ;
6, N. to N.E. and E.N.E., fine.—Arrd. Lord Ashley, Shang-
hai ; Pauline, Singapore ; Catnperdown, Calcutta. Arrd.
from the River and sailed Eugenia, Calcutta; Maria Eliza-
beth, Singapore, &c. ; Fanny, Hobart Town ; Herald, Cape
and Madras; Charles Carter, Algoa Bay; Eliza and Esther,
Simons Bay; Matilda, Barbadoes ; Southampton New
York ; Wallace, Brown, Meehanee ; Laurel and Southampton,
Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL S.S.E. ; 6th, N.—Arrd.
Asia steamer, New York, on freight 152,000/. in specie;
New World, ditto ; Constellation, ditto. Off port, British
Queen, Cynthia, and Icanes. Sld. Una, Rio Pongo ; Caxiense
steamer, Maranham ; Omega, Adelaide, South Australia ;
Champion, Singapore; Fairy Queen, Calcutta; Winefred,
ditto;, Usk, Oahee ; Inca, Valparaiso; Eliza, Highfield, Rio
Grande; Isabella, Buenos Ayres; Fenella, Maranham ; Ann,
Para ; Edward Barnett, Trinidad ; Sophia, Hayti ; Maria„
Janacio, :Havannah; Magician, La Guavra •, John Toole,
New Orleans ; Joshua Walker, New York ; John Bryant
ditto; Andrew Foster, ditto; Hope, Staten Island; American
Boston; Titanea, and Providence, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Glenswilly, Quebec; Affghan, ditto; Conquest, Gaspe.
The Harmony, barque, of and for Bideford, and the City
of Limerick schooner, f Derry, bound to Youghal, got on
shore on Jordan Flats yesterday, but were expected off on
the flood, without damage, and would proceed. The War-
ren American ship, was seen going into New York in tow
of a steamer, with loss of topmasts, rudder, bulwarks, &c.,
by the Asia steamer, arrived here, which passed through a
quantity of fields of ice on the 30th March, in lat. 44, long.
48. ; weather at the time free and clear, and several icebergs
in sight.

DIE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The following Mem-
bers were present at the Speaker's Bth dinner ou Saturday :
Lord Norreys, ,Lord Melgund, Lord Emlyn, Hon. George
Smythe, Hon. J. W. Fortescue, Hon. Captain Harris, Sir
Hedworth Williamson, Sir John Hanmer, Sir George
Staunton, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Henry Verney, Sir Edmund
Macnaghten, Hon. Compton Cavendish, Mr. Pinney, Mr.
Saville Ogle► Mr. Osman Ricardo, Mr. Walter, Mr. Joseph
Sandars, Tier Seymer, Mr. &Aileron, Mr. William
Beckett, Mr. Charles Grenfell, Mr. Joseph Bailey, Mr.
Cornwall Leigh, Mr. William Evans, Colonel Raid, and Mr.
Halms.
THE Fox CLus.—The third meeting of the Fox
Club this season took place on Saturday evening at Brookes's.
Present—the Right Hon. the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount
Ebrington, M.P., Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle, M.P., the
Right Hon. Lord Sudsley, Mr. J. Naughton Langston, M.P.,
Mr. Frederick Dundas, Sir W. Gibson Craig, Bart., M.P.,
the Right Hon. Viscount Enfield, M.P., Mr. Rowland
Alston, the Hon. Hamilton Duncan, the Right Hon. the Earl
of Camperdown, the Right Hon. Sir Robt. Adair, Mr. E. A.
Sanford, Viscount Duncan, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord Saye
and Sele, Mr. H. F. Stephenson, Mr. A. K. Stephenson, Co-
lonel the Hon. Geore Anson, M.P., the Right Hon. Edward
Ellice. M.P., the Right Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, M.P. the
Hon. R. S. Carew, Mr. A. W. Robarts, and Mr. Edward
Ellice, jun., M.P.
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Mr. Alderman Salomans has, we are given to un-
derstand, expressed to the rector of Ashurst, his intention to
build, at his own expense, in that parish, a school-house and
teacher's residence, similar to those e•ected at Fordcombe-
green, in the parish of Penshurst. This beneficent work
will accomplish an important service for the poor of the
parish of Ashurst, which has hitherto been without a school
of any kind.
We learn that the splendid estate of Closeburn has
just been purchased by Douglas Baird, Esq., Gartsherrie, for
the sum of 180,000/. This, with his previous purchase of the
Shaws estate, at 45,0001. (being originally part of Clase-
burn), will form one of the most princely estates in Scotland.
—North British Mail.
Mr. St. John, ex-Consul-General of England at
Algiers, died at Pau on the 29th ult., to which place he had
gone in the beginning of ;ha Iyinter for the recovery of his
Inalth. _

TFIE SHARE MARKETS

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were esti-
mated at 4,000 bales, of which 50U American were taken on
. _ _

speculation. The sales comprised 2,500 American ; 150
Bahia, at 73/4d. to Bd. ; 150 Egyptian, at 81Ad. to 91,14. ;
1,000 Surat, at 4d. to 5,/.2d. ; and 40 Sea Island, at Is. 11/td.
to Is. Bd. per lb.—ln Railway Shares only a limited business
was done, at rather lower prices.
The Grai❑ Market is firm to-day.
The New York advices, per steamer Asia, notice a de-
.

pressed market for public securities. '1 he Asia brings half a
million of dollars in specie, the rates of exchange ruling
sufficiently high to make shipments of bullion profitable.
There was only a moderate demand for bills on London, but
drawers were firm at 10 to 1014 per cent. premium. The
following statement would convey rather an unfavourable
impression :
"There has been no improvement in the Money Market,
but, on the contrary, a daily increasing stringency. The
banks have largely contracted their discount lines, and busi-
ness paper is rapidly increasing among the note shavers.
There is no let up to the drain of specie, and large ship-
ments continue to be made both to the South and to Europe.
The supply of gold and gold dust from California is not equal
to the foreign export. The Ohio and Crescent City brought
less than one million of dollars, and the probability is, that
for some time to come our semi-monthly receipts will not ex-
ceed half a million of dollars. In the event of the foreign
demand for our specie continuing, we shall lose a large amount
before the lapse of many weeks, and our banks will be com-
pelled not only to continue the contraction commenced, but to
increase it, and reduce their loans to a lower point than has
been known for many months. There appears to be a
great want of confidence in financial and commercial
circles, and it is more likely to extend than to decrease.
The commercial classes are, at present, consider-
ably embarrassed in their money matters. The
month of March is usually a very tight month, and this
year, thus far, has by no means been an exception. This
stringency may not terminate as soon as anticipated. Public
and private credits have become very much expanded, and
it is our impression that there are, at this moment, a greater
number of mercantile houses in this city in a state of bank-
ruptcy, and upon the eve of suspension, than is generally
imagined. It, however, by no means follows that any im-
mediate failures will take place, for our merchants have the
faculty of continuing along for years, hopelessly insolvent,
without their creditors having the first suspicion of it. The
failures which hose occurred recently hers illustrate this
fact pretty clearly, and it is impossible to tell who are sound
and who are not. The course pursued during the past two
or three years by houses in this city must lead ultimately to
a great deal of difficulty and financial embarrassment, and it
is well that a check has been put thus early upon the money
market, an opportunity given to reduce commercial liabilities,
and the public allowed a little breathing time."
The Welland Canal was to be fully opened for navigation
on the 26th ult. The Cotton crop was expected to exceed
that of 1849 and 185 nearly 2 0,000 bales, and the pla ting
season was never more favourable. A greater breadth of
ground would be put in cotton this year, it is said, than ever
before known.
The news comes to hand by this opportunity of a great
battle between the armies of the Republics of San Salvador
and Guatemala, and in which the President of the former
was completely defeated. The Guatemala dates aro to
Feb. 10. _ _ . .

Carthagena advices, of Feb. 23, mention that the Legisla,
ture of the State, for 1851, had before it the project of an
amended political code for New Grenada.
The advices from Canada state that the weather in the
eastern provinces was very mild, and that the snow was fast
melting away. The easterly winds at Quebec had been so
strong, as to produce the highest tide known there for twenty
years ; great damage had been done. Judgment was to be
given, in a few days, in the tariff question.
We observe it stated that a Kingston house had just landed
no less than 112 packages of dry goods at New -York, to be
ready for the spring trade. " We preseme," says a localwriter, " they will be carried by railroad to their destination,
as it is probable that by the canals they would not be re-
ceived earlier than by the St. Lawrence. This shows how
much we require railroads through our own territory ; we
will no longer be content to wait for the operations of nature
to free us from our bonds, but we must make means of
communication for ourselves, open at all seasons. Had we
them through our own territory, we would use them in pre-
ference to those of our n,ighbours ; but we are compelled to
undergo all the inconvenience and. expense of drawbacks,
bondings, and transhipments. This may continue for some
time, but not for ever."
The Funds are very steady this morning, and there is an
improvement of about per Cent. in the quotations. Con-
sols have realised 96% 34 for Transfer, and 963.'t f,r Thurs-
day. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
marked 971/e 3% and the Three per Cents. 95% to 96. Ex-
chequer-bills have been .558. to 58s. prem.
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have, by the
Asia, received advices from Mr. Falconnet, dated Mexico,
15th February last. The acceptance of the decree of the 14th
October by the bondholders had only been received there on
the Bth February, and as Mr. Esteva, if he should finally
decide to accept the Ministry of Finance, would not enter on
the office till the 17th February, Mr. Falconnet, at the date of
his letter, had not of course as yet received a reply to the formal
notice, which he had addressed to Mr. Huice, provisionally
charged with the direction of the department of finance, that
the decree was accepted, and that he eas ready to receive
the 2,500,000 dollars coming to the bondholders out of the
American indemnity money.
Mr. Falconnet expresses regret that the decree had been
accepted in London, thinking that he might have done
better in Mexico, but he has no doubt that the Mexican Go-
vernment will carry out the arrangement entered into in
good fair h.
The Foreign Market has continued very dull. and the
quotations are rather flat. Mexican Bonds have realised
334 %, Equador are VA, and Brazilian 881/2. Spanish Five
per Cents. have been marked 211/g. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been quoted 583i1, and Russian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. 98%.
The Railway Share Market is flatter, and prices rule in
favour of buyers.
The following is an extract from a letter received from
Mr. C. Puns, the secretary, in London, of the Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux :
" The works on the second section of the lines between
Tours and Poitiers are progressing with extraordinary
rapidity. The line is ballasted the whole distance, 100
kilometres (621,4 miles), the permanent way is laid over
nearly one-half the distance, and the material for the re-
mainder is in course of delivery. The additional locomotive
and carrying stock is far advanced in construction, and a con-
siderable portion is already delivered to the comps' y.
Every effort is making to open this section to the public on
the Ist July next ; so that the railway year may begin with
215 kilometres (nearly 135 miles) at full work. Tee traffic
on this section will be very considerable, while neither the
first cost nor the general expenditure will be, relatively, as
heavy as on the first section. The accounts for the last halt-
year, ending 31st December, 1850, show a net profit ( after
payment of the working and general expenses, and the half-
year's interest on 175 f. called up) of 636,706 f. ap-
plicable to a dividend. Taking the result of the current
half-year, ending 30th June next, to be equal to the last, and
it will be at least as productive, the probable net profit on
the whole year will be equal to four per cent. on the 200 f.
now paid up, or eight francs per share, only one-half of which
is allowed by the statutes to be distributed in the present
stage of the company's progress towards Bordeaux."
QUARTER To TH lIEL
Console I
Ditto Account 964
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
( From the Official List.)
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95% 96
3 per Cent. Consols Anna
New 314 per Cont. Anna.
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 7 f,-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860... 7 9-16
®easels for Account 96%
E cchectner Bills. 11,4 d. 2d.
March. June.
1,0001. ..
55 58 p
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. BB%
Equador Bonds
Mexican 80nd5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account
Zussiait Bonds, 1522, 6 per Cent —
Ditto 41/4 per Cent.
Spanisk Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild
Pitt* 4 per Cent. Carsificates

MR. SAPID THE SINGER.--SAD REVERSE OF FOR-
TUNE.—AII playgoers of twenty years' standing must have
a perfect recollection of Mr. Sapio, who for many seasons was
the primo tenore at Covent-garden, and who as Sir Huon in
Weber's Oberon was perhaps the best representative of that
character who has ever appeared. Some few years since
Mr. Sapio retired from the stage, and for a while practised
as a teacher of music. Shortly after this he had the misfor-
tune almost entirely to lose his voice, and with it of course
his means of subsistence. Hence this great tenor is now
living in a state of complete destitution in a garret at No.
4S, Queen-street, Edgeware-road.
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VESSEL
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IL BURNT AT SEA.-011 the night of the
30th ult. the crew of the True Blue fishing smack, of Rams-
gate, while pursuing their vocation off the Spurn-head, ob-
served, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a strong light in
the E.N.E. quarter. They immediately hauled up their nets,
and on standing towards the burning ship they were hailed
by a boat containing the master and seven seamen belonging
to the vessel, whom they took on board. They then bore up
for the wreck, which was off Flamborough-head, bearing
W.N.W. about twenty-five miles, and remained alongside
until seven A.M. the following day, when it went down stern
foremost. The vessel was the Anna Maria, of Exeter, a brig
of 300 tons burden, bound in ballast to the North for a cargo
of coals, and the tire is supposed to have been occasioned by
some cinders falling out of the fireplace in the cabin, through
the heavy rolling of the vessel, while the men were engaged
in reefing the topsail. The names of those saved are
James Hore (master), Richard Prowse (mate), Hector Wil-
liams, Thomas Parker, David Owen, Henry Carter, and
Robert Owen (seamen), and Robert Jenkins (apprentice),
who were landed safely at Hull. It is a singular tact that
the True Blue succeeded about twelve months since in
rescuing a schooner of the same name as the above (the Anna
Maria), together with the crew'
CAUTION TO LODGING HOUSE KEEPERS.—SOIDe Of
the large number of foreigners which the " Great Exhibi-
tion" has brought to the metropolis, have been, during the
last few days, victimising respectable parties in the follow.
ing manner : —Persons having apartments to let are applied
to by a well-dressed man, who wishes to take two or three
rooms, as the case may be, and in lieu of giving a reference
offers to pay three months' rent in advance. This is usually
considered satisfactory, the rooms are let, and in the even-
ing, on the tenant's arriving, the unfortunate householder
finds that his rooms are to be tenanted by a host of dirty,
hirsute foreigners, who smoke, drink, quarrel, and sing"
Vaterland " and the " Maraeillaise " all day, and sleep on
the floors at night. In a house at Pimlico, three rooms
were taken, and seventeen lodgers arrived. In another c-Ise
four rooms were taken, and thirty•threa occupants filled
them, who, however, departed on receiving back the rent they
had paid, together with a bonus named by themselves, the
obtaining of which is, no douLt, the object of these gregarious
gentlemen.
HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALLS.—It is understood
to be her Majesty's intention that state balls shall take place
on Monday, the sth of May, and on Monday, the 19,1 of
May, and a concert on Monday, the 12th of May.
SAMUEL STANIPORTII, Em.—This gentleman, who
Was well known and respected in Lancashire, and who held
the lucrative office of distributor of stamps at Liverpool for
many years, died at his residence,Everton, on Saturday. He
was upwards of 80 years of age.
Tar NORWICH MURDER —The convict George,
Baldry, who was convicted at the last Norwich Assizes, for
the murder of Caroline Warner, a little girl only thirteen
years old, by beating her brains out with a baualuer, has
bean respitvil daring her bialeaty's pltamAre.