The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, IN'

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

BTJCSINGTIANI PALACE, MAY 3.

This day had aurlionce of her Majesty—The Baron de
Brunnow, on a Special Mis-ion from the Emperor of all
the Russias, to deliver a letter from his Imperial Majesty
notifying his accession to the throne ; to which he was
introdticed by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G.,.her Majesty's
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

IL T. Zimmern)—S. Clarke and A. Taylor, HuadersSeld, '
joiners—J. Burgess and S. Eaton, Roughtown, Yorkshire,,
iron founders—J. Flood, jun., and C. R. &Amite r, Charles-
,
street, Middlesex Hospital, auctioneers—G. Kn'pwles and
J. Kern, Newnham and Gloucester, wine Inn chants—,
G. Foster and C. Wilson, Liverpool. coal de Vers —W.
Nicholson and S. P. Glonnie, the Market-plats, Stoke
Newington, and • Wapping, grocers-4'. R. Scribner, W.
Rowe, and R. E. Brown, Liverpool andHayti—ll:
Thompson and J. Beard—B. Stonehewer and /1_ Stone-
hewer. Pilkington. Lancashire,• bleachers—C. Dari and W.
Day, Gate-street, Lincoln's-inn-hells, lithogrdphi :printers
—D. Barry and R. Halls, Type•street, FinOyary, Chicory
importers. Monks, R. Monks, T. Lindley, stud B.
Monks, Worsley, Lancashire. cotton manufacturers (so far
as regards B. Monks) —J. Nicholson and W. F. Room,
Liverpool, sail' makers—O.' Cannon and G. Ifc,rartian,
Love-lane, Eastcheap, City, and Camberwell; ice in, swchants
—J. Hartley and W. Kay, Bradford, woolstaplo xxs—W.
Bryant, W. Burnell, and J. Burnell, Plymouth, soap
manufacturers.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION' OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Deyartment of the Accountant-General of the Wavy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, gay 5.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, beitinen, fund ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the, distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian fs:hooner
Pallas, captured on the 4th of July, 1855, her lit ajesty's
ships Driver and Firefly, will commence on Mond; ay, the
19th May, 1856, in the Prize Branch of the Dephatment
of " the Accountant-General of the Navy, Ad i niralty,
Somerset-house."
• Agents and other persons holding powers of at torney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, bo r virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim tti a share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships) are re-
quested to present the same at this office. ,

Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, wiho may
desire to receive his hare from the Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue within the -United Kingdoksh, is re-
quired to intimate the same by letter to be addresm xl "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Aciiiiiralt.y, Lou;
don," in which letter his own place ofAesidence, is to ke
precisely stated, as-well-as the place of.tbbuearest Collec-
tor of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would
be convenient to receive such share of prize money-.
The following are the shares due to an individuad in the
several classes :

Flag share £2o 7 4 Fifth class ...... ... £ft 8 1
Captain
Commander
Second class
Third class - 614 6 Ninth class 0 9 8
Fourth class

Department of the Accountaut-General of the Na vy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, May 5.

Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, ant 1 ma-
tines, and to all persons interested therein, tits► t the
distribution of proceeds arising from the Finnish LE irque
Fides, captured on the Ist Aug., 1855, by her Maj. esty's
ship Firefly, will commence on Monday, the 19th .May,
1856, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Soma ratrt-
House."

Agents and other persons holding powers of atto rn•ey,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by vit tae
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the sb Are
of any captor, serving in the above-named ship, are re-
quested to present the same tit this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, wbo may
desire to receive his share from the collector of caste-cc to or
inland revenue within the United Kingdom, is require d to
intimate the same by loiter, to be addressed, " On P rize
Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London.; " in
which letter his ow❑ place of residence is to be precd rely
stated, as well as the place of the nearest collector of cus-
toms or of inland revenue, from whom it would be con-
venient to receive such share of prizo money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes
Flag share

Captain

111 19 4

Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class 3 1.11 4
Ninth class
Tenth class

Second class 41.10 8

Third class
Fourth class

35 12 5
. 22 18 0

Fifth class

12 1t 6

Department of the Accountant-General of the Nary,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, May 5.

Notice is hereby given to the Ofßeare, Seamen,. and
Marines, and to all persona interested therein, that. the
distribution of proceeds arising from the cargo of plank and
tar captured on the 30th and 31st August, 1855, at Ra, sso,
by her Majesty's ships Firefly and Dragon,
m
will ccm-
ence on Monday, the 19th of May, 1856, in the Pr ize
Branch of the Department of the "Accountant-General. of
the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house."
The following are the shares due to an individual in, the
several classes :

2 s. d. 2 s.. d.
Flag share
Captain 4.3 17 10 Seventh class 2 :1 1
Second class ll 19 9 I Eighth class 1 ,0 6
Third class
Fourth class 6 3 5 Tenth class
Fifth class 3 8 7

Sporting Intelligence.

CHESTER SPRING MEETlNG.—Tinspar.

The Grosvenor Stakes of 10_ sovs each, h It, wit al 50

*"-Iffenn* fir th_ _
One mile and a quarter. 8 subs.
Mr. E. Parr's Stork, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Snowden3). 1
Mr. Ridley's Hospitality, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b ......(Bates) 2
Mr. Wilson's Heir of 'Anne, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Fordham) 3
Mr. T. Parr's Saucebox, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Wells) 4
Betting-6 to 4 agst Stork, sto 2 agst Saucebr is, 4
to 1 agst Hospitality. Befora going to the post Hospi-
tality jumped the rails near the railway arches. He also
showed much temper at the post. Stork made a'a the
running, and won cleverly by a neck. Half a length
between the second and third, and a length betwoen the
third and fourth. Immediately after the race offers
were made to take 10 to 1 about Stork for the Chester
Cup.

itstra.

The Palatine Stakes, of 15 soya eacb, 5 ft, with 100
added ; for three-yr-olds ; fillies, Bst 71b each. Certain
penalties and allowances. Second to save his stake.
From the Castle pole, once round and in. 14 subs.

Mr. J. M. Stanley's Theodora, B.t 91b (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Parker's One Act, Bst (G. Mann) 2
Mr. A. Harrison's Spinster, Bst (J. Osborne) 3
Mr. S. Cass's La Victime, Bst 71b (Bashann) 4
Betting-2 to lon One Act, and 7to 2 agst Theo-
dora. One Act led to the distance, where Theodora
passed her and won in a canter by two lengths ; three
lengths between the second and third, and a length be-
tween the third and fourth.

After the race 100 to 6 was laid agst One Act for the
Chester Cup.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for three-yr-
olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 80 sovs,
&c. Once round round and a distance. 6 subs.
Mr. Saxon's Barrel, 5 yrs, B:tt 31b (J. Forster) I.
Mr. Armstrong's Alcyone, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Wakefielel) 2
Mr. T. Dawson's Double Mixture, 3 yrs, 6st 21b
(Bullock) 3
The following also ran :--King Chat, Young Tiffany f,
and Petticoat.
Betting-5 to 2 each apt King Chat and Alcyone, 3
to 1 agst Barrel. A fine race in ; won by a short head ;
half a length between the second and third ; a length be-
tween the third and fourth. The winner was claimed by
Mr. Armstrong.

The Mostyn Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for
two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b fillies and geldings, Bst
21b ; the second to receive 20 sovs out of the stakes.
Winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. 26 subs.
Mr. E. Parr's Lambourn, Bst 71b (Wells) 1
Mr. Copperthwaite's The Sprig of Shillelab, Bst 71b
(Aldcroft) 2
Mr.W. I'Anson'sßlink Bonny, Bst 31b(R. I'Anson,juu.) 3
The followin also ran :—Double Glo'ster, Mountain
Daisy, lareca, Special Licence, colt by Touchstone—
Lady Godiva, Kenerdy, and Saunterer.
Batting-3 to 1 agst Spacial Licence, 4to 1 aget Sprig
of Shillelab, 4 to 1 agst Double Glo'ster, 6 to 1 against
Lambourn, 10 to 1 agst Saunterer. Won by a head.
Same between the second and third. Double Glo'ster
was fourth, Lady Godiva colt fifth, and Kenerdy sixth,
close together and well up. The rider of Sprig of Shil-
lelab objected to Lambourn, and the rider of Blink
Bonny objected to both Lambourn and Sprig of Shillelab.
After hearing evidence the stewards decided in favour of
Lambourn.

Chesterfield Stakes.

Fisherman
Prince of Orange ................................
Melissa
Thirteen ran. Won easily.
Wynstay handicap.

Ellermire ......................................................... 1
Neoptolemue ..................... .. ............................ 2
Dame Judith .................................................... 3
Atherstone ...................................................... 4
Ten ran. Won by a length.

Cold cloudy weather. The attendance, however, was
quite equal to an opening day's average. The moms of
Stork and the defeat of One Act exercised a perceptible
influence over speculation on the Cup.
HARPENDEN HANDICAP._ Weathercock and Sandboy
are scratched.

LATEST BETTING ON THE CUP.
6 to 1 apt Yellow Jack
Bto 1 agst Imogene
9to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey
10 to 1 agst Stork
12 to 1 agst Typee
100 to 6 agst One Act
20 to 1 agst Hospitality
20 to 1 agst Fatah:4
20 to 1 agst Early Bird
25 to 1 agst Lady Tatton
2i to 1 agst Courtenay
30 to 1 agst Hungerford
40 to 1 agst Simony
60 to 1 agst New Brighton
50 to 1 agst Mishap
50 to 1 agst Redan
LO to 1 agst Poodle
100 to 1 agst Goorkah
Yellow Jack, Yorkshire Grey, and Lady Tatton in
good demand.

CRTSTA.L PALACE.—ONH ►SHILLING DAY, Tue-iday,
May U.—Admissions on payment, 2,224 ; ditto by sea-
son tickets, 201; total visitora, 2,125.

Spirit .of the Public Journals.

(Flynt the Morni?tg Herald of this clay.)

The adjourned debate on the address has not produced,
anything worthy of particular comment, 'excepting it be
the speech of Mr. -GI:1(14one. That the right hon. tnem-.
for the University should congratu!ate the house
upon the return of peace is natural—as neutral, indeed,
as that the house should congratulate itself that it is not
engaged in considering the terms of an address on a
'peace of Mr. Gladstone'e making. Had the siews of
the blique with which ho acts upon the policy'of the,war
been adopted - had he succeeded, eighteen months ago,
impressing Parliament With the idea that the war was
an unmitigated disaster, the dread preliminary to nee
decal ruin, we should have laid down our arms just as
Russia was beginning to feel their effects, and have de-
hbereeely abandoned the only opportunity which might
arise during the present century of curbing the iiejuri, us
ambition of our recent fee. As it is, we have consented
to terminate the war just as we were beginning to feel
and to put forth our strength—too soon for the solid peace
of. Europe, as we shall yet • discover —too soon for our
own consequence, all things considered—almost too
soon for our honour. We have, with the ce•Operatiou
of our steadfast ally, accomplished sofnething ; but that
.we have done so is due to our total disregard of the piti-
ful counsels of those statesmen under whose pacific au-
spices we entered upon a war that in the very nature of
things must have been costly and sanguinary.
Considering how resolutely the house set itself against
the persuasive influence of Mr. Gladstone, and that the
country was prepared, even after the fall of Sebastopol,
to pr 'acute hostilities at' all cost and hazard, until
Russia should succumb, 'the right hon. gentleman dis-
played last night some generosity in his review of the
terms o peace. The arrangements for the internal ad-
ministration of Turkey entirely meet his approval ; he
thinks, however, that a; Christian policy has so far so-
persided within the Ottoman Empire the -rule of :he
soran,,...andetkatec !_tt4tee.vo:tarchq have taught the
sndcessor of the CalitOElTlesson ; but the
right hon. gentleman never once allueed to the revolt of
50,000 Arabs in consequence of the attempt of foreign-
ers to compel the enforcement of battiechireff. He
thinks, moreover, that the consolidation of the Princi-
palities, although contrary to the wishes of their suzerain,
our ally, would have been a great blessing to those coun-
tries, and, of course, believes that another Otho on the
throne of Moldo-Wallachia would be a great improvement
upon the existing state of Government. There is one
point, however, in the treaty—not the least important
it will be confessed—which does not afford Mr. Glad-
stone satisfaction, and in this respect Mr. Gladstone is
not singular that point is the boasted neutralisa-
tion of the Black Sea. The provision for securing that
most desirable object Mr. Gladstone describes as pre-
senting a " succession of pitfalls." We regret the right
hon. gentleman did not further develops the objection
which he thus happily described, although any oue who
takes the trouble to consider those articles in the treaty
which presume to provide for the aforesaid neutralisa-
tion, will be at no loss to understand the description of
work they cut out for the maritime pewers, should Rus-
sia-as she unquestionably will—take advantage of the
opportunities so generously afforded her of recovering
‘by degrees that supremacy which she doubtless only
considers is in abeyance. Even Lord John Russell,
who was disposed last year to make such concessions to
Russia, sees that there is a radical weakness in that
stipulation, which is supposed to involve the most seri-
ous consequences to Turkey\and to Europe. Lord
John does not consider Count Orloff's promise respect-
ing the Russian arsenals, although appearing in a pro-
tocol, as equivalent to the stipulation of a treaty.
Yet upon that promise the neutralisation really de-
pends. It is undoubtedly true, as was observed last
night by Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, that Russia is dis-
tinguished for the first time at the close of any war in
which she has been engaged by the cession instead
of the acquisition of territory; yet she has contrived,
partly by her own dexterity, but chiefly by the weakness
of those with whom she had to deal, to indemnify her-
self for any territorial losses on the margin of the Euxine
by the retention of those places which have enabled her
hitherto to dominate in those waters.
Lord Palmerston hardly anticipated the objection of
Mr. Gladstone to the most important portion of the
treaty.; and his reply to it betrays the consciousness
that it is really the weak point of the whole structure.
The supremacy of the Black Sea, in one shape or an-
other, was the point for which Russia was prepared to
make any sacrifice. The total abolition of that supre-
macy was impossible without a lengthened and sustained
struggle on the part of the Western Powers. To make
the Black Sea secure it would be indispensable to
drive Russia from every foothold on its margin, and
render her no longer a sea-bordering power, as
it is termed. Our Government was not prepared to
undertake this heavy task, and therefore they have con-
cluded a peace which leaves Russia where she was, and
by its imperfect conditions opens those future series of
embarrassments happily denominated "pitfalls" by Mr.
Gladstone, No one knows all this better than Lord
Palmerston, although in his. speech against time last
-night he afflicts a belief in the security afforded by the
treaty, a belief which he is the last person really to en-
tertain.

(Prom the Morning Advertiser of this day.)

If the debate on the treaty of peace has been product
tive of no other good, it has at least had this beneficial
result—that it has thrown much additional light on what
this country has gained or lost by its alliance with the
ruler—not the people—of France. Even Mr. Layard,
who seems to have been suddenly seized with a violent
affection for the Government which he, more than any
other man, had formerly systematically assailed—even
he, amidst all the vehemence of his new-born love for
Lord Palmerston, could not help reproaching, by impli-
cation, the Government of the noble lord, for the dis-
honour done to the country by our servile submission to
the Chief Magistrate of France, and the spaniel-like
fashion in which we have fawned upon him. Speaking
or: that alliance, which will, in the end, be deeply de-
plored
by this country, Mr. Layard said—" The French
alliance had proved a source of great embarrassment.
Now, he was one of those who would make every sacri-
fice for a French alliance, except a sacrifice of the
national honour. He confessed, however, that to his
mind, from the very commencement, our position with
regard to France had been a most anomalous one.
For this the present Government was not to be blamed,
but those who originated and took the first steps in
the war. From the beginning he had been deeply
impressed with the equivocal positions we had held
with regard to France, and he thought no one oould read
these protocols and those of the Vienna Confereices, or
could have followed the events of the war, without being
persuaded that we assumed a false position as respected
France, placed ourselves unnecessarily in her power, and
took a line which could never be consistent with the true
interests and honour of this country."
The latter part of this extract from the speech of the
member for Aylesbury was received with loud cries of
" Hear, hear." We are glad to find that it was so. It
is an indication which justifies the hope that the Legis-
lature, as well as the people, is at length beginning to
open its eyes to the dishonour of the national character,
and the injury to the best interests of the country,
which our ignoble subjugation to the ruler of France has
already done to England.

Lord John Russell, too, made some pointed observa-
tions on the conduct of Louis Napoleon, in instructing
Count Wale wski to demand the sanction of Lord Claren-
don to the adoption of measures for the extinction of a '
free press in Belgium. This is another illustration of
the degradation entailed upon us by an alliance with the
present regime in France ; and it was a gratifying cir-
cumstance, that the house received Lord John Russell's
denunciation of the conduct of the governor of that
country, with loud and repeated cheers. "Having," said
his lordship, " made these criticisms, he would remark on
one or two questions which came under consideration in
the course of the protocols. Towards the end of them,
the French Minister brought forward the state of the
Belgian press, and objected to what he had no doubt
were great excesses on the part of that press—lament-
able abuses of the freedom of the press—but which, so
far as our experience went, belonged to that freedom.
Lord Clarendon said that the press was like the air—at
perfect liberty. The Belgian press had the security, he
believed, of trial by jury for offences, according to the
Belgian Constitution, and he hoped that no Ministry
which the wise, prudent, and constitutional Sovereign
who reigned over that country would ever have, would
be ready to propose or consent to any alteration of the
Constitution, for the purpose of subjecting that press to
a censorship, or to any more summary mode of inter-
ference. He could not but think, therefore, that while
we were ready to say that the Emperor of the French, in
his own dominions, might regulate the press as he
pleased, and put what restrictions he thought necessary
upon it, for the preservation of the peace of his own sub-
jects, without our having the least claim to interfere in
the matter, yet he thought the Emperor should respect
similar rights in other countries, and not call upon the
Minister of England to take a step which must be so re-
pugnant to the feelings of the English people, as to in-
terfere with the press of another country."
This spirited passage in Lerd J. Russell's speech de-
served the loud cheers with which it was greeted. No
one, for the last four years, has ventured to express him-
self thus manfully, respecting the Emperor of the
French. Let us hope that others will follow the example
of the Noble Lord, and that England will yet, in this
respect, recover her lost prestige. Were England to
become a party to the extinction of a free press in Bel-
gium, in compliance with the wishes of Louis Napoleon,
the next inevitable step on the part of his Imperial Ma-
jesty would be to demand the destruction of the liberty
of the press in this country. And were that liberty gone,
every prestige of constitutional freedom would speedily
perish with it. The ruler of France asked, almost corns
mended, Lord Palmerston, some months ago, to expel
all political refugees from our shores, and to destroy that
part of our Constitution which affords a safe and sacred
asylum to those who have sought our protection against
the vengeance of despotic Governments on the Con-
tinent.
Does any one doubt that the man who could ask
Lord Palmerston to do this would hesitate at anytlingl
Assuredly he would not—not even at seeking to make
England, to all intents and purposes, a mere province of

Fran cc. B. at that is a contingency which happily is no!
even pet in orosp,,ct. Nor volt it ever take place, so
long w Eng land his a free an 1 inlepenr_lelt press ot;
which i back.

I. tr, TH OF LONDON DURING THE

TVEIS'K.

(1 Fri )7n, flee Report of the Registrar. General.) '
The d. )ar the registered in London, which in the pre-
vious w, Lei c.were 1,048, rose last week to 1,087. In
the ton • ve eks corresponding to last week of the years
1846.55 ffee average number cf deaths was 1,020, which,
if raised wopertionally to increase of population, he-
comes 1 71'4' '2. The rate of mortality is, therefore, still
below th e .verage.
Tile pr es nt return shows an increase of 39 on that of
the previ iut is week as regards the total numbers of
deaths ; I out ; in the five vicenniads of aee in which they
are distri ht ited in the tables the numbers exhibit ex-
tremely it disparity, except in the second, namely,
the wrio I of life 20-40 years. In the two weeks the
deaths wi oh occurred under 20 years were respectively
505 and 1 ; those at 20-40 years were 141 and 187 ;
those at 4 0-60 years 182 and 178; those at 60-80 years
172 and I [;7O ; and those which occurred at still more
advanced a gee were '27 and 32. The difference in the
sewed pe ,ri od arises to a great extent from plithlsie, the
persons e ',leo died in the prime of life from that disease
having be en in the one week 54, in the other 79. D.,,aths
from phtl tie is at all ages were 139 in the previous week,
and 170 in. the last. The air last week was very cold.
Of 201 deaths in this return which resulted from
diseases or the zymotic 64 were produce] by
typhus and common fever. These occurred in very
equal propel ttions over the whole of the metropolis ; but
it may be et ated that 6 were registered in Pancras. and
only one in Marylebois. The registrar of All S
Marylebone, mentions that meales and scarlatina are
rather prevalent in parts of his sub-district. The death
of a dock la,e,eurer at 15, Emma-street, Hackney-road,
wale register 411 ;anew] ber,typhne, . after weeks'
ness. The enedicarattendwire-addelti his certificate of
this case that "the ground in front of the house having
been some m onths filled in with vegetable matter, about
3 weeks ago, 'they began to remove the putrescent mass."
Scarlatina carried off 26 children, measles 25 ; small.
pox 8, araitng whom was a person above 60 years of
age. On tlee 28th and 29th April two young men,
sailors, died. of scurvy on board the Dreadnought hos-
pital-ship.
The oldest person recorded in the week is a female an-
nuitant in Ma rylebone, aged 93 years.
Last week the births of 901 boys and 806 girls, in all
1,707 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the average
number was :1,536. _ _

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29'564 in. The
highest reading was 29.97 in., which occurred on Satur-
day. The mean temperature of the week was 41.3 deg.,
which is 9'l deg. below the average of the same week
in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher) ; that of
the previous week was 48.5 deg. The mean tempera,-
ture was below the average on every day, the amount of
depression varying in the week from about 6 deg. to 11
deg. The highest reading of the thermometer in the
shade was 53.5 deg. on Wednesday ; the lowest occurred
on the previous day, and was 31 deg. The thermometer
in the sun did not attain more than 77 deg. The mean
dew-pi int temperature was 35.1 deg., and the difference
between this and the mean air temperature was 6.2 deg.
The temperature of the water of the Thames fell from
54.9 deg., the highest on Monday, to 48'8 deg., the lowest
on Saturday ; the mean of the week 51.5 deg. Tie
general direction of the wind was nsrth-west. The rain
amounted to 0.75 in., of which 0.60 in. fell on Sunday.
Showers of hail and rain fell on the afternoon of Satur-
day.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THZ WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 3.

Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Biood-vessels 53
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration ......
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 5
Premature Birth and Debility 3B
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden 9
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 33
Causes not specified

70
13

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the

1851. , .-.
•f 1855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males 557
Females 530
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK..

Males
Females..

901
806

Total .

1,707

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, MAY G.

The cotton-market is firmer again ; but the change
has had no effect here beyond strengthening the bands
of those manufacturers who are disposed to hold firmly
by last quotations. Buyers have not been influenced by
it, and the result has been a very quiet market, in which
both home and trade shipping houses have alike refrained
as much as possible from business. In cloths it has
been felt by sellers that they would be unable to do busi-
ness without a sensible reduction of prices, say 10. to
3,1. per piece, and this they are mostly unwilling to con-
cede with cop yarns at present rates. So far as manu-
facturers have made any abatement—and this has only
been done where they have been obliged to sell—it has
been at a sacrifice of profit, previous rates, in most cases,
not leaving a margin (f remuneration at the pre-ent cost
of yarn. In other words, sellers have made no alteration
in their price lists, and all that can be said is, that where
these are strictly adhered to little or no business has
bee❑ effected. Spinners report a very quiet market both
for horneconsumption and export, prices being nominally
unaltered, but the position of the market tending to
rather lower rates.

Messrs. John Stagg and Co. report :—" The disincli-
nation on the part of buyers to do business at the exist-
ing prices has become more decided during the last few
days, and as it is only in very few instances that any con-
cession is made, the amount of business has again been
on a very limited scale. The difference, however, be-
tween buyer and seller is not very great, as at a reduc-
tion of lid. to 33. per piece from our quotations a con-
siderable business might be done; but there is as yet
no disposition to give way."
Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co. report :—"To-
day our market has again been dull, and the prices cf
many articles exhibit increased weakness. This is more
especially the case with India shirtings, which have de
clined 3d. to per piece from the highest point."
LEEDS, MAY 6.
Both clothiers and merchants are anxious about the
forthcoming wool sales in London, and while the for-
mer are not very anxious to sell goods at a shade lower
price than they obtained a month ago, the merchants
arJ unwilling to make the slightest advance. To-day's
market in both the cloth halls has been very quiet, and
scarcely as much business has been transacted as on this
day se'nnight. The purchases have been confined chiefly
to light goods and a few job lots. All parties appear
to be acting with considerable caution, and if the same
conduct is pursued at the sales of colonial wool which
commence on Thursday next, it is probable that the pre-
sent range of prices for the raw material will not be
exceeded.
The report of the Huddersfield market to-day is as
follows :—" The market presents the appearance of little
business doing. There are few strangers, and purchases
are limited Small transactions have taken place at low
prices. Manufacturers are indisposed generally to sell in
consequence of expecting a rise in wool. The wool trade
is firm, and stocks are low."

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Police-constable Matthew Taylor, D 57, Was charge"
before Mr. Jardine at Bow-street Police-c ffice, with an
assault of an aggravated character upon I lies Archer,
a young lady who was one of the!.spectaters assembled in
Cockspur-street to witness the procession on the occa-
sion of the proclamation of peace. The. case bad
been referred to the magistrate by the Coentnissioners
of Police.
Mr. Parry (instructed by Mr. Davies, of Sonlharop•
ton-street) att. rated as counsel for the CI mplainant,
and Mr. Wontner defended.
Mr. Parry, having opened the case, called the coin.
,p'ainant, Miss Clementine Archer, who stated that she
w at present staying at 15, Percy-street, on:a. visit toe
is ty Lain, d King, a friene of her fatally. Oa the 29th
oft. she acceuepanied Mrs.- King and another lady to
Charing-er eis to witness the proclamation of peace, and
when near Farrance's,the confectioner, she was parted front
her friends by the pi essing of the crowd, but still saw
them at a distance. The procession had passed.. Shemar's
an effort to rejoin her friends, when a policeman seized her
round the waist and forced her back again. Before she had
time to speak he eeiz:(l her by the shoe Het s, and-when she
said she wished to rejoin two ladies who were with her,
he replied that she should not go, as nobody could be
Allowed to pass there. He contieued to hold tier in the
4111 ti way, by the shoulders, in spite of her struggles to get
free. She jerked herself partly round, and he then drew his
staff and struck her a violent blow on the shoulder, upon,
.which a gentleman in the crowd cried out, " haarei
what are you holding her fur ? Release her inn.
n'T;ITTit.I ; youtti all hear of this again." The policeman
then threw her from him so violently that but for the
support of this gentleman she must have fallen. She re•
turned towards the Albion Hotel in Cod:spur-street,
feeling faint and ill from the fright, and remained till she
was joined by one of her friends. She suffered A good
deal from the effect of the blow, chiefly that night and
the next day. She was quite cert-tin defendant was the
man. She bad sot the slightest doubt of it. Had been
with Mr. Mayhew, the husband of a lady of her ao-
queintance to Scotland-yard, and also to St. George's
station, to see the constables, but had not seen any one
like the defendant there. Afterwards went to the
M.arylehone station for the same purpose. -The first
time she went round she did not see the defendant, but
the inspector told her to go round again, and on turning
to do so she saw the defendant standing beside her, and
instantly recognised him. She was so agitated at seeing
him that she believed she fainted, but she remembered
the charge being taken coon affer.
The prisoner said, "I deny using my staff." He did
not. deny being the mar. _ _

lii cross•eaaminatiaA by Mr. Wontner, Miss Archer
adniitted that in her first account of the assault she said
it oocnmed in: WargiclOitrect, She (141_31011 know the
spot well, though she had resided many years in Lon-
don. She awd her friends were all under the impression
that the place was called Warwick-street, but she had
since bee❑ to the place again and found that she was
mistaken as to the name ; it was Cockspur-street. Had
told Inspector Hughes that she saw a constable, No.
194, but had never said that 194 was the one who bad
strrck her.

Re-examined—Mr. Mayhew was present when I'
Spector Hughes called, and requested that officer " not
to flurry her." Had seen defendant struggling with a
man in the crowd before the assault.

Mr. Parry applied for an adjournment, on the ground
that the publicity which would, no doubt, be given to
the crse, might attract the attention of the gentleman
mentioned by complainant, but

Mr. Jardine thought it only fair to defendant to hear
both sides beft re adopting that course.
Mrs. Henry Mayhew and Mrs. King spoke to the in•
jury sustained by complainant, who had a severe bruise
from her shoulder to her breast, which became at one
time completely black.
Mr. Henry Mayhew supported the evidence of Miss
Archer as to the visits to the several police-stations.
In cross-examination he admitted that there had been
a con versation between him and Inspector Walker
about her passing the defendant the first time she went
round, bui; she did not hear what was said. She bad
previously given a description of the man, which applied
to the prisoner, and had led the inspector to imagine
that he might be the person meant.
Defendant is a Ivan of remarkable appearance, very
tall, powerful looking:, and of marked features!
Mr. Wontner, after briefly addressing the Court for
the defendant, called several witnesses to show that
Miss Archer must be mistaken in the identity of the
defendant.

Four or five other constables deposed to the same
effect, and one of the inspectors stated that he selected
the defendant for this duty, because he was a " firm
and determined" man—by which he only meant that
he would do his duty.
Mr. Parry applied for a committal or a remand, but
Mr.dardine, believing that complainant was mistaken
as to the identity of the defendant, and that it was
clearly shown he could not be the man, and attaching no
weight whatever to his very natural reply, that be had
not used his staff at all that day, declined to adopt the
course suggested. and at once dismissed the case.
Mr. Parry said if that was not the man, some of the
constables must know who was.
The parties then left the court.