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

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1851.

NAVAL INTELLIGEN CE.

We stated on Wednesday that it Vas the intention
of the Admiralty to form a branch establishment for
gunnery instruction at .Devonport. 'We may now
state that the charge of this service has been entrusted
to one of the best officers in the service, Captain
Hewlett, who was promoted from the Excellent.
That officer has been appointed to the Hotspur fri-
gate ; and with a small staff and complement from the
parent ship will at once commence duty. It is to be
hoped, however, ere long an efficient sea-going screw-
ship will be appropriated to this important and valu-
able service.

Lieutenant T. P. Barrow (1825) has been appointed
to take charge of the Edward transport.
Lieutenant the Hon. P. Curzon (1843) has been
appointed to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED VETERAN.—The
navy will regret to hear that one of the oldest and
most distinguished veteran seamen of the war—one of
the finest, best, and most skilful bnatswsins that ever

occupied that position in the royal service—the man
who, under compulsion, hoisted the red flag at the
breaking out of the general mutiny at Spithead, and
the gallant young seaman who, when the Ad-
miral's flag was shot away on board the Royal
George, in the battle of the "glorious first of June,"
recovered the lost colours and nailed them to the
stump of the broken mast—" William Burke," the
man who was presented to his late Majesty, when
Lord High Admiral, as the " first practical seaman
in the world"—this veteran, who was in the active
service of the Crown for more than sixty years, who
was respected by every one who knew him, from the
flag officer to the cabin boy, and who retired some
years since as boatswain of Devonport Dockyard, died
on Wednesday last at his residence, Caroline-place,
Stonehouse, i❑ the 83d year of his age.
Rear-Admiral Reynolds. C. 8., in the Southamp-
ton, 50, Captain Corry, having been relieved at
Monte Video, by Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., in
the Centaur, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Cannon, has
returned to Rio, and was to leave that place for Eng-
land, Nov. 18. Lord F. Russell, in the Tweed ,18, was
also at Rio, and was to leave for England on the 16th.
llavannah, 19, Captain Erskine, and Fly, 14, Com-
mander Oliver, are being fast dismantled at Devon-
port. The former will be paid off on Friday next,
the latter to-mdrrow. The officers and crew of the
Acheron steamer, who came to England in the Ha-
vannah and Fly, were paid off on Weduesay.
Saracen old brig at Devonport is ordered to be fitted
for surveying service.
Messrs. Edward Lamb, John Trego, and Charles
John, having served the required probationary terms,
have been confirmed as supernumerary boatswains of
the St. George, 120, at Devonport.
PORTEMOUTII, THURSDAY.—Viscount Palmerston,
accompanied by a party of gentlemen of the corps
diplomatigue, arrived at Gosport this morning by the
South-Western Railway, and were conducted by Mr.
R. Willoughby Stevens, the company's superinten•
dent, into the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard in
the railway carriages. They were received on alight-
ing by Mr. Davis, the master attendant, who con-
ducted them over the harbour to the new stairs of this
dockyard, where they were received by Admiral Sir
Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Commander-in-Chief,
attended by Flag-Lieutenant Pasley. The Admiral
escorted the party to the King's stair•, where he em-
barked them in his galley, and put them on board her
Majesty's yacht Fairy, which conveyed them to
Osborne, to an audience with the Queen, and after-
wards returned with them to this port, and disem-
barked them at the Clarence-yard at 3 30 P.M., whence
they departed for London.

The Britannic, 120, Captain Goldsmith, has been
undocked to•day, and hauled alongside the jetty to
fit out. She sent up her topmasts to-day.
The Rapid, 8, Commodore Blane, sailed from
Spithead to-day for the East Indies.

_
APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, DEC. 11.—Lieutenant Charles G.
Fegen (1845), to study steam at the factory at Wool-
wich Dockyard. Boatswain William Inglis to the
London, 90, at Sheerness.
Commodore Henry Eden having obtained six weeks'
leave cf absence, Captain the Hon. Montague Stop-
ford has arrived here from Sheerness, to be acting
superintendent at Woolwich Dockyard during the
absence of Commodore Eden.

Captain Erasmus Ommaney, recently in command
of the Assistance, one of the ships of the last Arctic
expedition, having been appointed Deputy-Controller
of the Coast Guard, it is expected Captain H. T.
Austin, C. 8., will be appointed additional to the
Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth, for packet service
at Southampton, in the room of Captain Armor L.
Corry, on the promotion of the latter gallant officer
to the rank of Rear-Admiral.

Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, C. 8., will leave
the position he now holds at Whitehall, as First Naval
Lord at the Admiralty, in about six weeks from the
present time, and will then hoist his flag on the Bri-
tannia, 120, and proceed to relieve Admiral Sir Wil-
liam Parker in the command of the Mediterranean
station. Rear-Admiral F. M. Berkeley, C. 8., the
present Second Naval Lord, is expected to be First
Naval Lord, and Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart,
C. 8., one of the present Lords of the Admiralty, has
addressed the electors of the borough of Greenwich,
Woolwich, and Deptford, with the view of being
elected their representative in the room of Rear-Ad-
miral Dundas, who will vacate his seat on leaving for
the Mediterranean. Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart
is well known and greatly respected in this borough,
having, when Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard,
some years ago, secured many influential friends in
the constituency by his excellent disposition and kind
manner to all parties in this locality.
The Tartarus steam-vessel was navigated to Leith
in the latter part of the last and the beginning of the
present week, where she is to be stationed, and em-
ployed in the protection of the fisheries on the north
coast of Scotland. Mr. Stuart, the Government pilot,
proceeded from Woolwich to Leith in her, and he de-
scribes the whirlwind and gale he encountered in her
when off St. Abb's-head as more severe than any he
had ever experienced during his long professional
service.

The Defence, formerly a 72-gun ship, but now
tcon-
verted into a convict-hulk, was taken down the river
to-day, from opposite the dockyard, to her permanent
emnonovriientgasemopposite
duringth theeßoyal dayAr in thatsenal,to contain
departmentthe
of her Majesty's service.
The Amazon West India Royal mail steam-packet
started shortly after 12 o'clock to-day on a further
trial down the river, having on board Mr. Hughes,
assistant to the chief engineer at Somerset- house, and
Mr. Mills, chief engineer to the company, but after
proceeding about five miles below Gravesend the fog
became so thick that it was considered advisable to
drop her anchor and bring her up
in good anchorage
ground. The trial of her speed between the Nore
And Mouse lights is, consequently, deferred until
Saturday, when she will be tried if the weather is free
of fog, and she will afterwards proceed on the after-
noon of that day for Southampton. The vessel has
been surveyed and considered capable of carrying
14 32-pounders and two 10-inch pivot guns, the latter
of 85 cwt. each, on her main deck. Her coal boxes
are constructed to carry 1,000 tons of coals, or up-
wards of 161 days' consumption at the rate of 2f tons
per hour for her 26 furnaces: She is fitted with
Captain Sir Snow Harris's lightning conductors, and
in case of need can accommodate 360 troops below,
allowing each man twelve superficial feet. Altogether
the vessel is a great credit to the company, and when
the five already ordered are completed, and one or
two more, Captain Chappell says, are contemplated,
this wealthy company will possess a splendid fleet,
available for commercial purposes in the time of peace,
and for the service of the country on any sudden
emergency of war.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.
Though on the first two days of the great Christmas
Cattle Show there was no deficiency of visitors as com-
pared with the corresponding days of previous years,
yet during the whole of yesterday the crowd in attend-
ance at the show in Baker-street was so dense as to pre-
clude anything like a satisfactory view of the stock.
The visitors, too, were of a different class from those in
the early part of the week. Though there was still a
considerable attendance of farmers and others whose
whose occupations are more or leas connected with the
cultivation of the soil, the butchers and dealers had to a
great extent disappeared, but their absence was agree-
ably compensated for by the presence of a number of
ladies, chiefly from the rural districts. With the ex-
ception of a few of the least promising of the cattle,
and some half dozen pens of Leicestershire sheep, the
whole of the animals have been sold, and there is every
probabitity that no part of the stock brought to the
exhibition for sale will have to seek another market. The
interest of the visitors yesterday was principally con-
centrated on the articles exhibited in the implement
gallery, including American reaping machines, portable
steam-engines, grinding mills, thrashing machines,
ploughs, and every other mechanical contrivance of
modern date for the improved cultivation of the soil.
The Duke of Wellington and General Wemyss were
among the more distinguished of the visitors, and both
of them appeared to take an especial interest in the stalls
devoted to the display of field produce.

THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE AND THE FRENCH
eoiantvatilelme,etnhtou ithtahteETsihmeers n, oil:,
tually proceeded to Lille, with the view of getting up a de-_I
learn from a source which has never
todethj
monstration in favour of himself, provided he received the
slighest encouragement. The fact that the Times announced
atac the
cording Prince
this piece of information exclusively, affords collateral con-
dmidis,leti after us,
all,th
con-
firmation of what we said yesterday respecting that journal
being in the service of the Orleans family. On reaching
Lille, the Prince de Joinville found that there was not the
shadow of a chance for him, even in that disaffected town,
and, therefore he hurried back to England per the next
train, in the hope that the fact of his having contemplated
an expedition against Louis Napoleon would not transpire.
—Advertiser.

We are happy to say that Mr. Brown, M.P. for
South Lancashire, is so far recovered from his late attack of
influenza AS to enable him to go to Southport for change
of air•

BANK OF ENGLAND,
(From the Newcastle Journal)
The monetary affairs of the country have been
threatened with some disturbance of late, and they
have, indeed, had to encounter it not from one cause
alone, but from more. A few days ago, the Directors
of the Bank of England dclared their readiness to
advance money on stock, and other approved securi-
ties, during the shutting of the books for the arrange-
ment of the dividends pay able on consols, at the re-
duced rate of two and a half per cent. Great was
the consternation excited among the discount brokers
of the metropolis at this measure. The Quaker mo-
ney lenders "groaned in spirit," as did the. Jews, the
prospect before them of per-centaghensdgrreotes. "small
by degrees and beautifully less,"
attracted to the great paper mart clients,
dle-
in
Tieing
street, where business might be done on termsreadnee
cheap with those which are so abundantlypeecloamad:
gated as regulating the outfitting, and no
Sons, in
doubt most
useful establishment of Messrs. Moses and
the Minories. Free trade and cheapness are thei
order of the day, the alpha and omega of the
time
in which we live, and that the free-trading, Zee
somewhat degenerate Bank of England should be
prepared to emulate the economy of Messrs. Moses
and Sons, is by no means surprising. That there is
ability of the first order in the councils of the Bank
of England is not to be denied. We name no names.
There can be no necessity for doing so, but we hare
it in our memories on the testimony of a Minister of
the Crown—a Minister of the Whig clique, of course
—that some five-sixths of the board of directors were
ascertained to be in favour of the repeal of the corn
duties, when that great question was mooted. They
became so, we believe, not as the result of any con-
viction of their own, but because other people were.
Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, that was, is a rich man
and an influential. These City influentials, by the
way, are most pretentious personages. We could
name several of them who are too—much too—re-
spectable for the society of the plain jog-trotting por-
tion of the community. They appear often, as we
perceive by the Cowl Circular, before the Minister
in the character of deputations, and it goes forth to
the wondering world that they have had, at Down-
ing-street, an interview with the Right Hon. Lord
This, or Mr. Secretary That. Mr. Samuel Jones
Loyd, whose pedigree is now graced with a title,
may not have been one of those pragmatical gentle-
men. We do not remember that he ever was, nor
shall we dwell upon the point further than to say, in
candour, that we have not any imputation of the
kind to allege against him. He became, as we judge,
the Lord of Overstone by dint of his amiable politices
and his disingenuous support of that pink of a City
candidate, Lord John Russell, who, under auspices
so all-predominant, found himself what he has the
felicity of being, namely, M.P. for the City of Lon-
don. Well, we have called Lord Overstone an
" influential," and so he has been. He was, and
perhaps is, despite the greatness that has been rust
upon him, a constant attendant at the general meet-
ings of the Bank of England, nor have we to charge
our conscience with the delinquency of having for a
moment forgotten the deference that was ever paid
by the directors to the suggestions of the noble
banker, Lord Overstone. Would that he had in his
communication with the Minister, when proffered
admission to the peerage of Great Britain, suffered
himself to be dubbed the Lord of Lothbury, because
this would have been in accordance with the great
deeds of the individual. He has not, like Jervis, dis-
tinguished himself at sea, or like Wellesley in the
field. Those illustrious men, the Earl St. Vincent and
the Prince of Waterloo, did so acquire distinction each
for himself in one element or the other, and their
titles are appropriate, but why, we ask, why should
the most worthy patronymic of the Noble Lord be ob-
scured by a dignity not of accordance with his merits
in another shape of usefulness ? Mr. Jones Loyd
knew well the meaning of a bill of exchange when
he saw one, and equally well did he know what use
to make of it. He was a' master of his craft, and
Lothbury ought to have been honoured by an identi-
fication with his performances in the moneyed world.
Loyd and Lothbury are, or ought to be, synonymous
terms, and we, therefore, complain of the robbery
committed on the latter in favour of the village of
Overstone in Northamptonshire, of which one knows
little and cares to know less. What we have said of
Lord Overstone's choice of title may, however, be
supposed to have nothing to do with the measures of
the Bank. This is not the fact. Mr. Samuel Jones
Loyd was great in his day both as a banker and a
Liberal. He wrote a number of specious treatises on
the banking and monetary system, and did much,
in our opinion, to destroy the power of the National
Bank—the Bank of England. He was ever going
upon the widely-spread fallacy of cheapness—that
crotchetty dogma which has brought England to the
humiliating condition of having to come down on her
knees and implore the co-operation of other countries
in the consummation of the proposed blessing. Mr.
Samuel Jones Loyd was never particularly happy in
the capacity of a pamphleteer. We could never sub-
scribe to his doctrines as the result of nice thought
and anxious calculation. Neither could we ever see
that there was anything in the position BEd practice
of a private banker that should entitle him to foist
his opinions upon a body of persons placed at the
head of the Bank of England, between which and the
private bankers a clashing of interests must con-
tinually exist. The recommendations of Baron Over-
stone may have been most conscientious—meat plau-
sible. This we readily concede. We concede also the
claims presented by the incident, that his Lordship
was the proposer on the hustings of Lord John Ras•
sell, but still we are not compelled to admire the
choice he has made of a title, nor his acceptance of any
title at all. Nobilitas sola est atque ?mica virtas. We
totally ignore the claim to a title wen preferred on the
score of political partiz inship or enormous wealth,
fur assuredly there can be nothing to be found in Mr.
Lloyd's pamphlets worthy of a coronet. The Bank
directors are, as we have intimated, not all of them
endowed with the sagacity of Solomon. This, how-
ever, they do know in common with the rest of
mankind. They know that some value attaches to
the support of a very great man. At the bidding of
Mr. Loyd and his school, the banking system of the
country was wholly changed, and the national bank
has in consequence no more command over the
affairs of the country than a private bank, otherwise
than that she has the advantage of the ancient and
well appreciated prestige belonging to the foundation,
as welt as an unlimited command of capital. Thus
the reduction of interest by the directors in their
charge fur discounts tells upon the profits of the
smaller establishments, and had it not been for poli-
tical causes, having a neutralizing influence, money
would by this time have been a drug in the London
market. At the very moment the expectation of

such an occurrence was formed advices were obtained
from the French shorcs of the event we have long
auticipated—the severance of Louis Napoleon and
the more potential and other military leaders of the
National Assembly. An immense speculation had
set in upon the public in the concoction of mining
and other companies, but the Bank of England, with
its Overetone school, and the whole corps of miners
and financiers, have been suddenly brought to their
proper bearings. Our national stalks have fallen
upwards of two per cent. ; dealing in shares has been
paralyzed, and though the Bank has in gold and silver
coin and ingots more than 16,000,0001., yet money
is now more judiciously invested than was the case
a week ago. Our domestic funds have, as we have
said, sustained a severe shock, as well as our railway
properties, but Louis Napoleon's appeal to the people
of France has had a magic effect, and prices are by
no means so depressed as they were at one moment,
either at the Paris Bourse or in London. The moment

is pregnant with change for good or for evil, and we
must await the issue. Meanwhile we would suggest
that forty shilling discounts are no more compatible
with the national prosperity than a three-and- six-
penny bat on the head, or a scaramouch jacket on the
back, of a reduced gentleman.

THE WOODTHORPE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—On
Wednesday last the inquest on the bodies of William
Ramsden, Samuel Bacon, and Charles Stone, the three men
whose deaths were occasioned by the explosion at this col-
linearyon the previous Saturday, was held at the Bull Inn,
l
ke. It appeared from the evidence that the management
of the pit had been entrusted to a person who had very little
practical knowledge, and that little attention had been paid
to complaints made to him respecting fire damp. The evi-
dence of Mr. C. Morton, Government Inspector, showed that
as regarded ventilation, there had not been a sufficient
amount of intelligence brought to bear upon it, and the wit-
ness said he was sorry to be obliged to add that the bottom
or underground steward, Oldfield, was not sufficiently well
acquainted with either the theory or practical details of ven-
tilation to enable him to conduct works in a fiery seam with
safety to those employed therein. The jury, after consulting
for some time, concurred in the following verdict :—" Man-
slaughter against Joseph Oldfield," the underground
steward ; and, moreover, expressed it to be their opinion
that Mr. John Rhodes, the lessee of the colliery, ought to
have employed a more efficient and intelligent person.
Oldfield was immediately committed to prison for trial at the
assizes.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON A LADY AT DULWICH.
—On Wednesday
cock, a lady of th evening, at five o'clock, As Mrs. Hitch-
greatest respectability, residing in Dul-
wich was on her return from Norwood, she was stopped by
two ruffians in the High Norwood-road, close by Croxted-
lane, and was instantly felled to the ground by a blow upon
the head with some sharp instrument, which penetrated to
the skull, and was otherwise most desperately ill-used. She
succeeded, however, in catching a hold of one of her assailants,
and was imploring his mercy and prote.tion, 141-len it is sup-
posed that the sound of an approaching carriage alarmed the
villains, who leaped the hedge, and made off across the
fields. The unfortunate lady's•cries at length brought assis-
tance, and she was then conveyed into one of the adjacent
houses. Medical aid was as soon as possible procured from
Dulwich, when she was found to have been frightfully in-
jured, the whole of the upper part of her person being
saturated with blood. She was subacqueutly taken to her-
own residence, where she lies in a state of great suffering
from the injuries she has sustained.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, DEC. 11.—We under-
stand that it is in contemplation to invite the lion. J. R.
Walker, late Secretary to the United States' Treasury, to a
public dinner in Southampton,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
1.750 to 50 and 1,000 to 25 agst Black Doctor; 1,000
to 25 agst Knouk Ku,ll; 3,000 to 45 agst Nancy; 2,000
t) 35 agst Koh-i• noor; 2,000 to 30 each agst Merry
Bird, Pitsford, and Mr. Worthington's Birdcatcher filly,
all taken; nothing else named.
DERBY.
400 to 50 egst Hdhie Noble—taken and afterwards
offered
WESTBURY STEEPLECHASES.
Acceptances for the Free Handicap of 10 sovs. etch, h ft,
and 50 added.
Thurgarton, 11Ft 71b—Baptiste, list 7:b—The Ge-
neral, 11,t lib—Forest Lad, lOst 121b—Hinton, lost
31b—Venice, lOst—Kate Kearney, lOst—
Everton, 103t—Fifteen Pounds no Object, lOst—Roe-
buck (late Bobby), 90.
HUN LING APPOINTMENTS.
Duke of Beaufort's bds., Mon., Stanton Park; Wed.,
Coal-pit Heath; Sat., Yalton Kennel.
Craven hds., Mon., Tottenham Park; Wed., Knights-
bridge; Fri., Aldbourne Chase; Sat., Shaw Place— 10i.
Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Clatford Oakcuts; Tues.,
New Mill;
Wed., Wherwell Wood; There., Combo
Wood; Fri., Brigatiston; Sit., Clarendon Park-11.
Bath stag hds., Tues., Melksham—lli; Fri., West-
Badsworth hds., Tues., Hampole Inn; Thurs., Fry-
stone Hal! 10i; Sat., Brampton Bull Hh ad-10.
Mr. Lurnley's hds., Mon., Sparkin Hall; Wed.. Cant-
Leyibt:ri, y on the Hill; Sat, Stainton Village
Brayton. lra
m
Thurs.,nLi
_,ri.,33;oeosirbayth Gdlsrv.a,
niMeesonslati.S,Qtriu.strtolinoollonil—l ;107.ed.,
Raiford bds , Mon,, Scarliffeg Village; Tues., Ketbam;
entinekle
Lord Yarboroupzrhi',.l,Rhas4., Faby Wood; Wed.,
UeLseolrbdyHHeonuryse
Kettlethorpe,• Wed , 6hds.,
Fri., Newbold Common •
Penton; Thurs., Stapleford Moor;
Mr. M. Ingram's hds at.
Branston; Toes.,
, Hackthorne-11
Snelston; Sat., Blithfield p. Mr. Farquharson's hds
Rolleston Hall; Thurs.,
Nether Cerne.
B. V. harrs., Tues.,
Green Man Inn-11. Court, mambo; Erin
;ashMon., Shortwood; Tues.,

CAPE OF Gc04.0 RopE
By the arrival of the Teviot
we have advices from
the Cspe to the 4th November.'
The mass of hostile Kafirs within the
es-
timated at 6,000, divided into two bodiesl one alanYpoissted
in the Fish River Busb, about 30 miles N.E.er '
of
Graham's Town, and the other in the Waterkloof,
about 50 miles N.W. of that town. The enemy
the Fish River Bush were watched on the west by
Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, who, with a force of 500 men.
covered Graham's Town ; on the south by Maim;
Wilmot, with a small detachment at Fort Peddie ; and
on the east by patrolling parties from King William's
Town. Several skirmishes have taken place, in which
the enemy have invariably been repulsed, but no im.
portant success gained except in one instance, when a
body of 800 attempted to carry off several thousand
cattle and sheep from the vicinity of Fort Brown.
Major Horne sallied out with 220 men, routed the
plunderers, killing 10, and wounding many more. He
recaptured nearly all the spoil, without any serious
casualties among his troops.
On the 12th of October, Major-General Somerset
marched towards the stronghold of the Chief Maco-
me, in the fastnesses of the Waterkloof, with a force
of 3,000 men, composed of the regular troops of the
2d, Gth, 12th, 74th, and 91st Regiments, Royal Ar-
tillery, Cape Mounted Rifles, Mounted Volunteers,
and Fingoe Levies.
On the 14th and 16th October the Waterkloof was
penetrated in different directions by two brigades un-
der Lieut.-Colonels Michell and Fordyce. All ac-
counts agree in describing the operations of the troops
as being conducted in a most masterly manner; the
result was—after several hours hard fighting on both
days—the enemy were completely driven out, and
their camp destroyed. The fugitives took refuge in
the valleys of the Blinkwater and Fuller's Hoek,
where they wsra attacked on the 22c1 Oct., and after
some sharp fighting, routed and dispersed. The de-
tached bands still cling to the fastnesses about the
Kromme Heights, and preparations were making for
another movement against them on the 25th Oct.
The loss of our troops is reported at 6 killed and
26 wounded, amongst whom Lieutenant Norris, 6th
Regiment, was killed; Captain Addison, 2d, and En-
sign Ricketts, 91st Regiments, wounded. That of
the Kafirs has been rated from 400 to 500 killed.

During the last month the district of Albany has been
preserved in a great measure from the marauding in-
cursions of the enemy, through the protection afforded
by the detachments under Lieuntenant-Colonel Eyre,
and Majors Wilmot and Horne ; but the other fron-
tier districts were suffering severely from heavy losses.
On the 16th of September a body of 2,000 Tamboo-
kies made a descent upon Tipper Victoria and Crad-
dcck, sweeping off several thousand sheep, and fi
large number of cattle ; they have also recommenced
their incur: ions into the district of Albert, and car-
ried off some hundreds of cattle. Several colonists
have been killed by them in these attacks.
The last reinforcements that arrived in this colony,
viz., the GOth Rifles (2d battalion) and the 12:h Lan-
cers, have reached head• quarters. The Rifles have
taken the field, for the first time, under Algjor-Ge-
ueral Somerset, and astonished the Kufirs by their ac-
curacy of aim and the distance from which they fired.

BRUTAL OUIPAGE AT PERSHORE.
We have this week to record one of the most
shocking cases of ruffianism which can disgrace a
civilised country, the perpetrators of which, however,
we are glad to state, are in a fair way to meet that
heavy punishment hich their crimes deserve.
On the evening of Saturday week a carter of M.
Francis IVootlward's, named William Cook, came into
t'ershore with his sweetheart, a girl named Harriet
Williams, from Bricklehampton. Having finished
their marketings, they took some steaks into the
" Quiet Woman "_public-house to be cooked, and sat
down to supper. They left between twelve and one
o'clock, and a party of boatmen, who had seen them
in the house, closely followed them out. They had
got about half a mile out of the town, to the bottom of
Wick-hill, when one of these fellows came up to
them, and after walking by their side about twenty
yards, knocked the man down. On the instant four
others rushed out of the hedge upon them, and three
,if them commenced beating the man about the head
in a most brutal manner, till ho was perfectly
senseless. The other two meanwhile assailed
the girl, and in spite of her screams and outcries,
one of them violated her, and the other was making an
attempt to reeepat the outrage when they fancied they
heard persons coming up the road, and made off. A
young man who had been walking with the couple,
but had run away as soon as ho saw Cook knocked
down, presently brought assistance, and the poor
girl, who was iu a dreadful state, was assisted home.
The man, when he recovered himself, found that 4s.
had been taken from his pocket, but a half-soverign
was left safe. The police were soon in search, and
Superintendent Harris got some information which
satisfied him who the men were. On the following
Tuesday morning he dispatched police-constable
Aston to Oldbury, to look after one of the ruffians at
his brother's house there, but he was not able to meet
with him ; however, on his return, he saw the party
he was looking after at Smethwick, and apprehended
two boatmen, Francis Compton and Jack Sheppard,
on the canal. On Friiiey last, Superintndent Harris
came to Worcester and apprehended two other boat-
men, named Reuben Brant and George Groves, as
they were loading a boat at Mr. Lucy's mill.
On Monday the men were brought upbeforeroJa.gYis..
Bedford and F. Woodward, &qrs., at the
trees' office in this town, when the investigation of
the case lasted more than four hours. Besides the
abovementioned four men, who are all of Pershore,
John Hunt, of Wyre Piddle, was included in the
charge.

The prisoners,fwroimth
custody,the exception of Hunt, who
forwas discharged
the next assizes at Worcester—John
Sheppard for a rape on were fully committed
the person of Mary A"
intent, &e. ; and ;p
Harris Williams
for aiding,
_assisting,
Compton and She Francis Compton for assault with
:epuabrden. Brant and George Groves
and abetting the prisoners
The prisoners Compton, Brant, and Groves, also
stood further committed for trial, charged with a
zross and unprovoked assault upon the witness Wil-
liam Cook. Superintendent Harris was then bound
over to prosecute at the next assizes, and the whole o
the witnesses were also bound over to appear against
the prisoners at the assizes.
On the prisoners being removed from the magic.
trates' office to the police-station, a rescue was at-
tempted by the father of the prisoner Groves. He wag
assisted by two other men, named Collins and Woods.
The police, however, led on in a most determined
wanner by SuperintendentHarris,seucroeeseedueed,innamloceikv-
jog up the four prisoners, and also in capturing two
of the men who had attempted th
Thomas Groves, a tall, powerfulman,
t both
Chronicle.
Collins, from
from made a
determined resistance, and a man
named
l clearve s boaff.m ---.' who
Wo r cwe ser
eer

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DEATH OF THE REV. Iv . GARDNER BRADLEY.--
Our obituary of this week records the death of the Rev
William Gardner Bradley, B.A , of Brasenose College, ox-
ford, and rector of St. Mary Cayon, after a short illness, in
the 32d year of his ego. This eminently faithful and zealous
minister minister of the Gospel has been cut off in the prime
ethoe and in the zenith of his usefulness. As a priest of
e_.ca.
_a
En-
glish Church he was sound in his views, and evinangelio,i_! _
his teaching. He lived among his flock
faith which he professed and the doctrines
He was characteristic of humility
manners. His heart and hand weresevtere
wants
trouble of the sorrowing, and relieve
tressed. His body rests in his P
memory will ever be reveredlasasn
and by all who had the
his many virtues and his unostentatious
is .
was the eldest on of the It
and Rector of Nether,
...SG Christopher Gazette. a.a ricslai hel tanigtutu.
to soothe the
of the die-
churchyard. His
elcherishedby his parishioners,
of spirrotwpsannd mildness of
ure of his acquaintance, for
Punostentatious benevolence. He
,• Bradley, M.A., Rural Dean
Whitacre, in the county of Warwick.

J.

BANK RET URNS.

(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
Victoila, cap. 32, of the Average Amouni, of Bank
Notes of the sevaral Banks of Issue in England and
Wales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur-
day, the 29th day of November, :851:- Averag
Amount e
PRIVATE BANKS. .
Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and C 6... 11,371
Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,585
Aylsham Bank, Aylaham-R. and G Copeman 3,698
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Bickford
and'Vint 19,019
Baldock Bank and Balclock and Biggleswada
Bank, ilaidaak-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 26,273
Barnitapie Bank, Barnstaple---Nfarshall and Co 9,935
Basingstoke and Odiha,-n Bank, Basingstoke-
Seymour, amb, and Co.
L
Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard ....... ....•. 29,860
Bedford and Bedfordshire Bans, Bedford-
Trapp, Halfhea'l, and Co. ... .....................
and
----
Bocalley Bank, Bawdley-Nichols, Baker,
...... 10,023
Crane
FAccatcr and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
13,345
Baal:. Bicester-Tubb and Co. .. •••• .•• --
Birming,ham Baal:, Birmingham- 2J,943
:15,
Spooner, and C 0... ............................. : .. 20,943
3irmingeam and WarwickF,hire Ban's, Birminp
ban -4. 1.. Moilliett, and Sons (.i .1..... 12.025
.Vl-ru!tord Bank, Blandford -Bastard ana a 6 711
3eaton Bank, Boston-iirarfit and Co
Boston 3ank, Boaton-Cace and Co ...... ....„,.., 16,187
Brida• v xter Bank, Bridgyv itcr-j. &J. Salley 4,824
Bristol Bank, Bristol-gile4, Harford, and Ca. 30,670
Brosetey and Bridamortb, and Briignorth and
Bros-eley Bank, Broseley-Messrs.Pritchard 16,803
Back(rh
inam Bank, Bucklugham - P
Bartlett,
Parrott, and Co _ ,
Bury add Suffolk. Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow-
Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 61.013
Blanbary-Gillett and Tawney. SS 663
Ban'aury Ba&c-,
Banbary Old. Bans, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 22,561
Bats- CitY Bank' Bath-Mager and Son ... 4,060
Badfordshire Le,.ghton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett and Grant ..................... 32,,600
Bir,ningham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and
Lloyds .
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H
A. and W. M. Harris and Co
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 58,641
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West,
and Borrer
Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington-
Harding Smith, and Co
Bury St. Harding,
Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-
J. Worlleclge and Co.
Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and
Sons
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam-
39,121
bridge-Messrs. Forsters
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and
Co • . . ..... 26,795
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and
Sons
3,030
Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Niessrs. La Costa .••
Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green,
15,655
and Co.
Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex
Colchester
Bank, and fladleigh Bank, Suffolk,
-Mills, Bawtree, an C 0..... ,
Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and C0,. ~.
Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and W00d-
c0ck.......................... ~. 6,540
City Bank, .Exeter-Milford and Co 17,44 i
Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co.
Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Tovvgood and Co 4,312
Chepstow old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon-
mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon
Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire )3ank,
Chepstow-Bromag,e, Snead, and Co. ..
Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans
Derby Bank, Darby-Smith and Co.
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak '
Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and C 0..•• 21,751
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes,

1,844

16,390
...

Locke, and Co
Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co
Doncaster Bank end Watford Bank, Doncaster—

Cooke and Co ..
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-
on-Tees Bank. Darlington—Backhouse, & Co
Devonport Bank, Devonport--Hodge and Nor-
.
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank,
Dorchester—Williams and Co. . .
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard —Robins, Foster,
and Co.
East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall,
and Co.
Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank,
Chelmsford—Sparrow. and C 0....
Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co
Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk-

9,830
10,272

58,807

78,390

9,473

42,382

96,430

55,520

38,097
22,321

19,794

beck. and Co.
Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far
ringdon—Barnei and Medley ...
Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight
Faversham Bank, Favcsrshana—Hilton and Co
Goclaltning Bank, Godalming—Niellersh and

4,795
12,546
5,155

..
Gaillford Rtink, Gail4ford•-:--Me3sr3. ITaydon..
GranthArr. Gr7,ltharn—lia.rdy awl C 0....
Ifalting3 Oh 1311 k, lilsting3—Sinith, Hiller,

4,106
6.523
25,213

26 99

and Co.
Herogrrd City and Couaty It?reford—
Hutt4,,w3 and Co. ......
fiertror-1 W:l.ra Bank, dertford—S,

12,553

29,336

ant C,
Hill
Hull Pang aTtl Baal:,
—3catth, Brothnri, ani Co.
Frantin.,:z.lon Town an 1 County B La':, 1 unti w;-
don--.Rnst an,l Vey.-iey
rTarwict'n BAnk, an.l Cr,
Horn 11.enuir,t,3a3. rnel
Wnltt,,a44tall
liitollen Bank, iiitchen pl es

15.43

33 610

4,355

and Co.
Ro3i, an I A.rotienlell Bank, and Ross
an,l rehenacl,l B-tak, ffereford—Ntagan

Hoikins, and Co
`pswich Bank, Ipswich- Bacon and Co.
pscvich and Needham. Market Bank, Suffolk,
liadleigh Bank, i‘lanningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridv Bank, Ipswich—
Alexa,lders an I Co.
Kentish Bank, Mailstone—Nlerecr, Randall,
and Mercer
Kinc,ton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J.
Davies and Co
lcui;:hton Bank Kni4hton—J. Davies and Cr,.
Enarelfborong,h Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Icna-esborou,,z,h—Berry and Co
Kendal Bank, Kendal Crewdson,

19,903

28,606

15,8.57
17,691

54,789

16,861

21,576
9,02 S

19,293

and Co.
Kettering Bank, Katterinc; —Gotch and Sons..
Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C
llarvoy and Son
Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co
Leeds T.Tnion Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown,
and CI.
Lei,..ester Bank, Leicester —Nets and Kirby
Lewes 015 Bank, Lewes—•AolitletlM and Co
f,i,3141-leld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green
Lincoln Bank. Lincoln—Srnith and Co
Larnpeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llanclo-
very —David Jones and Co.
Low:hborouv.,h Bank, Loughborough— \Eddie-
tons and Cradock
Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St
Barba
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis
—Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Jaryil and Co.
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst
and Co ...
Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co.
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
,Old Bank, ',Marlborough Old Bank, Nfarl-
"rough 011 Bank and Flungerford Bank,
and Rungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner
and Pinckney 1,723
Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank,
Marlborough—Ward, 'Merriman and
Hillier
Mc‘%r,i
joinneathrissh..i
....
... Bank, Dolgolly—J' ones and
iners' Bank, TrUro---wiliyani_, rd Co
Monmouthshire Agricultural HAUL Comniercial
Bank, Abergavenny—B
eYs and Co 25,787
Monmouth Old Brak, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Cheptow Bank, Cheepitow Old Bacnl
and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Son
—Brornage and Snead
k' Port
10,833
broil rn o th shi re Newport 011 Banff.....
W. Williams and Sons
............
Newark Bank, Newark—Golfreys and •Ilut-to. 25706
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock,
aid Co ...................................... 46.939
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. 2i,e,c,3
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham-
........ 17,378
mond, and Son .............
Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—liarveys and
, 46,750
Hat's. ms
Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur-
lleY3 and Birkbeek
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
ti_tll_gham—Hart, Fellows, and Co
"610"at'au Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and
Nacvoal.. ..
..
outh—Harris, Mudge, and
N(07) ...
... ..............Banc, ..Sarum Everratt, and
.
...
Oswastry Bank and l —Smith and Co 24,629
westy7
croxon
andk jestry Old Bank, W-
O A:C)rd Old Bank, Oxford° Robinson, Parsons,
and Co .......
old f3e,uk Tonbridge, ..............
;Walla Old Bank, Tonbridggeetni Tonbridge
SVE!i!3 arid Se retioa.k,: Bank,
ronbridge—
. and San.

3,306
6,774

5,161
51,007

36,203
26,213
28.860
11,011
73,989

20,307

6,836

14,500
3,626

6.515
12,077

57,316

8,337

2,667

22,862

10,655

******** ' ********
04Carr11-iiro Wit:l37llmA, Witaoy * ;:-- --
nilCo ._.. __ .. ....... _. ....... ......
Pease 's Old B4nir,lTall, the null 01,1 11a ... Can
Bevarley Bank, Sull—Pease and Co
.......... d 4
Mince Bank, Panzance:—Batten and C 0,.. . 17'725
a11k650
orough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter- '
NY'S4l' . '
--i-.----- ----e '0 gh—XfPs.rs. Yorke
"7- - r• - .17: . eshiro Dank, flaverfordwest—J. and
5981
`=, ... ,
' 4".. .alters ............. . .... 10,814
r-1 ' . kteiatilc.' ank, Reading—Stmonds and CO 23,294
F't - - Wiaii2l :auk, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
4, 27,162
Riehinilmd Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 4,908
,
\-. - ktr.-siale Bank, Rochdale—Cleinent, Royds,
~_ , . Matt CO ... . ...................................
NJ) yston Bank,
Royston—Fordh§ax vind Sou 10,354

r°,'.9

8,170

8,036

THE SUN,

Average Amonn
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 7,867
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,440
Rye bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co.
Ross Old Bank, fierefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaway
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbuu—Burton, Lloyd, and
11,420
Co. ............
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co . .
Sit_tufabuoaunrneeesannd SondMilton Bank, Sittingbourne.
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
10,367
ampton—Maddison and Pearce 30,860
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co.
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 11,668
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and CO 3'
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
29,405
Cayley, and Co. ..
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and 140
327
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
22,202
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co 8,971
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and 13arne . .... . . .........
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,955
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S

Percival ••••
Town and County of Poole Bank, and Ring-
wood and Poole Bank Ledgard and

24,469

2,947

5,895

7,336

8,023

9,253

50n5..............
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co. ..................
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges & Co. 8,187
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Greenway and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers
West Biding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co 5,049
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Ban-,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock ...
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co. 7,284
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 66,388
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and

7,714

3,85

12,765

19,404

7,908

Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster—
Everett and Co.
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,846
York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 39,197