The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEINIINO. FEBRUARY 27, 1856.

The materials which they li ad before them when
they so strictly investigat ed the objectionable
transactions are not now a vailable, or, at least,
cannot be produced without great delay. Their
inquiry was conducted on the spot, with a super-
abundance of creditable witnesses, capable of
giving full information on every point on which
it was required. They had every element neces-
sary to arrive at a fair conclusion ; and a further
investigation on any preliminary stages, and more
especially on inferior data, is practically impeach-
ing the accuracy of the con cl unions at which they con-
scientiously arrived ! Who will, under such circum-
stances, be willing to act as Royal Commissioners
when titled personages--or, as the sailors term it,
" Gentlemen with handles to their names "—are
concerned ? It must be manifest, from the course
now adopted, that unless they are prepared to
cook the evidence, and to make things pleasant to
the accused under any circumstances, however in-
auspicious, they had better avoid the invidious
task.

We have had already two stringent inves-
tigations. The Committee of the House of Com-
mons seriously inculpated the parties on whom
the inquiry has been nominally directed. It
was attempted to get rid of the effect of this
severe censure, and a Royal Commission was
appointed. But the additional chance thus
afforded did not turn up favourably for the ac•
cused. The high-minded and honourable men
selected not only corroborated and confirmed the
former Report, but materiallystrengthened its most
serious features. The first chance being un-
favourable, another stake of " double or quits,"
as a morning contemporary correctly terms it, was
proposed ; and should that again prove adverse
—should the veteran officers nominated refuse to
blemish their high reputations by casting their
own characters into the breach a fourth
trial, in the shape of a Court-martial, must take
place before the national justice can be adequately
vindicated.

The result cannot be satisfactory under any
circumstances. The manifest object is to
screen the accused. But when it is considered
that the inquiry will be conducted with
closed doors—that no' gzounds for the decision
can be produced to the anxious public—that any
judgment must totally fail, other parties will be
inculpated. The veteran Generals, if they lend
themselves to this plan, or suffer themselves to
fall blindfold into the snare so unfairly spread in
their way, will be the sufferers. But under
any circumstance the sinister influence that
pervades alike the Cabinet and the Horse
Guards, which is omnipotent at Dawning-street
and Whitehall will be at once brought into unto-
ward notice, and the cup of public indignation,
already full to the brim, may possibly overflow at
the unequivocal testimony of the deplorable effects
of " Germanism," in matters in which the honour
and welfare of the United Kingdom are so deeply
involved.

The Spanish proverb, " Prisons are never beau-
tiful," conveys a sentiment worthy of an English
origin, and certainly finds no exception in New-
gate. Rugged, grimy, and frowning, its pon-
derous architecture is but too suggestive of the
glorious days of GEORGE the TIIIRD, when the
gallows ran a hard race at decimation with gaol
fever, to excite nowadays much admiration. It
is a structure of the past, in keeping with it, but
quite out of harmony with the present, where
those who enter, generally ;peaking, are not called
upon to leave hope behind.
Stone walls, however, not unfrequently outlive
institutions as well as individuals, and a rugged
exterior is sometimes compensated for by the excel-
lence or internal arrangements. To this commenda-
tion even, as appears from the Report of the Com-
missioners appointed to inquire into its state,
Newgate has no claims. Rugged and depressing
A 3 is its exterior, within little is to be found
worthy of anything but unqualified censure.
Prisoners, .it is true, are better fed, and have
more comforts than they used to have, thanks
to the advancing humanity of the times ;
but this praise is hardly less applicable to dog-
kennels, while in the matter of discipline it will
at least admit of doubt whether kennel manage-
ment does not bear away the palm. It is no
exaggeration, but an admitted and certainly a de-
plorable fact, that the central prison of the me-
tropolis is to this day without a system—not that
no system applicable to a great city prison has been
discovered, but that Newgate as it stands will not
admit of one.
The following extract from the Report will
show the state of affairs within its walls :—" Its
present structural condition is such as to render
any satisfactory classification of the prisoners alto-
gether a hopeless task, and the carrying out of
any well-considered plan of discipline an utter im-
possibility. No satisfactory separation can, in
its present condition, be effected, because or the
insufficient number of cells, and no satisfactory
supervision is practicable with anything like the
present number of officers. 'We believe that as
much as could be done, in reference to those great
desiderata, is done ; but until -some very import-
ant alteration is made in the physical structure of
the interior of the budding, Newgate must con-
tinue to be a standing reproach to the city
of London. The want of proper supervision,
and its impossibility in the present state of
the gaol, is, must be, a source of constant
anxiety to filiCh Governor, if only ua account of
the safe custody of the prisoners. Groups of
half-a-dozen or more being locked up together for
many long hours,, without the presence of au
officer, they naturally discuss the chances of
escape. It is well known_. that last year three
prisoners got away by breaking out of the gaol,
and within this very month an attempt was
made during one night to escape by breaking
through the wall of one of the yards. The num

ber there confined together W 43 five, three of
whom were old offenders ; the other two are sup-
posed to have been unwilling, inactive observers.
They cleared away the brickwork by raking out
the joints of mortar with a long nail, but their
progress was checked by the solid massive masonry
of the exterior face of the wall, and the next day-
the imperfectly concealed operation was discovered
by the officer. It need hardly be stated that no ?mis-
chief of this sort could possibly have been attempted
at Holloway." In other worth, the supplementary
Newgate, which, though under the sannauthori tieB,
has for years presented a striking contrast—a
system being in operation there, and the keeper
looking after the prisoners, instead of, as at New-
gate, the prisoners looking after the keeper ! To
crown all, the Old Bailey—the Central Criminal
Court—is constructed on such a plan that, accord •
lug to Alderman SIDNEY, " during the last few
years several prosecutions have been abandoned,
and the summary jurisdiction of magistrates asked
for, rather than parties should be put to the in-

convenience and annoyance of mixing with the

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persons who loitered about the Central Criminal

Court. In fact there was no proper accommoda-

A pretty
Lion for either prosecutors or witnesses."

state of things truly. Justice i•, sad to be blind,

—so she is turned into a bagnio, and surrounded
by rogues and vagabonds at large !
To remedy these evils three plans have bon

constructed and laid before the Committee. Tho
first embraces alterations which would give 120
separate cells, at a cost of 10,0001., and in the
opinion of the Committee, if carried out, would
enable the Governor to establish a degree of
separation and supervision which would be almost,
if not altogether, unobjectionable. The second
boldly grapples with the evils complained of, and
proposes the entire demolition of the Courts and
of the gaol, and there-construction of the former, and
of such portion of the latter as will suffice for the
custody of prisoners while the trials are going on
—with this exception, doing away with Newgate
altogether. The cost of carrying out this plan is
estimated at 87,0001., against which is to be set
the sum of 9,0001., being the value of land set
free by the alteration. The third plan may be
described as subsidiary to the second, and pro-
vides such addition to the Holloway Prison as
will enable it to receive the prisoners now kept
in Newgate. Of these plans the first has met
with the approbation of the majority of
the Court of Aldermen, and this much may
be said in its favour, it may hereafter be
merged in the larger one. It will admit of rea-
sonable doubt, however, whether in this instance
the wisdom has not been with the minority, and
in their advocacy of the larger plan they have
not merely show* a better appreciation of
the absolute necessities of the case, but
also a more prudent regard for real economy.
The plan of the majority is on the face of it ex-
tremely defective, and if carried out will shortly
have to be merged in that which has been rejected.
The heart of a crowded metropolis is no place for
a prison.

The " Treaty Map," just published by WYLD,
furnishes a most clear and startling view of the
acquisitions obtained from neighbouring States by
the Colossus of the North, through a career of
encroachment unequalled since the days of the
wholesale pirates of the Seven Hills. By "Treaties"
Sweden was on four several occasions mulcted of
her extensive possessions on the coasts of the
Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia. By " treaties "
Persia gave up territory exceeding the area of the
whole of England ; China was deprived of tracts of
enormous extent ; Poland, like the victim in the
jaws of the merciless boa, was gradually absorbed in
the insatiable maw of Muscovite ambition ; and
the several items of plunder of which the Otto-
man Empire was in like manner, from time to
tims despoiled, are collectively equal to the entire
of the Spanish Peninsula. This system of gigan-
tic robbery has been in unremitting operation,
growing with its growth, and strengthening with
its strength, for upwards of a century, and the
experience of the last very few years 11 Is thoroughly
satisfied the world that Russia was filially bent on
making a grand and long-meditated coup on Con-
stantinople, and thereby becoming absolute mis-
tress of the Black Sea, and developing her preda-
tory propensities on the waters and coasts of the
Mediterranean.

There is now another Treaty on the Lapis, in
which Russia, is no longer in the ascendant,
whereon she cannot enforce her ukases with the
high hand, or compel her victims to submit to
any terms she may think proper to dictate,
however unpalatable or injurious. The tables
have indeed been completely turned, and
the people anxiously look forward to the use
that may be made of the golden opportunity.
The "Treaty Map" shows the very moderate extent
of our demands. The line running through Bess-
arabia, and taking back scarcely a third of the ter-
ritory plundered from Turkey in 1812, indicates the
full extent of the retribution demanded from Russia.
She is required to disgorge no other portion of
her enormous plunder, and that is net for the
benefit of the sefferer, but of Austria, who has
stood by, backing Russia until she saw a fitting
occasion for benefit ting herself at the expense of
both parties. Is this what the spirit of German-
ism has done for Europe, and for England, when
such things may be effected without danger and
almost without remonstrance ?

CABINET COUNCIL. —A. Cabinet Couhcil was held yes-
terday afternoon at the Foreign Office, Do xning-street.
The ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, E irl Granville, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Mr.
Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmura, the Chancellor
,t the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right
Hon. M. I'. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The
Council sat two hours.

The Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort have signified their intention to dine with h;s
ft)yal Highness the Duke of Cambridge on Friday
next, at the Royal Duke's residence, St. James's Palace.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians intends to leave
Brussels toe week after next, in order to visit her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. It is said
that his Majesty's sojourn will not exceed six days.
M. Lannartine is said to be revising for the press a
new volume of poems entitled " Des Illusions."
HER MtJESTY'S VISIT TO THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS, REGENT'S-PARK.--Yesterday naot ning, shortly
after ten o'clock, ber Majesty, accompanied by her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice,
attended by the C )untess of Des irt, Major•Gen,:ral
Bonverie, and Captain Du Plat, visited the Royal Zoo-
logical G'ar,ictie, Regent's-pa;it. The Qieen was re.
ceived by tin inauaLfiiig 'directory arid professors, and
=ducted over the gardens. The royal party remained
a very considerable time.

ThIR WEST MARIPOSA COMPANY. —At a meeting of
this company, held yesterday, it was resolved to accept
the p;•oposal of the disect.ms to return 4s. GI. per share
out of the remaining assets of the undertaking.
TIE RECTORSHIP OF ALIIIISCHAL COLLEGE.—We
learn that lelters have been rec-ived from the Duke, of
Newcasde and from the Lord Advocate declining to be
nominated for the rectorship of Marischad College._
Aberdeen Herald.
NEW JOINT-STOCK BANK. —Tile prospectus has been
issued of another j.)iiit-3t()&i bank, to be called the West
Metropo:itaii, with a capital ,rlf 300,0001., in 1001.
shares. Lord Torrington is the chairman, acd it is pro-
posed to undertake the business of army and navy agency
as a distinct d3partment.

TiE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—At the
half•yearly meeting of this company, held yesterday, a
dividend wag declared of 144. per share (or at the rate
of 10 per cent. per annum), together with the usual
winual bonus of 2i. 61. per share, both free of income-
tax.

HAYMARKET THEATRE. —Mr. Bucketone announces
the present week to be the last of his excellent Christ-
mats Pantomime of " The Butterfly's Ball and the Grass-
hopper's Feast," Saturday next being the 63d and last
time of its representation. A. new and original comedy
from the pen of B kyles Bernard, Esq., is in rehearsal,
and is to be produced next week ; while preparations
for novelty at Easter are in active progress. Her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert on their visit to this theatre on
Friday last, to witness "The Little Treasure," were
graciously pleased to express their satisfaction in the
warmest terms. Thai; still popular and well-acted
comedy is performed tonight for the eightieth time.
A CAUTION TO SHIPPERS.—At the Liverpool
Poiice-
court on Monday, Daeiel W. Rae, drysalt-'r, South
John-street, was summoned by Inspector Hassell, for
having sent to the ship Ala, lying in St. Ge rrge'e Dock,
20 casks, containing bottles of rnuriatic acid, without
having labelled the same, and given notice to the Dlck•
master, thereby rendering himself liable to a fine of 201.
Mr. Rae said he hal verbally communicated the fact to
Mr. Purnell, the Dackreaster. In consideration of this
the mijgated penalty of si. was inflicted.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE EIGHT-OARED RACE.--it
bas now been finally settled that this event shall take
place on Saturday, the 15th of March, and as it is high
water on that day at a very early hour, it will ho, in all
probability, rowed down from Mortlake to Putney.
NEW BISHOP OF CARLlSLE.—Whitehall, Feb. 25,
1856.—The Queen has been pleased to order a cong(l
d'aire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and
Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Carlisle to elect a
bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of
Dr. Hugh Percy, late bishop thereof; and her Majesty
ban also been pleased to recommend the Rev. Henry
Montagu Villiers, M.A., to be elected by the said dean
and chapter, Bishop of the said see of Carlisle.
ALDERSHOTT CAMP.—A bill, introduced by Lord Pal-
merston and Mr. Monsell, extinguishes certain rights of
way over certain roads and paths in the parishes of Al-
dershott, Yateley, and Farnham, which have heretofore
been common lands, situate near Aldersbott Camp. The
bill excepts the turnpike-road from Farnham to Bagshot,
and that from the village of Aldershott to the said turn-
pike-road, at a distance of 300 feet eQ3ith cf the third
agleam frOm Farnham to liiguizok •

LATEST NEWS.

LARGE ISSUE OF TREASURY BILLS.

BERLIN, FEB. 25.

An Imperial (Russian) uklse has ordered the
immediate issue of Treasury bills, in seven series,

amounting, in the aggregate, to 21,000,000

roubles.

A Cabinet courier has arrived with despatches
for Count Orloff at Paris. It is said that Russia

consents to what is demanded relative to the
islands of Aland and Kars.

The Post Ampt Gazette. contains the follow-
ing letter from Vienna, of the 23d :—"Ac-
counts from Batoum state that the British
Government has taken steps to exchange General
Williams and the other English officers wt :o
were made prisoners at Kars. An English
steamer has been at Batoum for the last three
weeks, awaiting letters from the general, to whom
the captain on his arrival had sent both letters
and baggage from England. But the last news
from Tiflis only ga to the 20th January, the com-
munications being cut off by the extreme rigour
of the winter. Accounts from Kamiesh state that
General Luders has recalled all the superior staff-
officers who were on leave at Odessa. There are
not more than 42,000 men at Nicolaieff, Perekop,
and Cherson. The fortifications at Nicolaieff and
along the river have been continued during the
winter with great activity. The military stations
in the Crimea have again received provisions for
three months."

THE WAR IN ASIA.
ERZEROUM, JAN. 29.
A French merchant has just arrived here from
Tiflis, by the way of Alexandropol and Kars. It
appears certain that the Russians are preparing to
invest our city in the spring. They are alro.(ly
e3cupied in disciplining the Armenian and Georgia'
levies. The regular army of the Caucasus consists
at present of about 80,000 men. Of these 10,000
are in Tiflis, 10,000 are stationed so as to serve as
a protection against Schamyl, 10,000 watch the
army of Omer Pacha, and the remaining 50,000
are close to our frontier, under the command of
General Mouravieff. In addition to these forces
they will have in the :Ewing 20,000 new troops,
more or less disciplined.
We hear at last that we are to have here an Eng•
lish army of 30,000 foot and 10,000 horse. It is
reported that this force will be under the command
of Sir Cohn Campbell. It is tolerably certain that
the Egyptian troops to be sent here will amount to
30,000 men.

‘Ve hear that for some days past strong Russian
detachments were seen in the neighbourhood of
Olte, sixteen hours' journey diJtant from here.
Their intenth.m is, perhaps, to get possession of the
stores of corn in the district.

the peace, as the measure best calculated for set-
tling, all the questions ,f real importance to those
Powers. The final result of this congress would
be the establishment of a new international balance
of power, in harmony with the changes which have
taken place during the last forty years."
The Augsburg Gazette states, from Vienna, that
the mortgage bank annexed to the national bank
is about to be re-organised by the Minister of
Finance. Hitherto the mortgage bank was only
accessible to great landholders ; the minister now
proposes to render it available to the smaller ones
also.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Feb. 19.—The finance committee pur-
sue their deliberation upon the measures of Sr.
Dontes ; but, judging from the tone assumed by
the organs of the Opposition, it seems unlikely that
there will be any substantial hostility shown to the
more important clauses of the Minister's report.
A meeting has been held by the Portuguese
bondholders in this city, who appear to think them-
selves entitled to be placed upon the same footing
as the foreign holders of government stock.
The other day the Duke of Saldanha and the
Count Thomas found themselves face to face in the
Chamber of Peers, which by the way was the first
meeting in the public arena since the .o►erthrow of
the Cabral administration. Thomas seized the op-
portunity to animadvert ut on certain expressions
the duke is said to have used at the time of the poli-
tical changes, in which he, the count, was accused
of serious speculations. Of course the house listened
with bated breath to the wordy warfare of two such
leading men iu their first parliamentary encounter,
and it was thought that the old Duke's reply was
quite worthy of his soldier-like reputation, for, in-
stead of withdrawing the imputation, he very po-
litely strengthened it by adding that he meant it
strictly in a personal sense, and not as applying to
the administration of the ex-Minister. This would
seem to establish guerre a l'outrance between the
two statesmen.

In Port—Her Majesty's ship Glatton (floating-
battery) and St. George, steam-transport Europa.
The Igniz de Castro (s.s) has arrived from Glas-
gow ; the Cintra (s.s.) has sailed for Liverpool.

A. letter from Cattaro of the sth, in the German,
Journal of Frankfort, says :—" The discontent in
Montenegro is increasing. The taxes are being
collected with great rigour. The Prince has,
moreover, sold the property of the convents, which
has produced a bad effect. The Prince has like-
wise excited anger by having offended a Montene-
grin chief and deprived him of an hereditary em-
ployment."

RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS FOR PEACE!

The following letter has been received in Paris
from Stockholm, dated Feb. 12 :
" Public opinion throughout Europe seems to have
undergone such a sudden and unacccuntable change that
you probably will be surprised to hear that there is one
remote corner of the globe where some doubts are still
entertained concerning the sincerity of Russia, some ap-
prehension still felt that peace on any conditions may
not be for the future advantage of the civilised world.
We see the press of France and Austria veer round from
doubt to the uttn,,st confidence, from animosity of the
bitterest character to feelings little short of admiration
and gratitude for the Emperor Alexander ; but we cold.
blood, d nurtherns are more difficult of persuasion.
" We see many questions mooted, none resolved ;
many great interests at stake, none really secured. Is
the acceptance of the Four Points the only result of this
.y_reat ^ar ? Are the arsenals of Kherson and Nicolaieff
to remain unmol, sted ? Is the Russian Government still
to oppress the Circassian tribes, and to command the
high road to India ?

'`These questions are daily put by our press, and I
would fain address them to you. I say nothing about
our own position, which I have so often czpl,ined to
you ; it is now clear that tte Scandinavian question has
b( e ca,t aside as a superfluous weight in the genet-Al
steeplechase after peace, but it may interest you to hear
something of the giant works now carrying on at CrJn-
stadt.

"You are pr ‘bably aware that by next spring the
Russian steam fl et will co :gist of 18 line•of-battle ships
and frio,tes, 14 corvettes, and 70 gun-boats, which for-
inidaLL: force may ride secure behind an impassable bar-
lier, and defy the united navies of iho world, thanks to
the forifications planned by Admiral Schanz, at which
30,000 men are now working under his direction. This
formidable work consists in a triple row of piles right
,acriss the Gulf of, Finland, about six rai'es from Cron-
stadt, and should the ice be strong this spring it may be
finished this year. This maritime bulwark, 12 miles
across, will have but few openings, which can be easily
closed or defended in time of need, and not a boat can
he imperilled let the attacking force be ever so etrong.
" Are these symptims of an exhausted nation, sin-
cerely anxious for a durable peace?"

FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF
NO/;FOLK.

The remains of this nobleman were consigned to the
family vault of the }Towards, in the private chapel at-
tached to the parish church of Arundel, yesterday morn-
inn... The funeral was of a simple character, the mourners
following the corpse on foot from the castle to the church;
but the presence of a large body of the tenantry, coup,ed
with the members of the corporation, and indeed the
whole population of the borough combine:l to give the
ceremonial an imposing effect. The body was removed
on Monday night into the crypt of the castle, where it
remained caul 11 o'clock yesterday morning, at which
hour the burial had been apooiated to take plabe. The
coffin, being very massive, was placed upon a plain
funeral car, drawn by two black horses richly capari•
soiled. The procession was headed by the members of
the late Dime's household walking two and two. After
them came the pursuivants and officers of the Herald's
College, viz. :

Rouge Croix, J. R. Planelie, Esq.
Blue Mantle, TI. i. Lane, Esq. Portcullis, G. W. Cullen, Esq

Six Heralds.
Somerset, W. Courthooc, Esq. Windsor, G. R. Harrison, Esq.
York, T. W. King, Esq. Richmond, C. H. Gibbon, tag
Lancaster, A. W. Woodr, Esq Chester, W. A. Blouat, Esq,

A Plume of Feathers.
Norroy, King of .5 rms, R. Laurie, Esq., hearing the Coronet and
Earl Marshal's Baton on a erims,m velvet cushion.
Ga, ter, Sir Charles Young.
Pall Bearers. The Coffin, Tall Bearers.
Earl of Carnarvon Containing the Body of Earl or Suffolk
Lord Petre The Deceased Earl of Effingham
Sir Edinun i Lyons Covered with a black velvet Lord Stafford
Mr. P. liovcard Pall, ornamented with Mr. H. Howard
o:Corley. Heraldic Escocheons, and of Greystoke.
borne upon a Car, drawn by two horses.
Chief Mow ne,,
The Duke of Norfolk, hang 1a..) infant scn, the
Earl of Aran lei and Surrey.
Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard, M.P.
Lord George Manners, M.P. Lord Foley.
The Marquis of Westminster.
M. Bickerton Lyons,
lion. Robert Curzon Hon. A. J. Ashl y
Er. John Abel Smith, M.P. Mr. %v. S'nane Stanley
Sir George Pechell, Bart., M.P. Colonel 115 ndhani
Mr. Prime Mr, R. W. Grey, M P.
Fir John Kir;,land Right Hon. James Parker
Captain Appleby, R.N. Mr. W. K. Gratwieke
Mr. Sanctuary Mr. T.
The Rev. Thomas Medland, 11. D., Vicar of Ste) r•.ing,
The Rev. M. A. Tierney. h;s Grace's Roman Catholic Chaplain.
Dr. Steadman of Arundel.
Dr. Kingsley, Private Physhlan.
Mr. M. Ellison. Mr. J. Musket. Mr. T. Bounce.
Mr. Dendy, secretary to the late Dul:e.
Mr. Charles Few, jun.. Family So'icitor.
The mourners were followed by the Duke's favourite
charger, caparisoned and led by two grooms, and then
came the tenantry, two and two, to the number of about
50, all wearing scarfs and hatbands.
Oa emerging from the courtyard of the castle the fune-
ral cortege was met by the Mayor and corporation of
Arundel in their robes of office, who fell in between the
members of the Duke's household and the officers of
Herald's College, and preceded the body through that
portion of the borough lying between the gates of the
ca-ale and the church, which was thronged by a multi-
tude of sp°ctators.

At the entrance of the church the body was received
hv the R?v. G. A. F. Hart, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the
Queen and vicar of Arundel, by whom the service for the
burial of the dead was impressively read—the body
meantime resting upon a bier in the centre aisle of the
church, with the pursuivants and heralds on either side,
and Garter at the feet of the corpse. At the proper
p rigid the coffin was removed into the Fitzalan Chapel
situated behind the altar of the church, and lowered into
the family vault. At the close of the religious service
Garter pronounced the style and titles of the deceased
Duke, and deposited in the grave the wands which bad
been broken by the controller and master of the Duke's
household ; after which the present Duke and his bro-
ther descended into the vault for a few moments. On
the return of the mourners to the caste the inhabitantt-
of the borough were admitted into the chapel without
restriction, and many hundreds of persons availed them-
selves of the opportunity of inspecting the vault, within
which are deposited the remains of very many of the
deceased Duke's predecessors. The ceremony pa=ised off
without au incident to :nar its solemn effect, and the
whole arrangements reflected much credit on the firm to
whom their direction had been intrusted—Messrs.
Morant and Boyd, of New Bond-street.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The supply of EnglishwJato;;;;TeTn to-day's market
was chiefly the refuse of Monday, and in very middling
condition. For all kinds we had a slow trade, yet, no
change took placa in the (potations.
We were rather scantily supplied with fresh foreign
wheat. Millers, however, purchased with extreme caution
on former terms.
The barley trade was steady at fall prices, but malt
sold heavily at the late decline.
Oats moved off slowly on former terms.
In beans, peas, and flour only a limited business was
transacted.

A/VW/ALS MIR WEEK.

Wheat. Barley.
'trigDen .. 410 3,610
Irish ....
Foreign 1 1 3,077 1 2,459

Malt. i Oats. J Flour,
3 020 410
—brls
8,032 10051;3

I

BOROUGR, HOF.
We have a Inoderato sale for fine hop; at full pricos.
Other kinds are very dull.

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s 4:1; .rnotton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ;
Yoal, 3810 d to is ; pork, 33 4(1 to is 101 per 81132 by the
carcase. Trade study.

THE LATE S iDLEII?, M.P.

The question as to the extent of the delinquencies of
the late Mr. John Sadleir continues a subject of absorb-
, ing interest in the city, since it is impossible to ascer-
tain at present in what quarters the heaviest losses
will fall. It is certain, however, that no ground exists
' for the supposition on which the inquest was ad-
journed yesterday—namely, that Mr. Sadleir may pos-
sibly be shown to have laboured tinder a delusion with
regard to the magnitude of the offerces he imputed to
himself in the letters written on the evening preceding
his death. At the same time there is reason to believe
that on some points there has been unnecessary Alarm.
The undertakings with which Mr. Sadleir was chiefly
connected were the Royal Swedish Railway, the East
Kent Railway, and the London and County Bank. He
was likewise grsatly interested in the Tipperary Joiset-
stock Bank, of which his brother, the member for Tip-
perary, was chairman, and he also acted as receiver or
agent for some Irish landowners. Urgent inquiries are
consequently being made as to the ep cial nature of his
transactions in relation to each of these bodies. As
regards the Royal Swedish Railway, of which he was
the chairman, it appears to have been ascertained with.
out doubt that he has issued an immense amount of the
shares and obligations of the company without authority,
although with genuine cignatures. Whether he has pu's
forth any which are forgeries seems not yet to have been
clearly established. The capital of the company is
416,0701., in 51. shares, on which it evils a guarantee
from the Swedish Governieent of 4 per cent. interest
and 1 per cent. sinking fund, and the share, are payable
to name or to bearer, at the option of the share-
holder. A considerable number were forfeited
for non-payment of calls, and some time back,
in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, the com-
pany obtained power to raise 100,0001. en de-
bentures or obligations. They required the signature
of two directors and the secretary and Mr. Sadleir, hav-
ing obtained passession of the unissued quantities for
the purpose of completing them with his signature,
seems to have got rid of them in the Stock Exchange,
or in any quarter where he could raise money, The no-
minal amount thus marls away with is reported to range
between 200,0001. and 300,0001., although probably the
advances he received upon them were not more than a
fourth or a third of that total. The case is nearly ana-
loeoue to the fraudulent issue made a year ago at New
York by Mr. Schuyler of a large number of shares of the
New York and Newhaven Railroad, of which he was
president, and which, owing to the company having con-
tested their liability, has ever since been before the law
courts of the State. The actual extent of overissue will,
it is expected, be speedily made public, the directors
having instituted an inqu'ry, which has been carried
tee by Messrs. Broom and Co., the accountants, and
the results of which will be communicated to a
general meeting of the shareholders, which has
just been summoned for Friday next, at. the London
Tavern. With regard to the East Kent Railway,
it is stated that, with the exception of some ar-
rears of calls, Mr. Sadleir is not directly indebted
to that undertaking. In his capacity of deputy-
chairman, however, he induced the board to depo-
sit 8,0001. of their unemployed capital with the
Tipperary Bank on deposit notes, which fell due at the
beginning of last week and were diehonoured. In the
case of the London and Ceutity Bank it is affirmed that
no loss whatever has been sustained, Mr. Sadleir was
chairman of that company, hitt obtained no advances
from it except upon sufficient securities. Many rep its
having been in circulation to a contrary effect, it is under-
stood
that, in order to remove all dout,t on the subject,
the three new directors, Messrs. Nicol, Hoghton, And
Laming, who were last week added to the board, have
required that the securities in question should be ex-
amined and reported on by some independent solicitor,
assisted by the solicitors of the hank, and that a resolu-
tion to that effect was passed this afternoon. The va-
lidity of the deeds held by the company from Mr. Sadleir
is stated to have been fully tested by registration. In
relation to the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank, it appears
that this establishment was promoted by Mr. Sadleir in
1838, its head office being at Clonmel, with eight branches
in the district. Although it paid dividends at the rate
of 6 per cent. it seems to have made no return of the
number of its partners, the amount of its shares, or its
paid-up capital, and, with the exception of one or
two familie.e the shareholders are said to be per
pone if limited means. The families in question are
alleged to be fully able t,, meet the claims that will
fall upon them, but it is probable that the ruin or
distress which will nevertheless he inflicted in this
quarter was among the chief causes of the pain a. d
self-reproach described in Mr. Sadleir's letters. The
most serious features of fraud remain still to be ad-
verted te—riatnely, those committed by means of
his opportunities as agent for the landed estates of
noblemen and other-, and also by direct forgeries of
title deeds. The trust property made away with is
supposed to be extremely large, and many deplor-
able circumstances are likely to arise in this part of
the history, the full• scope of which will probably
never come before the public. At present many of
the sufferers are themselves ignorant of the position
in which they stand, and most likely several months
roust elapse before all the actual facts can be un-
ravelled. As respects the forgeries of title deeds from
the Encumbered Estates Court, it is satisfaction co be
able t state that only two cases have thus far been dis-
covered, although very general inquiries have been made
by some leading solicitors in Dublin. In one of these,
so far from the forgery having been perfectly executer],
the attempt is described to hare been such as could not
for a moment deceive the eye of any Irish solicitor con-
versant with the practice of the Court, since it was de-
ficient in no I,ss than four requisites, one of them being a
certificate of the commissioners for payment of the pur-
chase money. The other was a conveyance of part of
the Por'arlington estate, which was probably in better
form. Beyond these cases it is questioned if any will
be found. Many of the deeds assigned by Mr. Sadleir
passed through the hands of Messrs. Hal iwes and
Hamilton, of Dub in, and the London clients cf that gee -
gentlemen have to-day been informed that in none of I
these instances does any irregularity exist.—Times' City
Article. -