The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

WOOL MARKET.

The public sales of colonial wool have commenced
steadily, and, compared with the previous series, pi ices show
a further improvement of from id to ld per lb. The
annexed quotations have been realised :—Sydney—Clean
sheeps, is 71d to 2s 3d; scoured, 2s 2d to 2s 43/4d; hand-
washed, is 8d ; lambs', is lld ; locks, is 2d to is 3d. Port
Philip—Clean sheeps, is 101 d to 2s; scoured, Is 101 d to
2s Old ; lambs' 2s to 2s Id ; grease, is 21d ; pieces, is 61c1 to
Is 101 d. South Australia—Scoured, is 10d to 2s 41d

1856.

Total at the close of the navigation

Wind S.

Total .

AT PARIS.

1857.

1858.

1859.

13,010 35,797 27975 J96,c16
57s 3d to 5080 d to 51s Od to 58s 9d to
—s Od —s Od —s Od 59s Od
2,936 2,421 3,355 1,574
62,419 48,950 49,507 35,080
5,019 14,126 4,152 3,182
58,649 71,635 54,915 69,815
548 9d 513,3 d 54s 3d 62s 6d

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURG.
Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1859. 1858. 1857.
to Oct. 19, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks
poods to the cask) 80,026 92,880 89,512
In ships loading and lighters 6,501 15,210 12,560

Total loaded off from St. Petersburg,
Oct. 21, 0. S.
Do. after this date

112,012 103,761

London
Liverpool 313 4,540 2 245
Bristol - 3,105 4,0 .9 1,122
Other English ports
Ireland 1,227 590 1,132
Scotland - 303
Germany 4,282 8,558 13,319
France

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Nov. 14.—Weather this day at noon—Dense
fog.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind E.—Sailed—Lemuel
Dyer, for New Orleans ; H.M.S. Urgent, the westward ;
H.M.S. Meander, for Ascension.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Bittern,
for Havanna.

PENZAN OE, Nov. 13.—The Sultan, Swansea to Dieppe,
has put in very leaky, and must be surveyed.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind E.—Arrived—Homer, from
Lagos. Sailed—The Royal George, for the Cape of Good
Hope.
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DEAL, Nov. 14.—Wind N.N. W.—Sailed—Leonidas, for
Moreton Bay; Juliet Erskine, for Mauritius ; Adelaide, for
Demerara ; llenehtland, for New Orleans ; Albert Galla-
ter, for Charleston.

CLYDE, Nov. 13.—Arrived—Caselda, friim Trinidad ;
Harrlei, from Porto Rico ; Sailed—Matarban, for Bom-
bay.

GOTHENBURG, Nov. 12—The Arctic (5.8.), Hull to Riga,
has arrived in tow of the Niord (s.s.), with loss of screw,
having been ashore at Jutland.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEORAPIL)
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Arrived, Nov. 13—Mary Powell, from Coquimbo ; Appro-
priate, from Sulina ; Prince Albert, from Ibrail ; Astroa,
from Odessa; Stanbey, from Denia ; Salanite, from
Nantes ; Mary Houghton, from Faro ; Jemima and Dea,
from Hamburg; President, from Antwerp.
Arrived, Nov. 14—Ann Hall, froth Smyrna; Sisters,
from Nantes.

(BY SIIIIMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind S.E., light; tide, last hour's ebb; weather, light
and hazy.
Arrived, 13th—William France, from Chisine.
Arrived, 14th—Neptune, steamer, from Hamburg.
Sailed, 13th—Baron Osy, for Antwerp; Sleepner, for
Christiana.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Wind N.N.W. ; light.
Arrived and passed—Juliet Erskin, for the Mauritius ;
Secret, for Malta ; Albert, for Charlestown ; Deutschland,
for New Orleans ; Hilda, for Carnarvon • Leonidas, for
Moreton Bay; Adelaide, for Demerara; Andrea, for Car-
diff—all from London.

TDB SWIMMING-SCHOOL FOR W OMEN

As many parents are wishing to know how
girls can be taught the use of their limbs in the
water, it may be interesting to them to hear how
the art is taught at Paris. The water is that of
the Seine. This is the least agreeable circumstance
in the case, as the water of the Seine is quite as
unfragrant in the summer months as that of the
Thames. Whether it is purified on entering the
baths, I do not know. Let us hope it is. The
bath is moored in the river, and the space occupied
by water is 120 feet in length ; a course long enough
to afford room for all the exercises connected with
swimming. A wooden platform, three or four feet
under water, reaches to about the middle cif the
width of the bath; and this is for the use of child-
ren, and mere bathers who do not swim. The other
half is of a considerable depth in the middle, ad-
mitting of practice in genuine dicing. The dress
is excellent for the purpose. It is made of a light
woollen fabric, which does not absorb much water.
The-trousers are loose, and fastened at the ancles.
The upper dress, also loose, extends to the knee,
and is belted round the waist, and closed at the
neck. It is just as decent a dress as English ladies
used to wear when 'Bath was called " The Bath,"
and when wigged gentlemen and powdered ladies
used to wade about in full trim, and chat in the
water. The first step in the process of teaching is
to make the pupil understand how to keep on the
surface, and how to sink to the bottom. Most peo-
ple know that to spread out the limbs is to float,
and to double one's self up is to sink; but it is not
everybody who knows that the quickest way of
going to the bottom is to raise the arms above the
head. This is precisely what women do when they
fall out of a boat, or find themselves overboard in
a shipwreck. Up go their arms in their terror;
and down they go to the bottom like a shot. This
is the action used by divers, who want to reach
that point by the shortest way. From the
ceiling of the Paris bath hangs a rope, whici travels
along on a sort of crane. Where this rope touches
the water a broad belt is attached to it. The belt
is fastened easily about the pupil's waist, support-
ing her in the water, and leaving her at liberty to
learn the action of the limbs in swimming. She is
made perfect in these, and must then try her
powers without support. To render her safe and
preclude fear, the instructor {who is a master and
not a mistress), walks along the edge, just before
her, holdiag a pole within her reach, which she
can grasp in an instant, if fatigued er alarmed. It
does not follow that we must have swimming-mas-
ters in England. The art is taught all along the
rivers of Germany, and invariably by women in the
women's baths. in that ease the dress is less elabo-
rate, and there is more freedom and simplicity in
the practice. It is a remarkable sight when the
master is followed by 10 or 20 pupils, his pole re-
minding one of the magnet which brings swans or
fishes to the bread in a basin of water, in the old-
fashioned toy which astonishes children. The
second pupil has a hand on the shoulder of the first,
and swims with the other three limbs ; the third
on the shoulder of the second; and so on, lookiug
like a shoal of mermaids. When so thoroughly at
ease to amuse themselves for a long time -in the
water, the ladies sometimes grow hungry ; and then
is seen another remarkable sight, not quite so
pretty. They rush from the bath to a confectioner's
shop which opens upon it, and may be seen pre-
sently swimming with one hand, and with the other
eating their lunch, completely at ease. After learning
the art in fresh water, it is mighty easy to swim in
the sea, from the density of the water, and scarcely
possible to sink. A woman who knows how to float
is safe for many hours-in the sea, as far as keeping
on the surface is concerned. Among breakers or
sharks, or in extreme cold, the peril is not of drown-
ing simply. The simple peril of drowning might
be reduced to something very small if everybody
could swim.—Once a Week.

OPERATING ON BIG BEN.—On Saturday a num-
ber of scientific gentlemen ascended the Clock Tower at
the new Palace at Westminster, for the purpose of testing
the result of some experiments that had been made on Big
Ben • and at noon, to the great surprise of the numerous
attendants at the courts of law at Westminster-hall and the
public generally, that sound which it had been believed was
for ever silenced was once more heard, and Big Ben again
made his sonorous voice resound over the metropolis,
whether sufficiently melodious to preserve him from the
fate with which ho has been threatened is at present un-
certain.
EXTRAORDINARY CAUSE OF FlRE.—About a
quarter-past four on Wednesday morning, police-sergeant
Wild, while on duty in Temple-street, Stafford, observed
smoke to issue from a window of Mr. James Taylor's house.
Ho immediately aroused the inmates, and it was discovered
that a hot brick, which had been applied to the feet of a
young woman suffering under illness, had ignited her bed
clothes. The fire was fortunately at once extinguished.

THE LATE ROBBERY ON TILE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
—On Saturday, the 12th inst., John Manchester and Robert
Shelton were brought before the county bench of magi-
strates at the Shire-hall, Nottingham, charged with stealing
a variety of property belonging to tradesmen, which
had been sent from Lincoln to Derby, Birmingham, and
other towns. The propel ty stolen consisted of tea, sugar,
tobacco, guns and locks, brocade, &c., and was identified by
the various owners. The Midland Company had to in-
demnify the owners to the value of the articles stolen. The
prisoners did not deny the charge, and were fully committed
to take their trial.

PLUNDERING SHIPWRECKED SAILORS.—We are
sorry to say that plundering has been carried on to a con-
eideiable extent since the late storm. Crowds of people
flocked daily to Sully and Lavernock for this vain purpose.
At Sully, the Mary of Carmarthen, with a valuble cargo,
became a total wreck. Ironmongery and grocery of every
description was strewn on the beach, and had it not been for
the interference of the coast guard and police, not a single
article would have remained. Even or. Sunday, crowds of
people went to the place for the same purpose.—Carmar-
then Journal.

THAMES.

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LAW" INTELLIGENCE.-(27-118 DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lo: I Chancellor and Lords Justices.)
APPEAL-PEARCE V. LINDSAY.

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Mr. Scott resumed his argument, and is now being heard
for the appellants.
Their Lordships recommended a compromise in this case.
Sir Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Q.C., proposed a settlement
upon a waver of £2,000.
Mr. James, Q.C., declined.
The case is proceeding.

ROLLS COURT,
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
LANGLEY V. PONSFORD.

His Honour said that the two agreements produced must
be considered as one contract and construed together. The
same rule applies in equity as in law, that a written contract
cannot be disproved by parole evidence, and it appeared
that on the completion of the engine they were to grant
their acceptance on its going into the ship. The case was
tried before Mr. Justice Hill in June last, and it was so held,
and no motion for a new trial had been made. He could
not put a different construction upon it. His Honour ob-
served the agreements were not stamped.
Counsel said Mr. Justice Hill did not think it necessary.
His Honour said he would look over the shorthand writer's
notes of Mr. Justice Hill's summing up to the jury, and
mention the case again to-morrow morning. Costs would
follow the result of the suit.

Counsel said he would look into the Stamp Act, and sec
whether the agreements required to be stamped.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
V. DILLNUTT.-RAILWAY COMPANIES AND MERCHANTS.
80,0=8 82,880 89,M2 -IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.

His Honour gave judgment this morning in this case.
The action was brought to recover £l4 6s. Bd. for carriage,
demurrage, and rent of certain manure sent to a station on
the plaintiffs' line for third parties.

His Honour was of opinion that the plaintiffs were en-
titled to recover the two first items, carriage and demur-
rage to the 9th Juno. There was a letter sent by defendant
on the 2d June instructing the plaintiffs to warehouse. It
would be reasonably received on the 3d. A time must be
allowed to warehouse, and therefore his Honour should
allow demurrage of the truck till the 9th. As
to the warehousing, the plaintiff* could not recover.
It was admitted that the goods had not been properly
warehoused, and it was the duty of the plaintiffs to
notify to the defendant, upon receipt of his letter, that they
had not proper convenience. Warehousing meant proper
warehousing, and through plaintiffs' neglect the manure
had rotted in the bags, and plaintiffs could not recover.
There might be an action for damage against the company
as the goods were deterioratedjto a value of one-fourth of the
original, but such damage was no answer to a claim for
freight. Therefore plaintiffs would have a verdict for SS
19s. 2d., being carriage and demurrage.
Mr. Turner (Burcham and Co., Parliament. street) for
the plaintiff, asked for costs.
His Honour said the appropriate costs would be given,
and as it was A case involving a point of law, solicitor and
counsel would be allowed.

Mr. Charnock, of King William-street, said he thought
the damage could be set against tho carriage and de-
murrage, but his Honour had no doubt upon the law.
ALLEGED CRIM. CON.—A CASE FOR THE DIVORCE

COURT.-NUGENT V. FOWLER.
This was an action for rent of a furnished apartment oc-
cupied by Mr. Fowler, as alleged in the evidence.
Mrs. Nugent said that defendant was in the habit of
coming to see a woman every Saturday night and leaving
on Sunday. He took the room for her, and she passed as
Mrs. Fowler. The female told witness that her husband
(defendant) was obliged to be absent all the week. This
statement defendant on the first occasion denied, and the
female in question admitted that she was a married woman,
and had left her husband.

This morning a witness named Collins, living next door
to the plaintiff, said he had seen Mr. Fowler walking in
the garden on Sunday morning on two occasions.
Mrs. Nugent—l tried to subpoena defendant's wife, but
could not find out her Christian name.
His Honour—Was these more than one bed in the
room ?

Mrs. l'Zugent—No. He slept with the female, who has
run up a chandler's-shop score in his name.
His Honour—Defendant must pay it then.

Defendant—Nobody saw me in bed with the female.
His Honour—No, but you stay all night, and there is
only one bed, and the presumption is strong enough. It is
very disgraceful for a married man to be keeping women.
You must pay forthwith, and costs.
Defendant—l can't.

His Honour—We shall see. Ycu should spend your
money properly.

POLICE IN2'ELLIGENCE-(7711S DA I').

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT ON AN OLD WOMAN.—ltiehard
Gamble, a rough .looking fellow, was charged with the fol-
lowing assault on an old woman named Mary Bradley, living
in Princes-row, Newport-market.

The complainant said she was in bed the previous night a
little after ten, when her door was violently forced in by
the prisoner, who, as soon as he entered, knocked the chairs
about in a most violent manner, then dragged her out of
bed, and struck her on the chest such a violent blow that
she could scarcely get her breath, and also gave her a severe
kick on the knee. She ran down stairs, having on at the
time nothing but her chemise, and the prisoner ran down
stairs and fastened the door, so that she was kept out in the
cold in the state she was then in for fully 20 minutes, till
the constable forced him to open the door and let her in.
The prisoner denied a portion of the complainant's state-
ment, but Mr. Long said he did not believe him, and ordered
him to pay £3 for the assault or six weeks' imprisonment.

"ONE ON HIS TlBBY."—Richard Woods and Charles
Richard Kinman, the latter the son-in-law of the former,
were charged with the following outrage :
Mr. James Cole, carver and gilder, of Rupert-street, said
that at half-past one on Sunday morning he heard what he
might call a " thundering" noise at his street door, which
was forced in, and presently the prisoners rushed up stairs
and forced open his bedroom door, breaking two or three of
the panels and bursting off the lock. He armed himself
with the tongs, when he heard Kinman say, "This is the
room the sleeps in." He called loudly for the police,
and Kinman said, "We'll be ono on his tibby presently."
The other said, " We'll have his life." As soon as
they saw the tongs, thinking perhaps it was a sword, they
retreated or probably he should have been one on their
"tibby." (Loud laughter.) The damage amounted to
£2

The defence was that the accused had gone in search of
Woods' wife, who was in court, and said her husband never
contributed to her support.

The prisoners were ordered to pay the damage, or be
imprisoned for 14 days each.

THE RELIGIOUS DISSENSIONS IN ST. GEORGES-IN-
THE-EAST.—George Leathers, aged 16, and Thomas Duke
16, pawnbrokers' assistants, in the employ of Mr. William
Nathan, pawnbroker and jeweller, of No. ;9, Waterloo-
terrace, Commercial•road, Rateliff, and Three Colt-street,
Limehouse, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charred with
creating a disturbance, and committing a breach of the
peace at the church of St. George-in-the-East, yesterday.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor,appeared folthe defendants,
who were bailed yesterday at the station-house, and now
surrendered.

The court was densely crowded, and great excitement
prevailed, but, notwithstanding, the proceedings were con-
ducted with great decorum.

Timothy Carr, a police sergeant, No. 45 K, stated that
he was on duty at St. George's Church yesterday after-
noon at 1 o'clock. There were a great many people assem-
bled opposite the western entrance of the church, and Mr.
Thompson, the churchwarden, directed him and others to
make a clear space to enable the choristers and others to
pass along the churchyard. The two prisoners were on the
top of the steps near the porch, and when the Rev. Mr.
Lowden, the curate, and the choristers left the church, and
were proceeding towards the rectory-house, both lads com-
menced hissing, and called out, " Give it them," " Rotten
eggs," " Puseyites." Leathers spat at the Rev. Mr. Low-
der, but the spittle did not reach the rev. gentleman. He
asked the prisoners for an explanation of their conduct,
which they refused to give, and he was directed by Mr.
Howse, the superintendent, to take the prisoners into
custody. Leathers said ho was riot worse than
the rest. As the prisoners were on the way to
the station .house the mob commenoed hooting and yelling
loudly, and were very noisy. The hissing and yells were
continued all the way to the station-house.
In cross-examination by Mr. Young, the witness said
there were from 800 to 1,000 persons assembled in front of
the church, and as soon as the prisoners began hissing
others commenced.

Mr. Selfe—Do these boys live in the parish ?
Cox—No, they do not.

William Copping, a police constable, 319 K, gave similar
evidence. He saw the prisoners, and heard them hiss and
shout.

Mr. Young said the prisoners were two well-condueted
lads, and called several witnesses, who denied that either
of the prisoners spat at Mr. Lowder, or that Duke took any
part in the disturbance at all. Two of the witnesses ad-
mitted that Leathers was hissing.
Mr. Nathan said the two prisoners were in his employ,
and were always very well conducted. He could hardly
believe they had been guilty of the misconduct alleged
against them. The lads belonged to the Wesleyan body,
and the Wesleyans were very bitter against Popery.

Mr. Selfe said the less Mr. Nathan said about that the
better. If the boys did not attend. St. George's Church
for religious worship, they had no right there at all. The
assembly of yesterday was an unlawful one, and every body
taking part in it was liable to indictment. He believed the
police officers, and had no doubt the prisoners were hissing,
and that one of them spat at the clergyman, or he might,
in hissing, have Sent forth a little expectoration. He fined
Leathers 205., and Duke 10s. The penalties were instantly
paid,

2HE FOR27ICO2IIINO GOVERNIIIENT
PEFORM BILL.

The following circular has been addressed by the
Poor Law Board to the clerks to the guardians in
all the northern borouelis :
" Parliamentary Borough of . Sir,—l am directed
by the Poor LANs, Board to request that you will have the
goodness to procure for the use of her Majesty's Government
a return of the male persons resident within the above-nam ed
borough, or within seven miles thereof, who were assessed to
the last poor-rate in any parish within the borough, at the
gross estimated rental and rateable values of £5 and under
• £6, of £6 and under £7, of £7 and under £B, and £8 and
over. The object of the board is to ascertain with the
greatest possible accuracy, the number of male persons resi-
dent within the Parliamentary borough, or within seven
miles thereof, who are assessed to the poor-rate as occupier
•cf tenements within the borough, the gross estimated renta 1
and rateable value of which are severally at or above £5..
(A printed form, with instructions, is attached.) In addi-
tion to the above returns you are requested to obtain, for
information of the board, the following returns :—The num-
ber of tenements within the Parliamentary borough which,
under the Small Tenements Act or any local Act, aro rated
to the owners instead of the occupiers • and, when the
sasessment is under a local Act, the sum at which the owner
becomes rateable instead of the occupier. Secondfy the
total amount of parochial rates and assessed taxes which a
tenement of the gross estimated rental of £5, £6, £7 and £8
respectively, would be liable to pay in each parish within
the borough, taking the last year as an average.-11.
FLEMING, Secretary."
The instructions state :—lt is to be observed that
the number of men only is required. All women
entered in the rate-book are therefore to be excluded.
It is to be observed that it is only the number of
persons resident within the Parliamentary borough,
or rather within seven miles thereof, that is re-
quired. Any person, therefore, who may be as-
sessed in the rate-book in respect of a tenement
occupied by him within the borough, but who does
not reside within the above-mentioned limit,
ought to be excluded from this return. It is only
the number of persons assessed at or above £5 that
is required. All persons, therefore, who are as-
sessed in respect of tenements the gross es-
timated rental and rateable value of which are
below £5, ought to be wholly excluded from the
raturn. When several persons aro jointly assessed
in respect of a single tenement, they should be en-
tered as separate occupiers of tenements, calculated
at a proportionate part of the whole value of tho
single tenement. Thus, if A, B, and C, are rated
jointly for a tenement the gross estimated rental
of which is £2l, and the rateable value of which is
£lB, each of these ought to be entered as occupiers
of a tenement at a gross annual rental of £7 and
rateablevalue of £6. If either of them be a woman,
or resides more than seven miles from the Parlia-
mentary borough, such occupier ought to be
wholly excluded.

.RECTORSEIP OF EDINBURGH UNI-

TrERSITY.

The first election of a rector by the matriculated
students of this university was made on Saturday.
The polling took place in the class-rooms of the
College between eleven and one. The students
having tickets 1 to 100 voted in one class-room,
101 to 200 in a second, and so on up to the thir-
teenth hundred, but those enrolled in the Divinity
halls (66 in, numl)er) voted separately, thereby
making 14 polling places. Two of the professors
conducted the voting in each class-room, and the
students severally presented their matriculation
ticket and one class ticket, and gave their vote.
As the votes were delivered the students went out-
side, and gathered gradually in the Quadrangle,
and long before the hour of closing the poll a large
multitude was assembled to wait the announcement
of the result. The Quadrangle for nearly an hour
presented a very lively scene from the grouping,
crowding, jostling, and struggling that took place;
as the moving mass gathered round any person
whose superior cognisance of the proceedings going
on rendered him better able than the rest to anti-
cipate the result. Each party were engaged indus-
triously in spreading hopeful rumours, and some-
times the attempt was made, in sport, to put up
announcements more or less conjectural of the
result. The supporters of Lord Neaves were elated
with the tidings that the divinity students, with
one exception, had voted for their candidate ; hut,
on the other hand, the rumour of majorities, greater
or less, for Mr. Gladstone in most of the polling
places, mado the friends of the latter still more
sangnine, if not, indeed, certain, of triumph.
Amid the moving crowd there was an almost inces-
sant discharge offireworks, which from the daylight
were not very perciptable in their approach, and
were somewhat startling in their detonating
powers. The poll was closed at one o'clock, and
the registering professors then assembled in the
Senate-hall to compare and sum•up the 14 lists.
Meanwhile, the excitement outside was immense,
and was brought to a height, when the following
result was announced by placard .

For Mr. Gladstone
For Lord Neaves .
Majority for Mr. Gladstone —ll6

. 643
527

The result was hailed with immense enthusiasm
by Mr. Gladstone's supporters, and the defeated
party also gave free expression to their feelings.
Au attempt was made to hold a meeting in the
Chemistry Class-room, the largest in the Univer-
sity, but the doers were closed, and the chairman
of Mr. Gladstone's committee then from a somewhat
dangerous altitude on the wall addressed those of
his fellow-students who had gathered beneath ex-
pressing his delight at the result, and intimating
that a telegram had been immediately transmitted
to Mr. Gladstone notifying his election. It WEIS
nearly au hour before the excitement subsided
and theistudents dispersed.