The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

WOOL.

Last week's imports of Wool into London were 28
bales from Havre; 64 from Rouen; 105 from Bombay;
393 from Constantinople; 49 from Smyrna; 22 from
Rotterdam; 179 from Hamburgh; 121 from Mogadore;
and 26 from Antwerp. generallyT market is in a very
inactive state, yet holders ge are firm, and prices
rule steady. Tho stock of Colonial Wool is now only
about 7,000 bales.

TALLOW.
Since our last report the demand for Tallow on the
spot has ruled steady at full prices, P.Y.C. being quoted
to-day at 37s to 37s Gd per cwt. For forward del►very
very little is doing. Town Tallow, 36s 9d to 37s 3d
per cwt. net cash. Rough Fat, 2s Id per Sibs.

1847.

1848. I 1849.

stock this day ••.. • •I 23,493 Price of Y. C. ••
Ito Os Oct
Delivery last week •• 2,529
[
Ditto from June 1.. •• 51.581
Arrivals last week • 2,251
Ditto from Juno 1 ... 66,45.1
Price of Town ...... 533 05

11,358 36,176 48,795
46s 9,1 44s Od 38s 6d to
to 47s id to 43s Gd 398 Od
2,776 1,594 2,504
54,282 , 50,655 52,701
2,472 5,268 2,584
57,541 , 85,298 76,023

493 Gd 45s Od 1429 Od

18.50.

!APPOINTMENT TO Ower's COLLEGE, MAN-,
CIiESTER.—The three ,Principal professors of this new insti-
lution have now rece;ved their appointments. They are---
J. Scott, Esq.,priricipal and professor of logic and mental
philosophy ; J. G. Greenwood! Esq., professor of the lan-
gauges and literature of 'Greiod and-Rome and of history ;
Alex. Sanderson, Esq.,professor of Mathematics and natural
philosophy. The tWO former gentlemen are of the University
'College, London, :and' Mr. Sanderson is of Queen's College,
Cambridge.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
Lord Campbell u d a Special Jury were occupied
during the morning in trying the case of " Northcsufs
.v. Shepherd," which is an action brought by the
plaintiff, as secretary of the Pilot Steam Towing and
Ship Rescue Company (now defunct) against the de-
fendant, who was one of the directors, to recover certain
arrears of ialary. The case was only interesting to the
parties immediately concerned.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.

The December sessions, being the second of the pre-
sent mayoralty, were opened this morning in the Old
Court, before the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, the Common-Sergeant, Aldermen Gibbs and
Challis, Mr. Sheriff Carden, and Mr. Sheriff llorlgkinson,
attended by their respective deputies and other civic
authorities.

The first edition of the calendar contains the names
of 131 prisoners, of whom 20 are fur London, 78 for
Middlesex, 7 for Kent, and 26 for Surrey.
The grand jury having been sworn and empanelled,
The Learned RECORDER proceeded to de'iver his
charge to them as folic .vs:—lle said he vt as happy to
inform thcm that their duties were likely to be exceed
ingly light, since the offences embraced in the calendar
were neither numerically heavy nor of that atrocious na-
ture which had too often characterised some -of the
cases that had been the subject of pair:fill investigations
i❑ this court. He was rejoiced to observe upon looking
over the summary of the present calendar a total ab-
sence of a charge of either murder or manslaughter, or
in fact of any eliarg,e which related to the destruction of
human lib. Nor were there many of those serious
cases which came under the denomination of cutting and
wounding; indeed, he believed there was only one. To
some extent therefore they might congratulate them-
selves upon the circumstance of the calendar indicating
an improvement in the habits and conditions of the peo-
ple, and if it should fortunately happen that future ca-
lendars shall present a similar diminutio❑ in the extent
of crime prevailing in the metropolis, they might then
hope that education and religious instruction were pro-
ducing their natural effects, of softening and humanising
those violent passions which were generally found raging
amongst the lower orders of society. The majority of
the cases entered in the calendar were composed
of charges of simple larceny, but ho regretted again to
perceive that not a few of them were charges also of
stealing from masters. A large proportion of the thefts
which came before this Court were of that serious class,
a somewhat strange fact, because the parties imme-
diately aggrieved by such cases had a remedy in their
own hands, if they would only take care to have a
character with all parties whom they took into
their service. Most of those robberies were com-
mitted by servants who had been engaged
without any recommendations or characters,
and where wages were so extremely low that they could
not resist the temptations which came in their way; and
he hoped, after this information, employers would see
the expediency of paying their servants a fair remune-
ration, and of employing none who could not produce a
good character from their previous masters. One case
in the calendar called for a more particular notice than
the others, it was a charge against five or six persons of
breaking into a shop in the Strand, and stealing a large
quantity of jewellery and plate. Now, the proof of the
charge mainly depended upon the evidence of an accom-
plice, and it was right that he should tell them that, al-
though the law looked upon the evidence of an accom-
plice as equivalent to that of any other man, yet the
practice of this and other criminal courts, which was
confirmed by a long series of cases, required that
the evidence of the accomplice should be corroborated
i❑ some material particulars before the accused parties
could be legally convicted. It was not necessary that he
should be confirmed i❑ all the details of his evidence, but

if ho were corroborated in any material fact which con-
nected the prisoners with the robbery, the jury would be
justified in sendirg the case for trial. These were all
the remarks that he felt called upon to make now; and
again congratulating them upon the lightness of the
calendar, it only remained for him to dismiss them to
their duties.
The grand jury then retired, and shortly afterwards
several true bills were returned into court, when a petty
jury was empanelled and the trials proceeded with.

MARLBROI-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—CharIes Riley was placed
before Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing two table-
cloths and several articles of plate, the property of Mr.
Richard Kershaw, 69, Pall-mall. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner was formerly in the employ
of the prosecutor, whose service he left about a fortnight
ago. Oa Wednesday hat, on looking over his plate, the
complainant missed several silver table-spoons, tea-
spoons, dessert-spoons and forks, and four dinner-forks.
From the linen chest was missed two large damask table-
cloths. Inquiries were instituted amongst the other ser-
vants, who denied all knowledge of the missing property,
and the prosecutor having his suspicions that the prisoner
was the thief, gave information to the police.
Sergeant Mount, of the C division, said he apprehended
the prisoner on Saturday night, and on searching him at
the station found upon him the fuur duplicates produced,
relating to silver spoons and forks, which the prosecutor
had seen and identified as his property. There was
other property missing by the prosecutor, who applied
to have the prisoner remanded.
The prisoner, who admitted his guilt, and pleaded
pecuniary distress in extenuation thereof, was remanded
for a week.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIVES
(THIS DAY.)
Shortly after eleven o'clock this (Monday) morning
the neighbtturhood of Great Scotland-yard was thrown
into a painful state of excitement, in consequence of the
following deplorable accldent:—lt appears that for some
titre a new sewer has been constructing, which
opens in Middle Scotland-yard, and extends some
distance into the river Thames, near Northumberland
wharf. At the usual hour this morning the various
men went to their work, and continued at their
several departments without meeting with any
formidable impediment until the above-named
time, when all of a sudden the water from the river
washed away the mainstay at the end of the sewer, and
almost instantaneously the subterranean passage became
filled with water. One poor fellow was driven by the
force of the water to the mouth of the shaft leading into
the sewer. He was taken out almost exhausted and con-
veyed to the hospital, but no fatal injury is apprehended.
Three or four other persons, it is stated, on hearing the
mighty rush of water into the sewer, and who were
standing near a ladder, succeeded in making a retreat.
The whole of the men working further outland
have, however, we regret to say, been drowned.
In consequence of its being Monday, it is stated
that two or three of the hands had not gone to work,
the loss of life is, therefore, not so great as it other-
wise might have been. Two poor fellows, the clerk of
the works informed our reporter, were known to have
perished, beyond the, possibility of a doubt. The steam-
engine, and every available machine were at full work
in pumping the water out of the sewer, bnt it is feared
that tho same will not be cleared out until late this
night, and until such is done the exact number of persons
lost cannot be ascertained. The police have been placed
on duty at the spot to keep the crowd out of danger.

ENLARGEMENT OF THE " MORNING ADVERTISER."
—We are glad to perceive that our excellent contemporary
the Norniny Advertiser, is about to take that position
amongst the metropolitan journals, which its justly-deserved
popularity entitles it to assume. On and after the first day
of the next session of Parliament, it will appear as a double
sheet, the size of the Times. 'We understand that no ex-
pense will be spared by the spirited proprietors of the
Morning Advertiser to render it complete in its various de-
partments; that its foreign intelligence will be as ample, as
accurate, and as early as that of any other morning paper;
and that its general arrangements will enable it to via in all
respects with its daily contemporaries. The Morning Adver-
tiser has long been known as the strenuous and consistent
advocate of the people's rights, and as the earnest promoter
of popular progress, while its general policy has been dic-
tated, not by those petty motives which influence parties,
but by those exalted views which harmonise with the
well-being of the great body of the people, whose political
and social improvement it so ardently desires.— Sunday
Times.

ST. BARNABAS CHURCH, PIMLICO.--There was no
service performed in this church yesterday; and a notice,
signed by the churchwardens, and posted outside the door,
announced to the large number of persons who had assem-
bled at the hour when the doors are usually opened, that in
consequence of the difficulties of performing Divine service,
the church would remain closed until further notice.
MARRIAGE OF MRS. JERMY.,--At Dover, on
Tuesday, Mrs. Sophia Jane Jermy, widow of the late J.
Jermy jenny, who, with his father, was assassinated at
Stanfield Hall, by Rush, was married to Mr. Thomas Beevor,
eldest son of Sir T. 13. Beevor, Bart., of Haigham Hall,
Norfelk.
We are happy to hear that Mr. B. B. Williams, of
Buscot Park, Berks, who was thrown from his horse while
fox-hunting last week, and received a blow on the right
ankle from the bind hoof of his horse, and had his thumb
also injured, is in a fair way of recovery from the effects of
the accident.—Brighton Paper.
Last week an anchor, weighing 3 tons 3 cwt., and
a chain cable 100 fathoms long, and weighing 10 tons, were
landed from the Stonehouse, one of the South Devon Ship-
ping Company's vessels, at this dockyard. They were manu-
factured by Messrs. Brown, Lennox, and Co. They form
part of the stores of a 74-gun ship.—Deroxport Independent.
THE FLAX MOVEMENT.—AII association has, we
understand, been recently formed at Bromyard, for the pur-
pose of promoting the growth of flax in that district. Up-
wards of one hundred of the agricultural members of the
association have expressed their determination to prepare a
portion of their laud for flax for the next year.
LORD BRACKLEY.—A letter from this Noble Lord to
the Staffordshire Advertiser discloses the fact of his ap-
proaching convalescence. Although not able to resume his
Parliamentary duties at the commencement, he hopes to be
able to do so before the termination of the approaching
session.

DEATIt OF LADY SCARSDALE.—We have to record
the demise of the above venerable lady, who died on Thursday
at Burn hall, near Derby. She was second wife of the late
Lord Scarsdale, whom she married in 1800, and by whom she
had issue two sons and two daughters. The deceased lady
had reached the great age of 85 years.
TUE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.—The electric tele-
graph wires are brought down to the Brighton terminus, and
the electric telegraph will, it is expected, be in full operation
in about ten days from the present date.
TuE COURT.—The Lord Chamberlain has issued
invitations, by her Majesty's command, to a distinguished
circle, to partake of the regal hospitalities at Windsor Castle,
on Thursday next, when her Majesty will have the second
dramatic performance at the Castle before Christmas.
LORD CAMPBELL.—The Lord Chief Justice of
England on Saturday entertained at dinner a select party of
the bar, including Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Sergeant Murphy,
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Butt, Q.C.,
Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Peacock, Q C., Mr. Greaves, Q.C.,
Adolphus, Mr. Wines,
Macqueen, and Mr. Mellor.

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
We have received telegraphic dispatches from
Trieste in anticipation of the overland mail.
The Europa arrived at Trieste on the 13th inst.,
at 8 45 A.m., from Alexandria direct, after a passage
of 136 hours. She brought eighteen passengers, and
the following intelligence from Alexandria of the 7th
inst.

The Hindostan steamer arrived at Suez at mid
night on the 4th inst., with ninety passengers, and
advices from Canton of the 28th of October, Calcutta
November 8, and Bombay November 16.
The political intelligence from India presents no
feature of extraordinary interest.

From China we learn that to all appearances the
troops are gaining the upper hand over the insur-
gents.

TRADE REPORT.
Trade is rather brisk in China and at Calcutta;
dull at Bombay.
Exchanges on London at Hong-Kong, 4s. 103. ;
Calcutta, 2e. lid. to 2s. lid.; Bombay, 21. lid. to
2s. 1 15-16 d. ; Alexandria on London, 96f to 97 ;
ditto on Trieste, 165 to 170.

SECOND DISPATCH OF THE SAME DATE.

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The Hindostan steamer from Calcutta arrived at
Suez on the 3d instant, with 89 passengers, having
made the voyage in 25 days. The overland mail is
from Bombay of the 16th November, from Calcutta
of the 7th of November, from Singapore of the 6th
of November, and from Hong-Kong of the 29th of
October.

The political intelligence presents no feature of
more than usual interest. The greatest tranquillity,
prevails in India. The Governor-General was pre-
paring to proceed to Lahore and the Peshawur
frontier.

The Nepaulese Ambassador arrived at Bombay on
the 6th ult., from Suez.
The Nimrod Government iron steamer has been
wrecked.

The late rumour of the Affreedees having made a
descent upon the salt•mines on the Kohat frontier
remained without confirmation.

Piracies were of frequent occurrence in the waters
of the Indian Archipelago. Java is tranquil.
The Chinese on the western coast of Borneo have
discontinued their resistance against the Dutch.

At Hong• Kong the fever has declined among the
troops.

The gangs of Chinese robbers in the province of
Jiwangee are gradually dispersing.

TRADE REPORT.

Export market at Bombay and Calcutta brisk, and
looking up. Indigo commands high prices. Sugar
much in demand, with difference (Ausschlag) of two
andes. Saltpetre sought after for shipping. Rice
firm, the supply insufficient. The price of opium
going down. Large quantities of cotton had been
sold and shipped. At Bombay 4,850 bales and 460
candies were sold within the last few days.
The import trade was getting brisk now that the
Indian holidays are over. The favourable rates of
exchange permitted some modification in the prices,
and a still more favourable time was looked for on the
arrival of purchasers from Upper India. Large
sales were effected in the inferior sorts of madapollam.
435 bales of water and 100 bales of mule twist
were sold at Bombay. Nothing was doing in coloured
goods. •
Prices of metals were going down.
Freights from Bombay to London or Liverpool
2/. 10s. to 2/. 15s. A lower freightage expected.
Exchange, 2s. lid. for paper. A great deal of bu-
siness was done at this rate. On document bills,
25. 2d. to 25. 20.

THE LIMERICK ELECTION.
TRIUMPH OF MR. GOOLD.
(From the Dublin World of Saturday.)
We are delighted to be able to announce that the
Limerickelection has virtually terminated in the triumph
of the representative of rational Liberal principles, and
the defeat, not alone of the champion of stolid, stupid,
"learn-nothing-forget-nothing" Irish Toryism, but the
total discomfiture and ignominious rout of the gang of
lay and clerical impostors, who under the "felon flag"
of the Tenant League, have perambulated the county
during the last six weeks, and done their utmost by stir-
ring up the worst passions, by the utterance of the
foulest calumnies, by exciting class against class, to
accomplish their object, which was openly avowed not
to be merely the return of Mr. Ryan, but the comment(
ment of a reign of terror, bullying, and intimidation, in
every county and borough in Ireland.
Mr. Lucas announced, a few days ago, that upon the
issue of the election ho would stake the vbry existence of
the Tenant League. Well, clearly, unequivocally, and
with trumpet-tongue, has the county of Limerick ad-
dressed the delusion " Thou shalt die." The honest men
of Limerick have literally followed our advice—they
have "repudiated and cast from them" the landless and
peripatetic adventurers, who presumed to dragoon them
in the exercise of their political privilege. Lucas, how-
ever, and his fellows, will still endeavour to trade upon
what remains of popular credulity, which is " becoming
small by degrees, and beautifully less."
The following is from our own reporter:—
The contest is, in reality,Limerick, Friday evening.
at an end. Goold, your
favourite, rides the first horse. The Dicksonites are
sadly chagrined; but the rage of the supporters of Ryan,
the Tenant League nominee, knows no bounds. The
Roman Catholic clergy, almost to a man, at the eleventh
hour, consulted their true instincts, and refused to have
anything further to do with the itinerant bullies of the
Tenant League.

At five o'clock the High Sheriff entered the Court,
and directed his deputies to close the books; he also in-
timated to the Tenant League orators that he would
cause the Court to be cleared at six o'clock. This an-
nouncement gave rise to a disturbance, which for some
time assumed a threatening
aspect; the candles were, with
one solitary exception, extinguished. When order was
restored, the meeting was addsessed by Mr. Ryan, the
Rev. Mr. Bell, Mr. Joynt, Mr. Fuller, and Mr. Lucas, in
the usual strain, the heads of which may be summed up
in " Partizan Sheriff—bristling dragoons—gross
bribery—landlord tyranny —victorious defeat—right
ef petition—murdered families—colours nailed to the
mast—gauntlet thrown down—snivelling, sneaking
Whigs—covert enemies—open foes—traitor priests, i&c."
They also charged the High Sheriff with limiting them
to one hour's oratorical display;
but when it is remem-
bered that they had the exclusive occupation of the
hustings, that all their speeches were ex parte, and the
subjects of which those speeches were composed con-
sisted of unmitigated abuse of the High Sheriff himself,
the authorities, civil and military, and the rival candi-
dates, perhaps the impartial and unprejudiced mind will
admit that the privilege should have been courteously
the most unrestrained and virulent liberty of speech.
The following is the state of the poll:
Poll for the Day.
Gould ••• 74
acknowledged, and nut made the means of indulging in
Dickson ... 44
Ryan ... 21
Majority of Gould over Dickson

G roar.
226
199
• .• ..•
128
- - -

... 27
... 98

Ryan.

Six,—ln
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THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.
EDITORg
a 0
tFh e
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ilin
gE s SUN.
against
Papal
Ethe
assumption, few, if any, of the speakers have men-
tioned what appears to me the cause of the Pope's late
steps. There has been a division between blaming
late and present Governments for their tolerant acts
towards the Papacy and the Puseyites in their preach-
ing and teaching Romish doctrine, but the bishops
have been untouched. Now, Sir, I consider nearly
the whole blame of the Pope's conduct lies at their
doors. What have many of them been doing the last
few years (I speak not of Exeter, who has openly
upheld Popery) but in their charges speaking against
these growing errors, and then privately doing all they
could to foster them, and filling up their appointments
with men holding these opinions? Now, Sir, the Pope
was not ignorant of this double-dealing. It is what
he teaches his bishops to do when they are not strong
enough to declare themselves ; holding ecclesiastical
dominion, he was very likely to overrate the power of
these spiritual lords, and it will be a serious thing for
the Church of England if the public mind is diverted
by its zeal against the Papacy from that reform which
is so loudly called for, especially in its bishops. What
has the Bishop of this diocese (Gloucester) been doing
but filling up all his livings with men of this party,
while professing openly against them, and whilst he
was uttering his wish to get them out of his diocese,
and at the Bristol Tract Society speaking the same
language, he has, to my knowledge, been acting in a
manner quite inconceivable, except from a determina
lion of still doing the same.&c.
T. BE ALEBRdWNE.
Ilampen, Andoversford, Gloucestershire.

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TUE AMERICAN MAILS.—The British and North
American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Stone,
which would leave New York on Wednesday, the 4th inst.,
may be expected to arrive in the Mersey in the course of to-
day. It is expected the Niagara will bring the Message of
the President of the United States. The United States mail
steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, which would leave New
Yolk on the 7th inst., may be expected to arrive in the
Mersey on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning next.
The United States mail steam-ship Baltic,Captain Comstock,
sailed from Liverpool on Saturday evening, shortly altar six
o'clock, for New York, taking out a large mail, and a fair
complement of passengers (104).
Lord and Lady James Stuart, with Miss Stuart and
Mr. Herbert Stuart, arrived from Dumfries House, at Mount
Stuart, Rothesay, on the 28th ult. A few days afterwards
Lord James was waited on by a deputation from his consti-
tuents and friends in that quarter, inviting him to a public
dinner, which was arranged to come off at Rothesay yester•
day, and was expected to be very generally attended.
Greenock ildocetinr.