The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1850.

Average Amount. i SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY.
Pease 3 Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company,
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 37,296
, Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0...
the London-bridge Tavern ; Mr. .1-Jules M'Gregor
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter-
borough—Mes-ws. Yorke ..
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson On the directors entering the room they were re-
and White 125 ceived with mingled cheers and hissing, the cheers
Pemorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and predominating.
W. Walters
Penzance Union
.Bank, Falmouth Bank, and shareholders :
, Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven " The directors have to report, that the receipts of the
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 26,609 ending on the 31st July, 1850, have beer 291,246/. 108.
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and 33.; and the working expenses, 103,973/. 16s. ld. The
Co 24,717 revenue account is charged in the present half year with
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co._ 5,370 the sum of 18,2941. 43. 10d., to be added to the fund
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and already laid aside for the renewal of engines, tenders,
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood, Ledgard carriages, and other stock of the company. The rates
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds rent of the Greenwich, Canterbury, and Whitstable, and
and Co 5,493 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railways, to 37,916/.
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches- 4s.—which sums, in addition to the interest on the mort-
ter—Day and Nicholson 8,127 gage debt and guaranteed stock of the company and a
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 9,771 provision of 864/. Is. 7d. for bad deb.s, make a total
Rugby Bank, Rughy—Butlin and Son 9,451 deduction from the gross earnings of 218,575/. 2s. 9.1.
Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co.
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy- and loss, after providing for last half-year's dividend, a
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and balance available tor dividend of 113,478/. 14s. 7d.
Co .. — " The total increase in traffic on the main line for the
Ross (,ld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard last half-year, as compared with the corresponding half
and Allaway
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron f is from passengers, and 3,622/. 15i. 6J. from goods, &c.
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and last half-year, compared with the preceding one, show a
Co
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall the half-year including the month of January getting
and Co -
~..

Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Vallance and Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Pearce 12,023
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co 13,299
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall . 3,100
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,565
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 11,023
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 10,577
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co. .„ 21,927
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
•• 16,778
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alßan's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs, Badcock 21,372
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co..

oar
annual tickets. The decrease of 4,486/. 69. 6d. in the
receipts from passengers on the Greenwich branch has
evidently been occasioned by the abstraction of traffic
from that line to the North Kent. The
,through-traffic
to and from London and Folkestone, Dover, Ramsgate,
and Margate, for the half-year ending on the 31st July,
1849, was 53,099/. 15s. 4d.; 31st July, 1850, 62,892/. 1 ls.
4d.; increase, 9,802/. 163.
" The communication between Folkestone and Bou-
logne by a tidal service, leaving one harbour and ar-
riving at the other, now takes place twice each way
in the twenty-four hours; the Boulogne and Amiens
Company contributing an allowance toe ards the ex-
pense of the nightly service. Between Dover and
Calais the communication takes place three times
each way in the twenty-four hours; namely, twice
at a fixed hour by the steam-packets of her Majesty's
Government and that of France, and once by the steam-
ships in connexion with this company, at tide time, al-
ways leaving one harbour and arriving in the other
without the use of boats; to this service the Northern of
France Railway Company contributes jointly with this
company. This latter service accommodated 6 777 pas-
sengers last half year, in comparison with 4,403 in the
corresponding half of 1849, showing an increase of
2,374 passengers. Between Dover and Ostend her Ma-
jesty's packets and those of the Belgian Government
perform a service from Dover to Ostend every evening

2,675

8,461

Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Dims-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,4
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallin gford—Allnatt &Co 7,063
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Greenvvay and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and C 0.... 40,982
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 10,767
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co 5,778
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurizey and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co.
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 63,024
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
anti Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and
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,
Birkbelk, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 8,772
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten
York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 38,378

(excepting Sunday), and from Ostend to Dover every even
ing (excepting Saturday). and a service is also performed by
the Belgian Government's steamers, in conjunction with
those of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-
packet Company, from Ramsgate to Ostend, every Mon-
day, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning,
and from Ostend to Ramsgate every Sunday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, and Saturday morning, from harbour to
harbour.
" The 61i hours now occupied in the journey to Mar-
seilles will be materially reduced as soon as railway
communication between Paris and Marseilles is com-
pleted, and this route will then, the directors confidently
believe, be adopted as tl o general oce for the Mediter-
ranean, the East, and for the Overland route to India.
" The division of the joint station at the London-
bridge terminus took place on the 2d of August, in ac-
cordance with the Act of Parliament regulating it. The
directors expect all the works, buildings, and platforms
connected with the terminus will be completed within
two months from the present time, and it is certain that
great advantage will then accrue in the management of
the traffic. The lease of the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Railway was sealed by both companies and ex-
changed on the 15th of March last; the rent payable by
this company, of 41,000/. per annum, being at the rate
of 5/. 2s. 6d. per cent. per annum on the capital of
800,0001., commencing from that date. The directors
anticipate a growing traffic on this line, and they trust
that, although some time may elapse before it prove re-
munerative, the proprietors of the South-Eastern Com-
pany will obtain that credit for promptly maintaining
that engagement to which their good faith entitles them.
The improvements that were required at the Brick-
layers' Arms Station for the goods department are
rapidly approaching completion, which is the case also
with the accommoation required to be provided on
the North Kent and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
lines for the like purpose.
" The directors think the proprietors may safely anti-
cipate a gradual and satisfactory increase of revenue
from the goods traffic. The traffic at Folkestone, in
merchandise from France, is increasing; the Customs
duties received at that port, which were 4,008/. in 1847,
8,2181. in 1848, and 42,260/. in 1849, amounted in the
last six months to 41,3161., which affords satisfactory
evidence of the preference which the port of Folkestone
will obtain when it can present equal facilities in all
other respects, as well as the advantage of speedy deli-
very. The South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet
Company are making arrangements for a daily steamer
for the carriage of merchandise between Boulogne and
Folkestone. Hitherto there has been one on only three
days of the week. Conveniences will be provided at the
London-bridge terminus for the examination of va'uable
goods as soon as possible. The establishment for the
repairs of carriages and waggons has been removed
to the new buildings at the station at Ashford. The
Bank of Westmore
JOINT-STOCK BANKS. locomotive repairing shops there are being completed
land, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 50,897 of Mr. Barlow, the engineer-in-chief of the company,
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- shows that the lino from Ashford to Hastings and
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- bridge Wells to St. Leonards may be opened in three
ford .... ....
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union completion of these works as the most important step
Banking Comparey, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking public sales of surplus property have already been satis-
Company, Chesterfield .. 9,090 factorily made, and the directors will proceed to dispose
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- of the remainder as circumstances permit. The amount
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Cora- permanent way, locomotive and other stock, now amounts
.pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company with the sum of 5,4011. 12s. ld. for renewals effected in
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,546 that the amount laid aside by the charge that has been
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel- made against revenue for renewals is In excess of the
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company this purpose;.but it is satisfactory to know, that if an
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 17,304 "In accordance with tho resolution passed at the last
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, half yearly general meeting of the proprietors, that all
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,665 vetted and consolidated into capital stock at 30/. for
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com- each share, and 10% fur each third share, on anti after
pany, Darlington l4 735 the Ist day of May, 1850, that consolidation has been
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 126,639 the company is thereby extinguished. That amount
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,388
by the issue of the original shares at a discount and the
Hull Banking Company, Hull 21,572
sale of forfeited shares; and the sum of 371,495/. 13s. 10d.
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha- in part of the interest paid to the proprietors of the Nos.
lifax
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Corn- sum of 371,4921. 13s 10d. so extinguished is to he de-
pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, llelston - 1,385 the company, as shown in the annexed accounts, which
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 14,440 expenditure is thereby reduced to 8,873.533/ 9s. 9d.
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, "The present meeting has been specially convened for
Knaresborough 19,771 the purpose of submitting to the proprietors resolutions
Kingabridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster ........
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 42,102 year. The amount of tho balance at the credit of profit
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking and loss, 113,478/. 14s. 7d., will allow of a dividend for
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,174 consolidated stock of the company, after providing the
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank- guranteed dividend at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum
in Company, Nottingham 28,877 on the preferential stock issued. It will be observed
g
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking that the dividend will be payable on the capital expended
Company, Nottingham
on the Ashford and Hastinge, and Tunbridge Wells and
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- 25,848 Hastings lines, which are not yet opened for traffic. The
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 1,270 injunction granted by the Court of Chancery to restrain
the company from paying a dividend until the Ashford
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
and Hastings line is open for public traffic will make it
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
necessary that the resolution declaring a dividend should
London
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham ..... 37,491 "At the
east kalf-yearly meeting
,of the company the
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton.. 60,379 following resolution was passed.- That a register of
Northamptonshire Banking Company, N0rth-
....... 17,600 the shareholders of the company, with the amount of
ampton
21,806 shares or stock they individually hold, be made up and
North an _South Wales Bank, Liverpool
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei-
published annually, and that every shareholder be en-
titled to have one upon payment of ls.' The time has
cester ..... 36,654
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 3,300 not yet arrived at which it would be necessary to act
Sheffield Banking, Company, Sheffield 35,669 upon this resolution, and the directors have, therefore,
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com- the opportunity of submitting, for the consideration of
Pant, Stamford. 46,957 the proprietors, the inexpediency of publishing the Stuc amount of stock held by each shareholder. The direc-
shireke Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
tors submit that this publication would prove detrimen-
y's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-port
267,973
40 210 tat to the general interests of the company ; and, in
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... order that the proprietors may dispose of the question
............... ... .. 7.
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Co-ne ' upon adequate notice, the directors will bring it before
the meeting.
21,328
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and Ifellumshire Banking Company, Since Since the commencement of the present half-year
the traffic has shown symptoms of further improvement,
which must be as gratifying to the proprietors as it is to
ShSeffiheeffldieladnd.R. Oil;:h-a.m.....J. ................ 13. ;;;;liing'
Company, Sh .niold ..... ........................... 50,823
35 625 the directors, and looking forward to the Great Exhibi-
tion of next year, and to the completion of this corn-
' Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
I pany's lines of railway, and of those from Paris to Mar-
Storeyßichmond ... ' .
, ' seilles, the directors trust that they may anticipate an
and Thomas's Banking Company
9,653 era fraught with greater success to the South-Eastern
Shaftesbury
Company than the past has been. No effoits shall be
Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... -
wanting on the part of the directors to secure the inte-
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com- rests of the company."
tun:flat BcEolin Tv
e, thenin g secretary, havingngs,
35,493
v e ri Ili sr e.
pany, Wolverhampton
Wakefield and Barueley Union Bank, 'Wakefield 12,832
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
leceoirefideta.et stated that the special meeting had
Whitehaven , . 21,742
for the purpose of confirming the reso-
Warwick and Leioniegton Banking Company,.. 1 been
Warwick
West of Englars awl South Wales District I the holders of Nos. 3 and 4 stock to participate in the
a
Bank. Bristol . ... ... 68,605 : dividends of the company, including those for the last
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 67,374 half-year, and also for the purpose of consolidating
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud- , Nos. 3 and 4 stock with the capital stock
dersfield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, the Consolidated South-Eastern Railway Stock.
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company, i lions were confirmed they would have a beneficial
Worcester , 3,730 effect upon the company, because all the proprietors
York Union Banking Company, York 60,045
York City and County Banking Company, York 75,883
would have an equal right to participate in the
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
dividends.
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. 1 After a brief discussion, resolutions to the above
Inland Revenue, Somerset house, Sept. 14, 100. 1 effect were agreed to, with only two dissentients, the
. result being received vvitil loud cheers.

6,760

7,915

8,130

9,07

5,683

22,066

5,773

7,358

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
Michael M'Donald, John St. Leger, and Martin St.
Leger, who were convicted before Mr. Justice Tal-
fourd, on Wednesday, upon two indictments fur as-
saults upon police-constables, were brought up for
judgment, and the first-named prisoner was sentenced
to be kept to bard labour for ten months, and the
others for one year.
Robert Archer, 21, and Francis Davis, 20, were
indicted for stealing 3571. 145., the property of Alfred
Greenland.
Mr. Parry prosecuted, Mr. Robinson and Mr. M.
Prendergast defended the prisoners.
The circumstances of this case have been given
very recently in the police reports. The prosecutor
was in the service of Messrs Sanders and Co., cheese-
mongers, Collingwood-street, Southwark, and on the
15th of August he was sent to the Southwark branch
of the London and Westminster Bank with a large
sum of money, consisting of notes, gold, and silver,
which he was to pay in on their account. As he was
going through a passage near St. Saviour's Dock he
was assailed by the prisoners and another man, and,
after using a good deal of violence towards him
they succeeded in getting the bag from him and
then ran off, Archer carrying the bag. An alarm was
raised, and the prisoners were taken into custody
after a chase for some distance, and the bag and its
contents were fortunately recovered. The third man
succeed in making his escape.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both
prisoners, and they were sentenced to be transported
for fifteen years.
NEW COURT.
(Bsfore the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
James Cole, 24, polisher, was indicted for ;stealing
two bank notes of the value of 201., a bank note for
Si, two cheques of the value of 611. ss. Bd., and 20
sovereigns and some silver, the moneys of Peter
Thwaites, from his person.
Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
Mr. ROXINSON, having stated the case, called
Mr. Peter Thwaites, a fruiterer in Covent-garden
market, living in Broad-court, Covent-garden, who
stated that on the 9th of August, between five and six
o'clock in the evening, he went into the Mercers'
Arms, Covent-garden, having the money named in
the indictment in his pocket in a bag. He called for
a glass of bitter ale, and whilst drinking it saw the
prisoner and some other men there, and also a woman.
One of the men got into conversation with him, and
he finally paid for some gin for the party. One of
them said he had lost a bottle of wine, upon which he
paid for one, but had no sooner partaken of some
of it than his senses left him, and he knew nothing
until he found himself at home and his money gone.
The witness, on cross-examination, said that he had
been walking about during the day, but had not taken
enough to make him at all drunk.
John Harlow, a lad belonging to the market, said
that, seeing the prosecutor, the prisoner, and other
men with him, and thinking he was in danger of being
roblaed,,he went round and informed Mr. Isaacs, the
younger, the prosecutor's partner. When he came
back he met the prisoner running down Long-acre
with two other men. When they got to the corner of
James-street they jumped into a cab, and upon young
Mr. Isaacs seizing it, prisoner and the men jumped
out at different sides and ran away.
Mr. Henry Isaacs deposed to being fetched by the
last witness, and said that as he passed along he saw
the prisoner and two other men running along; one
of the party said, "Is the money all right ?" and the
answer was, "yes." They then got into a cab,
which witness stopped, and the men then got out and
ran away. Witness followed the prisoner, and,
seeing a policeman, he beckoned him, and they both
followed and finally caught the prisoner, who had
run into a water-closet of a house close in the neigh
bourhood.

The police-constable said that when he found the
prisoner he was very much out of breath, as if
with running. He denied that he was the man they
wanted.

EXPERIMENTS at PORTSMOUTH.
Captain Chads, C.B , of her Majesty's ship Excel-
lent, at Portsmouth, recently made a series of experi-
ments which proved satisfactorily that shot could be
made to take a considerable diverging course than
going in a direct line to the object they were directed
against, and that the result could be depended upon
with great certainty, by adopting certain simple
means to effect the intended divergence. The expe-
riments were made with 32-pounder and 68-pounder
solid shot, the shot being prepared for the purpose by
having a hole bored on one side of about an inch and
a half in diameter, which is afterwards filled with a
plug made of wood. The extraction of the metal
from one side of the shot alters the centre of gravity,
and the direction of the shot, when fired according as
the wooden plugged side is placed upwards or down-
wards, or to the right or left when loading the gun.
The result of the experiments with 32-pounder shot,
plugged as described, showed that when fired with the
usual service charge of gunpwder, 101 h., with the
plug placed to the right of the gun, and the piece of
ordnance directed against a target in the usual way, the
shot when fired diverged to the extent of 50 yards to
the right of the target; and when the plug was placed
to the left side of the gun, the divergence when fired
was 50 yards to the left of the target. On placing
the plugging side of the shot downwards in the gun,
the shot w hen fired fell 400. yards short of the target,
and when the plugged side of the shot was placed up-
wards in the gun, the shot when fired ranged 400
yards beyond the target. Nearly the same result
was obtained in a number of experiments. The ex-
periments with the 68-pounder shot, bored and
plugged in a similar manner, gave more extraordinary
results, as the plug when placed downward in the
gun fell 600 yards short of the object aimed ; and
when the plug was placed upwards in the gun it went
600 yards beyond it. When the plug was placed to
the right it diverged betwixt GO and 70 yards before
it reached the distance of the target, and the same
distance to the left when the plug was placed to the
left. Several members of the select committee left
Woolwich yesterday morning for Shoeburyness, to
carry on experiments at that range with the shot
prepared in the same manner as the experiments were
made with at Portsmouth. Thirty-six of the 32-
pounder shot to be fired at Shoeburyness have holes
made on one side inch in diameter, and to such
depth as would withdraw one pound weight of the
metal of the shot. Thirty-six shot have been pre-
pared by boring holes two inches in diameter, and
extracting two pounds of metal from each, and a num-
ber of 68-pounders have been prepared by boring
holes 21 inches in diameter, and extracting four
pounds of metal.

A lad named Gilbert proved that on the same
evening as the robbery was committed he picked up
the two cheques in the street near where the prisoner
had passed along in his flight.
Mr. PARRY contended that the case was merely
one of identity, and not sufficiently clear against the
prisoner.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
We have stated that orders have been issued for
the re-commissioning of the Bellerophon, 78, Captain
Baynes, C. 8., on paying her off, on arrival at Devon-
port from the Mediterranean. She %ill be re-com-
missioned by Captain the Right Hon. Lord George
Paulet (1833), and manned with an advanced com-
plement of 300 officers and men.

Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott proceeded
to Spithead yesterday morning in the Portsmouth
yacht, with the gentlemen of the pay office, and paid
advance to the Fox, 42, frigate, Commodore Lambert,
and Dragon, steam-frigate, Captain Giffard. Tne
Apollo was paid " down." No orders are yet down
for the sailing of these vessels, but it is supposzd that
the Thetis for Lisbon, the Fox for the East Indies,
and the Dragon for the Mediterranean, will sail either
on Saturday or Sunday, as we have already stated.
Apollo, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, was
towed out of harbour to Spithead, and afterwards was
paid six months' wages. As she cast off her moor-
ings a man fell overboard, but fortunately caught
hold of a rope thrown to him and was hauled on
board.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was
sentenced to seven years' transportation.
The prisoner, who is a well-known character, was
tried at these sessions in July, and acquitted on a
charge of stealing a gold watch from the person of the
well-known pugilist, the Tipton Slasher.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Adventure, transport, Master-Commander Kil-
lington, having embarked stores for Plymouth yard,
was towed out by the Echo steamer, and proceeded;
it is said she will be paid off at that port after dis-
charging her stores.

MAI?LBOROUGH-STREET.
William Downes and James Brown were charged
with the following offence:—
Joseph Smith, of Leigh, in Lancashire, cotton-
factory operative, at present stopping at Sparrow's
coffee-house, Euston-square, said on Wednesday,
about half-past eleven o'clock, he saw the prisoner
Brown near Pimlico Palace, and asked him the way
to London-bridge. Brown said he was going that
way, and would show him. When near Westminster-
bridge complainant was about to take a boat to Lon-
don-bridge, wh€n the prisoner Brown said he would
stand a glass of ale for good fellowship's sake. Com-
plainant went into a house and had some ale. Da wnes
came in and drank with them. Downes and Brown
pretended to toss for a dinner, and afterwards they
invited complainant to a skittle-ground. Brown asked
him if he had any money. Complainant replied, he
had none to spare for skittles, but at last he pulled
out some money, and was induced to play at skittles
with Downes, and he lost the money. Brown then
said he would play Downcs, and win all the money
back if complainant would find more money. Com-
plainant took several 51. notes and a 101. note from
his pocket. Brown then offered to toss Downes-fur
101., and the challenge having been accepted, Brown
lost. Tne two prisoners then took him to another
house, and Downes and Brown pretended to toss for
201. Downes won, and Brown got 151. from him
(complainant), telling him that he owed Downes 51.
Downes and Brown afterwards left the house, and
complainant followed to look for them, but could
not find them, and he then told the police what had
occurred.
The complainant said, he had come up to London
to receive a legacy, and the money he was sharped
out of was what he had received. When he first met
with Brown he had 23/. ss. in his possession. He
had only drunk a glass of ale or so, but after drinking
the ale he felt quite bewildered.
Police-constable Mould, 123 C, apprehended
Downes at the George skittle-ground, Drury-lane.
Downes had three Si. notes and other money in his
possession. Brown was also taken into custody, in
the Broadway, with four sovereigns in his possession.
The prisoners were both well-known "skittle-
sharps." They were remanded till Thursday next.
LAMBETH.
Daniel Goo?, a smartly-dressed youth, the son of
the notorious D miel Good, who was executed a few
years since for the inhuman murder and burning the
body of Hannah Jones, at Roeharnpton, was brought
before Mr. Elliott, on a summons charging him with
misconduct as an apprentice.
Mr. James Wheeler, a ladies' shoemaker, deposed
that on the 28th of October, 1845, the defendant had
been bound to him as an apprentiee'by the officers of
the parish of Lambeth, to learn his trade. For some
time the youth went on exceedingly well indeed, until
he had acquired an excellent knowledge of his busi-
ness ; but latterly his conduct became intolerable.
It was his custom to leave his (Mr. Wheeler's)
house soon after he left off work, at 8 o'clock at night,
and proceed to a public-house, and remain there until
11 or 12 o'clock drinking and smoking, and when he
remonstrated with him on such conduct he became
very insolent. The complainant mentioned Monday
morning last as the particular occasion on which the
defendant bad misconducted himself, and said that on
that morning he visited the public-house.
The defendant said that on the morning last spoken
of he was suffering from a severe affection of the
chest, which was brought on by the number of hours
which he was kept working for his master, and had
gone to the public-house for something to relieve him.
He worked, he said, early 'and late for his master,
but finding that his health had become injured, and
that the hours which he worked were too much for
him, be agreed to allow his master 12s. a week out
of his earnings, and this he regularly kept up, but his
master was not satisfied with this, and wanted 14s. a
week, and his (defendant's) non-compliance with this
was the sole cause of the present complaint.
The complainant in reply to the questions of Mr.
Elliot, admitted that he had agreed to let the defend-
ant work his own time, on the understanding that he
was to allow him 12=. a week out of his earnings ;
but added that he was quite capable of earning at least
a guinea a week, if he chose to work.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that, according to the com-
plainant's own showing, he had agreed to the defend-
ant's working at any hours that suited him, provided
he paid him the 12s. a week, and asked how many
hours he wished the defendant to work ? The com-
plainant replied that from six in the morning. until
eight at night were the usual hours in the trade, and
those he should require.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that fourteen hours were
too many. Twelve hours were quite as many as an
apprentice should be asked to work, and, in fact, they
should not be more.

Black-Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master-Commander
Cook, arrived at Portsmouth, from Queenstown yes-
terday morning (the Admiralty having proceeded
from Holyhead to London by rail); she coaled and
proceeded on to Woolwich.
Caradoc, Holyhead steam-packet, is lying in Ports-
mouth Harbour, waiting Admiralty orders to be
paid off.
R;nibution, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, is
at the buoy off the King's stairs, Portsmouth. The
day for her going to Spithead is not yet fixed ; she
is having Captain Crispin's engine-room telegraph
fixed ; which we hear is also to be placed on board
every war steamer, and is a most useful, simple, and
necessary appendage, especially where the noise of
the engine working, the steam blowing off, &c., en-
tirely prevents the human voice from being heard.
We hope to see, also, before long, the method of
blowing off the steam through the bottom of the
vessel, as adopted in the Victoria and Albert, and
Fairy, carried out on board all Government steamers.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 19.—Chief Engineer—John
Vickers, to the Evtribution steam frigate, at Ports-
mouth.

Mate—George W. P. Edwards (1850), to the Re
:ribution.

Second Engineer—John Cowley, to the Dragon
steam-frigate at Portsmouth.
Midshipman—George Hughes, to the Albion, 90.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne,
after embarking the two companies of Royal Artillery
at Portsmouth to-morrow, will proceed to Cork and
embark detachments of the line at that port to fill up
the vacancies in the head-quarters of the regiments at
Jamaica and Barbadoes and other stations in the West

IRELAND.

The defendant said the whole grievance, as he had
before stated, was in his not allowing his master 14s ,
and not 12s. a week ; but he was willing to allow
even the former sum, provided his master in the first
instance permitted him to get an additional suit of
clothes.

It was, however, ultimately arranged that the 12s.
should be paid, and the defendant was advised to
keep away from the public-house and abstain from
late hours,

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.--MT. Monaghan
has been appointed Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, at the reduced salary of 4,0001. a year. Mr.
Hatchell is the new Attorney-General, and there is
little doubt that Mr. Sergeant O'Brien will ba Soli-
citor-General. The promotion of Mr. Hatchell will,
as a matter of course, compel him to resign his seat
for Windsor, for which he will be again a candidate.
PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION.—The tide of emigra-
tion still flows as vigorously as at any period during
the spring or summer, from Cork, Waterford, and
various other ports. Cork seems to he the great
port of departure from the south, and there is really
a species of mania for emigration. Daily sailing
vessels, freighted with emigrants, chiefly of the
better class of farmers, traders, and country shop-
keepers, are leaving for the Unite d States or Ca-
neda. One large vessel left Queenstown on Saturday
morning with 370 passengers, many of them fami-
lies who had been in the rank of small gentry or opu-
lent traders, and other vessels are taking in passen-
gers at Cork. Meantime the steamers of two rival
companies, plying between Cork and Liverpool, are
generally crowded with emigrants of an humble
class, who intend to take shipping at the latter port
for America, and on some occasions the applicants
are so very numerous that the masters of the
steamers are under the necessity, from motives of
prudence, to refuse many of them a pas-age across
the channel. When we consider that emigration has
been in progress on a gigantic scale since the dis-
astrous potato failure in 1846, it is difficult to account
for the vast numbers still flying from the country,
even at this advanced period of the season, and en-
countering the hardships of a winter passage across
the Atlantic.
THE IRISH CATTLE TRADE.—A letter from Ar-
magh mentions that on Friday last several droves of
cattle, from one of the great fairs of Connaught,
passed through that town on the way to Belfast, ft r
shipment to Liverpool, and that the cattle seemed
generally of a good breed and in tolerable condition.
The extensive clearances of the small occupiers
in some of the western counties, and the emi-
gration of many of the farmers, have left large
tracts without a human occupant, and the owners
have placed herds of cattle and sheep to graze on
the pastures. This change has led to a con-
siderable increase of cattle breeding, and hence the
new traffic in the shipping of cattle for England by
the route to Belfast, from the north-western cowl-
ties. In Galway, Roscommon, and other parts of
Connaught, tillage farming of a superior kind 11,a
latterly made decided progress; but more generally
mere grazing, which affords no employment what-
ever, has been adopted ; and a more pernicious sys-
tem, as regards the welfare of the country, could
scarcely be devised. Some few stock farmers in the
west, who possess capital and intelligence, raise green
crops for winter-feeding, thus giving fair employ-
ment whilst adopting the only mode of securing a
good profit on their business.
ATTEMPT TO BURN A Gunnar IN THE COUNTY OF
Wexeoan.—The Dublin Evening Post has the fol-
lowing from a correspondent in Gorey :—" On
Sunday night the church in Lord Curtown's demesne
was entered by some evil disposed person or persons,
and set on fire in several places. Happily the fires did
not take effect, as the church, though greatly dis-
figured, was nut seriously injured. It is the subject
of wonder to all the neighbourhood why such a ma-
licious act should have been committed, for his
Lordship is universally respected and beloved, and
devotes his whole life to the good of the people. It
must be considered that no disrespect could have
been intended towards him by this outrageous act."
REDUCTION OF RENTS.—The Earl of Meath las
given a reduction of 20 per cent. to hisfarms. tenantry, to
be applied to the improvement of their
CARRYING AWAY CROPS.—The Cork Constitution
contains the following:—" On Saturday night, twelve
o'clock, about forty men, with horses and carts, as-
sembled at Monebawn, on the estate of G. S. Barry,
Esq., between Watergrasshill and Midleton, for the
purpose of removing the crops, &c., belonging to a
tenant named Michael Mantle, which bad been seized
04 Chiage of keepers for non-pap:watt of rent._