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THE BIRMINGHAM DAILY POST, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1858. 4 Cunt ptrlttte, fe. old ones, large amounts of stocks were thrown upon tho market and sold at such prices as they would bring, to raise the moneys for which they were pledged. This caused a great and rapid depreciation in stocks and securities of all Kinds, ana incieaseu ime emuariassments aim panic. Fifthly, the more immediate cause of the panic, which tended to aggravate the evils more than tenfold, is the operation of the electro telegraph, by means of which bad news, such as the failure or embarrassment of a bank, of a merchant or manufacturer, was immediately communicated to all tho cities and large towns of the United States and information of all such misfortunes was immediately concentrated in all the cities, and worked up the minds of the labouring classes, as well as those of the business men, to a fever of excitement, causing fearful apprehensions among them in every city, that their banks also would fail, and inducing many, out of prudence, to withdraw their deposits, and to convert their bank notes into coin.

"And lastly, the fears and the evils resulting from them have been greatly aggravated in the States of New York and Michigan, by the unwise provision in their new constitutions, prohibiting the Legislature of each of those States from authorising a temporary suspension of specie payments by the banks." THE EIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. To the Editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Sir, If you will please to allow me a little space, I believe I can throw a fresh halo around this sacred cause, The people ask for a voice in the election of members to represent them in the British House of Commons in other words, they ask for Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot. Very well. What if I show that Universal Suffrage did at one time really exist in England, and that the British Con stitution was only a legally constituted one so long as it did exist, ana therelore illegal since, its.

acts illegal, ana its legislation a farce would not this be a feather in the people's c.ip I think. Sir, I see you nod an assent. And supposing that we discover that this state of things may be perceived by old England's far-seeing Premier, and is really the cause of his offering Reform, instead of the people asking to be reinstated in tneir rigncs would not this, Sir, be a wrinkle of the first water You again nod yes. Let us see, then, how this is. That great man, Judge Blaokstone, and I think also De Lome, says, that the excellency of our Constitution consists in it3 having tho Monarchial, the Aristocratic, and the Democratic combined that is to say, we lodge the executive power in one person, and the legislative authority in the joint hands of an independent Sovereign, an Aristocracy, selected for piety, birth, wisdom, valour, or property, and a House of Commons, "freely chosen by the people from among themselves." Now, be it observed, that these three ingredients are acknowledged to be necessary to constitute a legal British Constitution, and that there was a time when the House of Commons was freely chosen by the people from among themselves, and consequently at that time the Constitution was a legal one.

But, Sir, how long did this legal state of things exist This, perhaps, is sooner asked than answered, but suffice it now to say that it is clear it does not exist in the present day. The people, you see, were to elect their representatives from among themselves. The constitutional writers also say that one power must not encroach on the prerogatives of the others and that the constitution of our island is so admirably tempered and compounded that nothing can endanger or hurt it, but destroying the equilibrium of power between one branch of the Legislature and the rest. For if everit should happen that the independence of any one of the three should be lost, or that it should become subservient to the views of either of the other two, there would soon be an end of our Constitution and as to electors it is said that the true reason for requiring qualification at all, was that or excluding persons so mean a situation that thev are esteemed to have no will of their own and Blaokstone says If it were probable that every man would give his vote treely, and without mnuence or any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote in electing those delegates, to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty, and his life." If all this does not virtually constitute Universal Suffrage with obvious necessity for the Ballot to iierfect it, what does it constitute and if the British Constitution can only be legal by the means pointed out, is it not illegal at the present day, when no such means exsst Universal Suffrage must have existed when the Constitution was legal and perfect for if some wore excluded because they Had i.o will of llioit own, still tho franchise was universal. This is the way I carry out my proposition, and it will be found substantially true.

As to the supposition, who can deny it Is it out of the bounds of probability that England's acute Premier, after of ioinmt legalise and perfect it by the restitution of every Englishman's birthright to a vote in the choice of his own representative in the British House of Commons, and giving him the protection of the Ballot 2 On the other hand, is it not well within the range of probability, and likely to come to pass For, after his promise, Pahnerston is not the man to leave Reform in statu quo. I am, Sir, your humble servant, HENRY COOPER. 142, Cainden Street, Birmingham, January 29, 1858. To the Editor of the Daily Post. Sir, We find in the Journal of to-day an error which wo hope you will correct, in respect to the brooch manufactured by us for the Princess Royal.

So far is Mr. Moorley from being the designer of the above brooch, that we assure you he oould not even tell the pattern of it, and in respect to the device, he worked from our suggestion, and from a pattern with which we supplied him. Yours truly, MILLS and WILKES. 168, Hockley HiU, January 30. HOW TO PRESERVE THE EMPEROR.

To the Editor of the Daily Post. Sir, Knowing, as I do, (from sources that in the present state of things it would be dangerous to divulge,) that his Imperial Majesty Napoleon III. always has a copy of the Post laid upon his breakfast table, as a means of making acquaintance with the influential public opinion of Birmingham, and feeling as I do the deepest conceivable anxiety for the personal safety of the illustrious individual to whom the peace and security and liberty of Europe is so deeply indebted, I beg to use your columns as a means of bringing before his imperial notice a suggestion, by the adoption of which his imperial life may be preserved from attacks of Italian assassins. My suggestion is this instead of cutting off the heads of Orsini and Pieri, or sending them to Cayenne, let him use them as his body guard. On all occasions when he goes abroad let Orsini sit on one side and Pieri on the other of his imperial Majesty.

The other Italians will refuse to aim a blow which might fall upon their countrymen. This arrangement will be otherwise advantageous to his imperial Majesty, for by a little coaxing he may induce Orsini, who is not a proud man, to converse with him, and his imperial Majesty might thereby learn something to his advantage, for Orsini was once Governor of Ancona, during a time of political anarchy. Many assassinations had been committed in the neighbourhood, and Orsini succeeded in immediately stopping such proceedings. If Orsini could be persuaded to impart the secret of his method of doing that which the gens-d'armes, mouchards, and thousands of soldiers of his imperial Majesty have failed to do, his imperial Majesty will have reason to be eternally grateful, not only to Felice Orsini, but also to the valuable suggestion of Your humble servant, Isola Bella, Edgbaston. HERCULES BROWN.

STOURBRIDGE. Petty Sessions. On Friday, before W. Trow, (chairman,) Ameiy, C. B.

Swindell, and J. Hunt, Charles Bach was charged with embezzling two sums of money belonging to his master, Mr. Parkes, maltster, of New Street, the first Os. on the 22nd June last year, and 12s. on the 21st of January of the present year.

Bach was defended by Mr. Perry, solicitor. Mr. Underwood, the first witness called, stated he dealt with Mr. Parkes, and when Bach delivered any malt he generally paid him for it.

On the 22nd of June Bach brought him one bushel of malt, and he paid him 9j. a. fnr it and Ms. for the two bushels he had had previously. The former of these sums was one of those which Bach was charged with embezzling.

Mrs. Baggott, eating-house keeper, of Coventry Street, purchased malt from Mr. Parkes twice. On tha last occasion a bushel and half of malt, which was delivered by Bach on the 21st January, when she paid him 12s. Bd.

for it, Mr. Parkes, upon Demg examined, stated lie never autnorisea cacii to receive orders or money, and never had any business transactions with Mrs. Bageott. He had. however, received money which had been paia to rsacn ay iir.

naerwood, ana pernops some outers, un tne 20th of June last year he received 10s. from the prisoner, who said it was paid him by Mr. Underwood for two bushels of malt he had had in the month of April. He had no account with Mrs. Baggott, and knew nothing of it till Thursday.

Upon the pro- uuiuii ui uuuss iuiu ms cross-examination, ana also me questions Of tho Magistrates, it annears that his honks were fceut in a very unbusiness-like manner, and after a short address from Mr. Perry, the Magistrates dismissed the case, hoping Bach would profit by the escape he had had, for had it not been for Mr. Parkcs's bad way of keeping his books they would doubtless have had to send him for trial. Michael Shields was charred with stenlinir aaihn. of lead, lately attached to a house in the occupation of Mr.

Price. The case was not fully gone into, and was adjourned till Monday-Joseph Cutler was charged with attempting to defraud the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. Edwin Reynolds, station master at Hagley, and a boy named Page, proved the cliarce. and the Magistrates fined him 20s. and costs.

Thomas Hatton, a beer-house keeper, was charged with allowing fighting on Ids premises on the 25th instant. Police-constable Rowley was called in, and saw two men fighting Ann Bachelor stated Hattou's woman was backing one of the combatants, and telling him to "go in." Ann Morton, wife of one of the brawlers, saw the fight, and said cameling had been the origin of it. Hatton said he endea voured to prevent the fight, and called two witnesses, one of whom described it as no "scroggung light. This, it seems, is a house where disreputable characters of both sexes are harboured, so the Magistrates fined him 20s. and costs.

HANDSWORTH. A New Poor Rate. At the Public Ofiice, West Bromwich, on Saturday last, before Thomas Bagnall and William Sharp, Mr. Alfred Devey, rate collector for this parish, attended to procure the signatures of the Magistrates to a new poor rate. Thfe; was of course, done, and at lOd.

in the pound the amount wi'i 3tana' at 1,876. 0. WOLVERHAMPTON. MR. SAMUEL GRIFFITHS'S FRACAS WITH A BANK DIRECTOR.

At the opening of the Public Office, Wolverhampton, on Saturday, the Court Room almost immediately became densely crowded, in consequence of the public interest taken in seeing Mr. Samuel Griffiths before the Bench of Magistrates, and hearing the result of the charge preferred against him by Mr. Thomas Wilkinson Shaw, the Chairman of the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Bank. The Magistrates on the Bench were the Mayor, (M. Ironmonger, J.

Hartley, Joseph Walker, and Joseph Underbill, and the charge against the defendant was that of using certain abusive and insulting words or behaviour towards the complainant in the public thoroughfare, by calling hiin "a liar, and a cruel scoundrel," and further stating, "You have ruined Wiley, the manager of the bank, and murdered Wiley's children." The summons was taken out on Thursday last, under the 4Sth section of the Bye Laws. Mr. H. H. Fowler appeared on behalf of the complainant, and Mr.

H. Underbill for the defendant. In opening the case Mr. Fowler observed that he might have to apologise to the Bench, should he introduce any extraneous matter in laying the facts before them. Mr.

Shaw adopted those proceedings upon public grounds, having, in his public capacity, along with his coadjutors at the hank, a painful duty to discharge in reference to the defendant's trade affairs and tho only fear was, knowing that Mr. Shaw, and the other bonk directors, were determined to investigate those affairs, that the defendant in some of his violent humours might do them some serious bodily harm. It was therefore for the Justices of the Peace to protect his client from being so erosalv insulted whilst in the discharge of a public duty in connection witli the bank, and which of late had been of a very delicate and unpleasant nature. Mr. Underhill (interrupting,) said he thought Mr.

Fowler was making a speech foreign to the charge which they naa Been called upon to meet, bv introducinir so manv allusions to the hank. The Bench thought Mr. Fowler was justified in stating all the particulars tn reierence to tne case Deiore mem, ana mereiore allowed him to proceed. Mr. Fowler, after repeating the language which the defendant had been guilty of using, proceeded to remark that he thought the complainant had acted in a very gentlemanly and meritorious manner, by avoiding a breach of the peace, land especially when his feelings were so painfully and acutely worked upon by the remark that be had been instrumental in effecting the ruin of Mr.

Wiley, and the death of his beloved children. It was, to say the least ot it, an assertion as cruel os it was unjusi ana improper, and coming from a man, who, when they looked round the district, had commercially blighted the homes of so many individuals. Mr. Underbill acain contended that Mr. Fowler ought not to proceed by such declamation on tho general character of his client, nut contine nimseit to mo cnarge wmcn tuey naa prererred against him.

Mr. Shaw was then called upon to give evidence. He 6tated that on Thursday morning last he was walking along with Mr. Elwell, (another bank director,) up the Market Place, Wolverhampton, about eleven o'clock, when they werB overtaken by the defendant, and the first question he asked the complainant was Have you ever said that I have not paid my balance into the bank Neither the complainant nor Mr. Elwell made any reply.

Defendant repeated the question in a louder tone but noreply was made, when defendant said, You lied," and repeated, "You have lied, you cruel scoundrel it iB you who have ruined Mr. Wiley and jtLmcu jus uuuulcu juu uuuLeiupbiuiu iciiow a man of narrow mind little head and little heart." Defendant also shook his fist at complainant in a very threatening manner. The consequence was that a large crowd of people gathered together, and along with the defendant followed complainant down a part of Dudley Street and Queen Street, when Mr. Griffiths jumped into his gig and started off. All the words which passed from the lips of the complainant were said to be these, "I have nothing to do with you, so go about your business." Mr.

Elwell also was called to give evidence, and he corroborated that of the complainant, with the exception that he did not hear anything said respecting Mr. Wiley or his children. Mr. Underhill, in addresing the Bench, observed that a conviction was clear under the bye-law, and Mr. Grifliths was willing to submit to it.

He could not put Mr. Griffiths on his oath to give evidence, or else he would utterly deny having made any remarks respecting Mr. Wiley or the domestic affliction which had recently befallen him. Mr. Elwell, who was at the time as near to Mr.

Griffiths as the complainant was, and whose hearing was as good, had candidly informed the Bench that he heard no allusion made to Mr. Wiley or his children. If such allusion had been made, it certainly seemed very strange that Mr. Elwell should not have heard it. He ventured, therefore, to hope that Mr.

Shaw had mistaken the expression in the flurry of the moment. The Bench, after a brief consultation, had agreed to convict the defendant in the highest penalty under the bye-laws, 5, and costs, and assured him if he had to appear before them again, with similar evidence against him, he would be called upon to find sureties to a large amount to Keep tne peace. There was a little hissing in Court on hearing the result, which was soon suppressed. On Mr. Griffiths making his appearance outside the Court, a cheer was given him by a number of persons who had been waiting outside to hear tho result.

Concert at the Corn Exchange. A concert was given at the Exchange on Friday night, by Mrs. Alfred Mudge, of this town, under the patronage of the Mayor. The artistes who assisted on the occasion were Miss Alice Baker and Messrs. N.

HuntiDgton and T. Brainbridge Mr. E. F. Allen acting as conductor.

The large room was well filled, and the bill of fare prepared for the occasion afforded the most unqualified satisfaction. All the singers were in excellent voice, and were encored in many arias, duets, and trios. The fair benefieiaire excelled herself in Beethoven's aria, "Adelaide," and was rapturously applauded. ALVECHURCH. THE LATE FIBE, INQUEST ON THE BODY OF MR.

HAWKINS. On Friday afternoon, Ralph Docker, held an inquest at Mr. Joseph Findon's, the Crown Inn, on the body of Mr. William Hawkins, the unfortunate victim of the fire at Mr. Boulton's, The first witness examined was John Hemming, of Alvechurch, nailer, who said I knew the deceased, Willlath Hawkins.

He was Fire." I was at the Lion public house two men who were there and I went out. We went to Mr. Boulton's premises, opposite the Crown the newly-built portion of his premises was on fire. Directly after I got there the deceased, Hawkins, came he assisted in carrying water wo took the water up a flight of stairs leading from the tallow house into the candle shop. The contents of the candle shop were in a blaze.

I saw Hawkins throwing water into the candle shop for about a quarter of an hour. We then went tnrougn tne nouse, at tne request oi some ot Mr. iioulton servants, to the bacon room, up stairs we went through two rooms to the bacon room. On opening the door of the bacon room we found it filled with smoke and sulphur. Hawkins went into the room first, I followed him.

He proposed to begin to remove tho bacon, and began to reach it down. I took it from him into the next room. I returned for another lot in getting it on my back I knocked out the light, before I could get out of the room I fell with the bacon on my back, overpowered with the smoke. I was able to get out of the room, I left Hawkins in the room. I went into the street, I was oveipowered.

In about twenty minutes afterwards I sow Hawkins carried along the street. The next witness was George Warner, of Alvechurch, labourer, who said I was at the fire at Mr, Boulton's premises, on Tuesday morning. I went up to ossist in getting the bacon from the bacon room. Mr. Boulton and another man went up too.

The rooms leading to the bacon room were full of smoke. In the room next hut one to the bacon room, the middlo warehouse, just at the top of the stairs leading down to the lower warehouse, we found Hawkins lying on his back in an unconscious state. He did not stir or breathe. We carried him down stairs, and took him out of doors instantly. He was dead.

Mr. Gaunt, surgeon, was present. The smoke had some effect upon me it was very strong, I could not stop in it. Mr. John Smith Gaunt, Alvechurch, surgeon, deposed I was present at the fire at Mr.

Boulton's premises. I saw Hawkins brought out of the house he appeared lifeless. I used the means of restoration forupwards of an hour without avail. He was dead. The tongue was swollen, black, andloaded with carbon the vessels of the face generally were congested to a great extent.

There was a slight seared wound aoross the forehead, as though he had fallen against something heated hot. There was no other injury whatever upon the body. I have no doubt the deceased was suffocated Dy tne smoice. The Jury returned a verdict that Deceased died from suffocation, purely accidental." The Jury strongly recommended to the Coroner that the Birmingham Fire Office Company should be pressed to furnish Alvechurch with a sufficient engine, assuring him that if one hod been upon the spot in playing order when the fire was first discovered it might have been extinguished, in all probability in a short time' and great loss of property prevented. Deceased was interred on the evening of the inquest at Alvechurch.

A subscription was commenced on Saturday evening for the relief of the unfortunate widow, and 18. collected in about two hours, by Mr. Gaunt, surgeon, and Mr. Partridge, of the Grammar School. With the assistance of the Rev.

C. S. Bell in further extending the subscription through the parish and elsewhere, a handsome sum of money is anticipated. We append a few further incidents and narHmilam nf a Some fortunate delay prevented three tons of tallow being ware housed before the fire. It was at the wharf while the fire was burning.

A large lot of candles had also been sent out on the Saturday, so that the stock of these two articles was very low It will readily be imagined what an addition this would have caused to the fire, and to the difficulty of stopping it. The gas arising from the heated tallow was the' cause of the suffocation of poor and Mr. Partridge to enter the counting-house to secure the books papers, The gunpowder (quite within the quantity allowed by the pdUct) was bravely removed, at the hielient nnri nf by George Warner and Samuel Quiney, tho chandler, not, as stated by a contemporary, through a hole made in the roof, but by walk- up wwuiuu omiiu, 11, uuwn Dy tne windlass. This room did not take fire, but was momentarily expected to do so. It contained, with the room below, much valuable pronertv including more than 1,000.

worth of seed. The fireman Mr uweu, naa receiveu inouy wiuvwiKmurj messages and notes. Of lueao uo oner to raise a testimonial by public subscription. This he refused, and nobly referred the parties to the widow. WEDJN ESBURY.

Fatal Coal Pit Accident. On Thursday morning last, whilst a man named George Yates, thirty-one years of age, was at work in one of the pits in the Wednesbury field, belonging to Messrs Lloyd, Foster, and a portion of the roof fell in and killed him on the spot his face and forehead being awfully crushed What renders this sad casualty more affecting is the fact that the unfortunate man was called in church for the first time on the n. renins Sundav. An inciuest was held on tha bn i. Anns, on Saturday evening, before G.

H. Hinchlifie' Eso and a verdict in accordance with the circumstances returned. REDDITCH. Petty Sessions. On Saturday, before H.

Milward and i BarUeet Thomas Holmes needle filer, was charged with musing his wife. She attended to lodge the complaint and Thomas at the same time the first bVore the Bench, the 'latter behind the bar of the lock-up, The Bench, after hearing the cose gave Thomas some good advice, and "a month" to "chew 3 properly digest it," as my Lord Bacon hath it. When Thorn, taken to temporary durance in the lock-up hfS wlf iTf Shakspere's Launce, thought "I'll after, and nfiolm hk.e correction." So she followed up to th "ffe entreated the constable to lock him up safeS ten4erl5' said, had much to do with this pertinacity iLo U3Vi i3 filer, had been iUtoft, SSSSf WEST BROMTO-rrm Fowl Stealing. During the night of Sundav umrt- fowls were stolen from the premises of Mr. Wool hI T1 Greefs Green.

From circumstances, the po ice asSLW'' youth named James Price, a collier, and he wa oiSk8 thief in this matter at the Public Office, on Saturday las? hlS? Thomas Bagnall and William Sharp, ffrfflSS retained for the accused. From the evidence it was shown that the fowl stealer was seen in the act of carrying off the fowh mri the eyewitness made an alarm and roused Mr, Wood. A chase emvaed, and the expected prize being dropped on the ground tho fellow got off. When Prico was placed at the bar, Mr. Plunkett found that excepting the fijot that the mm seen rannintt off the fowls had on a dress jollier's balae) similar to tha? worn hv the defendant, no other means of identity could be proved ana Price was at.

once discharged, WIHV we PKVM' 808 WEST BROMWICH. -The following Serious Assault upon a travelling remarkable case will perhaps act as a nearGreefs Green to take care of their actions AIM Office, on Saturday, a bold, irapudenWoolung girl. "rJ Ann Taylor, charged a respectable Mai fromSle butty collier with assaulting her, and girl she had sent to fetch some of took place three weeks ago. Mr. Wilkes ffi, summons not only against the girl ylor, but also agamst ner sister and a fellow called Sam.

Layman, who in due Mary Ann. Mr. Plunkettwas retained for Mr. Wilto and in due cou4 called the attention of the Court to what had client a serious matter; Mr. Wilkes having had two of 'to nos fractured, and one of his front teeth knocked out A 'engtheneo hearing and much of contradictory testimony did not shake tne plain and clearly true statement of the butty coUier.

tte was passing about ten at night, three weeks ago 3 Green, when seeing quite a little girl wheeling cod he suspecting that it had not been honestly me by, questr oned the child, who asked him to give her a halfpenny. Whilst Hut was going on, up came Miss Taylor, and charging Mr. Wilkes with a design to take the coal, the virago began to pelt him with stones, and to assault him with such violence that he was compelled to resist her. While doing so, up came her sister and Layman, (since absconded,) when Mr. Wilkes was knocked down and had the injuries referred to inflicted.

The Bench thought the case of "PjJ by the girl Taylor against the butty collier not proved, and that was dismissed. As to the charges made by Mr. Wilkes they were indeed of a serious nature, and had been established to the satisfaction oi the Court. The judgment was that Mary Ann Taylor pay a fine ol 20s. and the costs, or a month in gaol.

The girl used some impudent words of bravado, expressive of perfect mdiflerence at tins decision, and was locked up WALSALL. Openino op the Norton and Cannock Branches ot the South Staffordshire Railway. The opening of these important feeders to our local line takes place to-day. Ihe Norton and Cannock branches will develope the resources of an extensive tract of mineral deposits which have hitherto been shut out oi tne market frem want of canal or railway communication. TIPTON.

Extraordinary Case. At the Public Office, West Bromwich, on Saturday last, before Thomas Bagnall and William Sharp, xvw, oiHoi-lv man. named George ioxail, described os of Wolverhampton, shoemaker, was chorged Dy tne officials of the Stour Valley Railway under the following singular or rtrtllft.l.w nf intnn circumstances mr. xnomas j.urner, Station, stated that on Wednesday last the ten minutes past four train, due from'London, arrived, and the defendant being asked the usual way for his ticket, tendered the one half of a Loodoii excursion tickei. Jint Mr.

xurner saw as uuee inm -m been issued at Christmas, and thus ot course coma not ue reraivcu, r. hatra hann ab such are not transferable, Insisting that the ticket should be received, although told of its being unavailable, and refusing to pay the fare, the defendant was brought before the Bench. The grown-up daughter of Foxall, an intelligent young woman, stepped forward, and addressing the Magistrates, said tnat tne iauit was nera. one mm ut' London (where her father then wos) some short time since, ond a fomfllftin oomo nrriitw in whifh flllft flVf 1SS FoXOll) WaS. ShOWed the company this half ticket, remarking that as she should not want it any one mlgnt nave it, ana so imss rtwim sivo it.

Believing the woman's statement she had persuaded her father (the defendant) to use it ou his down journey home. She assured the Magistrates she did not know she was doing wrong. Mr. Bag nall said that honesty was always the best policy. They must in wwar nt.

nirfilv nf Ttumshment. but for the sake of example. The defendant must pay a fine of 20s. (40s. was the full penalty,) and the costs, and tne amount oi railway fare in all 2.

6s. Id. SWRTITWTflR: A Gano or Youno Lead Stealers. At the Public Office, West Bromwich, on Saturday last, before Thomas Bagnall and William Sharp, a lad named John Wilkes was charged as above. Police-constable Mills stated that about four o'clock on the preceding Tuesday morning, hearing a noise in New Street, he found subsequently that it proceeded from a gang of four or five lads, who had stripped off from the front of two houses in this street a ouantitv of lead.

Seeing the officer, a shout of look "look up," was raised, and the young rogues, dropping their plunder, ran off in different wavs. but the prisoner was caught by Mills. The lead was the property of James Middleton, ironmaster, owner of the houses from which it was taken. Wilkes said he was drawn in by the others, but admitted that he had tried to get away with cuem iroin tne omcer. ae was sent to tue aeaaiviiit ivs mat.

LONDON, Saturday. The coming week is rife with interest and import to the sportsman. On Monday, not only are the forfeits to be declared for the all-exciting Chester Cup race, (the lists name Tuesday, but the conditions the aieet vaunaar must be observed,) but the new rules of betting, as arranged by General Peel, Admiral Rous, and Mr. Greville, will be laid before the Subscription Room Committee at Hyde Park Comer. Respecting the Cestrian Handicap, we are inclined to think that the scratching or isasni jjazouK, Cheerv Chan.

Coroner. Conductor. Chester. Darline, Evelyn, Lady Coningham, Maid of Derwent, Poodle, Sam opode, and Satmstone, already announced, will De lonowea up by a larger number of erasures than was at first anticipated for, although probably something like a score of the horses weiehtcd between 9st. 51b.

and 7st. may accept, we think it is the general impression that the handicap literally commences at the latter-mentioned impost, inescratcnmgs for the other leading Sorine; events have not been so nume rous as was generally expected. Supple ack, we hear, has been struck out at Northampton and Epsom, Peter Flat At iv iiithi im; AaaiiLuap, lacun mms Suburban, and Cheery Chap for the great Northamptonshire whilst for the Grand National Chase, at Ain- tree, addition to those animals we announced a few days since, Hundley. Nicholas, and Earthstonner. Mr.

Topham informs us that he has received orders to scratch Ben Lomond, the Fox, Kettleby, Little victim, tne minor, Tame JJeer. and Weston. The Liver pool, Newmarket, Northampton, York, and Epsom forfeits are to be declared on Tuesday, upon which day entries are to be made for various stakes at Beverley, Croxton Park, Derby, Doncaster, Tliirsk, Warwick, York, and Newton. Reverting to our allusion anent the new betting code'to be submitted at Tattersall's on Monday, wo mav ohservn that they will appear in the next Calendar, along with the fresh Rules of Horse Racing," and "Rules and Orders of the Jockey Club." The whole of these have been framed in a manner reflectingthe highest credit upon tho gallant Admiral and his zealous compeers every rule is now plain and stringent, and when the code has been approved of, we shall offer an analysis for the guidance and interest of our readers, It may, however, be as well to state here that the most important rule for tho metallic knights is that in which either of the bettors may demand stakes to be made twenty-four hours before the race is run, and on refusal declare the bet to be void and the person so refusing to make stakes shall be expelled the rooms at Tattersall's and Newmarket. Speculation npon the Chester Cup is by no means extensive Blink Bonny is in great force here at the Clubs, and the real business is almost entirely confined to her and Blackthorn.

They have been backed for something like a thousand pounds within the past few days. David Hughes's team are the most favourably spoken of in connection with the National. Nothing has yet been done on the Oundle bteeple Chases, which come off next Wednesday and Thursday. The Grand Open," with three other events will be run off on the first day, and six of the seventeen arninals weighted for it have declined; the Minor being the maximum-weighted acceptor and Althorp the minimum We shall be prepared to witness a large muster of gentlemen there, as they are fond of the Northamptonshire country and we are glad to see that the grand military officials have wisely determined upon holding their March gathering there they ought never to have deserted so brilliant a line as the Bnxworth one. The Warwick course was quite unsuited to such races as the originators of the Grans Military intended them to be and we hope that the clad of horses winch may hereafter enter the lists may be such niwar eXtrMn a 6odJ.hT burst from Billesden Coplow.

Though Mr Merry set a bad example by his light handicaps at the retreat of the renowned Guy, it is a rrr," oraciais in other parts of Warwickshire are now straining every nerve to remove the blot upon the county sporting escutcheon, by encouraging races for bom fide hunters and by such encouragement they afford the farmer a chance of breeding suitable an mals at a remunerative price. What use are the racbg breeds either to the hunting gentleman of 12st. andTprds, or to the maintenance of our world-renowned race of horses hak purposes? In the Birmipgham and Henley-in-Aider, programmes just published we perceive that the old-fashioned steeple chase, for bZl Ite' Bt lter have been revived" h. 3 01 Messrs. Sheldon and Blower frost.

".1 xA" 0 ore-P. ot the f-i it WB xne reak-i next for holding the "crack" meeting at Ashdown Park Berks, which pronusesto be one of the greatest cosiS unions ever celebrated in the south. We hear of aX number of dogs likely to put in an app Lance from III principal corn-sing districts in EnglanCTscotlan Tand of alarge muster of "overs of the leash" from all parts of the country The fcn'A Panted to the ortunate wi Jr of tS and the Crosby 01? PIONEER. The Unitep is this week to brmde mort amusel8nt horsed Monies XSl' Sm6 driy-train gramme 3 "7 The lamented oompapv wii? and thla evening the aus. novelties, FmDs.0In6 their promised down, WlBy tj-owpe, uu 1OTBet 10 SIly is included in the new The wpll.lrY, 1- oi Mr.

J. Woolley, oT Dudley StaK itf" Utahmwt Ambassadors when h'ere, (accZplJatoff to iffi Vhe displayed much Intelligent cuStr wh splayed much Intelligent curiositT irT iT rttaa, ana mmm rtTOBwSi Pressed isrcinf uuc. i cum. iiiiK no. innnir i nh nr.

ctawded. LATEST NEWS. By Electric and Lvterkational Coktaxy's Offices, Temple Building, New street. Tblbgkaph AMERICA. RUMOTJKED CIVIL AVAR AMONGST THE MORMONS.

Liverpool, Sunday. The roval mail steam ship Africa arrived at an early hour lhe royal mail dates toth(j 20th tins morning. one (four days later,) fifty-three passengers, and 1,264,308 dollars specie on freight. The news is unimportant. The Senate confirmed the appointments of Lamar as Minister to Nicaragua, and General Denver as Governor of Kansas.

The Extradition Criminals Treaty with the Netherlands had been ratified. A hill had been introduced in the Senate for the construction of a railway to the Pacific. Walker's steamer Fashion had arrived at New Orleans from Mobile, and had been seized by the Government authorities. The New York House of Assembly had not elected a Speaker, although nearly three weeks in Session. A public school building in Brooklyn had been destroyed by fire.

Seven hundred children were in it when the flames broke out, and seven had died of the injuries received. Details of the Mexican news, to January 3rd, had reached New York. The league against Comonfort had reached formidable dimensions, and a general civil war was regarded as inevitable. The Leirislature of Alabama had adopted a resolution authorising the Governor to call a State Convention in the event of Congress refusing to admit Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton constitution. A doubtful report was current of a division amongst the Mormons, amounting almost to a civil war, upon the question of marching against the United States Troops.

The New York Stock market had exhibited a moderate liprrrpp nf activity, withconstanttendency-to higherprices. A speculative feelins was springing up. The weekly state ment of the New York City Banks showed that the amount of specie held by thorn exceeded thirty million of dollars. Sterling Exchange was firm at 109 to 110 per cent. Cotton in fair demand, and c.

per lb. higher under the influence of the favourable advices from this side. Sales for the three days estimated at 4,000 bales. Flour steady and demand moderate. Wheat unchanged.

Coffee dull and rather lower. Iron very dull small sales of Scotch pig at 26 dollars, six months. Spirits: Turpentine advanced to 40c, demand good. Provisions tending upwards. Sugar dull and drooping.

Tallow in fair request at former rates. Tobacco unchanged. In freights rather more doing, but no change in rates. THE ROYAL DEPARTURE. London, Sunday.

The Prince and Princess Frederick of Prussia will leave Buckingham Palace at a quarter to twelve on Tuesday. Tho procession will pass through the city. LAUNCH OF THE LEVIATHAN. MilLWall, Sunday. As the tide rose to-day the Leviathan was gradually released from her position, without any pressure from the hydraulic rams, and at two p.m.

she was towed to her moorings offDeptford. All well. Comirerial anft gpttttarfl. From ok)' own Correspondent' London Stock Exchange, Saturday Evening. From week to week the balance sheet of the Bank of England has presented the same favourable features.

The rapidity with which the process of recovery has been accomplished is matter of surprise even to those most conversant with monetary affairs, and nobody would suppose, from the last return, that, on the 11th of November, the Bank was in so necessitous a condition, and its resources so nearly fflrimmfcrnl. that had it not been relieved by the issue of the Treasury letter it iuuu r.v next day. The increase the stock of bullion and coin during tho week ending Wednesday evening last was nearly a million 962,909. and tho total on that day, amounting to has been since increased to fifteen and a half millions. The increase in the reserve of notes and coin was 1,320,224., and the total was 10,209,019.

The securities, which, as explained last Saturday, consist of bills discounted by the Bank and not yet arrived at maturity, decreased 1,203,179. during the week, and the total has fallen to 21,047,480., being a decrease of upwards'of nine millions since November 25th. For some time to come the resources of the Bank will continue toaugment. Fresh advices from Australia to the middle of December, which reached town to-day, report the departure of four ships with freights of gold valued at 732,000., and others are on their way, some of which are nearly due, with gold valued at 700,000. more.

In the week ending last Wednesday the imports of gold were tho exports only 44,177. imports of silver, 127,046., exports 20,978. Tiie export of specie to China and the East Indies is scaroely to a quarter the extent it was three months since. At New York, the stock of gold held by the banks is greater than was ever known, and the Californian arrivals have been on a larger scale than usual. Continued importations may therefore he expected from that quarter.

The rate of exchange between England and Eussia compels the steady flow of gold from that quarter. All the Continental exchanges are in favour of a similar current towards this country. The plethora of the London money market is therefore not surprising when the present stagnant state of trade is taken into account. Liquidations have been going on during the last ten weeks, and the return of capital to its former commercial channels is only taking place on a very limited scale. The Bank of England cannot avoid again reducing its rate within the next fortnight, though probably it may not go below oh per cent.

and various considerations hinder it for the present from roaohing the minimum of the open market, in which, though this is no doubt an entirely exceptional case, bills have been discounted at 2s per cent. On the Stock Exchange, notwithstanding the super abundance of money, there is at least a temporary check to the advance of prices, and on an average Consols are now 1 per cent, lower that at the beginning of the week, In the Bailway Share Market, although some stocks have risen others have fallen. There is a disposition to await some official intimation respecting the loan for India. Thore is as yet an absence of any specious schemes. The new Brazilian railway is a solid enterprise with a guarantee of 7 per cent.

During the week the East India Company have granted a guarantee of 5 per cent, on 1,500,000. capital, for an extension of the projected railway in the Punjaub, and they at once allow 5 per cent, on paid up deposits. The directors of the Electric Telegraph propose, to declare a dividend at the rate of per cent, per annum Tho progressive improvement of the receipts shows that telegraphic means of communication are increasingly resorted to in this country. The returns for the half-year ending December 31st, have been as follows 1863 56,010 1854 02,016 1855 77,239 1856 87,260 1857 96,764 The directors of the London and South Western Bail-way intend to propose a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, making, with tho previous dividend, a rate of 0 per cent, for the year. At the half-yearly meeting of the Midland Bailway Company, on the ISth of February, a proposition is to be made for converting debentures and some other species of borrowed capital into irredeemable annuities, at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent.

The operations of the Stock Exchange to-day have not been of interest in any department. The following summary, taken from Hunt's New York Merchants' Magazine, presents the American view of the causes of the monetary panic and revulsion in the United States last autumn. These causes consist First, of excessive imports of the manufactures of Europe, the accumulation of large foreign debts, and the exportation of large amounts of specie to pay the balance of trade against lis, and the interest on our foreign debt. "Secondly, the immense amount invested in railroads during the last ten years much more than our country was able to afford a large proportion of which has been borrowed on bonds and stock at excessive rates of interest, fmm tha mechanic, the manufacturer, the mer chant, and other classes of business men, and invested iii roads, the most of which have produced very little income to tho stockholder. Thirdly, extensive speculations stocks, and the extravagance introduced and fostered by reason of fancied wealth, arising from railroads and speculations in stocks.

"Fourthly, the large amount of loans made upon the pledge of stocks and bonds as security, payable on demand of which, when the embarrassments commenced, an th borrowers could not obtain new loans to pay the Corn Market, Saturday. At to-day's Mwlrmers gave a large supply, and prices fell fully 2s. market the farmer ga ve piDe maiting Dariey not per quarter, foreign ouu, cheaper. No decline on feign' Indian cofntd grffig barley umdi the same. Oats again reduced 6 per quarter January STOUBBBIDSE CORN aLlBKET, Barley, Wheai WIHZ was pr't ty teS TsoSe good sales being new beans, per bag fold beans, 16,.

to 17s. per The market old beans, 16s. OU new, 15s. (M. London Pkoduce Market, Saturday.

Sugar dtdl, Saturday "The market is Anril and c'une, 51s. October and December, 51s. to 51s. 3d. aZt averws Town tallow, 55s.

fat by ditto, lld. VenZ VZm, 55s. melted stuff, 89. rough ditto, 226. tallow graves, 17s.

good dregs, 7s. London Hay Market, Saturday. Mr. E. J.

Dayis trrtP heavy Prime meadow hay, 65s. to 70s. superior f'ftoSOs MertooUttorro. to60. rowen, 50s.

to 60s. clote'r, los. ikTVecgnd 70s, to 90s. straw, Sfe to 30. LONDON METAL MAEKET.

Friday. j. i- cinnAir onoarniipp. and nrices of many metalf 1 at ly day to day is man tjQiiv assisted hvthe reduced value and tKualaniount of credit is again becoming general, although necessary caution is in a great measure exercised. CorPEE -On January 20th the smelters announced a rise of 0 10s.

per toil on caketile, and ingots, and Id per lb on manu-factured sheet and sheathing also Id. per lb. on yellow metaL aSidI to th? standard, which had risen at the two previous jiSngs in all about 10. some alteration in manufactured descrltions opptared Operative, so the smelters mth the least possiWe delay; agreed to alter fixed rates, which took some merchants a lit le bylurprise, as the demand, although tolerably good was not To great as to lead the trade to expect any immediate change in current prices however, the advance seems rather to have created increased enquiries, and hastened dealers to put to hand considerable orders, fearing lest another rise should toko place erelonu- and wo think buyers will not do amiss by executing, all the orders they have on their books, or even purchase in anticipation of their requirements, as the tendency of this metal doubtlessly in favour of higher quotations. The smelters are somewhat indifferent about taking further contracts: 1,004 tons of ore are advertised for sale at Swansea on February 9.

the various descriptions of iron no al eration has occurred, excepting Scotch pigs, which have slightly receded, mixed numbers Toeing now quoted about 2s. per ton under our last quotation. In rails there is a very fair enquiry, and! makers are enabled to command present prices without difficulty. Engnsa bars are still quoted the same as this day week quotation the demand has been moderately brisk, and for first quality bars certain makers require 7. per ton at the works, being an advance of 10.

per ton. This is the highest price quoted, and besides the favourite Welsh brands we have heard of no such price being paid for any other quality. The ruling quotation is 6. 10s f.o.b. at the works.

Staffordshire bars, hoops, sheets, and nail rods are only in moderate request prices have not undergone any change, and the market altogether assumes a quiet but steady appearance. The prospects of the market are good, and no fear is entertained or prices receding; on the contrary, the market is not unlikely to improve shortly. vtj Leap. This article is in better favour, and smelters are obtaining rather better prices. The market closes firm at 22.

5s. for English pig, and 23. for sheet. Spanish held for higher prices. Spelter.

There have been a few sales at 26. and small lots at 27. Holders are firm, and will not quote under 27. for parcels of 25 to 50 tons. Tin.

On January 26th the smelters raised the price of Enghsli block, bar, and refined 5. per ton, making present prices 118. and 121. Since the rise foreign has further improved, aud it is not improbable there may yet be a manifest change in prices. Holders are not at all anxious to realise, although stocks have not much diminished.

Banca has also risen, the advices from Amsterdam being of a favourable character. Tix-Plates. A few common brands only can be bought at 27s to 27s. 6ti. better brands at 28s.

Od. per box best brands at 28s to 30s per box, IC coke. Steel. A few hundred kegs of Swedish may be had at 22, to 22. 5s.

Mining Journal. CLOSING PEICES, SATURDAY. Four o'Clock. FUNDS. Consols, Money 95J Consols, Account S5J New Three per Cent.

Stock 95j Bank Stock 225 Exchequer Bills 21 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 5 Caledonian 93j Eitto Preference 99 astern cuuutio sol East Lancashire 9i" Edinburgh and Glasgow 66 Great Northern losl Ditto Class A 92 Ditto Class 130 Great Western 591 Lancashire and Yorkshire 931 Loudon and Brighton 106 London and North Western 101 South Western ggj. Manchester, Sheflield, and Lincolnshire 40 Midland aii North British Ditto Preference ins North Eastern Berwick or 95i 95J 95S 227 24p. i 91 101 (Ml 92 67 106 93 132 59 B3 108 101 994 41 95 55 107 93 52 8i 3i 75J 20 "I Ditto Ditto York if'? 51 83 JMortn Staffordshire South Eastern 3S rww COLONIAL RAILWAYS, Great Western of Canada on? Grand Trunk of Canada FOREIGN FUNDS. Turkish Ditto New 105 105 Consols have shown scarcely any alteration from yesterday" nre, and closed with! ..7.7. numiMsnniaau, xne JVew Bahia Shares SSX as o' mt not the Snn JT-0 closed at opening quotations! Mines good.

Miscellaneous about the same. Banks firm. ElRMrmw .1 Su tut, ir was stock Banking Company it it aat and Shropshire per shore. Staffordshires closed at 101 to 11 (Prom Friday niqh.es Gazette.) fUlUKUPTS. tailor, Feb Oat? at the Bankrupts' Court.

Huson. Kino WiLUAVwnnn AMeruianbury. williaji Woon, Milton-next-Gravesend. rvu "fic 12 Bankrupts' Court. So rAlTnn'anburyIe'antl Anufld- G-vesend off.

assig" n-E SSSdS giesrs. uole.ume Street; off. iSm ublCCk, 1 Humjuitu uannan, Aldermanbury uni isiireet. iiuguiu rnaa spa a--? Johv Dales Pi Cg" Street. 3 Mr.rr.hi "censed victualler.

Feb. ana Allen, Birm nghani off assiir VhtX VoaS3a William and Walsall, 15 and March if at Ti' and James and KiM uii. wnnmore, Birmingham uu. ivinnear, Hirmingham. Nottingham off assig Harris NotiTt' Bowley and Ashwell, Thomas J1 Leeds off.

Leeds S- Sols-CasandCudwortb; Matthew and John Bjiowni 121, and March at 11 a Feb- 16 at Bradford, and Bond Jdlarwit JWerif- HuoMersfleld, and Bondrl T.Af. liupo, JueeUS wwua, vai S- assig'- Bitd Liverpool my, "vuirj.ujjiib ANNULLED. FEBNEY, J0HN FREDERICK JuaiionAWftaMew Street, Birminguwi, ffiaw.