The Express. — London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

THE SHEFFIELD INUNDATION. (From the She*id Independewt.) Great as have been the efforts made to clear away the slush and mod from houses and drub, to restore the thickly populated parts of the district over which the flood has mewed to their wonted condition of oecaparative cleanli ness, and to give to machinery its accustomed activity, they have not yet been completely successful. From Bradfield down to Owlertoo sanitary measures have not been urgent. The flood 11411 left little behind it in those country districts but stoned, sod earth, and sand. The few occupied houses left by the torrent have beau cleaned and monied again a comforted* appearance, exempt that in many instances only w retebed wrecks remain of the handsome polished fur niture which adorned the cottages of better to do artisans. Temporary wooden bndgee have been erected at Damflask, sad Rowell bridge acd other places where the old bridges were swept away. The roads have been cleared and made pass able. The owners or occupiers of missing mills have been busy examining ruins and collecting together such remnants of 'toile and machinery as the flood has left them. the sitas of vanished houses have in a few iastances been care fuliy explmed for relics of departed friends and relatives. But the work of rebuilding has scarcely yet begun, and with the exceptions named the valley remains to all ap pearance as it was left by the floi,d, with this difference, that the " see of mud" which covered the valley is now a dry sand bank. At Hillsbrough the bridge has been rebuilt, and traffic has resumed its course along Langsett-road. Below Ilillabrough the work of renovation has been rather more actively carried on ; but amid the wide cease of devastation which the flood has spread over the opea valley, the little that has been done in the way of restoration is scir.oly recognised. Farfield and Neepsend gardens remain just as they were left by the deluge. Here broken fences, uprooted fruit and other trees, wrecks of cot tages and garden houses, hedgerows covered with hay and straw thicker than summer foliage, and crusted with dirt to their winutst twigs, vary the landscape, which at Owlertoo is an alum st unbroken expanse of mud. A slight temporary foot-bridge has Liken the place of the firm and solid strut. turn which until a fortnight ago spanned the river at Hillfoot. Mr. Fawley's tannery, and the adjoining ' work, of Messrs. Marchinton and Makin, have bees in part restored. Mesas. Butcher and the proprietors of neighbouring works are also restoring their pro mises more or less actively. At these and the menu factories which border the river lower down, and were itreply flooded, every day of stoppage necessarily added, and that seriously, to the loss resulting from the flood, the more especially as in many instances orders were large and I pressing. It would be going too far to say that the damage caused by the flood has been entirely repaired, and that a I complete resumption of work has taken place. But at all these wheels and works, with only a few exceptions, such es thou of Messrs. Butcher, where the damage was very extensive, work has been resumed more or less completely. During Thursday sad Friday tell chimneys were sending up thsir accustomed volumes of smoke ; grinding stones were spinning and boning, and machinery was a 'Arlin; and fettling all along the sides of the Don, pretty much as before the inundation. It was gratifying to hear, on all sides, the hum of renewed activity, arid to feel that tiers most be some end to the enormous claims for comp.°. satiou with which the unfortunate owoersof the waterworks will have to deal. In the populous parts of the valley the work of cleansing sod renovation was very urgent and has I been caries' on with commpooding activity. Though the danger of fever and disease from the accumulated filth is in a great measure past, owing to the judicious precaution that have been taken, • hard week's work still remains to be done before a thorough clearance is etmtal. As we have previously stated, about 100 carts and antral hundred men have been at work for days removing the slush, and mud, and filth that encum bered the streets on oath side of the river, filled the cellars, and covered, with a thick adhesive layer, the houses and yards of the ishabitenta. Hundreds of loade have bees carted to hollows at Neepuod. to vacant ground below Sussex-street, and to other places, in addition to the enormous quantities that have been emptied into the river at different points in spite of the very violent protest. of persons considering themselves aggrieved thereby. acme parts, however, the supply of filth and mud has seemed to be inexhaustible. As fast as use accumulation has been carted from the streets another has been supplied from the cellars awl yards. Orchard-street, adjoining Harvest-lane, and other streets similarly situated, are still impassable. Cellars are being emptied with buckets or barrows, and the slush sod mud carried out of them lies across the street knee deep. The quan tity of such refuse left by the flood io some of the lowest districts is amazingly large, its vastness being Mex. pliuble, netnews remembers that, in addition to tbe quantity deposited in living rooms and yards, there are hundreds of cellars full to the top. The changing of houses, cellars, and yards, in many street. is complete as regards occupied . houses, and as complete in the deserted houses as shovel ' and bosom an make it. Lime sad chloride of lime have been plentifully used wherever danger to health Ima been feared. In Harvestelane, sal some other districts, lime has been scattered over the entire surface of, the streets and I over the house and cellar floors and yards. The same dim t infectants bays been mixed with the mod carted into the hollow,, aid upon occupied site., lime having been used to such an extent that the heaps of refine look pretty much u if they Ind been exposed to half as hour's snow storm. The value of all this is evidenced in the reports of the sanitary committee of medical men, that the inundated districts are , a. healthy as the rest of the town. A question that constantly occurs to the mind in milking through the lower districts bordering the Don is, "What has become of the inhabitants " In some streets there are whole rows of deserted and ttoeccupied cottages. Families who have had their clothes and everything else they had left is their lower rooms earned away or destroyed, and who, as the condition of being able to remain in comfort, have had e house and cellar full of filth mad dirt to clear away, have naturally preferred to seek other abodsa, tag their landlords to prepare the houses as bait they may for new and, it is to be hoped, more fortunate tenants. Shopkeepers, publicans, and others, with ties of business or convenience, have stuck to their houses despite their deplorable condition, and laboured bard to cleanse and renovate them. A few with no such time have also remained—some of them, no doubt, becalm of their ex treme indium*. The feeble and indolent have retired to their upper moms, leaving the accumulated dirt below to take its chance of removal. The more active and energetic have laboured early mid late ; and, as the result of their exertions. scrupulously clam and elaborately pot-moulded floors have succeeded to thick layers of filth, and home com fort is once more in the ascendeot. At the time of our inspection not a few were still straggling courageously with the thick, sticky, but gradually diminishing dirt, with as evident doerroinatiou to achieve a conquest before the dawn of another sabbath. One of the saddest evi dence' of the ravages of the flood, in the houses of the poor is to he found in the piles of broken furnitere at the doors of many of the cottages still occupied. Broken skeletons of drawers, chair and table legs, sofa backs. legs and tops of tahles, drawer knob sled sides, and a dozen other intermits heaped together as the useless wrecks of the contents of a comfortably furnished room, are to be seep at rime,. • cottage door. Even in the thickly popula,ed dis tricts little proven has yet been aide by the builders. Here and there • fallen fence well has been rebuilt, bat Lundrede of houses deprived of one or more of their wells, of their &ors, doors and windows, or dashed wholly to the ground, remain just as the flood left them, to excite the wonder and gratify the curiosity of the thousands of persons who daily visit the town to see the devastation. The piles of timber end other articles which the Good piled up ..gainet the bridges and other places have bees removed, hut only to be succeeded by great heaps of mud, which have been carted from the works, streets, and houses, and for the removal of which • second flood would be acceptable, if only it would come on • sufficiently dimi nished scale to be confined within the river walla, The recovery of bodice proceeds veer slowly. Only about six have teen recovered during the week. Of these there were forted tot Saturday. Mrs. Nokia and John Millwood, at Neepsend.bridge, and • child not identified at Hillfootweir. Two children were found at Marshall's paper-mill, Oster. ton, one on Monday and the other on Tuesday ; and oa Thursday • baby, supposed to be that of Mrs. Price, of Malin-bridge. was found at Burrow-lee, Dear °slates. There are still :t0 or 40 remora missing. Cheap trains were run on Friday from Manchester and other places, and the imene of devastation, as on previous days, was visited by thousands of people of all classes. HETI lIEMENT OP TH RVIHT HON. SIR F. T. EA ;am:, Bahr., M.P.—lt is with unfeigned regret that we Tilegraph) have to announce the intention of • e.:r esteemed borough member, Sir F. T. Baring, to retire from the representation of Portsmouth at the next gene' al elective. We are sure that that regret will be shared by all nu ~ .tancis's parliamentary supporters, and we believe we are justified in saying that the right boo. baronet will retire irdo private life with the goodwill end esteem of his I.vfaiuul opponents as well an of his political friend.. The subroined letter explains the reasons of Sir Francis's intended retirement —" Stratton, March 24th, My dear Sir.— I address you as chairman of my com mittee et the last election. and wish you would inform my friends, out make it generally known, that it is not my in. teition to become a candidate on the dissolution of the greseiit t o Hien - mot. It is hardly necessary to give any rai sins iu detail. No one will feel surprised that I cannot face en election contest with the same vigour as I have don. on frrmer o-csoiooa, 0r undertake if elected to mrtorm effi meutly the duties which fall on the member for Portsmouth. It is time for me to retire, and leave the held epee to others. Ido not expect en immediate dissolution, and wished to have delayed this announcement until the time for the election approached, and thus have snared the borough the bustle of a long canvases:id all the ineormeninem attend leg a protracted election contest. But from many quarters I bear the tan active CritiVae has already begun. It is necessary, therefore, in justice to my friends and electors generally, that my intentions should be known—that they may not act under the supposition that I should stand again and be taken by surprise when the dimolutton is announced. It is not the f r Ter time for me to issue a farewell address, and lam not sorry to poetises. that duty. My long ooenexion with Port.mouth, the frieedships, penonal and political, wi.ieh I have formed there, the many kindnesses I have received, the conidenoe with which I have been honoured for so moat yearn, cannot to forgotten, end will make the task pun' .l (however neeeseeryl when at the diuolution I shall hove to my • formal ' farewell.' —I em, of, dear sir, yours very truly, V. T. BARING. —A. Nuance, E.q." HMV% I MANN TZ,II as choice and ill rnig, Moderate In prim, and wholesome to me. These advantages have secured for this tea a general preference. It Is sold In packets by 2.280 agents.—f.tilveruseenentsj THE EXPIIEW MON DAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1864. Rids intelligent& NOTICES—THIS DAY. METROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS. elttina days appointed foe the pressed week. inertows - raa, St. Marthea•line. Wednesday, march 20; lhnrwhiy. 1!. WerrerilarEt, Great Preacett4treet —Wednesday, Much 30 : Thur.dry. 3:. Swanstmet.— , Marsh 23; Thursday, 31. Laxectll, Camberwell New-road— uesday, March W. GREZWol7(ll.—Wedneida, March b. Wadi.% R. 11, Thursday, March 31. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COM. Tuesday. March 29. ! granary were generally kept in the eciunting-looses. I raw my muter on the Saturday night Ware the Are ; I thought be appeared very strange atil low-spirited. I saw him again on the day of the fire ; be told me to hareem his hone as he was going out. He generally wean • dark hairy overcoat on a Sunday, and • light mackintosh on week day!. I west away before he left, and did not see him again till the Monday morning after the fire. I did not speak to him thee. I never knew my master and the foreman to be out at the same time. On the Monday night he asked me if the tape of the tube were all right. I said yes. Oa the Wednesday week after the fire be said I bad been talk ing very strange about the firs ; be said I had said it was • good job part of the premises were burntldown, u my master did not want them. I said, "AU I remember to have mid is, 'if they would give me MC I would tell them all I knew about it " He said Mr. Halton had been talking to him about me, and had said that if he (the prisoner) did not pay me off he would not get the insurance money. A few days before the fire I saw • bundle of sticks in the coal-bouse tied up with • tar string. They were there after the fire. They were out very candidly and tied pp very carefully, and that is what attracted my attention. While I had lived with the prisoner his business decreased. One mill was sufficient to do the business he had to do. I have heard prisoner say his premises were too large for his business, that be shou ld be glad to ow his money again, and that the times were very bad. Cross-examined—l =moot my anyone else wu present when he made these remark,. Aldridge might have been present. 1 remember Aldridge eying to me about a week before the fire that it would be a ruin job to set fire to the granaries. I said I believed you might set fire to them with • lucifer match. It wee the morning after the fire that I said if any one would give me 501. I would tell all I knew about it. got to the fin a few minutes before one, it was then at its height. I live 200 or 300 yards from the fire. I called at Aldridp's the night of the fire. I did not go to the public house that day. My master had complained of my getting drunk. He mid that Mr. Halton bad heard of my as. regularities in getting too much beer, and that anima he got rid of me he would not get the insurance money. Whoa I first saw my master on the Monday morning, he had a light coat on. I never saw him weer the light and dark over- coats together. When my master goes out he leaves the keys with the foreman, and then if the foreman goes out be leaves the keys with me, but he always comes back the same night. On the Monday morning we found that the plug was out of the tub against the house, and after that he sent me to see if the taps were all right. One of the other tube might have leaked, but we generally used to keep it half fall. _ _ Ice aumined -0 u my oath I had nothing to do with set ting the premises on fire. Walter Aldridge—l was foreman to the prisoner. On Sunday, Bth of November, I went on a visit six miles off ; my master pve me leave to go. He told me be was going to Mr. Kett's. When be started he had a light overcoat on. I did not return until eleven on Monday morning. Any one who knew the premises could get in when they were locked. I have lived with the prisoner two years. By the Judge—l bad the keys on this Sunday—they were at my house. I locked up the premien on the Saturday night. Examination continued—The malthonse was never used. Sometimes the two mills were going together. I never had any conversation with Borrett about the premises being set on fire. I never said anything about it being a rum job. A few days before Borrett said he bad been to a fire, and that he would never go to another. I believe it was because he was not paid for the last. Crass-examined—l did not ask leave to go out on Sun day. I only told him I was going, to which he assented. I believe the prisoner and his wife and all of us have been out together, and sometimes for the night. There is a latch•key to the Tower-mill and the counting-house, and all three of us have one. William Scarf Kett examined—l am • miller, living at Wenhastou Water-mill. I am prisoner, uncle by mar riage. I recollect his coming at half.past three to my house on Sunday, Bth November. I live about eight or ten miles from him. His horse and gig were put up on my premises. He gave no rams for coming ; I did not ask. He did not talk much, and seemed stnioge. I was afraid. Rose a man in my employ, came to the house between 8 and 9 o'clock ; he went to bed about half-past 10, and slept in what we eoliths " men's room," and my sou with him. At 5 o'clock prisoner said he wanted to meet a man. Redid cot say who, or where, oral what time. He asked me if he could have a horse to go a short journey in the evening to go and meet this man. I told him he might have my grey. He said he would rather have the cheetent. I told my man (who leaves about six), to leave the saddle and bridle out. Pri soner kept looking at the weather ; it was very windy and wet. It had got so late, that at belt-past nine I persuaded him to give the journey up, and he said he would give up going. He left the room at a little more than half-past 10 to go to bed. My wife showed him the room he was to sleep is, which was the parlour chamber. After that I saw no more of him till the morning. After all were gone to bed I looked out at the door, and locked up, and then I and my wife went to prayers. We went to bed about 11 or soon after. Prisoner might have left the house without my knowing. I did not hear any homeless'. my honse, but I heard my eon call to me. We had just finished prayers then, and were in the parlour. Next morning • man came. The prisoner went away in the morning with a light overcoat and • short black coat under neath, but no rough coat. After he was gone 1 went to the stable, and the chestnut horse looked as if it had been fora journey. She had been groomed, but she did not look fresh, and was not exactly dry. The chestnut was kept for carry ing heavy loads. It was • nasty tampered one. It has a quick and short action. Croa-examined—lt was • cart horse, and was used is the mill. My son said to me, " Father, there'. a horse in tho yard." I was in the parlour then. Anyone going from the parlour chamber to the outer door would have to pass the parlour door. Re-ex 'mined—He could have got out by the back door, and from there to the stable ; it fastens with • hank in a staple. Bridgett Kett—l am the wife of the last witness. I took the candle up to his room, bat I was in the parlour when he went out, and don't know whether he went up or not. I did not hear the step of a horse pass the house. lie came because my husband had hurt Ina arm, and he wanted to see how it was. _ _ Coss-examined—l persuaded him not to go out that night, as it was so wet. I saw him go in the morning ;be had on a white overcoat ; he only had a little short coat besides that. He bad not a rough hairy coat. James Gayfar, carter for Mr. Kett at tLe Whioniegton Mill—l look after my master's horse*. On the Bth No vember I got the saddle and bridle out, mid put them in the stable. There were three horses in the stable, grey, chesnut, and black. The cheanut was a higher stepper, and bit the road very hard. He was rather an uneasy one to mount, sad wanted to be going before you got on him. I left the stable that evening at 6 o'clock. When I went the next moning the chemist was all slush, wet, sad sweating. There had been a saddle on him. Re was very hollow in the flanks, 'seemed tucimd up, and wanted his breakfast. ( Laughter.) The saddle warn wet, and was not where I is t it the night before. . . . _ By the Judge—But how were the stirrapirons Well, they had not been cleaned, I should think, for 30 years, so I couldn't tell if they bad been used. (laughter.) Cross-examined-1 have seen the chapatti gallop; she would not bite, but was rather wicious. (Livighter.) James Arboro Bose examined by Mr. O'Malley—l was miller to Mr. Kett. of Wenhaston. I remember some one coming to me, and I west to my master's about nine in the evening of Sunday, the fith. Master told me to sleep there. I slept in th• chamber Dent to the mill, with young Mr. Kett. Before I went to sleep I heard a horse go pest out of the yard from the stable. This was about 20 minutes after I went to bed ; I went to bed at about 20 minutes put 11. I woke young Mr. K.U. I thea went to sleep and woke again, and heard a bone going from the roadway to the stable. Soon after that I heard someone shut the front door and then pass on the landing from the top of the stain. To the beat of my knowledge the steps wept to the door of the parlour chamber. Before I waist to sleep again the clock struck one. bliss Kett slept in the room between my room and the parlour chamber. I went to the stable a little after five the next morning, and saw that the chesnot was sweating. Cross-examined-1 did not hear my master or admires go to bed, they would have to pus my door to do es. I saw Mr. Kett go in the morning ;he had • light coat on. I heard young Kett ask his father what horse that was going past ; and Ise answered that it was not a horse, it was him. William Kett, jss.-1 11.; with mvtathor, aud remember my uncle coming on the Sunday. I slept with Rose. Mr. Bnlwer—lM you go to sleep when you west to bed Witness-I'm sure I don't know, sir. (Laughter.) I heard something go peat the house. I thought it was a bons. After that I went to sleep, and woke again and thought I heard a horse's step coming into the yard. I did sot hear anything in the house after the hone came home. I thought I sew a light shine through the door from the passage. John Farringtoe, a labonrer—l know the road which leads from Mr. William Kett's house to Kieg's-lane. There is a road that way to Wrentham, and another straight op the turnpike road. I live on the road from Mr. W. Kett's to the King's-lane. I know Mr. Kett's horses quite well. On the night of the Bth of November I woke between ten sod eleven and beard a hone go pest towards It was going about ten miles an hour. I thought at first it was my Mllatilell horse, but after it came close I knew it was Mr. Kett'a. eross-esamined—You ma go to Walpole that way. In the morning I asked my master if he heard a horse go past, and he said he did ; and I then said I thought it was him till it came up to my house. John tarred Francis, police-constable--At about eleven on Sunday night, the Bth of November, 1 was at Blyford cross-roads. If a person had pared Farrington's house and wanted to go to Blyford they must have passed um. Blyford cross-road as about a mile from Mr. W. Kett's mill. I only saw four people that night. I heard the sound of a horse coming over Bickers-heath towards me. It passed close to me ; it was not going fast them. 1 know Mr. W. Kett's homes. The horse that passed me was a hone with a white face. It was Mr. William Kett's. The person os its hack was a very tall man ;be had a dark coat on. I bare known the prisoner two years ; he I. a very tell man, and I thought it must have been him on the horse. The hone and auks west up King's-lane, which is a by-lane and very soft travelling. The horse galloped when it got Into King's-lane. Crosemmtnieed—You amid get to Wreathes* by a shorter road. I mentioned this on the Saturday after the ire. I knew it was Mr. Kett's horse by the white face, tbe trot, and being on a by-road. Robert Leaman —I am a tanner. I remember the alibt at the fire. I west to bed a little after eleven. Sere area I heard • horn i gialloning past my house very fast, in the direction from a lass*. Jamne Raven— a a market gardener, and live on the Wrentham and London road. There is • meadow between my house and Mr. Kett's premises, and there is a brook with a beidp over it by which a person could go to Mr. Kett's premism. The bridge is about 100 yards from Mr. Kett's premises. A hams could not go over the bridge. On the night of Nov. Bth I was awoke by my dog, and heard • horse scamper about on the road, and then go off at a gallop. I don't think I went to sleep after the hone left. At half-past twelve I beard a cry of " Fire.' Cross-examined—My house is close to the turnpike road, and there are cottages all along from the village„ My house is 50 yards from the gate into the field. Mrs. Raven, the wife of the last witness, was called, and spoke to the same facts. Mark Raven—On the morning after the firs I went to tell the prisoner of the fire. I walked the horse nearly all the way back. When I had got about 6i miles the prisoner overtook me. He asked me what was burnt, and said be had been in business many years and never expected to happen to that. He asked me why Barrett did not come for him. I said, because the policeman wanted him to be on the premises. He said the steam mill had not been at work for a fortnight. I said I hoped it would be found out if my own brother did it. He asked who first saw the fire. I said, Barley. Alfred Bell produced the Suffolk Alliance insurance policy for 1,000/., viz.:-4001. on the tower mill, 300/. on the steam mill, 1001. on the adjoining buildieg, and 200:. on the dwelliog.house. It was made out in the names of the prisoner and the mortgagee, and • claim of 300/. was made by and paid to the mortgagee. Charles Philip Ball proved the Royal Exchange policy, I dated 73rd October, 1863, foe 1,600!., viz. :-300/. on the tower mill and connote, 3501. on the waggoe-lodge, two double granaries, double cartahed, and counting-house • 100/. on contents of those buildings, 50/. on coal-house anci boiler-house, 50/. on the engine -house, 150/. on the steam engine, Sc., 1004 on the building of the steam corn mill, 100/. on millwrights' work arid machinery therein. 100'. on stock in trade in the same, 300/. on building formerly a malt-house. but now used as a granary, a double granary, waggon-lodge, and carpenter's shop for the use of the pre mines only, and 1004 on stock in trade therein. And no insurance on the house. (Yuen-examined—Before the policy is made out a memo randum is giveo. (A memorandum was produced, dated 22nd September, 1863.) The agent to the insurance company spoke to the pri soner having come to him about the insurance, and stated. in cross-examination, that he wee aware of the other insur ance. and that he advised the prisoner to insure his stock in-trade. Several other witnesses were called to speak to the pri soner's circumstances at the time, but it did not appear that he was in great difficulties. Another witness, of the name of Howard, said—l told prisoner I could not understand how the premises could be set on fire on such a night. The landlord said be could set fire to • town with aquart of turps (turpentine). I asked what portion was burnt down. and he explained. He said be should not build them up any more, as the Tower mill was quite sufficient to do all the business he could do. I asked if they were insured, and he told me they were in two offices. He told me the valuer bad been over and made over • I,ooof. damage, and said altogether 1,400/. He said the cart was burnt, and he was sorry for that, as be wanted it ; but some fool or other pulled the waggon out, that might as well have been burnt, as be did not want it. Cross-examioed—He might have said, "The fools might as well have pulled the cart out instead of the waggon, as he wanted the c►rt, but did not care so much about the wag gon, as he never used it." Mr. Metcalfe having addressed the jury for the prisoner, and the learned Chief Justice having summed up, The jury, after considering for a few minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty. The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said—Samuel Kett, you have been convicted on evidence which to my mind is quite conclusive, and it is • lamentable thing to see • m►n in your position and respectably connected convicted of such a crime, for which a few years ago you would have lost your life. It In necessary that insurance companies, who in the great majority of cases deal with honest persona, should be pro tected by the strong arm of the kw, and no considerations of mercy can deter me from doing my duty botiestly and sternly. The sentence of the court upon you in, that you be kept in penal servitude for 20 years. There is only one more case (a case of child murder) for trial, which will conclude the business of the assizes. THE POLICE COURTS. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thmnas Berard, the keeper of a eight refreshment house In the Haymarket, was summoned before Mr. Arnold for refusing to contribute towards the support of on infant of which Alinoie Wilson bad sworn he was the father. The complainant, a remarkably handsome girl, was under charge at this court for deserting her intact. but when the circumstances were exclaimed Yr. Knox, the sitting nuigia trate, directed that the case should stand over, and that • summons under the Bastudy Act should isms against the defecidant Mr. E. D. Lewis, in stating the case, raid the com plainant. when about 15 years of age, had been accosted in the street by the defendant, who had promised to procure • situation for her. The defendant induced her toaccompany him to • house in Rupert-street. She was pressed to take • glass of wine, which was no doubt drugged, and when she came to her senses the next morning she found herself in bed with the defendant. In April •, 1163, she gave birth to • child ; and be would call witness who would prove that the defendant gave the infant into her care, and paid ss. fid. per week for its maintenance. Minnie Wilson was then called, and she detailed the cir cumatanos of bar meeting with the defendant. She was then living with her father at Hackney, and was between fifteen and sixteen years cf age, and was now in her eigh teenth year. Mr. Arnold—Would you have gone back to your father the day you met the defendant had it not been for being kept at the house at Rupert-street! Complainant— Most certainly. Mr. Arnold—Surely the defendant ought to be indicted for taking away • girl under sixteen years of age from the custody of her parents. The charge against the defendant appears to me to be much more serious than a mere bas tardy case. 11r. E. D. Lewis said the Society fir the Protection of Young Women had expressed their willingness to prosecute if the magistrate thought the case a fit one. Mr. Arnold—l certainly think it a very fit caw. I will there fore direct • warrant to be made oat immediately, and the other summons can steed adjourned. The warrant was issued, and the defendant detained in custody until be could find two sureties in 10Ci1. each foe his appearance when the warrant was due. THAMES. Caroline Julia Nunn, aged 15, and described as a proeti• tote, was brought before Mr. Partridge. charged with at tempting to poison herself. In the autumn or ISti2 a man named Bowyer, a botcher, in the employ of his brother. who carries on business inlmend Old.town, was charged at this court with abduction and enticing the prisoner from horns. She was not then 14 years of age ; there were cir cumstances of aggravation connected with the case; and after the fellow bad seduced the girl be boasted in a vulgar manner that he bed prepared her for the streets. He was 7:ted and convicted at the Central Criminal Court te u abductioe of the girl from her mother's home, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and Lard labour. His imprisonment expired on the Ist of NOV/MOM last. On Thursday night last, at 9 o'clock, William Walker re ceived information that a girl had attempted to poison her self at a house in Hungerford.etreet, CommerciaLroad. He went there, and (maid the prisoner seated by the firs and in great pain. A woman in the room said the prisoner bad taken some red precipitate powder, a nauseousporson, which she bad mixed in a teacup. The nature and effects of the poison were declared by • chemist and druggist who had wild it, believing it was intended to be applied outwardly. Walker took the girl to the London Hospital, an emetic was applied and the poison dislodged. The prisoner was detained in the hospital until Saturday afternoon, when she was sent before the magistrate. She appeared DI a wretched plight, and mush depressed. She told the o&er that she was in great trouble and could not pay her landlady, and expected to be tarried oat of doors. The boast of the fellow Bowyer, that be had prepared the poor girl for the streets by his hoariless conduct, turned out to be too true. She had been leading the life of a prostitute. Mrs. Nunn, the mother of the girl, said she was • laun dress, and that • better daughter than the prisoner Gould not exist until she was taken away from her horns and se duced. Her daughter left her • month ago, and she had never seen her Mace until that day. In answer to Mr. Partridge, the wits., said her daughter assisted her in keeping the house clean and in general do. mestio work. She had a good home and was well treated. The prisoner said she was troubled in her wind, sod hardly knew what she -am about. Mr. Partridge reenaoded the prisoner to the House of Do tentian for a week. The amount of guano exported from the Chincha Islands io 1863 was 31.1,179 toes register. The whole value of the exports of guano mid other products from &import of Callao in 1863, was 22.168,802 dols. ; and the whole amount from all the ports of the repahhe was 32,93,610 dole.— New York Paper. Homoeopathic Practitioners, and the Medical Profession generally, recommend coca as being the moot health. ful of all beverages. When the doctrine of homeopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obtained no pre parations of cocoa either attractive to the taste or acceptable to Use stomach : the nut we, either supplied in the crude slate or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtala little notice. .1. Zpps. of London, h reoeupathie chemist, was induced, in the year le3o, to tun Ids attention to Ws subject, and at length succeeded. with the assistance of elaborate machinery. In being the and to produce an article pare In its composition • and so refined be the =triteratiou it receives in the process it passes through, as ad acceptable to the delicate stomach. for general use Imes moos Is distinguished as an hivigeratleg, grateful break. fait beverage, possessing a most delicious aroma. Dr. Hama% is his week Adulterations of od,^ says:—•• Cocos imolai.. a great variety of important nutritive primly'', every logredient accessary to the growth and susiensace of the body." Male : • Asa nutritive coon steads very much higher than either coffee or toe' Directions: Two teampoossful of the powder Is a break fast up. tilled up with bellied water or milk. Secured to tin lined lb., 4 lb., sad Ilb. packets, labelled : and sold at la dd. per lb., by Ofillart, Coofootlestes. and Cheadate—(Advertleo t.J NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 26. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant L C. Ken*, from the Gallon, to the Indus inord skip at Davenport. Master B. S. Jackson, to the St. Vinoent, 26, at Ports mouth, for service in the Sealark !tinder. Assistant Simmons C. Strickland, to the Supply ; sod C. J. Fennell, to the Wellesley, 72, at Chatham. CHATHAM. MAWR 27. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal COM mandiag•in-Chiat vrW hold a review of the troo at this garrison on Tuesday morning, and will aaNrwarda proceed on a tour of inspection of the other troops in the south. eastern district. Instructioas have been received ►t this dockyard for the immediate °Destruction of one of the squadron of iron gun boats which are to be built from the designs of Mr. Reed, the chief constructor of the navy. Yesterday the line-of-battle screw steamer Irresistible, 400-horse power, fittiug for the coastguard service at South ampton, received on board her main deck guns, consisting of twenty-four 32-pounders, each of 56 cwt. The Terrible, 21, 800-horse power, fitting for the first /line Mama reserve, is ordered to be prepared for immdi►te commission. PORTSMOUTH, Meson 27. The Bulldog, 6, steam sloop, Captain Charles Wake, steamed oat of harbour yesterday afternoon and anchored at Spithead to take in her ammunition. The Victoria, ler, acre., fitting for the flag of Vice- Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., is to be ready for service in the Mediterranean, to relieve the Marlborough, flag ship, in Jane. The mortar boat, essigned by the Admiralty for,the trial of Conituaoder F. I'. Warren's plea of sheathing iron ships with copper as • preservative sod anti-fouling agent, has been docked for examination. The plan is to coat iron vessels with copper sheathing of the ordinary kind by the application of marine glue, with •n inter mediate lining of stout felt so as to prevent galvanic action by keeping the two metals apart. The mortar boat was launched on the 22ad of January last, and has been afloat until Thursday. It was intended to examine the weasel by stripping off some of the copper, but the ap pearance of the outer surface was so satisfactory as to render this step unnecessary. There were found to besome few places of defective workmanship, but on the whole the condition of the vessel justified the inference that the invention is equal to the work it is intended to accomplish. The adhesive character of the glosiwu evident by the fact that no por tion of the work bad moved from its place, but was as sound after two months' immersion as when put out of the workmen's hands. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Boar ST. EDMUNDS, Luca 26. ° ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT/0 TWO INSURAECK COXPAPIES. . _ So mad Kett, 33, was charged with feloniously and ma liciously setting fire to certain premises at Wreotham, oe the Bth of November, with intent to defraud. The prisoner, who was a very respectable looking MID, pleaded not guilty. Mr. tallow, Q.C., and Mr. Bolster, appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Metcalfe for the defence. Mr. O'Malley, in addressing the jury, stated that the pri soner carried oo business at a plan called Wrentham, as a miller. He had a dwelling-house and stable, • windmill and steam-mill, and some abide, and between the house and the sheds there were some other buildings, one of which was • onnting•house. The prisoner had I bought these and some land adjoining for 1,2001. These premises were mortgaged, and for the sem i racy of the mortgagee they were insured for 1,000!. lin the Su ff olk Alliance Office. Previous to the fire the Prisooer's business had fallen off, and he had often stated that he did not require all the premises, and that he wished he could turn them into money. Shortly after this he I effected another insurance in the Royal Exchange for 1,6001., which did not cover the house, but did cover about 4001, worth of the stock is trade. On the Bth November a fire broke 1 out on the premises, and he (the learned counsel) would show the jury most conclusively that the prisoner was the person who set fire to them. The fire was seen to break out of the roof of one of the buildings, and almost imme diately afterwards it was sees to break out in another building some distance from the first, and the result was that then two buildings were consumed, and some of the buildings between the two were left standing. He (Mr. O'Malley) would now direct the snoo tier' of the jun to the preparations that were made for the fire. There were near the bone two large tabs usually else tamping a large quantity of water ; there had been no great consumption of water at the time, and the tubs in the neigh- bourbood were fall; but when the:persons emerged in putting out the fire went to the tubs they were found to be empty, as was also the boiler of the engine with which they commu nicated, and under the tubs was found • bundle of dry sticks, tied up with pitch cord. The mill was generally locked at night, but the key was kept in such • position that • person acquainted with the premises might get it. Os the night of the fire some of the doors were found open. On that night the prisoner's wife was out, s labourer named Aldndgo who resided with the prisoner had told him that be intended being absent that night. The primmer told Aldridge that he (the prisoner) should be absent that night, which was • most unusual thing, as he bad been known to be absent when Aldridge was away. After the prisoner left, AMridp maw that the pea nine were locked up, and the other labourer, who lived at some little distance off, also saw that they were locked up before be left work. The prisoner went that evening to his uncle's, who lived at Wenhaston, about eight miles off. He had not been much in the habit of visiting his uncle, and had never slept at his hotline before, but on this night he said that be was lonely without his wife and Ind come to stay the night ; be also said be had to go and see a man that night, and asked his uncle to lend him • horse. The uncle bad two horses—one • grey hone and the other a chestnut, and he offered to lend the grey, which was the quicker hone of the two, but the prisoner said be would have the °hangout, and he asked for the saddle to be left out that be might saddle it himself. A man named Ron was sleeping in the boons,nnd heard a horse go out of the stable shortly before 11 o'clock, and he knew that it was the chestnut hone from some pen liarity in its step, and it was found in the morning that that horse had been • long journey that night, as it was covered with mud in the morning, and the saddle was wet. The prisoner afterwards said that he should not go out that night, but it would be proved that be did go out, and was absent about the time it would take to go to his own house and back. 02 the night of the fire, and • short time before it was seen, some one was beard mounting a hone sod galloping away from the scene of the fire, and there could be so doubt that the incendiary rode to and from the fire. Be. tweso one and two that night the hone was beard to come back to the uncle's stable, and very soon after a person was heard to come into the house and go up into the room the ninon was to sleep in. The next day, when the prisoner was asked where he bad been that night, be said be bad been in bid uncle's house the whole night, which was clearly ' false. The learned counsel concluded his address by stating that under those suspicious circumstances the prisoner was bound to account for his time, and where be went when he left : ashe undoubtedly did leave. his uncle's house. , .., Mr. Steggall, a surveyor, was the first witness called, and proved the plans. Samuel Barley (examined by Mr. Balwer). —I am &labourer. I know the prisoner's premises. My cottage is about 10 or 11 yards from the prisoner's premises. On Sunday, Bth of November, my wife woke me a few minutes past 12 the night was fine just at that time, it had been " hefty" and stormy. In consequence of what my wife said I got rep. From my bedroom I could see the fire. It was burning at the south end of the granary. I went out and gave the alarm ; at that time there sou not • fire in any other part of the premises. I went some little distance to give the alarm. and as I was coming back I saw a fire in the other granary. When I got back I did not Oft anyone about. There was • water tub on my premises ; it was quite full that night, it had rained . on the Friday and Saturday and all day on the Monday. Cross-examined by Mr. Metcalfe—There are three cot tages where 1 live. Borrett lives further up the hill, about :MO yards from me. There axe gardens at the back of the moieties. My garden runs up to the granaries. There is no fence between the garden and the buildings, There is i a little space between each cottage and gates. Any person could get into the gardens. Below the I:puddings there is • quick fence. Mr. Kett's front garden joins the road. 1 William Smith—l am a police officer, and was stationed at Wrentham on the Bth of November last. About twelve I was at the " west end." 1 saw a light in the direction of Wr, otliam. I went to the prisoner's premises as quickly as I could, and found a fire had broken out in two different places at the east and west end. The eeotre premises are not burnt, and are standing now. Onystave was one of the . men who came with the amiss. He called my attention to the water-butts which are in the centre of the premises, and are stainnig now. I believe they communicate with the . boiler of the engine. There are three of them, two empty and cue very little in. There wee osly nee tap to the three butts, and it was turned so as to let the water off. .Pre. viously it bed been very wet, and bad been raining all ; Sunday. I mot Mark Eaves for the prisoner at about 4 • o'clock in the morning. He went on borestack. The ni -1 loner came home between 8 and 9 ; he bad got on • light ! coloured mackintosh, and a Meek hairy coat underneath. I asked him if he knew of any one who had any ill.fesling against him, and who might have eel the premises on fire, and ahether Le was insured. He said he was insured. i apprehended him on the 19th, and asked him if his pre mises should be locked op. He said they should. I tcli hi-n to get up and come down, which be did. I then told him I was come to apprehend him. The chief constable Ord told me to get him down so, as something might happen if he knew wl.st 1 was come for. 1 told him I should apprehend him , for softie.; fire to his premises to defraud the inurance. He mid he could face anyone about that, as be was at Wetimaton at his uncles that nMht, and be could prove it, Ile treat there on the Sunday afternoon, and did Dot come ausy till I sent for Dim. C: ~+ s-examined.-1 have been examined twice about this, I and I gave an account to my superintendent. I told him labout tl.e mackintosh the day after the last examination before the magistrates. He asked me bow it was there was • contredictioo between the witnesses, sonic laying he had • dark and some • light coat, and then I told him. I had been asked whether the dark coat was not dirty. Before I den riled the coat as a dark, hairy coat I had heard the I evidence of Fraocio. I have not got the coats here. I have 1 tot tried whether this mackintosh will go user the rough 1 I coat. We did not take possession of the prisooer's coat James Graystone— I am an engineer living at Wrentham. About half-past twelve on the Bth of November I was arc used by a cry of fire, and I went to it as quirk as !could I with tlie engine. We got there in about a quarter of an ; hour. There way a very short supply of water in the brook. I Fiudiog it failed I went to the water butts, and there was snrcelc any water in them. The tap was turned for water ruunior out. The tube communicate with the boiler of the eaglet, there was about tea inches of water in it. We could not draw it out. It woe very wet the day before this. I I called the attention of the police to the fact that the top was turned. _ John Borrett—l am • carter in the employ of petiolate. I lire about 300 yards off towards Soothe°ld. I had been in his employ two years, ever since he had come there. I had been on the east granary the Thursday previous. Only Aldridge, myself, and the prisoner were on the pro misee. I went about with the cart. There were haute and barley in the granary on the Thursday ; there wee so other corn on that part of the premises ; there was • mangle. In the west granary there were 20 combs of wheat, and some meal. Samuel Kett was • miller. I got to the fire • few minutes before one o'clock. I went to the tube. On the Thursday on. tub wes full of water, and one partly full ; the other OD. did not hold water. They were all empty on the night of the fire. The boiler bad fir. or sir inches to. About 18 inches is the general loaatity. The door of the counting-house war unlocked. The count ing -bonne stands by itself. The coal•houee was not looked. You can get from the coal-house to the engine-house, and from there to the grinding floor. The door between the eagme-hnuee and the grirdiog floor was generally barred inside ; hut if not you weld get to the griadiug floor, and from there to the west granaries. There are two doors to the east granaries, which are generally tr u t locked. A person acquainted with the promises e get into the malt-house, a• the lock was broke., and *Moot to the wet paw,. The keys of the seat MARKETS. COTTON 000DS.—Ms9cdearnt, MARCH 26.—We bad a dat and declining market up to Thursday night, and now the holidays hays commenced, and put an end to business altogether. The improvement noticed last week disap peared entirely on Mooday, and the market was evidently very seriously affected by the large amvals of cotton at Liverpool on that and the two following days. Scarcely any sales have taken place in cloth, and but oomparatively little business has been done in yarn. Priem, under such cir cumstances, have been weak and irregular, with declining tendency. The latest advice' from India speak of falling markets there, and these have tended, perhaps as much as the influx of cotton, to depress the market. Messrs. John Pander and Co., in their monthly circular, say that. China shirtings have been taken to a moderate extent during the past fortnight at 17s. to lie. 9d. per piece for 39 inch, 71b., sad 20a. 3d. to 21s. 6d. for B}lb., and there is still some inquiry for these weights. T cloths have been taken, but not freely, for the same market, at 2s. 3d. bat 4d. per lb. Calcutta goods have scarcely been touched coos Tuesday. Some limited sales of wide shirting. for Bombay have been made, but the !market is generally flat. Domestics, printing cloths, end other fabrics, are but little in demand for any quarter. In yarns the finer counts are steadier in price than the coarser descriptions. WOOLLEN.—Luna, Masco 26.—Tbe eoloated hall this monies has been moderately well attended both by mann lecturers and merchants, but the amount of business done has not been very extensive, the selections bong chiefly of a few spring goods, beyond which the transmitters' have been of a very limited character. In the whits hall nothing of importance has taken plan beyond the transfer of a few parcels of !militate, the demand for which has not been great. Bates remain without shanties. . HARDWARE.—Bnuuscaum, MANcg 26.—The trade of this town is quiet ; the fresh orders in of late have been moderate, and maeufmoturers have not m a rule many ea their books ; beyond that point the slackness has not reached, inasmuch as manufacturers severally have not been wantiag of sufficient orders to keep their establish ments in full operation, tad comparatively few are makiag up goods for stock. At this period of the year a lull in usually experienced in the country trade ; it is the end of the quarter, and ie, moreover, between seasons, whoa there Is little being done on account of the spring trail* ; in a fon night from this time a revival in business gem rafly will in all probability be experienced. In the foreign trade there is more animation in consequence of orders recently given out on account of the spring shipment ; in this respect a fair amount of business is doing to Canada ; the West India trade is look. ins up ; and there are Mexican orders in hand which have just been given out. In the adjoining district business la rather more active than it is in this town ; the foundries are most of them well isepsed ; the chain-makers are tole rably busy, and in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, Willenhall, and Bileton all the works are In full operation ; throughout the district labour is well employed. The iron. roasters of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire will hold their preliminary meeting in this town next Thursday : the trade is extremely dull, but it is expected that the old scale of prices will be macsallrmed. 0011.3/.—Cattrai7non. MMICII 26. Our market was without any change in priors. and very heavy. Wheat, 36e. to 40e. ; barley. 26e. to 36a. ; beans, 32a. to 34a. ; osta, lea. to ;G:e. par qr. CARLISLit, MARCH 26.—We had a moderate supply of wheat at our market this wools', mod there was a fair demand for it at about late quotations. Oats, of which the supply was good, sold slowly ; and barley was is fair re. quest, seed samples realising more mosey. Prices :—Wheat, whits, ii.. tid. to 18e.; ditto, red, 13s. 6d. to 16a ; barley, 10s. to 12s. 64.; potato rata, new, 7s. 6d. to 10s. ; ditto, common. 6s. 6d. to Ss. 6d.; rye, lb. to 13a; bates, 13s. 6d. to 133. tid. ; pass, 14a. to 13e. 6d. per Quilale bushel. Floor, ls. 6d. to is. iod. per stone; mama. Is. 7d. to ls. Nd. ; ryerseal sod barleyrseal, la. 44. COLCHESTER, MARCH small supply of wheat and barley, also of other grain, the former sold 'lowly at the rates of last week, the finest qualities of the latter realised ls. per qr. more ; and other grata may be quoted the same as last week. GUILDFORD, MARCH 26.—The supply of wheat today was again only moderate. There was a fair demand for fine samples in good condition, which sold at the full rates of last week ; other sorts were not so readily disposed of, but there was no change is sales. Wheat, Sgs. to 50s. ; barley, 26e. to X% ; eats, li. to 245. ; pose, 335. to 355.; beans, 345. to 34. per qr. Herrrouri, MARCH 26. -Supplies of grain still limited. Wheat is better demand and 6d. par load deem. Belting barley very fine trade. Grinding dull and difficult to quit. Oats 6d. to Is. per qr. lower. sod beano barely eell so well as last week. Wheat, red, rune, 23a. to 25e. ; flee, 26e. ; white, runs, 24.. to 265. ; Sae, 275. per load- Barley, malting. 325. to 38s. ; anodise, 245. to 30s. per qr. Oate, coarse, 16s. to 225. ; old, 294. per qr. Beans, new, 21e. to 245. per load. Peas, old, 26e. per load. LEICESTER, MARCH 26.-We had a fair quantity of wheat on offer at to-day's corn market, there being a sprinkling of red and white descriptions. The weather has been favour. able for outdoor work this week. With a fair demand sales were made at full prices. New white sorts realised 42a. to 41a. ; new red, Mi. to 41s. per 36 clone. Barley WEI lam abundantly represented, and the tone of the tied* ruled moderate at pricee quite equal to thaw of the week pre vious ; malting. 35. to Xs. per qr. ; grinding, 275. to 28s. per 30 atone. There was a tolerable show of cats, for which the demand was limited, late rates being mostly made ; old, 2:te. to 30s. ; new, 21s. to 214. per 24 Moue. For beans the demand was of a quiet character, at the prices of last week : old. 40a. to 4:3. ; new. Me. to 331 . per 38 SWIM Fine flour, 30a to 31a. ; seconds, 28s. per 20 stone. NIECABTLII-EPON-TTNE, MARCH 26.-At our market this morning we had an extremely meaty show of wheat from the growers, and having little left unsold at the quay, fresh thrashed samples in consequence were taken off quickly, at rather over the rates of thin day sienoiglit, the best farmers' red commanding 41s. per Web. lo south country sod foreign scarcely a transaction occurred, holden being un willing to accept the rates offered. Upon the whole, how ever, the trade finished with more tone than of late. Flour without change. Malting barley, though in moderate re quest, calm* be written lower ; grind* without inquiry. Boiling peas in steady demand. Beteg neglected. Oats were difficult to quit, buyers !Nene the turn in their favour. The arrivals this week are :-Wheat. coastwise, 1,115 qrs. ; foreign, 676; rye, coastwise, 27; barley, coastwise, 272; fp re i go , ;Ka ; mait., °outw wise, 391 sacks. 27 ; cats, coastwise, 1,597 ; floor, coast NoiwicH, 3fAlca 26.—Today'. market being somewhat of a holiday character, the supply°, wheat was only limitod, and primartiled the same ..sleet week for all desoriptions. The supply of barley beoisenes smaller every week, parties. lady°, the beet malting qualities ; prime for all descriptions are about maintained. Whit. wheat (weighing 631bs. to 6611 m.). 44.. to 47..; red ditto (weighing 63165. to 65Th.. ), 40s. to 435.; beet chevalier melting barley (weighing 5616 e. to 561 b..), 355. to 36..; extra, 375.; runs chevalier ditto (weighing 54165. to sm.). mt. to mt.; distilling ditto f=gibing 52Ibs. to 531b5.), ”' a. to 30a.; nab, 24a. to Ns.; 56.. to 37..; peas (maple), 35e. to 365. par qr.; doer 275. Bd. per sack. _ _ _ NOITIIiGRAM, *MICH 26.—At oar 00111 ElChing• today there was s tolerable show of wheat tot thethne of yssr, sad the °audition of the samples on the whole wee pretty good. There was s healthy doused, sad late rates were well sup ported. New white made 42.. to 47e.; Dew red, 39e. to 425. old white, 40a. to 44e. ; old red. Min to `M. per 36 Mace. There was a fair show of barley, sad the best mein VIM is dimmed as fully !atomises ; sidittary to.. quite se Malik% sad Tibkished b WalaaN JUN HUM. et 10.8. Lombardotroet, la the Qty ot Loodoa, relator. at Or Olio*, la Ineabordateset. la Os ?rodeo. et Ingtotrlara.—• MOMMAT. MAME Ir. INK cheap as last week ; malting (new), 30s. to 375. per qr. • grinding (old), 28e. to 305.; new, 265. to 28s. per 30 mo w : There was not much buoyancy in the demand for oats, awl prices remained without any material alteration ; old, 245. to 30e. ; new, 19a. to 265. ; old foreign, 21s. to 245. p er 24 stone. Th e demand furbelow was dull, at about late price. ; old, 38e. to 425. ; new, 335. to 365. per 36 stone. Super flour, 34a. to 365. ; floe, 295. to 325. per 20 stone. OuiOlD, MARCO 2G.-There was a very large supply of pain of all kinds at this cora exchange today, with a geed attendance, and fanners appeared anxious to sell, I,u; dealers declined to purchaae, eves at last week's rate., atd the only Weser done was in choice samples of wheat, p ut . chased by nonmetals millers and bakeni. Prices may Le quoted ss follows, viz., white wheat, 42e. to 445, per quarter; red wheat, 38e. to 42a. ; barley,24e. 6d. to 355. ; oats, 19g, to 2tis. ; beans, 325. to 40a. ; pees. TA. to 34x ; dour (mounds), 30a. per sack ; bay, train 41. to 41. sa. per too, Prrinunitocos, ILiace 26.—We bad a fair quantit♦ of wheat here to-day, and it was readily sold at fully Wt week's prime. Not a large show of spring corn, and oil descriptions found buyers at late rates. READING, MARCH 26.—Tlis trade has again. is for some tiros past, been dull, few buyers being present, and at the commencement of our market this morning there was a short supply and little trade doing, which continued to the end. Pnces must be quoted as twit week, both for wheat and barley. ROCHNSTIR. MARCH 26.—The samples of wheat ex. bibited at this core exchange were rather improved in con. ditioc, but there was a great deal at market which was altogether unsaleable. For the bast samples of both white sod red wheats, late rates were obtained, with a dull trade, but although holders,were willing to swede to a re. ' duction of Is. per quarter for other kinds, there was little or nothing doing. For best parcels of English white wheats the terms were 43a. to 45a.. and red 40a. to 425. per quarter ; for secondary and inferior white 395. to 43c, and red to 40a. per quarter. The foreign trade was firm, ! bat business was dull. The transactions in Hour were somewhat restricted, and males were only done in retail at about former figures. Barley was again dull. and in the other kinds of spring corn there was little doing. Best mailing kinds of barley made 334. to 39w, and grinding 265. to 295. per quarter. Oats; were flat, but best feeds maintained late rates. In beam and peas there was no alteration. WISMICH. MARCH 26.—We have a good supply of wheat at market to-day. Oats and beans fair. Wheat met a fair sale at the full prices of lest week. Oats, beaus, and peas dull sale, at late rates. YORK, MAME( 26.—The supply of wheat at this day's cora market was quite ae large as has been the ow during the pat few weeks. The attendance of farmers and haw. wu moderate, and there was. a slow feeling in the trade at fully late quotations. White samples ranged !ran 44k. to 44a. ; ditto red, 375. to 40s. per 36 stone. There was not much animation in the demand for barley (of which the supply was about as usual), but prices underwent very little alteration—maltiog. 28s. to 32.5. per quarter ; grinding. 260. to 27e. per 30 stow. The supply of oats was middling, and with a steady feeling in the trade isles were made at previous curreocise—new, Its. to 20e. per 24 stone. Beans were in rather limited supply, and sales took place at lass rates—namely, 325. to 345. per 3S goes. Malt, 58s. to 60s. rye, 281.. Iles. per quarter. Flour, to 31k. par sack of 280 Krukcator, MARCH 26.—At our country markets this week we bed lees grain offering than for months past, par ticularly of barley, which seems about exhausted. Farmers asking much higher prices checked sales, so that very little changed b►nds. Here, to-day, we bad small supplies of all kinds of grain. Salsa ready, at an advance of Is. per quarts on wheat and bailey, sad 6d. per quarter on oats. Wheat, 13a. to 41s. per qr. ; barley, 2.55. to 325. ; oats, Ma. lid. to WATERFORD, MARCH 26.—We hare again to report SCISoty deliveries of home-grown grain ; cauterise our re. osipte have also been very limited, and from foreign °air one cargo of maize has reached as. The trade has continued extremely dull, but, with meeption of Indian cora, prices hays been pretty well supported. Wheat—Foreign is limited request at the currency of this day ee'onight. 'risk in very small compass, and fully as dear. Barley supports previous rates. Oats—The supply is barely equal to de demand, sod 94.7 d. to tis. 9d. per 141 Moue would be freely paid for prime samples. Indian Cors—We must again note a decline in the value of all varieties, especially secondary sorts. Very little has cbauged bands during the week. Flour inactive. Imports this week :—Barley, 101 qrs. ; Indian corn, 9,720; oatmeal, 30 sacks; flour, 10. Exports this week :—Oats, 5,112 barrels ; flour, :7 sacks. CATTLE. —Calmat.; lIABot 26.—Thar wu • fair WITS of Irish oattla ow tha mods to-day, awd • tow gasp WITS also on offer. The attandawsi of buyers being mall, imitates was dull. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. 431AVIZIOID.—Arelerd: March IS. &Onset Tarnish from Roues. 26. Anglo-Sarno. and Surat. shsliphae . Belgium. Ostend: Cer vantes. T•rragotla Col* New Vork ; Concordia, Ranters. lsdphin.Gein of the Ocean, and Hydrantha. 76. Michael's lWlda. Helsingburg Favourite, llangesamt : Johannes. Nyklobtng James Livesay, Calcutta Lucerne, Trieste: Moselle, Antwerp: Neptune. Havre; Pegasus, theistianses ; Percy, Stavanger: Sancta Marta, Sanders. Union, Struer ; Vixen. Drolak. L. Anna Minde, and T. duns, Aalborg ilerno, and Lady Eglintou. Hamburg; Cologne, and Magnet, Rotterdam; Dorothea, Reinke. and Dina. Randers. Ellen, and Ina. Glierneey Eunice, Returned . Emma, Ponierand ; Lion. Harlingen ; Lord J. Rubel 1, Dunkirk ; Stadt Dcedrecist, Dordt ; Touch Not, St. Michael's. Sailed—March 26. Bellows. to New York Countess of Loos. dale, Hamburg; Holland, Ostend: Lord Raglan, Hong Kong Leo, Rotterdam. 27. Amy, amen : Adler. Bremen : baron o lay, Antwerp ; /Wavier, and Nora, Rotterdam City of Hamilton, Montreal : , hanticieer, Jamaica; Zak. Guernsey : Sari 44f Auck. land, Harting= Helen* Corfu Oeta, Copenhagen : Queen of the Clyde. Bombay ; Royal Alice, Sydney ; Sir R. Peel. Dunkirk; Tartar, Lisbon; Wye. Y epwote LtrileooL. —Arrived 26. Great Victoria tr. from Melbourne Bias (a). New York ; Bangalore, Bombay Ifriope, Partalia ; Zygia, St. Michael's ; Jenne Charles. and Charles Marie, Nantes: Six [bothers. and Rose and Marie, Bayonne: clam, Roues Auguste. Ostend ; Deur Ernestine*, Luenu R. Wald ibsuPeldt, Christina. Sailed—March 26. Perils (a), to New York ; Kedar (a), Half. far and New York. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT VICTORIA.—The =SW steamer Great Victoria. which left Liverpool of the let of January, arrived is the lf eney of Saturday morning. Whoa opposite New Zealand, the rudder gave way. and mold not be properly repaired ; the consequeoce was that the voyage was necessarily tedious. She brings 18,000 ounces of gold in specie, a large number of passengers, and a very large cIi rt:TRNING OF kW EMIGRANT SSW. —On Balm:lay, the destruction of the emigrant ship, Louis Napoleon, by fire, was reported at Lloyd's. Provideetially the catastrophe was not attended with loss of life, although the passengers and crew are stated to have had a narrow comps. The 111-fated ship was on a voyage from Hamburg to New York, and had about 60 passengers on board. She left the Elbe in the early part of February ; and on the 20th of that mouth, when in Ima 25 N., long. 66 W., elm wu discovered to be cis 6re.AU efforte failed to amiogniali the flames, and she. was totally destroyed. The emigrants aod crew took to the boats, sod, on the following day, were picked up by fhe schooner Peerless, from Baltimore to Porto Moo. The brig Harding, from Trinidad. spoke with her, and took en bawd several of the passengers of the Louis Napoleon, and landed them at Raegedsold. CCurollans FOR STEAM RAM..—It is not to be endured that private ship-builders should have the power, by so evasion of the law, to supply vessels of war to the enemies of people with whom we sea at peace, and, by so doing, involve us in war with them. On the other hand it is istaleisble that my foreign settee should be empowered to limit the bushiest of my British ship-builder. llid not the government offer to buy the steam rams in the Mersey, and was not that offer refused Because then why does not our dear old Pam ask the legislature to give government the power of compelling the sale of any vessel of war which it may think proper to buy at a fair valaatios. A power the same as that which is exercised by every mossy grubbing railway company, at the expense of anybody, might surely be entrusted to her Majesty's Ministers for the public good, and to the very slight dim advantage only of unpatriotic shipwrights. Remember, moreover, that the British Navy would be much ioureaml in eficiecey by @Very addition which it received from a pri• veto dockyard.—Patent. MORE THAN EVER AND BETTER THAN STEIL—This appiki to the largest and bed stock of smiag and stammer patterns ever submitted for public approvaL The worid-fseed lee trousers at Alfred Webb Miles; the originator's only eats. blishment.7l., Brooketreet, Hanmerequare. &tab Lobed ISal Advertisement. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTH& JOLLEY. —March BR at The Grove, Blackheath, the wile of the Rev. W. B. Jolley, of a soa. M —At a, Washlugtou-temce. Southampton, the alto of J. Y. Measuni, Tay., R.N., of a (laughter. /LEM 180.—March U, at laton-place West, Belgravaequate, the wife of C. Necking. Jun., VAN. , of a sou. 9.l4ll(.—March 19, at Langton-road, Camberwell New-road( M the wile of J. F. H. urphy, Esq., of a son. WARD.—Match 23, at Oaklands, near Wolverhampton, the wife of H. Ward, fieq., of • =ee l OIL COXIMAD—LONSDALL—Marsh U, at St. hare, Islington, II the Rev. J. A. Coedan. William Frederick, son of the late Mr. C. Colbrod, of Bath, to Amy, davghter of Mr. Looadak. of Islington. NUMB AN—ROXBUROB.—MarcIt 2.3. at Hill-street, Glasgo., by the Rev. Dr. Macfarlane, Francis, son of M. Sharman, Lao , Wellingborough, to Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Roshargh, of Glasgow. DEATHS. CArLiNfnliarell 115..al — Cosip - 47174tomtee, billoctna, sank widow of th7fai; ZYKlL—March ta at Iranahaw Sernty, Mr. T Eyre, aged IL moDuarra.—Martls Tl, at Finlay, Haar I:enema 7, Mina Llialptta. aced 96. BOCSTUWN.—March =, at Plena. !Saxony, after a short Illness. the mod dearly loved sad deeply lamented eon et WUUam Hottelown. Lp of Dlinionth. County Mayo. Ireland. - March It, at flolbora.bUl, Mr. F. A. Ridier. aged 7U. STORIL—Ou Good /tidy, at hie residence, 8. Streathatn.lilli, William &watt iltorr, of Ling-street. Covent-prden, aged tiS