The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

Doe net 111$ roc' me. L t 0 LSW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ,ungs At Nisi Prius in Mi.hlleaez.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice awl a Common Jury.) rR.‘Y to N1:!4,1. plaintiff in this case 3lisa Fray, who is so well in conrequence of her frequent appearance in the and she sued as administratrix of her late father, . hed Mgt The defendant was the widow of a soli , of Newtown, in 3lontgomeryshire, who died in Ilel6, the action was to recover a deed of gift, a probate of a abstract of title, and !Me other papers, which it had been in poss. ~ion of Mr. Owens as solicitor M.. Fray. appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Joyce defendant. til.iintitt end her mother were called, and the eel. ~ .34 that four years ago she, in company with a milicitor, miles( upon the defendant in %%ales, and ago the plainti ff , with her mother, again called. th,, occasions the defendant wan asked about her hue. papers, and she said that she had handed over all p..pers to her eldest son, who bad offices in the City, a Oose address she gave. The conversations appeared !Lire teen of some length, but it did not appear that the d.:-Ilients which the plaintiff claimed were at all parties !,n-,•d on these occasions. Mr. Joyce submitted that there was no case for the jury. *I be Lord Chief Justice said that ho thought that there „,, no case; and the fury seemed to be of the same n. It would be better, however, that the jury determine the case. M r . Joyce, in addressing the jury, L 1.1.1 there had been e lmanistrAtion taken out to the effects of the late Mr. wens, and the reason was that he had left no estate hi Mud hue. Notwithstanding these circumstances the 111.10 1 was now sued for documents, which were stated to .40.11311,11011/., rub 2,000/, was also claimed as damages ?or the detention. Mrs. Owens had in truth come into posscasion of two or three cart loads of . limners on her husband's death, and she handed them over to her son, who was a member of the legal profs*. Isom He submitted that there was no proof whatever .f the existence of the particular papers which were now for. . The Lind Chief Justice repeated that in his opinion :bete was no case of any sort or kind ; there wan no %tarrice of the existence of the documents clanneiL The jury. however, hesitated to give their decision, and afters I , llcort consultation the foreman said that some of ru• jury thought that the defendant and her son should t..oe been called to disclaim all knowledge of the docu ments. . - ... The Lord Chief Justice—But what documents ? I have .Atended carefully to the evidence and cannot make out sh.d the apers are. Mies Fray, no doubt, talked about guy deed ' and "my papers,2 but there is nothing to identify any one of them. The foreman, after a short communication with the other ,urors. said—We ant aatisfied now; we give our verdict lor the defendant. Verdict accordingly. TIM POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERKENWELL BIAIOLAKY BY 5)114.-COMIIIITAL. James Instrr, aged 14, Edwin Anger, aged 12, and John Hatton, aged 12, were charged before Mr. Cooke with lelonioUsly and burglarioualy breaking and entering the dwelling-house, 92, Park-road, Barnthury, and stealing therein three sheets and other articles, the property of Mr. Charles Griffiths. From the evidence of Police-constable Creedin, 266 Y, it appeared that about half-past 5 in the morning be saw the three prisoners, and, suspecting from their manner that they were up to no good, he stopped them, and found the articles mentioned in the charge-sheet in their pos- Hokin. He took them to the police-station, and then they said that they bad broken into the house of Mr. Griffiths. On the constable going there, he found that the prisoners broken into the kitchen, and had stolen the above goods. It appeared that the prisoners had before been se, n in the arm of the house, and had been turned out, and they then said that they should take the Lind oppor tunity of breaking into the house. The prisoners, who treated the matter as a good joke, said that they did not wish to make any defence. Mr. Cooke said it was pitiful to see boys in such a position, and committed them to the Central Criminal Cenrt fur trial. The elder Foster, turning to the other prisoners, said, (Ib, ain't it tine to go to Newgate for trial ?" The prisoners were then removed laughint. MARYLEBONE. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH or A CHILD. A tall, stout Irishwoman, named Mary Haggerty, was charged on suspicion of causing the death of her child, one month. . . _ 1 :0 'Mr. Allen, of the Associate I ns tit u t e f or Irn • and Wareing the Laws for th e P ro t ec ti on of omen and %dam. watched the case on behalf of that society. John Cross, :CZ A, said yesterday his a tt en ti on was mad to the prisoner, who was carrying • dead child i n her arms. He asked her where she was going, and she I she did not know. He asked her where she lived, uvl she said she had no home or habitation. She said the Child was her own. Mr. d'Eynoourt—Did she say the cause of death constable—No, your worship. Mr. d'Eyneenrt—Have you any idea as to its death? Constable—l think it must have been smothered. Mr. d'Eyncourt—Was the body still warm? Constable—Yes, sir, quite warm. Mr. d'Eyncourt—Was she sober? Constable—hhe had been drinking. Mr. d'Eyncourt— Where does she reside! Constable—She was turned out of the workhouse on the previous morning for being drunk. Prisoner —He drunk this morning? Why, I had no but three.balfpenny worth of gin. I went to give the the breast, and found it dead. Jute Thorpe said she resided at 12, Paul-street, Limn. ve, where the prisoner lived. She came to witness and eked h er t o wash the child. It was in a shockingly dirty te,and abe did so. The child was rightenough when she pre it up to the prisoner. It was right when she washed s. she bad heard it screaming during the night, but was tot aware of the cause. Mr. dEyncoart said he would not go further into the tatter now, and adjourned the case. WORSHIP•STREET. ROBBING a DETECTIVIL respectably-dressed thick-set man, who pre the name 0 norm , Jones, was charged with stealing from the per nof oho Thomas, 53 il division of police, a plain clothe. a portion of his gold guard-chain, and likewise to steal the watch attached. said—Last night whilesianding in the between 11 and 12 o'clock, the prisoner, by a amnion, met me direct, and es he did so the chain, which broke in his hand, leaving th in the pocket of the vest. I instantly and finding that he still held the portion of n in his hand told him that I knew it, and alsothat robbed a police-constable. He looked at me second and then flung the piece in the road. i , wton —Was he sober ! air, but he prstended to be in liquor ; an accident, and that he had accidentally occasioning him to grasp the chain Ir. Newton —What became of the woman ? %mu She ran away, s i n I." ' - e Awn I was tipsy. I should think he moat h av e me. Aesrun—ls he known! ssas—l have not ed much time to learn anhin 3 tin. He has giv b en several accounts of himsel y f. t H e t a Inothel. *—No, lire. is • respectable woman. I I,lenty of e h ar a c t e !r. Newton What are you! n'ocrr—A stove-mason. I never was in a police-court Ne wton —Where are you at work? l'paser—l have hoen working at the new church dorm Rlinonton way, a short time since. Browns Ainson will give me a character. P, J.:. N ewton —What was found on him! Newton — What skeleton key and a private door key. itr. Newton —Then he will be remanded for a week. SOIT'r/TWARIC. sly TAIL AAAAr LT ON A STATION-NASTKR. &nor ' • very resp ec t a bl e l oo ki ng man, wait at the bar before Mr. Woolrych charged with ( into defraud the South-Eastern Railway Com as,' committing a brutal assault on Mr. Gilder.- theatationmaster at the Spa-road Station. latter amid that he was on duty on the platform on +mai of the 8 o'clock train from Charing-cross, h e taw the prison er ge t ou t o f a third-clam fs, mob past the ticket collector, and endeavour , e the station without giving up his ticket. Wit followed him and stopped him in the lower • when the prisoner said he had lost his ticket. He hlr.c that he mu s t jay t h e fare from Charing-crow. raster refu se d, arid became very mu c h exc it e d, h l i e ktsess. and knock e d hi m d own. Whil e on t h e kicked witness and injured him ly. He :epelled to send f or a police-constable for e a assi stance, • , .:s hr gave him into custody. 4.o olrych asked if the prisoner was sober at the yell w hat be waa about. the bad been drinking, but be knew Re lir ltkbarls, a hop factor, said be saw the prisoner It the complainant, and perceiving him very much went up to him and advised him to pay his fare, ph.rne quietly. Instead of that he turned round 'it the stetion-mest er such a murderous blow that it ( "I Ime down, and then be fell on him. As the sta. l elee +ea getting up the poisoner kicked him. Wit 'eet to hi. eminence, and held him until a constable Yd took him into custody. billee,l623l,said he was called into the Spa-road _-..,.., ro m a , of John T po h rti ort , with attempting g The Prosecutor kae7-toott, be tooled t ea • .1 hold el - watch in e ...Ltd him, and 6 chain in his robbed rhvgly %WWII Pn 3 4ooe it, Mr. Thit tn.omas—Ye., id tumbled ogsinat 4 Plart. gr. N.„. 0 ._ 1 , Tnom m —s he n L l'W ewee I was Mr, lest 11/1 eartoo-11 ,rbalnas-1 h., r , t his & H o , 04,.y at a tooth, h 'motv ' Mf et Pi " a , Newton—% ' newer —A e t c Mr. N ewton _ l :, I gwaer —1 ha down 11. New will r 4" N ewton—Ng , -4 aitita—A she r. N , wtoo—/ nti'vat. I , ' . `"i at tee g z ., ttin; to def cr, and cornet **stall y on T tter r „,,] • 4n , , al of st. .crush pa 'tire the stati 61 0 ,..,. tbe him that hi rafter Mn *Anna, he kicked to " he g ave. • "Itgeb thon g ! well arha "!'tt itkbant " ( iNt the tom * the went ni th Nintne quiet e ' 4 'l him d oen waa went, *eat to his M red took hit " It THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1867. 'talon by butt witness. and saw the prisoner strike till. statioa•mmter several times. Mr. Edwin, for the defence. maid that hie client was very drunk and did not know what he was about. He regretted it very much. . . . . . . Mr. Woolrych observed that he had been 'piny of gross misconduct and of two offences. The first in attempting to evade payment of the legal fare demanded of him, and then in attacking the station-master in a brutal manner while in the execution of his duty. Mr. Edwin observed that he was instructed to say that the bye-laws were not pointed out to prisoner. Had that been so most likely this would not have happened. Mr. Oildersleeves informed his worship that he did point out the bye-laws to defendant, and asked him for his name and address, but instead of answering him he struck him as described. Mr. Woo!rya said that it was a very brutal assault, for which he fined him: /. or six weeks, and an additional pen thy of 205., or two weeks, for attempting to evade pay ment of the fare. The fines not being forthcoming, he we, committed to prison. MANSION•HOUSE•STREET ZVICTIONS. DEPI7ATION TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. -(THIS DAY.) This morning a deputation on the subject of the pending evictions for the new line of street from Black friars to the Mansion-house, waited upon Sr John Thwaites, at the offices of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Spring-gardens. The deputation was pro moted by the Evicted Tenants' Aid Association, and consisted, amongst others, of the Rev. Dr. Stebbing, rector of St. Mary's, Upper Thames-street ; Rev. C. F. Chase, M.A., restor of St. Andrew's Wardrobe ; Rev. T. Wiltshire, M.A., Dr. Clapton, Dr. Moody, Mature. S. H. Hadley, J. Anderson (Messrs. Hilton and Anderson), T. Chatfield Clarke J. Taylor, G. Vigeon, E. M. Warwick, C.C., all members of a load committee ; Messrs. George Cruikahank, G. Limnos Banks, and H. T. Humphrey, representatives of the parent society, and about twenty of the evicted themselves. _ _ _ Mr. Geom.?: eItrIKEHANR, in introducing the depute tion, said that as a citizen of London and an artist, he was anxious that the improvements which the board had in hand should be carried out ; but at the same time he considered the effect of those improvements upon the popu lation of the d' to where they were proposed was a mat ter requiring the greaten consideration. The eviction had been attended with serious consequences, and he believed the immorality and disease which would be created by overcrowding would be a frighful national evil. The persons afflicted were in very humble positions, and unless something was done for them, the only alternative left would be to apply for pariah relief. Mr. J. L Bangs then read a memorial which had been prepared for presentation on behalf of small trades and I poor persons resident in the neighbourhood of Upper' ' Thames-street. It dated that the contemplated improve ments would drive 50 or GO poor widows from their homes and deprive them of work and of private gifts which were only given to those living in the locality. A similar number of small traders would be also deprived of the connection which they had been making for years, and labouring men would be turned out of the houses which were contiguous to the places where they . were employed, and compelled to go to other local-- , ties in which they would be required to pay higher rents, and to pay deposits to their future landlords. The memo- rialists also complained that the principle of allowing com pensation to the poor was not being adequately carried out. Several members of the deputation having corroborated and supplemented the statements made in the memorial, Sir JOHN THwArrrs mid that while he and his col leagues regretted the position in which the persons who were dislodged by the improvements were placed, he believed it must be admitted on all sides that it was necessary that these improvements should be carried out. He had visited the locality to which the members of the deputation had alluded, and he was surprised to find that within the City of London places unfit for human habit- Lion existed, and that the poor were compelled to be crowded together in an atmosphere most unsuited for the maintenance of health. The board bad shown every con sideration for the poor who were required to leave their homes, and they had waited tillepnng to evict them and had abstained fromturning them out at a per i od of the year ' when the inclemency of the weather would have added to the misery of their situation. The board were prevented by act of parliament from giving any compensation except in cases involving a legal claim, and with regard to the system of deposit referred to, he regretted that what was intended to go into the pockets of the poor in the shape of arrears of rent had been absorbed by the landlords. However, he promised to lay the entire matter before his colleagues, and so far as they were permitted by the powers given them by act of parliament, they should be prepared to deal with the cases as they arose, and especially with the evil consequent upon the benefits denved by—he would not say greedy landlords—but by those who were taking away what was intended for the poor. The deputation then thanked Sir John Thwaites, and withdrew. GREENWICH. VIOLATION OF THE VACCINATION ACT.-INFLICTION OF THE FULL PENALTY. Jo mi.* Allele. of Blaekhorsedieldo, Deptford, appeared to an adjourned summons before Mr. Traill, charging him with neglecting to have a child above the age of three months, of which he is the father, vaccinated, after receiving notice requiring him to do so. Mr. Henderson, surgeon, and one of the public vaccine ton for the parish of Deptford, said that in consequence of the prevalence of smallpox in the parish, and seven caws occurring within 100 yards of the defendant's real. dence, be had called at the several houses personally and inspected children. He visited the defendant's house and saw the wife and child, and told her it would be necessary she should take the child to her own medical attendant for the purpose of having it vaccinated, or he would vaccinate it himself. The wife refused, and the present summons was issued. _ _ The defendant said he was not at home, or the refusal to have the child vaccinated would not have been mrde. The operation had since been performed. Mr. Traill told the defendant that the law required him to take, or cause to be taken, his child for the purpose of vaccination, and delay in doing so might have been the means of spreading smallpox in the district. He should, therefore, Impose the full penalty of 20s. and testa. WANDSWORTH. KINGI'IAR RAILWAY DIMPUTF.-RZLIMVPRIROMIL247. A well-dreamed young man, of gentlemanly manners, was placed in the deck on the following charge : The prisoner first inquired whether he could reserve hie name. Mr. Ingham told him that he could all himseU by any [Mlle he liked. He wished to know, however, by what name he would like to be called. Seymour, one of the officers of the court, said the pri soner had refused his name and address. In reply to the magistrate, the prisoner gave the name of William Hevriaq. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner arrived by a train belonging to the South Western Railway Com pany from Kensington to Clapham Junction, and showed a return ticket for riding by the Brighton trains from Victoria station to Clapham Junction. On being told the ticket was not available, and that he would have to pay 3d., the fare, be complained of the arrangements, and re fused to pay on principle. As he refused to give his name and address, he was given in charge. The prisoner read his defence, from which it that the reason he did not give his name and 6117i:07,11 d r apply for bail after he was locked up, was to resist what he considered an attempt at extortion. He complained of being treated as a common malefactor for simply disputing a matter of debt. Mr. Ingham explained to him that the officers of the company had a right to detain him if he refused to give his name and address. _ . _ Tir•piisonerarrmitted that was correct, as he had since found that he was wrong. Mr. T. Bent the company's superintendent of police, was called, ,ind in answer to questions b 7 the prisoner, said that the South Western Company earned the Brighton passengers from Kensington to Clapham Junction, but not their passengers with return tickets from Victoria Station to Clapham Junction. The prisoner said he could prove that the Brighton Com pany allowed return ticks.. from Victoria to Clapham Junction to be available from Kensington, and therefore he argued that the South Western Company by their treaty with the Brighton Company were bound to carry him from Kensington to Clapham Junction. Mr. Ingham said the arrangements of the Brighton Com pany had nothing to do with the South Western Company. He, however, admittedthat the arrangements at Clapham Junction were exceedingly puzzling, but if the prisoner bad been deceived by the B ri ghton Company he could bring an action against them. He then ordered the prisoner to pay the fare and a line of ls. The money warn immediately paid. THE HOXTON TILAGEDY.—There are some addi tional particulars to report respecting Henry Thomas Fletcher and his wife, whom be murdered at baton on Saturday night. It appears that about seven week, ago he summoned her before the magistrate at the Thames police-court, on • charge of assault, and alleged that she attempted to bite his nose off in the public street. He is said to have been • respectably connected young man, who in the course of a rather feat life had made the acquaintance of the girl whom he afterwards made his wife. At the time she had an illegitimate child living. The marriage was opposed by his friends, but in vain. After the birth of their fi rst child she became addicted to habits of intemperance, and about two months ago he found her lying, prostrated by drink, upon the floor of a public-house. The sight so d isgusted him that he deter mined to separate from her. He agreed to allow her ss. per week for her two children. She consented to this ar rangement at first, but afterwards wished to break it. On one occasion she went to his father's house in a great rage, broke the windows of the lower rooms, and tore the cur tains down. She then left the house, and, chancing to meet her husband in the saeet, she struck him, and then attempted to bite his nose. The magistrate bound her over to keep the peace for six months. She then went to live with her friends until Thursday last, the day upon which she entered the Bridge-house Tavern, Hoxton, as a servant. It seems certain that her husband planned her murder several days before he accomplished it. He went to • public-house to inquire for her on Thursday night, but failed to find her then, and only learned where she was in time to go on Saturday night. Before going to her he went to the house where the children were, and left a little money for their support. He walked on to the Bridge-house Tavern, and having shot his wife, fired • seemed pistol at himself. By trade he was • • ship's car penter, and was noted as being a steady, intelligent, and industrious man. About thre.i years ago he was employed upon an Australian vessel, and whilst he was on board the ship took fire. He suffered considerable injuries then, and on recovery it was observed that he was very excitable and eccentric in his manner. HORRIBLE Cm:retry. Richard Bishop, the marker at the Hereford rifle butts, stands remanded on a of cruelty to his child, Ann Bishop. The child de before the magistrates that she was 11 years of age, and that on Tuesday night week her father tied her to a beam in the garret and flogged her with a nape. She got loose and he tied her up again, and she was in that post. tion nearly an hour. The rope was doubled, and she bad no clothes on. She escaped through a skylight on to the roof, and fell down into the yard, where • woman picked her up and took her to the police station. The child further stated that her father beat her with stinging. nettles on the Sunday previous ; she was then naked. Her mother did not interfere, and she got under the bed to escape. Her father tied her to • beam round the waist, with her feet just touching the floor. The evidence of • doctor and the nurse at the workhouse confirmed the poor girl's statement. A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. —On Sunday morning last, Mrs. Cl , wife of Mr. Cleaver, station-master at the London and Brighton station, Tunbridge Wells, was sitting at • window over the glass verandah in front of the station with her daughter, about three years of age, when the little girl soddenly fell out of the window on to the verandah. Before Mrs. Cleaver could rescue her child she was greatly alarmed at seeing her break through the glass and fall on to the flagstones beneath, a distance of nearly 20 feet. The feelings of the mother, however, were greatly relieved on finding that her little one had sus tained no injury beyond a few scratches and a somewhat severe Amt.—Maid:lose Journal. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The past week has been one of very extraordinary character considering the period of the year, indeed, such as has rarely been ex perienced during the month of May. On Monday the day was moat brilliant and the temperature rose to a height which seemed at once to plunge us into the full heat of summer. The same magnificent weather continued, though with somewhat modified heat, until Friday, when a change was obviously impending, and on that evening a very severe storm of thunder lightning, rain, and wind was experienced throughout this district. The wind blew a perfect hurricane and the fruit and other trees suffered considerably from its fury. Early on Saturday morn ing a recurrence of the storm though much more modified in its violence, took plac e, and since that day the weather has been wet and cloudy, with a greatly reduced temperature. In fact the wind has been quite chilly, with " a sharp edge on it" from the north.eut. The heavy showers of rain have been very beneficial, following after the previous four or five dry and hot days. The reports from the agriculturists are very satisfactory. The grain crops—indeed crops of all descriptions -are looking re markably well. The dry weather enabled considerable progress to be made in cleaning the land and killing weeds, whilst the subsequent rain has found the earth In a con dition to take advantage of every drop that fell. The pro gress of vegetation during the past ten days has been almost marvellous ; indeed, to use a common expression, "one could almost see the grass grow."—dsssex ddrer- Vier. _ _ SOUTH KENSINGTON MIIBIOII.—ViiitOGI during the week ending May 11 : On Monday, Tuesday, and flaturda,v, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 6,712 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admis sion 6d.), from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,550 ; national por trait exhibition, by payment, 1,732 ; total, 9,994. Average of corresponding week in former years, 11,573. Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,696,811. THg TRAGEDY AT MICICHURST-HILL. THE EVIDENCE OF MISS GRIGOS.—(THIS DAY.) WALTHAM ABBEY, TUVIDALT. This morning, at 10 o'clock, the prisoner, Frederick Alexander Watkins, arrived at the Waltham Abbey police station, whence he was taken to the county court of the district. Miss Matilda Griggs, a pretty-looking girl, was brought to the court in a private Sy, and was accompanied by her father and mother. At a quarter to 11 o'clock this forenoon the magistrates took their seats upon the bench. Mr. Abrams, of Bow-street London, appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of the accuse d. Mr. Jessup, the - clerk, read aloud the charge, which stated that Frederick Alexander Watkins had maliciously stabbed and wounded Matilda Griggs with a dagger, in a field at Itnekhurstehill, with intent to murder her. The first witness called was Matilda Griggs. She sp. peered to be very weak, and was roommonated with a seat. After she was sworn 11r. Jeaeop then read over to her the deposition which she had made when it was thought she was dying. He read it in the third person, and as he stated the facts that she had deposed to him she answered " Yee," in • very feeble tone of voice. Clerk—Have you anything to add to the information that you have made? Witness—Nothing Mr. Abrams ask ed her if she had not always been very affectionately treated by the prisoner. Witness—He always treated me with the greatest affec tion and attention. I know that his father had an estate. I made the prisoner's acquaintance at his father's house. He never complained to me of pains in his head. He never told me that watchmaking gave him pains in the bead. He did say that brtckmaking agreed with him better than watchmakin4. He said be had better health. I recollect his having his ears pierced, but I do not recollect that he had it done on account of pains In his head. I walked out with him on Easter Mon day. He told me that he had been to the stag hunt. He did not tell me that be was uneasy in his mind. I do not recollect that he told me that he could not sleep at night. I would not venture to swear that he did not. He came to my house on the Tuesday evening. I do not think that he was in an excited state. He came at a quarter-past 8 o'clock. We left the house at half-past 8 o'clock. I did not notice anything pe culiar in his manner. I do not recollect his saying to me, " Matilda, I feel unhappy in my mind." He might have said so. At this stage of the examination the witness became quite overcome, and she closed her eyes and lay back in the chair. Dr.H Tn e at once came to her assistance. . . .. . . . . . Mr. Abrams said that be would make — the examination as short as possible. Miss Griggs was then assisted out of she court. Mr. H. L Patterson, inspector of police, was then called, and he said, on Wednesday, the 24th of April, at a quarterlisst 5 o'clock in the morning,the prisoner came to the Epping Police-station, and said :—" I have stabbed • young woman at Buckhurst-hill." Witness enutiuned him that whatever be might say would be used in evi dence for or against him. He then said, " I stabbed her in • field at Bnekhurst.hill."' " Who was she r asked the witness. " Miss Griggs," replied the prisoner. He then said that be felt so ill. that he wanted to go out into the ksedan. Waning accompanied him there, and he and that be had taken something that he ought not to have taken the night before. He said that he had taken acid that he used in his trade as • watchmaker. When he got better witness asked him, " Who is Miss Griggs ?" "The daughter of Thomas Griggs, well borer, of North- Buokhuret.hill." When asked why he stabbed6TM replied, " We bad some words, and all that." He said that he had stabbed her with a dagger. He said that he did not know how often he had stabbed her. He supposed in two or three places. He said he did not know where he had left the young woman. He supposed that some people had found her. He said that his name was Frederick Watkins, of 36, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, and that he was a watchmaker, now lodging at the Foz, Buckhunt-hill. Witness examined his hands. Found blood on his hands. (When that statement was made, the eyes of all in the court were directed towards the prisoner. He looked very red, and he leant upon his right hand.) The witness continued, and said that be then took the prisoner into custody, and left him in charge while he went to the meadow. Croas-examined bi Mr. Abrams—The reason of witness's asking the prisoner so many questions, after cautioning him, was to ascertain where the girl was, and whether she was alive or dead. The prisoner was not in the least excited at the time. [The ezaminstionwee proceeding when our report left.] FOREIGNERS TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND.—A co respondent of the Times relates the following :—" A Swiss gentleman, having come to Leaden with some friends, wished to visit • sister-in-law residing at Bicester, in Ox fordshire, where, after some difilculty, from his being un able to speak English, he arrived in mfety. On his return to town, however, on the Bth of April last, being a little embarrassed at having to change trains at Bletchley, he was politely shown into • carriage by four well-dressed gentlemen (T) who endeavoured to fore . him to play at cards. On his persisting in his refusal, they seized him by the throat and robbed him, and he escaped further vio lence only by adroitly thrusting his fist through the win dow, opening the door, and jumping out while the train was in motion. Had he not done so, ho would have found himself, if anywhere, penniless in Manchester instead of in London. Having found his way back to Bletchley, and made known as well as he could his misfortune to the sta tion-master, he was passed on to London." MACKEREL. —An immense quantity of mackerel, estimated at 350 tons, was caught on the Cornish coast during the past week. Upwards of 170 tons were sent from 81. Ives to London in a single day, and the large provincial markets were also extensively supplied. Prima varied from 12e. to 30s. per six score, according to the condition of the fish when landed. The mackerel have moved a long distance from Penitence and Bt. Ives, and the fishermen have to arrange with the largest and swiftest beats to get the can:thee on shore in time to be despatched by the morning and mid-day trains. A steamer is called into requisition when available. The fishery has for some time given constant and profitable employment to • very large number of people. LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE BATH MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) TRIAL STAKES. One mile. Ostzeger (not to be ,old), Cros7;lchMe, Black Prince (4001. each). All are here. FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL. One mile and a half. Wroogiaton, Van Amburgh, Whirligig, Man of Ross, and Flying need are here. BATH HANDICAP. One mile. Jack o'L‘ntern, Bradamante, Goo Brat, Knight Errant, Vixen, Pevensey, Red Rib a nd, en d Ch eva lier d'Esprit are here. SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL Half a mile. Grhnston, Thoruaby, Bt. Valentine, Pleasure Boat, Lord Palmerston, l'antine c, and Herennianue are here. BEAUFORT CUP. Two and a half miles. Lecturer. Motility, Black Prince, Flying Scud, Steam. boat, John Davis, Knight Errant, Pintail, and Balpinctes are here. COUNTY MEMBERS' PLATE. One mile. Jack o' Lantern, Bradamante, Red Riband, Whirligig, Cromwell, Libertine, Rhymer, Opposition, Millie, and Flying Spanker are here. CRICKET. LORD'S GROUND.(THIS DAY.) KARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND v. THE COLTS OF ENGLAND. Play in this match, which had assumed a most interest ing phase when the stumps were drawn last night, "Colts" being 20 runs in arrear upon the first innings, was resumed this morning at a few minutes after noon, Mr. Wilkinson and Grundy being, as before, the first pair of batamen, to face the bowling of Scott and Correll (the latter from the Pavilion end). The weather being again cold, and the north-east wind still prevailing, there were not fifty spectators present when play commenced. Grandy did the most part of the hitting, which included a good 3 to leg. Mr. Wilkinson was the first to retire after making a couple, he being neatly caught st the wicket by Odams (1 for 91. He was followed by Mr. Hone, whose stay MU again very abort, as, after finking 2 in the slips, he was bowled by a " shooter " from Scott 12 for 13). Mr. R. D. Walker followed, and, with Grundy (whose off-hitting was very fine), they soon raised the score to 30, when Cowell gave up the ball to Mum ford, and at 1 o'clock the score stood as under : M.O C. AND GROUND. &wood Innings. Mr. A. J. Wilkinson, c °dams b Soon J. Grundy. not out Mr. Hone, b Scott Mr. It. D. Walker, not out Total TT MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAL) Oxi o'Owat. There is little general business in the Stock Exchange to-day, and the course of prices is in most cases unfavourable, notwithstanding the signature of the Luxemburg treaty, the drooping tendency of the value of money, and the cessa tion of withdrawals of gold from the Bank for ex port. Consols are unaltered for money, but are 1-16 per cent. better for the account. British railway stocks, however, are still offered, and have again given way. Midland is prominently heavy, being further prejudiced by the publication of an official advertisement convening a meeting of the proprietors for the 29th inst., for the purpose of asking them to authorise the construction of new railways and other works. The chief movement in foreign bonds is in Italian of 1861, which have de clined. The settlement of the account still occu pies the attention of the dealers. The demand for discount to-day is upon a mode rate scale, and the rate for choice bills is unaltered, at 22 per cent. Loans for a few days, on English government securities, are obtainable in the Stock Exchange at 15 to 2 per cent. Consols are now quoted 911 to 1, with div., for money, and 90j to 4, ex div., for the account (June 6); and the Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 891 to 90. The Indian Five per Cent. stock remains firm ; the present quotation is 1101 to 1111. Italian Bonds of 1861 are fiat, and have de clined 5 per cent. ; but Turkish of 1865, Spanish Certificates, and Mexican have improved 5. Turkish Bonds of 1865 are quoted 305 to 5 ; Greek, 135t05 ; Spanish Paige*, 215 to ; ditto Certifi cates, 135 to 145; Italian of 1861, 515 to 4 ; Mexican, 165 to 5. Bank shares are quiet, with very few dealings. Imperial Ottoman, however, are 2s. 6d. better, at 14 to 15 dia. Union of London are quoted 38 to 40, and Alliance, 11 to 10 dia. Financial and miscellaneous shares show no move ment. International Financial are quoted2f to # dia. ; London Financial, 23i to 22} die. ; General Credit, 2i to dis. ; Credit Fonder, 61 to dia. ; National Discount, 61 to 7} prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, 16 to I. American securities exhibit no change of import ance. The 5-20 Bonds are quoted 71i to K ; Erie Railway shares, 42} to ; and Illinois Central, 76 to Atlantic Cable shares are steady, at the improve ment of yesterday. Anglo-American are called 14 to I, and Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, to;. The New South Wales Government Five per Cent. Bonds, just introduced by the Oriental Bank Corporation, are quoted Ito prem. It would appear that many persons have clung to a hope that the report of the royal commission on rail ways would have contained some recommendation tending to a restoration of confidence in this great interest, the decline in which has now assumed de plorable proportions. There is one point in which government might certainly extend an important degree of assistance, and that is by instituting a government audit in such a manner that, without the State being mixed up with or made responsible for the management of railway companies, the great gain of a government supervision of railway accounts might be attained. By this means the debenture and other issues would be satisfactorily verified, and means might be easily devised for preventing railway companies in the future from having recourse to those disgraceful financial expedients which have frequently excited so much scandal. In the case of the Indian rail ways, for example, implicit confidence is always felt in the securities issued, and in the periodical financial statements, supervised as they are by government officers. The small amount of Mexican dollars by the French mail packet were sold yesterday at 4a.,111d. per ounce, showing no change. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Hudson and Co., woollen merchants, held at Leeds on Saturday, the liabilities were estimated at 16,0001., and the assets as 11,0001. The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 3,0451. over last year. We have received the following from Mr. W. Coningham, one of the directors of the Brighton Railway Company : PROVINCIAL MIRE MAME= ImerooT., MAT IS—ilea today Great Beaters, new account, ES 7/—Great Western, 41 , new account, 41—Lancashire and Yorkshire 1231 4 ; new account, 164 I—London and North Western, 113 111 111; new account, 1121 4—Metropolltan, 117 161—Midland, new account, 106/ 7—South Latent, new account. 6s 14 I—Birkenhead, 87—United States 610 Bonds, 1862,721 new account, 721—Great Luxemburg shares, 94: new account, 9 5-16—North Western Bank (Limited), I—so al In surance, 21—Anglo-American Telegraph, 18 6-16—Atiantic Tele -8 per ant., 4 6161 7-10—Buncorn Soap and Alkaline Lktalted),l. MAlOnlarin, MAY 13.—The market opened steady, but afterwards gave way, closing rather above the lowest point. Atlantic Telegraph Preference Eight per Cent., 881--Great Bastern, for account, 271 S -- Great Luxemburg, for account, 01 I—Great Northern, A, for account, 1094 I—Great Western of Canada, for account, 14 9-16—Great Western, for account, 414 401 1 I—Lancsahlre and Yorkshire, 1231 ; ditto, for amount, 1231 I—London and North * esters, 1131 : ditto, for account, 113 111 e 4—Manchester, BbsiSeld, sad lincoinahlre, *II for account, 464 1 11 6 614—Metropolitan ' for account, 1161 1 1 —Midland. 108: ditto, for account, 10717 6117 GM —Bough Medan, ditto, for account, 611 21 31 21 I—naaes and Mersey Marine Insurance (Limited 15 16 33 p —United States 620 Years' Bonds, 721—Loodon, Brighton, and South Coed, 60 ; ditto for account, 66 61 1: Butinrozam, MAT IS—Badness dam: Birmingham Joint Block Bank (Limit ed at** ; Lloyd's Bank (Limited), at 71 ; Birmingham Gas, clam et 128 : Ditto, new ordinary, at 61 : Midland ,Vagoo, at 96; Patent Nut and Bolt (United), at 31 db , and Patent Shaft and Arbitrate (Limited) New, at 1 pm. Closing prices: Staffordshire Joint Stock Bank (Lbnited , , 21 to 2.1 pm ; Metropolitan Railway Carriage sad WAIOII I Ltnated , , third lune, to dia. ; and Birmingham Water Works, Si to 314 par share. THE Canct Tza Race.—The latest advioss from China are to the effect that six ships have entered for the race to England, viz., the Ariel, Series, Taitaing, Taeping, Sir Launoelot, and Black Prince. Although the Ariel won the run home last year by a neck, the shippers of the new season'. tees this year have to a certain extent transferred their favours to the Black Prince as the win ner, but still retain the fast ship of last year's race as a favourite for a place. THE FOUNDER or CALIFORNIA.—A California letter states that Marshall, who discovered gold in Cali fornia, has recently found a rich silver mine on almost identically the same spot where he first discovered gold in 1848. After an interval of 18 years he resumes his pick and shovel at the very point where the precious metal first met his vision, and which discovery has peopled this coast and built this great city. Marshall is a half hermit, misanthropic, wild and erratic character. He lives alone in • little house in the suburbs of the village of Caloma, where he has for some parapet cultivated a little garden, raised grapes, and made wine in • small way, from the sale of which he has managed to live. He is a tall, sinewy man, with grizzly hair and beard and wild eyes. For years he has lived in great poverty, but was too proud to receive assistance. JACK AT TEI EMIT END.—Who would think of there being a " School " in the main thoroughfare that is the string of the Wapping and Shedwell river bow ! But there is held in what used to be • " doctor's 'bop ; " the young ladies, I suppose, being assembled in the side on which the shutters are put up and the gas turned on. Strolling Jacks flatten their noses against the glass door and the unshuttered window. They congregate in the same childlike fashion before a shop in which a long rank of pallid cork-cutters—packed so closely that you marvel that their elbows do not clash at every swing, with coo sequent unpleasant tingling of " funny bones"—are slicing away assiduously, ever and anon looking up to grin at the admiring observation which their monotonous labours attract. There is a very great deal of the child in Jack. Here he is staring like a child at a row of tumble-down, beetle-browed, tenantless houses, with rusty paint-blisters on their cracked, dusty, mud-splashed abutters, and pad locks on their doors, as if 1665 and the plague had come again. With a child's glee at doing what it has no busi ness to do, or the half-expectancy of rousing " the ghost." he raises the grating knockers, or tugs at the bell-pulls which return no tinkle. Like a child be fondles and pur chases the toy • watches, kettle-holders, blue-and-gold butterflies dangling from elastic, and other useless articles which the street-vendors force upon his notice. He falls an easy prey to the shabby End pbotoplien' shabbier touts. They allow landsman after landsman to pass by without a single gleam in their watery eyes or greasy smirk of their mangy moustaches, but instantly pounce upon the sailors, and convey them upstairs in detachments of half a dozen. The pistol and rifle galleries, open to the street, with battered targets blinking at the darksome other cod like damaged eyes, are irresistible temptations to Jack. In he must turn to try his luck. If he would only be a little leas fond of entering the less innocent saloons, into which he is lured by painted men of-war's men pro ff ering pots of porter blossoming like hawthorn-bushes, and painted female pirates th at have worse than a wo oden no-care for him in their invitations ! Even in his weaknesses, however, the genial character of the man shines out. Jack must stand treat. Here oomes a little mob of steerage passengers who made the voyage with him—looking very woe-begone and astray now they bare reached the port for which they longed ; and Jack, who has got a week's worth of his three months' wages left, instantly hauls the whole party through the finger rubbed swing -doors of the Admiral Benbow, to cheer up their hearts with "glares round."—Afoosy for May. THE FLEET PARSONS AND THE FLEET MARRIAGES. —lt may appear strange to some that the legislature should have permitted the Fleet scandals to remain un disturbed for the long period of three quarters of a cen tury. But the fact is that enactments designed to remedy the evil were from time to time passed, which, however, all failed of their object, since, although they punished clandestine matrimony, they did not render such matri mony risrafid. The penalties which they imposed were evaded by various clever mai:euvres, and the mischief which they were intended to allay remained practically unchecked. Thus " the very vitals of the salutary laws which render property and person safe, continued to be brought into danger by the knavish tricks that debauchers and fortune-hunters were enabled to practise through the Fleet clergy ;" and it was not until Lord Chancellor Hard wicke brought forward his famous bill that the evil was effectually destroyed. That measure provided that any person solemnising matrimony otherwise than in • church or public chapel, and without banns or license, should, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of felony, end be trans ported for 14 years it also provided that all such mar nages should be mull and void. Like all measures, how ever useful and salutary, which have the appearance of interfering with an established right, this bill met with the strongest opposition. Eventually, however, it peseta into law, and began to operate on the 26th March, 1754. The general public and the parsons alike made the most of their time just at the last ; and on the 25th March the crowd of applicants for marriage at the Fleet must have been enormous, for, in one register•book alone 217 wed dings are recorded as having been celebrated on that day. The existence of the Fleet scandals during the three quarters of • century which we have been reviewing is as strong • proof as can be adduced of the degraded oondi tion of the English church at that period : and indeed there is too much rearm. for believing that the Fleet par sons were little worse, although they might be lea' fortu nate, than the majority of their benefloed brethren.—Corn kill Mapa - inc for May. TO TIM TOROS 01 TEI TSPRZon. Bir,—There is a limit to human endurance, and the time has at length arrived when, as a member of the Brighton Board, I con no longer remain silent. I now feel it due to myself to state publicly, if you will permit me to do so, that it is my intention, on the 16th instant, to place my seat in this direction at the disposal of the shareholders, so that they may deal with it as may appear to them most expedient. Bo far as lam concerned the investigations of the committee cannot be too searching or minute, and on Thursday next I shall be prepared to I defend my own conduct, face to face with the @hare , holders of this oomputy.-1 am, Ste., May 13. WILLIAM COMINOHAIL The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending April 27 shows an increase of 1,4841. over last year. At a meeting of the West London Wharves and Warehouses Company, held yesterday, a resolution was passed in favour of registering . the undertaking under the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1862, with a view to a voluntary liquidation. The meeting of the Trust and Agency Company of Australasia (Limited) took place yesterday, when the directors report, announcing • total distribu tion for the year 1866 of 20 per cent., was adopted. We have received the annexed memorandum with regard to the Italian Irrigation Company : The committee of bondholders of the Italian Irrigation Canal Company have issued their report, from which it appears that at the meeting to be held at the London Tavern on the 16th instant an arrangement will be pro posed which seems likely to prove satisfactory to the bond holders, end also to the company, as well am to the govern ment of the King of Italy. Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart has ordered that the voluntary winding up of the City and County Assurance Company (Limited), by Mr. Edwin H. Galsworthy, actuary, of New Poultry Chambers, Cheapside, as liquidator, be continued, subject to the supervision of the court. The preparations yesterday for to-morrow's settle ment showed a very limited supply of many kinds of railway stock, in consequence of which a back wardation " (or bonus for the loan of stock till the next settlement) was in many instances paid. This was especially the case as regards Brighton and South Eastern stocks. It is evident that the fall in railway property has been materially promoted by speculative selling. The following shows the terms quoted yesterday on some of the principal securities : C;ONTANOGO. Mooning. Closing. Great Eastern-- even to 1-10 .. even to 1.14 Great Western ; to 1.16 bk. .. even Great Northern A i to i .. even to 4 London and Brighton London and North-Western even to I .. Ito London. Chat, and Dover 1-31 to 1.16 .. 1-82 to 1-16 Lancashire and Yorkshire even to i .. seen Manch,Bhert, and LinOolor even to i .. even Metropolitan Midland even to 4 .. even to / Doyen -1.; to 1-16 beck. 3-16 to 1-10 bk. Luxe= United b =sl.lll Mb Grand Trunk al 0100411 Great Western of Canada ea ed. toes. 9d. .. Om. 6d. to Oa 9d. MONDAY EVZ2fINO. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 94, " sellers," ex div., for the 6th of June, opened this morning at sei to and closed at 94, or 90 5-16 to 7-16. For money the last price was 911 to /, with div. The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 92, 1/, f, i; ditto, for account, 904,11 /, ex div. ; Three per Cont. Reduced, 90, I, 891 • New Three per Cents., 90, i, 84, 90A, se; ; Bank Stuck, 251, 3 ; India Stock. 218 ; ditto Five per Cent., 110 k, 11k, g ; ditto Four per Cent., 9;i ex div. ; ditto Five per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper, 10'4 ; ditto Bon rd's.. 48e. prem. Owing partly, no doubt, to the distrust winch continues to be felt with regard to so many secu- ' rities the India Five per Cent. Stock cin c o ntinues • demand, and is still rising. Exchequer Bills remain firm, at 21s tc 2fis. i prem. 1 Foreign stocks were firm during the greater part ••• of the day, hitt closed rather flatly, though in ; several cases bet ter than on Saturday. Th !$ coin- ; pared, some of the Egyptian bonds, as well all ' a'sh Three per Cents., Buenos Ayrean Six per Cents., Italian of 1865, and Russian of 1822, 61104 a rise of 1 per cent.: Equador. Turkish of 1862, Spaniah New Deferred, and Portuguese, ; i Spanish Passive and New Grenadian Deferred, ; ''' and Spanish Certificates and Turkish of 1886, . ' Italian of 1861 were in request in the morning, and ' advanced about;; per cent., but left off 1 I.)weir than on Saturday. Chili= and Russian scrip de- dined I, and I enesuelan of 1862 and 1864, 14 to 2. Bank alums were very little dealt in, and prices showed no variation. As regards financial shares scarcely . any in:inners was reported, and prices were again unaltered, closing as under:—lnternational Financial, 21 to 21 dis.• Gener.d Credit, 21 to 1 dis. ; London 231 to 221 dia. ; and Credit Foncier of England, 61 to 3 dia. 'there was a good demand for Atlantic Cable shares, and prices showed a decided recovery. Anglo-American were last quoted 181 to 1, showing a rise of 7s. od. to Me. ; Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent. Preferenoe,4l to g, beingfis. to 7s. 6d. better; and Telegraph Construction, 1 to 1 dia., an advance of 17s. lid. The old stock of the Atlantic Tele graph Company, however, fell 2 per cent. Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted 16 to 1„ and National Discount 64 to 71 prem., being steady. Miscellaneous shares were inactive, but City More were again offered, and experienced a fresh fall of 11. 10s. The only movement in colonial government securities was a rise of 1 per cent. in New South Wales of 1888 to 1893. MINE&-(THIS DAY.) Ors o'OLocrr. There is a good amount of business to-day in British mining shares, and prices show fineness. West Chiverton are quoted 664 to 674 West Caradon, 84 to 91 ; lama Retallack, 44 to 6; Prince of Wales, 6d. to 525. 6d. ; Wheal Basset, 674 to 72} ; North Chiverton, 4} to ; East Lovell, 9to ; Chiverton Moor, 54 to I; and West Kitty, 10s. to 12s. 6d. _ _ _ _ _ An extraordinary meeting of the East del Rey Mining Company is convened for the 21st when resolutions will be proposed for winding up the undertaking voluntarily, and for authorising the formation of a new concern to be called the Sae Vicente Mining Company (Limited). A general meeting of the Great Barrier Land Harbour and Mining Company (Limited) is called for the 28th inst. . . M'e are informed that the general meeting of the Mineral Rights Association will be held this month, notice of the same being about to be issued. The directors' report and the accounts will be cir culated among the shareholders before the meeting. RA ILWA YS. -( THIS DAY.) Own o'OtooK. The railway market remains flat, owing to a preponderance of sales. Midland and Great Northern A stocks have declined e per cent ; South Eastern, g ; and Metropolitan, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and Great Eastern, I. Metropolitan stock is now quoted 116 to t ; Great Western, 4.4 to I ; London and North Western, 114 to I ; Midland, lOtit toe ; Lanr *whirs and Yorkshire, 122 e to Caledonian, 106 e to 10Th ; South Eastern, 6 ; to a ; Great Eastern, 279: to j , ; Great Northern, 109 to 110 ; ditto A, 1081 to 109 e ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 16 to e ; North British, 33t to ; and Brighton, 55t to I. [For tu-day's Shan List ass page 4.1 COMMERCIAL AND MARKET& LIVERPOOL COTTON AND OORN MARKETS. (TlllB DAY.) (IT TILDGZAPH.) frame inn own coaanarowomir.) Corrox.—The market firm. Sales about 12,000 Wee. CORX.—Tbe market fairly attended. Wheat was in fair demand, at full rates of Friday. Floor slow and unaltered. Beans steady. Oats and oatmeal • shade firmer. Indian corn, 61. per qr. cheaper ; mixed slow, at 42a. lid. LEEDS CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) On TILIIGRA111.) (MOM 01:1B OWN 00,1111POINDINT.) The business passing was quite of a retail character. Prices of wheat nominally the same as last week. Beans in better demand. Weather cold. MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.) Suomi. —The market has opened steadily, at last week% prioes. Crystallipid Demerara sold at 375. 61. ; Porto Rico, Me. to Ms. ; jaggery Marina, common, 23a. 3d. Refined—fined gun& are again firmer ; common lumps, 43a. ; prices steady. Corrrs.—Native Ceylon continues in request, and prices show a further advance ; small sold at M. rid. ; medium and bold, 60s. to CS.. 61 Plantation Ceylon IN also firm. Tza.—The market is still quiet. Kaisows recently placed on the market have been sold at fall prices. RILL—No lam reported. Hun.- A Mall parcel of Demerara sold at Is. 6N. proof. Pin evro.-500 bsgs sold at lid. to lid. Inninu.—The quarterly public sales of East India com menced to-day, middling Bengal at about rie are selling very steadily at last Bale's prices. Fine qualities are as glected, and only • lot or two sold. Plant Dudes ars selling at but sale's prices to 3d. decline; dry leaf Madre mostly bought in. COCHINEM--There is an improved demand. and pas ses of silver at about 3a. 21, show an advance of I d. to 2d. on the late lowan point of the market. SALTMIUS. —IZO bags of Bengal oold for cash at :Os. 61, refraction 53. Corrox.—The market is rather quiet, bat former pricey are about maintained. JUTE.-600 bales sold at the previous value. TALLOW KA RIEET. —(THIS DAY.) The market u quiet. Town tallow is quoted 41s. 9d. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 43.. 3d. ; June, 43e. 3d. ; October to December. 44e. ; December, 441. tit. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIB DAY.) Mr. Charles James Euton reports trade slow at lull dsy's prices, viz.: —Prime clover, from 100 a. to 110 a. ; inferior ditto, 80a.to 90s. • prime *mond cut, 90s. to 100 s.; inferior ditto, Ws. to 60;. ; prime meadow hay, 80s. to ; interim ditto. Ns. to 70s. ; straw. 40a. to Mis MANOHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—The total expenses of this company's railways and amide, including rents, tolls, duty, kc., from Jaw. Ist to May sth, 186/, amounted to 1112,Z151., as against 176,3811. fo• the corresponding period of IgGfi. The pro portion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from Jan. Ist to May sth amounted to 12,58tif.,, as against 13,t571. for the corresponding period of I&J6 and the expenses to 6,9811. a. against 8,0021. A COLLEOE FRIEND OP CORNILICS When I was a student of arts at Trinity. Dublin, in days of more lightbesatedness than lam like to know again, E chanced to have for my " chum " a man of considerable ability, and who, but for • disposition to indulge in drink. would have swept college of all its prizes. After repeated acts of insubordination, originating in this unhappy fault, " calls to the board," fines, kc., he only escaped form rustication by • pledge solemnly given to his tutor. ac companied by a convention, that he was to have the daily privilege of one tumbler of punch, never to be exceeded, except if wet through and thoroughly waited, whew a second might he taken. Now my poor friend, not having that confidence in the climate of his native country that he might have fairly pawned, conceived the idea of siding nature ; and might he spied towards f. el an afternoon standing on the steps of his chamber, while his servant, with a watering-pot, performed the part of Plnvins from a window overhead, after which be would return to the company, and beg them to note the condi. tion he was in, and be able to bear testimony, if called upon, that he was in the predicament specified in the ant, and eligible for another tumbler.— BMA °ma . ' Magarine for May.