The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-20 00:00:00

THE FORTIFICATIONS OF ANTWERP. BRUSSELS, AUG. 17. The Chamber of Representatives was occupied yesterday with the consideration of the projet de 10l of the Government for the new fortifications at Antwerp. The measure has acquired a great addi tional interest in consequence of the recent impor tant articles on the subject which have appeared in several of the French journals, as well as in the Independence Beige. The discussion was opened by General Chazal, the Minister of War, in a speech marked by much eloquence, historical research, and sound reasoning. The gallant general engaged the attention of the Chamber for upwards of two hours, and at the con clusion of his address it adjourned until one o'clock this day. The following is a brief sketch of his address : General Ghazal commenced by observing that he had heard a member of that Assembly some years ago exclaim in accents of deep conviction that if he were Minister of War he should not know repose or tranquillity until the question of the national defences had been fully considered and decided upon. These words had made a deep impression upon his mind, because they were, at the time they were uttered, as they were at the present moment, the expression of his own th o ughts. Since that period other members of the two parties in the Chamber had demanded the solution of the ques tion. The Government had not, however, the power to respond to those claims as soon as they s hould have wished. The questions relating to the national defences were, besides, the most difficult and delicate of all those connected with military arts • and many countrie s lon g a g o constituted, and which were remarkable for their intelligence and their initiation in all matters of improvement, had been unable for many years to establish anything like a system of complete defence. Everywhere the question demanded long and serious consideration audit often required the experience of disastrous:wars to establish a fixed idea on the subject. In France, under Louis IV., a system of complete defence was proposed by Vauban. The idea of that great man was not at first comprehended. It required two centuries and an invasion to effect the fortifications of Paris. It was not, therefore, very surprising that Belgium had not as yet a system of complete de fence. On being appointed Min ister in 1847, his first act was one connected with this important question of national defences. He proposed the com mission that was then appointed, but whose labours were interrupted by the events of 1848. In the face even of those events he proposed to the King the establishment of an entrenched camp at Antwerp, and he confided the task of examining that project to a special committee, which adopted the proposed work as a provisional me ermasureanent , form when the recommending that it should assume a p cir cumstances of the country were more favourable to the carrying o ut of such military operations. That w as the origin of the system of the proposed de fences of Antwerp. It was encountered with oppo nents everywhere, and many motives were ascribed to the authors of it. An efficient system of national defences rested in the first place upon the organisa tion of the physical strength of the nation ; in the second place, upon a series of fortresses established upon strategical points the most convenient for the concentration of its strength and for maintaining the great roads of communication. Every country had a special system of defences suggested by its peculiar topographical position , and it 3 geographi cal conformation. Switzerland being a mountainous country, could not defend itself in the same manner as Belgium or Holland—flat countries which were intersected with rivers and canals. The kingdom of the Low Countries had a system of defences which were near completion when the revolution of 1830 broke out. That system was principally directed against France. They could not preserve it. In the first place they could no longer count upon an allied army of 60,000 men. In the second place, the neu trality which they had accepted prohibited them from directing their defences only against a parti cular power. Since 1830 numerous roads running from the exterior to the heart of the country, and bridges over rivers, viewed as lines of defence, were constructed ; but neither those roads nor those bridges were of the slightest use as works of de fence unless they were commanded by fortresses. Certain fortresses were subsequently built, with breaches in them to allow locomotives pass through, and arsenals with magaines were constructed. All such works had been interdicted under the Government of the Low Countries. A new system of defences was then recommended. The commis sion advised the adoption of a system by which the defences of the country would be concentrated in one strong place. It was said that the concentra tion of the army in one strong position would be in effect the abandonment to the enemy of the rest of the country, and the reduction of the army to a humiliating role. Ignorance or malevolence had propagated that idea amongst the masses, which were too easily deceived upon military questions. Far from finding a security in the dissemination of the forces, he contended that they would only create dangers. To guard all, in order to save all, was an idea of another epoch. A particular place where an army could complete itself, could organise itself, could fortify itself, was much more useful to a country than 20 places which the enemy could with little difficulty take, but which it would be impos sible for him to make the central point of his move ments. It is thus that the most celebrated mili tary authorities had viewed this question—for example, Frederick the Great and the Archduke Charles. The Duke of Wellington professed the same principles, and acted upon them in the war in Portugal, when he created the celebrated camp of Torres Vedras ; thanks to which he kept in check the army of Massena, freed Portugal, and thus merited the title of the greatest warrior of his day. Napoleon himself held the same opinion. His in structions to his generals charged with the defence of inferior countries were all in the same spirit, especially those he addressed to that gene ral who was charged with the protection of Dalmatia, and which was threatened at the time by the English fleet, as well as by the Russians and the Turks. In the committee of the defence of Lombardy Napolean said, " I wish that the fortifications of Milan, of Turin, and of Tortone should be at Alessandria." Referring to what passed in Piedmont in 1848, Piedmont, instructed by experience, created the fortified places of Ales sandria. In the last Ns ar that place, though not completely finished, and though situated as it was at the flank of the Austrian army, was able to stop the invasion of Piedmont, and thus to afford time for the arrival of the French army. It appeared to him to be self-evident that an army, having its basis of operations upon one great military position whore all its resources could be concentrated, would establish a much greater confidence in its own strength and would acquire a mach stronger in fluence in its action than if it were scattered over 20 little places where it could not be certain of finding a refuge, and where it would be exposed to be beaten in detail, as had happened in the campaign of Prussia. To be scattered over 20 points was to be • weak in all—to be concentratedtpon one single one was to be stroll°. everywhere. If the enemy, after many combats, should persevere in continuing his march towards this one stronghold he would require at that place an army treble in number to that which defended it ; consequently his preparations and his muniments of war must be in proportion. Having alluded to the check sustained by the Belgian army in 1831, in consequence of neglecting that principle of concentration, which resulted in an application to France and England for assistance, General Chazal then proceeded to argue in favour of Antwerp being made the great point of military strength and of defensive fortifications. If they viewed the question in merely a political point of view, it would doubt leasbe much more importantto fortify and to defend the capital than Antwerp. But, considering the question in its military aspect, such a proceeding would be impossible. had play any of their great cities M the a much more important part in the his tory country than Brussels, as for example, Ghent, Bruges, tr and Antwerp. At all times Antwerp had been wishedenold of their provinces. When the Spaniardsto secure their domination ov er the Low Countries, it Antwerp they se lected as the centre of action. was i ooL Later still, when the Date Generanx wished to defend themselves against Spain, it was Antwerp they chose for the concen t r ation of their resistance. At the commence ment of the pr esent century A ntwerp became the situated near the centre, and. chief ideal of the empire. When the capital of a grea t country w hen it was cov ered b y a natural or artifi c i a l fron tier, the fortifie d frontier could serve aSSIIITICy inc, as a rallying point to the arnly , and would enable it to - the offensive. The enemy could not advance fur ther without making, immense preparations for a great siege. if Paris had b e en fortified in 1814 Napoleon would have had some chance of success • - b 11 d ut the necessity of coveri n g Paris compe e constantly to retrace his step s to prevent the him frac tions of the hostile armies from en tering there. o w, and The same might be said of Vienna, M Berlin • if they had been fortified th e results might have been' wholly different. After the campaign of -Egypt B maparte was anxio is to push on further ; but Syria was cove r ed by a natural frontier, the desert, and he could not proceed without taking the place of St. Jean d'Acre. Well, notwithstanding the valour of his victorious army and the talents of his generals, he could not accomplish his original objects. These were reasons in support ofthe ciple that a ll ca pit a l s th us circumstanced should be well fortified. When, on the contrary, the capital was very near the frontiers—when it was not co vered by a natural or artificial f • rontier—when the country was small, and was surrounded by • neigh bours much more powerful than 't lf se i—t was no The proclamation which sweeps into eblivion a. political offences has been received in France with such joy and gratitude that the Emperor must already congratulate himself upon his courageous act. For the first time since he assumed the Im perial title the applause of his people is earnest, heartfelt, and universal. The representatives of every shade of opinion except only the organ of the Ultramontane priests, " Of whom to be dispraised is no small praise," vie with each other in frank and fervid acknow ledgments. When the unexpected proclamation first burst upon the Parisian public there was a moment of incredulity and a little season of sus picion. The news was too good to be true. It was more than reasonable men had dared to pray for. There must be some condition, some reservation, some long list of exceptions, some hidden ambi guity which would annul the free action of those wide-circling phrases of universal import. The action of the officials has, however, put the best gloss upon the terms of the Amnesty. The prisons have been thrown open, the police have ceased to watch over the suspects, friends are meeting and embracing after long absence, lost relatives have been found, and steamers are departing for Algeria and Guiana to bring home the victims who are now expiating the too great impetuosity of their political convictions in distant exile. The memo rials of past civil discords are all thoroughly sponged out. "It is with a throbbing heart," cries the organ of one of the advanced sections of the Liberal party, " that we think of the mothers of the children whom this good news will transport with joy. We are about again to see friends of whom we have not for a moment ceased to preserve a cordial and sympathising memory." By one sim ple courageous act the French Emperor has united all France. He has given us a touch of his skill as a pyrotechnist which no one of us had anticipated. At the end of his triumphs, his fetes, and his blazing fireworks it was the business of an expert Edile to manage some original device which even after all the foregone splendours should sur prise while it delighted. He has succeeded so far that all France is still astonished and still in admi ration. The last grand bouquet exploded, and fast fell from it into each little circle of a thousand families the most precious boon for which that family could pray. But the Amnesty comprehends not only men, but those still more sensitive and liberty-loving crea ' turea, the organs, or what once were the organs, of public opinion. All warnings heretofore given to newspapers in France or in the Colonies are to be as if they had never been. Entire oblivion is to extend to peccant newspapers as well as to com promised individuals. The jubilee passes over all the political world and erases all bonds. How shall we hope for the future ? May Frenchmen do with impunity in time to come all for which they suf fered in time past ? We cannot hope that this should be so ; for the liberty of those days was licence, and approached very nearly to that " sacred right of insurrection" which gave title to every fanatic to shed blood in the streets. Is impunity for the past deeds of the press entire freedom for the future ? We cannot believe that this can be so. Napoleon can scarcely so soon unlearn all the in stincts of an absolute ruler as to set the press free. Yet it must come to this if, as cautious lookers-on believe, it has entered into his mind to commence a new era and to develope the energies of his king dom in a new direction. If he would emancipate himself from the thraldom of his own priests, if he designs to educate his people in sound political knowledge, if he would draw forth all the commer cial and industrial power of his kingdom, if he in tends to break down the system of Protection and to inaugurate an era of Free Trade, and if he sighs for colonies and commerce as well as ships, he can only do all this by means of a free press. The press is the interpreter between the men of thought and the men of labour. Great thoughts are born in hid den places, and come forth unshaped and often in comprehensible. They speak a language not under stood of the people. They require an interpreter to go forth with them into the world, an interpreter with strong lungs, great fluency of speech, and great power of making abstruse matters plain,—an inter preter that can command attention and utilise that attention when gained. Such an interpreter is the Press. In physics and in morals, to cause the application of a great invention destined to change the nature of all human affairs, or to give practical force to a newly found truth capable of preventing great masses of human misery, the only agent is a free Press. It must be free, or it will not be be lieved ; it must be unfettered, or it will not be respected. But alone, and unshared by any com petitor, a free Press holds the prerogative, denied to Kings and Emperors and Ministers of State, of dispelling popular delusions, and of gradually but surely disseminating truth. If Napoleon 111. meditates a destruction of the present suicidal com mercial system in France he must set a free Press to work, or ignorance will be too strong for him. Let him remember how many thousands of columns of this newspaper, closely filled with speeches and essays, were required to convince, first, our people that Corn Laws created scarcity of food, and, secondly, our farmers that they might give up Pro tection and yet carry on their business with a profit. Those speeches and those essays were read and meditated over because the English nation had confidence that they appeared in an arena where there was a free stage and no favour for every advocate for and against. When Cobden spoke a thousand Cobdens next morning addressed a thou sand audiences ; when Newdegate or Ferran(' replied the speech was as faithfully multiplied. Every man thus had the facts and arguments con stantly before him, and formed his own conviction from abundant reading. As moderators in the great controversy, we often pointed the moral, summed up the arguments, or called attention to a fast ; but it was the full, fair, fearless publicity, the unfettered discussion of this question, which obtained the result so simply referred to by Mr. Cobden on Thursday night—" There is generally plenty to eat." There is no other plan. If France is not to drop astern and to be a mere population of very small cultivators, taxed to the utmost to fatten a small class of ineffi cient manufacturers, a free Press must be allowed to go forth and dispel the gross ignorance which weighs over the land. If the Emperor's course is really onward this must be one of his earlist steps. But we must confess that we have no great de sire to see in action a French press such as existed under the constitutional monarchy. No friend either of France or of the press itself would wish to h se p e i t e h n a ch p . Paristpiersessosfwasio more N l reinstated ,.3 th . e position , whichit h e ld un d er L ou i s Philipp e . In those days than it i s at this moment.E e r i ea , ll p v independent ap elNsa sthe organ eith er of an individual who wished to make his paper the ladder t? political power, or of a poli tical party, the Tribun. It doingfor it what the party did for itself iu praised ised and defended every act ot: the party postponing th e rty :n deeinetriciset thing of i publicopposed to it, to of that of its own little circle. the office of being trumpeter to some pressse i political i n i u c ed n a lkmantd: most n: turer. Most of our p l o y li d t e ie s a ir l e co to teri P e an able E our statesmen ardent glish press in the same condition. Alany man is uite intolera nt of an honest ex p o nent of public q opinion where he is reflected without flattery and criticised without hesitation. Alany a blockhead points a witless sneer at an intelligence before which his little dignity pales, and many a man would have his own paper as Thiers and Carrel and longer of such importance the fortification of that capital. Nay, it was rather a danger. It was evi dent that if it were so situated that the enemy could, by means of his movable columns, prevent the pro visions, the commodities, the succours from without entering it, then its position would become deplor able. Did the Austrians in order to defend Lom bardy fortify Milan ? No ; it was further in the rear that they placed the bas is of their defence. It was at Verona. Verona could not be closed up. It was defended by the Lake of Garda and the Adige ; and it could comm unicate beyond it by the route of the Tyrol and two railways. These were the considerations which gave Verona the preference as the basis of the defences of Lombardy. Bel gium was a broad and level country. Brussels w as not near its frontiers. If she were made the central point ofdefence some movable columns might seize its provisions, and a war might scarcely have commenced when the campaign would be disastrous to the country. He might be told that Paris, although much more considerable, had been enabled t? anticipate all its necessities ; but there was no similitude between Paris and Brussels. Paris was surrounded upon all sides with a natural or artifi cial frontier, very easy to defend, very difficult to attack. Paris was not compelled to be provisio ned at all times. It could wait until the armies were exhausted. It had besides a great river, which afforded it every facility for defence as well as for provisioning itself. Brussels had no such advan tages. Besides, it had not enough of drinkable water within itself if the pipes recently laid down were cut. The commission advised that if Brussels were fortified it would still be necessary to fortify Antwerp. Antwerp bad this advantage—it pre sented no aggressive demeanour to any Power. Antwerp was covered by rivers which formed a line of very favourable defences. Antwerp was not assailable except in front. The entrenched camp and the enceinte were completely protected by water, and this water was in itself a great obstacle to a blockade. Gen. Chazal, in conclusion, invited the members of the Chamber to peruse the report of the commission which recommended the pro posed defensive works at Antwerp. THE AMNESTY AND THE FRENCH PRESS. Girardin had their paper. But in England the good sense of the people renders this impossible. Here such a paper cannot find readers. A paper which represents an individual or a section is as destitute of influence as the newsboy who calls it in the street. Unhappily this has not been so in France. The idea of a paper really independent, with views of its own, and no interest except in its own suc cess, and that only based on the public welfare, never seems to have occurred to a French jour nalist. In the days of their freedom they were all pure partisans and all violent, as speakers and writers who carry no great authority are apt to be. Accordingly, when a man whom they had fiercely opposed rose to power, nothing seemed more natural than that he should suppress them. One paper there is which has been to a consider able extent an exception to the remarks which in a spirit of friendly warning we have just made. The Debats has always been more upon the English model of a newspaper than any other French jour nal. Accordingly, every Government since the Consulate has respected it, and, although often speaking under great restraint, it always com mands attention and its articles bear a certain in trinsic authority. When the days of freedom shall come again,—and we hope they may be near,—will the French Press and the French public remember their past experiences and profit by the lesson ? Times. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Agcy. 19. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINO , AUG UST 20, 1859. to commit the prisoner for trial upon evidence al together insufficient to procure a conviction. The prisoner was accordingly discharged. (Before Mr. Creasy, at Westminster.) John Wood surrendered to take his trial on an indictment for assaulting Robert Lovell, a police constable, 137 B, in the execution of his duty in Onslow-square, Brompton. The prosecutor stated that as he was passing along on duty the defendant turned round and struck c ' him. The defence was that a policeman shoved the defendant off the pave ment and then went away ; that subsequently the defendant saw the prosecutor, and, thinking he was the officer who pushed him, asked his number, when the prosecutor struck him and knocked him down. When he got up there was a struggle, and they went down together. It was admitted that the defendant was the worse for liquor. The jury found the defendant guilty. He was sentenced to six months' hard labour. Mr. Cooper was for the prosecution ; Mr. Orridge for the defendant. Robert Day was indicted for assaulting Sarah Smedmore, the wife of an engineer residing at 17, Old Nichol-street, Shoreditch. This case arose out of a row between the prosecutrix and a neighbour, and illustrated, as Mr. Cooper, the defendant's counsel, said, the well known lines— " They who in quarrels interpose May often wipe a bloody nose. There was no doubt the prisoner did interfere, and that a blow was received by Mrs. Smedmore which broke her collar-bone and incapacitated her from her business as a milliner, her right arm being ren dered almost useless. She was in the hospital three weeks. The defence, which was supported by evidence, was that the injury was the result of a blow struck by the husband of the prosecutrix in a scuffle, but the jury came to the conclusion that the case for the prosecution was proved, and found the defendant guilty. Mr. Creasy sentenced him to eight months' hard labour. The two men, Gillingham and Birkett, convicted on Tuesday of robbing a retired publican named C. Schreckenberg of gold and notes to the amount of £lB3, were brought up for judgment. They were both known to the officers. They were sen tenced each to three years' penal servitude. (Before Mr. Payne.) Sophia Dederick, 27, Julia Woolenough, 24, and Charles Woolenough, 24, were severally indicted — Dederick for stealing 98 prints, value £2 95., and 70 prints, value £2 55., the property of Louis Roch ford, her master ; and Julia and Chas. Woolenough for receiving the said prints, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Horry prosecuted ; Mr. Orridge appeared for the prisoners. It appeared from the evidence of John Harvey, police sergeant 9 G, that he was engaged to watch the premises of the prosecutor, who lived at No. 15, Crown-street, Finsbury, and early on the morning of the sth inst. he saw Julia Woolenough go to the prosecutor's door, tap, and was shortly afterwards admitted. After remaining there for a short time she left the house, the prisoner Dederick shutting the door after her. He followed her and asked what she had in her possession, and she said nothing. Not feeling satisfied, he lifted her shawl, and under it found 98 prints. He took her into custody. He then went back to the prosecutor's, and having questioned Dederick touk her also into custody. He afterwares proceeded to Tenter-street, where Woolenough lived, and having searched his house arid found 70 prints, which prosecutor identified as his property, he also took Woolenough into custody. The prosecutor proved that the prints belonged to him, and he gave Dederick no authority to dis pose of them. The prosecutor was severely cross-examined by Mr. Orridge, in which he admitted that he seduced the prisoner Dederick, who had had two children by him, and that during his absence from home in the daytime he authorised her to sell articles, and to take the money for them. He admitted that he had been a bankrupt, and that while lie was in prison she carried on his business for him in conjunction wiah his daughter. Her name was painted over the door of the house where he then lived, but afterwards he had put up the name " Louis and Co." There was no such person as Louis. The learned Judge considered there was no evi dence to go to the jury against Charles Wool enough. Mr. Orridge addressed the jury, and in a most able and feeling appeal said that the young woman Dederick had entered the prosecutor's service in a state of innocence, for the purpose of taking care of his children, but the prosecutor had taken advan tage of that position to debauch her. She had two children by him, and, indeed, the relation between them was such as to lead her to suppose that she was justified in disposing of these prints. She had no salary during the latter part of the time. She seemed almost to be living upon his charity, and might rea sonably have thought herself justified in disposing of the prints to obtain food. Before a case of felony could be made out the prosecutor must come into court with clean hands, and, as it was the duty of a jury at all times to give the prisoner the benefit of any doubt they might entertain, he felt sure that this was a case of doubt in which the jury would have especial pleasure in giving her the benefit of it, for the conduct of the prosecutor had been such as every Englishman must blush for. Mr. Payne summed up the evidence, and The jury returned a verdict of guilty of simple larceny against Dederick, and of receiving against Woolenough. The male prisoner was acquited. Dederick was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour ; Woolenough to six months' hard labour. Mr. Horry said, for the prosecutor, that his de sire had been not to punish Dederick, but to detect those who had induced her to commit the offence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Av. 19. MANSION-HOUSE.--Daniel Durgett was charged with stealing four dozen of carved umbrella handles, the property of his employer, Mr. G. Cham bers, manufacturer, Halfmoon-street, Bishopsgate. Mr. Beard appeared for the prosecution, and called several witnesses, from whose evidence it ap peared that the prosecutor's foreman and one of his workmen, while walking along the Bethnal-green road, saw lying in a shop-window a quantity of handles, several of which the workman at once pronounced to be of his own workmanship ; and that next day another workman, upon being taken to the same shop, identified others from among the handles as being of his carving. Upon being ques tioned, the shopkeeper stated that he had bought the whole of the handles from the prisoner, who was employed by the prosecutor as a turner, and the prisoner was thereupon given into custody. Four of Mr. Chambers's workmen now picked out handles from among 42 produced in court, and swore to them as being of their own individual workmanship, while they were unanimous in de claring that every workman must know his own work, and that no carver could exactly im i t ate the work of another, the prisoner espocially so, as ho was only a turner, and not a carver. Thus, there being a strap with a buckle on most of the handles, one workman swore to his work by the peculiar way in which the t2g of the buckle was formed, while another was equally positive that no man living could turn the end of the strap through the buckle as he had done; and on this evidence (there being otherwise no proof of robbery against the prisoner) Mr. Beard contended that a good ease had been made out, and asked that the prisoner might be committed for trial. On the, other hand, the prisoner asserted that he had, although a turner originally, improved his op portunities of observation so as to make himself a good carver, and that he had long been in the habit of working for himself of an evening in the shop of his brother, who was in the business ; while his brother not only corroborated this statement, but said further that he was himself a man of great ex perience in his trade, and that he defied any carver to swear to his own work, as he bad two men work ing for him and, when they sent home their work on Saturdays, no one of the three could pick out his work from the rest. The Lord Mayor himself inclined to this view of the question, believing that what one clever carver could do another could do, and therefore he refused GUILDHALL.—Mr. Alderman Phillips, who on a former occasion so kindly entertained the applica tion of Mrs. Thompson, the distressed engineer's - wife, who was present yesterday, addressed her in the fol lowing terms :—ln consequence of some observa tions which I made in reference to you, and which were noticed by the press, several benevolent parsons have sent various sums, amounting in the whole to 120. We have taken a great deal of trouble to ascertain the truth of your:story, and I am exceed ingly happy to find that my first impression has been confirmed by the inquiries that have been made, and that the timely assistance thus obtained for you has saved a most deserving woman from destitution. We have received a letter from your husband's employer, in which he gives a most satis factory account of both you and your husband, which renders it the more gratifying to me to have been able to afford you the relief which ha s led to y our obtaining the means of establishing yourself in some way to get a living for yourself and the three little children who are dependent upon you. I understand it is your intention to open a school in Greenwich with the means which the public have placed at your command, and I sincerely hope and trust that you may be successful and prosper in your present undertaking. It is, I assure you, with great pleasure that I now hand you over the amount forwarded for that purpose. Mrs. Thompson, who appeared quite overwhelmed by her feelings, said she hoped that her gratitude to those who assisted her in the time of need would be made as public as the tale of her distress which had called forth the contributions she now received. BOW-STREET.—A charge of perjury was pre ferred against Robert Wesley, an elderly man, a clerk in the city, under the following circumstances : Mr. Hand, solicitor (attending for Messrs. Gill man, wholesale shoemakers, &c., of Norwich) called witnesses to prove that in 1852 the defendant pur chased a retail bootshop of Mr. John Kidgell, of Reading ; that he signed his name and passed on all occasions as " Charles Wesley," and was the only person concerned in the business negotiations ; that shortly after he (defendant) had taken posses. sion of the business he was waited upon by a Mr. Barnes, the foreman and traveller of Messrs. Gill man, through whose agency upwards of £lOO worth of goods were supplied to defendant ; that in a very short space of time the business was given up by defendant, who suddenly disappeared without pay ing a farthing of Messrs. Gillman's claim, and NA as not heard of or seen far several years, until their foreman, Mr. Barnes, accidentally . met the defen dant at a business house in the city ; that proceed ings were at once commenced against him, and a verdict for the amount obtained ; but defendant petitioned the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and the plaintiffs were further defeated by his having settled his property upon his wife. The declarations made by the defendant before the Insolvent Commis sioner were to the effect that he never passed as Charles Wesley ; that he signed the agreement and conducted his business on behalf of his brother Charles Wesley, who paid him a fixed salary for his services ; and that the letters and documents put in and signed " Charles - Wesley," were, he be lieved, in the handwriting of his brother. For the defence Mr. Wontner, solicitor, called a son of Charles Wesley, who stated that to his personal knowledge, the business at Reading was taken for his father by the defendant Robert Wes ley ; that Charles Wesley had formerly resided at Sheffield, carrying on the business of an agent and shareholder, but bitterly had lived in the house of, and was supported by, witness — being totally incapacitated by ill-health. He was at present living at Welling, in Kent, and wholly unable to attend the court. 'Witness travelled for a house in the city. A great number of witnesses on both sides were examined, and Mr. Jardine ultimately committed the defendant for trial, the usual bail, if procurable, being accepted. Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, attended to inform the Court that, upon the petition of the lady, the charge against Miss Flint for taking back a letter which she had posted at Peckham, had been withdrawn by direction of the Postmaster-General. WORSHIP-STREET.—Henry Ford, a slightly built young fellow, described as a gin gerbeer manu facturer, was charged with stabbing with intent to murder. The prosecutrix, a good-looking young woman named Sarah Thompson, who was seated while giving her evidence, whose utterance was so faint It was scarcely audible, and who was constantly supplied at intervals with restorative medicine by order of the surgeon in care of her, stated—l lived with the prisoner as his wife up to the day before this happened, Wednesday, the 10th inst., when about 12 o'clock at night I was returning from the theatre, in company with another young woman named Ellen Sampson, with whom I am acquainted. On reaching the Downham.road the prisoner sud denly made his appearance, and advancing to me said, " You have sold my goods !" I said I had, and he asked me where the money was. I told him that I had some cf it on my back and some upon my feet, meaning that I had laid it out in boots and clothing ; but I told him that if he would come home with me I would give him some money. He exclaimed, " No, I don't Want the money, I want you." I told him I could never live with him again, on which he said " If you don't mean to be with me any more, I'll murder you." I told him that I did not mean to live with him any longer, and walked slowly away, he walking by my side, and still urging me to go back to him, which I still re• fused. When we had reached within three doors of the top of Wellington-street, Shacklewell, to go to my father's, whQ lives in John-street close by, he suddenly said, " Now, Sarah, make up your wind, or I will settle it," and instantly, before I could reply, he stabbed me in the head. I don't know what instrument it was, for I became sense less, and don't know what became of me afterwards. When I recovered my senses I found that I was in a doctor's shop, and that I had been stabbed in the left breast, in the shoulder, in the chest, and in the head, from the wounds in which I bled very much, and have been in the hospital ever since then. Ellen Sampson—l was with the prosecutrix at the time she refers to, and when the prisoner came up he had a youth with him. This youth told me some thing. which very much alarmed me, and I looked about for a constable in consequence. The prosecu trix and prisoner stood together talking some time, when she suddenly asked him, " Are you going to hit me ?" He replied, " I don't know," and she en treated him to swear that he would not strike her, but this he would not do, and she then asked him to keep his hands in his pockets and go away from her as she was not going home any more with him. He then said he would hang for her, and she asked him to come to the top of Wellington-street, where they walked together, I and the youth following them. The prisoner wanted her to go down Shacklewell lane, but she would not, and on their reaching the end - of the street 1 saw him strike her suddenly in the face and then on the breast, and she very nearly fell to the ground. I screamed loudly and a con stable came up, on which the prisoner ran away, and on our looking at the prosecutrix we found her bleeding so profusely from the head, shoulder, and bosom, that we carried her to the hous3 of a sur geon, and then to the German Hospital, at Dalston. Crisp, 3 N.—l heard screams, and on running to the spot the prosecutrix fell into my arms senseless bleeding front the wounds described, and her clothes completely saturated with blood. Sergeant Bovis—l took the prisoner yesterday evening at London-bridge, where I found him upon one of the wharfs, waiting, as he said, for the Gravesend boat. When I told him the charge I wanted him for, at the same time cautioning him, he said, " I don't care if I am hanged for it ;" and on the road to the station he exclaimed, " If she lives, and I get over this, I'll do for her; you don't know what she is, but I do." Francis Roberts, the youth referred to by the young woman Sampson, said,—l saw the prisoner meet the prosecutrix, and push her against some railings. I asked him to come away, but he would not, and I next saw him thrust his hand into his pocket, withdraw it, and then strike her three times. She screamed out, " Oh, I'm stabbed !" and fell against some palings, and on the officer coming up with a lantern I saw blood upon her breast, mouth, and shoulder. I know that the prisoner had two penknives, a buckhorn-handled one and a white one, as lie had asked me to buy one, and I refused. Mr. Charles Frolunann, house-surgeon of the German Holfital, prosecutrix was brought to me suffering from four wounds—one on the right shoulder, and two in the chest. The first was a comparatively slight one, the second was a stab, and one of those in the chest was slight, but the other was a severe one, as it had divided an artery, and was half an inch broad, which might have been caused by withdrawing the blade. She bled very much, but the stab fortunately did not reach the lungs. After the second day I did not apprehend danger to her life, as the bleeding had stopped, and I consider that she is now out of dan ger, though she is still an out-patient. Mr. Hann - nil' (to the prisoner).—And what have you to say to this serious charge ? Prisoner (who had stood with his head buried in his hands on the front of the dock). —I am guilty of stabbing her, but on the Monday before the Wed nesday when this occurred she stabbed me. The prisoner was then commi;ted for trial, the prosecutrix fainting on hearing it, and being car ried out of court. CENTRAL a URT, Aug. 19, (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) TRIAL OF DR. SMETHURST.—FIFTH DAY. A portion of the following appeared in our impression of yesterday The prisoner, on being placed at the bar, said—My lord, I wish to address a few words to the jury. The Lord Chief Baron—l think you had better not now. Prisoner—That is very true, but your lordship made some observations which I wish to correct. It is simply in reference to this question. In addressing the jury last night you spoke of me as a medical man in practice. For the last six years I have retired from practice. The Lord Chief Baron—l know nothing of that, and there is no evidence of it. Prisoner—You spoke of it as if there was. The Lord Chief Baron—lf there is any mistake about that, the prisoner might correct it by giving some account of himself and his practice. I spoke of him as a medical man in practice, because on Monday morning, the day after the will was executed, he wrote to his wife to say that he probably should not return before a certain hour, his medical aid being required in a case of illness. (The letter was hero read.) In that letter he spoke of himself as one of the three doctors, Dr. Julius and Dr. Bird being the other two. The Prisoner—That is just the point, my lord. The Lord Chief Baron—lf he left the profession, there is no evidence of it The evidence is that he attended Isabella Bankes, and ho wrote to his wife to say that he could not come home in consequence of his medical aid being required In a case of illness. If he considers that an important fact, he might easily have proved it. Mr. Sergeant Parry—There is evidence that he was living at a lodging-house 18 months without a surgery or anything of the kind. The Prisoner—l came from the continent only the year before last. The learned Judge then proceeded to read the evidence, commenting on it as he proceeded. The first evidence alluded to was that of Mrs. Smith. Having dwelt on the fact of the residence of the parties at Rifle-terrace and Kil - dare-place, he next referred to the circumstances connected with the sickness of deceased, and the refusal of the prisoner to the engagement of a nurse, after he had received the £7O ss. belonging to Miss Bankes, and having at the same time a considerable sum of money of his own also in his posses sion. The only solution of such a circumstance in his mind was, that he had an objection to having any person present in the sick room but himself. There was certainly his own explanation of taking out the soup, viz., that it was done to cool it, the doctor having ordered that every thing should be fresh and cool ; but it must also be recollected that no person was allowed to enter the room, and it never was properly cleaned out. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Mrs. "Wheatley, my lord, said that she cleaned the room every morning, and went in again ev?xy evening. The Lord Chief Baron—l have no note of that. The Prisoner—My lord, it is quite correct. She always had access to the room, and in the evening made the bed. Any other statement is false. The Lord Chief Baron—lt is a matter of little importance. Mr. Sergeant Parry—As affecting the prisoner, it is all important. Mrs. Wheatley twice spoke to the fact I have mentioned. The Lord Chief Baron—All I can say is, I have no note of it. Mr. Sergeant Parry—l wish it to be fully in the know ledge of the jury that such evidence was distinctly given. Mrs. Wheatley might be recalled. The learned Judge then proceeded to allude to the letters written to, and also tho evidence of, Miss Louisa Bankes. His letters were calculated to show great affection; but his conduct showed that, if he loved her, he loved her money a great deal more, and avarice swallowed up his affection. Then, if he was acting fairly and openly, what valid objec tion could he have had to Miss Louisa Bankes' more con stant attendance upon her dying sister. He said her pre sence so overpowered her that the worst consequences might arise ; but. was the abrupt presence of an attorney calculated to produce a soothing effect? And as regards the will, what was the statement with respect to that docu ment ? He told Mr. Senior, the attorney, that the draft he gave him to copy had been drawn up by a barrister. But what was the fact ? why, it was all in the prisoner's hand writing, and by that document Smethurst became entitled to the whole of the property of Miss Bankes. Now, taking that circumstance, with the rest of the statements made to Mr. Senior by the prisoner, into consideration, he did not think the slightest reliance could be placed upon any of his statements. Having read over the evidence given by Dr. Julius and Dr. Bird, in reference to the prisoner having been released on his own recognisances by the magistrates at Richmond, on a charge of poisoning his wife, the learned Judge said no blame could be attached to them, because they were no doubt actuated by motives of humanity and sympathy for himself and his supposed wife, and the jury could not allow the circumstance of his returning to his lodgings to operate to his prejudice, by showing that ho had tho means of destroying bonistlilng which was not found. All the bottles were seized, and no arsenic or antimony, or other poison, was found;in them. It would by no means be safe to presume anything against the prisoner because he had an opportunity of destroying evidence, and the jury must not act entirely on the evidence which had been produced; but if they were satisfied that antimony and arsenic had been administered by him to the deceased, some light might be thrown on the circumstance that no poison was found, by the fact of his returning to the house on the Monday evening, and having access to the parlour and bed room. The court at one o'clock adjourned!or 20 minutes. On the learned judge re-entering the court, he complained of the great heat of the atmosphere, and suggested the open ing of the windows looking on to the courtyard, but as these had been permanently closed by those in charge of the ventilation of the building, the Lord Chief Baron's sugges tion could not bo carried out unless by breaking some of the panes of glass, which was accordingly done by one of the officers in attendance. The learned Judge than resumed his reading of the evi dence of Dr. Taylor. His lordship entered at great length on the point relative to the mistake made in the analysis of bottle No. 21. It was a curious circumstance that it was entirely owing to accident that a new fact had been dis covered in chemical science, viz., that chlorate of potass would melt copper, and that of itself would, in some mea sure, account for the blunder ; but it was an undoubted fact that Professor Brand, one of the greatest chemists living, stated that Dr. Taylor had taken the means he should have done had he been similarly placed. It was not therefore because a mistake had been made in one particular instaneo that the whole of the evidence was to bo ignored. The jury would have to take it into their consideration, and they could then judge the amount of its value. The jury he felt certain would give that attention to the evidence brought for the defence to which it was en titled ; but after that consideration, if they should have no doubt about the guilt of the prisoner then they would re turn a verdict of guilty; but, on the contrary, if they did entertain the slightest doubt, he need scarcely tell them it was their duty to acquit the prisoner of the charge imputed to him. At the conclusion of the judge's summing up, The Prisoner said, I wish to clear up some facts. The Lord Chief Baron—l cannot allow you to do so, ex cept through your counsel. The Prisoner—l wish to state that Mr. Sergeant Dalian tine is acquainted with the whole of the circumstances con • nected with the marriage. I forwarded to him the whole facts as early as I could after I was arrested, and it is now in his hands. It shows that my wife (Isabella Banker) had a reversionary interest in a large sum of money. Tho jury then, at ten minutes to four o'clock, retired to consider their verdict ; and after an absence of three quarters of an hour returned into court, and having an swered to their names, The Clerk of the Arraigns said—Gentlemen, have you agreed ?. The Foreman of the Jury—We have. The Clerk of the Arraigns—How say you, gentlemen, do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty ? The Force an—We find bim GUILTY. The Lord Chief Baron then put on the black cap and The Clerk of the Arraigns, in the usual form, asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why judgment should not be passed upon him ? The Prisoner said he bad, and ho then commenced addressing the judge and the jury. He said the whole of the witnesses had distorted the true facts of the ease in such a manner that his life had been sacrificed. Dr. Julius he especially condemned, and the assertion of the sister of the deceased, that she was never able to se© her sister Isabella alone, except for two or three minutes at a time, was totally and entirely false. She knew, he said, that she had every opportunity of being with her sister as often and as along as she pleased, and had the witnesses spoke truth such would have appeared in the evidence. With respect to the non-engagement of a nurse, it had been put as if he objected to such a proceeding, but nothing could be so far from the truth. He had been taken into custody, and placed before a magistrate, charged with poi soning, his wife, but not withstanding all that was said against him, he was admitted to bail on the first occasion. In not taking steps to procure a nurse ho was only acting according to the direction of the magistrates, as they prohibited him in any manner interfering with the deceased on his return to his home, and it was certainly time that he had said that those:persons who chose to engage the nurse must bear the expense. With respect to the motive fur the crime attributed to him—namely, wishing to obtain possession of the money belonging to the deceased, such \vas false and untrue, as he had no occasion to seek the death of the lady, as ho could have obtained her money, if such had been his object, without committing murder. Great stress, he said, had been laid as to his marriage with Miss Bankes, and throughout the trial it had been said that it was not his intention to re main with Miss Bankes after he had obtained all she was possessed of. Now, the truth was that his attachment to her was strong, and his connection with her he hoped would have been lasting ; • and the marriage at Kennington Church: was as much the act of the de ceased as his, and it was only done in order that she might appear to. her friends as a married woman, and the remark "that it would be all right soon," alluded to the death of his first wife, who was upwards of 70 years of age. The prisoner then went on in a rambling strain, condemning everybody who had given evidence against him. The Lord Chief Baron, after repeated interruptions from the prisoner, proceeded to pass sentence of death on the prisoner. In doing so his lordship said it was one of the most horrible cases of murder ever heard of. The prisoner's assertions with respect to the witnesses were as false as many other statements of his, and they had been proved to be so by his own letters. He had no doubt that the jury had come to a right conclusion, and the sentence of the Court is, that you be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord God Almighty have mercy on your soul. The prisoner maintained his coolness during the whole time the Judge was delivering the sentence, and left the dock exclaiming that Dr. Julius was his murderer, and calling the Almighty to witness that he was innocent of the crime of which he had been found guilty. To the Sheriff of Surrey was confided the duty of carry ing out the sentence. FROM.THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 12th day of August, 1859, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint the Right Hon. William Francis Cowper to be President of the Committee of Council, appointed for the considera tion of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Planta • tions, in the absence of the President of the said Committee for the time being. WHITEHALL, AUGUST 19. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie to be Second Church Estates Commissioner in the room of the Right Hon. Charles, Viscount Eversley, resigned. WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 17. Tho Queen has been graciously pleased to make and ordain a Special Statute of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, authorising the following appointments to the said Order : To be an Extra Member of the Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, viz.:— Colonel David Edward Wood, C. 8., of the Royal Artil- le ry. To be an Extra Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions, viz.:— Lieut.-Colonel Henry Wylie Norman, of the Benga Army. COUNTY OF SALOP. Owing to the death of the Hon. R. W. Clive, late M.P. for the c )unty of Salop, a new writ will be issued for the election of another representative, at the end of 14 days. CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 16. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT, PARLIAMENT. Borough of Bodmin—James Wyld, Esq., of No. 51, Gloucester-road, Regent's-park, in the room of William Michell, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward or Bailiff of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead. AUG. 18. Borough of Devonport—Sir Arthur Buller, Knt., in the room of the Right Hon. James Wilson, who has accepted the office of Steward of her:Majesty's Manor of Hemp helme. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 17. NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS AND MASTERS. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a De cree which was published in the Monitore Poem° of the 22d ultimo, instituting a new system of measurement for Tuscan and foreign vessels, in the place of that formerly in use. The following is a translation of the Decree : The Government of Tuscany, considering that the pre sent system of the computation of tonnage is burthensome to the commerce of Tuscan vessels, inasmuch as it differs from that adopted by the principal maritime powers in the points of mensuration, which yield as the result a smaller amount of tonnage ; and being desirous of securing to ship pers the advantages to be derived from a similar method of computation ; On the proposition of the Minister of Finance, Com merce, and Public Works— DECREES Art. I—The capacity or burthen both of sailing and steam vessels, whether national or foreign, shall in future be reckoned in tons, their dimensions being measured in the following manner : Length—For a one-decked vessel—From stem to stern along the level of the deck, that is from the poop to the prow (internally). For a two-decked vessel—Add to the first length that which is comprised between the stern-post and the stem, measured along the floor of the second deck , and divide the sum of the two lengths by two, to obtain the medium length. Width—At the main beam or point of the greatest width of the vessel. For vessels having an inner fixed planking, from one surface to the other of that planking. For those with a moveable planking, or with no planking, between the two inner beards. Height.—At the point of the greatest width. For a one-decked :vessel —From under the floor of the deck, without reckoning the aperture for the mast, or the cross beams of the deck, to the upper side of the floor of the store room (pagliolo). For a two-decked vessel—From under the floor of the deck as above, to that of the gangway, and from under that to the store room. Art. 11.—These three dimensions shall be expressed in metres and their decimal fractions, and after multiplying such products into each other, the produce shall be divided by 3.80, and the quotient shall indicate the amount of the tonnage of the vessel. Art. lll.—The computation of steam-vessels shall be reckoned in a similar manner, but forty per cent. shall be deducted from the amount of tonnage for the space occu- pied by the engine and its accessories. Art. IV.—The Minister of Finance, Commerce, and Public Works, is charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall have effect from the Ist day of August next. Given in Florence, 20th July, 1859. C. BON-COMPAGNI, Commissioner Extraordinary. It. BUSACCA,_ Minister of Finance, Commerce, and Public Works. Sealed (L.S.), E. POGGI, Minister of Justice and Grace. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. Worcestershire—Robert Berkeley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. County of York—North Riding—William Cayley Wor sley, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Ed ward Corbett Strutt, Gent., to be Ensign. Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Cle ment Moore, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En sign Henry Faulkner to be Lieutenant, vice Martin, re signed. 3d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia— Lieutenant William Lee Gresley to be Captain, vice Mar tin, resigned. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Henry Moody to be Captain, vice Turville, resigned ; Ensign Edward Ramsay to be Lieutenant, vice Moody, promoted. Royal Carnarvonshire Militia Lieut. Owen Massey Jones to be Captain, vice Rowlands, resigned. Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—Stephen Matthew Crowe, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bonham Car ter, promoted. Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Metcalfe Johnson, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Jas. Henry Brooks, resigned. Ist Company of Lancashire Volunteer Rifles—George H. Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign. Dumfries, &c., Militia—Ensign Wm. Mitchell to be Lieu tenant, vice Thomas Hugh Vans Dalrymple Hay, resigned. BANKRUPTS. Asher Weinthal, warehouseman, Cannon-street, to sur render, Aug. 30, at half- past twelve, and Sept. 30, at half past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles Thomas Ingram, oil merchant, Fenchurch- street, Aug. 29, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Levi Cobb, eating-house keeper, Liverpool, Aug. 30 and Sept. 23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Henry Sturemburg and William Goldenstedt, ship bro kers, Liverpool, Sept. 2, at eleven, and 23, at two, at the Liverpool District Court. William Lindop, brush manufacturer, Newcastle-under Lyme, Sept. 5 and Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Clement Edward Davies, spirit merchant, Gainsborough, Aug. 31 and Sept. 21, at twelve, at the Town-hall, King ston-upon-Hull. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. William Buchanan, merchant, Glasgow. Andrew Roxburgh, pattern drawer, Bowling, Dumbar• shire. -- John Macdonald, grocer and spirit dealer, Dingwal BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. n, for the week ending on . Wednesday, the 17th d of August, 1859 : ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £30,859,605 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 16,384,605 Silver Bullion .... - £30,859,605 530,859,605 BANKING D . Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,003 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- oEPARTMENT. Government SQCII - (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £11,209,668 Other Securities 18,291,096 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 624,512 counts) 6,2.9,336 Other Deposits 14,240,460 Seven Day and other Bills 845,733 £39,308,971 M. 1 £39,308,791 :ARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated August 18,1859. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 16th day of August, 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Per cwt. From the British possessions in America .. 26s 61d Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius , Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. --s [ADv E ItT I SEME N T.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—. Diseases of Women. —Many and various have been the pre scriptions for removing certain irregularities which fre quently rob youth of its happiness, and middle age of its health. No medicines regulate and restore irregular or suspended functions with the certainty and safety with which Holloway's remedies work. For all constitutions at all ages, in any climate, they are equally well adapted, and suit the feeblest franie or strongest woman. This ointment and these pills are applicable in every disease veculiar to females, w hether in youth or at the cr iti ca l period. They operate by purifying the blood and expelling all noxious substances likely to produce disease. They give tone to the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and regulate the functions of every organ. THE MELA. a rASTROPHE 'R. Yesterday the Deputy-Coroner for West Middle sex held an inquest at the Swan, Fulham, on the body of Henry Johnson, aged 32, one of the three unfortunate persons drowned b the tilting of a small boat on the river last Wednesday. The bodies of the other deceased, who were daughters of Mr. Prince, of the Yorkshire Grey, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, who were aged respectively 16 and 9 years, had not been recovered. The painful investigation attracted much attention. Charles Johnson, the deceased's father, who was convulsed with grief, identified the body as that of his son, Henry Johnson, who was 32 years of age, and a lighterman in the employ of Messrs. Peter Rolt and Co., Rotherhithe. The deceased was a married man and had a family. It had been stated in the public prints that he was pay ing his addresses to the eldest Miss Prince, who was drowned. Such was not the case, but he was intimately acquainted, and on very good terms with her family. He was a good swimmer. Mr. W. C. Prince deposed that he knew the de ceased, whom he highly respected, and on Wednes day, after the regatta, the deceased was at his house, when his daughters were about proceeding to Wandsworth. As they were going to walk the deceased offered to accompany them, and they started on their journey. He heard nothing more of them until information was brought of the lamentable accident. His daughters' bodies had not yet been recovered, but he did not attribute blame to any one in the matter. John Toovey, an intelligent lad, aged 12 years, said that on Wednesday evening, about five o'clock, he was in a field near the water side at Putney, when he observed a small pleasure-boat, with the deceased and the two females in it. The youngest was playing over the side of the boat, when she fell into the water, and the other, in endeavouring to catch hold, over-tilted the boat, and all three were immediately immersed in the river. There was no assistance at hand, and they quickly sank. The deceased's body, it further appeared, was found some hours afterwards on a mud bank near the spot. A verdict of accidental death was recorded, and the inquiry terminated. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—Ara. 19. -- • The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise during the last two days have been light. From foreign ports we have received only 1,802 qrs of beans, 259 qrs of peas, 1,340 qrs of Indian corn ; and from Canada 625 qrs of peas, 1,340 qrs of Indian corn, and 290 barrels of Indian corn meal. The exports in the same time comprise 1,101 qrs of wheat, 259 qrs of oats, 838 qrs of Indian corn, 549 sacks and 112 barrels of flour. There has been considerable steadness in the trade since Tuesday. The weather has been dull but dry since Wednesday night, when we had some heavy rain. Our market this morning had a fair attendance of the town and country trade, with a good consumptive demand for wheat at no advance on Tuesday's rates. New wheat was not so saleable as at last market. Flour met less in quiry, at about late rates. Oats and oatmeal neglected, and again the turn lower. Barley unaltered. Beans and peas easier to buy. There was less pressure to sell Indian corn, and prices rather against buyers. WAKEFIELD-AUG. 19. The weather here continues fine for harvest work. The show of wheat is fair, and fine fresh qualities meet a toler able demand at the prices of Friday last, but chambered parcels are a slow sale. More samples of new are offering, and make comparatively high rates-42s up to 52s per qr. In beans, oats, and peas the market was dull, and quo tations down. Barley nominal.. Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk, and Kent, white, old, 48s to 52s ; new, 48s to 53s ; ditto, ed, old, 12s to 45s ; new, 42s to 45s •, Lincolnshire and York shire white, new, 46s to 50s ; red, 41s to 445. . . Averages for the week : Wheat 2,597 qrs., at 46s 3J 8ar1ey......... ~ ...--s Od Peas, Beans — 1, —s 0.1 Oats lO7 ~ 27s 101c1 Rye — ~ MANSFIELD—Aua. 18. There was a bettor supply of wheat, and a fair attend ance of farmers—new samples realising 48s to 53s ,• redo 44s to 495. Barley unchanged in value. Nothing doing in oats and beans continue to fetch high prices. Wheat , .44s to 49s Oats.... 2Bs White do .4 8 s to 52s Beans B ar l e y .32s to 40s Peas 66 .41111 4288: to 32e 36rt to --4 EXET ER—Au G . 19. There was only a moderate show of old English wheat to day ; some samples of new offering in fair condition; trade inactive, prices closing at about late rates. Wheat, white ..5s 6d to fis 9d I Barley.. 3s 9d to 4s 34 Ditto red 4s 3d to 4 s 6d Oats Flour, fine, 32s to 33s ; seconds, 30s to 31s per sack. CATTLE—The market was poorly supplied with stock. A moderate attendance of farmers. Pork carcases in 01 1141 supply. Fat bcef,p score, lOs to 10s6d Pork carcases, do 9s Od to 10s Lambs, per 1b..... 7d to 71d Rough fat Ewes, per lb 6d t• OA Wethers, do.. 6lid to oa Fat calves, do 51d to 6d 4d per lb.. BRISTOL SU GAR—Au G. 19. Our market continues excessively quiet, and the sales of the week are confined to about 800 hhds West India, chiefil Trinidads, at 36s 6d to 38s. Refiners' pr oduce very dull. There has been more doing in rum, at the recent decline. COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at .ET—A.tro. 19. the close of the market.) B. d. Byass's Bebsids West Hartley....l4 6 Bates' West Hartley.. 14 6 Lambert's West Hart- ley 14 6 Davison's West Hart _ _ ley Eden Main ...15 3 Tantield Moor l3 0 Tantield Moor Butes 13 0 Clark's West Hartley l4 6 Walls End. 8. d. Thornley 14 6 Ships at marks Walls End. Whitworth.. 14 0 Acorn Close 15 6 Eden 15 6 , Braddyll's Hetton 1 6 v i , South Hetton 17 0 u Hetton.... l7 Heugh Ha 1 1... • .... 15 ! Kelloe l6 '' Cassop 15 9 16 !Caradoc . . Hartlepool... ....... 16 v„ i Benson.... .. ....... 1 4 ~ Riddell 15 ; Trimdon Hartlepool 16 0 Powell'sDuffryn Steam 2 1 A, 76—Sold, 51. The report of the London District Telegrap h Company, preparatory to their meeting on Tuesday , sta on that of their 12,000 £5 shares 10,740 have been issued, f which a deposit has been received of £l. The form ation.°4 the 11 district stations is in progress, and the 89 sub-distriL. stations are expected to be opened by the Ist of Jattlll:j The lines completed consist of six miles underground ro, three and a-half miles over-house, and the lines in Ri e s gress consist of five miles underground and eight 1 9 . 1 over-house. re Bl [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The following extraordinary without medicine, of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, nervous, bilious, an d liver complaints'Barr Nagy', asthma, consumption, and debility, effected by Da et delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food,a r i e . t ; of the least remarkable : —Cure No. 42,116. —Major B enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strenb; o l, Cure No. 36,418.—Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps , 8 1 385 ,, of, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. —Dr. 1 - larv e ' r of diarrhma and debility. Cure No. 39,628.—Dr. consumption. Cure No. 32,880.—William Hunt, rt o, barrister, of paralysis. Cure 46,270.—Mr. James Bo l l i ge t timber merchant, of Frimley, of 30 years' diseased 'urn& spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. 1 1 . 0 01 No. 49,832.—" Fifty years indescribable agony aatu dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, 08 lency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vonaiting,,Pogy, been removed by Du Barry's excellent food.—Maria 43...- `Northam Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Cure No. 5 2, ' n or, The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many Years of vows irritability, bile, and indigestion.—Cure 1 , 10. the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, of dysPeP si iil).• En tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 12 8 .; •ot• 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of r;',4l. affize order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, Lent), Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ' • Ab„b is 'f o rd' Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, u l or 3treet ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishorgaiii, street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at v; 1 CO. 1 Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes an osal at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew ; at Manchester, Slour u tb. Scott ; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co. ; at S° ampton, Randall and Son. BIRTHS. e CARTIVRIGHT.—On the 18th inst., at 3 , Eaton.-0 6 1° 4r Lady Elizabeth Cartwright, of a daughter. roo 4l ' H ILKETT.—On the 16th inst., at 57, St. Georg e Zacl e t Pimlico, the wife of Colonel Halkett, Coldstream u' oif o HILL—On the 19th inst., at 11, Mansfield-street, the of James Hill, Esq., of a son. 11De r ' HowAno.—On the 19th inst., at 15, Provost-rosy ], stock hill, Mrs, Howard, of a son. treet' STIMT.—On Saturday, August 20, at 14, Grosveno r -0 the Lady Augusta Sturt, of a son. MARRIAGES. t BULMER—GonsoN.—On tho 18th inst., at St. -' l3 t e Aldersgate-street, Rippon Buttner, ict ld es t son o ' mu rtil Billmer, Esq., of Loughton, Essex, to Annie, the st r eet' daughter of Edward Godson, Esq., of Aldersgat e Loie FERGUSSON—RAIISAY.—On the 9th inst., at Dahro the Castle, Sir James Fergusson, Bart., of Kilkerra n, f the Lady Edith Christian Ramsay, second d a ughter 0 Most Hon. the Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T. DEATHS. ADIAIS.—On the 16th i ns t., at Pinner, L u cius Fe l-6119114 l A li d ,a a t_ t h n , s, late Lieut.-Col. in the Guards, aged 83 . o u kDAJlolL—AvOantstohneßlo2rtrhadirlaSiite.: E at sg E ., l l i a o t t e p o l f a c F e e , ne -1 1 1, 1 9cic r el; B street, aged 75. CIIIPPERVIELD.—On the 18th inst., at 11, Blontosburr EvEstreet, Mr. R. Cerfie, d 73. arrr.—On the hipp 17th lust ld • , age Littlebury, Ess ex ' It°l)6 : . , rt. Everitt, Esq., aged 73. 1 7 0 li.ULEs.—On the 18th June, at Calcutta, Cap tain Lie" of the 44th Regt. 8.N.1., so o f the late Cul. Hanes, 28th Foot. T .l O of WAnnurrrox.—On the 15th inst., at West Cow'', of th e Warburton, late Captain 85th R e gt., the eldes t son late Yen. Archdeacon of Tuam, aged 34. n eat WA Tml EuN.— On the 13th inst , at Willesboro u g l / 4 Ashford, Kent, Commander • John Waterman , aged 71. tb• ; - nt11 0 " LoNnoN : Printed and Published by MIJR1)0 Vo. 1/ of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sw, Otte°, o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is 04111 Middlesex, Saturday, August 20, 1869. 1 7 "ClIOLY . CA