The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-10 00:00:00

•ON IRON PLATED SHIPS OF WAR. IRON versus WOOD. It was in the year 1835 or '36 that I took it into my head to have a yacht of about 30 tons burden built, having an i , ;:on bottom, the plates of seven eighths of an inch in thickness, but with the upper works just above the water line of timber, on the usual construction. My' object in so doing was, independent of the in creased strength of the bottom of the vessel, to ob tain, as I at that time conceived, a greater space for u'ccommodation in the hold, by di s p ens ing in a great met sare with the necessary bulk and amount of bal last, conceiving that the weight of the iron plates, ribs, and keel would be nearly sufficient to enable was to dispense with the usual ballast required for a - vessel of 30 tons. I found, however, her buoyancy was such that although the iron work below the water line was not less than ten tons of dead weight, still she sat Am , high in the water, anti was unable to carry a sufficient spread of canvas ; I therefore added at first 'four or five tons iron ballast, stowed in the usual way. Sti'd I found that in heavy weather this was too little, till eventually I increased the amount of balluslc to not less than nine tons, at which I con tiny ed to sail this yacht during the remainder of the period I possessed her, which extended to a period of eight or ten years ; and I believe she was the first iron sailing vessel ever built. It will be seen from this that a small iron-bottomed vessel, having plates of the unusual thickness of seven-eighths of an inch—each plate being six feet in length and three feet broad —riveted flush to an gular ribs of iron, and with a keel one inch thick, extending its whole length, the dead weight of which amounted to ten tons—an below the water line— required an additional ballasting power of nine tons to enable her to carry her canvas successfully in strong breezes, In other words, 19 tone of dead weight below the water line was required to steady a vessel of only 30 tons burden per measurement. In the course of my yachting excursions it hap pened that on two occasions the vessel struck upon :rocks, but got off without sustaining the least injury. It hay s been since ascertained, from sad experience, that iron vessels, when they are driven ashore, or ur 2 on rocks, as in the case of the Royal Charter and 1 - many others, soon break ep or are dashed into fragments ; but this arises chiefly from the great disproportionate thickness and strength of the iron plates used in their construction. The Royal Charter, I believe,' although she was a vessel of 1,000 tons and upwards, had no thicker plates in her bottom than my small yacht of 30 tons. Had she been built of a proportionate strength with re fere/a/ea to tonnage, her plates would have required to I'A3 at least Ber 10 inches thick. In the course Of my peregrinations in my yacht, it often occurred `to me that if vessels of war were covered with iron plates of one or two inches thick, which was at that (1837) the heaviest known, they would be almost imperious to shot or shell. At the same time, it struck me that if the form of the vessel's hull was so altered as to present at all times an angulated er inclined plane to the direction from which a projec tile could strike her, that she would be still further protected from injury, by the projectile glancing off. After revolving in my own mind for two or three years the feasibility of the project, I at last, in the month of October, 1840, ventured to address a letter to 'the Admiralty suggesting the idea, and accom panying my letter with a diagram of a vertical sc:ction of a three-decker, having the sides sloping *downwards to the water line, and proposing they should be covered with the thickest iron plates that could be procured. To this letter I, ab3ut a 'week afterwards, received the following laconic answer : "Admiralty, 26th Oct., 1840. " Sir, —.l have received, and laid before my Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, your letter of the 21st inst., suggesting a plan for constructing shot-proof vessels.—l am, Sir, your most humble servant, "3. G. Baanow." Nothing daunted by the cold reception given to my suggestion, I some time after addressed another letter to that body, with an improved diagram of a two•decker, in which the angular form of the vessel's broadside was still retained, but so altered as to equalise and diminish the top-weight, so objectionable in my first diagram. This letter the Admiralty also acknowledged, but declined to give me any encouragement of its adoption. Some time after this, the attention of the public and authori ties was attracted by the Emperor Napoleon 111. ordering the construction of iron-plated floating batteries during the Russian war of 1854, which successfully participated in the attack on the forts of Kin burn. This experiment of the French Emperor at length opened the eyes of our naval officers and the public to the necessity of adopting some measure by which our naval supremacy might be maintained ; and at length two large and powerful war steamers, the Warrior and Black Prince, were ordered to be built. So I found that, after the lapse of 20 years from my first suggestions made in 1840, my ideas have been carried out, without any recognition of their originality by the authorities or public. While these vessels were in course of construc tion, I sent a final, diagram of a large vessel, iron clad, having but one deck, to carry the heaviest guns, and still adheiing to the sloping principle on her broadsides ; and while I mention this, I recol lect a previonsletter sent to the Admiralty, in which I complained of the unnecessary size of the ports of our existing ships of war, which expose the gunners to be shot down in detail by the improved small arms of the present day. Although Ido not recol lect receiving any answer to that communication, I was glad to observe that the suggestion was adopted, by the greatly reduced size of the port holes of the Warrior and Black Prince. A radical defect, however, is allowed to exist in the construction of these two vessels, and that is, that neither the fore nor after part is fully pro tected from the penetration of the shot. An enemy attacking them, and knowing this defect, will be -sure to concentrate his fire upon these parts. One or both of them, at least, ought to have been named the Achilles, in allusion to the only vulnerable part he possessed, viz., his heel. Of what use would these two enormously-expen sive vessels be, if either their bow or stern were shot away, though the centrepart should remain invul nerable ? Would they not lie simply as logs in the vater, having the crew And guns no doubt intact, - hut unable to return to port except at a snail's pace under canvas, encumbered with a wreck of iron work hanging from their bow and stern, entangling th e screw ? It is asserted that if the bow and stern had been covered 'with plates equal in weight to the centre, the s ailing qualities of these vessels would have been 11'11011impaired ; but this d e f ec t oug ht t o h ave been foreseen and provided against by an increased breadth o f b tatn, also by having besides a deep main keel, also t one-third the wo other keels running parallel, had the effe c t gth of the floor, whi c h wou ld h ave °I sea-way. Con9t~greatly steadying the ve sse l i n a ucted as they are, th e y h ave , i n point offset, n ° —e el at all, the con sequence of which is that they nlllsll°ll at an enormous rate in a heavy orosp, sea. At the same time,l meat It4 nowl the t ideratum in such rate of speed is a most importsuusedge that a high autat. astest sailer will vessels, it being evident that po i- ses a great adv yiet o,s :er her op ad all times Still zosition, ponent in being enabled to choose or in running down her opponent. to the case of only two single vessels con l b atin a lVlies other. Where a fleet of such vessels happ eu te4 ch to b e engaged, the advantages of speed will be in a great measure neutralised, as the slow sailers can ret a i n such positions as will support their consorts against the fast. But without further entering into a discussion on those points, I beg to revert to the original subject of the priority of the suggestion for covering war vessels with iron plates or armour. This, you will observe, I proposed to the Admi ralty so far back as 1840, and at the same time proposing the angular or sloping surface to the broadsides of ships, to throw off projectiles, a mode for which a Mr. Jones, of Liverpool, took out a pa tent only t'ivn years ago, just 20 years after I had suggested the Ramo thing to our Admiralty. Aid, in regard to armour-clad vessels, I was math amused to find by the following extract, taken from a respectable American newspaper, that our younger brother, or Cousin Jonathan, claims to be Ihe origi nal inventor of this, ap indeed of almost everything else of moment in science or invention, Unfortu nately, however, for his pretensions, is claim on that petit is dated, as in 1845, just five years later tkan my own, Extract from the World, New York paper, March 18, 1862 : " I RON - PLATED VESSELS AN AMERICAN INVENTION. " Now that it is obvious that iron-plated vessels are de stined to effect a complete revolutionin naval and coast war fare —the greatest change in the art of war since the inven tion of gunpowder—it ought to be a source of national pride that the idea originated in our own country. The United States gave the world the steamboat, the cotton gin, the electric telegraph, the anesthetic chloroform, the reap ing machine, the cylinder press, and many other of the grandest prizes of peace ; it is now to be written that the same land of the free has ftjrnished war with the most im portant appliance of modern time. "The real inventor in this case is Robert L. Stevens, and so history will recognise it, " As long ago as 1815, the late Mr. Stevens, the designer and builder of some of the best and speediest American steamers, made a long series of experiments at the expense of the American Government, to ascertain and measure the resistance of iron plates to shot and shell. The result then arrived at was, that plates less than an inch in thickness would resist the impact of any shell then known, and that a thickness of six inches of iron was impenetrable to every projectile that was brought against it, no matter how great the velocity, or how short the distance at which it was fired. " The English and French vessels thus far built and planned, so far at least as we know, have other inferior features. They lie high in the water, instead of just rising above the surface like the Monitor, and are more easily hit. Their plates are laid vertically, or nearly so, and thus will receive the impact of the shot at right angles, instead of obliquely, as in the case of the Monitor. Thus they are not only more easily hit, but, when hit, the shct must tell upon them with vastly greater effect. " Americans then, through Stevens, were the first to conceive and apply the principle of making vessels of war invulnerable by the use of iron; and, through Ericsson, they have been foremost in seizing upon all the conditions of that principle, and, in the quickest time, turning them to the best account, History will record this to their honour." Such are the laudatory remarks with which our transatlantic brethren herald forth their own achievements, leading us to the conclusion that, in arts or arms, unrivalled they must be by the Old World, or even posterity. It is very possible that some individual may have, at a date previous to my communication to the Admiralty in 1840, suggested the same idea, of covering ships of war with armour plates; but I am not aware that such a suggestion was ever made in a tangible form, and which, like mine, oan be authenticated by a reference to Admiralty records. Besides, I had for several years previous to address ing the Admiralty made up my mind on the subject. I am suprised, in reading the report of the de bates of the committee appointed to report upon the best mode of construction of armour-plated ships, that they should pronounce an opinion that the angular or sloping form of their broadsides possesses no advantage over the upright or wall sided principle. Let any man who wishes to satisfy himself on the erroneous nature of that conclusion place a board or two in an angular position, covered with a thin sheet of iron—say one-eighth of an inch thick—and fire a pistol, loaded with ball, in a hori zontal position at the object (although I have not tried the experiment myself), I am pretty sure the ball will glance off, either upwards or downwards, as it may strike above or below the angle. Let him again try the same experiment on an upright board similarly covered, and it is ten to one the ball will perforate through. But the most conclusive evidence of the sound ness of the views I have maintained since 1840 is afforded by the results of the late naval engage ment on the American waters, between the Merri mac and the wooden frigates, the Cumberland and Congress, which latter was, in less than half an hour, sunk and destroyed by the former ; and when the Monitor—another and differently constructed iron vessel—was pitted against the Merrimac, they both pounded into each other for three hours with out making any sensible impression, till the latter withdrew, probably from having injured herself on the bows by her repeated blows in running into the Cumberland, and the same attempt on the low hulled Monitor. Had she struck the latter on the circular tower battery, I think it is probable the Monitor would have careened over, and gone down. This fight, I think, fully establishes the supe riority of armour-clad vessels over wooden ships, and solves the problem—iron v. wood—which has been debated for 20 years, but at the sad sacrifice of the lives of 250 brave men. And we may now look upon all the trials made by our own officials and the Admiralty, at an enor mous expense to the nation, as simply mere expe riments. The Merrimac, however, was originally a wooden ship, and altered as she now is, having her armour plates laid over her hull on the sloping or angular principle, proves how effectually that form is adapted to throw off projectiles. This ought to direct the attention of our own naval authorities to the propriety of altering and plating many of oar present ships of the line, and also our heavy frigates, which, in my humble opinion, could easily be done at far less expense to the nation than building a new fleet of iron steamers. The Monitor, from what I can gather from the accounts of her construction in the newspapers, seems to be much the same as that projected by Captain Coles, at present building in some one of our naval arsenals. It strikes me, however, that both these vessels Ric only adapted to be service able in smooth water. In a sea-way I suspect neither of them would be of much use. It further occurs to me, since it is found to be almost impossible to make any serious impression by projectiles on iron-plated ships, that other means might be adopted to disable them. Those means - would consist in an attempt to entangle or disable the screw by directing shot with chainwork at tached, or logs of wood, from the bow guns of the attacking vessel when at elose quarters. Another method which I think could be applied also when in close proximity would be by a common fire-engine hose and nozzle, worked by the ship's engines, to pour a stream of sea water (supplied by a tank placed below the water-line) down the smoke funnel of the enemy's vessel, which, if well directed and in sufficient quantity, would noon ca tinguish the fires under the boilers, and generate such an amount of steam and noxious gases as would soon suffocate the firemen, and perhaps the crew of the vessel so attacked. If such a mode of warfare proved successful it would next become a question how to counteract this mode of attack. This could only be done by altering the smoke funnel so as to run along the upper deck, and terminating near the stern, having a circular shot-proof shield protecting its ex tremity. The funnel itself might be so constructed with a joint just above the upper deck, so that when not in action it may again be placed upright. In conclusion, I beg to add that I have again ven tured to address a letter to the Admiralty, offering to send diagrams of the alterations which I think are required on our present line-of-battle ships and frigates, to render them shot-proof, but whether these authorities will entertain my proposals made in 1862 with any better grace than those in 1840 remains to be seen. JAMES MACNAIR. STALE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, April 9.—The hosiery trade remains quiet, most branches sharing in the almost general fatness. Both the home and foreign demand are 4411 - At Loughborough and the country districts .;‘):loears.alelz business is extremely flat, and there is a spinners are high ;If distress among the operatives. Yarns _l l yrice, but not much in demand, and NorriNou" A " w oo l s ar ' e ° ,o l ;ne their productions to what is wanted. at late•prices but are not in demand. slightly increasi ng, but this week as last. th ri ---There is fully as much doing he demand for cotton goods is isut plain nets are still selling at geed demand for Mechlin low prices. The re quillings. The det ha a " for h several sorts of silk l a ce goods continues...l , h , Ther e been a few buyers in the market for both the e h e , a " l o la more healthy. an d the tone of the trad e gener e tti lthd foreign trade, in ~ I t u:provement 1 , although 1 In hosiery there is very little, if noticeable. Yarns remain firm but little being usol at ►resent , s e RAILWAY INIBILIOBNCE. ST. ANDREWS. The half-yearly meeting was held at St. An drews on Monday—Mr. W. Smith in the chair. The directors' report stated that the receipts amounted to £1,837, as against £1,777 in the cor• responding half-year. The directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annu m , which would take a sum of £5O from the reserve fund. The CIIAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was glad the directors were able to announce a slight increase on this occasion, having had to report a decrease at the two previous half yearly meetings. The goods' traffic had suffered of ►ate from several accidental circumstances, but the passenger traffic, which was the mainstay of the line, continued steadily to increase, the number con veyed last year being 20,000 over the promoters' original estimate. The report was unanimously adopted, as was also a report on the subject of telegraph communication to St. Andrews. A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the pro. ceedings. PARIS AND ORLEANS. The annual meeting of this company was held last week in Paris--M. Bartholony in the chair. The report,which was of considerable length,stated that the expenditure on capital account for the old line; 1,475 kilometres in length (922 miles),amounted to 362 ,422,5011(£14,496,900),inc1uding 11,291,0131 expended during the year 1861, and 325,966,837 f (£13,038,673) on the new lines, 682 kilometres (426 miles in length), making together £27,535,573. The gross traffic receipts for the year 1861 amounted to 78,929,314 f. (X 3,157,172), and the expenses, interest, and other charges, to 43,050,320 f. (£1,722,013), leaving a balance of 35,878,995 f. (X 1,435,159) ; out of this was deducted 1,076,370 f., the usual reserve, and 2,162,558 f., the percentage on profits to which the servants of the company are entitled, leaving a net sum of 32,373,221 f. (£1,294,929) for distribution among the shareholders. Of this sum 9,000,000 f. (£360,000) was distributed on the Ist of October last, and on and after the Ist inst. 21,000,000 f. (£840.000) was to be distributed, making the dividend for the year 100 f. per share or 20 per cent., and leaving a bal ance of 2,373,221 f. (£94,929). Resolutions were passed adopting the report, electing M. Soulaoroup a director, authorising the creation of 300,000 new shares of 500 f. (£2O) each, the interest on the amount called up for the years 1862, 1863, and 1864 to be at the rate of 5 per eent. per annum, declaring a dividend on the shares of 20 per cent. for the year 1861, of which 6 per cent. had been paid in October last, and the remaining 14 per cent. was to be paid in the present month ; appointing an audit committee of five shareholders, and re-electing the retiring directors. WESTERN OF FRANCE. The annual meeting of this company was held on the 29th nit in Paris—M. Simon in the chair. The report stated that the total expenditure on capital account to the 31st of December last amounted to 596,044,201 f. (£23,841,768), including 45,177,049 f. (X 1,807,082) subscriptions from the Government and towns served by the railway. The expenditure on capital account during the year 1861, on the old and new lines, was 39,617,392 f. (£1,584,696). The length of the line worked by the company was . 1,213 kilometres (758 miles). The gross receipts for the year 1861 amounted to 55,221,356 f. (£2,208,854), and to 50,923,080 (X 2,036,923) in 1860, showing an ,increase of 4,298,275 f. (£171,931). After certain deduc tions from the gross receipts for taxes and subscriptions to other undertakings in connection with the railway, the receipts for the year amounted to 49,784,729 f. (£1,991,389). The total expenses amounted to 20,958,537 f. (£838,341), leaving a balance of 28,826,192 f. (X 1,153,048). After deducting in terest on loans and other charges, the balance for dividend was sufficient to pay 42.50 f. per share for the year, or 8-t- per cent. ; of which the sum of 17.50 f., or 31 per cent., was paid in October, and 25f. per share, or 5 per cent., was to be paid in the present month, leaving a balance of 144,147 f. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, and declaring the dividend. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the Bill of the Midland, for additional provision, was declared proved. The case of the Scottish North Eastern Railway Company was opened by Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, Q.C., and wit nesses were examined. Further local evidence was adduced in favour of the Bristol and South-Western Junction Railway. The opposition case to the Shrewsbury and Hereford was opened by Mr. Ser jeant Wrangham, and witnesses were examined. Further evidence was taken on the Bill of the West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby Railway, and the clauses of the Berwickshire Railway Bill were disposed of. THE PRINCE CONSOBT'DIBMO.RIAL. Yesterday a meeting of the committee engaged in raising a fund for the proposed national memo rial of the Prince Consort was held at the Mansion House. There were present the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman *Wilson, Mr. Alderman Abbiss, Mr. George Godwin, Mr. Charles Hill, Mr. William Humphrey, the Rev. Michael Gibbs, Mr. Goodman, and Mr. S. Brown. They were occupied for some time in reviewing their past proceedings, and in considering how they could still further carry out the object for which they were embodied at the public meeting held in the middle of Janu ary, at which the movement originated. Nothing, however, of public interest transpired, ex cept the fact that the fund up to yesterday amounted to £44,240, of which £913 had been contributed during the last week. Allusion was made to the adverse influences with which the committee had had to contend. The de plorable calamity at the Hartley colliery occurring just at the time when the fund was being set on foot necessarily and unavoidably diverted the pub lic mind for a time from the consideration of the irreparable loss which the country had sustained in the death of the illustrious Prince, and absorbed in a work of mercy of the most pressing nature, what, probably, to a considerable extent would have been devoted to the work of perpetuating his me mory. Again an obelisk, and if possible a mono litic obelisk, having by a preponderance of opinion been indicated as the form which the proposed monument ought to take, and there being no ex ample of the kind worthy of the name in this coun try, it has been a work of difficulty to get even intelligent people to realise first the cost of such an undertaking, and then the wisdom of expending the fund in that way. By many it appeared to have been forgotten that a monolith, though by far the most conspicuous, was not the only feature in the design as shadowed forth in the letter of General Grey Conveying the expression of her Majesty's personal wishes on the subject, and that a mete rial portion of that design might consist of a series of artistic groups, emblematical of incidents and features in the Prince's life and character, which endeared him to the nation at large. The committee which is now being formed in connection with the Society of Arts with the view of interesting the working classes throughout the kingdom in the proposed national memorial, was the subject of friendly conversation at the meeting. The proposed committee was regarded as auxiliary to that at the Mansion House, and as designed to co-operate with it in carrying out the common object. o [ADVERTISEM ENT.] - llolloway's Ointment an d Pil ls.— Important Inf ormation.—All who read this announcement and are suffering f rom, or have friends afflicted with bad legs, knotted veins, swe l led ankles, or scorbutic eruptions on the skins, should imm e di ately supply themselves with Hol loway's remedies, and u se t h em according to (the directions which are wrapped rou n d each potand box. Confinement to s b u e c d h or oa e s v o c s n t t o o othreehrofeueste,anisr pe t r e m u nnaneenctes c s u a ro ry ; fo an r conductin g such sctiinga most essential point,seeing that moderate exerc i se and fresh air maintain nervous vigour, tak e off the attent i on from the local ailment , digestion, lungs, skin, and circulation in a m keepthe natural state th an th e sever ity o f auirffelrinatigwould andr e war r ant us t 9 "Pe"' ITIIE NEWSPEV.DE.RS' ENEVOIENT I AND _PROTECTION SOCIETY. The twenty-third annual meeting of the members of this society was held last evening at the News Exchange, Black Horse-court, Fleet-street, Mr. Kennedy in the chair, for the purpose of consider ing and confirming the amended rules of the insti tution passed at the last annual meeting, and for the transaction of the regular yearly business. Mr. Hoskins (the secretary) read the rules as amended, which were put to the meeting seriatim by the Chairman, and declared to be carried, subject to some verbal alterations. A new rule was then added, declaring every donor of 10 guineas and upwards a vice-president of the society. The Secre tary then read the annual report, which, having regretted that so many members of the trade still held aloof from the society, stated that the annual subscriptions for the past year had amounted to £46 25., and the donations to £76 19s. 6d., show ing an increase of income over the previous year of £ll 13s. 6d. The amount thils received had enabled the committee to add £5O to the in vested stock of the society, and left them a ba lance on the year of £53 12s. 33. It might appear at the first glance that the amount of income was thus more than sufficient to meet the demands of the society, but it should be recollected that the amount to be given in relief to pensioners was limited to the amount received as dividends on the invested stock, and consequently the number of pen sioners can only be increased by the continual in vestment of capital. The committee have at present many urgent applications for election, but cannot afford them any relief until, by an increase in the funded property or the decrease of some of the pre sent recipients of the fund, they can add to the list of pensioners. They trust that during the coming year they may be placed in a position to reduce the list of applicants. The amount of stock invested was now £1,875. The anniversary festival was fixed to take place on the 2d of May, at which Mr. Charles Dickens had consented to preside. The report was adopted after a brief discussion. THE DISTRESS iN LANCASHIRE. WIGAN.—At the meeting of the Distress Com mittee this week the state of the funds of the town was found to be even worse than had been antici pated. The total amount of subscriptions unex pended was £9OO, but a cheque having just been drawn for £2OO for the payment of tradesmen, only £7OO was left. Of this £7OO, £4OO had not yet been paid by the subscribers, so that £3OO was all that was available at present. The expenditure last week was £2lO, with which sum 1,694 cases had been relieved. Each case represents, we be- lieve, about three persons, the names of heads of families alone being entered in the relief books. This gives a total of over 5,000 persons as receiving relief from the committee. The guardians are als o relieving between 2,600 and 2,700 out-door poor, and there are over 400 persons in the workhouse; so that the total number of the poor in the district may fairly be stated at considerably over 8,000. It was decided by the committee to make energetic efforts to collect the outstanding subscriptions, and to solicit further aid, and also to see whether more of the cases could not be relieved by the Board of Guardians. It was stated that the Local Board of Health had arranged to employ a number of the able-bodied poor in the repair of the streets, and this test, there was no doubt, would be of great ser vice. A collection is to be made for the benefit of the distressed operatives in each place of worship in the town on Faster Sunday. PRESTON.—We regret to say that there is no diminution in the pauperism of the Preston Union. At the weekly meeting of the guar dians, held yesterday, the following returns were submitted : Out-door relief last week, £531 6s. 9d. ; corresponding week last year, £140; being an increase of £391 6s. 9d. Workhouse inmates last week, 948 ; corresponding week last year, 567 ; increase, 381. Labourers in the employ of the Union, 1,070 ; in the stoneyard and Ribbleside, about 300. The chairman drew at tention to the state of pauperism during the present presdure in comparison with what it was during the great commercial crisis in 1858. During the win ter quarter of 1858 the average number of cases per week was 2,329. During the past 13 weeks the average number of cases was 2,292. In 1858 the average number of persons receiving out-door re lief per week was 6,720. In the past quarter the number per week in receipt of relief has been 7,370. The average weekly amount of money paid in out door relief during the winter quarter of 1858 was £495 lls. 5d.; this year, during the period before named, the amount has been £417 is. 4d. This quarter the number of cases has been 37 per week less than in 1858 ; the number of persons 650 more per week than in 1858 ; and the weekly amount of relief £7B 10s. ld. less than in 1858. It will thus be seen that, although there have been 650 more paupers in the Union this quarter than during the winter quarter of 1858, when there was so much distress, their maintenance has not cost so much by £7B 10s. ld. The difference is accounted for by the fact that employment has been provided for the paupers in a better manner than in 1858, and that the administration of relief has been better regu lated and superintended. The highest amount ever paid in relief in 1858 was in the second week of the winter quarter, when the sum was £662 19s. 10d., and the number of persons relieved 8,202. The present distress has not, however, it is feared, reached a climax ; but the highest amount hitherto paid in any one week of the present quarter has been £475, and the number of persons relieved therewith 8,496.-Iy. a n chester Examiner, ItURDER OF A WIPP. On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at Collie, by Mr. J. Hurgreaves, coroner for the Black burn hundred of Lancaster, touching the death of Jane, wife of Waker Moore, tailor, of Keighley, Yorkshire. Joseph Hartley, father to the deceased, said his daughter was 32 years old. She had lived a miserable life with her husband, and about two months ago had left him in consequence of his mis conduct. Joseph Metcalf, of Keighley, mechanic, said that about a quarter to twelve last Friday he met Walker Moore in Keighley, and set out with him for a walk. As they were going along the prisoner proposed they should go as far as the Hare and Hounds, at Black-lane-ends, near Colne, where his wife lived with relations, who kept the house. They found her there, and she served them with some ale. The prisoner seemed disposed to be friendly with her, but she did not seem to be so with him. He wished her to go with him. She replied, " If I can't live quietly hero I will go home," mean ing to her father's house. At nine o'clock the wit ness and Moore went to bed, the former slept with a boy, and the latter with Wm. Wood, the landlord. He went to sleep and did not awake until next morning, when the prisoner called him. When he went down stairs he and Moore began to drink ale, part of which he mixed with rum and part with w e h r i y sy. w ngl illi The deceased ser ved them with it, but very unwillingly. The deceased stooped down kunbe fore the fire to clean the fire irons, and the prisoner sat the t on the "settle" near her. When Wood le place long to fetch more ale, the prisoner rose from his seat, Placed his left hand behind the back of the deceased, and then sud denly with his right hand drew something across her throat. She got up immediately, and blood ran from her throat. She put her apron to stop the blood. Woad then returned, and, as the deceased seemed falling, caught her in his arms and laid her on the long settle. She died in less than five minutes. Moore, when spoken to, said, " I came purposely to do it." He had never given the witness the least idea of his intention. William Wood, the landlord of the Hare and Hounds, corroborated the statement of the last witness. The prisoner had threatened to cut his throat. Police-co ns t a bl e Charles Lord said that th e p r i s oner, "on hi s way t o the lock-up, said, "Well, policeman, I will tell you all about it. Her uncle and cousin (William Woods) came and fetched her away from Keighley about six weeks since, and she has been living there ever s i nce . I knew she was sleeping regularly with her cousins. I asked her to go back with me this morning, but she wouldn't, so I killed her." He afterwards added, "It is all through William Wood, and I should have been better satisfied if I had cut his throat too." ASSIZE INTELLIGPA CR. HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, April 9. (Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and Special Jury.) MILEIKIN THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action to recover damages for inju ries sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the bursting of the boiler of one of the defendants' en gines on 4th July last, through, as was alleged, the negligence of their servants. The defendants, by their pleas, denied they had been guilty of negli gence. Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Joyce Were counsel for the plaintiff- Mr. Bovill, Q,C., Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Pollock appeared for the company. The plaintiff WaS oietgyman, holding a living at Stoughton, in Sussex, and if appeared that on the 4th July he started from the ie.;ustoti station in a second-class carriage, by the Irish mail train, fo‘ the purpose of visiting some friends at Dublin. The train proceeded safely on its journey until it arrived a few miles below Rugby, when the boiler of the engine suddenly exploded, and by the explosion one of the passengers was killed, and the plaintiff and several others very seriously injured. These facts Were admitted by the company, but they contended that they were not liable, upon the ground that there had been no negligence on their part in rela tion to the boiler that exploded, but that the explo sion was an unavoidable acticletit4 for which they were not responsible. It should tc stated that an action, arising out of the same accident, Wae tried in London some time back, the same defence being set up, and upon that occasion the plaintiff obtained a verdict, with damages, against the company. In order to make out the case for the plaintiff, Sir C. Fox, Captain Tyler, the Government inspector, and Mr. Dredge and Mr. May, two eminent engi neers, were examined. It appeared to be admitted that the bursting of the boiler was caused by the corrosion of pipes by constant use, and the evi dence of these gentlemen went to show that if the boiler had been properly examined, its defective state would have been ascertained, and thus the accident might have been prevented. Evidence was also given that, after the accident, upon the exami nation of the fractured boiler, the iron presented an appearance as if the corrosion had been going on for a very considerable period. Mr. Bovill, in his address to the jury on behalf of the defendants, said that the answer he was instructed to make to the present action was that they had not been guilty of any negligence what ever, but that they had taken every possible pre caution to see that the boilers of these engines were in a fit state to be used, and that the accident that took place upon this occasion was one which they had no power to prevent, and that consequently they were not liable. A number of witnesses were then examined on behalf of the company, among whom were Mr. Gooch, the locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway; Mr. Sturrock, of the Great Northern; Mr. M'Connell, the former locomotive superintendent of the London and North Western Railway, and a gentleman connected with the Mid land, whose evidence went to show that it was the custom upon all these lines only to make a minute examination of the interior of their engines once in every six years, and that this had been found by experience to be- quite sufficient ; and a witness named Griffiths, who is in the service of the defen dants, also proved that he examined the interior of the engine in question in October, 1857, and at that time it was perfectly sou n d and in good condi tion, and the allegation that the accident arose from any neglect on the part of the servants of the company appeared to be practically negatived. Mr. Bovill commenced summing up the defendants case when the jury interposed and intimated that it was unnecessary for him to do so, as they had al ready made up their minds. Sergeant Parry claimed his right, however, to reply on behalf of the plaintiff, and he urged upon the jury that the question they were called upon to decide by their verdict was not only of im portance in relation to the parties themselves, but that the safety of the public at large was very deeply involved in the present issue, and he trusted they would pause before they came to a decision that the plaintiff was not entitled to receive compensation for the injury he had suffered upon the occasion. There could be no doubt that this boiler had burst in consequence of being in a state of corrosion, and it appeared to him that if it had undergone a proper examination, or that if so long a period had not been allowed to elapse between the examination of the boilers, its defective state would have been disco vered, and thus this accident would have been avoided, and he therefore contended that upon this ground the company were guilty of negligence, and the plaintiff was entitled to recover. The learnel serjeant, after making a fewmore observations, held a conference with his client, and he then addressed the jury, and said he could see they had made up their minds adversely to him, and he was not vain enough to suppose that anything he could say would induce them to come to a contrary opinion. He should, therefore elect to be nonsuited, and plaintiff would try the cause again before another jury. The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman and a Special Jury.) WESTBROOK V. KERRICA. This was an action of trespass. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Daly, and Mr. Bridgman were for the plaintiff, and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Garth for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, it appeared, was for merly in the service of the defendant, who is the treasurer for the county of Surrey, and had the management of an establishment for brickmaking at Dorking, belonging to him. It seemed that Mr. Kerrich had entered into some arrangement to put the plaintiff into possession of this property, upon the understanding that be should fi n d a partner who would provide a certain amount of money, and the plaintiff was thereupon alloived to enter into possession. The agreement, how ever, did not appear to have been carried out, and a dispute arose, and the defendant desired to regain possession of the property, and the steps he took with that view led to the present action. The learned Judge, in the result, put certain questions to the jury, the answer to one of them, relating to a plea of leave and license that was upon the record, being such as to amount to a veraict for the defendant. C'ENT.RAL CRIMINAL. COURT-April 9. FOURTH COURT. (Before the Recorder.) In the case of the " Queen v. Katharine Barbara Wilson," charged with bigamy, it will be remem bered that an application was made on Monday for the postponetnEnt of the trial until the June sessions, upon the ground that the defendant was not pre pared with evidence to rebut the charge against her, but required time to obtain it from Toronto, in Canada. The Recorder, on this application, said that the affidavits filed were not sufficiently specific for him then to,coneede the motion, and ordered it to be mentioned again to-day. Mr. Stannard, solicitor for the prosecution, said that the learned counsel he had instructed were both engaged on circuit, and in their absence he had to apply to the Court to bail the defendant, on whose application an arrangement iod been made to put offthe trial until June, upon terms. 'Rose terms were that the prosecution should be furnished with the names of tho parties at Toronto, from whom infork72a- Hon was sought in order that the prosecution might I have an opportunity of testing their evidence. If that were not so, it would lead to the inconvenience of asking in Juno for another two months' delay for that purpose. The Recorder said the arrangement had not been made in court, and the terms now sought ought to have been effected before that arrangement was closed. He could not now interfere, and the trial must stand adjourned till the June sessions. The defendant's bail was then enlarged until the June sessions. Thomas Mason, a man of respectable appearance, was indicted for bigamy. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Besley for the defence. It was proved that the prisoner was married on the Bth of October, 1843, at the church of St. Ann's Soho, to a woman of the name of Matilda Garehoen, a German, who was still living, but an inmate of the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum. It was further proved in evidence that on the 21st January, 1855, he was married to his cousin, Sarah Hands, to whom he represented that his first wife was dead. With the second wife he lived two years and alalf, who had a child by him. Two children were born by his first wife. The Recorder told the jury the case was made out, and that there really could be no defence. The jury immediately re t ur ned a verdict of guilty, and the p r i soner was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment with hard labour. Thomas George Chapman, 73 years of age, was indicted for obtaining from Thomas Martin, the sum of £3 by false and fraudulent pretences. Mr. Ribton conducted the prosecution. The evidence adduced went to show that the pro secutor was the proprietor of the Albion Tavern, Albion-road, Hammersmith, and that the prisoner, b who formerly h a d beeneia u ilder, was a cust omer. On the 30th of March, 1861, the p r isoner came to the tavern and s aid he w as short of m oney to pay his men, and asked the prosecutor to lend him £3, and he would leave his gold watch 41 : 1 -d chain, which he wore ostentatiously in his vest pocket, as security. The prisonb? asserted that the watch and appen dages were g to o:,:1, and worth £2O. On th e prosecu tor agreei ng obliged up him with the loan, the prisoner hastily wrap). , the watch and chain in a piece of paper ' and, 12 4 .1nded the packet to the prosecutor, who put them in his pocket without any examination. A few days after it was discovered that the prisoner had levanted from his abode in Hammersmith, and on hearing this prosecutor for the first time looked at the valuables placed as security in his hands, and then found on inquiry from a working jeweller that the articles were not gold, and did not contain one particle of gold, and were not worth the sum of ss, The prisoner kept out of the way, and was not found until recently, when he was given into custody. The prisoner put in a written defence, which was full of matter having not the least reference to the present charge. The jury unhesitatingly pronounced a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Ribton said there were two other indictments against the prisoner, one for forgery, but looking at his extreme age, it would be useless to proceed with them. The Recorder concurred, and said the only diffi culty the Court felt was what to do with the pri soner. The sentence ultimately pronounced was that he be imprisoned nine calendar m. inths, with directions that he should be sent to the „.'nfirmary of the gaol. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 9. B OW- STREET.--THREATENING LORD SHAFTES 1311RY.—A man of respectable appearance, who said his name was William Cole, was charged with threatening the lives of several of the Commis sioners of Lunacy, and especially of Lord Shaftes bury. The prisoner described himself as of no occupation, and gave his address at the Crown coffee-house, Bridge-street, Westminster. Lord Shaftesbury, who had signed the charge upon the police-sheet, and Mr. Lutridgo (Commis sioner of Lunacy), were accommodated with seats upon the bench. Thomas Storer, 0119 of the messengers to the Com missioners of Lunacy, was the first witness. He stated that since Friday last the prisoner had called daily between 11 and 12 o'clock, at the offices of the Commissioners, 19, Whitehall-place, and had employed very violent expressions. Mr, Henry said the witness must repeat the words used. The Witness—He said " I will smash that Lord Shaftesbury; and I will send all the commissioners to the hulks if Sir Richard Mayne does not." He attracted a very large mob by his conduct and by his singular appearance, wearing a coloured cloth over his shoulders, and having on a blue cap. He knocked at the door yesterday and to-day, asking who were the commissioners present, and using the same violent conduct and threaten ing language. Defendant asked whether the witness had not told him that Lord Shaftesbury was not in town, whereas he was now in court. The witness had only said he was not at the office. The defendant asked if witness did not say" Will you call again in the course of the day ?" The witness might have said that. Defendant asked him who were the commissioners present, and he replied, " Mr. Lutridge, Mr. Gaskell, and Mr. Proctor." The defendant then said that the commissioners had made assertions which they ought to be ashamed of. The Defendant—l spoke the truth when I said so. You yourself have made assertions that you ought to be ashamed of. Mr. Henry asked if the witness knew the de fendant P The witness said he had known him for about two years. Was not aware that he had any occu pation, but he used to be at the Society of Arts. Witness believed thrt he was labouring under aber ration of intellect. Inferred that from his conduct. Had seen hith dressed in a coloured horse-cloth, coloured cap, and peculiar boots, striding through the park in imitation of the seven-leagued boots, and astonishing the people by his /sudden starts and strange antics. The defendant said it was not he that laboured under any delusion, or who had so prevaricated as to be wholly unworthy of credit. The Earl of Shaf tesbury was no more afraid of him than he was of an infant child. He insisted on his right, and that of other victims who had unjustly been confined as lunatics, to the fullest investigation in order to a reform of the present system. It was lamentable to reflect on the cases of Mr. Percival, Mr. Boden, and others, who had been subjected to this sort of treat ment. He (the defendant) had petitioned the House of Commons on the subject, and the matter had been taken up by Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., " In my own instance," continued the defendant," " I was pursued to the Isle of Wight, apprehended at an hotel by two police constables, handcuffed and dragged before a poor old, infirm, incom petent man named Cook, who came tottering in to hear the charge of lunacy against me, and with out the slightest shadow of grounds, confirmed it. In that case, as it will be in this, every fallacy was cleared up by my own witnesses. If the Earl of Shaftesbury, who really has a regard for truth, were to act upon his own impressions, he would do justice ; but he is misled by the statements of others. The first thing I did en recovering my liberty was to secure the services of Dr. Holt and another phy sician, and with these in my possession I claim the right to go abroad without the interference of the police or any other person. I consider that the Earl of Shaftesbury has paid me a high compliment by attending here to-day, and now I call upon him to state what he has to say in justification of these proceedings." The Earl of Shaftesbury was most willing to do so. His lordship was then sworn. He said that personally he knew very little of the defendant, whom he had never seen until that day. He was sitting with other commissioners, when a great dis turbance arose in the street. He went to the win dow and saw the prisoner fantastically dressed,wear ing a blue cap, and with a stick in his hand,which he was flourishing over his head as he walked up and down. He (Lord Shaftesbury) said it must be a wan dering lunatic. The first witness informed him of the particulars already stated in evidence. He (Lord Shaftesbury) then made inquiries, and ascertained that the defendant had been several times confined in asylums, and was subject to strange delusions. In fact he was a dangerous lunatic. He (Lord Shaftesbury) then went to the Commissioners of Police and applied for instant assistance, which he obtained. Upon returning to the offices of the Lunacy Commissioners soon afterwards the defen dant came there again, when he (Lord Shaftesbury) gave him in custody, and brought him to Bow-street. The Defendant—You have sworn that I have been several times in lunatic asylums ? The Earl of Shaftesbury—That I was informed so. I know you have been in Fisheiton Asylum, haviaig been committed from the workhouse, and that you escaped. The Defendant—Pray, my lord, are you aware of the character of that asylum ? Lord Shaftesbury—Very good. I have not visited it myself for a long time; but I trust to the reports of the commissioners. The Defendant—Do you consider a workhouse as a lunatic asylum? Lord Shaftesbury—Certainly not. The Defendant—How many other asylums have I been in ? Lord Shaftesbury—l cannot say. Mr. R. Lutridge produced the official documents, showing the date of the defendant's reception into the Fisherton Asylum, upon medical certificates, h int ; 23, 1868 ; also the notice of his escape on April 26, 1859. He had also made inquiries at the workhouse of at. John's, Westminster, to which he was committed by the magistrates of the district, and he escaped from ,thence on the same day, the 19th March. Mr. Henry advised that the defendant should be taken before the medical officer of St. Martin's, to be examined by the, medical officer. The defendant would have great pleasure in going there, and was much obliged to the magistrate. He was then removed. CLERKENWELL.—Mr. John Davey, the of and the person licensed to keep the oa b n i swer house Tavern, Highbury, was su mmo n Sunday, the a complaint against him of ha v ing e n his house for e 30th March last, unlawfully k pp 'e the sale of liquors before o appeared for the prisoner, who Mr. Lewis, jun. , The case appeared to excineoleek in the afternoon. excite g reat interest. p leadedn not guil t y . Police-constable Gould, 58 N, said—On the 30th of March last, at 12 o'clock at noon, I visited the d e fendant's house, in company with another con stable in plain clothes. The door was open and I walked into the bar. The landlady said " Walk up, if you please, into the parlour." We went up t o the parlour, and found eight men sitting there. There were a pot and some glasses standing on the table before the men, containing malt liquor. We stopped there about ton minutes, and saw 18 more men enter the parlour, who were served with liquor. They appeared to be different parties of friends, and seemed to come from the fi elds. pint of ale, which we paiedrfoosrs.-exTalreirlel—We ad h a defendant's house is at Hornsey, and I should think it in town. There are fields around the house. The nearest house is about three in I I did .not say that I wmasuatepso' walk from it. policeman when entered. I do not know that the next tavern o r h ouse i s half a m il e f rom the defendant's, hut I will not swear. We were se nt out on duty that morning, but not to watch the in particular. I had that mom defendant's en house from the Hoxton police-station t o th e Islington police-stati on , and then went to the de e de fendant's house. I was not tired. We had before that been to a beer-house and caught the landlord 'as open in the act of Sunday ;trading. The door w about three inches. There was no one beinserved at the bar, and the customers were all in the y' p arlour. Th or „!ooked like gentle - IL - ten who had come ou t for a stroll. I will not swear that their boots rnwee'ir.ellinn ''; e g t ',,, m ; . . muddy, or dusty. Everything in, the house wait ry quiet and orderly. Police-COVs3tablo Maynard, 265 N, confirmed the k evidence of thelaSt ,witness. Mr. Mould (chid eh 'rk)—Were you asked, from first to last, anything as •to whether you were tra vellers? -"here was not a word Witness—Certainly not, spoken about travellers. hat v mornin g from Cross-examined—l had come Hoxton, but I cannot sly that a was tired. We had been to a beerhouse before we visited the de fendant's, and had had a glass of a. le there. We caught the landlord of that house. A ftor that we went and caught another. We then thcught we had done a good morning's work. Mr. Lewis, in reply to the charge, said 'at the: defendant's house was practically in the country,. being five or six miles from the General Post--office. He contended for the defendant that he had a .vight to serve persons who had travelled two, three , or four miles. The Act of Parliament was intendetl to stop the opening of houses for the general sale of intoxicating liquors, and not to stop travellers frog t ' .. -Iking necessary refreshment. No person was in t h e • defendant's house who was not a traveler, and that \ tthin the meaning of the Act of Parliament. The lan,ilord might have been deceived even if he had asked _{f" .they were travellers. If the magistrate should be of ak : nion that the onus lay on the inn keeperhat the persons were travellers, O to prove an adjournment mutt. 't take place, for he could prove was the fact. He had the - -11 incontestably that sue names and addresses of the persons there; and where did they come frool?—the City, some from the Gray's-inn-road, and others from a longer dis tance. When they had reached th,o defendant's house they were undoubtedly traveL l erl. l . Mr. Barker considered that there wa„ 9 sufficient the pre evidence to justify him in convicting u p ox.' .rounds. sent evidence, but declined to say on wha t h He should be quite safe in convicting upon t.he evi dence before him, and fixed the amount of the tine at 20s, with the altervative of seven days' imprismiLlent• Mr. Lewis said ho should give the magistrate notice of appeal withal three days. DEATH FRO.' DESTITU2ION. 4 Yesterday morning Mr. i 3. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner for East Mk dlesex, opened an in quiry at the Sir George Osborn's Head public-house, Princes-street, Whitechapel, on view of the body of Elizabeth Carey, aged 64 years, who died under very distressing circumstances at a wretched place situated at No. _W, Eagle-place, at the back of the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel road. Jane Harris, a logger in the house, deposed that the deceased was a widow, and had obtained a scanty living by making slop shirts. She rented a small room, and paid I.s. 6d. per week. The place was without furniture. S'he would not apply tothe• parish for relief, but had loon visited by te th paro chial surgeon for illness. On. Oaturday witness went into deceased's room and Aiund her in a very weak and dying state, lying upon a heap of dirty rags in the corner, on the floor. he place was in h wretched and filthy condition, w ,:thout food or firing. Witness questioned the deceased, but she as starv could scarcely articulate. She told witriCss that she had not bad any food for nine days , and vb' ing. A neighbour was called in , who gave her a little weak brandy and water, while a mess enger ran for Mr. Champneys, the medical officer,. who attended, but the deceased had expired before his arrival. Mr. Alex. Champneys, the parochial surgeon to the Whitechapel Union, stated that he was called L'. 4 3 the deceased on Saturday last, and found her in a. shocking condition and lifeless upon a heap of filthy . rags. The body was much emaciated, and thinly clad. He had made a post mortenA examination of the body, and had found the stomach perfectly empty. On opening the head he found an effusion of serum in the ventricles of the brain. Death had, no doubt, been accelerated by want of the common necessaries of life, and _long exposure to the in clemency of the weather. He had attended the v . He then tried deceased some months back, \Then she was lying ill with fever, from which she reco to persuade her to go into the w . orkhouse , but she declined, although living in such a ered wretched condi tion. Other witnesses were examined, awl . The jury, after a brief discussion, retrn.med a ver . dict—" That the deceased died from effusi.on of the brain, accelerated by want and exposures to the weather." COUNTRY MABKLIS. SALISBURY—Arun , 8. At to-day's market wheat was in very short supply, and much:out of condition. Best dry parcels moved off at big over late rates, but other sorts generally were no dearer. Barley in fair supply, at last week's prices. Oats, WWI and other articles rather slow. HULL—Arum 8. At to-day's market there was a small supply ofEllg lish wheat, which sold at fully late prices to local ;nines. Foreign sorts are in better request, but at no improvt.nien in value. Barley at fully former prices. Other articles aIP last week's quotations. Wheat ....Old white per qr. s4s Od to 58s Od Old red New white .. „ New red .... , Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 56s Od to 628 ON Dutch, Belgian and French. 58s Od to 6 2 s oa Baltic and Hamburg, red 6Bs Od to 590 Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old sos Od to 52s Od Barley.... English malting 34s Od to 37s Od Grindintg 315 Od to 338 Od Seal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 36s Od • Grinding 3os Od to 318 Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st osl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 05130 • Swedish and Danish osl2ld to 0013 d Beans ....English, old, per qr.' 46s Od to 48s Od . . New pigeon 42s Od to 448 Od New tick Egyptian .. 388 Od to 40s Odl Peas ' Foreign breakers Grinding Od Oct Tares ....Spring to —8 Indian Corn 35 8 Od to 365 d , Linseed, feeding crushing 6 • 4os Od to 52s Od Linseed cakes (Hull) l9 0 oto £0 0 0 Foreign Bl5 oto 910 0 Rape cakes 6 0 oto 610 0 6 10 0 Bones .. 5 5 oto BOSTON—APRIL 8. The supply of wheat was middling, both red and white. The demand ruled slow, and prices wore at former cur rencies. Barley scarce, with a steady trade. Oats slow, but fully as dear. Beans and peas at late terms. FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. k AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Apiil 18 . via Marseilles .. April 1 2 . Brazil and Capo Verds; by British packet. .. May 4.. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. May 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. April 18- -- via Marseilles ...April 12. Falkland 151and5...... Gibraltar, via Southampton April 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 18. via Marseilles Aprilll2. India (Bombay), via Southampton April 10. via Marseilles April M. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 10. via Marseilles ..... . April 12. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. ..... .. ...... . .. . April 10. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. . by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Aplil 9. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe April 10. Bahamas, via New York .. . ........... April 10. Mexico April 28. ...... All c aplarifotsrnoifa.Wa and d s t lndies,British Columbiaine lud in g . .......... Peru, I April 14. BIRTHS. Asngy.—On the 9th inst., at Staines, Mrs. Alex. Ashby of a daughter. Ci.txTolv.—On the 30th utl,, the Lady Charles Pelham Clinton, of a son. DUFF.—On the 7th inst., at Westwick, Mrs. James pair, of a daughter. EVEREST. —On the 9th inst., at 14, Westbourne-terrace oad, the wife of Henry Everest, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BOYER—HOPPER.— On. the Bth inst., at Christ Churcbl Highbury, George Phelps Boyer, Esq., of Warwick-- crescent, Maida-hill, to Ruth, only child of Thomas D. Hopper, Esq., Islington. WOOD —DARWALL.—On the 9th Jan., at Brisbane. Western Wood, Esq., M.L.C., eldest son of Western Wood, Esq. l M.P., of North Cray-place, Kent, to Lucy Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Frederick Orme Darwall, Esq., Re gistrar-General of Queensland. DEATHS. BnowN.—On the Bth inst., at Peter Brown, Esq., M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A., formerly of Tonbridge, Kent, aged 75. BURDETT.—On the 4th inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Joanna Frances, third daughter of the late Sir Francis Burdett, Bart,, aged 58. CARROLL.—On the Bth inst., Rear-Admiral Sir W. F . Carroll, K.C.8., Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich flospi- tal, aged 82. DOE.—On the Bth inst., M. J. B. D O N o f Streatham-place. Brixton-hill, aged 66. KIRWAN.—On the 7th inst., Charles L. M. Kirwan, Esq., Gelston Castle, aged 51. Woon.—On the 7th inst., at Horning, n ear N orw i c h, Thos. Wood, Esq., late of 24, Milk-street, Cheapside, aged Gt. - - • „ ,eu LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of N 0.112, Str and, Printer, at THE SuN Office, N 0.112, i n the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand,in the County of Middlogois-41110dah APril 10, 1862. ion( I:+e th e ztoar 04t b, the POI fe ted 4tlBo Th Zind c -for v 15 2 tip 2 1 ; A i ve „ c , 1. 441 11; th e clot, t4r , r )s rope, i,„.r 017 11 It Itt i Ye4r, tp u ,„ Vi o " c . tk e 1,,,,1 11 'THE SUN, LONDON, TITU'RSDAY EVENIN(3I., APRjL 10, 1862.