The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-16 00:00:00

1.140, lifiT4l7ST le igelt ffirs UN4 LONDON. .SAVYRDAY "A VIII 1 9 or . . . tl , -; - ,,oaw-ut...."14...g. 4 1-I"ziere' t. '"'"* * ''''''''' . tt - ii .-- (1 th ---,, , -- r z i :;; -- i,i,nding, and grooving machines, Witness-No • I tried all I could to do so. I en- conduct 1 o the defendant. This, however, would YVW .4 Pla e fee • The Caledonian, after 9 not jus tif y the assault, and they were therefore, PAIL IVAY IIV7ELLIGE NCR • 1 the heating furnaces, . deavoured to buy, and to beg and borrow, or- Mr. Hawkins There is only one other thin g that bound to find a verdict for the plaintiff' but it was _ _____ „ a _ _ ____ A Malta correspondent, writing under date of the being launched on Oct. 24, will be rec=ived in,' a you could do, and you must not do that you know. for them to say what amount of damages he was en- TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. 11th of August, announces the departure, on the dock now being lengthened and prepared for that (Renewed laughter.) titled to. - Ballymena andrt Rush.. erening of the 9th inst., of her Majesty's screw cor- p u rpose at Woolwich. The weight of her plates Witness-It was not likely such things could be The jury, after a short deliberation, found a ver- Railways. ____A____ -.----.... vette Scylla, 22, Capt. R Lambert, for the Pirmus. will be s 900 tons. got on a race course. dict for the plaintiff. Damages £5. ns t io' nn d e T r i e e eter ---__ ~.a r_iles Opened. _ , ~.. Receipts. 1862. 1861. 1862. 5861. _ The screw corvette Pelican, 17, Capt. Brock, had A naval court-martial assembles yesterday on In answer to further questions the witness said According to, thoPthvisions of the C oun t y C our t , X I Beif a a s s t a wl N . L ou Cnties.... 136 136 2,401 2,493 come in sight that morning, but being under sail, board thceFormidable, 84, Capt. W. G. Luard, fla b - that the profit on their takings was very large, and Act, where only £5 damages are given, the plain- Belf• t _ - he considered it was two-thirds on the amount, but tiff i s no t en titled to his costs unless the judge certi and the wind unfavourable, it was not expected . ship of Vice-Admiral W. J. H. Johnstone, Com at the same time their expenses were very heavy. flea that, in his opinion h e i s en titl e d to them, ~. a ~,r ka., Lane,, & Ches. June. - - _6BB 873 - she would enter port before the evening. This yes" mander-in-Chief at the Nore, for the trial of Lieut. He paid £5O for the ground for the four days' races, Mr. Ribton consequently asked his lordship to eel has on board the captain, 14 o ffi cers, and 1 17 Ferdinand George Gambier, of her Majesty's ship an d the cost of the booth and the expense of erect- give il certificate to that efiect, but hi s l or d s hi p , i n Caledonian , 230 130 17,327 16,280 reply, said very emphatically, " Certainly not.), Cockermouth& Workington 8 , 4 Si 316 241 men, forming the crew of her Majesty's steam sloop Cossack, 20, 250 horse power, Capt. R. Moorman, ing it were very considerable. Cork and Bandon which Hawkins addressed the jury at some length Each party will, therefore, have to pay his own 20 20 370 Pantaloon, 11, Commander W. R. Hobson, on the following charges :-1. For havin g on or Mr. in b e half of the company ; and he said the answer costs. Cork and Youg,hal Mozambique32l 27 402 .11 went ashore some time ago in the about the 7th day of August last been drunk on he was instructed to make to the action was, that -_____ Corn wall .................. 531 531 1,711 1,511 Ch annel. They are proceeding home for trial by board the said ship. 2. For having on or about there had been no negl i gence the OXFORD CIRCUIT.-G Aug on par t of their Deeside 7 .... 7 .............. 17 LOUCESTER, -u 10, Dublin ..SL Belfast Junction.. 63 17 545 455 63 1,4;8 1,728 court-martial. Her Majesty's paddlewheel sloo P the 7th day of August last deserted his post bY servants, but that the truck containing the hampers CROWN COURT. Dublin and Drogheda 63 & icklow n.Kings 481 63 1,9x2 2 , 004 481 2474 2640 Trident, 3, Commander Balfour, was the only man quitting the deck when in charge of the said ship in question was detained, either at the request of (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Dundalk and Enniskillen 145 130 of war in Malta harbour by the last advicss, except as officer of the middle watch. 3. For having on the plaintiff or his agent, until some wine or other EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILI) MURDER. Dundee and Arbroath . . Dundee, Perth, & Abor. jun 3l 171 - - - - 31 1,199 1234 (bearing the receiving-ship Hibernia the flag of or about the 7th day of August last slept upon his goods were to be despatched with them. He then Hannah Hill, 17, domestic servant, John Thurs- East Anglian 68 1 C)8 - I 151 ' 915 called two or three of the porters as witnesses, but ton, 30, farmer, Mary Thurston, and Mary Ann 14•cwinties'NrieeseseUnion 499 499 ' 30'535 28,4 : 9 Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.) and the ten- watch when in charge of the said ship as officer of their evidence did not at all tend to establish the Thurston, Were charged with the wilful mur der-f Edinburgh and t Glasgo a x a v o Edinburgh,rer_ti,& dee dots Growler and Boxer. The Trident was under the middle watch. The Court, after hearing the case he had stated on behalf of the defendants. a female child at Newent, on the 30th A • put last. Forth & Clyde Junction Orders to proceed to Patras to relieve the Alacrity, evidence for the prosecution, and also the witnesses The jury returned a, verdict for the plaintiff- The charge against Hill was withdraw n and she Furness . 50 5) 2,586 2 , 144 Glasgow & South Western' 1 83/ 1831 9,083 8 , 658 4, Commander K. E. Baird. for the defence, and the prisoner's character, to t e- damages £4O. was admitted as evidence against th e ot h er • pri- Great Northern COMPANY. soners33o 330 32,429 30,083 On Thursday morning the Duke of Somerset,Vice- they with the various certificates handed in, found JONES V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COM . . Great North of Scotland 58 2,513 2,220 This was an action to recover compensation for Mr. Henry James Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329 8,954 8,635 Admiral Sir F. W. Grey, Capt. the Hon. James him guilty, and sentenced him to forfeit all seniority s td • M 1 7, and Mr. Harrington prose- Great Western 97 81 9431 injuries the plaintiff alleged that he had sus tained cu e , r. owell defended John Thurston • Mr. Inverness & Aberdeen June 73. 55 69,755 61,739 Drummond, and Mr. Whitbread, M.P., attended by as a lieutenant, to be placed at the bottom of the list , through,the negligence of the defendants. Skinner conducted the defence f oMary Thurston ; ' lrish South-Eastern 2 51 251 3 ,301 1,090 165 203 Lord Clarence Paget, MT., Capt. John Moore, and of lieutenants, and not to rise therefrom for four Mr. Ribton was for the plaintiff; Mr. Bovill, , and Mr. Mathews was counsel for Mary Ann Lancashire & Yorkshire 3055 ,„ Leominster and Kington 14 16 203 Col. Greene, proceeded from the yacht Osborne, in years from the date of the passing of the sentence, Q.C., and Mr. Digby were for the company. Thurston. Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 2 4 5 119 he was a ~, Limerick and Foynes 24 i 172 158 Haraoaze, to the Admiral's Hard, where they were and to be dismissed from her Majesty's ship Cossack. The plaintiff in this action stated that The three prisoners are mother, daughter, dan Llanelly 4 46 79) 523 received by Inspector -General of Marines Strans- The powerful steam dredging machine in use at consulting physician, 82 years of age, and resided son. Th ey s ,. k On the 22d par • f are respectable farmer-looking people , London & North-Western . 10961 1015 1 . 167,765 99,229 in Albany-street, Regent 0 - and d resse d in d • T • were eep mourning. The did not London and Blackwall • 51 51 2,181 1, 049 ham and Deputy-Adjt.-General Travers, who f k • the harbour clear of banks of Chatham or eeping April he had come to e am 3' appear much affected by the sinful position in London & South-Western . 4001 400 29 256 24 Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2411 231 ' , a 147,710 27,650 escorted their Lordships to the barracks. The Ply - - mud and sand and other accumulations has been re- an excursion train which was two hours behind which they were placed. London, Chatham, & Dover 72* 72 1 ' 6 ,683 2,625 mouth Division of Royal Marines,over 1,000 strong, move d down to the entr anc e of the r iv er , where it time , a n d the arrival of the train at Pad d ing- - Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 421 42 4 2 717 2 41 , Man.,Sheffield, &Lincolnsh 236 236 15:153 15 ' ,920 under command of Col. Commandant Holloway,was that it had sto e is employed in the removal of a large bank of mud ten, he represented .t _ . pp d, and the ford's Meuse, Newent. Mary Thurston and Mary Munch. S.Jun.&Altrinchanat 91 9 1 1,243 1,328 dra wn llp on the dand ' d btheir ' d ' • door of the carriag e in which he was riding-a se- Ann Thurston, his mother and sister, livin Iga so Mar port and Carlisle para e ins y and sand, which has acte as a great impediment to s opened and the • Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6281 stet coed-class one-via in , train suddenl 43,345 42'59 y with him. It seems that suspicion was entertained Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 1921 192 4,365 4'44 9 3 Lordships, who then examined the progress of the andother vessels • and • the steamers moved on just as he was the act of getting out, that the • prisoner Hill was pregnant by John Mo o nkland . 72/ 4 , 56 1,635 1,484 additional buildings in course of erection to the north cumber and basin. and he was thrown down violently, and injured his Thurston, and she was M nmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 .-. 2,551 2,082 accused by her aunt of Newcastle and Carlisle 7Bl 781 - West of the present structure. The members of the A deficiency of nearly 50 of the 1 inch wrought -7,-.- knee, a nd he alleged that ho was still suffering from having given birth to a child, which she denied, North British (incl. Selkirk - Board proceeded thence to the Royal Naval Hospi- iron deck plates for the iron-plated frigate Royal the e ffects o f the accident. Information was given to the police at Newent, who and Galashiels) North Devon 4lO 342 13,891 13,914 35 35 other witne ss No tal, where they were receivedby Capt. Superinten- Oak, 50, building at Chatham, has been discoveredwas called, and the plaintiff, in made a search, and in Thurston's garden, about two N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 8781 8671 46,886 47,487 50 a nswer to questions put to him by M Bovill , said 9 r. feet under the soil, they found the body of a full- st To s, r l knee l s , h. 9 3,032 2,828 dent D. Curry, Dr Beith,the deputy-inspector-gene - in the number supplied for that vessel. Orders that he made no complaint to any of the officers of grown child. The body Was in ab ki 1 saoca_ng_y muti- Oswestry a an r d Ne l w re ton.... ' 42 42 1,140 720 ral, Dr. Gallagher, surgeon and medical storekeeper, have accordingly been given for these to be imme - the company, or to any other person, at the time lated state, the head being nearly severed from the Rhymney l9l 191 900 676 and Mr. Grant, agent. Their Lordships remained diately prepared for the ship, but it is not expected the accident happened, but that he hobbled into a body, the skull beaten in, both arms broken, both c t. o i t ta i n c ' Railway 52 s o a %n a ll SL 52 1,904 1,736 about an hour,during which they inspected the pa- that this discovery will cause any delay in the cab, and w en t h ome; an d i t a l so appeared that he colla r-bones broken, and four or five of the ribs Scottish North-Eastern 3 i 53j 40 o , 1321 1321 5 , 4 3 2 3 ' 391 5,395 tients reading-room and library,the kitchen,washing launch of the vessel, which, according to present did not make any communication to his attorney fractured. Shrewsbury & Birmingham - - Shrewsbury and Chester - _ - and drying-houses, &c., and also examined several arrange t w ill take lace on the 10th Septem- until more than a month had elapsed, and the affair The principal evidence was that of Hannah Hill, Shrewsbury & Hereford men st wards. They afterwards entered the steam yacht b ft 'h• h the Royal Oak willabe floated into was then for the first time brought to the notice of mother of the murdered child and servant to the pri- Shropshire Union 291 291 965 1,010 bet, a maw ic ethe company. South D Boners. She stated that she had been servant to the South -Eastern -Eastern ' 751 75 i 4,363 4,681 Alice, and, accompanied by Port Admiral Sir No. 3 dock, the l ar gest ailable dock at Chatham, av Mr. Bovill commenced addressing the jury, and prisoners about three y ears . That previous to the South Wales 305 305 29,568 27,285 1711 1711 Houston Stewart and the Lord Chancellor, landed • 'll enlarged to receive her - - which has been specia y I was calling their attention to the very extraordi- 29th of April she became pregnant, and was taken giagrirliearltiver llB 118 3 shortly after 3 o'clock on the Breakwater. His in order that she may be completed for sea with the nary nature of the case for the plaintiff, but after ill on the mornin of that day. Mary Thurston Taff Vale Duno 51 8 479 7 550 51 5,700 4,606 Grace was received by Mr. Neville, superintendent; utmost d spatch. Immediately after the he had made a few observations they interrupted spoke to her ab t g • possible e ou getting up. Went into the par- U lster one and Lancaster 51 51 1,9.59 2,516 Mr. Hutton, resident engineer ; and Mr. Ormiston, launch of the Royal Oak all the available hands him, and said they were of opinion that the plain- lour between seven and eight in the morning. Mary Vale of Clwyd.. . lg 19 10 _ 230 239 engineer of the Shovel Rock Fort. Their lordships will be placed On the line-of-battle screw two- tiff had not made out any case. Ann Thurston came to her. Told her she was in Vale of Neat!, 35 35 I,' 81 1,810 Mr. Ribton, however, insisted upon addressing muc hp ai n andcoul d no t b ear i tmuc h ~ inspected the new buttress work in progress and decker Bulwark, 91, which is to have one of her ' Waterford and Limerick them, and he said he must admit that it was an un- two femaleprisoners came int tneparlour to her and West Cornwall 77 1,576 1,459 o the site of the fort. The total number of men now decks removed, and to be cut down, lengthened, and h• • - usual think to have only one witness in such a ease, asked her how she came to tell Mrs. Phelps she was me tartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL 39 39 4,035 4,961 employed on the breakwater is about 100. The otherwise altered to a 50-gun iron-clad frigate of but it appeared to him that thequestion e Midland was who- in the family way. Mary Ann Phelps told her to W'haven,Cleator,&E - - _ grmnt. 7 7 447 400 work in progress consists in placing three courses the Royal Oak class. ther they disbelieved the evidence or the plaintiff, say nothing about being in the family way ;to which Whitehaven Junction 'l2 12 649 681 of granite buttress work, dovetailed horizontally The following appointments were made yesterday an aged and respectable gentleman, who had posi- witness replied , Whitehaven & Furness she supposed everybody would be Jun. 35 35 677 037 and vertically at the foot of the limestone casing, at the Admiralty :-Commander Thomas A. De tively sworn that he had received the injury under talking about it, and it would soon be found out. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. the circumstances he had stated. He then sub- Mrs. Thurston told witness to go wheat hoeing, and Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 1,406 1,211 on the outer side, founded at the level of three feet Wahl to tne Rattlesnake Thos. A Clarke, • th ; os. A. in e witted that the defendants were, at all events, s aid she should like her to blind Mrs. Phelps, she Austri .. . 52 Belgian Eastern Junction.. 261 828 673 34,659 37,924 below low-water ordinary spring tides. Of this Procris, promoted to acting chief • and J engineer ; as. called upon to produce some evidence to show what was so sure; and if the young 'an was to come here Buffalo and Lake Huron ... 1611 1614 289 243 4,728 lineal feet were completed by the Ist of Bell (a), second-class assist.-engineer, to the Liffey. occurred on the day in question. we could put it in a ditch and no one be any the Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 Dutch Rheni h _ - 3,211 1,991 August, leaving 713 lineal feet still to be formed. __s, The Jury said they believed that an accident did wiser. A child ten years old used to sleep with wit- Eastern of France s ... 10321 1 1081 5,145 4,668 032 54,151 51,831 Lighters are employed conveying rubble limestone THE ABM. really happen, and they had no intention to impute ness, and Mary Thurston said it was very wrong. East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 633 271 11,201 8,877 1090 1(90 12,870 14,923 from Oreston quarries to form a foreshore on the to the plaintiff that he had not spoken the truth, Knowing the state she was in, Mrs. Thurston told Great Indian ' o but they did not see that there was any evidence of her to take the child out and then she would have Great Luxembourg a limestone south side. The total quantity of and 134 128 4,321 3,344 A notification was yesterday received at Chatham negligence on the part of the company. plenty of room to tumble and roll about the bed. 2- , r e o a n t a N a V a 7tr e n ne o v f C nada.. 345 345 7,762 5,629 granite deposited to the Ist of August was 3,930,308 garrison from the Horse Guards directing command- Mr. Ribton said he would elect to be nonsuited. Witness went to bed and to sleep, and woke in pain. AI Y adrid, Saragossa a &Alicant 1 314. 281 15,847 tone. The annual expenditure now is about £9,500, Baron Martin said that if an action like this The two female • lt in her and Northern of Canada ........ 94 14,777 1,241 prisoners sep room came 94 2,',61 2,037 in officers to forward, not later than the 25th inst.3Northern of France 7Ol 623 54,983 50,585 and it will require some £ , 20 000 to complete this - the applications of such officers as feel themselves could be sustained no company or any one else If , could be permitted to her. The child was then born and the two female Norwegian Trunk 44 44 work. The central arm of the, Plymouth break-, would be sa fe. i t • • - qualifiedfor the situation of instructors at the Royal Paris and Orleans water is 1,000 yards long, the eastern and westernto come forward a month after the occurrence, and took the child from her and took it towards th e 922 922 47,391 53,063 Pernambuco .-... 60 815 _ Military C o ll ege Sandhurst, in fortification, m ill- say that an accident happened, and then seek to ob- door. The child cried, and witness asked to have Royal Danish arms, which incline towards the harbour, are 350 69 69 675 657 tart' drawing, and surveying. Four officers are fa i n d amages so l e ly upon his own testimony, he it brought back that she might see it. It was not Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,350 1,394 yards each. The inner part of the foundation of South Austrian required as instructors-two in fortification and repeated that no man would be safe. brought back to her. Mrs. Thurston remained Southern of France . ....... IN 1234 56,358 44,059 Shovel Fort will be about 32 yards from the outer 777 25,938 23,4453 two in military drawing and surveying. The officers (Before Baron Bramwell.) away about half an hour, Witness asked for a We11and......... a •-• 25 25 501 434 base of the middle of the central arm. The fort ' is HARVEY V. WEISS.t Flanders light, but Mrs. Thurston would not give her one, SF . and N w .. 75 75 1,030 1 059 4.‘, b. of e i 1 i n ti m / f r,,,, inn „ u.... ~,,,,, ~_ I _____ appointed will be supernumerary, with additional N . W . of France.... 750 750 43,669 44,145 rpm. ,nan nn netinn to teener the ~,,,, of Vgfl onvincr gg Whnt ~,,,,,,ia Mra_ Phelna thir:. if .1-........ A Malta correspondent, writing under date of the 11th of August, announces the departure, on the evening of the 9th inst., of her Majesty's screw cor vette Scylla, 22, Capt. R Lambert, for the Pirmus. The screw corvette Pelican, 17, Capt. Brock, had come in sight that morning, but being under sail, and the wind unfavourable, it was not expected she would enter port before the evening. This ves sel has on board the captain, 14 officers, and 1 17 men, forming the crew of her Majesty's steam sloop Pantaloon, 11, Commander W. R. Hobson, which went ashore some time ago in the Mozambique Channel. They are proceeding h o me for trial by court-martial. Her Majesty's paddlewheel sloop Trident, 3, Commander Balfour, was the only man of war in Malta harbour by the last advice s, except the receiving-ship Hibernia (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.) and the ten ders Growler and Boxer. The Trident was under orders to proceed to Patras to relieve the Alacrity, 4, Commander K. E. Baird. On Thursday morning the Duke of Somerset,Vice- Admiral Sir F. W. Grey, Capt. the Hon. James Drummond, and Mr. Whitbread, M.P., attended by Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., Capt. John Moore, and Col. Greene, proceeded from the yacht Osborne, in Hamoaze, to the Admiral's Hard, where they were received by Inspector -General of Marines Strans ham and Deputy-Adjt.-General Travers, who escorted their Lordships to the barracks. The Ply mouth Division of Royal Marines,over 1,000 strong, under command of Col. Commandant Holloway,was drawn up on the parade and inspected by their Lordships, who then examined the progress of the additional buildings in course of erection to the West of the present structure. The members of the Board proceeded thence to the Royal Naval Hospi tal, where they were received by Capt. Superinten dent D. Curry, Drßeith,the deputy-inspector-gene ral, Dr. Gallagher, surgeon and medical storekeeper, and Mr. Grant, agent. Their Lordships remained about an hour,during which they inspected the pa tients reading-room and library,the kitchen,washing and drying-houses, &c., and also examined several wards. They afterwards entered the steam yacht Alice, and, accompanied by Port Admiral Sir Houston Stewart and the Lord Chancellor, landed shortly after 3 o'clock on the Breakwater. His Grace was received by Mr. Neville, superintendent; Mr. Hutton, resident engineer; and Mr. Ormiston, engineer of the Shovel Rock Fort. Their lordships inspected the new buttress work in progress and the site of the fort. The total number of men now employed on the breakwater is about 100. The work in progress consists in placing three courses of granite buttress work, dovetailed horizontally and vertically at the foot of the limestone casing, on the outer side, founded at the level of three feet below low-water ordinary spring tides. Of this 4,728 lineal feet were completed by the Ist of August, leaving 713 lineal feet still to be formed. Lighters are employed conveying rubble limestone from Oreston quarries to form a foreshore on the south side. The total quantity of limestone and granite deposited to the Ist of August was 3,930,308 tone. The annual expenditure now is about £9,500, and it will require some £20,000 to complete this work. The central arm of the, Plymouth break water is 1,000 yards long, the eastern and western arms, which incline towards the harbour, are 350 yards each. The inner part of the foundation of Shovel Fort will be about 32 yards from the outer base of the middle of the central arm. The fort is to be of elliptical form, 160 ft. by 130 ft., the longer axis parallel to the breakwater. The hearting of the foundation will consist of blocks of manufactured concrete, cased from the bottom up to 6ft. under low water with granite. Above the level the work will be solid and water-tight, and will include tanks for fresh water and magazines for ammuni tion. The contract for the work is taken by Messrs. Lee, and is under the local direction of Mr. Ormi ston, C.E. All the piles, 70ft. long, are driven 7ft. into the rock, and a large portion of the staging is fixed. The foundation-stone will be laid on the birthday of the Prince of Wales. The first atone of the breakwater was dropped on the 12th of August, 1813, the birthday of the Prince Regent. After their visit to the breakwater, the Lords of the Admiralty re-embarked in the steam yacht Princess A lice, and having witnessed gunboat shot-practice at the Shag-stone, steamed round the Rame Head, to view from the sea the new fort erect ing at Tregantie, five miles west of Plymouth. Shortly after 4 o'clock Admiral Sir F. Grey, Admi ral Eden, and Mr. Whitbread, went on board the training-ship Implacable, in Hamoaze, and after a very minute inspection, expressed themselves much gratified with her appearance, and then went on board the guardship of steam reserve Indus. They first inspected those seamen pensioners who have been lately re-entered as ship-keepers, a fine body of veterans ; then the " very good" conduct men from ships recently paid off, who are allowed to continue one year in the reserve unless required at sea ; the artificers, stokers, and marines were next examined, after which their lordships minutely in spected the boys of the reserve doing duty as offi cers' servants, and determined to discontinue their employment, and apportioned one man to attend on three naval officers. Admiral Grey, having ex pressed his approval of the management of this branch by Capt. Key and Commander Risk, went with his colleague on board the Gibraltar, 99, re cently launched. She had been previously inspected in the morning by Admiral Robinson. In the evening the Duke of Somerset entertained a large party on board the yacht Osborn. Yesterday (Friday) morning the Duke of Somer set held a levee in the office of the Admiral Super intendent at the Devonport Dockyard, after which the Royal William Victualling-yard and the flag ship Royal Adelaide, 26, Capt. C. Vesey, in Ha moaze, were inspected. In the evening the Lords of the Admiralty dined with Port Admiral Sir H. Stewart. Prince Adalbert of Prussia and Lord Westbury, the Lord Chancellor, were present. To .!a`.s(Saturday) it is expected that, th e ir public unties having been concluded, the members of the Board will leave Ply mouth. During their stay Lieut. P ' 113 " b, fi rst-lieutenant of the Royal Adelaide, has been in d aily attendance on the First Lord. The Prussi an Portsmouth arrived Arcona, 28, Capt. Sundewall, from Ports s a!rived on Th urs d a y a t Plymouth. She will be placed in No. 1 dock in the Devonport D o ckyard, when it is vacated by her Majesty's frigate Liffey. The 6 paddlewheel ste a m sloop Hydra Capt. R. stes Hamilton, from North ,*., , went the West Indies, arrived at Woolwich , and ;Qs into basin to dis charge stores and be p aid out of c o mm i ss ion. The iron s team store-vessel Industry t Commander G. Hodges , laden with stia as er tualling and dockyard stores for Rio Janeiro, sailed sresterda from Wool w i c h to Greenhithe to adjust c ompass e Y s for sea. The Industry has be en detained ' a few e _ days a t W oo l w i c h b eyon d her usual time to rep a i r her channels and other damages sustained in the late gale from a collision with the Supply, alongside of which vessel she was lashed at Deptford during the shipment of her cargo. The iron steam troop-ship Meg era, Commander S. H. Henderson, commenced coaling yesterday at Woolwich, preparatory to embarking the 15th bri gade from Woolwich for Halifax. A notification was yesterday received at Chatham garrison from the Horse Guards directing command ing officers to forward, not later than the 25th inst., the applications of such officers as feel themselves qualified for the situation of instructors at the Royal Military College Sandhurst, in fortification, mili tary drawing, and surveying. Four officers are required as instructors—two in fortification and two in military drawing and surveying. The officers appointed will be supernumerary, with additional pay of ss. daily while so serving. Applications from candidates are to be accompanied with speci mens of drawing, and for the instructorship in military surveying by a sketch of two square miles of any ground the candidate may select. In every case the candidate must certify that the drawing produced is his own unaided work. On Thursday last Mrs. Owen, wife of Col. Cun liffe Owen, C. 8., laid the foundation stone of the new fort at Staddon-heights, the eastern boundary of Plymouth Sound. Major-Gen. Hutchinson, Commander of Forces in the West, and a large num ber of military officers and others were present. We are requested to state that the Band of the Corps of Commissionaires will play in the Cam bridge-enclosure, St. James's Park, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday and Thursday, in addition to the usual evening performance. This was an action to recover the sum of £6O that had, as alleged, been obtained by the defen dant by fraud and misrepresentation. Mr. Ribton and Mr. Needham were counsel for the plaintiff. It was stated that counsel had been retained for the defendant, but no one appeared on his behalf. The principal evidence was that of Hannah Hill, mother of the murdered child and servant to the pri soners. She stated that she had been servant to the prisoners about three years. That previous to the 29th of April she became pregnant, and was taken ill on the morning of that day. Mary Thurston spoke to her about getting up. Went into the par lour between seven and eight in the morning. Mary Ann Thurston came to her. Told her she was in much pain and could not bear it much longer. The two female prisoners came into tne parlour to her and asked her how she came to tell Mrs. Phelps she was in the family way. Mary Ann Phelps told her to say nothing about being in the family way ; to which witness replied, she supposed everybody would be talking about it, and it would soon be found out. Mrs. Thurston told witness to go wheat hoeing, and said she should like her to blind Mrs. Phelps, she was so sure; and if the young 'nn was to come here we could put it in a ditch and no one be any the wiser. A child ten years old used to sleep with wit ness, and Mary Thurston said it was very wrong. Knowing the state she was in, Mrs. Thurston told her to take the child out and then she would have plenty of room to tumble and roll about the bed. Witness went to bed and to sleep, and woke in pain. The two female prisoners slept in her room and came to her. The child was then born and the two female prisoners came to her assistance. Mrs. Thurston took the child from her and took it towards the door. The child cried, and witness asked to have it brought back that she might see it. It was not brought back to her. Mrs. Thurston remained away about half an hour, Witness asked for a light, but Mrs. Thurston would not give her one, saying, " What would Mrs. Phelps think if she saw a light there at that time in the morning." She heard John Thurston go out into the garden shortly afterwards, and witness got up and went down stairs. John Thurston asked her to go to the farm and fetch the waggon. She replied he L ought to know she could not walk, and it would kill her, While witness was having her breakfast John Thurston said to her, " You are something less than you were, and than you wanted to be." Witness asked him what his mother had done with the child, and he replied that he had buried it in the garden. When witness came down Mrs. Thurston said she ought to go for the waggon, for if she stayed in the house people would say she had miscarried. The prisoner Mary Ann said, " Hold your bother, and no one will think such a thing. Mrs. Thurston said, " A woman who had lived so many years, and borne such a character, no one would think that I would allow such goings on in my house." Wit ness went to bed, and Mary Thurston brought her some gruel. From the time Mrs. Thurston took the child she never saw it again. Remember Ser geant Roale coming. Mary Ann Thurston told her not to say anything about them. Witness said, " I shan't stand in your shoes." Mary Ann told her not to say the child was born alive and that she heard it cry. John Thurston said the best thing she could do was to say she had had no child, and knew nothing about it, and then they could not touch her. Witness was angry, and went away. Before witness was confined, Mrs. Thurston said to her son in witness's presence, " This girl is in the family way, and I suppose it's yours_" John said, "It's no business of yours, if you don't like it you can leave it. The best thing she could do was to smother it over, and know nothing about it." Wit ness said, " How could we do that, everybody is talking about it." Mrs. Thurston said it would be such an expense, the best thing would be to put it away. A letter was put in, bearing date the 26th of July, and addressed " Hannah Hill, County Gaol, Glou • tester," and which Hill said she believed was in the prisoner's (John Thurston's) handwriting, asking her to own it, and saying she would not want for friends. GREAT WESTERN. The following appeared in a portion of our impression of yesterday evening : The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the directors and shareholders in this company was held to-day at the Pad dington-station. It appeared that in May last the plaintiff saw an advertisement in the limes that was headed " Scholastic agency," and represented that a per son of lady-like appearance and good education was required to superintend a governess's establish ment, and reference was made to the defendant, who is a foreigner, and calls himself Dr. Weiss, who was to be the principal. The plaintiff thought that such an appointment would suit his wife, and he had an interview with th© defendant, who showed him books, and represented that from 10s. to 15s. per day were received in lees from gover nesses who registered their names as requiring situations, and that the business might be very much increased if it was superintended by a lady, as he himself had not time to attend to it properly. Upon the faith of the defendant's statement Mr. Harvey gave the defendant £6O, and an agreement was drawn up, by which Mrs. Harvey was to at tend at the office and conduct the business, and she was to receive half the profits. She very soon, however, discovered that the whole thing was a swindle, for during the first week only two half crowns were received, in the second eight, and a very small sum during the two succeeding weeks, when Mrs. Harvey left. It was clear that the transaction was nothing but a fraud ; and it ap peared that the defendant's only business was ad vertising for governesses, in order to obtain a fee for his pretended endeavours to get them situations, and that the money had been obtained from the plaintiff by gross misrepresentation and fraud. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £6O, the sum he had paid ; and also £4 for damages for the loss of time by his wife. His Lordship granted immediate execution. ROGERS V. RICHARDS. There was a very full attendance of shareholders, and the greatest interest was manifested in the proceedings. At one o'clock the chair was taken by the Earl of Shel burne. Previous to the commencement of the proceedings, A PROPRIETOR said he should like to know the names of the directors present who were entrusted with the money of the shareholders. The CHAIIIMAN said, after the meeting had been opened, he would feel happy to attend to the request of any of the shareholders. The Secretary having read the advertisement calling the meeting, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.-GUILDFORD, Aug. 15. The transport Mystery yesterday made fast at Woolwich Arsenal T pier, and commenced shipping war stores for Newfoundland, and the Traveller completed her shipment of guns and other stores for Halifax, and left Woolwich to fill in with light cargo from London. The hired freight ship Bard of Avon, having em barked a heavy cargo of war stores for Halifax from "Woolwich Arsen Al, is under orders to sail this morning, and is to be replaced in her berth at the pie r by the Megmra. The Dutch sloop of war Cyclops, which vessel ar rived FA Woolwich a few days ago with visitors for the Exhibition, is ordered to rennin ten days at her present moorings, and re.embark the visitors for Holland. The new shed intended for the machinery to be employed in prep aring the armour-plates of the iron-cased 50 gun ship Caledonia, in Woolwich Dockyard, is in an advanced state, and will be com pleted, according to contr act, on' the 7th of next of th e . month. A great portion machinery has been received and laid down—namely, ti, ehnwilic press (Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Special Jury.) WATT V. THE LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who was the manager for the late renowned Chief Baron Nicholson, of his refreshment booth, at the different races—to recover compensation from the defendants for damage he had sustained by reason of their neg lecting to forward certain hampers containing re freshment utensils, from Waterloo Station to Ascot Race-course. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Laxton were coun sel for the plaintiff; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Wood appeared for the company. Sergeant Ballantine, in opening the case, said that the plaintif f had been for a great many years the manager of the booth for the late Chief Baron Nicholson, who was, no doubt, well known to them all, as attending the principal race-courses to supply refreshments to the public, and the action was brought under these circumstances. It appeared that after Epsom races a number of hampers con taining knives and forks, glasses, and other neces saries for a refreshment booth, were sent to the Nine Elms Station ; and, as A sco t races were ap proaching, it was not considered advisible to take them away, and it was arranged that they should remain there until the 16th of June, the day before the Ascot races commenced, and directions were given that they should be sent down on that day to the booth. Every other necessary was provided, but the hampers did not arrive, and the conse quence was that on the first day of the races there were no knives and forks, or glasses, or plates, and the customers could not be served, and the plain tiff sustained considerable loss. The hampers did arrive about five o'clock in the afternoon, when the races were nearly over; but they were then, of ;course, of no use, and the present action was brought to recover compensation for the loss the plaintiff had sustained in consequence of the neglect of the defendants. Mr. H. R. Watts, the plaintiff in the action, de posed that he had been connected with the late Mr. Nicholson, the " Chief Baron," and the owner of Mr. Nicholson's booth for a great many years, and he was in the habit of attending at races and managing the business for him, and since Mr. Nicholson's death he had continued to do so for his daughter. After Epsom races in the present year he sent thirty-three hampers, containing a portion of unsold stock, but which were principally filled with knives and forks, glass, and crockery, to the Nine Elms Station, and he arranged with the sta.- tion-master that these hampers should remain there until the 16th of June, the day before Ascot races. Ho then purchased the ground for the booth at Ascot, and it was erected, and all the necessaries were provided for the accommodation of the public. It was expected that the hampers containing the knives and forks and the other essentials would °Ave arrived on the morning of the races, but they 4 1, 1 1 (i t zt do so, and the consequence was that he was se, very great inconvenience. want: d " t it Ballautine—l suppose the people and fork,:' eat and drink ; and you had no knives t h a t were Plates or glasses, or any of the things laugh.) sc ary to enable them to do so ? (A Witness—Th a i went on to say ti as just my position. He then tion, and a teleg ran O w applied at the railway eta ascertained that the tr Zt3ent to London, and it was was at Staines, and th ey : , antaining the hampers race-course about fivre.o'clizi?ntuthalelyafaterrrnivoeodn,awt when wcahsielf9b:aron was the races were over . Lo tt , was unable to do any busineBB,Peekluicuc: whereas e t r h ena is soto h end e ines on the first day being ab out l i iLgeneral tak this occasion all be_trorohke character, ersex a a n in d i ned people used Witness used to like to „ iie a a , to the booth on purpose to see . tio / a d b Bau gh: Mr. glad to see him once again ,a Mr. Hawkins—Well, wait, - t h .e i lv ms v e e l a f. rs (7. 4:aad . e ) Per haps you will do so. (RoLe wed laughter.) Baron Martin—Unless the witness was to seehi s apparition. Witness—Oh, my lord, I don't apparition. (Ren ewe d l aug hter.) Mr. Hawkins—l beli eve his likeness in his wig and gown was hung wish to see hi s up outside the booth as an additional attraction ? Witness—Yes ; and 1 have seen many of the gentlemen of the bar drinking champagn e with him. (Roars of laughter.) Mr. , forks. Could nut youin the neighbourhood? ge anytib out those kniv es and This was an action for slander and libel, to which the defendant pleaded a justification. Mr. Ribton and Mr. L. Smith were for the plain tiff; and Sergeant Shee and Mr. W. Williams for the defendant. _ . -- The plaintiff in this action, it appeared, was a labouring man, and he was in the service of the de fendant, who is a gentleman residing at Norwood, as gardener, and it appeared that on the 17th of May, the defendant happened to go into the kitchen, where he saw the cook in the act of giving some bread to the plaintiff, and believing that he was being robbed, he turned them both out of the house. The plaintiff subsequently took proceedings in the county court to recover his wages, and the defendant, upon receiving the summons, sent a let ter to him, in which he reiterated the charge of rob bery, and gave this letter open to a person to con vey to the plaintiff, who thereupon brought the pre sent action. The defence that was set up was that the plaintiff had in reality been guilty of stealing the bread that was given to him by the cook, and the defendant swore to the fact of finding the latter handing large pieces of bread to the plaintiff, but on the part of the plaintiff it was sworn that the bread so given merely consisted of scraps and small pieces, and that he intended to give them to the defendant's dogs. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £5O damages, The evidence of Mr. Catley, surgeon, of Newent, proved that he had examined Hannah Hill, and found that she had been delivered of a child. He made an examination of the body. It was a full grown female child. Found the skull fractured, the head nearly severed from the body, it being held by an integument only half an inch broad. It appeared to have been done by a sharp instrument. Found fractures of the right fore-arm, left arm, and both collarbones, an incision on the back, on the left side of the spine, a fracture of five ribs, two incisions on the skull, two on the ears, and other injuries to the skull. The vertebrae of the neck were fractured, and the bones and muscles divided. These injuries were quite sufficient to cause death. The chest was fully developed, and respiration had taken place. Could not say for certain that the child had been born alive. A number of witnesses were called to character. For the defence it was contended that there was no proof that the child was born alive, and that the witness Hill had made several contradictary statements, and that her evidence could not be re • lied upon. The learned judge summed up at great length. The Jury had not delivered their verdict when our parcel left. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LIVERPOOL, Aug. 15. In his charge to the grand jury to-day, at the opening of the South Lancashire Assizes, Mr. Baron Wilde said—There are two very serious cases of murder, one of which has excited a gocd deal of public attention. I mean the case of the man and woman named Taylor, who attacked a house-agent in Manchester. If the evidence is laid before you, as I presume it will be, it will be very clear that the male prisoner killed the house-agent, and no doubt that would be a case of murder, for it was without provocation. His wife was with him. Now, I dare say you are aware that the law makes considerable concession in favour of a wife, and that as regards smaller offences the law considers the wife so far under the control of her husband that it does not hold her responsible • but that does not apply to a case of murder; a n d if you should be of opinion that the wife took part in the murder—which seems doubtful as to an active part—or was present with the husband with a common intent of aiding or asaistin7 '' him, it will be your duty to find a bill against her. If the contrary be the case, you will find the bill only against the husband. There has been, in connection with this case, another dreadful murder committed by somebody, for three of the Taylors' children were found dead in the house; but that part of the cuse will not come before you, for it has been impossible to trace the death of those chil dren, and perhaps the less public mention that is made of it the better. The °trier case of murder is that in which a policeman was shot. Several men were engaged in this outrage. Some trade quarrel had taken place about brickmaking, and a number of men went cut at night to trample and destroy the bricks. A conflict took place with the police, and three or faur of the men being armed, one of the officers was shot. You may have some doubt as to whose was the hand that fired, but if you are satisfied the prisoners were of the party, you should find a true bill against them all, and in this Court we will sift tLe matter as to the greater cr lesser guilt of the mm. In both of these cases the violence charged against the prisoners was utterly without provocation. His lordship, after some general remarks, then dismissed the jury to their room, and the trials were soon afterwards proceeded with. The report, which recorded a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 1± per cent. for the half-year, having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN said he hoped the shareholders would first hear what he had to s9y, because he did not feel ashamed, neither did his brother directors, to meet the shareholders that day. He should be quite content to ask the shareholders to act as a jury, and he, for one, should be perfectly content to abide the decision of the meeting, after they had heard the observations he had to address to them. He could not help expressing his regret at the great blow which would be felt by the smaller shareholders, and he could assure the meeting that that feeling was participated in by the whole board. One of the great causes of the difficul ties was, that the West Midland Company had not sub scribed their proper quota to the expenditure and the bur dens they had brought upon the company. They al knew there were ups and downs in all railway com panies. A person in the body of the meeting here exclaimed, " We've no ups here; we've always had downs." The chairman said with regard to their connection with the South Wales Railway he felt satisfied when the traffic was fully developed it would become a source of profit to the shareholders. He admitted that the report was not at all of a satisfactory nature, but he still looked upon the depression as a temporary one, and that the pros pects for the future were, he considered, favourable. (No, no.) He had no desire to highly colour their present position, but he felt justified in making the observation he had used. The last session of Parliament had been a most expensive one for the company, and it would require an allotment. of money on some future half-years to meet the expenses. (Cries of "Where's it to come from ?") The noble chairman then proceeded to refer to the bills they had to meet in Parliament, and said that the steps taken by the directors were all thought to be for the interest of the great body of shareholders. 'With respect to the dividend it was, it must be confessed, exceedingly small, and he hardly liked to refer to it—(a cry, "Give it to Saunders)—but he felt that if the half-year had been divided at the end of July instead of at the beginning, it would have borne a very different aspect. During the last month there had already been an excess of £52,000 over that of the corresponding period, and it is obvious that a great portion of that sum would have been available for dividend if the period he had alluded to had been the time for taking the half-yearly accounts. (A shareholder here asked whether there would be any difference in the gross amount for the year if that were done. The chairman admitted that the yearly result would be the same, but the present dividend would have been much better. He had to assure the shareholders that the board of directors were not fascinated with any desire for extensions or amalgama tions.) The chairman having alluded to the position of the Great Western Railway with the North-Western and South-Western Railways, stated that the great desire of the board was peace and good feeling with their neighbours ; but it was not to be expected that to obtain that they were to accept every proposition that was made to them without first ascertaining whether or not it was for the benefit of the Great 'Western shareholders. After again regretting the smallness of the dividend, the chairman resumed his seat by moving the adoption of the report. The motion having been seconded, Mr. BROWN said he was not actuated with any ill feeling to any of the directors, but he must tell the meeting, in mild; yet strong language, that he had no confidence in the board of directors. He thought their attempt to get to Southampton was the most foolish attempt he had ever heard of. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) At the proper time he intended to move a resolution embodying his views. He hoped the shareholders would not on the present occasion be contented by simply complaining of the present state of their affairs ; but, on the contrary, that they would take such steps as would secure the improvement of their'pro perty. (Hear, hear.) This resolution was to the effect, that taking into consideration the present position of the Great Western Railway, the shareholders were of opinion that all it required was rest, and that no fresh schemes be en tered into, no new guarantees with any other company con cluded, and that all further outlay of capital on existing lines be stopped. (Hear, hear.) In the event of the meet ing agreeing to that proposition he had another resolution to follow, which, he felt satisfied, was equally worthy their acceptance. Mr. GOSETT said he totally objected to the report. (Hear, hear.) lie wished it to be thrown back at the directors, and he accordingly begged to move that the whole board of directors, with the secretary (Mr. Saunders), be requested to resign, and that a management committee be formed, and the present meeting be adjourned for ten days, in order that a new chairman and board of directors he se lected. (Cheers.) Mr. COURT objected to the report so far as the dividend was concerned, because the amount it would take to pay it had not been bona ,fide earned during the last half-year. Mr, ADAMS would like to know the exact position of the meeting, whether there was any amendment to the report of the directors. The CHAIRMAN said no amendment had yet been moved to the report. 11 ; 4 DAMS thanked tho chairman for tho information, at the same time he mild not but say the policy of life lordship had altogether failed. He also objected to the dividend, because not one farthing of the expenses of their late parliamentary contest had been placed amongst the accounts for the last half-year. He should like to know about the amount of money expended during the late ses sion of Parliament, whether it was £40,000, £50,000, or £60,000. (Rear, hear.) The amount whatever it was ought to have been charged against the revenue. He thought the proceedings that had taken place with respect to the E Ist Gloucestershire] ine were mu eh to be condemned. Then again their absurd attempt to get to Southampton, why did the directors of the Great Western imagine that if they went there the South Western would not go to Bris• tol. (Hear, hear, and cries of Yes.) Of course they would, and it would only be right that they should as a matter of pure defence. Instead of making two useless lines, he thought the proper course to take was to make that which they already had yield as much as possible. The speaker then proceeded to make a comparison between the present dividend and that declared some years at the rate of eight per cent., and then referred to the new Metropolitan line, which he considered would be highly profitable to the Great Western. He thought there ought to be some changes in the direction, as he con sidered their enormous expenditure was the greatest evil the meeting had to deal with. (Loud cheers.) He did not wish to introduce a firebrand into the board, because that was not exactly the sort of person who would be best cal culated to improve the position of their undertaking, but if three or four practical men—men impressed with the im portance of dealing with £15,000,000 of capital—nothing but good could result. He was of opinion that a committee be appointed to inquire into the expenditure, and the manner in which the accounts were kept. Mr. lIARTRIGGE in the course of his observations made a charge against Mr. Saunders, the secretary, of having employed his son as counsel before a parliamentary com mittee in a scheme of which ho (the secretary) was the originator. Mr. SAUNDERS indignantly repelled the accusation; he said he never had and never would be guilty of a job. Mr. HARTRIOGE continued to condemn the policy of the board ;of directors, and contended that there ought to be a committee of shareholders appointed to confer with the directors upon the management of the undertaking. Mr. MONSELL condemned all extensions, and he was of opinion that if the directors determined steadily to develop their own traffic, to keep to their own territory, to avoid en croachment, to cultivate good feeling with their neighbours, a better and brighter future might confidently be expected. He was not one of those who looked upon Southampton as the Itedan the Great Western had to take ; on the con trary he looked upon it as the ruin of the company. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN having replied to the various questions put by shareholders, The motion for the adoption of the report was then put and carried, Mr, BROWN then moved the resolution given above with the following addition :—" That steps be immediately taken to organize an united economical management of the three companies, and that a bill be prepared for their legal amal gamation an abstract of which shall be sent to every pro prietor prior to its being submitted to a general meeting to be held in November; that free passes be allowed to share holders to attend, and that no proxies be applied for by the directors or their officials." Mr. ADAMS seconded the resolution. After a long and angry discussion the resolution was put to the meeting, but the hands held up being so nearly equal that the shareholders present divided, when there appeared— For the resolution Against it Majority agaiust the resolution — 7 A scene of great confusion ensued. After a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting sepa rated. WELLS V. SMITH. The plaintiff in this case was a working man, and he sought to recover from the defendant, who is the landlord of the King and Queen public-house at Paddington, for having assaulted him. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff had in sulted him, and misconducted himself in his house, and that ho merely used the necessary force to re move him. Mr. Ribton was for the plaintiff; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Griffith ware for the defendant. In this case it appeared, even according to the evidence for the plaintiff, that on the day in question he went into the defendant's house and called for some gin, and that after he had been served, he ad dressed him and said, " Governor, have you got any more gin in the house ? " and as he did not reply, he repeated the question, upon which the defendant told him he was busy talking to a gentleman, and asked him not to interrupt him. The plaintiff upon this told him that he was a - wooden-headed fool, and that his head was too small to understand his business. The defendant, it appeared, then said he would not he insulted in his own house, and struck the plaintiff, who represented that the blow he received was a very violent one, and that he was knocked down, and in consequence of the injury he received he was not able to do any work for more than a week. No surgeon was, however, called to confirm this statement, and the witnesses for the defendant declared that the blow was a very slight one, and that after it was given all they observed was that there was a mark about the size of a pin's point on the plaintiff's nose. Baron Bramwell, in summing up the evidence, observed that he quite agreed with the observation that had been made by the learned counsel for the put costs ill ° defendant, that this case, and a great many other beencommon jury cases, ought never to have trumpery desaZats-' to a av e e n i t s down to be tried at the assizes, but ought that the o e u ell disposed of in the county court, and object of bringing them there was to prevent cafe t he pockets of the attorneys. The undoubtedly, one of a most describedthat h is o the ,n w p a l plaintiff, i n n e t s i s fP :v i e l 3 : 9_ a l . xnd it appeared to be clear ceording to the testimony of being titi e ` u t l :l time in a state that he h e had brought it all up on a Plik nor sober and that luaself by his insulting GREAT NORTHERN. The report of the directors to the half-yearly meeting, on the 23d inst., has been issued. The capital account shows that there has been received up to 30th June, £12,579,660 3s. 6d., and expended £12,236,570 Os. 2d., leaving a balence of £343,090 3s. 4d. The expenditure on capital account includes £280,000 for the purchase of the Hertford and Luton line, which is now incorporated in the Great Northern system ; £55,730 Bs. 6d. for further pay ments on account of the company's subscription to the Garston and Liverpool Railway ; and £4,771 ss. for Witham mortgage deeds paid off. The chief items in the expenditure are—£3s,7B6 6s. ld. for works of construction, including £17,319 Is. Bd. for the Western, or Hotel Curve, Junction with the Metropolitan Railway; and £33,544 6s, 9d. for additional rolling stock. The company have re ceived, during the half-year, £121,623 15s. on account of the second and third calls on the Irredeemable Five per Cent. Preference capital of 1861, and £30,000 in respect of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Perpetual Preference Stock, which the directors were authorised, at the last meeting to dispose of, by tender, to the proprietors. The issue of the company's Four per Cent. Debenture Stock progresses satis factorily ; £266,970 3s. 6d. has been received on that account during the half .year, and a corresponding amount of mort gage deeds extinguished. The total amount of this stock is £2,089,242 Bs. 6d., and the average rate of interest on the whole debt of the company is £4 ls. 10d. per cent, Resolutions will be submitted to the meeting to empower the directors:to exercise the borrowing powers conferred by the Garston and Liverpool Railway Act of 1861, £75,000 ; the Great Northern and Metropolitan Junction Act of 1860, £10,000; the Great Northern (Hertford and Luton Purchase) Act of 1861, £6,003. The revenue account shows the gross receipts, including, in 1862, receipts on Nottingham and Grantham line to have been £672,458 4s. 7d; the gross expenditure, £345,697 75., leaving a balance of receipts over expenditure of £326,760 17s. 7d. Add to this a balance from previous half-year of £423 Bs. 2d., and a sum due from Eastern Counties Company of £8,400, there is a balance of revenue of £335,584 ss. 9d. Deduct fixed charges, including mortgage and debenture stock interest, and preference dividends, and, in 1862, the rent payable to the Nottingham and Grantham Company, £226,194 95., and there remains a net balance available for dividend on the original and A and B stocks, £109,389 16s. 9d. The nett increase in 1862 over 1861 was £19,296 10s. The above balance of £109,389 16s. 9d. will enable the gene ral meeting to declare a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on the original stock, giving for the half-year £2 ss. per cent. to the original stock ; £3 per cent. to the B stock; 10s. per cent, to the A stock; and the direc. tors recommend that such dividends be declared, to be pay able on Ist September next. The balance remaining in hand will be £1,463 45.11 d. A resolution will be submitted to the meeting for authority to subscribe £73,000 towards the capital of the Edgware Company, and for the creation of stock for that purpose. A similar agreement will be sub mitted to the meeting for working the Hatfield and St. Albans Railway, as also a resolution to authorise a sub scription of £20,000 towards the capital of that company. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND. • The following is the report of the directors, to be pre sented at the half-yearly meeting on Tuesday next :—The total capital received amounts to £800,628 10s., and the total capital expended to £794,244 ss, 4d. From the state ment of the revenue account, which is furnished by the lessees, it will be seen that the gross receipts for the half year have amounted to £21,711 195., and that the expendi ture has been £15,689 ss. 5d., leaving a balance of £6,022 13s. 7d. Since the last half-yearly meeting a change has taken place in the management of the affairs of the corn. pany, and the directors deem it their duty to record the cir cumstances under which that change was made. In No vember, 1861 (some previous communication on the sub ject having taken place between a committee of proprietors and the joint Committee of directors of the railway, a requi sition was received, signed by the prescribed number of shareholders, calling upon the joint committee or direc tors to convene an extraordinary meeting of proprietors of London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway stock, for the pur pose of considering and determining upon the propriety of an application to Parliament in the then ensuing session, for leave to bring in a bill for the purpose of incorporating the proprietors, and giving them some share in the manage ment of the affairs and property of the undertaking. A meeting of the proprietors was accordingly convened for the 16th December last, when the subject was fully discussed, and it was resolved that a bill for the purposes suggested should be brought in, and a committee of proprietors, who took charge of the condu4it of the bill, was appointed for promoting the application to Parliament. The act, in titled, " An Act to incorporate the proprietors of shares in the undertaking called the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway, and to vest such undertaking in the company so incorporated, and for other purposes," received the royal assent on the 16th May last, whereupon the pro prietors of shares in the undertaking were incorporated by the name of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Company. The first ordinary meeting of the new company was held on the 10th June last, and the present board of directors was then constituted in accordance with the pro visions of the act of Parliament, three of the directors beinc , appointed by the company, three by th e di rec t ors o f the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and three by the directors of the London and Blackwall Railway Company. The provisions in the act of 1852 relating to auditors hav ing been repealed by the act of 1862, it will be requisite for the proprietors at this meeting to elect two auditors. ASCENT OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SPIRE.—On Thursday afternoon last James Matthews, a workman in the employ of Mr. Frederick Richard Fisher, of the High street, bailder, performed his annual feat of ascending from the small weather door up the iron handles to the s ummit of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral, for the purpose of oiling the vane. Before descending, he got astride the iron cross baralof Maintenance gw. m a y or ,s e th . ane of above the vane, which is at an , al l ti is tu_ R d 400 feet from terra firma. go ' ut these impurities [ADVERTISEMENT.] --Holloway's .1 1 etuallv trod Do" Pills— Health.—Changing temperatures are Po , • ; Irv, foul gases, which gain admission into e the Lan with th they. cle an se both fluids and air, poison the blood, and beget dik . ieas Pills have the wonderful power of purgin g from the blood and body; pills, which are the mildest solids from all hurtful m atters ; improve the appetite, and invigorate the digestive. organs. Every. dyspeptic symp amyacbhe relied and abd uponomi abdominal euingtom yields to theca purifY " and safest stimulators of sluggish bowels, and the best correctives of ba Pt s i a n r s a disten sion. These i i e n p t i h n e e stomach bilious all liver complaints, ailments , headache, lowness of - • a nd a hundred other • • • spirits, . mer m.firmltles, resultiag from di ostiou confirwed 112 g ' 1 TES iaf UlWF.dc it T 1~.~'.W0 TVJi'. The inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Annie Burnham, otherwise Copeland, who wa s shot, as alleged, by her husband, at Isleworth; on the evening of Thursday, the 7th inst., was resum ed yesterday, before Mr. Jas. Bird, coroner for West Middlesex, at the Chequers Inn, near the Union Workhouse, Twickennam-road. The Coroner read over the evidence given at the previous hearing ; and Mrs. Sarah Barnham, the mother of the deceased woman, said, iu addition to her former statement, that since Copeland (her deceased daughter's pre sumed husband) had returned from Ireland he had frequently threatened to murder her. Rosina Barnham, the sister of the deceased, added to her former evidence that she could not recollect the size of the bullets, but she remembered that they were in a very rough unfinished state. The Coroner said that evidence would be forth coming from the place where the supposed murderer had been last at work, at Petersfield, where he virt?, seen casting some bullets in the sand, which , It proved, would be exceedingly material, as account ing for the state in which the last witness saw thew- In reply to the Jury, Rosina Barnham said that Copeland took the bullets out of a single pocket when he showed them to her, and made some remark about no one being able to see him take them out or put them in, The Postman, who met the supposed murderer after hearing the gun-shot on the night of the 7th, confirmed the previous statement he had made. The Coroner then called Ephraim Caughtrey, ostler at the Chequers, Whe, deposed to h av i ng seen th e d ecease d woma n an the alleged murderer when they partook of some ale at the public-house in question. He knew th e woman and the dress of the alleged murderer cor responded with his apparel as described by the mother and sister of the deceased woman. Inspector Rigarisford said that he had no further evidence to produce. The Coroner left it to the jury to say whether they would return a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, or adjourn the inquiry ; and the latter course being considered most advisable, was adopted accordingly. SUICIDE THROUGH THE ILLNESS OF A WIFE. Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex coroner, held an inquest at the Torriano Aro3 o Tavern, Torriano-avenue, Kentish-town, touching the death of Mr. Charles Josiah Wade, aged 41 years, residing at No. 41, Torriano-avenue. Mrs. Maria Wade, mother of deceased, identified the body, and deposed that he had been depressed in spirits for some time past, owing to the protracted illness of his wife, whose death was now hourly expected. On Wednesday night last he retired to his bedroom, seemingly not more depressed than usual. On the following morning he did not mak e , his appearance at breakfast t.s usual, and she Wen t into his room, and was horrified at the sight of her son lying dead on the floor and a pistol near him. He was doing a very flourishing business as a baker, and resided in a private residence in independent circumstances. There was no reason to suppose that anything else preyed upon his mind but the long illness of his wife. He often complained of sleep' lessness. Dr. Part, of No. 7, Camden-road-villas, deposed that he was called to the deceased, and found hits lying on the floor of his bedroom on the left side of the bed, with a quantity of blood about the breast of his night-shirt, in which he was attired. Death was occasion by a circular wound in the left side of the chest, between the fourth and fifth ribs, evl' dently made by a pistol bullet. A pistol (produced) was near him on the left side. His position was such that witness had no doubt that he died from a pistol shot fired by his own hand. The Jury returned a verdict of " Suicide frau temporary insanity." COUNTRY MAILK.LiAS. --- .4.- - LIVERPOOL-AuG.,l5. At to-day's market there was a fair attendance of the trade, but only a moderate amount of business was done 0 wheat, at ld•to 2d per cental lower. Flour was quiet, • and rather easier. Oats and oatmeal the turn dearer. Bevil 6d cheapes. Indian corn in fair demand, at the prices last Friday, Full p r i ces were rea li se d f or barley WI peas. WAKEFIELD—Auo. 15. The wheat grade was quiet, and prices as of late. Fresh parcels were cleared off as they came to hand, but the f o ** neral demand is limited. Grinding barley a fair inquall Beans, oats and shelling unaltered. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,510 qrs., at s6s ld 8ar1ey......... 60 STAMEORD—Aua. 15. White wheat, 58s to 61s—red, 52s to 57s per 36 atolls• Barley, 31s to 33s per qr. Oats, 24s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, 40s to 42s per qr. EXETER-AUG. 15. The following prices were quoted this morning : Wheat, white..7s 3d to 78 9d I Barley. 3s 9d to 4s 3(1 ,, • 00000 •• Ditto red. .6s 9d to 7s 3d Oats . 2s 9d to 3s 0' . . Flour, fine, 41s to 42s ; seconds, 39s to 40s per sack. CATTLE. The supply of sheep this morning was limited ; fat beef plentiful. Fat beef,' p sc., 10s0d to 10s3d Ewes, per lb .... 7d to 70, Pork carcases, 9s 6d to lOs 6d Wethers, do. bid to et' Lamb, p 1b....... 71,d to 8d Fat calves, d 0... 6d to- - “' Rough fat, 31d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—Auct. 15. The market has been dull and inactive for raw sugars' Refined goods are steady. Treacle tolerably firm. Thor ° is no alteration to notice in rum. COAL M . (Prices of Coal per Ton at ARKET. t the close of the market 0. el' Cowpen Hartley ..15 v , s. d. Buddle's West Hartley 15 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley....ls 0 Eden Main ..15 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting 23 0 Do. Anthracite 21 0 Hastings Hartley l5 0 Wylam 16 0 Holywell ..16 0 Tanfield Moor 13 0 West Hartley 15 0 Davison's West Hart- f - Walls ‘nd. Whitworth 15 Heugh Hall 15 9 I South Kelloe.. 16 Acorn Close .....15 " I Cassop l6 Framwellgate l5 " Hetton .. l7 6 !South Hetton l7 ... ~, r Hedley 15 ' Eden ....15 g Trimdon Thorriley.... 16 6 ' Tunstall ITrimdon Hartlepool ..16 0 ;', Shincliffe 16 u Hartlepool.. l6 9 , 84; sold, 47. ley 15 0 Hartlepool West Hart ley ...14 6 North Pelton Gas.— „12 9 Ships at market, FOREIGN TAIL PACKET L. 1821. MAILS DUE. Auslralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Aug. iSe via Marseilles Aug. 1. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. Sept. 13 ,i , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. ,;',;: via Marseilles Aug. l'' Falkland Islands . 1 Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampt o n Aug. 1 ,7 via Marseilles Aug. l'" , India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 14 ' via Marseilles Aug. 2 ,, 31 Lisbon Sept. l' 14' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug- 0 . via Marseilles Aug. Iji, Newfoundland .. Aug. "Au Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit,. packet Aug. 14 ' by U.S. packet ' 3, by Canadian packet. Aug. 13. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Aug .:, s , Bahamas, via New York Aug. 1. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, ) Aug. 13 ' California, and British Columbia.. BIRTHS. BARtY,- .7 -On the 14th inst., at The Camp, Aldershott. the wife of D. P. Barry, Esq., of a daughter. GLADSTONE.-0 the 13th inst., at Green-lane, NV,,al e „ r : 11 tree, near Liverpool, the wife of Robert Gladstone, . 06 `''' of a son. PETO.—On the 13th inst., at Kensington-palace-gard e ' Lady Peto, of a son. MARRIAGES. HILL—BERGER —On the 14th inst., at Ch r istcluirS ll : Paddington, Charles Edward Hill, Captain Royal PA gineers, youngest son of the late General Sir Dudley of Leger Hill, K. 0.13,, to Caroline Ann, eldest daughte r Ae . Henry S. Berger, Esq. , of Cleveland-square, 1: 1 Y" park. SOMES—Smrru.—On the 1 4th inst., at St. G e orge's, 119 7 over - squar e, S. Francis Somes, Esq. of Fortisw er M uswe ll-hill, to Harriet-Ella, eldest daughter of Froth°, roe Smith, Esq., M.D., of 25, Park-street, Grosvez° square. DEATHS. A. TALnly Ladyit . o A il the y lm elr3,ththiensrte.licatt of N e G w e t n on er , al D L ev o o rd n, A - " " yw u rr i : K.C.8.... Bommtu,—On the 30th June, at Cawnpoor, Major-Geerj 55, Henry E. B o il eau , Royal (Bengal) Engineers, g BRAY, —On the 14th inst„ at East Grinstead, Sasse%, the 'Lev. Isaac H. Bray, age , d 48. 1 ,... tile BOYLE.—On the llth inst at East Hendred, Be r "' Rev, Richard Boyle. • yadY CATHCART.—On the 12th inst., at Leamington, the Mary Elizabeth Cathcart, at gad eleY° EAsTwrcs.—On the 10th inst., suddenly, Salop, John Eastwick, Esq at Harwich, John . 'r G0 °1139 OROOM.—On the 13th inst. , i cor virsy, Esq., Alderman, Consul for Hanover, Sweden, &c., aged 67. -------2r—_—"------*'_---------,, iiit yjr.,l.llf LONDON: Printed and Published ,by JP IN G ° N 11 of N 0. 1 .12, Strand, Print er , at TBE SUNnffice •L' --- ill . i Strand, in the Precinct of the, Savoy, ill eoCOUntY Matllesuz•—Saturday ; August 16, 1862. Tl t