The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

THE NEW _IRON STEAM RAM. The means by which the destruction of human beings may be accomplished on the easiest and largest scale is rapidly taking its place among the applied sciences of the 19th century. Since the days of cumbrous ordnance and old Brown Bess, when the butt of the musket was used as effec tively and fatally as its bullet, Moloch has been fruitful of suggestions how to kill, and the fields I of Magenta and Solferino are still cumbered with the ghastly evidences of the proficiency which has been already attained in the new science. But sanguinary as these contests have bee n they, after all, afford but slight indications of the real pro- gress which has been made in the destructive branches of the art of war, and it is only when a naval engagement takes place that maritime powers • will see with dismay the awful effect of the weapons which science has placed in their hands. An en gag, ement between two hostile fleets in the present day would probably not last an hour, for by that time two-thirds of all the ships engaged would be sunk or blown up. The time when ships lay yard arm to yard-arm, firing into one another for a whole day, has gone by for ever. It will be short and sharp work now-a-days, for wooden ships as at present built will no more withstand the tremen • dons armaments which all fleets carry than so much • basket work. It is a perfect knowledge of this fact, and a certainty that wooden ships after re - ceiving one or at the most two well concentrated broadsides must sink immediately, that is leading maritime Powers at the present moment to see if science cannot devise some means for rendering their ships invulnerable, at least for a time. But while securing this object a still more awful element is introduced into the art of naval warfare, since these iron-cased monsters are to be used not alone for defence, but for running down and sink ing by wholesale the vessels of the enemy. The attempts to make iron shot-proof vessels have hitherto proved downright failures both in the French and English navies. The English floating batteries went to pieces under a fire of solid 68- pounders. The French boats employed in the attack•on Binburn, though only hit by 32-pound shot, gave unmistakeable signs of a solution of con tinuity, and that more knocks or heavier metal would soon send them to the bottom. Efforts in this direction have therefore been discontinued, and the French Emperor has set to work to see if he cannot case large vessels with sufficient iron to give a fair immunity from the effects of shot, while their prodigious strength and weight may be turned to awful account in running down opposing first rates. The idea was a good one, but it went no - further than an idea, as, instead of building ships specially constructed for the purpose, the two yes .sels which the Emperor is now with such vain secrecy having coated with iron plates are old sailing three-deckers, which can never carry a suffi cient weight of iron to answer the purpose, and which, even when fitted with machinery, will never it is said, attain a rate of more thari four or five knots an hour or so. The English Government have very wisely determined to adopt a different plan, and to build a wrought-iron vessel of im mense size, strength, and steam power, specially adapted as a vessel of war, and for running down ships of the largest kind, not even excepting the - Great Eastern itself. The contract for this tre• mendous engine of modern war has been taken by the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company, and suffi cient progress has been made with the ironwork to - be used in her to make it certain that she will be afloat and fitting for sea by June next. Her dimen sions will be—extreme length, 380 feet ; breadth, 58 feet ; depth, 41 feet 6 inches ; and her tonnage no less than 6,177 tons. The weight of the empty hull will be 5,700 tons. The engines are to be by Penn and Sons, of 1,250-horse power, and . of these we shall give a description on another oc casion. Their weight with boilers will be 950 tons ; she will carry 950 tons of coal, and her armament, masts, stores, &c., will amount to 1,100 tons more. 'At sea - her weight will be about 9,000 tons, which 'will be driven, when so wanted, through the water against an enemy's ship at the rate of 16 miles an hour. It is difficult by mere description to give an adequate idea of the tremendous strength with which this vessel is to be built. The keel, or rather the portion to which the ribs are bolted, is made of immense slabs of wrought scrap . iron, an inch and a quarter thick, and three feet six inches deep. 'From this spring the ribs—massive wrought iron T-shaped beams, which are made in joints about five feet long by two deep, up to where the armour plates is begin, five feet below the water line. These are only 3 feet 8 inches apart, while, for a distance of 10 feet on each side of the keel, they are bolted in at only half this distance asunder. Five feet below the water-line the armour plates commence, and, to give room for these, the depth of the rib diminishes to about half, or nine inches. Over the ribs, and crossing transversely, are bolted beams of teak a foot and a half thick, and outside these again come the armour plates. Each of these plates is to be 15 feet long by 4 feet broad and 41 inches thick. Several of them have been made by the company of puddled iron, of annealed scrap iron, and of scrap iron unannealed, and experi ments are now being made at Portsmouth with a view of testing practically which best withstand the tremendous attack of 68-pounders. It is almost needless to say that each plate is the very perfec tion of material and manufacture. These ponderous slabs go up to the level of the upper deck. The orlop deck will be of wood, and 24 feet above the keel. The main deck will be of iron, cased with wood, and 9 feet above the orlop. The upper deck will also be of wrought iron and 7 feet 9 inches above the main. All the decks are carried on wrought iron beams of the most powerful de scription, to which both the ribs and iron decks are bolted; while along the whole length of the vessel from stem to stern, are immensely solid wrought iron beams at intervals of five feet inside the ribs, which are again crossed by diagonal bands, tying the whole together in a perfect net work. The armour plates are not intended to shield the whole vessel, only the fighting portion, about 220 feet of the broadside being thus pro tected. This broadside, however, will mount 14 of the Armstrong 100 lb. guns, which, with two broad side guns on the upper deck and two pivot guns of the same kind forward and two aft, will give her a total armament of 36 guns, each throwing a 1001 b. shot over a range of nearly six miles. Neither the bows nor stern have any of the large armour plates, but are coated with wrought iron plates of nearly one inch and a half thick over two feet of teak, which will offer sufficient resistance to Prevent most shots from going through. But to compensate for this apparent deficiency, both bows and stern are so crossed and recrossed in every direction with water-tight compartments, that it is s matter of perfect indifference whether they get riddled or not, and each of these ends are shut off from the engine room a n d fi g h t i ng por ti on o f th e ship by continuous massive wrought iron trans verse bulkheads. So that, supposing it possible that both stem and stern could be shot away, the centre of the vessel would remain complete and impenetrable as ever, still offering in all 24 inches of teak coated with 5 inches of wrought iron to every shot. But both stem and stern are built inside of such immense strength that coating with armour plates would be almost superfluous. The bows, as the spot where the whole shock must be received in running down ships, are inside a per fect web of ironwork, strengthened back to the armour plates with - no less than eight wrought iron decks an inch thick, and crossed and re-crossed in all ways and methods with diag onal bracings and supports. In the design sent into the Admiralty by the Thames Shipbuilding Company the shape of the bow; was made exactly after the out line of the neck and breast of a swan when swimming. Thus the point which would strike tui ehemy's vessel was the " breast," which was placed under the water line. In the Admiralty model, according to which the "rain" is to be built, the bows form an obtuse angle, the point of which is just level with the water, receding back at a rather sharp slope both above and below it. This peculiar shape, however, will be concealed under the usual figurehead and forward gear with a light artificial cutwater of wood, so that appa rently the vessel will be an ordinary frigate of the largest size, The Admiralty, no doubt, intend by these devices to disguise her real character, but we need hardly point out how utterly futile such an attempt would be. Could any naval officer be de ceiwd by any amount of painting about the char acter of a ship of 6,000 tons, nearly 400 feet long, ,rigged like a three•decker, yet only carrying a roadside of 14 guns on her main deck? Or do the •it i o l tra t iralty suppose that there will not be perfect photographs of her when finished taken for all the bPowers, which will be reproduced and dis tributedtheir navies,*with strict injunctions in case orl°llgalways to avoid such a vessel if they can 9 The avreorfyaidea of attempting to conceal the real purpose afloat, el so remarkable, and the only one of its loud seems absurd. Coming up into action with other first-rates in line of battle, no doubt she would pass muster unobserved, but under such circumstances, even if as well known to the enemy 1 1 -- to the Eng li sh, the knowledge would avail nothing to t he former. Once a general en gagement was commenced, the ram" would be able to pursue her mission of destruction by running into the sterns of the enemy ' s vessels almost with out hindrance. When suc h is avowedly her pur pose it seems, to say the Least , unwise to cumber' her 'pith the mists and rigg:ng of a line-of-battle ship. The shock of striking the vessel would bring down all her masts by the board like reeds, and leave tile ram's decks so encumbered with wreck as might even render her almost useless for further efforts.. The mode in which she attacks Nv4i be to run straight at the enemy, taking him, if possible, in the stern or quarter, all the men on deck retiring to the stern to avoid injury from falling spars. When about half the vessel's length from the enemy the engines are to be stopped and the engineers stand by to reverse the engines in order to clear her from the wreck of her antago nist before the latter goes down. It is calculated that striking a line-of-battle ship in the stern the ram would sink her within three minutes. The bowsprit will, we believe, be telescopic in order to be housed on board with the anchors before striking the enemy, that there may be no chance of becom ing entangled with the wreck of the sinking vessel. It has, however, yet to be explained how she is to get rid of her own wreck of masts and spars, and above all what precautions will be adopted to prevent any chance of the rigging foul ing her screw. The cost of the hull will be about £200,000, the engines about £75,000, and her fit ting for sea about £45,000 more—or £320,000 in all. If she only does one-half of what may fairly be anticipated from her she will be cheaper to the nation than a dozen sail of the line, and we hope before long to announce that another of the same kind has been decided on. TILE ALLIES IN LOMBARDY. The following are extracts from a letter, dated Milan, June 23 : In my last I had not time to sketch the present aspect of Milan or the contrast to its appearance on my last visit, now just three months ago. The most apparent point of difference is in the military. Then the city was crowded with Austrians, now the uni forms one sees (and they are not very numerous) are of course all French and Piedmontese. A great portion of the French soldiers one sees about the streets are men just out of hospital but not yet fit for duty—some lame, others with arm in sling, and others whose pallid countenances tells of hurts not less severe, although less apparent. No man living hates an hospital more than the French soldier. His active, lively temperament makes its dulness and confinement particularly odious to him, and there is no danger of his remaining in it one hour more than he is compelled to do. Indeed I have heard of one or two cases here of soldiers having made their escaße without the doctors' permission, and having, as might be expected, to return to their beds all the worse for their imprudence. There are now no less than 25 military hospitals, largeand small, in Milan. All the barracks have been converted to this pur pose, and hence it was that when the army passed through it had to camp around the town, a system still adopted for the detachments or regiments that come up. Those 25 hospitals are said now to contain about 10,000 patients, a very large proportion of them wounded. I have been over three of them ; that of San Ambrozio, where there are about 1,250 ; that of San Luca, 350 ; and that of San Francesco (the vast barracks built by Napoleon), where I was informed there were about 2,500. San Ambrozio, formerly a convent, is admirably adapted for its present occupation ; it has lofty, airy rooms and corridors and spacious internal courts, grass-grown, shaded by fine trees and surrounded by cool porti coes. The men looked comfortable and well cared for, and there did not seem to be many bad cases in that establishment. It was quite full, but on the fine afternoon on which I visited it at least five beds out of six were empty. Their usual occu pants were to be seen hobbling about their corri dors, sitting in the embrasures of the windows, and (not a few) dressed in their uniforms and smok ing under the trees in the courts. In this hos pital nearly all were French. I spoke to many of them, and they seemed cheerful and contente d. The kitchens and pharmacy were extremely clean and curiosities in their way,—such huge caldrons of food and wholesale preparations of medicaments, physic by the pailful, and dozens of buckets of lemonade. A number of women, and some Mila nese ladies, were busy in the linen-room, with great stores of lint and bandages and sheets ; and, truly, great stores are needed ; and if there was a deficiency in any respect it seemed to be in this article. At least, it struck me that some of the beds were not quite so clean as I have been used to see them in other military hospitals. There was, however, little to be said in the way of fault-find ing. The air of the place was sweet and pure, and one scarcely encountered an evil odour from one end of it to the other. A few ladies were to be met with here and there in the wards, but it was not the hour when the largest number attend, nor, in deed, that at which their attendance is most re quired. French and Italian Sisters of Charity were, as usual, busy in their holy task, and here and there a priest sat by the side of some poor wretch, with whom the human physician's skill hardly hoped to avail. The hospital of San Luca, on a much smaller scale, seemed in an equally satisfac tory state. That of San Francesco made a less favourable impression. Until very recently a bar rack, its conversion into a receptacle for the sick can hardly be said to be as yet fully completed. It is somewhat in the rough, and indeed the direc tor showed reluctance to allow of it being visited, on account of the inevitable confusion and defi ciencies that still existed, but to which he was labouring to put an end. There was certainly a great difference between this hospital and San Ambrozio, and visitors with delicate olfactories would do well to limit themselves to the exa mination of the latter. In San Francesco there were both French and Austrians, but the latter were in the majority, and I was informed that the intention was ultimately to transfer thither all the Austrians. There seemed to be many more bad cases here than in either of the two other hospitals. Notwithstand ing this, and the evident inferiority of the place in many respects, it was stated that only one case of hospital gangrene had occurred. There was one long corridor, every room opening out of which was full of amputated men. On door after door one read the inscription " Amputati." No empty beds or cheerful countenances here. Nothing could be sadder than the sight of these long rows of poor maimed fellows, or than the sound of the low mean ings which many of them, with set teeth, evidently did their utmost to restrain. Not a few of them were Croats, with the usual ugly, stolid physiognomy of that unprepossessing race, but there were also some excellent specimens of the Austrian soldier, Tyrolese and others. Most of them lay motionless, as if exhausted and weak; some with lumps of ice resting upon their bandaged stumps. One fine, handsome young fellow, a Tyrolese corporal, lay in a corner, his left arm off, still and silent, but, to judge from the flush on his cheek and expression of his countenance, suffering intensely. A dresser showed me the bullet that had smashed his arm—a coni cal ball from a French rifle, indented on one side by the contact with the bone. The poor Tyro lese could not be more than 22 or 23 years old. He smiled at the few words of sympathy addressed to him by one of our party in his native tongue, but the smile was very sad, as well it might be' on the lips of one thus maimed in youth for a cause that concerned him little. Chloroform we learned has been generally used for the amputations in this hos pital, where a great number have taken place. The medical men in most of the present military hospi tals of Milan are civilian doctors, who were invited to volunteer their services. Some Austrian surgeons are also there—whether taken prisoners or who had been left in charge of sick I have not heard. Corn ing out of San Francesco we fell into conversation with a smart little Tyrolese Jager, who was pacing the corridor as bold, upright, and with as confident a look as if he had been on a Vienna parade ground. He had been slightly wounded at Magenta. Ac cording to his account there was but one battalion of Tyrolese engaged there ; it was 800 strong, and, to the best of his belief, about half of it had been knocked over. It had suffered greatly from canister he said, with which the French had liberally pelted them. The ladies who visit the hospitals, taking it in turns, are full of kindness and attention to the un fortunate wounded, and. continue their fostering care to them even during their convalescence. I have not observed, nor am I aware, that the Aus trians come in for any share of their nursing or of the many little comforts provided for those who have been fighting on the Italian side. Gratitude and patriotism more than charity and compassion lead the fur Milanese to the hospit al wards. " They have suffered in our behalf, and we cannot do less than show our gratitude by tending them," was the reply of one of the amateur nurses t o a passing re mark. Long, I expect, after the laurels of Magenta and Malegnano shall have lost their freshness, and after the majority of those who fought there and survived shall have fallen in other fights, or have quitted the army's ranks, will Milan be a word of pleasant memory to the soldiers of France. Never yet were men made so much of--I speak not of the officers only, but of the rank and file. The private sentinel finds himself the hero of the hour, wel comed and caressed in society into which, but for this campaign of liberation, he would have gone down to his grave without penetrating. The Zouave is particularly in demand. One sees him driving about in elegant carriages with aristocratic ladies, and attended by livened domestics. With one arm in a sling, he gives the other, clothed in the coarse uniform sleeve, to delicate silk-clad dames and dam sels, who gladly accept his escort, walk with him in the street, and sit with him in cafés. Many of those ladies have made his acquaintance in the hos pital, and, having nursed him into convalescence, desire to complete his cure, that he may again go forth and do battle in Italy's cause. Although a rough customer in the field and by no means renowned for refinement and polish, he appears to show consider able tact and discretion in the society into which he has unexpectedly and suddenly been introduced. Bashfulness is by no means a Zouave weakness, and THE SUN, 'LONDON, THUTISDA-in EVENING, JUNE 30, 1559 troops no blame rests. " What," say the French' even a rank far above the common soldier, " What, do we care for your flags and your flowers, your illuminations, your clapping of hands, and ringing of festive bells on our arrival? Are all the clamour: . and plaudits you raise at our approach meant 1;o express your joy at the good fortune that brings so many victims to be immolated to your cupidity ? to be fleeced and flayed and all but quartered alive by all possible contrivances of cheatery and extortion ? We come into this coun try to give our dear lives for you ; there is no sacri fice of private affections, no hardships or danger we have not endured or are unwilling to encounter for your sakes. We open our pursestrings ;we beg where we could take ; we ask nothing we are not ready to pay justly and handsomely for. Yet every trifle we want we must win from you at the end of a long, wrangling, and chaffering battle—a battle in which we are but too sure to come off losers, whatever strength and ingenuity we put forward in self-defence.' These have been and are the bitter complaints of the French all along our march from Florenee to this place. So it was to some extent in Piedmont. Also from Susa to Genoa. These complaints are echoed by all truehearted Italians among the intel ligent and disinterested classes. But a dealer, great or small, is everywhere the same. He has no country, all is fair in a bargain. He will equally " do" friend or enemy, oppressor or liberator. being free from mauvaise honte he is rarely awk ward. The nil admirari is a well-known charac teristic of the French soldier, and is not less con spicuous in this Italian campaign than it was in many previous ones. I fear that the Zouave's pic turesque costume and reputation for dash. and dar ing procure him an undue share of the favour of the fair and of the good things now going in Milan. The less picturesque and degourdi soldier of the line does not seem to drive in barouches on the Bastion, and eat ices in the gardenof the Cafe Cova. Even the cavalry, generally well looked upon by women, seem elipsed by quei Zuavi. As for the Turcos, who are dressed just like the Zouaves, exc ept that they have blue petticoats instead of red , and who enjoy the advantage of presenting a great variety of tint, varying from a dingy lemon to a shiny jet, I fear they are decidedly neglected. After the Foreign Legion and Turcos, it is the Zouaves who have the preference for dangerous service, for which they are ever ready. Some of the Austrian prisoners seem to have been particu larly struck at seeing Zouaves come into action with their pipes in their mouths. When heated by fight ing and by an obstinate resistance, some of these Franco-Africans become merciless in their mood, and it would not be surprising if some of the tales that have been told, about wounds not being always a protection to a fallen Austrian, were founded in fact, although the instances may be few, and such butchery would certainly not be tolerated by the officers, did they know of it. A friend of mine was talking to a Zouave officer on the field of Maleg nano, soon after the 'fight and when the wounded and dead still lay about. A Zouave was making suspicious movements in the neighbourhood of a wounded Austrian, " Dites done, mon capitaine," he at last exclaimed, " on dit qu'ils tuent non blesses la bas." And, at the same time, he handled a knife and cast ominous glances at the Austrian. The officer suspected his drift, and apostrophising him as an animal ! ordered him away. But whatever examples of fierceness and blood-thirstiness may occur when the blood is still hot from combat and every angry passion roused, I believe that not a doubt can be raised as to the general kindness shown by the French to their prisoners. that her husband was of unsound mind. By an ex- lings, but refused to say by whom he was robbed. traordinary ex parte proceeding, for the mortgagers He did not accuse his brother constable at that could not be represented there, a commission of time, but merely said he should go to the police lunacy was obtained, and Mr. Watts was found to station in Kennington lane. have been lunatic since 1822. More extraordinory Police-constable 127 P, said that on the night evidence upon which to find a man lunatic had before, he was informed that a man was running never been submitted to a jury. The person whose about the Swan Tavern without hat or coat on, and sanity was to be impeached was formerly a gentle- like a madman ; and some time after he found the man farmer, entitled to a small estate of about £350 prisoner lying against a wall, asleep. He awoke a-year, at Speen, near Newbury, in Berkshire. He him, and told him to go home, but instead of going was now resident at Camden-town and was in very towards Chapel-street, Brixton, he proceeded to good health, and therefore could be called by the wards Chapel-street, Stockwell. defendant. It was true he was 70 years old, but John Clifton, a waiter at the Swan Tavern, that was of small consequence now-a-days when Stockwell, said he (complainant) was so drank that persons of great age filled the highest office in the he was falling about, and broke a pane of glass in State. (Laughter.) Mr. Watts married, in 1816, a the tavern by falling against it. person of the name of Barnes, who was a little be- Mr. Elliott observed he had heard quite enough neath him in position, and who was an extreme].) to satisfy him that there was not the slightest extravagant woman, and had led him into the ne- foundation for the charge, and at once dismissed cessity of raising money by the mortgage deeds now the complaint. in question. He was informed that she was an ex tremely violent woman, and had led her husband a wretched life. They had eight children, but they had all died bat one. The first deed impeached was dated 10th December, 1834, and it was signed under these circumstances :—ln 1834 Mr. Watts applied to Mr. Hockley, a solicitor at Guild ford, who was since dead, to raise £3,000 by way of mortgage upon the estate. Mr. Snook advanced the money, and a mortgage deed was executed. Mr. Deacon, the town clerk of Southampton, had been for some time acting as attorney for Mr. Watts, and he had become indebted to Mr. Haw kins, a client of Mr. Baker, of Andover, to the ex tent of £2,200, for which a promissory note had been given. It was alleged, on the other side, that Mr. Watts never received the money for which the mortgage was given on the 10th Dec., 1834, but he should be able to prove that out of that money Mr. Hawkins's note for £2,200 was paid. Mr. Hawkins had also, in addition to the note, a deposit of Mr. Watts's title deeds by way of equitable mortgage ; and therefore it was necessary that the £2,200 should be paid in order to obtain the deeds. The mortgage deed was ultimately executed at South ampton, though the pecuniary part of the business was settled at the Bear Inn, Reading, and Mr. Cole brook, a surgeon at Southampton, a friend of the attorney's, happened to be called in to attest the execution of the deed. The whole matter had been the subject of long and expensive litigation, and on one occasion Lord Langdale decided that there was nothing to impeach any one of the deeds except the one to which reference had been made, end he added that he would have been satisfied with that if any medical man had been engaged in the transaction. The gentleman who then had the affair in hand was not acquainted with the fact that Mr. Cole brook, a surgeon, was there. The next deed im peached was dated the 23d April, 1834. and that was another mortgage for £430 money lent by Mr. Hazlitt, a coachmaker, at Southampton, and a client of Mr. Deacon. The next deed in question was dated the 25th January, 1836, at which time Mr. Deacon had ceased to be Mr. Watts's solicitor, and Mr. Watts had employed Mr. Halford, of Salisbury, in that capacity. Mr. Snook was a client of Mr. Hal ford, and he agreed to advance £5,300 upon mort gage, out of which sum the £3,000 and the £4OO mortgages were paid off. The witnesses who attested the execution of that mortgage would state their surprise when they saw Mr. Snook take off his coat and waistcoat, cut open the back of his waistcoat with a pair of scissors, and take out of it £5,300 in notes, so that he actually carried his banker on his back. (Laughter.) Mr. Snook was a shrewd man of business, and he was not likely to lend his money to a man who was not competent to execute a deed. Of the £5,300 it would appear that Mr. Watts paid the greater part of the balance which he received into the Newbury Bank, though in the course of a year it had all disappeared. In May, 1837, there was a further charge on the estate for £3OO. Mr. Snook died prior to 1842, and upon his executors filing a bill to foreclose the mortgage the defence of insanity was set up. In 1840 Mr. Watts' difficulties increased upon him, and he was in Read ing Gaol from that year until 1842, and the officials would say that there was not the slightest ground for saying that he was insane. He was told there were two facts upon which the defendant relied as showing insanity. Mr. Watts was rather proud of having a nice hand, but on one of his forefingers there was what was called a deer's foot nail, the nail being divided down the middle. He was twitted by his wife about this nail, and he in con sequence not only cut the nail off but a piece of the finger with it. The other fact relied on was that he had wilfully damaged one of his eyes. It was true that Mr. Watts had been subject to occa sional fits of epilepsy, but it would be shown that there was no pretence for imputing insanity, and indeed it would appear by many documents that he was a shrewd man of business. Evidence was given in support of plaintiff's case during the remainder of the day, and it was ru moured that the matter was likely to occupy seve ral days. WORSHIP-STREET.—TIIE THIEVES' HOME IN WHITECHAPEL.—SamueI Bromley, a well-known and convicted thief, was charged on remand with stealing two gold watches and other appendages, value in all £ll2, from ladies while passing in the open day along the Whitechapel-road. Theparticulars of these separate offences appeared a few days since, and evidence was now called in corroboration of the ladies' testimony. One of the witnesses, a married woman, added that she had been threatened by some costermongers and street fruitwomen with violence, if she attended to give evidence. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, replied in a lachrymose tone, " I'm very innocent." Mr, Hurlston (the chief clerk) having completed the depositions, observed to the magistrate—Since these cases have been under your notice, sir, I have made myself acquainted with the immediate vicinity of George-yard, Whitechapel, the scene of so many daring robberies, and a more intricate place, after entering it, I cannot well conceive ; for the numer ous turnings, windings, and passages, in one sense, more resemble a maze than ought else ; in truth, the spot is a most intolerable and dangerous one, from which, but for the constable accompanying me, I probably could not have safely emerged. Mr.D'Eyncourt—The only apparent service that can be rendered is by having a great number of the police there. All charges of robbery from the im mediate neighbourhood I shall send for trial. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the Middlesex Sessions. THAMES.—EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFOUNDED CIIARGE.—Thomas Chalington, a respectable-look ing man, of good address, a commercial traveller, in the employ of a respectable house in the City, residing at 23, Plummer's-row, Whitechapel, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with inde cently assaulting Sophia Charlotte Simpson, a girl aged 11 years. The complainant, a diminutive girl, who appeared much younger than she really is, stated that she was living with her parents, 47, Oxford-street, Step ney. On Tuesday night she was seated on the step of a door, near the Effingham Saloon, Whitechapel road, and was putting on her bonnet, when the pri soner came up and put his arms round her neck, at the same time saying, " Come along with me my dear." She replied to this invitation, " No, I would rather not," on which he directed her to rise, and took her down several streets, and knocked at the doors of several lodging-houses and asked for a lodging for the night. All the people he asked for a lodging refused to receive them, and he took her up and down several streets, with his arms round her neck, when two men interfered, and he said, " Good bye, good bye, my dear." The men said, "What are you doing with this child P" on which the prisoner pulled his coat off and chal lenged them to fight. The men knocked him down, and then gave him into custody. In answer to questions by Mr. Yardley, the girl said that the prisoner offered her 6d., and took her by the hand. The prisoner in defence, with a manly simplicity, said that the girl had been telling falsehoods, and that he had never entertained any evil design upon the child. He saw her upon the step of a door crying, and from motives of humanity, and with a view of befriending her, inquired if she was in dis tress, or had been ill used. The child replied that she had no home to go to, and that her parents had turned her out of doors. He said if that was the case he would give her 6d. for a lodging, and went to several lodging-houses with her for the purpose of ensuring her safety, but none of the lodging house-keepers would admit her. He was about to consult the police inspector at the station-house, when two fellows came up and interfered with him. He took no liberties with the child, and his inten tion was to benefit her and provide her with a lodging for herself. Inspector Griffin, of the K division, said the com plainant was a very bad girl. He had often seen her roaming the streets at late hours, and sent her home. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 29. Mr. Yardley asked the girl what caused her to be out so late on Tuesday night. She began cry ing and evaded the question, and upon the magis trate repeating it, and insisting upon an answer, she said she ran away from her father and mother, and intended to stop out all night. An old woman here stepped forward, who said —This girl was brought home at one o'clock this morning. Her mother is at work in the Kent-road, and her father is a labourer. They often leave this girl and two other children for several days. Mr. Yardley said that nothing could be more disgraceful than for a man in the position of the prisoner to take advantage of the wayward fancies or irregularities of the girl, and attempt to seduce her. The girl had given her evidence in such a manner as to lead to the belief that the prisoner had some evil design upon her. He was of opinion that she had not told the truth, and that she was very properly described by the inspector as a very bad girl. The prisoner said that imprisonment would be too good for him if he had attempted to take im proper liberties with such a child. Mr. Yardley—Yes, you are quite right. Im prisonment would indeed be too good for you if you had attempted to take advantage of a child like that. CLERKENWELL.—ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE THROUGH JEALOUSY.—John Bates, aged 29, a shoemaker, residing at 9, West-street, Somers Town, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with unlawfully cutting and wounding his wife, Fanny Bates, by stabbing her in the face with a knife, at Eyre-street-hill, St. Andrews. The prosecutrix, who appeared in the witness box with her face bandaged up, said that she had deen married to the prisoner about seven years, and left him about four months since owing to his ill usage. On the previous night the prisoner came to her residence, and outside the house made use of very disgusting and filthy language towards her, and also threatened her. She went to the door to see if she could appease him, and when she was turning away he stabbed her in the face. The knife went through her cheek into her mouth. She bled a great deal, and was taken to the hospital, where her wound was dressed. She had one child, and the prisoner had before abused her. James Hawks, a low-looking fellow, having been sworn, said that he cohabited with the complainant, and had done so for some time. The prisoner came to the house and abused the complainant on Satur day last. The prisoner said he should like to ask his wife some questions. Mr. Tyrwhitt told him that his time was past. He would go for trial, and then he or his counsel could ask what they liked. Police-constable Taylor 226 G, said that he was in the station when the complainant and the priso ner were there. The prisoner said he was sorry for what he had done. He stabbed her with a shoemaker's knife, and when he had done it he threw it away. Search had been made for it, but it could not be found. The wound, the doctor told him, was about an inch in length, but was not The prisoner said his motives were quite mis taken by the persons who interfered with him. He wished to obtain shelter for the girl for the night to keep her out of harm's way. Mr. Yardley was inclined to believe the pri soner's statement and discharged him. He directed the old woman, who appeared interested about the girl, to take charge of her, and to tell the parents they must prevent her roaming the streets at un seasonable hours. WESTMINSTER.—A SAD AFFAlR.—Avices Green was apprehended on a warrant by Knowland, one of the summoning officers of the Court, charged with a very serious assault upon her husband, and also with.threatening his life. Complainant, a hairldresser, in Churton-street, Pimlico, said that on Tuesday evening his father, who was on a visit, was waiting for his tea, and upon complainant going into the kitchen, he found his wife pulling to pieces a watch timepiece, to aggravate him, as he supposed, because his father was there, to whom she had a great antipathy. Ho told her to get his father's tea, but she refused and, said his old father should not be in the house, He told her if she did not get the tea he would not allow her to remain in the house, and accordingly pushed her outside the door, when she seized him in a very tender part of his person and held h im so tightly that he screamed with pain, and nearly fainted, and had been since obliged to wear ban dages. After committing this assault she ran into the other kitchen, took up a knife, and, rushing at him, said, " I will do for you, Harry, I will do for you ;" but the lodgers interposing , his life was saved. She then called out " Murder" and the police came, but would, n ot take the charge, and complainant gave her ss. fur her night's lodging—as he did not consider his life was safe—recommending her to see the magistrate in the morning. They had been married three years and a half, and bad one child. Mr. Arnold remarked, she had come to him that morning, and said that owing to her bad temper she and her husband had had a auarrel, and he bad turned her out of doors, but she had said nothing about the assault_ _ dangerous. Mr. Tyrwhitt having given the prisoner the usual caution, asked him what he had to say in answer to the charge ? The prisoner said he had been married to his wife for about seven years, but out of that time he had only had three years of a quiet life. His wife was a good woman until that fellow (Hawks) came to visit. She had had connexion with him four years ago, but he never suspected her. He had spoken to her about it, but he did not know what to do. Mr. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner he must have a very thick head after what he had told him. He had better not say anything, for what he was say ing showed that he went to the house with a mali cious fee' in g. The prisoner said that his wife went to Exeter. He sent the money for her to come back, but in stead of returning to him, she went to her paramour. The man Hawks had threatened to take his (prisoner's) life on several occasions. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a case for a jury, and fully committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial. The prisoner, who seemed very downcast, was then removed. LAMBETH.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A POLICE CONSTABLE.—A police constable, stationed at Brixton, who has been in the P divi sion for upwards of twelve years, and whose con duct during the whole of that time has been with out the slightest reproach, was charged with robbing Michael Hogan, a jobbing gardener, of his watch and Gs. in silver. _ _ Henry Joseph Martin, living at complainant's, added his testimony, which was somewhat at vari ance with complainant's. He said he heard Mr. Green ask his wife to get the tea, and she said she would not. A slight scuffle then ensued, during which they got to the end of the passage, and wit ness saw her commit the dangerous assault spoken of. Complainant turned pale, but did not scream. Complainant immediately pushed her into the kitchen, right along the dresser, when she took up a knife and said, " I will, Harry, I will,"'but put the knife down again directly, he believed. Com plainant then again asked her to get the tea, and pushed her about again, when she called " Murder" and " Police," and a crowd collected round the door. The complainant said that on the night before he was returning from Stockwell to his residence, in Chapel-street, Brixton-road, when he met the ac cused and asked him to have half-a-pint of beer, and they had some words about it. lie then pro ceeded towards a watering place, and was followed by the prisoner, who drew his staff, beat him about the head most unmercifully, and robbed him of his watch and all the money be had in his pocket. He saw the prisoner again that morning, and called on another constable, present, to take him into custody, but he would not, and the prisoner hurried away. In reply to the questions of the magistrate, the witness said he had drunk some beer, but he was not drunk, and knew very well what he was about at the time he was attacked. Inspector Emmerson, who was present to watch the case, informed the magistrate that the complain ant had been so drunk as to be falling about, and from all the inquiries he had made, and the information he had received, he had no doubt his worship would find that there was not the slightest grounds for the charge. He then called Benjamin Smith, 213 P, who said that at 'four o'clock on that mor nin g , while in conve rsa ti on w ith the accused, the complainant came up to them and said lie had been ;01)0 of his watch and six shil- Mr. Arnold said it did not appear from the wit ness's testimony that the police had been called in either while complainant was suffering the acute pain he spoke of, or because he feared she would take his life with the knife, but rather because she would not get the tea or leave the house. Complainant only said, the witness must be slightly mistaken. The defendant, a very pretty, lady-like woman, and to all appearance a mere child in years, said, with the tears in her eyes, and in a tone of truth fulness, that when her husband came into the back kitchen she was merely looking at the timepiece, as it had not gone lately, and told him, in reply to his question, that she was setting it going, as he took his watch out with him, and she could not know the time of day. He asked her to get the tea, and she said she would not while his father was there, as ho had broken the peace of their home, and caused all the disturbance that had happened between them. Upon her refusal he swore that he would make her, and dragged her by the hair of her head from one room to the other, where his father was sitting, who im mediately said, "That's right, Harry, serve her out, the . If she were my daughter, I'd throtle her." She then said, "I cannot bear this any longer, nor will I," and siezing the knife, said, " I will, I will," meaning no harm to her husband; and the thought striking her at the moment what a horrible thing she was going to do, she threw down the knife on the instant. She had witnesses who could prove that her husband behaved to her in a shame ful manner. The lodgers where they lived before, and those in Churton-street, all knew what his con duct was to her. He did not black her eyes, nor strike her much, but ill-treated her in every other way, and every word he addressed to her contained some cruel insinuation, threat, or saying. It was only last Sunday he said, "If you are with child again I hope (using a horrible oath) you may not come through it," and frequently told her she was the curse of his life. As regarded the assault, she said he would swear anything to have her out of the way. Defendant was remanded till Tuseday, upon bail, which she procured, and Mr. Arnold said she was to have the charge of her child, but he would not recommend her to live with her husband tr eanwhile ; and on the com plainant making some demur about keeping her, the worthy magistrate said he must not let his wife starve. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S' ARMY. A letter from Pontremoli, dated June 23, says : The movements of our Imperial Commander-in- Chief are not more rapid than those of his troops. He was for two days at Massa, breakfasted at Sar zana on the 21st, and came to rest the night before last at Aulla. Yesterday he reached Pontremoli, and left again this morning to cross the Cisa Pass. I suppose he will be in Parma on Saturday at the latest. There was a vague rumour that the Prince would prolong his stay in Parma for a fortnight ; but the report is as destitute of foundation as it is of common sense. The truth is, indeed, that we are not likely to be in the presence of the enemy for at least two weeks after we reach Parma ; but this must arise, not from any desire on the part of the Prince to lose precious time, as it was lost in Tus cany, but from a fatal necessity, which will compel us to throw away at least 10 days' march to be able to cross the Po at Piacenza—that is, at the only point where we can do it without molestation on the enemy's part, and without having to throw a bridge across the immensely broad river at Sacca, opposite to Casal Maggiore, especially as the sth corps carries with it no bridge equipage. There is no bridge on the Po between Piacenza and Ferrara ; the latter place is still in the hands of the Austrians. At the other the bridge of boats constructed by those troops is still standing. We might, indeed, attempt to take Ferrara, a fortress of no great mark, and from there we might easily cross over into the Venetian terri tory ; but, in the first place, the sth Corps has no heavy siege artillery, and an attack on Ferrara might be repulsed ; in the second place, the Aus trians, even if they lost Ferrara, could easily destroy the pontoon bridge on their retreat, and we should still have the wide stream of the " king of rivers" between us and them, without the means of cross ing it. In the third place, even if we could convey ourselves into the Venetian territory, we should in all probability find ourselves isolated, and as, when all united, we shall only make a force of 38,000 to 40,000 men, we might be exposed to unnecessary danger. Of course our real movements after Parma are matters of great uncertainty, and will to a great extent depend on the progress made by the Allies during the time we have yet to lose in this round about march. But if the Franco-Sardinians are yet on the Mincio, or have not yet reached that river, it is extremely likely we shall have to go 40 miles out of our way in quest of a bridge at Piacenza, and that we shall then have as many miles to come back along the Po, so that we shall only take our place, on the extreme right of the Allied Army, our op pointed post—that is, probably, under Mantua — by the sth or 6th of July next. There is a talk among the officers that the Emperor Napoleon, who is held by them to be infallible, has promised to re serve a last decisive battle, to be fought on the sth of July, that the sth Corps may come up in time to take part in it. Although the sth Corps is so far as yet from any chance of having its share in real warlike opera tions, we have had occasion to wage war against the elements. At Massa, for two days, the troops, under their poor tents, had to withstand floods of incessant rain. At Sarzana, besides a stronger deluge than ever, we were visited both by an earth quake and a most terrific thunderstorm. Large stores of provisions, and the sacks, and even muskets of a whole company of infantry were swept away by the swollen tide of a petty river, on the sands of which, on account of its diminutive size, and the dryness of its bed, preferable to the damp grass a French regiment of foot had had the improvidence to encamp. On Tuesday morning the camp at Sar zana presented a woful sight, and even the wonted buoyancy of the French character was not proof against such a complication of dire sufferings. They had orders to leave for Aulla at 4 o'clock ; but to say nothing of the unspeakable disorder into which all things animate and inanimate,'had fallen, there were serious fears, in the first place, that the moun tain torrent Aullela, which we had to ford before we reached Aulla, might have swollen to such a height and violence as to prevent our progress ; and then it was necessary to send the Sappers and Pio neers to clear the reads of the masses of rock which the heavy rains of the night had carried down from the steep and loose ravines on the mount..in sides along our track. We started at noon, however, and the roads were free; and the ford, though deep, was not dangerous. The Aullela, however, had swept down stream two plank bridges reared by our Pioneers for the in , fantry, so that a third one had to be hastily con structed. We have other enemies of a far different nature to contend with, and against these the French troops begin justly to entertain rather savage feelings . The people here are most unmercifully plundering them. The sth Corps carries all its provisions for man and beast along with it, so that for hardly any of the necessaries of life are we indebted to our churlish hosts; but there are 10,000 objects of luxury the Commissariat does not supply, and for these application is made to inn and shop keepers or to private persons indiscriminately. Well, ,all dealers, with scarcely any exception , have three advantages over the poor defenceless soldier, and use all of them most unmercifully. In the first place, they hold in their hand the coveted article, at a crisis in which the improvidence of the people has made the -supply altogether inadequate to the demand, and raised commonplace things, such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, &c., to almost fabulous prices. In the second place, the dealer does not, or chooses not, to understand his customer, and can afford to laugh in his sleeve at all the big oaths, reproaches, and threats that are hurled at his head. In the third place, even when a price has been fixed to the article, and the bargain is struck, the poor Frenchman puts forth an honest bright-faced, in telligible twenty-franc piece, and the wily dealer gives change in such a Babel of Tuscan, Lucchese, Modenese, Maltese, Genoese, and Parmesan, lire, pauls, sons, centimes, cranie, farthings, &c., all worn-aut coins, sweated into undistinguishable slices, dirty tin and copper, and a variety of mix tures of those metals, so that not only a stranger, but even a native, cannot reckon the small coin for 20 francs without breaking down several times in the intricate calculation. Hereve are, for instance, in the Duchy of Parma, where, as early as in 1814, the decimal French coinage was declared to be the currency of the State. With all that, howefer, there is in the duchy a genuine lira or franc and an abusive lira ; there is the old Parmesan liro— worth four sous—and besides every variety of Italian, no less than German and other coin ; Aus trian zwanzigiers, Milanese crowns and half-crovx s —Bavarian piastres, and all the rubbish of every one of the adjoining duchies. Armed with all these offensive weapons, the dealer holds the soldier completely at his discretion, and it is but to little purpose that the better and more disinterested classes step in between vendor and purchaser, endeavouring to see justice done, and to prevent misunderstanding, which would often lead to open collision. Altercation is carried to such extent, • indeed, that sometimes the Hussar or Chasseur, unwilling to put up with pal pable imposition, will snatch up the coveted article, either giving the first coin that comes to hand in return, or even refusing payment of any kind. Id dignation is the feeling which leads to this deed of spoliation, and not -dishonesty; but the rogue, outwitted by honest open violence, raises an out cry against spoliation and military plunder, so that it not unfrequently happens that, after two or three such conflicts, the shops are closed and trade is at an end, With the well-trained, well-behayed THE AUSTRIAN ARMY IN ITALY. A letter from Valeggio, dated June 20th, says : There is nothing to record of any importance, save that the movements by which the whole of the Austrian army on the Mincio is placed in mutual support are completed. Two army corps and part of a third are still west of the Mincio, and the whole line from.Peschiera to Mantua is under the supreme orders of the Emperor, who, whether he intends to assume the offensive or the contrary, is in a position to hold every part of his enormous force in hand. Although it is affirmed that the allies are in strength .in Brescia, no one believes that an attack from that quarter is imminent. I was yesterday introduced to Count Schlick and his Adjutant-General, Baron Von Stannovics. Their welcome to the camp was exceedingly cordial. Count Schlick is one of those veterans who seem to have lived half-a-century in camp. Weather-beaten and tearful in the one eye that remains to him, he has an erect carriage, which permits the full advan tages of his tall person to be developed. His com mand is not, however, the responsible one which Count Gyulai enjoyed. He only directs the move ments of the Second Army, while his predecessor, in addition to that important trust, wielded the higher powers of Commander-in-Chief. These the Emperor is now determined to concentrate in his own hands, and the ardour with which he is known to be inflamed will probably be tempered by the matured experience of Hess. All the army expects and hopes that under this new state of things a for ward movement will be made, and it trusts that if the enemy be really in force in front of the right of these positions, Castiglione and Lonato may yet become the fields on which battles more fortunate than those of the last century, and greatly con trasting with that of the present year at Magenta, may be fought. I have already told you generally that the Austrian army is in a highly efficient con dition for active service. lam confirmed still more in that impression by a closer inspection of it. From the heights about this place several conside rable bodies of men are visible ; some are even en camped within this town, and their cheerful spirits are very remarkable. Hard by, in the maize fields, are men of various climes ; they are busy either in cooking or cleaning their -accoutrements. They are formed in lines at proper distances, and the knapsack or the cloak of each marks the place where he lives. Here are no tents, no standing huts, none of the paraphernalia of an English camp, the Austrians have not even the tente d'abri of the French, which enables each soldier to keep at least the upper part of his person under shelter of can vass. The Austrians sleep on the ground, exposed in the day to a sun of which those who have visited Italy can appreciate the power ' • exposed in the evening . to heavy dews, which fall chill and damp on their frames, and they are further without cover of any kind against the frequent storms, which suddenly sweep down from the neighbouring Alps and inundate the fields. They are allowed, however, to exercise their ingenuity in forming temporary cover for themselves, and for this pur pose every bough or stalk of maize is useful. This is fatal to the crops of mulberry or Indian corn be longing to the peasants on whose land the camp is pitched. But, after all, 160,000 men do not cover a very large space of ground, and the damage must be accepted as the inevitable result of war. All the land is under cultivation. There are no coin-, irons or vacant plains where troops can be brought together, and whatever army occupies the country, the result is the same.. _ _ Your correspondents in the Crimea have had oc casion to notice the speed and ingenuity with which the French gave names to streets and num bered houses. The Austrians are perfect masters of every detail of this kind. Officers and men told off for that particular service occupy the place des tined for head•quarters two or three hours before hand. They choose the fit localities for each officer, and in front of the houses they nail up little rolls of cloth, on which are already inscribed the names of the officers intended to occupy them. Thus, there is no vain searching for the quarters of any officer, and it is as well known where the smallest aide-de-camp takes his rest as where the General in-Chief resides. The same system is everywhere pursued, and there is not a cart that does not carry the name and rank of its owner. I have as yet seen no field hospitals, because the army is so near Verona that sick establishments are unnecessary, and the number of sick is at present very small. The officers of the medical department state that the number of patients may be taken at 5 per cent. of the whole force, many of whom are suffering from sore feet consequent on forced marches. It is expected, however, that the average sickness will be higher as the heat increases. The corps of General Urban, which, since its campaign against the volunteers. of Garibaldi, has come to the rear of the army, seems to have suffered most from rapid movement. General Urban himself, a short, energetic looking man, is now in high com mand at Verona. Count Gyulai is still here much dispirited, and asking for a court-martial, but this the Emperor has refused, offering to the mortified pride of the unsuccessful general the honourable post of Ban of Croatia, vacant by the death of Jellachich. Count Gymli i's father was himself Ban at Agram, but the vanquished leader of Magenta refuses the honours tendered to him, and seems, like Olivarez in " Gil Bias,' to desire the retirement of a country life. Count Gyulai, More this war, is not kno ,vn to have been under fire. During the disturbances of 1848-9 he commanded at Trieste, and the fact that that city did not join in the general outbreak was considered a proof of his tact or ability. He was for a short time Minister of War, and afterwards commanded at Milan under Radetsky. He was known throughout Italy for his great severity, not only as regards the Italians, but as regards the troops under his command. The death of Radetsky placed him in the high position of Commander-in-Chief, in which he was main tained very much to the damage of the true in terests of the army. Among recent arrivals at Verona are those of Count Rechberg, one of the Austrian Ministers, and Count Pourtales, the Prussian Ambassador at Paris. As you may conceive, considerable interest is felt even here as to the position which Prussia may assume ; and alternate hopes and fears are expressed when the calling out of the Prussian army . is the topic of conversation. England's policy is also much discussed, and the formation of the new Ministry has been an object of considerable curiosity. As news travels here but slowly, it was but yester day known to all at head-quarters that Lord Pal merston was at the helm in London, and the intelligence caused no slight commotion. The landing of a French corps on the coast near Venice is still daily expected, but seems not as yet to have taken place. LAW INTELLIGENCE—June 9• COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at• •Nisi' Prins, in London, before Lord Chief Justice Erle and a Common Jury.) FERGUSON AND ANOTIIER V. BARRETT-STRANGE CASE OF LUNACY. This was an issue directed by the Master of the Rolls to try whether so long ago as between the 10th of December, 1834, and the 16th of May, 1837, Mr. GeOrge Watts was of sound mind. Within the period in question Mr. Watts had. executed eight indentures of mortgage. Mr. E. James, Q.C., Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. H. James appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Parry, and Mr. J. Brown for the de fendant. Mr. E. James, in opening the case, said that the plaintiffs represented Mr. Snook, who was formerly a cutler in the city of Salisbury, a man of very con siderable. property, of extraordinarily penurious habits, and who delighted in the name he had men tioned to them. (A laugh.) The defendant was a person who was appointed on a committee under a commission of lunacy issued against Mr. Watts in 1845. As soon . as the executors of Mr. Snook claimed the money which he had advanced to Mr. Watts upon mortgage, Mrs. Watts, who had herself been., a party to all the transactions, who had been pre sent when the mortgages were executed, and who had had the benefit of the money advanced l alleged COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL—JuNE 28. The market to-day was tolerably supplied with grain of all descriptions. The attendance of buyers was limited, and in the sales effected very little variation took place from late rates. MELTON MOWBILAY-JUNE 28. There was a very fair show of wheat to-day, with aglow sale at the following prices —White, 46s to 498 per quarter ; red, 44s to 46s ; the barley trade was slow, at quotations ranging from 34s to 38s per qr.; oats, 28s to 34s per 24 stone ; beans, 50s to 53s per 38 stone. NEWARK—JuNz 29. An average supply of wheat, which met a fair sale at le per qr. over last week's currency. In spring corn very little passing, but prices were the turn in favour of the buyer. The grass crops are proving abundant, and wheat looks healthy and promising. White wheat, new, 50s to 52s Red do. 46s to 48s Old white sos to 52s Red do.. 46s to 48s Barley, malting—. 37s to 42s Barley, grinding 28s to 320 Oats,:old, .. 2Bs to 318 New do 28s to 31s Beans.. 52s to 1543 Beans, new 52s to 54s MARKET HARBOROUGH—JUTE 28. At this corn-market wheat was in fair supply, and prices ranged from 41s to 46s per quarter. There was not much passing in spring corn, oats being quoted at 285 to 32s per 24 stone; beans, 48s to 50s per qr.; barley, 32s to 35s per qr. NEWCALTLE-JUNE 28. There was a small show of wheat, and farmers were un willing sellers at is to 2s per qr. advance. The trade in barley was slow at last week's rates. Beans were in limited supply. Oats were unaltered in value. Wheat .46s to 48s Oats.... 2BB to 32s White do .50s to 52s Beans 48s to 52s Barley .2Bs to 40s Peas ....—s to —A DUBLIN—JuNE 28. There was no alteration in the prices of wheat at our corn market to-day. Oats in good demand at 3d advance on iday last. Less inquiry for Indian corn. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 28 6 to 31 0 1)0., red 27 6 to 28 0 Do., new 23 0 to 26 0 Barley Oats 1)o., black l3 6 to 15 0 s. d. s. d. Do., new Bere lO 0 to 12 6 Rapeseed .... 26 0 to 29 0 Oatmeal l4 6 to 16 0 Bakers' flour 16 oto2o 0 Indian corn BRISTOL SUGAR-Jurm 29. The market has been very brisk this week, and a gene ral advance of is per cwt. has been established in most de scriptions. The sales are about 600 hhds. Rum is still quite neglected. COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at. ET—JUNE 29. the close of the market.) Walls End. s. d. Montague Garesfield ..13 Tanfield Moor Butes ..13 6 Ward's West Hartley ..14 3 Whitridge Hartley.... 15 0 Wylam l6 6 e. d. Whitworth 16 0 Hetton.... Russell's Hetton 16 3 Kelloe l7 0 Hartlepool..... 17 3 Nixon's Duffryn 21 0 Powell' s Duffryn Stefan 21 0 t, 29—Sold, 24. Walls End. South Hartlepool. 16 3 Ships at mark( [ADVERTISEMENT] .—Holloway's Pills and Ointment are acknowledged to be the best medicine for diseases of the brain and determination of blood to the head. They en tirely supersede the old treatment by bleeding, blistering, cupping, and antimony ; for, while curing the disease, they do not enfeeble the constitution of the patient ; nor dothey overcome the head complaint by transferring the disease to some other organ, where, though not so perceptible, it is no less pernicious. Holloway's remedies effectually curs the head through the digestion and the blood, and their marvellous action on the kidneys. Almost all head affec tions depend on the stomach; put that into order, and head symptoms cease, while every portion of the body par takes to an equal extent of the beneficial change. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey's Food for Cattle is now beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer, breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest. Experience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable saving in the consumption of provender; secondly, that it produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate thanby the employment or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will be realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene. ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles of food; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is a nourishing and proper food for the wor kin g horse, certainly it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food, besides possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the health and increasing the physical power of all animals, is a tonic and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other food, materially assists their digestive powers —a matter of great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lost, conse quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestive organs ; it will also be found to be particularly beneficial in restoring to good working condition horses which hay. been over-worked, or become weak from disease, or are naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities are still more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest superiority over every other kind of compound or manu factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows, Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded. The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, mast prove a great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onward ' course ; and he may confidently rely, in producing se highly-favoured a compound, on a continuation of mei high and distinguished patronage. BIRTHS. CLARK —On the 27th inst., at Forebridge Parsonage, Stafford, the wife of the Rev. G. F. Clark, of a son. P.A.YNE.—On the 28th inst., at 32, Kensington-square, Mrs. F. W. Payne, of a son. PORTER.—On the 29th inst., at 26, St. George's-square, Regent's-park, the wife of H. W. Porter, Esq., of a son. SWAINSON.—On the 28th inst., at 1, Horton-villas, Carl ton-hill, Upper Holloway, Mrs. William Swainson, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. CLERK—HAMILTON..---On the 28th inst., at Bath, Lieut.- Colonel Frederick Clerk, Madras Army, to Joanna, the fourth daughter of the late Alexander West Hamilton, of Pinmore, Ayrshire. THYNNE—KENDALL.—On the 28th inst., in Westminster Abbey, the Rev. Arthur C. Thynne, rector of Kilkhamp ton, Cornwall, to Gwenllian E. F. J. Kendall, the eldest daughter of the late Russell Kendall, Esq. DEATHS, BoouN.—On the 21st inst., at Manor House, Chidham, Sussex, Mr. John Boom, of Chertsey, Surrey, aged 22. GREENOUGH.—On the 24th inst., at Southport, Ralph G r eenough, Esq., J.P., aged 77. MADIGAN.—On the 24th inst., at Wolverhampton, Mr. R. Madigan, C.E., formerly of Haverstock-hill, London, aged 45. MAsTEns.—On the 28th inst., at 2, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Thomas Masters, for upwards of 50 years publisher of " Bell's Weekly Messenger," aged 75. NicHoLsoN.—On the 26th inst., at Kyre-park, Worcester shire, John Nicholson, Esq., of Liverpool, aged 52. OSTLER.—On the 27th inst., at Cawthorpe House, near Bourn, John Lely Ostler, Esq. (late of Grantham,) aged 48. SINGLETON.—On the 28th inst., at 34, Edwardes-square, Kensington, Mr. James Singleton, aged 41. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, June 30, 1869. sli foi Se, le< ne VT4 Rl th, ;11, res TI 1k tie Of