The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

there can be no doubt that the country is auri- BRITISH COLUMBIA. (From the Corresposdent of the Times.) VANCOUVER'S ISLAND, MAY 10. The following is a summary of the mining news for the last fortnight : The correspondent of the Victoria Gazette, at present travelling in the mines on a tour of inspec tion, writes that the mining locations which extlen e from about 15 miles below Fort Ho p e to that p ae a on Fraser river yield an average of 5 dols. a day to the hand, but that the mine rs, not satisfied with so small a return, had gone hig her u p , to the Canoe Country, in search of richer digglse.se The town of to the town Fort Hope is growing rapidly. C dry diggings were producing such results as 6c. to " bars" on the the pan of earth. Severa l of h river were yielding 5 dohs. t o 8 dols a day to the man. One man, with a rocker, made 39 dols. in five days, and the week after_ made 21 dols. in three days. e This is a little above the average, none making less than 5 dols. per day , and some reaching 8 dols." Of the mining between Fort Hope and Fort Yale, a distance of 15 miles, we learn that— " This side of Yale many of the miners are taking out big amounts of gold daily, some of them almost fabulous. ri Victoa bar is at present the scene of some as profitable m i n i n g as any reasonable man could desire. Puget Sound Bar is also yielding a handsome return to several com panies. On Texas, Emory's, and other bars, where the 4 pay-dire lies high up, so that the work will not be re t. tarded by the high water, many of the miners will, dc . .u ca b n less, stop the entire season. And 'on Union, Sound, Victoria, and Hill's Bars good. Avenl.ageries.sariet made; and upon the latter, which works 40 sluice neaa is safe to put down the receipts at 6,000 dols: per day, dealtdy sluices are 42,000 dole. per week, clear of all expenses. are taking out from 300 dole. to 500 deb. per day each; one miner on Hill's Bar, who has been laid up with sick ness for some time, says his share has paid him 100 dols. per day for the last month , he hiring a man to work in . his place. I think Hill's Bar more n earl y resembles the richer bars of California in its gener al features, location, &c., than any I have seen on this river, and induces the opinion that the gold is there deposited by the downward tending cur rent." Of the town of Fort Yale, which contains 152 houses, the writer says : "The appearance of the settlement as we approach from below is somewhat imposing, although there are no large or prominent buildings to attract the eye. Some of the houses are tastefully painted, and have an air of decided comfort as well as permanency. The court-house, gaol (now empty), post-office, and gold commissioner's-office are the only pub lic edifices here at present, and I am told most of the struc tures now occupied for these purposes are temporary, it be ing the intention of Government to erect more suitable and substantial buildings on the Government reserve at a future day. The lower flat, now the site of the principal street, it Is said, will also be vacated, with a view to the introduction of a string of sluices and washing for gold." The streets of Yale may be said, without a stretch of the imagination, to "be paved with gold." But far more interesting and important is the pleasing account of a Sunday at Yale : "Every Sunday morning a sermon is preached by the Rev. Mr. Robson, Wesleyan m issionary, in the Court house. In the afternoon, this zealous Christian preaches at one of the bars on the river, and again in the evening at Fort Hope, where he is about to erect a church and par sonage. One of the novelties of missionary labour on this river consists in the preacher paddling his own canoe up the rapid stream from Hope on Saturday, and returning, preaching at intervals, on the Sabbath, to the place of starting, with the current. The town is much more quiet and orderly than I had expected to find it ; not a broil or disturbance of any description having marred the harmony of the place since my arrival, if I may except the not un musical chant of the savages last Wednesday, upon the oc casion of celebrating the nuptials of their medical tyhee and a dusky maiden." The account of Fort Yale is wound up with the following remarks. The " Little Canon" men tioned is the first gorge of Fraser river, which opens a short way beyond the town : " Considerable excitement is created here to-day by the development of more auriferous wealth near the Little Canon, where parties are said to be taking out a bit to the pan, with pay-dirt five feet deep. The more I see of this country the more thoroughly am I convinced that it has not been even prospected as yet, and every man who now leaves it I believe tramples his own fortune in the dust." The journey has been continued up the Fraser river ; and for the first 20 miles beyond Fort Yale the writer reports at all the mining locations much more than average wages are being made, and that any man who is willing to seek gold under the sur face of the ground can find it. The word " under " is emphasized in allusion to numbers of idle men who " wait on Providence," " speculating on the chances of something turning up," without labour, on the surface. Like Mr. Micawber, they will have "to wait " a long time. At one place at which the writer had arrived " one party of five men weighed 118 dols., the result of the day's labour." Higher up he came to a mining location of which the following is his report : " Island Bar is one of the richest localities of the Lower Fraser. During the month of March a company of three men took out the snug little sum of 10,000 dols. and last winter when they were compelled to build bonfires upon the claim, in order to thaw the ground, they averaged 25 dols. per day to the man. Several parties are possessed of good claims, and when the water recedes all the modern improvements will be brought into use to wing-dam the river here. The last . pan of dirt taken out of the claim while the water was rising a short time since paid four dol lars. It is believed by many old California miners that the river has deposited this vast bed of wealth, and they will stick to the claims until the now rising water again recedes." Of the mining country many miles beyond the places just mentioned, near the junction of the Fraser and Thomson rivers, we are informed on good authority that the dry diggings are producing from 8 dols. to 10 dols. a day. Several " fiats" in this vicinity are being profitably worked—a fact corroborated by the announcements that " the miners are bringing in a ditch of some miles in length for the purpose of working them, that they have located themselves permanently, and have a good season's work before them." Of several other " bars" on the Fraser, near this place, it is also reported that some " are paying handsomely'' and others " paying well," while on the Thomson river, at several of the " locations," the miners " are making 15 dols. to 30 dols. per day to the man." Such is the tenor of the intelligence received from British Columbia during the last 14 days. In my last letter I mentioned that a general exodus of the miners was taking place from the Lower Fraser to the Canoe Country. This country begins at a distance of about 120 miles north-west of the Forks of Thompson and Fraser rivers. It is distant about 360 miles from the mouth of Fraser river, by which it is watered ; and it ex tends to New Caledonia. It is a level country, affording abundant pasture and capable of much agricultural improvement. Being beyond the coast range of mountains, it is drier and milder than the country lower down, and is on the whole, supposed to be a desirable place for settlement where agricultural produce could be raised for the supply of the mineral reg ions of British Columbia. Some short time back th most extravagant reports of its mineral wealth got spread among the mining population on the Fraser and Thompson rivers, which had the effect of exciting the fervid imagina tions of the miners to a degree which impelled them thither from their paying locations —from such places as I have just above described, and which ought to have satisfied ordinary cupidity-_in search of the fabulous wealth of the new Dorado. The remoteness of the Canoe Country, in a country without roads, carried the miners beyond the reach of supplies. The traders could not follow them with sufficient despatch to meet their daily wants ; their own small stocks, carried on their backs, soon became exhausted, and they, in consequence, soon became " disgusted," to use their own term when they wish to express dissatisfaction, and they re turned in shoals " sadder" and, it is to be hoped, " wiser men " than they went to the Canoe Country; some complaining that tkey " were taken in," others reproaching themselves for having left good paying " locations" for a will-o'-the-wisp, and a large number hurling anathemas on the " merchants" for overcharging in the prices, and on the muleteers for " laying it on so thick" on the freight of provisions. The merchants andnewspaper writers gave the complaint another turn. They ' blamed " the Government" for not making roads. " Roads," " roads to the mines," " roads to the Up per Country," " roads" everywhere are the burdens of the songs sung at present, and I suppose they will continue in vogue until a " new grievance" is started. The Government has made one road, and it cost £14,000, and if it had the means it would extend and improve this road and make more ; but when I hear side by side with the cry for roads the refusal to pay the miners' license fee, and a strong Censure upon all taxation of a feasible and just character, I really cannot see how the Government is to get the money to make roads with. Roads, like oth er good th . ngs, will come in time • and un til their advent , should it would be well that the miners remain on the Lower Fraser River, where they can, with ordinary industry and perseverance, make such earnings as I have reported in the first portion of this letter on the authority of an eye witness, and whose testimony is corroborated by gentlemen who have very lately traversed the same ground. They will thus save the reproach of one of their own number, who writing from the s pot, says of Hill's Bar, near Fort Yale, and the first rendered famous by its richn ess , and quite within the reach of all the necessaries, and of many of the comforts of life, "the accounts are almost incredible, yet I am acquainted with several who sold their claims early last fall, declaring that i n a mon th th e bar would be worked out," who started off for " richer locations " in the Canoe Country ; and who are now returned " to see their old claims pay ing well, while they have fooled away all they had made." In the conflict of accounts touching the Canoe Country, I am not able to say whether it is really rich in gold or not ; but as the Fraser flows through it, and as we know that gold comes from " above," ferous. The one universal conclusion that every one arrives at—those who, like myself, have been in the mines, and those who derive reliable information from miners and travellers—is that there is plenty of gold in British Columbia, and that population alone is wanting to get it out. Several miners have lately left the country for California. The croakers are disheartened at this circumstance, and prognosticate dire effects from it—stagnation of business, and the stoppage of immigration. For my own part, the fact gives me no uneasiness. The departures have not been much in excess of the arrivals for the last three months. Some go away for the best of all reasons, that they have made their " piles , " and that they prefer enjoying the fruits of their to il in their own country in a more agreeable calling than mining. Some go to return ; and others go whose absence is preferable to their company ; in shprt, the ac count is nearly balanced. Miners, like all me . n who lead a life of excitement, are . very esily dis . - satisfied with their lot. lam quite certain that if the first years of California mining-life the miners in that country had h ad a place of refuge so near to them as San Francisco i s to Victoria, with the same facilities of conveyance, thousands of " dis gusted" miners would have left California. The gold shipped in April from Victoria to San Francisco by two express companies amounted to 108,236 dollars. How much was sent by mer chants and others in business, and how much taken by private hands, I have no means of ascertaining. 125,000 dollars have been shipped this month in the last two steamers ; and the Northerner, hourly expected, will take about 100,000 dollars. To show the " chances" of mining, I may mention that two miners from Fraser river brought down with them to Victoria a few days ago 5,000 dollars, the result of 13 days' sluice -washing of dirt which they had been throwing up for 40 days previous at Hill's Bar, already so frequently alluded to—nearly £l9 a-day. Such results, extravagant as they seem, agree with what I saw at Hill's Bar in Sep tember. The statement is corroborated by the ' deposit of the 5,000 dollars above-mentioned in a house of business here. Another miner came down some short time ago with £4,000, the fruits of his labour in the Canoe Country. There tire instances of " lucky hits," but where all can make a minimum of £1 a-day, all should be satisfied. All kinds of labour has risen in Victoria in con sequence of the success of the miners, the miners' average earnings being the standard of value of all other labour. For instance, an Essex labour whom I employ refused 16s. a rod for trenching my gar den the other day; £1 a rod was the lowest rate he would accept, which, for working 161 feet square of land, ought to make him " a purse" quickly. Mechanics and labourers are in great demand, as considerable improvements are in progress in Vic toria. A good deal of excitement exists respecting Queen Charlotte's Island, where I lately mentioned gold had been discovered. Parties are preparing to go to " prospect," that is, to explore the island in quest of " diggings." Her Majesty's ship Tribune, Captain Hornby, and her Majesty's ship Satellite, Captain Prevost, are in Esquimault Harbour. The Satellite has just returned from a reconnaissance of Bunard's Inlet, on the coast of British Columbia, and has brought back Colonel Hawkins, the Land Boundary Com missioner, from Semiamhoo Bay, where he accom panied Captain Prevost, the Ocean Boundary Com missioner, to meet Mr. Campbell, the United States Commissioner. The Plumper is surveying in Fraser river. The Pylades, Captain De Courcy, went to sea under sealed orders last week, and has not yet returned. There was a sale by auction of some land belong ing to Government in Victoria last Tuesday, which brought such high prices as would evince a strong confidence in the future growth of the town. A sale by auction of town lots in Queenborough, the new capital of British Columbia, takes place in Victoria on the Ist of June. For the number of our population, the trade of the colony has been very fair of late. The imports for the first quarter of this year amounted to 503,933 dols. 25c., showing an excess over the previous quarter of 109,264 dols. 92c. Batches of Chinamen are beginning so find their way to Victoria, bound for the mines. I trust the prejudices against their countrymen both in Australia and in:California will not spring up in this country. It is a great mistake to think that these persons do no good to the country. They are, in fact, considerable consumers, and they prac tise a "good faith" in keeping their engagements that many Christians might imitate with advan tage to their own morality, and to their creditors' profit and loss account. It is to be hoped the Imperial Government will do something to assist labourers to emigrate from England, Ireland and Scotland to this country where they are so much wanted, where such high rates of wages prevail, and where the scarcity of labour sadly impedes the progress of the colony. I believe the usual course is for a colony to remit funds to defray the expense of immigrants ; but at first this is out of the question in the cases of Van couver's Island and of British Columbia, for neither colony has any money. All the funds of the former have been applied rigidly to internal improve• ments, and the latter has not had time to collect any revenue ; nor, indeed, is it possible to extract much from so small a population. I am quite sure, however, that both colonies would willingly agree to tax themselves to defray gradually any debt which would be contracted to the home Government in sending out emigrants of a suitable class. Both the colonies are at present sadly in want of more people to develope their very abundant resources, and profitable employ ment awaits all who come to settle in a country abounding in a rich soil, and blessed with a healthy and agreeable climate. I can say that, after some considerable wander ing in some of the finest climates in the world, I know no more agreeable place to settle in than Vancouver's Island. !st 1 LORD PALMERSTON AND THE WAR IN ITALY. The following memorial of ninety-five ministers —composing the Conference of the Annual As sembly of the Independents for the counties of Cardigan, Pembroke, and Carmarthen, held at Llanelly, June 7, 1859—has been presented to Lord Palmerston : _ " Respectfully sheweth, " That your memorialists regard with deep con cern the war that has recently broken out in Europe, which has already deluged its soil with human blood, and has greatly obstructed the commercial and friendly intercourse of different nations, and which will inevitably increase the burdens of the people, and fill myriads of human hearts and happy homes with misery and desolation. " That whilst your memorialists greatly rejoice in the fact that England has hitherto stood aloof from this sanguinary strife of other nations, they would most respectfully urge upon her Majesty's Ministers seduously to abstain, not only from im mediate and overt acts of hostility as regards either of the belligerent parties, but also from all sueh entangling engagements and irritating diplomacy, or menacing demonstrations of force, as may tend gradually to implicate the country in the incal culablememorialists, crimes of war . " s he thousandsalists,ind iNidually, and as the re preenover whom they pre side, would s trenuously encourage her Majesty's Ministers to maintain intact the policy of non-in tervention. " Signed on behalf of the Conference, " DANIEL DAVIES, Cardigan, " airman, (The Reply.) " Sir,—l am desired to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial from the annual assembly of the Independents for the counties of Cardigan, Pem broke, and Carmarthen, urging the necessity of non-intervention on the part of this country, in the war between France, Sardinia, and Austria, and to inform you that her Majesty's Government have no intention of advising her Majesty , to take part in the present war, and that they do not foresee the probability of any events that would lead them to depart from the policy of neutrality. — I remain, sir, your obedient servant, " G. G. BARRINGTON " The Rev. David Rees." A FATAL EXCURSION.—A shocking occurrence took place, on Saturday last, in the vicinity of Rye-house, near Broxbourne, by which two young females lost their lives by drowning, and four other persons very nearly met with a similar fate. It appears that early on Saturday morning an excursion party of between 80 and 100 work people, employed at Messrs. Abbott's brewery, at Bow, arrived at Rye-house in numerous vans, accompanied by a band of music. It was the annual feast given by the firm, and the men were accompanied by their wives and families. On their arrival they dispersed in different directions, amusing themselves at cricketing and other games, while a party of six got into a light boat for a row down the river. £hey had proceeded about half a mile when the boat cap sized, and immersed the whole of the party into deep water. Every possible means were taken to rescue those who were clinging to the bottom of the boat, and were screaming for help. With difficulty four of the party were brought to the banks of the river; one or two were insensible, and it was a considerable time before they were restored. The re maining two of the party, two females, named Sarah Maria Hall, aged 17, and Lizzie Ferguson, aged 14, unhappily i sunk before assistance arrived, and were both drowned. Their bodies were sgbsequently recovered, but not until some time had elapsed. It is said that the boat was of too frail a character to carry so many persons, and that it cap sized while one of the party was in the act of stepping from the fore to the after part to steer. Both the deceased females resided. et Bow. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY - EVENING, JUNE 28, 1859, LA TV INTELLIGENCE—Tune 27. BAIL ( C ;C: )URT. Sittings at Nisi Pr r iu , ,,(l 3cforc Mr. Justice Hill and Commoi i Juries.) SEUPWAT V. COLLIN GRIDGE.-LIBEL. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a baptist minister, against the defendant, for a libel published in the City Press.. The defendant simply pleaded not guilty. Mr. Kenealy and Mr. S. Jacobs were counsel for the plantiff ; Mr. Lush and Mr. Rowley represented the defendant. The plaintiff had been engaged by the deacons of a baptist congregation at F;ible Hedingham, in Essex, as a preacher for twelve months, and had become highly popular. After some time he re ceived a notice not to preach, and on the following Sunday he found the doors of 'the chapel locked against him. An injunction was afterwards obtained in the Court of Chancery to prevent his preaching. In his cross-examination the plaintiff stated that he had been brought up to the trade of a tobacco pipe manufacturer, and had been a preacher nine years. About twenty years ago he had been on the stage ; only five or six times. He was married. !le had notice to attend a meeting of the deacons to answer a charge of trying to seduce Mrs. Letch, the wife of one of the members of the chapel. His wife was living with him at the time. He was summoned before the magistrates of Castle Heding ham, and was fined £1 and costs for the assault. After that the doors of the chapel were locked against him. He had not forced open the doors, but he went in and occupied the pulpit. He was not aware that his partisans remained in the chapel all night smoking and drinking, but he had heard so. He had paid for bread and cheese and beer for them. The locks were taken off the doors and others were put on. His partisans had kept pos session of the chapel until an injunction was ob tained from the 'Vice-Chancellor. He had appealed, but the appeal had been dismissed with costs. He was living in Mr. Letch's house when he was charged with attempting to seduce his wife. He denied most positively that he had done so. He had been once charged with drunkenness. On the Sunday in question about 750 of his friends were in the chapel. There had been service there in the morning and afternoon. He had denied the charge against him generally. He had heard of the meet ing of ministers in the City alluded to in the libel. He had never been charged with an assault on another female. He had not been forbidden to visit the house of Mr. Solomon in Cannon-street on account of his sister. He had never been charged with taking liberties with her. He had brought other actions in reference to this matter. He had not contributed to a publication called the "Earthen Vessel" for some time. He had given a bill of sale of his furniture. Re-examined—He had given it to his solicitor, as he had no means of paying the costs of the Chancery suit. He was summoned for an assault on Mrs. Letch. There were clergymen of the Church of England on the bench. They had re fused to allow the case to be sent to the quarter sessions, though he desired it to be tried by a jury. He had been fined for a common assault. Mrs. Letch made no charge against him for six weeks after the alleged assault, and she and her husband in the mean time visited at his house on the usual terms. There was no truth in the statement that he had taken - liberties with Miss Solomon. The libel complained of was then put in evidence. It was as follows : " Extraordinary Gathering of Baptist Ministers in the City.—On Monday morning a large assem blage of ministers was held at the office of Mr. Mote. It appears that a minister of a Baptist church at Sible Hedhigham having conducted him self in a manner unbecoming a Christian, as it ap- peared to the trustees and deacons, they prohibited him from further officiating therein. Subsequently he and his friends took forcible possession of the chapel, and the trustees had filed a bill in chancery to regain the same. An action for libel had been brought, and a resolution was passed that Mr. Mote would be justified in defending the action." The concluding passage complained of was, " We may add, from being an ear witness of what transpired at the meeting, that should the case be brought into court, it will expose to the world one of the saddest careers in the history of a minister which was ever disclosed." Mr. Kenealy having summed up the evidence for the plaintiff, Mr. Lush addressed the jury in mitigation of damages. The defendant, who was an utter stran ger to the plaintiff, had published merely a report of a meeting, and he had no means of justifying his statement, not knowing the circumstances. Could it be tolerated that a man convicted of an indecent assault should be allowed to continue as the minis ter of any congregation ? All the circumstances had been before the world long before the alleged libel was published, and it could have inflicted no injury on the plaintiff. Mr. Justice Hill, in summing up, left it to the jury to say whether the publication was a libel, and if so, was it true. He thought that if a man had any regard for his character, he would have written to the publisher of the paper, and asked for the name of the author, but without giving the defendant any opportunity of justifying, this action had been brought. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— damages 40s. THE SAME V. PARTRIDGE—LIBEL. Mr. Kenealy and Mr. S. Jacobs were counsel I for the prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Petersdorff and Mr. Daly for the defendant. This was also an action arising out of precisely the same state of facts as in the last case against the defendant, who is the publisher of the Christian Cabinet, and he pleaded not guilty and a justifica tion. The libel complained of was a copy of what appeared in the Earthen Vessel, and without comments. In this case also the jury found for the plaintiff —damages 40s. BENNET V. LEVY—BETTING TRANSACTIONS. This was an action to recover the sum of £352 3s. 10d., the balance of an I 0 U for £490, after deducting 1137 16s. 2d. for goods supplied. Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Joyce appeared for the plaintiff, and i Mr. lluddlestone and Mr. Cax ton for the defence. It was stated that the plaintiff, a young man 22 years of age, was a clerk in the city and a betting man. He had begun life as apprentice to a chemist at the West-end, and had acquired from his master a taste for betting. He was successful as a betting man, and became possessed of a considerable sum of money. •In 1857 he walked by accident into a jeweller's shop, in Great Queen-street, which was at that time kept by the defendant, and bought a brooch. This led to a little conversation, and after wards the parties became intimate. The defendant introduced the plaintiff to Cremorne, and to theatres, and there were bill transactions between them. The plaintiff was enabled to take up his bills, and he also lent the defendant money. On April 13, 1859, the defendant gave the plaintiff an I 0 U for £490 ; on the 4th of May the plaintiff called at the defendant's shop, when the defendant made out his claim for 1137 16s. 2d. for goods supplied, leaving due the balance now claimed. In the course of the examination of the plaintiff it appeared that a great mass of accounts were in volved in the case ; and there was also a cross action. In addition it was imputed that the I 0 U in question was a forgery. Under these circumstances a suggestion of his lordship was accepted, and both actions were re ferred to arbitration. HIBBS V. WILKINSON-LIBEL. This was an action for damages for libel, and the only plea was not guilty. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. C. Pollock appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Lush and Mr. Watkin Wil liams for the defendant. The plaintiff was a clergyman of the Church of England, and the defendant was the registered proprietor of the National Standard newspaper. The plaintiff had been curate to the Rev. Mr. Drummond, of St. Thomas's Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh, but in 1854 their connection termi nated, in consequence of some dispute which had arisen. The merits of the dispute were stated on one side and the other in print, and in 18.58 the plaintiff published a pamphlet called " Truth Vin dicated." A review of this pamphlet was written by the Rev. W. W. Duncan, and forwarded to the defendant's paper. A copy of this review was also s t e o ntthteo defendant'st the plaintiff by pa s Camp bell,per. she wasinformed e d i b ut that or it would be printed. The plaintiff r t this time was abowt to publish a third edition of his pamphlet. He inserted among "Opinions of the Press" ex tracts from the review forwarded to him by Miss Campbell. This review contained some strong re marks in reference to the Rev. Mr. Drummond, but some of the epithets used were cut out before the copy was inserted in the paper. The plaintiff having made his extracts from the copy sent to him by Miss Campbell and not from the paper, they were of course incorrect, and on the sth of March an article was inserted which imputed to the plaintiff that he had wilfully garbled the ex tracts. This was the libel complained of. The plaintiff's counsel, in conclusion, said that his client only wished to vindicate his character, and did not seek for large damages. Under these circumstances, it was suggested by the jury that the parties could probably arrange their differences. The counsel on both sides endeavoured to carry out this suggestion, but after a good deal of discus sion they failed. The defendant's counsel said he was prepared to make a full and ample apology to the plaintiff, and to withdraw any imputation upon his character. A question remained as to how the costs were to be paid, and upon that the parties could not agree and the trial consequently went on. His lordship in summing up directed he jury that if they believed that the article in question was written with the honest intention of maintain- ing the truth, and that the strong language was used without any corrupt motive, then they were at liberty to find for the defendant. In support of this ruling his lordship quoted the language of Lord Ellenborough, who said that a plaintiff com plaining of libel was bound to show that the de fendant was actuated by malice, and that the de fendant could discharge himself by proving the contrary. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. TIIE WOLVERHAMPTON NEW WATERWORKS COM- PANY V. HAWKSFORD.-ACTION FOR CALLS. This was an action to recover £375 for calls upon 100 shares in the plaintiffs' company, and also interest upon the amount. Mr. M. Smith and Mr. Mellish appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Millward for the defendant. The plaintiffs' case was that the company was incorporated in 1855, the defendant at that time being solicitor to Mr. Holyoake, one of the pro moters of the company. An act of Parliament was obtained in which the defendant was named as one of the directors, and his name appeared upon the registers of shareholders. The defendant had also given Mr. Holyoake a proxy to vote for him at a meeting of the company, and a prospectus was issued in which the defendant was named as a di rector. Each of the calls made was for the sum of 12s. 6d. a share ; but it was admitted that as to the first of them there was an informality, and that that call could not be recovered. After some evidence had been given, it was ar ranged that the further hearing of the case should be continued this (Tuesday) morning. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Common Juries.) GAMPART V. SUMNER.-INFRINGEMENT OF COPY. ItIGHT. The declaration in this case stated that the plain tiff was the proprietor of two prints engraved in Great Britain, entitled, " The Departure, Second Class," and " The Return, First Class," and that the defendant had published and exposed for sale divers base copies of the same, to the injury of the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Charles Pollock was counsel for the plain tiff; and Mr. Serjeant Thomas for the defence. It appeared from the case for the plaintiff, who is a print-publisher, carrying on business in Ber ners-street ,that he purchased two pictures entitled "The Departure, Second Class," and "The Return, First Class," from the artist, Mr. Solomon, for 500 guineas. One of the pictures had been exhibited at the Royal Academy, and the subject of the other as a companion picture was suggested by the plain tiff himself. The subjects are a young lad and his mother in a second-class railway carriage, the for mer being about to enter the navy, and in the com panion picture he is represented as a young officer seated in a first-class railway carriage in conversa tion with an elderly gentleman, and a very pretty young lady. These paintings having been so pur chased, were engraved for the plaintiff at a total cost of £1,200. The proofs were sold at £4 4s. each, and the prints at D. ls. They had a very good sale for the first year, the plaintiff having sold of his edition about 350 pairs, but after a time some spurious copies were exposed for sale, at different stationers, &e., and the sale of the plaintiff's publi cations was all but extinguished in England. The plaintiff had warned several of these persons that they were infringing his copyright, and in all cases where they had signed a declaration that they would not sell any more imitation copies, he did not pro ceed against them, merely requiring the payment of any attorney's costs which might have accrued. He also issued an advertisement cautioning the trade not to sell spurious copies. The plaintiff's brother proved that he had pur chased two sets of the imitation copies at the shop of the defendant, in Edgeware-road, and Mr. Charles Dod, the plaintiff's attorney, stated that he had written to the defendant, who stated that he had sold no others of the prints, but he declined to make a declaration to that effect. In the first letter there was a demand for a pound as a penalty, and that the defendant should agree to insert an advertisement in the newspaper expressing his regret for infringing the plaintiff's copyright, but that was waived in the second letter, of which the defendant took no notice. This closed the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Thomas submitted there was no case to go to the jury, as there was no proof of knowledge on the part of the defendant, which was essential under the Ist sec. of the Bth Geo. 11., c. 13. His lordship held there was evidence to go to the jury, but reserved the point. The case for the defendant was, that he had pur chased only one set of the imitation copies from a hawker, and those he placed in his windows. They were those purchased by the plaintiff's brother, who asked if he could not have more. At that very time the hawker was in the shop, and the defen dant took another set from his portfolio ' and sold them to the plaintif f 's brother. The defendant denied that he had any knowledge that he was in fringing the plaintiff's copyright, and his father-in law deposed that on his calling at Mr. Dod's office, with the view of arranging the matter, the clerk said the defendant must pay six guineas costs, and sign a declaration. The witness had no authority so to act, and thus the matter went off. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said that this action had not been brought by the plaintiff to recover damages, but simply to establish his rights. The jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 40s. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. This concluded the business for these sittings, and on Wednesday the Court will sit at Guildhall. The court will hold a sitting in banco on the 11th of July, in order to give judgments in cases pre viously argued. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jane 27. MANSION-HOUSE.—SHAMEFUL TRICK ON A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—Dennis Shea, Michael Lee, Patrick Lee, and Cornelius Croley, four coster monger lads, were charged with wilfully destroying eight gallons of brandy, the property of Ephraim Green, licensed victualler, at the Box Tree public house, Gravel-lane, Houndsditch. The prosecutor said that on Saturday, between 12 and 1, three of the prisoners went to his skittle ground with another man, and played there till about three o'clock, during which time they had only two pots of ale. Three of them then went away, leaving the fourth behind them " speechless drunk," and very shortly after the three who had gone away returned, with a number of other men, making nine or ten altogether, and a barrow , on which the drunken man was placed and wheeled away by one of the gang, while the others remained in the skittle ground, where they played for about another hour, and then again went away, some of them evidently the worse for liquor, although they had been supplied with a very small quantity of drink from the bar. They returned a third time with some more fresh faces, and again went away, after an hour's stay, and under the circum stances. When they returned a fourth time his sus picions were aroused, for he remembered that there were two quarter casks of brandy in the skittle ground, bath with spile-pegs in, and he determined to ascertain what was doing. So he pounced upon them when they had been on the ground about 10 minutes, and ho found the four prisoners all col lected round one of the casks, from which they had removed the spile, while the brandy was running out "as if he had turned the engine," and one of them, he could not say which, he was so excited, was holding a bottle to cat th it. Hastily securing the cask in a proper position he went off the skittle ground, fastening the door behind him, and so kept the prisoners safe until policemen arrived, when he gave them into custody. Police-constable 664, deposed that he took the prisoners into custody, Shea being so drunk that they were compelled to carry him to the station house on a stretcher. The other prisoners had also evidently been drinking, but were able t) walk to the station-house. After their arrival at the sta tion-house, another officer went to Lee's house and found two men lying there so drunk that medical aid had to be called in. All the prisoners denied. that they had been to the prosecutor's more than once, and were equally positive in their denial of having touched the brandy, although Pat Lee admitted candidly that he would have had his dose of it if he had seen it, as it was very tempting, while Shea accounted for being intoxicated, by stating that he had been waiting at market all day for some cherries, and that when his friend offered to treat him with some beer, he accepted his offer and drank all he could. Mr. Alderman Carter inquired the value of the brandy. The prosecutor said about eight gallons were gone altogether, about one gallon being lost on the ground, and he had some suspicion that portions had been carried away in bottles on each visit. Alderman Carter—Was it not very incautious to leave two casks of brandy exposed in a public skittle-ground ? I Prosecutor —Perhaps it was; but mine is more of a subscription than a public ground, and if I had been at home when they first came I should not have let them in. Alderman Carter—Well, I should not like to convict on this evidence, and especially since you cannot identify the man who was holding the bottle. You acted very incautiously in leaving the brandy there, but I will remand the prisoners to give you time to produce additional evidence if you can. The prisoners were then discharged upon giving ;heir promise to appear again on Thursday. GUILDHALL-DEFRAUDING TAVERN-KEEPERS. —James Bromley, described as a greengrocer, in business in the Queen's-road, Chelsea, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing a knife and fork from Lake's tavern and dining-rooms, Cheap side, under the following circumstances : Charles Pimm said he was a waiter at Lake's dining-rooms in Cheapside, and on Saturday last, about half-past 12 o'clock, he received information that the prisoner, who had been dining, had put a knife and fork into his pocket. He missed a knife and fork from the prisoner's table, and as he was going out accused him of the theft, and found the articles in his coat-pocket. Witness also ascer tained that in paying for the dinner the prisoner had withheld fivepence for refreshments which he had had. Sir James Duke asked how the prisoner could cheat the waiter with regard to the price of his dinner. Mr. G. M. Hill, the proprietor of Lake's dining rooms in Cheapside and Gracechurch-street, said he dined as many as 2,000 persons in a day at his two houses, and he was consequently a great victim to this system of petty depredation. It was left to the honour of the customer to enumerate the re freshments he had had, and that confidence was frequently violated by a class of unprincipled per sons whom they were finding out in such frauds every week, and almost day by day. Police-constable, 496, said he had made inquiries about the prisoner, and found he was in a respect able way of business at the address he gave, and that he bore a very good character in the neigh bourhood. The waiter said the prisoner had been several times at their dining-roams on previous occasions, and although knives and forks in great numbers had been missed from the rooms, he could not say the prisoner had taken any before. Mr. Hill said he wished to put a stop to the sys tem, as the proprietors of dining-rooms in the City were subject to considerable losses from the causes he had stated. The prisoner's landlord gave the prisoner an ex cellent character, and said when he let him his pre mises he had the highest references. Sir S. Duke said it appeared the prisoner was a respectable man, and if his appearance had not justified that supposition he would not have been admitted to dine with respectable persons, and it was, therefore, the more necessary to make an ex ample, in order that others might be deterred from following the same course. The prisoner said he could only accouut for it by stating that it arose from absence of mind, as he knew not what he was doing when he put the knife and fork into his pocket. Mr. Hill said there could not have been much absence of mind in taking the knife and fork, as ho had also defrauded the cashier out of 5d., and then offered the waiter 10s. to compromise the affair of the knife and fork. Sir J. Duke said, if a man in rags and tatters had committed such an offence he should not have been surprised, but when, as in this case, the person charged was a respectable tradesman, with plenty of money, and was found committing a double fraud upon the prosecutor, he considered it his duty to impose a severe penalty, which was that the pri soner should go to prison for one month, with hard labour. BOW-STREET.—John Burke, a clerk in the Post-office, whose salary and emoluments amount to £l7O a year, was charged with stealing a letter from one of the mail bags in the sorting tender on the London and Cambridge Railway. From the evidence of Mr. Gardner, the prisoner's senior clerk, it appeared that he (the prisoner) was employed once a week on the above tender, leaving town at half-past eight o'clock on Saturday night and returning at five o'clock on Monday morning. For some time complaints had been frequent of the loss of letters on that line at the periods of the pri soner's journeys ; and it was determined to test his honesty. For this purpose a money letter was made up, and directed to a fictitious address at Midhurst. This letter was inserted, togethei with another ad dressed to Tunbridge Wells, in the Romford tender bag, which was delivered to prisoner at Romford. When that bag reached the General Post-office, the letter for Tunbridge Wells was found in it, but not that for Midhurst. On being questioned by Mr. Gardner the prisoner denied that he had found any Midhurst letter in the bag, and said that if he had he would have returned it in the bag to the Gene ral Post-office. Upon being searched there were found on him, amongst other moneys, the contents of the test letter, two marked half-sovereigns and 12 postage stamps. He said that he found them at the bottom of the bag, and persisted in saying that he had seen nothing of the letter. The prisoner had been eleven years in the service. He was committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.— Charles Peter Duval, aged 17, was charged on re-examination with discarging a loaded pistol at Susannah Hin ton, of GA, Bury-street, St. James's, while passing along Jermyn-street, on the afternoon of the 20th inst., with intent to kill her. From what the prosecutrix stated, it would seem that she had formerly lived at an antiquarian shop in Jermyn-street. kept by a Mr. Bryant, where the prisoner and his parents were lodgers; that they, being unable to pay . the rent, had had their furni ture seized, and, I eing in consequence ejected, she (prosecutrix) was placed in charge of the house. She was unable to assign a motive for what pri soner had done, but thought it possible he might fancy she had in some way been concerned in expe diting the seizure of his parents' goods. Mr. Tottill, surgeon to the C division of police, said he had examined the wound at the back of the prosecutrix's neck, which was somewhat larger than a shilling, and was of opinion that it had been pro duced from the wadding fired from a pistol very near to her, and from which she was yet suffering. Mr. Lewis, in defence, said he had been heard to complain for some time back of a swimming in the head, and there could be no doubt he was labouring under some strange and unfortunate delusion at the time he did the act with which he was charged. His father had lately died in a lunatic asylum, and his sifter was not right in her mind. Mr. Beadon said he should commit the prisoner for trial, and his state of mind must be proved in a superior court. The prosecutrix during her short examination seemed very weak and in much suffering. WORSHIP-STREET.—SamueI Bromley, one of a numerous gang of thieves, living in Thrall-street, Keate-street, Flower-and-Dean-street, and George yard, Whitechapel, who are a terror to all respect able people residing or passing near them, was charged with the following daring robberies : A married lady named Cunnington, on a visit to town from Nottingham, said—l was walking alone in Whitechapel between three and four on the afternoon of the 14th inst., when the prisoner suddenly appeared before me, and so violently, tugged at my gold guard-chain that it broke from my neck, and he got away with my chain, my watch three seals, and a key, and ran down George-yard with them. I called out " Stop thief," and ran part of the way down the yard after him, but he somehow disappeared, and I saw no more of him. The value of my property was £25. I could not see a police man all the time, and therefore gave information at the Leman-street station. lam quite sure prisoner is the man who robbed me. Prisoner—She is mistaken, for I am not the man. Constable—There is a second charge, Sir, and another lady here to prove it. Mrs. Mary Clifton—l am a widow, residing near Bermondsey, and was walking along,Whitechapel between one and two in the afternoon of the 27th ult., when, just as I reached the same spot, near George-yard, as in the last lady's case, some man came suddenly in front of me, seized my gold chain with trinkets and seals attached, broke the chain into halves, scattering the seals and trinkets upon the pavement, and ran down George-yard with my watch and chain. My watch cost 70 guineas, and the chain 17 more, and I pursued the thief as fast will stop that man," but it was useles s, for he got away with the property, and all that I recovered was the trinkets, which some perso n p icked up from the e pavement and afterwards kindly restored to me. I rea lly cannot say that the prisoner is the thief, the act was so silent and sudden, nor can I say he is not. A cabman, however, swore positively to the pri soner, whom he saw glide in slippers before the lady and rob her. Prisoner—l am entirely innocent of both charges, I assure you. There are plenty of others like me going up and down Whitechapel. Reid, 105 H—l know the prisoner well ;he has been convicted of felony. I had him myself in 1855, and my belief is that he has only recently come out of prison for another offence. He belongs to the -gang in that locality, so many of whom are frequently here. Mr. D'Eyncourt--I shall send this man for trial, and the officer must then mention to the Court the shocking state of this district, where these robberies so continually occur both by day and night. TILE MURDER AT TVALWORTTL Yesterday William A. Moore, who has been in custody for a week on a charge of stabbing his wife Sophia in a fit of jealousy, and causing her death, was brought before Mr. Elliott, at the Lambeth Police-court, for final examination. Mr. Solomon, as on the last examination, at tended for the prisoner. The first witness called was Mrs. Rebecca Palmer, the mother of the deceased, who said—l am the wife of George Palmer, of 2, Townley Cottages, Brandon-street, Walworth, and mother-in-law to the prisoner. The deceased Sophia Moore was my daughter, and had been mar ried to the prisoner, as his second wife, in the month _ _ of November last. On the Monday before she was injured I called, when the prisoner was at home, and in the front parlour with two men, and I went to the back room where my daughter was. She complained of her husband calling her bad names, and he at that time went out with the two men. On the same evening my daughter came to my house, and while there the prisoner came in, and seeing his wife said, " Oh, you sow, you're out again to-day," and took up a tea canister to throw at her, but did not do so. My daughter said " I'm most tired of it," and the prisoner replied, " I will take the children away. I was always toldl should never die a natural death, and I will never die one, for I'll die for you." He used very shameful lan guage to me, and left the house, slamming the door after him. I asked my daughter to stay a little while with us that his temper might get over, and went home with her. The prisoner was not at home at the time, and her room being locked up I left her with the landlady, who told me she would attend to any noise her husband might make. The next morning I was called up, and went to Guy's Hospital. where I found my daughter, and she told me how it happened, but said at the time she thought she should get over it. About three weeks before it happened the prisoner came to my house, in consequence of some words between his wife and her sister, and sent for a young man named "Teddy York." Addressing York, the prisoner said, " What is this about, this disturbance with my wife and her sister," and York said, " Well, I'll tell you the truth. I was at Hackney, and met Emma and Sophia, and we had a drop of ale together, and I did put my arms round her neck and kissed her, but that was all I did, and I never took such a liberty before." The prisoner said he was satisfied, and it dropped as I thought, but he afterwards abused his wife about York, and spoke of it down to the time of the occurrence. Mr. Elliott—Have you frequently heard the pri soner make use of abusive language to the deceased in reference to this affair with York ? Witness—Oh, yes, very many times. He has abused her very much about it, and they were scarcely three weeks married when he gave her a pair of black eyes. Elizabeth Palmer said—l am daughter to the last witness, and sister to the deceased. On the Sa turday before my sister died she was at our house, and I went home with her, and stopped there all night. At two o'clock on Sunday morning the pri soner came home, much the worse for liquor, and abused and threatened his wife, and I frequently heard him do so. On the night before this (the stabbing) happened I went to the prisoner's lodg ings, and saw him, and at the time he had two brokers with him to value his goods. I begged of him not to sell up his home, when he said he was about to make some arrangements for his two chil dren ; that he did not value his life ; and that he intended to do for his wife. Mrs. Ann Gamble, a widow, and sister of the Petersham ward, in Guy's Hospital, said the de ceased was under her care from the time of being brought to the hospital until the time of her death, and it was her (witness's) belief that the deceased never thought from the first that she should recover. When brought in, and put to bed, the deceased told her she thought the knife must have touched her heart, but she (witness) told her she thought not, but that it might have penetrated the lung. Mr. Elliott—Did she tell you how she received the injury ? Witness—Yes, Sir. She told me her husband took up a knife from the breakfast-table, and said he would stab her ; that she felt the blow, but did not know she was stabbed until she got to a neigh bour's house, when she felt great pain and the blood trickling down her thigh. Mr. Elliott—When did her death take place ? Witness—Within three days. Mr. Elliott here called the constable who had been called on, 250 V, who asked him if anything had been stated before the coroner's jury about a Bible being found in the prisoner's room? The constable replied that a Bible had been found open on the table on the morning the deceased was stabbed, and opened at a particular chapter, but on speaking to the deceased about it, she said she did not know how it came there, unless it was that one of the prisoner's children might have been reading it. This terminated the evidence, and when asked if he wished to make any observations in reference to the charge, Mr. Solomon said he had refrained from putting a single question to the witness in cross-examina tion, feeling, as he did, that the case was one of so serious a nature, that it must undergo an investi gation elsewhere, where the cross-examination would have more weight, and therefore he should reserve any questions he had to put on that occa sion. It could not be denied that the prisoner had, in a moment of great excitement, committed the act, and inflicted the injury which unfortunately led to the death of his wife ; but on the trial he should be able to show that the provocation which led to the unhappy act was of a much more aggra vating character than had already appeared. The prisoner was then committed to take his trial for the wilful murder of his wife, and the wit nesses bound over to give evidence on the trial. WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE. The Scotsman reports that, on Saturday, a house in Fountain-bridge, which it had been observed by the neighbours that no one had gone in or come out of for some days past, was broken open by the police. On the floor of the kitchen were found the lifeless bodies of the occupants (a Mr. and Mrs. Ferrier) with their throats cut. The man was lying with his face downwards, with a razor under his neck. There were also two table-knives lying close by the body of the woman. It was at once suspected that the man had been the perpetrator of this atrocious deed, and the suspicion was con firmed some time afterwards by th e di scovery o f a slip of a paper on which the man h a d wr itt en th e following words :—" I am now unfit for my busi ness. I have applied to the authorities of both Ayr and Edinburgh for protection, and only got laughed at. I now appeal to God. I s h ou ld w i s h to be laid beside my boy, but if this wo man i s t o be laid there let my body be given to the dissecting room, and after they have done with me let my body . be burned." On the some paper there were also instructions given as to the management of some property of which he was the proprietor, and the whole was distinctly written. It may be in ferred from the words in the above-quoted sentence —" but if this woman is to be laid there"—that Ferrier had written this scroll in the interval between his cutting of the throat of his wife and his own suicide. Both of the deceased were nearly sixty years of age, and had no family. The man was not engaged in any particular business, but he had a good income from house property.. The neighbours state that, in consequence of the intem perate habits of Mrs. Ferrier, she and her husband had of late had frequent quarrels. The last time that any disturbance was heard in their house was on Wednesday night last. Early on that evening the wife had been seen much intoxicated, and be tween eleven and twelve o'clock a noise of scuffling was heard in the house. The scuffle had n o t l as t e d long when some of the neighbours heard a gurgling noise, as if some one, had been choking, immediately after which all become suddenly quiet. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Mothers and nurses will find Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food admirably adapted to remove all disorders of the stomach and bowels to which infants and children aro at all times liable, such as i n digestion, flatulency, colic, dysent er y, di arr h oea , consti pation, debility and restlessness. It strengthens, nou rishes, and is used with more advantage than milk in rearing infants. We quote a few out of many testimo nials :—" Amsterdam, 31st Dec., 1852.—Dear Sir,—Our child, up to the age;of eleven weeks, was very delicate, and wasting away, and milk, sago, and arrowroot turned sour on its stomach, causing great suffering. We then fed it upon Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, which agreed won derfully with her; and she is now, at the age of nine months, a plum'? and lively little girl.—Daniel Servas." " Wildervank, Holland, 20th Sept. 1853.—Dear Sir,—Our baby, which Heaven presented us with ten months back, was attacked, when four weeks old, with a disease of the stomach and glands, by which our seven previous infants had'all been carried off, and this last child seemed destined to follow its sisters and brothers before many days, for our doctor, a very able practitioner, had, during three weeks, exhausted all his skill, and was at a loss what to prescribe next, when he advised Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, which, I am happy to say, worked a ~r eat change for the better in a few days ; •and in six weeks' ' ' time the child was perfectly well, and is now a cheerful blooming boy — a source of the greatest happiness tons all.—L. H. Vaalmin." In tins, at ls. 6d. •, 11b., 38. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 12a-;_ 12 . 1 b.i 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co. 77, Regent-street, .I . .l a ndon. Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Pices 9 ; lsr 6o, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, an Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley. and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co.; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew ; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott ; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co. ; at South ampton, Randall and Sou. THE THUNDERSTOR' OF SUNDAY. The thunderstorm of Sunday last was much more serious in its consequences than was supposed, the damage exceeding that which has been known for many years during a storm of such ahort duration. At about a quarter past 7 o'clock in the morning the storm burst with the greatest fury over the south side of the water, occasioning the greatest damage to property and loss of life. A young man . named Henry Ouston, a groom, in the service of Mr. Herbert, of Cavendish-road, Clapham-common, took refuge from the storm under a gigantic poplar tree, one of the largest on the common, and within 200 yards of his master's house, and in about five minutes afterwards a lad, who was endeavouring to keep a herd of affrighted cattle together, observed him lying on the ground under the tree. He was lying on his back with his feet towards the trunk of the tree. His face was perfectly black, and the grass around him for some distance was burnt and blackened as though by fire. The crown of his hat was torn away, the electric fluid having evidently struck him on the head, and passed down the front of his body, and out at the toe of one of his boots, the solo being ripped from the upper leather. His shirt, coat, waistcoat, and trousers were burnt and rent in tatters. His stockings were stripped from his legs, and two bottles, which he had with him, were smashed to pieces. A bundle of linen which he also had was found about 30 yards from his body. The tree under which the poor fellow was lying had evidently been struck on the left side, being completely split near the ground and other wise shattered, the bark being also stripped off. In the same neighbourhood, which for a considerable distance round appears to have suffered greatly, a police-constable who was on duty was rendered blind, and nearly insensible for upwards of a quar ter of an hour, by, it is supposed, the same flash which killed the unfortunate man Ouston. A youth named Field was going along the Kennington-road, towards the gate, when he was struck by the lightning and fell heavily to the ground, and on being raised was perfectly insensible as if suffering from asphyxia. On being brought to, he stated that he felt as if his head was suddenly encircled by fire. Another accident oc curred to a man in Westminster-road, who was on horseback. The animal, infuriated by the vivid flashes of lightning, threw his rider, who received a concussion of the brain. Three young men were passing along the Old Kent-road, when the light ning struck two of them, named Edward Perry and James Summers. They fell to the ground, and were conveyed to their homes in an insensible con dition. Several other accidents of a similar nature also occurred. COUNTRY MARKETS: GLOUCESTER—JUNE 25. There was rather a better supply on offer, and the last verage of 49s 3d was improved upon. DERBY--JUNE 25. At yesterday's market there was a moderate supply of wheat, and the trade ruled very firm, at about is per qr. dearer. In Spring corn little doing, at about the rates realised last week. In beans the trade ruled firm at rather more money. White wheat, new, 43s to 52s Barley, grinding .. 29s to 31s Red do. 44s to 48s Oats :old, .. 2Bs to 32s Old white 43s to 52 s New' do 28s to 324 Red do. 44a to 48s Beans.4Bs to 544 Barley, malting.— 38s to 40s Beans, new .. 46s to 52s CHELMSFO: ,D-J UNE 24. ---------- - --- The atftndance at our market was very thin. The sup plies of wheat were fair, and prices same as last week. In Spring corn but little business was done. Wheat, white 438 to 555 Peas, Partridge ..448 to 46s re d 428 to 50s I White 43s to 45s Barley 328 to 408 Boiling 44s to 46s Chevalier ....34s to 41s Dun 41s to 43s Grinding 268 to 34s Beans, Tick ....408 to 42s Malt 60s to 668 Harrow Ticks 41s to 458 Chevalier . , 63s to 69s Mazagan 408 to 44s Oats 25s to 34s COLCHESTER-JuNE 25. -- - - A short supply of wheat, which meta firm sale at is to 2s per qr. over last week's currency. In spring corn very little passing, but prices were the turn in favour of th• buyer. Wheat, white 4Bs to 52s I Beans, Mazagan..4os to 42s red 44s to 48s Middle & small 42s to 463 Barley 2Bs to 36s I White peas 42s to 44 $ Oats 24s to 32 s Grey 42s to 463 STAMFORD—JUNE 21. At this corn-market wheat was in fair supply, and prices ranged from 448 to 52s per 36 stone. There was not much passing in spring corn, oats being quoted at 268 to 30s per quarter; beans, 44s to 50s per qr.; barley, 32s to 38s per qr. KIRKA: LDY—JUNE 25. plies to-day of all kinds of grain. ley about is over tho prices of last igher. Barley (N). Oats (N). 32s 6d 23s Od 35s Od 28s Od —s Od 30s Od Barley (0). Oats (0). —s Od —9 Od Od Od —s Od —s dO We had very small sup] Sales quick. Oats and bar! week ; wheat is per qr. hi Wheat (N). First.... 44s Od Second .. 50s Od Third .. 53s Od Wheat (0). First.... —s Od Second.. —s Od Third .. —s Od COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. Buddle's West Hartleyls 3 Tanfield Moor 13 '6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Ward's West Hartley l4 3 Howard's West Hart ley ..15 3 Holywell 15 6 Wylam l6 6 Hastings Hartley l5 3 Clark'sWestHartley 14 9 .ET—Jurrn 26. the close of the market.) Walls End. g. d. Haswell..... ..17 6 Rotten South Ke110e........ 16 6 Benson.... ... . ... ... 15 6 Keiper Grange:.......16 9 Heugh Hall 16 0 Braddyir s Hetton. 16 9 Eden Main 15 6 Riddell 15 3 West Kelloe ... 15 9 Shineliffe 15 5 Binchester l5 9 Nixon's Duffryn 21 0 s Duffryn Stearn 21 0 A, 84—Sold, 69. Walls End. Gosforth 15 3 Montague Garesfield l3 6 South Hartlepool. 16 3 Whitworth . . 16 0 Ships at mario - LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—JUNE 27. There was a good business done in this market to-day. Lombardo-Venetian, 11 1 d—Ditto, new, 11 11 d—Dovers 20/ I—Birkenheads, 734 74—Leeds Northern, 441 45-1 North British, 54 41—Great Western of Canada, pa Sheffields, 35a -4—Caledonians, 79I—Lancashire and York shire, 904—London and North-Westerns, 89 1 , 901 —Dutch Rhenish, 61 k dis.—East Lancashire, 88 89— " erwicks ' 881—Midlands 99 91 —Chester and Holyheads , 48 49—• Eastern Counties, 111 1 - 4 Grand Trunk of Cana da, 81 f— i Great Western, 641 55—Blackburns 11/ —Great Nor them, 98 99—North Staff or dshire, 411 dis_Great Luxem bourg, 51. BIRMINGHAM ---JUNE 27. The market was quiet this morning, with little doing. Great Western, Birmingham Guaranteed, buyers 72, and sellers at I—Worcester Canal, 14 141 Town and District Bank, 11 --Birmingham Banking Co., 27 }—South Staf fordshire, 10i. MANCHESTER-JUNE 27. There was a dull business doing, and the prices were without much change. East Anglian, 14—Dovers, 20 3-16 —Leeds, 90i—Midlands, 99 —Sheffields, 351 1---London and-Westerns , 901—Birkenheads, 74—London Eighths, dis—North Staffords, 4 7-16 dia. [ADVERTISEMENT].—HoIIoway's Ointment. —Determi nation of Blood to the Head.—Flushing, blushing, palPi: tation, and shortness of breath are cured by these gramd regulators of the heart's impulse. Under Holloway's grand specifics the current of blood throughout the body becomes steady and unchanged by the passing thought ; hence the suffusion of chest and cheeks is avoided, and nervous em barrassment prevented. They, in like manner, remove ex cessive sensibility, so often the opponent to the ease and grace inherent in the healthful and strong-nerved frame, and eradicate the doubts of the nervous. In intellects de clining from intense study, free living, or over-anxiety, no equal remedy is attainable. Without exaggeration, they give muscular energy to the paralysed and ease to the pained. BIRTHS. EDEN,—On the 25th inst., at Windleatone Hall, county of Durham, Lady Eden, of a son. MOWBRAY.—On the 26th inst., at Warennes-wood, Morti mer, Berke, tho wife of the Right Hon. J. R. Mowbrah M.P., of a son. PARRY.—On the 27th inst., at Campden-hill, K e nsington, the wife of Mr. Sergeant Parry, of a son. SLIGO.—On the 23d inst., at 35, Harley-street ; the Mar chioness of Sligo, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. - FORD—JERMYN.—On the 25th inst., at the parish church, Old Charlton, Kent, William Barton Ford, Esq., of Peckham-rye, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of George Jermyn, Esq., of Lewisham High-road. WHITE—SPARKES.—On the 23d inst., at St. James's Church, Emsworth, the Rev. W. A. White, rector of Northborough, to Anne Reece, eldest daughter of E. M. Sparkes, Esq., of Spencer House, Emsworth. DEATHS. BROGDEN.—On the 26th inst., at Northampton-park, Canonbury, Thomas Brogden, Esq., aged 80. DANIELL.—On the 23d inst., at Worthleigh Rectory, De. von, the Rev. H. P. Daniell, aged 57. DEWHURST.—On the 23d inst., at 15, Paternoster-row, Thos. B. Dewhurst, aged 27. GREEN. —On the 23d inst., at the Grand Hotel, Covent garden, Mr. Benjamin Green, late of Manchester, aged 45. GuNNEn.---On the 25th inst., the Rev. William Henry Gunner, of the College, Winchester, aged 47. SHORT.—On the 25th inst., at Solihull, Colonel R. Short, H.E.1.C.5., aged 76. SLIGO.—On the 25th inst., the Marchioness of Sligo. TANKzuvILLE.--On the 25th inst., at 23, Hertford-street, Charles Augustus, fifth Earl of Tankerville. YOUNG.—On the 25th inst., at Wardie Lodge, near Edin burgh, Miss Young, aged 79. 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, Tuesday, June 28, 1869. 44' Et Ps ; by