The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

211 E NAVY. The screw steam-frigate Emerald, 51, Capt. A. Cumming, from the Downs, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday morning. She experienced a heavy fall of snow in the Channel. The screw , steam troop-ship Himalaya, Capt. J. Seccombe, is waiting orders at Plymouth. Her cylinder , plate broke on the passage from Ports mouth: Rear-Admiral Erskine retuned to Plymouth on Saturday, and rehoisted his flag on board the Edgar, 91, Capt. James E. Katon.3 Ft is; probable she will join the Channel fleet shortly. The screw steamship Greyhound, 17, Commander Sullivan. got up steam MI- Saturday morning, and havinc , slipped her moorings went outside Plymouth Sound on trial, and after five hours' cruise returned to Hamoaze. She was very much by the head, but appeared to obtain a fair rate of speed. The Perseverance, iron screw troopship, Com mander E. R. Power, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning from Spithead, and landed her military and naval invalids alongside the dockyard, the former being taken ch4rge of by the military authorities, and tie latter being conveyed on board her Majesty's ship Victory. In addition to the list of officers and passengers arrived . by this vessel, which was published in The Sun of yesterday, the following naval officers have come as passengers by her, invalided and on pro motion —Lieuts. Kirby, from the Lapwing ; Buckle from the Conqueror ; ; Cheek, from the Marlborough; and Gilmore, from the Orion ; Messrs. Du Boulay, midshipman, from the Renown : A. Marshall, second master, from the Orion ; Ray, from the Hannibal ; and J. Wilson, engineer ; and Dr. Govett, on pro motion. The Prometheus, 6, paddle, Commander Grey Skipwith, left Portsmouth yosterdayby the Needles Channel for the westward. The Vigilant, 4, screw steamsioop, Commander W. Armitage, will be paid off at Portsmouth to morrow. The ancient piece of ordnance which was disco vered in the Medway at Chatham a few days since, has attracted great interest since it has been de posited on the sun-wharf, and careful examinations of it have been made, in order, if possible, to ascer tain its age. From the great number of years the gun has been in the water, it is eaten away consi derably by rust, and the operations of cleansing and scraping have consequently been performed with great care. No traces of any date can be discovered upon it. The general opinion is that the cannon, which originally weighed about 24 cwt., was laid down in the river to serve as moorings for one of the ancient line-of-battle ships belonging to the fleet kept in the Medway. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieuts. A. C. S. Blackett, to the Diadem ; Lieut. John Bruce, to the Ganges, additional for disposal ; Lieut. C. Jenkins and Lieut. H. B. Hamersley, to the Chesapeake, additional for disposal; Lieut. A. T. Brooke and Lieut. F. G. D. Bedford, to the Marlborough, additional for dis posal ; Fred. Piper, master, to the Prometheus ; and Stephen L. Lancaster, clerk, to the Ariadne. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge went down to Woolwich yesterday for the purpose of delivering •the prizes of merit to the gentlemen cadets recommended by the Governor of the Royal Military Academy as deserving rewards and prizes for good conduct and acquirements ; and also to in spect two of the most important novelties of the day, both,of - which are destined for immediate ser vice in China ; one is designed for the destruction of human life, and the other for its preservation ; Sir Wm. Armstrong's new battery of 12-pounder guns, and Captain Grant's new cooking battery. The Duke arrived at Woolwich at . 10 a.m. in his private carriage, attended by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H. Clifton, one of his aides-de-camp, and drove direct to the Royal Military Institution on Woolwich-common, where he was received by Gen. Sir Richard Dacres, K.C.8., Commandant of Woolwich, and the entire garrison staff, together with the heads of ail depart menti,Sit addition to whom were Major-Gen. Bloom field (Inspector-General of Cavalry) and his aide de-camp, Major Teesdale, C. 8., Major-Gen. Sir R. Airey, K.c.B.,Quartermaster-General; Major-Gen. Cameron, Vice-President of the Council of Educa tion ; Major-Gen.. Portiock, Lieut.-Col. Elwyn, Lieut.-Col. Addison, &c., members of the council; Col. Yorke; Inspector of Studies, and the entire staff of civil and military officers attached to the establishment. The company of cadets, who had been stationed under arms on parade since nine o'clock, performed the customary salute, and the band of the Royal Artillery played the National Air, the Royal standard having been hoisted on:the flagstaff at the saluting battery near the barracks. The Commander-in-Chief then proceeded to a mi nute inspection of the company, who afterwards marched past and went through a thorough course of exercise, his Royal Highness approaching and examining each division carefully during the evo lutions, in order to ascertain, from personal obser vation, the state of drill and efficiency attained by . each individual cad e t, - some o f w hom were occasionally called forward by the duke and ordered to command the movements- in turn. His Royal Highness afterwards withdrew to the grand dining-hall, where the cadets had assembled, for the distribution of the prizes, and, after an appro priate address, and many approving remarks rela tive to the accounts he had received of their past studies, arid the satisfactory number who had passed for commissions in the army, he delivered them as follows :—A Royal Engineer's regulation sword to Mr. Buckle, first class, awarded for exemplary con duct while at the institution during the term of-15 months, and for acquirements and great proficiency in study ; a double telescope to Mr. Gehle, Artil lery class ; an aneroid barometer to Mr. Ferrier, Artillery class ; a similar prize to Mr. Gehle, sur veying class ; a pocket compass to Mr. Buckle, fieldworks ekamination; a microscope to Mr. Gehle, for chymistry ; a similar prize to Mr. Whinfield, for geology ; and a similar prize to Mr. Collins, for excelling in examination on natural philosophy, during 15 months' study each in the academy. Also a best pocket sextant to Mr. O'Connor, first class mathematics ;,a prismatic compass to Mr. Glancy, second class mathematics; a double teles cope to Mr. Sale, for first class fortification - a re prisatic compass to Mr. A. Smith, for second for tification e a ,pocket compaSs to Mr. O'Connor, de scriptive geometry ; for ditto, a pocket compass to Mr. Kelso ; a French dictionary (Napoleon Landais) to Mr. Fowler, for French ; " Schiller's Works " to Mr. Baker, for German ; a prismatic compass to Bowleys for plain drawing; " Ferisusson's Handbook of Architecture," to M r . G re i g , for land scape drawing; a similar prize, 'for a like attain ment, to Mr, Poole ; and a " History of Ferdinand and Isabella," to Mr. Cunningham, for history and geography. The establishment was afterwards pronounced ". broken up" for the vacation. The following cadets were announced as having been recommended for commissions in the Royal Artil lery and Royal Engineers :—First class, Messrs. Henry I. Gehle, Charles W. Whinfield, Stud ley Smith, Archibald L. Buckle, Edwin Mar shall, Peter G: Tarbet, William H. Patten,William H. Collins, C. E. B. Leacock, Henry Gordon Palmer, Marcus F. H. l'S.Peausland, Thomas Jesson, Simon Simpson, Christopher W. Townsend, Francis F. Barham, George A. 4royes Henry St. S.C.. Borren, Edmund 1-1,. Wickham, kobert J. P. Saunders, Vincent Wing, and Seymour de L. Lacy. Second class,. , Messrs. John H. Smith, Albert J. Hepper, William Masterson, Reginald F. Morris, George • Harris, Loui3 J. G. Ferries, Stephen W. Jenner, Arnold C. Wallinger, Henry Robinson, Awsustin C. C. Mackenzie, Edw ar d H arve y, Morn L. Porter, Frederick Schack, H enr y L. Williams, William R. Stirke, Pringle D. Barclay, ' Henry Graves, Thomas John Jones, Richard T. Mallet, James L. Bell, Henry Baines, Henry T. T. Sandes, James R. Yule, Robert T. Farquhar, John Younger, Thomas Mulrenan, Charles J. Deshen, Francis C. H. Hallett, W. F. Nelson, Hu. - 4-11 F. H. Brodie, Edward Ireland, Richard W. dilute, and George M. B. Hornsby; total, 54. . After the inspection of the company of cadets, and the delivery of the prizes, his Royal Highness, accompanied as abovenamed, proceeded to the re view ground, where the entire body of infantry and artille'ry stationed in the garrison were drawn up for inspection, together with the new Armstrong battery, and Capt. Grant's cookine , battery. Both were fitted with a ll t h e i r equipm. ents for actual service in the field, consisting of thirty carriages, each drawn by f our h orses. The destruct i ve ' battery app . cared to be supplied with all the aP plianaes which modern warfare demands and human skill and ingenuity can devise. This is the first field battery which has been constructed - and. equipped or, Sir William's principle, and it is in tended to be forwarded to China by the overland route,:where it will be fsirly tested by th e experi mental officers appointed to work it. The cooking battery, although of more humble pretensions, is equally important in its way. It is composed of six artillery wsegons, upon which are , fitted. all the requirements ecce.sse.ry for the cooking for i - .O,PW men. Three of them are f i tted. with what are termed . " ambulating boilers," and the othhr , three with " pontoon kettles." The former provides the means of cookinf , while troops are on the march, and the cooking may be carried on at any place, wherever wheel carriages can travel. Each e,ambu latingboiler is capable of cooking for 8 00 men, and weighs 6cwt., so that a regiment of ,that strength may have fts dinner - 4 ready to serve immediately It halts after a long day's march. These three wag gons were yesterday put into practical ope ration,- by cooking for - one portion •s of the troops assemble& and the other three were fitted with the pontoon kettles for cooking on the ..round, and where wheel carriages cannot tra verse, these kettles maybe slang on horses or mule - s• The cylindrical form of these cooking vessels possesses an advantage over the ordinary shaped camp kettle, as they form perfect flues for the fires to act upon a large portion of their surfaces, and the dinners for 700 men were well cooked in'an hour and a Thewine set ofkettles, boiling, steaming, and frying. y are also convertible into a pon toon raft or bridge for the passage of infantry across rivers, hence th e name pontoon kettles. One set of kettles was yesterday appropriated to this purpose, to show the mode of constructinc , the raft, which is extrem ely simple, and quickly done.' The inventor stated, for the information of the Duke, that with two sets of these kettles he would engage to trans port the whole of Sir W. Armstrong's battery of 12 pound guns, &c., across the Thames. A second set was put in operation to show the mode of cooking in the ground; and, in about an hour and a half, boiled beef and soup, with legs of mutton and po tatoes, which were steamed in old powder barrels, were well cooked and ready to serve, besides a good supply of beefsteaks and onions, with fried bacon, prepared in some huge fryingpans provided to an swer the double purpose of meat dishes to cut up the messes. The third set of kettles were left in the waggon, with all their fitments and tools for sawing and felling trees for fuel, pickaxes and tools for dig ' ging trenches, &T., in order to show the mode of packing for transport and travelling with troops on the march. It was intended to put the Armstrong gun through a course of firing in Plumstead-starsh, but in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather the order was cancelled, and his Royal Highness returned at an early hour to London. The first of the additional ten battalions which it is understood the Government has decided on having raised, is to be formed at Preston, where the 2d battalion of the 25th Regiment is to be raised. The command of the battalion has been conferred on Col. Allen. Orders have been received at Chat ham for Capt. 11. C. Wilkinson to proceed from that garrison to Preston, with 60 men, to commence the formation of the battalion. The regiments to which it is understood second battalions will be attached will be up to and including the 35th Regiment. Lieut.-Col. W. H. March, of the Chatham Divi sion of Royal Marines, has received orders to pro coed to China, to command one of the battalions of Royal Marine Light Infantry. VOLUNTEER CORPS. THE QUEEN'S. On Saturday evening a crowded public meeting of inhabitants of Belgravia and Knightsbridge was held in the school-room attached to St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, Knightsbridge, for the pur r pose of promoting the formation of additional com panies in connection with the Queens Volunteer Rifle Corps. Earl GROSVENOR, M.P., who was called to the chair, adverted to a meeting recently held fqr the formation of. a rifle corps for the districts of Bel gravia and Knightsbridge, to be eventually incor porated with the South Middlesex under Lord Ranelagh. His first feeling, he said, on hearing of the intention to hold that meeting was one of sur prise that a rifle corps should be in contemplation for a district whieh he had regarded as already oc cupied by the Queen's Volunteers. He still thought, considering how extensive a district South Middle sex was, it was hardly fair in Lord Ranelagh to encroach on a much smaller one, previously occupied. by the Queen's Volunteers. (Hear.) He wished to impute no motives, personal or political, but he thought Lord Ranelagh and CoL Vereker had acted in the matter a little too precipitately. (Hear.) He did not know how many volunteers on the whole had enrolled themselves throughout the country ; but he was quite sure before long—putting it at a very moderate figure—we should have 150,000 trained and skilled riflemen—(cheers) —and that, he felt sure, would be one of the best guarantees we could have for the peace, not only of this country, but of Europe. (Cheers.) He did not anticipate that an occasion would arise calling for the services of the volmateers in repelling an enemy; but, should it unfortunately arise, he had that confidence in the manliness and pluck of Englishmen that the coun try would be perfectly unassailable. (Cheers.) Colonel KNoX, M.P., said there was no rivalry on the part of Lord Ranelagh. Lord Ranelagh's prospectus, comprising the whole of that district, was issued in August last, before any other step had been taken for the formation of a corps. (A Queen's Volunteer—" We began in July, and a laugh.) If gentlemen thought that by isolated maasures they would further the volunteer move ment, he would say, as an old soldier, they would fail. (Hear.) He wished to see large corps formed, because he held, in theory and in practice, that small isolated bodies of riflemen would be even tually extremely difficult to control. He wanted to make this a permanent movement; and he warned them not to let themselves dwindle into small isolated bodies, but to associate together in large masses, trained and disciplined, and they would make this the greatest national movement that had ever been started in this country, and one of its greatest safeguards. (Cheers.) Further emplanations were entered into by Col. VEREICER and Mr. CURZON on the part of Lord Ranelagh and themselves. The Hon: and Rev. R. •LIDDELL, incumbent of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, moved a resolution to the effect that it was desirable to strengthen the Queen's Volunteer Rifles as far as possible, and with that view to form a company for the district of St. Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR, who was loudly cheered, seconded the resolution. Regretting that the habits and pursuits of his public life had in a measure incapacitated him from public speaking, he threw himself upon their indulgence while he endeavoured to acquit himself of the duty that had devolved upon him. He considered himself a sort of intruder in that particular district. He was hardly at liberty to come there as a recruit. (A laugh.) He had already plighted his faith to St. George of Cappadocia, and he did not know that it was com peten t for him to enlist unner the banner of St Paul. (Laughter and cheers.) He had listened with great pleasure to the speeches that had been made, and the more so as, although there appeared at first a certain amount of ill-feeling and consciousness of being huffed, those little asperities had now been smoothed down. For himself he could truly say— and that must be his apology for engaging their at tention—he believed that if there was any one man in this country more than another who had long been aware of the necessity for this great national movement it was the humble individual who had now the honour to address them. (Cheers.) He could say that for months and months past his de claration to his most intimate friends and to mem bers of his family had been this, " I see an enormous danger impendince; I see one, and one only, safe guard against that danger, and that safeguard is that we all of us, yeung and old, should enrol our selves as volunteers, should exercise ourselves in arms, and should be ready, if occasion offer, to come forward in defence of our country." (Cheers.) At first that sentiment was rather laughed at, particu larly by members of his own family. (A laugh.) He was at that time eager to come forward ; he was not afraid of ridicule, but he was apprehensive of injur ing a cause which he had so much at heart. He felt he was too insignificant a man to presume to take the initiative; he therefore kept quiet, but he said, at the same time, as soon as any man moved in the matter he (Sir H. Seymour), if it pleased God, would be second. (Cheers.) And that, too, he would have done if the movement, instead of originating in the great and wealthy parish of St. George, had pro ceeded from Bethnal-green, and had been set on foot by the Blind Fiddler of Bethnal-green. (Laughter.) It happened, however, that a gallant friend of his, for whom he had' great respect—Sir De Lacy Evans —assembled a meeting in Hanover-square: He (Sir H. Seymour) wrote to him, offering to come for ward to take part in the proceedings. What was said was done, for be (Sir H. Seymour) had the pleasure of attending the meeting—the first that was held on the subject. He en tirey agreed with what had been said on this occasion by preceding speakers, and, among others, by his right hon. friend in the chair (Lord Grosvenor) as to the necessity of being allowed to attend to our own business, and of ab staining from everything that could in the remotest degree be supposed to give offence to any foreign nation. For his own part, he utterly detested the meddling with other people's affairs, and all he asked was that we should be allowed to transact our own business in our own way. (Cheers.) There had been warlike men on the throne of France, and we had seen a man on that throne• quite as peace able as th ey were ot h erw i se —h e meant - t h e l a te Luis Philippo. What, he would ask, was one of the most remarkable features in Louis Philippe's reign ? If hi s memory did not fail him, it was the measures he to o k f or secur i ng the. protection of his (Sir H. own capital. H e Seymour) , was not aware that we Were g o i ng to fortify London or to erect a Malakhoff tower in Belgrave•square—(laughter)— but we were going to t a k e a measure, and , a None very mild one, for the prot ec ti on o f our. whole are isle. but the most unreasonable man in the world could find fault with that. To whom could it give offence? Ile threw such an idea to the winds. In Heaven's name let us abstain from giving offence to every one; but let us take every measure to protect ourshores. If he thought there was anything in this movement calculated to wound the sensibilities of any foreign nation he should be the last man to identify himself with it, or if any English Minister were to come forward with a measure so designed he should be for impeaching him ; but when we knew that the move meat had only for its object the security of our own THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1859. " tight little island" he asked.again who had a right to find fault? (Cheers.) These were reasons enough for disclaiming_ anything like offence to France. He had a great respect for Louis Napoleorr. It so hap pened that he had been fortunate enough in the course of his life to have the opportunity of render ing not unimportant services to different members of that very distinguished. family; and he was free to confess—it was in the time of their adversity— that it was with infinite pleasure, and with very great zeal and alacrity, that he availed himself of that opportunity. On their part, too, he met with not only the greatest courtesy, but the very greatest kindness; and, therefore, he should be the very last man in the world to do aught that might by possibility give umbrage to any one of them. If ho was speaking in this way it was 'because he was impressed with the necessity of tak ing measures to insure, as far as might be, our own national safety. He was not an orator ;he was not accustomed to public speaking, and if he were to allow himself to go on he should spin them a much longer yarn than they might wish to hear. (A laugh.) Nothing could be better than the spirit which animated them now ; and for that reason let them identify this movement with the habits, and if possible with the pleasures of society. (Cheers.) Ire could not but think that the precautions we were now taking were those best adapted to the situation by our constitutional habits. Those habits would naturally have prevente4 , us increasing our army, a course in favour of which also the argu mention ad crumenam might be used. But besides that, it appeared to him that this great national movement had the additional advantage of the esta blishment of a sort of club, which would bring to gether various classes of society who under no other Circumstances would have opportunities afforded them for friendly intercourse and for co-operation in a good cause. (Hear.). That was a very _imOr taut feature, and he believed it would tend very much to increase the harmony and goodwill in which all ranks of the community ought to be united. (Cheers.) He felt much obliged' to them for the patience and good humour with which they had listened to his rigmarole—(a laugh)—and, in conclusion, he would suggest to them amott o, among others, which was particularly applicable to this great movement—" _Noll me tangere." (Cheers.) The resolution was put and carried, as was also another moved by the Rev. F. BROTHERS, autho ' rising a subscription in aid of the farads of the Queen's Volunteers. Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Mr. George Russell, Col. Evelyn, Mr. Sharpus, the Rev. Dr. Wilson, and other gentlemen subsequently addressed the meeting which terminated with three cheers for the Queen. Last evening about 250 members of the above corps assembled at Westminster Hall, for the purpose of drill. The corps was divided into lye squads, each tinder the superintendence of a drill sergeant, three sections being exercised with rifles and two without. The drilling was con tinued, without intermission, for about three hours, and the men generally , displayed a marked increase of aptitude and precision in their movements. This corps now numbers upwards of 300 effective mem bers, exclusive of about 200 honorary ones. THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE. The members of this corps assembled on Satur day afternoOn last at Guildhall, for the purpose of taking the oath of allegiance. The ceremony at tracted more than ordinary attention, and a large concourse of spectators were assembled in the body of the building to witness the marching in of the brigade and the administering of the oath. At a little after three o'clock upwards of 600 enrolled members, partly in uniform and partly in every-day costume, preceded by an excellent band, marched into the hall in good order and with a soldierlike bearing. As soon as the ceremony had been per- formed, The LORD MAYOR, in returning his iteknowledg ments for the vote of thanks which had been ten dered to him for his services as chairman, briefly expressed his sense of the' honour which had been done him. The men then marched out of the hall, the band enlivening them and the public by playing martial and popular music, and thus the proceedings ter minated. THE MUTINY ON BOARD TILE PRIN: CESS ROYAL. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.). Every fact which tends to throw any light upon the somewhat mysterious cause of the recent out break on board the Princess Royal is deserving of consideration, in order that censure may be pro nounced upon whomsoever is deserving of it, and that erroneous impressions, if any exist, may be re moved. That unfortunate manifestation of discon tent seems, after all, to have been the result of a series of misunderstandings, which - would scarcely be pardonable were the issue infinitely less serious in its character. The immediate effect is that the country has been, for a time, deprived of, the ser , vices of more than a hundred seamen, just such as are required in the present exigencies of the ser vice, and an amount of obloquy has been cast upon the character of an officer of estimable reputation, still vigorous in intellect, though an octogenarian, who has had no public opportunity of defending himself, and whose testimony on the question upon which there has been so much doubt would have been of the most material importance. The British public is not prone to judge harshly or prematurely the conduct of men holding commis lions lin her Majesty's service, but we are bound to confess that upon the evidence elicited by the re cent courts-martial, there .w ere prima facie grounds for attributing the spirit of discontent on board the Princess Royal to the misjudgment of Admiral Bowles in cancelling an order for leave which had been once given. But it must be remembered that the only evidence upon this pcint was that given by Captain Baillie himself, whose impression of what actually took place was, according to his • own statement, undefined and uncertain. We should be sorry to attribute to Captain Baillie any inten tion to mislead either the Commissioners of the Admiralty or the courts-martial delegated to try the rioters of the Princess Royal, but there ap pears on record a remarkable discrepancy between the report of the circumstance furnished by him to their lordships and the statement he made on evi dence on board the Victory, as to the precise na ture of his interview with Admiral Bowles relating to the question of leave. Owing to that discre pancy, mainly, a court of inquiry has been • insti tuted by order of the Admiralty, with a view to elicit froria.Captain Baillie some explanation of the circumstance. Now it appears to us that the whole question of responsibility for the outbreak hinges upon the precise nature of the carnenunieation made to Adnairal Bowlee.hy. Captain Baillie, and the re ply he received; and we state authoritatively that the question- now assumes a very different aspect, in so far as it vindicates the commander-in-chief at 'this port from the imputation of having, with a perfect knowledge of the facts, committed an act derogatory alike to his judgment and the position which he sustains. It will be remembered that when Admiral Bowles requested the attendance of Capt. Baillie on the occasion of his second interview, an intimation was given to the latter by the flag-lieutenant, who con veyed the message, to the effect that it related to a question of leave. The result was that the men be longing to the first halves of both watches, to whom liberty had been already b °Tented, were ordered to remain on the jetty until the captain's return. It appears, however, from the evidence elicited during the recent inquiry (subsequently to the courts-mar tial) that Capt. Baillie misinterpreted the message from the commander-in-chief, which had reference to a totally distinct case of leave. It is easy to under stand that a misunderstanding of this kind might arise, and Capt. Baillie is, therefore, upon this point, not censurable for detaining the men until he had ascertained, as he seems to have supposed, the fur ther instructions relating thereto from the adniiral, although it is to be regretted that he did so. But the mutiny, for such we must call it (what ever attempts may have been made to change the character of the offence by giving it another name) was the consequence of a second misunderstanding, which was not explained at the courts-martial. There was a totally erroneous impression of the state cif the case conveyed to the commander-in-chief, who, ac cording to his own testimony, was ignorant of the fact that the men had been allowed to proceed to the dockyard gates, and was led to believe, by the state ment of Captain Mlle, that the spirit of discontent was general in the whole of the ship's company. Therefore, on its being reported to him that the crew—that portion to whom leave was already granted as well as those who remained on board— were not content with an indulgence which has of late years been seldom granted to ships paying off, but claimed leave for "all or none," he very natu rally replied, "Then, none." He bad, indeed, no alternative (supposing the fact to be properly stated to him), except to yield to the clamour of the ship's company, and thus make a precedent which would inevitably be productive of the most serious cense-, quenees to the British Navy. This view of the case is not formed upon the ex parte testimony of Admi ral Bowles, but upon the corroborative evidence of ie ‘: Captain Baillie himself, wh o ex pl a i ns th e discre pancy b e t ween hi s l ett e r and hi s ev i dence by stat ingn t e h r ! o l r vh in ole im sh p i ut ,s ing m i l n p t a l n ie y, fdrn scont w en es t to r t t h h a e t d ho in stead of to the men re t a i ne d on board."p 'phis fact, we again assert, is of material • t • impor ance in deter mining the extent to which either or betas of these gallant officers are responsible for the late out break, and we certainly can arrive at no other eon ausicni than that while the character of one is via- dicated, that of the other must undergo some change in the estimation of the public. Captain Baillie has applied to ,pe tried by court martial, but his application has been refused. This, we think, is to be regretted, not only on Captain .Baillie's account, but because an officer in the posi tion of Admiral Bowles should have the amplest opportunity afforded of vindicating himself before that public by whom he has, as it now appears, been unjustly condemned. Neither of these officers is, we imagine, supre me l y i n diff erent to t h e op i n i ou formed of him by the public, but would rather be ambitious of a reputation which should extend far beyond the circle and influence of the Board of Ad miralty. Moreover, it wou ld b e s i mp l y an a c t o f justice to Capt. Baillie who, we have authority for' stating, is now under the censure of their lordships. SIR J.. T. •COLERIDGE'S AWARD IN THE PONTEFRACT ELECTION. . The following is. the s.w - ard of Sir Y. T. Coleridge in this matter, and the letter to Mr. Overend's agent by which it was occompanied.:— • " Sir,—l enclose you my award in the Pontefract case ; you will perceive that I have recited in it the statement made respecting Mr. Overend's conduct, which seemed to me a material circumstance in re gulating the terms of my award. I am glad it was made, and in justice to that gentleman I feel it right to say that, having carefully read and considered all the papers sent to me, my judgment is this respect upon all the facts there disclosed en tirely concurs with that which you and Mr. Wilkinson have formed, and I shall be glad if you will be good enough to communicate this to him.—Your obedient servant, " I. T. COLERIDGE. " 6, Southwick-crescent, Dec. 8." " To HUGH CULLING EARDLEY CIIILDERS, ESQ., AND WILLIA4 .O.YEREND; ESQ. "Whereas a petition was 'presented on the 9th o_ June, 1859, to the Hon. House of Commons by Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, who had, been one of three candidates at the last preceding election for the borough of Pontefract, against the retnrn of William Overend, another of the candidates, in which petition he alleged, among other things, that for divers reasons therein stated the majority ob tained by the said William Overend was apparent only, and that in truth and in fact he had had a majority of good and legal votes and was duly elected and ought to have been returned, and by which petition he claimed to have the return amended by substituting his name therein instead of that of the said William Overend ; and whereas before the hearing of the said petition certain negotiations took place between the duly constituted agents and representatives of the said parties respectively, which terminated in a certain agreement, and, consequently thereon, in the-with drawal of the said petition; and whereas the true intent and effect of the said agreement, and what it was proper under the circumstances for the said William Overend as a man of honour to do in pur suance thereof, and in consequence of the said with drawal, became a matter in controversy between the said parties, and it was agreed by them to refer the said matter to me, and that they should respec tively stand to such award as to the premises as I might make therein; and whereas I have accepted the said reference, and have therefore been duly authorised to decide the said matters, and what the said William Overend should, as a man of honour, do hi pursuance and for the due execution on his part of the agreement, and whereas since the making of this submission the duly constituted agents and representatives of the said parties respectively have on their behalf instituted an inquiry at Pontefract, and by an instrument in writing under their hands, dated the 29th of November, 1859, addressed to me, have informed me that they have received evidence which struck off the poll of the said Wm. Overend a suf ficient number of bad votes to . place the said Hugh C. Eardley Childers in a majority of good votes; but that no part of the evidence in any way im peached the personal honour or conduct of the said William Overend, and they accordingly jointly sub mitted to me that I should require the said William Overend forthwith to resign his seat, and that he should not:become or be a candidate at the election consequent on such resignation, And that the said Hugh C. Eardley Childers should be placed by my award as nearly as possible in the same situation as he would have been in on a scrutiny before a committee of the House of Commons ;—Now know ye, that in pursuance of the authority so conferred on me, and in compliance with the request afore said, I do hereby declare that the said William Overend as a man of honour ought, and to the extent of the authority conferred on me I h2reby direct that he shall, forthwith take all ueces fary steps for making vacant the seat he now fills for the borough of Pontefract, and that he do not become or be a candidate at the elec tion consequent upon the vacancy so made; and further, that in case the said Hugh Culling Eardley Childers should be a candidate to fill such vacancy , he shall not in any way oppose or attempt to pre vent his election. .In witness whereof I have to this my award set my hand in duplicate, the Bth day of D ecem b er , i n the year of our Lord, 1859. 6 ' JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE." LAW INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 19. COURT. OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nit3i Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) HYMAN. V. THE LAW FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. This action, part tried on Friday, and resumed on Saturday, the whole of which it occupied, was again resumed to-d?y, and occupied the Court up to nearly six o'clock, when it was brought to an abrupt termination. The action was brought by Lewis Hyman, alias Hyman Lewis, a Prussian Jew, who formerly carried on the business of a tailor, out fitter, and waterproofer, in the Walerloo-road, to recover from the defendants the sum of £5OO, for loss alleged to have been sustained by him, in stock and otherwise, by a fire which broke out on his pre mises, in Eagle-terrace, .Barking•road, near the Victoria locks, on the night of Sunday, the 20th of March list. The defendants, in whose office plaintiff's premises and stock were insured at the time, resisted the plaintiff's claim, and pleaded—firstly, that he was guilty of fraudulent representation as to the value of his stock; and secondly, that the procurement of the fire was caused by the plaintiff. . The case, in its trial, exhibited a great deal of an tagonistic swearing, and was of importance not only to. insurance companies, but to the public. - Mr. Joyce and Mr. Gibbons appeared as counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, and Mr. Doyle, con ducted the' case for the defence. In 'the first days of the trial it was elicited that the plaintiff had had three fires on his premiSesjn other quarters of London, the Waterloo-road included, within two years, and that he got compensation from the fire-office companies with whom he had insured for the losses which he alleged he had sus tained by the destruction of his stock ; and in the present case he, was insured in the defendants' office for £l,OOO, and, claimed for half that sum, as the amount necessary to cover his loss by the fire Which destroyed his premises in .March last. In two of those fires he was insured, it appeared, in the Sun Fire-office ; and it was elicited from him that that office declined to accept his tender to insure again with them, on the ground.that they considered the waterproofing part of his stock dangerous. The progress of the trial on Saturday was brought down to the close of Mr. Hawkins' address to the jury for the defence, and the proceedings of this day commenced with the examination of witnesses in support of it. Mrs. Eliza Cording deposed—l live at 140, Wa terloo-road. The plaintiff, before he removed to Eagle-terrace, lived next decor to me. I recollect twil fires occurring there. He first put up the names of Lewis and Simmonds—the name of Simmonds was painted out after he and his partner had a quarrel. Lewis was in a poor state in regard to finances, and used to borrow sums of money of me, so small as 61 Many a morning I had to lend him money to procure a breakfast. .Before the firstfire his stock was very scant indeed. It was mostly " dummies" and brown paper patterns. The womarihe Was Cohabiting with left a few days before the fire.(The learned counsel was about to examine the witness relative to the quarrel with the woman, and their conversation about the fire, but his lordship overruled. The only thing material to this case was plaintiff's circumstances.)—When the plaintiff removed to Eagle-terrace he hired a van, but a small cart would have done—he had not then £l4O worth 'of goods. Cross-examined--I have not been on ill terms with him, but I paid great attention to his business from the fright I was in from the fires. His dharaCter is well known in the Waterloo-road. I should have been sorry to have given £5 for the whole furnitUre and stock. • _ _ Mrs. Turby, of 5, , Eagle•terrace, ViCtoria-docks road,u deposed that she remembered the plaintiff, Hyman, coining to Eagle-terace, and that his fur niture was dirty and old, and that his stock in the Shop just before the fire was very scanty. Silo kept a greengrocer's shop next door to plaintiff's house, and he called in on her one day, shortly before the fire, and asked her if she was insured. She said she was, and asked him if he was insured. He replied "No; but I am thinking of insuring." He next came into her shop on the morning after the fire, in company with the fireman who was left in posses.. gen. She' asked him how the fire broke out, and if he could account fo r it. He said he cocad nat. sh e then ske(.l whatthe raking of the fire in his house was for, about half an hour before the fire on the premises was discovered, and he replied he did not know, and that he could not account for the cause of the fire unless it had been " the cat." He farther said, in answer to a question by her, that he left his gas a little turned cn when he was going out. She commented on the danger oil' his having done so, and having asked what sort of " cat" his v. as, he replied a " tortoiseshell cat." She then said, " How can that be so, when your cat was in my house ail the night ?" H e remar k e d s h e m i ght have broken a square of glass and got out of the house. Her husband made a claim for about £l2 for the injury done to their house by the fire ; and plaintiff on hearing that said they should have claimed for at least £4O. James Houghton, fireman to the Thames Iron Works, at Barking station, examined by Mr. James, deposed that he remembered the night of the fire, and that it broke out about eleven o'clock. He went to the premises, where, in the lower part, both back and front, the fire appeared to rage. He did not notice that the partition between the rooms on the basement was burned. None of the stock on the premises had been stolen by the thieves, owing, perhaps, to the fire raging too strongly at the time. The West of England fire-engine was the first that came up, but before it arrived he had himself succeeded in extinguishing the fire. He remained there until the fire was entirely out, which was at half-past eleven o'clock, and he neither perceived a smell from burnt oilskin coats, nor did he see in the salvage any remains of pilot. jackets, or indeed of anything except the old piano. John Holderston, a fireman, examined by Mr. James, said he was at the Ratcliff station on the night of the fire, and that he was called, and arrived at the scene of the fire at about 20 minutes past 11 p.m. He entered the premises, and took the hose which was being used at the time by the last wit ness. He observed a round piece of partly-burnt flooring, between the parlour and shop, beyond which, and between it and the kitchen, there was a brick partition, which seemed uninjured by the ac tion of the fire. There was a report that the plain tiff was destroyed in the fire, and he (witness) went into the premises, examined, and found the appre hension was unfounded. The quantity of salvage which he saw was very sma ll i ndeed, and from hs experience of the smell of india-rubber and gutty percha, he should say that none of those materials had been consumed by the fire. With respect to bales of cloth, had there been any touched by the fire, the ends of them would be merQly burnt, while the interior, or part closely rolled up, from which the air was shut out, would remain—at least there must be sonic remnant of it. There were neither cellars nor underground kitchens in the house, and therefore there could be no draught: Had there been 74 " sou-westers" burnt, there must have been some remains of them. In answer to the Chief Justice, Witness stated that had there been 200 pairs of boots and shoes burnt on the premises there must have been some remains of them discovered. The Chief Justice—l have asked that question because I have had some experience in that matter when I was where you, Mr. James, are now ; and I asked the question the more so as the plaintiff has claimed for 200 pairs of boots and shoes, and this witness has deposed that there were no remains of those articles. James Farmer, a fireman, from the Jeffrey-square station, examined by Mr. Hawkins, deposed that he saw some remnants of pilot coats on the pre mises when he examined them after the fire ; but he did not see any remnants of " piles of coats," and taking the whole of the salvage, there wag not, in his opinion, more than a small cartful. He remembered seeing Hyman the morning after the fire, and having asked him if he was the master of the place, he said he was; and he (witness) then asked him how he came to set his house on fire. (Laughter.) Ho said he thought it was caused by the " cat ;" that he and his housekeeper went to the Eagle,in the City-road, that night, and while he was absent the fire broke out, and he was not aware of it until his return home, about half-past one o'clock, a.m. A Juror here addressed the learned Judge, and said—l don't know, my lord, that we ought now to say anything, but we are quite of opinion that this is a fraudulent claim ; while we, at the same time, do not think that there is any ground for the , charge of arson. The Lord Chief Justice—Perhaps it will be enough for the defendants to take a verdict for the alleged fraudulent claim. Mr. James—The defendants will be quite satis fied to take the verdict in that respect. Mr. Joyce said he now felt he had to apologise for having carried the case so far, but he had the case of a stranger in his hands, and he was now satisfied that his client had greatly exaggerated his claim. Upon that ground he was satisfied to take the verdict of the jury for the plaintiff on the plea of arson, and for the defendants on the other plea. The Lord Chief Justice —I am quite sure, Mr. Joyce, you have exercised a sound discretion in relation to your client. Verdict accordingly. SCULLY V. INGRAM. The Lord Chief Justice, in reply to a question put to him by Mi. James as to when he would fix a day for th e t r i a l of this cause, said, looking at the state of the list of causes standing for trial, that he doubted that it could be tried at those sittings. Mr. James slid it was important to know, as there were at least 40 witnesses from Ireland, now stopping at great inconvenience in London. The Lord Chief Justice—Let the case be men tioned again t9-morrow by counsel in court. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Mr. Baron Bramwell and Common Juries.) BUTT V.IIODGKINSON-MATRDIONIAL ADVENTURES. The declaration in this case stated that the de fendant, in consideration that the plaintiff would, at his request, marry the. defendant's daughter, pro mised within ayeasonable 'time to pay him I:500, and that on the faith of such promise the plaintiff did marry the defendant's daughter, and although a reasonable time had elapsed the defendant had not paid the sum as promised, and further, that the defendant promised to place the plaintiff in a busi ness, but had failed to do so. The second count of the declaration alleged that the plaintiff had left his situation as clerk to a timber merchant, with the view of marrying the defendant's daughter, at his reqtest, and on his promise to put him in a business, but the defendant had not put him into the business. The defendant plertded that ho did not make the promise as alleged, and that the plaintiff did not give up his situation. Mr. Tindal Atkinson and Mr. Jacobs were coun sel for tho plaintiff; Mr. Layton represented the defendant. The pleadings having been opened, Mr. Tindal Atkinson said that the parties to this action stood in the relation of son-in-law and father in-law, and as there must be many painful family revelations if the cause were to be tried, he would suggest that it should be referred to some gentle man at the bar. • .Mr. Baron Bramwell thought this would be a very proper course, and . A consultation took place, when Mr. Laxton said his client objected. • 'Mr. Atkinson pressed the advisability of a refer* ence, and added, the defendant's attorney says it will cost from £4OO to £5OO. Mr. Baron Bramwell said that was all nonsense. The defendant's counsel, however, would not agree, and the case proceeded. It appeared from the case for the plaintiff, as stated by his counsel and by himself in evidence, that he resides at 7, Lennox-place, New-cross, Surrey, and is the son of a timber merchant. He first became acquainted with the defendant, having called upon him as collector of rents for his father, of whom the defendant rented a house. The de fendant had been a labouring man, earning about 3s, a-day, and his daughter contributed to his sup port by shirt-making. The ,defendant, however, came into some property, and it then appeared that he was desirous of forming a matrimonial con nexion between the plaintiff and his daughter. How the introduction of the subject took place was thus described by the plaintiff:--" At last the de fendant was kind enough to introduce me to his daughter. I went down one day, and he asked me if I liked his daughter ? I said Yes' Do you,' he asked, like her well enough to make her your wife?' I replied Yes,l like her well enough so far—(langbter)—if I had means to support her.' To .which he replied Oh, nonsens e ; I will pay £5OO into your banker's hands, and will makb a gentle man of you." (Laughter.) It appeared that the defendant . then called his daught er i nto the room, and asked her it' she liked Mr. Rutt well enough to marry him ? The yonng,la.dy was nothi ng l oth, and her parent told her tO go upstairs and fetch him clown an £BO note to-put up the banns and pay preliminary expenses. a No," replied the e daughter; for if Ido I shall him no more until it is all spent ;" "and that,' s ' i e s e aid the plaintiff, " was the Opinion she had of m . e . t then'" However, the defendant did give tthheephlarltiff £5, with which he paid for nuttil). up buying a ring, and "ribbons, and such like, f a a n s o n l e adies are fond of." Accordingly, on the 18th ht ctober, 1858, the plaintiff, who had lost-his r' e hand through the bursting of a gin, married l tVie young lady, one of whose lels was a few .inches shorter th an th e ot h er. Accordin g to the plai n tiff's account fa m ily differ ences arose between him and the defendant shortly after the marriage. The.defendant wanted to buy sane houses of the plaintiff's father, and the con tracting parti es got d runk together. The defendant did not pay in the 4500 to thQ credit of the plain . tiff, who " unfortunately had no banker," but the defendant did rot forget to pay in £6O on his own Recount to the London and Westminster Bank on the same day as that on which he was to lodge the money for the plaintiff. The defendant and his son-in-law quarrelled much, and the former threatened to kick the latter out of doors ; " but," said the plaintiff, "he was so drunk that he fell down, and I walked out," (Laughter.) The plaintiff then went back to his father, and took the situa tion of carman--the vacant clerkship having in the interim been filled by his brother—and his wife contributed to their maintenance by shirt-making. When the plai n tiff had been with his father for about six months, the defendant came to him with overtures for a return, offering him a free lodging; but the plaintiff did not regard this as "a great pull," as he had free lodgings already. Then the defendant promised that if he would return he would redeem his promise, and " make a gentleman of him," by giving him £5OO as a capital in a fruit and green-grocery business. Acting on the faith of these representations the plaintiff had given up his situation as carman to his father, and returned to reside with his father-in-law. But still there was no peace. Ihe defendant kicked the plaintiff twice out of his house, the last occasion being in September, when the plaintiff's wife was lying in bed after her confinement. The plaintiff's wife went back to her father, and on the 13th of October last he went to claim her, and was sitting outside the defendant's house on some bricks, when the defendant returned and asked him what he wanted. He replied, his wife, and the defendant said he should not have her. " Then," said the plaintiff, "as you are so aggravating, I will ;" where upon the defendant struck him in the face, and knocked him over twice, on which the plaintiff took up half a brick and threw it through the sky light of the defendant's house. Mr. lA. - xton, on behalf of the defendant, declined to cross-examine the plaintiff, but submitted the case had failed, first, on the ground that the pro mise as alleged was not in writing ; and as to the second count, there was no evidence in its sup port. Mr. Baron Bramwell held the objection to be fatal, and The plaintiff was nonsuited. ASSIZE INTELLIGENO.E. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 19. Mr. Justice Crompton sat at 9 this morning. Richard Peet, James Heathcote, James Skidmore, George Hirst, and Richard Hall were charged with the offence of night poaching in a field in the occu pation of John Richardson, in the parish of Warsop. Mr. Boden conducted the prosecution; Mr. Bris towe appeared for the three first-mentioned prison. ers ; Hirst and Hall were defended by Mr. Manson. It appeared from the evidence of Joseph Allcroft, gamekeeper to Major Welfitt, of Langwith Lodge, that he was on the night of Sept. 15 out with two other men, named Moody and Candlin, wat c hi ng in the field in question, and lay at the bottom end of the field. About a quarter to one on the morning of :the 16th Allcroft observed a party of seven men coming down the field, near a path whieh ran beside a wood upon the left ; they were setting nets along the wood side, and one of the party as soon as the net was set ran from the rest with a line, " technically termed a " dead dog," for the purpose of sweeping the field and driving the game into the net. In so doing he ap proached to where Moody lay, and, as the night was bright moonlight, though occasionally clouded, Moody, who lay nearest the wood, saw him and re cognised him as Peet, whom he had known before. Moody called out, and the whole of the party of poachers immediately turned and ran up the field, pursued by the keepers. Peet, who was hindmost, called out to his companions that there were only three, saying " Pellet them !" Stones were taken by the poachers from their pockets and thrown at the keepers, one striking Candlin in the stomach, and another Moody on the forehead, slightly. Candlin retreated, and several poachers pressed against Allcroft, who was struck down by Skid more with a hedge-stake, while others pelted him with stones. Allcroft cried " Murder ! ' and en treated the poachers to do no more, and not to kill him. One of them said, " Hell not rise again." Skidmore stood over , him some minutes with the stake uplifted, and then the party of poachers left the field, going up it by the hedge and carrying off their nets. Candlin returned to Allcroft, and Moody was met and despatched to Mansfield to give information to the police. The superintendent on duty at once set different officers and assistants at the various avenues into the town, and about three o'clock the five prisoners were met entering the town by the Warsop-road, with nets wet, and rab bits in bags, which each carried. They were told by those who met them that Allcroft had been almost killed in Harrison's-field at Warsop. They said they had been out poaching at Pleasby, to which place the road they were upon led, as well as, to Warsop, which they said they had not been near. Their clothes and boots were marked with soil like that of Harrison's field, and one of them, Peet, had in his pocket a souwester hat, such as one of the poachers had been seen to wear. At the police-station the prisoners all repeated their assertion that they had been together poach ing at Pleasby. Skidmore, Heathcote, and Peet were severally id en tifi e d b y Allcroft and his com panions as three who took part in the fray, and an impression of a foot seen in the field was compared with'a boot of Skidmore's, with which it was found to correspond: A stake like that used by Skidmore was found stuck into the fence at the lower end of the field, and had then one or two spots of blood upon* it. Mr. Bristowe and Mr, Manson having in turn addressed the jury, The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the jury found all the prisoners Guilty. Skidmore was sentenced to three years' penal servitude, Peet to imprisonment for 18, Heathcote for 12, and first and Hall for 9 calendar months respectively. • John Lamb was charged with feloniously shoot ing at his wife with intent to kill and murder her on the sth of October. Mr. Boden conducted the prosecution ; the pri soner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and his wife had been separated, and that in Octo ber last she had taken out a warrant against him. On the sth the prisener went to the house of Mrs. Halford, sister of the prisoner's wife, who lodged there, taking a couple of pistols, which he had purchased just before. Mrs. Halford and a man named Bell were there as well as the prisoner's wife, Mrs. Halford bbing upstairs. On coming into the house the prisoner said "Here I am, and I mean to do it." Upon that Bell seized the pri soner's arms and held him, while the prisoner's wife ran upstairs to her sister. Burrows and four other policemen then came to the house door and attempted to enter, and at that moment a bucket of water was thrown on the prisoner, but by whom did not appear. He immediately discharged a pistol at the policeman and rushed upstairs to the door of the room where his wife and Mra. Halford were. The door was closed,•and having lifted it off the hinges, and so got into the room, he made to wards his wife, Mrs. Haltond endeavouring to keep him off. He succeeded, however, in reaching her. She seized the pistol in his right hand with hers, and with her left his wrist, and a struggle occurred in the course of which the second pistol was dis-• charged, the bullet it contained being flattened by the wall without injuring any one. He had been seen to load the pistols with ball, and the locks were so stiff that considerable force was required to discharge them. It was also proved that very shortly before he had gone to Bell asking him to take a glass of brandy-and -water with him for the last time. The prisoner, who looked a stupid man, was very deaf, and did not speak when called on to make his defence, but signified his wish that a written state ment put in by him should be read. From this it appeared that he was jealous of his wife's conduct with the man Bell. His Lordship having summed up the evidence, The jury found a verdict of guilty of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm; and The prisoner was thereupon sentenced to 10 years penal servitude. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. —LIVERPOOL, Dee. 19. Nisi Prius Court---(Before Mr. Justice Willes.) BRAGATO V. CAMULICII. This was an action for work and labour, for pri mage and commission, and to recover damages for a wrongful dismissal, in which the plaintiff claimed £67. The defendant pleaded a set-off for mainte nance of tho plaintiff's wife and for passage-money, and paid £lO into court, beyond which sum he pleaded that he was not indebted. Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Assheton Cross ap peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Birnie for the defendant. It appeared that Pietro Bragato, the plaintiff, was master of the ship Azor, of which the defendant was owner. She was an Austrian ship, and was cleared out early this year for a voyage to Alex andria, but her destination was suddenl y changed by the defendant for Constantinople, with instructions to the plaintiff as master to pro ceed on to-some port on the Danube to seek a freight. He got to Ibraila early in March, and at the owner's suggestion he had taken out his wife_ with him. On arriving in the Danube the war broke out between France and Austria, and in consequence the plaintiff was unable to obtain a freight. the vessel being an Austrian one and in danger of being captured. The defendant appeared to have attributed the plaintiff's want of success in not obtaining a cargo to his at- tending mere to his wife than to the interests of . his - vessel, and he wrote to the plaintiff complaining " that ladies cal I)Dard were a great nuisance, as they turned the head of the captain. Vessels were built to sail for the benefit of the owners an not as gondolas." The plaintiff eventually got a freight for Liverpool, and on his arriving on his return voyage at Constantinople he received another letter from the defendant Written in the same st rain, and desiring him to send home his wife. The plaintiff re fused to do this, and wrote back an angry letter to the defendant, telling him " to get it o ut of his pumpkin head" that his wife had turned his head. On the plaintiff's arrival at Liverpool he rece i ved a letter dismissing him from the mastership of the vessel ; and he was desired by the consul to give up the command and his ship's papers to th e owner, which he did, The plaintiff then made a claim for what was due to him, and offered to take £4O if it were paid to him then, as he was without money and in a foreign country. The defendant, however, refused to pay him, and set up a counter claim for the maintenance and passage of the plaintiff's wife to Liverpool. After a long trial the jury found a verdict fo r the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. GREEN AND WIFE V. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORK' SHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action to recover compensation for an injury suffered by the plaintiff's wife at a rail way accident between Wigan and Liverpool in June, 1857. There was also an allegation that the company had fraudulently endeavoured to settle the damage sustained by the plaintiff's wife by giving her 12s. as full compensation while she was suffering from the injury. Mr. Pope appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Williams for the defend ants. It appeared that in June, 1857, a passenger train filled with third class passengers came into colli sion with a luggage train near Wigan, and as mall as 260 passengers were injured. The plaintiff's wife was riding in one of the carriages, and Was violently thrown with her back against the car riage, and then pitched with her face against the window. She was bruised and injured i n her back, and she received a cut on the face, and had her teeth loosened. Since that time she had never recovered the proper use of her teeth, and had pains in her back, which prevented her following her usual occupation of a washerwoman, by whic h she had formerly earned 6s. or 7s. a week. Since the accident she had not earned altogether above 50s. When the surgeon of the company we e dressing her injury he told her she would perhalo be better in a fortnight, and he gave her 12s. a° compensation for tie injury, which she then ac cepted. On the part of the defendants it was con tended that this sum of money was bona fide given as compensation for what at the time was Nee l. dered to be a mere slight cut on the face. His lordship having summed up, The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for L 1.5.1 , ot and found that there was no fraud on the part the company. Two other similar actions against the comPaLY O were settled, the defendants agreeing to pay damages for one, and £l5 damages for the other. COUNTRY MA_RXBTS COLCHESTER—Dw. 17. taken ed. A good supply of wheat ; the best samples were at is over last week's rates; inferior parcels une llang les Malting barleys are lower in price, and grinding igunr...„d wero difficult to sell at a considerable decline. Beans peas in favour of the buyer. Wheat, white ....44s to 52s Beans, Mazagan.,32s to 361 Middle & small 38s to 4s White peas 40s to 42g Grey.. ****** 35s to 38i red 38s to 46s Barley 36s to 50s Oats ..18s to 28s IRD—DEc.II6. town t o -d ay w as good, With business, and the last Week'S dl qualities. Barley is to Looking down. Peas, Partridnv ..380 to 39 Whit e .... ... 38 s to 4 05 Boiling .....' 333 38s to 415 Dun .........• to 6s to 41i Beans, Tick ....39s t o 445 H arro w Ticks 41s Mazagan ...... 365 t o 381 CHELMSF The quantity of wheat sl a fair attendance. A very dal prices barely maintained for E per qr. lower. Spring corn "Wheat, white 42s to 51s red 40s to 44s Barley 30s to 38s Chevalier 32s to 43s Grinding 21s to 27s Malt 60s to 66s Chevalier 63a to 68s Oats 22s to 32s DERBY—DEC. 17. T raci° At market yesterday wheat was a moderate show.- lot active, with an improvement of is on the B o nscurre nci ea 11 week. Oats a slow sale. Barley a good shoW• scanty supply, but firm in price. 24a to O . White wheat, new, 48s to 53s Barley, grinding. • 2 - 4 Red do. 43s to 48s Oats, old, . .... 2is • '' 221 to Old white 4Bs to 53s New do .... 4is ...... 44s to Red do.. 43s to 48s Beans.. .......... ato - --6 Barley, malting 34s to 46s Beans, new, ..... ---- s to 27' OXFORD—DEc. 17. An average quantity of wheat on offer to -day , for OIL!' the trade was good for fine samples ; and other sorts vier.. as dear. White ruled at 45s to yes red 40s to 463 Per 4a l ' Barley, 28s to 36s • oats, 19s to 28 ' s ; beans, 3 9 hog peas, 39s to 42s ; boilers, 43s to 46s Per (In 3 to l°ar' F 33s per sack. Hay, from £3 5s to £4 Os per ton. NORTHAMPTON—Dac. 17. At this corn -mark et wheat was in scanty suppY, with a fair trade, at a slight rise upon the rates of this day night, prices ranging from 44s to 46s for white, and 3s t 45s for red. There was a fair business passing' —23 s to 423 per qr. Oats in limited show, with hea l* / sale, quoted at 238 to 35s per 24 stone Deans, old, 4 0 to 50s; new, 38s to 425. Rye, * • alt 640 to —s to •—s , 665. in barleY, GLOUCESTER—DEC. 17. At our market there was rather a good attendance, aid a fair business done. Trade has become firm, and the present severe weather continue we may expect a r!!!! in all sorts of feeding grain. English white wheat, 401 to 463; red, 43s to 45s per qr. Foreign, 45s to 50a p:ericlear• Barley is in less request, at 353 to 38s for malt in g q u' English oats, 26s to 27s ; Irish, 2,23 6d to 263 fid• FOREIGN MAIL PACKET' irs • In the following table E signifies that letters are dospauu" by evening mails from London, and M by morning 131311°' by evening mails from London, and M by morning ...-- eXt 31$ 11 DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of due of Mails. Despatch_ ..:______—. --- Australia and Mauritius, via S ou th amp t on Jan. 12, M SouthamP• •lan' 10 4 Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New Dee. 21 York Dec. 21, E Li ver pool.. ~* 2 1 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Dec. 21, E Liverpool.. Dom ' Capesion, o and St.f Good Ile Hope lena, Ascen- " Jan. 5, E DeYOnpor 1 Jai° China, Penang, and Singa- pee. 19 pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles ~,,19 Gibraltar, via Southampton li onduras and Blewfields - India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, Dee- 19 via Southampton Dec.2o, M Southamp. •Jan 12 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South- Dee• 25 ampton Dec. 27, M SouthamP• Dec . 19 Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto lan. —, 9 31 M SS:untranimPP: jl3: 251 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Dec, 19 S ou th am pton Dec. 2C, 31 Southarnp• . r ,_ 19 Ditto, via Marseilles any". Mexico and Havana Jan. 2, 3 1 Sout hamP. d -- Newfoundland United States and British N Dee. 22 America (by British packet) Dec. —, E Liverpool.• Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma- 1 Jan' 10 deira, and Tenerifle Dec. 23 E West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Porn, Grey- 'Liverpool. . .. o ferdll• town, New Granada, &c Dec. —, M Soutl2l'll • -------- . _ [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills and Ointment.--7 Consumption is almost invariably preceded by great delm lity, cough, loss of appetite, and flashes. The alteratiVe and tonic influence of Holloway's invaluable remedies_t7 rates like a charm in subduing those formidable syrePw"'"' A course of these purifying Pills should at once be c° l ; menced ; and at the same time Holloway's ointment should be briskly rubbed at least twice a day over the back e , ' chest. The ointment is more effective when used All sponging with warm brine and well drying. The conjor_ effect of this treatment is marvellous ; a change for tro: better is observed within a week, and the imp e { steadily progresses. The appetite returns, the shortneshtsci` breath ceases, and the harassing cough soon vell is altogether. BIRTHS.Mra ADLER.—On the 17th inst., at 4, Crosby-s 4 f Adler, of a CHADWICK.— daug On t h he ter. 14th inst., at New Hall, Warwick shire, the wife of John Do Holey Mavesyn Chadwick Esq., of a son and heir. HEARSEY.—On the 11th t Barrackpore, n ear Cal" cutta, E. 1., Lady Hearsey, Oct.,Of a daughter. LEEKE.—On the 18th inst., th e Lad y Hester Leeke, of * daughter. WDITTY.—On the 1 3 th in st., the wife of John Irvin. Whitty, LL.D., M.A. , civil and Inining engineeron and map agent, of 3 b, Parl iament-street, Westminster L don, and Bicketstown Hall , c o . Carlow, of a second son. MARRIAGES. ,BENTIIALL—BATES.—On the 17th inst., at St. George% H anov or-square, Francis Benthall, Esq ., of Lincoln's inn-fields, to Susanna, widow of the late D. N. of Sudbury, Suf.lblk. DAUBENEY—JAcomB.—On the 17th inst., at Upper Clap ton, Colonel Henry Charles Barnston Daubeney, C. 8., late of the 55th Foot, to Henrietta Anne, only daughter of Charles Jacomb, Esq., of Upper Clapton. DEATHS. AUSTIN.—On the 17th inst. , at Woybridge, J o hn Austin/ Esq., aged 70. BELLINGIIAM.—On the 18th inst., at 25, Southampton row, Ru.ssell-square, Mr. Thomas Bellingham, aged 68. DISRAELI.—On the 19th inst., at 73, Gloucester -place, llyde-park, Sarah, the only daughter of the late Isaac Disraeli Esq., of Bradenhatn, Bucks, author of " Curio sities of ' Literature." GRAHAM.—On the 1 6 th inst. , at Bayswater, t h e Dowager Lady Graham, widow of the lat e Sir Robert Graham, Bart., of Esk,'Cumberland, aged 71. 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