The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-04 00:00:00

THE NAVY The Algiers, 91, screw, Captain O'Callaghan, is ordered to Devonport from Portland to be docked. She will there fill with stores and provisions, and proceed to join the Channel squadron. The Devon, lighter, sailed from Devonport yes terday (Sunday) for Holyhead. The Hind, steam gunboat, tender to the Russell, at Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, and returned to the firstnamed port yesterday (Sunday). Icarus, 11, steam sloop, of 150 horse power, built at Deptford, having been fully completed at Wool wich, left on Saturday for Sheerness, and is ordered to be placed on the steam reserve at that port. The Nankin, 50, is removed to Gillingham Reach. The intention of turning her into a screw is aban doned ; her timbers being diagonal, the expense for altering her was ascertained to be too considerable. The Royal. Adelaide, 104, was commissioned at Devonport, on Friday, as ordinary guard ship at that port, in the room of the Royal William, to be converted into a screw. Captain Woodford J. Wil liams, officers, and the crew have turned over from the latter to the former ship. The St. George, having been altered to a 90, screw ' two-decker, has been towed from the dockyard to the steam-basin at Keyham to complete her fitment and receive her machinery. The St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw, Captain Thomp son, has left Devonport for Queenstown, with stores and provisions for the Channel squadron. The Assurance, 4, screw steam gun vessel, Com mander C. M. Aynsley, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, with dates from Rangoon to Dec. 17 ; Trincomalee, Jan. 9 ; Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 16 ; Ascension, March 4 ; Sierra Leone, March 11 ; and Madeira, March 26. The smallpox had considerably abated at Cape Town. The Princess Charlotte screw steam transport, :with invalids sent from Hong Kong, left Simon's Bay, for Spithead, on Feb. 8, calling at Table Bay, whence it was expected she would sail about the 13th. The Russian squadron were at Simon's Bay, intending to sail for the Amoor River about the 20th. The Boscawen, 70, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8.; the Lyra, 16, the Persian, 12, and. the Surprise, 4, were in Simon's Bay. The small pox was prevalent among the negro population of Sierra Leone. Commodore C. Wise, with his broad pendant on board the Vesuvius, 6, paddlewheel steamer, arrived at Sierra Leone from the westward on the 11th of March. About 40 miles N.W. of Sierra Leone she passed the American mail steamer. The Stately, of Swansea, arrived at Madeira on the 26th, and reported having experienced heavy S.W. winds. The Assurance performed the journey from Trincomalee to the Cape—a distance of 4,653 miles —in 27 days 111 hours, 2,148 out of that under steam with a consumption of 92 tons of fuel ; had very fine weather the whole passage up to Madeira, and thence to the Bay strong westerly and north westerly winds ; in crossing the Bay light northerly winds, springing up off Ushant to strong S.E., veer ing to strong S.W. in the Channel. She brings home only two invalids. The Assurance was commissioned by her present commander at Portsmouth on the 17th of July, 1857, forming one of the squadron spe cially commissioned for the East Indies under the supplementary vote of the House of Commons. She sailed for Calcutta from England on the 26th of Aug. in that year, touching at Madeira, Rio Janeiro, the Cape, Point de Galle, and Trincomalee, arriving at Calcutta on the 4th January, 1858, . being 101 days performing the voyage, running over a distance of 14,770 miles ; out of this steaming 6,024, with a consumption of 385 tons of coal. On arriving at Calcutta her draught of water, 11 feet 6 inches, being too great to ascend the Ganges, she was des patched to Rangoon, since which period, with the exception of a voyage between that port and Cal cutta, she has been constantly employed in the Rangoon river. The Assurance has been very healthy , the whole period of her commission. The Peninsula screw steamer, laden with heavy ordnance stores for Gibraltar, put into Spithead on Saturday. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Commander W. E. Triscott to be Superintendent of the Packet Service at Dover; A. J. B. Collins, mate, to the Algiers ; Henry M'lnroy, midshipman, to the Doris ; Samuel G. Robison, paymaster, confirmed to the Assurance ; and Silas W. Parker, paymaster, confirmed to the Adventure. THE ARMY. Major-General Slade, late commandant of the camp at Colchester, left on Friday afternoon for Guernsey, where he has received a command; Col, Bloomfield, the gallant General's successor at Col chester, has assumed the command of the camp. General Frederick Chas. White, one of the oldest Generals in the army, being the fourth in seniority on the list of general officers, died on Friday last. The deceased General was for many years in the Grenadier Guards, and in 1793 was appointed Brigade-Major to the Guards employed in the cam paign in Flanders, and was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk, and at the action and storming of Lincelles. His commissions bore deo as follows :—Ensign, Feb. 19, 1781 ; Lieutenant, Dec. 30, 1782 ; Captain, May 6, 1783 ; Major, Jan. 1, 1794; Lieut.-Colonel, Sept. 5, 1796 ; Colonel, Jan. 1, 1805 ; Major-General, July 25,1810 ; Lieut.- General, Aug. 12, 1819 ; and General, Jan. 10, 1837. The following detachments will embark for the Cape of (Sood Hope on board the screw steam troop ship Perseverance, Commander Power, reported ready for sea at Portsmouth, about the 10th inst. : —From Portsmouth—Royal Artillery-1 officer, 68 men, 2 soldiers' wives, and 4 children ; Ist Bat talion 2d Foot-1 field officer, 2 ladies, 4 children and 2 female servants, 6 soldiers' wives and 5 chil dren ; 85th Foot-1 man • Cape Rifles-1 man; Royal Engineers-1 soldier's wife and 3 children ; St. Helena Regiment-3 men and 1 soldier's wife ; Staff-1 surgeon. From Pembroke-85th Foot -5 officers, 104 men, 4 soldiers' wives, and 4 children. From Queenstown- 59 th Foot-5 officers, 1 lady, 2 children, 2 female servants, 174 men, 48 soldiers' wifes, 47 children, and 1 schoolmaster. A very handsome timepiece has been presented to Quartermaster M. Bradford, Royal Engineers, Chatham, the hon. secretary of the Central Associa tion for Relieving the Wives of Soldiers and Sailors on Foreign Service, by the wives and widows of soldiers and sailors at Chatham, as a mark of their gratitude to him for his humane conduct towards them in connection with the association. Since the association has been in existence at Chatham it has been the means of effecting a vast amount of good among the class for whose benefit it was established by bringing them up to habits of industry, so as to prevent their becoming a burden upon others. This association has at the present time upwards of 200 women under its protection, all of whom are work ing at industrial employments, and paid out of the funds. The affairs are conducted by the Rev. A. 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It enables deal! persons to hear. distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the unplea sant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely re moved; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.--39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Obaervo— opposite the Yotk Hotel, W. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A very crowded meeting of this soc . ( ty was held on Monday evening at Burlingto -house— Sir R. I. Murchison, president, in the chair. Among those present were the Earle of Ripon, Albemarle, Ducie, and Sheffield ; Lord Alfre d Churchill, Lord Keane, Generals Porth ck, Cannon, Anstruther, Cameron, and Phillips ; Admiral Sir G. Back, Sir John Davis, Sir J. Clarke, Captain Carr, of the United States ; Sir H. Rawlinson, Sir E. Belcher, Mr. Stephenson, M.P., Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P., Alderman Salomons, M.P., B,:e. The papers read were :—Notes of a Voyage up the Yang-tse-Keang, from Wosung to Hankow ; by Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, F.R.G.S., Secretary to the Earl of Elgin, with a chart of the river, by Capt. Sherrard Osborne, R.N., F.R.G.S. ; 2. View of the Great Valley of the Yang-tse-Keang before and after its occupation by the rebels, by Sir John Davis, Bart., F.R.G.S. ; and 3. Ascent of the Yang-tse-Keang, by Lieut. W. Blackney, R.N., dommunicated by Captain Bryon Drury, RN., F.R.G.S. Dr. SHAW, the secretary, read the paper fur nished by Mr. Oliphant. It commenced by ob serving that, although the expedition up the great river of China popularly known as the Yang-tse- Keang, from which the British Embassy had just returned, was undertaken in pursuance of a policy of which that interesting event formed a con cluding episode, it was a source of great gratifica tion to those engaged in it to feel that its geo graphical value was fully equal to its political im portance, and that while employed in forwarding the interests of Great Britain in those quarters they might also incidentally be the means of rendering some service to the great cause of geographi cal discovery. It was scarcely too much to assert that the ascent for the first time of an un known river for a distance of upwards of six hun dred miles from its mouth, in a ship of 1,300 tons, drawing 16 feet of water, was an achievement which had never been surpassed. The breadth of the river and the nature of its channel were equally unknown, but it was not unknown that many of the principal cities on its banks were in the hands of the rebels ; it was therefore deemed advisable that Lord Elgin should be accompanied by a naval force to Hankow, the point fixed upon as the ulti mate destination of the expedition. The squadron left its anchorage a little above the mouth of Shang hai on the 9th of November, consisting of her Ma• jesty's ships Retribution, Furious, and Cruizer, the gunboat Dove, and gunboat Lee. In consequence of the great draught of water of the Retribution, she was left at an Imperial town about 90 miles above Nankin. All the other ships reached Han kow. The facility with which the Cruizer, of 750 tons, drawing 14 feet water, made the passage to Hankow was the more remarkable as she was fur- nished only with an auxiliary screw of 60-horse power. The importance of that fact would be better appreciated when they came to consider the com mercial capabilities of the river. The expedition bad not proceeded far before they discovered that the channel of the river had undergone such a total change as to render the charts upon which Captains Kellett and Collinson had expended so much labour calculated rather to mislead than to guide. 24 hours had scarcely elapsed before every ship dis covered a new sandbank. Shoals had been con verted into islands, or had disappeared. On the 11th the expedition passed the Lanshaw or Wolf's-hill Pagoda, a conspicuous object on the left bank, perched upon a conical hill, which rises abruptly from the plain. Opposite lay the village and Fort of Fouchan, " The Hill of Peace," situated on low hills. The river at this point was about six miles in breadth. Here the progress of the expedition again received a sud den check.. Within a few yards where they were obliged to come to an anchor six fathoms were marked on the chart of Captains Kellett and Col linson, while the soundings of the expedition gave just six feet. Mr. Oliphant on this point observed that the important changes which had thus been found to have taken place in the direction of the current of the river rendered an extended survey of its branches a work not only of great necessity in a hydrographical point of view, but, in the present state of our altered relations with China, of the utmost importance in the interest of our com merce with that country. After describing the difficulty of navigating a portion of the river which a British fleet of eighty sail passed unscathed in 1843, and also their visit to the ruins of the city of Chian-Kiang, Mr. Oliphant proceeded to give a picturesque description of the progress of the ex pedition up the river. They passed Kinshan or Golden Island, a rock on which stood a ruined pagoda and the remains of some temples ; but the rock was now no longer an island, though 15 years ago it was divided from tht mainland by a channel, in which according to the chart there were 10 fathoms of water. From the summit of this rock an extensive view was obtained over a vast plain to the north ; following with the eye the winding of course of the grand canal, and seeing the ruined town of K wachow, marking the spot at which it entered the Yang-tse-Keang, two or three war junks were the only signs of river life at a point once celebrated as a focus of commercial activity.' It was worthy of note that it was only from that point to the sea that the river Yang-tae-Keang was known to the Chinese by that name. Hencefor ward the expedition heard it called only the Ta Keang, or Great River. On the afternoon of the 20th they passed the advanced junks of the Imperial fleet at present blockading Nan kin. A few minutes afterwards the flag of truce hoisted by the Lee was fired upon by the rebels. A collision ensued, but was soon ended. Kewh-sien was the first Imperial town the expedition reached since entering the rebel coun try at Nankin. Leaving the Retribution at Kewh sien, the expedition proceeded with the remaining four ships, and reached the Italian-looking town of Tee-Kiang. The river then took a Somewhat eccentric course of great depth, folding back like a huge serpent, and embracing in its coils large flat islands on the southern bank. The navigation of the river was attended with no great difficulty up to this point. The soundings were regular and the river occasionally united into a magnificent sheet of water from three to four miles in breadth. A spur of the Ta-hwa-shan range approaches the river below Tung-ling, that terminates in the pic turesque bluff called Nang-shan-ke. According to Mr. Ellis, the hills in this neighbourhood were composed of sandstone and pudding-stone, in a state of disintegration. The expedition was three weeks in performing the voyage to the Poyang Lake. The magnificent Lew Shan or mountains abruptly terminated in a stupendous peak upwards of 8,000 feet in height. The eddies circled round the rugged base of the " Tsa Cha," or " Jagged Head," on the summits of which the white houses and walls of Hankow were picturesquely perched. There was no section of the river more worthy of attention in a geographical point of view. The expedition had now ascended the Ta Keang for a distance of 450 miles, and had only just reached its first affluent ; for, with the exception of the Tsung-yang, a river which joined a lake a little above Ganking, all those tributaries marked as such in the maps turned out to be ditches almost dry in the winter time. But here the Great River met a feeder worthy of it in a single deep rolling tide. The Poyang Lake discharged into it the whole drainage of the vast province of Kiang-Si. About 15 miles above the confluence was the city of Kew Kean g, its walls running for miles over the tops of the barren hills. Throughout the whole length of their voyage to Hankow not only did the banks of the river retain very much the same character, but the cultivation did not perceptibly alter. The cotton district of Hong-Kwoh, which was the first on en tering Hoopeh, was celebrated; and on the north and east of the Lootien range good teas were pro duced. The level plains afforded excellent pastur age and herbage for herds of buffaloes. Although there was an appearance of a denser population, yet the expedition were not impressed with a high idea either of the fertility of the soil or of the wealth and abundance of the inhabitants. There could be little doubt, however, that the natural advantages which that celebrated mart possessed must always render it a place of great importance in a commer cial point of view. It was not easy to estimate the effect which a concentration of a foreign com munity and the accumulation of foreign capital at that point might produce. There could be no doubt that few rivers in the world offered greater facili ties for navigation than Ta Keang, and, although a ship drawing 16 feet of water a distance of 500 miles from the mouth in a dry season experienced some impediments in her progress, vessels of a smaller draught could always navigate it with ease. There was great traffic at Hankow, and there could be no doubt it was the only place on the lower part of the river which had any pretensions to com mercial activity. Political and commercial conside rations were not within the scope of the present paper. Meantime," observed Mr. Oliphant, "we may safely predict that, sooner or later, the mighty 'Pa Keang will afford abundant occupation for the statesman, the merchant, and the geographer." Sir J. DANts then read his paper, commenting as he proceeded on the results to be anticipated from Lord Elgin's expedition and mission to China. He was of opinion that the river would at other seasons of the year be found to have a much greater supply of water than was the case at the season when Lord Elgin navigated it. also addressed Collinson, ddressedthe Capt.soci society, expressing and pressin Ar Lockhart gI their con currence in the view taken by Sir John Davis as to the facilities of navigating the Ta Keang, or Great River. The meeting did not adjourn till a late hour. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.—CIIESTER, APRIL 1. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) THE DODDINGTON MURDER. Richard Bolton and John Danks, alias Banks, were indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Maddocks, on the night of the 28th November, 1858, at Doddington, in this county. Mr. Welsby, Mr. M'lntyre, and Mr. Giffard con ducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown •, and Mr. Morgan Lloyd and Mr. Brandt defended the prisoners. Mr. Weisby stated the case, and called the fol lowing evidence: — Joseph Basfo rd.—ls an under-keeper of Mr. Henry Akroyd, Doddington-hall. On the night of the 27th of November he was watching the Acorn covert in company with the deceased and other keepers till about two o'clock in the morning of the 28th, when he heard the report of a gun, and went with his comrades in the direction whence it came, and saw three men, one in the covert and two in a closely adjoining occupation road. Witness captured Thomas Hulme, one of the poachers, and handed him over to John Mad docks. The keepers had a dog with them, with a chain. Witness then ran up the road towards Ber rington's cottage, and after proceeding a short dis tance dragged him into the covert. He heard the reports of two guns immediately afterwards, almost like a double shot ; they came from his right, in the little croft, so he went there and saw the deceased, Thomas Maddocks, dropped on one knee, about 70 yards from the covert. Witness spoke to him. His face was towards the covert. Maddocks pointed over his shoulder in the direction of a pit in the next field. The dog then broke away from the wit ness and seized another dog in the field ; the latter dog was a lureher, colour black, with white about his neck and face. Richard Evans called out to witness, who went back and found James Beach dead, and another poacher, named Lear, in custody. A cart was sent for to take away the dead and the wounded man. It was a moonlight night. None of the keepers had guns • their weapons were small flails, and some had sticks. The witness was cross•examined by Mr. M. Lloyd, but nothing was elicited, except that there was a rising mist as high as a man's head. Thomas Beach, another of Mr. Akroyd's keepers, was watching the Acorn covert on the night in question ; corroborated the earlier parts of Basford's testimony. He heard a noise in the covert, and pursued a poacher into Steel's field, and failed to catch him. He • saw four or five men in the covert, and, jumping in, fell into a small brook inside it. As he scrambled out a man came out of the covert towards witness, who seized him by the leg ; a struggle ensued, and both fell back into the brook. Some other men came from the direction where James Beach was found dead. Two shots were fired almost simultaneously when witness got out of the brook the second time. The sounds were straight away from the place where Maddocks and Beach were found. The man witness captured was 'William Lear. Witness was armed with a hand-flail. John Maddocks, brother of the murdered man, gave similar evidence to that of the previous wit nesses. On cross-examination he stated the two reports were like those of a double-barrelled gun fired right and left. Richard Evans, another watcher, deposed to the same effect. William Lear said he met Oakes the night of the 27th of November last, about eight o'clock, and went with him to a house in Onneley, where he saw the prisoners Bolton and Banks, and James Malkin and Hulme. They remained there until about nine, and left altogether. They went into a field, set some nets, and caught some hares. The party turned out into the road again, and came to a little wood ; Malkin and Hulme accompanied witness along the right side of the wood, leaving the other three men, Bolton, Danks, and Oakes, in the part of the road leading to the other part of the wood. Heard two shots. After being in the road a short time the keepers came upon him and his two companions. One keeper laid hold of Hulme. Witness jumped over into the covert, and went along the wood-edge, and was making over a low place in the hedge when Thos. Beach caught hold of him, and they fell into the ditch together. Just before he was seized by Beach he saw a person on his right hand fall into the ditch. Believed that man to be Oakes, but would not swear whether he was or not. After he was taken he heard two more shots. One might be a minute after the other. Could not state the particular time. Oakes had a mingled-coloured dog with him, brown, very spotty. Banks had another dog, a very dark-coloured one. Cross-examined by Mr. Morgan Lloyd—Was summarily convicted by the magistrates, and sen tentenced to three months' imprisonment for being in pursuit of game. James Oakes—l am a potter, living at Tunstall. On the night in question I met William Lear at Madeley, and went to Danks's house. Richard Bolton, Danks, Hulme, Malkin, and William Lear were there. I stopped there about half an hour, and then all went through Woore, and turned over a stile into a field. I had a single-barrelled gun and a dog, a speckled one. It belonged to John Mitchell, of Tunstall. There was also another dog from Danks'ehouse, black with white about the neck. They set four fields with nets, and caught six hares. I carried one hare for a while. After that we came to a wood where the road forks on each side of it, Malkin, Lear, and Hulme went up one side to the right hand ; Bolton, Danks, and I went to the wood, and I shot a pheasant. Banks fired after. We had time to charge the guns, and then the keepers came. Danks and Bolton went to my left hand side as we went in. I was on the right hand. I saw William Lear come across the covert from the direction of the lane he went up. When I heard the cry of the keepers I ran, and just as I was getting out of the covert I slipped down into a ditch on purpose, and while I was there I heard a rush just below me, and saw a man taking Lear. I heard the keepers say to Lear he was there last Saturday night, and that he knew him, he came from Made ley. The man then took Lear out of the wood. The next noise I heard was of guns going off, after Lear was taken. I heard two. There was time to speak between the shots. Bolton had a double barrelled gun, Danks had a single one. Shortly before I heard those guns I saw the prisoners making out of the wood to the left hand as I came in, as if they were going through the same hedge I was against. I stopped in the ditch for half an hour or like. I heard them say, "Go for a cart ; go for a doctor; go for a policeman." After the guns were fired I heard the cry of a dog ; it might be five minutes after. I stopped till I heard the sound of a cart come, and . I heard it go back. Then I made my way out and went to Danks's. I cannot tell what time I reached there ; it might be three o'clock. I threw up some dirt at the cham ber window, and asked if he was in. A man answered that he had gone to Stoke. I then went to Bolton's. It would be after four o'clock, because the clock struck as I went through Madeley village. Bolton was in the house in his shirt. I said, " Eh, Dick, whatever have you done ? " He said, " Nobody shall suffer for me." I asked him who shot, and he said Danks shot, and then he shot. I told him I had been surrounded in the wood. They had taken Leary and another. I asked him which way he had come, and he said he had come through Woore. I asked him if he had met any body. He said he met two policemen. I asked if they said anything to him. He said one said, "You have got a poaching dog." He said he had hidden his gun. I asked if the dogs were come home, and he said they were—he saw Danks's dog go past him. The dog I brought was on a squab or sofa at Bol ton's. After I left Bolton's I went home, and took the dog with me. I was taken at my own house on the Monday after. As soon as I got home I took my gun to my uncle, Thomas Oakes, at Chelly. Cross-examined—ln 1832 I was convicted of stealing three ducks and was three months in Staf ford gaol. In November, 1837, I was committed to Stafford for poaching, and had very likely three months' imprisonment. Never took note of the time. I have been in for poaching many a time. In 1842 was again there, for an assault, for one month. On the 17th of February, 1843, I was in for trespass for 14 days with hard labour, and after wards for two calendar months for unlawfully sell ing game. At the Winter Assizes, 1843, I was tried at Stafford for a poaching murder, and acquitted. In February, 1844, I was committed to Stafford gaol for want of sureties. On the 16th of July, 1848, I was committed for 14 days for unlawfully suffering a poaching dog to be at large ; again in June, 1849, I had 14 days for obstructing the police. The 7th of June, 1858, I had another month for an assault ; on the 28th of Septembei last I had two months in Stafford gaol for trespass in pursuit of game. I paid the money and came out. At the Winter Assizes, 1851, at Chester, I was tried for poaching and had 12 months. In 1838 I was in Knutsford gaol for poaching, and had three months. The following year was there again for two months. I remember the Copedale murder, when the cut lasses were struck through the heads of the keepers. I was charged with murdering a police man, but I never had anything to do with it. I have heard talk of a murder at Copedale when a keeper was shot, but was not in custody for that. These and other replies in his cross-examination were given with the greatest effrontery, and were accompanied by noisy declarations of his general innocence. John Salt, a surgeon, was called in on Sunday, the 2oth of November, to P. wounded man in a cot- THE' SUN, LONDON,= MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1859, tape at Bridgmere. He was In gr eat danger. I remained two hours with him, wic7. attended him till his death. There was no hope or his recovery. The deceased was informed of hi .s state. He was shot in the lower part of his boN vels on the right side. He died on the Monday fol. lowing. Peter Edward Farrars, clerk to _Messrs. Brough ton and Speakwell, went to Berr ington's farm on the morning of the 28th of Nov , amber, and found the body of Geach, and Maddocl Ls wounded. He seemed very ill, and said he was afraid he should never get better. Witness sent l!'cir Mr. Akroyd, a magistrate, and the deceased's stai;e: ment was taken. The words were deceased's own, it was read over to him, and he swore to the truth o: fit. The man's dying declaration wan then put in. It ran thus : " Last night, the 27th of November, I and others went out to watch. About two o'clock James was with me, we saw four men running through the wcK they went to wards the pit, but could not get any further. We ad vanced to them, one of them fired at na e when five yards off, the other fired at Beach, who fell dt !ad. I could not see the men distinctly. They were dressed in velveteen coats ; one was rather taller than the otht r. They gave us no warning at all." Charles Laxton, superintendent Df police for the Nantwich district, went to Danks ?s house on the Sunday morning. He searched t, and found a gun. Had directed search to be m ade for both the prisoners, but failed in discovering them. He gave the gun to Lovett, the gunsmith. John Lovett, a gunsmith at Nan Ltwich, received the gun from Laxton. He examined it. It had been recently discharged. [Some shot was placed in the witness's hands.] It is very - much deformed, but looks about No. 4. [Some more shot, taken from Geach's body, was produced .1 It appears a larger size, No. 3 I should think . The one shot found in Geach's heart is smaller than either of the others. The proof of the gun being in the same state as when it was found closed the case .for the prosecu tion. His Lordship then adjourned the. Court until the next morning. SATURDAY, APRIL :2. The trial was resumed this n 'inning at nine o'clock. Mr. Morgan Lloyd addressed th e jury in defence of the prisoners, and contended th at the fact relied upon by the prosecution, that Bo ]ton's gun being loaded with No. 1 shot conclusi• vely proved his guilt, had failed, inasmuch as the shot found in Maddocks' body was shown to be No. 3. The learned gentleman animadverted severely on the testimony of Malkin and Lear, the approvers, who were on their own showing mena pers of the party who killed the unfortunate man, . and who, instead of being put on their trial for a n offence which would have subjected them to ten years' penal ser vitude, had been summarily convii 3ted by the magi strates in order that they might give evidence in the case. As to Oakes, the main -Rillar of the pro. secution, a man continually in pr i.son from fifteen years of age, Mr. Lloyd designate d him " as a com pound of human depravity, era wling along the ground, ready to betray his comrad es," and strongly urged that he was utterly unwortl iy of belief. The learned judge summed up w ith great minute ness and at considerable length, at id The jury, having retired, returi ied after an ab sence of 40 minutes with a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. His lordship put on the black et el), and speaking almost inaudibly from the excite] vent of his feel ings, said,—Richard Bolton and J( )hn Danks, after a long, pains-taking and careful ti ial, the jury who have considered your case have found you both guilty of wilful murder, a verdict • fully warranted by the evidence in the case and leaving no doubt on my mind, nor can it leave on t he minds of any one who heard it, any doubt that ; each of you are guilty. I do not wish to enlarge upon the enormity of the crime. Wilfully and deliberately you sent two of your fellow-creatures before their God, giv ing them no notice of the act you v vere about to per petrate, but you shot them wilful] y and knowingly murdered them both, and for the murder of one of them I have now to pass sentence up( m you. Your days are numbered, and you have now ly at a short time to live, the rest of your time in this: world you will count by hours, and shortly by minutes. Think seriously, then, of the position you stand in : reflect that you will be speedily called on. to appear before that God whom you have so grievously offended. I entreat you to indulge no hope that mercy will be extended to you in this world, an I. I entreat you to humble yourselves in penitence be afore God, to con fess your sins to him, and to seek his pardon by the only atonement you can make. Attend to the instruction you will receive ere th e sentence of the law shall be finally carried out. It is now my painful duty to conclude by passing ; sentence on you that you be severally taken hence to— Danks at this moment fell forward with his face upon the front of the dock. 'Me turnkeys sup ported him, and when he had rceovercd his con sciousness the learned Judge pa ssed sentence of death in the usual terms. Danks was removed in a fainting state, but Bolton, who exhibited great firmness throughout the trial, walked from the dock with a comloosed step. In the course of the day, in sentencing a man for passing bad halfcrowns at Birkenhead, Mr. Justice Hill stated that the judges had unanimously come to the conclusion that on a second conviction for uttering false coin they would invariably inflict the punishment of penal servitude. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Nonwicn, APRIL 2. Mr. Sergeant Tozer sat yesterday and to-day in the Guildhall, and disposed of marry of the criminal cases. The bill in the case of child murder was ignored by the grand jury. NISI PRIUS COURT. 'Before Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury, CLARKE AND OTHERS v. PAIN AND ANOTHER. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., Mr. Power, Q.C. and Mr. • Cherry were counsel for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Keane and Mr. Couch for the defendants. The plaintiffs were the owners of a schooner called the Martha, and the defendants owners of the steam-tug volunteer. The action was to recover damages caused to the Martha by the negligence of those on board the steamtug while towing the Martha into Yarmouth Harbour from the Roads. The defence was that the accident was owing partly to the plaintiff's own negligence, and was partly unavoidable, owing to the shifting nature of the sands where the vessel took the ground. Witnesses were called by both parties, and the case, which was commenced yesterday morning, was concluded at two o'clock to-day, the jury giving a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount agreed upon between the parties. CROWN COURT. (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) The Lord Chief Baron, in theicourse of summing up the evidence in a charge of rape, made the fol. lowing remarks :—A policeman, who might possibly have given important evidence in support of this charge, has not been here to give that evidence. He lives at a considerable distance from this place, and it is said that the present scale of allowances made to witnesses in criminal trials is wholly ina dequate to insure their attendance. I allude to this in order that these remarks may reach the ears of the Secretary of State. I wish what I now say to be heard beyond the precincts of this court. Com plaints have been loud and general, and, I believe, well founded, not only all round this circuit, but on others, that the expenses allowed to witnesses are not sufficient to insure the due administration of justice. Crimes remain unpunished because prose cutors and witnesses will not put themselves to the expense of coming, the allowance made to them being wholly inadequate. If an application had been made to me in this case I would have made an order for the attendance of the policeman. The prisoner was convicted of the offence, and sentenced to penal servitude for 15 years. Robert Stolady was indicted for having commit ted wilful and corrupt perjury on the occasion of the hearing of an information before magistrates, against John Blackburn, for trespassing in pursuit of game. Mr. Couch prosecuted ; Mr. Palmer defended the prisoner. On the hearing of the information Mr. Norton, the occupier of the land, and two of his men, swore that they saw the defendant, Blackburn, whom they knew personally, on the land on a particular Sun day morning. Stolady being called as a witness by Blackburn, swore that Blackburn lodged with him at Norwich, and that he never was absent from his lodgings on any Sunday morning during the time he was a lodger, which included the Sunday on which the alleged offence had been committed. His lordship was of opinion that the attention of the defendant ought to have been called to the par ticular day as to which he was asked to speak, and that a general allegation such as had been made in this case, including all Sundays within two fixed dates, was not sufficiently precise on which to found an indictment for perjury. The jury, under his lordship's direction, returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Couch said, that in the case of John Parker, which arose out of the same transaction, the same objection would apply, and he therefore should not offer any evidence in support of that change. William Dent was indicted for perjury, com mitted at Gressenhall Petty Sessions on the occa sion of an application for an order of maintenance under the Bastardy Act. Mr. Couch prosecuted ; Mr. Drake defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the hearing of the informa tion Edward Carr, the defendant in the information, called William Dent to prove that the young woman had, in conversation with him at Hoe Church, on the Monday in Whitsun week, stated that the child was not Carr's. Perjury was as signed on this allegation, and the young woman and her father were called, who swore that she was at home all that Monday, and she herself swore that she never said either to Dent or any one else that the child was not Carr's. After Mr. Drake had addressed the jury for the defence, The Chief Baron interposed, and said, that it ap peared that there was only the evidence of one per son—namely, that of the young woman herself—to the fact of her never having made the statement to Dent. She swore that she never made that state ment, and her oath on this point was uncorrobo rated. His lordship was of opinion that this was a material allegation. There might be difficulty in the proof necessary to support the indictment ; but the answer on which an indictment for perjury is to be founded should be repetitions of the questions put to the witness, and those questions should be so framed as to draw his attention to time, place, and circumstance. This had not been done in the present case. The jury, under his lordship's direction, returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Couch said that the same objection would apply to the case of Wm. Cooper, which arose out of the same transaction, and he therefore offered no evidence in support of that charge. OXFORD CIRCUIT.-GLOCESTER, April 2. CIVIL COURT. ',Before Mr. Justice Crompton and Common Juries.) WATSON V. WILLETT. Mr. Serjeant Pigott and Mr. H. James appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, W. Watson, was a commission agent of Cardiff, and he sued the defen dant, John Willett, a coalmaster at the same place, to recover damages for maliciously and without reasonable or probable cause causing him to be taken into custody, locked up. and taken before a magistrate on a charge of embezzlement. The case commenced yesterday, and occupied several hours this day, witnesses being examined on both sides, but in the result, the parties agreed to withdraw a juror Sand discharge the jury from giving a verdict. HEATLEY V. EVAN S. Mr. H. James and Mr. Pritchard appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Serjeant Pigott and Mr. Smythies for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, George Heatley, was a poor man, who lived at St. Nicholas, near Cardiff, in Glamorganshire, and he brought the present ac tion against John Evans, a farmer in the same locality, to recover damages for seducing his daughter, Jane Heatley, who had been confined with twins in 1858. _ _ The plaintiff's daughter, a very young girl, stated that in the year 1851 she went to live with the defendant as nursemaid. She was at that time 13 years of age, but before she was 14 the defendant, who was a married man, had connection with her. This continued from time to time till the year 1856, when she left, and went to her grand mother's. After a month's absence she went back again, and again left and returned to her grand mother. order. At this stage of the trial the witness was ordered to retire from court, and some discussion took place as to whether the plaintiff could prove the loss of service so as to sustain the action. It appeared that this could not be done. Mr. Sergeant Pigott said, there was no founda• tion for the charge against the defendant ; and as the latter wanted peace, and not costs, he would take a verdict in his favour, without asking the plaintiff for costs. Mr. James, on the part of the plaintiff, accepted this proposal, and the jury found a verdict for the defendant. THE EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW. THE INQUEST. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Wakley, the coroner for the western division of Middlesex, and a jury of 16 of the inhabitants of Twickenham and Houns low, assembled at the Hanworth Powder-mills to inquire into the circumstances which led to the late fearful explosion at these works, by which the lives of seven persons were sacrificed and an immense amount of property destroyed. The jury - ha ling been slvorn, Mr. Wakley said, that this was one of the most alarming, as well as one of the most destructive explosions which had taken place for many years, and it was most desirable that they should obtain the best evidence with respect to the catastrophe, in order to be able, if possible, to account for the sad occurrence. It would be useless for them to hold an inquest at all unless they could arrive at some conclusion with regard to the cause of the ac cident, and, with a View of affording time to collect evidence for that purpose, he thought the proper course would be, after the jury had viewed the site of the destroyed buildings and the remains of the unfortunate sufferers, that they should adjourn the inquiry, perhaps for a fortnight- An important investigation like the present should not be hurried over, and he felt that an adjournment would be necessary in order to afford time to collect all avail able evidence. A juror.said, that the feeling in the neighbour hood was so excessively strong upon the subject that he was sure, in speaking forhimself, he was speaking the sentiments of the whole panel, when he said tb ere were none of them who would be unwilling to give up any amount of time which would be likely to throw any light on the causes which led to so shocking an affair. He had lived upwards of 40 years in the neighbourhood, and although dur. ing that time there had been several explosions and much loss of life, still there had never been any thing to equal the recent disaster for wide-spread destruction to property for miles around. The Coroner said,there was undoubtedly a great amount of excitement upon the subject, and for the safety of the public, as well as those employed at the mills, it was necessary that a most rigid investi gation should take place. Not only the workpeople but all in the neighbourhood, were exposed by these explosions to the most fatal risks. The Coroner and jury then proceeded to view the scene of the explosion, the devastations committed by which have already been fully described in The Sun. They afterwards visited a press and corning-house upon the works, in order more fully to understand the peculiar manufacturing process to which the powder is subjected in each building. The most painful portion of the proceedings was viewing the remains of the wretched men who were blown up,—viz., Thomas Albone, aged 33 ; J. Compton, 37; Stephen May, 45 ; G. Lewcock, 31; H. Davis, 33; W. Littleford, 27 ; and Jacob Stout, 27. The only one which could be identified was the deceased May, who it will be remembered was walking at a short distance from the press-house when the disaster took place. This body lay at a cottage near the works, to which it was re moved after the accident. The other remains were deposited in a shed on the premises, and consisted mostly of mere fragments and portions of bodies. On returning to the inquest-room the Coroner said, he had at first proposed that after a formal opening of the inquiry there should be an adjourn ment for a fortnight, when gentlemen of experience and scientific attainments should be examined as to the causes which led to the accident. He now, however, thought, as there was such a strong , feel ing existing upon the subject, that it was advisable they should meet earlier, and therefore, after taking such evidence as they could obtain on the premises, he should propose at their rising to adjourn to Tuesday next. They could not wonder at the ex citement which prevailed when the amount of damage done was so great, even at so great a dis tance. It became a most important considera tion to know at what distance from such works people were safe, and this was a question of the deepest interest to the public and the owners of the mills. He had heard that damage had been done by this explosion as far off as six miles. • A juror said, as far as Kingston and East Sheen windows had been broken and other damage caused. The following evidence•was then taken-: Thomas Rowse examined, said, he resided in Twickenham parish, at the cottage where the body of Stephen May was lying. Ho was foreman of the corning and press houses of Messrs. Curtis's mills, and over the houses which had been blown up. Knew the whole of the men whose lives had been lost, and whose bodies or portions of whose bodies the jury had seen. The deceased Thomas Albone was employed as a labourer in the coming-house which had been blown up, and which was called the lower corning-house. That was the body which the jury had seen at the furthest on the right, and that was the only one which witness could recog nise. John Compton, or the other bodies or re mains, he could not recognise. Witness was on the premises when the explosion took place. By the Coroner—Could state positively that the first explosion took place in the lower press-house. There were four men in the press-house and three in the corning-house. The men in the press house were Lewcock, Davis, Littleford, and Stout. They all had got into the press house at a few minutes to 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning. They had to empty the hydraulic press, and at that time they had just done pumping. Although witness could not positively identify any of the deceased but May, he had no doubt that the names mentioned were those of the deceased whose remains the jury had seen. Mr. John Cooper, examined—ls engineer to Mews. Curtis said Co. at the guwortb, mills. It was his duty to look after the repairs, and see that all the machinery was kept in proper The Coroner said, he would purposely abstain from asking this gentleman any further questions at this stage of the inquiry. A juror said, that there was an engineer, a gen tleman named Taylor, present, who could give most important evidence, and he hoped he would be examined. The Coroner said, he would take care that the gentleman mentioned should be summoned. He (Mr. Wakley) considered that they had now arrived at the point at which it was most desirable that the inquiry should be adjourned. As he had stated before, they ought to have the evidence of the most eminent scientific men who could be ob tained. He should like to have the evidence of such men as Professor Faraday. and also the evi dence of some gentleman who was a great autho rity upon chemistry. , On the subject of this addi tional evidence, however, he was in somewhat of a difficulty, and therefore desired to ask Mr. Curtis whether he would be prepared, on the part of the firm with which he was connected, to incur some expenses in order to enable the jury to elucidate as far as possible the circumstances which had led to this lamentable affair.• He (the coroner) did not himself shrink from the responsibility, but he thought it was not fair that the expense of such a proceeding should be thrown upon him per sonally. There can be no doubt that, next to the families and friends of the unfortu nate men who were killed in this explosion, Messrs. Curtis and Co. were the most interested parties ; for, apart from the personal danger to themselves every time they came upon the l: remises, there were the serious pecuniary losses which such calamities entailed upon them. Some time ago he had held an inquest in Bloomsbury when 15 per sons lost their lives during a fire, and it was the way in which he was treated by the magistrates in quarter sessions in reference to that inquest which drew from him these remarks. The inquest was a protracted and a most harassing one, and in conse quence of its being discovered that some of the de ceased persons died by the fumes of arsenic, instead of by fire, he sat day after day, and night after night, and in order to fully elucidate the subject a model of the premises was made. Yet, when he sent his accounts, the magistrates in quarter sessions not only disallowed his fee on 13 out of the 15 bodies, but the expenses for the construction of the model, somewhere about 12 guineas, were also left unpaid, and thrown upon him (Mr. Wakley). Now, if he sat in reference to the present calamity from that time to Midsummer, he should not get a single penny for any adjournment, and the jury would be even worse of, for they got nothing whatever. He therefore thought that, while for the satisfaction of the public and the friends and relations of the de ceased, and to remove the anxiety of mind which must exist on the part of the owners of the powder mills, a full and complete investigation should take place, it was not right nor fair that the expense of obtaining the necessary scientific evidence should be thrown upon him (Mr. Wakley) personally. (" Hear, hear," from the jury.) He would admit that it might appear ahard thing, when the serious loss which the firm had sustained by this accident was considered, that they should be asked to incur further expenses, but at the same time he was assured they must be deeply interested in the con duct of that inquiry, in such a way as would per haps enable them to arrive at a conclusion as to the causes of the accident, and if possible apply a remedy against a similar one taking place fur the future. Mr. Curtis, on the part of the firm with which he was connected, said they were most desirous of doing everything which could be suggested for the purpose of facilitating the inquiry, and whatever expense the coroner and jury thought it necessary to incur to procure additional evidence, he could say, on behalf of the firm, that they would most cheerfully and willingly bear it. The Coroner said, it was highly creditable to the firm so to do, and after a short discussion as to the .nature of the evidence to be taken and the most convenient hour for reassembling, the inquiry was adjourned till Tuesday afternoon. THE PIICENIX CONSPIRACY. Mr. Daniel Sullivan, one of the chiefs of the Plicenix conspiracy in the south, was on Friday convicted, at Tralee, of treason, and sentenced to undergo ten years' penal servitude, a light punish ment for an offence that would, but a few years ago, have subjected the convict to an ignominious death. As you have been already informed, a mock heroic scene was enacted in open court, the counsel of the prisoner being the performers on the occasion. They all " threw up their briefs ; " but why the outside public and the mere spectators could not ascertain until the conclusion of the trial. It now appears that when the prisoner saw an unimpeachable jury sworn he determined to make a scene, to give up a case which was indefensible on its merits, and trust to the effect of the following letter to his attorney, which this functionary thought to have read in open court; but the presiding judge most properly refused to permit any such mockery in the presence of the jury : " March 31, 1859 " Dear Sir,—Having seen every Catholic who was called upon to try me, including men of the highest station and respectability, set aside by the crown, and an exclusively Protestant jury empannelled to try me, who am a Catholic, and this course having been taken after every effort had been made in the public press to create prejudice against me in the minds of Protestants, I feel that a jury has been unfairly chosen to convict me. I will, therefore, be no party to going through the mockery of a defence, and I withdraw all authority from you, and from my counsel, and I leave those who prosecute me to do as they think proper.—Yours, " DANIEL SULLIVAN. " Joseph J. O'Riordan, Esq." The jury, however, supplied the place of the prisoner's counsel in an efficient manner. A large number of witnesses having given their testimony, and undergone a very close cross•examination by the jurymen themselves— Baron Greene then summed up the evidence. At two o'clock the jury retired to consider their verdict, and returned into court at ten minutes to three with a verdict of guilty. The demeanour of the prisoner throughout indi cated self-possession and firmness. Baron Greene inquired of counsel for the Crown what they proposed to do. The Solicitor-General —My lord, it is not the intention of the Crown to proceed with the trial of any other prisoners at the present assizes. Baron Greene, in pronouncing sentence upon the prisoner, spoke as follows :—Daniel Sullivan, you have been convicted on an indictment charging you with having harboured the intention and design of dethroning the Queen, and deposing her from her royal style and dignity as Sovereign of this United Kingdom. The offence of which you have been convicted was formerly high treason, and before the passing of the act of Parliament under which you have been indicted, it would have been my duty, had you been convicted, to have sentenced you to death ; that statute has altered the character of the offence of which you have been convicted from high treason to felony, and thus imposed a milder sentence than that which existed prior to the pass ing of the act which relates to that class of offences. It is impossible for any one who has heard the evidence adduced upon this trial to doubt the pro priety of the verdict which has been given. lam bound to express my concurrence in that verdict. I regret that it has appeared in the course of the evidence that you were a national schoolmaster. It is certainly a deplorable consideration to reflect that a person entrusted with the education of the youth of the country, as you have been, should have become a member of such a confederacy as has been proved in the course of this trial—one utterly subversive of the constitution and laws of this country, and utterly at variance with the alle giance due to the Crown ; binding you to throw off that allegiance, and to join strangers and foreigners in subverting the constitution, and, in fact, enter ing upon a course of conduct the consequences of which would be, if successful, the utter subversion •of all established law and order in this country. I regret, I say, to find that you have been iu the situation of a national schoolmaster, and the evi dence tends to show that others concerned with you in this guilty conspiracy have also been school masters, entrusted with the education of the youth of this country. The Act of Parliament under which you have been convicted imposes on the crime the extreme penalty of transportation for life, or what is now substituted in the place of it penal servitude for life. I am most anxious to deal as leniently with you as the discretion given me by the Act of Parliament enables me to do, and as is consistent with my solemn obligations to the law and to the public. I will exercise that discretion which is vested in me by not sentencing you to the extreme penalty which I am authorised to pro nounce against you, but I must pr onounce a sen tence which will mark , my sens e of its enormity-- I say enormity, b ecause itis difficult to say to what dangerous consequences these machinations might have reached had they not been arrested by the institution of this proseeution, and the bringing of One offender at least to the bar of public justice. Taking into consideration all the circumstances of this case, I have determined to pronounce against you a sentence of penal servitude for a period of ten years. This is the sentence of the court. Mr. Coffey, who; with Mr. Nellgan and Mr. O'Hagan, entered the court just as the jury entered the box to hand in their verdict, applied that the other prisoners should be admitted to bail. One of them was a mere boy, and was suffering under symp toms of fever, and there was an affidavit on the file that further incarceration would be utter destruc tion to the prisoners. They had been in confine , meat from the 4th of December, and he hoped that the Crown would not oppose the app lication. The prisoners were ready for their trial, and the Crown had postponed it until next assizes. The Solicitor General said it was not possible for him, acting for the crown, tc consent to such an application. The prisoners m 4 ;ht have been tried at the present assizes if they ha, 1 joined challenges, The Court of Queen's Bench would sit in a fort night, and the prisoners might make such an ap plication to that court as they might be advised. Mr.O'Hagan and Mr. Coffey pressed the Court, in the exercise of its discretion, to grant the appli cation. His lordship refused the motion, observing that it might be a different thing if the Court of Queen's Bench did not sit so soon. The Solicitor-General suggested that in reference to the one prisoner a memorial should be forwarded to the Goverment. On the application of Mr. Coffey, His lordship then stated that he wox old make no rule on the application, so that it n tight not be hereafter prejudiced. The business of the assizes then terminated. AN IRISH JURY.-A SC_CNE. At the Belfast assizes a jury bein i g unable to agree in their verdict, were locked up, and the fol lowing amusing scene took place in court next morning : The judge said, upon the evidence which had been given by Dr. 111E.Than as to the illness of one of the jury, he felt it to be his duty to discharge them. He had made inquiries as to the complaints which the jury had m ado in the morning on the subject of the accommodation with which they were provided last night, and he had found that, although they had no t every convenience which they might desire, yet believed that the znost had been made of the a ccommodation at the dis posal of the sheriff. The Foreman—My lord, the jury have merely felt that they had not been properly treated dur ing the night. The High Sheriff—l have been informed that one of the requests made by the jury was to be supplied with a pack of cards. The Foreman—l do not believe that any such request was ever made by the jury. His Lordship—Gentlemen, you must know that such a thing as supplying you with cards could not be consented to. Several jurors here strongly denied that they ever applied for cards. (Laughter.) The High Sheriff—The court-keeper, my lord, has made a statement to that effect. (Laughter.) He states that some of the jurors applied for a pack of cards. The Foreman—lt is not the case that we applied for cards, and I do hope that your lordship will send for the court-keeper. His Lordship—l will do so. Send for the court keeper. After a few minutes that functionary made his appearance, amidst suppressed merriment in court. His Lordship—What was the accomodation pro vided for the jury, last night by order of the sheriff? The Court-keeper—They got the best room in the court-house, my lord I placed them in the grand jury room, where they had two fires, and. they had, besides a large room to sleep in. His lordship—What refreshments did you pro vide for them ? Court-keeper—They had a. rump of boiled beef, my lord, and they consumed seventeen pounds of it. (Laughter.) They were supplied with wine, too, my lord, by order of the sheriff. His Lordship—And how were they supplied with beds ? Court-keeper--I supplied :them in the best way that was in my power, my l'ord. They had four blankets, two pillows, and a n. tattress. His Lordship—Did they ask • for cards ? The Court-keeper—They did,. my lord. (Laughter.) Mr. O'Rorke—Oh ! that was i. n the way of a joke. His Lordship—l would be ha ppy to see gentle men placed in your position last night properly attended to, but I don't see that better arrangements could have been made under the circumstances. A Juror (Mr. Ross)—The Court-keeper, my lord, gave us very bad attendance. We co uld not even obtain a proper supply of water from him. Court-keeper—Why, my lord, I gave them a gallon of water. (Great laughter.) His Lordship—l wish to Anow, gentlemen, if there is any particular piece olr misconduct which you can state to me, and I shall have 't attended to ? The Foreman—My lord, I wish again to state, on the part of the jury, that they did not apply for cards, and, on my own part, I have no knowledge of anything of the kind having taken place. Court-keeper—l am ready to state on my oath that cards were asked for. (Laughter.) A Juror (Mr. Cramsie)—l think it is most unjust, my lord, after what we have suffered by being locked up all night, and subjected to. the treatment we have described, that these stateme nts should be made. I repel with indignation the charge that we applied for cards, and I think we ithould net be placed under such an accusation. The Foreman—Cards were never as ired for in my presence, my lord, and I am prepared , to take my oath to the truth of that statement. Court-keeper—The message sent down was, " Rule will send up cards and some more liquor." (Great laughter.) His Lordship—l don't think, gentlesmen, we need go further on this part of the matter. And with reference to the accommodation provided, I think as much was done as was possible. COUNTRY MARKS TS. NORWICH-ArRIL 2. At the market to-day the supply of wheat was fair, and there was less barley offering, late prices beis . mg obtained for both malting and distilling sorts. In oats, beans, or peas nothing doing. Wheat, white 44s to 46s Beans. Maza gan. 0-5 to .--8 I red 39s to 43s Middle & small 40s to 44a Barley 36s to 40s I White peas ......38s to 47s Oats l Bs to 24s Grey —s to —e Flour, 26s to 26s 6d per sack from the miller. YORK-APRIL 2. A tolerable supply of wheat, but there wets a dull feeling in the trade, and all good qualities scarcely realised the prices of last week. Barley, beans, and pe 48.8 in good de mand, at previous rates. Oats in limited .supply, and ra ther easier to purchase. Wheat ...37s to 40s 0at5............ 20s to 23s White do .408 .to 45s Beans .....—s to —s Barley .348 to 38s Ditto; old to 44s OXFORD-APRIL 2. At this market to-day there was more in , luiry for wheat of good quality, and consequently many a: tmples changed hands. A fair trade for beans, with an a,dva acing tendency. No alteration in the price of other grain. Wheat .... .39s to 44s 1 Oats.. White do 43 s to 48 s Beans Barley ...... 29s to 36s Beans, new .....—s to —s NOTTINGHAM—APRIL 2;. At this corn market to - day there : was a sanall supply of cr w heat, which was in g ood condition, with a slow in.— uuy at about the rate s of last week. Barley was int small supply, and fine samples were in re q uest. There was not much doing in oats, and prices were without change. Beans firm, at late rates. White wheat, new, 44s to 50s Red do. . 3Bs to 45s Old white 44s to 48s Red do. 38a to 42s Barley, malting 38s to 44s Barley, grincting 288 to 31i Oats, old, .. 3os to 348 New d 0...... 268 to 303 448 to 518 Peas . , .....—s to —s LEICESTER-ArRIL 2. This day there was a limited show of wheat, and a slow demand, in consequence of the - farmers asking 29 to 3s ad. vance. White samples realised 40s to 47s ; red, 38s to 43s per 36 stone. Barley of superior q uality made previous rates, malting of the best description selling at 44s ; grinding 28s to 30s. In oats there was very little change, the prices ranging from 28s to 34s per 34 stone. Beans scarce and at high rates, namely, 48s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 30s j Seconds, 28s j Thirds, Ws per sack. BIRTHS. Mrs. H. Ames, AMES.—On the I st in st., at Eaton-square, of a daughter. BRETT. On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, the wife of Lieut. Colonel J. T. Brett, 4th Madras Cavalry, of a daughter. BLAKE.—Ou the Ist inst,, at Rugby, the wife of the Rev. T . W. Jos Blake, of a daughter. STOBART.—On the 30th ult., at Etherley }rouse, the wife of John H. Stobart, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES CASTLEMAN — SWINBURNE.—On the 31st ult., at Ring wood, Charles Castleman, Esq., of St. Ive's House, Hants, to Isabel, eldest daughter of Colonel Swinburne, of Ringwood. SIDNEY—LAIRD.--0n the 25th Feb., at the Cathedral, Madras, Henry Marlow Sidney, Esq., of the King's Dragoon Guards, son of Marlow Sidney, Esq., of Brigh ton, to Ellen Julia, eldest daughter of William Caird, Esq., of Exeter. DEATHS. BARLOW.—On the 27th ult., at Havre de Grace, France, Mr. Thomas Barlow, of Manchester, merchant, late of London, aged 82. CLARK.—On the Ist inst., at Upper Norwood, Ann, the widow of Richard Clark, Esq., of Cross-hill, Lancashire, aged 81. DRINKALD.—On the 30th ult., at 18, Blandford-square, Joshua Drinkald, Esq., aged. Bo. Duo:lA.—On the 23d ult., at Paddington-green, Julien Duga, Esq., aged 57. GREGORY.—On the 31st ult., suddenly, Mr. Geo. Benjamin Gregory, of 9, Grove-terrace, Queen s-road, Bayswater, aged 68. HAReisoN.—On the Ist inst., in London, Mr. J. Harrison, son of the late Thomas Harrison, Esq., of Alnwick, Nor thumberland, aged 29. 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 Alkidlesoz, Monday, APrg 4,1859, I