The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-08 00:00:00

TI-1.& SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SFIOW. During the 50 or 60 years that the Smithfield Club has been in existence it has often found itself compelled from the pressure of circumstances to lead a nomadic sort of life in the great metropolit an desert, and velaen it had obtained a "local habita tion," to resort to many a make-shift Contrivance, with the view of effecting something like a per lemmata settlement. " Wootton's livery stables, the Dolphin-yard," Smithfield, were the scene of the first show. Then Swan-yard, Dixon's Repository, Barbican, and Sadler's-yard, Goswell-street, were successively the favoured regions. But as the sti mulus imparted to competition amongst the breeders of cattle, the consequently increasing number of visitors, and the interest excited in the public mind-, rapidly developed with the lapse of time, tb.ese places each in its turn became " cribbed, cabin's', and confined," and had to be abandoned for a thoreconven lent locality. The club, however, stuck With a deep-rooted affection as long as it could to the congenial neighbourhood of Smithfield, as if the genies loci might receive offence should they dare to quit its charming precincts, and it was not without serious misgiving and trembling anxiety, we may be sure, that in 1839 the bold step was taken of removing out of the City altogether and pitching the pens in the far distant West, in juxtaposition with, if not under the same roof as, Mme. Tussaud's wax 'stark. Happily, the fears which were enter ti irAed turned out to be groundless. The annual ex b:sbitions of fat stock from this time forward ac quired a'renown that they had never enjoyed before. Popular favour was lavished upon them to such an extent that constant additions had to be made to the area of the showyard, equally for the sake of the cattle and the public ; and the club's meetings in London came to be regarded as one of the two great events of the year in the agricultural community. The relations between the owner of the bazaar and the club, as landlord and tenant, were not the ordi nary ones ; they were altogether reversed ; the land. lord paying the tenant a handsome sum—at least handsome as it was then thought —for the honour of having him in the occupation of his premises. On the other hand, the landlord appropriated the myriad of shillings received for admission. Time after time, as the lease was renewed, the rumoared fabulous receipts from this source were used by the club as a screw to draw a yet larger sum annually out of the pocket of their tenant as they termed him, end it is only just to the latter to state that on the whole he responded liberally, the amount of his con tribution at length reaching £7OO a-year. Still the cry for room., and yet more room, was heard on all sides. Li 'it and air were not less energetically de manded, The owner of the bazaar could not go on for weer pulling down a wall here and another theire, adding a half-score feet in this direction and a half-score in that. It had expanded and expanded "until it could do so no further without spontaneous combustion. After a second day it was a veritable " chamber of horrors." People wondered that they could pass through its crowded and confused mazes and escape suffocation or being crushed to death ; and as to the unfortunate cattle, panting on the verge of Apoplexy, we shall never know what they felt. Their sufferings were, however, such that the occasions were not rare when the butcher's knife did its merciful work of terminating their career, and the vacant pen was left to tell the sad story. The club had now attained the position of a wealthy corporation, but of course it could not be expected that they should devote their funds to the construc tion of a more suitable building, to be used for but ten days or a fortnight in the year. In this emer gency a few enterprising gentlemen, amongst whom were the late Mr. Jonas Webb, Mr. Joseph Shuttle -worth, Lord Berners, Mr. J. Clayden, Mr. Druce, Mr. Sidney, and notably Mr. Giblett, the well known cattle salesman, stepped in, and started the project of a joint-stock company for erecting an agricultural hall capacious enough to contain the largest number of animals that is ever likely to be brought upon one spot under the auspices of the club, and at the same time accommodate the public in a comfortable manner, whilst it presented such architectural features as should render it both worthy the high character and standing of the club and an ornament to the metropolis. The project took. Ca pital was forthcoming. A. plan was judiciously selected, and a structure reared that fully meets all these requisites. The Smithfield Club has entered into possession ; Royalty has already honoured it with a visit; and 'this morning its doors will be thrown open for the exhibition of as magnificent a collection of stock as the world ever witnessed. The new hall, which is henceforward to be yearly the temporary abode of the club is situated on what was once the site of a range of cattle lairs ; its western facade fronting the Liverpool-road, and its eastern Islington -green, nearly opposite the newly erected fountain and statue of Sir Hugh Myddelt on. The western front is the principal entrance. It is Italian in design, with two graceful and lofty square towers, and the materials used in its con struction are Bath bricks faced with red bricks— and the effect is decidedly elegant and pleasing. On the interior the main hall is 389 feet in length by 217 in width, whilst the span of the central portion of the glass roof is 125 feet and its height 76, from the basement to the middle of the arc. The hall is surrounded by galleries, erected on iron girders, supported by iron columns, 36 feet in width, and approached by five sets of double staircases each ten feet wide_ In the great hall the cattle and sheep are disposed ; steam engines and other implements of two tons weight and upwards are arranged beneath the galleries; and the lighter class of im plements and the stands of seeds, roots, &c. in the galleries. A ndnor hall, or " annex," 100 feet square, at the eastern end is set apart exclusively for pigs ; and the magnitude of the building may be judged of by the fact that it covers about three acres of ground ; that upwards of a thousand tons of iron have been used in its various parts; that the roofing contains nine miles of iron sash bar, an acre of glass, two acres of slating ; and that the gal leries alone are considerably over one acre in ex tent. To ventilation and drainage all necessary attention has been paid, the towers being con structed with a view to secure perfection in regard to the former point; and as respects the latter, the iron pillars which support the central portions of the fabric form draining tubes from roof to base, and the drainage appliances beneath. A reservoir capable of containing 5,000 gallons of water has also been erected, with which hydrants are con nected in various parts of the building, so that in case of fire, or other requirement, they can be im mediately made available. There is one defect however, and the sooner it is remedied the better. We allude to the dark mono tonous colour which has been adopted for the pillars, girders, and ironwork of the galleries and ro ot , and which, seen by gaslight, produces an im- P v "Rinti most illusory, but the very reverse of agreeable. Unfortunately', too, the effect does not wear off after remaining in the hall for some time ; thus the noble proportions of the building and the whole exhibition labour under a disadvantage from which they would be exempt were lighter and more pleasing col ours predominant. This is a drawback, and a serious one ; at the same time it is easy of correction before another oshrz comes round. The avenu es for the public, a are s o spacious and convenient ae to with a fine gravel, leave nothing arrangements to be desired on that head ; th e d of the beasts in their stalls and th e sheep and p their respective pens , convey anpigsid e in unwonted a of comfort; and persons with limited time and op portunities at their disposal will be g l a d to learn the show, notwithstanding its dimensions, that e " with ease in two-thirds of the same process in the wretched, ill occupied may b e don ti me o f a/ vexes in Baker street. They occupied by the ventilated series. of knowing that have the add t breathing Io na( satisfaction • a sweet atmosphere—that is, they are pleasantly sweet for London —in a well-aired end warmed largest that the club The show this year have ever yet held ; hut mgo with last year is the a lity it does not reach Compared beyond a fair average. how is that the the entries of every kind are 419 as against 349. One of the characteristics of t s better sorts of animals are more of an usual, and and consequently there are fewer numerous than rior description. Another feature is that, in the , sttle classes, the prizes are appropriated for the Mil THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NI NG, DECg HBEIr q; T 1861 most part by well-known and generally Attecess ful exhibitors at former glows. On the other Leopold, and attended by Major-Generals Hood by the Prince of Hesse, the Princes Arthur and hand, in th e cl asses of long-woollei sheep, and Knollys, arrived. The Royal visitors, in each We recogni se names to whom a first c r even a instance, were received by the Earl of Feversham, socond prize is a novelty—whilst gentlem€ n who have president; the Earl of Ha rdwicke, vice- p re sident; heretofore carried everything before tr em with a an d M r . B r andreth Gibbs, the secretary to the high hand have had to resign their laurels and suc- Smithfield Club; and Mr. S. Sidney, the secre ernb, with the best grace they may, to their undis- tart' to the Agricultural Hall Company, by whom tinguished competitors, now undistinguished no they were conducted over the building. On reach more. We may imagine, though we dare not ex- ing the committee rooms the Prince was in press, the feeling with which Mr. Lawrence Will- formed that the piping bullfinch of Messrs. Linton more, for example, this year sees the first prize of and Co, had been permitted to pipe on behalf of £2O in Class 31 of Leicester sheep, and the silver the Lancashire distress fund during the show. As medal, which he so gallantly won last year, handed his Royal Highness had not had an opportunity of over this to such a neophyte in agricultural experi- seeing the ingenious little performer at the Inter ence as Colonel Lowther. But, then, what splendid national Exhibition, he expressed a desire to hear animals•must the Lowther pen be to have beaten it; and on his request being complied with he put such an adept as Mr. Wilimore. That surely must his name down to the bullfinch fund for £5. Having 7 thanked the offi cers f or th e i r cour t es y, an d f or the be some consolation for a defeat. A nd so, a g ain with the pigs; what were Mr. Coat e, Mr. Morland, handsome y-bound copy o f the catalogue they had presented him with, and also expressed his grati- Mr. Beale, and General Hood about, that the y fication at his visit, his Royal Highness and suite allowed our old and respecte d friend Mr. Baker, of Christchurch, to run away from them all with the left by the private entrance in Harford-street gold medal ? Well and perseveringly has Mr. Baker shortly before five o'clock. won it, and long may he live to enjoy it, and repeat The following is the award of prizes, the judges triumph in futu re y ears . There are yet two being for cattle, Mr. Charles Vevers, Captain J. T. more features about the present show that are worthy Davey, and Mr. W. Sanday ; for long-woolled of notice, and these perhaps are the most important sheep, and pigs, Mr. R. Cresswell, Mr. T. Potter, of all. On several occasions the beasts whi c h h ave and Mr. S. Field; and for short-woolled and cross taken the best prizes at the Midl an d Counties Show e bred sheep, Mr. G. Harding, Mr. J. Clayden, and Mr. W. Humfrey : same thing in the following week. This year we have changed all that; and, in the majority of instances, they have not only altered their own relative positions, but been completely displaced. It is also a curious fact that at Birmingham last week the gold medal for the best ox or steer in any of the classes was given to an animal that was a cross between the shorthorn (Durham) and the polled Aberdeen. At the Smithfield Show this beast stands second ; but, singular to state, another cross-bred, between the Devon and short-horn belonging to Mr. John Overman, takes the silver cup as the best animal in any of the classes in the hall. This is the first occasion on which such a circumstance has taken place. It has always been a fundamental principle of the club to encourage the improvement of the pure breeds, and they are right in doing so upon every ground, and if upon no other, on this—that a real good cross can only be obtained from the pure breeds ; but the first cross is the only re& good cross, and if it is at tempted to be carried further failure is the inevitable result. The ft ct that cross-breds have, both at Birmingham and Sheffield, appropriated the pre mier rewards is not to be regretted; it must only in the long run establish the soundness of the prin ciple which has hitherto guided the latter club through its career. Passing from generals to particulars, and taking the several classes in catalogue order, the admirers of the beautiful little Devons—the very aristocracy of the bovine family—will be delighted with the number and perfection in which these favourites of the gentleman-breeder come out. They all indi cate high blood, and the prize steers of Mr. Heath, Mr. Neale, and Mr. Smith, especially deserve every commendation. Mr. Farthing's and Mr. Heath's heifers, too, are charming little creatures, of won drous symmetry and beauty. Of the whole 33 beasts in the Devon classes, moreover, we did not remark a single example of over-feeding. All was good solid flesh ; and at the close of the day they stood on their delicately -formed legs, chewing the cud, as freshly as if they were at rest in their own rich green pastures in the warm south. CATTLE. DEVON BREED. Class I—Devon steers, not exceeding 3 years old-130, to Mr. William Heath, of Ludham-hali, Norwich, Norfolk, 2 years and 9 months. Bred by James Quartly, of Molland house, South Molton, Devon; fed on grass, hay, turnips, oilcake, oat and peameal. Class 2—Devon steers or oxen, above 3 years old—£3o, to Mr. William Heath, of Norfolk, 3 years and 8 months. Bred by Mr. John Quartly of Champson, South Molton, Devon ; fed on grass, hay, turnips, oilcake, oat and peameal. Class 3—Devon heifers, not exceeding 4 years old-125, to Mr. Robert Farthing, of Farrington Farm, North Pether ton, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, 3 years and 10 months. Bred by Mr. Samuel Kidner, of Lodge, Durston, Taunton, Somersetshire; fed on hay, grass, roots, vetches, barley meal, oilcake, and Thorley's food. Class 4—Devon cows, above 4 years old, that must hare had at least one live calf—X2s, to Mr. William Heath, of Ludham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk, 4 years and 9 months. Bred by Mr. George Burden, of Kerscott Swimbridge, Barn _ staple, Devon; fed on grass, hay, turnips, oilcake, oat and peameal—had one calf. RERENORD BREED. Class s—Hereford steers, not exceeding 3 years old- £25, to Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, of Cumber land Lodge, Windsor, Berks, 2 years and 11 months. Bred by H, R. H. the Prince Consort, at Flemish Farm, Windsor Park ; fed on bean, barley, and oatmeal, Thorley's food, linseed cake, roots, and hay. Class 6—Hereford steers or oxen, above 3 years old— £3o, to Mr. William Aldworth, of Frilford, Abingdon, Berks, 4 years and 2 months. Bred by Mr. Michael Ockey, of Thruxton, Hereford ; fed on hay, swedes, mangel, barley and beanmeal, and oilcake. Class 7—Hereford heifers, not exceeding 4 years 01d— £25, to Mr. Edward Urwick, of Felton, Ludlow, Salop, Portway, 3 years 11 months 2 weeks and 2 days. Bred by exhibitor ; fed on roots, grass, oat and beanmeal, oilcake, and a little artificial food. _ _ . Class B—Hereford cows, above 4 years old, that must have had at least 1 live calf—£2s, to Mr. Turner, of The Leen, Pembridge, Leominster, Hereford, Countess, 5 years and 4 months. Bred by exhibitor, fed on hay, swedes, bean and oat flour, with a little oilcake—had 2 calves. SHORT-HORNED BREEDS. Class 9—Short-horned steers, not exceeding 3 years old —£3o, to the Duke of Beaufort, of Badminton, Chipping ham, Wilts, 2 years 7 months and 2 weeks. Bred by Wil liam Butler, of Badminton, Chippingham ; fed on hay, roots, meal, and cake. Class 10.=-Short-horned steers or oxen, above 3 three old—£3o, to the Earl Howe, of Gopsall-hall, Atherston, Leicester, 3 three years and 8 months old. Bred by Mr. J. H. Langston, of Sarsden-house, Chipping Norton, Ox ford ; fed on linseed cake, molasses, meal, and roots. Class 11—Short-horned heifers, not exceeding 4 years old—£2s, to Mr. Robert Tennant of Scarcroft-lodge, Leeds, Yorkshire, Rosa, 6 years 6 months and 10 days. Bred by the exhibitor; fed on oilcake, bean meal, Thorley's food, turnips, hay, &o. Class 12—Short-horned cows, above 4 years old, that must have had at least one live calf---£25, to Mr. Richard Eastwood, of Swinshaw, Burnley, Lancaster, Rosette, 6 years and 5 months. Bred by Mr. William Wetherell, of Aldborougb, near Darlington, York; fed on Thorley's food, hay, and a little bean meal—had three calves. ST'c The Herefords are more numerons than last year, but show no particular improvement ; whilst there are several unwieldy specimens, bearing much too large an allowance of mere fat. General Hood's 2 year and 11 months steer, from the stock of the late Prince Consort at the Flemish farm, takes the first prize of £3O, although it only won the third prize at Birmingham—a fact that needs no commentary in considering the merits of the show in this department. In the classes for short-horns, which are unusu ally numerous, there are many fine beasts of a breed which is perhaps affected by butchers more than any other. The Duke of Beaufort, Earl Howe, Mr. J. Pain, Mr. Tennant, and Mr. Eastwood, are among the successful exhibitors. Mr. Tennant's 3 years and 6 months heifer is awarded the silver cup as the best in any of the classes. Mr. Eastwood's 6 years and 5 months heifer, which achieved a similar distinction at Birmingham, has a prize of £25; and Mr. Stratton's and Mr. Pain's heifers, which took the second and third prizes at Bir mingham, change places now, There is a capital collection of the Sussex breed, and some of them display so close a resemblance to the Devons that the difference is scarcely distin guishable by the uneducated and unpractised eye. Indeed the principal difference consists in the length of the limbs and the back, which is greater than that of the Devons, and in the temper and disposi tion, which is less lively than that of the latter. There are only two polled Norfolk or Suffolk steers ; these, however, are very good ; and one long-horned ox, which for its angularities, length of horn, and general ugliness is not to be sur passed within the four seas. Amongst the Scotch polled breeds, Mr. IPCombie's and Mr. Stewart's oxen, which won first and second prizes at Birming ham, change places, and, as it appears to us, with L credit to the discrimination of the Smithfield Class 13—Stssex steers or oxen, of any age—S2s, to Mr. Thomas Child, of Slinfold, Horsham, Sussex, 3 years and 9 months. Bred by exhibitor ; fed on hay, swedes, mange', oil cake, and bean meal—gold modal to breeder. Class 14—Sussex heifers or cows, of any age—MO, to Mr. Edward Cane, of Berwick Court, Lewes, Sussex, Lark, 5 years and 10 months. Bred by exhibitor; fed on cake, meal, roots, hay, &c.—had two calves. judges. In the classes for cross breeds will be faund Mr Stewart's 4 years and 8 months mixed short-horn and polled Aberdeen. This is the animal which took the gold medal at Birmingham, It is a fine beast, such as brings joy to the butcher's heart, carrying a large coating of meat of excellent qua lity ; but Mr. Overman's 3 years and 4 months cross-bred Devon and Durham has the preference awarded to it, and carries off the silver cup. It is a magnificent cross, in which the qualities of the twc breeds are blended in the greatest perfection, and requires no particular acumen on the part of any one to detect its superiority as a fat beast. The sheep classes are filled to repletion in every department. Leicesters come out in force, and in dicate some slight improvement. The silver cup is awarded to Mr. Foljambe, but without disparage ment of his pen it is hinted by more than one exhi bitor that the judges have been guided in their de cisions more by size than by quality. The Cots wolds include several fine specimens of the breed, and show that they are daily making rapid ad vances. It is in the Southdowns, however, that the show of sheep may chiefly pride itself. Mr. Rigden, of Hove, the steady rival in this description of stock of the late Duke of Richmond, is now once again at the top of the tree. His pen of twenty and a half months Soathdowns are far ahead of everything in the hall. A more splendid " three" we never saw, and rightly do they deserve the honour of receiving the silver cup which has been conferred upon them. The Goodwood flock is also represented, but the noble owner takes only a prize of £l5, and a third prize of £5. Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Oxford downs are increasingly encouraged, and the moun tain kinds possess considerable merits. Mr. Stillgoe, of Banbury, appropriates the silver medal for cross-brede, his pen consisting of mixed Sussex and Cotswolds. The show of pigs is not extraordinarily large. Most of the famous exhibitors are represented ; but the gold medal, the first prize of £l5, and a silver medal, are adjudged to Mr. W. Baker, of Christ church, for a peu of 15 months and 3 weeks improved Hampshires, bred by the exhibitor from the stock of Mr. Coate, of Hammoou, Blandford• Never before in the history of the club have the pigs enjoyed such luxurious quarters, and they show their appreciation of the car e w ith w hi c h t h ey are t rea t e d by being— for pigs —remarkably well conducted.l n the galleries there is an immense display of P,PP (Is and roots, at stalls arranged in the most manner for the agr i cu l tura l eye; an d, o f tempting manner Messrs. Messrs. T . Gibbs a n d S on , M essrs. W r i g ht ec y t s c G t h i b e b r a o n m d i n n o t " a n n n d d c o l‘ n r s e p s i s c r u ous posi t i ons in hi s Carter an d C o. locality. On the O d n i sSaturday, whilst of their duties, judges were engaged in the hall was visited by the Duke of Cambrid ge, thse,D u t ehess of Cambrid ge, „ an d the Princess Mary ; d b scarce ly fnished their inspection Royal end party had qu i tted the building when the Prince of W ales, accompanied year (under 22 months) ; each sheep shall not exceed 2001 be. live weight ; pens of three—£ 2o , to Mr. William Rigden, of Hove, Brighton, Sussex, 20 months and 2 weeks. Bred by exhibitor. Class 37—Fat wether sheep of the Southdown breed, 2 years old (above 22 and under 31 months) ; pens of three — £2O, to the Duke of Richmond, of Goodwood. Chichester, Sussex, 32 months and 2 weeks. Bred by exhibitor, HAmrsHIRE O R WILTSHIRE DOWNS. Class 38—Fat wetter sheep, of the Hampshire or Wilt shire Down breed, 1 year old (under 22 months) ; pens of three—£2o, to Mr. William Brown Canning, of Elston-hill, Devizes, Wilts, 21 months' improved Hampshire Down. Bred by exhibitor. DARING JEWELLERY ROBBERIES IN BIRMINGHAM. CAPTURE OF THE THIEVES. On Friday a gang of thieves, who it is believed have been recently engaged in a series of daring jewellery robberies in London and Birmingham, were captured with a quantity of stolen property about them, and safely lodged in Moor-street Po lice-station. The plan of operation, though old in principle, is invested with some novelty in detail, and hence, no doubt, the suc cess which has hitherto attended the exploits of the thieves. We select one case out of many as an illustration. On Thursday two persons of somewhat gentle manly bearing called at the warehouse of Messrs. C. Payton and Co., in Northampton-street, and repre senting that they were foreign merchants who had come over to England to purchase jewellery, looked casually through the stock, and made an appoint ment to select what they wanted at 10 o'clock on Friday morning. True to their appointment there they were on that morninz. They were again shown round, and after some time picked out from £lOO to £350 worth of goods, which were to form their in tended purchase. Over and above these articles, however, the attendant thought, though he was not sure, that they picked out, in a felonious sense, a good many others, for he fancied he missed several things during their progress. Not feeling sufficiently satisfied to charge them with the robbery, Messrs. Payton allowed them to leave the place, and imme diately overhauled their stock, when they found that some coloured gold brooches and earrings were gone. They at once sent after the cab in which the foreign merchants had departed, and found the ob jects of their search just as they were leaving the warehouse of a neighbouring jeweller. Both were induced to come back to Messrs. Payton's ware- house, where they were charged with the robbery. They of course denied it, but after a good deal of discussion drew out of their pockets eight coloured gold brooches and 13 pairs of earrings, worth alto gether about £35, which they admitted they had taken from the warehouse on the occasion of their visit a few minutes before. They were at once given into custody and taken into the Kenion-street police-station. There they were searched, and upon them were found no less than 34 gold pencil cases, which had been stolen in a similar manner from the warehouse of Mr. Baker, of Augusta-street, whom they had visited before patronising Messrs. Payton. As it was believed that the prisoners had been concerned in other robberies of the kind both here and in London, the detectives were informed of the arrest, and instructed to proceed as best they could. Detective Kelly, after some inquiries, found that several other jewellers had been robbed in a similar manner, and at length came upon the wife of one of the prisoners, and her son, who were lodging at the house of Mrs. Watton, in Hill-street, and had in their possession other property, no doubt stolen like the rest.—Birmingham Post. FRIGH7FUL ACCIDENT A 7 THE BISHOP STORTFORD BREWERY. A MAN BOILED ALIVE. An inquest was held on Friday afternoon, at the Prince of Wales, Bishop Stortord, before T. Sworder Esq., the coroner for Herts, to ascertain the cir cumstances connected with the death of a person named Samuel Curtis, 37 years of age, and who, at that time was in the employment of Messrs. Hawkes and Co., the well-known brewers of Bishop Stort ford. It appeared from the evidence that on Tues day last the deceased was engaged with another person, named Thurgood, i❑ cleaning out some liquor vats, and for that purpose, a short time pre vious, about ten barrels of boiling water had been let into each of them. Curtis was mopping out one of these vessels, and instead of doing so from the out side, he imploringly got within it, and stood over the vat on some cross-pieces of wood that were only used for the purpose of removing the yeast from off the b er, when by some means the poor fellow slipped and fell into the boiling liquor beneath. His com panion, whose back was turned at the time, heard the splash and also screams, and upon looking round he perceived the uplifted hands of Curtis issuing from the vat. He, of course, ran to his assistance, and with the aid of another man ex tricated him. A medical man was almost immedi ately in attendance, but he at once pronounced the case a hopeless one; and, after enduring the most intense agony, he died on the following morning. The coroner commented on the necessity of em• ploy ers seeing that their servants were not engaged in hazardous work, without securing them proper protection, and having responsible overlookers, at the same time, he said, he fully acquitted the Messrs. Hawkes from any blame in this melancholy accident, after which the jury returned as their verdict—That the death of the deceased had arisen from accidental causes. ALLEGED MURDER 71IR0UGH THE lIIISCONDUCT OF A JYIFE. An inquiry, which lasted several hours, was opened on Saturday last in the surgeons' consulting room at St. Thomas's temporary hospital, Surrey Gardens, by - William Carter, Esq., coroner for East Surrey, relative to the death of Thomas Searle, 50, a sawyer, whom it was alleged was killed by a man named Pearce, in consequence of an improper inti- macy between deceased and the wife of the man Pearce. The learned Coroner, in opening the case, said he trusted the jury would pay the most particular at tention to the evidence ; for if the information he had received was correct, the deceased had died from some fearful injuries inflicted upon him by another man. The case would assume a most serious aspects but whether it would amount to murder, man laughter, or justifiable homicide, it was impossible to judge. Sarah Cooper, sister of the male accident ward, deposed that when the deceased was admitted into the hospital, she noticed that he had two frightful wounds on the head. Several of his ribs were also broken, and his left ankle badly sprained. De ceased was seen by several medical gentlemen, but he sank and died on Tuesday night. His dying deposition was not taken by any magistrate. Elizabeth West, the daughter of deceased, said she went to see him in the hospital, and when he became sensible he told her he had been dreadfully used at a house where he had gone to see a person. He did not say whether it was a man or a woman he went to see. Anna Wheatley, a single woman, deposed that she lived at 12, Wood's-buildings, East-street, Walworth. A man named Pearce, his wife, and three children, occupied a room upstairs. The man constantly lived there, but the woman would stop away for several days and nights at a time. On Saturday night she noticed one of the children go out for some beer, and when the child returned she heard voices in Pearce's room. The voices were those of Mrs. Pearce, the deceased, and the woman's husband. Directly afterwards there was a heavy fall on the floor above, and a noise as if the table had been turned over with some crockery on it. Mrs. Pearce then ran to the top of the stairs, and called out " For God's sake send for a policeman for he is chopping his brains out." The woman Pearce went down in the passage in great alarm. The next witness heard was as if a heavy body were being dragged along the landing and down some stairs, and the next instant the deceased pitched head foremost down the whole flight. Deceased seemed as if he was thrown down, She noticed that the deceased had two wounds on the forehead, and he was smothered in blood. Witness went up into Pearce's room and found a large quantity of blood on the floor, and the walls were also be spattered with blood. By the Coroner—Did not notice at that time any chopper or hatchet. When Mrs. Pearce saw deceased lying in the passage she said " 0 ! my poor Tom," and went up and held his head. The woman Pearce afterwards said to witness, " This is all my fault. I lived with him (deceased) for three months, and this is the end of it. Pearce was a good hus baud to me." Mr. Henry Green, surgeon, said he was called in to see the deceased, and found him lying in the passage of W oo d' s -b u ildi ngs , c overed with bl ood. ,'There were two severe lacerated wounds on the fore- NORFOLK OR SUFFOLK POLLED BREED. Class 15—Norfolk or Suffolk-polled steers or oxen, of any age-15, to Mr. Edmund Beare, of Paston, NorthWalsham, Norfolk, 3 years 7 months and 7 days. Bred by exhibitor ; fed on corn, meal, cut hay, oilcake, grass, and turnips. LONG-HORNED BREED. Class 17—Long-horned steers or oxen, of any age—Xlo, to Mr. R. H. Chapman, of Upton, Nuneaton, Warwick, 4 years and 8k months. Bred by exhibitor ; fed on vege table food, cake, and meal. Class 18—Long-horned heifers or cows, of any age— 10, to Mr. J. H. Durbery, of The Chase, Kenilworth, War wick, 4 years and 8 months. Bred by exhibitor; fed on hay, roots, meal, cake, and grains—had one calf. SCOTCH HORNED BREED. Class 19—Scotch horned steers or oxen, of any age—E2s, to the Duke of Beaufort, of Badminton, Chippenham, Wilts, about 4 years and 6 months. Breeder unknown ; fed on grass, hay, roots, meal, and cake. SCOTCH POLLED BREED. Class 21—Scotch polled steers or oxen, of any age—X2s, to Mr. W. M , Combie, of Tillyfour, Aberdeen, 4 years and 7 months, Aberdeen and Angus, Bred by Mr. J. Collie, of Torres, Elgin, N. 8.; fed on grass, tares, straw, and oil cake. Class 22—Scotch polled heifers or cows, of any age—D.s, to Mr. Frederick Woollaston, of Shenton-hall, Nuneaton, Leicester, 6 years and 8 months, Scotch polled. Breeder unknown ; fed on hay, chaff, mangcl, oilcake and barley flour—had one calf. IRISH BREED. Class 23—Irish steers or oxen, of any age—No entry Class 24—Irish heifers or cows, of any age—£lo, to Lord Berners, of Keythorpe-hall, Leicester, supposed 4 years. Breeder not known; fed on cake, bean meal, Indian meal, turnips and hay. NVELB/i BREED. Class 25—Welsh steers or oxen (runts), of any age--£2O, to Mr. Barwell Ewins Bennett, of Marston Trussell-hall, Theddingworth, Rugby, Northampton, 4 years and 10 months. Bred by Mr. Owen Owens of Briant, Menai-bridge, Anglesey; fed on grass, hay, linseed cake and meal. Class 2G—Welsh heifers or cows, of any age—£s, to Mr. Thomas Chester Paws, of Ewhurst, Hurst-green, Sussex, about 5 years. Breeder unknown; fed on hay and oilcake —had two calves. CROSS OR MIXED 'BREED. Class 27—Cross or mixed-bred steers, not exceeding 3 years old—£2o, to Mr. Samuel Druce, of Eynsham, Oxford, 2 years 10 months, shorthorn and homebred dairy cow. Bred by the late Mr. S. Druce, of Eynsham ; fed on grass, hay, lucerne, mangel, swedes, and linseed compound and cake. Class 28—Cross or mixed-bred steers or oxen, above 3 years old—£2o, to Mr. J. Overman, of Burnham Sutton, Burnham-market, Norfolk, 3 years and 4 months Devon and shorthorn. Bred by exhibitor ; fed on cake, meal, hay, turnips, mangel, grass, and Henri's cattle food. Class 29—Cross or mixed-bred heifers, not exceeding 4 years old—£ls, to Mr. John Hunter, of Dipple, Fochabers, Moray, 3 years and 10 months shorthorn and polled. Bred by Mr. Geo. Milne, of Haddo by Methlio, Aberdeen ; fed on grass, turnips, hay, oilcake, bruised oats, and bean meal. SHEEP. LEICESTERS. Class 30—Fat wether sheep, of the Leicester breed, 1 year old (under 22 months—pens of three)—no, to Mr, G. S. Foljambe, of Osberton-hall, Worksop, Nottingham, 20 months. Bred by exhibitor. Class 31—Fat wethor sheep, of the Leicester breed, 1 year old (under 22 months), each sheep not to exceed 220 lb. live weight ; pens of three—£2o, to the Hon. Col. Lowther, of Barleythorpe, Oakham, Rutland, 20 months and 2 weeks. Bred by exhibitor. COTSWOLDS, Class 32—Fat wether sheep, of the Cltswold breed, 1 year old (under 22 months) ; pens of three—£23 to Mr. John Faulkner Mills, of Hill-house, Burford Oxon, 21 months. Bred by exhibitor. LINCOLNS. Class 33—Fat wether sheep, of the Lincoln breed, 1 year old (ender 22 months) ; pens of three—£2o, to Mr. Francis Jordan, of Eastburn, DritHeld, York, 20 months. Bred by exhibitor. KENTISH OR ROMNEY MARSH OR OTHER LONG-WOOLLED BREEDS-NOT BEING LEICESTEILS, COTSWOLDS, OR LIN- COLNS. Class 34--Fat wether sheep, of the Kentish or Romney Marsh or, any other distinct long-woolled breed (not Leices ters, Cotswolds, or Lincolns), 1 year old (under 22 months); pen of three. No entry. SOUTHDOWNS. Class 35—Fat wether sheep, of the Southdown breed, 1 year old (under 22 months ; pens of three—X2o to Mr Wil liam Rigden, of Hove, Brighten, Sussex, 20 months and 2 Weeks. Bred by exhibitor. Cl4BB 36—Fat wether sheep, of the Southdown breed, 1 SHROPSHIRE BREED. Class 39.—Fat wether sheep, of the Shropshire breed, 1 year old (under 22 months) ; pens of three—.Cls, to Mr. Edward Holland, i%L[., of Lambleton Hall, Evesham, Gloucester, 20 months and 2 weeks. Bred by exhibitor. Class 40—Fat wether sheep, of the Shropshire breed, 2 years old (about 22 and under 34 months) ; pens of three— £ls, to Mr, John Coson, of Freeford Farm, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 33 months. Bred by exhibitor. OTHER SHORT-WOOLLED BREEDS, NOT BEING SOUTH DOWNS, mtmrsHutE, WILTSHIRE, OR SHROPSHIRE. Class 41—Fat wether shaep, of any short woolled breed, (not Southdowns, Hampshire, or Wiltshire, or Shropshire), 1 year old (under 22 months) ; pens of three—LA to Mr. William King, of New Hayward, Hungerford, Berks-21 months, West Country and Southdown. Bred by exhibitor. O.XFORDSHIRE BREED. Class 42—Fat wether sheep, of the Oxfordshire breed, 1 year (under 22 months), pens of three-15, to Mr. Chas. Howard, of Biddenham, Bedford, 21 months and 2 weeks. Bred by exhibitor. MOUNTAIN BREED. Class 43—Fat wether sheep, of any white-faced moun tain breed, of any age (pens of three)—Xls, to Mr. James Quartly, of Molland House, South Molton, Devonshire, 4 years and 8 months, pure Exmoor Mountain. Bred by ex hibitor. Class 44—Fat wether sheep, of any black-faced or speck led-faced mountain breed, of any ago (pens of three)—Xls, to Mr. Jonathan Peel, of Knowlmere Manor, Clithero, Yorkshire, 4 yrs 7 months and about two weeks, pure Lonk. Bred by Mr. Joseph Garside, of Woodhead, Hadfield, Der byshire. CROSS BREEDS. Class 45—Long and short-woolled cross-bred fat wether sheep, 1 year old (under 22 months) (pens of three)—£2o, to Mr. Zechariah W. Stilgoe, of Adderbury• grounds, Ban bury, Oxford, 20 months 3 weeks, Sussex and Cotswold. Bred by exhibitor. Class 46—Long and short-woolled cross-bred fat wether sheep, 1 year old (under 22 months), each sheep not to ex ceed 2201 b. live weight (pens of three)—£lo, to Mr. John Overman, of Turnhout Sutton, Burnham Market, Norfolk, 20 months, Leicester and Southdown. Bred by exhibitor. PIGS. Class 47—Pigs of any breed, not exceeding 4 months old (pens of three)—Zls, to Mr. John Lynn, of Church Farm, Stroxton, Grantham, Lincoln, 3 months and 29 days, im proved Stroxton White. Bred by exhibitor ; fed on milk, barley, oat and peameal. Class 48—Pigs of any breed, above 4 and not exceeding 8 months (pens of three)—ils, to Mr. Wm. Mills Barber, of Sunninghill Wells, Sunninghill, Berks, i months and 22 days, improved Middlesex. Bred by exhibitor; fed on toppings, roots, barley and peameal. Class 49—Pigs of any breed, above 8 and not exceeding 12 months old (pens of three)—Xls, to Mr. Christopher Cattle, of Inkerson, Thorney, Cambridge, 11 months and 21 days, improved Lincolnshire. Bred by exhibitor; fed on tale wheat and skim milk. Class 39—Pigs of any breed, above 12 and under 18 months 01l (pens of three)—£ls, to Mr. William Baker, of Purewell House, Christchurch, Hants, 15 months three weeks and six days, improved Hampshire. Bred by exhi bitor; fed on barley, oats, bean, and pea meal,with mangel seasoned with Thorley's food. EXTRA STOCK. Preis. Class 48—Pigs, of any breed, above four and not exceed ing eight months old—£ls, to No. 381. Class 49—Pigs, of any breed, above eight and not exceed ing 12 months old —£ls, to No. 394. Class 50—Pigs, of any breed, above 12 and under 18 months old—£ls, to No. 402. SILVER CUPS• To the exhibitor, for the best steer or ox in any of the classes, to John Overman, of Burnham Sutton, Burnham Market, Norfolk, 3 years 4 months, Devon and short-horn ; fed on cake, meal, hay, turnips, mangel, grass, and Henri's cattle food. To the exhibitor, for the best heifer or cow in any of the classes, to Robert Tennant, of Scarcroft Lodge, Leeds, Yorkshire, Rosa, 3 years 6 months 10 days ; ted on oil cake, bean meal, Thorley's food, turnips, hay, &c. To the exhibitor, for the best pen of long-woolled sheep in any of the classes, to G. S. Foljambe, of Osberton-hall, Worksop, Nottingham, 20 months. To the exhibitor, for the best pen of one year old short wnolled sheep in any of the classes, to William Rigden, of nov., Rrighton, Sussex, 20 months 2 weeks. To the exhini,,.. f or th e 1..-,,, ~... -C ---, „a.,.. iinoeu of sheep not specified in the classes, to Zaclaariah W. Stilgoe, of Adderbury-grounds, Banbury, Oxford, 20 months 3 weeks, Sussex and Cotswold. GOLD MEDAL. To the exhibitor, for the best pen of pigs in any of the classes, to Wm. Baker, of Purewell-house, Christchurch, Hants, 15 months 3 weeks 6 days improved Hampshire; fed on barley, oats, bean, and pea meal, with mange' sea soned with Thorley's food. EXTRA STOCK. Silver medal and £5 to the exhibitor, for the best steer or ox in extra stock, to Harry Frampton, of Blandford, 2 years 10 months 1 week,Devon. Bred by Lord Portman, of Bi yanstone, Blandford, Dorset; fed on hay, swedes, mangel, cabbaage, oil cake, barley, oats, bean and pea meal. Silver medal and £5 to the exhibitor, for the best heifer or cow in extra stock, to William Fletcher of Hadman thwaite, Mansfield, Nottingham, 6 years, 1 month, short horn ; fed on hay, grass, swedes, and linseed cake. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best long-woolled wether in extra stock, to G. S. Foljambe, of Osberton-hall, Worksop, Notts, 20 months, Leicester. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best long-woolled ewe in extra stock, to Christopher James Bradshaw, of Alstoe-house, Burley-on-the-Hill, Oakham, Rutland, 7 years 8 months, Leicester. Bred by R. L. Bradshaw, sen., of Tinwell, Stamford, Lincoln. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best long-woolled sheep (not Leicesters) in extra stock, to Thomas West, of Green-hill Farm, Bletchington, Oxford, 20 months 1 week. Cotswold wether. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best short-woolled wether sheep in extra stock, to G. S. Foljambe, of Osberton Hall, Worksop, Notts, 20 months, Southdown. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the Lest short-woolled ewe in extra stock, to Lord Walsingham, of Merton Hall, Thetford, Norfolk, 44 months, Southdown. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best short-woolled sheep (not Southdown) in extra stock, to William King, of New Hayward, Hungerford, Berke, 21 months, Wiltshire down wether. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best crossbred sheep in extra stock, to John White, of Parsonage Farm, Rick manworth, Herts, 21 months 2 weeks, Cotswold and Down ewe. Silver medal to the exhibitor, for the best pig in extra stock, to Thomas Crisp, of Butley Abbey, Wickham Mar ket, Suffolk, 20 months 7 days, Suffolk ; fed on corn, meal, and roots. In the journal d' Alleanza of Milan, Kossuth I advises the Italian Government to turn its efforts toward Venice and Hungary. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—We can afford to wait for the introduction of a decimal coinage, but we can not delay to introduce uniformity in onr weights and mea sures. As many as ten different systems are actually in use in this country. There is, first, the grain, com puted decimally, which is used for scientific purposes; seconl, the troy weight, under 5 George IV. c. 74, and 18 and 19 Vic. c. 72 ; third, the troy ounce, with decimal multiples and divisions, called bullion weight, under 16 and 17 Viet. c. 29; fourth, bankers' weight, to weigh 10, 20, 30, 50, 100, and 200 sovereigns ; fifth, apothecary weight; sixth, diamond weight and peril weight, inclu ding carats ; seventh., avoirdupois weight, under 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, and 18 and 19 Vic., c. 72; eighth, weights for hay and straw ; ninth, wool weight, using at factors, 2,3, 7, 13, and their multiples; tenth, coal weight, decimal, under 1 and 2 Will. IV. e. 76, and 8 and 9 Vic c. 101. We have in occa sional use the weights of the meteric system. For measures of length we have the ordinary inch, foot, and yard. In cloth measure, we have yards, nails, and ells. There are four dif ferent sorts of ells. For nautical purposes we have fathoms, knots, leagues, and geographical miles, differing from the common mile. Tho fathom of a man cf war is 6 feet; of a merchant vessel, 51 feet ; of a fishing-smack, 5 feet. We have also the Scotch and Irish mile, and the Scotch and Irish acre.. There are several sorts of acres in the United Kingdom, and there are a great variety of roods. We have in almost every trade measures of length specially used in those trades. For the measurement of horses, we have the hand ; shoemakers use sizes ; and we are compelled to adopt gauges where the French use the millimetres The gauges are entirely arbitrary. Tho custom of the trade is the only thing which would decide the question in case of dispute. For measures of capacity, we have twenty different bushels; w e can scarce l y t e n w h a t the hogshead means. For ale, it i s 51 ga ll ons ; f or w in o , 63. Pipes of wine vary in ma n y ways ; each sort of wine seems to claim the privilege of a diff erent sort o f p i pe. F or measures of weight, we have a b out ten diff eren t s t one s; a stone of wool at Darlingto n i s 181 b, a stone of flax at Downp atrick is 241 b, a stone o f fl ax at Belfast is 16. 5 ,1 b, but it is also at Belfast 24i1b., having in one place two values. The cwt. may mean 1001 b., 1121 b., or 1201 b. If you buy an ounce or pound of anything, you must inquire if it belongs to Dutch, troy, or avoirdupois weight. Such are only a few of the many anomalies exhibited by our weights and mea t surer.—The Exchange. -,___,-- ---- --------- head, penetrating to the bone , and one cutting the 1 the two male pr ounsel. isoners the female prisone r was efended bye right eyebrow in half. und By the Coroner — The wounds had be y ond doubt It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor thv he was going along Moss-lane, in Manchester, been inflicted by some instrument and not by a fall. about half-past 11 on the night in question, when he Such wounds would not be caused by a fall. T he was accosted by the female prisoner. lie told her instrument, whatever it was, must have been used to go about her business, but she persisted in with great great force. The deceased must have lost a lowing him, and wanted him to treat her. He stood great deal of blood before witness saw him. talking to her at the corner of tne street, when he The Coroner said as there was little doubt the was suddenly attacked from behind. His hat was deceased had died from fearful violence, he would knocked over his eyes, an arm placed round his recommend that the inquiry be adjourned. neck, a knee put into his back, after ets the apeprrove in The Jury concurred with the sugg estion of the fashion of garotters, and his pock werifled. coroner, and the inquiry was accordingly a dj ourned On g ettin g his hat up he saw Shaw and Kelly for a week. front rifling his pockets. He turned round and struck Chadwick, who was behind him, a blow in the face. They all three then ran away, and ill about a minute, as soon as he recovered, he pursued- the prisoners, who were still in sight. Heventu e me ally t a policeman, who accompanied , and the whole three were overtaken and captured. A - - - money ASSIZE INIELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—DURHAM, DEC. 5. Mr. Justice Keating arrived in this city yester day afternoon and opened the commission ; after which his lordship attended divine service in the cathedral. The calendar contains the names of 18 prisoners. Of these four are charged with murder, one with shooting with intent to murder, one with forgery, and the rest with offences of a minor character. In some of these serious charges, however, the grand jury have ignored the bills. His Lordship sat at 10 o'clock this morning and charged the grand jury. James Walton, aged 31, labourer, was indicted for feloniously shooting at John Beadle and Robert Butter, with intent to murder, at Bollihope Burn, l in the parish of Stanhope, on the 13th of August gold breastpin, a screw, and about 2s. Sd. in _ were taken from the prosecutor. It was proved that Kelly lived with Shaw as his wife, and the three prisoners had been seen in company together before. The screw was found in the possession of the female prisoner. For the defence, it was contended that the pro secutor was mistaken in his identification of the prisoners. His Lordship summed up the evidence, and The jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty against all three prisoners. None of the prisoners had been previously con victed, but it was stated by a policeman that Shaw had been the associate of thieves for five or silt years, and for the last year or so Chadwick ha d been a good deal with him. His Lordship sentenced Stew to four years' pena l servitude, Chadwick to 18 months' imprisona:en t, I and Kelly to 12 months' imprisonment. last. Mr. Davison, with whom was Mr. Headlam, con ducted the case for the prosecution; Mr. Campbel Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared from the opening of the learned coun sel for the prosecution that the prisoner is a miner, living at Middleton, and having liberty to shoot on some allotments on a moor called the Rigg, lying between Middleton and Eccleshope moor, which was in the liberty of the Duke of Cleveland. On the day in question, soon after 4 o'clock, the prisoner was met by a boy named Horn, afterwards by two men named Graham and Tarn, and subsequently by another man named Anderson, on different points of the road leading from Middleton to Eccleshope moor. To those people he spoke ; they knew him, and he had conversation with some of them as to his sport, and be said that game was scarce. He then carried a double-barrelled gun up to the place where he was last seen by Anderson at half-past 4 o'clock, near Skiers-bridge and Parkin's lime-kiln, which was about three quarters of a mile from Middleton, there could be no doubt about the prisoner being there, A;-- other man was also seen at some distance from the prisoner, following after him, who appeared to en deavour to avoid observation, and both entered the plantation leading toward the Rigg, but on the way to Eccleshope moor, one a quarter of an hour after the other. Soon after this two men were seen walking together in a direction towards Eccleshope by a Mrs. Coatsworth, about two miles nearer the moor in question. From Parkin's lime-kiln to Ec cleshope moor was four and three-quarter miles. For reasons which it was not necessary to state Mr. Scarth, the Duke's agent, and Mr. Lax, a sur veyor, accompanied by the Duke's gamekeeper, a man named Rutter, and by two watchers named Beadle and Robinson, met at a place near the moor soon after 5 o'clock for the purpose of watching the poachers. At a quarter to 6 o'clock a shot was heard on the moor, and soon after another shot, and Mr. Scarth and his party having divided themselves into two bodies went in different di:ections towards the shots. There two men were seen, both dis guised, one armed with a double gun, the other had a gun in his hand and another slung across his shoulders. They advanced on the men, who threa tened them with their guns, and three of the party all spoke with confidence that the prisoner was one of the men who subsequently on their advancing fired at Beadle and subsequently at Rutter, wound ing Beadle dangerously. On going direct to the prisoner's house he was found not to be at home, and on searching his house subsequently a double barrelled gun, which appeared to have been recently discharged, was found, and a pair of boots, which, when fitted to some impressions of foot marks found on the moor where the poachers had been, corres ponded exactly. Beadle was dangerously ill from his wounds for some time, having received upwards of 40 shots in his breast and arms, many of which could not be extracted. The witnesses who met the prisoner on his way to Skiersbridge were then called, and proved having conversations with the prisoner, that he had his gun with him, and that he said he was going to shoot on the Rigg, where he had liberty to shoot over some allotments. He was dressed then, as now, in a dun coloured velveteen coat, yellow corduroy trousers, and a black cap, the same he now had. It was half past 4 when the last witness caw him going towards the plantation. Another man was also seen some distance after him, less than him. Mrs. Mary Coats worth proved seeing two men pass her house, which was some two miles beyond Skiersbridge, going towards Eccleshope Moor, that afternoon about 3 o'clock. They had not guns. She did not know them. The learned Judge having carefully summed up the case, The jury retired, and after an absence of half an hour returned into court with a verdict of not guilty —the result being received with loud cheering, which, however, was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court. The prisoner was then discharged. The Court then adjourned shortly after 8 o'clock, the case having occupied the greater part of the day. DECEMBER 6. His Lordship sat this morning at 10 o'clock. The first case tried was one the details of which are unfit for publication. Francis Ridley, aged 44, a publican, was indicted for the manslaughter of his wife, Elizabeth Ridley. at Haswell, on the 18th of October last. Mr. Davison and Mr. Fowler prosecuted ; Mr. Maule defended the prisoner. It appeared that late on the night in question the prisoner's wife, who was said not to be sober, and to whom a man drinking in the house had given some rum, was heard to shriek out and cry " Oh dear !" by the man who had treated her. He went to the bottom of the stairs, conceiving that the pri soner was ill-using her, and cried out " Give over, Frank." The prisoner told him to go away home, and ne again heard the wife shriek out. Next day the woman died from injuries which she had re ceived. The prisoner's account was that his wife was drunk and had fallen downstairs; that ho picked her up and carried her to her bedroom; and that she had been severely hurt in her fall, from the consequences of which she died. The evidence of this witness varied so much from his statements made, before the coroner and before the magistrates that his Lordship asked the jury if they could rely on his evidence. The jury replying that, in the absence of further evidence, they could not, and the learned counsel for the prosecution stating that he could not carry the case any further, the jury, by his lordship's direction acquitoed the prisoner. Thomas Wilkinson ' aged 20, and Thos. Cowley, aged 47, were indicted for assaulting Wm. Cowell, with intent to steal from his person his purse and £2 in money, at Shincliffe, on Nov. 15. Mr. Davison prosecuted, and Mr. Maule defended the prisoners. It appeared that the prosecutor and his wife and son were on the evening of the day in question coming from Sbincliffc to Durham, when they were overtaken by the two prisoners and a third man. These immediately began using offensive and in sulting expressions to the prosecutor's wife, one of them putting his hand on her shoulder and telling her she had better go with them. The third man, not in custody, then told the others to let the pro secutor and his wife alone, as they were man and wife. The two prisoners, however, still continued their offensive conduct, and the prosecutor at last got into a scuffle with them, the prisoner Wilkinson having first knocked him down. Wilkinson then ran past the woman, seized her bag which was on her arm, and in which was her purse, containing £2 in gold and some silver. The prosecutor having got Cowley down, who cried out for help, the pri soner Wilkinson returned almost immediately with a large hedge stake ; meanwhile a policeman had come up, and Wilkinson struck him with the hedge stake, and the constable was obliged to knock him down with his staff, and both men were taken into custody. Soon after the bag was found on the road by the prosecutor's son, and a little boy picked up the purse of the prosecutor's wife empty near the place of the affray. The defence urged was that the n ature of the transaction was not one in which there was any intention to commit a felony. However indefensi ble the conduct of the prisoner s, it was cl ea that felony was not their object, else why should _ kinson have returned when he had got away ? No part of the stolen property was found on him, and it was suggested that the woman had in her ex citement dropped the purse. Witnesses were c alled.who gave both men a good character. Hi s Lordshi p havin g summed up th e ev id ence, the jury found both prisoners not guilty. COUNIRY MARALM. .1.• NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, and prices is favour of buyers. A slow sale for oats, beans, and peas- Flour 6d cheaper. White wheat. 468 to 50s I Red wheat 43s to Os Malting barley ... 36s to 37s Chevalier barley 33$ to 35c. I Di s tilling d 0..... 28s to 30s Oats.. 249 to 28.' Flour, 34s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. LE I CE STERN-SATURDAY. There was a tolerable supply of wheat and the best sorts unaltered in value, but inferior is lower. Barley and oats generally a dull trade. Old white wheat, 5 8 s to 60. new, 48s to 52s per 36 gfcno. all red, Ms to 57s per 36 stone. Barley, , malting , new, 34s to 38s per qr.,• grinding, 29s to 318 ; old oats 28s to 325; new oats, 21s to 258 per 24 atone. Bean s, new, --s to —a ; old, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. NORTHAMPTON. — SATURDA It . New wheat, 42s to 52s'; old, 5G to 565. Barley, 295 to 38s per qr. New oats quoted at 44s to 28s ; old , 286 to 32sper 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 425; new, 328 t° 38s. Peas, 36s to 44s per qr. NOTTINGHAM —SATURDAY. Wheat was a fair show, and came to hand in varied On' dition. The demand was dull. Oats made late pric°6 with a quiet sale. White wheat, from 45s to 63s ; red wheat, 42s to 5 8 °' Barley—malting, 34s to 445; grinding, 28s to 30s. Oats old, at 25s to 31s Od; new, 23s to 275. Beans sold at 3 5 ° to 455 per qr. Flour, 41s to 445. YORK— SATURDAY. There was about an average show of wheat, and the a t ' tendance on the whole was good. Sales slow. Wheat, red 4 ss to 48 s ' O ats .... 22 s to 24 9 White do .5 0 s to 56 s Be ans 40s to 420 Barley . 30 s to 36 s Peas —s to - --4 . Malt, 64s to 66s per qr. ; ry e, 39s p er qr. . ,: i. flour, 1 0' 4 to 42s per sack. -F RIDA T. CORK—FRIDAY. ited The following were the quotations this morning cf 9e wheat, 14s Od to 25s Od ; white, 20s Od to 26s Od, barleY , to Od to 17s 6d ; oats, Gs Od to 13s 3d. ; new bere, --- 0 ° d —s Od. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 6. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C.) Wm. Chadwick, 21, Thos. Shaw, 31, and Bridget K e lly, 23, were indicted for a garotte robbery upon John James, at Manchester, on the night of the 20th of November last. Mr. Pope prosecuted; Mr. Ernest Jones defended DUBLIN— a. fa. d. s. d. s. d. 8 ° 0 Wheat, white.. 30 0 to 34 0 Beans.. ..... 24 otoq, 0 Do., red .. '27 0t032 0 Bere --- to I,' 0 Do., new .... — o to 0 Ra p eseed Barley Oats Do., black l4 6 to 16 6 Indian corn .. 31 o to 0" FO.REIGN NAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Aus*.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... Dee. 13: via Marseilles ......... D ec ' 4, rail and Cape Verds, by British packet....... Dec'2. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Jau' 2, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southa n ipton.De c ' 1 3, via Marseilles ..'D e c, ', Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton . . _ .............. Pee.l)''9,- 2 ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via 6o..ttuamptoa..Dec. •••:,, via Marseilles .... Dec. 1 .,`" India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. IL . via Marseilles .. Dec. 5. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. ,' via Marseilles Dee. v. Dec . 10. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .............. 4, U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet... • Dee. by U.S. packet.. • • W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and TbyenCanriffaodian e ...... Bahamas, via New York ... 29, Mexico • All parts of West Indies, including Chili , P eru, I Dec. 15. California, and British C01umbia............ SUSPECTED INFANTICIDE.—On Saturday' b e Bedford held an inquest at King's College Ilospire l boose body of a male infant, found on the stairs of a lodging . de uce in Clement's•lane, afow days since. The surgeon'ssd went to show that the child was born alive, an d that ;1- 11 had died from violence inflicted during life, as the ektl-,1 fractured. The jury returned a verdict of Found Des"io, THE LATE MURDER NEAR TILE VICTORIA /0°,:ols —On Saturday the prisoners George Mitchell and svi,;lora Alwitt were brought before the sitting magistrates at ciatlY for the wilful murder of Arthur Melton, a porter, rolec`-- -,, I in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway Ca and were fully committed for trial for wilful m urder - Aa, But can we expect the moving spirits at the tjt miralty to be over-anxious that the new kind of war daS s should succeed ? " My Lords," who have passe d the,%tero of service in roomy ships, with fine poop cabins sod galleries, and in full command of fine flush dec ks, end 11-10 Jack, when work was done, danced for their 0%11 all er„ delectation, to the music of the merry fiddle, cannot ""ajel petted to bear any good will to these iron turtles, th e L,, 1 10 merit of which consists in casing up their inmatesjll t ." toe of iron, which let in light only from overhead (and 00 e ' bet much of that), and absolutely deny a peep at anYt il l ri Lt 1)t) the eternal blue of the sky above. " My Lords," co ld brought willingly to agree to such a living death e s 6 of Moreover, our gallant heroes like to fall in the er'-cor victory upon their own quarter-deck ; but, according t° s ets, tain Coles' scheme this will be impracticable : a t all epoo even Nelson could not have died in a dignified raea ter i ., is s the top of the inverted kitchen candlestick—fo r Coles' patent cupola, to say the best of it. But this "ib!) , British Admiral's point of view of the new design• l'°6-001 the British public may have a different idea of teatte!'eoce may wonder, as we know it does, that, after the e%Pe-lotllef of these cupola ships gained in actual conflict 00 01 % 0 0 side of the Atlantic, such disgraceful apathy is itt s e - rs." in putting the new idea to the test in our owl" w Once a Week. a [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment•-",, tll.- legs, ulcers, scrofulous sores, and glandular swel"ljA Ointment operates surely, and with a rapiditY cte seinbles magic. It should be rubbed into the Part e 6 .s c at e ,:j after they have been fomented with. luke-wer •citl' The purifying and curative powers of this lst" one w e unguent hav nev been dispted by anY given it a fair trial. er It contains not a particle of allY r a 10 stance which o it f a ha s done noxious the nature,s slightest t e is s t there harm,a cwashei on l tr L e in e '3 1: 1 1 authentic reports of innumerable cures effected by f. , 1 00 countries. It is as mild in its action as it is power " beneficial in its effects. BIRTHS. ~,, ife e Wi fe FARRAN.—On the sth inst., at Cack field, Susses, '- of Lieut.-Col. J. W. Farran , of a daughter. „ ha w Li- f ' LEEcx.—On the sth inst., at Woodville, Reddish, of John Leech, Esq., a St a lybridge, of a son. ft KNArToN.—On the 6th inst., the wife of the B•eli :olio Knapton, 5, Bentinck - te rrace, Regent's-park, - stillborn. MARRIAGES. HonosoN—PnviroN.—On the 4th in t , at tile ',.ti(l', E Caroline,dward opfarA church,aishh church, ha ur Eastbourne, nrchha,mE,.toT . Pinyon, Esq., of the same place. g g tott n the 6th inst., a 0 .. (Eyre T /IACKERAY — CROWE,-0 t IC O3*ii3o ' gal), to Amy Mary Thackeray, Esq., 1 7 . C., . 1 -'• f Evans C Anne, the second daughter o tt, r D ow .D e' . c B L E j l ei N ntK E n T e T.--On the 4th DinEstAla'tHlSsl'ington, th° ' wec.jilll' o e : , E a s ge d 89. " Wif e .—On the 3d inst~ d , at Bulwell, Emm a ' the eCldheasptrasr:. ughlgrsoofst ::::: Fredk. L. Clark, Esq. " P• DORVILLE.—On the 3d inst., at Inverness, MarY,A..,l3,_,llbte Doiville of Higheroft, Great Malvetn, eldest a,'" of the late Lieut.-Col. Doiwill°, C.D. i a to ' -trice' EYRE,—On the 4th inst., Georgian s, wife of the Adiral Sir George Eyre, .C. 8., aged 83- i $ 00 5 ' HOSK m Y NS. On the sth inst. , K at Herefor d, Chau° a nio kyns, Esq., aged 82. rook, W°l' iugl2 TWYCROSS.—On the 3 d inst. , at The B Af l° Berks, James Twycross, Esq. Dire- Wzmtls,;,—a::.:dtlo.sth inst, at Brixton-road, .., ___------ „a ____ _ ___ _— - , 01 1 ' 0 LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN Cll''.„ zo 112 f 'ce, I' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the of No. 11`2, Strand, Printer, at TILE SuN Ott ice, Oi l bliddioaex,—Nonday, December 8, 1864.