The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-10 00:00:00

21IE FRENCH ritEss ON THE EXHIBITION, Several of the Paris journals have now given an account, more or less partial, more or less accurate, of the opening of the Great Exhibition. The Moneteur Industriel also gives its views in a letter from its London correspondent ; and some people may be curious to know what this avowed orgaa the Protectionists says of that undertaking. "The construction in Cromwell-road," it begins, " Well merits the:criticism p ass ed upon it. People may call it Exhibition House,' or anything else they please ; but no one will call it the Palace of the Exhibition.' The name of Palace' applied to this heavy and shapelas mass of masonry would be a derision. The internal arrangements aro not de fective, and thus far the result is satisfactory. In the middle is a vast nave, terminated at each ex tremity by a cupola, frightful to look at from with out, but which from within produces a grand effect. The interior is divided into four large courts; the French and English occupy exclusively two of these courts. At each extremity are two large galleries. The interior is certainly much better distributed than that of the Palais de l'lndustrie in the Champs Elysees. The first and greatest im pression one receives on visiting the galleries is the industrial power of England and France. There is in the exhibitions of the two countries a character of universality which is striking. Their activity is applied to all branches of industry; and assuredly these two are foremost in the march of civilisation. The English Exhibition denotes breadth and force. Ours is, above all, brilliant—elegant in form, and pure in taste. Harmony of line and colour are the features which a comparison with our neighbours will show to be this most prominent. In truth, Parisian industry constitutes the entire French ex hibition. It is Paris that furnished forth our exhibition. The great producers have abstained en masse, and iron, for instance, is nowhere found. Oat of forty ironme.sters who gave evi dence during the inquiry on the Commercial Treaty, only M. Barbezal, M. Baudry, and two others, whose names I do net remember, have presented themselves. MM. Schneider, Wendell, Kcechlin, Meyer, and Gorilla do not figure here. Fourchambault, Denain, Deeazeville show nothing. There is the same absence in other branches of in dustry. The cotton trade is represented by MM. Gros and Roman only; but not by a name known by Alsace or Rouen. Even M. Jean Dollfus is ab sent ; and of the wool, linen, glass, and crystal manufactures, there is no trace. Banaret and Cirey are not here ; St. Gobain sent a magnificent piece, which the English engineer entrusted with setting it up broke, in consequence of having employed ropes too slight. One is never betrayed but by one's own friends ! This absence of all our great manufactures is one of the remarkable facts of the Exhibition. We look in vain for those names to which our industry owes its progress. In this Lon don Exhibition France is, in reality, represented only by Paris ; but Parisian skill displays its mar vale, and rules absolutely in all the articles of luxury—bronzes, goldsmith's work, jewelry, furni ture, carpets, crystal, and porcelain, fancy arms, marbles, upholstery, silks, and magnificent speci mens of the Imperial manufactories. It is actually dazzling, and all these splendid articles have been admirably arranged. Paris profusely throws dust in your eyes, and makes you forget that her pro ductions only have entered the lists. The vine ex hibition is also very brilliant ; the exhibitors of this class form nearly a fourth of the whole of the exhibitors. The manifest superiority of the Pari sian exhibition has made many people jealous. It attracts the visitors, who are in general more curious about beautiful objects than useful ones. For the greater number our exhibition is but a show ; for a small number only a matter for study. If you resist the sort of fascination which the view of the French Court holds over you, and listen to reason, the English exhibition will have, indeed, great attraction. You find in it the practical good sense, the love of the substantial and the comfortable, ever mingled with eccentricity, which distinguishes the English mind. If you want to have a high idea of what the English do, you must enter the annexe or gallery of machinery. This gallery has four rows of machines, each served by a railway. The placing of the machines was effected with marvellous rapidity, by means of two cranes—one outside, which lifted the packages, and the other inside, which took and dropped them into their places. The cranes were moved by steam. In this gallery of machinery the English have a crushing superiority in number, strength, variety, perfection, and the innumerable applications of me chanical power. In this consists the triumph of England; and our triumph is in Parisian pro ductions." M. Theophile Gautier, in his letter to the illoniteur describing the opening of the Exhibi tion, asks:— " To what style of architecture does the building belong ? We cannot design it by any classic name. Modern industry has requirements so unknown to antiquity that a sacrifice must be made to them ex clusive of recognised types. The palace of the In ternational Exhibition is consequently of that order which we will call mechanical till we find a better denomination, and which unites the qualities of the terminus, the market, and the greenhouse. It is evidently in that direction that future artists ought to look for a new architecture. C onstruct i ons of this kind give them the necessary lines. It is for them to purify, to rectify and reduce them to artistic proportions, and to find regular ornaments for them. Have you seen the interior of a building in a diorama, such as St. Mark, or St. Paul -extra- Maros? The church is at first deserted, then a few lamps are lighted, slight coloured shades ap. pear, the surrounding parts are becoming visible, and at length the nave is filled with devout or curious people, come from nobody knows where. We experienced a similar effect in the palace of the International Exhibition. While we were making a drawing of the architecture persons arrived so quickly that we were forced to put our pencil in our pocket. A flood raised us up and carried us off with the force of a human Gulf Stream from the barrier on which we were lean ing, to sea ' the procession of the Court' pass. delicat e , an d rosy, gently but Young ladies, fa i r, obstinately pushed us far from where we were standing. Who could suspect that thero wore mus cles of steel in such elegant and delicate bodies P" . . • - " Tho solemnity had concluded, and while ap proaching the door through which we were to go out we saw from the landing-place of the staircase the procession moving to the carriages. Robes and wigs, orange raantles with black fringe, dress coats in the French fashion, and ancient un forms are worn by the English with deep seriousness, an aristocra tic bearin g and a severe grace, which would induce anybody to b e li eve that they were their natural co stume. They did not appear at all extraordinary and one might have said that they had just quitted their ancestors. The servants in their grand live ries h a d no appearance of being stage valets. They were worthy of their masters by their sang froid, distinction, and bearing. Out of doors there was a bewildering tumult of eq e i ingee—patent safety cabs, omnibuses, and other vehicles --for the Eng lish, in general silent, show their joy in' JeY rapidity. Tee horse is commissioned to express part of their animation. In the mi I st of the tumult walked men hearing on their backs advertisements of the most laelici•ous character, and seated backwards on a dog. cart, and dashing forward with extraordinary speed, a little deformed being cast to the wind handfulls of yellow prospectuses. The word Exhibition' ap peared in enormous characters, and the flags of all nations were fluttering in the windows." Whatever be M. Theophile Gautier's merits in description, it is sad work when he copies from English. 11, takes an inscription on the frieze, and manages in co • 'ling it to transform it into the following : " Power and might and . t i ta e d th h l o n n e o h u a r n e d om it e to o great of lord booth richesa ir thou reignest over all and e th . theef make me hand is." The correspondent of the C • . onatitutiontie4 says In 1851 I had an opportunity of witnessing the firm resolution, the regular, methodical - , an d v i eo rous execution of the Commissioners of th e Trst - British Exhibition. But at the beginning of this week, and at the sight of the inextricable chaos which the interior of the building presented to my view, I thought it impossible that any arrangement, even temporary, could be completed, or that th.; passages eeuld be cleared. It was not possible to pass on Tuesday evening except through a mass of open or shut packing -cases mixed up with planks and cranes, and the hall presented the appearance of a place disturbed by some great convulsion. Woe to any body who ventured there without a quick eye and a strong hand and foot! Not a day in the month of April passed without somebody having been killed or wounded. . The general appearance was grand—magnificent, and the lower stage erected immediately at the foot of the orchestra was ornamented with an almost irreproachable taste. The coarse appearance of the carpets and the hangings was happily softened by immense baskets filled with the choicest flowers harmoniously arranged. A sofa affecting the form of a throne occupied the centre ; six others were' placed lower down. Two or three hundred seats were placed at the right and left, and were reserved for official personages and privileged spectators, male and female." The Siecle says : " Frenchmen are now BO numerous in the streets of London that they occupy all the cabs and take possession of all the omnibuses in Piccadilly. Even yesterday four-wheeled waggons were conveying enormous chests to the Palace of Kensington, which had just arrived by railway, and contained articles for which places had been secured at the Exhibi tion. In seeing this disorder—these innumerable boxes, the multitude of men engaged in unpacking them, the straw spread over the immense halls, while hearing the noise of hammers and saws, while contemplating statues without pedestals, and pedestals without statues, I asked myself whether the interior of this palace would not present the sight of the opening of the most gigantic Caphar naum which was ever dreamt of, How in 24 hours produce order from this chaos? And, nevertheless, that prodigy was accomplished. The following day I did not recognize the halls in which I had walked the preceding day. All the wonders of industry appeared in magnificent unison. Colossal statues, large fountains send ing forth their brilliant streams over the shrubs and flower 3, gigantic telescopes, monumental machines which appear to be the behemoths of industry—all in their places, and :all contributing to the general harmony. In these richly decorated glass cases lined with velvet, in these stalls loaded with valuable articles, may be seen specimens of every industry on the globe, as well as in that crowd of representatives of every nation. All right. When quitting the palace I found the same compact crowd in Cromwell-road which had been standing there from the morning. How, with the risk of being crushed or ground, penetrate these masses of black coats ? But the crowd made way politely, and I reached a cab. Nobody incurs the risk of being smothered in an English crowd—he has nothing to fear but the light hand of the pickpocket, which r wanders willingly towards the purse or the watch of the gentleman.' TEE ELECTIONS 1N PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated May 7, says :—" The elections of deputies that took place yesterday, and the results of which are as yet but partially known in Berlin, were deprived of much of their interest by the closeness with which the elections of voters that occurred eight days previously had been scanned. In quieter times it is possible there would have been no such searching investigation as should determine, within a few votes, when once the wail. manner were chosen, the respective strength of parties in the ensuing Chamber. But on this occa sion political feeling has run so high, and the energy and activity displayed by the Prussian Libe rals have been so exemplary, that nothing seems to have been left for to morrow that could have been done to-day, and the issue of yesterday's elections was beforehand an ascertained fact. How great and general the interest felt has been in Berlin is shown by the statistics of the primary elections. From these, as published by several journals of this capital, it appears that the total number of ur. wahler, or original voters, is 94,630 civilians and 5,020 military, together 99,650. Of these, 62,578 exercised their right of voting, being nearly 63 per cent. Last year little more than 41 per cent. voted. Various other circumstances relating to the Berlin elections are interesting, as showing the strong Liberal feeling prevalent here, and the good organisation of that party. The nine deputies are all of the Fortschritt. The return of six of these, to be elected in the 2d, 3d, and 4th districts, was quite certain, and the same might be said of that of Tad del and Tweston, two of the three to be chosen for the Ist district, the most considerable for wealth and influence in all Prussia, and to the elections for which as much weight is here given as in England to those for the city of London or for any first-class county. The three meetings of wahlmanner, held in the course of lest week, left no reasonable doubt how things would go in that district ; but still the mode rate Liberals put forward Kuhne, and seemed not to have lost all hope. Yesterday the elections of Twesten and Taddel were first proceeded with. The first-named had 412 votes out of 514 voters ; the latter, 403 out of 503. Kuhne had 95 votes, and a lieutenant-general 7to 8. The third Fortschritt candidate, when the poll opened, was Waldeck, whose election at Bielefeld, where he was also put up, was considered doubtful, and whose political friends would not risk his exclusion from the Chamber. But, early in the afternoon, news came that he was returned for Bielefeld by 293 against 244 votes, and thereupon the word was passed to vote for Von Hennig in his stead. It speaks well for the organisation and discipline of the Liberal party that this sudden change at the eleventh hour caused no confusion, nor any important weakening of the majority. M. von Hennig obtained 394 votes, against 102 given to M. Kuhne—one of the leading and most highly -prized members of the Constitu tional, or moderate party. In the three other dis tricts of Berlin th e ma j orities obtained were even greater than in the first; thus, in the fourth, 1)r. with n 2 Luning had 429 votes, and M a j or Ste i nhardt (re tired list) 401 ; and the next ma n t o eac h o f th em was In short, it was our of the Liberals, who distanced all opponents. In the p rov i nces , so everywhere Count a Schwerin, aollo w thing ig in 8 fay. fur es is yet known, 'the expectations founded on the primary elections were yesterday fully realised. The Fortschritt party have gained seats, and their candidates, when successful, have generally won by overpoweringly large majorities, showing how decided the Liberul tendency is in Prussia. We must wait a few days before arriving at an exact classification of the new Chamber; meanwhile, some of the papers attempt this, so far as the returns are received, and, as is natural, with slight discrepan cies between the lists. As regards members of the last Chamber who have now been re-elected, there is little difficulty, but some of the new men are claimed by different shades of political opinion. These shades are pretty numerous. The Fort schritt party divides itself into two, between which, however, there are no important differences; then collies the Bockum-Dolffs fraction, which may also be expected to go with the Fortschritt in a genera l way; then we get to the Grabowites or Constitutionals, moderate Liberals, some few of whom joined the advanced party in its vote for the Hagen motion, while others who supported the last Ministry because it compriseciSchwerin,Patow, and other men to whom they gave their confidence, will most decidedly vote cgainst the present one, which insnircs them with none. Then we arrive at the Cenfre, composed of the Catholic party, and, on its right, to the Conservatives, with whom it often votes. The Poles form an independent fraction, voting capriciously, of ten making a factious opposi tion, cherishing ideas of nationality, and looking to local interests of race rather than to the general ones of the nation in which they have been absorbed. Th e y will be weak in the coming Chamber, having been beaten in some of their strongholds, by the German element. Besides the different sections above enumerated, it is the custom here to reckon another (a small one) in which are placed what are called Wilde (savages or irregulars) deputies whose mind is not known (perhaps not even to themselves, and on suffrages no party permanently reckons. By analysis of a list of 125 returns (not including Berlin) !THE %TIM LONDON', SATI7NDAY !RVENIN6I, MAY 10, 1069, which are classed, according to the political opinions of the deputies, with, as I believe, tolerable correct ness and impartiality,l obtain the following results : —Liberals of the Fortschritt party, 87, including 17 belonging to the Bockum-Dolffs fraction ; Moderates, 27; Conservatives, 3 ; Catholics, 2 ; Poles, 2 ; not placed, 4. Out of the 125 there "are 73 re-elected deputies, who, in the last Chamber, either voted for the Hagen motion, or who, absent fccm the division., afterwards declared their adhesion to it. It is to be observed that these returns are chiefly from towns, including most of the large ones, and do not include the places and districts where the Conservatives and Catholics are most likely to have success. Cologne, Breslau, Konigsberg, and Danzig have returned 10 most decided Liberals. Konigsberg seems to have been determined to protest, by the energy of its vote, against the pressure put upon it by the notorious Mamach and his myrmidons. Dr. Kosch, the first of the three deputies elected, had 519 votes out of a total of 680, the remaining 150 being equally divided between Constitutionals and Conservatives, At Gorlitz-Lauban, Carlowitz, the ex-Minister in Saxony, and one of the leaders of the party of progress, had 404 votes out of 498, and the other two deputies returned (both Forts chritt) had nearly as many. Immermann, Bockum- Dolffs, and a number of other leading men among the Liberals are returned. At Tilsit 25 votes were given for M. Von der Heydt, against 386 recorded for his opponent. None of the Ministers figure as elected in the lists I have as yet received. _RAILWAY INIELLIG.ENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The directors of this company, at a recent meeting, passed a re'olulion to the effect that on Eater Monday the large number of 132,402 passengers were safely conveyed on the line with a success acknowledged to have been most satis factory and complete. The directors ascribe a high degree of merit to the executive department, by whoso activity, punctuality, and unwearied exertion tho accommodation of so many thousand persons were provided for, and their safety ho carefully secured. They therefore deem it an act of jus tice to all the officers and servants so employed to record their unqualified approbation of their services on that occa sion. LAW iNTELLIGENCE.—May 8. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Crompton, Blackburn, and Mellor.) EX PARTE SMILE.-CRIMINAL INFORMATION , Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., said Mr. Bovill had movea on the part of Mr. Smiles, who was the secretary of the South Eastern Railway Company, calling upon Mr. Hamilton to show cause why a criminal infor mation should not be filed against him, in conse quence of his having written certain letters reflect ing upon the character of Mr. Smiles. The learned counsel went on to state that Mr. Hamilton and his son were proprietors of a large quantity of shares in the South Eastern Railway, consequently deeply interested in its SUCCCS2. In the year 1861,in con sequence of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company having been formed, it became a question with the South Eastern Railway whether they should reduce their fares, and Mr. Hamilton, although assenting to the lowering of the fares, still thought that it would be injudicious to lower the price of the fares to intermediate stations, and wrote a letter to that effect to the directors. Sub sequently a libel upon Mr. Hamilton appeared in the Railway Times, and a letter containing a copy of the libel was sent to the whole of the sharehol ders, except Mr. Hamilton and his son. This having come to his knowledge, he wrote several letters to the directors, which the learned counsel admitted were very severe on Mr, Smiles. He had now to state that Mr. Hamilton, believing that Mr. Smiles was the publisher of the libel, wrote the letters in question. Mr. Smiles had subsequently informed him that he did not publish the libel, and he (the learned counsel) now had the authority of Mr. Hamilton to say that any imputations contained in the letters he now withdrew and apologised for his conduct. He had spoken to Mr. Bovill upon the subject, who consented to accept the apology and retractation on the part of his client, and therefore the rule would be discharged upon Mr. Hamilton paying the costs. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., said that nothing could be more satisfactory than Mr. Karslake's statement. He accepted the apology and retractation, and con sented to have the rule discharged on the part of his client. The Lord Chief Justice said he was very happy to hear it. Rule discharged accordingly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 9. MARLBOROUGH STREET. THE CHARGE AGAINST VISCOUNT MlLTON.—Viscount Milton, of No. 4, Grosvenor-square, appeared to answer the charge of having, by false pretences, obtained pos session of a pair of diamond earrings, value £lOO, pledged by Madame Rachel, of No. 47, New Bond street, with Messrs. Stephens, pawnbroker, No.-35, Brewerstreet. His lordship was placed in the dock appropriated to ordinary prisoners. Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Ncate, solicitor to the Pawnbrokers' Protection Society, appeared for the prosecution ; Sergeant Ballantine, instructed by Mt. Lewis, jun„ attended for the defence; and Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Wontner, attended on behalf of the owner of the earrings. Mr. Knox, before the proceedings commenced, remarked that when the case was before him last week the gentleman who conducted the defence endeavoured to open a case of fraud against a per son not present ; and a statement had got into the papers prejudicial to that person. He wished, therefore, to state, before the case went further, that the charge of fraud had been imported into this case, and not supported by the evidence. As the Press had given publicity to the charge, he had no doubt that the denial by Madame Rachel, or Levin son, would reach the public in the same way. Mr. Richards, for Madame Rachel, said his client's name was Rachel Levinson, but she traded by the name of Rachel. Mr. Knox had to remark that all that had been stated of Mrs. Rachel Levinson's share in the transaction, with the exception of pledging the ear rings, was groundless. Mr. Sleigh said ho appeared to prosecute, in structed by Mr. Neato, solicitor to the Pawnbrokers' Protection Society. He had been put in possession of all the evidence brought forward on the previous examination, and :his opinion was that whatever might be the amount of imprudence which the gen tleman at the bar had been guilty of, the charge was one which it was impossible he could ask the Court to send for trial. He could not bring his mind to believe from the facts laid before him, that this young nobleman, a member of an illustrious family, was guilty of the offence charged against him, and on that ground he had advised that the prosecution should be withdrawn. The conduct of the defendant had, no doubt, been indiscreet, but he was bound to say there was no evidence or guilty intention in what had been done, and under all the circumstances, his clients had sanctioned his state ment that they proposed to withdraw from the pro secution. _ _ _ Mr. Sergeant Ballantine was not surprised at the course his learned friend had taken in this matter, and it would not be impertinent to mention that Lord Milton bad been in ill health, and that on the occasion in question he acted on the belief of justi fication, well or ill founded, but which, as a man of the world, he (Mr. Ballantine) was bound to say could not be defended, as there was no doubt Lord Milton had been much mistaken in the course he had adopted, acting, indeed, as he had done, under the influence of a female much older than himself. He had no difficulty in admitting that his lordship had acted with indiscretion, and also that his learned friend had adopted the course best calculated to spare the feelings of those who were deeply interested in the matter. The first question, when instructed in this case, which he had put was, what was the state of his lordship's account at the London and West minster Bank, and ho was informed that his lord ship had a large credit at the bank, and that the manager was in court to prove the fact. The im putation of fraud was, therefore, completely at an end. He considered that the parties preferring the charge had acted in a very proper manner in with drawing from the prosecution ; and in reference to what had been previously stated in defence by Mr. Lewis, he would remark that Mr. Lewis had been very imperfectly and hastily instructed. Mr. Lewis remarked that he had only obeyed instructions in the course he had adopted. Mr. Knox—The case of alleged fraud against 1 Madame Rachel was opened on the former exami nation, but had not been proved. With respect to the charge before me, I can assure you, Lord Mil ton, if I had come to the conclusion that your lord ship had any guilty intention with reference to the possession of the earrings I should have sent you at once for trial ; out my belief is there was no guilty intention. You are young and inexperienced, and evidently require good guidance, and I wish to re mind you, that considering your station you are pre-eminently bound to obey the law, as your station will not protect you from the consequences of violating the law. The earrings will, of course, be given up to the pawnbroker. The act was the act of a foolish person, and therefore you, Lord Milton, are discharged. Lord Milton then left the court with his friends. SOUTHWARK.—Yesterday John Smith, alias William Fossey, describing himself as a builder and house agent, was charged on remand with stealing £2 17s. 9d., the property of William Groomridge, Brandforl-terrace, Bermondsey. Mrs. Mary Groomridge said that on Thursday evening, the Ist inst. the prisoner came to her hus band's house and hired her parlours. He stated that he was a builder and house agent, and had considerable property erecting in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe. Believing his statement to be true, she let him the pai lours, and on the following morn ing, about 9 o'clock, ho came and took possession, with a young man whom he called his clerk. At 12 o'clock the prisoner asked her if she could cash a check for him, and on her replying in the negative he asked her to lend him 12s. for a short time. She did so, and about two hours afterwards he asked for the loan of a hammer, which she got. The prisoner put a lot of written bills in the window, and about 3 o'clock he asked her if she would prepare tea for himself and his clerk. She consented, and, having no tea in the house, she went out to get it. On return she made them tea, and provided bread and butter and a haddock, which the prisoner heartily partook of, After that he sent the young man out and left himself, saying he was going to look after some men at Rotherhithe. After he was gone she had occasion to go into her bedroom. She then found that her drawers had been broken open, and £2 17s. 9d.stolen from them. Her own hammer had been used to break open tbo drawcro. The prisoner had also stolen her husband's new Wellington boots from the bedroom, and had left a dirty pair instead. Witness here, shaking her fist at the prisoner, said, " Oh, he is the greatest vaga bond living." Francis M'Dermott, a very respectable young man, said he was out of a situation, and at the end. of April he advertised for one. The prisoner an swered it, stating in his letter that he was a builder and house agent, and requesting him to call at his office on Friday last. He accordingly went to the house of the last witness and saw the prisoner, who engaged him at a weekly salary, and set him to write some handbills. After they had had tea the prisoner sent him on an errand. On his way back he met the prosecutrix, who gave him into custody for being concerned with the pri soner in ,stealing the £2 17s. 9d. • Several gentlemen came forward, and gave the last witness an excellent character. John Wookey, police-constable 311 K., said that on Sunday evening last he was called into a house near Arbour-square, where the prisoner had taken lodgings for a shnidar purpose. The landlady hap pened to have seen a report of what had taken place in the newspapers while at breakfast, and from the description given of the prisoner by last witness on his examination she suspected him to be the delinquent. The witness took him into custody, and Mrs. Groomridge identified her. Ho had on at the same time her husband's new boots. Henry Short, police-constable, 77 G division, said he knew the prisoner as an advertising swindler. In February, 1860, he was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to 18 months' hard labour for de frauding several young men who had advertised for situations and had answered his advertisements. He had been previously convicted. Mr. Combo asked if anything was found on the prisoner ? Police-constable 254 M replied that £9 7s. was found on him, besides a number of letters ready to send out in answer to ndrertisementr for situations. Police•constable 391 M said when he took the prisoner into custody ho said that he was a man of large property, and that he lived at Albion Lodge, Kingsland. The witness, however, could not find such a place. The prisoner was committed for trial. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the committee on the Amalgamation Bill of the Eastern Counties and other companies disposed of the remaining clauses of the measure, the Eastern Union Com pany withdrawing their claims from further consideratiOn by the committee, but intimating their intention to renew them before the committee of the House of Lords. After the bill of the West Midland for additional works was passed, and the clauses settled in Mr. Wood's committee, the bill of the London and North-Western Railway Com pany for additional powers was proceeded with. The com pany propose to acquire additional lands at Bradford, Rhyl) Bolton, Salford, Hammersmith, and Hardingstone, to make a branch from Beeston to the Farmley Ironworks, and an other from the Chelford and Knutford line to the Cheshire Midland. The company also propose to improve the old harbour of Holyhead, and to raise a further sum of £250,000 by new shares and £83,000 by loan. The bill of the North- Eastern, for their line between Blaydon. and Conside, having been disposed of, the case of the same company's Team 1 , alley extensions of 12 miles from Gateshead to the Bishop Auckland branch, and of five miles from the latter to the main line at Cassop, with other branches, and to raise £lOO,OOO by new shares and £133,000 by loan, was opened at considerable length by Mr. Denison. Tho Leith Branches Bill of the Caledonian was passed in Mr. Mowbray's com mittee, who then proceeded to hear Mr, Denison, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, Mr. Mundell, and Mr. Clarke for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, who propose to make four important branches in the vicinity of their line to the North and South Queensferry Pier and mineral works, and to raise £250,000 in new shares and £BO,OOO by loan. In Lord Redesdale's committee the bills of the Ceylon Rail way, Bristol and Exeter, and Chard and Taunton and Sid mouth Railways were passed. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Railways. Ballymena and Pert Rush 1 Belfast and N, Counties 1 Belfast and Couuty Down Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June Blyth and Tne Bristol and Exeter Miles Opened. e- - 1862. Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Cork and Youghal Cornwall Deeside Dublin & Belfast J unction Dublin and Drogheda Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kingst ) Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun East Anglian E.Countics,Nrfk.,&E.Union Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western Great Northern Great North of Scotland 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd ) Great Western Inverness & Aberdeen June. Irish South-Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis... Limerick and Fortes L lanelly London & North-Western . London and Blackwall London & South-Western . Loud. Brighton, & S. Coast. London, Chatham, & Dover Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Blanch. S.Jun.& Altrincham i Alaryport and Carlisle Midland (incl. N.-Western)l Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. Monkland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal Newcastle and Carlisle North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) North Devon N- E as tern(Bedale &L eybrn) North London North Staffordshire Oswestry and Newton Rhymney St. Helen's Canal & Railway Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern Shrewsbury & Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union South Devon 22 21gi 21 8 48i 130 171 31 68i 409 1601 1831 330 329 904,E mi 28 614 192 56 44 78 236-1 35 789 9 248 194 52 534 132 75 306 1711 118 161 1861. 125 .a9l 8 401 130 171 68; 499 160! 131 330 329 9431 6 - 4 lc , 9f 35 764 9 246 53i 132} 29i 75i 306 1711 118 119 f 54 1862. 2,405 634 1,814 6,603 14,887 277 356 385 11,442 299 1,274 1,549 2,863 1,909 1,070 981 25,711 6,820 3,505 '258 2,344 8,416 25,374 1,838 9,254 56,529 333 31,178 6,489 554 37,024 2,612 7,364 633 2,101 3,024 4,686 1861. 2,025 627 1,997 6,574 15,183 297 381 257 1,213 206 1,273 1,692 3,055 1,632 1,965 985 3,530 20,072 1,138 867 27,270 7,413 3,884 251 2,475 8,258 25,632 1,721 8,887 54,909 South-Eastern South Wales S. Yorkshire and River Dun Stockton and Darling,ton Taff Vale Ulster Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall W.Hartlepoolliarbr.&nall West Midland . .... W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. Whitehaven Junction Whitehaven & Furness Jun 9,545 4,879 2,121 322 36,062 378 1,157 837 4,H4 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.' Antwerp and Rotterdam Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula Great Luxembourg Great Western of Canada Lyons and Geneva Madrid, Saragossa SzAlicant Northern of Canada ... Northern of France Norwegian Trunk Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn Paris and Orleans Pernambuco Royal Danish Sambre and Meuse South Austrian ...... . Southern of France a. Welland.... ... West Flanders W. and N.W. of France.... 6,424 .483 39,621 2,458 7,893 1,118 30,207 1,490 3,133 3,261 51,839 13,733 6,974 4,507 10,184 5,361 11,744 1,526 51,269 815 2,025 3,480 4,678 2,156 1,025 3,480 19,135 8,409 5,380 2,080 154 2,007 304 774 4,542 885 90,534 50,389 695 1,( 55 35,388 '1,261 26,13 1,031 41,(58 It 11,IS AND BLQUESTB. 1,389 2,990 3,762 50,607 15,955 5,546 3,001 9,970 5,360 13,623 1,565 45,394 - 788 89,378 53,522 1,207 50, , 23 21,951 999 38,920 The will of the Right H m. Samuel M. Phillipps, one of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Ceuncillors, was proved in London on the 15th of April, by the three executors nominated. The personalty was sworn under £12,000. The testator died in March last at his seat, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, at the age of eighty-two. He was formerly Under Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment from 1827 to 1848. Mr, Phillipps was of an ancient family and highly connected. He gra duated at Cambridge, and was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the inner Temple in 1806, and distinguished himself by several useful legal works, the most popular and valuable of which is his cele brated treatise on the law of evidence ; also, a work entitled "A Selection of State TrialM." His will, which bears date September, 1859, is exceedingly brief ; and, after stating that his eldest son, whom he has nominated one of his executors, is otherwise provided for, ho bequeaths to him a legacy of £l,OOO, together with his copyright in books; and to his other son, whom he states is provided for in India, he leaves a legacy of £3,000. To the other executors, Lord Glenelg, P.C., and Miss Sybilla Grant, relatives of his (the testator's) late wife, he has left, as tokens of remembrance, some books, which are to be selected by them. The residue of the property is bequeathed to the testator's daugh ters in equal proportions. The will of Rear-Admiral Edward Augustus Frankland, formerly of Devonport, afterwards of Sienna, in Italy, but late of Florence, in Tuscany, was proved in London by the testator's brother, Cap tain Chas. Colville Frankland, R.N., the sole eye cuter, the personalty in England being sworn under £lB,OOO. This naval officer, who was placed - on the retired list of Rear-Admirals, appears to have re sided in Italy for some considerable time. His will was made and executed at Florence in 1858 ; the witnesses thereto are Rear-Admiral Henry Smith, C. 8., also of Florence, and Valentine lirench. The testator has left the following legacies and annuity —viz., three sums of £lOO each to his sister, Mdme. de Montgomery ; his godson, the youngest son of his cousin, Major Arthur Gosset, R.A. ; and to the eldest son of Sir Baldwin Walker, Bart., Surveyor of the Navy ; also a legacy of £ 25 t o a faithfu; at tendant, and to another an annuity of £5O, together with some furniture, linen, &c. The Admiral has bequeathed to his brother, Capt. C. Colville Frank land, It N., all the remainder of his property : both real and personal, including all articles of jewel lery, plate, books, arms, suits of uniforms, &c., ap pointing him residuary legatee. The will of Dowager Lady Hawley, of Park square, Regent's-park, was administered to by her son, Sir Joseph Henry Hawley, Bart., the acting executor, to whom probate was granted by the London Court, power being reserved to her lady ship's daughter, Ellen Catherine, to administer hereafter. The testatrix, who was highly connected, was the daughter of Sir J. G. Shaw, Bart.; she married in 1806 Sir Henry Hawley, Bart., who died in 1831. Dowager Lady Hawley, who attained to an advanced age, died in March last , having made her will in July, 1853. It is purely o f a fami ly nature, with the exception of £2OO bequeathed to Mrs. Thynne, widow of Dr. A. Thytme. The rest of her ladyship's property she has bequeathed a mongst her children, appointing her daughter 'Ellen residuary legatee. -: Receipts. THE NAVY. The Royal Sovereign, converting at Portsmouth from a 131 gun three decker to a 5 or 10 gun shield ship, is now cut down to her lower deck, the plank ing of which has been taken up. Her orlop deck is now fully exposed to view, from which a general idea may be formed of what the appearance of her decks and the room remaining for the accommoda tion of her officers and crew will be when fitted with her five shield towers, and all the necessary fittings of a berthing deck, and one deck of the ship. Such the orlop deck will become when the conversion is completed, the lower deck of the three decker being transformed into the upper deck of the shield ship, forming the glacis of the cylinders on which the shields, with their guns, revolve. One thing is evident, and is freely admitted by the warmest par tisans of Capt. Coles's principle, and that is, that with only five shields the converted ship will give but scant accommodation to even the small number of officers and men she will carry. There were not wanting many, too, who declara that the metamor phosed ship will never carry the weight of her ar mour, towers and shields, guns, and stores, at the height she is expected to do—with the muzzle of her guns 9 feet 6 inches from the water. The Royal Sovereign, like all Sir Wm. Symonds's designs, carries a rising floor throughout, and therefore can not have the flotation nor stability of a frigate like the Diadem, or a three decker like the Victoria. Judging from present appearances, we should feel much surprised if the Royal Sovereign's orlop deck stows all that is required of it when completed, or if she, when converted, carries her guns the height specified from the water. Capt. Fedorovsky, commanding the Imperial Rus sian screw frigate Gramoboi, lying at Spithead, yesterday paid an official visit to the naval and military authorities at Portsmouth. It was yesterday announced at Woolwich that the experimental gunboat Enterprise, about to be con structed under the superintendence of Mr. Reed, is ordered to be laid down without delay on one of the building slips in Deptford dockyard, Her length, it is stated, will be 140 feet over all. The framing on which the plates will be carried up, from two feet below to four feet above the water line, will be of iron, and the bottom of wood. The whole of the contract estimates, 26 in number, have been rejected. The Rhadamanthus,paddle, Master-Corn. Sturdee, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Woolwich with supernumeraries for the guardship, and boilers and machinery for the Royal Alfred iron-plated frigate, and the Psyche, Admiralty paddle yacht. Stores were yesterday received on board her Ma jesty's floating battery Trusty, in basin at Wool wich, and mess furniture was fitted below for the accommodation of the officers and crew, appointed for the approaching trip to Shoeburyness, on a trial of Captain Coles's cupola target. Tho trial, it is stated, has been unavoidably postponed on account of a flaw having been discovered in the interior of the great Armstrong gun, intended to have been used on the occasion. The damage, it appears, is of sufficient magnitude to render the gun unsafe for present use, defect being on the spot where the velocity of the missile commences, slightly beyond the breech. The hired transport Agrippa, laden with shot, shell, guns, and other returned war stores from Malta, yesterday commenced discharging at Wool wich, and the East Lothian commenced shipping shot and shell for Vancouver's Island. We are requested to correct a statement as to the number of workmen employed in the Arsenal at Woolwich, made in an article headed the "Japanese Ambassadors," which appeared in The Sun of Thursday. Instead of the number there stated, it appears that nearly 3,000 artificers and labourers are employed in the Royal gun factories, and that the aggregate force of the Arsenal, which has been reduced within the last few weeks by about 3,000 men, is upwards of 10,000. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander Lord Elphinstone, to the Vigilant ; Commander J. W. Pike, to the Devastation ; J. King, surgeon, to the Indus ; J. Fox, confirmed as engineer in the Tribune ; and E. J. Humphreys and 3. A. Raven, acting second-class assist.• engineers, to the Indus, 7HE ARMY. The 29th Regiment (Lieut.-Col. E. H. Westropp) at present at Aldershott, are under orders to re• lieve the 76th Regiment at Glasgow. The Ist battalion sth Regiment is under orders to move from Portsmouth, and the 37th Regiment from Plymouth, both for Aldershott, on the arrival of the Ist battalion 6th and the 75th Regiment from India. The 13th Hussars, which are ordered to proceed to Aldershott from Manchester, by detachments, will, on arrival, be quartered in E. and F Lines, North Camp, and be attached to the cavalry bri gade. The head-quarters will arrive on the 24th inst. The Lady Jocelyn screw steamer, of 2,240 tons, Capt. Kerr, arrived off Falmouth from Calcutta, with troops, on Thursday, and awaited orders from the India-office as to place of landing. She had a very long passage, and has been outstripped. in speed by sailing transports. She left Calcutta on the 11th of January, reached Madras on the 18th of January, the Cape on the 4th of March, St. Helena on the 16th of March, St. Michael's on the 28th of April, and arrived off Falmouth on the Bth curt. She brings troops, consisting of 242 officers and men, and a large number of other passengers. The officers in command were Capt. Wellington, 77th Regiment ; Capt. Knight, 23d Regiment ; Lieut. James, 13th Regiment ; Lieut; Dunbar, 34th Regi ment; and Dr. Smith, in medical charge. Among the other passe ngers were :—M a j or an d Mrs.*Tal hot, Capt. Game, Major Johnston, C a pt. T u ll oc h, M Capt. Fit z- roy aj-Gn ,oCrol.ean Si d A r l i. rts. Birch, Capt. an Keane, dthreecildren, Col and Mrs. Boilleau and two children, and M a j or an d Mrs. Fowler. The left wing of the 96th Regiment disembarked at Portsmouth yesterday morning from the steam transport Adriatic, and left by South Coast Rail way at 9 a.m. for Shorncliffe, The military con victs were also disembarked, and sent on to their destination. The invalids were conveyed to the military hospital at Portsea. The Adriatic will have cleared out her fittings and. stores, and be paid out of the Government service, it is expected, to-day. The ship attracted a good deal of attention yesterday at Portsmouth among the naval officers in the port, not only from the fact of her having been specially constructed in Am er i ca t o con t es t the pas sage of the Atlantic with the Cunard steamers, but also from the unusual extent of her accommodation and the massive character of her metchinery, as her cylinders have a diameter of 1011in.ches, with a 12 feet stroke of piston. 195 2,024 BOR.RIBLE AIU.RDBB BY A _FATHER. A horrible murder has been committed at Bris tol, the perpetrator being a married man, of about 25 years of age, named James Roberts, and the victim his own daughter, Clara Roberts. What adds to the enormity of the crime is, that Roberts attempted the life of another child, a girl of about five years old, Alice Elizabeth, who lies in the Infirmary in a very precarious state, and also of his wife. Roberts was formerly a soldier in the Welsh Fusiliers, but served only for little more than a year, as, whilst engaged in one of the battles during the Crimean war he had the misfortune to lose one of his legs. Ho returned home on a pen sion of 10d. a day, and about Christmas, 1856, he got married to his present wife, by whom he has had three children,one of whom died in its infancy. For a time he supported his family comfortably by means of his pension, and his earnings with a horse and cart, but about a year and a half ago he took to drinking, and, in order to indulge in his intempe rate habits, he sold his horse and cart, and after wards (taking advantage of his wife's absence in the Infirmary), his furniture also. In consequence of his habits, his wife has been herself compelled to go to work to support herself and children, he squandering what he could get in drink. On Wed nesday night the wife put the children to bed as usual, and she and her husband went to the house of her sister, where they remained till near ten o'clock, when they went home, he being at the time quite sober. After they were in the rooms he asked what there was for supper, and on finding only dry bread and a bit of herring, she said it was very hard that she should have to live on that, after 9s. of her money had gone in the housekeeping that week. She also interrogated him as to what had become of a new basket he had bought to take out as a hawker of oysters. The husband said it was no difference to her about the basket, and said the money had been of no benefit to him as it had gone to pay debts. The wife again complained about eating dry bread, upon which he gave her a penny to go and buy something. She said she would keep that to get some butter for the children's breakfast, and was again complaining, when he got up in a deliberate manner, and saying, ";I will - soon get out of it," took up the poker and began to beat his sleeping children with it in the most violent and merciless manner. He then turned round, saying, " I have done for they, now for your turn, raised the poker to strike her, but she avoided the blow, rushed in upon and seized him, and a violent struggle ensued between them, in the course of which she wrested the poker from his grasp, and it fell on the floor. She then screamed" Murder," and seeing her children bathed in blood, snatched them up and ran into the street, , followed by her husband. Her shrieks and cries of " Murder" brought her sister and others to her aid, upon which he made off. The children were carried to the police station, and thence to the Infirmary, where it was found that their skulls were fractured, and that they had received other injuries of so severe a character that their recovery was in the highest degree doubtful, and one, the girl, soon after died. The prisoner was taken at the residence of his father and mother, Baptist Mills. He made no resistance, but said, "It's all owing to drink and bad temper." Wheu on his way to the station-house he said, "I I struck the children on the head with the poker, and one of them is dead at the station and the other is took to the Infirmary." Yesterday (Friday) afternoon the city coroner, J. B. Grindon, Esq., held an inquest on the body at the Infirmary, and the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against James Roberts, the father, who was forthwith committed to take his trial on the coroner's warrant. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT ON T 11.2 fLO.NDON, urATEAM,AN_D DOVER RAILWAY. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED AND INJURED FAVERSHAM, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A very lamentable accident, unfortunately at tended with the loss of two lives, and serious bodily injuries to several other persons, occurred this morn ing to the 7.10 down train, at a spot situated about a mile from Faversham, on the London, Chatham, and Dover Company's line. From inqUiries made upon the spot, and from in formation afforded by the officials of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, it appears that the regular morning mail train left the Victoria station at its appointed time-7.lo—and that it consisted of an engine and tender. There were attached two second-class carriages, followed by two first.class carriages, and terminating with a break van. The train, which was in charge of two guards and an experienced driver and fireman, pro ceeded safely on its course, and arrived at and de parted from Sittingbourne station at the exact times, leaving the station for its downward progress to Dover at 8.26, which was correct time, and having no other stoppage to make until its arrival at Fa versham junction at 9.10. The train then went on its journey until it reached a spot situated about halt' a mile from the Preston junction, which por tion of the tine is on an embankment known as the Ospringeplace-bank, and is a little over 12 feet high with a very mild curve and level. On reaching this spot, the train travelling at a moderate speed, the engine-driver felt a slight bumping movement, and in less then a second, on turning round, he saw that the back portion of the train was being hurled down the embankment. The first second-class carriage next to the engine and tender, and the engine and tender themselves, kept the metals, but the whole of the remainder of the train had become detached, and, leaving the permanent way, went over the em bankment with great violence, coming in contest with a massive garden wall at the bottom, and crush ing it. The driver and fireman immediately returned to the spot, and on descending the embankment found they were altogether broken up and smashed into small fragments. Of course their first efforts were directed towards the unfortunate persons who had occupied the various carriages, and messengers were despatched for medical and other assistance from Faversham and adjacent districts. Telegrams were also sent to Canterbury and the chief offices in London, and upon the arrival of the first assistance every effort was made to remove the injured per sons from the broken carriages. It was then found that several of the unfortunate passengers were se verely injured, and the first one to be removed was quite dead. This was a gentleman upon whom was found a letter from which it is believed his name is Plumb, and that he was a commercial traveller. Ile was a passenger in the first second-class carriage, which was the first to go over the embankment; his injuries were very severe, and there is no doubt that his death must have been instantaneous. The next person found was Mr. H. Crockford, a merchant at Chatham, at which station he joined the train. He was insensible, and very much injured, and it was feared that it would be found necessary to ampu tate the left leg, which was much shattered. A gentleman was next found in the first of the two first-class carriages; he was also insensible, and his injuries were chiefly confined to the head and face. From a letter discovered upon him there is no doubt that he is a Mr. H. Thompson, that he is a barrister, and was going to see a sick son at Dover. The next person found was William Harris, an in spector on the company's line. He was riding 'in of fn unly one a second-class carriage, and was very muc h hurt. a - d i c i n i . nq inn, He was about to be removed to an hut P epirpcl from the severe nature of the injuries he had received almost other person appears to ha.vetmheetdewb first ury immediate ir ly tih.s . and that is Mr. D. Mapleston, the audit clerk of the y th ij company. He was foun d in first-class carriage, and re moved in a state of iusen sibilit from which, however, he recovered, and rallied to such an e xtent as to enable the medical gentlemen to report that he was much improved. ' The two guards _ i n the break van- received very little, if any, injury, although though that vehicle was thrown over the embanment. Th e various sufferers were removed to the adja cent house in Ospringe, under the supervision of Garroway, Mr. Garrard, and other medical gentlemen, from PaNer. h am and the surrounding districts; and the remains of Mr. Plumb and In spector Harris were conveyed to the Crown Inn, where they Were placed in an out-house until the inquest should be held. the In meantime telegrams were received at the Victoria Station in London and at the company's atlon at Canterbury, and Mr. Forbes, the generat manage', at once proceeded by special train to the spot, and amongst the other officials on the ground were Mr. Willis, the engineer, from Canterbury; Mr. Breeze, from Faversham; and Mr. Bishop, the supoiintendent. Every effort which human possibility could suggest was resorted to to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded persons, and to clear the line of the debris, and place it in a proper state of efficiency to enable the traffic to be resumed. This having been done, an official communication was at once made by the general manager of the company to the railway department of the Board of Trade, to enable that department to send a gentle man to inspect the line, and give his opinion to the coroner's jury, by whom the cause of this lamentable catastrophe will have to be investigated. In the meantime the circumstances surrounding the case are of so peculiar a nature that it is impossible to arrive at any conclusion as to the origin of the accident. THE INQUEST ON THE BODIES. This afternoon Mr. T. T. Delasaux ' the coroner for the Eastern division of Kent, and a jury of the inhabitants of the district, assembled at the Crown Inn,Ospringe-place-bank, to inquire into the deaths of a gentleman, supposed to be named Plumb, and 'William Harris, an inspector on the line, who lost their lives in the accident to the 7.10 down train in the morning. Mr. Johnson attended on behalf of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and amongst those present were Mr. James Lake (director), Mr. Forbes (general manager), and other officials. The jury having viewed the bodies, proceeded to inspect the spot where the accident occurred, and on their return to the inquest-room, The Coroner said that it would be advisable to adjourn the inquiry until the government inspector had gone over the line. Mr. Johnson said notice had been sent to the Board of Trade, and the company courted the fullest inquiry into the whole circumstances attending this melancholy occurrence. The investigation was then adjourned for a week, and in the meantime the government inspector will go over the line. A MESSAGE FROM THE OCFAN. A bottle containing the enclosed was picked up on the farm of Mr. R. B. Hu ngerford, of Ballrizard, Tourmore, county Cork, on the 7th May : g' Barque Basford Hall, Feb. 28, 1862. " The above ship was dismasted at 9 1 15 a.m., Feb. 18, 1862, in lat. 47 deg 30 min N., long 12 deg 19 min 30 sec W. We have had a succession of gales. At noon same day managed to get mizen staysail set, and hove her to. One hour afterwards it was blown to atoms. Bent foretopmast staysail in lieu. All hands employed, from the captain down, in clearing away wreck, as some was under the ship's bottom. Pumps carefully attended-to. Ship making awful weather of it. Crew and officers behaving first-rate. On the 19th foresail blew from the yard, though well secured. Managed to get preventive lifts on foreyard. Bent new foresail and foretopmast staysail on forestay, determined to run her. 3 p.m. on the 20th.—Down wizen staysail, up foretopmast staysail ; loosed goose wings of the fore sail, and put helm up. 4. Set foresail ; determined if possible to make Scilly. Being impossible to cook or to have a fire, issued the small quantity of pre served meats that we had for the cabin to the crew. This lasted two days, and since that they have been on raw provisions. At midnight on the 20th the gale was past remembrance of any one in her; people con stantly washed away from the pumps ; after-hatch washed off, water going down by tons. In attempting to replace it, the master and two hands seriously in jured. Since then we have had the wind from E.S.E. and E.N.E. Impossible to make any port. Using all our energies to do so; and, should we not succeed, we hope the owners of the Basford Hall will believe that the master, officers, and men have done all in their power to do so. Feb. 28.—The wind is N.E., blowing a very heavy gale; vessel shipping immense quantities of water ; impossible to stiald. Vessel under whole foresail, foretopmast-staysail, mizen-staysail, head ing S. by E. E. We are just about hauling fore sail up, down with foretopmast-staysail, and heaving her to under foretopmast-staysail and mizen, as the vessel is drifting bodily to leeward, as we fear mak ing too much southing. 6 ' The finder is requested to forward this to the Times' office. A previous bottle was hove over board on the 20th, in lat 48 25 N., long 11 49 W. " Approx. lat 49 30 N., long 10 16 W. " L. GOLDSMID, Master." COUN2BY MARKE2S. --.. .v LIVERPOOL-MAT 9. We had to-day a thin attendance of dealers and mil. len, and wheat and flour met a slow sale, at nominally last Tuesday's rates. Oats cheaper, and oatmeal neglected. Indian corn commanded a middling sale, at 27s 9d for mixed from the quay. WAKEFIELD-MAY 9 The wheat trade is very dull, and a decline of is per qr took place from the prices of last Friday. Foreign barley again rather cheaper. Beans, oats, and shelling fully w dear. DERBY-MAY 9. At our market this morning the show of wheat was large, and the attendance was moderate. The tone of the trade ruled inactive, and the rates of last week declined ls. The show of barley was small, and sales were quoted at fully lower rates. Oats scarce, with a firm demand, at fully former prices. Beans scarce, and maintained late rates. EXETER—MAY 9.: ' Prices were about the same as last week. Wheat, white 7s Od tol7s 6d I Barley. 4s Od to 4s 4d Ditto new .Os Od to Os Od I Oats .........3s Od to 3s 33 Flour, fine, 42s to 45s ; seconds, 41s to —s per sack. CATTLE. The market to-day was well supplied with all deseSP tions of stock. 1 Fat becf,p score,9s9d to 10s0d Ewes, per lb .... 7d '0 7id Pork carcases, 9s 6d to 10s Gd Wethers, d 0...... 7d to 7id Lambs, per qr ..... ..7s to 8s Fat calves, do. _opt° 6t. Rough fat, 32d per lb. COAL N (Mom of Coal per Ton ai ARKET. t the close of the :flatlet s. d. Wylant Camay and Duffryn Malting 24 0 . _ . Walls xnd. s. d. Eden Tunstall Acorn Close ..15 0 K ellee South Kelloe . 16 0 Frainwellgate 15 0 Heugh Hall 15 0 Caradoc South Hart10p001...... 15 6 57 ; sold, 34. Do. — Anthracite 21 6 Bate's West Hartley 14 9 Grey's West Hartley 15 0 Cowpox). Hartley 15 6 Walls End. Hartlepool.. l6 6 Ships at mark FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 13. Airazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. June 4, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton May 11. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton May 11. via Marseilles May 20. Lisbon May 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 11. via Marseilles May 14. Newfoundland .. May 11. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet by U.S. packet by Canadian packot May 14. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe May 10, Bahamas, via NAtu York May S. 11ICX1C0 ....May 29, All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I May 14. California, and British Columbia.. 13IRTHS. HARTWELL.—On the Bth inst., at 14, Mansfield-street, Cavendish-square, the wife of Captain Hartwell, of the Buffs, of a daughter. o the Bth inst., P III LPOTT.—n at Premley• common, Kent, the wife of R ichard Philpott, Esq., of a son. swAy ".—On the Bth i ns t ., at 16, Great Coram-street, the w ife of the Rev. J. Sway ne , o f a d aug ht er. MARRIAGES. BATEsON—YARBUR GII. —On the Bth inst., at St. Paul's, neslington, George William, third son of Sir Robert Dateson, Bart., of Belvoir-park, county Down, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Gco. JohnYarburgh, Esq., of Heslington Hall, York. D A I VES--FITZROY.—On the Bth inst., at St. Michael's, Chester-square, Colonel Michael Dawes, late of Bengal Artillery, to Harriet Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the lato Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Wm. Fitzroy, K.C.B. DEATHS. ANDERSON.—On the 7th inst., Mary, widow of the late Dr. Anderson, M.D., of Brighton. BURKE.—On the 6th inst., at Brighton, Sophia, widow of Sir John I. Burke, Bart., of Gluisk, co. Galway. CATLIN.—On the 7th inst., at Skinner-street, Snowhill, Henry Catlin, eldest son of the late Martin Richard Catlin. DUNN.—On the Bth inst., at Pentonville, Daniel Dunn, Esq., aged 89. GROUCOCK.—On the 9th inst., at Bournemouth, Richard Foord, eldest son of the late Richard Groucock, of Herne hill, aged 20. HALL.—On the 7th inst., at Shalileet House, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Harry Hall, Esq., aged 26, P ARKER .—On the 7th inst., at The Grove, Binfield, Berke, Charles Parker, Esq., aged 59. Lotcriow : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Offlioo, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tlaei County a Middlenzr—Sgtwday, May 10, 1862. 1 ,: . ~'.