The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

THE NAVE The Duke of Somerset and the Junior Lords of the Admiralty, with Lord Clarence Paget, the Sec retary, and Sir Baldwin Walker, are expected to leave town to-morrow on their annual visit of in spection to Portsmouth. After a thorough inspec tion of that extensive naval establishment the First Lord and colleagues will visit the Channel Islands, and then further pursue their tour of inspection to Devonport, and afterwards proceed to Ireland. The Pioneer, 6, screw, Commander Hugh A. Reilly, and the Gorgon, 6, paddle, Commander Bed ford C. Pim, both sailed from Spithead for the westward on Saturday. The Russian screw corvette Baian, 16, Captain Istomin, left the Motherbank early yesterday morning for the Baltic. The ships now remaining in attendance on his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine are, the General-Admiral and the Svetlan. It is stated by the officers of these vessels that it is the intention of the Grand Duke to reduce the number of guns on board the General- Admiral to 50, and to substitute for those she has on board 60-pounders, 71 in. bore—guns of a much heavier calibre. The cers of the squadron render unqualified praise to the Mersey's appearance as a war frigate. The members of the National Defence Commis sion arrived at the George Hotel, Portsmouth, on Friday last. On Saturday the commissioners em barked on board the Fire Queen, Master-Comman der Paul, and proceeded to the Solent to inspect the western approaches to Spithead. The screw steamship Edgar, 91, Neptune, 91, and Imperieuse, 51, returned to Portland harbour last Friday evening , . The lighter Aid, Grundy master, sailed from Plymouth on Friday with stores. The paddlewheel steamsloop Hydra, 6, Comman der R. V. Hamilton, has been overhauled at Devon port ; several of her timbers have been found rotten. The Turkish line-of-battle ship Shadia, 90, got up steam in Keyham-basin on Friday, and pro ceeded into Hamoaze, alongside the sheerhulk, where she receives her mainmast. The gunboat Biter (tender to the Blenheim), from Portland, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday evening. The paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, 6, Com mander B. C. T. Pim, from the eastward, arrived in Plymouth yesterday morning. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and her husband visited Devonport dockyard on Friday. The paddlewheel steam sloop Firebrand, 6, Corn. Denman, having had defects made good, steamed from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound on Saturday. The crew of the screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Glanville, were paid advance of wages at Plymouth on Friday, and on Saturday she left the Sound for Liverpool to enter men, of whom she is considerably deficient. All ships in commission at Plymouth were dressed in flags on Friday, in honour of Prince Albert's birthday. The customary salutes were fired. The Trinity steam yacht Argus arrived at Har wich from London about half-past 9 p.m. on Satur day, and had on board an experimental model of Maillard's patent mechanical compass for steering ships without needles or magnets. The instrument was merely lashed in the rudest manner to the after part of the paddle-box, and, notwithstanding the great disturbing force thrown and acting on the steering shaft of the instrument, which is immersed in the water, it worked and gave the ship's course with sufficient accuracy to establish the entire suc cess of the principle on which the compass is con structed, and to justify the inventor's guaranteeing the perfect efficiency of his invention. These instru ments are meant to be used in the stern of the vessel, and to stand on the deck, where the ordi nary compass stands at present ; but the inventor selected the position in which his compass was placed on board the Argus in order to put it to the severest test, and to see it in operation under every imaginable disadvantage. This compass can be used on land, and bids fair to supersede the magnetised needle wherever true bearings are required. Mr. J. Flanagan was on Saturday appointed ad ditional surgeon to the Victory ; and Mr. G. P. Rickcord, paymaster, as secretary to Rear-Admiral Elliott. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the General Commanding in Chief, has left town for a few weeks' tour in Germany. A telegram received by the authorities at Ports mouth late on Friday evening conveyed the intima tion of her Majesty's gracious intention to inspect the headquarters of the 32d Regiment in the dock yard at Portsmouth, on Saturday, at 11 a.m., on their landing from the Albuera transport, and prior to their proceeding to their destination—the camp at Shorncliffe. The troops were conveyed ashore by steam tug soon after breakfast, and preparations made to receive her Majesty by the military and naval authorities. A dais had been hurriedly pre pared for her Majesty on the ground between the Ropery and Middle Storehouse, and thence to the King's Stairs, where her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort were to land, the path way was covered with red cloth. In front of the dais the 32d were drawn up in line with their band and colours—the latter having emblazoned on their silk the glorious names of Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Penin sula, Waterloo, Punjab, Mooltan, Goojerat, and Lucknow. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, with the Princess Alice, and Prince Arthur, attended by Viscount Sydney, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, shortly afterwards arrived in the Fain, screw yacht, amid the cus tomary salutes from the ships and garrison, and were received on landing by Major-Gen. Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., Admirals W. Bowles, C. 8., Hon. C. Grey, and their respective staffs. Her Majesty immediately proceeded to the ground where the troops were drawn-up in line, passing down in front and. rear, after which the troops marched past in quarter distance column, and afterwards again re formed in line opposite to her Majesty, who desired that the Lucknow men should be called to the front. and expressed her wish to see Dr. Boyd, wlO was accordingly presented to her Majesty by Col. Bell, commanding the regiment. Her Majesty expressed her gratification at seeing Dr. Boyd again returned to England from India, and also at the appearance of the men in general. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, having taken leave of Colonel Bell and the officers of the regiment, returned to the King's Stairs under a Royal salute from the troops, the band playing the National Anthem. Her Majesty immediately embarked for Osborne on board the Fairy, and left the harbour under the customary salutes and the cheering of the crews of the different vessels who had manned the yards. The East Kent Militia furnished the guard of honour for the occasion. At the close of the in spection the 32d were marched to the railway station, and left by special train for Shorncliffe. We are authorised to state that the First Lord of the Admiralty will hold a levee on Friday next, the 2d of September, at the Commander-in• Chief's office, Admiralty House, Portsmouth Dockyard. Any officer who may be desirous of attending must leave his• name, rank, and seniority at the office of the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, by 3 p.m. of Wednesday, the 31st inst. General Napier, from Bermuda, has succeeded, as head of the C ommissiarat Department in the Camp at Colchester, Mr. J. M. Lindsay, appointed to a similar office in Sierra Leone. There is some idea of camping out the troops for two or three ' days before the summer closes. The encampment on the North Denes at Great Yarmouth, formed by the battery of Royal Artil lery,'under the command of Major Brandling, as stated in The Sun of Wednesday, was broken up on Friday, and the troops returned in the evening of that day to Norwich under the command of Capt. Strangways, son of the gallant general who fell in the Crimean campaign. The transport ship Marchioness of Londonderry, heavrday which has been for a considerable time, and at heavy expense, waiting in Kingston harbour, sailed onF with troops for Hong Kong. She was towed o ut of the harbour and for some distance by one of the tug vessels, the wind being easterly_. y Orders wer e on Saturday issue d the d epots from the Horse Gnards to the officers comman ding the East India. regiment s at Chatham a and the other of military stations directing, the reinforcements se lected' to embark for India to proceed to the follow ing phices—viz., for Calcutta. -2d (the Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 65 men ; 7th Hussars, 91 men ; F us ii eer s, Ist battalion, 89 m en; 6th Regiment, Ist battalion, 218 men; 20th Regiment, Ist batta lion, 71 men; 34th Regiment, 'T men •, 35th (Royal Sussex) R4,rirnent, 78 men ; 37th Regiment, 200 men ; 42d Royal Highlanders, 123 men ; 43d Light Infantry, 77 men ; 48th Regiment t l69 men ; 6 0th • Royal Rifles, 2d battalion, 251 men ; 67th Revoi_ went, 217 men ; 71st Highland Light Infantry, 82 men; 73d Regiment, 114 men ; 77th Regiment, 424 men ; 80th Regiment, 99 men ; 88th Connaught Rangers, 46 men ; 90th Light Infantry, 173 meth .97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment , 2 men ; _Regiment, 89 men; and.'Royal Artillery, 152 men. 'The above reinforcements are to embark in the king Philip, Merchantman, Alfred, Walmer Castle, Minden, Octavia, Algiers, Surrey, and Hanover, the vessels chartered by the Hon. Council for India. The following detachments are to embark for Bom bay :-3d (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, 13 men ; 6th Dragoon Guards, 95 men ; Bth Hussars, 19 men ; 17th Lancers, 70 men ; 4th King's Owen, Ist battalion, 281,,men ; 28th Regiment, 153 men ; 31st Regiment, 120 Men ; 56th Regiment, 67 men ; Zith Regiment, 91 men ; 83d Regiment, 6 men ; .139th Regiment, 1 man ; 95th Regiment, llimen ; 11.3 Royal Artillery, 65 men ; and Royal Engineers, 15 men, the whole of whom proceed to Bombay in the Akbar, Brunelle, and Tiptree. The reinforcements that embark in the Hougomont, Barham, and Gos forth, for Madras, are-Ist (the King's) Dragoon Guards, 62 men ; 12th Lancers, 64 men ; Ist batta lion, Ist Royals, 6 men ; 44th Regiment , 7 men ; 68th Light Infantry, 1 man ; 69th Regiment, 78 men ; 91st Regiment, 88 men ; and Royal Artillery, 62 men. The Earl Balcarras will embark the fol lowing troops for Kurrachee—viz., 49 men of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards ; 182 men of the 46th ; 4 men of the 51st Light Infantry ; 28 men of the 70th Regiment ; 103 men of the 79th Highlanders; two men of the 81st Regiment; six men of the 94th Regiment ; and 71 men of the 98th Regiment. Some further trials were made at Chatham garri son on Saturday last, by direction of Major-Gen. Eyre, for the purpose of ascertaining the time re quired in pitching and striking the tents invented by Major Rhodes, and also those in use by the troops at Chatham. The trials took place, as be fore, in the grounds attached to the garrison hos pital, where a number of tents have been pitched, including some invented by Major Rhodes, all of which are occupied by . patients from the hospital, Dr. A. Maclean, principal medical officer of the hospital, together with other officers of the staff and medical department of the army. being pre sent. The operations commenced by 15 soldiers, all of them unacquainted with tents, being ordered to pitch Major Rhodes's large hospital tent, which is 30 feet in length, 15 feet wide, and 10 feet high. This the troops accomplished in exactly 34 minutes, or about one-half the time occupied in pitching the tent at the last trial. The same men were then ordered to pitch the Govern • ment hospital marquee, which is about the same size as Rhodes's hospital tent, being 30 feet by 141 foet, and 14 feet in height. In this operation they were engaged a few minutes over an hour, or double the time taken to pitch Rhodes's tent. It should, however, be remarked that the tent was so badly put up that a pertion of it had to be taken down in order to refix it perfectly. The troops were then directed to strike Major Rhodes's hospi tal tent, which they completed in seven minutes, the Government hospital marquee requiring the same men 12 minutes to strike it. From the result of these trials, the officers present were perfectly satisfied that not only are the tents invented by Major Rhodes superior to those of the Government in comfort and accommodation for the troops, but that they can be pitched and struck in considerably less time and with a smaller number of men. Viscount Grey de Wilton, M.P., has just retired from the army. His lordship was senior Lieute nant in the Ist Regiment of Life Guards. The East Essex Militia Rifles, under command of Col. the Hon. H. C. Maynard, will assemble for their annual drill at Colchester ; and the West Essex, under Col. R. Brise, at Chelmsford, on the 21st Sept. next. SCREW PROPELLERS AND ?HEIR IM PROVEMENT. There is no mechanical question of such impor tance as regards improving the efficiency of a steam fleet, nor one which has been so completely over looked by our scientific naval men, as that of ascer taining the precise form and pitch of a screw, with which the highest results as to speed and diminu tion of vibration are attainable. When first the screw propeller was introduced into the Royal navy it was quite as often used with three fans as with two, the " pitches" or turns of both descrip tions varying considerably. Indeed, it was only after a rather long time, and the complete establish ment of a negative proof that no greater results were obtainable with the additional fan than with two, that the latter form was at last generally adopted, and slowly came into use throughout the English navy. Beyond this change, which scarcely deserves the name of an improvement, and some trifling experiments which were made in 1853 on board her Majesty's yacht Fairy, to which we shall presently refer, no public attempt seems to have been made either to improve the form of the screw or even to ascertain if it was capable of improve ment. This all-important point seems to have been allowed to fall into the usual order of routine, and 1 the two fan-shaped blades having generally what is called a uniform pitch or turn became, like the anchor, the " established" screw of the navy. Fortunately, however, for the Admiralty, and for the efficiency of our steam liners, a matter of such vital interest as the form of the propeller could not be long overlooked. Sir Howard Douglas, who, though in the highest rank of the military profession, is nevertheless one of the ablest scienti fic authorities on the tactics of steam warfare and naval gunnery now alive, took the matter up some two years back, and began a series of experiments with a view of ascertaining practically whether the Admiraly screw was the best (about which the gal lant General entertained strong misgivings), and, if not, in what way its form could be improved. The main object was, of course, to ascertain the shape of a propeller which would diminish vibration while exerting increased power, and, therefore, obtaining increased speed. There are very few of our readers who will require to be reminded of the unpleasant effect produced by the constant tremulous vibration in the stern of a ship while the screw is in motion. But Sir Howard Douglas shows that this effect is more than unpleasant—it is even dangerous, and the injury done to the stern by the constant shake of the screw may produce results to be dreaded. Of cours.-!, whenever there is great vibration'there is loss of power somewhere, and the force that should here be exerted to propel the ship is lost in shaking I her frame to the very centre. This most unprofit able result Sir Howard Douglas's experiments showed conclusively,:was due to the angular fan shaped form of the Admiralty screw, and caused by the sudden and violent reaction of the disturbed water in the screw frame as the propeller entered and emerged from it. The rectilinear edges are in this respect highly disadvantageous, since the whole of an edge enters and leaves the water at once on each side of the aperture of the screw-frame, within which aperture the water is comparatively in a quiescent state as regards propulsion. This led Sir Howard to see that if the leading corners of a screw blade were curved, " they would slide ob liquely and continuously through the water like a screw formed with an entire feather, so that at no moment would there be any shock or discon- tinuity of action." The result of this im portant discovery Sir Howard privately communi cated to one or two of our leading engineers, and the Admiralty will probably find an excuse for their own supineness in the matter in the fact that three engineers, whom we need not name, were against the proposed improvement, and considered that to cut off the " leading corners" of the Admi ralty screw would be to deprive it of half its pro pelling force. Confident, however, in the truth of his discovery, and in the scientific principles on which it was based, Sir Howard, nothing daunted, took out a protective patent for his improvement last year. In taking this step the gallant General only wished to put beyond question his claim to haying originated the idea. Any thought of pro lt , ing by it in a pecuniary point of view he, of course, considered far beneath his character and position in the army. His improvement is registered as con sisting, first, in a modification in the form of the blades, so that the advance or leading edges of the propeller blades shall receive less shock in cutting through the water, and therefore produce a more equable action of the propeller, resulting in less tremulous motion in the stern of the ship when under way, and also steadying and equalising the propelling force. For this purpose the advance edge of the screw blades is of a convex curved form so that the curve of this edge of the Made at the extreme end is in rear, as regards its position in the screw, of the inner termination of the curve, or that next the centre. The leading edges of the screw, in fact, when looked at in profile, resemble a wave line similar to Hogarth's line of grace and beauty, the two curves meeting in the centre at the boss or axis of the screw. By this form of the advanced edges the transition in entering and leaving the opening in the dead wood or screw-frame of the ship is easy and gradual ; vibration in the stern-frame is reduced to its lowest point, and the whole force of the screw employed to propel the vessel. A full detail of this improvement, and value to the service was published last year by Sir Ihward Douglas in his work on " Naval Warfare with Steam." This admirable ork, which has since been translated into French, and has become among French officers almost a textbook on all matters relating to steam warfare, was duly presented by the author to the heads of the Admiralty departments, and as duly acknow ledged with thanks. Nothing, however, was done towards cutting off the "leading corners" of the screws, as Sir Howard had recommended, and the suggestion apparently shared the fate of all pro posed' improvements in the navy—that of being for gotten as soon as made. It was not, however, quite overlooked in this instance, for about two months ago her Majesty's frigate Doris was ordered to Spithead to make certain trials with various kinds of screws, but more especially of the comparative merits of Griffiths's screw and the common Ad miraltyoccupied screw, with its leadino• corners cut off. The excited much interest engineers,amoc, so m e time showed that when competing with three of Griffiths's best screws (which were the best of all sets of improve ments tried) the Admiralty screw, with its leading corners cut off, as Sir Howard had recommended, was far better than two of the three, and very little inferior to the best of all. The value of the im provement was therefore put beyond a doubt, for the trial naturally created the impression that had a screw been specially made on Sir Howard's plan, instead of having its leading corners roughly cut off for the occasion, it would have distanced all competitors, both as regards increased speed of the vessel and diminished 'vibration at the stern. This was a great victory for Sir Howard's principles, and accordingly he received congratulations from all but the Admiralty, which alone made no sign. Upon this, after a decent hipse of time, Sir Howard wrote to the Admiralty at Somerset-house, point ing out how he was the originator of the improve ment, and how he had himself directed their attention to the subject, and so induced the trials with his screw which had terminated so satisfac torily. He expressed himself delighted that his improvement had proved of such value and import ance, and the only reward he wished for or would ever take was the free and just acknowledment that to him, and him alone, was due the merit of what we may almost term the discovery. After a time the Admiralty replied most blandly. They were delighted to forward him an abstract of the experi ments made on board her Majesty's ship Doris, and would be the last to attempt to rob Sir Howard of any credit which he thought due to his improve ments. In the present instance they intimated that there was but little chance of doing so unfair an act, inasmuch as Sir Howard's improvements of 1858 had been tried previously by the Admiralty on board her Majesty's yacht Fairy in 1853. Now, this latter assertion is very far from being correct. The trials made on board the Fairy six years ago were with screws of a peculiar form, cut down into any or almost no form whatever. The screws, too, were utterly different in principle and pitch from the Admiralty screw which Sir Howard proposed to improve, while the trials themselves may be regarded as conspicuous failures, inasmuch as they resulted in nothing, and left the old fan-shaped Admiralty screw precisely as it was, and as it has remained till the present improvement of Sir Howard. The gallant veteran has replied to the Admiralty, calmly persisting in his claim to the merit of having originated the improvement, and hinting strongly that the attempt of the authorities to refer back the improvement to the meaning less trials of 1853 with totally different screws looks very like trying to rob him of the hon our due to his skill and perseverance in having been the first to see and the first to work out this important modification of the screw propeller principle. So the matter remains at present. Whether the Admiralty will even-. tually give the merit where the merit is due we know not ; but in the cause of truth, and in the cause of all our earnest, thoughtful men, who so wearily and nearly always so thanklessly labour to promote the efficiency of both services, it is right that the truth should be known, and that the merit of introducing this most important improvement in the form of the screw propeller belongs to Gen. Sir H. Douglas, and to him alone. While we are upon the subject of Sir H. Douglas's improvement of the screw we may refer to one which, though very simple, is hardly less import ant in degree than that we have mentioned, and one which it is certain the Admiralty must gladly adopt. We mean, of course, that improvement which is to prevent a ship's screw being fouled by rigging or hawsers. In the last great naval war with France our victories were as much gained by the skill with which we out-manoeuvred our adver saries as from any other cause. This led the French to prefer always firing at the spars and rigging, while as constantly the English aimed at the hull, These have become the traditional modes of attack with both navies, and the result to be achieved by firing at the rigging now would be almost iden tical with what was accomplished when ships ma nceuvred under sail alone. A screw liner having a mast shot away would now have her screw fouled by the wreck of the rigging drifting into her wake astern within three minutes after the spar fell over. The greater the "way" on the vessel the more cer tainly would such an accident occur, and in a naval engagement with a mast shot away, and her screw jammed, any vessel would be so completely at the mercy ofher antagonist that further resistance would be hopeless. There are many, and some most fatal instances, already on record of the hopeless condition to which a screw vessel is reduced when once her propeller is fouled. Look at the loss of the Prince. Yet in the whole of her Majesty's navy not a single vessel is provided with any appliance to ward off this most obvious and most serious disaster. In Sir Howard Douglas's improved form of screw the curved edges have, besides the advantage of readily throwing off any floating materials that may come in contact with them, that of not being so liable to be broken by their oblique collision with large spars. The angular parts of the common screw arc far more likely to be hitched by ropes than the rounded extremities of the form which Sir Howard has now, we hope, introduced to the navy. These curved edges, he also suggests, should he fitted with sharp gun or other hard metal edges, so that as the screw revolved in the water its power would divide any rope or spar like a powerful circular saw. But his main recommendation as a remedy for this great evil is a contrivance that will enable the propeller to clear itself of any floating wreck of riggihg which may hitch upon the screw in its rotation, and which, being drawn down to the root of the blade, would be wound up on the boss so tightly as to disable the propeller or break the sere w-shaft, if the enignes were not instantly stopped. For this manner of clearing the screw Sir Howard proposes to employ' powerful and sharp knife-edges, firmly fixed to the metal trunk in which the screw works, and close to both edges of the blade, in such a manner that any rope that may have hitched on the boss would be acted upon during the revolution of the screw as a body revolving in a turning lathe is acted upon by a chisel. Thus, revolving with a force derived from the power of the engines, the rope must be drawn into and along the knife-edges, causing them to exert a drawing cut sufficient to sever any rope, whatever its strength or thickness, and so clear the screw at once of what would otherwise be the most dangerous and perhaps fatal entanglements. This simple but most efficacious plan we trust soon to see generally introduced into both the Royal and mer chant navies, and hope that the Admiralty will make no attempt to purloin the merit of originating this idea as well as that of the form of th screw. How can any inventor look for success at the Ad miralty when even Sir Howard Douglas, with all his claims upon the consideration of the authorities, cannot get them to acknowledge gracefully that the improvement they get for nothing is an important one, and is his 9—Times. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Most Noble Henry De-la-Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, K.P., was ad ministered to, in the London Court of Probate, by his brother, the Most Noble and Rev. John De-la- Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, as one of the next of kin, there being no executor named in the will, the Marchioness, the relict, having re nounced the grant. The will is dated the 17th of August, 1852, and is written on a small sheet of note paper, and witnessed by John Parkinson and William L. Farrer. The personal estate was sworn under £70,000. He leaves Ford Castle, and the lands and estates in Northumberland, to the Marchioness for her life, her jointure being paid out of these estates ; and also leaves to her the jewellery, plate, and money at the ban ker's. He bequeaths to his sister, the Countess Talbot, £l,OOO a year, to be a charge upon the Irish estates; and, subject thereto, he leaves the Irish estates to his brother, the present marquis, as well as the estates in Northumberland and else where on the decease of his wife, the Dowager Marchioness. The will of Henry William De-la-Poer Beresford (Peirse), Esq., of Bedale Hall, Yorkshire, who died on the 24th f July, 1859, was proved in London by the widow and executrix, power being reserved to Marmaduke Wyvill, jun., Esq., and George John White Melville, Esq., the other executors. The personalty sworn under £B,OOO. The will is dated Feb. 13, 1850. He has bequeathed to his wife the residence, household furniture, and effects, at Aiskew, with the carriages and such of the plate not having the arms and crest of Pierse ; and be queathes the estates at Bedale, together with the mansion, furniture, paintings, and the plate with the arms and crest of Pierse to his son, grandson, and heirs male ; every tenant in possession to bear and use the surname of Peirse after his own, and obtain a licence for that purpose, and to quarter such arms with their own, and such plate to be heirlooms with the Bedale estate. The estates are under strict settlement. The trustees to give the next alternate presentation of Bedale to his brother, the Rev. John George Beresford—value, £1,936. The will of Colin Campbell. Esq., formerly Phy sician-General in the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Establishment, was proved in London by Major Lionel Percy Denham Eld, one of the -exe cutors. The personalty in England sworn under £12,000. He has bequeathed his property princi pally amongst his sons and daughters, leaving a few legacies to his friends and relatives, and to his servants.—lllitstrated London News. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EPrs's (Homoeopathic Chemist) Cocoa.—This esteemed preparation is sold by the prin cipal grocers at is. 6d, par lb., in 11b., and packets. Each packet is labelled " James Epps, Horncoo pathic chemist, London." [ADVERTISEMENT.]-I.lolloway's Pills.—When we con sider how uncertain are life and health, and their value appreciated by all human beings, it is strange, indeed, to observe how often men neglect the means of preserving these blessings at even the most trifling cost. They pay heavily to ensure their premises from fire or their goods from accident on flood and field, but they often put off until it is too late the expenditure of a few shillings on a box of Holloway's Pills, which they might keep by them as an unfailing safeguard—as a charm which will protect the possessor against all diseases. They must certainly do good, if used according to instructions given with each box. DR. SMETHU.RST. • A rumour was very current on Saturday that the Home Secretary had sent a respite for the prisoner, but it had no foundation, and at present the execu tion is fixed for Tuesday, the 6th of September. It is true that the solicitor for the prisoner, Mr. Hum phreys, has made an urgent solicitation to the Se cretary of State to delay the carrying out of the sentence, and the culprit himself has also addressed several very long communications to the Home office, in which he gives a history of the connexion between himself and the deceased lady and most strenuously asserts his innocence ; but the whole matter is still under consideration, and it is not likely that any decision will be come to until the middle of the week. The prisoner still continues to exhibit the same calm and almost indifferent demeanour that cha racterised him throughout the whole of the painful proceedings, and he has never ceased protesting his innocence of the crime of which he has been con victed. On Wednesday, after the day had been formally fixed for the execution, it was deemed prudent by the gaol authorities that the clothes he had worn down to that time, and which were the same he had on at the trial, should be taken away, and he was dressed in the prison garb. This was done as a matter of precaution, as it was thought he might have some deadly ingredient concealed. about his own garments. Nothing of this descrip tion, however, was discovered, and Dr. Smethurst submitted to the change of garments without any complaint, and the only observation he made was to the effect that if he went to Madame Tussaud's in that dress he should look " a complete Guy." The Rev. Mr. Sessop, the chaplain of Horsemonger lane Gaol, communicated to the prisoner the fact that the sentence was to be carried out on the day above-named, and he heard the communication without exhibiting any emotion, but merely ex claimed, "If the sentence is carried out, I am a murdered man." It has been stated above that during the week Dr, Smethurst has been engaged in writ ing a long communication to the Home Secre tary upon the subject of his alleged offence. In this statement he again asserts his entire inno- cence, and declares that the deceased died from natural causes. He also particularly observes upon the absence of any motive for his committing such a dreadful crime, and states that the deceased had so much affection for him that she would at any time have called in the mortgage and given him the money if he had asked her to do so, and he also urges that the deceased lady had a contingent inte rest in a great deal of other property, so that his interest would have been much stronger in her life than in her death. He also endeavours to show that the circumstance of his attending upon the de ceased in the manner he did, supplying her with all her food and medicine, and not allowing any one else to attend upon her—all which facts were so strongly urged against him in support of the charge—were in reality merely the result of his affection-for the deceased, and he says that during the illness of his wife, the real Mrs. Smethurst, he always used to wait upon her in the same manner. The prisoner also states with regard to his having taken the soup that was brought by Miss Louisa Bankes a day or two before her death, and which ' she represented he took out of the bedroom, and was heard to stir on the landing, that all he did was to take it to the window to cool it, as he did everything else that was taken by the deceased, the doctors who were in attendance upon her directing that she should have everything cold. It will be remembered that according to the evidence of Miss Louisa Bankes, the deceased's sister, the moment she tasted the soup the deceased vomited, and the inference was that the prisoner left the room for the purpose of putting some noxious ingredient into it ; but he asserts most solemnly that this was not the case, and accounts for his conduct in the manner above stated. It is rather a remarkable circum stance that the prisoner does not appear to have given any explanation of the circumstances under which the deceased lady consented to go through the ceremony of marriage with him, when she must have been aware that, at all events, he was living with another woman who passed as Mrs. Smethurst, and was always regarded as his wife, and that this had been the state of things for nearly two years. There is very little doubt, however, that when the first unhappy inti macy took place between the deceased lady and the prisoner he asserted he was not married, and that it was under the impression that this was a correct statement of the nature of the connexion that existed between them that the deceased con sented to go and reside with the prisoner, and it was at her urgent solicitation alone that he con sented to the marriage taking place at Battersea Church under the circumstances elicited at the trial. If this should really have been the case, it is clear that the prisoner might at any moment have been taken into custody for bigamy, and that it would have been impossible for him to have gone back to live with his own wife while the deceased was in existence. Dr. Smethurst passes a considerable part of the morning with the chaplain, and appears to exhibit a good deal of religious feeling. He expressed a desire not to attend the ordinary chapel service, as he did not wish to be the subject of the curiosity of the other prisoßers, and his request was at once complied with. FEMALE LOVE OF RANK. The love of aristocratic distinction seems to be still imprinted in th e h ear t an d sou l o f th e Anglo-Saxon deeply woman. We are about to connect, fora moment, the Peerage and the Police-court, but not in.any way which will give offence to the haughtiest noble. Even from a source so impure as the one indicated. the Peers of England may gather waifs and strays of admiration and respect. Surely, it is not a small matter that the same prin ciple which induces the millionaire cotton spinner to cast his fortune at the feet of a bankrupt Dukes unprepossessing daughter should extend downwards to classes in society where the letter H is a mystery, and a baked shoulder of mutton with potatoes under it an extraordinary repast ? What a poin t for Mrs. Hobbles, the relict of the l a t e M r . J o h n Hobbles, of her 'Majesty's Customs, not to marry again, but to " contract an alliance !" How, if the hook was baited with the smallest fragment of a title of honour, would that unfortunate woman ne glect those ordinary precautions which are to the inhabitants of Jewsbury-crescent in the place of the conveyancer's labours and the jealous protec tion of the Chancellor ! It is seldom indeed that people have a chance of involving themselves in such splendid ruin, but when it occurs it is not to be neglected. Let our Radical philosophers say what they will, the love Of the purple is a fact, just like the harmony which exists between lemon ; juice and native oysters. Let us leave our own countrywomen alone for a moment and pass to other lands. The same feeling is found in demo cratic America and in aristocratic Germany. The best thumb book in the public library of Boston is —what ? That sacred volume which is, somewhat irreverently, known in the land of its birth as the Snobs' Bible—we mean the British Peerage. In Germany, in the same manner, notwithstanding Revolutions of 1848, Frankfort Assemblies, and what not, the admiration for 64 well-guaranteed quarterings is as rife as ever. In that land of somewhat dreary bliss a man is still described as "cap tble" or "incapable of roast-meat"—just as we used to speak of persons who were entitled to sit above or below the salt. It is quite the same thing whether we seek for a solution of the mystery in the land of equality or the land of inequality. The youthful Lady Blanche Ever gules—a young, noble, and unmarried lady verg ing on 45—naturally avails herself of the admis sion, and holds that these social distinctions were "established by Providence for the wisest and best of purposes." Not being in the Privy Council where such matters are discussed, we are not prepared with a contradiction. This strange love for rank in any form has just received a strange illustration at the Lambeth Police-court. Mrs. Jane Hayes applied to the sit ting magistrate to relieve herself from an unfortu nate connection she had formed with a young noble man—at least she supposed him to be so. On the ' 28th of September this lady was'conducted to•the hymeneal altar at St. George's, Hanover-square, by .the Hon. Wm. Denbigh Sloper Harrison, the son of a nobleman, and an officer in the army. She lived with him for a time, but a small black cloud arose on the horizon, and soon darkened the brilliant sky of the Hon. Mrs. Sloper Harri son's honeymoon. She began to suspect that there was . a slight hitch in that gay young nobleman's domestic arrangements, and, in point of fact, there was another Hon. Mrs. Sloper Harri son still extant and breathing vital air. This was bad enough, but flu- worse remained behind. Had the Lothario been a real officer and a nobleman the bitter pill of bigamy might have been digested ; but it turned out that he was neither the one nor the other. So far from being an officer, it turned out that the young aristocrat's only connexion with the military force of the country was that he had brother in the Militia, and in the somewhat. humble th6ugh honourable capacity of a pri vate. In the next place, what noble family was there of the name of Harrison ? The Peer age was searched in vain. It was then covered that the young nobleman was sometimes known by the name of Marshall, just as we might say Hamilton and Brandon. Neither under this head could an ythi ng t o his advantage be discovered. The noble family still remained a mystery. Something positive, however, was at I'ARIOUS MODES OF SOLEMNISING MARRIAGE. In the 20th annual report of the Registrar- General there occurs the following note under the head " Marriages :" " The great facilities for marriage afforded by the present state of the law will be apparent from the following brief notice of the various modes in which the solemnisation of matrimony may now be effected. Parties may be married in England and Wales— (l) according to the rites of the established church, (2) in registered places of worship belonging to the dissenting bodies, Roman Catholics, &c., (3) in the District Register Offices, and (4) Quakers and Jews may be married according to their respective usages.' The solemnisation of marriage according to the rites of the Church of England may take place (1) by special license, (2) by license, (3) after banns, or (4) upon the production of the Superintendent Re gistrar's certificate. A special license can only be granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury; it allows the marriage to be solemnised 'at any convenient time and place,' but the fee being of considerable amount, not more than 11 couples, on an average, are married yearly upon this authority. The ordinary ecclesiastical license granted by a sur rogate is for marriage in the parish church or in some public chapel of the parish or chapelry in which one of the parties has resided for the space of 15 days immediately before the grant ing of such license. No previous notice is required the first application for the license may be made and the parties may become man and wife within the hour. For marriage after publication of banns it is necessary that the banns shall be proclaimed upon three Sundays in the church of the parish in which the parties dwell, and when they live in different parishes, in the parish church of each. To obtain the Superintendent Registrar's certificate one of the parties must give notice of marriage' in the prescribed form at the register office of the dis trict, where such notice must be suspended or affixed in a conspicuous place' during 21 successive days, and the particulars entered in the Marriage Notice Book.' After the expiration of that period the Superintendent Registrar's certificate for the marriage is issued upon application. A previous residence of seven days in the district immediately before giving notice is requisite; and where the parties dwell in two different districts the same forms must be gone through in both. Under a provision of the Act of 19 and 20 Vic., c. 119, no marriage by certificate can be solemnised in a church or chapel without the consent of the offi ciating minister. " Marriages in registered places of worship not belonging to the established church can be solem nised either (1) by license or (2) by certificate, both of which are to be obtained from the Superin tendent Registrar. In order to obtain a license a notice of marriage' in the prescribed form must be delivered to that officer, who enters the parti culars in the marriage notice book to be therein open for inspection during one whole day, after which the license may be granted upon being ap plied for. Either of the persons to be married may give the notice and obtain the license, but one of them must have resided 15 days in the district in which the notice is given Where the parties live in different districts notice given in one district is sufficient. Although in ordinary cases the mar riage is celebrated in the district in which one of the parties resides, the law allows them to marry elsewhere, in the' usual place of worship' of one of them (provided it is a registered building, and situated not more than two miles distant) ; they may also be married out of the district when there is within it no registered place of worship in which they may be married according to the forms which they desire to 'adopt. - The same freedom of action is allowed with respect to marriages in dissent ing chapels by certificate. In that case the notice of the marriage' must be suspended or affixed in the Distiict Register-office during 21 successive days after the entry of the particulars in the ' Mar riage Notice Book,' on the expiration of which period the Superintendent Registrar may issue his certificate. Only seven days previous residence is necessary before giving a notice for marriage with out license. " Marriages are celebrated in the District Regis ter-office upon production of the superintendent registrar's license or certificate; the contract is a purely civil one, as the use of any religious service is prohibited. The presence of the Superintendent Registrar, as well as that of a registrar of marriages, is requisite, and both officers must sign the register. " Marriages between Jews and marriages between Quakers may be solemnised with or without license, according to their respective usages ; the Jews may marry either in a synagogue or in a private dwell ing, and at any hour of the day; the Quakers in a Friends' meeting-house, between the hours of 8 and 12. " These various forms and authorities may be re• capitulated thus : " Marriages may be sol lemnised— Authority. (1. Special license from the Arch r bishop of Canterbury. ) 2. License from a Surrogate, [3. Publication of banns. 4. Certificate from the Superin tendent Registrar. (1. License from the Superintendent Registrar. )2. Certificate from the Superin tendent Registrar. 11. License from the Superintendent Registrar. )2. Certificate from the Superin tendent Registrar. (1. License from the Superintendent 1. According; to the rites of the Established. Church. 2. In registered 'places of worship not of the Established Church. 3. In the District Re gister Office. 4. Between Quakers and between Jews Registrar. 2. Certificate from the Superin tendent Registrar. By the English law as it stood before the passing of the Act of 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, no marriage could be lawfully solemnised (except where both the parties were Quakers or Jews re spectively) in any other place than a church or public chapel wherein banns might be published, unless by special license from the Archbishop of Canterbury. This law was enforced by severe penalties; and if an:; , persons intermarried without license from a competent authority, or without the previous publication of banns, the marriage was null and void to all intents and purposes. Thus all persons (with the exception of Jews and Quakers), whether conforming to the Church of England or not, were compelled to resort to the Established Church in order to have their marriages lawfully solemnised. The boon conferred upon Roman Catholics and Dissenters generally by the amended law of 1836, which enables them to marry in their own places of worship and according to their own forms, may well be appreciated. The recent act of 1856, besides abolishing the objectionable practice of reading notices of marriage before boards of guardians, has sanctioned marriage out of the dis trict in the usual place of worship' of one of the parties, and reduced the interval between the giv ing of notice of marriage by license and the grant of the license from seven to one clear day." [AnvEttrisEmENT.]—Thereat injury inflicted on many invalids by drugs increases the interest the public take in Dtt Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, which cures without medicine indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, con sumption, and debility. We quote a few out of many thou camel o:lses of cures by this delicious food :—Cure No. 180. -" wenty five years' nervousness, constipation, indiges tion, and debility from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet street, London." Cure 4,208. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, - spasms, and nausea, ' for which my servant had consulted time ;td vice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Health -restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any in quiries. Rev. J. W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." En tins, at Is. 6d. •, Ilb., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265. The 10"). and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post- Alice order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London' Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60, Graeechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate• street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at .Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co.; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sh arp an d Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co.; at South - amptou, Randall and Son, last brought to light by the discovery—first, of THE REVIVAL MOVEMENT —CHARGES the fact that the young nobleman had recently OF RIOT AND ASSAULT. amused bis lei Sure by accepting jobs as a journeyman paperhanger ; and, secondly, that the lady who had prior claims on him as his wife was actually forthcoming. Both ladies were pre sent at Lambeth Police-court on Thursday last, when the pseudo-nobleman was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of bigamy. He seems to have been a pitiful vagabond of the Uriah Heep order when it came to the point, at one moment denouncing himself as a blackguard and scoundrel—so far the Court was with him—and the next wanting to go down on his knees to his wives, or to anybody who wished to have his boots licked by such a paltry vagabond. There seems, indeed, to be a probability that there is a third wife living, inasmuch as the prisoner pro tested, " that, as God was above him and his judge," he had not any third lady to whom he stood in the relation. This form of language in the mouths of such people is almost invariably evidence of falsehood. The Hon. Sloper Mar shall was, however, removed at last to prison to await his trial at the Central Criminal Court, beg ging the spectators not to laugh at him, " because they themselves might get into a hobble some day or other." So of him there is an end for the present. The only reason why we call any particular at tention to such a case as this is, that it is a curious illustration of the fondness of our countrywomen — however humble their station may be—for rank and title. Hero was a wretched little whining creature, of contemptible appearance and address— not tainted but saturated with vice—who was able to betray one woman after another simply because he gave out that he was a nobleman's son.—Times. CARRICKFERGUS PETTY SESSIONS. (From the Banner of Ulster.) Yesterday an extraordinary case, arising out of the spread of the revival movement in the neigh bourhood of Carrickfergus, was heard shortly after the sitting of the Court. The magistrates presiding were—J. Barnett, Esq. (presiding), T. M. Birnie, Esq., and S. Dunn, Esq. The first charges entered for trial were those in which Nancy Costello en tered a complaint of riot and assault against the Rev. James White, Presbyterian minister of Car rickfergus, and against John Wilson, Chas. Hagan, Jas. Hagan, Wm. Johnston, Paul Rogers, Chas. Johnston, Samuel Greenless, David Irvine, Mar garet Kennedy, and Sarah Hughes. This case arose out of the conversion of the son of the complainant, Alex. Costello (as will appear in evidence) from the Roman Catholic to the Presbyterian faith. There was a cross-case, in which Alex. Costello, the con , vert, charged thee omplainant in the above charges, Nancy Costello (his mother), John Costello (his brother), and Mary Feeney, with assault, and with having used threatening language. The court was densely crowded during the proceedings, and the utmost interest appeared to be taken in the trials. The convert, Alex. Costello, is an exceedingly clever and intelligent boy of 17 years of age, and his appearance in court was the object of general atten tion. Mr. Alex. O'Rorke and Mr. Smith (Carrickfer gus) appeared for the Roman Catholic party in the first-named charges; and Mr. Wm. Seeds (Belfast) defended in the first cases, and prosecuted in the second. After the disposal of a few petty cases, the charges at the instance of Nancy Costello were read, and all the defendants (who appeared to be most respectable persons in the middle rank of life) made their ap- pearance. Mr. O'Rorke then proceeded to state the case on behalf of Nancy Costello. He observed that this was the third case of the kind which had occurred in the county in consequence of a movement re cently commenced. The complainant in this case was a widow, and had for 12 years occupied that station in life. She had been long resident in that neighbourhood, and he believed no one could lay to her charge that she had left any work undone which she should have done in order to maintain her family honestly. She had a son, named Alexander Costello, whom sh e l ove d dearly, and it would appear to the bench, in evidence, that, in consequence of the influence of certain parties, that child had been made to turn against his own mother—he had actually been instructed to believe that he was not bound to honour and obey her. It would appear to them that Alexander Costello was sent by his mother to carry letters for the postmis tress of Greenisland—a Mrs. Kennedy; and for this he was to receive the sum of 2s. per week. And now he (Mr. O'Rorke) should say that the husband of complainant was a Roman Catholic,that she was herself a Roman Catholic, and that her chil dren had all been brought up as Roman Catholics, and taught their catechism as such. Mr. O'Rorke went cn to state that prayer-meetings were held in consequence of this religious movement, which he was glad to see was on the wane, in this neighbour hood ; that Alexander Costello was induced to at. tend them, to forsake his parents, and to go to Brysonstown, in this county. For a long time he remained there undiscovered by his parent, and when he at length volunteerd to go home with his mother, he called on the way at the house of Mrs. Kennedy. It was then the assault complained of took place, which would be proved by the com plainant herself. In the course of the statements which O'Rorke made he accused Mr. White with tampering with letters which he addressed to his mother, and he inveighed against the dangerous character of the revival movement, and the conduct of Mr. White in the course of the transaction, who, he alleged, had wilfully kept the name of the boy's place of residence from the mother while he was at Brysonstown, near Kells, although at the same time he made it appear he was using all his exer tions for its discovery. At the conclusion of Mr. O'Rorke's statement, A number of witnesses were examined ; after which Mr. Seeds submitted that, without going into the case for the defence, there was no evidence what ever to sustain the complaint. Mr. Barnett said there was no evidence against any party except John Wilson, Margaret Kennedy, and Sally Hughes. Mr. Seeds said he would then ask their worships to dismiss all the other cases with costs. After some discussion on the granting of costs, Mr. Barnett said there was no evidence whatever of a riot, and as to the charge of assault, the Bench dismissed the charges against all the parties except those he had named, with 7s. costs in each case. The Bench then went into the case of Mrs. Ken nedy, Sally Hughes, and John Wilson, and the cross-cases preferred at the instance of Alexander Costello agains Nancy Costello, John Costello, and Mary Feeney. Mr. Seeds said that, had not Mr. O'Rorke thought proper to travel out of the legitimate bounds of the case, he would not have thought it necessary to trouble the Bench with any observations. 11,Ir. O'Rorke had not been satisfied with casting un worthy imputations on other parties—he was not satisfied with assailing Mr. - White, but he had at tacked his lady, and he (Mr. Seeds) must say that that had been done in a manner which was not cal culated to add much credit to the case which he brought into court. It had been his (Mr. Seed's) endeavour, in the course of his professional career, to avoid throwing disgrace on the religious opinions of those who differed from him; and he could tell Mr. O'Rorke and those who agreed with him, that while they were always ready to claim free opinion for themselves, they were not willing to give that liberty to those who professed Protestant principles. But, notwithstanding this, he could assure these parties that th e o pi n ions which he represented, n which had been struggled for by their forefathers, would be still maintained, and handed, un desecrated, to other generations. Mr. O'Rorke had told their worships a great deal about the duty which children owed to their parents; and he, for his own part, would never contest the point that all the duty which was lawful and right should be rendered to parents. But there was another duty which chil dren had to perform. They had a duty to discharge to their Heavenly Parent, and this was not the age nor the country where people had not a right to think and act for themselves—this was not the time when people were to be pinned down to the faith of others, and especially to that set of opinions with which Mr. O'Rorke and his witnesses so much sympath sed. If a person thought proper to leave a religion in which he was brought up, he had a perfect right to do so, and when this had occurred in the case of Protestants, the members of that com munion had never interfered with such a change. In the present case this boy had a perfect right to adopt whatever opinions he pleased in the same way as a lady who lived in their own neighbour hood, and was brought up a Protestant, but after wards adopted Roman Catholicism. Mr. Seeds went or. to state that it would be proved in evidence that the story of the old woman, Nancy Costello, was very far from the truth, with regard to every one of the leading facts of the case, and when he proved that, the bench would see that Mr. O'Rorke had been entirely misinformed. Evidence was given to support Mr. Seed's state ment, and the document to which Mrs. Costello affixed her mark was as follows : " I hereby undertake and promise, that if my son, Alex. Costello, returns to my house, he shall have my full liberty to judge and act as his own conscience may direct on reli gious subjects, and I will neither persecute him myself, nor suffer him to be unkindly treated, by any other person, on account of any views he may form or hold on the subject of religion. " AGNES COSTELLO (x—her mark.) " August 4, 1859." Ur. Seeds then said he did not think it necessary to produce further evidence, and would here close the case. After a few minutes delay, Mr. Barnett delivered the judgment of the bench. He said that the charges against Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Hughes and Johu Wilson, who were charged with an assault, were dismissed, and on the same terms as the previous cases, viz., 7s. and costs in each case. In the complaint against Nancy Costello the Bench was unwilling to bind her to keep the peace towards her own son. He (Mr. Barnett) was instructed to state to her that if she did not leave that lad to act for himself and think for himself—if she did not in all time to come allow him to go where he pleased without using towards him any threatening language—this Court would visit her with considerable severity. She might not be in a position to procure bail, but if she again broke the peace they would know to deal with her. Mr. Birnie—She is already under a rule of bail. Mrs. Costello—l only wished him to make my house his home, and I would be a good mother to him. Mr. Barnett—You have shown that you have not been a good mother, for you have chastised him for what he should not have been chastised for. The same rule was made in the other charges preferred by Alexander Costello. The the greatest audience then proceeded to leave the court state of excitement, but Mr. Seed said—Your worship, as a protection for this boy, who is now more than 17 years old, I want to ask him with whom he wishes to go. Alexander Costello—With Mr. White. Mr. Seed—Very well ; you will be secured pro teetion. The boy then, in company with some friends, pro ceeded to leave the court, when he was immediately assailed by his mother and an elder brother, and at length rescued by the police. Mr Seed again called upon the protection of the Bench ; here, he said, i n their very presence an assault had been committed. The Bench directed that Nancy Costello and her son should be brought before them. In the meantime Mr. O'Rorke pledged himself that the offence would not be again committed. t Mr. Barnett said the Bench would take M r. O'R if anyword in the case, but he must say that f any attack were made upon the boy again they would deal severely with the parties. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. A shocking accident, which has c'eeated a pre; found sensation among the principal families and the, district generally, occurred on Friday afternoon to IMrs. Harrison, wife of Mr. George Harrison, Sedretary to the Monmouthshire Railway Company, and resulted instantaneously in her death. Th. deceased lady with her husband. - resided by the side of the line, about a mile and a b.alf from Newport, being, as well as the other members of the family, in the habit of walking upon it w henever occa sion required. In the course of the day indicated, gr. 9.4.• Harrison and Mr. Harrisrin had been out a she ' distance by train, and. were returning upo n foot along the railroad. Mr. Harrison, who was 40 or 50 yards in advance, had taken a side footp ath, while his ill-fated wife was walking upon the " six foot," as the space between the up and down lines is termed. They were within about a quar ter o f 3 mile of their house on an embankment betw een the Malpas and the Crindan cuttings, when a down train from Hereford, co ns i s ting of 14 or 15 trucks laden with timber, came upon them. Tile 'P e i% was inconsiderable, not more than five or six ads an hour. The engin eer p erc eived them at 150 yan. distance, and gave 13, loud and continuou s whistle, but without attracting the unfortunate lady's notice. Mr. Harrison alsoturned round and made the ronli energetic motions without avail, however, 1111,, the train was within half a dozen yards , when she suddenly appeared to be frightened, and join)! from the " six_ foot," a place of comparative One 1 0 , to the down-line, in front of the engine. One d the buffers. t oo k the poor lady in the back . 0 1 , 0 knocked her forwards and down, and the n w i " st train passed over her with the exception of the .? car, or break van, which, being lower than tn i, others, caught up the body of the hapless decease"„ and in its wheels completed the dismembernroun" of the previously mangled corpse. Mr. ',lad in the meantime fallen to the gr ound insen si His wife's remains—remains they literally r .0 were carefully collected, and conveyed in clo ths the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Malpas, where an 71 . , quest was opened on Saturday before Mr. si , Brewer, deputy coroner, the Rev. Franc is Farm , being the foreman of the jury. The facts n arrat e , t having been deposed to, a verdict of a ceiden ein "l , killed was returned, and the engine-driver, W Sargeant, was exonerated from all blame. MINING IN7ELLIGENCE• • The annexed information. res pecting the business of the week is condensed from the Journal : " The mining share market continues buernnt' and a large amount of business has been done various descriptions of shares. At Wheal Chord f meeting the accounts showed a credit balance se ° £2,509; a dividend of £2,500 (£5 per shill w declared, and a balance carried to the cre dit o nest account of £9. At Wheal Owles meeting theisvi. counts showed a credit balance of £1872; carry" dend of £4OO (LS per share) was declared, .nii u ing over to next account, £1,472. At the rr°,a_ deuce mines meeting the accounts showed a . ci. lance in favour of adventurers of £2,978; a di v . dend of £2,240 (£4 per share) w as declared, lea ing to the credit of next account £738. At St.lccs Consols meeting the accounts showed a credit ba lance of £3,709 ; a dividend of £3,355 (X 3 ss. PI share) was declared, and a balance of £654 earrit. to the credit of next account. M Great Sou b 13 : Tolgus meeting the accounts showed lance of £2,987 ; a dividend of £2,100 (Th. share) was declared ; the ore bills coming due dam._ ing the next two months amount to X 4,327. mats South Condurrow Mine meeting th° A a r: d • showed a debit balance of £334; a al' Mine per share was made. At Pendeen Consols of meeting the accounts showed a credit balance c th A.the 1 110 £215 ; a call of 2s. 6d. was made. Buller and West Penstruthal Mine mee ting s et. accounts showed a balance of liabilities over At the a credit ar of £150; a call of is. per share was made*, A .„, e d * North Buller Mine meeting the accounts' sj'e - wa s credit balance of £54 ; a call of Bs. per sh ill e - ! - e .. made. At East Providence Mine meeting 't",..,(1i 0f counts showed a debit balance of £57 6 ; t ile A 7 n 3s. 9d. per share made on the mine was con fi rm At the Wheal Arthur meeting the accounts #3ll°"t, a credit balance of £55, and a balance of £7O over liabilities of £234, and ore on hand- -- s a Y a call of 2s. per share was made. COUNTRY MARKET ROCHESTER—km 27. At this market there was alimited show of whe at to -d,o, which met a tolerable demand, at previous rates. In hari l little doing. A fair show of new oats, at the turn lower I price. Beans supported late rates — prime lots fetching 1,, over last week. Old qualities fetched as high as 48s. OW unasked for. DERBY—AUG. 27. There was a fair show of wheat yesterday, which sold slowly, at is to 2s under late, rates. Little barley on offer , at previous prices. The trade in oats was slow, and at easier currencies. Beans in small supply, and the plic e l steady. Farmers have made great progress this week,. o ,7 the harvest is well nigh over. Oats are an excellent ot'" and beans are turning out better than was at one time e" - pected. White wheat, new, —s to —s Red do. —e to —s Old white 4Bs to 50s Red do.. 44s to 48s Barley, malting 348 to 40s Barley, grinding din 2Bs to 30s Oats, old, g. 24s to 300 New do 2 4 s to 26ff Beans 466 to as Beans, new --s W '74 LEICESTER—AxeI. 27. &- Thera was a fair supply of wheat to-day, T rith 41° 5 1, rate show of other grain. Prices—White wheat, 44a to —red, 42s to 47s per 36 stone; new red realised 47ePerdS: barley, 38s to 41s per quarter ; the oat trade w... 0 3.* at quotations ranging from 26s to 34s per 24 stone• were active, at 48s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 358 J Seconds, 33s 1 Thirds, 31s per 20 stole' NORWICH—Aua 27. m e H rs e . re, T t h o- e da s y h , o t w her s e f w w as he r a a t th w er as a g v o e o r c 3 l , a g t o te o n d, an an c d o p f_ ri f . ais Br eo. for both old and new at a b ou t l a t e ra t es . In other 5. there was scarcely any change. to 4 38 White wheat 46 s t o 48 s I R e d w h ea t .. .. ... 40s Flour, 29s to 29s 6d per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE—Auo 27. : t • There was a moderate show of Wheat, which a to slow demand, at about late rates. White 538 ; new, 423 to 46s per 36 stone. Spring c° llllll- cleano supply. Oats were from 24s to 27s 24 stone. per firm, at 44s to 46s per 38 stone. wheat, to Farmers being s O ti V e o n ß ga D ged A i u n a t . h 2 .3 7. fields tiler@ , was middling attendance, and a scanty supply of wheat rater• our s. market to-day. Few sales took place, at about late rate In other kinds of grain trade was by no ' means brisk. 231 Wheat .48s to 52s Beans ... ............• . .44s to 49s Oats... .. 21s to White do Barley .30s to 36s Peas ......... •• : : 38s to 4 • 405 to 422; ÜBLIN—Aua. 26. Our market was s D teady, with an increased supply of new,. grain, and we note the prices of wheat as nominallyeuynaeral, tered from Tuesday. Old oats difficult of sale. There samples of new barley brought from 168 to 18s. was rather more inquiry for Indian corn. s. d. a. d. Wheat, white 25 0 to 26 6 Do., red 23 0 to 24 6 Do., new „210 to 23 6 Barley Oats Do., black— , 14 oto 15 0 s. d. s. g. Do., new .• •.. 12 oto 13 0 13 3 to 1 4 0 Bere . ........ Rapeseed 0t 20 022 0 0atmea1...... 12 6to 15 0 Bakers' flour .. 14 6 to 18 0 Indian corn .. 29 0 to 30 0 BIRTHS. Ei tl L e is w . rt.e o e n f the 2 11 4 e th v. i E n . s E t., th a s t , M.A P ., a r e k f - a cr d e a s u ce g n h t t , er ? zior l EGLINToN.—On the 24th inst., at Lauriston Castle, new - Edinburgh, the Countess of Eglinton, of a daughter. DANIELL.—On the 26th inst., at 1, Devonport-stree,li Hyde-park, the wife of James Le Geyt Daniel, Esq. , a daughter. MAYHEW.—On. the 25th inst., at 6, Chester -terrace, fte" gent's-park, the wif e of Charles Ma y hew, Es q ., of a o ° 3l . MARRIAGES. HARDINGE--AYEEST.—On the 27th inst a t All Soule, f the Laugham-place, Major Hardinge, 30th Regt , sou o late z e L he i e t h u d - C au l ohnteelr ofH a r t d h i e n l g a e t , e F 99 r t e h n 1 11 .2 e A g y t . e , etto, Es:: of SMITH—SPRAGUE.—On .11 B ,101, r ,ut o nlin t n o_gv p ee t sr o rp n -dßs , aqAu K uGga e lh i r i r roi O rf ,Jlorts.heDepkal Daniel l e h li at t of St. h s eSenoar gseo': ter of Mr. John Wales Smith, of Leeds, to Ma Ba st ' ai l ° Mary Bee-- street. DEATHS. Bbl, 13.L.—0n the 25th inst., at Margate, Mr. Thos . 14- Albion-terrace, Canonbury, aged 53. BULL. —On the 25th" inst., at Goldwell House, Isle of Wight, Mr. Barabas Bull. CORBET.—On the 24th inst., at Sundorne Castle, S ai°l3 ' Dryden R. Corbet, Esq. Derbft FOSBERY.—On the 25th inst., at Greenfield, Woe near Liverpool, Win. Fosbery, Esq , aged 77. 0. WEBSTER.—On the 23d inst., at Haslar Hospital, gr. S. Webster, R.N., aged 2. 'gate) WEEELER.—On the 27th inst., at Springfield, 11411 James A. Wheeler, late 77th Regt., aged 45. Puny' YOUNG.—On the 23d inst., at Lincluden House, near _ _ A fries, the Hon. Patricia, eldest daughter of the late . 1 -7 0 f Panmure, and relict of the late Gilbert young, Esq• Lincluden. Ventnor, LONDON : Printed and Published by MU RDO YOUN 6 ' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su% Office, No. 112 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ia the county oi Middlesex, Monday, August 2C I "". I