The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

THE NAVY. Yesterday preparations were commenced at Chatham dockyard for laying down a screw vessel of war, to be named the Reindeer, of 17 guns, on the second slip, from which the Orpheus, 21, was launched. The timber-frames for the steamer have been for some time prepared, and she will be com pleted as fast as circumstances will permit. Two more of the additional screw steamers or dered by the Admiralty to be built at Chatham dockyard have been commenced at that establish ment—namely, the Royal Oak, 91, a line-of-battle ship, and a fine screw frigate of 51 guns, to be named the Belvedere. The Royal Oak is building on the new granite (No. 7) slip, and the Belvedere on the fourth slip. Both vessels will probably be completed in about a year from the present time. The Trincomalee, 24, sailing ship, fitting at Chatham for the service of the Naval Coast Volun teers, is nearly completed, and will shortly be ready to proceed to her destination at one of the northern seaports. She has shipped her armament, but will only take a portion of her guns, 18 in number. The screw steamship Brunswick, 80, will be docked in No. 3 dock in Keyham steamyard on the removal of the Orion, 91. A considerable quantity of decayed timber has been discovered in the Albion, 90, now being opened in Devonport dockyard. The screw gun-vessel Surprise, 4, having been hauled under the crane in the north basin at Key ham steamyard, is now in the hands of the factory men. Steam was got up on Tuesday on board the new contract-built steam gun-vessel Penguin, 5, and she proceeded from Hamoaxe into Plymouth Sound, and went outside the breakwater to make trial of her machinery, after which she returned to har bour and was placed along the Devonport dockyard. The following hired transports were yesterday chartered by the War Department to ship war materials from the Military Store Department at Woolwich—namely, the White Star, the Bullfinch the Prompt, the Arabia, the Red Riding Hood the Planter, the Malcombrown, the Bosphorus, the Fanny, and the steamer Peninsula. The War Department steamer Lord Panmure proceeded from the gun-wharf, Devonport, on Tues day, to the Royal William Victualling-yard, where she is now loading stores salved from the stranded transport Havering. When loaded, the Lord Pan mure will proceed to Woolwich. A number of well-grown, intelligent lads, desirous of being enrolled for service in the Royal navy, were yesterday forwarded to the Fisgard's office, Woolwich, by Mr. Frazer, manager of the Field lane Ragged Schools ; but in consequence of the Admiralty laws regulating that branch of the ser vice, which direct that the consent of their parents must be given in writing, the boys were rejected, pending the receipt of more ample instructions, as the poor lads professed to be without friends or re latives, and are for the most part foundlings, hav ing no knowledge even of their birthplace, which latter is also required to be entered in the Naval Register. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Commander C. F. Boughey to the Excellent ; Lieut. S. G. Price, to the Excel lent ; Percy V. James, master, to the Flying Fish ; Daniel J. May, master, additional, to the Forte ; John Jones, master, to the Geyser; H. W. Moles worth, assist.-paymaster, in charge, to the Rhada manthus ; Andrew Edwards, assist.-paymaster, to the Castor; and Alfred Smith, second-class assist.- engineer, to the Dasher. TILE ARMY. The orders for the embark&tion of the reinforce ments for the 24th and 73d Regiments from the depots at Chatham garrison for the service com panies of those regiments in India have been coun termanded, in consequence of both those corps being shortly about to return to England, after a lengthened absence on foreign service. Yesterday morning Major-Gen. Eyre, in com mand at Chatham, had the entire force of that gar rison assembled on Chatham lines for the purpose of going through the evolutions of a brigade field day. The two-gun battery erected on the heights of Plumstead-common by the united labour and exertions of Lieut. Tongue's company of Artillery Volunteers was yesterday supplied with a couple of 32-pound garrison guns from the Royal Artillery, Woolwich. The new battery, although at present affording simply a practice-ground for the rehearsal of the Volunteers, is looked upon as a most impor tant advance towards securing the safety of the Arsenal in the event of any attempt at foreign in vasion, as it contains f Icilities and extent of area for serving any requisite number of guns, procur able within a single hour, and by which the de fence of the great depot of our military resources may be maintained with advantage against any number of assailants. Workmen were likewise engaged yesterday in Woolwich dockyard in ar ranging the five-gun battery, and newly sighting the guns for the use of the dockyard corps of Volunteers, in command of Cart. Thornton. TILE INDIAN ARMY. Major-General liaucoek, lately Adjutant-Gene ral of the Bombay army, writes to a contemporary as follows :—I have to request the favour of your giving a place in your columns to the subjoined Plan for forming new local European regiments in India, with reference to the following extract from Sir Charles Wood's speech in the House of Com mons on the 12th inst. : " That is an outline of the scheme for the regula tion of the Indian army. But I wish to place before the house the alternative, which is a matter for serious consideration. We are called upon to maintain a local army of at least 40,000 men, The number of local troops at this moment I will assume to be 15,000. The question, therefore, is not one of maintaining an existing establishment, but of raising 25,000 men in addition, and of raising them in this country for service in India. Now, how is that to be done ? Lord Canning's last minute pro poses 24 additional regiments for Bengal alone. It is admitted that new regiments cannot and ought not to be formed in India. That experiment has been tried and failed-. We must form, drill, and train in this country f or th e serv i ce of Ben gal alone 24 European regiments. What will the advocates of economy say to this In the mean time we are to maintain the same number of Queen's troops in India. And, then, when these new and raw troops are trained and drilled, I suppose the old experienced soldiers are to be disbanded. I ask the house seriously to consider this question. If we adopt the views I have stated we shall be put to the expense, trouble, and delay of raising these men, and of training them in England for a certain num ber of years, paying out of the Indian revenue for the double orce of Queen's troops now forming Part of the garrison of India, and the force trained in this country which is to form the future garri son. I do not think that an yb o dy w ill en t er t a i n r, s u chv ; a Project on the score either of economy or Having been one of " the minority" of the Royal Commission and strongly advocated the maintenance of a considerable local European army in India, I may, without t presumption I hope, endeavour to show that w e are no for raising additional drivenregiments to any such alternative as that represented by Sir Charles Wood. stress, then, upo n an Without l ay i ng t oo great y portio n of the subjoined plan, it is submitted as contaixinc, the germ of one easy and economical, b y which the' number Wood too bef new regiments assumed by Si r C harles quisite, fully trained and disciplined, may b e a t once formed in India, and a corresponding number of the newly raised battalions of the Line in England mav be simultaneously reduced with ou t discharging -a single soldier, or necessitating the placing upon half pay more than a small number of the commissioned officers. I do not suppose, of course, that this plan is al together free from objection, but I do believe (and I have bad much experience in these matters of military organisation and detail) that with the cordial aid of the Horse Guards and India-house authorities it might be rendered very nearly so, and might be carried out in such manner as to obviate even the small amount of hardship to individual officers of the Line Army which it involves in its present lorm. " PLAN. "The new regiments to consist each of two bat tallow ; each battalion to be of the same strength as other local regiments. _ " The non-commissioned officers and rank and file for each battalion, to the extent of 3-sths of the established strength, to be obtained by volunteering from the regiments of the Line in India, to be con fined to approved men of from three to twelve years' service. The remainder to be supplied partly by volunteering from regiments of the Line in Eng land, and partly by recruiting. " The commissioned officers for one-half the num ber of battalions to be supplied from the local army by transfer, according to the established system on occasions of augmentation ; and for the other half by volunteering from the regiments of the Line in India. " The regimental promotion of commissioned officers up to the rank of major to made in each battalion, as in other local regiments, and to the superior grades in the Line, agreeably to the esta blished system ; but the officers of each regiment to be liable to serve with either its battalions, at the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief, and to be-so posted by him for that purpose in the first instance as to equalise in each the numbers of each grade received from the Line and from the local army. " The commandant of each battalion to be ap pointed by selection from the whole of the infantry lieutenant-colonels of the local arm of each presi dency ; the adjutant and' other commissioned staff from the subalterns posted to serve with it. "The volunteers (non-commissioned and rank and file) to be enlisted into the local army for 10 years, receiving the usual bounty ; to be held entitled to count for pension all their previous service in and out of India ; and to a full participation in all the advantages and privileges guaranteed to the non commissioned officers and soldiers of the local army by the Act of 'Victoria, 1858. " The volunteers (commissioned officers) to be held entitled to a full participation in all the ad vantages and privileges, of whatever kind guaran teed to the officers of the local army by the Act of Victoria, 1858, and to count for pension all their previous service in and out of India. " The non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the battalions of the Line to be reduced, to be draughted into other regiments of their own selec tion, to fill vacancies occasioned by the volunteering into the local army or that may subsequently oc cur ; the recruiting for such regiments as may thus obtain supernumeraries to be suspended until the same shall be absorbed. " The commissioned officers to be held entitled to succeed without purchase to the vacancies occa sioned in other regiments by the volunteering into the local army ; those who may remain undisposed of by that arrangement to be placed on half-pay, agreeably to the established system in the Line army: " The infantry regiments of the Line which will become supernumerary on the Indian establish ment, on the formation of the 'new local regiments, to be withdrawn to England as early as practicable after the completion of the arrangements ; all re cruits for those corps being retained in the mean time with their respective depots." PA la IZILEE TA_RY-60MNITT.EES. EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES. This committee met again on Tuesday—Sir J, Paxton in the chair. Mr. H. Bird, civil engineer, was examined, and produced a scheme of his own for embanking the river, which included a railway commencing at Victoria station, passing down Victoria-street, join ing the embankment near Westminster-bridge, and terminating at Queenhithe. He had submitted his plan to the Metropolitan Board in 1856. He pro posed that the embankment should commence at Westminster-bridge on the north side of the river and terminate near to Southwark-bridge at Queen hithe-dock, and would leave the width of the river about 700 feet. A portion of the embankment would be solid and a portion would contain floating docks. From Whitehall-place to Chatham-place,Blackfriars, he proposed to carry on the embankment ou a carriage road 50 feet in width, supported on iron columns, and this roadway would have direct com munication with Surrey-street, Norfolk-street, and Arundel-street, Strand. The total length of rail way would be about 2f miles. To carry out his plan for the embankment of the Thames, he did not contemplate any application whatever to the Government for pecuniary aid, as he believed ample aid would arise from the sale and leasing of land which would be reclaimed by the embankment and by private capitalists, who had expressed their readiness to subscribe if the plan were adopted by the committee. The wharfingers on the banks of the river had approved of his plan. The estimate for the construction of the railway was £221,000, and for the embankment, roads, and the works, £512,000, making a total of £733,000. Mr. Page was next examined—He said he had been formerly resident engineer of the Thames Tunnel, and was now the engineer and designer of the new Westminster-bridge, and also of the Vic toria-bridge. He had considered the question of the embankment of the Thames, and had prepared plans for that purpose. His plan was to commence with an embankment lying half way between Southwark and Blackfriars-bridges on the Middle sex side of the river, and terminating opposite Lambeth Palace, at the end of Millbank-street. On the south side of the river he proposed to commence an embankment opposite Queenhithe Dock, and to terminate it between Lambeth Palace and Vaux hall-bridge. From Blackfriars-bride to Waterloo bridge there would be a carriage-way 50 feet wide, but the rest of the embankment would be devoted to a promenade for foot passengers only, On the south side, the embankment in front of Lambeth Palace would also be applied only to a promenade. His object was to encroach as little as possible upon the river, and to adopt an economical mode of construction. • In answer to questions by Sir M. Peto, witness said the amount of his estimate was £336,000; that was for an embankment from Westminster-bridge to Blackfriars-bridge, including a railway. His plan was not self-supporting, but it could be made so by appropriating a part of the embanked land between the embankment and the present shore, and also by having additional wharves next the embankment itself. After hearing some further evidence, the corn nuttee adjourned. METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT. The committee re-assembled on Tuesday, Mr. F. Peel in the chair. The other members present were Sir J. Hanmer, Major Stuart, Mr. Hassard, and Mr. Childers. The consideration of the first two clauses, designated the apportionment clauses, was proceeded with. The first provides that the debt in respect of Countess Creek works, and part of the debt in respect of Ravensbourne works, shall be re distributed and made payable out of the moneys borrowed on security of the main drainage rate ; the second provides for the application of money raised on security of metropolis drainage to the repayment of the sums expended on the Victoria-street sewer since the Ist Jan., 1860. Evidence having been taken in favour of and against the clauses, after a short consultation the committee pasted them and then adjourned. The committee met again yesterday ; Mr. F. Peel in the chair. Mr. Phinn, Q.C., proceeded with the third clause, by which, in connexion with the schedule to which it refers, provision is made for the remainder of the mortgage debt of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers for works executed, and the object of the enactment is to put an end to the doubts which have been raised as to the incidence of these debts, and to ascertain and define those districts of the metropolis which are to be held re sponsible for their payment. The re-appor tionment contemplated was intended to re lieve certain parishes of debts charged upon them for the cost of works executed in other parishes, the distribution of those charges having bee n ne cessary by reason of the determination of the Me tropolitan Sewers Commission. Thes s ch o f parishes, edul es ets out the names of the parishes and parts and the sums proposed to be charhed on the several parishes and parts of parishes. The parishes of Bermondsey, St. Saviour, St. St. Olave, St. Mary Newington, Lambeth, au (Deptford), and Limehouse, which objected to the apportionment, so far as they were respectively concerned, were all represented by counsel. Mr. .Bazalgette was e x a m i ne d a t c onsiderable length as to the extent of the works executed in particular districts, and the proportionate amount of benefit derived by the adjoining districts, and stated that the apportionment had been calculated with a desire to do justice to all parties. After some further evidence had been given in support of the clause the committee adjourned. FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH A . RSENAL.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon in the royal car riage department of Woolwich Arsenal. It appears that a boy, nine years of age, the son of a workman named Allen Mortar, accompanied his father to the Arsenal, and climbed upon a large piece of teak, which was placed on a barrow for removal. The timber fell over, crushing the skull of the child, who was instantly conveyed to the sur gery, but lif e was then extinct. [ADVERTISEMENT , ] — HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Obstacles Overcome. —The dyspeptic, consumptive, and all suffering f rom congestio n or di sordere d act i on o f an y orga n, maybe relieved of th e i r ma l adies bythe diligent use of these twoinestimable remedies. The ointment penetrates to the affected part, w h ether situated near to, or remote from, the skin, and acts most genially with the Pills in removing all obstructions to the free circulation of pure blood through the deranged organ; over which this Ointment should be rubbed as briskly as possible without increasing' pain, or producing an additional pang. By such a course, every obstacle to circulation, secretion, andexcretion will be over come, and each function resume its natural state. Vigour, vivacity, and health will reward the patient's diligence. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--fune 27. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) THE ATLANTIC CABLE-PATERSON V. HARRIS. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Phipson, and Mr. Murray appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, W. Paterson, was a merchant in Glasgow, and he sued the defendant, F. W. Harris, an underwriter in London, upon a policy of insurance for £l,lOO, underwritten by the the defendant. The insurance was effected on the Ist of July, 1857, and upon a share in the Electric Telegraph Company, which cost £l,OOO, but which was valued in the policy at £l,lOO. The insurance was of a very peculiar nature, the policy in form being such as is adopted in the insurance of a ship. The premium was 35 guineas per cent., amounting to £406 95., and the policy insured the ship and goods against every accident, danger, and risk which might be incurred at sea or on land, in any boats, ships, and craft whatsoever, " until the final, complete, and successful laying down of the Atlantic telegraph cable from shore to shore." The ship and goods were by agreement valued at one £l,OOO share in the Electric Tele graph Company, which share was valued at £1,100; and, in case of loss, the part saved was to be sold or appraised for the benefit of the underwriters. A memorandum was attached to the policy in these terms : It is understood and agreed that this insurance shall cover and include the successful working of the cable when laid down." On the part of the plaintiff, Professor Thompson, of Glasgow, and other witnesses, were called to prove that the failure of the Electric Telegraph cable was owing to the risks insured against in the policy ; and that, although there had been a successful lay ing- cluNr LI of the cable from shore to bhote, there never had been " a successful working of the cable when laid down," so as to put an end to the defendant's liability on the po licy. The professor gave an account of the esta blishment of the Electric Telegraph Company in 1856, with a capital of £360,000, in £l,OOO shares, and detailed the various steps taken by the com pany in carrying out the undertaking. Two ves sels were lent for the purpose of laying down the cable—the one, the Agamemnon, by the English Government, and the other, the Niagara, by the Government of the United States. After an experi mental trip to the Bay of Biscay the vessels re turned to Plymouth, and, on the 10th of June, 1858, started for the mid ocean to lay down the cable. Several accidents happened, and the ships returned to their rendezvous. On the third start the cable broke, bad weather ensued, many miles of the cable were lost, and the cable got entangled into a con fused mass in the hold of the Agamemnon. The effect of these causes might be to damage the cable, and to cause the copper wire to come through the gutta percha in which it was enclosed. Towards the end of July the cable was fixed at Queenstown, in Newfoundland, and at Valentia, in Ireland, and about the 9th or 10th of August messages were re ceived. The first message received was, " Please repeat slower," or "Please repeat." From the 10th of August to the Ist of September messages were had with great ease occasionally, but there were times when the signals were confused, and there were times when it was impossible to read them at all. It was only with some delicate instruments they could be read ; and no message was received after the Ist of September, except four words on the 20th of October. The witness attributed the failure to the want of a perfect insulation of the wire, which gradually became worse. This defect was observed while they were paying it out, but the witness said he thought it to be his duty to go on paying out the cable so long as he received read able signals. The defect, he thought, was owing to the water penetrating through the defective por tions of the gutta percha, and so drawing off the electricity from the copper wire. On cross-exa mination the witness said he thought electricity travelled at the rate of 2,000 miles in a second. He understood that the cable had been exposed to the heat of the sun at Greenwich, and that the gutta percha had melted. The witness was cross examined, from certain statements made in news papers, as to the working of the telegraph, He said that on the 26th of August, when it was reported that the cable was " working splen didly," the signals were excessively weak ; and, so far were they from being "strong and perfect," as stated, that they were only the 50th part of what they should have been, The cable had now been tested in its entire length under water. The witness described the construction of the cable, which con sisted of copper-wire covered with gutta percha, which again was covered with tow, and enclosed with iron-wire to strengthen and protect it. He said the iron-wire would attract the electricity from the copper-wire. Many hundred words were passed through the cable, but he could not say how many. It was intended from the comanencement to lay down a very strong cable at the ends next the shore, to resist the action of the rocks, but, as it was considered a failure, this was abandoned. He thought the defect in the cable was 200 miles from the shore. The witness said the scheme had not been abandoned, and he gave it as his opinion that it would ultimately succeed. An expedition had been sent out to Newfoundland, and it was intended to proceed with it as soon as possible. The witness was cross-examined as to the mes sages which had been sent between the Queen and the President of the United States, and between the Lord Mayor of London and the Mayor of New York, and said that at times the cable' was capable of being worked with perfect accuracy, but it varied, and sometimes totally failed. He thought the failure might have been caused by the melting of the gutta percha at Greenwich. On re-examination, Professor Thompson said the possibility of the connection had been established, and that new capital had been raised to repair the cable. Mr. Russell, who had acted as assistant to Pro fessor Thompson on board the Agamemnon, gave similar evidence. Mr. De Sartey, who had acted as superintendent electrician on board the Niagara, gave an account of his operations. Finding that the cable did not answer, he cut away 60 miles of it on the 2d of August, and it then worked correctly. Half of the cable was taken on board at Birken head, and half at Greenwich. In some of that which came from Greenwich the gutta percha had melted and oozed out through the flax and between the outer coating of iron-wire. 366 messages had been transmitted through the cable ; 3,290 miles of cable had been made, and 2,036 miles had been submerged. Three portions of the cable were produced in court, and these showed the copper wire to be close to the outer portion of the gutta percha coating, instead of being in the centre. Mr. G. Sayward, the secretary of the Electric Telegraph Company, said as much as £387,000 had been expended in laying down the cable, including all expenses. 373 miles were lost in the June attempt, and in July 2,100 miles were laid in the final attempt. The cable laid had cost from £lOO to £lO5 a mile. The'£l,ooo shares was now worth from £6O to £l5O. The whole of the £l,OOO was paid up. The shares rose till they reached £9OO, but they never rose to par. In the early part of June they had been at about £5OO per share. On cross-examination the witness stated that an expedition had been sent to Newfoundland to take up 40 miles of the cable, and fix it so much nearer to England. Upwards of 20,000 words had passed through the telegraph. The company was entitled conditionally to £14,000 or £15,000 from the Go vernment, but had not received the money. The most serious fault in the cable was about 180 miles from Valentia. At Greenwich some of the gutta p aml e le r c et h ue d a t b meld uyt t t ah e n d e d h a laidenatoozede e o u l a an t c d ; e but wnho te t r h eu a te p d\ () v. r a t s i o It n iw w , ha a e question was di scussed s s place the cable ought not to be tested under water, but it was feared that that might rust the outside wire, and other reasons were give n w h y i t should not be done. It was the duty of the makers to test all of it, and average adjuste r , was exam i ned some mr. of R i i e t a was tested. Mr. ds, s t a s t n e as to the plaintiff's loss, but his evidence proved immaterial. At the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Bovill submitted there was no case for the jury. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said he should leave several questions of fact to the jury, and reserve the questions of law for the opinion of the Court ; and if the Court should decide the points of law in favour of the plaintiff, the Court would lay down the s ess e pr principle c n i dp the e on a w r n h o i u c n h t t c h o e u d damages afterwards shoe ü b l d e b a a s e r s tained. The jury ultimately found that the cable had been successfully laid down, but it had not been successfully worked; that the cable was defective from accidental causes before shipment, but not from defective construction, and that the defective working was o w i ng t o th e above! causes, aggravated by the action of the water. The verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, leave being given to move to enter the verdict in his favour on the points of law. The Journal du IlariT says :—"Anions the pas sengers who two days ago arrived at Dieppe from England were twenty-six Irishmen, who were on their way to Rome to enlist in the Pope's army ; but as their passports wei e not in order, they were sent up to Paris to b e pl a c e d a t th e disposition of the prefect of police." POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 27. CLERKENWELL.—IMPORTANT TO THE COM MERCIAL WORLD.—David Wells, sen., and Charles Wells, coal and potato dealers, of 29, King-street, Clerkenwell, Richard Lamb, of 13, Wingrove-place, and Edward Wilson, of 9, Queen-street, Clerken well, were brought before Mr. Corrie, charged that they did unlawfully, with divers other persons, combine, confederate, and agree, by means of cer tain false and fraudulent pretences, to cheat and de fraud Mr. Paul Minaret, wholesale jeweller, of 19, Myddelton-square, Clerkenwell, of his goods and moneys. Mr. Cooper, barrister (instructed by Mr. Wontner of Snowhill), for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis for the defence. Mr. Cooper, in opening the case, said he should ask for the committal of the four prisoners for trial on the charge of conspiracy. The case had been taken up by the Great Northern Railway Company for the protection of the public, which for a long time has been defrauded by a gang of swindlers, who, by using the company's name, have been en abled to commit a series of fraud. It is well known that the railway company has extensive coal de pots at King's-cross, to which the coalowners in the North are in the habit of consigning their coals. The agent who manages there is Mr. Herbert Clarke, and the public are enabled to obtain coals from tin's depot at very reasonable rates, and are induced to give them orders from their faith in the company's name, feeling confident that the quality supplied to them would be that for which they gave their orders. A large trade has sprung up, to trench on which these swindlers have pirated the com pany's name, and by sending out agents who assume to come direct from the company get orders for coals, which are supplied of an inferior quality, although the best price is charged. Amongst the parties who . act in this manner is the defendant, David Wells, , who keeps a coal and potato shop in King-street, Clerkenwell, where he writes up " Great Northern Coal Company." He has a similar establishment in Shaftesbury-street, New North-road, and lately had a third in Mark-lane. The way in which the de- fendant conducts the business is this—ho has two or three coal vans, on which he has a board with the inscription written in large letters, " The Great Northern Company's Coal Depot, King's-cross." He also has printed bills with similar headings, and to render the delusion more certain, there is printed thereon the words "H. Clarke, agent." The public is thus gulled into giving their orders to the defendant's agents, and similar persons, by the belief that they are dealing direct with the com pany's depot. Instead of having the best coals the public are supplied with an inferior coal, only fit for commercial purposes, thus bringing the railway company into disrepute, and in other instances coal merchants whose names are similarly pirated. The fraud does not always end in this manner, for in the present instance, not content with supplying an in ferior coal, which they described as the best Wall send, the defendants actually robbed the customer in the qaantity by delivering 15 sacks instead of 20. The plan adopted in this case was that a respect ably-attired man calling upon the complainant, re presenting that he was an agent of the Great Northern Railway Company, and saying that he could supply the best Wallsend coals at £1 2s. per ton. Believing this to be true, an order for two tons was given, but when the vendor's ticket was pre sented it had for its heading " Great Northern Rail way Coal Company," instead of only " Great Northern Railway Company," and the coals were described as " The best Wallsend." At the police station, on one of the prisoners were found a receipt, showing that the prisoner Wells had purchased of the railway company two tons of the worst descrip tisn of coal—viz., Elsecar, and the price he had paid for them was only 14s. per ton. At the bottom of the bill given by the prisoners to the prosecutor, it is stated that, should any cause of complaint arise through the misconduct or neglect of the servants of the company, the same may be reported at the office, thus inducing the public to believe that the men were railway servants. The learned gentle man, in conclusion, stated that, having proved the above facts, he should ask for the committal of the prisoners on the charge of conspiracy. He then called Police-constable Greathurst, 209 G, who said that on Tuesday, the 19th instant, he was on duty in St. John-street-road, between seven and eight in the morning. He saw a van l a d en w ith two tons of coals stop at the corner of Rawstonc-street. Another van was following it, laden with coke, and five empty sacks were taken from that, and put on the coal van. Suspecting that some fraud was about to be perpetrated, he followed the vans as far as the complainant's, and saw them shoot 15 sacks of coals, putting the sacks upon the empty sacks. They then called the servant and counted 20 sacks. Having emptied the coke they drove off, having five sacks of coal in the van. He took the men to the complainant's, and the elder Wells went with them, and when the men who delivered the coals were given into custody, the elder Wells said " Don't prosecute them ; I'll make you a present of one or two tons of coals, or do anything else you wish." The prosecutor de clined, and the men were locked up, and since then a summons had been issued against the elder Wells. The cheque which the prosecutor had paid for the coals was returned to him by the elder Wells. On searching Wilson he found upon him a ticket for one ton of the best Wallsend, Lee and Sturge sellers, Chief-office, 85, Shaftesbury-street, carman. On one of the vans which was given up to the elder Wells was the name of " William Lee, Mark •lane, City." Upon going there he found that in August last there was an office taken in the name of William Smith, and that they wrote up " Great Northern Coal Company, Lee and Co., managers," but left in February. At Wells' shop there is a large painted board, with " Great Northern Rail way Coal Company" on it. Other evidence having been given, showing that all the prisoners had acted together, Mr. Cooper asked for a remand until Wednesday next. _ . Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoners until that day, but consented to take bail for the whole of them. Bail having been put in, the prisoners left the court. THA MES.—lmr ORTANT CONVICTION.—"WiIIiam Tott, a beerseller, of the Black Horse ale and beer house, in Bow-common-lane, in the parish of Brom ley St. Leonard, Middlesex, appeared before Mr. Selfe on a summons, taken out by Inspector Ker ressy, of the K division of police, which charged him with unlawfully refusing a police sergeant and constable to enter his house when required to do so on Sunday, the 17th inst. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, appeared for the defence. Police-sergeant Pooll, 23 K, stated that a few minutes past twelve on the afternoon of Sunday, the 17th instant, he heard several persons talking in front of the bar in the defendant's house, and he could distinguish Mr. Totes potman among them. He knocked at the door repeatedly, and called out that he was a police constable, and required ad mittance. He was kept at th e d oor fi ve minutes. While he was waiting, he heard the people in the house go to the back into an out-house used as a beer cellar, on the ground floor, and he heard them conversing there. A police constable, No. 474 K, came up, and lie stationed him at the side door, and went to the front door and repeatedly knocked at it. The pots were rattling inside, and after a delay of five minutes the potman called out, " Who's there ? " To which ho replied, " The police." He was then admitted, and proceeded into a back room, and found the door which opened into the back yard bolted and locked. He opened the door, went into the yard, and asked the potman to open the door of the outhouse used as a cellar, and told him he suspected people were concealed there. The potman said, " There is no one there." He said to the pot man, " Then you refuse to open the door for me ?" The potman used the most abomi nable language in reply. The sergeant having given a sample of it, to the astonishment and disgust -of the whole court, continued :—I said, " I will stop here all night, until I can see who is in the cellar." The answer made to him was a volley of foul abuse. He said to the potman, " I shall stop here all night until I see the interior of that." The potman once more swore at him, threatened him, and used the vilest language. He asked the pot. man for his master, and he bawled out, " I have no master." Witness sa id, " A re y ou in partnership with him ?" The potman answered, " No, I have an employer, but no master." He asked the potman where his master was. The potman said, "ye is asleep." Wit ness sa id, " G o and fetch him directly." The potman went to the house and fetched Mr. Tott, to whom he said, " I believe you have some pe rsons i n t hi s ce ll ar , an d I want to lookinto it." Mr. Tott took a bunch of keys from his pocket, and said, " I will not let you in there. I de sire you to go out of my place." Witness said, " I shall not until I have seen into that place. Mr. Tott said, " I'll see you —first," caught hold of him by the arm and coat, and tore his coat. Mr. Tott also used some foul language, but was not so bad in that respect as the potman. Mr. Tott also said, " You shall not stop in my place." He said he would until he was satisfied. The defendant and bis potman then left, went into the house, and locked and bolted the door, leaving him a prisoner in the yard; There was no way of getting out, except by 'climbing a ten-feet wall. Heard the potman say, " Who is he? I'll chuck him on his back and break it." They then came out again, and Tott caught him violently by the arm a second time. He told him to let him alone ; there was his number, and he gave him his name also. Mr. Tott still persisted, and tried to pull him out of the yard, at the same time direct ing his man to assist him. The potman pulled off his coat and brought out the poker, and held it up me nacingly, exclaiming, " I'll knock your brain s ou t with it . " Seeing the position he was in, and believ ing .thcre was an intention to injure him, witness pulled out his staff, threw Mr. Tott on his back, and told the potman if he touched him with a poker he would knock him down with his staff. He then de manded of Tott whether he still refused to let him into the out-house, and he said, " I do," and witness then left the house. He went round to the side door and heard Tott call out, " They are both outside, now come out." In cross-examination by Mr. Stoddart, the witness said he saw no one in the house except Mr. Tott and his potman, but he was satisfied, in his own mind, there were persons in the out-house. Mr. Selfe—l have no doubt about it, but the de fendant is not charged with entertaining customers and supplying them with beer or ale. Mr. Stoddart, in an ingenious address, contended that the charge must fail. The police-sergeant was admitted into the house. Mr. Selfe—When and how Mr. Stoddart—He was admitted at the front door directly the potman knew who he was. The defen dant was asleep at the time. Mr. Selfe said the police-sergeant was refused admittance into the out-house or cellar. Mr. Stoddart said the police-sergeant was ad mitted into the house, and that was a sufficient compliance with the act of Parliament, and he had no right to enter any room on the premises. It had been so decided by Mr. Hammill, another magis trate, at the Worship-street, Police-court. Inspector Griffn, of the K division, in answer to a question, partially confirmed Mr. Stoddart's statement as to the decision at the Worship-street Police-court. Mr. Selfe said he entertained a "great respect for Mr. Hammill and his decisions, but he entirely dif fered with him. The police-sergeant and constable had a right to go into any room, cellar, and cup board in the house, if they had reasonable suspi cion people were concealed there during the pro hibited hours. Mr. Stoddart—Not in a bcerseller's bed-room, for instance. Mr. Selfe—Yes, if the police had reasonable grounds for supposing people were concealed there. Police-sergeant Dillon, K 19, said the prisoner had been convicted some time ago in the penalty of ss. and costs, for refusing to admit the people into his house, and upon another occasion he was fined 2s. for serving beer on a Sunday morning before one o'clock. Mr. Selfe said the defendant had used much bad language, and had committed an assault upon the police -sergeant, for which he would have fined him severely if there had been a summons. The lan guage and conduct of the potman was most atro cious. Mr. Stoddart—The potman was intoxicated, and the defendant is very sorry indeed he should have acted as he had done. Mr. Selfe, in a long address, descanted upon the evils of disorderly beer-houses, but those houses of public entertaintment, licensed under the beer act which were well conducted, were a great boon to the working classes and wayfaring men. The defendant would be taught by the sentence he was about to pass that the act of Parlia ment could not be violl7ted by any beersellers with impunity. He could send the defendant to prison for a month without the option of paying a fine, but as he was going to deprive him of his licence, he would not do so. He sentenced the de fendant to pay a fine of V, and he further adjudged that upon this, the third conviction, the defendant be prohibited from selling ale, beer, cider, and perry, by retail, for the space of two years. Mr. Stoddart immediately gave notice of appeal, and tendered the required sureties. They were ac cepted by the magistrate, and the recognisances of the defendant in £lOO were entered into, to prose cute the appeal at the quarter sessions. LAMBETH.—THE SHORT Houit MOVEMENT. —Mr. William Dray, a master baker, carrying on business at No. 1, Hill-street, Walworth, appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer to a summons taken out under the 3d Geo. IV., cap. 16, and charging him with delivering to a customer a meat pie on Sunday last after the hour of half-past one, for which offence he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 10s. Mr. Herring, who avowed he attended on behalf of the Journeymen Bakers' Protection Society to support the summons, said the present were the first proceedings taken before the magistrates of this district, and he therefore begged to state that the object of the society he represented was not to enforce penalties, but to enforce the law, so that they (the journeymen bakers) might at least spend part of the Sabbath with their families. His wor ship would see by the clause in the act Ile had quoted, that persons carrying on the business ofa baker were liable to a penalty of 10s. for the delivery of a pie, pudding, meat, or victuals, after the hour of half past one o'clock on Sunday; that for the second offence the penalty was 205., and the third and every subsequent offence, 40s. ; but he would repeat, that penalties were not the object so much as putting an end to the practice. William Henry Pigeon, a journeyman baker, of 4, Church-street, Kennington, was called, and de posed that on Sunday last he went to the shop of Mr. Dray, 1, Hill-street, Walworth, and at eight minutes past two o'clock in the afternoon saw a little girl carry away a meat pie from there. Mr. Elliott—Who delivered the pie to the girl ? Witness—l don't know, sir. I could not see. Mr. Elliott—But you are sure it came out of the shop ? Witness—Yes, your worship, I am quite sure of that. The defendant, in reply to the charge, declared he was totally ignorant of the existence of such a law, and said that though the pie had been ready at half-past one, it had not been taken away until about the time mentioned. Mr. Elliott observed that there could be no doubt an offence under the act had been committed, and that it was highly proper that the journeymen bakers should not be kept at work on the Sabbath day longer than was absolutely necessary. The defendant must therefore pay a penalty of 10s. and costs. Mr. Samuel Holmes, of No. 31, Royal-road, Newington, was next called on his summons, and pleaded guilty to the offence, saying that, like Mr. Dray, he was totally ignorant of the existence of such a law. For his own part, he said, he should like to keep his shop closed the whole of Sunday, and would willingly keep it closed if his fellow tradesmen did the same. He felt it a sort of de gradation to have been summoned before a magis trate and fined, and thought he should have received some intimation of the intention to sum mon him, in which case there would have been no occasion for it. Mr. Herring hoped that as Mr. Holmes was averse to opening his shop on Sunday, he would sign a declaration to that effect, which bore the signatures of 800 of his fellow-tradesmen. Mr. Holmes replied that he should have no ob jection to do so, and having paid the ten shillings penalty and costs, left the court. SOUTHWARK.—ALLEGED MURDER OF A FEMALE IN BERMONDSEY.—'Thomas Buxton, a drover, was brought before Mr. Combe for final examination, charged with causing the death of an old woman named Catherine Kenny, by striking her on the head. George Woodley, a leather-dresser, said that be tweon nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night he was passing John's-place, Grange-road, Bermondsey, when he saw a number of children following a female, and shouting after her. She picked up some thing from the ground and threw it at the children, when the prisoner went up to her and asked her why she threw it at them—did she want to kill them. She replied, " What's that to you ?" and struck him a violent blow on the face. The prisoner then pushed her from him and struck her on the right side of the face, but not very violently. She staggered towards the pavement and fell backwards on the edge of the kerb. He assisted to lift her up, and found she was dead. • Catherine Lane said she lived at 17, Wood's. place, Grange-road, Bermondsey, and she saw the prisoner go up to the deceased and ask her why she threw the stones at the children. She appeared half drunk and struck the prisoner, who gave her a blow with his left hand on the right side of her face. In a minute or so she fell and was picked up dead. Thomas Moore, 213 M, said he was on duty in the Grange-road on Sunday night, when he saw a number of children following a female, whom they hooted and threw stones at. The prisoner was there, and he went up to the deceased and said to her " Why do you throw stones at those children ? You may kill some of them." The deceased struck him on the head, and he gave her a blow with his left hand, and she staggered a little and fell down. Witness sent for a stretcher, but she was dead a long time before it arrived. In fact, she never spoke or moved after falling. Mr. William Alexander Tuckcy, surgeon, 169, Bermondsey -Street, said he was called to see the de ceased at the station house, and there found life had been for some time extinct. He afterwards made a post mortent examination, and was of opinion that death was caused by either a blow or a fall. There were no external injuries. Mr. Combe committed the prisoner for trial. GREENWICH.—THE METROPOLITAN BUILD • INGS ACT.—WHAT IS A BUILDING ?-Sir Joseph Paxton, Bart., appeared to a summons, charging THE SUN, LUNDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1860:i him with not having complied with certain require ments, under the Metropolitan Buildings Act, in the erection of a green-house or peach•house, at his residence, the Itoccles, Norwood, having received the usual notice from Mr. Badger, the district sur veyor. From the evidence of Mr. Badger it appeared that, on the 23d November last he discovered a building erected against the northern boundary wall of Sir J. Paxton's garden, the building mea suring 60 feet in length, and 10 feet wide, and which abutted on to the road leading to Sydenham. The complaint was, that being a building it had neither a wall at the ends, nor on the southern side. Mr. Traill inquired in what manner it was in tended to be proved that the erection in question was a building within the meaning of the act. Mr. Badger replied that it was fixed to a platein the wall. Mr. Traill—llow do you know it is a fixture—in what manner is it attached ? Mr. Badger said he could not say in what man ner it was fixed, whether with nails or screws, but he knew it was a fixture, and was furnished with a furnace and flue, and was heated by means of hot-water pipes. Sir Joseph Paxton, who produced a model of the erection in question, said he had no desire whatever to evade any requirements contained in the Metro politan Buildings Act, but he appeared there that day to contend that the structure in question was not a building within the meaning of the act. The fact was, the structure was an invention of his own for the purpose of being placed in gentlemen's gardens, with properly arranged modes of fixtures, and which could be taken to pieces and removed to another part of the ground in an hour or two. It was here shown, by the model produced, that the erection could be speedily taken to pieces, and as speedily refitted by any ordinary workman. Traill said that Mr. Badger had altogether failed in his evidence to show that the structure in question was a building ; in fact, when asked by what means it was.a fixture, lie could give no other evidence, which, indeed, was no evidence, than that he knew it was a fixture, but he could not describe in what manner. The summons would, therefore, be dismissed. THB MILITIA. Mr. Sidney Herbert's speech on introducing a bill for the amendment of the Militia Acts is the careful investigation of a problem the importance of which is at length fully appreciated. How are we to extract out of our population all the military strength which it naturally supplies, and give it its requisite training and organization ? There can be no doubt as to the richness of the stratum, and it is our fault if we do not get at the ore, reduce it to metal, and convert it, if necessary, to useful purposes. The Registrar General tells us that the Census of next year will probably give us more than four millions and a half of an age to bear arms, and, with all the deductions we can rea sonably make for the various causes and reasons of incapacity, it is very strange if we cannot get as many fighting men as we want out of so many Eng lishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen. There are more deductions to be made here than in any other coun try, owing to the spreading and enterprising habits of our race ; yet a man has only to use his eyes, and he will feel that he may pick up any number of men fit and ready to fight for England in some way or other. But we have to contend with difficulties. It is out of the question to set to work like France or Austria, and attempt to raise a regular army of 450,000 soldiers, which would be our proportion, bound to the service for a certain number of years. The navy, the merchant service, the colonies, and home industry have been beforehand with us. IN hen we confine the question to the soldiers at home, available for our defence, we have further to deduct the large portion of our army in India and other distant dependencies. We have only about a hun dred thousand soldiers at home, including all the depots ; and this is quite as much as we can expect to maintain, as it is considerably in advance of our normal state for many years before the Russian War. But, as this is plainly not enough for pos sible emergencies, we are driven to a more expan sive and heterogeneous kind of armament than our " military" neighbours. We must be all things to all men, and have soldiers of all kinds, adapted to every variety of class and circumstances. We must give openings for those who can devote two or three years to the service, for those who can spare a few weeks in the year, for those who can spare a few hours in the week, and even for those who will simply pledge themselves to be forthcoming on a serious emergency. This, at least, is what we are doing at this moment, and the result is numerically a wonderful success. We gave the figures the other day, and will repeat them. Taking the above classification, the Embodied Militia is for those who will not be bound for a long term, nor for foreign service ; and it musters 15,911. The Dis embodied Militia affords a wider and easier op portunity to those who have other occu pations, and are not perhaps their own masters, but can give a month or so at a convenient time of the year. It has on its rolls 52,899, though, as Mr. S. Herbert tells us, that figure will not bear exami nation. The yeomanry cavalry is a higher class of the same kind of men, and its effectives are stated to be 15,000. The enrolled pensioners are already trained, and undertake to be ready in the hour of danger. They amount to 15,000. The comes the last class in our enumeration—the volunteer rifles and artillery, of whom we saw a magnificent dele gation in Hyde-park. They are reckoned at 122,367. Not one of these estimates makes large demands on our faith, but by these easy steps we mount up to the very satisfactory total of 323,259—independent of all our soldiers abroad ; independent too, as we believe, of immese numbers of civilians at home ready to fight for their country, and able to do good service. Of all these classes that which is most in ques tion, and in fact under change, is the embodied militia, numbering, as we have said, a little under 16,000. These men cost as much as the line ; they make too just as good soldiers, but they are not available for foreign service ; it is a difficult task to select the right kind of officers for them ; and the chief use which has hitherto been made of these regiments, as feeders for the line, is one that de stroys them as a militia, leads to a fearful amount of desertion and fraud, and even infects the disci pline of the regiments of the line brought Into contact with them. These are evils too great to be borne, even though the- embodied militia is a form of service which has its conveniences to good soldiers and honest men as well as to the contrary. But it is argued that if a man is willing to serve in a camp or a barrack:for several yea's, a very little inducement will bring him into the line, for it cannot be supposed that an ordinary Englishman sets much store on the militiaman's privilege of not fighting except against an actual invader. The amount of bounty lost by these men deserting and enlisting in the line, or perhaps going off altogether, is a serious item in our mili tary expenditure. Then comes the difficulty about officers. The very notion of the militia is that it is the indigenous force of the country, officered by men enjoying influence and virtual command over the feelings of the people. They may or may not be country gentlemen, of old families and landed property; but they ought to be men holding real sway by virtue of their position and character. These, however, are generally the men most tied to their homes, and least able to reside for a couple of years in a colony or at a camp. Had they desired this sort of life, and been freed from home duties, they wouldlhave gone into the line. The conclu sion is that it is difficult to officer these regiments rightly. Again, there can be no permanent reason for embodying one regiment of militia and not another ; so that under the existing system there must always be changes equivalent to the creation and disbanding of effective corps. These changes are costly, inconvenient, and as wasteful of men as of money. The very fact of an embodied militia implies the useless character of the disembodied, which is a charge and trouble to the country with out any equivalent benefit. The present proposition is so to amend the gene ral militia act as to make all the militia equally serviceable. It is proposed to raise the militia in England from the nominal force of 80,000 to 120,000 effectives, and to raise the Scotch and Irish militias from 5,000 and 15,000 to double those numbers. With all the recent experience of the laxity of the service, it implies some faith in power of administration to hope for anything bet ter; but Mr. Sidney Herbert speaks with confidence. To prevent double personation he pr a opo e se t b i ' m. thate To the regiments shall practise at th e e secure good training, every regiment o have as m is ptohsed the have an adjutant and two sergeants who if tey v . school at Hythe. Besides various militia o m f i a n d o j r oio p i r o o g amal isions, it is intended tha t the The counties may be depots for stores are t o g be m e h a t o e i d l t h f o y r o t o r eel ti n i o n s g , hand d • e site design of desire, and rented b y however, it is des irable that t Government. In this case the building should be approved by the engi neers, as a depot for arms should always be made de fensible, an d cannot therefore be left to the county a rchitect, as if it were an• almshouse or a county court. Te e whole of the militia, disembodied as well as embodied, have been furnished with the En. field rifle, and all that is now wanted is to secure the attendance of those who are on the books, and in respect of whom a considerable outlay has bee n • made. If the principle of the general militia, as a local force, under officers of local influence and knowledge, bo faithfully carried out there must be an end of the systematic desertion and non-attend ance, which make the whole force little better than a delusion and a scandal. These are not, or at least ought not to be, men enlisted from the public houses of Westminster, or any other recruiting ground, but men whose character and life ate well known. As the rifle corps, with their occasional hour of prac tice, will be hiefly from the middle ranks of the towns, and the yeomanry will be from the village farmers, so the militia should be from the peasant class, which can meet for practice in months so fixed as not to interfere with the operations of husbandry. This is a reasonable way of meeting all cases and classes; and, when it is fairly carried out, there can no longer be any pretence for embodying one regi ment of militia and disembodying another, As caprice may suggest„—Thnes. POISONING CASE AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. This forenoon the inquest upon the body of Mrs. Ann James, who is said to have died from the ffects of antimony, supposed to have been admi nistered by Thomas Winslow, who resided with the deceased, was proceeded with before the borough coroner. The case is fraught with more than usual inte rest, in consequence of its being suspected that the sister of the deceased, Mrs. Townshend, and two nephews, also died from the effects of antimony, re - s-pectiv( ly in September, December, and January last. The will of the deceased, Mrs. James, was made jointly in favour of Winslow and her deceased relatives. Mr. Cobb, solicitor, appeared on behalf of Wins low, and stated that '..te had only that morning been retained. Ile therefore applied for an adjourn ment, in order that he might have an opportunity of conferring with his client (who was now in cus tody, on remand, by the magistrates), or otherwise to enable him to make an application to the magis trates to allow Winslow to be present at this in quiry. After some discussion between the coroner and Mr. Cobb (the former remarking that it was most unfair for evidence of so serious a character to be given behind a prisoner's back), Mr. Cobb retired for the purpose above stated, and an adjournment for a short time took place. Considerable delay having taken place, Inspector Horn, of the detective force, entered the Court, and stated that the magistrates had re fused Mr. Cobb's application to allow Winslow to be present, eves though in the custody of an officer. Dr. Edwards, analytical chemist, Dr. Cameron, and several other witnesses were present, including a chemist, from whom the accused had purchased antimony, but in consequence of Dr. Edwards stating that he had not yet completed his analysis, but would do so this evening, and it also appearing that the chemist, although morally certain of Wins low's identity, still wished to see him before he swore positively, the coroner said it was advisable again to adjourn the inquiry until to-morrow, re marking that the necessity of adjournment arose to a great extent from the absence of the accused. The investigation was adjourned accordingly till to-morrow. We learn that the authorities are in communication with the Home Secretary, with a view to the exhumation of the bodies of the sister and two nephews of the deceased. COUNTRY MARKETS. SHEFFIELD-JUNE 26. There was a small supply of wheat, and prices had a downward tendency, though not quotably lower. A small business was done. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...22s Od to 23s ocl White » 75 ...23s Od to 25s Od New red 77 7 , ...17s Od to 18s Od New white » ~ ...18s Od to 19s 6d Beans 77 77 ...19s Od to 21s Od Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr • 33s Od to 36s Od Malting ditto, „ 3Bs Od to 43s Oct Oats I 7 2Bs Od to 33s Od Millers' prices for flour—ls 11d, 2s Id, and 25 3d per 141 b . NEWAR: -JUNE 27. Wheat in moderate show ti rather slow. Barley scarce. as low in price. White wheat, new, 58s to 64s Red do. sss to 60s Old white sBs to 64s Red do sls to 57s Barley, malting... 3Bs to 45s i-day, and the demand was Oats in fair show, and quite Barley, grinding 30s to 33s Oats, old, .. 33s to 36e New do 30s to 34e Beans.. 48s to 51e Beans, new 468 to 4Se HULL--JUNE 26. There was a fair attendance of farmers and factors at this day's market, and the show of wheat was middling, but a slow sale, at a reduction of is to 2s per qr. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 6OB Od to 625:0G1 Old red New white .. „ New red .... „ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 53s Od to 57s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French s3s Od to 54s Od Baltie'and Hamburg, red 53s Od to 54s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old 45s Od to 49s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 42s Od Grinding 3os Od to 31s Od Saal and Oderbruek Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 38s Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 140 Friesland and Dutch 0:4141d to Oslod Swedish and Danish oBl4d to osl4id Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon -44 s Od to 45s Od `ick..... ew iiCk Egyptian 3Bs Od to 403 Oct Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign Rape cakes Bones SLEAFORD-JUNE 25. The supply of wheat was fair, and there was a limited attendance. Trade ruled fair, at fully last week's rates. Beans higher, and barley without alteration. BRISTOL SUGAR-JUNE 27. The market has been very firm this week, but a small amount•of business has been transacted. Rather more business has been transacted in rum, at about former prices. COAL MAR: ET-JUNE 27, (rrioes of Coal per Ton ai the close of the mat ket.) Walls End. s. d. Bell's Primrose l3 3 Tanfield Moor 13 3 TaMield Moor Butes-13 3 Howard's West Hart- a. 4. Cassop l7 6 Whitworth 16 0 South Hartlepool. 17 0 Keiper Grange 17 3 Harton Eden 17 0 Acorn Close ..17 0 Wharncliffe 17 0 Hetton.... South Whitworth 16 0 South Hetton 18 6 West Hetton ..17 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting 22 6 ;t, 30—Sold, 27. ley 16 3 Lambert's West Hart- ley 16 0 West Hartley l6 6 Buddle's West Hartley 16 6 Bower's West Hartley 16 6 Earsden Hartley ,15 9 CowpenLHartley ..16 9 Walls End. Heugh Hall 17 0 Ships at market THE 3LIILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. July 10. Do. (via Marseilles) July 4. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. .. July 4. Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. July 27. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. July 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) July 2. Do. (via Marseilles) July 13. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. July 2. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) July 2. Do. (via Marseilles) July 13. India (Bombay), (via Southamp ton) July 10. Do. (via Marseilles) • • • • July 4. Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. • • .. July 5. Lisbon, Vigo, an d Oporto • • • • • • July 1. Malta, and Aden (via Southampton) J u l y 2. Do. (via Marseilles) .. July 4. United States, California, &c. (pia Cork) July 5. W es t er n Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Jul 10 W es t Indies and Pacific, Carthgena, C u b a , & c. Jul; 14. BIRTHS. ASIIBURTO N . Ashburton, On th 9 26th inst., at B at h House, Lady Cn at St. A n d rew ' s -t errace , Ply mouth, the wife of C ommander S. P. Coode, M.S. o n the of a 2 d 3 a d ug i h n t s e t r .: James Watt, of a s on . RICARDo.—On the 23d i nst., at Clifton, the wife of Henry David Ricardo, E sq., of a son. M ARRIAGES. HAMILTON—ANSTRUTHER.—On the 25th inst., at St. Peter's, Pimlico, Colonel Frederick William Hamilton, C. 8., of the Grenadier Guards, sixth son of the late Wm. R. Hamilton, Esq , to Louisa, fourth daughter of the late Sir Alex. Anstruther, of Thirdpart, Fife. TURNER—GALE. —On the 26th inst., at Ordsale Church, Retford, Mehl. Turner, Esq , R.N., to Emma, youngest daughter of the late T. W. Gale, Esq. DEATHS. BARCLAY.—On the 25th inst., at his residence, Fitzroy square, Archibald Campbell Barclay, Esq., beloved and lamented. DRAKE,—On the 29th inst., at the Rectory, Amersham, Bucks, the Rev. John Tyrwhitt Drake, rector of Amer sham, aged 69. TRITWIIITT.—On the 25th inst., George Truwhitt, Esq., of 2, Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn, and of Long Lodge, Finihley, Middlesex, aged 76. VILE.—On the 26th inst., at 75, Oxford-terrace, Hyde park, Oliver Vil e , E sq ., formerly manager of the West minstir Branch of the London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square, aged 81. WARD.—On the 26th inst., at his residence, in the Albany, Piccadilly, Wiliiam Ward, Esq , aged 71. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No, 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesazr, Thursday, June 28, 1860,