The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

TEE NAVY. Rear-Admiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, visited Chatham dockyard on Friday afternoon, / for the purpose of inspecting the screw corvette Orpheus, '2l, which is to be launched on the 23d inst., and the screw gun vessel. Racehorse, 4, in dock, to be fitted for the steam reserve. After transacting some official business at the dockyard, his lordship returned to the Admiralty the same afternoon. The Channel Squadron, on its northern cruise arrived at the mouth of the Firth of Forth on Thurs day afternoon, and on Friday forenoon steamed up the Firth. It was fully expected lee the fleet would anchor in Leith roads, opposite Edinburgh, and great disappointment was felt when the splen did vessels, the finest ever seen in these waters,pro ceeded 8 or 10 miles higher up to the better en closed roadstead of St. Margaret's Hope. The upper part of the Firth chosen as the temporary anchor age of the fleet is about two miles in breadth, and enclosed by the cultivated and picturesque coasts of West Lothian and Fifeshire; and the Channel being deep and broad, ample scaroom is given for the .e - volution of the largest vessels, while the shelter is equal to that of any harbour in the kingdom. The unprecedented spectacle of a squadron of the Royal Navy in the Firth of Forth had been looked for ward to with the deepest interest by the inhabi tants of Edinburgh and Leith, and immediately it WAS found that the fleet were to pass higher up the Firth steam tugs and little boats of all descriptions pursued them to their chosen anchorage. On Satur day also numerous steam vessels and lesser craft sailed from Leith to Granton, carrying passengers round the fleet, and causing an unwonted stir in the quiet roadstead of St. Margaret's Hope. The squadron are 14 in number—viz., the Royal Al bert, 121 guns, the flagship of Sir C. H. Fremantle, ; the Donegal, 101 ; the Conqueror, 101; the Edgar, 91; the Aboukir, 90 ; the Algiers, 91 ; the Trafalgar, 90 ; the Mars, 80 ; the Centurion, 80; the Mersey, 40; the Diadem, 32 ; the Ariadne, 26 ; the Greyhound, 17; and the Flying Fish, 6. In St. Margaret's Hope there has also been for some time stationed the Edinburgh, 60 guns, as a training ship. Several sick seamen were conveyed from on board the Royal Albert to Leith Hospital on Fri day evening. The squadron is expected to remain about a week i in the Firth. Sir John Liddell, C. 8., M.D., F.R.S„ Director- General of the Medical Department of the Navy, arrived at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar on Saturday, for the purpose of making his annual inspection. The Eagle, 50, sailing Coastguard frigate, Capt. Edward Tatham, arrived at Spithead during the night of Saturday from Milford, attended by the Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M. Bruce. At 8 a.m. yesterday the Eagle saluted the flag of Commander-in -Chief H. W. Bruce, the Victory flagship returning the compliment. The officers and crew of the ,Eagle will be transferred to the Blenheim, 60 screw. The Trincomalee, 24, fitting at Chatham for a training ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers, has been taken alongside the sheer hulk to have her armament put on board, which will consist of 'ten 32-pounders, each of 50 cwt., and six 8-inch guns, each of 52 cwt., to be distributed on her main deck. The Wrangler, 4, screw gun-vessel, Commander H. H. Beamish, arrived lat Spithead yesterday morning from the eastward. The screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton, at Devonport, will be ready for sea about the 24th inst. The Diligence, naval storeship, was tow'red out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday to SpitheaA. She is under orders for Devonport. The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gun nery-ship at Portsmouth, steamed up Portsmouth harbour on Saturday, and made practice at the Briton target-ship, moored on the mud lands in Porchester Lake. At the end of the firing the old frigate was sunk at her moorings. The iron steam storeship Supply, 2, Master Com mander W. H. Balliston, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday evening. The paddlewheel steam-frigate Terrible,2l, Capt. Frederick H. 11. Glasse, from Malta, is hourly ex pected at Plymouth with the newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir , Arthur Fanshawe, K.C,B. The steam screw gun-vessels Pigeon and Linnet, built by contract at Sunderland acid launched on Thursday last, are ordered to be sent to Chatham, where they are to be surveyed, copperesl, and fitted for the steam reserve. The following appointments were made 011 Sa turday at the Admiralty :—George Wynhall, pro moted to the rank of first class assistant-engineer in the Bustard ; John Langrish, promoted to the rank of first class assistant-engineer in the Corn wallis, for service in the Ruby ; Thomas Witt, promoted to the rank of first class assist: engineer in the Fisgard, for service in the Bann ; John Lowrie, promoted to the rank of first class assist.- engineer in the Nile; and Thomas , Huard, promoted to the rank of first-class assist.-engineer in the Wasp. TILE ARMY. The draught of the 44th Regiment, under orders for China, and consisting of two officers and 90 men, will leave the camp at Colchester in a few days, It is expected that Col. Wood, commandant of the troops in the Colchester camp, will shortly be pro 'noted to the rank of Major-General. , The Inspector-General of Fortifications is ex!. pected at Great Yarmouth shortly on an official visit. A letter front the War-office states that the proposed batteries at. Pak'efield, near Lowestoft, will probably not be proceeded with at present. The 10th and 15th brigades, Goast Brigade of Royal Artillery, stationed at Portsmouth and Gos port, will be officially , inspected to-day and to morrow by Major-Gen. Bloomfield, R.A. The Portsmouth division of Royal Marine Light Infantry and Artillery will be officially inspected to-Morrow and Wednesday by the Adjt.-General, Major-Gen. S. R. Wesley. The Hon. Artillery Company will be inspected by their Capt.-Gen. and Colonel, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, on the 22d of June inst. Orders have been received at the Royal . Engineer Establiahment, Chatham, for Capt. J. E: Comes to proceed from head-qua.rters to Aldershott Camp, to take the command of the 35th Company of Royal Engineers; and Lieut. J. H. Wilson, Plymouth, to serve with the Royal Engineers at that station. The military' invalids who arrived at Gravesend from India on Friday, in the East India troopship King Philip, 1,350 tons, Capt. Carey, were landed at Customhouse -quay on Saturday morning, and forwarded the same day to Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, for medical inspection. The King Philip embarked 243 invalid troops at Calcutta, on the 20th of February, and sailed the following day, touching at the Cape of Good Hope on the 21st of April, to embark passengers, and sailing on the 28th of the same month, St. Helena being sighted on the Bth Ult. The passage to the Thames occu pied 107 days. The sick and wounded troops belong to the following corps :—viz, 6th Dragoon Guards Engineer s , 17th Lancers, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Ist battalion ".3d Buffs, Ist battalion r l3 th (Pri nce Alb er t' s ) Li g ht I n f an t r y, I s t batta lotu 2 0th, Ist battalion 23d (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) h 85th, 38th, 54th, 61st 71st (Highland light Infantry), 73d, 75th, 87th (Royal Irish - -' 7 " B ilier B ) , 88 th (Connaught Rangers), 90th (Light I rfantry ) , 92d (Highlanders), 93d (Highlanders), and 97th (Earl of 15' ster's) Regiments, and the Ist and 2d battalions Rifle Brigade. of The officers w ho arrived in char ;e of the t Macpherson, 42d Highl an d ers; oclp ii s en w t ei l e v Capt. D. Gth Regiment ; Lieut. C. S. H. Howard, 71st S li m ' it h h : High landers; Ensign S. G. M‘Dakin, 42d Higl I d ig Assistant -Surgeon T. M. O'Brien, 13th L l ig a h ri ers; In fantry; and As.,istant-Surgeon H T. etsM.D., V.C„, 23t1 Fusiliers. During the '' ' . p lv ass t a e g r, eight deaths occurred on board, including Lieut. Dawes, 37th Madras Native Infantry, who was re turning to England on. sick leave, two men of the 13th Light Infantry, one of the 34th, one of the 37th, one of the 75th, one of the 38th; and one of the Rifle Brigade. Most of the invalid troopah'ave served in India during the whole of the mutiny DON, MONDAY EVENING', JUNE 1860, and many of them received wounds or injuries at Lucknow and Cawnpore. After the troops had been inspected by the medical staff at Fort Pitt, 40 non-commissioned officers and men were admitted into hospital for medical treatment, and the re mainder sent to the invalid establishment. The Northumberland Artillery arrived in Cork on Monday morning from England, with the staff and band, and proceeded to Kinsale, where it is to be stationed for the present. TRIAL TRIP OF THE GREAT EASTERN The fuurth—and we believe we may now venture to say the last—trial trip of this vessel, previous to her departure for New York, took place during Saturday and yesterday. The trial was only of short duration, merely extending to a run of 12 hours out to sea and 12 hours back, and was under taken more to ascertain the working completeness of the various changes that have been made in the machinery than with the view of testing the vessel's speed. The speed, however, was tested, and showed, as every one anticipated, from the very foul state of the vessel's bottom, a most consi derable diminution in the rate attained during the trips of last year. As regards the machinery, how ever, everything went pretty well and easily, and in this important respect the tribal was regarded by all the engineers and professional and scientific men on board as satisfactory. Some trifling adjustments, which will scarcely occupy a day to make, and which could only be known by actually working the ship, will be made in the course of to-day and Tuesday, when the passenger certificate of the Board of Trade will be granted, and the vessel at last be declared ready for sea. During the period that has elapsed since the works in connection with this vessel were last noticed great progress has been made. Both in her external appearance and her internal accommodation and fittings, the Great Eastern now presents a very different aspect com pared with the time when she first steamed up to her moorings in Southampton-water, in November last. The huge, black, coffin - lik e hull has now its sombre massiveness relieved by a broad streak of white, which, making an easy curve from stem to stern, gives lightness to her appearance, and shows off her beautiful lines to perfection. The row of black chimneys, which also disfigured her, have been painted cream colour, and these changes, with others as to the colour of her yards, make her look light and yacht-like, and more after the style of our swift sea-going packets than it seemed possible to produce in a vessel of such colossal proportions. In more substantial improvements the change is even greater and more marked. The unsightly deck, which formerly leaked at every seam, and which, both in regard to fitting and material, was worse than is seen even in small coasters. has been made tolerably good. It is not in the power of shipwright ever to make this a really good deck, but it has cer tainly been infinitely improved. It is now, at least, perfectly water-tight, welt caulked, reduced to a fair level, and when scraped and varnished will pass muster well enough. The wheel-house, which so spoilt the look of the stern of the vessel, has been removed, andthe steering gear entirelyreconstructed on a new principle. Four wheels are now fitted, so that 32 men can be employed, in case of necessity, iu very stormy weather. Bight men, however, have as yet been found ample to steer with the greatest ease. A tiller has also been fitted on the lower deck ; four very fine additional lifeboats have been added to those already carried, and all the boats forward of the paddle-boxes have, in compliance with the wish of Board of Trade officers, been hung inboard, so as to be out of danger in case of heavy seas striking the bows. The india-rubber packing has been removed from between the lowest flanges of the iron masts, and replaced with wedges of hornbeam, and iron gratings have been fixed o ver the skylights of the saloons. With regard to the engines, the boilers have been made self-feeding by the use of Giffard's injector, though the paddle boilers can also be fed from the donkey engines, and, in addition, the new feed-pumps attached to the screw engines furnish enough water to supply all the boilers in the ship. The piston rods of the paddle engines have been strengthened by lengthening the stuffing boxes, and the dangerous vibration in the air-pump rods relieved by easing the stiffness of the buckets. It was also intended to strengthen them still further with a sliding truss, but this has not been done, and thus, either at starting or stopping the paddle engine, both rods still vibrate at times with a rapidity that is dangerous. Galleries of com munication have been cut throughthe iron bulkheads and fitted with water-tight doors ; the coal bunkers have been better ventilated, and fitted with tubes for testing the temperature of the fuel at all times. Ad ditional fire-pumps have been placed on deck, and the wooden casings of the funnels enlarged to give a better draught of air, keep the saloons cool, and the wood free from any danger of ignition. A screw tunnel along the screw shaft has also been made of iron, rivetted like one piece to the iron bulkheads and deck beams of the ship, and this, with longitu dinal bands of wrought iron , and extra girders of immense strength and thickness under the cargo deck, has made the whole hull of the vessel as strong as it can ever be made with iron. As regards the fittings of the saloons below, still greater improvements have been made. The dreary expanse of whitewashed iron-work, which, ins:ead of making a feature of the construction, made it a disfigurement, has disappeared, and the dining saloons have been painted to resemble bird's-eye ma ple, and the arched crossribs of the ceilin g mark °d with lines of blue and gold. In fact, all the improvements which were suggested by the Board of Trade, or which the experience of the trial trips made last 3 - ear showed to be wanting, have been carefully effesei.ed, and whatever shortcomings now re main are on y mere defects of construction , and i' ones which are n ,clv er likely to be removed. These defects, however, ie must be understood, relate on l y to the size and want:* of light of some of the lower deck cabins, and to the 'whole ship for its size being under-powered in her steam machinery. In all that concerns the comfort or safety of passengers every thing that could be done has been done, and the Great Eastern ought to be now as good and well found a passenger ship as ever qultted the Unite d Kingdom. To those acquainted With her condition last year it will be a matter of surprise that so much has been accomplished in so short a time, and this successful result is mainly due to the untiring ex ertions of Mr. Bold, and since his appointment to Captain Vine Hall. To the reputation and exer tions of the latter gentleman is it owing that the Great Eastern is now better officered and better manned than almost any other passenger steamshiF afloat. It was expected that the Great Ship would have slipped her moorings and stood out to sea early on Saturday morning, but a variety of trivial cir cumstances which always occur on such occasions delayed her departure till nearly lin the day. Before that time a small party of noblemen and gentlemen had come on board, among whom were all the di rectors of the company, th Earl of Shelburne, Lord Colville, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, Lord Dun sany, Hon. James Howard, Hon. Ralph Dutton, M.P., Mr. Saunders, of the Great Weste a Rai lway, Mr. Appold, Captain Heath, R.N., Mr. Hen; Brunel, Professor Froude, Mr. J. Dillon, Captain Mangles, chairman of the South-Western Rail way, Mr. G. Train, Colonel Baker, Rev. Mr. Nicholson, &c. Captain Robertson, R.N., chief surveyor of the Board of Trade, with Mr. Murray and Mr. Raley, were present on behalf of the Board of Trade, to watch the result of the trial previous to the ves sel receiving her passenger certificate. Steam was got up in all the boilers early in the day, but it was 2 o'clock before all was ready for departure, when the moorings were slipped, and the paddles and screw turned .eu gently ahead that the vessel wes actually under way and stealing through the water almost before any 011 e on board was aware of the start. The day was wet and squally, and a drizzly mist, half rain, half N7104:1, made anything like sea cruising about as unpleask;nt as could well be con ceived. This fact, coupled with the secrecy which had been maintained about a ' l relating to the trial, checked anything like a demonstration in the way of boats assembling to witness the departure. Only one of the Ryde packets kept 'alongside for a mile or so, and now and then the cress - of a yacht or cutter gave a cheer, but beyond such recognitions, few and far between, the Great Eastern icft her moorings almost unheeded. Rounding Cals.'i.ott Castle the vessel was kept so close in shore, ans 2 turned with such marvellous ease and rapidity, as to excite to the utmost the astonishment and admi ration of Mr. Murphy, the New York pilot, who was on board, and who, on seeing how much she was " in hand," at once expressed his belief that the Great Eastern could go anywhere where there was water. From Calshott she wound her way slowly past Cowes and Ryde, through Spithead, and round the south coast of the Isle of Wight, passin g close in by the green hills and picturesque valleys of Vcntnor, over Which the rich undulations of the Undercliffcould he clearly seen. The condition or trim of the ship was not considered favourable to her speed, inasmuch as she was five feet lower by the stern than the bows, and her best trim for sailing is on a level keel. Her draught of water was 21 feet 2 inches forward, and 26 feet 1 inch aft,—a greater depth by nearly two feet than she has ever yet been to sea with. The immersion of the wheels was 20 inches more than hitherto, and the screw was so well down that all but about two inches of the topmost fan was Great Easter com pletely under water. Leaving the Isle of Wight on the starboard quar ter, and screw and d keeping out about 30 mils from land, the steamed slowly the Start Light.n down the coast for paddles going easilye r orders were r a e . h g vaednatto littlek eep bo moreh THE SUN, LO than half speed till all had got into regular working order. Then the paddles started, when clear of the land, at about seven revolutions and the screw at 24 —arate of speed which was only gradually increased during the night, when the former engines rose to a little over eight and the `screw to 27. At this rate all went very easily and well, the vessel going at 9or 9l knots. The injector pipes for feeding the boilers, however, were soon found to be scarcely large enough for the duty, and the paddle boilers accordingly had to be fed from the donkey engines. It was also quickly ascertained that the new wooden casings for the forward funnels, and which were intended to assist in getting rid of the hot air, did not work at all, for all :lot air was most effectually kept inside the casing itself, which heated to such a degree as to require constant watching in case of accidents. The forward pair of boilers also of the paddles were more or less troublesome throughout the night, and, in deed, during the whole trip. They were con stantly "priming," as it is termed, which means boiling so fiercely as occasionally to send the water as well as steam along . the steam-pipe into the cylinders, —an intrusion which, though not dangerous, is very annoying to engineers, and one which the piston itself resents by thump ing on the bottom of the cyli nder with astounding bangs. This priming, as the pressure of steam was not over 171 b., and the firing was moderate, was at first difficult to account :for, till it was ascer tained that the water in this pair of boilers had been in them for the last two or three months, and the boilers themselves were very dirty from disuse — two causes quite sufficient to account for priming to any extent. Beyond such slight incidents as these, nothing of any note occurred. The night fell as the Bill of Portland was parsed, and the lights of the Magdalena could be seer; glimmering occa sionally over the waves as she steamed down Chan nel for the West Indies. Soon after 11 o'clock the heat of the woodwork round the forward funnels seemed to increase greatly, till the smefi of its scorching became quite apparent. The upper part of the casing which impeded the ventilation was therefore at once broken away, and, free egress being thus given to the hot air round the funnel, no further uneasiness was felt. At the suggestion of Capt. Robertson, of the Board of Trade, this ; woodwork will be entirely removed, and replaced by an iron lattice work , which w ill, of course, give free egress to the hot air, and run no danger of ignition, no matter what the heat. At one o'clock a.m. on Sunday the Great Eastern was abreast of the Start Light, when the helm was put hard over, and the huge vessel, even at slow speed, turned com pletely round in a small circle in little over seven minutes. During this turn, as throughout the trial, there was a total absence of the uneasy wagging motion of the stem and stern which was so often felt last year. Its disappearance now was attributed entirely to the additional girders and diagonal bracings which have been latterly put in, and which with the screw tunnel render the whole ship as rigid as a bolt. On Sunday, at six a.m., Mr. M'Lennan, the chief engineer, who had never for an instant quitted the engine-room from the time she started, gave orders to get up steam for full speed. No one anticipated any very great results from this, as even by looking over the side the effect of the foul bottom in dragging the water could be distinctly seen extending as far as a foot from the vesse l ' s side. By steay firing the amount of steam was gradually increased, and the revolution of the paddles rose from 8 to 101, and the [screw from 27 to 39, but beyond this rate it seemed im possible to get them. On the last run round from Holyhead to Southampton the screw worked easily at 43 revolutions and the paddles at 12, and for a short time at 121, at which time the vessel ran a clear 16 knots an hour. Yes terday, however, partly owing, we suppose, to the increased depth of the ship—two feet—and partly to the weedy condition of the bottom, nothing ap proaching this result could be obtained. Neither screw or paddle ever went at a greater rate than the revolutions we have mentioned, and the greatest speed never exceeded 121 knots an hour. An ave rage of 121- knots, however, was maintained with great ease and steadiness, the only annoyance aris ing from the priming of the forward pair of boilers. There seemed, also, some difficulty in getting a full amount of steam, of which it was said the engines required at least two pounds more Pressure than could be . given to them, even with quick firing. The patent log and the ship's log, and the run ac cording to the chart, all gave the same result— namely, a distance of 50 miles from 6 a.m. till 10 in the forenoon, or an average of exactly 121 knots an hour, the last two hours being made against a two-knot tide. Soon after 10 o'clock the ship was again abreast of Ventnor, and under the charge of the same pilot, Mr. Bowyer, who has always taken her up the Southampton Water. She was as easily steered through Spithead andround Calshott Castle back to her moorings as if she had been a yacht. After passing Cowes the weather came on thick, with squalls and heavy rain, yet it made no diffe rence in her management in such a narrow chan nel, and before one o'clock she was again securely fastened to those moorings which have held her so securely through all the terrific gales of the past. winter. The result of the trial trip showed the vessel was with trifling alterations really in good sea-going trim, and the directors at once met and determined that the ship should start for New York on Saturday morning next. This decision was come to on the understanding that Mr. Lung ley, the contractor, could complete whatever details of work remain to do by Wednesday, as Captain Hall, we believe, most wisely asks three clear days before starting to look after his crew and get them all accustomed to their proper stations in the huge No over-anxiety to save a day should be allowed to weigh in the balance against any re quest, not only so prudent, but so necessary as this, and no delay would be better borne both on this and the other side of the Atlantic than one required to organize and accustom the crew to their places. The crew, however, it must in justice be mentioned, is said to be an unusually fine one. It is confidently anticipated the voyage to New York will be made less than 10 days, which, from Southampton, would be a very good run. It is intended to take the Great Eastern over the bar, and moor her in the river in the very middle of New York. PA RLI..I2IIENTAR 3 1 C 031.1117 TEES. EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES. -- The telt ct committee appointed to inquire into the best means of pro\ :ding for the increased traffic of the metropolis by the embankment of the Thames, re-assembled on Friday—Sir J. Paxton in the chair. Mr. Jonathan Thorpe, common councilmal and chairman of the Thames Conservancy Board, on be half of the conservators, explained the jurisdiction of the conservators and the various improvements which they are now carrying out. The conserva tors we .e strongly favourabl to the embankment of the Thames, provided it were not cerried so far into the river as to ieterfere with the tidal water. Mr. Roupell—What is the nature of the river imnrovement you e - .a cal.) - eg out ? Mr. Thor pe—We are dredglpe the entrance to some new docks, and have the dredger employed opposite Lambeth Palace, and at Str'nes Lock and Twickenham. We have recently placed a- poi .ion of the shore opposite Lambeth Palace up3n en in cline. The work was simply done as an experi ment to fill on some mud ho 'es, and try whether it would have the effect of preventing the accumula ' 'on of mud on the foreshore. The result bas been .nlectly satisfactory. 13y Lord J. Manners—The river between Vaux hall and Chelsea-bridge has been embanked on the Middlesex side but not oa the other side. By m rowing the bed of the river a yeater scour would be given. The conser eaters would not ohj - et to an embankment sufficiently wide to carry a road 100 feet in width. By Mr. Walter—Such a line would leave a por tion of the bid of the river uncovered at low water. He would not state at present what line the con servators would prefer. Captain Burstal, R.N., was the next witness. He said he was secretary to the Thames Conser vancy Board, and had been intimately acquainted with the river since 1832. He had been employed upon many of the Admiralty suryeys, and had been engaged in ascertaining what change had taken place with reference to the foundations of West minster-bridge. There had been a general deepen ing of the river above London-bridge, and a lower ing of the water surface of the river. He had establisieed a series of observations for the purpose of ascertaining whether the high water level at tained the same height at various places between London-bridge and Woolwich, and the result was that the tideway reached the same height at all places. All the observat;ema tiQ had made' went to show that tile velocity of the stream varied with the sectional area. The Chairman —Have you ever directed your attention to the propriety of embanking the Thames ? Capt. Burstal replied that he had, and that he did not think it would affect the rise of the tide. Whether it would be for the advantage of the river must depend upon the description of embankment, and how far it projected into the river. If suffi cient room were allowed for the ordinary waterside traffic, he did not think it would be objeetionable, but should not like to give any opinion in the ab sence of plans. In any scheme as much tidal water as possible should be reserved. He did not think any harm would be done to the wharfingers if sufficient space were allotted to them outside the embankment. If sufficient space were provided for them within the embankment they would be more safe than they were at present. He had no doubt that if the embankment were made sufficiently wide the traffic of the Strand and Fleet-street would be greatly relieved. If the river were contracted by an embankment, the tide would run at the rate of about three miles an hour. There would be no occasion for a solid embankment ; but if the mud were allowed to accumulate in an open embank ment, it might become very offensive. A solid em bankment, with sufficient accommodation for the waterside traffic, would be the best. Mr. Scott, chamberlain to the City, was then examined, He stated that the produce of the coal duty in 1857, after allowing the drawback, was £128,886 ; in 1858 it was £131,650 ; in 1859 it was £135,368. There had been a steady increase since the duty was first levied. The charges upon the duty were £30,186 for improvements at the West end ; £BB,OOO for improvements in Clerkenwell ; and £35,000 for the Metropolitan Board of Works in relation to improvements in Covent-garden. In May, 1861, the Bd. duty would be free from charge, and the duty would cease unless Parliament placed some fresh charges upon it. There was some doubt whether 4d. out of the Bd. would not be continued, inasmuch as it was imposed by the act of William and Mary for ever. Since the duty had been levied very large sums had been ex pended on metropolitan improvements. There was a prescriptive duty of 4d. on coals mentioned in a charter of James 1., and confirmed by several acts of parliament. For the three years ending 1859 the produce of that duty was £66,056 per year. The charge upon that duty was £890,000 for various purposes, and would absorb the duty for the next 2.0 years. The corporation considered this duty their own property, and dealt with it as they thought proper. There was a third duty of id., which had been relinquished by the corpora tion and made over to the Woods and Forests for metropolitan improvements. The produce of that duty in 1859 was £17,076. He thought a portion of the expenses of the embankment ought to fall upon the imperial exchequer. The corporation had proposed to embank the river at their own expense I from Battersea-bridge to Blackwall. The committee then adjourned. LA it INTELLIG.ENCE—June 9. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. BARNES V. BROWN.--EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF LIBEL. This was an action for libel in charging the plaintiff, a young widow, with having committed adultery with a married surgeon. The defendant first pleaded Not Guilty, and, se condly, a justification. Mr. Edwin James, in stating the case to jury, said the plaintiff was a widow, residing at Hor sham, and complained of a libel written and pub lished by the defendant, with whom she had lived as nursemaid at the same place. The libel com plained of was contained in a letter written by the defendant to Mr. Britton, a practitioner at Brighton, and a friend of Mr. Burroughs, and was as follows ; "Dear Sir,--I was sorry I was not at home when you visited this place in your rounds. I have much pleasure in enclosing you a cheque for Li, the amount of the accompanying bill. You have been made acquainted with the disgraceful conduct of Mr. Burroughs in his turning his •wife out of his house, I suppose ; and, to cover his shameful cruelty and brutality, he turns round on her and attempts to make her, with myself', the scapegoat of his intrigues with my nurse. Only think of a man vindicating the character of my nurse by aspersing the character of his own wife's. I trust you are doing tolerable in business and to your satisfaction, and believe me, yours truly, "J. COLLIS BROWN." The learned counsel then called the following witness in support of the plaintiff's case : Mrs. Rebecca Barnes deposed—l am the plaintiff. lam a widow. My husband died about three years and a half ago. Dr. Burroughs was called in to attend my baby after my husband's death. I was obliged to obtain a situation for a livelihood, and Dr. Burroughs introduced me to the defendant, who was residing with him and had two children. I was engaged by the wife of Dr. Burroughs and the defendant, and understood that I was to take the entire charge of the children. I entered their estab lishment in January, 1859. Dr. Burroughs had one child, and Dr. Brown, the defendant, had two chil dren. I occupied two rooms in the house, which formed the nursery and bedroom in Dr. Burroughs' house. The defendant occupied one large bedroom near the top of the house. The little girl always slept with me. At first I had nothing to do with Dr. Burroughs's child: The defendant and his family lived in the house. Whilst there I had fre quent conversations with the defendant ; his re marks on several occasions attracted my attention. He said Dr. Burroughs was very jealous of him because he sat by the side of Miss Moon in the dining-room. He said Mrs. Burroughs was a very superior woman to Dr. Burroughs, and would have been a different person if she had married a person more proper for her. In September, 1859, I had occasion to go into Dr. Brown's bedroom, as was usual. I always attended to his room. I did not expect to find him there ; it was about three o'clock in the afternoon. On going in I saw Mrs. Burroughs and the defendant standing there. Dr. Brown had his arm on Mrs. Burroughs's shoulder. I hurried away directly. Mrs. Burroughs came down after wards and said Dr. Brown had been taking the model of her mouth. (Laughter.) Mrs. Burroughs is about 30 years of age, and of attractive appear ance. When I went into the room Dr. Brown saw me ; Mrs. Burroughs's back was towards me. A fire occurred in the cook's and housemaid's room afterwards ; it took place at night, and some articles were destroyed; it happened through the carelessness of the servants in not putting out the candle. No familiarity of any kind or sort ever occurred between me and Dr. Burroughs ; he never made any improper addresses to me. I after this observed a difference in Mrs. Burroughs's con duct towards her husband. She would not go out for a ride with him, but wanted the carriage for herself, and that the defendant might drive her out. Her conduct attracted the attention of the servants. On the 13th of December, 1859, the defendant left the house. He came to me about an hour before he left the house, He said he should go, and I told him I should leave also. He begged of' me to stay till the morning with the children. He asked me to go and see Mrs. Burroughs, but I declined, as she would not see me in the morning. She was ill, or pretended to be ill. She left her husband's house the next day. Mrs. Burroughs told me she had telegraphed to Dr. Brown to come back and put Dr, Burroughs to rights. (Laughter.) I left the house before Mrs. Burroughs. He sent for the children the next morning, and they left, Mrs. Burroughs leaving in the afternoon of the 14th. Mr. Burroughs's brother took the little boy, her son Elton, with him, and Miss Smith left with Mrs. Burroughs. I was asked to remain, but I declined, unless I could have a friend to stay with me, and my mother came. I first heard of the letter containing the libel about a week after Mr. Burroughs received it. Before the defendant left the house he did not make any charge against my character. He paid me my wages, and told me to send to him if I wanted anything. He said lie must put the children to school. He said I must go as well, as affairs were. I have since resided with my mother and family at Horsham. Cross-examined.--My brother spoke to me about the letter: I believe this is my action. My brother has managed the matter for me. Mr. Burroughs has not spoken to me about it. I have heard his wife is suing him in the Divorce Court for his adultery with me, and I am very sorry to hear it. I do not know that it was brought a month or six weeks before this action was brought in my name. Mr. Frank Burroughs came to Horsham the night 1)r. Brown left. The latter went to an hotel. Dr. Burroughs wanted putting to rights as he refused to let her ,have a large party at Christmas. I believe the quarrel took place about Miss Smith, and not about me. Miss Smith is an elderly lady. She said Mrs. Bur roughs had shook her hand in her face. He was not at that time about turning her out of the house. Dr. Burroughs said he could not afford another party ; that she wanted it for Dr. Brown, and he must pay for it. The cook and housemaid left the same day I did. My clothes were packed up, and I thought I was going to leave for good. I returned, however, the same evening with my master. 1)r. ' Burroughs and Prior, the groom, were all that were present. I did not promise Mrs. Burroughs that I would not return. I slept in the servant's room on the second floor with my mother. I was one fl oor lower than usual. I remained in the house the next day. Dr. Brown came to remo ve some of his g oods . He did not knock at the kitchen door , nor find it was locked. I was in the kitc hen when he ca me. My mother, Dr. Burroughs, an d Dr. Thomas w ere there. They were not smoking and drinkin g . They were having tea. tliti Dot lino A' that Mite. B ur _ rongl:s had six months before complained of Dr. Burroughe's familiaeilv with me. She com plained on one occasion that she had seen him leave my r e o x o o t n n e , r b a u t t e yonosu iI peineiv:.l:gry way ; eaw hien come f rom her about it she iski, " Prior's room." Ido not know if he was in his shirt at the time. The following, morning he said loudly to me, " Mee. Barnes, did I come to your room last night? Mrs. Burroughs accuses me of it." Dr. Brown said he did not believe it, and on my p ro , posing to leave he asked me to stay, saying that it was only MN. Burroughs's jealous disposition. Dr. Burroughs deposed—l went in partnership with Dr. Thomas about three years ago. I have known the defendant for 19 years. Having lost his; wife in 1858 he came on a visit to me, and he pro posed to give £5 a week for himself ; two children, and an attendant. I acceded to the proposal, and he came with me in October, 1858. I have been married to my wife 14 years. She is 32 years of age. I have one child. I did not know the plain tiff before the defendant eame with me. I became acquainted with her from attending the family. My practice took me away from home in the day. After the defendant came to reside with me my wife's conduct changed, and I remonstrated with her. Dr. Brown left my house suddenly, because he came into the room where I was sitting with my brother, shook his fist in my face, said I was a villain, and was killing my wife. I said I would kick him out of the house. My brother took him by the arm and led him out. My wife left the next day. I went in search of her, and found her in lodgings in Guildford-street, Russell-square. She returned with me. She said she had made a quarrel between us, and should not be satisfied until she had brow ht him back. I said I would not allow him to enter the house again. She frequently spoke to me of his coming back, and about three weeks after she came home she sent to me by Miss Smith a slip of paper, on which I was to give my answer, permitting her to visit her cousin staying at some hotel in the Strand. 1 said she might, provided Miss Smith went with her. They started towards evening of that day, and I have not seen her since. She never wrote to me to tell me where she was. They took my little boy with them. I received a letter from my little boy, who is nine years of age. It came in an envelope addressed, in my belief, in Dr. Brown's disguised hand. The letter is dated 9th, and the post mark January 10th, I went to Southend to search for my wife, and from informa _ _ tion I received I have reason to believe she had been there with the defendant. I took their photographs with me, and showed them to the lodginghouse keeper. I traced them next to Downshire-hill, Hampstead, where I lost sight of them from that time to this. I have not heard from my wife, nor do I know where she is. My wife filed a petition against me in the Divorce Court, on the 28th February, 1800, after I had made inquiries, and traced them. I have received letters from my little boy, but they were without addresses. I have never in my life committed any fami liarity with the plaintiff. There is no foundation whatever for saying that I have committed adul tery with Mrs. Barnes. I first heard of it after my wife first left my house. The day the de fendant came back for his things he put his head into the surgery and said, " You are living with Mrs. Barnes as your concubine." I made no reply. I attended with my wife the child's funeral. The plaintiff is very respectably connected. On the night that Jane slept with the plaintiff, I went up to her room to see her, to give her a draught. I opened the door and found she was asleep. Until this arose nothing had occurred to disturb the mutual happiness of myself and wife. I don't know where the defendant now resides. The de fendant is now a vendor of quack medicine. He was an army surgeon. Cross-examined—l am respondent in a petition in the Divorce Court, on the grounds of adultery and cruelty. *I have not pleaded adultery against her. I have come here to raise it because my sus picions have been since aroused. I had no suspicion of her adultery when Dr. Brown left my house. Since then T have ascertained that he has taken his meals with her, and has driven her about in his carriage. She was at Southend with her aunt, child, and one of the servants, and they resided with her on Downshire-hill. I don't mean that they dine apart from Miss Smith. This action is not brought at my request, neither am I liable for the expenses. The action is brought by my attorney in the divorce petition, and who is my attorney in an action for the libel. I don't knew that the writs in the two actions were issued the same day. My brother is my attorney. I don't know why he has selected to try this first. It is 11 or 12 years since I was charged with familiarity with a female ser vant in my own house. I did not beg to ask my wife, nor did she intercede to prevent exposure. At a party a message was sent to my wife that my groom wanted to see her. I went out and returned. I did not ask her to intercede. She went out and interceded, and it was hushed up and my wife con doned it. We had only then been married two or three years. I did not persuade my wife to marry me against the will of her friends on account of an act of gross immorality on my part. I kept a young woman before I was married. I did not leave the young woman at the lodgings and absent myself. She passed as my wife. I paid the rent. After I left the landlord brought an action against me for the amount. I have never an nounced that my wife committed adultery with Dr. Brown. I never accused her of it. I did not give my counsel authority to say that the defendent had seduced my wife. My wife was violent at the time of the quarrel because I said that the defendant's conduct was too familiar towards her. The first intimation she gave me of her suspicions of the plaintiff was when she saw me coming down the stairs in my night shirt and trowsers the night I had been to Prior's room to see that the candle was put out. I called out the following morning, and asked the plaintiff if it was true, to let her know what my wife had said in order to clear up the ac cusation. My wife, when she asked leave to visit her cousin, complained of illness. Dr. Winkworth was called in, but he did not think there was any thing the matter with her. I did not refuse to pay the expenses of her change of air and scene. When I refused I might have said I could not afford it. I did not provide her with anything when she left. I had not threatened to turn her out of doers before Dr. Brown received the telegraphic message to come down. Iliad not threatened to separate her from her child. I had a letter from her when she was in Guildford•street. Before I called on her in Guildford-street she said she would not go back un less I shook hands with Dr. Brown, and had his children back. I did not promise it should be done. I went on my knees and asked her to return. I have never made any criminal charge against her with Dr. Brown. I can't say when the people of Horsham first commenced "cutting" me. Some have. I have not been turned out of the billiard room at the King's Head, but I was told not to come to the whist club. I was not a member of the club. It was after my wife left. A number of letters were put in and read that had passed between Dr. Burroughs and his wife, relative to their conduct towards each other. The last from the wife contained an intimation that with it he would probably receive a copy of her petition that had been presented to the Divorce Court. The further hearing was then adjourned till Monday. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE-IMPORTANT DECISIOX. COMMITTAL OF TWO DELEGATES WITH HARD LABOUR. William Walsby, John Griffin, and William Trimlett, respectably attired men, described as car penters and joiners, appeared before Mr. Corrie, at the Clerkenwell police-court, on Saturday, to answer informations which had been taken out against them by their former employer, Mr. Philip Anley, builder, &c., of Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, which charged them as follows For that you, on the 16th day of May, 1860, and within the space of six calendar months n'ow last past, in the parish of St. Luke, did unlawfully, by threats and intimi dation, endeavour to force the said Philip Anley, then and there carrying on the trade of a builder, to limit the number and description of his work men, contrary to the statute," &c. The second summons was, " that they did unlawfully, by threats and intimidation, endeavour to force their master to make an alteration in his mode of eon , ducting and carrying on his business," &c. There was a summons against a Georgo Mogg for similar offences, but this Hu,ghesman, 165 G, one of the warrant officers of the court, had been unablo to serve, as the defendant had got out of the way and gone into the country. Mr. Giffard, barrister (instructed by Messrs. Mullens), attended for the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh, barrister, defended Walsby ; and Mr. Lewis, soli citor, attended for the other defendants, Mr. Lewis said he had an objection to make to the summons. The defendants were charged with making use of "threats" and "intimidation," and by the Act of Parliament they were separate offences, and that being so the summons must be bad in law. Mr. Corrie said he could soon alter that by strik ing out one of the terms. Mr. Lewis said the conviction would not be good, as there would be two offences. Under this penal Act of Parliament the proaecutu' ought to elect which offence he would go upon, Mr, - Muliens remarked that Mr. Lewis was vio lating the act of Parliament by taking any ob jection, for section 1 of Jervis's Act provides that no objection be taken to the summons either in sub stance or in form. Mr. Lewis said, what he objected to was that two charges had been put in one summons, Mr. Mullens having consented to strike out the word " intimidation," 4 similar objection was made to the words " number" and 4 ‘ description" in other summons, but Mr. Cliffard having stated that pro bably there would be some difficulty if that course was adopted, Mr. Corrie said if there was a conviction it would probably be for one offence ; and after the state ment of Mr. Gaud, he did not think he ought to make them elect. Mr. Sleigh said he would take an objections, but was prepared to meet the case upon its merits. Mr. Gifford, ir. opening the case for the prosecu tion, said he was sorry to say that there was an ap parent revival of what he thought ha. - ,1, been set tled. These strikes were nothing but: a species of tyranny, and the sooner they were put an end to, the better it would be for the working classes, who always suffered a great deal from them. Having stated the facts of the case, the learned gentleman said there could be no doubt but that the threats made use of by the defendants came within the meaning of the act of Parliament, and the only question was, whether the law would not restrain these men from doing those unlawful acts which brought ruin and destruction upon hundreds of fa milies. He then called Mr. Philip Anley, who said—l am the complai nant in this case. I am a builder, and carry on business at No. 72, Upper Whitecross-street, St. Luke's. On the 15th of May last I had in my employment a considerable number of joiners and carpenters (about 100) and among them were two men who were working with me under what is known in the trade as the " declaration." On the morning of the 16th of May my foreman brought to me the paper which I now produce, and which was 'then without signatures. That paper was as follows:—" At a meeting of the joiners in the employ of Mr. Anley, Tuesday evening, May 15, 1860, it was resolved that Mr. Anley be given to understand that unless the men who are working under the declaration in his shop be discharged, and we have a definite answer by dinner time to that effect, we cease work imme- diately." I returned that paper to my foreman, with a message that as it had no signatures to it I could not take it into consideration. About two o'clock the same afternoon three men came to me in the yard. Two of them were the defendants Griffin and Walsby, and the other I know by sight. One of the three said to me that they came to me as a deputation from the men, and handed me the same paper which I had seen in the morning, but at this time it had upon it several signatures in pencil. There were several other men near. I said to the men " are these all your signatures ?" they said " Yes ;" and I then said " have you well con sidered what you are about ?" They answered in the affirmative. Aud I then asked them "if they had any fault to find with me, with my foreman, or with my clerks ?" and they all answered ".No." I then asked them " have you any fault to find with your wages," and they said " No." I said, " What is it, then, that you do want 1-' and the answer that I received was, "You must discharge those two men who aro working under the declaration, and if you do not we shall leave your work." I replied, " I will not allow myself to be dictated to. I think you have been too fast in your decision, and I shall give you half an hour to reconsider the matter. If you then come back to work I shall think no more about it; if not, I would rather close my shop than submit to your dictation." The three men then went away. In about half an hour •all the men came back together, and went towards the shop, saying they were going to fetch their tools. I di rected my clerk to pay them, and he did so, and they then all took away their tools, and have not since returned to work. Since then my yard has been picqueted by relays of these men, in order to prevent other men from entering into my employ ment. They generally get in clusters of two and three together. Trimlett was there about a fort night, and the other defendants have been there at times. Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—Walsby has been in my employ for some time, and is a very good workman. Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l belong to the society of builders. It is a trade society. The society to which I belong have not instituted this prosecu tion. It is not principally mine, for they have given me some assistance. I put ray casein their hands, but lam prosecuting. The society is not a combi nation of masters to prosecute their Wbrkmen. The men said that what they wanted was that the men who were working under the declaration should be at once dismissed, or they would cease working. I made a communication to the society within a day or two after the men had struck. I did not enter into any negotiations with the defendants about taking the men back. Two of them came to me, but I did not send for them. I spoke to my fore men about them, because I wanted to find out their places of residence. The trade society did not tell me to do this. I had not heard of complaints by the men of the document men using offensive terms to the other men. After the strike all the men came in under the document, but that has since been done away with. John Anley said—l am foreman to the complain ant. I remember, on the 16th of May, a paper being handed to me to give to the complainant. I did so, and returned it to the men, saying that Mr. Anley could not take it into consideration until it was signed. I saw them all write upon it. After it was signed it was brought to me by Griffin. I told the men that as it was a question between men and masters they had better give it to him, and they did so. After that all the men struck work. Cross-examined—When the paper was in the shop Trimlett was there, but I did not see him sign. I do not know his handwriting. Mr. Gifford said this was the case for the prose cution. Mr. Sleigh submitted that there was no offence committed by the defendants, and that there was no infraction of the act of Parliament, either in speech or in letter. Unquestionably this is a ques tion of the greatest importance, and its import ance was more so now than it was 100 years ago, when the working classes were steeped in ignorance. The question to be decided here was whether the defendants were to act as freely as those whose accident of birth or position in life ena bled them to move in a higher sphere. What was the meaning of the word " threat l'" Why, it was to menace ; and he should like to know where was the evidence that these men had done that. Was he to be told, in these days of enlightenment, that men were not to complain to their masters; or, if they did so, it was followed by a prosecution for using threatening language. He would not tab ;any technical objections, for he was there to try a great public principle, and the partieswho instructed him wanted it enunciated by the power of the law, and not to escape punishment if they had offended the law. If the master had gone into his shop and dis charged his men, would he have been punished if he had given no reason ? No. Then, why should the men ? Mr. Corrie—lf they had walked away they would not have committed the offence charged, although they might have been indicted for a conspiracy. Mr. Sleigh—Under the provisions of this act they would not be liable. When th e y l e ft th ey gave a courteous 'reason, and substantially said, " We do not feel ourselves comfortable ; there is no commu nity between you (the master) and us (the men), and we will take our labour elsewhere." He con tended the defendants had not infringed the spirit of the law, end were therefore entitled to be dis charged. Mr. Lewis submitted that there was no evidence against Trimlett, and asked for his discharge. He was sorry to see that this act of Parliament was being used for purposes for which it never was in tended. This was a very unfair proceeding, for if the men had been indicted it would net have im posed upon the magistrate the painful necessity of acting on a very penal clause of a very penal act of Parliament, and sending respectable men to gaol for three months. He hoped the magistrate would discharge the defendants, for if they had done wrong it was in ignorance of the law, and they held been forced into it by the masters' society. Mr. Corrie said—As has been said by Mr. Sleigh, this case is of great importance not only to the de• fendants, who are charged with a serious offence, but to their fellow •workmen the " declaration men," to their employers, whose business they have at tempted to stop, and to the public, upon whom will probably be thrown the burden of supporting the wives and families either of those who refuse to work or of those who may be driven from their employ went. I would have taken further time to consider what my judgment ought to be if I had enter tained any doubt on the subject. As, however, I have no doubt upon the question, I will proceed at once to dispose of the case. The question is, have the defendants made use of a threat punishable under see. 3of 6th Geo. IV. cap. 129. The law be fore this act, as Mr. Sleigh has said, was very severe. This statute was passed to protect the work men and the masters. It recites that combinations interfering with the free employment of labour are injurious to trade and commerce, dangerous to the tranquillity of the country, and especially prejudi cial to the interests of all who are' concerned in them ; and that it was expedient to make further provision for the security and personal freedom of individual workmen in the disposal of their skill and labour. The 3rd section then enacts, with a view to carry out the object of the act, that it shall be an offence punishable by i m p r isonment, " with or without hard l a bo u r for three months, If any person shall by th rea t s en deavour to force any person carrying on any trade or business tolimit the tleseriptisin of his workmen." Hav e the defen dants been guilty of this offence ? They are proved to have declared to their masters " that unless the men who are working un d e r the declaration' i n his (the master's) shop be discharged, and we ha ve a definite answer by dinner time, we cease work immediately?' In other words, we will strike, and thus greatly inconvenience you, if we do not ere_ tirely stop your business. Mr. Lewis has asse r t e d If ther e that there waa som e personal objection t o t h ose and I c an m on e l n y , booott on n e b w a h s a n t ot io pr p o r v o e v d ed su b c o h fo a re e m as e e . , were such an objection it is most unfortunate that they did not speak of it to Mr. Anley, as he would no doubt have eorssidered it. The demand itself i, a threat, assa 1 can only deal with the facts as they ;.stet and as they presented themselves to Mr . Anley. In the case o$ the Queen v. Perham I acted on the a. l 4thoxitY of the Queen v , Rowlands, 2 Denison's. Crown Cases. In the Queen v. Per ham, which is now an authority itself, not on ac count of my opinion, but because my judgment was confirmed at the sessions, and afterwards by the Courts of Queen's Bench and Exchequer, I held that it was an offence within this section for the defendant to threaten workmen that if they ac cepted employment under this declaration the unionists would not work with them, In the pre sent case the threat is made to the master, but directed againstaboth master and workmen, and is expressly within the authority of the Queen v. Rowlands, 2 Denison. lam clearly of opinion that the present case is also an offence under this sec tion ; indeed it is the very case that the act was passed to meet. It is a threat that if the master should continue to employ that description of workmen who had worked under the declara tion the defendants would strike, and their endeavour was, in the very words of the prohibition " to force the master to limit the de scription of his workmen." Having arrived at a clear unhesit a ti ng op i n i on that the defendants are guilty of the offence charged in the information, it becomes necessary, with re f erence to t h e punish ment which it will be my duty to inflict, to con sider more particularly the nature of the offence of which I find them guilty. It is now matter of history that last year the unionist workmen made a strike for the purpose of compelling the masters to pay the same wages for nine hours' work as had before been paid for ten hours' labour. It is also matter of history that th e men fa i led i n that o bj ect . In the course of that unfortunate dispute the mas ters determined that they would not employ any man who would not consent to work under the de claration. The present is the same declaration as the one mentioned in the threat of the defendants. I must keep in mind that it is the master who has himself reauired the labourer to work under this declaration. Mr. Anley says he had no workmen who had not made the declaration last year; and therefore, whatever might have been its terms, it would have been cowardly and mean on the part of the master had he consented to sacrifice the poor non-unionist workmen to the demands of the union ist workmen. Let us, however, see what this decla ration is. The workman declares as follows :—" I declare that lam not now, nor will I during the continuance o my engagement with you, become a member 0f,.0r support any society which directly or indirectly interferes with the arrangements of this or any other establishment or the hours - or terms of labour; and that I recognise the right of employers and employed individually to make any trade engagements on which they may choose to agree." Now, I say, as a lawyer, that it did not require an act of Parliament to make illegal any association or combination of men which attempts to interfere with such matters—they were illegal combinations at common law. Then it comes to this—all the masters have asked their men to pro mise is, that they (the men) will not belong to an illegal society. All that the men have declared is, that they will not be guilty of a crime. Now, sitting here to adminis ter the law indifferently between the masters and the men, and between one class of workmen and. another, between the "unionists and the declara tion ists,"then I say that " societies with such objects are," adopting the words of the prosecuting counsel, " tyrannies." I say that nothing can )ae more monstrous or illegal than the conduct of the defen dants, who have combined together and threatened. the prosecutor that they would strike, and who have in fact struck work, with a view to prevent him from carrying on his business unless he will discharge men whose only offence, as far as I can see, is that, at the request of their employer, they have promised not to break the law. I have said that nothing can be Tr iore monstrous and illegal, and I add that few crimes can be named which are more wicked. Th e o bj ect wh i ch the defendants. have in view is to deprive innocent men of the means of getting their living, and thus to drive, their wives and f am ili es i nto the workhouse, unless those poor men will also offend against the law by joining these illegal societies. In Perham's case the object was to dictate to the masters by prevail ing on the men not to work. In the present case the defendants attempt by threatening the masters to compel them to discharge and thus ruin the workmen, no d ou bt w i t h the ulter i or intention, having thus obtained full p ower over th e mas t ers , of again dictating to theta on all occasions and whatever they may please. Having authority to administer the law, I tell the defendant and their associates that the law of England will not,tolerate such tyranny, and that all such combinations and conspiracies will be put down by the strong arm of the law. I gave distinct notice in Perham's case that if illegal threats of this kind were again brought before me I would infict upon the offenders the most severe punishment in my power. The threats used by these defendants are far worse than in Perham's case. The objects of these defendants are more wicked then his were. The threats are used with a view of ruining innocent men who have a right to the protection of the law in the disposal of their skill and labour. Mr. Corrie then sentenced the defendants to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for throe months, with hard labour, with the exception of Trimlett, who was discharged for want of evidence. Notice of appeal was given in both case*, and. the defendants were liberated on bail. COUNTRY MARKETS. STAMFORD-JuNE 9. We had a moderate show of wheat yesterday, with a fair business, and prices ruled 2s higher. Barley in meagre Wheat s2s to 56s I Oats.. 2s s. to 30s White do 55s to 59s I Beans 46s to 48s Barley ... 40s to 45s I Ditto, old ........46s to 48s NORWICH-JUNE 9. A limited supply, and the wheat trade rather dull, at higher rates. Flour advanced 3s. The woather has been very wet, and both wheat and barley crops are unfavourably reported of. White wheat 53s to Ms I Red wheat 50s to 525 Malting barley....42s to 46s I Chevalier 'oarley 34s to 40s Distilling d0......25s to 27s I 0at5...... 24s to 285 Flour, 36s to 41s Od per sack from the miller. LEICESTER-JwxE 9. There was a tolerable supply of wheat to-day, in fair condition, and trade steady. - Waite wheat, 48s to 54s —red, 45s to .50s per 36 stone; a very fair inquiry for fine barley, grinding, 30s to 33s ; malting, 38s to 44s per qr. ; oats, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 52s to new 42s to 46s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 33; I Seconds, 31s E Thirds, 29s per 20 stone. NORTHAMPTON—JUNE 9. At this corn -market wheat was in limited supply, with a firm sale, at 2s to 3s above the rates of this day se'n night, prices ranging from 54s to 56s for white, and 48s to 54s for red. There was a fair business passing in barley, malting 38s to 445, grinding 35s to 37s per qr. Oats in fair sale, the turn in seller's favour, quoted at 32s to 35s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 50s ; peas, 40s to 465. Rye, 36s to 40s; malt, 68s to 72s ; fl our , 33s to 37s per sack. DUBLIN—JUNE 8. With a small supply to-day, the business done was at no improvement on last week's currencies. Indian corn met a slow sale. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 33 0 to 3 0 Do., red .. 31 0 to 33 0 Do., new 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black l5 0 to 15 6 s. d. s. d. Do., now .—ot o 0 Bere . l3 0 to 14 0 Rapeseed .... 20 0 to 23 0 Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn BIRTHS. GoLDNEY.—On the 7th inst., at South Bank, Tunbridge wells, the wife of the Rev. George Goldney, of a son. HALL.—On the 7th inst., the wife of the Rev. J. R. Hall, rector of Boldon, Durham, of a daughter. HAS:TER.—On the Bth inst., at 11, Inverness terrace, Ken sington-gardens, the wife of Henry Goodenough_Hayter, of a daughter. LIB.—On the 7th inst., at Springfield House, Pendlebury, near Manchester, the lady of Daniel Lee, Esq., of a son and heir. LOWRY.—On the 6th inst., at Sandgate, the wife of Lieut.- Colonel Lowry, 47th Regiment, of a daughter. OKEovEit.—On the Bth inst., at 9, Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, the lion. Mrs. Okeover, of a daughter. MARRIAUES. ADEANE — Y OI KE. — On the sth inst., at Wimpole Church, Cambridgeshire, by tho lion. and Rev. Robert Liddell, Henry John Adeane, Esq., M.P. for Cambridgeshire, to the Lady Philippa Yorko, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess o f Hardwick°. COLLIER—MARDER.—On the sth inst., at Burton Brad stock, by the Rev. 'Wm. Templar, James Collier, Esq., of Nieholshane House, Nieholshane, Devon, to Rosalie, second daughter of James Wood Marder, Esq., of East brook, Cottage, Burlescombe, Devon. DEATHS. BELCIIE R — BUNTING.—On the 6th inst., at St. Saviour's, Manchester, Thomas Waugh, Belcher, Esq , M.D., of Cork, to Mary Margarette, eldest daughter of Thomas Percival Bunting, Esq., of Manchester. DAVIS, —On the 2d inst., at his residence, Arlington street, Camden-town, Mr. Francis Davis, aged 64. BAXTER.—On the 6th inst., at 1, Portland-terrace, Hast ings, suddenly, William Thomas Baxter, Esq., late of the Hon. East India Company's Service, aged 64. LARPENT.—On the Bth inst., at Holnawood House, Surrey, the Baron de Hochepied Larpent, aged 77. 1- LvwxEit.—On the Sth inst., at 26, Marine-parade, Brighton, Admiral Hawker, of Ashford Lodge, Peters field, Hants, aged 78. Dovr,E.—on the Bth inst., at 16, Bedford-row, Jam Philip Doyle, Esq., of the Middle Temple, barrister-at law, aged 45. 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