The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-12 00:00:00

_.......,,..---- ". Ikt R. BRIGIIT AT LEEDS. LEEDS, DEC. 11. This evening a society recently established in Leeds, cat led the Leeds Working Men's Parliamen tary Refo rm Association, was inaugurated by a public meet ing held in the Victgria-hall. Among the speakers w ere John Bright, M.P., Mr. B. Baines, M.P., a a d Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P. Nearly 2,000 persona 'w ere present. Mr. Aldermi An Joseph Middleton, barrister-at-law presided. The CHAIR .MAN in opening the proceedings said, that the obje ct of the Leeds Working Men's Par liamentary 'Reform Association was to assist in obtaining a, sound and comprehensive measure of re f o rm, inch ding a considerable ext e n s i o n of the ' elective franchise, a protection for the voter in the exercise of flat franchise, and a more equal distri bution of the members of Parliament in accordance with the population of the electoral districts, so that all classes of the community may be fully, fairly, and equally represented. Mr. HICKES, a compositor, (the secretary of the society), read letters of apology from the following gentlemen who were unable to attend the meeting : —Mr. G. S. Beecroft, M.P. (applause and laughter), Mr. W. E. Forester, and Mr. Hamer Stansfeld. Mr. GEVES ( a working man) then moved the fol lowing resolution : e That this meeting is of opinion that the working classes of the United Kingdom have a just claim to a fair share in the representation of the country in Parliament, and it regards with great satisfaction the formation of the Leeds Working Men's Parliamentary Reform Association, with a view to the promotion of a sound measure of Parlia mentary Reform." Mr. RAWLINSON (another working man) se conded. the resolution. Mr. E. BAINES, M.P., on rising to support the resolution, was received with much cheering. Two things had always seemed to him entitled to give solid pleasure to every right feeling max—first of all to see a great improvement in the intelligence and condition of his fellow-countrymen. He be lieved that the working classes were doing per fectly right in demanding an extension of the franchise, and that it could not • safely be much longer withheld from those upon whom it would have been conferred by Lerd J. Russell's Bill, and that they would exercise it as intelligently, as in- depen.clently, and as honestly as those above them. (Applause.) Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then rose to address the meeting, and was greeted with loud and reiterated cheering. He commenced by saying that, when he heard this was a meeting specially of working men, and that working men and unenfranchised men—if men that were unenfranchised could be fairly called men—(laughter)—w ere expected mainly to compose the meeting, he accepted the invitation which he received, because he felt it was quite impossible to absent himself from the meet ing without doing violence to his own feelings and his own intense interest in the great question of Reform. (Applause.) Mr. Bright referred to the recent elections at Reading, Newcastle, and South wark, remarking that at non. of those elections had a candidate offered himself on Tory principles or opposed to Parliamentary Reform. (Hear, hear.) With very few exceptions, wherever there was a free constituency there was a declaration of opinion in favour of Reform, and no man could stand upon the hustings in any town of the United Kingdom with much probability of being returned if he was definitivelypledged to oppose Parliamentaryßeform. (Hear.) If this were so, then the middle classes were not opposed to such a measure. They themselves were miserably represented. Large numbers of them had votes, but they were subjected to a hocus pocus kind of contrivance, by which 20,000 men in one place had no more political influence than 200 men in another place, and some lawyer and land holder or rich man in the neighbourhood carried the whole vote of these 200 men in his pocket. (Laughter.) But leaving this class to come to the working class, to that class the Reform Bill of 1832 was a positive, an intended, and an absolute exclusion. (Cheers.) That exclusion still con tinued, and unless the working classes asked for the door to be opened that some of them might squeeze themselves in, he was sure that nobody in either House of Parliament would be able to pro cure them admission. (Hear, hear.) In the years 1852, 1854, 1859, and 1860 the Queen had recom mended Reform in Parliament. In each of these years the Ministry had brought in a Reform Bill, but no measure had been carried. Four or five Governments had pledged themselves to this ques tion, all the leading men of both parties were pledged to it, and whatever might be the course taken by the existing Government in the ensuing session, no Gevernmeht could maintain its place unless it introduced and carried some real, fair, substantial measure of Reform. (Cheers.) The House of Commons generally preferred, at least with far more ease, to go in the wrong path rather than in the right ; it could not do with much good in one session ; it was astonishing how much it would make of one good measure; it was like a child with something sweet that it was afraid tt swallow lest it should lose its taste of it—(laughter, —but that simile was not very good, for the fact was that the House of Commons did not like the good things of the last session ; they were irritated at the French Treaty ; they were bitterly hostile to Mr. Gladstone because he was in favour of economy and a more just imposition of the taxes ; and when to the other disagreeables a Reform Bill was to be added, it was more than they could endure. (Laughter.) Some men not very honest, and some very weak, on the Reformers' side of the House, began to find fault with the Bill ; that gave cou rage to the Opposition, and ultimately the session was so far advanced that it was impossible to pass the Bill then. Still, the Bill was not opposed"on its first reading, and there wis no division against it on the second reading. Its principle passed the House unanimously, and the question must come up soon for a righteous settlement, unless it turned out that the people of England and the working men of England were the only people in Europe who had no concern with freedom. (Cheers.) He believed that in the United Kingdom there were 7,000,000 men of the age of 21 years and upwards; but the actual number of men who possessed a vote was not more than 1,000,000, so that 6,000,000 had no votes. It followed, further, that 5,000.000 families, mainly of the working classes, and who were therefore precisely the class who suffered first and most from bad legislation, had not a vote in t he election of members of Parliament. He said that for 5,000,000 families in this kingdom, which P rete nded to be free, which had a representative system, which had a Parliament centuries old, which pretended to unfurl the flag of freedom to all the world,—for us to have 5,000,000 families from which th ere came no single voice, nor mur mur, nor vote in the Rouse of Commons was a scan dal mid disgrace, (Land cheers.) Mr. Bright proceeded to observe th at a stranger spectacle had in Italy, been seen y' The people of the Duchies of Parma , Modena, Pr Papal States, of Sicily, " use anY, the people of the and of cottatilee6 wreevroeluintiaokni,! part) a p ea (for the most - - 111 Tary man dismissing their rulers ner, and asking the King of a State to come and rule over there. doing this because Victor Emmanuel, th e kin .. of Sardinia, was a better ma n than the D u. e of Tuscany ? The people of those State s k new nothing of the King of Sardinia personally, but they knew that under their old rulers—their kings a n d their dukes and their Pope—they had no free expression of opinion, that the people themselves were utterly excluded from any portion or share in the government of the country in which they lived. (Applause.) The object of the revolution in Italy, therefore, was that instead of a despotic Govern ment there should be established a Government of a King, with a Parliament, and that if anything , is hereafter done by legislation or administration in Italy, it shall not be done by the fiat of one man, or of a handful of men, or of a handful of families, but by the general consent of the body of the people represented in the Parliament of the country. (Cheers,) This change had given wonderful pleasure in England—even the Minister of the Crown had, in a memorable despatch, expressed the pleasure which the English Government had in looking on the gratifying Prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberty and consolidating the work of their independence. (Hear, hear.) If it had given such amazing gratification to the En g lish Court, the English Cabinet, and the English I eople to see a people in Italy building up the e lifiee of their own liberties, he trusted no man ould say that that meeting was not well employo..l in endeavour- ing to buildup and consolidate the liberties of Eng land. (Cheers.) Having expressed a hope that the anticipated united Italy would include Rome and the State of Venice, he said that the population of the new kingdom would certainly not exceed 24,000,000 of souls, whereas he had already shown that 5,000,000 of families, including 25,000,000 of souls of this country, had no vote in the election of members of the House of Commons. (Hear.) He proceeded to advert to Lord J. Russell's Reform Bill and the probable increase which it would have made in the constituency of Great Britain, remark ing that he believed, in a most generous compu tation of the measure, the 15,0000 working men to be admitted under that bill to be at least 40,000 above the number; and the hon. gentleman continued by alluding to the desire of the House of Lords only to have the franchise reduced to an £8 rating in boroughs, which, he said, was equivalent to an ordinary rental of £9 or £lO. Was such an insult, he asked, possible in 1860, or would it be in 1861 ? Was it possible that the blindness of Italian Dukes, that the perverseness at Venice, the obtuseness at Naples, that all which had passed before us during the last few years had passed in vain, and that Conservative gentlemen in both Houses of Parliament had learnt nothing from it. Having remarked that he had never listened with such indignation as he had to the miserable and insulting slanders which had been hurled in Par liament against the great body of the working people of England, Mr. Bright dwelt at some length upon the intelligence and prudence of the working classes, and their claim to possess the franchise, as was manifested by three co-operative societies in his own town (Rochdale), and stated that out of 82 persons composing the managing comniittee of those societies, the aggregate annual transactions of which amounted to £380,000, only one possessed a county vote and one a borough vote. Such a state of things was intolerable, and he should be ashamed of himself if he did not take all fitting opportunities of denouncing this exclu sion and inviting his fellow countrymen to oppose themselves to it and assist in obtaining their just right. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Bright urged that the great centres of population and manufacturing industry, such as Leeds, Manchester, and Bir mingham, should speak out on the question, believing that if they did so no Cabinet Minister would oppose the bringing forward of a Reform Bill, and that when it was brought forward there would be none of the higgling about rating and rental that there was last session. (Applause.) Mr. Bright observed that great movements were going on in various countries, and as examples, he pointed to France, Italy, Austria, and Russia. Should. Englishmen, he asked, alone sleep? Should Englishmen, dazzled with what they saw abroad, forget altogether the duty which they owed to themselves at home ? Should £70,000,000 ster ling of taxes, representing £75,000,000 of human labour, be annually raised and spent, and should 6,000,090 Englishmen, who had the main power in raising it, have no concern in that matter? Should every working man give at least two hours per day extra toil and sweat to support a Govern ment whose policy he could in no degree influence, and which shut him out from the commonest rights of citizenship and spurned him as though he were a wild beast in human form. (Loud cheers.) He told them honestly he could not believe it. He knew there was among the people of this country an overwhelming preponderance of feeling in favour of Parliamentary reform ; it would come ; it might be delayed; it could not be prevented; it would come by honest, enlightened, safe steps such as the friends of Reform recommended, or it would come hastened by some great accidents which none could foresee, and which might bring changes and feel ings which might shake our political and social fab ric to its base. (Applause.) It was because he ' dreaded disorder, because he knew that resistance to just demands was the fertile parent of confusion in every State—it was because he wished England to be great and glorious, and free and moral that he urged the working classes—the unenfranchised mil lions, to insist upon their just rights, and it was for this cause that he counselled the ruling classes to grant those rights, although it might be that this counsel might be in vain. (Mr. Bright, who spoke nearly an hour, resumed his seat amid renewed applause.) The resolution was then put and carried unani mously. Another resolution, in favour of the ballot and a more equal adjustment of the numbers of the popu lation in the electoral districts, was proposed and seconded. It was supported by Mr. Leatham, and also adopted. The proceedings terminated with the customary votes of thanks. ZHE NAVY. The Trafalgar, 91, screw, Capt. Fanshawe, was yesterday towed out of Portsmouth harbour, and berthed at Spithead. The Retribution, 28, paddle, Commodore H. E. Edgell, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead, and berthed alongside the dockyard to clear out and pay off. The Commodore's broad pendant was hauled down, and the ship's ensign changed from blue to white. The Harrier, 17, screw, Commander Sir Malcolm M'Gregor, went out , of Portsmouth harbour yester day to test her speed at the measured mile. The trial was, however, postponed until to•da3 in con sequence of the ~riming of the boilers. The Cygnet, 5, screw, is still engaged in experi mental trials with the Griffith's propeller, under the supervision of the patentee and Mr. Lynn, of the steam factory. The Rinaldo, 17, screw, has been brought down Portsmouth harbour and placed in the steam basin to fit out, it is reported, for immediate commission. The Tribune, 28, screw, in dock at Portsmouth, has been further opened up, and a number of addi tional timbers have been found in a rotten state. The Camperdown, three-decker, fitting as a coal depot, has received her machinery in the ship basin at Portsmouth, and is receiving her coat of paint in readiness for service. She will be stationed in Portsmouth harbour. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, undergoing a thorough overhaul by the steam reserve in the ship basin in Portsmouth yard, has been bored and thoroughly examined by the shipwright depart ment, who rep,rt her to be in an unusually sound state. The Euryalus, 51, screw, at Portsmouth, is having the fitting of her poop pushed forward with all possible despatch. According to present arrangements she is to carry the flag of Sir Bald win W. Walker, on the Cape station. The following is the result of the examination at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, which closed yesterday : Qualified for Naval Cadets (passed in the order named).—J. H. Rainier, A. Nance, L. J. Y. C. Scarlett, W. E. Still, A. B. Collingwood, C. Campbell, F. W. Sanders, W. V. Bayley, H. F. Birch, W. Marrack, C. W. F. Crauford, P. S. W. Mayo, G. H. Moore, R. P. Rampage, L. A. Beaumont, A. H. S. Mercer, C. S. C. Strange, Blaxland, H. H. Dyke, A. M. Jephson, Hooker, E. H. C. Lit c hfi e l d, A. M ' Leod, H. S. Godfrey, E. M. L.MiiriEddggerc,umAb.eivv, A . . m C oo o r c e h , ra ß n . e, J. W s. . O P.. Ogle, LlLLZt::;e)it=t). J. D. Nicholls, C. H. Leycester, M. M'Caus land,Carter, Qu E. S. Clapp, B. V. Carlyon, B. S. W . Gsvynne, G. R. Roe, W. Couzens, W. J. Symons, R. H. Hunter, A. Wallis, H. A. Ramsay, G. D. Moody, G. IL Stoate, W. L. Harrison, E. F. Hemming. Qualified for Marine Cadets.—T , Lake Hall, C, A. Kennedy, E. M. Moore, C. In) B. Mac.G. d on ald, H. D. Dent , F: Hutchins on , 0 . Tracey, F. Roberts, E. Poole, C. Frampton, P. IL 0. Despard. Some experimental practice with the 40-p oun d 'Armstrong gun took place on Monday, on board H.M.S. Excellent, for the purpose of testing a new THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1860. description of carriage for naval service. The car riage is similar in its chief points of construction to the old 24-pounder depressing carriage used at the siege of Gibraltar. Some further experiments will take place from the Illustrious, which will move her position in Portsmouth harbour tempora- rily for that purpose. The further progress in the stripping off the iron plates and inner and outer planking of the Meteor iron-cased battery, in No. 2 dock, at Portsmouth, fully confirms the statements which have already appeared in The Sun as to her rotten and defective state. One of Major Fitzmaurice's gasometers has been erected in the steam factory at Woolwich dockyard by order of the Board of Admiralty, and was yes terday put into operation experimentally for the purpose of testing its availability for supplying the ships of her Majesty's fleet and the service gene rally with gas, in which case one of the gasometers will be fitted in the engine -room of each vessel, to supply the burners fixed in the various compart ments of the ship in a similar manner to that on shore. The cost of the apparatus when fitted is trifling when compared with its advantage, the price varying from £5, according to the number of feeders. The gas is termed " olefiant" gas, being made from any kind of oil, grease, bones, cocoa nut, fat of every description, or even shavings, peat, wood, &c., and the apparatus may be managed with perfect safety by a mere lad, so extremely simple are its arrangements. The lights were pronounced of a greater brilliancy than the common gaslights, being at the same time free from smoke, and the flame was observed to be of a thicker and stronger quality, although the heat produced was considerably less. The gas will con tinue in use for a short time in the factory, experi mentally, in order to obtain a correct testimony of its superiority, for their Lordships' approval. A number of wrought-iron slabs, intended to pro tect the sides of the screw steamship Warrior, building at Blackwall, have been received at Wool wich from the firm of Messrs. Seaward and Thames Iron Company, and are in course of preparation in Woolwich factory. The slabs are 15 ft. 3 in. long, 3 ft. 3 in. broad, and 41 in. thick; and the process of grcoving, planing, and preparing each slab for use occupies about 14 hours, under the powerful agency of the steam machinery. At 3 the work is urgent the men are employed on ghat is termed " time and a half," and will turn out eight slabs per week. A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, for the trial of a private Royal Marine, serving on board her Majesty's ship Excellent, on a charge of having on the 6th inst. struck Sergeant Brampton twice, on the quarter-deck of her Ma jesty's ship Excellent, while in the execution of his duty. The charges were found proved, and the prisoner adjudged to receive 48 lashes, and be after wards imprisoned for two years in Winchester gaol, with hard labour. The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi nated to naval cadetships :—A. M. Bowles, A. B. Brooke, A. M. R. Hamilton, T. B. Howard, Vesey Knox, J. Laws, C. G. Michaelson, F. E. Marsland, J. C. Paget, J. W. Ramsay, C. B. K. Smith, W. J. Talbot, C. Tuffn ell, A. Vautier, Hon . E. Willoughby, and H. R. H. Wood. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander J. W. Webb, to the Ajax, additional, for service in the Coastguard; Com. G. E. K. Gore, to the Ajax, additional, for service in the Coastguard ; Corn H. B. Beresford, to the Edinburgh, additional, for service in the Coastguard ; Dr. J. S. Levis and G. Clark, acting assist.-surge. additional, to the Victory ; Dr. Geo. Monteath, acting assist.-surg., to the Immertalite ; W. H. O'Toole and J. F. Parr, acting assist.-surgs. additional, to the Impregnable. Government to rely upon them as men of action in the hour of trial—(cheers)—would be adopted. A committee having been appointed, and several names enrolled, the meeting separated with a cor dial vote of thanks to the chairman. The cup given by the Prince of Wales, to be shot for by members of the Oxford University Rifle Corps, has been gained by Mr. T, Lee Warner, scholar of Trinity College. The 2d Essex Artillery Corps is to be in future known as the " North Thames Artillery Corps." Two places of drill have been fixed upon, at Grays and Orsett, and the War-office will shortly send down a competent instructor and two guns. The members of the Aylsham (Norfolk) Company have just had a competition for two prizes of £4 and £2, presented by Lieutenant Ernuin. The first prize was shot for at ranges of 400, 500, and 600 yards ; and the second at 200, 300, and 400 yards, three shots each. The winners were Private Gay and Private Soame. The Duke of Northumberland has placed Percy square, North Shields, with two cottages, at the disposal of the Ist Northumberland Volunteers, for purposes of drill. It is proposed to form a Cadet Corps, consisting of young lads of from about 12 to 16 years of age, in connection with the Ist Northumberland Rifles, The corps will be one of Foot Lancers, the lances being similar to those used by the cavalry, but only about 6 feet long. LAW INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 11. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. 'Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Baron and a special jury.) WILLIAMS V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Power Q.C. and Mr. Quain were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. C. Pollock represented the defendant. This case commenced yesterday, mid was an ac tion brought to recover compensation in damages for injuries which befel the plaintiff by reason of a train in which he was travelling, in the centre compartment of a first-class carriage, on the 20th of May last, running through the King's-cross station over the street into the New-road, where its further progress was arrested by an embank ment which had been thrown up by the men em ployed in making the Metropolitan Underground Railway. From the plaintiff's account of the transaction it appeared that, having been in busi ness with others as a corn and flour factor he failed, paying to his creditors a composition of 7s. 6d. in the pound, and that starting again upon a borrowed capital of £9O, his business thrived until he paid an income-tax upon £6OO a-year. That coming to London upon business the accident happened as above described, injuring his head and shoulder at the time, but not so severely as to prevent him from walking back to the station and then across to his lodgings. That upon the follow ing morning, upon getting out of bed, he felt a soreness across the loins and a stiffness of his limbs generally, but attended his business ap pointment with a Mr. Nelson, an attorney in the city, who conceiving him to be ill, advised him to return and leave the business for some future time. The plaintiff returned home to Liverpool and con sulted his medical adviser, who eventually sent him to Wales, where he, it appeared, was visited by Mr. Millwood and Dr. Hariison on behalf of the com pany. The plaintiff complained that he was totally unable to attend to his business, although he had made efforts to de so, and was still suffering from soreness about the loins, and his sight was very in different. Dr. Hensman, of Liverpool, the plaintiff's medical attendant, said that upon examining hiss he found a contusion over the temporal bone, besides one on the right shoulder, with loss of power in the arm ; a discolouration of the right and left side of the spine among the lumbar muscles ; numbness of the lower extremities, great depression of spirits, and an inability to describe what had happened to him ; the brain had been disturbed, causing the affection of, or injury to, the optic nerve. The plaintiff complained that all objects appeared yellow to him. The spinal column was uninjured. Mr. Quoin, the eminent surgeon (in company with Dr. Owen Rees), had examined the plaintiff, and stated that in his opinion the principal injury was to the brain, which accounted for a want of intelligence he noticed in him, as well as the defec tiveness of vision. The recollection that the plain tiff had of things long past, and no memory relating ! to things of a recant occurrence, he considered a very bad sign. It is needless to go through all the medical testi- mony. The negligence and liability of the company through the drunkenness of their servant was ad mitted, and the only question for the consideration of the jury was the amount of damages the plaintiff ought to receive under v.ll the circumstances of the case, _ _ Mr. Coulson and other - surgeons of eminence were called for the defence, who did not appear to take so gloomy a view of the plaintiff's condition as the gentlemen on the other side. Mr. Coulson was of opinion, after a careful examination of the plain tiff, that his ultimate recovery was more than probable. The fact that the accident has caused all things to appear yellow to the plaintiff's sight raised a question for the discussion of the medical world at some future time, as no one appeared able to ac count for it. After Mr. Hawkins had summed up his evidence for the company, and Mr. Power replied upon the whole ease - - His Lordship left the matter in the hands of the jury, who retired to consider their verdict, and, after an absence of some time, returned into court, finding for the plaintiff—damages, £1,200. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES, DEC, 11. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury ) MINTER V. MINTER. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Minter prayed that her marriage might be dissolved on the ground of adultery, coupled with cruelty. The respondent, Edwin Minter, pleaded a denial of these charges and also condonation, and that the petitioner had deserted him without reasonable cause. Dr. Spinks and Mr. Biron appeared for the peti tioner; the respondent conducted his own case. Mrs. Minter is the daughter of Mrs. Knight, who keeps a fish shop in the Strand. She was married to the respondent on the 25th of March, 1854, she being then 18 and he 21 years of age. They lived with Mr. and Mrs. Knight in the Strand until the end of June, and then removed to Eversholt street, St. Pancras, where with the assistance of their parents he set up business as an ,upholsterer and cabinetmaker. Mrs. Minter charged her husband with having committed several acts of gross bru tality. She said that within a fortnight of their marriage he told her that he had only married her for her money. He scarcely ever spoke to her with out an oath, and he frequently pinched her till her flesh was discoloured and slapped her. When she was in the familyway he forced some medicine, which he said he had procured from a foreign doctor, down her throat. She was taken ill about an hour afterwards, and was in such violent pain that she fainted. She bad to keep her bed, and for two days and two nights the doctor was unable to leave her room. Shortly before her confinement she went downstairs at her husband's request, but he refused to speak to her. She put her arm round him to try and get him to speak, and he then kicked her and brought on premature labour. After her confinement, and while she was still in bed, he continued to ill-use her in various ways. She was still suffering from a blow she had received on the breast. Mrs. Minter stated other acts of cruelty by which she had been most seriously injured, but they were of such a nature as to render the evi dence unfit for publication. He had told her that she would be ashamed to communicate them to any one. The child died when it was a few months old. Mrs. Minter was cross-examined by the re spondent, but he elicited nothing tending to cast a doubt upon her statements. She left his house on the 13th of March, 1855. On the previous evening she had followed and seen him with a woman. When he returned she remonstrated with him. He said that he was keeping the woman. that he loved her little finger better than he did his wife's whole body, that he was going to bring her into his house to live, and that his wife might either stay and share their bed or be her servant, or she might go home to her parents. The next morning she returned to her parents, and wrote a letter reproaching him with his conduct, and hoping that he would be happy with the woman he had chosen. She had since supported herself by keep ing a school in the country. At the conclusion of Mrs. Minter's evidence she was taken very ill and had to be assisted out of court. The evidence of Mrs. Minter was fully corrobo rated by Dr. Fraser, the medical man who had at tended her; by the nurse who had waited on her in her confinement ; and by Mrs. Dickinson, who had lived with them for some months in Eversholt street. After the petitioner left her house the respondent removed and went to live at 419, Oxford -street. It was proved that he had there committed adultery with a womaii named Simons. The landlord of the house said that he did not approife what was going on, and he distrained upon Mr. Minter for arrears of rent, and got rid of him. The respondent was then sworn, and declared that he had never at any time raised his little finger against his wife. What the witness had sworn was false. His wife's parents had set them at variance, and she had not instituted this suit of her own accord, but at the instigation of her femily. He had begged her to return home, but she had refused. The Foreman of the jury said the petitioner's evidence was so convincing that they would not trouble the learned counsel to reply, nor his lord ship to sum up, and returned a verdict for the peti tioner upon all the issues. His Lordship granted a decree nisi with costs. STOATE V. STOATE. _ In this case the respondent had obtained a judi cial separation on the grounds of cruelty and deser tion ; and the petitioner, who was said to be a barrister, now prayed for a dissolution of the mar riage on the ground of his wife's adultery. The respondent, in her plea, denied the charge, and alleged connivance, adultery, cruelty, and desertion against her husband. The marriage took place in 1852, and the coha bitation appeared to have lasted two or three years, at Ramsgate and Bath. In 1835 Mrs. Stoate went to live at a Mrs. Sarginson's, at Bristol, under her maiden name of Haynes. A number of witnesses were called to show that the respondent had been leading a drunken and dissolute life. On the other side evidence of cruelty and desertion was given, the other recriminatory pleas being aban doned. Dr. Swaby appeared for the respondent. The petitioner conducted his case in person, and was frequently reproved by the Court, the learned judge remarking that he could hardly believe that a per son could really be of the law who manifested such' gross ignorance, and comported himself so offen sively. The jury found the issues in favour of the peti tioner, and Sir C. Cresswell said he would consider whether, under the circumstances, he would decree a dis solution. TBE ARMY. The following Royal warrant has been issued by command of her Majesty : " Victoria R. " Whereas it is expedient to remove any doubt as to the grant of field allowance at 6d. a-day, under the provisions of our Royal warrant dated 16th of August, 1855, being limited to the troops of our army at the then seat of war, our will and pleasure is that our maid warrant is hereby can celled. " Given at our Court at St. James's, this 14th day of November, 1860, in the 24th year of our reign. " By her Majesty's command, .. - - . " S. HERBERT." The subjoined circular to the army at home and abroad was promulgated yesterday : " The relative rank of barrack-masters of the second class having been erroneously inserted in the Royal warrant of Sept. 27, 1860, as that of captain ; the rank of barrack-masters of the third class as that of lieutenant; and barrack-masters of the fourth class having been omitted altogether, it is hereby notified that the ranks of those officers are to be the same as those authorised by the Royal warrant of Feb. 7,1860 ; and the schedule of ranks attached to the Royal warrant of Sept. 27, 1860, is to be altered accordingly—viz., barrack• masters of the second class, relative rank of major; barrack masters of the third and fourth classes, relative rank of captain." The total strength of the force stationed in the camp at Colchester at the commencement of the present month (exclusive of commissioned officers) was 14 staff sergeants, 40 sergeants, 169 married soldiers, and 1,869 privates, making a total of 2,092. THE VOLUNTEER M,)VE3IENT. The Metropolitan Volunteer Light Cavalry, raised by Lord Truro, having been sanctioned by the Crown, a crowded public meeting was held last evening at Eccleston-hall, Pimlico, for the purpose of forming a committee of enrolment and finance for the Kensington district, comprising Brompton, I Fulham, Hammersmith, and Chelsea. Lord Truro presided. The CIIikIRMAN said he had invited them allthere that evening for the purpose of persuading them to enrol themselves in the cavalry regiment which had that day received the sanction of the Crown. He had the honour to command a rifle corps, and he desired that the members of that corps should be well acquainted with their drill and the use of the rifle. He also desired that a cavalry regiment should be formed to act in conjunction with the rifle corps referred to, and that was the reason which led him to raise troops of cavalry for the metropolis. He had carefully considered the system of organisation, and proposed that the metropolis should be par celled out into districts. He had already held three meetings, and formed three committees for raising as many troops. With respect to the uniform, he would be happy to receive any suggestions on that point. The uniform he appeared in was smart and useful. It had been favourably received by Sir Thomas Brotherton and other military officers. It was extremely serviceable, and for comfort could not be matched. (Cheers.) But, taking all things into con sideration, the question of uniform was immaterial, as to become good soldiers they had nothing to do but to get the uniform as cheap as possible and attend to the drill. (Cheers.) He had enrolled 60 men in three weeks, and he thought that was good work. The advantages of this regiment were so manifest that every man who had a horse ought to join it. The requirements of the country were not met by the Volunteer Infantry forces, therefore it was of great importance that an efficient cavalry force should be raised, to act in conjunction with the infantry forces. He did not wish them to join his corps in particular, but he could assure them that he had left nothing wanting to make the regi ment as complete as possible, and in forming the corps he had secured the advice and co-operation of the highest military authorities in the kingdom. Having expressed his thanks to the lord-lieutenant of the county for allowing him to command an in fantry and a cavalry regiment at the same time, he continued, that if he could obtain the necessary permission he should form an artillery corps, so that gentlemen could learn all three branches of the service. With respect to the subscription, he thought that the committees of the various districts would be most competent to fix the amount neces sary for the requirements of the troop. He intended to make the regiment the first cavalry corps in the metropolis, and for that purpose all the latest provements in the equipment, so as to enable the ASSIZE _INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, DEC. 11. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) John Wallis, aged 30, a medical assistant, was indicted for intermarrying with Miriam Fry, his former wife, Catherine Wallis, being then alive, at Poplar, on the 26th of February last. The prisoner, in reply to the arraignment, said, " 1 am sorry to say that I am guilty, my lord." It appears that the prisoner was apprehended a short time since on a charge preferred against him by Mr. Fox, of Broughton, near Romsey, of pretend ing to be a doctor of medicine and a qualified prac titioner. It seemed that he had never qualified, and although he had held different places as a qualified assistant, he was not a registered one, and a diploma which he had with him was dated " Ley den." For this offence, in default of paying a fine of £lO, he was committed to prison for six weeks, without hard labour. • It transpired that about six years ago he married a young lady named Webb, in Oxfordshire; after she had had two children he left her and went to London, when in last February he was married to Miss Miriam Fry, at All Saints Church, Poplar. This lady he also heartlessly deserted. He afterwards went to live with a sur geon in St. Pancras, London, and while there he made proposals to his master's daughter, but his antecedents were fortunately discovered. The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for seven years. The trial of Johnson, for the Aldershott murder, has been fixed for to-morrow (Wednesday) morn ing. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-NORTHAMPTON, DEC. 11. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) The court commenced the trial of prisoners at 10 o'clock this morning. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN. William Ingram, 19, labourer, was indicted for stabbing and wounding Mary Ann King, at Castle Ashby, on the Ist of November, 1860, with intent to kill and murder her. Mr. Maunsell prosecuted; the prisoner was un defended. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. It appeared from the evidence that on the night of the Ist of Nov. last the prosecutrix left the vil lage of Denton about half. past nine o'clock, in com pany with a young man named Jas. Robinson, who accompanied her some distance along the road which led to Yardley Hastings, where she lived. About five minutes after Robinson left her she was overtaken by the prisoner, who observed, " Then you are just going home ? " She said she was, and remarked to him that ho was walking very fast. He said he had set a wire up the road and was going to see if there was anything in it. He drew close to her, put his arm round her waist, and be gan to pull her about. She resisted him, said she would never disgrace herself with a married man, and threatened, if he did not leave her alone, she would tell his wife. He said she should have no chance to tell her, lifted her up in his arms, and threw her down by the side of the road. She was struggling with him when she felt a blow behind her left ear, at the same time hearing his knife snap. She felt several cuts at the back of her head, and on her arm and fingers. He also gave her a blow on the eye, pulled her by the hair of her head and tried to choke her. She heard the sound of wheels along the road and called out "murder." The prisoner thereupon ran away. The vehicle was- a gig driven by Mr. Edmund Longland, a farmer of Floore. The prisoner made no defence, and merely said he hoped his lordship would have mercy on him. His lordship having summed up, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Baron Bramwell ordered sentence of death to be recorded. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, DEC. 11. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) The commission for the winter assizes was opened on Saturday, and on Monday at noon the county grand jury was sworn (J. G. Smyth, Esq., M.P., foreman). The whole day was occu pied in trying two cases from the city,—one of bigamy and one of forgery. This morning William Walsh, 48, was charged with the manslaughter of his wife, Mary Walsh, who died at the York Workhouse on the 21st of August last. It appeared that the prisoner had been married to his wife about eleven years, and a few months previous to her death she and her husband went to live at a house in Navigation-road, Walmgate. The poor woman was kept in a garret, and was not allowed to come down stairs at any time. The deceased was only seen twice by the neighbours in the course of three months, and as there was another woman living in the house with the prisoner, a rumour prevailed in the locality that the deceased was ill-treated by her husband. On the 31st of July last the prisoner went to his work as usual, and the female subsequently left the house in order to take the prisoner his dinner. Great curiosity being felt as to the exact state in which the deceased was, two of the neighbours, Mrs. Sum mersgill and Mrs. Garland, took advantage of the absence of the prisoner and the woman, and obtained a ladder, which they placed against the window of the garret. They each went up the ladder, and observed the deceased crouched upon a bed in the corner of the room, and in a very weak and feeble state. The poor woman was aroused, and she came towards the window, putting her fingers into her mouth, and making signs, showing that she was in want of something to eat. Some bread and butter was given to her by Mrs. Summersgill, and the deceased in making a curtesy for the kindness shown towards her, fell down on the floor from exhaustion. The wretched condition which the poor woman was in was made known to her relatives, and two of her brothers went to see her. They found her in the most filthy state. The deceased was removed to the workhouse, where every attention was paid to her, but she was so reduced and debilitated when she entered the establishment that she never rallied, and died on the 21st of August. A post mortem examination was made on the body of the deceased by Mr. North, surgeon to the workhouse, who came to the conclusion that death had been materially accelerated by the continued want of the proper necessaries of life. Her death being thus attributable to starvation, the charge of man slaughter was preferred against the prisoner, who, according to his pecuniary means and station in life, ought to have provided his wife with food and clothing. That he was enabled to maintain his wife was clearly proved. He was a working man in good employment, and he and the female with whom he lived at the house in Navigation road had plenty of food. The prisoner was found guilty, but the sentence was deferred. [A bvr, aTisEmENT:I Holloway's Pills. Infirmities Frustrated.—Everybody is astonished at the many diseases prevented and extraordinary cures effected by Holloway's purifying pills. For dropsical affections and the number less disorders incident to females, the virtues of these pills cannot be equalled, When indig estion is weak, th e liver torpid, the energies unnaturally dpressed with apprehen sion, and apathy supplanting cheerfulness, these pills are invaluable. They frequently remove complaints deemed by the faculty to be incurable ; and as constantly reinvigo. rate constitutions prematurely enfeebled by late hours or bad habits. As family aperients they are universally esteemed. They purify the blood, cleanse the system, strengthen the nerves, and restore health after all other means have failed, and when hopes of recovery would seem to be altogether futile, POULTRY SHO W A T THE C.RYSTAP PALACE. The usual winter exhibition of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits will be opened today at the Crystal Palace, and will be continued until the end of the week. There was a private view yesterday, when the judges made their examination and awarded the prizes. The show is a very large one, and will be found remarkably attractive. It consists of 958 pens of poultry and ornamental water-fowls, 366 pens of pigeons, and 86 pens of rabbits. All the best breeds of poultry are represented by first-class specimens, which are not more remarkable for their extraordi nary size than for tipir high condition, beauty of plumage, purity of ra,t, and uniformityin the mark ings. The show of Dorkings, Hamburgs, and Cochin Chinas is particularly fine, in point both of number and of quality; and, as it includes almost every known variety, it cannot fail to attract a large share of the attention of visitors. There are no fewer than 190 pens of game fowl, black and brown breasted reds, duck wings, blacks, and many other varieties. The bantams, white and black, gold laced, silver-laced, and game, form another interest ing feature of the show, and will have thousands of admirers. Nor will the display of geese, ducks, and turkeys be overlooked, especially at the present season. It is choice rather than numerous, though the show of Aylesbury aryl Rouen ducks is fully equal to that of former years, consisting, as it does, of upwards of 50 pens. Visitors will recognise a novelty in this department in the shape of a Sebas topol goose, which is smaller and even more ungainly, if that be possible, than the English breed. Next in importance to the poultry are the pigeons, of which the display is really magnificent, superior to that of any previous occasion. Pouters, carriers, dragons, fantails, Almond tumblers, Jacobines, barbs, and trumpeters are represented by admirable specimens in all their varieties. The collection, in short, is complete, and leaves nothing to be desired. So also with respect to the rabbits. The show is more than an average one in point of number, while the speci mens are remarkable for their great weight, the purity of their colours, and last, but not least, the length of their ears. There is a small, but very beautiful, collection of pheasants. The gold and silver variety is shown to great advantage, and, what with elegance of form and brilliancy of plu mage, forms, perhaps, one of the most attractive features of the exhibition. In addition to the poul try there is a show of agricultural roots, and the interest of the exhibition is still further increased by the presence of four Lilliputian African horses, not more than 30 inches high, three sheep, weigh ing altogether about 501 b., and six of the smallest cows ever seen in this country. But, after all, the feathered wonders will excite the greatest amount of admiration, and, though the noise they make is terribly shrill and discordant, they well deserve all the endearing epithets which will be bestowed upon them in the course of the next three days. Subjoined are a few of the principal prizes :—For Dorkings the first prizes were awarded to the Hon. W. W. Vernon, Captain Windham Hornby, Lady Louisa Thynne, and Captain J. Beardmore ; for Spanish, to Miss M. L. Ralle and Mr. W. Par rott ; for Cochin Chinas, to Mr. James Cattell, Mr. P. H. Jones, Mr. Thomas Stretch, Miss Viola Mus grove, Mr. Robert Chace, Mr. W. Dawson, and Mr. Edward Tudman ; for Hamburgs, to Mr. W. Pierce, Mr. James Munn, Mr. W. H. Kerr, Mr. W. Cannan, Mr. W. R. Lane, Mr. Joseph Barn forth., Mr. Richard Teebay, and Mr. S. H. Hyde; for game fowl, to Mr. Jonathan Camm, Mr. G. W. Moss, Mr. Maurice Marks, Mr. E. Archer, Mr. Joseph Hindson, Mr. Philip Mason, Mr, W. W. Dawson, and Mr. W. Ballard ; for bantams , to Mr. T. W. Hill, Mr. Mathew Leno, Miss Louisa Peters, Mr. James Billycal, Mr, .S. Forest, Mr. G. Daft, and Mr. T. H. Hutton Bayly ; for geese, to the Marchioness of Winchester and Mr. W; G. K. Breavington ; for ducks, to Mr. John Weston, Mr.W.G.K. Breavington, the Marchioness Winchester, and Mr. G. S. Sainsbury. The winners of the first prizes for pheasants are Mr. John Smith, Mr. S. Betty, and Mr. Mathew, Leno ; for pigeons, Master M•Gregor Ralle •, for rabbits, Mr. John Angus, Mr. H. W. Gostling, Mr. John Hincks, Mr. C. P. Lashmar, Mr. William Nott, Mr. N. Norman, Mr. C. Sellen, Mr. W. Robinson, and Mr. J. Ashton. The principal prizes for agricultural roots were given to the Duke of Portland, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Mr. Benyon, M.P., Mr. W. Lowndes, the Rev. Thomas Stevens, Colonel North, M.P., and Mr. Samuel Drucea The prizes in the poultry department comprised a sweepstakes for game cocks. There were 54 entries. The entrance fee was lOs each, and the money has been divid,ed as follows :—LIO 10s. awarded to cock in pen 934, owner unknown ; £5 ss. to Mr. J. B, Chune ; £4 4s. to Mr. W. H. Swann ; £3 3s. to Captain W. Hornby, £2 2s. to Mr.W. Cox ; .£1 ls. to Mr. Joseph Hindson ; and 158. to the Hon. W. W. Vernon. THE RAILWAY N UR ! fER IN FRANCE, The investigation into this extraordinary event shows that some of the details at first given were not quite exact. It was stated that in the com partment of the railway carriage in which the crime was committed were found a snuff-box in wood of the commonest kind, and a neck-wrapper, and that there was reason to believe that they had been left by the murderer. But the snuffbox turns out to have belonged to the deceased, who having some time back lost a very valuable gold one, often carried this other about with him, and always when travelling. It is considered probable that the wrapper was his also. Thus what was considered one clue to the discovery of the criminal has disap peared. It turns out, moreover, that it was not near the station of Noisy-le-Sec that the mur derer jumped from the carriage, but near that of Nogent-sur-Marne, which is farther from Paris. It is considered singular that he should have selected such a spot, since close to the station is a long viaduct, then a bridge, then a lofty em bankment ; but his foot marks appeared clearly on the side of the line and down the embankment; in the field, however, which is next to the latter, the trace is lost. The supposition is that the man went towards a village called Chelles, and that he there took the railway either to come up to Paris or to go down the line to wards Strasbourg. A strange circumstance has to be mentioned : In the compart ment in which the crime was perpetrated fragments of pasteboard were picked up, and on being put together it was found that they formed the ticket which M. Poinsot had.taken at Troyes. The assas sin, of course, must have torn up the ticket; what his object in doing so was, is a mystery, and it is still stranger that he did not throw the'pieces out of the window. The Echo do l' Est of Bar-le-Due says :—" A description of the person of the pre sumed assassin of M. Poinsot having been sent off in different directions, a gendarme on Friday ar rested, at the railway station of this town, an indi vidual to whom it exactly applied, but after an investigation he was set at liberty." M. Poinsot commenced life as a simple clerk to an avoue at Bar sur-Aube. He afterwards became advocate, and pleaded before the Civil Tribunal of Troyes. Among his clients at that place were the family of M. Casi mir Perier. M. Poinsot was 30 years in the magis tracy. After having been Procureur du Roi at Troyes, he was appointed, in 1833, substitute at the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. He was afterwards named substitute of the Procureur-General of Paris, and, on the 14th April, 1847, was nominated Ad vocate-General of the same court. He was dismissed on the 29th Feb., 1848 (after the Revolution), but on 2d May of that year was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal of Paris. On 6 th April, 1857, he was named President of one of the Chambers of the Imperial Court. — , A LOVER'S PRESCRIPTION.—Miss Mary: " No w, Harry, if you are a doctor, you must pres cribe for me. I've a very bad pain about my heart. Wh a t can I take?"—Dr. take ll arr ; y Y o ‘ u ‘ I ha n d a v b e et n t better + digestion, strong nerves, [ADVERTISEMENT.I—Perfect and doubt take_ as m eto.,what is the best remedy to , or expense, to the most functional regularity s delicious health re storingsound lungs, refreshing sleep, restored, without medicine, D p u u . i v t l ry g which removes indigos disordered or enfeebled bye. 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Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly 11118.2. aNnodcanister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barn Regent-street, in full, on the seal and wrapper. i Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. Is. 9d.; 21b. 4s, 6d. ; 51b. lls.; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post -office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; AbbiL, 60, Gracecharch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox. bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Co tea-dealers ; Petty,' Wood, and Co., King William-street, Sit' ; at 127, liigh Holborn; and 0.11 grocers, FRom THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. tip INDSOR CASTLE. Drc. S. This day had ‘ndience of her Majesty, his Excellency the Count Rudol oh Apponyi, Ambassador from the Em peror of Austria,' `,O deliver his credentials; to which audi ence he was intro, `dulled by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, her Maje a ty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. WAIT" DEc. 11. The Queen has be aII g yrs.ciously pleased to make and ordain a special Statute of Most Ho.nourable Order of the Bath, for appointing Lord L) - ons, her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenil. , ltentiax - y to the United States of America, and the Riglai Hon, Sir Edmund Walker Head, Baronet, Captain-Generztl and Governor-in - Chief in and ov,v the provinces of Canada, Ptove Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Et: ward, and Governor-Generai l of all her Majesty's Provinces' i nßritish North America, an d of the Island of Prince Edwb,',,-d, to be extra Members of th,e Civil Division of the Second Olass, or Knights Commande rs of the said Most Honourable Order. WH ITEHALL, DEC. 10. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters paten t be passed under the Or eat Seal granting the dignity o a Knight of the United K ingdom of Great Britain and It land unto Jean Edouard eillemono, Esq., First Puisne Judb", o of the Superior Court of the Island of Mauritius. The Queen has also bee n pleased to direct letters patent' to be passed under the Ge eat Seal, granting the dignity of. a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-• land unto Lieut.-Colonel , 4.ndrew Scott Waugh, Bengal. Engineers, Superintendent f Trigonometrical Survey, and- Surveyor-General of India. ' The Queen has been pleasesi to appoint David Robertson ,- of Ladykirk, in the shire of 130rwick, Esq., to be her Ma jesty's Lieutenant and Sheriff- Principal of the said shire, of Berwick, in the room of ,T.ames, Earl of Lauderdale ,. deceased. FOREIGN-OFFIVE, DEC. 7. The Queen has been pleased to` approve of Don Rannee , Gonzalez Zabada as Consul at Kaita for her Majesty the Queen of Spaiti. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 11. The Queen i t tas been graciously pleased to appoint Lora, Napier, now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary 00 1 Minister Plenipotentiary to the King . of the Netherland s, to be her Majesty's , Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenit potentiary to the E'niperor of All the RlVBSitis. The Queen has als ,9 been graciously pleased to appeil! t Sir John Fiennes Cr ampton, K.C.8., now her Majestl' e Envoy Extraordinary .and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of AU the rtu.ssias, to be her Majesty's Enve, Extraordinary and Mi'nister Plenipotentiary to the Queee. of Spain. The Queen has also lacen graciously pleased to appoirdl Sir Andrew Buchanan, 117.. C. 8., now her Majesty's Envoi' Exraordinary and Minis,te r Plenipotentiary to the Quee il A of Spain, to be her Majeoty's Envoy Extraordinary alw Minister Plenipotentiary to .the King of the een Netherlaild s. The ueen has also b ,g-raciously pleased to 'appoint John Savile Q Lumley, Esq latt l Secretary to her Majeet o r Embassy at Constantinople, to be Secretary to her . " jesty's Embassy at St. Petersbut.g. e of M. Danie The Queen has been pleased .to approvr. M. 'lucking to be Consul at CV° Town for the Unitee l States of America. • DEC 8. CROWN-OFFICE, MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE t N TH3 ?RESENT PARLIAMENT. Town of Newcastle-upon - Tyn e--S Archibald Beaumont, of Bywell, in the county of Northumberlan d t Esq., in the room of George Ridley, Esq., who has accepted the ffice of Commissioner under the Copyhold and Inclr sure Commissions Act. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 11. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second ,Captain Cher ie !. Paulett Rotton to be Captain, vice .130;ey, removed \I the Supernumerary List ; Lieutenant VI A% James Lig to be Second Captain, vice Rotton; Soe'ond Capt tale Brymer Brymer Francis Schreiber to be Adjutant, Vice Rot promoted. Bretoe Corps of Royal Engineers — Lieuten ant George 14 ~k Simmons, with temporary rank, to be Lieutenaftt, permanent rank. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederic 11152 0 , 11 , Baron Methuen, Lieutenant - Co lonel Commandant of 1%11, Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia, to be one of her Df e jesty's aides-de-camp for the service of her militia forvit with the rank of Colonel in that force. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 6. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Francis Wel; ton to be Captain, vice C. B. Parke , to .half-pay Secone Lieutenant Henry William Frampton to be First Lieu t e ' nant, vice Walton, promoted. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Joseph Linley, w manufacturer of sheep shea,ve, She n — el k William Kirkood M'Liver, draper, Stonehonse, shire. BANKRUPTS. Elias Mansfield, boatwright, Chesterton, Cambridge, shire, to surrender Dec. 20, at one, and Jan. 24, at two, the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwin Taylor, butcher, Wimbourne, Dorset, Dec. 21 Jan. 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. ett Henry Alfred Broome, licensed victualler, at one Covent-garden, Dec. 21 , at two, and Jan. .29, at one, s Court of Bankruptcy. John Brotherton Whitaker, card maker, Little Britoil, Dec. 21, at twelve, at Jan. 24, at one, at the Court Bankruptcy. Frederic Tillett, spiral flambeaux manufacturer, Baralmer# street, St. Luke's, Dec. 21 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at Court of Bank. Edward Wm. Len ruptcy nard, baker, Redcar t Yorkshfrs , D ec. 21 and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Cott.rt. a Charles Stead, flock dealer, Huddersfield, Dec. Gl Jan. 25, at eleven, at. the Leeds Distriet Court.2 l John Wedd Martin, farmer, Yalding, Kent, Dec. and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Cont of Bankruptcy. „„,, Henry Rudd Knights, currier, Dermondsey-street, rey, Dec. 2 and Jan. 29, at twelve, at the Court.of BgLw rupt cy. Charles States, victualler, .Aldershot, Dec. 21, at two and Jaii• 9 : 1 , at one, at the Court of Ban.lamPtcY. John Robert Samuel Haywartl, aputlisk - ary, Lodiggi Somersetshire, Dec. 24 and Jan. 22, at eleven, at Bristol District Court. John jun., nd Richard Woodward rowell, merchants, Scott Liverpool, a Dec. 20, at eleven, and Jiml• 16, • one, at the Liverpool District Court. Deb Richard Henry Clough, cotton dealer, Manchester , 27 and Jan. 18, at one, at the Manchester District Couri' SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. H. Wallace and Co., boot and shoe makers, Glasgow.' tv Richard Jones, merchant, Linlithgow, formerly of ca r hill, London. Mrs. Margaret Sutherland, distiller, Dalmore, 1 1 ° S.' shire. George Banks, boot and shoemaker, Edinburgh. George Rintoul, jun., manufacturer, Glasgow. I Andrew Keir, farmer, Noss, Caithness-shire. LOUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL—DEc. 11. To-day we had a fair attendance of buyers, with al derato trade, at is per qr. advance on late p r i ces for g°o foreign wheat. All other articles maintain their for prices. LIVERPOOL—Dsc. 11. There was a large attendance of town and country, de at this morning's market, and again we had a brisU mand for wheat and flour, which may be quote d at $1147 vance of 4d to 6d per 1 00 lb, and 9 d to is per sack and "01 rel for ordinary runs. Oats and oatmeal more active, or o rather improved in value. Barley, beans, and pea! oil u naltered in price, and a moderate business doing. ii.114:1 corn attracted more attention, and mixed A.meridan fn buyers at 37s per qr. ; fine white, 425 , in retail. LEEDS—DEc. 11 --- --- Our market to-day was fairly attended by trade had a healthier tone, owing to the report frog' lane yesterday. Wheat must be quoted at is higher n'tie, the rates of last market day. Bar!ey maintai ns its fs'fot and was quite as well sold. Oats and bean s held o former rates. NEWCASTLE-UNDER LYNE—Dsc. 11. d At this corn market there was only a moderate ahoyA English wheat, but the demand was healthy, and sell o i h succeeded in making late rates—white making 56s to; red 54s to 645. The demand for barley was p rett y stOP • at barely former prices. Oats in fair supply, and the 0 firm, from 24s to 32s Oats 24 stone. *Beans made fl ° 48s to 54s per qr. SLEAFORD--DEc. 10. The attendance was fair to-day, with a less tban afer 9b4 . ol o supply of wheat, and at is under the rates of the prefl6,so week. White wheat ruled at 50s to 70s, red 488 to per qr. Barley a rather liberal supply, 30s to 36s ; ° i t 00, slow demand, with a dull demand, at 24s to 345; 44s to 58s ; peas, —ate ---s. NORWICH CATTLE. f at The show of store cattle to-day was unusually larglito the season, but as buyers were not very numeroust 0 -0 b us i n ess was transacted, an d th e p rev i ous rates wer e difficulty suported. , SO Scots, 45 6d to 5s Od ; shorthorns, 4s to 4s 6d • T ril lo g u 6d to 4s Od; Devons, 4 s t o 4s 6d (estimated weigh t vil fat). Fat beasts scarce, 85 Od to 8s 6d per 141 b. 0 15 ' Sheep—There was a better supply of sheep in th,,,,r Fat sheep, 8s 6d to 9s Od per stone ; prime, 9s to ',/ o rlft Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 23s to 25s ; fat 1 3 8s Od to 8 s 6d per stone . ___..---<?" 0 1 L OND ON : Printed and Published by MURD O YOUsGrs'o(l. No. Strand, Printer, at TILE SUN Office, Noo. 11% Str e ie? 4 , i n the Precinct of the Savo y , in the County f W4)019 444 1 December 12, 186 0 . .Mid.•_- P ro G] SEIVEI ME'IZ At m laon tE ~iis E,o It wa s pro That ti and a mit tilde of hi Proposed and That h Spain, Pc those cou without spired by of the aut Proposed soeon That a tion of a: linsurvis vat( tient( Dr. H Rev. Lieut( and s, K.O Bart, BIRTHS., EALFOUIt.—On the 9th inst., at 32 , rulteney -etrw-, f wife of Captain Balfour, late 7th Dragoon Guards/ - daughter. a . 0 9 CRISPE.—On the 10th &Ist., the wife of Mr. Jae' of 4, Cheapside, of a son. ts tIO EVERITT.—On the 10th inst., at Colebury, 119.13 " wife of John Everitt, Esq., f a daughter. MYNORS.-011 the 9th inst., the wife of the Re. - 1 Baskerville Mynors, of a daughter. I'oIARR.I AGES. tJ LOVE—SERLX.—On the Bth inst., at Yatton, John, Love, Esq. ' 4- of Weston-super-Mare, to Emily, oan-tiSe of Samuel Serie, Esq., of Mount Serle, Ad elaide, tralia. EOM W I MBERLEY—BLAIR.—On the 23d Oct., at Simis„; - W ' ug Balfour Wimberley, Esq., B.A , Trin. Coll., iiter H.M.'s Indian Army, to Constance . Cordelia, da of the late Colonel C. D. Blair, C. 8., formerly of the Bengal Light Cavalry. DEATHS. - f t 110 BROUGHTON.—On the Bth inst., at West-green -- 0 Hartley Whitney, Mary, widow o f the late Adrui .1 Broughton, aged 91. BONNAR.—On the 7th inst., at Brompton, Mrs. -M il Bonnar, aged 82. 11 , si t ' t Cu MBERLAND.—On the 6th inst. , suddenl y , at Bath, b 1 lo Wm. Cumberland, Bengal Army, eldest son of th e Rear-Admira Cumberland GRIPPITS.—On I the 6th inst.,. gr. Henry Griflits, of We ie dover, Bucks, so licitor. li rl3/1 GUNDRY.—On the 11th inst., at 1, So ho - squ are, gr. Gundry, see., aged 63. ..,liCt NINIS.—On the 1 0 th inst., suddenly, Mary R. Nie ls, of the late Captain George Ninis, aged 64. Synouh.—On the Bth inst., at Uxbrid g e House, sa,-. on-Thames, James Stroud, Esq., aged 77. ~IS His His His His Him The The The Field slot Colon S. Sli G. Di From MP Slit',S( cer nubi Subs Col(