The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-24 00:00:00

MARSEILLES. A letter from Marseilles, dated Aug. 19, says : The French Government are shipping large quan tities of barley at Marseilles for England which have been returned from Genoa. The foreign vessels which were chartered during the war are being paid off, and the consequence is that a considerable num ber of British merchant seamen have been enabled to obtain their discharge and enter the navy. The Coquette, which returned from Cette some 10 days ago, has during this period entered nearly 40 volun teers, of whom a large proportion are ablebodied seamen. These, with the men before entered and previously reported, give a total of 65 naval volun teers obtained in Marseilles alone, who will prove no insignificant addition to the Mediterranean fleet, and would almost suffice to man the Coquette her self, exclusively of the commissioned and warrant officers and marines. The success whichhas attended this measure fully justifies its suggestion in my letter of the 19th of last May, and reflects the highest credit on the officers and crew of the Co quette, whose unvarying conduct has dispelled many prejudices among merchant seamen, and made the Queen's service popular among them. It is reported in Toulon that orders have been received from the French Admiralty to cease dis arming the fleet, and that the forts commanding the entrance to the harbour are being armed with the guns which have hitherto been kept in store. As I have mentioned Toulon perhaps it will be of in te rest to some of your readers if I state the result of my last visit is this famous dockyard and naval ar senal. The idea of developing the means for French aggression in the Mediterranean is due, I believe, to M. Thiers' Government. At all events the first step in that direction was made in 1840, when the new large smiths' shop was commenced, and finished three years afterwards. It contains 96 forge fires, be side four larger ones in a neighbouring building to heat the iron for a steam hammer. The blowers and hammer are worked by a 20-horse power steam engine. It, however, soon became evident to the authorities that the space enclosed within the walls of the arsenal was too limited to allow of the de velopment contemplated. Accordingly the timber stores, building slips, sawing machinery, and block factory were transferred to a faubourg of Toulon, called the Mourillon, and situate on the opposite or eastern side of the inner roadstead—petite Rade. The space thus acquired was still found insufficient, so rapidly did the desire grow among successive Governments to possess a powerful fleet. The dis trict lying beyond the arsenal walls towards the south-west, and known under the designation of Castigneau, was determined to be included, and it is on this new site that the most important works, which date from the Second Empire, are being carried out. At Castigneau are three graving or dry docks in the course of construction, calculated to receive the largest vessels of war. The largest dock, which must be nearly 400 feet long, as far as could be judged by the eye, is finished with the exception of the gates. It is built in the most sub stantial manner, and is faced with massive slabs of beautiful red and gray granite. The mode em ployed in building these docks is peculiar. They are situate on what formed the beach of Castingeau, which rapidly shelved down into the deep water of the roadstead. The buoy off the entrances to the docks shows a depth of nearly 40 feet, quite suffi cient to allow of the passage of vessels of the heaviest draught at all times, which is absolutely necessary in the Mediterranean, where the rise and fall of the tide never exceeds a few inches. From the character of the soil where the docks are con structed it was evident that the ordinary system of foundation could not be employed, and to have re course to piling would necessitate too great an ex penditure. The engineer or architect charged with the works was induced to use concrete in a novel manner. The site of the dock appears to have been excavated and a solid bottom of concrete formed several feet in thickness. Concrete was next used to form the retaining walls at the sides and end, and even at the end where the gates are to be placed. When the walls were brought up to a sufficient height above the level of the sea, the water inside the dock thus rudely formed with con crete was pumped out, and the structure faced and finished off with granite in the usual way. I be lieve that the labour and expense of excavating were considerably reduced by building a portion of the entrance end of the docks out into the sea. The system followed was analogous to the one used with such success by Mr. Page in building the piers of New Battersea-bridge. Timber piles were driven with sufficient space between the rows to allow of retaining walls being formed therein by throwing in concrete. When the space wherein the dock was to he built was enclosed by the concrete walls the water was pumped out, and the granite con struction proceeded with. The mass of concrete across the entrance to the finished dock was being bored with vertical holes, perhaps a couple of inches in diameter, by the aid of machinery similar to what is employed in boring artesian wells, and which was driven by a small portable steam-engine. Whether these holes are intended to admit of the concrete mass being blasted into fragments for sub sequent removal I could not learn ; bat if so, the process must be attended with great danger to the structure of the dock itself. Although it may be more costly, it would have been safer, I should think, to have employed a common cofferdam for this portion of the work—namely, to fill up the entrance and to exclude the water from the inside. In forming the concrete walls I noticed that the ballast was brought down from the exc svations for the foundations of the new structures at Castigneau in small waggons, running on a moveable railway. The waggons were made with the bottom fixed from the top of one side to the lower part of the other, which latter opened outwards on hinges. By this means, when the ballast waggons were brought on to a scaffold fixed above the water, and where the mixture was to be effected, the attendant had only to allow the side to fall down, when the bal last discharged itself by its own gravity, and there was no time lost in tilting. The lime and sand were first mixed in a species of pug mills, worked by a portable steam-engine, and then discharged on to the ballast, with which it was mixed by hand. The men who fed the lime into the mixing mills had their mouths and noses carefully rro tected by linen cloths ; but, in spite of those precautions, I was informed they suffered severely in consequence of inhaling particles of lime. When the ballast an , l lime were intimately coin pounded together, the whole was discharged down a shoot into a boat, which conveyed it to the spot where it was to be thrown into the water. Among the new buildings erected for workshops I noticed a large structure filled with horizontal planing machines, of the latest and most approved construction, f rom t h e f actory of Messrs. Cail and Co., on the Quai de Billy, at Paris. The vertical revolving plate of a turning lathe was upwards of 13 feet in diameter. A second structure was fitted up as a smiths' shops, with the forges arranged in pairs, and some in fours. I should think there could not be less than 50 fires, and room for as many more. A third structure was fitted up as a foundry, with furnaces arranged in four pairs on either side. The furnaces were marked to contain 10 tons each, and as there were 16 of them in all this would allow of 160 tons of metal being melted at the same time—more than would be required for the largest casting. The anchor-wharf ap peared small • disproportionately , the anchors them se l ves were few in number, nct calculated for line-of battle ships, nor even heavy first-class frigates, and many of them were useless, worn out, and injured It would seem that the stock had been exhausted by the extraordinary naval armamen is which France • effected for the Italian war. The provision of coal was respectable, b u t b are l y su ffi c i en t for the steam fleet attached to Toulon. Some of the coal was brought from Newcastle and Cardiff in ships that were unladen by women, who did the business of coalwhippers very f tirly. Convicts were employed to remove the coal from the wharfs to the store heaps. The small-arm repository contained 52,000 stands of arms, a very small proportion of which only could be made avilabie in any future war. There were but a few, probably not more than a couple of thousand, rifled muskets, carabines a tige. The rest were smooth bored. Sabre; pistols, hatchets, and daggers were arranged in fanciful architectural forms, but were all of old models, and presented an appearance more curious than formidable, It is in front of this salle d'armes that cannons are placed in store on a wharf. As the First Lord of the Admiralty stated on a recent occasion that he had not received any authentic information as to the French fleet being armed with rifled cannons, it may be as well to state what I saw. In onerow I counted 34, in another 24, in a third 10, - where others were being landed from a small craft by means of a travelling crane, and in a fourth row 12, three of which'were rifled with two grooves. tinder a shed or lean-to, projecting from the side of the salle d'armes, were six other rifled guns in the course of being fitted with locks. These figures give a total of 86 rifled cannons, all 30-pounders, which had been brought down since my last visit. I was informed that about 20 a week are brought into the arsenal, and that, so soon as they are fitted with locks, they are divided among the fleet in commis sion, or are substituted for smooth-bored guns in store belonging to ships out of commission. I think it probable that the French navy is more abundantly supplied with rifled artillery than is generally suspected. All the liners and frigates on home stations have some, and their number is being constantly increased. The gunboats are exclusively armed with them. I was unable to learn where the rifling is effected, but I believe it is at Ruelle, near Angouleme, in the department of the Charente, from the guns having been brought into Toulon in coasting vessels. The declaration of peace has caused no relaxation in the efforts to supply the French navy with rifled ordnance, for more than a month after the meeting at Villafranca there were more rifled guns being fitted than during any period of the war. The Russian guns taken at Sebastopol are being removed from Toulon to Mar seilles, where they are shipped for Ruelle, to be there recast according to the French model, great store being set upon Russian iron. The two large covered building slips in the arsenal, each 72 feet long and 118 feet high, are no longer used for their original purpose, since the construc tion of ships has been removed to the Mourillon. It was intended to convert them into sailmakers' lofts, but they are now kept ready to be used as building slips when required. I had almost for gotten to mention that three dry docks for ships of the line exist in the arsenal in front of the smiths' shop first mentioned, in the largest of which I saw the Fleurus, constructed in 1774 by Groignard. When the others are finished Toulon will have six dry docks of ample dimensions and the most solid construction. Anchored off the,quay is the Muircn, an English fiigate captured at Venice, which brought Bonaparte back from Egypt, and which is now used as a floating barrack for marine infantry. On the opposite side of the harbour are five old liners used as seamen's barracks ; one of them is rigged for the purposes of instruction, and the others are hulks. Close by a mole projects out into the sea to narrow the entrance to the harbour, and on the land side of the mole are masting-sheers 140 feet high. Leaving the harbour the Mourillon is on the left hand side of the inner roadstead. It contains five covered building slips. The first is vacant, but the send and third contain the Gloire and Invincible steam frigates, cased in iron—fregates blindees of which we have heard so much. They are rapidly approaching completion. Little more remains to do than to lay the decks and to put on a portion of the outer scantling. As they are sister ships I give the few dimensions I could take of one of them. Length 252 feet ; beam, 45 feet ; breadth between ports, 8 feet; thickness of sides on the main deck, indepen dently of iron facing plates, 26 6-8 inches. The timbers are of the largest dimensions, such as are used in the line-of-battle ships. The beams for the main deck—the only ones I had an opportunity of meas•iring—were 16 inches by 17 inches square, and were partly supported by columns of rolled iron, of small diameter, stepped on the kelson. I noticed what appeared to be an experiment. On a portion of the main deck, on the port side of the !Lain hatchway, the timber beams werereplaced by iron girders, with apparently great economy of space, and equal if not greater strength. The vessel was pierced with 30 ports on a side, and I presume would be classed as a 44-gun frigate, although she is stated to carry no guns on the upper deck. The iron plates for sheathing her sides were lying about, having just been brought in. They appeared to be of rolled iron, 4 6 8 inches (12 centimetres) in thick ness, 3 feet 7 inches wide, by 4 feet 6 inches long. This would make the weight of each plate nearly 1 ton 6 cwt., I presume, although I was told they weighed no more than a ton, which was evidently an error. The plates are to be bolted to the frigate's sides from the line of floatation up to a level with the upper deck, and their weight, I should ima gine, must make her enormously top-heavy. The rivet holes in the plates had not yet been drilled. Besides the side plates, the frigate is to have her upper deck covered with iron plates 6-Bths of an inch in thickness. They are to be bolted between two decks, or horizontal layers of timber, with a view to making her bomb-proof. This additional weight must tend to increase her top-heaviness. Beyond the frigate's blindees were the two liners Massena and Castiglione, in the fourth and fifth covered building slips, and almost ready for launch ing. Further on were ten uncovered building slips, on which were smaller vessels in different stages of progress. The stores of timber were consider able, but the sawing, block, and converting machi nery did not appear important after Portsmouth, and probably not more effective than in a private shipbuilder's yard in England. It will be seen from what has been stated that Toulon possesses, or will shortly possess, six dry docks, seven building slips covered, 10 building slips uncovered, with a foundry and mechanical appliances sufficient to build, equip, and maintrin a far more formidable fleet than France has ever possessed hitherto in the Mediterranean, while, in addition, the private yards and engine works of La Seyne and La Ciotat are close at hand, capable of being made available at any time. It is not to be expected that one can speak of Toulon without saying a word of the galley slaves orforcats. There are in the arsenal and yard 4,500, who do all the heavy work. They drag the materials about, and some are employed in sawing timber. The worst are attached in coup'es by heavy chains passing round the ankles and waists, and linked together. The better behaved arc allowed to go singly, ironed in the same way, with the ex ception of the connecting chain. They are clothed in coarse canvas trousers and shirts, branded with their numbers, and a woollen jacket. Those who are condemned for life wear a long green woollen peakless cap, something like a nightcap with the top cut off, and made square. On the front of the cap is a tin plate with the number of the wearer punched out. The convicts who are condemned for a term of years are distinguished from the others by red caps, and those who have been more than once to the Bagne by yellow sleeves to their jackets. Their faces, close shaven, bronzed by exposure to the sun, and brutalised by crime, are fearful to be hold, and their repulsive appearance is heightened by their hair being notched short in lines running round the head, in order to facilitate their recogni tion should they escape.' At night they lie down on inclined lengths of planking, without mattress or covering, in twenties or thirties, and an iron rod is run through the leg chains of each, so that no one can move without the rest. Their food con gists of brown bread, not all wheaten flour, soup, and haricots et feces, beans. No wine nor tobacco is all owe d , but the co' nsicts are permitted to receive ,10f. a month from their friends, with which the may purchase any eatables they please. The greatest and most degra.t.ing punishment, which Must also be the greatest o b stacle to reform' ation ' is - chaining s over the men in coiples. Y outh 16 May be seen chained to old men tainted with o e r very vice. Wak ing or sleeping, the compagnons de citable are never separated until frecdom or death removes onc.• In spite cf the hideous costume and revolting ap pearance of the forcats, there were some who still exhibited traces of their former position, whose gentility, so to speak, pierced through their convict garb. One, in particular, standing nearly si x f eet high, and who intently watched the arrival of wounded French soldiers from Italy, struck me on account of the perfect ease and grace with whieh he moved, bowing to the guardians passing by, although his actions were accompanied by the clanking of his chains. At the time Of my I visit I was told that there were then among the forcats Colonel de Cercy, who commanded a regiment at Marseilles in 1851, who was charged with the execution of the coup d'etat in this town, and who was subsequently convicted of escroquerie; Capt. Doineau, Chef d'un bureau Arab, convicted of having conspired to murder an Arab chief; Lieut. de Mercey, convicted of having un fairly and with premeditation slain another officer when tipsy in a duel. The chief army accountant (chef comptable), who was sent to the Crimea, the two managers of the bank of Toulon, six abes (and there are more who manage to keep their former calling secret.) An eminent painter is chained to a distinguished member of the Paris bar, and be tween them they keep the accounts of one depart ment of the prison, while of lawyers and notaries there is no end. Among the forcats are men of all nations, as of all ranks in society. We contribute our quota, one—an Englishman who was arrested at Calais with forged notes in his possession, and who, there is every reason to believe, was guiltless of any criminal intention. He has recently been brought to Toulon from Rochefort, is consumptive, and not allowed to wear flannel, although per mitted to do so in Rochefort. There is also a hazy rumour of a British peer of the realm being among the for cats, but as one has never seen him, nor yet anyboly that has, it may be dismissed as a myth. To the present Government of France is due the merit of.endeavouring to deal with the great social evil, the Bagnes, where vice stagnates, and grows more hideous, to be again let loose on society. Penal settlements have been formed in Africa and French Guyana, to which some of the convicts have been removed. Toulon is now the only Bagna ; those of Rochefort and Brest have been abolished ; but still the work goes on very slowly. Threecar goes of 600 each have been shipped off, yet their places are nearly all filled up by new arrivals. Moreover, it would appear that the forcats cannot be 1(gally compelled to go unless they choose. They were condemned to hard labour in the dock yards and arsenals of the State, and not to trans portation. To coax them to go abroad, they are promised on their arrival they shall be relieved of their chains, and allowed the free use of their limbs. But, so great is the dread of Lambessa and Cayenne, and the craven' fear of death, that they prefer the fetters and horrors of the Bagne, at Toulon, to comparative independence at these two French colonies. As one of their guardians characterized them, " Tous ces assassin et voleurs sont si lathes, ils ont si peur de mourir." The ships lying in the inner roadstead were those which formed the siege fleet in the Adriatic. The liners, including the Bretagne, are tolerably fami liar to your readers, and offer no distinguishing features that call for special notice. The same may be said of the frigates, but not so of the floating batteries and gunboats. The Lave floating battery is 225 feet long, and has the dimensions, in other respects, of a first-class frigate. She carries 18 guns, larger than our 68-pounders apparently (but I had no opportunity of measuring them), and only fights one broadside at a time. Her sides are faced with iron plates from the water line up to a level with her upper deck, and I noticed that several of them were indented and fractured. The thickness seemed about 3 inches. The bulwarks are made to fall down, the funnel to sink below the upper deck, and the masts to disappear on going into ac tion. The screw is well below the water, and safe from shots. The engines are below the water line. In fighting the battery it will be seen that there is nothing but her hull to fire at, and that is pro tected by shot-proof plates. The crew are all on the main deck, and out of harm's-way, with the ex ception of the officer in command. He stands upon the upper deck and gives his orders for the manage ment of the battery and working of the guns to the officers on the main deck by means of speaking tubes. The commanding officer is consequently exposed to the enemy's shot, and to protect himself the captain of the Lave has imagined an ingenious expedient, which has. still to be tested. He has had made a cylinder of timber about 7 feet in diameter, and the same in height. The circumference of the cylinder is coated with iron plates, about half an inch thick, and from the centre projects a spar which takes into a hole made in the deck and serves to keep the cylinder in position. In action the officer keeps behind the cylinder, against which the shots striking will glance off, while he can shift his position for the purposes of observation as required. Gratings hook on to the side for riflemen, who are protected by the whole breadth of the deck. Although these constructions have been tried to a certain extent in the Black Sea, it is con sidered doubtful whether they would answer so well in a general and sustained action. The be tween-decks must rapidly fill wiih smoke and heat to be insupportable from the absence of scuttles. Even on a summer's afternoon the ventilation was most defective, and the temperature overpowering. The crew said they suffered much from these two evils, which must almost counterbalance the advan tages presumed to be derived from the iron sheath- ing. The Condon is, perhaps, as good a specimen as could be selected of the new light draught gun boats. She is about 68 feet long, and 15 feet beam. Her engine is 16-horse power, and is fixed in the stern, occupying, with the boilers and furnaces, about one-third the length of the vessel. The screw is hardly so well protected as it might be. The officers' cabin is amidships in front of the engine room, and is most unpleasantly hot. The forecastle occupies the remainder of the vessel, and besibs berthing the crew and storing provisions and water, contains the shells in lockers. Her crew consists of 16, all told, including the officer in command, master gunner, engineer, stokers, and seamen. Her arma ment consists of a rifled 30-pounder, which is worked behind a shield, plated with 4k-inch jron, con structed in her bows. The shield, in this instance, was the height of a man, and the bulwarks between it and the stem unshipped in action. The deck where the carriage worked was planked over, to obtain increased strength, and to allow of an angle being formed to offer resistance to the running-in of the gun. Nevertheless, the recoil, I was informed, was the greatest practical difficulty with which the men had to contend, from the want of space to stand clear in working. The shell fired from this gun is of cast-iroi; it resembles in form and size a loaf of white sugar, with the sides straight for three fourths of its length ; it weighs 571 b., and is filled with the bursting charge through an orifice in the apex. A plug is screwed ,into the orifice and projects outward a short distance. Through this portion of the plug a hole is drilled, through which a short lanyard is 'passed, to facilitate handling. On the circumference at the centre of gravity are the three ailettes, or feathers, for taking into the grooves of the gun. They consist of pro jecting pieces of iron, cast with the shell, about 21 inches long, half an inch broad, and rising about a quarter of an inch above the surface. In front of each ailette zinc has been run in flush with the top of the latter, and then cut down anglewise to a point of the circumference, the distance from which point to the back of the iron projection is equal to thebreadth of the groove. By this arrangement it is the zinc which bears against the edges of the groove inside the gun. With the slightest sea on the gunboat is found to be dangerously top-heavy. In being towed back from the Adriatic it was found necessary, for the safety of the vessel, to unship the gun, and, what was worse, to remove the upper iron plates from the shield in the bows. Evidently, the problem has still to be solved. A late number of the C'ourrier de Marseilles con tains the following paragraph —" An incident which we would not pass over in silence distinguished the fete of the 15th of August. While all our ships were dressed, and the guns of the fort were firing, the honourable commander of the English gun sloop, Coquette, M. Foley, saluted also the national solemnity with 21 guns. This act of courtesy is not the best which has distinguished the presence of the English vessel in our port." I omitted to mention. that.nine.of.the rifle can non arc made after a new model, and made to load at the breech. They are placed by themselves. The means for closing the openings at the breech - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1859. were not to be seen, and are doubtless in the ad joining fitters's shop. Both openings are carefully closed from the inspection of the curious by tom pions, which are held together by a bar passing through , them and the barrel of the gun. The guns aro of cast iron. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LIVERPOOL, AUG. 23. A GIRL FOURTEEN YEARS OLD CHARGED WITH WILFUL MURDER. Mary Ann Gibbon, a girl apparently about 14 years of age, was arraigned on the charge of wil fully murdering John Thompson, a little boy of four years and nine months old, the son of Mr. Thomp son, her master. The prosecutor was a police officer in Liverpool, and the prisoner came into his service on the 18th of July last, only three days before the alleged murder. Messrs. Aspin all and Raffles prosecuted; and Mr. Pope defended the prisoner. The girl entered Mr. Thompson's service without a character from her previous place. On the morn ing of the 21st of July, Mrs. Thompson told the girl that she would have to leave, as she did not suit ; this was done calmly and without irritation being apparent on either side. On the, evening of that day the prisoner was directed to take the baby and the deceased boy out for a short time. The girl obeyed her mistress, and in a little while returned with the baby, but did not bring the little boy back. The mother then sent the prisoner to look for the child ; she returned, saying she could not find him. A little boy, Charles Hall, then came into Mrs. Thompson's shop, in Conway-street, Everton, and told her that he had seen her child John with " a yellow woman," in a street not far from Conway street. On hearinc , this Mrs. Thompson sent the girl to tell her husband, who was on duty at the Rose-hill police-station. She did not go to the station, but remained out until three o'clock the next morning. She was seen by several witnesses going in the direction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and walking on the bank until she got be yond Sandhiils-bridge. While the prisoner was walking by the canal a youth of the name of Fox fell in with her, and as they proceeded she called his attention to something that was in the water, and a flatman being in the neighbourhood was called to assist in getting it out of the canal, and finding it to be a child they (the flatman and Fox) took it to the nearest police-station, the prisoner walking by their side all the way. On arriving at the station the prisoner identified the child. When she got to Mr. Thompson's, she, to explain why she had been so long away, told her mistress that she had been at Sandhills Railway station, having mistaken that for the Rose-hill station. Another little girl saw a woman carrying the child in her arms, and the prisoner going up to her and sating, " That's the child lam looking for." This little girl saw the prisoner return to Mr. Thompson's, and afterwards leave the house, and again join the same woman, who was carrying the child. They then went both in the direction of the canal. The same witness saw the woman and the prisoner together in several places between Conway-street and Vauxhall-road. Under cross-examination by Mr. Pope this wit ness acknowledged that she had given a wrong name and address to the police officer ; that she had been examined for the first time only the day before the trial ; and that her object in professing to know anything about the affair was that she might get into court to hear about " Johnny Thompson." After the body had been found a coroner's inquest was held, and an open verdict returned. On the 13th inst. the prisoner was apprehended, and the officer who captured her detailed to the court the statement she made to him at the police-office. This statement was to the effect that an elderly woman, whose name was Latham, had taken the child, an-1 had given the prisoner certain directions how she was to proceed, and by what routes they were respectively to reach the canal bank. When they were on the road by the canal the woman dropped the child into the water, when they both ran away in different directions. Mr. Pope, at the close of the evidence for the prosecution, delivered a most energetic and elo quent address on behalf of the prisoner. The learned gentleman, after stating that there had been no evidence adduced that the child was mur dered by any one, assumed that he might have been taken there by some person, who left him near the canal, into which he might, in the darkness of the night, have fallen. The whole of the evidence was then reviewed to show its defects and inefficiency for the purpose of the prosecution. The learned Judge in charging the jury said, the case before them was exceedingly mysterious. It was necessary to examine whether there was any motive discoverable capable of accounting for the act alleged. His lordship then went through the evidence, pointing out those portions of it bearing upon the case in any material way. The jury, after an absence from the box, returned into court with a verdict of not guilty. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) ACTION FOR SEDUCTION. Robert Leech, a grocer and corn-dealer, at Ashton-under-Lune, brought an a c ti on aga i ns t Joshua Lingard, a thriving butcher and innkeeper of the same place, for seducing his daughter. Lin gard is a town councillor for the borough of Ash ton, and a man advanced in years. In 1855 he began to pay his addresses to the plaintiff's eldest daughter, then about 22 years of age, and an inti macy soon sprang up between them. The plaintiff disapproved of it, and cautioned his daughter against its continuance. Despite of this warning she continued clandestinely to meet the defendant, and the result was the birth of a child on the 29th of March last. Her sufferings were very great, and she died on the 9th of April, her infant fol lowing her in a few weeks afterwards. During their intimacy a great number of letters passed be tween them, and several of the defendant's were put in and read. They were all couched in the most affectionate language, and in them the defen dant repeatedly promised to fulfil his offers of mar riage. He asked her to name the day for the pur chase of the ring, and declared that if ever man loved woman he loved her, and that he never made one pledge but that he intend e d t o ma k e it goo d. A verdict was given for the plaintiff—X3oo damages. POLICE INTELLIFENCE.-Aug. 23. LAMBETH.—THE SOI-DISANT HON. CAPT. WILLIAM DENBY SLOPER HARRISON, alias MAR SHALL, CHARGED WITH LIGAMY.-It will be recol lected that on this day week, a lady applied to the Hon. G. C. Norton for his advice respecting the conduct of her husband, to whom she had not been then quite two months married, and whose name she had so far forgotten that she could not spell it, and had actually been obliged to go home and pro vide herself with the marriage certificate to refresh her memory, who she said vas conducting himself in a most extraordinary manner towards her, and quite different to his professions before marriage. It will be also recollected that the lady stated that she had met her husband at the St. James's Hall, at one of Barnum's entertainments ; that he represented himself as the son of a nobleman, and a captain in the army ; made fierce love to her ; said he should kill her or himself unless she consented to have him, and offered with his hand a carriage and £2,000. The lady went further on to state that believing his representations, she gave her consent, and, they were married at the most fashionable of all places for aristocratic marriages, St. George's, Hanover-square, on the 28th June, and that though nearly two months had passed over there was no sign of the new carriage, nor the slightest appear ance of the £2,000, or any of the nice little pre sents so lavishly hinted at before the commence ment of the " honeymoon." On the contrary, the soi-disant Hon. Captain William Denby Sloper Harrison commenced a course most distasteful to his wife, of going out fashionably dressed in clothes purchased at her expense, stopping out days and nights together, and coming home in garments much inferior in texture and appearance to those he wore when leaving home, and, in addition to all, making use of threat s o f a di sagreeable character. Mr. Norton put such questions to the lady, that, if answered in the affirmative, would enable him to grant a summons against the new-made husband, but the lady declared that she was not in any fear of him, and her complaint in the end tapered to the simple question as to whether she was com pelled to supply her husband with clothes, while he was in the habit of disposing of them. Mr. Norton told her that having married him ho was entitled to all her property, unless such por tions as were settled on herself by trustees, and ad vised her to call in the aid of her friends, and mako them the medium of adjusting .the matrimonial dif ferences between herself and her husband. The lady applicant, however. did not approve of this mode of adjustment, and said she should start to Brighton, and leave her husband, though he should thi:Lk proper to dispose of her household goods, amounting at least to £4OO, and thus ended the matter. Fortunately, for the ends of justice, the particu lars of that application obtained a wide publicity, and that pu'•licity will be the means of checking, and no doubt terminating, the career of a heartless, swindling impostor. After the usual night charges were disposed of, a person of slim figure, shabby-genteel appearance, rather light complexion, meagre visage.,with a thin, half-fledged moustache on the lip, while the other parts of the face were both hairless and beardless, eyes light and devoid of the slightest spark of ani mation, and altogether o f a mos t spooney-like ap pearance, was placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on a charge of intermarrying with Mrs. Jane Hayes, a widow lady, his former wife, Sophia, being then and still alive. Chief Clerk (to the prisoner)—What is your name ? Prisoner (in a slow, shrill voice)—Wm. Marshall, Sir. Chief Clerk—Have you no other name than Wm. Marshall. Is your name not Harrison ? Prisoner—No, Sir. My name is Wm. Denby Sloper Marshall. Chief Clerk—Marshall, and not Harrison ? Prisoner—Yes—yes, Sir. Both ,wives, persons of lady-like appearance and manners, were present; and the prisoner on enter ing the dock cast a hasty glance at each, and dur ing the investigation he frequently endeavoured to put on a benignant smile while looking towards them, but both studiously avoided looking towards him, and seemed thoroughly ashamed of having been betrayed into a marriage with a person whose appearance and conduct seemed so thoroughly con temptible. The first witness examined was Charles Revell, one of the summoning officers belonging to the court, who said, in consequence of information I re ceived, I last evening accompanied two ladies, now present, to the house, No. 15, P r i nces -pl ace , Ken nington-cross, and asked for th e p r i soner . I was told lie was out at the time, but was expected in in a few minutes ; the ladies went inside and saw his second wife, Mrs. Harrison. I went into the house also, and in a short time the prisoner knocked and was admitted by the servant, and on seeing wit ness he seemed very much surprised. I told him not to be alarmed at me, for that I was about to introduce him to his first wife. Mr. Norton—Had the first wife seen him at this time ? Revel—Yes, sir, she saw bim approach the front door, and at once recognised him as the person she had been married to, and, therefore, I knew I was right in what I had said. Mr. Norton—Well, go on. Revell—Well, sir, on seeing his first wife he seemed perfectly paralysed, and, dropping down on the couch by her side, he was not able to utter a word. I then told him, that Mrs. Hayes, his second wife, charged him with getting married to her while he had another wife living, and asked him if this was true, and he replied, " Yes, and I'm very sorry for it," and that he must be a great black gua:d fcr acting so, and I then told him that I should feel it to be my duty to take him to the station-house, and charge him with the offence. I then took him into custody, and removed him to the station-house in Kennington-lane, and on the way he said he should not have got into a second marriage but he was drawn into it. Mr. Norton—Drawn into it—by whom ? Revell—He did not say by whom, your worship. At the station-house I searched him, and found on him a part of a screw of tobacco, a short clay tap room pipe, three halfpence in copper, and a part of a newspaper containing a report of the application of his wife at this court. I should say that before I took him from the house, Mrs. Hayes, the second wife, took from him a gold watch which she said belonged to her former husband. I produce the certificates of the prison?r's marriages which I re ceived from both the wives, who are now present. The certificates were here handed to the magis trate, and from them it appeared that the prisoner, who then gave the name of William Denby Sloper Massball, described himself as late captain in the army, bachelor, and son to Francis Marshall, ship owner, had been married, at Paddington Church, to Sophia Frost Dawson, widow, on the 3d of July, 1858; and that on the 28th June, in the present year, he was married, at St. George's, Hanover square, to Jane Hayes, widow, in the name of Wm. Denby Sloper Harrison, described . as a bachelor, and captain in the army, son of Francis Harrison, Lord Denbigh. A lady, who sat between both wives, here rose, and with much animation said—" Sir, my sister, beside me, had the misfortune, as your worship may see by the certificate in your hand, to marry the prisoner, without, unfortunately, consulting her friends on the subject ; and soon afterwards spend ing a great deal of her money, he deserted her in a most heartless and scandalous manner. He repre sented himself as a captain in the army who had seen great service, and possessed six medals received for distinguished services rendered to his country — (laughter)—and as possessed of considerable pro perty, but had unfortunately lost much of it in spe culation." Mr. Norton—Do you know, madam, whether your sister ever saw these Crimean medals. Lady—No, sir, she told me she had not; for that they were in pawn at Attenborough's, in Piccadilly. (Laughter, upon which the prisoner drawled out, " Oh, how cruel.") He took my sister to Jersey, living on her money all the while, and on their re turn he prevailed on her to go to Hull, and then to some friends in Lincolnshire, saying he should go there and bring her home ; but from the time of her leaving town until the evening before she had not seen nor heard from him. She (witness) having had a presentiment she should see something about him in either the law or police reports, kept her eye constantly on the newspapers, both morning, even ing, and weekly, and last week the report of the application of Mrs. Hay-es caught her attention, and on reading it she felt at once satisfied the hus band of Mrs. Hayes was also the husband of her sister. At that time she was in Norfolk, and having communicated with her sister in town, had made up her mind to investigate the matter. With that object in view she came to town, and having made application to the inspector at the station-house, he kindly sent Revell, the officer, with her and her sister, and the result of their visit to the prisoner his worship was aware of. Mr. Norton—Where did the prisoner live with your sister ? _ Lady—At Greenwich, and he promised to follow her into Yorkshire. He always made excuses, or my sister did for him, when asked to see any mem ber of the family, and, for my part, I never saw him before last evening. Mr. Norton--I hope he has not made away with your sister's propery ? Lady—No, Sir, but he spent as much as he could get of it. Mr. Norton—l am very glad this lady, Mrs. Hayes, the second wife, did not carry out her de claration to go to Brighton, and leave him to dis pose of her goods, amounting to £3OO or £4OO. Mrs. Hayes—l feel much obliged, Sir, and I4m very glad too. Mr. Norton to the prisoner —Do you deny that you are the person described in the certificate as the William Denby Sloper Marshall, who was mar ried to Mrs. Sophia Dawson ? Prisoner (in a whining tone)—No, Sir, but I am sorry, for I know it was very wicked of me ; very wicked indeed. Mr. Norton—And do you acknowledge also that you are the person who was married to Mrs. Jane Hayes, and to whom this other certificate refers ? Prisoner—l do, Sir; I know it was wicked. Inspector Emmerson, of the P division, said h e had become acquaint e d, some time ago, with the history of the prisoner, and wished to say that his real name was Sloper, and not Marshall or Harri son, and he was the illegitimate child of a female who subsequently married a man named Marshall. The prisoner was a dealer in bottles, and was engaged in bottling beer and ale for different people. Prisoner—l beg your pardon ; I was a wine mer chant, and supplied Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and the Pavilion with wines and ales. Mr. Norton—And does the fact of your father or stepfather supplying Buckingham Palace or Wiiad sor Castle justify you in assuming the term honour able a (Laughter.) Prisoner—Perhaps not. Mr. Emmerson—What I state, your worship, is quite correct, and it is singular enough that on ono occasion the prisoner went with his stepfather to bottle some ale at the house of a nobleman, and be came so intimate with one of the young ladies that an elopement was arranged, and would in all pro bability have succeeded had not one of the letters of the young lady fallen into the hands of the pri soner's grandfather, who forwarded it to the noble man, her father. Prisoner—Oh, how can you say all this ? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Mr. Norton—You are a nice person to moralise. not truerisoner (whinin g )—W e ll , your worship, it is Mr. Norton—ls it true that the prisoner has a third wife ? Revell—l cannot say at present, sir; but it is strongly suspected. If your worship remands the prisoner, I shall be able to find out by the next exa m in ation • The lady who had before addressed the magis trate, said that prisoner's mother had called on Mrs. Hayes, and in conversation with that lady admit ted her son, the prisoner, was married 8 years ago. The prisoner was then remanded. [A.DvEßTisr.StENT.]—llolloway's Pills and Ointment.--L Influenza.---FeVer.—The summer months are peculiarly prone to produce Catarrh. and Influenza from the great heat relaxino• b the system and the ope n p ores being exposed to sudden draughts. Early attention and effective treatment are always - required to prevent such cases from degenerat ing into feVer - the termination of which is ever hazardous. Under the:WO - test ? temperature Holloway's medicaments effectually Control:all formidable symptoms, cool the body, lessen the norvolisi irritation, and thoroughly rectify any temporafy corgesaon of blood. A stuffed chest is cured by Holloway's Ointment. Fever, cough, hoarseness, rain in the side, restlessness and weakness cannot resist yielding to these remedies, which cast off all diseases by purifying solids and fluids, and invigorating every organ. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE TVEEK. (From the Registrar:General's Report) The population of London is apparently more movable than any other city population. It senCs out emigrants, it is recruited to a large extent by immigrants, and in the changing seasons of the year thousands come and go. In the present week many of its visitors are gone; thousands of the inhabitants are away, yet these waves of the vast population produce little disturbance in the vital phenomena. Deaths and births suffer no inter ruption. 1,188 persons died; 1,781 children were born in the week ending Saturday August 20th. The deaths, it is gratifying to find, are below the average. In the corresponding week of 1849 and 1850, 2,230 and 1,883 of the people perished ; but the deaths in the corresponding weeks of other years, after due correction for the increase of popu lation, were 1,885. The deaths have decreased since the last of the two hot weeks (July 17-23 d) from 1,605 to 1,888 ; but still exceed by nearly 200 the weekly deaths in June. Diarrhoea is decreasing ; the deaths in the week were 240. The east and south districts suffer most severely. Ten persons died of cholera, eight chil dren and two men. One, the collector of the Kent Water Company, living in Bowater-crescent, Wool% wich Dockyard, was 68 years old, and died on the 17th of August, of cholera, after two days' illness. A compositor, aged 34, en the 15th of August, at 9, Adelphi-terrace, Bethnal-green ; his death is said to have been by cholera without diarrhoea, after 43 hours' illness. The absence of premonitory diarrhoea may well be questioned. Twenty persons, including 14 unhappy children under five years of age, died of small-pox, 14 of measles, 51 of scarlatina, 17 of diphtheria, 23 of whooping-cough, and 37 of fever. 140 persons, of whom 63 were of an age 20-40, died of consump tion. 28 persons died by accident or negligence ; namely, 12 by mechanical injuriis, 4by burns, 1 by poison, 10 by drowning, and 1 by suffocation ; 1 person was murdered, 5 committed suicide, 3 died suddenly without stated cause. Last week the births of 917 boys and 864 girls, in all 1,781 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58, the average number was 1,555. The mean temperature of the week was 63.9 deg., or nearly the same as it was in the two previous weeks. The means of the daily highest and lowest temperatures were 76.6 deg. and 55.6 deg.; the range 21.0 deg. The Thames remained at 67.6 deg., and, fluctuating only one degree, was was 9 deg. cooler in the day, and 12 deg. warmer than the air at night. The barometer rose from 29.666 in. on Monday to 30.005 in. on Tuesday ; it was 30 . 020 in. on Saturday, when the air was excessively dry. Saturation being 100, the hu midity of the air in the week was 77. The wind was variable. Rain fell in small quantities (0.22 in.) on Monday and Wednesday. Haze and fog prevailed at times. Electricity was positive but weak, except on Saturday, when the tension became strong. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT WHITEHALL, AUG. 20. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Gillory Pigott, Esq., one of her Majesty's Sergeants-at-law, William Henry Willes, Esq., and Wyndham Slade, Esq., to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of Corrupt Practices at the last Election for the Borough of Wakefield. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint James Vaughan, Esq., Lucius Henry Fitzgerald, Esq., and Richard Griffiths Welford, Esq., to be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of Cor rupt Practices at the late Election for the City of Gloucester. WHITEHALL, Aun. 22. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto Edward Hay Drummond Hay, Esq., Governor of the Island of St. Helena. FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 23, The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Francis Henry Nicholas Kustermann as Consul at Penang for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. CROWN-OFFICE. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. AuG. 20. Borough of Liskeard—Ralph Bernal Osborne, of New town Anner, in the county of Tipperary, Esq., in the room of Ralph William Grey, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead. Borough of Hertford—The Right Hon. William Francis Cowper, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. AUG. 22, Town of Kingston-upon-Hull—Joseph Somes, of Black wall, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of Joseph Hoare, Esq., whose election has been adjudged void. AUG. 23 Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed—Dudley Coutts Marjori banks, of No. 29, Upper Brook-street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of Ralph Anstruther Earle, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward or Bailiff of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 23. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, to be Colonel, vice General Sir John Slade, Bart., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 23. Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Leutenant Cecil Frederic Holder to be Captain, by purchase, vice Glyn, who re tires ; Lieutenant Frederic Radford to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sandeman, who retires ; C o rnet Charles Hall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holder ; Cor net Ralph William Caldwell to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Radford. 11th Light Dragoons—Wastel Brisco, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Robinson, promoted. 17th Light Dragoons—Henry William Young, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Corbet, appointed to 16th Light Dragoons. 18th Light Dragoons—John George Stopford, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Williams, deceased. Royal Artillery—Captain David Aikman Patterson, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Paymaster ; Henry Lewis de la Chaumette, Esq., late Paymaster, British Italian Legion, to be Paymaster. Royal Engineers—Quartermaster-Serjeant George to be Paymaster; Lieutenant Henry Teasley L'Estrange St. George has been permitted to resign his Commission. Military Train—Cornet Donat McMahon, from half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps, to be Ensigb, vice Michael Cain, whose appointment has been cancelled. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Richard Palliser to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Watson, wbo has retired ; Ensign Alfred Bloomfield to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Willis, promoted. sth Foot—David Gregory Beamish, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bradford, promoted. 6th Foot—Henry Tringham Braidley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Giffard, promoted. 12th Foot—Campbell Thomas Morris, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Featherstonehaugh, promoted ; Colour Sergeant William Mansell, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tomlin, deceased. 13th Foot—Ensig,nßichard Fitzgerald King to be Instruc tor of Musketry. 14th Foot—Edwin Jervis, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Laing, promoted. 15th Foot—Capt. Alfred Grey, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Henry Thom is Richmond, who ex changes ; Thomas Howard Keelinge Fletcher, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, ,vice Liddell, promoted ; Henry Joseph Hadfield, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fuller, deceased. 18th Foot—The promotion of Lieutenant E. A. Noblett to bear date 9th March, 1858, instead of 16th March, 1858, as previously stated. 20th Foot—Captain Rodney Payne O'Shea, from Adjutant of a depot battalion, to be Captain, vice Flamstead, who exchanges ; Zachary Macaulay, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Glencross, promoted. 22d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Smith Robin, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Nunn, who retires • Ensign George Hamilton French to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hassan, who retires; Ensign Robert Arthur Denny to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Robin. 24th Foot—George Paton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Sawbridge, promoted. 41st Foot--Edgar Younghusband, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brooke, promoted. 45th Foot—Surgeon Thomas Connor O'Leary, M. 8., from the 68th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Best, who exchanges. 46th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Carr William Hamond to be Captain, by purchase, vice Piper, who retires ; Ensign Charles Benjamin Coles Speke to be Lieutenant, by pur "Zli2se, vice Hamond. 49th Foot—Ensign George Shirley to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Cooke, deceased. 55th Foot—Frederick Baird, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Riley, promoted. 57th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred F. A. Slade to be Captain, by purchase, vice Copland, who retires. 59th Foot—Patrick Chalmers, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brown, promoted. 68th Foot—Ensign Henry George Cavendish to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Sparke, promoted; Surgeon Thomas Best, from the 45th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice O'Leary, who exchanges. 73d Foot—Henry Synge, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice William Hamilton, deceased. 84th Foot Paymaster William Vanderkiste, from the Royal Limerick Militia, to be Paymaster, vice Donelan, deceased. 92d Foot—Ensign Gilbert Edward Campbell to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Gooch, promoted. 97th Foot—Thomas Thompson Irvine, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Cooper, promoted. Rifle Brigade—A ss i s t an t-Surgeon David Ritchie Pearson, M.D., from th e St a ff , to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ro bertson, appointed to the Staff. Royal Newfoundland Companies—Major John James Grant, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major in suc cession to Brevet-Colonel Law, promoted to be Major- General. DEPOT BATTALIONS.—Captain Francis Barry Drew, from 94th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Alexander Maclean, appointed. Staff Officer of Pensioners; Captain George L. W. D. Flamstead, from the 20th Foot, to be Adjutant, vice Rodney P. O'Shea, who exchanges. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant- Surgeon Alexander Craw ford Robertson, from the Riflo Brigade, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Pearson, appointed to the Rifle Brigade. VETERINARY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. — GreatrexNadO n , Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgeon, vice Dully, whO has resigned. BREVET. Colonel Commandant Henry William Parke, retired full pay Royal Marines, to have the ho norary rank of Major- General, under her Majesty's Order in Council of 13th NOvember ' 1858. Major the Hon. Eyre Chelloner Henry Massey, 95th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel in the Army. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. -Kingston-upon-Hull—Francis Digby Le and Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. The Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet John Pierce Chamberlain Starkie to be Lieutenant, vice Ridgway, resigned; the Right lion. Frederick Chalies Cavendish, commonly called Lord Fre derick Charles. Cavendish, to be Cornet, vice Star l de, pro moted. sth Company of Lancashire Volunteer Rifles—Robe rt John Tinley, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Capt. the Right Hon. George Henry Robert Charles Stuart, Earl Vane, to be Major, vice Williames, resigned ; Lieut. David J ones to be Captain, vice Bonnor Maurice, resigned; Lieut. Ed mund Ethelstone Peel to be Captain, vice Earl Vane, pro moted ; Cornet George William Adair to be . Lieutenant, vice Jones, promoted ; Cornet Arthur Sampford TripP to be Lieutenant, vice Peel, promoted ; Cornet Wm. Henry Adams to be Lieutenant, vice Williams, deceased. Royal Wilts Militia—Henry Augustus Brudenell B ruce/ Gent., to be Ensign, vic e Edwards, promoted ; Cavendish Hurreil, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Holman, promoted. Wiltshire Volunteer Rifle Corps—John Henry Jacob, Esq., to be Captain of the Ist Company. Ist or Handsworth Company of the Staffordshire volun teer Rifle Corps—Henry Elwell, Esq., to be Captain. Ist Company o f N or th um b er l an d V o l un t ee r Rifles--Ed ward Trotter, Esq., to be Captain ; John Fenwick, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; John Fawins, Gent., to be Ensign. Ist Company of Northumberland Volunteer Artillerr— Addison Potter Esq., to be Captain; Emanuel Young' Gent., to be First Li eu t enan t ; F re d er i c k Pilter, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia —En sign Robert James Blyth to be Lieutenant, vice Hes, r e " signed.4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia — Captain Arthur Charles Fitz James to be Major, vice Mich ford, resigned. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—John Frede rick Napier Hewett, formerly Lieutenant in her Majesty 72d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain. Ban,ff El 76th Highland Light I n f an t r y, or I nv erness, gin, and Nairn Shires Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Donal" Colin Cameron to b e C a pt a i n , v i ce th e H on . Lewis Grant, resigned. Regiment of Royal P er th s hi re Rifl e Militia --Lieut; Francis M‘Naught en L es li e t o b e C ap t a i n , vice Pend resigned. Alex. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Thomas Horner, surgeon, Hoxton, Middlesex. BANKRUPTS. Isle of Wm. Wallyer Walkyi er , p os t- mas t er , Sandown, Wight, to surrende r S e pt. 5, a t e l even , and Oct. 3 , a twelve, at the Court of B an k ru pt c y. Oct. , William Seger, b u ild er , G reenw i c h, S e pt. 5 and • at half-past eleven, a t th e C our t o f B an k ru pt c y. at James Broadh urs t, b u ild er, K enn i ng t on , Sept. 2 , eleven, and Oct. 7, at o ne , a t th e C our t o f B an kruptc)\ l. James Doherty, draper, Bi rm i ng h am , S e pt. 3 and 7, at eleven, at the Birmin g h am Di s t r i c t C our t. Sept 6 Samuel Marsh, lace manuf ac t urer , N o tti ng ham, and 27, at half-past eleve n , a t th e Shi re h a ll, Nottingh°% . Samuel Newton, cotton manufacturer, Stockport, 9, and Oct. 6, at twel ve , a t th e M anc h es t er District Co ~_ ll' t Samuel Middleton, ironmonger, Oldham, Sept.ct / eleven, and Sept. 23, at twelve, a t the Manchester Di 2 s tr. ' Court. John Lyons, steel manufAturer, Sheffield, Sept. 3 and Oct. 1, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. hes - Eli Ormrod and Richard Roberts, merchants, Manc.,, - • ter, Sept. 8 and Oct. 6, at twelve, at the Manchester M IS' trict Court. a nd William Neck Peckins, auctioneer, Torquay, Sept. 7, Oct. 5, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. ward Edward Clement Da v i es ( an d no t Clement • a Davies, as advertised in last Friday's Gazette ), ~w IA , and spirit mercha n t, G a i ns b oroug h, Aug. 31, and SeP" at twelve, at the Townhall, Kingston-upon-Hull. Robert Caldecott, licensed victualler Piccadilly, Sept. 2 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. fit, Edward Emerson Fenwick, w i ne an d s pirit merc'w — Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Aug. 30 an d O c t. 6, at twelve, a the District Court of Bankruptcy. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. James Turnbull, innkeeper, Kirkintilloch. John Thomson, merchant, Horndean, Berwickshire . Alex. Gopsell Pooley, Inverary. George M'Callan, tinsmith, Johnstone, Renfrewshire: 4 , Peter Wilson, tenant and cattle dealer, Falhills, Lart'' shire. COUNTRY MARKB7M. LIVERPOOL—AuG. 23. Our market this morning had a thin attendance Of tha town and country :trade, and with only a retail der ao o . for wheat at a re d uc ti on o f hl t o 2d p er cen t a l on late rate., Now wheat was very irregular in val u e. Flour was 11 ?: firmly at about late rates, with a moderate consumptiv e quiry. Oats and oat mea l neg l ec t e d, an d b ar l e y unalte rea , Egyptian beans and pea s t h e t urn l ower . There Was les business in Indian co rn , but prices firm, at the extre— ,n quotations of last market. Weather good. BRISTOL—Auo. 23. ra At our market to-day new and inferior wheats wer e d ther easier in price, but there was a good trade in old !ti l er foreign wheat at about into prices. Barley sells I'm' dearer for grinding. Oats dull. SHEFFIELD—AL G. 23. A all We had a thin attendance at to-day's market, and 8- r supply of grain. The extreme pric e s of l as t week, howteni-' were fully maintained. Several samples of new whe I t 1 7.,5 the south were shown, but the quality varied. t digs offered at 50s to 53s per qr. Superior new oats, 27s to Beans and other articles unchanged. 170 6d Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l6s 6d to White )1 )1 Beans 71 Peas, per qr Grindinc , barley, per qr Malting ditto , 11 Oats Millers' prices for flour—is 7d, is 9d, 423311 ; 88331 d ssssss°0°°60 : 1cidddd s itti ° I 1522333d:5521:P11 141 b. Hay, 80s to 85s ; wheat straw, 28s to 36s ; oat gra', 280 to 3Gs ; turnips, 14s to 16s per ton. LEEDS—Atm. 23. There were fair arrivals of wheat this morning, and the weather continues fine ; we had only a moderate inquiry for old wheat, and prices are nominally the same as before. The supply of new was moderate, and is taken off at about late rates. The price of barley unchanged. Other artielee in limited request, with no material alteration in value. _ . Averages for the week : Wheat 3,252 qrs., at 46s 3d Barley.. • . 24 „ 29s 61 Peas -8 Od Beans Oats l6O „ 2ss 9/c1 Rye — ,1 Arrivals this week : Wheat 1,184 qrs. Barley Oats Rapeseed Beans lOO Peas Linseed NORWICH CATTLE—AUG. 20. A moderate show of store cattle to .day, comprising Scots' shorthorns, DOV 0112; and Irish, with a fresh drove of bulls' A poor attendance, farmers being still busy at the ha rvest Sales restricted. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4a 6d ; Iris h, 39 to 3s 6d. Fat beasts, 7s 6d to 8s 6d per stone. Q od to Sheep—The pens were well filled. —Fat sheep, - 8u 6d per stone. Pigs—A good supply. Store pigs 25s to 30s; fat pork, 65 Od to 6s 6d per stone. ,Asti [ADVERTISEMENT.]--EPPS'S (11011100opathie COCOA.—This esteemed preparation is sold by the 1 0 : 1 11 b - ' cipal grocers at ls. 6d. per lb , in llb., and 4- - , no ao." packets. Each packet is labelled . " James Epps, - 1. " .° pathic chemist, London." {ADVERTISEMENT.]—We extract a few out of the wain expressions of gratitude from invalids cured wi medicine by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta AraPLA Food :—Pure No. 71, The Right Honourable the IS Stuart de Decies, of many years dyspepsia and horrors. Cure N o . 49,832, " Fifty years' indescribable agony, from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, Cod stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickne ss a t the stomach, an t vomittin,e , have been removed by Du Barry's excellill, Food.—Maria Joly, Wortham Ling, near Diss, Norfolk•'- Cure No. 47,121, Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vic" ; age, Waltham Cross, Herta, a cure of extreme nervousne indigestion, gatherings, • low spirits, and nervous fanci,7,. Cure No. 48,314, Miss Elizabeth Y eoman , Gateacre, ne Liverpool, a cure of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the I° 0 . rors of nervous irritability. Cure 18,216, Dr. And re Ure of constipation, dyspep s i a , an d nervous irritamlit • Cure No. 34,210, Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debilil; Cure No. 36,212, Captain Allen, of epileptic fits. C u ~ No. 42,116, Major Edie, of liver complaint and total IT stration of strength. Cure No. 36,418, Rev. Dr. Minis, of cramps, Spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26;4 Dr. Harvey, of diarrhcea and debility. Cure 39,628, Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure - 0 .; 22,880, William Hunt, Esq., barrister, of para l Y s ; In tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 61b., 128 .; 21: 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, R egen t- s t r eet Lon& f d t; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilli Gracechurch-street • 4, Cheapside ; 63, an 150, Oxfol. street; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and 60, Bishurcifba, street ; Tottenham-court-road. Also at ; Bewley and Draper ; Edinburgh, Raimes and p at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, SharP Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, a n d Co, ; at Son' ampton, Randall and Son. BIRTHS. CHAVASSE.—On the 22d inst., at O a k Villas, Stan if ad' hill, Mrs. W. Chavasse, jun., of twins. D iNIELL.—On the 21st inst., a t 30, Berkeley-square, title wife of Major Daniell, of a daughter. a to SELIVVH.—On the 22d inst., at Richmond, Surrey , wife of C. Jasper Selwyn, Esq., of a daughter., WINTER.—On the 22d inst., at St. James's-square , --,,, ting-hill, the wife of T. W. Winter, Esq., of a daugh' MARRIAGES. Bury St• CAR MICHAEL—HODSON.—On th e 20th i ns t., a t Bu- ,. d, to Edmund's, James Carmichael, Esq., of Edinburgh, of Mary Eliza, fourth daught er o f N. S. Hodson, Di c k' Bury St. Edmund's. WATSON—LEVER.—.On the lith inst., at the British Vice - Consulate,, Spezia, Henry Bowse Watson, Esq., late :`,.; Royals, Captain Ist Warwickshire Militia, to Kate, second daughter of Charles Lever, Esq. DEATIIS. FLETCHER,—On the 19th inst. Mr. James Fletcher, Pr Hart-street, Bl ooms b ur y, aged 62. GoODALL.—On the 19th inst., at Folkestone, Major George* Goodall, late of the Royal Regiment, aged 65: HOPKINSON.—On the, 22d inst., Jonathan Ho_pkinso l d i r Esq., formerly o f th e Discount Office, Bank of Enfila n aged 89. INGLEBY.—On the 21st inst., at Westfield, Birmingham' Clement Ingleby, Esq., aged 71. KEEN.—On the 20th inst., William Keen, Esq.) of 00° (Miming, aged 39. the Non:MT.—On the 21st inst., at Walton - on-Thame s,-- Rev. William North, aged 57. ROBB.—On the 20th inst., at Hampstead, J. Robb, Est' Captain, R.N., Aid e -d e -C am p t o th e Q uee n, of 46, Ell' land-gate. 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