The Sun. — London, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

- - THE LATE VOTE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. was the head of a gentleman's child." I said, " Did he do anything else ?" She said, " He put his hand upon my knee." I said, " Don't deny it ; lam an old married man, the father of a family, and I think I know all your husband's family ; tell me the truth." She said, " I told you it was ridicu lous ; he said it was the head of a gentleman's child. This was on the 29th of April. The mother in-law came in and said, " La ! Mr. Kent, what a funny set-out this is." On cross-examination the witness said he went because the vicar had spoken to him. He was churchwarden. His son was solicitor to the vicar. The witness said that on the 29th of April, when to the plaintiff's house, he might have known that the plaintiff had written to the defendant. On re-examination he said he gave evidence on the inquiry, and admitted that he had taken up the matter for the vicar, having been consulted by him. Evidence was tendered of the good character of the defendant, but rejected as irrelevant. Evi dence was also tendered by the plaintiff in support of the various charges suggested against the de fendant, but it was rejected on the same ground. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine having summed up the evidence, Mr. Huddleston replied, and commented upon all the facts of the case, to show that, upon the evi dence the jury ought to find for the plaintiff. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn having summed up at considerable length, The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of about two hours, they returned into court, and said there was not the slightest chance of their agreeing to a verdict. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said, if that was the case he might as well discharge them at once as several hours later. Mr. Huddleston assented to that course, and no opposition being made on the other side the jury were discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 20. WESTMINSTER.--John Gould, a toll-collector at Vauxhall-bridge, was summoned by Mr. W. Mayne, a retired officer from the army, on half pay, and adjutant of the Queen's Westminster Rifle Volunteers, for unlawfully demanding and taking of him the toll of ahalfpennv, he being exempt from the payment of the said toll, and having claimed such exemption. Mr. Mayne stated that on the 19th instant he went to Raynham with his corps for target prac tice, and, returning in the evening to Fenchurch street, crossed London-bridge and dined with a friend. At about midnight he went over Vaux hall-bridge on his way home to Upper Belgrave place, when defendant, who was at the gate, de manded toll. Complainant claimed exemption as a rifle corps volunteer, when defendant replied he knew nothing about volunteers and must have his toll. Complainant's experience of the army sug gested to him to inquire of the toll-eollector whether soldiers would have to pay, when de fendant (who is a pensioner from the army) replied, " You don't call yourself a soldier !" Complainant told him that he should certainly try the question of exemption, and paid the toll under protest. Complainant begged to assure the magistrate that he had no feeling in bringing this matter forward but that the question should be decided, as it was one of public importance. Mr. Jeffrey, secretary to the Vauxhall-bridge Company, objected that complainant was not in uniform nor wearing his arms at the time; and Defendant said he was wearing a blouse. 4 ,, Mr. Mayne replied that he was in undress uni form ; he woreat the time the regulation trousers and blouse, and his belt and pouch. It was contrary to the Rifle Corps' regulations for the officers to wear arms in undress uniform ; they were left in he armoury. Mr. Jeffrey urged that defendant could not be said to be returning from duty on the day of exer cise, because he did not pass through the tollgate until after 12 at night. Mr. Dayman turned to the 49th of. George 111., cap. 142, section 147, which, after enumerating other exemptions from toll, said " or any volunteers upon their march or on duty, or on going to or re turning from the place appointed for and on the days of exercise." The worthy magistrate ex pressed his opinion very clearly upon this section ; he thought that the fair construction to be put upon it was that if it was a bona fide return from exercise, as in the present case, the precise hour of return was unimportant ; he thought it would be a very narrow view of the intention of the Act of Parliament to limit the exemption as now sought. Mr. Jeffrey thought it was returning from dinner rather than exercise, and pointed out that some hours had elapsed from the termination of the exercise until the exemption was claimed. Mr. Dayman considered that after four or five hours' practice a man stood in need of a dinner, and did not think that to be exempt from toll he was bound to get it at some particular place; he was not the less returning from exercise because he had had a dinner on the way. The circumstances of the case were in no respect altered by that fact ; the Act of Parliament intended to exempt him from toll while out on duty and on going to and returning from the place of exercise, and com plainant was clearly returning to his own home from the exercise. Mr. Jeffrey wished to know how the toll-collec tors were to be aware when a rifle volunteer was returning from exercise ; they were not exempt except as specified by Act of Parliament, and how was a toll-collector to know when they were entitled to the exemption ? Any one might claim it when not entitled. Mr. Dayman said that might be a very difficult thing, but, if any one falsely represented the state of things which entitled him to exemption, they might find him out and prosecute him. After some further remarks, in the course of which Mr. Mayne expressed his opinion that many of the Volunteer Rifle Corps were better soldiers than the regular army, and thought the toll-collector had not behaved very becomingly in making the remark he had to a soldier, who had probably seen more service than himself. Mr. Dayman spoke in very complimentary terms of the Volunteer Rifle Corps and their efficiency, and Mr. Mayne, having stated that he had no de sire to press the matter further than on public grounds to obtain a decision, the worthy magistrate said that complainant was clearly entitled to the exemption, and defendant must pay the nominal penalty of 6d. and costs, and refund the halfpenny toll taken. THE _NAVY, A public meeting to protest, as set forth by the notice, against " the aggression of the House of Lords upon the constitutional rights of the people," was held last evening at the Whittington Club, Arundel-street, Strand, the Hon. F. H. F. Berke ley, M.P., in the chair. A large number of gentle men interested in the question were present on the platform, and the attendance in the body of the hall was very numerous. The Secretary read a letter from General Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., regretting his inability to at tend, and trusting that n 9 one would be more zea lous than himself to give practical support to the maintenance of the rights of the Commons, which he said had certainly been dangerously infringed. A letter was also read from Sir J. V. Shelley, M.P., apologizing for his absence , partly on the grounds of his heavy Parliamentary duties, and partly because he felt it would be premature to express any opinion on the conduct of the House of Lords until the Committee on Precedents had made its report. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said, since it had been their pleasure to call him to the chair, it was his duty to state the business that had called them together. They were blessed with a glorious constitution, which resembled in many respects that engine to which England owed so much of her material prosperity—the steam engine. If every part was not perfect and in good order, so that the;whole might work well, it must be a failure. If the three estates of the realm did not work well together, then there must be a failure. Of these three estates, the Crown stood for little. The Queen could do no wrong, but her advisers could do wrong. The Queen could refuse her assent to any measure sanctioned by the other estates, but God forbid that ever this should be the case, for if ever this was done, then we stood on the brink of a revolution. The Lords were never per mitted to make bills having a money tendency, Having explained the position of the House of Commons as compared with the House of Lords, and shown the course usually taken with regard to money bills, the chairman went on to say there was great and imminent danger if the Lords ever interfered with finances. Now, in this case the Chancellor of the Exchequer goes to the House of Lords with a certain money bill, to which the assent of the people's representatives has been given, and the House of Lords say, "We will re ject that bill." This state of things demanded the consideration of all Englishmen. They did not in terfere with the power or the dignity of the House of Lords, but it was necessary that they should en force the opinion that none must interfere with their business. They did not put the question as to whe ther the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done right or wrong. As regarded the paper duties, they kept that out of sight, as it had nothing to do with the question. But the question was, had the House of Lords a right to say that he (Mr. Gladstone) is wrong, and not only say so, but make him so? There was one great argument he (Mr. Berkeley) had ven tured to address, not so much to the House of Com mons as to the people of England—" You have a House of Commons that upon any emergency will be very likely to truckle to the House of Lords, and a great portion of that house is returned by the House of Lords." If there was any slackness about them it was to be attributed to their formation. For instance, there was Viscount Redbeard sitting in the House of Commons for a rotten borough or slavish constituency, influenced by his father, the Earl of Wigtown. In due course of nature the vis count, by reason of his descent, stepped into the House of Lords. Now, would they be told that there would not be an influence exerted by the House of Lords over the House of Commons that was not contemplated by the constitution ? If this evil were reformed more would be done to assist the people in what he must call a great emergency. Their members might do their utmost, but it was the people out of doors that must do the work. The Vice of meetings such as the present must speak in tones of thunder to the House of Lords. Throughout England there was a strong feeling on the question, and in the north many gentlemen had expressed themselves ready, to lay down any sum for the purpose of defending the people's rights. (Cheers.) Mr. BEALE moved the first resolution — "That the continuance of any tax by a vote of the House of Lords, after its repeal by the House of Commons, with the sanction of the Crown, is a breach of the ancient and well-established maxim of the English constitution, that the people shall be taxed only with their own consent, given by their representatives in Parliament, and is an abuse of the functions of the House of Lords. And this meeting calls upon the House of Commons to vindicate its ancient privilege of exercising the supreme control over all matters of taxation, and to maintain the rights of the people unim paired from the infringements of the House of Lords." He said it was for the people to give expression to their sentiments upon the present question, in order to impress them upon the house of Lords. He urged them to give their support to such members of the Cabinet as were known to be favourable to their views, to support Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Gibson, and Lord J. Russell. (Cheers.) (A Voice—" John Bright.") No doubt, out of the Cabinet, they must rely on John Bright. (Great cheering.) He wanted the Government to know that their existence as a Ministry depended on the course they took on this question. Mr. WHITEIIURST, in seconding the motion, said that Englishmen had theoretically assented to the principle that there should be no taxation without representation. Who were the parties to this con troversy ? On the one hand the House of Com mons, and on the other the House of Lords. Now, what was the House of Commons? The present Lord Chancellor had said " the House of Commons was composed of men of the people of all degrees and orders, and exclusive of the individuals who formed the other House of Parliament." What was the House of Lords ? The House of Lords was ir responsible if Parliament was dissolved. The House of ,Lords met again " having learnt nothing and forgotten nothing." The House of Commons were looking for precedents. He himself, however, be lieved that they would find them, in the words of Lord John Russell, "conspicuous by absence," The House of Lords were utterly unsympathetic with the great mass of the people, and when a noble lord got up in that house to make a motion relative to universal suffrage and the ballot he was received with what the Times called " icy politeness." If they allowed the Lords to pursue the course they had adopted on this question, then a long farewell to all our greatness. They would impose taxation excessive in amount, andtlevied on principles ini mical to the prosperity of trade and manufactures, on which the prosperity of the country depended. (Cheers.) Mr. CONINGHAM, M.P. supported the motion. He appeared there not only as a resident of West minster, but as a member of the House of Commons, The House of Lords was opposed to all reforms, and only acted upon precedents. He was not opposed to precedents, as there were good ones as well as bad ; but he believed that there was no precedent for the conduct of the House of Lords. The question was one of the utmost importance as affecting the prosperity, the rights, and the privi leges of the people of England, which had been audaciously violated.. Would they allow the privi lege of holding the Fars° strings which they had so long held to be seized by an irresponsible body P Representative bodies were not to be trusted when great principles were at stake—after a certain lapse of time it was necessary that they should go back to their constituents. Would they submit to have their privileges wrested from them by a wretched minority ? In a free country like this an heredi tary and irresponsible power, such as the House of Lords, was an anomaly. The question was whether they were prepared to give up the privileges they possessed and sell their birthright not even for a mess of pottage. Was it not their birthright to tax themselves; and were they to go back to the feudal system ? Had not these lords enough power and riches already ? They must compel them to take back this bill and not allow a sacred principle to be rendered null and void by an assembly that called itself the defenders of our liberties, but was always foremost in resisting every reform and every truth. (Cheers.) Mr. DICKEY endeavoured to move an amendment °_,l 3 Posed to the motion, but amid evident marks of ' l ..'sapprobation was compelled to desist, the meeting aecluied to listen to him, and on being put from the chair, th(sresolution was carried with one or two dissentientsMr.PSS.lloßE EDWARDS moved the second reso lution, that Commons s the following petition to the House of be adopted : " That the of Lords, after its continuanceof any tax by a vote of the House the sanction of t ls ie rer a l by the House of Commons, with t loners, a breach Of the ancient in the opinion of your peti of the English comstiteot.nctent and well-established maxim only with their own consent,ithat the people shall be taxed in Parliament, and is an given by their representatives petitioners of the functions of the House of Lords, and yon t earnestly pray your hon. house to vindicate. your a n e cie s m n a rvilege of exercising the supreme contr( over all maintain the rights. of the People unimpaireders of taxation, and to in fringements of the Rouse of Lords." from the He said that, alt hough many important meetings i of the town, the TibrAes had never given any report of them. Mr, MALLISON seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. 31urragh, and, after a few words from Mr. iVharto.a. in opposition, was agreed to. On the motion of Mr. WHALLEY, M.P., a vote of thanks was passed 'to en the chairman, and the hour, ter roceed- ings, which had I)e protracted to a late minated. The line-of-battle screw steamer Rodney, 91, has been towed from Chatham to the coaling depot at Sheerness to receive her coals on board, preparatory to proceeding on a trial trip, for the purpose of testing her machinery. The Atlas, 91, one of several of the screw steamers ordered to be built at Chatham dockyard, is com pleted, and is ordered to be launched on the 21st of July next, when another screw steamer of equally large dimensions will be commenced on the same slip. The Nelson, 91, screw, in the steam reserve a, Portsmouth, yesterday steamed out of harbour to Spithead, and thence to Stokes Bay, to test her 'Speed at the measured mile. The ship was only tried at half boiler power and gained a result of over 101 knots, with a maximum of 56 revolutions of engines, and a draught of water of—forward, 17ft bin ; aft, 21ft 10in. The trial will be resumed with full boiler power to-day. The Melpomene, 51, screw, Capt. C. J. F. Ewart, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Tetuan, from which port she sailed on the 14th inst. at 4 p.m., having on board his Excellency Said Abdal lab, ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco to the Court of St. James, and suite. Shortly after 2 p.m. his excellency, attended by Mr. J. Hay, the British consul at Tetuan, disembarked from on board the Melpomene under honorary salutes from that frigate and from the garrison saluting battery on Portsmouth ramparts, and proceeded into the harbour on board the Sprightly, steam tender, Master-Com. Allen, which steamed alongside the King's-stairs of the dockyard, where the distin guished party landed and were received by Major- Gen. Lord. W. Paulet, C. 8., and staff, comprising Col. Somerset, Assist.-Quartermaster-General ; Col. Thackwell, Assist. Adjt.-General ; Major Breton and Capt. Milligan, A.D.C. ; Vice-Admiral H. W. Bruce, Capt. Coote, &c., and a guard of honour of the Ist battalion 11th Regiment, with their band and colours. Carriages were in waiting, which im mediately conveyed the ambassador and his suite to the railway station, which they left by the train for London. The Immortalite, 51, screw, got up steam yester day and tested her machinery in the steam basin at Portsmouth. She is fitted with machinery by Messrs. Maudsley, Field, and Sons, and great interest is felt as to the result of her forthcoming trial at the mea sured mile, owing to the unusual sharpness of her lines forward. After being thoroughly repaired inside and out the screw steam storeship Himalaya, Capt. Sec combe, was on Tuesday removed from No. 1 dock in Keyham steam-yard, and placed in the basin under the sheers. The screw steamship Brunswick, 80, was hauled on Tuesday from under the sheers at Devonport to the West Wall in Hamoaze. The naval transport Diligence, J. Head, master, was hauled on Tuesday into Keyham basin to dis charge her cargo of moulding sand. On Tuesday the screw gunvessel Espoir, 5, was taken out of Keyham basin and placed in Hamoaze, and the gunboat Sheldrake was removed from Key ham to the steam ordinary. The gunboats Gold finch and Charon were placed in No. 1 dock. The Locust, 3, paddlewheel steamer, 150-horse power, Lieut. and Cora. J. B. Field, arrived yester day at Sheerness from the Channel Islands, where she has for some time been employed in protecting the fisheries and in exercising the pilots and coast volunteers. After coaling and taking in a stock of provisions she will proceed to Leith, to be placed under the orders of Vice-Admiral Sir C. H. Fre mantle, C. 8., commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet. Capt. C. Wise, aide-de-camp to the Queen, late of H.M.S. Vesuvius, made a private visit yes terday to Capt. R. B. Watson, C. 8., and the dock yard at Sheerness. Capt. Wise is appointed captain superintendent of the yard (vice Capt. Watson, su perseded at his own request), and will enter on his duties on the Ist July. The Flying Fish, 6, screw despatch-vessel. Com mander Charles W. Hope, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead, and made fast alongside the south jetty, where she will refit prior to proceeding with the Royal squadron to Canada. The Colossus, 80, screw, Capt. F. Scott, C. 8., was swung yesterday in Portsmouth Harbour, for the adjustment of her compasses. The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, is engaged coaling along the Malabar coal depot in Portsmouth harbour. The Fire Queen steam tender, Master Commander Paul, is taking it her machinery, &c., in the steam basin at Portsmouth, preparatory for further service. The Coquette, 4, steam sloop, in No. 5 dock at Portsmouth, has had her copper stripped off, and hands are now engaged on board driving out her bolts and taking up her ceiling and planking for ward, &c. The timbers of this vessel, so far as they are exposed at present, are in a very bad state, especially in the boiler parts of the hold. Fore and aft she has not yet been sufficiently opened to afford ,any correct evidence as to her real state in those parts. Of the upper portion of her framing, six timbers on her starboard quarter are the only portion yet stripped and exposed, and they offer as strong evidence of " sap" and unsoundness as did any of the Haslar gunboats. Yesterday being the anniversary of her Majesty's accession the day was observed at all the dockyards in the accustomed manner. In the morning a full parade of the troops of the garrisons was held on the respective parade grounds, and at 12 o'clock a Royal salute was fired, which was taken up by the vessels of war. Capt. G. W. D. O'Callaghan, has been selected by the First Lord of the Admiralty to receive the good service pension vacated by the promotion of Capt. R. G. Robinson to the rank of Rear-Admiral. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :--W. M. Lowick, second master, to the Bloodhound ; C. J. Fennell, acting assist.-surg., to the Torch ; E. P. Forrest, acting assist.-surg., to the Colossus ; T. Fulton, assist.- surg., confirmed in the London ; D. Bowen, acting first• class assist.-engineer, for temporary service, to the Saturn, for service in the Asp ; L. Dacres, A. J. Booth, and R. 0. Webb, naval cadets, to the Bacchante, additional, for disposal ; T. Ferris, naval cadet, to the Terrible; and A. C. Jeffrey, clerk, to the Edinburgh. THE ARMY, At the Levee yesterday her Majesty conferred the honour of knighthood upon Col. Lockyer Freestun. His services have been very remarkable. He served in all 22 years in the British army, 18 of them as a subaltern in different parts of the world, seven years in the West Indies, and again on the staff of Sir Be Lacy Evans's Auxiliary Force in Spain in 135, '36, and '37, where he was three times wounded, once severely, and had two horses shot under him. He received from the Queen of Spain, and with permission to accept and wear them, the following decorations :—Knight Commander, with the Star of Charles 111., Knight of the Royal Mi litary Orders of San Fernando and Isabella the Catholic, together with the medals of the sth of May, 1836, and storming of Irun, June, 1837. He served his last campaign on a particular service in Syria 1840,'41, and '42, as Field Officer on the Staff, receiving the gold medal from the Sultan, with per mission from her Majesty to accept and wear it. Colonel Freestun represented Weymouth in Par liament from 1847 to 1859. The hired East India troopship Startled Fawn, Capt. Tindall, which arrived in the Thames, from Calcutta, with sick and wounded troops on board, disembarked her military invalids yesterday, con sisting of 247 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d (The Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 6th Dra goon Guards (Carabineers), 7th Light Dragoons, 12th (Prince of Wales's) Lancers, 17th Lancers, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 3d (Buffs), Bth (the King's), 19th, 20th, 23d (Royal Welsh Fusi leers), 31st, 34th, 38th, 42d (Royal Highlanders), 43d (Light Infantry), 54th, 60th (Rifles), Ist and 2 d battalions, 71st (Highlanders), 79 th (High landers), 8 2d, 87th (Royal Irish Fusileers) , 88th (Connaught Ra n gers), 89th, 90th (Light Infantry) and 97th R eg i ments, the 2d an d 3d b a ttalions of Rule Brigade, and the Medical Staff Corps. The VICTOR EXAM.NUEL .1.11 7 D THE PRIESTS. The Tuscan correspondent of the News of the Churches, alluding to Victor Emmanuel's provin cial tour, says—He was greatly pleased with his reception in Tuscany, which was most hearty and enthusiastic. The only exception was Cardinal Corsi, the Archbishop of Pisa, who refused to make his appearance in the church, or in any way to recognise him, and retired to the Corteso Con yen, a few miles out of town. Some of the Pisan officials, when the King entered the mag nificent Domo, began to apologise for the Arch bishop's absence, but the King, with a great deal of humour, immediately replied, " Oh, let him go ; I don't want him !" No foreigner who wit nessed the receptions he met with wherever he went can doubt for a moment that the maddest act of the Papacy for half a century was launching the thunderbolt of excommunication at the head of the King of Sardinia. The excommunicated of the Pope was the idol of the people, and " the curse by book, bell, and candle " was as powerless as if it never had been uttered. An amusing scene was to see how his own clergy set the Pope at defiance, and sang Te Ileums and pro nounced benedictions on the man whom their Supe rior had laid under anathema. The poor Archbishop of Florence met the King in the cathedral, and sung the Te Deum with a face pale as a sheet, evi dently betraying a struggle between opposite inte rests. The pale face of the prelate did not escape the King, who, when the Archbishop came to pay his respects at the Pitti Palace next day, in his own bluff, off-hand way, asked after Monsignore's health, and congratulated him on looking much better than he did in the cathedral the day before ! At a subsequent interview the Archbishop was expressing his great distress at the danger which his flock ran from the activity of the Protestant propagandism. "Oh !" said the King, " liberty of worship and toleration in religion is granted by the Constitution ( statute), and I can't interfere with that." "It is not so much the liberty of conscience fear, as the efforts to ruin the souls of my people by the propagan dism of the Protestants." ~ so much the worse for the souls, Monsignore, if they are I hearseduced; that it's in the statuto, and I can't help it _ Rome has sent a host of her janissaries, the Jesuits, into this country, to tread o ut"thesmoking fl ax ," if possible, before it bursts into a flame. Ointm ent The a se nd m P a i l l a ls d . i — es b a Y s ' c s e ss e s -- Pimples, Boils, Carbuncles, • to the free arise from some obstruction . .circulation of blood LADVERTISEMENT -110 A W blood vessels or capillaries, and the through the blo only ra in r • ra tional mode a cure consists removing the local impedi ment, at tho same time that any impurity engendered by the stoppage s hould be filtered from the blood. Holloway's o i n t m ent applied to the part effects the first—hi s p i lls ac complish the latter object. The inflamed skim. derives soft ness, coolness, and ease from the app li cation AD ungu ent, which gradually penetrates t o the afr- '. this and soon restores the circulation an A its -ected tissues, h e althy condition, and saves 1. tixe suffererl 1 channels toa rem most serious diseases, which too freq uent l y f vllow from c are l essness or injudicious medical treatmout, THE SUN, LONDON, TritTRSDAY IrEVENING, JUNE 21, 1860 Startled Fawn embarked 261 men of all rapks, and 13 women and children, at Calcutta, on the 29th of January last, and sailed the following day, the pas sage to the Thames being an exceedingly protracted one of 140 days, including 11 days' detention at the Cape of Good Hope—from the 4th to the 15th of April. The following officers arrived in charge of the troops—viz., Captain R. F. Holmes, 89th Regiment ; Lieut. T. Gardiner, 98th Regi ment, and Assist.-Surg. S. Gibson, M. 8., 12th Lancers. Major E. J. Ellerman, 98th Regiment, came home as passenger from the Cape; and Lieut. Allen, late of the 82d Regiment, who is undergoing his sentence for having killed his servant in India, likewise arrived in the same vessel. Orders have been received from the Horse Guards by the officers in command of the depot companies of the 18th Royal Irish, 27th Enniskillens, and 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers Regiment, directing 54 non commissioned officers and men of the 87th Regi ment to be held in readiness to embark for China, to reinforce the service companies of that corps ; 135 men of the 27th Regiment to proceed to Bom bay to join head-quarters ; and 76 men of the Ist battalion, Bth Regiment, to be held in readiness to embark for Bombay, to join the service companies. The 2d battalion 11th Regiment was inspected yesterday on their barrack parade•ground by Major General Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., commanding the S.W. district. which would no doubt develop a large residential traffic. It was only four miles in length, and the cost of construction would be but £50,000. This measure was also sanctioned, and a vote of thanks having been accorded to the chairman and directors, the meeting separated. deaf that for some time nothing could be made of her by the officer of the court. At length the plain tiff was allowed to repeat the questions to her, and she said she saw her daughter-in-law as soon as she came downstairs. She then made a complaint, and felt very ill and faint after the defendant had gone from the house. No question was asked this witless in cross examination, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine addressed the jury for the defendant, and said that as soon as these scan dalous rumours were spread abroad in his parish the defendant wrote to the Archdeacon, and an inquiry was instituted by the Rural Dean and three clergymen. The result was that a re- port was — made to the Bishop, who did not think it his duty to interfere with the de fendant. A second inquiry was instituted by the parishioners, and with a similar result. The fact was that the plaintiff had been married by the defen dant, and when he saw that the woman came to be churched within four or five months afterwards he felt it to be his duty, as the clergyman of the parish, to reprove and exhort her. He therefore called her to remonstrate, but she treated his re proofs with levity, and her husband treated him with insult. It was, however, a strange and un accountable fact, if the plaintiff's case was true, that he had made no charge of assault against the defendant. There was not a word about an assault in the plaintiff's letters. He contended that the language imputed to the defendant never could have come from the mouth of a gentleman, and that the conduct of Mrs. Tolman contradicted her state- ments, for there was nothing to prevent her getting up and leaving the room. Instead of that, she sat for twenty minutes and submitted to his insults. Mr. Kent called on her, in order to ascertain the facts, and she made no allusion to any assault, but treated the whole matter with levity, and said it was all nonsense. The very existence of the defen dant depended on this verdict, and the learned sergeant trusted the jury would find a verdict in his favour, and so disappoint a party in the parish who had determined, if possible, to drive the defen dant from his parish. The Rev. Edward Johnstone, the defendant, was then examined, and said—He had been for the last 15 years vicar of Hampton. Previously he was chaplain to the cemetery in the Harrow-road. He was 57 years of age, and had been married 11 years ago to his present wife, who was then 19. He had had six children, of whom four were living, and his wife was now in the familyway. The youngest child was a year old last December. He knew nothing of the plaintiff or his wife before he married them at the church, and did not notice her at the time. She came to be churched, and the clerk called his attention to the circumstances, so that he felt it his duty to call upon her, He inquired where she lived, and tapped at the door with his knuckles. No notice was taken. He heard a child crying, and opened the door, and went upstairs, following the noise of the crying child. That noise took him to the door. He knocked there again, and a voice said, " Come in." He was sure of that. He raised the latch and entered the room, shut the door, and found the woman at home, with the child in her arms. She rose from her chair and made a step in advance towards him. The witness proceeded. I remarked it was a fine, large child, and I added, " I hope it is your husband's." She answered in a joking tone, "1. suppose so." I was nettled at her seeming levity, and assumed a tone of severity. I said I called upon her in consequence of her having her child baptised so soon, before it could have regularly happened after her marriage. Again she made light of this by her manner. She said, " Oh, it is quite fashionable." I said, " Indeed, it is too true." She instanced two cases which were familiar to me, and I said to her sharply, " The very prevalence of this sin among us makes it the more incumbent on you to be guarded and careful in your conduct and conversation." I reminded her that she had been churched the day before, and to remember the ob ligation which the solemn office imposed upon her. I pointed out to her that, having once fallen, she would be more exposed to fall again, and that that was an additional reason for care and circumspec tion. I felt that I had then delivered my message, and rose from my chair. I heard a person in the house all the time. I rose from the chair and in. towards one window of the room, and to take off the sternness which the visit had assumed. I asked some commonplace questions abou t the gravelpits. I then wished her good morning and departed. I sat in a chair opposite the fireplace, and she sat in a chair near the bed. (A model of the room was produced. The bedroom was very small, as wide as the length of the bedstead.) I did not ask her if it was a gentleman's child ' • that was in her mind. I did not ask if that was the bed. (The defendant was here questioned as to the several obscene words and acts imputed to him, and gave them a distinct denial.) He said he did not lay his hand upon her in any way, and that the husband's letter was the first intimation he had about it ; and when he heard of the rumours he applied to the archdeacon. On cross-examination the defendant said he took his degree at Trinity College, Dublin. He said he had never represented that he had taken his degree at Trinity College, Cambridge; but when he asked whether he would swear that, he hesitated, and said he had no recollection of anything of the kind. He said he had made proposals to a young lady many years ago, but he could not recollect whether he had represented that he took his degree at Trinity College, Cambridge. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn told the defendant it was a matter he could not well forget. The defendant then said, " No, I did not ;" and added, " I declare I have no recollection." He was also cross-examined as to other representations of the like kind which it was suggested he made to the lady's father, to which he answered that he was " not aware," and had "no recollection" of making them. He, however, said it was many years ago, and wished to see the letter from which the learned counsel was cross-examining him. The defendant continued—" I mean to say I tapped at the door. I was never charged with an undecent assault on a female before this. There was a charge of inde cent words made by a woman named Caroline Wells, and another relating to a woman falsely calling herself Sophia Mason. That is the woman. I did not say to her, &c. I reproved her for her sin. She came to be confirmed when she was with child. I did not show her a picture in a book. She charged me with showing her an indecent book and print. I never said she had enticing eyes." Look at her, you see she has not." (Laughter.) Caroline Wells also charged me with saying to her, &c., and showing her a picture on the table in the vestry. She came to me to give her a character, which she required, to marry a soldier. I refused, because she was a prostitute. That was why she made the charge. I have only been charged with two indecent assaults on boys, that I know of, and one by rumour. Once I officiated for the Rev. Mr. Barnard, at Colney, in Herts, for six or seven weeks in the year 1854. A rumour has reached me that I was charged with indecently assaulting a boy there named Hasley. I know that from a letter which I received from Mr. Barnard. (The boy was here brought into court.) Ido not know that boy in the slightest degree. The witness went on to de scribe circumstances of a very equivocal character with one of these boys. The defendant continued—Mr. Barnard asked me to take some steps against the boy to punish him, but I did not. Four young boys, named John S waby, James Sibley, George Culow, and Glasher, were here brought into court and confronted with defendant, and he was cross-examined as to solicitations made to them to commit acts of indecency. He admitted that he knew three of the boys, but he denied the suggested indecency, and also the suggestion that he had given them money. Two of the boys were brought before the committee in 1858, but he had taken no steps to punish them, because he was con tented with the decision of the committee, and had placed himself in the hands of the bishop. On re-examination the defendant said he took his degree at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Mode rator in science, and obtained premiums in classics and divinity. He had only heard of the two boys a few hours before the inquiry. He had quarrelled with Mr. Walton, who kept a boarding-school, and he had married the daughter of a gentleman who kept another school. The woman Mason had been twice in the familyway, and he called upon her to reprove her, and Wells was a common prostitute. He also said he was stung in the dining-room at Colney, where he was dressing, his wife and maid being in the next room. He had had a disagreement with Mr. Barnard because he left his servants in the house. His wife was aware of the sting at the time. The defendant gave an account of the two nommittees which had inquired into the charges against him. They had sent in their report to the bishop, and he (defendant) had not from that time been interfered with by the bishop, nor ceased for one day to do !xis duty. Mrs. Johnstone, the defendant's wife, was exa mined, and said she had six children by the de fendant. The witness then proceeded to make a statement in praise of her husband, but was stopped by her counsel, who said he did not call her for that pur pose. She appeared in much anguish of mind at not being able to give vent to her feelings, but at length she was induced to desist, and, by the ad vice of her counsel, left the court. Francis Jackson Kent, vestry clerk, said—l called on the plaintiff as to the rumours which were afloat. She said, " Oh, yes; a parcel of nonsense !" I said, " It may be nonsense, but I have come to ascertain the facts." She said it was a parcel of nonsense ; he said it looked like the head of a gen tleman's child. I asked what else he said, and she laughed and said, " Oh, only my nonsense ; that it LA IF INTELLIGENCE—June 20. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) TOLMAN AND WIFE V. JOHNSTONE (CLERK). Mr Huddleston, Q.C., Mr. Prentice, and Mr. Laxton appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Ser geant Ballantine and Mr. Henniker for the de- fendant. The plaintiff in this action, George Tolman, was a footman in the service of Lady Stevenson, at Hampton Court, and he sued the defendant, the Rev. Edward Johnstone, the vicar of Hampton, to recover damages for an indecent assault upon his wife, on the sth of April, 1858. The trial occupied a large portion of yesterday and this day, and in volved details of a most extraordinary character, a great deal of which is unfit for publication. We therefore give only a condensed outline of the case as proved in evidence. It appeared that in the year 1857 the plaintiff and his wife were servants in the same family, and an intimacy there sprang up which ended in their marriage, in the month of December, 1857. She then went to live with her mother-in-law, at a cottage at New Hampton, where her husband, who had obtained a situation at Lady Stevenson's, at Hampton Court, used to visit her on a Sunday after noon. The plaintiff and his wife had formed too intimate an acquaintance before marriage, and the result was that she gave birth to a child on the 9th of March, 1858, a very few months after her mar riage. On Easter Sunday, April 4, she attended at Hampton Church and there was " churched," the defendant, the vicar of the parish, being the officiat ing minister. The next day, April the sth, the defendant called at the cottage, and, according to the evidence of a person named Moon, a tailor, who lived nearly oposite, he entered the cottage without knocking and remained there for about a quarter of an hour: Mrs. Tolman, who was a young woman of rather interesting appearance, stated that she was sitting alone in her bedroom with her baby in her arms, her mother-in-law being in the yard, when she heard some one coming upstairs, She said she heard no knock, and the defendant walked into her room and said, " How do you do ?" She got up as he entered, and the de fendant sat down in the chair where she had been sitting. The defendant stroked the baby down the head, said it was a fine baby, and asked if she was quite sure it was not a gentleman's child, and that her husband was the father of it ; to which she replied, " I should think so." The defendant then began, and continued for about a quarter of an hour, a conversation full of obscene suggestions and language of the most filthy and disgusting charac ter. She said he took hold of her by the hand, ac companying all this with observations of the most obscene and filthy character. It was about 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and he continued there for about 20 minutes, but when he hoard the mother in-law coming upstairs he looked out of the win dow, and asked whose ground it was outside, and went away almost immediately afterwards. Dur ing this time she was sitting on a chair near the bed, with her baby ; and, in about five minutes after he had gone, she went into her mother in-law's room, just opposite, and told her what had occurred, or some of it. She also told her husband the next day, Tuesday, April 6, what had taken place. She said she was unwell directly after the defendant went away, and for two or three days she was unable to get up, in consequence of the defendant coming to her and talking in the way he did. On cross-exa mination, she said she could not get up from her chair without pushing between the defendant and the bed, that she had her baby in her arms, and did not feel that she could get up. When she saw her husband she told him of what the defendant had done to her—of the assault ; that was before she had seen Mr. Walton, who called to inquire about what she had heard about the defendant. Her hus band (the plaintiff) wrote a letter to the defendant. She gave the statement produced to Mrs. Walton on the second occasion when she saw her. Mrs. Walton took the paper away. Tho witness said she wrote the statement herself, but she got her cousin, who wrote better, to copy it, and then destroyed the original. She wrote the statement to be laid before the gentlemen, as she would rather write it than go before them. [This was a committee of in quiry, consisting of the rural dean and three clergy men ; there was afterwards also a committee con sisting of seven parishioners, and it was stated that the reports of both committees were in favour of the defendant ; but as they were not admissable in evidence, the documents were not read.] The wit ness, in continuation, said Mr. Kent (vestry-clerk) called upon her, and she told him a few of the words the defendant used—that the defendant asked if it was a gentleman's child. She did not tell him of the liberties taken by the defendant; did not laugh and say it was all nonsense ; did not see Mr. Kent nor her mother-in-law laugh. The child was born five or six months after marriage. The witness said she was churched by the defendant and positively denied that he called upon her to caution her to be more careful in future, and not to commit the same sin again. She did not say to Mr. Kent, " Oh, its quite a fashionable thing ; I have only done the same as my neighbours of higher rank." The statement given by the witness to Mrs. Walton in 1858 was then read. It corresponded almost exactly with the evidence given by her in court to-day, and particularly in reference to the assault as well as the words attributed to the defen dant. It was stated subsequently that this docu ment had been laid before the committees, and that it was now produced from the hands of the Bishop's Secretary. The witness, on reexamination, said she had not seen the statement since the year 1858. Mr. Kent was the defendant's attorney. Throughout her examination the witness con ducted herself with great propriety, and appeared to produce a strong impression in her favour. George Tolman, the plaintiff, and h us b an d o f th e last witness, said he saw his wife a day or two after the sth of April, and she made a communica tion to him. He spoke about the matter to several persons, and on the 18th of April he wrote a letter to the defendant. The letter was badly written, and as badly spelt, so as to be scarcely legible. It was read as follows : " Hampton Court. " Sir,—l take the liberty of writing to you, as lam in formed by my wife that you called on her and made use of very improper language; and, sir, I beg you will not take the liberty of doing so again, for what she has told me I am quite surprised at a person in your capacity ever doing such a thing, for your conv ersa ti on was qu it e di s gusting and disgraceul for a clergyman to do. So, sir, Ido hope and trust that you never attempt such things again, or I shall be under the necessity of exposing you, sir. " From your humble servant, " G. ToLmA.N, Hampton Court." On the sth of May, he received the following answer from the defendant :-- " George Tolman,—l am told that you continue to cir culate calumnies concerning me for the manner in which I had occasion to reprove your wife, on my attention being called to the proof of her incontinence—of her confinement taking place within five months of your marriage. " As you may not be aware of the consequences to which you expose yourself by thus slandering me, I write to warn you that if you are guilty of any repetition of this offence , you will be liable to be proceeded against and dealt with as the law directs. " As a spiritual pastor, I would strongly recommend you to study very earn.stly the Epistle of St. James (especially chapter 1, verses 14, 15, and 26), and learn to bridle your tongue, and not make your professions of religion vain. " I am, &c.. " E. JOHNSTONE." To that letter the witness wrote the following answer, the latter portion of which excited great laughter : " No. 2, Rothen-villa, Richmond-hill, Surrey. " Sir, —I received a letter - from you respecting what has been said of you and your conduct to my wife, and I have this to say—that you cannot deny that you did go to her and make use of very disgraceful conversation. And if you can deny it, and you feel the least annoyed, or you think that you are belied, you may proceed - in your threats, for I have the same laws for me as there are for you. lam not the least daunted at you. And that is for my wife, her con fined within five months of her marriage, that I consider is no business of any one's except our two selves. There is one thing it shows, a honourable part on my side, and I sincerely trust that you will study your Bible a little more, instead of that low slang you made use of to my wife, also 10th Commandment. I think that you need a little advice instead of me. " From your well-wisher, " G. TOLMAN." The witness, in continuation, said the proceedings in the parish continued in 1858 and 1859, and he was bound over to keep the peace towards the defendant. Whenever the defendant put himself in his way he (witness) used to tell him he was a low, disgusting little blackguard. He told him that twenty times, and challenged him in the road to institute proceedings against him. The defendant replied that he (witness) had better keep a quiet tongue in his head, or it would be the worse for him. That continued for nine or ten months, and then he (witness) brought an action in the County Court against the defendant, and the latter caused it to be removed by certiorari. For some time he (witness) had no money to go on with the action, till some gentlemen enabled him to do so. On cross-examination, the witness said he saw his wife two or three days after the sth of April, when she told him of the particulars of the assault He knew that what she stated amounted to an assault, but he did not put it in his letter, because he was very busy, and bore it with contempt. He wrote the letter on the Sunday, instead of going to chapel. No one saw the letter. Saw Mr. Walton a month or six weeks after the sth of April ; he left word that he wanted to see him. Mrs. Tolman, sen., was called, but she was so THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW. _ "...- The following are the regulations adopted by the police to prevent obstruction and preserve order in Hyde-park and the approaches on Saturday next : HYDE-PARK. _ _ 1. All the gates will be opened during the day for persons on foot. 2. From 12 o'clock the gates at Hyde-park-corner, the Marble Arch, and in Park-lane will be closed, except for the admission of carriages 'a th persons having tickets coloured red, red and white, and orange, for admission to the galleries erected in the park. Princes-gate, the Queen's-gate, and Victoria-gate will be open for carriages, which will remain only on the road from the respective gates to the barrier at Albert-gate and that on the road leading to the Marble Arch. 3. Persons on horseback may go through Albert-gate into the Ride. 4. The approaches to all the gates will be kept free from obstruction, and, if necessary at any point, the carriages will be formed into line by the police. Carriages, after setting down company at a gate, will be required to move off quickly, and wait where directed by the police, or go away. ADMISSION TO THE GALLERIES. 5. The entrances will not be opened until 2 o'clock p.m. The tickets for the different compartments are coloured red, red and white, orange, and plain white. At the entrance to each compartment a flag will be fixed of the same colour as the ticket of admission to that com partment. Persons having tickets should go to the flag of the colour of their tickets. All the entrances are at the back of the galleries, and the most direct way for getting to them is by Park-lane and on foot through any of the gates. Or persons with tickets coloured red, red and white, and orange may enter the park in carriages, as mentioned in regulation 2, and drive to the nearest point of the gallery where the flag is of the same colour as their tickets. The carriages, after setting down at the gallery, are to wait within the park where directed by the police. ADMISSION TO GROUND IN FRONT OF GALLERIES. 6. Persons having green tickets and officers in uniform (but no person without a ticket can be allowed to accom pany them) will be admitted to a place for standing formed by hurdles in front of the galleries from the end nearest Hyde-park-corner to the saluting point. The entrance is at the end nearest Hyde-park-corner, to which persons will be directed by the police. 7. Persons without tickets will be admitted as far as there is room to a place for standing formed by hurdles in front of the galleries, from the end nearest the Marble Arch to the saluting point. The entrance is at the end nearest the Marble Arch, to which persons will be directed by the police. RICHARD MAYNE, The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Metropolitan Police-office, 4, `Whitehall-place, June 20. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, CHATHAM., AND DOVER. A special general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held yesterday at the company's " office, 2, Moorgate-street, for the purpose of sub. mitting the following bills, now pending in Parlia ment, viz.:—The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Metropolitan Extension) Bill—being a bill for enabling the company to extend their rail way communication to the metropolis, and for other purposes connected with their undertaking ; the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Capital Ar rangements) Bill—being a bill for the creation of capital stock and debenture stock of the company; and the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill—being a bill for the transfer of the Farnborough Extension Railway to the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and for the dissolu tion of the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway Company. The chair was taken by Lord Sondes. _ The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said the first resolution they would be called upon to con sider had reference to the Metropolitan Extension Bill, and he hoped that it would be approved of without opposition, as this was one of the most im portant bills they had had before them since their line had been formed—it gave them what they had long wanted, a free and independent line the whole way into London. (Hear, hear.) The plan, after almost unprecedented examination, had passed the committee of the House of Commons, as he was in formed, unanimously, and it was absolutely neces sary, as he believed, for the company to have such a communication as would be established by it. The bill was now tefore the House of Lords. The Chairman concluded by moving a resolution express ing approval of it. Mr. HILTON seconded the motion. Replying to a Proprietor, Mr. HOLROYD said the committee were satisfied that the capital provided for would be sufficient to carry out the undertaking, though a great deal of evidence was given to the contrary. Mr. HARTRIDGE thought Mr. Burke, for the company, before the committee, had made the best of a bad case—bad, not in regard to the prospects afforded by such an undertaking, but in regard to the arrangements proposed. So far as he could per ceive, the whole authorised capital of the London, Chatham, and Dover, the West End Extension, and the Farnborough Extension, taking the authorised borrowing powers into account, could only amount to £4,280,000, and as their accounts only showed an issued capital of £1,260,000, they had befoie them the prospect of raising £3,000,000. He must say some arrangement satisfactory to the directors had been made in excess of this £1,260,000, but he should like to know how the necessary capital was to be raised. Mr. HOLROYD said a very large sum of money had been raised since the last repoli, and he might say that almost the whole of the authorised capital of £2,000,000 had been raised. So that there would be no difficulty in regard to their financial position, and the original line from Bickley to Dover would be completed by the end of the year. But this new line was entirely dependent upon its own merits. Capital, which was at present authorised to be raised, was chargeable upon this part of the line alone, and the main objection raised to the scheme was that they would get such an enormous traffic that they would not be able to accommodate it. The directors had not gone into this without considering the prospects of raising the capital; they had communicated with gentlemen of large means in the city of London, and with their brokers, and had been assured by them that they were pre pared to find a large proportion of the capital, and they had no doubt that the remainder would be forthcoming when the act was obtained. The resolution was adopted unanimously. Mr. HOLROYD explained in regard to the second bill that the general capital authorised to be raised under it, exclusive of the Western Extension, was £1,580,000, and for the Western Extension, £390,000. The bill was approved of. With regard to the other bill for the transfer of the Farnborough Eitension Railway to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and for the dissolution of the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway C Anpany, Mr. HOLROYD stated that the company had agreed to purchase the portion of the West End and Crys tal Palace Railway lying to the eastward of the Brighton line, the Brighton Company having pur chased the portion to the west of their line. This gave to the Chatham and Dover Company a line of their own from the Brighton line to the Dover line, with the exception of a short line of a mile and a half between Bromley and Bickley, in regard to which they had an agreement to pay a proportion of the fares. It had been originally intended to abandon the Farnborough extension, but as the landowners held that a pledge had been given, the directors, having taken the line of the Crystal Palace Company with all their obligations, felt bound to carry out that undertaking. It was a line which might be made at a small expense, and one PROPOSED IN TERNALARSENAL ON A N CX UIIASI;', During the investigations of the National De fence Commissioners, the question of the expediency of establishing a central depot, or internal arsenal, considering the exposed situation of Woolwich, continuously occupied their attention, and the more so as, towards the end of November last, the Go vernment decided that it was desirable that the store of guns and warlike materiel should no longer be concentrated in one place and requested the com missioners to report upon a suitable site, pointing to Weedon in particular, which had been recom mended by a previous commission. The Defence Commissioners, after a visit to Weedon and a care ful examination of the Government establishment there and the surrounding country, came to the conclusion, which they reported to the Secretary for War, that the place did not afford facilities for such defences by entrenchment as would be necessary to give security to thevaluable public pl operty which it isroposed to deposit there; that the defensive wolls would be divided into four detached portions, in as many deep valleys, and th a t th e f a ll o f an y one part would give an enemy fatal command of the proposed arsenal. On the eastern and western sides, they said, it could not be defended from bombard men t without such a development of fortification as would be justified only on the score of defend ing a place of most vital importance. Besides, they added, the buildings now existing at Weedon are of second-rate consideration, and the place is difficult of access from the sea. A new arsenal, they said, involving as it must considerable outlay in fortifica tion, as well as the maintenance of a large garrison, should be so situated as to form a rallying point for defenders of the country in the event of London falling into the hands of an enemy. The commis sioners have since, and that very recently, reported their opinion that the proposed second arsenal should, as far as possible, be complementary to Woolwich, that it should possess those properties in which the latter is deficient, that it should be situated nearly in the centre of the country, and, as far as possible, out of the reach of an enemy making a descent on our shores from any quarter. The dis trict of Cannock Chase, situated in Staffordshire, is in their opinion the best that could , be selected as regards its strategical position ; besides possessing all the requirements for an internal arsenal in a very remarkable degree. The particular spot to which they direct attention is the highest plateau of that open moorland district, containing about 3,000 acres, principally common land, having few enclosures, and possessing every capability for defence. It is divi ded, they say, from a district rich in coal, only by a " fault" on the upper side of which no minerals are found, and the land being gravel and sand, without any loam on the surface, is wholly unsuited for agricultural, and almost equally so for even grazing purposes, and may, therefore, they assume, be obtained at a moderate cost. The district, they add, is healthy, well supplied with water, and possesses excellent stone for building purposes ; lime stone is also abundant in the locality, and excel lent clay for making bricks. It is, moreover, near to Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham, and other great centres of the iron manufacture, and thus able to command an almost unlimited sup ply of skilled labour on an emergency. Being in the middle of Staffordshire they point to its cen tral position with reference to sea-ports, while it is, at the same time, well retired from the coasts. They remark, also, on its being in the centre of an exten sive system of railways and canals, requiring only to be connected by short branches to afford easy communication with every part of the kingdom. A locomotive railway, they state, might, if desired, be carried round the enclosure. They continue to say, " On the west side tie site would thus be connected with the Cannock Mineral Railway of the London and North-Western system, and by means of it with the Trent Valley Railway, near Rugeley, which runs to the ports of London, Liverpool, and Holy head. On the east side the line will connect the , proposed works with the South Staffordshire Rail way, and by means of it will have another inde pendent communication with the Trent Valley at Lichfield, and also with the Midland Railway, running to the ports of Bristol and Morecambe Bay on the west coast, and Hull and Great Grimsby on the east coast of England, and, by means of it and the Great Northern, with London and Edin burgh. On the south side it will join the Norton branch of the South Staffordshire Railway, and by means of it will form a junction with the London and North-Western and Grand Junc tion lines, and thus form another route to Liver pool and London. By means of the South Staf fordshire it will form a junction with the mixed gauge lines of railway at Wednesbury, and thus secure another independent route to the north, south, and west of England. At Dudley it will join the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, which opens another route to the west and to South Wales. A canal may also be run round the enclosure, and join by means of locks, with the Birmingham Canal, which is con nected either bybasins or branch canals with nearly every work in the manufacturing district of South Staffordshire, and is on the same level from Cannock Chase to Wolverhampton, Oldbury, Smethwick, and Birmingham. It also communicates with the ocher canals of England, and affords access to London, Liverpool, Glocester, and Hull." The question of the cost of the proposed arsenal is reserved by the commissioners for a subsequent report. COUNTRY' MARKETS. LYNN-JUNE 19. There has been a continuance of unsettled weather, but to-day is fine, with a higher temperature. A thin show of wheat to-day, which met a a rather slow sale. Beans and oats firm. Old white 55s to 62s 1 Old red 53s to 58. New white.. ..... 54s to 60s 1 New red... 52s to 57. NEWAR Wheat in moderate show I :-JUNE 20. 1-day, and the demand was slow. Barley scarce. White wheat, new, 58s to 64s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 331 Red do. sss to 608 Oats, old, .. 33s to 36s Old white sBs to 64s New do 30s to 34s Red do. 51s to 57s I Beans. 48s to 51s Barley, malting.... 38s to 45s Beans, new 46s to 48s HULL-JUNE 19. There was a fair attendance of farmers and factors at this day's market, and the show of wheat was good. Business generally at late rates. Barley also in good supply, with a limited demand. Oats and beans al so i n good supply, and prices remain unaltered. Peas dull, and prices lower. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr. 6oe Od to 63s Od Old red ..**** , 7 New white .. 17 New red .. • • II Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 53s Od to 57s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French s3s Od to 54s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red St. Petersburg and Riga, old 4ss Od to 49s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 42s Od Grinding 3os Od to 31s Od Saal and Oderbruck - 3Bs Od to 40s Od Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 38a 041 Grinding ' Oats English, old ' Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 141 d Friesland and Dutch oBl4}d to oalsd Swedish and Danish oBl4d to °sl4}(' Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon 448 Od to 45s Od New tick. 43s Od to 448 Od Egyptian 3BB Od to 40s Od Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding 4BB Od to 52s Od 448 Od to 5 2s Od crushing SLEAFORD-JuNz 18. The supply of wheat was fair, and there was a limited attendance. Trade ruled fair, at fully last week's rates. Beans higher, and barley without alteration. BRISTOL SUGAR—JuxE 20. There has been a good demand for West India sugar this week, and the sales amount to over 600 hhds., principally to the grocers, at full prices to 6d per cwt. advance. Very little business has been done in rum, but, with a concession on the part of importers of ld per gallon, a large portion of present stocks might be sold. BIRTHS. CL PHANE.—On the 19th i ns t., at Portobello, N. 8., the wife E of Lieut.-Colonel Clephane, late 79th Highlanders of a daughter. PENRRYN.—On the 20th inst., at East Sheen, Surrey, the wife of Captain Leycester Penrhyn, of a daughter. VERNON.—On the 16th inst., at 37, Montagu-square, the Hon. Mrs. Gowran Vernon, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. KENNY—TUSSAIJD.—On the 19th inst., at St. J ames ' s , Spanish -place, Charles Stopford, eldest son of Dr. Kenny, 9t Richmond, Surrey, to Louisa Elizabeth, only surviv ing daughter of Joseph Tussaud, Esq., 58, Baker-street, Portman square. Suaw— SPARKEs.--On the 19th inst., at the New Church, Pembury, Kent, Sir John Charles Kenward Shaw, Bt. to Maria, only child of the late Henry Sp ar k es , E sq ., o f Summerberry, near Guildford. DEATHS. BARKER.—On the 15th inst., Miss Harriet Barker, of Brenda-villa, Clephane-road, Canonbury, daughter of the ltte Thos. Barker, Esq., of the Hill, Oldham, aged 53. DELME.—On the 14th inst., at Paris, Mary, widow of Col. Delme. PERROTT.—On the 15th inst., at Plumstead, Kent, Dame Louisa Augusta Perrott, widow of Sir E. Bindloss Per rot, Bt., aged 81. OUGIITON.—Or, the 15th inst., David Oughton, Esq., of Upper orwood, Actuary to the General Life and Fire ksurance Company. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of hiiddleses, Thursday, June 21, 1860.