The Sun. — London, England, 1858-07-15 00:00:00

THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAH. SUEZ, JULY 6. Her Majesty's steamer Cyclops arrived here from Jeddah on the 3d iust., bringing the remnants of the Christian population of that port, where an out break had taken place, costing the lives of the British acting vice consul, the French consul and his wife, and that of the three brothers Sawa, of the Greek firm of Toma Sawa; these were the leading members of the Christian community at Jeddah, which it appears consisted of not more than from 40 to 50 souls, of whom 22 were murdered. The official reports of the captain of the Cyclops were forwarded express to her Britannic Majesty's consul general at Alexandria, the accounts of the affair, as they have obtained currency at Suez, being but little to be depended upon, By these, however, it would appear that a question having arisen concerning the na tionality of a certain merchant vessel, the owner ship of which was disputed by two Anglo-Indian merchants, the one professing to become a subject of the Sublime Porte in consequence of the case having been decided against him by British con sular authority, and, therefore, wishing to cause the Turkish flag to be hoisted, obtained from the local authorities permission to haul down the Bri tish ensign and hoist the Crescent, and did so, notwithstanding the protestations of the owner, in whose favour the case had been decided by a meet ing of merchants presided at by the English con sular authority. Mr. Acting Vice-Consul Page was absent at the time ; but on his return to Jeddah in the Cyclops, he was applied to by the rightful owner of the vessel, and with his sanction the Turkish colours were hauled down, and the British ensign again hoisted by order of the captain of the Cyclops. As, however, it would appear the Turk ish flag had been I oisted with the approval of the local authority, whether rightfully or not, the na tive merchants, or Hadramooths, attended on the Kaimakan, governor of Jeddah, protesting against so summary a mode of setting his authority at de fiance,-and calling upon him not to submit to such treatment in the land of the Prophet. The Kai makan, being rather perplexed, is reported to have said, " Why make so much fuss about a flag ; are there not flag-staffs enough in the place to pull down?" or words to that effect, whereupon the match was lighted, and the flagstaffs were iminediatelyattacked, in doing which, however, the mob became infu riated, and proceeded to acts of violence, entering the houses of the French and the English consuls, burning and destroying everything they could lay their hands on, and murdering the inmates. The Pasha of the Hedjas was at the time at Mecca ; he was sent for in all baste, but did not arrive for four days, although he could have performed the jour ney in 48 hours. On his arrival he communicated with the captain of the Cyclops, who demanded that all the Christians in the place should be sent on board his vessel. Those remaining, some 20 in number, were endeavouring to hide themselves, and were exposed to the (neatest privations and distress until removed to the Cyclops. The houses of both consuls are said to have been pillaged and destroyed, and the cry was that not a Christian should be permitted to remain in the holy land of the Prophet. ALEXANDRIA, JULY 6. An officer of the Cyclopß, arrived last night from Suez, brings the following news : " On the night of the 7th June some Christians swam on board, bringing the intelligence that the Mahommedans of the town, in the absence of Namic Pacha (who had gone to Mecca with nearly all his troops) had begun massacring the Christian population. At daylight the Cyclops sent in her armed boats. As they approached the beach soma Turkish soldiers wattled them off, saying that the town was in a state of revolt, and that the forces were too small to give them any protection. The boats, however, still approached, and when they reached the shore were surrounded by a mob of some 200 to 300 men, unarmed, who atttempted to drag them out of the boats ; our sailors, however, were armed, and managed to keep off the mob, killing two and wounding severe), when in the meanwhile they received a message from the Lieutenant-Go vernor that the English consul and all his family bad been murdered the previous evening at eight o'clock: The French consul and his family were attacked at nine o'clock, the consul and his wife killed, and his daughter severely wounded by a sabre cut down her face whilst defending her father, whose murderer she succeeded in killing. The Lieutenant-Governor begged the English would not land or the on the town, as he had the unfortunate young lady and upwards of tweivy other Christians nt his Louse, and only eight sohliers to defend them, but requested them to wait until the Pacha's return. This curse they adopted. "On tho Paella's return the remaining Christians were sent on board the Cyclops, 24 in number, in cluding the French lady. " Twenty-two Christiana were said to be mas sacred. The Pacha says be has arrested 30i) of the townspeople on suspicion. An Indian sheik, from Delhi, is said to have instigated the massacre. "As soon as the Christians were safe on board the Cyclops, I lauded a party of men, marched through the town, and hoisted the English and French flags under a salute of 21 guns. "The English consul is said to nave been hewn in pieces and strewed about the streets." ALEXANDRIA, JULY 6. Befor© the present letter can reach England the tel-graph will already have placed you iu posses sion of the leading facts connected with the recent outbreak at Jeddah, where Mahomedau fana ticism, has enacted another tragedy, and has given the world a fresh ins 4 .ance of its cowardice and treachery. Her Majesty's steamer Cyclops, lately sent to the Red Sea by the British Government for the purpose of taking a series of deep water soundings, had been lying for about a weekin the harbour of Jeddah, whither she had conveyed, as passengers from Suez, the English acting consul and his French colleague. Nothing whatever had occurred to show that the people of the place were animated with any. extraordinary sentiment of hostility towards the Christian inha bitants. The officers of the steamer had made ex cursions in the vicinity of the town, and never once met with the slightest molestation or insult, and even on the very evening of the outbreak several had been walking about in the bazaars until near sunset without tne least apparent symptom of the storm: This was on the 15th ult. In the evening a few persona—Greek residents in the town—came swimmiug off to the ship, and stated that disturb ances had arisen, and that they feared a conspiracy had been entered into against the Caristian inha bitants. Everything, however, continued in ap pearance perfectly quiet ; not a shot nor a cry was heard, though the savage work had even then al ready commenced, but the assassins had taken the precaution to use cold steel alone. The Eng lish Consulate was the first point of attack, and Mr. Page, the acting Consul, must have fallen under the blows of a crowd of ruffians, who fol lowed up the murder by sacking the house and tearing down the flag.. The unfortunate man's body is said to have been found literally hacked to pieces: _ _ - Maddened with excitement the mob appears next to have poured down upon the house of the French Consul, M. Eveillard. Here, however, the Kai inakan, or governor of the town, made some feeble attempt to interpose ; the force at his disposal amounted to only 80 men, and, whatever efforts they may have used, they did not succeed in saving the life of either the Consul or of this wife. Both were Murdered, and their daughter alone—a young lady who, though under 20 years of age, appears to have possessed the spirit of a heroine—was rescued from the hands of the assassins, and covered with an Arab cloak she was carried to the house of the Ktimakan. Her face was laid open 'with a gash frorn a s a b re cu t across th e c heek, but before being dragged forth she had avenged the murder of her father by the death of the assassin. Early on th e f o ll ow i ng morn i ng C ap ' a i n P u ll en , still ignorant of what had occurred, sent two boats ashore. Wh en th ey neare d t h e i nner ree f s T ur ki s h soldiers were obser ve d warn i ng t h em o ff ; they con tinued, however, to advance untii they found themselves surrounded by a crowd of about 609 men, who, from the out-jutting reefs, poured a shower of stones upon the boats. The crews were fortunately armed and soon forced their way back to the ship, not, however, without having been corepePed to pour a volley of musketry into their & Milan t 8. An interval of five d Aya now elapsed un til t h © arrival from Mecca of Narvik P as h a , the Gover nor of the Hedjaz, with a body of about 800 Tur kish troops. The crew of the steamer entreated their officers to be allowed to take vengeance upon the city, if not by hying the place in ashe., at least by bei ng permitted t,) land, even though at the risk of find jug themselves, at most 200 m n, opposed to a population of 40,000; but the K3imakan sent re peated messages beseeching Captain Pullen t o de sist from a ll i n t er f erence , warn i ng him that his own house was surrounded by infutiated fanatics cla mouring - for the surrender of the Christians who they knew had o bt a i ne d re f uge i n th e h ous e, and declaring that were a single gun fired, or one armed man' lauded from the ship, not only the lives of the refugees, but also his own, would to a certainty be sacrificed. This office r can d ou b t l ess not h ave yielded without a struggle, and no other argument would probably have saved the city from its well merited doom. Even though it b e gran t e d th a t only a portion of the i nhabitants were witually en gaged in this massacre, none had a claim f or pity where all had stood calmly by, without stretching forth a finger to protect a handful of inoffelpive THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1858. men and women who lived among them relying upon their hospitality. Neither need the argument of the sanctity of the Turkish flag have had any weight with the crew of a British vessel of war. That flag had failed to extend to their fellow- Christians the protection upon which they had relied, and might well have been utterly disre garded. On the 20th Namik Pasha arrived with his troops, and some semblance of order was restored. Miss Eveillard and other rescued Europeans were transferred on board the Cyclops. In spite of the opposition at first:made by the Pasha the crew and marines were afterwards landed with the British and French colours, and, escorted by a body of Turkish infantry, they were led to the newly made grave, over which the funeral service was read, and the English and French flags were rehoisted under a salute of 21 guns. On the 24th the Cyclops sailed for Suez, where she arrived on the 3d inst., bringing home 24 refugees. The number mur dered at Jeddah was 21, and at the present moment not a Christian remains in the place. The Hadramaut merchants are said to have been the chief actors in the outbreak. This raises the question whether commercial jealousy may not have acted in the matter as concomitant with Mussul man bigotry ; but until fuller information be ob tained it is perhaps idle to speculate by whom or how the outrage was instigated. WASTE OF GOVERNMENT STORES. (From the Times.) People who do not assiduously attend the House of Commons' debates lose a great deal of entertainment. No mere words can portray the dramatic effects that are there produced. Every night you may there see some triumph of calumniated innocence. There are wicked people in the House of Commons as elsewhere. There are Captain Vivian, who has not hesitated to speak dis respectfully of the Army Storekeeper's Department, and Colonel Boldero, who has been wanting in due reverence for the Clothing Board. It must have been pleasant to witness, on Monday evening last, the con dign punishment of these two irreverent men. General Peel came down upon them, even before the offence was quite perpetrated, and confounded them by three pregnant sentences. There was a sonorous chorus of "Hear, hears," amid which the culprits slunk into silence, and the Weedon establishment was seen to come forth from the trial spotless in integrity, approved in efficiency, and perfect is its organization. Tnat was the general idea conveyed by the scene. But there is a Blue-book. It is a repulsive folio in nearly 500 pages. It has neither index, epitome, nor report. To the general reader the information contained in it is as if it did not exist. It has all the appearance of being the safest repository that could be found for disagreeable facts. But in this age of busy idleness no thing is safe. There are people who find it part of their duty to turn over the pages of this book, and their at tention soon becomes riveted to its contents. Two or three years since we used to point from our pedestal of superior virtue to the malpractices in the Russian and Turkish service, and we used piously to thank Heaven that we were not as other men are ; but with this Blue , book before us we are obliged to confess that contract frauds are not confined to Russia, and that even corrruption is not a plant exclusively of Turkish growth. We are even come to this—that it is a matter of so much congratulation as to be received with cheers in the House of Com mons that, not 170,000 pairs of boots, but only 74,000 pairs, have been improperly sold out of the public stores since the termination of the Crimean war. As we tread this maze of disagreeable facts we pass from surprise to astonishment, but before we get through half its windings we almost become accustomed to an atmosphere of corruption. At the threshold one feels a little gentle indignation at finding that a contractor is in permanent id-favour, and has his goods sent back as imp , rfect, not on account of the imperfection of the articles, but as a penalty for want of politeness in the manufacturer, who had walked into one of the public offices with his bat upca his head. But this is only the insolence of office. As we get a little way into the Weedon Blue-book we meet with much worse thing=. There is a Mr. George Pays stuck fast in a Slough of Despond. He has 500 sets if Accoutrements, which he is bound to deliver, but which are always being rejected. Sometimes they are stronger than the pattern, some times they have been crushed by the people appointed to examine them ; but the result is always the same— they are always sent back upon Mr. Pays's hands. The general market for waistbelte, swordknots, pouchbelts, and swivels is not very lively, and the contractor is iu a deeponding stale of mind. But there is a good angel at hand, ani his name is E. Downing. "You will never get your goods passed in the way you are going on," said the good angel. " Why not ? " sad the Innocent contractor ; "they are equal to the pattern." "That is nothing," said the angel; "the father of Moore, one of the viewers, is employed at one of the other contractors'." " I see," said the awakening ac coutrement maker ; "what am I to do ?" "Change your system." "How ?" " You a man of business, and ask how ! We poor viewers can't be expected to give a fair view unless we have some compensation," The accoutre ment•maker did change his system. Two sovereigns fell from his hand, and his feet were loosened from the Slough of Despond. Every week the good Downing and his mate, Mr. Garrattt, called to see him, and every week he persevered in the practice of his new system. Two hundred pounds were thus Expended, and the ma lignant influence of Moore was neutralized. Of course we cannot expect Mr. Pays to say that the accoutrements deteriorated in quality as the viewing became less for midable., but under the new system 9,000 of them were passed with a profitable celerity. As we proceed into other el ambers of this house of crime and punishment, we hear the wailings of this Downing and also of this Garrett, who, with other victims, are being tsr tured by that ardent Head Inquisitor, Mr. Roebuck. They twist and writhe upon the rack, hut they confess their crimes, and disclose enough to let us guess the rest. We scarcely require to liste❑ to the tale hew Mr. R. S. Garden was led to adopt the new system ; how, whe❑ the viewers found that he was "not up to the game," they called upon him, and said, "You cannot get on without us ; we aro the men that inspect the things;" or bow Mr. Garden did as Mr. Pays had done. N'erther is it necessary to relate how, in acknowledg ment f their fees, these viewers were in the habit of changing the good articles of those contractors who would not pay for the bad articles of those who would. All these abuses follow necessarily from "the system." "Sa also if swords bend with a blow like iron hoops, if crossbelts rot and shoes go to pieces, all this follows from "the systerii." This "system" was condemned to he hanged fuur years ago, but it is as lively and industrious as ever. You have viewers taking bribes from some con - tracters, and doing journey work for others, drawing a wretched pittance of 15s. a week, and passing or rejecting at their will goods to the value of thou-ands of pounds. It is just the system of Russia, Turkey,and Gina; and they wao origins e it or work it cannot be ignorant what the cond t o is of such a seta ice are. If corruption rules below, mania seems to revel above,. "I am informed," said Mr. Shaw, "that when goods are once packed for a certain destination, and are not sent, they are not again taken into store, but are sold as old stores." That Mr. Sbaw was rightly informed was proved quite to his own satisfaction by bis buying 150 pairs of new heists with the Crown mark upon them, all of which had been sold by auction as old stores. In these inquiries hundreds rapidly swell to thousands ; a system of this sort works in the rule of progression. Apropos dc bottes, Mr. Moses Levi, a merchant, with a civic establishment and au aristocratic West-end resi dence, is introduced. He is about to retire from busi ness, and, although at the commencement of his inter view with the committee he was not so plain spoken as they wished, he left an impression that he is a wealthy and a prudent man, who knows much of the conduct of public affairs. Mr. Levi had bought "many thousands" of these new boots at public auctions— ho v many th msands he could not say. They were all G orernment boots, that had been viewed and passed, and paid for and taken into stock. During the last and present years he had bought about 10,000 pairs. He aa - e from 4s. 101. to Os. 3J., according to the bidding. The Government, as we !earn from another witness, paid 1 le. 3d. for them. Mr. Levi son these boots again to the contractors who were supplying the troops. For aught that appears, they may have gone again into the Tower sales, may hive passed again into the hands of Mr. Levi, been again transferred by him into the hands of the contractors, and, the bribes to the viewers having been honourably discharged, they may have pasted once again into stock and be now awaiting their third ap pearance on the table of the Government auctioneer. This is a commercial curriculum highly advantageous to every one engaged in it, except only to the public. How Mr. Moses Levi could think of leaving such a business as this it seems impossible to explain. This is the innocent system which was so grossly calumniated by Captain Vivian, and whose honour was vindicated by General Peel amid the applause of the House of Commons. There is, it seems, no absolute proof in the Blue-book that 170,000 pairs of boots have bean sold. The only distinct evidence as to numbers is that " George Dalhousie Ramsay, Esquire," whose official rank is not specifically set forth, tells Sir Charles Napier (Q. 3,975) that "in the early part of this year 74,000 pairs of boots were sold ;" so that it is evident that the Weedon establishment has been very ill-used, The worst feature in all this quagmire of corruption and ,wanton waste is the .partial defence of General Peel 'and the apathy of the House of Commons. There was a time when people mounted upon hustings and called themselves Administrative Reformers, giving many pledges as to what they would do in that line if placed in Parliament. We never had much faith in that defunct absurdity called the Financial Reform Associa tion, bat it seems that it•was not even of we as a scare crow. Even within reach of the echo of those noisy people's speeches the viewers were busy screwing bribes out of the contractors ; the contractors were teeing the viewers ; the Government auctioneers were selling the best new Government stores ; the Government store keepers were receiving them again into store; and the prudent Jews wore waling the operation, oiling the wheels, and pocketing a good- share of the profits. Of course everybody is indignant. Mr. Roebuck is indig cant with the contractors who allowed the bribes to be extorted from them. Mr. Isaac is indignant with a poor creature named Tiffin, who is ruined and dismissed be cause he rejected some of Mr. Isaac's socks without putting his hand into them. The War-office authorities are most indignant with Mr. Bischoff because he will not account to them for his evidence given to the House of Commons ; but the drama ends in the usual way—all the little rogues are crushed, and all the great folks go off in triumphal care. 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Important Caution against the fear. ful dangers of spurious imitations.—The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill for imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Ambles Focd," IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. LORD EGLINTON IN THE WEST. The Earl of Eglinton has fixed Thursday, the 22d, for the Galway banquet in commemoration of the despatch of a second vessel from that port to solve the problem of communication with America. On Friday, the 23d, his Excellency will go down the noble bay in the Ame rican Empire steamer, and attend a grand ball the same evening, to be given, together, with the dinner, by the gentry of the town and country. On Saturday►, the 24th, he will be the guest of Mr. Lynch, the father of the High Sheriff, and return to Dublin in the evening. Apartments for the Viceregal party have been already taken at the Railway Hotel in Galway. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCIIIT.—WINCHESTER, July 14. CROWN CouRT.--(Before Mr. Justice Channell.) John Dominey and James Fagan, two respecta ble-looking men, carrying on the business of grocers at Southampton, and also employed by the Ord nance-office, were indicted ,for a conspiracy to ex tort money from William Scott, by threatening and accusing his son, Charles Scott, of a crime punishable by transportation. Different counts varied the indictment, charging them with a mis demeanour for compromising and compounding felony, and for forbearing to prosecute. Mr. Cole prosecuted ; and Mr. Cooke and Mr. Yonge defended the prisoners. The facts, as given in evidence, were these : The boy, Charles Scott, about twelve years of age, in the beginning of the year entered the de fendants' service as errand boy ; after he had been there a few weeks, the defendants charged him with stealing money. He bad been sent out with some butter on the Bth of May, and was paid for it, and put the money in his jacket pocket. When he got back to the shop he took off his jacket and put it aside, and forgot to take out the money he had received to give it to the de fendants. He was asked for it, and he said it was in his jacket pocket, and there it was found. They then accused him of stealing the money, and of stealing a sovereign and two shillings, which the boy strenuously denied. He was shut upstairs in a room and threatened, if he did not confess to stealing the money, he should be sent over the water, and never see his father any more. Frightened, the boy said he had. Dominey then went to the father, who works as a gardener for General Dyce, and told him that his boy had stolen money to the amount of 9/. 18s. 7d., and that he, the father, had it. The father went w ith hi m to Fagan's, and Fagan went upstairs, and told the boy that if he did not confe ,, s to his father that he had stolen the money he should have the handcuffs put on and be sent to the police station ; the boy was then brought out on the landing, and asked by one of the defendants, "Did you not take the money and give it to your father 1" and the boy said, " Yes." Fagan said to the father, who was at the bottom of the stairs, " You hear what he has said, you had better pay the money." Scott said he had not got it ; but Fagan went to his house, and Scott got a ten pound note and gave it to Fagan, who gave him a receipt for it—" Re ceived from Mr. Scott the sum of 9/. 18s. 7d., being the amount of money taken from our till by his son, Charles Scott, and also for money received by him and not accounted for, according to his own confessioni. —JAMES FAGAN." The boy deposed that he had never taken any money, and that the confession that he had made was extorted from him by threats of the defen dants ; and the father also swore that he never had a penny from his son. Mr. Cooke made a very lengthened address on behalf of the defendants ; and Colonel Cameron, Major Lacey, and other gentlemen of high stand ing, gave them an excellent character. The prisoners were acquitted, the jury express ing their belief that neither Scott nor his son ever had the money. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, JULY 14. CROWN COURT. (Before Baron Martin.) THE HALIFAX MURDER. William Blackburn Dawson was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of James Ed ward Jacobs, on the sth of May last, at Halifax. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Mauls were for the prosecu tion ; Mr. Price defended the prisoner. Mr. Shaw said James Edwar4 Jacobs, the de ceased, was a workman in the employ of Mr. Walker, printer and publisher of the _Halifax Guardian. Prisoner was an apprentice in the same office. lie was al ways a well-behaved young man, steady and industrious. His habits were considered by the workmen as very reserved, and if there was amy one with whom he was more inti mate than another it was the deceased. For the defence, Mr. Tucker, of aalifax, surgeon, deposed that he had known the prisoner from his yOuth. He laboured under certain delusions, which he (witness) had sought to dispel. He had feared that either insanity or suicide would be the result. After this evidence, the counsel for the prosecu tion did not press the case further, and the prisoner was found Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity, and ordered to be detained in safe custody. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 1 4. MANSION-HOUSE.—Cornelius Marney, a ebs tenuonger, who has been in the habit of using false weights and measures in his dealings with people in the streets in the fruit line, was charged before the Lord Mayor with having caused an ob struction in the narrow thoroughfare of Walbrook. It was proved that the defendant had been in custody before upon charges of obstructing the traffic and passengers with his barrow ; that he paid no attention to the directions of the police, al though about a week ago he had beeri complained against for obstinacy in viLlating the law in the way described - and that the officer had been obliged to send his barrow to the greenyard because "it was for ever in the way of coaches and carriages and people." The defendant, to the surprise of the persons in cons'ant attendance at the justice room, said, "I was never hero before, my lord, for anything, and I was never in custody in my life." Inspector Harding said—The man has not only been in custody before, but he is one of those per sons who pursue a system by which the public, i n the belief that they are getting 'cheap fruit, are daily plundered to a very great extent. He uses a pair of scales which are apparently fdir enough, but when he was taken into custody for the obstruction, it was found that a piece of lead had been attached to that intended for the fruit so as to give it a con. siderable draught in his favour, while his weights have been tamp ered with to an almost incredible extent; thus his quarter of a pound weight, w tested, has been found to weigh two ounc€ll3l, but the most extensive fraud is perpetrated by means of his half-pound weight, and three-quarters. whichln on ly weighs on© ounce fact, the imposition is so gross that it is astonishing to tea the public purchasing of such fellows at all. However, people continue to buy as freely as if they always got the full weight. The scales and weight s were then produced and examined by The Lord Mayor, who said, I remember having had this man before me some time ago, and upon false that occasion h e had eweights and measures. This is a most imp u d en t and villanous imposition. The weights are all bad enough, but this half-pound weight has, I see, been thin ness of a wafer,hollowed out to the and filled up with a bit of cork. (A laugh.) Tire defendant—l didn't know there was anything wrong about them, I am sure, and is for ehoving my barrow the way, I never thought of such a thing. Vie Lord Mayor—l shall fine you, defendant, for the ob s t ruct i on the•sum of 2s. 6d., and as to the weights and scales I shall send them to the Inspector of Weights and Measures, who will know what to do both with them and you. At the same time I hope the police will look after the conduct of those coster,nongers, for I am told that of those who throng the city scarcely one gives honest weight. The imposition daily increases. Richard Field, the driver of a van belonging to the Great Northern Company, was charged with stealing some haddocks. J. Thorogood, a policeman belonging to the com pany, deposed that about a quarter to five in the morning, he saw the prisoner, who was delivering some fish in Billingsgate-market, open a package, and take out five haddocks, which he put into a handkerchief, and 1 gave to a man named Webb, alio in the employ of the Great Northern Company, who in turn gave them to a man named Riley. Subsequently the prisoner ac companied Riley to a public-house, and afterwards Riley went to hislodgings in Sun-street, where the haddocks were afterwards found. Witness had been put on to watch the vans in consequence of , he numerous robberies of a similar character that had taken place. Mr. Williams, superintendent of the Great Northern Railway, said it was not the value cf . the haddocks which led to the proceedings, but recently so many petty pilferages had taken place from the vans belonging to the company, that it had become absolutely necessary to take steps to protect the property which they were employed to deliver. Watkins, a detective, deposed that ho found the haddocks at Riley's lodgings, and that Riley said he had g iven prisoner a pint of beer for them. Afterwards witness took the prisoner into custody, when he admitted the robbery, and said he was very sorry for it. The Lord Mayor inquired why Webb had not been giveir into cfistudy as well as the prisoner Mr. Williams said Webb had been for some time in the employ of the company at 183. a-week, to mind horses in Billingsgate-market, but he (Mr. Williams) did nct think the evidence strong enough to give him into custody upon. He was, however, in court, and his lordship could judge for himself in the matter. The Lord Mayor directed Webb to be called, which being done, he appeared in the witness-box, and said he had been told by the prisoner .to give the haddocks to Riley, and that was all be . knew about it. Lord Meyor—Did not you think it was wrong for him to give the fish away ? Witness—No ; I didn't think anything at all about it. Lord Mayor—Well, I think you ought to have thought about it, for it is a very impudent robbery. The prisoner was sent to hard labour fur one month. MARYLEBONE.—WiIIiam Varley, a young man described as a merchant, residing at No. 73, Camden-road-villas, was charged with the follow ing indecent and extraordinary conduct : Mr. Keene attended for the prisoner. Mrs. Jane Mayers, 25, Grange-road, Camden town, deposed that on Thursday last the prisoner came to her furnished front parlour, which was to be let. After some conversation he went away, and, on his return the same day, he brought with him a bag containing a quantity of ladies' apparel. He agreed to take the apartments, and when told that it was usual to give a reference or pay a week in advance, he said, " I've brought my things, and that's a deposit. lam leaving my home for the present on account of the place being fresh painted, and I can't bear the smell of it." Complainant asked him if he intended to sleep at her house that night, to which he replied, "No ; I am going to sleep with a friend." He put his things in a drawer, and then left. On the next dey he came back, and she saw him sitting in an arm chair by the window, dressed in female clothes. He quitted in his ordinary male attire. He was also at the house cn Saturday, and also on the previous day (Tuesday), when he came in at 10 in the morning, and having put on a lady's dress, with a wreath of roses round his head, he behaved in a manner too disgusting and offensive to particularly describe. She watched him upon many occasions, between 10 and 5, and saw him standing near the window, and observed that ho was behaving most indecently. He left, and returned at 10 at night, when he pulled off his trousers and put ou a pair of lady's drawers and a white crinoline petticoat. By Mr. Keene—l should not have taken notice merely of his putting on female clothes, if he had not been in such a disgusting situation when I saw him. I thought he might have been in the theatrical line. It was through a crevice in the back parlour I watched him. I have not spoken at all to the prisoner in reference to his behaviour. Thomas Winkworth, a lodger, stated that. on the previous night, when he returned home, he was told by complainant what had occurred, and while she was talking to him prisoner came in. Witness advised her to go to the station, which she did, and brought back with her, after some tiract, a con stable ; but previous thereto he (witness) went out, and saw the prisoner act as described before the window. He had on drawers and a crinoline, and wore a wreath of roses, and several people in the street were looking at him. When complainant and the officer returned, which was between 10 and 11 o'clock, the prisoner had - on his own proper apparel. By Mr. Keene—The blind was up to two feet from the bottom of the window. There was a crochet curtain below it, but the work was so open that I could see plainly what I have described. There was a lighted candle on the table, between which and the window the prisoner stood. Mr. B:oughton—Amongst those who must have seen him were there any females? Witness—Yes, sir ; but they turned away as soon as they could. Complainant, in reply to Mr. Keene, said the long blind was down to within a short distance of the crochet curtains. Mrs. Mary Wilson (another lodger) said that at about ten on the previous morning she was told that the prisoner was attired in female apparel. At twelve o'clock she went out and saw several boys and girls look in at the window, and from what one of the girls, about nine years old, told her, she (witness) went out, and on going past the window she saw prisoner act as described. The crochet curtain was partly aside, but when pri soner noticed her he pulled it to. By Mr. Keene—l cannot say whether it was any thing like a theatrical dress or not. It seemed to me to be such as dancers wear. I had seen his in decent conduct altogether ten or twelve times. I made the opening or crevice, whatever it may be called, myself. Edwards, 100 S, said that he went to the house about half-past 11, and took the prisoner into cus tody just as he was coming out. He was told what he was charged with, and be stated that he was going to perform at a theatre. After the prisoner was locked up witness went back to the premises, 1 when the complainant showed him a quantity of female apparel. Sergeant Westlake, 2 S, handed to the magistrate a long list of the articles found in the apartment ; they consisted of drawers, chemises, silk and mus lin dresses, slippers, silk stockings, ttc. Mr. Keene, in answer to the charge, said that his client and other young men were getting up a private theatrical performance, to take place in the neighbourhood, and that whatever he (prisoner) might nave done in his own room, he had no idea that any one was looking at him, or that they could really see him. His blin'd was down nearly to the curtain itself, and he imagined that ho was perfectly private in his own place. He (Mr. Keene), with much emphasis, denied that his client bad wilfully exposed himself, and expressed his astonishment that two married women, with any pretence to respectability, should have the effrontery to come forward and unblushingly avow that they had kept watch as they did for ECI long a period, and witnessed suspicious conduct, as alleged by them, without taking early steps to put a stop to it. Mr. Broughton said it was a most extraordinary, case, and he considered that an unjustifiable attack had been made upon the two females. He was of Opinion that the case came within the meaning of the Vagrant Act for such offences ; and added that the witnesses would leave the court without any disgrace attaching to their character. The prisoner was remanded on bail to the amount of 1001. for his re-appearance on Wednesday next. PARLI.42dENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS.--JuLy 12. OATHS BILL. Moved, to agree to Reason 4 ; objected to ; and an amend ment moved, to leave out from " Because" to the end of the reason, and insert " without imputing any disloyalty or disaffection to her Majesty's subjects of the Jewish per suasion, the Lords consider that the denial and rejection of that Saviour in whose name each House of Parliament daily offers up its collective prayers for the Divine blessing on its councils, constitutes a moral unfitness to take part in the legislation of a professedly Christian community"_ (The Earl of Derby) ; objected to ; and, on Question, Whether to agree to the said reason as amended Con. tents, 50; Non-contents, 42. CONTENTS. Chelmsford, Lord Leven and Melville, Brodrick, Lord (Vis. (Lord Chancellor) Earl Middleton) Manchester, Duke Malmesbury, Earl Churchill, Lord Bath, M. (teller) Pomfret, Earl . Colchester, Lord E x eter, Marquis Powis, Earl Crofton, Lord Salisbury, Marquis Romney, Earl De Ros, Lord Amherst, Earl Shrewsbury, Earl Dynevor, Lord Bathurst, Earl Stradbroke, Earl Downes, Lord Beauchamp, Earl Vernlam, Earl Lovel and Holland, Cadogan, Earl Clancarty, Vis. (Earl Lord (Earl Egmont) Carnarvon, EArl Clancarty) Ravensworth, Lord Chesterfield, - Earl Comp ermere, Vis. Redesdale, Lord De la Warr, Earl De Vesci, Vis. (taller) Derby, Earl Dungannon, Vis. Southampton, Lord Graham, Earl Hardinge, Vis. Stewart, Lord (Earl Hardwicke, Earl Melville, Vis. of Galloway) Harrington, Earl Chichester, Bishop Wynford, Lord Laneiborough, Earl Lichfield, Bishop, Ripon, .Bishop Lucan, Earl Calthorpc, Lord NON-CONTENTS. Cleveland, Duke Sydney, Viscount Hamilton Lord (L. Newcastle, Duke Bath and Wells, Bp. Belhaven & Sten- Somerset, Duke Hereford, Bishop ton) Lansdowne, MarquisAshburton, Lord Ker, L. (H. Lothian) Abingdon, Earl Audley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Carlisle, Earl Belper, Lord Monteagle of Bran.- Clarendon, Earl Catnoys, Lord don, Lord Ducie, Earl Carew, Lord Mostyn, Lord Durham, Earl Chesham, Lord Portman, Lord Essex,, Earl Clandeboye, Lord Rivers, Lord Fertescue, Earl (Lord Dufferin Somerhill, Lord (M. Granville, Earl and Clandeboye) . Clauricarde) St. Germans, Earl Cougleton, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Wicklow, Earl Cranworth, Lord Lord Eversley, Viscount De Manley, Lord Wodehouse, Lord Stratford do Red- De Tabley, Lord Wycombe, Lord (E. cliffo, Viscount Foley, Lord (teller) Shelburne) JEWS BILL. Moved, that the Bill be now read a third time —(The Earl of Llcan) ; o ,jetted to; au amendment moved, to leave out " now," and insert " this day six months"— The Vi count Dungannon : On question, that " now " stand part of the motion ? Contents, 33 ; Now-contents, 12, CONTENTS, Newcastle, Duke Lucan, Earl (teller) Crofton, Lord Somerset, Duke DA almesbury, Earl De Manley, Lori Lansdowne. MarquisPowis, Earl Foley, Lord (teller) Salisbury,. Marquis Saint Germans, Earl Lyndhurst, Lord Bathurst, Earl Verulam Earl M on t eo gle of Bran- Carnarvon, Earl Evcrsley, Viscount don, Lord Chichester, Earl H ar di nga, Vi scoun t Mostyn, Loy d Clarendon, Earl Sydney, Viscount Rivers, Lord Derby, Earl Audley, Lord Stanley of Alas:ley, Essex, Earl Belper, Lord Lord Granville, Earl Chesham, Lord Hardwicke, Earl Cranworth, Lori NON-CONTENTS. Exeter, Marquis Dungannon, Vis. Redesdale, Lord Cadogan. Earl count (teller) Souti,pmpton, Lord Harrin,ton, Earl Churchill, Lord Stewart of Garlies, Romney, Earl Colchester, Lord Ld (Earl Galloway) Clancarty, Viscount (teller) Wynford, Lord THE NATIONAL GALLERY. If we fail in some great undertakings we succeed in others, and it is our pleasing duty to-day to con gratulate the country on a triumph which some will think quite sufficient consolation for the loss of the Atlantic cable. No dne, indeed, in whose breast one patriotic spark remains will fail to re joice and be proud at the great achievement of Tuesday night in the House of Commons. Eng land has asserted her indomitable independence and nationality. Terror will be depicted on the countenance of every German despot and pedant, fir Lord Elcho has won the day. Mr. Coningham is avenged of his enemy. The hostile critics of Paul Veronese are confirmed in their judgment by the British House of Commons. The salary of Mr. Otto Mundler is disallowed. The sum of 3001. a year is saved to the nation of which we form part. and a blow struck which will resound in every auction-mart of Europe. Some of our readers may know nothing of Mr. Otto Mundler, and not so much as they ought about Lord Elcho and the genius of Paul Veronese. Many of them are, perhaps, not possessed of high art instincts, and only go to the National Gallery with country cousins, or to the British Museum with little boys home for the holidays, who want to see the mummies and thestuffed ourang-outangs. To these we shall, unhappily, not succeed in making known the momentous character of last night's vote. They are in a state of lamentable but, per haps not unblissful ignorance. Art-progress has left ;hem far behind, and art-criticism has not re vealed to them its oracular utterances. They are content with their own portraits, which simper on them from above their dining-tables, and they look with tenderness on the full-length of Charley, with a coral and red shoes, taken at the age of one year. If these works of art be degraded, bestial, full of the mad licentiousness of a faithless age, or if they be wanting in tone, poor in treatment, wooden, stony, woolly, or anything else, it is lost on the posse ssors and their friends, who think they are very like what the subjects were in the days when high-collared coats were worn, and ladies drove tortoise-shell combs into the backs of their heads. Many there are still, we fear, who are not duly entranced at the sight of a red Agamemnon offering a black daughter on an Etruscan vase, and who can see without cupidity a real majolica plate with its muscular divinities. Contorted saints of the early German school are still gazed at with wonder by some, and to Renaissance taste in furni ture they have no wish to give another birth. To this large, though we should hope decreasing class, we can only present the subject in its pecuniary point of view. But even here there is matter for no small congratulation. Three hundred a-year has ben saved. The salary of a clerk in the Custom-house, the income of a young medical practitioner in a country town, the cost of printing a return of the number of persons who have ridden outside omnibuses from 1850 to 1857 inclusive, has been saved to this wise, pru dent, thrifty country. What a number of things we shall be able to do with this 3001. ± A little child with its first sixpence tells you of the wonders it intends to buy, and so we may joyfully reflect on what we shalt be able to accomplish with the salary of Mr. Otto Mundler. We have rescued from the clutch of this invading Getman enough to supply the Growler or Snapper with coals from Malta to Gibraltar and back ; enough to pay a month's travelling expenses of a not overworked Queen's messenger; enough to supply a year's stationary to a third rate legation ; enough to re place a button of one pattern by the button of another on the coats of a few regiments in the army. Therefore, to all of our readers who pride themselves on their respect for the good on fashioned proverb about taking care of the pence, and who know nothing and care nothing about art, we offer our com4ratulations on this reduction of the national expenditure. _ But to the artistic world the matter is of far greater interest. To them we will say nothing of the 3001. ; money is too sordid an object, and finance is too dreary a study, to excite them. Nor will we urge that sotnethirg 'is honestly due to a gentleman who has been engaged. for the public service by the proper authorities at a certain salary, and who may consider it an injustice to be turned off at a moment's notice. Mr. Mundler, if he were fit for his work, ought to have known that the ages of faith are past. What, indeed, can i e expected of a country which buys a "Paul Veronese ?" So we may put the individual travel ling agent out of the question, as having deserved his fate ; and only look at the great victory in which he has been stricken down. It i., indeed, pretty clear that unfortunate Mr. Mundler has baen taken as the representative of the constituted authorities on this occasion, as the incarnation of the National Gallery management, aad the blows of his assailants were in reality aimed at greater persons behind him. Sappy are all of us whose destinies do not depend on contests of taste, where every man plumes himself oa the originality of his opinions, and any one who pretends to de cide between opponents is immediately attacked and trampled upon by both. If it is not allowed to poets to ba mediocre, it is not allowed to con noisseurs to be impartial. They must be exclusive or die. Theological hatredis scftening down, but the virus is passing into another section of the com munity. Art critics are nom possessed with the spirit of Gardiner and Laud, and apparently would "scrape" a rival with the utmost pleasure. In other departments of mental exertion people can appreciate geniuses of various kinds. We can honour Shaksperue without thinking Sophocles an impostor, and a respect for Newton does not neces sitate a contempt for Ouvier. • But the artistic world is split up into sects, each with its divinity, and looks upon anything like breadth of taste as latitudinarian and lukewarm. Full sure we are that if the victorious party of Tuesday night had had the management of affairs they would have been exposed to as many attacks as those whom they have now censured. They would have pur chased something on which Mr, Otto Handler's friends would have exhausted the usual art epithets of " atrocious," " abomi !fable, " "a spiritless daub," " a Wardour-street imposture," and so on. Let us of the public, however, who have no power or authority in the world of art, and who only judge of a picture by the pleasure it gives us, acquiesce in the decision of the House of Commons. Lord Elcho and his 128 friends have stopped the travels of the agen t ; hi s mo d es t sa lary will no longer be forthcoming ; his movements will no longer throw poverty-stricken Italian nobles and sharping dealers into excitement ; he will no longer raise the price of daubs by a look, or depress the selling rate of a "school" by a depreciatory word. All that England buys will now be by her own unaided judgment ; German pedantry and Italian knavishness will not combine to fill the rooms iu Trafalgar-square with works which Lord Elcho and Mr. Ooniegham are bound to denounce. The travelling agent is, in short, a being of the past. We trust, therefore, that the feud of the two parties will now cease. Lord Elcho has been vic torious both in the matter of the site for the new Gallery and in the discussion as to the benefits of Mr. Mundler'a services. But the other party are in pesetesion, and without - their help no:hine can be done to improve the collection, and make it worthy of the name of "national." It is really high time that the four or five close and crowded rooms which contain the country's pictures should be expanded into a full-sized edifice, where the visitor s h a ll not b e i ncommode d b y th e crus h, stifled by the pent-up breath of the multitude, and grieved by the sight of noble works suffering from the deleterious influences to which they are exposed. We have little doubt of the power of the Govern ment to obtain really estimable works of aft for the national collection, and we are sure of the willingness of the people to pay for such works, and to provide a fitting receptacle for them. So we hope that Lord Elcho and his Mends will now leave their antagonistic position, and do their best to assist the administration of the G a ll ery , in to which they have introduced so important . an economy.—Times. Three Chinese concerned in the unurd-r of Capt. More and the officers of the brig Gallant had been executed on the iarade ground by the natiTe at. thorities. THE HARVEST. The last reports from the extreme West are as favour able as could be desired. Grain and green crops are in admirable condition. The potato, too, is looking well, and the rumours of blight are not credited. In Dublin this morning it is blowing a perfect hurricane from the westward, but otherwise the weather is bright and fine. Yesterday the rain fell incessantly until evening. Heat is still required. DUTIES OF CROWN SOLICITORS. According to the Tipperary Vindicator, such an im pression has been made on the Executive by the case of the two Cormacks, recently brought under the notice of the House of Commons, that a circular has been issued from the Government to the Crown solicitors of the four provinces, to the effect that for the future they are warned to be very careful as to the character of witnesses in criminal cases. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING—WEDNESDAY. The Croxteth Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft, with 40 added, for three-yr-olds and upwards. One mile and a quarter, Five subs. Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, 5 yrs, Bst 10113 (G. Hall) w.o. The Mersey S akes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for two-yr•olds ; colts, Bst 74) ; and fillies, 33t 41b ; the sec , nd to receive 30 says out of the stakes; win- ners extra. T.Y.C. 15 subs. Lord john Scott's Gift, Bst 71b (Barham) 1 Mr. Dawson's Awful, Bit 41b (Bullock) 2 Mr. J. Bates's Dutchman's Daughter, 84 41b - (J. Osborne) 3 Mr. J. Thompson's Precious Stone, Bst 41b (Aldcrofi) 4 Betting-7 to 4 asst Dutchman's Daughter, sto 2 each apt Gilt and Precious Stone. Won by three-quar ters of a length ; a neck between the second and third; about three lengths between third and fourth. The Bath Stakes of 100 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 5 soya each, for two-yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 300 sorts ; if for 200, allowed 51b ; 100, 91b ; if entered not for sale, 141 b extra. About :siic furlongs. 15 subs. Mr. St. George's Sans Culotte, 4 yre, Bst 71b (1001.) (Snowden) 1 Mr. T. Dawson's Shamrock so Green, 2 yrs, 6,t 21b (1001.) (Bullock) 2 Mr. T. Dawson's Awful, 2 yrs, 6st 21b (Bray) 3 Mr. J. Osoorne's filly by Birdcatcher, out of Lady Lanabtin, 2 yrs, bat 2 1 b (1001.) (Challoner) 4 Mr. Dawson declared to win with &arnrock so Green. Betting -2 to 1 each aget Lady Lambton filly, and Shamrock so G.een, and 3 to 1 aget Sans Culotte. Sans Culotte made all the running, and won by ten lengthe. Tne winner was claimed by Mr. Thompson. On returning to scale, Mr. Osborne objected, on the ground that the horses had not run the distance speci fied in the conditions of the race. The objection was, however, cverruled. Tne Bentinck Testimonial, a Handicap Stakes of 10 soya eacb, h ft, with a piece of Plate 100 sovs valueadded ; certain winners extra ; the second to save his stake. About a mile and a-half. 29 subs. Mr. J. Hunt's Master Bagot, by Faugh-a-Ballagb, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Snowden) 1 Mr. Shell,y' s Gunboat, 4 yre, Bst 1016 (French) 2 Mr. Dawson's Waterloo, 3 yrs, sstlolb (Madden) 0 Won by three-quarters of a length. Waterloo was left at the post. The Knowsley Handicap, of 100 801713, a mile and a-half. Mr. J. Shephard's Peto, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Charlton) 1 Mr. J. Toompson's Terrific, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Challoner) 2 Capt. White's Moose, 4 yrs, 7t (Perry) 3 The following also ran :—Babylon, Lady Alice, and Thornhill. Betting----7 t© 4 agst Terrific, 7to 2 agst Babylon, and 4to 1 agst Peto. Won by half a length, a length between the second and third. The Nursery Plate, of 80 acvs. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Williams's Rara Avis, 7st 21b (Adams) 1 Mr. Dawson's Solomon, Est 41b (Bullock) 2 Mr. Jackson's Lottery, Est (Chatloner) 3 Tho following also ran : Misa Partridge, Little Girl, and Cupid. 7 to 4 agst Solomon, 2 to 1 agat Rara Avis, and 5 to 1 apt Mis Partridge. Won by three lengths, four lengths between the second and third. LATEST BETTING. LIVERPOOL CUP. sto 1 agst Jordan 6to 1 agst Beeswax Colt Bto 1 agst Physician Bto 1 agst King of the Gipsies 9to 1 agst The Tattler 100 to 8 ngq Little Torn 20 to 1 ag,t Julia 20 to 1 agst Turistall Maid 100 to 3 agst Night Rarger STOURBRIDGE MEETING.—MONDAY. The Prestwood Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for 3-yr-olds, bat 121 b ; four, 8-t 41b ; five, Bst•l3lb ; six and aged, 9st 2:b. Winners, extra ; mares and geld ings allowed 31b. One mile and a quarter. Mr. WiLiams's Lucca della, RobiL3ia, Est 121 b (Plumb) 1 Mr. Cliff's Sobieski, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b Mr. J. Evans's Fanny Kaye, 3 yrs, 64 911) ..... 3 The Stourbridge i Stakes (handicap) of 7 soya each, 4 ft, and 2 only if declared, with 50 added. Ong mile and a quarter. Mr. Copeland's Thornhill, 3.vrs, 7st llb (Plumb) 1 Mr: S. Williams's Scourge, 3 yrs, bit llb .. Mr. J. Turner's Misty Morn, 3 yrs, 7st slb (in. 41b ex.) 3 Mr. J. Shrimpton's Madame Rachel, 4 yrs, Ist 61b 4 The Innkeepers' Plate (handicap) of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 25 added. Winners extra. One rink Mr. T. Cliff's Our Sal, 5 yrs, 7st 6lb .....(Snowden) w.o. The East Worcestershire Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added, for three-yr-olds, let 21b ; four, Bst 31b ; five, Bst 1011); six and aged, 9st 21b. Winners extra. Heats. One mile. Mr. Cliff's Sjbieski, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Snowden) 1 1 Mr. liopwoori's JacK bprirg, 4 yrs, Bst 3lb Mr; J. Evaus's Fanny Kaye, 3 yrs, 7st 215 THE JOCKEY CLUB AND THE SP ORTING P RESS.—The remainder of the racing was hardly vis ibl e f rom the rain, which came down in waterepotte, and was very nearly rendering the appointment of turf reporter to the daily papers vacant, as the gentleman in ques ti on was a ll b ut washed away, and his condition would have awaked pity in any heart less penetrable than that of a Jockey Club oii cial. Shelter at Newmarket from weather there is none, except in the weighing-room ; and from this, A 3 he has tu furnish correct intelligence to some few millions of human beings, it is thought proper to exclude him. So that the unfortunate person, when be arrived at Newmarket, after his three-mile walk through this tropical rain, presented very much the appearan ce of an individual who had spent th e a ft ernoon down a well, instead of on the heath, an d many sug gested the appli ca ti o n of th e reme di es to b e use d i n cases of per sons a pp aren tly d rowne d . C erta i n l y , w h e n we consider the desperate exertions that are needlo secure the good offioes of the Fourth Estate for a beginner in an official position, and with what gratitude a simple "par" is received, it is surprising that people who have been made by them should be the first to turn round and expose its members to treatment worse than their own domestics would choose to endure. I don't make these remarks individually, for I never give a chance away, and am independent of all officials; but there are many workers in the cause whose duties compel them to come in constant contact with the clerk of the scales, and therefore ought to be treated with ordinary civility and respect. .However, as Admiral Rous has now hoisted his flag in the club for three years, it is to be hoped, under his command, matters will be placed on a mere satisfactory basis. —Argus in the horn i ng Post. BREAD FROM THIS YEAR'S £[ARVEST.—DIDCOT, July 13.—At the market this day farmers who dined at the Junction Hotel partook of a pudding made from this year's growth of wheat. Tae whole field was cut last week, and no one present reeollected a new crop being ready so soon for consumption. It was grown by Mr. Charles Cauldwell, of Drayton, near Abingdon,. and ma nufactured into flour by Richard Bradfield, of Milton. The produce per acre was estimated by good judges at five quarters ; the quality fine. was la unched A. STEEL YACHT.—LIVEEPOOL, July 14.—A steam yacht, built of Mr. Clay's puddled steel plates, the sa me which is 96 feet long, as those used in the building of the Niger expeditionary 25 horse-power. It steamer Rainbow, dt scribed in The Sun a few days age, u a n t eh this Birkenhead. morning The yfrancrl tfsetrhethearDd. u(k)felViofr:ejellisil 16 feet 6 incees beam, has a tonnage of 131, and is f up iPsiiiendtewnidthedaahsigahp-Pleraessu3urereyeancgbitne of is named the "Deerhound," has excellent saloon accom , . ielodat.on for his Grace and friends, with good apace for captain, engi»eer, and crew. She is fitted with a lifting screw, is rigged as a schooner, and, from her fine lines and beautiful m o d e l, i s ex p ec ted to prove a very f ast sailer a s we ll as hteainer. Great credit is due to hi s Grace f or b e i ng t h e f i rst to i ntro duce the row material f puddl r d s t ee l p l ates i n the building of yachts — a n xample which will no doubt be largely followed, [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Pills.—There is but one di ea ,e, t e fountsin of all others—bad (lend—and there is but one infallible remedy for it—Holloway's PI ls. The bl oo d i s t h e lif e o f lif e . Th ere can be nothing in teie aystern permanently or radically unsoiled while situ is perfectly pure and rightly tempered. 14Firmt complexion, a quick and powerful digestion, an elavicity of the animal spirits, and a con s ion-ness o; health and strength, are a few of the in numerable advaLtages attendant on purity of the blood, a ble.eieg which every one can obtain who will take tly these inestimable Pills.—Sold by all medicine venders throughout the world, and at Professor Hollo way's Establislment, 244, Strand, London. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Sir John Pakington, M.P., the First Lord of the Ad m'raity, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, and went out in the Fife Queen steam yacht, Master Commander W. F. Paul, to Spithead, and visited Admiral Lord Lyons; on board the Royal Albert. On leaving he was sainted , eith 19 guns, and the crew manned yards. The Fire Queen then proceeded to Osborne with his lordship. Rear-Admiral A Milne, Third Lord of the Admiralty, visited Woolwich yesterday, aTscl inspected the ships under fitment for the coast of Africa. He was accom panied in his tour of inspection by Commodore Shep herd, Superintendent of the yard. The Archer steam ship, Captain Saunderson, and the steam sloop Racer, Commander the Hon. T. A. Pakenham, were ordered, it was understood, to be in readiness to leave the basin on the 17th inst.. and proceed to Spithead on the 20th, to join the rendezvous of the Royal squadron about to accompany the Court to Cherbourg. The authorities at the War Department having de cided on sending out an additional number of reinforce ments to India, tenders were yesterday received at the East India-house for the conveyance of troops amount ing to 2,345 men, in addition to the reinforcements at present under orders for embarkation. Tenders were also taken up at Somerset-house for the conveyance of four officers and 133 men from Woolwich to Colombo ; and to-morrow tenders will be received at Somerset house for the conveyance of a regiment of infantry, con sisting of 32 officers and 863 rank and file, together with 50 women and children, from Portsmouth to the Mauritius. When the whole of the reinforcements now on their passage from this country have reached India the number of British cavalry and infantry serving in India will be augmented to 100,000 men. The Imperador, steam transport, Capt. Atkins, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Hong 'Kong, Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope, and Madeira, with the following passengers From Hong Kong—The Rev, J. W. Johnson and lady ; Mrs. Wells Williams and three children ; Masters W. and F. Ashomore ; Mrs. Brooks and two children ; Lieut. C. H. Wilkinson, R.N. ; Lieut. H. Kerr, R.N. ; Lieut. E. M. Smith, R.N. ; Mr. Frederick Wise, R.N. ; Mr. D. H. Wilder, R.N. ; Dr. W. R. Dalton, R.N. ; Dr. J. Breaky, R.N. • Lieut. George Gill, Royal Ma r i n e Li g ht I n f an t r y ; Lieut. W. F. P. Dadson, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; Mr. W. Barry, Staff Assistant-Surgeon; Mr. Graham, 143 in valids, two women, and three children. From Singa pore—Mrs. Vaughan and two children, and Captain Sinclair. From the Cape of Good Hope—Mr. Unna, wife, four children and servant ; Mrs. Unna, sen., and 4r. ThompPon. From Madeira—Mr. Walsh, wife, daughter, and servant ; Mr. R. Wilkinson, Mr. Andrews. From Ascension—H. Pead, wife, and daughter. May 14, exchanged signals with the brig Anna Louisa, in lat 30 6 S., long. 35 40 E. ; 16tb, the bark Minna, in lat. 32 245., long. 31 23 E. ; June 8, the Dutch barque Andriana Petronella, in lat. 14 36 S., long. 6 46 W. ; 10th, the Dutch barque Vier Gebroders, in lat. 11 14 S., long. 11 5 W. ; July 10, the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Tagus, in lat. 43 24 N., long. 9 16 W. ; 11th, the Royal mail etearner Tyne, in lat. 44 56 N., long. 8 10 W. The Imperador was detained 20 days at Sings pore refit ting, after having been run into by the Ham tairg ship Arracon, on the passage from Hongkong to Singapore ; was six days at the Cape of Good Hope, had no south• east trades aft er l eav i ng t h e C ape, and had strong head winds all the way home. When off the Mauritius she lost one blade of her screw, which made a considerable difference in the ship's speed. She took out 560 of the Royal Marines font ILvonpoit to China, amid was em ployed out there for three months. She made her out .eard passage to Singapore in 60 days 20 hours (the . shortest ever made), consuming only 700 tons of coals. She lost 12 invalids on the voyage home ; Lieut. But- ler, R.N. wounded in the head ; Lieut. Dads on , R o y a l Marine P:rigade, right arm disabled, both at the taking of Canton. Several wounded invalids from the taking of Canton have come home in the Imperador, but all are progressing favourably. The Imperador went into Ports. mouth harbour yesterday afternoon to land her invalids, ' and will go to Southampton tolsnd her cargo, consisting of 4,055 packages of tea and 150 packages of sundries. Mejor W. H. March, of the Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, has been promoted to be Lieut.-Colonel, and appointed to the Chatham Division, vice Lieut.-Col. G. Elliot, who has beep permitted by the Lords of the Admiralty to retire from the service on full pay. A requisition has been presented to Government from the authorities of Deptford dock and Victualling yards, requesting her Majesty's gracious approval of their , desire to perpetuate the event of the Queen's inspection et those estaLshments on the 28th ult., on the visit of :he Court to the Great Eastern steamship, by issuing her Majestyy's command that the above-mentioned Royal yards shall henceforth bear the name of the " Victoria Dock and Victualling Yards." A regimen al order for the information of the garrison was yester , ,lay issued at head-quarters, Royal Marines, Woolwich, expressing her Majesty's consent and approval to that .ffect. Preparatiors are being made for another proof of Mallet's enormous mortar in the Plumstead Marsh, and a new sr ecies of shell is in course of preparation fir that purpose. Although the former experiments have in each case failed to realise the anticipated project, the'. Government have, it is said, yieided to the entreaties Of the inventors for a farther trial, Whioh, if successful, may be the means of introducing the most powerful weapon of defence and siege yet invented. Consider-' able improvements have been added since the last trial. Lieutenant-Colonel Conolly, Brigade-Major of the South-West District, having obtained leave of absence, :Major Mortimer Adye, Royal Artillery, pointed Acting Brigad e -M a j or pro tem. has been ap- The Urgent and Perseverance, steam troop-ship, Com manders M'Donald and Seccombe, are ordered to be ready to embark troops at Portsmouth by the Bth of August, but the latter will not be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities until the 30th of that month. The Arrogant, 47. screw frigate, Capt. L. G. Heath, C. 8., returned to Spitbead yesterday, aid cruised about for exercise of her crew. The Ringdove, 6, steam despatch gun vessel, was' taken out by the steam reserve authorities yesterday at Portsmouth to try engineF, &e. The fobowing appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty ;—William Hewlett, Master, to the Sparrow-hawk ; Charles F. Puckett, Master, to the -klecto ; G. R. Trefusis, Midshipman, to the Scourge ; John Bishop, Acting-Assistant-Surgeon, to the Impreg nable; James L. Whitney, Acting-Assistant-Surgeon, to the Victory ; Charles A. Pritchard (Paymaster) to be Secretary to Rear• Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle ; and William Ellis, Paymaster, to the Eagle. Country rdarkets, EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET JULY 13. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large, Oat straw, from 7s Od to us Od per kemple of 16 stoneg; tron ; wheat do., 7s Cd to 9s 6d ; b ar l ey do., 6i 61 to 9a 61. Hay from ld to 13d. EDINBURGH MEAL —JULY 13. There were in the market to-day 13 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 40s Od and —3. DA.LKEITH MEAL :ARKET-JULY 12. There were in the market to-day 11 bags of oatmeal, ocf barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs I First. Second. Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditt0........, —s Od. —s Od —s 01 Pot-barley, new, per ditt o —a Od a Od —8 Od D 64 ÜBLI N—Jur 13. White wheat, 26s to 28s 6d; red ditto, 24s Od to 203 6d; ditto new, 28 s 6.1 ; b ar l ey, malt i ng, 13s tol7s 03; grind. ing, —a to —s ; oats, old, 15s to 16s Od; ditto, n ew , to 16s 6d ; oatmeal, 14s 6d to 16s 3d; here, new, —s to --4 Od ; rapeso( d, —s Od to —s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 14s Od to 18s 6d per owt ; Indian corn, 34s Od to Ma 6d per 130 lbs. COAL MARE Prices of Coals per ton at s. d. • Benton West Hartley .14 6 Middle W. Hartley 15 0, Bebside W. Hartley 15 0' Grey's West Hartley l4 2 Howard's West Hartley I.—JIILY 14. the close of the market Wallsea, Netherton - 15 0 l'anfield Moor l4 0 Tanfield Moor Butos 14 0 Walker Primrose l2 6 Wylain ' Etraddyll .... 15 9 Eletton l7 6 Russell's Hutton l5 9 south Hatton ............. l7 0 Stew Art's. l7 0 Shineliffe 15 0 ifeugh Hall l5 0 Hunwiek l4 0 South Kelloe 16 6 West Hetton 15 0 Thorp • l6 0 Whitworth l4 3 Brown's Moor Haigh Main 14 0 Nixon's Duffryn. 21 0 Powell's Duffryn Steam 20 . 9 73—Sold, 51. ' Wallsend, &o. Acorn Close l5 0 Benson.... l4 6 Eden .15 -0 llilda 15 9 Eden Main l5 3 Ships at market, BIRTHS. EuanErr—On the 13th inst., at Shrubhurst, Gated, Surrey', the wife of Lieutenant-C o l . Burdett, Coldstream Guards, .f a daughter. GRANT —On the 13th inst., at 16, Ainslie-place; Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs. Lewis Grant, 6f a daughter. VERE— On the 13th inst., at 10, Chesham-street, Belgrave square, the residence of her mother, Viscountess Dungar• van, the Lady Mary Hope Vere, of a sou and heir. MARRIAGES, a/ MESON—AI 'CAUL—On the 14th inst., at St. Magnus', Lon• • don-bridge, the Rev. Andrew Johnson, curate of St. Cle• went, Eastcheap, to Mary, second daughter of the Rev. A. M'Caul, D.D.. Prebendary of St. Paul's, dm.. MATILL —COWELL—On the 13th inst., at St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, H. Maull, Esq., of Lew'sham, to Eliza, third daughter of H. B. Cowell, Esq., Islington. DEATHS. MINSTERVILLK —On the 12th in -t., at his residence, Crescent. piymouth, Major-General J. H. Duusterville. Colctnel of the ht Grinadier. Regt. Bombay N. L, aged 70. BRADSTOCK —On the 11th inst., at Low Leyton, Essex, John Bradstock Esq., aged 46. JE3S )P —On the 12th inst., at 8, Coborn-street, B ow:roa d, • Mr. John J essop, aged 74. MAcx.woszn •On the 13th inst., at Clifton wood House, Bris tol, Herbert Francis Mackworth, Esq., Government In spector of Mines, aged 34. HAMILTON -On board the Prince of Wales, on his passage home from Calcutta, the Rev. Arthur Hamilton, 8.A., son of the late Sir Fredelie Hamilton, Bart., of Silvertou-hill, Lanarkshire, and Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-park. TIT OMPSON -On the 18th May, at Dacca, Colonel William J. Tnomi.son, C.H., of the lhte 12th Bengal N.I, ' LOUDON Printed and Published by MURISO YOILNOr of No. 112, Strand, Feint er, at Viz Sun (Mice. No' 312, StrP..nd, in the Precinct of thq am ay, in the count, of iiikluiescx, Thurs lay, July 15, 1858, t lij ons A a ir V i d , Beale, C e A •t ra r mnl y i se e sr v i: e i n i g s ear, at Ihe Runt Ga] NIR. OH, July 15, Eight o'clock (for " HOOTS AT TIII Stalls (numl.ered rureserved Seats, All's, Publishers, Acre. CHRISTY TIIRE T AINWRNT—CI aretts—ltalian Op c ommencing at 3. Back, h. 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