The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

THE CASE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL It is in accordance with all official custom in this country that after the commission of some porten tous blunder we have to publish a long official cor respondence. The object of this chain of letters is always to explain atd extenuate, to show how the blunder arose, and to shift the responsibility from shoulder to shoulder, until the fault, like a slipper in a Christmas game, is entirely lost sight of. This time-honoured expedient has had its regular place as a sequel to the mutinous riot on board the Prin cess Royal in Portsmouth harbour. We have in regular sequence the narrative of Admiral Bowles, an explanation from Capt. 13aillie, a general expres sion of opinion from the Admiral as to the expedi ency of the general Admiralty order, an amended regulation from the Admiralty, a comment by Ad: miral Bow lcs upon Capt. Baillie's evidence, a report of a Court of Inquiry, and, lastly, a resolution of the Lords of the Admiralty entirely whitewashing Admiral Bowles and gravely censuring Captain Baillie. This is very much what was to be ex pected. It is a little remarkable how largely Ad miral Bowles contributes to this mass of materials, which are moulded at last into his complete ac- quittal, and there is a great distinction, as every one acquainted with the constitution of the Board of Admiralty must be aware, between blaming an Admiral and censuring a Captain—rexat censztra colzeinbas. In this case, however, Captain Baillie has not proved himself quite a dove which, when sent out over a troubled scene, would be likely to reappear with an olive branch. We are free to confess that the publication of these documents, although we think they by no means justify the one-sided deci sion of the Admiralty, goes far to apportion the blame between the Admiral and the Captain, and even, perhaps, to fix the larger portion of it upon Captain Baillie. It now appears that, according to Admiral Bowles's opinion, the men on board the Princess Royal were, at the time of the occurrence which has occasioned this inquiry, suffering under the operation of an unjust and most irritating rule of service. " Nothing," says Admiral Bowles, 41 could be more injudicious and unjust than to treat the officers and men lately returned from foreign service as culprits in whom no confidence could be placed, and who were to he imprisoned on board their ships lying alongside the dockyard, while every possible indulgence was extended to all around them." Conscious, therefore, as Admiral Bowles must have been, that these men were in a state of irritation caused by a real grievance, it was doubly his duty in dealing with them to exercise a more than usual amount of caution and forbearance. Captain Baillie, the officer in command, appears to have delayed making any application to the Admi ral for power to grant leave until the men had be some almost furious at their restraint. " I am con vinced," again remarks the Admiral, " that if Captain Baillie had asked my permission to give leave sooner, the disturbance which took place would never have occurred." When, however, at last Capt. Baillie did make his too-long delayed application, the Admiral gave him permission to send only one watch on shore till Monday morning. The Captain returned on board and communicated this to the crew. 'We must place ourselves somewhat in the position of these men, and conceive ourselves to have been many months upon foreign service, to have at .last arrived in harbour, to be lying close alongside the shore upon which ourfriends are assem bled', and to know that to-morrow is Sunday, upon which no work will be done, and when our stay on board cannot be necessary, before we can properly understand the disappointment of that half of the ship's crew who saw their messmates going down the side while they themselves were hopeless pri soners. We can scarcely wonder, however gravely we must rebuke, that these men expostulated in their rough way, cried out " All, or none," and sent their petty officers aft to complain of the ar rangement. The evidence has now made it clear that the part of the crew to whom leave had already been given were not in any way mixed up with this expostulation. They had got their liberty, they were swarming into the boats, and they were going to enjoy themselves without making any common cause with their unfortunate messmates, whom the caprice of the admiral, or the " unjust and injudicious" rules of the service, de tained to sulk and sorrow on board. It was under these circumstances that Captain Baillie returned to the Admiral. Captain Baillie seems to have sympathised with his crew, and possibly he enter tained the hope that by a general statement of the great dissatisfaction that reigned on board his ship he should induce the Admiral to reconsider his determination, and give liberty to the whole of the men. In this Captain Baillie was undoubtedly wrong,—wrong in his course of conduct, and wrong in his expectations. Having to do with an Admiral so elow to yield indulgences and so quick to order punishment as Admiral Bowles appears to be, he should have stated minutely the exact circumstances of the state of his ship, and should have taken care to make this old gentleman thoroughly understand that, when he reported that the whole crew were in a very ex cited state, he meant only the whole of the crew which were then on board ship, and not the liberty men, who had already reached the shore. We think, however, that any man who carefully weighs Ad miral Bowles's explanation will come to the con clusion that his conduct upon receiving this report must have been testy and hasty. " I saw imme diately," he says, " that it was time to be firm and decisive." It is now evident that he took this view much too immediately. If he ,had asked Captain Baillie the details of the circumstances he had re ported, how far the dissatisfaction extended, and who were its organs, he would certainly have ar rived at an accurate knowledge of the real facts. In a matter of such great importance as that of a suggestion that one of the ships in harbour was in a quasi mutinous state, we submit that it is not too much to require even of an octoge narian Admiral that he should ask two or three questions to test the accuracy of his own impres sions before he issues his commands. Admiral Bowles did not do this. He could not possibly have done this ; for, although Captain Baillie had made an ambiguous, or an exaggerated report, no one pretends that he was prepared to give the Admiral false answers to any questions he might have addressed to him. Acting promptly upon the false impressions which he had taken no pains to verify, he immediately directed Capt. Baillie to revoke the permission previously given, to grant no leave at all, and to recall the men who had already been allowed to quit the ship. Ad miral Bowles now says that he did not know that the liberty men had not joined in the discontent. But he must have known, if he has a grain of sense, that by calling back men under such circumstances he was actually inviting, and even compelling, a mutiny by stretching the requirements of discipline beyond what human nature could bear. It may be very well to say that Capt. Baillie should have ex postulated and explained. Before we adopt this view we ought to know what likelihood there was that any expostulation or explanation would be endured. There is a tone running through the whole of this transaction which seems to indicate that Admiral Bowles is not a man before whom subordinates care to appear unnecessarily or to tarry very long. Capt. Bairns seems to have en dured the murmurs of his crew in the first iastance rather than go before the Admiral, and endured a wrong done to his crew in the second instance rather than stand up against his Admiral and dis abuse him of an error ;but we do not think that public opinion will go with the Admiralty in ac quitting Admiral Bowles altogether and throwing all the blame upon Capt. Baillie. Discipline must be preserved. This is a neces sity with which we cannot parley or palter. The men who are entrusted with arms among peaceful citizens must hold them upon the condition of implicit and entire obedience to their officers. Right or wrong, just or unjust, so far as they themselves are concerned the commands of their officers must be unhesitatingly obeyed. This is the price the men pay for the advantage they enjoy of mmunity from the vicissitudes of want and destitu tion, which civilians of the same rank of life must often front. This discipline must be unreasoning., uncomplaining, absolute; but it is because this is so, and because the necessity is so ,great that it should be so, that we ought to require the very highest qualities of forbearance, patience, conside ration, and tact in those who issue the orders which must be so implicitly obeyed. If it be that no crea ture is or ought to be so helpless in the hands of a superior as a so ldi er or a sailor, no act ought to b i e considered so co war dl y or so base as unnecessarily to punish, oppress, o r vex a soldier or a LairilorY Old gentlemen, by long c ourse o f habit, and by. custom of issuing orders which, although affecting the comfort of thousands, are never seen by them in operation, come sometimes to regard these mat ters lightly. "Men of the most jovial dispositions," remarks Burke, " have sometimes freely put their names to documents which have set Europe on fire." So very respectable old gentlemen sometimes carelessly issue orders which make all our sailors curse our service. This is what the present age will not tolerate. 'We cannot, even if we would, deal with men as if they were mere machines, withouthuman passions. This matter would have ended better for all concerned if Admiral Bowles had shown a little more anxiety to reconcile his duty with the reason able desires of the men ; and it is certainly not with out some apprehension that we remark that the only effect this warning has had upon the Admiralty is to cause them to ism an order confirming the rule ..lich even Admiral Bowles has declared to be injudicious and unjust, and rendering it even yet more stringent than it had ever been.—Times. TO Tar. EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l find in the official correspondence con- 1 nected with the case of the Princess Royal that in a despatch dated December 13 Admiral Bowles, after describing the riot which had taken place on board that ship, recommends " that the severest measures should betaken to crush this rising spirit i of insubordination n the British Navy." But in a previous letter to " my Lord;," dated November 20, Admiral Bowles appears to have ex pressed his opinion " that nothing can be more in judicious or unjust than the way in which officers and men returning from lengthened foreign service are treated with respect to leave ; that they are dealt with as if they were culprits in whom no con fidence could be placed, and are imprisoned unne cessarily on board their ships, while every possible indulgence is extended to all around them." This being so, according to Admiral Bowles, I would ask who is most in fault,—the inferiors who resist these injudicious and unjust rules, or the superiors who enforce them ? Who are the parties respecting whom the severest measures are to be taken to crush the rising spirit of insubordination ? Does Admiral Bowles mean that "My Lords" ought to go to gaol for being injudicious and un just ? or that the seamen, whom they treat so injudiciousy and an justly, and who resent such treatment, ought to go there ?, I may be excused for being in doubt as to the gallant Admiral's precise meaning, inasmuch as " My Lords," in their letter of Dec. 5, declare them selves at a loss to understand the explanations which he has offered to them respecting his own part in the affair, and feel obliged to order further inquiry into it. The haziness of Admiral Bowles' language and explanations ought surely to prove some excuse for the misconstruction which Captain Baillie put upon his orders.—Your obedient servant, Dec. 28. H. IRON SHIPS AND THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. (From the Life Boat.) How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years ! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline ! During the present year alone have two great ships perished on our own coasts, each consigning hun dreds of human beings to a watery grave. But the other day it was the noble clipper Pomona, of 1,800 tons, a few hours only out of port, her voyage scarce commenced, mistaking a light, running on an Irish bank, and drowning no less than 385 of the unfor tunate beings who had trusted in her. To-day it is the passenger steamer Royal Charter, at the termi nation of her long homeward voyage, thrown upon her native shore, and yielding no less than 455 of her unhappy inmates to the cold grasp of death. instead of restoring them to the warm embraces of long expectant relatives and friends. A wholesale destruction of life and property under more melancholy circumstances it is difficult to conceive. _ The Royal Charter had sailed from the distan colony of Victoria, in Australia, on the 26th of August, 1559, with 491 persons on board, the ma jority of whom were returning emigrants ; these having at last attained the object of their distant pilgrimage, like the laden bee, were once more homeward bound. carrying with them the fruit of their labours, and anticipating, maybe, a long and tranquil enjoyment of the same in "their own, their native land." But alas, when apparently on the poinlof realisation, these natural but too often vain anticipations were scattered to the winds : and, as in the parable of old, to each the awful mandate went forth, " This night thy soul shall be required of thee." This unfortunate ship, on Nov. 25th, having hug ged too closely the Anglesey coast in search of a pilot, was caught in the late fearful gale which de vastated almost the entire coast of Great Britain, and was compelled to anchor ; but carrying away all her anchoring-gear, she drifted on the rocks, and quickly broke in halves: Although a line was carried to the shore by an intrepid and skilful swimmer from the ship, named Joseph Rogers:a Maltese seaman, but few persons had time to avail themselves of its aid ere the vessel and all beside were engulfed together. Two important questions here naturally arise :- Ist. Was the anchoring-gear, that is to say, were the anchors and cables of this ship, and are the an chors and cables of our merchant ships in general,of sufficient strength, in sufficient number, of sufficient weight, and sufficiently in readiness for immediate use, to provide, as far as possible for the safety of the vessels and their occupants in cases of emer gency ? 2d. Was this iron ship, and - are our iron ships in general by their strength of build and scientific construction calculated to afford, as far as possible, safety to those on board them in the event of their coming into collision with the shore or with other ships ? On the occasion of the wreck of the Pomona in April last, we took the opportunity to remark on some of the imperfections of our system of light houses, the loss of that vessel having been pre viously occasioned by the mistaking one light for another. The present case affords an opportunity for some reflections on the two points above alluded to, viz., the presumed inefficiency in too many in stances of the anchoring gear of our merchant ves sels, and the presumed insufficient strength of our iron ships. Our remarks will be principally devoted to the second point. On the first we will only observe, that numberless wrecks are occasioned every year by vessels dragging their anchors, or breaking their cables, and by not having their spare or sheet an chor clear for letting go. It is therefore only a truism to remark on the importance of the anchorin g gear of a ship being carefully selected and of propor tionate strength to the duty devolving on it. The loss of the magnificent steamship Prince, off Balaklava, on the coast of the Crimea, with her immense, and 1 at that time invaluable cargo of military clothing, the destruction of which occasioned such deplorable suffering and loss of life to our brave soldiers before Sebastopol, was a striking case in point. Had her anchors been somewhat heavier, and her cables somewhat larger, she might possibly have rode out the gale in safety. The loss of the Royal Charter is another striking illustration ; for who can say that if her third anchor had been clear for letting go, which it appears not to have been (the ship not even being fitted Ns ith a third hawse-hole), who can say that if it had been clear, and let go in proper time, it might not have prevented the fearful loss of life and of valuable property which took place ? A standard size of anchors and cables proportionate to tonnage ; a periodical examination and testing of chain cables, as is practised in her Majesty's ships; and an occasional careful examination of the an choring gear of at least every passenger ship by the surveyors of the Board of Trade or of the Emigration Commissioners—would probably be the means of preventing many wrecks and much loss of life. On the second head, we need only advert to the number of iron ships which have been wrecked, and have quickly broken up—a fact known'to all who are conversant with the records of our maritime losses during the past few years—to convince every one of the importance of careful, diligent, and scientific inquiry, as to whether the present system of con structing iron vessels may not be greatly improved on. It has now been practically as well as theore tically shown that iron ships, as now built, break up generally by separating amidships, far sooner than wooden vessels, occasioning thereby a corre sponding increase in loss of lives. Of this fact the case of the Royal Charter and of the mail steamer Indian are the two most recent illustrations. We have, in former papers, remarked on the too frequent want of strength and general unseaworthi ness of our merchant ships, as being in great mea sure occasioned by the usual custom of insuring vessels to their full value, and sometimes in excess of it, so as to leave the owners little or no pecu niary interest in their safety, and inducing them to build ships as cheaply as possible, rather than as strongly as possible. We propose, more especially, to quote the present case as the last instance amongst many of the "insufficient strength of iron ships as now built," and, in the name of humanity, to urge on our Legislature, our Government, our shipowners, our shipbuilders, and on our coun trymen generally, the great importance of the sub ject, and the necessity that exists for adopting a stronger mode of constructing iron vessels, and especially those which are employed for the convey ance of large numbers of persons, such as emigrant ships, troop ships, and other passenger craft. It may be replied, where is the remedy ? If it could be shown that iron vessels might he con structed in a stronger and more desirable manner, s t u h r e e m ly ,e s ive hip s o o w f suneresh awo: improved but too glad to possess article. 'We fear that, as stated above, iovehsetaipboewtnearrstiealree, but liot the in terested in cheapest arti c l e . Viewed evenina w pe t c h u e n s iary, and not in a philanth rop i c point of s vie one of national imp or t ance ; for althoughtl subject ect the is system of insurance th e i n di v id ua l may protect himself, yet every loss of val ua bl e property is as much a loss to the whole community as it would be if uninsured ; the lo 33 is merely transferred t o o th er _ _ parties, and divided amongst a greater number. As to the question of a remedy, it can be easily made plain to the meanest capacity, that the art of iron ship-baiiding has not kept pace with the gene ral scientific acquirements of the age, at least so far as strength and durability are concerned; which properties must always be amongst the chief desi derata in all human works. The great weakness of iron ships appears to be their tendency to hog, or break their backs, or to break altogether asunder in the 'lnidship part ; they have insufficient longitudinal strength. There is the keel, to be sure, corresponding to the backbone of the living animal, but which nevertheless is cap able of great improvement and strengthening. There are the ribs and beams, corresponding to the ribs of the animal, which in the latter keep the body sufficiently distended and in shape, to contain the various vital organs that sustain life, and which have sufficient strength in a great measure to protect them from biing crushed or injured. But the skin, that beautiful, wondrous, seamless garment, which so closely and marvellously envelops the animal, yet permits of every requisite movethent of its limbs and organs, the strength of which is so great that, even in the smaller animals it can with difficulty be broken, and which in the larger, such as the elephant, hippo potamus, and rhinoceros, is enormous; without the protection of which the animal frame would speedily fall asunder—where in the iron ship shall we find its counterpart ? Can the thin iron plating with its numerous perpendicular lines of weakness, occasioned by the numberless rivetings of the short iron plates, be compared to the animal skin, with out one weak spot over its entire surface ? It can nut be so. Yet, as far as possible, they should be assimilated, for the same important use is required of each. _ _ In wooden ships a much nearer approximation is I made to the animal skin, since, owing to the greater length of the planking, and the narrowness as corn pared with the iron plates, the lines of weakness oc casioned by the rivets are avoided. The greater length of fibre of wood and its greater elasticity may also be sources of additional strength: An apt illustration of the strength of a skin of planking, is that of the diagonal system in boat building, on which principle the larger boats in the Royal Navy are constructed, as are also the life boats of the National Lifeboat Institution. Boats built on this plan are almost without rib-timbers, haying only a few short floor timbers, their double diagonal planking being relied on solely to afford the requisite strength, and they are known to be the strongest description of boats. The well-known ship-builder, Mr. Hall, of Aber deen, has successfully applied the same principle to building wooden ships, and the Schoenberg clipper ship, of 2600 tons,which was unfortunately wrecked on the Australian coast in 1857, was built on this principle by Mr. Hall, and was supposed to be the strongest wooden ship in our own or any other merchant navy. . Mr. Ralph Taylerson, of Port-Glasgow, has now proposed to apply to a great extent, the same prin ciple to iron ships, and apparently with every pros pect of success. As the comparative shortness of the iron plating, which we suppose is unavoidable, prevents the application of the principle in precisely the same manner as in wooden vessels, Mr. Tayler son places the frames, corresponding to the timbers or ribs of wooden vessels in a direction diagonal to the keel and sides ; each frame, like the planks of the diagonal boat, passing from one gunwale across the keel and up to the other gunwale continuously, the iron plating being attached horizontally, as now. As the lines of riveting of the planking or lines of weakness thus run diagonally or obliquely to transverse sections of the ship, whilst the cross or deck beams run parallel to such sections, and are bolted to different frames on the one side to what they are en the other, a manifest vast increase of strength to the whole structure against transverse fracture is obtained. Mr. Tavlerson also introduces other improvements, especially in the keel, to im part strength. We hope to give, in a future num ber, the substance of a lecture on his invention, by Mr. Taylerson, recently delivered at the ball of the United Service Institution iu London, illustrated by designs furnished to us by the inventor for the , better elucidation of his plan. We think the importance of this subject cannot . be overrated ; and we implore all builders and de signers of iron ships, whilst the loss of the Royal . Charter and of the Indian, and the cries of their dying inmates, in imagination, are yet ringing in , their ears, carefully to consider Mr. Taylerson's propositions, and to adopt them if no better can be discovered. THE LOSS OF TBE BLERVIE CASTLE. Anxious inquiries have been made daily at Lloyd's and of the charterers of the ill-fated outward bound Australian ship Blervie Castle, relative to the fate of the unfortunate passengers and crew. Unhappily, not the least doubt is entertained but that they must have all perished in the ship, and this belief is confirmed by the reports that have since been made by the French fishermen, to the effect that they had seen numbers of dead bodies of men, women, and children floating among the wrecked goods and cases. That the catastrophe took place during Tuesday 1 night or Wednesday morning, and on either the Varne or Ridge Sands, has now been satisfactorily ascertained. It appears the wreck was first seen about 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning by the captain and chief officer of the General Steam Navigation Company's steamer Panther, while on their passage from Boulogne to London, and who, from some oversight or other, omitted on their arrival in the Thames to report the fact either to Lloyd's or the Shipping Gazette, by which the loss of the Blervie Castle would have been known 48 hours before it was actually announced. The wreck was observed to the eastward of the Varne and Ridge Sands, and some 10 or 12 miles off the French coast, the wind blowing hard at the time from the south-west, with a high sea. The chief mate at first perceived something large looming in the distance, right in the course of the steamer. His impression at the moment was that it was a species of whale which is occasionally seen in the , Channel, but soon afterwards he detected it was the wreck of a 600 or 700 ton ship, floating with her bilge out of the water. The course of the Panther was direct at it, and it was only by her helm being put hard apart that she cleared the wreck, other wise she might have sustained serious damage. The wreak was sheathed with yellow metal, and she appeared to have been painted a buff colour inside her bulwarks and stanchions, or rather what remained of them. Captain Russell, who was despatched to the French coast by the un derwriters at Lloyd's to collect all the authen tic information on the melancholy subject, writes to say " that the wreck of the Blervie Castle was seen on Saturday driving about 12 miles N.E. of Calais. Foils fishing boats had had it in tow for 16 hours endeavouring to get into some place on the coast, but were at length obliged to relinquish their charge on account of the strong wind. The fishermen describe the wreck to be much damaged in her stern, that all her masts were gone and she was lying on one side." The next that is heard of the wreck is from the officer of the Dover and Calais steamer, which escaped coming into col lision with it in the course, of Saturday night. On Monday night some Deal luggers came up with the wreck between the Kentish Knock and the Gal loper, 50 or 60 miles from the Varne Sand, and they got it in tow and suceeeded in getting it on to the main to the eastward of Ramsgate Harbour. From its shattered state it was evident that some vessel had struck upon it during the time it had been driving about. Lloyd's agent at Ramsgate describes it as the port side of a ship from the stem to stern, of about 600 tons, broken off at the floor heads, yellow metalled and fastened, all black outside, and partly planked with oak or teak. It was painted with a narrow white streak, and the poop and top gallant forecastle appeared to have been newly cop pered. The general opinion is that the wreck is that of the Blervie Castle, although as yet it has not been clearly identified as part of the ill-fated ship. It may be remarked that some doubt has been expressed as to whether the wreck really is that of the Blervie Castle, and an impression has been entertained that it belonged to some other ship which had come in collision with the Blervie Castle, and had met the same fate. This conjec ture has arisen from the circumstance of pieces of wreck having been seen floating in the Channel different from that of the Blervie Castle, but its driving about for so long a period would account for its somewhat altered character, and it is only reasonable to suppose that it is part of the lost vessel. There has been a large quantity of wrecked goods landed, not only at several of the French ports, but at Ramsgate, Dover, Margate, &e., some of the cases having the words "Blervie Castle" upon them, and others only the figures and marks. On referring to the ship's manifest, however, it has been clearly ascertained that the greater bulk of the goods brought ashore formed part of the cargo of the Blervie Castle. The circumstance that nothing has been heard of the boats of the unfortunate ship has exeited some attention, and with a few of the relatives of those on board has raised a kind of hope that some of the people might have escaped from the wreck, and have got on board some outward bound ship. This, however, painful as it is to announce, is exceedingly doubtful. The Blervie Castle was a first-class, stout, ;:oak-built ship ; and, bearing in mind how speedily she was broken in two, it is easy to imagine that the boats could not have withstood the fury of the tempest with any better result. It is very probable that they were crushed with the ship. offfa m Nt i o l i s e t of London, s to themourn e and r many e were th etheir f r sad the e r s a i t d he e .i n v t o es Captain left f the widows il i east end ,lia andrd y had been for a long period in the service of Messrs. Dunbar, and his loss has excited the deepest regret. In connection with the sad case, a telegram was received yesterday from Marseilles, announcing the wreck of the Kindroch e t at Caaringa, and that Only one seaman and eight passengers were saved. Among those who perished was the master, Capt. M'Hardy, who is stated to have been a brother of the unfor tunate commander eF the Blervie Castle. It may be stated that the ship was provided with two signal-guns and rockets. Inquiries have been made of the keeper of the lighthouse on Cape Gris nez as to whether he had heard any signals of dis tress fired during the night of Tuesday or Wednes day morning, and he answered that he had not. CHARGE. OF AT.TE3IPTING TO BRIBE A G'OVERN-11.ENT OFFICER. ; John A. Salmon, described as staying at the Temperance Coffee-house and Hotel, 37, King-street, Cheapside, appeared at the Mansion House yester day to a summons, issued npon the complaint of the Lords of the Admiralty, charging " that you, on the 12th day of December inst., in the City of Lou- don, and unlawfully did attempt and endeavour to bribe one Thomas William Miller, then one of her Majesty's servants, in her Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth, thereby corruptly to induce him to neglect and do some act contrary to his duty as such servant, namely, to give his certificate allowing certain sums of money claimed by you for certain work and materials done for and supplied to the said dockyard, against the peace," &c. Mr. Douglas Brown appeared to conduct the case, and Mr. Sleigh for the defendant. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Brown said the circumstances of the case were very simple and very brief. The defendant was charged with attempting to bribe an officer belonging to the Portsmouth dockyard. Some time ago the defendant was employed to fit a smoke-consuming apparatus to a boiler in the dock yard, and a similar apparatus to a reverberating furnace in the smiths' shop, the contract for the one being £96 and the other £6O. Mr. Miller, the person whom the defendant was charged with attempting to bribe, had the superintendence of the work. It was his duty to see that the work was properly done, and to certify that it was in such a state as to entitle the defendant to payment. After the work was completed Mr. Miller was surprised to receive an envelop addressed to him, and enclos ing the half of a £3 note, without a word being said as to the sender, or anything about it ; and soon after that he received a letter from the pri soner, in which the other half of the £5 note was enclosed, but without any reference at all being made to the fact. The learned gentleman then read the letter, which related principally to the apparatus fitted by the defendant to the reverbera ting furnace in the smiths' shop, and asked to be allowed another trial, the learned gentleman stating that the apparatus had not worked satisfactorily. In conclusion, Mr. Brown said he should be able to prove the defendant's handwriting ; and then, he thought, it would be the Lord Mayor's duty to send the case to a jury. Thomas Wm. Miller said—l am assistant chief engineer in her Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth. I know the defendent from his having been at the yard erecting a t.,:noke-consuming apparatus. He had the order in January, and the work was put up and the first trial made by the end of March. It was my duty to see that the work was rightly done. Mr. Salmon had come down in December, and represented that he had a patent apparatus for consuming smoke, and that he had been sent from the surveyor's office in London. I told him it was hardly worth his while to try to consume smoke in Portsmouth dockyard, as it was already done very effectively; and I pointed out to him several simple contrivances for effecting that object. I also showed him a boiler with a common fire door, and told him, if he liked, he could try his apparatus on that boiler, provided he got the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty. That was in December or the beginning of January, I cannot positively say which. Subsequently an order came down from the Lords of the Admiralty, and was handed to me by the superintendent oftheyardtopermit Mr. Salmon to try his apparatus under certain conditions. He had also something to do with a reverberating fur nace ; but that was not in my department, and I took him to the master shipwright. He said he could consume the smoke in such furnaces, and he received an order with that condition. I have seen the bill of the boiler that was sent to the Accoun tant-General at the Admiralty, and on the back of the invoice I certified. I received the envelope pro duced on the 13th inst., in which was enclosed the half of a £5 note, which I also produce. Mr. Sleigh—Stay a minute. Whose handwrit ing is that address in ? Mr. Brown—l can prove that. Mr. Sleigh—Then you had better do it at once. Mr. Brown (to witness)—You received another letter ? Witness—Yes, on the afternoon of the same day. Mr. Brown—Then before I go further I will call a witness to prove the handwriting. Mr. John Field—l am brother and assistant to Chas. F. Field, of the private detective or inquiry office, Devereux-court, Temple. I saw defendant this morning. I saw him write, and know his hand writing. I saw him write on the back of that letter. By Mr. Sleigh—l was sent to get the defendant's handwriting by a gentleman connected with our office. I was instructed to do my best to get his handwriting, and I pretended that I wanted to do some business with him, so that I might see his writing and know it. Mr. Sleigh—ln order that you might come here to-day and swear to it? Witness—l know nothing at all about the trans action. I only did as I was told. Mr. Sleigh—Did you want to buy any of his ap paratus ? Witness—No. Mr. Sleigh—Then you were sent down to this gentleman by the Admiralty to inveigle him out of his handwriting by false pretences ? Witness—You may call it what you like. Mr. Sleigh—Very well, then, I call it a trap, and a very disgraceful trap, too, on the part of the soli citor to the Admiralty. How much did you see him write ? Witness—What is on the back of that letter. Mr. Sleigh—Six words and two figures And from that you come here to swear to the handwrit ing of a bundle of letters ? Witness—No, I do not. Mr. Sleigh—Then what did you come here for ? Witness—To swear to that which I saw him write. Mr. Sleigh—And to nothing else ? Witness—Not that I know of. The Lord Mayor—Then if that is all, Mr. Sleigh, you have done with him, I think. Mr. Sleigh—Yes, I think so, indeed. Mr. Brown—But I have not done with him. What farther took place between you ? Witness—l asked him how much it would cost to fit his apparatus at - Winchester, including rail way expenses, and he said £5O. I said I might forget, and asked him to put it down on the back of this envelope, and he did so. Mr. Brown—Well, now, look at that letter (that received by Mr. Miller.) Mr. Sleigh—Stay, first give me those other docu ments that you hold. I object to your speaking to one while you hold the other. Mr. Brown—l want him to compare the writing, and I think I am entitled to do so. Mr. Sleigh—l object. This is a case to which the doctrine of comparison does not apply. The Lord Mayor—l think so too. Mr. Brown—Very well, then, I give' it up. Now look at that note, and say whose writing you be lieve it to be. Witness—l believe it to be Mr. Salmon's—that is, the letter. The envelope I cannot speak to. Mr. Brown—l have nothing more to ask. Mr. Sleigh—You ground your opinion as to the handwriting upon the six words and two figures which you saw him write this morning ? Witness—Yes, and upon the letter which he sent down to Winchester, as to the apparatus I inquired of him about. I mean by comparing one with another. I showed him that letter, and asked him if it had come from him. He said " Yes." The point of evidence by comparison was here argued at considerable length by Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Brown. Mr. Sleigh—When did you look at the endorse ment and compare it with the Winchester letter itself ? Witness—lmmediately after I left the defendant this morning, or before I left his room. After he wrote it, I formed my opinion as to the letter re ceived by Mr. Miller being in defendant's hand writing partly on the eix words which I saw him write this morning, and partly on. the Winchester letter, which he said was his. By Mr. Brown—l saw him this morning, at 37, King-street, the hotel where he stops when in town. Mr. Brown—Tbe letter to Mr. Miller is dated from there. Mr. Miller recalled—l received the envelope marked A, and on the afternoon of the same day I received an envelope marked B, containing a letter and the half of a £5 note, also marked B. Mr. Brown—l now put in the letter. It is the one to which the witness Field has pledged his oath that Le believes to be in the defendant's hand writing. The letter was read ; but, as stated by Mr. Brown in opening the case, it, made no reference to the halves of the £5 note. Examination resumed—The two halves of the £5 note form one. rheleztei is dated Dre. i o. i reported its receipt to the superintendent of the yard, and hence these proceedings. I do not think Mr. Sal mon is paid yet. I do not know personally whether the reverberating furnace in the smith's shop has been tried yet, but I believe it has. Mr. Sleigh—ls that the whole of the case, I should like to ask my learned friend ? The Lord Mayor—l should like to ask the wit ness a question or two myself. You state to me that you are assistant chief engineer at Portsmouth Dockyard ? Witness—Yes. The Lord Mayor—And is it necessary for you to certify that the work has been done before payment has been made ? Witness—No ; but in this case the chief engineer was away from the yard while the apparatus was erected, so that he did not know much about it, and therefore I did certify that the work was properly done, and sign the invoice. The Lord Mayor—Did you sign before you re ceived the £5 note ? Witness—One half came before I had signed and he other half after. Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—Was it absolutely necessary that the invoice should be signed before payment ? Witness—Yes. The Lord Mayor—Had Mr. Salmon any know• ledge as to the time you would certify for pay. ment Witness—Not at all. The invoice had been lyin with us about a fortnight, and it was signed on the day I have referred to, in obedience to an order from London, stating that Mr. Salmon was press ing for payment. Mr. Sleigh—lt might be quite necessary to press for payment, for I am told the Government officers are not too prompt frequently in settling such ac counts. The Lord Mayor—l think it hardly fair to say that. Mr. Sleigh—Oh, red tapeism, my lord, sometimes keeps money back which parties require for the purposes of their families. When you signed and certified, Mr. Miller, I suppose you certified the truth and nothing more ? Mr. Miler—Nothing more. Mr. Sleigh—Now then, I ask my learned friend, where is his evidence to sustain the charge ? Mr. Brown—And I ask his lordship whether he will commit as the evidence stands. Mr. Sleigh—Why, there is not a particle of evi dence, so far, to prove anything. Mr. Goodman—Perhaps it would be better to have a remand for the production of the original documents, the invoice, and so on; and perhaps Mr. Brown can produce something further to show a corrupt motive. Mr. Brown—Yes, I will ask for a remand, and then I shall be prepared with all the necessary for mal evidence which I have not now, as I was only instructed late last night. Mr. Sleigh—Then I ask you, my Lord Mayor, whether there is evidence to justify you in remand ing the defendant, and calling upon him to appear here again to answer such a charge. Mr. Miller told you that he only certified to the truth, and there is nothing whatever to support the charge of corrupt conduit on the part of the defendant in any way, and nothing to show that he intended to bribe Mr. Miller to do any act which was incompatible with the proper discharge of his duty as: a Govern ment servant. lam not here to show, that Mr. Miller did not receive the two halves of a 1.:5 note, but only that there was no attempt to bribe on the part of the defendant, who is the patentee of some most ingenious inventions and apparatus, which have been extensively adopted both by public and private establishments with immense success ; but I wish to draw your lordship's attention particu larly to the means 'which have been adopted to prove the defendant's handwriting. I will not go into the merits of the Private Inquiring Office, or whatever they may choose to call it, of the Fields ; but I will say that it is a disgrace to the Admiralty to stoop to the employment of spies, as has been done here, for the purpose of entrapping a gentle man into a criminal charge. It is a foul disgrace for a great Government department, with all legal means and appliances at its command, to employ such means as these, and I do not believe that the Admiralty Commissioners dream of the way in which this case has been got up. Mr. Brown—That is all very well, Mr. Sleigh ; but will you admit the handwriting ? Mr. Sleigh—l repeat, it is a disgrace to the Ad miralty; and if you know anything about criminal law you would knew that I can admit nothing. But I say again there is no evidence to support the summons, and I ask your lordship to dismiss it. The Lord Mayor—There is something in one of the letters received by:Mr. Miller about a steamer which the defendant expected to have to fit hit apparatus to. I should like to know the date cf that letter, as the bribe might be in connection wilh that expectation. Mr. Brown—Mr. Miller received only one lette r , my lord. It is that in which the defendant arks about another trial of the furnace in the srailf s shop, and in which the second half of the £5 ; etc , was enclosed. The Lord Mayor—What is its date ? Mr. Brown—lt is dated the 13th December, an d the passage you refer to is this. After referriLlg to some apparatus which he fitted to the stfa raer Monkey, and which he says works well, the defen dant goes on—c , I hope I shall get a better l r esse i , with more boiler power, to do next." I ' ll lll, on the next occasion, complete the case, and a ll the evidence I shall then bring forward will be only formal. I think that when the two halves o f a£s note are sent to a public servant, havin g th e con trol of public works, although not a word is said, by letter or otherwise, as to the object of the enclo sures, there cannot be a doubt as to th e existence . of a corrupt motive. The Lord Mayor—At all events , I shah remand . the defendant, but I will take his own recognisance in £4O to appear here again. The case was then adjourned for a fortc ght. POLICE INTELLIGENCE Dec. 29. CLERKENWELL.—CHARGE OF S 1 'MING.— Ellen O'Reilly, a charwoman, residing t at.Bl, M stabbing Mil ton-street, City, was charged w i th bbing and wounding Esther Coley, with an awl, at the King's Arms public-house, Whitecross-street. public-house, Mr. Wakeling appeared for t he pmpeution. Both parties were in the above and the prisoner attempted to drink oft of the com plainant's pot. Because she w ou ld ot let her the prisoner made a great distu rbanc e and struck the complainant, and not conten t wi th t hat she pulled from her dress a shoemake r ' s awl, gad attempted to thrust it into her eye. Fortunato it only went into the cheek, but the p risoner rep e ated $ h the stabs two or three times, and w hen e saw the blood begin to flow she ran away , bu t Was followed and the awl taken from her. On the co day to the police station the prisoner sai d if she uld g se- et away M she would give the complai nant anotlir. Ty rw hitt fully committed the do the prisoner to the sessions for trial. THE DIVORCE AND MATRIR Ov • , lAL CAUSES ACT. —A SAD STORY.—Mr. R. Jon solicitor of New Inn, applied to Mr. T y r whitt' on behalf Mrs. Sarah Ann Steele, of Lorn lie tise, Mildmay Park, for a protection order u nd er tie following circum stances : Mrs. Steele said that h e? husband was a mer chant in the City, and his nape was Joseph Steele. She was married to him. at t e mehouse Church, on rid the 18th of May, 1837 , she had four children who were entitled to some p toperty. Her husband deserted her on the 9 th of anuary last, and was now keeping company with i other side of the water. 11) : . inother female on the en he went away he did not say anything to h e? but he sent a letter to her daughter saying that he had gone to Switzer land. She kept a school, and had for a long time supported her husband, a , ld she could not account ' for his deserting her. T! property to which the children was entitled wei being administered under the Court of Chancery, 4id steps were being taken to prevent him from receiving the children's dividends. Mr. Jones said there kTre other circumstances of a very painful nature Vhich he need not mention, and he trusted that the order would be granted. Mr. Tyrwhitt granted the order. WORSHIP-STRE T. FORGED REGISTER, Wm. Betts, 29, a tail os r' 11,ramill cutter, was charged on re mand, before Mr. with feloniously and and knowingly inse rt t •' ing in a registry-book of mar riages, at St. Leonard 's, Shoreditch,a certain forged and false entry, for the purpose of procuring a cer tain marriage. ly-place, prosecuted, and Mr. Be lN a lr. rd d L ef e e w nd is e , f d o th c p r i soner. It will be remenered that at the former exami nation evidence w as, l! adduced showing that a youth named Lewis G lion sworn to be under 16 years of age, and whose sole guardian was his own bro ther,lfr. Joseph ashion, of Brick-lane, St. Luke's, contracted a ma iriage with one Alice Betts, pre viously a servart in the house of that gentleman, Se ptember last, at the parish church o o f n leiriedi t t h ch S , ept en which occasion the prisoner signed the marriage 'ertificate in the name of William Gashion, there ll ot being any relative of the family so named, an dti at ho said he was the bridegroom's natural guarq a , n. It was further sworn by Mr. Joseph Gash the prosecutor, that when his brother Leis became b' entitled to ecame of age he would become ,_ about £5OO. Prisoner, when appre hended, from roo r e4 bd having taken part in the marriage iiact te l c i li i4 ai g of a monetary character, and not deny inge preferred against him. deelnrea he Botts, bein,"" ted by the .''get of his sister, Alice .„... ,___ enceinte at the time. be T ci i,....- 1 4,. : T1s now called the youthful husband to —i- , a by the officiating minister as the per son he had married on the occasion in question, but would not put him under examination for reasons of a private nature. Mr. Beard strongly protested against this, and declared that the prosecution was not fairly carried on. He was in a position to prove, if Lewis Gashion was fully examined, that the case against the pri• soner was one of cruelty and injustice. The prosecutor was then cress-examined, and being hard pressed refused to swear that Lewis Gashion would come into any such sum as £5OO. He was one of the executors, but had not seen the accounts for the past eight years. He would not swear to more than £5. Mr. Beard required that this recantation should be added to the former deposition of the prosecu tor. It was a matter of moment, particularly as it had been previously intimated that the prisoner had acted frem pecuniary motives. Mr. Lewis said that the question of greatest moment was the actual offence, no matter why com mitted. Mr. Hammill, upon the application of Mr. Beard, for bail to be accepted, under the altered circum stance of the ease, consented to receive two sureties in £4O, or one in £BO, and the prisoner was then fully committed for trial on the above charge. SOUTHWARK.—IMPORTANT TO MASTERS AND SOURNETMEN.—Henry Buckharn, a journey man tailor, in the employ of Mr. Samuel Saunders, a master tailor, of Edward-street, Black.friars-road, was brought before Mr. Combe on a warrant, charging him with unlawfully neglecting to perform certain work given out to him by his master. Mr. Saunders said that in September last he first employed the prisoner as a journeyman, giving him work to perform at home. After a few weeks ho became very irregular, and in the early part of October witness gave him a coat to make, supply ing him with all the materials, and advancing him 78. The coat was to have been finished and brought home by the Tuesday following, but that has not been done, and although he had made repeated applications to the prisoner about it, it was not forthcoming, and, as a protection to himself and other masters, he was compelled to take the pre sent proceedings. Witness had been compelled to supply the customer with another coat at great in convenience and expense. Mr. Combe asked the prisoner what he had to say about it. He replied that ho had nothing more to say than that he got drunk and lost the coat, and he was will ing to work the value of it out at Mr. Saunders's. that he would never trust him Th a e g l a a i t n t . er observed In fact, he would not have such a man in his house, as he Wonld soon ruin kis business. c w au o t r i s o h n i e fo a r s e k e e asked s h a i s P to put the act of Parliament in to others. Mr. Combe told the prisoner that he had ren dered himself liable to severe punishment, and he could not say his master had been hard towards him, as more than two months had elapsed since he don e the work. As for his stating had be en ro bb e d o f th e coa t, th a t was idl e tehutftht he to have nonsense, and would not avail him. As a caution to him and other journeymen he sentenced him to one month's hard labour in the House of Correction. THAMEs. —MITIMEROUS ASSATILT.—A mascu line lookin g w as bye woman, named Martha Macdougal, brou g h t before Mr. Yardley, charged with wounding a little Irishwoman, named Mary M'Carthy, on the head with a poker. The Complainant said she was enjoying herself with a party of English, Irish, and Scotch, on the previou s when night, at No. 7, King-street, Wapping, in the midst of their revelry tho prisoner brought in a sailor, and witness noticed some very bad behaviour between the m , an d re monstrated with them on their misconduct, as there were girls in the room. Soon afterwards the prisoner whipped a Watch and guard off the sailor's neck, She said to th e prisoner, "Don't do that; you may get into trouble; give him back the watch," Some words ensued; the company broke up, and witness was leaving the house, when the prisoner made a furious attack upon her, struck her several times with her Clenched fist, and then took up a fire poker, with 'which she inflicted a severe wound on her skull. She was rendered insensible by the blow, and lost a large quantity of blood. Charles Pearce, a police-constable, 182 K, stated that he saw the assault committed, and took the prisoner into custody. Ile knew Mrs. Macdougal well. She was a most violent woman, and had been often in custody for robberies and assaults. The last time she was in that court she charged a police-constable with robbing her of a gold watch and chain. The charge turned out to be without the least foundation. Mr. Yardley convicted the prisoner of an aggra• vated assault, and sentenced her to one month's im. pris - onment and hard labour. WESTMINSTER--VIOLENT AND UNPROVOKED ASSAULT UPON A RESPECTABLE TRADESMAN.- John Jannaway, a pensioner from the army, was charged with the following disgraceful conduct : Mr. S. Walker, fishmonger, Pimlico, was passing through the King's-road, on the previous night,when defendant and another man issued from the bar of the Colville Tavern, and rushed up against him. He told them quietly that they ought to be more careful, when defendant, with a filthy expression, threatened him ; at which moment a policeman coming up, defendant was prevented committing any act of violence at that time, but directly the constable had turned his back, defendant hastened after complainant and gave him a severe blow on the face, which blackened one of his eyes. Defendant pretended that Mr. Walker struck him first. The policeman who had interfered in the first in stance to restrain defendant's violence, distinctly denied this assertion. He saw defendant overtake the complainant, and assault him as described. Mr. Paynter inquired whether complainant suf fered much from the effects of the blow. Complainont replied—Not particularly ; but it was a great annoyance and inconvenience for a re spectable man in business to have a black eye. Mr. Payntcr asked whether anything was known of the accused. it was replied that he had been repeatedly in custody for drunkenness and assaults. He had been imprisoned for attacking the police, and had been committed for trial for presenting a pistol at a woman with whom he had some quarrel. Mr. Paynter animadverted in becoming terms upon his misconduct, and fined him 405., in default of paying which he was committed for a month. GREEN WICIL—A NoTonious GANG Or Bur- GLAM.—William John alias Baxter, of 31, Mint street, Borough, a ticket.of-leave convict, Sophia Johnson, his wife, James Richards, described as a general dealer, 4, George-street, Lambeth, and Charles Henry Williams, 2, London-court, Green wich, were brought up on remand before Mr. Traill, charged with being concerned in the following daring burglaries. Mary Southeron, servant to Mrs. Aarons, 7, Circus street, Greenwich, said that about half-past six on the night of Monday, the 12th inst., she saw the prisoner 'Williams standing on the step of a door of a house opposite her mistress's residence. He then walked across the road and joined another man. Having some suspicions, she communicated what she had seen to her mistress, who watched the men With witness from the parlour window. A woman then joined the men, and after they had walked about fer a quarter of an hour, one of the men went to the street door of No. 18, and made a noise, as though he was unlocking it. Both men then en tered, and shortly afterwards the female, who was standing outside, called out, " Sarah, make haste." Witness did not see the woman's face. The men then came out, and shortly after they re-entered, having exchanged hat; for caps. After a short time they again made their appearance from the house, carrying large bundles upon their heads, with which they decamped. George Doughty, a porter in the employ of the Greenwich Railway Company, said that between 11 and 12 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 13th inst., he was leaving his own house, when he saw the first three-named prisoners leaving the house occupied by the prisoner 'Williams, and each carry ing bundles. Having heard that a robbery bad been committed on the previous night in Circus-street, Greenwich, he suspected the prisoners were the thieves, and followed them into the Prince of Orange Tavern, adjoining the railway terminus, when he gave information to the police, and the prisoners were taken into custody: Police-constable Warne, 271 R, deposed that from information received from the last witness, he went to the Prince of Orange Tavern, and took the three first-named prisoners into custody. They each had a bundle in their possession. The prisoner Johnson claimed the whole of the property, saying he was a general dealer, living in George-street, at the back of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and that he was about proceeding to London to dispose of the pro perty. On searching the prisoner at the station, witness found upon him several silver and plated articles, produced. Police-constable Cheeseman, 168 It, deposed to receiving charge of the prisoner Richards, and also that on searching him at the station , various silver and plated articls were found upon him. William Spearman, a railway porter, said he as-, sisted in taking the female prisoner to the statior. On the way thither she asked witness to throw away some property she had in her pockets, offer ing to recompense him for so doing. Inspector _acid, division, proved that the pri soner Johnson was a ticket-of-leave convict, having been sentenced to 14 years' transportation on a charge of forgery, in the nun of Willh m Baxter. Mr. Trail I said that, so far as the cases of burglary at Mr. Doughncy's and Mrs. Wright's were con cerned, the evidence was complete, and the pri soners would be committed for trial, but Would ke again brought up for the completion of th e deposi tionsin the third case. The prisoners were then removed. CO EI2V TRY MA IZEBTS. MANCHESTER—DEC. 29. The market was of a holiday character an d very thinly attended. Holders of wheat firm at last'week's rates , and sales were consequently effected with difficulty. Flo ur in little dema n d, but quotations unaltered. Oats and oatmeal brought extreme rates. English 'beans unchanged; and Indian corn as before. BIRMINGHAM—DEC. 29. A full supply of wheat, and prices were at no decline on late quotations, but in slow request. Barley was the turn cheaper, and quite in rethil. Oats were as dear. Deans and peas rather cheaper. BOSTON—DEC. 28. We had a limited supply of wheat from the growers to day, the demand for which ruled very dull, at barely the prices of last week. Other articles in steady inquiry, and prices as before. Wheat, red Barley :4 3 5 7 s s tt:3; 48541 : 0at 5.. ..... ...... . 36 t o 42s .... 3 17 8: t t o o 2 4 5 1 as White do .24s to 37s Peas ......... ... i Averages for the week : Wheat 3,153 qrs., at ........ 43i 53 Peas .... 401 „ ........ 31s 7( 1 Beans 605 9, .... 41 s 5 , 1 .... Barley.... 67 ~ .. .. ... . 26s 8,1 Oats 70 6..... ... 20. s 6d. ~ — 5 Rye — 9 ........ OA PLYMOUTH—DEc. 27. This market was dull to-day, and pr ices for whea t nomi ' nally unchanged. There was a very small attenda whnttee. Flour was no dearer. The quotations are --English wheat, 46s to 48s ; red, 43s to 45s per qr ; French do., 43 ! to tos ; grinding barley, 265 to 28 s; o ats, 228 to 255; flour, fine, 33s to 34s ; seconds, 31a to 325. LOUTH—DEC. 23. There was a dull business done in wheat to-dyt, Etna prices were at fully last week's quotati ons, viz., whe, red and mixed, old and new, 40s to 44 s p er qr. hite, 498. Oats, 18s to 225; beans, 39s to 44 5 ; barley, 293 to 335. EDINBURGH GRAIN_DEC• 28. Wheat on the top Os Gd up Os 2d down. Barley on tho top Os 6d down averag,e od up. Oats on the top is 3d up ... average Os Beans on the top Os Gd down average is 3d U. Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat . £2 6 5 s,l2ths Barley average Os 1 16 9 0-12ths Oats 1 5 3 5-12ths Beans 2d acorn. Total Supply and Sales. qrs ........ Sold 961 qrs Barley 1762 qrs ........ Sold 1484 qrs Oats Beaus 363 qrs ........ Sold 242 qrs GLASGOW—DEc. 28. In the market to-day the business doing was /e l l dull. Flour at late rates. Barley a nd oats were ra t h er cheaper, but little business doing. Beans and peas were q uiet and easier. The imports have been pret t y liberal. CORK—DEc. 27. . g. The following were the quotati ons this m ornin -- 116c1 wheat, 24s Gd to 25s 61; white. 23F, Od to 27s Od; b a rley 17 5 Od to 19s Od ; oats, lOs 4.d to 1.3 s 3d. DERBY SMITHFIELD—DEc. 27. 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ROSE.— On the 29th inst at Upper Tooting, the wife Of Alderman Rose, of a dau"ghter. MARRIAGES. LOCOCI;.—P I TMAN.—On th e 27th inst, at the pa rish ehli v r r e i l :: Eastbourne, Charl es Brodie Locock, Esq., JNI.A.. 1 t , r ' t° t er - a t-l a w, eldest son of Sir Charles L o cock, 38 :,L an , Fanny Bird, sec ond daughter of the Rev. Thos. rm.' vicar of Eastbourne. Th-1 bargh, STIRLING—MACLEOD.—On the 27th inst., at .1,,,.11 William Colquhoun Stirling, Esq., of Edinbarnet, Ptul_'; bartonshire, to Catherine Caroline, eldest daughter 1, Major-General Donald M`Leod. DEATHS. Bum.—On the 28th inst., at 120, George-street, Edin" burgh, the Marchioness of Bute. BAILEY.—On. the 28th inst., at 10, Skinn er-s t re et, Snort hill, Thomas Bailey, Esq., aged 73. BONTEIN.—On the 28th inst., at York-street, Portman" square, John Pitt Bontein, Esq., formerly Captain let Life Guards, last surviving son of the late Lieut.-Colon L Sir James Bontein, aged 71. BLIPN.S.—On the 25th inst., ampton, General Richard Blunt, Colonel of the 66th tte giment, aged 90. at Barnfield Irouse, gouty' CnAKE.—On the 27th inst., suddenly, John Crake, Esq., of the Lawn, Patchett, Bucks, awd 49. . iam Dixon , DixoN.—On the 21st ult., at Ceifu, Capt. Will late R.A. near Sunbut , FnAsEn.—On the 25th inst., at B W i lliford, ir Colonel Thomas Fraser, of alnain, Inverness-shire, aged 75. SorEn.—On the 28 th inst., a t Totness, De von, Willie% Soper, Esq. - --- ___ LONDON : Printed and Published by M u RDO YOUN G • of No. 112, Strand, Printel at This Sun Office, No. 11 2 + Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, iu the countY ®f Atiddlueoz, Friday, December 30, 1809. r I ledg bet/ men One Popi 3 an( tnic and I cure- Aug,t; ley," AVG of Loy , Wood in or tore, .and .lor Si. Line° be pet . Mot afters • ad.indi - ~~ pedal? £3 3 Aeys Whew street. B U The . of the I to their • EMU purity 'edged . tries, a the lin They *tonne A se] Will be did., or It is _ are the Wines strengt The the hor aelrnovi faculty. • To pi of the f • All o: PRI • •AL Ti] *nd Dig of VA.S beautifi ler, Ma Inaoufa Malesti Mr. 1 mrwEi the lute and GE - - PIZA.I 2A1.0( T H( Should food, IA season. led. Pi flesh ini great a( of ' It. ltty A p Testim( Oulturis 448 feed itallwa' payable c my wort GL lUD rn 1 Just P A. New CURE TAT. D VOUS Rho gans an Why thi they ca togethc fection. By a Act). 1 London row, an T° by Dr. W". C., or path from th of Rez t i the pric public 1 D U i amouni delicat4 cheat, c breakn thic pry Da Ba rear In 61b., 12i receipt street, nU REVA tion (dy bilious] THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1859, I I 1