The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

_RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE: SCOTTISH NORTH-EASTERN. T he report of the directors of this company states that. the revenue for the half-year ending the 31st of J an. last amounted to £104,307, and the expendi twee to £47,122, leaving a balance of £57,184, of which £40,029 belongs to the Aberdeen revenue account and £17,155 to the Scottish Midland re venue account. Deducting interest on debentures and. other preferable charges, the balance available for dividend on the Aberdeen capital stock was £18,977. From this sum was deducted £1,924, the deficiency on guaranteed dividends:of last half-year, leaving £17,053. Out of this sum was deducted £1,280 for dividend on the 32 per cent stock, £8,300 for dividend on the 6 per cent. stock, and £5,250 on the 7 per cent, stock, leaving a balance of £2,223 for the next account. The balance available for dividend on the Scottish Midland capital stock was £13,370, out of which the directors proposed to pay a divi dend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, leaving £1,616 for the next account. The directors were anxious that the proprietors of original stock should begin as early as possible to participate in a divi dend, however small; but as the past half year was more productive than the current, and the dividend upon the 3 2 per cent. stock, No. 2, having com menced to accrue on the Ist of February last, they had resolved that the balance should not in the meantime be paid away in dividend, but be laid maids as a reserve until the result of the working of the present half-year was ascertained. The direc tors congratulated the shareholders upon the satis factory position of the company's affairs. The increase in the r evenue amounted to upwards of £4,000, while the expenditure had been kept very low. The directors had found it necessary to ex pend £650 from revenue during the half-year in repairing and strengthening the timber viaducts on the line. The working expenses were now reduced to 411 per cent. on the revenue, and, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, they showed a decrease of more than 3 per sent. The average rate of interest on the debenture debt was now a little under 41 per cent. All that now re mained unadjusted in regard to the Perth station was the expense of the Caledonian engine, which had been working the traffic over the disputed piece of line, and the maintenance of the general station since 1852. The directors acknowledged the valuable services rendered by Lord Chandos in relation to the framing of the Perth station agree ment, which had the effect of saving much trouble and expense to all the companies concerned. The consolidated capital of the company amounted to £1,979,264, and the debentures to £742,167—t0ta1, £2,721,431. The amount of capital expended on the Aberdeen Railway amounted to £1,924,118, on the Scottish Midland to £690,491, and on joint account to £l73,BBo—total, £2,788,489. NORTH BRITISH. The report of the directors congratulates the shareholders upon the steady progress of the traffic receipts and the gradual augmentation of the dividend upon the share capital. The gross revenue of the half-year ending the 31st of January last amounted to £157,516, as compared with £149,277 in the corresponding period of last year. The net revenue was £63,971, as compared with £61,339 in January, 1859. That would enable the company to pay all preferential charges and a divi dend on the ordinary consolidated stock at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, being a rise of one quar ter cent. for the whole year, carrying over £l,lOO more than in the preceding half-year. The aver age rate of interest paid on the company's deben ture loans amounted to £4 3s. 7d. per cent. The contractors on the Border Union line had made such progress as to justify the belief that the period as signed for the completion of the respective contrac tors would be amply sufficient. The financial scheme for raising the means of construction had proved completely successful, and more than one half the share capital had already been paid. The Border Counties Railway was also now in course of construction throughout its entire length, and it was intended to open that portion connecting the Plashett coalfield with Riccarton simultaneously with the line from Riccarton for Carlisle, render ing it an easy matter to accomplish the through routes from Harwich to Hexham and Carlisle toge ther. Bills for amalgamation with the Border Counties and Peebles and Jedburgh Companies were now before Parliament. The minimum divi dend applicable to the Peebles ordinary stock had been fixed at 41 per cent. The directors had deter mined to ask the sanction of the shareholders to an agreement with the local promoters of a railway from Galashiels to Innerleithen and Peebles, a dis tance of 181 miles, at an estimated cost of less than £70,000. The North British Company propose to work this line at 43 per cent. of the receipts, and to subscribe £44,000. The directors had felt it their duty to oppose in Parliament bills promoted by other railway companies for the amalgamation of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, Caledonian, and Scot tish Central Railway Companies, and also the amal gamation of the Newcastle and Carlisle and North- Eastern Companies. The capital account showed that £4,698,864 had been received and £4,656,794 expended, leaving a balance of £42,070. The Border Union capital account showed that £262,708 had been received and £168,372 expended, leaving a balance, on the 31st Jan. last, of £94,336. TAFF VALE. A special meeting of this company was held at Cardiff on Wednesday to consider a bill to enable the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway to complete their communication with Brecon—Mr. J. Poole in the chair. The CHAIRMAN explained the nature of the bill, stating that as the line at present existed it would terminate south of Dowlais, but the company were desirous of extending it across the ravine to join the Taff Vale Railway at Merthyr, and they asked the Taff Vale Company to join them in the undertak ing, and to allow a permissive clause in their bill to enable the company to subscribe £30,000 to the undertaking. He then moved a resolution approv ing the bill. Mr. BUSHELL seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. BRECON AND MERTHYR TYDVIL. A special meeting of this company was held at Brecon on Wednesday, Mr. J. P. de Winton in the chair. The bill for completing the line to Brecon was formally approved. The a dj ourne d gener al meeting was then held. Mr. Ward, the contractor, then described the pro gress of the works on the line, and said it was pos sible to open the whole line to Brecon several months earlie r th an h e had anticipated, and he was anxious to see it accomplished. ihe meeting then separated. THE CASE OF THE BISHOP OF BRECILLAr. A Synod of the Bishops of the Scottish Episco pal Church was held at Edinburgh, on Thursday, to give judgment in the case of the Bishop of Brechin. The episcopal judges present were, th e Bishop of Edinburgh, Primus, and the Bishops of Moray, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Glasgow, The Bishop of Brechin was accompanied by the' Rev. Mr. Keble and other gentlemen. The " pre sentment" or charge against the Bishop of Brechin was, his having taught in a primary charge delivered to his clergy in August, 1857, Ist, that the sacrifice of the Eucharist is identical with the sacrifice of the Cross ; 2d, that adoration is- due to Christ, as in or under the consecrated elements of blood and wine ; and, 3d, that there is a reception of Christ by the wicked; and by said teaching he was charged with depraving the articles of religion, the Scotch communion-office, and other formularies of the Church. The bishops gave their opinions at great length, after which, the Bishop of Glasgow (clerk of Synod) read the find ing'of the Court, which was to the following effect : At Edinburgh, the 15th day of March, 1860, the College of Bishops having resumed consideration of the presentment at the instance of the Rev. W. Hen derson, incumbent of St. Mary's, Arbroath, and Patrick Wilson and David Smith, vestrymen thereof, being members of the Scotch Episcopal Church, against the Right Rev. A. P. Forbes, D.C.L., Bishop of Brechin, complaining of the teaching and doc trines contained in the charge delivefed by the said bishop to the clergy of his diocese, and thereafter published and republished by his authority, and having heard parties fully thereon, find that the said pres en t men t i s re l evan t an d p roven t o th e ex tent and effect aftermentioned. More particularly find, 'with reference to the charge contained under the first and second heads of the presentment, that the teachingthe respondent there complained of b is unssnetion of ed ys to the the articles and formul ar i es o f i the Church, and aeertain extent inconsistent therewith ; find thatthird charge of the pre sentment is not proven. But, off in consideration of the explanations and modifications by the respondent in his answe rs in reference , also, thaotp to the respon dent firsdt charge, and in consideration now only asks toleration for his does not claim for them the authority of the Chu' r il e} or any right to enforc e t hem on those subje c t t o hi s ' jurisdiction, we, the C olle g e of Bishops, feel th a t we shall best discharge our duty in this painful case by limiting our sentence to a declaration of censure and admonition; and we do now solemnly admonish, and in all brotherly love entreat, the Bishop of Brechin to be more careful for the future, so that no fresh occasion may be given for trouble and offence, such as has arisen from the delivery and publication of the primary charge to his clergy complained of in the presentment. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. NORWICH, SATURDAY EVENING; The Liberal candidates, Sir Wm. Itu *ell (Lieut.- ' Colonel 7th Hussars) and Mr. E. Warner, appeared at a public meeting of the electors last evening, and were extremely well received. MM. H. Birkbeck, who had himself been invited to st nd as a Liberal candidate, occupied the chair. Mr. WARNER, in addressing the meeting, said he did not approve of all her Majesty's present Go vernment had done or wished to do, but he believed no Ministry ever held the reins of power in Eng land which had been so liberal in its intentions as the present, or so capable of comprehending or en forcing the just wishes and requirements of the na tion. (Cheers.) In a crisis of foreign affairs of the most extreme difficulty, the Ministry had borne themselves with honour and credit, and had shed lustre on their country's name. With regard to the Reform Bill, many Liberals might perhaps think it greatly susceptible of improvement, but the difficulties under which it was introduced must not be forgotten. He objected very much to the system of rate-paying before voting; but the weakest point which could be most easily attacked would be the freemen's question. If a clause were passed destroying the votes of freemen, nothing in the world could then save the bill because Liberal members would then be compelled to vote against the third reading and throw it out. In conclusion, the hon. gentleman declared his confidence that the contest—for two shadowy candidates had been named on the other side—would result favourably to himself and Sir William Russell ; and he ex pressed a hope that, amidst the storm of continen tal war—which he feared nothing could avert—the voice of England would be heard with effect, so that we might be regarded by other nations as a free, enlightened, and generous people. (Cheers.) Sir WILLIAM RUSSELL next spoke briefly, and stated that if returned to Parliament, his first ob ject would be to give a general, constitutional, and independent support to her Majesty's present Ministry, whose foreign policy had he believed placed England in a most enviable position. The conduct of the Opposition in attacking the Govern ment for the course they had pursued on the Savoy question was most unjust and urrfair, because they knew perfectly well that the country would never consent to a war on the subject. Sir William next referred in terms of approval to the budget, and the commercial treaty with France, which be expressed his opinion would greatly extend our trade, and render war with the French almost an impossibility. The great inconvenience of the budget was the increase of the income tax, and the only remedy which could relieve us from the income tax was a diminution of the national expenditure, and especially on account of the army and navy, which could only be effected by those who like himself were conversant with the working of our military system. Sir William proceeded to ob ' serve that he was prepared to give a general sup port to the Reform Bill ; and in reply to questions stated that when member for Dover, he had voted for the ballot as an experiment, although he did not anticipate that it would accomplish all that it was expected to effect. As a stanch supporter of the Church ef England, he also expressed his belief that the abolition of church rates would be attended with general benefit. (Cheers.) On the motion of Sir W. Foster, a resolution was cordially adopted approving of the principles enun ciated by both candidates—for whom three hearty cheers were given. Two Conservative candidates, it is rumoured, will appear whenever the writs arrive, and a con test will, if possible, be got up. TEE NEW BANKRUPTCY BILL. From the reception , accorded in the House of Commons to the Bankruptcy Bill of the Attorney- General and the view taken of it in the City, there is every reason to hope that this subject, which has been the opprobrium of our commercial legislation throughout the entire experience of the existing generation, will at length be brought to a satisfac tory adjustment. The principles now set forth by the Attorney-General have met with almost unanimous concurrence, and, although he antici pates that the bill may be found to require many modifications in committee, it is certain that the trading public would be ready to welcome it even if it were far short of perfection, and to trust to its being amended under future ex perience, rather than see another session pass with out any but abortive results. Instead of 33 per cent. of the assets of bankrupts being squandered in the court, it is hoped that 5 per cent. may for the future meet all the outlay, and that this change may be effected without material damage to the interests of any of the existing functionaries—such as the Commissioners and official assignees—who are entitled to consideration. The " messengers," whose emoluments out of the funds of unhappy creditors appear to range from £1,500 to £2,000 a-year, while their duties are simply those signified by their title, seem the principal parties doomed to suffer the total abolition of their offices. The removal of the distinction between bankrupts and insolvents and of the restriction against any traders being allowed to apply for an adjudication in bankruptcy unless they can show assets of £l5O, the appointment of a single judge in place of the existing five Commissioners, whose actual judicial duties occupy on the part of each only three hours weekly, and the transfer of all the ministerial and administrative business of the Court to the regis trars, who are to,make circuits to the various dis tant localities comprised in the London districts, are all expected to work well. The conversion of the Insolvent Court in Portugal-street to an auxili ary Bankruptcy Court, to deal with estates where the assets do not exceed £3OO, is also regarded favourably ; but the provinces will perhaps feel some disappointment that the district courts are to continue until opportunities shall arise from vacancies among the district Commissioners for transferring the jurisdiction to the County Courts. The reasons for this delay, however, ap pear valid. With regard to questions of conveni ence and equity the most important provisions are those for allowing estates to be privately adminis tered upon the desire of three-fourths of the credi tors in value, and for estates being withdrawn from bankruptcy at any stage when the creditors may prefer the control of a private assignee. The ne cessity for such powers is illustrated by the fact that the proportion of estates wound up under bankruptcy is only about 6 per cent. of the number under trust deeds, and, although a reform of the Bankruptcy Court may probably reverse this state of affairs and make a private liquidation the exception instead of the rule, such a change can be brought about only by gradual experience. It will be a question, however, whether any minority that may dissent from a private liqui • dation should not have power of appeal to the judge, since it might sometimes happen that a single creditor or two or three creditors, represent ing three-fourths of the claims, might be found to have encouraged the bankrupt in a reckless course, and for this reason to desire his affairs to be hushed up, while the creditors represent. ing the remaining fourth might be the real victims in the case. A few years back a large failure occurred, in which the bankers of the insolvent were the principal claimants. The amount, al though heavy, was comparatively unimportant to them, but they did not wish to figure as having carelessly advanced such a sum to a known specu lator, and all their anxiety was to write off the debt and have done with it. Representing three-fourths of the claims on the estate, such persons could de mand a private liquidation against the desire of the who might remaining fourt h, h f ave the cause of com mercial morality at heart. Of t of the Bankruptcy Co ur t, £2o,2oothe de ht in e if future expenses demise e r eofffici theiral prepen sions, which will cease on sent recipients, is henceforth to be defrayed from the Consolidated Fund, while at the same time a yearly remuneration of £ 3 ,160 to the Bank for keep ing the account of the Court is to income of Court deriveestan balances and eon tinued, and as th e interest under tel. th e amend e d system its suppolimerethd that e abeyance, abut 46 o i o s believed lies will be S ample, alth ough it is intended to abolish al l per centage fees, an d to charge only for registration and adjudication, the minimum registration fee being L 5, and the maximum £l5, according to the value of the es tate. The expense of an application to the Court will, in point of fact, be little, and, with regard to that expense, the creditors themselves will have no control. In estates of less than £l,OOO creditors, moreover, are to have the po e'er of placing the administration in the hands of the County Court; but it is believed that, under the reduced expenses of the regular Court, this alterna tive is not likely to be often resorted to. Printed quarterly accounts of the progress of liquida tion in each case are to be transmitted to the several creditors, and efficient checks arc to be in troduced against malversation. Cases of fraud will be treated on definite rules under criminal jurisdiction, and the system of granting class certi cates, which, from the conflicting decisions of the commissioners has been brought into thorough con tempt, will be done away with. There is also a provision for enabling the representatives of per sons who have died insolvent to administer the estate in bankruptcy as if the parties were still alive. The bill is to be read a second time on Thursday week, and the Attorney-General hopes it may be passed through committee, so as to be carried up to the Lords by the beginning of June, a consum • by mitt en which will also be heartily desired every member of the mercantile community. — Times' City Article. It 6L . 2i ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LINCOLN, March 14. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) Thomas Peel, farmer, stood charged upon an in dictment with the wilful murder of Mark Brewer, at Snelland, having on the 12th Dec., 1859, and at other times between that day and the 17th day of Dec., 1859, unlawfully and violently assaulted the said Mark Brewer. He stood further charged upon the coroner's inquisition on the Bth Feb., 1860, with the manslaughter of the said Mark Brewer, and to both charges he pleaded not guilty. Mr. Fitzjames Stephen and Mr. Huish conducted the case for the prosecution ; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. O'Brien appeared for the defence. Mr. Stephen, in his opening address to the jury, said that the case, which was involved in consider able difficulty, had been the subject of many ru mours and exaggerated statements ; he therefore desired the jury to rid their minds of any previous impressions they had received from reports they might have heard or read. In the commencement he would relieve their minds from one portion of the responsibility under the sense of which they might be labouring—namely, that of having to try the prisoner upon the capital charge. Having con sidered the facts which he was prepared to esta blish, and which failed to show that the prisoner was actuated by malice, he felt that he should pro perly discharge his duty as counsel for the prosecu tion by placing the case before them as one in which the only question was whether the prisoner was guilty of the manslaughter of the deceased. The learned counsel proceeded to state the facts, which, as proved, were in substance these :—The deceased, Mark Brewer, a young man aged 26 years, was servant of Thomas Peel, sen., a farmer living at Snelland, and father of the prisoner. After being some months in Mr. Peel's service he went home, having a pain in his back, supposed to be, and which was treated as, lumbago. After 10 or 12 days he resumed his work at his master's, but returned home on Wednesday, Dec. 14, and consulted a neigh bouring surgeon, Mr. Laving. He went back to Mr. Peel's on the 18th, and worked up to the Sun day preceding Christmas-day, when, for the last time, he again returned home, and there continued until January 21, when he died, being up to that date confined to his bed, and attended by Mr. Wraegharn, a surgeon, and Mr. Laving - his assis tant, and his case treated as sympathetic fever, arising from some local injury which the deceased stated that he had received, but of what precise nature Mr. Wrangham was not aware. According to the evidence of the medical witnesses who examined the body after death, that death re sulted from a diseased state of the joint between the sacrum and the ilium, the cartilaginous lin ings of which were found to have suppurated to so great an extent as to cause a dislocation of the joint. This suppuration was a consequence of inflammation of the parts, produced, it might be, by a violent strain, possibly by a blow on the edge of the left ilium, possibly by the fall of some heavy body upon the pelvis, or by the rolling of some great weight over it. The chest upon being exa mined showed that the pleura had been so much inflamed as to cause adhesion by membranous bands, and the lungs were found congested. These latter appearances were, however, traceable to inflamma tion resulting from the diseased state of the sacro iliac joint ; and on the part of the prosecution it was advanced, in the first instance, that this diseased state of the joint had originated from violence used towards the deceased man by the prisoner Thomas Peel, the younger ; and, secondly, that even if the violent acts of the prisoner had not been the pri mary and proximate cause of the disease, they had, by aggravating a pre-existing disease, been the proximate cause of his death, on January 21, at an earlier period than that at which life would have been terminated by the natural progress of that disease alone. The particular ants of violence by the prisoner to which the death of the deceased were attributed were two—first, a blow inflicted with a fork-shaft upon his back ; and, secondly, a blow received by falling upon the floor while being dragged from his bed by the prisoner. The evi dence of the infliction of these blows being, how ever, mainly deducible from statements made by the deceased, under the imminent fear of impend ing death, which were inseparable from accounts of filthy and brutal conduct of the prisoner towards him, wholly irrelevant to the particular charge upon which the learned counsel for the prosecution proposed to proceed, much time was occupied both in opposing their admission and in subsequent exa mination respecting the truth of them. Some of those statements had been reduced to writing by a magistrate, the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, others were oral, and had not been written down by those who heard them, and the admission of all was strongly resisted by the learned counsel for the prisoner on the preliminary inquiry as to whether, when they were made, the deceased was under a settled hope less conviction of impending death. They were admitted, and were in substance—that, on two occasions, when the deceased was feeding the horses in Mr. Peel's stable, the prisoner had come in, un done the fore part of Brewer's trousers, and pulled him out of the stable in a violent and indecent manner, causing on the first occasion great pain to the deceased ; that on the next day the prisoner " clammed" him by the neck, twisted a handker chief about it, dragged him to the wall of the stable, and fastened him up to a nail, his feet being about six inches from the ground ; that a boy, named John Smith, came into the stable, and seeing him, called out to John Whittaker, " Mark Brewer has been and hung himself," upon which Whittaker entered and took- him down ; that once the prisoner had made water on his face as he lay in bed, and dragged him out of bed by his feet ; that in the middle of the same week the prisoner struck him on the back with a fore-shaft, which he said hurt him a good deal. These statements were corrobo rated by evidence that upon two occasions, when the prisoner visited the deceased during his last illness, and expressed a hope that he would not die, several of these acts were admitted by the prisoner to be true, though the more filthy charges he de nied. He pulled the bedclothes off, he said, to scare Brewer, and to make him work. The im mediate injury done by the indecent pulling of the prisoner out of the stable had, however, been very grossly exaggerated in the neighbourhood, and it was rumoured that a part of his body had been torn away, and the prisoner threatened the deceased, that if he recovered he would " follow the law of him," and, in allasion to his Christian name, would " Mark" him. Brewer referred often to the pull ing of him out of the stable as having caused the pain which he felt in his back; and the evidence or all the medical witnesses was that the diseased state of the pelvis could not be referred to any such cause ; that the blow with the fore-shaft, or a fall from the nail where he was suspended, could not, except under conditions not proved to have existed, have caused that disease. A fall on the floor, while being dragged out of bed, might have occasioned it; but there was no evidence of a fall upon the floor, such as could cause it, nor was there any external mark to indicate injury by any such means. It was proved, also, that as long since as two years the deceased had while at harvest work complained of pains in his back ; that in November, and before any of the acts had been committed by the prisoner, he had spoken of having fallen with a sack of wheat, which caused him pain in the back and prevented him doing heavy work; and that, whilst assisting the prisoner in holding a crutch on which a pig was being carried, he fell under its weight. It was also elicited by the cross-examination of the wit nesses for the prosecution that the deceased had told several falsehoods respecting his father and the housekeeper, who, on one occasion of his giving ac counts to her of the treatment he had received, told him she believed they were only some of his lies. Mr. Macaulay, for the defence, submitted to the Court that there was no evidence of any act done by the prisoner to which the origin of the disease which eventually led to the death of the deceased could possibly be attributed; but the Court deter mining that there was evidence for the jury, he ad dressed them, expressing his surprise that a bill of murder should have been preferred, and that the grand jury should have presented such a charge. On what evidence they acted he was unable to con ceive. His learned f r iend had disca r d e d it, b u t proof of a quantity of stuff had been introd uce d which could on ly serve t o p re j u di ce th e i r m i n d s . hmin t commented of onfheacts the the of surgical deceased'su rtgh prisoner, a n c n aslteevidence,eon the ts aa relating n n d d or n'l t on the evidence already in part elicited, and which he sho u ld (and subsequently had did) lay before them, that the made deceased frequent complaints of his back, and that he had suffered falls under cir cumstances calculateda the mdi 1 'd nee might be evi e be trusted, to bring about the diseased condition of the pelvis of which they had heard. The learned Judge s umme d up the evidence upon the charge of manslaughter, and the jury, after re tiring for a while, returned a verdict of not guilty. He was subsequently charged with assaults com mitted upon the deceased, and one or two wit nesses, recalled, gave evidence of the deceased man's statement of brutal and disgusting acts already mentioned. A boy who slept in bed with Brewer at the time when, as the deceased affirmed, one of , these filthy acts was done, had covered his head , with clothes, and so had only heard the threat of , the prisoner, not seen the assault. Mr. Macaulay ad tressed the jury for the pri soner, contending that there was no evidence of the actual assault but the statement of the deceased, • whose evidence could not be relied on as true. The learned Judge summed up very shortly, and he jury returned a verdict of guilty. Ho was sentenced to six calendar months' im- ' MOiN . , prisonment, the learned Judge lamenting that he could not add hard labour. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--YoRK, March 15. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Joseph Jubb, Benjamin C..,happel, James Spence, George Stephenson, and Joseph Fostcr were indict e d for night poaching, being armed on lands in the occupation of Mi. Whittaker, at Batley, on the Bth October last, and also with maliciously wounding George Woollin, the gamekeeper of Mr. George Ellis, of West Ardsley. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Campbell Foster prosecuted; Mr. Price defended the prisoners Jubb, Foster, and :Spence; and Mr. Maule the prisoners Chappel and Stephenson. It appeared from the statement of George Woollin, the gamekeeper of Mr. Ellis, of West Ardsley, near Batley, that he, along with four watchers, went to watch the game in a field near a plantation called Lady Ann Planting, in the parish of Batley, about 9 o'clock on the night of the 7th October last. They sat watching under a hedge until a little after 12 o'clock, when George Woollin crept to the side of the plantation and there saw two men, Stephenson and Foster, whom he had known many years, setting a net at some .railings next the plantation, and be hind them, beating for game, were several men. Stephenson was armed with a long bludgeon and Foster had a gun. The night was moonlight, but misty. He crept back on his hands and feet to the watchers, and having joined them they all crossed the field through a gate into a lone, and got to the far corner of the plantation. On arriving there they saw the poachers, to the number of ten or a dozen, crossing the field, and making to the same gate they had just come through; they also saw two dogs ranging the field, one of which was a black one with a white spot on its breast. Wool lin and the watchers returned down the lane, and crept under the fence till they got close to the gate again, where they saw two men setting a net. Woollin, after giving them a little time, put up his head, when one of the poachers cried out, " Hey, up lads, they're here." Woollin immediately cried out, " Hey, up lads, we are here." One of the poachers immediately aimed a blow with some weapon at George Woollin. He, how ever, drew back and avoided the blow, and knocked the man down. The second poacher then struck at him, and he stopped the blow, and, us he described it, " felled him." This man immediately jumped up again, and Woollin " felled him again." A third man then came to their assistance, and Woollin knocked him down. Four or five men then came over the fence at once towards Woollin. One of these he knocked down also, and was strik ing at another of them, when he saw Foster with his gun up in the air aiming a blow at him with the butt end. He put up his hand to ward off the blow, but the gun beat down his guard and the lock cut his hand, and he received a violent blow which cut open his head and knocked him down. He got up again, and Foster knocked him down again, and he then saw Foster laying about him with his gun, and by mistake knocking down one of his own party with it. The watchers then had a fight with others of the poachers, and after a desperate strug gle some one cried out " Fire ! let go ! Shoot, shoot !" and Foster was seen by Woollin and others to present his gun at them. Woollin jumped on one side, and immediately a gun was discharged, and a charge of shot whistled past him. Woollin said then to the watchers they had better retire, the poachers were too many for them, and they left the field. One of the men ran off for the police, and in about an hour the houses of all the prisoners were visited in Batley. All the prisoners were sworn to by two or three of the watchers. Chappel was seen going into his house, which is a beershop, at 3 o'clock in the morning. He was sweating, and had a fresh cut, which was bleeding, on the nose. The other prisoners were found in bed. Foster had a gun in his house, and a black dog with a white spot on its breast, but the dog's feet were dry. This dog was sworn to as one of the dogs seen. All the men were shown to have been together at Chappel's house at 11 that night. For the defence all the prisoners proved distinct alibis, calling two or three witnesses each, and proving that they were in bed at the time, and had not been out that night at all. Chappel proved that he was out drinking with two men till near 3 o'clock at the house of one of them, and then put down 6d. for some more beer, The other men did not want any more, and in frolic tried to get the 6d., in doing which they all fell on the floor, and Chappel hurt his nose, which bled. His Lordship summed up the whole of the evi dence with great care, and left the jury to say which witnesses as to each man they believed, ob serving that if they were satisfied that there was a mistake as to any of the men, although that mis take would not affect the evidence as to the others, it would yet throw considerable doubt oil the accu racy of the evidence of the watchers who had sworn to that man, if they were proved to be mistakes. The jury retired, and after an absence of twenty minutes acquitted all the prisoners. The case occupied all day, and was not concluded till 7 o'clock. FRIDAY, MARCH 16. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Win. Gill was charged with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury at Otley, on the 23d of Sept. last. Mr. Price and the Hon. A. Liddell prosecuted ; Mr. Overend, R.C., and Mr. Maule defended the prisoner. It appeared that between 12 and 1 o'clock on the morning of the 3d of September last two men, named Long and Patrick, were unlawfully taking fish in the river Washburn, near to Leathley. They were seen committing the act by a man named Thomas Yates ' fisherman t o M r . F. H. F aw k es , o f Fernley, who has the sole right of fishing in this river. Yates at once went and told Mr. Stanton, agent to Mr. Fawkes, who, with Yates, called upon the gamekeeper, John V ase , an d all three went to to Leathley Mill, where the two men had been seen. Yates went up the Fernley side of the river, and soon caught sight of Long and Patrick, who were still fishing with nets, and they had with them a bag containing about 281 b. weight of trout, which they had caught. They were also distinctly seen and recognised by Vase and Stanton. Yates called out, " Here they are," upon which the two men ran away. They were followed, and Patrick was taken. Long took the direction for Hamps thwaite, which was nine miles distant. Yates pursued, and when he got to a place called Pot bridge, he overtook Long. Calling him by a cog nomen by which he was well known, Yates said, " Well, Bridget, we have spoiled your sport this morning. We have got Patrick ; you had better come back with me, and be tried at the same time." Long's trousers were wet, and he continued his way towards Hampsthwaites Hollings, where he resides. Long was afterwards apprehended and brought before the petty sessional bench at Otley, and charged with the above offence. In defence, it was endeavoured to set up an alibi, in which the prisoner Gill was called as a witness. The evidence to which Gill took oath, and which constituted the perjury alleged against him, was to the effect that he was a farmer at Hampsthwaite, and that on the night of the 2d of September he was at a public-house kept by a Mrs. Long until 12 o'clock at night. Thomas Long and a man named William Eddy were also alleged to have been there, and that when Mrs. Long de clined filling more liquor they left together. Gill alleged that at this tine Long was in such a state of " beer" that he and Eddy had to "hug" him h,me, where they left him after one o'clock in the morning. This was at the very time when Yates alleged he was pursuing him after he had been caught fishing at Leathley-bridge. To prove that the statement of Gill was a wilful act of perjury, Mrs. Long, the landlady of the publichouse in ques tion at Hampsthwaite, was called, and she swore that neither Gill, Long, nor Eddy were in her house at any period on the 2d of September, and in this she was supported by a number of her cus tomers who were in her house at the time when Gill alleged that he and Long were there. A number of witnesses also proved seeing him on the 2d of September going in the direction from Hampsthwaite towards Leathley-bridge. His Lordship having summed up the evidence, the jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence was deferred. There was a similar indictment against George Patrick, the man caught fishing, who was called as a witness by Long, and swore that he was not the man who was with him on the night in question. The jury also found him guilty. Sentence was deferred. NORFOLK CIRCUIT, MARCH 16. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Joseph Williams, aged 63, was placed at the bar and charged with the wilful murder of his wife. It was evident the poor man was not in his right senses, therefore, without any facts being gone into, the jury were sworn to decide as to the state of his mind. Mr. Couch, the surgeon of the gaol, was called, and he stated that the prisoner was completely out of his mind, and in his opinion he was not at all conscious of having committed the offence with which he stood charged. Under the direction of the learned judge the jury found that the prisoner was insane, and he was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. Richard Joseph Carkeet Coulson, a middle-aged man, understood to have practised at Penzance for some years as a quack doctor, was found guilty of ~Ite.ll 19, 1860 cutting and wounding Richard Truan, of Bodmin, fruit dealer, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Coulson and Truan accidentally met on the evening of the 9th of November at the King's Head, at Truro, when Coulson drank Truan's brandy, and was about to leave without payment, when Truan collared him. He drew a lancet from his waistcoat pocket, cut prosecutor three times across his left hand, so as to lay bare the tendons, and when they rolled together on the ground further stabbed him in the head. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. OXFORD CIRCUIT, STAFFORD, March 17. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) At the sitting of the court this day Mr. Justice Keating was occupied in the trial of two cases of manslaughter, arising out of alleged negligence on the part of men who had had charge of machinery used in mines, lin each case causing the death of several persons. James Henry Gellard, engine-man, was charged with manslaughter, on the sth of November, 1859, at Stoke-upon-Trent. Mr. Boughey appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Kenealy defended the prisoner. Iu this case it appeared the prisoner had charge of an engine employed in bringing coals, &c., up from one of Earl Granville's collieries at Stoke. At about seven o'clock on the sth of November last the signal was given to bring up a skiff containing several men. The prisoner was in the engine•house, and set the engine in motion, but just before the signal to stop the engine was given, two men, contrary to rule, came into the en gine -house, and occupied the prisoner's attention for a few moments. This occurred just before it became the prisoner's duty to stop the engine, and he did not stop it in time. The consequence was that instead of stopping at the pit mouth, the skiff was sent up a height of 39 feet to the pulley, and the whole of the men being thrown out were precipi tated down the shaft of the mine, a distance of 510 feet. Several men were killed. Mr. Wynne, the Government Inspector of Mines, deposed that there was no defect in the machinery, which was of the most approved construction. Mr. Kenealy having addressed the jury for the prisoner, they found him guilty, and Mr. Justice Keating, in consideration of the cir cumstances of the extenuation arising from the in terruption, sentenced the prisoner to only six weeks' imprisonment, with hard labour. William Johnson, engine-man, was charged with manslaughter, at ednesfield-heath, on the 21st of January, 1860. Mr. Motterman and Mr. Young appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Scotland defended the prisoner. It appeared in this case that the prisoner had charge of the engine employed at Messrs. White- house's colliery, at Wednesfield-heath. The en gine was used for the double purpose of pumping off surface water and of bringing up stone, &c., from a pit. During the night of the 20th of Jan. last it had been used for pumping off water, and when the prisoner went on duty on the morning of the 21st it was set to draw up stone, &c., from the pit. In order to adapt the machinery to this pur pose it was necessary to move a carriage along a wooden sill, to which the carriage was screwed by two iron screws, which were removable at pleasure. When the carriage was properly and securely screwed down to the sill the cogs of a connect ing wheel fitted into the cogs of another wheel connected with the drum, and so commu nicated the motive power. On the present oc casion the accident was attributed to the negli gence of the prisoner in not sufficiently screwing down the screws. When the order was given the machine was put in motion to bring up a number of men in a skiff ; but when the skiff had got some dis tance up the shaft it suddenly ran back at a rapid rate, and four men and three boys were dashed to the bottom of the pit, which was 70 yards deep, and all of them were killed, with the exception of one boy. On examining the carriage it was found that the two screws which attached it to the wooden sill were not sufficiently screwed, so that the car riage had some play. The result was that it did not bring the cogs of the two wheels sufficiently near each other, so that, instead of the cogs biting one another firmly and securely, they bit only for about half an inch. Two of the cogs were found broken, and the accident was attributed to the pri soner's not securely screwing in the two screws, so as to bring the cogs of the two wheels in close and firm union. An attempt was made by the prisoner's counsel to show that the machinery was defective, inasmuch as there was a block and wedge also used to keep the carriage in its place; but this was an swered by a statement that the block and wedge were additional securities, and it was the duty of the prisoner to see that they were both in their proper places, whereas the wedge was out. Mr. Scotland, for the prisoner, contended that the accident was caused by the negligence of the man whom the prisoner had followed on duty, but who was not called as a witness. The jury found the prisoner guilty. It was stated during the trial that, even after the accident, the men on the works had petitioned that the prisoner might be continued in his place. Mr. Justice Keating, after some remarks on the circumstances of the case, sentenced the prisoner to four months' imprisonment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—March 17. WANDSWORTH.—CURIOUS CASE OF FRAUD AND FORGERY—A FAST BOY OF 1860.—A stylishly dressed youth, who gave the name of Henry Coley, and described himself as a clerk, aged 17, was placed in the dock before Mr. Dayman, charged with obtaining £2 from a lady named Knight, re siding at Senghurst-cottage, Wandsworth-road, by fraudulent means. From the evidence adduced it appeared that Mrs. Knight, who was quite an invalid, had a sister, named Maria Goodwin, residing in the neighbour hood of Clapham. During the last few days she had been very much annoyed by the repeated visits of the prisoner and another young man with letters purporting to have been written by her sister, and imploring her to lend her money. The prisoner brought no fewer than five notes, all signed M. G., and containing such words as these—" My dear sister, do, pray, lend me the money. I have bills to meet. You little knew the difficulty people in business have to contend against." Mrs. Knight had an attendant named Mrs. Turner, and although the letters were addressed to the prosecutrix, they implored Mrs. Turner to get the money, as there was no doubt the writer knew perfectly well that the letters would be read by the attendant. One of the letters asked for £5, and on that occasion the prosecutrix directed Mrs. Turner to give her £2, as she was short of money and could not spare any more. The prisoner came several times afterwards, and at last Mrs. Goodwin happened to hear that some per sons were getting money in her name, and she went to her sister's and waited till he came. The letters were all forgeries, and the prisoner then stated that he was sent by a stranger whom he met in the street, and gave him sixpence for his trouble. The prisoner was given into custody, and he gave an address which turned out to be an improper house. It also appeared that his friends were highly respectable, but he had ran away from them, and was living with a number of young girls at the house in question. Mrs. Turner produced two other letters which were brought by the other young man, and she proved having given him £2. Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, said the letters were written after the same style as the others, but they were upon a different kind of paper. The prisoner now stated that the letters were given to him by a nephew of the family. Mrs. Goodwin said she had a nephew, but she scarcely knew him, and did not know where he lived. She believed his conduct had caused his mother considerable pain. The prisoner was an entire stranger to her. The constable said he had no doubt he should be able to apprehend the other young man. Mr. Dayman remanded the prisoner for a week. There were a number of young girls outside ap parently waiting to know the result of the charge. WESTMINSTER. THE CHARGES AGAINST Miss RICHARDS.—About a fortnight ago, Miss Martha Augusta Arthur Richards, who had been living in great style at 13, Chester-street, Gros venor-place and who was stated by her solicitor to be a lady of good family, was charged with fraudu lently obtaining £ll upon a banker's cheque. The case was then only slightly gone into, owing to the accused's illness and the want of evidence, and was adjourned from time to time until the lady was well enough to appear to the recognisances she had entered into. The accusation against her was briefly this :—That she had sent her servant with a cheque for Xll to Mr. Phipps, butcher, 36, Bel grave-street, and obtained cash for it ; that when the cheque was presented at the banker's there were no effects to meet it ; and that, subsequently, when Mr. Phipps sent the cheque to her house with a request that she would take it up, she destroyed it ; but in cross-examination it was shown that the ac cused had sent her servant to Mr. Phipps with an offer to pay the money, but he refused to take it, as he had just sent the cheque to his bankers. On Miss . C. Richards appearing for further exa mination, Mr. C. Humphreys prosecuted for Mr. Phipps, and expressed a desire to shape the charge against her for stealing the cheque, admitting that there had been sufficient to meet the cheque at the ac cused's bankers for some days after it was drawn; it had, however, not been eent to the bankers sooner • in consequence of the servant requesting delay. Mr. Arnold complained that Mr. Phippshad acted most disingenuously when he induced him to grant a warrant for the accused's apprehension. He had not only withheld the fact that an offer had been made to pay the money, but had stated that her ac count had been closed at her banker's. There was no false pretence, and he should discharge the pri soner for the alleged fraud, leaving it to Mr. Phipps to give her into custody again, if he thought fit, on any other charge. Mr. Humphreys now stated a second charge for which a summons had been issued against the pri soner, for obtaining a silk dress, value £lO ss. 2d., under false pretences. She had represented herself to be a lady, when she was neither more nor less than a servant. She had stated herself to be the cousin of Lady Forbes and niece of Lord Tredegar, both of which were untrue, and upon faith of these representations she had obtained the dress from Mr. Parton, linendraper and silk mercer, 3 and 4, Queen's-road, Piailico. Mr. Lewis, jun., urged that Miss Richards's ac count had been mixed up with a lady's with whom she resided, and asked Mr. Parton whether £2O had not been offered him for his claim on the previous day. Mr. Parton said that was so. Mr. Teed, Q.C., had been to him upon the subject. After some conversation Mr. Parton agreed to take the £2O, and the charge having been with drawn, the accused left the court with her friends. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —AN ALLEGED FINDER'S APPROPRIATION OF A STOLEN NOTE. — Mr. Henry's Simpson, tailor, of 8, Richmond-street, Leicester-square, was summoned before Mr. Bing• ham for feloniously appropriating to his own use a lost £lO Bank of England note, which it was alleged he had found himself, or in company with another. Mr, Humphreys conducted the case ; and Mr. Edward Lewis, of Marlborough-street, the defence. After an outline of the case had been given, Mr. Humphreys called Mrs. Sarah Dewing,' the wife of Mr. Edward Dewing, a City merchant, residing at No. 2, Grove, Hackney, who deposed that she received, on the 27th of February, a £lO Bank of England note from her husband to pay a bill, and after lunching with her daughter, a young married lady, at her house 6, Die I Cora m-street, are, proceeded with her to Woburn-place, where they got into a cab. Directly after entering she perceived that her purse in her hand was open, and the note in ques tion and its contents gone. Losing no time they both alighted and retraced their steps, the one on one side of the way and the other on the other, to where they called the cab, hoping to find the note, but were doomed to disappointment. Mrs. Fanny Cavell, the daughter of the last wit ness, confirmed the previous statement as to the loss, and the proceeding consequent on the same, and added, that as she looked for the note two men, one with very dark whiskers, and the other, to the best of her belief, the defendant, accosting her, asked her if she was looking for anything. She replied, "Yes—a note." The man she believed to be the defendant asked if it was a £5 ors £lO note, and she answered a £lO, and they, with the remark that it was a great loss, left, in the direction of Russell•square, shuffling about on the pavement as they started. On a subsequent day, from informa tion she received, she accompanied her father to the defendant's shop. He did not at first appear to re cognise her, but afterwards turned verypale. Cross-examined—lt was nearer three than four o'clock in the afternoon when the note was dis covered to be lost. Had never, to her knowledge, seen either of the men before. It was about four or five minutes after leaving defendant's shop she told her father he was the man. Mr. William Edwar 1 Dewing, merchant and lard oil manufacturer at the East-end of the town, the husband of the first witness, said he gave his wife a £lO note, as stated, on the 27th ult., the number of which he found, as quickly after the loss as possible, to be 9,048, and that it bore date 23d January, 1F360. It is the note now produced by the Bank authorities. On hearing of the less he advertised the same, and offered £1 reward, both in the papers and by handbills ; and, besides, gave the usual notice at the Bank of England. Acting upon information received, he afterwards went to Mr. Buckley, 61, Basinghall-street, and thence to the defendant's, in Richmond-street, where he saw the defendant. In reply to his questions, he said ho had paid a £lO note to Mr. Buckley, which he had received from a man, who gave his name Smith, who looked like a sailor, and gave it in payment of a second-hand coat, and this person indorsed it, or pretended to do so. Defendant's wife coming into the shop at that moment, said, " No, he did not put his name to it." He asked him, after telling him it was his note, which had been lost, if he would come to some arrangement about the same, and the defendant replied, No, he would not ; and on the question of the change he gave, that that was his business, requiring to know, at the same time, if he took him for a-- foot. Again he proceeded to the defendant's with his daughter, and asked if he had traced out the Mr. Smith he spoke of, and he replied in the negative. Mr. John Blizard Buckley, woollen draper, 61, Basinghall-street, said that the defendant had done business with him about one year and a half, and that he paid him the note in question to take £5 off an account of £l7 between them, on the 28th of February, which . he had . applied fo r t wo or th ree times. He required his indorsement, and he placed his name on a corner of the note. He subsequently paid the note to his bankers, the London Joint- Stock Bank. Mr. Richard Bailey, from the Bank of England, produced the note in question paid in in a bulk of £l,lOO from the Joint-Stock Bank. This being the whole of the case, Mr. Lewis addressed the court for his client, con tending that he was a respectable tradesman, charged with feloniously stealing the note upon the uneorrobcftated statement of a lady who had herself very fairly stated that .he could not Speak with certainty as to the defendant's identity. She had been taken by her father to the defendant's house, and had admitted it was not until she had left there some minutes that she fixed on him as one of the men who spoke to her in Woburn-place. Mr. Bingham said as very loose and erroneous opinions were afloat as to lost property found by others than the owners, it would be well that he should endeavour to set this matter right, by giving some general information on the subject, and he would state the latest law respecting the same. If a man find goods that have been actually lost, or are reasonably supposed by him to have been lest, and appropriates them, with intent to take the en tire dominion over them, really believing when he takes them that the owner cannot be found, it is not larceny ; but if he takes them with the like in tent, though lost, or supposed to be lost, but rea sonably believing that the owner can be found, it is larceny. In the present case, had the lady, Mrs. Cavell, been able to swear positively to the defen dant, I should undoubtedly have committed him, under the circumstances detailed in evidence, to take his trial. But she has stated very carefully and fairly that she cannot say without a doubt that he is the man, and therefore I shall not put the county to unnecessary expenEn in his committal, awl do therefore discharge the summons. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—At the COMi tia Majora held on Saturday, March 17, the following _George Anne M ar ti n, M . D ., gentlemen, having been previously elected, c; ere a d m itt e d S am uel ' Parsons, 3, Clarges-street, i m re e nmtbneerrs, Isleof t ( h )f e wi g Colle g e h t ; Daniel Hack Tuke, M.D., Falmouth; Thoma s Hunter, m. 13,, Cheltenham ; Thomas L ec ki e, M . D ., M.D., Edinburgh • John Scott , M.D., Boulogne; Henry Mills Cannon, M.D.Brighton; Torquay ; William St. George Davies, M.D John Stirling, M.D., Royal Navy ; William Mort, M.D., Southport ; William Laxon, M.D., Coventry ; Henry John Lucas, M.D., Crickhowell, South Wales ; Julius Althaus, M.D., Manchester-street; John Davids on , M.D., Royal Hospital, Hasler ; Richard Giles, M.D., Oxford ; John Dowson, M D., Whitby ; Almeric Walter Seymour, M.D., M.D., Leinstor-square ; B H r e i n g r h y to i n la c r D y avd o d od D e i v m e, ca l\ n i.D L . o , gSatilo'ke Bishep, near Bristol ; Darwen Chawner, M.D., Lincoln ; Henry G.Wright, M.D., S omerse t- s treet ; Richard Leack, M.D., Blackburn ; John Frederick M.D., Birke n h ea d ; J ose ph Hutchin son Preston ; R aven hill P earce , M.D., red H er a ic in k ni S o t n ev d r i\ s i o . n n ,. , Brighton; Robert Crothers, M.D., Moy, county Tyrone; John Stewart Kilgour, M.D., I s l e f Man; Vans C. Clarke, M.D., Royal Naval Rendezvous, Tower-hill ; Joseph A. Radcliffe Harvey, M.D. Southsea ; Edward Cator Seaton, M.D., Sloane -street M. C. Faircloth, ; Edward Shortland, Plymouth; John ~ M.D., No r th am pt on ; J o h n B e dd oe , M.D., Clifton ; Robe r t Mill er, M.D., Somer's-place, Hydel.ark ; Charles Syl ves t er, M.D M.D Bow. •i , Bath • Alonzo Henry Stocker, - •• - ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of the College at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 16th inst., viz.— Messrs. John Edmunds, Toddington, near Dunstable, L.S.A., May 2, 1816; Thomas Stiles, Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire, L.S.A., February 1, 1821; James Bryant, N orthampton -street, Clerkenwell, L S.A., November 18, 1824 ; Robert Skegg, S. . Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, L. S.A., December 22 ' 1825 ; Henry Knaggs, Kentish-town, L.S.A., F e b ruary 23, 1826; James Griffith, Biddenden, Kent, L.S.A. ' Dec. 21, 1826; James Lambden, Grimsby, Lincolnshire ' L.S.A., April 12, 1827 • James Hurd, Frorne, Somerset, L. ' S A., June 3, 1830 • Ralph' Linton, Chester le-street, L.S.A, June 10, 1830; Francis Chas. Howard, Linton, Cambridgeshire, L.S.A., June 7, 1832 ; George Cochrane, Wickham-market, Suffolk, L.S.A., October 17, 1833; Edward Smith Walters, Leek, Staffordshire, L.5.A.., Nov. 3, 1836 ; Jacob Ashley, Wick and Abson, near Bath, L.S.A. ' July 5, 1S38; Fredericßarham, Maidstone, L.S.A., April 25, 1859; John Hurd, Yatton, near Bristol, L.S.A., May 8, 1845; Wm. Paine Fisher, Dartford, L.S.A., March 5, 1846 ; Wm. Byron Hill, Carter-street, Walworth, L.S.A., July 5, 1849; Alfred Scotchburn, Driffield, Yorkshire, L.S.A., Nov. 8, 1849; Christopher Kirby, Halifax, York shire, L.S.A., May 6, 1842 • John Ivy Mais, Th orner, near Leeds, L.S.A., May 26, 18 ' 53 ; Edward Swales, Hensley, Yorkshire, L.S.A., April 2S, 1853 ; Chas. Stuart Watkins, Chandos-street, Covent -garden, L,S,A., April 20, 18:54 ; and Frederie Slade Hoger, Highgate, MORT dLITY IN A TRANSPORT SIIIP. We le aye already announced the arrival at Liver pool of the Great Tasmania with disbanded troops from Indi a. We regret to find that there has been a fearful, mortality amongst the men. The follow ing pal ticulars are taken from the Liverpool Alercur y of Saturday : "Of the 1,000 who were shipped about 60 died on the voyage ; and about 100 of the survivors were last eV( !ning transferred from the ship, in cars and spring carts, to the Liverpool workhouse, many in a most distressing condition, and some of them not expect( :d to live over the night. They were suffer ing chi .efly from dysentery and scurvy, apparently induce d to a great extent by the want of provisions and proper accommodation during the voyage; and as soon ais some of the men w ere a bl e and felt at liberty ti) speak they were se.; ere and unanimous in their con tplaints of the treatment they had received. One of th eir greatest grievances during the dreary four moat hs' voyage has been the short supply of hammocks. As a consequence, throughout the whole voyage men have been lying on the bare boards, without the slightest extra covering. Some of the men declared that they had been kept a whole week, nigb.t and day, on the upper deck, exposed to all kinds e. weather, and only suffered to go below to their meals, under pain of deprivation or punish ment as priscaters if found below at any other time. For breakfast and tea they had tea and biscuits, the latter being described by one as more like sand than anything else, whilst another suggested that they might have been locked up in Calcutta for 20 years. For dinner every alternate day they had beef, which was wretched, so much so that it was thrown overboard in casks when condemned by a committee of officers. Then a total absence of preserved vegetable food aggravated the evil, and the lime-juice was as bad and worthless as the provisions. The result of ail this and much more was that the ship became a floating hos pital, and had 400 or 500 sick men on board, among whom the doctor, who did his best with the means at his disposal, was, of course, almost helpless. One man was found dead in a car on its arrival at the workhouse last night. The case will be reported to the coroner, who will no doubt hold an inquest, at which these, at present, ex parte statements will be more fully investigated. It is stated that Government has also been communicated with by telegraph, and that an inspector has already arrived from London to inquire into the matter." LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIGHT. The ex citement ca use d amongs t a ll c l asses i n t hi s town w ith respect to the a ll ege d crue l con d uc t o f the parties in charge of the Great Tasmania, with troops on board from India, has been most intense during the whole of the day, and, as the facts in connection with the case are developed, public in dignation increases. There can be no doubt what ever that great blame—culpable, if not actual cri minal negligence—attaches to some parties. The owners throw it altogether upon the Government, but people here are astonished that the owners should have been so indiscreet as to allow the ves sel to be chartered for such a large number as 1,100, when, under the provisions of the Passengers' Act, she is only allowed to carry between 600 and 700. I was to-day informed by some of the men that there take them in turn, and that those on deck were not allowed to go down below more than once a week. Four more have died to-day, making altogether seven deaths, and many more are not expected to survive. The inquest was opened to-day, and, after hear ing some formal evidence, was adjourned till Mon day. GO UN TRY MARICBTS NORWICH-MARCH 17. At our market to-day there was a limited supply of wheat, and the demand being brisk, late prices were fully main tained, and in some instances is to 2s more money. There was only a small supply of barley at late rates. White wheat. 46s to 498 I Red wheat 40s to 45 0 Malting barley.— .42s to 46s I Chevalier barley 34a to 40 0 Distilling do ......25s to 275 I Oats.. 248 to 211 6 Flour, 29s 6d to 30s per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE—MIRcir 17. There was a fair supply of wheat, and, with a rather steady demand in the trade, white moved off at 44s to 4901 red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone. There was a small show 0 ' barley to-day; malting, 36s to 40s; grinding, 28s to 3 1 e per 30 stone. Oats at 26e to 28s for new ; old oats, —O . ? —s. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale —new, ve to 43s ; old, —s to —s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to Pe r 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 895; red, 46s to iOs Per quarter. YORK. Mencir 17. To-day's market was plentifully supplied with Irh eat ' 111 - improved condition, and all descriptions sold readily at is to 2s over last week's rates. Beans about the same as last week. Oats firm. Barley a tolerable show. pMalt,er k. s 6 a B c sto 70s per qr. ; rye, 3 2 s per q r. ; flour, 33e to 85s GLOUCESTER—MARCH 17. At our market there was rather a good attendance, q k a fair business doing. English white wheat, 46e to 4 12 red, 43s to 46s p er qr . F ore i gn, 46s to 5.0 s per qr. I .'" barley, oats, and beans scarcely any alteration. LEICESTER—MAn.cu 17. There wag a tolerable supply of wheat to-day, a fair attendance, and trade firm. White wheat, 48s to 62 4 --red, 45s to 48s per 36 stone; a very fair inquiry for flite barley, grinding, 30s to 335; malting, 38s to 44e per qr.; oats, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 52s to new 42s to 46s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 33s I Seconds, 31s J Thirds, 29s per 20 storm OXFORD--MARCH 17. An average quantity of wheat at market to-day, for which the trade was sluggish for all samples ; other grain in active. White ruled at 48s to 545, red 41s to 48s per qr. Barley, 32s to 426 ; oats, 20s to 32s ; beans, 38s to 48s ; hog peas, 39s to 42s ; boilers, 40s to 45s per qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack. Hay, from Os to Si Os per ton. MARCH 17. iverything except oats, which le, at Tuesday's quotations. s. d. 0. d. Do., new — O to Bere . l3 • to 14 0 Rapeseed 20 0 to 23 6 Oatmeal l3 6 to 16 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn DUBLIN• The market was firm for o were extremely difficult of sal s. d. s. d. I Wheat, white 28 6 to 30 6 Do., red 27 0 to 28 6 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black.... 11 6to 12 6 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. En the followingtable E signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails. Next DESTINATIONS. Despatch I Port of Mail of Mails. Despatch. due. -- i --- Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Aprill2,3l Southamp. Aprillo Ditto, via Marseilles ,Mar.l9 , F.; April 4 Bahamas and Havana vi a N ewl York I liar. E' Liverpool.. April 12 Canada, &C. (by Canadn. pcia ),M ar. 21, E Liverpool— , Mar. 21 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen-i mon, and St. Helena !April 5, ElDevonport April 3 China, Penang, and Singa-I pore, via Southampton .. .Iliar. 20,31;Southamp. Mar. 20 i Ditto, via Marseilles • Mar. 26, E; overdue Gibraltar, via Southampton ..Mar. 203LSouthamp. mar, 20 H onduras and Blewfields .... Mar. 17, ,'Southamp. Mar. India (Calcutta) and Ceylon,' via Southampton Mar. 20, MSouthamp. 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SEAWARD.—On the 16th inst., Mr. Francis Seaward, ° L 3 ' Mostyn-terrace, Bow, and Laurence Pountney-lanef , aged 36. , STEWART.—On the 14th inst., at Burwood-place, i ll 9 dt _r park, John Stewart, Esq, formerly M.P. for Lymngtont aged 70. ULLocx..—On the 14th inst., at Shirley, near Southanir ton, Thomas Ullock, Esq., R.N., aged 76. LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIIRDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1121 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the oust, ° Middleeos, Monday, March 19, 1860. don. 3 o • c from Jam, Mr., and % One Dr, twell Cava: A' Band prind past aniasii 'Thit * legal EVER XVET ji lt -- 4 3 Pr01 1 13;t1 E illir BV sun, stead A tr I u Viedicins " 41, e/3 of / P r etts vrhu Ittte tickli 1n cons!, Priv - eel of "nay - 41epe Pared onl Street, IL 2e. 3d. an, Aethntati engraved 0m.... 3. 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