The Sun. — London, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

SPEECH OF 111. FOULD. (From the Times.) We hope Europe is not ungrateful to the Emperor of the French for his continual care to reassure her and make her comfortable. It is a pleasant thing to have not only a peaceful and candid, but also a considerate neighbour. At once to watch and to work is too great a strain upon the body and mind. They who built the Temple found it hard to wear their arms as well as wield their tools and even the shepherd would like to unsling his long gun while he pursues his blatant wanderers. It is kind of the Emperor to set M. Fould to assure us that there is nothing to fear, We should do better to confide in him. We should not then be led away by the feeling of uneasiness which " parties" are strenuously endeavouring to spread. We should then go to sleep each under his own fig tree, satis fied that the Emperor is too loyal a neighbour and too faithful an ally to menace the rights of others. His moderation in the past is a certain guarantee for the future. So M. Fould says in his speech to the citizens and husbandruen of Tarbos, and as M. Fould is a Minister of State, and speaks from authority, surely we may all go to sleep in peace. Why should Prussia be uneasy and Belgium appre hensive? Why should Royal personages confide to each other secret fears and start to find them fame ? Why sho , ild England be silently and, we may add, mournfully assuming an attitude of preparation for some tremendous effort ? Why should all the popu lations that lie round France be at this moment suffering every evil of war except that one evil of bloodshed ? It is astonishing what trouble human beings take to make themselves unhappy. Listen to M. Fould and be composed. What if there be a kite in the air —he means no harm. Nestle, ye plump partridges, and ye birds of golden plumage ; he is not hungry yet, he has not digested his last meal; those wide sweeps and rapid swoops are only play, his morning exercise to keep his wings in action. Provoke not the mighty master by your unbe lief. M. Fould reminds you that " the Emperor has several times proclaimed that he only wishes to insure to France the rank which belongs to her." How say you, Belgium? How say — you, Prussia? Are you not satisfied with this ? It would seem that the phrase scarcely falls like oil upon your ruffled plumage. Probably you are not quite sure what that rank may be which France believes to belong to her. Possibly you may not be able to measure the area of the just proportions of a Napo leonic Empire. Some vain apprehensions may be haunting you that such words as these may not be inconsistent with a desire for Antwerp and a thought of the frontier of the Rhine. Be reas sured ; the Emperor's Minister appeals to his mas ter's previous character, and bids you measure the loyalty of the future by the moderation of the past. .21 , em0 repente fait turpissimus. No man can be come covetous all at once. If, indeed, he had ever shown a desire for other people's possessions ; if he had ever used his army for purposes other than those of benevolence and love ; if he had ever broken up a big State or bullied a little State, or snatched a province from a humble friend, then indeed you might have had some pretence for your insenate suspicions. We see how it is. These States are " led away by the, feeling of uneasiness which parties are strenuously endeavouring to spread." Somebody has been whispering in their ear the in famous calumny, that ' the Emperor of the French makes war like a conspirator." They have been insidiously reminded how Austria was broken to pieces and Piedmont partitioned to the accompani ment of generous phrases and disinterested procla mations. By an illogical process of reasoning they are moved towards the conclusion that what hap pened to others may happen to them. Germans have naturally a smack of pedantry about them. We should not wonder if they have been thinking of iEneas madly rushing to arms when he saw his neighbour's house on fire, and of those often quoted lines,— " Tura vero manifesta fides, Danaumque patescunt Insidia). Jam Deiphobi dedit ampla ruinam, " Vulcan° superante, domus ; jam proximus ardet " ITealegon." If it be true that there be any uneasiness among these timorous Powers of Europe—and we have admitted and argued upon the fact only because M. Fould and the Moniteur insist upon it—it must be the result of some imperfect reasoning, such as we and M. Fould have attempted to expose. It is scarcely to be believed, but it is neverthe less true, that these " parties" have been insidiously suggesting to the Belgian and the Prussian Govern ments that this Emperor of the French, whose loyalty, after the assurances he has given and the acts be has done, it would be ashame to doubt, is at this moment repeating in the Low Countries those preliminary manoeuvres which preceded the disrup tion of Lombardy and the partition of Piedmont. They assert that the French Government speaks with two voices. It is declared that the French Government has a special department in Paris for the fabrication of newspaper articles to be slipped into foreign newspapers. They do this great poten tate the wrong of asserting that he pursues a system known to our low-class publishers and puff ing tradesmen, of hoaxing innocent editors by foisting upon them bits of pretended news wherein there is always a concealed business purpose that escapes the eye. We have had such things cut out and sent to us from time to time, with a history of the authorship, origin, and secret process by which the trap was worked. Of coarse, we have always had too firm a confidence in the loyalty of the French Emperor to believe a word of all this. We know that he never speaks anonymously ; but the rest of the world are not so assured, and are dis couraged accordingly. Furthermore these " parties," whom M. Fould so properly denounces, go so far as to pretend that agents are now traversing the manufacturing towns of Belgium,explaining to the workmen and masters how much better off they would be if they were not cribbed and confined in that narrow kingdom, but were portion of one great empire; and that several have already been kicked out of workshops w hen the men had dis covered their object. The _Nord, we are told, has already felt its way by a cautions article upon the French frontiers. It is said that the Paris press has already received instruc tions to assert that the Belgians are dis cussing the question of annexation to Francs, and that the same impudent falsehood has been adroitly foisted upon some of our own English papers of the more obscure and incautious &ass.- All these things are by M. Fould's " parties" said to be now going on, and then they proceed to show that this is in accordance with all former Imperial practice, and that the plan has been first to get up a fictitious discussion, th:.n to argue upon that discussion, then to assert that the discussion has terminated in favour of the annexers, then to ma nifest imperial sympathy for the wishes of an una nimous people, and then to search an overwhelm ing army to the desired territory. These they describe to have been the invariable stages of the annexation disease. We think with M. Fould that there is no present danger of this disease going to any fatal lengths in Belgium unless it should unhappily first seize upon and carry off Rhenish Prussia. Belgium and Prussia were vaccinated against it more than fifty years ago. A Belgian or a Prussian is as little likely to profess a desire to become a Frenchman as is a Kentishman or a Yorkshireman, and there are guarantees which make those overlying coasts of Belgium rather different to the slopes of Chablais. We say these things entirely in corroboration of M. Fould. Of course, so long as the present Emparor rules we are safe in his loyal word ; but thrones and dynasties and human life are the sport of time. If we could compound with Fate that this loyal and amiable and contented Emperor could reign for ever, and always in his present mood, and that M. Fould should always interpret his policy, we might lay aside our apprehensions ; but, as it is, perhaps " people" will do as well, while implicitly confid ing in the French Emperor's loyalty, if they criti cally note the signs of the day and watch how the storm-gauge rises and falls. (From the fforntlig Post.) - _ The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a speech delivered by M. Fould, the Minister of State, to n agricultural meeting at Tarbes on the subject of the foreign itad commercial poliCy of the French Government. Such assurances of the Emperor's desire for peace and prosperity as M. Fould offers a lt re in i i n s a te e r ed in n Forma ore than the iteration of what every France has said, and what every journal in that country declared since, the peace of Vit.- lafranca. BjM a s r o ead, in some of his reasonings, handles the subjectdistinguish:eh policy with a certain novelty which s it from the mere decla ration of some of his of colleagues. He appeals sub stantially to the basis the t apprehension which some other countries appear entertain for the maintenance of their independence. found, for the most part, in 'the. ThiS is to be. extraordinarily high estimate -which is formed o e f f the talent and or if the Emperor ability of the Emperor himself; Charles X., w n i o . were a dolt, like Louis XVIII , one would be afraid of him. S . ure r ly, th e w, Fould appears to argue, if the Emperor be a states man of such capacity, he must at least haie the capacity to ptovide for the interests of hie own G co ver nment. What has the French pcyvornnacenet lately been about ? It has just established a m m ercial system throughout the empire which will be pro lific of 'immense prosperity if peace continue, but which will dislocate all the commercial relations of France, and will make the Government intole rably odious among all classes if war were to break out. What is the present feeling of the French producers ? That of utter alienation, for the present at least, towards the Government. Their monopolies have been broken up ; foreign wares come into com petition with theirs; and if, in return, they are to buy English machinery cheaper, they think, rightly or wrongly, that they will be too poor r,, work it. What, on the other hand, is the feeling of the great consuming mass throughout the length and breadth of the country ? This vast majority look upon the Government as the greatest of conceivable bene factors ; visions of future plenty are connected in separably from its present policy ; and an entirely new and unprecedented basis of support has been carved out for the imperial dynasty. That Go vernment has encountered the animosity of hundreds in order to receive the countenance of millions. The alternative to the Emperor Napo leon lay between standing on " the ancient ways" of the French system of government and throwing the Imperial cause on the affections, or, at any rate, on the self-interest, of the multitude. Which course he has chosen is now matter of history. But they who would paint a future of encroachment leading to war and rapine 'would have this Emperor of the French, incontestably so far-sighted and acute, throw away all the advantages he has reaped from his new policy. And not only so, they would have him, after discarding the old support of the produc ing monopolists, which was so powerful that no previous Prince or Administration was ever able to break in upon that body, actually discard the support of the consuming masses on which he had just been consolidating his dynasty. When you have once advanced from one position to another, you cannot afterwards fall back on the former posi tion ; partly because the interest which you have abandoned feels, rightly or wrongly, that you have betrayed it ; partly because it may be that you have already so far compromised it as to destroy its means of giving support. It is just so at this mo ment between the Emperor and the monopolists. Dividing the country into producers and consumers, the support of the former has been exchanged for that of the latter ; and if the friendship of the con sumers were to be compromised by war, as the friendship of the producers has been compromised by free trade, there would be no elements of popular support for the Imperial Government left. Yet the Emperor, whom you are so suspicious of, because he is so clever as well as because he is so powerful— and whose power has been originally derived from his ability—is the man from whom you apprehend an act of political folly which it is acknowledged that the stupidest Bourbon would have ridiculed. If this be not precisely M. Fould's argument, it is at least the thread of ideas which his speech sug gests. " Notwithstanding," says the Minister, the events which disturb some States, notwithstanding the agitation and mistrust which those parties at tempt to excite in the public mind, France, quiet and prosperous, can devote herself with safety to public works." We rejoice to observe this fresh official reference to the greatest of all the domestic interests of France that now remain to be promoted by the Government. We assume that M. Fould has reference to the agricultural condition of France as affected by the recent proclamation of the Govern ment offering pecuniary assistance to the owners of the soil who shall join in the national endeavour to promote the reclamation of waste lands in France. Cultivation in that country is hardly proportionate to the population, but the proportion of cultivation to area in France is vastly less than that proportion in England. The author of an article on the " State of Europe," in the last number of the North British Review, computes that if the French soil is as capable of supperting,its population as the Belgian, France would be able to maintain a population of eighty millions. Assuming this calculation to possess even approximate accu racy, it is high time that France, with a new com mercial system calculated greatly to increase the wealth of the country, and therefore its population, should render a large proportion of the soil culti v2ble. Something like one-third of France, or forty million of acres, is more or less waste, and it is calculated that, with the increase of imported coal, the forests in France will be cut down and the ground will be tilled. But the subdivision of the soil precludes the successful prosecution of this ob ject without large pecuniary assistance from the Government, and in our opinion the assistance which has been promised forms the keystone of the whole agricultural structure which the Government desire to raise. This is, we conceive, another pledge of a pacific future. France may become greater by peace than by war. The results of war are doubtful ; those of peace are certain, and wise government in peace is alone wanted to make France the first country of Europe. TILE GALE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I beg to send you some instrumental read ings made before and during a great gale which has been raging here all day, doing considerable damage, uprooting some trees, and stripping others of their branches, leaves, and flowers. The barometer began to fall at 5 p.m. yesterday, when the reading, reduced to sea level, was 29.895; by 11 p.m. it had fallen to 29 795, at 1 30 a.m. of to-day to 29.613, at 2 30 a.m. to 29.163, at 3 30 a.m. to 29 . 063, 4 a.m. to 28.986, 4 15 to 28.976 (the lowest point), being a fall of three-quarters of an inch in the last 41 hours; by 5 a.m. it had risen to 29.068, at 6 30 a.m. to 29 . 260, at 10 a.m. to 29 . 470, and at 12 30 p.m. to 29575 inches. The wind yesterday was W., becoming W.S.W. at 3 30 p.m., S.W. at 7 50, S.S.W. at 8 30, S.S.E. at 10 25, S.E. at 10 50, S.S.E. at 12 40 a.m. (of to day) ; S. at 1 20, S.W. at 2 5, W.S.W, at 3 15,1%. at 5 a.m., W. by N. at 7 25 a.m., in which quarter (4 p.m.) it still remains. The wind early this morning was blowing a pleasant breeze, suddenly rising to half a gale (61b. on the square foot) at 2 40 a.m., increasing to a gale of 121 b. on the square foot at 3 20 a.m., remaining 91b. till 11 30 a.m., with gusts up to 111 h. From 11 30 a.m. 71b., falling to 51b. at 150 p.m., at which force it still remains. If the gale does not soon cease the damage done will be very great. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient ser vant, E. J. LOWE. Observatory, Boston, May 28. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. Sir,—l beg to send you a report of a violent gale which was felt here last night and this morning. The weather during the greater part of Sunday was very fine, but in the afternoon ominous-looking clouds appeared in the wind, and in the evening rain gradually commenced, and by 9 p.m. there was indication of a thoroughly stormy night. At that hour the wind freshened, and before midnight a gale blew from W.S.W. This increased as the night advanced, and this day (Monday, May 28), at 3.20 a.m., the pressure was equal to about 1.61 b. on the square foot—a remarkably violent storm for the usually quiet month of May. Up to this hour (3 p.m.) there has been occasionally very violent squalls (since 4 a.m. from N.W.), which must have been severely felt in the Bristol Channel. The following are some readings of the barometer corrected and reduced to the level of the sea Inches. May 27, 5 p.m. .. .. 29.859 „ 10 30 pm. 29.566 May 28, 3 40 a.m. .. 29 . 443* „ 0 a.m. 29 . 710 I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servan Clifton, May 28, WILLIAM C. BURDER. GREAT YARMOUTH, TUESDAY. The gale was attended with frightful effects off this port. Eight vessels went down to-day, and 40 to 50 lines were sacrificed. As the vessels foundered with all hands their names are unknown. The severe storm of wind, rain, snow, and sleet which passed over Yorkshire on Monday last proved, as was stated in ''J he Sun of yesterday, very de structive. At Scarborough it did considerable damage, besides causing the death of one human being, as mentioned yesterday. At Whitby and along the coast, both to the north and south, the storm raged with great fury, but fortunately few casualties at seu, have been reported. At Pickering, and further inland, trees of all descriptions suffered, many being uprooted, and the branches and foliage of others were greatly damaged. At York, Ripon, Thirsk, Bradford, Harewood, and indeed in many other parts of the country, some fine trees we re blown down. In the northern and north-western parts of the country flocks of newly-clipped sheep suffered severely, many of them perishing from the severity of the weather. Yesterday (Tuesday) the temperature was low, and there were showers of rain, with a strong gusty wind from the north-west. In many respects the weather was more indicative of March than of the'29th of May, "Royal Oak day." A correspondeni, writing from Great' Smeaton, near Northallerton, on Monday, the 28th, says :-- "After a howling night, during which the rain and hail have been pelting down without intermis skin, a snow storm commenced at 5 p.m., and carried on with blustering goodwill. The appearance of the landscape, so far as it is left visible, is very extraor dinary, for instead of the skeletons of the trees standing forth (as in a chalk - drawing) more strik ingly by the contrast between black and white, those skeletons are now clothed and rounded with foliage, which at the storm-beating side have the appear ance of frosted silver; while the sheltered side, with its rich deep-tinted green, seems strangely out of keeping with the falling flakes. The raspberry and currant bushes are beat to the earth as with a heavy crop, and the fruit trees, which are wonder fully covered with bloom, have their branches borne down by the weight of the snow, added to their foliage, Whil e I write some of the branches are * The minimums observed. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1860. falling off. The bloom of the plum and pear trees has become invisible, but that of the apple is, if possible, rendered softer and more beautiful. The snow will rapidly disappear, but it is a strange visitor on the 28th of May, and it affords some fun with the youngsters in the village, who, recollect ing that they last went to bed in the flowery spring, will scarcely believe us when, pointing to the storm, we assure them they must have slept to Christmas! The oldest inhabitant, 89 years old, recollects that snow fell here as late as the 13th of May on one occasion in the early part of the century." The effects of the storm of Monday are not con fined to the damage done to the shipping, &c., at Liverpool, an account of which we published yes terday. We learn that throughout Sunday night and Monday a tremendous gale blew along the north-east coast and committed terrible ravages. An account from Scarborough says that one of the most violent storms of wind, accompanied with rain, with which the neighbourhood was ever vi sited prevailed on Monday. The suddenness with which it rose was remarkable. The weather up to Sunday night had been charming for some time, and it was thought that the fine fertilising showers that had fallen at intervals during the week were about to give place to a season of sunshine, as the thermometer went up towards evening. On Sunday a fresh breeze blew from the north, but the weather remained fine. During the night a considerable quantity of rain fell but towards Monday morning it abated, and from five to seven o'clock a lovely day appeared to be breaking forth. The sky sud denly became overcast, and the wind, from a smart breeze, wrought itself into a violent gale in a very short time. So heavily did the hurricane rage that by nine o'clock nearly every street in the town was strewed with fragments of chimney pots, brick bats, and debris from the houses. A fatal occur rence took place in Globe-street, in which Mr. David Parkinson, hair-dresser, resided. A short time ago, some houses were erected immediately adjoining his, and since their erection the chimneys have been heightened, and the masonry most pro bably would not be so firmly fixed as it would have become in course of time. While seated in a room over his shop, between eight and nine o'clock, tak ing breakfast with his wife, a sudden and tremen dous gust of wind smote the chimneys of the adjoining houses, causing them to fall upon Mr. Parkinson's roof. The floor of the room above that in which he was sitting yielded to the accumulated weight of the chimney and roof, and Mr. Parkinson was in an instant buried in the ruins. His wife escaped com paratively unhurt ; and the children, who were yet in bed, also miraculously escaped. Assistance was very promptly on the spot, and after a few minutes' search, the unfortunate man was found amongst the debris, quite dead. His face was fright fully cut, and the scalp from the eyebrows upwards was torn and laid back. The floor of the room in which he sat partially gave way at the time, and soon afterwards fell through. The house is now a complete wreck. The fineness of the early morning may be judged of from the fact that a party of young men went out to sea in a small boat, for an hour's pleasure, previous to business. The storm overtook them, and though not far from the harbour they were unable to gain it, and were drifted on the rocks a mile or two to the south. Here, the water being high, was rapidly becoming a heavy surf, and had not one of the young gentlemen been able to swim, it is doubtful if the whole party would not have been lost. Casting himself from the boat, he battled with the wind and water, taking with him the rope of the boat, and providentially landed, though with much difficulty. He hauled the boat on shore, and thus saved his companions. His name is Frankish ; he is a medical pupil with Dr. Robertson, of Scar borough. The remainder of the party were two sons of Mr. Porritt, druggist, and Dr. Robertson's errand-boy. A man of the name of Crake had also a narrow escape. He went to examine his lobster fishing apparatus, fixed at some distance from the harbour, and not being able to return in consequence of the suddenness of the gale, his boat drifted to the rocks, and he with difficulty saved himself. Mr. Hudson's steamvessel Fame dragged her moorings, and was obliged to stand out to sea, the direction of the wind, N.W., preventing her taking the harbour. The windows, roofs, and chimneys of many houses in the more exposed parts of the town have been blown down. The raew houses on the South Cliff are completely dismantled, and many buildings in the old town are much injured. Gardens are wasted, and it is probable they will not again recover the beauty which they possessed only an hour or two previous. Several excursion trains arrived during the morning from Leeds, York, Hull, ,and other places. The excursionists wili have a gloomy remembrance of Scarborough. They presented a miserable picture as they passed through the streets in their holiday attire, drenched and dripping with the soaking rain. At York also the storm raged with considerable violence on Monday. The New Walk, on the banks of the river Ouse, which is composed of two rows of fine elm trees, was to a certain extent demolished, 14 of the magnificent elms, which helped to form one of the finest avenues of any river in the king dom, having been destroyed. Some of these, though five feet in diameter, were torn up by the roots. Referring to other parts in the city and neighbour hood, the Yorkshire Museum gardens have been dreadfully demolished, and all the gardens in the city, whether ornamental or useful, have been totally destroyed. The leaves of the trees have been blown about as though the season were autumn instead of spring, and in the midst of the city the windows are spotted with patches of leaves. In fact, from the time when the hurricane commenced it was of so severe a character that hail and snow fell as thickly as though the season were winter, and in such immense flakes as have not been noticed in this city for a number of years past. The road from the city to Malton was stopped up from the num ber of trees having been blown on to the road. However, the most serious part of the damage is in the orchards, which we are informed is almost incredible. Trees which have given the greatest promise are now stripped of their blossom, and pre sent a most desolate appearance. Trees which were of the greatest promise a few days since are now not only stripped of their bloom,, but of their strongest limbs ; and certain vegetables are com pletely torn from the surface of the ground. Within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant of the neighbourhood never has such a circumstance taken place before. A very violent gale of wind, with a heavy fall of sleet and snow, broke ever the Northumberland coast on Monday morning about daybreak, and the wind continued to blow in strong gusts until about nine yesterday morning, when it moderated. The weather was extremely cold and wintry, and to a large extent the open-air Whitsuntide festivities were suspended. The sea was breaking rough and turbulent on the bar of the Tyne. Two vessels, the Fleur de Marie and the Dublin Lass, drove ashore in the gale upon the Herd Sand. The Dublin Lass has since got off with the assistance of powerful steamers. Manchester and its neighbourhood did not escape. Throughout Sunday the weather was tolerably fine, with rather a stiff breeze ; but about half-past six o'clock in the evening the rain began to fall pretty heavily, and the wind gradually increased in vio lence until it blew almost a hurricane. In the out skirts the trees were shaken to and fro with great ♦iolence, the footpaths being partially covered with leaves : lead was ripped from the roofs of houses, walls stripped of placards, and one gentleman in Higher Broughton had his bedroom window blown in at 3 o'clock on Monday morning. The most serious damage arising from the storm took place at the racecourse, Lower Broughton. Up to Satur day night about 20 booths or tents belonging to publicans had been erected on the race ground, which was visited by large numbers of persons throughout Sunday. In many of these booths large stocks of ale, porter, &c., had been laid in, in pre paration for the race days. The wind, however, made short work of these booths, for on Monday morning it was discovered that the canvas had been completely stripped off each of them, the wooden frame-work, smashed to pieces, and in fact the whole became a total wreck. Beyond this, we have not heard of any serious damage arising from the storm in Manchester or Salford. At Mossley, about — aq - uarter to six o'clock on Monday morning, great damage was inflicted. Con siderable damage was done by the wind at the new fire-proof mill at Bottom's, Mossley Brow, now in course of erection by Mr. John Mayall, cotton manufacturer. The mill is a very large one, of which three stories are completed, the walls being of stone, and about a yard thick, while large iron beams cross from side to side, upheld by iron pil lars. The storm caught one side of the mill nearest to Stalybridge, and the breaking of the iron beams and pillars dragged the other side down. The new building has thus been damaged, and the walls hurled down to the extent of seven or eight bays on each side, and for two stories high, while nearly the whole of the iron beams and pillars are smashed in pieces. The damage is estimated at not less than £l,OOO. At Plymouth very stormy weather had been ex perienced for the last two or three days. On Sun day afternoon there was quite a gale from W.S.W., and about half-past eight the schooner Cimbria,.at anchor in the Sound with 50 fathoms of chain down, drove, and was obliged to let go the second anchor. At three o'clock on Monday morning the wind veered to N:W., but continued, to blow very hard. On Sunday evening, at half-past eight o'clock, the Netherlands screw steam frigate Zee land, Captain H. Wipff, parted her chain in the Sound, when a second anchor was let go, by which she held on. On Monday morning a Government steam-tug went out from Devonport with the in tention of removing the Zeeland further to the westward, but she had scarcely sufficient power for the purpose. The frigate drifted to leeward, and coming in contact with Messrs. Wigram's passen ger ship Suffolk, the jib-booms of both were carried away. LA TV INTELLIGENCE—May 29. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Cock burn, an& Justices Wightman, Crompton, and Blackburn.) HARRISON V. THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY. This was a special case for the opinion of this Court, and the question raised was, whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover in the action which he had brought against the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, under these cir cumstances :—The plaintiff was a passenger by the defendant's line to Worthing, and took with him his carriage and horses and a retriever dog. The horses were put into a horse-box, and the company's servant proposed that the dog also should go in a horse-box, to which the plaintiff assented. The dog had a collar on its neck, and was fastened by a strap to a hook in the horse-box. At the end of the journey, the dog collar could not be found, but the strap remained where it had been fastened. A window in the horse-box, which was closed when the train started, was also found to be open, and it was conjectured that, as soon as the window got open, on the journey, the dog became excited by a desire to make its exit, and finally succeeded in breaking away, and got out. As the dog could not be found, the plaintiff called upon the company to pay the value of the animal—viz., £2l, but as the company disputed their liability, the present action was brought to recover damages for the loss occasioned by the negligence of defendants' servants. The defendants denied their liability, and relied upon a special contract into which they al leged they had entered with the plaintiff, restrict ing their common law liability. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said he was of opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment upon the ground that the notice by which the com pany sought to make a special contract was void and they were liable as common carriers. The ob ject of the 17th and 18th of Victoria, cap. 31, was to prevent railway companies from limiting their liability in respect of injury or damage arising from their own negligence. unless the conditions which they imposed should be adjudged by the court or judge to be just and reasonable. The first question was, whether a dog* was one of the animals referred to in the 7th section, and his lordship thought it was. Next, was it the intention of the company to protect themselves from the consequences of their own negligence, if any damage should arise ? His lordship thought it was, and that the words were wide enough to admit of that construction. The case, then, came within the 7th section, and the question arose, whether the condition was a just and reasonable one. His lordship thought that it was incumbent on the company to make out the affirma tive. The company charged 3s. for the carriage of a dog, if its value did not exceed £5, but the mo• went it exceeded that value, they put on 24 per cent. on the excess. At first sight that seemed to be an exorbitant charge. It was quite clear they did not make the extra charge as carriers, but as insurers. It might be, that under special circumstances, the Court might adjudge it to be reasonable, but, in the absence of proof, it could not do so. The company, therefore, having sought to put a restriction on their liability, asd failed, they were liable, to the plaintiff, who was entitled to recover the value of his dog. Mr. Justice Wightman thought that the liability of the defendants as common carriers was restricted by the special contract. His Lordship understood the company to say not that they would not carry any horse or dog above the value specified, unless the value should be declared, and extra charge paid, but that the company said they would not be liable beyond those amounts, unless the value should be declared and the extra charge paid. Whether that extra charge was reasonable or not the Court had no means of saying. Mr. Justice Blackburn agreed in general with the judgment of the Lord Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Crompton had left the Court. Judgment for the plaintiff. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge-Ordinary, Mr. Baron Martin, and Mr. Justice Willes.) WITHERS V. WITHERS AND JENKINS. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Karslake, appeared for the petitioner. Dr. Deane stated that Henry Withers and Jane Mary Cramp were married on the 16th of Au. gust, 1810, and cohabited in Princes-street, Kennington, in the same house with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jenkins, the brother-in-law and the sister of Mrs. Withers. In March, 1841, Mrs. Withers quitted the house, leaving a letter for Mr. Albert Jenkins, in which she said she had been miserable ever since her marriage, and she had, therefore, made up her mind to go away from Eng land and from her husband, and she hoped the separation would be mutually beneficial. The co respondent, Michael Robert Jenkins, with whom she eloped, was not related to Mr. Albert Jenkins. He was a foreign traveller for a house of business, and after the elopement he and Mrs. Withers visited different parts of the continent. In 1857 and 1858 they were living together as man and wife at Box Cottage, Tottenham. She had had no children by her husband, but she had children by Jenkins. Mrs. Susannah Williams said that her first hus band was Mr. Albert Jenkins, to whom she was married at the same time and place that her sister the respondent was married to the petitioner. She proved the cohabitation of Mr. and Mrs. Withers, and her elopement and the receipt of the letter announcing it, as stated by the learned counsel. She afterwards saw her sister in 1855, in 1857, and 1859. In answer to questions put by their lordships, the witness stated that Withers did not live con stantly with his wife after the marriage, but came to see her on a Saturday, and went away on the Monday morning. He was in some business that took him away, but she could not tell what it was. They lived happily together, and she did not com plain of being left alone during the week. Mrs. Withers became acquainted with the co-re spondent about a month after the marriage. She and Mrs Withers were walking in the street when they met him, and he called at the house about a fortnight afterwards. He appeared to be an ac quaintance of Mrs. Withers. Mr. and Mrs. Withers had no quarrel before her elopement. Evidence was then given of the cohabitation of Mrs. Withers and the co-respondent at Box-cot tage, Tottenham, from September, 1857, to Sep tember, 1858, as Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins. Mrs. Williams was then recalled by their Lord ships, and, in answer to further questions, said that she knew nothing about Withers's family. His mother was a woman of independent fortune, but she did not know whore she lived. She and Mrs. Withers first met Albert Jenkins and Withers at the house of a married sister of theirs in London. She believed that Withers was a draper's assistant. Mrs. Withers had been on intimate terms with Michael Jenkins before her marriage. Mrs. Withers then lived in London. The Judge-Ordinary said it was quite palpable that the Court had not got to the bottom of the case, Mrs. Williams at first told the Court that the respondent was not acquainted with Michael Jenkins until after the marriage, but she now said that they were intimate before the marriage. He should like to see Mr. Henry Withers. The petitioner was accordingly examined by , the Court.--He said that he made the acquaint ance of the respondent in 1840, when she and her sister were in the same house of business, a draper's, at Southampton, in which he was em ployed. They all came to London, and the 're spondent took a milliner's situation in Baker-street, her sister took a dressmaker's situation in Bond street, and he was employed in Russell street, Covent garden. Albert Jenkins was a clerk in the City. They met on Sundays, sometimes at the house of a married sister of the respondent, and they were all four married'on the same' day. She then left her situation and lived with the Jenkinses. He remained in his situation and was unable to go to her except on Sundays. He knew nothing of Michael Jenkins and never heard of him until his wife's elopement. He did not know what had be come of her until 1846, and then he met one of her sisters, who told him that she had had a child by Jenkins. The Judge-Ordinary said that the petitioner's case as at first presented to the Court was by no means satisfactory. From the evidence of Mrs. :Williams the Court was naturally led to suspect that there might be something in the case which would affect the petitioner's claim to the relief he prayed. He had, therefore, been examined with the view of eliciting from him something which might confirm that suspicion, but the story , he told was perfectly natural and satisfactory. The re spondent knew what his situation was at the time of the marriage, and she could not, therefore, com plain of his leaving her alone on week days while he was engaged in business. The marriage was dissolved, and the co respon dent was condemned in costs. FURNESS V. FURNESS. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. E. Ward were counsel for the petitioner. The marriage in this case took place in 1837, and the parties lived together until 1846, and had two children. Robert Furness, the respondent, was an oil and colour man, and carried on business, first at Kingsland, and afterwards in different parts of the suburbs of London. In 1846 he left his wife and went through the ceremony of mar riage with Fanny Hall. When Fanny Hall found out he had a wife she gave him into custody, and he was tried for bigamy, but acquitted ; Mrs. Fur ness refusing to appear against him. Upon his promise of amendment, she returned to cohabitation with him, and they lived together again until 1854. He then formed a criminal connexion with a girl named Charlotte Smith, told his wife that he wished her to leave him, and on her refusal, he began a course of ill-treatment, frequently struck her with his fists, bruised her and blackened her eyes, and threatened her with the poker. In September, 1857, he gave up living with her, but for some time contributed to her support. He continued to carry on his criminal intercourse with Smith. The petitioner having given evidence of the cruelty, and the adultery having been proved by other witnesses, The Court granied a decree on the ground of adultery coupled with cruelty. DAY V. DAY AND DONEY. James Day prayed fora dissolution of his mar riage with Anne Day on the ground of her adultery with William Doney. The respondent denied the adultery, and also pleaded condonation. The co respondent denied the adultery. Mr. Denman appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Metcalfe for the co-respondent. The respondent was not represented by counsel. The petitioner and the respondent were formerly in service in a nobleman's family, and were married in 1838. They had four children. For the last five years he has had a situation in the General Post office as a letter-carrier. During that time he and his wife have lived at Islington ' and have let out part of their house to lodg ers . Among the lodgers was Doney, another letter-Carrier, and his wife. Mrs. Doney died early in 1858, and soon after her death a criminal intimacy sprang up between Doney and Mrs. Day. The other lodgers and the children of the Days noticed several suspicions circumstances in their conduct, and in December, 1858, their cri minality was brought to the knowledge of Day, who immediately ceased to cohabit with his wife. The case was clearly proved by two of the lod gers and by two of the children, Mary Ann and Elizabeth, of the respective ages of 15 and 13. Their Lordships dissolved the marriage, and con demned the co-respondents in costs. IRVINE V. IRVINE AND GILL. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Pritchard for the respondent. The petitioner, George Irvine, was the mate of a vessel trading to Australia. He married the re spondent, then Emma Johnson, at Hartlepool, in 1845, and has had two children by her. The peti tioner alleged that in 1858, during his absence on a voyage, she committed adultf "th a sea-faring .oyage, —.waffled adultery wi -5 man named George Gill. The respondent pleaded a denial of the adultery, condonation, and a counter charge of adultery. The hearing was adjourned, in order that the petition might be amended by the addition of a general allegation of adultery, and that further evidence of adultery might be adduced. BOND V. BOND. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Dr. Spinks conducted the petitioner's case. Mrs. Charlotte Bond prayed for a dissolution of her marriage with Hancock Stanley Bond, on the grounds of adultery, coupled with cruelty and de sertion. Mrs. Bond stated that she was married at Bath wick, in Somerset, in July, 1840. Her maiden name was Marchmont. The respondent was the son of Mr. Bond, of Bondvill, in Ireland. They lived in London, and travelled on the continent after the marriage. In 1843 they were staying with her sister, the wife of a clergyman in War-' wickshire. They had some words about a maid servant, and he kicked her out of bed, Shortly afterwards she had a miscarriage. Her income, £l5O a-year, was settled upon her, and they had no other means to live upon. Her husband had about £6GO from her and about £l,OOO from her sister. He was a man of very intemperate habits. He sometimes left her for three or four months at a time. She had a child in January, 1845, which was now dead. They were then living in Ireland, at Grange-park. She hired a girl, Mary Ann Hegan, to attend to the child. When the fever broke out her husband insisted upon her coming to England She came to England with the child and Hegan ; but Hegan soon afterwards returned to Ireland, because, as she said, her motiqpr was dying. At the end of 1845 she returned to Grange. Her hus band allowed her to travel by herself, and when she arrived said nothing to her, but took away the child to show Hegan, who was living with him. She insisted upon his sending Hegan out of the house, and he did so, but got very drunk and cried very much because s he had left. He never slept in the house after that night. He came to the house, in the day-time and abused and threatened her. He held the tea-kettle over her, and threatened to boil her brains out • he took up knives to her, and on one occasion he struck her violently with his fist upon the temple. He also said he would serve her as the Due de Praslin had served his wife, and for several weeks she lived upon milk which was brought to her by her English nurse, for fear of being poisoned. She sent for her hus band's brother, and he supplied her with money with which she went to England about six weeks after she had been struck. She had never lived with him since. Last March she received a letter from him, dated from Mile-end, London, in which he said that he was reformed, and entreated her forgiveness. The evidence was corroborated by her sister, Mrs. Onslow. Two Irish labourers proved that in 1845, after Mary Ann Hegan was dithnissed from Grange-park, she went to live at a house in the neighbourhood, and that Mr. Bond slept with her there every night. The Judge Ordinary said the respondent's domi cile appeared to be in Ireland, and the same ques tion was therefore raised, as in a case before the Court yesterday, with regard to the jurisdiction. It was a question of great difficulty and importance, and time must be taken for its consideration. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—May 29. (Before Mr. Payne.) , Amelia Paddox, 24, servant, was indicted for stealing a pair of coral earrings, and other articles value £5, the property of William Latham. Some time ago the prisoner was in the service of the prosecutor, a lodginghouse-keeper, in Cold-sign street, Pimlico, and in February last she was stay ing at his house as a visitor until she could procure a situation, which she did subsequently, Mrs. Latham giving her a character for the period dur ing which she had been her servant. Mrs. Latham had been confined to her bed for some weeks, and on recovering and getting downstairs she missed a great variety of articles, including table linen and bed linen, and information was given to the police, the prisoner being suspected. She was appre hended at her situation, and in her possession were Found Mrs Latham's earrings and brooch, and tickets relating to tablecloths and sheets which she had pawned. A complete pile of things was pro duced which the prosecutor identified as his. The prisoner was found guilty. The police-constable in the case, Birch 286 A, gave a very bad account of the prisoner. She had been discharged from several situations for dis honesty and drunkenness. In one place she was left in charge of the house, and when her mistress same home she was found lying on a bed insensibly drank, and she was turned out of the house. She had been as under servant at Lord Lyndhurst's, but was turned out in less than a month for drunkenness. The prisoner said that was false, she never was in Lord Lyndhurst's service at all. The policeman said she was an under servant in the kitchen at Lord Lyndhurst's residence for about a month. The prosecutor said the reference they permitted the prisoner to make to them applied only to the time she was in their service ; neither he nor Mrs. Latham knew anything of her conduct after she left them. Mr. Payne said it was a very bad case indeed, and had there been a previous conviction against her he should have sent the prisoner to penal servi• tude. That, no doubt, would be her fate ulti mately if she did not mend her conduct. At present the sentence upon her was two years' hard labour. Robert Gardner, 22, was indicted for stealing the sum of 16s, 6d., the moneys of James Barfield. This case recalled to recollection an anecdote, which the late Mr. Sergeant Adams used to tell, of a man who, when serving on a jury, always dis sented from the 11 others, and the jury was inva riably locked up. Being once asked the reason he said, " Why, the fact is that whenever I am on a jury I get 11 such stupid thickheads with me that J cannot beat any sense at all into them." The evi dence adduced in support of this charge seemed clear beyond all doubt or question, and 11 jurors agreed to a verdict of guilty. The twelfth declared he would not agree to such a verdict, even were he locked up for six months. He had made the same declaration in another case, equally clear, on a pre vious day. The prosecutor was a labouring man, and lodged at the White Lion at Acton, and on the night of the 11th May the prisoner slept there, in the same room with him. When Barfield went to bed he had in his purse three half-crowns, three florins, and 35., making 168. 6d. Next morning purse and money were gone, and the prisoner too., The prisoner was found and accused of the theft; he said he had only 3s. about him, and that sum was found in his tobacco box. Ile was very reluc: tant to be searched, but the policeman insisied, and in his watch fob he found three half-crowns and three florins, which with the 3s. made up the pre cise sum, and in exactly the same description of coin which the prosecutor had lost from bis pocket. The prisoner had been - without money just before, and. he accounted for his possession of this silver by saying a brother of his had lent him a sovereign a week previously, but he could not say where his brother could he found. When Mr. Payne had summed up the dissentient juror said he would never agree to a c.9rdict of guilty, as none of the coins had been identified by marks. Mr. Payne said that was not necessary, if they believed upon the evidence that the 1.11(31 - my, from the description of coin and the amount, was the prosecutor's. The juror said that did not matter, and he.' should hold out for six months if necessary. Mr. Payne said he had no alternative but to h; eve them put in charge of a bailiff and locked up, whicJ' was accordingly done. After the lapse of some hours they were sent for and brought into court, when the foreman said there was not the slightest chance of their agree ing, and suggested that it was the opinion of some of the jury who were acquainted with the dissen tient juror that his mind was affected. • The juror indignantly denied this, and said his constitution had suffered through calamity, but his mind was all right ; he was there sworn to act ac cording to his conscience, and he should do so. Mr. Payne asked if there was any one present who could put the Court in possession of any pre cise facts upon the subject. A juryman said he was aware of some circum stances in connexion with Mr.-- (the juryman), of a very painful nature, which it was believed had affected his mind to some extent, but which in no way reflected upon him. He was at first sorry to see Mr. -- on the jury, but did not, from a deli cate feeling of sympathy, mention the matter, or he might have Revented him being put in the box. It was very hard upon the eleven, who had agreed, to be locked up as prisoners because one held out through obstinacy. The juror said it was nothing of the kind. His mind was quite correct, though he might have suf fered misfortunes. The other juror remarked that the same thing had occurred before. The dissentient juryman —Yes, 11 of you were for acquitting, arid I was for convicting, but as you were on the side of mercy 1 gave way ; 11 of you are now for convicting, I am for acquitting, and as I am on the side of mercy I shall not - give way. Mr. Payne said juries must act with the view of justice according to the evidence' and not go against evidence out of considerations oimercy. They must either find the man guilty or not guilty, or the in termediate course must be taken of discharging them without giving a verdict at all, and that could only be done upon proof that a longer confinement would be injurious and dangerous to their health. They must go back to their room. Before they retired the dissentient juror protested against one juror getting up in the box and pub licly stating that a fellow-juror was out of his mind. He was not out of his mind, though his constitution had suffered, and the assertion that he was not of sound mind was not only untrue, but a most un gentlemanly one to make. Mr. Payne said the question was not in a shape to be dealt with by the Court then. After the jury had been confined for eight hours under lock and key without refreshment it was stated that one of them was suffering from disease 'of the heart and was very unwell ; Mr. Payne thereupon sent for' Mr. Lavies, the surgeon to the BVestrainster Prison, who examined the juryman in question, and stated on oath that from the symp toms he perceived and the statements the gentleman made, be believed a longer confinement might re sult in a fit, which would place his life in imminent peril. The excitement might bring it on. Mr. Payne said upon this he should discharge the jury from giving a verdict, and the prisoner would be tried again next sessions. This was accordingly done, and the Court ad journed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 29. MANSION-HOUSE.—George Deal, a nice-look ing boy, despite the soiled clothes he wore, of the tender age of 9, was charged with robbing his father of £8 9s. under painful circumstances. A feature in the description given of the prisoner in the charge-sheet with great exactitude was, that his height was " four feet one inch ;" and, in truth, his head was barely visible above the bar. Befort him lay a mimic sword and rifle, and a small silver mounted whip, with which the little fellow was armed when taken under the protection of the police, and on which he was supposed to have ex pended a considerable sum, and his eyes were swollen with weeping. The prisoner is the son of George Deal, who de scribed himself as a funeral coachman, living at 60, Castle-street, Leicester-square, and on the previous afternoon Henry Mills, a city policeman, had his attention directed to him when on the Old Shades Pier, London-bridge, by some gentlemen, before whom he had exhibited a sum of money in gold. The boy, on being questioned by the constable, ad mitted that he had several sovereigns in his pocket, but refused to say how many. He subsequently produced a portemonnaie, and on being asked what he was going to do with it he said he was about to take it to a fish salesman in Billingsgate-market, whose name he mentioned, but which the constable could not now remember. He accompanied the boy round the market, but no salesman with the name he gave could be found there, and not liking to leave the prisoner in the street alone with money in his possession, he took him to the station for the sake of protection. The constable afterwards went with the prisoner to a house in St. Martin's-street, Leicester-quare, where_he said his father lived, but his story turned out to be false in that respect. Af fecting not to be able to find his father's house in several of the adjacent streets into which they wan dered, the policeman took him to a school in St. Martin's-court, and confronted him there with the children of the school, several of whom recognised him in a moment, and mentioned his name, but could not tell where he lived. Finding he was about to be locked up, he stated at last where he lived, confessed that he had taken a sum of money from his father's desk, and £5 18s. 6d. being found upon him, he said that was all he t had taken. It seemed that after purchasing the gun, sword, and whip with which he was equipped—in the Lowther Ar cade as was suggested—he went in a halfpenny steamer from the Adelphi Pier to London-bridge. and on landing there his appearance attracted the notice first of the people on the pier, and then of the police. The boy's father, a well-dressed man, about 40, on being examined, said he (the father) had on Monday week £l5 in a locked box in his house, to which 10s. was afterwards added, and on opening the box on the evening on which the boy was missing £8 9s. was wanting. His wife had left home that afternoon to see her sister, and during her absence the prisoner had taken from the pocket of a dress she had put off a bunch of keys, with one of which he had opened the box containing the money. Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, addressing Deal, the father, asked what he wished to have done with him ? Deal said he should like him to go into some re formatory. Mr. Goodman—l dare say you would. How many children have you ? Deal—Only two. He has robbed me repeatedly before. I have done all I can to cure him of this propensity in the way of education and advice, but in vain. The Lord Mayor—Have you ever given him a sound whipping ? Deal said he had more than once, until " weals" appeared on his back. He had talked to him on " religious matters." He had kept hiin on bread and water, he had sent him to a school in connexion with Dr. Cumming's church, but all in vain He found he had only been three days at school in six weeks, when he thought he had attended every day. Mr. Goodman—ls the prisoner not a child by a previous marriage ? The father §,,aid he was. The Lord Mayor—Aye, I thought so. That ac counts for it all. Sarah Deal, the second wife, a respectable looking young woman, with a baby in her arm's equally well dressed with herself, was called, and corroborated her husband's state ment as to the money having been stolen during her absence. She bore testimony, with much apparent good feeling, to the incorrigible habit the boy had of pilfering and running away from home, and to the anxiety her husband especially, and she also, had shown to reclaim him. She said that she had always gone out of the room when his father chas tised him, because she could not bear to be present. She added, with some emotion, that she had a great respect for the child, because she knew his poor mother. (The prisoner wept at this reference to his mother. Mr. Goodman asked the father if he wished the boy to be dealt with by the Court under the Act of Parliament or to be sent for trial. The father said he should not wish him to be sent for trial. He would prefer to leave the matter in his lordship's hands. The Lord Mayor (addressing the father)—l am not satisfied with the case so far as you are con cerned. If a child of this tender age had been pro. perly trai.ned he would never have been seen here. lie appears- - .to have been brought to this by inat tention and -want of care on your part. As a parent you owe a u'uty to him which I cannot believe you have proper. ) y discharged. I am no t sure whether I shall not oro ,er the child a, whipping; if I do, it shall be a so and one; but I would rather leave it to you to inflic t that punishment. Can't you send him to some school where he would be educated for £lB or £2O a-rear, rather than have him running an outcast about the streets ? The father said be had been tinned out of two or three scho/ )Is. The Lord Mayor—l am sorry to hear so bad an ace.-mut at' him. Tic father said he wished to save the child from ruin. The Lord. Mayor (emphatically)—So do I. The faths.r said the boy had deceived him times out of numb. r; nobody could believe a word he said. Eventually the prisoner was remanded until Fri day, Mr. G oodtnan suggesting for consideration in the meantiriae that he should be sent to the indus trial school rn the Euston-road. TJ?J?J PUBLIC.' DEALTII. (Frog,; the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The total nu tuber of deaths registered in London in the week th .at ended last Saturday was 1,087, and nearly the same as that of the previous week. For the 10 yet .rs 1850-59 the average number of deaths in th a weeks corresponding with last week is blind after correction for increase of popu lation to be .1,133. The present return is, there fore, ifactory, that it g i ves a num b er l ess 46 than s t a h t c i: , average rate of mort a lity a t thi s sea son would have produced. Twenty-four deaths were recorded in th e wee k as caused by sma llpox, of which 7 o ccu rre d i n th e Smallpox Hospital. From measles 51 children died ; from scarlatina 20 ; and there were also 8 deaths from diphtheria. Seven of the fatal oases of measles occurred in Isling ton, wad 4 in Chelsea; but the com plaint seems chief ly to prevail in the south districts, where 21 are retui7ne(l, 6 of which occurred in Ber mondsey, 4 in Dreivington, 3 in Rotherhithe. Phthisis carried off . :171 persons, the corrected ave rage for corresponding weeks being 157. Three persons died from pm - pura, 2 children from noma ; a girl, aged :one yea r, from tgenia solium. Four children were suffoca,ted in bed. The son of a tin man, aged 3 years, way burnt fatally by his clothes taking fire; the son o.f a carpenter, aged 2 years, also by his clothes takiLig fire. Two children, one aged 2 years, the other o.nly 7 days, were burnt by ,means not stated. The daughter of a porter, aged 2 years, was scalded by falling into a pan of hot water ; and a man who had been a butcher, 62 years old, was scalded at the workhouse in Bethnal-green by being put into a bath of boiling water "through great negligence." A remarkable and also a lament able fact contained in this return is that eight in fants were found murdered. A boy, aged 5 years, died by manslaughter ; a man from the bite of a dog. Last week the births of 842 boys and 838 girls, in all 1,680 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59 the average number was 1,606. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-850 in. ; on each of the first three days the mean reading was above 30 in. Tho highest barometrical read ing was 30.22 in., and occurred on Monday ; the lowest was 29.21 in., on Saturday. The mean tem perature of the air in the week was 59 deg., which is 4.8 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr, Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was above the average throughout the week; but this excess was the greatest on the first four days. The thermometer in the shade fell to its lowest point, 45.3 deg., on Monday ; it rose to its highest, 76 . 5 deg., on. Wed nesday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 31.2 deg. ; but the range attained on Wednesday alone was 31 deg. The mean daily range was 24.7 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 10.4 deg. That difference on Tuesday was 14 deg., showing great dryness of the air. The greatest difference ors the same day was 23.9 deg. The degree of humidity of the air was 57 on Tues day, complete saturation being represented by 100. The mean humidity of the air in the week was 67. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 60.2. The thermometer in the sun rose to 130-8 deg. on Wednesday. On. the last five days the wind was chiefly in the south-west. The whole amount of rain in the week was 0.20 in., nearly all of which fell on Saturday. A thunder-storm cc , curred on the afternoon of that day. e I COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-111,r 29. We had only a small attendance at to-day's market, and - the consumptive demand for wheat quite in retail, at last Friday's currencies. Flour was a slow sale, but no altera tion in price. Indian corn in better, request for fine sorts, which being scarce, brought extreme rates. Oats and oat meal difficult of sale. Egyptian beans steady, peas 6d to is per qr, and barley ld per bushel lower. The market was quiet throughout. LEEDS-MAY 29. The weather since Friday has been very wet, cold, and boisterous. New wheat is scarce, and prices are fully as dear. Old wheat dull, and prices about the same. Oats and beans held for the same money. Averages for the week : Wheat . 2,787 qrs., at 54s 41d Peas .... 20 — 42 s 6d Beans 207 . — 46 s 21d 8ar1ey......... 78 ...40s 21d Oats 33 3os 4td Rye — —s Oct Arrivals this week : Wheat .. 1,901 qrs. Barley Oats Rapeseed 459 - _ Beans .. Linseed. Flour ~. sacks. SHEFFIELD-MAY 29. There was a small attendance of the trade, and a very limited business was done. The prices of wheat, flour, and other articles remained without change. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels... 20s Od to 21s 6d White ), ...22a Od to 23s Od _ _ New red . , 47s Od to 18s 07:1- New white Beans // ...188 Od to 19s 6d ...18s 6d to 21s Od Peas, per qr 42s Od to 50s Od Grinding barley, per qr 33s Od to 35s Od Malting ditto, „ 3Bs Od to 43s Od Oats // 27s Od to 33s Od Millers' prices for flour—ls 11d, 2s Od, and 2s 4d per 141 b. NEWCASTLE-UNDER LYNE-MAY 29. A slow trade in wheat, at about last day's rates. Flour steady, and , fully as dear. Barley hr small supply, and difficult to sell. Oats quiet, but held at full rates. Peas rather dearer, and beans a small show. THE .11,41L5. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon; and Mauritius (via South- ampton) June 10. Do. (via Marseilles) June 4. Bahamas and Havana (via Now York) June 7. Canada, &c. (via Cork) .. .. May 30. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. June 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) June 2. Do. (via Marseilles) June 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. June 2. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) June 2. Do. (via Marseilles) June 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. June 10. Do. (via Marseilles) June 4. Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. • • .. June 5, Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto .. • • June 1. Malta, Egypt, and Adon (via Southampton) .. June 4. Do. (via Marseilles) .. June 4. United States, California, & c.(%ia Cork) .. June 6. Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. June 10 West Indies and, Pacific, Carthgena, Cuba, &c. Jane 14. BIRTHS. woof as e o a n d: ELcom DASTIWOOD.—On the 28 th inst. , at Stone Lodge, Ipswich, mon, the wife of Charles Ellis, Esq. , of a son. HUNT.—On the 28 th inst., at Farm-hill-park, Stroud, th e H L o is ll . l - 31 O r n s. the G e o 2 r 7 g t e h n a e s t h ., at o rdiumst wife of Captain Dutton Hunt, of a son. MARRIAGES. BEVAN—HORNS.—On the 28th inst., at St.. Thomas's, * Portman-square, C. Malton Bevan, Esq., to Isabella, the second daughter of Frederick Lennox Horne, Esq. COBBOLD—POCOCK.—On the 24th inst. at Christ Church, Brixton, Henry (lovaHier, son of John C. Cobbold, Esq. 151. P., Ipswich, to Louisa, only daughter of Charles M. Pocock, Esq., of Montague House, Grove-road, Brixton. DE AT II S. BARKER.--On the 28th inst., at 71, Grosvenor-street, Captain Charles Barker, R.N., aged 49. DIVENES.--On the 27th inst., at Sydenham, Mr. Amedee Davenes, of 73, Cow-cross, West Smithfield, aged 52. EARLS.—On the 26th inst., at Kensington Palace-gardens, Joseph Earle, Esq., aged 57. GULLY.—On the 27th inst , the Rev. S. T. Slade Gully, rater of Berrynarbor, in the county of Devon, aged 71. JENKINs.—On the 27th inst., at 12. Clapham-rise, Edwd. Jenkins, Esq., aged 70. MiriroN.—On the 28th inst., Samuel Minton, Esq., of Clever -court , Windsor, aged 69. NASH.—On the 27th inst., at High Wycombe, John Nash, Esq., aged 81. WHITE.—On the 23d inst., at Falmouth, John White, Esq., merchant, aged 72. WOODIHTRN.—On the 20th inst., at Boulogne, William Woodburn, Esq., late of Park-lane. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNu, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Ofilce,Tio. 112, 'Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlw3w , Wednesday, b1ay..30, 1860, which visible their tender stopp , Term! cart AN , the P OM G El to t' 0 ffic of Ji tors and and can 1 L N( the MEI Flee next room tors rotat purp Emp4 su' John P.I Henr Mess] The in MI Polic take outs 1836 1841 1845 1848 1851 The Inter The Tw( every For Chair: Teeth valual Mj or stu princi tages be th( lIER effect( body, ktoc-1 and c durinl truss, cumfc lent AS A Do An U Poe dice, EL the L and h Price. Y( to th he ha Lond preps in bel chilli Am denoc and colon per ( stop' decay Hi Blooi comp of he Sol 10 to De S I