The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

THE ROUEN "REGIONAL" ART-EXIM BITION (EXPOSITION REGIONALE) OF 1859. The building appropriated to this great Art- Exhibition, which was opened on the Ist July last, but all of whose contributors have not yet for warded their quota of specimens, consists of a vast quadrangle, having in its centre a wide open space or court. In the covered portions the utmost at tention has been paid, and, from our own expe rience, we may add, most successfully, to the proper and equal distribution of light, which, without fatiguing the eye, is everywhere abundant ; an arrangement which, essential as it is to the due success of exhibitions of this kind, is occasionally, elsewhere, all but neglected. The president and officers connected with the Exhibition received the members of the press, who were invited to attend the opening ceremony, and entertained them at a grand dejeuner, which was served in magnificent style in the refreshment de partment of the Exhibition. After the dejeuner was finished, the representatives of the press were invited to attend the reception of the Prefect of the Seine, and the principal Government officials con nected with the department. The reception, which was of a semi-official character, having ended, the President of the Exhibition directed the Report of the Council to be read, and also an address, which having been done, the representatives of the Go vernment were conducted round the building, and the chief objects of interest were pointed out, and the building was officially announced to be opened with the sanction and approval of the Emperor, who, but for his absence in Italy, would have opened the Exhibition in person. Up to the day of opening about 1,400 industrial manufacturers had answered to the apeal made to them by the " Society of Emulation " of Rouen ; and, although a considerable number of the in tending contributors have not yet completed their arrangements, enough has been already accom plished to show that the Rouen Regional Exhi bition will not only be enabled to take rank with the several local expositions of its kind—its predecessors in France ; but also that, in an econo mical and industrial point of view, more especially for those who take an interest in tracing the pro gress of manufacturing effort in the principal in dustrial regions or departments of that country, it cannot fail to acquire an importance commensurate with the enlightened views which have led to the undertaking, and which have directed its develop ment hitherto. Amongst the various branches of manufacturing indusry, most amply and brilliantly represented on the present occasion, we may enumerate the cotton and worsted threads, the cotton goods—the various productions of Rouen itself (known in trade phrase ology under the distinguishing de si g nation of Bouennerie")—the cloths and drapery goods of Elbeeuf and Louviers, metalwork, machinery, che mical products applicable to manufactures, glass, &c., &c. Various other manufacturing localities also appear to great advantage ; amongst the lat ter, more especially, Cambrai, - .Valenciennes ' Saint Quentin, and Lille. For the present, and until the contributions are completed, we shall con tent ourselves with a passing notice of such speci mens in the various departments of the Exhibtion as appear to us to merit particular attention. In the " Machinery Section," which has been or ganised by Monsieur Eugene Burel, the eminent engineer, we have to notice the three horizontal steam engines on the plan of M. Duvoir, of Lian court, the inventor of these, as likewise of a new system of vertical engines, also exhibted in this department ; as also the numerous contributions of Messrs. Dandoy-Maillard, Lueg, and C0.,0f Mau berge, the establishment of whose firm ates from the year 1816. The specimens consist of detached parts of power-looms, weaving-frames, spindles, corrugating cylinders, crushing-rollers (of a new construction), and other metal-work, down to car riage-springs, axle-trees, punches, wire-drawing tools, &c., all of them remarkable no less from the excellence of their workmanship than for the in genuity and novelty of their arrang ement. Foremost in the exhibitors of the " Ist Class" (Mechanical Engineering) we may mention Mr. Scott, of Rouen (the last of the representatives of Hall and Co., who established themselves in Rouen some twenty years ago), who continues to manufac ture the Dartford form of Woolf engine, with great success ; proof of which is apparent in their present specimen, which, as a production of engineering skill does him great credit. The engine set up by Mr. Scott is placed at the end of the gallery, con taining " Machinery fixed and in motion," com prised in the First Class ; and it sets in motion one-half of the shafting and gearing of this depart ment. It is, as we have before intimated, a vertical Woolf's engine, with variable expansion-gear and. condensing apparatus ; to this engine and its con densing apparatus we shall hereafter refer. Messrs. Cail and Co., of Paris have, in the same gallery, and for the like purpose,—that of impart ing motion to other of the various machines and ap paratus, contributed a horizontal steam-engine (1 cylinder, variable expansion-gear and condensing apparatus). Whilst on the subject of the various steam engines exhibited, we must notice, as worthy of favourable mention, that of M. Bouldier, con structed at Rouen, in which Woolf's engine is made, by an ingenious modification of steam-supplying apparatus, to work horizontally ; as likewise those of M. Duvoir, of Liancourt, and M. Theureux, of Rouen. In M. Cail's fixed engines the boilers are on the tubular system, the water, before entering the boiler, being rarified by a simple apparatus specially adapted to the purpose. Amongst the machines in motion is an automa ton " Métier Renvideur ' " of 1,200 " brooches," or " spindles," constructed by M. Chourvade Dauguy, of Rouen. In the " Casting and Metal Work" department, the specimens of drawn or wrought-iron tubing, contributed by Messrs. John Russell, of London (who, by the way, are about to establish a branch establishment at Rouen), are remarkable for even ness and closeness of workmanship. The " Annexe" (supplemental department) to this gallery is devoted to agricultural machinery, &c., naval inventions, and the building arts ; here, too, we find locomotives by M. Calla, of Paris, Messrs. Cail and Co., M. Artige, and M. Duvoir, respec tively. In the " Marine Section," we notice the anchors and chain-cables of M. David, of Havre • as like wise the life-boat of M. Moue, of Havre. ilere, too, we have specimens of the " Industrial Incombusti ble Buildings" of M. Eugene Burel, consisting of cast-iron girders, following the same radius as the vault in masonry. The sawing -machine, on a new principle, of M. C. B. Normand, of Havre, offers this peculiarity— namely, that, in addition to its to and fro motion in a vertical plane, another is imparted to it, by which its lower portion takes a backward run, whilst its upper portion makes a slight thrust for ward,—the result being, that the teeth of the saw, instead of taking into the entire verticle height of the wood operated upon, cut, in succession, into a short division of it only. Further, at the return stroke, the saws recede from their line of work , so as to free themselves during the up-stroke. These varied motions, which are exactly those of the human hand, are obtained by a very simple arrange ment—a modification of the parallel motion. In copper-plates and coppersmith's work, the immense copper tank from the Romilly establish ment of M. Letrange is conspicuous. Nor can we here omit noticing the copper and brass plates manufactured and exhibited by M. Cubain, of Rouen, successor to M. Boucher de l'Aigle, and which, as specimens of excellent workmanship in this department, are well deserving of remark. In forgings we have an i ron sha ft 25 metres (81 ft. 3 in.) in length by 22 centimetres in diameter, from the forges of Mertian, of Montataire. Like :ism very fair specimens of fo rg i n g from the vari ous ironworks of Rommaire, Montataire, Rasnes, Otshier, of Eure, from which last, indeed, the spe cimens contributed are highly creditable to M. Albon, master of the forges ; and in plate-work, the copp er a exhibited by an d brass brass plates manufactured and N Cubain, of Rouen, successor to M. Boucher, de - l'Aigle, are specimens of excellent workmanship ; as is likewise a length of tin-tubing, 615 metres (nearly 2,000 ft.) long, 9 millimetres in millimetre diameter, and but l im o etre thick; exhibited by M. T. Lepan, of Lille. M. Martin, of Rouen, f articles in aluminium, contributes some excellent specimens. His exertions in this direction have brought down the price o f the new metal to 200 francs the kilogramme. In the " working-in-metal" division, our attention is attracted to the contributions from the foundries übain, of and rolling-mills o f Romill y , and of M. c Rouen, and more espec iall y to the specimens of th e wrought-iron work (exhibited by M. Potier-F er _ eiko) from the Rasnes Forges, l'Orne. In these specimens, the iron is twisted, re-twisted, and bent back upon itself in such bold and complex contor tions, as clearly to demonstrate the extraordinary toughness and pliancy of the metal emplOyed, not the slightest flaw or opening being perceptible throughout the entire series, which may be charac terised as an assemblage of the most elaborate and complicated knot-work. The specimens of Glass Work (in France a most important branch of national industry) indicate the rapid strides which, it is well known, have been , 1 ately made in this direction. From the glassworks of MM. Renard, of Fresnes, exhibitors at the Rouen gathering to a great extent, the annual production c metres superficial of glass is 800,000, the 1 vorks comprising seven melting furnaces and four ,en annealing furnaces, requiring 300 workmen. G f the furnacea the most ancient date from 1710. This firm were the first in France to substitute coal for wood in their annealing ovens. Another glass firm, that of Messrs. Wagret, E. Sertet and Co., of Excoupone, Fresn es, and Anzin (North), contribute specimens of window-glass and bottles of superior quality. This firm has nine melting furnaces, six for window-glass and three for bottle. In moulded and cut glass, MM. Vue Dupire et Dumont, from the " Gars Potteries" (Nord), exhibit splendid specimens, more especially in cut glass. We have before alluded to the very great extent and importance of the glass manufactures of France —an importance, indeed, of which, in England, we have scarcely a sufficient idea. For the formation of a more practical estimate of the (commercial) value of this branch of trade we have ample data in the galleries of the present Exposition. to which the leading glass-making firms have so largely contributed. In addition to those already mentioned, there are specimens from the firm of MM. Patoux and Drion, well known in the European trade, who have car ried the glass manufacture in the Northern Depart ment to a high state of perfection, empoying 600 workmen, and consuming daily 600 hectolitres of coal. The glass works of Vauxrot, near Soissons (also contributors of moulded-bottles), have three melting furnaces constantly at work (coal-fed), and producing annually 3,000,000 bottles and 70,000 garden-bells—cloches a jardin. The Masniere glass works, near Cambra (Nord), also contributors, have an extensive connection, both home and foreign, chiefly confined to bottles, carboys, dames jeaunes, &c. ; they can produce 600,000 bottles per month. Recently, this firm supplied a London house, at short notice, with three millions of bottles, of a shape not used in France, and close moulded. The glass works of Follembray, Depart ment de l'Aisne, have some handsome specimens of their particular branch, chiefly champag ne bottles, for which, up to 1848, they had an almost exclu sive demand, from their then well-known title of " Royal Glass Works." They have since then en joyed a fair share of the orders from Champagne. These bottles, the weight of which does not exceed one kilogramme, resist, usually, a pressure of from twenty-five to thirty-two atmospheres. The Fol lembray Glass Works have produced, in the last few years, four millions of champagne bottles and half-bottles. — The Artisan. THE SERPENTINE. On Tuesday last a deputation waited upon the Right Hon. H. Fitzroy, at the office of Works, Whitehall, on the subject of the continued unwhole some and dangerous condition of the Serpentine in Hyde-park. The deputation consisted of Mr. James Heywood (late M.P. for - North Lancashire), Dr. James Copland, Dr. Spurgin, Dr. Tilt, Dr. Petti grew, and Mr. John Lilwall (hon. sec. to the com mittee promoting the proposed improvements, Mr. HEYWOOD introduced the deputation, and called on Mr. Lilwall to explain its objects. The HON. SECRETARY said the committee repre sented by the gentlemen present was appointed at a large public meeting of householders and others, held so far back as June, 1848, presided over by Lord Harrowby, and which had been called in con quence of the filthy and dangerous state of the Ser pentine. Resolutions were passed on that occasion authorising the committee to adopt such measures from time to time as were calculated to secure the carrying out of the necessary improvements. Two other public meetings had also been held on the subject. A very numerous and respectably signed petition of the inhabitants of Knightsbridge, Brompton, Sloane-street, Kensington, B.:c. had been presented to the House of Commons in favour of the measure, and the committee had, moreover, from time to time within the last 11 years, sent six de putations up to the Office of Works upon the sub ject, and, inasmuch as the several chief commis sioners had one and all admitted the existence of the evils complained'of, the committee had good rea son to believe that but for the constant change of Governments which had taken place the necessary improvements would have been effected some years since. One thing to be done was to shut out the filth that occasionally flowed into the lake from Bays water sewer, the deep holes required to be filled up, and the bed of the river to be reduced to a graduated depth of from two, to at the utmost six feet; and lastly, it was necessary that there should be a suffi ciently increased supply of water to brin g the cascade at the eastern end into constant play. He suggested that the plan which had been adopted for improving the lake in St. James's-park was of a most simple kind, and as it had answered its purposes so admirably he thought the same method might be adopted forput ting the Serpentine into order. Moreover, an abun dant supply of water could be pumped up to the Serpentine from St. James's-park by forming more adits to bring water to the present shaft there. Mr. FITZROY believed that was an error. Mr. LILWALL -wished to be considered as making ' the statement with great deference, blithe spoke on the authority of a man eminent in his profession as an engineer, and who had given considerable Eaten ! tion to the subject. it was well known that the source of the supply was the Thames, and as the water had to filter through some half-mile of sand it was found to be in an excellent state when pumped up D . r. COPLAND observed that, in a medical point of view, the water was not only unfit for the purposes of bathing, but was also detrimental to those who frequented the shores of the lake. Dr. PETTIGREW thought that something ought to be done, if only for the sake of the many thou sands of the poor who flocked to the Serpentine for the purposes of bathing. It was really the only na tional bath to which there was access free of charge. He believed the number of suicides in the Serpen tine wculd be decreased were the depth of the water reduced. 1 Dr. TILT remarked upon the impurities of the ' lake, when Mr. Fitzroy produced a bottle contain ing a sample of the water taken from the Serpen tine that looked tolerably clear. Mr. LILWALL said that nothing could be more delusive than the appearance of the Serpentine water. One day it looked sufficiently clear, and the next it would become discoloured and offensive, But even though it always appeared clear to the eye, it must be obvious that a sheet of water that was stagnant, in which persons suffering from loathsome diseases and running sores often bathed, was quite unfit for persons of cleanly habits to bathe in. But further than this, the sacrifice of life occasioned by the deep holes and large deposits of slimy mud was in itself a serious evil, and it should be borne in mind that the actual deaths which occur on the spot form but a small proportion of the number of per sons whose constitutions get injured by being so long under water, and who never thoroughly recover from the shock which their system thus sustains. Mr. FITZROY—I am afraid. I cannot promise you the levelling of the bottom, or go further than to say that something shall be done to purify the water. 2.1 r. HEYWOOD—Something should be done to prevent the drainage from Kensal-green Cemetery from flowing into it. Mr. FITZROY—My original idea was to carry out the plan mentioned by gr. Lilwall, but I fear it is too great an undertaking. In two or three years the Metropolitan Board of Works will meet one of the evils through their main drainage system. Mr. LILWALL hoped that as both sides of the House of Commons were in a measure committed to the proposed improvements, the Chief Commissioner would find less difficulty than he anticipated in ob taining the necessary grant, more especially as so many thousands of persons of all classes, from the poorest to the highest, were directly interested in the question, and especially as large sums of public money were often expended upon other matters of comparatively small importance. Dr. TILT referred to a tabular statement, showing the large sacrifice of life that had occurred in this water within the last 10 years. He thought it highly important that the holes, now in some parts (reckoning mud and water) as much as 24 feet deep, ought to be filled up. Mr. FITZROY—There would be great difficulty in doing that, unless the water were drained off. Dr. PETTIGREW, as a medical man, gave it as his belief that the noxious vapours which are occasion ally thrown off from this water tend to produce dis ease. He had been told that one of the medical officers of the Life Guards was in a position to fur nish very strong evidence of the evils arising from the use of Serpentine water at the barracks. Mr. HEYWOOD said the son of a gentleman of his acquaintance, who was in the habit of walking by w the Serpentine, fell ill, which the doctor said was caused by the malaria arising from its waters, and, on his being sent into the country, he rapidly re covered. Mr. LILWALL, referring to the same point, stated that the family of the intelligent superintendent of the Royal Humane Society had suffered greatly from ill health, which was believed to be caused by the noxious smells connected with the Serpentine. Dr. COPLAND stated that the offensive and un wholesome exhalations of the Serpentine arose partly from the water and partly from the decom position of animal matter in the mud. After some farther conversation, The Right Hon. Gentleman repeated that,agrce - lag with a great deal that had been said, lie could l not promise to carry out all the suggestions which h e o a n d i d b ee th n ino i E ti e g re a d te . th li e evils v w i l o a u e l ok d n 1 , i h l o a w i n e e v d ef n , f d . o what he gen tleman for the co ur t es y he hadec he t sh The deputati on th en t h o r i w g a h right h h e o n i n ~ gaennd , withdrew. „ T H E MURDER AND SUICIDE IN ST LUKE'S.—An i nqu est was held yesterday by 1:1Tr. Humphries for East Midd lesex, on the bodies of the unfortunate the coroner per sons a nd the result was a verdict that ” Sa ra h Shi p COM "mitte'd self-destruction while in a state of tempo in sanity, and murdere d her child while in t hat state.' , ASSIZE. INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, July 27. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) Frederick Fereday, 23, was charged with stab bing and wounding James Bullock on the 24th of April, 1859, at Upper Penn, with intent to murder him, and also with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. P. M'Mahon appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. R. Kettle and Mr. Young defended the prisoner. This was an extraordinary case, not merely from the severity of the wound inflicted on the prose cutor, but from the fact which it disclosed, that the prosecutor, who was a policeman at Wolverhampton had trained and used a bull-mastiff for the purpose of knocking down and catching thieves and others whom he desired to arrest. According to the state ment of the prosecutor, James Bullock, he saw the prisoner, who appeared to be a respectable young , man, in company with a young woman, at a pub lichouse in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton called the Rose and Crown. They came out of the publichouse, and as it was past 12 o'clock at night the policeman told them to go home, and walked away. The policeman in a few minutes came back on his beat and saw the prisoner and the young woman still in the road, and said to them, " Fred, it is time for you to be at Sedgeley, and for you, my lady, to be at Wolverhampton." The policeman then turned round, and the prisoner without more ado stabbed hint In the small of the back, near the spine, and inflicted a wound nearly three inches in depth, which penetrated the kidneys. The police man then endeavoured to take the prisoner into custody, and a struggle ensued, in the course of which the prisoner got away towards the house of a man named Raybould, which was by the road side. The policeman had with him a powerful bull mastiff dog, which he said was muzzled, and which had been trained to catch thieves and others, not by biting them, but by running between their legs and knocking them down, and so detaining them till his master came and secured them. When the prisoner got away the policeman set his dog upon him, and the animal, true to his instinct, ran after the prisoner and got him on the ground, and while there worried him and took up his leg in his mouth and shook it. This was clearly proved by Raybould and his wife, who were roused from their beds by the disturbance, and saw the occurrence from their window.. The policeman again went up to the pri soner, and another struggle ensued, in the course of which the prisoner slabbed the policeman near the region of the heart, but, fortunately, the knife struck the bone and did no injury. Raybould then came to the policeman's assistance, and the prisoner was secured. There was no doubt that the prisoner had stabbed the policeman with a knife, which was found next morning near the scene of the encounter, and that the wound inflicted in the policeman's loins was a very dangerous one ; the main question whether it was inflicted, as the po liceman stated, without adequate provocation, or whether, as the prisoner suggested, it was not in flicted while the prisoner was lying on the ground, and was being attacked by the policeman and his dog. The policeman said his dog was muzzled, and he produced the animal in court ; but the as pect of the brute, though he was still muzzled, ex cited anything but sympathy in his favour. Mr. R. Kettle contended that the prisoner had acted entirely on the defensive, and he called the young woman who had been with him, and she stated that the policeman had knocked the prisoner down several times before the blow in question was struck. According to her evidence the conduct of the policeman had been exceedingly aggravating and improper, which she attributed to her rejection of overtures which he had made to herself. Mrs. Raybould said that when she saw the dog in her house, when the prisoner was taken into custody, the dog was without a muzzle, and it was proved by one of the warders of Stafford Gaol, that a few days after the prisoner was received into custody he complained of pains in his leg from the bite of a dog, for which the surgeon ordered a poultice. Mr. Hughes, the surgoon to the gaol, said he did not recollect ordering a poultice, but he had no doubt that the prisoner had the scars of a dog's bite on his leg, and corresponding holes in the leather of his boot. Mr. Justice Willes, in summing up the evidence, condemned in strong terms the grossly illegal prac tice of using a dog as had been done in this case. In no country where there was a spark of humanity or independence could such a practice be tolerated. It could in no way be justified, and it could only be excused in the policeman upon the ground that he knew no better, and that his conduct had not come under the notice of his superiors. There had been cases where bloodhounds had been set upon a track of blood, but to make use of a dog to arrest a man did not admit of palliation. A man had discretion, and the law had a hold upon him ; but a brute had no dis cretion, and the law could have no hold upon him. His lordship then left it to the jury to say, upon the evidence, whether the prisoner had stabbed the policeman, and, if so, whether it had been done with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, or under such circumstances of provocation as did away with the felony, and reduced the act to an unlawful wounding. The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Justice Willes said the verdict of the jury involved a finding that the prisoner had been guilty of a great moral aggravation of his crime, by endeavouring to sustain his defence by perjured evidence. The offence was a most serious one, and it was necessary to make an example of the pri soner, as a warning to others, and for the protec tion of the lives and limbs of her Majesty's subjects. The sentence was that the prisoner be kept in penal servitude for six years. Samuel Egerton surrendered to take his trial upon a charge that he, being the bailee of 16s. 2d., the moneys of Anna Beard, feloniously converted the same to his own use. He was also charged with embezzling the same money, and there were counts which laid the money as the property of John Beard. Mr. M'Mahon appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.l G. Browne defended the prisoner. Mr. M'Mahon, in opening the case, stated that the prisoner was a County Court debt collector at Wolverhampton, and in November last was engaged by the prosecutrix, who was in a small way of busi ness there, to recover some debts for her, upon the terms of her paying him a certain commission on all he collected. He proceeded against several of the debtors in the County Court, and received in all upwards of £B, but refused to pay her any part of it, on the pretence that she was a married woman, and that the money belonged to her husband. The prosecutrix had since obtained a protection order against her husband under the Divorce Act, and, in order to guard against the defence that the money belonged to him, there were counts in the indict ment which laid the money as the property of the husband. Mr. Justice Willes, upon the opening, said he thought the first count could not be supported, as no specific money had been received by the prisoner to be handed over in specie to his employer ; nor did he think the prisoner was the clerk or servant of the prosecutrix, who could be convicted of em bezzlement. His Lordship consulted Mr. Justice Byles, and, as that learned judge concurred in opinion with him upon both points, he directed an acquittal. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Byles) Isaac Birch Arden, 38, was charged with com mittine, an unnatural offence on the 10th of April, 1859, at Burton-upon-Trent. Mr. Scotland appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Motteram defended the prisoner. The prisoner was a respectable-looking man, and had been schoolmaster in the workhouse at Burton, where the offence was committed. lle had pre viously been in the army in India. The case against him was clearly proved, and showed a frightful degree of depravity, which ought to place the guardians of such establishments on their guard. The jury found him guilty. Mr. Justice Byles said he never knew such a charge to be proved by such invincible evidence. His Lordship ordered sentence of death to be recorded. William Shelroke, 46, a pauper in the Wolver hampton Workhouse, was charged with a similar offence. The jury fouud him guilty only of the attempt. There was a second charge against the prisoner, which was not gone into. This case, like the last, showed a shocking degree of corruption prevailing among the boys in the workhouse. George Vaughan surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of administering to Mary Gregory a certain destructive and noxious drug called cantha rides, with intent to murder, also with intent to do grievous bodily harm, on the 6th of April, 1859, at Willenhall. Mr. Prichard appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. G. Browne defended the prisoner. It appeared the prosecutrix was a married wo man, but of loose character, living separate from her husband. On the evening of the 6th of April the prisoner went to her house, and produced a small bottle containing some rum, and asked her to drink some out of the bottle. The prosecutrix would not drink from the bottle, but`got a glass and drank some of the rum. She then took portions of a second glass and said it was very hot, and drank some ginger beer which she had in the house and kept for the purpose of sale. The prisoner threw the remainder of the rum in the glass into the ashes. An improper intimacy then took place between the prosecutrix and the prisoner, and in the course of the night the woman was taken ill with a burning pain in the throat and stomach, &c. A: doctor was sent for, and from the symptoms he at once formed an opinion that she had taken cantharides. This Opinion was confirmed by an examination of the wineglass, in which he found severals grains of that drug.. The prisoner also appeared to have taken some ; at least he also complained to the doctor of pains in his stomach, and sent for some castor oil. The prosecutrix soon recovered, but 'she made no charge against the prisoner, until she was called upon by the police. The surgeon said that three grains of the drug was a full dose, when it was used medicinally, as a stimulant and irritant, and he ' added that the drug in question was sometimes used for its aphrodisiac qualities to excite the passions. At the close of the case, Mr. G. Browne submitted that there was no evi dence that the prisoner had any felonious intent. Mr. Justice Byles said he did not think there was any evidence of the intent to murder ;_ and there was but little evidence of the intent to do grievous bodily harm, seeing that the prisoner had taken some of the mixture himself, and so made himself ill. His lordship said he would not withdraw the case from the jury, but he asked them whether they wished to hear the prisoner's counsel. The jury said they were satisfied that there was no case against the prisoner, and found him not guilty. Mr. Justice Byles said he hoped what had oc curred would be a warning to the prisoner, and ordered him to be discharged. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-DURHAM, July 25. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) George Benning, 18, was indicted for feloniously shooting at 'Margaret Hodgson with intent to mur der her, at Southwick, on the 21st of February last. Mr. Davison prosecuted, and Mr. Seymour de, fended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutrix (an exceedingly prepossessing and good-looking girl) had been courted for about ten months by the prisoner, when they had a quarrel, and she told him she would have no more to do with him. The prisoner got exceed ingly excited, and protested that no other man should keep company with her. He went that day to a photographist and got his likeness taken, and while doing so he had a pistol in his hand, and was asked what he carried that for by the photo graphist. He replied, " for his amusement." He went next morning to see the prosecutrix, and asked her to look at his portrait. She sat down in a chair in a room to do so, and the prisoner left the room for a momant, as suggested, to load and pre pare his pistol. On his return the prosecutrix rose, but be told her to stop awhile, and pushed her down again on the seat. She sat with her head down looking at the portrait, when she suddenly heard a loud report and felt stunned by a blow on the head. She rose up and ran out of the room, and the prisoner absconded. The prosecutrix was found bleeding from a gun-shot wound on the head, and a surgeon was sent for, who then ab stracted four large shots from the scalp, and subse quently 21 shots. Some of these were flattened by the skull, and the skull itself was ploughed and furrowed by the shot as it had glanced off. A few days afterwards the prisoner was taken into cus tody, and a pistol was found at the house where he had taken refuge. On being taken into custody he told the police "he wished he had shot her dead, and he could die happy," and when asked where the pistol was he said it was in hell. While ' giving her evidence the prosecutrix fainted on seeing the prisoner. Her forehead was much scarred by the shot. She appeared unwilling to press the case against the prisoner, and admitted that she had since the occurrence called at his father's and wished to see him. She could not re collect whether she had said it was her own fault that the pistol went off. The prisoner was subject to fits, and she had seen him in one. _ _ The prosecutrix was obliged to be carried out after her cross-examination, and the prisoner then fell into strong convulsions in the dock. It was urged for him that he was labouring under a fit of jealousy ; that he had no intention to injure the prosecutrix or he would have loaded the pistol with a bullet ; and that the fits to which he was subject had injured his mind so as scarcely to leave him a responsible agent. His Lorlship having summed up the evidence, The jury found him guilty of shooting with intent to murder. Sentence deferred. JULY 26. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) John Shafto Wilthew, aged 55, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Susannah Wilthew, at Jarrow, on the 19th of this July. The Hon. A. Liddell and Mr. Robinson Fowler appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Price was as signed by his Lordship to defend the prisoner. The prisoner appeared at the dock a thin, hag gard-looking man, with dark eyes ; he was care lessly dressed, and a piece of plaster was round his throat, he having attempted, immediately after the commission of his offence, to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He kept his head hanging down throughout the trial. It appeared from the opening speech of the learned counsel for the prosecution, and from the evidence of the witnesses called, that the prisoner was gatekeeper at Messrs. Palmer's iron ship-build ing yrrd at Jarrow. He lived in a small house in a row of houses called Druid's-buildings, near there, with his wife, eldest daughter, aged about 18, and two on them s, boys, and a.broth er o f hi s w if e l o d ge d with in their house. His w if e w as 51 years sons, of age, and had borne him 11 children. She was a careful, good wife, and attended to his home. There were but two rooms in the house, a kitchen and lodging-room. i The prison er ' s b ro th er -in-la w s l e pt on a sofa-bed n the kitch en a t n i g ht, an d th e pH sonPhism.if:e,and his t wo b oys s l ep t i n one b e d in the lodging-room, and his eldest daughter in another bed. On the afternoon of the 18th of July the prisoner and his hrother.in-law, a man named Charlton, left their work at six o'clock and pro ceeded home. The prisoner was perfectly sober. They got supper and sat up talking about the war till about 11 o'clock at night, when Charlton went to bed, leaving the prisoner and his wife up. They had had no words and no quarrel. The prisoner's daughter Elizabeth, who had been on an excursion on a steamboat to Bayldon, came in about 11 o'clock and then went to bed. Next morning at four o'clock Chariton was awoke by his sister, the prisoner's wife, coming into his room and to his bedside in her nightdress, with her hair hanging down her back, and holding her throat with her nightdress against it in one hand, while she shook him and made signs to him with the other. Blood at that time was pouring from her throat and running down on to the floor. A few minutes after he saw the prisoner come across from his room and go into the yard. He said to the prisdner, " What is this you have been doing ?" The prisoner muttered something, but he could not tell what he said. The witness shouted out. to his niece, " Your father has cut your mother's throat." The deceased then went into the yard and into the privy, holding her che mise up to her throat, which was bleeding very much, and returned shortly after into the house. An alarm having been given, two neighbours, a Mrs. Hart and a Mrs, M'Kie, came to the house and found the deceased sitting on the hearthstone with her throat bleeding very much. A doctor was sent for and attempted to sew up a cut on her throat, but she died a quarter of an hour after ' wards, about five o'clock, from the effects of the wound in her throat, and from loss of blood. There was a gash in her throat five inches long, and cut down to within an eighth of an inch of the verte brfe. The windpipe was severed, and the jugular vein divided. When the neighbours first saw her, the deceased cried out, " Oh! what have I done to deserve this ?" Shortly after her death the pri soner was found lying on his face in a pool of his Wife's blood, nearly insensible, and with a superfi• cial gash in his own thrbat, which had been in flicted by a razor found beside him. He had lost a good deal of blood, and was almost pulseless, but rallied soon after. The razor with which the wound on the deceased had been inflicted belonged to Chariton, and was seen in the prisoner's hand afterwards, and by him was placed, covered with blood, on a chest of drawers. It appeared, on cross-examination, that the prisoner was fond of an argument, that he was very obstinate in his own opinions, conceiving himself to be always right. He was in the habit of retiring to his own room alone, and scribbling down his thoughts on paper. , He had on various occasions ill-used his wife, but it was when he had had drink, or wanted to get money from her for drink. He had struck his wife with a poker on one occasion, and had knocked her down, and had been heard to threaten to cut her throat shortly before this occurrence. He had become jealous of his wife, and abused her about some other man, without the slightest cause. A paper was found in a translation of H er odotus in his bedroom, which he was reading, and in which he said he had put down his reasons for his rash act. This was the envelope of a letter, closely written all over, in which he stated that an Irish man lodged in the story below him, who played on a tin whistle, and who, to his great surprise, he had seen from the trellis-work of his window on terms of familiarity with his wife. He had also that night found three bricks at his door piled together, and a ginger-beer bottle in his window-sill. Be lieving the bricks to be a " Sickle's sign" to this Irishman, lie had separated them and placed them on each side the door, and his wife had replaced them again as they were before. This had con vinced him that he was right. He sat up to see his wife to bed, but she began baking bread in the oven till half-past one o'clock in the morning, but he kept an eye on hurt and this satisfied him that his'snkiicrons. were 'correct. To one of the neigh bours- he said - that - from two to - four o'clock in the morning he had examined it, and worked it in his mind, and found Tier guilty, and had puzzled about it, when he felt himself justified, and with one gash he had cut her throat while she was asleep. He at another time said to the police he was quite cool about it, and intended afterwards to kill himself. Some of the facts were proved by the prisoner's daughter, who was awoke by her uncle calling out. The poor girl fainted as soon as she had given her evidence. _ Mr. Price then addressed the jury for the de fence. He admitted that there were no facts in the case to reduce the crime from one of murder ; but he relied on the facts proved as establishing that the prisoner at the time was not a responsible being, and did not know the quality of the act he did. A de lusion about his wife possessed his mind which had no foundation whatever in fact, and every trifle had been twisted by him into a confirmation of his jealousy. Without previous quarrel, without mo tive other than was suggested by a mind labouring under a delusion, he had suddenly taken away the life of his wife, who had borne him 11 children, as she was sleeping unconscious by his side, and, flinging himself down in a pool of her blood, had attempted to commit suicide. Had he succeeded in the latter crime, would not a coroner's jury on this evidence have found that he had committed the act while labouring under a temporary fit of insanity ? After a very able speech the learned counsel left it to the jury to say whether, on this evidence, they could not reasonably acquit the prisoner of the crime imputed to him, on the ground that he was not a responsible agent at the time. His Lordship, in summing up, directed the jury that there was no evidence to support the defence urged on behalf of the prisoner, that he did not at the time know the quality of the act that he was committing. His lordship then read through and commented on the evidence. The jury retired, and, after an absence of half an hour, returned with a verdict of guilty. His Lordship having put on the black cap, in an impressive manner proceeded to pass the awful sen tence of the law on the prisoner. He had murdered his wife, whom he had sworn to cherish. His lord ship implored him to make the best use of the time still left for him on earth in preparing himself for his fate. He then passed on him the formal sen tence of the law, that he be hung. The prisoner looked unmoved, made a bow to his lordship, and walked firmly from the dock. His Lordship then ordered sentence of death to be recorded against the prisoner George Benning, found guilty yesterday of shooting at Margaret Hodgson, with intent to murder her. HON] E CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, JULY 27. CROWN SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Jonas Mitchell, 20, a private soldier, pleaded guilty to two indictments charging him with the offence of arson. Mr. Justice Blackburn, in passing sentence upon the prisoner, said, that he had pleaded guilty to two charges of wilfully setting fire to farm pro perty, and there could be no doubt from the evi dence, as it appeared on the depositions, that he had committed both the offences imputed to him. It appeared that, without any motive of revenge against the owner of the property—indeed, without even knowing who he was, he had deliberately set fire to some stacks of corn and caused considerable mischief, and all this without the slightest prospect of benefit or advantage. He was quite at a loss to account for such conduct, but, without regard to, the peculiar circumstances of the case, the offence of ars )n was one of such a dreadful character tbat for the protection of the public it was necessary that a severe sentence should be passed upon every person who was convicted of it, and he therefore felt it to be his duty to order him to be kept in penal servitude for the space of ten years. James WToodger, 21, another private soldier, pleaded guilty to a similar charge. The learned judge said, that in this case the only object the prisoner appeared to have had in view in the commission of the offence was to escape from contiuuing in the position of a soldier. He would find that he had made a great mistake, and for years to come he would bitterly repent the act he had committed. He then sentenced the prisoner to ten years' penal servitude. George Webb, a young labouring man, surren dered to take his trial for misdemeanour, in having wilfully driven a waggon and horses upon the line of the South-Western Railway, and thereby en dangered the safety of the passengers travelling upon the line. Mr. Deedes conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Bar row appeared for the defendant. This - was a prosecution instituted by the South- Eastern Railway Company under the following circumstances. It appeared that the defendant was in the service of a person named Nicholls, who oc cupies a farm called the Folly Farm, near Canter bury, which is intersected by the railway, over which he had to cross with his teams on the level, gates being placed on each side. On the evening of the 22d of June the defendant had the charge of a waggon with two horses, in company with a younger lad, and soon after seven o'clock he was about to cross the line, when a train from Rams gate came up, and notwithstanding the whistle was sounded he continued his course, and although every effort was made to arrest the progress of the train a collision was barely avoided, the train pass ing quite close to the back of the waggon, and if it had struck it a serious accident might have been the result. The driver, fireman, and guard of the train were examined, and they proved that the whistle was sounded when the train was 300 yards from the crossing, and that the defendant must have heard it, but it was admitted in cross-exami nation that the horses were quite close to the first gate, if not actually upon the line before they were seen, or any alarm was given by the train, and the boy who accompanied the defendant swore that when he first saw anything of the train the horses had partially crossed the line. It also transpired that although there was a curve at this particular spot, and that the line ran through a cutting, there were no signals at the gates to denote that any thing was crossing the line, and no person was em ployed by the company to take charge of the gates in question. Mr. Barrow was about to address the jury for the defendant, when _ _ 'Mr. Justice Blackburn interposed, and inquired of the learned counsel for the prosecution which portion of the evidence he relied upon to show that the defendant had wilfully committed the act im puted to him ? _ _ Mr. Deeds said, he should submit that if the jury should be of opinion that the act had been com mitted designedly it would come within the statute. Mr. Justice Blackburn said, " designedly" and " wilfully" did probably mean the same thing, but where was the evidence in this case to show that the defendant had acted either designedly or wil fully ? If it was made out that any one who had to cross a railway on the level, knowing that a train was coning up, absolutely . and wilfully persisted in going on, thinking to make the train stop, that would undoubtedly constitute the offence with which the defendant was charged; and it was well it should be . known that it was so. But in the pre sent case the .evidence was that the horses were actually upon the line before the defendant was aware the train was approaching. Mr. Deedes submitted that it was still a question for the jury whether, when he became aware that the train was coming, he might not have gone back. Mr. Justice Blackburn said, he did .not think, from the evidence, the defendant would have had an opportuntty of going back, and in all probability the safest thing he could have done was to get the waggon and horses off the line as quickly as he could. Mr. Barrow said, that this would have been the defence he should have made upon the instructions he had received. Ti e jury then, under his lordship's directions, returned a verdict of not guilty. The learned Judge cautioned the defendant to be very careful when he drove across the li ne i n f uture, as a serious accident might be the consequence of any neglect. WESTERNCIRCUIT. — DORCIIESTER JULY 27. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) George Trowbridge, gamekeeper of Lord Port man, who was convicted yesterday of shooting at Edward Matthews, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, was this morning brought up to re ceive sentence. Mr. Baron Brainwell then addressed him,—Pri soner at the bar, the jury have convicted you of the offen ce— Prisener—l.am not guilty. The Judge—The jury have found you rre, and I do not think they could properly have found any other verdict, and no one who heard the evidence can doubt that you are guilty. The Prisoner—l am not guilty. The Judge—lt is of no avail to say so when the appointed authorities have found you are, and I am bound to say that I am fully satisfied with that verdict. The two men who were witnesses against you were men of damaged character. They had been con v i c t e d o f poachin g, and I repeat w h at I said yesterday, that I never knew a poacher to be an honest or respectable man. One of them had been convicted, from what appeared, improperly, but we have only his own statement; it might have been a proper conviction; but it would have been desirable, unless there was the greatest neces sity for it, that the charge should not have been brought while this complaint was pending, because the supposition would naturally arise that the charge was made to deter and intimidate him from giving evidence in this case ; and it was an indis creet prosecution by your friends, unless there was an absolute necessity for it. So thought the jury, and I think correctly. If their character was bad there was the more reason that they should meet with protection. I have no love for poachers, but there is no need to shoot them. The law has made ample provision for their detection and punish ment, and it is most essential that those men should know that, outrageous as they may be, the law will protect them. If it were not for that every en counter between gamekeepers and poachers would be a bloody one, for they would turn and fight in stead of, as I recommend them, running away. It is important that they should know that they will receive protection. I think the crime was a very mischievous and a very cruel one, that because you were angry at what they probably had done, taking a few wretched rabbits, you should have been guilty of the cruelty of discharging a gun against this wretched man. I have deferred passing sentence in order that I might not allow any improper feel ing to interfere with my duty, and have allowed the night to pass ; and I have also consulted my learned brother, and we have come to the conclu sion that I ought to pass upon you a very severe sentence, and that is, that you undergo penal ser vitude for four years. WRECK OF TILE KARS AND SILISTRIA CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 15. About three years ago three large screw steamers were built for the Turkish Government, in the Clyde. These were the Kars, the Silistria, and the Malakhoff. For some time past these and other Government steamers have been let to a company for the conveyance of goods and passengers, but with very questionable benefit to the finances of the State, whatever may have been the result as regards the managers of the company and the authorities at the Admiralty. Intelligence has now been re ceived of the total loss of the Kars and Silistria, the details published by the Constantinople jour nals respecting the latter being so revolting that they cannot fail to create a sensation in Europe, and to deter, for years to come, Europeans from risking their lives or property on board Turkish steamers. The incompetence and apathy of the captain and crew, who were in the Turkish naval service, and the brutality and savage character of the Turkish passengers, chiefly pilgrims, call for some serious interference, if proved, on the part of the European powers. A country in which such things can exist is unfit to be considered as forming part of the comity of nations, and unless the Govern ment can and - will put an end to such a state of things the sooner it is transferred to a stronger power, and the heritage of the sick man divided, the better. The Kars, it appears, left Alexandria on the 23d of May, with more than 300 passengers, and has not since been heard of. But between Damietta and El Arish a boat has been found with a small flag inscribed Kars, and several dead bodies, so that a total loss is feared. It was, however, stated a few days since that she had reached Cyprus, but this needs confirmation. The Silistria, on its outward voyage, had acquired an unenviable notoriety, a young Russian passenger having made his escape from her at Beyrout, through the interference of the Russian consul, having been subjected to most bestial violence on the part of the captain and his crew. The Silistria left Alexandria for Constantinople on the 25th of June, with about 350 persons on board. The next day, about noon, a loud crash was heard among the timbers of the ship, and the engine stopped. It :was shortly set in motion again, by whose orders is not known, and the crash was again heard, the screw was broken, and the water was entering the hold rapidly. The bad condition of the machinery had been remarked on at Alex andria, and even, it is said, at Constantinople, where the engineers formerly employed in the Kars left her. For an hour nothing was done towards stopping the leak, but at last a Russian engineer on board made his way to the hole and attempted to stop it with tarred hemp, which pro bably prevented the ship from sinking rapidly. The captain embraced him when he came on deck, and relapsed into his former state of bewildered incompetence. The same engineer found the tap of a bilge pump, but there was no hose, and it was consequently useless—in fact with the exception of a pump on deck, out of order, no means existed of clearing the ship of water, and they had to take off the after skylight and empty, or try to empty, the cabins by buckets. Not a soul of the crew or Turkish passengers afforded the least assistance, and the pump was manned and the buckets worked by the European passengers and 28 Austrian sailors who were on board. The crew refusing to wolk, there were too few to keep the water under, and it soon began to enter at the stern ports. An unsuccessful attempt was made to stop the leak by passing a tarpaulin under the keel, and the captain at last consented to throw over part of his cargo and coals. The danger became more and more evident, and then the Turkish passengers, in a paroxysm of stupid fanaticism apparently, rose on the Europeans and threatened them with their pistols and daggers if they attempted to speak to the captain. The night of the 25th was employed in incessant labour as regards the Europeans, a hile the Turkish crew slept on the deck. On the morning of the 26th an Egyptian Government brig laden with wood, commanded by Reis Ibrahim, hove in sight, bound for Alexandria. The captain of the Silistria sent on board offering him an indemnity if he would abandon his cargo and take the passenger s of the steamer on board, and endeavour to tow her in to Alexandria. The Egyptian would do nothing except cast them a tow rope, having probably little faith in the promises of the respectable Mustapha Bey. This individual did not even know where he was, for there was no chronometer on board, not even a sextant, and only one compass. He marched about with a pistol in each hand, threatening all who approached the boats, which he had lowered and guarded by marines. About five in the evening the women were at length allowed to go on board the brig, and in the course of the night Said Pacha, the Turkish Commissary at Djeddah, followed with his suite, carefully removing all his effects, including a water melon, but the three boats which conveyed him did not return to the steamer. The captain of the brig still refused to abandon his cargo, and finally cut the tow rope, going off with the boats, and leaving the Silistria to her fate. Then came a horrible scene of pillage and vio lence, the Turks plundering the baggage of the Europeans, in which they were joined by the crew, and a regular saturnalia ensued. They then seized the sole remaining boat, throwing into the cutting ath ig e Europeans who attempted to embark, and ttii off the head of a young Austrian with an axe in the melee. On the 27th the water had reached the bulwarks, and the workers were exhausted. Hap pily the Egyptian brig re -appeared, the boats came back, and a sauve qui peut commenced, but the ferocious Turkish passengers opposed every attempt on the part of the Europeans to save those who were exhausted by the labour at the pumps. Shortly after, the Silistria went down, with 77 persons on board, the brig carrying into Alexandria 273 pas sengers and sailors, the Europeans being exposed during the passage to the violence and brutality of the Turks. A commission of inquiry has been opened at Alexandria as to the causes which led to this disaster, which will leave on the minds of all to whom the details become known, an impres sion which the Turks will do well to endeavour to remove by serious reforms. A, commission is ap pointed here also, and on the arrival of the survivors au inquiry will be held, the preceding account com ing from Egypt, and if through a Greek source, as is probable, the Turks justly observe that it needs some confirmation. The electric cable is laid between Chio and Smyrna, about thirty miles on the Smyrna side being overland. A message was received yesterday in about seventeen hours, and in about a month it will be open to the public, and Smyrna, after in numerable delays, will be in communication with all Europe. The Sultan does not decide on his journey until Saturday week, the astrologers being probably re• sponsible for the delay. The sovereign has risen to 164, having been as low as 156 within the last three days. 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'Frage and Sons having struck for the purpose of obtain; ing the payment of ten hours' wages for nine hours labour, a numerous meeting of master builders was held yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of taking the matter into consideration , and adopting such measures as might be expedient in reference thereto. The meeting having been addressed by Messrs. Wales, Piper, Morris, Lucas, and Carr, all of whom enforced the necessity of using immediate and de cisive measures, and some going so far as to recom mend the closing of all the firms until the men con sented to sign a document to the effect that they had no connexion with any trade society formed for the purpose of interfering with or controlling the regulations of any establishment, the hours or terms of labour, or the agreements between employers or employed. Mr. TROLLOPE moved that the firms close on the sth of August, and continue so until the workmen. yield. Mr. ROBINSON seconded the motion. Mr. DUNNAGE then moved, as an amendment' " That the workme n i n th e emp l oy o f M essrs . Trel: lope and Sons havi ng s t ruc k f or th e pur p o se of obtaining the payment of ten hours for nine hours work, and it appearing to the meeting that it is the intention of the building trade to order strikes of the men to take place occasionally, it is resolved that, in order to combat the movement which has arisen, the metropolitan builders are but te close their establishments on the 6th August ; taking into consideration th e grea t num b er of me" who wholly discountenance the society, that a cam" mittee of 20 be appointed to consider the best mean s of opening the doors to such men as may be willing to come to work, independently of, and not subject to, any society's interference." Mr. PIPER seconded the motion. Sir M. PETO, M.P., who had entered the room a few minutes previously, said he would give the amendment his most earnest and hearty support. No one could be more desirous than he was to de everything to encourage the intelligent and indus trious artisan, but he could not approve of the man usurping the position of the master, or having either of them deprived of their liberty of a ction by a society which, in his opinion, was the worst of all despotisms. (Cheers.) He hoped the maste r builders, as well as the public, would give thope persons the most united and determined resistance' (Hear, hear.) He and hi s p ar t ners h a d sacr ificed from £15,000 to £16,000 in consequence" of the strike that took place among the workmen ere.' ployed in the Houses of Parliament, and he never regretted the sacrifice. (Chee rs .) H e h o ped th e meeting would unite as one man and do their duty to themselves, the non-society men, and the public. (Cheers.) The object of the union was to reduce labour to its minimum and prevent the master from having a fair day's work for a fair day's PaY.' (Hear, hear.) If the society men succeeded in, the°, present movement, the difference between ten hours and nine hours' labour would cost the public £300,000 a-year. The Government and the public were sure to support the masters in resisting th e unreasonable demands of th e men , an d b e hope' therefore that • by unity of action they would. fry' trate the efforts of a few designing men, who pre ferred living by agitation to working with the" hands. (Cheers.) Mr. TROLLOPS then obtained leave to withdralt his motion, and the amendment was unanimously agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated th e proceedings. COUNTRY MARKBTS. NEWARK..--Juur 27. . gve There was a fair supply of wheat t o -d a y, . w ith a ctin / business at the annexed prices :—Whit e w h ea t, f r om '„A Od to 52s Od ; red, 42s Od to .48a per 36 at, ; beans, 48 01 ,1; to 54s Od per 38 s t. ; b ar l e y, 28 s t o 43 s Od per qr. ; oa ts, ; 4 `.' to 32s per 24 st. . ... • MELTON MOWBRAY—JULY 26. a .. There was a middli ng su ppl y o f w h ea t , an d a f a i r a ttell d, ante of farmers—white sam pl es • rea li s i ng 46 s to 48 s ; Oa to r, e 44s per 36 stone. •There was nothing d o i ng i n b ar l e y. v_ .; , were a small show, and -last. wee k' s quotat i ons were Iluni tained, namely, 30s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans scarce, at extreme rates-50s to 54s per 38 stone. MARKET HARBOROT.JGII—JULY 26. • d e . There was a ,small supply of wheat to-d a y, w ith amo rate show of other grain. An advance of 2s to 3s for whe y was established. Prices—Wheat, 42s to 44a per 36 stoilt, grinding barley 30s per 30 stone ; the oat trade was 01° 0 at quotations ranging from 26s to 32s per 24 stone. 13v were 46s to 50s per 38 stone. DUBLIN—JULY 22. There was a very small Supply of native wheat at (S iff corn market to-day, with no advance on the , prices last last week. Trade dull. Barley scarce, at about late l'il' os Oats almost unsaleable. The transactions. in Indian 0 were moderate, without alteration in price. s. d. g. d. B. d . s. 0 Wheat, white 26 0t027 0 Do., new ..... 11 6t0 13 i 6 Do., red 24 oto 25 6 Bere . lO otol 2 0 Do., new Barley n 1 0 Oats 14 6to 15 6 B a k ers ' fl our .. 15 6to ''', 0 Do., black l4 ot o 15 0 I n di an corn .. 29 oto 3' • BRISTOL SUGAR—JULY 27. • 'tea i Sales of West I n di a h ave b een on l y t o a ver y -" Ill o g extent, the qu a ntity so ld no t excee di ng 250 hhd s ., at vie rather in favo u r of b u y ers . A cons id era bl e business b$ been doing in floating cargoes, at full rates to 6d advan ce. Rum still very dull. COAL M. (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. Bates' West Hartley 14 9 Hastings Hartley ..• 15 6 Holywell 14 6 Haswell Gas l3 3 Tanfield Moor 13 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 0 Wylam 0 6 Eden • Main .. • 15 Earsden Hartley 14 0 Walker Primrose l3 3 KET—JuLy 27. the close of the marke t.) Walls End. „ 0. Riddell 3 ,15 0 ,Braddyll's Hetton 'Acorn Close ..... • • ;1 .1 5 , Gosforth ........ . is 5 • • South Hetton .... • Russell's Hetton . 1 0 6 Whitworth .. . ...... .• 17 9 Hartlepool.. • 15 Heugh Hall . . 6 .. 16 South Kelloe . ... • . Kelloe . ........ 21 0 Nixon's Duffryn .. . 2 1 Powell' s Duffi•yn steam Walls End. South Hartlepool. l6 0 Thornley ...... . l5 3 Benson..., l4 6 Ships at marlD t, 50—Sold, 35. LOC4I, SHARE MARKETS. LivEnrooli—JuLY 27. There was a weak business doing i n thi s mar" e 'v n o , day at the o p en i ng , an d p r i ces c l ose d .at per cent. decAli...„ North Briti s h, 574—G rea t W es t ern o f Canada, l44 Shetlields, 354 i-,-Caledonians, 83k—L ancas hi re and °r te shire, 941—London and North-Westerns, 941 I — ___, ; Th e to f Rhenish, 53 dis.—East Lancashi re , 93 94-1 3 e" . "4-4 921 3—Midlands, 1044—Chester and Holyheads, 49 ui,. 60—Blackburn, Western, 5960—Blackburn, 11I—Dovers, 21 S o 3 Bir unties, 11'13-I kenheads 72i k—Leeds Northern Canada, 461 47—E aste B o unties, Trunk of 8 3-16. MANCHESTER —JULY 27. gll The prices were flat this morning, and continued day, closing at the lowest, Leeds 951—Sheffiehls isuodo Dovers, 24—Midlands, 104 R drand T ru nk of 'Callo Dividend Debs., 9s 9d.—London and North-Westerns, no Eastern Counties, 14- 7 Great Northern.A, 821. BIRMINGHAM—JULY 27. There was a dull business doing, and prices closed r e ; ther lower. Birmingham Canals, 931 94--- Glouce. s „l, Canal 5 per Cent . Pref., 95 , sellers—Stourbridge Caw" 325, buyers. Gas shares in demand, at former prices. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills - and Ointrn—, o o Diseases of Women.—M e di ca l sc i ence in all ages has bee directed to alleviate th e many ma l ad i es incident to fel° .."0 but Professor Holloway, by diligent study and tato:d o - 1 ' observation, was induced to believe that nature had I :, t ot vided a rem e dy f or t h ose special diseases, and after gen t tan e research succeeded i n com p oun di ng hi s ce l e b rate d Oind and Pills, which embody the prin c ipl e na t ura lly desip for the relief and cure of disorders p ecu li ar t o wo men ° ld ages and constitutions, whether residing in warm or c e , climates. They have repeatedly corrected disordered. Cons which had defied the usual drugs p rescr ib e d hYl v is cal men, and still more satisfactory is it that the roan' relieved completely and permanently. BIRTHS. rio t/ D'OYLY.—On the 25th inst., the wife of the Rev. 0113 J. D'Oyly, of a daughter. HUMS.—On the 26th in s t., a t 5 , R oya l York-en:ss— the lady of Major G. Hume, unatt., of a son. v s q., MooN.—On the 26th inst., the wife of Robert Moon, of Cleveland-square, Hyde-park, of a son. .. are , WINCHESTER—On the 26th inst., at 21, Lo des-se" the Marchioness of Winchester, of a son. MARRIAGES. n PiIIPPS—RISLEY.—On the 26th i ns t . art4g , at St. -u , - Church, the Rev. Po wno ll Wm. Phipps, 8.A., of .000 i f broke College, Oxford, to Elizabeth Dampier, tha.„." gIJ daughter of Shuckburgh Risl e y, E sq ., o f M ec kl e 1 11) "" square. SA NCTUARY — HARVEY.—On the 26th inst. at St. lki fir ;:est Walmer, William Melancthon, Lieut. yoult, % , son of Thom as SanCtuary, Esq., of Springfield, Si l f ve p to Mary Winchester, eldest daughter of Copt. H. llll ' R.N., of H.M.S. Queen Charlotte. DEATHS. • AusTEN.—On the 23d inst., Colonel Austen, of Ic i PP I e ton, Sevenoaks, aged 84. BIDDLE.—On the 26th inst. at Oxford, Mrs. Sarah P 1 widow of the late A. E. liddle, Esq., aged 91. f t he CAS WELL.—On th e 29th A pr i l, on board the Light °jet" Age, off Cape Horn, William Caswell, Esq., Coultir o etlA R.N., late of Balickerra, Hunter River; New Wales: Lia ir LEGIL—On the 3d June, a t Banda, in Central India , ol d' tenant-Colonel Edmund Cornwall Legh,O.B., cony ing 97th Regt. fte' MACPIIAIL.—On the 25th inst., at 74, Albert-stree t '„ e rat gent's-park, Colonel Macphail, formerly Gov.- 6e — Leeward Islands. WRITE.—On the 25th inst., at Forest-lodge, near 14 711 ton, Edwin White, Esq., aged 33. 1 40 , - - , LONDON : Printed an d P u bli s h e d b y MURDO Y O U 1111 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su* Office, i' 9 ' t y of Strand, in the Precinct of the S avoy , i n the COIIII Middlesex, Thursday, July 28, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY E 1Y 28, 1859. ~.. 1