The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-03 00:00:00

VOLUNTEER BL'EVIETV AT ANOWSLEY. Saturday was quiff e a festal day in Lancashire. Throughout its wide extent there were unusual stir and bustle, and the p deasant sense of holiday enjoy ment. Tuch exciteis cent as London knows on the morning of a Derby- -day reigned in Liverpool, and Manchester, and Pr e ston, and all the country round. The occasion was , o ne of those military di s pl a y s which, ever since her .s, Majesty reviewed th e Volun teers in the metropo h have, on a scale m ore or l ess extensive, become EX) frequent throughout the land, contributing in their progress to l en d t o a grea t movement an eclat , which during the days of its in fancy—the days of 'drill and patient and unostenta tious labour—it narturally lacked. Originating in the independent impulses of a free people, the Vo lunteer force posses vied within itself the germs of a r obust vitality. It required not to be nursed and dandled into healthy and energetic life. It en countered difficulties at the outset of its still brief existence, but to ov excome them ; and it now finds itself, after some 113 or 18 months of earnest work, the subject of Royal approbation, the theme of lordly compliment, and th e object of national hope. It is a proud position to l Lave won in so short a time. It is a position which. by the simple aid of unbought effort it would seer a difficult to maintain. Yet each successive display of the efficiency of the Volunteer force but serves to furnish fresh materials for praise, and fresh grounds 3 for exultation that it continues to do its work so Ibravely and so well. Day by day in our columns riC to is made of the principal fea tures in its prop( .Is. Nor is it an easy task to keep pace with the. rap idity'of its march. To-day it is the record of a re , view in the capital, graced by the presence of the S overeign ; to-morrow, of half-a dozen others, hell 1 in various parts of the provinces, we will not say 111 ader the patronage, but with the free and hearty 12 a-operation, of the influential and the noble. Sh i tra fights, inspections, and rifle meetings follow lone anoth er i n qu i c k an d varied succession. The movement, in short, is in its " hot youth," and is ru yelling in all the exuberance of its newly awaken 6 I energies, and all the fulness of its unquestiox ed popularity. There is about it, however, an 4 !arnest spirit which forbids one to entertain the apprehension that, this period of its career being ove:t , it will dwindle into comparative inactivity, or astriume a less imposing aspect. Nor can events like th It which took place in Knowsley park on Saturdaj fail to do much to keep such a kpirit alive. To all the Volutnteers of Lancashire—and they are some 14,000 stro•o g—the Earl of Derby, more than six weeks since, c ;aused intimation to be given that the grounds of Knowsley should on that day be placed at their ii isposal for the purposes of a re view. Before a t ortnight had elapsed some 10,000 Volunteers had 3 ignified their acceptance of the noble Earl's invi 4 i; ation. Active preparations were at once set on fo o t to render the occasion worthy both of those vvl 113 were to take the chief part in its proceedings, an , 3. of him who was its prime and libe ral promoter. The Volunteers of Lancashire, on their part, drilled with assiduous energy. Each corps hoped by• means of increased exertion to win for itself at lea at some small portion of the honours ,of the day, or, at all events, to do its work in such a nure ner as to r vflect no discredit on the county to which it belcaged. A "Knowsley Review Com mittee" was formed to settle the requisite military details. Its sucretary, Captain Melly, laboured with the most ir tdefatigable zeal to secure that ob ject. His exertions were ably seconded by Major Harman, Assistant Inspector of Volunteers. The result was the rapid and satisfactory completion of the necessary arrangements. No longer than a week or ten days back, however, one important thing yet remained to be done. The ground for the review had not yet been selected—the eye of more than one person conversant with military matters had, indeed, been .fixed by anticipation on a parti cular spot in Kno wsley-park as that which was the most eligible for the purpose; but it was not until the close of the week preceding the review that this ground was, with the entire approval of General Sir G. Wetherail, Commander-in-Chief, and Colo nel Wilbraham, Adjutant-General, of the district, Major Harman, Captain Melly, and Captain H. Hornby, of the Liverpool Artillery, definitcl3 chosen. Knowsley-hall stands on an elevated space in "one of the finest of the old domains of England. It is a vast pile of building, constructed for the most part of red stone, and is at once massive and irregu lar. Its most ancient portions are said to have been erected so far back as the days of Henry VII. Additions have at various times since been made to it—in themselves of the dimensions of noble man sions. It is imposing because of its great extent, rather than by reason of symmetry of architectural design. The surrounding grounds are beautiful and extensive. Lawn and woodland alternate in picturesque variety. Frequent clumps of majestic trees crown the summit of verdant slopes. Broad avenues open up charming views. Of these views none is fairer than that which presents itself from the front of the Hall, which stands facing the west, a solid, oblong, and stately mass. A wide expanse ofpark-land, comparatively free from trees, stretches from Knowsley in this direction. The prospect which it reveals is that of beautiful grounds, gently gliding to a lower level, becoming in the distance more thickly wooded, then rising again to a higher degree of elevation, and forming small eminences topped at intervals by the spire of a church, or some public building conspicuous by its size and position. Of course, when such objects become visible the eye must have wandered beyond the limits of Knowsley ; but then it cannot fix the line by which those limits are bounded, so like one great park is the whole scene on which it gazes, and which extends to Ormskirk and Formby, and so on towards St. George's Channel. It is on this western side of the Hall, and at a distance from it of some what less than a quarter of a mile, that the spot is situate of which choice was made for the review. At that distance a flat space of ground, about 120 yards wide runs from east to west for about a mile. On its north side it is bounded by a ridge of more elevated land, into which it gradually slopes, and whose summit is crowned by a plateau of pretty con siderable extent. Its south side is defined by a similar but a still more gradual elevation. Along the centre of this level strip of ground, up the east and west slopes of its northern boundary, and so on along its north side, so as to embrace the plateau which has just been mentioned, a neatly -construct e d white wire fence was run. The ground thus hemmed in formed a sort of irregular oval, elevated at its northern, depressed to a level space about 60 feet wide at its southern side, and blending so gra dually together elevation and depression at its wes tern extremity as to enable the troops engaged in the review to make without inconvenience that end their wheeling point as they marched past the re viewing officer. At the centre of the ground on the south side were erected two stands, the one being set apart for the Earl and Countess of Derby and their guests; the other devoted to the use of Capt. Ilornby, upon whom, under the general direc tion of the noble owner of Knowsley himself, the burden of necessary preparations for the review in all military respects principally rested. Behind those stands the remaining space of level ground, (30 feet wide, which was wired off for pedestrians, the elevated ground immediately outside being set apart for carriages and vehicles of every descrip tion. The space round the inner fence was, as far as the nature of the ground and the necessity of afford ing due facility of entrance to the Oval to Volun• teers would permit, similarly apportioned, except that a single line of seat s , runn i ng f rom L or d D er by' s stand, close by the fence, for npwards of one-third of its extent, was appropriated exclusively to ladies. Thus much was well and expeditiously done. It was, however, the least part of the work which Capt. Hornby had undertaken to accomplish. Lord Derby had invited 14,000 Volunteers to assemble in his magnificent park, but he had done more. He had, in the spirit of a princely hospitality, deter mined to provide refreshments for them. Now, to furnish so large a number with even a single meal s , as Sir R. Airy and, indeed, every military man of experience well knows, no mean achievement. It is a great work, and not to bell gh tly undertaken. It was, however, undertaken by Lord Derby, and with the able and energetic assistance of Captain Hornby triumphantly executed. At the rear of the plateau on which it was arranged the Volunteers on their arrival on the ground should form line, 10 large tents were erected. Each of those tents was divided into two compartments, and in each of those compart ments were provided refreshments for the number of men in a battalion, of which 20 went to com pose the five brigades which were expected to take part in the review. The number of each brigade as well as of the several battalions was attached to the tents and divisions of tents thus allotted to the purposes of the commissariat, so that with the most ordinary care all confusion in serving out the re freshments could be avoided. In those tents 11,340 meat pies were by 11 o'clock on Saturday morning safely lodged. To wash them down 59 hogsheads of beer, brewed at the hall—but wisely kept below the strength of the famous " Knowsley ale," so well known in Lancashire for its fine flavour and highly levelling qualities —were placed under canvass. Nor were the wants of the general public—for Lord Derby had bidden all comers to be present at that which he had done all in his power to make a bril liant spectacle—forgotten. Tents for their accom modation were erected at convenient points throughout the park, and refreshments supplied to them by Mr. Morrish, of Liverpool, at a reasonable and regulated rate of charge. Waterbutts for their use were also placed at intervals along the ground. To bring about these results, and to go through much more, to which it is needless further to advert, was what Captain Hornby had in a brief space of time to effect, and no work could be done in a man ner more courteous or with a success more com plete. Devout were the expectations as the day fixed for the review approached in the busy cen tres of industry in Lancashire that unpropitious weather might not come to mar the enjoyment of that which it had been arranged should be a general holiday. Saturday morning at length dawned to dispel for the moment all doubts and fears upon the subject. The sun rose bright and cloudless. Alas! his brilliant promise was but of brief duration. By 10 o'clock his beams were en tirely shorn of their splendour. The sky became overcast. Rain fell in a smart shower. Again for a few minutes came sunshine and hope ; then, again, a slight sprinkling of rain, partially to obscure the one and damp the other. Nothing daunted, Liver pool and Manchester, and the other towns of Lan cashire, began to pour forth their thousands. Con veyances of all sorts—save carts, to which alone admission was denied within the precincts of Knowsley—were put into active requisition. There were abroad the signs of unusual stir, and bustle, and life. The small and usually quiet stations in the vicinity of Knowsley were deluged by a constant influx of people. With admirable forethought, a plan of the park, drawn up by authority, embody ing the chief features in the review ground, and pointing out the positions to be taken up by the Volunteers as well as by the public at large, was published by Messrs. Benson and Mallett, and ex posed for sale in all directions. To avoid confusion, too, written instructions were printed on the back of this plan, setting forth the particular entrances to the park by which, as it might be, carriages or Volunteers only, or pedestrians generally, were to obtain admission. It was still very early in the day when crowds of visitors from Liverpool, and Manchester, and Bolton, and hundreds of places beside, found themselves passing into the park by the Liverpool, Huyton, Ormskirk, and Croxteth gateways, from the summit of each of which floated a large flag bearing the inscription " Welcome, Volunteers," and having streaming by its side an other emblazoned with the arms of the house of Stanley, with the appropriate Conservativ . e motto " sans changer." By 12 o'clock some 6,000 or 7,000 persons were, after a walk of two or three miles across a fine, breezy country, assembled on the re view ground, which, with its white lines of posts and fences, looked picturesque in the extreme. The weather by this time had assumed a more favoura ble aspect. Clouds still occupied the sky, but then there were frequent gleams of sunshine, all the more welcome because of the contrast after the pre vious sombre aspect of the heavens. After half past 12 no rain fell, while the few showers of the morning but served to lend the turf a livelier hue and to tint the foliage with a brighter green. About half-past two the first regiments of Volun • teers came upon the scene and took up their posi tion on the plateau on the north side of the ground. From that time forward the various corps, some of which were loudly cheered in their progress through the crowd, arrived in rapid succession, with their respective bands playing before them. Meanwhile, the space allotted to pedestrians on the south side of the enclosure had become filled with one dense mass of human beings, yet the various avenues of approach still continued to contribute their thousands to the already vast assemblage. Splendid equipages, freighted with the rank, beauty, and fashion of Lancashire, lined as with a fringe of many colours the crest of the rising ground set apart for their accommodation. It was neat five o'clock. The troops, amounting to about 11,000 strong, were all assembled, and had taken up their position in a line, the front of which ex tended along the verge of the high ground on which they formed. The day had become fine as the most ardent wisher of success to the review as a spec tacle could desire. There was about the landscape itself a glow and a warmth of colouring which were quite refreshing. All now was expectation for the commencement of the proceedings which had drawn such numbers—numbers variously computed at from 150,000 to 200,000 people—together. On a sudden the union jack was hoisted on the flagstaff at Knowsley. It was the signal that Sir G. Wetherell and his staff were quitting the hall, of the splendid hospitality of the noble owner of which they had, in common with an immense number of other guests, been partaking. A salute from the guns of the Liverpool Artillery, who were stationed on the extreme left of the line of Volunteers, heralded the nearer approach of the brilliant cavalcade. On it came, at a quick pace, headed by Sir G. Wetherell, with whom, mounted on a powerful horse, rode the Earl of Derby himself. The Earl of Sefton, Lord Lieutenant of the county, Colonel Ve braham, Lieutenant-Colonel Lightfoot, Lieute nant-Colonel P. W. M. Talbot, and the other members of the Staff, immediately followed. The rear was brought up by two open carriages with outriders, in the first of which were seated the Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley. Rapidly the cortege entered the ground at the south eastern side and proceeded around the inclosure, the Earl of Derby being greeted with repeated • cheers and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs by the assembled spectators as he passed upon his way, and SirG.Wetherall being received with a general salute as he rode by the troops in line. This ceremony being over, the Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stan ley drove up to their stand on the south side of the enclosure, where they took their seats in front of a brilliant circle. Between this stand and Captain Hornby was the Staff flag, where Sir G. Wetherell took up his post. The Earl of Derby still continued, as he did throughout the day, to ride about the ground on horseback. The Volunteers up to this moment maintained their original position, which they had taken up in the following order :—On the extreme right were placed the Lancashire Hussars and the Lancashire Mounted Rifle Volunteers, com manded by Sir R. T. Gerard, the men of the latter corps brilliant in scarlet uniforms, but numbering only 13 or 14 strong ; next the Cavalry, and on their left were posted the Liverpool Artillery, consisting of four battalions 2,068 strong. They took up their ground in lines of contiguous columnA of battalions at intervals of 6 paces. Then came the Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th Lancashire Rifle Brigades, each being drawn up in the same order as the Artillery, and the last mentioned brigade ocettpying the extreme left of the line. The position of the several brigades, commencing with the Artillery, was indicated by means of blue, white, yellow, red and white, and green flags. Sir G. Wetherell having rode by the troops iu this order, end having returned to the Staff flag, as before mentioned, the cavalry at the extreme west end of the ground and the extreme right of th e li ne formed column and the movement of marching past the reviewing General com menced, the evolutions of forming mass of close columns-of brigades, and opening out to wheeling distance by battalions in succession from the front, having in due count:, before they began to' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAV EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, !860. march, been executed by the artillery and infantry brigadier. The sight which now presented itself was a fine one. On from the wheeling point tit the west end of the ground, along the level space already indi cated, came in advance some of the new Artillery guns, followed by the Lancashire Hussars, about 200 strong, known as Sir R. Gerard's corps, in their gorgeous uniforms, mounted on high-spirited horses, and looking every inch a match for any equal num ber of cavalry of the Line. They were loudly cheered as they passed. Immediately behind were the small detachment of Ist Lancashire Mounted Rifles. Next in order came the Lancashire Artil lery, of which the Ist battalion was under the com- mand of Lieut.-Col. W. Brown, formerly member for South Lancashire, who was warmly greeted as he rode at the head of his troops. Nothing could, on the whole, be more admirable than the steady precision of movement displayed by the Artillery, more especially on the part of the Ist and 4th Liverpool Corps, under the command respectively of Lieut.-Col. W. Brown and Major Walter, and the 11th Liverpool and 15th Garston, under the command of Lieut.-Col. M'lver. To the Artillery succeeded the Ist Lancashire Rifle Brigade, followed by the 2d Brigade, composed chiefly of Manchester corps, which marched in a style that fully entitled them to share with the Artillery the honours of the day, and who were again and again cheered. Then came the 3d and 4th Brigades, and these having marched past and proceeded to form with the other brigades in the original position on the summit of the plateau, the Lancashire Hussars, who had halted at the east end of the ground, rode back at full gallop by the reviewing General to their post on the right of the line. They were, as they did so, repeatedly cheered. The marching past, which had occupied about three-quarters of an hour, was now over, and it only remained for the troops to ad vance in line for a general salute. Slowly they moved down the slope, on the crest of which the front rank stood, halting just before they reached the level ground. In this position the foremost rank was out-topped by that immediately behind it, rank rising above rank like steps of stairs, those which in their original position stood far back on the plateau being now on the verge of the slightly ele vated ridge in which it terminates. The officers were in front of the line. Sir G. Wetherall and his staff, accompanied by Lord Derby, rode towards it. At this moment the sun, which had for a short time been concealed behind a cloud, lighted up the whole park with a sudden glory. The swords of the offi cers as they were pointed downwards in salute re flected back his tempered splendour. The dark masses of the Volunteers—for the uniforms of those present were for the most part of a sombre colour— reflected it too. Exclamation of admiration of the picturesque beauty of the scene might be heard on all sides. While yet its brightness continued un impaired Sir G. Wetherall addressed the assembled troops in the following words : " Commanding officers and gentlemen,—l wish to express to you the entire satisfaction I have re ceived—a satisfaction which lam sure everybody else who has witnessed it has experienced—from this beautiful display. It must serve, I feel assured, to impress everybody with the conviction of the ex traordinary progress which the regiments before me have made in those field movements which are necessary in actual war. I have had many oppor tunities of witnessing the great advance made by Rifle Volunteers, and nothing can, in my opinion, well exceed the rapidity of that advance. It keeps pace with the hopes of every Englishman, and I cannot express to you what happiness it gives me to be associated with these your patriotic gather ings. Ido not think I can more appropriately bring to a close the few remarks which I have deemed it to be my duty on this occasion to make than by suggesting that we should express our thanks after the good old English fashion for the princely hospitality of our noble hoSt, to whose kindness we are indebted for this splendid spec tacle." A cheer, loud, prolonged, and ringing, burst forth along the whole of the line of Volunteers, who up to that moment maintained a grave silence. It was echoed and re-echoed, and, as a spontaneous demon stration of appreciation of his liberality and many high qualities, it could hardly fail to have been gra. tifying to the noble lord who was its object. Lord Derby acknowledged the compliment paid him by two or three times taking off his hat. It was now seven o'clock, and over 11,000 men, including 250 of the police force, by whom the ground was kept, had yet to be provided with refreshments. S 3 admirable were the arrangements made for the occasion, however, that this, too, was soon accom plished. The Volunteers made for the ground im mediately in front of the tents which had been erected in the rear of their position. The officer in command of a battalion despatched, in accordance with the printed regulations, an officer under him to take charge of the tent specially designated as containing the provisions set apart for his battalion. He also directed the captain of each company to send one non-commissioned officer with four men to bring from the tent to a particular spot one basket containing refreshments for 60 men, one beer can, containing three gallons of ale, and 10 half-pint drinking cups. With the proper distribution of the refreshments—which consisted of a meat pie and a pint of ale for each Volunteer—the captains of the several companies were charged. The pro. visions having been procured from the tents, the Volunteers piled arms, and took to the work of de : . molition like men. By the time it was over the shades of evening were fast closing round the plea. sant glades and woodlands of Knowsley. The near approach of night warned the several corps that it was time to be again in motion, and they accord ingly, with as little delay as possible, set out for their respective destinations by appointed routes. The general public commenced leaving the park in a continued stream as soon as the review had ended, but thousands, owing to the wholly inade quate arrangements made by the London and North- Western Railway Company to meet the demand upon their resources, were unable to get away from Huyton and the other stations on the line in the vicinity of Knowsley until after midnight ; the train which starts from Liverpool for London at a quarter to 11 at night having occupied two hours in accomplishing the journey from the former place to Huyton, a distance of only six miles, in conse quence of the way in which that station was blocked up. It is but right to add that a similar inadequacy of accommodation was observable in the morning for passengers to Knowsley by way of the North- Western Railway. These drawbacks, however, detracted nothing from the brilliancy of the great event of the day. 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They were accompanied on this occasion by the band of the 3d Surrey Militia, and the newly forced bugle band, composed entirely of members of the corps. Major Parratt, the Adju tant, was unfortunately thrown from his horse just before leaving the Sessions-house, but was not se riously injured, and was able to remount and pro ceed with his duty. At a meeting held on Saturday at the Hanover square Rooms, it was resolved to form a rifle corps to be composed chiefly of young men in the drapery trade, the corps to be called the " London Volun teer Fusiliers.' The Queen and the Prince Consort take a most lively interest in the affairs of the Berks County Rifle Meeting in Windsor Great Park, allowing the services of the labourers in the Greak Park to be employed in the preparations. Her Majesty has also subscribed £5O, and the Prince Consort £25. towards the expenses ; altogether the sum of nearly £7OO has been contributed, reflecting the highest credit on the patriotic spirit of Berkshire.. The entries of the competitors for the prizes have already exceeded the number anticipated, and the Volunteers are in constant practice, not only in their drill, bat at the target, in order to distinguish themselves on the day of the great event.' A liberal sum will be set apart as prizes to be contested for in running, wrestling, leaping, single-stick, flat hurdle racing., wheelbarrow, donkey, and jockey racing; the Scots Fusilier pipers will dance High land reels and other Scottish dances to their na- tional instruments, with other amusements. The committee have chosen a large arena in a conve nient portion of the park, near the Hernery, about five miles' drive from Windsor, w here every accom modation will be afforded for those in carraiges or on foot. A sumptuous dinner, provided by Mr. Johnson, of the White Hart Hotel, Windsor, will be given by Lord Overstone, under a spacious tent, to about 900 Volunteers, to which the Queen and the Prince Consort will supply 10 fat bucks. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with the drums and fifes of the Coldstream Guards, will be in at tendance. The ground will be kept partly tv the county police and partly by the Royal Horse Guards. The whole of the Royal tents, including those of Tippoo Sahib, will be erected there under the directions of Mr. Roberts, of the Lord Chamberlain's department. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort are expected to arrive at Windsor on the Bth from Scotland in order to be present. It is now determined that in the first instance every company of 60 shall select 10 of their best shots to compete for the prizes, and the sub-division of Wokingham and Windsor Forest will send 6. After a competition of those men on Tuesday next, 5 of each of the best 10 will have their choice of shooting for the silver cup given by the ladies of Berkshire, or the Hon. Mrs. Loyd Lindsay's prize of a breech loading rifle, after which the two winners and the ten next best shots will compete for the County Challenge Cup. The first inspection of the 12th (Chatham) Com pany of Volunteer Artillery was held on Saturday last by Viscount Sydney, the Lord-Lieutenant, who was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Morris, Deputy Inspector-General of Volunteers. The company, numbering about 50 men, assembled at Fort Amherst, under the command of Captain J. E. Beveridge, and hiving been put through various evolutions, all of which were creditably performed, the Volunteers were marched down to the Corn wallis battery, for the purpose of being put through the great gun drill. After several rounds had been fired from the 68-pounder siege guns, the firing ceased, and the company having been re-formed Viscount Sydney addressed the officers and men, complimenting them on the highly effective manner in which they had acquitted themselves and the satisfactory appearance of the company. On Saturday afternoon Viscount Sydney arrived at Sheerness for the purpose of inspecting the 4th (Sheerness) and the 13th (Sheerness Dockyard) companies of Royal Artillery. The Lord-Lieu tenant was accompanied by Lieut.-Colonel Morris, R.A., the Deputy-Inspector-General of Volunteers, and suite. The 4th company of Artillery, under the command of Capt. L. S. Magnus, and the 13th company, under the command of Major W. B. Ro binson, together numbering 220 men, were drawn up on the parade-ground, where they were inspec ted by Viscount Sydney and Colonel Morris, both companies marching past in slow and quick time. Since the companies have been formed officers and men have been unremitting in their drill, the result of which has been that the companies have arrived at a point of efficiency not attained by scarcely any other Artilery Corps in the kingdom. This has been in a great measure owing to the facilities af forded by the authorities at Sheerness, who not only allow the Volunteers to be drilled at the bat teries, but also place at their disposal any amount of shot and shell for target practice that may be required. A target having been fixed about a mile out in the sea, practice commenced by firing shots from the 32 and 68 pounder guns on the battery, when the accuracy of range and practice was as astonishing as it was satisfactory, shot after shot being laid close to the target. After this had con tinued some time practice with shell commenced, those fired being those known as the 10-inch shells. Here, again, the practice was exceedingly good. Daring this part of the inspection an accident oc curred. One of the shells, from some defect either in the shell or the " sight," burst just as it left the mouth of the gun ; and, although there were a num ber of persons standing about, and also below in the ditch, no one was touched by the fragments, which flew in all directions. An accident occurred also with one of the guns which from some cause be came loosened from the pin which retains it on the circular platform, the rebound nearly sending it over the parapet. Notwithstanding the weight of the guns, each from three to five tons, the ease and rapidity with which they were moved and worked by the Volunteers was very surprising. At the close of the target practice, which lasted some time the companies were formed into three sides of a square, when Lord Sydney, in a highly complimentary ad dress, expressed his unqualified satisfaction at the result of the day's inspection. A banquet after wards took place at the Fountain Hotel, where covers were laid for 40 guests. The chair was taken by Major Robinson, and the vice-chair by Captain Magn us. County Rifle Association.—An influential meet ing has been held in the city of Salisbury, at the Orderly-room of the Ist Wiltshire Rifle Volunteers, at which the desirability of establishing a County Rifle Association for Wiltshire upon the principles of the National Association, recently inaugurated by her Majesty at Wimbledon, was discussed. The meeting resulted in a unanimous resolution to or ganize an association of this character, and a com mittee of gentlemen was appointed to carry out the movement. The general object sought to be at tained will be-1, to promote the efficient and skil ful use of the rifle among the members of the vari ous Volunteer. corps of the county by offering prizes to be publicly competed for on stated occasions ; and 2, to cultivate in a similar manner a taste for rifle shooting among residents in Wiltshire who may not be enrolled members of a Volunteer force. The artillery corps formed at Great Yarmouth is now 180 strong, and as soon as 200 are enrolled a battalion will be formed. Four ordinary companiesof Volunteers have also been formed in the town. The members for the borough, Sir E. Lacon and Sir H. Stracey, have offered a purse of £lO to be con tested for at 300, 400, and 500 yards; a cup valued at £5 has been presented by the officers of the corps to be shot for at 200 and 300 yards; Major Ordc, the commandant of the battalion, has offered for competition a Turner patent rifle to be com peted for at 500 to 600 yards; and the ladies of the neighbourhood have offered a splendid challenge cup, valued at. £3O, and a silver medal to be con tested for at ranges of 650, 700, 800, and 900 yards. The winner of the challenge cup is to hold it against all comers for three years, and, in the event of his still maintaining his position, the prize will become his absolute property. Should he lose the cup he will retain the medal. The prizes enume rated will be shot for to-day (Monday). The movement continues to excite considerable interest in Suffolk. The first class shots in the Gth, or Stourmarket corps, competed on Friday at Lo.nguard Fort, Harwich, for a silver cup presented by the officers. The firing was at 800 and 900 yards_ and the cup was won by Sergeant Armourer Colson, who made 11 points. Sergeant Betts scored 10 points, the next best number. One hundred and four of the workmen belong ing to the Elswail Ordnance Engine -works have joined the Newcastle Rifle Corps, and will form a detachment to be called the Elswiek Volunteer Engineers. The City of Bristol Volunteer Rifle Corps was one of the earliest that were enrolled, and its for• mation was speedily followed by the establishment of the Ist Gloucestershire, or Bristol Volunteer Artillery corps, Under their respective command ing officers (Colonel Bush, late of the 96th Regi ment, and Major Savile, formerly of the Royal Artillery) the two corps, numbering together about 1,000 men, have attained a high degree of profi ciency. On Saturday afternoon the official inspec tion of the City of Bristol Volunteer Rifle Corps and the Ist Glocestershire or Bristol Volunteer Artil lery corps, which had been postponed from the pre vious Saturday on account of the weather, took place on Clifton Down, and was followed by the presen tation of a silver bugle and trumpet (the manufac ture of Distin, of Great Newport-street, London), the gift of the ladies of Clifton and its vicinity to the gallant volunteers. The ground was kept by the Stapleton troop of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, under the command of Captain Hobson, a detachment of the North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Captain Haviland, and a strong force of police, superintended by Mr. Inspector Attwood. Colonel M'Murdo, C. 8., In spector-General, accompanied by Major Hume and Major Dick, District Inspectors of Volunteers, arrived on the ground shortly before 5 o'clock. The Rifle Volunteers were then put through a variety of evolutions by Colonel bush, Major Payne, and Ad jutant Captain Jones, while the Artillery were exer cised by Major Savile and Adjutant and Captain M'Adam. At the conclusion of the manoeuvres Colonel M'Murdo addressed the men on the effi ciency they had displayed, After which colours and a silver bugle were presented to the regiment by Mrs. Bates, wife of the mayor of Bristol. PACKET CONTRACTS. The Committee on Government Contracts with the Steam-packet Companies for the conveyance of mails by sea have made their first report, leaving telegraphic contracts for a second, which is to fol low. The following is a full summary of the con tents of this report :—The Committee state that the existing system is this :—lt is by the Admiralty that these contracts are actually entered into, but the power of authorising them and prescribing their terms is in the Treasury, who commu nicate with the Post-office and Colonial-office on the questions involved. Unhappily,, there is no proper concert between these parties. In the case of the first Dover contract, in 1854, the Admiralty required the contractors to provide more boats than were really needed, the object being to get them to purchase Admiralty steamers then employed on the same service, but known by them to be unfit and incapable of attaining the stipulated speed ; the contractors accompanied their tench'. (but in vain) with an offer to the Admiralty at £3,500 a year less if they might employ only the requisite number of boats and build their own, instead of purchasing those of the Admiralty, but "it does not appear that this letter was laid before the Treasury !" This contract was extended in 1855 by the Admiralty without the sanction of the Treasury, which was essential as the only legiti mate authority for such an act ; but when the Com mittee came to investigate the grounds of the re newal " the minute and other important papers were missing !" The contract was again extended in 1859, when the Treasury assumed that the state ments in the contractor's application to the Admi ralty had been inquired into there, while at the Admiralty some material facts were not considered to be within their province. In 1857 the West In dia contract was extended by the Treasury without consulting either the Admiralty or the Post-office, and the contract with the European and Australian Company, which broke down, so that there was great risk of au interruption of the postal commu nication, was arranged entirely by the then Finan cial Secretary, without confirmation of his acts by any other authority. We now come to the com munication with America. In 1857 the Cunard Company applied for a renewal until 1867 of their contract for the conveyance of the mails (for £173,340 a year) from Liverpool to the United States, though the old contract would not expire until 1862. Now in 1857 circumstances had greatly altered since the original contract was made ; there were six or seven lines of steamers plying to North America; and a Treasury Committee on Packet Contracts, presided over by Lord Canning, had reported in 1853 that where there is effective competition, and commercial steamers are available, it is unnecessary for Govern ment to subsidise, since it may fairly expect to get the service done hypaying the freight of the mailbags with compensation for prescribed punctuality and for any necessary increase of speed ; and further, that a company which has had a liberal subsidy for its first 10 or 12 years (the Cunard Company has been sub sidised from 1840) may be fairly expected to con tinue the service on short contracts for three or even for one year. Further, at this date (1857) the Canadian Government had pointed out the injury done to Canada by this large bounty to a line run ning to United States ports, and in reference to a proposal from the Home Government that Canada should pay a portion of the Cunard subsidy, the Canadian Government asked that no renewal of the contract be made without hearing what Canada had to say ; and tlie Treasury, so recently as the 26th of November, 1856, adopted a minute that the Governor of Canada be informed that the existing arrangement would continue until the expiration of Mr. Cunard's contract, when the Treasury hoped an arrangement might be effected more in conformity with an equitable consideration for the finances of this country. This was held in Canada to constitute a pledge that the system would not be continued without their being heard; and they proceeded with extensive improvements in internal communi cation, and entered into a contract with the Mon treal and Ocean Steampacket Company for a line of mail steamers to England at £e15,000 a year. Now, the Admiralty recommending a compliance with the Cunard Company's application, but the Post master-General strongly deprecating it (especially so long before the old contract would expire) as in ♦iolation of the principles laid down by Lord Can ning's Committee, the Treasury on March 2, 1858, wrote to the company That the contract was too far from its termination to justify a renewal, but when it advanced nearer a termination they would con sider favourably any application he might make. Nevertheless, on the 29th of the same munth Mr. Cunard renewed his application, and the Treasury, without again referring to the Post-office, granted it on the 20th of May, and requested the Postmaster- General to suggest any modifications it might be ad visable to introduce in the new contract. In reply he pointed out that the mileage rate was conside rably higher than that of any other packet ser vice, and added that the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company, whose vessels made their voyages at a speed not much inferior to Mr. Cunard's—though subject to no penalties for delay—had offered to carry the mails for the amount of sea postage; and it may be mentioned here that that company is now carrying the United States mails to this country on those terms. Ex traordinary as it may seem, when the decision of the Treasury granting this renewal was come to, the Financial Secretary who entered office with Lord Derby's Government . in March, was . not aware of the correspondence of Canada, nor does it (though on the Treasury records) appear to have been known to any of the officers of the department. The Committee say they have not received any satisfactory explanation of this circumstance. When the renewal of the contract became known, the Canadian Legislature voted an address strongly expostulating against a course of proceeding so in jurious to the interests of Canada, and praying that the Canadian steamers might receive such subsidy as would place them on an equal foot ing with others. But before this address arrived another contract had been sanctioned ; for in 1858 Mr. Lever established a line of steamers from Galway to the United States, obtained a contract from the Government of Newfoundland for running to that island, and established a company, who ap plied to our Government for encouragement in a system of more frequent voyages. It was intended to organise a service under which telegrams sent through Newfoundland might reach Washington in six days from London. The Liverpool Company already mentioned wrote to the Treasury, remon strating against any mail grant to the Lever Com pany, and urging that it ought to be put up to public competition, to which the Treasury answered, on Nov. 9, 1858, that it was the practice of the Treasury on establishing a new postal service to in vite tenders by advertisement and afford to all the opportunity of competing. Nevertheless, the con tract was afterwards made without allowing com petition, and without any communication to the Liverpool Company. The Montreal Company, the company subsidised by the Canadian Government, also remonstrated against a grant being made so injurious to them without their being heard. The Postmaster-General also reported against it. But the Treasury, on the 22d of February, 1852, made the contract, granting a subsidy of £78,000 a year, only introducing a new stipulation—that the subsidy must be voted by Parliament. The Treasury minute was not adopted according to the ordinary routine, but Lord Derby states that he was influenced by considerations of commercial and social advantage in:relation chiefly to Ireland, and did not invite competition because he considered a preference due to the enterprise of the Lever Com pany iii first establishing a line of steamers from Galway. and he was advised at the Treasury that the subsidy was a moderate one. But there were not before Lord Derby the communications with Canada, nor with the Liverpool Company, con taining an implied pledge that competition should be allowed. The committee observe that it would have been easy to make an arrangement which would satisfy the just claims of Canada, for the Lever Company offered to make the port of arrival Portland, which is the terminus of the Canadian Grand Truck Railway, and the Montreal Com pany made fhe same offer if the Lever Company would transfer the contract to them for a bonus Of X 25,000 a year. The result is that England and Canada are subsidising rival lines. The committee wee not prepared to recommend Parliament to re fuse to vote the money ; but they consider that such defects of administration must be remedied. An act has just passed, transferring to the Post office the enforcement of packet contruto ; but they '' hold the chief remedy to be in providing that no such contract shall in future be binding until it has laid on the table of the House of Commons for a month, accompanied by a Treasury minute set ting forth the grounds on which the Government has proceeded. If that had been the practice they do not believe the evils disclosed in this report could have occurred. They consider that, what ever may be the distribution of the businessthe re sponsibility of the Treasury should becomplete and effective, since these contracts involve imperial con siderations, and are much more than mere Post office questions, and that the arrangements of the Government should secure that all information re ceived by the departments shall reach the Trea sury, and that the decision of the Treasury shall be faithfully carried out (which in one instance was not done). Further, although conscious that much must be left to the discretion of the Govern ment, and having reason to suppose that the opinions of the Commissioners have been modified by experience, they consider that, as a general rule, contracts for services entirely new should be put up to open competition (except where imme diate steps are necessary, and, it may be, in new branches to lines already in operation); and as to the renewal of contracts, the committee are of opinion that the practice of renewing them to ex isting holders has been carried to an extent which should no longer be sanctioned. Lastly, they record their conviction that it is quite practicable to dispense with large subsidies in cases where ordinary traffic supports several lines of steamers, and that, in the circumstances which have for some years existed in regard to the communication between this country and North America, no such subsidies are required to secure a regular, speedy, and efficient postal service. ANOTHER UNOFFICIAL AMBASSADOR We have authority for qualifying the statement of the Shipping Gazette as to the character in which Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., is about to visit the United States. The journey which the hon. gen tleman is about to undertake is entirely a private one, and he is not invested by the Government with any authoritative capacity. Mr. Lindsay will, however, use what influence he may possess as one of the representatives of the British mercantile shipping interest to induce the Government of the States to consens to negotiate for the adjustment of various questions important to the shipping trade of both countries. He will also endeavour to bring about a more liberal treatment of British shipping with regard to the coasting trade of the States, from which it is now excluded, although we admit theirs to the freest participation in our trade. Her Majesty's Government, desirous of assisting Mr. Lindsay in the accomplishment of his views, have supplied him with all the correspondence which has taken place between the two Governments on this subject. Should Mr. Lindsay's exertions lead to the opening, of negotiations, they will be, of course, conducted on our side by our accredited re presentative at Washington Lord Lyons, with whom Mr. Lindsay will put himself into communi cation, and who is authorised to facilitate the sub ject as much as possible. The recent report of the Select Committee on Merchant Shipping puts pro minently forward the questions bearing upon the grievances which British shipowners complain of, and which in some instances bear with equal severity upon those of the United States. In the first place, there is the coasting trade. W. have thrown open to all the world not only our foreign and colonial trade, but our coasting trade also. The American Government, while profess ing to reciprocate our liberal policy with regard to their foreign trade, have hitherto declined to open their coasting trade, and by including in this designation their trade from the Atlantic seaboard of the States to California, either by way of Panama or round Cape Horn, they have, in point of fact, withheld that which could only be in some degree an equivalent for the opening of our colonial trae to them. Our Protectionist shipowners, who were chiefly concerned in the agitation of last year, called aloud for reprisals. That is quite out of the question. We shall not in any point reverse the free-trade policy we have adopted, from the convic tion of the soundness of the principles upon which it is founded ; but if anything can be done to en lighten other Governments as to the true interests of their people, and to urge them forward in the same path, so much the better for all sides, and we shall rejoice to find the grievances removed of which such loud complaints have been made. The question of the belligerent rights at sea has been put upon a very anomalous footing since the famous declaration at the Congress of Paris in 1856, which in substance was to the effect that free ships make free goods, and proposing to abolish privateering. The first principle was always a favourite one with America, for the probability of their being always a neutral party in any European war gives them a great advantage in the carrying trade when that principle is acknowledged. They declined, however, to concur in the abolition of privateering, unless we go much further, and agree that all private property shall I* exempt from war capture. By doing this we shall be depriving ourselves of a powerful weapon we can by no means consent to lose. The existing state of things requires adjustment on a fair mutual understanding, or else, as the Select Committee ob- serves with regard to this point, " we must revert to the maintenance of our ancient rights" by abroga- ting the Declaration of Paris. Another grievance is of an international character. It consists of the lia bilities of shipowners as carriers in case of accident to property or life. In cases of collisions, where the offending ship may be of a different flag to that sustaining the injury, it is absolutely necessary to establish a uniformity of principle on which the damages should be assessed, to be recognised in the courts of the respective countries, as well as to re move an injustice in the mode of estimating that liability of which our own snip-owners very justly complain. In this particular, as well as with re gard to those points we have previously indicated, we shall be very glad to find that Mr. Lindsay may be able to impress his views upon the authorities of the United States so far as to lead to an adjustment on terms of reciprocal justice. — Observer, COMMENCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCES. Just now, when it is doubtful whether the de fences of London or our chief naval arsenals are commanding most attention, it is interesting to know what is actually doing at Portsmouth in the way of fortifications. It will be in the recollection of many of our readers that while d escr ibing in a former number of this journal the works at Hilsea, on the northern portion of the Isle of Portsea, we strongly advocated the necessity of taking advan tage of Portsdown-hill, and throwing up a chain of forts to command the extensive line of bastions be low that eminence, and also to protect the ships in the harbour, the dockyard, and at the same time to prevent this elevated plateau falling into the hands of an active enemy. Within the last few days the. tents of the engineers have been pitched on Ports down, and men are engaged stumping out the areas for the proposed redoubts. From what we can gather from a rapid scramble over the scene of ope: rations it is intended to construct five forts upon the ridge of the hill, which is from five to six miles long, and overlooks the northern defences of the Isle of Portsea, and commands Portsmouth harbour and its dockyard. The areas stumped out indicate that a fort will be constructed in the locality of " The Fir Clump,". another at Nelson's monument, one at the " Mill," one at or near Wallington, and one at Belmont. The forts will be near enough to support each other, and will, w h en arme d, render Portsdown-hill a strong position, The five redoubts above-mentioned are, however, only a portion of the defensive scheme intended for the defence of Ports mouth. To the westward, on the Gosport side, the most western fort on the hill will be near enough to cross the fire of a similar one at Blockhouse, which will be in connexion with one at or near Roorne, and this l as t w ith one a t Lee Farm, and so bring the chain of forts down to the neighbourhood of the new defences in the locality of Stoke, and thus entirely surround the harbour and dockyard on; the northern and western faces. This rapid sketch of the proposed works in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth would be very incomplete without noticing the sea defences on the southern extremity of the Island of Porasea. But before doing so it should be menti o n e d that the littoral boundary in this locality has for many years been comparatively neglected, to the great loss of the land proprietors as well as the destruction of two cld forts, one at Lumps and the other at Eastneya It is now in tended to raise two new batteries at these places ; indeed, the former is nearly finished, and the latter will be commenced in a few weeks. The new fort at Lumps will mount 17 heavy guns, having 14 embrasures for 68-poinders and three heavy circular bastions rising over all, upon which it is proposed to mount 10-inch or Armstrong guns, as the case may be. The circular bastions have a very extensiv e range. From the eastern one the line of beach up to Cumberland Fort will be within i ts fire, while the one in the centre of the fort, as well as that at the western end, commands the beach as far as S ou th sea Castle. The three guns in the circular bastions will have a sweep of 320 degrees, and will not o nly defend the entrance of the fair way into Spithead, but can be turned about to b:;, , ar almost upon fox land side of the fort. Thereis accommodation lor 40 men and officers, and the fort is surrounded by a deep and wide h moat, in will be at low water spring tides seven feet. there t. At Lumps the sea -front does not form th e sea boundary .without a ditch intervening; and it has been surm ised, not withstanding the sea-wall raised for its Protection, that extraordinary gales may seriou sly affect it, an d Fort Monckton, on the Gosport shore, has beet t in stanced as a case in point where the natural bt:..ach is the boundary. However, upon this subject •it is not our intention to enter at present, and we con clude our brief summary of this important addition to the sea defences of Portsmouth with the tsing task of praising the admirable manner in which the earthworks, the masonry, and the men's quar ters are constructed.— rmy and Navy Gazette. TILE Tit ALWO.RTB MURDERER. William Godfrey Youngman appears to have ex hibited during the whole of the pat week the same indifference of demean our that has characterised lira since his conviction, and until within the last le w hours he has not betrayed any apparent dre ad of his impending fate. It has already been stateel that 1 since his conviction he has continued to assort his innocence of the crime and persisted. in the almost absurd story he told at the first, that his poor old emaciated mother had committed the murders, and that he had killed herin self-defence upon her mak ing an attack on him. The prisoner appeared to be very anxious that a petition should be sent to the Secretary of State, praying for a commutation of the sentence, on the ground, as he stated, that he was innocent of the crime of wilful murder, and when his brother John saw him on Thursday he pressed him to have such a memorial drawn up, and he promised to do so, and the prisoner wished him to let him have it to sign on the following day. A memorial or petition to the Home Secretary was accordingly drawn up, which contained a statement to the effect suggested by the prisoner, that 'his mo ther had committed the murders while in a state of temporary frenzy, and that she attacked him with the same weapon with which she had killed his bro thers and sweetheart, and that it was to nave his own life that he destroyed hers. This memorial was shown to the prisoner on Friday, and he read it and said it would do and affixed his signatrire to it. The document was also signed by several per sons acquainted with the prisoner and his family, and in the course of the day it was transmitted to the Home Secretary. The nature of the reply to such a memorial may very well be imagined. It was to the effect that upon a careful consideration of all the facts of the case the Home Secretary felt it his duty to allow the law to take its course. The prisoner evidently buoyed himself up with an idea that his life would be spared, and he appeared quite firm until Saturday ; but when he was informed of the result of the application to the Secretary of State, and felt aware at the same time that the period for him to suffer was fast approaching, a great deal of his confidence appeared to forsake him. He evidently felt that all hope was over, and there was a great change apparent in him►, and the im pression of those about him was that he would make a full statement of all the circumstances connected with the dreadful crime before he suffered. A good many of the statements relative to the prisouer's levity of conduct and his want of religious feeling that have appeared within the last two or three days are entirely without foundation, The prisoner seems all along to have listened attentively to the exhortations of the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Jessopp, and he has attended chapel every day, and also de ' votes a good deal of time to reading religious books. The prisoner wrote a long letter to his brother John [ on Saturday, in which he bade him farewell for the last time. COUNTRY MARKETS. STAMFORD-SEPT. 1. An improvement in the weather this week has caused field labourers to be in active request. Large breadths of oats and barley and several fields of wheat have been cut within the last few days. Wheat ....59s to 65s I Oats.. 26s to 32s White do 64s to 69s I Beans 46s to sOrs Barley 34s to 33s I Ditto, old ........46s to Ma YORK- SEPT. 1. The supply of wheat was moderate, and farmers asked 4s advanc-, but could not obtain it, and currencies were the same as last week. Wheat, red .62s to 68s 1 Oats.... 3os to 32s White do .66s to 70s( }3eans 48s to 508 Barley .33s to 35s ! Peas ....—s to —s Malt, 68s to 70s per qr.; rye, 38s per qr.; flour, 468 to 48s per sack. . LEICESTER-Sm. 1. There was a tolerable supply of wheat to-day, a fair attendance, and prices as before. White wheat, 65s to 68s —red, 60s to 64s per 36 stone; a moderate inquiry for barley, grinding, 33s to 34e ; malting, 36s to 44s per qr. ; oats, 33s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 50s to 525, new 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 45s I Seconds, 43s I Thirds, 41s per 20 stone. CAMBRIDGE-SEPT. 1. There was a middling supply of wheat, and, with a firm sale in the trade, white wheat moved off at 58s to 645, red, 54s to 58s per 36 stone. There was a small trade in barley again ; malting, 34s to 40s ; grinding, 30s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats at 24s to 28s for new; old oats, 28s to 295. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale —new, 40s to 448 ; old, 43s to 45s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s; red, 46s to 50siper qr. DUBLIN-AUG. 31. We had a quiet market to-day, with prices unaltered. The weather still unsettled, with occasional heavy showers since Tuesday. There were several samples of new grain at market. Indian corn very dull. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 33 0 to 36 0 Do., red 3l 0 to 33 0 Do., new - 0 Barley Oats Do., black l5 0 to 15 6 8 . d. s. d. Do., new Bere l4 6 to 17 0 Rapeseed Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn 37 0 to 39 6 THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. • • • • • • '.. Sepi. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. B Cana aha d m a a s sc a c n . d ( v H i a a v L a o n n a d (via o nde r N r y e 7 w York); .. Au g . 30. : . . Aug. 29. Cape of Good Hope, &c. • • • • • • .. Sept. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. .. Sept.. 1. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Sept. 9. D o . (via Marseilles) .. • . Sept. 3. Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. .. .. Sept. 5. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. 3.. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto • • • • .. Sept. 1. United States, California, &c. .. .. Sept. S. Western Coast of Atrica, Madei ra , T ener iff e .. S e pt. 10. West Indies and Pacific, Ca r th agena, C u b a , & e . Sept. 14. DEATH OF A MURDERER.--On Saturday Mr. Payne, the deputy-coroner for Southwark, held an inquest at the board-room of Bethlehem Hospital, St. George's road, Southwark, on the body of Francis Wilks, age d 65 years, a criminal l una ti c in that institution. Mr. William Helps, resident apothecary, deposed that the deceased was tried at Shrewsbury, Salop, on the 13th August, 1817, for the wilful murder of his mo ther, whe n he was acquitted on 19th August. 11 0tla August the ground o f insanity, and removed to the hospital on the the 3ewasvery vicious and w i c k e dl y di s p ose d. He thdiof paralysis. The jury returned a verdict of natural death. 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BIRTHS• - - CHRISTIE.—On the Ist inat., at 8, Westbounae-park Villas, the wife of James Trail' Christie, Edw a E rd sq c ,, CoLEBRooKE.—On. the 31st ult., at Southborough, Tun bridge-wells, the wife of Henry Colebrooke, Esq. , 51 D., 0 1 1 a n w k jn daughter, of a of a daughter. '!` • HA WKINS.—On the 31st ult., at 2, Vernon-terrace, Brigh ton, the wife of the Rev. son. ponglas Halford, Esq , of MARRIAG%S• CROMPTON—HALFORD,— Lodge, Suffolk. . On the into st., at St George' s Hanover-square, George Frederic, ly surviving son of the Rev. S. G. Crompton, of Carlton, Yorkshire, to M. H. Mary, daughtr of Charles . G parishe r l o d iv e s c n o h o l i u r cri squares eohr,l, ladt ersi and et k9 o c a f l Wc 0 t X 3 6, j oh n T s t h o a n n: themes Ditton - JOSNSTON — SATOn th; 3 P o a lh tri u e l k t. sow:L eon, of Lineoln's-inn street', banker, , to Ernana .3.3tie' the eldest daughter of the Rev. E. L. Sayer, M.A., of Weston, Thamee. Ditton, late vicar of Pulloxhill, I3eds. DEATIIs, „ A 30th ult., at , sot ult,, at Bouvrox.---On i'" -- GELL.—On Boulton, of 13, London-street, Paddingtou, aged 37. hTreduauo c iVeymout k it , T ec h t o o s:a i : i v o s n on . the Li,.bella, wife a the Rev. John P. Gell, in cli .... ilactnetSiorfJBohn .F 1 ° x ll :l;l 9 cl ' in -N , ° l t i t . i li ng ., h a i g il e ' d znouthshir vi o• Esq., aged 05. .. a 3 n 7 d . only child of tv -e „..-Ort the 30th ult , at Upper Tulse-hill, Jasper IloLms• a ' On the 27th ult,, at Bath, Major Thomas Moore, ged '5 1 :,./4.,0i • Exc itAlansoN. — On the 31st ult., at Charlewood, Sussex, gr• James IV. Richardson, late of London. SMITH.—On the 30th ult., Lieut. E. G. Smith, R.N., for 25 years Chief Officer of the Coastguard Station,,Kimme ridge. YATES.—Ori the 30th ult., in Kentish-town, Elizabeth, M o Holm • eL widow of the late Frederic Yates, formerly of the Adelphi Theatrk, aged 61. 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