The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-25 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The Virago, 6, paddle, Commander M. B. Dunn, Deft Spithead for Devonport on Saturday evening. The. Sealark (naval apprentices' brig ) Lieut.- Commander M. Lowther, arrived at Spithead from Devonport on Saturday evening. The screw steam-ship St. George. 91,was warped on Friday from the sheer hulk in Hamoaze to the basin in the Devonport dockyard, for the purpose of being advanced to the first-class steam reserve. The crew of the screw steam frigate Topaze, 51, Capt: the Hon. W. S. Spencer, were paid advanced wages at Plymouth on Friday, and on Saturday she was towed by the Confiance outside the port, and proceeded up channel to join the squadron. The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. W. lioorsom, C.B„ went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound. She is ordered to Portsmouth to take on board some gnus. The gunboat Jackdaw, at Plymouth, received her powder on Friday. The gunboat Violet, tender to the Eagle, left Plymouth on Saturday for Milford Haven. The United States' sloop of war Plymouth, 16, Captain Craven, from Annapolis, United States, which was off the port on Friday evening, entered Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. She will probably leave this eveningand proceed to Madeira, calling at Brest and Cadiz. There are a number of midshipmen on board, for whose exercise the voyage is undertaken. The hired troop-ship Seabreeze arrived at Spit head 31 sterday. She will embark troops for the Mauritius, as stated in Tile Sun of Friday. In consideration of their services with the Naval Brigade of her Majesty's ship Pearl, in India, the Lords of the Admiralty have promoted Commander N. E. B. Tumour to the rank of Captain, and Lord C. T. M. D. Scott to be an Acting-Lieutenant. The following appointments were made on Sa turday at the Admiralty :—Lient. W. F. Gregory to the Neptune ; D. R. Farquharson, to the Aboukir ; J. R. Anderson, Assistant-Surgeon to the Gannet ; and P. Mansfield , Assistant-Surgeon, to the Donegal. THE A.RMI . The fourth grand review at the Curragh Camp was held on Friday, and was one of the finest of these military spectacles that have yet taken place. The whole of the troops encamped under the im mediate personal command of Gen. Lord Seaton were on the ground. Additional interest was given to the proceedings by the presence of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, who arrived by special train at Newbridge, where he was received by a guard of honour, shortly before 11 o'clock. The two-company depot of the 73d Regiment marched into Chatham Garrison on Saturday from Plymouth, and occupied the , quarters in Chatham Barracks vacated by the 10th depot, which has re cently joined head-quarters. The strength of the 73d depot consists of 9 officers, 8 sergeants, 9 cor porals, 1 drummer, and 386 rank and file. The offi cers who are attached to the depot are Captains G. Benny (in command) and G. J. Burne, Lieuts. H. Fraser, W. Bayley, and W. Clarke, Ensigns A. C. F. Armstrong, H. F. H. Gibsone,St. John D. Galwey, and B. J. A. Monsell. The head-quarters of the 73d are now at Benares, the regiment having been in India since 1849. It is not expected home for some time. The depot is attached to the 2d battalion, under the command of Col. R. N. Phillips. The following officers, who have obtained com missions in the corps of Royal Engineers, are or dered to join head-quarters as Chatham on the Ist of August :—Lients. A. B. Haig, E. M. Lloyd, H. Causley, A. Featherstonehaugh, J. G. M'Pherson, T. Howard, and F. Bailey. On Saturday a number of non-commissioned offi cers and men, belonging to various regiments, who have recently returned invalided from India, left St. Mary's invalid establishment, Chatham, for the purpose of joining their respective depots, the whole of them having recovered from their wounds or sickness. Several men who were declared unfit for further service received their discharge the same day. Some experiments were tried at Fort Moncton, near Portsmouth, on Saturday, with the view of testing a new description of embrasure. Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.B. (Inspector-General of Fortifica tions), Sir J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.B. (Commanding South-West District, Assistant Quartermaster- General), Col. E. Somerset, C. 8., and a large num ber of military officers, were present to witness the proceedings. The immediate space round the mouth of the embrasure is formed of pigs of iron bolted together in the strongest possible manner. The outer space is formed of iron plates, with an outside facing of brickwork several feet thick ; the parapet, arch, and other portions of the work on the inner face of the battery being built in the usual manner. The practice at the embrasure was from an eight-inch gun with solid shot and a charge of 161 b. of powder, at only 400 yards range; at this distance the shot broke into fragments, making an indentation on the pigs of iron of 11 inch. Where the shot struck the brickwork it tore the whole of it away from the iron plates, but in the intended future trial the place occupied by the brickwork will be filled up with earth. The result of the experimeats proved, in the opinion of the military officials present, the perfect shelter men would have in working artillery behind a battery built on this plan. The Royal Miners' Artillery Militia of Cornwall were inspected last week by' Col. Pester at Truro, previous to the expiration of the usual period of drill. The gallant colonel bestowed high praise on the efficiency of the regiment. The West Norfolk Militia were reviewed on Saturday afternoon on Mousehold-heath, near Nor wich, by Colonel Bloomfield, commandant of the camp at Colchester. The regime=t is to be disem bodied to-day. The East Norfolk Militia, which have been as sembled at Great Yarmouth for three weeks" train ing and exercise, are to be disembodied to-morrow. The Stirlingshire Militia Regiment, which is at present quartered in the permanent barracks at Aldershott, had new colours presented to it by the Duchess of Montrose on Saturday last. The ceremony took place on the regimental parade grotmd, in presence of a large party of ladies and gentlemen, the latter consisting chiefly of the General and Staff officers of the camp. The regi ment was drawn up in full marching order, and the colours having been blessed by the chaplain to the regiment, her Grace addressed Sir Alex. Maitland, the Lieut.-Col. Commandant, and the presentation took place in the accustomed form. The ensigns, kneeling, received the colours from the Duchess, and Sir A. Maitland made an appropriate address. The " trooping" followed, after which the regiment marked past in slow and quick time, a performance which elicited flattering commendations from her Grace, as well as from several officers who were present. ROYAL ARTILLERY STAFF. WOOLWICH, Jut 24. In accordance with the reorganisation of the regiment of Royal Artillery, the following new ar rangements for the distribution of the staff officers have been sanctioned by the Commander-in-Chief, and are now nearly completed, viz.:— Horse Brigade—Headquarters, Woolwich—Colo nel Commandant, Sir Hew D. Ross, G.C.B. ; In spector-General, Colonel Bloomfield, C.B. ; Colonel H. G. Teesdale ; Lieutenant. Colonel Philpots ; Pay master E: Gibbs; Adjutant Denne ; Quartermas ter Marwin ; Suageon-Major Savage. At Alder shott—Lieutenant-Colonel Wood. At Bengal— Lieutenant-Colonel Price. At Portobello—Lieute nant-Colonel Gambier. First Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; headquar ters, Woolwich.—Colonel Commandant, H. Eve legh ; Colonels Ward and Palliser; Lieutenant- Colonels Dalton De Rinzy,.Maclean, and Brough ton ; Adjutant, Morris ; Quartermaster Cass ; Sur geon, Conibe, M.D. Second Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; headquar ters, Dover.—Colonel Commandant R. Jones; Colo nels Cappage and Ingilby ; Lieutenant-Colonels 21 3'er z Gardner, D'Aguilar, and Talbot ; Pay master vYner; Adjutant Simpson; Quartermaster Murphy; Surgeon Voss. Third Brigade—Garrison Artillery • h d , e a guar _ ters, Devonport—Colonel Commandant Tobin • Colonels Pester and Maclean ; Lieutenant-Colonels' Rowan, Wright, Henderso n, and Romer ' • Pay master Murray; Adjutant Penn ; Quartermaster Black; Surgeon Park. Fourth Brigade—Field A r tin ir h it. eadq4:4ll . * 3 Woolwich.—Colonel Comman dant txdo Gard iner; Colonels Flude and Dick ; Li miten onels Franeklyn, C. 8., Cofton, Devereux, and Gardiner ; Adjutant Taylor; Q uartermaster Williams and Surgeon Fogo. Fifth Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; headqua r t ers, Gibraltar.—Colon el Commandant J. Michell, C.B. ; Colonels Burn and Shuttleworth ; Lieutenant- Colonels Elwyn, Maberly, C. 8., Campbell, C. 8., and Bingham; Paymaster Kidcl; Adjutant Col lington ; Quartermaster Clvs ; and Surgeon. Dempsey. Sixth. Brigade—Garrison Artillery; headquar ters, Malta.—Colonel Commandant F. Campbell ; Colonels Thorndike and Warde ; Lieutenant -Cols. Kennedy, Irving, Wodehouse, and Graydon ; Pay master Scott; Adjutant Oldfield ; Quartermaster Stewart ; Surgeon Galloway. Seventh Brigade-.. Garrison Artillery ; head quarters, Quebec---,-Colonel Commandant T. DynelY, C. 8.; Colonels Cravirtird and Taylor; Lieutenant- Colonels Turner, Benn, Printer, C. 8., and Dora ville ; Adjutant Close; 4uartermaster Morris ; SuootOillborne. ighth Brigade--Field Artillery ; headquarters, Portsmouth.—Colonel Commandant T. J. Forbes ; ' Colonels Gostling and Lake, C.B. ; , Lieutenant- Colonels Fitzmayer, C. 8., Goodenough, C. 8., Nixon, and Radcliffe ; Adjutant Rolton ; Quarter master Hassell ; Surgeon De Lisle. Ninth Brigade—Field Artillery . ; headquarters, Dublin.—Colonel Commandant A. C. Mercer; Cols. Symons and Ormsby; Lieutenant-colonels Marriott, Dickson, C. 8., Shakespear, and • Knox; Adjutant Carey ; Quartermaster Armstrong; and Surgeon Rndge. Tenth Brigade--Garrison Artillery ; headquar ters, Guernsey.—Colonel Commandant W. G. Power, C.B. ; Colonels Nedham and Dunlop, C.B. ; Lieutenants-colonels Cleveland, Elliott, Mundy, and Crofton ; Adjutant Cairns ; Quartermaster Haines ; Surgeon Macintosh. Eleventh Brigade—Field Artillery ; headquar ters, Bengal.—Colonel Commandant P. M. Wal lace ; Colonels Wingfield and Poole ; Lieutenant- Colonels Riddell, C. 8., Adye, C. 8., Burrowes, and Christie; Quartermaster Lloy d; Surgeon Elliott. Twelfth Brigade—Garrison Artillery ; head quarters, Mauritius.—Colonel Commandant G. Turner, C.B. ; Colonels Benn and M'Coy ; Lieuten ant-Colonels Fresser, C. 8., Crawford, C. 8., Cock burn, and Graham; Adjutant Le Mesurier, C. 8., Quartermaster Keating ; Surgeon Protheroe. Thirteenth Brigade--Field Artillery ; headquar ters, Bombay.—Colonel Commandant G. Cobbe ; Colonels Hill and Morris ; Lieutenant-Colonels Buchanan, Brown, Smyth, and Younghusband ; Quartermaster Kirkman ; Surgeon Dassauville. Fourteenth Brigade—Field Artillery ' • headquar ters, Bengal.—Colonel Commandant E. Whinyate Colonels St. George, C. 8., and Mitchell ; Lieuten ant-Colonels Sir G. R. Barker, K.C.8., -Taddy, Dennis ' and Travers ; Adtant Murray ; Quarter master Hodge ; Surgeon Waishe. The Depot (or additional) Brigade at Woolwich will consist of Lieutenant-Colonels Kennedy, Tal bot, Henderson, and Travers ; Adjutant Bryne ; Quartermaster Hendley ; and Surgeon-Major Davis. THE COST OF SHIPBUILDING IN THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS. Curious facts—not unfamiliar to ourselves, how ever—have lately been brought forward in illus tration of the cost to which the nation is put for shipbuilding in the Royal Dockyards. In that speech of Mr. Lindsay's to which we have already more than once referred, we find these facts put in a connected and striking form. They will bear reca pitulation here. It appears that a return has been made of the cost 6f a number of ships built in our dock yards, all of the same size -1,462 tons burden. The first of these vessels—the Satellite—was built at Devonport, and the expenditure for shipwrights' labour was in her case said to be £6,450, or at the rate of £4 Bs. 3d. per ton. The second, the Pelorus, was also built at De'vonport, and the ship wrights' wages were £6,712. The Scylla was built at Sheerness, and the expenditure for the same purpose was £8,621 ; while in the case of the Racoon, built at Chatham, it was £6,321. The cost of labour ilia one dockyard was apparently, there fore, much greater than in another. Thus, the Pearl, built at Woolwich, costs us £6 18s. sd. per ton ; while the Satellite, built at Devonport, and the Racoon at Chatham, cost £4 6s. 6d. per ton. There must be something radically wrong, said Mr. Lind say, to cause such a discrepancy as this. Two frigates built in a private yard on the Tyne for the Russian Government—viz., the Tartar and the Cossack—cost £2 Bs. per ton. That included not only the cost fir shipwrights, but the cost offitting them out for sea : whereas the entire cost of flitting out the Pearl for sea was £8 13s. 11d. It was evident, to Mr. Lindsay's mind, that there was something wrong in the management of the Royal dockyards. " Why could the men not be employed as they were in private dockyards ? If they were employed on piecework, instead of the labour account of the shipwrights being £8 13s. 11d. per ton, it would not be more than £2 12s. per ton. The rate for labour in the present estimates was £1.527,000. Of this £1,000,000 at least was for shipwrights ; and on this item alone there might be a saving of £400,000, while the work would not be one whit less efficiently done." Now, we are not about to blame Mr. Lindsay, by any means, for the part which he has taken in this matter. He is wrong, and in error ; but innocently so in this case. If the facts really were as the re turn itself makes them appear, his criticism would in the main be sound and pertinent. But the facts are not as they there - appear. We know somewhat of the manner in which accounts are kept in the Royal Dockyards, and we unhesitatingly state that it is not possible to get from those aceounts what the return professes to give, viz., the actual amounts of money expended for labour upon particular ships. The surveyor of the navy, or his staff, has acted most unwisely, in our judgment, in putting forth sach a return. We entirely deny that its accuracy can be guaranteed. Let us glance for a moment at the circumstances operating in two neighbouring yards which are contrasted most unfavourably in this return — Sheerness and Chatham. Now, in the latter yard, where there are numerous building slips, by far the 12.rger portion of the shipwrights are constantly engaged upon what is called " new work"—in other words, upon the building of new ships. The inter ferences occasioned by the pressure of fitting and repairing of ships occur but comparatively seldom. In Sherness yard, however, the case is wholly dif ferent. There is but one small building slip in it ; and the regularity of the work expended upon the single ship there building is, of necessity, seriouslir impaired by the frequent putting on and calling of of hands for repairing and fitting purposes. How this R ould tell upon the nominal expense of the ship in progress of building will be readily con ceived. Like effects are produced in another and somewhat similar way. In the building of a ship upon the stocks, in order that she may be built economically, it is indispensably necessary to ad just the number of hands employed upon her to the varying state of her progress. There are times when less than 100 men, say, are all that can be kept economically at work upon her ; there are other times when five times that number may be advantageously employed. Now, in a yard where there are several ships in various stages of advancement simultaneously in progress, this adjustment of hands can be properly attended to. But in a yard like Sheerness, with its one building slip, and an exceedingly fluctuating amount of fitting and repairing to be executed, it is quite impossible to economise the labour in this way. The same remarks apply, to a certrin extent, to Woolwich dockyard. These are the causes which, with others—for we are by no means attempting to treat the subject fully—tend to produce those dis crepancies which, by their grossness, have struck the senses of the member for Sunderland. And these are causes, it will be observed, which cannot be removed. It may occur to some that it would be better to build no ships at yards circumstanced like Sheer ness. But this is a mistake ; it would be worse. With a ship in progress on the stocks, there is a means of absorbing your spare work in times of slackness, when there is but little fitting or repair ing to be done ; and although its absorption in this way is undoubtedly attended by a loss, the loss would be greater did this provision not exist. But when all due allowances are made for facts of this kind, it is useless to look for accuracy to the accounts as they are at present kept. An immense amount of dockyard labour gets " charged," in the course of months, to wrong vessels. Nor is it, in deed, practicable to avoid this. It is sometimes as impossible to estimate the labour expended upon the building of a particular ship as it would be to measure the work done by the French battalions in the capture of each of the several positions of Sol ferino, Cavriana, &c., at the last great battle. The mistake lies, as we have said, in the present in stance, in the putting forth of the return in ques tion. Far better admit the difficulty than ignore it, and expose yourself to such hard and inexorable critics as Mr. Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay's remarks upon " piecework" and the cost of shipbuilding in private dockyards, are open to many corrections ; but having dealt with the main question, we must defer the consideration of minor points for the present.—Mechanics' gazine. 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In both instances, the twist in rifling was equivalent to one turn in 60 feet at the beginning, and ending in one in 20. _ _ " The projectile designed by General James for these guns is a cast iron cylinder pointed by a solid conoid head, the diameter being only 0.2 of an inch less than the bore of the gun, and the length twice the diameter of the calibre. The cylinder retains its full diameter for a quarter of an inch of its length at each end. For the intermediate length its diameter is reduced half-an-inch, forming a re cess in its body, which is filled by a compound of canvas, sheet•tin, and lead. The base of the cylinder has a central cavity or opening of 1.95 inches in diameter, and 1.5 inches deep. When the charge is fired, the gas evolved by the burning of the powder, in its efforts to expel the projectile and to escape from the gun, is forced into the cavity against the compound filling, which is thereby pressed into the grooves of the bore, and by its firm hold in them the rotary motion is imparted to the projectile. " The Board, having examined the guns and pro jectiles, proceeded to testtheir efficiency, the results of which were 'very satisfactory. The report says, respecting the guns, their merit is due to the rifl ing, which can be readily applied, at little cost, to all bronze cannon of the United States, and so render them as far superior to the present smooth bore guns as, in small arms, the most improved rifle surpasses the musket. _ ",The .. depth of . grooving is so shallow as in no 1 wise materially to impair the strength of the gun, while it is sufficient to compel the projectile to take the rifle flight. The effect of these con trivances was exhibited in an extraordinary manner by the increased range obtained while using the same charge of powder and elevation in pro jecting masses of double the weight of the usual spherical balls. The merits of the projectile are represented to consist in their ' answering fully the expectations desired of them ; their ready fabrica tion and adaptation to guns; their ease in loading ; the certainty of file expansion of the filling and its firm hold in the grooves of the guns. The greased canvas wipes the rifling clean, and leaves the bore in condition readily to receive the next charge, and which is also a sure protection to the bore from in jury.' For these reasons the gun awl projectiles are commended to the favourable consideration of the Government ; and as the experimental firing was subject to several disadvantages which may hereafter be avoided, the board recommend that guns of the service calibre be granted to General James, for rifling, according to his principle. We learn that another series of experiments is in contempla tion, in which to compare, side by side, the per formances of this new gun with those now in use. Of course the remarkable precision and power of the new rifled ordnance constitute its chief value, but the great saving of ammunition effected is a matter of no small importance. The results of the experi ments above referred to are expressed in tabular form, at much length. As an example, it is shown that in one instance 18 shots were fired a mean dis tance of 674 yards, at an elevation of one degree— the powder weighing 111 b., the projectile 1211 b. — the deviation being only four inches to the right of centre, and half an inch above it. On reaching ground the missile was buried five feet in comp Act saud. In another instance a shot was fired 2,050 yards, at an elevation of five degrees, and passed about 25 feet above the top of the hill toward which it was di rected. The board believe, from the testimony of several witnesses who were near the range, that the projectile ' continued its flight many 100 yards be yond the hill,' the summit of which was nearly on the samelevel as that upon which the gun was placed in battery. According to the stateme at of Mr. Ames, the manufacturer of the gun, who has carefully examined the ground, ' it is almost certain the ball went four miles.' After what is already known it is safe to say that any object within the reach of an ordi nary spy-glass is a fair mark for this terrible weapon. , In one other respect the exploits of General James's gun demand attention. According to the laws of projectiles laid down in the Ordnance Manual, and which have long been established, as was suppoSed beyond power of refutation, the range of a 61b. shot at 5 deg . elevation and 111 b. of powiter is 1,523 yards ; but, in the example now afforded, a ball 1211 b., with the specified quantity of powder, has gone between three and four miles. As compared with the celebrated Armstrong gun, the results are not less curious. Mr. A. claims to have thrown a ball 51 miles with 61bs. of powder, employing an area or calibre of 31 inches,—which is a result of 55-100ths less favourable than that obtained by the experiments at Chicopee. According to the latter, any gun of calibre equal to Armstrong's will throw a ball, with less than half the powder, the full dis tance attained in his practice." AGGREGATE MEETING OF JOURNEY- MEN BAKERS. On Saturday evening a numerous meeting of journeymen bakers, from all parts of London, was &id in the large room of the Horns Tavern, Ken nington, to take into consideration the present de graded position of the trade, and to endeavour, by all legal means, to emancipate themselves from the state of slavery they were now enduring. Mr. Blackmore, the chief promoter of the moveMent, was loudly cheered when taking his seat on' the platform. A great number of master bakers and their wives were also present. Mr. F. W. Goddard, in the absence of Mr. W. Williams, M.P., took the chair, and expressed his regret that Mr. Williams had not been able to take the chair, as he knew his heart was with them, and that he felt most deeply for the working man. He hoped, however, that he should be able in a degree to fi,ll his place. He (Mr. Goddard) was a descend ant of five generations of bakers, and he felt most deeply for the journeymen of that trade. He felt that man should regard man, not fqr th purpose of exacting as much work from him as could be ob tained, but that he should consider him as an in teger to make up the great whole of society. When he saw the procession that evening he felt how much they were entitled to consideration, when they were struggling, not for the slaughter of their fellow-men, but for obtaining their just rights. (Hear.) The labour of the journeyman baker was incessant, for he had not only to look after the work of the night, but to see to the tally of the day; so that his brain and his thews were constantly on the stretch. (Cheers.) No human power could stand this; and it was now time there should be an alteration. (Cheers.) Mr. BENNETT, in proposing the first resolution, said—lt was to be regretted that Lord Robert Grosvenor had been unsuccessful in his attempts to ameliorate the condition of the working bakers. He considered that every one had a part to per form, and it rested with each one individually to give his support to enable them to accomplish the emancipation of their fellow workmen. (Cheers.) He moved—" That this meeting, being deeply sen sible of the evils resulting from the existing sys tem of conducting the practical operation of the baking trade of London and its vicinity, do con sider it subversive to out best interests, rendering us totally incapable of fulfilling those high moral and social duties expected from us as rational and accountable beings., and that the abolition of night work, and a limitation of the hours of labonr to 12 hours per day, is imperatively necessary for our physical, mental, moral, and social improvement." Mr. M`NAUGHTEN seconded the resolution. Mr. AYRT ON, a master baker, supported the re solution, and said there were hundreds of workmen who commenced working at eleven o'clock at night, and never left it till six o'clock the follow ing evening, and had to undergo the same ordeal from day to day. Now, he asked whether the human constitution could stand that ? If they worked ten days a-week the public 'would say— " Well, they get paid accordingly," But that was not the case. They were skilled labourers, and yet received less wages than a dock labourer. (Cheers.) How would they have this altered ? By strikes ? That was impossible. By parliamentary interference? They had appealed to,the Legisla ture through that good man, Lord Robert Grosvenor (now Lord Ebury), and only asked for a committee to inquire into their wrongs, and let them state their grievances. But what did Mr. Cobden say ? He said that he believed tie case of the journeymen bakers was much exaggerated, or else so many would not come up from Scotland tc seek employ ment. (Disapprobation.) Underthese circumstances they had only to fall back upon their last resouree —public opinion ; and upon that he relied with confidence. (Cheers.) The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. BLACKMORE moved, " That this meeting having duly considered the necessity and reason ableness of the request, abolition of night work and a limitation of the hours of labour in an un healthy and heated atmosphere,' herewith pledges itself to render every possible assistance to any official directory whose powers spring from the legitimately expressed will of the operatives of the baking trade." Mr. ROWLEY, a master baker, seconded the reso lution, and said he had adopted tho twelve hours' movement, and had found it answer. (Loud cheers.) Mr. BARNES and other speakers having sup ported the resoluiien, a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, JULY 22. (Before Mr. Baron Watson and a Special Jury.) LORD FOLEY AND OTHERS V. SINGLETON AND ANOTHER. This was an action by the plaintiffs, as executors of the late Duke of Nor - folk, to recover compensa- tion for the use and occupation of a piece of land at Sh+ afield. The defendants denied their liability. Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Quain appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Bliss, Q.C., Mr. Manisty, Q.C., and Mr. Blackburne for one of the defendants and Mr. Temple, Q.C., and Mr. Cleaseby for the other. It appeared that in the year 1853 the defendants, who were timber merchants, applied to the agents of the late Duke of Norfolk to lease the piece of land in question, and accordingly, as alleged on the part of the plaintiffs, it was agreed to grant the plaintiffs a lease for 99 years at the rent of ls. a yard. No formal agreement was made, and the lease was never granted. But it was alleged that the defendants entered on the land and exercised over it various acts of ownership during several years, down to the death of the late duke in 1856, and from these acts, coupled with the agreement for a lease, it was now contended that the defendants were liable for the rent, in the same way as if the lease had been granted. A great deal of evidence was given on both sides, and there was much con flict between the witnesses. For the plaintiffs evi dence was given of frequent demands of the rent, and that such demands were not met by any denial of liability. Tne defendants, on the other hand, swore that they always repudiated the claim when ever it was made upon them. The learned Judge told the jury that in order to find for the plaintiffs they must be of opinion that there was an agreement to pay a rent for the land, notwithstanding that no formal lease was drawn up, and until the lease was granted. The jury, after a short consultation, found a ver dict for the defendants. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) SATURDAY, July 23. James Umpleby, aged 57, Thomas Naylor, aged 46, and Moses Butler, were charged with stealing a quantity of wool and " nippings," and two wool sheets, the property of Mr. Richard Ripley, at Leeds, on the 13th of April last. Mr. Middleton and Mr, West prosecuted ; Mr. Bliss, Q.C., and Mr. Blanshard appeared for the prisoner Butler, Mr. Campbell Foster for Naylor, and Mr. Seymour for Umpleby. It appeared that the prosecutor, Mr. Ripley, is a woollen manufacturer and yarn spinner, having two mills, one in Lace-lane, Leeds, and the other at Holbeck, near Leeds. The prisoner Umpleby was his carter, and had filled that situation for many years. The prisoner Naylor also had been 20 years in his service, and lived in a cottage in the mill yard at Holbeck. The prisoner Butler is a dealer in woollen waste at Wortley, near Leeds. It was the duty of Umpleby to carry goods out to customers of Mr. Ripley, on his " wherry," and it appeared that Umpleby, when he called at the mill of the prosecutor in Holbeck, used generally to go there with his wherry between 12 and 1 o clock, when the workpeople we:.e at dinner. Fifty workpeople were employed at this mill in scouring wool and spinning it into yarn. The wool was weighed out in large quantities and given to Naylor for the pur pose of being scoured. He was the head scourer, and placed the wool in a building calied the dry house, and he weighed it out there in small quan tities of 41b. each, which he gave out to be scoured. It•then passed through various hands until it came back as spun yarn. In March last 122 stone 91b. of Saxny wool, worth about 2s. 10d. per lb., were weighed out and given to Naylor, and of. that quan tity so given out it was alleged the produce in yarn was 901 b. short of what it ought to have been. On the 13th of April, suspicions having arisen that wool was missing, the manager communicated with the police, and on that day Umpleby was observed to drive into the mill-yard with his wherry and re ceive various packages of goods to deliver ; but upon his wherry two packages of wool, fastened up in sheets, were observed to be covered over. No one was seen to place them on the wherry. When Umpleby drove off he was followed and watched. He drove to the prisoner Butler's house at Wort• ley, and, without saying anything, Butler came out of his house and took one of the sheets of wool, weighing about 301 b., in his arms from the wherry, and was carrying it into his house when the police man pounced upon him. On searching Hs house a machine, called a " willey," was found in a room upstairs ; and, on the part of the prosecution, it was suggested that the oluect of having this machine there was to mix and tear up the wool taken there with woollen waste, nippings, and, other woollen refuse, so as to destroy the identity of all of them. On being taken into custody - Umpleby begged f - ,r mercy, and said that Naylor gave him the wool from the dryhouse. Naylor was not, however, pre sent. Afterwards Naylor was taken into custody, and a conversation between him and Umpleby was given in evidence tending to show that Umpleby's statement, that he had received the wool from him, was correct. Naylor's house was searched, and in a large box was found a quantity of woollen sheet• ings made up into bags, the sheeting being such as Mr. Ripley's wool was packed in, and in another box £l6 odd in money. Witnesses were called; who gave Butler an excellent character, and who proved that the Willey found in his house would only knock the dust out of waste and wool put through it, and would not alter the identity of the article. The learned, counsel for the prisoners having ad dressed the jury, His , lordship directed the jury that as against Naylor there was not legal evidence on which it would be safe to convict, and summed up the evi dence against the other prisoners. The jury retired, and after an ahsence of half an hour, acquitted all the prisoners. This case was commenced yesterday, and was adjourned by his lordship at seven o'clock last night, and occupied the Court until two o'clock to day, and concluded the business of these assizes. In the Civil Court to-day Mr. Baron Watson tried the last cause. Their lordships then departed for Durham. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, July 22. (Before Mr. Justice Willes, and a Common Jury.) THOMPSON AND OTHERS V. THOMAS. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Scotland ap peared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Kettle for the defendant. This was an action of trover, brought to recover the value of an iron boat. The plaintiffs carried on businep as :the Crook Hay Iron Company, and in September, 1857, purchased -a boat of Messrs. Woodhall and Smith, iron boatbuilders, at:Dudley, and had it marked, and used it for some time. The defendant was a creditor of Messrs. Woodhall and Smith for the. sum. of 4170, and ob tained their authority to take a boat of theirs for 470 in part payment of the debt. The defendant accordingly took possession of a boat, and the only, question was, whether the boat in question was one belonging to Messrs. Woodhall and Smith, which the defendant had a right to take, or whether he had..not by mistake taken possession of the pWn tiffs' boat. The jury were locked up for several hours, and eventually found their verdict for the defendant. THOMAS V. BOOTH. Mr. Sergeant Thomas and Mr. Holroyd appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. P. M'Mabon for the de fendant. This was an action for ejectment, brought by the plaintiff as assignee of a mortgage against the de fendant. to recover possession of a shop and pre mises adjoining the Red Cow, in Stafford. It ap peared that on the 24th March, 1838, J. Allcock mortgaged the premises in question to John Talbot for a sum of £5OO. Talbot died in 1848, and his heir-at-law assigned the mortgage to the, plaintiff in 1852. The defendant was the daughter of the mortgagor, James Allcock, and claimed to be a tenant, and entitled to notice to quit before giving up possession. It appeared, howwer, that the only wit ness called by the defendant—viz., the plain tiff, that the defendant had denied that she was a tenant to the plaintiff, and that the latter had failed to prove any tenancy in an action brought by him in the County Court to recover rent. Mr. Justice Willes, under these circumstances, directed the jury to find their verdict for the plain tiff, which they did accordingly. business of a commission agent, and was in the ' habit of getting bills discounted at the bank of Messrs. Dingnan and Co., at Walsall, went to their bank on the 9th of December last, and, among other bills, he tendered - one for discount which purported to be drawn upon and accepted by John Stanley, of the Crown Inn, Leamington. It was pro posed to read the deposition made before the magis trates by Stanley, on proof that he was so ill as to be unable to travel; but, after some discussion on this point, his Lordship ruled that the inability tb travel was not proved, and the prisoner was acquitted. The prisoner was then tried on another indict ment, which charged him with forging and utter ing a bill purporting to have been accepted by John Machin. John Machin and his son, the only persons to whom the signature to the bill courd be attributed, proved that they had neither signed nor authorised any one to accept it. Mr. Scotland addressed the jury for the prisoner, and they found him guilty. Mr. Justice Byles then sentenced the prisoner to six years' penal servitude. The prisoner, who was very unwell, on receiving his sentence fell down in the dock, and had to be carried out of court. Mr. Justice Byles directed that every care should be taken of him, and that he should be sent to the hospital, which was done accordingly. John Horobin, Edward Jukes, and Humphrey James surrendered•to take their trial on a cliarge of manslaughter at Sheffield, on the 11th of June, 1859. Mr. Cripps appeared for the prosesution ; Mr. Motteram appeared for Horobin ; Mr. Scotland for Jukes ; and Mr. Cook Evans for James. It appeared from the opening statement of coun• sel that the deceased man, Thomas Litherland, had been engaged in a fight with the prisoner Horobin, and the other two prisoners had acted as seconds. After the fight the deceased was taken home, and died the next day in consequence of the rupture of a bloodvessel at the base of the brain, but there was nothing distinctly to connect the rupture with any particular blow, but it was suggested that it was the result of the contest in which he had been en gaged. Mr. Justice Byles said that if the deceased came by his death in consequence of the contest the pri soners were in law guilty of manslaughter, but there was nothing in the depositions to show tl,iat there had been any unfairness. The prisoners, under the advice of their counsel, retracted their pleas, and pleaded guilty. Mr. Justice Byles said he was glad to say that there was nothing unfair in the conduct of the pri soners, and he thought that, under the circum stances, justice would be done by discharging the prisoners on their entering into their recognisances to appear and receive judgment when called upon. His lordship was glad to find, what he did not know before, that all the inhabitants of the parish, with the clergymen, had come forward to speak to the good character of Horobin. The prisoners then entered into their recognis ances, and were discharged. Henry Cotes surrendered to take his trial on a charge of feloniously stabbing and wounding John Chawier, with intent to do hiai some grievous bodily harm, on the Ist of May, 1859, at Burton upon-Trent. Mr. Breyton appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Motteram defended the prisoner. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, that, a little after 12 o'clock on the night in ques tion, he was going down Lichfield-street, Burton. He had been to indle's to have some drink, and was going home in company with two men, one of whom was named Dakin, when he met the prisoner and another man. The prisoner recognised Dakin as a man whom he had seen before, and asked him to take some snuff, which he did. The prisoner then accused Dakin of taking his snuff-box, and the prosecutor then ooserved that he did not think that the prisoner and his companion had come honestly by the box, which his companion was carrying. Thereupon, the prisoner made a rush at the prose cutor, and stabbed him in the thigh with a knife, and inflicted a wound two inches in depth. A clasp knife was found on the prisoner which might have inflicted the wound. It appeared that the prosecutor had been more than once in custody on criminal charges, and that after he had been wounded, he was taken to the police station, and soon after he had got there the prisoner and his companion went to the station and made a charge of robbery against the prosecutor, whom he identified as one of a party who hadseized the box the prisoner's companion was carrying, and stolen four sovereigns from it. Mr. Motteram, for the prisoner, commented on the omission to call Dakin, and suggested that the wound might have been inflicted by the prosecutor falling upon some glass which was lying in the entry where the scuffie took place. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy on account of his good character. Mr. Justice Byles said the crime of stabbing must be put down, and sentenced the prisoner to three years' penal servitude. ' NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—CAMBRIDGE, JULY 23. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and.a Common Jury.) BEVILL AND ANOTHER V. ROGERS. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Newton were coun sel for the plaintiff; Mr. Keane for the defendant. The plaintiffs, who were brothers, were trainers of race horses at Royston, and the defendant a large farmer, residing at Clapton-hall, Northamptonshire. One of the plaintiffs had been living with the de fendant as his farming pupil, and the defendant subsequently employed the plaintiffs to train a horse called "Polish" and a filly called " Miss Fel lowes_" " Polish" turned out a failure, but " Miss Fellowes" promised well, and a bill of £BO was sent by the plaintiffs to the defendant for their expenses in the nritter. The plaintiff was cross-examined by Mr. Keane, and the amount of his claim, re duced to .£75 45., for which sum the jury gave their verdict. HOLBEN V. LILLEY. Mr. Power, Q.C., and Mr. Henry Mills were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Couch for the defendant. The declaration was for a trespass on the plain tiff's land, to which the defendant pleaded three pleas, setting up a right of way. The plaintiff and defendant were tenants of the Mercers' Company and Kin g's'Col lege respectively, the latter being the substantial parties to the cause. The question was whether the occupier of a farm at Grantehester had a right of way for horses and carriages over a cer tain field which was in the possession of the plain tiff as tenant to the provost and fellows of King's College. This field had been open land until the year 1839, when it was enclosed under the powers of a private Act of Parliament. The enclosure award which was put in by the plaintiff set out a bridle and footpath only, but it was contended on the part of the defendant that he was not thereby precluded from proving the enjoyment of the larger right. It was admitted that the 11th section of the Commons Enclosure Act, the 41st of George 111., which was incorporated with the private Act, ope rated to extinguish all private roads :which wera not set out in the award, but the two following points were taken for the purpose of destroying the effect of the award :-1, that long-continued uses of the largei right, being inconsistent with the award, rebutted the legal presumption that all the neces sary preliminaries to the due making of the award had been fulfilled, and threw upon the other side the lurden of proving that fact ; 2, that the actual userrof the right for forty years, Fhich it was al leged tad, in fact, existed, rendered the right inde feasible under Lord Tenterden's Act, notwithstand ing the award. The Lord Chief Baron overruled both these ob jections ; he must take the award as proved, and, that being so, both parties were bound by it, and everything outside of it which existed previously to it could not be appealed to by either of them ; con sequently, as 19 years only had elapsed since the making of the award , there was no case for the jury. Leave was then reserved for the defendant to go to the Court above upon this ruling, and by the consent of the plaintiff the judge agreed that if the defendant should be dissatisfied with the decision of the Court he would sign a bill of exceptions. DAY V. DAY. Mr. Power, Q.C., and Mr. W. Cooper were coun sel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Keane and Mr. Couch for the defendant. This was an action for breaking and entering the plaintiff's land, and depasturing the same. The plaintiff and defendant were no relations. The de fendant had been in possession of the land in ques tion as the guardian of a lunatic, and gave up pos session to the co:rimittees of the lunatic appointed by the Lunacy Commissioners, who let the farm to the plaintiff. A valuation of the stock and crops upon the farm, as between outgoing and incoming tenants, to the amount of £BO, not having been pad to the defendant, he, under an impressic that he was justified in so doing, turned his cattle on to the farm, which was the trespass complained of. The damages claimed by ,the plaintiff amounted to £lO. Witness were called for the defendant with the view of showing that the damages claimed were excessive. The jury, however, gave a verdict for 1% the whole amount claimed. MARSH V. AYRES.' Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. W. Cooper appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Po*cr, Q.C., and Mr. Crouch for the defendant. The declaration was for an assault. The pleas were 'rNot guilty," and " Son assault demesne: The damages were laid at £5OO. The facts of the case appear from the evidence as given by the plaintiff in his examination in chief and on his cross exami- • Mr. John Marsh—l am the plaintiff. lam a far mer at Stuntney, near Ely. The defendant lets out thrashing machines. I remember the defendant and his brother-in-law coming over my land. I saw the defendant after that. Some words passed between us. I went to Eiy on the 3d of June. I met the de fendant on the road. He had a stick. I spoke first. I said, " You're a nice sort of fellow to persuade Wilson to let my horses go astray." Defendant said, " You go to Ely and pay your debts ; you havn't got a farthing." I said, "I have as such money as you have, you midwifely humbug." (ITe witness explained the allusion.) He said, " You scoundrel, you haven't got a farthing." I said, " I have as much as you." He then struck my mare. I said, " Don't strike her ; strike me." He then struck , me on the head with his stick. He struck me a second time and knocked me into a ditch on the other side of the road. When I recovered I found myself in the ditch. Defendant came towards me. I said, " For God's sake, don't kill me." He said, " You --, I'll murder you." He struck me again, and I remember nothing else. I was carried home. A medical man saw me next morning. I was very bad. I can't see plain now. Mr. Muriel attends me now. . _ Cross-eXamined by Mr. Power—This was at six o'clock in the evening. I might have had two pints of beer that afternoon. Sometimes I have more, some times less. I am not regular. My nearest way home was by Quayning Drove ; if I had gone home that way I should not have met defendant. I have land there. I will swear I did not go that way to meet the defendant. He was walking quietly along the footway when I stopped my horse. I did not put my horse across the footway. I did not see my horse s head knock of defendant's hat. I never rode over anybody in my life. I know Reeve of Ely. lam not aware that I ever tried to ride over him. James Mason says I tried to ride over him, but I believe I did not. I never attempted to ride over anybody else as I know of. I have been summoned for beating a woman, but she beat me first. She did not fall down. I paid her 4s. or ss. to settle. I have been assaulted and have assaulted people my self several times. lam satisfied I never knocked down a woman in the club room at Ely. If I did, I've forgot it. I have been tipsy in my time. I was struck as I was getting off the horse. I never squared up to him. I hadn't the chance. Mr. Brodrick, the manager of the gas works at Ely, heard the defendant say, " Marsh came up to the road and met me—he rode round me two or three times, and I hit his horse on the head. He said, If you mean that, hit me.' As he was get ting off his horse I hit him on the head and he reeled into the ditch. He said, I'll make you pay for this. • After that I hit him sharper than ever." He (defendant) said, "If I had had a pitchfork I should have driven it into him." Cross-examined—There were two other persons at the bar of the Angel when this conversation occurred. He said Marsh rode found him two or three times and then he hit the horse. Thomas Cross spoke to another conversation with the defendant, in which defendant stated that he paid the plaintiff about over the head, legs, eyes, and everywhere, and that when he (plaintiff) fell in the ditch'his head came up like a float. Another witness saw the assault from a distance. Saw plaintiff and defendant meet, , and then part. Afterwards plaintiff rode after defendant, and plain tiff got olf his horse. This witness then described the beating, and said that the plaintiff was nearly dead when pulled out of the ditch. Several other witnesses were called, who spoke to statements made by the defendant, giving subs tan eally the same account of the transaction—namely, that the plaintiff role round the defendant two or three times, and that the plaintiff's horse knocked off the defendant's hat. The beating was admitted by the defendant, as stated by the plaintiff. Mr. Muriel, of Ely, surgeon. saw the plaintiff on the morning of the 4th. He had a cut over his eye ; bruises on his head and body. He appeared to have been very much punished indeed. He complained of partial loss of sight, which might have resulted from these blows. Mr. O'Malley summed up the plaintiff's evidence Mr. Power addressed the jury for the defendant, and admitted that he could not justify the assault as described by the plaintiff, but urged that the plaintiff was the first aggressor and had greatly ir ritated the defendant by the insinuations he made, and that it was a case for moderate damages. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said that 'he 'could understand occasions on which assaults as violent or more so than the one concerning which they had now to inquire might be, if not justified, at all events in some degree excused. But ~w as this such a case ? The defendant had not come into the box to deny the imputation made on him by the plaintiff. If that imputation had any foun dation, though it night be very unpleasant for the defendant to be remnicle4. of it, still he could not justify resenting it as.he ciid. No doubt the plain tiff to some extent biought it on himself, but was not the assault unmanly and excessive ? The ques tion of the amount of damages was for them. The jury gave £3O damages. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Geo. Hunt and Charles Rampling were indicted for feloniously settilig fire to a stack of barley, the property of Mr. Kent, of Ditton, near Cambridge. Mr. Naylor prosecuted; the prisoners were not defended by counsel. On the afternoon of the 28th April the prisoners were seen to go to windward of a stack of barley in a field by the side of the road from Cambridge t Newmarket. They were observed to leave it, and .a few minutes afterwards some labourers observed that the stack was on fire ; they therefore went after the prisoners and took them into custody. When charged with the offence they excused them selves by 'saying that one of them had lighted his pipe, and was handing the lucifer to his mate, when it fell, and must have set the stack on fire. The stack, which was worth £l5O, was entirely de stroyed. The jury, not believing this statement, found the prisoners guilty, and they were each sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. Jas. Handley, and Elizabeth Connolly were in dicted for taking out of the possession, and against the will of Thomas Mott, her father, one Eliza Mott, she then and there being an unmarried girl under the age . of 16 years. Mr. Orridge prosecuted ; Mr. Naylor defended both the prisoners. The girl's father was a respectable farmer at Wisbeach, ,in the Isle of Ely, and the prisoner Handley was a labourer lodging at the house of the prisoner Connolly. About three weeks before the commission of the alleged offence the girl became acquainted with the female prisoner, and at her house met the prisoner Handley. Meetings took place between the girl and the prisoners, and yielding to their persuasions, on Sunday, May 22, she left her father's house, went the same night to Peterborough, and the following day to North ampton, where she was found in a low lodging with the male prisoner. The friends of the girl had been in pursuit until the discovery at Northamptton. Mr. Naylor addressed the Jury for the prisoners, urging that the evidence showed that the girl went with the prisoners of her own free will, and for the purpose of getting married to Handley. The learned Judge, referring to the statute, 9th George IV., cap. 31, under whi c h th e pr i son ers were indictd, told the jury that the offence would be complete quite independent of the object for which the girl was taken. They must be satisfied that the girl was under 16 years of age, and that the father was unwilling that she should go with the prisoner, and it would be against his will if, had be known she was going, he would have re fused his consent. Moral force on the part of the prisoners, inducing her to go, would constitute a sufficient taking, if by such moral force a willing ness on her part to go was produced. If, however, it was entirely voluntary on her part, the prisoners would not be guilty of an offence against the act. The jury acquitted both the prisoners. This case concluded the criminal business for the county of Cambridge. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Foreign Department.—The office of First Paid Attache at Paris has become vacant by the promotion of Mr. Fletcher C. C. Norton to be Secretary to the Legation at Athens. Law Department.—The Judge ship of County Courts, N 0.4 district—Blackburn, Burnley, Lancaster, Preston, sc . — has become vac an t by the death of Mr. John Addison. War Office.—The following gentlemen have received certificates of qualification from the Civil Service Commissioners :—Mr. G. A. Huxford, as purveyor's clerk ; Mr. James Nelson Marsden, as temporary out station clerk; Mr. G. W. Browne, temporary clerk, Lon don ; Mr. T. M. Porter, temporary clerk, London ; Mr. C. IL M. Stopford has passed his examination as temporary clerk in the Quartermaster-General's Office. General Post Office.—The postmastership of Ipswich has become vacant by the death of Mr. William S. Fitch —salary £250 ; there are vacancies for junior clerks; Mr. William Duck has passed his examination as provincial clerk at Bath ; Mr. John Brier has passed his examination as provincial clerk at Huddersfield. British Musoum.—There is a vacancy for an assistant librarian—commencing? salary £l5O per annum. Greenwich Hospital.—There is a vacancy for a third class clerk in the Civil Department of Greenwich Hospital, consequent upon the retirement of Mr. James F. Wright—it is in the patronage of the Lords of the Admi ralty. General Register Office.—Mr. George Wood has passed his examination as sorter in the General Register Office. Customs.—Mr. Henry Anderson has been ap. landin g - wa iter at Glasgow; Mr. G. A. Ada ms h as been pointed i apinted landing-waiter and tide-surveyor at Ram sey, Isle of Man. The following gentlemen have passed. their examinations and received certificates from the Civil . Service Commissioners :—Mr. John Reeves, as clerk, at Arbroath; Mr. W. E. Wheeler, as extra clerk, at Southamp ton ; Mr. Bernard Timothy M'Garry, as tide-waiter, at Lis-et-pools—avid Service Gazette. TILE LONDON AND NORTIL-WES . TERN RAILTVAL The exigencies of the vastly-increasing railway traffic to and from the north will nbt, improbably, in the course of time, convert the larger " refresh ment rooms" on the railways into central hotels for the better accommodation of passengers. Already the directors have found it necessary to add to this department of the Stafford station a new dining hail of large proportions, where the passengers by the Scotch trains, known as " the Scotch Express," leaving Glasgow at 9.45 a.m., and Edinburgh at 10, will find, ready for them, on arriving at 5.57, a hot dinner, after the fashion of the old coaching inns, c insisting of soups, fish, joints, pastry, con fectionary, and fruit, at the fixed price of half a crown. This dining hall is of magnificent dimen sions, and is handsomely decorated, and furnished with all appliances. The special dinner, for which a clear quarter of an hour is allowed, is under the, direction of Mr. Wm. Frazer, the master of the re freshment room, and favourably known to all tra vellers on the line for 17 years past. The economy at the refreshment rooms at the Stafford station —now one of the most frequented in England, for not less than 40 passenger trains stop and take up up passengers there daily—is not unworthy of remark. The visitors to the refreshment and dining rooms average from 500 to 800 daily, whose wants are administered to by' 20 young females as waitresses, two cooks, and two bakers. , These young persons all live on the premises, one half of them going on duty at six a.m., remaining until nine in the evening, while the others commence at tendance at half•past ten a.m., and remain on duty until the departure of the last up mail train at half past two a.m. - The new building, which is on the up-side, by no means interferes with the ordinary first and second•class refreshment rooms, but is an additional accommodation , provided especially for the northern passengers by the liberality of the directors. A gas kitchen, by Kimbersley, of Bir mingham, has been erected in conjunction with the new dining-hall, by means of which a dinner for 40 persons can be made ready at an hour's notice. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEICESTER-JuLY 23. There was a rather limited show of wheat, which met a good demand, at 2s per qr. higher. White sold at 40s to 48s ; red, 40a to 46s per qr. Barley, 34s to 40s. Oats were a moderate sale, from 28s to 36s per 24 stone, Beans, 48s to 52s per 38 stone.. Flour, 30s to 34s per 20 stone. WORRALL V. MOUGHAM. This was an action, brought by the plaintiff, a boat-builder near Wolverhampton, to recover the value of a boat, alleged to have been built by him for the defendant, and called the Mayflower. The defence was that the plaintiff had built the boat for Messrs. Riley, extensive ironmasters near Wolverhampton, who had since the building of the boat become bankrupt. The defendant, his brother, and Riley were called, and swore that the plaintiff built the boat for Riley; that Riley supplied tim ber and money during the building, and that just before the launch he (Riley) had sold the beat to the defendant. The jury, however, believed the plaintiffs evi• dente, and found their verdict for the plaintiff for the value of the boat. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) Thomas Rollason, 50, commission agent, wal., charged with • feloniously forging and uttering the acceptance of a bill of exchange on Dec. 9, 1858, at Walsall, with intent to defraud John Stanley. Mr. A. S. Will appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Sl3otland and Mr. R. Sawyer defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner, who carried on.the YORK-JuLY 23. There was a small supply of wheat to-day, with a mode rate show of other grain. An advance of 2s to 3s for wheat was established. Prices—Wheat, 40s to 458 per 36 stone ; grinding barley 30s per 30 stone ; the oat trade was slow, at quotations ranging from 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beano were 44s to 46s per 38 stone ; rye, lid to ls per stone ; malt, 64s to 68s perqr. ; flour, 328 to 34s per sack of 20 stone. ROCHESTER-JULY 23. There was a good supply of wheat to-day, with a small business at the annexed prices :—White wheat, from 463 Od to 50s Od ; red, 40s Od to 46s per quarter ; beans, 44s Od to 46s Od per 38 st. ; barley, 28s to 43s Od per qr. ; oats, 23s to 27s per qr. NOTTINGHAM-JuLr 23. The show of wheat was hardly an average one. Farmers asked high prices, and an advance of 2s per qr was ulti mately submitted to. Oats in small supply, with a fair de mand. Beans a scanty show. White wheat, new, 47s to 53s Barley, grinding. .28s to 31g Red do. 44s to 48s Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 343 Old white 47s to 53s New do 28s to 32 4 Red do. 408 to 44s Beans.. 50s to 54 4 Barley, malting.— 388 to 43s Beans, new —s to ---0 NORWICH-JULY 23. Here, to-day, there was rather a full attendance of far mers. The show of wheat was fair, and prices advanced 2s per qr. In other grain there was scarcely anything doing. Flour in favour of the seller. White wheat. 46s to 48s I Red wheat 418 to 430 Flour, 29s to 29s 6d per sack from the miller. DUBLIN-JULY 22. There was a very small supply of native wheat at, our corn market to-day, and a small advance on the prices of last week was realised on the finest qualities. Oats•almos t unsaleable. Barley scarce, at about late rates. The trans actions in Indian corn were moderate. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 26 0 to 27 0 Do., red 24 0 to 25 6 Do., new .... 23 0 to 26 0 Barley Oats Do., black l4 0 to 15 0 s. d. F. d. Do., new ll 6 to 13 0 Bere . lO 0 to 12 6 Rapeseed 26 0t029 0 Oatmeal l4 6 to 16 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.- - Hooping Cough.—Every nurse thinks she knows a remedy for this complaint, but unfortunaetly the bills of mortality show them to be fallible. The late Dr. Thompson alwaYs recommended sufferers from hooping cough to be kept warm, fed on a milk and vegetable diet, and rubbed wall on the spine and pit of the stomach with• Holloway's ointment three times a day, wearing flannel next the skin. No treat ment is so safe, speedy, and efficient—no case can resist it, and no ill' consequences ever result from it. The cough continuing from habit after the disease declines is readily and radically removed by Holloway's preparations, which act more like magic than medicine in every stage of this tire some disease. [AivEwrisEmErrr.]—Thorley's.Food for Cattle is novf beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer , breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting care and attention have enabled its inventor to take hig h a ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithste l Ll ing the many drawbacks, the malev o l en t shafts against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural inte rest ' Experience has proved, fi rs t, that it effects a considerabl e saving in the consumption of provender ; secondly, that, it produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree 911 ' early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating tlul singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculate d to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In thi.e, he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very t iatut 9 '` desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ar plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested as unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to f e e and fatten his cattle at 'a:cheaper rate than by the e mployre,e n or addition of artificial Tood. The tests to which this food e"" - been subjected have proved its peifeet'admissibility as a elle/ addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch es 'a all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely subraittte to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce wil l realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the tiro usually consumed in developing. fat ; ; it, therefore, becoille; apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair applica tl° t of Thorley' s Compounded r ood. It is believed that the presea unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very ge c i ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles °„ food; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat il l ; nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certe,h l , l 4 it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food,rbou'it-b. possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the Ilea' . s and increasing the physical power of allbanimals i s a toi l , and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their eth e r food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter 004 great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that th e nourishment contained in their otdinary food is lost, anise' quent upon the imp or action of diestiv! organs ; will also be aired found defective to be particularly bengeficia! in restoring to good' working condition horses which have been over-worked, or 'become weak from disease, or are naturally of a feeble ceristitution. In cows its effects are undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the yield of milk and butter; whilst it at the same time enrichq the quality of both. 'ln pigs its fattening qualities a re sall more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifes t superiority over every other kind of compound or mann factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such he s been its marked success, that at all our great cattle sh ce awl; Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their !t on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the prinl, prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awar d The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility' , clergy, and of our 'leading agriculturists, must pr oire A great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onicl": 0 course; and he may confidently rely, in producing , highly-favoured a compound, on a continuation of high sad distinguished patronage. BIRTHS. t CADOGAN.—Onithe 21st inst., at Stevenage, the who °f Rev. Edward Cadogan, of a daughter. .HYDE.On the 21st inst., at 4, St. George's-square, Ti; -- gent's-park, the wife of Henry Barry Hyde, Esq. , daughter. MAGNIA C.—On the 22d inst., at 67, Grosvenor-stree t) the wife of Chas. Magniac, Esq., of a daughter. MAY.—On the 16th inst., at Basingstoke, the wife of Th° l3. May, Esq., of a son. • MARRIAGES. GOEF—LATOUR.—On the 19th inst., at St. George's, I s ; over-square, Robert, second son of George &If, -P,"„t, Hyde-park, to line Cameron Barclay, daughter of 1J 143 , -, 0 General Latour, C. 8., K.H., Colonel of the 3d (K . ' lll. Own) Light Dragoons. HUNT—DE MOLE.—On the 23d inst., at St. ile „f le o, . , ar o Bishopsgate, William L. Hunt, Esq., to Anna '. at widow of the late John de Mol e , Esq. , barrister" law. DEATHS. • ACTON.—On. the 21st inst., at Park- s t ree t, Windsor, g 156 Ann Acton, aged 94. CHALMER.—On the 22d inst., at Cheyno-row, Ch eiset ol Francis Chalmer, Esq., Magistrate for the county Middlesex, aged 67. DOWNES.—On the 18th inst., at 44, Camden-road I T A i r Charles Downes, E sq , o f Warwick-street, Cila cross, aged 72. of HART.—On the 21st inst., Mr. Thomas Parker Howsham Hall, near Harlow, Essex, aged 41. •t KNIGHT.—On the 21st inst., M r . H enr y K n ight, soli ci t of 27, Bucklersbury, city, an d o f Ed mon t o n, 31idd1 e .) 5 ; 13 , 0 MONK.—On the 22d inst., a t 93, E a t on . squar e, t.lO daughter of Charles J. M on k, Esq M.P., ag ed 510 3 ' and 8 days. RI JOHNSTONE.—On the 21 s t i ns t., at the Haginsha Wl" kirk, N. 8., the H on . M rs . 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