The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-04 00:00:00

THE CUTLERS' FEAST. The, annual banquet given by the Master Cutler on his inauguration into the office of head of the Corporation of Cutlers of Sheffield took place on Thursday evening in the Cutlers' hall. The gen tleman who this year fills the office of Master Cut ler (Mr. Robert Jackson, of the firm of Spear and Jackson, lEtna works) also holds the office of mayor of the borough. The members of the corporation met in their hall at noon, and then walked in pro cession to the Town-hall, where the oaths of office having been administered to the Master Cutler, wardens, and other officers, they proceeded to at tend Divine service at the parish church. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., accompanied the Master Cutler throughout the proceedings of the morning. The guests invited to the banquet began to as semble in the reception-room about five o'clock, and were received by the wardens, Mr. J. Hobson and Mr. G. Wilkinson, by whom they were introduced to the Master Cutler. Dinner was served at six o'clock, the Master Cutler occupying the chair. The guests at the principal table were—Mr. J. K. Roebuck, M.P. for Sheffield ; Mr. R. Monckton Milnes, M.P. for Pontefract ; Mr. Basil Woodd, I.P. for Knaresborough ; Mr. W. Wood, M.P. for Pontefract ; Col. Bazelgette, late Governor of Nova Scotia ; Mr. G. S. Skelton, Judge of Mixed Com mission Court, Sierra Leone ; the Mayors of Don caster, Halifax, and Wakefield; Mr. W. Overend, Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding ; Mr. R. N. Philipps, Lieutenant of the city of London . Col. Elmhirst and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Sankay, of the 9th Regiment ' • Rev. Canon Sale, D.D., Vicar of Sheffield; Mr. M. Ellison, Mr. F. W. Bag shawe, Rev. J. Hunter, LL.D. (the historian of Hallamshire) ; Mr. W. F. Dixon, Rev. W. Wilkin son, Chaplain of the Company, &c. The guests, numbering about 220, at the other tables included most of the principal merchants, magistrates, mem bers of the Town-council, &c. . - Vv The MASTER CUTLER having given the toasts of " The Queen," " Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family," which were loyally responded to, next proposed " The Army and Navy," urging that the duty of the country as the best means of secur ing peace was to be prepared for war. Colonel ELIIIIIiRST, of the 9th Regiment, returned thanks, Having served in India he could say that no men in the world but British soldiers could have undergone the *hardships and accomplished the exploits which the British army had in India. Much of the success of our arms there was owing to the indefatigable exertions and the daring of that thorough soldier Sir Colin Campbell, who commenced his military career in the regiment in which he (Colonel Elmhirst) had now the honoor to serve. While the troops were led by such a man success would at all times attend them. (Loud cheers.) The healths of the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Fitz-: william, Earl of Effingham, and Lord Wharncliffe, noblemen connected by ties of property or near re sidence with Sheffield, were then separately given. Alderman HooLE—I was not aware until a few moments ago that I should be called upon .to pro pose the toast which I have now to submit' to you, but I am sure when I state that my toast is the Health of the hon. member for Pontefract, IN Tr. Menckton Milnes," you will admit that hon. mem ber is. worthy the honour. We have all a grateful recollection of his visits to Sheffield. He honoured us by many visits in support of our various insti tutions„-of our School of Art, our People's College, and of all that is liberal. (Cheers.) I understand that I am to couple with the name of Mr. Milnes that of the House of Commons. I know that he is a worthy member of that house ; and. I cannot pay hini a greater compliment than to say so ; but looking at what he has done during the last ses sion I prefer to propose his name without that adjunct the " House of Commons." (" No, no ; it's the toast I") I scarcely so understood it, but that being the case I give you Mr. M. Milnes and the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Mr. R. M. MILNES, M.P.— I am somewhat em barrassed to know exactly in what character I should address you, because thehon. proposer of the toast seems to think, I will not say so ill, but so slightingly of the body to which I have the honour to belong, that he preferred to propose me per sonally with the very slight claims I have to adding to my name the only claim by which I have any right to appear before you. At the same time, as a member of the House of Commons, I should feel considerable difficulty in addressing you, be cause on these occasions politics are always espe cially excluded, if it were not for those ambiguous contrivances by which somehow or other I. have seen politics, though always interdicted, still more or less always introduced. Ido not know how 'I can talk of the House of Commons without in some degree passing the political boundary, unless I talk of the House of Commons at sea. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) That has been the great topic of most public speakers during August, and, consider ing how it has been exhausted by my excellent friend and your hon. and worthy, member, I am almost driven from it to terra ' , lrma. 'We had a pleasant trip to Cherbourg.. slight drawback, and that There was only mie the continual fear in the mind of every vance or other, the mr..Anber as that by some contri might be ea/air-L., worthy member for Sheffield French foe.,r6s off Vora us and taken to sorry (Cheer-; 's for the remainder of his life. grid laughter.) We all knew well what he ould do in that case. There is no power that c- Jald manacle him, and, knowing how to appreciate him, I am sure no effort or ransom would have been thought too much to recover him. (Laughter.) But at the same time the very notion was painful to us, and when we saw him on deck reading the -EditAirrgh _Review, amid salutes from thousands of canon, perfectly unconcerned, we thought what a misfortune it would be to lose my excellent friend and your - worthy member. (Cheers and laughter.) The iiapressions he has given us of Cherbourg were not exactly mine, because when I was there I was - waited on by a very handsome daughter of Normandy. (Laughter.) I received every kind ness and civility from the French Government and per,ple and should not think it right to criticise 4.2 verely anything we saw. (Cheers.) Some 50 or ito years ago Burke reproached some gentlemen of his tiii se who were struck with the marvels of Cher bours;, and compared them to the Trojans who ad - mired the Grecian horse that was to destroy their city. • But those years have gone by, and the Trojan ho" se has now been built. We saw the place the of ller day, and all we can hope is that against Eng •gland it never may be used. (Cheers.) But I wish to record my reluctance to say a word or to do any thing to familiarise to the minds of the p eo p le so monstrous a - notion as the possible invasion of Eng land by France. The two nations have no one in terest to bring them to take up arms against each other ; and when united they are able to carry civilisation throughout the world. (Cheers. In that internecine war, I know not which would be most to. be lamented, the savage triumph of the conqueror •or .the terrible indignation of the con quered. • (Cheers.) Of politics I will say nothing beyond merely naming the matter of fact that Lord Palmerston is recreating himself on the continent, and that LordDerbyhas sold his horses. (Laughter.) These facts imply a great change. A Frenchman, who happened to be in England during the late change of Government, said to me, " How can you endure these things so quietly ? If such an event had oc curred in France in the old constitutional time we should. have seen men rushing about the 'streets all on fire, and we should have heard of duels and ani mosities of -the bitterest kind ; but you take the ohange as quite an ordinary thing which does not not at all interfere with your social affairs." From a high point of view this may be true. I remember to have seen a letter from a Frenchprisoner, during the first revolutionary period, when asked for a respite that he might not have his head cut off till he had disclosed some wonderful discovery ho had made. The order upon it was, " Let the prisoner be executed immediately, that he may understand no man is necessary to the B i epublic." (Laughter.) 'lure have not gone quite so far, but we feel that the value and. stability of our institutions does not de pend on any individual man, that the rise or fall of a Minister is not the rise or fall of England, and that while we do what we can in support of our own friends and opinions, we feelthatthere is some thing beyond all these things, and that is the Eng lish people. Speaking in th e name o f that body that represents yourselves, I may join with you in ov er the success of the Engli s h arms rejoicing abroad. We have recently had our own no m an cou l d way in a Russi an war, but I believe p r to-day and read of the destruc tion up Astrakhan, with any of that tile pgareea. at the disaster. In that miser able fortress, feeling of exultation which we have able war with a miserrablee enemy thing to fall back b een waging in India , on but the courage and _w hav Duke of Newcastle,e no endurance of our country men. In the absence of the boy coming waiting at Southampton for his poor instance as back disabled, we have an of what ha happened to thousands of English fam ilies, has spread desolation in many English homes, and leaving nothing to sustain the sufferers but a sense of duty and a remembrance of the glorious heroism that has been displayed. And if we cast our eyes on a handful of Englishmen going up unknown . Chinese rivers, and reducing to any terms we chose an empire embracing one-third of the human race, we see one of the most wonderful events that has occurred in our days. I thank you in the name of the House of Commons for the support you have giyen - to the Government iii ,theße greet under- Ommamftm=earm v . . ~~is takings, and for the interest you show in all that concerns the welfare and honour of our country. On you we depend, and you depend on yourselves. We feel that the House of Commons does, in the main, represent the heart and spirit of the English people. Nothing that they really wish and earnestly desire can be refused to them by the House of Commons. For that reason I rest confi- dently on our institutions; and I do not fear any reform which, in the highest development of Eng land, Englishmen may require ; but the country will still remain secure if we do our duty. (Loud cheers.) Alderman DUNN—The toast I have to propose follows naturally upon the one you have just re sponded to by Mr. Milnes; it is, " The Members for the West Riding of the County of York." (Cheers.) The senior member, Mr. Denison, is well known and appreciated in Yorkshire as an active, indefati gable, and independent man of business. My Lord Goderich, the junior member, may not be so well known here, but where he is known, he is most highly and deservedly appreciated, only requiring to be generally known to be universally respected. Perhaps, after what we have heard of politics, I, as a York shireman, may be permitted one word, which, though bearing a political aspect, shall not trench upon party politics. I feel the more emboldened as the member for Pontefract has alluded to coming events. Among the most important of the coming events is the promised Reform Bill. As Yorkshire men, we feel a lively interest in the question of Reform generally ; but it is understood that the proposed Bill is to interest the inhabitants of the West Riding in a peculiar manner. The toast which I have now the honour to give may possibly be heard no more within these walls, for in the Reform Bill which the present Government are preparing for us there is to be such a division as will expunge the West Riding from a list of con stituencies as a Riding. (" Oh, oh !") Such a pro posal will, I believe, receive the unqualified disap proval of almost every man in the West Riding of Yorkshire. (Hear, hear.) It is felt that, things are often achieved by having one or two great con stituencies that shall, as it were, almost represent the whole—that great advantage may be de rived from having one such great prize to confer upon a commoner of England—the greatest prize, I take it, which can be held by any . Englishman. However that may be, I hope that it is not the last time that the toast of " The Member for the West Riding of the County of York" will be given from this festive board. (Hear.) I am the more em boldened in that hope when I recollect that Lord Derby, the head of the Government, is not tryiug his " 'prentice hand" at Reform, but as a Reforme of 30 or 35 years ago ought not now to fall into so great a mistake. lam still further emboldened in that hope when I call to mind that the leader of the House of Commons—if the hon. member for Pontefract will allow me to say so—is no stranger to questions of Reform. It may be said, and I hope in him it will prove true, that the child has been father to the man, and that when we see the Re form Bill of -the Conservative Government, it will be not unworthy of the great Reformer named Lord Stanley, and the Reformer of 25 years ago, Benjamin Disraeli. At all events I hope the West Riding as a constituency will not be cut asunder. (Cheers.) Mr. W. SMITH proposed "the Borough Members." (Cheers.) When the hon. member for Pontefract said that, politics being excluded, he did not know what he could say, unless it was something with re gard to the House of Commons at sea, he (Mr. Smith) listened with both ears erect, for, the House of Commons having, according to his humble view, been at sea the whole of last session, he was anx ious to know what account the hon. member could give of it. But, unfortunately, the hon. member turned to another topic, and they heard no more of it. No one could dispute that, during the whole of last session, there had been an absence of anything like party or political principle, and the members seemed all thrown hotch-potch, or like dice from a box, when tin-own on the table, they turned up as it chanced. He had not the acumen to clear up this point, but hoped the hon. member (Mr. Roe buck) who had to reply to this toast would do so —of course, without entrenching upon the rule against party politics. (Laughter.) Mr. Roebuck possessed one of the highest qualities of a public man, in that he never shirked his opinions, but ex pressed them in a way to leave no room for mis taking what he meant. The special interests of Sheffield were perfectly safe in the hands of Mr. Roebuck and his colleague. (Cheers.) Mr. J. A. ROEBUCK, M.P., was greeted with protracted cheering. He said—l beg to return my thanks for the mode in which the hon. gentleman proposed my health, and the 'very marked way in which you have received it. But, sir, I feel the difficulty with my hon. friend Mr. M. Min ens. He, far more practised than I am, felt the difficulty of being called upon to respond to the toast of the " House of Commons" witbout talking politics. I I feel the same difficulty , now that my health is proposed, for lam a politician, and only a politi cian. 111 y hon. friend, indeed, has other claims on the world's notice ; I have none. To talk politics is my business, and you might as well call together a congreFation of farmers and tell them not to talk about prices, as to call together politicians and bid them not to talk politics. (Hear.) Now, sir, I .have been for many years a member for the borough of Sheffield. I have attended this festive board very many times. I have always heard the same thing about not talking pdlitics. (Cheers.) My hon. friend Mr. Milnes said he did not intend to talk politics, and that began to talk about the most exciting point of foreign politics. My hon. friend Mr. Dunn echoedthe sentiment that he would not talk politics, and then began to talk upon the most exciting point of home politics, viz., reform. Now, what do I intend to do ? Why, I intend to talk politics. (Cheers and laughter.) Sir, a gentle man has said that the House of Commons, during the whole of the last session, has been at sea. I beg most respectfully to dissent from that opinion. We have, in this last session of Parliament, read a very great lesson to all politicians. We have taught those whom success had made insolent that there was a unishment immediate upon their insolence. (Cheers.) We have got rid of the peccant member, and England now stands where she did not stand before, viz., in her own proud position, as indepen dent of foreign influence. (Cheers.) To that result 1 humbly- contributed, and if anything should be engraved upon my tombstone I would have that marked upon it, that I vindicated England's honour when her honour was at stake by means of her Chief. Minister. (Cheers.) Oh, sir, but we are not to talk politics; and we are to talk only of the House of Commons at sea. I was with the House of Com mons at sea. I went to Cherbourg, and what did I see there ? Sir, a great writer, a great prelate, once described England as being, among her sons, undis turbed as the rocks amid the stormy seas which sur round her. That was the description given by the great Bossuet of England. Now, sir, I would take from nature a more apt illustration of our position. and I would say England, with regard to European politics, was as an island in the Pacific, surrounded by a coral reef. Within that barrier all was peace and good order. Without were various ele ments, struggling under the influences of the wind right round the globe. That wind im pelled the waves against the barrier, but the bar rier withstood its power, and the island was at peace in spite of the elemental warfare around her. That is England. Sir, frecollect England in 1848. The despots of Europe were running about wondering where they should go, and they came to England as to a harbour. I saw Prime they wandering also, and they came to England as to a harbour. Well, then, when Europe was thus struggling—when the world was at strife—we were at peace, and held out to the assembled nations of the world the wondrous spectacle of a people go verning themselves, and being in perfect peace and security. (Cheers.) Was this attended with any result ? It was. The despots of Europe hated England because she held up to the people of Europe a marked and a striking example of popular government. And now, Sir, let me apply- the moral of my tale. England is, as I have said, the mark and hate of every despot. My hon. friend here, who did not talk politics—(laughter)—and I went to Cherbourg, and then we floated in the waters of a despot. It may be said that those who stand in my position ought not to say anything that excites national animosity, and I respond to that sentiment. (Hear, hear.) But, Sir, the farmer who goes to sleep, having placed the watch-dog, " Tear'em," over his rickyard, hears that watch-dog bark. He, in the anger of a half somnolence, says, " I wish Tear'em would be quiet," and bawls out of the win dow, " Down, Tear'em." " Tear'em" does go down, the farmer goes to sleep, and he is awaked by the flashing in at his windows of the light of his ricks on fire. (Cheers.) lam " Tear'em.' (Loud cheers a ioEn n ren d aAgu l lu a ial u sl g dr i h opa t f e , r.) I tell you to beware. What is the • Noio Cherbourg or tuslsitaa ? .n? Are invader. No. they Arl a ei f r r ht a ha i te d ,y t o hf afraideßssia n u , , , Cherbouclifemare,a,rsh?ear.) Isln Blackwood's a standing menace to Ens land. is Magazine . ous, and dear friend of mine, a h fi finishes e C b t ly , there a paper written by a ve r y learned, an saying, " Those who are forewarned are forearmed." what does this mean ? It means that y ou are in dan ger, and why ? Let me tell you The pres s o f -) why.eer s And what any England is free, thank God. (Ch man says here cannot be imputed to the Go vernment. The daily penny press comes out with abuse of everybody. 1 believe it takes its pleasure ur (Laughter.) Well, I am delighted I would rather be abused than not regarded. (Cheers.) Nobod y sa y s that . that it abusing shou n l l e d do so. 1 4. -44 Derby Ls anifferable for the penny press. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1858.. But is this true with regard to France ? Why, sir, I have got in my possession now a pamphlet called " Cherbourg et l'Angleterre ;" and that pamphlet is stamped with the imprimatur, the approval of the Imperial Government, which does not allow a word to be said against itself. Then, I say that every word said by the French press is imputable to the French Government. (Hear, hear.) Well, what does that pamphlet say ? It abuses England —it calls her perfidious. It says that we are in tent upon the enslaving of the world ; that we are a set of bandits ; that we are unworthy of the name of men ; and that Frenchmen ought to hate us as they do. To whom do I attribute this ? I lay it at the door of the French Emperor. Mark me, I know what I am saying. I say it upon a solemn occasion. I say that the French press is the ex pression of the Emperor's opinion, and that his appeal to the prejudice and hate that now exist in the minds of the French people against England is a manifestation of the Emperor's opinion. lam the watchdog Tear'em, and I only tell you what my hon. friend would tell you, though in more mellifluous phrase, when I say—Be you prepared ; get your guns, get your ships ready, for depend upon it, that in his heart he knows that Cherbourg is a standing menace. (Cheers.) Now, I tell you what will result from all this. lam sent to Par liament as your representative. There have been estimates, and in the next session there will be esti mate's, and everything that goes to protect England against foreign invasion will receive my hearty support. (Protracted cheering.) Sir, I know the position that England holds. She is a shining light to all the nations of the earth. In her fields are peace, and her harvests are gathered by a people unprotected by bayonets. The law is paramount from the Land's End to John o' Groat's. The Queen travels from one end of the island to the other with a solitary policeman on the train, and he need not be there. (Hear.) Is not this a striking instance of what popular government may do ? I am not here, gentlemen, to bandy phrases and compliments with my hon. friend on the left, or my hon. friend on the right. lam here to take advantage of the occasion, and I do so, and tell you at once that we are a people hated by the despots, and it requires us to be prepared against the coming evil that certainly, by and by, will befal us. Depend upon it that gallant nation which is our nearest neighbour cannot, will not, bear the dreadful burden that is now upon her shoulders. Time will lift that burden off. We standing by shall see the dreadful explosion. We shall have to be prepared against all coming cala mity, and I beg of you, as you value your own hearths and•your own happiness, to support me, your member, when I vindicate before the worl d England and England's safety against the world in arms. (Loud cheers.) Sir, I fear that I have made this evening too serious. (No, no.) But depend upon it I have spoken but the words of truth. I would finish simply by thanking you most heartily for the manner in which you have received the toast. (Protracted cheering.) Mr. R. N. PHILIPS proposed " The Health of the Clerg,y and the worthy Vicar of Sheffield." • The Rev. Canon SALE—I feel that the important and solemn remarks just made by the hon. member should be considered in an interval of calmness, and I do not wish that what I may say should in terfere with the thoughts to which they are calcu lated to give rise. But lam sure the hon. member will agree with - me if I take up one or two frag ments of his important speech, and endeavour to take their tone in the thanks I offer for the flatter ing manner in which this toast has been proposed and received. Mr. Roebuck stated, and I felt proud to listen to it, that when Europe was in a state of confusion, when despotic Governments were over thrown, and kings and ministers were wandering here and there, they came to England as a refuge, and in our privileged island peace and order pre vailed. (Hear, hear.) How was this ? How was it that our privileged island, from south to north, was distinguished by the universal acknowledg ment of the supremacy of law ? Was it not that there was religious principle—(hear, hear)--pervad ing the minds of the English population beyond those of any other people? (Cheers.) I believe it is this which, in proportion as it is diffused through society, is the best guarantee of peace and quiet ness at home, whatever may be the state of things abroad. (Cheers.) I believe it is that supremacy of the word of God which, as a minister of the church, I am privileged to hold up to the people in all its integrity, and without reserve, is the best guarantee that we shall have peace and quietness in the future as in the - past. It is this, I believe,'• that is the true ground of the boast that English men can govern themselves. While other nations are unfit to be committed to their own care, and. therefore must be held down by the strong hand of despotic power, we, acknowledging the supremacy of the law, can look abroad and say we do not want bayonets at home, we do not want an armed police, to keep down freedom, we do not abridge the liberty of the press, but we can each judge clearly and calmly what is the best for ourselves and our neighbours. (Cheers.) While lam happy to ap preciate the kind feeling shown in the remarks of my friend Mr. Philipps, and in the sentiments of the company, permit me to say that I regard the toast as the recognition of a great principle. You have received with the greatest enthusiasm the toast of the Queen and the Royal family, the army and navy, the House of Commons, and your repre sentatives, but I take this toast as an acknowledg ment that, after all that the wisdom of man can do, after all the bravery and self-devotion of our army and navy can do to defend us, we are primarily de pendent on the God of armies. Without His bless ing, the power of our army and navy would be paralysed, the House of Commons would be at sea. (to take up an expression previously used). We might soon be as a house divided against itself, and fall beneath the attacks which our hon. member says are already preparing. Let us trust in the liv ins. . God. Let His ministers do their duty. Let the Church of England be what it ought to be— the exponent of the truth of God. Thus we may be united, happy, and free. Blessed is the people that is in such a case—yea, blessed, is that people whose God is the Lord. (Cheers.) Mr. ROERUCK—I have now a different duty to perform. Before I was talking about matters in which I felt myself a political interest. Now, I am going to speak V on a matter in which I take a per sonal interest. I am going to propose to you " The Health of the Master Cutler." (Loud cheers.) I recollect upon a former occasion that a noble friend of mine, in proposing the health of the then Master Cutler (Mr. W. A. Matthews), said he had obtained a monopoly of distinctions, for he was at the same time Mayor and Master Cutler. My friend, Mr. Jackson, is of the same kidney ; he is Mayor and. Master Cutler, and he has obtained these distinc tions at the hands of his fellow-townsmen by his own individual merit. (Cheers.) If I were to waste your time from this to break of day, I could not do more than say that I propose the health of the Master Cutler, in whom you will find a friend and protector of your commercial interests, and as Mayor you will find him a worthy magistrate. (Cheers.) The MASTER CUTLER. Cheers.) You will, lam sure, feel with me when I say that I feel a degree of diffidence in rising to respond to the toast which has just been proposed. Permit me to thank you sincerely for the honour you have just p aid me by drinking my health in so kind and enthusiastic a manner. rt would be out of place if at this hour of the evening I were to trouble you at any great length. I had intended to address a few observa tions to you relative to the town and trade of Shef field. ("bo on.") I have heard it stated, and by visitors, on the occasion of the Cutlers' Feast, that Sheffield was not making the progress it ought, and was not keeping pace with our rivals in trade. I never agreed with them, for I believe that there is no town in England that has made more progress in its particular manufacture than Sheffield. (Cheers.) This progress appears the greater when we take into consideration the difficulties we have to contend against, Those gentlemen who think that because other nations which were formerly far behind us in our manufactures are now making, progress, we are standing still, are very much mis taken. I may mention one or two of the difficulties we have to contend against, and which perhaps are not generally known to those noblemen and gentlemen who do us the honour of attending this annual festival. One of these is the enormous im port duties we have to contend with in foreign countries. It may not be known that, while we admit the cutlery manufactures of our ally and nearest neighbour at 2s. 6d. per 1121 b., which is not more than 1 per cent., the great cutlery trade of Sheffield has not a market in France—that not a single penknife, or scissor, or razor is allowed to be sent into that country. With respect to almost t t o o pay sa say dutiesoTry o o t f h 3 e s r t c o las l s oo of p S er he o ffi en e t ld . goods,lt is very w e have fine that we do not keep pace with foreign manufac turers ; under such a system as that how is it pos sible ? There is a limit beyond which we cannot go. If we could only have fair play, if' our neigh bours in France would give us the same facilities that we give them, we should not fear. In a speech recently delivered at St. Etienne, Count de Per signy stated that there could be no material rivalry between this country and France, inasmuch as we allow every article manufactured in France to have access to our colonies on the same terms as British manufactured goods. I hope the French will give us the same facility, and that, if they value our friendship and wish to be good neighbours, they will do to us as we do to them. (Cheers.) But it k o n l o d w i n l e g d s g u i enThghaitshhaitg Count i f i i. ( e ) e ffi t c i de is h something f or th e cause to find a gentleman country. . iaa P dl e w e rsi positionogtnld has n good alreadyF i for a nee his a a o c_- knoWledged, and I trust we _WWI bee a speedy re- form. That is simply one example, and I might quote many others. My impression of the state of the manufactures of Sheffield is, that let us only have fair play, and we don't care for the world. I believe that we can not only maintain the position we now occupy, but go ahead of it. (Cheers.) Mr. M. MILNES. (Cheers.) I have to propose another toast, which I am sure you will drink with delight. Next week we are about to receive in Yorkshire the greatest lady of the land, and we shall give her a right Yorkshire welcome. (Cheers.) But- that will not preclude us from drinking most heartily the health of the first lady of Sheffield — the Mayoress and wife of the Master Cutler, and the ladies—of whom I can say the more I know of them the. more lam delighted. " The Mayoress and the ladies of Sheffield." (Cheers.) The MAYOR briefly returned thanks. Mr. H. VICKERS proposed " The Health of the Mayors of the West Riding," and congratulated the Master Cutler on holding the two highest offices which it was in the power of the town to confer. The MAYOR of DONCASTER returned thanks. Alderman CARR proposed " The Health of the Lord-Lieutenant, the Deputy-Lieutenant, and the Magistrates of the West Riding." (Cheers.) Than Mr. Wilson Overend no man in the kingdom stood higher as a magistrate—(cheers)----and he filled his office of deputy-lieutenant with equal credit to him self anti to the town. Though the architect of his own fortune. Mr. Overend had risen to a position among his fellows, and was a gentleman whom he (Alderman Carr) was proud to claim as Sheffield bred and born. (Cheers.) Mr. W. OVEREND, in responding, said Earl Fitzwilliam, the Lord-Lieutenant, was new in his duties, but had so far done well, and he (Mr. Over end) had faith as to the future.. The deputy lieutenantcy was almost . a sinecure, and he hoped, no twithstanding what his hon. friend Mr. Roebuck hactsaid about war, that the time was far distant when they would be called info active employment. He must be allowed to say that the deputy-lieu tenants would have liked to be employed just now. They were all loyal men, and as the Lord-Lieu tenant was going to meet the Queen at Leeds, they would be only too glad if he would call upon them to form his.escort, and thus give them an opportu nity, of showing their loyalty to her Majesty. Having expressed their wish, it was all they could do. It was for the Lord-Lieutenant to do as he thought proper, and, no doubt; he knew what was best. The best recompense .that the magistrates had was the knowledge that they had given satis faction, and the conviction that they had fearlessly discharged their duty. In the name of the Om juncta zn uno he begged to thank them. (Cheers.) The company separated about . half-past 10 o'clock. THE LATE .RICH ;410 FORD. There are few persons connected with letters and arts, Or the social life of London, who will hear without concern of the death Of 'Richard Ford. He died on the Ist of the month, in the 62d year of his age, at his house at Heavitree,-near Exeter. His various tastes and accomplishments,' his large and keen sympathies, genial nature, and social position had brought him into contact and acquaintance ship with men of all pursuits ; and when he made an acquaintance he seldoin failed also to make a friend. His' father ,• Richard Ford,' descended from an • 9 ancient Sussex family, was in 1.789.M.P. for East Grinstead, .and afterwards for many years chief police magistrate of London. Richard, the eldest son, wag born in Sloane-street in 1796. Educated at Winchester, he graduated at Trinity College, Ox ford, and was called to the bar in Lincoln's-inn. Although he was for awhile the pfipil of Mr. Pem berton Leigh, whose high legal 'ability has lately raised him .to the peerage, Mr. Ford did not pursue the-profession of the law. • • • • The opening of the continent at the downfall of Napoleon I. and prospects of hereditary affluence enabled him to indulge in foreign travel, which extimded over several years .and the greater part of . Europe. He began very early to de velop • his tastes for the fine • arts, and to lay the . foundation of his choice . library, and his rich collection of drawings "and engravings. In 1830 he. visited Spain, were he passed several years,. wintering in the south,. and - spending the summer in rambles over the provinces of the Penin sula—lands, at that time, rarely trodden by the tourist. A long residence' in the Alhambra of Granada, and his winters at Seville, enabled him to digest the information acquired during his wander ings by vega and sierra, and-fixed the direction of those studies which were to employ his future leisure and adorn the literature of this country. On his re turn to England, after an absence of about three years, he settled in Devonshire, at Heavitree, near Exeter, where he built himself a charming residence, and surrounded it with gardens and terraces, which he adorned with graceful Moorish buildings, and planted • with pines • and cypresses from historic groves by the Xenil and Guadalquivir. He also became a regular contributor to the Quarterly Re view, then under the editorship of his friend, Mr. Lockhart ; and his articles, generally upon subjects con;iected with the life, literature; and art of Spain, vveve soon eagerly looked for by. the readers of that periodical, and became important aids to its value Ind popularity. We believe his first contribution -gas the learned yet lively paper in No. CXVI., in 1,836, 'on the unpromising subject of Pevonshire cob walls, which he connected with.the ancient tapia of Arabic architecture, a paper which immediately con imanded public attention, and was the forerunner of It long list of brilliant essays, which was termi nated by the review of " Tom Brown's' School Days," in No. OCIV., in 1857. In 18.37 he published his first initspendent work, "Ai Historical Inquiry into the Unchangeable Character of a War in Spain," Bvo., London (Murray) pp. iv., 76, 'a pamphlet full of vatied lore and powerful arginnent, not unmingled with . canstic sarcasm, in reply to one called " The Poliey of England towards Spain," published in de fence of the policy of Lord Palmerston, and under the: noble Lord's patronage. A year or two after waxds Mr. Ford went to Italy and passed the winter of 1839-40 in Rome, where lie added largely to his already rich artistic collection, especially to the o f at the' ehr Cabinet of -Majolica. The grea t er pa r t of this cabinet cis gemsdisposed of ctieleebarnadteMd a Bernalnson's , Ihmedaftear somethe tTale were then picked up, at the Moderate prices of that day, by that unwearied .and successful collec tor. Soon after his return to England Mr. Ford entered - upon the work upon which his literary re putation mainly rests, the 'Handbook for Spain. Ills friend Mr. Murray had some years before in augurated. a new era in guide-book. literature by the publication of that admirable handbook for North Germany- which remains a-model for books of its - class. 'He now invited • Mr. Ford to take Spain in hand, and Mr. Ford accepted the invita, tion. Like many other great works, this book, perhaps, might never have been written had its author accurately estimated the magnitude of the task and distinctly foreseen the amount of deep re search and patient labour which .lay between the promise and the performance. Those of Mr. Ford's friends who were admitted to the " den " at Heavi tree, the garden house embowered in myrtle and ivy, where the work was accomplished, will well remember the long deal shelves laden with parch ment-clad folios and quartos, the inky deal table, the crammed pigeon -holes, and the piles of manu script which encumbered the chairs and the floor, and the kindly, lively author in his black jacket of Spanish sheepskin, doing the honours of his book rarities, pouring forth his humorous complaints of the slavery to which he had unwittingly condemed hiinself--complaints diversified with Spanish pro verb and English jest; and they will remember these things with a sigh that they are to see that bright eye and hear that pleasant voice no more. In the summer of 1845, however, the two goodly volumes, of upwards of 800 pages, were laid on the counter in AlbemarleiStreet, headed by a slight but very graceful notice in the Quarterly from the pen of Mr. Lockhart. Two thousand copies of a book, humble in title, unattractive in outward form, and considerable in price (305.), were sold within the year ; and the work, which thepublic bought with eagerness, the reviewers praised with enthusiasm. So great a literary achievement had never before been performed under so unpretending an ap pellation ; and the Handbook for Spain took its place among the best books of travel, humour, and history, social, literary, political, and artistic, in the English language. A second edition—reduced to one volume, and, in the opinion of most of Mr. Ford's readers, far too sternly abridged—appeared in 1847, and also met with a large sale. The book went for a third time to the study at Heavitree, and was almost rewritten by the laborious and fastidious author. The third edition, which happily resumed the original dimensions, was published in 1855 , and for many years to come will serve, as for thirteen years it has served, as the faithful and Way-beguiling guide of the British traveller and the rich quarry of the more ambitious British writer on Spain. Mr. Ford's Gatherings front Spain, two small volumes of charming sketches and essays, were published in 1848. The notices of the pictorial illustrations of the Campaigns of the Duke of Wel lington, painted by Mr. Telbin, and, exhibited in Regent -street in 1853, were also among. the lighter and not the least graceful productions of Mr. Ford's pen, and proofs of his ready kindness and unflag ging entlnisiasin for the cosas de Espana, the things of the land which he called " well-beloved Si am." In politics Mr. Ford held the opinions which may be supposed to have been held by a contributor to the Quarterly during the Croker ascendancy in that journal, and during the ConsetyAtiye reactiCon Alter the Reform triumphs. By education, associations, and instincts he wag a Tory, and he maintained his opinions with equal firmness and kindliness. They did not, however, prevent him, either from living on the most friendly terms will} men of opposite sentiments, or from lending the aid of his pen on subjects apart from politics to the leading periodicals of other political parties. The Quarterly Reviewer was occasionally an Edinburgh Reviewer, and he wrote upon literature and art occasionally in more than one newspaper. A notice of his writ ings would be incomplete which passed in silence over his brief and admirable life of Velasquez in the Penny Cyclopeedia, one of the happiest' efforts of his pen. On the style of so popular a writer it would be out of place here to dwell. It was, like his con versation, animated, epigrammatic, and discursive, charged with thought, and sparkling with plea santry. With great powers of sarcasm, he was one of the most gentle and amiable of companions, and one of the kindliest of critics. One or two reviews, of books well worthy of castigation, remain to show how effectively he could apply the lash. But, in his hands, the lash rarely descended on indivi duals. He was much more given to praise, per haps to over-praise than to blame. In the field which he had made peculiarly his own, he was ever ready to bid a new labourer welcome, and to call public attention to the merits of a possible rival. Of English critics he was among the first to do justice to the historic genius of Prescott and the graphic power of Borrow. - In the fine arts his knowledge, his skill, and his judgment were remarkable. Had he not been an eminent writer, he might have achieved eminence as a painter. His portfolios wore stored with ad mirable sketches of Spain and Italy ; and these portfolios were ever at the service of his literary and artistic friends. From his sketches were made some of the beautiful drawings by Mr. Roberts, so popular in the Landscape Annuals of other days. His sketch-books have contributed to the embellishment of many various works, from Lockhart's Spanish Ballads to the Illustrated News. He was not only familiar with the masters of literature and art, with Homer, Shakspeare, and Cervantes, with Raffaele and Velasquez, but he was at home in all the minor mysteries of conoisseurship. No man could more accurately discriminate an Andrea from a Lucca della Robbia ; a true Rembrandt etching from a copy ; the porcelain of Capo di Monte from that of the sister factory of Buen-Retiro. Few collectors have been more diligent, versatile, and successful in, that enticing pursuit or pastime. His collection of etchings or drawings by Parmegiano, one of the finest ever formed, is now in the British Museum. Among the Spanish pictures which he brought from Spain, and which want of house-room compelled him to part with, were several of the gems of the late Exhibition at Manchester. Of his Majolica ware we have already spoken. Sonie of the finest existing . specimens of that interesting branch of the ceramic art hang on his walls in Park street. Near them, among choice Italian and Spanish pictures, are some remarkable landscapes by Wilson, an artist by whom Mr. Ford inherited , through his mother, the daughter of Mr. Booth, one •of . Wilson's chief patrons, about 60 pictures. The books collected by Mr. Ford were worthy of the works of art among which they were placed. Many of the rarities of great Heber library re pose on his shelvps in Park-street and Heavitree, and have been rendered more precious by his notes. In curious Spanish literature there are, probably, few private English libraries so rich. Those, and they are many, who had the happi ness of mingling m the circle which met around Mr. Ford's hospitable board, and in his pleasant drawing rooms, will long remember with affectionate regret those social gatherin g s and the kindly spirit which presided over them and pervaded them. In the give and take of conversation Mr. Ford had few equals and no superiors. In most societies where we have had the good fortune to meet him he probably , knew more on most objects that could be started than any other of the guests. Yet, in his hands, conversation never degenerated into monologue ; and, although ever ready and able to talk, he was never indisposed to listen. From the jealousy of the professed wit he was altogether free ; and, feel ing no jealousy himself, he inspired none in others. Perhaps few men of equal mark had so few ene mies, and certainly no man of private station is likely, for many a long year, to leave so great a void in English society. For the last two years his friends and family observed with concern that his health was giving way. On the appointment of a Royal Commission to report on the best site for the National Gallery, in the winter of 1856-7, he was named, with his own consent, one of the Commissioners, but before the Commission met he resigned his place in it, on the ground of impaired health. Since that time he suffered. from several attacks of illness, but until the end of last July he continued to mingle in society. Early in August he was again prostrated by the malady which proved fatal on the Ist of this mora. Mr. Ford was three times married—first, to a daughter of the late Lord Essex ; secondly, to a daughter of the late Lord Cranstoun ; and, thirdly, to a sister of the late Sir W. Molesworth, who survives him. By his first marriage he leaves three children, of whom his only son is attache to the Legation at Lisbon. By his second marriage he leaves a daughter. His brother, the Rev. James Ford, prebendary of Exeter, and author of several ?refound theological works, survives him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Svt. 3. Complainant—No ; I can't afford it. Defendant—lf he will allow me ss. a week I will be satisfied. I have been a slave to him from morning till night, for months and months, and he has cheated me out of my furniture, which I paid for, and the receipts for which I can show. The Lord Mayor—lf you have any furniture of hers, you ought to give it up. If you took her and her furniture, when you got rid of her you ought to have given her her furniture back. Complainant—l will do that, but she ruined me. The Lord Mayor—But you ruined her first. (To defendant) —Do not go for the furniture yourself. Send somebody else for it. Will you promise me that you will not annoy him again ? Complainant—Yes, my lord, certainly. He is no good to any one. His own countrymen despise him. I have lately ascertained that he has a wife and three children living in Italy. I will not dis grace myself by going near him again. The defendant was then discharged. Elizabeth Smith, alias Eliza Green, who has been several times at the bar of this court for rob bery, was charged with stealing a purse containing silver from the pocket of Mr. T. P. Clobissy, a com mercial traveller. The prosecutor said that while standing in front of the bar of a public-house in Bishopsgate-street the previous night he noticed the prisoner and ano ther woman by his side. After drinking a glass of ale he left the house, when he was accosted by the two women, who asked him to treat them. This he refused to do. He almost immediately felt the prisoner's hand in his pocket, and as she withdrew it he seized it, and found his purse in her hand. He then gave her into the custody of a policeman. G. Sheppard, constable 623, said the purse con tained two-half-crowns and a penny. The prisoner handed him 4s. when she was about to be searched at the station-house. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was fully committed for trial. GUILDHALL.—Anne Leather, alias Francis, alias Martin, alias Franklin, and Anne Rowe, alias Lee, two respectably-dressed females, who are known to the police, were charged with stealing a shawl from a shop in Long-lane, Smithfield, under Le following circumstances George Shaley said—l am shopman to Mr. But cher, of Long-lane. Yesterday afternoon the pri soners came to our shop and asked the price of a shawl in the window. I told them, and then they inquired: the prices of other shawls. I showed some to them, but they did not suit, and they then asked if I had any drab cobourg. I showed them some, 101 they did not suit; They again asked to look at more shawls, but I said. I had none of the same quality as they had been looking at ; but Rowe pointed to a parcel which she could see contained shawls, and said she would look at those, and. went round the counter to where - was. I said I would. show them, upon which she . said she thought she could have "saved me the trouble. I opened the parcel containing seven shawls, and she then asked me to reach another shawl from the window, Which I did, and she then took one corner and asked me to take another and hold it out to see the size. I did so, and at the same time Leather was sitting behind the shawl, entirely screened from view, but I saw the shawls which were on the counter move. Rowe then said she was recommended to Mr. Butcher be cause he kept such a pretty assortment of shawls. I said it was not so good, as we were about taking stock. She then asked me to send some up to the Victoria Hotel, opposite the Post-office, as those were too gay in colour, and her mistress would not like them. They then went away, and on counting the shawls I missed one, and immediately went in search of the prisoners. I found them in Cox-court, and charged them with stealing the shawl. They immediately separated and ran different ways, and at the same time some one called out, " Here is the shawl ; " but, not seeing it, I continued in pursuit of Rowe, who threatened to murder me if I did not let her go. I, however, retained my hold of her until the policeman came up. The other prisoner was in the meantime secured by another party. The shawl produced was brought back by a boy who met us as we were returning to the shop. The officer said-1 know the prisoners by sight, but I never saw them together, and they have re fused their addresses. Prisoners remanded. BOW-STREET.—Jane Collins, a prostitute, who has been repeatedly brought up at this court, on charges of drunkenness and assault, was placed at the bar charged with the following attack on a respectable married woman. Mrs. Allen, of Beaufort-street, said—Last evening I called on a friend in Holborn, and the time pass ing in conversation, I stayed rather late. Passing through Great Queen-street; I heard a pattering of feet behind me, and, being alarmed I hurried on. As .I passed through Long-Acre, the noise continu ing, I looked back and saw the prisoner following. I turned into Broad-court, where she overtook me, and said with an oath, " Were you looking at me ?" I said, " No, my good girl," but she screamed out; with another horrid oath, " Yes, you did, you —," and pounced upon me like a tigress, seizing me by the throat with one hand, and beating me about the head and face with the other. I called for help, but there was no one near, and she con tinued to beat me in the most savage manner for some minutes. Presently the barman at the public house came to the rescue, and, a policeman having been fetched, I gave her in charge. This was about 12 o'clock. MANSION-HOUSE.—ElizaWinehouse, a styl ishly dressed female, 20 years of age, was brought before the Lord Mayor charged with having en tered a hotel for an unlawful purpose. W. Dudley, police constable No. 547, said—At half-past 12 o'clock last night I was in the Mino ries, when I saw the defendant lift up the window of the hotel, No. 1, Abbot-street, and get into the house. I crossed the road and took hold of her, and upon the arrival of another officer we aroused the inmates. The owner of the house was not at home, and I took - the defendant to the station house and charged her. The Lord Mayor—Defendant, have you any ques tion to put to the witness ? Defendant—No, my lord, but I have a good deal to say presently, Mr. Nicola Maggi, the complainant (an Italian), said—l keep a hotel at No. 1, Abbot-street; I have known the defendant a long time. Shy for merly lived with me as my wife, but we have been separated some months. She is in the habit of annoying me. The Lord Mayor—Do you consider her coming to your house at half-past 12 at night an annoy ance ? Thomas Johnson, the barman, said his attention was attracted by , the cries of complainant, who on seeing him asked him to call a policeman. At first he did not like to interfere, imagining that it was an ordinary quarrel between two women, and not knowing Which was in fault. But when the pri soner in his presence recommenced beating Mrs. Allen savagely, Mrs. Allen neither giving any provocation nor even offering an:y resistance, he felt bound to interfere and send for a policeman. Poole, 300 A, was fetched by order of last wit ness. Mrs. Allen, whose face was bleeding, charged defendant, and he took her into custody. Prisoner, with an impudent laugh, said " she sup posed it was the liquor." Fined £5 or two months' imprisonment. . , Complainant—Oh, no. The Lord Mayor—You dp not ? Complainant—Oh, yes, now I do, my lord. The Lord Mayor—Defendant, what have you to say in answer to the charge ? Defendant—My lord, that man (complainant) took me from an excellent situation, and seduced me. I lived with him for several years, and have had a child by him, for whose maintenance he allows me 3s. a week, which I do not consider sufficient. I have been compelled to put the child out to nurse and pay 7s. a week for it. I met a friend of the complainant's last night, who treated me to a little gin, which excited me, and I then determined that I would see the complainant. I knew that he slept on the ground-floor ' and I therefore went and lift e d up the window and got in, when the policeman caught hold of me. I wanted to persuade the complainant to allow me a little more money weekly for the support of my child. I hope your lordship will look over my offence, as I was never in trouble before. CLERKENWELL.—An elegantly-attired fe male, who gave the name of Elizabeth Collins, aged 22, but whose real name is Collinson, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with steal ing £8 10s. from 61, Ossulston-street, Somer's town,the moneys of Kate Stevens, and also stealing a box of clothing of the value of £B, from 42, Sand wich-street, Burton-crescent, the property of Eliza Meads, a. servant out of a situation. Owing to the publicity given to the case in the newspapers, numerous charges have been brought against the prisoner, but the above were the only ones sent for trial. In the first case the prisoner took a lodging of the young woman, and while she was confined to her bed, having only lately given birth to a child, the prisoner went into her room, and, under the plea that a little weak gin and water would do her and the infant good, induced her to take some. While she was asleep the prisoner de camped, taking with her the prosecutrix's workbox, containing the money she had•saved to help her confinement, and to pay her rent with, and left her in the greatest distress. The second case was this --The prisoner lodged with Eliza Meads, then a servant out of place, and during her temporary ab sence the prisoner stole one of her boxes, contain ing nearly the whole of her under-clothing. , When the prisoner was taken into custody by police-con stable Gordon, 336 A, she had no less than four of the prosecutrix's petticoats on. Although the pri soner refused her address, owing to the active exer tions of constable Gordon, he discovered it, and had \not only been enabled to recover the whole of Eliza Mead's property, but that of several other parties who had been robbed. The prisoner when asked what she had to say in a nswer to the Charge, said, " Nothing," Police-constable Gordon, 336 A, said that the prisoner had been twice before convicted, and sen tenced to lengthened terms of imprisonment at Dur ham. She had also been in the Fulham reformatory. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner had been guilty of the most cruel robberies, and fully committed her to the sessions for trial. He also ordered that the finethingsthepr and that was isonershe shouldlt on thenattired p i i n should be taken off her, her own apparel, and directed that a small sum should be given to Miss Kate Stevens, who was robbed of her money The Lord Mayor Are you able to get your living in a respectable way ? Defendant.—Yes, I should not like to depend on him for a living, because he has been very unkind to me. The Lord Mayor—l find from a document which the complainant has handed me that you have en tered into an agreement with him with respect to your child. Defendant—Yes ; but he told me that that was only to continue for a short time, and that as soon as his mother went away he would take me back to the hotel. The Lord Mayor—Complainant, if her statement is true you have behaved in the most heartless way to her, for you not only took her froth a good situa tion, but you ruined her. You ought to provide for her. Any man who seduces a woman from her home is bound to protect her as long as she lives. Complainant—l did not - seduce her. Defendant—l most solemnly declare you did, and I bitterly regret now having disgraced myself by going to your hotel. The Lord Mayor—Complainant, 3s. is a very small sum to allow her for the maintenance of the child. Complainant—She can't say the child is mine. The Lord Mayor—Why, y o u have admitted in that document that the child, is yours. Defendant—He is a very bad man. He knows the child is his, and at one time he was very fond of it, and used to nurse it. I am broken-hearted when I think of his base conduct to me. The Lord Mayor—ls not that a reason why you should keep away from him ? I find that when you separated he gave you £3O, in addition to which he has allowed you 3s. a week for the child. That is more than the law would give you. Defendant—l want a little more than 3s. a-week, and as he has exposed me I shall take further steps. The Lord Mayor—l must protect him. Will you keep away from him for the future P Defendant—l will, if possibly can ; but I live Henry Galigne and Arthur Warring, two re spectably-dressed men, were charged, at the in stance of Inspector Langton, N division, with creating a disturbance and attempting to fight a duel in NOrthampton-park, Islington. Mr. W. Pye said that on Thursday night he was passing through Northampton-park, Islington, a quiet secluded neighbourhood, about nine o'clock, when he heard two persons quarrelling very loudly, and upon proceeding to the spot he saw the two prisoners surrounded by a number of boys. He also saw that each defendant had a pistol in his hand, and one of them said to the other, " Your pistol is not loaded, and you have no cap." Both prisoners were much excited, and Galigne appeared to be the worse for liquor. The prisoners said it was a mere freak, and was all done as a matter of joke. Police-constable 441 N said he was called to the spOt and took from each of the defendants a pistol ; one was loaded with powder but not with ball, but very near his house. He might allow me a little the other was not. Galigne was called a skittle more. He is in circumstances to do so. sharper by the other defendant. The Lord Mayor—Will you allow her a little Mr. Mould—You have been here before, b u t not more ? in the name of Galigne, for skittle-sharping. - k br -I - once, but was dig tave Galigne—l fieen hero o: charged. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that duels were very bad things, and were happily not heard of much now. Duels were highly ridiculous, and amongst a cer tain class of people ludicrous. Hei should order them to, find responsible bail, in the sum of £ lO, to keep the. peace for two calendar months. LAMBETH.—A smartly-dressed young Roman entered the witness-box, and addressing Mr. Elliott, said, " Please your worship, I want a warrant fo r an assault." Mr. Elliott—Who has assaulted you ? Applicant—My young man, George Rathbone. Mr. Elliott—What was the cause for his assault ing you—state how it occurred ? Applicant—Well, sir, we were to be married, and so I left my situation last evening. I then went to see him, and on my saying, " Well, George, wha t arc you agoing to 'do now ?" he used bad langilag e ,' and I told him that if he repeated it I should smtici‘ his face, and he then struck me a violent blow. Mr. Elliott—Well you seemed to differ pretty soon. You may have a summons against your young man._ WANDSWORTH. , -.--William Cole, a powerful-- looking young man, was charged with being con,- cerned with others in committing a highway rob bery upon Edward Richard .Banham, a beershop keeper, of Manor-street, Chelsea, while in Batter sea New Park. The occurrence took place some weeks ago, and at the last ,session of • the Central Criminal Co''rt two women, named Diggory and Howden, and °' man named Haines, who gave the name of Brown , were found guilty of being participators in the high" way robbery, which was attended with conside rable violence, and sentenced, the two former to 12 mOntil s each, and the latter to 18 months. The circumstnce° of the case were of an aggravated nature. The pr.o - was drinking in the Admiral Keppel house, Brompton-road, when he met Diggory, whom he had known for some time. Howderi vas in her company, and he treated them both. Haine s and Cole then forced themselves into his company , and ultimately the prosecutor hired a cab and took the two females for a ride, and told the two men he did not want their company. They, however, fal; lowed him to Battersea, and after he had dischargad the cab he went into the park. He was followed by all the four.; he was knocked down and severely ill-used, and his purse and money taken away fronl him. Cole escaped, and it was stated by the pro secutor that he used him more roughly than th e others. Every exertion was made to capture but without success, and at last the other prisoners were sent for trial without him. Sergeant Hudder, of the B division, now stated that he apprehended the prisoner at a beershop. Sheerness. He told him the charge, and he r eplica that it was a - ba,d job, and that it was bad conipani that had got him into it. Sergeant Bocking, Of the V division, who had charge, of the case, said he indicted the prisoner with the others at the sessions. Mr. .Taylor, the clerk, said, in that case it would not be•necessary to take the depositions aga h r t him,' but merely to commit the prisoner . upon tae certificate of the indictment. - Sergeant Bocking said he had not the certificate. 'Mr. Taylor told him he could obtain it at th e office of the Clerk of the Peace. Mr. Dayman then remanded the prisoner witi Thursday, for the production of the certificate, arl i the witnesses were told that they need not at tend ' Sergeant Bocking asked if it would not be necefJ sary to bind the witnesses over to prosecute? Mr. Taylor said they could not bind them oven as no depositions would be taken. If the witn esses were not at the sessions when the case came on, the prisoner would. be discharged. The prisoner was then removed. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—SEAT. 3. There was an average attendance at our market to-401' and business on the whole represented no character of 0 portance. Prices of every article wore in abeyance, alic l 4, al aeration of any of last ' week's quotations were made. J• s, weather has been much broken during the last ten clai„/ but it has been accompanied by smart westerly breeze?, 4111;', interfering much with harvest operations, excepting 10 ,4 0 highlands of the northern district of the kingdom. great portion of the crop of cereals is, however, safely cured, and all root crops, potatoes, and mangold wtazel finer and of more importance than for some years. EXETER—SEPT. 3. The show of samples was somewhat large but the de mand was slack, owing to the prevalence of 'dry wea th The new wheat on offer was of excellent quality. cA Wheat, white 5s 6d to 5s 8d Barley. 4s Od to 40 la Ditto red 5s 3d to 5s 6d Oats 3s Od to 3" Flour, fine, 32s to 33s ; seconds, 30s to 31s per sack. a CATTLE.—The market was well supplied with stock, nn the attendance was numerous, but business appeared to "- small. Od Fat beef, p score, lOs to lOs 6d Ewes, per lb ....6d t o 94 Pork carcases, do 8s to lOs Od Wethers, d 0.... . . 61d to Lambs, per lb 7d to Od Fat calves, d0.... 6d to DI Rough fat, 31d per lb. WAKEFIELD—SETT. 3. cf The busineis was chiefly confined to English wheatt ic e which new was ls. per qr. cheaper, except for very cll°- parcels. Fresh old realised full rates. In beans, oats, al' other articles no change. • Averages for the week : Wheat 3,537 qrs., at .46s 9d 8ar1ey......... 85 „ 29s 110 Oats lO „ 32s Gd Beans COAL MARKET—SEPT. 3. ber f6 Earsden Hartley, 15s. ; Holywell, 14s. Od ; Lam 4.; West Hartley, —s. Od. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s• „ s e, Walbottle Hartley, —s. ; Wylam, 14s. ; Walker Prins Vic. 12s. 6d. Walls End—Acorn Close, 16s. Od.; Charlaw 6dEden, . ; l6s. Od.; Belmont, 15s. Od. ; Thorpe, 17; 741 , Hartlepool, IGs_ ~ • Russell's Hetton, 16s. 6d. ; FravO r ` o r gate, —s. Od.; Haswell, 17s. 9d.; Hetton, 17s. 9d.;P'o6: 16s. 6d; Lambton, 175.3 d.; Bell, 15s. Od.• Heugh qs. 9d.; Hunwick, 14s. 6d. ; South Kelloe, 16s. 9d.; Tees,4 6d.; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. ; Nixon's Duffryn, at market, 27 ; sold, 22. B—SEPT. 3. The market has been quiet RISTOLrSUGA thi ß s week, but prices are, t s i, lower. The sales are confined to about 300 hhds . err for ised Mauritius, and 100 tons Bahia, in cases, at a bou t mer rates. Refiners' produce also has been rather clu;ey. sale, but we do not quote any alteration in the cull ° for Rum in fair demand, at is 10d to 2s per proof gall° Leewards and'Demeraras. No Jamaica offering. 11" [ADVERTISEMENT], —The following extraordinaryen" without Medicine, of Indigestion (dyspepsia), flat constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, c o s asthma, consumption and debility effecte d by Du 13 0 :71 1 0 delicioushealth-restoring revalenta arabica food, are o ot,, least remarkable.—Cure No. 42, 116 . Maj or Edie of eniar'fire meat of the liver and total pro stration of strength. l'lta No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cra m p s, s pasms , and °god vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey of diarrhoO t io , debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of cowling riv Cure No. 32,880. William Hunt, Esq., Barrister, of rot, lysis. Cure 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood-merewoci, of Frimley, of thirty years'diseased lungs, spitting o',6' sg• liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. ."'per 'astihnindeas,cribabl agony from dyspe fi p a s ti n en. o o :: v F o i us fty ness ye , ars ,_cough, constipation, spasms, sickness t the stomach and vca ni f o o; have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Maria Joly, • W or th am Li n g, near Diss, NOn°ool Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Profess d, Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Shore Lord 'Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingra.T,,,p!: Stuart de Decies ;. Major-General Thomas King, and 7 0 .0 other respectable persons, whose health has been re; s illY by it, after all other means of cure had failed. S ill 11 1 )• packed with full instructions. In canisters/ e ty 2s. 9d. ; 21b. 4s. 6d; ; - 51 b. Ils. ; 121 b. 225. The 32 1 0ce /Asters are sent carriage • free on receipt of a Poot- 0 , 0 0, order. Barry Du Barry, & Co., 7 7 , Regent - street , Lonu itol and through all chemists and grocers in town 4 . of country. • Important caution against the fearful ds,„ngA• 6 o l spurious imitations : The Vice-Chancellor Sir • Nv f ": r chl Page Wood granted an injunction on the 10th N: 1) 11 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, for Imitating Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food.* 17 0V1 461 LONDON : Printed Sad Published by ITURDO jef of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offic e, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy '" , ' n the co" Niddleaex, Saturday, September 4, 185;. Ft,', 7, ,1.W.4 ' - rV 4 BIRTHS.---• at BowER.On the 12th ult., at Soutllsea, the lady o " .s c Bower, R.N., of a s on. tre e, BUROHERSII.—On the 3d inst., at 8, South Audler' s Lady Burghersh, of a son. t he CLARKE.—On the 2d inst., at 17, Kensington-B*l°e' wife of 11. B. Clarke, Esq., of a daughter. w o od' ' FlrzwiLLlA3t.—On the Ist inst., at'Weatworth house, the Countess of Fitzwilliam, of a daughter' 01' Oo SAFFI.—On the Ist inst at 12, Grafton-stree t, street, Madame Saffi, of a son. - MARRIAGE S. 14 ELTON--EVERETT.-On the Ist inst., at the paria h 1• oj Erith, Henry Elton, Esq., of Greenwich, t 0,561,, Maria, youngest daughter of William Everett, P Erith. . 60 101 0 RUSSELL—SCOTT.—On the 2d inst., at St. Peter's , the Hon. Gustavus R. Hamilton Russell, 01 11 , 7 3 ;c %;fity:' Viscount and Viscountess Boyne, to Lady 0 - a oer Frances Scott, third daughter of the late Earl and toss of Eldon. DEATHS. BENSON.—On the 26th inst., at his residence, on ttei ol 4,- of Buttermere, Cumberland, Major-Gener al pf Benson, aged 74. 5e1 1 . 9 BLUNT.—On the 2d inst., Mr. George S. Blunt, 46, Rothcrfield-street, Islington, aged 65. sr" of the i l • FIELD.—On the Ist inst., suddenly, of disease .„ . 05 10 while out shooting, Francis V. Field, Esq., Of house, and 37, Ely-place. , s M ACA ULAY.—On the 29th ult., at Edward Cropper ' o f t ho Dingle Bank, Liverpool, Selina , eldest daughter late Zachary Macaulay, Esq. e