The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-06 00:00:00

The following new class Acrew steam gunvessels, to carry five Armstrong guns, have arrived at Woolwich from the building-yard at Millwall, and satisfactorily tested their machinery of 80 horse power each, on Saturday, at the measured mile, in Long-reach —namely the Dart, the Mullet, the Lee, and the Snipe. The Government having decided on having the whole the iron-plated steam floating batteries, now in harbour at Chatham and elsewhere, put in a state of thorough repair, and ready for immediate service, operations have commenced on several of that class of vessels at Chatham dockyard. The laege floating battery Etna, 16 guns and 200-horse power, has been taken into the second dock in order to undergo a thorough repair, and to have any de fects made good. The floating battery Thunder, 14, 150-horse power, has undergone very extensive repairs, and some of her timbers, which were found to be rotten, made good. Her hull has also been painted, and her • bottom coated with Peacock's composition to prevent corrosion. This floating battery having been completed, was undocked at Chatham a few days since. The Thunderbolt, 16, 200 horse power, another of the floating batteries at Chatham, will likewise be taken into dock, when she will be thoroughly surveyed by the officers of the dockyard, and any repairs required will be at once effected. The Trusty, 14, 150-horse power, one of the floating batteries experimented upon with the Armstrong guns, is also to undergo any repairs that may be required; and the floating bat teries Erebus, 16, 200-horse power, and Meteor, 14, 150-horse power, and the screw mortar-vessel Sea horse, 12, 200-horse power, will likewise be docked and surveyed, in order to discover any defects in them, with the view of their being made good. The floating batteries will be fitted for service and attached to the steam reserve in the Medway, in readiness for immediate service upon any puts of the coast. The experimental practice from the Stork gun boat upon Jones's angular target, representing his system of angulated ships' sides plated with iron or steel, commenced at Portsmouth on Saturday, under the superintendence of Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., commanding her Majesty's ship Excellent, the gunnery ship at the port. No person was allowed to witness the practice unless in the pos session of an Admiralty order to that effect, and the only persons who were really on board the Stork, with the exception of those officially engaged, were the patentee, Mr. Josiah Jones, of Liverpool, aad Capt. Cow per Coles, R.N., the inventor of the shot-proof shield. The experiments on Mr. Jones's angulated system are preliminary to others which will be carried out to test Capt. Cowper Cole's system. Mr. Jones is a practical iron and steel plate shipbuilder in Liverpool, and in his yard here the target which represents his system has been constructed at his own expense, a very considerable sum, and under his immediate supervision. It is stated that in Capt, Cowper Cole's case the Government bear the expense. Mr. Jones's. invention has for its object the construction of ships of war which are required to be shot-proof. To attain this object he proposes the sides of ships should incline outwards from below the water line until they rise to the water line, and that from thence they should incline in wards at an angle of about 45 deg. This angle may be altered as experience may suggest. It will be seen that a vessel constructed on this plan will be of considerably greater beam at the water line than on the upper deck, and will be nearer in form to the Spartiate and other ships of her class built by the French many years back, than any modern crea tions. The target experimented upon on Saturday represented the section of a ship's side constructed on this principle. Its face measured 13 feet by nearly 9 feet, and was covered with four armour plates, placed side by side. No. 1 plate was of 41-inch soft steel ; No. 2 was of the same material, but of 31-inch ; No. 3 and No, 4 plates were of 41-inch iron of two different manufactures. The sectional portion of the target which supported the plates in their position was of great strength, but is stated to be of only half the actual strength which would be given in constructing a vessel on this plan, or as compared with the support given to her plates by the teak sides of the Warrior. The target was finally put together in Portsmouth dockyard by Mr. Jones's workmen, and weighs altogether nearly twenty tons. The old Arctic brig Griper, which was ordered to be broken up, was cut down to her main deck, and on it the target was secured. On Saturday morning it was taken up the harbour and moored alongside the Sirius target ship, the Stork gunboat being also moored head and stern at 200 yards' distance. Capt. Hewlett arrived on board the Stork shortly before high water, and the experimental firing soon after commenced. The target had been painted white, and each plate divided into eight equal com partments, making 32 in the whole, and numbered round the margin. The Stork's aftermost 8-inch smooth-bore gun webs the one used with solid 68- pound shot and a charge of 161 b. of powder, calcu lated to penetrate uneer the same circumstances of range, 8.7. c., 12ft. of ov,k. The first shot fired struck the midship iron plats; abopt two thirds of the•way doWn. The second, struck the same plate near its centre., ,The third truck the junction of the two iron plates in aline with the first shot. The fourth was a miss-, as•faras. - the iron plates were concerned, • itstrikiii:the'heavy balks of timber at the foot crf_ the target, and sending up a shower of - splinters.., The fifth shot struck the upper portion" of the mid ship iron plate, th(s shot being shattered and por tions of its fragmuu is carrying away the frigate's rail immeliately oN - er it. Nos. 6,7, S, and 9 all struck parts of the , same plate, which had been hit by former shots. 'There was an evident intention to test the principle of the target to the very utmost, seven out of the nine shots fired having been directed upon one plate, at id four out of the seven being a repetition of bloiffs on the same spot. The result of this severe tes t, as far as the iron plates are con cerned, must be of the most satisfactory nature to the patentee as proving the soundness of the prin cipleof his invention. The plates have been indented to a certain extent, but in no place have they been pierced or fractured by the shot. This is the true principle of the target, and what is professed by the patentee—to cauF,e the shot to glance off without piercing or fracturing seriously the protecting plate. The experiments upon that portion of the target upon which are fixed the steel plates will commence at 1 p.m. to-day. Saturday's trial is as yet the most successful instance of the resistance of iron plates to solid 68. pound shot at so short a range, and affords a remarkalele contrast to the other trials during the past woek on the targets affixed to the broadside of the Sirius, which were easily pierced from the same gun that has been used on this tar get, and at the same range. The Supply screw storeship arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the Miditerranean with returned stores, and sailed again yesterday morning for Woolwich. The Pelican, new three-masted screw schooner, arrived at Spithead y est e • r d ay , un d er canvass, from Pembroke. She will go into Portsmouth harbour this morning, and be t akin into the basin to be fitted with he machery, &e. Mr. Cunningham's 'br ig yacht Alfred was placed in the dockyard Camber • at Portsmouth on Satur day, to give the offices, 3 of the dockyard and the ships in harbour an o v pv ortunity of maki ng them thseles Practically acquainted with the working of e Cueniugha The Excel't tin system of reefin g f rom the deck. three-d ecker, Capt. It. S. Hewl e tt, C. 8., h as conita n enced rt acting alongside the dock yard at Port smostsitthl,int .d will be ready in a short time to be placed ship at the. wporet. moorings in the harbour r the gunnery ..si The Tribune, 31, sert ., stripping alongside porils Capt. G. P. IT mouth d ockyr Jrn bis tory to paying of her ev e w and b e - .rd y , , prepara commission. 4. The Hornet, 17, serevr„ Come,4g put out of is receiving her guns, &c.;., L c of the steam basin in Poi.* The Plover, .5, ser ,an der Elphi ns t one, .ongside the north wall .smonth yard. completed at Ctmtl" g un-vessel ' h avil 4 g be®n am Dockyard, has been undoeked and attached ' to serve at th' the seconti division of the st eam re. ' The r, dd , port, " owbeel steamer ..dder, Mr. ;T. Minchin • - master, has been taken into dock at Chatham to have her defects made good. A new despatch screw gun-vessel, intended to carry six guns, has been commenced in No. 6 slip at Chatham Dockyard, and is to be completed with all despatch. ' Toes were put over the mastheads of the screw steam corvette Jason, 21, at Devonport, on Friday by the men attached to the ships in ordinary. The paddle-wheel steam storeship Dee, 4, Master- Commander T. C. Pullen, having received a cargo of provisions at the Royal William Victualling yard, and embarked supernumerary officers and seamen, left Plymouth on Friday for Cork. A Malta letter, dated July 29, says : " Her Majesty's steam frigate Racoon left on the 24th inst., for Beyrout, with stores for the squadron ; she is to proceed under canvas, for the sake of eco nomy of coal. Her Majesty's line-of-battle ships St. Jean d'Acre and Cressy arrived to-day from Zante, which port they left on the 21st inst. Her Majesty's gunboat Intrepid also came in to-day from Naples and Messina, with dates from the former place to the 26th, and from the latter to the 27th inst. One of the three Dutch steam frigates, lately arrived here from Tunis, the Admiral Van Wassanaer, Capt. C. R. Van Voss, left here on the 27th inst. for Beyrout. The Greek Government steamer Le Roi Othou arrived on the 23d inst., from London and Gibraltar, and left on the following day for Syra. Another Greek Government steamer, the Byzantien, arrived on the 27th, from Glasgow, also on her way to Syra, and left on the following day for her desti nation. The English screw steamers Prompt and Admiral Kanaris arrived from London on the 24th inst., the former for the lonian Islands and the latter for Constantinople ; bath vessels have left for their respective destinations. The English screw steamer Alice arrived on the 27th, from Middles borough, Falmouth, and Gibraltar, and left shortly afterwards for Alexandria. The Euphrate, which proceeded on her way to Alexandria at 1 p.m. the same day, brought the first detachment of the ex peditionary army, which it is now known the French Government have determined upon de spatching to Syria for the protection of the Chris tian populations in that country. The troops on board this vessel consisted of a general officer and staff and 29 non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Intendance. The Amerique and Gauge, Fiench steamers, were embarking at Marseil:es some 1,100 or 2,000 troops and materiel when the Euphrate was leaving, and orders have been re- 1 ceived by the French Consulate here to have a sup ply of coal in readiness for them in case they should touch at Malta. It had not been quite decided whether the expedition should take the Malta or the Messina route. The Messina way would have been preferred, but owing to the present unsettled state of things at that port, Malta will probably be elected as the place of call." The following transpOrts were on Saturday taken up by the War Department to ship from the mili tary store depot Woolwich, for foreign stations— namely, the Adventure, the Director, the Persian, the Western Star, the Skipwith, the Jane, the Yaratilda, and the steamer. Peninsula. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—J. Moore, paymaster, to the Wel lington; J. K. Bell, clerk, to the Diadem ; Lieut. R. H. D. King, to the Orion ; E. Harris, paymaster additional, to the Impregnable ; J. N. Harvey, as sistant-paymaster, to the Royal Adelaide ; Lieut. G. Powys to the Royal Albert ; Lieut. J. E. M. Wilson to the Conqueror ; Lieut. C. Le Mesurier to to the Orion ; Lieut. J. A. Hodgskin to the Daunt less, additional for the Coastguard ; R. B. Lambert, mate, to the Marlborough, for disposal ; E. L. B. Williams, master, to the Indus, for the Desperate; J. Waye, master, to the Indus, for the Jason ; C. P. Mulbany, W. E. Dillon, and F. Egan, acting assis tant-surgeons, to the Victory, for service at Haslar Hospital ; G. Mair, G. V. Hart, and C. L. Cunning ham, acting assistant-surgeons, to the Impregnable, for service at Plymouth Hospital; and R. Borrows, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Royal Adelaide. THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the General Commanding. in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on 'Wed• nesday next. An order has been issued that soldiers are to salute chaplains, paying them the compliment due to their relative rank. Lieut. Macleod, late of her Majesty's 41st Re giment„ and formerly of the Royal Artillery, was on Saturday appointed as Adjutant to the 14th, or Woolwich Dockyard Volunteer Artillery. The above -named corps now numbers upwards of :380 efficient men, principally artisans belonging to the shipbuilding and factory departments, and, not withstanding the close attention to their duties re quired throughout the day, they are zealous and indefatigable in their drill and practice with the heavy guns, at which they assemble every alter nate evening. They are at present commanded by Major Thornton, assistant master-shipwright of the yard, and were last week enrolled by the Lord- Lieutenant of the county-as a battalion, under the above designation. Their numbers are steadily increasing, and on their attaining to 500 the ho norary command of the battalion will, it is ex pected, be assumed by the Commodore• Superi ntendent, the Hon. James R. Drummond. The Cunard steamship Olympus, which arrived at Liverpool a few days ago from Constantinople, brought several thousand Turkish medals for dis tribution among the British army. The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. Sec combe, which, as previously reported, arrived in Plymouth Sound from Portsmouth on Thursday morning, disembarked into the steamtugs Zephyr and!Prospero, and other N't sseLs; the 2d battalion of thel2thßegiment,and a: depot of the 53d, in all abort 1,400 men, besides women and children, who were landed at the Royal William victualling yard. A por tion of the baggage of the 36th Regiment was sent off to the Himalaya on Thu rsday,and on Friday morn ing the head-quarters of that regiment assembled in Raglan barracks, Devonport, and marched to the Royal William Victualling-yard, where they were received by the tugs and conveyed to the Himalaya. She left on Friday afternoon for Dublin. The transport Tribunia, with troops from Lon don for the East Indies, was ten miles south-west of the Eddystone lighthouse at 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon ; all-well letters were landed from her at Plymouth. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENZ A sham fight upon a small scale took place on Hampstead-heath on Saturday eveni:ig. but under circcumstances showing that it is not wise to at tempt such a thing, even tom]. inconsiderable extent, on a spot so near and accessible to the metro polis, unless with adequate police arrangements for maintaining the ground - on which the opposing forces are to ;nanceuvre. -A rumour having been extensively Circulated during the week that such a spectacle was to be exhibited on this place of popu lar resort, some 50,000 people, from all parts of the from so t h e e t g h e . I' . `pal, ordinary re avocations, e t - metropolis, f ar an d near, assembled to witness It. The Saturday half-holyday, n leasing for a tim e th ousands avocations, the promi se h e l d out of the sight and the fineness o f the day, combined to sight itself, ell the crowd to enormous proportions. Contury to ge neralthe scene of the might, such as i t expectatior, , tarried out to, be was was not the line open expan se of heath stretching away to the west and north o f Jack "Straw's Castle, 'but the upper heath, aS it is Called, a spot small in comparison, that point and " the Spaniards " I ,f r. angbetween Highgate. It is a mo:de irregular, of the carriage road lead; - 'bn the north aide lead? from Hampstead to ground, covered iv; and brushwopit, coarse piece of .ch furze, clumps of dwarf trees, high road 1. • sleeping rapidly ' down from the shire. .' o the vale, in the direction of Hertford ads- For these reasons per h aps it was well -pted for a sham fight in which the opposing oodies wer4 riflemen, while the adjacent heights afforded excellent standing ground for a crowd to witness the spectacle to advantage; but the people flocked to the spot in such incredible numbers, and no organised attempt having been made to preserve the ground set apart for the manoeuvres, had it even been practicable to maintain it, a scene of confu sion ensued which went far to mar the whole cere mony and to invest it with ridicule, while it was not altogether free from danger. The hour fixed for the fight was 6 o'clock, but it was some time after 7 before a single corps appeared upon the field, and the thousands of people were, therefore, kept waiting during all th a t i nterva l , and at length 1 Rn i mpression began to obtain that they had all THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1860. been hoaxed. It had been reported, too, that all or the greater part of the various corps in the northern and western parts of the metropolis would take part in the demonstration ; but what erer the intentions might have been of those charged with making the necessary arrangements, the force that really did appear on the ground consisted only of four corps —namely, the West Middlesex and the Hampstead Rifles, mder the command of Major Compton; the 7th Middlesex (Islington), under Captains Hebbert and .Dennis ; and the North Middlesex, commanded by Captain Ross and Cameron. Lord Ranelagh was not pre sent, nor was Lord Radstock ; and a little sham fight was going on simultaneously between the Hornsey, the Highgate, and tke Tottenham corps, which might have been expected to join in the ceremony, in the grounds of Mr. Bird at Crouch. end, hard by. At length when the volunteers who were to contend in the mimic fight marched upon the ground, great numbers of the people from the adjacent heights rushed down among them, broke through their lines, or completely surrounded them. The whole of the space, in fact, in which the fight was to take place was occupied by a huge, strag gling crowd, who roamed over the uneven ground among the furze and brushwood, making fun of the whole matter, and for some time it seemed not onlythopeless, but fraught with danger, to enter upon the presc - ribed evolutions under circumstances so adverse. Eventually, however, so much of order was deduced from the general chaos as to admit of the opposing forces arranging themselves for the fight, and a beginning was made. The plan of the onset was supposed to be this :—The West Middle sex and Hampstead Rifles were the defending force, and at the outset were engaged in skirmishing in the valley on the extreme northern side of the heath with the enemy, - whose skirmishers were to be driven in. The defenders then appeared in force in a commanding position on'the brow of a hill facing the northward, and supported by the road between the Spaniards and Jack Straw's Castle. The attacking force, consisting of the 7th Middle sex (Islington) and the North Middlesex, marched on to the ground by a circuitous road leading from the Spaniards, sheltered by the trees and brush wood, and took up their position under a fire from the skirmishers of the defending force at the bot tom of the valley on the northern side, where they formed into line and were saluted by a volley from two companies of the West Middlesex on the ridge of the hill. The attacking force then sent out its skirmishers, the first company selected for this ser vice being the 7th Middlesex; but the fire of the West Middlesex and Hampstead Rifles was supposed to compel them to retire, Lind their positions were then taken up by the Ist company of the North Middle sex, which had previously been acting as a covering force. This company now advanced in skirmishing order, under cover of the 7th Middlesex. The ob ject of the attacking force was to drive the defenders from their position on the hill, and, as they advanced with that view, their adversaries observed a move ment of the reserve, consisting of two other com panies of the North Middlesex, and shifted their quarters to the north-east side, whence they were presumed to make a determined defenee, until at length, being overpowered and short of ammuni tion, they beat a retreat by the only loophole left for escape—namely, the opening into the Hendon road, on the north-western side of the heath. To do the volunteers who took part in the fight justice, they behaved throughout with good temper, show ing no sign of annoyance at the crowds who hung upon their skirts and hampered all theirmovements. The people themselves afforded a sight which was picturesque, numbering as they did in the aggregate from 50,000 to 60,000, and posted in swarms on every little bit of rising ground commanding a view of the mimic contest. At its conclusion they wended their way back to town in one vast continuous column along the main street of Hampstead, down the Hampstead -road and Haverstock-hill, until, reaching the Mether Red Cap, they branched off in various directions. At the same time the 13th Middlesex, or Hornsey Rifle Volunteers, assembled in the grounds of Mr. Wm. Bird, of Crouch-hall, near Crouch-end, to re ceive a compliment at the hands of the ladies of Hornsey. The corps consists of from 80 to 100 fine young men belonging to some of the best families in the vicinity, and is under the command of Captain Warner and Lieutenant Bird. Mr. Bird had invited his neighbours and friends to witness the presenta tion of a handsome silver bugle to the corps, and they attended in considerable force. The Hornsey corps, commanded by Captain Warner, and the High gate and Tottenham Rifles, the former under the command of Captain Wilkinson, and the latter under that of Capt. Goss, were drawn up in front of a marquee so as to form three sides of a square, to receive the present, the Highgate and Tottenham corps constituting a guard of honour. Mrs. Bird, at the head of a brilliant assemblage of ladies, then advanced into the square, and, addressing Captain Warner and the members of the corps, said,—" On theliart of the ladies of Hornsey and its neighbour hood, who have witnessed with great pleasure the formation of your corps, I have the honour to pre sent to the 13th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers this subscription silver bugle, as a souvenir of the in terest they take in its welfare and efficiency. Hav ing the happiness to live in a brave and free coun try, we hope that -its notes may ever be sounded in peace and harmony, and never be required to sti mulate our. Volunteers to resist aggression." A member of the corps, to whom _Captain Warner .handed the instrument, stepped otit of the ranks and sounded a blast upon it, awakening the adja cent echoes with its music. Captain Warner then made a suitable response, and, after the ceremony had terminated, the corps were put through the manual and platoon exercises by Captain Wilkin son, a gentleman who from the very first has taken a most active and creditable part in the Volunteer movement. They afterwards engaged in a sham fight upon a, small scale, in Which they executed severest evolutions, particularly the formation of squares to resist cavalry, in a creditable manner. On Saturday Ekaernoon the members of the 7th Surrey Rillcs assembled at the Sessions-house, New -tauseway. At 5 o'clock the word of cone ingto,e, :nand to fall in was given, and the corps, headed by their small but select band, under the direction of Mr. Bucki ng h am , marched to the station of the Crystal Condon-b r id ge Pa alabe Railway. At the station they Were met by the 10th Surrey (Bermondsey) Rifles, under the command of Captain Shillpe. A special train being provided, the Vo,' unteers soon arrived at Streatham sta ton, whence they Marched to the common, a dis tance of taVo miles. On arriving at the common they Were met by the 4th Surrey Rifles, Captain Ewan commandant, and a troop of the Surrey Mounted Rifles. Everything being in readiness, the Volunteers, to the number of 800, were minutely inspected by Colonel Lysens, Deputy -Adjutant- General, and during the course ef the review the Volunteers formed ititq open column, into close column of corneeneies, reformed i n li ne , marched past to 51 ( P'er and quick time, prepared to receive cap Eery, &c. It is needless to say that the Vo lunteers went through the various military evolutions in a very masterly manner. The inspection having lasted about tee() hoirs, the men were formed into hollow square and addressed in flattering terms by Colonel Lysens, and then dismissed. The extreme fineness of the weather attracted crowds of specta tors, the scene being enlivened by the presence of considerable numbers of ladies and gentlemen on horseback, who appeared to take a lively interest in the proceedings. Mr. G. 11. Daw, of 57, Threadneedle-street, re cently presented a rifle, value 35 guineas, to be contested for by those members of the Victoria Rifle Corps who had provided themselves with rifles of his construction. The superintendence of the arrangements had been intrusted to Captain Hans Busk, and, after several preliminary trials at ranges of 200, 300, and 400 yards, in order to select the five best shots at those distances, tho final competition took place on Thursday over a range of 750 yards, which Captain Meek, of the Sussex Volunteer Rifles, had kindly set out upon his land, near Balcombe. The five candidates, Mr. Barnard, Mr. I 3 raithwaite, Mr. Dickins, Mr. Bade ley, and Mr. Leversoia, arrived on the ground shortly after twelve o'clock, and after a few pre liminary trial shots, the match commenced. The .: _ r._ - _ ...._ bull's-eye, two feet in diameter, was marked upon the centre of a range of eight regulation targets erected side by side. Each man fired ten rounds, and the prize was awarded to Mr. Herbert Barnard, of Portland-place. The shooting was admirable, There was a general meeting of the 38th Middle. sex (the Artists') Volunteer Rifles, at their head quarters, Burlington.house, on Thursday last. The corps mustered strongly, many new members hav ing joined during the last few weeks. Previously to dismissing the companies Captain H. WV . Phillips announced his intention of giving a silver challenge medal, to be contended for annually, and worn by the best shot; and a very handsome silver-gilt cup was exhibited, the gift of Lieut. Lewis, which will be shot for at the close of the present year. Two other prizes are , promised. The Essex' corps were reviewed on Saturday afternoon in Hylands• park, near Chelmsford, by Major-General Wood, commandant of the camp at Colchester. The Essex and Uxbridge Yeomanry Cavalry and Artillery also took part in the review, as did the Victoria Rifles, the Hon. Artillery Com pany, the London Brigade, the Tower Hamlets, Truman and Hanbury' s , an d one or two other metro politan corps. The various Essex corps were about 400 strong, and altogether about 3,000 Volunteers of various classes were collected on the occasion. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—AuG. 4. CROWN COURT. Mr. Justice Williams took his seat at 9 o'clock this morning, and Francis Price was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of Sarah Platt, at Birmingham, on the 18th of April. Mr. Spooner conducted the prosecution, and Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prisoner. The facts of the case were substantially these : The prisoner was a shoemaker, and had been work ing at his trade in Birmingham some four or five months. He had very soon after his arrival become acquainted with the deceased, whom he courted, and who, until within a short period before her death, had been attached to him. Some differences arose between them previously to the 16th of April, partly from there having been reports which came to the ears of the prisoner, respecting a woman with whom the deceased associated, and whose ac quaintance the prisoner was anxious she should discontinue. At seven in the morning of the 16th he went to the Swan-with-two-Necks, in Birming ham, where the deceased had been living as servant some ;months, and in the presence of her fellow servant, Ellen Cain, endeavoured to persuade her to make up her difference with him. This she refused to do. He asked her what harm he had done ; she said, no more than the tales that went about. He said if she would make it up it should be so no more. They shook Lands at his request, and he endeavoured to draw her towards him, and in so doing pulled off her thimble, which he offered again, but she ref use d t o rece i ve i t, an d he left it on a ledge in the bar. She and Cain withdrew into the sitting-room, bidding the prisoner " good morning," and he went away bidding " good morning" to her. The differences between them were not, how ever, quite settled, and on the 18th of April Henry Evans, a poliee-constable of Birmingham, who had known the prisoner three or four months, met him in Alceston-street, and while walking with him the 'prisoner said he wished he could see Sarah, meaning the deceased, and that he would give any body ss. who would fetch her. They were then near to the house of Agnes Hone, an old woman, living in a court in a part of Birmingham called Derrited, and the policeman seeing her suggested that she would go on his errand for as.; the police man then went away, and the prisoner instructed Agnes Hone to go to the Swan-with-two-Necks and tell the deceased that her sister wanted to see her. He then, by Hone's permission, went into her house. She delivered the message to the deceased, who followed her back to where the prisoner was. Upon opening the door and seeing him she exclaimed, " Oh, it's you, is it ?" and went in, while the woman Hone, having shut the door, took up a bucket and went towards a brewhouse in the yard. She had scarcely got as far as to a bake house, which was only some., two yards from her door, midway between it and the brewhouse, where a man named P owe ll was ma ki ng break, before she heard the cry of a little dog which she had left in the house, and which sounded as if it were in pain or terror. She ran and opened the door, and there saw the deceased young woman lying across on the floor bleeding, and evidently dead, as her arm fell powerless as tho door moved. The witness cried out " Murder! For God's sake don't murder her." The prisoner pushed open the door, ran by her, and rushed out o f th e yar d. Hone gave the alarm, which was instantly caught by John Powell, who stepped across the yard and lo o k e d i n t o t h e h ouse, when he saw the deceased 'lying bleeding on the floor, he pursued the prisoner and overtook him after running about 200 yards. He turned and faced Powell, saying " What do you follow me for P" Witness replied, " I suppose you know as well as I do." The prisoner again started, and had run 100 yards further when he again turned and faced the witness, saying, " What do you follow me for ? I've done nothing." Powell in return asked, " Why do you run away, then ? you may as well give yourself up, for you're bound to be taken." He again started off and ran some 50 yards into Bradford -street, and when the witness got round a corner he saw the prisoner facing him. Calling to one Francis Stokes to assist him, the two collared the prisoner, who said, " I've only gave her a smack on the nose." Powell said " I hope it's no worse, but I'm afraid it is ; you must come and go back with me and see." The prisoner refused to go back, and desired to be taken to the station, whither he was accordingly led. While on his way thither he said, " Well, she should not listen to tales, and then it would not have happened ;" and then he added, " I'm as bad as her, I've listened to tales. Well, what's done can't be undone ; I loved her as I loved my life." Hobbes, an inspector of police, who' was at the' police-station when 'Powell and Stokes brought the prisoner in custody, inquired of Powell what the matter was, Powell said that he could not tell what it was, but that a' woman was lying down covered with blood. A surgeon was sent to the place, and in the meanwhile the prisoner Ras ordered into custody. Mr. Jordan, the sur geon, returned, and reported the woman's death in the prisoner's presence. Hobbes thereupon asked the prisoner whether he was aware that the young woman was dead. He said, "Is she dead ? It is Mrs. and Mrs. —, and them women, that are the cause of it. I shall not tell you a lie about it. I loved her as I loved m 7 life. I know my fate; days are numbered,' There was blood upon his right hand. Sohn Parnell, a police-con stable, who had on the same morning seen and had been talking with the prisoner, so lost his self-pos• session upon receiving him into custody so shortly afterwards upon a charge of murder, that he asked him if it was true that he had committed this mur der that had been talked of. He said, " I have, I've cut her throat." Parnell said, "Oh dear, if it's a penknife, or a paltry knife, perhaps she won't die." He said, " No, it's a l arge oemaker's knife ; I only edged it yesterday morning." He desired to know I when the sergeant came back whether she was dead, and, being informed that she was, exclaimed, " The Lord have mercy on her, and I should say have mercy on me too; but I'm told that the :Lord will not have mercy on a murderer. God help thoff' that have caused me to do it ; I blame nobody for it but Mrs. T. I loved her as I loved my life. I should not care if I was hung to-morrow," Mr. Ross Jordan, surgeon, found the deceased lying on her back upon the ground, recently dead, and beside her ht, , au a great quantity of blood. Across her throat from left to rightwas a large wound dividing the large veins, the trachea, and half severing the carotid artery; it was a wound which would cense immediate death, and by her neck lay a shoemaker's knife, Which, encrusted With rust, was produced in court. Jehn Burt Davis, coroner, at the incruest held on the body of S ara h Pratt sit the prisoner's own request, after hiving given him the usual solemn caution, admin:stered the oath to him as a witness. He then said that he wished to retract what he had said of lirs. J— and Mrs. and he proceeded to amribe the origin of his act to another woman; spolv., of the circumstances of his quarrel with the deceased ; of her returning him the portrait of himself which she had received in ex change for her's ; of tie manner in which he had been sneered at by persons whom he named for pre senting some Banbury cakes and a pairfof boots to the deceased, and also respecting the return of his portrait ; of tales that Lad interfered with her affec tion for him ; and of an intimation made to him by Evans, the policeman, that he should persuade the deceased, whom he sail he had offered to marry whenever she was willing, to leave the house where she was in service. When he met her in Hones house on the 18th he had asked her, he said, to take back his portrait, and to make it up with him. This she had refused. He offered her whatever he had, and said it was hers. She answered that she knew that, but it was not that she cared about— "it was the tales." He concluded that statement by desiring that 355. remaining of the money that had been taken from him might be given to the deceased's moth er , th ough i t was, h e said, a poor recompense. Portraits of himself and-the deceased were found in his possession, and of these, as he subsequently stated, photograh copies had been made for sale, and largely sold in Birmingham. Mr. O'Brien, in the commencement of his address to the jury, referred to the statement which the pri soner had made before the coroner, expressing the painful regret which all must feel that a young man who had shown such proper feeli ng as th e pr i soner had in many instances manifested should stand charged with the crime of murder. Insane desire of plunder or of revenge had often urged men on to the crime charged against the prisoner, but its origin was rarely to be traced to deep and fond affection. It was difficult for the mind to separate the ingredient of malice which was necessary to constitute the crime of murder from towards the subject of it. The prisoner had resorted to Evans, a policeman, for his counsel and assistance in order to prevent contamination to the young woman through associates of doubtful character. Such a person was the last he would have sought, and that even on the morning of the deceased's death, if he was conscious of harbouring any crimi nal intention against her. His sole purpose must have been that of reconciliation, and the statements he had made against himself when he was in no mood to extenuat e hi s o ff ence must b e cautiously received, as those of one whose mind was not in a state to give an accurate account of what had occurred. If the jury saw reason to believe that a quarrel had occurred, with such provocation that in his then state of mind he was not capable of controlling his own acts, it would be for them to say whether the crime was murder or manslaughter only. The learned Judge, in addressing the jury, re marked that it was difficult to say upon which the more painful duty was imposed in this case,—upon himself, with whom it rested to lay down the law by which they were to be guided, and to show how the evidence was to be applied to it ; or with them, who were to say, as judges of the facts proved, whether the prisoner was guilty or not. The address of the learned counsel for the pri soner had proceeded on a misconception of the law, which he was bound to tell them did not require proof that the prisoner was actuated by a deli berate ill-will and preconceived purpose of murder. If in the conversation with her his passion had be come ungovernable and he had thereupon killed her, he was undoubtedly guilty of murder although the thought of it had never before then crossed his mind. His Lordship then recapitulated the evidence, and told the jury that no provocation by mere words, nor even a blow struck by her, if such had been proved, would have sufficed to reduce the crime of taking the life of the deceased to man slaughter. The jury, without more than a few minutes' pause, returned a verdict of guilty. Being asked as to what he had to say why judg ment should not be passed the prisoner said, " I have nothing to state why that sentence should not be passed, but I have a kind of statement to make which is a brief outline of my life, which, as this is the last time that I shall have an opportunity, I should wish to make now." His Lordship intimated that he might proceed and The prisoner the n narra t e d, i n good language and with great composure, the story of his life; how, born at Stafford, of parents both of whom were dead, the son of a minister of the Gospel, he had been apprenticed to a master from whom he ran away, and afterwards became a prize -walker, in which capacity he had visited almost all the large towns in EL ; how the friends who stuck to him while he did well for himself fell off and left him:his only relative when he game to Birming ham being a brother, whom he had not seen for six years, and who was now dead. On first coming to Birmingham he went to the station to inquire when the train for London started, and went into the tap room of a publichouse, that was near, to wait. An harmonic meeting was being held, and there he first saw the girl of whose murder he had been convicted. He could not, he said, describe the feeling. He fell in love with her when he first saw her; but he did not readily mix with com pany or make acquaintance, and people made mis , chief and sneered at him. He worked at his trade and all had gone on well as regarded his attach ' ment to the deceased until the difference which has been already mentioned. He had always, he said, respected Evans, but his d en i a l th a t h e had sug gested to him that an attempt was being made, by one whose name was mentioned, to overcome or seduce the deceased, led him now to doubt his friendship. He then read a letter from Mrs. Jack son, denying that Evans had had an interview with the deceased, whimu he said Evans hadrepresented to have taken place. In conclusion, he begged one favour of his lordship, which was that his clothes might be given to the mother of the deceased. His Lordship then put on the black cap, and silence having been proclaimed in due form sen tenced the prisoner to death, adding that the facts proved left no doubt that there would be any re• mission of his sentence. The prisoner, who was perfectly composed, though looking sorrowful throughout, walked from the dock calmly and steadily. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—CaRmsLE, Aug. 2. CROWN CO4.IRT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) THE EMBLETON MURDER. George Cass, farm labourer, was placed in the dock and arraigned upon the charge of the wilful murder of Ann Sewell, at Embleton, on the 26th of March last. He pleaded "Nth Guilty." Mr. Campbell Foster and Mr. Davison appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Price for the prisoner. Mr. Foster, in opening the case, said the deceased Ann Sewell lived as servant with Thomas Fearon from Martinmas last. The prisoner was also farm servant with Mr. Fearon. Mr. Fearon is a yeo man, and farms his own estate, living at a village called Beckhouse. This village is a small hamlet, containing some four or five houses, and is about three mites from the town of Cockermouth. Mr. Fearon is a bachelor, and resides with his mother. On the morning in question they had both gone to Cockermouth market. At half-past 1 o'clock the prisoner and the deceased were seen together in the kitchen. At half-past 3 the doors of the house were found closed. At half-past 5 Mrs. Fearon returned, and was unable to obtain an entrance into the house ; she called for assistance, and a woman named Earle opened the kitchen 'window and went in. She found the body of AnnSewell lying on the kitchen floor, dead. It was lying on the left side; the wound commenced at the spine, had cut through the bones of the neck, and divided the spinal mar row. Death from such a Wound must have been instantaneous, and it was impossible the deceased could have inflicted it on herself. Suspicion fell on the prisoner, and some days after he was arrested. He had threatened to cut the girl's throat some time before. From a statement made by him after his arrest, and from the evidence, the jury would decide as to the guilt of the prisoner. The various facts stated by the learned counsel were then proved in detail. The jury retired, and after half an hour's absence returned a verdict of Guilty, the foreman saying they wished to recommend the prisoner to mercy. His lordship, in passing sentence, said every one who had heasd the evidence must be satisfied of the justice of the verdict. He would transmit the re commendation of the jury to the proper quarter, but exhorted the prisoner not to found on i t ; any hope that the sentence of the law would be altered. His lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form, The prisoner, who had preserved the same stolid appearance throughout the trial, was at once re moved. HOME CIRCUIT.—OUILDFORD, Aug 4. THE HIGH SHERIFF AND THE JUDGE. It was stated on Saturday in the report from this circuit that Mr. Justiou Blackburn had find the high sheriff, Mr. Evelyn, SOO for contempt of court in persisting to address the magistrates who had been summoned to serve on the grand jury for attending so numerously. The high sheriff re-- tired from the mitt immediately afterwards and proceeded to his lodgings, where a great many of the magistrates of the county went to him, and a consultation took place as to the best means of settling the unpleasant affair. After a good deal of discussion, it was arranged that a statemetA Of the facts should be sub mitted to tlw, Lord Chief ' Justice, and that he should be repented id interfere. A state ment was accordingly drawn tip Arid signed by a , number of magistrates, and Lord thief Justice Cockburn at once consented to interfere, and after a consultation he expressed an opinion that the only satisfactory manner in which the affair could be arranged was by Mr. Evelyn giving an apology for having set the authority of Mr. Justice Black burn at defiance. Mr, Evelyn at once consented, and an apology was drawn up, which was shown to Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, and which in his opinion was satisfactory, and an intimation of what had taken place having been given to Mr. Justice Blackburn, late in the afternoon and just before the courts rose, the high sheriff, accompanied by a number of his brother magistrates, proceeded to the Crown Court, where Mr. Justice Blackburn was sitting. The high sheriff then read the apology that had been agreed upon, and which was to the effect, that he utterly disclaimed all intention to give offence to the learned judge, and that he had been led away by the feeling of the moment to ex press his thanks to the magistrates, many of whom he knew had come a considerable distance and at great personal inconvenience to perform the duty of grand jurors, for having attended so numerously, and he expressed his sincere regret at having done so. Mr. J - ustico Blackburn replied very shortly that he could readily believe that the high sheriff had no deliberate intention to insult the court, and, so far as he was personally concerned, the matter was not of the slightest importance. He, however, felt that he was called upon to support the dignity of the bench, and that ho had no alternative but to take the course he adopted. If the high sheriff had sat down when he requested him to do so, there would have been an end to the matter, but he would not, and persisted in addressing the gentlemen pre sent, and he felt himself therefore compelled to do what he had done. He now, however, was quite willing to accept th e a p o l ogy th a t had been offered, and he was glad the matter had been thus settled. His lordship then gave directions to Mr. Avory, the deputy clerk of assize, that the fine of £5OO in flicted upon the high sheriff should be remitted, and Mr. Evelyn and his friends left the court. The unpleasant affair was thus so far brought to a termination. It appears, however, that, from some cause or other that has not transpired, an un pleasant feeling has existed between the judges and the magistrates for this county at the present assizes. It has been the invariable rule, not only in Surrey, but in every other county where a large number of magistrates attend in pursuance of their summonses to serve on the grand jury, for the judge who sits in the Crown Court to thank them for their zeal and readiness to assist in the administration of the justice of the country. At these assizes there was an unusually large attendance of magistrates, and many of them came a considerable distance, and Mr. Evelyn, as high sheriff, being aware of this fact, appeared to be anxious that his brother magistrates should receive the 'compliment that was usually paid to them by the judge, but it appears that Mr. Justice Blackburn pertinaciously refused, awl said that it was not customary. A great many rumours and statements were current on Friday in reference to the affair—one of which was that Mr. Justice Blackburn had made an offer to remit the fine before any apology was made, and an other that Mr. Evelyn had sent a cheque to the judge for the amount of the fine. But these statements are incorrect. Nothing of this sort occurred, and the above is a correct version of the affair. Mr. Evelyn appears to have filled the office of high sheriff with very great liberality, and he is much respected in the county generally, as well as by his own particular friends, and the general feel ing appears to be that Mr. Justice Blackburn acted rather harshly to him in the matter, and that the imposition of such an enormous fine was not only uncalled for, but actually absurd, under the circum stances. Mr. Evelyn performed his duty of escort ing the judges to court on Saturday morning, but he only remained for a very short time. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Elizabeth Ann Barber, a well-dressed middle aged woman, surrendered to take her trial for mis demeanour,- in having knowingly and wilfully caused certain false statements to be entered upon a register of births. Mr. Ribton conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Lilley and Mr. Pearce were counsel for the de fendant. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in open ing the case to the jury, said that the lady at the bar was the wife of a gentleman named Barber, who, he was instructed, was in possession or en titled to considerable property, and they were married in the year 1836. They continued to live together until the year 1845, when Mr. Barber got into difficulties, and was ultimately taken to the Queen's Bench prison, and since that time the par ties had never lived together. The defendant in 1859 resided at Thames Ditton, and in August of that year she had a child, and it was with reference to the statements made by her to the registrar of births for the district, and which he should clearly prove were false, that the present prosecution was instituted against the defendant. The jury were aware that under a particular statute it was neces sary that the names of the parents of every child should be registered, and it would appear that the prisoner stated to the registrar that her name was Elizabeth Anne Jones, that her maiden name was Summersby, and that her husband's name was Jones, and that he was a traveller, when she knew perfectly well that she was a married woman, that her real name was Barber, and that her maiden name was not Summersby but Goodall. He said that he thought he was bound to inform the jury that this prosecu tion was not instituted by the registrar or by the authorities, but that it emanated from the husband, and that he had also commenced proceedings in the Divorce Court. He was not aware of any object the defendant had in view in making the false statement, but if he established the facts the jury would be bound to convict her of the offence im puted to her by the present indictment. Mr. Justice Blackburn inquired whether there were any grounds for believing that the giving of the false names had any reference to obtaining pro perty of any kind by means of the proceeding ? Mr. Ribton said he could not find any evidence that this was so. Mr. Justice Blackburn said that as this was the GC4,00 be IT O. Of orit.io.. that Oa. rwo=o.,,tinn not to have been instituted. It was not at all the case contemplated by,the act of Parliament. Mr. Lilley said that the prosecution was not only instituted by the husband, but he had actually caused the commission of the offence by himself sending the registrar to the defendant to obtain the statements that were made the subject Of prosecu tion. Evidence was then adduced by which it nppeared that Mr. Woods, the registrar of births for the Esher district, went to the defendant's house and told her he had been informed there was the birth of a child to be registered, and asked for the neces sary information, and the defendant gave him the particulars which he inserted in the register, and the defendant signed it as Elizabeth Anne Jones. He also stated that a person named Barber, whom he had since ascertained was the husband of the de fendant, called upon him and requested him to go and obtain the information from the defendant. A witness named Dickells also proved that he had known the prisoner and her family for a great many years, and that her maiden name was Eliza beth Goodall, and had never heard her called Sum mersby. He likewise stated that he was present at her marriage with Barber, 23 years ago, and he had seen Barber a short time back. Mr. Lilley, at the close of the prosecution, took some technical ohjections to the indictment, and Mr. Justice Blackburn said it appeared to 44 that the only averment that requlred an answer was the one that the defendant-had falsely alleged that her maiden name wAs Summersby, when in point of fact it was Goodall. Mr. Lilley made a very energetic address to the jury on behalf of the defendant, and in the course of it he said it was clear that the prosecution had been instituted by the husband from vindictive mo tives, and not for the purposes of justice; and he contended that the jury would be justified, under all the circumstances, in coming to the conclusion that the defendant had not wilfully stated her maiden name to be Summersby, and would be jus tified in acquitting her on that ground. Mr. Justice Blackburn in summing up repeated that in his opinion the prosecution was a very im proper one, and never ought to have been instituted. The object of the act of Parliament was to prevent registers of births, &c., from being falsified for the purpose of enabling parties to obtain property, and it was never intended to apply to such a ease as this. Th:re was still, however, no doubt that the matter came 'Within the terms of the statute, and they must deal with it, and if the evidence satisfied them that the defendant had made a false statement, and had caused that &Ise statement to be placed upon the register, the only course they could pursue was to find her guilty ; but they might, at the same by a recommendati on time, accompany that verdic: to mercy. The jury; after some deliberatiolZ. found the pri soner guilty, but strongly r eco mmenc: ed her to the merciful consideration of the court. Mr, Justice Blackburn in passing senteti.ee said that in his opinion th e con d uc t o f th e h us b an d to in stituting this prosecution was as improper as it could be, and he was only sorry this was one of those cases in which the court had no power to allow the expenses, that he might have expressed his dissatis faction by refusing the expenses, if they could have been allowed. The object of the act of Parlia . went was to prevent the fabrication of evidence by means of the registers and thus obtain possession of property, and where this was established, it was no doubt a very serious offence and one that would be visited by severe punishment. In this case, however, it Was clear that the only object the de fendant had in view was to diguise her real posi tion, and he therefore only felt himself called upon to inflict a nominal punishment. He then ordered her to pay a fine of ls, and to be at once discharged from custody. There was some applause in the court at this ter mination of the case. This was the last criminal case for trial. and Mr. Justice Blackburn then proceeded to try common jury causes taken from the other court. OXFORD CIRCUIT—HEREFORD' AUG. 2. CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Byles and Common Juries.) IL Cooke and Mr ig . n C: t r haai y ss DOWDING AND WIFE V. ORGEE, Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Best appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. W. James Dowdin g r p a o dre d y in w for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action', a farmer at the Hill House Farm . f f or a malicious county, end he sued the defendant, Thornas' 0 , who was also a farmer at the Vine's End Farm r' , 2n i e n' 1 e. The decla ration same parish, to recover damage; ) treepass and fake prosecution ration ais oc o o f n t h a i i s n ( e t d h e a p countl plaintiff's) t ifffo'rs -C_. T 'i imprisonment. The defendant pleaded only the general issue. The plaintiff's wife, Theebe Dowding, WU a e spectable looking . old lady, 65 years of age, and from her evidence it appeared that on the afternoon of Friday, January 13, 1860, the defendant came came into her house in a state of intoxication. At that time she was suffering from rheumatic gout, and, reclining on the sofa, was assisting her maid servant in preparing some fowls for market. The defendant, on entering, asked for a pint of beer, but she refused to give him any, telling him that he was drunk already. He told her that if she would not give him any beer he would kiss her, but he left the house without carrying th e th rea t i nto execution. The defendant lived at an adjoining farm, and he had not been absent long before he re turned, and repeated his annoyance both to the child, the servant, and the mistress. At length he assaulted the old lady by rubbing his hands up and down her face, and knocking off ,her spectacles in an attempt which he made to kiss her. The old lady resisted this attempt, and, having a knife in her hand with which she wa s d ress i ng a f ow l , s h e thrust it out, and, as she said, by accident, the point of the knife entered his side, and made it bleed. The defendant then went away, and the next day sent a policeman to take the old lady into custody, upon a charge of wounding him with the knife. The policeman told the old lady what he had come for, but she refused to be appre hended, and the policeman went away ; but eventually returned, at 11 o'clock at night, which was Saturday, accompanied by the de fendant's son. He then said he must take the old lady by fair means or by foul, and he put her into the defendant's cart, which he had in readiness. The old lady was suffering from rheu matic gout, and was taken in the open cart at 11 o'clock at night, on the 14th of January, a distance of eight miles to the lock-up at Bromyard, where she was confined all night. Next day she had the attendance of her medical man, and was removed to an inn, and on the Monday she was taken before the magistrates, and as the defendant did not ap pear, she was remanded, but liberated on bail. When before the magistrates the defendant swore that he went to the plaintiff's house to pay some taxes, and asked for the plaintiff's son, who was the tax collector, and that the old lady thrust the knife at him, but on cross-examination he admitted that he laid his hand on her head. The magis trates declined to hear evidence for the defence, and eventually committed the old lady to take her trial at the County Sessions, where the grand jury threw out the bill. The present action was then brought to recover damages for the false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, and the expenses to which the plaintiff had been put in defend ing his wife before the magistrates and at the sessions. The maidservant was called, and corroborated her mis tress's evidence as to the intoxication of the defen dant, and the plaintiff himself was called, and stated that the defendant had been drinking for two or three hours previously. The policeman stated that he acted by the authority of the defendant. In cross-examination an attempt was made to show that the wound was a serious one and bled a good deal, and that the defendant acted in the bona fide belief that the old lady had wilfully inflicted the wound. Mr. Justice Byles said he should reserve the question whether there was reasonable and proba ble cause. It might be that the wound was acci dental, as stated ; but it might also be that the de fendant believed it was intentional, and the use of the knife could not be justified, as the defendant called no witness. Mr. Huddleston summed up the plaintiff's evi denee, and _ _ _ Mr. Cooke addressed the jury in mitigation of damages. He admitted that the defendant was intoxicated when he entered the plaintiff's house, but he contended there was no ground for saying that he had been actuated by any malicious motive. He was in bed and suffering from his wound when the policeman came to him, and it was only in an swer to the policeman's question, that he gave authority to arrest. _ The jury retired, and ultimately found a verdict for the plaintiff, with £l5 damages for the assault, £l5 for giving the old lady into custody, and £3O for the malicious prosecution. Mr. Justice Byles asked the jury whether the stab was accidental or otherwise, and they an swered it was accidental ; but in answer to another question, whether the defendant had acted malici ously, they said he had not. Mr. Justice Byles thereupon directed that a ver dict should be entered for the plaintiff for £3O damages, on the counts for the assault and false imprisonment ; and for the defendant on the count for a malicious prosecution. His lordship said he thought that would make an end of the action, for it was very doubtful whether the plaintiff could recover on the third count. Verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, £3O. I'o UNTP v -711-d-PRET.S. LEICESTER-AuG. 4. There was about an average supply of wheat to-day, in, good condition, and trade active. White wheat, 63s to 66s —red, 60s to 63s per 36 stone; a moderate inquiry for barley, grinding, 363 to 385; malting, 38s to 44s per qr. ; oats, 33s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 48s to 50s, new 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 45s I Seconds, 43s I Thirds, 41s per 20 stone. NORTHIAMPTON-AuG. 4. At this corn-market wheat was in moderate supply, with a firm trade, ranging from 58s to 61s for white, and 55s to 58s for red. There was a dull business passing in barley, malting 42s to —s, grinding 36s to 38s per qr. Oats in steady sale and prices well maintained, quoted at 28s to 365 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 48s ; peas, 42s to 466. Rye, 36s to 40s ; malt, 68 s t o 72 s ; fl our , 33 s t o 37 5 per sack.. NORWICHCAuu. 4. To-day's market was very fairly attended, but the wheat trade continues quiet. Prices were unaltered. Barley in • limited supply. Oats steady. Beans were rather higher in price. White wheat 62s to 66s I Red wheat 60s to 641 Malting barley....42s to 46s I Chevalier barley 33s to 359 Distilling do ....25s io 27s I Oats.. 30s to 32s Flour, 452 Od to 478 per sack from the miller. STAMFORD-Am 4. We had a fair supply of wheat at yesterday's corn market.,c'whieh met a fair sale, , but, laA,week'!; rates were riot exeeeded. Wheat 54s to 59s I White do s9s to 62s Beans "16s to Barley 34s to 33s I .Ditto, old ........48s to 504 DUBLIN• A small supply of home gr was dull, at about late rates. demand, but prices were as or s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 33 0 to 3 0 Do., red 3l 0 to 33 0 Do., new 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black l5 0 to 15 6 metand a t n he im d p e r m o —Avo. 4. dcaoyrnanvedd a Tuesday. rain nd t a on- Do., new ..... to LI Bere .. . 13 0 to 14 0 Rapeseed .... 20 0 to 23 0 Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn NORWICH CATTLE—Aua. 4. The show of store cattle to-day was considerable, and trade quiet, at barely former prices. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Irish, 3e to 4s 6d ; Devons, 4s Od to 4a 6d (estimated weight when fat). Fat beasts a small show. 8s 6d to Os 6d per stone. Sheep—There were a good lot of sheep in the pens. Fat sheep, Os Od to .94 6d per stone ; prime, Os to Os Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 25s to 355; fat pork 7s 6d to 8s 6d per stone. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HuIIoway's Pills.—Depression of Spirits and Debility.—Some defect in digestion is generally the cause of mental depression. On rectifying the dis ordered stomach the long list of gloomy thoughts retire, and are succeeded by more hopeful and happier feelings. Holloway's Pills have been renowned far and wide for effecting this desirable change. They remove all obstrun. tions, regulate all secretions, and correct depraved b.utnour s by purifying the blood and invigorating the stomach. 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WREN—Cox. —On the 2d ins.t., at Woolwich parish chureh, Walter Wren, Esq., 8.A., of Christ's College, Cam bridge, t o Eliza Cartwright, second daughter of William Co; Esq., Birmingham. DEATHS. BL ACRWELL.—On the 28th ult., at Castle Villas, Stroud, Joseph Blackwell, Esq., aged 66. BRIDGE.—On the 30th ult., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Louisa, wife of Colonel C. Bridge, 58th Regt. CATTERTON.—On the Ist inst., at Upton-place, near Strat ford, George Catterton, Esq. CROOKES.—On the 2d inst , Joseph, eldest son of Joseph Crookes, of Brook-green, aged 42. HINDMARSH,—On the 29th ult., Rear-Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, Kt., K.H,, aged 76. LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Bus Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the ormaty o Xiddleass, Monday, Augask6, 1860. WIN