The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-10 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The screw steamship Edgar, 91, Capt. Baton, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, second in command of the Channel fleet, arrived at Portland on Saturday morning. The Blenheim, 60, Capt. F. Scott, returned from the westward on Friday. Sir John Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications, paid an official visit to the works at Portland on Saturday. The screw line-of-battle ship Neptune, 91, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, arrived at Portland on Sunday afternoon from Spithead. The hired transports Cylia, for Gibraltar, the Gwaller, for Devonport, and the John Meldron, for Portsmouth, arrived at Woolwich on Monday, and have commenced shipping, gun carriages and gene ral stores : and the Index, the Vivid, the Star of the North, and the steamship Peninsula are under orders to embark war stores and ammunition. Her Majesty's ship Scout, 21, Capt. Corbett, ar rived at Spithead from the eastward yesterday.. Her Majesty's ship Emerald, Capt. Cumming, left Spithead for Cowes-roads on Monday evening to escort her Majesty to the Channel Islands. THE ARMY. The authorities having decided on disbanding the Medical Staff Corps, which was raised during the Crimean - war, and constituting an entirely n ew branch of th e serv i ce , t o b e ca ll e the " Army Hos pital Corps," the following general order relating thereto has been issued from the Horse Guards : " It having been determined by her Majesty's warrant, bearing date the Ist of August, 1857, to contitute a corps, to be called the ' Army Hospital Corps,' in lieu of the corps formerly denominated the Medical Staff Corps,' the regu lations for which are fully detailed in the aforesaid -war rant, officers commanding regiments to which men of the Medical Staff Corps are attached, and the medical officers under whom such men may be serving, will be pleased to give them the option of joining the newly-formed corps, under the terms prescribed, or of being discharged, accord ing to the terms of the warrant under which they enlisted. ' Those men who are now serving, and are recommend e d by their commanding o ffi cers or hea of department for the aupezior grades in the Army Hospital Corps, will be pre ferred for them. " Commanding officers will carefully explain thewarrant of Ang. 1, 1857, to the corps, and transmit returns to the adjt.-gen. of all men willing to transfer their services to the Army Hospital Corps, stating their character and fitness for that special duty. After receiving these returns, the General Commanding-in -Chief will take the necessary mea sures to complete the new corps from the ranks of the army. " A separate return of all men desirous of being dis charged will be transmitted. " By command of H.R.H. the General Commanding-in- Chief, " G. A. WETHERALL, Adjt.-Gen." The 22d company of Royal Engineers, now doing duty at the Mauritius, will be relieved by the 10th company, serving in India. The 22d co m p an y, which is much reuced, has been stationed at the Mauritius several years, and will shortly return to England. The Himalaya screw troop-ship, Com. J. Sec combe, arrived at Spithead early on Monday morn ing from Dublin, with the Ist battalion 16th Foot (Bedfordshire) on board, consisting of the follow ing :—Col. Cockeil, Majors Audain and Pea cock, Capts. Studdart, Bostock, Magnay, Barchard, Kendall, and Hogge ; Lieuts. Rooke, Lockwood, Lea Lefevre, Poweys, Anderson, Whitlam, Rogers, Horne, and Jefferson ; Ensigns Godwin, Medewe, Cann, and Woodnass ; Adjutant Carter, Surgeon Swan, Assistant-Surgeon Kehne, Quartermaster Dart, Paymaster Higginson, three ladies, five chil dren, three servants, 850 non-commissioned officers and men, 75 women, 97 children, and six horses. The Himalaya steamed into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead in the afternoon. In consequence of the building strike *hich has so suddenly arrested the progress of the contract works at Woolwich, the Royal Engineer Depart ment in the Arsenal have adopted speedy measures for carrying on a portion of the works under the most urgent demand —namely Sir Wm. Armstrong's rifled ordnance factory, under contract for erection by Messrs. Lucas Brothers. These buildings are already roofed in, and were fast approaching com pletion. A large portion of the machinery has ar rived from Manchester and Scotland, in readiness for fitment, consequently any delay, however short, must be of importance. Arrangements have been concluded, and an abundance of tools has been sup plied from the military store department, to enable the works to proceed without further in• convenience and loss of time. Captain Dunford's company of Royal Engineers, consisting of 120 competent artificers, under orders for the Mauritius, arrived at Woolwich on Monday evening from Brompton barracks, and yesterday commenced their d u ti es . Th e works, it is expected, will be completed by the end of the present month. Mr. John G. Watts, director of the establishment of Messrs. Lucas Brothers, will continue to super intend the works as heretofore. Two other com panies of Royal Engineers are under orders to join from Aldershott, which will totally avert any evil anticipated from the strike in that department. The ceremony of presenting new colours to the Royal Limerick (County) Militia took place on Monday on Southsea-common. The troops arrived on the common at 2 p.m., and consisted of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade,the Cheshire Militia, mounted batteries of Artillery from Hilsea, and the Royal Limerick (County) Militia, the latter taking up ground in the centre, with the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade and a part of the mounted Artillery on the left flank, and the Cheshire with the remainder of the mounted Artillery on the right, the whole forming a hollow square ; the drums being piled in the centre with the new colours placed upon them in readiness for the ceremony. Major-General Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., commanding the South west District, soon after arrived on the ground, ac companied by his staff, and was received with a general salute from the troops. The ceremony then commenced by the Rev. F. Milner, chaplain of the garrison, delivering an appropriate prayer. Sir J. Y. Scarlett then dismounted, and, taking up the colours, presented them to the Ensigns appointed to receive them, observing, " That it afforded him the greatest satisfaction in doing so from his know ledge of the discipline, good conduct, and devoted loyalty of the Royal Limerick County Militia; that, although be was precluded from alluding to the names of any of the famous battles emblazoned on their banners, by their existing only as one of England's means of defence, he trusted those ban ners would never be unfurled in the face of a foe, as that could only be in the event of an invasion of this country ; still, should such an event occur, he was confident the Royal Limerick County Militia would be foremost in the van of battle, and hurl the invaders back into the sea which they had the teme rity to cross." The gallant general concluded a sol dierlike speech, by " wishing health, happiness, and above all, honour to every officer, non-commis sioned officer, and man in the Royal Limerick County Militia.' Lieut.-Colonel Dickson repl_ied to the Major-General in a manly speech; after which the old and new colours were marched past the regiment in front and rear with the usual ceremo nies. The troops afterwards marched past in slow and quick time, and then returned to their respec tive quarters. The officers of ,the regiment gave a repast at four p.m., and issued a large number of invitations to a ball in the evening. [AnyEnauszatENT.]—Thorley's Food for Cattle is now beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer, breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting Bare and attention have enabled its inventor to take high Found as a benefit/kr to these interests ; and notwithstand ing the many drai, acks, the malevolent shafts hurled against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest. Experience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable saving in the consumption of provender; secondly, that it produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its Influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive mode then pre va ili ng o f fattening stall-fed beasts. In this t a ta e ppil7 succeeded ; and succe ss p romp t e d a very natura l tolica improv e u p on th e i nvention, so as to make it ap ts.,. ble to every d es c r i p ti on o f d omestic animal. The Eng. " l amer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an nuns h Produc e ea l t i l lis farm, ample materials whereby to feed 4)r addition of artificial at a cheaper rate than by the employment subjected have food. The tests to which this food has been e prov e d its perfect admissibility as a cheap addition to th e na i all cases a subt racti tu •oduc e of the far m ; inasmuch as in on of one-third may be safely submitted to in the usual food of ani that the produce will be realised, and rendered marketable balief4ailt. two-thirds of the time usually consumed in developiniageffecioipbther f efore, becomes apparent that a certain saving lication a Thorley's Compounded Food. It is beliZead trat a tt the present unprecedented low price of wh ea t h as induced its very gene.. ral use , preference to any other of the usual articles o f food ; is, however, much questioned w h ether wheat is a nourishing and proper food . for_ the r working horse, certainly rE!ting the health it is not for cows or pigs. M , Thorley's Food, b es id es greatly r in , ino possessing the advantage of and increasing the physical powe of all ani ma the is a t on i c stimulant, and when mixed with their other and gent le f°4)(l, materiall y assis ts their digestive powers --a m a tt er of it is an undoubted fact that t h e great consequence, since ordinary food is lost, conse nourishment contained in t heir quest upon the impaired or de fec tive action of the dig es ti ve be particularly benefi c i a l organs ; it will also be found to in restoring to good working condition horses which have been over-worked, or become weak from disease , or are naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the time enriches yield of milk and b u tt er , w hil s t it at the same t the quality of both. I n pi gs it s fattening qualities are still more remarkabl e , di sp l ay i ng i n a f ew weeks its manifest superiority over every other kind of compound or manu factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows, Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal prizes, whilst carts of commendation have been awarded. The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the deity, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a great incitement to' this gentleman to purstie his onward course ; and he may confidently rely, in producing so highly-favoured a compound, on a contzinuati.n of such high anflAistinguished patronage. THE LATE WAXEFIELD AND 11U.d. DERSFIELD ELECTION. It will startle or amuse those who watch the workings of our Constitution from afar to see what the pretenders to the most exalted purity are ac customed to do in order to obtain a seat in our House of Commons. There is a sort of notion still favoured abroad that English society is, as Vol taire described it, like our English beer—froth at the top, dregs at the bottom, and strong and clear only in the middle. These revelations, however, show what muddiness hangs in suspense half way down. The case is more than usually remarkable, and merits recapitulation. There dwells in this land of England a great political apostle, a vehe ment and impetuous lover of right and hater of wrong, a pure truth-advocating patriot ; one who holds no terms with anything he disproves ; as virtuous as Robespierre had been if Robespierre had been unstained by blood ; as impetuous as Danton, as eloquent as Mirabeau. This great man is not a statesman, for he has solemnly and publicly declared that he will never assume the responsi bilities of office. He is not a leader in the House of Commons, for not three men follow his lead there. Up to the time of the last General Elec tion he was nothing more or less, whatever he may have conceived himself to be, than a popular de claimer of newspaper articles. It was in the news papers that he lived, and moved, and had his being. His articles were so strong and pungent, they said so many violent things, some true, most false, which the crowd liked to read, but for which sober people did not like to take the responsibility, that when it was given out that Mr. Bright was about to dictate to the journals, whether at Bir mingham, or Glasgow, or Edinburgh, all the news• papers were on the qui wive. We sent our best reporters to the spot, put special trains and electric wires in requisition, and produced the article hot and bubbling. It was as lurid and lava-like as those streams of iron that come forth from the furnaces of Wolverhampton or Mer thyr, as dangerous to touch as those red bars which are held only by gigantic pincers to be fashioned into rails. It was almost certain to have scathed half-a-dozen aristocratic Lord Harrys, and Viscount Johns, and Hon. Toms, and Right Hon. Georges. It was quite certain to have scorched the very paper on which it was printed. But what matter ? It was so bold, so uncompromising, so denunciatory of the vices of the noble, so fierce against all who walked a hair's breadth from his own demarcated path of purity, so sublimely ungrateful to the Press in which alone he lived ! What matter that, like an angry whale, he lashed his own element, or, like a furious bull, he tore up the soil of the arena in which he foamed and fought ? He was sublime in his passion, and when he attributed such bad motives to every one he was so earnest, and, therefore, must be so honest. Some people took him in terror, and would not go near him. The aristocracy petted him and patted him ; and, strange to say, he suffered his poll to be scratched by them with a grave equanimity, and only gave them a furious poke with his horn when their backs were turned. The statesmen of h's time were glad to take him at his word when he declared that he would never be harnessed to the car of office. But we of the Press, and especially we of the Times, always loved him with a curious love, as the best specimen of his breed. We dealt familiarly with him and never feared him ; now and then punching him hard when he was unendurably vicious, and giving him a good-humoured buffet when he attacked us with a more than common ingratitude ; but we always helped him back to his pastures when he was out of condition, we always fed him to fatness with the publicity on which he lived, and we always admired him as the most sporting bull that ever lashed his own sides and tossed dogs in the air in that Bullring at Birmingham where he so often triumphed. But, as time brings changes to all, so it brought changes to John Bright. From a dictator of lead ing articles to the Press it was thought that the season had arrived to make him a leader in the House of Commons. The point was to give him a party. They must be, as was written U;. on a cele brated occasion, " men who could run and who could walk, who could be silent and who could talk." People who would be apt too obstinately to call their souls their own would hardly do to act under a leader who is so jealous a lover of freedom that he insists upon having her all to himself. His ad mirers naturally thought that in his own family, among his own domestic companions, his surest satellites might be discovered. Therefore let Bright be accompanied to Parliament by a following of Brights. The honour of returning the family of Brights was too great to be conferred upon any other than those large towns where the apostle of purity of election had so often preached. Let Wakefield and Huddersfield be first and second in the roll of glory. W. H. Leatham and E. A. Leatham, brothers-in-law and brothers in political faith, were chosen to be the Ali and Abubeker of the political Prophet, and to go into the assembly of legislators to demonstrate that there is but one rule of political purity, and that Bright is its enun ciator. Alas for the result ! That assembly has not the faith which in the hearts and voices of the fac tory men stands instead of proof. Committees of the House of Commons have submitted this pa triotic proceeding to the dull ordeal of testimony and cross-examination. They have been inquiring into the details of that purity of election which was to be the parent of all purity in times to come. They have searched with an indiscreet curiosity into the proceedings which took place during Ali's pure candidature for Wakefield, and they have disco vered that those proceedings consisted principally of handing over £l,lOO in hard cash. They have elicited that of these £l,lOO, £450 were openly paid through the lawful channel ; that £5OO more were paid in unexplained and more secret ways ; that public houses were opened, at which non-electors were permitted and invited to steep their senses in forgetfulness ; that bribery was rife in Wakefield ; that Thomas Beaumont received £lO for exercising his sacred privilege in favour of the virtuous Ali, that John Jackson more fortunately bargained for £3O for the same purpose, that John Cousins got £25 and that George Senior obtained in hard cash as much as John Jackson. There was a verdict of " Not proven" as to the actual complicity of the brother in-law of the Prophet in the corruption, but the re sult was that the virtuous Ali was unseated because his election had been secured by the vulgar expe dient of course money bribery. Thus fared purity of election in the hands of one brother-in-law. The other proceeded to the liberal and independent electors of Huddersfield, and there a similar purity was worked out with a very similar scandal, but with a happier result. In Huddersfield even the money for the most part was as base as the vrin ciples were pure. Pati lots of the best intentions went about flashing £50 -notes of the " Bank of Elegance" in the eyes of the electors, drunken men could not articulate at the poll, votes were bought by transactions in " pigs," which were repudiated when the elector had fulfilled his sacred duty, eighteen-gallon casks of al© were set flowing gratis, and zealous customers went about to hesitating tradesmen and urged them to vote for Leatham and purity of election, under pain of ruin. Even Abu beker himself is said, after failing in persuasion upon an obdurate tailor and that tailor's wife, to have, in the hope and bitte rness o f his heart,de clared that if John Fisher voted for him it would be a good job, and if he did not it might be a bad one—strange words of promise and of menace to issue from those pure lips ! Huddersfieldwould have followed upon the fate of Wakefield. Ali's and Abubeker's places would have known them no m ore ; the Prophet would ha ve b een cut off from both his earliest converts. But, although the bribery is ad mitted and reported, although the pig case and the beer-swilling cases are found duly proved, although the presence of the candidate at an interview with a voter when bank-notes were flashed about by im petuous partisans stands uncontradicted on the notes yet the committee did not see that the actual bribers could be connected with the candidate for whose benefit the bribes were given. One of the two followers of the Prophet remains to illustrate in the house the purity of the doctrines of his sect. But, alas ! purity of political principle has been unveiled to the laughing multitude. Drunkenness, and cor ruption, and coercion, and intimidation, and even a shabby non-payment of promised bribes, have— . alack that we - should say - so !—been found among the works of the friends and supporters of the new political Puritans. - There are momenta when, as we are told by philanthropical gaol chaplains and others versed in stony hearts, the stoutest sternness is broken down, and when the hardest mind is malleable. We would not b e ungenerous, b ut, as we have often heard good men and great admirers of political purity sa l it is our duty to "improve the occa sion." when John Bright was high in his tri umphal car, and the mob were shouting at his heels, it would have been vain to shout in his ear, " John Bright, remember thou art mortal !" b u t now w h en he is l oo ki ng upon the uncovered corrupti on f rom whose r an k h eat his o leer w tha n ns fa h m op il e iar un f w ri i e t n ti d n s g a ly nd , i f n o t l o legislators, h e may p - lowers have grown, llsbe in a b e tt er f rame of mind to liste n . tYe would thini en then—B e t not so i in t f o u l t e u r r a e n s t o of uncharitable difference fr othe r om aa 37 ne own infallible ianndt:o persuade belief. Cease to persuade thys elf others that purity dwells only Bright, and that without those canvas wal e t l e s nts all i s of wickedness and corruption. - lie mor e cautious ere you impute vile motives to those who do not yield absolute credence to your pretensions of a monopoly of political virtue in yourself and your friends. When next you feel inclined to fulminate ii i , wrath against peers and bishops, and Ministers of State, and country gentlemen, and public writers, and to wrap them all in one comprehensive but yet ex clusive condemnation, think for a moment that some of these may be at least as honest and as conscien tious as yourself and your most staunch supporters —think then of Wakefield and of Huddersfield, and, if you cannot be more tolerant, be at least more humble —Times THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1859. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS. A correspondent possessing considerable expe rience in submarine telegraphs desires to protest against the statements made on the 29th of last month, at the meeting of the Electric and Interna tional Telegraph Company, regarding the rapid deterioration of ocean cables. He contends that a telegraph cable, if properly made and skilfully laid down, will last from 16 to 20 years, and cost the company meanwhile only a nominal sum per annum. The less favourable experience of the Electric Com pany is attributed to the defective nature of their line to the Hague, " laid down in defiance of warn ing and example," and which requires constant expenditure. Proofs of the durability of other lines are furnished in the fact that next month the first cable laid down from Dover to Calais will be nine years old, while the age of that from Dover to Ostend is already seven years. These are yet both at work, and are reported by the Submarine Ccmpany to be, so far as natural wear is con cerned, as good as when first put down, the only injury sustained having been in 1857, when a vessel of 700 tons hung on to one of them for hours. There are also, it is added, two submarine cables which were laid across the Irish Sea in 1853 by the Magnetic and British Telegraph companies,and which have not cost their respective companies a penny for repair. Finally, with regard to the statements, that when the line to the Hague was made the Electric Company had no experience to guide them, and that there is no submarine cable at the present moment that pays for its outlay, it is stated that they are both dis proved, the first by the fact that the Dover and Calais and Dover and Ostend had been previously laid, and the second by the payment of a dividend of 7 or 8 per cent. by the Submarine Company . (which has no land lines) on the cost of their seve ral cables every year since their formation. Unless in the latter case it be asserted that there has been no sufficient reserve, and the cables are not in the condition represented, these corrections will appear unanswerable. Whichever view may be the true one, it is highly important that all doubt should be removed as soon as possible. From her insular position and diffused extent of empire there is no description of enterprise that can exert an influence more vast on the future safety and progress of Great Britain than that of oceanic communication, and the recent representations would, if we are to admit their validity, inflict upon it, for the time, a heavy discouragement.—Times' City Article. TILE GREAT EASTERN. To look at the gentle though powerful monster now lying off Greenwich, few would guess the dif ficulties and hardships that threatened to stifle the young giant. But as one of the greatest births of time it must have its story of wrongs. Like many another noble craft, it was all but wrecked before it ever touched water, and might have been pointed at for a hundred years or more, like the first big ship of all, as the folly of an enthusiast. But that was not and that is not the worst trial of the Great Eastern. Its worst foe is neither wind nor wave, neither rock nor mudbank, nor anything earth or sea can put in its way. Like many another upstart, it has to fight its way against favouritism ; and it now starts against a subsidized competition with nothing to depend on but its own iron walls, its many roods of surface, and its power, greater than was ever accumulated before. As it lies quietly before you, held by a dozen of the strongest cables ever wrought by man, you see that which p rom i ses to compete successfully with a large fleet of fine vessels, befriended by Governments, tenderly nour ished by Legislatures, bribed, privileged, and secured from all opposition within their track. It has to run a race with a company and a legion of steamers. This is the unity in which now centres all the hopes of the Eastern Steam Navigation Com pany. Notwithstanding the evident advantages of free competition,--notwithstanding the admitted failure of the Peninsular and Oriental to perform its undertakings, and the recommendation of a Parliamentary committee that a rival company should be encouraged to divide the traffic of the Overland Route, Parliament ended by giving the company in possession a monopoly of the Overland eoute, and leaving the wide ocean to any new com petitor. The Great Eastern—the idea of which sprang out of this struggle—represents the vast ocean as against the inland seas—the spirit of com mercial freedom as against a subsidised monopoly ; the enterprise of the Englishman against the wis dom of Parliaments, and that true dominion of the seas which survives war, but thrives most in peace. We may many of us remember the time when it was a matter of four months to pass to and fro to India, or even to obtain news. The great old India men, on which we used to depend for this tedious process, may still be seen in the river, passing to or returning from their present humble, but useful errands, in the conveyance of emigrants. Since they were first afloat, and since they excited the admiration of the world as marvels of shipbuilding, there have been strange revolutions. A new path has been opened, or rather re-opened, over the earth. An incredulous public heard that it was seriously proposed to revive the hazardous route by which merchants in the age of our Alfred penetrated the East to the then fabulous Ind. It sounded almost like an attempt to enact the Arabian Nights in this city when it was an nounced that arrangements were made for travel lers to pass through Egypt, and over the Isthmus of Suez, and down the Red Sea, and along cities, ports, and headlands known only to the scientific geographer, so as to the distance be tween England and Bombay literally in six weeks. Though a Sinbad might happily survive so difficult and complicated a route, many laughed at the idea of a regular stream of passengers. There were people who expected to hear of hundreds of Eng lish gentlemen and ladies carried off by Bedouins, or made unwilling pilgrims to Mecca. That route, so impossible, so romantic, has become as beaten and familiar as the road from Charing-cross to St. Paul's. People have come to regard it as neces sary to the possession of our Indian Empire. There has been a talk of occupying Egypt, and even now fur fortified ports in the Mediterranean are regarded as stepping-stones to India, so soon has a novelty grown old and a thing we had done without be come indispensable. Now, in its turn, it bids fair to be superseded. The new company, baffled in its purpose to share the overland trade, left Eng lish subsidies, Egyptian viceroys, Lesseps' canals, the Lyons railway, and Austrian Lloyd's to their fate, and bethought themselves once more of the old course from England right on end to Calcutta. Nothing could fetter them or trip them up in that course. The calculation was certain. Every increase ofsize and ofp3wer, and every improvement in the build, had told in increased speed. They had every encouragement to go on. Theirs was indeed a great work, but greatness is only comparative. It is only the other day that thousands were flock ing to see the Great Britain, then the largest ship afloat. There are now more than a dozen larger than she is. It is only a question of size, and that is a question of money. The undertaking had to do everything for itself, and those who have con tributed to the work have paid heavily for their generous confidence in the powers of nature and of man. But the work survives, and will shortly be put to the proof. The quick passage will then, as seems likely, be that round the Cape ; the overland will be the slow. It may now be said that all these hopes have been fulfilled, and the thing is done. As to the ship itself, it has no immunity from perils. It may suffer what is suffered every day by some ship or other in our vast mercantile navy. But the calculation has been worked out, and there lies a vessel ready to start in a few days for Calcutta, land its passen gers and cargo, take in others, and return home immediately, without taking in more coals, all within seventy days. Once released from these shores nothing can stop her, so long as her ma chinery does its work. This, of course, is the question ; but never was steamship provided with so many alternatives. She will rush over the sea with a speed nearly equal to an ordinary railway train, and with a weight two hundred times greater. Should she come into collision with any thing else afloat—should she, by chance, touch some little three-decker in the mid-sea, she will live to tell the tale, and she alone. She might send the flimsy craft to the bottom in the night, cutting her in two, or sailing over her, without even disturbing the sleep of her passengers. It might be presumptuous to affirm that she will not feel the waves, for that remains to be tried, but on calculation she should feel them little more than an ordinary Thames steamer does the waves be tween bridges. Is not this, then, the true solution of the Indian route ? The only difficulty that will then remain will be the weight of a national sub sidy thrown into the other scale. The Great Eastern will have to pay her own expenses against a rival half paid by the public ; she may not be able to stand this sort of competition ; and, should she be obliged to give up, simply as a non-paying speculation, the British public wiil have perpe trated one more characteristic folly, by helping to crush the grandest proof of its commercial adven ture, its maritime experience, and its mechanical power.—limes. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, (5-c. Ecclesiastical Commission : There are vacancies in this office for junior clerks. Commencing salary, £9O per annum. Law Department : The judge ship of County Courts, Circuit No. 25.—Wolver hampton, Walsall, Oldbury, &c.—has become vacant by . the death of Mr. Sergeant Clarke. The Ad miralty : The head -mastership of the Lower School, Greenwich Hospital, has become vacant by the death of Mr. E. Hughes. Salary and al lowances, £4OO a year. Paymaster-General's Office : A vacancy has been created in the Pay master-General's office by the resignation of Mr. E. A. Hoffey, assistant paymaster-general. War office : Messrs. William Gamble, Herbert Eliot, and George Thomas Jelly have passed their examina tions, and received certificates from the Civil Ser vice Commissioners for temporary clerkships in the War -office. Registry of Seamen's Office—Mr. W. C. Bradstreet has passed his examination, and re ceived a certificate from the Civil Service Commis sioners for a third-class clerkship in the Seamen's Registry -office. Custonvi—Mr. John Holdaway has been appointed a clerk in the office of the in spector-general of impoi:ts and exports, London ; Mr. G. B. Holttum bra been appointed a clerk in the tea and East India department, Lon don. Inland Revenue Department—Mr. Fran cis Brown has passed his examination as a supernumerary surveyor of taxes in England. There will be, in, a short time, vacancies for junior clerks in S omerset House. Commencing salary, £9O per an num. Mr. T. Gibson, supervisor, Charlestown, has been appointed to Burnley dis trict, vice Spruegley, retired. Mr. J. Schofield, supervisor, Market Harborough, has been appointed to Northampton. district. Ireland: A judgeship in the Court of tlankruptcy has become vacant by the death of. the Honourable Patrick Pinnket. Messrs. Geot:ge Haddock, James FF.:imell Kisby, and Thomas Smith have pEtaed their exa minations for clerkships in Dublin. East Indies : Mr. T. Garret has been appointed post master of ( ;alcutta ; Mr. R. P. Harrison has been appointed a ccountant to the Government of Bengal; Mr. D. Sin mon has been appointed a commissioner in Onde ; Major J. W. Carnegie has been ap pointed a d eputy commissioner of the first class; Mr. W. J. Allen has been appointed a member of the Boar at of Examiners ; Mr. A. Grote has been appoi . nted to officiate as a member of the Board of - g evenue ; Mr: H. M. Reid has been ap pointed 't o officiate as commissioner of revenue,-- Civil Ser ve --vazeete. THE NINE HOURS' MOVEMENT. Yesterday Messrs. Trollope's firm intimated to the public, by a notice posted outside their works in the Belgrave-road, that they required no more painters, having, as was stated, having obtained sufficient men in that particular branch to suit ' their present requirements. The smiths, it was believed, would go in to-day, and the services of a few labourers also have been accepted ; and all these men—painters, smiths, and labourers—are to work the ten hours and pledge themselves under the declaration. It has been suggested on a former occasion that whenever one set of trades men went to work at Messrs. Trollope's the other builders might, under their resolution, open their doors to the same branch; but at the meeting of the Central Association which was held yesterday it was determined not to adopt that course at present, at all events. It was felt that such a step would be premature, that it would be at best but an imperfect healing of the wound, and that it was preferable, in the existing state of cir cumstances, to take no immediate action. Offers which have been made to the Central Association from two different parts of the country lead them to believe that by the end of the week they will be enabled to set more trades to work, and they deem that it would be inexpedient therefore to open their doors to the painters alone. Bricklayers and plas terers, they apprehend, may be had in sufficient numbers, while the difficulty with regard to joiners may be met possibly in another way. Although the doors of the principal firms have only been closed two days, and although no direct advances have yet been made on either side, already hopes begin to be entertained that the present la mentable state of affairs will not be long protracted. So much caution and reserve have been displayed both by masters and men and so little exacerbation of feeling has been exhibited on either part that the case would seem to be one peculiarly fitted for me diation ; and accordingly already in independent circles propositions are freely canvassed which, it is supposed, might be acceptable both to men and masters, or whim might be modified into such a shape as that they would be distasteful to neither of them. As prior to this movement for the " nine hours" no such thing as a " document" or a " declara tion" was ever known in the building trades, all the propositions which we have heard discussed proceed upon the basis that that must be with drawn. That once conceded, it is apprehended that there will be little difficulty in perfect ing other arrangements. Among the gentle men who have offered themselves as mediators is Mr. Marsh Nelson, an architect, who may be regarded as occupying an independent posi tion between both parties. He has gone into the whole case with much care and studied it with great minuteness, and, as he had been in pretty constant communication with the Conference of the United Trades it may be supposed that his views, if not exactly coincident with those of the men, are, at least, not antagonistic to them. He puts forth as the bases of an arrangement two general propositions-1, the withdrawal of the declaration ; and, 2, the payment by the hour at the rate of 6s. per day of 10 hours for the skilled labourer, leav ing it to the men to work what hours they please. These bases agreed upon, he proposes a conference between the heads of the two associations, to be presided over by an impartial chairman, in whom the public and parties interested should have con fidence. This conference would determine at what time the new arrangement should come into opera tion, who were to be regarded as " skilled labourers,' and all the other details essential to a permanent settlement. Another proposition has been put forth with some degree of authority which bears a great resemblance to the above, but which would probably meet with more general favour from the masters. It proceeds also upon the supposition that the declaration be withdrawn ; then, that the wages be at the rate of 7d. per hour for skilled artisans and 41d. per hour for labourers; that the men work 10 hours a day for five days in the week; and that they knock off at 1 o'clock on Saturdays. These are the prelimi naries ; then a conference is proposed, with some such well-known and esteemed public man as Sir W. Page Wood or Lord Brougham as chairman, to settle the details. A third gentleman of eminence and position as a contractor, who has recently retired from all con tracts, however, in this country, has also offered his mediation. He yesterday morning had an in. terview with the Committee of the Conference of United Trades at the Paviours' Arms, and there shadowed out the nature of his views. He thence pro ceeded to the Freemasons"favern, where the Com mittee of the Central Association were sitting in consultation. Matters of urgency were being dis cussed at the moment of his arrival, and the com mittee deputed three of their body—representing some of the largest firms in the country—to meet this gentleman and to receive his communication. He refused, however, to treat with the deputation, and shortly after left without making known his proposition. - The-facts of these and other attempts at a recon ciliation being made in influential quarters leads to the belief that not many days will elapse before the men and their employers will be working as har moniously as ever. Possibly, if there were to be such a meeting as has been suggested, presided over by a man of eminence and worth, it might result in harass cametiuo i a nns n i cr a cl amnt p dai e od r net p e eba x ys mutual concessions, and the removalof many of do leadersyT e betweenrr a s d a e nsodns eithernh m : e since t o he y ne se Central l ;h i Aknose no those disagreeables on both s id es w hi c h are said to At present, however, as has b een i n ti ma t e d, no ad sc o o c t van n i petaml United es pel July, and both seem to think that their strength consists in silence. The men still stand by the nine hours, and the masters still insist upon the decla ration ; but there are undoubtedly elements in the case which clearly indicate that, if not at this mo ment,-at all events in a very short time, it will be rife for settlement, With reference to the point raised touching the to and from their - work, and their clai m to have the distance which in some cases the men have to travel time thus occupied included in their day's labour, it has been observed that this is by no means so im portant a matter as might at first appear. It is said that of the 60,000 men engaged in the building trades in London at least one - third are employed by what may be termed " jobbing masters," whose trade is for the most part purely local—that is to say, that they do not undertake contracts at a dis tance from their homes, and that their " hande therefore never have to journey far to or from their work, This reduces the 60,000 at once to 40,000. Then again it is calculated that probably not more than two-fifths of the building trade are itinerant. The bricklayers, the plasterers, and the out-door carpenters are necessarily itinerant trades —that is to say, they follow the building, and those who engage in these trades are perfectly aware that this is one peculiarity. of their vocation. But by far the greater portion of the joiners' work and a large share of the masons' work is done at the mas ter's permanent establishment, and is thence for warded in a completed shape to the building where it is to be used. If this be a correct view, it reduces the tramber of men who have to travel any distance to and from their work from 60,000 to 16,000, and inasmuch as these men know that the nature of their business involves them in this necessity, the hardship is by no means so great nor so generally diffused as might be imagined. As a proof that a large portion of the joiners' work is done on the masters' premises, it may be stated that one very large London firm of builders have the whole of their joinery work done at Lowestoft, in Suffolk, where the wages are only 255. a-week, instead of 335. as in town. This practice is evidently capable of very wide extension, and it and others will, no doubt, soon be had recourse to unless the present dispute should be happily terminated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 9. MANSION-HOUSE.—William Whebley Hebb was charged with having, on the 19th of Jan. last, forged a transfer of £5OO Three per Cent. Consols, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. Mr. Freshfield appeared to conduct the case for the prosecution. The prisoner was undefended. Michael Hayden, detective, said—l produce a warrant signed by the Lord Mayor, upon which I apprehended the prisoner on Monday morning, about one o'clock, at the King's Head Hotel, Worcester-street, Birmingham. I read the war rant to him, addressing him as if I knew him to be the person mentioned in it. He said, "My name is not Hebb, and you make a great mistake. I know nothing nt all about it. My name is Seward; lam a commercial traveller. lam well known in Birmigham, and have been staying here for some time. I will not hear anything more that you have to say." He then rose from his chair to leave the room, but I prevented him from doing so, and told him that, from inquiries I had made, I felt quite convinced that he was Mr. Hebb, and that he must therefore consider himself in custody upon the charge, and proceed with me at once to London. He then said. " You have told me quite enough. I will go with you quietly ; but I have one favour to ask of you, and that is that you will treat me as a gentleman." He then came quietly with me to London, to the Bow-lane station, where he gave the name of Ralph Seward, but after having read the warrant, which he requested permission to do, he gave the name of William Whebley Hebb, and the charge was booked against him in that name. I searched him, but found nothing upon him con nected with this charge. Mr. D. Whaley—l am acting superintendent at the Three per Cent. Consols-office, Bank of Eng land. On the 19th of January last there was a sum of £3,807 17s. standing in the name of John Hebb, Middle Brunswick -terrace, Islington. On the same day a sum of £5OO, part of that amount, was transferred. I produce the transfer-book in which the transfer purports to be signed " John Hebb." Mr. Johnson, clerk in the Consols-office, deposed that he attested the signature of " John Hebb" in the transfer-book produced by the previous witness. John Hebb—l am an architect, and formerly lived at Middle Brunswick-terrace, Islington. On the 19th of January last I was possessed of the sum of £3,807 17s. in Three per Cent. Consols. I did not on that day transfer £5OO of that stock, and the signature to the transfer in the book produced is not in my handwriting, nor was it written by my authority. The prisoner at the bar is related to me, and I have seen him write repeat edly. The signature resembles his handwriting, and I believe it to be his. (The prisoner and this witness are brothers). Mr. F. Stackman, share-dealer, 19, Gresham street—l know the prisoner, and have known him these 10 or 12 years as Mr. Hebb, but I do not know his Christian name. On or about the 19th of January last he came to my office to speak to me about comes mines, and at the same time he asked me to recommend him to a broker. I gave him my card, upon which I wrote " Mr. Peake—Mr. Hebb," as an introduction, but I did not write the words " Middle Brunswick-terrace, Islington," which now appear on the card after the word "Hebb." The prisoner then left my office, and I have not seen him since until now. Thomas Peake, broker—The prisoner came to me on the 19th of January and gave me the card pro duced. He said he wished to sell £5OO stock, upon which I gave him the price, and prepared the tickets under his instructions. I forwarded the ticket to the Bank of England, and when the trans fer was ready I went with him to the Bank, where I signed my name to the transfer•book to attest his identity. I then gave him a cheque for £479 12s. 6d., which has since been returned to me as paid by my bankers. He endorsed the cheque " John Hebb" in my presence. This finished the case for the prosecution, and, in reply to the usual questions whether he had anything to say in answer to the charge, The prisoner said—l won't say anything at pre sent, my lord, but I wish to ask you to direct that a watch and a little silver which the officer took from me may be given up. The watch belongs to my wife, and has nothing at all to do with this charge. Sir H. Muggeridge—l can make no order of the kind. Haydon—l should say, my lord, that the pri soner has told me about a place where he says I can find £4O in gold and five Napoleons, which he has secreted ; but I have not yet had time to search. With regard to the watch, from inquiries I have made, I have every reason to believe that it does belong to his wife, and it is only a silver one. Sir 11. Muggeridgc—l shall make no order about it. The prisoner was then committed for trial. GUILDHALL—Thomas Evans was charged with stealing pewter pots. William Terry, barman to Mr. Tubb, o f t h e . Three Cranes public - house Watling-street, said the prisoner came into their house on Friday last about one o'clock and called for a half-pint of porter. He sat in front of the bar, and after drinking his beer he put the half-pint pewter mea sure i nto hi s hat, and witness immediately gave him i n t o custody. He had seen the prisoner there on the previous Wednesday. They had missed a grea t num b er of pewter pots. On being searched at the station house three pewter pots were found upon the prison er. Sergeant Sheppard, 32, said the prisoner was con victed at the Old Bailey in 1856 of pot stealing, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour. It was stated in the course of the case that some publicans were plundered to a great extent in this way, and one of the owners of the pots Cound on the prisoner said he had lost as many as 20 dozen in three or four months; the pots were worth 2s. 6d. each, and when destroyed by this class of thieves they were sold for 4d. each. Sir R. Carden said he should send the prisoner for trial. In this case there was ample proof, in the number of pots found on the prisoner, of the amount of mischief he had inflicted in one morning, but unfortunately that was 'not the extent of the evil, for the metal obtained from the purloined pots was again circulated in the shape of counterfeit coin. The prisoner was then committed for trial. Joseph Warmington, a journeyman bootmaker, was charged with absconding with a letter con taining a check and bank-notes to the value of £7O, belonging to his master. Superintendent Radford, of the Chesterfield police force, said — ln th e early part of July last the prisoner came to the police-office at Chesterfield and stated he had bee n in the employ of Mr. Lloyd: a bootmaker, of Newg ate-street, London, and that' he had absconded with three £lO Bank of England no t e s, and two for £5 each, which he had been in trusted with by his master for a special purpose. He was taken be fore the magistrate and remanded several times, and in the meantime Mr. Lloyd was commun icated with, and, in accordance with the instructions received from that gentleman, the pri soner was sent up to be dealt with hero. Joseph Rice said he managed Mr. Lloyd'sbusi - busi ness, and in 1857 the prisoner was employed establishment. In the early part of bank-notes in the year he a ga vo the prisoner a letter containing t h e a mount of £ 4O , and a crossed ehec n k k- f n o o r te £ s 3 to , 0 addressed to Mr. Lloyd at Northtd. He did no t Northampton, with in structions to get the letter registered. post that letter, but he made up a dummy letter, which he got registered instead, came and Mr. Lloyd re ceived it. The prisoner backalt and and thenremained w e nt in the shop about an hour and a-h out to get his tea, and never returned. The check was afterwards returned by the prisoner to Mr. Lloyd. The prisoner had nothin g to say in answer to th e charge, andwascommitted for trial. Ann Jones was charged with • robbing a gentle• man of £6. Mr. Lewis Henry Myers said he was a general merchant and warehouseman at 13, Church-lane, Whitechapel, and on Sunday night, about 10 o'clock, as he was passing through Bartholomew -close, the prisoner came up and said she thought she knew him, but he informed her she was mistaken. She, however, persisted in making his acquaint ance, and with great pertinacity she pulled him to her, and clung to him in the most loving manner. He, however, pushed her away two or three times, and at length she sud denly let go her hold of him and ran away, and the next instant a man, whom he had pre viously observed loitering very suspiciously near them, came up and knocked him down with great violence. He got up, and, on missing a canvas bag containing six sovereigns, called aloud " Stop thief !" and gave chase to the man, who succeeded in making his escape. He afterwards accompanied the officer, Serjeant Baldwin, 58, to a beershop in the neighbourhood, where they found the prisoner, and charged her with the robbery. She at first denied it, but shortly afterwards she slipped the six sovereigns and a shilling into the prosecutor's hand, and begged him not to give her into custody, as she had two children at home dying. Sergeant Baldwin, 58, said he found the canvas bag on the spot where the prisoner had been stand ing at the time she was accused. The prosecutor said it would be very inconvenient for him to attend upon a trial at the Old Bailey, and he would, therefore, rather withdraw the charge. Sir R. W. Carden said it was a most daring rob bery, and he could not permit the prisoner to escape in that way, he therefore committed her for trial, and bound the prosecutor in his own recognizances of £lOO to attend and prosecute. THAMES.—A tall and powerful negro, who gave the name of Daniel Kelly, was charged with assaulting John Barry, a labourer, and biting away part of his left ear. The complainant, whose left ear had been in the bands of a surgeon, stated that the prisoner was ill-using a young man. He interfered, and the pri soner struck him on the face with his fist, and then seized his left ear with his teeth and bit a piece off the top of it, and then took a second bite and tore the ear right away. The prisoner said he was a sailor, and came to England in a ship from Sierra Leone, and was going back to his native place in a ship in the Commercial Dock. He told a long rambling tale about a quarrel between some men and women. He was attacked and beaten very severely, and the complainant was one who struck him. Mr. Selfe asked the prisoner if he could make any compensation to the complainant ; to which he replied that he had no money or the means of get ting any ; on which the magistrate said that Barry was a disorderly person, no doubt, but that was no reason his ear should be bitten and torn. He fined the prisoner 405., and in default three weeks' im prisonment. Charles Manners, a tall, powerful man, aged 31, and described as a labourer, of Folly-cottage, Isle of Dogs, Poplar, was charged with cutting and wounding James Creed, a labourer, with intent to murder him or do grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor, who had received two fearful blows on the top of his head, which was covered with surgical plasters, was in a very weakly con dition from loss of blood. It appeared that he was in the service of Mr. Ross, a stone merchant, of Poplar. The prisoner was also in the service of the same gentleman up to Saturday night, when he was discharged aid he came to the conclusion that Creed had prevented him obtaining certain work, the delivery of certain barges laden with stone, and had also procured his discharge. Creed, however, denied that he had interfered with the prisoner or caused his dismissal. Manners had frequently ex hibited a deadly hostility towards Creed, who went in great fear of him. On Monday morning Creed was employed in removing stone from a barge on the river at Poplar, and the prisoner came upon the Wharf in an infuriated state, and raising a hammer Made use of the most deadly threats against Creed, and said he would hammer his brains out before he left off work. At two o'clock the prisoner again came to the place, and repeated his threats, and he was with difficulty prevented from boarding the barge on which Creed was employed and attacking him. Among other threats he said, " I will scatter your blood and brains about the street. I will have my revenge ; this hammer shall do the work." Creed made no reply to the invectives and threats of the prisoner. The prisoner came to the wharf a third time, shortly before four o'clock in the afternoon; he appeared to be maddened with rage, and to have been drinking to excess. He swore, raved, cursed, and blasphemed in an awful manner, and brandishing the hammer, exclaimed, " May God strike me dead and stone blind, deaf, and dumb, if I don't settle Creed before he goes home." He also said he meant murder. No notice was taken of his ravings, and about 5 o'clock Creed left the barge on which he had been working for the pur pose of going home. He had scarcely touched the shore when the prisoner rushed upon him and struck him a tremendous blow on the top of the head with a heavy iron hammer. The blow felled the unfortunate prosecutor to the ground, and the blood gushed copiously from the wound. The man lay stunned upon the ground for some time, with the prisoner standing over him, and when he was about to rise the prisoner again struck him on the head with the hammer, and again felled him to the ground. The wounded man was insensible for some time afterwards, and was removed to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed. The prisoner re placed his hammer in his pocket and walked home after he had committed the outrage. He was cap tured the same night. The prisoner said that Creed had injured him, and caused him to be dismissed from the service of Mr. Ross. Creed had assaulted him awfully—first with a hammer, and secondly with a stone, a year ago, but he did not prosecute him. The hammer used by Creed was heavier than the one he carried on Monday night. him charge o r doof gwroieuvnoduisn bodily Mr. Self e comm itt e d th e pr i soner f or t r i a l on th e wounding ee Creed harm.with intent to murder TILE MURDER NEAR LEEDS. It was briefly stated in The Sun of Monday that a respectable man named Richard Broughton, aged 67 years, had been robbed and murdered on Satur day afternoon about 5 o'clock between Leeds and the village of Roundhay. On Monday afternoon an inquest was commenced before Mr. Jewison, the coroner of the district, into the circumstances of the case, and from the evidence adduced and other sources of information the following particulars were obtained :—The deceased, who had formerly been an office-keeper to an attorney in Leeds, re sided in Rose-cottage yard, in the pretty and some• what aristocratic village of Roundhay, about three miles from Leeds. He lived upon his means, having, it is understood, saved enough money to keep him self without work. He dressed very respectably, and it is probable that his assailant, or assailants, judged from his appearance that he was a "gentle man," and that he had more money upon him than he really had ; for it appears he had only a florin in his pocket, and a German silver watch. With these in his possession he left home about 20 minutes to 5 o'clock, for the purpose of walking to Leeds to buy food for some ducks which he kept. Oa leaving home he proceeded along a lane called Horseshoe-lane until he entered a footpath which strikes from the high road across several fields, and leading from the village of Seacroft to Leeds, and had gone about three-quarters of a mile before any thing happened tc him. He had reached the top of an oat field, and was on the point of crossing the stile into a field called Ox-pasture which is only two fields distant from the residence_ of Mr. D. Lupton, one of the Leeds borough magistrates, of when \vh b h a was wa s a attacked, rm odt p h r probably bludgeon. b a yb y two men, o ne irßg Two ht blows from this instrument rendered I‘ in sensible. He had fallen upona ha. w t r h o o u rn hedge, on fivebut the wounds ruffiansw were r ohad inflictedc on continued p d ali o n g pocketst he bone. Then their violence, and thieves v s e k s u b l l a , one d th e o h f r t a h n em sac f ked t fracturing of t' watch,their.Tiebtnimt gained pos sess i on of his probably been victim , and lead d disturbed (the road being much frequented), for they had left the florin behind them. Th e o ld man did not long remain in a state of unconsciousness, and on gaining his feet, al though he appears to have been state of inacon siderable excitement, he continued his walk to wards Leed s . F our or five lads, who were going with to bathe, wa lk e d along him for upwards of half a mile, and he then turned round and pro ceeded homewards. Blood was running rapidly from th e woun d s i n th e _ head , and a person who saw him described him as having the appearance of a man l upon whom a buck e t o f bl oo d h a d b een th rown . "hen the unfortunate man ar • wed at the bottom Ox-pasture, of the field below the r he was met by William Edward Barber, the son of Mr. Barber, farmer, and a neighbour. Bl oo d was th en flowing freely from his temples, and Barber asked him what was the matte r . He made no reply, but on Barber taking off Broughton's hat he observed several wounds in his head. He was then evi dently exhausted, and could hardly speak beyond the exclamation, " Two men, two men," thus inti mating that they were the authors of the injuries he had received. Barber inquired, " Have they robbed you P" and the old man replied, " Two shil lings," taking the florin out of his pocket, and then returning it. Barber had to go a little further, and Broughton said h e th o ught he was able to walk home. Barber said he would overtake him, but the poor fellow was in such a state of nervous and mental excitement that he could scarcely control his actions, and lie walked home at so rapid a pace that young Barber was unable again to come up with him. Arrived at home, the dangerous nature of the injuries Broughton had received were im mediately apparent, and a messenger was de spatched to Leeds for Mr. W. Tay, surgeon. Unfortunately Broughton was never in such a state of mind after the attack as to be enable him to give any connected account of the manner in which he had been assaulted, or any description of his assailants ; and in an hour or two after he reached home he relapsed into a state of insensibility, from which he never ral lied. Mr. Barber was called into the house of the deceased immediately after his return home, and - - he asked Broughton who had attacked him ? He replied, " Two men ; one went up the hill slowly before me, till he got to the top ; then another refill met us from another road (possibly by trespassing across the fields) ; and then one of them struck me twice over the head. I knowmothing more." The only description he could give of the men was, that one was a young man, and the other older. The Rev. Mr. Davis, who was in the neighbourhood at the time Broughton returned home, spent some time with the unfortunate man in administering to him spiritual consolation. He gave to the rev. gentleman an account of the fatal transaction some what similar to that detailed above. He said, " There were two men. One went by me ; the other struck me over the head twice. They were dressed somewhat lik e wor ki ng men. One ba i t: a jacket on, I think." Mr. H a y a rrived at Roun d hay between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday evening, and discovered that Broughton, who wa s then insensible, was suffering from four or five cu t s on the head, one of whi c h h a d f rac t ure d his sku l l. He never rallied, and died at 25 minutes to two o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The place wher e the murderous assault was committed was a per• feet pool of blood, and on the hedge and stile wer e portions of skin and hair, which showed the cha racter of the attack. After the examination of five witnesses the inquest was adjourned till Wednesday, the lith inst. By the authority of th e M a y or o f Leeds (S ir Peter Fairbairn) and Mr. D. Lupton one of the magistrates, placards were issued on Sunday after noon offering a reward of £5O for such infor mation as may lead to the detection of th e offenders ; but up to yesterday (Tuesday) afterno on no one had been apprehend e d. M r . English, the chief constable of Leeds, and the local officers of the West Riding constabulary have used active exer tions to discover some clue which may lead to the detection of the perpetrators of this foul crime, but at present slight hopes are entertained of a n y material evidence being obtained to bring th e offence home to the guilty parties. A man who In some particulars corresponded with the very perfect description given by the unfortunate de ceased of his assailants was seen lying on the grass near the scene of the murder just about the t im e Mr. Boughton must hav e b een a tt ac k e d ; and Mr!: Ann Littlewood, hou se k eeper t o M r. Roebuck' Wesleyan minister, York-road, Leeds, in pase i 9g along the footpath a l so o b serve d t hi s w en '- n Puzzling-field, close to the place of the a ttack , about the same time. She Ras walking towar t d s Leeds, and on reachi ng M r . D. L upton ' s pa rk so e met the boys who aft erwar d s were th e first te observe deceased. This would lead to the inference that the deceased had been following Mrs. Little' wood, and that he must have been attacked whe n she was at no great dist ance . S o d ar i ng an out rage, committed in open daylight on a public an d much-frequented footpath, and so near a large town, has rarely been perpetrated. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVE RP 0 OL—AuG. , 9. We had a fair attendance of millers and dealers at oa t corn exchange this morning, a n d th e d eman d f or both wil„es and flour was quite in retail, h o ld ers b e i ng f orce d t o re* quish the advance obtained y es t er d ay. I n di an corn only a moderate inquiryat prices the turn in buyers' fay° ll :; Oats and oatmeal are still difficult to move, and n e 4 qualities irregular in value. E g ypti an b eans i mprove d ". per qr over previous price s . P eas an d b ar l ey at l a t e r ate. u ' The reaction from th e i m p rovement o f yesterday maY o attributed to the fine weather and the quiet tone of gar i ‘ . lane. BRISTOL—AUG. 9. In the sales of w h ea t a t t o -d ay ' s mar k et an a d vanc e 0- f was obtained on l a t e ra t es . Th e tra d e s h owe d cons idersbl excitement, and a large business was done. SHEFFIELD—AUG. 9. There was only a small show of wheafto-day, and holder: asked an advance, which was not generidly conceded. 1 6 1 4 . 1 extreme prices of l as t week, however were maintain ed ' Good samples of new oa t s from Nottinghamshire we re offered at 29s to 30s per qr. Beans scarce. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...l6s 6d to 175 sa White Beans Grinding Peas per barley,qr. . per. . qr Maltineditto / Oats 2341 1 3 48 8 383 ssB s : 0000 d 6 O ddd d d t t t ottt 0 . 000 2 2 363 5 0 42 1 00i 24s t. Millers' prices for flour—ls 7d, is 9d, and 18 lld p er 141 b. Hay, 80s to 85s ; wheat straw, 28s to 365; oat straw, to 363 ; turnips, 14s to 16s per ton. . 9. The show of w h ea t is LEEDS—AuG good, and prices were at Friday s currency, with a fair sale. Barley nominal. Beans, oats; and other articles steady, with a limited demand. Sio c t Saturday much rain has fallen in this neighbourhood, b u we have a return of fine weather this morning. Averages for the week : Wheat 3,268 qrs., at 46s id 8ar1ey......... ~ —s 03 Peas —s Od Beans Oats 95, „ 26s 3id Bye 36 „ 3ls sid Arrivals this week :- --- Wheat 2,824 qrs. Barley Oats Rapeseed Beans Peas • • • • • . Linseed ... 1,523 NORWICH CATTLE—AuG. 6. A small show of store beasts to day, comprising Seed shorthorns, and Irish. Sales again restricted, and we 1 0 a poor attendance, farmers being busy at harvest. Scots, 4s to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 45 6d ; Irish, 3s to 3s 6d. Fat beasts, 7s 6d to 8s 6d per stone. Sheep—The pens were well filled. —Fat sheep, 85 Od t° 8s 6d per stone. Pigs—A good supply. Store pigs 16s to 20s ; fat pork , 58 6d to 6s 6d per stone. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL--AUG. 9. There was a heavy business doing in this market to day, and prices were lower. Blackburns, 12—Dovers, 2 :` —North British, 58—Great Western of Canada, 141 ir v , Shefillelds, 351 6—Caledonians, 83—L ancas hi re and Yti i shire, 95 I—London and North-Westerns, 931 Rhenish, 51 dis.—East Lancashire, 941 s—Be ek ' 911 I—Midlands, 1042—Chester and Holyheads 49 ou ro Birkenheads, 76 I—Leeds Northern, 441 45 2- ET t g_-• Counties, 11 f, 11—Grand Trunk of Canada, 8 Great Western, 59 I. LEEDS—AUG. 9. The closing quotations to-day were—North Easter Berwick, 92i—Great Northern A, 83. MANCHESTER—AUG. 9. 9.1 1 The prices were flat this morning, and continued 10 „ 6 , day, with a qu i e t business. Leed s , 951—Shefflelds, vi „`? tto , Midlands, 1041--Dovers, 22 5-16—Trunks, Bf--- tes , Dividend Debs., 10s.—East Lancashire, 95--Ambero 37 1 d—Preston and Wire, 47t—Birkenhead Stock, 761. BIRMINGHAM—AUG. 9. There was a dull business doing, and prices closed 0 about yesterday's rates. London and North-Weste r : 93a l l —Birmingham Bank, 26,1 27—Birmingham Ca na l 931—Birmingham Town and District Banking CoLoPt l33 ' P . EUROPEAN TROOPS (INDIA).—A. Govern— e j Bill limits the number of European troops to be employ her Majesty's Indian army at 30,000 in the whole, eluding the officers, commissioned and non-commissio ned ' and authorises her Majesty to e n li s t an d re t a i n 6,000 13 :, °1/. 0 commissioned officers and men b e l ong i ng t o th e sa id 10 1 army in the United Kingdom and the British isles. Pius [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Oi n t men t an d Pim"3l Hooping Cough.—Every nurse thi n k s s h e k nows a rerae. o . for this complaint, but un f or t una t e l y the bills of mortaVo show them to be fallible. The late Dr. Thompson al ke pt recommended sufferer s f rom h oo pi ng coug h to be k e j; warm, fed on a milk and vegetable diet, and rubbed well the spine and pit of the stomach with Holloway's ointnief,, three times a day, wearinglannel next the skin. No tre; went is so safe, speedy, and efficient—no ca se ca n resiatl,. and no ill consequences ever result f rom it. The coo sy continuing from habit after the disease declines is rea : e f t and radically rem o ved by H o ll oway ' s prepara ti on s, Wi l o act more like magic than m e di c i ne i n every s t ag e of ti tiresome disease. BIRTHS. DICKINSON. --On the Bth inst., the wife of L. DickilO n? Esq., of Langham-chambers, of a son. DuNDAs.—On the 9th inst., at 23, Russell-place, Fitzr:fia square, the wife of Adam D. Dundas, Esq., R.N., son. ELwEs.--On the 7th i ns t., at C ongham House, vo-- rfoli‘f Mrs. Robert Elwes, of a daughter. ,Attir MAY.—On the 7th inst., at Lee, Kent, the wife of iv— P. May, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. HEATH—SARGEANT.-011 the 9th inst., at I;(4, CM ; pel, London, Mr. H. M. Heath, of 39, Old Change' r of 5, Bancroft-r oa d, B ow, to Matilda, fourth daught er Samuel Sargeant, Esq., of Commercial-road-east. SURTEES — BoswoRTH.—O n the 9th inst., at St. J ° llll o Piccadilly, Sir S. Villi ers S urtees, Chief Justice ° la te Mauritius, to B ar b ara Eliza, only daughter of the„nti Rev. Willia m B osworth, of Charley Hall, in the °°"-- of Leicester. DEATHS. DAVIES.--On the 7th inst., at Sydenham-par k, Kent' Wm. Davies, lat e o f the Auction Mart, aged 64. iiiar e HA - AtEs.---On the Bth in s t., a t W a l mer, th e Rev. l'Cr''''n-rd Humes, rector of H am , K en t , an d f ormer l y o f Cha" Essex, aged 67. JoNT.s.—On the 7th inst., Captain John Jones, of the lilt° Land Transp or t Corps, aged 48. Josep h LANPEAR.—On th e 7th inst., at Wadden, Croydon, Lanfear, jun., Esq., aged 35. f the NEwitAm.--On the 7th i ns t., M r . H enry N ew ham, t he National Gallery, and of her Majesty's Yeoman o ' . Guard, aged 74. .1 RATCLIFFE.—On the sth inst., at Peckham, Mr . " • Ratcliffe, late of Southwark, aged 70. h os USSHER.—On the 4th inst. the Rev. Willi a m Coniug Ussher, v i car o f Renhold,, Bedfordshire, aged 5 6 LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO Y 49-Ijl4 o/, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office,ll°• o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the-co mi ty Middlesex, Wednesday, August 10, 1859.