The Sun. — London, England, 1858-08-12 00:00:00

.THE ARMY The depot companies of the 70th Regiment at Chatham gm-dean: are - under orders to pro cee d t o C an terbury for the purpose of j o i tung the East India Company's depot at that station. The t following officers will proceed with the depot, v iz. :—Brevet, Major H. F. Saunders, in command ; Ensign A. B. Wright, Ensign A. S. Gilbert, and Ensign C. C. Bich a rdson The arrragements for the launch of the large screw steam frigate M ersey, 40, at Chatham dockyard this afternoon, were cottpleted yesterday afternoon. The dockyard gates will be thrown open to the public at one o'clock to-day, and the launch is appointed to take place at two o'clock. The Mersey will be launched with a portion of her machinery on board, Ind will afterwards be taken to Portsmouth to be made -ready fer sea, the large new basin at Chatham dock yard n of being fit for her reception. The East India Company's troop ship 8arham:1,2.46 tons, Capta in C. Wiltshire, is under orders to embark 250 of the Ouse? i's, at Gravesend, for Madras, on Saturday next. The Rope will embark 380 men of all ranks, at Cork, for Bom bay. The number of reinforcements despatched to India since the commencement of the month has exceeded 5,000 cavil .y and infantry troops of all ranks, and the East India Company's depots at Chatham, Colchester, Canterbury, Maids.tone, Fermoy, Aberdeen, Winchester, and Stirling, are prepared to furnish a similar number immediately orders are issued to that effect. THE NAVY. The paddlewheel steam frigate Valorous, 16, Captain W. C. Al !ham, from Queenstown, arrived at Plymouth on Sun day, end on Tuesday afternoon went up to Hamoaze to take ht tow the ship Queen, 112, which is to be supplied with a screw at an eastern port. A cu'art-martial, under the presidency of Vice-Admiral Sir It. Reynolds, K.C.8., assembled on board the flagship impmgnable, in Hamoaze, on Tuesday, for the purpose of Capt. J. B. Dickson, of the Cumberland, 70, and the aster, Mr. J. Crabbe, for grounding her on a rock near Flores Island, in Rio de la Plata, on the 15th of March. It was proved that the rock was not laid down in the Admi ralty charts, and both officers were honourably acquitted. The CuMberland was towed up harbour yesterday to have defects repaired. Rear -Admiral SirC. H. Fremantle, K.C.8., Commander- In-Chief of the Channel Fleet, struck his flag on Tuesday evening on board the Orion, at Spithead, and went on leave. The Terrible, 21, paddlewheel, frigate, Capt. Glasse, left Spithead on Tuesday evening for the eastward. The tiphynx, 6, paddlewheel sloop, was undocked yester day et Portsmouth, after repair•. The Royal Sovereign, 131, new screw three-decker, will be taken out of Portsmouth harbour by the staff of the Steam Rest rye this morning to try her speed at Stoke's Bay. Tie Great Tasmania, freight-ship, embarked yesterday, at Portsmouth, the troops before enumerated, and will sail this day for the Mauritius: The rgent, 6, steam troopship, Commander 141Tonald, embPrked yesterday, at Portsmouth, the troops before re port, d, and will leave to-day for Alexandria. Ti,E following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander B. S. Rickards to the Victor Emmanuel, Lieutenant T. G. Nettleton to the Renown, Lieutenant W. A. R. Lee to the Formidable, W. E. Allen, assistant-paymaster, to the Victor Emmanuel, and John K. Cott !ey, assistant-paymaster, to the Wellesley. EASTERN AND WESTERN LINES OF MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH AMITRALIA. Taa late Australian Mail Company were fined £27,000 dari , g the first six months of their contract. From April, 1857 'Glut January, their ships were behind time Wrench ing' kelbonrne 43 days, and (+lace during that time one of their ships arrived there a stay before its time. During that period also the company's ships lost in leaving Melbourne tor Suez 64 days. From April, 1857, to JUMP, 1838, 96 days werr lost in the steamers reaching Southampton. The cob , y of Victo,ria pays £30,000 towards the Australian Mail subsidy, It is said that the Royal Mail Company are about to establish a monthly mail communication between Ensland, and Australia, via Panama ; and that the Penin sula. and Oriental Company are also about to carry a rnc.sthly mail to Australia, via Suez. The distance from Csyd 'ey to Suez, via Melbourne, Is 9,400 miles. This dit tenet: has been done in 42 days, including stoppages, by the Simla and other steamers. The distance between Suez and - ;outhamptou (not overland) has been done in 14 days. Thu the Peninsular and Oriental Company have steamers which could convey a mail between England and Australia In 56 days. The Royal Mail Company will be able to run a oteamer'from Southampton to Colon, the western terminus of the Panama Railway, in 16 days, when they have built their new ships, and by going direct from St. Thomas to Colon, without calling at Carthagena and Santa Martha, the mails to which places could be conveyed by a branch rtes. - ter from Panama to Melbourne, via Tahiti, New Zea land, and Sydney, the distance is not above 9,000 miles. This distance could be effected in about 40 days, in cluding stoppages. Both by the Panama and Suez rout , s ' therefore, the mails could be carried with regu larity by the two great mail packet companies in about attys. Each route has most important advantages, the Suez one connecting India and China with Australia, and giving Melbourne an English mail in .54 days, and the Panama one, drawing New Zealand drier to Eng land, and giving Sydney a monthly mail also from England in 54 days. Once a month Melbourne would have an ad vantage over Sydney, and vice versa. This would put a stop to the jealousy existing between New South Wales and Victoria on this subject, which prevents a cordial co-opera tion between those two colonies in providing an effective mail-packet communication with England. The double route; would cause the ocean world to be completely bridged over, and would increase the commerce between England and the islands of the Pacific. There have been objections Toad" to the estern route to Australia. One is that Aus trait 1 would Do overrun with Americans, and become Ame ricanised; but this is very unlikely, considering the neagni- Scelit run of country which the Yankees possess in their own continent. Another objection is that the people of the Uni ed States would have the first intelligence of the Aus tralian markets ; but as ocean telegraphs become general, every monopoly in the knowledge of foreign markets will cease. Besides, the Royal Mail Company would be subsi diae,l to carry an English, not an American mail. A third objection is the unhealthiness of the Isthmus of Panama and of the Island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, the coaling depot of the Australian steamers. The stay at the latter place, however, would be very short, and the Panama lstbnias Is rapidly becoming snore healthy, owing to the increase of population and the consequent clearing of the land. At one time the plague always raged in Egypt, but Waghorn opened a passage through that ancient country for the English mails and passengers, the plague has ceased.—. Daily News. S c iE.FiRIES HARBOUR OF REFUGE. A strong effort has been made to induce the new Lords of the Admiralty to construct a harbour of refuge on the north east coast of Ireland, and Skerries is suggested as possessing great natural capabilities. The Drogheda Improvement Commissioners state in their memorial to the Lords of the Admiralty " That between Kingstown and Belfast there are several sites possessing more or less natural capabilities that would involve but a moderate cost of constructing a harbour of refuge, and that would afford, in the opinion of the mos'. intelligent masters of vessels, the best possible protection to the large amount of shipping frequenting the ports along the north-east coast, and to emigrant and other vessels from various ports of the United Kingdom. That it is a well-founded opinion of your petitioners, in which they are sustained by those of able and experienced navgators, that Skerries Harbour, situate on the north east coast of Ireland, would form the most eligible and ad van'anous position for a harbour of refuge. That it pos "wa great natural capabilities from its depth of water, "Pr.rior holding ground, regular soundings, and other . im- Porlant requisites, that would render It capable of accom sucelatlng the largest merchant vessels, or even the royal navy, having besides the primary and essential advantages of direct accessibility from the sea along as even line of coat,' indentations of free from sunken rocks and dangerous ef the coast—circ ums t a nces that are regarded by marine eng , eeers as indispensable conditions in fixing the position of a harbour of refuge. That there is no other point on the north-east coast more frequented by ships passing and repnssing from the different ports of the United King dom (including Liverpool, the greatest naval port of Greet Britain) than the Island of Rock-a-Bill, situate about font miles seaward of Skerries. That a lighthouse is now Ia course of erection on Rock-a-Bill that would distinctly indicate to vessels the course they would be enabled to steer der'. ng violent gales in making their approach to a harbour of refuge that would be so advantageously situated in so many essential particulars as Skerries. That but little remains to render Skerries a complete safety harbour, where nature has already done so much and art has also been em ployed, having abundant materials close at hand to convert it into a capacious harbour of refuge at the least possible cost of construction." The petitioners, iiierefore, fully coinciding in the petitions already adopted at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Drogheda, praying for a harbour of refuge on the north-east coast, humbly pray the honourable House of Commons that such may be constructed at Skerries, the petitioners being fully peesuaded that this position would afford the greatest amount of protection to the interests of commer cial navigation along a coast so proverbially dangerous. The decision of the Government does net appear on the re cord.—Freeman's Journal. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning William Robinson Bower, the youngest son of Mr. Samuel Bower, manufacturer, of "The Hey," near Marsden, was acci lentally shot by his own gun. About half-past nine o'cl.ck in the morning, the deceased, accompanied by a ser vant named Frank Bamforth, went upon some billy pasture ground, the property of his father, and situate behind Mr. Borer's residence, far the purpose of shooting sparrows. The man had been sent forward to start the birds, and the deceased, with his loaded gun, prepared to cross a fence. To accomplish this he passed his gun over the fence, hold ing it by the muzzle, the butt end resting upon the ground. He leaned forward with his breast upon the gun barrel, and 'yak in the act of springing over, when, owing to some cir cumstance, the gun went off; and the entire charge was lodged in the youth's breast. He placed his hand upon the place, exclaimed " Oh, Frank !" took three or four paces forward, then fell upon his face, and all was over. The de cu-ed was 18 years of age, and a fine vigorous youth.— IluilderBfield Chronicle. AD A CC IDENT. —A mother and her son, aged four years, came to Liverpool from father Manchester by an at e ni arly train an Saturday morning; the es te r o'cl ,, ck, to learn on his arrival that his son had been killed, having been run over i n the street by a cart, through the T care lessness of the driver. The deceased was John Henry Riddell, son of Mr. William Riddell, bookkeeper, of 2,. As wot th-terrace, Regent-road, Salford. On a s r t r o iv e, in g a pool, Mrs. Riddell and Mr. Samuel ec e ove i r L lo l o v k e e r ; 0 at Mr. Harter's factory, Irvvell-street, Salfordnw who accom- Phn'ed her, partook of breakfast at E lston's spirit vaults, in Roe-street. The account for breakfast was b ein g settled wit( n alarm was given that a child had been run o ver in the street. Mrs. Riddell missing her little boy, exclaimed , " Go and see If it i s our Johnny ;" and her misgiving was in stantly realised. The little fellow had wandered out of the door upon the flags, at the edge of which he stumbled and fell at the corner of Roe-street and Murray-street. Just at that moment there cane along Murray-street a one-horse cart, driven rapidly and carelessly, and close to the kerb stor 3,. by William Jones, w h o sat in front of the cart, with the fetris in his hands, and unconsciously drove over the H i rt', breaking some of his limbs and jamming his head be tween the rim of the wheel and the kerbstone. The child died almost immediately from the injuries received and general shock to the nerv ou s system. The inqu es t was h e ld in the afternoon. The jury coupled with their verdict a presentment of severe censure upon the driver for his reek ...euesse..,Liverpool Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Arta. 11. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE PARKER MERCHANTS BEWARE OF ADTEN TUBERS. This was an application for discharge from custody of Benjamin Parker, of No. 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, trading as Truman, Parker, and Co., as merchants. Mr. Bagley (instructed by Mr. Tripp, acting for Mr. Bebb) opposed on behalf of Messrs. Lingenbrick, mer chants of Vienna; and Mr. Sturgeon supported the appli cation. Mr. Bagley stated that the bankrupt bad traded as Truman, Parker, and Co., and had sent out circulars, showing the advantages of consignees sending their goods to him, although at the time he was an uncertificated bank rupt. Mr Bagley here read the circular : "1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, London, Ist December, 1856. " Messrs. Lingenbrick, arc. " We take the liberty by the accompanying to acquaint you that we have established a commission and expedition (agency) business, and to offer you our services, supported by sufficient funds, with an intimate knowledge of English and transatlantic affairs. We hope to be of essential use to consignors, and to justify their confidence by our punctua lity and strictness. We will wait on you with our refer ences, as soon as you will let us know that you are disposed to enter into correspondence and treat with us, and remain in the meanwhile—Obediently, " TRUMAN, PARKER, & Co. "We beg you will send us your sample of velvet with fixed and cut border." He (continued Mr. Bayley) traded as Truman, Parker, and Co., because if he had been known as Benjamin Parker, so well were his antecedents known from his appearance at law courts and other places, he would not have got credit for 6d. in the commercial world. He had been insolvent, twice bankrupt, his certificate being suspended for 12 months, and at that very time he was sending out circulars boasting of his unlimited funds. He had also accepted two bills without having funds to meet them. The bankrupt was then examined—His real name was Benjamin Parker. He never denied that, although he had gone by other names. He had written letters in the names of "James Parker" and "Truman, Parker and Co." He had:never been in business as " Hadlow, Parker, and C 0.," or " Neal Parker." Had gone by the name of " James Phil lips." He gave an order for goods to Mcssrs. Lingenbrick, and did not return them. Sold them to Messrs. Nicholson and Co., of Cannon-street. Sold them at 30 or 40 per cent. under cost price, because there was no market for the goods in this country, and it was the best price he could get for them. Messrs. Lingenbrick were informed by letter of that fact. He bad been a colonial merchant, a builder, a sur veyor and architect, but not a wine merchant or a bill dis counter. Mr. Bagley produced the schedule from the Insolvent Court, which had been sworn to by the bankrupt, in which he described himself as a bill discounter. The bankrupt said that probably arose from his having got two or three bills done through agency. The Commissioner—Never mind, sir, you have sworn to it. Mr. Bagley asked the bankrupt whether be had ever been In a criminal court ? Mr. Sturgeon objected to the question. The Commissioner thought it of the first importance to the commercial world to know what this man's antecedents were. The bankrupt, on being pressed, said he bad been in dicted two or three times but never convicted. He was once advised to plead guilty, and was then discharged. Did not remember how he was discharged. Mr. Bagley—How long after you pleaded ? The bankrupt, with evident reluctance, replied two months; he had been charged and out on bail; he absconded from his bail; be was caught, convicted, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Maidstone, in 1851 ; he was convicted in the name of James Parker; he had been con victed for conspiracy 15 years ago. Mr. Bagley then read the following correspondence : " Gentlemen,—We are in receipt of your favour of the 9th first., and we have only at this moment occasion to give you an order for velvet ribbons with fixed borders; send us on the conditions stipulated. (Here follow particulars of goods ordered.) We tract that the quality of the goods will be satisfactory to us, and that a reletiouship may spring up between us.—Yours obediently, " TRUMAN, PARKER, AND CO. " Messrs. Lingenbrick and Co." " 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, March 25,1857. "Gentlemen,—We are in possession of your leter dated the 20th inst., and see with much astonishment that you have sent us an invoice fur the £357 18s., and sending us boxes of unusual large size. We expected to receive boxes of the usual size, of 25 to 30 pieces, No. 2. Under these circumstances we must refuse the surplus of the goods, seeing that we had not a larger order than we gave yet. However, in order not to give you any inconvenience, and so as not to delay the execuiion of the order of our employer any further, we will accept the case as it is, provided the conformity of the contents. We will also accept your bill for £BO at eight days' sight. The remainder will be honoured at three months' date. We are obliged to ask this, as we keep the greater part of the goods in stock.—Obediently yours, " TRUMAN, PARKER, AND Co. "Messrs. Lingenbrick and Co." The bankrupt was then questioned by Mr. Sturgeon. lie had premises at Millbank, which were very valuable, having been valued by one surveyor at £14,000, and by another at £12,500. Part of the manufactures was for ladies' dresses; it was a new fashioned whalebone to supersede crinoline. He had been offered a mortgage of £3,500 upon the premises. His object in seeking his discharge was to realise his estate for the benefit of his creditors. He had had them altogether and made that statement to them. He had offered 20s. in the pound, with a charge upon two patents he possessed as security, with interest at the rate of 5- per cent. until all was paid. Could have had an advance on the patent of £l,OOO. Mr. Bagley apprehended that he had Entirely established a case that the debt had been contracted by fraud. The bankrupt began by avowing himself as having sufficient funds to enable him to take other persons' goods on consign ment while an uucet tificated bankrupt. 1. February, 1851, he ordered these goods, giving these gentlemen to under stand that he had an employer in one place, saying "we re gret the relationship has begun so badly; our employer com plains bitterly of the quality of the goods," and acain "we are obliged to rebate 5 per cent. to our employer," making out that he obtained the goods for somebody else. The learned counsel then read as follows : " Adelaide-place, London-bridge, London. April 11, 1857. " Messrs. Lingenbrick. " Gentlemen,—We regret exceedingly that the relation between us should have begun so badly ; our employer com plains bitterly of the quality of the goods, and with justice, for it is mixed with cotton, and is not pure silk. Besides, the pieces are so forced and compressed in the boxes that the quality and exterior of the goods have been much preju diced. We were obliged to rebate 5 per cent. to our em ployer; however, not to keep your bills an longer, we have accepted the odd £:237 14s. 3d., while we will only accept £B9 10s. more, and that even only at three months, from the 20th of March, which will be the amount, in reckoning the 31 per cent. loss of the 5 per cent. before mentioned. — Obediently yours, "TRUMAN, PARKER, AND Ce." The bankrupt had assumed the false name of Truman, Parker, and Co., because he knew that as Benjamin Parker he would not be trusted. His whole deeds during his life time were tainted with fraud, whether it were as a colonial merchant, a tea dealer, builder, architect, or surveyor. lie now took his real name and came to the Court with this assumed story about the patiute. He called on the Court to refuse the application. Mr. Sturgeo . n remarked that he felt a difficulty in meeting the case, from the extraordinary way in which it had been shaped. Here was an attempt to keep this unfortunate man in prison by raking up his whole conduct for the last 15 or 20 years. Mr. Bagley had chosen to give the go-by to all legal requisites, and began by opening a case with what might be called libel and slander, and going into the history of the life of the bankrupt. Who would venture to come to that court for protection if they were to rake up 20 years of the life of a merchant of the City of London ? The ques tion was, if these parties were aggrieved, had they a legal judgment, showing he was in custody for fraud, upon which the Court could withhold the bankrupt's relewe. This had not been shown. If such matters as those gone into to-day were allowed to be discussed, any question might be asked ; even if there had been a marriage with a deceased wife's sister, as suited the fertile brain of the counsel. If the judge allowed his mind to be poisoned by such matter, who could get relief? The Legislature, in passing the Act of Parliament, never Intended such matter to be gone into. As the bank rupt's only desire was to assist his creditors, he asked the Court to grant an order for his release. His Honour said it appeared to him that the learned counsel had altogether forgotten one part of the object of the statute, which was to give the Court a discretion—the court might discharge the bankrupt if it thought fit. Having regard to that discretion, nothing could be so ece o d f e t n h t e s im portant for the Court to c p o r n ob si a d b e i r lit a y s antecedents f t r h o e mthoseant man imprisoned, and a r p g u e r p f o o s r e the of p d u o r i p n o g s e h o is f oasfswishtientgherhihseewreidsihteodmforor hi f s or dis t c h h e of fair utmost to prevent them from havi n g a full dttoscleoosunrseideorf his estate and effects. It was ne cessar y whether he was in prison under circ umstances conduc . t, B or ag w le h y et h h a e d r he was properly aremarked man whose lifedand his shown, as Mr honour did not think it too strong an assertion), that he had been from first to last living by imposing on others, and obtaining credit without the smallest int e ntion to defray his debts. It appeared the bankruptlmdunde various names, assumed generally for the purpose of decep tion, been bankrupt three times; his certificate had been suspended and refused ; and he had sent the circular which had been read, full of untruth, at the time when he was an uncertificated bankrupt soliciting credit in the name of Truman and Co., while the bankruptcy under which the certificate was refused had been under another name. Was it, therefore, not necessary for the Court to know the ante cedents of such a man? Discretion was given to the Court that it might deal with such cases. It was therefore a mistaken view of the Act of Parliament to put it as simply a question whether the debt was contracted by fraud or not. The question was would the max's antecedents justify the Court in believing for one moment that which he thee swore, that he desired to assist his creditors? His Honour believed that oath to be wholly untrue—quite as untrue as the gross falsehoods with which his conduct seemed to have been marked for several years, and his discharge would, therefore, be refused. As to the argument that the man was not in prison for any debt contracted by fraud ; he ad mitted that it should be shown that that appeared either In the record, the judgment, the pleadings, or in some equally unequivocal shape, on the proceedings under which the bank rupt was in custody; but it was unnececsary to consider that. The defendant only desired his release for the purpose of evading his creditors; and therefore it would be quite idle to order his di,eharge, for it would be doing injustice to all the credit ors if h e were a l lowe d to escape from custody upon any such pretence as that advanced. It was important the public should know the kind of characters by whom they were imposed upon. If the detaining creditor had been an Englishman, his Honour would have made some observa- , tions upon his giving credit so heedlessly to the bankrupt; but he was a foreigner, who was unacquainted with our laws, who had relied on the statements in the circular, and had not had the means of investigating their truth as a native would have done; his intended observations would not, therefore, apply. It was not to he tolerated that foreigners should be victimised, and that such persons as the bankrupt should be permitted to escape, to go and do likewise. The application for discharge would th erefore be refused. Discharge refused accordingly. IN RE LAIDLAW. This bankrupt, Alexander Wentworth Laidlaw, was a dealer in cigars, of No. 3, Bury-court, St. Mary-axe, and he now applied to pass his examination on accounts prepared by Messrs. Hart Brothers, showing : To creditors, £1,587; do. holding security, £25; profits on trad.ng, £1,812 ; liabilities, £212; do., being amount of debts of Vse firm of Broad and Co., of which I was a mem ber, which were compromind for Gs, in the pound, which I have since received, owing to the composition not being fully paid, £1,553. Debtors, good, £9; thubtful £34; property, £l5 ; do., held by creditors, £36 ; trade expenses, &c., £546 ; house, £537 ; losses, £834 ; deficiency March 1, 18.54, £1,316. Mr. Doria, for the assignees, in reply to the commissioner, stated that no trade assignees had been appointed, but the accounts had been approved of by the official assignee, and were vouched by the books, which were well kept. The official assignee (Mr. Graham) confirmed the state ment of the learned counsel, and The bankrupt passed, the certificate meeting being fixed for the 19th October next. IN RE CUESTERMAN. This was a sitting for the choice of assignees in the case of the bankrupt, a builder and contractor, of Banbury. A preliminary statement, prepared by Messrs. Paul and Turner, exhibits—debts and liabilities, £2,000 ; assets, £1,200. Assignees having been chosen, upon the application of Mr. Linklater, by whom they were represented, a weekly allowance of £4 was ordered to be made to the bankrupt. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST_ 12, 1858. tracts from the books on that day, as I did not know it would be required. There can be no difficulty in producing the books from the Custom-house, if required. Theodore Foulger, detective, City police force, deposed that on searching the prisoner's house he found a quantity of papers belonging to Mr. Whiting. Barnard, police-constable 578, deposed that he took the prisoner into custody, and that on their way to the station house the prisoner said, "I have done a very silly thing; I ought to have known better, as I have read so much about such things in the newspapers.!' The prisoner was then committed for trial. Received for the poor-box—as. from " S. W." GUILDHALL.—A NEW DODGE IN HORSE-DEAL ING. Edward Stamford, a middle-aged man, was placed at the bar, before Alderman Sir Chapman Marshall, charged with obtaining £5 under false pretences. Mr. Huggins said—l went to the repository in Barbican yesterday to buy a horse, and after the sale the prisoner came up and said he had seen me bidding, but that I had not bought a horse, and he offered to sell me one. I told him I had been " sold" several times, and I did not wish to be " sold" again, upon which he assured me that I should not be " sold" by him, as I should take the horse home with me, and try it any way I liked. I tried the horse he had to sell in Barbican, and then asked him what he wanted for it, and be said £O. I said that would settle the matter, as I had not so much money about me. He said he did not want my money, he only wanted my custom, as he knew me and was satisfied. I then said I would pay him £5 if he would give me a stamped receipt, acknowledging that I was to pay the other £4 on approving of the horse, and if I did not like it I was to be the loser oflOs. He said he would give me a week or a month to try the horse; but I said a couple of weeks would be sufficient. I gave him the £5, and he gave me the receipt, and on getting outside he asked me to let the horse take home the cart as far as the London road, as it would not be out of my way to Rotherhithe. I accordingly consented, and he drove over to the London road, and when he got into his yard I heard him call out to his man, " What, he will not let the horse go without the rest of the money ?" The man repled, " No; master says he will not let the horse go unless the £4 is paid." The prisoner then came to me and said, "This is a pretty business; the horse belongs to this man, although I sold it to you, and you must pay the other £4 now, or you cannot have the horse." I told him if be had done wrong in selling a horse which did not belong to him to return me the £5 I paid him. He said, "It was not very likely he would do that, as he had spent £3 of the money." I then said I should seek the advice and assistance of the police, and ulti mately I gave him into custody. The horse was never taken out of the cart in my presence, and I never had possession of it. When I bought the horse be told me he had so many that he had not stable room for them, and he would there fore sell me that one cheap. I paid him the £5 believing the horse belonged to him. Cross-examined—l knew the prisoner very well by sight, and have heard him called Ted Bailey. The prisoner did not say he had summoned a man named Fletcher for a horse; neither did be show me the summons until after he had the money of me. He did not say he would not trust me. Police-constable 228 M said—l took the prisoner into custody, and on the way to the station-house he told the prosecutor that he should have neither the horse nor the money. At the station I searched him, and found on him five sovereigns. The prisoner said—The prosecutor came first with the policeman, and then left to get the rest of the money; but he changed his mind, and came back and gave me into custody. The prisoner was then remanded, with permission to put in bail in two sureties in £2O each, and his own recog nisance in £4O. WESTM I NSTER.—Tous ON CHELSEA NEW BRIDGE. —George Ray, a toll collector on Chelsea New Bridge, was charged with unlawfully exacting toll there. Mr. Gilham appeared to prosecute the complaint, and Mr. Davis, from the Board of Works, for the defendant. Mr. Gilham, in opening the case, said that his client was Mr. Poole, of 87, Westbourne-street, Pimlico, who had a postchaise, by the direction of the railway authorities of the West-end or Pimlico terminus, for the convenience of a supe rior class of travellers. The Bridge Act specified that all postchaises should, on their return empty, be free from toll, notwithstanding which the defendant had, in his capacity of collector, exaet the sum of 2d. from Mr. Poole's driver. It would be said, he had no doubt, by the other side, that the carriage in question was not a postchaise, for, according to defendant's expressed definition, it could not be unless the man in charge of it wore breeches and top-boots, and rode the horse. Although Mr. Poole's man did not do this, it was nevertheless a postchaise, and so considered by the excise, who took post-horse duty for it. Joseph Hayden, the driver, having proved that the de fendant exacted the toll, Mr. W. Poole said he had stables close to the Pimlico station, and paid post-horse duty; he did not take fares like a cab, and was told by the excise that his was a post chaise. _ Cross-examined—Had no name or number on his car riage ; none was requires , ; was privileged to run from the railway; paid duty on the 15th of July to enable him to keep a postchaise; there was no difference is appearance between his and a private carriage ; did not ply as a cab without paying for a cabman's license; did not stand on the rank for hire like a cab. By Mr. Paynter—Pays 17s. 61. per quarter duty to the excise; cabs pay a shilling deity per day. Mr. T. S. T. Talbot, superintendent of the West-end Railway, said that, being most anxious to get a superior class of carriages for West-end travellers, the complainant was privileged to come there. Such advantages were also afforded the public at the Crystal Palace, East Croydon, Brighton, and other places on the line. Complainant's car riage did not go en the platform ; if wanted, it was at hand. Witness had made inquiries of the excise, and found com plainant required neither ticket nor plate under the post horse regulations. He witnessed a demand made upon complainant's man for toll at the bridge by a collector, and then told him to show his postchaise license ; he did, hut the toll was still exacted, on the ground that it was not a post chaise, as there was no man riding on the berse's back. With an earnest de.lre to set the matter at rest witness went to the office of the Board of Works, and there saw two gentlemen, named Crozier and Latnhart, and the result was that the latter gentleman came to the terminus, had the matter fully explained to him, and then said he would give orders that no toll should be taken for complainant's empty carriage unless notice was given•to the contrary, and so it went on for some time. A Middlesex magistrate had complained of the toll being taken for his postchaise, and when the toll collector found out he was a magistrate he gave the money back. By Mr. Gilbam—There had been no complaint of this description at Brighton or elsewhere; there had been no dispute about such a carriage being a postchaise. Mr. Paynter said complainant must mind he did not take up a job as he returned. Mr. Gilliam observed he did take care, for he would be liable to a penalty of gm. Mr. Davis could not see why witness should take so active a part in the matter. Mr. Talbot replied that it was his duty and interest to see that every accommodation was afforded passengers. He was now making arrangements for omnibuses to run to and from Paddington, hi order to afford West- end residents every facility of reaching the terminus. Defendant, in reply to the charge, said that every gentle man's servant who went over the bridge in a brougham might say it was a postchaise, for there was nothing to dis ting,uish the complainant's carriage. He had had seven different jobs after li o'clock Over the bridge on Tue,iday. Complainant plied at the station the same as a cab, and the cabmen complained very much of it. He did not keep his horse in the stable, but it was always ready. Mr. Paynter had no doubt cabmen complained because they paid ls. per day, and complainant only 17s. 6d. per quarter. He did not see complainant was bound to keep his horse in the stable. Mr. Davis said that the Commissioners of Works as trus tees for the public were desirous of doing their duty as far as they could, and had no right or power to forego tolls which they thought by law should be taken. He had con sulted the officers of inland revenue, and had taken the opinion of counsel, and was informed complainant was not entitled to exemption. Complainant had entered himself with the excise as carrying on his business at 87, West bourne-street, Pimlico, and therefore when he went with an empty carriage from the Middlesex to the Surrey side of the bridge he mild not be " returning home." He (Mr. Davis) contended that this could not be called a post-horse and chaise within the meaning of the act ; there was no mark to distinguish it from a private gentleman's earria , e, and this was nothing more than competition between him and the cabmen at the railway for fares. In truth, when he claimed exemption from toll, he was going to the railway in quest of a fare. Mr. Gilbam pointed out that he paid his post-horse duty in the county of Surrey because his stables were there. He merely had apartments in Westbourne-street. He started with jobs from his stables, and returned there empty and was exempt. The hiring was made with complainant as job -master. The servant never took any money, save the post-boy, gratuitously. Mr. Paynter observed that a return chaise meant coming back from a job, and unless exempt, how could a post-master carry on his business? The question was whether this was a postchaise, for, if so, and entitled to certain privileges, the complainant was justified in claiming them. Mr. Gilham pointed out that there was no probability of the toll collector being imposed upon by his client's carriage resembling that of a private gentleman's, and by his not knowing who was exempt, for the driver, when he claimed exemption, always produced his post-horse license. The case was adjourned for a few days, for the magis trate to satisfy his mind on some points. ROBBING RAILWAY PARCELS.—WaIiain Strange, a carman, 10 years in the employment of the Great Western Railway Company, was charged with breaking open a package belonging to the Hon. Ashley Ponsonby, and steal ing a portion of the contents. Mr. Joseph Aggerson, inspector of the goods department, stated the case. About 1 p.m. on Friday last Richard Green wood, a corporal of the lit Life Guards, was at a window of Knightsbridge barracks, when he saw prisoner stop his cart, undo a package, and take out a couple of brushes, after which he drove on. The soldier immediately com municated with the Great Western Railway Company, and upon inquiries they found the package belonged to the Hon. Ashley Ponsouby, and was being conveyed from his town house at Rutland-gate, to his seat In Gloucestershire, where, on its arrival, several brushes were missed. Mr. Aggerson went to prisoner's I)dgings and found two of them there. Prisoneiwas remanded. BRUTAL ASSAULT.—John Owen, an elderly man, was charged with a brutal assault upon Susan, his daughter, a woman 25 years of age. The evidence add uce d prove d th a t the defendant, who wasintoxicated, rushed upon his daughter in Rochester row on the previous evening and struck her several blows with a brass rod, one of which wounded her in the head and rendered her insensible ; her arm was also much hurt. She was taken to the hospital ' and now refused to press the charge against h e! f ather. Defendant said that he went to sleep, during which time his daughter took 10s. from him. When he awoke he asked her for it, and she only gave him half-a-crown back. He thought that an amount of provocation did to her. justifying what he Mr. Paynter observed that his daughter did right to take his money from him during his drunkenness, and ought to have been commended instead of ill-treated. He would not part with defendant till she appeared, and should remand him for a week. He subsequently offered to take bail for his appearance. NTARLBOROUGH-STREET.—CURIOUS CAB TICKET DECEPTION.--A cabdriver named Bates was summoned by Mr. Cherry, thl veterinary surgeon and inspector of horses to the police. _ _ . . _ Mr. Cherry said he was passing along Oxford-street when the defendant plied him and drove up to the kerb. Ile told the defendant he did not call him ; but now he was there, seeing that the horse in the cab was lame, he would ascertain what caused the lameness. He asked the defen dant for his ticket. The defendant gave him one, which he saw was not the right number. He told the defendant what he had discovered, The defendant said be bad made a mis take ; he bad been driving for two masters and had given the wrong ticket. The defendant then gave him a second ticket, and he should have gone away with it had he not discovered, on a slight inspection, that the ticket was so manufactured as to allow the top number to come off, leav ing a different number beneath. The top number was made of very thin paper, and it was attached so slightly to the substance of the paper that it would become detached on the least pressure. Mr. Beadon asked the defendant to explain the circum starces. The defendant said the ticket was just as he had received it from his employer. Mr. Cherry bad reason to doubt this. The ticket had been manufactured for purposes of deception, and it was important that the public should be placed on their guard, and the matter further inquired into. Mr. Beadon said it was a matter of public importance, certainly, as the public principally depended on the tickets they received from cabmen in cases of dispute. The defendant gave such a lame explanation of the affair that Mr. Beadon said he would first inflict a fine for plying for hire ; next, he would detain his badge; and, lastly, remit his license to Scotland-yard for the commissioners to inquire into these deceptive tickets. DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE..... Catherine Rich, a very respectably-dressed female,,was charged with the following determined attempt at suicide : Police-sergeant Gummer, C 21, said he was sent for by a chemist in Pultney-street, named Green, to take charge of the prisoner, who had attempted to purchase arsenic for the purpose of destroying herself. He took the prisoner to the station-house, and questioned her. The prisoner told him that she had been deserted by her husband, and then pleading illness, requested to be shown to a place of convenience. Tier request was complied with, but witness feeling doubtful about her intentions, looked into the cell where the prisoner had been introduced, and discovered that she was black in the face and insensible. The prisoner had tied a handkerchief round her throat, so as to produce strangulation, and had she been left alone a few minutes longer there was no doubt she would have destroyed her life. The prisoner, whose husband is stated to hold a respect able situation in the City, expressed contrition for her con duct. Mr. Beadon said he certainly should not let her go until further inquiry was made. Remanded for a week. WORSHIP-STREET. ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A DONKEY.—Mr. D'Eyncourt was occupied a considerable time in the investigation of an adjourned summons in which Edward Dillon , a police sergeant, 17 K, Wt 9 charged with cruelty to a donkey belonging to a man named Joseph Parnell, a greengrocer, residing at Old Ford, who was formerly a policeman in the same division as the defendant. The principal officers of the division were present watch ing the case, which appeared to have excited a high degree of interest. _ _ . Parnell, the complainant, deposed, that on the night o the 26th ult., about 20 minutes before 12, while in his gar den, he heard the sound of a heavy blow, and looking over a fence to a piece of waste ground where his donkey was, he there saw the defendant strike the animal two other blows with his truncheon. The defendant, he said, struck the blows right forward " with all his vengeance," and after wards went into a neighbouring public-house. The donkey ran away at least 150 yards, aad witness, when he brought it back, found the eye much swollen and bleeding, a bit being knocked off the eyelid as big as a shilling. The de fendant, he said, had a little spite against him, but he did not know why, and believed it to have been his intention to kill the animal. It was moonlight at the time, and the moon shone full on the defendant's face. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you say anything to Lim at the time ? Complainant—l did not speak to him, because I would not have him say he had locked me up, as he has said he would do. In cross-examination by the defendant's solicitor, the complainant said it was true that he was formerly in the police, and dismissed from it upon the defendant's report, hut he had never threatened to do the defendant an injury. Policeman 460 K lodged in his house, he said, and had since been reported by the defendant. He admitted, on being pressed, that be went to the station-house to ask if the defendant had been near his house that night at the time he mentioned, because he had heard it said that he was not out before one o'clock. Policeman 460 K said he lodged in the complainant's house, and had returned home about a quarter before 12 on the night in question, his wife being unwell. He and Parnell were in the back garden smoking their pipes, when he heard the sound of a blow, and on looking . over he saw that it was one of the police striking the donkey that was feeding there. He saw two blows struck, and the arm raised to strike again, when the donkey ran away. He thought by the appearance and voice of the man that it was Sergeant Dillon. Parnell said that it was, but be could not say positively that it really was the sergeant. In cross examination, he said he had once been reported by the defendant, who was a very strict officer. He did not see any more of the donkey after it ran away, but his wife afterwards told him that it was cut. Nathaniel Delaforce, foreman of the East London Water works, stated that he lived next door to the complainant , and at 10 minutes or a quarter before 12 that night lie was a few minutes' walk from the place, when he saw the de fendant. Policeman, 59 K, said that, between four and five in the morning, the complainant spoke to him, and showed him the donkey, upon which he saw a night mark like a scratch such as a nail might have made, but not such a mark as a truncheon would make. It was quite dry, as if not very recent; the skin was not cut off at all, nor did there appear to have been - any blood. - He had seen two women, 271 K'. wife and another, drive the donkey towards the hack door, and the complainant told him that he had had " a row with his old woman," and went off to bed, and therefore saw nothing of the matter himself, but that he had two wit nesses who did. The complainant being recalled again swore that be saw the donkey struck as already described, and knew that it was Sergeant Dillon, upon whose face the moon shone at the time. For the defence 127 K was called, and deposed that, at a quarter before 12, while on duty near Bow Church, he saw and spoke to the defendant, Sergeant Dillon, who could not possibly have been near the complainant's place, which is a wile and a quarter distant. Mr. D'Eyncourt, after some indignant comments by the defendant's solicitor, dismissed the complaint against the sergeant, with an expression of his opinion that it was un founded, and arose out of a vindictive feeling, and, in addi tion, he ordered a guinea costs to be paid to the defendant. CLERKENWELL.—TIIE OROAN-GRINDING NuI- StNCE.—IMPORTANT DECISION.—A abort hearty-looking Italian fellow, an organ-grinder, residing in the neighbour hood of Saffion-hill, was charged befbre Mr. Tyrwhitt with playing an organ to the annoyance of Mr. S. Bishop, a gentleman and calculator, residing at 14, Mallacion-place, St. Pancras. The prosecutor stated that last night, about eight o'clock, he was disturbed, white making some calculations, by the defendant grinding an organ. He went out, and found him playing in front of No. 5, and upon asking him to go away, and telling him that if he did not he should give him in custody, lie at once desisted ; but when the ladies at No. 5 told him to go on, and that they would see him paid, he refused to go away, and was then given into custody. The clergyman, who also resided in the same house, complained of the noise and nuisance caused by the organ-grinders. He was at present engaged in making calculations in con nection with the metropolitan sewage question. Mr. Tyrwhitt inquire d if the complainant was a house keeper or a lodger. Mr. Bishop replied that the landlady was a widow. that the Police Act, 2d and 3d Vie., Mi 4 •. 7 Ty se r c w t hi s t 3 t s ‘ e y d i d ii cap. , • • , ch related to street musicians depart ing when desired so to do, referred only to householders. The words were as follows :—" It shall be lawful for any housekeeper within the metropolitan police district, per sonally, or by his servant, or by any police-constable, to require any street musician to depart from the neigh bourhood of the house of such householder, on account of the illness of any inmate of such hou-e, or for other reasonable cause ; and e very person who shall sound or play upon a n y musical instrument in any thoroug hf ar e near any house, after being . so required to &part, shall be liable to a penalty of not mare than 405." According to the Act of Parliament, the meaning of the word " housekeeper" could be nothing more than land lord. Dr. Johnson's meaning cf the word was, "master of the family," which be took to mean the landlord of the house. The defendant was entitled to the benefit of the landlady not having spoken to him. It happened to be the law, of which the defendant would have the full benefit, that the housekeeper, instead of the lodger, must complain; but he could rest assured that, if the cases were made out, he would inflict the full pe n a lt y o f 40s. These organ grinders were brought over here by a parcel of hard hearted fellows, who drove the poor people out of their homes, and sold them as slaves to annoy us. The padrone who hired these men, and who made a for tune out of them, ought to pay the fine. An. other curious point in the case was, that the ladies at No. 5 had asked the man to play his organ. H e has no hesitation in saying that a person who had sickness in his house, or wanted quietness for the purpose of study, has a perfect right to object to noises in the neighbourho o d, notwithstanding that other persons might like them. That point would never avail with him, for a foolish or ill-natured neighbour, just for the purpose of annoyance, would ask the organ grinder to stop. If they wanted music they had better follow it to where it could be played without annoy ance. The defendant would now be discharged ; but he had better be careful how he was brought there again ' • for on the next occasion he might be charged by the proper person. The parties then left the court. SOUTHWARK—EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CONFIDEN TIAL SERVANT.—James Cooke James, a respectable-look ing young man, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with embezzling various sums of money the property of Messrs. Cory & Son, extensive coal merchants, of Com mercial-road, Lambeth, his employers. One of the firm attended and said the prisoner had been some years in their employ and in their confidence. On Thursday morning last the prisoner suddenly absconded, which caused them to examine the books, and they then found that he was deficient in several items. It was his duty to receive money from the customers and account for it to them. On discovery of the robbery they gave infor mation to the police. Sergeant Broad, 23 L, said from information he re ceived, he went to Vauxhall Gardens, and saw the prisoner dancing along with a female. Witness went up to him and told him he was charged with robbing his employers, and then took him into custody. Prisoner denied the charge, stating that the money was all accounted for. The gentleman who attended for the firm, stated such was not the case, and requested his worship to remand the pri soner, in order to have the books further inspected. Mr. Combe said it was a case that required further inves tigation ; under these circumstances, he should remand the prisoner till Monday next. LAMBETH.--APPREHENsioN or A Bui GLAR. —G'eo Seth Morris, a Young man, was charged before Mr. Elliott by Sergeant Coppin a detective officer of the P division , with having been found in Alban read, Camberwell, in the y company of another man n am ed Edward Phillips, who has been convicted on the charge, on suspicion of being there for the purpose of committing a burglary. Coppin stated that, on the 7th of June, he was in the Albany-road with a gentleman when lie saw the prisoner going along the road with a man whose name is E d ward Phillips. Another man came up at the time, and they all went away. Witness followed them some distance when he saw that he was observed by the prisoner, who ran away and got off. Lie seized hold of Phillips, w14 ,- ) ~cas taken to the station-house. He Was there searched, and upon him were found 13 skeleton keys and a chisel. Ile (Phillips) was tried and :convicted, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. He was now in prison. lie (the officer) had not seen the prisoner till that (lay, when lie saw him at this court. He informed the prisoner that he was going to Mite him into custody in consequence of being in the corn. IN RE WILLSON. This was the first sitting under the bankruptcy of Charles Frederick Willson, a grocer, of 14, Munster-street, Reading. The preliminary statement shows—debts, about £1,800; and assets, £6OO. Mr. Underwood, of Eastcheap, a wine merchant, was chosen trade assignee. Mr. Pook made the usual application for an allowance, which was granted. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WELLS, AUG. 11. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) THE NAILSEA CHILD MURDER. Elizabeth Card was indicted for the wilful murder o her son, James Card, at . Nailsea, on the 27th of July. She pleaded not guilty. Mr. H. T. Cole prosecuted ; and, at the request of the learned judge, Mr. Prideaux watched the case on behalf of the prisoner. This was a very sad case. The prisoner was the wife of a hawker living at Nailsea, and some quarrel having taken place between her and her husband, on the 23d of July, she left her own home and went to her mother's, who lived at some short distance. She returned on the following Tuesday, but appeared to be very much afraid of going to her own home. She was seen by a woman named Ann Dav, who lived next door, who spoke to her, and on saying, "So you are come home," she replied, " Yes, but not for long, as my husband will kill me if I am not dead before he comes home." She then went into the house and closed the door, and was heard to go into an upper chamber. Very shortly afterwards Mrs. Day heard the screaming of children, and on going into the house she found the prisoner on the bed with her throat cut, and her child lying on the floor in a pool of blood, quite dead, and with its throat cut. Mrs. Day immediately went for assistance, and on speaking to the prisoner she said, " I did it myself; it was not my hus band." To another witness she stated that she killed the child because she feared it would be starved, and that she wished the others were lying by her side. In the window of the room a razor covered with blood was found, with which it was clear the woman had killed her child, and attempted her own life. It appeared from cross-examination that the husband of the prisoner was a drunken, worthless fellow, who treated her with great brutality ; that the poor creature was in the family way at the present time ; and that a per son with suicidal tendencies frequently destroyed those nearest and dearest before taking their own lives. Mr. Prideaux, in a pathetic address to the jury, urged that at the time of this unhappy transaction the state of mind of the prisoner was such as to render her not respon sible for her acts, and subsequently called Mr. Nicholls, the surgeon, who had attended the prisoner since her commit tal, who confirmed this view. Mr. Cole having briefly replied on the evidence, the learned judge summed up; and the jury, after retiring to consider their verdict, acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity. The learned judge directed her to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. THE DOUBLE CHILD MURDER AT CLEVEDON. Elizabeth Williams was arraigned on two indictments aid on the coroner's inquisition, charging her with the wil ful murder of her children, Elizabeth and William John Williams, aged respectively 18 months and three years. She was accommodated wish a seat in the dock, and during the proceedings covered her face with a handkerchief. Mr. Cole prosecuted; Mr. Prideaux defended. This case was, if possible, more melancholy than the last. The prisoner was the wife of a painter, residing at St. George's near Bristol, and it appeared principally from her own statement that on the 2d inst. she had some slight dis azreement with her husband. Unlike the preceding case, the prisoner and her husband lived usually in harmony and happiness, but on the day in question the priso n e r fancied that her hitshand treated her less kindly than usual. On the morning of the 3d she got breakfast as usual for her hus band, and appeared to think that he treated her more kindly than the day before, when the disagreement took place about the payment of some taxes or some immaterial matter. After the husband had left to go to his work, nothing was seen of the prisoner till about two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, when she was met in Bristol by her father-in law, having met her with the two children. Some little conversation took place between them, during which the father-in-law observed that she appeared to be luau excited state, and she went on. About eight o'clock the same even ing she went to a small public-house at Clevedon, kept by a Mrs. Salmon, still having the children with her, where she had some refreshment and left. Nothing more was seen of her till about 11 o'clock the next morning, when a police wan named Francis met her near Nailsea. Neither of the children was then with her, she had on no bonnet or mantle, her dress was very wet, and her manner was wild and ex cited. She told the policeman that she had drowned her two children at Clevedon, and that she wished to give her self up. She gave her right name and address, and detailed the mode in which she had destroyed her offspring. In con sequence of this statement the inspecor went to Clevedon, and at the rising of the tide the bodies of the two children I were washed up within a few feet of the spot the prisoner i had indicated. The mantle and bonnet were also found at the place at which she sated she had left them. Toe cross-examination of the father-in-law showed be yond all doubt that the prisoner bad for many years been subject to aberrations of intell et, and that her father, grandfather, and sisters, were persons of unsound mind. After hearine• the evidence, the learned judge directed an acquittal, and the unhappy woman was ordered to be de tained during her Majesty's pleasure. The business of the Somerset assize concluded this day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HOUSE.— Win. 'Henry Hunt, 25, was brought up, on remand, charged with having embezzled between £5OO and £€oo, the property of his employer, Mr. Noel Whiting, colonial broker, 14, Mincing-lane. Mr. Hodakinson appeared for the prosecution, and re minded the Court that on the former occasion be had gone into the cases of small sums embezzled by the prisoner, but there were numerous cases yet remaining. The Lord Mayor said it would be unnecessary to go into all the cases. Mr. Hodgkinson—l would occupy your lordship's time for a month if I were to do so ; but I will only take one other case similar to those already gone into, and then take some of the Custom-house cases, which are of a different character. Mr. Charles Smith—l am clerk to Messrs. T. Smith and Co., 34, St. Mary-at-hill, wholesale grocers. I know the prisoner at the bar. I recollect paying to him the balance of £3 15s. 11d, mentioned in the receipt produced, on the sth June, when he gave me this receipt. Mr. Noel Whiting—The prisoner has never accounted to me for this sum of £3 15s. Ild., nor is there any entry of it in his books. Mr. Hodgkinson-I will now, my lord, go into the Cus tom-house cases, and shall deal with three which relate to sums of £97 03. 10d., £69 3s. 6d., and £59 lls. 9d. ; but I must first explain that the prisoner was what is called the Custom-house clerk, and that when there were any duties to pay it was his duty to t; 1 1 up the bodies of the cheques for the requisite sums, and lay them before Mr. Whiting to sign-suck a course being rendered neces sary by the extensive character of Mr. Whit ing's business transactions. In the case of the first cheque, for £97 Os. 10d., the prisoner should have paid £57 4s. 7d. fur duty on sugar, £129 Sc. 6(.1. for tea, and £lO 12s. 9(1. on coffee; but instead of making these payments he paid £2B 23. 10d. on sugar, and £3B 103. 11d. on tea and cotlee-tnaking a total paid of £66 13s. 9(1., and show ing a deficiency of £3O 7s. ld. I must also explain that it was Mr. Whiting's practice, when the cheques were under £lOO, to leave them open, so that the prisoner might get them cashed, but when they exceeded that amount they were always crossed, the custom being to take them to the Custom-house, where they are changed for cheques on the Bank of England, and the proceeds ore there carried to the Custom-house accouut. The duty of the prisoner was, whenever he had a cheque, whether open or crossed, to pay the full amount to the Custom house ; but he had a sort of running account there, and it had been his habit, instead of doing so, to misapply a portion of the money so entrusted to him from time to time, and pay eft' occasionally with the cheques received from Mr. Whiting the deficiencies left on amounts of duty formerly due, instead of those for which the cheques were actually given, so as to conceal his defalcations. This has been going on since February, 1837, and the deficiency in the whole is very considerable. Mr. Whiting-The prisoner was in the habit of filling up cheques for me to sign. On the 13th February, 1857, I the uty Custom-house. to u s get totu i h c o a u s s h e e . d z : T t h3tesh.e cheque,bank6.; naeden according nr p d a tce y ogir t e h tee e signed a cheque for £97 Os. 10d. and gave it to the prisoner. It proceedswa s i'is at d tea, 1857, I also signed ft , an entry in the prisoner's handwriting, was for duty on slif o ar l , 2, £ . , 57 d. 45.0 On the o n n th tea F cheque for £69 3s. 11d. for duty, viz., £7 3s. 10d, for coff e e, £3 18s. 11d. for tea, and £5B Is. 2d. for sugar. On the 11th March, 1857, I also signed a cheque, filled up by pri soner, for £59 lie. 9d., to pay for duties on sugar, £25125. 11d.; sugar, £5 163. Id.; tea, £l3 I'. ld.; tea, £4 ls. 4d. ; and coffee, £ ll Is. 4 d. If any difficult) , had arisen with regard to any of the items, it would have been his duty to explain it to me. The prisoner has charged himself with the payment of all the sums I have referred to In the cashbook. Cross-examined by Mr. Rcscoe-All the items in the cashbook are in the prisoner's handwriting. He has been in my service about five years, and until recently I hays had no reason to complain of his assiduity. Mr. R. Lomer, clerk to Messrs. Roberts and Co., Lombard street, bankers-Mr. Whiting kee p s an account at our house. The cheque for .EG9 3s. 11d. was paid by me en the 17th February, 1857, over the counter. The cheque for £59 lls. 91 was paid by a gentleman who is since dead, en the II t h March, 1857. Mr. White, another clerk at Roharts and Co.'s, proved that he cashed the cheque for £97 Os. 10d. on the 13th February, 1857. Mr. Hugh Piper Bernard, teller in her Majesty's Treasury, Custom-house-It is my duty to receive moneys for duties payable at the Custom-house. On the 17th February, 1857, I received on Mr. Whiting's account the sum of £6B 53. 4d., but I cannot tell by whom it was paid. It consisted of £57 43. 7d. and £ll Os. 9d. I did not, to the best of my belief, receive any moneys on Mr. Whiting's account on the 13th February. Mr. Henry Poole, teller to the Treasury-On the 11th March, 1857, I received, in the name of Mr. Noel Whiting, for customs duties, a £5O note. It was for two sums of £2O ss. 7d. and £lO 63. 4(1., making together £4O lls. 11d. I gave the change, £9 Sc. ld. Ido not know from whom I received the money. Cross-examined-It is possible that some other gentle o.dlglkoidngsk inbc , man might have recei v ed th e sum o n th a t day to make up the difference. r paid to any one.By on_ so w n- e T have a books cl atlyniille,nstho: the it fullifitwere ac count,Mr. prepar e d f rom the Cusioni-louse books (now hi court), which I will put in, as it shows the whole deficiency. Mr. Goodman-Y ou need n0t . ,1 think, go into that. You ha E ve xa q in ui i t n e a s t u io ffi n c r i e e s u u t m to ed ta T k ehea g c e a n se tle a m s i a t n i ay . ho received the money on the nth February is not here. I made us ex- pany of Phillips. He (prisoner) said that he knew nothing at all about Phillips. Mr. Elliott—ls the prisoner known ? Coppin Yes, sir. lie is the constant associate of thieves, housebreakers, and the worst of characters. I be lieve'he has been tried. The prisoner stated that the officer had seen him re peatedly since Phillips was taken into custody. He has been seen constantly by him at the Elephant and Castle, where he is repeatedly. The officer said that he wanted the prisoner before Phillips was tried, as he wished to produce him at the trial. He has never seen the prisoner since Phillips's conviction till that day. Remanded. Eleanor Colman, a good-looking young woman, and respectably dressed, who was described as a dressmaker, living in Tiverton-street, Newington-causeway, was brought up in the custody of Sergeant Coppin, from Winchester Gaol, charged under the following circumstances : Mr. Solomons attended for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that about the beginning of last month, between seven and ten o'clock at night, the house of Mr. Marshall, of Grosvenor-park, Camberwell, was broken open, whets a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles were stolen. On the sth of July last, as Mrs. Marshall was passing the shop of Mr. Jolland, dyer, New ington-causeway, she saw a silk dress, which she identified as belonging to her, and to be part of the property stolen on the night in question. She gave information to Coppin, who soon ascertained that it had been left there by a woman named Conden, in whose house the prisoner lodged. He went there, and from the description given of the person who had given the article to the woman Conden to leave at the dyer's to be cleaned, he suspected that it was the prisoner, who was then in Winchester Gaol. The prisoner's landlady stated that the prisoner had occu pied an apartment in her house about three months, and that she was a dressmaker. In answer to Mr. Solomons, she stated that about eight weeks ago she left the dress at a dyer's to be cleaned. The prisoner had worn it three or four times in the daytime. Coppin said that he took the prisoner into custody that (yesterday) morning, about seven o'clock, as she was leav ing Winchester Gaol. He had searched the prisoner's lodgings, and found there a large roll of cloth, a gold watch and chain, five gold rings, and two shawls. Mr. Elliott—What was she in prison for ? Officer—l believe on a charge of being in the company of another female when a lady's pocket was picked. She says she was not guilty. Mr. Elliott—Did she say anything to the charge ? Officer—Yes, sir; she said that she bought the dress in Petticoat-lane, and that she could account for everything I took away. I also found four pawnbroker's tickets, one for a geld watch, pledged for L 4 10s., and one for a gold pencil-case, &c. Mr. Solomons said be could not see how the prisoner could be connected with the burglary. She could account for the possession of everf article found by the officer, and was desirous of giving him every information. The prisoner was remanded. THAMES.—MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Henry Barrett, a dark and dirty-looking fellow, was brought before 31r. Selfe, charged with committing a violent assault on Catherine Sullivan. The complainant, a dissipated-looking woman, said she had been cohabiting with tee prisoner for three years, and he bad frequently beaten and kicked her. He was once committed for four months by one of the magistrates of Worship-street for." jobbing" a pipe into her eye, the sight of which was nearly lost. On the previous night she had just brought home food for her two childrea, when the prisoner came home drunk, and beat and kicked her. He threw her down, and endeavoured to strangle her. He hit her about the head and face, and she was covered with blood when the police came in and interfered. She really believed the pri soner would murder her if he was not restrained, but she did not wish to punish him. Mr. Selfe—l won't consult your wishes. The prisoner in defence said that he and his " wife" were bath drunk on Tuesday, and that they always fought when they were in that state. His " wife" had sent him to the hospital several times, and some time since she broke his arm. He came out of the hospital only a few weeks ago. Mr. Selfe read a certificate put in by the prisoner, and said he had not been treated for a broken arm. Sharper, police-constable 450 K, said he found the woman Sullivan weltering in her blood. She bad been terribly punished. The man was drunk, the woman was sober. Mr. &ire, said a more wretched and unhappy couple bad never come before him. He sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment and bard labour. BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—George Abbott, A man about 31 years of age, a shipkeeper, was brought up on remand, before Mr. Selfe, charged with burglariously break ing into and entering the Folly House, a well-known tavern at Millwall, Poplar, and stealing therefrom £6O in money belonging to George Blamire, the landlord. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Beard, solicitor, defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that on the night of Tues day, the 3d instant, the house was secured, and the bar par lour and cupboards were fastened up in the usual manner, and particular attention was paid to the bolts of the cellar flap which opens outwards. The flap was bolted, and appeared to be quite secure. At about half-past eleven o'clock or a quarter before twelve o'clock, the inmates retired to rest. On the following morning at six o'clock, when the potman went down stairs, he discovered that the house had been entered in the course of the night. The bar and bar parlour were in a state of great confusion, and various things were strewn about the fluor. The potrnan immediately alarmed his master and Mr. Blamire's mother, when they ascertained that an entrance had been effected by forcing up with some in struine'nt one of the boards of the cellar lisp, which was in a detective state, and unfastening the bolts. The thief or thieves had then easily descended into the cellar, and walked ua stairs into the bar. A cupboard in the bar parlour bad been forced open, and an old box containing 460 in gold, three £5 notes, and a cheque for 49 10s. removed. The box was broken open and all the gold abstracted. A soldier's pouch containing the notes and cheque had been carefully examined, " fumbled up" again and thrown upon the floor; indeed, the burglars were particularly cautious in not taking away anything that might lead to detection. Half a box of cigars, some brandy, and other articles were named. The prisoner had been for some time employed as ship keeper of an old and disused steam-vessel called the Diamond, lying in the river off the Folly House. The pri soner was a frequenter of the house almost daily for several months, occasionally seating himself fur hours in front of the bar, and was acquainted with all the internal arrangements of the Blamire family. The prisoner was in the house on the evening of the 2d inst., and left rather earlier than usual. On the morning of the 3d, after the burglary and robbery bad been discovered, Inspector Thomas, of the Thames police, was called in, and he immediately suspected the prisoner. Two house breaking implements had been left by the burglars in the bar parlour of the Folly House. They were delivered to the inspector, who went on board the Diamond and saw the prisoner and his wife. The inspector produced the implements, and said to the prisoner " Do you know these tools ?" The prisoner's wife immediately replied " Yes, I do; my husband has had them in his possession a long while. The prisoner raised his hands, and said to his wife, " There—l told you," and stopped. Inspector Thomas asked the prisoner what time he was on shore on the night of the 2d, and his answer was that he was not on shore after nine o'clock in the evening. Mrs. Emily Hebden, the wife of a lighterman, and residing next door to the Folly House, saw the prisoner on the Folly Wall at half past 11 or a quarter before 12 o'clock on the night of the 2d. The prisoner was accompanied by his wife and two men, and they all got into a boat, and proceeded towards the Diamond steamer, moored in the stream. On a Sunday morning in June, Mr. Blamire and a friend were in the cellar upon business, and the prisoner, taking advantage of the flap being open, jumped into the cellar, and Mr. Blamire was compelled to give him a glass of spirits before he would leave it. None of the money had been recovered. Mr. Young asked for another remand, and said he should have additional evidence to produce at the next examina'sion. Mr. Beard contended there was no evidence against the prisoner, who was a very respectable and honest man, and that he ought to be discharged. Mr. Selfe observed that it was impossible to shut out from the case what the prisoner's wife said when the officer pro duced the housebreaking implements. The evidence was slight, but he could not discharge the prisoner, whom he should remand on bail until next Wednesday. Bail was put in by the prisoner's brother. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE UPON AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN. —James Chas. Henry Fraser, a black seaman, was brought oefore Mr. Selfe, upon a warrant, in the custody of Foay, a police officer, No. 7 H, charged with being concerned, with five other men of colour, iu assaulting and wounding Capt. Samuel Annis, the master of the American ship Satellite. Mr. Fletcher, solicitor, of Arbour-square, Stepney, said that the defendant was late able seaman and boatswain of the Satellite, on a voyage from America to Calcutta and London. On the 3lst of last month the complainant appeared in that court on nine summonses taken out by the defendant and eight other coloured mariners for wages earned at sea. He (Mr. Fletcher) took an objection in limine that the ship Satellite sailed under American colours, that the captain was an American, and that the magistrate had no jurisdiction in the case. His objection was allowed by Mr. Yardley, and all the summonses were dismissed. The captain was leaving the court, and was proceeding towards his (Mr. Fletcher'e) office, when the men of colour, who were very much irritated, commenced abusing the captain, pushed him into the middle of the road, and committed a most atrocious and cowardly attack upon him. The defendant Fraser first knocked him down, and then kicked him • and as fast as he got up was knocked down again and kicked about the head and face, and would have been certainly murdered but for the prompt aid of the police and officers of the court, who instantly arrested three of the assailants. The captain returned into court with the blood streaming fr op his wounds, and very much injured, and he was spitting blood for several hours afterwards. Two of the offenders were fined £5 each ; and the third, who could not be identified, was discharged, and warrants were gra nted for the apprehension Fraser and others, who escaped. He trusted that under the .!irCumstanCeS and as the captain, a s tran g er, was grossly assaulted while leaving an English court of justice, the same penalty would be inflicted on the defendant as was inflicted on his confederates, and that as he bad used the most diabolical threats towards the captain, he would be bound over to keep the peace. The ship was seized on a bottomry bond on her arrival here, but all the men except Fraser and another, who was out of the way, had been since paid. The outrage and threats were proved by nume rous witnesses. The defendant said he had left the court before the affray commenced. Mr. Selfe said there was an overwhelming array of evi dence against the prisoner, who was concerned in a gross outrage. He fined him £5 or two months' imprison ment, and further ordered that he should find sureties to keep the peace towards Capt. Annis and all her Majesty's subjects for three months. CRYSTAL PALACE.—As part of a system for en abling the public to judge of thb excellences of the various military bands of the country, the band of the 47th Regi ment (now quartered at Aldershot) will visit the Crystal Palace to-morrow (Friday), performing in the palace and grounds a selection of popular music. The 47th acquired much distinction from its service in the Crimea, where its band was held in high repute. In common with other regi ments of the line, the uniform of the musicians is white, and most of them are decorated with the war medal. SERIOUS RIOTS IN IRELAND.—WC learn from a contemporary that seriousriots have broken out in Kilkenny. Infuriated mobs are traversing the country, smashing agri cultural machines, and assaulting their owners. The magis trates held a meeting atStoneyford, and resolved to petition ,Government for additional police and military. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills. —The Liver, that large and important viscus which secretes bile. and transmits it to the duo denum and gall bladder, is exposed to serious and sometimes fatal derangements. It is necessary, therefore, to watch cseelully the first symptoms. A pain on the right side of the belly, and on the top of the right shoulder, much uneasiness irelying on the left side, a dry cough, and difficulty of breathing, are among the diagnostics or signs that the liver is more or less affected. For all disorders of this vital organ, Holloway's Pills are a specific, by chocking the over svpply of Bile, regulating its due secretion, and giving tone to the Atom); they erect a speedy and permanent cue, STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) MANCHESTER, August 10.—The market for both yarns and goods is generally reported as somewhat quiet to-day, with a continued tendency, however, as regards the bulkof the production, to harden in price. This has latterly bi come a feature of the market. Buyers have operated can. tiously, hesitatingly, and with a constant restriction upoe quantity, yet the sum of what they have done has kept swelling in relation to the production, until it has evidently become fully equal thereto. In yarns, at least, this is the present position, all the way from 40's down to the lowest number of mule and water; and even as to goods at large the production is needed, and taken off, though with lesis spirit than that of yarns, and hence it is that manufacturers still command less satisfactory terms than spinners. It is gratifying to fie(' that, in the face of supplies tra versing the ocean and reaching Bombay and Calcutta, so immense as to alarm many on this side, the prices of yarns and goods in those markets were well sustained under a steady demand, according to our latest advices, so that the merchants in Manchester are still buyers to almost any extent at the rates of a fortnight back. Sellers, however, have gained firmness, and indeed raised, he some degree, their very inadequate quotations, so AN to make a practical difference of 4d. per lb. against purchasers. Merchants connected with other foreign markets are gradually acquiring increased confidence and doing more business both in goods and yarns. At the same time, the promise of a good harvest in this country is bringing an increased number of customers into the home trade warehouses, and thus augmenting the purchases from manufacturers, not yet largely, indeed, though sen sibly. The German houses are receiving good accounts off the crops and the state and prospects of trade in most parts of the Continent, and are, therefore, continually giving• orders to spinners, not large ones, individually, but reach ing a large aggregate. A like statement may be made respecting the Italian and Levantine buyers of yarn and cloth. Thus, the tendency is in favour of spinners and manu facturers, though not equally as to both ; and it is none the worse,- as regards permanence, that the improvement is singularly slow and seemingly inadequate, seeing how the demand compares with the production. The terrible col lapse of prices in the latter months of 1857 has, however, placed credit in a condition which keeps down speculation very effectually. Any rapid rise would create alarm, and be followed by an injurious reaction. Moving upward very slowly and by an almost insensible glide, rather than by marked steps, confidence evidently grows, and our footing is felt to be comparatively sure. Taking water and mule yarns at large up to 40's, we may tate that, as compared with this day week, sellers have practically gained upon buyers an average id. per lb. t. though it does not, in all cases, show itself in the shape of an addition to quotations. Two-folds, about 40's, have the same tendency. The spinners of 60's and upwards labour with hardly any success to mend their terms. There is yet to little demand for their articles, although the Bradford manufacturers are selling somewhat more than they were. The indications for the better in fine single yarns (100's and upwards) do not yet go beyond here and there an offer too low to be accepted, and some small signs of improvement in the manufactures of Nottingham, which, however, can hardly be mentioned without producing an exaggerated 'De pression. We have already spoken of goods for India. For other descriptions there is a steady demand, and prices are quietly' hardening. (From the Wolverhampton Chronicle of yesterday.) THE IRON AND COAL TRADES.—The iron trade gene rally remains in much the same state we last reported. The leading members have reduced merchant iron 10s. per ton, but this has not imparted• any very sensible impetus to the trade. Merchants are ordering cautiously and in small quantities, in the expectation that prices may yet further recede. There seems to be a want of unanimity in the " first houses" of the trade; some few of them met a short time ago at Birmingham, and agreed to reduce prices without giving the others any notice of their intention of doing so; the result is that a little indifference pre vails, and parties seem to be left to use their own discre tion as to what price they shall sell at. What the con dition of the trade may be two months hence it is impossible to conjecture. It is thought by some that as there is every prennet of a bountiful harvest, and also of favourable weather for its gathering, trade generally will brighten.. The fact of stocks of merchant iron being small, and the' bareness of stores in the States of almost all kinds of Staf fordshire iron, lead some parties to suppose that there may be an improvement after harvest. Pig iron still rules dull, and the make is being reduced. The dispute between the colliers east of Dndley and their employers on the ques tion of wages still remains unsettled ; several meetings have been held, and a determination has been expressed by the colliers to persevere in their demand for ss. per day. Some few, however, have yielded to the request of their masters, and ultimately the whole must go in. The new tunnel belonging to the Bit mine ham Canal Company, more imme diately connecting the collieries west of Dudley with those on the east side, will be opened on the 20th instant, and the various ironworksl at Tipton, Oldbury, and West Bromwich will be more readily supplied with coal than they hitherto have been, and will consequently be less dependent upon the caprice of their men. Good qualities of gubbin and white ironstone, the yield of the district, are realising 16s. per ton ; considerable quantities of red hermatite and other ores are being brought into the district, but they do not sensibly affect the home produce. An order for about 00,€60 tons of rails for India has come into the market, and it is said that the Ebbw Vale Company have taken a con tract for 10,000 tons out of this quantity at a low figure. Other Welsh firms have contracted for about 20,000 tons, and the remainder of the order will be executed in York • shire and the north. BIRTHS. BARKLEY.—On the 9th inst., at 7, Fannon's-square, Chelsea, lira. C. W. Barkley, of a daughter. BOLTON.—On the lothhist., at 32, Eaton-square, the wife of Capt. Augustus Bolton, of a daughter. COLDWELL.—On the 9th inst., at Deane Vicarage, Lancashire, the wife of the Rev. Francis H. Coldwell, of a son: - Caook.—On tho 4th inst., at Chamber Hall, Bolton, Lancashire, the wife of Joseph Crook, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. Dos.—On the 4th 'mt., at 8, Regent's-park, Lady Don, of a daughter. DOZCOVAN.—On the Bth inst., at Biighton, the wife of Alexander Donovan, Esq., Framfield, of a daughter. EDE.—On the 10th inst., at Lastiford, near Guildford, the wife of . - Charles Ede, Esq., of a daughter. GONNEIL—On the 10th inst., et 35, Condnit-street, the wife of P. K. Gonne:, of a son. INntis.—On the 10th inst., in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, the wife of Captain T. Inglis, of a daughter. MANNING.—On the 21st ult., at London, Canada West, Mrs. Richard James Manning, of a son. Mwasii.—On the 25th ult., at Bangor Rectory,Flintstire, the wife of G. M. Marsh, Esq., of a son. MooN.—On the 6th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, the wife of Francis Moon, Esq., of a daughter. PATERSON.—On the 7th inst., at Jerpoint, county Kilkenny, Ireland, the wife of Windham F. Paterson, Esq., of a daughter. PELi.Arr.—On the teth inst., at 8, Alfred-place, North Brixton, the wife of Mr. M. Pallatt, jun., of a daughter. RILEY.—On the 10th inst., at 15, Lei*ster-gardens, Hyde-park, the wife of John Riley, Esq., of a son. TREVITIITCK.—On the 6th inst., at PenzJice, Cornwall, the wife of Francis Trevithick, Esq., of - a son. Waaa.—On the llth inst., at 3, Park-terrace, Westbourne-park W. the wife of the Rev. Horatio .1. Ward, M.A., of a son. MARRIAGES. BAKER—CUNYNGITAME.—On the 20th ult., at Montreal, Canada, Robert Broome Baker, Esq., Capt. ll.M.'s 39th Regt., to Mary Sophia Thurlow, eldest daughter of F. T. Cunynghame, Esq., of Montreal. GALSWORTHY—PENNINGTON.—On the 10th inst., at St. John's Church, Manchester, by the Rev. J. B. Wilkinson, M.A., Edwin. Henry, the youngest son of the late John Cialsworthy, Esq., to Eleanor, daughter of Charles Pennington, Esq., of Broughton, Manchester. GiNsLEß—Pniwrs.—On the 11th inst., at the Hambro' Synagogue by the Rev. Dr. Adler, Mr. Sabornon Gensler, to Miss Rebecca Phillips, of 18, Jew;n-street, city. ISAACS—LEVY.—On the 11th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Adler, assisted by the Rev. A. M. Barnett, Esther, third daughter of L. Isaacs, Esq., of St. James's-street, to Henry, eldest son of Daniel Levy, Esq., of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square. JACOBS—BELINFANTE.- 011 the 11th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Adler, Simeon Jacobs, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Ellen, elder daughter of the late Francis Belinfante, Esq., of Kingston, Jamaica. NEWTON—NAGEL—On the 10th inst., at St. James's, Westbouine terrace, by the Bev. B. W. Bucke, Edward Algernon Newton, Esq., third surviving son of the late John Newton, Esq., to Hen rietta Frances, elder daughter of W. N. Peach, Esq. Srorr—SrawitorE.—On the 10th inst., at Streatham Church, Milroy W. B. Stott, Esq., of Manchester , to Emily, youngest daughter of the late Walter S. Stanhope, Esq. STRODE—MEnLycorr.—On the 10th inst., at Melborne Port, Somer set, George Sydney Strode, Esq., of Newenham•park, Devon, to Mary Hutchings Medlycott, daughter of Sir William Colles Med lycott, Bart. TIIRUPI-MASSET.-011 the 11th inst., at St. Saviour's Church, Pad. dington, George Athelstane, second son of Charles Joseph ThrupP, Esq., of Twickenham, to Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of the late Thomas Massey, Esq., of Maida-hill west. WiTsoN—DUNN. — On the 10th inst., at St. Luke's, Cheltenham , by the Rev. J. M. Maynard, the Rev J. W. Watson, youngest son of the late John Watson, Esq., to Susan Elza, eldest daughter of the late Josias Dunn, Esq. DEATHS. .Assintrox.—On the Bth inst., Assheton, Esq., of DoArnhem Hall, Lancashire, aged seventy. BAILLIE.— On the 9th inst., at Northumberland-Street, Edinburgh, William Robert Baillle, Esq. BEDDOME—On the 10th inst., at Romsey, Lucy Brounger, third daughter of the late Mrs. Boddome, of Romsey, aged forty-one. BLACKEY.—On the 9th inst., Mr. Peter Blackey, of Woodford Wells, Essex, aged eighty-five. BRETT.—On the 11th inst., at 74, Wood-street, Mr. Thomas Brett, aged fitty-nine. CAERTNoron.—On the 10th inst., at Ogbourne St. George, Wilts, Philipina, the wife of F. A. Carrington, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, barrister-at-law. CAssAvErn.—On the 7th inst., at Paris, :Demetrius Giovanni Cassavetti, Esq., aged forty-seven. CLARKE.—On the 9th inst., Elizabeth, wife Of A. . 1. Clarke, Esq., Cleveland House, Highbury New Park. COW DERY.—On the 9th inst., at his residence, Finsbury, George Cowdery, Esq., aged seventy-five. Ciroucit.—On the sth inst., at Hadspen, Somerset, John Crouch , Esq., aged eighty. DRINKALD.—On the 10th inst., John Shaw Drinkald, Esq., of Wia• borough-green, Sussex, aged fifty. EDWA.RDS.—On the 7th inst., at Benarth, Carnarvonshire, William Gamul Edwards, aged seventeen. Goonwm—On the sth inst., at Laugharne, Carmarthenshlre, Marl, only child of E. Goodwin, Esq., aged three years. HAMER.—On the 9th inst., the Rev. John Hamer, vicar of Bangor, aged seventy-four. HAWKSHAW.—At Cheltenham, Lieut.-Colonel Edward Hawkshav►, aged seventy-eight. HoorEn.—On the Bth inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Hooper, Reading, aged ninety-six. JACKSON.—At BenareS, on June 13, Colville Coverly Jackson, Civil . Service of the Hon. East India Company. LLEWELLYN.—On the 9th inst., at 14, Assembly-row, Mlle-end Thomas Llewellyn, Esq., aged forty-eight. Moursox.—On the 10th inst., at Norwood, Elizabeth, relict of the late Crawford Mollison, Esq, aged seventy-seven. PARNTIIER.—On the 11th inst., at 5, Mecklenburgh-square. 30 1171 Parnther, Esq., late of the Island of Jamaica, aged eighty-one. ROBINSON—On the 9th inst., at 17, Orchard-street, Alfred Robinson , Esq., aged fifty-five. SATCIT ELL.—On the 9th inst., William Satchel], of Sunderland, aged fifty-one. SCOSIOALT,.—On the 10th inst., Henry Scougall, Esq., Rugeley, Staf fordshire, aged s'Ety-one. SEARLE.—On the 11th inst., at Brighton, Joseph Searle, Esq., soli citor, aged eighty-five. SHORE.—On the 9th inst., Frances Mary, youngest child of the Rev. W. H. Shore, aged night months. SrENcE.—On the 10th inst., at Hastings, Ralph Wardlaw, youngest son of the late James Spence, A.M., of Aberdeen. Smarr.—On the Bth inst., John Frederick Smith, Esq., of the Ange l Hotel, Islington. TABOR.—On the 10th inst., at We 31aulsey, Surrey', Eunea both Tabor, aged seventeen. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, August 12, 1868.