The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-23 00:00:00

TEIE VOLUNTEEI? MOVEMENT. On Saturday afternoon the Chelmsford and Brent wood Volunteer Rifle Companies were reviewed in Boreham-park, the seat of Sir J. Tyrell, by Lieut.- Gen. Sir Harry Smith. Some ball practice fol lowed, a regimental sword and silver cup being awarded to the best shots, and the Volunteers were afterwards hospitably entertained at dinner by Sir I. Tyrell. The members of the Ipswich Company are to have a field day to-day (Monday) in the grounds of the Chauntry, the residence of Sir F. Kelly, MP. A luncheon will be provided by the hon. and learned gentleman. In the afternoon a silver bugle is to be presented to the corps by Mrs. Josselyn, wife• of the mayor of Ipswich, and the proceedings will close with a dinner in the Corn Exchange. An effort is being made to secure a re view of the Norfolk Corps at Norwich, in the course of the autumn, by his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief. If his Royal Highness comes down the review will probably take place while the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festival is in progress. The announcement of her Majesty's pleasure to review the Volunteers of Scotland at Edinburgh on the ith of August has given a renewed impulse to the zeal which the Scotch Volunteers have all the summer shown to acquire proficiency in military movements, as well as in the use of the rifle. }lolyrood Park will afford space for brigading 12,000 to 15,000 Volunteers, while the hilly ground on the south will afford an excellent theatre for spectators. From the amount of preparation going on in all quarters, a large re presentation of the Volunteers north of the Tweed may be expected to muster on the 7th, although some disappointment is felt in the West of Scot land, where the largest numbers are enrolled, that Edinburgh has been chosen as the scene of the re view. On Saturday afternoon the members of the Lam beth and Southwark, or 7th Surrey Rifles, assem bled at the Sessions-house, Newington Causeway, for a march oat. Five companies were present, under the command of Major Beresford and the other officers of the corps. Shortly after 5 o'clock the men fell into the ranks, and, accompanied by the band of the regiment, proceeded to march, via Westminster-bridge, to the residence of Major Beresford, at St. John's-wood. The martial ap pearance and the soldierlike bearing of the men were acknowledged by the dense crowds of people, who cheered the Volunteers in a most hearty man ners as they marched through the streets by fours. The efficiency and the numerical strength which the 7th Surrey has attainedareflect great credit upon Major Beresford, as it was owing to his ex ertions that the corps had been formed. Refresh ments having been liberally supplied by Major Beresford, and a short halt allowed for rest, during which time the band played several airs with great effect, the Volunteers marched back from St. John's wood to their respective quarters none the worse for their long march. The 16th Middlesex Rifle Vounteers, commanded by Captain ,Murray, were inspected in Whitton park, near Hounslow, on Thursday evening, by Major-General Tremenheere, on which occasion a handsome silver bugle, the gift of the Duchess Dowager of Northumberland, was, at her Grace's request, presented to the corps by General Tre menheere. A considerable number of spectators from Isleworth, Twickenham, Breutford, Hounslow, and Heston were assembled to witness the cere mony. Several manoeuvres were executed in a very steady manner, and the presentation of the bugle was preceded by an appropriate address. The corps was then marched to Twickenham, and formed in front of the residence of the Duches6 Dowager, where the proceedings terminated with several hearty cheers, Lieut.-Col. Bourne, 4th brigade, and other com manding officers of Volunteers within the hundred of West Derby, have received the following commu nication from the Earl of Derby:— " St. James's-square, July 16, 1860. " Sir,—Being desirous of contributing, by any means in my power, to the success of the Volunteer movement, I shall be obliged by your informing me, at earliest conve nience, whether it would be agreeable to the corps under your command to take part in a field-day in Knowsley• park on some afternoon near the end of next month ; and by your sending me, in that case, an approximate estimate of the number of men you would be likely to bring into the field. In order to save tine, I will thank you to address your reply to Captain Horby, R.N., Knowsley, fromwhom in the event of a field-day taking place, you shall receive early and detailed information for your guidance.—l have the honour to be sir, your obedient servant, "DERBY." We believe that the review will take place on the last Saturday in August. The directors of the Lon don and North-Western Railway will give every facility for the conveyance of the Volunteers to Hutton station, whence they will march to Knows ley. Commissariat tents will be pitched on the review-ground, in rear of each brigade or battalion. The Manchester Volunteers have arranged for their review to come off at Newton on the 11th of August. Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. A. Wetherall, Com mander-in-Chief of the Northern and Midland Dis tricts, will•command. The review will commence at 4 o'clock.—Liverpool Albion. The 3d West Riding of Yorkshire (Bradford) Rifle Volunteers, consisting of five companies, commanded by Major S. C. Lister, with the Eceleshill sub-division attached, were inspected on the parade-ground at the Bradford barracks last Saturday afternoon by Colonel M'Murdo, the Inspector-General. There was a fall muster of effective members of the corps, which is corn posed of a very intelligent and fine body of young men, and they executed the manoeuvres through which they were put so as to earn the approbation of the gallant inspecting , efficer. At the conclusion of the inspection, and after Colonel M'Murdo had briefly expressed his sentiments, Major Lister alluded to the very satisfactory pro gress which the volunteers under his command had made in their drill since Capt. Lepper had been appointed adjutant of the regiment, and said he had no doubt that if they continued to pay the same regular attention to their instructions, they would soon be equal to any corps of royal volunteers in the kingdom. The weather was very wet, and the regiment, officers and:men, got a thorough drench ing before marching from the ground. On Saturday afternoon the 12 companies forming the Birmingham Rifle Volunteer Corps were re viewed in Calthmpe-park by Lord Leigh, the Lord Lieutenant of the county. The various companies assembled at Bingley-hall, and marched to the park, where they went through a number of evolu tions, which were performed with considerable pre cision, the steadiness of the firing being not the least creditable part of the proceedings. Lord Leigh was accompanied by Capt. Warlow, of the Government Small Arms Department; Ensign Hanbury Barclay, as aide-de-camp ; Capt. Baron Dickenson Webster, of the Warwickshire Yeo manry ; and Capt. Payne, of the 2d Warwickshire Militia. Before quitting the park his lordship expressed his gratification at the manner in which the corps had gone through the various evolutions. The companies ware then reformed and marched back to Bingley-hall, where Lient.-Col. Sanders formally took leave of the corps, with which he has been connected from its formation, the duties of this gallant officer in connection with his regi• meat calling him back to India. Major Maibn, in n ame of the volunteers, then presented Lieut.- Col. Sanders wit's a handsome breech-loading rifle, in fteknovvledgment of their appreciation of his great services in brinning the corps to its present state of efficiency, The weapon, manufactured by Messrs. Westley Richards, bore the follow ing inscription : " Presented to Lieut.-Col. sanders, of the Ist Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers, on nis retirement from the command, by the officers non commissioned officers, and members of the bat talion, in testimony of their appreciation of his ser vices in promoting the welfare of the corps from its formation to the present time." Th e companies afterwards gave three cheers for Col. Sanders, also for the Lord Lieutenant of the county, and for Ad jutant M'lnnis. The ground at Calthorpe-park w as efficiently kept by three companies of the Stafford shire Volunteers, under the command of Major Elwell. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 23, i 866. VARIATION OF LIGHT DURING THE effect of a dull summer evening, whereas on the pre- ECLIPSE. sent occasion this odd, unearthly light was co + existent with apparently full sunshine. After the TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • time of greatest obscuration, and as the moon tra- SIR,—For the purpose of examining some of the yelled off the sun, a rapid large brightening of the light results of the eclipse more carefully I went this da y took place. At 3h. lm. 305., the " e dark sp to Carshalton, to study the effects of the veiling of was again centrally uncovered, and at 3h. 28m. 335. the sun upon the landscape, and to measure by my the lunar limb was just half off the eastern remain photometer the diminution of light, in the same ing spot. After this the clouds, which had more or manner as I did at Blisworth at the last great less been scattered over the heavens all day, began eclipse of the sun. to close rapidly over the sun, and consequently the The day for the country was lovely in the ex- moment of emersion of the western spot, and also treme, light clouds broke the monotony of the sky, that of the last contact of the limbs of the sun and and the first and last contact and contact with the moon, were impossible to be observed. The lati spots on the sun were most distinctly seen. tude and longitude of my observatory may be taken I made three sets of observations with the pho- at 51 deg. 0 min. 58s. N., and 17.55. east (or fast) tometer, one upon the clear sky, as near the zenith of Greenwich.—l am, sir, &c., as passing clouds would permit ; a second upon a WILLIAM NOBLE. spot a little above the horizon to the north; and a Forest-lodge, Maresfield, Uckfield, Sussex, third upon the illumination of the earth's surface. July 20. The most interesting feature connected with the veiling of so large a portion of the sun's disc was the apparent limitation of diffused light. This characteoistic began to be decidedly apparent about 25 minutes after the first contact, and the appear ance of the landscape was greatly altered. The I noble trees in Beddiogton Park and the adjoining domains were thrown into outline, and the effect of perspective was diminished. Trees in outline at a distance from buildings apparently touched them, or were placed in apparent contact with other trees a king distance off. This phenomenon was remarked by all the ob servers present, and gradually increased to the period of greatest obscuration, when all the trees ap peared to touch each other, and the under branches lost their green colour and became black. At half past three perspective was again resumed, the trees and buildings apparently regained their normal positions and assumed their usual appearance. During the obscuration a paper mill which had been recently painted white assumed a dull gray colour. The bright yellow green of the walnut was altered in colour, and there was an absence of that bright reflected light from every object which it was so peculiarly the province of the genius of Turner to depict. I was most anxious for a cloudless sky to obtain the law of the diminution of light in the sky by an extensive series of observations during an eclipse, but this day fate ordained otherwise, and clouds and mist interrupted the series, which nevertheless was fraught with interest. The light of the sky near the zenith dropped from 11 to 7.25, when it rose gradually to 10, at the termination of the ob servation. As a consequence of this, diffused light was materially lessened, which contributed to the curious phenomena detailed above. During a great portion of the time the sky was clear over the S.E. horizon, and I found that the light at 3.5, a little after the greatest obscuration had dropped from 11 to 7.50. Upon comparing the amount of illumination with observations made last summer in Switzerland, I found that the light of the sky yesterday, about the time of greatest obscuration, was 1 75 less.than we found it at the grand plateau of snow before the last ascent is made of the Cima de Jazi, at an alti tude of about 12,800 feet, a situation where, after the biting cold of the summit, observations could be made with comfort and ease. From measurements made in the north, a few degrees above the horizon, where a dark elm cut the sky, which was in that quarter clouded during the whole period of the eclipse, the light dropped from 11 to 8 ; but, although this diminution was interesting and confirmatory, the clouds spoiled the observations of the particular knowledge of the light of the sky, which I desired so much to obtain. The intensity of the illumination of grass and dark objects close at hand diminished exactly in the same ratio as the light of the sky, and diminished 11 to 7.25, and the light upon a white painted greenhouse varied in like manner. During the whole of the eclipse a chorus of thrushes were heard at intervals in every direction. Between 2'40 and 2.50 I did not hear one, which might have been an accidental circumstance, as sparrows chirped, martins flew about, swans sailed as usual up the stream. Trout were not deoeivcd by the darkness to come up as they are wont for their evening gambols, and as far as I can judge, the animal creation were not in any way affected. At 2.10 a dark cloud arose in the S.W., the wind freshened and whistled through the trees, and a sensible chillness was felt. This cloud passed away in about 20 minutes, and left the eclipse visible, with but trifling interruptions, till its termination. Until this day my mind has never realised to it self the importance of the sun's disc, but it is now clear that if the rays of the sun emanated from a point instead of a surface, the landscape would be shorn of a great part of its beauty, and would look much as it does when lit up by the electric light, when outlines and black shadows are the leading characteristics. I have never been more delighted than I have been this day in watching the return of the natural appearance of the country after it had been so completely altered, and the image of the wonderful change effected by , the veiling of the sun's an will always remain impressed upon my mind with a sense of the great beauty which is at tributable .to the universal diffusion of light. I am, sir, your obedient servant, ALFRED SMEE. 7, Finsbury-ojrcus, July 18. MILITARY ORGANISATION. The long looked for report of the select commit. tee on military organisation was published on San turday, and occupies over 20 blue-book pages. The committee consisted of Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Lord Hotham, Sir James Graham, the Judge Advocate, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Horsman, Sir John Ramsden, Sir William Codrington, Mr. Monsell, Colonel Wil son Patten, the Earl of March, and Capt. Vivian. The report commences with an outline of the question which the committee had to take under their consideration, viz., the position which the se veral authorities hold towards each other, with re spect to patronage and to the supervision and con trol of the separate departments, the appointments in the army, and the civil arrangements of the dif ferent officers. With respect to the relative powers of the Commander-in-Chief and the Secretary for War, the Secretaries of State are said to hold their seals by patent, during the pleasure of the Crown. They exercise their powers interchangeably, al though, for convenience, particular departments are assigned to each of them. They are the channels which convey the royal pleasure throughout the body politic, both at home and abroad. The coun ter-signature of one of them is necessary to give effect to the sign-manual. Every commission in the army is so counter-signed. The patronage of the Crown, both in Church and State, is administered under this safeguard. To every public document signed by the Sovereign, the signature of a secre tary.of state is appended; and thus, while the So vereign can do no wrong, the responsible adviser of every act is ascertained, and the Minister must an swer for what the Crown has done. Heretofore there has been no limitation is the patent to the powers of a secretary of state; he is removeable at pleasure ; but while he holds the seal of his office he is responsible for the acts of his Sovereign, and admi nisters the royal authority andprerogative which are delegated to him without reserve. It must be re membered, also, that each secretary of state receives the seals of office from the hand of the Sovereign in council ; when he surrenders office he gives back the seals ; but while he holds them, even before the issue of his patent, he is in the enjoyment and full exercise of all his powers. It would appear therefore to the committee that the tenure of his office is by seals rather than by patent. The committee next proceed to notice the prac .. tical working of the present system, more especially with regard to the relative 'position and power of the Commander-in-Chief and of the Secretary of State for War. They say : " His Royal Highneas the Puke of Cambridge was graciously pleased to attend your committee, and gave his evidence with perfect frankness, and in the clearest manner. Lord Panmure,'Gen. Peel, and Mr. Herbert have also been examined ; and on the testimony of these authorities, the highest and the best, a judgment must be formed on the ques tion, whether the Commander-in-Chief be suffi ciently under the control of the Secretary of State for War. Notwithstanding the reservations in the patent, his royal highness amits that, with respect to commands in chief, whether at home or abroad, with respect to the giving away of regiments, and with respect to promotions, the consent of the Secretary of State for War is invariably obtained before appointments of this description are sub mitted to her Majesty. These matters are gene rally adjusted by personal communication between his royal highness and the Secretary of State ' • but if a difference of opinion should arise, which has not yet occurred, his royal highness declares that the decision must rest with the Secretary of State, ' because in the constitutional fornt the Secretary of State would advise her Majesty to take his opinion, and not that of the Commander-in-Chief; and thus the matter must finally come to the deci sion of the Secretary of State, who is the responsible minister.' " With respect to the appointments in the army the committee report : " The question at issue on this head has refer ence principally to first appointments, that is to say. to first commissions in the cavalry and infantry, which constitute the patronage of the Commander-in-Chief. The first appointments in the artillery and engineers are open to competi tion on fixed rules, and the candidates who succeed undergo the test of severe examination. But the first appointments in the cavalry and in the line, either by purchase or by gift, are at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief, who has the sole power of nomination. The qualifications of the candidates are approved by the Secretary of State, and are tested by an examination before admission into the army, whether they pass through the Military College at Sandhurst or not. The extent of this patronage is very great. The appointments to first commissions, from the Ist of January, 1853, to tha 30th of June, 1859, were 3,558_in number. Of TO TI -EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sir,--I attentively - ,noticed the eclipse of Wednes day on Primrose-hill, and my observations differed in some respects so =aerially from Mr. Hind's, made in Regent's-park, th,q,t, although merely taken for my own information, thy may not be unworthy a place in your columns. To determine the temperature with accuracy I had two thermometers of the ordinary kind, made by two different makers, the only appreciable dif ference between them being that one was a little more sensitive than the other, falling and rising with more rapidity. Thermometer in the Shade 2 ft. from the ground. 21 min. after the eclipse commenced, Greenwich time being 20 min. to 2 ' 67 deg. Gradually fell until 11 min. to 3, the period of greatest obscuration At 3 o'clock these 1,996 were by purchase, and 2,825 were given away. Previous to the late war the commissions given way averaged about 60 a year, and there was one year, at the end of the war, in which there were only three. In tbis return first commissions in the cavalry are cot distinguished from first com missions in the infantry. A cavalry commission was at the time more valuable than 'an infantry commission. The regulation price of an ensigncy is £450. Assuming, therefore, that the 2,825 first commissions, given away in six years and a half were all ensigncies only, their money value amounts to the spm of £1,271,250, if sold at the regulation price. But 1854 and 1855 were years of war, and a large proportion of the commissions given away may be ascriLedato the necessary and sudden aug mentation of the army in that emergency; 1857 8, however, was the year of mutiny in India; in con sequence of the raising of second battalions to meet the demands for reinfOreements to India, 686 first commissions were given away in the course of that year by the Commander-in. Chief, the money value of which, assuming them to have been ensigncies only, is £308,700. This is a large amount of patro nage. The Duke of Cambridge says that it is exercised on principles which rest in the breast of the Commander-in-Chief for the time being ; but he adds, 'that commissions are only given away to such persons as are supposed to have, and I think it will ba found in every case that they have some claim upon the country. It would seem, in the first instance, that this exercise of patronage at the Horse Guards is not interfered with by the Secretary of State. There is, indeed, a list of these first appointments sent to the Secretary of State before the names are submitted to her Ma jesty for approval. Sir Edward Lugard, the Secre tary for Military Correspondence in the War De partment, and the immediate channel of written communications with the Horse Guards, gives a full account of this list, and of the manner in which it is treated by the Secretary of State. For the purpose 'of obviating objections as to the large amount of patronage at the Horse Guards, and the number of first commissions given away, the Com mander-in-Chief opened a plan whereby henceforth there should be only one entrance into the army, and that through the medium of a military college. His royal highness is of opinion that this would be the most desirable thing which could be intro duced into the service.' He gave the outline of a plan in great detail, which will be best explained by reference to the evidence and to the questions and anwers specified in the margin. Mr. Herbert, who heard examination hiso pinion oh a f t e h e a v i ds i dvei royalc n e ce g , hv a ei nd gnh by ye h s ts o h, t ed o eD ok cl kr p ee a do r in t ft thatC inam he . Cam bridge was sound, that if it were adopted the whole dispute as to first commissions would be entirely at an end, and that one entrance into the army, through the door of a military college, would ter minate the controversy respecting patronage." With regard to the question of the Commissariat and the Military Train, the committee report at considerable length and go fully into the subject, but their views may be gathered from the follow ing extract : " Sir John M‘Neill's solution of the question, whether the commandant of the Military Trate, or the Commissary in Chief, should in the field have exclusive power over the means of transport is, that neither one nor the other should be trusted with it ;' but that the French intendance' should be intro duced into our military system. Were this view adopted, in addition to the quartgrmastergeneral and the adjutant-general, in the field therg would be a staff officer attached to headquarters, whose special duty it would be to con trol and direct both the Commissariat and the Military Train, under the immediate orders of. the Commander-in•chief. It is worthy of notice that Captain Gordon, the principal mill- Both thermometers marked this, and there was no perceptible variation until 25 min. past 3, when a rise commenced, and at 4 o'clock, 6 min. after the end of the eclipse At 5 o'clock 64 __... _ .. At 6 o'clock At 8 o'clock These results do not much differ from those given by Mr. Symons. But Mr. Hind gives the thermo meter at 20 min. to 2, 70 deg. ; half-pait 2, 69 deg.; at 4 o'clock, 68 8 deg. Yet Mr. Hind himself felt the change in the temperature, although his ther n'iometerfailed to register it; for at 2h. 32min. he records " sensibly cooler." . lam an observer of light, and am conversant with the changes in the landscape created by varia tions of light and of clouds and of mist. I think few better places than Primrose-hill could be found near London for seeing the effect of light during an eclipse, and I agree generally with the observa tions made by Mr. Hind. At the period of the greatest obscuration a mistiness had arisen; the dis tant parts of the landscape were hidden ; Highgate seemed enveloped as if a heavy blight had:settled there; and, although not certain, yet my belief is Highgate church was obscured. For just at this time, the middle of the eclipse, the sun shone clearly—there was a pale yellow light thrown over the tops of the houses in W.S.W. that was beauti ful, but indescribable; and, although different, yet it somewhat resembled a brilliant moonlight effect on a,clear August' evening, and the study of this extraordinary effect occupied most of my attention. I therefore disagree from Mr. Symons, and think the effect upon the landscape different from and far beyond any mere diminution of light, and that the action of the sun's rays so greatly lessened, with the sun so high in the heavens, was wonderful to behold.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM RAY SMEE. St. Edmund's-terrace, Regent's-park, July 20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I am induced to forward you the accom panying details of the eclipse as seen from this observatory, inasmuch as they possess some interest in connection with those of Mr. Hind, published in your impression of Thursday. The first contact of the moon's limb with the sun took place at lh. 40m. 455. local men time. The advancing limb of our satellite was exceedingly rugged, four high mountains being very conspicuous as she came on to the solar disc. It is a curious fact that the moon appeared to have the effect of stilling the undula tions of the solar limb at the points at which she cut it. Mr. Hind's large dark spot was centrally bisected at lh. 57m., and soon afterwards the ad vance': of the moon disclosed a regular sierra of mountains to the south of those already seen. At 2h. 37m, 495. the moon's limb was centrally over the westernmost of the two remaining large spots, whence it, steadily advanced, and covered the east spot centrally at 2h. 46m. 2s. For some time after this the effect of the sunlight as seen with the naked eye was remarkable; a dimness and dulness of a lurid tint seemed to overspread the landscape, Some th ingof the sort might have been produced by a dense veil of mist covering the sun ;, but the continuance of sunshine, and the sharpness of theshadows thrown by posts, rails, and trees, at once must have shown, even to a person ignorant of the eclipse, that this curious diminution of light had no reference to any merely atmospheric cause. The effect of comparative darkness was very considerably more striking than on the occasion of the larger eclipse of March. 15, 18 58, as on that day the dense impenetrable nimbi only conspired with the obscured sun to give_the tary storekeeper at Woolwich, has arrived at this same conclusion from different premises. He, too. served in the Crimea as ordnance storekeeper, and from his experience at Balaklava and at head-quar ters before Sebastopol, he is of opinion that a supe rior officer should be added to the staff abroad, who should control all the civil departments of the army, both the commissary-general and the store keeper. When he is reminded that the French system is very like this, he says, that it is much better than our own ; but it did not strike him at first in that light, though on reflection he sees the resemblance. Your committee beg to direct seri ous attention to this sugg.stion. It bears directly on the causes of the zufferings of the British army in the Crimea." The committtee find great fault with the man ner in which the accounts of the War Department are kept; in fact, it would seem that they are al most in a hopeless state of confusion, and his state of affairs is more complicated by the recent trans fer of the expense of the Indian army to the Crown. The committee says : " The state of the aceoant between the British Exchequer and Indian territory is most unsatisfac tory. The account for the Persian expedition is not yet closed. The account of the first China war is hardly yet completed. The account of the second China war, which ended in 1856, is not yet balanced. THEE WALKERINGHAM MURDER. There are four or five different accounts still open, with disputed balances to a large amount ; and with respect to the new expedition to China, India, in the midst of great financial difficulties, has been required to make advances in the current year for all expenses incurred in taking up transports in India, in paying the men, and in providing cattle, horses, and other necessaries, as well as equipments for the army. In the estimate for the China vote of credit, laid upon the table of the house, these ad vances are now included ; but while Indian terri- At the Nottingham assizes, on Friday, John Fenton, blacksmith, was charged with the murder of Charles Spencer, at Walkeringham, on the 6th March. The prisoner, who pleaded not guilty, is a well-made and rather good-looking man of middle height. He preserved a calm and almost uncon cerned demeanour throughout the whole pro ceeding. The facts, as stated by the learned counsel for the prosecution, and as they were sub sequently elicited in evidence, were as follows ; The deceased, Charles Spencer, was a cattle dealer living at Walkeringham, a village about 12 miles from Retford ; the prisoner was a blacksmith and publican, of the same village, and was a cousin of the murdered man. On the 6th March, the . deacesed was at Gainsborough market, and be tween 10 and 11 o'clock at night, he crossed over Walkereith Ferry, on his return home, having previously received a considerable amount of money. At this time Mr. James Henderson, a farmer, and his son, and also the prisoner John Fenton, and James Fenton (no relation) were with him. The two Fentons walked on first, and James Fenton walked with John as far as the door of the latter, when he left him, and proceeded to his own home: Henderson and his son accom panied Spencer to within a short distance of his house, and from this time the unfortunate man was never seen alive again. The reports of two pistols were heard directly afterwards by the vil lage schoolmaster, who also heard a cry of " For God's sake, what are you going to do ?" The schoolmaster looked out of his window, but seeing no one, he got into bed again. Early in the morn ing the body of Spencer was found lying in a ditch, surrounded by a pool of blood. Two bullets were lodged' in his head, his throat was cut from ear to ear, and his fob pocket was empty and turned in side out. The scene of the horrible crime was in the centre of the village, within a stone's throw of the church. Opposite was a barn called Gamson's barn, and from two footprints by the side of one of the buttresses of this building, it was evident that here the assassin had lain in wait for his victim. On the horse road near the place where the body was found, were picked up a couple of discharged pistols, a hat, an umbrella, and a stick. The evidence which connected th e prisoner with the atrocious crime was purely circumstantial, and was very remarkable. A witness, who, more than 20 years ago was apprenticed to the prisoner's father, stated that during his apprenticeship the old man gave him a pair of pistols to clean. Find ing a difficulty in unscrewing the barrel of one of them he placed the pistol-stock in a vice between two halfpence, and in this wlty effected his object ; but in one of the halfpence there was a dent, and the protuberance on the other side made a dent in the stock for which he was soundly scolded. The circumstance remained impressed on his memory, and on hearing of the murder he communicated the fact to the police. On one of the pistols found near the body of the murdered man, a precisely similar dint was discovered, and the maker's name exactly corresponded with what the witness remembered to be the name of the makers of the pistols he had cleaned. Bullets of the same size as those extracted from the head of the murdered man, and caps of the same number as that upon the nipple of one of the exploded pis tols, were found in Fenton's possession. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to death. tory is overwhelmed with debt, it will be unseemly 1 , that Great Britain shoull, make war on China out : of Indian resources. The repayment of these ad- vances ought to be prompt, and within the present financial year." The committee, whilst speaking of the different arsenals, incidentally refer to the position which Sir William- Armstrong holds with the Government. They say "The gun factory has-been mentioned, and it is necessary to call particular attention to the evidence of Sir W. Armstrong ; 3,000 men are now employed at Woolwich exclusively in making guns on Sir W. Armstrong's principle, and under his superin tendence. Sir - William is the paid servant of the Government. receiving £2,000 a year; he has also received £6,000, and his salary is to be continued for seven years from the present time. It appears that the Armstrong guns are of a construction so peculiar, and so much depending on the mode of putting them together, that it would not be safe to contract for them in the open market. The conse quence is, that they are made at Woolwich only, excepting a supply under contract from one single factory, and that factory is at Elswick. The effect of this exclusive supply is to give a close monopoly to the Elswick factory. The construction of these guns is a very refined process. The putting together requires to be very carefully done. Mr. Anderson, Sir W. Armstrong's assistant at Woolwich, deposes, that 'if these guns were made by contract, it would be necessary to have some inspectors constantly at the place where they were made, to see that they were properly put, together; no inspection, after they had been put together, would be satisfactory.' Yet these guns are made by contract at Elswick. They come up from Elswick to Woolwich, put together. There is no Government inspector at Elswick to watch their construction, but Sir W. Armstrong says that the guns are manufactured at Elswick under his own inspection, and that he goes down there continually, But at Woolwich also there are 3,000 men at work under his superintendence, and he admits at Elswick he inspects guns made by his own partners in a neighbouring concern. Sir William Armstrong is well worthy of confidence, and has acted generously towards the public by the free surrender of his patent rights, but he is placed by these arrangements in a false position ; he can not watch two great concerns distant from each other more than 300 miles; he ought not to be the inspector of the work of his own partners, although the guns are proved on their arrival at Woolwich by an artillery officer. This large and • exclusive manufacture of Armstrong's guns is pro ceeding on the assumption that they are proved to be the best. But Mr. Anderson admits there would be a difficulty if Mr. Whitworth's guns were proved to be better. Mr. Herbert says ' that when Arm strong's guns were first adopted, he had no com petitor ; and if we had waited until the great ques tion should be decided what is the best possible gun to be made, it would not in this year, nor will it be in next year, that we should commence to make that which other nations have got, and which we should then be without.'" With regard to the question—How is the army to be governed P—the report says : " Earl Grey recommends a board, with a Cabinet Minister at its head, but not the Secretary of State. He seeks to restore the supreme power to the Secretary of State for War and Colonies. This board would be a new experiment. It undoes all that has been done. It throws aside all the advan tages of growing experience and improved practice which the last five years have not failed to afford. Instead of concentrating responsibility, it redis tributes it. The machinery of boards is known to be cumbrous and uncertain in its operation. It only works well when the head of the board acts as if he alone were responsible. A board, therefore, would be a retrograde measure which your com mittee cannot recommend. A council is a board in a modified form, and the same, objections apply, though in a less degree. Mr. Herbert has given a scheme for reorganising the War Department. He proposes that there shall be one commander-in chief, as at present, a parliamentary under-secretary two permanent under-secretaries, one of whom shall . be a military officer, and also an assistant wider secretary. A director of ' materiel,' an officer of artillery, to superintend the manufacture of all warlike stores. An inspector general of fortifica tions, an officer of engineers, as at present. A mili tary officer to overlook the commissariat, the cloth ing and all stores not called ' warlike stores,' to be called director of supplies. A director general of the medical department, as at present. A storekeeper-general, as at present. A commis sary-in-chief, as at present. An inspector of militia, and volunteers, reporting to the parliamentary under-secretary. .An accountant-general, having charge of the finance.. The scheme thus proposed would secure an infusion of new military blood into the War Department, which would give vigour to the system, and confidence to the army. The Sec retary of State would have around him professional advisers, whose opinions he might consult, either separately or' collectively, according to his view of the exigencies of each' case. On the whole, your committee are of opinion that this scheme proposed by Mr. Herbert has the merit of reducing change to the minimum, while it promises an increase of real efficiency. Mr. Herbert has also declared it to be his opinion, if one or more of these military heads of departments had seats in the House of Commons, the public advantage would be great. When the Secietary of State is a civilian unaided and unsupported by military colleagues in the House of Commons, he is exposed to serious diffi culties,. and his administration of the army is inade quately defended. When he speaks on military subjects, his authority is questioned; when he an swers professional questions, it' is known that he retails the opinions of others rather than that he is pronouncing his own. His position in the House of Commons would be far different if he had by his side a colleague, a soldier of distinction, at all times ready to sustain his answers, and to uphold his authority. With reference to any difference that might arise as to the relations between the Secre tary of State for War and the Commander-in- Chief, your committee cannot do better than refer to the memorable observation of the Duke of -Wel lington. He thus sums up his evidence before the commission of military inquiry in 1837 :—"fhere can be no doubt that the officer at the head of the army, if he wants to incur any expense, would na turally go to the Secretary at War, and know from him whether he has any objection to incurring the expense proposed. He must know that if it be not approved by the civil authorities of the army, such • expense will not be voted in Parliament, and will not be allowed. On the other hand, if the Secre tary at War should think that any expense which was incurred ought to be discontinued, he would naturally inquire from the Commander-in-Chief whether he thought sach expense might be discon• tinued without inconvenience to the service, That is the way in which business is generally transacted. There may be such a rale as that referred to; but I have never myself tholght rnuch of such rules; they must be departed froze alien the service renders a departure from them necessary. These can be but general rules, as landnarks by which the official arrangement of the service ought to be conducted. The heat rule is the mutual good temper and for bearance of the paetle6. 7 " ASSIZE INTELLIGENC'E. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, JULY 21. The commission for the county of Sussex was opened in this town on Friday afternoon, and on the following morning business was proceeded with at ten o'clock, Lord Chief Justice Cockburu presiding on the Crown side, and Mr. Justice Blackburn at nisi prius. The entry of causes is rather large for this place, there being four special jury and seven common jury cases to be disposed of. On the Crown side there are 27 prisoners, and among the charges are one of murder and three of manslaughter. Two of the latter, the charge against Mr. Hopley, the schoolmaster, at East bourne, of causing the death of one of his scholars by brutal treatment in the shape of flogging, and the case of Mr. Bull, a surgeon, who is charged with causing the death of his mother by negli gently administering to her an excessive dose of prussic acid, appear to excite very great interest. The other cases in the calendar are of the ordinary description. The Lord Chief Justice, in his charge to the grand jury, in reference to the charge of murder, said it appeared to him from the facts stated in the depositions, that the only course they could pursue 'in respect to this case, was the painful one of re turning a true bill, and the only other cases to which he considered it necessary to direct their at tention were two charges of manslaughter of a rather peculiar character. The first of these was the case of Thomas Hopley, a schoolmaster, who was charged with the manslaughter of one of his scholars by beating him, and he would shortly state to them what the law was in reference to this case. By the law of England the right was given to a parent or a schoolmaster to administer correc tion to a child, and although many persons might be of opinion that it was injudicious under any cir cumstances to resort to personal violence, and that it was much better to make use of those kind influ ences to which youth was so susceptible, still the law undoubtedly sanctioned the use of personal correction. At the same time, it was required that any punishment inflicted upon a child by a parent or schoolmaster should be of a moderate and reasonable character, and if there was any excess, or the punishment was inflicted with rashness and anger, and fatal consequences resulted, the party by whom such punishment was inflicted ren dered himself amenable to the law, and was guilty of the offence of manslaughter. They were not there to enter into any speculative discussion as to the propriety or impropriety of resorting to cor poral punishment in such a case, but must deal with the case as it stood, and the only questions they were called upon to decide were, whether the prisoner was proved to have inflicted punishment of a moderate character, and such as would be inflicted by a reasonable man upon a child, or whether it was inflicted in excess and with anger and violence, and that it was the cause of death; in which case it would certainly, in law, be unjustifiable, and the prisoner would be responsi ble. The law did not permit a parent, much less a person to whom he delegated his authority,' as was the case with a schoolmaster, to make use of exces sive punishment to a child, and it death resulted, both were amenable to the law. With regard to the facts, it appeared from the depositions that the punishment was continued for a long period, and that it was inflicted with a rope and a stick, which were not the ordinary instruments of punishment for children, and the grand jury would, of" course, take this fact into their consideration when the matter was before them. The material question for them, however, would be whether it was proved that the punishment inflicted upon this child was inordinate and improper, and that it was the cause of death, and if this was established by the evidence it would be their duty to return a true bill. The other case of manslaughter to which he considered it necessary to advert, was a charge against a surgeon, named Bull, of having caused the death of his own mother by negligently administering to her an improper dose of prussic acid. In this case, which was undoubtedly • one of a most pai n f u l character, the only question for the consideration of the grand jury was whether there had been such criminal neglect on the part of the person accused as would render him criminally respon• sihle,'and he would observe that mere inadvertence or oversight would not be sufficient to bring him within the scope of the law, but they must be satis fied that he had been guilty of gross and culpable negligence or rashness before they would be justi fied in returning a true bill. If this were not clearly established it appeared to him that the grand jury ought not to add to the misery which the circum stances must necessarily have occasioned to the un fortunate prisoner by causing him to be placed at the bar to take his trial upon such a charge. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, July 21. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) ACTION FOR SEDUCTION. The Court has been occupied nearly the whole of two days in trying the cause of 'WOOTTON V. SHAPE, It was an action brought by a timber merchant at Bloxwich against the defendant, son of a farmer and late publican, a relative by marriage of the plaintiff, to rcover damages for the seduction of his daughter Hannah. This case.has been tried before, when the verdict for the yeaintiff for 150 was re: turned, but the defendant had obtained a rule for a new trial. The evidence is too voluminous in detail, but the following is a brief summary of the facts :—ln the beginning of December, 1858, the defendant went to lodge at the house of the plaintiff, who has eleven children. Hannah, the subject of this action, was at that time 15 years old, and according to her evi dence, on the 22d December she was sleeping- in a bed alone, her younger sister Jane, who usually slept with her, being unwell, when her father came to see the girls, and the defendant acoompanied him. Next night, as they were at supper, the defendant drew her some beer, after drinking which, she became very drowsy, and fell asleep immediately on going !o led, She was awoke by finding dcfm4dant in bed with her, and in the very apt of pommitting the offence. He after wards threatened to kill her if she told any nne, [Aava:rts - glniNll—Eolloway's Ointment and Pills. — Indisputable Pacts.--4ho merits of these remedies have been and are acknowledge) in both hemitiphres, and few would presume to impugn the experience of the whole woad. Testimonials fron all parts vouch for their effi ciency as cui.e../404. Tie Ointment soon displays its ' virtues in overcomi n c, abscesses, swellings of the Joints, enlargement of the glaals, cutaneous eruptions, oro, 41pers, and in allayi ng inflammation and pain iu ileums? tidnt and pal, It heal s by c l eans i ng all animal lipids with which it come s i n 1 1 01.1 let, end promotes a sound and permanent cure. It retrieves all obstructions to the fr . ep circulation through the minutest vessels, and repairs mis., phiof by constantly securing pure blood. The Pills effect (fent:44lli What the Ointment accomplishes locally. , and it seems she never did tell any 'ono until a fortnight before her confinement, on the 20th August following. After this she put the chest of drawers against her bedroom door, and although on several occasions she heard Jahn come to the door he could not get in. He once offered her a silver thimble, and some of his late wife's clothes if she would leave the door open for him, but she refused. The girl was severely cross-ex amined as to her knowledge of a medical student named Walter• Green. She positively denied his ever having taken liberties with her, or put his arm round her waist. The girl's evidence was cor roborated in several important points by her sister Jane, and by her father and mother-in-law. The defendant's answer to the action was a com plete contradiction of the evidence brought forward for the' plaintiff, and an allegation that Walter Green was the father of the Young woman's infant. Snape contradicted in detail every averment of Hannah Wootton. He denied that he had ever drawn any beer for her, or put any drug in beer for her as suggested ; that he had ever entered her bedroom as deposed to by her; that he had ever offered her a silver thimble, or any of his deceased wife's clothes; that he had ever threatened her, and decidedly he denied that he had ever had connexion with her. The defendant admitted that he had had two other children fathered upon him. In one case he had paid £2O to the mother, and in the other he had paid a weekly allowance. He brought forward a witness, named Theed, who described himself as an accoucheur, and who swore that one night at the end of October, 1858, he saw Hannah Wootton and Walter Green in an indecent position together in a field near Wootton's house. He called to Green, "Walter, this is too bad ; come home and attend to your business." Green was an assistant to Dr. Somerville, with whom Theed was also living. One question in dispute was as to how long the mother had gone with child. Dr. Somerville co'i sidered it an eight months' child, and Mr. Theed and Dr'M'Bride believed it to be a full-grown child, as also did the nurse. Several witnesses swore to having seen Green and Hannah Wootton together. • His Lordship's summing up occupied an hour and a half, and the jury were in consultation about 20 minutes, when they returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £250. A QUA TIC S. THE GRAND NATIONAL REGATTA. The delightfully fine,yveather of Saturday after noon, the favourable state of the tide, the facilities of reaching the scene of action by railway, and the rich promise of first-rate sport, combined to pro duce an assemblage of many thousands of persons of all conditions at Putney to view the conclusion of this great aquatic meeting, which, despite the greatness of the undertaking, has been well got up and carried out. The sports commenced at a little after 2, and continued till after 7 in the evening, much punc tuality being observed by the umpires' crews, under the direction of Mr. S. Salter, boat builder, Oxford, who had the discharge of this onerous duty. Tin CHAMPION FOUR-OARED RACE ; OPEN TO THE WORLD. FINAL HEAT. 'The Thames Crew, Putney .. 1 The A. P. Lonsdale Crew, Manchester and Tyne.. 2 The Lord Kilmorey Crew, Newcastle. . 0 THE THAMES CREW. 1. Thos. Pocock, Lambeth 3. Thos. Whit e , B e rmondsey 2. Joseph W I ise, Kew H. Kelly, Fulham, stroke William Peters, Wandsworth, coxswain. THE MANCHESTER AND TYNE. 1. J. G. Taylor 13. H. Ault 2. Thomas Matfin Matthew Taylor, stroke T. Harrison, coxswain. THE NEWCASTLE CREW. 1. John Henry Clasper 3. Robert Ch am b ers 1 2. Edwin Winship . Henry Clasper, stroke Robert Clasper, coxswain. The result of a close inspection of the rowing in the trial heats on the previous day had only served to confirm the opinion previously expressed of how evenly the crews were matched. The Claspers were, however, taken for choice, anti next to them the Lon doners. Every provision was made by the com mittee to have this race especially well managed. Mr. Casamajor, the Amateur Champion of the Thames, was appointed to start them; Mr. T. S. Egan, of the University of Cambridge, to accom pany them as umpire up the first half of the course in an eight-oared cutter; and Mr. Bottle, of the Leander Club, and Mr. Woodbridge, one of the winners of the pair -oared race at Henley, to finish, in another eight, the pace of the fours being so great as to require this arrangement. The Londoners had won the choice of station on the Middresx side, which might be deemed a length in their favour. Outside in the Surrey station, and decidedly the worst berth, were the Manchester and. Tyne men, the Newcastle crew being in the centre. The boats all being exceedingly even at the Putney Aqueduct bridge, Mr. Casamajor gave the word " off," and it was promptly obeyed by all, rather faster in motion by the Londoners than the others. In the course of six or eight strokes the Newcastle men began to draw a trifle, but in the next half-dozen they were for an instant again level, all going at a tremendous pace. The Londoners, to be well clear of the steamer and committee barge, slanted a little over to the southward, and when level with the others, opposite the Star and Garter, made a desperate spurt by which their boat was placed in advance of the other two by above a quarter of a length. 'The rowing of the Manchester men, with their bad station, was admirable, and as they neared Finch's the Londoners and Manchester both had the bows of their boats before the Newcastle men, the Londoners, with a third of their length, the Manchester with about four feet. At this juncture the Londoners and Newcastle had their beams much nearer than at the time of starting, and the tip cf one of the Newcastle oars, which it is sup posed had passed beyond the button through the row-locks just touched one in the London boat, and then the coxswain of the New castle boat, in pulling the yoke-line to prevent a foul with the Londoners, did it so sharply, thet the boat sheered right on to the Man chester men's quarter. At the instant of the trifling touch alluded to of the Londoners' boat the crew, with a dozen desperate strokes, shot her full half a length ahead, and when a momentary pause ensued consequent upon the foul of the Manchester boat the Londoners jumped away three or four lengths. The Manchester men lost no time in getting away from the Newcastle, and went in pursuit of the Londoners, the Newcastle crew protesting and leav ing off their labour for a short time, and only again resuming it formally to row the distance. The Manchester men Towed with amazing velocity up to the Crab Tree, where they had regained some thing like a length of the lost ground, but the Lon doners were still well ahead, and at Hammersmith bridge led by at least three lengths. After this, although they rowed in the most gallant style, the Manchester fell a length more astern at the finish at Chiswick Eyot. Immediately after the conclu sion of the race both the Newcastle and the Man chester crews laid their respective cases before the committee, the former maintaining that they were not the parties to blame in the foul, and the latter complaining that they had been sorely prejudiced by it, and soliciting that the race should be re-rowed, as they were in no way to blame. The answer to the Newcastle men was that they were disqualified, as they had caused the foul and were disentitled to a place, and consequently to the third prize of £lO, but the committee, in consideration of the distance they had come, the cost to which they had been put, and the fact that the foul was purely the effect of accident, made them a present of the £lO which they had forfeited. The application of the Man chester men to row again against the Londoners could not be entertained, as contrary to the rules of the regatta committee, the London ers b e i ng in no way implicated iu the foul, which must be sincerely re gretted by every lover of the sport, as it deprived two gallant crews of the opportunity o f see i ng whether they were were not superior to the fortu nate Londoners. PAIR OARED RACE, OPEN TO THE WORLD. Final Heat. R. Chambers j 1 Newcastle E. Winship G. Hammerton 1 Teddington G. Francis John Mackinney Thomas Mackinney J. } Richmond J. G. Taylor 1 Newcastle ... 4 • M. Taylor Tne winners of this race divided, in many in stances, the favour of the public with the second pair and the Taylors. They were a long time before they fairly got off from their extreme anxiety to have any fair advantage that presented itself. At length they dashed away, the winners with a good lead. When Hammerton and Francis got well to their work they began to leave the Mackinneys and Taylors, and gain upon the leaders a little; but the latter went further in advance. Again the Ted dington men tried a very spirited spurt, with the view of changi ng th e f o rtune of the day; but the Newcastle men were too good for them, and th e Mack inneys so little the worse that they gained upon them very much towards the end, the ra ce finishing by the winners having a lead of four o r five lengths, and the Mackinneys only being a b out a length in the rear of the second boat. The Tay lors wepa considerably astern, but had for a time rowed the Mackinneys hard. The race was rowed down from Hammersmith at a very fine pace. WATERMEN'S SCELLERS RLD. RACE, OPEN T O ALL THE WO Fourth Heat. it will be found on reference to our last that three LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN G, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ti. 'Sun Office, No. 117 : Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the couutY of Middlesex, Monday, July 23, 1860. previous heats of this race were contested on Fri day. G. Hammerton, Teddington F. Kelly, Fulham 0 In the commencement of the race Kelly made good play, but, unshipping his skull while leading, was outrowed by Hammerton, who won as he liked, Final Heat. George Hammerton, Teddington G. Everson, Greenwich Thomas Pocock, Lambeth Edward Bell, Richmond Pocock, in startiL - ig, had a trifling lead, but soon lost it, rowing too much over on the Surrey side. The steerage of all the rest was remarkably good, especially when it is considered all were rowing scull and scull. At the end of 300 yards the winner came away, and ultimately had the race quite in his hands. Then commenced a glorious struggle between Bell and Everson, neck and neck for a mile, till Bell was thoroughly beaten, and then Pocock rowed by him into the third place, and came in close to Everson. WATERMEN'S APPRENTICES, IN OLD-FASHIONED BOATS, FOR A COAT, BADGE, AND FREEDOM AND OTHER PRIZES. The following are briefly the results : First Heat. C. Joyce, Rotherhithe E. Wright, Bankside . .... o H. Styles, Isleworth 0 .. . F. Jury, London-bridge .•••• .., 'Second Heat. S. Short, Bermondsey .. J. Wallemer, Tower H. Cole, Chelsea R. H. Pope, Wapping Third Heat. H. C. Goddard, Tower .. ...... ... 1 A. Madam, London-bridge .. ...... 0 C. Riley, Rotherhithe 0 - -- Fourth Heat. C. Brown, Rich mon d S. Townsend, Greenwich • 0 H. Taylor, Horselydown.. 0 Final Heat. S. Short, Bermondsey C. Brown, Richmond C. Joyce, Rotherhithe 3 H. C. Goddard, Tower ST . GEORGE'S7IIIT-TILE-BA S2'. • There was an impression prevalent throughout the parish of St. George's-in -the-East, and not con fined to that part of the metropolis, that the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, would yesterday have taken leave of his parishioners, the assumption being that it was the last Sunday on which he would appear among them prior to his temporary retirement from his cure. The attendance at both the morning and evening services was therefore more than ordinarily large, especially in the evening, when at least 1,500 people were present, a great part of them, as usual, strangers to the district. Mr. King, however, did not preach on either occasion. He took part in the morning service, reading the prayers, but was not present in the evening. The lessons in the morning were read by the Rev. Martin Amphlett, of Church Lench, near Evesham; Mr. Dove intoned the Litany and preached; and the service, according to the customary jargon, was full choral. It proceeded. without interruption until Mr. Dove, who is especi ally obnoxious to a large number of the parishioners, began the part , allotted to him, when he was occa sionally assailed by sneers from the Low Church party in the congregation, who expressed their feelings in a manner still more marked when he ascended the pulpit. At least a score of them rose from their seats and left the church, some slamming the doors after them, and denoting by their manner a strong sense of contempt. He paused for a few miautes until this little exodus was over, and then proceeded with his discourse, which had at least the • rare merit of brevity, for it lasted barely a quarter of an hour. The congregation then quietly dispersed. Throughout the evening servi ce th e p ar t y spirit on both sides was more than usually fierce, though it did not express itself in any ac t o f violence. The responses were shouted on the one side and chanted on the other in a manner outraging all sense of de corum, the savage and vindictive feeling of the Low Church partisans in particular displaying itself to an extraordinary extent. The sermon was preached by Mr. Amphlett, who had taken part in conducting the morning service, and, though the manner of the rev. gentleman was exceedingly calculated to win. respect, as was the matter of his discourse to arrest and sustain attention, a number of thoughtless people in the gallery of a low class gave way more than once to a ribald laugh, and also sought to interrupting him by loudly stamping the floor, not withstanding that the aim of the sermon was to guard the audience against deferring repentance to the closing stage . of life, which he urged with affectionate earnestness and solemnity. At both services Mr. Rosier, the person who played a con spicuous part at that of the previous Sunday morn ing, and has since figured in the police-court, was present, hut his 'conduct gave no trouble to the authorities charged with maintaining order and decorum, and there were scores of people who behaved yesterday evening with far greater indecorum than ever he did. From 12 to 20 of the divisional police were posted over the church during the evening service, under the direction of Super intendent Howie, and Inspector Allison; and 50 more were held in reserve in case of need, at the stations in' King David-lane and Arbour-square. In the novel and difficult duty assigned to them the police have acted during the last eight or ten months with moderation and good temper. That they failed to preserve order within the church was no fault of theirs; but it can scarcely be doubted that their presence there tended to restrain the crowd from acts of open violence, and in this respect they have done a great public service. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEICESTER—Jury 21. There was hardly an average supply of wheat to-day, in fair condition, and trade dull. White wheat, 58s to 618 —red, 568 to 59s per 36 stone; a moderate inquiry for barley, grinding, 34s to 36s • malting, 40s to 46s per qr. ; oats, 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 50s to 525, new 428 to 46s per 38 stone. In most districts wheat is pro gressing rapidly, and the crops are good. Fine flour, 43s Seconds, 39s Thirds, 29s per 20 stone. NORTHAMPTON-JULY 21 At this corn-market wheat was in middling supply, ulth a rather better trade, at higher rates than this day se'nnight, ranging from 55s to 69s for white, and 53s to 56s for red. There was a dull business pa...sing in barley, malting 38s to 445, grinding 35s to 37s per qr. Oats in steady sale and prices well maintained, quoted at 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s -, peas, 42s to 465. Rye, 36s to 40s; malt, 68s to 725; flour, 33s to 37s per sack. NORWICH-JuLy 21. To-day's market was only thinly attended, and the wheat trade was still in a most inactive state. Prices, however, advanced is to 2s. White wheat. 60s to 65s Red wheat 56s to 60. Malting barley....42s to 46s Chevalier barley 34s to 40. Distilling do.. ....25s to 27s f Oats.. 24s to 28s Flour, 41s to 42s Od per sack from the miller. CAMBRIDGE—Juix 21. There was a limited supply of wheat, and, with an active demand in the trade, white moved off at .55s to 57e, red, 52s to 55s per 36 stone. There was a small trade in barley to-day ; malting, 34s to 40s ; grinding, 30s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats at 24s to 28s for new ; old oats, 28s to 298: Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale —new, 40s to 44s ; old, 44s to 46s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 89s; red, 46s to 508 per qr. STAMFORD—JULY 21. We had a small supply of wheat at yesterday's core market, which met a fair sale, and last week's rates were exceeded is to 2s per qr. Barley, oats, and beans about former rates. Wheat 54s to 60s I Oats.. ......... ..27s to 32s White do ..56s to 61s I Beans . . .... ..46s to 483 Barley ....34 8 t o 36 s I Ditto, old ••.46s to 483 —JULY 20 : if home grain to-day. Fresh ;orn is to is 6d cheaper, and DUBLIN. There was a small supply c oats advanced 6d. Indian c rather more business doing. N . d. a. d. a. d. a. d. _. 0 , Wheat, white 33 oto 3 0 Do., new ... 4. ,o 0 Do., red 3l oto 33 0 Bere . ........ 13 oto 14 0 —0 to 0 Rap Do, new Bark Oat s -- Dd., black l5 oto 15 6 Indian coin. .. 37 oto3B 6 BIET R 8. CAPEL.—On the 20th inst., at Higham Hill, Waltham stow, the wife of James Bury Capel, Esq., prematurely of a daughter, stillborn. KITCHING.—On the 20th inst., at 14, Devonshire-place, the wife of the Rev. Walton Kitching, of a a n. STORMONT.—On the 20th inst., at 9, Upper Grosvenor.. street, the Viscountess Stormont, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. FLETCHER—SMITIL—On the 19th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Carteret J. H. Fletcher, Esq., eldest son of Jno. Fletcher, Esq., of Boughton Hall, to Agnes Wheeler, second daughter of Robert Smith, Esq., of Richmond. MOO RE—BoLLINs.—On the 19th inst at the parish church of St. Michael e Belfrey, York, Henry Moore, Esq., of Berners-street, London, to Mary, eldest daugh ter of Robert Bollans, Esq., of York. DEATHS. BADDELEY.—On the 21st inst., Hester, the wife of Mr. T. Baddeley, of 48, Leeman-street, Goodman's-fields, and 38, Glocester-terrace, Mile-end, solicitors. ROBINS.—Qn the 19th inst., at Hagley-hottse, Stourblidge, Wm. Robins, Esq., aged 93. SETON.—On the 18th inst., at Paris, Wiltmot Seton, EA.; of the Treasury, and 16, Somers-place, Hyde-park, age 47. Straw.—On the 12th inst., at Alton, William Shaw, Efic late of 1, Kensington-park-te rrace , Notting-hid, age' 58.