The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The directors of this company recommend to the proprietors a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum for the half year ending 30th June last. 31ETROPOLITAN. The half yearly meeting of this company was hehl yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. J. Parson in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has aPPeared in our columns, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said he did not propose to detain them very long ; the re port was short, and he hoped they deemed it satis factory. In the first p a ragraph of the report they were told that the net available balance for interest and dividend was £71,612. Some gentlemen had complained that the dividend was not more than 7 per cent. They brought a balance of £7,777 into the present account, which had been principally derived from profit on the sale of new shares ; that and other items had been brought into the account of the previous half year. The additional sum they had to pay dividend upon in the half year ending the 31st December, 1864, was £90,000 for about three months (11,575), while during the past half year they were enabled to pay dividend on £202,500 more share capital at 7 per cent. per annum, and to carry forward a balance of £3,400 to the next ac count. They ought certainly to consider that satis factory. The net traffic receipts on the line from the commencement had gone on. ncreasing. For the half-year ending June 30, 1863, the net receipts amounted to £15,212 ; ending Dec. 31, 1863, to £26,366 ; ending June, 1864, to £34,500 ; ending Dec., 1864, to £36,275 ; and ending June 30 last to £41,158. They had reduced the fares in Feb. last between intermediate stations, and the result was that the number of intermediate passengers in the month of June last was 45,846 against 16,004 in the month of June, 1864, showing an increase of 29,842 passengers. The receipts were £l3B against £B3, and he thought that a great improvement. Although he had fixed the fares himself he could not help thinking that the fares might be reduced with advantage to the public and the shareholders. They had during the construction of the works to maintain their present dividend, and afterwards would do what they could to increase it. The loco motive charges had been heavier, but at the same time they had increased the train mileage and had largely increased the receipts. The receipts per train mile and per passenger had remained nearly at the same figure, although they had run more trains over the same length of line. They carried an average of 162 passengers per train last half-year against 163 passengers per train in the correspond ing half-year, and the receipts per train were 31s. id. against 30s. 7d. for the corresponding period. The working eipenses, including rates and taxes, and passenger duty, were 41 per cent. against 40 per cent. of the receipts in the corresponding period of last year. From the mode of signalling the trains on the metropolitan trains there never could be a colli sion, but there might be other accidents. They were now relayingthe permanent way with steel rails of the best quality. Trains might be run over their line a intervals of only two minutes with safety. In the half - -year ending June, 1864, there were 1,297 trains per week ; in the half-year ending December, 1864, 1,646 trains per week, and in the half-year ending the 30th of June last 2,190 trains per week were run. The general manager (Mr. Fenton) be lieved they could safely run four times the present number of trains, and, therefore, the Metropolitan Railway was fully equal to the exigencies of the traffic. They found that 1,997 trains had conveyed 201,905 passengers over the line, and that those trains could have carried 440,000 passengers. In June last 2,190 trains carried 330,904 passengers, but could have accommodated 744,600 passengers, so that the present trains could carry double the existing traffic. The increase in the number of trains had brought a corresponding increase in the number of passengers on the line. They had made a call of £2 10s. per share on the extension capital, which would produce £115,000 to carry on the works in the current half-year. In the past half-year £202,000 additional share capital had come in for 7 per cent. dividend, and in the current half-year the call of £115,000 would increase that £202,000 to £317,000, upon which in the next half-year they would have to pay the 7 per cent. dividend. They had nearly formed the junction with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway at West-street,where the works had been delayed by law proceedings. Bat they were not going to open that junction at present. By November next they would be able to run trains from Herne-hill to Hammersmith. They intended to work their line in harmony and good fellowship with all their neighbours. They had made agreements with contractors for completing , the eastern and western Metropolitan Ex tensions. They would not proceed with the Eastern Extension beyond Bishopsgate-street until the Metropolitan District Railway Company were making their portion of their line from the Blackfriars to Tower-hill. The works on the Extension lines would cost about £1,033,000, and the remainder of the £2,500,000 of capital would be sufficient to pay for the land and other matters. The interest incliided 5 and 6 per cent. for capital during construction, so that no charge for the capital expended on the Extensions to Brompton and the Tower would come upon the Metropolitan Company for three years. All the financial arrangements had been completed. The St. John's-wood Railway Company had raised its capital, and they were told that the Metropolitan District Company had also made arrangements for the works and providing their capital. This, with the Metropolitan Extensions, would complete the 4‘ Inner Circle" Railway, and he believed it was in tended to carry on the works of all these under takings as rapidly as possible. (Hear.) The LORD MAYOR seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. In reply to questions it was stated that the ex tension line to Finsbury would probably be opened for traffic in November next. The company was now widening the line between Farringdon station and King's Cross, for the Great Northern and Mid land traffic, and they were also making a branch line to the Midland Company's new station. They had no doubt of maintaining the present dividend of the Metropolitan Railway, notwithstanding the increasing amount of share capital that would come in for dividend. They would have three additional stations on opening the line to Finsbury, and if those stations produced £4OO a week each, which was the average of the other stations, they would have £ 36 ,000 a-year net, the £25,000 a-year they would receive from and 6 the Great Western, toge ther with rents a t 5 th r is r i eent. on the cost of lands and station s ; ee 7 tropolita n would th have ample funds to conti nue per cent. divi dend on the whole share capital, and when the goods and other traffic came upon the line, the 7 per cent. would be incre ased. It was estimated th a t the total capital of the main line and extension of the Metropolitan Railway would be about £.5,400,000. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, d e . daring a dividend of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares, and at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock and new ordinary shares of the company for the past half-year. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. EAST LONDON. The first general meeting of this company Was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. Halves in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the company's bill had re ceived the royal assent on the 26th May, and the directors had every reason to believe that the state ments in the prospectus would be more than justi fied. It had been shown that low fares and a short line in populous districts produced more profit than high fares on long lines in less populous districts. There was a prospect of an enormous traffic, and the cost of the line would be very moderate, considering the district it passed through. The Thames Tunnel had been secured at a very low cost. The line would pass through the London Docks at a fixed cost for compensation. He then moved that Majors William Hawes, L. Acland, Col. J. S. Brownrigg, Messrs. J. 8 ' 'Barker, Wm. Cargill, J. Childs, H. Chubb, J. HEREFORD, HAY, AND BRECON. A special meeting of this company was held yes. terday at• the office, Bank-buildings, Lothbury— Mr. Banks in the chair. On the motion of the chairman ; an agreement for the amalgamation of this company with the Brecon and Merthyr Junc tion Railway Company, and for the regulation of the borrowing powers, transfer of shares, &c., of the two companies, was confirmed and adopted. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN. The report of the directors states that the rent of the railway for the six months, £13,000, had been received froM the Irish North Western Company by weekly payments, less income-tax. To that sum was added £42, the balance from last account, and transfer fees, making £13,042. From this was de ducted the cost of conveyances and land and office expenses, and the interest on loans from Government, and on debentures, amounting to gether to £4,376, leaving a disposable balance of £8,666, out of which the directors recommended that dividends at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum be paid on the 21st instant on £3,062 B Stock ; also the dividends at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the £31,850 Stock A ; and also the diiidend at the rate of 5 per cent., together with 1 per cent. oh account of the arrears, making 6 per cent. per annum, on £247,737 stock B, leaving a balance of £2OO. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 15th July amounted for local pas sengers to £6,561, for foreign passengers to £3,243, for emigrants to £430, for mails, &c., to £829, for local freight and live stock to £9,810, and for foreign freight and live stock to £2,757—t0ta1, £23,630, against £23,410 for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £220. The total receipts from the let January to the above date amounted to £50,291, against £51,448 in the same period of 1864, showing a decrease of £1,154. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's paddlewheel vessel Vivid, Staff- Commander Sulivan, tender to the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, yesterday left the harbour for Ports mouth and Osborne, to embark the Royal Family and Court on their return to Windsor early next week, to take the place of the paddle yacht Alberta, Staff Commander David N. Welch, tender to the Victoria and Albert, ordered to Woolwich to receive her Ma jesty and suite, for embarkation at that port to join the royal yacht at Greenhithe on Tuesday, the Bth inst., on her departure for Germany. The authori ties of Woolwich Arsenal have issued orders that the public shall be admitted to witness the Queen's em barkation on the Bth inst. from the Royal Arsenal- pier on Tuesday next, on being provided with tic kets to be granted for that purpose. The royal train will arrive at the foot of the T pier in the Arsenal, from Windsor, as at present arranged, at half-past 5 o'clock on Tuesday, when her Majesty will step on board the Alberta, and embark at Greenhithe for Antwerp. On the occasion of the visit of the Board of Admi ralty to Chatham Dockyard a few dip since, their lordships had arranged to see various deputations from the workmen in the yard, chiefly on the subject of an increase of pay. Owing, however, to the limited time at their disposal only three deputations were received by the Board. It was then arranged that each deputation should forward a memorial to the Board setting forth any.alleged grievance. The whole of the memorials have accordingly been trans mitted to the Board. Already an order has been received at the dockyard increasing the wages of the workmen employed at the cement works. The Cornwallis, 60, 200-horse power, which has been lying idle _in the Medway for a number of years, has been removed into dock for the purpose of having her machinery taken out and her upper deck cut down, in order that she may be sunk atthe machinery Dock yard for workingend Th of the do c ky ar d pier. th ius e t l c 2 o - m to p u leteclatChatham3oo-pounder u guns wit h which the Belleroptkon, 16, 1,000-horse be armed, constructed from t fl designed by Mr. E. T. Reedh wase drawings and models from the factory engine -fitting yesterday removed shop to the Bellero phon, on board which it is now being put up, prepa ratory to some experimental trials being made to as certain whether the invention will work. The first of the 300-pounder guars has already been received at Chatham from the Royal gun factory, together with the carriage and slide', the latter together weighing five tons. The weigl tt of each of the 300-pounder guns and its fittings i, ; therefore between 87 and 18 tons ; and, as it would: be impossible to manoeuvre and train such monster ordnance in the ordinary manner—that is to say, with blocks, ropes, and handspikes—Mr. Reed accomplishes this by some ingeniously contrived mechanism, arranged be low the gun-deck. Four men, who are placed behind the gun, can train. it and the gun-carriage in any direction by means of two wheels, which exactly resemble the ordnary steering apparatus. The work of fitting the machinery on board was commenced yesterday tvider the superintendence of THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEAING, AUGUST 3, 1865, G. Frith, P. Graham, and A. Smee be the directors of the company. The motion was unanimously carried. Messrs. Brownrigg and Stansfield were appointed auditors. The secretary's salary was fixed at £5OO a year, and the proceedings terminated with avote of thanks the chairman. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. The half-yearlymeeting of this company was held yesterday at Derby—Mr. H. Tootal in the chair. The report stated that the directors proposed to declare the usual dividend of ls. 4d. per share for the half-year ending the 30th of June. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report was adopted and the dividend declared. It was stated that the lease of the line to the Midland and London and North-western Railway Companies had six years to run, and that the prospects of the railway were good and improving every half-year. PETERBOROUGH, WISBECH, AND SUTTON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Parliament-street ; Mr. Cary in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that the bill for the branch to Crowland had received the Royal assent, and the line would be speedily completed. With respect to the main line from 'Peterborough to Sutton, the works had made good progress, and there was no difficulty anticipated in opening the line for traffic during the ensuing autumn. The report having been adopted, the proceedings terminated. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. The report of the directors states that the amount of capital on the 20th of June last, on which divi dend or interest was paid out of revenue, exclusive of leased lines, was £20,677,839. The expenditure charged on capital for the past half-year had been £275,327, including £149,866 on new lines. The revenue account for the half-year showed that £1,012,344 had been received, against £986,057 for the corresponding half-year, showing an increase of £26,287. The disbursements amounted to £432,731, against £404,372, showing an in crease of, £28,359. The balance of revenue applicable to the payment of dividend on the ordinary stock of the company was £337,072, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 5i per cent. per annum, less income tax, carrying forward £4,498. The uncertainty as to the supply of cotton from America had hitherto prevented the complete revival of the great staple trade of Lancashire. The working expenses showed an increase over the corresponding half year, arising principally in the cost of fuel, repairs, and compensation, and this, coupled with an in crease of £13,905 in the fixed charges on capital, at present unproductive, accounted for the diminution in the dividend of a quarter per cent. for the past half-year. It had been a source of regret to the Board that Parliament rejected on the second read ing the bill for authorising the company in conjunc tion with the Great Eastern Railway Company to make a railway from Askern to the Great Eastern near Cambridge. Capt. Tatham and the other officials, and to-day, should the other arrangements be completed, the large gun will be shipped on board in readiness for the experimental trials to be made previously to the remainder of the machinery for the other guns being completed. The Arethusa, 35, 500-horse power, Capt. R. J. J. Cr. Macdonald, one of the screw frigates which will compose the experimental squadron, is still de tained in the Medway in consequence of the defects discovered in some portion of her machinery, as already described in The Sun, and it is probablethat some'days will elapse before she will be able to pro ceed to join the Octavia and the Constance, the other vessels of the•squadron. A careful inspection of her machinery has led to the discovery that her condenser tubes are defective, and these have been taken out, and are now undergoing the necessary alteration and cleaning. A full report has been made to the Admiralty of the defects discovered in the machinery of the Arethusa, since her last break down, together with the names of the officials who certified her as being fit for sea. The 68-pounder Palliser guns are lying at the Ordnance Wharf in Woolwich Arsenal, awaiting transport to Portsmouth for the purpose of under going a test of continuous firing on board the gun nery ship Excellent, Captain Astley C. Key, C.B. This is the first issue of these guns for service, and their trial is in consequence looked for with considerable interest. It appears that the old 68- pounders only last on the average about 300 rounds, and that it is necessary that these guns should be condemned and replaced by new ones when this number of rounds has been fired. The ex pense of replacing such guns, more especially those on foreign stations, has been found, it appears, by the returns, to be a heavy item in the estimates. The guns which are now about to be reissued had been rendered unserviceable in this manner, one gun having fired 351 and the other only 219 rounds. They have since been converted on Major Palliser's method, and it is expected that their new lease of endurance will extend over 1,500 or even 2,000 rounds, according to the proof already attained. The first week in September has been _named as the period when the French was expected at Ply mouth, but the Mayor of that borough, Mr. Nor rington, has received a communication from Paris which states that the period is uncertain. The fleet will first visit Portsmouth, and that visit will be made some time in August, probably towards the close of the month. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Armand G. Powlett, to the Arethusa ; Dr. Alexander Armstrong, to be Deputy- Inspector-General of the Royal Marine Infirmary at Chatham, vice Kinnear, superseded ; Mr. John King, to be Staff-Surgeon of Chatham. Dockyard, vice Gunn, retired ; Huston Maxwell, surgeon, con firmed in rank ; Joshua P. Courtenay, Leonard Lucas, and Robert Purves, assist.• Burgs. additional, to the Princess Royal ; John S. Barry, assist.-surg., to the CuMberland, as additional ; William Roche (a), assist.-surg., to the Indus ; Frederick F. Flyn, assist.-surg., to the Victory, for Haslar Hospital ; John B. Inglis, assist.-paymaster, and Herbert H. Jollye, clerk, to the Princess Royal, for disposal ; and John Maclaurin, assist.-clerk, to the Fox. velope, exploded without difficulty. An opinion which had been let fall by the Commander-in- Chief, at the experiments conducted in his presence, to the effect that the invention would not only be useful in protecting gunpowder from danger of explosion, but also from the effects of damp, was likewise practically tested. Some of the mixture was placed in a glass vessel, which was filled with water, and allowed to stand till the close of the ex periments. The water was then thrown out, and upon examination the damp was found to have affected the mixture to the extent of little more than a quar ter of an inch in depth. The gunpowder, when sifted out in the usual manner, yielded at once to the action of fire. From the character of the attend ance it was to be expected that the merits of the in vention would be canvassed ably and critically. Opportunities for discussion were, moreover, created by the showers, frequent and severe, which inter rupted the experiments more than once, compelling the spectators to withdraw to the shelter of some sheds that fortunately were near at hand. Mr. Gale met all the objections put to him in the frankest spirit, expressing anxiety that the matter should be fully discussed, and that the nation should not be led too hastily to the adoption of a system which he nevertheless believed to be of incalculable value. The objection which appeared to be most strongly urged was that the great increase in bulk which must take place to enable gunpowder to be carried or stored with safety upon Mr. Gale's prin ciple would form a very serious practical drawback. This, however, he contended, was a difficulty more apparent than real, since the cost of carriage would be vastly diminished by his proposal. At present gunpowder can only be transported from place to place at exceptional rates and under the most stringent regulations. Render it inexplosive, and therefore innocuous, and it will take its place at once with ordinary merchandise. The case of munitions of war stands, perhaps, on a different footing. Instances may arise where time or facilities for sifting the gunpowder would be inadequate in actual conflict ; and, probably, Mr. Gale would not deny this. But, according to his contention, we are not always at war. It is on one day, perhaps, out of a thousand in her existence that a frigate now-a-days requires to have her magazines open, and her guns shotted in anger ; and if, mean while, secure storage and facile transit can be exchanged for the dangers that now exist and surround us, ashore and afloat, two very appreciable advantages will be gained. It is certainly remark able that so valuable a secret—if its inventor should succeed in establishing in . its favour all the recom mendations that at first sight it appears to possess —should have fallen to the lot of one to discover in our own day who is suffering under the sad priva tion of loss of sight. Years, centuries before Marcus Graccus, our own Roger Bacon, or the great Domi nican, Albertus Magnus, speculated, or copied one another's speculations, as to the uses to which salt petre might be applied, the Chinese possessed at least a rudimentary acquaintance with gunpowder ; and its use was forbidden in the most sacred insti tutes of the Hindoos. But the efforts of the Chinese, of the Arabs, who carried their knowledge to Europe, and of the Greeks, who probably received it, were all directed towards rendering the agency as destruc tive as possible, not to the more humane object of surrounding its existence with safeguards. Of late years, indeed, it has been vaguely imagined that some substances might be mixed with gunpowder, but they have always been till now substances such as sand, which by its ready absorption of damp is entirely unsuited for the end in view. SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.—CnOYDON, Aug. 2. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) Thomas Jervis, 43, the prisoner who was convicted on Tuesday of unlawfully wounding Mr. Moss, a Scripture reader, at the Woking prison, where prisoner was confined under a sentence of six years' penal servitude, and who made such an extraordinary statement with regard to the treatment of the convicts in that establishment, was brought up for judgment...- The prisoner, who, as was stated in our report yesterday, is evidently a man possessed of considerable ability, ad dressed the Court, and said that on the previous day the learned counsel for the prosecution had made a very serious charge against him, and accused him of having on two occasions stabbed warders in the prisons where he was confined. He did not know whether his lordship in tended to give any effect to that statement in the sentence he was about to pass, but if he did, he hoped he might be allowed to make a few observations in explanation, and inform his lordship what were the real circumstances. Baron Pigott told the prisoner that he had been con victed of the offence of unlawfully wounding, and he in tended to pass a sentence upon him for that offence alone, and without reference to any other matters. The prisoner said as this was the case he would not oc cupy his lordship's time any further, but would leave it entirely in his hands. Baron Pigott then said that the jury had found the prisoner guilty of the offence of unlawfully wounding, and upon the evidence it was quite clear that they could not have come to any other conclusion. It appeared that he had been a convict since the beginning of the year 1849. The Prisoner—l beg your pardon; my lord. Not since 1859. The learned Judge, resuming his address, said it appeared that, with very short intervals of three and six months, he had passed the life of a convict since the year 1849, and he had been originally sentenced to twenty years' transporta tion ; and in 1862 he was again convicted and sentenced to six years' penal servitude, and was undergoing that punish ment when be committed the offence of which ho had been now convicted. He had, therefore, served a long appren ticeship as a convict, and had been in several convict establishments. He had on the previous day made a state ment which was calculated to create a feeling in the public mind that convicts were subjected to ill-treatment, and he appeared to entertain the opinion that convict prisons ought to be merely places of retirement for persons who were tired of their vicious course of life. He and others in his position must understand that this was not so. Con vict prisons were intended to be places of punishment, but the prisoner did not seem to think that this was their object. He appeared to have imagined that he had some ground of complaint, either well or ill-founded, against the medical officer of the establishment, and that ho had armed himself with a knife, and with this instrument he stabbed a man who, he admitted, had never given him any offence, and who he himself described as a good man and a good Chris tian, and said had always treated him kindly. Such an offence as this could not be passed over without severe punishment, and he thought the jury; had taken a very merciful view of his conduct, when they found him guilty only of unlawfully wounding. He was bound to pass a sentence of five year's penal servitude, but he should direct that the sentence should date from the present time, and that the effect would be that he would have to undergo an additional period of punishment of three years at the expi ration of his former sentence. The prisoner said ho was extremely grateful to his lord ship for the kind attention he had given to his case, and for the leniency with which he had dealt with him. Baron Pigott advised the prisoner to conduct himself properly in future, and he would then regain his liberty and have an opportunity, if he thought fit to do so, of be coming a respectable member of society. The prisoner assured his lordship that he would do his best to act upon his good advice, and he was then removed. • MIDLAND CIRCUIT—You .S, Aug. 2. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Henry Hughes was indicted for the wilful murder of Francis Coates, at Middlesborough, on the 28th of July. Mr. Mania and Mr. Hannay cond ucted the prosecution ; Mr. Campbell Foster defended the prisoner. The deceased man Coates was a moulder, 23 years of age, and about midnight on the 27th of July went in company with a man named Lindsay to the King's Head publichouse in Middlesborough. The house, however, was shut up, and Coates and his companions were refused admittance. At that moment it happened that the prisoner was passing along the opposite side of the street, in company with a woman, with whom he was going in the direction of the Albert-bridge. Both the prisoner and the woman were rather tipsy, and Coates and his companion followed shouting after them. When they arrived at the arch of the Albert-bridge Coates was still following the prisoner and the woman, and was continuing to annoy them. The pri soner thereupon turned round, and going up to Coates stabbed him twice in the abdomen with a large claspknife about six inches long in the blade and with a dagger-guard. Coates fell and died in about three hours. Upon cross-examination it was elicited that the prisoner was in the company of the woman for an apparently im moral purpose, and that the deceased had formed one of a party of six or eight young men who had followed the pri soner, jeering at him. It was attempted to be shown that stones had been thrown at the prisoner, and that he was surrounded and thrown on to his knees before the fatal blows wore struck, but this the witnesses entirely denied. There was also the dying declaration of the deceased, in which he denied that he had thrown any stone at or struck the prisoner. The defence was that . the crime amounted to man slaughter, and not to m ur d er . ilia Lordship, in Ouusruing up, pointed out to the jury that if a man knowing what he was about caused the death of another from the use of a deadly weapon that was murder, unless there was anything in the attendant circumstances to reduce the offence to manslaughter. Where the intention to kill was shown by the use of a deadly weapon there must, in order to reduce the crime to manslaughter, be evidence of personal violence to the prisoner, or, at any rate, of a reasonable apprehension on his part that it was about to be offered. If stones had been thrown at the prisoner, or if he had been surrounded by these young men in a threat ening manner, the offence might have been reduced to manslaughter; but there was no evidence of either these things having taken place, and mere jeering was not suffi cient provocation, when the intention to kill was so clearly shown by the weapon used and the nature of the wounds as it was in the present case. The jury retired and, after a short deliberation, returned into court with a verdict of guilty of wilful murder. His Lordship, having assumed the black cap, observed that the irritation produced in the prisoner's mind by the thoughtless conduct of the deceased and his companions could not justify the use of a deadly weapon, and it was impossible for the jury reasonably to have found any other verdict. He hoped that this case would be taken as a lesson in this part of the country, where the use of the knife was but too common. His Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner listened with an unmoved• countenance, and at the conclu sion said, " Thank you, sir, I hope there'll he a judge and jury over such a jury as them." NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—CAMBRIDGE, Aug. 1. ' NISI PRIUS COURT. (Before the Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) JENNINGS V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. In this case Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Metcalf ap peared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Markby for the defendants. The plaintiff, who is the well-known trainer at Newmar ket,and an owner of racehorses, attended the Lincoln Spring Meeting with threehorses,and three ladsinattendar.ze upon them. On the last day of the races, Saturday, Feb. 25, he went to the station at 9 in the morning to make arrange ments for the conveyance of his horses by the regular 6 p.m. train back to Newmarket, via Peterborough, and retained a horse-box for that purpose. The horses were sent down to the station soon after 4 in the afternoon, the plaintiff follow ing and taking a ticket for them. He then took a first-class ticket for himself and third-class tickets for the three lads, and to obtain these third-class tickets was obliged to produce the ticket for the horses, it being the rule of the railway to grant third-class tickets for boys to travel in the horse boxes on those terms only. In due course the horses were put in their boxes, together with the attendant boys ; but, as the traffic that evening was very heavy, the railway officialsresolvedto send the first and second class passengers on in one train, and to forward a special train after it to carry the horses and their attendants. The plaintiff's evi dence showed that he only heard of the train being divided a few minutes before the portion in which he travelled started, and that he thereupon produced the tickets for the horses and the lads and then put them in his own pocket. As soon as the first part of the train was gone, the other part, consisting of the horse-boxes, was brought up to the platform, and the boys in it were required to show their tickets, which they were unable to do. It appeared that there were about 25 of them in the horse-boxes, and of these one-half were interlopers who had not had tickets taken for them. The railway officials turned the boys out with some roughness, and afterwards locked them up in a room for being saucy. The horses were sent on without the boys, and in due course arrived at Peterborough, when the plain tiff, who had been informed by telegram of the detention of his boys, was obliged to hire men to attend his horses to Newmarket, as it was dangerous for them to travel alone. One horse (not belonging to the plaintiff) being described as having arrived in his solitary box at Peterborough roar ing like a lion. The boys could not get in from Lincoln in time to arrive at Newmarket before Monday, and as two of the plaintiff's horses which had come from Lincoln—Grace Darling and Gloriette—which were to have run the fol lowing Tuesday at Nottingham required gallcping at New market for a trial, owing to the detention of the boys who should have ridden them, not only in the trials but at Not tingham also (for Mr. Jennings had no other boys of the right weight), he had to pay forfeit, and therefore now claimed £7 7s. for forfeits and entrance fees. He was also obliged to engage men to accompany the horses from Peter borough to Newmarket, which extra cost, as well as the ex penses of the boys during their detention and the £7 7s. above mentioned, he now sought to recover. This was in the main the plainiiff's case, and was proved by himself, his boys, and other witnesses. On the other hand the conten tion of the defendants was in substance that on a crowded I railway, at a particularly busy time, the company found, which does often happen on these occasions, that, there were interlopers in the horse-boxes with the lack; them selves, some of whom had no tickets, and all of whom on being asked by the porters to show their tickets refused to do so, and said they were travelling with their master's horses. Mr. Jennings himself, it was urged, in addition to taking tickets was bound to produce them when called upon by the company, and his not having done so was a breach of his part of the contract with the company. In support of the defendants' case the superintendent of the Great Northern Railway at Lincoln was called, who de posed that the custom of the railway was to make the boys in the horse-boxes produce their tickets, andthat directions were given to theproper officials to see to that on this occa sion ; and in addition to him two or three of the porters and officers on duty were also called to prove the facts urged on behalf of the defendants. After Mr. Keane had summed up his evidence, and Mr. O'Malley had very briefly replied, His lordship summed up the case, and it was arranged that a verdict should be taken for the plaintiff on the fifth plea and on all the material issues for £5 125., leaving being reserved to the defendants to move that the verdict on the fifth plea be reversed if the court should say there was no evidence authorising the jury to find for the plaintiff on that plea, and there was evidence authorising them to find for the defendants upon it. The fifth plea set out thatpar ticular bylaw which requires every passenger to obtain a icket, to show it when required,and to deliver it up before Leaving the company's premises. Enormous Robbery from an United States Bank. CAPTURE OF THE ROBBER IN LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. It is some what singular that whenever anything like a " big robbery" takes place in the United States, if the robber evades the law in his own country, he generally makes for the Mersey. A case of this kind has just occurred. On the 22d May last the Townsend Savings Bank in Newhaven, Connecticut, was robbed of $lOO,OOO by one of the confidential clerks, named Jeremiah Town send. On the evening of the robbery Townsend requested to be allowed to stay in the office, as he was desirous of posting up his books. The money was lodged in an iron safe, which was opened and shut by one of the celebrated combination locks. Townsend by some at , present unknown means managed to secure the "cipher" and keys from one of the head clerks of the bank, and in the course of the evening he must have opened the safe, abstracted his booty, and "made tracks." On the discovery of the robbery the excitement was intense, and information was at once sent to all the principal cities of the States and Europe. Several weeks elapsed, but no traces of the robber could be obtained until June 16, when it was discovered that a draft of in debtedness for $5,000 had been negotiated at Drexel's bank, Philadelphia, it being presented by a man named Ryan. Ryan was communicated with, and it was found that he came into possession of the draft honestly enough. He stated that when on his way from Pittsburg to Cincinnati he became acquainted with a man named Strawbridge (an alias of Townsend's), and went with him to Savannah. On leaving Townsend there the latter gave him the $5,000 note to go to Philadelphia with and get cashed for gold. Ryan was then to go to Newhaven and give the money to a young lady at that place, telling her at the same time to take the steamer and meet Townsend at St. Thomas's, while he (Ryan) was to proceed at once to Liverpool to take apartments in the Queen's Hotel, at the place where they were all to meet. Townsend having left Havannah for St. Thomas's, information was given to Carlin and CaLlanau, the Philadelphia detectives, who at once, in company with Dr. Townsend, one of the directors of the bank, proceeded to Boston, where they caught the Cunard steamer China on the 19th ult., and arrived in Liverpool on Saturday morning last. Here they ascertained that the Shannon,one of the West India mail steamers, had reached Southampton that morning. There was no time tolose ; sounder assumed names the Yankee detectives went and took apartments at Queen's Hotel, but Dr. Townsend, frOm a matter of pru dence, was placed in private apartments. On Saturday night, about half-past 10 o'cicck, on the arrival of the down train from London at the Lime-street station, Townsend jumped lightly on the platform, and after making some in quiries from the porters, proceeded to the Pelican Hotel, on the Islington flags, close to the station. The lynx-eyed detectives, however, were on his trail, and watched him to the Pelican. He made arrangements for lodgings for the night, and after some refreshment, sauntered down to the Queen's Hotel, and inquired if a Mr. Ryan was there. Re ceiving an answer in the negative, he proceeded unmo lested back to the Pelican, where he passed the night in peace, and quiet, we presume, little dreaming what was in readiness for him in the morning. In the meantime the assistance of two Liverpool detectives, Horne and Car lisle, was procured, and early on Sunday morning the four detectives were on the qui rive. As soon as the doors of the Pelican were thrown open Carlin walked in, whilst the others were conveniently placed. A few minutes be fore breakfast Mr. Townsend made his appearance, when he was confronted by Carlin. Townsend placed his right hand behind his back, but before he could do mischief he was secured by the other detectives. On being searched a loaded revolver was found in his coat-pocket, and on other parts of his clothes $42,000 in notes. His luggage was next examined, when a second loaded revolver was discovered, besides $56,000 in gold and a quantity of jewellery. There being no mistake about the young gentleman's identity, he was safely and well cared for until this afternoon at four o'clock, when he and his custodians, on board the steamer Etna, sailed away for the "Land of Liberty." What has become of the "young lady of Newhaven" and the $5,000 . in gold we know not. Mr. Gale's Gunpowder Experiments. These interesting experiments, having for their object to show how gunpowder can be rendered non-explosive, and yet have its explosive properties restored at pleasure, were repeated yesterday at Westminster in presence of a distinguished com pany. They have been already performed at Devon port in presence of Lord Templetown, Admiral Fanshawe, and a number of other military and naval officers of distinction assembled for the pur pose ; at Mount Edgecumbe, in presence of their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Wales ; at Wimbledon, on the grounds of the National Rifle Association ; before the Secretary of State for War, and afterwards, by the noble Lord's desire, in pre sence of the Ordnanoe Select Committee at Wool wich ; at the French Embassy ; and on Tuesday last in presence of his Royal Highness the Commander in-Chief, the Quartermaster-General, the Adjut.- General, and other heads of the military profession. The invitations to witness the experiments yester day had been issued with the object of niakjng the invention still more widely known, and among those present were the Marquis St. Germain, Attache to the Italian Legation, Sir J. D. Hay, Sir. R. Mayne, Mr. R. Palgrave, Sir Charles Fox, ' C.E.; Admiral Fanshawe, Capt. Hall, R.N., Sir. A. Buller,-AI.P., Sir Malcolm M'Gregor, Mr. Hubbard, M.P., Mr. White, M.P., Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. Barry, Mr. T. Lucas, Mr. Bateman, C.E., Mr. Maclean, .C.E., Mr. Peter Graham, Capt. Shaw, of the Fire Bri- gade, &c. The experiment took place on a portion of the land in rear of the lofty range of buildings just erected in Victoria-street, opposite the. Westminster Palace Hotel. A strong fire contained in a temporary stove of piled-up bricks, and a large wooden table to support the materials about to be experimented with, formed the only appliances iequiSite, except some slow matches, fuses, and a red-hot poker. Mr. Gale, in the first instance, exhibited his own powder, which on former occasions was spoken of in general terms as the protective.mixture, but, having been patented, is now declared to be simply glass ground as fine as possible. He next proceeded to test its qualities when mixed with gunpowder in various quantities. Equal proportions of the ground glass and gunpowder, when placed together in a bowl, went off like a squib ; and nearly the same result followed when the quantity of the separating powder was doubled. As soon, however, as the pro portion had been increased from 2 to 1 to 3 to 1 there was a visible slackening in the amount of combustion, explosion no longer taking place ; and 4 to 1 is stated to be the proportion by weight—though to the eye the bulk infused into the powder looked larger still —at which the mixture may with impunity be sub jected to the action of fuses and red-hot pokers. The general outline of these experiments must now be familiar to the public through the descriptions which have been published ; but yesterday severer tests were resorted to. A good-sized bundle of this diluted gunpowder—if the phrase could be applied to a mixture from which all moisture was excluded — was placed upon the fire ; and, though the paper in which it was wrapped soon burned away, none of the results followed which might have been expected. Instead of a loud roar and destructive burst of flame from the parcel, the fire itself seemed in danger of being extinguished by the dead weight of powder pressing it down ; and it was only herb and there that small puffs of dust flew out between the bricks, when isolated grains of the powder went off, dis gusted as it were with the apathy prevailing around them. This experiment was repeated more than once, and each time with success. Finally, a keg contain ing some pounds of the mixture, which Mr. Gale had previously stirred about with a red-hot poker without producing any other result than great smoke and occasional jets of flame, choked almost as soon as they showed themselves was 'placed upon the fire. But even here the united efforts of the gunpowder and stove proved unable to set fire to the staves of the barrel, so potent is this powdered glass as a fire annihilator. The actual grains of gunpowder in the mixture caught fire and burnt away whenever they were stirred and brought in contact with anything to ignite them ; and two or three times, when Mr. Saunders poured out the mixture quickly from the barrel, it looked like liquid flame. But the power of mischief ended with the consumption of the individual grains. The mass was soon as black and cold as ever. A further experiment, the suggestion of which w as due originally to Lord Bury, was also tried. It is supposed epno that pt i n practice the mixture might not a e r l ee elements e w n i t t s h w sufficient thereforee ci ent care, improperly and th at distributed. To carry out the idea a certain amount of raw powder was placed in the centre of a still larger quantity of the mixture and set fire to. The result was the same as in the case of gun cotton placed upon gunpowder. The highly in flammable material went off in smoke, and the resi due remained uninjured. After each' experiment portions of the mixture which had been exposed successfully to the action of the fire were sifted, and the gunpowder, once withdrawn from its safety en- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—When Voltaire was ordered by the Se nate of Geneva to quit the dominions of the Re public in twenty-four hours, the incorrigible scoffer at all things venerable and sacred replied, " Mag nificent Sirs, it requires only three minutes." It was the first protest of philosophy against the plan, so much in favour among our ancestors, of cutting up a great country into little jurisdictions ; of pro viding not only that justice should be brought to every man's door, but that it should be almost limited to every man's yard. It is astonishing how much trouble we put up with annually in order to conform to the time-honoured superstition which insists on governing England in the time of Victoria on the same territorial principles as sufficed for her in the time of Alfred. When there were no roads, when England was one great forest, when travel ling was beset with all manner of dangers and diffi culties, it might not be very unreasonable to require that causes pertaining to a county should be tried in the county itself ; and this regulation was made even more reasonable by the consideration of the • different offices performed by the jury of those days and the jury of the present time. As in so many other things, we have retained the name, but done away with the substance, of the institution. In those times there was no such thing as evidence. Proof was a thing with which a court of justice had nothing to do. It was assumed that all matters of fact must be matters of notoriety in the neighbour hood, and so a jury was called from the neighbour hood to tell the court of justice whatever it might import it to know. The notion of calling witnesses to inform the jury is quite a later idea. The theory on which juries were summoned was that they knew the fact which it imported the public to know, and it would therefore have been absurd to call any one to inform them ; it would have been like calling a witness to inform a witness. The place of such a person was on the jury, and not" in the witness box. These and other similar reasons made it quite natural to limit the jurisdiction of the Assize Court to the county in which it was held. Civil actions naturally followed the same rule, and the commissions of Justices of the Peace have been framed on the same principle. When any striking incon venience results, the principle admits of modification, but as a general rule it is strictly enforced. The judges who sit in our courts do not sit there in their capacity of judges, but by a special commission di rected to them to hear and try causes unless a higher authinity shall before come to try them. The notion of a Common Law Judge having, by virtue of his office, jurisdiction over the whole country, which has been adopted and acted upon in India and our Colo nies, has not yet penetrated into the mother country. itself. This administration of justice in compara tively small local divisions has many inconveniences and disadvantages. There is the endless collision be tween the jurisdiction of county and borough magis trates ; there is the case of scraps of one county in cluded within the body of the other; there is the case of a justice not being able to commit a prisoner on his own confession, but being obliged to send him often to a great distance to be committed by another magistrate. Still it must be admitted the system has its advantages. It is often convenient to witnesses, and as between county and county it provides, or rather would provide if it were strictly adhered to, that each county shall bear the burden of its own crime and its own litigation, and that the time of its inhabitants shall not be taken up in doing the busi ness that fairly belongs to others. Metropolitan counties have a very considerable grievance in this respect. 'fake, for example, what is just now hap pening at Croydon. The county of Surrey has, no doubt, a very considerable amount of business of its own to transact. Though not possessing many large towns, except the suburbs of the metropolis, it is thickly inhabited, and supplies a very considerable amount of litigation to be worked off from its own resources. It is, however, saddled with a much heavier burden ; it has to bear not only its own duties, but those which are thrown upon it by its neighbourhood to the great metropolis. It would seem that the sittings for metropolitan business are not so arranged as to suit the convenience of liti gants ; they terminate too soon, and the consequence is that the ingenuity of their legal advisers is taxed to find means of trying cases too late for the Lon don sittings, which would otherwise be hung up till after the Long Vacation. The desire is a reason able and a praiseworthy - one, since it takes the direction—which the legal profession are not always supposed to be most eager for—of shortening the prolixity of proceedings. At this Assize, the anti cipations as to the extent of the civil business at Croydon have been very largely verified. The number of causes entered for trial was enormous— considerably larger than the number two years ago. Then the number was 160 ; now it is 186. It seems, however, that people despaired of trying such a number of actions, and so some causes have been withdrawn. But the number is still much larger than has been known for some years past, and 50 of them are special jury cases. Now, it is perfectly notorious that the greater number of these are metropolitan cases, and have been set down at Croydon for the convenience of parties, because there are no more sittings for the trial of causes in London before the Long Vacation. This is a great hardship to the persons forming the jury panel of the county of Surrey. It is hard enough to be called upon to perform the thankless and wearisome duty of juror in cases arising in one's own county, but the hardship is very greatly increased when actions not arising within that county, and of which it is not for a moment suggested that they cannot fairly be tried within it, are removed to a neighbouring county. Why should the county of Surrey be called upon to find jurors, courts, and all the outfit of justice for cases in which her inhabitants have no interest, and which of right belong to other places? The people of Croydon may, doubtless, be well pleased at the harvest which such a protracted session of the Court of Nisi Prius brings to them ; but, whatever they may feel on the subject, the proceeding is not the less unfair to the panel of both special and common jurors. If we are to retain the principle of local division in the administration of justice, we ought to retain it in its integrity. If we are to give it up, we ought to provide tribunals for the trial of cases the construction of which shall not fall exclu sively on particular localities. Our law seems to consider that any case relating to the land can only be properly tried in the district to which the land lies, subject to a power in the Court to alter the place of trial if injustice is apprehended from hold ing it in a particular place. As to cases which have nothing to do with the land, it seems to be thought that people may try them wherever they please, and that nobody is concerned in the matter (1 5 /wept the litigants themselves. This, we submit, is a great mistake. It is upon the jurors that the weight of our judicial system mainly falls ; they are amateurs, while everybody else is acting professionally. The Judge receives an ample salary and a position of much dignity and distinction, and, as he must be at work somewhere, it matters comparatively little to him where. The counsel are engaged in the exercise of their profession. To be employed contents their moderate desire. Give them a brief, a fee, a jury, and an antagonist. A witness is, at any rate, paid his expenses, and, with the present rapid means of communication, it matters to him very little whe ther his time is consumed in travelling from place to place, or in dawdling about the court till his case is called on. But a juror has none of these conso lations—he is summoned to perform a public duty, to bear a burden for the sake of the community, and the community does not take the least care to see that this duty is fairly distributed. Jurors sel dom get their wrongs redressed, because, being summoned out of the public, and falling back into its ranks when their duty is performed, they have no cohesion or rallying point. But they are, of all Englishmen, those entitled to the most considera tion, and it is the bounden duty of the public, which throws upon them this labour, to see that it befairly apportioned among them. POST.—However different may have been the opinions which were entertained respecting the pro bable issue of the American war, whilst the contest still raged, there was at least one point on which all seemed to be agreed. It was supposed that if the fortune of war proved adverse to the Confederates active hostilities would simply give place to a con dition of chronic revolt, and that although the armies of the North might overrun the Southern States they would prove insufficient to hold their population in subjection. This was the general im pression, and even those who were most confident of the military success of the North admitted that they despaired of ever seeing the Southern people once More enter the Union. Nor were the grounds for arriving at this conclusion unsubstantial. In dependently of those political differences which in the first instance induced the Southern States to secede, the events of the war were of such a nature as to excite in the breasts of the Confederates a feel ing of animosity towards their former fellow-citizens which might well appear inextinguishable. The South furnished the battle-field, and its population alone realised in all their fearful intensity the horrors of the war which they had provoked. How ever the contest might terminate, it was confidently declared by every Southerner thit an amalgamation of oil and water was just as probable as the junction of North and South again into one people. The war is now at an end, and although the great work of reconstruction has scarcely been commenced, much less accomplished, we have a fair opportunity of judging how far the predictions of which we have spoken are likely to be realised. The South has been overrun; is it probable that notwithstanding all that has passed the Federals and Confederates will once more constitute a united nation ? A speech has just been made by the provisionally - appointed Governor of South caroliva whiobl taken in connection with the attitude assumed b: the Southern population, may furnish us with the means of judging of the policy which the conquered people probably mean to pursue. Governor Perry, as the nominee of the Government at 'Washington, cannot, although a Southerner, be fairly pointed to as the representative of his countrymen ; but there is every reason to believe that in the speech to which we refer, and which was delivered a few days pre vious to his appointment, he expressed the feelings of a large portion of the Southern population. Speaking of the war, he said no one regretted more than himself the secession of the States in the first instance or felt more bitterly the degradation and humiliation of now being compelled to re-enter the Union. It has always been, even amongst the Con federates, a moot point whether, notwithstanding the known hostility of Mr. Lincoln to slavery, secession from the Union was necessary to secure the protection of their rights, and it is one which, in the necessity of things, can never be solved. What a Republican Government would have done if the Democrats had yielded peaceful submission to its authority no one can tell, and it is now idle to attempt to conjecture. But there can be no doubt that it cost the South a severe pang to separate itself from a Republic of which it formed no incon siderable part, and which, with much apparent justice, boasted itself to be the most powerful and the most prosperous on the face of the globe. Now there is great reason to think that, notwithstanding the history of the past four years, the South is not insensible of the advantages which would accrue from accepting with resignation the lot which is forced upon it, and, by bowing to the irresistible logic of facts, enter with some appearance of wil lingness into the partnership which it is impotent to dissolve. However humiliating and degrading it may be to re-enter the Union, there are many in the South who, as Governor Perry expressed it, " feel that they will be more prosperous and happy in the Union than out of it," and who are conse quently content to co-operate with the Government at Washington. Up to the present the conquered people havemanifested that spirit of passive acquies cence which might naturally have been looked for in a nation deprived of the power of even making the show of resistance ; but when it is 'recollected that the majority were of opinion that even this passive acquiescence could never be extorted from the Southern people, the probabilities of their once more putting their shoulders to the wheel with their hated fellow-countrymen in the North can scarcely be regarded as so remote as they have been hitherto considered. Mr. Johnson, though hardly entitled to the confidence of the Southern people, on the grounds advanced by Governor Perry— namely, that he was originally a Democrat and slave owner, and voted against Mr. Lincoln on the occa sion of his first election, is probably inclined to make large concessions in order to hasten the accom plishment of "the work of reconstruction. The re establishment of the several State constitutions has s been undertaken, and the late " rebels" are cordially invited to assist in the restoration of the local legis- latures. In Richmond some elections have taken place, and the paroled soldiers of General Lee have exercised their suffrages as citizens to some purpose by returning representatives whose hostility to the Government has earned for them the name of Seces sionists. It is of course, no longer a question of secession ; but if constitutional usages are to be re stored in the United States, there is a wide field for the evolutions of a well-organised oppOsition. The South has been conquered, but it is still an open question how it is henceforth to be ruled. The combat between Federals and Confederates and Democrats is about to be recommenced. Under those circumstances it is impossible to avoid feeling that the Southern people are exercising a sound discretion in accepting the consequences of the military success of their late opponents, and once more undertaking the duties of loyal citizens to the established Government. In many respects the South is much better placed than such nations as the Polish or•the Hungarian, which have endea voured in vain• to free themselves from an oppres sive yoke. The Government in the United States is constantly changing, and although in the mino rity at present, the Democrats may once more secure the ascendant. What may be the future of the South it is impossible to say, but it could never be such as to bear even the faintest resemblance to that of Poland or Hungary: Nor is it impossible, or even improbable, that public opinion may change in America in respect to the expediency of retaining the Northern and Southern -§tates in the same Confederation ; and, although unsuccessful in its recent attempt to establish its independence, the South may at no distant period obtain, as the result of an amicable arrangement, that separate political existence to which thousands of human lives have been sacrificed in vain. , In any event, however, the people of the Southern States do well to accept their present lot with resignation, and are wise in endea vouring, by such constitutionalmeans as are afforded to them, to secure respect and consideration at the hands of their former foes. COUNTRY MARKETS LYNN-TUESDAY. About the usual supply of wheat, which sold at quite as little money as last week. Barley unchanged in value. Oats in good request at extreme rates.' Beans firm at late rates. Features and turnips greatly improved by the late rains. The grain crops are progressing satisfactorily. New wheat, 45s to 47s ; new red, 41s to 425; old white, 42s to 43s ; •ld red, 41s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 28s to 323; secondary, 30s ; ordinary, 2s to 26s per qr. Oats, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, large, 38s to 40s ; small, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. SALISBURY.—TuEsDAy. A good deal of rain fell yesterday, but wheat-cutting was resumed this morning. At market the attendance was scarcely up to the average, and the supply of wheat offered was short. Complaints were pretty general as to the blight, and although at Mark-lane on Monday lower prices were taken, wheat was no cheaper here to-day. A sample or two of new wore shown of very fair weight and quality, which, from being the first in the market, attracted some little at tention. Barley, grinding, was almost neglected, but the same figures were asked as before. For oats the inquiry was restricted, but prices were pretty firm. Beans and peas changed hands at previous quotations. A moderate demand was experienced for flour, but full rates were not supported, although no quotable changecan be recorded. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 36s to 46s ; barley, 26s to 30s ; oats, 22s to 30s ; beans, 40s to 48s ; and peas, 345 to 48s per qr. Winter tares, from 8s to lls per bushel ; Best bread, 10d ; household ditto, 9d per 81b loaf. Flour, 28s to 34s per sack. HIILL.-T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair supply of English wheat, which was held firmly at the quotations of this day week. No business done in foreign. Spring corn in mode rate request at full rates, except oats, which were slightly cheaper. English old white wheat, 40s to 47s ; old red, 41s to 435. Barley, chevalier 28s to 325. O a t s , R uss i an, 22 s t o 24 5 . Beans, new English, 41s to 425. Peas, English blue, 35s to 36s 6d ; grinding, 35s to 35s 6d per 36 stone. MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY. - - - ----- White wheat, 44s to 49s ; red, 408 to 44s per 86 stone. Barley for malting, - 328 to 34s per qr ; feed, 26a to 28s per 30 stone. Oats 22s to 30s. Beans, old, 43s to 458; new, 42s to —s per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE—Mo:s - DAY. There has been a moderate attendance at the local markets of this county during the past six or seven days, and the purchases effected were comparatively small. Owing to the daily improving prospects of the crops, the market has not been so firm, and buyers have as a rule de clined to purchase except at a slight reduction on the rates that prevailed a fortnight ago. The genial rain which has fallen to-day will still further improve the crops, andprices are likely to go down again. Foreign wheat has only been in limited request at lower quotations. The following are the average quotations :—Wheat, 4s lid to 5s 6d per bushel ; barley, 3s id to 3s 8d ;oats, 2s ld to 2s 6d. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY. -- Tuesday, Aug. 1, admissions on payment, 5,650 ; do. by season tickets, 984; total, 6,634. Births. BomAM-CARTER•—On the Ist inst., at 91, Gloucester-ter race, Hyde-park, the wife of Henry Bonham-Carter, of a son. RAWLINSON.—On the Ist inst., at Duddon Hall, the wife of Major Rawlinson, of a son. VALENTINE. — On the Ist inst., at Goodwood, the wife of Captain Valentine, of a son. WEST.—On the Ist inst., at Croydon, Mrs. F. West, of a Marriages. PRICE—MYNORS.—On the Ist inst., at Norton Church, Radnorshire, Constance Mary, eld es t d aug ht er o f R . G. Price, Esq., M.P., of Norton Manor, to Thomas Basker vine, youngest son of Peter R. Mynors, Esq., of Treago Court, Herefordshire. BTJCKERIDGE—WEDLAKE.—O n the 2d inst., at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Kentish -town, Walter, second son of the hte Thomas D. Buckeridge, formerly of the 6th (Enniskillen) Dragoons, Esq., to Mary Sarah, fourth daughter of the late Henry B. Wedlake, of the Inner Temple, London, Esq. Deaths. 'BEST.—On the 30th ult., at Thetford, Norfolk, Henry W Best, Esq., aged 58. BROWN.—On the 2d inst., at his .residence, Cavendish place, Brighton, Richard T. Brown, of 4, Adam's-court , Old Broad-street, London, and of Clapham-common. CRAIG.—On the 31st ult., at Bocking, Alice, widow of the late Rev. Thomas Craig, aged 90. GREEN.—On the 30th ult., at Kensington, William Green, Esq., late of Government House, Londonderry, Ireland , aged 72. 11A.m..—On the 30th ult., at his residence, in Scarborough J. D. Hall, Esq., aged 70. LUCAS.—On the 30th ult., in London, suddenly, Phil i p Lucas, Esq., of Temple House, Cheetham, Manchester, aged 69. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDRA , of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Trr. u Sum Office, No / 1* : Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the COituti Middlesex.—Thursday, August 3, 1865. I