The Sun. — London, England, 1867-06-06 00:00:00

Naval and XiMar.? Intelligence, The Commander-in -Chief has approved the an nexed arrangements in connection with the troops at Colchester :—Lieut. Wcstropp, 41st Regiment, to proceed from the depot to the service companies ; Capt. Metcalf, 32d Regiment, to join the service companies in the Mauritius; Capt. Clery, 32d Regiment, to join the depot ; and Sergt. Donnellan, 100th Regiment, to be drill instructor to the Ist battalion North Yorkshire Volunteers. Brevet- Major Edmonstoune, 30th Regiment, has been ap- ' pointed president of the Garrison Sanitary Commit tee, vice Major Jones, Bth depot battalion, relieved. Lieut. Symes, 91th Regiment, has proceeded to Landguarcl Fort, Harwich, to assume the duties of acting adjt. and quartermaster at that station, vice Lieut. Richardson, 36th Regiment. Lieut. Sprout, is authorised to proceed to Walton, Suffolk, for the purpose of superintending the gun practice of the Suffolk Artillery Volunteers. Sir John Pakington, Secretary of State for IVar, accompanied by Capt. Galton, C. 8., Royal Engi neers, Permanent Assistant-Secretary ; Rear-Ad miral Caffin, C. 8., Director-General of Naval Stores ; and Major-Gen. St. George, C. 8., R.A., Director of Ordnance, yesterday went down to Woolwich, and made an inspection of the depart ments of the Royal Arsenal. On account of the very unfavourable weather they drove down in Sir John's private carriage, and arrived at the Arsenal at half-past 11 a.m., an hour beyond the time ap pointed. They were officially received by Col. Boxer, Capt. Majendie, Col. Campbell, R.A., Capt. Molony, Mr. Fraser, C.E., Col. Clerk, R.A., Capt. Close, Capt. Gordon, C. 8., Capt. Duff, R.E., and others, who were all in regimental uniform. The whole party entered the Select Committee offices, where they were received by Brigadier-Gen. Lefroy (pre sident), and after a short conference they proceeded to the Royal gun factories and witnessed the manu facture of various portions of the Fraser gun, re cently introduced as the new service gun for sea and land use. The whole tarty manifested a great de sire to learn the entire process by which so impor tant an economy had been effected in bringing out the " cheap gun," which was explained in detail by Col. Campbell and Mr. Fraser to their apparent satisfaction. They were conducted from forge to forge, at each of which they saw the various modes which the sections and coils of the gun had to un dergo before being brought under the huge Nasmyth hammer to be brought into proper shape ; and, finally, they saw the method of welding the coils to form the tube, and transpose the whole into a solid and combined mass, completing the gun in a rough state, which was then left to cool. They thence proceeded to the planing and boring mills, and wit nessed a comparison of the metals used in the old and new guns, and inspected the various branches of the Royal gun factories throughout. They next entered the museum and saw the process of testing a fragment of cast-iron by hydraulic machinery, which broke at 14 tons to the square inch, being far less endurable than the wrought iron now used in gunmaking. It was ten minutes past one o'clock when the party proceeded to the east end of the ship ping wharf and inspected the old Horsfall gun, now laid up as unfit for present use. They afterwards visited the American Rod man raking gun, lying under the shears in readiness for transport to Shoe buryness to go through a course of experiments, and the reserve stores at the extremity of the arsenal, containing guns of the modern construction of Sir William Armstrong and others in present use, and an abundant supply of Palliser and other shot for issue. Proceeding onwards, they passed through the nail and harness and saddlery stores, where their attention was arrested by a stock of new harness and val ions improvements which had been recently in troduced, and were detailed by Capt. Fenn, the su perintendent. Descending from the stores, they en tered the chemical branch, where they inspected one of the new torpedoes invented by the department for destroying an enemy's ship, which it was shown would explode by the slightest contact. They pro ceeded to the private apartm3nts of Col. Campbell, superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories, where they were entertained at lw►cheon. Sir John after wards expressed a desire to go through the remainder of the departments in order to make himself ac quainted with the subjects which would be discussed in the house to-night during the passing of vote 13 —the estimates for the manufacturing departments of the army. They then proceeded to the machinery long room of the laboratory, in which department 3,800 persons are now employed. Leaving it, they entered the Boxer cartridge factory, in which 1,700 persons, male and female, are employed. Sir John expressed his admiration at the celerity with which the manufacture of the new cartridge is carried out and completed for use, upwards of 300,000 being turned out per day. They next entered the shell foundry, and witnessed the manufacture of the Pal liser chill shot. On entering they examined a variety of the Boxer and other solid shot, which had been broken for the purpose of exhibiting the quality of metals of which they are composed and the manner of fracture. Several of the 8-inch, 10-inch, and 12- inch Palliser shot were brought from the mould and turned out for the Secretary of State's inspection, and appeared to elicit his unqualified commendation. 500 of these shot, it was stated, are produced per day at present, and in a few days, when the plant is all in order, an additional 100 to 150 will be cast and prepared for use. They afterwards went to the old steam saw mills in the royal carriage department, and passed through the new wheeler's shops and timber stores, in which the half-wrought work is left to dry, consisting of spokes, stocks, and other portions of wheels and saddletrees, &c. They then entered the various branches of the old carriage square, now converted into sniithcries and shops, and witnessed the rolling of scrap iron into racers for platforms, and saw the method of stamping the trucks into shape which is now used, instead of the old system of casting, which was not sufficiently durable for the present heavy guns. They also witnessed the new process of cutting an inch slab of iron with the band saw. Col. Clerk, in answer to Sir John's questions, stated that by reducing the speed there was less damage to the saw than is usually occasioned at full speed in the sawing wood. After visiting the re mainder of the department they proceeded to the gun-mounting ground, where a 7-inch 61-ton gun was mounted on one of the patent wrought-iron car riages. This was manoeuvred for Sir John's inspec tion. lle admitted the easy manner in which the elevation and depression was effected by a single gunner, and he left Woolwich soon after 5 o'clock for London. Yesterday Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., In spector-General of the corps of Royal Marines, at tended by Capt. J. M. Lennox, Aide-de-Camp, arrived at Chatham for the purpose of commencing the summer inspection of the officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry. On arriving at head-quarters the Inspector. General was received by Col. G. Lambrick, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Commandant of the division, and the other officers of the divisional Staff, the eight parade companies being drawn up to await his arrival. After inspecting the kits, arms, &c., of the members of the companies, and also tfie recruits, Gen. Travers witnessed the officers and non-commissioned officers go through the sword drill, in which they ac quitted themselves very satisfacterily. The after noon was devoted by General Travers to the inspection of the divisional schools, and also to the inspection of the officers and men under instruction at the gun and shed battery. A visit was also paid to the Royal Marine Infirmary, at Melville Hospital, which brought yesterday's inspection to a close. Last evening Strausham was entertained at dinner by the officers of the division, on which occa sion a number of the principal officers of the garri son were invited to meet him. The inspection will be resumed to-day. Yesterday afternoon the unarmoured screw war steamer Myrmidon was successfully launched from No. 6 building slip at Chatham dockyard, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The Myrmidon, which will form a useful addition to that description of vessel, but few of which have been recently built for the navy, was laid down as far back as July, 1860, but when about half completed the whole of the hands were withdrawn from her, in consequence of the Admi ralty at that time discontinuing the construction of wooden vessels. After lying id'e on the stocks for six years she was taken in hand a few months since and completed, it being intended to equip and despatch her to sea forthwith. The Myrmidon is one of the Wanderer class of vessels, but during her progress several improvements have been effected in her. She was originally laid down from the de- signs of Mr. Isaac Watts, the late chief constructor of the navy; but, in consequence of the powerful description of armament she is intended to carry, it has been found necessary to deviate in several im portant particulars from the original designs. She has accordingly been strengthened by the removal of the wooden deck beams under the guns, and the patent iron beams, from the Buttery Works, sub stituted. A free use has also been made of iron stringer plates and iron stiffening bars to strengthen the topsides, while additional stiffness' and rigidity have been imparted to the entire structure by the adoption of iron bulkheads and angle iron wherever found to be practicable ; the whole of the alterations, which have been effected under the direction and superintendence of Mr. P. Thorn ton, the master shipbuilder at Chatham, rendering her one of the strongest vessels of her class. The stem was partially taken down during her altera tions and raised about two feet higher to give her additional buoyancy forward, vessels of this class being generally so much down by the head, and con sequently exceedingly uncomfortablein bad weather. The following are the principal dimensions of the Myrmidon :—Length between perpendiculars,lBsft.; length of keel for tonnage, 165 ft. 7iin. ; extreme breadth 28ft. lin. ; breadth moulded, 27ft. 6in. ; depth in hold, 14ft. ; burden in tons, 694 66-94th. The following will be her armament :—One 7-inch 61-ton gun, and one 64-pounder, on pivots ; and two 20-pounder breechloader chase-guns. The arrangements for the launch yesterday were of a very simple character, a gallery being erected at the head of the slip for the accommodation of the heads of departments con nected with the port and garrison. At half-past 2 the cord which held the last of the supports was severel by Miss Baker, daughter of Mr. Baker, chief inspector of machinery afloat at the dockyard, and immediately afterwards the vessel glided down the ways into the harbour amid the cheers of the spectators. The Myrmidon was launched with the whole of her machinery fitted on board. She will be masted to-day, and afterwards placed in dock to be completed for commission. The sailing Indianman Trafalgar, Capt. Stock poole, R.N.R., one of Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Kurrachee, with the following officers and time-expired men from various regiments :—Capt. Leith, 79th Regi ment (in military command) ; Staff Assist.-Surg. Hale (in medical charge) ; Capt. Fordyce, 45th Regiment; Lieut. Goad, 45th ; Lieut. Boldero, 97th; 370 time-expired soldiers, 17 women, and 27 chil dren. The stormy weather prevented the troops from being disembarked from the ship at Spithead yesterday. The disembarkation will be effected this morning, and the troops forwarded to the de pots of their several regiments, the Trafalgar after wards continuing their voyage to London. The seamen of Her Majesty's ship Excellent, at Portsmouth, on Tuesday evening, gave " An As sault of Arms and display of Naval Gymnastic Ex ercises," in the Governor's Green Volunteer Drill room, in aid of the " Seamen's Widows, Mothers and Orphans' Annuitant Society." The arrange ments were made by Mr. Tuohy, professor of the sword, pike, and bayonet drill, and of gymnastics to the Royal Naval College, and the programme was highly successful. The following freight ships, having taken in New Boxer ammunition and other war stores at Wool wich, have sailed for their destination as follows : The Silksworth for New Brunswick, the Jura for Ilalifax, and the Flying Fish for Barbadoes. RAILWAY BENEVOLENT IN STI7 UTION. The annual dinner i❑ aid of the funds of this inqitution was held last evening at Willis's-rooms ; Mr. C. Dickens in the chair. There was a large at tendance. Sir D. GOOCH, M.P., chairman of the Great Western Railway, responded to the toast of the Rouse of Commons. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing "Prosperity to the funds of the Railway Benevolent Institution," made a humorous and characteristic speech. lie said that although it was not 50 years since one of the first literary authorities of the country insisted that the speed of the fastest of the railway trains that the Legislature had disastrously sanctioned should be limited by act of Parliament to 10 miles an hour, yet it did somehow happen that every day there were trains running pretty smoothly at the rate of 50 miles an hour. At one time vaccination was ob jected to on the ground that it would have a ten dency to impart to the human child something of the nature of the cow, whereas vaccinated children at the present time were found to be as easily distin guished from calves as ever they were, and certainly they had no cheapening influence upon the price of veal. (Laughter.) It was objected also that chloro form was a contravention of the will of Providence, and with no better reason it was prelieted that the railway system, if anything so absurd could be established, would infallibly throw half the nation out of employment, The very cause of this festival meeting, apart from the tributary channels of occu pation it had opened out, had called into existence and employed a population of upwards of 200,000 persons. It was obvious that these could not be rich, although their duties demanded great care and exactness, and although our lives were every day, humanly speaking, in the hands of many of them. For the most part these men occupie4 places that did not require skilled workmen, and that would be therefore always open to great competition. IVages could not be high where competition was keen, and railway directors, in the bargains they made and salaries they paid, had to deal with the money of the shareholders, to whom they were accountable. It thus happened that railway officers and servants were not remunerated by any means splendidly, and could not hope to do more than meet the ordi nary wants and hazards of life. By reason of the dangerons nature of their avocations the hazards were so exceptionally great that it was stated, on the authority of a Parliamentary paper, that whereas one in 8,000,000 of passengers was killed, the proportion in the case of railway servants was one in 2,000. Hence nine years ago the Railway Benevolent Institution became established, and this was the ninth occasion of publishing from the chair the banns between the institution and the public. It was nevertheless his duty to tell, as if for the first time, what the institution was, before asking whether there was any just cause or impediment why those two parties—the institution and the public—should not be joined together in holy charity. (Cheers.) The objects of the society were to grant annuities out of the interest of invested capital, and annual pensions, varying from £lO to £25, to dis tressed railway officers and servants incapacitated by age, sickness, or accident ; to grant similar pen sions to distressed widows ; to educate and main tain orphans and children ; to provide temporary relief to those requiring it; and to induce railway officers and servants to insure their lives in some well-established office. This was the society— simple, sympathetic, practical, easy, sensible, and unpretending. The number of its members was largely on the increase, and had reached 12,100, and the amount of its invested capital was nearly £15,000. It had done a world of good and a world of works, ant it was gratifying to know that the annual cost of its management had never been £25.). (Cheers.) It could not however do more good until it had more money. The means of the society were far too limited to allow of their giving more to ap plicants, even if they were helped to the utmost by the great railway companies ; and even if they were helped, as he hoped they would be shortly by some of the great corporations of the coun try which railways bad done so much to enrich, the means of the society would still be too limited. In a word, these railway officers and ser vants on their road to a very humble and modest superannuation, could no more do without the help of the great public than the great public on their road from Torquay to Aberdeen could do without them. (Cheers.) Therefore he ( 7 esired to ask the 'THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1867. Disgi aceful nd Plunder. Yesterday at the Mary lebone Police-court Alfred Cox, aged 20, a costerrs Longer, was charged with being concerned, with several others not in custody, with picking pockets in. Portland-place, and also with assaulting police-constable John Jeffery, 220 D, in the execution of his duty, and damaging his uniform coat and helmet, of the value of 30s. Jefferys said he was. called to assist a brother constable in the capture of the prisoner, who kicked witness most violently, .aiad destroyed his coat and helmet. Evidence was given that prisoner formed one of a gang of 50 or 60 roughs , who appeared to be acting in concert. They bonne tcd gentlemen, snatched their watches, broke their umbrellas, picked the pockets of ladies, and acted in the most disgraceful manner. Remanded for a week. James Farrant, aged 23, borsekeeper, address re fused, and Charles Mason, of Ealing, potman, were charged as part of the same gang. Dr. Thomas Brett, a physician, of 38, Stanhope street, Regent's Park, said Monday afternoon I had been to Paddington to visit a patient. On my return, and when going out from Gower-street station, I was set upon by a gang, and my watch, of the value of 60 guineas, and a portion of my chain were snatched from me. A woman standing near pointed to a man, and said, "This is him." The gang seized Dr. 'Brett and allowed the pri soner to escape. A policeman whom Dr. Brett asked to catch the prisoner, told the doctor to catch him himself. This was Batchelor, 158 E, who, however, denied the refusal, and said the opposite side of the way was not in his beat. He was not at all frightened. _ _ Mr. Brett—And you would not go across the road. Batchelor—You did not tell me you had lost your watch. Mr. Brett--I did tell you so. If you had gone at once I should have had it now. Mr. D'Eyncourt—You had a right to cross the road upon any duty. Prisoners were remanded for a week upon this charge. _ _ The prisonor Mason was put forward again upon another charge. Edward Bolch said—l was passing along the Eus. ton-road on the previous afternoon when the rain came on, and I went into a tavern. The rain not cea sing I began smoking my meerschaum pipe. Hearing the band and a noise outside I went out to see what was the matter. I saw umbrellas torn into shreds by the roughs. The prisoner snatched my pipe, valued at £2, from my mouth. I was bon neted, and my white hat was then knocked off and lost. I was hustled and knocked about, and my life was in danger. I managed to escape from them and run into a ham and beef shop, when I found that they had robbed me of my scarf pin, my gold watch and chain of the value of £2O, and 15s. My pockets were all rifled. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Do you think there were a number acting in concert ? Witness—Yes. I think I do not exaggerate when I say there were hundreds acting together. One witness told me he saw thirty watches taken in a short distance. jockey, whose looks bespeak him the most knavish I of his tribe, is distancing his less cunning rivals in a race. This is a caricature of the Reform struggle in the House of Commons, a caricature, no ; but a simple picture of the humiliating reality. On the greatest of all national questions this Parliament, which Mr. Lowe calls heroic, not only allows itself, but is apparently pleased to be ridden by cajolery and fraud ; and the victory in legislation belongs to him who is most familiar with the tricks of the turf and most unscrupulous in practising them. Who can blame the nation for turning its mind to a more genuine and purer object of interest in a race horse?—l am, &c. " GOLD IN SMITH." publio whethe+:• the servants of the great railways were not in effect every day our ready, zealous, faithful, br,rd-working servants, and whether they had not , tstablished a reasonable claim upon the public's - liberal remembrance ? (Cheers.) The chairman having drawn a vivid and highly amusing descripCLon of various railway employes at their work, made a further appeal for funds, suggesting that the Benevolent In s titution gave us the means at a very small personal cost, of acknowledging, without compromising their independence, and greatly to their permanent advantage, the claims of those for whom he pleaded. If we took a human interest in them they would take a human interest in us, and we should not merely be the 9.30 or 10.40 rushing by, but an instalment of a consi derat,3 public who was ready to lend a helping hand to a deserving object. (Loud cheers.) Various other toasts followed, and some handsome subscriptions were announced. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday, June 1, he births registered in London and 12 other large :owns of the United Kingdom were 4,727 ; the deaths registered, 2,879. The annual rate of mor tality was 24 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,176 boys and 1,061 girls, in all 2,237 children, were registered in the week. In thecorresponding weeks of 10 years 1857 - 66, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,093. The deaths registere in London during the week were 1,250. It was the twenty-second week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,252. The deaths in the present return approxi mate closely to the estimated amount, but exceed by 132 the number registered in the week which ended on the 25th of May. - _ . Eighteen deaths from smallpox occurred last week, 11 of which were in the east districts. The deaths from whooping-cough were 47 ; 5 in the west, 15 in the north, 5 in the central, 7 in the east, and 15 in the south districts. Forty-one deaths from typhus, 17 from measles, 18 from scar latina, and 15 from diarrhoea were recorded. The daughter of a tide-water, aged 43 years, died on the 30th of May, at 10, Windsor-terrace, Carlton-road west, Peckham, of " cholera (eight days) exhaustion." Pancras ; Tottenham-court.—ln University Col lege Hospital, on the 22d of May, the daughter of a gardener, aged nine years, " syncope from chloro form administered at an operation." Post mortem. (Inquest.) Holborn; St. Andrew Eastern.—ln the work house, on the 21st of May, a pawnbroker, aged 75 years, " effusion of serum on brain accelerated by want." Post mortem. (Inquest.) The deaths of four persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered : The son of a shoemaker, aged five years, run over. Died on the 22d of May in the London Hos pital. (Inquest.) The daughter of a cordwainer, aged one year, run over. Died on the 25th of May in the London Hospital. (Inquest.) The widow of a sailor, aged 56 years, run over. Died on the 26th of May in the London Hospital. Inquest. An omnibus driver, aged 4G years, fell from the driving seat and was run over by the wheels of an omnibus. Died on the 24th of May in the West minster Hospital. Post mortem. (Inquest.) By Dr. Frankland's analysis, it appears that while the water of Loch Katrine, supplied to Glasgow, contained in every 100,000 tons three tons of foreign matter, the same quantity of the Thames water in May contained from 27 to 29 tons ; of the New River water, 25 tons ; of the East London, 27 tons ; of the Kent Company, 39 tons. The traces of pre vious sewage contamination were least in the East ; London ; gre_►test in the Kent waters. The waters • were much parer in May than in April, and this was followed by an evident improvement in the health of the people. The annual rate of mortality last week was 21 per 1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dablin ; 24 in Bristol, 19 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 28 in Manchester, 30 in Sal ford, 24 in Sheffield, 28 in Leeds, 20 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 23 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 34 per 1,000 during the week ending the 25th ult when the mean temperature was 6.8 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 19. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.742 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29.44 in. on Monday, May 27, to 29.97 in. on Friday, May 31. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 59 deg., which is 3 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as de termined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 77.5 deg. on Saturday, June 1. The lowest night temperature was 46.5 deg., on Sunday, May 26. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 31 deg. The mean of the highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 51.8 deg. ; that of the lowest was 52.3 deg. The difference between the mean-dew point tempo , rature and air temperature was 6.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 78, com plete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount. of 0.69 in., of which 0.29 in. fell on Sunday, May 26, anl 0.31 on Monday, May 27. L The general direction of the wind was S.W. According to a return furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at the Southern Outfall Works, Cross ness, was 57,951,741 gallons, or 263,301 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. IREL AN D. DUBLIN, June 5. The Cork Examiner confirms the report about the landing and arrest of a number of supposed Fonians at Dungarvan, bat does not clear up the mystery of the " raking craft" which had been seen dimly in the fog which covered her suspicious operations. The prisoners gave various accounts of themselves, but when closely questioned they maintained a de t :mined silence. They said they were emigrants to Brazil or Buenos Ayres, that their ship having sprung a leak they were transferred to a Norwegian brigantine, which was compelled to land them on the Irish coast on account of shortness of provisions. But they refused to give the name of either of the vessels, and they had luggage such as emigrants would have on so long a voyage. They submitted to be arrested and searched with the greatest good humour, and seemed to enjoy the thing immensely, laughing and singing the whole way to Dungarvan. They are not like labouring men or Irish farmers' sons. Several of them had discharges from the Ame rican army, but no documents to connect them with the Fenian organisation. They were all comfortably and many respectably clad, and they are, with scarcely an exception, fine athletic fellows, with a free, manly bearing, and very intelligent. Conflict ing rumours state the prisoners arc merely part of a body of men which a large vessel, seen hovering on the coast for some days before, landed in contin gents at various remote points on the shore ; they they are American officers ; that they are men com promised by recent events, who, having lurked on in hiding up to this time, endeavoured to effect their escape, but had been induced by some cause or other —possibly having regard to their first and anxious inquiry on lauding, want of food—to quit the vessel which was to have placed them beyond reach of the authorities. Daring the investigation before the magistrates they stated that they had embarked at a Welsh port, and that their destination was Dundalk. They are detained pending further inquiries. The ladies of Dangarvan asked permission to treat the stran gers to a dinner on Sunday, but the magistrates would not consent. Senator Cattell of New Jersey has been pre sented with a silver service, valued at $5,000, for his sue. cessful efforts to establish the iron-clad navy yard al Leave Island below Philadelphia, Galvin, 207 S, said there were numbers robbed. Mr. D'Eyncourt —I shall remand the prisoner for a week, and then stall send all for trial. It is high time some strong measures were taken to repress THE DEATH OF TWO BOYS BY BE.rNG BURIED ALIVE. Yesterday afternoon Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner, held an inquiry at the Crown and Sceptre, Deptford, into the circumstances attending the death of Wm. Wright, aged 14, and Wm. Knowles Marks, aged 14, who lost their lives, as already reported, through the falling of a large mass of earth, on a line lately in cpur,e of formation through Lewisham, and be longing to the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company. It appeared that the cutting at the spot where the accident occurred is between 30 and 40 feet in depth, and that the land where the cutting had stopped is perfectly straight. Since the cessation of the railway works boys have been in the habit of frequenting the spot, and on Saturday afternoon last the deceased and others went there to dig, as they described it, " a cave." This had been going on for four or five weeks, and a sufficient aperture had been made to admit of three lads entering and being hidden from view. The deceased had entered the cave, and all of a sudden the earth, weighing several tons, fell. The boys who were looking on gave an alarm, and some men working in an ad jotning market garden were sent to the spot with spades. One lad, named Eustace, was found only partially covered, and he was dragged out with little or no injury. It was 20 minutes before the first body, that of Wright, was got out, and a long time after before that of Marks was recovered, life in b o th instances being extinct. eyairntgh of the ca ve was k nown t o that although on the pre- The lads were s everall y examined and s h owe d vegreatxi pre vious ui sb ignorance, Sundayta crack ra etk they had no idea of d anger fromie sa the earth falling in, and it was their intention to go right through the portion of land, and had pene trated a distance of about four feet, and the cutting was a depth of about three feet. The Coroner said that, the cutting being fenced in, any person going upon the line of railway be came a trespasser, and the railway company could not be held responsible in not preventing the de ceased and others from assembling there. The Jury then returned a verdict of " Accidental death from a fall of earth," in each case. At the conclusion of the inquiry the parents of the boys were called before the jury, and, in answer to the Coroner, said they were not aware of their boys going to the spot in question and being engaged, as the Coroner observed, for weeks in " digging their own graves." THE LIGHT OF ASTEROIDS. 'AI. W. de Fonvielle, whose very clever scientific researches in the Cosmos we have often had occasion to mention, devotes an article to a curious investi gation concerning the quantity of light emitted by asteroids. The question is merely incidental, the author's object being the study of those bodies ac cording to the latest observations ; but such as it is, it is calculated to interest our readers. Mr. Glaisher has shown by direct experiment that a gas-burner will cast on a plane, situated at a distance of five metres (about 15 feet) from . it, 400,000,000 of the full moon o n a c l ear n i g ht. Such being the would require a quantity of light equal to that of case, M. de F onv i e ll e correc tly remarks that it pro duce the same e ff ect, i f they we re lighted at a dis tance 20,000 ti mes greater, v i z ., 100 kilometres, the in the ratio intensity dimini s hi ng gas-burners to tio of the squares of the distances. Now it appears from observation that asteroids are about this distance from our earth when they meet the upper strata of our atmosphere. The conclusion to be drawn from these data is, that we know the quantity of gas we should have to burn at the altitude of 100 kilometres in order to produce on the surface of the earth an optical effect equal to that of the full-moon. As Paris is lighted by about 30,000 burners, one Irindred and fifty thousand times that quantity of light would have to be condensed at that altitude. Now every burner of Paris consumes on an average two centili- ......... _ tree of gas per second ; so that, admitting the aste roids to yield a quantity of light equal in intensity to that of the moon, the quantity of gas to be con sumed in order to produce an equal effect under the same circumstance s wou ld be about eight millions of litres pe r secon d! Th e se are certainly singular speculations, and we regret w e cannot follow the author q u it e so c l ose l y as we could wish, as he gradually b ecomes t oo s cientific, and would require too many definitions in order t o b e un derstood. We ma y say , h o wever, that he ultimately converts the con sum pti on of gas into horse - power, and thereby arrives at the conclusion that the equi valent of the power extended in the collision of asteroids with our atmosphere at the altitude of 100 kilometres is 3,000 millions horse - power ! Nature seems to delight in such a display of exuberant force, which, with all our mechanical skill, out strips our wildest conceptionfi,—Galignami. STA' .DE. MANCHESTER, June 5. —The market for cotton yarn and cloth has been steady to-day, at the prices of yesterday, which were id to -}d. generally higher than last week, and 3d. per piece on India shirtings. Mulls, jacconets, and light goods gener ally for the same market are rather dearer. Buy ers seem hardly willing to follow the recent ad vances in price, and the market is consequently quiet, but spinners and manufacturers are generally so well supplied with contracts as to be exceedingly firm in adhering to quotations. The deliveries to agents and merchants on behalf of the contracts re ferred to are now becoming large, and there can be no doubt that at present the out-turn from the mills throughout the district is again becoming very great. It is expected that the shipments of cotton from India to the Ist of June, when the season ended, have been very considerable, and telegrams stating the total will be looked for with some anxiety during the next few days. BELFAST, 4th.—Flax : During the past week the markets of this province were fairly suppled, with the exception of Monaghan and Aughnacloy, the cause of which is farmers holding over their flax for the approaching fairs to be held during the pre sent week. Yarns : The improvement last an nounced has continuod unabated. Tows have been in active request ; prices of these show indications of upward tendency. Stocks are slightly decreased. Linens, brown, powerloom : No improvement in this department to announce, except for drills. Cloth suitable for the foreign clothing trade and light linens for bleaching. Handloom : Light linens for bleaching and linen handkerchiefs con tinue in fair request ; prices of the latter are steady , manufacturers demand higher rates for the former. Bleached and finished Linens : Home trade as last reported. Improvement in the trade with the Con- tinent has been announced. Stocks are large, espe cially of coarse goods. NorriNGHAH, sth.—The lace trade has under gone very little change since our last report. All branches continue unusually dull, especially for the time of the year, and at present not much prospect is held out of a favourable alteration taking place. , A. few houses are moderately active, but the gene rality have a great absence of orders on their books. The weather, which is just now extremely change able, no doubt tends to restrict business ; but it is really difficult to understand why the summer trade should be so uncommonly inactive. There seems a fair demand for curtains, but trimmings, on the other hand, are very heavy, and the same remark may be applied to the shawl departments. A decent number of orders are being received for hair nets, but it is a question whether manufacturers obtain anything like a proportionate profit from the goods. Yarns continue about the same, and their firmness in some degree tends to keep the trade dull. In the hosiery branches very little alteration has occurred during the week ; orders for the home and foreign markets are coming in rather actively, and there is a fair demand for all light description of goods. PROFESSOR GOLD WIN SMITH ON "THE DERBY." Mr. Godwin Smith has addressed the following .otter to the Manchester Examiner :—" Sir,—The correspondent of one of the journals, describing the Derby, says that among the cheering which hailed the victor was to be heard here and there a sound, half scream, half sob, telling a tale of heavy loss, if not of absolute ruin.' Subsequent report seems to confirm the tale. This is the spectacle which Lord Palmerston compared to the Isthmian games. It is about as like the Isthmian games as the character of Lord Palmerston was like the character, cast in a narrow but genuine and noble mould, of the Greek hero. 'I he reward of the victor at the Isthmian games was a crown of leaves ; this, with an inscrip tion on enduring marble in his city, and the more enduring monument of Pindar's verse. Of betting I believe we have no record. If any sobs and screams mingled with the exultation of victory, they told only of the honourable agony of defeat. If a parallel is to be sought in antiquity for these sports of oars, it should be sought rather in the delirious and degraded passions of the Roman circus in the last age of degenerate R)me. It is need less to say that this is horse-racing no longer. It is a gigantic system, or rather frenzy, of national gambling. The horses are no more than the two straws pulled from a haystack, or the two drops of rain running together, down the window-pane, on which, for want of anything better, gamblers have been known to stake their money. The whole kingdom at the approach of the Derby becomes a gambling table, at which men who never saw a horserace, who could not tell the points of a horse, who would not know Ilermit from a hack, and even women and boys, hasten to taste the vile delight of gambling, often to their demoralisa tion, sometimes to their ruin. As to the pretence of keeping up the breed of horses, it is needless to say that it is about as valid and about as sincere as the defence of fox-hunting on the ground that it clears the country of vermin. Gambling—gambling, every year more extensive, every year for higher stakes, as the need of excitement increases—this is now the grand national amusement, and its crisis is the great national event. The men of the Common wealth put a stop to bear-baiting and the other sports' of that time. This is set down as a proof of their moroseness, and Macaulay says, in his epi grammatic way, that the bear-baiting was put down not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Vane or Cromwell would probably have answered that it was not be cause it gave pleasure, but because the pleasure which it gave was an ignoble, unmanly, and degrad ing pleasure, unworthy alike of a Christian and of an English citizen. Those days, however, are gone by. Nobody would now propose to interfere legally with any amusement not contrary to public order or decency. We have learnt that a censorship of manners in attempting to cure throws in the disease. If, indeed, as the Times tells us, the aristocracy, our hereditary legislators, are gambling away their estates and impoverishing their titles, it may become necessary that the State should step in for the pro tection of hereditary wisdom. But otherwise, as offences against 'leaven must be left to the jurisdic- tion of Heaven, so moral diseases must be left to moral cures. It is hard to meet in any moral philosopher with a good diagnosis of the moral malady of gambling, or a good pre scription for its cure. Moral philosophers oc cupy themselves too much with general senti ments and theories, too little with the practical exa mination and treatment of the infirmities to which humanity is heir ; they are too much of the preacher and essayist, too little of the physician. There seems to be no principle or propensity in human nature in itself evil ; our vices are the depravations or over-excitements of natural tendencies and de sires. The feeling of hope, or whatever it is that leads us to venture and aspire, is capable, I pre sume, like other feelings, of being over-excited by artificial stimulants, such as the gambling table or the betting ring affords. Or perhaps a lower but more natural explanation may be found in the love of gain, combined with the dislike of labour. But one thing seems certain, that the passion for gambling prevails only in the absence of any worthy object of interest or desire. A man whose mind was full of manly aspirations, or whosi heart was occupied by strong and pure affections, would not be seen waiting at the telegraph office, with agony in his face, for the news of a horse race, or heard screaming and sob bing at Epsom because one animal had got its head before another. The clergymen and moralists who are lamenting %lad denouncing this base mania will find that in the case of the individual they will do little by attacking it directly. The only way of ex pelling the unhealthy and immoral interest is by im planting an interest which is healthy and moral. And as with the individual, so it is with the nation. Give us a Parliament capable of being the organ of national aspiration and effort, let great questions be once more handled in earnest by great men, let our political chiefs once more display the qualities which touch a nation's heart, and the soul of England will soon cease to be absorbed by a horse race. That it should he so absorbed at present is not wonder ful. I see in the shop windows a caricature the form • of which is itself taken from the race-course, A Railways in Time of War. The Army Transport Committee, over which Lord Strathnairu presided, had to consider the subject of railway transport, and in their report, dated in March last, they state the chief arrangements which should be made for the organisation of this branch of the service. They consider that the introduction of railway conveyance need not complicate the ques tion of ordinary military transport. Railway trans port requires an organisation of its own. While the railway affords facilities, it greatly adds to the casualties and risks attending the supply of troops, not only from the chance of interruption and damage to the permanent way by the enemy, but also from the difficulty of keeping up transport communication between the railway line and the forces to be sup plied. Lieut.-Colonel Reilly, R.H.A., in a memo randum on Prussian transport, remarks that it requires little tostop a railway or disarrange traffic if the enemy is enterprising and the population hostile ; in the late German campaign the Landwehr had to supply strong guards along the line, and at the principal stations, and at each of the principal stations a staff officer was in charge. With all their advantages the commissariat did not succeed in feed ing the soldiers as we should require it to do, and Lieut.-Colonel Reilly was informed by a surgeon that the men of his division were many days without animal food, and from the day before until the day after Koniggratz the whole army was with out rations ; but this partial failure was owing to the parsimony of the Government inducing the people to drive their herds into the woods. Lord Straithnairn observes that though the Prussian armies moved to within sight of Vienna mainly by railroad, and without a great proportion of army transport, it must be recollected that this was done after great successes, and with a thorough know ledge of the depressed morale of their antagonist, which made that forward movement safe. The only occasion, he says, on which railway transport supersedes army or animal transport is when the country concerned is completely in possession of an army, as, for instance, before Sebastopol ; but even there the ammunition and supplies had to be con veyed from the terminus by animal transport or hand to the troops, and of course animal transport would have been indispensable for a forward move ment, which could not have been avoided if the Russians had not evacuated Sebastopol, or if the base of operations had been transferred (as was contemplated) from the Crimea to Mingrelia or Georgia. No General in the field which he is dis puting with an enemy is justified in diminishing the amount of animal transport, because he has the assistance, which is purely partial, of rail, any more than he would bad he the use, also purely partial, of sea or inland water transport. Captain H. W. Gordon, principal superintendent of stores at Woolwich, stated also in his evidence before the Committee that he cannot send a 9-ton gun to Portsmouth by rail, although the railway comes into the arsenal ; the permanent way, he believes, is not sufficently strong, and there is no truck that can take the gun. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—One of those curious questions which carry us far back into the history of the Royal pre rogative was decided in the Court of Exchequer last Tuesday. The case arose out of the execution of a writ against the goods of Lord Henry Gordon within the precincts of Hampton Court. The entry of the sheriff's officers for this purpose was treated, on behalf of the Crown, as an unlawful intrusion into a Royal Palace, and an information was filed against them by the Attorney-General. The Court, however, affirmed the legality of the proceeding . , though Lord Chief Baron Kelly recorded his dis sent from the opinion of his two brethren in an ela borate judgment. It is said that no attempt to execute a writ in Hampton Court had ever been made before, but this absence of precedents may well be due to the discriminating hospitality of the Sovereign. It would be a gross abuse of that hos pitality if the inmates of the Palace were to set their creditors at defiance with impunity, and we can hardly suppose that her Majesty would allow such guests to retain their apartments there. It is, there fore, of very little importance whether the right of immunity from civil process does or does not belong to Hampton Court, and we are rather surprised that the law officers of the Crown should have consi- dered it worth while to raise the • point. At the same time, there is always a certain interest in the application of old constitution doctrines to modern facts ani ideas, while the recent discussions on the validity of martial law amply illustrate the diffi culty which sometimes attends this process. Ac- ' cording to the view of the Lord Chief Baron, the whole burden of proof lies on those who deny the privilege claimed for Hampton Court. Having been occupied as a Royal residence at various times from the reign of Henry VIII. to that of George 11., and being still in the legal possession of the Crown, it is prima facie exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, although her Majesty does not reside there. "It is enough that the Sovereign, past or present, has resided there,. and might come to reside there again." Even now, all the appoint ments in and about the Palace are in the gift of the Sovereign, the domestics and gardeners are paid out of the Civil List, a guard of honour and sentinels are stationed at the gates, and Divine service is regularly performed in the chapel. All these cir cumstances were alleged by the Lord Chief Baron to show that Hampton Court is a Royal Palace, if not as truly as St. James's, yet in the same sense as Kensington or Holyrood—that is, a Palace in the constructive, though not actual, occupation of her Majesty. Now, it was held by Lord Ellenborough that Kensington, ithen inhabited by one of the King's sons, retained its inviolable character long , after the Sovereign had ceased to reside there in person. It was also held by the House of Lords that Holyrood was a Royal Palace for the same purpose, but then it happened that just before the appeal was heard Holyrood was actually occupiedby George IV. on a visit to Scotland. The effect of these authorities, as well as of a dictum cited from Coke by the Lord; Chief Baron, is by no means con clusive in favour of the Crown. As Mr. Baron Bramwell pointed out, the principle which it is sought to establish cannot be consistently de fined: Were the privilege in dispute indepen dent of all considerations as to personal and con tinuous residence, it might attach to any dwelling house in the legal occupation of the Queen, or, at least, to any Royal lodge or shooting-box in which it would be possible for her to spend a few days. Again, were it a strictly local privilege it would not be defeated though Hampton Court were de mised for a term of years, still remaining, of course, the property of the Crown. On the other hand, upon this supposition it would follow that process could be executed in a house, not being a Royal Palace, which might be rented and actually in habited by her Majesty for the time being. The inference drawn by Mr. Baron Bramwell from these hypothetical instances appears to be perfectly sound in the forum of common sense-. It is, that what ever immunity the common law may have given to royal palaces was not in the nature of a terri torial exemption, but of a security for the personal dignity and comfort of the Sovereign. It was con sidered unseemly that all the disorder and incon venience incident to a seizure or distress should be permitted in a royal mansion, whether the King should be actually present or not. To confer a right of sanctuary on every building in which any of the Queen's_ predecessors may hare lived, and which is kept up as a nominal palace, is a very dif ferent affair, It is not at all easy to say what it is that constitutes a palace. Balmoral and Osborne are not called palaces, though, by virtue of her Majesty's frequent residence in both, they are doubt less privileged places. It is fortunate that Non such and Kew have been pulled down, that little remains of Eltham, that King Charles ll.'s palace at Winchester has been turned into barracks, and that the pavilion at Brighton is now used for con certs and public meetings. Similar claims of ex emption might be multiplied almost indefinitely. As it is, Hampton. Court and Kensington are pro bably the only two doubtful cases. We entirely agree with Mr. Baron Bramwell that a palace in which no Sovereign has resided for more than a century, and which is put to a wholly different use, is no longer a royal residence. It is proverbially difficult to draw the line, but, to the Baron tersely • remarks, "there may be a line, though I can't say where; and a thing may have ceased, though I can't say when." All exceptions, and especially those which possess an antiquarian value, arc SO precious in the eyes of a true lawyer as fully to ac count for the maintenance of the contrary view, even were it supported by less plausible arguments. The fact is, however, that in this instance, as in so many others, the oracle of law gives no certain response. The Judges can but reason upon doubt ful analogies, or upon grounds which, in reality, though not in name, are grounds of policy. There cannot be a greater delusion than the well-known legal fiction that a rule of law exists applicable to every state of facts, and has only to be declared from the bench. There are many contingencies et daily occurrence with respect to which our law is really silent, and which, if they should become the subject of an action, must and will be decided by judicial discretion, g.,ided, but not governed by precedents. In matters affecting the Royal prero gative this judicial discretion has ever been, and must ever be, almost unlimited. The extent of " that law in case of the King which is now law in case of the subject" has been a Constitutional Ills' tcry from the earliest ages, and is not likely to be ascertained in our own day. The dispensing pow er, the oppressive rights of purveyance and impress ment in time of peace, and the authority to procla im martial law at pleasure were formerly among th e to • most cherished branches of that " prerogative' which George 111. was fond of alluding. It would be idle to argue against the revival of these preten sions--pretensions against all of which the Com mons never ceased to protest in the worst times, and of which the last only has been asserted for many generations. Still the Royal prerogative is one of those delicate topics which it is unwise to . force into needless prominence. It is as well t hat we should not know exactly what the Queen eau and what she cannot do, according to the imagi" nary theory of our Constitution—which of the ar bitrary functions assumed by her ancestors is poten tially in force, and which has become obsolete by legal disuse. The Romans counterbalanced th e legal omnipotence on another. We provide agai nst the same danger by a system of checks which makes it difficult for any power to be strained to th e utmost. It is not, however, impossible, as the con flict between the Crown and the House of Lords on life peerages, and between the two houses on th e paper duties, may suffice to remind us. The more these direct issues can be avoided, whether on g reat or small questions, the better for the stability of our institutions ; and if they are sometimes inevitable on great questions, they should be all the more scru pulously declined on small questions. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL.—TUESDAY. lv Of At our market to-day there was a moderate suPP•? , English wheat, which sold slowly at last week's I° l° l Foreign in middling request, and fine samples saleable. recent rates. Malting barley quiet, at late terms ; gr ind l descriptions scarce, and fully tid higher. Oats in m oder %• supply— fine sorts made better prices, seconds a slow sal Beans, and peas disposed of in retail at full prices. „ t , •, English white wheat, 64s to 68s ; red, 62s to 64s it" 6" , sic and Konigsberg, 64s to 72s ; Baltic red, 62 s to „s: Danish and Hamburg, 62s to 64s ; Russian, 57s to Barley, English, 36s to 495 ; grinding, Moditerralle" 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s • Ru s ' si Va l 's 26s to 275. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s ; foreign , ',.„ to 445. Peas, English blue, 424 to 44s Od ; foreign %Oi l ' 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. LYNN—TUESDAY. w best, Our market to-day was poorly supplied with r but the demand was firm, although not active, at f or la quotations Barley brought fully last week's money, found met with a good demand for grinding purposes. Oats a' beans in fair demand, and maintained their value. New wheat, 68s to 72s ; new red, 62s to 66s ; old whi f° —s to —s ; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. B a rley vt, malting, 17s to Ms ; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, n ° , o 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 48S. o 37s to 41s per 28 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TuEsDAY. her At the local markets the business done has been rat moderate. Home-grown wheat has been in short .011; ply. Foreign wheat offered moderately, at about preYo, rates, with a slow business. The attendance was c° ' " i ' a ratively small. Malting barley dull and rather lovfer„tt, price ; grinding in moderate request. Oats barely tained the late advance. Beans showed no change. r ed, The following are the average quotations:—W , ", al " f „or, 7s 3d to 7s 9d per bushel ; white, 7s 9d to 8s 3d ; 68 Od to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 42s to 44s per qr ; gr - 2 7$ big ditto, 31s to 368 Od; beans, 438 to 455; white oats, to 29a 6d ; black ditto, 20s 6d to 27s Od. S ALISBURY.—TUESDAY. btli At this market to-day the supply of wheat was gig increased, and previous quotations were demanded, S. buyers were disinclined to do business on these teriwii Grinding barley met with a limited demand, was in s u ? s 3 e cl supply, and no advance in price obtained. Oats reall last week's extreme figures. Beans and peas worts „titit altered in value. Flour ruled inactive, an d lower (Ill" ti ons anticipated. A will The following are the quotations :—Wheat realise,. —444 62s to 72s ; barley, 32s to 40s ; oats, 268 to 33s ; bean tiJ to to 58s; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 53 15J. 7 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 16d ; household ditto, per 811) loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market• d. s. 3 s. d. Walls End Hetton ... 19 0 Wylam ........... 17 8 6 1818 0 9 w ea h r Original Hartlepool l9 0 Tees .................... 1 6 East Hartlepool Kelloeli6 Hartlepool . lB 3 South Hetton ....... - 6 .. 1 7 Haswell . 1 Holywell Main l7 0 Walbottle Hartley.... a lt d rn °c cliff " e . .......................... 111 ships at market, 90—so1d, 38. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. -n i ne 19 ' Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton•••••' ,3. Jule Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama. Brazil, Buenas Ayres, and Monte Video .......... 0 JJune.. „ Ditto, by French packet ........... joy 1. Cape Verde, by Brazil packet Jun e Cape of Good Elope, Ascension. and St. China, Penang, and Singapore, via an S ont h am pton Ju' e 1 3. J Ditto, via Marseilles ...... Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, &o. • Ditto, MArsalles Mauritius, Capa of Good nape, and ........ ..... .v .lljjjjj j uutiull u n ! eceec : ll7 l l;.3 o 3: . Southampton . e 15 ' Jun 3, Ditto, via Muni les ..... . ......... •..3 Illy Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .......... Ditto ditto to Lisbon ............. United States, Canada, California, &c., by British June 1 3. packet •Ditto, by United States packet • Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ....... ....... •• Ditto, by Canadian packet - 4. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife.. .• • ' A" West Indies and Pacific ,except Mexico and Balla' 13. . .1 013 ,„, e k B. mas) . 27. Cub.t and Mexico Balta.:las, via New York .......................... j j u l e . ........... Bermuda, via Halifax Governor F enton, of New York, has S i g neu l) ol bill to enable husband and wife, or eithe r of thou', t° o'l witness for or against the other, or on be half of 0,135'1)3r in certain cases. • log Mayor Hoffman, of New York, is daily recoi l b y letters lo st at from persons at a distance who hav e lost 1013,.„101 some of the various lottery and gift concer ns in that 3W city. e recl bliss Hathaway, of Auburn, Maine, bas r ec°. - 0 5 ' t s7B7 50c. from a livery stable keeper, for iejuries,,,rse running y being thrown from a carriage throngh ° ''' . oo g away. The judge held that the livery ins° responsible for hiring an unsafe horse to a lady' „ a 0 Stewart and Co., of New York, have creroet stirin trade and feminine circles by going into 010 bonne t o . business, and proposing to sell Paris "bats" iil3 to S id ' milliners have charged $3O and $lO for, at $ lO --------- Births. vg b9j3l' MORRIS—On the 3d inst., at Abbotscliffe Ifouse, jorri, Kent, the wife of John Morris, Esq., of the ° 1 of tb London, of a son. o w ife SAITTII—On the 4th inst , at 13, Victori a. - s tree , , 0 - Warrington Smyth, F..R.S of a son. wife S T RONG—On the 4th inst„ at 1 7 , Ilanley-road, the Charles E. Strong, E, q., of a son. _ ens. aINOLDS—On the daughter of c James Reynolds, S~~'~t; LAMBERT—r • , t K e rrac i (.11, Kensington Park, Alfred James Lambert, 2 2, rtcvi elc iesl tbourne-park, Esq., to Edith Elie g ar Bayswater, Esq. Pr ir WELCH—BELL—On the 4th list., at Trinity ChaPetH' , ° ton, William Welch, of Springville, Lancaster, -.1.0., nolds, w, Penabridge-g' of Annie Septimia, daughter of the late Rev. as. Bell, 4th inst., s t A.ll 6s3tic.elv 8, Vassall Villas, Holland-road, BriXtol3. Deaths. BLANIsTON—On the 4th jest at Mobberley Hall, CheOile' Major John Blakiston, aged 82. 4 1, 13rig 11- CARD—On the sth inst at Brunswiek-plito Nor.-, E lon, Robert Card, Esq., H.C.S., aged 71. ~, 1 , s tree t ' R C BUTT— On the 4th bast , John Erbutt, at 29, 1-lig`* -- roydon, aged 81. - heA d HiGos—On the sth inst., at Orchard 'Villas, 143ide° John Higgs, Esq., J•P• for the borough, Villas 67. INTo rtir AN obnroTorooK—On the 3d inst., at Stratton, Lady -.- W .solicit ATTS—On the Ist inst., Edward Watts, Bsq ., 6° Hythe, aged O. ----- —______—_—_-_ __.----<---_, 4 n -01V - • London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN'INO. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE Sus 011'C' cti Q 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill the CO midav,F;ex.—ThurodaF, June 0,1801.