The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

INQUIItY INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE EXPEDITION. "A lie, a lie," is the ready answer to all charges of mismanagement in the Crimea, but something more than this easy contradiction is due to the public, to the autho rities concerned, and to the character of the country. If a thousandth part of the mismanagement were charged against a union workhouse or a gaol, there would forth with be a public inquiry into the facts, an the truth would be put beyond doubt one way or other by the weight of evidence. Is blame due ? and if due, where due should be the question. No one has a right in this case to be stoically indifferent to unmerited obloquy; much less to accept it, for a false impression that the troops are suffering grievously, and that thousands have perished for want of care and proper manage ment, is a cruelty to their relatives and friends, and a foul disgrace to their country in the eyes of the whole world. Long ere this, steps should have been taken to put the truth out of dispute or the shadow of a doubt, either by a commission of inquiry, or the personal inspection of a competent authority. There are two War Ministers here at home, like the two kings of Brantford, smelling at one nosegay, and one of them might surely be spared to see with his own eyes the state of the army before Sebastopol, and how its affairs are conducted. A month would have been well em ployed on such a mission, and the result would either have laid the foundation for a most important reforma tion, or would have disabused the public mind misled by , prevailing reports, and thus have relieved it of its anxie ties and fears. This is not the occasion for the ministe rial beast of being thick-skinned, and careless of injus tice, for it is not only their repute that is concerned, but the lives of thousands, and the feelings of many thou sands more to whom those lives are dear. The truth is due to the country, due to humanity, and the truth must appear in some form more substantial than mere contra diction. For official denials have lost credit with the public, who have found them untrustworthy in so many instances relating to the comforts and necessaries of the men, and the treatment of the sick. There has been no wilful untruth in these cases, but a misplaced reliance upon the execution of orders, the home authorities proposing and others disposing. A certain place is said to be paved with good intentions, and pre eminently like it is Balaklava, the limbo of unsupplied supplies, the huge dead package office, where all wanted things lie rotting in cold obstruction. The excuse is that only one ship can be unloaded at a time ; but if private interests instead of public interests had been concerned, can any one doubt that the sides of the basin would have been scooped out, and wharves constructed? And Lord Raglan knew what the capabilities of Bala klava were when he made it the basis of his position, and chose it with the disadvantage of its very limited space for unloading, if he did not see the way of obviat ing that difficulty. All the consequent sufferings should therefore have been foreseen, and the much-vaunted march to the south was, in effect, a march into this slough of despond. Balaklava is literally the mouth of our army, and if the mouth be too small to feed the body, all the results have been the natural and necessary conse quences of the choice of the port, supposing that the de fect could not be remedied, which we exceedingly doubt. But that was not all ; not only was the mouth tee small for the body, but the threat soon became impracticable, the road as bad as the landing. Yet the first reflection that must have occurred to any observer capable of reflection must have been, what will be the condition of this road after a little wear, and with the first we t ? What would be thought o f the wits of any individual who selected a port for his merchandise without sufficient landing room, and who allowed the first winter rains to turn his road into an impassable quagmire ? We must not be told there was no choice ; there was choice, and the choice was made, and with it were also chosen all the necessary consequences and evils. If the eye of a needle be selected as the archway for a camel, it can be no wonder afterwards that the passage is somewhat too strait for the purpose. But when the bad choice was made for want of better, was there no help for it, sup posing that the port did not allow of enlargement ? We have borrowed of our generous allies—borrowed help to make a road, and to convey the sick, and could we not have borrowed also the facilities of their well-ordered commodious harbour and landing ? The interest was a common one in the supplies necessary to the health and efficiency of our troops. Another excuse for the state to which the army has been reduced is, that its strength has been overtasked in constructing and manning works which require the duty of every man in the trenches every other night at least, while the French do not take their turn oftener than once in 9 days, or thereabouts. Bnt this evil is like the capability of Balaklava. The consequences of the works too large for the troops should have been as much foreseen, ies those of the port too small. And might not our Allies have been fairly asked to take charge of the part of the lines which exceeded the strength of our army? If, instead of a separate command, the armies had been under one head, this is au arrangement which would have been made, as a matter of course, to equanee the duties ; and the way to di m i n i s h th e evils of a sepa rate command is to act in all practicable cases as if it were undivided. When the armies were flrat disem barked, the English somewhat exceeded the French, and probably when they broke ground before Sebastopol the shares of the position were not unfairly assigned to the respective forces ; but siace then the French have doubled in number, while the English have dwindled and declined, and this fact equitably calls for a redis tribution of the parts and readjustment of the toils. It is because the English army has been tasked be yond its strength in manning extensive works that it has not had the men to spare for labours for the supply of its vital wants. For example, could troops be occupied in making a road from Balaklava,l while the trenches called for every man once at least in twenty-four hours, and sometimes oftener ? And hence it is that stores have been sent to Balaklava, to lie there to about as much purpose as if they had been shot down a well or into the sea. There has been a scarcity of fuel to add the very worst suffering to the other privations of the troops, while coal fields abound at Heraclea, within easy distance by steam, but it has probably been objected that coals in depot at Balaklava would be almost as much out of reach of the army as coals at Newcastle, the means of transport , for three short leagues being wanted. Vegetables, so essential to the health of the men are not to .be had, though procurable within an easy distance by sea, and no doubt for the same reason. The coffee is still served out green, a cruel negligence for which there can bo no pretext of excuse, after three months of com plaint. The general diet is salt pork, which conduces to dysentery and other disorders of the bowels. The huts have arrived, but do not find their way to the ground where their shelter is so much needed. Some of the warm clothing, the generous supply of which was so much vaunted, has indeed been served out, and see the account which the correspondent of the Morning Herald gives of these comforts : " I can hardly think that the authorities at home sent out the things by way of a joke ; yet they never could have sent them in the serious expectation that they would keep the men warm. Each soldier has been supplied with one flannel Guernsey shirt, one pair of gloves, two pair of socks, and one woollen comforter. Now lam aware that these things look well when only written down; but the articles must be ' seen to be appreciated.' In the first place, the flannel shirt is about the thickness of an ordi nary silk pocket-hankerchief, and will wear about ten days or a fortnight. When it is gone, the men have had their 'winter clothing,' and must do without the little warmth it afforded as theybest can. The same remarks apply to the socks. The gloves aro good, if they would only last ; but for the work our men have they require at least five or six pairs for the whole winter. But the crowning absurdity , is the ' comforter !' It is a strip of very fine gaudily coloured wool, about two inches wide and three feet long, about the size of an ordinary brace. Literally it would not make a decent neck-tie for a child. It is useless for the authorities at home to try and contradict what I have now asserted. I have many of those articles in my possession, and as specimens of ' winter clothing' for a campaign they are certainly the greatest curiosities I have seen in the Crimea. The officers laugh at the things, and ask, is this really the supply about which so - much fuss was made in England, and for sending which the home authorities got such praise ? The men look on them with perfect contempt and disgust, and willingly exchange their whole stock of winter clothing' for one comfortable bread-bag." This representation may be true, or it may be false, but the truth whatever it may be should be known. " Pudet hnc dici potuisse et non potuisse refelli." It will not do to trust that such statements are not true, or to suppose them impossible in the teeth of evi dence, for unfortunately tho testimony comes in such force and with such authority that it will not be refused. An officer writes to Colonel E. Napier, so lately as the Ist of the month, as fellows : "The work our men go through is terrific. It is all trench work, as guards ; our men are never more than twenty-four hours out of the trenches, and often only twelve. A man, f or i nstance, parades at four p.m., marches down to the horrid trenches, remains there till about six o'clock next morning, gets home about o'clock. When the weather is wet their sufferings se e v i an tense—no cover, and the mud it is impossibl e to desacrriben; they are so worn out that, if allowed, they lie dog in the mud and sleep • bat our advanced trenches aroso m posed they dare not P be allowed to sleep, and it is heart breaking work to be obliged to go about kicking the poor fellows up. More than once the Russians have sneaked out, caught our men in the advance, and bayoneted them as l e ep. So we are obliged to be on the look-out, being within, at eight, I should say, 100 yards of their advanced sentries; you can hear them talking perfectly. They are a cunning lot. A short time ago they came out in force— came up a ravine on our left—where the French ought to have been, and, as we thought we re . Th ey talked French, and throw our sentries off their guard, over powered them, and took our advanced work in reverse, killing and wounding about forty. The guards in the n rn • trench came at them with the bayonet, under al addy, of the 50th, and drove them o ut in splendid Style. Poor Moller, of the 50th, field-officer in the advanced work, was killed, and two officers taken prisoners. The i junior field-officer s a lways in advance, and requires to keep a sharp look-out, I assure you. The sufferings of the (of _w_hic morn have had a great deal) men in wet weather are beyond description. Thising our state is as fol lows : 313 Rank and file fit for duty 134 Siek in camp ............... Ditto, at Scutari, or IlelsklaTa 309 756 "If this goes On much long er we shall have no men left. We have lost f rom cold, wet , and hanger, since landing, 152 men; our casualties in the trenches are wonderfully few, only three killed, and about ten wounded. You will be surprised to hear me talk of hunger, but it is true ; our Commissariat is so badly organised that the men often hnve had no meat for twenty-four hours; often short supply of biscuit and coffee ; and when they do arrive it is at such uncertain hours that they 'ever have had, I may safely say, a regular meal since being here. We are very badly off for fuel, the men having to go d a long way for the most miserable twi gs ; o f ten we have ha to march strong fatigue parties to our port (Baleklava) seven miles through mad to be seen only her e , to bring up their rations in their haversacks—cruel work for men overworked in those trenches. Their boots are sucked off their feet in the mud, they have no change of clothes, and how any man can stand it I know not. Fur instance, I was on duty in the trenches the other night ; it rained and snowed all night ; wet through and cold, we waded through a river of snow and slush to our tents, about a mile and a-half up hill, dead beat. I heard the men com paring notes ; mono of them had a change, and they cams to the consfortabie conclusion of turning into their tents, white with snow outside, and damp inside, to lie down in their wet clothes and rest ! Poor fellows, my heart bleeds for them !" half-crowns, ens shilling, and a fourpenny piece, wrapped up in a piece of paper in an old stocking. At this discovery Mrs. Harrison became quite agitated, for her husband did not know that there was any money in the house, as he had previously spoken to the officers about going to the Garrick Theatre, where he was at work as a carpenter, for his wages." In the case of Mallett, who was found guilty en the charge of robbery and assault, Mrs. Harrison received 1/. 10s. at the Mansion-house, 11. ls. for Old Bailey ex penses, and 15s. collected for her by persons at the Bull Tavern, Aidgate, who sympathised with her. The inspector has received further information which is confirmatory of the atrocious perjury upon which the charge against Mallett was brought forward, and imme diate steps will be taken by Sir It. W. Carden to pro- cure his liberation. Something has been done towards the improved care of the sick, and mere still remains to be done, but it is now certain that the representations which were stigma tised as malicious falsehoods were too well grounded. Lord Raglan has displaced one medical officer for neglect of ditty, and censured another. This, so far as it goes, is right ; but we should be glad to see some praise as well as blame, and that the meritorious ser vices of medical officers do not escape notice more than their faults. Was a word of honour given to the memory of Dr. Thomson for a noble example, who volunteered the charge of 700 wounded Russians on the field of the Alma, assisted only by a single servant, as devoted to duty as himself ! This hero in the cause of humanity died of cholera, imnaediately referable to his exertions and exposure amongst putrefying- bodies. Had he lived, would he have obtained the praise which is bestowed on a staff officer for galloping with a message on the field of battle, or for helping the Commander-in-Chief in doing nothing in a soldiers' battle and ♦ictory t It is too well proved that our army pines under " the cold shade of the aristocracy." The smallest services of the men with names and positions are over weeningly prized, the noblest services of the unconnected and humble are un noticed and unhonoured.—Examiner. THE ART OF LITHOGRAPHY. Thera are few, Sally, of the arts of the present day which have made such rapid progress towards perfect development as that of lithography, or printing from stone. The progress of this beautiful branch of illustra tive art, and the gradual steps by which the reproduction of the works of -le artist, with all their effect and colour, has been facilitated and cheapened, are peculiarly interesting. Within a period little more than a quarter of a century the first crude specimens of Senefelder, the inventor of the process, have developed themselves into the rich and beautiful productions of Mr. 0 wen Jones, such as those which illustrate his "Alhambra," "Flowers and their Kindred Thoughts," and the many charming pictorial works which issue daily from the presses of Messrs Day and Son, Mr. Hanhart, and other eminent lithogra phers of this country, and the exquisite works from the imperial establishment at Vienna. Although it would be interesting to trace the effect of the various discoveries of such men as Baron Aretin of Munich, Count Lasteyrie of Paris, MieHulmandell, and others, and the experience of such artists as Nicholson, Prout, Harding, Doyle, Hay ter, Sir WM. Ross, and others, our space suggests the propriety of noticing only the present position of the art, as illustrated by the specimens which are constantly before the eye of the public, and which now almost com pletely fill the windows of our printsellers. Chromo-lithography, or the art of printing from stone in 'various colours, is the latest development and appli cation of this useful and interesting process ; it is, in fact, an extension of the original invention, which enables the printer to reproduce the works of an artist in the same colours, and to a great extent with the same pic torial effects, as are seen in the original work. Perhaps the most successful and extraerelinary of the works yet produced by this process are copies from Turner and Roberts, printed by Messrs. Day and Son, in 15 colours. The mode adopted in the printing and preparation of the stone is the same as that required for the ordinary lithographic engravings. Upon the smooth surface of a peculiar description of soft and porous stone, chiefly obtained from the volitic formations. on the banks of the Iser and Danube, the subject to be printed is care fully drawn by the lithographic artist. When the draw ing upon the stone is finished it is etched into the stone with diluted nitric acid, and coated with a thin solution of gum. When the prints are required to be struck off the surface of the stone is wetted, and the printer's ink, applied by means of inking rollers, being of a greasy nature, adheres only to those parts of the stone on which the subject is drawn, and from this ,the impression may be taken on paper in the ordinary mode of printing. There are a 'variety of details, which differ in some de gree, required for the production of what is ca'led " chalk mode," by which the drawing upon the stone is made with a band crayon, made up of grease, soap, lampblack, wax, and other substances; by this process is obtained those beautiful gradations in tint and colour which characterise many of the finest gems of musical albums, and the pleasing crayon sketches, and studies of heads, with which the public are so familiar. The colouring matter in the crayon is merely introduced for the convenience of the artist ; a perfectly colourless chalk, provided it conta'ned a sufficient amount of grease, would answer the purpose equally well, but it would not of course be so convenient to the artist, who requires to have his drawing made visible. From three to four thousand impressions may be obtained from one of these chalk drawings upon a stone. A. second pro cess consists in the use of ink in a fluid state. This plan is adapted for the production of plans, surveys of estates, writing, or any description of work where great fineness of outline is not required. Lithographic copies of works of this description may be produced with surprising ra pidity. By a third process, the surface of the stone is covered with a groundwork of red chalk, upon which the finest lines of the engraving required to be printed are made more distinctly visible—they being black—and these lines are graven or cut into the stone with a dia mond or sharply-pointed needle, the incisions being after wards filled up and printed from. This mode is employed for works where great care and nicety are required, such as drawings of machinery, engineering plane, which contain much minute detail, and works in which the lines are required to be finely and correctly drawn. There is finally the transfer mode, where the drawings or writ ing are made upon paper covered with a preparation of paste and alum, which serves as the vehicle for receiving the greasy ink. By far, however, the most important and difficult por tion of the work of the lithographic artist commences when he is required to produce fac-simile copies of works in oil or water colours, possessing the same hues and shades as the original required to be copied. During a recent visit to the establishement of Messrs. Day and Son, in Lincoln's-inn-fields, we saw a number of works of this class, to complete which twelve, fourteen, and, in some cases, sixteen different plates were required. The great point to be obtained in works of chromo-litho graphy is such an amount of precision in drawing that, al though a combination of tints may be employed, yet that the lines or vanishing points of each tint shall be com pletely lost. By the combination of great artistic power skill in manipulation, and an extensive subdivision of colour, a most perfect gradation of tone and surprising blending of parts may be obtained. The various mani pulations required are exceedingly interesting. The ori ginal drawing having been transferred to the stone, by means of paper covered with red chalk, the lithographer then draws upon the stone with a greasy ,chalk or ink, as the case may be, the whole of the outline of the sub ject, and as much of the shading am he may think neces sary. When the drawing is finished in blaok and white, EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF PERJURY. By the direction of Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Commissioner of the City police, the circumstances of an alleged robbery, of which a man named Mallett was found guilty last month, have been under inquiry for some days, and Sir R. W. Carden, who committed that person, on evidence which appeared to be conclu sive, has entered into the magisterial investigation with great earnestness. Inspector Scott, of the Bishops gate station, together with the detectives Jarvis, Finnis, and Watkins, all of whom are officers of well known experience and sagacity, were employed ley Mr. Hodgson, the superintendent, to sift the matter of accu sation. The following will disclose the important par ticulars : On the 11th of December notice was given to the police that a woman named Harrison, the wife of a stage carpenter, had been violently assaulted and robbed in her own house, No. 2, Bull-yard, Aldgate. Upon pro ceeding to that place, the officers found Mrs. Harrison with her hands tied together, about four inches apart, with the cord twisted round between her hands. She said that a man knocked at the door and asked for Mrs. Har rison, and told her he had brought some work from his sister, and that upon being asked to walk in he did so, closed the door after him, blew out the light, and demanded her money, at the same time presenting two pistols at her ; that he then struck her with a large stick which was in the parlour, on the back of the head, knocked her down, tore her pocket, and took from it about a pound's worth of silver, after which he dragged her along the floor, jammed her between two chairs, and then left her, went upstairs as far as the first floor, re turned, and then went out at the street doer. A man who partly answered the description was shown to her, but she said he was not the guilty person ; but she sub sequently pointed out Mallet in a penny theatre as the thief and assailant, and that uafortnnate man was ap prehended and convicted, and sentenced to transporta tion for 15 years. A. coraplaint of robbery, under somewhat similar cir cumstances, having been made some days ago by the same woman, Inspector Scott immediately communi cated the suspicions to which the particulars he had heard gave rise, to the higher pol:ce authorities, and after a strict enquiry made, with the assistance of the other officers, whom we have named, made a report for the information of the commissioner, to the following effect. Tke last robbery and assault were stated by Mrs. Harrison to have taken place on Monday evening, the Bth instant : "I received information at this station about seven o'clock on the above-named evening that Mrs. Harrison had again been robbed and assaulted a short time pre viously, and went immediately, accompanied by Sergeant Launderson, to her house. We saw her being brought down stairs, apparently in a very weak state. On in quiry she told me that she went upstairs to the second floor rooms with an infant in her arms, leaving another child, four years of age, asleep on the sofa-bed in the parlour. No person was in the house, the female lodger having left the house about ten minutes before, when she fastened the door inside with a chain ; that on her return te the parlour, with the child on one arm and a candle in her hand, she faw a man and a buy in the parlour, and ,during the short time (ten minutes) she was upstairc twn hnvaa tlio pit/1011r were broken open, and the contents were strewed about the room ; that the man, who wore a mask, struck her in the face and made her nose bleed ; that in the struggle she pulled the mask from his face, and threw it in the pas sage, when he said something to the boy, she did not know what. That she identified the man, after pulling off the mask, as the person who had offered to her a sovereign about the time of the examination of Mallet, who was tried at the Old Bailey for robbing and assault ing her on the evening if Monday, the 11th of Decem ber last, when sentence of death was recorded against him. She said that the boy cut her shoulder through her clothes with a knife. After which she ran upstairs with the child and candle, followed by the boy, who had hold of the hair of her head, pulling her all the time until she arrived in the second-floor room, where he pushed her down whilst she was crying 'Murder !' and 'Police !' That he then raised the window, and stepped out, and that the man was down stairs all the time. That that was all she remembered, only that, going upstairs, she heard some one upstairs at a small back window, which she heard broken, and some of the pieces which fell upon her. the stone is sent to the printer, who, after chemically preparing it for the operation, takes ff as many impres sions as there are co l .ours required to perfect an imita tion of the original. These impressions are laid, whilst moist, upon a corresponding number of supplementary stones, and passed through the press ; by which means the outline of the first stone is printed off upon each of the remaining stones of the series, and the artist is pro vided with an outline upon the latter, identical with that which existed upon the keystone. Carefully analysing the amount of each colour in the original drawing, and noting the points of its predominance—where, in some cases, it is allowed to appear pure, and in others to enter only into the composition of broken tints—the artist proceeds to indicate upon each stone, in black chalk or ink, the requisite amount for each separate colour. Great care is required to bear in mind the succession of these;tints, and to melee alto wance for it, sinceit is obvious that the last printed, by itsgreater or less degree of opacity, may tend to kill all printed; has been done before. Great at tention is likewise required in orderthat, when the various stones are worked together, the filling in of one colour shall exactly meet the space occupied by another, with out either overlapping and producing dark edges, or leaving white lines or gaps between each tint. The printer's responsibility now commences; if the stone be washed with acid of too great a strength all the deli cate lines will disappear ; or, if etched with too weak a solution, there will be a general tendency in the tints to clog up and become overcharged. Great care is neces sary, too, in attaching the paper upon which the impres sion is token to each of the stones, so as to cause the colours to fall into their proper places ; and considerable practice is necessary before the requisite dexterity can be attained in this respect. By means, however, of an ingenious registering apparatus, much of this difficulty is now overcome, and mistake rendered impossible with ordinary care. A. walk through the two' extensive establishments of Messrs. Day and Son will convey a striking idea of the present extensive use of lithography. Several men are continually employed, and the resources of the esteb lishment are upon the largest and most extensive scale. In the lower apart men t s o f th e building, very appropri ately called th e "Q uarry ," are c lassified and arran ge d somewhere ab o ut one th ousa nd tons of lithographi c stones, each preserving on its smooth and stony sur face some pictorial representation, or written record of past times. For six months each stony tablet bears its record gr a ti s , b u t a ft er thi s p er iod the trades man , the official, the surveyor, the engineer, or the artist who would wish his works preserved, must pay his annual tribute to the guardians of these subter ranean treasures. Failing this tribute, the stone re appears once more in the grinder's room, and there the record is for ever obliterated by ruthless hands, who, with the fine sand from Hampstead and Reigate, grind, and rub, and grain and polish the stone like so many marble polishers, until they fit it again for the reception of some cherished work of the hand or brain, again to multiply it by thou:-aeds, and again to repose forgotten amid the dust and silence of the ,‘ Quarry. ' In the upper room s of the extensive establishment are been printers engaged in producing copies of tha large print of the " Attack on Eckness" in four colours. Next, "The Arrival of the French Fleets in the Baltic ;" the first impression was black, then blue was added for the sky, then came the warmer tints, and then yellow, which finished the pic ture. The next print was one of unusual size, 40 inches by 27 ; it represented the laying of the foundation-stone of the new harbour at Guernsey, and contained no less than 316 actual portraits of persons present, besides the various accessories of the scene. Next again were presses busily at work in printing a sketch representing Lieutenant Lucas throwing the shell overboard in the Baltic, one of Dolby's sketches from the seat of war, published by Colnaghi and Co. Then the picture of the " Gleaners, in 12. colours ; and most remarkable it was to see the different sheets progressing from the first few yellow patches, through the different colours, till it became the finished picture. By the side of the " Gleaners" others were printing the attack on Bomarsund, anotherof Dolby's sketches ; and close by, the bombardment of Odessa. The next press was striking off some of Centre's charm ing views of Yorkshire abbeys, and its neighbour was producing Admiralty sketches of the plans and surveys in the lat Arctic kearcb. Then there were others print ing the smaller and pretty watercolour pictures of Jen kins' " Pick me up " and " Put me down," which, when printed in twelve colours, would be mounted upon largo paper, and attract the admiration of thousands ; and op posite was another press issuing its fancy posting Inn, on the subject of metallic bedsteads, and a variety of other subjects to the merits of which the owners or in ventors desired to call public attention. Some remarkably fine copies of the drawings by Lieut. Gurney Cresswell of Arctic scenery—for a second edition has just been required—were in course of completion in an adjoining room ; and in another department was a monster press at work—the largest in the works—print ing off a series of life-sizelanatomical drawings, from the skeleton to the completed structure, showing all the in ternal and external arrangements of that most wonderful of all machines—the human being. These plates 10.1. e printed upon paper made expressly for these engravings, each sheet being more than twice the size of double elephant, and the engravings are for the use of the stu dents at Marlborough-house. In this case zinc plates are employed instead of stone, as it would be impossible to obtain stone of so large a size as 7 feet by 4 feet. One department of exceeding interest was that in which artists were engaged in making copies of the original drawings forwarded by the artists of this establishment from the Crimea and the Baltic. Among other originals which we noticed were those of Mr. Simpson, repre senting the march of the allied troops to the Alma, the , " The result of the searching inquiry into the whole matter is the following :—Having minutely examined by means of a rope and ladder the roof of the house, and more especiallythe second-floor window, from which Mrs Harrison states the boy escaped, we could not discover any footmarks on the sill of the window, nor on the water spout, to indicate that any person had been there at al!. The dust from the dry weather having accumulated on those places, the slightest touch would have left an impression. The window on the second-floor is about 22 feet from the ground, and it could not be lifted up more than a foot, so that no person could slip ont without falling into the street. The spout be neath the window is five inches wide, and is seven feet from the coping stones on the roof. It appears to be impossible for any one to have escaped this way to the house-top, without assistance, and then it would be even dangerous. In reference to the small back window which Mrs. Harrison stated was broken when the boy was pursuing her up stairs, great pains were taken, and a most minute examination was made of the glass and window, when it was discovered that nearly all the glass had fallen outside in the gutter, evidently broken from within. " As regards the assault, I inquired of Mr. Cook, a surgeon, residing in the Mi nor i es , w h o was a t t h e h ouse of Mrs. Harrison l!rn the night in question, whether the wound in the right shoulder was cut ? He said there was no incised wound, and that the shoulder was merely scratched with something very slightly. On comparing the dress and chemise worn by Mrs. Harrison at the time of the alleged assault with the scratch on the shoal sier, Mr. Cook, in the presence of Jarvis and Finnis, stated that, beyond tho least doubt, the incision in the two garments would not correspond within three inches, ucr was there any blood on either garment, and the scratch on the shoulder was in a contrary direction to the cuts in the dress and under garment. The blow on the nose was very slight. Mr. Cook said that any person could have inflicted upon themselves marks of a similar nature with their own hands. "A surgeon, named Blackman, of Whitschapel, was present when Mr. Cook examined Mrs. Harrison, and he said he was positive the woman never received a blow in the face at all. As to the man whom Mrs. Harrison left down stairs, no one ever saw him, nor could the mask be found. A waiter and a man named Romain, from the Bull Tavero, immediately opposite Mrs. Har rison's house, said that upon hearing a female scream in that direction, they burst open the street door, which was chained inside. Romain ran up stairs with some other neighbours, and found Mrs. Harrison lying down with the child on the ground. The waiter remained at the door until the police bad searched the house, but he saw no one come out of the house. If they had, he says he must have seen them, as there is no place where any person could escape from the rear of the house, the rooms being all in the front. With respect to the robbery, I and the officer examined the boxes, and found that they had been furced open with a chisel, leaving marks of rust behind. Subsequently a chisel (used by Harrison in his trade) was found in the house, which exactly fitted the marks in the boxes, and upon this chisel is a mark of rust corresponding with that on the boxes. Harrison said at first he lost 21., but afterwards he said it was only four half-crowns, three shillings, and a fourpenny piece ; a black coat, torn in the sleeve, two dresses, not made up, and that in the coat-pocket were a handkerchief and a pair of gloves. Steps were then taken to trace the missing property. The coat and one of the dresses were subsequently found pledged, and from a description of the person which the pawnbroker gave, it was supposed to be none other than Mrs. Harrison herself. Mr. Cook, the surgeon, was asked if Mrs. Harrison was in a fit state to appear before a ma gistrate at the Mansion-housel He replied, he considered she was. We then requested her to attend to state the par ticulars of the occurrence which happened to her on the evening in question. She did so, which is as t a k en down in writi ng b y M r. G oo d man, the chief clerk ; and Mri. Harrison and her husband and the pawnbroker were confronted in the presence of the magistrate (Sir R. W. Carden): He asked Harrison if the scat produced be longed to him I He said he did not believe it was his. His wife interrupted him by saying, ' I am sure it is not yours.' Harrison said, The gloves and handkerchief are mine.' The magistrate then asked the pawnbroker (James Lames, of Aldgate) who pawned the coat. He said (pointing to Mrs. Harrison), That woman.' She exclaimed, Me ! The pawnbroker said, ' Yes, you. It was pledged on the 4th of January by yourself ; a young woman was in the shop at the time you were there, and after you were gone the woman asked me if I knew you. She then told me you were the person upon whom that outrage was committed in the Ball d. ' The pawnbroker said he knew Mrs. Har r i son from seeing her in I k w n his shop t u wo ve o r rti v r e e l e l: tim T e w s o before. I S e he t r h e s p , 1 i n e o d m `Yes, a n d e e u h p e 1 , e e r d e then were produced also pledged by thheypamrwngt s: broker, which ev Harrison, as her then lo namearubheeidnf andon onein a of b the ox wero duplicates.ioun found three house * Not a private joint stock bank, like the Bank of Eng land, but a Government Issue Department. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1855, cavalry charge at Balaklava, the late storm and ship- ' wrecks in the Black Sea, and other subjects of intense interest at the present moment, which will in due time make their public appearance. The department for printing from engravings on copper and steel is also extensive, and there we saw many of the finest plates and copies of the choicest engravings which have been produced for several years by this enterprising firm. No better idea of the amount of labour required to produce an extensive and first-class work in chromo lithography can be obtained than from some facts con nected with the publication of that magnificent work, " The Industrial Arts of 1851," so successfully edited by Mr. Digby Wyatt. The number of plates in the work was 160 ; the great number of colours for any one sub ject was 16, the average of the whole seven. The whole edition printed consisted of 1,300 copies. In order to Produce the required number of plates the printers were required to pull the work through the press 1,350,000 times, after every one of which pulls the stone was re quired to be thoroughly cleansed, and the paper re-ad justed for the register. There were 1,069 stones, weigh ing nearly 30 tons, to be prepared, and drawn upon or engraved with the most perfect accuracy, and the weight of the paper consumed was 17,400 lbs. SEPTE "Warwick Doncaster 11 *.Leicester l9 OCT' MBE R. York-terttaro{ On the 19th inst., in StanhoP, t o Major William Downes Spooner, 3 Guards, aged 78. Newmarket F 0 ......... 25 *Northallerton ............27 tkl t 1 01 14 ti h ° 1 ' 4 4,Ei nc etc, kajZ_ a 1 / 44 171 *Chester 2 *Wrexham 4 Bedford 4 Newmarket 0 ....., a LONDON : Printed and Published flit il of No. 112, Strand, Printer, ` g :l4l Strand, in the Precinct of the or , mitialuox, Alon(tay, Jauttarf IBER. *Warwick Autumn 26 *Richmond l7 Newmarket 11 22 *Worceder 3O L 0 U D i p ..••••"' Vt . . , vra 111 1 -, TC SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COUNTRY MA- 8 -a' tiki p iL; 4.—_____ ' ' oo - 1 4 -- lel' . t th•4lll EPSOM SPRING MEETING, MARCH 22. WEIGHTS for the GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES. For- The ll s A up D p D ly lN of G w T i O le N at .CaOnr,bai3lleAyßLEsltnciiegi,o4' 14"---e„_Oxi; , et• S Ales feits to be declared on or before the 30th of January. and beans larger, han in lase, mare • 0 0.. , e t , 100 Two miles and a quarter. witeer. I takeoff I e ce e Whore Age st lb A .c, st lb First Bos Od 35s 3 d, 2 5 e 1 0 '; be ze Poi e Ratapian Virago qa , eele erl Muscovite The Nabob ''',...„...... Balrownie r 4. A es. _ Little Harry 69 0 Bellingham 46 2 t, P P beaus • f „00 , •AU ft] AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL Q. I I ', k oe , Goorkah - %lio n ' Talfourel 5 8 5 Border Chief 3 6 0 Wheat, 3/. 11 0 2-12ths I Barley, • . . 2e 5 , e, eie jeri Scythian Ne es - 7n Joe Miller - es„ET- -4° ' 4 ; 14 DALKEITH GRAIN MIR I. %zee Epaminondas 4 7 13 Remus Bracken ...........4 711 Corcebus - • a , Od .." lee e‘y , E., Jonathan Martin 47 le Redemption 00s v" .. ..' ktee,;, ii 3 512 I ' 4o Oats Wild Huntsman... 4 7 10 Saucebox oos Oel .... ~e ee ' rt ee eee ( i 772 Barley 353 6a Mincemeat 4 710 Cock of the North 3 512 30 Peas & beans 483 Od oos C ki " le " 4 -Pie Winkfield ti h t ed I La Belle 5 7 7 High Priest lanthe ABEADE — EN - --- - Jeal• 1 ?" 0 0b1. it • -- ----...5 141 a 7 7 Nell Gwynne ... 35 10 There was a large attendance, and '''' re p' oy A Star of Surrey Royalist 4 7 6 VandalOets, s 41 , 14 3 5 9 The prices of grain to-day aro— ,_ ess'a • 0 re Kaffir 4 7 6 Julia— Launcelot 3 5 7 10 lbs pet bushel; new oats, 25s Oil lo er I , e i. bpd or Catspaw 5 7 6 , Cloud 3 5 7 bushel; bere, 303 Od to 303 6d, 5311. is y_ st,i e , a kth k r nu oi •-,, , e c Dr. O'Toole ~, ea 1 ,, Newbold Neville , ' 1 7,,X . 4 . .. f ; 3 5 I flour, 56e Od to 57s Od per sack. Pr °l/1 1, ° ail , (18,7 411 1' Cali ph Cardigan (late Mo- Neoptolemus 3 5 4 pork, per lb, Os 6d to Os 0,1; salaion, eer e le, , . I .„ eli rsla nieMoses) Boddicot 4 6 13 Cossey - Mishap Lamprocles - 4 613 Lancewood 35 3 4s ° 4d ; chickens . , ditto, 2s Orl to 2s 6 , ' ; to 0 r e k yle Postulant 5 6 12 Kettleby 3 5 2 to 3s 61 ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od e , 0 5 1 0 ~ Conte Quince 80 § ltt , Gamekeeper Huruguffin Per dozen, 8,1 to Od • 41b loaf, 9d. ; 00 test.es el The Exile of Erin 4 6 10 His Piper ...... .., 3 4 12 Seducer 3 4 7 lamb, per qr., Os to 03 Od; cheese, P e . ga l TN The Yore Sir James Graham 4 6 10 Imogene 3 4 7 -- . tole Jack Sheppard ... 3 6 7 Homily . 3 4 4 DUBLIN, JAN'. 17 * a '' e • ns , , A lt .11 Rotheram (dead) 5 7 4 wheat, at market to-day. Wheat of Pr , fe el , ' Llefiltla -- supported the currencies of Frid iy la s. a o p e r The CITT AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. To be run before scripti ns 6d. to is dearer. Prime 01 t 0 5 ,...e 1e :-. 4. 3 , 1 the Metropolitan Stakes. Last mile and a quarter of maintained their price, but distillees as ; '`a a . e...... the New Derby Course. Forfeits to be declared on 3d to 6d. cheaper. Indian corn met p . ; the 30th of January. of ls to is ed per qr. 1 63° ' i ' • °A) White wheat, 41s 01 to 44s Od ; re , to 0 , I! Age st lb Age st lb barley, 16s Od to 20s Od ; oats, 13s 6d a ~,ill fe Virago Rataplan The Nabob 6 9 5 Saraband Scherz e Balrownie Meteora ' 4B 8 Testy The Early Bird... 4 8 8 The Yore - „e t t Vindex Marsyas .. 4 8 4 Remus Orinoco 4 * • Calamus Grand Inquisitor 48 0 Robin Hood it Frantic o'e r Fi f Tillt ,t ner i ca (bylt r it.pack)N Every Frida - i • • j et; Scythian 4 712 Billingham 4 6 4 cllleriCP, key United Sts. . f•O r . Wild Huntsman.. 4 7 10 Cavalier Winkfield .........4 710 Rambling Katie 3 6 2 tmerica (by U. States . gall packet) ..........N .. .• .. • • Epaminondas ... 4 710 Titormus - .. SO° ' r 44A lanthe .. po ol , • , Humboldt _ a .— 4 7 7 Mary 3 6 0 ditto (via Marseilles) N Jan. 9 ......... • Hobbyhorse H Cardigan Hesse Cassel 47 6 Topsy 45 12 kiexandria..........N o, 9, 2 , 1, 130 oi ,' • ~o il t, : d ,1? Maid of Team Vale ' Elastic Bahamas ... ........ Al 17th of the mouth 00 4,4 ley Wilford Kiteflyer ~, ;ape ot cnioci I lop:. ..1‘ A i 1111,1 15 r Eulogist 5 7 5 General Picton ... 3 5 i ja p e of Good Hope ..N Star of Surrey Royalist ' 47 5 Noisy 35 7 Jeylon (see India) ' 1 * )4l'l e,et te°l Neville 3 5 7 's o nnet i51e5........jc ‘foo.,Wcd.,&Ftft;: S o ot ' lto:er tke, riati e- e ,41 Lady bird 0 , e wi Caliph 4 7 4 Sis. to Singapore 3 5 6 China (coo India) Ireland's Eye 5 "; Constantinople .. Snaresbrook - ~, . ,; e 1 ate, Nancy a 7 2 Flageolet - °t 1 101 l Pharos °lwo Iti Gibraltar ... ...... .D 1 4,7, 11, 20, 27 of a , 0 1 ' qt t t t- -1 Prime Minister ... a 7 2 Pantheon Hercules ' . I. l : l l t lt r pt ul lti Middlesborough .. 4 7 0 Velvet 0 Elavannah ... ...,, lnd of the mot I ij o seo o l • •• , te . ' Quince Postulant ... e.... 5 7 0 Hoddam 3 410 Honduras .........111 17th of the month. A r o , ~ Gamekeeper • New Brighton ... 5 6 13 India (via Marseilles) Ai ' 9 th& 25th of Moo . Doc' e_ ci l . jir otits e Eonian Isles (see India) 1, 17, &27 of In°' a o llf , ,The / 4 °I . , Ireland ~.......M & N ri,viCe daily •• F r ;: . golltii , . t. eet ter: ' NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY RUNT Li5b0n..............y, 7, 9,17, li". a ° ..., 30 0 ,00 1 , • 441 1 ' Iladeira ..... . ...111 oth of the Mt.. f oe , Sy s MARCH 27. Ifadeira ............... I , 23a of month .. ' 0, , 41 i, c 044 1,... no WEIGHTS for the GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. Halts (see India) DO tfr, 'Pen, Forfeits to be declared on or before the first Tuesday ee . a u tta ..............a - I, is, sees o f r° ° ''' ',. 'nib. 0, r , ' bll t —t h i, NI ritius (see India) ro on• 40 , in February. Two miles. gamettus ..........N 1401 of the f t . i5O -.,.• , ' Age st lb Age st lb Mexico •••• ..M ens nr the tt i l l onon• 7 • Virago - • • --- ..e. ibthl 6 g 4s ,„„„f won° w oo , . vow Granada ...... Ds 2d & 1 , , ,7ie soil' • • D oer . , , • Rataplan , Muscovite 6 9 3 Lady Pe 4 6 4 Papal States a ......ee reeeeseeleaocereee• ' sae , , r, ,ii A Little Harry 5 8 8 Boddicot - . ol T" °l ' . • 1 a, ' f The Nabob Defiance 5 8 5 Rotherham - ',, DO 0 . Pr 1 King of Trumps ... 6 8 0 Polestar 3 6 4 Sicily ..... ..... ....N 5.. ii i 5 tli2stliotoloi, . p t , \\,.......: Typee 5 8 C Seducer 4 6 4 ruacan .. „, 2; ith I:i t h25OlO ll D ° ;., ' , ::! ... 11 , Venezuela.,.... •111I2d SO 17th ofmontb • ) Scythian 3 Hungerford Early Bird 4 713 Incubus 4 6 4 irat Indies ........M 21:. , :. 17th o M ont l• ... Meteora 4 711 Gamekeeper 4 6 3 , Goorkah • Epaminondas *Alonzo a7 9 Vandyke o,ol ' : '-.... 4 _ , SA ,„ d i 2 , . Jonathan Martin... 4 7 8 Redlands Cardigan Neville Royalist 47 4 Neoptolemus 4t N4 e tr ry 4 q % 4 -----4 ses rter N.N.E. ..... else- -•VBtv reii Aldford .._ ......&ii Weathercock Winkfield 4 7 4 Roseberry Bracken 47 3 Sister to Singapore 36 1 Lancaster . N.E.......... 1.. 1 1 ,„t. b Newbold - .. are ~ e.: Mortimer Black Swan 5 7 1 Rodo-meli 4 6 0 Sheffield .... Eros N.E .......... , e a e, ? Hercules Lerrywheut - •'k N.E fr di. to - - _.,. Lady Vernon - yros"' 'le. a. Ethelwolf Kaffir 47 0 General Picton 35 l , Great Grimsby E. •— - b.o r ti e ,°P ~_'-e...:. .. La Belle Ireland's Eye t pe re ) lanthe • Ladybird Billingham .........4 612 Lincoln's-inn Fro 'he I 'l 4 [ St. Clare Naomi Kidnapper., 46 11 Duke of Hamilton 35 8 Cambridge N.E. Her d \ 4 .lgs , Gemmed. Charley 46 11 Saucebox Little Davie 6 610 Communist .. N.E. ......... . 9 t. 4 4 - et , Lamprocles The Exile of Erin... 4 610 Hazel 3 5 5 Ipswich Cold' le Sir James Graham 4 6 9 Harry of Hereford 3 5 5 Dublin E. Diana 4 6 9 F by Collingwood, Bristol N.E. Fr° s ,? ea Ir a ve l e er ee44 , , Gamelad Tower a6 8 Pantheon Little Tom ........5 6 7 Laura Selina 3 5 4 Gloucester Bianca htty ~ N 4, Fro° f, I : 4 4 r4 tY Quince Nicholas 34 12 Southampton N.N.E...... bow' %ee l ie y e Mishap fie° . :°,p 4 t1 0 ,!1,e 0 I Jacqueline Bc by Lanercost, out Fionn -ma - Conl Winchfield S.E. of Hydrangea ... 46 6 (dead) 57 0 Aberdeen . E. a The horse marked * having been entered without the Dundee cla , , knowledge of its owner, will be struck out by the time P erth Edinburgh E. N.E. ..... • prescribed, unless specially ordered to remain in. Glasgow FioNN-MA-Cour,—This horse died at the Curragh on Berwick Sunderland ' l.°6 cif' 4 4, 7 444 E. the 16th inst. epe,. ,IN , 4 41 , 4 N Darlington S. Scarborough cloo z te, ee le e - Verily the handicapper at Chester and the handl- York Hull N.E capper at York display a wide difference of opinion. For New castle N.E.... ..... Thi el , i ii ' 110 1,.. the Metropolitan Stakes, an event which is decided as Strood N.E. ..... ... -Rini'tioYei, 4lo7:110 early in the year as March, the scale of weights is Tunbridge fixed as high as lOst 21b, whilst for the Chester Cup, Dover E. / 4% 4 lil l ee k 'lttg, which is run for in May, Zeds only raised to 9st. That 0' , ,I . t!ri et . e t lle i the Handicapper employ at Epsom has a " pet MANSLAUGHTER IN GRAY'S 1.55 ,; 0 54 1 itl. . /1 117 e hle 1 4 11 theory" is well known, but be will on this occasion Mr. Wa'cley cone:u led at the 'tine k lee ll tkor t i , , • . ne es vie tee ei re le fail to reduce it to practice. Judging from the man- Gray saurercad, a protracted i _ e _ t ee • , 11•t‘ , 4 t b c n u a m m s e t d a nees Mary connected Kell w h i o th the t r y ' rae il e f t, , te t Ti ltile, 4 ,4 :o 4l nor in which the imposts ha ye been allotted, I am inclined to believe that the acceptances for the Me- had latterlycohabl y ted w with w a a brie l•ll4 s, d ito kit ltlr the ' 4 l ) ' 4 1 11 44. 1 4 % tropolitan will be comparatively small, and the field Hearn, at a low lodging-house, in e , .4 k rt ; 44 • n e ,- -09 proportionately insignificant. the neighbourhood of Gray's-inn' 3 ool4 titt2t44l frequently been in the habit of i ll s . e tc . ki eene ekh. The weights for the Great Metropolitan appeared in no company with her in Fox-court, nn a it , 4 t 0 7 4% t 4, other paper than The Sun on Saturday evening. when, after some words had en% se o o. . ..cttht A FRESH MAN. was seen to give her a violent kick I A O., 1 :42, Saturday Evening, dO B f l et fell back heavily, as if in a fit, an - O,, ,4) 44 ritt ---• away. She was convoyed in a et' 3 e t: e l .ee RACING FIXTURES FOR 1855. the Royal Free Hospital, but ni ) fold •Ik r br ie, there by the house-surgeon she W3 : 0 0 r 1:14, MARCH. Coventry • death had been caused by interne'', a et; N, 4 14 .11 4 1 , k i . Salisbury Doncaster 13 I Northampton Thirsk l5 I Croxton Park e 29 committed to Newgate for trial. a e Z 1 :, et , APRIL. '' 41. 4 Newmarket C 9 Melton l 9' '' BI.R 2' .II 5 ' i e l Catterick Bridge 11 Newmarket F S 23 Ilke York Spring 17 OF A SO l4 ' . fo of 4 44* I On the 17th inst., at Cowes, the s'i l lie • MAY. en. kit ) LI P• moister, M.D., surgeon to the , (Pe - tit t , h et ke Chester Spring 1 Bath l5 e le e : OF A DM:JO-IV —S. V, eke etz e, t t Newmarket S S 8 Epsom 22 • Ob tt N, On the 20th inst., Mrs. Henry kra 0, krie *Shrewsbury 10 * Manchester 3O , te` t e e ler tee tt bilir JUNE. „i, I, kt 1 44 1 / 4 2h Ascot 5 Stockbridge 2l Ai ARR I . 1 0- ''' clo o r 41 1 - g 1 Ss 4 Hampton l3 Wi nc h ester 22 O n th e 16th inst., J. W. Johue, r A , t e e e, CI Bibury air park, to Esq., late of Orchard-street, Portln 00000 la JULY. On the 20th inst., at St. Georeq e o° 4 '6 ;k b Wl e Newmarket Carlisle 3 I *Stamford Worcester Esq., of Brafielcl House, Bucks, a u ' 'mel ee * Lancaster e g o s Re AUGUST. - -. ne ( e e te t Ztee te Et North Staffordshire 7 I *Lewes l6 DI E D t , • 4fi 411 4 e t, Brighton Brighton Club lO *Egham 28 On the 14th inst., atWorthin . g , ''Fric N, tar * Wol verha m pton •' l3 *Derby 2B Leach, C. 8., formerly of the Riti ° J e ro e c i elt le 411 41 * Reading l4 On the 26th ult., at Malta, N.„r•4 1 ,11 b i li l4 tik t, On the 16th inst., suddenly, 1". t, a ' AA i i . D ora POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Jlll. 20. LAMBETH.--Clusrler Lyon, a middle-aged man, who has for some time carried en the business of a green grocer in the Old Kent-road, was placed at the bar on a charge of murder in having caused the death of bis wife, Jane, by kicking her in the groin with his hob nailed boots, and causing such serious injuries that she died of haemorrhage. The first witness called was George Leonard, a painter, who deposed that he knew the prisoner and his deceased wife from living opposite to them for some time. On the evening before, at about 5 o'clock, when returning home, he saw the deceased, Mrs. Lyon, hurried across the foot pavement, as if she bad been forced out of the door of her husband's house with great violence, but she did not fall. He did not see who it was that pushed her out, as he was not in a position to do so, but the instant she was pushed out the door was closed. The deceased returned to the doer, and commenced to knock for admittance ; but finding that the door was not opened to her, she came over to his (witness's) house, in a very weak and ex hausted state, and sat on the door step. 1 quantity of blood which he (witness) observed to flow from the lower part of her person, after she had been forced from the house of her husband, still poured from her, and by this time, from the quantity which he had observed on the road , he should have thought she had lost at least two quarts. The prisoner at the time opened his door, and calling out to the deceased, said, " You are drunk." She repliPd, " I am not drunk, look at the blood ;" and he said it was not blood, lt mor. iiirA water. Mr. Norton—How far was the prisoner from his wife at that time ? Witness—About ten yards. The prisoner then went inside his house and shut the door, and witness sent his nephew for a policeman, he himself being engaged at the time in supporting the deceased. A policeman came, and, seeing the state of the deceased, he crossed over and went into the house of the prisoner, and soon after the constable and prisoner came across the street. The prisoner, addressing his wife, said, " Will you come in ?" and she said, "No, you are my murderer ; you have murdered me." The prisoner made no reply to this, but went back to his house again. He returned after shutting up his house, ond, again addressing the deceased, said, " My dear Jane, will you now come in ?" and she said, " No." The pri soner took her in his arms, and carried her across the road to his house. At about 10 o'clock the witness went to the prisoner's house, and he then found the deceased just breathing her last, and in fact he saw her die. The prisoner was not present at that time, as he had been removed by the police to the station-house. In reply to the questions of Mr. Norton, the witness said that he had known the deceased a long time in her business, and had never observed her the worse for liquor, nor had she any signs of liquor on the evening before. The prisoner also appeared sober. Police-constable Wells, 271 P, corroborated much of what had been said by last witness. Sergeant Mann, 25 P, said he was on duty at the sta tion-house, and took down the charge against the priso ner. In reply to it, he said that drink was the cause of it ; that his wife went out to purchase a bonnet, and came home the worse for drink. The witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner was remanded for the attendance of the surgeon and other witnesses. QUERIES ON MONEY, BY BISHOP BERKELEY. Now that the Bank Charter, and with it our whole monetary system as established by Sir Robert Peel's Bill, is likely to undergo scrutiny and reTi sion, the following queries, by so profound a thinker as Bishop Berkeley, may suggest some definite ideas on the nature and use of legal tender or money. Whether the use and nature of money, which all men so eagerly pursue, be yet sufficiently understood or con sidered by all ? Whether the four elements, and man's labour there:in, be not the true source of wealth ? Whether money be not only so far useful as it stirreth up industry, enabling men mutually to participate in the fruits of each other's labour 9 Whether mosey is to be considered as having an sis trinsic value, or as being a commodity, a 'standard, or a pledge, as is ♦ariously suggested by writers / And whe ther the true idea of money, as such, be not altogether that of a ticket or counter ? hether the term livre, pound sterling, crown, &c., are not to be considered as exponents or denominations of such proportion ? And whether gold, silver, or paper, are not tickets or counters for reckoning, recording, and transferring thereof ? Whether the denominations being retained, although the bullion were gone, things night not nevertheless be rated, bought and sold, industry promoted, and a circu lation of commerce maintained? What makes a wealthy people Whether mines of gold and silver are capable of doing this ? And whether the aegroes, amidst the gold sands of Africa, are not poor and destitute ? Whether there be any ►irtue in gold or silver other than as they set people to work, or create industry ? Whether power to command the industry of Others be not real wealth ? And whether money he net, in truth, tickets or tokens for con►eying or recording such power, and whether it be of great consequence what materials the tickets are made of ? Whether to promote, transfer, and secure this com merce, and this property in human labour, or, in other worts, this power, be not the sole means of enriching a people • and. how far this may be done independe n tly o f gold and silver ? _ _ Whether a fertile land, and the industry of its inhabi tants, would not prove inexhaustible funds of real wealth, be the counters for conveying and recording thereof what you will—paper, gold, or silver Whether the opinion of men, and their industry con sequent thereon, be not the true wealth of Holland, and not the silver supposed to be deposited in the bank of Amsterdam ? Whether, in order to undgrstand the true nature of wealth and commerce, it would not be right to consider a ship's crew cast upon a desert island, and by degrees forming themselves to business and civil life, while in dustry begot credit, and credit moved to industry ? Whether such men would not all set themselves to work? Whether they would not subsist by the mutual participation of each other's industry ? Whether, when one man had in this way procured more than he could consume, he would not exchange his superfluities to sup ply his wants ? Whether this must not produce credit ? Whether, to facilitate these conveyances, to record and circulate this credit, they would not aeon agree on cer tain tallies, tokens, tickets, or counters ? Whether it be net agreed that paper hath, in many respects, the advantage above coin, as being of more despatch in payment; more easily transferred, pre served, and recovered when lost ? Whether the sure way to supply people with tools and materials, and to set them to work, be not a free circu lation of money, whether silver or paper ? Whether the great evils attending paper money, in the British plantations of America, have not sprung from over-rating their lands, and issuing paper without discretion, and from the legislators breaking their own rules in their own favour, thus sacrificing the pub lic to their private advantage ? And whether a little sense and honesty might not easily prevent all such in conveniences? Whether there are not to be seen in America, fair towns, wherein the people are lodged, fed, and clothed, without a beggar in their streets, although there be not one single grain of gold and silver current among, them. Whether a discovery of the richest gold mina that ever was in the heart of this kingdom would be a real advan tage to us ? _ _ _ Whether, therefore, a national bank* would not be more beneficial than even a mine of gold ? Whether counters be not referred to other things, which, so long as they keep pace and proportion with counters, it must be owned the counters are useful ; but whether beyond that, to covet or Talus counters be not direct folly ? Whether we are sufficiently sensible of the peculiar security there is in having a bank that consists of land and paper, one of which cannot be exported, and the other is in no danger of being exported ? Whether money could ever be wanting to the de mands of industry if we had national bank ? Whether paper doth not, by its stamp and signature, acquire a local value, and become as precious and scarce as gold t And whether it be not too much fitter to cir culate large sums and therefor e p re f era bl e to go ld ? Extracted front Bishop Berkeley's Querist. Whether it is not a first function of Government to provide the subject with a money in which to pay taxes, seeing paying taxes in anything but money is ill ega l ? that Whether Exchequer Bills, if brought down in amount to ten pound, five pound, or oven one pound debenture notes, would not make an unexceptionable paper money ? Whether the mere announcement on the face of the note, that it is legal to tender for debts and taxes, is not enough to endow such paper with the functions of money, the stamp with the signature of a Government official authenticating it as a legalised issue ? Whether our colonies do not suffer from want of legal tender, to save them from a condition of barter ? And whether the settler ought net to kayo advances on his harvest, as yet unreaped, that he may live in the mean time ! And whether he ought, as in the case of the Canadas, to be left to the mercy of the usurer I If a country abounds in raw material, in timber, in stone, brick, clay, and lime, and, moreover, in skilful and 1 1 industrious workmen, need it be stopped in its progress of wealth by want of money should not the Govern ment provide the shade w —money, to keep pace with the substance—wealth. NEW ORDERS IN CHANCERY. The following new general orders and rules of the High Court of Chancery, dated the 13th of January, 1855, have been issued by the Lord Chancellor : " The Right Honourable Robert Monsey, Lord Cran worth, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and assistance of the Right Hon. Sir J. Romilly, Master of the Rolls ; the Right Hon. the Lord Justice Sir James Lewis Knight Bruce, the Right Hon. the Lord Justice Sir George James Turner, the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, and the Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, doth hereby, in pursuance and execution of the powers of an act of Parliament passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled An act to amend the Practice and Course of Proceeding in the High Court of Chancery', and of all other powers en abling him in that behalf, order and direct that all and every the rules, orders, and directions hereinafter set forth shall henceforth be and for all purposes be deemed and taken to be general rules and orders of the High Court of Chancery, viz. : " INTRODUCTORY. " 1. The course of proceeding prescribed by the 15th and 16th Victoria, chap. 86, and the General Order of the 7th day of August, 1852, with respect to the mode of examining witnesses and the practice of the Court in relation thereto, are altered in the manner and to the extent prescribed by these orders, but not further or otherwise. "2. The orders numbered respectively 31, 32, 33, comprised in the general order of the 7th day of August, 1852, and all other orders and parts of orders, so far as such other orders or parts of orders are inconsistent with these orders, but not further or otherwise, are hereby abrogated and discharged. " 3. All former orders and parts of orders not specified in order 2, so far as the same are now in force, and con sistent with these orders, are to remain in full force and effect. " EVIDENCE. "4. It shall not be competent for the plaintiff or any defendant to require, by notice or otherwise, that the evidence to be adduced in a cause shall be taken orally, but when issue shall have been joined in any cause the plaintiff and defendants respectively shall Ls at liberty to verify their respective cases, either wholly or partially by affidavit, or wholly:or partially by the oral examina of witnesses, before one of the examiners of the Court, or before an examiner to be specially appointed by the Court. "5. The evidence on both sides in any cause to be used at the hearing thereof, whether taken upon affi davit or orally (and including the cross. examination and re-examination of any witness or witnesses), is to be closed within eight weeks after issue joined therein, ex cept that any witness who has made an affidavit intended to be used by any party to such cause at the hearing thereof shall be subject to cross-examination within one month after the expiration of such period of eight weeks. "6. No affidavit or deposition filed or made before issue joined in any cause shall, without special leave of the Court, be received at the hearing thereof, unless within one month after issue joined, or within such longer time as may be allowed by special leave of the Court, notice in writing shall have been given by the party intending to use the same to the opposite party of his intention in that behalf. "7. In suits in which issue shall have been joined when these orders take effect the evidence to be used at the hearing of the case shall be taken according to the present practice of the Court, unless the parties shall consent, or the Court shall order, that the same shall be taken in the altered mode prescribed by these orders. " AFFIDAVITS. "8. All affidavits, whether to be used at the hearing of a cause, or on any other proceeding before the Court, are to state distinctly what facts or circumstances de posed to are within deponent's own knowledge, and his means of knowledge, and what parts or circumstances deposed to are known to or believed by him by reason of information derived from other sources than his own knowledge, aLd whet, such courees arP. " 9. The costs of affidavits not in conformity with the preceding order are to be disallowed on taxation, unless the Court should otherwise direct. "10. These orders shall be deemed to apply as nearly as may be to evidence taken after the hearing of a cause, as well as to evidence taken previously, and with a'view to such hearing. "11. These orders shall take effect on and after the 21st day of January, 1855. "CRANWORTH, C. " JOHN ROMILLY, M.R. "J. L..KNIGHT BRUCE, L.J. "G. J. TURNER, L.J. "RICIARD T. KINDERSLEY, V.C. "JOHN STUART, V.C. " WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, V.C." LAMENTABLE CATASTROPHE IN ST JAMES'S PARK. -FOUR LIVES LOST. A lamentable accident, involving the loss of four liven, occurred just before dusk on Saturday evening, upon the ornamental water within the enclosure of St. James's Park. The frost of the last 48 hours had coated the surface of the water with ice on Friday and Saturday morning. In exposed situations the ice had attained the thickness of two inches, but it was, however, very unsafe, and the officers of the Royal Humanes Society and the park keepers were busily engaged in marking the weak por tions with the usual danger-poles during a great part of the day. Shortly before three o'clock, a gentleman, while skating near the ferry became immersed, and for a considerable period was in a position of great danger. Upon being rescued he was very much exhausted. number of other slight accidents took place during the afternoon, but nothing worth mentioning until half , past three o'cl oc k, w h en a dreadful c a ta s t ro ph e occurred upon that portion of the ornamental water immediately in front of the Horse Guards, and only a few paces from the entrance lodge. This portion of the ice had been marked " dangerous " early in the day, but it was found impossible to prevent a crowd of boys and young men from sliding upon the edges of the water, and, as the afternoon advanced, the more foolhardy grew ad venturous, and crossed the lake to the wild fowl island, near to which there was some ice of considerable thick ness. It was a treacherous spot, however, and at the hour mentioned, while a number of young men and youths were disporting themselves sliding, one of the party fell, and the concussion consequent upon his contact with the ice caused a fracture through which he and three other unfortunate fellow-creatures were in an instant precipitated. The utmost alarm was occasioned among the crowd near the spot, and a loud cry was raised for assistance, but before the Humane Society's officers arrived, after struggling vainly a few moments on the surface, all four patties sunk under the ice. As soon as the Humane Society's officer arrived at tempts were made to find the bodies of the missing parties, and the whole of them were very soon brought to the surface. As befora stated, no hot baths were ready in the society's marquee, in consequence of which the bodies had to be conveyed acro3s the park to the Westminster Hospital, where the usual remedies were applied without effect. Only one of the deceased had been recognised up to 8 o'clock in the evening. This was one of the three con veyed to Westminster Hospital. His name is John Lin ton, aged 15, of 5, York-place, Gravel-lane, Southwark. He was identiaed by a young companion who was with him in the park, and remained until the body was re covered. The other parties at Westminster Hospital are thus described :--A youth, aged about 17, dark hair and com plexion, dressed in a rough blue pilot overcoat, jean jacket, underneath blue vest, grey cotton stockings, and Blucher boots ; and a youth, apparently about 16, of fair complexion and hair, dressed in brown jacket and blue cloth cap; had on a pair of silk stockings. The body at Charing -cross Hospital is thus described : A young m an , age d a b out 20, of dar k complexion and hair, 5 feet 6 inches hig h black cloth sporting jacket, corduroy trousers, nowaistcoat, and Blucher boots. There was nothing w h a t ever f oun d upon him. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.— The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Capt. W. Harrison, sailed from the Mersey, for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails, for the United States and British possessions in North America, 99 passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on freight. 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