The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-08 00:00:00

trb SUN OFFICE, Sevcn o'Clock. .11xpuLsIorr OF THE CORRESPONDIINTS OF THE FRENCH PRESS F ROM THE CRIMEA. MARSEILLES, Feb. 6.—By the arrival, yesterday afternoon, of the mail steam-packet Ganges, which sailed from Constantinople on the 29th ult., we learn that General Canrolsert has ordered all the correspondents of the French press to quit the Crimea, even one who had brought a letter of in troduction from a Minister holding a high position in the councils of the Emperor Louis Napoleon. Se had likewise published an order of the day, commanding the officers who should write to their friends to desire them not to give their letters for public& tion. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 20 to 1 agst Dalkuith (taken) GREAT METROPOLITAN. 6to 1 aget Pharsalas (7 to 1 taken) 15 to 1 agst Paletot (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 aget Lord of the Isles (taken) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 6 apt Andover (taken) 20 to 1 agst Rotherara (taken) 33 to 1 aget Bright Phoebus (taken) 50 to 1 agst Schamyl (taken) No Derby betting, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CRANORLLOR took his seat on the woolsack about five o'clock. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for certain returns connected with the administration of the poor laws in Ireland. The Earl of Aberdeen and the Duke of Newcastle here entered the house, and took their seats on the front bench on the Ministerial side of the house. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from New Zealand, praying to be relieved from the debt that encumbered that colony. THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA. Lord LYNDHURST stated that he thought he should best consult the wishes of the house and the country by withdrawing the motion of which he had given notice. Marquis of CLANRICARDE suggested that during the adjournment of the house some statement of the actual condition of the army in the Crimea should be drawn up to some certain date. Earl GRANVILLE, in rising to move the adjourn ment of the house, passed a high eulogium upon the noble lord the Earl of Aberdeen and the Marquis of Lansdowne, and said that as ht was to be the organ of the new Government in that house he was happyto inform their lordships that three days ago Lord Palmerston had been called upon to submit a list of names for a new Ministry. That duty had been performed, mad had received her Majesty's approbation. As far as the internal matters were concerned, they would be identically the same as those of the last Government. The prominent object, however, to which the wisdom of the Govern ment and Parliament would be directed would be to carry on the war with the utmost. energy and effect, and their exertions would never cease until they had secured for this country a fair and honourable peace. Th. Earl of DERBY - said that the motion of the noble earl gave him the opportunity of explaining the ()ours° he had pursued during the last few days. He thought that the country had a right to know that the duties he had been called upon to perform had not been lightly taken up or lightly laid down. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.) The Sntaireit took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Tlyde Original Gas Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY BILL. Oa the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. RILDY.A..RD moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time this day month. Mr. CHAPLIN and Mr. HUTCHINS opposed the amend ment. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Beckett, Mr. Lahouchere, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Hen ley, Mr., Scutt, and Mr. Macgregor supported the amendment. The amendment was carried without a division. PETITIONS. Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition from Lin coln against the Beer Act of last session. Mr. lIUTT presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, complaining of the manner in which the transport service is conduted. LIMITED LIABILITY. Mr. COLLIER, seeing the right hon. the President of the Board of Trade in his place, begged to ask him whether it was still his intention to bring in a bill re specting the law of partnership on the principle of limited liability ; and if so, whether he could give any informa tion as to when he would bring it in I Mr. CARDWELL said it was his intention to move for leave to bring in such a bill, but he was not prepared to say whether he should bring it in on Monday or not. However, he should lose no time in bringing it in. INSPECTORSHIP OF PRISONS IN IRELAND. Mr. MACARTNEY wished to ask the Chief Secre tary for Ireland whether any vacancy had occurred in the office of Inspector-General of Prisons in Ireland, by the death, resignation, or superannuation of either Messrs. Councilors or Galway ; and in such case of va cancy having occui red, at what data the same had been filled up by the appointment of a successor. Sir J. YOUNG was given to understand that Mr. Galway had resigned, and that the vacancy had been filled up by the Lord-Lieutenant. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. RICH asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he was prepared to lay upon the table a copy of the offi cial document upon which he founded his statement yes terday—namely, that at the time the last reports left the East there were under arms 28,200 men, independently of the navy and marine brigades, and exclusive o f a ll men in hospital, at Balaklava, and elsewhere. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had made the statement upon the authority of the mili tary department, and he would rather sot answer the question until he had again consulted that department upon it. (Hear, hear.) As he was on his legs he would take the opportunity of intimating the course it was proposed to take with regard to the pro gress of public business. If he gathered the general impression of the house yesterday rightly, he thought it was the wish of hen. members that no business of im portance should be proceeded with until his noble friend who bad accepted the office of First Lord of the Trea sury should have bad an opportunity of submitting him self to his constituents. Now, should he be elected, it was hardly probable that he would be able to take his seat until the middle of next week ; but it was thought yesterday that it would be a great convenience, as tending to the despatch of private business as well as to assist in advancing the necessary Ways and Means Bill for meeting the exigencies of the public Exchequer if the house were to meet from day to day in the meanwhile. Being, however, anxious not to put the house to that inconvenience the Treasury had looked carefully into the matter, and they found that it would be possible to make _ the necessary provision for the public service, provided the house did not adjourn for a longer period after to-morrow than Friday week. (Hear, hear.) . He should therefore propose to move such an adjourn ment, and he would now give notice of the order of busi. nese for to morrow week. The first subject an the order Paver, , then, would be the Navy Estimates , then the 'TM, Estimates , an d after that the committee on the . ei :willaper Stamps. He was happy to say that he now mend t Z:d- a confident expectation that his right hon. Vint Lord of the Admiralty would be in his Plate to. morrs _ would, pet er w week to move the Nary Estimates. It as well as the for the convenience of the Speaker of the usual hour , se if they met to-morrow at 12 instead Colonel SIBT.t 'Sumner to 4 o'clock. ttußle was right that the house should to know whether it • period in the present state otulda adjourn for so long a of supply. The house then went into e P o m i ti e t affai " ! NAVAL ESTIMAT ES. "of 1 , 615,6001. On the motion of Mr. COWPER, ~•V• was voted out of the naval estimatenexcess an expenditure for the y ear endin g the 81st of Mr. WILLIAMS wished to draw the attent l i s : * of the Admiralty to a statemen t which he had receiv e d from from Plymouth, to the Sappers it out bQing t z for the and Miners had been di e s tr e ec b t irk-e'datnhaerareber. ofi provided been almost starved. Ho wished with fon l, atal kindness of a few • townsmen would have t to know whether such was coirac The question wal, however, not replied to by any member of the Government, NATIONAL EDUCATION. a bill Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leer() to bring in for the promotion of education in England and 11 , a es, which was agreed to. TAXATION OP MINES (IRELAND). Mr. J. FITZGERALD b r o ug ht in a bill to , • assimi late the law for taxation of mines in Iralaud with the 5..,,. ~Ipw of England. tj Ilii On the motion that the house do now adjourn, ....., -:''''' c 4 4. ti.t. :rs"il one l SIBTIIOR? was understood to amain corn - Z" 4 . tp.....- -4, 1 - Eigim 4 the length of time to which it was proposed .. ..t.',..t.' - 4 k ;T : .that::44o con sideration of the conditi on o f our b r ave el-2,:i.lle:734l4tlf o soPiffit the East should be postponed by the long ad tot-11::.‘ ~#li-,WWi l'.. pt feat of the house. f a few words (4\ from ;%11'. G. BUTT, alive to the , ' 4 :1:4: 1 1 , t;i1.V.,...tAT'l • ~;, _ _ TfO% lair LONDON TRIYANDAY NVIIWING FEBRUARY s, is different statements that had been made relative to the number of our troops before Sebastopol, Mr. S. WORTLEY expressed his deprecation of a repetition from day to day of statements from private and other sources with regard to the melancholy and desponding statements of the condition of our troops before Sebastopol. He believed many of these state ments were greatly exaggerated, and we had yet to learn that a single officer had written home in terms of despondency, although it was true officers had re ferred in their communications to the sufferings of their soldiers. Moreover, he did not see what purpose it was to serve. On the other hand, if another battle of Inkerman had to be fought, those who reiterated those statements from time to time might have to charge themselves with having, to some extent, in duced it. _ _ After a few words from Mr. BATLEY, Lord J. RUSSELL said he was not surprised that his hon. friend should have deprecated the making of the statements he had alluded to ; but, at the same time, it was not to be wondered at that hon. gentlemen on the opposite side should wish for some explanation of the apparent discrepancy in the number of our troops before Sebastopol between the accounts given in other quarters and the official enumeration given in that house. It was a mere mistake to sup pose that 40,000 out of the 54,000 men sent out bad perished. The latter number included the whole mass of effective men whom this country had sent out, but supposing there were 14,000 effective bayonets, ho thought some 40,000 or 44,000 out of the 54,000 might be very well accounted for ; and he believed that there was an effective force of at least 80,000 men at this time before Sebastopol. Alluding to the disgust he had experienced at the personal attacks made upon Lord Raglan, who, the noble lord said,,, was not only an able and experienced soldier, but felt the deepest sym pathy with the sufferings of the troops under his com mand, the noble lord hoped that the gallant general would not be in nay way affected by the inuendoes of a ribald press. Mr. Rica and Mr. VVINON also offered a few obser" ♦ations on the subject before the house. Mr. GLADSTONE said he scarcely felt it necessary, after what had fallen from his noble friend (Lord J. Russell), is explanation of the discrepancy between the official and other accounts of the number of our troops in the Crimea, to add anything to clear up the mistake, but he felt proud to assert that the 28,000 men whom he had referred to as being in the discharge of actual military duty before Sebasto pol, did not include a single Turk or sick man. He entreated hon. members to use the utmost caution in making statements with regard to the army, and to place as much restraint upon their feelings as possible, inasmuch as statements which emanated from them were under stood by the country to carry with them some degree o authenticity. [LEFT SPEAKING.] LETTERS FOR SALONICA BY TRENCH MEDITERRANEAN PACKET. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Feb., 1855. The French Government having established a branch mail packet from the Piraeus to Satonics, (Turkey in Eu rope) to sail on the arrival at the Pirtuus of the mail packets appointed to leave Marseilles on Monday, the sth instant, and thenceforward on every alternate Mon day, letters and newspapers for Salonica may be for warded by that route, if specially addressed "By French Packet vid Marseilles." The postage upon letters for Salonica so addressed, will be—Not exceeding 1 ounce in weight, ls. ; exceed ing 1 oz. and not exceeding t i oz., 2s. ; exceeding oz. and not exceeding oz. 3s. ; exceeding oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 4s. ; exceeding 1 oz. and not exceeding 11 oz., 5e., and so on, increasing one shilling for every quarter of an ounce. Newspapers will be liable to a postage of 2d. each. The postage both upon letters and newspapers for Salonica, when intended to be sent by French packet, via Marseilles, must be paid in advance. ROwLA.ND HILL, Secretary. NAVAL AND MILITARY MOVEMENTS AT MALTA. The various naval and military movements which have taken place at Malta are described in the following letters : _ _ _ " MALTA, Jan. 21.—A. motion was recently made and carried before the Government Council of this island, empowering the Admiral superintendent to act as a jus tice of the peace on occasions in which the transport service required the interference of the magistracy. The law has already been put into operation by the Admiral, the Hon. Montagu Stopferd, on occasions in which sailors have refused to do their duty. The advantage, of investing the Rear-Admiral with judicial power con sists principally in avoiding that detention to the ship which would ensue in case of an offence committed on Saturday being deferred for judgment until the ensuing Monday. "We have had a great many arrivals of English aid French transports since my last ; among them several with railway plant. 26th—The Black Boy screw steamer, No. 178. "The Prompt screw steamer, No. 1558, with ammu- Woa and clothing. " The Hydaspes, English screw steamer, from Mar seilles, with Commandant de Fontenoy, 9 officers, and 707 rank and file, French troops ; Mr. Pennington, an interpreter; the Hon. A. Paulet, Surgeon Bain, and Assistant-Surgeons Fraser and Cross, "The East Anglian screw steamer, No. 163, with ammunition and clething. "23th. - The Hydaspes, French steamer, from Mar seilles, with 324 French troops. "Die Alps, English screw steamer, from Marseilles, with 302 French troops. "The Carle Victorine, No. 523, French brig, with 22 horses and 16 rank and file. The Nemade, French ship, No. 522, with 32 horses and 20 rank and file. "The Edward, English ship, No. 525, with 46 horses and 47 French troops. • "The Ernerld, English ship, No. 533, with 44 horses and 46 French troops. " The Assyrien, French screw-steamer, with 64 French troops and 72 horses and mules. General Pelissier, to command the 2d Division of the French army in the Crimea (General Bosquet is to command the let Division), with his suite, and Generals Lafond and Revitt. "29th.—The Christophe Colonsbe, French steam frigate, with 21. officers and 1,000 French troops, under command of Colonel Bronet, and 40 Artillery horses. "The Bahiana, screw steam-transport, with the fol lowing strength of her Majesty's 82d Regiment, left for Corfu :—Lieut.-Colonel Robertson ; Major D. Waston ; • Captains Isaac, Marriott, Halliday, Wood, Collings, Baillie, Gordon, and Barrow ; Lieutenants Warren, Glynn, Biggs, White, Pilkiugton, Wilkinson, Hand, Browne, and Hensley ; Ensigns Thompson, Dickson, East, Marsh, and Spencer ; Paymaster Bernard, Quar termaster Clinton, Adjutant-Lieutenant Maule ; Sur geons Jacob and Peulden ; Lieut. De Vinues; Mr. Fer gusson, Rev. Mr. Crozier, aid Paymaster Cartmail, her Majesty's 71st Foot ; 692 rank and file, 82d Regiment ; with 2 officers' wives, 7 children, and 2 servant?. " 30th.—The Argo, Freneh transport, No. 035, with 20 horses and 14 troops. "Her Majesty's 'ship Bellerophon, from the eastward, arrived on the 27th, and is still in port. She had on board Assistant-Surgeon J. Moore, 6th Dragoon Guards; Captain Rose, 30th Regiment ; Surgeon W. Agnew, Lieutenants Blozam, RN., Dalby, R.M., and Lodder, RN., and 132 rank and file, and 78 sailors invalided. " Letters from Cerfu announce the arrival there of the Medway transport on the 22d, to conveylLMA 71st Regiment and the remainder of the 34th to the Crimea. " The royal yacht schooner Ertninia, with the Hon. E. Egerton, son of the Earl of Ellesmere, with stores for the army in the East, has reached the island. "Feb. I.—The screw-steamer British Queen has arrived on her way to Liverpool. "This afternoon the Clyde steamer arrived, bringing mails from the Levant, the regular mail boat having been sent with despatches to the Crimea, whence she had not retnred when the Clyde left. " Her Majesty's steam-sloop Spiteful sailed this morn ing for the Crimea, having on board Rear-Admiral H , Stewart, as second in command of the fleet. Lieute nant-General Sir George Brown and his aide-de-camp, Captain Jervis, Ma* Whitmore, Mk Foot, and Capt. Hamilton, 49th, also return to their corps by the Spite ful. "Among the arrivals by iho Clyde from the Levant is Colonel Horsford, of the Rifle Brigade," MORTAR EXPERIMENTS. Were you ever present, says a Mathematician, when an Ordnance Committee were carrying on experiments en great guns or the like I If so, you have probably seen the said committee represented by two or three old gentlemen who have long since [forgotten the little "gunnery" they once read :—ene thinks it is a pity to change what answered so well in the last war ; another is opposed to improvements on general principles ; while a third, worst of all, has a hobby of his own, to which he is so attached that he can see no merit in any rival plan. Now, sir, I do not begrudge any man his hobby, but when I knew it to be a restive beast, and when its owner insists on putting the kicking strap under its belly, instead of its usual place, it seems time for some one to tell him of his mistake. These remarks are called out by the reports of certain mortar experiments, in which blocks of indiarubber were placed under the mortar-bed to do away with the mischievous effects of the recoil. By this method the vertical part of the recoil is undoubtedly much lessened ; but any one with the slightest meehanical knowledge, practical or theoretical, must know that, when a mix tar is fired on board ship at an elevation somewhat without under 45 deg , it is the horizontal part of the recoil 7hih so shakes the framework as to render it in a sLoit time su re l rvico a hl e . .van_iantternpt to break the slioc7: of the recoil, can only at tg an Y attention to the horizontal action, undertake to try experiAnt cal principles. Trani ignorance of the simplest mcchani whothLtn understand what he sees and i t hen our governing bodies Why, t:, an, i s it, ventions, they do not call 'll t a he and test mechanical iti aid of some competent Practical men may think lightly of talaile:ta, quiexkceitettnent in slYUchthmeatter is that in In war_ scientific person, and igno j report intelligibly on the merits of the rant men may find some pleasure as well I a g s r o t l h ) i e n g s u i r o e s the t r d o a , c r i k et „ xop b es u til t .i , cee c tie t es r es ta gin i t i: ha tuLin.h a tisd . which smile° and experience like preparations particularly our country cannot afford to neglect any el ement of success, an d it would . from be found on trial that so me advantage may be derived tb,e suggestions of such persons. NAVAL AND MILITAPY INTELLIGENCE. The Edinburgh, 60, Captain Hewlett, arrived at Spit head yesterday afternoon ' at 3 o'clock, from Leith, to be refitted at Portsmouth for the Baltic. The Hastings, 60, Captain Caffin, will haul Gut of the fitting basin at Portsmouth, and go into the steam-basin to receive her boilers to-day. The Pembroke, 60, Captain Seymour, hauled into the steam-basin from Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and the Blenheim, 60, Captain Hall, was taken cut. The Crcesus, screw steam-transport, hauled alongside Portsmouth dockyard yesterday, and commenced prepa rations for receiving troops for the Crimea to-day. The Harbinger, steam transport, which left Ports mouth yesterday morning at 11, for Chatham, with in valids, put back to Spithead at 3 p.m. ; strong easterly winds and heavy seas. The Geyser, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Dew, left Spithead yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for the east ward. The Falcon, 17, screw sloop, Commander Pullen, has been rigged, and is nearly ready for swinging. Tha Rhine, line-of-packet ship, from the Thames, ar rived at Portsmouth yesterday, and sailed with a fine fair wind for New York. The Ariel. 9, Commander Luce, is ready to-day at Portsmouth to swing for the adjustment of her com- passeß, The transport Talavera, No. 93, Capt. Scott, in Ply mouth Sound, received orders yesterday (Wednesday) to proceed to Chatham. General Eden, Commander of the forces in the west, inspected the military invalids in the course of the day, and is seeking permission to laud and send on, at his own cost, 12 men belonging to the Guards, to which the gallant officer is attached. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Mate Henry Huxham (1852), to be Lieutenant, and appointed to the Nankin, 50, at Sheerness. Lieut. William Spratt (1854), from the Nankin, 50, to the Cornwallis, 60, screw steam-ship, at Devonport. Lieut. George Robinson (1855) promoted yesterday is appointed to the Pique, 40, on the Pacific station. • Lieut. Charles Waddilove (1849), Flag-Lieutenant to Rear• Admiral William F. Martin, and serving in the St. Vincent guard-ship of ordinary, at Portsmouth, is promoted to be Commander for rank, DEVONPORT, FEB. 7. The greatest activity prevails here in preparing the various ships destined to form part of the Baltic fleet of 1855. The shipwrights are working long hours, and throughout the dockyard and steamyard at Keyham the greatest bustle prevails. The Duke of Wellington will, it is expected, arrive here early next week. Lieut. Charles 'Wake (1846), recently serving as Lien tenant-Commander of the Bonetta, 3, brigantine, when on the south-east coast of America station, is promoted to be Commander for rank. Lieut. Julian F. Slight (1852), serving as First Lieu tenant of the Royal Albert, 121, screw steam-ship, os tke Black Sea station, promoted to be Commander for rank. Lieut. George T. Colville (1847), serving in the Rod ney, 90, on the Mediterranean station, promoted to be Commander for rank. The Prime Wardens of the Watermen's Company have made a return of the number of free watermen and their apprentices who are fit for the naval service, with a view to the ballot, should they be called on to furnish their quota of men to the Royal Navy, the com pany being bound by its charter to furnish 1,500 men to man her Majesty's ships in case of war. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--Feb. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCTI. THE QUEEN V. RHODES AND OTHERS-RIOT AND ASSAULT. Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Keane appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. Seijeant Wilkins, and Mr. Huddleston for the several defendants. The defendants in this case were indicted for a riot and assault. They pleaded not guilty. It appeared from the evidence adduced on the part of the prosecution that an election for commissioners for the ward of St. Mary Abbotte, under a local act for pav ing and improving the parish of Kensington, took place on the 4th of October last, at the Kensington Vestry kall. Mr. Reynell, a solicitor, was acting as presiding officer, and on the poll being losed at four o'clock, some of the defendants demanded to know the state cf the poll, to which Mr. Reynell replied that he could not mention it then, the act of Parliament allowing him until two o'clock the day following, the day after the election, to do so, but he would get it done as soon as ho could. Ho then endeavoured to get out of the hail, when the defendants called out "Shut the door, and don't allow him to go out until he has declared the state of the poll." Mr. Reynell was then hid hold of by them, and his coat torn, and ho was otherwise assaulted. A great number of witnesses having been called on the part of the prosecution, Lord Campbell, at the close of the case for the prose futon, said he thought it would be difficult to deny the assault after the great body of evidence which had been called, although it bad been done under great excitement, and it did not amount to a riot. He thought it would be better that there should be a verdict for an assault. Sir F. Thesiger said the oomnainsioners had not the slightest desire to press the case against the defendants, and if they would have absented to a verdict of guilty of the assault they would only have been required to enter into their own recognisances, the object being to protect persons who were necessarily employed in the perform ance of a duty. Lord Campbell eaid there was no premeditation, and they all knew the excitement of an election. In his opinion the commissioners had most properly directed the inquiry. Mr. Hall said he was the attorney for Mr. Rhodes, who expressed a strong desire that the case should go on. ee Lord Campbell was of opinion that the best thing Mr. Rhodes could do would be to accept the offer which had been made to him. After some consultation, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins said Mr. Rhodes had left the case in his hands, and of course he would accept his lord ship's suggestion. A discussion having taken place as to costs, Lord Campbell said no doubt the commissioners would waive any item of that sort. Sir F. Thesiger said if his lordship thought so he had no doubt the commissioners would assent to-that. •A verdict of guilty of an assault was then returned, and the parties entered into recognisances to appear for - udgment when called upon. ARCHES COURT. (Before Sir John Dodson.) HART V. HART.-SENTENCE. This was a suit of divorce, by reason of cruelty, brought by Emily Jane Hart against her husband, Francis 11 - art. Sir John Dodson, in giving sentence, said that the marriage had taken placo on the 18th of September, 1847, and that the parties had cohabited together at Tunbridge, Margate, Cheltenham, and other places, until June, 1848, when Mr. Hart had deserted his wife. A subsequent cohabitation took place in the month of April, 1850, which continued until the following July, when the defendant again deserted his wife at the White Hart Hotel, Bristol. Since then they bad lived apart. It was stated that Mr. Hart had concealed his resi dence' and that Mrs. Hart had thereby been prevented from bringing her suit until October, 1853. A libel was then given in on her behalf containing charges of gross cruelty against her husband. No defensive alle gation bad been propounded by Mr. Hart, who had contented himself with merely cross-examining the witnesses. Mrs. Hart, in her evidence, had deposed strongly in support of the circumstances alleged in her libel ; but the court, without meaning to charge her with wilful perjury, could not help thinking that she had much too highly-coloured some of her statements. For instance, her evidence contained an averment to the effect that she had been ordered by her husband to write to the trustee under her marriage settlement to send her certain docnmeate relating to some houses settled upon her ; that she had written to him accordingly, and that upon his declining to forward her the papers, her hus band had behaved with great violence towards her. She stated that he had clutched her so tightly by the throat that she could not speak, but that being near the bell she managed to ring it, and the servant who came in removed her husband's hands from her, saying that she would call a policeman if he did not de sist. This account, however, was scarcely consist ent with the deposition of the servant herself, who stated that upon entering the drawing-room she found her mistress sitting on the floor, with her back resting against a chair, from which she appeared to este'e slipped off. She was much agitated, and her master was stooping over her with a glass tumbler containing some liquid which smelt like spirits and water. Mrs. Hart ex claimed,"Look here, Mary ; he wants to strangle me," but the witness deposed that at that time he was not touching her. This showed that Mrs. Hart's account could net be implinitiy relied upon. So again in the eighth article, which referred to one of the earliest acts of cruelty alleged, it was stated that Mr. Hart had violently assaulted her in a garden at Margate ; and that Mrs. Killick, the keeper of the boarding-house where this took place, ha-1 inter fered to prevent further mischief. But Mrs. Kiilick was neither produced as a witness in the case, nor was it al leged that she was dead or unable to give evidence. It was said that she might have forgotten the circumstance, but surely if it had ever occurred that was not likely to be the case. The court, however , westbound to say that with respect to some of the acts of cruelty alleged there was corroborative evidence. He (Sir J. Dodson) was alluding to that which took place at the house of Mrs. Hart's father at Hereford. Mrs. Hart had deposed to acts of cruelty there, and she was confirmed by her sister, who was present on that occasion. Indeed, there could be no doubt that Mr. Halt had been guilty of gross acts of cruelty towards his-wife—acts that would have entitled her to a sentence of separation from him. So again with respect to the midnight scene, which was enacted at their house at Ladbroke-villas, Notting-hill. Mrs. Hart deposed that she was obliged to fly from the house and to take shelter in an outhouse or shed in the gs,rden of a neighbour, Mr. Hinchcliffe ; and that finally she bad obtained a dmission into 41r. Hinch cliffe's house, where she remained till the morning. In her account of that transaction she was confirmed by other witnesses, and the court was constrained to say, that although she had gone beyond what the facts would warrant in some portions of her evidence, she had satis factorily proved such acts of cruelty as would entitle her to a divorce, unless her remedy was barred by what had subsequently taken place ; more especially as Mr. Hart had not given in any evidence to rebut the testimony cffered on her behalf. The question, therefore, came to this, namely, whether the malicious desertion of Mrs. Hart by her husband, at Bristol, would revive the fer nier acts of cruelty which had been condoned by the reconciliation and subsequent cohabitation which took place about two months before that event ! That there had been condonation in this case there could be no doubt whatever. Not only had there been cohabitation, from which condonation might have been presumed, but there bad been an actual and formal condonation. There had been a reconciliation at Mrs. Hart's own solicita tion and desire. It appeared that she had sent letter after letter to her husband, begging him to renew the cohabitation, assuring him that it would give her the greatest pleasure and satisfaction to do so, telling him how unhappy she was at living separate, and using strong expressions of endearment towards him. These letters failed, however, to answer her purpose, and she they instituted a suit for divorce, on the ground of cruelty and adultery ; but subsequently she called at the house where her husband was living with the lady with whom she had charged him with committing adul tery. She bad an interview with him, and being assured that he was not guilty of that offence, she signed a sort of confession, in which she admitted her faults of temper, and declared that she would forgive and forget all that had passed, and promised to live with him in future quietly, soberly, and with a decent regard ta.hia.com fort. The question then arose whether the malicious desertion subsequently acted as a reviver of the former cruelty ! By the law of some countries malicious deser tion was of itself a ground of divorce. He (Sir John Dodson) learned from the valuable and excellent work of Mr. Bishop, of Boston, that such was the case in several, though not all, of the United States. Malicious desertion, however, was certainly not by the law of England a ground of divorce ; and no case had been cited to show that it would even operate as a reviver of former cruelty. It had been argued, and no doubt it was quite true, the lesser acts would suffice to revive former cruelty, than to establish an original case ; but then those acts must be ejusdem generis—of a nature to show that the offending party still entertained the same cruel disposition towards the party who brought the suit. In this case no such acts had been proved. It had not been shown that Mr. Hart, after the reconciliation, did any thing that would tend to establish a reasonable appre hension of danger to his wife, in life, limb, or health. On the contrary, it was clear that he had throughout manifested the strongest possible anxiety to get away from her, and that she had always been the party who was desirous of renewing the cohabitation. Under these circumstances the court must pronounce Mr. Hart to have been guilty in the first instance of such acts of cruelty as would have justified it, if the suit had then been brought, in granting a separation ; but it must a'so decide that those acts had been condoned by Mrs. Hart, and that they had not been subsequently revived by the defendant's conduct in nialic:ously deserting her at the White Hart Inn, at Bristol. He (Sir J. Dodson) felt himself therefore bound to dismiss the parties. Divorce refused. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Feb. 7. ___---- o--- James Mill, a man rather over the middle age, sur rendered to take his trial on an in , dietinent, in which h e age, who resides was charged with having assaulteu Emma Pane, with intent, &c. Mr. Metcalfe appeared o n behalf of the prosecution, had which was inbtituted by the p arochial authorities of Marylebone ; and Mr. 13 al l a ntine for the defendant. l i vTd b e a p s ros s e e c r u v t a r i i i x t w mr .a , s i e a gut ,3 16 d e y f - e e n ay an o t f ,n Alfred-road, Paddingt o n, she having been previously an inmate of Marylebone Workhouse. From her evidence in chief, and on cross-examination, it appeared that on several occasions the defendant had been guilty of ha. proper conduct towards her, by thrusting his hands into her bosom, but that which formed the subject of this prosecution took place on the Thursday preceding Christmas-day. The defendant's wife was out, and the girl went into a room whore the defendant was sitting alone, for the purpose, as she at first stated, of putting some glasses on the sideboard, but she afterwards ad mitted she had no necessity whatever to go to the room. The defendant took advantage of the opportunity, and pulled her clothes about in an indecent manner, and in vited her into a bed-room ; but suddenly he altered his purpose, and said to her, " You ought to have checked me at first. lam a married man, and ought to knew better. Let this be as if it had never happened." He then gave her Is., and she quitted the apartment. There was something said about her being sent away about ten days afterwards, and then for the first time she charged the defendant with having improperly behaved himself to her, and the first intimation of any thing of the kind was contained in a letter which she got a person to send on her behalf to the master of the workhouse. An entry of the matter was made in the hooks, and a magistrate's summons was obtained against the defendant. When it was served upon him he said it was very hard, and that it was done with her own consent. The defendant voluntarily attended before the rotation committee of the board of guardians, and saw Mr. George Poland, one of the members, to whom be said, after the entry in the books conta;ning the charge had beau read over to him, that he had been very foolish, that he had kissed the girl, and that he bad on the particular occasion in question treated her in the way she had described. He was anxious that the committee should hush the affair up, and suggested that it would be better for bins to give her son ening by way of corn pen:Raton ; but Mr. Poland's reply was that it was a magistrate's saes, and must be proceeded with in the regular way. Consequently, after the evidence had been given at the police-court, the defendant was held to bail to answer the charge at this court, and the parish solici citor (Mr. Randall) was instructed to prosecute. In her cross-examination, the prosecutrix answered the questions with great reluctance, particularly those relating to her having received a shilling from the de fendant, and net making the charge for so long a time after the assault took place. She " thought" this was the first charge of the kind she had ever made, hut after wards she recollected that she had complained about the conduct of a gentleman who lived in a house where she was formerly in service. Mr. Ballastine made a short address to the jury, the substance of which was, that though he must admit that the defendant had been guilty of conduct which could not bejustified, nor be regarded with anything but dis approval, yet it was quite clear that he had not rendered himself liable to the serious charge in the first count of the indictment ; and that what had taken place, it was quite clear from her own statements and admission, had been with her own entire willingness and consent. Re viewing the whole case, the jur:, he was sure, could come to no other conclusion. The Assistant Judge said there was no pretence for the first count ; and if the defendant had conducted him self as the girl had stated, without her consent, he was liable to the charge of assault ; but looking at the whole of the circumstances, it would be for the jury to say whether she did not consent to what took place. The defendant's conduct could not be justified or excused, but it appeared to have been that of a man who had had a temptation held out to him, and encouraged by what had before taken place with (as it appeared) the prose cutrix'z sanction; for though three times repeated, she said not a word about it, though she had full opportu nity to do so if she had chosen ; besides which, she re ceived a shilling from the defendant, and said nothing about his conduct on the moreparticalar occasion until ten days afterwards, and not then till she was about to be sent away. The jury immediately acquitted the defendant. The Assistant Judge said he entirely agreed with the verdict ; but the guardians, as a body, had done per fectly right in instituting the proceeding, and not sifting the evidence and deciding upon the merits themselves ; because had they done so, they would have had the out cry against them that they were encouraging such con duct towards workhouse children., They had acted with great propriety in the matter. The Court then adjourned. SURREY SESSIONS.—Feb. 7. INCITING SOLDIERS TO DESERT—IMPORTANT CAsE. Daniel Cummings, an Irishman, was indicted for un lawfully causing Thomas Horton, William Johnson, and William Reynolds, privates ii her Majesty's Coldstream Guards, to desert at Croydon, is the county of Surrey. Michael Haley, police-constable 255 P, said that on Monday evening, the 29th of January last, between seven and eight o'clock, ke was on duty in Croydon, when he saw the prisoner and Horton in Mr. Welt's field. They had three bundles containing regimentals belonging to soldiers in the Coldstream Guards. He stopped them and took them to the station-house, when he found that the prisoner had incited Horton and two other soldiers to desert. Thomas Horton, a private in the Coldstream Guards, said he was a• tested at Sheffield on the Bth of December, and on the 23d he came to Croydon Barracks. On 'the 29th of January be met the prisoner, and was induced by him to desert. William Reynolds and William Johnson were with him, and . they all deserted, and Cummings said he would get them clothes. They all wer,t to his house, and witness and Johnson paid 11. s. fer private clothes, and Cummings brought them to tern, and they ,put them on. Johnson and Rrynold , left witut acid he had not seen then since. Witn& was taken into custody by police constable Haley on the same day. John Ashley, a serjeant in the Coldstream Guards, said that the clothing produc-d was the property of the regiment, and was until recently used by William John son and William Reynolds, who had deserted. The prisoner, in his defence, contended that he did not incite the soldier to desert ; neither had he received any money for the clothes. He, however, acknowledged having the regimental clothes in his possession, but they were left witCr The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of guilty. The chairman said it was a very serious offence, espe cially at such a time, when her Majesty was in want of soldiers to prosecute the war with Russia. He should sentence him to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction ; but he was sorry to say the law did not give him power to add hard labour with it. TVESTMLNSTER COUNTY COUBT. MILITARY. Capt. Smyth's and Capt. Ward's Companies of the Royal Artillery, the two Companies attached to the 32- pounder field-battery for service in the Crimea, bad that battery•out yesterday morning for the first time for exer cise on Woolwich Common. Twelve horses were at tached to each gun and eight horses to each ammunition waggon. . Capt. Congden and Lieut. Inglis, two sergeants, three corporals, one drummer, and 92 privates of the 'Wool wich division of Royal Marines, will embark at Wool wich Dockyard at 10 a.m. to-day for Sheerness for ser vice in the Russell. screw steam-ship. Messrs. Moses, Soo, and Davis have received from Government another large contract for India-rubber cloaks for the troops in the Crimea. MILITIA. The first of the militia regiments for foreign service will embark for Gibraltar and the Piraeus about thelSti inst. In consequence of its being intended to augment the strength of the Royal Artillery in the Crimea by several batteries of field and horse artillery, it is in eontempla ... tion to reorganise the corps of Royal Artillery drivers, in order that every available disciplined man, both ix the horse and foot artillery and Rocket Brigade, may do duty as gunners only, whereas at present a large num ber of efficient artillerymen are taken from the guns for the purpose of driving. The regiment of Monmouthshire Light Infantry, hitherto stationed at the barracks at Newport, have left for the dockyard at Pembroke in order to do duty at the fortified barracks there, and to take the place of the 31st Regiment, which has proceeded to the East. The militia, with head-quarters, will be upwards of 750 strong. They will be replaced in the Newport barracks by the let Re giment of Devon Militia. The Monmouth corps is in a high state of efficiency, and will ultimately be one of the regiments for the Mediterranean station. They have given 300 men to the line. The Royal Wiltshire Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Methuen commanding, now at Portsmouth, received, on the 6th, the order from the Horse Guards to hold them selves in readiness for embarkation for Corfu, as soon e tonnage can be provided. The men have undergone a strict medical examination by the surgeon . of the regi ment, and the total strength embarking will be 660. The vessel is n,,t, yet named fur the conveyance of the regi ment, nor the date of embarkation, but it will probably take place at the end of the month. The Aberdeenshire Militia are t) be embodied on the 20th inst. The following gentlemen have been promoted and ap pointed in the Renfrew Militia.:—Mr. W. F. Hamilton to be Captain, Mr. A. S. G. Jauncey to be Captain, Lieutenant F. R. Reid to be Captain, Mr. D. M. La tham to be Lieutenant, Mr. C. W. Motherwell to he Lieutenant, Mr. J. Simons to be Lieutenant, Mr. R. W. Barber to be Lieutenant, and Mr. R. W. Young to be Ensign. Lieutenant J. Broughton has been promoted to a Cap taincy in the 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Militia, vice Lane, appointed to the Coldstream Guards ; and Second Lieutenant F. Vere to be Lieutenant, vice Broughton, promoted as above. The North Durham Regiment, which is commanded by Earl Vane, having received notice that they would be embodied for permanent duty, mustered on Thursday last in the city of Durham, their head-quarters. The weather was most inclement and the notice somewhat short ; however, about 150 appeared wean the roll was called, and since then they have increased to 220. Earl Vane has not yet assumed the command. Meantime the men are drilled under the Captain and Adjutant. The full quota of the regiment is 500. The 3d Royal Middlesex Light Infantry Militia asserc• bled yesterday at Turnhara.green for permanent duty. The following officers were present :—Colonel Viscount Chelsea, Lieutenant-Colonel Glossop, Major Penton, Captains Ralfs, Cork, Piper, Murray, Baynes, Wood head, Burgess, and Parsons ; Lieutenants Italie, M'Ewen, Swan, Hough, Gifford, Dundee, and Chapman ; En signs M'Ewen, Bulkelly, and Walker, Captain and Ad jataat M'Ewen, Sargeen M'Caun, and Assistant-Sur geen Hurman. The permanent' staff of this regiment are old non-corn missionel officers from the Guards and line. The regi ment mustered at the first parade 410 strong, with every probability of soon reaching their full cemplement, al though they have given a great number of volunteers to the regiments of the regular army. The Government have directed the immediate embo diment and organisation of a new corps of militia for the county of Glamorgan, and, in consequence, active exertions are being made for the immediate formation if the force, which is to be an artillery regiment, and to be styled the " Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia." The enlistment will be immediately carried cut. This new body will be entirely distinct from the regular county militia, which is a light infantry regiment, sod the authorities have ordered the enrolment of this artillery corps with a special view to the protection and defence of some of the more exposed points and harbours along the South Wales coast of the Bristol Channel ; indeed, the whole line of coast at present is nearly defenceless, and an efficient artillery corps is much needed. The strength of this new regiment will be 400, and the headquarters at Swansea, those of the county being at Cardiff. Capt. Morgan, of St. Helen's, is to be the Lieut.-Colonel. The exposed ports and harbours on the coast will be imme diately fortified and otherwise strengthened. On Monday 50 Commissariat drivers arrived in Cork from Dublin for the Crimea. They proceeded to Eliza beth Fort, where they will remain until the arrival of the transport Severn, which was expected hourly. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN. We stated a few days since that the termination of this railway at the Central Post Office in St. Martin's-le- Grand will prove highly beneficial to the Manchester trade, inasmuch as it will enable the manufacturers to send their goods almost into the midst of the City ware housemen. We now find that one of the most eminent of the Manchester warehousemen, Mr. Sampson Cope stake, of Cheapside, has, seeing the importance of the line to the trade, taken a considerable money interest in the concern, and called upon the whole of the trade to support it. We take the following extracts from the circular which Mr. Copestaku has issued : " It seemed to me that a line to connect the City with the great railways leading to Manchester and the manu facturing din - bias in the north would afford the facilities which the City of London ought to possess, and was de serving of every encouragement, and might, moreover, be made conducive to the interests of the wholesale trade which wo are more hninediately connected ; in that belief I took 500 shares, and in that beHef I venture to bring it before your notice. - The undertaking appears now to be placed in bands and upon a footing which afiOrd every reasonable hssurance that it will prove a profitable investment, and be efficiently and independently carried out, and bo made fairly av«ilable for the common interests of the different railways with which it will be in communication." INTR. MA CG REG on, 1N1.P.--Wc (C.llasgaig Mail) have seen a note from this gentleman to a friend, in which he says that he has ja , t returned from Paris, where he has been for some time past in the discharge of public business, with reference to a more free system of com merce between Great Britain and France. The hon. gentleman was detained in Paris for ten days beyond his intended period, in consequence of a slight indisposition, BRAIIAM V. ALMOND. In this case, which has excited immense interest in the theatrical and musical world, some particulars of which have already been published, it will be recollected that the plaintiff is Mr. Augustus Braham, the celebrated tenor singer, and the defenda:nt Mr. George Almond, who married Miss Romer, the actress, and lessee of the surrey Theatre. The claim was for 501., for two weeks' salary, and there being some difficulty in the case with reference to the agreement between the parties, the . decision was postponed, and his Honour now gave judgment. The learned judge observed that the plaintiff had entered into a contract with the defendant, the original terms of which were embodied in the form of a memo randum, the plaintiff agreeing to accept an engagement at the Surrey Theatre, signed by himself and Mr. May, the director of the theatre. The express terms were, to accept an engagement with Miss Romer, commenc ing on Monday, July 31, the opera season of 1854, at at 251. a week, and terminating the last Saturday in September, to appear only to perform in one opera. This document was dated June 14. Another document was prepared, signed ky May, and put in by the plain tiff as part of the contract in which he engaged with the defendant. It ran as follows : " Memorandum of agreement between Mr. A. Braham, of St. Petersburg-place, and Mr. George Almond, ef 19, King-street, St. Jaiaes's.—l h ere by agree w ith M r . George Almond to sing as first tenor at the Surrey Theatre, com mencing July 3L, 1854, and terminating the last Saturday iu Septeteher, 1854, at a weekly salary of 201. for the first four weeks, and 25/. a week for the remainder of the season, and to appear in siz representations at least of the operas of Bonnambula and Luci di Lammermoor previous to may appearing in the Prophete. To appear in ono representa tion a night, g 0 that I can sing at a concert (not a theatre) if I feel so disposed, (tigned) AIIGIIS lUS BBAHAM.— July 11, 1834." In pursuance of this agreement, plaintiff appeared a eel.- number of times in Lucia di Lammermoor, and then he performed in the Proplate, which last opera, contrary to the defendant's anticipation, proved unsuc cessful, and he proposed bringing out another opera, called the Jewess, an imitation of the French opera entitled Eleazar, the second tenor part in which is that of the Prince, but in the English adaptation the part of Eleazar is given to a baritone, and, consequently, the part of Leopold, or Prince, is apportioned in that version of the opera to the first tenor. On the 2d of September plain tiff was informed that the Jewess was to be represented, in which he declined to perform, because, as he said, the Prince, the part to be assigned to him, was not the first tenor ; and Mr. May told him he might take the law upon the subject if he did not choose to perform that part. However, plaintiff made no retraatation of his re fusal, but continued to appear in the two following weeks in the Prophete. On the 16th, upon receiving his salary he inquired of May whether he should be wanted in any of the other operas, and requested to be informed, in order that he might get the dresses required. The Jewess was performed, accordirg to announcement, and plaintiff never appeared in any representation, and the present claim was for the two weeks' salary from the 16th of September to the 31st. The Court was of opinion that the second memorandum entirely superseded the first, and by the orginal . on e it was in tended that all operas should be named in t he authorised agreement, which v.as not carried out, but in the sub”- queat agreement three operas were nanied, whilst plain tiff adhered to the previous arrangem ent, considering himself only bound to appear in on e . There a pp ears to have been No breach of that a greement, inasmuch as the agreement contained no explanation of what was meant by a first tenor. The cunelusion, therelore, was, that p!aintmff was to undertake whatever part might be as signed to hint iu bringing out the piece. It wai highly improbable that May could have intended to make the contract as binding on the defendant, notwithstanding plaintiff's refusal to perform. Under these circum stances, plaintiff was not entitled to any portion of the salary claimed, and there must be a verdict for the defendant. The learned judge further said he did not feel himself justified in allowing back any portion of the money paid for stamping the agreement. Costs were applied for, but refused. Verdict for the defendant, OUNDLE STEAPLECHISES.—In consequence of the un favourable state of the ground, these steeplechases are postponed until Friday and Saturday, the 16th and 17th inst., being the two days immediately following the Lin coln Spring Meeting. CROYDON STREPLECRASES.--We are requested to state that these steeplechases are postponed until further notice. i. Greeiwich N.B. ooii' Me ' Lothbury Liverpool Fix.' Holyhead Dublin N. DO'. Southampton E. Portsmouth Winchfiell.l ..... .... ILE. Brighton N.E. CI( Lowestoft N.B Cli Leamington N.E. Manchester E. Maryport . Stoke-on-Trent ... N. Sheffield N. Whitehaven Lancaster Carlisle Leeds kt , 1;41 14 ' *)1( nue Derby N.B. Leicester N.W Nottingham Shrewsbury E. Cambridge E. .... .._ Bristol - Plymouth Exeter Gloucester Cardiff N.E Clegg Swansea N.E COid • Haverford west ... N.W Wit, Ipswich Rat, Yarmouth N.E. Marwick N.E. Eros" Fio• Gainsborough Great Grimsby ... NE. Boston N.E lfi .A. A , Aberdeen . N.E yorb• - f or Dundee Perth • Edinburgh N.E.......... F r° Glasgow Berwick Sunderland 0. Darlington N. SO Whitby Mcarborough York -• . Hail N.E. .... ... P r i t, Newcastle Hague S. E F ro g i ol Stroud N. E.Pei ii Tunbridge . , . *V* '.. - . SP 0 RTING INTELLIGENCT ( COUP( I' Yi Y . Afdlii.tar • r , It; A . A li. lll YORK SPRING MEETING. OCIPTANCIES for the GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 'There Two miles. (108 subs.)D w l e N re ß in Uß th G e HmaMrkEetAtLo.o.T.:lK4 s Ez - . 1 : :_... 1: 1 0: 14 , . lika, ltl , 7 : Age st lb l Age st lb 10 at 21. Os Od, and oat 0/. 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O. ...., gV. ai In, ' , let ,a Belle ;tar of Surrey ... 4 6 10 Neoptolemus 3 5 5 ---- ,Ii Ad ii,"4o, Car mat a , k ir at ronathan Martin 4 610 Saucebox aldford b the ar l o y w r 3 6 3 in irket at our Corn-exeliange 'to-day., _n n i ge of, A seat , didsumint r currencieso n]. also sFriday aleahl a k mmonisi ~ but all lower qualities were 6.1 cheaper.- vt Te t„,_ 2,xile of Erin .., ... 4 6 8 Sylvia ' NF. I) 3 5 v heavy, and the turn in favour of the buyer. .'.' :authe a 6 8 Atherstone 3 5 0 in Indian corn. •te 36114 ,kt last. at a bToliaet b ol es: p sa r q s. to : o ty' : reb. wince 4 6 8 Schamyl 3 5 0 White wheat, 408 Od to 43s Od ; red dit ~, . . e .,IR 3illingham 46 8 Nell Gwynne 35 0 barley, 1580 d to 20s Od ; oats, 13e 6cl to le;;:l i a; . e,Te 1 illaialicoru• • 7 C il i ee I racqueline Radcliffe Hero Pharsalus 3amelad 46 6 Spencer - • tta o !'i 4 . ek it. Clare' ... 46 3 Homily . 34 4 ' t 4, lit The Yore (h b) ... 4 6 3 COAL HARKET.-Fa ll • 7. ' ,„ 4 .1 , New , i ,be ta.••• 1 if, • Prices of Coal per ton at the close 0 , ) ta.. The numerical strength of the acceptances attests un- 1 • equivocally the able manner in which Mr. Johnsen has, ....... l) s. d. Wylara .... ..,,,_eng, I , m usual, discharged the onerous duty of Handicapper. Buddle W. Hartley 2O 6 -_ WAI° ...... '''ili lal Forty-seven horses only have been struck out. The only Hasting's Hartley 2l 6 Hotspur ..... I, . .$. ...."' oL i lf 4 animal of note in the "scratched let" is perhaps Ivan ' Holywell. . s wort a ..11 NO/ Hartlepool West Hartley 18 0 Killing iof ... ,„ . , ..21 • Northumbor .... . p , ....... 0 4 `IIN who was generally deemed leniently weighted. South Tanfleld 16 0 BraddYll ........... ' , ' 4.‘4lth A FRESH MAN. Tautield Moor Butes 17 9 Cassep .................... ," r e 4: l4 , Tyne Main. .....• 17 6 Whitwort h .. 41 4, DERBY' RACES.-FEB. 13. Walker Primrose ...17 6, . - ,11 14, 1 „,. WEIGHT'S for the HARRINGTON PLATE. One mile. .•-...;05e•-•-..1 .' ,14 14 4 Age st lb Age st lb - • : itt; RAILWAY TRAFFIC S'''' - ~0 fa ,', ,„ • gby Sir Hercules 6 8 0 Theedine - T . Morning Star 6B 0 Jenny Wrea 46 9 GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.•-••••P . g',?161 . lti li ""' The Prince (late Cherry Brandy Chorus) i 2. , 0 1 A P .,,, , ' ... Knight Errant ~. 5 7 8 Fearless 3 5 8 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE .....,,;. -11 ' ,6 / 7 ys i ' Tingt'-un 3 5 7 turn for the week ending Feb. 4, 18D 0 ' .... A" A i Shakspeare _ 47 0 Poor Maria ..._. 35 5 Corresponding week last year ................. . 1 .410i'l k`Ola Warwick a 7 0 Redhead eLOra 7 4 ' 4 1 3 5 0 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILVIAT•" . nap' , ilk, Scarecrow Corresponding week last year .................. i ' h. the DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.-MARcR 13. '''. I Ctlctllitr The GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE (Handicap) of 15 Increase in 1855.. ...................... ,t0rt,,.,1 ,i,....1cr -or 1 o - 's sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.--"`" -- ' ... Of '"t. added. Foireits to be declared by Tuesday, Feb. 13. week ending Feb. 3, 1854 ............................ Age et lb Age st lb Correspeading week last year .............. a . q '''' iNg Bourton al2 7 Wanderer (h b) a 0 6 .....__________.-- -- k ` kt k kri A 4 Sir Peter Laurie all 11 Simple Peter Needwood Miss Mowbray Oscar Ti 1/4.44irt4:h011t, Trout a 1 1 0 Little Charley a 9 5 - ...._„0/ 1 k : till . AZ Retail Bastion - 011 , 4,1q 4 Nit The Forest Queen a 10 3 Star of England a 9 5 Office, London.* MO NA , ria ..f1 i I` l l'qt Rosa - • 'or' ? t / lP h hi e Boundaway (h b) 610 0 byWisi. IV.(kb) a 9 4 America(hyltrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Ws ylik Artierict kby United Sts. 0 1 " L I. tt 4 '4 Morning Star 6lO 0 Teddesley O h 1 t'''' ha) Spring Odihara (h b) a9 12 Seaman a 9 u • Australia (via South. i fill& s ., , ' ''. ( ,,,Ne,, The Hero (h b) ... a 910 MauriceDaley(hb) a 9 3 ampton) ..........51 ..... .....1 0 00 , , ~10 Augustiae Escape J O ~', 'ki , 0 Hope) ............N; Potter 69 7 Speculation ......6 9 Africa ('.Vest Coast) .. N rad of the m0u . t . h . ... K C°. ; , ';,,, , 1 i l ii Jemmy the Black 6 9 7 Taffy a 812 The Poet Bahamas ........... Ai 'l7th of the mouth 30, 0 ,0! o r A Q Janus a 9 7 Liberator The DONCAVER HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sovs each, 5 Brazil ..............IVi*h of the month.. , v -- a oli 1 `12 ,0 ft, and only 3if declared, with 100 sovs added. St. Bungs Ayre5........al 9th of the month.• ; 100 0 'l 4 , t k et Cape of Good Hope ..N tt,; l Leger Course. Forfeits to be declared on the 13th of cape of Good Hope ..N A k t): q ti;'t February. If the highest weight accepting be under Cape de Verds ......N 9th of the montl , Soll " ' 4, ,,At f.' 4 i , 41 e n Est 71b, it will be raised to that weight, and the rest Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N / ' i'll ' op, in proportion.h, ,1C Channel 151e5........N Mon.,Wed.,&Fri , ". n* - , ' ki ta t Age et lb Age st lb Chili., ~........... -Si 2 , 1 & 17th of month 9 ~. \ h4 , , 1, Defiance King of Trumps... 7 8 6 Conc. Charley ... 4 6 4 Constantinople . ........a 5,13,18 23,56280 t in n ~. tit 4th Sc 20th of mon. " .. .e.1 .. re "1 h Typee 5B 2 The Yore (h b)... 46 4 Cont. of Europe M .. 8C N Twice daily ...... p ° ~. ' 44 ,4 Hungerfoid 4 4 6 6 43 France ........ It & N Twice daily.... • • ~Flll;°'' ' \ y : ':, Alonzo Ma.rsyas ~,,, ./" ' i Domino iza a li v a a rg :: :.-- .. N Tuesday & Fri a.?„ , _ t oll , Greytown .......... NI 2nd & 17th of mon. '"- dell'' , ' "---,,,,, d • Los s pf,i , 3 Grand Inquisitor 4 7 5 Processor Back... 4 6 2 ..m 2nd of the moot, of ••' !, A tli 57 4 Incubus 46 0 Holland ..............51 Daily ...........• Lx' ari xO t i t 4 -, -..t s Eulogist... i Humboldt 4 7 4 Singapore - - --Ai 17th of the m onth. ,-,,,,,,,,4 mar ko i ) *rennysiele Hero 4 7 0 Orange Blossom 4 6 0 India (vlaSou ~, , India (via Marsellles)l.l 9th&2sth of molit 1 , - o r. i . . ..I(l eih Braxey - 66 13 Firebrandthampt.)sl 4th & 20th of m a,. Lir - of ...": 0 ; 1 ti b l o , i , ii 4 5 I a ! lonian Isles (see India) 7, 17, &27 of mon IN Or ' 'To }et , ei tat Lady Vernon ... 56 13 Jenny Wren 4 110 Ireland ~ ......111 & N Twice daily .... • • so tto, • I re)s . , Neville . Madeira ............ Si 9th of the mou ..,or e e Bourton a 612 Sir George 3 5 9 - • .0. . , , I D.O. (see India I . a . d .. 1 a . ; .. .. I , 23d of month ••• • " • t e ,c 4 I „,, f pf • . : r. , ii a Jack Leering ... a 6 11 aleliora I Postulant 6 6 9 General Piston 3 5 4 i ' Mauritius (see India; Malta .. .......... .:, 11, IS, lc Li of MOn. M. i ...,s 3 •5 7 ! ‘l4l7itius ,• ..',. 7. ! 4th of the mol so „,ssio k440..rt. ll Tern 14 5.,•, ' re; s. Ethelwolf o Middlesborough - ...' .'' • 'l. 2d ki7th of month OP . r ~ . ............ 3 5 3 1 New Granada , private . 1 ,,,, -., ,y e r •• - • '. 15 Caliph - .. -- • • gitCo 63sl " oittl'''''p l ' . l ii ( 1 !i; Kiteflyer Naples ~ ~... ..... .. 1. .; pthlsth2sthofMon, _Too_ it. le Mortimer St. Michael 3 5 0 Sicily •• •• 3, Aid ford : ....N sthlso2stholin °P ' - ut. tht ‘,.. e Radcliffe Hero... 5 6 8 The Rajah 3 5 0 Venezuela ..., ... -II 24417th ofava th Si tbe At i- Ammonia Auttrulis) .. - k k A ,lii,; Lurley d Adelaide - the Ili elF : li w lt ti ,d Bianca d Billingharn 46 7 Moonshine 34 12 spatchc , l on the following day, with 01 8 ,,1 1 , wilt ,4t 5 ,.,,_ ,y Little Tom 5 6 6 Smithmore 3 4 12 Southampton), and the Dialta, both of Wl' preceding day It t "*Y . ......._____ __________., sli s' '.... 1 4 o ed Garoelad of Gaslight 5 6 5 Fearless 3 4 10 v x P WIND AND FrEITILD-- of , i Iti t , w This horse having been entered without the know- --....----- 06-a , ...!, e• ledge of his owner, he will be struck out by the time W ll9 IP ‘ . Pate 3f prescribed, unless specially ordered to remain in. Mations. Course if mad. ‘, 2 r t. :o ° ll . , .'"" _ c Nktu, oo C Cl ° o ll :4' . „4, *‘ll4tl l 3 O litig r tt, 11 01 44, 4 14 ka 1ti Frot Fro." Citegt, Frotiolt:. i s Oar 1 tor - k o lt - t kfillifroofrt Ss t l , 4l. u kt i go- N M :I Frost- 11104 ?lost. Lyt;, Pot ‘Ot> t' Fros 1 'hi Frorer F r ogs Fro°' THI CONSERYA.TITE LANP SPCI O 4 -. 01. J r li M.P. (county of Dublin), and the P h - i f 10 te tr4,„ (sou of the Earl of Mayo and bret (o_sl ' l4' 4 l 4 t i ; have been unanimously elected me"pe 7 . 4 4(h alt or committee of the Conservative Lel, o. le i 4 4 4 ,4, Fytche, Esq. of Thorpe Hall, L' 11 ; 1 0 added to the ' list of patrons and gi ll " _ A I * ta4 h . 4i BIleT El Se ,to \ v 11 OP A SON • t op k On the 6th inst., at Winch fi eld 5 66 / S O4 Rev. C. F. Seymour. .. 0 t,t....,, t h ~ lib t On the sch inst., a O t ir ßh A nc ti le A v U il Ci le — , ‘ 3l..it" 'k l:1 >; 1441 : 7 ........„ 2 I' i E. Mockler, Esq., Queen's Bays. h uh I , a :i WI MAItII I N -°' p re Y i i, Set On the 6th inst., at St. Afar! a, 13 , 2 tr A e' L t kOko i .% 4, Esq., of Dartmouth, Devon, - iol,i e `" fee" "4 - jot" (laughter of John Harvey, Esq., °' "-- 0 ' .'° worth. 6101,0 it Oa the 6th inst. at the c hur( ll , l . o /1 4, i kt t ,; Rev. George B. R. ' Bausfield, to "7 1 , lie g b' 0' 14 4 ‘ 4 1 Gambier, third daughter of Beel . "1" ( f w t4 S titl „ 1 Albany-terrace, Regent's-terrace, se - ° `4( 4 fordsbire. 4 : 144S *t ' 3 po 4..4' .D 111 . 49 . t , e t, k ttla i 4 l D(Floo, o ooOnitsi n nuc: re t t u l h i b e ° . L 3d a( i ly mi l t t " oll a O, I N ;id S o t ef an o la f °P;;lji7:36 % 'l' ql ‘4 tkl i'llil3' o sa y O tl t 1 13 1 ‘ . Ifs )1,,tt l . t t nt h ll s eeal 7 33n t dd, h iiwn i ll anlots t t i.. :c:at m sthtePe r railirh_lijosr,ve;Ljaatie-serriej3oo 0:0114,4,.‘,,,.tikt . Edw ard Bgeeael i i i :; i s l ) ,d ' 0 : 9 k k l ': ' ( t ! ' row, aged M. • On the sth inst.,at Ips wich, \ ji le ,4 surg,con, aged 66. __ o ral , ti tin the 6tli inst., at Sawbridgow ,7 /41 . N Lane, aged Id. i 49 . ,- nt °64l,lttilltill -- ----- ....... . _. . .. -- - - -- ----- 1 i 111- 0 0 1 o ,l° 1.01:; - DON : Printed and Publishe" if ,i, a b $14 0 ,,, to 1;;S: of No. 112, Strand, Printer, et ;,,,, j , o f, , 1 " 1: tt ;, Strand, in the Preeinet of the '' a I,St:i;''i 4 Xithllesex, ThundaY, re brilarl w ela 41 k :t b k 7 EXTRAORDINARY BURSTING OF A RAILWAY ENGINE. One of the most extraordinary and unaccountable accidents ever recorded happened at Gloucester yester day (Wednesday), at the station of the Great 'Western and South Wales Railway Companies. It appears that the 0 a.m., train from Paddington arrived at Swindon in due course, and proceeded on to Bristol, a branch train being made up at that place, and running thence along the Cheltenham branch to Gloucester and Cheltenham. This train, drawn by the Actaeon, reached Gloucester at the appointed time-10.20—and the passengers for Gloucester had alighted, leaving ethers for South Wales and Cheltenham in the train. From Gloucester to South Wales the train is made a third-class one, and ac cordingly, during a short stoppage, the engine proceeded about a hundred yards down the line to fetch a third class carriage. This had been attached to the engine, which at once returned at a slow pace towards the sta tion, stud had reached within 15 yards at the end of the platform, when an awful explosion took place. The top of the boiler wa■ carried away, and fragments of the en gine were scattered in all directions. One portion, the cupola at the top of the boiler, fell through the zinc roof of the station on to the platform, but luckily without touching any person. Another large piece of the en gine was propelled through the roof of the Gloucester workhouse, which stands a short distance from the side of the line ; a third was carried a distance of a quarter of a mile over streets and houses, and fell in a garden near the Spa, while a massive iron ring about a foot in (Hanle ter was carried across the cattle-market, a distance of about 250 yards, aid striking the corner of the new market inn, drove a hole completely through the wall anil destroyed numerous articles of fornitoro i.e the room, some •f the bricks being protected 50 yards up a narrow lane. A rod from the boiler was picked up in a yard in Burton street, and numerous fiagments were found in various parts of the city. The woodwork of the engine appears to ha►e been splintered into a thousand bits, no piece more than two or three inches in length haying been picked op. The explosion, which resembled that of a park of ordnance, threw the whole city into consterna tion and was heard for miles around. A great many win dows near the railway were broken by the concussion, but the most miraculous part of the story is that no life has been sacriAced. The driver and stoker both escaped with a few bruises. The explosion took place in the front part of the engine, and these men were providen tially protected by the upright part which rises between their place on the engine and the front part. A. switch man named John Cooke, who was on duty near the spot where the explosion took place, was very severely Scalded by a complete deluge of water from the boiler, and is now under surgical treatment, but no one else appears to have been injured. Mr. Ashbee, the Glou cester superintendent of the Great Western Railway, a'nd other officials, were promptly on the spot, and the train was not delayed more than half-au-hour, a fresh engine having been procured. The Actaeon presents a perfect wreck, having literally been blown to atoms and burst into two pieces, connected by the pipes of the boiler. The line was cleared for traffic in a short time, and the remains of the engine are now being removed piecemeal from the rails. RATS V. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. —A letter from An tigua, dated Jr.nuary 12, received in Liverpool, says :-- " The steamer Prince, which arrived here on the oth inst , from St. Thomas, brought hack the mails of Dec. 23, ter Europe, in consequence of rats having eaten off the parchment labels." PSTO's Stintrm.—Mr. Pete, it appears, offered his services to the late Government—which ha 4 aiever thought of demanding them. The Herald's Office should give him a new coat of arms, in which navvies might be quartered with spades, both proper, in the normal way. As the aid of Mr. Peto was unsought, his motto might be " Peto non petitu."—Punch. Lryzitroot, CH:OMER or COMMERCE. —At the ad journed meeting of t'oe members of the Liverpool Cham ber of Commerce, held cn Tuesday, in the Otliee Ex change-buildings,. Messrs. Thomas Botta, Joh n Toil . , Vim. Rathbone, Jun., and Mr. IL W. Kelley, were elected directors of the chamber for the next year, in the room of those who retired by rotation, Aoc: Bsta; Jo Vk t , kik • ,8 ~~W \ k ~\ a tht ~~ _ '