The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-11 00:00:00

:~,~-; TSB' NAVY. Rear- Admiral of the Blue R. S. Robinson, the newly-appointed controller of the navy, paid his first official visit to Chatham Dockyard on Saturday, for - the purpose of making inspection of that establish ment. Admiral Robinson, who was accompanied by Capt. Goldsmith, C. 8., and the other principal officials of the yard, inspected the various ships building under the different sheds, including the Bulwark, 91, the Royal Oak, 91, the Belvidera, 51, the Rattlesnake, 22, the Menai, 21, the Reindeer, 17, and the Myrmidon, 4, as well as the Bombay, 81, and the Arethusa, 51, in dock converting into' screw steamers ; and after transacting some busi ness with Capt. Goldsmith, the superintendent, re turned to the Admiralty in the afternoon. The Marlborough, 131, screw, Captain W. H. Stewart, C. 8., arrived at SpithEad yesterday morn ing from the Mediterranean, and, on anchoring, exchanged the usual honorary salutes with the Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief at the port. She brings . home 34 naval invalids, who were landed and sent on board the flagship and to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar. Three deaths occurred on the passage home, consumptive cases. Her dates are—Corfu, Feb. 15 ; Malta, Feb. 21 ; and Gibraltar, March 3, Stayed at the lastnamed port two days, and filled up coal alongside the new mole, where the appearance of so large a ship ex cited the greatest interest. The passage home has been made under steam, calms having prevailed the whole way until within eight of the Isle of Wight. Off the coast of Portugal had dense fogs, which rendered it necessary to keep the bell and steam whistle sounding. The Ariadne and Diadem frigates arrived at Gibraltar from Lisbon three days previ ous to the Marlborough's arrival. The Algiers passed the Rock on the day previous to the Marl borough's arrival, on her way to Malta. The Im mortalite was daily expected at the Rock. The Indus, Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamer, had not arrived at Gibraltar from Malta when the Marl borough left. The day previous to arriving at Gib raltar spoke the Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamer Pera, with the outward mails, all well, and reported having experienced heavy weather. On Friday last, in crossing the bay, was passed by the Magdalena,RoyalWest India mail packet,homeward bound. The ship's heavy guns and serviceable stores were landed and left at Malta, filling up for Eng land with old guns or stores. Many of her crew have been left behind at Malta, having volunteered for other ships on the station. The ship's powder and shell will be taken out of her to-day at Spit head, prior to her going into harbour, where she will be paid off and re-commissioned by her present captain on the following day to renew her service as flagship to the Mediterranean squadron. The greater portion of her best seamen have already volunteered for her on recommission. The ship is apparently in splendid order, and her machinery is also stated to be in first rate condition. The voy age home has been made with four boilers, working expansively to save fuel. Some £15,000 will be paid to the Marlborough's crew on the ship's pre sent commission being closed. The system lately introduced into the navy of allowing seamen to remit their money to England when on a foreign station, but not allowing the money to be received direct by the men themselves, does not appear to work at all well. If a man have no relatives in England whom he can fully trust to remit his money to, that they, in turn, may remit it to him again through the post office or otherwise (for by this means only can a seaman get possession of the pay due to him when on a foreign station), he re mits it to some one in England who to him may be a comparative stranger, and must trust to his honour whether he receives it or not. Many of the Marlborough's crew have made remitments to England before receiving orders for home. These remitments are now on their way back to Malta, but meantime the ship has come to England, and many of the men may lose their money. It has been suggested by those competent to form a sound opinion upon the subject that savings banks should be established on board ship on a similar plan to regimental savings banks, where the seaman should receive a fair amount of interest for the use of his money ; could draw out what he wanted at various times ; and, what would be of greater importance still, would, in addition to increased self-respect and moral independence, learn to justly appreciate provident habits. The Marlborough saw nothing of the Narcissus flagship of Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.B. The Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. John Sec combe, ordered to receive new cylinders at Keyham yard, Devonport, has, since her present commission, gone over a distance in miles equal to five times round the world, and conveyed 47,000 troops, besides some thousand tons of stores ; and this without any other loss than one jibboom. The screw steam contract-built gunboats Heron and Doterel were placed in No. 3 dock at Keyham steam-yard on Thursday to have their valves exa mined. There is a rumour at Devonport that the dis charge of artisans and labourers from the naval establishments is about to be discontinued. The rumour arises probably from the presumed intention of the Lords of the Admiralty to retain all the en gine fitters at Keybam steam-yard in relation to the requirements of the screw steamship Black Prince, 36, building at Glasgow. About 92 men were discharged on Saturday; many of the skilled artisans have anticipated the time of their discharge. Lieut. the Hon. John Carnegie hoisted his pen nant on Friday on board the screw steam gunboat Procris, 3, at Plymouth. She is to have a crew of 30 men, and will probably be sent to the coast of Scotland to protect the fishing interest there. The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander J. Jackson, from Queenstown, with super numeraries from the Sanspareil and Hawke, arrived at Plymouth on Friday. The Geyser left Queens town Harbour on Wednesday, but, on account of sudden heavy weather from the south-west, was obliged to anchor off Spike Island, and sailed thence on Thursday. Great progress is making with the rigging of the screw steam gunvessel steady, 5, at Plymouth. Her topsail-yards were crossed on Saturday. The usual course of lectures was resumed on Friday evening on board the gunnery-ship Cam bridge, at Plymouth. Lieut. Philip H. Colomb, Flag Lieut. to Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, gave a very instructive and clever lecture on the " Rise and Progress of the British Navy." It will be completed in three lectures fortnightly. The cost of fitting the screw steamship Hero, 91, at Plymouth, for the conveyance of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to Canada was £3,878 9s. Bd. The paddlewheel steamship Dee, 4, Master Com mander J. C. Pullen, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday evening. After discharging machinery for the screw steam frigate Liverpool, 51, and the screw steamship Defiance, 91, she will proceed to Glasgow with boilers for the screw steamship Warrior, 36. Letters by the Brazil mail state that her Ma jesty's ship Oberon sailed from Buenos Ayres on the 1 9th of Jan. for Montevid eo , an d th ence t o Ri o Janeiro, at which port she was lying when the Magdalena left. The Bethune, Liverpool ship which was fouled during the August gale at Buenos Ayres Was sold on the 25th of Jan. for £3OO The French ia gunboat p ' c Semin minante and the American g un b oa t esvgter! at Buenos Ayres on the 27th o f J an . Her m ol ae j video fo r c ol Y ol B l . shi p Cur acoa sailed from Monte- 29th the French mail the 28th of J anuary . O n t h e l from he f Rio, andmail steamer Saintonge arrived the same day for Buenos Ay res . Tollowi left r g ships of :_ w i tr were at Montevideo on the 30th of January Pander Majesty's ship the French frigate Curlew, sp o a r n a :sh D'Entrecasteaux, the the French gunboat Spanish gunboat Concordia, the frigate the Brazilian corvette V. T brig Gravina, the h Aperican Congress, the American desp atc _ r nperio; . ° M7a t ranaro, and Pulawski, the Brazilian gunboats Meorin and Paranana. The erection of the groins on the sea face of Lump' s Fort, near Portsmouth , is being rapidly carried out by the contractors, Messrs. Rogers and Booth. The material used for their construction consists of up. wards of 1,000 oak piles, each 9 feet long, and 2 inch elm planking. The piles are driven 6 feet in the shingle, the planking running 5 feet in depth, exca vating from the level 2 feet. A continuous line of pile and planking runs for 1,200 yards par illel with the face of the fort, at thej unction of the shingle with the soil. From this line of work the gr.) ns run out 160 feet seaward in diagonal directions. It is doubted by many whether these means will nswer effec tually for any length of time in preventing the encroachments of the sea on the beach. Daring the past half century the action of the sea at this point has advanced the line of high water mark 60 feet farther inland. In the original designs for the con struction of Lump's Fort a stone sea wall was in cluded, bat the construction of this was found by the contractors of the work to be impossible, owing to the absence of any foundation. It was after wards decided to erect groins for the protection of the beach and glacis of the fort, and if the present experiment should prove successful, it is contem plated to carry out the same system from Southsea Castle and Fort Cumberland, the whole extent of beach between the two forts wasting considerably from the wash of the sea on each recurrence of a south-east gale. THE ARMY. The annexed General Order has been promul gated " The Queen having been graciously pleased to command that a medal, similar to that granted by her Majesty in 1842, shall be conferred upon all the officers and soldiers of her Majesty's Army and Indian Forces employed in the operations in China which resulted in the capture of the city of Pekin ; and that clasps, inscribed ' Canton, 1857,' Taku Forts, 1860,' and 'Pekin, 1860,' be granted to such of her Majesty's Forces as may have been engaged in those services ; " And, further, that an additional clasp, inscribed China, 1842,' shall be granted to such of her Ma jesty's Forces as may have received the medal granted in commemoration of the former opera tions, and who have also been engaged in the war recently terminated; " His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief desires that this mark of her Majesty's gracious approbation of the services of that por tion of her Forces employed under Major-Gen. Sir C. T. Van Straubenzee, K.C.8., and Lieut:-Gen. Sir James Hope Grant, G.C.8., in 1857 and 1860 respectively, shall be published in the General Orders of the Army. " The general officer commanding the Forces in China has been instructed to furnish nominal lists of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men entitled to receive the honourable distinction which it is her Majesty's gracious intention to bestow upon them." The following General Order has been issued in reference to examinations of officers of the Royal Engineers for the Staff College : " Horse Guards, March 4. " His Royal Highness the General Commanding in- Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War, has decided, in consequence of the high standard of the examination which an officer of Royal Engineers is required to pass before ob taining his commission, that in future officers of that corps shall not be called upon to pass through the Staff College in order to qualify themselves for employment on the Staff of the Army." The following circular memoranda, signed by Sir J. Y. Scarlett, Adjut.-General, addressed to the army at home and abroad, were on Saturday an nounced at head-quarters of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, for promulgation : "Horse Guards, Feb. 25. " Instances having occurred in which Regimental Boards of Survey have subjected rifles supposed to be defective in accuracy of shooting to tests not only injurious to the arms, but also not calculated to elicit the truth as to their capabilities, and there being no fixed rules for general guidance on this subject, his Royal Highness the General Command ing-in -Chief, with the concurrence of the Secre tary of State for War, is pleased to desire, that whenever it may be found necessary that rifles should be examined by Regimental Boards with a view to test their accuracy of fire, the following course should invariably observed : " 1. The arms must be previously exami ne d a n d cleaned in the armourer 's shop by the armourer sergeant. 2. One of the best and steadiest shots in the battalion should be selected to fire all the arms under examination. 3. The charges of powder should be carefully weighed, and the ammunition properly examined. 4.N0 fixed rest is to be used, as they cannot be depended on ; but any other de scription of rest may be used in firing from the shoulder. 5. The diagram of the shooting should contain not less than 10 shots for each range, not including the two or three trial shots necessary to ascertain the force and deviation of the wind, &c. 6. The mean deviation should be taken from the point of mean impact, without reference to the centre aimed at. His Royal Highness takes this opportunity of desiring that the practice of using what in some regiments is called a nosing stick, or any brickdust or gritty . substance, for cleaning the interior of the barrel, is on no account to be per mitted, eh the lands thereby become worn, and the shooting of the rifle is affected." " Horse Guards, Feb. 28. " It being desirable that the claims to Staff em ployment of officers who have passed the final exa mination at the Staff College, and have fulfilled the requirements of the regulations dated January 23, 1860, shall not be lost sight of, the General Com manding-in-Chief directs the attention of general and other officers commanding at the different mili tary stations at home and abroad to General Orders issued periodically from this department, publish ing the names of officers who have passed success fully through the College ; and his Royal High ness desires that on the recurrence of a vacancy on the Staff in any command where there may be serving an officer who has qualified himself at the Staff College (or at the late senior department of the Royal Military College), and whose rank may render him eligible for the vacant appointment, such officer should, as a general rule, be recom mended to fill the same in preference to one who has not undergone that ordeal." " Horse Guards, March 2. "His Royal Highness the General Commanding in-Chief hereby notifies that the Secretary of State for War has consented to the admission into mili tart' hospitals of pensioners employed as clerks in the district military offices, whenever hospital accommodation can be made available for them without prejudice to the service, and in cases where the senior medical officer at the station or district may deem it necessary. They will, however, be placed under the usual hospital s t o pp ages during the periods of their being under treatment in hospita2." Orders were on Saturday received by Col. H. D. Harness, C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establishment at Chatham, directing the following alterations to be made in the disposition of the com panies of Royal Engineers :—The 15th Company, under the command of Capt. J. P. Magnay, with Lieut. J. J. Robertson, to proceed from Chatham to the Curragh Camp, there to relieve the 31st Company, which will return to headquarters, to ' be held in readiness to embark for the Mediter ranean. The 4th Company, under the command of Capt. H. W, 11. D. Dumarqsq, to proceed from Chatham to Dover, there to relieve the 30th Com pany, which will rejoin headquarters, and be held in readiness to embark for the Mediter ranean. The second Company, under the com mand of Lieut. A. R. Macdonnell, to proceed from headquarters to Aldershott Camp, to relieve the 18th (Captain G. Longley's) Company, ordered to Portsmouth to relieve the 36th (Capt. E. IV. Hewett's) Company, which returns to Chatham to form one of the depot companies at Brompton. The 3 th and 31st companies, that proceed to the Medi terranean, will relieve the Ist and 9th companies, which return to headquarters, Chatham. No. 3 field-battery, Bth brigade, Royal Artillery, equipped with Armstrong guns, &c., left Ililsea on Thursday morning, on the march to Bristol, on the way to Bailin Collig, Ireland. The following officers accompanied the battery : —Major Hawkins, Capt. Percival, Lieuts. Drysdale and Stratton, Assistant- Surg. Hogg, M.D. The dismounted party, under the command of Lieut. D. Murray, will proceed by rail on Tuesday. The present strength of the force stationed in the camp at Colchester is 64 officers and 2,196 rank and file. There are also 230 women and 273 children in the camp. Lieut. Dew, of the 88th, has been appointed musketry instructor, in the room of En sign Dwyer, reigned. Capt. Ford, of the Ist Royals, has been posted to the Ist battalion of that regiment, and is under orders to join the service companies of his regiment in India. Major the Hon. Wm. Charles Yelverton, RA , had an interview with Col. C. Bingham, Deputy- A djutant-General of the Royal Artillery, on Satur day, at the Horse Guards. Instructions were on Saturday issued at Wool- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING; MARCH 11, 1861. wich for the departure of Lieut.-Col. N. 0. S. Tur ner's No. 10 battery, 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery, under orders to proceed to Hilsea ; the dismounted portion to leave Woolwich by rail on the 13th inst., and the mounted portion to march thence this day. According to present regulations, announced on Saturday at Woolwich, the headquarters of Nos. 7 and 8 batteries, 3d brigade, Garrison Artillery, will not leave Plymouth until further orders. In conse quence of the Himalaya being disabled for the ser vice, the Meg:era will carry out the removal of the Ist brigade from Woolwich to Gibraltar, as origi nally arranged. TILE ADMIRALTY AND THE RORSE GUARDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. STR,—Althoagh the mismanagement of the Board of Admiralty needs no additional proofs at this mo ment, yet I cannot, under the circumstances of the case, delay the exposure of a recent transaction on their part, which I am sure every one will charae terise as an act of gross meanness and injustice. In the spring of last year a sailor named Wm. Sent, who lost his arm at the attack on the Peiho Forts, returned to England and joined this corps. Accord ing to the invariable custom of both branches of the service, he received a pension of ls. per diem, which, however (contrary to the rules of the Horse Guards, who do not expect a man to recover his arm after its amputation), was to continue for one year only, after which time he was to appear before a Board, and if then he was pronounced more or less able to assist himself than at present, the pension would be definitively reduced or increased. This period arrived on Friday, when, in company with two other commissioners, Hammond and Haines, both of whom had lost a limb in China under similar circumstances, Sent presented him self before the authorities, expecting naturally that his temporary pension of ls. would be confirmed for life. You may imagine his con sternation, as well as that of his comrades, when they were told that their rate of pension was to be reduced 25 per cent.—viz., to 9d. per diem. Thinking their statement must have been founded in error, I called at Somerset-house this afternoon, and ascertained its entire correctness. I can certify that, although the three men in question are in a better state of health than they were a year since, it is not from any miraculous restoration of their lost legs and arms, but it is owing, under Providence, to their own good conduct and indus try. Is it fair, not to say politic, that what has been hitherto an invariable rule and understanding in the naval as well as military service should be j broken through without any reason ? I cannot believe, however, that the matter will be allowed to rest as it is, and I trust that some of those members of Parliament who are so busy in urging the claims of naval officers for an extension of pay, will not hesitate to demand the restitution of what I maintain is, both by prescriptive right and usage, the property of these wounded men ; and, further, that the responsibility of this shabby transaction shall be affixed to some individual. The whole system of pensions for wounds requires some arrangement; that which exists at the present moment is perfectly unintel ligible. There are men in the corps who belonged to the late East India Company's service receiving ls. 3d. per diem for the loss of an arm where her Majesty's troops receive ls. only, and as some of the j former (but none in this corps, as the receipt of charity from any source is forbidden) are paid 6d. additional from the Indian Relief Fund, they are actually receiving more than double the amount the present authorities of the Admiralty afford her Majesty's sailors.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, E. W. Barracks of the Corps of Commissionaires, March 9. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. LAW INTBLLIGPNCB, March 9. DIVORCE COURT. (Before Sir C. Cresswell, and a Common Jury.) SHABOT V. SHABOT. This was a suit instituted by the wife for a di vorce or: the ground of her husband's adultery, cruelty, and desertion, to which the respondent pleaded denial. Dr. Phillimore, Q C., and Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner ; and Mr. M'lntyre for the re spondent. From the evidence for the petitioner, it appeared that the parties were married in October, 1847,and cohabited until the December following, since which time they had lived separately. The adul tery was alleged to have taken place shortly after the marriage with a female who was the tenant of one of respondent's houses, and a married woman. The discovery of this illicit intercourse led to quarrels between petitioner and her husband, and to a systematic course of ill-treatment on his part, which consisted of knocking her down, giving her black eyes, kneeling on her stomach, and other acts of a similar character. This violence attained to such a height that a separation took place. The respondent then went to live with a woman named Anthir, at Rye. This fact coming to the know ' ledge of the petitioner, she went to Rye and knocked at the house where she had been informed he was residing. She was accompanied by a friend, who, on opening the door, asked if Mrs. Shabot was at home, to which the respondent re plied in the affirmative. The petitioner then pre sented herself and said " That is not true, for I am your lawful wife," upon which the respondent knocked her down and closed the door in her face. In the cross-examination of the petitioner it was elicited that on one occasion of alleged ill-usage, shortly subsequent to the marriage,she had flung the teakettle and a chair at her husband, and that the respondent summoned her before a police court, when she was fined £3 for the assault. It was further extracted from the petitioner that a year after the mac riage a deed of separation was exe cuted between her and the respondent, and that he had since allowed her £l9 10s. a-year. For the defence the respondent was examined, and denied most postively that any impropriety took place between him and the female tenant, as deposed by the petitioner. He admitted having pushed the petitioner down on the occasion of her calling at his place at Rye. He denied any antece• dent act of violence towards her. He added that her conduct towards him during their brief period of cohabitation was of a nature calculated to en danger his life. On the occasion of the slightest dispute between them every available domestic utensil was thrown at him by the petitioner. In his cross-examination he admitted that he had written a letter to the petitioner after their separation in the following terms : " MY DEAR WIFE,—I ask, as a small token, some gift from you in remembrance of one I have left behind, who is dearer to me than all the world besides. The same gift will be held by me when far away as the most precious token. I hope you will not refuse.—Your affectionate husband, " JAMES SHABOT." The respondent did not admit having written this letter nntil its production, and added that he had forgotten the circumstance. Sir C. Cresswell summed up, and with his usual ability commented upon the salient points of the evidence, and The jury returned a verdict for the petitioner on all the issues. Sir C. Cresswell then granted the decree nisi with costs, against the respondent. BROWN V. BROWN AND BEDSON. The suit , was instituted by the husband, a lawyer's clerk, to obtain a dissolution of marriage, on the ground of 'his wife's adultery with the co-respon dent, to which there was no defence. Dr. Spinks and Mr. Welsby were counsel for the petitioner. _ _ _ From the evidence it appeared that the parties were married in 1846, and they cohabited until 1853, when Mr. Brown took a house in the neigh bourhood of Red Lion square, which he let out in lodgings. The co-respondent took apartments in his house, and the alleged immoral intimacy took place between the parties. Mrs. Brown ultimately left her husband in 1856, and cohabited with the co-respondent in Turnstile, where he had opened an eating-house. The facts were fully proved, and The jury found a verdict for the petitioner on all the issues. The learned Judge granted a decree nisi. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WORCESTER, MARCH 9. (Before Mr. Justice Wilde.) DEFRAUDING A BANKRUPT'S CREDITORS. John Humphries was charged with stealing sun dry dessert, dinner, and tea services, decanters, and other goods, the property of the assignees of Joseph Clarke, of Kidderminster, a bankrupt. Mr. Powell conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Ken ealey the defence. The bankrupt, who was a tanner, was involved in the great leather failures of last summer. He failed for about £66,000, and there were about £13,000 of assets, but of these a large proportion had been clandestinely made away with, and for which parties have already been convicted at Wor cester Assizes. The prisoner was charged with hav ing stolen the articles named in the indictment. Evidence was given to prove that thearticles alleged to have been stolen, together with 20 sovereigns, were found in the prisoner's house, about nine miles from Kidderminster. The defence was that the articles had all been given by the bankrupt Clarke (who died soon after his bankruptcy) to the sister of the prisoner, who had been living with him as his housekeeper for six years, Miss Humphries was called as a witness, and she swore that the articles had been given to her last summer by Clarke, and that she was about to be married to him when he got into difficulties. Under these circumstances the judge directed a verdict of acquittal. Samuel Humphries, charged with stealing other goods belonging to the bankrupt Clarke, was also acquitted. CRUEL TREATMENT OF A LUNATIC. Samuel Vick, Joseph Lacey, and James Thomas were charged with unlawfully and maliciously inflicting upon one Patrick M'Kenna grievous bodily harm, at Powiek, on the 3d ultimo. Mr. Richards prosecuted, Mr. Powell defended Lacey and Thomas. This was a shocking case. The unfprtunate man M'Kenna was an inmate of the Worcestershire Lunatic Asylum at Powick, near Malvern, and on the 3d of February he had become a little refractory and refused to put on his necktie. Vick was the principal keeper in the particular part of the asy lum in which the man was confined, and he appears to have lost his usual self-control, and to have used M'Kenna in a most violent and brutal manner. He had thrown him with great violence on the floor, and on the ground kicked him on the breast and ribs, bursting in his breast bone and breaking seve ral of his ribs, besides tearing the flesh under his arm. Dr. Sherlock, the medical superintendent at the asylum, described the extreme violence to which the unfortunate lunatic had been subjected, and stated that for some time he was in extreme danger; but he hoped no fatal results would now follow. The fact of the cruel treatment of the man by Vick was proved by two other of the inmates of the asylum, who were considered competent to give evidence. One of these witnesses (Joseph Newman) deposed that he saw Vick trying to put M'IC enna's necker chief on, that he resisted, and Vick then struck him on the breast with his fist. The two other priso ners then came in and they threw him down and kicked him. Another inmate of the asylum, named Gillett, corroborated the evidence, and both the unfortu nates (who were brought utfrom the asylum) gave their evidence in a very sat..;:actory manner. The jury acquitted Lacey and Thomas, and found Vick Guilty. He was sentenced to a year's impri sonment. William Underhill, George Cook, and Jesse Rollason were found guilty of the manslaughter of William Parsons, at Halesowen, in a fight. It appeared to be a fair stand up fight. Three weeks' imprisonment. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—NOTTINGHAM, March 9. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton and a Common Jury.) NEEDUAM Y. TAYLOR-ACTION FOR BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. Mr. Mellor, Q.C., and Mr. Flower were for the plaintiff; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr, Mere weathf r for the defendant. Plaintiff, Zillah Needham, is the daughter of poor but respectable people at Leverton, and now 24 years of age. The defendant is 40, and an opulent farmer. Zillah used to go out dressmaking at the different farm-houses, and in 1858 Taylor, who had lived in the same village of Leverton, became th• accepted suitor of Zillah, and upon his wish plain tiff ceased to go out dressmaking, as he said he c.id not wish her to do so, as she was about to become his wife. They went to church and chapel together, when he used tosee her home. He mostly came on Saturday and Sunday nights, and they were then left together. Taylor gave notice to a tenant to quit one of his houses, as he wanted it himself, and on being jocularly asked " Who is it to be ?—Zillah, I suppose," he said, " Aye, I reckon so." He married in April, 1860, a widow of the name of Wood, whose husband died the January preceding. The jury found for the plaintiff—damages £lOO. IRELAND DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. MORE YELVERTON REVELATIONS. Byron said, or sung, that— " Romances paint at full-length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages," which is true in a general sense ; but the Yelverton real life romance is certainly an exception, seeing that it has painted portraits as large as life of the honourable major's brace of wedlocks. It is not, however, often that, in a romance, real or ficti tious, the hero and the villain are one and the same self-sketched character. It was reserved for Major Yelverton to become the voluntary suicide of his own good name ; and it now appears that the operation of moral self-destruction did not com mence in the Irish Court of Common Pleas. All the reasons that he alleged, in reference to his uncle, for concealing his marriage were founded on falsehood. "In his letters," says the IriBl4 2i?nes, " to Theresa Longworth, Major Yelverton alleged, as the principal motive for a clandestine marriage, his dependence upon his uncle. He affirmed that he owed his uncle, the Hon. William Henry Yel verton, the sum of £1,000; that this uncle had compelled him to give a bond for the amount ; and farther, that the stipulation exacted was, that Major Yelverton should not marry under penalty of exe cution on the bond. He ventured further, and ma ligned the character of an upright gentleman. He stated that his uncle had ulterior objects to promote and desired that the titla of Avonmore should de volve upon his sons. Major Yelverton added that he had great expectations from his uncle, and that to displease him would be his ruin. All this—the bond, imprisonment, the loss of his commission, the hostility of his uncle, and the sacrifice of his prospects in life—was brought to bear upon Miss Longworth, and at last she was induced to consent to a secret marriage. We have (it continues) the authority of the Hon. William Henry Yelverton, brother of Lord Avonmore, to state that all these representations are without a shadow of foundation. There is not a particle of truth in the story from beginning to end. Major Yelverton never owed a single shilling to his uncle, and consequently never could have given him a bond. Major Yelverton had no expectations from his uncle, for, though prospe rous and affluent, he has children of his own to settle in life; and they who have the pleasure of his acquaintance know that he is the last man in the world to conceive so base aproject or entertain so cruel a purpose as his nephew attributed to him." In reference to the false report that the Honourable William Yelverton was bearing the expenses of Mrs. Yelverton's case, the Irish Times says that, though the lady has that gentleman's sympathy, as well as the sympathy and commiseration of other members of the Avon more family, " The rumour is without foundation that the Hon. William H. Yelverton contributed any pecuniary assistance whatever throughout the trial. Inclination must give way to higher consi derations, and we cannot always with propriety do what we could wish. It is necessary to state this clearly, lest it should be supposed that Mrs. Yel verton does not need all the assistance which a feeling people can give, to oppose the most costly and most worrying processes instituted by her ene mies." And it adds, "We are happy to state, for the credit of this country, that the subscriptions are flowing into the National Bank, On Monday we will publish the names of the committee—a committee embracing some of the most esteemed gentlemen in Ireland. We know that to her who has so bravely struggled for her rights, where so many would have quailed, funds will be readily and cheerfully given, amply sufficient to set at defiance and endeavour to overthrow the verdiot of an Irish jury." MIXED MARRIAGE LAW. The anomalous penalty for mixed marriages had been the subject of serious attention here before the Yelverton case brought it under general notice, the Dublin Statistical Society having, through one of its committees, under the presidency of Mr. Francis Codd, furnished a report upon it, in which it was recommended that the Penal Act should be re pealed, which would facilitate the public registra tion of marriages. Mr. James Moncrief Wilson. the committee's honorary secretary, has republished the report with the view of promoting the prosecu tion of its recommendation at the present juncture. Great excitement was produced among the Pro. testants in Armagh yesterday on account of alleged jury-packing by the Crown in the trial of a number of persons for taking part in an illegal procession on the 12th of July. The Protestants complain that in a Protestant county, and out of a jury list in which Protestants are to Roman Catholics as ten to one, the Crown managed to obtain a jury in which the Roman Catholics are to the Protestants as ten to two. A jury exclusively Protestant had found one of the Orangemen guilty of manslaughter; another jury with reference to which the Crown had exercised the right of challenge had acquitted the prisoner charged with a similar offence ; it was in the swearing of the third jury that the packing is alleged to have taken place. The long panel was called over, and the first two jurors who answered to their names being Protestants were set aside by the Crown ; the third, being a Roman Catholic, was sworn. The same process was carried on till a jury consisting of ten Roman Catholics and two Protestants was obtained, 19 Protestants having been set aside: The counsel for the defence stated that this was the result of a conspiracy to obtain an exclu s i ve ly Roman Catholic jury. C er t a i n gent l emen, he asserted, including some of those placed on the jury, had formed an association, and published a document, and collected subscriptions for the pur pose of defeating justice, and to set aside the jurors who were Conservatives, and get Roman Catholics exclusively put on the list fo r thi s t r i a l . O ne o f the Roman Catholic jurors indignantly denied the charge, and thought it very hard that it should be made. The judge agreed that he had reason to com plain, and said that it was a charge of conspiracy that should be tried. The Attorney -General insisted that it should be thoroughly investigated, and Mr. M'Mechan, the counsel for th e pr i soners, assented, but withdrew his challenge when he learnt that the triers—the first two jurors sworn—would be Roman Catholics. In consequence of an observa tion of the judge he subsequently agreed to prove the charge, but his lordship would not permit him tg do so at that stage of the proceedings. It should be observed that the 24 gentlemen who had served on the two previous juries were objected to by the Attorney-General, and the judge admitted that they ought to stand aside. It was on this ground that some of the Protestants were objected to. All publicans, though Roman Catholics, whose names appeared on the list were set aside by the Crown. The judge, Baron Fitzgerald, brother of the Bishop of Cork, fully concurred in the course adopted by the Attorney-General. There was someting like a " scene " between his lordship and the prisoner's counsel. " Attorney-General—l am quite willing, under those circumstances, that the gentleman should stand aside, " His Lordship—Very well; let him stand by. " Mr. M'Afechan—l object to it, my lord. I say there is no reason for your lordship putting this gentleman off the jury, and that it is contrary to law. "His Lordship—Mr. M'Mechan, with reference to the statement you have now made, I think you must be conscious, on consideration, of the impro priety of it. " Mr. MeMechan—My lord— " His Lordship—l wish to hear nothing more on the subject. "Mr. M.Mecb an—l founded my observation on cases decided in this court. " His Lordship—Mr. M'Mechan, you are in this position—that you can make what statements you please in reference to me, and I can make none in the position in which I am in reference to you. Into any discussion with you I will not enter. I am endeavouring to discharge my duty to the best of my power, and I must ask that when I have ruled a point no observations shall be made. "Mr. M‘Meehan—My lord, I— " His Lordship—l wish, Mr. M‘Mechan, that the business of the court shall be proceeded with." A report having been circulated that Sir John Arnett, M.P., was about to abandon Kinsale, and offer himself as a candidate for Cork, on the retire- ment of Dr. Lyons, he has given the report a posi tive contradiction, adding, "My Kinsale consti tuents, unsolicited, did me the honour of electing me for their ancient borough, and I have no idea of deserting them while they continue satisfied with me." It is announced that Mr. John Nicholas Murphy will offer himself for the representation of the city when Dr. Lyons retires. The National Board of Education has got its new charter, rendered necessary by the increase of the number of its members from 15 to 20. On this subject the Dublin Erening Post of today has the following remarks : "Considering the present fair and impartial con stitution of the Board on which Protestants and Catholics are equally represented—some of the most faithworthy Catholics in Ireland being among the latter—we look with strong hope to the seutary effects of a system of administration in which the legitimate claims of Catholics are now for the first time recognised, whilo ample care is takes to protect the rights and interests of all denominations," THE PROPOSED SHAM FIGHT NEAR BRIGHTON. Rumours are afloat that the proposed sham fight by the volunteer forces of the metropolis is to be marred by opposition on the part of certain com manding officers, and that an antagonistic demon stration is to be got up on Easter Monday, in much closer proximity to the metropolis than Brighton. The one in this respect is said to be taken from the refusal of the authorities of the War Department to the request of the dockyard battalions to be per mitted to participate in the movements to be exe cuted upon that occasion. Lord Ranelagh, it appears, has given mortal offence in having taken credit to himself for the general success (the victualling department out of the question) which attended the sham fight at Chiselhurst last year ; and it is apprehended that as he has been the originator of the sham fight which is proposed to take place at or near Palmer, between Brighton and Lewes, on the Ist of next month, should it prove successful, he will have another laurel added to his military renown, whilst other metropolitan commanders of metropolitan rifle corps will be in the position of " second fiddles." Hence the opposition which is springing up in various quarters. It is stated that in conse quence of influence brought to bear upon Colonel Hicks, the City of London Rifle Brigade have deserted the Brighton sham fight standard, and that the North Middlesex and several other large metropolitan corps have, through their commanding officers, been invited also to abandon that proposal, and join the Queen's (Westminster), the Civil Service, the London Scottish, the London Irish, the Inns of Court, and other regiments, in a brigade and field day on Easter Monday, or in a demonstration in or near the metropolis. The great object of Lord Ranelagh in selecting the vicinity of Brighton for the sham fight is to show, as far as possible, the facilities with which 20,000 or 30.000 men could be concen • trated at any given point upon the coast, and be got ready for action in case of a sudden descent upon our shores. There is, however, an argument opposed to the demonstration of the Ist of April being any test in that respect at all, namely, the great length of notice which will have been given for the assembly and conveyance of the various contingents. It is rightly argued that in order effectually and properly to test those facilities, and the powers of concentration which the Volunteer force may possess for such a purpose, it should be as a few hours' notice, when the value or inefficiency of the volunteer organisation would be at once seen and be duly appreciated. The preceding are some of the points in dispute, but it is to be hoped that whatever differences may arise, there will be none permitted in any way to deteriorate this great na tional and patriotic movement. Amongst the various arrangements being made with respect to the proposed sham fight near Brighton, on Easter Monday, are the following : On the London and Brighton the charge is not to exceed ls. 6d. to and from Brighton for pri vates, and officers at ss. first class; but in cases where the ordinary third class fare wou:d not amount to the sum mentioned for privates the ls. 6d. will not be charged. Trains are to leave London-bridge and Victoria stations at these fares on Saturday, the 30th, at half past five, p.m., and nine a.m., on Sunday, March 31st. The South-Eastern Railway Company will provide spe cial trains to carry volunteers from Margate, Rams gate, Dover, Folkestone, Canterbury, and Ashford; from Strood, Chatham, Rochester, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Wells; from Reading, Guildford, Dork ing, and Reigate. Volunteers in uniform with arms are to be charged less than the ordinary low excur sion fares. Commanding officers of corps intend. ing to take part in the sham fight ere to be fur nished with full particulars of the arrangements for trains on Easter Monday, but they are to be such that all volunteers will reach London between eight and eleven p.m. Officers' horses Ns ill be sent by the ordinary trains on Saturday and Sunday, at £1 return fare. A special train for horses at five o'clock on Sunday morning. Railway tickets will in a few days be forwarded to the commanding officers of the corps to be engaged for distribution among their men, from whom they will receive pay ment. No such tickets to be issued after Saturday, the 23d inst. On Saturday afternoon last about 700 officers and men of the City of London Ititic Brigade, arrived at Greenwich, on board the steam vessels Widgeon and Fairy, and marched from the pier through the park to Blackheath for drill and rifle practice. Several companies of the Woolwich Arsenal Rifles were also present. 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LAMBETH.—THE SUSPICIOUS CASE OF POISON ING AT WALWORTH.-Mr. John Spain, a tall, portly man, upwards of 60 years of age, and of gentle• manly appearance, was placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, charged on suspicion with hav ing caused the death of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Spain, byadministering some narcotic poison to her. Mr. Frederick Nott, a surgeon, residing in Lucas road, Kennington -park, said on Thursday evening he was sent for, and on going to the house or cot tage, No. 6, Victoria-terrace, Royal-road, he found a female lying on her b ac k on a so f a i n a state of perfectinsensibility, with a bottle of hot water placed at her feet. Ori examining her he at once discovered that she was labouring under the effects of some narcotic poison. Her pulse was scarcely discernible, her countenance pallid, her eyes closed, and the pupils dilated ; in fact, all the symptoms of narcotism, and he did not perceive the slightest smell of spirits of any sort. He adminis tered emetics, and used the usual remedies of rub bing and friction to restore consciousness, and attended her frequently up to 8 o'clock without producing the desired effect, and on calling again, shortly after 8 o'clock, he found her head. Death, he had no hesitation in saying, was caused by some narcotic poison. Mary Ann Matilda Smith, niece of the deceased, was next called, and the greater part of her evidence was a repetition of that given by her the day be fore. She further identified the prisoner as the gen tleman who had called en and went oat with her aunt on the Thursday after, and repeated that their meeting seemed friendly, and that no expressions of an angry character that she could hear passed be tween them. Her aunt, she said, complained some times of gout in the feet, but appeared perfectly healthy. On leaving the house with the prisoner on Thursday evening, she told witness she should not be long out, and to have the kettle boiling for tea by the time she returned. Mr. Inspector Dann deposed to the fact of having apprehended the prisoner on a warrant that morn ing, at the house of his brother, a respectable farmer in Kent, where he was on a visit. On telling him of the death of his daughter-in-law, and that he was suspected of having caused it by administering narcotic poison to her, the prisoner became very much affected, shed tears, and thanked God that his conscience acquitted him of any such offence. He said the purport of his calling was to get his daughter-in-law to accompany him to the shop of Mr. Vincent, pawnbroker, at Brompton, respecting some jewels belonging to her husband, that were pledged there for £l2O. He also said that on leav ing her residence his daughter-in-law complained of illness, and placed her band to the region of her heart, and from this circumstance he (the prisoner) thought her death ar ose f rom h eart di sease. On coming from the station-house to that court, the prisoner further said his daughter-in-law com plained of great distress of mind, and told him she felt as if disposed to make away with herself. This being the whole of the evidence at present, Mr. Norton gave the prisoner the usual caution, telling him the charge was one of a very grave and serious character, and that what he said might be taken down and used against him. The prisoner replied that he was quite aware of the serious character of the accusation, but he was perfectly innocent of it, and had nothing on his conscience to reproach him. The accused here be came much affected, shed tears, and on recovering said he had no hesitation whatever in stating the whole facts. He had, he said, brought up a large family in respectability, and amongst them his son Joseph, who for some years held a situation in the house' of Mr. Lusk (one of the present sheriffs). For several years his salary had been £BOO a year, and for the last two years it had been £l,OOO, and this for a single man, as his family believed him till recently to be, should have been ample for his maintenance, but such did not appear to be the fact, and he was deeply grieved to feel that his folly and extravagance was the sole cause of his father being placed in his present humiliating position. The prisoner became again much affected and wept, and on recovering proceeded to say that at Christmas last this son Joseph, having previously intimated his intention by letter, made his appearance at his house in Canterbury with a lady whom he intro duced, and was received by him (prisoner) and his family, as his wife, and they had no reason whatever to doubt that she was not his wife. Soon after, however, his son's mind became affected, and it was found necessary to place him first in a private lunatic asylum, and subsequently by the assistance of Mr. Lusk in Bethlem Hospital, where he at pre sent is. The consequence of his affliction was the discovery that the lady whom he introduced as his wife was only his kept mistress, and also the disclo sure of his marriage with the deceased. The latter information he (the prisoner) arrived at by receiv ing a letter from a solicitor, enclosing the marriage certificate, and demanding to know where his son was, as well as a necessary support for his daugh ter-in-law. The latter he was not in circumstances to comply with, and the consequence was that he was visited by his daughter-in-law (the deceased), whom he received at his house in Canterbury in a friendly manner, giving her the refreshments which she required, and seeing her to the railway station in the evening, she having a return ticket. From her he learned the fact'that she had lived with his son from 1848 to 1854, when he married her, but in a fortnight after he deserted her to live with the woman he had introduced to his family as his wife in Manchester street, Manchester-square. She fur ther stated that his son had made an allowance of £1 a week, and that not having been paid from the commencement of his illness, she had been obliged to part with her things for her support. His son had not only dissipated the whole. of his large salary, but had also spent £4OO which he (his father) had given him to place at interest at 5 per cent., which he represented to have done, and £2OO be. sides, obtained on bills ; and, in addition, had pledged his diamond rings and studs for £l2O at the shop of Mr. Vincent, at Brompton. It was consi dered by himself and his family that his wife was entitled to the ticket for those jewels, that she might make something of it, and on Thursday last he came to town for the purpose of handing it her. Their meeting at her house was of the most friendly character, and he asked her to accompany him to the shop of Mr. Vincent, at Brompton, to introduce her as the perso n t o w h om he was to deliver the jewels. Before leaving the house she complained of internal pain, and placed her hand on the region of the heart, and they then proceeded to, and after wards returned from, Brompton, in an omnibus; that while coming along the park she complained of illness, and got out of the vehicle. He got out with her, and she became so ill that a crowd gathered round them, and he called a cab, assisted her, went with ber himself as far as her residence, though his intention had been to part with her at Charing-cross, and proceeded as far as Fencburch street, and by railway into Kent. He considered her illness was temporary, and that the cause of his hurrying away was to reach the 4.40 train, and have the advantage of the omnibus that. met that train, for after that he would have to walk seven miles, and not 20, as had been stated. In conclu sion, he said the deceased complained of being low spirited, and said she felt as if she could make away with herself, and he therefore wished that a par ticular search might be made in the cottage for poison, or any drug of a deleterious character. Mr. Norton observed that he was in the hands of an experienced and intelligent officer, Mr. Dann, who, he felt satisfied, would do everything neces sary in the case. The prisoner said he felt satisfied of that, and begged to return his best thanks to the Inspector for the kind and courteous manner in which he had discharged his duty, and the consideration he had shown to his family. Mr. Norton remarked that from the very candid and straightforward manner in which he had given his statement he was led to hope in his innocence of the charge, and should accept bail for his appear ance on a future day. The prisoner said he had hoped Mr. Lusk would have been in attendance. Mr. Lusk, the sheriff, made his appearance, and stated that the prisoner called on him on Thursday morning and told him what he intended doing for his daughter-in law respecting the jewels, and further said that but for his position he should have no objection to bail Lim. Mr. Norton, under the circumstances, took the prisoner's own bail, and he was liberated. The King of Prussia addresses his Generals in Berlin one day, and his words are in print in London the next. '1 he latest improvement on magnetic action have rendered this and many other results undeviating. 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Besides preaching some dozen times a week—not to scanty handfuls, but to crowded thousands he superintends the affairs of a large congregation, amounting to thousands. He has some 25 young men under him in training for the Christian ministry. He is editor of the Denominational Magazine ; and he is constantly dunned by publishers for contributions for the press. Some of his discourses have passed rapidly through many editions. Some volumes of his sermons sold in America to the extent of 250,000 copies but since his famous letter against slavery, matters have taken such a turn as to give a melan choly view of the power of slavery. He has been burned in effigy in every slaveholding State. His sermons have been publicly burned as unfit to be read in a State founded on the principle that all men are free and equal ; and what is most mar vellous of all, the sale of the sermons has been com pletely stopped! Such is slavery in America at this hour, and it is not wonderful that a nation that tolerates such outrage on free opinion should be in trouble, and about to explode. As much was got from the sale of his works in America (for though some will not believe it, he found honest publishers there) as went far to support his twenty-five stu dents; but that source of revenue has been dried up, and these young men must be otherwise sup ported. The visit of Mr. Spurgeon has been most satis factory. Besides more endearing himself publicly and privately to bis former and early friends, he has allured a host of new ones, and scattered the last remnants of parties opposed to him on former visits. We have heard but one opinion of his preaching—every one being more than delighted with its brilliant, yet chaste and spiritual character. The deep earnestness of the preacher caused gene ral remark ; and though at times his sparkling wit and humour could scarcely be concealed, there was not one offensive word employed. Parties who went to hear him expecting outre expressions found them not, but many of them admitted that they found what was bettor—sound common sense, a scriptural theology, awl matured ideas, couched in language simple, eloquent, and glowing. We were gratified to see so many of our city clergy present on all these occasions. Both the language and the action of the preacher were well worthy their attention. The discourse on Monday evening was especially distinguished by sublime imagery and the highest oratorical skill; holding his vast audience entranced, and listening with breathless emotion to this marvellous effusion. The great charm of these productions is their simpli city. They are quite intelligible by the humblest of the hearers, and yet grateful to the most culti vated and refined. His style well illustrates the poet's conception— " Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle , yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflow ing full." On Wednesday and Thursday evening this gen tleman preached in Edinburgh to immense crowds of eager listeners. He is to preach twice at Helensburgh on Sabbath (to-morrow), and in the Music Hall, Aberdeen, during next week. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-MARCH 9. At this market to-day wheat was in limited supply, and last week's rates improved is per qr. Barley in fair supply, and prices were unchanged. White wheat 64s to 66s I Red wheat as to 611 Malting barley....46s to 47s I Chevalier barley 41s to 44s Distilling do .. ....31s to 34s Oats.. 26s to 30s Flour, 41s to —s Od per sack from the miller. OXFORD--MARCH 9. We have a change for the better in the quotations of the various descriptions of grain. The market was largely at tended, and a good business done at rather more money. LEICESTER-MAR= 9. The supply of wheat middling to-day, and prices same as last week, with a firm demand. White wheat, 70s to 73s —red, 65s to 72s per 36 stone; a rather slow demand for barley, grinding, 32s to 345; malting, 37s to 43s per qr.; oats, 24s to 38s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 56s to 58s, new, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 50s I Seconds, 478 I Thirds, 45s per 20 stone. YORK- MARCH 9. The trade was firm, and wheat was in good show; sales were effected at previous prices for the best samples only. Barley steady at extreme rates. Oats in fair demand. Wheat, red 45s to 66s i Oats . 24s to 26s White do .68s to 64s Beans ..48s to 5 6 s I Barley .38 s t o 42 s Nes ....--e to ---1 Malt, 70s to 72s per qr. ; rye, 37s per qr ; flour, 48s to bOs per sack. NORTHAMPTON-MARCH 9. At this corn-market the wheat supply was seasonably fair, with a quiet demand, prices ranging from 64s to 68s for old, and 42s to 62s for new. In barley a steady busineF, malting 38s to 435, grinding 29s to 32s per qr. Oats in moderate show, and prices as I efore—quoted at 22s to 38s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 61s to 66s ; peas, 40s to 605. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 725; flour, 33s to 34s per sack THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) Mar. 21. Do. (via Marseilles) Mar. 15. Brazil and Cape Verds Overdue. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o. Cuba and Mexico April 1. Canada, &c. (via L'derry) . • .. .. March 20. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. • • .. April 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) overdue. Do (via Marseilles) Mar. 15. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Overdue. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) Mar. 15. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Mar. 13. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Mar. 22. Lisbon .. , . .• Mar. 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Mar. 15. Vigo, and Oporto .. .. Mar. 11. United States, California, &c. .. Mar. 14. Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. 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No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d, ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters aro sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbit e 60, Graceehurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 160, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and CA. tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street, City ; at. 127 High 'Holborn : and all grocers BIRTHS. GOSLING.—On the 9th inst., at Bromley, Kent, the wife of R. Gosling, jun., Esq., of a daughter. HAMMOND.—On the Bth inst., at Finchley, tke wife of W. Hammond. Esq., of a daughter. 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