The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-26 00:00:00

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AN EXCURSION TRAIN, ALLOWING A LO NGER P ERIOD, will also leave Paddington at 9.45 a. m., and Reading at 10.50 a.m., on SATURDAY, Sept. 7, returning on the 11th or 28th of September :-For Oxford (11s. and 55.), Kan bury 14s. and 6s. 6c1.), Leamington and Warwick(lBs. and 88.), S tratford-on-Avon and Birmingham (20s. and Os. 6d.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bil s t on (21s. 6d. and 108. ) , W olverhampton (225. and 10s. 6d.), Wellington and Shrews bury (275. 6d. and 135.), Oswestry, Wrexham, Llangollen-road, and Chester (335. and 155.), Birkenhead, Liverpool, Warring ''oll,s and Manchester 375. and 175.) For full particulars see bill. her, would strike her armour plates no longer angle, but point blank, so that the charm would be broken. If, however, these objections can be refuted or removed„ we may, perhaps, see our ships of war assuming the form which we have delineated above and of which models have been constructed already. Sails and masts would proba;lv be dispensed with and reliance placed upon steam alone. The vessel lying low in the water, with her single tier of nuns, es he c ah l tl'ao a dru n d g ldye e r°b w il le? cowal v i s ible s d o l x °() P a btj c ict) ; a l : y nt o a atfi n tn' l a aei thee g jyt o t, 14 e s n i o siortlfa t do h nef a ce t aed which took place in fortification after the discovery of gunpowder. Instead of strong towers and massive walls, the new system introduced sunken walls and low parapets of sloping turf. The principle of defence consisted of exposing no surface to attack. A fort in a flat country was scarcely visible. Cita dels of the first order, and capable of sustaining a six months' siege, could only he distinguished by a few low embankmenta from the meadows around them. Just so will it be with ships if the new principle should prevail. The poetry of the old idea will be lost. There will be an end of lofty masts, swelling sails, and graceful hulls. A ship will no longer be a splendid compound of strength and beauty, sitting the waters like a bird. She will be a terrible machine of destruction, invisible till she suddenly discloses herself, and as impreg nable to all attacks as a submarine rock. The con flict of two such vessels would he like the conflict of two catamarans. A man of war in short would be reduced to the simplest form of a floating battery moved by steam. The only object of the builder would be to cover a certain number of Armstrong guns with an impenetrable shield s to make the fabric float in ;water, and to propel it at the quickest pos sible rate. The new British cruiser would be an armed raft under an iron tortoiseshell. However, there is still an obstacle in the way of this consummation. Sir William Armstrong has been iisfeated this, time, but he may be victorious agw. ay and by. He won the day at Shoebasys ness, though he lost war 'Portsmouth: and when his new 300-pounder comes out Mr. Jones's target may perhaps resist no longer. The attack and defence seem to prevail by turns, and it is hard to say whether artillery or armour may be found the stronger at any given period. All we can say at present is, that ships can undoubtedly be made to carry armour which will give them considerable, if not absolute, security against the most powerful artillery. If it were not for this protection the new ordnance would make short work of anything afloat. The other day an unlucky privateer be longing to the Confederate States took the Federal frigate St. Lawrence for a merchantman, ran out of Charleston harbour, and fired into her. The frigate, we may well suppose, was taken aback at the auda city of the assault; but she presently let fly from her heavy guns, and the first volley cut the poor privateer in two. An old-fashioned cruiser exposed to a broadside of Armstrongs would, we may assure ourselves, fare little better than the unfortunate Petrel, and, as that is a kind of risk we cannot afford to run, we must look keenly to the progress of armour plates and targets.—Times. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUG UST 26, 1861. No. 21,576. PRICE 44. STAMPED sd. PUBLICATIONS. TERRIBLE A CPIDENT ONTHELON- his en g i ne , at the mouth o f the tunnel ; and the dr i ver of the Brighton t ra i n, on seeing this, immed i ately re versedHe did not, h owever, succeed in doing so unt i l he and did all he could to stop it. had proceeded a considerable distance up the tun nel. After he had brought it to a stand-still, he re versed his engine and came slowly back the tunnel, his object and duty being to wait at the southern end of the tunnel until the signal announced that it was clear. In a short time the Portsmouth excur sion train had got through safely, and this fact and the fact that the tunnel was clear were signalled to the driver of the Brighton train, who, in the ordi nary case of things, would have immediately pro ceeded through the tunnel. But, most unfortu nately, in the meantime, the second excursion train from Brighton, which follows close upon the first, came up. The signalman at the tunnel called out to his mate to know if the train—meaning the first Brighton train—had got through, and the reply was that the telegraph at the other end of the tun nel had signalled back to say that the train had passed through, the fact being that this telegraph referred to the Portsmouth excursion, and not to the first Brighton. The signalman, therefore, on the second Brighton train coming up, showed a white or safety flag, and the driver of it proceeded at full speed into the tunnel. It had not got above 300 yards before there was a tromtuadous shock ; it had runiuto the first Brightointoie;Which in fact was at the time slowly backing out of the tunnel. The consequences were awful; the engine of the second Brighton train ran right over the last carriages of the first Brighton train, and then, falling upon them, literally crushed the unfortunate passengers, for it so happened that to this train the usual precaution had not been taken of leaving the last carriage empty, or of having a van or truck. The last car riage, therefore, was full of passengers, and the engine fell upon them, ankas we have said, crushed them, and the horrors of the scene that ensued are not to be described or conceived. The tunnel was quite dark. In a moment it was blocked up with a horrible mass, in which were mingled dead and dying men, women, and children, buried beneath and amid heaps of broken carriages, with the engine and tender crowning, and pressing down the whole. To add to the sufferings of the unfortunates, the steam and boiling water descended in showers upon them, scalding those whose bodies were at all ex posed. The feelings of those who first entered the tunnel were harrowed to the last degree. There were the screams of women, the groans of the wounded, and the cries of poor little children. Of these latter, and one of the first to be extricated, it was found that both its legs had been broken and that it had been badly scalded. " The accident must have occurred soon after 9 o'clock. By half-past 9it was known at the Brigh ton station, and steps were immediately taken to send aid to the spot. Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Craven, Mr. Farmer, Mr. Denvil, Mr. George Faithful, jun., —in fact, all the Brighton staff of the railway, went down with a large force of men, and with them went several of the Brighton medical men : Mr. H. Ver rall, Mr. Tatham, Mr. Richards, and his assistant, Mr. G. Pocock, and Mr. Jowers. These gentlemen left about 10, but even before they arrived medical help was on the spot. The first to come was Mr. Tiley, of Ditchling, with men from the same locali ty ; Mr. Holman, of Hurst, and Mr. G. Blaker, of Pangdean, and they were closely followed by Dr. Hall, of Brighton, and Mr. E. Furner, ditto, both of whom had been awaiting the arrival of a down train at Hassock , s-gate, and on hearing of what had occurred walked over the hill to the southern end of the tunnel." conveyed to their own:residences in Brighton. Among these were Mr. Surman, a visitor from London, who lives at Webb's County-terrace, New Kent-road, whose hands and legs are much bruised. Miss At kinson, who also lives at Webb's County-terrace, re ceived severe injuries on the head. Two other ladies, who were of the same party, suffered much from the effects of fright and being severely shaken. Mr. James D. Child had his face much bruised ; Mr. James Parson, of 32, Mighill-street, Brighton, his mouth and chin much cut and several teeth knocked out ; Mr. Swaisland, bird-stuffier, Queen's road, Brighton, his leg fractured ; Mrs. Dickenson, internal injuries; Mrs. Hodges, Brunswick-place, Brighton, her knee much hurt; Thomas Bedford, Orchard-terrace, Kensington, his thigh severely lacerated. DON7a2CD - BiIIGH2ON RAILWAY. Second Edition, in Bvo., price One Shilling, THE VOLUNTEER IN THE FIELD. By Captain E. PALLISER, 82d Regt., and Captain NANGLE, Royal Artillery. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberta. Idescribe to you. The yells . and shrieks of the people were awful, not only of those who were injured, but the rest of the passengers of the two trains, whose alarm, increased by the darkness, was intense. Peo ple were distracted with terror. We had not many injured beyond mere contusions in our carriage ; hut people yelled and shrieked and put up prasrs, believing that they should never see daylight mare. Their fears increased the actual horror of, the situation. They imagined that every moment other trains, either on the up or down lines, would run into them and render their doom certain. For some 10 minutes we remained in darkness ; then lights were hung up against the sides of the tunnel, and the scene that revealed itself was terrific. There, in the background, I could dimly perceive a heap of carriages more or less in fragments, which seemed to have been piled one upon the other. From among this ma ss , an d aro und it in all directions, you could distinguish people lying, sitting , or running to and fro, shrieki ng an d gro aning. I never witnessed such a scene in my life. I trust in God never to do so again. We were detained in this tunnel an hour and ten minutes before any of our train could be got out ; then about 15 of our carriages got out, taking with them a number of the slightly wounded. It stopped at Hassock's-gate, where th€ wounded were taken out, and the whole platform was covered with them. Some were severely hurt. I saw a lady and little girl, mother and daughter, I believe, and they had missed the baby; but the mother was too much hurt to do more than to put her hands together as if praying for it. I was told that Mrs. Swaysland, of the North-street Quadrant, had broken her leg. Many of the passengers were only slightly hurt— they were cut or contused, or severely shaken. Many of the passengers continued their journey to London, but I returned out of consideration for the feelings of my friends at Brighton, who would naturally be in a great state of alarm and uncer tainty as to my fate." One of the most terrible accidents which has occurred since the introduction of our railway sys tem took place yesterday on the London and Brighton Railway in the Clayton tunnel, about five miles from the Brighton terminus. It will be ne cessary, to enable the public to arrive at a correct knowledge of the exact circumstances, to state that an excursion train leaves Portsmouth for London at 6 a.m., calling at all the stations on the South Coast line, and is made due for departure from Brighton at 8 5 a.m. There is also an excursion train which takes its departure from Brighton every Sunday morning at 8 15, which runs to London without stopping at any of the intermediate sta tions. The regular Parliamentary morning train stopping at all stations leaves Brighton at 8 30, being due in London at 10 40. There are besides occasional excursions trains from Brighton ; but whenever these trains are put on special instruc tions are sent out to the various stationmasters, signalmen, and other subordinate officers within whose province it- may come that the line should be duly kept clear for the regular traffic, and pro per caution observed. It will be noted hereafter that there has been some unexplained failure of a portion of these arrangements. To that circumstance may be attributed the terrible calamity which has taken place. It May be added that all excursion, like other trains, are timed, and that every precau tion seems to be used by the traffic manager for the careful and regular conduct of the duties confided to his charge. Yesterday morning the Portsmouth train which, as previously stated, passes through Brighton for London at 8 5 a.m., left the station about its ap pointed time, and duly arrived at the Clayton tunnel, where the " all right" signal was displayed. The train passed on without interruption. Imme diately afterwards the 8 15 from Brighton came within sight of the signalman. He, remembering that the Portsmouth excursion train had only gone by a very short time previously, alleges that he attempted to put on the " stop signal," which he found would not act. He then 'showed a red flag, indicating danger, to the driver of the Brighton train, who, however, was close upon the signalman's box, near the tunnel's mouth, at the time. The engine driver, however,with great presence of mind, thinking doubtless, from the signal, that the train which he knew had preceded him had not got clear, immediately reversed his engine. The impetus, how ever, with which he bad been travelling prevented the train being pulled up before it had proceeded some distance into the tunnel. Of course the num ber of tunnels between London and Brighton ren ders it necessary that special precautions should be adopted for preventing accidents, and there is a man stationed at both ends of each tunnel, whose duty it is to telegraph the entry and egress of the trains in order that two trains shall not be in the tunnel at the same time on the same line of rails. The signalman at the Brighton end of the Clayton tunnel, perceiving that, in spite of the reg flag, the second train did not stop, imagined that the driver had not seen it, and immediately telegraphed to the other end of the tunnel to know whether the train had passed through, and received for answer that it had. He did not know at the time that the driver of the second train had seen the red signal, that he had reversed his engine, and that the train was in backward motion towards the south, or Brighton end of the tunnel. Meanwhile the 830 stopping regular Parliamentary train came in sight, and the signalman, having received the answer above refer red to, gave the .usual signal for the train to pro ceed, which it did at its ordinary speed. Within a very- short distance of the mouth of the tunnel a fearful crash ensued, the second train backing hav ing come into violent collision with the other train, which was rushing forward. The shrieks and cries are described as being most fearful and heartrend ing, the darkness tending to heighten the terror of those who were uninjured, and leaving them power less to aid the wounded. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR FAYAL. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, 22d Aug., 1861. TRE COIVIMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the ~. OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED 1„..,019CD0M of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO „tIEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 24th 'ePtember next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat Ictr.h such Persons as may be willing to Contract for and de de'iverinz on board her Majesty's Steam Vessels In 'aYal Roads all such quantities of SOUTH WALES COALS, for her Majesty's Steam Vessels, as shall frem time to ,1 , P2 be demanded, under a contract fort welve months cer 'Mu from the Ist Dece , nber, 1 , 61, and afterwards until the e ' , Piration of th ree months' warning. Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. of „,I‘lo Tender will be received after Tw o o'clock on the day or t reaty, nor will any b e no ti ce d unless the party attends, an agent for him duly authorised in writing. dtb Ev ery Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the allralty, and hear in the left-hand corer the words tor coals ;" and *must also be delivered at Somerset- Vee, accompanied by a letter at ned by a revonsible per leengaging to become bound with the Person tendering, "tie nun of £2OO, for the due performance of the Contract. FRASER'S MAGAZI 2s. NE FOR SEPTEMBER, 6d., 'AIN CONT. Barren Honour.--A Tale. By the Author of "Guy Living stone," "Sword and Gown," &c. Chapters I.—HI. Literature and Philosophy of the EarlyChristianAscetics. Gone. By A. K. H. B A Few Words on the Census of Ireland. Manners and Morals as affected by Civilisation, Homceopathy. A Letter to J. S. S , Esq. By Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. London: Parker, Son, and Good for Nothing ; or, All Down Hill. By the Author of " Digby Grand," " The Interpreter," &c. &c. Chap ters XXXIV.—XXXVII. Modern Art in Berlin. Parish Register.: their His tory and Contents. Said Bey Jumblatt. Belligerents' Rights at Sea. Java. By an Anglo-Batavian. Second Article. Bourn, West Strand, W.C. Of the 22 persons who have lost their lives the following were identified in the course of the after noon : THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Mr. Coomber, 29, Gardener-street, Brighton (both legs cut off). Mrs. Ellen Lower, 1, Liverpool-street, Brighton. Mrs. In gledew, sen., St. James's•street, Brighton. Mr. Geo. Westgate, 44, Lewes-street, Brighton. Mr. Simpson, bird-dealer, London-road, Brighton. Mrs. Catherine Barnard, 22, Charles•street, Brig uton. N ORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY. Instituted 1808. SEcurrArtv—Sir Samuel Bignold. Thewhole of the profits divided with the assured. t 2,00 A m o ple security offered by an accumul a t e d Cap i t . 1 of ,000. „ Due -half of the first live annual premiums may remain as " P er manent charge upon policies gr an t e d for the wh o t. dw zation of life • The income of the Society is upwards of 4'237,000. The amount insured is upwards of 85,078,000. Since its commencement 32,7r0 policies have been issued, and £5,666,555 paid to the representatives of 6,854 deceased members. The bonuses may be a p p li e d a t t h e opti.m of the assured as LOII OWS : As a bonus added to the policy. or the amount may be re tie ived at once—that is, its cash value —or it may be applied 'la reduction of the future annual premium. The rates of premium are lower than those of some offices bonus. nearly 10 per cent., a benefit itself equivalent to an annual F or prospectuses apply at' the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, Blacktriars, London. Kent and Co., late Piper and Co.. Paternoster-row. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON SPERMATORRHEA. By F. B. COTIRVEN-Ax, &ad turmeriy Burgeon to the Metropolitan irmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. Amelia Tempest (apparently a domestic servant) ; address unknown. - .r Mr. E. Fares ; address unknown. William Hubbard, lately staying at 17, Viaduct. terrace, Brighton. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusion's, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. Henry Hayward Hubbard, a boy aged four years grandson of the above. Christian Manthorpe, Lennox Arms, Richmond street, Brighton. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. Just published, 13? pages, illustrated with eases, in a neat 12m0., price ls., or post free for 18 stamps, The Third Edition of - _ John Greenfield, 5, Montpelier-place, Brighton. The bodies having been carefully laid out were searched under the direction of Mr. Whitti, chief constable of Brighton, and Superintendents Crost and Barrenden. Several of the above were.identi fied by letters and papers which were found 'upon them. As soon as the intelligence of the accident be came known in Brighton the greatestsensation pre vailed, it not being ascertained to which train the disaster had occurred, and many hundreds besieged the railway station eithe:r to learn whether their friends who had gone by one of the trains were the probable sufferers, or those who were expected from London. The railway officials could not for a time afford any satisfactory information, and the excite ment was increased when the London excursion trains did not arrive until considerably after they were due, caused, it was ascertained, by being com pelled to branch off at Hayward's-heath, and come via Lewes. This, at all events, set at rest the minds of those who expected friends from the metropolis, and increased the anxiety for the safety of the Brighton excursionists to London. When the bodies of the dead had been properly arranged, IVIr. White instructed the police-constables to admit such per sons as stated they had relatives or friends who had gone by either of the trains from the town that morning, and they were allowed to pass through the room in which the unfortunate deceased lay, with a view to ascertain who might be among them. The recognition in one or two instances was most me lancholy, the husband seeing the mangled corpse of his wife, who a few hours before had left him in health and happiness—the daughter weeping over her mother's shattered remains. MANLY VIGOUR; the Art of Preserving, Improving, and Recovering It. With Practical Remarks on Spermatorrhma, Seminal Weakness, and Nervous Debility, Impotence. Barrenness, Sterility, and all other Disorders of the Generative Organisa tion in Males and Females. Likewise a chapter on Venereal Diseases, interspersed with clear instructions for self management and prescriptions for cure, and for ensuring the blessings of wedded happiness, and restoration to the privi leges of health and vigour. From this work it will be seen that none need 'despair, but all may look forward confidently to permane it recovery. By Dr. A. F. HENERY. itoyAL INSURANCE COMPANY READ OrricEs—Lombard-street, London ; and Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool. Branch Offices—Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leed s , Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Traffic Manager's-office, Brighton, Sunday, Aug. 25. E XTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1860. I ,„' The success of the Company, even in its earliest years. celved the marked attention, and elicited the surprised 'Il ~""nquents, of w ir es writers best acquainted with th e hi s tory of In l:a hie Co mpan. 10 ' Fie SEVEN YEARS 1845 re Premiums for 1860 EQUAL the Total Fire Premiums r hi ;' Life Premiums for 1860 EXCVED the Entire Life Pre ums for the EIGHT Y t- ARS ending 1852. ~Purcha-e o Anuit ies nlO LARGELY EXCEEDS the receipt-f for the firs i t TEN YEARS, 1845 to 1854. "This progress, it is believed, is unsurpassed, coasiderinF 'LIU it applies to each of the three branches of the business. ' Sir,—l regret to have to inform you that a very serious accident occurred in the Clayton tunnel of this line this morning, by which 23 lives have been lost and serious injuries inflicted on many of the passengers. - - London : Published by the Author, Medical Institution, 53, Dorset-street, Manchester square, W. 711 E WEATHER AND THE CROPS. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Hay market, will RE-OPEN for the Season To-morrow (SATURDAY), under the direction of Mons. BOULCOURT, principal Cornet-a-piston and Conductor. The music will be selected from Verdi, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Flotow, Balfe, and other eminent Composers. During the recess these well known Rooms have been entirely RE-DECORATED and I WPROvED by Messrs. H. T. SMITH and assistants. The new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admission, One Shilling. —All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7, Great Windmill-street. The accident occurred through the signalman at the south end of the tunnel admitting a second train into it Wore a previous train, which was checked by signal, had got out of it. He ascribes this to a failure in the electric telegraph signals with which he was provided; but, of course, I need hardly say the whole circumstances will have the most rigid investigation, and that the company will give every possible information in their power as to the causes. THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. One of our correspondents now in the North of Scotland says : " During the last three weeks I have travelled through the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Ross, and Inverness, and have had the best possible opportunities for judging as to the state of the crops in the North. The results of my inquiries and observation may be thus summarized : " Oats.—Above an average. In Aberdeenshire, where the granite foundation is favourable to the growth of this cereal, the yield, both in straw and grain, will be very large. A considerable quantity is cat, but none of the grain is housed, and, as the weather is uncertain, rain being of daily occurrence, there is some risk that the corn may heat in the sheaf, and have to be re-opened. In Moray and the other northern counties the oats are very heavy, and much of it is laid by heavy falls of rain. The harvest will be later than usual. FIRE BRANCH. ," The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dur tug the year 1860 of that impetus which had previously i t°ll ght it to a position of the first magnitude among the Z,nrance Companies of the United Kingdom. The Fire Vendums in 1859 had advanced to the sum of Z 2.8,314 7s. 3d. 1860 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of ~2:1977 19s. lid., showing an i ncrease o f £3 4,663 12s. Bd., ex is.,-„`ing the large advance of the preceding year, so th a t in h"° Years the Fire Revenue of the Company has been en /Iced by the enormous sum of £66,829 17s. sd. r r ," The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty paid to 'ernraent for the year 1.860 exhibits the augmentation of 'e business in a more prominent way, as it affords the means be colnparison with other Companies. The Proprietors will gTatified to learn that the increase of Duty paid by the e °Yal in the last year is more than double that of any other 11 1 °1134,1 Y, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of °Se Companies even approaches to 50 per cent. of the ad ;l_anee of this Comp ny. Our increase actually equais 30 Der nt of the entire increase of the whole of he Metropolitan ces combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms offices of 30 per cent. of' the total advance of the other 25 offices established out of London. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn.—This brilliant and favourite Ball Room IS NOW OPENED FOR THE SEASON. During the recess the entire building has been re-decorated, and many imporrant additions and alterations effected conducive to the comfort of the visitors. The celebrated Band, under the able direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform Over tures and Selections from the latest Operas, &c., with the newest and choicest dance music. New Selections from the Rose of Castille, Der Frieschutz, Robin Hood, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Refine Topaz. La Circassienne (never per formed in England), La Sanciniere, Redowa, New Champagne Galop, &c.—Doors open at half-past B.—Admission, is. The line is cleared and the ordinary traffic re sumed. Yours obediently, GEORGE HAWKINS, Traffic Manager. THE ANGULATED MAN-OF- WAR. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE " Wheat. —There is a fair crop of wheat in Moray and Ross-shire, but the yield will not be up to the average, even if the weather should turn out fine. There is a smaller breadth of wheat crop this year than last, with but little disposition on the part of farmers to increase their culture of this cereal. Barley is not a heavy crop, but the quality pro mises to be gopd. In the more southern districts it is nearly all cut, and in the field. " Turnips.—The long-continued rains have forced the growth of the turnip above ground, but the roots are, to a great extent, finger-toed. On some fields, 'specially in the low grounds of the straths and valleys, the bulbs are completely gone, and it is now quite clear that the crop will be deficient. Swedes are pretty safe, but the yellow ball is in very bad condition. LIFE BRANCH. The ‘ f r arlably t Repo announce a orts of the Co cons mp tant any for eriodical ex several years have had t ppan i sion of its Business, the New Polici es o f each succeeding year show an advance over the one that had immediately preceded „„ similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums New Policies, after deducting Guarantees, be ng £15,097 c 8 l Od., which is an increase on that item of £1,99317x. sd. eve the amount received for the year 1859. m;But even this advance is small when compared with the thr l en and remarkable momentum which has been given to “B,l3ratich of the Business in the present year (18611. p u b l i t i Was not until the commencement of the year that the t'4 B eeMed to have become fully acquainte I with the fact last e It°Yal lusurauce Cum bad putmanea late in tne Li L IT/1r an account of the investigation into the Assets and s , a u,llities of its Life Department, under a novel form, and in i2lain and intelligible a manner as the abstruseness of the % ,;;Jeef admitted, together with the entire stateme n t s an d ‘ mations necessary for that purpose. lis conjectured from the extensive Notices of this Pam let and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared attentionrio of the day, that it has largely attracted the R of vast numbers c f Persons in all parts of the United al 'l V° lll , as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a s atisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case i " afforded by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies the six months to the 3d June of the present year is ac -1141,1Y, SO per cent. in excess of the sum assured in the corres niumg months of the year 1860, although the latter amount of tim Itself exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period t : If this success be continued, the Royal Insurance Com would, with respect to the amount of its new business, .; at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions ) at the c 0", ,, of all the Insurance Companies doing business in this e n trv, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the liaZet that the detals of the Lire Business then to be puh a ;L e d would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have -e dY and very happy realisation." SP te "CUL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH. PR OFITS.—Large proportion Returned every Five Years to Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE 'YEARS. Expenses chiefly born by the Fire Branch, in order to WINES. PO RTS—Montero, 6s. per gallon, 15s. per dozen. Priorato, San Vicente. and Almanza, 86. 6d. per gallon, 20s. per dozen. Alto Douro, 10s. 6d. per gallon, 245. per dozen, to 19s. 6d. per gallon 425. per dozen. Val de Penas; 90s. and 245. per dozen. SFII RRIES—Cordo. an, very pale soft light Wine, 6s. per dallon, 15s. per dozen. Xer ezano , S s. 6 d . per ga l lon, 20s. per ozen. Other qualities, 245. to 48s. per dozen. Price per dozen includes bottles and packages. List, with full particulars, free on application. Spanish Peninsula Wine Company, 14, Barge-yard Chambers, Bucklersbury. As to the tunnel itself, it was impassable; it was filled up about 300 yards from the Brighton end by a dreadful mass of ruins of dead and wounded. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, Q - RO_SN'ENOR -• - zOTTARE.— /mut, coN suLTATIOrth FREE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW an d ni t PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EAcIl TOOTH (including all charges.) Mr. ESI[IfLL'S PATE TED INVENTION (protected by her Majesty's Royal Seal, July, 860), for adapting Arti ficial Teeth, from one to a complete set, by Self-Adhesion, are fixed without springs or fastening, without pain or ex traction, restore perfect articulation and mastication, ren dering detection impossible, and last a lif .fime. "Unrivalled for its utilityand economy."—Morning Post. "An admirable contrivance for remedying the defects of nature, without requiring new sets of teeth."—Sun. Decayed Teeth Stopped, Loose Teeth Fastened, Discoloured Teeth Restored, Arc. Constant Daily Attance at 8, Grosvenor street, Grosvernor-square, London ; Old Steine, Brighton; Bennett's-hill, Birmingham Here we may state that the engine of the first Brighton train, and about half of the train, consist ing of some 20 carriages, felt little or nothing of the shock. A gentleman sitting in one of the middle carriages tells us he only felt a slight shock, which threw him into the laps of two ladies on the oppo site seat, but without hurting either of them. This portion of the train, therefore, was, after a time, de tached from its shattered half and taken on to the Hassock's-gate station, where every assistance pos sible was rendered to the alarmed, and, in some eases, injured passengers. For here there were in jured passengers ; one gentleman sustained a rup ture by the shock, and there were scratches and minor hurts of every description —some, say the medical men, of a most singular nature. "Potatoes.—Three weeks ago the potato crop pro mised abundant returns, but after the rainy wea ther set in, about the 10th of the month, disease appeared, and now the blight is general over all the low ground. The crop, in fact, is already destroyed, for, whatever kind of weather now come, the great bulk of the acreage is hopelessly gone. Since 1846 there has been no such total destruction of the es culent. The loss will be all the more serious that a large proportion of the lands in the north are this year planted with the potato. " The grass fields are in excellent condition, and cattle are now the chief dependence of the farmers in the north. This will serve to balance their losses to some extent in the cereals ; but the season, un less very fine weather now sets in, will be unprofit able both for the cultivator of the soil and the con sumer of its products." y post. Is., THE MEDICAL BCONFIDANT on Midwifery, Pregnancy, the Disappointments in Marriage, and other ailments peculiar to Ladies. Female Obstruction Pills, ss. a box, post free. Address, Dr. Scott, 17, Adam street, Strand, London (since 1836). Consultations, 10 till 5. incre'ase the Bonus to be Returned. LIFE BONUSES DECLARED, 'ru t , n T'svo per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured : ,IREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED BY ANY COMPANY. BEc URITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling. Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £BOO,OOO. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT ea r „„ ,INSTITUTION. —The Committee of this Institution ArsrA, R OY APPEAL to the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST the i t , to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on ',united funds of the Society. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14 ' J ohn-street, Adelphi, Feb., 1861. and en 13a o kera—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herries R,"AIL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Majest the . Pr esident—His Patron—Her Grace the fluke of QUEEN Buccleuch, K.G. Thi Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. that - 11 0spital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, ijof disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade stte,funds the Weekly Board could make Immediately avail thr ' OO beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in ta.tlditio he 8 Me tropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by Voluntar Contributions of the Public, enable it to afford, an to Y its atimts effeetive Medical Assistance to „,""'erage exceeding P 2,ooo Out-patients weekly. te,ontributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward Mu tift,"'"l", Egg , Nicholas-lane • also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; pi'nlroond .and Co ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; e,seaeott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and 6,:! Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and •NY_ Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; ;17 bet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at ttospital. J. B. OWEN, M.A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. 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(SPECIAL NOTICA) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be consulted (only as OM). After a short time some passengers in the first class carriages procured lights from the roofs, and proceeded to render every assistance in their power. The extent of the fearful catastrophe then became apparent. The engine of the Parliamentary train had smashed the last carriage in the excursion train, which had mixed compartments for luggage at one end, passenger seats in the middle, and a guard's break at the other end. The locomotive had been pitched over the last carriage to the back of the last carriage but one, and shivered it into fragments. This carriage comprised four compartments, each containing 10 persons, and the consequences cannot be adequately described ; the unhappy passengers were scattered and mutilated in all directions, several were scalded with the boiling water from the engine, and their yells of agony were pitiable in the extreme. The telegraph was immediately set to work, communicating the terrible nature of the calamity to Brighton. As speedily as possible Mr. Hawkins, the traffic manager, Mr. Denvil, his assistant, Mr. Craven, superintendent of the locomo tive department, with a numerous body of workmen and others proceeded by special engine to the spot. They were accompanied by Dr. Burrell, Dr. Hall, Messrs. Furrier, Pocock, Tatham, Jowers, Judd, and other eminent medical men, in order to alleviate as far as possible the sufferings of the wounded. Un fortunately, in too many cases, all medical aid was unavailing. Upon the fragments of the carriages being removed upwards of 20 persons were found to be dead. The engine (as our reporter was informed) had literally sunk upon the second carriage, and the bodies of several of the sufferers were underneath. They had either been smashed or scalded to death. One unfortunate woman had both her legs cut off just above the knees, and she was quite black in the face. Another woman had her scalp torn completely off and both her arms broken. One man had his face crushed in such a manner as to force his eye balls from his head. A strong body of men, under the direction of Mr. Craven, proceeded to clear the line, which was comparatively uninjured. Mr. Hawkins despatched the uninjured part of the train to London. The bodies of the dead, 22 in number, were care fully placed in carriages which had followed the t,pecial engine from Brighton, and the wounded re ceived the most careful and unremitting attention from the medical gentlemen who were in attandance. As soon as possible the wounded, the dying, and the dead were conveyed to Brighton, where the un happy sufferers who have died were placed on tables and forms in the library at the company's offices to await identification. The wounded were taken in carriages and flys to the Susses County Hospital, where Mr. Furner, who accompanied them from the scene of the disaster, attended to their necessi ties, assisted by Messrs. Holliss, Catts, Lowdell, Blaker, and other medical gentlemen. Nine of the passengers had been taken into the hospital, and two of the cases were at once seen to require sur gical operations. In one instance, a man named Anthony Kean, a tailor, who resided at 54, Cos y; ell-road, London, had his left leg amputated, and William Arnold, of New England Farm, near Brighton, had his right leg amputated, the left leg being fractured. Kean was stated to be sinking, the state of the femoral artery rendering recovery scarcely possible. Of the other patients at the Hospital, Thomas Noble, of No. 5, 'Richardson street, Bermondsey, had a severe wound on the right temple; George Noble, of No. 8, Frederick's place, Brighton, several severe wounds on the head; Timothy Tester, of 15, Frederick's-place, Brighton, several bruises; a child about two and a-half years old, name unknown (supposed to be a child of one of the deceased), severe scalds; Thomas Parker, 26, Brunswick-place, Brighton, severe injury to the knee and right arm; Elizabeth Westcott, a leg broken in two places, and her daughter, contusions on both sides, and also some scalds on her legs. Besides the above, other wounded persons were The intelligence of the accident first reached the metropolis when the uninjured portion of the train arrived at London-bridge. About 30 pas sengers came up by this means, several of whom had sustained injuries more or less severe. The news soon circulated, and throughout the day many anxious inquiries were made at the ter minus. It is du.) to the officials of the f)olipany to state that they did everything in their power to satisfy the doubts of all who made appli cation to them. Mr. Anscombe, the superin tendant, frequently telegraphed to Brighten for the names of those killed and wounded, and supplied all other information within his reach. Lest night towards the time the excursion trains were expected to return, the crowd was very gre a t a t t h e station, and knots of persons listened with painful interest to the details supplied by eye-witnesses of the acci dent, and by others who had gathered theparticu lars during their visit to Brighton. Mr. F Slight, tie secretary of the company, arrived at the Euston station from Yorkshire last evening at ( o'clock, and was met by a telegram conveying an intimation of the dreadful occurrence. He repaired toLondon bridge as rapidly as possible, and remained at the station until a late hour last evening, rendering valuable advice and information to the relatives and friends of 1 hose who were known t o b e either killed or wounded. A similar condition of thing) existed during the day at the Victoria station. A passenger who was in the train thus describes the accident :—I noticed after we had proceeded a short distance. into the tunnel that the s p e ed of the train slackened, and I think I heard the whistle sounded, but of that lam not certain. I then saw that we were getting towards the end of the tun nel. I imagined I heard another train coning up, but before I had satisfied my mind upon he point I was thrown off my seat. I then heaed fearfu screams, and the steam of an engine hissing in a terrific manner. IVhen I got out I saw HA a great number of passengers were lying under tie engine, which had jumped upon the carriage second from the end of the train. The boiling w a t er wi s pouring out over the people, and the steam prevented any one seeing any distance. We all did who we could to render assistance, but we could not a:COnaplish much in consequence of the engine being en the top of the people, and by reason of the hot eater and steam. I came up to London by the train which was sent off after the accident." We take the following account from tht supple ment to the Brighton Herald ; " Nerald-office, Sunday Evening, half-past 5. " About half•past 9 o'clock this (Sunday) morn ing the intelligence was rectived at the Brighton Railway station that a very serious' accident had happened in the Clayton-tunnel to the two excur sion trains which had shortly before left Brighton for London. " The painful news soon got abroad, and in a short time the terminus gates in the Queen's-ro a d and at the top of Trafalgar-street were besieg e d by an anxious crowd, eager to know the particulars and learn the fate of friends or relatives, fro m whom, probably, they had juet parted. "To these anxious expec' ants a confirmation of the report was brought by the non-arrival of the usual down trains from London, and by the arrival, between 10 and 11, of an engine, with one corpse (that of a woman) and several wounded Passengers. But for some time little was known beyond the fact that the scene of the catastrophe was Clayton tun nel, and that its extent was of fearfui ma F,Pritud e . " Having proceeded to the spot, and teen fur nished by the railway authorities with Eqery ob tainable information, we will proceed to describe the nature and cause of this most deplorable event. " We may state at starting that Clayton tunnel —the scene of the accident—is the second tunnel on the main line out of Brighton and the longest on the line. It is about five miles from B r ighton. " The first train to leave the Brighton station for London on Sunday was the excursion train from Portsmouth, whose time for leaving Brighton is a quarter to eight o'clock. It left soon after that, and in due course arrived at and entered the Clayton tunnel. Very shortly after the Portsmouth train had left Brighton it was followed by the regular Brighton train to London, whose hour for starting is half-past 8 o'clock. On this train approaching the tunnel the signalman at the mouth of it says that he looked behind and saw, to his horror, that the signal (which ought to have intimated to the Brighton train that the Portsmouth train was in the tunnel) had not worked. He therefore immediately exhibited a red, or danger, flag But it was, of course, at the other or Brighton end of the tunnel that the dreadful scene of suffer ing was presented. Here the first efforts of the railway officials were directed to extricate the suf ferers and bring them to the open light of day. The first to be brought out, under the direction of Dr. Hall, was a lady, quite dead, whose body, fearfully crushed, was taken out from under the engine. The little child we have named, whose cries were heart rending, followed ; then Wm. Arnold, a gardener in the employ of Mr. Pegg, of the Royal York Hotel, with a compound fracture of both legs ; next came a man named Tein, of 54, Goswell-road, also with both his legs broken ; next a girl, with seve ral flesh woundS in the legs; and then a man with his face severely cut, but not otherwise injured. All these were put into a carriage and sent to the Brighton station under the care of Dr. Hall, and thence to the county Hospital, Dr. Hall returning to the place of accident. Here, in the meantime, a great number of per sons had assembled, both on the hills above the deep cutting and in the cutting and tunnel itself, out of .which momentarily objects were brought which harrowed the feelings of all ; bodies fearfully mutilated and blackened by the pressure; and liv ing sufferers, but whose:condition in some cases was more to be pitied than that of the actually dead. Into this scene, from which many had to retreat, unable to bear it, we will not go further. :An idea of it may be gathered from the fact that the num ber of killed in this most calamitous accident is known, at the moment we write, to be 22 ; and the number of injured is not, perhaps, under 100. But these latter it is impossible to compute ; they covered the platform at Hassock's•gate, and were continually arriving at Brighton. After a time the engine and the first portion of the first Brighton train went on to London with such of the passengers as had escaped. We do not hear that the passengers of the second Brighton train suffered much injury. The engine driver and stoker escaped by jumping off, and the shock of the collision was of course much broken by the engine itself running over the last carriages of the first Brighton train. It needed all the efforts of the railway men, with ropes, &c., to remove this engine, which, strange to say, had not fallen over. The carriages on which it fell were of course smashed to atoms, and their fragments were merely bits of wood, &c., but the carriages attached to this engine were not so much damaged, and some were imme diately sent back to Brighton with the wounded. A passenger in the front part of the first Brighton train describes his experience in this way : " We had got a considerable distance into the tunnel when the train gradually stopped as if it had come to a station. Our impression was, but of course we knew nothing about it, that the engine had broken down from its strength being over tasked, or that the coupling chains had broken, and it had become detached from the carriages. This did not occasion us any particular alarm—the feeling was rather one of annoyance. But we had not been in the darkness of the tunnel more than a few minutes when we heard a whistle as of another train approaching, and before we had time to think of the consequences there was a shock and a sm ash. It was instantaneous. I was knocked forward against the man opposite me, but not so violently as to cause either of us any injury. But then, you see, NI e were in the fore part of the train, about a dozen carriages from the engine ; and I dare say the train was nearly 30 carriages long. " The scene that followed I have no power to 'We shall get by and by to a strange model of a man-of-war. Hitherto, notwithstanding all the modern inventions, there has been no great devia tion from the old conventional type. A line of battle ship has still its masts and sails, its towering hull, its checkered broadside, and its tiers of guns. Ex cepting in length and power, there is no great dif ference between the Duke of \Veliington and the old Victory. Even the Warrior, the latest specimen of all, simply looks like a larger frigate than was ever seen before, and the visitor, indeed, feels inclined to wonder that so entirely new -a design should retain so very much of the old form. Now, however, a real change seems impending. If the experiments re cently conducted at Portsmouth should be sustained in their results by further trials, the old bulwarks of Britain will disappear from the seas, and give place to fabrics of unprecedented shape. Our men of-war will hardly be visible on the surface of the water. A first-rate, instead of frowning in strength and majesty, will lie almost invisibly upon the sea, cleaving the waves without sails or spars, and scarcely distinguishable in the distance from a sea serpent or a bank of seaweed. This is what we shall elm° to if the new principle of defence can be esta blished, and the result seems by no means improbable. It is some time since the theory of a sloping or " angulated" target was first broached, and the idea indeed, though new in its present application, is based on a principle which has always been under stood. If a shield of any kind is struck at an angle, or on a slant, the sword or bullet glances off, and the force of the blow is destroyed. Targets in all times have been "sloped" accordingly. Shields were made convex, either tapering to a point in the centre, or rounded off at the sides in the form of semi cylinders. Cuirasses took the same form, sloping away from the middle like the breast of a fowl, so that no shot could strike full upon the plate. It is this obvious principle which is illustrated in the scheme of ships' armour devised by Mr. Jones. The armour itself is of the ordinary character, consisting of iron plates fixed upon a stout timber backing, but, instead of being placed vertically, so as to present an upright wall of metal, it is placed at an angle, so that a sloped fan only is seen, like the slant of a parapet. This was the de vice which was tested on Wednesday last. A tar get which had already been practised upon in previous experiments was stripped of its old plates, to receive the plaes prepared by Mr. Jones. It, had originally been 13,', inches thick in the wood work, but an inch and a half of this was dubbed off to fit the surface for the new plating, so that only a foot of thickness remained. On this the fresh plates were fixed, consisting of four iron slabs, two being of 42 inches, :and two of 5,1. The target thus completed was set up on the deck of an old Arctic vessel, the Griper, i n such a way es to present a slope of about 50 degrees, and was then towed out to sea to be tried against the powers of an Arm strong gun. It happened that everything was favourable to the accuracy of the experiment. The gun was one of the heaviest in use, throwing a bolt of 1101 b the very kind of projectile which had smashed the Shoeburyness butts into fragments. The firing took place at 200 yards' distance, and the practice was most perfect. The shots hit the target so truly that if it could have been penetrated at all they must have pierced it. Six bohs actually struck the ar mour within a space of 21 inches by. 12, and three of these fell within an inch or two of the same spot. Thus the critical test: of a succession of blows at the same point was thoroughly applied, and it does not seem, indeed, as if any shield could ever have been battered with more tremendous force. The effect produced however, was comparatively insignificent. The last shot of all, though light ing just on the track of the others, and giving , " it were, the last blow to the work, failed to pene trate the armour, an d, as a general result, it was found that, though no fewer than 16 shots had been pl an t e d more closely together than could ever be expected under ordinary conditions of practice, the plates were not pierced nor was the woodwork materially injured. The final sh o t , sa y s the report, fell " on Nos. 15 and 3, carrying away the armour plates in irregular pieces between shots 15, 22, 3, 21, 11, 7, crushing the surface of the 12- inch wooden backing, but not in any way breaking through the same or damagingff the shell of the ves sel in the slightest d e g ree. Such results certainly seem to open a new system of shipbuilding, for we do not see how it is possible to qualify them or explain them away. The attack had the fairest possible chance. The shots of the most powerful piece of ordnance in use were deli vered one after another with extraordinary accu racy, and yet we are assured that they failed in reaching the woodwork through the iron plating. It follows, therefore, that if there should be no other objection to Mr. Jones's principle, we have found a way of making men-of-war shot-proof. It deserves to be mentioned that the iron plates were of - peculiarly good 'manufacture, and they appear also to have hen set onto the woodwork in a judi cious fashion, but the essence of the device consists, of course, in the slope or angle given to the face of the armour. The next question, then, is whether such a slope is compatible with the sea-going quali ties of a ship—whether a vessel built with sides fal ling in at an angle of 50 will answer in all other respects as well as in her power of resistance to shot. That is a point which we shal probably see discussed: It has been said that such a vessel would be washed over by the waves and drenched like a half-sunk rock at high tide. 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The progress made in most of the hop-grounds during the last few days has been something astonishing, the late fine weather having effected a complete alteration in the appearance of the hop plantations. Vermin have almost entirely disap peared, and in all the gardens the hops are swelling out, and rapidly approaching maturity. Notwith standing the fears entertained a few weeks since of the almost total failure of this year's hops, there is now every probability of a moderate crop. Many of the plantations given up as hopeless and expected to produce scarcely a single hop, now show unmis takeable signs of yielding 2 cwt. to 4cwt.per Although the improvement is very ostensive, there are still extensive tracts in which the blight has made such serious havoc that the bine is scareely d o ing anything, and of course this 'will materially lessen the chances of there being anything like a large crop, the season being now too far advanced for them to mend. The general improvement has extended itself to the adjoinin g counties of Sussex and Surrey, where the plantationsmet. underimprovement, cultivation exhibit a marked In the great majority of grounds, however, t n here is scarcelybine n enough to yield a crop, athe growth will be therefore very p ar ti a l . The number of acres of hops under cultivation last year was 46,272, but this year it is expected to be slightly larger. The estimate of the duty is now £130,000, with rather more speculation. Last year, the hop duty realised only £69,767., THA MURDER IN WILTSHIRE. On Saturday afternoon John Stocker, under gamekeeper to Mr. Monk, of Everleigh, was brought before Captain Seymour and the Rev. G. A. Goddard (county magistrates), at the Town hall, Marlborough, charged with the wilful murder of Ann Hall, the wife of the head gamekeeper to Mr. Monk. Among other things which transpired to connect the prisoner with the murder, in addi tion to his alleged discovery of the body, were the following :—ln the first place he was known fre quently to quarrel with the deceased, from whom in the absence of her husband, to see some friends in another part of the country, he would have to receive his orders, and which he always did with great dissatisfaction. A knife taken from the prisoner's pocket has been found exactly to fit a wound be flied one of the ears. A jacket, proved to have been worn by the prisoner on the day of the murder, had been found with several spots of human blood upon it, and the gamekeeper's whip found in one of the pockets, and on being placed round the deceased's neck, fitted into the marks made apparently for the purpose of strangulation, and a knot in the whip into a corresponding indentation with unmistake able clearness. A pair of gaiters, worn by the pri soner on Sunday, were found hanging before the fire at his lodgings, and although washed, the sur geons who have examined them, trace several spots of human blood ; the trousers were also similarly spotted. The boots had been scraped, but between the nails there were clots of blood, and an old knife found in the prisoner's cottage hail also portions of leather, mud, and blood detected on its blade, and on the soles of the boots there wore particles of oat cake, which, from examination of the boiling-house, where the body was found, Alm. Hall was making at the time of the murder. £lO or £l2 was stolen at the time of the murder from a drawer, which prisoner knew of, as Mrs. Hall, who paid him his wages, invariably took the money from it in his presence, and several sovereigns a secret drawer at prisoner's had been found in house. On the whip • being produced, the prisoner started and changed colour. These, and other circumstances, lead to a strong belief that he is the murderer. A remand having been applied for, the prisoner (who looked much dejected) w as as k ed if he had anything to say, he replied in the negative, and was ultimately remanded fora week. ~~~~: