The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

The Rifleman steamvessel, last in commission on the West Coast of Africa, is now being entirely re. constructed at Deptford Dockyard. The War Department transport Marlborough, Mr. Fishingden master, was placed alongside the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, yesterday, to receive on board a 100-pounder Armstrong gun for the screw corvette Orestes, 21, and two 40-pounder Arm strongs for the Phaeton, 51, 400-horse power, both of which are attached to the steam reserve at Chat ham. The Marlborough will also ship 90 of the 100-pounder conical shells for the Orestes. Our Malta correspondent, under date of the 26th July, announces the arrival on that day, at 9 a.m., of her Majesty's frigate Terrible, with 40 naval in valids, under charge of Sur;. George Gordon, and five other passengers, including the Rev. Joshua Watson and Mr. Thomas Heavan, engineer. The Terrible left Beyrout on the 16th. Two deaths occurred on the voyage—one on the 19th from brain lever, and the other on the 22d from the effects of fever. We have to record the death of Admit al the lion. F. B. R. Pellew, which occurred at Marseilles on Monday last, in his 70th year. The deceased was the second son of the first Viscount Exmouth by the second daughter of Mr. James Frowd. He was born in 1789. Entering the navy at an early age, he was engaged at the destruction of the Dutch naval force in the Indian seas, and continued to serve on the East India station till the reduction of Java in 1811, especially distinguishing himself at Samar ep, in Batavia roads, and near Samarang. In 1813 he was present and assisted at the capture of a French con voy in Port d'Anzo. He served from 1818 to 1822 on the Mediterranean station. In 1852 he was appointed to command the India station, but was recalled in 1854, and became an Admiral of the Blue in 1858. In recognition of his services he was created a Com panion of the Bath in 1815, and Knight Commander of Hanoverian Guelphic Order in 1836, receiving at the same time the honour of knighthood. The de ceased was twice married—in 1816 to the only daughter of the late Sir Godfrey Webster, who, however, died in 1849, and se condly, in 1851, to the daughter of the late Comte 1 1dnard de Melfort, from whom he was divorced in 1655 * lie was appointed Naval Aide-de Camp to the Queen in 1842. The following appointments w ere ma d e y es t er d a y at the Admi ra l ty ;_Commander WGH e John stone, to the Virago; Lieut. P, R, * Sharpe ' , to the Excellent ; Lieut. H. B. Wm. Hayden, master, additioiro°lll,:(B; re . to the Warrior • Doneg a l m T p h e rieu se; Sub-Lieut. A. Watts, to the surgeon, to the Excellent ; WOod . surgeon, mson, to the Virago; and Jas. Vaughan, surgeOn, toth Hero, THE Itr.AVI. Th e.regulations recently issued by the Lords of the A ~.dmiralty for the amalgamation under one com viand, of the steam and sailing reserve fleets in the Medway, at Chatham, have necessitated some im partamt alterations in the number and disposition of the sh ips formerly composing the sailing ordinary at that port. A survey has accordingly been wa de of tthe whole of the vessels in the Med way, sevoral of which have been found to be so old that they are altogether unfit for further service. Instead, however, of these being broken up , as has hitherto been customary, the Lords of the Ad xairalty have determined on selling them. Orders NI /ere accordingly received at Chatham yes terday directing the following vessels to sold as soon as •the necessary arrangements can be made— wiz., the Cleopatra, 26 ; the Vestal, 26 ; the Daphne, 18 ; the, Frolic, 16 ; the Comus, 14 ; the Elk, 12; the Kangaroo, 12 ; the Childers, 12 ; the Fantome, 12 ; the Arab, 12 ; the Daring, 12 ; the Mariner, 12 ; the Despatch, 12 ; the Tyne, 4; and the Volage, 4. A careful estimate of the value of each vessel is to be made by the dockyard authorities, and for warded to the Lords of the Admiralty. The stores and fittings which it is not desirable to sell are to be removed and placed in store in the dockyard. The President, 50, sailing frigate at Chatham, is to be fitted for a training ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers, and will be stationed in the Thames near the West India Docks, where she will replace the Brilliant, 20. The Winchester, 50, at Chatham, is also to be fitted at that port to replace the Con way, 26, lent to the Mercantile Marine Associa tion at Liverpool for a training ship for lads des. tined for the sea. The Winchester will be towed round to the Mersey by the Geyser, 6, paddlewheel steamer. The Brilliant and Conway both return to Chatham. The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. Cock burn, was appointed to leave Plymouth Sound yes terday (Wednesday) for Halifax, and the Surprise, 4, Commander Whyte, for the Mediterranean. The Valorous, 16, paddlewheel steamvessel, Capt. W. C. Aldham, C 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday from North America and the West Indies, with prisoners from the fleet on that station, and some military invalids. She left Halifax for England on the 11th of July. She steamed into harbour at 3 p.m. yesterday, to be paid off. By the mail packet Norman, which arrived at Ply mouth on Tuesday, we learn that the screw cor- Tette Archer, 13, Capt. F. A. B. Craufield, left Ascen sion June 10, arrived at St. Helena June 25, and departed the next day for Ascension, where she was found by the Norman with the Arrogant, I s i s , an d Meander. The paddlewheel steam frigate Furious, 16, Capt. C. J. Jones, 10 days from Ichaboe, left St. Helena July 1 for Ascension and England. The transport Star of the South, Capt. Renner, with 304 men, women, and children belonging to the 64th Regiment, under command of Col. Chads, and in medical charge of Dr. Parsonage, 71 days from Kurrachee for Falmouth, left St. Helena June 22. The Caroline Coventry, Capt. Overbury, 95 days from Kurrachee, left the island the same day. A new paddle wheel steamvessel is in progress at Deptford dockyard, ordered to be completed with all despatch for the service of Dr. Livingstone and the party now engaged in exploring the interior of Africa. Her dimensions are :—Length, 120 ft. ; beam, 15ft. ; depth, 7ft. She will be constructed of teak and oak, and, being intended for navigation in shallow rivers, will not draw more than two feet of water. THE ARMY. A general regimental order, signed by Col. c. kingharn, Deputy-Adjr.-Gen., was yesterday pr o . mulgated from the Horse Guards notifying that the following batteries of Royal Artillery have been placed under orders for foreign service. The 6th Brigade, Royal Artillery, having completed its foreign service, will be relieved by the 3d brigade, which will embark in the Himalaya, on the 6th of August ; Nos. 1,2, 3,4, and 5 batteries for Malta, under Colonel G. Maclean, Brevet-Colonel W. H. Elliot, and Lieut.-Colonel R. C. Romer; Nos. 6, 7, 'and 8 batteries, for Corfu, under Brevet- Col. C. J. Wright. The following batteries of the 10th brigade will remove from Portsmouth on the day the 3d brigade embarks :—No. 1 battery to Shoeburyness, and Nos. 2,3, 4, and 5 batteries to Woolwich, under the command of Brevet-Col. A. G. Burrowes. On the arrival of the 6th brigade in England the head-quarters and remaining batteries of the 10th brigade will proceed to Woolwich, and the 6th brigade will be stationed at Portsmouth. Major A Thu t hnot's battery of Royal Horse Artil lery, which has for several months been stationed at Dorchester Barracks, left on Tuesday last enronte for Bristol, where they were to embark for Dublin. 'lhe b a tt ery was a d ay or two prev i ous l y i nspecte d by 3 r-Gen. Bloomfield, Inspector-Gen. of Artil lery. The new regulations which the Secretary of State for War hasdecidedand on carrying into effect for the better gnidance comei management of the military hospitals will of non.. n e t o o operation this day. Yes terday a party c m ior nas.eioned officers and men of the Army Hospital quarters, Chatham, for the W oolwich left head willoolwieh Hospital, at superseder which establishment they the soldier and pensioner nurses and incident to to attending who have hitherto performed the duties I tne a ral hos pitals sick troops. The organisation 'Statefpitals will in &tura include a gov:r t com mandant, selected by the Secretary of War, on ' account of speotal qualificati ons for th e or duty, a principal medical o ffi cer, an apothe,aris These experiments, which were brought to a sudden close by the overturning of Mr. Roberts's target on Monday evening, were resumed as soon as the shield was again fixed on its framing. The first trial was made with a 100-pounder Armstrong shunt gun, with solid shot at 800 yards' range. Three shots were fired at the target from this, but from the extreme smallness of the object (4 feet by 6), and the high and very variable wind blowing at the time, all three of them missed. After this con siderable delay was caused by the large number of barges and sailing craft on the river coming within the range of practice, so that it was at last found ne cessary to discontinue firing altogether at 800 yards, and continue the experiments with a 2001 b. solid shot, fired from an Armstrong at the close range of 200 yards. It will be remembered from our ac count of yesterday that it was the concussion pro duced by this ponderous missile that did such mis chief to Mr. Fairbairn's target, and before the stroke of this it seemed almost certain the little target of Mr. Roberts would go down at once in fra gmen t s . The first shot struck full and fair upon the apex of the angle of the uppermost plate. Strange to say, tio r i of 1 inch, and starti ng some of the upper fastenings which secured th e e d ge of the plate to the g however, ea t did no damage ex cep t to cause an in dentation et. The second s h o t o f t h e same weight tar struck one of the upper jott ribs between the plates and broke it in three places, detaching one piece ; but still the damage done was immaterial to the plates themselves, though some of the fasten ings were then very loose, and the centre angle plate had slipped, and was almost half detached. The firing at this, therefore, was considered suffi cient as regarded a test of the strength of the plates and, above all, of their backing up with timber. The general result of the experiments has shown that the 5-inch iron plates of Mr. Fairbairn's target fastened to a t-inch skin were perfectly able, as far as the plates were concerned, to withstand for a very long time what was, in fact, a concen trated fire from the heaviest and most power ful ordnance in the world. It also showed that the thinner plates of three inches, rolled into an angu lated form, and presenting at all points an inclined face to the blow of the shot, were equally well able to withstand a missile that under other circum stances would fracture a 4,1 , inch plate, and this was the object the inventor wished to demonstrate. The backing of the target, even after all the pounding it received, was still perfect, though only 18 inches thick, and had this been the hull of a ship, it would apparently, even if submerged, have remained quite watertight. The ribs which formed the backing to the skin insides of the plates of Mr. Fairbairn's target were perhaps a little too weak for the enor mous resistance they were expected to exert. This, however, is a very minor fault, and one which awes only possible to ascertain from actual practice. It will be very easy to strengthen the next one con structed on this principle. The weak point in Mr. Roberts' target was the rib joint. This, though a piece of the best wrought iron, six inches by four, was never strong enough to resist the blow of a 100, or even a 68-pounder. But for this fault (which we presume Mr. Roberts will devise some expe dient for remedying), and but for the small size of his target, it would doubtless have held out much longer than even it did. The weak point common to both targets, and to every other description of iron armour plate that has ever been devised is the mode of fastening, either to the target or the ship's side. Every bolt hole in a plate is a source of weakness, as from them all fractures take their rise. The expedients which have been devised to remedy this, by having tapped screws at the back of the plate, are perhaps better for preventing frac tures ; but they are certainly not better adapted for what is the ultimate object of all these fastenings —viz., securing the plate to the ship's side. This is the real point to which engineers should now direct their attention. The shape, thickness, and angle of plate best adapted for keeping out the shot will then be very easily ascertained. On the whole, however, the experiments at Shoeburyness against these iron targets we have described were regarded as about the most satisfactory which have yet taken place there. MINISTERIAL WHITEBAIT DINNER. But few persons are acquainted with the origin of this celebrated dinner. Indeed, scarcely anything more is generally known than this, that it takes place towards the close of each session of Parliament. Some of our readers have heard, no doubt, of Dagenham Breach in Essex, a lake formed by the sudden eruption of the waters of the Ti.ames over its banks nearly a century ago, covering the adja cent lands, from which they have never retired. On the banks of Dagenham lake once stood, and may still stand, a cottage occupied by a princely merchant of the name of Preston, a baronet of Scotland and Nova Scotia, and sometime M.P. for Dover. He called it his " Fishing Cottage," and often in the spring went thither with a friend or two to escape the toils of parliamentary and mercantile duties. His most frequent guest was, as he was familiarly styled, "Old George Rose," Secretary of the Treasury and an elder brother of the Trinity House. Sir Robert also was an active member of that fraternity. Many a joyous day did these two worthies pass at Dagenham Breach, undisturbed by the storms that r.ged in the political atmosphere of Whitehall and and St. Stephen's Chapel. Mr. Rose once intimated to Sir Robert that Mr. Pitt, of whose friendship they were both justly proud, would no doubt much delight in the comfort of such a retreat. A day was named and the pre mier was accordingly invited, and received with great cordiality at the Fishing Cottage. He was so well pleased with his visit and the cordiality of the baronet—they were all considered two if not three bottle men—that on taking leave Mr. Pitt readily accepted an invitation for the following year, Sir Robert engaging to remind him at the proper time. For a few years Mr. Pitt was an annual visitor at Dagenham Breach, and he was always accom panied by " Old George Rose." But the distance great, railways had not yet started into exist was Sir Robert, h eenonce;eanniedutthegoing and . coming was somewhat in such jovial sou o l v for the First Minister of the Crown. ever, bad his remedy, as have all in future diee s, n and he proposed that they should suggestedasaeonveeanre'r London. Greenwich was Trinity t i r e a manger for the three ancients of the Y ef ti rse, for Pitt was also'a distinguished memberged from august fraternity. The to ll t b il l e is p trio to a quartett, party was now changed permitted to bring 1 Mr. Pitt having requested Lord Camden. Soon after Mr. guest was invited, Long, migration a fifth afterwards Lord Farn borough. All still were the guest f 8 o Si r R. Pres ton ; but one by one other nota bles were invited, and at last Lord Camden considera tely remarked that as they were all dining at a tavern, it was only fair that Sir R. Prest on should be released f rom the expense. It was then arranged that the dinner should be given as usual by Sir Robert Preston, that is to say, at big invitation, and he insisted on still contributing a buck and champagne, but the rest of the charges of mine host w ere thenceforward defrayed by the several guests, and upon this plan the meetings continued to take place annually till the death o Mr. Pitt. Sir Robert was requested in the following year to summon the usual guests, the list of whom by this time included most of the Cabinet Ministers. The time for meeting was usually after Trinity Monday, shortly before the end of the session. By degrees a meeting, which was purely gastronomic, appears to have assumed, in consequence of the long reign of the Tories, a political or semi-political character. In the year 18— Sir Robert Preston died ; but the affair had become so consolidated by long cus tom that the "Fish Dinner," as it was now called, survived; and Mr. Long (then Lord Farnborough) undertook to summon the several guests to the " Ministerial Fish Dinner," the private secretary of the late Sir R. Preston furnishing to the private secretary of Lord Farnborough the names of the noblemen and gentlemen who had been usually invited. Up to the decease of the baronet the invitations had been sent privately. They now go in Cabtnet boxes, and the party limited to the members of the Cabinet. Who finds the buck and charopegue now is not known: Perthshire, agriculturally, is like a little Scotland, embracing every diversity of surface, from the Alpine region of the Grampians to the flat rich carse of Gowrie and the wide luxuriant valley of Strathearn. In two-thirds of this large county not in cultivation, including some of the finest lakes and loftiest peaks in North Britain, the pasture farming of black-faced sheep utilises the precipitous hills and green glens, woods clothe the magnificent slopes, and the sportsman rejoices in an infinity of feathered game, in the six thousand head of harts and hinds, and in the noble salmon that pay some ten thousand pounds rental for the Tay fisheries alone, and are exported on a great scale by railway and in the shipping of Perth. And the lowlands along the shores of the Frith of Tay, and more inland along the course of its tributary rivers, have immense peak moors and mosses, as well as the tracts of allu vial and diluvial "till," where flax is the main raw material produced, and where potatoes, turnips, with wheat on the best lands, contend against the difficulties of a climate too moist and a winter too bitter and protracted in these semi--boreal latitudes. Such a district can be only sparsely peopled ; and 1 hence the city of Perth, with its 24,000 inhabitants, and its proximity by excursion trains to Dandee, Stirling, and Edinburgh, can expect, after all, a gathering of visitors to the show small in compari son with the numbers at former meetings. Then, as Scotland furnishes but eight divisions for the Society's itinerant festivals, the number of large towns being very limited, each place has welcomed the exhibition some half-dozen times already, and the interest necessary to a successful anniversary can scarcely be inspired without the introduction of some novel feature—some spirited and attractive incitement like that we find connected with the Bath and West of England Society's show. As it is, we have in this placid city the absence of any symptom of enthusiasm, of gala-day holy-day-making, and the influx of fashionable visitors whose presence is always found to pay. Perhaps all this may accord with the wish of the Society's managers ; for, judg ing by the strict press regulations, which prevent our doing anything towards directing the public to the show, it is intended to keep the company in the yard quite select and free from crowding. The implements—classified into 78 " sections," with a class of extra-machines, and another class of "general collections," in which exhibitors declining to compete for prizes can display whole stands of their own manufactures—are not honoured with the protection of shedding ; but, as at our English pro vincial shows, are set out in rows upon the open sward,—with the aspect, in fact, of an extensive farm sale by auction. This exposure of house and farm mechanism, as well as field tools, to all chances of the weather, this obliging both imple ment exhibitors and visitors either to brave the oppressive heat or blustering wind, or to stand through entire days upon a footing of poached mud, under a drenching rain, and in such plight to con duct business and book orders, may be penny-wise, but certainly pound-foolish, as well as unhandsome on the part of a Society rich in funded and house property, and enjoying a splendid income. If can vass-roofed booths would not stand against Scotch storms, boarden-roofed sheds, like the comfortable quarters provided for the cattle, most certainly would ; exhibitors would gladly pay their 2s. a-foot for the accommodation here as at the English show, and what further sum might be needed could hardly be better spent than in attracting a larger display of agricultural mechanics. In a hasty walk through the stands we find that 135 exhibitors contribute 850 articles ; of which 429 are in the classified sections competing for prizes, 117 are in the extra class, and 304 comprised in the general collections. The plough is evidently the grand fundamental implement on which the at tention of the Scotch faiener is fixed. No less than 65 of different sorts are shown, Gray, of Uddingston, near Glasgow, being a prominent maker; while Hornsby, of Grantham, Lincoln shire ; Page and Co.. of Bedford ; and Messrs. Howard, of Bedford, exhibit their first-class ploughs, with and without special adaptations to the peculiar requirements of Scotch husbandry, for in this coun try of broadcast sowing the farmer likes deep creases between high-crested furrow-slices, that will harrow down immediately into mould, covering the seed. To turn such furrows—which is a process requiring nicety in the implement as well as skill in the ploughman—the share is hollowed underneath, cutting an arched furrow-bottom, left highest in the middle, and the coulter is inclined, instead of per pendicular, so that the exposed ridge of the turned furrow-slice may be formed with an acute angle. The English farmer prefers a perfectly flat and clean furrow bottom, with a slice of rectangular section, as securing the greatest mean depth of cut soil, and presenting both the largest superficies to the atmos phere and most earth for reduction to the tilth of a seed-bed. The chief interest of yesterday's and to-day's field trials at South Muirton farm centred in the competition of ploughs, on a cloverley of deep, free-cutting loam, moist with the dripping rains. The first trial with a number of Scotch swing and several wheel ploughs, and the English ploughs of Hornsby and Page, resulted in a second trial of five implements—those of Allan of Dunkeld, Ponton of Linlithgow, Hornsby of Granthain, G ray of Ud ding ston, and Martin of Balbeggie ; which again left the first three for a final testing. The wheel ploughs are again in the ascendant, though the picked ploughmen of Scotland made splendid work with their favourite swings; and whether the superb execution of Hornsbv's plough will carry off the prize from Allan's imidement, of somewhat lighter draught, must be left till the judges publish their award. Grubbers, and cultivators, and harrows oc cupy a considerable space in the yard ; also drills and broadcast sowing machines, in which our southern firms—Reeves of Westbury, and Rich mond Chandler of Salford, both figure. There are machines for pulverising and sowing guano ; the liquid manure distributors of Reeves, and of the trustees of W. Crosskill, of Beverley ; a considerable number of horse-hoes, made by Gray, Law, Kirkwood, Burns, &c. ; winnow ing machines, weighing machines; then the chaff cutters of Ashby and Co., of Stamford ; Ben tall, of Heybridge, Essex ; Page, of Bedford ; and Richmond and Chandler; turnip-cutters of various makers; Bentall's noted root-pulpers ; crushers, and mills, and churns. There is a con siderable display of harvest carts and light spring carts ; the trustees of W. Crosskill, with their machine-made wheels and carts constructed for lightness, strength, and durability; Mitchell, of Peterhead, and other makers, showing farmers' vehicles of splendid workmanship, and in every way adapted for convenience and usefulness. Of fencing, gates, drain-pipes, tile machines, &c., there is a good show; and in the " extra" class we find the haymakers and horse-rakes of Ashby and Co. ; Chaplin's steam engine; Hornsby and Son's new cheap washing machine; Kirkwood's rakes ; Lin colne's (of Glasgow) machine for suckling orphan calves and lambs ; Page and Co.'s horse-rakes ; Reeve's tool for destroying thistles ; Shanks and Son's l awn mower ; Smith's (of Glasgow) dry de odorizing closets. In the general collection are Bradford's washing machines ; Clayton and Shut- Veworth's (of Lincoln) steam-power thrashing machines ; Garrett and Sons' et::their (of Saxmundham) I engines, thrashing machines, drills, and horse-hoes ; j Howard's (of Bedford) iron ploughs, ste: i m or . 1 fri g machinery, harrows, horse-rakes, and a(ot-f (clever new haymaking machines; Liverpool) fencing, &c. ; and Morton's ( o f Leeds) fencing, hurdles, &c. ; Picksley, Si ms, and Co.'s (of Manchester) portable engines, Chaffcutters, &c. ; Frill erle's (of Edinburgh) assortment of i m , p ~ r, , lernenes and machines ; Williamson' B (of Kendal) horse -works and thrashin machines ; Young's (of Edinburgh) gates, garden chairs, cheese presses, and so on. __ Though the fixture thrashing-mill is so generally used in Scotland,it appears that our more im p roved English machines are being rapidly substituted for it, seeing that the clean thrashing saves a consider able percentage of grain hitherto left in the straw, besides more thoroughly shaking out the thrashed corn. The convenience of a portable steam engine is also appreciated in some districts, where iinidYs The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Coffee-house ; Mr. J. Biddulph in the chair. The report stated that the earnings of the com pany on revenue account during the half-year ending the 30th of June amounted to £14,403, being an increase of £1,750 over the corresponding half of 1860 ; and the working expenses amounted to £8,527, being an increase of £779 over those of the corresponding period, leaving a balance of £5,876, to which was added £ 304, the balance from the previous account, making together £6,189. From this we deducted £4,585 for interest on de bentures and loans, dividends on preference shares, &c., leaving a balance of £1,595, out of which the directors laid aside £5OO for renewal of locomo tives, and they recommended a dividend at the rate of 10s. per ordinary share to be paid, leaving a balance of 1.110. The working expanses, it ap peared, were increased by an outlay for new rails. The arrangements for the put chase of shares in the Liangelly Waggon Company had been proceeded with, and a further sum of £6,051 had been ex pended on capital account during the half-year, in taking up those shares and in the purchase of 30 additional waggons. The company's bills for new lines to Carmarthen and Swansea only awaited the Royal assent. The capital account showed that £351,264 had been expended, leaving a balance against the company of .£8,678. the CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, adverted to the importance of the proposed new line to Swansea and Carmarthen. They would convert their old local line into part of a narrow gauge trunk railway from South Wales to the north. It was only by means of judicious exten sions they could hope to get a dividend on the ori ginal shares. They had already improved their po sition by extension towards the north, and it was of vital importance that the shareholders should as sist the directors in raising capital for the new lines. In reply to questions, it was stated that the cost of the mew lines would be about £250,000, and that a further sum of £3,450 would put :the rail way company in possession of the whole of the Llanelly Company's waggons. The report was adopted, a dividend of 10s. per share was declered and the proceedings terminated. OLDHAM, ASIITON, AND GUIDE-BRIDGE JUNCTION. The formal opening of this line took place yester day, and the conveyance of traffic over it will com mence in the course of a few days. The line forms a second route between Manchester and Oldham, besides connecting the latter place with Ashton under-Lyne and other populous localities. The length of the line is 9,137 yards. It starts from the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway at Guidebridge Station, where it also joins the London and North Western Railway. It passes thence through Charlestown, where there is a station ; across the river Medlock at Park-bridge, where there is another station ; and terminates by a junc tion with the London and North Western Railway at the Mumps Station in Oldham. The chief sta tion, however, is in a much more central part of the town of Oidham. The most important work on the line is a stone viaduct at Park-bridge, about 200 yards long and 95 feet high, cons i s ti ng o f 11 arches, nine of thm being 50 feet span and the others 30 feet span. The steepest gradient on the line is 1 in 90. The cost of the line would be about £140,000, of which the Manchester and Sheffield and the Nerth Western subscribe £50,000 each. BELFAST AND NORTHERN COUNTIES. The report of the directors states that the nego tiations for the purchase of the Ballymena and Portrush Junction Railway, including the bridge and junction with the Londonderry line at Cole raine, had been brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The company obtained possession of the line on the Ist of January last, since which it had been worked as part of the railway. The purchase money con sisted of £160,000 in preference shares, bearing in terest at 4 per cent., the Belfast company assuming the Portrush company's bonded debt of £60,000, making together a total payment of £220,000. But a further liability might arise for a sum of £20,000 (in shares) contingent on the receipts reaching a certain amount within the next four years. The directors had concluded an agreement with Mr. M'Cormick for a transfer of his lease of the Loudonderry and Coleraine Railway for four years, from the 10th of April, 1861, at a yearly rental of £lO,OOO, and had purchased all the roll ing stock that was in use on the line. This com pany had now the sole control of the railway between Belfast and Londonderry, and the (Erec tors hoped that the facilities they now possessed for goods and passengers would tend to promote a further development of the trade between the im portant towns on the line. The traffic receipts end ing June 30 were for eight months on the original line, for six months on the Ballymena and Portrush line, and from April 10 to June 30 on the London derry and Coleraine line, amounting together to £56,160. The balance of revenue, after providing for working expenses, interest on loans, dividend on the 4 per cent. preference shares, and rent of Londonderry and Coleraine Railway, was £22,361, out of which the directors recommended a dividend of 30s. per share, being at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum for eight months, leaving £4,061 to be carried to the credit of the reserved fund, which would then amount to £9,049. The capital account showed that £1,037,934 hid been expended, leav ing a balance against the company of £68,160. purveyor, a paymaster, a captain of orderlies, and a superintendent of nurses,where nurses are employed. The appointment of governor or commandant of the hospital at Woolwich has been conferred on Col. R. Wilbraham, C. 8., the Assistant-Adjutant-General at Manchester ; Deputy-Inspector-Gen. A. Stewart has been appointed the principal medical officer ; Mr. J. C. Minney, principal purveyor ; and Captain Hawtree, from the Medical Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, the captain of orderlies. EXPERIMENTS A 2 SHOBBURYNESS. HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. PERTH, WEDNESDAY. are few for carting the corn in bulk to the central rickyard—fitted with its fixed engine or cheaper waterwheel. One of the main attractions for t)-morrow is the trial of Messrs. Howard's steam plough and culti vator at Friarton, half a mile from the showyard, at an admittance fee of 6d. each person; and now that the prime cost is only £449, or without the engine £2OO, and ploughing, grubbing, harrowing, and indeed almost any desired tillage operation can be accomplished at much less cost than by horse power on any soils, however tenacious and in any situation, excepting very steep elevations and de clivities, North Britain, like the rest of the world, presents a broad and accessible field for this newly improved and easily-managed machinery. Professor Anderson's lecture last night in the Court-house on " Experimental Agriculture" was fairly attended. To-morrow the showyard opens, the implement exhibition early, and the well-filled cattle department at 2 o'clock. 1L WA Y INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company have determined to recommend to the proprietors at the general meeting a dividend for the half-year, ending the 30th of June last, at the rate of £3 15s. per cent. per annum on the original stock ; giving for the half-year £1 17s. 6d. per cent. on the original stock, £3 :per cent. to the B stock, and 15s. per crnt. to the A stock. COLCHESTER, STOUR VALLEY, AND SUDBURY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Colchester, and a dividend was declared of £1 12s. 6d. for the half-year, free of income tax, leaving a balance in hand of about £5B. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1861. - • , L ATV LIV TELLIG EN CE, July 31. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-truly 31. THAMES.--SINGULAR CHARGE OF FRAUD.— Abraham Lazarus, a German Jew, described as a tailor, of No. 21, Mansell-street, Whitechapel, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with obtain ing £3, a silver watch, a silver guard, a gold key, a gold ring, and a gold locket, value in all about £l5, by false and fraudulent pretences, with intent to cheat Marcus Felper. Mr. Gomm, from the office of Mr. Chas. Young, solicitor, defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is a Polish Jew, by trade a glazier, and dwelling at No. 7, Bedford-street, York-street, Walworth. He has a brother in Melbourne, and was desirous of proceeding to that place to • meet him and spend the remain der of his days with one so near and dear to him. On the Bth of April last he met the pri soner, of whom he had some previous knowledge, and by appointment in Dock-street, Whitechapel. The prisoner said to him, " You want to go to your brother in Melbourne. I have a friend, a captain of a ship ; he will take you there cheap." The pro secutor said he was a very poor man, and asked how much was required., The prisoner said, " I will bring the captain out, and he will tell you what you ought to give him." The prisoner then took Felper to a place where there were a great many sailors, and which, according to his description, must have been the Sailors' Home, in Well-street. The prisoner repeatedly pointed to a young man in the building, called him out, and accompanied him and the pro secutor to a coffee-shop, where some papers were produced and written upon, and forms filled. The young man who represented the captain said he wanted £8 to convey the prosecutor to Melbourne. Felper said he had only £3 in money, and it was agreed that he should give that sum and a silver watch, silver guard, gold key, gold ring, and gold locket for his passage, and that the watch should be returned to him on reaching Melbourne on pay ing £l. The prisoner gave the prosecutor two re ceipts for the money and the articles mentioned, which he received and put in his pocket, and said, "Your passage is certain, and you will see your brother in a few months, and be very happy." Some other conversation took place. The prisoner and the pretended captain left the coffee-shop together. The prisoner said t the prosecutor, " I have settled it; the ship will sail in a few days from London, and in two days you must be prepared." The pro secutor collected the little property he had and met the prisoner the following day on London-bridge. Lazarus said the ship which was to convey Felper to Melbourne would not sail from the port of London but from Liverpool, on which the prosecutor began to cry loudly, and said, " What shall I do." The pri soner said, " You must go to Liverpool directly, or you will lose your passage." The prosecutor with great difficulty raised sufficient money to pay his passage per railway to Liverpool, and the prisoner after writing upon one piece of paper " Ship C. G. Roget," and upon another "Chas. Harris, 107, Bath street, Liverpool," directed Felper to call at the last named place on reaching Liverpool, and he would see there the captain of the C. G. Roget, who would accompany him to the ship and put him in possession of his berth. Felper implicitly believed every word and every representation made by the prisoner, but on reaching Liverpool found he had been hoaxed. He remained in the town five days, no such ship as the C. G. Roget could be found, and no one answering the description of Charles Harris of the "Hotel de Countenant," 107, Bath-street, could be discovered. The prosecutor returned to London penniless, and in a state of great destitu tion. He sought for the prisoner at his usual haunts, but in vain, and did not meet with him until Tues day night, and he then gave him into custody. The defence set up by Mr. Gomm was that Fel•- per was mistaken in the identity of the man who so vilely cheated him, and that he had actually given another man into custody and caused him to be taken to the Whitechapel station-house, in Leman street, where he was detained for two hours. The prosecutor explained that he gave a man into custody who knew the prisoner and refused to state where he was to be found. Mr. Woolrych said to know a man who had com mitted a fraud or robbery was no offence at all. He intended to commit the prisoner for trial. Before the depositions were completed he would see the police inspector for the purpose of ascertaining what actually occurred at the station-house. The prisoner was then remanded until Tuesday. BRISTOL AND EXETER. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at Bristol, for the purpose of considering the proposed lease of the Cornwall Railway to the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and the South Devon Railway Companies. Mr. J. W. BULLER, M.P., presided. He stated that the proprietors had already approved the arrangement which had been made with the Corn wall Company, and the assistance which it was proposed to give for the extension of that railway from Truro to Falmouth. Mr. Prichard, the solicitor, having read the heads of the lease, _ _ The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution approving its adoption, and authorising the common seal of the company to be affixed thereto, so soon as the Corn wall Railway Act (1861) should be passed into law. Mr. T. W. HILL seconded the r; solution, which was unanimously adopted, and the proceedings terminated. LLANELLY. RAILWAY BILLS. The committee of the Lords have passed the bills of the West Hartl e p oo l R a il wa y f or regu l at i ng their capital and traffic. Saint resolutions of both Houses of Parliament have been passed discontinuing the present system of engrr'ssing bills, and providing that in future ei.ving th e Roy a l assen t . Th e M aster o f t h e R o ll s every bill s h a ll b e pr i nte d i mme di ate l y after i t sha ll have been pas se d i n t h e h oase i n w hi c h it or i gina t e d. When a bill h as passed b oth houses a print on vellum is to be furni s h e d to the H ouse of Lords before re is also to receiv e a copy, and as it i s considered ex pedient, with a view to economy, convenience, and despatch, and diminution of the chances of error, that one printer should_ print thepublic general bills for both h ouses, and as the Queen ' s Printer is, by 'virtue of his t.ffiee, bound to print the Acts of Parliament, it is deemed 'advisable that the Queen's Printer should be employed for that pur poie by both houses in Atari:: INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Nichols.) THE GALWAY CONTRACT —IN RE GEORGE O'MALLEY IRWIN. This insolvent, described as a barrister-at-law, whose name has been frequently before the public in reference to the Royal Atlantic Steam Naviga tion Company, appeared under the Protection Act. Mr. Sargood opposed, on the part of Mr. John Orrell Lever, M.P. ; Mr. Sturgeon supported ; Mr. Peverley, of Coleman-street, being attorney for the insolvent. An application was made, on the case being called, by Mr. Sturgeon to postpone the wise until December, as there were some documents to be examined, and Mr. Irwin stated that he expected to obtain some funds from friends in Ireland to pay the costs of the nonsuit, for which he had been arrested by Mr. Lever, and discharged out of custody a few weeks ago by this Court. The insolvent added, that he intended to proceed with his claims against Mr. Lever for services rendered in the promotion of the Galway Packet Company. It was also stated by the learned counsel for the insolvent, that the insolvent had a petition of right, and a settlement was expected by which he would be enabled to pay the costs claimed by Mr. Lever. All he wanted was au adjournment until the December sittings. Mr. Sargood apprehended that no ground had been shown for the application, and complained of the insolvent's conduct towards Mr. Lever. • Mr. Commissioner Nichols said, as the applica tion was objected to, he could not grant it, and therefore the case had better proceed. The insolvent then underwent a long examina tion by Mr. Sargood, and from his statement it appeared that in the first action he brought against Mr. Lever for services the jury gave £l,OOO damages. There was a new trial, and, after an intimation from the jury, his counsel, Mr. Digby Seymour, elected to be nonsuited. The costs were £262, and he had been arrested for the same and taken to prison. There was another action, and the record had been with drawn. The insolvent admitted that, since his discharge by the Court, he had presented a peti tion to the House of Commons, through Mr. Con ingham, and the committee was not named be cause Mr. Lever stated that the statements had reference to matters before he was a member of Parliament. Mr. Commissioner Nichols said he had nothing to do with the petition presented to Parliament. All he had to do with was the debt in the sche dule, which was for costs of a nonsuit. Mr.f Sargood wished to show the animus of the insolvent towards Mr. Lever. It had been a sys tem of malicious persecution against a gentleman in every possible manner, and it still continued. It further appeared that yesterday the insol vent had been at the Westminster Police-court agairlit Mr. Lever, on a charge of libel contained in a pamphlet, in which he had stated that he had been " victimised by an impostor." The secretary of Mr. Lever was not produced, and, as the charge was not sustained, the summons was dismissed. The proceedings in the action " Irwin v. Lever" were put in evidence, and Mr. Gilding, clerk to Messrs. Valiance and Valiance, the attorneys for Mr. Lever, was examined on the subject. Mr. Lever had been examined, as well as the insolvent and other witnesses in the law proceedings. Mr. Lever was not now in attendance. Mr. Sargood made an energetic speech on the part of Mr. Lever, complaining of the persecution of that gentleman by the insolvent, and of the groundlessness of the pretended claim made by the insolvent. He submitted that the debt for the costs had been improperly contracted, and that the in solvent was not entitled to further protection. Mr. Sturgeon commented on the absence of Mr. Lever on the present occasion, and urged that the insolvent was entitled to his continued protection. The insolvent believed that he had a claim against Mr. Lever, and was anxious to pay the costs of the nonsuit that he might proceed with the matter. He denied that the gentleman now before the Court was influence i by the motives described by his learned friend. Mr. Commissioner Nichols, in giving his opinion, observed that he had to look at the debt due to Mr. Lever on the schedule. L was for costs on a non suit. In order to show that the debt had been in curred without reasonable expectations of payment, or in other words that it was a vexatious action, there must be some evidence given to show that the insolvent had no ground for his action. Now he could say, as the insolvent claimed for services, there was no evidence given except by him, that he had no right to bring the action. His opinion was that the evidence would not warrant him on arriving at the conclusion that it was a vexatious action, and therefore he should appoint a day for the final order, and renew the protection. The final order was appointed for Dec. 4. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, July 31. (Before Mr. Baron Channel].) CLAMPIT V. PRIDIIAM-BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. This was an action for breach of promise, damages being laid at £l,OOO. Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Carter ware counsel for the plaintiff; and Sir F. Slade and Mr. Bullar appeara for the defendant. Mr. Collier stated the case. The plaintiff was Miss Clatnpit, and she carried on the business of a draper in Bridge-street, Exeter. She was a highly-respectable woman, and had carried on her business with great propriety for some time. He could not call her a young woman, because he be lieved she was nearly 50. (Laughter.) The de fendant, who was a c!ergyman, the rector of a parish in Lincolnshire, but had resided in Devonshire for some time, became acquainted with the plaintiff in this manner. In December last, he came to Miss Clampit's shop for the purpose of inquiring the character of a servant. He called a good many times, and appeared to have become very much attached to her. Belonging to the Low Church party, and the plaintiff being a Dissenter, there was a good deal of conversation on religious sub jects, and defendant said he had written a work on Church reform, a subject in which he was a good deal interested. He lent her the book, and after that she received a note which a good deal sur prised her. It was to the effect that when he called upon her a fortnight ago, the plaintiff made a declaration respecting the conduct of servants, generally speaking, which gave him a high opinion of the integrity and uprightness of her mind ; that he loved a woman of such a disposition, and should like to obtain one for a wife, who could say from her hez.rt—" Dear John, I love you sincerely ;" (laughter)—and that he wanted a partner to sooth and comfort him in passing through this wicked world, and in walking—not in the broad road that led to destruction, but in the narrow path that led to eternal life. Now, undoubtedly, the defendant was an old man, u awards of 70. The other side said he was 80. (Laughter.) But he (the learned counsel was informed that he was remarkably vigorous, and like Adam in " As You Like It," " His age was like a lusty winter, Frosty but kindly." (Laughter.) He did not know then, if a man was old, why he should not take to himself a wife in his old age to sooth his declining years. He did not pretend that there was any romantic attachment, but he should show the jury that there was a dis tinct contract to marry entered into by a man in the possession of his understanding. The learned coun sel then stated that defendant had fixed the day and given instructions for the marriage ; that he had engaged Miss Pethybridge, a governess, to super intend the plaintiff's business whilst they were ab sent on their married tour; that he had agreed to settle £5O a-year on the plaintiff, having informed her and others that he had an income of £3OO a year, and that the licence was taken out; but that in consequence of the defendant's daughters having over-persuaded him, a caveat was lodged with the registrar against the marriage, and it did not ac cordingly come off. A plea had been put on the record to the effect that the defrndant was of unsound mind, and after the case had been proceeded with for some time it was agreed between the learned counsel to settle the matter without going to the jury, awl:accord ingly a juror was withdrawn. THE HARVEST IN ESSEX.—The continuance) of fine weather during the past few days has had a most bene ficial influence upon the corn crops, now generally becom ing fit for reaping. The wheat upon the more upland and light soils being quite ready for the sickle, harvest com menced in many districts on Monday, and large breadths of wheat are now standing in sheaves, but the harvest will not become general for another fortnight. The aspect of all kinds of grain is satisfactory, and expectations of a full average yield arc entertained. The potato disease is un mistakeably spreading, and fears are awakened that its virulence will equal if not exceed that of former years. [ AD VERTISMIENT.]—TioIIoway's Ointment and Pills. — Precautions.—lt often ha - vens that a sickly person fails in obtaining a cure, though the malady is perfectly remediable by medicine. This arises frequently from misunderstand ings as to the dose or its repetition. Such errors cannot occur to those using Holloway's medicaments, as full printed di rec ti ons enve l ope every pac k et, th a t the invalid may frequently refresh the memory. By their guidance progress towards the relief or cure o f the malady advances without doubt or drawback. Holloway's simple directions are intelligibl e t o a ll; a little a tt e ntion alone is required.. There is nothing dangerous or disagreeable in the ConlPosi tion of either the ointment or pills. They act harmoniously together, and in all distas% exercise the most soothing and wfwkeomo action TURIN, July 27.—The projected railway tunnel through the Alpine barrier between France and Italy, that is, between Savoy and Piedmont, is actually fast progressing towards its perfect reali sation, and the new method, the new motive force employed here to pierce a carriage way through seven or eight miles thickness of the mountain, has proved even more efficient than its inventors had promised. The excavating machinery, as designed by Messrs. Grattone and Sommeiller, consists of a set of chisels and steel pointed instruments propelled against the solid rock by the elastic power of con densed air in a closed horizontal tube, when the air has been suddenly compressed by a rush of falling water poured down into a vertical tube, at the other end of the horizontal. This econo mical substitute for steam, in a country where there is no coal, but where torrents and cas cades are available at every turn, is now rapidly opening a new high road for our travellers and traffickers to pass from England via France and Italy, to Egypt, India, and Australia. Instead of having nearly to circumnavigate the Mediterranean as they now do, from Marseilles all round outside the islands of Sardinia and Sicily to Malta, and thence to Alexandria, they will have an unbroken land journey from Calais to one of the Adriatic ports, almost within sight of Corfu, and there em bark in the Vectis or some other English mail packet, shortening the voyage to Alexandria by two-thirds of its present duration. The Minister of Public Works, Commendatore Peruzzi, accompanied by several members of the Chamber of Deputies, and an Inspector-General of French Engineers, devoted two nights and the in• tervening Sunday, without absenting himself from his usual week-day labours, to visit the Italian end of the tunnel at Bardoneche. The French end of it is at Modane, and they are cutting away at the same time, with about equal speed, approaching the dead waist and middle of their gigantic enemy, the mountain, through whom they are boring such a hole. In the presence of this company, and of several distinguished Italian mechanicians, the boring apparatus, within less than one hour, made 70 perforations, varying from 60 to 90 centimetres in depth, in the vertical face of the schistose rocks. The machine is then drawn back along the tunnel, for a hundred yards or so; the holes, which may be an inch or so in diameter, are charged with gun powder, and exploded like an ordinary mine. With a single pointed drill, moved entirely by this force of condensed air, a hole of sixty centimetres in depth, or about two feet English, is bored in ten minutes, which the manual labour of three strong miners could not do in an hour. The ordi nary action of the machinery is to pierce twenty or thirty holes simultaneously in a narrow space where three or four men could not easily stand working together. The time gained by applying this new system may therefore be easily calculated. Some time must of course be lost in withdrawing the ap paratus, after boring a set of holes three or four feet deep, then exploding them and removing the rubbish, after which the set of borers may again be advanced, and the air tubes adjusted for another stroke. The whole series of operations does not, however, require three or four hours, so that several distinct steps forward are made in a day. For the last few weeks, on the Modane side, they have been getting on at the rate of six matt es a day, which is at the rate of more than two kilometres . ; or more than a mile and a half in the year. It is reasonably expected that as theworkmen grow more expert they will do tt.ree kilometres a year, at which rate the tunnel will be finished in 1864. The increasing length of the horizontal air tube, as the boring proceeds, is found not to diminish the motive force, although where it stands at present the boring apparatus works at a distance of 1,500 metres from the place where the water falls. Another unfavourable pre diction was, that they would come upon granite, or tap subterranean lakes. The rock, however, is of a very manageable consistence, being a rather soft schist, with some veins of silex ; and very little water oozes from the roof or sides of the tunnel. The contracts that have actually been nego tiated, and which the Legislature has a pproved, along with some other contracts still open to on th earth-subduing Titans of the modern rised to world, terms which the Ministry has been aathopprovede, propose, extend from the northerntothesouAtlhpesrnei Maritime southern most regions of Italy. From the tunnelled. between the port systeme r Piedmont and Liguria, which wuillebne, the line this morning decided p port of Savona and the city of Turin, the already stipulated for and decreed which havedreachesdowbneetno those Neapolitan transverse lines conceded to M. Talabot and his partners, con necting the Tyrrhene shore with the Adriatic, con necting the Gulf of Salerno with Bari and 'faranto on the opposite side. Below these lie the Calabrian and Sicilian lines, included nci w ud it e h d A in dn t a he li h a a n st d y Lmm agreemente ifor that Garibaldi made all the railways of the T wo Sicilies, which is a subject of dispute. The general design that pre vails throughout all these grand and useful under takings, since the reyolutions of last year is that of Italian unity. They are intended to'supply a con tinuous st ries of loc omot i ve traffic roadways along that inevitable direct channel of commerce between LAZ'ope and Azia, from Bloat Celli», Whoa NEWARK—JULY 31.: The show of wheat from the growers to-day was bY. li f . . means abundant, and sales took place at fully former price', Barley hardly an average show, and trade was inactive, at recent rates. Oats were scarce, with a steady ingu l/Y. Beans were in moderate request at late quotations. 3 s o White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Barley, grinding.. 3 0 s t ° 4.: Red do. 6os to 65s Oats, old, .. ...... 32s to ° Q. , Old white 6ss to 70s New do 24; to 2"` Red do. 50s to GOs Beans.. 54s to 58 0 4 6$ Barley, malting.... 38s to 42 s Beans. new.. 40s to Peas, 40s to 505. HULL—JULY 30. Our market to-day was fairly attended by the trade, Oct we had a moderate supply of wheat, which was sold ra ther freely at late currencies. Foreign in good detiogl cl A Barley met with a large demand for feeding purposes, aa,`; malting sorts were inquired after. Fine samples t,f 05 ' t were scarce, and a shade dearer. Beans and peas dull a' sale, but prices unaltered. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 60s Od to 640 9,11 Old red New white .. ~ Newred .... ~ Dantzic, Konb , &c, old white 54 5 20 4 85 s Cl° O cid d t t too o 5 g 605 ssB Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 50s Od to 6 88 o d Baltic and Hamburg, red Ms Od to 570 0 3, St. Petersburg and Riga, old 46s Od to 483 1 Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 3 6 ° 0 3 Grinding 3os Od to 32 , 5 0 3 Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish s2s Od to (- 4s o c it Grinding 27s Od to 203 oc t Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st 0512d to ° l e Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 051). I Swedish and Danish ool2ld t o Osl oi Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon 42s Od to 44 0; New tick. 4os Od to 420 p d Egyptian 3 Peas .. Foreign breakers 3 3 0 86 58 01 3 8 0 i . d' to Od t t o o 433 F s : v° o l 3 1 Grinding Tares ....Spiing. —s Od to --- od Indian Corn ,:'2 od Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 563 0d crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £8 15 0 to £ 9 A 0 Foreign: BIOZO to ,i, A 10v 0 , Rape cakes 5 0 oto g Bones BRISTOL SUGAR—JULY 31. eelct We have had a very quiet market for sugar this W. O and to effect; sales of any importance importers would bt'f „ or to accept something less than last week's prices, excePol, fine kinds, which maintain previous rates. Rum VerY and rather lower. COAL MARK trrices of Coal per Ton at s. d. ET-JULY 31. the close of the market Walls End. O d • . A Shineliffe ll v o Trimdon Thornley... • 1 , 7 Q 6 Eouth Hetton Hetton Eletton Hartlepool .. : ............. , 11 4 (99 Russel's Hetton .... . .. . 0 s p t U el ta r ill t,; ............ 16 6 •• • •..... 18 6 Byron ... Ships at market, 87 sold, 61. Camay and Duffryn Malting Do. Anthracite 21 6 Wyl am 15 6 \\Talker Primrose 12 9 Tanfield Moor 13 3 Hartlepool West Hart ley l6 3 Craghead Hartley 15 0 Hastings Hartley l7 0 THE ARM OF ST. JOHN THE 113APTIST. —Tie i. commission charged to carry back to Barcelon a the righ t arm of St. John the Baptist left this city yes terdaY. 111 . which remarkable relic had been taken from Barcelona, to wh' place it belongs, to the oratory e the Queen, and the baPPY accouchement of.her Majesty is ascribed to its influence. This holy relic was the object of great veneration on the part of the pious persons of Madrid all the time it was es' posed in the church of San Francisco el Grande. The non e were not deprived of the privilege of adoring it, the 'Veil' Prior Commissioner, accompanied by three members o f tile order, having presented the prec i ous t r easure in each of 28 chapels of the convents of this capital.—Madrid Gazette. BIRTHS. BADDELEY.—On the 27th ult., at Gorleston, Suffolk, th e wife of Lieut.-Col. Baddeley, of a son. CHOLMONDELEY.—On the 26th ult., at Abbot's Moss, Che shire, the Hon. Mrs. Cholmondeley, of a daughter. 4 . NIAS.—On the 29th July , at Surbiton, Surrey, t h e wife Rear-Admiral Nias, C. 8., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. HEILVEY--BENTON.—On the 30th ult., at St. Georgd°l Hanover -square, Lord Augustus H. C. Harvey, se c l i t r so n of the Marquis of Bristol, t o M ar i ana , the yo un g o f daughter of the late W. P. Hodnett, Es , and widoW Esq., 63d Regiment, o Stet Eaton-square, Ashton Beny on,b.wortb.- park. DES Vows.--On the 30th ult at St. Peter's, SLADE— s, son of the a Charles Des Vocus, Bart., niece to the Slade Bart to C • to Sir •/Cecilia Louisa, daughter of the la f Winchester. t:laSrigruiJsehou B wife of Mr. James IL A T Andrews. } S. B AN AT D R it u E i w is s T .:A n t r ' l Willow Cottage,Hampstead, Harriet, the the 27th alt., very suddenly, at 10. Port land-terrace, Southsea, Commander John . A. Bathuist, N *-- , •7 youngest son of the late Commodore Bathurst/ e s'el BITHREY.—on the 29th ult at 7, Bury s treet, St. Jam Mr. W. Bithrey. FISHER.—On the 24th ult., in Beaumont-street, Erzabcth, relict of the late Itear.Admiral William Fisher. PELLEw.—On.tho 28th ult., a t Marseilles , A dmiral thl? Hon. Sir Fleetwood B. Fellow, C. 8., K.C.I-1., eldest surviving son of the late Admiral Viscount Exmouth, G.C.8., aged 70. ROBERTS.—On the 27th ult., at Marlows, Hemel HeroP stead, Herts, Wm. Roberts, Esq., a-ed 61. ' r------ - --- LONDON : Printed and Published by DIERDO YO UNw, ,L. at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN °Mee, No. 1 12, S trano. in the Precinct of the Savoy, as the County of alisoloo26 llurodayi AvalAt is UM. TEL ITALIAN RAILWAY TUNNEL. it is opened by the tunnel, trough Piedmont, the Emilian provinces, and the straight coast line of the Marches and of the old Neapolitan territories, as far perhaps as Brindisi, which looks right into the Levant. BRAINS OF MEN OF GBNIc7S• In my letter published in the Kerry Star of July 3d, I stated, when noticing the death of Lord Camp bell, that there was no post-mortem examination, but I think there ought to have been, an d s uch is 4 • the opinion of the first medical men in London. I have just learned that there really was a very care ful examination of the body, and the report v hen published in extenso will be read with interest. learned to-day some of the particulars. In the first place, the brain was of considerable size and re markably healthy ; its weight was 53 ounce:; and, quarter ; the heart was considerably (hypertrop i ll enlarged with atheromatous deposits in the Va' yes of the aorta, commonly known as valvular d isease of the heart—the right side of the heart was quite empty, but the left side full of blood. The liv er ur e e was enlarged and full of cysts. There is one f eat connected with the case of Lord Campbell of 011 ! importance. It is the enormous size of the brafu 11 1 a perfectly healthy state in a man, such as li°T Campbell, of 80 years of age, who had gone throug li more hard drudgery and plodding brain-work ° au any other man of modern times. There are only VI cases on record of brains being larger than th a t ° the late Lord High Chancellor of England ; the first is that of Cuvier, the great naturalist, ' O %l brain weighed 59 ounces four drachms a nd u. grains ; the next is that of Dupuytren, the faro°ll," French surgeon, weighing 58 ounces, but in hal ' cases the brain natter was found in a state of male ease. The general weight of the brains of M a l adults in Europe varies from 40 to 52 ounces , and the brains o females are usually four W eigh t ounces less in weight than those of males, and it i s singular to observe that there is not one case on re cord of a female brain weighing more than 48 ounces. Another circumstance I wish more par ticularly at present to bring under the notice of th e psychologist of, not only Kerry, but of Munster, is that here in En gland the brains of the Southern pope; lation are much smaller than those of the North. learned a short time since that a very large manufac turer in London sends all his large hats to t he north of England for sale. Another peculiar cir cumstance regarding this cerebral development is that on the north-east coast of Scotland the cere brum or cerebellum or brain matter is in In ue ' greater abundance with individuals residing in th° se localities than, not only the other parts of Seotlanur but of anywhere else. Now, Lord Campbell, 01' well as Sir David Wilkie, and others of great vent ° capacity, were natives of Fifeshire, and it is c urious to make opt how locality could influence sec h , fl peculiar development. The size and fulness of t' f cranii peculiar to the residents in those parts 0 Scotland, is sought by some to be accounted for f r°lll the circumstance that the Danes, Norsemen , °,, Scandinavians, who had centuries ago invaded th e ! „' parts and settled there, had left numerous offsPri n b; and that the old people inhabiting the north -es " coast of Scotland preserve all the characters of these invaders. The brains of a great majority of the people in the western counties of England en especially about Somersetshire are small, aetl f „,, a : compared with others not of much weight. average weight of the brains of those dying in Somersetshire Asylum is 30oz. In men with Eel% bnins, however, fine qualities are to be observe"' and a great amount of genius.—London Corresios. I dent of Kerry Star. COUN7RY MARKETS. SHEFFIELD—JULY 30. A small attendance, and the supply of grain was be l l, the average. 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