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

~~-~~ i GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. „, CHEAP EXCURSIONS to the NORTH—An EXCUR SION TRAIN at LOW FARES will leave Paddington at 7, returning 35 a-m., and Reading at 10.50 a.m., om SATURDAY. Sept. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 :—OXFORD (Fares ( 6, . 1 . 6d. and 4 5. ) , Banbury (Bs. and 55.), Leamington and War wick (10s. ed. and 68.), Stratford-on-Avon and Birmingham (12s. and 75.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston c l 2 s. 6d. and 7s. ed.), Wolverhampton (13s. and B s.), Welling .,°tl and Shrewsbury (17s. and 10s.), Oswestry, Llangollen road, Wrexh am, an d Ch e ster (18s. 6d. and 118.), Birkenhead, Li verpool, Warrington, and Manchester (21s and 12s. 6d.) EXCURSION TRAIN, ALLOWING A LONGER -.LILIOD, will also leave Paddington at 9.45 a.m., and Reading at 10.50 a m., on SATURDAY, Sept. 7, returning on the _lth or 28th of September :— For Oxford (11s. and 55.), Ban- RarY 14s. and 68. 6d.), Leamington and Warwick (18s. and 88.), Str atford-on-Avon and Birmingham (20s. and Os. (3d.), West Bromwich Wednesbury, and Bilston (21s. 6d. a nd 10s.), ~wolverhampton (225. and 10s. 6d.), Wellington and Shrews "i7 (275. 6d. and 135.), Oswestry, Wrexham, Llangollen-road, a nd Chester (335. and 155.), Birkenhead, Li ver p oo l, Warring °a, and Manchester (375. and 175.) For full p a rticulars see bills. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR FAYAL. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, 22d Aug., 1861. THE COMMISSIONERS lbr EXECUTING the OFFICE of ADMIRAL of the -.:‘,- I NGDOM of GREAT LORD HIGH BRITAIN and IRELAND, UNITE D D O HEREBY GIVE NOTICE. That on TUESDAY, the 24th September next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat nth such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supply tr.2g and delivering on board her Majesty's Steam Vessels in ra yal Roads all inch quantities of SOUTH WALES COALS, fit for her Majesty's Steam Vessels, as shall from time to Qbe de man d e d , un d er a con t ract f or t we l v e months cer tain from the Ist December, 1-6), and afterwards until the "Pi ation of three mon hs' warning. A Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. ,X 0 Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Eery Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the .I,,drairalty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten for Coals ;" and 'must also be delivered at Somerset so e, „e, accompanied by a letter si , ned by a re4ponsible per in"A"Lengaging to become bound with the Person tendering, e sumof £2OO, for the due per of the Contract. NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY. Instituted 1808. SECRETARY—Sir Samuel Bignold. The whole of the profits divided with the assured. X 2,000, Anip le security offered by an accumulated Capit 1 of 00. a One-half of the first five annual premiums may remain as ka tio of life. Perma ent charge upon policies granted for the whole du- The income of the Society is upwards of £237,000. The amount insured is upwards of £5,078,000. Since its commencement 32,7 0 0 policies have been issued, Z e d in b e 6,5"55 paidto ,the representative& of 6,854 deceased The bonuses may be applied at the opti m of the assured as follows : As a bonus added to the policy. or the amount may be re ceived at once—that is, its cash value—or it may be applied In reduction of the future annual premium. The rates of premium are lower than those of some offices bonusrly 10 per cent., a benefit itself equivalent to an annual For prospectuses apply at' the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, Blackfriars, London. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. READ OrncEs—Lombard-street, London ; and Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool. Branch Offices—:Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin. (TRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1860. The success of the Company, es en in its earliest years, received the marked atten ion, and elicited the surprised e ° , bnlents, of writers best acquainted with the history of In surance Companies. o r the "Fire Premiums YEARS for 1860 E 45 QUA 18 L5l the Total Fire Premiums ' SEVEN 18 to . Life Premiums for 1860 EXCP ED the Entire Life Pre "minas for the EIGHT Y ARS ending. 1852. "Purcha• e of Annuities in 1860 LARGELY EXCEEDS the Similar receipt for the first TEN YEARS, 1845 to 1854. "This p rogress, it i s b e li eve d, is unsurpassed, considering t hat it applies to each of the three branches of the business." FIRE BRANCH. "The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dim )", th 18 e year 60 of that impetus which had previously V r ought it to a position of the first magnitude among the surance Companies of the United Kingdom. The Fire .„411 einiums in 1859 had advanced to the sum of £228,314 7s. 3d. 4 . , s ti 1860 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of •z 2 '2,977 19s. 11d., showing an increase of £31,663 12s. Bd., ex !Reding the large advance of the preceding year, so that in ..'W O years the Fire Revenue of the Company has been en- Go need by the enormous sum of X 66,829 17s. sd. " The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty paid to vrnment for the year 1860 exhibits the augmentation of the business in a more prominent way, as it affords the means I T Comparison with other Companies. The Proprietors will e VJatified to learn that the increase of Duty paid by the Royal in the last year is more than double that of any other ti, ( , )re PnY, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of o se Companies even approaches to 50 per cent. of the camead of this Comp ny. Our increase actually equals 30 per of the entire increase Of the whole of he Metropolitan offices combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms up- Wards of 30 per cent. of the total advance of the other 25 offices es tablished out of London, LIFE BRANCH. `The Reports of the Company for several years have had invariably to announce a constant periodical expansion of its Life Business, the New Policies of each succeeding year show ing an advance over the o ne that had immediately preceded t. A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums 2_4 New Policies, after deducting Guarantees, be ng, £15,097 " 8 , 10d., which is an increase on that item of £1,993 17a. sd. above the amount received for the year 1859. "But even this advance is small when compared with the tfdden and remarkable momentum which has been given to is Branch of the Business in the present year (1861). "It was not until the commencement of the year that the Public seemed to have become fully acquainted with the fact th t the Royal Insurance Company had published late in the Liabilities Year an account of the investigation into the Assets and 'abilities of its Life Department, under a novel form, and in auplain and intelligible a manner as the abstruseness of the biect admitted, together with the entire statements and valuations necessary for that purpose. ," It is con jectured fr om th e ex t ens i ve N o ti ces o f thi s Pam- Vet and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared he Periodicals of the day, that it has largely attracted the a ttention of vast numbers iI Persons in all parts of the United Kingdom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a m ost satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case !B afforded by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies in the six months to the 3d June of the present year is ac tually 50 per cent. in excess of the sum assured in the corres 107tnidmin: months of the year 1860, although the latter amount lu itself exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period "If this success be continued, the Royal Insurance Cam tany would, with respect to the amount of its new business, e at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions) at the head of all the Insurance Companies doing' business in this Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the ffect that the details of the Lire Business then to be pub lished would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have a speedy and very happy realisation." SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH. P ROFITS.—Large proportion Returned every Five Years to Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE YEARS, Expenses chiefly born • by the Fire Branch, in order to Increase the Bonus to be Returned. LIFE BONUSES DECLARED, Two per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured : "It GREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED BY ANY COMPANY. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre- Jared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe otDr. -cott, will be fo un d i nva l ua bl e t o a ll w h o suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, dm For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they ,re truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to he s'omach, they create appe .te, promote digestion, and -trengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert. and by most druggists, in boxes, is. 14d., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure lo ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engraved on the stamp. S ECURITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling. Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £500,000. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution eltrnestly APPEAL t...) the public for PECUNIARY ASSIST ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS BARING-, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adelphi, Feb., 1861. Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co.; Henke an d CO. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. Gray's-inn-road. Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN. President—His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, t hat of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade quate funds the Weekly Board could make immediately avail !Me 500 beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in the metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entir ely b y ;''.e Voluntary Contributions of the Public. enable it to afford, 'n addition to its [n-patients, effe.tive Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2,000 Out-patients weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, /Award Mas ,rnian, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; D rummond and Co. ; 'Terries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; !:orescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, 31. A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life -restoring remedy should be taken by all about to he Zarry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by Medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst 1/ r. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at 11 s., or four quantities in one for 335., and may be sent to any part of the World, carefully packed, O n receipt of remittance or post-office order payabl e t o P r o u t and Co. !Jr. Ricord's Sole A g ent in London is Prout, Patent Medi ""le Warehouse, 229, Strand (seven doors west of Temple bar). GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous ufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of nemory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike o Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re axation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health nd vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from oh , ervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH M.D., 8, Burton rescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. (Entered at Stationers' DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD 1 4 tTEDTCAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRH ( ES. NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. Jug Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price 18., Sold by all Booksellers, and Pent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, IVI AM-100D : the CAUSE and CURE of PRE / MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions (7 I'erfect Restoration to Health and Vig our. uarns, 15, Albernaarle-street, Piccadilly, Londonßy Dr. J. L. CONTENTS : I NTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the ph 3, kd og i oa i .tructure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. C 2 ITAPT ER ll.—Causes of Spermator rhce a and Impotence; -arty Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. .71APTER result of the various Disqualifications of larriage ; whether g from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. 0, (1 , 11 -APTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of ;''l2 l Thces and Syphilis. .ue Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting i !", 51 , to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive REVIEWS OF THE WORK. h e'eu rtia on Manhood.--This is a truly valuable wo rk, and !,.oulcl ben the fi hands of young and old."—" Sunday T imes," 43431 areh, 185. lit"she author has conferred a great boon by publishing this ork, in which is described the source of those disea ses ofdWhich produce decline in youth or more frequently prem ature age "—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 1850. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain Andsympathising manner on the various disqualifications Pediments arising from nervous excitement and de - bi litY and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and e xcesses it w ill b e found valuable and useful."—Record. Loudon : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 19, Cornhill. L i 9 ur 9 t COUlatAti 1 0 9 1 1 — to 3 and 6 to 8; _SundaY6l:lo till 2. DR. LA'MERT on NERVOUS and PHYSICAL EBTLITY, resulting from pernicious habit§ con tracted in Youth, excesses in Manhood, or residence in Tropi cal Climates. With Cases and Engravings from Life. Licentiate of the Roya College of Physicians, Edinburrit ; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, &o. The 81st Edition. CONTENTS. Section I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. S e ction IL—Puberty—Manhood—The Morale of Generative Physiology—True and False Morality. 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Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be columned (only as abOTO INE.IVSPAPER. _ - 44. „1, 11 1 • \I: • • tV el e i :l ' rer " 17 41 * 11::41:—'11111 4 717 i 4 3 - y fr z, en upon her, would strike her armour plates-n / 0111211111* e 4 g , ot, . - 41 111111 k / 12 longer at an angle, but point blank, so that the ' _ charm would be broken. s -• WIN C 4 7,a, k ! ~04 • 1" • - 6 -, 4 " • , •••!;4s l49' 6 6 ' 43' 41 1 ' ''''''' (4)1 "44 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 probably be dispensed with and reliance placed upon steam alone. The vessel lying low in the water, with her single tier of guns, and her low sides sloping off like the roof of a house, would offer no mark to an enemy, an d i n d ee d wou ld hardly be a visible object at a little distance. The change would be exactly analogous to that 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 be distinguished by a few low embankments 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 be 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, 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. PR1CE....... .4d. STAMPED ....sd. r describe 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 ; but people yelled and shrieked and put up prayers, believing that they should never see daylight more. 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 mass, and around it in all directions, you could distinguish people lying, sitting, or running to and fro, shrieking and groaning. 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 the 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." However, there is still an obstacle in the way of this consummation. Sir William Armstrong has carry armour r seemo that r which been defeat e d this time, but he may be victorious again by an d b y . H e won the day at Shoebury ness, thou g h h e l os t it a t P or t sm o u th. and wh en his new 300- poun d er comes ou t M r . J ones ' s t arge t may perhaps resist no longer. The attack and defence to ships h prevail ip sw icl al nbg yivundoubtedly turns, them ande considerable, n i s t bi de i es made hard t ti o of present is, m say whether ar till ery or armour may be found the stronger at any gi ven period. All we can say a t 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. 7 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Traffic Manager's-office, Brighton, Sunday, Aug. 25. 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. The accident occurred through the signalman at the south end of the tunnel admitting a second train into it before 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. 'HE TVEA2II.ER AND THE CROPS. THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. One of our correspondents now in titeNorth 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 m_certain, 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. The line is cleared and the ordinary traffic re sumed. Yours obediently, GEORGE HAWItINS, Traffic Manager. TILE ANGULATED MAN-OF-WAR. 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 Wellington 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, areal 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. ('ur 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 c)me to if the new principle of defence can be esta blished, and the result seems by no meansim probable. 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 face 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 plates prepared by Mr. Jones. It had originally been 131 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 4 inches, and two of 52. The target thus completed was set up on the deck of an old Arctic vessel, the Griper, iu such a way es to present a slope of about 50. degrees, and was than towed out to sea to be tried against the powers of an Arm " Wheat. —There is a fair crop of wheat in Moray and Ross shire but the yield will not be up to tho 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 good. 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, especially in the low grounds of the straths and valleys, the bulbs are completely gore, and it is now quite clear that the crop will be deficient. p Swedes are pretty safe, but the yellow ball is in very bad condition. 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 coa sumer of its products." 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 fragment s. The firing took place at 200 yards' distance , a nd 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 bolts ac tually 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 com p ara ti ve ly insignificent. nificent.The last shot of all, though light ing just on the track of the others, and giving, as it were, the last blow to the work, failed to pene trate the armour, and, as a general result, it was found that, though no fewer than 16 shots had been planted more closely t o gether than could ever be expected under ordinary condit i ons of practice, the plates were not pierced nor was the woodwork materially injured. The final shot, says 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 t he surface of the .12- inch wooden backing, but not in any way breaking through the same or damaging the shell of the ves sel in the slightest degree." Such results certainly seem to open a new system of shipbuilding , for we do them not see how itis possible to qualify the m or explain away. The attack had the fairest possible chance. fhe shots of the most powerful piece of ordnance in use were deli vered one aftewenother with extraordinary accu racy, and yet 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. IL deserves to be mentioned that the iron plates were of peculiarly good manufacture, and they appear also to have ben 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. It has also been urged, and with obvious plausibility, that a high sided ship ranging alongbide such a craft, and firing THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1861. TERRIBLE AC , WENT ()N 7HE LON DON AND BRIGHION RAILWAY. 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. Tilere 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 had 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. _ . 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. Furner, 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 eyo- 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 special 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 fl y s to the Sussex 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, Gos well-road, London, had hi s l e f t l eg ampu t a t e d, and William right of leg amp u t a t e d, the left leg New England Farm, Rear Brighton, An 01, had r h s 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 P ar k er , 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 conveyed to their o wn: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-stuffer, 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. Of the 22 persons who have lost their lives the Following were identified in the course of the after- noon : Mr. Coomber, 29, Gardener-street, Brighton (both legs cut off). Mrs. Ellen Lower, 1, Liverpool-street, Brighton. Mrs. Ingledew,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, Brighton. Amelia Tempest (apparently a domestic servant) ; address unknown. Mr. E. Fares ; address unknown. William Hubbard, lately staying at 17, Viaduct terrace, Brighton. Henry Hayward Hubbard, a boy aged four years, grandson of the above. Christian Manthorpe, Lennox Arms, Richmond street, Brighton. John Greenfield, 5, Montpelier-place, Brighton. The bodies having been carefully laid out were searched under the direction of Mr. White, 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 greatest sensation pre vailed, it not being ascertained to which train the disaster had occurred, and many hundreds besieged the railway station either 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 Hay ward's-heath, and come via Lewes. This, at all events, set at rest the minds of those who expected friends from the metrapolis, and increased the anxiety for the safety of the Brighton excursionists to London. When the bodies of the dead had been properly arranged, Mr. 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. 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 due to the officials of the company 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 Brighton for the names of those killed and wounded, and supplied all other information within his reach. Last night towards the time the excutsion trains Were expected to return, the crowd was very great at the 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 the particu lars during their visit to Brighton. llr. F. Slight, ti:e secretary of the company, arrived at the Euston station from Yorkshire last evening at 6 o'clock, and was met by a telegram conveying an intimation of the dreadful occurrence. He repaired to London bridge as rapidly as possible, and remained at the station until a late hour last evening, rendering va l ua ble advice and information to fbe relatives and friends of those who were known to to either killed or wounds d. A similar condition of things 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 speed 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 coming up, but before I had satisfied my mind upon the point I was thrown off my seat. I theta heard fearfu screams, and the steam of an engine hissing in a terrific manner. When I got out I saw that a great number of passengers were lying wider the engine, which had jumped upon the carriage second from the end of the train. The boiling water was pouring out over the people, and the steam prevented any one seeing any distance. We all did what we could to render assistance, but we could not accomplish much in consequence of the engine being on the top of the people, and by reason of the hot water and steam. I came up to London by the train which was sent off after the accident." We take the following account from the supple. went to the Brighton Herald ; " Herald-office, Sunday Evening, half-past 5. "About half•past 9 o'clock this (Sunday) morn ing the intelligence was received 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-road and at the top of Trafalgar - street were besieged by an anxious crowd, eager to know the particulars and learn the fate of friends or relatives, from whom, probably, they had just parted. "To these anxious expectants 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 catastr o p he wa s Clayton tun nel, and that its extent was of fearful magnitude. "Having proceeded to the s p ot, and been fur nished by the railway authorities with every 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 mi l e s fr om Brighton. " The first train to leave th e Brighton station for London on Sunday was the excursio n train from Portsmouth, whose time for l eavin g 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 at the mouth of the tunnel ; and the driver of the Brighton train, on seeing this, immediately re versed his engine, and did all he could to stop it. He did not, however, succeed in doing so until he 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 fall speed into the tunnel. It had not got above 300 yards before there was a tremendous shock ; it had run into the first Brighton train, 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, and, as 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." 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. 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 cases, 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. 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 fl i p 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 Oistance 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 carr ia g es. T his 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 smash. It was i nstan t an eous. I was knocked forward against the man opposite me, but not so violently as to cause either of us any injury. But then, you N‘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. 4 , The scene that followed X have no power to ROCHESTER, AUG. 24. 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 4 cwt. per acre. Although the improvement is very extensive, yet there are still extensive tracts in which the blight has made such serious havoc that the bine is scareely doing anything, and of course this will materially lessen the chances of there being anything lik e a lame crop, the season being now too far advan ce d for them to mend. The general improvement has extended itself to the adjoining counties of Sussex and Surrey, where the plantations under cultivation Exhibit a marked improvement, In the great majority of grounds, however, there is scarcely bine enough to yield a crop, and the growth will be therefore very partial. 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. TILE MURDER IN TVILTSHIRE. ______--.—_______ On Saturday afternoon John Stocker, wider gamekeeper to Mr. Monk, of Everleigh, w a g orought 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 Ile always did with great dissatisfaction. A knife taken from the prisoner's pocket has been found exactly to fit a wound be nind 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 lire at hio lodgings, and although washed, the sur gcenG 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 bluod, and an old knife found in the prisoner's cottage had also portions o f leather, mud, and blood detected on its blade, an d on the soles of the boots there were particles mesonfkoiantg cake, which, from ex amination of the boilin g -ho use , where the body wa s found, Mrs, Hall was 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, an d several sovereignsP had been found in a secret drawer at prisoner's house. On the whip being produced, the prisoner started and changed colour. These, and other circumstances, lead to a hstarvoinngg belief a t p h p a l t ie h d e much dejected) wasasked! say, he replied in f i o s r th t e he m p u r r i d s e o r n e e r r . A remand if he had any thin g to (who looked the negative, and was u l t imatel y remanded for a Week. I