The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-07 00:00:00

A PLEA FOR O'DONIsTELL. A letter from Madrid of the 31st ult., in the Momiteur, says :—" In ord er to appreciate exactly the events which have taken place in Madrid, the manner in which the last change in the Ministry occurred must not be lost sight of; whilst the happy influence exercised by this change can alone be understhood by a recollection of the state of anarchy tars, which the Peninsula has escaped. Mat as far as the Crown is concerned, have followed a perfectly constitutional course. The resolution which confided the chief power to the hands of Marshal O'Donnell was derived from the legal exercise of the preroga tive of the throne. The Ministry having offered its resignation, in consequence of internal dissensiens, her Majesty had at first hoped to have succeeded in introducing the two marshals into a new combination. Espartero having pro posed conditions which could not be accepted by O'Donnell, this latter, before accepting the mission iof forming a new administration, considered it proper to remind the Queen of the great political Influence exercised by the Duke do la Victor ia. The count himself represented to his colleague the grave nature of the events which might accompany that statesman's withdrawal, and employed sincere efforts in endeavouring to persuade him to keep the presidency of the Council. The Queen took her decision only after having in vain endeavoured to maintain Espartero's presence in her council ; and it is undeniable that Marshal O'Donnell, on his side, so far from having wished to supplant a rival, neglected no measure which could ensure his co-operation. Espartero positively refused ; and then only did the Queen proceed, in virtue of her, constitutional attributes, to form a new ministry to replace that which had abandoned her amidst the most complicated and serious difficulties. The ac counts of certain foreign journals, according to which this change was accompanied by forms savouring of a coup cl'etat, are founded therefore on a completely erroneous appreciation of the facts of this crisis. Doubtless Marshal O'Donnell was compelled to recur to force in order to maintain the royal authority ; but his conduct in this cir cumstance in no way affected the laws of the country. He only suppressed an insurrection which no measure nor word of the new ministry could explain. Before having accomplished any act, the minister was encountered by a vote of distrust on the part of a minority of the Cortez, and by musket shots which proceeded from the na tional guard united with the rioters of the fau bourgs. He was attacked instead of having been the aggressor; and if that struggle, which he had not sought, permitted him to substitute a conser vative policy for a revolutionary one, ho obtained that position entirely by an entirely legitimate de fence. Those who, in reality, abandoned the constitutional path, were they who failed to respect the decision of the Queen, and attempted to sub vert by revolt a Ministry which was established in a regular manner, and of the programme of which they were still ignorant. It is thus, we firmly believe, that history will judge the respective conduct of the two parties which found themselves in hostile presence in the streets of Madrid and Barcelona. It is besides fortunate for the Peninsula that the ultra faction of the Progressist party should spontaneously have led to its own destruction, and afforded an opportunity of bringing to a close a system of disorganisation and anarchy. It is impossible, in fact, not to admit the gravity of a situation which the certain tolerance of the demagogical party had created in the pro vinces, even more perhaps than at Madrid itself. For two years, owing to the impotence of the admi nistration, subversive doctrines had been dis seminated without hindrance amongst the work ing classes. Last year the evil effects of such doc trines had been seen at Barcelona, and in a num ber of other localities of inferior importance. Inde pendently of acts which did not cease to give neoofs of a hotbed of socialism in Catalonia, at the smile period acts of violence of the same naturetook place on a vast scale at Valladolid, Palencia, and Rio-Seu. Threats against property, cries of death against the rich in the most industrious provinces of the kingdom, are proofs not only of the progress of socialism during the last six months, but of an organisation becoming stronger and stronger of the juntas which directed that combined movement. It is certain that it the military force has put down these risings, the bad spirit of the civil administra tion was more calculated to encourage than to pre vent them. And even had the civil administration been disposed to cause property and public order to be respected, it found itself paralysed by the false ideas which prevailed in the Cortes and by the un certain directions wh'sh were sent from Madrid. It was thus that at Valladolid the persons most ar dent after pillage were liberated convicts, who were allowed to be there by the fault of the police. Thus also the insurgents of Madrid forced the pri sons to obtain additional assistance. Recourse to such singular auxiliaries to defend a constitution which had not been violated, and to repel a coup d'ctat which had not been attempted, proves suffi ciently what suggestions the insurrection obeyed, what was its real object, and with what danger it would have menaced not only the royal authority, but the whole range of the social order, had it tri umphed." SHOCKING MURDER IN FRANCE. (Front Galignanis Messsnye;•.) The quarter of the Fauhourg St. Martin has just been the scene of a frightful murder. About four o'clock the morning before last the attention of the porter of a house in the Rue de la Fidelite was ex cited by a noise in one of the upper stores. Fearing. that seine of his lodgers were about to effect a clan destine removal, he got up awl went out of his lodge to see what was going on. Scarcely had he ascended a few steps of the staircase, when he met a man, who is a clerk in a public administration, named K--, who occupied a room above, bearing on his shoulders the naked body of a woman with the head cot off. On seeing the porter, and alarmed at the cry which that person raised, the man threw down the body, ascended hastily towards his room, and jumped out of the window on the second floor into the street. The upper part of a shop window on the ground floor broke his fall, and he came on the foot pavement without having received any injury, and ran off as fast as lie could towards the Faubourg S Danis. Few per Sons were in the street at that hour in the morning, and no one • consequently stopped him. Information having been sent to the commissary of police, that func tionary was soon on the spot accompanied by a medical man. It appears from the preliminary in vestigations that K— about two years ago fell violently in love with a young girl, with whom he had resided in the house for more than a year, but she one day disappeared. After searching for her for several months he at length discovered the fugitive ; hut notwithstanding his earnest entrea ties she refused to renew her acquaintance with him. It is thought, however, that on Saturday she had come to K---'s room, and that during the night was perpetrated the horrible crime of which the circumstances are as yet but very imperfectly known. The room on its being entered was found in the greatest disorder, and everything covered with blood. The head was found in a pail. It is supposed that must have accomplished the decapitation with a razor while his victim was asleep. The age of the girl is considered by the medical men to be about from 23 to 25, - but nothing has yet been discovered to prove her identity. The body was consequently removed to the Morgue. It is supposed that ' fancYing that every one was asleep i n th e • house, would have carried the body into the street, and there left it, thus giving •- an idea that the murder had been effected in the public road, but th e waking of the porterdiscon certed his plans. Rolehane intended to manage with the head •is by no me ans clear. The police are making a strict search for no . clue to him . haS been had. The following him, but details : —The murderer's name is Poirier, his acre is 35, and he was employed as office porter by the So ' te d' E migratio u Franco-Americaine, whose offices are at that address. On Saturday the chi e f em ployJs of the company, on the terminatio n of. the business of the day , said that the y should go i n t o the country in the evening and stop till Monday, and they left him in charge of the offices. la the evening he wont out, and after stopping some time -returned. with a young and pretty woman, who w en t upitairs With him, the concierge making no objec tion. Tn the night the concierge, as already stated, was awakened by a strange noise on the staircase. He got up and found Poirier dragging down by the legs the body of a woman with the head cut off. The chemise of the victim was tied over the neck, • probably to prevent the effusion of blood. The concierge whose name is Ferrageau, horrified, cried for his wife to come to him, a n d armed himself with an ,old sword which ho possessed as a retired Its then said to Poirier ..—" \Yr' / what have you don e ? Y ou s h a ll not pass!" What mat ters,"‘ ;aid "Potrier, "whether i I pass or not 9 I am l . avenged on a w oman who has made me' suffer • a good deal; and I have no wish to escape ! Arrest me if you like !" lie,•h is owever returned u p stairs, a nd the concierge and h the police. The police wife hastened to summon at once proceeded to the man 's bed-room on the sixth storey, but did not find him, nor any trace of the crime. They ac cordingly descended to the offices, the door of which was open, and found that the murder had ' . been committed in a kitchen attac hed to them L , , which fitted up as a bed-room. The first object that attracted their attention was an iron balance forming part of a letter copying press; . and as it ::-‘ was covzred with blood, and Lai ball. aillicli2)3 to THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1856. it, it was evident that the victim had been beaten about the head with it. On a table was a knife stained with blood ; near the bed, which was also stained with bloood (a fact which shows that the young woman must have been struck ori the head whilst lying iu it),was a largo tin pail nearly filled with blood; and in this pail was the head of the victim. The head, according to all appearance, had been cut off with the knife, but as the knife was old and much injured by use, the operation must have been a long and difficult one ; the fleshy parts of the neck, for example, were not cut through, but backed. A carpet by the side of the bed was saturated with blood. On the table were some empty bottles of wine, some biscuits, and other remains of a supper. The manner in which the murderer effected his escape has been already described. The name of the murdered female has not yet been ascertained, but from her dress and appearance she is supposed to have been a fuming de ehambre. TEE LATE REGENT'S PARK AFFAIR. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, SERJEANTS' INN-- AUGUST 6. (Before Mr. Justice Crowder.) THE QUEEN V. THOMAS GEORGE GOSLING, ESQ. In this case, the facts of which have so recently been before the public in the report of the proceedings before Mr. Broughton at the Maryiebone Police-court, an ap plication was made to the learned judge for a writ of certiorari to remove the depositions and subsequent pro ceedings from the Middlesex Sessions to the Central Criminal Court. The affidavit in support of the applica cation set forth that the defendant, Thomas George Gos- ling, had been given into custody in the Regent c s-park by one John Mitchell, a licensed drover, upon a charge of enticing divers females of tender age to expose their naked persons to his sight, when he gave his name and address, and he was suffered to depart, and no further proceedings were had until he was summoned before Mr. Broughton at the Marylebone Police-court on the 23d of July, who, after hearing the witnesses, held the defendant to bail to answer the charge at the sessions'. An indictment for misdemeanour having been preferred, it was urged that as the offence charged was an offence at common law, depending upon nice shades and distinc tions in the evidence in stipprt thereof, and that nice and intricate points of law of more than usual difficulty and importance might arise on the trial of the said in dictment, which would render it important that the same should be tried before one of the learned judges of the superior courts. It being usual to send cases of that description to the Central Criminal Court, where some of those judges preside, as no doubt had the worthy ma gistrate been asked would have been done, the removal of the proceedings by certiorari was asked. The learned Judge made the order for the writ to issue forthwith, the bail to enter into fresh recognisances in that court. During the day Mr. Thomas George Gosling, the de- fendant, together with his bail, Mr. Gosling and Mr. Booth, attended before the judge, and entered into their recognisances, the defendant in 4,0101., and the bail in 2,000/. each, to give the required notices of trial and appearance at the Central Criminal Court on the removal of the proceedings from the Clericen well Sessions, that being necessary by the Central Criminal Court Act. It is, however, understood that an application will still be made to remove the indictment into the Court of Queen's Bench, to afford the opportunity of a trial by a special jury, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCIIIT.—GUILDFORD, AUG. 6. Cr )wn Side. —(BeforeAlr. Justice Erle.) Charles William Trees:Jove Crease, 40, a gentlemanly looking man, who formerly was a captain in the Cape Mounted Riles, was indicted for an assault upon a young girl named Sarah Marrion. When the prisoner was placed at the bar he appeared in a very excited state, and he insisted upon knowing, before the trial went on, whether any waraant had in the first instance been issued before ho was taken into custody. He was at length pacified, and the case was proceeded with. Mr. Robinson conducted theprosecution ; Mr. Lilley was counsel for the defendant.. The learned counsel for the prosecution having briefly opened the case, the prosecutrix, a modest, respectable looking girl, 18 years of age, was examined, and depesed that she lived with her parents at Croydon, and the de fendant and. his wife resided at Woodside, near that town. On the 24th March, having heard that the defen dant wanted a servant, she went to his residence to in quire about the place, she being at the time out of a situation. The defendant asked her to come in, and he then inquired how old she was, and she told him her age, and he said that would just do ; that he gave good wages, and she should have the place. The defendant then told her to go up stairs to speak to his wife, and she did so ; but, upon finding that there was no one in the room, she was about to return, when she observed the defendant close behind her, and without saying a word he took her in his arms, carried her into a bedroom and threw her upon the bed. The witness then detailed the nature of the assault that was committed upon her, which was of a very aggravated character ; and she said that she became insensible, and when she came to her self she proceeded down stairs, and found the defendant there. She immediately left the house and gays infhraia tion of what had occurred, and on the same evening the defendant was taken into custody. The statement of the girl was corroborated by other witnesses, who saw her after the transaction, and who said that she appeared in a most excited state, and, indeed, hardly to know what she was about frorra te: ror and alarm. A police-constable who took the prisoner into custody, stated that when he told him what he was charged with he asked him who could prove it, and afterwards said that his head was very bad. Mr. Lilley, in his address to the jury for the defen der t, said that the task teat devolved upon him was, under any circumstances, a very painful and anxious one; but it was peculiarly so on the present occasion, because the unfortunate gentleman at the bar had for merly held her Majesty's commission, and had for many years done his duty gallantly and faithfully to his country. He had served for 15 years at the Cape of Good Hope ; and those who were acquainted with the climate of tbat region were aware what effect it had upon the constitution ; and he believed he should have no difficulty in satisfying the jury that the hardships and service he had undergone had unsettled the mind of the unfortunate gentleman at the bar, and that he was there fore not responsible for the act he had committed. While the learned counsel was addressing the jury the defendant exclaimed with great vehemence that he ob jected to what he was stating, and declared that his rea son was not in any way affected. He then proceeded in the most incoherent and violent strain, declaring that he had seen all the wonders of the world, and that he had seen hell dragged up by the roots. The present charge, he said, was got up against him by the Roman Catholics, because they knew that he was a Protestant, and that he was determined to support his religion. Mr. Justice Erie suggested that it would probably be the best course at once to proceed to lay some evidence before the jury as to the state of mind of the defendant. Mr. \V. Biker, a medical gentleman living at Nor wood, was then examined, and he stated that he had known the defendant and his family for several years, and, from conversations he had had with him and other circumstances, he hail formed the opinion that ho was decidedly of unsound mind. Mr. J. Keene, the governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, deposed that the defendant came into his custody on the 25th of March, and had been under his obscrvs.- tion ever since. From what he bad seen of him and his conduct since he bad been in the prison he had no hesi tation in expressing his opinion that he was a madman. A certificate of Mr. Harris, the surgeon of the prison, to the same effect, was also put in. Mr. Justice Erie then addressed the jury, and said that where an offence of this serious character had been com mitted, and the defence set un was that the party ne• cused was not in such a state of mind as to be crimi nally responsible, it was very essential for the interest of the public that such a defence should be watched very narrowly. The jury, however, in the present csse, had heard the evidence adduced in behalf of the defen dant, and had bad an opportunity also of observing the demeanour and conduct of the defendant hfinvelf while the trial was going on ; and a:though undoubtedly it had happened that cunning persons had simulated mad ness, in order that they might escape the consequences of the acts they had committed, yet he must say that he could see no ground for supposing that that was the case in the present instance ; but, on the contrary, it appeared to him that the defendant was clearly of unsound mind, and if the jury entertained the sane opinion it would be their duty to acquit him on that ground. The jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of insanity, and the prisoner was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. When this order had been given the prisoner became very violent, and declared he would not be locked up any longer, and it was with some difficulty that he was removed from the dock. CIVIL SIDE. It has been arranged by the Lord Chief Baron that all the special jury cases are to be placed on the list in his court, and taken in their order on Thursday morning. The whole of the remaining common jury cases will be transferred to the Crown Court this (Thursday) morning, and a list will be made out for each day, in order to ob viate t r h e e ac n h e e c d e:sity of parties attending with their wit nesses every day when there is no chance of th e i r cases OXFORD CIRCITIT.—GLOUCESTER, AUa. 6. CIVIL COURT. --(Before Mr. B Iron Alderson and a Common Jury.) ; and Mr. Gray ter.otBfhaewdyeefEervnEdaßiust Mr. Powell and Tit" V . appeared for the plain tiffectment brought to recover This was an action possession of a small cottage, valued at 40/. The plaintiff orir an belonged to the and defendant were two brothers, sons of James and Sarah Everis. The property old d witness, she mother, but, in the language zl a of d the cottage took the wagoner to the house'nan married him. Tire old people remained in the occupation began h t e o r till their death, the father dying in 1851, in the present year. The two brothersolatnhimenitohbeemg under quarrel about the cottage, the plaintiff a t s heir at-law, and the defendant asserting his righntottfheir a deed of gifr, executed by the father and course the case soon got into the bands of the lawyers, e lpf and as the title to the property was iu question the Y (1 1.3 ; cision was reserved for the houour, or disgrace, of nisi prius. The plaintiff having proved big title as heir-at-law, Mr. Gray said the defendant wished him to state to tlalen_t tit he claiiied the uttage uwler a deed taco,. cuted by both the old people in the year 1848. The de fendant had supported his parents when they were un able to support themselves, and, with his wife, livel in the house with them for several years, and when they died he paid their funeral expenses. He had also paid some of their debts, and it was in consideration of his having agreed to do these things the deed was executed. Mr. BAron Alderson said the deed was not executed so as to pass a married woman's property. He was of opinion the deed was no defence. Mr. Gray said he could not say that it was. The deed had not been prepared by an attorney, but by a village schoolmaster. The jury then found a verdict for the plaintiff. • (Before a Special Jury.) DEGG (ADMINISTRATRIX) V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Skinner appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. Dowdes well for the defendants. The plaintiff in this action, Caroline Degg, was the ad ministratrix of her deceased husband, James Degg, and she sued the Midland Railway Company to recover da mages for the death of her husband, which took place on 25th October, 1855, by reason of the negligence of the de fendants' servants in driving some carriages against a truck which killed the deceased. The action was tried at the last Gloucester assize=, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with 2501. damages ; but, as the plaintiff in her declaration had • only claimed 2001., the verdict was entered for that amount. Subsequently a new trial was granted by the Court of Exchequer, on the terms that the plaintiff.should be allowed to amend her decla ration, by raisingiher claim of damages to 2501., and that the defendants should be allowed to put another plea on the record, to the effect that the deceased was voluntarily assisting the servants of the company in re moving a truck on a turntable, and that the servants of the company, by whose negligence the damage was alleged to have accrued, were persons of ordinary care and skill, and competent to move the tracks along the railway, and that the negligence complained of was wholly nnauthorised by the company. We do not think it necessary to repeat the evidence, which was much the same as that given on the previous trial. It will be suf ficient to state that on the day in question, the deceased, who was in the employ of the Messrs. Pickford, was en gaged in unloading a truck on a siding by the Midland Railway. Near him there was a turntable, where some men were engaged in moving a truck. On the siding there were some loaded waggons, and some empty wag gons, with a small space between them. When the men were moving the truck on the turntable, the deceased, thinking that the three men engaged in that operation wanted some assistance, volunteered his aid and jumped down to'lend a hand. While engaged in this operation an engine was brought into the siding by a man named Ash ley. The engine ran against the carriages, and, as there was no One to warn the men at the turntable, the engine drove the carriages one against another until they knocked against the truck on the turntable, and jambed the de ceased between the buffer and the wall. He was kept in that frightful position for some little time, until the carriages could be removed; and when that was done the deceased was taken away to a hospital, and died the same night of the injuries which he had re ceived. The negligence relied on by the plaintiff was that of the man Ashley, who was foreman of the porters, but who was appointed on the day in question to act in the capacity of " shunter," in the stead of the man who usu ally performed the duties of that office, but who was at the time in the hospital ; and the main issue raised by the special plea was whether Ashley was a man of ordi nary care and skill and competent to move the trucks. He was not a "shunter," though he had sometimes acted in that capacity, and it was stated that he did not give the usual signal by the whistle, though this was denied by the defendant's witnesses. Mr. Baron Alderson summed up the evidence, and left it to the jury to say—first, whether the accident was caused by negligence on the part of. any of the defend ants' servants ; and, secondly, whether the man Ashley and the engineer were persons of ordinary skill and care, and competent to move the carriages on the line. His lordship told the jury that_ if they found the second question in the affirmative they ought to find for the defendants' servants on the second issue, even though the defendanto' servants, on the particular occasion, were guilty of negligence. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and were absent some time ; on their return into court they found the first question for the plaintiff, and the second for the defendants. The verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, with 2501. damages, on the first issue, and conditionally on the second issue, there being a demurrer to the second plea to be determined. • The learned Baron also gave the defendants leave to move to enter the verdict in their favour on the first issue raised by " not guilty," if the Conrt should be of opinion that the facts stated in the special plea consti tuted a good defence on " not guilty." CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wigbtman). Ann Allen, aged 46, and described as a nurse, was charged with the manslaughter of an infant child, named Mary Hadley, at Berkeley, on the 30th May last. Mr. Powell appeared , for the prosecution ; Mr. Ser geant Thomas defended the prisoner. It appeared in evidence that a young girl, named Mary Hadley, who stated she was at the present time between 18 and 19 years of . age, was in November last delivered of an illegitimate child. The child was born on the 28th of Nov. The apothecary who attended at the delivery was unable to travel to the assizes from ness, but hie deposition was read, and from that it ap peared that the child was about a seven months' child. It was, however, a healthy one ; and while it continued at the mother's breast it thrived. After six weeks the mother wished to get a situation, and placed it with the prisoner, who was a nurse at Berkeley, to bring it up by hand, and engaged to pay her 3i. a week. The child was Ld on biscuits, &c., but it began to waste away," and on the 7th of April the prisoner sent for the apethe• cary who had attended the mother. The doctor found the child suffering from pain and constipation of the bowels, and severe indigestion. He prescribed medi cine, and directed the prisoner to change the food, but he did not continue his attendance after the 21st April. From that time the child continued to gel more ema ciated until the 22d of May, when it was removed and placed under the care of another nurse. For a few days it seemed to take its food well, and to he improving, bat on the 29th of May it threw up its food, and died the next day. On a post mortem examination it appeared that there was enlargement of the mesenteric glands, and other disease, which the doctor who made the examination attributed to defective nutrition, and in another part of his deposition to enlargement of the mesenteric glands, caused by cold. Similar evidence was given by a young surgeon who was examined as a witnes , , and who gave it as the result of his ex perience that' a seven or eight months' child bad nearly as good a chance of thriving as a nine months' child, and that children broinsht up by hand and fed on cow's milk thrive at If.rkeley at least as well as those who enjoyed the food provided by nature at the mother's breast. The prisoner had always appeared to belsind and attentive to the child.. A witness was called to give her a good character, but -the right witness did not answer. By some inistake the prisoner's daughter, a very healthy-looking young wo man, stepped into the box, holding a bouncir b os child in her arms. She stated that th e c hild h a d b s en from its birth under the prisoner's care; and thus the child was inadvertently " put in evidence." Mr. Sergeant Thomas addressed the jury for .the pri soner at some length, and urged that there was no pre tence for making. the charge. Mr. Justice Wightrnan, in summing up the evidence, observed that some of the statements trade by the sur geon appeared rather strange to unprOfessional people. He (the learned Judge) had always understood that children would sometimes die if brought up by hand, and that it was sometimes necessary, in order to save their lives, to obtain a wet nurse. The jury must exercise their common sense on the case, and not convict the prisoner unless they thought she had, by her gross neg ligence, caused the death of the child. The jury, without the least hesitation, found the pri soner not guilty, and she was discharged. ' POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Aug. 6. SOUTHWARK.--3/e. N. Rowe, an army and nary contractor, whose offices are at No. 51, Bankside, South wark,-was charged with the abduction . of Eliza Brad shaw' 14 years of age, the daughter of Wm. Brad s h aw , beershop-keeper, No. 62, Red Cross-street, Borough. He was also charged with committing a criminal assault upon her, but that charge was abandoned. Mr. Solomon appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Binns for the prisoner, who is a married man, about 35 years of age. Mr. Solomon said that the charge was one of a very serious nature against the prisoner, the commission of which had destroyed the happiness of a very respectable family. For the last 12 months he had been in the habit of visiting Mr. Bradshaw's house, and, knowing him to he a person in a good station of life, he was intro duced to his wife and family. On Saturday night he was at his client's house, as usual, when he sent the com• plainant to purchase something for him at a butcher's in the neighbourhood. Soon after she left her father's house the prisoner followed her, and nothing more was heard of her until Sunday afternoon, when she was found in the Lambeth-road, and then it was discovered that the prisoner had taken her away from home, conveyed her to a brothel in Exeter-street, and there slept with her until Sunday noon. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner was sought after, but it was not until Tuesday night that he could be found, when the father of the girl gave him into custody. The charge then made he (Mr. Solomon) did not think he sould sustain ; therefore he abandoned it, and charged him with abduction, as he had taken her away from home with out her father's consent. Mr. Combo asked Mr. Solomon under what act of Parliament he proceeded. Mr. Solomon replied—The 19th George IV., cap. 31, see. 20, which enacts that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of 1G years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to suffer such punishment, by fine or imprisonment, or by bcth, as the Court shall award. • The mother was then called, and said—l reside with my husband at G 2, Red Cross-street, Borough. We keep a beer-shop. My daughter, Eliza Bradshaw, will be 15 years of age on the 29th of next September. She has lived with us frain her birth, and was at home up to Saturday night last. The prisoner was in the house on that night, and my husband was up stairs in the club room. Between 11 and 12 o'c'ock the prisoner sent my daughter to Beale's, tihe butcher's, in Queen-street, to purchase so me meat for him. After she had gone a aiiuute or two the prisoner went out, and, haviog some suspicion, I sent out a young man to see whether she went to the butcher's. Finding she did not, and that neither of thorn returned, I informed my husband, who went in search of them, but could not find them. On Sunday alternoon I discovered my daughter at the pri soner's house in Lambeth, when she told me that the prisoner had seduced her, after giving her spirits and some wine. My husband then went in quest of the pri soner, whom he did not find until Tuesday, when he was given into custody. My daughter never left our house before at night time. Mr. Solomon—Did she leave on Saturday night with your consent ? Witness—Certainly not, Sir. Mr. Binns—Have you not allowed her to go out with the prisoner on several occasions t Witness—l allowed her to go with him to the Cry stal Palace, when he said that he belonged to the Free. masons and Odd Fellows, and he was bound to protect a female. Besides, he is a married man. The prisoner had also purchased her a bonnet, which she wore at the time. Eliza Bradshaw, the complainant, was then called. She is a very fine looking girl, and appears much older than stated. She said—Up to last Saturday night I have lived with my parents at 62, Red Cross-street. I know the prisoner, and he has been in the habit of visit ing us for the last twelve months. I know him to be a married man. On Saturday night, about half past 11 o'clock, he asked me to go to the butcher's and purchase him some meat for his Sunday's dinner, as his wife was out of town. I accordingly went, out for that purpose, when the prisoner followed me and took. me into a pub lic-house and treated me with a glass of gin. That par tially upset me, when he called a cab, into which we got and drove to Exeter-street, Strand. He then entered a house which I have since understood to be a brothel, and we remained there until Sunday noon. As soon as we got into that house be gave me some wine, which partially stupefied me. About two o'clock on Sunday afternoon he left rue, telling me to go home. I did not like to do so, but I went to the prisoner's house in Lambeth. Neither my father nor my mother was aware that I went away with the prisoner on Saturday night. Mr. Binns—Are you on good ferms with your mother ? Witness—No, Sir. We don't agree, but I never left home all night to avoid her. I have been to Mr. Rowe's house on a visit to his wife with my father's permission, as he was considered a friend. Mr. Binna—Have you not been out with him half-a dozen times ? Witness—l went with faith once to the Crystal Palace, and afterwards to Epsom races. At the last place my father was with us. My father never objected to my going out with Mr. Rowe, so when my mother and I quarrelled he has told me to go either to his house or my aunt's for protection. Mr. Binus—Have you not slept with the prisoner before ? Witness—No, sir. Mr. Binns—Now, mind what you say. Have you not been on intimate terms with him before ? Witness (hesitating) —Yes, sir. That was about three weeks ago, and the only time. Mr. Combe—Where did that t .ke place ? Witness—ln my father's house. My father was not at home then. Mr. Binns—Have you not been with him in a tavern at Norwood until a late hour at night ? Witness—Yes, sir. That was about four months ago, and my father consented. Nothing improper took place then. William Bradshaw sworn—The last witness is my daughter, and she will be 15 years of age next month. The prisoner has visited my house about 12 months, and in consequence of our intimacy has taken advan tage of my daughter and ruined her. Mr. Solomon—Has she ever gone out with him with your consent Witness—No, sir ; I have always objected to it, as he is a married man. I went with him and my daughter last Epsom races. I have heard that she went out with him and had her portrait taken. I was extremely angry with her when I heard of it. Mr. Solomon—What do you know of her leaving home on Saturday last ! Witness—l was up stairs when she went out, and as soon as my wife told me the prisoner had followed her out, and that they had not returned, I went in search of her, but could gain no tidings of either. On the Sun day I found her at ths prisoner's house, when she told me what had occurred. Mr. Binns—Now, has not the prisoner given your daughter dresses, a bonnet, and some trinkets ? Witness—Yes, I believe he has ; but I never wanted to see them. I have borrowed money from him, but it has been to pay bets of his contracting. Mr. Binns—Now, has not your daughter gone out several times with Mr. Rowe with your verbal consent ? Witness—No, Sir. Mr. Binns—Have you not made this charge against him to avoid a debt you owe him ? Witness—No, Sir. If I owe him anything it is for bets he says he has made for me ; but I don't acknow ledge it. If I owe him anything I shall pay him soon. Mr. Combe—Where does the prisoner live ? Mr. Binns—l am instructed to say that he resides at No. 10, Lambeth-road, and that his counting-house is at No. 51, Bankside. He is a substantial person. Mr. Combe—After what I have heard in this case I am of opinion that it is one for the sessions ; conse quently the prosecutrix must go there. Mr. Solomon—lf you intend sending the case to the sessions I shall ask your worship not to liberate him unless he puts in good bail. Mr. Combe—Certainly. He must be bound in the sum of 801. and find two sureties in 401. each to appear at the next Old Bailey sessions. The prisoner was then removed by the gaoler, but just before the close of the court bail was put in, and he was liberated until the sessions, the 18th of the present month. STREET SCA FEN GING IN MARYLEBONE, Fur once the Marylebone vestry has done a very cre ditable thing, which the local boards of works through. out the metropolis, in districts where some similar prate tice is not already in operation, might well imitate, since it would greatly promote the comfort and con venience of the inhabitants at large. During the present week a local committee, embodied in that pariah for sanitary purposes, has been trying in differ ent parts of Oxford street a new process for watering and cleansing the streets which has the merit of novelty. Throughout the greater part of the year, as all know who traverse the thoroughfares of this great city from day to day, the pedestrian has to contend against a choice of evils, being occasionally assailed in some quarters with clouds of dust, while in others, where " it never rains but it pours," the watering process is so overdone that if he wishes to cross the street he can only do so ancle-deep in mud. Besides, to ride or drive over the streets so drenched is attended with -ome difficulty and danger, as they are theteday rendered so extremely slippery that horses are continually liable to fall. The experiment now being tried in Oxford-street does away with all these inconve niences. About 4 o'clock each morning a number of water-carts in a line traverse slowly a part of the street, a few hundred yards in length, and sluice it with water, which has the effect of gradually softening the hard coat of mud with which it is overlaid. The water-carts then drench it a second time, but are followed on this occasion close behind by a gang of men, armed with large scrubbing-brushes, who stretch across the thoroughfare, sweeping as they proceed the mud into the kennel on each side, which, being largely diluted with water, flows to a great extent into the sewers beneath by means of the gullyholes at intervals along the street, and the rest is removed in carts. The gullyholes are protected, so as to prevent any solid matter going down them ; and it has been found that after the first morning the plan requires less water, less time, and less labour in the accomplishment of the work. The effect is that the thoroughfare thus completely cleansed in the morn ing is freed from duet during the remainder of the day ; and in that part of Oxford-street between Regent-street and Band-street, where it bas been tried, and again be tween the end of Tottenham-court road and Newman street, the tradesmen regard the change as a great boon to them. We saw the process in full operation between 6 and 7 o'clock yesterday morning, and the only fault it appeared to have was the tardy manner in which it was performei. The men engaged in it had come menced work at 4 - o'clock in the morning, and at 7 they bad only reached a point about midway between Totten ham court-road and Newman-street. At this rate, if they had been required to do the whole of Oxford-street, they would probably have reached the Marble Arch, if they reached it at all, when the street became creveded, by the middle of the afternoon. That of course could not be tolerated, and if the thing is to be done at all it must be wholly done before eight in the morning., when the traffic ordinarily commences. It is, however, but right to repeat that the process is only yet an ex periment, and that if it be found to answer it will pro bably be worked in a more vigorous and systematic manner, by which alone it can give public satisfaction. It is a manifest improvement, as it is, upon the existing . methods of sweeping and cleansing the public streets, and seems to realise that model state of things, the absence of which in a great thoroughfare in Westmin ster elicited the pathetic appeal to King Thwaites from "Ilabitans in Sicco" a short time ago, through the columns of this journal. It is also a small fore taste of the kind of millennium promised by Sir B. hall in his Local Management Act, for it will be re collected, among other conveniences in which we were to participate, the public foothpathn and thoroughfares were to be swept and garnished every morning, and " Yer honour" was no longer to be' importuned for a copper by " poor Jack" at the crossing, who, after being supplanted by a paid functionary in livery, was as some generously supposed, to retire into private life, like other great public men, on a handsome allowance from the national purse. Let us therefore be grateful. WILLS.--The will of the Right Rev, the Lord B's'nop of Gloucester and Bristol was sworn under 140,0001. personalty; the Hon. R. Ramsey, of Cheltenham, 20,0001.; Sir .1. Prendergast, 16 090/4 Sir A. Crichton, 7,0001. within the province; Mr. C. Shaw, of the Stock Ex change and Myddleton-square, 12,0001.; Mrs. A. Shaw, of Baker-street, 10,00 0 1.; the R'-v. J. Ellis, of Clothali, Herts, 90,000/, ; Rev. R. Lyon, D.D., of Bishop's Cann die, 25,0001.' Rev. E. W. Estcourt, M.A.., of Long Newnton, 20,0001. ; Rev. G. G. Townley, D.O L., 10,0001.; Mr. J. Wilkinson, of Leeds, 56,0001, within the province of Canterbury . Mr. R. V. Hooper, of Is lington, 60,0001.; Mr. W7E - vans, of Chelsea, 60,0001.; Mr. G. C. Chaplain, Elms, T►inbridge, 10,0001. The will of Sir Edward Tierney, of Dublin, was proved first in Ireland under 60,0001., and since in England under 45.0001. within the provi , ce of Canterbury. Also lately have been proved in London the will , . of the Dowager Marchioness of Hertford ; the Dowager countess of Shrewsbury and Waterford,lSir Jas. Hunloke, and Sir C. Serbert, Lord Visoount Fitzgibbon died intatlte. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have just issued their I statement of accounts for the half-year ending the 30th of June. It is as usual clear and comprehensive, affording a considerable amount of information to the shareholders. The joint-stock capital account shows the total amount of share capital to be 25,521,841., consisting of 22,521,3311. credited to the 30th of June, 286,4111. calls in course of payment, and 2,772,1351. calls which may be made. The general statement of capital account shows that 22,049,042/. had been received on stock and shares, 62,3,11/ paid in ad vance of calls, 10,975,5891. loans on debentures, and 402,830/.on3i per cent. debenture stock • total 33,489,85:31. . upon the whole, of which interest and dividend is charged to revenue. The expenditure on the main lines of railway and works amounted, on the 30thofJune, to 23,712,9271., on the rolling stock to 2,896,2821., on lands and buildings yielding rent to 351,567/. ; together 26,963,776/. ; on lines open in which the company have an interest—Coventry and Nuneaton 307,8771.. West London 77,0321., Lancas ter and Carlisle 350,00 Caledonian 143,7841., Scottish Midland 95,7721., Shropshire Union 165,3811., Manchester and South Junction 357,6781., South Staffordshire 190,7151., Manchester and Buxton 55,7001., Chester and Holyhead 1,472,112/., ditto waggons an advances 315,9621., North London 557,7201., ditto advances 104 1251. Buckinghamshire 337,571/., ditto works 160, , 151., Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley 197,3481., ditto works 561,112/., Hampstead Junction 63,3731., together for these lines 5,513,3121., mak ing the total sum expended 32,477,0891;, leaving a balance at the bankers' of 1,012,7631. The de benture account to the 33th of June shows that 1,039,6551. was borrowed at 5 per cent., 1,454,996'. at 49 per cent., 4,214,288/. at 4. per cent:, 365,6311. at It per cent., 1,741,930/. at 4 per cent., 718,8601. at 3i per cent., 1,074,3061. at 3. per cent., 362,7001. at 3i per cent., and 3,2001. at 3 per cent. ; total, 10,975,5891. The working stock account shows that 2,896,281/. had been expended on it, the total mileage worked by the company 8954 miles, and the average cost of working stock per mile 3,1341. The return of werking stock shows that there are 743 loco motive engines, 742 tenders, 1 state carriage, 666 first-class mails and composite carriages, 562 second-class and 419 third-class carriages, 31 travelling post-offices and tenders, 311 horse-boxes, 256 carriage trucks, 262 guards, break, and parcel vans, 31 parcel trucks, 9,098 goods waggons, 1,000 cattle waggons, 279 sheep vans, 1,381 coke waggons, 26 trolleys, 5,150 sheets, and 247 horses. The statement of disbursements on capital account shows that from 31st of December, 1849, to 30th of June, 1856, the expenditure upon various estimates s a ncti one d by the proprietors amounted to 4,285,0591. The .revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June last shows that 1,463,5671. had been received from traffic, 11,387/. interest on cash balances, 16,0851. rents, 3161. transfer fees, 1,379/. net amount of Huddersfield Canal traffic, estimated amount ' of dividends from railways in which the company have an interest, 47,106/. ; total 1,539,8431., against 1,466,3471. at . the corresponding period of last year, showing an increase in the receipts of 73,4961. The working charges amounted to 597,399/., parish rates and taxes to 34,0361., and pas- „ . _ . senger duty to 23,407/. ; making the working expenses 6ii,863/., against 655,360/, at the corresponding period of 1855, showing a decrease in the working expenses of 4971., and at the same time an increase in the gross re ceipts of 73,4961. The increase on loans amounted to 228,0551., chief rents, to 4,6471.; Peterborough joint station, 2,0001.; Parliamentary and legal expenses, 10,0001.; Pres ton and Wyre deficiency, 4,1351. ; Buckinghamshire gua rantee, 18,2991.; North Union guarantee, 26,9291.; Shrop shire Union deficiency, 12,965/. ; ditto, 3,120/. ; Matlock lease deficiency, 1,6581. ; West London award, 2,000 • ; Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 1,3361. ; Stour Valley defi ciency, 9,412/. ; Haydon-square depot, 2,1371.; and re newal of rails, 28,333/. ; leaving a balance of 529 950/. against 471,514/. at the corresponding period of 1805, showing an increase of 58,406/. Toe renewal of rail account shows a total expenditure of 703 035/ , including 63,172/. for the past half-year. The amount set aside from reve nue being 399,7471., includidg 23,333/ for the •past half year, leaving a balance against the account of 303,2881. To the balauce ;ram revenue account of 52.4,950/. is added 48,5111., the balance from the preceding half-year, making a disposable sum of 578,1621. The proposed dividend, at the rate of 5 par cent. per annum, will absorb 561,3351., and leave a balance of 14,076/. The dividend on the con solidated stock of the company will amount to 501,412/. ; on the 201. shares to 9,3811., or Bs. per share ' • on the 101. C shares to 7,1691., or 2e. 9d. per share; on the 121. 10s. shares (21. 10s. paid) 10,3151., or ls. per share; and on the Huddersfield and Dewsbury stocks 28,7271., and Coventry and Nuneaton 6,7501., leaving 14,0761. It is intended to make the dividend payable on the 19th inst. From the statement of the half-year's accounts it will be seen that the net proceeds are 529,950/. ' as against 471,541/. at the corresponding period of 1855; the balance from the last account amounted to 48,5111., as against 71,2701. in June, 1855, showing a disposable balance of 578,462/. in June, 1856, as against 542,815/. in June, 1855; the divi dend recommended being 561,3851. as against 53a,8651., and the balancs carried• to the next account 11,076/. as against 6,9501. The profits of the half-year exceed those of the corresponding period by 58,4301., and the directors are therefore enabled to recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which is an increase of per cent. beyond the dividend declared in August last year. the balance to be clrried forward to the next account being also larger. GREAT WESTERN. It will no doubt be gratifying to the 10,000 shareholders in this company to know that the works on their system of railways are now rapidly approaching completion. The branch from the main line at West Drayton to Ux bridge is to be opened in the course of the present month. The works on the branch from Twyford to Henley are so far advanced that they can be completed in about three months. At the Didoot Junction considerable accommo dation is being provided for facilitating the passage of trains from the north going either east or welt, while va rious additions are being made to the stations on the main line for the A e emmodation of the increasing goods traffic. With regard to the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, the Salisbury section of the line was opened from Warruinster throughout a short time ago. The section from Frome to Yeovil, it is expected, will be opened for traffic in the course of a few weeks, and throughout to Weymouth before the end of the autumn. The additional rails required for the formation of the mixed gauge be tween Basingstoke and Oxford are now laid, with the ex ception of a short gap now being laid on the new embank ment forming the western junction, near Reading. This will afford a complete and continuous communication with the Shrewsbury and other northern lines. In the Bir mingham and Wolverhampton district of the Great West ern, it appears, the works are so far completed as to afford connection with the canals there, and accommodation for tle local traffic of tkat important district. The completion of these works will, of course, materially assist in develop ing the traffic at various points on the railway, aad thereby increase the revenue *of'the company. In addition to those works for facilitating the traffic, there has been recently completed a large goods station connecting the railway with the canal and Thames river trade, which is now in active operation. With respect to another very important work—the Paddington terminal station—it appears that the buildings are all but completed, and only some por ticos of the permanent way remain to be laid on ground which h/A been hitherto occupied by temporary carriage sheds. This station now affords accommodation on a very extensive scale, and is capable of accommodating an im mense increase of traffic on the whole system belonging to the Great Western Company. The terminus comprises four great departments, which the successful working iL the traffic requires. The first department consists of the passenger station, buildings, departure and arrival plat forms, and sheds, affording largo accommodation for spare carriage stock under cover. The second department con sists of goods' sheds, warehouses, offices, and sidings, with coal and other lines, for the accommodation of the goods' traffic. The third department includes extensive shops fsr carriage and waggon repairs, with the requisite sheds, stores, and side lines. The fourth department embraces the locomotive engine establishment, with the requisite accommodation. These four departments extend for a distance of more than a mile down the main line, and have been carefully arranged to meet the requirements of the traffic. Another feature of this terminus is, that there are separate lines for passenger an l goods trains, with side lines to each, to admit of the passing of engines, trucks, &c., clear of those trains. It is believed that the above constitutes the great bulk of the works contemplated by the directors, and which, owing to various circumstances, have been for a considerable time in course of construction. It is expected that their completion will have the effect of increasing the traffic generally on the Great Western system of lines, and of course augmenting the disposable sum available for dividend. METROPOLITAN. The following very clear statement oe the merits of this important railway has been forwarded to us : " The line sanctioned will commence at Paddington by an independent terminus immediately opposite the Great Western Hotel, and, by a branch to the Great Western Railway, along the South Wharf-road, will be connected with that railway on the level ; it will then proceed under the New-road to Euston-square, where it will throw off a branch to the Easton Station ; from Euston-square the line will still keep the course of the New-road to King's-cross, where a short branch will be carried up Maiden lane to connect it with the Great Northern Railway on the level; from King's-cross the line. will take a direct course to the prison in Coldbath-fields, whick is to be removed. The valuable site of 8j acres of land on which the priseOstands, and which will become the property of the company, will compensate to a great extent the cost of erecting a now prison. The line then enters upon the large open space which has recently been uncovered by the city under the powers of the Clerkenwell Improvement Acts ; by this fortunate coincidence, not only will the cost of construct ing the railway be most materially lessened, but an ample space will be obtained in the vary heart of London for station purposes, and for warehouses, for the accommoda tion of the daily increasing trade of London. " The line will then cross Smithfield, where again it will be carried for a considerable distance, without any inter ference with buildings to St. Martin s-le-Grand and the Post-office. The Parliamentary powers for those works were obtained during the late monetary crisis, and upon terms highly favourable for the company. " The capital is 1,000,0001. in shares of 101. each. All the shales have been subscribed for, and a sum amounting to 75,0001. is now standing to the credit of the company in the hands of the Accountant-General. _ " The entire length of the line will be four; miles one furlong, of which nearly two miles Will be under the sur face of the New-road; where no purihase money will be required, save in two or three exceptional cases, where a few houses for station purposes may possibly have to be taken. The site of the House of Correction, the Clerken well improvement. district, and Smithfield, will comprise a further distance of half a mile, where little compensa tion will be required, and the greater portion of Praed street, and South Wharf-road will also be wide enough for the railway, so that there will remain a little more thin a mile of the whole distance of ,rdinary house property, and the cost of the land will consequently be 1-ss than one fourth of what it would have been if the linehad bitin less happily selected, and that coat again will be materially re duced by the re sale of the surface after the works have been covered in. " The construction of the works will be attended with no difficulty. The mole of dealing with the New-road and the other public thoroughfares was wall considered and provided for by the different local authorities; it will occasion no inconvenience to the company, and ample al lowance for every expense under this head has been made; the working drawings for the sewers have been arranged and settled with the engineer of the Metropolitan 13 ,,, ,rd of Works, and the requisite alterations in the drainage will be completed at leas cost than wasat first contemplated and included in the estimates ; and the water and gas pipes will neither be disturbed during the construction of the work, nor their situation altered, as the positi in of the railway' will admit not only of their re t en tion, but of th• it enlargement at any future period. The works throughout are of an ascertained and uniform character, less liable than Uevil to 624 disturpag coutiDgeach sad allaittiPS of their being estimated with more than ordinary preci sion. The estimates, both for land and work:, have been revised and examined with the grea'est minuteness, and the survey , .r and engineer are satisfied that the stun of 1,200,03 , N. will cover every contingency. " The company have p ewer to burrow 330,000/. so that a sufficient margin will remain for the purchase Of rolling stock. " The entire railway may easily be completed within 13 months after its commencement ; but, for greater caution, two years are allowed for its being opened. " The railway from the Great Western Railway to the Post•office will be a double line of mixed gauge, adapted for carriages on both the broad and the narrow gauge, with two additional lines of rails on the narrow gauge from the 'Great Northern Railway to the City. for the accommoda tion of short trains on that line, and to meet the require ments of the dead-meat markets in the City, and the new cattle-market in. Copenhagen-fields, when the contemplated arrangements with the eat Northern Company and. the Corporation of London are satisfactorily concluded. " The arcade through which the railway will be carried will be spacious, dry, and well ventilated and lighted ; and, by the mode of working the trains, entirely free of smoke and steam. " The trains will be approached by wide and easy stairs, not involving more inconvenience than the ordinary descent from the drawing to the dining room. " The carriages will be spacious, and adapted for the London traffic ; they will be fitted up with every comfort, anti mirrors and lights will altogether exclnde the idea of underground travelling. The trains will be propelled by locomotive engines, moved by steam generated from heated water carried with the engines, with an apparatus for con densing the waste steam, by which means all annoyance from smoke, grit, or steam will be avoided. " The practicability and advantages of this motive power were fully investigated by the committee on the bill, and conclusively proved by the evidence of Messrs. Bruuell, Fowler, and Scott Russell,• and by experiments on the Great Western Rail way. "The trains will be run in regular succession at inter vals of five minutes, with additional trains during the busy hours of the morning and afternoon. From their fre quency, they will be light, and of nearly uniform weight ; the passengers to take up and set down at each station, from the shortness of the interval between one train and another, will be few; fifteen are taken as the average, and will require but a momentary stoppage. The gradients will be uniformly good, and the rails will not be liable to be rendered slippery and dirty by the weather or other external influences. The trains will, therefore, be worked with a clockwork regularity, which is all-important for the business traffic of the metropolis, and will more than compensate for the comparatively low speed which will be attained-15 miles, including stoppages, is reckoned on. "As the railway and carriages will always be under cover, they will not be liable to damage from weather, and will in other respects be more economically managed and maintained. _ " It is impossible to conceive a system of railway com munication better adapted for the accommodation of the London passenger traffic. The regular omnibus traveller, and the ladies and gentlemen who never venture into an omnibus, will at all times, and at each station, be certain to meet a conveyance to their taste, and which will assist them some distance on their journey with speed and com fort, and at a small charge. " Any estimate based upon the crowds which may be ex pected to avail themselves of such a cunvenience—from Paddington, Kilburn, St. John's-wood, Maryleb one, the Regent's-park, Tottenham-court-road, Euston-square, King's-cross, to and from the City, and from the euoless stceadas of traffic passing throughout the day between the intermettiate stations and place. to which they lead, would lea damned an exaggeration. '•Tuu experieue- of existing railway ead furnish the slightest iddicatiou of the numbers whicli may be expected; but the river steam-boats which touch at points further removed from the great thoroughfares, at very uncertain times, which take longer time to perform their journeys, and are less conveniently approached, carry, it is computed, 150,000 persons daily. "The following very modest calculation of traffic ap peared i❑ the original prospectuses of the company, and may be assumed as much under the mark:— ' • Taking the trains to run every five minutes through the day, from 8 a.m. till .10 p.m., with extra trains during the busy hours, from 8 to 11 in the morning, and from 3 to 6 in the afternoon, the daily trains will be as under:— Trains every five minutes, or per hour 12 by 14 = 168 Additional trains per hour Bby 6 = 46 21.6 Each way by '1=135 trains per diem. " The average take on the main line of the Blackwall Railway is 7s. per wile per train ; then 435 trains by 4, clic mileage,=l,72B; and 7s. the take per mile - =6oi/. 16s. per diem. Which, at 3d. each would be 43,381 passengers—loss than the estimated present number of omnibus travellers, with out, cabs or increase. Per Annum 601'. 165., the daily receipts, by 313 = M59,3)2. 8s Two-thirds of the above receipts as the Sunday traffic, = 4531. 4s. by 52 -- 29,966 Bs , £219,268 16s, "A second great source of profit will be found in the goods traffic, to be milled chiefly by night, passing to and fro between the Great Western, the Loudon and North- Western, and the Great Northern Railways, and the ware houses and depots which these great companies will erect for themselves in Clerkenwell, Smithfield, and elsewhere in the heart of the City with this line. The site of the House of Correction, a square block of land of f 3 acres, presents, when connected with the great railway systems, the opportunity of carrying on a coal traffic of very far greater magnitude than the London railways have as yet developed. Indeed the most competent judges have given it as their opinion that the Metropolitan Railway might be worked to great profit if devoted exclusively to the con veyance of goods. " The third great source of profit to the Metropolitan Company will be the facilities of interchange of traffic with the three great northern and western railways, and their numberless tributaries. Looking at these various sources of traffic, and at all the circumstances of this very re markable and promising undertaking, it is not too much to anticipate that it will prove a striking exception to the general experience of railway enterprise, and prove as pro. litabl3 to the company as it will undoubtedly be useful to the inhabitants of this great city. "The manifest advantages of the project secured in the first instance a very decided feeling in its favour on the part of the public ; but the hesitation of the company, in clined no doubt by the adverse aspect of the times, occa sioned much distrust, and has materially prejudiced them for the moment in public estimation. The arrangement, however, concluded with Mr. Ricardo, which insures the speedy commencement of the wuiks, and the energetic prosecution of the undertaking, will dispel this passing shadow, and restore to the company that confidence which is alone wanting to complete the measure of its success." BUNTINGFORD AND WARE. A numerous and influential meeting was held at Bun tingford on Monday, for the purpose of pro:noting the con struction of a line of railway from that town to the Eas tern Counties Railway at Ware. Mr, ABEL SMITH, M.P., was called to the chair. He adverted to the desirableness of providing the town and district with railway communication, and the disad vantages which they laboured under from not having that means of transit. Several gentlemen, large landowners in the neighbour. hood, then addressed the meeting in favour of tha scheme, and resolutions were adopto 1 strongly urging the forma tion of. the line, and recommending it to the support of the inhabitants. A committee was then appointed to consult the owners of property through which the proposed line was to pays, and to adopt other measures to carry out the objects of the meeting. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceed ings. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. -- - GREAT NORTHERS RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending July 27, 1856 £?2.733 3 1 Corresponding week last year 21,610 10 4 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. -Traffic re• turn for the week ending Aug. 3, 1856 £25,905 19 6 Corresponding week last year 22,597 0 2 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 3, 1856 £6,522 2 2 Corresponding week last year 5,971 9 0 Increase in 1856 £slo 13 2 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week ending Aug. 2, 1856 £267 311 Corresponding week last year , 250 15 5 _ . LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic re turns for the week ending Aug. 2, 1856 .....£11,282 18 8 The Grand Duke of Hesse Cassel, travelling incog, under the name of the Count de Schaumburg, accom panied by a suite of 24 persons,. arrived on Sunday al Brussels. _ - - [ADVERTISEMENT.] —llOllO way's Ointment and Pills incontrovertible Remedies for Bad Legs..--Mr. Sharp, chemist, of Salford, reports, in a communication to Pro fessor Holloway, that Mrs. Holmes, of Albert-street, Salford, suffered from a bad leg for upwards of three years, during which period she could wear neither shoe nor boot—in fact, suffered extreme torture. She was at length induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and in the brief space of four weeks the wounds in ber leg were completely cured, and she can now walk any reasonable distance.--Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world at Professor Holloway's esta blishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. [A D ysairtsamsrird SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GrAssss.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel. By leer Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per. spective Glasses, to know the distances. These telescopes possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object froin 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger and a. sizes, with increasing ' ,ewers accordingly.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be soeu and known az miles distant ; they answai• every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, t. sportsmea, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Open), face-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderfu` power. Newly-constructed 'ipectaele Lenses of the great est transparent power, The valuable advaetage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute accu• pation- can see with these lenses of a much less msenif3. ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistanee. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world, by sending ono of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the 'distance from the eyes they can read small newspaper print with it; and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age,—Deaf ness. —New Disco /cry. The Organic Vibrator, an ex traordinarY powerful, small, newly-invented instrument fer deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass any thin? of the kind that has been ,or probably ever tan be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per ceptible ; it enables (leaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at. public , cemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in th e ears is en ti re ly remove d ; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.- 39 , Albemarl.Q• I sroet Piccadilly . -- Obicrvecppoiti th York gc4 4 1 1, .„ COlvtry Markets, EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—Atm. 5. There were in the market to-day 16 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280 lbs imperial, which sold at 50s. Od. EDINBDhGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET- Au G. 5. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from Os 01 to 12s 6d per kemple of 16 stones tron; wheat do., Os Od to lls 61; barley do., 10i Od. t —ll Od. Hay from Is to 15d. MARKET—Aua. 4 -dsy 10 bags of oatmeal and. DALKEITH MEAL There were i❑ the market to. 1 bag barleymeal. Sales dull, Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs 1 first. Second. Third. imperial - Od Barleymeal, per ditto -6 0.1 ,—s Od 01 Pcasemeal, per ditto Flour, per ditto —s Oct —s Od —s Od Pot-barley, per ditto DUBLIN, AUG. 5 In consequence of the fall in Mark-lane yesterday, and the present splendid weather, there was an extremely de— pressed market at our Corn Exchange to-day. We must• quote wheat fully 2s to 3s per barrel lower, and even at• this reduction many samples remained unsold. There is no change to report i❑ the prices of oats; a sample of new tawny was sold at 16s 6d, and of new rapeseed at 35s per barrel. Indian corn was very difficult of sale at the rates. of Friday. COAL MARKET.—AuGusr 6. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market. S. d. Tanfield Moor But©s 14 :3 Longridge's Wst Hartley 17 9 Byass's West Hartley l7 9 Walker Primrose l4 0 Wallsend, ,fie. Wallsend, &o. S. 0- Framvrellgate l7 0 Haswell 19 0 Russell's Hatton 18 0 South Hetton 18 6 Heugh Hail 37 0 roes lB 9 Hetton Lyons Main l7 3 Lambton l& 3 Kelloe l7 9 Whitworth l6 6 Wharncliffe l6 f; Gosforth l6 3 Belmont 16 9 Ships at market... 3! ;2 I Sold LOCAL SHAPE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 6 STOCK EXOH&N9E.—The market is not doing much business to-day, and the transactions in the leading a tocks are limited, but prices are steady at the full rat es of yesterday, and in some cases an advance. MANCHESTER, AUGUST 6. STOOK EXCHANGE.—This market was dull to.d&Y, and prices rather easier. Sheffields, 35h—Londons 100 -- Great Western of Canada, 26—Midlands, 851 s—Lead"5 — Lead" 98I—South Eastern and Dovers, 22 7-16. BIRMINGHAM, AUGUST 6. •YrOOS EXCHANGE.—The market bits been firm to-dal. The following were the transactions :—Midland, 841 51-1 London and North Western, 108;—Great Western, ( Sao Manchester and Sheffields, 35. , SBA BORNE MAIM. (1q signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-011( 0 dy the night—and Why the morning—despatch.) Oay when male p From wi,a W nor COVlSiThlig. in General Post- Part due !, Office, London.* Dispalikthe'. En. isfid• ...• we - --------- . .. •••nnerica(bylirit.pack Is lilver'S E !Ida' , .. .. Liverpool . ~ Weekly .raerica. (by 'United S,, :)acket.) .........1-: Every'; uesday . Southanantor Weekly ,merica (by U. Stat., packet) ...... •.. -.^ - -.... Liverpool _ astralia (via Liver pool) ........... .11 4th and 19th .... Liverpool • • ,Twice MO ,itto (via Marseilles) Ni Atto (via Cape of Good \ Hope) ............N ....... •• • • . •• Uncoils"' Africa (West Coast).. i.‘, , !.:4 I o,' .; • ~,ont, , Plynsou , ri .. 6th o, we• k1exandria..........2.110th c, 26th oi .-., o, Dover ...... 2d , z 19th ilexandria .. • • ....All / ' ••:- . ' .1 , ~,i ITIC . SOULtlanli, . 4k21 of all Bahamas ...........N 17th of tbo mar th Sautharuptett'l6th 3elgium ...• •••• • • •E! Dal iy ........ „. - Dover ••• • • Da.l'9 1 :Brazil - ........ „, ~ 34 9th of the month .. South amp tot , I t•th• Buenos Ayres ........M 91' ..i 'it - monta - Sonthaanttcn 16tk ~. Cape of Good Hope . N Uncertain V arious ports tincertiw Cape of Good Hope „N Coao do Verds ......N '" " ''',` % ' lo'-: C - .11 Southampton 16th of PO Ceylon (see India) 10th and 26th 151. 2 90 t Ceylon • • • • • • ........N,4th and 20th 4th & ; 1 : Channel L51e5........N 1 3 , 1 , , t`f ult., fZ , 1,14 , Southampton ru.Tn. l ' ll "' Chili-- ............ 1‘112 , 11t 17th of month Southamplot , 1 and 1 6 China .... . Constantinople .....„ N I i Oth and 26th.... Dover .....• 2 and Constantinople l4th & 20th of me IL lSonthampton 7 and 231 Cont. of Europe hi * N rwieo daily „„ , . „ Dover ..... Twice Egypt (see India) France ........ lid & N, Twice daily.-- Dover ...... Tw l - -- 't i . f . Gibrarar ..........11 4,7,17,20,27 irm Southampton 6,7, A 4O. Greece (seo India) 1 Greytown ..........0 2nd 417th of mon. Southampton 1 and 16 Ilsmturgh ..........N Daily .......... London ... ~,, Daily . flavannah ..........M l 2nd of the month Southway ~• lot 01 m ° Holland ...........M1Dai1y............ Dover ...„ .. Daily Honduras .......... mint, of the month. Southampton 16th .... India (viaSouthampt.)7ll4th •.: 'alith of men. Plymouth .. 4 and 2 1 ; India (via Marseilles ) M JO tit& 26th of m o t.t. , Dover ...... lb S' 39 lonian Isles (see India) •• • • •• • . • .....IDo ver .. .... Ireland ........M & NlTwice daily ...... Holyhead ... Lisbon. ......•7d 2d of mo. - Southampton 1 " 6 Madeira .........„ .. si rth of .non t r....... Southampton , 6 and • Madeira .... .... .. N 25.1 us month - ... Liverpool ... Malta (see India) . . ,0 Kann ..............N 4, 10, 20, and 26- ..Dover ...... 4. 16, l'i l Mauritius (800 India) Mauritius .. - .... ..N' '2O :a of the month 4th a realoo .....,.........7di'ind of the month.. Southampt o n lot Naples .. ... - •,. . .. -N,'Dally New Granada ...... ?,, 24; & nth of month Southamptoi Ist and 16 • New Zealand... 4.. ... • ;Twice a month .. Various port , Papal States .. ........r4 'Daily.... - - .• . • Dover ...... ,4Weekli nd 21 Peninsula •• . •• •• • . If Southampton Peru ..............34 2d & 27th of mon. Southampton Ist it 16111 Pert Natal ..........N By nrivate ship... Variou s port, Sicily ..............N Every Saturday.. Dover ...... Weal , ' • Tuscany ............N Daily.. - .... ....I Dover .... ~ . i Venezuela ..........21 ildes. 17th Oxon th Southampti; 1 A I ° lll°- .. Van Diemen's liosnd (see Australia) ••• -.. . 4th of mon. .. . . West India, , • . 11 111 ' -., ,no, - e ..Innthamn,.... M I L tblY i 6 _. !montblY il ands ca , ‘", ,4nnthimo , o, When any of these dates fall on a S ee d ay , the malts w h. d r .1 'patched on the following day, with the exception of the Tn• , '; , , onthampton), and the 51alta, both of iitaich will be despatch"' preceding day. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.-011 Tuesday eTertiOg meeting of the committee of management, and others il; terested in the w e lf are o f th e a b ove soc i ety, was h e ld' the London Tavern, JO'. general business. The 29th Or nual report stated that the subscribers must not be su r prise I to find th a t th e soc i e ty h a d f e lt th e press ure f the times and their events during• the past year, park cularly at its commencement, from the war and pee circumstances of the armory. The annual dinner oaU produced 2431., a sum much below the usual averag e The annual subscriptions have al so f e lt th e p ressur e. 13. °i der the recieniary eircumwances,. the committee found, l necessary to draw upon the invested fund f or 1001.$ 0 c'ear tb expenditure of the year ; that sum is only a P ° :, tion f the ieterest, which is strictly applicable to t". current exp. roses of the society, .and must not be CO dered as so much capital withdrawn, but only so Milb less invested. The property of the society is now 6,0 9 ' 5-, 4d. invested with the Commissioner s f or th e R d°", tion of the National Debt, and 7541. 3. 7.1.• Retie ° , Three per Cents. A letracy of 501. has been • ,elYor V I ; executors of the late Mrs. M' Arthur. A new tion has come into operation, by which the wicfosys. o pensioners, if 70 years of age, a re e n titl e d t o a peatt °s ~ f 91. without election, three of whom are now receic, l 7 the benefits thereof. The amount paid to pensioners Of ing !set year exceeded 6001. The number of pensioner; male and female, who have been recipients, includi rj : the last election. were 257. The property o f th e sooie , v invested was 7.6881. 6s. sd. APPREHENDED SUICIDE ON TRH NORTH KENT 1 11 ' 16 n i WAY.—The body of a man, apparently about 28 years age, was discovered on the North Kent line of rail 9 1 ! ):, about one mi'e or , the London side o f th e E r ith s tat!° d at an early hour oetTutsiay morning. The he a d waslYi v ; a few yards from the body, from which it had been ° • parated, as if by the action of the guillotine. The ar l ! and hands, the trunk, limbs, and f ee t, were w h o lly " I ; injured. The vertebral column protruded at the tie e t. as if the dissection had comm e n ce d a t it s very su rveil The countenance was little altered from a natural f i t; pearance, except from the distortion of th e e yes ; '„, hair is long, and more like that of a woman than a 0 39- 1 Tue presumption is that the deceased, who has not V ol been recognised, had intentionally placed his neck ael it the rail on the approach of a train, probably the' up taf„, goods train, and so brought about his own destrUSti; and this shocking catastrophe. The cl o th es o f the "I ceased are good and clean, and exhibit no symptoms ° squalor or poverty. A small sum of money was fon° in his pocket, but no papers to lead to identification. • BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 6th inst., at 80, Chester-squ'are, Lady Maynt u , On the sth inst., at 13, Ovington-square, BroDIP" Mrs. James Holmes. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 3(1 inst., at 9, Green-street, Grosvenor-sq uo re, the wife of Bertram F. Barton, Esq. On the sth inst., at Peckham•rye, the wife of Dr. goo* MARRIED. a, On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square , Long. Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister, to Rosa Harailt f .,7; eldest daughter of A. Billing, Esq., M.D., of 6, Gray" nor-g Ate, Park-lane. Da s h On the sth inst., at St. Pancras Church, Hugh . Sandemau, Esq , of the Bengal C.S., eldest son of ot i p to Fraser Sandeman, Esq., of Sussex square, Hyde-park. • Rosetta Marianne, only daughter of the Rev. A. Wi ll iam rector of St. Alphage. DIED. On the 4th inst. P at Brighton,ighton, Thomas GAO*, E'4•' °f Hamilton terrace, St. John's-wood, aged 66. On the sth inst., at Uighworth, Wilts, John Tuck er ' Esq., West Hum Abbey, Essex, aged 49. On the 6th inst., at Wimb edon, Edward Hunter Blab, infant son of E. Buckle, Esq. On the sth inst ,at the New Kent-road, Elizabeth, t he wife of Benjamin Dyer, Esq., R.N., l a t e of Stonobottsa' Devon, aged 59. A On the 2d inst., at Hilton, Hunti ng d ons hire, zki'r" unrolls Osborne, Esq., aged 37. On the Ist inst., at Ryde, Henry P. P. Bourobier: Captain of the Peni nsu l ar an d O r i en t a l Company's Sl'e ship Bentinck aged 38. d ie of On the lst in s t., a t S t. J o h n ' s - wood-park, Ann, T" Mr. Wm. Preston. A a 61. On the Ist inst., at Bognor, Augusta Binstead• ag— LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YO No. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Otliceo 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coan ty of Aliddlcocza Paw*, Atisut7, lss6, '