The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-07 00:00:00

THE NAVY. r - The Warrior has arrived at Queenstown, after a trial trip of six days. She has realised the highest expectations entertained of her. The speed she reached with steam and under canvass is said to have been 17 knots an hour. The return of the Emerald, 81, to the Sound, after an ineffectual effort to reach Halifax, has created considerable interest among the naval community at Plymouth. It appears that the frigate, which left Spithead on the sth of October, encountered on the 10th, 11th, 13th, and subsequently a succession of heavy gales from north-north-west to south-south west, from the effects of which she was compelled on the 22d to put back, being then in lat 48 N, and long. 37 W. During all this time there was exces sive rolling, aecelerated, it is said, by the weight of her armament. Although thoroughly caulked before departure, she leaked " like a sieve" after the first gale. Subsequently some of the beams and knees in the lower deck and the after sternpost were started. The ship's pumps were broken, and the discharge pipe of the engines split, by i which and other injuries they were s everal days n a disabled state. It is satisfactory to know that the crew con tinued well-disciplined throughout the storm and its contingencies. The Emerald passed the War rior and Revenge in the chops of the Channel on M on d a y night. Yesterday she got up steam, and, aided by the steamtugs Prospero and Zephyr, pro ceeded from the Sound into Hamoaze. It is conjec tured that the Emerald will not now go to Halifax but direct from Plymouth to Vera Cruz. Orders have been received from the Admiralty at Devonport to prepare thescrew steam corvette Satel lite, 21, for the pennant. She belongs to the first division of the steam reserve, and is now in No. 3 dock, Keyham steamyard. The screw steam gunboat Doterel, 4, went from Hamoaze on Tuesday evening into Plymouth Sound, where she received her powder preparatory to sail ing for South America on the receipt of orders. The Aboukir, 84, at Plymouth, has received some Armstrong guns. Orders have been received from the Admiralty at Portsmouth to complete the stern of the iron-cased frigate Royal Alfred with a circular screw well, similar in character to that of the Warrior, to enable her to carry the Griffiths propeller. It was understood some short time since, on the work to the sterns of ships of the Royal Alfred class being suspended, that their screw wells were to be done away with altogether, with the view of strength ening the ships' sterns as well as of securing them from damage to their outer sternposts in action. The Duncan screw liner, in No. 7 dock at Ports mouth, has had the massive metal braces which pass along the bottom part of her sternposts on to her main keel removed, and will have them replaced by others of greater length and substance, in order, if possible, to strengthen the outer sternpost in its position. The Duncan is however one of those in stances of weakness in the outer sternpost that no amount of patching will remove to the extent necessary to enable the ship to stand for any length of time the working of the screw. .A notification was yesterday received at Chatham from the Admiralty, to the effect that, in conse quence of there being now a sufficient quantity of solid shot for the 100-pounder Armstrong guns for the supply of those vessels carrying that descrip tion of ordnance, ships fitting for the steam reserve are to be supplied with shot in the proportion laid down in the order previously issued on the subject. A telegram was received from the Admiralty at Sheerness on Tuesday night directing the Phaeton, 51 gun screw frigate, Capt. E, Tatham, just com missioned, to complete fitting and prepare for sea with the utmost possible despatch. This fine frigate is in such a forward state that she will be ready to sail for the westward to-morrow. The screw steamer Flying Fish, 6, Commander W. H. Anderson, has been removed from the har bour to the steam basin at Sheerness, for the pur pose of having her defects, chiefly in her boilers and machinery, made good. It is expected that about a month will elapse before the repairs are effected. An order was yesterday received from the Admiralty countermanding the order pre viously given for the officers and men of the Flying Fish to be turned over to the Victor, 6, screw steamer, and they will accordingly remain by their vessel while she is under repairs. The ship's company have accordingly been turned over to the naval barracks, where they will, for the pre sent, be accommodated. The Swallow, 9, screw steam sloop, fitting at Sheerness for surveying service, will shortly be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities, her re pairs and alterations having been nearly completed. Yesterday morning a numerous party of convicts arrived at the Chatham convict establishment, from 'Wakefield, to be employed ,on the works in connec tion with the extension and enlargement of Chatham dockyard. The Dragon, 6, paddlewheel steamer, remains at Sheerness dockyard, where she is undergoing a thorough overhaul and examination, in order to enable the authorities connected with the dockyard to report upon her actual condition. The survey up to the present time has led to the discovery that many of her timbers, particularly those adjacent to her engines and boilers, are very rotten. From the defects already ascertained to exist some consider able time must elapse before she can be put into a thorough state of repair, if, indeed, the Admiralty should not deem it more advisable to break her up, although a comparatively new ship. The Dragon was actually in commission was time since, with her crew and all her stores on board, when • the discovery was accidentally made that she was unseaworthy. She was immediately docked, the officers and crew being subsequently turned over to the Chameleon, 17, screw steamer. Her Majesty's ship Leander, late 50-gun sailing vessel, which has recently been lengthened 44 feet amidships in the Sheerness Dockyard, and since fitted with machinery by Messrs. Bolton and Watts, left Sheerness yesterday for Mapling Sands for the purpose of trying her engines at the measured mile. The weather was very rough. As the vessel was commencing her trial at the measured mile one of the engineers met with a serious accident, which, after the vessel had made two runs, obliged her to return to harbour. So far as the trial went, both ship and machinery answered exceedingly well. The vessel obtained an average speed of 101 knots:per hour ; her revolutions being 52. On her return to the harbour she made 64 revolutions, and worked i n a very admirable manner. It is fully believed that she will make 11 knots per hour at least, "which is considered very good for a vessel of only 400 horse Power. She is furnished with new patent expansion gear, introduced by Messrs. Bolton and Watts. Her Workingwen, gave every satisfaction. The stokehole was oat s anguine and altogether the trial realised the The following appoklatranguine expectations. outs 'were made yesterday :—llenry Lefevre Rider, at the Admiralty man, to the Phaeton ; Jarr ett Di nk , Borg, to the midship- Flying Fish ; John Elliott, additie John S. Adams and William Clark e , Burg, and assist.-snrgs., to the Nile, to the Eat additional Marines ; John Hasler, assist.-pay raar nn c't to Royal the Ajax ; C. R. Rodham, assist -paymaster, to th e Im pregnable ; A. H. Miller , chief engineer t o t h e Phmton ; J. T, Payne, acting engine er , to the Phaeton ; G. L. Thomson, first-class assist,-engineer , discharged, to the Indus, as supernumerary; Nurse, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Phaeton ; H. H. Small, second-class assist,-engineer, to the Phaeton ; and A. T. V. Forster, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Phaeton. [ADvEnnsEmENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Healthy Ilealthy Complexion.—Nothi ng betokens feeble . or fail g constitutions sooner than the s ki n . It s conditzor,, I s the external evidence of perfect regularity in 0 :10 internal animal machinery, which can always be ss:,i'ely reduced to ordorby Holloway's specifics, without doing any present or perspective damage to the tenderest organisation. Hollo way's Ointment outrivals the use of all cosr,tetics, the most luttraless of which hide, rather than cure the evil, whilst li actius aro positively i n j ur i ous . The pills waist the ork by perfect estabshing h ealthy digestion, and ps:inlessly p ro d uc i ng asstranati sallow face soon (T.. Under this Voolesozne course the whole skin feels rits way to a briP4iant complexion, the anc l 41 i 44 Inamatothe frame and , U 1 4 0 3 1 1(4 vigour of body THE A. 72311 - A series of very successful entertainments to the troops is in progress at Woolwich, nude': the sanc tion of Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, LC. 13., comman dant. They are made instructive to the men by the introduction of magic lantern figures I nd diagrams, furnished under the direction of the Council of Military Education. Judging from the large num ber of men who attend it is quite evident that there is sufficient attraction to suit the soldiers' tastes and obtain the main object for which they were planned, that of diverting their attention from the public •••,,•••••••- _ 400 and 200 yards. First-class shots are those who, having made 12 points in the second class (20 rounds at,400, 500, 550, and 600 yards—five rounds each), are admitted to fire at 650, 700, 800, and 900 yards. It is worthy of notice that, notwithstanding the general average of officers is higher than the gene ral average of soldiers, the greatest number of points obtained by an individual at the several dis tances was in favour of the latter at the 200, 250, 700, 800, and 900 yards distances, while at each of the other distances the greatest number was the same with officers and men. In the third and first classes, also, the greatest number of points obtained by an individual was in favour of the soldiers. In the second class officers and men were equal in the highest number. The greatest average points ob tained by a single "party" in the several classes was—ln the third class, officers 21.18, soldiers, 23.77 ; in the second class, officers 1476, soldiers 10.86 ; in the first class, officers 7.96, men 7.51. The conclusion is that individual soldiers and the " parties" of soldiers have the advantage over officers at from 150 to 300 yards ; that, while indi vidual officers and men are equal at 400 to 600 yards, parties of officers have a great superiority over parties of men at those distances ; and that while individual men take a sensible advantage over individual officers at from 650 to 900 yards, the officers in parties have superiority of less than a half per cent. over the soldiers. houses. Some fresh light has been thrown on the recent commotion at the Royg.l Military Academy at Wool wich by the announcement of the grievances to which the cadets consider themselves to have been subjected. One ground of complaint is the unjust manner in which they consider the "special class" to have been promoted. This class consists of 29 gentlemen draughted from Addiscombe, who, al though 13 of them failed to pass the requisite exa mination for admission to the practical class, were put up in a body over the heads of a number of cadets who were senior to them, and had qualified for the step. Again, the mode of dividing the classes lately introduced by the Governor, without the knowledge of the Council of Military Education, and his refusal to forward any remonstrance on the subject, gives general dissatisfaction. The chief point at issue, however, is the general tone of the regula tions and their unfitness to the present age of the cadets: Some instances are necessary to illustrate this. The average age of cadets is 19, and the regula tion punishment for the use of tobacco is " dismissal or discharge," coupled with a notice that such punish ment will prevent the offender for entering any branch of the public service. Although this rule is not practically carried out instances have occurred of gentlemen of 21 years of age being subjected to solitary confinement, on bread and water, for smok ing a pipe of tobacco. No cadet is allowed to have in his possession a greater sum than £2, unless he hold the rank of corporal, in which case he may possess £3. Again, in summer and winter, cadets are obliged to undress and go to bed in the dark, any violation of this rule being visited with severe punishment. The inferior quality of the rations has been the subject of frequent complaints for some time, but without effect, until the demonstration of the 23d which was immediately followed by a marked improvement. With regard to the distur bances, the damage done to the Governor's windows, Col. Wilford states, may very possibly not have been committed by the cadets. The cadets main tain that they would never have resorted to extreme measures had it been possible to obtain redress through any legitimate channel, and that they have repeatedly attempted to direct the attention of the authorities to several of their grievances, but with"- out success. The select committee of officers in Woolwich Arsenal have beeen engaged for some days past in carrying out experiments in ricochet firing with the Armstrong guns, and in each ens° the result has been exceedingly satisfactory. GENERAL BAY'S ANNUAL REPORT THE GREAT ROBBERY OF SILK. ON 111USKETBI: THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY CEVENING, NakNIBtR 7, 1861. Woolrych, who could elicit nothing of importance from him. Mr. J. P. Mumford, superintendent of the St. Katherine Dock Police, said—l have had a conver sation with the prisoner this day in the clerk's office here. He said, " I have had nothing to do with this transaction. I can challenge the world, and have told Mr. Leech to say so. No one can say anything against my character." The prisoner also said, " I was a fool to go down to Derby. Barker saw me there, and came up and shook hands with me, and said I knew his father." Since the robbery was committed and the stolen silk dis covered, I have sought everywhere for Hunter. A reward has been offered for his apprehension, and large posting bills have been issued. By Mr. Leech—The rewards offered by the Dock Company were £2O for Agg, £2O for Hunter, and £2O for another matter connected with the affair. Mr. Humphreys, jun.—l now ask for a remand, sir. I have further evidence to produce against the prisoner at a future time. Mr. Leech had no objection to a remand, and his client, Mr. Hunter, courted the fullest inquiry. He submitted the prisoner ought to be bailed, for three reasons. First, it was the prisoner's own free will and desire—his anxious wish—to surrender ; se condly, there was no case against him up to the present time ; if any case, it was of the very weakest character; and thirdly, the prisoner was an inn keeper of unspotted reputation, keeping a ;largo and respectable house, and was also a liveryman of London. The prisoner had hitherto maintained an unspotted reputation, and had left his wife and family to meet this charge. He hoped his friend, Mr. Humphreys, jun., would not oppose the appli cation, or allow the prisoner to be incarcerated for one moment. Gentlemen of property and fortune are ready to bail the prisoner for more than the value of the silk. Mr. Woolrych—Did the prisoner surrender? Mr. Humphreys, jun.—Yes, he certainly did, and gave me notice he would do so. Mr. Woolrych—l will take bail for the prisoner to appear on Wednesday next, himself in £5OO, and two sureties in £250 each. I must have good bail. A host of persons tendered themselves as bail. Two were accepted, and the prisoner was liberated. POLICE INIELLIriENC4 Nov. 6. MARYLEBONE.—Long before the hour for commencing the business of the court, a large crowd had assembled to witness the arrival of the two men who were remanded on the charge of assaulting Mrs Sarah Green, a lady of independent property, re siding at 5, Fulham-place, Paddington, with intent to murder her ; also with stealing a gold watch and a quantity of plate. Shortly before one o'clock the two prisoners, William West, hairdresser, of 42, King street, Borough, and James Barker, hawker, of 3, Wal worth-gardens, Walworth, were placed in the dock to answer the charge. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, appeared for the prisoners. Inspector Steer, of the D division, said that he wished for a remand for another week, as he ex pected to have two other men in custody before long for being concerned with these men. Mr. Lewis submitted that there was not sufficient evidence to keep the prisoners in custody, and they ought to be at once discharged. It was a question of identity, and the servant Askew only thought the prisoner West was the man. She cannot swear positively This witness having been recalled and further examined on the point, Mr. Mansfield said—l do not think there is evi dence sufficient to convict either of the prisoners, and therefore they are discharged. " The Secretary of the and from their conjoint statements it appeared they had been called upon by the prisoner, who had put questions to them which elicited whether they had friends or relatives abroad, and in what part ; he then claimed relationship, and so successful was he in doing so, that to a female named Williams, re siding at 104, Royal Mint-street, Whitechapel, he had passed himself off as her step-son, her husband, to whom she had been married 18 years, having recently died, thus rendering it impossible to con tradict his assertion, although she admitted that her husband, who was a widower at the time of their marriage, had never made her acquainted with the fact of having a son at sea. The prisoner then represented himself as the first mate of a ship, and succeeded, in the course of a few days he stopped at the house, in borrowing a sum of £2 2s. 6d. at different times, and also possessing himself of two Indian war medals, which were shown him as having belonged to his supposed late father. These medals were found in his possession, together with other articles, including a handsome porte-monnaie, with an engraving on pearl of the Great Eastern steam-ship, at the time he was taken into-custody, while attempting a similar fraud at Greenwich. In a second case he had called upon George Thompson, a tailor, residing at 2, Carrington-street, Knights bridge, and having ascertained that he had a sister and son in America, represented himself as the brother of the husband of the sister, adding they were all doing well, and that he had brought some presents from them. Having received a cordial welcome, the prisoner inquired the price of certain articles of clothing, and was quickly supplied with coat, waistcoat, &c., and calling on his (Mr, Thomp son's) daughter-in-law, obtained 2s. from her, under pretence that he was going to his ship to bring the presents ashore. When apprehended the prisoner was wearing the clothes thus obtained, notwith standing which he impudently denied having before seen the witness in the case. Several other charges were also gone into against the prisoner, where he had succeeded in getting sums of money from poor persons having sons or brothers at sea, one of which resolved itself into a case of felony, in carrying off a fancy pipe, and which was found upon him. The prisoner having pleaded guilty to this latter charge, Mr. Maude said, although he could not help expressing [surprise at the credulity displayed by some of the witnesses examined, yet this was no excuse for the prisoner, who was as consummate a rogue as had ever stood in the dock at that court. He regretted he had not the power to award him a punishment adequate to his offences, but for steal ' ing the pipe he would be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six calendar months. The prisoner was then removed, his worship directing that all property found in his possession, and for which owners had been discovered, should be delivered up to them, an order which deprived the prisoner of the coat he was wearing, and of which he was speedily divested by the gaoler. THE LA7'.E ACCIDENT ON TEE LON DON AND BRIGIITON RAILWAY. PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS ON RAILWAYS. The following is a copy of a circular lately issued by the Board of Trade to the Edifferent railway companies; and appended are extracts from Captain Tyler's report on the terrible collision in the Clayton Tunnel of the London and Brighton Railway, in August last : " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of tho Committee of Privy Council for Trade to request you to state to the directors of Railway Company that their lord ships' inspecting officer, Captain Tyler, R.E., in his report upon the circumstances attending the collision that occurred on the 25th of August last, in the Clayton Tunnel of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, having dis cussed at some length the question of collisions on railways, and the means that may be adopted for their prevention, especially with reference to the use that may be made of the electric telegraph, and having made some suggestions of a general character, which my lords think may usefully be brought under the notice of all persons concerned in the management of railways, I am directed by their lordships to forward to you an extract from that report, and to request hat it may be submitted for the careful consideration of the Railway Company.—l am, &c. " JAMES BOOTH. Railway Company." iA The annual report of the Inspector-General of Musketry for the year ending March 31, 1861, which has just been laid before the Commander-in- Chief, consists mainly of tabulated returns of the rifle training of each regiment in the service, and shows the Ist Battalion 22d Foot as the best shoot ing battalion of the army (it was also the best in the year 1859-60), its " figure of merit" being 51.66 and the No. 6 Company of the same battalion as the best shooting compapy in the army, its "figure of merit" being 55.46. " The shooting in the army, as a whole, has improved," General Hay remarks ; " and another year's experience proves the sound ness of the system now in operation to train the various corps and battalions to the , efficient use of the rifle, not.only in the United Kingdom, but in the several colonies and possessions of the empire where Her Majesty's troops are quartered." At the Hythe School of Musketry 176 officers, including six of flip Irish constabulary, have under. gone instruction; of which number 112, or 64 per cent., became first-class shots, and 56, or 32 per cent., second-class shots, leaving 8, or only 4 per cent., in the third class. 731 sergeants and rank and file have been instruc ted at Hythe, of which number 416, or 57 per cent., became first-class shots, and 292, or 40 per cent., seccnd-class shots, leaving only 23, or 3 per cent., in the third class. 247 Volunteers from different corps have been exercised at Hythe through the modified course ap proved for that force, of which number 133, or 54 per cent., became first-class shots, and 112, or 45 per cent., second-class shots, leaving only 2 in the third class. In all the practices that establish the " figure of merit" there was an improvement on the preceding year, with the exceptions that in the file firing the Volunteers came down from 11 . 68 to 11.26, and in skirmishing from 4.06 to 4.89. The figure of merit was—for officers, 46.24 ; for non-commissioned offi cers and privates, 44.86 ; for Volunteers, 4567. Last year the figures of merit was 44.18,41 . 37, and 43.72 respectively. General Hay remarks that " the Volunteers are specially drilled by the first-class sergeant instruc tors of the establishment, which circumstance, coupled with the great attention they give to the subject, will account, in some measure, for the pro ficiency they acquire in so short a time." And we may add that the Volunteers are generally men of good physique, well set, and in their prime of strength and endurance—men who have elected to go to Hythe whose success or failure in the course of instruction is of importance to their standing in their respective corps, success at the school often carrying regi mental promotion, and who, therefore, willingly and zealously labour to obtain success, and who are, moreover, incessantly studying and practising in that limited course of instruction that is open to them in their 14 days' sojourn at the school; while, on the oontrary, of the officers of the Line who go to Hythe, a considerable number,—nearly two-thirds— are young subalterns in ferior in stamina to the Volun teers, and who, having no choice or election, have simply obeyed orders in accompanying their de tachments to the school, without any special liking to the course of instruction, or desire or stimulus to attain exeellence, even where there may not be, as there is in some cases, an aversion to the instruc- ion, or a sense of its inutility in consequence of an intention to retire from the service. And though the officers of the Line are two months at the school, while the Volunteers are there but a fort night, it should be taken into consideration that the Volunteers themselves simply learn to shoot, and are diligently occupied in acquiring profi ciency, while the officers of the Line are taught also to convey instruction to others, and during their two months' residence are only one-half of their time engaged in rifle instruction, the other half being given to ordinary garrison duties. Of the 176 officers who passed through the school in 1860-1, 72 entered the first class and 43 became marksmen, making seven prAnts and upwards in the first class. Of the 731 sergeants and rank and file, 288 en tered the first ;;lass, and 41 became marksmen. Of the '2O Volunteers, 90 entered the first class, and. " - dEi of that 90 became marksmen. The percents ber instruc g e h - marksmen to the total num ted is e t l9 erefore—Offic ers 24, sergean t s and rank a n d file a , Volunteers 15. To the num ber of persrAisi, , t - 60:49e first u class th e p ercentages are respecti v ,,' l3 , LIO three parties of Volunteers 'who were all:, I t School between May 9, 186 0, and March consisted of 78, 74, and. OA members respe'd selae i vel ) 3 , l ' . l The figure of merit of the first party -- wasp.oo ; the percentage of first-class shots, 47. Of the se ' con d party the figure of merit was 47.11; the per centage of first-class shots, 45. The third party took 45.02 as their figure of merit, and gave 66 per cent. first-class shots. The figure of merit is the average of points made by all the individuals in each party in the first period (20 rounds at 150, 200, 250, and 300 yards—five rounds each), in file firing, standing, at 300 yards; in volley firing, kueelivg, 4; 400 yudg i And ii 3 airinishing, b vtween , It will be recollected that in the month of March last ten bales of silk, valued at £2,000, were stolen from a barge on the river, on its way from the West India Dock to the St. Katherine's Dock, or in the last-named dock, after the arrival of the silk at that place. The stolen silk was con cealed for a *few hours in the house of a man named Barker, a shoemaker, of Hope-street, Beta nal-green, and removed by rail to Derby, where it was found by the police of that town in the mill of a silk-throwster named Newton. After several ex aminations at the Thames Police-eourt, three men, named Barker, Debock, and Crane were committed for trial for stealing the silk, and John Newton, of Derby, was committed at the same time for felo niously receiving the silk, he well knowing it to be stolen. The trial at the Old Bailey lasted two days, and terminated in the conviction of Debock and the acquittal of the other prisoners. The names of two persons, named Agg and Hunter, both licensed vie tualiers, the one keeping the Clown public-house in the St. John-street-road, opposite Sadlees-wells Theatre, and the other the Red Deer, in the Cam bridge-heath-road, Bethnal-green, were frequently mentioned during the investigations which took place. Both absconded, and rewards were offered for their apprehension. Agg's name was appended to the receipt for money paid by Newton for the silk, and Hunter was stated to have been in com pany with Agg in Derby at the time Newton paid i for the silk. Debock ,exhibited three £lOO Bank of England notes to an innkeeper named Row botham, in Derby, and asked if they were genuine ; at the same time he pretended to be a Frenchman, who could only speak English imperfectly. Debock acted so clumsily and gave such a curious account of the manner in which he became possessed of the notes, that Mr. Rowbotham gave information to the Derby police. Debock and his brother in-law Bar ker, who was in his company at the time, were im mediately arrested, a communication was made to the London police, the silk in Newton's mill was seized, Newton was taken into custody, and a man named Crane, in the employ of Drakeford and Co., silk mercers in the City, was also apprehended. Crane engaged the van which conveyed the stolen silk from Barker's house to the railway station the night before it was conveyed to Derby. After the trial at the Cen tral Criminal Court, the three £lOO notes found upon Debock were ordered to be returned to New ton, who had paid them away to Agg. The licences of the Clown and the Red Deer were transferred to other persons after the flight of Agg and Hunter, and no tidings were heard of either until yesterday afternoon, when Hunter surrendered himself at the Thames Police-court, Stepney, which in a few mi nutes became crowded to excess with his friends and connections, and persons connected with the West India D ockrompany, the St. Katharine Dock, and the silk trade. Mr. Humphreys, jun., of the firm of Humphreys, Son, and Morgan, solicitors, conducted the prosecu tion for the St. Katharine Dock Company ; Mr. Leech, solicitor, of Derby, defended Hunter. Mr. Humphreys, jun., said that rewards hadbeen offered for Agg and Hunter. They had been sought after in vain. Mr. Leech, of Derby, was now pre pared to surrender Hunter to answer a charge to be preferred against him. Mr. Leech said that Mr. Hunter had long been anxious to surrender, and was now seated alongside of him. It was a matter of arrangement between him and Mr. Humphreys that the case should be proceeded with that afternoon. Hunter might now be considered in the custody of the Court, and he hoped it would not be necessary for him to go into the dock. Mr. Woolrych said ho could not depart from the ordinary course, and that the prisoner must go into the dock where persons charged with felony, were always arraigned, and he must stand there during the investigation. Mr. Humphreys, jun., said he must call the magistrate's attention at some length to the facts of this case. On the 13th of March last, 9111 bales of silk, ex the ship Solent, from Shanghae, were delivered into a barge, called the Dorville, belonging to Mr. Henry Grey, since deceased, in the West India Dock, to be conveyed to the St. Katharine Dock. The barge containing the silks arrived in the St. Katharine Dock on the 14th of March, and on the hatches being unlocked, and a tarpaulin which covered the silks being removed, ten belles were found to be missing. The robbery had - taken place between the two docks, or in the St. Katharine Dock. A few days afterwards the Derby police stopped two:men, named Debock and Barker, at the railway station in that town. Three £lOO notes were found upon Debock. An investi gation took place. and it was proved that Newton, a silk throwster in Derby, had purchased ten bales of raw silk of a publican named Agg, landlord of the Clown, in London, and Hunter, landlord of the Red Deer, Newton produced an in voice for the same, signed by Agg. The silk was seized in Newton's mill and forwarded to London, It would be proved that Agg and Hunter accom panied Newton in the train from London to Derby on the night of the 18th of March, that Barker and the convict Debock went down by the same train with the silk, and that the three £lOO notes taken from Debock had been paid by Newton to Agg and Hunter. The superintendent and an inspector of the Derby police came to London and made inqui ries at the Clown and at the Red Deer, and had interviews with Agg and Hunter, who were not in the first instance suspected of being concerned in the robbery. An appointment was made for another interview, which was not kept, and from that day to the present Agg and Hunter had not been seen in England until a few minutes ago, when Mr. Leech introduced Hunter into that courts Several witnesses were called to prove the unship ment of 411 bales of tit* silk from the Solent, their delivery into the barge Dorville, and to the defi ciency of 10 bales on the arrival of the Dorville in the St. Katherine Dock! Mr. William Morris, of 45, Hall-street, City road, said he was formerly landlord of the Crown and Cushion public-house, in Londonzwall, Mr. Newton, of Derby, *V in tb, Practide of coining to that hotise when he came to London on business, and the prisoners Hunter and Agg had frequently visited him previous to the 18th Of March. He knew a person named Crane, in the employ of Drakeford and Co., the silk mercers. Crane was an occasional visitor at the Crown and Cushion. In cross-examination by . Mr. Leech, the witness said—l have known Agg eight or nine years. He was a man in trust at Drakeford's house before he kept the Clown. I also know that Messrs. Drake ford and Newton had transactions together. Mr. Hunter had driven Aggin his trap up to my house. I have heard Agg and Newton speaking of silk transactions, but I cannot say I ever heard Hunter speaking of them. On Sunday, the 17th of March, Newton, was at the Crown and Cushion all day, but he was not visited by any one. Joseph Barker, shoemaker, of Hope-street, Beth nal-green, who attended on a summons, was sworn, and said that ten bales of silk were deposited in his premises on the 15th of March last, taken away three days afterwards, and sent by train to Derby. He accompanied his brother-in-law Debock to Derby on the night of the 18th of March. He did not see the prisoner Hunter in Derby. He could not recognise Mr. Hunter. He did not see him at all On that journey. He and his brother-in-law met two gentlemen in Derby. Ito could not swear that Hunter was one of them. Debock mentio ned the not evidenc e. names of the two gen tlemen after he had parted with them, and said on o a f re th r e i m ght w . as Hunter. Mr. Leech objected, and said what Debock had stated Air . was woa ryeh_iro In cross-examination by Mr. Leech the witness said Air. Newton was not with me in the railway carriage from London to Derby, as sworn to :by some of the witnesses on the trial. He did. not see Newton at Rowbotham's public-house in Derby. He did not know Mr. Hunter at all. The Nyitneo 19 ozaminc4 at length by Mr! WESTMINSTER—Mr Arnold gave his decision upon an adjourned case under the Hackney Car. riage Act. He said the question he was called upon to determine was whether when two adults and a child under ten years of age were con veyed in a cab the driver was entitled to charge for luggage. He (Mr, Arnold) had given the matter his fullest consideration, and had had much difficult in coming to his present conclusion, with which he was by no means satisfied. The present summons was taken out by a cab-driver against a gen tleman for 10d. for the carriage of five parcels, and it had been urged by the driver that Mr, Dayman, magistrate at Wandsworth, had recently decided that where the third person carried was an infant in arms the cabman was entitled to charge for the luggage. He (Mr. Arnold) had since communicated with Mr. Dayman on the subject, and found that that gentleman had now changed his opinion, and upon giving the case mature consideration thought he was wrong in the decision quoted, which had been given without sufficient consideration. He (Mr. Arnold) had, also consulted his colleage, Mr. Paynter, who was strongly of opinion that the driver was entitled to charge. There was no dis tinction in the Act of Parliament between an infant in arms and a child who occupied a seat. By the 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 12, sec. 14, it was enacted, " That two children under ten years of age shall be considered as one adult person for the purposes of this clause," and he therefore thought that that de finition of a person for the purposes of fare was limited to that clause. Turning to the schedule of the previous act, it stated, " That where more than two persons shall be carried inside any hackney carriage with more luggage than can be carried inside the carriage, a further sum of twopence for every package carried outside is to be paid by tl e hirer."l' he whole question, therefore, he repeated, turned upon whether a child was a person, and the clause regulating the fare for the conveyance of passengers used the word " adult," while the sche dule relating to the charge for luggage omitted it, having the word " person ' to be treated with its general significancy, and therefore he thought it rn i;at mean a person, no matter of what age. By another b: ction of the act cab-drivers were liable to sing to take a fare, and if a person a penalty for rel._ boy of nine—wanted to under ten years of age - and ca..t: al a cab, the driver be driven anywhere , it must be would incur a penalty , and there._ 1 would be fairly argued he would be a " person," an.. liable to the usual fa re for hi s conve y ance. The _aw did not draw any distinction between the child of nine months and nine years, and he (Mr. Arnold) therefore thought that an infant came within the definition of a person. An order was then made upon the defendant for Os. and costs, which his footman paid. LAMBETH.--AWKWARD CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.--A young man of respectable appear ance, and who described himself as a medical as , was placed at the bar, on watch and chain, of the s a i s c t h a a n r t g o e not of of st e a a s j t n u g a t a i son , d value of 10 guineas, belonging to Jane Doddington, who described herself as a married woman, and the wife of a hairdresser. The prosecutrix , a showily-dressed, but dingy looking little dame, said that, on the night of Sun day fortnight, she met the prisoner in the Water loo-road at about eleven o'clock, and, at his request, accompanied him to the York Hotel, at the corner he gave her something to avery stupifying effect on ,her. drink,of Yo r whichk-road , h ad where On leaving there the prisoner, who up to that time was a perfect stranger to her, accompanied her home to her house. Mr. Elliott—l thought you just now said you were a married woman. Witness—So I am, but my husband does not always live with me. Mr. Elliott—Go on with your statement. Witness—Well, sir, before I went to bed I locked up my watch and chain in a drawer, and put the key into the pocket of my dress, and on my awaking at four o'clock on the following morning, in a des perate state of perspiration, I found myself alone, and the prisoner gone. lat once thought of my watch and chain, and looked for the key of the drawer to see if they were safe, but I could not find it anywhere, and on forcing open the drawer I dis coveredmy watch and chain were gone. I looked out for the prisoner, but did not havesinteheat see him again until last night, when I met him at the Oxford, and gave him into custody on a charge of stealing. my watch and chain, and I am quite certain he is the man. Police-sergeant James King, 292 A, said he took the prisoner into custody on the charge of the last witness. The accused declared that the statement of the complainant respecting him was a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end, and that until the night before he had never seen her. On the day in question, he said, he dined with a friend at Peckham, and was at home at his lodg ing in the Euston-road shortly after 11, and when the complainant accused him on the night before, at the Oxford Music Hall, of robbing her, he called a policeman himself and threatened to give her into custody for making such a vile accusation. He then called the person he dined with on the day in question to prove the fact, and his landlord, Who swore positively that on the night of Sunday I fortnight he was at his house by 11 or shortly after, and slept there the whole of the night. Sergeantßell, 89 P, said he knew the accused for some years from seeing him in the company of medical students, and always believed him to be a respectable gentleman. In discharging the accused, Mr. Elliott animad verted on the conduct of the police in locking up a respectable man on the charge of a prostitute with out first making some inquiries on the subject. GREENWICH.—EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD AND CREDULITY.—John Fuller, aged 40, a seafaring man, was charged on remand with obtaining various sums of money under false vretences. The 0914 WU cr9wo,4 the Fifitmorp cippoo EXTRACTS FROM CAPTAIN TYLER'S REPORT. I was somewhat surprised to find that no record books were kept either by the station masters at Brighton, or Hassock's• gate, or by the signalman at the Hastings Junc tion, or by the signalman at the Clayton Tunnel. Books of this description, in which the times of starting or passing of all trains, or of the despatch or receipt of telegraphic messages, are entered in ruled columns, are commonly em ployed on many lines of railway ; are more particularly re quired where men, working a tunnel with one telegraph needle for two lines of rails, are obliged to trust to their memory ; and are useful in tending to ensure, on the part of station masters and signalmen, greater attention to their signals and telegraph needles, and a stricter performance of their duties. A man is obviously less likely to commit an irregularity of any sort in duties of this description when be is himself compelled to make a permanent record of it, liable at any time to be brought against him, open to ob servation on periodical or irregular inspections, and checked by other records made by responsible officers, within a short distance, and perhaps on both sides of him. This keeping of record books, as well as the mode of working telegraph instruments, with the number of telegraph needles employed, and generally the proper intervals to be maintained between the trains, and the best mode of pre serving those intervals, are just the points upon which the safety of the traffic mainly depends, from collision between trains following one another upon the same line of rails; and I consider it only right to make a few general observations in this place in regard to them, as they have been brought prominently forward in connection with the present acci dent. The rules most commonly laid down upon the dif. ferent railways, for the purpose of preventing trains follow ing each other upon the same line of rails from coming into collision with one another are, that there shall be five mi nutes between them, or, which answers this purpose, that after any one train has passed any station, junction, level , crossing, or siding, at which a signalman is stationed, the danger signal shall be exhibited for five minutes , and the caution signal for five minutes more ; and the platelayers are also expected, when they are at work, to assist in pre -ting the trains from running too clo sel y u p on one an veL.. othe _ r. 11 : this manner an interval of time is p reserved be which answers the purpose tolerabl y well tween the trains, much at the same speed, when the when they run pretty ffie when the drivers can see line is no t crowded with tr.: , hem, when the points at for a considerable distance before .1 ntly near . together, which warning Is afforded are suffict. } :_ractice strictly . and when the prescribed intervals are in sufficient, observed. It does not always prove to be and however, even in these cases. But in many cases, on nanny lines of railway, the above conditions do no. ' exist. The exigencies of the traffic prevent the inter vals from being strictly kept, and they become habi tually disregarded. The trains run at various rates of speed, from ten miles an hour or lest!, in the case of a heavy mineral train, to sixty miles an hour or more in that of an express passenger train; and such intervals become useless, while much longer intervals are in themselves insufficient. Obstructions to view occur, which prevent a driver from seeing perhaps more than a couple of hundred yards before him, and thus increase the risk of his catching up another train, or of running into collision with one that has become wholly or partially disabled ; and these obstructions to view may arise either from the condition of the line or from the state of the atmosphere. The experience of accidents in various parts of the country at length induced the managers of railway companies to bring to their aid the electric tele graph, by the employment of which they were enabled in this manner to interpose an interval of space instead of an interval of time between their trains, allowing no train to start from one telegraph station until the line was reported by telegraph to be clear to the next station. This method, found at first to be essential for the protection of trains passing through tunnels , was gradually extended to other parts of certain railways, as it was considered to be required; but its progress has been slow, and is still unapplied in many places where it is much wanted. Even in tunnels it is not uni versal, and the records of the department show many cases within the last few years of collisions in tunnels for the want of it. The system of working by telegraph has made its way gradually, in consequence of accidents which have happened; but it has had to contend with great difficulties, and has not been as successful in practice as it might have been for several reasons. The various methods under which it has been applied have been imperfect in one way or another; the telegraph instruments have been entrusted to persons of insufficient age, or to persons with other work to do, which has prevented them from paying proper attention to their more important duties. In order to apply it in the best manner, extra expenses and extra trouble have been required, which have not always been willingly encoun tered, and it is principally on these accounts that at the present time its application is comparatively limited. To provide the greatest facilities for working, and to ensure the smallest risk of mistakes, there ought, as I believe, to be three telegraphic needles at the disposal of the signalmen for working in each direction; one for each line of rails, to act as a simple signal, and to point to "line clear," or "line bit eked," as the case may be ; and the third to enable the men to communicate freely with one another inn egard to the description of the trains, or to report airything that m. ties be wrongwith them (which theyhave frequent opportunities of doing), or to correct any mistake into which under certain circumstances be led, or for other purpo.se they magy. When the traffic becomes so heavy that trains tra k v e el t tw g o , a pp cot to laying down some of them at the highest rate of speed, cannot be kept be p miles apart from one another, it would time to apply the more expensive remedy o C ompany and the extra lines of rails. Between London ana Reigate, on which line the trains of the Brighton Comep block system South-Eastern Company run in common,. t the of about 20 of telegraph is still carried out over 3 d i s m a lle_s to Brighton miles, and it is only the remaininga that is devoid of this sort of protection , whereas . , if one portion of the line requires it more than another, it is that PtVt intrn, Ihislit9R WA gig 01t9i1T1141N1) yagat the view is very much obstructed, and on which the trains often follow each other in rapid succession. It may be said, truly, that the present lamentable accident did not occur on the portion of line referred to, which was unprotected by telegraph, but on that portion (inside the tunnel) which might have been considered the least liable to an accident of this description, because the telegraph had been sup plied, and had been used for eight or nine years for its protection; and further, that when the station-master started the three trains from Brighton, whatever appre hension he might, or ought to have entertained in regard to their safety between Brighton and the Clayton tunnel, ho would not, at all events, have had misgivings as to any risk that they would encounter in the tunnel. When once they passed the signalman at the south end of the tunnel, they got under the protection of the telegraph, and any danger incurred on the previous part of their journey ought then to have been averted, if the telegraph was to be relied upon. But the failure of the telegraph to preserve safety on this occasion, was caused, as I have shown, by a mis take of the signalman at the north end, in wrongly re plying to a question from the south end of the tunnel, which ought not to have been addressed to him so hur riedly ; and this happened whilst the two men were work ing the telegraph under a most unsatisfactory system. It is just, as I have also pointed out, this want of a proper system of working and using the telegraph, combined with the employment of unreliable servants, or of servants with too much of other work to attend to, that has in like manner led to accidents in other cases—that has induced mistakes on the part of the men which would not other wise have been made—that has afforded an excuse for not employing it—and that has prejudiced railway managers against it, in a way materially to hinder its adoption and retard its progress ; while the want of a really efficient code of regulations, ready to be applied, and in which confidence can be placed, has also partly contributed to the same re sult. I would, therefore, in describing the defect the system under which this accident occurred, add something gene rally as to the system which ought to be adopted and the experience of other cases. The greatest amount of security is obtained on a double line of railway, in working a tunnel or a section of railway by telegraph, when a separate tele graph needle is used for each line of rails, and when each signalman (A) blocks over the needle of the signalman (B) next to him, by means of a pin fitting into his instrument handle as soon as he (A.) is informed that a train has passed that signalman (B), and is travelling towards him, and when he (A) keeps that needle (of B) blocked over until such train has passed him. The telegraph-needle in this case acts simply as a signal, by means of which A indicates " danger" or " all right" to B, A blocking B's needle (which B can not alter) over, either to the "all right" or to the "danger" side of the instrument, as may be necessary, and always keeping it so blocked over, to indicate the actual condition of the line. In the Clayton tunnel only one telegraph-needle was employed, as I have stated, for two lines of rails, while two trains might be passing through the tunnel, one on each line, at the same time. This one needle could not, of course, be blocked over to and kept at any particular indi cation, but was obliged to remain in a vertical or neutral position, and the necessary signals were made with it when a train passed into or out of the tunnel in either direction. Under this arrangement, the signalman, being unable to make a fixed indication, trusted to their memories during the passage of the trains ; the signalman A being required to remember that he had telegraphed " train in" to the signalman B, and had not received "train out" from signalman B during the time that tat) quo line was occupied ; and being required, perhaps, to exchange signals in the meantime with signalman B in regard to a train en tering, or passing out, upon the other line. This defect, in the employment of one instead of two needles, rendered the mistake made by Brown the more liable to occur. He would not readily—he could hardly have fallen into it, if he had previously pinned over his own and Killick's up-line needle to " train-on-line" for the second train. He would thus have had before his eyes a fixed indication to remind him that the second train was in the tunnel. Killick could not have moved that needle to address any question to him upon it. If the question had been sent to him in any other way,—say upon a third needle, he could hardly, with that fixed indication before him, have made the mistake he did in answering it ; and even if he had made a mistake in his reply upon the third needle, he would not even then have compromised the safety of the trains, because his proper needle would still have indicated " line blocked," and he would not have taken that off, and turned it so " line clear," until the second train passed out, or, at least, he would have had no excuse whatever for doing so. Having regard to these considerations, it is quite clear that the main cause of this accident has been, not the mistake of the signalman, but the defects of the system under which he worked, which rendered that mistake liable. Even this defective system worked safely for eight or nine years, and under a good system, such as I have described, properly carried out, the chances of such an accident from any misunderstanding between the signalmen would have been very remote in deed. In order that it may be properly carried out, how ever, a third needle should be supplied, in addition to the two above mentioned, for the use of each signalman in each direction. This needle being used for denoting the description of train that is to be expected, for conveying information in regard to any unusual circumstance, or for any communication that the men may have to make to one another, all excuse is taken away from them for employing the train needles for other than the simple signals "lino blocked" or "line clear," which they ought alone to convey. The men will talk to each other, or make private signals to each other, on their train needles if they are not provided with a recognised means of communication; and they cannot do so without risk. It is better, if for this reason only, to provide them with a separate single -needle instrument for the purpose ; and it is the more necessary to do so when the tunnel or section of railway protected has, perhaps, a junction at one end of it, and sidings at the other end ; and when one signalman is dependent upon the other for informing him of the siding into which a train is to be turned when it arrives, or of the line on which it is about to proceed. Of the different systems that have been proposed and used from time to time, I may particularly specify Tyer's patent, which is on use ontho South-Eastern Railway, as being one of the most perfect. The apparatus for the use of the signalman comprises a telegraph needle for each line of rails in each direction, and a bell and gong, having different sounds, the one for the up and the other for the down line of rails in each direction. The bell or gong is used to draw attention to the approach or passage of a train, and, by the number of beats employed, to describe the train; while the needles are used solely to denote either " line blocked" or "line clear;" and no signalman can alter his own instrument, it being the duty of each signalman to work the needles of the signalman on either side of him. There is another source of risk in tunnels traversed by a double line of rails, which is not at present provided against in practice. If a train breaks down, or runs off the line, or causes an obstruction in any way, in a tunnel, to the second line as well as to that on which it is travelling, then another train coming up immediately afterwards is liable to come in collision with such an obstruction. If the obstruction con sist of passenger carriages, and if an accident have oc curred previously to the first train, which has been the means of placing those carriages and their passengers in the way of the second train, the most serious consequences may ensue. On the occasion of the present accident, the i first ,;own train from London was due in the tunnel about the time that the collision occurred. It was fortunately e was ample time for preventing it from late, and the)... as it turned out; but the fatal results entering tho tunnel, of the accident would, in all probability, have been mate its proper time. Nar rially aggravated if this t in val end l7 . keptti.o!tunnels, have not been row escapes of this sort, ' way, when an accident unc ommon. On a crowded line of rau n one line of rails, suddenly happens to a tra in travellin g u p s.. there is by which the second line of rails is also obstrn,lted, risk, in a tunnel or out o f a tunnel, of a train cOling uP from the opposite direction before a guard or other pt ,: son can run forward to a sufficient distance to warn its engine driver, and this risk is much increased in a tonne], in which it is often impossible for a driver to see many yards before him. There are several modes by which this risk might be diminished or avoided. The most simple and the most effec tual means of avoiding it would be by allowing only one engine or train to pass through a tunnel at a time in either direction; but this wouldtccasion in many cases objection able delay to the traffic, and might increase the risk of acci dent in other ways by causing trains to be stopped short of the tunnel. As has been suggested to me in connection with this inquiry, by a sign-painter, who was formerly em ployed as a signalman in tho Chiyton Tunnel, a bell at each end of the tunnel might be connected with a wire passing through it, and this wire might be pulled by any passenger or servant of the company if a train came to a stand in the tunnel, so as to ring the bells at either end, and warn the the signalmen to stop all approaching trains. The only b jection to this very simple p lan is that the bells andt wi e o res employed for this purpose, being only used in rarerine swanted. might be found to be out of o rder when thweyetawdebe to place m A better arrangement, as i t a pp ears to , along the side of the two train telegraph w ires within reach ing th the tunnel, and to supp l y the means or e br eak l ace. In e ordi mit at once upon an y obstruction taking p telegraph instruments nar y cases, the needles of the" line blo k d" • c e or " hne s h ou ld show, as I h ave stated, clear," by the needles being blocked over to one or other of these indications, according to the state of the line; and if the needles fell to the vertical position, and the instru ments would not work, it would at once become evident that the circuit had been broken, and that an obstruction had probably taken place. One or more fragile connexions in the train-wires, easily fractured by a pull, would be alone required to complete such an arrangement, and the advan tage of it would be that being part and parcel of the ma chinery in daily use, it would not be liable to get out of order, and to be found useless when on some one occasion it was urgently required. Of course, neither this nor any other such method would be of any avail if one train broke down subsequently to another entering the tunnel from the oppo site direction. The only possible mode of avoiding an acci dent of that description would be by restricting more than one engine or train from being in the tunnel at one time. Upon the whole, I conceive that for the safe working of any double-line tunnel or section of railway, six telegraph needles are required for the use of each signalman if he signals to other men on both dies of him, and three if he signals with a colleague on one side only. Of these needles one should be employed for each line of rails solely as a sig nal, and one, with a telegraph bell attached, to describe a 411 4 gO it aplor.9Kiics, to ask leave fig it to pass, to rocOiTe the reply, and to communicate in other ways. It is of im portance also, though these may at first sight seena to be trivial matters, that the instruments should be places iathe signalman's hut, as to face the directions in which they are intended to communicate, three on one side and threeon:the other, if the signalman has a telegraph station on each slide of him ; that the up-line needle also should be placed on the up side, and the down-line needle on the down side ; that the train instruments should be marked only " line clear" and " line blocked," and the former on the left, the latter on the right, or vice versa, but all in the same manner; and that the talking instruments should bo marked with letters and figures in the usual way, as well as with any private signals which the signalmen are in tended to employ. Any signalinan entering any hut then sees at once what work every instrument and every needle has to do; and he is quite ready to take any other signal man's place at any moment. Further, the signalman should have clocks and record books, for entering the time of each train as it is signalled, to them, past then, and from them ; and they should be stationed in convenient huts, with cot tages near them, that each man may have the means of calling up the man with whom he takes alternate duty, if it should become necessary for him to do so. Minor details of this description, though they are of great importance to the public safety, receive but little attention, and there is . great need of improvement in these respects in all parts of he country. A GAMEKEEPER SHOT DEAD BY A 10ACHER NEAR UTLEY. On Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, one of the gamekeepers of Timothy gorsfall, Esq., of Hawksworth Hall, was shot under the following circumstances : Wm. Smith, the keeper shot, stated that about the time mentioned he was in the fields and heard the report of a gun in Hawksworth Springs, and on going in that direction saw the man whom he knew to be James Waller (a desperate fellow, and a notorious poacher). He followed Waller, and got within about 15 yards of him, and only about 150 yards from the poacher's residence at Low Springs, in the township of Bingley. Waller then turned round and shot him in the body, about 60 shots entering him. The keeper then turned round, when Waller took aim and shot him a second time, the shot entering his hand. • Joseph Batley, a farmer, states that his son called out from the house door that a man was shot. They at once went to the place and met with two other persons, named Roy ston and Anderson, who had been attracted to the spot. The poacher was with them, leaning over the wall looking at the man he had shot. The keeper had been heard to cry out, " Oh, Jim, thou hest shot me." Joseph Batley remarked to the poacher that Smith (the keeper) said it was he who had shot him, when Waller replied that he had not till just then been out of the house during that morning. The keeper again and again repeated the charge. He was removed to Batley's house, and Waller walked deliberately away. He afterwards went to the Sconce for some milk, returned part of the way home, and then appears to have drunk part of the milk and left the remainder and the cau under a wall. The keeper, after being shot twice, took the muzzle off the dog which he had with him, expecting the man to return to him. The• dog attempted to get the keeper up, by its efforts tearing his clothes to' pieces, and refusing to allow any one to approach until another keeper ac• quainted with it arrived. Mr. Steele, su.rgeon, Baildon, and Mr: Hepworth, surgeon, Guiseley, were speedily on the spot, but Smith died at 20 minutes to one o'clock at noon. His depositions were taken before his death, by Timothy Horsfall, Esq., in the presence of several persons. Waller absconded shortly afterwards. He is described as 35 years of age, about sft. Bin. high, rather stout built, walks very erect, is full breasted, has dark hair, and large dark whiskers, which meet under the chin, a rather long thin face, and generally wears a dark vel veteen shooting jacket, with a white smock under neath, and a dark cloth cap. He was thus attired when last seen, going in the direction of Idle, by way of Buck-lane, about 11 o'clock in the forenoon. The deceased lived at the back of Hawksworth, and. has left a wife and child. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. On Tuesday morning the inhabitants of the usually quiet rural village of Hawksworth, distant about five miles from Otley, were thrown into a state of the greatest possible consternation by a report that William Smith, the head gamekeeper to Timothy Horsfall, Esq., of Hawksworth Hall, had been dangerously wounded by a notorious poacher named tames Waller, living at Baildon. Moor, which, on inquiry, turned out to be but too true. It appeared that at 7 o'clock in the morning of the day in question, the gamekeeper was out watching, when hearing a gun fired, he went to wards the spot and saw Waller with a double-bar relled gun in his hand and walking away. The keeper followed him, upon which Waller turned round and fired, the shot striking him on the lower part of the abdomen. The poor fellow exclaimed " Oh, Jim !!' and Waller then fired the other barrel, the contents hitting him near the same place. The keeper fell, and some parties coming up directly afterwards he was removed to a house near at hand. Medical aid was promptly in attendance, but not withstanding their efforts he died about half-past 1 o'clock the same day, having previously stated the above facts to Mr. Horsfall, his master, who is a West Riding magistrate. Waller was at the time of writing this report still at large. He is believed to be in the neighbourhood of the scene of the murder, and it is hoped will not long elude the vigilance of Mr. Superintendent Smith and the police, whe acre actively endeavouring to secure him. COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL—Nov. 5. At our market to-day we had a small supply of English wheat, which sold briskly, and prices were is to 2s advance on last week. Malting barley met with a slow demand, but grinding sorts met a ready sale at improved prices. Beans and peas steady. Oats unaltered, with only a retail sale. Rapeseed and oil about the same as last week. Wheat.... Old white—. per qr. 64s Od to 65s Od Old red ,, New white .. „ New red .... , Dantzic, Konb , 8:-.c. old white 54s Od to 56s Cd Dutch, Belgian, and French. 508 Od to 5Ss Od Baltic and Hamburg, red St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 46s Od to 48s Oil Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 37s Od Grinding 3os Od to 32s Od Seal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish • 52s Od to E4s Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 08134 d Swedish and Danish O -8121d to OslD. Beans ....English, old, per qr 4Bs Od to 50s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick Egyptian .... Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Spring —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 5 0 to £0 0 0 Foreign' BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5 0 Bones 415 oto 5 0 0 SHEFFIELD—Nov. 5. The supply of wheat in bulk was small, but an averar, number of samples were shown. The market was mor buoyant. Late prices maintained. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels...lBs Od to 25s (Id White 1) 1) ...23s 6d to 268 oa .17s Od to 26s Od New red • .. 26s Od to 24s 6d New white „ If •••._ Beans 79 It . .. 54s Od to 55s Od .. 18s Od to 19s Od Peas, per qr ...................... 33s Od to3ss Od Grinding barley, per qr ........... .. ..... ............. 37s Od to 40s Oel Malting ditto, „ Oats ... .... .. ........ 25s 6d to 34s Od Millers' prices for „ flour -2s 2d, 2s 4d, and 28 6d per 141 b. BIRTHS. BAILEY. —On the sth inst., at Cheshunt, jierts, the wifo of the Rev. M. B. Bailey, of a son. FAED.—On the 4th inst., at Cavendish-road, St. John's.. wood, the wife of Thomas Feed, Esq., 'LILA., of a son. MACIIELL.—On the 4th inst., at the Vicarage, Barrow-one Humber, the H on . M rs . Macholl, of a son. Yourro.—On the 6th inst., at Stoke Newington , the wife of Mr. Thom as Y oung , of a daughter. MARRIAGES. SMITII—STUART.—On the sth inst., at Roeharopton, Rid ley, the eldest son of Martin Tucker Smith, Esq., MY.' to Emily Catherine, second daughter of Henry Stuart, Esq., of Newton Stewart, N.B. WILLis—PAGE.—On the 2d inst., at St. Mark's, Surbiton , George Goodwin Willis, Esq., of Beaufort Villas, Brix ton, to Eliza, second daughter of the late Samuel Pagel Esq., of Lansdowne-road, South Lambeth. DEATHS. BAYLIS.—On the 12th Sept., at the Cape of Good Hops' Edward Baylis, Esq., founder of the Victoria, English and Scottish, Waterloo, and other Life Insurance Offices. CARMARTHEN.—On the 6th inst., the infant son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Carmarthen. DEVEREUX.—On the 12th Sept., at Arcot, Madras, Capt. W. P. Devereux, of H.M.'s 105th Regt. EDEN.—On the 4th inst., sud denl y , at 11, John-street, Adelphi, Wm. Eden, Esq., aged 67. JONAS.—On the sth inst.. at St. Leonard's, Nathl. Jonas, Esq., of 32, Upper Bedford -place, Russell-square, aged 44. inst., Mr. Robert Salter, of South - SALTER.—On the 4 th town, Great Yarmouth, for many years a member of Lloyd's, aged 79. • .—On. the 3d i ns t., at A mport Vicarage, Hants, th© wife of the Rev. Sir George &Mier, Lady SHIFFNER Shiffner, Bart., aged 69. , ONDoN Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of L No. 112. Strand, Printer, at TnE Suw Office, No. 112,Strand in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of littiCUCoo° NVirelllinr 7, 18.61.