The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-10 00:00:00

nrmerodwftworl-rw ,,,,, K , . ILE 2.% , -.1 yr. ---0- In the construction of future vessels of war at ci ia th airt th e Lords of the Alniralty hqve isned directions for plates for the fighting bolts of the slides nod train tackle; bolt,: in the deck tol)..! fittrd, where practicable, in the stern ports of flu ti decked vessels, to enable the - broadside guns to lie used in the stein polls. The damage sustained by ihe LitanaLl Fleet during the late severe storm is estimated at £lO,OOO. The Conqueror, Centurion; and Aboukir lost all their quarter boats. The Aboukir rolled exces sively. The Hero lost her mainyard. The Tra falgar suffered severely. The Conqueror also lost her three topsails ; indeed, so much canvas was blown away that when Admiral Stuart signalled some of the ships to hoist certain sails, the reply given was " that they had none." It is reported at Plymouth that the Centurion and Aboukir are to be sent to the West Indies. The Revenge was re moved yesterday from Plymouth Sound into Ifamoaze to he removed. The Conqueror, Cen turion, and Aboukir will follow. The Salamis, 4 gun. paddlewheel despatch steamer, building under the first shed at Chatham, is very far advanced in framing, a numerous stag of shipwrights being employed on her to hasten for ward her completion. She is to be diagonally built, and being intended to accomplish a great speed she is of unusual length for her rating, and very nar row. Her principal dimensions are—length, 220 ft.; extreme breadth, 28ft. 2in.; depth in hold, 14ft. 6in.; and 250-horse power„ Orders were yesterday received at Chatham for the Wellesley, 72, guardship at that port, to be fitted as a training ship for boys and lads entering the Royal navy. Since the Wellesley has been removed higher up the harbour her anchors, chains, water tanks, guns, and other heavy stores have been taken out of her, in order to lighten her and prevent the vessel taking the ground at the low tides. The Edgar, 89, screw, flagship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, Capt. G, P. Mends, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning from Spit head to refit, kr!. The Warrior, 40, screw, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, hauled off from alongside the dockyard yesterday, in readiness to proceed to Spithead to day. Rear-Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, visited the ship during the day. The screw steam corvette Malacca, 17, Capt. G. J. Napier, left Plymouth Sound yesterday morning for the Mediterranean. The Chesapeake, 51, screw frigate, 400-horse power, Rear-Admiral L. T. Jones, which left Hong- Kong on May 20 last, has just arrived at Sheerness. She will be paid off on the 17th inst. The Chesa peake was commissioned in 1857, to bear the broad pennant of Commodore It. B. Watson, in command of a special squadron sent out to India during the mutiny, but arrived too late to take any active part in the operations of that year. In the spring of 1858 she rendered effective service in the recovery of nearly 300 boxes of rupees of the value of about '150,C00, from the wreck of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ava, on the coast of Ceylon, This service was scarcely accomplished when news ar riving of the massacre at Jeddah, she was then de spatched to the Red Sea, under temporary com mand of Acting• Captain G. H. Parkin, the Com modore having been previously invalided. Atter three months' stay at Jeddah, she was unexpectedly ordered to proceed to China, and to become the flagship of Rear-Admiral James Hope, C.B. On her voyage home she touched at Singapore, Angoa, the Mauritius, the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension. Throughout the voyage the weather was highly favourable. Very little sickness prevailed on board, and no deaths occurred. The bark Constance, from Rotterdam, bound for Batavia, having on board a transport of 150 soldiers and 16 passengers, has just been taken into the dockyard at Sheerness to undergo repairs, owing to her having sustained considerable damage from a collision near the South Foreland Lighthouse on the 28th of September. We have to announce the recent death, at Bath, of Rear-Admiral William Pearce Stanley, at the advanced age of 77. The deceased entered the navy in 1798 as midshipman on board the Diomede. While serving on board the Egyptienne he assisted at the capture of three French vessels, and was present in Sir R. Calder's action on the 22d of July, 1805. After taking part in the battle fought off' St. Domingo in the Northumberland, he was ap pointed acting lieutenant of the Dolphin, and after- wards to the Pheasant, in which vessel he served as senior lieutenant until 1814, taking several French prizes. In April, 1819, he was placed in command of the Swallow revenue cutter, in which he cap tured, in 1821, the Idas smuggling cutter, after a long chase. He then received the approbation of Sir John Gore, the Commander-in-Chief, the Lords of the Admiralty, the Treasury Board, and on the 19th of July of the same year was promoted to the rank of commander, attaining post rank in 1838. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lient. C. C. Robinson, to the Seringapatam; Lieut. L. A.Whimper,to the Meander; J. Dunwordie, assist.-surg., to Malta Hospital ; Dr. T. 1). Allison, assist.-surg., additional, to the Hiber nia ; C. A. Bidder, promoted to the rank of chief engineer; A. W. Chalmers, promoted lo the rank of acting chief engineer to the Falcon; W. Hollo- way, engineer to the Cumberland for the Swallow; F. Pursell, promoted to the rank of acting first-class assistant-engineer in the Cossack; R. E. Chiswell, second-class assistant-engineer to the Asia for the Traveller; H. G. Hayward, acting second-class as- aistant-engineer, to the Indus for the Pike; H. H Barnard has been nominated to a naval cadetship. TILE AR ill The amended warrant relative to the army hospi tal corps has just been promulgated at Woolwich, revised from that of Aug. 1, 1857. According to the new regulations these corps will be recruited from the ranks, and will receive rates of pay ac cordingly—Sergt.-major, 4s. 2d. per day ; Ist class sergeant, 3s. 2d.; 2d class sergeant, 2s. 2d. ; and private, ls. Increased pay for good conduct and long service is to he granted to the privates of the corps, under the provisions of the good conduct warrant for the line, subject to the usual forfeiture for each entry in the defaulter book. Every non commissioned officer and private of the corps is to be allowed the daily ration of a soldier in hospital on full diet, free of any stoppage, whenever it is practicable to furnish such diet ; but in the event of his becoming a patient in the hospital, he is to be supplied with the c l ass o f di e t a ppli ca bl e t o hi s case , for such diet he is not to be liable to any stop. page ho in his pay. He will not be entitled, more over, under any circumstances, to the allowance of id. a day for beer money. Wien ho cannot draw rations front the public stores, whether on board ship or on shore, hewill rec o e r is s, e , a money allowance of Bd. a day in lieu of a free ration. When he is in confinement for any o ff ence the whole of his pay is to be forfeited, and he is to be provided with the prison diet. When under other punishment he will receive the usual hospital ration, or p a i :o , : e niva lent thereto, but will be subject to th — e sto -- nvorl::: 91 pay of Bd, a day when the punishment i non-performance of his hospital duties. When - he is on the march under route in the pursuance of public duty, the same allowances for marching money and hot meals are to be charged for him a s for a soldier on the march, and in such case he is not to be entitled to rations, but is to receive in ad dition to such marching allowances the money al lowance of 81 already mentioned above. While on furlough he is to be subject to the same rules as soldiers, but the pay to be advanced to him while so situated is to be Gcl. a day less than the full rate of pay of his rank, and the residue is to be accounted for to him on his return to da!y. While on furlough he will 1,,A, Le entitled to the money allowance of 8d a day in lieu of rations, hut will be settled with for his pay only. Ser geants having passed the required examination, and who may be employed in dispensing medicines, 'than, while so employed, receive an allowance of is P er day. A private appointed lance sergeant, to enabl e hi m to perform temporarily certain duties, shall receive while so employed 6d a day in addi tion to his pay. A private while employed in a re sponsible capacity, or placed for meritorious service la a first tO2EiSe an allowailee of 3d a day in addition to his ordicary pay. The number of Fivatcs to receive these rates of nllo mice ..,ha! to time. A private appointecl a bather. assibtan E.led fLom )k, baker, washerman, &e., shall receive while so acting 2d a day in L-ddition to his pay. All non-commissioned officers and privates of the corps are to be liable to be employed in any way thatine.y )e required in the performance of any duties in, the medical and purveyor's depart ments ; and when on duty with an army in the field they will be liable to be attached to the field ambulances, and attend to the wounded, carrying them off the field, &c. The non-commissioned officers are to take rank with those of the other corps of the army, and are to wear the ordinary distinctions on their uniforms. Candidates who are not soldiers may be admitted by permission of the Secretary of State by special authority. All non-commissioned officers and privates of the corps will be liable to discharge at any time the Commander-in-Chief may think fit, without any claim to compensation be yond the scale of pensions, and they may be re ' transferred, at the order of the Commander-in-Chief, for misconduct, unfitness?, or otherwise, to the corps of the army from which they were transferred. When their services shall be dispensed with they shall be entitled to pensions on the following scale rifle/ a total service in the corps, or in the line, ex ceeding 21 years :—Sergeants -major,. after 21 years' service, of which at least five in that rank, a pension for life of 2s per day, increasing to a maximum of 35 per day, at the rate of 2d for each additional year's service,with the further additions of good con duct pay of which they may be in possession at the time of their discharge, and of id. a-day for every five years' service as non-commissioned officers, but the maximum with such additions not to exceed 3s. a-day, Ist and 2d class sergeants. After 21 years total service, of which, at least, five in that rank, a version fo:.? !ire of is, dd. and L. ;id. a-day, in creasing to a maximum of 2s. Gd. and 2s. a-day, at the rate 1U and ld. for each additional year's ser vice, with the further addition of good conduct ray of which they may be in possession at the time of their discharge, and of ld. a-day for every five years' service as non-commissioned officer, hut the maximum, with such additions, not to exceed 2s. Gd. and 2s. a-day. Privates, after the same length of service, will be entitled to a pension of 10d. a-day, increasing to ls. 4d. at a progressive rate. For men of this corps attached to any hos pital or station, the purveyor is to perform the duty of quartermaster, and the officers of the pur veyor's department will be the paymasters of the corps. By direction of the Duke of Cambridge a silver medal has been presented to Sergeant Cox and Gunner Lawler, of the depot brigade, Royal Artil lery, stationed at Sheerness, for long service and meritorious conduct. The presentation was made by Lieut.-Col. Talbot. Col. Guy, Commandant of the troops in the Camp at Colchester, inspected the 9th battalion at that station on Tuesday. A private of the 38th Regiment, named Allen, has been ordered to un dergo a court-martial for loading his rifle with ball cartridge, with the supposed intention of shooting Sergeant Robinson, attached to his company, with whom he had had an altercation. Another private of the 38th Regiment, named Grosser, also undo'. orders for a garrison court-martial; broke out of the guardroom on Monday, but was soon retaken in the town. He will now have to undergo a general court-martial. Another private, named Pattison, has been sentenced to 80 days' imprisonment for insubordination. The preliminary operations for the construction of the foundation of the fort on the Noman Shoal have been commenced by the contractor. Colonel Do Rinzy, of the Ist brigade Garrison Artillery, and Brigade-Major Milward, who have been engaged for some weeks past in inspecting the Volunteer Artillery in the Northern and Western counties of England, have returned to Woolwich and resumed their official duties at head-quarters as heretofore, THE JOURNAL EDITED BY THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER.* Are we warranted in making any allusion to a very curious volume, consisting of extracts from a lady's journal, kept during a visit to Germany in 1799-1800, and now edited, but not published, by her son, the Dean of Westminster ? When the I letters, journals, an d o th er papers of his mother came into the Dean's hands, last year, he states that he found among them this journal, from which he has printed certain selections, containing notices of persons of historic interest, with whom the writer was brought into more or less familiar contact. In one case, that of Nelson, they are notices of a personage of the very highest historic interest, while in others (we speak only of those which are printed in this volume) they re late to persons who live more or less in the memoirs of that time, and live on even in our own time in the oral traditions of social life. More than one member of our own Royal family, the Duke of Brunswick and his Court, the Queen of Prussia, Breteuil, Beurnonville, Bellegarde, Rivarol, Gentz, Lavalette, Alexis Orloff, Lord and Lady Holland, Lord Minto, Sir William and Lady Hamilton, Mr. Elliot, our Minister at Dresden, Righini the composer, Fuger the painter, with many others, all find a place here. Are we war ranted, then, in assuming that this contribution to our knowledge of persons so public in some sense is public property also ? All the persons mentioned here are dead, no injury that we see can be done to the feelings of any of their representatives, and, as we conceive that a time may come in any case when there is no longer any reason for the reservation of such memoranda, however private in the first in stance, so we contend that the time has fully arrived in this case when they may be claimed as materials for historical portraiture. Had the Dean kept these memoranda to himself, we conceive that biographers would have had reason to complain of their concealment. Having printed them for com munication to his literary friends, we can see no reason whatever why they should not be more widely circulated; and, as we have no clear inti mation of a prohibition to the contrary, we take a liberty which we believe no one will think inexcusable. It appears, however, that it is thought desirable that something should be said on behalf of the writer—that these memoranda were made at such a very early period of her career as by no means to show the character to which she attained in later life. The writer, the granddaughter of Lord Chesterfield's " Richard Chenevix," was married, at 19, to Colonel St. George, of Carrick-on-Shannon, and at the age of 22 was left a widow with an only son. A period of several years elapsed before her second marriage, and during this interval she made the tour of which this volume is partly the record. She was then, as the Dean conceives, unawakened to those more serious and earnest views of exist ence which later sorrows and trials brought home to her, though even of that clay there are traits unpublished which would, he says, show that she was of no light or frivolous turn of mind. For our parts, we are not in the least disposed to corn plain of Mrs. St. George for taking an innocent interest in those scenes of life which she re garded as a passing panorama, and we require no ex cuse for anything we see here. We mention the sub ,jest by way of concession tothe Dean's scruples, who, tl i d c e i e t we think, i s un d u l y sens i t i ve on the score of a youth fulr n o v y v a yorul'h,iaa chnNve'nded was shortly sobered to a ma eminently ser i ous and devo a u s t. wea We re t s o e l e d i o n t h a ln scandaliz e anyone, not even an Archbishop, stilmlgioeod to anything which should prevent one of high ecclesi astical rank rece i v i ng absolution from such latitu dinarians' as ourselves. We absolve the I)ean - , then, and we el aim for on the other hand, the praise o f th e ghost of Cax ton for passing through the press such a very amusing volume. It is but of small dimensions ; in fact, it is not much bigger, and certainly does - not contain more, than many a pamphlet of the season, while the entries are of the most concise clN:ractcr, like the jottings in an ordinary pocket book. Nevertheless, they often succeed in present ing us in a few sentences; and sometimes in a single Journal kept during a Visit to Germany in 1799-1800. Edited by the Dean of Westminster, [Not published.] rite tsOV.4 0(0, THURSDAY 6 OK( ?id, 00 rag tt l ig6l I .r • m phrase, with lively, vigorous, and distinctive por traits; and "altogether there rises before one a cer tain picture of Germany and German Courts, at a time when Marengo wtts more recent than. S - )lferino L new, such as is net obtained from books of far greater pretewicee." Only we must be cautious accepting the impressions of the writer in every particular instance, and, knowing little of the bias of her tastes and predilections, we must read her, both when highly caustic or highly complimentary, with a considerable margin and allowance for differ ences of opinion. Thus we find the writer as severe on the beha viour of Nelson and the Hamiltons as we should ex pect from the descendant of a friend of Lord Chester field. The facts, however, prove that the sea-king in his cups could be boisterously coarse, and that Lady Hamilton, when she was not in her "attitudes," was quite as coarse and not a little of a slattern. Alto gether, these scenes with our naval hero and his low-lived enchantress are the most striking in the volume, as they show both in a new light, and, unless we allow much for the manners of the time, and somewhat also for the narrator's fas tidiousness, they must tend to lower our concep tion of these popular personages. We are sorry to have our romantic impressions disturbed by this series of pictures, but for the evident truth con tained in them they are valuable, and we print them in extenso : " Oct. 2.—Dined at the Elliots'. While I vias playing at chess with Mr. Elliot the news arrived of Lord Nelson's arrival, with Sir William and Lady Hamilton, Mrs. Cade gan, mother of the latter, and Miss Cornelia Knight, fa mous for her Continuation of Rasselas' and Private Life of the Romans.' Oct. 3.—Dined at Mr. Elliot's, with only the Nelson party. It is plain that Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming, and vain. Her figure is colossal, but excepting her feet, which are hideous, well iTcr genes r,rehuge, and sly , is e7e ,, ei1i:1713- chtbonpoint. She resembles the bust of Ariadne : the shape of all her features is fine, as is the form of her head, and particularly her ears ; her teeth are a little irregular, but tolerably white; her eyes light blue, with a brown spot in one, which, though a defect, takes nothing away from her beauty and expression. Her eyebrows and hair are dark and her complexion coarse. Her expression is strongly marked, variable, and interesting; her movements in common life ungraceful ; her voice loud, yet not disagree able. Lord Nelson is a little man, without any dignity; who, I suppose, must resemble what Suwarrow was in his youth, as he is like all the pictures I have seen of that gene ral. Lady Hamilton takes possession of him, and he is a willing captive, the most submissive and devoted I have seen. Sir William is old, infirm, all admiration of his wife, and never spoke to-day but to applaud her. Miss Cornelia Knight seems the decided flatterer of the two, and never opens her mouth but to show forth her praise ; and Mrs. Cadogan,Ladyllamilton's mother, is what one might expect. After dinner we had several songs in honour of Lord Nel son, written by Miss Knight, and sung by Lady Hamilton. She puffs the incense full in his face ; but he receives it with pleasure, and snuffs it up very cordially. The songs all ended in the sailor's way, with Hip, hip, hip, hurra,' and a bumper with the last drop on the nail—a ceremony I had never heard of or seen before. " Oct. 4.—Accompanied the Nelson party to Mr. Elliot's box at the opera. Lady Hamilton paid me those kinds of compliments which prove she thinks mere exterior alone of any consequence. She and Lord Nelson were wrapped up in each other's conversation during the chief part of the evening. " Oct. s.—Went by Lady Hamilton's invitation to see Lord Nelson dressed for Court. On his hat he wore the large diamond feather, or ensign of sovereignty, given him by the Grand Signior ; on his breast the Order of the Bath, the Order he received as Duke of Bronte, the diamond star, in cluding the sun or crescent given him by the Grand Signior) three gold medals obtained by three different victories, and a beautiful present from the King of Naples. On one side is his Majesty's picture, richly set and surrounded with laurels, which spring from two united anchors at bottom, and support the Neapolitan crown at top; on the other is the Queen's cipher, which turns so as to appear within the same laurels, and is formed of diamonds on green enamel. In short, Lord Nelson was a perfect constellation of stars and orders. " Oat. G,—Dined with Lord Nelson at the Hotel de Pologne. Went in the evening to a concert given to him by Count Marcolini. Paris sung—a fine bass, with the lowest tones I ever heard ; and Ciciarelli, a soprano, who has lost his voice, but declaims well. From thence went to a party at Countess Richtenstein's, Lady Hamilton loading me with all marks of friendship at first sight, which I always think more extraordinary than love of the same kind. " Oct. 7.—Breakfasted with Lady Hamilton, and saw her representinsuccession the beat statues and paintings extant. She assumes their attitude, expression, and drapery with great facility, swiftness, and accuracy. Several Indian shawls, a chair, some antique vases, a wreath of roses, a tambourine, and a few children are her whole apparatus. She stands at one end of the room with a strong light to her left, and every other window c!osed. Her hair (which by the-by is never clean) is short, dressed like an antique, and her gown a simple calico chemise, very easy, with loose sleeves to the wrist. She disposes the shawls so as to form Grecian, Turkish, and other drapery, as well as a variety of turbans. Her arrangement of the turban is absolute sleight of-hand, she does it so quickly, so easily, and so well. It is a beautiful performance, amusing to the most ignorant, and highly interesting to the lovers of art. The chief of her imitations aro from the antique. Each representation lasts about 10 minutes, It is remarkable that, though:coarse and ungraceful in common life, she becomes highly graceful, and even beautiful, during this performance. It is also singular that, in spite of the accuracy of her imitation of the finest ancient draperies, her usual dress is tasteless, vulgar, loaded and unbecoming. She has borrowed several of my gowns, and much admires my dress, which cannot flatter, as her own is so frightful. Her waist is absolutely between her shoulders. After showing her attitudes she sung, and I accompanied. Her voice is good and very strong, but she is frequently out of tune; her expression strongly marked and various; but she has no shake, no flexibility, and no sweetness. She acts her songs, which I think the last degree of bad taste. All imperfect imitations are disagreeable, and to represent passion with the eyes fixed on a book and the person confined to a spot must always be a poor piece of acting manqut% She continues her demonstrations of friendship, and said many fine things about .m 4 accompanying her at sight. She still does not gain upon me. I think her bold, daring, vain even to folly, and stamped with the manners of her first situation much more strongly than one would suppose after having represented Majesty, and lived in good com pany 15 years. Her ruling passions seem to me vanity, avarice, and love for the Ocasures of the table. She shows a great avidity for presents, and has actually obtained some at Dresden by the common artifice of admiring and longing. Mr. Elliot says, She will captivate the Prince of Wales, whose mind is as vulgar as her own, and play a great part in England.' Dined with the Elliots. He was wonderfully amusing. His wit, his humour, his discontent, his spleen, his happy choice of words, his rapid flow of ideas, and his disposition to playful satire, make one always long to write shorthand and preserve his conversation. " Oct. B.—Dined at Madame de Loss's, wife to the Prime Minister, with the Nelsoa party. The Electress will not receive Lady Hamilton, on account of her former dissolute life. She wished to go to Court, on which a pretext was made to avoid re' eiving company last Sunday, and I under stand there will be no Court while she stays. Lord Nelson, understanding the Elector did not wish to see her, said to Mr. Elliot, Sir, if there is any difficulty of that sort, Lady Hamilton will knock the Elector down, and --- me, I'll knock him down too.' She was not invited in the beginning to Madame de Loss's, upon which Lord Nelson sent his excuse, and then Mr, Elliot persuaded Madame de Loss to invite her. From Madame de Loss's visited Mrs. New• man, a very obliging, entertaining woman of the tiers etat, . _ _ thence to sup at_Mrs. Rawdon's. Here I found Lady W— in the midst of a very animated discourse on precedence, which I soon found took its rise from Mr. Elliot's having: led me in to dinner at Madame de Loss's before her and another Lady who had place. She politely told me he showed his ignorance and his impertinence, and she was sorry he knew no better. I had been so amused by his cou- versation at dinner I had quite forgot the indecorum. " Oct. 9.—A great breakfast at the Elliots', given to the Nelson patty. Lady Hamilton repeated her attitudes with great effect. All the company, except their party and my- self, went away before dinner, after which Lady Hamilton, who declared she was passionately fond of champagne, toolt . - such a portion of it as astonished me. Lord Nelson was not behind-hand, called more vociferously than usual for bongs in his own praise, and after many bumpers proposed the Queen of Naples,' adding, She is my Queen ; she is Queen to the backbone.' Poor Mr. Elliot, who was anxious the party should not expose themselves more than they had done already, and wished to get over the last lay as well as he done the rest, endeavoured to stop the . _ effusion of charnpigne, and effected it with some difficulty; but not till the Lord and Lady, or, as he calls them, Anthony and Moll Cleopatra, were pretty far gone. I was so tired, I returned home soon after dinner, but not till Cleopatra had talked to me a great deal of her doubts whether the Queen would receive her, adding, 'I care little about it. I had much sooner she would] settle half Sir 'William's pcn• on me.' it f:er I E !li.t told me she n , tml Nina intolerably ill, and danced the Tarantola. During her acting Lord Nelson expressed his admiration by the Irish sound of astonished applause which no written cha racter can imitate, and by crying every now and then Mrs. Siddons be --' Lady Hamilton expressed great anxiety to go to Court, and Mrs. Elliot assured her it would not ' amuse her, a n d t h at the Elector gave no dinners or suppers. What ?' cri e d s h e, no guttling 1' Sir William also this evening performed feats of activity, hopping round the room on his backbone, his arms, legs, star and riband all flying about in the air. "Oct. 10.—Mr. Elliot saw them on board to-day. He heard by chance from a King's Messenger that a frigate waited for them at Hamburg, and ventured to announce it formally. He says, The moment they were on board t, sere was an end of the fine arts, of the attitudes, of the act ing, the dancing, and the siogipg. Lady Hamilton's maid be s san to scp'd in French abut some provisions which had le en fcsgot, in language quite imrossible to repeat, using certain French words which were never spoken but by men of the lowest class, and roaring them out from one boat to another. Lady Hamilton began bawling for an Irish stew, and her old mother set about washing the potatoes, which she did as cleverly as possible. They were exactly like Hogarth's actreseee dressing in the barn.' In the evening I went to congratulate the Elliots on their deliverance, and found them very sensible of it. Mr. Elliot would not allow his wife to speak above her breath, and said every now and then, Now, don't let us laugh to-night ; let us all speak in our turn, and be very, very quiet." It is suggested that Mr. Elliot was a little too easily satisfied with his information as to the frigate, because he was desirous of getting rid of Nelson and his travelling appendages. Such athletic per formers were too much for the nerves of a discreet, decorous, and fastidious Minister, and would excite much the same kind of shocking sensation as a set of riotous schoolboys in a young ladies' school. The manners of the day were coarse, those of seamen more particularly so, and they would be more than usually repulsive to persons conversant with the amenities of Continental society before the courtli ness of the old regime had been worn off by the Revolution. When, probably, the well-bred Wind ham would have sworn in an English ballroom, when the most refined members of English society rarely left the dinner table sober; we should err if ' we ascribed to Nelson any extraordinary brutality because his manners were somewhat uproarious for the emporium of Dresden china. That his vanity was capable of receiving enjoyment from very coarse flatteries is, we fear, a mere reasonable imputation upon him and his companions. Among tho latter the reader will, of course, note Miss Cor nelia Knight, whose autobiography we shall shortly have oeeasion to examine. As to Lady Hamilton and her mother, everything seems to imply that the highly satiric sketch of the writer must have been the very truth ; but it is more surprising that the fair adventuress should have played such a conspicu ous part in history than that her voice should have been loud, her dress vulgar, and her vinous exhila ration at the enthralment of her sea monster too de monstrative. The incident of her old mother wash ing the potatoes for the Irish stew is emblematic in so many senses, is so suggestive of.their antece• dents, the reciprocity of their affection, the style of their household, and the creature comforts they derived in common from the compliant Hamilton, that the picture is incapable of improvement, it is so domestically truthful and Homeric. Next to these characteristics of the Nelson party we are most impressed by the writer's desultory remarks on the society of Vienna, which are very brief but particularly full of meaning. Since 1848 this society has undergone some changes, but in the main it has retained the peculiarities here described. The running footmen have disappeared, but the passion for dress and the universal good -nature and good order remain. It is, however, no longer possible to live there " in the same manner as in London, as nearly as the difference of each town will permit, for about one-third of the expense." On the con trary, house rent in Vienna within the circuit of the old walls is now as high, if not higher, than it is in London, and the tariff of expenses generally approximates to it if it does not quite reach the London and Parisian standard. The following ac count of an Austrian bath, though it reminds one of " The Bath" of Miss Winifred Jenkins, could not now be written of any German watering place : "June 15-17.—Three days at Baden, a small town two posts from "Vienna, celebrated for its warm sulphureous baths. They appear convenient and well attended. In the largest men and women of the best society bathe together, and appear very much to enjay the amusement. The gentle men are in shirts and trousers ; the ladies in their usual white morning dresses, and on their heads caps, handker chiefs, laces, and riband, fancifully and becomingly dis posed. It is the triumph of real beauty and freshness, as no rouge can be worn, or paint of any kind. The bath opens a vast field for coquetry. A becoming dishabille, graceful attitudes, timidity, langour, and an affectionate confidence in your conductor, may here all be displayed to advantage. The loviar leads his mistress, and has perhaps a secret satis faction in finding himself with her in a new element ; for Madame de Geniis observes, I think with truth, that to those who really love every new situation in company with the beloved has a certain charm. Many of those who have no levers obtain, however, half a conductor, as every man who is not devoted generally gives each arm to a different lady. The old, the plain, and the neglected sit round on benches, as it is dangerous for women to walk about in the bath without a guide. Spectators are admitted, who view the scene from a little gallery. To them the heat and sul phureous smell are very unpleasant." The sketch of Lady Holland, whose chastened tyranny so many of us remember as very captivat ing, is no less striking, though somewhat spiteful : " Sept. 7.—Dined at Mr. Elliot's with the Hollands. Her ladyship's manner to her husband is too imperious ; it is not the tyranny of a mistress or a wife, but a governess to her trembling pupil. " Sept. B.—Dined with the Hollands. She has a mixture of imperiousness and caprice very amusing to the mere spec tators. Her indolence is also remarkable, and she lies in a very easy posture on a sofa, with screens between the lights and her eyes, in all the dignity of idleness, employing every individual who travels in her party without apology or in termission. Her husband has the honour of being fag-in chief, but she likewise entirely occupies a humorous clergy man, a peevish physician, and a young lord. There is likewise a boy (Mr. Dickens) who comes occasionally, like those who attend servants in great families, to do jobs, but he has found out that she dislikes the trouble of repeating her orders, and often evades them by affecting not to hear." But we take the sting out of this extract by quoting a genial and sparkling criticism on the Madonna di San Sisto, than which nothing can be more happy : "We then went to the gallery, where the picture that most struck me was a Raphael representing the Virgin standing on a cloud, with the infant Jesus in her arms, the saints on either side in the act of adoration, and at the bot tom of the picture two of the loveliest heads of cherubs I ever saw. The Virgin's face is divine. The Child, who appears about a year old, has more the expression of the King than Saviour of the world. There is a beautiful haughtiness, mixed with disdain, in his features." Nor is the following judgment on one of the phi losophic ladies of the end of the last century want ing either in faith or humour. It would be worth quotation if it were only for the glimpse of the writer's afterlife, which the Dean has added as a note. In 1825 much that shone so brightly in 1799 had ceased to dazzle : " Sept. 28—Left Konigsbruck, where I had passed a few very pleasant and retired days. Countess Munster is a warm partisan of the philosophy of Kant, who says per fectability, and not happiness, should be the object of hu man researches. Madame Munster has adopted this idea, and considers all revealed religion as priestcraft, and Chris tianity as depraving our hearts, because it founds our vir • tues on a selfish hope of future bliss, and contracting our understandings, because it substitutes faith for reason. She thinks truth unattainable, but that there is a degree of rela tive truth to which each understanding may arrive, in pro portion to its strength and efforts. She is not the most for midable opponent to the Christian religion it has yet en countered ; and I doubt if she perfectly understands herself on these subjects, which she seeks with an eagerness that denotes a perfect conviction of her own strength. A lofty contempt of those who do believe and great bigotry to her own system render her conversation on such topics unpleas ing. She has some imagination, extensive reading, but little tact, and a great deal Of vanity, yet she is altogether supe rior to the general class of females, and neither wants sen sibility nor elevation." " I copy (says the Dean) from a later journal an entry with date Jan. 7, 1825 At last, after an interval of 24 years, which succeeded a tolerably intimate acquaintance of seven weeks, I saw Count Munster, of Hanover again. We met like two ghosts, that ought to have been laid long since. I witnessed the whole process of the difficulty of persuading him that / was I, and I thought him as much changed in his degree as he could have found me. When we conversed, all the persons we referred to were dead and gone; and our interview added another link in my mind to the chain of proofs that after a very, very long interval neither friends nor acquaintances ought to meet in this world. He was kindly anxious to renew our acquaintance, and visited me the next day ; but still it seemed as if seeing me had re newed some painful associations.' " At Vienna, and subsequently at Berlin, the writer had the entree to the best society, and if her little descriptions were translated into German they would doubtless be read eagerly in either capital, At Berlin she was introduced to Prince Henry among other persons. "Ile looks like a little fiend of the minor class, not Belial or any of the noblesse of hell. We conversed so little I can speak but of his exterior. He appears as if he had just crept out of the embers and was half-singed." Beurnonville, originally a corporal, pays her compliments "very much in the style of Monsieur Jourdain." On re turning from a party at Madame Engestrord'S she finds "an immense inhabitant of the hair" on her tucker. "My suspicions turned for a moment on Pignatelii, but on reflection I am sure he belonged to the French mission." She was greatly impressed by Gentz, who, with Rivarol, were the two men of greatest talent she !net in Berlin. Moreover, ehc went to Court and beheld that Queen of Prussia so famous in history, and who influenced the chivalry of her subjects to such impotent results. " Dec. 28.—The reminded me of Burke's ' star, glittering with life. Nplend our, and joy,' and realised all the fanciful ideas one forms in one's infancy of the young, gay, beauti ful, and magnificent queens in the Arabian Nights. She is an angel of loveliness, mildness, and grace; tall and svelte, yet sufficiently embonpoint; her hair is light, her com plexion fair and faultless; an inexpressible air of sweetness reigns in her countenance, and forms its predominant cha racter. As perfect beauty in nature is a chimera, like the philosophor's stone, and as it is rarely to be found but in the higher works of art, I take nothing from her charms in saying she is not faultless. An ill shaped mouth, indifferent. teeth, a broad forehead, and large limbs are the only defects the severest criticism can discover; while herhair, herheight her movements, her shoulders, her waist are all unexception able. These slight faulty only prove she is a woman and not a statue, and altogether she is one of the loveliest creatures I have ever seen. Her dress was in the best taste. Her hair was dressed in the fullest and most varied of the Grecian forms, going very far back, and ornamented with a heron's feather, and a number of immense diamond stars, so placed as to form a bandeau quite round, which came close to her temples. She wore a chemise of crape, richly embroidered in emerald-green foil, and a moldave (simply a body, train, and short sleeves) of pale pink silk, slightly sparkling with gold, and trimmed all round with sable. Her neck was richly ornamented with jewels. She speaks very graciously and politely to every one. I was also presented to the Princess of Orange, a beautiful young woman." This last extract falls under the date of Decem ber 28, 1800, and on December 31 the Journal ends. At all events, its continuation, if it ever existed, has been sought for in vain. We long, however, to hear something more of the writer, and to know her when the heyday of her youth had been clouded by those sorrows to which the Dean alludes. So sparkling and joyous a nature, though it was, perhaps, sad dened, was surely mellowed, in the autumn of life, 211 E BILSTON TRAGEDY. CONFESSION OF THE. PRISONERS. BILSTON, WEDNESDAY. Yesterday evening, after the despatch of our par cel, William Danch, a tailor of Dudley, deposed that while examining the marks in the cellar he perceived in the impression of a man's knee that the trousers which occasioned it had been repaired by a niece of corduroy placed crosswise on the gar ment. He remarked in the cellar that the garment would be found so repaired. He was afterwards shown a pair of trousers that he was told had been taken from Mulligan, alias Jones. and those trou sers bore the evidence to which he referred. (Wit ness here pointed out the patch to the jary.) Major M'Knight deposed that the trousers pro duced were taken off Jones. Witness added that he saw the last witness compare the garment with the impressions in the cellar. Superintendent M'Crea deposed that on receiving information that the robbery and burglary had been committed he went to the deceased's premises, and found they had been forcibly entered, and that the deceased was lying dead in his sitting room. He discovered fire in the bedroom ; brown cloth was burning on the carpet, and in a few minutes it j would have communicated with the bed. He, how ever, extinguished the flames. Shortly afterward s he proceede to the Berry-yard. In a house there, kept by the prisoner Bills (though he lived on the opposite side of the yard), he heard people running up and down stairs, and on knocking for admission he discovered that the key had been taken out, which was unusual. He saw Jukes on the sofa, dressed, as though he had just come in. Lilley was in bed, but his shoes looked as if he had not long returned home. On Jukes's shirt he ob served two spots of blood, and witness remarked upon it. Jukes replied that he had got in a fight at the King's Arms some time before. Witness said, "It is fresh blood." Jukes then responded, "I got it from striking a girl in the mouth." Bills he found in his own house opposite, in bed. Ile found a sock newly washed whieh Bills owned, and the fellow to which witness could not find. On return ing to the police-station he found Jones in custody. Looking at Jones's right hand, witness said, " This hand is very black." Jones, however, made no reply. Mr. Larkin, surgeon, deposed,--I was called at 4.30 on the morning of the 29th September to ren der medical assistance, as supposed, to a drunken burglar, but as was subsequently ascertained to the late Mr. John Bagott, at his residence in Church street, Bilston. On entering a room of the house I saw the deceased lying on his back before the fire place. His dress was disordered and torn. Life was extinct. From the temperature of the body and extremities I am of opinion that death had occurred about three-quarters of an hour previously. His face and hands were so besmeared and dirty that at first I failed to recognise him. As directed by the deputy-coroner, I made post mortem examina tions of the body of deceased on the Ist and 2d inst. I was assisted by Mr. Smith, surgeon. In addition to the ordinary effects of dissolution there were dis colourations resulting from bruises on the legs, par ticularly about the knees, also on the abdomen and on the more prominent parts of the back and shoulders. On washing the soot and ashes from the face of the deceased, an indentation, such as might have been produced by a finger-nail, presented itself on the nose, near to the forehead. The nose and other portions of the face were bruised, and there was an abrasion of the skin of the chin, from which there had been some hemorrhage. There was also an elongated discolouration of the left side of the neck, immediately below the jaw. On the protuberance at the back of the head was a contused and lacerated wound, the hair cover ing which was saturated with blood. The veins of the scalp and those of the membranes of the brain were congested, but there was no lesion. The brain was somewhat softened, but otherwise in a normal condition. The heart and the large vessels of the circulatory system were free from disease. The blood was uncoagulated. The larynx and bronchi were unobstructed. The lungs were structurally sound, but intensely con gested in every portion, dark and liver- co l oure d throughout. On examining the mouth I observed that the gums had bled. A tooth had been removed three or four days before. The stomach contained about five ounces of ingesta in a chymous condi tion, which did not yield either in smell or by test ing any indication of prussic acid. The liver was enlarged, and had degenerated into a condition which is technically termed " nutmeggy." The kid neys and spleen exhibited no morbid appearance. The small intestines were congested on the left side corresponding with the discolouration externally. From the very highly congested condition of the lungs and the total absence of any other cause of death I am of opinion that the deceased died asphyxiated, and the bruises and abrasions before described clearly indicate that such asphyxia was induced by compression of the walls of the chest and forced closure of the mouth and nostrils. In answer to a juryman, witness said that death was not occasioned with the poker on the throat. The larynx was not bruised. Witness should say that he was " burked"—was suffocated by pressure on the mouth and chest. The head had been held forcibly down, and produced a lacerated scalp. The Coroner now read over to the prisoners the evidence that was given at the first inquest, and told them that they would have an opportunity on a future occasion of calling any evidence that they wished to bring before the jury. Lilley, Jukes, and Bills gave the names of several witnesses whom they wished to be called. Lilley impudently said that he should wish bis witnesses to be called that night. The Court had heard evi dence against him, and it was now their duty to hear evidence in his favour. The Coroner said that a full opportunity weuld be given to him on a future occasion, when he might also make any statement he pleased. Lilley then thanked the Coroner, and sat down. The inquest was then adjourned till Friday next. The sitting occupied eight hours. This morning the magistrates were engaged in privately hearing a confession of four of the pri soners. The public examination commenced at half-past one, before the Rev. IL S. Fletcher and M. J. N. Bagnall. Great excitement continues to prevail in the town, and both within and without the Petty Ses sions Court there was a great crowd of persons. The inquiry had been adjourned till 10 in the morning; but considerably before that hour the magistrates nr.med assembled, and were engaged till one o'clock in hearing a confession from Had docks; and it is understood that three other of the accused were with him before their worships. These were reperted to be Bills, Webb, and Liiley. Mad docks was the spokesman, and his statement ;occu pied 18 briefsheets. This statement the magistrates decline to give to the press until after it comes out in public court. It will, so they say, on Friday next, to whichthe proceedings were to be adjourned at the close of the inquiry to-day. The sur stance of the statement is understood to he that Mullighan and Brandrick only entered the deceased's house; that he (haddocks) watched the house for them, and that the other four prisoners had nothing to clef with the affair. If this be the purport of the confes sion, it must be taken for only what it is worth, as , - it does not tally with the statements of some of the witnesses, and denies the statement that there were three men upon the p rem i ses on the n i ght of the ihure,er, which, however, there is Liiimisialeable ts.viLrec.!. The wilneßses who I.verc !?IT.Enined before he coroner were being examieed by the magis trates, when, at half-past th ree, Mr. 'Sheldon, soli citor, said he appeared to defend Maddocks, who had just informed him that he had made a state• ment to the bench in private, but if he had known that a solicitor was engaged to defend him he should not have made the statement. Now, he was so en gaged, and, as he had made a statement, he (Mr. Sheldon) could not defend him unless he saw the statement: It was further necessary that he should seethe statement, because,although he had applied, he had been refused permission to see his client. Every obstacle had been placed in his way. He had been kept outside the court, and had had to jump a wall to get into the court. Mr. Claydo n , barrister, and Mr. Bartlett, solicitor, were also engaged with him in the defence of one or other of the prisoners, and they too had been refused per mission to see their clients. Mr. Bartlett—lt is a matter of the very gravest importance and of the greatest impropriety. Mr. Bagnall—At what time did you apply ? Mr. Bartlett—At about 11 o'clock. Mr. Bagnall—You could not see him (Bills) then we were engaged with him. Mr. Bartlett—You had no right to be so engaged with him. Having been refused permission to see my client, and understanding that he was being subjected to a private examination, I applied to be present at the examination. Mr. Sheldon—l made application to see my clients before half-past 10 o'clock, and I joined with Mr. Bartlett in applying to be present at the pri vate examination. I was even refused to be admitted within the precincts of the station. Mr. Fletcher—The Bench had no intention to keep you from the prisoners, or from the court. Mr. Bartlett—We make no imputation upon the magistrates, but the restrictions of the police were not becoming. It was very wrong of Colonel Hogg. Mr. Claydon joined in censuring the police for their not allowing the prisoners to be seen. If his client bad a statement made behind hie back by which he was affected he ought to hear it ; and Mr. Sheldon was justified in making the application for the statement. The prisoner sladdoeks had at his own request been taken out of the court just before Mr. Sheldon commenced to make his application. The magistrates retired to consider what reply they would give to Mr. Sheldon. As they were retiring Mr. Bartlett desired them to bear in mind that this was a matter of life or death as affecting the prisoner. The Magistrates remarked that the observation was superfluous. Some time afterwards Mr. Sheldon was called into the magistrates' retiring-room, where he was shown a statement that Maddocks had just made. In that second statement he alleged that Mr. Shel don had spoken to him in the dock, recommending him to deny the accuracy of the first statement. Maddocks, in The second statement, added that he had not employed Mr. Sheldon as his solicitor, nor did he wish Mr. Sheldon to defend him. Mr. Bagnall drew Mr. Sheldon's attention to this statement. Mr. Sheldon denied that he had given the pri soner any such improper advice ; said he only in formed him that he was employed to defend him, and that, understanding that he had made a state ment, he wished to know what it was. Policemen must have heard the conversation, and he appealed to the magistrates to describe which of the two, himself or Maddocks, was the more worthy of belief. The magistrates said that the prisoner denied having employed him (Mr. Sheldon) to defend, or that he wished him to defend him ; and they must therefore decline to let Mr. Sheldon see the state ment, which in due course would come out in evi dence. Their worships then returned into open court, the taking of the evidence was resumed, and it was being proceeded with when our report was despated. INDIA'S LAST AIVD BEST DIAMOND When reviewing the operations of the geological survey some two years ago, we asked if it were not possible to col lect mining statistics in India, similar to Mr. Hunt's valu able records published from time to time in England. It unfortunately happens that India is the despair of the statist, Figures - collected in India, unless only by Euro peans and relating to Europeans, are valueless except for very general purposes. Any attempt to obtain statistical information from a native, if conducted by a European offi cer, is at once regarded as a preliminary to taxation of some sort, and is met by a refusal or by deceit ; while, if made by native agency, it becomes a source of gross oppression, and the result is ludicrously inaccurate. What is called the census of India, for instance, which fixes:the population of the British territory at 132,000,000, was taken very much in this way :—The police were called on for a return of the number of houses and huts in each town, and the whole was multiplied by five to represent the population. Not withstanding the difficulty, however, Mr. Oldham, the able and zealous director of the Geological Survey of India, has collected and published the first of a series of mineral sta tistics. The returns refer to coal, and will be followed, we trust, by similar information regarding iron, copper, lime, building stone, slate, golddust, and precious stones. Mr Oldham does not pretend that his first attempt is free from errors. But he did his best, going from pit to pit, cross questioning the superintendents and making inquiries of the proprietors and agents of the several companies. He has succeeded in giving us figures for three years from the Ist of October, 1857, to the same date in 1860, all accounts being made up to this period, known as the " coal year," from the circumstance that before the construction of the railway all the Raneegunge coal was sent down the river Damooda, so long as its waters, swollen by the rains, per mitted the transit. The result is not a cheering one for India. Over the vast peninsula, which has an area of 800,000 square miles, coal is found only in the valley of the Ganges, and neighbouring hills, in Rewah to the south of the Soane, in the Nerbudda valley, and in the Sylhet hills on the far north-east. There is no workable coal else where in the North-Western Provinces, none in Oude, the Punjab, Scinde, Bombay, or Madras. This fact is the less cheering that iron and lime are generally associated with coal in the same formation, and that India, except in the east, is comparatively destitute of these great elements and necessities of modern civilisation. It is no great consola tion to say that where coal exists it is abundant, that Beer hoom, for instance, is one mass of mineral wealth. India is as large as Europe, and the eoal of Raneegunge or lime of Sylhet is more useless to the cotton mills and building firms of Bombay or Madras than that of Newcastle is to Moscow. Coal is most bulky for carriage, and railway carriage will always be so expensive that it will probably be cheaper for Bombay to use good English than indiffe rent Bengal or even Nerbudda coal. The following ab stract contains the result of Mr. Oldham's inquiries : Districts 1858 1859 1860 Raneegungo coalfields 5,917,000 8,919,600 8,559,097 Rajmahal hills Kurhurbari Talamow Sylhet hills .. Total in maunds 6,162,319 9,961,928 10,088,113 Or in tons These figures show the healthiness of the trade, which, not withstanding the local fluctuation, has steadily progressed. In the Runeegungo coalfield, which is now tapped by the East Indian Railway, and which will shortly be pierced by two branches, there were last year 49 collieries with 27 steam engines at work. This is the result of little more than 20 years' operations. The number of collieries in the United Kingdom is 2,654, and the out-turn of coal is 72,000,000 tons annually, or 200 times that of India. Our readers will form a better estimate of the coal-producing power of India if we place in order, with the assistance of Mr. Hunt's mining records, the out-turn of all the coal countries in the world, in 1857. We regret Mr. Oldham has not given the proportion of the coal area to that of the whole country : Countries Proportion in area. Production in tons. itish Islands.. 1-10 66,000,000 Belgium l-22 5,700,000 France -100 4,500,000 United States -9 4,500,000 Prussia -90 3,500,000 British N. America 1-20 900,000 British India Bohemia -20 300,000 Spain l-52 2.50,000 Of the nine countries India is thus already seventh on the list. What a future for America is involved in the fact that nearly a fourth of her whole area, so far as investigated, is covered with coal. India raises a third more than Spain, and about the same amount as Warwickshire. i The con sumption of coal in India and by vessels leaving its ports we may estimate at 700,000 tons annually,the amount imported in 1857 from England being 329,157 tons. Reckoning the price of Indian coal in Calcutta at 5 annas a tnaund, or 17s a ton, and English coal at the same rate (though it is higher). we have mere than £500,000 spent on coal yearly in India, As the trade and manufactures of India increase, and as machinery comes to be more and more largely introduced, indigenous coal will become more important. The fact that the supply is in certain districts inexhaustible, and that the demand is annually increasing, is one full of hope for the coal companies and proprietors who already occupy, or like the Bengal Coal Comr any, monopolise the field. It is pos sible the Nerbudda fields, worked by the company just established, may supply Bombay and the southern por tions of the North Western Provinces on the completion of the railway. But Oude, the Punjab, and Madras must still look to their forests, which, cn both sanitary and commer cial grounds, it becomes daily of more importance to utilise and renew.—Friend of India. SAILING OF THE ETNA. --The Liverpool, NE yr York ; and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Etna sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New York. The Etna took out upwards of 60 cabin Paueuge" and had 179 bola of cotton freight. EXTR,AORDINARY OUTRAGE AT FFIELD. At the West Riding Court, Sheffield, on Tuesday, a seri eus charge was preferred apitM a sergeant, of the 58th, and Michael Mason, of the - Pair:kid lan, ITillfoot. The ser geant is in custody at the barracks, but Mason was brought up before the Bench. The prisoner, it appeared, was driv ing an ammunition waggon, which formed part of a baggage train proceeding from Sheffield to Newcastle, and it was whilst so occupied he committed the offence with which he was charged. Abraham Frudd, the son of a farmer resid ing at New England, staled that about seven weeks ego he met . a cart driven by the prisoner, and three soldiers in his company. One of the latter, a sergeant, forced him off his pony, stating that he was " on the Queen's service." The sergeant had previously smashed a bottle the boy was carrying, and struck the lad himself on the back with the butt end of his rifle. Witness then ran off to his father, who was working in a field, with several other persons, about a quarter of a mile distant.-- Mr. Isaac Frudd, the boy's father, stated that he at once went down the road in company with several neighbours. The prisoner was standing on the shafts of the waggon ; one soldier was leading the horses and another was walking a little ahead. The last-named soldier was intoxicated, and the prisoner seemed very "fresh." The sergeant was walk ing about 50 yards behind the cart, and was rolling about. Mr. Frudd spoke to him about the assault on his son, and the sergeant, after giving an abusive reply, ran forward and got upon the back of the cart. Witness distinctly saw him screw his bayonet on the muzzle of his rifle, and heard him call out, "Now come on, I am ready for you. I'm a soldier and I can die." The soldier that had been leading the horses came up to Mr. Frudd and hoped he would excuse the sergeant, who had too much drink. After some further parleying, Frudd saw the sergeant in the act of firing his rifle. The soldier who was conversing with him, called out to his comrades to go on, and he would overtake them, but the sergeant fired again, and the prisoner also dis charged a rifle, both being pointed at the party. Frudd heard something whizz past him after they discharged, and he then got behind the wall. Six or eight shots were fired. Luke Dearden, farmer, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. ;,Witness heard the balls pass him. One of the bul lets glanced along the wall immediately in front of him, and left a mark. Another bullet entered the house of a man named Peacock, and buried itself in a board in the chamber. Benjamin Middleton said he saw a soldier fire towards the place where Frudd and several other persons were stand ing. The carter fired quickly after the soldier, in the same direction. He was standing on the shafts, but he got down on to the road, and witness saw him load his gun a second time, and fire it again ; and the soldier fired again at the same time. Previously to the second fire witness heard the carter say "He would blow their - heads off," and the soldier said he would " Blow a - hole through them." The cart was then driven on, but the witness after wards heard other shots fired. He could not identify the carter; but the prisoner very -much resembled the man he saw. Mr. Overend said the case must be adjourned, and he would call on Col. Peacocke and arrange as to the ser geant being brought up along with Mason. His (Mr. 0 verend's) view of the case, so far as it,stood, was, that it was a drunken "lark." He was quite willing to admit the prisoner to bail, on his own recognisances in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each. Mr. A. Smith said that Mr. Overend might find occasion to modify his views of the case when further evidence was produced, because the gravamen of the charge against the prisoner and the sergeant was, whether they really did or did not intend to inflict grievous bed ly harm. The prisoner was remanded for a week. COUN2BY MARKETS. HULL—Ocr. 8. At our market to-day we had a small supply of English wheat, and prices were about the same as last week. Wheat.... Old white per qr. s2s Od to 56s Od Old red ,, New white .. ~ New red .... Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 54s Od to 63s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 50s Od to 58s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red s4s Od to 55s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old 46s Od to 48s Od Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 36s Od Grinding 3os Od to 32s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish s2s Od to 54s Od Grinding 27s Od to 29s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per at oBl2id to 13d Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 08131 d Swedish and Danish osl2lcl to osl3d Beans ... .English, old, per qr ' New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick. 4os Oct to 42s Od Egyptian .. 38s Od to 40s Od Peas .. Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 56s Od crushing Linsebd cakes (Hull) £lo 0 oto £lO 10 0 Foreign! BlO oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes Bones 6 0 oto 6 5 0 416 oto 5 0 0 LYNN—OcT. 7. Our market this morning was fairly attended, and the wheat was in good supply. Both new and old samples of fine quality brought fully late pikes. Old white 59s to 61s I New.. s4s to 56s Barley. 3Bs to 408 I Oats.. Beans .39s to 43s I Peas 48s to 540 SHEFFIELD—OcT. 1. Ara acror.Ero aICIV, of velaoat from +La errovroia to-day, and a steady trade. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 17s Od to 25s Od White f) » 2ss Od to 28s Od New red 9 l7s Od to 26s Od New white ~ 7 , 2os Od to 24s 6d Bea )1 ns ~ • • •188 ' Od to 19s Od , Peas, per qr 54s Od to 55s Od Grinding barley, per qr 33s Od to 35s Od Malting ditto, 2 , 37s Od to 40s 0(4 Oats 2ss 6d to 34s 0(1 1) Millers' prices for flour-2s Od, 2s 2d, and 2s 5d per 141 b. COAL MART (Prices of Coal per Ton a' ET—OcT. 9. the close of the market Walls_End. e. d. Walker Primrose 12 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting .. 24 0 Do. Anthracite.. 21 6 Bower's West Hartley.lB 3 Howard's West Hart- ley 18 3 North Pelton. l3 6 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 • • Hastings Hartley ...,18 Holywell Carr's Hartley 18 3 Ships at market FOREIGN AfAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via 'Southampton. Oct. 19. via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Nov. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Oct. 19. via Marseilles ...Oct. 13. Falkland Islands Nov. 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton • ............ Oct. 11. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Oct. 19. via Marseilles.... Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles O c t . 20 . Lisbon Oct. 11. Malta, Egypt, and Ad en, via Southampton Oct. 11. Newfoundland via Marseilles Oct. 13. ..Oct. 16. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Oct. 10: by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Oct. 9. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Oct. 10. Bahamas, via New York Oct. 24. Mexico ....0ct. 29. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru , I Oct. 14. California,and British Columbia. —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Certainly [ADy —These excellent cur a t ives may En T w f i s t Eh3otuEtbf Risk. be fearlessly used by the weakest or most delicate i nva lid. From their purifying and cooling virtues in all di seases benefit must flow from their employment without incon venience or danger. Holloway's renudies are suitable to every climate, and are admirably adapted for restoring health to both sexes, at any age, and under any circum stances. A long list of won d erful cures of the most in tractable complaints can be produced to prove their utility and safety. They always do good, never mischief. These medicaments are inv aluable in the nursery, w h ere s li g ht accidents or trifling ailment s can a t once b e correcte d b y the judicious use of Holloway's medicaments, which cannot be wrongly applied. BIRTHS. BRANDRETII.—On the Bth inst., at Standish Rectory, Mrs Brandreth, of a daughter. CARY.—On the 7th inst., at Eastdon, Starcross, Exeter, the Hon. Mrs. Byron Cary, of a daughter. MACKENZIE.—On the 6th inst., at Edinburgh, Lady Mac kenzie, of Gairloch, of a son. TOOVEY.—On the 6th inst., at Brussels, the wife of Edwin Toovey, Esq., of a son. d," s. Riddell K elloe South Hart1ep001......17 3 Acorn Close.. Tunstall Trimdon Hartlep oo l ..18 3 Trimdon Thornley....l6 6 Whitworth 15 0 Stewart's.... lB 6 IHaswell lB 6 Hedley 16 6 Keiper Grange.... l7 3 Eden 16 9 :, 56 ; sold, 51. MARRIAGES. DORMER —ALisort.—On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Edinburgh, and afterwards at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Major the Hon. James C. Dormer, second son of the Lord Dormer, to Ella Frances Cathe rine, only daughter of Sir Archibald Alison, Bait.. and widow of the late Robt. Cutlar Ferguson, Esq., oiCraig darroch and Orroland, N.B. _ _ EDEN—BELLEW.—On the 13th inst., at Darjeeling, in Bengal, the Hon. Ashley Eden, to Eva Maria Bellew. DEATHS. ATTPIELD.—On the 4th inst., at Bath, the Rev. W. Att field, aged 71. BAKER.—On the Gth inst., at Freshfield, Somerset, the Rev. C. W. Baker, rector of Tellisford, aged 90. GOODIvIN.- 011 the 7th inst., at Alderley Edge, Samuel Goodwin, Esq., late of Ch ee th am-hill, Manchester, age d 73 H :AMMOND.—On the 233 August, in India, near Cashmere, Philip, second son of Anthony liamond, of West acre, Norfolk, aged 22. Loi.noN : Printed and rublished by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnE SuN Office, No. 112,Strand in the Precinct of the Savoy, 111 the county of Atiddiefiel, Thursday, October.lo l 1861.