The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-21 00:00:00

TLIE NAVY. r The screw steamship Gibraltar, 101, the trial of the machinery of- which outside Plymouth Break 'water has been several times postponed, in conse quence of the boisterous state of the weather, was built at Devonport from the lines of Sir B. Walker, and launched in August, 1860. She is 252 feet long, 58 feet 6 inches broad, has a depth of hold of 25 :feet 6 inches, and measures 3,715 tons. Messrs. Mandalay and Field, of London, manufactured her engines—a pair of 400-horse power nominal, or what is termed 800 collective. They have been exerted up to an indicated power of 3,442 horses in Neyham basin. The engines, double piston direct horizontal, are, with the boilers, seated between the foremast and mainmast—with the exception of some modern improvements they are similar to those fitted about eight months since on board the Revenge, 91. The steam from her boilers is conveyed from the stokehole to the engineroom in one large pipe, which is connected on both sides by junctions with the boilers ; while in the Gibraltar there are two pipes close to the boiler, so that besides other advantages a great saving of space is obtained over head for ventilation. In the engineroom the main steam pipe, instead of being over the cylinders, goes round the back, by which more room is obtained for getting off the side-valve covers, &c. The cylinders pr o p er arc completely enclosed in outer iron cylinders or steam jackets, having between the two a space of three inches, supplied with steam by separate p i pes . The Gibraltar's are the first screw engines fitted in this manner. The engines of the Revenge are fitted with a rack and pinion, and a single port slide ; those of the Gibraltar have clouble port slides and a screw instead of a rack, as a safer and easier mode of reversing. The feed pipes are in the former ship run under the stokehole floor; in the latter they are overhead. The hold of the Gibraltar is deeper by about 18 inches, which gives ample space between the boilers and the orlop deck, and good height in the engine room. The ventilation of the stokehole is much aided by four pipes of about two feet diameter each, which lead to the upper deck. The mode of Ventilation is that invented by Mr. Baker, chief engineer at Chatham, and consists of a downcast shaft into the engine -room, and an upcast from the stokehole, by which there is a full supply of air in both places, and a thorough draught to the furnaces. The 'Gib raltar has three donkey engines, two are for boiler use exclusively, the third is for boiler uses or for general purposes, such as pumping out the bilge water, extinguishing fire, &c. Her stokehole is fitted with ov.erhead rails for the easy transit of coal buckets, and the engine -room is supplied with Suffield's patent indicator, for ready communica tion with the quarter-deck. The stokehole is 50 feet long; boilers, 42 feet. They will contain 100 tons of water. Behind them and on both sides of the engine-room are the bunkers, which will hold from 700 to 800 tons of coal, equal to seven or eight days' consumption under full steam, the quantity used in 24 hours being estimated at over 100 tons. From the centre of the engines to the stern post, the screw shaft is 107 feet 6 inches long; the diameter, 15 inches; in the stern tube, 171 inches. The Gibraltar is propelled by one of Griffith's screws, of 19 feet diameter, with a pitch capable of being varied from 22 to 27 feet. The weight of the engines is 106 tons ; boilers and appa ratus, 206 tons 12 cwt. ; water in boilers, 118 tons ; screw propeller and framework, 60 tons 12 cwt. ; and of spare gear on board, 28 tons 10 cwt. ; total, 619 tons 14 cwt. The Hussar, lately employed as a receiving-hulk at Chatham harbour, having had the necessary alterations and repairs effected to adapt her for a target ship, has been put out of No. 2 dock at Chatham. The second dock being now empty, pre parations will be commenced for laying down the Achilles, previous to which, however, the present caisson at the entrance to the dock will require to be removed and a cofferdam erected in its place, by which an additional length of nearly 30 feet will be gained, thus giving a 'length of dock of nearly 400 feet for the new ship. Considerable quantities of the heaviest portions of the beams and other parts of the vessel still continue to arrive at the dockyard from the iron companies who have entered into contracts with the Admiralty for supplying them. Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel •steamvessel Weser, commissioned by Commander A. Johnstone for the survey of the mouths of the Danube, in the Black Sea, was yesterday undocked at Woolwich ; and the screw steamsloop Star, built at Millwall, was docked in her place, to be coppered. The Pluto, 4, paddlewheel steamtug, 100 horse power, in No. 4 dock at her Majesty's dockyard, Sheerness, is being broken up. Forty shipwrights are employed in carrying out the order, which is to be completed within nine days, including the clearing away of the timber. The Hasty, 60, gunboat, and the Griper, 60, gun boat, at Sheerness, are ordered to be fitted for the first class steam reserve. Yesterday Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone proceeded in the Wildfire, paddlewheel steamer, 76 horse power, to Chatham, for the purpose of inspect ing the /Etna and the Thunderbolt, previous to their being removed into the Thames, to act as coast and river defences. A further inspection will shortly take place, for the purpose of determining the locality they are to occupy. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Edwin West, promoted to the rank of acting chief engineer in the Jasper; Charles J. Serjeant and Joseph Lovering, promoted to the rank of chief engineers, and appointed to the Asia as supernumeraries; Frederick N. Sutton, promoted to the rank of chief engineer in the Vixen ; James Ward, promoted to the rank of chief engineer in the Alert ; William M. Chambers, first-class assistant-engineer, to the Firefly; John Jolly, second-class assistant-engineer, to the Han nibal ; William Rumble, third-class assistant-engi neer, to the James Watt ; John Muir, third-class assistant-engineer, to the Victor Emmanuel; Joseph Gill, acting third• class assistant-engineer, to the Dauntless ; Henry Bunting, acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the Hero ; Charles J. Devon shire, assistant-surgeon, to the Conqueror; and F. W. B. Preed, naval cadet, to the Ariadne. THE ARlll'. -~-- Yesterday morning a detachment consisting of 60 men and non-commissioned officers of the Royal Engineers, under command of Capt. Fyers, arrived in Liverpool from Dublin, in the City of Dublin Steamship Company's steamer Windsor. They proceeded by the London and North-Western Railway for Chatham, on their way to Corfu. Another party of the same corps, consisting of 83 • men and non-commissioned officers, one officer, 11 women, and three chile ren, were to arrive in Liver pool, and sail for Dublin in the Windsor by the evening's tide. The Ist battalion 11th Regiment, commanded by Col. Moore, and stationed in Portsmouth garrison, are under orders to proceed from their present quarters to Manchester. The 11th is one of the 'best disciplined regiments th a t h as b een stat i one d for some years in Portsmouth. Yesterday the 4th company of Royal Engineers, nuuntle'ering 80 non-commissioned officers and men, under the command of Capt. H. W. H. D. Puma resq, left Chatham garrison and proceeded to Dover, for the purpose of being empl o y e d i n th e repa i r o f the defences and iu the erection of additional forti fications on Royallni that part of the coas t. Th e 30th com panyice, arrived at under th e comman d of Capt. A. S. Crey at Brompt on f rom D over yes • to day, and afterbpi .ennilnissionngerdaised to its full complement of 100 non tilteira c n ffice rs and Sappers, will embark for the Me RoyaainThe 31st (Capt. A. Fyers's) companyof evening f ,g r i o n r e a E ngineersarrived a g a h t Chatham on Tuesday the 15th company. The where it w.ts relieved by The 31st companybas also been P l aced under orders to embark for the .illediterranexn. The command of the 37 th and 38 th es:mix,ies of Royal Engineers—the two new companies or d ered to be raised at Chatham --has been given to Capt. L. , C,, Barber and Capt. IV. C. Phil l p o tts , both of whom L ave been ordered to join head-quarters for that purp *se, Li eut. r lichaele Porte] ii, of the Royal Malta Fen- cibles, now a regiment of artillery, is under orders to proceed to Woolwich to go through a course of 1 studies for the instruction of the corps. IRON-CASED SHIPS. At the Royal United Service Institution, on Mon day evening, Capt.. E. P. Halsted, R.N., read the second portion of his paper " On Iron-clad Ships," to a crowded audience. The main object of this part of his paper, as of his first, which we before noticed, was to show the advantage of employing iron in the construction of ships of war instead of wood, and that in ships plated with iron to resist the pe netration of shot, it is better to apply the armour to iron ships than to wooden ones. As in the former part of his paper, Capt. Halsted made th e report o f Sir Howard Douglas against iron ships a subject of severe criticism, and he quoted at great length from that report for the purpose of showing that the experiments made to estimate the resisting powers of iron to the penetration of shot, and the relative advantages of wood and i ron s hi ps, were, notwithstanding Sir Howard Douglas's inferences from those experiments, decidedly favourable to iron. Experiments m a d e b y fi r i ng at a target o f iron five-eighths of an in c h thi c k, b ac k e d b y woo d and without any backing, at a range of 200 yards, proved that the solid shot passed through and splintered the iron into fragments, and that the shot itself was also frequently smashed to pieces and passed onward like a shower of iron. When the iron was backed with wood the effects were nearly equally dangerous, for the splinters of the wood and the larger pieces of iron were spread about in the same manner. It appeared, however, that shells fired horizontally broke to pieces against the sides of afive-eighth inch plate without exploding, the gunpowder being dispersed like a cloud of black smoke. From these experiments Sir Howard Douglas concluded that, whether an iron ship wan built slightly, like the Ruby—on which the first experiments had been made, and through which the shot passed without breaking—er whether it was built like the Simoom, with plates five-eighths of an inch thick, which broke the shot, it was equally unfit for the purposes of war. Capt. Halsted, in opposition to that opinion, maintained that the da mage done by the splintering of the iron and the frac ture of the shot is not greater in passing through iron plates of the thickness of five eighths of an inch than it would be in passing through wood, whilst such a thickness of iron rendered a ship invulner able to shells fired horizontally, which prove so destructive to wooden ships. He mentioned many instances during the Russian war of the serious injury done to wooden ships by the shells fired through their sides, some of the ships having been set on fire several times and completely disabled; none of which damage could have occurred to ships built of iron with plates of the thickness on which the experiments were made. The result of such experiments, he observed, ought to have led th ose who made them to ascertain the thickness of iron through which the shot would not penetrate, by making the target thicker and thicker ; but that had not been done. Captain Halsted stated that in November, 1845, a model of a corve tt e arme d with plates of iron, to render it invulnerable, had been sent to the Admiralty ; but though attention was from time to time directed to the subject, nothing was done about it until three years after wards, when the Gloire was built by the French. A great part of Captain Halsted's paper was occu pied with denouncing the political administration of the Admiralty, to which he attributed the wilful neglect of the merits of iron ships since the change of Ministers, in 1846, till within the last two years. Whilst the wooden flag was flying at the Admiralty, he said it was useless to attempt to bring to their notice the advantages of iron, and thus the interests of the country have been sacrificed to political influence. At the conclusion of this part of the paper, Cap tain Fishbourne, R.N., who was in the chair, said that in the discussion on the subject he desired the political part of the question to be avoided, and that the advocates of wood and of iron should ad dress the meeting one after the other. Captain Sullivan vindicated the officers of the royal navy from the imputations which Captain Halsted appeared to throw upon them, that they had made the results of the experiments they were instructed to undertake agree with the wishes of the Admiralty. There could be no doubt that the experiments had been fairly made and correctly reported, and the impression produced on his mind was the same as on that of Sir Howard Douglas. The question, he said, was no longer whether we should have iron-plated ships, for that seemed to be settled, but whether the iron armour should be put on to iron or on to wooden bottoms. He considered that iron was quite unfitted for ships of war, be cause iron ships had not the strength of those built of wood. If they took the ground they could not be got off, and if they struck on a rock it went through them as it would through a sheet of brown paper. Iron ships might answer well for commer cial purposes, and on an open sea; but they could not without great danger be employed along the coast, for which purpose the iron-clad ships would be chiefly required. lie instanced the Birkenhead and Royal Charter as iron ships that had gone to pieces under circumstances which a wooden ship would have withstood, and he mentioned many cases in which wooden ships had grounded and got off without much damage when it would have been impossible for an iron ship to have escaped. He thought it was dangerous even to trust the lives of troops in transport ships built of iron, and he said' he should not like to be responsible for having done so. Mr. SAMUDA expressed astonishment that any one at the present day should affirm that wooden ships are stronger than those of iron, if , properly built ; and in proof of the greater comparative safety of iron ships he quoted the rates at which insurance on the two classes of ships can be effected at Lloyd's. He stated that whilst the usual rate of insurance for first-class wooden ships is from 6 to 8 per cent. of their value per annum, the annual insurance account of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's iron ships did not exceed 2 per cent. In opposition to the cases cited by Capt. Sullivan, he mentioned several instances of iron ships that had taken the ground and struck against rocks, and were got off again with little damage, even after having been exposed to a stormy sea for many days. Mr. Samuda entered somewhat minutely into the construction of iron ships to show their superior safety to those built of wood, observing that an iron ship when properly put together is equally strong in every part as the plate of which it is made, whereas a wooden ship depends altogether on the fastenings of the planks to the timbers; and the caulking, to keep the ship water-tight, tends to separate the planks from each other. With respect to iron-clad ships of war, he considered the advan tage of iron was indisputable. The backing of an iron plate with wood could afford very little support to the iron, because the particles of wood must be very much compressed together before the whole support it was capable of giving could be brought to bear, and the iron plate would be burst through by the shot long before that amount of compression took place. If, on the other hand, a plate of iron was supported by another plate of the metal of th same thickness, the resistance to the entrance of shot would be doubled. There is, however, another disposition of the iron in the construction of invul nerable ships which he recommended, by which the strength might be quadrupled. Instead of building an iron ship and then covering it with iron, it would be much better to build the ship of solid plates of iron of the thickness required for its complete pro tection. By that means the resistance of the iron would be quadrupled instead of being doubled, and with the same weight of metal. Had the Warrior been so constructed it might have been rendered invulnerable, not only on the sides, but all over ; it w v t u a o i s n u s t e lg l e h p s i s e l a ' s w e o v u e r l would l have feet and higher.ifweighedadopted T h 2 a 7 i t o a n plan shipsnh and floate recom mended,wouldd be completely protected with a less weight of metal, 1 and with their guns higher above the water. The discussion was then adjourned till Wednesday. Yesterday evening the members again met to resume the discussion, but as no one rose to advocate wooden ships in reply to Mr. Samud a , Capt. HALSTED spoke in reply to the observations of the speakers of the preceding evening. H e ob• jected to Mr. Samuda's having brought forward the question of the armour of ships, which would form the subject of a subsequent paper, for he co n t en d ed that the construction of the ship itself was the first thing to be considered, and the armour was an after t w e o d went e d o i v u we l m e c u t c u h r e o s f: t c h on e s s i a d m er e at g i r o o n u , nd C a a s Pt in . I th ra e ls t ' and observed, with respect to the Warrior and the other iron-cased ships, that at the head and stern they are only ordinary iron ships like the Simoom, through which it has been proved that even grape shot would penetrate, though ordinary explosive and incendiary shells could not. He again referred to the great advantage of being able to resist spherical shells when fired horizontally, which a plate would do; and he said he believed that a lit ; inch plate would break conical shot even when fired by Armstrong guns. Capt: Halsted considered that a wooden backing of teak, as in the Warrior, was essential, according to our present knowledge, and in this and in other respects he differed from Mr. Samuda. Mr. FORD, one of the contractors of the Warrior, explained the manner in which the armour was, dovetailed together to make it watertight, so as to prevent the water from rotting the teak backing ; and he, stated, in explanation of the head and stern, intendurtOuibe. n ot being cased with iron, that a ship so weighted woum, Dot 1,..,. a, fast ship,. • which the Warrior was; NAVAL COMMAND MONEI. A writer in a contemporary says :—The new scheme of naval command money has not given satisfaction to the navy. It was stated last] year in the House of Commons, by an ex-First Lord, that captains were not well paid enough to enable them to defray their necessary expenses while in command, and he also mentioned that one of the best officers in the navy, to whom he offered the command of a line-of-battle ship, begged respect fully to decline it, on account of being without private fortune, and therefore totally unable to meet the necessary expenses, It was also stated by the Secretary of the Admi ralty that during the winter the question would be thoroughly gone into by the Board, and the result has been the scheme of naval command money, of which Sir J. Elphinstone remarked in the House of Commons that captains complained that they were no better off than before. It is surely a most important point for the con sideration of the country that the men in command of British men-of-war should still in many cases be so inadequately paid that they cannot accept the command of a sea-going ship without returning to half-pay at the expiration of. their service far poorer than when they took command. This is not the case in either the French or American Navy, nor, as far as I can learn, in any other navy in the world, except our own. To many people the actual necessary expenses incurred by a captain on receiving a command and during his period of service are probably unknown. I propose, therefore, to state them briefly, and then proceed to compare the former allowance of pay with the new scheme. The average expense of fitting out a ship amounts to the sum of from £4OO to £5OO. Few captains have this sum of ready money at hand, and it is therefore borrowed from their agents at 5 per cent. interest ; and if this sum is to be repaid at the ex piration of their command a third part must be laid by each year ; therefore, supposing a man to borrow the sum of £5OO, he would be obliged to put by each year £166, which, added to the annual 5 per cent. interest, would amount to £l9l. I will estimate the expenses of his table, entertaining foreign offi cers, consuls, &c., at from £2OO to £250 annually. He has also to pay his steward and cook, on an average, £3O a year each ; he has also to provide the whole of the stationary used in his official cor respondence, and, if he wishes his ship to look like a British man-of- IA ar, he is obliged to spend no small sum annually for paint, as the quantity allowed by the Government is insufficient, and less than the half of what is allowed in the French Navy., Add to this his necessary personal expenditure, and it will be seen that without allowing a farthing for expenses on shore a sum of nearly £6OO a year has been accounted for. Previous to the late alterations captains on full pay were divided into three classes, according to seniority. The first received £7Ol a year, the second £574 a year, and the third £450 a year. I will now state that the actual necessary ex penses of a captain in a large ship need not much exceed those of one in a small frigate, and I believe that £lOO a year would represent the difference of expenditure. The same number of servants are al lowed in each, and the captain of the larger ship would have a few more officers to entertain, and probably a subscription to the band fund. By the new scheme the first-class captains receive £547 a-year, the second-class £455, and the third• class £365. But in addition to this, an allowance called " command money," is granted as follows : £219 a-year to captains of line-of-battle ships, £lBO a-year to captains of large frigates, and £9O a-year to captains of small frigates and corvettes. So that a first class captain in command of a line-of-battle ship would now receive £547 pay and £219 com mand money —total, £766, or £65 a-year more than he got under the old scale. A second-class captain in a line-of-battle ship would receive £4.55 pay and £219 command money —total, £674, or £lOO a-year more than he did before. But if he commanded a small frigate he would receive £455 pay and £9O command money —total, £545, or £29 a-year less than he did before. A third-class captain in command of a line-of battle ship would receive £365 pay and £219 com mand money—total, £584 a-year, or £134 a-year more than he did before. But a third-class captain in command of a small frigate or corvette would only receive £365 pay and £9O command money—total, £456 a-year, or £6 a-year more than he did before. Nov, at a first glance this would appear to be a most important addition, but when we examine into the real facts of the case we find that by the time a captain reaches the first class he has either completed the servitude necessary to qualify him for his active flag, or that he is in command of a dockyard, a victuallingyard, or a steam reserve. At this moment only two first-class captains are in command of sea-going men-of-war; 34 .captains of the second class and 69 of the third class arc employed. It is evident, therefore, that the third class is the one from which captains are chiefly selected for employment. Out of 69 third-class captains employed 41 are either flag captains or in command of small frigates and corvettes, and we therefore find that out of the whole number of captains employ ed in seagoing ships (106) 41 receive only an addition of £6. The small frigates and corvettes are the class of vessels employed on the most distant stations, where cap tains are put to greater expenses in entertaining foreign officers and Consuls than in the Channel or Mediterranean, and provisions are far more expen sive. It does, therefore, seem strange that the officers in command of this class of vessel should be the ones who actually receive an increase of £6 a year. Now, if it is the fact that on the old scale it was found that the first class captains with £7OO a year could pay their way, but that the class with only £450 a year were totally unable to do so (which I assert to be the case), then the first object to be attained in proportioning the different allow ances of command money should have been to place those who were unable to pay their way in a posi tion to do so; instead of which, we find that 41 captains out of 106, the whole number employed, have actually been benefited only to the extent of 4d. a day. IRELAND. Br - A CHINESE IVIDOW. The arrangement of this complicated sliding scale of command money must have given considerable trouble to the Board of Admiralty, and it has most certainly not given satisfaction to the captains. I believe that a far more simple and effective arrange ment might have been made by allowing the old scale of pay to remain unchanged, and to have thus apportioned the command motley—to the first class the sum of £5O a year, total pay and command money £751 a year; to the second class the sum of £BO a year, making total pay and command money £654 a year; to the third class the sum of £l2O a year, making total pay and command money £570 a year. I believe this arrangement would have given general satisfaction to the navy. The neces sary sum to effect this would have been £ll,OOO a year with the present number of captains employed. When we consider the very small half-pay re ceived by captains, the first class receiving 14s. 6d. a day, and the third class only 10s. 6d. (while the medical officers in the navy who rank with captains under three years' servitude receive from £1 17s. 6d. to £1 10s. A-day), I feel sure that there is not a member of the House of Commons who would not have gladly voted the necessary sum to secure that when our captains are employed on active service they should be enabled to fulfil the duties and defray the expenses inseparable from accepting a command without incurring a heavy debt which in many cases is a heavy stone round their necks for years after their return to half-pay. 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King William-street, City ; at 127 High Bolton; and all grows. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY :EVENING', DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. The national banquet in honour of St. Patrick took place last night in the Round Room of the Rotunda. From 250 to 300 persons sat down to dinner. The gallery Was crowded by spectators, including ladies, who paid ls. for admission. The chair was occupied by Mr. Neilson Underwood. The names of but three priests appear in the list of those who attended, and The O'Donoghue was the solitary member of Parliament who gave the proceedings the sanction of his presence, though several others were invited. The assembly was " national" in the mere sectional sense, represent ing the party which formerly went by the name of " Young Ireland," The - Chairman reminded the assembly of their responsibility. They occupied, he said, a serious and critical position on the present occasion. The eyes of their exiled brethren were centred upon them that evening. The eyes of the Cabinets of Europe were centred upon them, to see whether the Irish people were a people deserving of liberty—whether they were a people with a resolution capable of achieving it. The voice of that meeting would be re-echoed in America and Australia, and he was proud to tell his dear friend, Gavan Duffy, that Ireland, which he thought lay like a corpse on the dissecting table, had started into life under the dis sector's knife. He could conceive no grandersight than that of Mr. Smith O'Brien as the chief Minister of a free Irish Parliament, and nothing could please him more than to see the learned and able Moore, and the equally able and distinguished O'Donoghue, moving for the recall of the political exiles from Paris and Melbourne in a free Irish Parliament opened by the Queen. Mr. G. H. Moore, formerly member for Mayo, proposed the toast—" The Irish People, the only source of legi timate power in this country," by which he said he meant that no Government could exist right fully here except by the will of the Irish people. The wrongs which justified the resistance'ef the English people to James 11. were nothing to what the Irish people endure ; against which wrong, he said, the hearts of the Irish people are in insur rection at this:very hour. All would be soon set right, however, if those who talked so lavishly of sacrificing their lives for Ireland " were only half as willing to sacrifice their prospects in life, their energies in life, and their means of life for the same object." The O'Donoghue, M.P., in giving "Ire land as an Independent Nation," disclaimed any desire to establish the religious ascendancy of any denomination, in violation of the principles of religious equality. "We want to be free," exclaimed the hon. gentleman, "we want to shake off the domination of the English Parliament, because it is revolting to our pride, to our very nature—because it is an assumption of superiority on the part of Englishmen which is derogatory to our manhood as a nation ;" but be warned his audience that they must, be moderate, for they could not afford " another 1848 ;" but they need not despair, for throughout the length and breadth of Ir e land there was a deep sympathy for the French people—a powerful, generous, and gallant nation, which has proved over and over again that it has a heart to feel for and a sword able to avenge the wrongs of others." The Rev. J. Kenyon, in giving the "Pa triot Priests of Ireland," gave utterance to some very rational sentiments. He said, "If the people wanted to win their freedom they should win it for themselves. It was a foolish expectation that the priests should deliver them." Mr. Kenyon said : " Nothing was so fatal to their notions about all subjects, foreign anedomestic, as the confusion between religious and secular matters. Everybody has to answer for his own soul to God. Why should they dare to be throwing the shadow of their littleness, their malignity, or perversity, between the soul of the creature and the all-seeing penetra ting eye of his Creator. He did not know from what quar ter religious toleration was most assailed. Whether there were more Catholic, or more Protestant, or Presbyterian bigots in Ireland he could not tell." Mr. A. M. Sullivan spoke eloquently OR " our exiled brethren, the men who in Europe and Ame rica signalised the genius of our race." Mr. Hol land said : "The Volunteers would set a fine 'example of moral force'—viz., 100,000 soldiers, 100,000 bayonets, and 1,000 pieces of cannon. (Laughter and cheers.) That was the ' moral' force ho would have; that was the only moral force that would ever achieve the independence of Ireland." (Cheers.) Mr. Holland concluded by calling on the meeting to respond to the toast of " The memory of the men who had lived, struggled, and died for the cause of Irish independence." The O'Donoghne was then called to the chair, and, the thanks of the meeting being accorded to the former chairman, the proceedings terminated. The Bishop of Down and Connor has addressed a circular to his clergy, requesting them to take steps in their respective parishes to (secure an accurate enumeration of the members of the Established Church in the forthcoming census. EXTRAORDINARY SELF-SACRIFICE A Hong Kong paper contains the following ac count by an eye-witness of a voluntary sacrifice of lifeby a disconsolate widow:— "A few days since I met a Chinese procession passing through the foreign settlement, escorting a young female in scarlet and gold, in a richly-deco• rated chair, the object of which I found was to invite the public to come and see her hang herself, a step she had resolved to take in consequence of the death of her husband, by which she had been left a childless widow. Both being orphans, this event had severed her dearest earthly ties, and she hoped by this sacrifice to secure to herself eternal happiness, and a meet ing with her husband in the next world. I repaired on the day appointed to the indicated spot. We had scarcely arrived when th e same p rocess i on was seen advancing from the josahouse of the widow's native village towards a scaffold and gal lows erected in an adjacent field, and surroun d e d by hundreds of natives of both sexes. The female portion, attired in their gayest holiday costume, were very numerous. The procession having reached the foot of the scaffold, the lady was assisted to ascend .by her male attendant, and after having welcomed the crowd, partook with some female relations of a repast prepared for her at a table on the scaffold, which she appeared to appreciate extremely. A child in arms was then placed upon the table which she caressed and adorned with a necklace she had worn herself; she then took an ornamented basket containing rice, herbs, and flowers, and whilst scattering them amongst the crowd, delivered a short address, thanking them for their attendance and uphokling the motives which urged her to the step she was about to take. This done, a salute of three bomb ar d s announce d the arrival of the time for the performance of the last act of her existence, when a delay was occa sioned by the discovery of the absence of a reluctant brother, pending whose arrival let me describe the means of extermination. The gallows was formed by an upright timber on each side of the scaffold supporting a stout bamboo, from the centre of which was suspended a loop of red cord, with a small wooden ring embracing both parts of it, which was covered by a red silk handkerchief, the whole lining being sur mounted by an awning. The missing brother having been induced to appear, the widow now proceeded to mount on a chair placed under the noose, and to ascertain its fitness for her reception, deliberately placed her head in it, then withdraw ing her head, she waved a final adieu to the admiring spectators, and committed herself to its embraces for the last time, throwing the red handkerchief over her head. Her supports were now about to be withdrawn, when she was reminded by several voices from the crowd that she had omitted to draw down the ring which should tighten the cord round her neck. Smiling an acknowledgment of tee reminder, she adjusted the ring, and motioning away her supports, was left hanging in mid air--a suicide. With extraordinary self-possession she now placed her hands together before her, and continued to perform the manual chin chins until the convulsions of strangulation separated them, and she was dead. The body was left hanging about an hour and then taken down by her male attendants, one of whom immediately took possession of the halter, and was about to sever it, for the purpose of appropriating a portion, when a struggle ensued. This is the third instance of suicide of this sort within as many weeks. The authorities are quite unable to prevent it, and a monument is invariably erected to the memory of the devoted widow." The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Paris, on Saturday elected M. Drouyn de Lhuys as mem ber in the room of the late M. Horace Say. [ADVRRTISEALENT.] Pills and medicine invariably &g -m a.vate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the .. INVALIDS' Ows croß," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex p of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and reireshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the removi. of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitatiot , cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhcoa, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms, sinking, tits, bronchitis.— "Unquestionably the safest Quids to health.", MARCH _ 21, 1861. LAW INTELLrG.LWCE. EQUITY COURTS.—MARCH 19. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir James Stuart.) TIIE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA V. DAY. Mr. Collier, of the common law bar (with whom were Mr. G. M. Giffard and Mr. C. T. Simpson), for the defendant, Louis Kossuth, asked that the motion to dissolve the injunction which had been granted on an ex parte application in this case on the 27th of February last might be fixed for Thursday next, or for some other day this or next week if the plaintiff were not ready on Thursday. The defendants' affidavits had been filed, and it was important to his client that the motion should be disposed of as soon as possible. Sir Hugh Cairns and Mr. Cotton for the plaintiff, the Emperor of Austria, .and the plaintiff's solici tors had only last evening received a very long affidavit which was filed yesterday by Louis Kossuth. It would be necessary to answer this affidavit, and in order to enable them to do so the Austrian Government at Vienna would have to be communicated with, and he under stood that Louis Kossuth's evidence was not yet complete. It was impossible, therefore, that the motion could be heard either this or next week, and he would suggest that it should stand over till the first day of Easter term, the 15th of April next. Mr. Collier said the postponement of the motion would be productive of great inconvenience to Louis Kossuth. The Vice-Chancellor said he was willing to hear the motion as soon as it could be brought on with fairness to all parties, but that if it would not be ready for hearing next week it must stand over till Easter term. Mr. Bacon and Mr. Wickens, for the defendants, Messrs. Day, then asked for an order that the plain tiff should give an undertaking to Messrs. Day to be answerable in damages for the loss sustained by them by reason of the injunction already obtained, in the event of that injunction being discharged. The injunction had been highly inconvenient to Messrs. Day, and had occasioned them heavy losses. Sir Hugh Cairns said that he was quite willing that Messrs. Day's motion should be proceeded with on the affidavits which had been already filed. This offer, however, not being accepted, nothing further passed with reference to the matter. A SSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEWES, MARCH 20. (Before Chief Justice Erle.) Joseph North, 36, a ,respectable-looking man, who appeared to be partially paralysed, and who was lifted into the dock by th e t urn k e y s , pleaded guilty to three indictments charging him with forging bills of exchange. Mr. Ribton, who appeared for the prisoner, said that he had heretofore borne a very good character and had carried on a very extensive business as a contractor at Brighton. He could not deny that he had put in circulation the bills in question, and that they were forged, but he was instructed that the prisoner really intended to take them up, and that he had, as he believed, completed an arrange. meat with a money-lender at Brighton, who was to advance the money for that purpose. At the last moment, however, this person declined to do so, and the prisoner upon this immediately gave himself up and admitted his offence. Several respectable witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner a high character, and also stated that at the time the offence was committed the pri soner was entensively engaged as a contractor at Brighton, and had 80 horses belonging to him and employed in his business. Chief Justice Erie said ha was at a loss to under stand how a man in the position the prisoner was alleged to be, and who had so much property at his disposal, could be pressed to raise £lOO, which appeared to be the total amount of the bills that were alleged to be forged. One of the witnesses who had been called for the . prisoner said he believed that at th.e d ea th o f th e prisoner's father he had made himself responsible for his debt, and that this had caused him to be pressed for money. Mr. Roupell, who was instructed for the prose cution, stated in answer to a question put by the learned Judge, that there was no reason to believe that the prisoner had put any other forged bills into circulation than those that were now the sub ject of inquiry. Chief Justice Erle, in passing sentence, said that the offence of forging commercial instruments was such a very serious one that under ordinary cir cumstances it would have been his painful duty to have subjected the prisoner for this offence to a long period of penal servitude. Taking into con sideration, however, the peculiar facts of this case, and also the physical infirmity under which the prisoner appeared to be labouring, he would not pass upon him a sentence of that character, but he felt it still to be his duty to inflict a punishment of some severity, which was imprisonment and hard labour for 18 months. Wm. Nicholson, 36, labourer, was charged with stealing a pair of corduroy trousers, value ls., the property of Edward Whittingtou. Mr. Gates prosecuted. The fact of so trumpery a charge as this being sent to be disposed of by one of her Majesty's judges of assize created a good deal of observation in the court, particularly in reference to the very peculiar circumstances under which it was preferred. It appeared that the prisoner had been staying at the house of the prosecutor, and that after he had left an old pair of corduroy trousers were discovered torn in half, and one portion was subsequently found in the possession of the prisoner, the other half being left behind. The learned judge, after the evidence had been given, said the case appeared to him very unintel ligible with regard to the supposition of felony, and that the act was one of malice rather than with an eye to profit, which must have been very small in deed, and he left it to the jury to say whether the prisoner ought to be convicted of felony under such circumstances. The jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty. Thomas \Vood, an elderly man, stated to be pos sessed of considerable property, surrendered to take his trial for the manslaughter o f Sarah Linfield . . Mr. Connolly conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Roupell. The learned counsel fot the prosecution, in open ing the case to the jury, said it was one of a very painful character. The prisoner, who was a very respectable and, he believed, kind hearted man, had undoubtedly caused the death of the deceased by shooting her with a gun on the 14th of August, but he was bound to admit that he never enter tained the slightest intention of causing such a catastrophe, and that the fatal result could only be attributed to negligence in the use of the weapon, and in discharging it close to a public highway, without taking care to ascertain'that no person was near enough to be injured by the discharge. If he should be able to make out negligence to this ex tent, the prisoner would in law be amenable to the charge of manslaughter, and it would be their duty to find him guilty of that offence, but his lordship would have the power of passing any sentence that he considered the circumstances of the case might require. The evidence for the prosecution was then gone into, and it appeared that on the 14th August the prisoner, who occupied a considerable quantity of land at Worth, in this county, was in one of his meadows, when his attention was called by a labourer to a rook that had settled in an adjoining field, and he said that the birds did great harm to the wheat, and asked the prisoner to go and fetch his gun and shoot the rook. He went for the gun, and came back in a short time and levelled it at the rook, and fired through the hedge, which adjoined a public road, which it appeared, however, was not much frequented, and the deceased, who was a poor woman, passing by at the time, received the whole of the charge in her f ace , and the lower jaw was completely carried away, and she died almost in stantly. Immediately after firing the shot the prisoner went back to the man and said he heard a sort of snoring on the road, and he hoped to God he had not hit any one. They then both went to the spot, and found the deceased lying on the road in the condition above stated, and the prisoner sent for a surgeon, and exhibited the utmost distress of mind at what had occurred. Sergeant Ballantine was about to address the I jury for the prisoner, when they turned round and consulted for a minute or two, and the foreman then said the jury were of opinion that, under the circumstances, the prisoner ought not to be con victed of manslaughter. Chief Justice Erle said he had no desire to inter fere in any manner with the conclusion the jury had arrived at, but he would merely state that in law, supposing a person to be doing the most law ful act in the world, if that act was attended with danger to others, and he did not use reasonable care and caution to prevent mischief, if mischief resulted from the want of that proper care and caution, he was responsible for the consequences. The jury then deliberated a second time for a minute or-two, when they announced they were unanimously of opinion that the prisoner was not guilty. Chief Justice Erle said he received the verdict with great satisfaction, because there was no doubt that the prisoner. never intended to cause any mis chief, and he appeared to have been very sorry afterwards, and to have acted-with great kindness. It was well, however, that it should be known that those who made use of a deadly weapon in the neighbourhood of a public highway incurred con siderable risk, if in doing so they did not exercise great caution to prevent injury being done to those who were passing along it. The prisoner was then ordered to be at once dis charged from custody. SURREY SESSIONS, March 20. The March adjourned sessions, and last for the present quarter, for the county of Surrey, com menced this morning, at the Sessions House, New ington-causeway, before J. E. Johnson, Esq., chair man ; T. Tilson, Esq., deputy chairman, and a full bench of magistrates. THE LATE DELICATE AFFAIR AT WALWORTH. *EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.—SamueI Cop• ping, a retired sergeant of the P division, and Adam Saunders, formerly a summoning officer at the Lambeth Police-court, both of whom are pensioners on the pplice fund, were indicted for committing a forcible entry into the premises of Charles Percival, also with grossly assaulting the latter. , The court was crowded to excess by persons anxious to hear the case. Mr. Charnock appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Sleigh, specially retained for Saunders, and Mr. Lilley, with Mr. Oppenheim, for Copping. Mr. Charnock, having briefly opened the case, the particulars of which may be in the recollection of the public, from the appearance of the parties at the Lambeth Police Court a short time ago, the following evidence was given : Charles Percival, a tall, gentlemanly-looking man, said he lived at 1, Cornwall-place, Kent-road. He was a commission agent and jeweller. On the 24th of January he lived atCornbury-place, Wal worth, and occupied a bedroom there. I have known Mr. and Mrs. Clarke for some time—the latter many years. About half-past seven on the morn ing of the 24th of January I was dressing in my bedroom, when I heard a knocking at the door, which was locked. I heard Copping say, " Let go." The kicking commenced violently, and in about three minutes the lock was forced off, and the defendants attempted to force their way in. They had large sticks in their hands, and said they did not want to injure me. Copping hit me on the eye with his stick. I was at that time between the bedstead and the door, and I asked them if they had any warrant for what they did. They replied that they had not, but both forced their way past me, kicking me in a violent manner on the legs. Copping jumped on the bed and tore all the clothes off, and afterwards looked under the bed. There was no person there, and had not been. Saunders said, " You had better not offer any resistance, or it will be the worse for you." After they had ill used me and turned the bed over, they made their escape out of the house. Since then I have been under medical treatment, and felt the injuries for some days. Since the affair, persons have offered to compromise the matter. By Mr. Lilley—l have lodged at Cornbury-place since May last. Mrs. Clarke came some two or three weeks after me. I occupied a room up-stairs up to Christmas. Mr. Charnock—l object to this course, as there are proceedings in the Divorce Court against Mrs. Clarke. The Chairman—We are not trying that, Mr. Charnock, and I do not see anything objectionable yet. Cross-examination resumed—When Mrs. Clarke came she took the first-floor front room, and I had the back. When the knocking was at my door no one asked for admission. I said, " Who's there," and received no reply. They then kicked the door until the lock flew off. What were you doing at the time ? Witness—l was dressing myself, and never at tempted to open the door. I had known Mrs. Clarke 15 years, and I knew that she was separated from her husband in April last. I have known the de fendants some time, but I had no idea what they came for. I only occupied the back room. There was a sort of ante-room with a door in the middle connected with my room, but Mrs. Clarke kept the key. During the scuffle Mrs. Clarke came into the ante-room to see what was the matter. Mr. Lilley—Was not she in her night dress ? Mr. Charnock-1 object to that, as it seems like getting evidence for a divorce court. Mr. Lilley—lt has to do with the credit of the witness, and I have a right to ask that question. To the witness—Was not Mrs. Clarke partly dressed ? Witness—l do not know. I believe, however, it was a dressing-gown. Mr. Lilley—How do you gain your livelihood ? Witness—l have a little private property of my own, and am also a commission agent. The learned counsel was about to put other ques tions of a similar nature, when The Chairman interposed, saying that it was not relevant to the case before the Court, and it was disgraceful on the part of any one asking those questions. (Loud cheers, which were immediately checked by the officers.) Mr. Lilley—l repudiate the observations made by the Court, to whom, however, I have the highest respect. Cross-examination resumed—l had a beer-house once, but I got rid ()fit, as I did not consider it re spectable. Mr. Lilley—You say Mrs. Clarke lived in the front room and you in the back. Did you not take meals with her ? Witness—l once took supper with her. The Chairman—We have nothing to do with Mrs. Clarke here. Why ask those questions ? Mr. Charnock—There cannot be any justification for these men breaking into his room, even if Mrs. Clarke had her meals with him. Thumping and knocking, with clapping of hands, again took plaee among the auditory, when The Chairman desired the officers to bring for ward the first person who so misconducted himself, and he would commit him for contempt of Court. Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh for Saunders—lt was Copping's voice I heard call out, "Let go." Saunders was pushed against me. Mr. Hopgood, of Cornbury-terrace, Walworth, said that Mr. Percival lodged in the back room on the first floor, and Mrs. Clarke in the front room. There is a cupboard or ante-room between them. On the morning of Jan. 24, I was roused up and saw the defendants at Mr. Percival's door. They were attempting to force it open, and when I came up they said, "If you interfere with us it will be the worst for you." They had sticks in their lands, and I was much frightened. They must have got into my house by climbing the back wall. By Mr. Sleigh—l am a yearly tenant of the house I occupy. Mr. Percival took his apartment some time before Mrs. Clarke came. When Mr. Percival first came he had a room on the top of the house, but he removed down to the back room. I occupied a room on the ground floor, and my house keeper, Mrs. Stephenson, slept.with me. We have a servant who sleeps out, and when I heard the knocking at Mr. Percival's door she had not been admitted. By Mr. Lilley—Had been managing barman to Mrs. Stephenson, and now she was managing woman to him. (Laughter.) Mr. Sleigh—l presume to state, sir, that there is no case against Saunders, inasmuch as no part of the evidence shows that he has committed an offence. The indictment is laid under a very old statute, as far back as Richard 11. He argued at some length, quoting the interpretation of the law from "Black stone," contending that the defendants did not make a forcible entry for the purpose of possessing of lands or detention. It was, as the case now stood, a case for a civil action. The prosecutor was only a weekly lodger, and not possessed of a tenement within the meaning of the statute. Suppose he was so, there must be proof of a forcible entry by the front door. There was no evidence as to that, there fore the indictment could not stand. Mr. Charnock argued that a lodger was a tenant, and was possessed of a tenement by the holding of . the back room. The Chairman considered that the two first counts could not stand, and the case must rest on the third count of the indictment, for the assault. Mr. Charnock hoped his Honour would grant him a case on those two points for argument before the judges, as he very much differed in opinion with the Court. The Chairman said he was quite willing to grant cases on those points, as they were important. Mr. Sleigh then said that as the case against Saunders rested upon the common assault, he did not think there was sufficient evidence against him to go to a jury. He was the tool of Copping, and as the evidence showed he was pushed forward by that person, and thereby brought into the mess. The Chairman observed that there was quite sufficient evidence against him to go to a jnry. Mr. Lilley then argued at some length on behalf of Copping, contending that the indictment for assault could not stand, inasmuch as it was in correct. The Clerk of the Peace examined the indictment, and perceiving a slight error in the words, at the request of the Court amended it. Mr. Lilley then said he had further arguments to call the attention of the Court as to the meaning of the statute, but, being a late hour, perhaps the Chairman would think it advisable to adjourn the case until to-morrow (this day). The Chairman remarked that as it was a misde meanour he could do so, and he thought it would be the best plan, as Mr. Oppenheim had to address the Court on the point of law, and Mr. Charnock had to reply, and then ihe case must go to the jury. At the consent o f a ll p ar ti es the case was ad journed until to-morrow morning (this day). SPORTING IIVTELLIGENCE. WARWICK SPRING RACES-WEDNESDAY. The Welter Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft; gentlemen riders ; professionals 61b extra. Winners extra. One mile. 7 subs. Lord Strathmore's The Greek, 5 yrs, lOst 61b (in.6lb ex.) (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. Gulliver's Miss Eleanor. 5 yrs, lOst 81b (Mr. Dixon) 2 Mr. Angell's Tyrant, 4 yrs, list 111 b (inc. 51b extra) (Mr. Edwards) 3 Betting opened at 6 to 5 on the Greek, and closed at 6 to 4 agst Tyrant, 7 to 4 agst The Greek, and 3 to 1 agst Miss Eleanor. The Greek jumped away with a strong lead, which he maintained to the end, and won cleverly by half a length, Miss Eleanor defeating Tyrant by half a length for second. The Two-year-old Stakes of 5 sues each, with 50 added; for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners extra. About three furlongs. 26 subs. Lord Stamford's Esthrelda, Bst 41b (Midgeley) 1 Capt. White's Jung Frau, Bst 41b (E Sharp) 2 Mr. Honeywood's Ethel, B,t 41b (E. P a yne) 3 The following also ran :—Sugar Stick, Chateau la Fitte, Over the Sea, Miss Swift, Egyptian, Perambulator, Ante lope, Lass o'Gowrie, and D'Orsay. Betting-5 to 2 agst Jung Frau, 4to 1 each agst Esth relda and Egyptian, 8 to 1 agst Sugar Stick, and 10 to 1 agst any other. After upwards of half an hou; being " cut to waste" in futile attempts to get the horses from the post, the rain falling in torrents, the flag was at last lowered to an equit able start. Lord Stamford's filly being first on her legs, jumped away with a clear lead of two lengths, the favourite lying second in the middle of the course, with Ethel on her whip hand, the others headed by Lass o'Gowrie some lengths in their rear. At the Stand enclosure Sharp called upon Jung Frau, who made a gallant effort to reach the winner, but failed, and was beaten cleverly by a length. Two lengths between second and third; Lass o'Gowrie fourth ; Chateau la Fitte fifth ; the others beaten off. The Great Warwickshire Handicap of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, and sif declared, with 50 added ; winners extra. The second to save his stake. Two miles. 40 subs, 25 of whom pay 5 soya each. Baron Niviez e's Cosmopolite,6 yrs, 7st 111 b (T. Fordham) 1 Mr. Saunders's Emblem, 4 yrs, 7s, 91b (Charlton) 2 Mr. Bayley's Aneurin, 5 yrs, 7st 31b (Lambourne) 3 The following also ran :—Calpe, Irene, The Alderman, Rupee, and Mouravieff. Betting-5 to 2 agst Alderman, 4to 1 agst Mouravieff, 5 to 1 agst Emblem, 6 to 1 agst Cosmopolite and Calpe, and 8 to 1 each agst Rupee, Aneurin, and Irene. Aneurin in company made the running, followed by Mouravieff, Alderman, Calpe, and Cosmopolite, the others lying close up. In this order they ran to the entrance of the meadows, when Emblem carried her colours to the front, and with Cosmopolite on her whip hand came on together, the favourite being third, Aneurin next, the others strug gling on through the mire a long way in the rear. At the turn into the straight Alderman hung out signals of dis tress, and shortly afterwards retired from the fray, leaving the race with Emblem and the Frenchman, the latter win ning with the greatest race by a length and a half; a bad. third ; Calpe was fourth, Irene fifth, Alderman sixth, Rupee seventh, and Mouravieff last. A Handicap Plate of 40 soya far all ages ; the winner to be sold for 50 sous. 3 fu r l ongs . 9 su b s . _ _ Mr. Saxon's Count Horne, 3 yrs, nst 91b (Midgeley) 1 Mr. Mytton's Yellow Girl, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b .... (Ducker) 2 Mr. Gulliver's Sloth, 3 yrs, 7st (Sadler) 3 Betting-3 to lon Count Horne. The favourite made all the running ; and won cleverly by half a length, Yellow Girl obtaining the second honours by a length. The winner was not sold. The Walton Handicap of 6 soya each, with 25 added; for all ages. Three quarters of a mile. 9 subs. Mr. Payne's Gwellyan, 4 yrs ' Bst llb .... (L. Snowden) 1 Capt. Christie's Queen Bee, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (H. Grimshaw) 2 Mr. Barber's Prince of Orange, a ge d, 9 s t 101 b (K en d a ll) 3 Mondesse, The Principal, and Caliban also ran. ' • ' Betting-2 to lon Gwellyan, 4to 1 each agst Queen Bee and Mondesso. Mondesso obtained a clear lead, which he held into the straight, when he was headed by the favourite, Queea Bee, and Prince of Orange. Gwellyan won easily by half a length ; a bad third, Mondesso fourth; Caliban was left at the pest. The Debdale Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added; 12st each. Winners extra. To be ridden by gentlemen. Two miles. 7 subs. Mr. Horwood's Balzarine, 6 yrs, 12st (Mr. Wood) 1 Sir C. Mordaunt' s C eres , 1 I st 2 1 b (Mr. R. King) 2 Mr. Dawson's Windhound gelding, 4 yrs, list 91b (Mr. Rowlands) 3 Physician and Miss Eleanor also ran. Betting-2 to lon Windhound gelding. The winner made all the running, and won in a canter by twelve lengths. The others trotted in. THE GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.—J. Quinton reached Warwick this morning from Chantilly (France), to ride Cosmopolite for the race. COUNTRY MARKETS. • NEWARK—M*RcH 20. The trade in wheat was active, and late rates advanced is per qr. A moderate supply at market. The attendance was tolerable. Not much doing in barley, but unchanged in value. Oats realised previous rates, with a fair demand. Beans a small show, but a ready sale at is more money. Peas a dull trade. White wheat, new, 60s to 78s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 35s Red do. s4e to 72a Oats, old, .. 34s to 371 Old white 60s to 78. New do 26• to 32. Red do. 54s to 72s Beans. 521 to 58. Barley, malting.... 38s to 43s Beans, new.. 38s to 455 Peas, ....44s to 555. SHEFFIELD—MARCH 19. A small supply of English wheat to-day, which sold at the extreme prices of last week. Oats in demand, chiefly for seed, at fully former prices. Flour and other articles unchanged. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels 24s Od to 28s Od ~ White ~ • 25. Od to 28s Od New red , ~ 2os Od to 22s Od New white „ t, • 22s Od to 26 s Od Beans , t It l6s Od to 22 s 6d Peas, per qr 54s Od to 55. Od Grinding barley, per qr 338 Od to 35s Od Malting ditto„, 35s Od to 43s Od Oats 9 , 2ss 6d to 34s Od Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 2s sd, and 2s 8d per 141 b. HULL—MARCH 19. There was a moderate attendance. The supply of wheat was good, with a fair business. Good sorts realised is to 2s more money; foreign is higher. Barley, beans, oats, tares, and peas sold slowly, at slightly decreased rates. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 66s Od to 68s Od Old red New white .. „ New red .... , Dantzic, Konb , &c. old whit, 63s Od to 68s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 60s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 6os Od to 62s Od St. Petersburg and - Riga, ld s2s Od to 55s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 44s Od Grindin Saal an d Oderbruck Holstein and Danish ..... Grinding 328 Od to 34s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 141 d Friesland and Dutch oBl4fd t0 0315d Swedish and Da n i s h oBl4d to 08140 Beans ....English, old, p er qr : 503 Od to 56s Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick. 43s Od 0 448 Od .... Egyptian Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ... , Spring. Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 548 Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 0 0 . Foreign 9 5 oto 10 0 0 Rape mites Bones 515 oto 6 0 0 , s. ho O op in in tm gc e o n ug t.—e h i o s a ease rse s . hoarse ness, of ChildrenT—lsSEcmaErlNartinal—, d H i p o h l 1 t o h w e a ' may be certainly and perms ment without the administration of any medicine inte r . nneenly andc ur e e n d la b rg y ed ru g b l b a i n n d g s ' in Holloway's inestimable Oint nally. In childhood this is a matter of moment, as the vexation and irritation produced by forcing medicine upon a perverse child has a most injurious effect ; semetimes the dread causes convulsions, it always increases the fever and restlessness. Holloway's Ointment, on the contrary, may be rubbed with impunity over the affected part without annoying the most sensitive child. This Ointment, indeed, is a boon to mothers and nurses for safely conducting their charges through these dangerous infantile disorders, which frequently enfeeble tha frame if they do not destroy it. BIRT H S. FIELD.— On the 20th inst., at Reigate, Surrey, the wife of Sidney Field, Esq., of a daughter. SOMEttSET.—On the 17th inst., at Southsea, Hants, the wife of Colonel Edward Somerset, C. 8., of a daughter. WALSII.—On the 19th inst., at 35, Hill-street, Berkeley square, Lady Emily Walsh, of a son. MARRIAUES. OAKES—LENNOX.—On the 19th inst., at Kensington, Lieut.-Colonel Oakes, 12th Royal Lancers, to Frances, youngest daughter of the late J. L. K. Lennox, Esq., of Lennox Castle, N.B. POTT —FRIEND.--On the 19th inst., at St. John's, Pad dington, Edward Pott, Esq., of Croydon, to Ellen, eldest daughter of John B. Friend, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde park, and Ripple-vale, Kent. ll 16 A T H S. PTM.—On the 19th inst., at 38, Upper Harley-street, Sir W. Pym, K.C.8., aged 90. PUDSEY.—On the 17th inst., at Seisdon, Staftordshire, J. Pudsey, Esq., aged 76. Ross.—On the 17th inst., at Woodburn, near Edinburgh, George Ross, Fsq., advocate, last surviving EOll of the late Admiral Sir John Lockhart Ross, Bart., of Balna gowan, aged 86. STEWART.—On the 9th ult., at Ardsheal, Bermuda, Duncan Stewart, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, H.M.'s Attorney-Gene ral for the colony, aged 66. WHITESIDE.—On the 19th inst., at Eaton Rouse, Acacia road, St. John's-wood, Henry Whitesid e , E sq ., a ged 29. LONDON : Printed and Published by RUUD() YOUNG, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No.. 112,Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Comity ot,111(14 1 0seg , ThurgdaY, 211141011 2 1 , 1861. Th, Cass Cling tnous intim Th e el Nary. 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