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

A PLEA FOR O'DONNELL. A letter from Madrid of the 31st ult., in the Moniteur, says :—" In order to appreciate exactly the events which have taken place in Madrid, the manner in which the last change in the Ministry occurred must not be lost sight of; whilst the happy influence exercised by this change can alone be understood by a recollection of the state of Mat- Snatc hy which the Peninsula has escaped. Mat ters, as far as the Crown is concerned, have follovred a perfectly constitutional course. The re solution which confided the chief power to the hands of Marshal O'Donnell was derived from the legal exercise of the preroga tive of the throne. The Ministry having offered its resignation, in consequence of internal dissensions, her Majesty bad at first hoped to have succeeded in introducing the two marshals into a new combination. Espartoro having pro posed conditions which could not be accepted by O'Donnell, this latter, before accepting the mission of forming a new administration, considered. it proper to remind the Queen of the great political influence exercised by the Duke de la Victoria. The count himself represented to his colleague the grave nature of the events which might accompany that statesman's withdrawal, and employed sineete efforts in endeavouring to persuade him to keep the presidency of the Council. The Queen took her decision only after having in vain endeavoured to maintain Eapartero's presence in , lier council ; and it is undeniable that Mars hal 0 Donnell, on his side, so far from having wished to supplant a rival, neglected no measure whiFh could ensure his co-operation. Espartero positively refused ; and then only did the Queen proceed, in virtue of her ) constitutional attributes, to form a new ministry to ° replace that which had abandoned her amidst the most complicated and serious difficulties. The ac counts of certain foreign journals, according to which this change was accompanied by forms ' savouring of a coup d'etat, are founded therefore on a completely erroneous appreciation of the facts of this crisis. Doubtless Marshal O'Donnell Was compelled to recur to force in order to maintain the royal authority ; but his conduct in this cir cumstance in no way affected the laws of the country. He only suppressed an insurrection which no measure nor word of the new ministry could explain. Before having accomplished any act, the minister was encountered by a vote of distrust on the part of a minority of the Cortez, and by musket shots which proceeded from the na tional guard united with the rioters of tho fau bourgs. He was attacked instead of having been the aggressor ; and if that struggle, which he had not sought, permitted him to substitute a conser vative policy for a revolutionary one, he obtained that position entirely by an entirely legitimate de fence. Those who, in reality, abandoned the constitutional path, were they who failed to respect the decision of the Queen, and attempted to sub vert by revolt a Ministry which was established in a regular manner, and of the programme of which they were still ignorant. It is thus, we firmly believe, that history will judge the respective conduct of the two parties which found themselves in hostile presence in the streets of Madrid and Barcelona. It is besides fortunate for the Peninsula that the ultra faction of the Progressist party should spontaneously have led to its own destruction, and afforded an opportunity of bringing to a close a system of disorganisation and anarchy. It is impossible, in fact, not to admit the gravity of a situation which the certain tolerance of the demagogical party had created in the pro vinces, even more perhaps than at Madrid itself. For two years, owing to the impotence of the admi nistration, subversive doctrines had been dis seminated without hindrance amongst the work ing classes. Last year the evil effects of such doc trines had been seen at Barcelona, and in a num ber of other localities of inferior importance. Inde pendently of acts which did not cease to give proofs of a hotbed of socialism in Catalonia, at the same period acts of violence of the same nature took place on a vast scale at Valladolid, Palencia, and Rao-Seu. Threats against property, cries of death against the rich in the most industrious provinces of the kingdom, are proofs not only of the progress of socialism during the last six months, but of an organisation becoming stronger and stronger of the juntas which directed that combined movement. It is certain that if the military force has put down these risings, the bad spirit of the civil administra tion was more calculated to encourage than to pre vent them. And even had the civil administration been disposed to cause property and public order to be respected, it found itself paralysed by the false ideas which prevailed in the Cortes and by the un certain directions which were sent from Madrid. It was thus that at Valladolid the persons most ar dent after pillage were liberated convicts, who were allowed to be there by the fault of the police. Thus also the insurgents of Madrid forced the pri sons to obtain additional assistance. Recourse to such singular auxiliaries to defend a constitution which had not been violated, and to repel a coup d'etat which had not been attempted, proves suffi ciently what suggestions the insurrection obeyed, what was its real object, and with what danger it would have menaced not only the royal authority, but the whole range of the social order, had it tri umphed." SHOCKING MURDER IN FRANCE. (Prom Gutiinctuis Messenger.) The quarter of the Faubourg St. Martin has just been the scene of a frightful murder. About four o'clock the morning before last the attention of the porter of a house in the Rue de la Fidelite was ex cited by a noise in one of the upper stores. Fearing that SOlllO of his lodgers were about to effect a clan destine removal, he got up and went out of his lodge to see what was going on. Scarcely had he ascended a few steps of the staircase, when he met a man, who is a clerk in a public administration, named K-, who occupied a room above, bearing on his shoulders the naked body of a woman with the head cut off. On seeing the porter, and alarmed at the cry which that person raised, the man threw down the body, ascended hastily towards his room, and jumped out of the window on the second floor into the street. The upper part of a shop window on the ground floor broke his fall, and he came on the foot pavement without having received any injury, and ran off as fast as he could towards the Faubourg St. Denis. Few persons were in the street at that hour in the morning, and no one consequently stopped him. Information having, been sent to the commissary of police, that func tionary was soon on the spot accompanied by a medical man. It appears from the preliminary in vestigations that K- about two years ago fell violently in love with a young girl, with whom lie had resided in the house for more than a year, but :.the ono day disappeared. After searching for her for several mouths he at length discovered the fugitive ; but notwithstanding his earnest entrea ties she refused to renew her acquaintance with him. It is thought, however, that on Saturday she had come to K--'s room, and that during the night was perpetrated the horrible crime of which the circumstances are as yet but very imperfectly known. The room on its being entered was found in the greatest disorder, and everything covered with blood. The head was founil in a pail. It is supposed that K-- must have accomplished the decapitation with a razor while his victim was asleep. The ago of the girl is considered by the medical men to be about from 23 to '25, but nothing body wag yetbeen discovered to prove her identity. The consequently removed to the Morgue. It is supposed that K—, fancying that every one Was asleep in the house, would have carried the body into th e street, and there left it, thus giving an idea that th e murder had been effected in the • public road, but tevrewa,king of the porter discon certed his plans. means intended to manage with the head is by no s h. clear. The police are making a strict search for but no clue to him has boon had. The following are additonal details : —The murderer's name ntioeiricr, his age is 35, and he was employed as Iner t p?rter by the So ciete d'Emig,ration Franco-A are at that address. On chiefSatiirda'anyethwehoseoffices em ploys of the company, on the termination go into f em the business of the day, said that they shoud of the country in the evening and stop till and they left him in charge of the offices. In the evening he went out, and after stopping timesome--e • returned with a young and pretty woman, who went upstairs with him, the concierge making no objec tion. In the night the concierge, as already stated, was awakened by a strange noise on the staircase. He got up and found Poirier dragging down by the legs the body of a woman with the head cut off. The chemise of the victim was tied over the neck, . probably to prevent the effusion of blood. The concierge whose name is Ferragesu, horrified, cried . for his a wife wo :do whichcome t he o him, and armed himself with • an old sol dier.' _ 1-,40, done? You ---e then id possessed as a retired sol to Poirier :—"Wretch ! what terse" ha ve Y s o a a p d rier ou shall not pass!" "What mat- , were , a "whether I pass or not ? I am avenged on a good deal, and I huavene who has made me suffer a however, wish to escape ! Arrest me if you like !" and. his wife returned up stairs, and the concierge at n e n hastened to summon the police. The police proceeded to the man's bed-room on the storey,sixthee find him, nor any trace of .the e" but did not door of cordingly descended to the offirciernse. They ac mt4ueVer had which was open, and found that the' been committed in a kitchen attached&sot o th il e ' ta ' which is fitted up as a bed-room. The that attracted their attention was an iron balance forming part of a letter copying press; and as was ooliered . 7:itii blood, and Lai 2.Zir adherir, to. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1856 suspicion, I sent out a young man to see whether she went to the butcher's. Finding she did not, and that neither of them returned, I informed my husband, who went in search of them, but could not find them. On Sunday afternoon I discovered my daughter at the pri soner's house in Lambeth, when she told me that the prisoner had seduced her, after giving her spirits and some wine. My husband then went in quest of the pri soner, whom he did not find until Tuesday, when he was given into custody. My daughter never left our house before at night time. Mr. Solomon—Did she leave on Saturday night with your consent ? Witness—Certainly not, Sir. Mr. Binns—Have you not allowed her to go out with the prisoner on several occasions I Witness—l allowed her to go with him to the Cry stal Palace, when he said that he belonged to the Free masons and Odd Fellows, and he was bound to protect a female. Besides, he is a married man. The prisoner had also purchased her a bonnet, which she wore at the time. _ _ Eliza Bradshaw, the complainant, was then called. She is a very fine looking girl, and appears much older than stated. She said—Up to last Saturday night I have lived with my parents at 62, Red Cross-street. I know the prisoner, and he has been in the habit of visit ing us for the last twelve months. I know him to be a married man. On Saturday night, about half past 11 o'clock, he asked me to go to the butcher's and purchase him some meat for his Sunday's dinner, as his wife was out of tows . I accordingly went out for that purpose, when the prisoner followed me and took me into a pub lic-house and treated me with a glass of gin. That par tially upset me. when he called a cab, into which we got and drove to Exeter-street, Strand. He then entered a house which I have since understood to be a brothel, and we remained there until Sunday noon. As soon as we got into that house be gave me some wine, which partially stupefied me. About two o'clock on Sunday afternoon be left me, telling me to go home. I did not like to do so, but I went to the prisoner's house in Lambeth. Neither my father nor my mother was aware that I went away with the prisoner on Saturday night. Mr. Binns—Are you on good terms with your mother ? Witness—No, Sir. We don't agree, but I never left home all night to avoid her. I have been to Mr. Rowe's house on a visit to his wife with my father's permission, as he was considered a friend. Mr. Binns—Have you not been out with him halla dozen times ? Witness—l went with him once to the Crystal Palace, and afterwards to Epsom races. At the last place my father was with us. My father never objected to my going out with-Mr. Rowe, so when my mother and I quarrelled he has told me to go either to his house or my aunt's for protection. Mr. Binns—Have you not slept with the prisoner before ? Witness—No, sir. Mr. Binns—Now, mind what you say. Have you not been on intimate terms with him before ? Witness (hesitating) —Yes, sir. That was about three weeks ago, and the only time. Mr. Combe--Where did that take place ? Witness—ln my father's house. My father was not at home then. Mr. Binns—Have you net been with him in a tavern at Norwood until a late hour at night ? Witness—Yes, sir. That was about four months ago, and my father consented. Nothing improper took place then. William Bradshaw sworn—The last witness is my daughter, and she will be 15 years of age next month. The prisoner has visited my house about 12 months, and in consequence of our intimacy has taken advan tage of my daughter and ruined her. Mr. Solomon—Has she ever gone out with him with your consent ! Witness—No, sir ; I have always objected to it, as he is a married man. I went with him and my daughter last Epsom races. I have heard that she went out with him and had her portrait taken. I was extremely angry with her when I heard of it. Mr. Solomon—What do you know of her leaving home on Saturday last ? Witness—l was up stairs when she went out, and as soon as my wife told me the prisoner bad followed her out, and that they had not returned, I went in search of her, but could gain no tidings of either. On the Sun day I foUnd her at the prisoner's house, when she told me what had occurred. Mr. Binns--Now, has not the prisoner given your daughter dresses, a bonnet, and some trinkets ? Witness—Yes, I believe he has ; but I never wanted to see them. I have borrowed money from him, but it has been to pay bets of his contracting. Mr. Binns—Now, has not your daughter gone out several times with Mr. Rowe with your verbal consent 1 Witness—No, Sir. Mr. Binns—Have you not male this charge against him to avoid a debt you owe him! Witness—No, Sir. If I owe him anything it is for bets he says he has made for me ; but I don't acknow ledge it. If I owe him anything I shall pay him soon. Mr. Combe—Where does the prisoner live ? Mr. Binns—l am instructed to say that he resides at No. 10, Lambeth road, and that his counting-house is at No, 51, Bankside. He is a substantial person. Mr. CJinbe—After what I have heard in this case I am of opinion that it is one for the sessions ; conse quently the prosecutrix must go there. Mr. Sslomon—lf you intend sending the case to the sessions I shall ask your worship not to liberate him unless he puts in good bail. Mr. Cornbe—Certainly. He must be bound in the sum of 801. and find two sureties in 401. each to appear at the next Old Dailey sessions. The prisoner was then removed by the gaoler, but just before the close of the csurt bail was put in, and he was liberated until the sessions, the 18:11 of the present month. it, it was evident that the victim had been beaten about the head with it. On a table was a knife stained with blood ; near the bed, which was also stained with bloood (a fact which shows that the young woman must have been struck on the head whilst lyinc , iu it),was a large tin pail nearly filled with blood; and in this pail was the head of the victim. The head, according to all appearance, had been cut off with the knife, but as the knife was old and much injured by use, the operation must have been a long and difficult one ; the fleshy parts of the neck, for example, were not cut through, but hacked. A carpet by the side of the bed was saturated with blood. On the table were some empty bottles of wine, some biscuits, and other remains of a supper. The manner in which the murderer effected his escape has been already described. The name of the murdered female has not yet been ascertained, but from her dress and appearance she is supposed to have been a femme de chambre. THE LATE REGENTS PARK AFFAIR. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, SERJEANTS' INN— AUGUST 6. (Before Mr. Justice Crowder.) THE QUEEN T. THOMAS GEORGE GOSLING, ESQ. In this case, the facts of which have so recently been I before the public in the report of the proceedings before Mr. Broughton at the Marylebone Police-court, an ap plication was made to the learned judge for a writ of certiorari to remove the depositions and subsequent pro ceedings from the Middlesex Sassions to the Central Criminal Court. The affidavit in support of the applica cation set forth that the defendant, Thomas George Gos ling, had been given into custody in the Regent's-park by one John Mitchell, a licensed drover, upon a charge of enticing divers females cf tender age to expose their naked persons to his sight, when he gave his name and address, and he was suffered to depart, and no further proceedings were had until he was summoned before Mr. Broughton at the Marylebone Police-court on the 23d of July, who, after hearing the witnesses, held the defendant to bail to answer the charge at the sessions. An indictment for misdemeanour having been preferred, it was urged that as the offence charged was an offence at common law, depending upon nice shades and distinc tions in the evidence in support thereof, and that nice and intricate points of law of more than usual difficulty and importance might arise on the trial of the said in dictment, which would render it important that the same should be tried before one of the learned judges of the superior courts. It being usual to send cases of that description to the Central Criminal Court, where some of those judges preside, as no doubt had the worthy ma gistrate been asked would have been done, 'the removal of the proceedings by certiorari was asked. The learned Judge made the order for the writ to issue forthwith, the bail to enter into fresh recognisances in that court. During the day Mr. Thomas George Gosling, the de fendant, together with his bail, Mr. Gosling and Mr. Booth, attended before the judge, and entered into their recognisances, the defendant in 4,0101., and the bail in 2,0001. each, to give the required notices of trial and appearance at the Central Criminal Court on the removal of the proceedings from the Gerken well Sessions, that being necessary by the Central Criminal Court Act. It is, however, understood that an application will still be made to remove the indictment into the Court of Queen's Bench, to afford the opportunity of a trial by a special jury. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—GUILDFOED, Aua. 6. Cr )wn Side. —(Before Mr. Ju-tice Erle.) Charles William, Treagove Creuse, 40, a gentlemanly looking man, who formerly was a captain in the Cape Mounted Riger, was indicted for an assault upon a young girl named Sarah Marion. When the prisoner was placed at the bar he appeared in a very excited state, and he insisted upon knowing, before the trial went on, whether any waraant bad in the first instance been issued before he was taken into custody. He was at length pacified, and the case was proceeded with. Mr. Robinson conducted theprosecution ; Mr. Lilley was counsel for the defendant. The learned counsel for the prosecution having briefly opened the case, the prosecutrix, a modest, respectable looking girl, 15 years of age, was examined, and deposed that she lived with her parents at Croydon, and the de fendant and his wife resided at Woodside, Lear that , town. On the 24th March, having heard that the defen dant wanted a servant, she went to his residence to in quire about the place, she being at the time out of a situation. The defendant asked her to come in, and he then inquired how old she was, and she told bite her age, and he said that would just do ; that he gave good wages, and she should have the place. The defendant then told her to go up stairs to speak to his wife, and she•clid so ; but, upon finding that there was no one in the room, she was about to return, when she observed the defendant close behind her, and without saying a word he took her in his arms, carried her into a bedroom and threw her upon the bed. The witness then detailed the nature of the assault that was committed upon her. which was of a very aggravated character ; and she said that she became insensible, and when she came to her self she proceeded down stairs, and found the defendant there. She immediately left the house and gave informa tion of what had occurred, and on the same evening the defendant was taken into custody. Lie statement of the girl was corroborated by other witnesses, who saw her after the transaction, and who said that she appeared in a most excited state, and, indeed, hardly to know what she was about from terror and alarm. A police-constable who took the prisoner into custody, stated that when he told him what he was charged with he asked him who could prove it, and afterwards said that his head was very bad. Mr. Lilley, in his address to the jury for the defen dant, said that the task that devolved upon him was, under any circumstances, a very painful and anxious one; but it was peculiarly so on the present occasion, because the unfortunate gentleman at the bar had for merly held her Majesty's commission, and had for many years done his duty gallantly and faithfully to his country. He had served for 15 years at the Cape of Good Hope ; and those who were acquainted with the climate of that region were aware what effect it had upon the constitution ; and he believed he should have no difficulty in satisfying the jury that the hardships and service he had undergone had unsettled the mind of the unfortunate gentleman at the bar, and that he was there fore not responsible for the act he had committed. While the learned counsel was addressing the jury the defendant exclaimed with great vehemence that he ob jected to what he was stating, and declared that his rea son was not in any way affected. He then proceeded in the most incoherent and violent strain, declaring that he had seen all the wonders of the world, and that he had seen hell dragged up by the roots. The present charge, he said, was got up against him by the Roman Catholics, because they knew that he was a Protestant, and that he was determined to support his religion. Mr. Justice Erie sugge4ed that it would probably be the best course at once to , proceed to lay some evidence before the jury as to the state of mind of the defendant. Mr. W. Baker, a medical gentleman livino. at Nor wend, was then examined, and he stated that he had known the defendant and his family for several years, and, from conversations he had had with him and other circumstances, he had formed the opinion that he was decidedly of unsound mind. Mr. J. Keene, the governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, deposed that the defendant came into his custody on the 25th of March, and had been under his observa tion ever since. From what he bad seen of him and his conduct sinco he had been in the prison he had no hesi tation in expressing his opinion that he was a madman. A certificate of Mr. Harris, the surgeon of the prison, to the same effect, was also put in. Mr. Justice Erle then addressed the jury, and said that where an offence of this serious character had been com mitted, and the defence set up was that the party ac cused was not in such a state of mind as to be crimi nally responsible, it was very essential for the interest of the public that such a defence should he watched very narrowly. The jury, however, in the present cue, bad heard the evidence adduced in behalf of the defen dant, and had had an opportunity also of observing the demeanour and conduct of the defendant himself while the trial was going on ; and although undoubtedly it had happened that cunning persons hadsimulated mad ness, in order that they might escape the consequences of the acts they had committed, yet he must say that he could see no ground for supposing that that was the case in the present instance ; but, on the contrary, it appeared to him that the defendant was clearly of unsound mind, and if the jury entertained the same opinion it would be their duty to acquit him on that ground. The jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of insanity, and the prisoner was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. When this order had been given the prisoner became very violent, and declared he would not be locked up any longer, and it was with somo difficulty that he was removed from the dock. CIVIL SIDE. It has been arranged by the Lord Chief Baron that all the special jury cases are to be placed on the list in his court, and taken in their order on Thursday morning. The whole of the remaining common jury cases will be transferred to the Crown Court this (Thursday) morning, and a list will be made out for each day, in order to ob viate the necessity of parties attending with their wit nesses every day when there is no chance of their cases being reached, OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, u. CIVIL couitT.—(Before Mr. Baron Alderson and a 1 Mr. Powell and . I, ' ‘ l C E l l R ra lki tn 7 EVERT RIS. plain tiff ; and Mr. Gr a y Teis was an action of for. the Sawyer appeared for the defendant. ejectment brought to recover possession of a small cottage, at 401. The plaintiff originally, eons of James and and defendant were two belonged to the Sarah Everis. The property witness, she married him. mother, but, in the language the cottage took the waggoner to the .h ouse an a °ld then mother The old people remained in the occupation his right to' as heir. till their death, the father dying in 1851, in the present year. The two brothers began to quarrel about the cottage, the plaintiff claiming at-law, and the defendant asserting mother, under a deed of gift executed by the father and course the case soon got into the hands of the lawyers, and and as the'title to the property was in question the de. rs, - vision was reserved for the honour, or disgrace, of nis pries. The plaintiff baying proved his title as heir-at•law, MT. Gray.said the detendatt wished him to state to. oiai=, el the (nttip-aadv . a deed extt• cuted by both the old people in the year 1848. The de fendant had supported his parents when they were un able to support themselves, and, with his wife, lived in the house with them for several years, and when they died he paid their funeral expenses. He had also paid some of their debts, and it was in uonsideration of his having.agreed to do these things the deed was executed. Mr. Baron Alderson said the deed was not executed so as to pass a married woman's property. He was of opinion the deed was no defence. Mr. Gray said he could not say that it was. The deed had not been prepared by an attorney, but by a village schoolmaster. The jury then found a verdict for the plaintiff. (Before a Special Jury.) DEG (ADMINISTRATRIX) V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Skinner appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. Dowdes well for the defendants. The plaintiff in this action, Caroline Degg, was the ad ministratrix of her deceased husband, James Degg, and she sued the Midland Railway Company to recover da mages for the death of her husband, which took place on 25th October, 1355, by reason of the negligence of the de fendants' servants in driving some carriages against a truck which killed the deceased. The action was tried at the last Gloucester assizes, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with 2501. damages ; but, as the plaintiff in her declaration had only claimed 2001., the verdict was entered for that amount. Subsequently a new trial was granted by the Court of Exchequer, on the terms that the plaintiff should be allowed to amend her decla ration,.by raising her claim of damages to 2501., and that the defendants should be allowed to put another plea on the record, to the effect that the deceased was voluntarily assisting the servants of the company in re moving a truck on a turntable, and that the servants of the company, by whose negligence the damage was alleged to have accrued, were persons of ordinary care and skill, and competent to move the trucks along the railway, and that the negligence complained of was wholly nnauthorised by the company. We do not think it necessary to repeat the evidence, which was much the same as that given on the previous trial. It will be suf ficient to state that on the day in question, the deceased, .who was in the employ of the Messrs. Pickford, was en gaged in unloading a truck on a siding by the Midland hallway. Near him there was a turntable, where some men were engaged in moving a truck. On the siding there were some loaded waggons, and some empty wag gone, with a small space between them. When the men were moving the truck on the turntable, the deceased, thinking that the three men engaged in that operation wanted some assistance, volunteered his aid and jumped down to lend a hand. While engaged in this operation an engine was brought into the siding by a man named Ash ley. The engine ran against the carriages, and, as there was no one to warn the men at the turntable, the engine drove the carriages one against another until they knocked against the truck on the turntable, and jambed the de ceased between the buffer and the wall. He was kept in that frightful position for some little time, until the carriages could be removed ; and when that was done the deceased was taken away to a hospital, and died the same night of the injuries which he had re ceived. The negligence relied on by the plaintiff was that of the man Ashley, who was foreman of the porters, but who was appointed on the day in question to set in the capacity of "shunter," in the stead of the man who usu ally performed the duties of that office, but who was at the time in the hospital ; and the main issue raised by the special plea was whether Ashley was a man of ordi nary care and skill and competent to move the trucks. He was not a "shunter," though he bad sometimes acted in that capacity, and it was stated that he did not give the usual signal by the whistle, though this was denied by the defendant's witnesses. Mr. Baron Alderson summed up the evidence, and left it to the jury to say—first, whether the accident was cased by negligence on the part of any of the defend ants' servants ; and, secondly, whether the man Ashley and the engineer were persons of ordinary skill and care, and competent to move the carriages on the line. His lordship told the jury that if they found the second question in the affirmative they ought to find for the defendants' servants on the second issue, even though the defendares' servants, on the particular occasion, were guilty of negligence. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and were absent some time ' • on their return into court they found the first question for the plaintiff, and the 'second for the defendants. The verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, with 250/. damages, on the first issue, and condiii enally on the second issue, there being a demurrer to the second A plea to be determined. The learned Baron also gave the defendants leave to move to enter the verdict in their favour on the first issue raised by " not guilty," if the Court should be of opinion that the facts stated in the special plea consti tuted a good defence on " not guilty." CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wightman). Ann Allen, aged 46, and described as a nurse, was charged with the manslaughter of an infant child, named Mary Hadley, at Berkeley, on the 30th May last. Mr. Powell appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Ser geant Thomas defended the prisoner. It appeared in evidence that a young' girl, named Mary Hadley, who stated she was at the present time between 18 and 19 years of age, was in November last delivered of an illegitimate child. The child was born on the 28th of Nov. The apothecary who attended at the delivery was unable t travel to the aQsizes from ill ness, but hie deposition was read, and from that it ap peared that the child was about a seven months' child. It was, however, a healthy one ; and while it continued at the mother's breast it thrived. After six weeks the mother wished to get a situation, and placed it with the prisoner, who was a nurse at Berkeley, to bring it up by hand, and engaged to pay her 3s. a week. The child was Cd on biscuits, &c., but it began to waste away, and on the 7th of April the prisoner sent for the apothe cary who bad attended the mother. The doctor found the child suffering from pain and constipation of the bowels, and severe indigestion. He prescribed medi cine, and directed the prisoner to change the food, but he did not continue his attendance after the 21st April. From that time the child continued to gee; more ema ciated until the 22d cf May, when it was removed and placed under the care of another nurse. For a few days it seemed to take its food well, and to be improving, but on the 29th of May it threw up its food, and died the next day. On a poet mortens examination it appeared that there was enlargement of the mesenteric glands, and other disease, which the doctor who made the examination attributed to defective nutrition, and in another part of his deposition to enlargement of the mesenteric glands, caused by cold. Similar evidence was given by a young surgeon who was examined as a witnes-, and who gave it as the result of his ex perience that a seven or eight months' child had nearly as good a chance of thriving as a nine months' child, and that children brought up by hand and fed on caw's milk thrive at Berkeley at least as well as those who enjoyed the food provided by nature at the mother's breast. The prisoner had always appeared to be kind and attentive to the child. A witness was called to give her a good character, but the right witness did not answer. By some mistake the prisoner's daughter, a very healthy-looking young wo man, stepped into the box, holding a bouncing child in her arms. She stated that the child had been from its birth under the prisoner's care ; and thus the child was inadvertent'y "put in evidence." Mr. Sergeant Thomas addressed the jury for the pri soner at some length, and urged that there was no pre tence for making the charge. Mr. Justice Wightman, in summing up the evidence, observed that some of the statements made by the sur geon appeared rather strange to unprofessional people. He (the learned Judge) bad always understood that children would sometimes die if brought up by hand, and that it was sometimes necessary, in order to save their lives, to obtain a wet nurse. The jury must exercise their common sense on the case, and not convict the prisoner unless they thought she bad, by her gross neg ligence, caused the death of the child. Tee jury, without the least hesitation, found th 3 pri sorter not guilty, and she was discharged. STREET SCAVENGING IN MARYLEBONE, For once the Marylebone vestry has done a very cre ditable thing, which the local boards of works through. out the metropolis, in districts where some similar prac. tice is not already in operation, might well imitate, since it would greatly promote the comfort and con venience of the inhabitants at large. During the present week a local committee, embodied in that parish for sanitary purposes, has been trying in differ ent parts of Oxford-street a new process for watering and cleansing the streets which has the merit of novelty. Throughout the greater part of the year, as all know who traverse the thoroughfares of this great city from day to day, the pedestrian has to contend againstachoice of evils, being occasionally assailed in some quarters with clouds of dust, while in others, where "it never rains but it pours," the watering process is so overdone that if he wishes to cross the street he can only do so ancle-deep in mud. Besides, to ride or drive over the streets so drenched is attended with some difficulty and danger, as they are thereby readfred so extremely slippery that horses are continually liable to fall. The experiment now being tried in Oxford-street does away with all these inconve niences. About 4 o'clock each morning a number of water-carts in a line traverse slowly a part of the street, a few hundred yards in length, and sluice it with water, which has the effect of gradually softening the hard coat of mud with which it is overlaid. The water-carts then drench it a second time, but are followed on this occasion close behind by a gang of men, armed with large scrubbing-brushes, who stretch across the thoroughfare, sweeping as they proceed the mud into the kennel on each side, which, being largelydiluted with water, flows to a great extent into the sewers beneath by means of the gullyholes at intervals along the street, and the rest is removed in carts. The gullyholes are protected, so as to prevent any solid matter going down them ; and it has been fund that after the first morning the plan requires less water, less time, and less labour in the accomplishment of the work. The effect is that the thoroughfare thus completely cleansed in the morn ing is freed from dust during the remainder of the day ; and in that part of Oxford-street between Regent-street and Bond-street, where it has been tried, and again be tween the end of Tottenham-court road and Newman street, the tradesmen regard the change , as a great boon to them. We saw the process in full operation between 6 and 7 o'clock yesterday morning, and the only fault it appeared to have was the tardy manner in which it was perferzned. The men engaged in it had com menced work at 4 o'clock in the-morning, and at 7 they had only reached a point about midway between Totten hem court-road and Newman-street. At this rate, if they had been required to do the whole of Oxford-street, they would probably have reached the Marble Arch, if they reached it at all, when the street became crovided, by the middle of the afternoon. That of course' could not be tolerated, and if the thing is to be done at all it must be wholly done before eight in the morning, when the traffic ordinarily commences. It is, however, but right to repeat that the process is only yet an ex periment, and that if it be found to answer it will pro bably be worked in a more vigorous and systematic manner, by which alone it can give public satisfaction. It is a manifest improvement, as it is, upon the existing methods of sweeping and cleansing the public- streets, and seems to realise that model state of things, the absence of which in a great thoroughfare in Westmin ster elicited the pathetic appeal to King Thwaites from " Habitans in Sicco" a short time ago, through the columns of this journal. It is also a small fore taste of the kind of millennium promised by Sir R. Hall, in bis Local Management Act, for it will be re collected, among other conveniences in which we were to participate, the public foothpaths and thoroughfares were to be swept and garnished every morning, and " Yer honour" was no longer to be importuned for a copper by "poor Jack" at the crossing, who, after being supplanted by a paid functionary in livery, was, as some generously supposed, to retire into private life, like other great public men, on a handsome allowance from the national purse. Let us therefore be grateful. WILLS. —The will of the Right Rev, the Lord B 7 shop of Gloucester and Bristol was sworh under 140,0001. personalty; the Hon. R. Ramsey, of Cheltenharn,2o,ooo/. ; Sir J. Prendergast, 16.000/4 Sir A. Crichtoo, 7,000/. within the province; Mr. C. Shaw, of the Stock Ex change and Mydclleton-square , 1 2,0001.; Mrs. A. Shaw, of Baker-street, 10,0001.; the Rev. J. Ellis, of Clothall, Hertz, 00,0001.; Rev. R. Lyon, D.D., of Bishop's Caun. dle, 25,000/.; Rev. E. W. Estcourt, M.A.., of Long Newnton, 20,000/. ; Rev. G. G. Townley, D.C.L., 10,0001.; Mr. J. Wilkinson, of Leeds, 50,000/., within the province of CanterbimLMr. R. V. Hooper, of Is liogton, 60,000/.• Mr. w. vans, of Chels ea , 60,0001. ; Mr. G. C. Chaplain, Elms, Tunbridge, 10,0001. The will of Sir Edward Tierney, of Dublin, was proved first in Ireland under 60,0001:, and since in England under 45,0001. within the province of Canterbury. Also lately have been proved in London the wills of the Dowager Marchioness of Hertford ; the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury and Waterfurd,pir Jas. H.anloke, and Sir C. fiqrbert. Lord Vizcount Fitnibbou died intestate. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have just issued their statement of accounts for the half-year ending the 30th of June. It is as usual clear and comprehensive, affording a considerable amount of information to the shareholders. The joint-stock capital account shows the total amount of share capital to be 25,521,831/., consisting of 22,521,3311. credited to the 30th of June, 286,4141. calls in course of payment, and 2,772,1351. calls which may be made. The general statement of capital account shows that 22,049,042/. had been received on stock and shares, 62,3i11 paid in ad varace of calls, 10,975,5891. loans on debentures, and 402,8301. on 3i per cent. debenture stock ; total 33,439,8531. upon the whole, of which interest and dividend is charged to revenue. The expenditure on the main lines of railway and works amounted, on the 30thof June to 23,712,9271., on the rolling stock to 2,896,2821., on lands and buildings yielding rent to 351,5671. ; together 26,963,776/. ; on lines open in which the company have an interest—Coventry and Nuneaton 307,8771., West London 77,0321., Lancas ter and Carlisle 350,000/, Caledonian 143,7841.. Scottish Midland 95,7721., Shropshire Union 165,3841., Manchester and South Junction 357,6781., South Staffordshire 190,7151., Manchester and Buxton 55,7001., Chester and Holyhead 1,472,1121., ditto waggons an advances 315,9621., North London 557,7201., ditto advances 104,1251. Buckinghamshire 337,5711., ditto works 16;0151., Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley 197,3181., ditto works 561,112/., Hampstead Junction 63,3731, together for these lines 5,513,3121., mak ing the total sum expended 32,477,0891;, leaning a balance at the bankers' of 1,012,7631. The de benture account to the 3..ith of June shows that 1,033,655/. was borrowed at 5 per cent., 1,451,996'. at 4i per cent., 4,214,288/. at 4i per cent., 365,631/. at 41 per cent., 1,741.9501. at 4 per cent., 718.8601. at 31 per cent., 1,074,3061. at 3i per cent., 362,7001. at per cent., and 3,2001. at 3 per cent. ; total, 10,975,5891. The working stock account shows that 2,896,281/. had been expended on it, the total mileage worked by the company 8954 miles, and the average cost of working stock per mile 3,'e34/. The return of working stock shows that there are 743 loco motive engines, 742 tenders, 1 st rte carriage, 666 first-class vaails and composite carriages, 562 second-class and 419 third-class carriages, 31 travelling post-offices and tenders, 311 horse-boxes, 256 carriage trucks, 262 guards, break, and parcel vans, 31 parcel trucks, 9,098 goods waggons, 1,000 cattle waggons, 279 sheep vans, 1,381 coke waggons, 26 trolleys, 5,150 sheets, and 247 horses. The statement of disbursenients on capital account shows that from 31st of December, 1819, to 30th of June, 1858, the expenditure upon various estimates s anc ti one d by the proprietors amounted to 4,235,0591. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June last shows that 1,463,567/. bad been received from traffic, 11,3871. interest on cash bakaces, 16,085/. rents, 3161. transfer fees, 1,3791. net amount of Huddersfield Canal traffic, estimated amount of dividends from railways in which the company have an interest, 47,1061.; total 1,539,8431., against 1,466,3471. at the correspondin g period of last year, showing an increase in the receipts of 73,4931. The working charges amounted to 597,3991., parish rates and taxes to 34,0561., and pas senger duty to 23,407/. ; making the working expenses 651,8631., against 655,3301. at the corresponding period of 1855, showing a decrease -in the working expenses of 4971., and at the same time an increase in the gross re ceipts of 73,4951. Tho increase on loans amounted to 228,t551., chief rents, to 4,6471.; Peterborough joint station, 2,0001.; Parliamentary and legal expenses, 10,0001.; Pres ton and Wyre deficiency, 4,1351. ; Buckinghamshire gua rantee, 18,2991.; North Union guarantee, 26,9291.; Shrop. shire Union deficiency, 12,965/. ; ditto, 3,120/. ; Matlock lease deficiency, 1,6581. ; West London award, 2,000. ; Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 1,336/. ; Stour Valley defi ciency, 9,412/. ; Haydon-square depot, 2,1371.; and re newal of rails, 28,333/. ; leaving a balance of 529,9501. against 471,5441. at the corresponding period of 1855, showing an increase of 58,4061. The renewal of rail account shows a total expenditure of 703,0351., including 63,1721. for the past half-year. The amount set aside from reve nue being 399,7471., including 28,3331. for the past half year, leaving a balance against the account of 303,2881. To the balance frma revenue account of 529,9501. is added t 8,5111., the balance from the preceding half-year, making a disposable sum of 578,462/. The proposed dividend, at the rate of 5 par cent. per annum, will absorb 564,3851., and leave a balance of 14,076/. The dividend on the con solidated stock of the company will amount to 501,412/. ; on the 201. shares to 9,3811., or Bs. per share • on the 101. , C shares to 7,169/. or 2s. 9d. per share; on the 121. 10s. shares (2/. 10s. paid) 10,9151., or ls. per share; and on the Huddersfield and Dewsbury stocks 28,7271., and Coventry and Nuneaton 6,750/., leaving 14,0761. It is intended to make the dividend payable on the 19th inst. From the statement of the half-year's accounts it will be seen that the net proceeds are 529,9501., as against 471,5414 at the corresponding period of 1855; re balance from the last account amounted to 48,5111., as against 71,2701. in June, 1855, showing a disposable balance of 578,4621. in June, 1856, as against 542,8151. in June, 1855 ; the divi dend recommended being 564,3351. as against 533,865&., and the balancs carried to the next account 11,0,61. as against 6,9501. The profits of the half-year exceed those of the oarrespondine• ' period by 58,4001., and the directors are therefore enabled to recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, which is an increase of # per cent. beyond the dividend declared in August last year. the balance to be carried forward to the next account being also larger. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Aug. 6. SOUTHWARK.— 11r. N. Rave, an army and navy contractor, whose offices are at No. 51, Backside, South wark, was charged with the abduction of Eliza Brad shaw, 14 years of aga, the daughter of Win. Bradshaw, beershop•keeper, No. 62, Ited Cross.street, Borough. He was also charged with committing a criminal assault upon her, but that charge was abandoned. Mr. Solomon appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Binns for the prisoner, who is a married man, about 35 years of age. Mr. Solomon said that the charge was one of a very serious nature against the prisoner, the commission of which had destroyed the happiness of a very respectable family. For the last 12 months he had been in the habit of visiting Mr. Bradshaw's house, and, knowing him to be a person in a good station of life, he was intro duced to his wife and family. Oa Saturday night he was at his client's house, as usual, when he sent the com plainant to purchase something for him at a butcher's in the neighbourhood. Soon after she left her father's house the prisoner followed her, and nothing more was heard of her until Sunday afternoon, when sho was found in the Lambeth-road, and then it was discovered that the prisoner bad taken her away from home, conveyed her to a brothel in Exeter:street, and there slept with her until Sunday noon. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner was sought after, but it was not until Tuesday night that he could be found, when the father of the girl gave him into custody. The charge then made he (Mr. Solomon) did not think he Gould sustain ; tlatr,fore he ablndoted it, and c'iarged him with abduction, as he bad taken her away from home with• out her father's consent. Mr. Combs asked Mr. Solomon under what act of Parliament he proceeded. Mr. Solomon replied—The 10th George IV., cap. 31, sec. 20, which enacts that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of 16 years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawfal care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to suffer such punishment, by fine or imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award. The mother was then called, and said—l reside with my husband at 62, Red Cross-street, Borough. We keep a beer-shop. My- daughter, Eliza Bradshaw, will be 15 years of age on the 29th of next September. She has lived with us from her birth, and was at home up to Saturday night last. The•prisoner was in the house on that night, and my husband was up stairs in the club room. Between 11 and 12 o'clock the prisoner sent my daughter to Beale's, the butcher's, in Queen-street, .to purcha se some mea t fox him. After she had gone a minute or two the prisoner went out, end, Wing tonp BUNTINGFORD AND WARE. A numerous and influential meeting was held at Bun tingford on Monday, for the purpose of promoting the con struction of a line of railway from that town to the Eas tern Counties Railway at Ware. Mr. ABEL SMITH, M.P., was called to the chair. He adverted to the desirableness of providing the town and district with railway communication, and the disad vantages which they laboured under from not having that means of transit. Several gentlemen, large landowners in the neighbour. hood, then addressed the meeting in favour of the scheme, and resolutions were adopted strongly urging the forma. tion of the line, and recommending it to the support of the inhabitants. _ _A committee was then appointed to consult the owners of property through which the proposed line was to pass, and to adopt other measures to carry out the objects of the meeting. A voto of thanks to the chairman closed the proceed ings. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. ----, _ GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending July 27, 1856 £ '2,733 3 1 Corresponding week last year 21,610 10 4 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. -Traffic re turn for the week ending Aug. 3, 1856 £25,903 11 6 Corresponding week last year. 22,597 0 2 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 3, 1856 k:6,522 2 2 Corresponding week last year 5,971 9 0 Increase in 1856 . CORE AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week ending Aug. 2, 1856 £267 3 11 Corresponding week last year LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic . re turns for the week ending Aug. 2, 1856 .....211,282 18 8 The Grand Duke of Hesse Cassel, travelling ineog, under the name of the Count de Schaumburg, accom parried by a suite of 21 per6ons, arrived on Sunday al Brus,els. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills incontrovertlble Remedies for Bad Legs.—Mr. Sharp, chemist, of Salford, reports, in a communication to Pro lessor Holloway, that Mrs. Hohne,i, of A lbert•street, Salford, suffered from' a bad leg for upwards of three years, during which period she could wear neither shoe nor boot—in fict,,suffered extreme torture. She was at length induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pids, and in the brief space of four weeks the wounds in her leg were completely cured, and she can now walk any reasonable distance.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout 'the world at Professor Holloway's esta• blishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A, Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta, [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGFIT AND MARINO SPECTACLES, POWERFUL. TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES.—Messrs..S. and B. Solomon, opticians, 39, Albe marle:street-Piceadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, Byr, liter Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the. most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per. spective Glasses, to know the distances. These telescopes possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of !larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1 miles distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, doer-staring, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the greet ed transparent power. The valuable adva , tage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute °cell. Fajen-- cap seo with these lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world, by sending ono of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can read small newspaper print with it; and those who have not made use of spectacles by stinting their ago.—Deaf ness. New Disec7ery. The Organic Vibrator, an ex traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument fir deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass any thing of the kind that has been or probably ever 'lan be, Produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not. per ceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church ; and at public as,einblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing ; k d ib s e all the o i . noises in the cars is entirely removed ; and it affords assistance that possibly could be desired.- 39 , trocte Piccadilly. Obaervim•oppcoite the PA got 1. • - Country Market 3. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—AUG. 5. Thero were in the market to-day 16 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280 lbs imperial, which sold at 50s. Od. EDINBUMIH HAY AND STRAW MARKET-. AUG. 5. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 9s Od to 12s Gd per kemple of 16 stones trot); wheat do., 9s Od to lls 6d; barley do., lOs t Od. Hay from is to 15d. DALKEITH MEAL There were in the market tc 1 bag barleyineal. Sales dull Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs 'First. I Second. I Third. imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s 01 —s Od t 0 Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, per ditto —s 0d —s Od 0(1 Pet-barley, per ditto MARKET—Iva. 4. •ei‘y 10 bags of oatmeal and GREAT WESTERN. It will no doubt be gratifying to the 10,000 shareholders in this company to know that the works on their system of railways are now rapidly approaching completion. The branch from the main line at West Drayton to Ux bridge is to be opened in the course of the present month. The works on the branch from Twyford to Henley are so far advanced that they can be completed in about three months. At the Didcot Junction considerable accommo dation is being provided fcr facilitating the passage of trains from the north going either east or west, while va rious additions are being made to the stations on the main line for the a.:(onaniodation of the increasing goals traffic. With regard to the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, the Salisbury section of the line was opened from Warminster throughout a short time ago. The section from Frome to Yeovil, it is expected, will be opened for traffic in the course of a few weeks, and 'throughout to Weymouth before the end of the autumn. The additional rails required for the formation of the mixed gauge be tween Basingstoke and Oxford are now laid, with the ex ception of a short gap now being laid on the new embank ment forming the western junction, near Reading. This will afford a complete and continuous communication with the Shrewsbury and other northern lines. In the Bir mingham and Wolverhampton district of the Great West ' ern, it appears, the works are so far completed as to afford connection with the canals there, and accommodation for tse local traffic of that important district. The completion of these works will, of course, materially assist in develop ing the traffic at various points on the railway, and thereby increase the revenue of the company. In addition to those works for facilitating the traffic, there has been recently completed a large goods station connecting the railway with the canal and Thames river trade, which is now in active operation. With respect to another very important work—the Paddington terminal station—it appears that the buildings are all but completed, and only some por tions of the permanent way remain to be laid on ground which has been hitherto occupied by temporary carriage sheds. This station now affords accommodatioc on a very , extensive scale, and is capable of accommodating an im mense increase of traffic on the whole system belonging to the Great Western Company. The terminus comprises four great departments, which the successful working •cif the traffic requires. The first department consists of the 4 passeuger station, buildings, departure and arrival plat forms, and sheds, affording large accommodation for spare carriage stock under cover. The second department con sists of goods' sheds, warehouses, offices, and sidings, with coal and other lines, for the accommodation of the goods' traffic. The third department includes extensive shops f,r carriage and waggon repairs, with the requisite sheds, stores, and side lines. The fourth department embraces the locomotive engine establishment, with the requisite accommodation. These four departments extend for a distance of more than a mile down the main line, and have been carefully arranged to meet the requirements of the traffic. Another feature of this terminus is, that there ar e separate lines for passenger and goods trains, with side lines to each, to admit of the passing of engines, trucks, kc., clear of those trains. It is believed that the above constitutes the great bulk of the works contemplated by the directors, and which, owing to various circumstances, have been for a considerable time in course of construction. It is expected that their completion will have the effect of increasing the traffic generally on the Great Western system of lines, and of course augmenting the disposable sum available for dividend. METROPOLITAN. The following very clear statement of the merits of this important rail way has been forwarded to us : " The line sanctioned will commence at Paddington by an independent terminus immediately opposite the Groat Western Hotel, and, by a branch to the Great Western Railway, along the South Wharf-road, will be connected with that railway on the level ; it will then proceed under the New-road to Euston-square, where it will throw off a branch to the Euston Station; from Euston-square the line will still keep the course of .the New-road to King's-cross, where a short branch will be carried up Maiden lane to connect it with the Great Northern Railway on the level; from King's-cross the fine will take a direct course to the prison in. Peldbath-fields, which is to be removed. The valuable site of 81 acres of land on which the prison Stant IS, and which will become the property of the company, will compensate to a great extent the cost of erecting a new. prison. The line then enters upon the large open space which has recently been uncovered by the city under the powers of the Clerkenwell Improvement Acts ; by this fortunate coincidence, not only will the oost of construct ing the railway be - most materially lessened, but au ample space will be obtained in the very heart of London for station purposes, and for warehouses, for the accommoda tion of the daily increasing trade of London. " The line will then cross Smithfield, where again it will be carried for a considerable distance, without any inter ference with buildikas to St. Martin s-le-Grand and the Post-office. The Parliamentary powers for those works were obtained during the late monetary crisis, and upon„ terms highly favourable for the company. " The capital is 1,000,0001. in shares of 101. each. All the shares have been subscribed for, and a sum amounting to 75,000/, is now standing to the credit of the company in the hands of the Accountant-General. " The entire length of the line will be four! miles one furlong, of which nearly two miles Will be under the sur face of the New-road, where no purehase money will be required, save in two or three exceptional cases, where a few houses for station purposes may possibly have to be taken. The site of the House of Correction, the Clorken well improvement district, and Smithfield, will comprise' a further distance of half a mile, where little compensa tion will . be required, and the greater portion of Praed street, and South Wharf-road will also be wide enough for the railway, so that there will remain a little more than a mile of the whole distance of ordinary house property, and the cost of the land will consequently be less than one fourth of what it would have been if the linehad b93n less happily selected, and that cost again will be materially re duced by the re sale of the surface after the works have been covered in. " The construction of the works will be attended with no difficulty. .The mode of dealing with the New-road and the other public thoroughfares was well Considered and provided for by the different local authorities; it will ' occasion no inconvenience to the company, and ample al lowance for every expense under this head has been made; the working drawings for the sewers have been arranged and settled with the engineer of the Metropolitan Bird of Works, and the requisite alterations in the drainage will be completed at less cost than was at tilst contemplated anchincluded in the estimates ; and the water and gas pipes 'will neither be disturbed during the construction of the work, nor their situation altered, as the position of Mie railway will admit not only of their retention, but atilt it enlargement at any future period. The works throughout are of an ascertained and uniform character, leas liable than usual to sty tlistOtrbiug oo4ticsotioy, Nad admitting • of their being estimated with more than ordinary preci sion. Tho estimates, both for land and works, have been revised and examined with the greatest minuteness, and the surveyor and engineer are satisfied that the sum of 1,200,000/. will cover every contingency. " The company have power to borrow 330,0001., so that a sufficient margin will remain for the purchase of rolling stock. " The entire railway may easily be completed within 18 months after its commencement ; but, for greater caution, two years are allowed for its being opened. " The railway from the Great Western Railway to the Post-office will be a double line of mixed gauge, adapted for carriages on both the broad and the narrow gauge, with two additional lines of rails on the narrow gauge frem the Great Northern Railway to the City, for the accommoda tion of short trains on that line, and to meet the require ments of the dead-meat markets in the City, and the new cattle-market in Copenhagen-fields, when the contemplated arrangements with the Great Northern Company and the Corporation of London are satiefactorily concluded. " The arcade through which the railway will be carried will be spacious, dry, and well ventilated and lighted ; and, by the mode of working the trains, entirely free of smoke and steam. " The trains will be approached by wide and easy stairs, not iuvolying more inconvenience than the ordinary descent from the drawing to the dining room. " The carriages will be spacious, and adapted for the London traffic ; they will be fitted up with every comfort, and mirrors and lights will altogether excluoe the idea of underground travelling. The trains will be propelled by locomotive engines, moved by steam generated from heated water carried with the engines, with an apparatus for con densing the waste steam, by which means all annoyance from smoke, grit, or steam will be avoided. " The practicability and advantages of this motive power were fully investigated by the committee on the bill, and conclusively proved by the evidence of Messrs. Brunel!, Fowler, and Scott Russell, and by experiments on the Great Western Railway. "The trains will be run in regular succession at inter vals of five minutes, with additional trains during the busy hours of the morning and afternoon. From their fre quency, they will be light, and of nearly uniform weight ; the passengers to take up and set down at each station , from the shortness of the interval between one train and another, will be few; fifteen are taken as the average, and will require but a momentary stoppage. The gradients will be uniformly good, and the rails will not be liable to be rendered slippery and dirty by the weather or other external influences. The trains will, therefore, be worked with a clockwork regularity, which is all-important for the business traffic of the metropolis, and will snore than compensate for the comparatively low speed which will be attained-15 miles, including stoppages, is reckoned on. "As the railway and carriages will always be under cover, they will not be liable to damage from weather, and will in other respects be more economically managed. , and maintained. _ " It is impossible to conceive a system of railway com munication better adapted for the accommodation of the London passenger traffic. The regular omnibus traveller, and the ladies and gentlemen who never venture into an omnibus, will at all times, and at each station, be certain to meet a conveyance to their taste, and which will assist them some distance on their journey with speed and com fort, and at a small charge. "Any estimate based upon the crowds which may be ex pected to avail themselves of such a convenience—from Paddington, Kilburn, St. John's-wood, Marylebond, the Itegent's-park, Tottenham-court-road, Euston-square, King's cross, to and from the City, and from the endless streams of traffic passing throughout the day between the intermediate stations and place., to which they lead, would be deemed an exaggeration. "The experience of no existing railway can furnish the slightest indication of the numbers which may be expected; but the river steam-boats which touch at points further removed from the great thoroughfares, at very uncertain times, which take longer time to perform their journeys, and are less conveniently approached, carry, it is computed, 150,000 persons daily. "The following very modest calculation of traffic ap peared in the original prospectuses of the company, and may be assumed as much under the mark:— "Taking the trains to run every five minutes through the day, from 8 a.m. till 10 p.m., with extra trains during the busy hours, from 8 to 11 in the morning, and from 3 to 6 i❑ the afternoon, the daily trains will be as under : Trains every five minutes, or per hour 12 by 14 = 168 Additional trains per hour Bby 6 = 4i Each way by 2=435 trains per diem. "-The average take on the main line of the Blaokwall Railway is 7s. per mile per train ; then 433 trains by 4, the mileage,=l,723; and is. the take per mile=-6011. 16s. per diem. Which, at 3d. each would be 43,381 passengers—less than the estimated present number of omnibus travellers, with out cabs or increase. Per Annum 6011. 165., the daily receipts, by 313 = £189,3t: 8s Two-thirds of the above receipts as the Sauday traffic, := 4531. 4s. by 52 =--- 29.966 8t £,219,268 16s, "A second great source of profit will be found in the goods traffic, to be carded chiefly by night, passing to and fro between the Great Western, the Loudon and North- Western, and the Great Northern Railways, and the ware houses and depots which these great companies will erect for themselves in Clerken well, Smithfield, and elsewhere in the heart of the City with this line. The site of the House of Correction, a square block of land of 63 acres, presents, when connected with the groat railway systems, the opportunity of carrying on a coal traffic of very far greater magnitude than the London railways have as yet developed. Indeed the most competent judges have given it as their opinion that the Metropolitan Railway might. be worked to great profit if devoted exclusively to the con veyance of goods. " The third great source of profit to the Metropolitan Company will be the facilities of interchange of traffic with the three great northern and western 'railways, and their numberless tributuries. Looking at these various sources of traffic, and at all the circumstances of this very re markable and promising undertaking, it is not too much to anticipate that it will prove a striking exception to the general experience of railway enterprise, and prove as pro- Citable to the company as it will undoubtedly be useful to the inhabitants of this great city. "The manifest advantages of the project secured in tht first instance a very decided feeling in its favour on the part of the public ; but the hesitation of the company, in duced no doubt by the adverse aspect of the times, occa sioned much distrust, and has materially prejudiced them for the moment in public estimation. The arrangement, however, concluded with Mr. Ricardo, which insures the speedy commencement of the works, and the energetic prosecution of the undertaking, will dispel this passing shadow, and restore to the company that confidence which is alone wanting to complete the measure of its success." DUBLIN, AZO. G. In consequence of the fall in Mark-lane yesterday, and the present splendid weather, there was an extremely 'de pressed market at our Corn Exchange today. We must quote wheat fully 2s to Ss per barrel lower, and even at t his reduction many samples remained unsold. There is no change to report in the prices of oats; a sample of new tawny was sold at 16s 6d, and of new rapeseed at 35s per barrel. Indian corn was very difficult of sale at the rakes of Friday. '.-AUGUST 6. ;he close of the market. Wallsond, &o. e: Framwellgate l7 0 Haswell 19 0 Russell's Raton 18 0 south Hetton 18 6 &ugh Hall l7 0 Lees lB 9 Hetton Lyons Main l7 3 Lambton 6....18 3 12 I Sold . COAL MARKE' Prioes of Coal per ton at s. d, Tanfield Moor Butes 14 3 Lougridge's Wst Hartley 17 E) Byass's West Hartley I 9 Walker Primrose .. l4 Q Wallsend, &e. Kelloe 17 9 Whitworth l6 6 Wharnelin ...16 € Gosforth l6 3 Belmont 16 9 Ships at market... 3' LOCAL SHARE 'MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, At GusT 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is not doing much business to-day, and the transactions in the leading stocks are limited, but prices are steady at the full rates of yesterday, and in some cases an advance. MANCHESTER, AUGUST 6. STOOK EXOHANGE.—This market was . dull today► and prices rather easier. Sheffields, 35,i—Londons, Great Western of Canada, 26—Midlands, 851 5--Leode► 981—South Eastern and Dovers, 22 7-16. BIRMINGHAM, AUGUST 6. 3TOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been firm today The following were the transactions :—Midland, 841 London and North Western, 108;--heat Western, On Manchester and Sheffields, 35. SEABORNE MAILS,. aff signifies that the mails are sent from the kieneral Post-o 1 tho night—and M by the morning--despatch.) „ uaYsiTheu Made up From a , ha , Wz.V COUNTRIE9. in General Post- Pori due '..3 Office, London.* Dispatch 03. Ea. land. —•—..-- -- *1....A 1. kraerica(byßrit.pack)A Every Friday .. ~ Liverpool ... Weekly tmericp. (by - United Ste packet) ........ „,,N Every Tuesday .. Southamote t, 'weekly interica (by U. Sts; ~, packet) ..........2 packet)........... ....... • . Liverpool ... Australia (via Liver pool) ........ „... a 4th and 19th .... Liverpool .• ,Twice rlO '1)11.to (via Marseilles) N •••6..•...,... Dover .., ...- .)itto (via Cape of Good' Hope) •• •• •. •• •• ...IV; ....... •• •• .•. o.acerta ,o africa ( West Coast) ..N ; s;'; of t!. ~,:,,,;- . 9, .. Plymouth .. 651 nt me. ts.lexandria.........,NllOth : 26th o , r cr. Dover ...... 'id .is 190 Alexandria .. ..'.. —.. MII • , ,', '..?' ,, i of m' ;. • 80 1 11 1 am p o•• 4t, 21 010 'tahamas ...........iii 17th of tbo month Soathatnot‘ a 16th l e i g inin ~. „„ „,, .„ .N Daily ••. • • • ...... Dover ..,. ~ Dotty 3ra3il ..............N 9th of the month.. Sou Ca am poi itth. 9'. , *th:, ,nont, „. Southzrck , l; 16th Huenos Ayres ........M (tape of Good Hope ..N !Uncertain Cape of Good Hope .. IQ ••••,,, r Southamptor 16th of S AO Ceylon (see India) :10th and 26th l4 .tr. Atli , Ceylon •• •• • • ........N Hith and 20th Channel 151e5.... ~,, ..Nllt .. .. 0., ~,,, ri.„ Southampton ru.T0. , 4 0 Chili—. , ............1.1 2,111 c 17th of montblouthampl or; l and 16 China .... Constantinople .... i Iv i Oth and 26th ...Dover ......2 and ; 9 Censtantinopic l4th & 20th of m on . .JEloothamptor, 7 a nd 24 Cont. of Europe II t: N . Ewiee daily .., .... Dover •..... Twice. dal' Egypt (see India) France ........ DS & N Twice daily.... - Dover .... Twiceds ii r Gibraltar .• ........M,4, 7,17, 20, 27 4 co. Southampton 6. 7, 40” Greece (see India) 1 Groytown .• .. .. .. .• NI mad & 17th of mon.,Southampton 1 and 1 6 Ilan:Murat ..........N Dailv !London ..... Daily Havannah ........., 14 lnd of the month' So-ttnamp;. r. Ist of 0 0 a n H an d .........„ „ m1Da11y.........„. Dover ..... „. Daily Honduras .........,,M In:, of the month. Southampton I.6th • , India (vie.Southampt.)Ml4th .4. 20th of mon. Plymouth .. 4 and 21. India (via Marseilles)M 10%&26th of molt* Dover ...... lb & 29 Fa lonian Isles (see Ind! a) '•• • • •• • • Ireland ........hi & *Twice daily .. 'Holyhead .. Liaben............ .. at i2d of mo.. . Southampton Madeira ...........•.a1 9th of mow , Madeira ............N 284 or month Malta (see India) ; 49 Malta ............ ~,lii i 4, 10, 20, and 26 Dover ........ 4. 15, 21,- Mauritius (see India) 1 1 ,2fanritius ..........N 20th , of the month 4th a ud 2 1 Mexico ••M'and of the month., Sonthampt•n lit.. .Tap1e5.............N; Daily New Granada ...... It ;2 , 1 As l7th of monthlSouthamptoi Ist and 16 New Zea1and........... 1 7 . 4.1:;e a month .. Various port , Papal States ....,.....N ;Daily .. Peninsula ..........I'4 I . i'•outhamptor Peru • Mi7d & 27th of mon., icuthamptor Ist & 16til Port Natal ............lii private chip... ; Various ports Sicily ~.............NlEvery Saturday.. Dover ...... Week7,..' Tuscany ............N Dbi1y......., .. HD ° , .... Venezuela .......... DI 144 & i7th ofmonth Southampton I 4 160 1c4f Van Dlemen's lokncl (see ; Australia) ....... kth of mon. .. .. 1 West indl A. ;A ,4 ... .. ; monthly ' - 7tt.,, , nl,o:•••lAonthamn•at.it .nc1 . 16 . kth of moat. .... rnor: ;monthly 01 and 16 13onthamtopt, b d Whenany of these dates fall o n a S un d ay , the, malls wii, spatched on the following day, with the exception of the Incur Fouthampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched soy preceding day. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening i s meeting of the committee of management, and others terested in the welfare of the above society, was held P the London Tavern, for general business. The 29th aly nual report stated that the subscribers must not be stir; prised to find that the society had felt the pressure o' the times and their events during the past year, part'," cularly at its comm en c emen t, f r om th e war an d genet circumstances of the country. The annual dinner acv produced 243/. a sum much below the usual average The annual subscriptions e have also felt the pressure. tl' der the pecuniary circumst ances , th e comm itt ee f on na,„ l necessary to draw upon the invested fund for 100/, vi c'ear the expenditure of the year; that sum is only a po t ' tion of the .terest, which is strictly applicable to tile current exp-nses of the society, and must not be conl tiered as so much capital withdrawn, but only so MO, less invested. The property of the society is now 6,991 b 5 4d. invested with the Commissioners tor the R-do tr _ A tion of the National Debt, and 754/. 3. 7d. R e Three Rif. Cents. A fettacy of 50/. has been •• et've fs t " d ex( cutors of the late Mrs. M'Arthur. A new regqir t • tion has come into operation, by which the widows ° I ; pensioners, if 70 years of age, are en titl e d t o a penFi°,, f 9/. without elect ion, three of wh om are now receivin g the benefits thereof. The amount paid to pensioners dot' ing last year exceeded 6001. The number. of pensioner th male and female, who have been recipients, inclnditl, the last election, were 257. The property of the sopiPsJ invested wan 7,6881, 6. 3 . sd, APPREHENDED SCICIDE ON THE NORTH KENT RBI WAY.—The body of a man, apparently about 28 years o age, was discovered on the North Kent line of railway' a'e,ut cue mi e oo the London side of the Erith statiao' at an early hour foaTucsiay morning. The head waslyl o % a few yards from the body, from which it had been s e ; parated, as if by the action of the guillotine. The AO and hands, the trunk, limbs, an d f ee t, were w h o lly 13 .1 , 55, injured. The vertebral colu mn p ro t ru d e d a t the Dort a- if the dissection had comme nce d a t it s very eumtv: The countenance was little altered f r o m a na t ur al tv: p aranee, except from the di s to r ti on o f th e e y e s ; tu" hair is long, and more like that of a woman than a 1 10. i The presumption is that the deceased, who has not been recognised, bad intentionally placed his neck Wei; the rail on the approach of a train, probably the u p flie s ., goods train, and so brought about his o wn d es t ru ct'?" and this shocking catastrophe. The clothes of the u e i ceased are good and clean,. and exhibit no synrptorns squalor or poverty. A small sum of money was hurl in his pocket, but no papers to lead to identification. BIRTHS. 4t OF A SON. On the 6th inst., at 80, Chester-square, Lady Mar* On the sth inst., at 13, Ovington-scinare, BromPO op Mrs. James Holmes. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 31 inst., at 9, Green-street, Grosvenor-sq.— the wife of Bertram F. Barton, Esq. On the sth inst., at Peckham-rye, the wife of Dr. Morro' MARRIED. ;. On the sth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, 6 ' Long, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister, to Rosa Btaimilt"n' eldest daughter of A. Billing, Esq., M.D., of 6, Gros"' nor-gate, Park-lane. On the sth inst., at St. Pancras Church, Hugh sandeinau, Esq., of the Bengal C.S., eldest son of P-1 0 Fraser Sandeman, Esq., of Sussex square, Hyde..park• Rosetta Marianne, only daughter of the Rev. A. rector of St. Alphage. DI ED. On the 4th inst., at Brighton, Thomas Garbo, E14.0 47f Hamilton•terrace, St. John's-wood, aged 66. rt On the sth inst., at Highworth, Wilts, John Tuc k° Esq., West Ham Abbey, Essex, aged 49. On the 6th inst., at Wimbledon, Edward Hunter Blair. infant son of E. Buckle, Esq. On the sth inst , at the New Kent-road, Elizabeth , t he wife of Benjamin Dyer, Esq., R.N., l a te of Stonehouss, Devon, aged 59. . On the 2d inst., at Hilton, H un ti ng d ons hire, Js-a rose Osborne, Esq., aged 37. late On the Ist inst., at Ryd e , H enry P. P. B ourc hier,_,Th Captain of the Peni nsu l ar an d O r i en t a l C ompan y's ship Bontinck aged 38. On the let inst., at St. John's-wood-park, Ann, — II Mr. Wm. Pre s t on . 61. On the Ist i ns t., at Bognor, Augusta Binstead, age d LONDON : Printed and Published-1)y MUBDO Y . " rfri N , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 17te Sun, Offices 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the. Savoy, in the Ol in of laddlvloz, Thursday, AuSet 7,100. ~~.