The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-21 00:00:00

THE WAR IN VIRGINIA. (From Me Special Correspondent of the limes.) RICHMOND, June 14. Richmond, revisited at this moment by one who leas been familiar with its inhabitants during their last two years of agony, recalls ? feelings such as those which, according to the late Mr Rogers, animate the breasts of very old men in their ghost like wanderings through the streets of London. " The West-end," said he, "Deems to me one vast cemetery. Hardly a street In _fias in it a house once occupied by dear frier a whom I had daily intercourse; if I stopped and . knocked now, who would know or take ioaerest in me ? The streets to me are peopled with shadows ; the city is as a city of the dead." How much more is this the case in little Richmond, peopled by a simple and affectionate community, looped together as it were by the ties of one large family. To me personally there is scarcely a street or corner which does not recall a friend—and in such times friendships seem firmer and warmer than in gala days—whose voice still rings in my ear, though now hushed for ever. Few of the English visitors who have in the last three years braved the difficulties of entering Secessia will have heard of " Jeb Stuart's" death without hearty regret. With some superficial and venial faults of harmless vanity, Gen. Stuart was the most credita ble impersonation of what is called in this country the Southern Cavalier. Fearless to a fault, singu larly enduring of fatigue, never sick, never absent from duty, never daunted nor dispirited, he died as he had lived, after baffling with 2,000 men the advance of thrice that number of horsemen, the most cheerful of victims to a cause for which he would have given a thousand lives, His loss is bewailed by General Leo as that of a son. No such active or efficient agen t in fathoming th e d es i gns an d num bers of his enemy will be found by General Lee, let this war last as long as it may. It would be of small interest were I to recapitu• late personal details about many other Southern Generals who have fallen since the commencement of May, and who to England are little more than names. But it will have been a satisfaction to many to learn that, upon the same plank road which upon Nay 2, Mee, witnessed the deathwound of Stone wall Jackson, General Longstreet, dangerously struck in the throat by a Southern bullet, escaped death upon May 6, 1864, aithough receiving, after three years of unparalleled exposure, his first hazardous wound. You will have learnt that upon the previous day two Confederate divisions—those of Heth and Wilicox—held their ground long and nobly against overwhelming numbers of their foes They were to be relieved in the night; and the men, worn down by exertion, looked for a brief red pose as they scanned their thin numbers, when, before the dawn of the 6th of May, heavy lines of the en emy, massed in the night, and following each other in quick succession, dashed upon, their en• feebled ranks. They stood gallantly for a while ; but at last, shrinking before the compact masses ,burled upon them, they commenced a retreat, which from a walk grew into a run, from a rut into a de moralised rout. At this moment there was advancing along the plank road the hardy corps which Long street has so long led. Into their leading files dashed, at headlong speed and in wild disarray, the broken ranks of Heth and Willcox, mingled with fieldpieces, ambulances, caissons, runaway horses, and shouting office/a striving to bear up against the rcut, but whirled along in its resistless current. Beside the road was Gen. Lee, irritated and excited beyond precedent, and eager to stem the torrent of flight by catching hold of any organised body of men and launching them in person against the head of the advancing stream. Upon this hurly burly of con fusion and alarm supervened at the most critical moment the unshrinking constancy of Gen. Long street and his corps. Riding up to General Lee, he said, " General, my men have seen such scenes befote and will not be daunted; wait, and you shall see the enemy driven like chaff before the wind." Right nobly did his men, and especially Kershaw's division, verify their General's confident promise. The onward rush of Federals was stayed; at their head fell General Wadsworth, gallantly yielding his life for what he believed the holiest of causes ; the Confederates swept forward irresistibly, and the ground on which Iletb. and Willcox had bivouacked passed again into their hands. At this moment, Longstreet, after brief consultation with General Lee, suggested a flank movement net dissimilar to that by which twelve months before the bloody day of Chancellorsville was decided by Jackson. It was commenced, the promise of the first movement was richly encouraging. Generals Longstreet and Jenkins rode in great glee with their Staff along the plank road, when one of those unforeseen acci dents which are inseparable from war, and doubly hazardous with undisciplined troops, checked in an instant all laughter and merriment. A volley at short range, issuing from Mahone's brigade of Con federates as they poured obliquely through the tangled undergrowth of the Wilderness, struck Longstreet's little party like a white squall ; Gen. Jenkins sprung high from his saddle and fell dead with a bullet through his brain ; Longstreet him self lay stretched in the road pulsoless and inani mate, and, as all thought, with but few minutes of life left in him. Instantly the flank movement was arrested. About an hour later,.Longstreet, awak. ing from his swoon, exclaimed to Dr. Cullen, " In another half hour, but for my wound, there would not have been a Yankee regiment standing and unbroken on the south of the Rapidan." It is not desirable that I should trace seriatim the military movements which have brought Generals Lee and Grant, locked in a kind of death-grapple, down from the bank of the Rapidan on May 3 to the bank of the James on June 3. Most of your readers are familiar with the circular iron swing gate through which it is the custom of visitors to make their exit from the Zoological Gardens, and which stands opposite to the main entrance to the gardens. They will remember that at that gate there are four rotatory wings, revolving on the same axis, which, as they swing round pass through the interstices of four other stationary wings, or fixed grates, which are attached immovably to the same axis as their re• volving brethren. Conceive the movable revolving wings to be the army of Gen. Grant, conceive the fixed gates to be the army of Gen. Lee, and you have a rough diagram of the tactics adopted by both armies in these battles. It will be remembered that on May 3 Grant began to launch his mighty army across the Rapidan, and found himself con '' fronted by Gen. Lee on May 5 and 6 in the dense labyrinth of the 'Wilderness. Few students of mili• tars history will fail to be struck by the resem blance which this impervioss region of Virginia bears to-the gloomy and tangled glades which, on Dec. 3, 1300, witnessed the defeat by the French army of the Archduke John and his Austrians, and coupled for ever in a bracket of fame the names of Moreau and Hohenlinden. It is known to your readers that, thanks to the opportune arrival of Gen. Longstreet and his corps on the morning of the 6th, the Federals were heavily countered in the Wilderness and driven back with terrific loss. But, nothing daunted, Gen. Grant set to work with characteristic energy to execute his prede ternained pla n of advance. m a king his with drawal from the lines of front behind very heavy skirmishers, he retired his right wing and swung it behind his centre and l e f t, upon ith, towards Spottayi - the morning , of the vame Court-house, li e had ulready secured the only direct roads -- leediug direction, and made su re that Lee would have to fall back in confusion or submit to be cut f in rom at o Richmond. But he did not count upon the rare t;; ;lgieity of his opponent, which in these reeent b sales, no less than et Chancellorsville, has amoun ted' e to the intuition of military genius. Q u i ckly pene trating his adversarys design, L ee began to ra wit h him for Spotsylvania Court-home, a point where EcV? ral roads convc.:;ci like the radii o f a men's outstretched fingers, s- • ssing under the circumetanc es e e ortance. Th e minent roads th 1'0,4;1 the forest had, as , had said, been secured by Grant. Lee quickly set to work, end with his excellent corps or sappers a'd miners (a body of men whose need he had last year severely felt at Chancellorsville, and which he has ;ace called into existence and organised) cut a way through the trees and brushwood for his fieldpieces and cßi""g* T h - 3 revolving shuttle of General Grent's right Wing 3 wang rapidly round urou its Vr.i'7, but THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1864. with no other result than to find itself barred at Spotsylvania Court-house by the immovable grate presented by the right wing of General Lee's army. Slowly the two armies drew near to each other once more, but General Lee, well knowing his opponent's character, awaited with calmness, and behind the slight earthworks which are dignified in this coun try with the name of intrenchments, the onslaught of the Federals. After four days of heavy skir mishing, from the Bth to the 11th of May inclusive, the great shock of Grant's attack was delivered on the 12th. I question whether in the annals of modern history so frightful a "laughter has ever been inflicted by an army act . - 'on the defensive upon its assailants. It has aL a and again been remarked in this war that there is but one way to get sustained energy of attack out of the Federals, and that is, to throw them in swiftly-succeeding lines, and treading close upon each other's heels, upon their enemy's guns, •T know not in how many lines the hapless Federaletoo often I fear blinded with whisky —were upon this bloody day thrown into the deadly hailstorm which smote them like a destroying angel, but the evidence that the slaughter of Ball's Bluff, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Murfrees boro', or Gettysburg was but as child's play come pared with the carnarge of Spotsylvania Court-house is ample and irresistible. Savage and callous as &marrow, Grant drove his victims, line after line, upon the death-dealing volleys of their foe. At in tervals the smoke lifted, and disclosed a dead, dying, writhing mass of humanity, such as has not been witnessed before during this century, if I except the scene which on the morning of Sept. 8, 1812— the day after the hitherto bloodiest battle of civi lisation—was to be seen in front of the great redoubt of Borodino. It is not for me to estimate the damage which, between the commencement of his campaign and the close of the battle of the 12th, Grant's army sustained, for I have lived long enough in the neigh bourhood of Gen. Lee to share his unwillingness to guess at the loss inflicted upon his foe. That this loss is nnprecedente d is abundantly manifest from the mingled cry of pride and agony which has gone up from the Northern journals, and I am in a position to apprise them of the cost to the Confederates at which that loss was inflicted. The estimate of Gen. Lee, based upon the fullest returns from the medical directors of each corps, places his killed, wounded, and missing in the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court-house at 12,000 men, all told. If it be true, as is here generally supposed, that these two terrible battles- have carried the Confederates over the slope of the dividing line which separates hem from plenary independence, it may be said hat— " Tanta molls erat Romanam condere gentem." The interest of the campaign, so far as it has hitherto been conducted, culminated at Spotsyl vania Court-house. Again, but not with such promptitude as after the battle of the Wilderness, Grant essayed his old flanking policy, and Lee was heard to exclaim, "Let him circle round where he likes he will in the end always find me before him. , Once more the armies faced each other to the south of the Pamunkey River, and Grant, who had sacri ficed thousands upon thousands of his men in reach. log a position which M'Clellan gained in 1862 with the loss of a few hundreds, established incontrover tibly the sagacity of the latter General's strategy by selecting the White-house on the Pamunkey River, as the base of his further operations against Richmond. It was not until the 3d of June that the armies came for the third time into important collision, in the neighbourhood of the old battlefields of 1862, near Cold Harbour, at a distance of not more than nine miles from Richmond. But it was abundantly evident that the fury of the storm had spent itself at Spotsylvania. The attack, it is true, was supported with the vigour such battles as Fredericsburg and Chancelloreville had proved the Federals to possess, but there was about it little of the fierce élan which Grant had at first breathed into his troops, and which they manifested in the battles at the commencement of May. It was repulsed with a facility which has led Northern journals to sneer at the loss acknowedged on that day by the Confederates, and which, as compared with the damage inflicted upon and acknowledged by General Grant, seems hardly credible. It is forgotten that almost for the first time in three years of war the Confederates fought at Spotsylvania Court-house and Cold Harbour behind fieldworks. Nor can it be doubted that the callous ferocity of the Federal General's disposition, his reckless and lavish ezpen diture of life, his disregard of the unburied dead and the agonised wonnded, have begun latterly to tell upon the ardour of his men, and to estrange confidence and affection from breasts in which three weeks ago they abounded to overflowing. It is not necessary to say more about the effort of General Butler upon the south side of the James River than that it would probably have been much more formidable if conducted by a soldier. If, after the first landing of 40,000 Federals at the mouth of the Appomattox River, ordinary vigour had been manifested, it is difficult to see how Petersburg, dis tant some ten miles from the James River, could have been saved. As it was, ample time was given to General Beauregard to gather up a force from Charleston and Wilmington, and he bad little diffi• culty in scattering Butler's forces to the winds in a well-planned night attack, which lacked little of compassing the utter annihilation of Butler. The attack which Grant has led has been the most per sistent, energetic, and intrepid onslaught which Lee has ever been called on to stem ; the attack of Butler upon Petersburg has exhibited neither ability nor courage in the General who planned it, neither spirit nor persistence in the troops which conducted it. I must confess myself at a loss when speaking of Confederate prospects in Northern Georgia. There is little to reassure those who contemplate the numerous retreats of General Johnston, without his striking a blow for the fine wheat district which he has surrendered, within three weeks of the harvest, to the enemy, to say nothing of the iron rolling mills and Government works abandoned at Rome and on the Etowah river. It is possible that the ability and energy of General Sherman (who is here considered a more formidable antagonist than Grant) and the strength of his army may necessitate great prudence on the part of General Johnston ; bat I have heard more than one complaint that the Confederate army of the West is larger and better appointed than any army intrusted since the commencement of the war to either of General Johnston's predecessors. Jadg ing from present appearances, Atlanta, if preserved, will owe its salvation more to the distance which divides it from General Sherman's base at Chatta nooga than to the strenuous blows of its Confederate defenders. It is not necessary for me to say more about the trans-Mississippi department than that the Federal grasp upon Louisiana and Texas is now resolved into little more than the tenure of New Or leans, For the last ten days no aggressive movements have been undertaken against either Richmond or Petersburg, and the rumour prevails that, although a force of not less than 220,000- men has been en• gaged in the operations conducted by Generals Grant and Butler, there is an urgent cry already for more men—to be poured, as seems probable, into that great abyss of slaughter which has already engulfed 'so many of their predecessors. Languid as is the interest of Europe in the details of the American war, it will be strange if, when the details of the Spring campaign of 1864 in Virginia become thoroughly known, the name of General Robert E. Lee is not inscribed upon the brightest rolls of military fame. It is seldom that full justice is rendered to military genius --incidently with the achievement of.the victories wh,ch reveal it. It took years for England to underetand and appreciate the s agacity and foresight which checked Massena before the lines of Torres Vedras, and converted a momen tary rale take of Marmont into the rout of Salamanca. There are French books in existence 'rich saw the light just after Marengo, and which, spite of th e Italian cemneign of 1796, deny to Napil.eon th e p os . Rs.iork of anything approaching to military gen i us . c failure, the But if, 8 3 now seems p r obable, the whole campaign of General G rant en d s in co nspicuous penetrating f oret h oug ht which has unravelled Grant's every desi gn, and d a w rmy as * which hh - as "ticiPaled his h every move, vats-tely inferior vi o inflict at the cost of less than 15000 men a loss upo n the Fe „ our and prudence wh ich have so handled a derels of five or rim timesthat number, and the m oral iesqualit which have converted in every Southern breast esteem into love and love into enthusiastic devotion will conspire to make Robert R. Lee's memcry a possession which, in this land of hero worship, his country will cherish, as she cherishes and rejoices in her new-born and hardly-acquired freedom. Royal Agricultural Show at Newcastle, NEWCASTLE•ON-TYNE, Wednesday. The number of paying visitors on Monday and Tuesday was 10,944, or 2,418 more than for the corresponding time last year ; and the receipts showed an increase of £274, surpassing the receipts at :even the Battersea meeting. The number of halfcrowns taken to-day up to 1 o'clock has been satisfactory; and to-morrow and Friday are to be the days for the million, at an admittance fee of one shilling. If clusters of " inquiring minds" (generally well dressed, with the newest graces of form and colour) gathered round the humming and whirring engines in the department of " machinery in motion," or perambulated the interesting stands of the imple ment makers, or inspected the show of fleeces and of butter in its neat little baskets, or glanced at the " miscellaneous" stalls (with a colony of bees in full bustle at their stirring trade) still larger numbers congregated about the prize animals, and formed eager circles round the spaces where, from time to time, classes of cattle were marched in succession, and the horses paced and pranced to admiration. To the half•-score grand thoroughbreds, the poor show of hunter stallions, the good show of hunter brood mares, and the weak lot of agricultural horses (including, however, a few prime Suffolks), and of Drays (including Mr Strickland's grand "Lincolnshire"), we have already referred. The redeeming feature of the horse classes is to be found in the hunters competing for prizes offered by the liberal local committee. Mr Booth's " Beechwood," a great prize taker in his time, is a splendid bay with first-rate action, but fairly beaten on this occasion by Mr Frederick Graham's chest nut gelding the "Tyke." Among the 4yr olds, Mr Clark's " Sprig of Nobility" is especially ad mired, but followed close by Mr Norman's chestnut "Radical." That rarity a first-class roadster has hardly been brought out at the present show, but Mr Brown's " President Junior" and Mr Forster's " Multum in Parvo" are creditable specimens of a good useful sort. A pretty show of ponies attracts much attention. Mr Norman's plucky little " Jack" and Mr Ord's " Little Stag" being special favourites. The pig show is much thronged as usual by con noisseurs of extreme fatness and marvellous pre cocity. The small black breed has come up well, Mr Sexton and Mr Stearn taking their accustomed places of honour. A good show of small white breed finds Messrs. Mangles and Stearn as well up as ever ; and in the fine class of large breed pigs *e have some extraordinary specimens exhibited by Messrs Harrison and Weinman. The Berk shires are well represented and of good quality, Mr Stewart, Mr Tombs, Mr Druce, and Mr Sadler having some extremely fine animals, taking either I prizes or commendations. If the Society could pride itself upon nothing else, it can certainly take credit for having induced great mechanical improvements in farm machinery by reason of the trial teats annually or triennially provided. Exception may be taken to the value of hasty dynamometrical experiments upon some field implements, but undoubtedly the power measuring. contrivances of the consulting engi neer have taught the exhibitors many a lesson. Astonishing differences used to be found between one thrashing machine and another, between chaff engines, mills, crushers, in the amount of motive power wasted in the friction of the working parts, and now the same ordeal of exact testing is likely to give as further improvements in the important class of steam-tilling machinery. As the present trial of steam cultivators is likely to be the last for three years to come, the results of Monday's private experimenting at Benton are of considerable moment. In order co determine the amount of motive power required to drive each set of appa ratus the following plan was adopted. Each engine in turn was set to haul a Fowler three-furrow plough up to an anchorage placed - about 170 yards off, and then back again. In order that the friction of the gear work upon the engine itself, between the crank-shaft and the rope drums, might be in cluded in the trial, the engine connecting rod was removed from the crank shaft, and the engine fly wheel was driven by a belt from an independent.l4 - horse engine placed for the purpose. This 14-horse engine was employed to work all the sets of appara tus in turn, being driven at one regular speed of about 130 revolutions per minute, and one of Mr Amos's rotary dynamometers was interposed between this engine and the engine under trial, in order to measure and record the amount of power given out. Then as the same plough (taking three furrows of 10 inches wide by 7 inches deep) was used for each set of machinery, the amount of motive power con sumed by each apparatus in performing precisely the same work was thus determined. It should be observed that all the sets of machinery had the advantage of the Fowler plough "slack gear," for tightening, and so partially supporting the tail or following rope. Of course, the rope, in so short a length of furrow, was well carried by repe.porters. The draught and strain due to Messrs Coleman and Morton's apparatus averaged 19951 b ; and when the elements of distance travelled during the observation and the time run are brought into the calculation, the result comes out as 1l horse power engaged. But as their system is to haul two implements at once, and these never in work toward the anchored pulley, this does not represent the true comparative mechanical efficiency of their ap- paratus. Messrs. Savory's engine, with two winding drums upon the boiler, was next under trial, The average draught and strain was 2,309 lb; and taking into account the distance and time about 209 horse-power was engaged. The average draught or strain for Mr. Fowler's single 7-horse engine set was 1,993 lb; time and distance bringing the result to about 139.tiorse power. • Messrs. Howard's rope does not pass directly up and down the field, but round anchored pulleys at the corners of the plot, which, in this case, was so small (probably about three acres, with the above 170 yards length of furrow) that the length of rope did not much vary from that needed by the other or direct system of hauling, and as the Fowler slack gear was used as well as Messrs. Howard's own compensation pulleys for the same purpose, this trial could not truly represent the usual working of the Bedford apparatus. The average draught or strain was 2,4091bs ; and, time and distance being reckoned, the result is about 15-horse power en gaged. Every precaution was taken to insure a per fectly fair and open testing of each set of machinery. Mr Fowler has won both the first and second prizes for the best application of steam power to the cultivation of the roil, the first prize for the best ditto adapted to small occupations, the first prize for the best plough for steam power, the first prize for the best cultivator for steam power, the prize for the best windlass" for a separate engine, and a high commendation for a rope-porter. Messrs. Howard have obtained the second prize for the small occupation apparatus, second prize for a steam plough, second prize for a steam cultivator, the prize for the best harrows for steam power, the second prize for separate windlass, a high commen dation for a 2-furrow deep plough, and two commen dations for Norwegian steam power harrows, and a rope-porter. Messrs. Savory take the third prize for a windlass. Messrs. Aveling and Porter gain the, prize for the best rope•porter, Messrs. Colman and Morton take the second prize for a rope-porter, and a silver medal for the steam power cultivator. Mr. Steevens has a silver medal for his steam plough, and Messrs. Garrett are highly commended for their apparatus on Savory's principle. The dog show promises to be a success commer cially. There is a good display of hounds, a meria torious collection of pets and toys, and a suffi chaeoeoedrd i oddities. The show, . suffi ciently attractiv e a dditi on o f f ore i gn d ogs an d curi ous canine wict o h m t p h a e n a y s , s a is n t d a n v c i e sit o o f rs a t g o ood and, draws a sh areo f the -Dyne city are welcomed 'with all norte of other Rou e.. meats for the evening, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NOTTINGHAM JULY MEETING.--W'EDNE'SDAY• The Nottingham Nursery Plate (Handicap) of 100 soya, for 2-yr-olds ; winners extra. Half a mile straight. Mr Saxon's Bonnie Lass, 7st 9lb (H. Sharp) 1 Mr G. Angell's Attache, 7st 71b (Perry) 2 Mr C. Perry's Le Mexicain, 6st 12Ib (G. Sayers) 3 Mr W. E. Jones's The Leader, ist 81b (Challoner) 4 Mr Walker's Frangipani colt, Tat 21b (Lawrence) Betting-5 to 4 agst The Leader, 2to 1 agst Bonnie Lass 8 to 1 agst Le Mexicain. 100 to 7 agst the Frangipani colt, 20 to 1 agst Attache. The Leader, who showed considerable temper in going to the post, broke away before the start was effected, and ran three-quarters of a mile before being pulled up. lime diately the flag fell Bonnie Lass and The Leader jumped away together. and ran in close company several lengths in front of the rest to the distance, where Bonnie Lass quitting The Leader, the latter was " eased," whereupon Attache, though possessing no earthly chance of winning, was " kid dingly" ridden home and finished six lengths in the rear of Bonnie Lass; Le Mexicain was beaten a length from the second, and a similar distance divided the third and fourth; a bad fifth. The Forest Plate of 50 soya added to a Handicap of 5 soya each, for all ages; winners extra. Five furlongs. Mr H. Bird's Regina, 3 yrs, Cst 71b,, ...... (G. Sayers) 1 Lord Uxbridge's Erythia, 4 yrs, 7st 81b....(T. French) 2 Capt. Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, bet 91b ..(J. Grinashaw) 3 Mr Kellie's Hesper,6 yrs, 9st 71b 51b ex.) (Ashman) 4 Betting.. Even on Ossian, 7 to 2 agst Erythia, 4 to 1 agst Reaper, 11 to 2 agst Regina. Erythia made play till approaching the distance, where the lot closed and half-way Regina took up the running, and won by half a lengtn ; a neck separated the secondand third, and half a length the third and fourth. The Bunney Park Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and geldings, .Bst 71b ; winners extra. T.Y.C. Mr Hodgman's Victorious, 9st llb (in. 51b ex.).. (Perry) 1 Mr J. Dawson's Kathleen Mavoureen, Bst 71b (Custance) 2 Mr Saxon's Bonnie Lass, Bst 7113 (Midgley) 3 Betting-9 to 4on Victorious, who waited on Bonnie Lass into the straight, where he came away and won by a neck; a length and a half separating the second and third. The Chesterfield Handicap of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for three-year - olds and upwards; winners extra. One mile and a half. Lord Uxbridge's The Tyke, 3 yrs, 6st .. (J. Grimshaw) 1 Mr Barber's The Clown, 3 yrs, 7st Sib ........ (Perry) 2 Mr GeCrge Angell's Dunkeld, 4 yrs 6 s t 101 b (Loates) 3 Mr Savile's Privateer, 3 yre, Est 61b: (Morris) 4 Betting-7 to 4 agst Privateer, sto 2 each agst Dunkeld and The Clown, 5 to 1 agst The Tyke. Dunkeld made play to within half a mile from home, when Privateer took up the running, with The Clowu at his girths. and the other two close up. At the distance Privateer was beaten, and The Clown and Tho Tyke qu tted the other two, and after a severe race The Tyke won by a short head; five lengths separated the second and third, and a couple of lengths divided third and fourth. A Selling Handicap of 5 sovs each, with £3O for all ages ; ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-DERBY, July 20, CROWN COURT. (Before Mr Justice Keating.) Mary M'Morrow, a miserably-dressed, squalid-looking woman, about 50 years of age, and who appeared to be labouring under some distortion of the spine, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of John M.‘Morrow, her husband, at NorthWingfield, on the 9th inst., by setting fire to him. Mr Jessel and Mr Stephen conducted the prosecution ; and Mr Bristowe, who laboured under the disadventago of being instructed by the prisoner herself from the dock, appeared to defend her. The deceased was a miner, of about 64 years of age, and had for some time lived on bad terms with his wife, owing to a suspicion he entertained that she had attempted some four or five years ago to poison him by giving him a poison ous lotion to drink. On Juno 22 he went with her to Ches terfield to attend the funeral of an Irishman. They came home by train, both somewhat intoxicated, and quarrelling by the way, and got back to Wingfield about 8 o'clock. The dispute continued after they reached home, and both left the house, apparently for the purpose of going somewhere to get more drink. What transpired afterwards will be best gathered from the statements of the witnesses and the de• positions of the deceased taken a few days afterwards. The deposition, after stating the above facts, continued as follows: I returned home, where I found the prisoner sitting on a chair drunk. I told her to go to bed. She said she never would until she had cut her throat. I went out and told a neighbour, Mary Ganning, what she said. Sne came in and told the prisoner to go to bed, but I dont know what answer the prisoner gave. I then too off my coat and hung it up, and my hat also. I had then two shirts on, a waistcoat, a pair of trousers, boots, and stockings. I laid myself down upon the squab whereon there was only a pallet made of flock. (It appeared from a plan of the house produced in court that the squab stood on the left side of the fireplace.) About 1 o'clock I went to sleep, the prisoner being the only person in the room with me. I never woke until I felt the fire, which was burning my shirt sleeve and the calico on the back of my waistcoat. I jumped up and saw the prisoner running away upstairs. I called for assistance, and I then heard the prisoner upstairs laughing. The prisoner did not come downstairs till after the two lodgers, Edward Roff and another, whose name I do not know, who were in bed, came down stairs and attempted to put out the fire. Elizabeth Marriott—l live opposite the prisoner's house. On the night of June 22, about 12 o'clock, I heard the pri soner talking to two persons in the street, and go into the house. About an hour or an hour and a half afterwards I heard the deceased crying out " Mary, Mary, come Lack; come down stairs. You've run away. Come down and dout me. In the name of the Lord, is there no one in this hc,use that will come down to dout me ?" I heard a woman say " I shall be suffocated, ' and there was a great noise, but I could not distinguish any other words. Mary Garrick, a lodger in the prisoner's house, after corroborating the last witness as to the prisoner talking iu the street with two persons, said—After the prisoner came in I heard her speaking to her husband, but he gave no answer. Some time afterwards I perceived a smell of burn ing, and the prisoner came upstairs running and laughing. She pushed me as I lay in bed, and said, " Are you asleep?" I heard the deceased calling out, " Come back Mary, and take the thing off my back." She said, " No, you old rogue; for I've cooked your goose at last for your lies of me the last four years." He screeched, " Is there ever a man in the house to save me, for lam in flames of fire ?" She said he was only pretending—there was nothing the matter. I ran downstairs, and saw Hoff and another man, both of whom were lodging in the house, tearing the shirts off the back of deceased. The deceased then called for a sheet to throw over his shoulders, and we all went with him to the police man's, leaving the prisoner alone in the house. The same morning, some hours later, I saw the prisoner pull a coat from under the squab. The right sleeve was burnt, and not the left. The deceased said, " Mary, the devil'has blinded you this morning—you've burnt the wrong :sleeve. The coat has gut the right sleeve burnt, but it is my left arm, and not the right, that is injured." She sa.d, " Let us look at it." He refused, saying, " I'll take care of this, for the gentlemen (magistrates) to'see it. You shall not make away with this the same as you did the lotion, four or five years age." She said, " You old murderer." He answered, " You're the murderer" He afterwards asked for a cup of water. The prisoner would not go for it, and I sent my lad to get some. When it came she took it up, drank some of the water and threw the rest on the floor. She said, " I wish you went away this morning." I said, " What for, Mary ?'' She replied, "If you go away I will give you a good dress as a present." I said, "I want nothing at all of :you. Perhaps the gentleman would stop me." She answered, "They durst not."i Cross-examined—The prisoner was very much in liquor when she came home from Chesterfield. When she came running upstairs she kept laughing all the while, and never gave over. She then smelt very strongly of liquor, but was not drunk. Edward Hoff, another of the lodgers—l was asleep in the house, and was aroused by cries of "Murder I" 'When I got downstairs I found the deceased lying on the floor and another lodger• throwing water over him. The left arm of his shirts and the back of his waistcoat were-much burnt. I searched his pockets and found in them a tobacco box about half full of tobacco. I laid it on the table at the foot of the squab. There was a fire in the grate—not a very large one. I then went with the rest to the policeman's. After we came back the prisoner raked the tobacco box from under the grate. The lodger who first came down to the assistance of the deceased was not called, as he had left the house the same morning, and could not be found. Dennis Gorman, a police constable—The deceased and the other witness came to my house about 3 o'clock in the morning. I went back with them and asked the deceased how he was burnt. Ho said that he had gone to sleep on the squab, and when he was awoke by the burning he saw his wife run upstairs. She said she had been upstairs and in bed before she heard her husband cry out that he was on fire, that he was drunk, and that he must have fallen into the fire in his drunkenness. She was then raking the ashes from under the grate, In doing so she pulled out the tobacco box, and said, " See, here is your tobacco box. When you fell into the fire it must have fallen out." He said it had net, for 1. - loff had taken it but of his pocket after he was burnt, and had put it on the table. Hoff said, "Aye, that it was, ; I took it out myself.' I examined the tobacco in the box—it was damp. There were no marks of fire on the squab or on the flock mattress, which the prisoner had taken upstairs. Richard Ronayne, inspector of police—l was at the house about 11 o'clock in the morning after the deceased was burnt. I asked the prisoner how long she had been in bed before she heard the cry of fire from her husband. She said she thought it was about an hour. The doctor who examined the deceased proved that he was much burnt on the back and left side. There were two small burns about the size of a fourpenny piece on the right hand. There were none on the right arm. The ribs and shoulder appeared to have been baked, as if the fire had smouldered there. The burns on the left arm and side were of a more superficial character. The deceased lingered till the 9th of this month when he died from the effects of the burns. Mr Bristowe, for the defence, contended that the facts of the case were consistent with the deceased having set him self on fire by accident. His deposition could not be relied on, for it was clear he was not in a state of sobriety when he returned from Chesterfield, and he should prove by two witnesses, whom he was going to call at the especial re quest of the prisoner, that the deceased was very drunk at 12 o'clock. It was, therefore, very improbable that his version of the transaction was sufficiently correct to be relied on, and by his death it was no longer possible to test it by cross-examination. The two persons who had been heard talking to the pri soner in the street at 11 or 12 o'clock were then called, and they both swore that they went into the house and saw the deceased, who was then very drunk, asleep on the squab with his clothes on. His lordship, in summing up, told the jury that the first question for them was whether the prisoner set her husband on fire, and, if so, whether she did it wilfully or not. If they came to the conclusion that she did it and did it wil fully, the second question would be, did she do it with in tent to deprive her husband of life or to do him some griev ous bodily harm. If sM did it with either intent, her crime amounted to murder. If, on the other hand, they thought she did it with intent to injure or annoy him, or to do any thing short of grievous bodily harm, they should find her guilty of manslaughter. The jury retired, and after a short absence returned into court with a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner was then sentenced to penal servitude for seven years. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, July 20. The learned Judges arrived here this morning, and Mr Baron Martin opened the commission—and after attendance at Divine Service ho proceeded to charge the grand jury, and then both he and Mr Justice Willes proceeded at once to try prisoners in order to make sure of getting through the business. The calendar is in point of number, and, with hardly an exception in point of gravity, rather light. There were only 22 cases, almost all of them of an ordinary cha racter, and of these the bills were thrown out in several cases. This was owing to the fact that the County Quar ter Sessions were held here the other day, and that on Monday the Brighton Quarter Sessions were held before Mr Locke, the Recorder, and a very largs number of cases (nearly 40) being disposed of by him on that day and on Tuesday, of course the result was considerably to lighten the calendar, and relieve the learned Judges at the assizes. CROWN COURT. (Befcre Mr Justice Wines.) The first case tried before the learned Judge was one of some interest, on account of its bearing on a somewhat im portant question of criminal procedure which has been mooted lately, both in and out of Parliament, with res Y pect to the propriety of al lo w i ng prisoners to be examined. es terday the point was mentioned at the Brighton Sessions before Mr Locke, the Recorder, a learned counsel observ ing in the course of his address on behalf of a prisoner,that it would have been well for her if her evidence could have been taken, as it would have established her innocence. The learned Recorder, in summing up the case. remarked upon this, and said that it must ba borne in mind that if a prisoner was pertnitttd to be Examined upon own be. the winner to be sold for £5O. T.Y.C. Mr Etches's Fluke, 3 yrs, 7st 1olb Mr George Angell's Signal, 3 yrs, 7st 101 D (Perry) 2 Mr Saunders's Belle of the Ball, 4 yrs, Bst 41u (T. French) 3 Mr W. E. Jones's Atlas, 4 yrs, Sst 101 b ~.. (E. Sharp) 4 Betting- 2 to 1 agst Belle of the Ball, sto 2 agst Atlas, 3 to 1 agst Signal, 4 to 1 agst Fluke. Fluke made all the running and won by three lengths, two lengths separated the second and third, and Atlas was beaten off. The winner was not sold, but Mr C. Rayner bought Sig nal for 25 guineas. The Donnington Park Stakes of 5 sovs each, for two and three- yr-olds, with 50 added; winners extra. Straight half mile. Mr Reldiff's Cranbury, 3 yrs, 9st 31b (inc slb extra) (Pearson) w,o. The Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added, for all ages ; selling and other allowances. Half a mile. Mr Saxon's Inverness, 3 yrs (£2O), 7st 21b (J. Grimshaw) 1 Mr Crook's Dawdle, 3 yrs, £2O, let 21b .... (E. Taylor) 2 Mr Mather's Astrea, 2 yrs, £2O, sst 81 b (Holland) 3 Captain Machell's Le Mexicain, 2 yrs, £2O, Sat 111 b (G. Sayers) 4 Betting-2 to lon Inverness, who jumped away in front, made all the running, and won by a length and a half ; two lengths separated the second and third, and half a length third and fourth. The winner was sold to Mr Pedley for 110 guineas. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for 3-yr-olds and up wards. Two miles. Mr W. PAnson's Caller Ou, 9st 121 b . (Challoner) 1 Mr T. Clifl's Wildman, 3 yrs, Sat 31b .. (H. Grimshaw) 2 Betting-4 to lon Caller Ou, who laid four or five lengths in the rear until half a mile from home, when she came away and won in a canter by four lengths. After the race 9 to 1 was several times taken about Stan ton for the Goodwood Stakes. The Portland Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages; winners extra. One mile. _ _ _ . _ Mr Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, Sst 31b.... (H. Grimahaw) 1 Mr Barber's The Cutler, 5 yrs, 7st 81b......(Challoner) 2 Mr W. E. Jones's Zeloo, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b . ..(El. Sharp) 3 Mr Goodiass's Pretty Girl filly. 3 yre, bet lOtb Betting-2 to 1 agst Ossian, sto 2 agst Pretty Girl filly, 3 to 1 agst The Cutler, 5 to 1 agst Zeloo. Ouian and The Cutler ran in front throughout, the for mer winning by a length; Zeloo was a bad third ; and the Pretty Girl filly, after losing the start, caught her oppo nents, but was dually beaten ofi: The Ruff3rd Abbey Stakes of 25 soya each, for 2-yr-olds; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 61b; winners extra, with cer tain allowances. Half a mile. Lord Uxbridge's Jack Ketch, Bst 101 b .. (T. French) w.o. SO UTHAMPTON RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 Bove each, with 40 added ; weight for age; selling allowances. One mile. Mr J. Ward's Knight Templar, 4 yra (Z 100), Bst 21b (Plumb) 1 Mr Whiteside's The Dodo, 4 yrs (X 100), Sat ( ib 2Fordham) 2 Mr T. Read's Bosh, 5 yrs (£200), Bst 71b (IL Clark) 3 Betfing—Even on Night Templar, 6 to 4 agst The Dodo, 5 to 1 agat Bosh. The favourite made all the running, and won by a length, two lengths between second and third. The winner was not sold. The Cranbury Park Stakes of 1C soya each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; penal ties and allowances. T.Y.C. Captain Christie's T he Gra ppler, B st 51b (Fordham) 1 Lord Portsmouth's Sydmonton Bst 71b...... (Hib berd) 2 Mr Night's Lovela ce, Set 21b ..., . (Salter) 3 Mr R. Kelso's Filbert, Bst 51b (J. Uoater) 4 Mr oW. Day's Videt te colt, "'St (inc 4ib ex) (S. Adams) 5 Captain Gray's The Swift, Nt (in 41b ex) (S. Rogers) 6 Betting-2 to 1 agst Sydmonton, 9to 4 aget the Grap pler, 6to 1 agst Lovelace. The Swift and Filbert were first off, but after going a going a few strides gave way t o L ov elace, and the tw o favourities, w ho lay in front to the distance, whore The Grappler drew aw a y , and won b y a leng th ; three lengths between second and third ; the others pulling up as they passed the post. The Innkeepers' Plate of 3 0 sots each, added to a Sweep stakes of 3 soya each ; weight for age, &e. Ralf a mile. Marquis of Rastings' Attractio n , 3 yrs, Bst 91b .. (Judd) 1 Captain 'W. H. Coo p er's Anti- Macassar , 2 yrs, 7 s t 41b (Cowley) 3 Salter) 2 Mr Night's Guar dsman, 3 y rs, B st 12 Ib ........ ( The following also ran :—. , Vaud, The Plover, Sister to Signalman, llarcourt, and Rapid. Betting-3 to lon Attraction, sto 1 agst Anti-Macassar, 10 to 1 agst any other. Th e f a vourite made all the running, an d won ;by eight lengths, four leng ths b etween second an d third. A Maiden Two - ye ar-Old Plate of 40 s oya ; colts, Bst 7th ; fillies, Bat 41b ; Belling allowances. T.Y,C. Mr T. Read's St. Vincent, (£160), Mr Samuels' Biragne kz100), Bat 21 ) ........ (a. Clark) 2 Mr Guy's Stamford (L 1 00), Bst 21b ............ (Payne) 3 Mr A. Day's Delilah filly, (£100), 7st 101 b .... (Sadler) 4 Bat 61b .... (Martin) 1 Mr England's Lydia Thompson (L 100). 7st 131b(Zanker) 5 Capt. W. H. Cooper's Duenna (£100), 7st 131 b (Dowling) 6 (T Prince Soltykotrs Will:ain th e Fourth (£100), tilt 21b 7 alibberti) Betting- 6 to 4on the Delilah filly, 7to 2 agst Duenna, 10 to agst any other. Won by two length—two lengths between second and third. The winner was claimed by Mr. Samuels. st 31b (carried Th e South Western Stakes of 3 soya each, with 50 added ; we i g ht for age, selli ng an d o ther allowa nces. One mile . Mr Jefferson's Corset, 3 yrs (L3O), 7st blb • ... (Arnold) 1 Mr J. Ward's Knight Templar, 4 yrs (£4O), Bst 81b rW. Day's Vedette colt, 2 yrs (i3O), (J. Plumb) 2 M 5 sst 71b ................................ (Bon a * 3 Noisy colt and Dareful also ran. Betting-5 to 4on Spasms colt, sto 2 agst Knight Tem plar. Won by three-quarters of a length, a bad third. Tho winner was bought by Mr King for 100 guineas. The Southampton Nursery Plato (Handicap) of 50 soya, for 2-yr-olds ; winners extra. T.Y.C. Mr H. Bridgman's Rosette, (h b), 7st 41 b .. (S. Adams) 1 Mr Meredyth's May, 7st 121 b .... (Payne) '2 Mr Samuel's Tilt, Set Glb ................ Clark) 3 The following also ran :--Marehieness, Ada, and De lilah filly. Betting-2 to 1 agst May, 3to 1 agst Rosette, sto 1 agst Ada, 10 to 1 agst any other. Won by half a length, a bad third ; Ada was left at the post. [A.DVEILTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Pills.—Nervous Debi lity.—No part of the human m achine requires more watch ing than the nervous system --'upon it hang health and life itself. These Pills are the best regulators and strengtheners of the nerves, and the safest general purifiers. Nausea, headache, giddiness, numbness, and mental apathy yield to them. They despatch, in a summary manner, those dyspeptic symptoms, stomachiz, pains, fulness at the pit of the stomach, abdominal distension, and overcome both capricious appetite and confined bowels—the commonly accompanying signs of defective or deranged nervous power. Holloway's Pills are particularly recommended to persons of studious and sedentary habits, who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated state unless Borne recta -1 rative, such as his Pill, be occasionally taken. half, he would be liable, of course, to be cross-examined, soners purchased the hay Tideswell represented that he kept and further, that if prisoners permitted to be examined the Black's Head, which statement was proved to be false. their not submitting to be examined would raise such an On the 22d of January the hay was taken by prosecutor to inference against them that practically the system would a stable near the Black's Head, where he met the prisoners; be compulsory, and the prisoner in every case would the hay was then unloaded and put in the stable, and have to submit to examination, as in foreign countries Tideswell kept the key. Tideswell then induced the prose -the objection to which, he added, was that in tutor to walk with him for some distance, having previ* many cases a prisoner, from the influence of confinement ously given the key of the stable to a man named Green. and terror, and apprehension, would be betrayed either into Tideswell also left Green with instructions to sell the bay statements, admissions, or denials, the effect of which might while the prosecutor was out of the way. After an interval sometimes be to convict innocent parties. The present case sufficient to enable the scheme to be carried out the prose afforded an illustration of this observation, and also of the cuter was got rid of, who, when he returned to the stable to obvious answer to it, for it presented, it will be seen, the re- look after the hay, found that it and all the parties con markable instance of a prisoner being acquitted of a serious cerned in the transaction had disappeared. The hay had offence, in spite of her own confession of it, the jury being not been paid for. The defence was that the facts showed of opinion that they could not safely rely upon it, a mere breach of contract, but his lordship told the jury An old woman named White, a charwoman, was indicted that if at the time the prisoners obtained the hay from Mr for maliciously setting . fire to a dwelling - house of Mr Be- Nixon on the false account of themselves which they geav binson, at Fulborough, on 16th May last. they intended to deprive Mr Nixon of his hay by fraud and Mr Hirst prosecuted ;Mr Ribton was for the defence. without paying for it, and he never intended to part with The theory for the prosecution was, that the act arose out the possession of his hay except on payment on delivery, it of revenge, on account of a quarrel with Mr Robinson. was larceny. There was some circumstantial evidence, and a little boy The jury found the prisoners guilty, and added to their spoke to seeing the woman on the night in question going verdict that they thought the case was greatly aggravated down towards the house a short time before the fire broke by their being so many other cases against the prisoners, out, which was about 9 o'clock at night. But the main piece and wished to suggest to his lordship the propriety of pass of evidence was an alleged confession by the prisoner, in ing a severe sentence. the gaol, to the prosecutor, in presence of the superinten- The learned Judge—l fear, gentlemen, Tou have heard dent of police, who took it down at the time, and both of of other cases. whom swore to it. The confession was that she hoped he The Foreman—We have, my lord. would do all he could for her, and that ho would forgive her His Lordship said he thought it desirable that another —that she did it without a thought. charge should be gone into. Mr Ribton, for the defence, ascribed this confession to The prisoners were then indicted for obtaining by means the influence cf terror and apprehension operating upon the of false pretences 7 tons of straw from Aston, at Penkridge, mind of the prisoner, and leading her to avail herself of any on the 21 of September last, and with a conspiracy to de means of escape, and look anxiously for any gleam of light fraud the same of goods, and also with obtaining which might break in upon her from any quarter. by false pretences and conspiring to defraud Wm. Claws, The jury during the progress of the learned counsel's ad- on the 13th of October last, of 3 tons 6 cwt. of straw, at dress interrupted him by consulting together, and then in- Bucknall, in Stoke-upon-Trent, and similar charges were timated that they had made up their minds. laid against them with respect to 17cwt. of hay, ttte pro- The learned Judge said it would be better for them to perty of Bryan Ward, at Gayton, in Sandon, on the 14th of hear the case out, November last. The prisoners in each of the cases went to The jury still hesitated, and then said that they were all the respective prosecutors, and alleging that they were the proprietors of a hay and straw warehouse, and adding Aston's case, that James kept the Bird-in-Hand public house at Stoke, and in Ward's case, that Tideswell did so, obtain from them the hay and straw mentioned in the in dictment, on promises of immediate payment—but the pay ment was avoided on various pretences;and their statements with respect to themselves were proved to be false. The jury at once found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship then sentenced them to penal servitude for 3 years on the conviction for the larceny, and to 3 years' penal servitude, to commence at the conclusion of the pre vious sentence, upon the second conviction. of opinion in favour of the prisoner, The learned Judge observed that he thought that, upon the whole, was the safer verdict, as the only evidence against her consisted of the supposed confession which was evi dently made while she was in such a pucker of anxiety and alarm that it would probably be unsafe to rely upon it so far as to convict her upon it. The verdict of not guilty was then taken, and the prisoner was discharged. The next also was rather an unusual kind of case. Four respectable looking men—three of them (named Cummins, Matthews, and Hide) evidently seamen or fishermen; the fourth, named Hughes, a tradesman of the town of East bourne—were jointly indicted for assaulting and beating one Daniel Kegan, at that place. Mr Gates was for the prosecution ; Mr Ribton was for the fishermen ; Mr Hirst was for the other prisoner Hughes. The circumstances of the case certainly, as the learned counsel for the prosecution observed, were rather extraor ninary. The matter occurred only the other day—on Mon day, the 18th inst.—the day on which the Quarter Sessions ended, or otherwise the case might have been tried there. On that day the prosecutor, a hawker, was at Eastbourne, and was heard to say something about the fever which had driven the quality away from Eastbourne. This was in allu sion to the epidemic which prevailed in the place in the latter part of last year, and as to which, it may be remem bered, a correspondence took place at the time. The allu sion seems to have exasperated such of the townspeople as were present, including the prisoners, and they in the first instance actually hauled up the man before the police, upon what precise charge they probably had no idea. Of course the police declined to take cognisance of the charge, and the prisoners then unhappily resolved to take the law into their own hands, and they, or at all events the fishermen, pro ceeded to mob the hawker, and pursue him from place to place with much contumely and violence, pelting him with bad eggs, rubbing a wet swab over his face, and so forth. In the result the police rescued him, and this prosecution was instituted. The prisoner Hughes was present on the occasion, but it did not appear that he had taken any active part. Mr. Gates, in stating the case for the prosecution, observed that it arose out of the feeling excited by the rumours of the unfortunate epidemic of last year, of which, probably, the Court had heard. The case certainly was rather of an ex traordinary character, and the prosecution was instituted from no vindictive feeling, but entirely with a view to up hold the law. The learned Judge, interposing before witnesses were examined, said he conceived, of course, that such was the only object of the prosecution, and looking on the one hand at the depositions, and on the other hand at the respectable appearance of the prisoners, he could not help thinking jus tice might be satisfied by their frankly acknowledging that they were sorry for having broken the law and committed a breach of the peace, and then catering into their own re cognisances to keep it in future. He remembered the ac count of the epidemic at Eastbourne, and regretted its occurrence at that most beautiful and charming place of resort, to which he cordially wished all credit and good fortune ; and ho should be very sorry that several of its respectable inhabitants should be convicted and sentenced upon an indictment for a breach of the peace and an assault with violence. He had no doubt they were all sorry for it, and that, looking at their character and respectable appear ance, they were not likely to be guilty of such conduct again. He therefore threw out that the proper course to pursue was frankly to acknowledge their error, and then the matter might end there. Mr Ribton said he had already given very similar advice to his clients, the fishermen, and they now very gratefully acceded to it, proceeding as it did from the learned judge. He only desired to say on their behalf that they felt exas perated at the time, in consequence of reflections upon the health of their town, which might, they feared, inflict in jury upon it, Mr Hurst, on the part of his client Hughes, who he said was a respectable tradesman in the town, said that he denied having incited the men to any violence ; but still he must admit having been present on the occasion. and per haps might have used expressions which the men might have understood as incitement, though not so intended. Mr Justice Willes observed that, looking at the deposi tions, he imagined that to have been the case, and it must be remembered that the presence of a person in the position of a respectable tradesman on such an occasion, and his tacit sanction to a lawless proceeding, especially aided by expres sions showing some sympathy with it, must naturally tend to excite others to take part in it, and he would do wisely to adopt the same course as the others, Indeed all the pri soners had stood in some peril of an indictment for riot, upon which all who were present, even with only the tacit sanction of their presence, might have been found guilty. And it could not be supposed the interests of Eastbourne could be really promoted by such lawless proceedings. In the result, all the prisoners assented to the course pro posed, and were liberated on their own recognisances to keep the peace and come up for judgment if ever called upon, as they would not be, the learned judge observed, unless they were guilty of any renewal of a breach of the peace. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—DoneriEsTErt, Wednesday. The commission for holding the assizes for the county of Dorset was opened in this town yesterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Byles, who afterwards went to church. This morning at half-past 10 the business of the assizes commenced, Mr Justice Byles presiding in the Crown Court, and Mr Justice - Williams sitting at Nisi Prins. The business was light ; there were only five cases entered in the'cause list, and there were but 11 prisoners for trial. CROWN COURT. Mr Justice Byles, in charging the grand jury, observed that there had been an Act of Parliament recently passed which enabled the judge, in the case of robbery accom panied by personal violence, to inflict the punishment of flogging. He did not conceive it was any part of the duty of a judge to offer any opinion on the policy or impolicy of the enactment, but honestly to carry out the intention of the Legislature. On another circuit which he haa gone that sentence had been awarded, and he hoped the result would be beneficial. At the same time, great discrimina tion was required. In some cases such a punishment might be very cruel upon a half.starved or enfeebled mechanic, It must be left to the discretion of the judge. The subject of secondary punishment had become very important, for the best of all punishment, transportation, was at an end, Pri soners were sentenced to long periods of imprisonment ; the consequence would be that every prison would be full and overflowing. There was no other county where upon a large scale the employment of prisoners in the open air was adopted. They could not approach the borders of this county without seeing the magnificent works which had been constructed by the convicts. There was a vast num ber of public works which, if left to private enterprise, would never be completed; commercially it would be im possible. Ho could not help thinking it to be worthy of consideration whether such great results might not be ex tended to other portions of the kingdom. It was labour similar to that upon which convicts were employed if trans ported. It might be the means of creating a feeling of terror in every person, and was no waste of muscle or strength of the convicts, and no injustice was done to any one. This town had a peculiarity —it was planted with magnificent walks on all sides, for the benefit of everybody. They were not only ornamental, bat salutary. It was with great regret he saw that they had been damaged, and that spoil had been committed. If anythin of that kind should come before the judge the offenders might depend upon it that they would be dealt with with the utmost severity. Jt was not private property—it was public property, and be longed chiefly to that portion of the public who had nothing else —the r oor—their only means of enjoying the light of the sun and the beauty of the country. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr Justice Shee.) William James and Thomas Tideswell were indicted for stealing one ton of hay, the property of Thomas Nixon, on the 19th of January last, at Clayton, in the parish of Trent ham. Mr Motteram was for the prosecution ; Mr Young de • fended Tideswell. James was not defended by counsel. On the 19th of January last the prisoners went to Mr Nixon's farm at Clayton, and arranged for a ton of hay to be delivered for them at the Black's Head beerhouse at St°le) and to bo paid for on delivery, At the time the pri- COUNTRY MARKETS. MONMOUTH-TUESDAY. - - The local markets have been fairly attended by buyers and sellers during the last six or seven days, and prices, especially for wheat, are a little firmer. Barley and oats in moderate request, and the business rather in favour of sellers. The average quotations are as follows : Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 9d s I 8ar1ey...... 23s 2d to 28 8 d 3d to 3s Ditto red .0s Od to Os Od Oats ....... NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE-TIIESDAY. Farmers' wheat only in moderate supply this morning, and prices ruled firm at about the same as on Saturday. Flour firm in price, but with less inquiry. Oats scarce, and rather dearer. Averages—Wheat, 41s 6d—barley, 26s 4d.—oats, 19S 10d—beans, 35s 6d. MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY. Not much wheat at market to-day, and prices 2s higher. —White wheat, 43s to 47s ; red, 40s to 44s per 36 stone. Malting barley at 32s to 35s' per qr.; grinding, 27s to 296 per 30 at, Oats, old, 24s to 28s; new, 20s to 23s per 30 at. ; beans, 36s to 40s per qr. HULL—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a moderate supply of English wheat, which met a dull sale at is per qr ad vance. In foreign there was also a poor sale at fully last week's prices. All kinds of spring earn met a good retail sale at rather improved rates. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 44s Od to 48s Od Old red ). New white .. „ New red .. • • If Barley.... English malting 27s Od to 34s Od Grinding 2ss Od to 27s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s Od Grinding Oats English, old 22s Od to 916 Od Archangel and Riga, per st 0 0 s s i l Friesland and Dutch Swedish and Danish .• Beans ....English, old, per v . New pi eon 4os 42s Od to 44s O d Now tick3ldidtotoosll33da Od to 42$ Od Egyptian 3os Od to 33s 6d Peas .. Foreign boilers ... 33s Od tc 348 6cl Grinding Tares ....Spiing Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing • 4os Od to 52s Od Linseed cakes (hull)-35238ss Od dci d toto to —5 Od 5 34 65 s o o il Od £8 15 0 to £9 0 0 Foreign 8 0 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5 0 oto 0 0 0 Bones 5 5 oto 610 0 COAL M. Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. LitX ET. the close of the market. Byass's Bebsido West Hartley ....17 3 North Melton Ga 5..... 14 0 fantield Moor 13 6 Wylam 15 31 kg . d Walla End. Gosforth 17 0 Tlimdon Thornley l7 0 Ships at market Walla End. Haswell ... ...19 0 Hetton 19 0 Hartlepool IS 9 South Hartlepool 18 0 Wharncliffo ...... 17 0 South Kelloe 17 9 Heugh l7 9 26 ; sold, 24. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Andralia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Aug. 18 via Marseilles .. Aug. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Aug. 4 ; Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. July 29 . , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.Aug. 4 via Marseilles ...July 2 8. Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton .. July2 6 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 2. via Marseilles July 28. India (Bombay), via Southampton July 2 6 ' via Marseilles Jaly 2 1 * Portugal.... Aug. 4 . Malta, .Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 2 6- via Marseilles July 21 ' Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... July 2 8 . by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. July 22. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Ja b, 29, California. and British Columbia. , A HORNED WOMAN.—Somebody who has seen whereof he speaks writes from Larnaca, in the island of Cyprus, to the Observer, of this city, an elaborate account of a woman living at Ll7adia, in Cyprus, who ba f4 horns growing out of her head :—" I at once despatche d secret agent, and succeeded, after a few days, in obta ining a sight of this most wonderful cornigerous creature. Sh e told me, viva voce, that she had suffered greatly fro m t h is afilietion, and would never have revealed it but for a vision she had lately, when an old man with silvery hair and long flowing beard presented himself to her, leaning on a erutclit and warned her not to conceal it longer—that it was f r ora God, apo tou Theou, and that he would afflict her even mor e if she concealed it any longer. She at once confessed t° the priest, and then revealed her mysterious condition. s he has one horn on the side of her head three or four inche s long, and an inch in circumference, besides three or four cornicles on other parts of the head, one of which she ear l she broke off. It is now in possession of the French doctor of this plarP. These horns are attached to the skin of the head, and not to the bone, resembling in texture and sr pearance the horns of a goat—not the silver horn of the Druze woman, but as much a part of her as her hair or h eed ' She has been visited by nearly all the consuls and Ettr ° ' peens in this place, some of whom are making an effort t° secare her for exhibition in Europe." Another letter to gentleman of this city says that " one of the horns is eqoP in size to an ordinary ram's horn," The Italian consul at Cyprus offered the woman one hundred thousand franca t ° go to Pal is.—New York Evening Post. Births. ---- BULLER.—On the 12th inst.. at Chavenage, the lion. P 7311 Yarde Buller, of a son. FOREES.—On the 18th inst , at 46, Upper Berkeley•stree4 Portman-square, Mrs. Kinloch Forbes, of a daughter . HOWELL—On the 20th inst., at The Hurst, West got il sey, the wife of W. G. Howell, Esq., of a son. WALEY.—On the 20th inst., at 17, Cambridge-road, prigliA ton, Mrs. Jacob Waley, of a daughter, Marriages. RIMINGTON—ABERCROMBY.—At St. George's, Hanov e s . square, John Wilson Rim ington , son of the late Jatl/e$ Rimington, Esq., of Broomhoad Hall, Yorkshire. t°.., A. Adelaide, daughter of the late Sir R. AbereronioP Bart. ChTi bt TATTERSAL T,— GOODLIFFE,—On the 16th:inst , at Chureh, Highbury, John Tattersall, Esq., of • Ab e rdee7; park,HGiogohdbluiffre E y,t%l of the Charlette A , f d o m ur i t r h al daughter of the to F. m. Deaths. DRANE.—On the 17th inst., at Torquay, Thomas Dr B Eeq„ aged 71. DAMES.—On the 19th i ns t., Catherine, wife of Lieuts' eol. Davies, of Withersdano House, Wye, Kent. GLOAG.—On the 18th inst., at Hammersmith, Thonla-, e d K. Gloag, Esq., of the Admiralty, Somerset Rouse) 60 53. id. Q. MUNN.—On the 18th i ns t., a t C an t er b ur y, Captain x.• Munn, 7th Royal Fusiliers, aged 29. TENNENT.—On tile 15th inst., at Glengariff, Bantry 130/1/4 on board of his yacht. the St. Ursula, Hugh Tenn Esq., of Wellpark and Errol. London: Printcd and Prbiistied by WILLIAM ANDII,II7I2', of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 'inn Surf Office 1• o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Piavoy, , 11. the C °ll*ll Middle= —ThursclAy, July 21,1851. r lit the. 4 I Ffti 01 Cap: