The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

CHINA AND JAPAN. Our dates from Hong-Kong are to the 11 th of July. The Overland China Mail thus summarises the events occurring in the interval since our last dispatches : " The London mail of May 26th arrived here on the 4th inst. " From Japan, the news of the fortnight has been exciting. We stated in our last issue that the indemnity demanded from the Japanese officers by Colonel Neale, in the name of the British Government, and amounting to £llO,OOO, was ready to be paid. It had been agreed to take the money at short specified intervals, the first instal ment to be paid on May 18. That day passed with out any reference being made to the matter, but on a day afterwards the Japanese Aiinisters attempted to re-open negotiations without the payment of any money. Her Majesty's charge d'affaires very pro perly considered this as a breach of faith, which pre vented him from having any further dealings with the native envoys, and accordingly placed the busi ness in Admiral Is: epee's hands, after having duly notified the circumstances to the foreign communi ties at Yokohama and Nagasaki. The admiral also notified his intention to commence hostilities in eight days, and advised those among the foreign residents who had wives and families to have them removed if they intended themselves to abide the issue of events. Admiral Juarez proffered his co operation, and undertook to defend the foreign settlement. Preparations began in earnest, and continued until the night of the 23d and 24th ult. ; when about midnight the Japanese officers, not hav ing access to Colonel Neale, went to the French Minister's quarters and sought an interview. This being granted, they informed him they were ready to pay the money as agreed upon. He accordingly communicated the information to her Majesty's charge d'affaires, who replied that as the Japanese had suffered matters to go so far the whole sum must now be paid at once, in 440,000 Mexican dollars, to be delivered at seven in the morning. By last advices the money was being paid into her Majesty's Legation. At the same time the Japanese ministers informed the different representatives of foreign powers that the Tycoon, then at Miako, had instructed them to obey the Mikado's orders to expel foreigners and close the ports. The Tycoon's officers expressed themselves willing to enter into negotia tions upon that subject. The various foreign mi nisters decli ne d to di scuss any such matter, but pro mised to convey the communications then made to their respective governments. The Japanese also requested that foreigners would hold their settle mentsithteeiurd intended own t militaryo sh ut th e fo m r c e u s p — a effectually evidently by u within certain limits, and contract to the narrowest point their intercourse with Japan. There still rem a i ns an important portion of the reparation unsatisfied, and one which the Tycoon's Government have stat e d t o b e impossible for them to fulfil, viz., the trial and capital punishment of Mr. Richardson's murderers, who are closely con nected with Prince Satsuma, and the payment of £25,000 to the relatives of the murdered man and to those who suffered by the outrage. The British minister has accepted the Tycoon's plea of inability to coerce Satsuma, and has intimated his intention of taking that duty upon himself; the Tycoon's Government have therefore been advised to warn the Prince against the consequences of a failure to yield up the murderers and pay the damages demanded. In the event of this not being done, the admiral of Satsuma's domini ons , a w n i d l p c o r o n : m e e e d n c t o e s s u o m e h e part of of hostility as to him shall seem best. Prince Satsuma has a castle at Kagosima, near Cape Chikakoff, and this the ad miral may determine to attack ; or he may mean to proceed to the Loo Choo Islands and attach the revenues there which belong to the Prince. It ap pears, therefore, that while the Government officials have purchased immunity for themselves, a power ful foe yet remains in the field whom it will be urgently necessary to bring to terms. " An act of hostility was perpetrated on the American steamer Pembroke, while she was lying at anchor in the inland sea. Some Japanese Go vernment vessels fired upon her, and struck her in several places, The Pembroke escaped by getting 'IP steam and moving off; her guns were lashed, 1 , 11 : 1 . l ithe made no at t empt to use t h em, a ll h an d s 0 busy gett i ng the steamer under weigh.ree,• " F aeasaki we learn th a t thi ngs are begin ning to l ook more peacef u l, although batteries have been throwu up zixay known. i the T e which comman d t h e port an d the shipping; whether of Satd etua id not ]r by telit " Flom Pekin anycotn's orders or those northern port s the re l e ne news of a political kind Netherlands proceeds t o peAkti- embassy from the a mbassador is M r .immediately; th e Van ber sloven, M r , C. M. d e Dries acting as interpret er . " At Ilankow everything seems to 'nor rumours a l arms have been raised for some time, no r rumours of district marauders a pp roach ing the settlem ent. 4! At Kitikiang the same immunity Prevails although Taepings known to b 5 are thein the n e ighbourhood. ranking has been attacAed by a considerable THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1861 Naval and Military Intelligence, THE NAVY. VALETTA, Aug. 23.—Her Majesty's screw gun boat Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson, arrived on the 18th inst. from the Pirceus, with despatches from the Commander-in Chief and letters from the squadron ork the coast of Greece. At the date of her departure, 9.30 a.m., of the 14th inst., the following English ships of war were anchored in Falarum Bay, outside the Pie mus :—The Marl borough, 121, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Robert Smart, K.H., Capt. C. Fellowes ; the Tra fa'gar, 70, Capt. T. Mason ; the St. George, 84, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton ; the Meanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse ; the Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar ; the Orlando, 26, Capt. G. G. Randolph ; the Magi cienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage and the Icarus, 11. Commander N. Salmon, V.C. She brought no political news. In the collision at the Piraeus between the English sailors on leave and the sailors of the Greek vessel of war Hellas, six or eight of our men were seriously wounded, chiefly with sabre cuts, and one man had a bullet wound in the heed. Some of the Greeks were also badly hurt. They were armed with pi s tol s and sabres, the English seamen only with sticks and the legs of tables and chairs. The Foxhound called in at Ka latnata and Koren Bay on the evening of the 15th ; found anchored off Modon, near Navarino, her Majesty's screw frigate Liffey, 39, Capt. G. Parker, and discharging stores to her for the Pelican, 27, Commander P. Brock, believed to be cruising be tween :Gelato and Patras. The Liffey reported hav ing seen her INiajesty's ship Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, on the morning of the 15th, courses down, bearing up for note. At 11.30 p.m. the Foxhound continued her route for Malta, under slow steam, using all possible sail. She is now in the dockyard, and it having been discovered that the dry rot has made considerable inroads in her upper works it is likely that a month at least will be required to make good the necessary repairs. She is one of the vessels which were hastily built of not properly seasoned wood, to meet the emergencies of the late war with Russia. Her Majesty's screw frigate phoebe, 35, Capt. F. D. A. Fortescue, arrived at Malta on the 17th inst. under sail, 21 days from Beyrout, 18 from Jaffa, and 13 from Alexandria. She is now being caulked and refitted. My last letter stated that the Malacca, 17, Capt. G. J. Na pier, was to go to England. The order has since been withdrawn. The following are her Majesty's ships at present in Malta harbour :—The Hibernia, re ceiving ship (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. Austin, C. 8.), the Phoebe, 35, the Malacca, 17, the Cossack, 20, the Medina, surveying vessel, the Foxhound, 4, the Psyche, 2, and the Growler and the Boxer, tenders. The 4th bettalian Rifle Bri gade, 2d battalion 15th Regiment, and Ist battalion 22d Royal Welsh Fusileers, are under orders to leave for Gibraltar, and will be replaced here by the 2d battalion 7th, 2d battalion Bth, and 100th Regi ments. Her Majesty's iron troopship Orontes, Capt. Hire, will effect these changes of troops. She is expected about the 25th or 26th inst. with the 7th Regiment, and will return to Gibraltar with the R;fles. She will then embark the Bth and 100th snecessively, returning to Gibraltar with the 15th and 23d, in their numerical order. A court-martial assembled on Thursday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the trial of Thomas Kenny, A. 8., of her Majesty's pad dle frigate Odin, dismantling for paying out of corn rni6sion alongside Portsmouth dockyard, on a charge of striking Mr. Gold up, boatswain of the Odin, in one of the ship's boats. The court was composed of Capt. Scott, her Majesty's ship Victory (presi dent); Capt. Count Gleichen, of the Racoon; Capt. John Seccombe, of the Duke of Wellington ; Com manders Curme and Phelps, of the Duke of Wel lington and Victory. Lord John Hay, CAL, commanding the Odin, appeared as prosecutor. The charges were fully proved, and the prisoner was sentenced to receive 48 lashes, and afterwards to be dismissed from her Majesty's service. The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., will be paid out of commission at Ports mouth this morning. Yesterday in the steam factory of Portsmouth Dockyard one of the Royal Alfred's armour plates, measuring 15a. in length, 3ft. 6in. in width, and 41tti. in thickness, was successfully covered with its coating of copper by the " Walenn" process. The thickness of the coating was fully the sixty-fourth of an inch, and it was deposited with a beautifully , even and bright surface, notwithstanding that a plate had been selected by the dockyard officials which was undercut and honeycombed on its outer surface in a most peculiar manner. The severe trial to which !Jr. Walenn's process has been subjected in electrotyping such a mass, and the very perfect manner in which the plate has been coated, is the best possible proof of the efficiency and value of the principle, and we trust in future to have no such errors committed as bolting wrought-iron armour plates on ships' sides below the water line with zinced bolt fastenings. - The Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, now in the ship a-rights and engineers' hands at Chatham Dock yard, is undergoing a thorough overhaul and repair which will detain her in dock several months. Her screw, which is the common Admiralty blade, has been lifted, and is to be altered to the Griffith's shape by having the leading corners of the blades cut off. The engineers are now repairing her boilers, the Admiralty having decided on making her pre sent boilers last during another commission, and a large number of defective plates have been taken out, and are now lying about her decks. The Cad mus is also to be strengthened by being fitted with additional knees, and during the time she is in the shipwrights' hands she will be furnished with new decks. In addition to the other repairs and altera tior.s she is to be fitted with a topgallant forecastle, for the protection of her crew during inclement weather. Her repairs will involve an outlay of from £lO,OOO to £15,0011 On the recommendation of Capt. J. K. Hall, com manding the Chatham steam reserve, the Lords of the Admiralty have given directions for the requi site a p p li ances to b e fi ste d on b oard the C u mberland, 74, tivardship of the steam reserve, for masting cor vettes and other smaller vessels. This will render their removal in Chatham harbour or into the mast ‘ng b4sin nnnecessary, thereby saving considerable elPet4 t %lad delay. The Paddl ewheel steamer Salamander, 6, 818 tons, 2'2ohorse power, is ordered, when her fitting has been colt pleted, t o b e attac h e d to the f i rst divi sion ot tho steam reserve in the Mersey. Her Majesty's ir Commande r v , on steam s t ores hip Wye, Master ‘-.• Rob erts, went down to Wool wich yesterday, iton - t th e ford, laden with Victoria yard at Dept. victua lling stores for th e West Coast of Africa, and is zincs from the Arsenalto tat in h er p ow d er msga . THE K my An order has been received by 4 , authorities of Woolwich Arsenal in refereo setc 7 e instructions embarkation of which were put in force on the t ate the 4 0 :1 0 the Arse her Majesty and the Royal family nal pier for Germany. It request s to be transmitted to the War-offi?,e of th: rs ret Co py dgm whicll was put in circulation either BeP rn ar an by the heads of departments the or conjointly occasion. It app ears doubtful whether the Queen will return to Eng land by way of W oo l w i ch, or whether the Royal yacht will proceed direct to Osborne. 'De temporary fittin g s which were erected for the adornment of the pier are, however, ordered to be retained in their pace until further orders. The windows along the line of thorough fare in the offices and factories which were obsured with a coating of whitewash are still in the same b tate, but it is stated that should her Misty dis embark at - Woolwich the regulations regarding visi tors will be altogether different from tho3e issued on her departure. We understand that the as sumption of power on the part of the officials has been severely censured by the War Department , and the subject is still under official investigation. Some time before the arrival of the Royal family a telegram from the War Department had cancelled the local order excluding all persons from the place of embarkation. Many of the clerks and others whose otEus were closed nom the oateide were then 3 informed that they were at liberty t approach the , pier, of which a few took advantage, but as each constable on the beat had been supplied with a written order, and had been three ted to observ e hi s instructions to the letter, much c infusion ensued. The casemated barracks at St l / 4 Mary's, Chatham, formerly the headquarters of the invalid depot, and occupied by troops belonging tr, the various cavalry and infantry regiments servit g in India and the colonies, are now being preps red for the reception of one of the battalions of in! antry quartered in the garrison. In the portion oft he barracks completed, the depot companies of tt Le 75th and 81st Regi ments are quartered, and on the removal of the staff of the invalid depot in the ( ensuing month the entire establishment will be apps •opriated as quarters for troops of the line, St. Al ary's Barracks providing accommodation for 1,00 J troops and nearly 100 Gine@ s. INDIA, CHINI L, AND JAPAN. -- r We have received b 3 the overland India mail papers and dispatches from Calcutta to July '22 ; Madras, July 28 ; Sings pore, July 21 ; and Hong- Kong, July 11. The identity of the supposed Nana of Bithore occupies the attention of the Indian press, and the Englishman declares its disbelief in the existence of the notorious monster in these emphatic terms : " Being well assured that the scoundrel has long since learnt how it is given unto men but once to die, and after that the j u d g ment, we are notin clined to give colour to the lies of the scoundrels he lett behind him, by sensational resurrection of his infamous personality." At Madras there was a perfect famine of news. The governor of the presidency was still on hi s tour in the Mofussil ; and in his absence wereathdeoctoimer munity ere chiefly engaged in the consideratio n and discussion of water supp l y , d r a i nage, n questions of local, though by no means of Imperial importance. The Athencrunt says "..e city has been experiencing very unusual weather of late, connected, we fancy, with the earthquak es w hi ch have been felt frequently in various parts of Hin dustan, as well as most disastrously across the water to the eastward. We have generally more or less cloudy weather, with showers of continual occurrence, which render the temperature very agreeable, and keep vegetation i n a state t a t t pleasanthe ab normal to look upon, and we rej o i ce t o add h state of the season has not, as it commonly does, brought extra di sease i n i ts train; for our city is remarkably free from serious epidemics at present." The hangman has been busy at Singapore, three murders having been committed and the perpe• trators of them found guilty and sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law. A new schooner, named the Evangeline, has been launched, to be employed for missionary purposes in Borneo. Captain Sherard Osborne arrived in this port on the 10th of July, and a couple of days after the first of his Anglo• Chinese fleet, the China, made her appear ance in the waters of Singapore. There had been an unusual number of deaths amongst the small European community, which the Straits Times attributes, not to the climate, but to " casual sicknesses." Imperialist force, and some important outworks taken. A few Englishmen who were trafficing in the creeks in lorchas, illegally of course, were killed or wounded by the Imperial troops. Some of them found refuge in Chinkiang, a place 50 miles east ward of the Taeping capital. An English vessel was fired on from Nanking, and the gunboat Hardy has gone to see into the matter. " From Shangha e w e hear of another case of rowdyism, which has resulted in the death of two men who were stabbed with knives. The acts of ruffianism were perpetrated at night in the bazaar, and there will be some difficulty in discovering who were the guilty parties. _ . " Major Gordon has made no great movement since we wrote last ; he is reported to be busy in making his observations, and there is no desire for his proceeding to operations an hour sooner than he thinks fit. We should say that with Gordon near Soochow, the Imperialists in the outworks at Nan king, and a splendid Imperial fleet on its way out to the Yang-tFze, the rebel cause is on the wane. Ono of the most cheering signs of the times is the comparatively small amount of bloodshed with which the return to Imperialism promises to be effected. Major Gordon's last operation was not so sangui nary as that previous to it, and it is likely his next will be less so; while the wholesale desertions from the rebel army seem to offer an easy mode of even tually dissipating the entire body. Desertions took place at Nanking, and Gordon states that both he and the Tartar general are accustomed to recruit from the ranks of the enemy. The head-quarters of the Anglo- Chinese force has been removed from Sunkiang to Quinsan, and Captain Stack retains the post of commandant. "From Ningpo, poor accounts reach us as to the condition of affairs there generally. Much dissatis faction has been caused by an Englishman having been shot by the French authorities. He was charged with selling firearms to the lads, and tried by a court martial, consisting of four English officers and a French colonel. The story goes that the four English officers pronounced in favour of acquitting the man, and sending him from Saotsan, where he was tried, to her Majesty's consul at Ningpo. The French colonel wished him to be shot. Smith (as the man was named) was forwarded to Shaoshing, which is held by the Franco -Chinese Contingent, if we mistake not, and there he was taken out at night and shot. We ought to be jealous of our authority in matters of this kind ; and if the facts are as stated the case will be one for inquiry. From Amoy and Fuhchau there is no news. " From Swatow we learn that various endeavours to buy land on the new Keaout site, which is leased in perpetuity to the British Crown, have filled. It is to some extent disgraceful that our privilege s i n China should be waived whenever their enforcement is likely to excite opposition, but the disgrace is probably better than the trouble and ill-feeling that would arise from the use of coercive measures. Sir F. Bruce, at all events, takes this view, and is no longer in favour of settlements, preferring to allow merchants to build at the ports wherever they cln get land. Serious consequences may yet arise from such a view of the case. We may draw attention to a letter from Swatow, defending her Majesty's consul from the imputation of having acted weakly in the matter of selecting, upon the south side of the river, a site for the consulate, after having been insulted by a mandarin from Canton, who was deputed te arrange for giving him pos session of the north or Kealut site. "We learn from Manilla that the loss of pro perty by the fearful earthquake is greatly over what was estimated. That of the Government alone is put down at thirteen millions of dollars, and the losses of private individuals will amount in the aggregate, to about twenty-six millions, mak ing nearly forty millions in all. It is almost in credible that so large a destruction of property should be attended with so comparatively small a loss of life. Hundreds of Chinamen are seeking passports to return to their own country, having become seriously alarmed by the disaster. "Arrangements have been made for rebuilding the Church tower at Canton, which fell down some time ago." Painful Case of Suicide in the Regent's Canal, Last night an inquiry was held at the Mile-end workhouse, Bancrott-road, by Mr. John Humphreys, coroner, respecting the death of Vim. Pullen, aged 70 years, who committed suicido under very distress ing circumstances. George Osborn, 11, Road-street, Mi!e-end, said that deceased was his grandfather, and had, witness was sorry to say, robbed his (deceased's) son some time since, and there had been great in con sequence. Deceased, on account of the shame, at tempted to cut his throat, but was prevented. A few days since deceased's son, finding himself dying from disease, sent for his father, and said "I forgive you." They wer e b o th great l y a ff ected, and the son died. Deceased seemed to be out of his mind. Joseph Clarke, bargeman, said, that on Monday week he saw the deceased get on the parapet of the Globe Bridge, over the Regent's Canal, and in a very wild manner leap off into the water. The uncon cealed way in which the act was done caused 200 or 300 persons to gather immediately, and with much difficulty he was got out of the water alive. He was quite excited, and said, " Why are all these people here ? Ido not know why I did it." He was taken by the police to the infirmary. Dr. Forster said deceased died from fever result ing from the immersion. The jury returned a verdict, that deceased died from the effects of immersing himself in the Re gent's Canal while of unsound mind. The Fatal Stabbing Case in Leeds, On Wednesday Mr. Blackburn, the Leeds borough coroner, resumed, at the Town Hall, the inquest on the body of Anthony Golding, aged 26, which had been adjourned from Monday. It will be re membered that soon after midnight on Sun day an Irish row took place in Brick-street, York-street, and the deceased was stabbed by a man said to be Patrick llirley, or Patch. Patrick Ilirley, the person accused of causing the death of the deceased, who had been apprehended at Otley, was brought up, in custody, before the coroner and jury. Mr. Granger, solicitor, appeared for him. The Coroner, in justice to the prisoner, read over the evidence taken in his absence on Monday, ex cepting that of John Macdonald and his wife, which he said ho had struck out. After hearing further evidence, The Coroner, in the course of his summing up, said—ln this case the prisoner, it was said, was going about the street using threatening language, with an open knife in his hand. The deceased took no part in the affray. He offered no provocation, and was wholly and entirely an unoffending party. Unfortunately for him he was looking on, and when the pris oner came by he offered words of peace to phaimr,ywuhphaoodn which the prisoner struck him with a knife, and caused his death. Assuming that the man t was dead ga en hadbeen the d or any deceased s t e h d e , and a knif e had beenfraywith used with fatal effect, he should have said the case was one of manslaughter. But, con s id er i ng the deceased took no part in the affray, and that the•prisoner, if he was the man who inflicted the injury,,e w musatahave know n h e was not i n u n ne htheenrifrahyinl, boeffeleurisnegh words o s f tanding far off, and h e ealusl doubt stabbingderonlythen,otherbeyond h wilful Prisoner at the bar was th e party who inflicted th e injury; and if the jury thought h e was, then they would say he was guilty of wilful mur d er. If they did not think he was the man, or th e y h a d any as doubt about it, then they must give him th e bene fitesph ocen e 1 being an un offendingra i party, of it. The Jury retired to consider their verdict, and in half an hour found one of "Wilful murder against Patrick Hirley." The prisoner (who appeared staggered by th e decision)—But I'm not guilty ot that crime. The Coroner then made out his warrant for the prisoner's committal to take his trial at the York winter gaol delivery. benefit of redneed duty obtE.incd by Fur- haling Iforniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4a. "high Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. M.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. The " Antiquary " would have stoutly maintained the im possibility of a message being received in London within a few minutes of its being written in Edinboro'. But it is un deniable. Equally so is the fact of grey hair being restored to its natural colour, and neuralgia and nervous headache cured by Herring's magnetic brushes and combs. Recent improvements have made them almost i n f a llibl e . N.B.— eoun tert elts are being made. Offices , 12, Basinghall-street, "49nnon, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CI RCUIT.—CROYDON, Aug. 27. (Before Baron Branaw3ll and a Special Jury.) WOOLLEY V. POLE. THE CAMPDEN HOUSE FIRE.-THIRD ~ The proceedings i n thi s extraordinary cause were again resumed this mo rn i ng, at tea o'clock. Mr. Bovill, QC Serjeant Ballantine, Mr. Mereweather, Mr. Henry James (specially retained), and Mr. Kosher, appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Lush, (LC., Mr. Denman, Q,C ~ and Mr. Garth were for the defendant. The following additional evidence was given : The Pi itness Crozier was recalled, and ho explained by plan the route ho took to put out the gas on the night pre vious to the fire, an d h e po i nted out the different places he wentinto.. He s a id th a t M r. Woolley sat upon the stairs on the front staircase while he was engaged in extinguishing the as and fa s t en i ng up t h e offices. When ho had finished, he said that he and Mr. Woolley went back to their bed rooms by the principal staircase, and it was upon this stair case that they met the Temples. In answer to a question put by one of the jurors, The witness said that there was no accommodation for any one to sleep in the green-room, except a large sofa. Mr. Edward Norton Clifton said—l am an architect and surveyor, and have been employed in those capacities by the London and Westminster Bank and the Globe Insur ance Company, and have had great experience in the matters connected with my profession. I have carefully examined the model and the plans of this building, and I am of opinion that it would take £12,783 to replace the building. If oak and chesnut beams were used, as they were in the old build ing, the expense of reinstating the building would be much larger. An ordinary dwelling-house, built with ordinary timber, would come to the amount he had mentioned. Cross-examined—l never saw the house before the fire, and I only form my judgment from the plans. Mr. Major Rhodes Hawkings said—l am an architect, and I acted for Mr. Woolley after the fire, being at the same time in communication with Mr. Freeman, the surveyor of the Sun Fire Office. I commenced my operations in April, and I informed him that I had plans of the interior and ex terior of the building, and showed thorn to him, and ho made some plans himself from them. The communications with Mr. Freeman continued down to the month of October, 1862. (Some correspondence betweeen the parties was here put in and read, the object being to show that down to this Period the negotiations were going on upon the understand ing that the premises were to be replaced by the insurance companies. • In tho 1,81, lector written by thp solicitor the Sun, he stated that they were under a mistake as to its being obligatory upon the company to reinstate the building. The letter also required from the plaintiff, at his own ex pense, an estimate of the supposed cost of reinstating the building, accompanied by plans.) The witness said in order to prepare such an es ti m ate as the fire office required an expense of nearly £5OO would have been incurred. It just as have been nece ssary t o m ake plans and estimates as though the house was to have been actually rebuilt. Baron Bramwell said that ho thought this construction ought not to have been put upon the application of the company. All they evidently required was a rough estimate. The witness went on t o say that he agreed with Mr. Clifton that the expense of re-erecting Campden House would be I:12,500, and in addition to this there would be the architect's commission, that would amount to £5OO or £6OO more, and other expenses. Mr. Hardwick, another architect, gave similar evidence. Ellen Perry said—l was housekeeper in Mr. Woolley's service, and went with the family to Brighton in the autumn of 1861. I am sure that no furniture was removed to Brighton from Campden House. I remember the candles being purchased. I had asked for some candles previously, and a portion were taken down to Brighton, and they were there before Mr. Woolley went to London the last time before the fi re . I h ave been in Mr. Woolley's service 14 years, and I know it was the custom to cover up the furni ture and fittings with brown holland and paper when the f amily went out of town. The furniture that was at Brighton his e service. r°3- ex'un T i h e e d greater "-- i a n was taken from Tonbridge Castle. keeps fewer servants now than he used to do. He has only myself, a housemaid, and the Butler Crozier at present in still por in Mr. Woolley's service. He portion of the candles had been consumed before the fire. Besides the furniture that was taken from Tonbridge some furniture was taken from Camp den House. aLroolandßon hratinelvell—W B y t o B hen Mr. Woolley and the family went y used to let the Brighton house, and at one time I remember a bill being put up to lat it. Ido not k now how Mr. Woolley came to go up to London in March, just before the fire, but I heard something said about his going to hire a new gardener. Mr. G. Springer said—l was at Notting-hill on the morn ing of the fire, and I saw the appearance of a fire and went in that direction and gave an alarm to the firemen as I went along. I discovered that the fire was at Campden House, and I knocked at the front o•ate but could not get any answer. At this time the reflection of the fire could be seen through the windows in front of the house. At this time there were no firemen or policemen at the spot, but I heard Mr. Woolley calling out "Thieves 1" and "Murder I" I assisted in re moving some pictures from the adjoining house, which is occupied by Mr. Egg, and three•quarteis of an hour elapsed before any engine arrived. I saw Mrs. Temple jump from the window, but at first I thought it was a bundle of clothes that was thrown out. Cross-examined —The first thing I saw at Notting-hill was an appearance of red smoke. When I got to Campden House, I at first tried a side gate, but it was fastened, and appeared to be locked. The smoke from Campden House appeared to be blowing in a north-west direction towards Mr. Egg's house. When I first saw the fire it must have been about half-past three o'clock. Mrs. Charlotte Hazel, housekeeper to Mr. Egg, said that on the night of the fire she and a fellow- servant were the only inmates of the house, which was next to Campden House. She was awo k e b y a great noise, and awoke her fellow-servant, the leads, and said "F or G od ' s sake w if e an d child are bu r n e d t o d ea th . " We got eae running along and she was about to ge t up when Temple m let me in, my him into the room with some difficulty. He was a good deal burned. At this time no one was there but Temple, and the house was in a complete blaze before the engines came up. She heard some one screaming from Campden House, but was unable to say whether it was a man or woman's voice. Cross-examined —Temple was dreadfully burned, when I left hold of his hands the flesh seemed to peal off them. By the Jury—Witness did not know how temple got upoiA the leads, nor how he got out of Campden House. By Mr. Denman—When witness had dressed herself, she went to give the alarm to a person named Ellis, who lived close by, and he tapped at the window to show that he heard her, at least she understood so. She did not see Ellis at her master's house for at least twenty minutes after she had called him. Miss Emily Robinson said she lived with Mrs. Stevens, in Gloucester-place, close to Campden House. She was awoke on the morning of the fire by Mrs. Stevens, and upon going to the window she saw smoke and a lurid light. Mr. Wool ley was brought in about half an hour after this. Temple had come in before him, and his wife had been brought there previously, but he did not seem to be aware of it. Mr. Woolley was accompanied by Crozier. He appeared in great agony of mind. A short time after Mrs. Temple had been brought in, her son, Richard Temple, also came in. She looked occasionally at Catnpden House, and saw the ceiling and other parts of the house fall, but twenty minutes elapsed before the fire seemed to break through the front of the house. She could see the reflection of the fire through the windows for some time before the flames actually burst through. Maria Crozier said—l am the sister of the witness Thomas Crozier, and I went to see him at Campden House on the 13th of March, a few days before the fire. I saw that the pictures and other things were covered over, and it took two hours to uncover them to enable me to see them. The house was as full of furniture at this time as it had ever been. Owen W. Clift said—l am a carpenter at Kensington, and I have been employed to do work at Campden House from 1848 to 1855, and had no other occupation. I was chiefly engaged in joiners' work and carving. There was a great deal of old carving work, and I was employed to alter it, and convert it to certain purposes that were decided upon. I remember putting up one carved chimney piece which oc cupied me and Temple three or four months, and then Tim brell was set to work upon it, and it was completely covered with gold. Timbrell was employed at the house continually, to my knowledge, for seven years. Another gilder was em ployed before Timbrell, and a great many other workmen were also employed. The witness then described a variety of expensive alterations that were made in the house by him self and the other workmen, and he said that he believed he had received from £BOO to £l,OOO for his own labour alone. The jury interposed at this stage of the case, and inquired whether it was necessary to go into any further evidence as to the value of the contents of the house. Mr. Lush said he would admit that Mr. Woolley had laid out a great deal of money upon the house. Mr. Bevil' inquired if he was to understand that his learned friend admitted that the fittings were worth £7,000. Mr. Lush said he would admit that they might have cost Mr. Woolley 57,000, but at the same time he should con tend that they would not be worth anything like that sum to pull down and sell. Mr. Bovill asked if he would admit that it would take .€7,000 to replace them. Mr. Lush said he had no objection to do that. He did not dispute the cost of the fittings, but he disputed the alleged value of the furniture, which was insured for £5,000. The witness then stated that the house always appeared to him to be full of good and valuable furniture, and it was in the same state only a short time before the fire. Cross -examined---A gentleman nnrned Baylis acted as the adviser in matters of taste to Mr. Woolley, and they were very intimate. 'Witness was employed by Mr. Temple. A statement made by Timbrell, the person referred to, previous to his death, was here put in and read. It was to the same effect as the evidence given by the last witness. He expressed his opinion that the articles purchased by Mr. Woolley were genuine specimens of antique furniture of the most rare and valuable description, and that it would be impossible to replace them. He also stated that he had ex pended nearly £l,OOO in the purchase of gold for the pur pose of gilding. He estimated the value of the furniture at £6,000 or £7,000, and the fittings at £7,000. Robert Finch proved that he was formerly in the oerviae r of the Hon. Mr. Curzon, and ho had occasionally acted as waiter at Campden House when there was a party. Ho gave the same evidence with regard to the furniture, and said that he had been in Apsley House, Kensington Palace, and a great many noblemen's houses, and he had never seen one more fully or elegantly furnished. lie said there was not a single vacant place where a picture or an ornament could be put up. His observation on the house extended down to the month of March, 1362. On the morning after the fire he went to Mr. Stevens's, and saw Temple, and he made a statement with regard to the origin of the fire. Cross-examined—Upon some occasions when witness at tended to wait he was in livery. Mr. Woolley provided the livery, lie had seen as many as 400 persons present at some of the parties. Mr. J. Cotton said he was formerly a furniture dealer, and had had great experience in all classes of furniture, and attended all the principal sales, end had seen most of the noblemen's show houses. In 1859 he asked permission to look over Campden House, and he considered the furniture most valuable and worth at least £B,OOO or £9,000, and in fact some of it could not be replaced. It it had been sold by public auction he believed it would have fetched more than the sum he had mentioned, and that people would have given half a crown for a catalogue solely for the purpose of seeing it. Mr. Woolley gave him permission to take his friends over the house to see it, and he was there in Nov., 1861, and all the furniture tvas there at that time. It would take a lifetime, even if a man had the money, to get up such another collection of ancient and valuable furniture. Cross-examined—I heard that .Mr. Woolley was in the habit of attending sales, but I am not aware that good things are sometimes picked up at sales very cheap. Mr. James Tompsett, a gentleman residing at Torquay, gave similar evidence with regard to the quantity and value of the furniture and fittings in Campden House. Cross examined—He had seen Campden House more crowded with furniture than it was after the furniture had been remove•! to Tonbridge Castle. In answer to a question put by the jury, the witness said that he did not at any time miss anything material in the shape of furniture from Campden House. The original lease of the premises was then put in. It contained the usual covenants to insure and keep the build ing in repair. The sum of £6,000 was given for the lease for 99 years, and the plaintiff was bonnd to insure to the full value of the building. Baron Bramwell—l suppose the lease contained the usual covenants for re••entry for any breach of covenant Mr. Bovill said that it did. Baron Bramwell—Then, if he had not insured to the full amount, he would have been liable to lose his £6,000? Mr. Bovill said that was so. Mr. Lush—And he did insure for £4,000 at first. The various policies were next put in. The effect of them has been already stated, and it will be unnecessary to re peat them. The insurance upon the furniture for £5,000 was made in November, 1861. Mr. H. B. Lennard said that he was on intimate terms with the plaintiff, and he had frequently been to Campden House, and was well acquainted with the nature of the furniture and the fittings contained in it. To the best of his judgment, and having some knowledge of the value of an tique furniture and fittings of this description, he was of opinion thatthey could not bo replaced for less than £15,000. The witness added that an uncle of his had fisted up a much smaller house in Hyde-park Gardens in a similar style, and it cost him £28,000. Cross -examined—A man would be very lucky indeed if he could purchase such a lot of furniture as there was in Camp den House for a sum like £2,000 or £3,000. The articles that were in it were such as were only seen in palaces. Mr. G. F. Duncombe deposed that he was connected with the Art and Science Department of the Kensington Museum, and he had been acquainted with the plaintiff for some years and frequently went to Campden House to see him, and ho was there on the Thursday before the fire. He had always noticed that the house was fully and most beautifully fur nished, and he saw no difference on this day. When he went Mr. Woolley was denied to him, but he heard his voice and came out of the library, and ho asked him to go to him. He appeared to be at work, and had on an old suit of clothes, and he observed that a number of books were lying about open, apparently to dry or air them. He also noticed that varnishing appeared to be going on, and that some calico or cloth of some kind was hanging from the ceiling apparently for the purpose of covering the pictures and the carving. He was quite sure that varnishing was going on at this time, for he put his card upon a table, intending to write something upon it, when he was told that Mr. Woolley was not at home, and he found some varnish upon the card, and he kept it as a memento of the burning of Campden House. Mr. Bovill then said that at present this would be the case for the plaintiff; but as so much had been said on the pre vious day by his learned friends upon the subject of the pur chase of the candles in Oxford-street, it had been thought an visable to bring forward the people from the shop, in order that the matter might bo explained. They were not yet in attendance, but he expected they would soon come, and he should then ask his lordship to allow them to be examined. Mr. Lush said he had no objection to that being done. The witness referred to, Mr. Greaves, tallow chandler in New Oxford-street, came into court during the adjournment and he was examined. His evidence, however, only went to show that in January last sixty pounds of candles of the ordinary household description were purchased at his shop, and sent to Mr. Woolley's house. This closed the ease for the plaintiff. Mr. Lush then proceeded to address the jury for the de • fendant. He said it was now his duty to law before them the case ho proposed to make out on the part of the fire office in answer to the present action. He felt bound to thank them for the patient attention they hal paid to the evidence for the plaintiff, because after the plausible tale that had been told them it was possible they might have be come impatient at the amount of time that had already been occupied and considered that no answer could be given to such a case. He was sure, however, that it was unnecessary to inform them that the defendants would never have put forward the defence they had done, and which was one cal culated to be almost destructive to their interest as a com mercial undertaking, if they had not fully believed there was good foundation for it; and although the alternative was undoubtedly a terrible one, he should ask the jury to say by their verdict whether the plaintiff was proved to have been guilty of the crime of arson or not. After some further preliminary observations he said that his learned friend had accused them of delay ; but what would have been said if such a charge as this had been made without the fullest consideration. And as to giving Mr. Woolley into custody, what would have been said in that case, and would it not have been urged as an act of great cruelty towards Mr. Woolley, and that the insurance company had deliberately closed his mouth by making the charge in order to save pay ing him the money? It appeared to him that a great deal of the evidence that had been adduced might have been spared. There was no doubt that he had spent the whole of his wife's fortune, and a considerable portion of that of her sister upon this house; but he submitted that it was clear that at the time the fire happened Mr. Woolley was almost at the end. of his resources. There was only a small portion of his wife's sister's fortune remaining, and the expense of keeping up the establishment must have been much greater than Mr. Woolley could bear. The jury would remember the extra ordinary preparations that were made shortly before the fire to cover up nearly the whole of the windows, and the most experienced members of the fire brigade would give their opinion that under ordinary circumstances a building such as this, the walls of which were of very great thickness, could not have been consumed in such a short period by fair means. They would also remember that the hour at which the fire occurred, namely, just before daylight on th e Sun day morning, was a period when the most deathlike stillness prevailed in the metropolis, and this would be found a mat ter of importance. They would also bear in mind that Mr. Woolley had given his own account of the fire,and he would show that in a great many particulars he had not spoken the truth. He should contradict his own statement with regard to his having called out " Fire" and" Murder," and he should prove by the evidence of a police-constable named Rogers, and other witnesses, that the first Ihat was seen of the plaintiff was after he had forced his way into the gar • den. and he there found Mr. Woolley, standing in his shirt and perfectly quiet, with his arms folded across, and he made no inquiry about the Temples. He should show by another witness that while grouping about in the dark in side the house, he fell over something which turned out to be a suit of clothes, and near the same spot was a pair of dress boots. These clothes were in the passage leading to the kitchen, and before the witness could obtain possession of them, the fire broke through the kitchen, and he was obliged to make his escape. If these clothes really were in the position he had mentioned, for what purpose could they have been placed there. How could they account for the fact in any way consi s t en tl y with the plaintiffs in nocence? With regard to what had been said about the shirt that was worn by the plaintiff, he did not know that it was material what shirt he wore, but the case on the part of the defendants was that on that night Mr. Woolley had not gone to bed at all, anti, therefore, it was more probable that he should have had a day shirt on than a night shirt. The learned counsel then proceeded to comment upon the evidence that had been given with regard to the character of the fire, and he said he should show by the evi • donee of one witness who was looking attentively at the fire, that it first appeared at the back, and in course of only a few minutes it seemed to spread over the whole house, and the fl lines were seen in every room, and every portion of the house seemed to be on fire. Three other witnesses living in the neighbourhood would speak to the same fact; and one witness who was sitting up attending upon a sick relative would prove that so far from Mr. Woolley having given an alarm, the first thing that broke the stillness of the night was the rattle of the policeman. It would also appear that in less than an hour—little more than half an hour in fact—the whole of this immense building was surrounded, and before 6 o'clock the place was a heap of ruins, and had burned itself out. Those who were well conversant with such matters would tell them that in all their previous experience they had never heard of such an instance of destruction of pro perty. His learned friend had been appealed to by his lord ship and asked whether he proposed to give any account as to the origin of the fire, and they bad heard what explana tion he had given. It was admitted there were only two fires in the house, and they were at a considerable distance from each other, and could not have caused the result that took place. After the admissions that had been made as to the mlnuer in which the house was prepared by placing the paper and the cloth from the ceilipg to the floor, he thought the jury would see that if this paper was set fire to it would have accounted for the fire appearing in every room almost at the same moment. Some attempts had been made by his learned friend to cast imputations upon Temple, but this person had every inducement to support the interest of Mr. Woolley, :as he owed him a considerable sum of money, and would no doubt have employed him again. He was bound, however, to speak what he believed in his conscience to be the truth, and he would tell them what occurred within his own knowledge on the night in question. He submitted that it was rather an extraordinary proceeding for Mr. Woolley to have gone downstairs with Crozier on this night, and that he should have sat upon the stairs while Crozier was, as he said, fastening up the lower part of the house. The person he had referred to, Temple, no doubt was under the impression that after the house was on fire no attempt was made to save him, and immediately after he left his room the staircase fell, and he believed that his wife and son had been destroyed. He would, however, tell them all that occurred ox this night, and he should contradict the evidence that was given by Mr. Woolley and Crozier in several particulars. Another fact of considerable signifi cance, as it appeared to him, would be the evidence of a person who was well acquainted with Mr. Woolley and Crozier, who would prove that although they had positively stated that they did not leave the house after 11 o'clock, he saw them walking arm-in-arm at half past 3 o'clock to wards the house, in a street called Church-street; and the case on the part of the defendants was that Mr. Woolley had not been to bed at all on this night, and that the clothes and the pair of boots to which he had alluded were placed in the position where they were found for some purpose the nature of which could be guessed at by the jury. The learned coun sel then referred to Mr. Woolley's at atement of the circum stances connected with the fire, and said he should contra dict him in several most important considerations. One fact vouched by Mr. Woolley himself in this report was that nearly-three quarters of an hour elapsed before a policeman made his appearance, when the fact was that the roof fell in in less than that period and the premises were entirely con sumed. It was also false to say that the fire broke out imme diately under the bedrooms of Mr. Woolley and Crozier, or that they were in the position of immediate danger which they represented, and ho urged that these statements had been drawn up with a view to prepossess the public with an impression favourable to Mr. Woolley. It was not true that the fire broke out where they represented ; but, on the con trary, it was first seen in those rooms that had been papered and varnished in the way that had been described. He need not tell them that there was an impression in the minds of the Temples that Mr. Woolley had not made any attempt to alarm them when the fire happened, and on the Tuesday after the fire Mr. Temple wrote . letter to Mrs. Temple, evi dently for the purpose of propitiating her, The learned counsel read the letter, which congratulated Mrs. Temple upon her escape, and requested that she and her husband should not devote any attention to business affairs, as it would tend to retard their recovery, and contained other statements as to his conduct at the time the fire was dis covered which he said ho should be able to positively contra dict. In this letter he also made use of the expression— " Thank God, my presence of mind never left me for a moment," so that he said he must have been aware that what he was stating was false. He would now refer to the cit curestances in which Mr. Woolley was at the time of the fire, He should prove that, in addition to the mortgage to his sister, he had executed a bill of sale upon the whole of the property that was in Campdon House ; and it was admitted that the quantity of furniture had been con siderably diminished, and yet he had gone on increasing his insurance, and had become liable to pay still heavier pre miums. What, then, was his position at the time the fire occurred ? They had heard the account he had given of his own original position. He was undoubtedly a man who originally was not possessed of any means whatever, hitt he had fortunately married a lady who was possessed, no doubt, of very considerable property. He wished them to under stand distinctly that he did not deny for a moment that he had gone to great expense in the fittings, as they were termed, of Campden House. He would admit, also, that he had foolishly, and he might almost say wickedly,squandered away the whole of his wife's fortune in this manner. They should recollect that he had no revenue of his own to sup port his expenses with, and that when this fortune was ex pended he had no means whatever of supporting his esta blishment, and it was admitted that he had for a consider able time been dependant upon the income of Miss Cope, his wife's sister, a considerable portion of whose fortune, he might at the same time remind them, he had also squandered away in the same manner. That these fittings had cost a great deal of money he should not of course attempt to deny, although what they would have fetched if they had been pulled down and sold would have been quite another matter. He was, however, calling their attention to the position of the plaintiff, and to the probability that he should have committed such an act as was imputed to him. Here was a man who had spent a large fortune in fitting up a grand place like this, who was talked about by everybody, who was supposed to be enormously rich, but who in point of fact had been living on his capital, and who had spent the whole of it, and who at the time this occurrence took place was really unable any longer to keep up that appearance he had so long sustained. It was unnecessary for him to re mind them that many men in similar circumstances had destroyed themselves rather than let their real position be known to the world, and who could not bear the humiliation of publishing their condition to the high and grand people with whom they had been in the habit of associating; and this was the suggestion he had to submit to them to account for the probability of the commission of this act. Upon the subject of motive, however, he would remind him that he was not called upon to show any motive, and if he satisfied them by reasonable evidence that Mr. Woolley had wilfully set fire to this house—and no one else could have done it— if the fire was wilful, it was their duty to say so by their verdict. The learned counsel then proceeded to recapitulate the point upon which he mainly relied in support of the de fendants' plea that the fire had been caused wilfully, and said that with regard to the suit of clothes, he believed the jury could come to no other conclusion than that after the house had been set on fire Mr. Woolley, who had not gone to bed at all, had undressed himself in the passage down stairs, and had left his clothes there and had then gone into the garden in his shirt, and in the condition in which he was found by the police. The following evidence was then adduced for the defen dant : Mr. Joseph Temple said—l am a builder and carpenter, and reside at Notting-hill. I first became acquained with Mr. Woolley in 1847, and I had worked for him from that time down to the fire at Campden House. I was employed very extensively, and latterly I had apartments in Campden House, and took charge of it while Mr. Woolley was away. I never had any dispute with him, and I consider I was under obligations to him. I remember Colonel Waugh living at Campden House in 1855. I was at the house frequently in November, 1861, and on the same night the family left for Brighton I and my wife and son went to live there. Mr. Woolley came to Campden House with Crozier about three weeks before the fire. During the interval they were mostly employed in varnishing and covering up the pictures and the carving, The furniture was generally covered up, but not the carvin g on th e wa ll s. I never saw t h a t covere d u p in the same way before. Mr. Woolley and Crozier seemed to be on very friendly terms, and they frequently took their meals together in the housekeeper's room and the library, and I have seen them walking arm-in-arm together in the streets near the house, both by day ana night. Mr. 'Woolley's sight was defective. The cloth was nailed to the top of the room, and hung loosely down to the floor. This was done in the hall, the ante-room, and the staircase. The hanging of the cloth commenced immediately after the return of Mr. Woolley and Crozier from Brighton. I understood from Mr. Woolley that the object of hanging up the cloth was to keep the dirt from the pictures and the carving. On the day before the fire there were no curtains to the dining room windows, but on the night of the fire I observed some tapestry over the dining-room windows and some drugget over the hall windows. This must have been put up on the Saturday, and when I saw it it was looped up a little on one aide, and but for this every particle of light would have been excluded. I saw Mr. Woolley put up some of the drugget and calico over the pictures, but I did not see him put any thing up at the windows. On the Friday before the fire I was in the library, and I observed a number of books on the table and floor standing on their ends open. I also no ticed on the staircase that paper was thrown loosely over some of the carving, and a quantity of paper was placed loosely in the middle of one of the rooms. It was the or dinary paper used for papering rooms. Baron Bramwell asked witness whether paper of this de scription burned freely. The witness said that it did. The Jury said their experience led them to form a dif ferent opinion. The witness said this paper was very thin and common paper with very little colour in it, and it would burn freely. He then continued —I believe there were not more than five or six pieces—at least, I did not see any more. There may have been as many as 40. I went to bed on the night of the fire about a quarter past 11 o'clock. I had previously been into the green-room and the housekeeper's room. I took a ledger, in which I had been writing, from the green-room to the housekeeper's room, and locked it up in a cupboard. I had been writing in the green-room until about half an hour before I went to bed. 1 had been indulging in sausages for my supper. (A laugh.) The sausages were not cooked in the house. Crozier Game into the room while I and my wife were having our supper. There was nothing but dying embers in the grate when we left the green-room, and we went up the best staircase, and net Mr. Woolley and Crozier, who appeared to be cowing from the bedroom floor, I said to Mr. Woolley, " Good night, Sir." When Crozier came into the green room, he asked for wood, and said that Mr. Woolley's fire wa , s , n ear l y ciot, and th a t h e wan t e d the wood because Mr. W oolley w as going to sit up to work, and he at the same time said h e thought 111 r. Woolley was taking leave of his senses, When I went to bed everything appeared to be perfectly saf e . I was awoke by the noise of crackling of fire, and when I got up I found that the house was in flames. I called out to my wife and son, and told them to follow , me, an d I then r went towards the grand staircase. he place was full of smoke and fire, and when I had got a short distence I heard my wife say she could not as I h eantyfoaurgthhet, inr,atnodthle ;laaturdesa, crash, and I saw my wife I was about to go towards them, but found the smoke and fire prevented me, I then recollected that there was a duel rear, by which I might get upon the leads, I crawled on my hands and knots to this door, and after a good deal of difficulty succeeded in opening it, and in doing so my hands were severely burned. I had to pass Mr. Woolley's room, and there was no appearance of a fire in it at that time. A Juror inquired of the witness whether ho saw Mr. Woolley, or whether he attempted to give any alarm to him. The witness replied that he did not, he was in great suffer ing and very much bewildered. The Juror remarked that notwithstanding he still repre sented that he had looked into the room and had ascertained that there was no fire there. The witness said that was the fact ; but he could give no explanation, only he had not called out to Mr. Woolley. He then proceeded to state that having got upon the leads, he succeeded in making his way into the house of Mr. Egg, and shortly afterwards ho found that his wife had jumped out of the window and had been taken to Mr. Stevens's, and that his son was also there. He said his attention was first called to the subject of the fire about six weeks afterwards, when Mr. Randall, the solicitor to the Sun Fire-office called upon him and showed him a statement of the articles that were represented to have been destroyed in the fire. The witness was then examined at very considerable length with reference to the different item, contained in the claim ; and it will be sufficient to state that the effect of his evi dence was to show that a great many of the articles that were claimed for were not in the house at all, and that with regard to others for which large sums were claimed, they were comparatively of insignificant value. He also said that during the whole time he was making his escape from the house in the way he had described, ho heard no shriek ing or crying for assistance, and the first thing he remem • bered hearing was the sound of the policeman's rattle. This witness was then cross-examined very severely by Mr. Bovill. In answer to the various questions put to him he said that the list or statement he referred to might have contained altogether as many as a thousand items. Mr. Randall, the solicitor to the Sun Fire-office, when he called upon him, showed him the list, and he looked over it with him for about two hours and a half, and he gave him all the information he could, and ho took the list away with him. He believed that a gentleman named Freeman called upon him, in reference to the fire, about three days after it hap pened, but he had no communication with him, as at that time he was blind. Mr. Teesdale, the plaintiff's solicitor, called upon him after Mr. Randall, and he also showed him a list, and he had some conversation with him respecting it. He informed Mr. Randall that Mr. Teesdale had called upon him, but he did not tell Mr. Teesdale anything about Mr. Randall having been there. Mr. Bovill asked the witness how it happened that he should have informed Mr. Randall that Mr. Teesdale had called upon him, and had not informed Mr. Teesdale of Mr. Randall having done so. The witness appeared confused, and hesitated, and it was some time before he gave an answer. He then said that he could not tell why be did not say so to Mr. Teesdale. Mr. Bovill still pressed the question, and the witness ap peared either unable or unwilling to answer it. Baron Bramwell told him it was no use detaining the Court in that manner—everybody could see what his rea son was, and he had better avow it. He thought, no doubt, that he was to act in the interest of one side only. The witness then admitted that this was the reason. He was then further cross-examined by Mr. Bovill with regard to his evidence respecting the furniture, and shortly a fter five o'clock the case was adjourned, the cross-exami nation of the witness not having been completed. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL—Aua. 26. At this day's market the supply of English wheat was short, in good condition, and the trade was firm at former values. In foreign more doing, and prices fully as high. Indian corn 6d cheaper, and nothing doing in beans. MANCHE STER—Aua. 26. At our market this morning there was a more numerous attendance of buyers, and the demand for new English wheat was pretty free, at prices is lower than this day se'nnight. Old wheat, as well as foreign, although offered at a similar reduction, was quite neglected. Flour a very slow sale. Oats and oatmeal limited in sale, at barely late rates. Beans and Indian corn sold slowly, and must be quota as before. BIRMINGHAM-AuG. 26. English wheat was sold at 46s to 50a for white, and 40s to 46s per 36 stone for red, Barley, now malting, 36s to 42s per qr; grinding, 26s to 30s. Oats, old, 24s to 30s per 30 stone ; Irish, 21s to 258. Beans, 405.t0 44s i per qr. Peas, 36s to 44s per 36 atone. CORK-AuG. 25. The following were the quotations this morning wheat, 8s Od to —8 Od ; white, 10s 3d to —Bod , barley, 6g Od: to Os Od oats, is 6d to Os Od. ; black do., 5s 9d t 8s 2d. EDINBURGH GRAIN-JULY 26. A fair supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met e slow sale at is under the prices of last week. Barley met a fair sale, and prices unaltered. Oats dull. Beans were in fair request. Wheat on the top Is 6d down average Os 3d down. Barley on the top Os 6d up average 2s 3d up. Oats on the top Os 6d down, average Os 8d up. Beans on the top 4s Od down average 2s Od downs Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ...1094 qrs Sold 589 qrs 8ar1ey........ 359 qrs Sold 359 qrs Oats Beans GO qrs Sold 4 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 40s Od ; extras, 38s Od ; superfine, 36s Od ; fine, 34s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD-AL - G. 25. There was an average supply of fat beasts to-day ; the best quality was in demand, and last week's prices were fully maintained. The numb e r o f sh eer a nd l am bs plenti ful. Fat calves were also mole plentiful. The show of pigs was large, the demand more active, and all sold. Beef 6d to 7d Veal. 6d to 7( 1 Mutton ... 6d to 7d Pork . . 15c1 to Old Lamb Bd to —d Rough fat, 3s 9d per stout , Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skins, 5d to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. S ep t. 18. via Marseilles Sept. 1 2 . Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pachot. Sept. 3 . Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug, 29• China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southanipton Sept. 1. via Marseilles Aug. 21. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 25. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 1 via Marseilles Aug. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 2 5 . via Marseilles Portugal.... Sept. 3 • Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 25. via Marseilles Aug. 2 , 7 ,' Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sept. 2. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Aug. 28• W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe . . Sept. 10. Bahamas, via New York Mexico.. Aug.Au. 7. g 2 2 8 * All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru ' California. and British Columbia. 1 Aug. 28. CRIMINAL POPULATION OF 1862.—The total known criminal population in September, 1862, win; 115,368, being an increase of 6,396, or 4'2 per cent. upon the previous year, This population was distributed as fel' lows :—Criminal classes at large (including 29,504 tramps and vagrants), 127,051; in local prisons (exclusive of debtors and military prisons), 17,246; in the cpnvict prisons, 7,776 ; in reformatories, 3,295. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—COtIiuMptiOII, all nervous, bilious' liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag" gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, bu t perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalent s Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which I"' been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62, 914 ' Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men 1 131 ; abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage °' pulmonary consumption, with fcarful cough, expectoration• exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheek , • emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perked,' healthy, blooming, fleshy girl,—N. Lange, Commissaire ds Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of FriMleY i Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting, of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 17,121. Mies Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion. gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfollc• of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, Ilb, 2s Od ; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b 11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No. 77 : Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason ; and 5 1 ' grocers and chemists in every town of the United Kingdora.. Births. BoosEv.—On the 26th inst., at 37, Eversfield-place, SAW L eon ard's-on. Sea, Mrs. Charles Boosey, of Hadley' green, Middlesex, of a daughter. FoIu3ES.-On the 21st inst., et Geneva, Lady Forbes, 0f Craigievar, of a son and heir. SEvmouß.—On the 26th itst., at Barwick House, Norfolk, the wife of Rear-Admiral Seymour, C. 8., of a son. Marriages. DAVIDSON—BARRETT.—On the °6th inst., at Rat' i f Major-General Davidson, to Miss Maria Barrett. Kensir g t un, LAW—OGILI3Y.—On th e 26th inst, a t St. M ary Alabott'o, Hon. Charl es Bwaa LAw, , M.P., Recorder of London, t° Colonel Law eldest ' surviving men of the lot ° Isabella, only child of the late Alexander Ogilby, Es" of Pelligier, co. Londonderry. Deaths. BuDD.---On the 25th inst., Robert Sutton Budd, Esq./ °f Plymouth, aged 22. BROAD.—On the 14th inst., Mr. Samuel Broad, of 294 / Upper Thames-street, aged 53. BROWN.--On the 26th inst., at Exeter, Dr. W. C. Brag', aged 44. CAT A —On the 22d inst., the Countess Calza, aged S 3. NELSON.—On the 25th inst., at 11 Camden street, 0ak11314 square, Thomas Nelson, Esq. WILLEY.—On the 26th inst., at Limerick House, Lea' '° ton, the Rev. Jocelyn Willey. WARE.— On the 25th inst., at Bath, Catherine Mary A rirlf wife of Captain Ware. WRIGHT.—On the 27th inst., at the Royal Oak Inn, Il e° Kent, Susannah, wile of Mr. Richard Wright, aged London : Printed and Put , !isited by WILLIAM AND R " v i c s ; of IS o. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN °Mee /I° ' Strand, in the Precinct oi the !Savoy, in the County 7didllceez.7 Frilay, August 28, !OA 1 L