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,~ !d at via way, noose ns of Lions, nish • un- `ions, which lines ,ce to thing .rt of moon pro t car- lotive t free h the th the fear at 40 h the le old D give f con d the )arge, tford, and what rials. lo fell as to and t one 'ever, ening nday, were exact river spot id the uring ,wded ratch m the ation, !ering i have ed at 31ack- Rail very upon tram- . and- Ine of th the to the le was :e, but man- nence. nape, others rek or and a artho- quirt' vill be other, rnn as MOUTS L that ere is item- urred, 1; had ne the were )f the r. As it. lower. • 36st. ; :o 325; I large, e trade 8 to 488 to 376 a to 288 errand uarter. to 475. Oats, at 41s per 36 siting, I oats, Bosoms, atone. w crop I dowr. ne, 47a ) 388; Peas, nd the week's s were Beans i to 24e to 42i to —8 ir, 33a ?ills - which known ounds, s, and, e these B Cora fitment cause. ded in a had lay its ;urrey, t, of a )y, the t, the -, of * , Lin riven- of the Lmber r Hall. Saint Ilyard, chard, m arl d ward of the i bella, ,placey ...---, .P... .W 0 to. 112 , Inty 0 REMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK aft:r Alfred Mellon's Promenade Concerts. SEA. First- el ass APPRENTICES repaired in an East Indiaman.—Far premium, name of ship, be.. apply to Messrs. Lain.* and Co., 27, Coleman-street, Bank. IN() control over or interference in the outfitting exercised. EDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Irongate wharf, Tower.—Saloon. 20s ; fore cabin, 15s; deck (soldiers and sailors only),7s Ad; return tickets (available for a month), 30s and 0 2s ed. The cheapest and quickest sea route by the splendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON find EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every 'Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf. T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inburance buildings, LlverpoeL Total Annnal Revenue exceeds £soo,o ^ o. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,00,000. Chairman in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. --- EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1852. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as p:easingly as unexpectedly , at the Close iN the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is agsin fully nisintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerablythe amount realised in the precedg year, and in fact passes that that of any year. with but two exceptions, since the commencement of thi. Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa rately, £11,097 16s. 30d. LIFE BRANCH". The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on n , .‘v policies for the year 1F•13 , 2 exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a stnole year of £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last few years It is believed that such a sum assured as that which has just b( en announced as the t esult of one year's business was all but unheard of • _ _ 'Phis portion of the Company's business has been carefully watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the futi're to the participating" life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assuran^e •mounts to 45.281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis- Mole in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. _ _ _ to complete their review„ „the Directors IIOW advert briery to the - , ritnd Kingdom, They have to announce that in l ire Business its progress bas been undoubtedly m ore rapid than that of any other Company established either in London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that. the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brizhter, and of a consequent hope, rounded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was £85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock, £ 10 ,086,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to Parties insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received sums amounting in the aggregate to .£410,000 ; and the Society now holds a large Res 'rve applicable to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those Charged by the other principal offices making no returns to their insurers. For, pro - pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich • and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE AS.nOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Batim r , I Esq., 31. P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Th omson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, 31 . . P. Mutual LifP Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is £5 1 .0 00 The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2 , o,' 00 It has paid in Claims • • • • • • 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided qu inquennially among th e Members. Three divisions have already been made* When the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies Dec. 31, 1847 .. •, 1852 .. 1857 • • _•• 1862 .. • • • • • • Ina killEr the total bonus additions, £96,600. 4 Bonuses ma:, be received in wish or applied to the reduc don of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the ropey. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid -111) policies introduced by this Association, by which the " cri fiee so often submitted to on the relinquishment of po icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. 25,400 .. 23 200 .. 56,500 W3I. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moo gate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Chairman Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P. Deputy Chairman—CHAßLES WILLIAM CCRTIS, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. ;Tames Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. T homson Hankey, Esq., M.P Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. o'ohn G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. H enry Vi gne, E sq. Predk. H. Janson, Esq. ATJD' Lewis Loyd, Esq ong. Co . I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. rnelius Paine, jun., Esq. Noel 'Whiting, Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary - LIFE DEPA RTMENT .—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN OF PAR LIAMENT, this Company' now oilers to new In s nrers Ein nTv PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium w ithout Profits. participation of Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000 which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £ 4 ,730,000. the Income from the Llie Branch £207,000 _per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for service therein. LOANS granted on Lite Policies to the extent of their values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLI CIES. —Written Notices of, re- Oeived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. L osses caused by Explosion of Gas are a d m i tted by this vompany. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incor porated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accum ulated and Invest d Funds Annual Revenue...., ... 422,40: FIRE DEPARTMENT. on t Insuraires granted. both at Home and in Foreign Countries he most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Pat principle. onNtihneety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers The new Life business i ransacted in 1862 as follows : policies. 1,037 A mount Insured. Premiums. £703,334 123,641 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furni sheden L ONDON ........ . ...... °SBFF, Threadneedle-street. needle-street. : : .. . . t-end ............ 48. New t e l l an l o ok-pßaed. i p n g al s , . .L m o a t i ? u r y. RUPTURESBY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. Rxitirirrioir."l3 RITE' MOC-111AIN LEVER TRUSS AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT Tw o thiroiS. OF 1861 AND 1882), is allowed by upwards of inventiet,`"r Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective The us e ot n o the , curative treatment of 11 ERN I A. Is here body, while th itt e d nee ' spring, Po otten hurtful in its e ff ects, e - r -- -a soft bandage being worn round the and closeness that moc_m e h, Pad .aniaite resisting power is supplied by the Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease " r i ng ,leep. not it cannot be detected, and may be worn truss, which carll)tive circular may he had, and the cumference ot b oc Lo fit, forwarded by post, on the sent to to the manufacteK;rtWO Inches below the hips, being Mr. PiIIITE, 3141 IN A Sinßle Truss, 169,, 21, 2 —' ' 400,0111 - A I ‘ouble Truss, am. 5d...' 0 68 . Oct, and Ms. Bd. Postage, Is. An Umbilical Truss, 4.28. eedti s a nd 528 - Bd. Postage, ls Bd. Post-office Orders to be made 6d. Postage, ls. lod. PaYable ti‘, J o h n whi te, office, Piccadilly. Post- N EW PATE ./ i LAST I C T S T E KNEE-CA PS, &c.. for :trim" v ein and all eases ot . oCRINGS, txcaltoLss and Swelling cm the Legs, 8,,,, i 2 Piccadilly. ginrollS, light in texture, and Ine xpea,riv e ": , _, 4 tel. They are 'it ean ordinary stocking- trice la. 84., i,7 11 6 3 ar e io dran on 'I A., to les. cu l l. Postage dd. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 225 , pi THE LAUNDRESSES to her h te Queen. Adelaide say, that :‘ BRIGGS' Ausi lt t"l"stv S t'A BCH needs but to be toed to be app roved. ;;LlAN Wholesale Agent, Harper Tw el v e trees , Bromley-b,..p01e ondon, E. ____________ l -7 T ATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTRoy . io -rt j ING roiVDEr,for which a Prize Medal was awarded T ,7 Producer at the ' International Exhibition, 1462, ri t ;ii Powder is quitehlrmless to an mil life, but is in ,_ destroy_ Fleas. Bur.,s, Flies, Cockroa c h es tit led ,ill 4estrnY"- : 'Pe. , .i e *' G nats, Mosquitos, Jr, o 1)(,,,et rnsect in::-. pi e :rneu will find this an invalual s il; o 7 , 7z i titl ll their Dogs, as also 4 Pe r t has tempted othen to whiiii h as e., crieinal importer ofLtldiilseitnow invaluable article, vendvend aB, '' ) urld 60 Ureat a sale that t ' i; ca lled article, the public are theretorecautbiocanredthtoe "ufnf.., , ra(oit the pickets of the Genuine Powder :Sold il l n a t „,ltiomAs Kr ATING or post free for 1, or :.;(; tc, - , , , - ",,' e ts, ls , 28. rki., and 4s. a each, , • ~, eio. St. p . ui ...- post►,. ht,... , b lhomal livating, chemist, . Clilireb Y 4l , eondL, E.C, a N°. 22,202. NEW NOVEL by the Author cf "COUSIN GEOFFREY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T EFT TO THEMSE LVES. By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., NED LOCKSLEY, THE ETONIAN ; OR, THE ONLY SON. A NOVEL. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. R D, T H E O X F 0 0, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Pishop's THE SLAVE and llalevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ell!son, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, finish, ac., with full band and chorus. - - Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean Acc. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBA.CH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHE6TRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. 3 he (TALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls andbalcony, ls. ; private boxes, I Os. 6d. CI . ANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order N..) to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper und Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and bxly of the Hall. He has also arriinged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's late.t im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENI G, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Uusworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, Sze. R OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Fran- Ce•co, assisted by a corns of Twenty young Ladles—The Conrada as the Original lormeh -Clowns - iteid on the Corde iastique—Les Petits Monstres—Brian and Conly in an amusing and novel Burlesque —Mrs. Brian as Old Aunt Sally, &c., &c.—Wood and his Wonderful Son—Grand Operatic Selections :—Principals, Miss M'Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini (the new Italian tenor), and Mr. Vernon Rigby— Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers. IMMENSE SUCCESS of the ALHAMBRA 1 GHOST, a highly comical and amusing representation of the popular optical illusion.—EVEßY EVENING, at Eleven o'clock. ESTABLISHED 1833. BOWDEN'S JERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, votass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. CARD PLATES ENGRAVED. Any Pattern 50 BEST CARDS, Print , d from Plate HEAL NIOROCCO CARD CASES 1,000 BUSINESS ENVELOPES, gummed 3e. NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 d0z....• F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer, 86, Fleet-street, E.C. TO ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, AND CONTRACTORS IN THE EASTERN, SOUTH-EASTERN, AND SOUTH-WESTERN COUNTIES. GREAVF,S' BLUE LIAS LIME, 14, SOUTH WHARF, PADDINGTON, W., L. M. TATTIA3I, Agent. Arrangements are now made by which this well-known BLUE LIAS LIME can be sent direct from the kilns in Warwickshire, in Greaves and Kirshaw's own trucks, to any stations on the above-named lines, as fresh as though burnt upon the spot, sad at a lower price. ANY QUANTITY, of either lump or ground can be sup plied at a few days' notice, and trucks forwarded daily from the kilns and mill. Contractors will find this worth their notice, as they can be supplied at any time, in quantities to alit their require ments, from SIX TONS and upwards. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe eases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib e, removes singing: noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. 111[ONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a Private Gentleman upon FURMTUR (without removal% Leasehold aryl Freehold Property, or Reversions, &a, in sums from £2O to £soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen street, Cheapside. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 14th Aug., 1861. THE RTGTIT HONOURABLE the LORDS and OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS of this HOS PITAL, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as may be wiliing to Contract for victualling the in-pensioners of the said Hospital, from the Ist October, Hill, to the 30th September, 1861, both days inclusive, with the following articles of provisions, drc., viz. :—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots. Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole ration according to the established allowances of the house, as specified in the form of Tender, which may be obtained at the office of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 and 3 o'clock, which Tender must be filled up and delivered, sealed, at the Board-room of the said Hospital by the party or parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on Tuesday, the Ist of September, at 12 o'clock at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same into consideration. It i‘ to be observed that the Contractors wi'l be required to find Security to the Crown for the due performan-e of the Contract, and that no Tender will be received after the day and hour above mentioned. The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest Tender. A. J. 3100RHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. CIELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of k) the BIRTH of SITAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairmant are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon - Avon ; Messrs. Grebnway, Smith, and Greenivay, Warwick ; or their I ondon agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne. and Co , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co , bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he I,ved, and where he lived and died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron —The QUEEN . President —The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the ar dssupaport, very iltarmgaey for mality of aoverno rs ' letters. It is e ntirely devoted to desti tution in its most p itiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sicknes s and disease, a nd is now of sufficient magnitude of be rendered proportion of the casual sick of this g reat metro p olis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available f or the reception of these the most wre tched of our fellow -creatures. Moreover, capable admitting that, with intoits adequate wards affords medical advice and it gratuitously alio medicine to more, a week. out-patients on the average , th an 3,000 The W ee kly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions arc received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Givn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Co.arclay and Co. ; D en i son W Maras, Deacon, and Overend, and Co. ; Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barked and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. ROYAL NAT IONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION Northumberland i Du s ke Majesty ofN orth the um Queen. (Incorpor ated by Royal Charter). ril P E A s mo zi N T E ! F.R.S. CrrArnmAlq—Thos. Baring , Fs q ., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. dt o i s r t al Gracious DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since at National Life he beginning of the year 1800, the Roy boat Institution has expended £3 4 ,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of Engand, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,600; Inr which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £10,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended ..£67,600 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-can cages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a supp ort which has enaWed them to establish their r esen t magnificen t - ' l i ed ' of 223 Lifeboats on the s h ores of p the United "Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefulty acknowledge the following con tributions:— „E; s. d tier rr: otenuy,g. Majesty the Queen .. annual 50 C 0 Campbell, the How .. •• .. ann rdan u o a n.. l 2.sl s oso 1 0 005 0 000 Clerk, Colonel, R.A• • • • • • .. annual t 1 0 Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm., •• - • • •• • . 4th don.lo 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. • • • . don. 10 10 0 Panshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 P n e g y o r l ic ti k n ,;. a . r T ria E g s e q cost .. 0f .. a .. Lifeboat . a . nd 7t l h ' d Sir Henry . , Bart. -. Dere. Rev. G. B. • • . mithtrs. Geome Greenwich • • • • 30 0 e and, RankersnT 16 15 0 annual 5 0 0 : it :: °( s bt - 1; : : s e h t '7th L i n il' Ih dr B t iTt b , , i E N .r r V (7t ie s E Weston-super eol le c r . d annual ( bl o yu* ]ter ( 0 ) 0 0 Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, • C o , 59 . s t 4 , : n n d t oriebrarri,ds:sltraeretti.u,•h3alre.ssarnsd. C c o o uls 6, and ftasrs. llerrie Faroullar. and Co., 16, St. the Unitedblivina;•-idotnrhte; ndouail;oStetsbeerintisons will be thankfully re _ and Bankers ba Richar 1.,. Collectors an and b the o of Secretary d 1 :ecl ,at the &lice tllO 71, J Q—U-strect, Loudon, .~ ••*. • 1 / 4 II/ ' 'V; • • • " s lose, ..„ 4 1 ' *t , r . 0 • . 0:01 r- t o, • ..,041111011114<4. ..*.f; • „.• , , • , t,". AWN. • `4, 4 1. 6, - ' •do • - DiE I , DRO • •ak N" - "•=1;.:.z..!;:" "itrAt.4 AUGUST 25, 1863. on shore flew about his head in all directions, and one passed through his speaking trumpet. Ensign Goodwin and several others were in the magazine when the explosion of the torpedo took place be neath the bows of the Commodore Barney. The ilia mediote effect of the accident was the starting up of her guards 10 inches. The flames from the torpedo penetrated, but when the vessel settled again the water rushed in in a perfect torrent, and this was all that saved her from total destruction. While the Cohasset had the Barney in tow Capt. Cox, of the former vessel, was in the pilot-house, directing her movements under the fire of the enemy. While thus engaged a solid shot struck him fair in the back—of course killing him instantly. Paymaster Jernigen, of the Commodore Barney, had his room knocked into pieces by the rebel shells, and he him self was slightly injured by splinters.—Neto York, Herald. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Snipe, 5, screw steam gunvessel, 431 tons, 80 horse power, Commander A. H. W. Battiscombe, was taken from her moorings in Sheerness Harbour to the measured mile off Maplin Sande, for the final trial of her engines previous to the departure of the vessel to the West Coast of Africa, to which station she is appointed, but owing to a defect in the steam generating qualities of the machinery, she was steamed back to Sheerness, where she will undergo some slight alterations which will detain her a few days longer. Adveritage has been taken at Chatham of the re: cent fine weather to lay the main and upper deck planking • of the Achilles, and by this evening the entire surface of the upper, or weather, deck will be planked and caulked on the ordinary iron deck plates from end to end. The mechanics have been employed overtime for about a 'fortnight past in order that the entire deck might be completed be fore any change of weather sets in. The iron plating of all the decks is s.l6ths of an inch in thickness, with iron ties a thick. Above this is laid the ordi nary 4 in. oak planking on the main deck, and 4 in. deal planking on the upper deck. Several hundred mechanics are employed in completing the shot and shell proof bulkheads which inclose the broadside batteries of 26 guns. In this portion of the frigate the 4f inch iron armour plating is carried from five feet below the water line to above the main deck to the bulwarks, by which arrangement the men work ing the guns will be entirely protected by 4* inch armour plates. This plating, however, will not be carried beyond the main deck in the other portions of the vessel, the sides of which will be protected by the ordinary inch iron plates. By this arrangement there will be three distinct batteries on board the Achilles, but from the manner in which the centre battery wili be protected by the armour plating the gunners will be enabled to keep up a steady fire long after the guns in the other batteries may have been silenced. The centre, or midships, battery is now entirely completed and covered with the ar mour plating, the only remaining portions of the exterior of the Achilles now waiting to receive the armour plates being the stern and stern portions, but in consequence of the difficulty experienced in bending the plates the work proceeds but slowly. Yesterday Mr. Lang, the master shipwright at Chatham, left the establishment on a month's 'elm of absence granted by the Admiralty, preparatory to resigning his present appointment, and the superintendence of the completion of the Achilles devolves on Mr. Moore, the principal assist.-master shipwright at Chatham dockyard. Considerable difficulty has been experienced by the Admiralty in procuring the number of ship wrights requisite to be employed in breaking up the old sailing line-of-battle ship Duncan, 74, now in dock at Chatham, and up to yesterday only about a tenth of the number required had presented them selves at the dockyard. The dockyard authorities have, therefore, been compelled to remove some hands from the iron ship to the Duncan, in order that no unnecessary time may be lost in taking her to pieces now that the work has been fairly com menced. Considering the laborious nature of the work in breaking up a vessel of war, it would be manifestly advisable to employ some labourers in that operation, as skilled mechanics are not disposed to enter themselves for that employment. The Dun can was built rather more than half a century since, and was launched at Blackwall. The transport Akbar, which was in collision off Start Point with a Spanish bark, and has been since repaired at airtmouth, passed down Channel at noon yesterday, on her voyage to Kurrachcc, with troops ; all well. THE ARMY. The following general order, dated Aug. 22, 1863 has been issued from the Horse Guotrds His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief has received her Majesty's commands to express to the army her grief at the lamented death of Field-Marshal Lord Clyde. The great military services performed by Lord Clyde in different parts of the world, the success w th which, in most trying circumstances, he restored peace to her Majesty's Indian Empire, and the personal regard which her Majesty and her beloved Consort ent , 2rtained for his high and honourable character, make her Majesty deeply deplore the loss which the Queen, in common with her Ma jesty's subjects, has sustained." The rules and regulations laid down by the War Department for the prevention of accidents by the bursting of cast iron ordnance, have been attended with such satisfactory results, that since their issue from the War-office on the Ist of April, 1861, not a single case has been reported at the Ordnance esta blishment, Chatham. STAMPED ....sd. proportioned to the weight which it is intended to bear. All the forts will be circular in form, the external " dia me t er b e i ng 2051 t and the founda tion will be fa ce d w i th granite Ps to the number of guns with whi c h each is to As armed, that is made in course depends u p on t h e progress which amadein artillery science, b u t t h ere can be no doubt that they will be armed with gu ns o f the heaviest calibre which it is possible to make. In laying the foun dations of works of this kind, of co urse t h e great object is to obtain a good bottom. So far as the Horse shoal is concerned—and it is the only one where any precise examination has bean completed —nature has strongly favoured us in this respect . . It is there found that an artificial bottom will be perfectly unnecessary. The depth over the shoal is about lift. at low water, spring tide. The bor.. in g of the shoal to the depth of 55ft. shows that the upper stratum consists of sft. of compact shingle and sand; the second,stratum is composed of 18ft. of sand, containing pieces of bark and branches of trees, partly carbonised ; the third, of blue clay, containing layers of vegetable matter, Bft. thick ; the fourth, shingle and sand with shells, sft. thick ; the fifth, blue silty clay, to the depth of 17 ft., and then sand and shingle. The shoal is, therefore, substantial enough to bear any weight, and the boring has been carried so far, not for the purpose or finding a more substantial foundation, but to ob tain fresh water. The method by which this result is to be obtained is ingenious yet simple. A wrought iron cylinder 6ft. in diameter, is sunk into the upper stratum, and as the various strata are excavated by divers inside and the cylinder sinks lower and ',lower, successive lengths of cast iron tubee.,,eci the, same diameter are added to it. As we have already intimated, this cylinder has been sunk to the depth of 55ft. below the surface of the shoal, and 90ft. below high-water mark, and the divers now expe rience considerable difficulty in pursuing their la bours, inasmuch as the pressure of atmosphere pumped into the helmet is nearly three times the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the earth. The Sturbridge shoal differs from the Horse in the fact that it consists of a bank or clay, and will pro bably require an artificial foundation, the depth of water over it at' low spring tides being about 17ft. The Noman, it is expected, will offer a foundation equally substantial with that at the Horse. For the construction of these works a circular staging will be erected round each fort, and upon it will be con structed radiating steam travellers, so that the stone and other material will be raised from the vessels by steam power, and deposited on the exact spot where it is required. The piles upon which the superstructure of the staging will be supported will be fitted with heavy cast iron screws, and will be screwed into the ground by means of a capstan head fixed upon each pile. The foundations will not be laid by means of a coffer dam, as in ordinary cases, but the ground will be levelled and each block of stone laid by divers in helmets, The construction of these extensive works will be under the superinten dence of Mr. Hawkshaw, the eminent engineer of Great George-street, London, the resident engineer being Mr. Harris, son of Sir William Snow Harris. The contractor is Mr. Leather, who was also the contractor for the construction of Portland Break water, one of the grandest examples of modern engi neering science. Mr. Leather has already begun the establishment of extensive works in Stokes Bay for the manufacture of concrete blocks and the prepa ration and reception of stone and other material used in the foundations of the forts, and to facilitate shipment he has constructed a pier with a steam crane. From this brief description it will be seen that the work has been begun in earnest, and the House of Commons, with the approval of the coun try, is so far cmimitted to the plan that it is not probable we shall hear any more talk about remov ing the dockyard and arsenal of Portsmouth to any site which dreamy theorists or interested speculators may urge to be more eligible.—Hampshire Tele. graph. , Henley's Indian Telegraph. The shipment of the Indian telegraph cable from Mr. Henley's factory at North Woolwich is now in active operation. The Marian Moore, carrying 170 miles of the cable, left the Downs a few days ago for Bombay, and is expected to arrive at her destination towards the end of November. The sailing ships Assaye and Kirkham, moored alongside the works, are now receiving their cargoes of the wire, which is being rapidly coiled in the holds of both ships simultaneously by machinery constantly at work. The former vessel will carry about 360 miles, and the latter about 200 miles. The Assaye is we ll known at Woolwich, where she arrived last year in company with the sister ship the Punjab, at that time both paddle wheel steamers. They were re moved from Woolwich to the Victoria Docks, and were sold to a Liverpool firm, since which time they have been ship-rigged and converted into sailing vesse ls. Both are exceedingly fast sailers and what is termed "clipper ships." Although fitted with powerful engines they performed the voyage under sail, at the rate (it is stated) of upwards of 16 knots per hour, and made the voyage home in 75 days. They are both constructed throughout of teakwood. The Kirkham is an iron vessel painted white. Both vessels are well adapted for the purpose, and have been fitted so as to prevent the possibility of any shifting of the cargo during the voyage. The cable is coiled in large watertight tanks, three on board each ship, which will be kept fall of water through. out the voyage to Bombay . They are expected to sail from Woolwich the second week is September, sad will be fully equipped with all appliances for paying out the cable at sea. The Tweed (late the Punjab) and the Cospatrick will follow the two ves sels, now alongside, and will take in 350 miles and 200 miles respectively. The latter named ships are being fitted at Poplar by Mtssrs. Wigram for the reception of the cable, under the superintendence of Capt. Dicey. The Charente, a screw steamer of about 600 tons, is being fitted by the above named firm for permanent employment on the line, and will be supplied with all requisites for repairing the cable, should any accident arise hereafter from ships, anchors, or any casualties to which the wi re must be subjected by exposure. The Charente will take out a small quantity of cable in addition to her coals. Sho will bo commanded by Lieutenant Stiffe, an experienced officer of the Indian Navy, who has recently surveyed the Persian Gulf speci ally with regard to this important undertaking. The total length of cable taken out for this line will amount to 1,250 miles, and will weigh upwards of 5,000 tons, being an excess of 2,000 tons over that of the Red Sea, Malta, and Alexandria, or the At lantic. The wire alone of the present cable weighs 1,000 tons. The operations, which are under the direction of Lieut.-Colonel Stewart, Royal Engi neers, are expected to be completed by the month of February next, when it is hoped that London and Calcutta will be in telegraphic communication, by which a corrcEpondence may be conveyed from one hemisphere to the other in the course of a very few hours. Sir Charles Bright and Mr. Latimer Clark, the consulting engineers superintending the manu facture of the cable, are attended by a competent and effective staff of electricians at - Woolwich, who supervise and test the whole of the work as it pro gresses. The Gammelholm, a Danish store ship, arrived and moored off Mr. Henley's works at Woolwich on Saturday morning, preparatory to taking in a telegraphic cable for the Danish Go vernment, which will weigh upwards of 15 tens per mile. Twenty-five miles of the electric wire have also been recently despatched from the same factory to Christians for the Norwegian Govern ment. Magnetic toys were, until lately, the only application of the magnet to anything like a useful purpose, now we hav Herring's mm,gnetic brushes, &c. Dr. Hassan states, "I regard them as the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as respEcts their mechanical construction and their magnetical action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, 4:c. N. B.—Counterfeits are being 4tacle, Dabinghall-Areet, London. k THE FORTS AT SPITHEAD, It will be a source of great satisfaction to every man who has confidence in the (fleecy of forts as permanent works of defence, to know that orders have been issued for the fortifications of Spit head to be proceeded with at once, and that by the early part of the ensuing spring the work of laying down the foundations will have begun in real earnest. There are to be three forts, stationed respectively on the Horse, Noman, and Sturbridge shoals. The Horse shoal stretches for a considerable distance into the sea from the southern shore of Portsea Island, and it forms the north-east boundary of the only channel which makes Portsmouth harbour accessible to large vessels. The south-west boundary of this channel is formed by the Noman shoal, which juts out from the north-east shore of the Isle of Wight; and it is upon the extreme points of these shoals, that is to say where the channel is the narrowest, that two of the forts are to be constructed, the breadth of navigable water between them being about 2,100 feet. The Sturbridge shoal lies more away to the westward, off Ityde, and the fort to bo raised there will not only prove to be exceedingly dangerous to any vessel attempting to run between it and the Isle of Wight, but will cross fire with a powerful independent battery flanking FortMonk ton, at the eastern point of Stokes Bay. The dis tance between the Sturbridge and the Noman shoals is 4,000 yards, and between the Sturbridge and the Horse 5,330. A narrow channel runs between the Noman end the Isle of Wight, but it is close to the sight of the proposed battery, and if it ran in shore it would be exposed to a powerful battery which is being erected on the island of Puekpool, only 3,300 yards away from the Nornan. With regard to the superstructure of the insulated forts, it is im possible to give any description at present for the obviously satisfactory reason that no plans havens yet been prepared. It will be two years at least before the foundations are laid, and science mt , y, in the Ineautiece, do much towards perfecting our knowledge of the art' of defence., The present in tention is to build the 6liperstmsture of ircn, end the nreugth of the basement therefere, 139 THE SUN, LONDON, T U ESDAY EVENING, THE DERBYSHIRE MURDER. It appears that the murderer of Miss Goodwin, on his urival at Whatstandwell-bridge railway-station, on Friday morning, went to Mrs. Burley's, the Bull's Head Inn, and had two glasses of brandy and water, telling the landlady that he should probably want a bed for a night er two, but that depended upon circumstances. Ho left a carpet-bag at the inn, and then walked to Wirksworth, calling at the Red Lion lintel, in that town, and partaking of four bottles of soda water and brandy, the last of which ho forgot to pay for. He then proceeded. to the Grange, and committed the foul crime. He wrote from Manchester on Thursday to say lat he should visit the Grange on Friday, but the letter has not been produced in evidence. After the inquest on Saturday he was removed to Wirksworth lock-up, a great crowd thronging the way,and threatening vengeance on the culprit. The prisoner conversed lightly about the weather and other trivial subjects, and seemed bent upon making himself an agreeable companion. On searching him at the lock-up, a diary, liquor flask, pipes, tobacco, envelopes, and about 12s. in money were found up ..n him, together with the draught of a letter requesting to see Miss Goodwin be fore he went abroad. On Saturday and Sunday evenings he did not sleep well, but he partook of his meals with great heartiness. On Sunday he was visited in his cell by two companions, who came to see him from Bury in Lancashire, and on their return to Derby in the evening they instructed Mr. Leech, solicitor, to defend him. The mother of the murdered young lady arrived at Wigwcll Grange on Satur day evening from Manchester, and on Monday evening last when the prisoner arrived at Derby railway station, pre vious to being conveyed to the county gaol, he met his father on the platform, the latter having just arrived by train from Manchester. It is needless to say that the meeting was dis tressing. Prisoner gave his address as "G. V. Townley, Esq., Henham-vale, Queen's-park, Manchester." It was stated that his father is a commission agent,and thatthe mur dered girl's fatheris a civil engineer. During the magisterial inquiry, on Monday, he stood perfectly erect,apparently not the least affected by what was going on, and never speak ing except to his solicitor, whichhe Uquently ,hrough out the inquiry. inquest), corroborated the statement of Conway. He saw prisoner and Conway carrying Miss Goodwin, and be as sisted. Prisoner said he had done the deed, in answer to questions asked by the witness. Witness left them at the hall gates and went on to Wirksworth. Anthony Seeds, brother of the last witness, gave similar evidence. James Conway—l live at Wigwell. I was milking some cows about half-past 8 o'clock on Friday evening last, when I heard a shout down Wigwell-lane, and went down. I met Reuben Conway, George Seeds, his brother Anthony, and the prisoner. They wore carrying Miss Goodwin, who was covered with blood. I said, " What is the matter ? who has done this ?" and the prisoner replied, " I know, and he knows (meaning Reuben Conway) ; I have dyne it, and I must be hanged." 1 then helped to carry the body, and put my smockirock under Miss Goodwin's shoulders and at the back of her head. I asked the prisoner to lay hold of one side of the smock, and he did so. I said to the prisoner, "Hold up, held up," and be replied, "I am not likely to carry like you men." We then carried the body into the front kitchen of the hall. We met Captain Goodwin near the hall, and ho asked what was the matter, and who had done it. Prisoner replied. "It is your granddaughter; I have done it." Joseph Bowmer corroborated Reuben Conway. He as sisted in carrying the body. He said " Where is the fellow who has done it ?" and a man replied " I am the man who did it ; there is no mistake about it." He could not say that it was the prisoner who made the observation. They met the captain, who said several times " Who has done it ?" and witness replied "That man who is carrying at the shoulder says he has done it." The captain then said " Who is he ?" and witness replied that he did not know. The cap tain told him to fetch Dr. Mant and two policemen. Dr. Mant and police-constable Farnham having given evidence, The prisoner was committed for trial at the next assizep, remarking, in answer to the magistrates clerk, that he had nothing to say. Feder l Repulse on the James River. A reconnaissance of Fort Darling, on the James River, was made oa Tuesday, Aug. 4, by the gun boats Commodore Barney, Capt. Huse; Sangamon (Monitor), Capt. Nicholson ; and the armed steam tug Cohasset, Capt. Cox. Major-Gen. Foster, with a party consisting of the following named officers, accompanied the expedition, and was present throughout the subsequent engagement. On board the John Faron, the General's special boat, were Brigadier-General H. M. Naglee, commanding 7th Army Corp; Brigadier-General Edward E. Potter, Chief of the Staff; Major C. S. Stewart, Engineer of Fort Wool; Major Edward N. Strong, Aide-de- Camp; Capt. Louis Fitzgerald, Aide-de-Camp; and Lieut. F. W. Farquhar, Chief Engineer of Depart ment. The gunboats got under way from Newport's News at about 12 o'clock noon, and proceeded leisurely up the river. Capt. Gansevoort, of the Roanoke, was on board the Barney as acting flag officer of the little fleet. The trip was quite pleasant, and there seemed no probability of any attempt being made to bar the progress of our vessels. But as the boats were passing Aiken s Landing. about 16 miles above City Point, the Com modore Barney, being in advance and having the Monitor in tow, was fired into by riflemen on shore. The volleys of musketry which accompanied the continuous rattle of the sharpshooters' pieces were very severe, and lasted 20 minutes. The rebels, however, met with a vigorous reply from our gun boats, the brave commanders of which, nothing daunted, boldly kept on up the river. No other in cident of an exciting nature transpired until the fleet had reached a point on the river within six. miles of Fort Darling. Here, as usual, the Barney bore the brunt of the misfortune. A tor pedo was exploded under her starboard bow. The effect of this explosion was terrific in appearance, but, luckily, did not turn out so bad after all. The vessel was lifted by the shock upwards of 10ft. out of water, and an im mense jet of water was hurled from her bow 50ft. in the air at least, falling over and completely de luging her, and washing overboard 30 men. Not withstanding the desperate condition of affairs boats were immediately manned, and the unfortu nates were rescued by their faithful bretllren from a watery grave. Two of these men oily, named Martin Krout, seaman, and L. Gamble (coloured), were drowned. The rest were all picked up, with the exception of two or three, who swam ashore. It was now discovered that the Barney was badly injured, so much so that it was found necessary to point her head for the shore. The Cohasset, how ever, took her in tow shortly, it being found that her engines were completely disabled. A further advance was now considered useless, inasmuch as the men seen on shore were there doubtless for the purpose of exploding the torpedoes beneath our ves sels as they attempted to pass. So the expedition returned to Datch Gap, where anchors were dropped for the night. The Commodore Barney was here repaired slightly, and the next morning was taken in tow. The Monitor and the fleet moved down the river again. A mile below their anchorage the enemy opened on them with artillery and musketry, the latter fire being unremitting and terribly severe. The Barney, with her usual luck, was among the first to fall under the terrible severity of the engagement. Notwithstanding her disabled condition she gallantly replied to every shot. Her armament consisted of five 9 inch guns and ono 100-pounder Parrot rifled. A running fight was now begun and kept up along the bluffs for some distance. The banks on either side were found to be so high that it was simply impossible to elevate the guns so as to reply to (he rebels with any degree of precision or effectiveness. The Nor folk ladies' gunboat, the General Jessup,"Lieutenant Colonel Charles Whipple commanding, which had started from Fortress Monroe on Wednesday the sth inst., with despatches for General Foster, met the fleet at Turkey Island. She was immediately hitched to the starboard side of the Monitor to ac celerate her speed, the Cobasset being already hitched to the port side, the Barney being in tow behind the Monitor. Abreast of Turkey hind the enemy opened on us again in the most determined manner with four pieces of artillery and any quan tity of sharpshooters. The unfortunate gunboat, the Commodore Barney, here met with the first mishap, as usual. A solid shot struck her under the guards, abaft the wheelhouse and 15 inches below the water line, penetrating ber hull and passing through the coal bunker and boiler, thus finally disabling the vessel effectually. The havoc that was worked on her by the enemy's shot, shell, and bullets is almost incredible. There is scarcely a portion of the boat but has been penetrated by the missiles of the enemy —either shells, bullets, or solid shot. Shells passed through the officers' rooms, shattering everything, and scattering furniture, beds, and woodwork to the four winds. The sharpshooters were so think upon the banks that it would have been useless slaughter to have manned the guns. But it is a wonderful fact that, notwithstanding bullets were continually piercing the vessel on every side, and erratic shells, with their peculiar scream and splurge, went howl ing through the craft in every direction in search of prey, our loss sums up a good round nought. The rebel artillery, composed of 12 pounders, was served with spirit. The General Jessup received the first shot in ber steam drum, while the second that was fired struck the port side of the Cohasset, passed through the engice-room struck the Monitor's deck end exploded, and lod the pieces in the side of the Jessup. Another shell passed through the yard and under the counter of the latter vessel, glancing and tearing the timber, thus just failing to penetrate to the magazine. The iron shield astern was pierced, and bullets were imbedded in almost every timber. The Monitor, Capt. Nicholson, throughout the fight, moved frowningly on in conterriptue,ns silence, and did act often deign to reply to the puny foe. he was struck several times, but a slight indentation of her armour was the only result, Capt. Huse, of the Commodore Barney, displayed throughout the trying emergencies to which be was submitted the greatest coolness, nerve, and intrepidity. He was en the hurricane deck almost the whole time, ex posed to the enemy's terrible fire, and by his gal lant coeduct has done himself and the navy the niiidest honour. The bullets of the s hectCrs THE EXAMINATION BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. The prisoner was brought up for examination at the Moot-hall, Wirksworth, yesterday (Monday), at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. The hall was densely crowded, and the greatest interest was manifested in the proceedings. The magistrates on the bench were E. Radf3rd, Mr. N. P. Wood, Mr. A. F. Hurt, Mr. E. Wilmot. The prisoner was brought into court by Superintendent Burton and Inspec tor Milne, and he at once entered into conversation with the solicitor who had been retained to defend him—Mr. S. Leech, of Derby. He appeared to be perfectly calm and collected, and after a long conversation with Mr. Leech, sat down in the seat provided for him. He is sft. 9in. in height, and has a most gentlemanly bearing, F rom t i me to time he gazed round the crowded room, and to all out ward appearance was the most unconcerned per son in the place. Before any evidence was taken, Mr. Superintendent Burton said a letter was sent by the prisoner to the murdered girl, but he declined to give it up unless the magistrates wished it. The letter would show that the ect was premeditated. Mr. Leech said he could not resist the application if the magistrates wished it to be produced. Mr. Radford, senior magistrate—By all means send for the letter. The magistrates then sent a written request to Capt. Good• win to forward it. The letter was received by the unfortu nate young lady on the morning of the murder. The first witness called was the Rev. Herbert Harris, head master of the Wirksworth grammar school, who said, I knew the deceased. Her name was Elizabeth Caroline Goodwin. She was 22 years of age. The prisoner, wh om I knew, called upon me about half-past 1 o'clock on Friday last. He said he had called upon me as a friend of Miss Goodwin's. I saw him for the first time about 6 or 7 months ago. Prisoner said "I suppose you know of the engagement between Miss Goodwin and myself." I said I was certainly not aware of it. I understood that there had been an en gagement, but that it had been broken off, Prisoner said, "She has written to me to break off the engagement and re fuses to see me. I wish to know how matters stand." I said, "Anything that I know is in confidence, therefore my tongue is tied." Prisoner said, "who is this clergyman that has been staying at Wigwell ?" I replied "A clergyman has been staying at Wigwell, but I decline to give his name.' He asked me if Miss Goodwin was at Wigwell,and I replied that "I believed she was, as I had seen her there on 'Wednesday." Prisoner said, "Sooner or later I must see her. I have set her free, but I must hear from her own lips that she gives up the engagement. She is of age and at liberty to please herself I know lam not a good match, and I do not wish to stand in her way." Prisoner then took some refreshment with me, it was 2 o'clock. I told him I must go to school, and if he would call again at half-past 4 o'clock I would see him again. He called again at half-past 4, and I told him I thought that the best plan would be to write a note to Miss Goodwin, post it, and ask for an interview the next morning, or if he went up to IV igwell that night, I had no doubt she would see him. He said he would do so, and on leaving my door he asked me if I should be in all the evening. I replied that I should. Prisoner said he would call on me again. That was the last thing that passed between us. I can't answer the question of Miss Goodwin being engaged to a clergyman, excepting from hearsay. Mr. Leech—Your acquaintance with Townley was ex tremely slight ? _ Witness—l only saw him once before last Friday. Elizabetn Margaret Poyzer said—l am housemaid at Captain Geodwin's. I know the prisoner. He came to Wigwell Orange at 20 minutes to 6 o'clock on Friday even ing last. I opened the door, and prisoner said, "Is Miss Goodwin in ?" I replied, " Yes." He asked to see her. I went and told Miss Goodwin, and she said, " Tell him to walk in." I knew the prisoner, and mentioned his name to Miss Goodwin. Miss Goodwin met him at the drawing room door. I heard Miss Goodwin say, " How do you do ?" He remained in the library with her about two minutes, and they then both went out to walk together. I went down the garden walk in about half an hoar afterwards, and saw them on a seat together. I told Miss Goodwin that she was wanted, and she replied, " I am coming to get tea." I then returned to the house, and Miss Goodwin followed me. Miss Goodwin went out of the house again at a quarter to 7 o'clock, and she told me that I must fetch her to tea in half an hour afterwards. I did so, and found Miss Goodwin at the bottom of the walk with Townley. I told Miss Goodwin that tea was ready, and she said she would come directly. I next saw Miss Goodwin at 20 minutes to 9 o'clock the same evening. She was being carried by some men into the house. She was laid on the kitchen floor. She was dead. Reuben Conway, labourer, repeated the evidence he gave before the coroner. He was going home in the direction for Longway Bank, near to Captain Goodwin's house; heard a moaning noiee, and ran down the hill. Saw Miss Goodwin on the turnpike road ; she was guiding herself by the bank and wall as well as she could, She was coming towards home. Mr. Leech—Was the man within hearing at this time ? Witness—l did not see him. Mr. Leech—Then, you can't take that evidence. Witness-1 noticed there was a quantity of blood on Miss Goodwin's face. She said, " Take me home ; there is a gentleman down there that has cut my throat." I put my arm round her, and walked with her about 20 yards. I then put her down, and seeing a man I left Miss Goodwin and went towards him. The man (prisoner) came towards me. I asked him if he was the man who had murdered Miss Goodwin, and he replied " I have stabbed her; she has proved false to me." He accompanied me to Miss Goodwin, and the latter said, " Take me home; lam dying." Prisoner asked me to help to carry her. Ho took hold of her head and I laid hold of her body. We carried her some distance, and then put her down on the road. The prisoner then tried to stop the bleeding. He asked me if I had anything to put round her neck to stop the bleeding, and I repiied that I had not. He then asked ma to go for some one, and said he would step with Miss Goodwin until I got back. I then went to Mr. Bowmer's yard. There was a lad in the yard named Stephen Pickering, and I sent him for a policeman and a doctor. I got a lantern and returned to Miss Goodwin. The prisoner was sitting by the side of her, holding some thing round her head and neck. I said, "Is she living.'' He replied " She is." Miss Goodwin again said, " Take ma home." Prisoner and I then carried her, he holding her head and I her body. Prisoner walked first sideways. Whilst we were carrying her Mr. Seeds came up and asked what we had amiss and who had done it. 1 told him, and prisoner said " I have." Mr. Scoria and his brother then helped me and the prisoner to carry Mies Goodwin into the hall. Wo also met James Conway, who asked me who had done it. The prisoner replied, " I know and he knows. I have done it, and shall be. hanged fur it." Whilst we were carrying Miss Goodwin she said she was dying, and I told her to pray to the Lord to have mercy on her soul. She then said " Lord have mercy on me," seve ral times. Prisoner kept saying " Poor Betsy," and kissed her several times. We met Mr. Bowmer on the road before we got to the hall gates. Mr. Bowmer asked who had done it, and prisoner replied, " I have done it ; there is no question at all about that." When he had car_ ried her about 10 yards further the prisoner kissed her and said, "I doubt she is dead." Miss Goodwin was dead at that time. On going down the coach road we met Ann Poyzer and Captain Goodwin. The captain asked who had done it, and the prisoner replied. I did it. The captain asked " the prisoner who he was, an d he replied,My name is George Townley." We then ca rried the body into kitchen. After we got into the heus e the prisoner went i nt , the capt a i n ' s d raw i n g-room with him. the front By Mr. Leech—l saw prisoner several times last Christ mas at the hall gates, and with Miss Goodwin. I believe he Was staying at the hall at that time. George Seeds, shoemaker (who was not examined at the ,~2~~.. ~~~ ' /7 Voyage of the Russian Battery f W, 4 ,0 The Russian iron-clad battery Pervtnr74;- • t ik' be remembered, left Gravesend at an efi , ir* - 64..i sp c . Saturday fortnight, for Cronstadt, of the frigate General Admiral. Ort „ the folkOwina- Wednesday " .y and frigate ariived at Copen hagen, and L,vu nays having been spent there, Cron stadt was reached on the next Tuesday; the voyage from Gravesend to Cronstadt having consequently occupied, inclusive of the stoppage at Copenhagen' no more than ten days. This is a most satisfactory performance to the Thames Shipbuilding Company, the builders ; to Messrs. Meudslay, Sons, and Field, the engineers ; and to the Russian Government. It is scarcely less 80 to that very numerous class in ' terested in the experimental navigation of on-clad ships, the voyage of the Pervenetz being that of a perti c:ly flat- bottomed ship without any keel. At an early hour steam was got up on board the Pervenetz, and the General Admiral, as well as on board the tug Napoleon, which was coaled for the purpose of going to Cronstadt, and on the other tugs hired to accompany the battery to the Nore. By six o'clock hawsers had been passed to the bow and quarter tugs, and the go on was given by Mr. Moore, the pilot, from the bridge of the battery. Natu rally, after the experience of the down river voyage, and the perfectly accidental and unavoidable run ning into the W arspr i te at Woolwich, conside rable anxiety was manifested by every one on board. But the better distribution of the tun-s, and the better control over the rudder that had been secured by shifting the wheel mor e a f t , at once showed plainly that the battery was at last under complete control. The always difficult navigation of the river from the presence and often improper positions of all sorts of river craft, proceeded comfortably, and before long the battery was trusted to its own motive power. So pleased and confident all now became that the tugs wer3 fairly cast off, and the Napoleon ordered to return to Gravesend, and discharge the coal taken in for the voyage to Cronstadt. The Per venetz needed no towing from either tux or fri -4.',3r Sate, and the Itnssion ofßows the voyage to Cronstadt should be proceeded with alone, without any more delay than that in volved in running the measured mile on the :Koplin, which with the engines working at 80 revolutions, from purely prudential reasons, not being ventured on—was accomplished in the time represented by eight knots an hour. A complete circle was after wards accomplished with the same number of revo lutions in exactly five minutes. With the tugs the pilot and visitors left the bat- tery, giving three rousing English cheers to Capt. Jarvis and his crew of English sailors, which were as heartily returned. The course of the battery was then laid across the North Sea, canvas hoisted, and more steam supplied to the engines; machi nery, rudder, and ship working admirably. Over the ship the rudder exercised complete and instant power, particularly at a speed not exceeding eight knots, but a little more than the usual amount of watching was required to guard against the lateral drift or motion which it is the function of a keel in other ships to prevent. Across the North Sea the weather was on the whole fine, but in the Catteget a whole gale was encountered. This the battery roughed out in much the same fashion as other ships, and the only damage was the giving way of one of the rudder chain ring belts. In a short time this, of course, was made good in the ready way known to all sailors. During the remainder of the voyage the weather was again fine, and the battery entered Cronstadt as proudlyand with quite esgood a sea-going character as the best frigate in the Russian navy. The Pervenetz, it may be as well to add, has been constructed and delivered within one month of the original contract time by the Thames Shipbuilding Company, notwithstanding the many changes that have been made from first to last. Originally the Russian Government contemplated the construction of a ship similar to the large Minotaur in the Thames Shipbuilding. Company's yard, but that in tention was abandoned. Then a ship of the class represented by the Valiant was thought of, and that also was given up for the light draught of ' water ship with buoyant ends, which is known as a mere battery, but which in reality is a very for midable iron-clad frigate. The sister frigate to the Pcrvenetz, or firstling, is in course of construction by a Newcastle firm in Cronstadt dockyard. The Peace Society and our Relations wall Japan. The following memorial has been transmitted by the Peaco Society to Earl Russell, in reference to our relations with Japan : " My Lord,—We ask permission, as the committee of the Peace Society, respectfully to express to your lordship the deep regret and apprehension with which we have learnt the present menacing state of relations existing between this country and the kingdom of Japan. We cannot but regard it as a most painful and deplorable fact, that the first ap pearance of our countrymen among remote and heathen nations, instead of being the harbinger of peace ands higher civilisation, is so frequently the prelude to a course of ag gression, violence, and blood. It seems clear, on the testi mony of those most conversant with the fact, that the treaty of intercourse and commerce on which we ground our right of intervention in Japan was in the first instance obtained from the authorities of that country under the coercion of feir, in opposition to the traditional policy of tho Govern ment and the strong prejudices of the people. It is too evident also that we have failed in observing honourably on our part the stipulations of that treaty, From the first, our countrymen who, for purposes of commerce, entered into Japan in the wake of our diplomatists, have availed themselves of the advantages they thus acquired in a spirit which could not fail to prove both offensive and in jurious to the Government and people, thereby confirming the prejudices against foreigners already existing, and most seriously aggravated the difficulties of the Japanese au thorities in their attempts to entorco on their own country.. men a fair observance of the conditions of the treaty. It is obvious, moreover, that our official representatives in that country are quite powerless to restrain the irregularities of such lawless and un scrupulous characters as unhappily too often pioneer and represent British commerce and civiliza tion in the Eastern seas. If the facts be as above stated, it can hardly ho a mutter of surprise that an intercourse thrust upon the Japanese against their will, and commenced under such circumstances as we have described, should have led to an early and serious collision. Nor can we hope that a persistent attempt to force our acquaintance upon them at the mouth of the cannon can conduce to their advantage or to our honour as a professedly Christian and civilised nation. On the contrary, all the facts and appearances of the case, as well as our former experience in the East, but too clearly ' indicate that any further progress in the path of coercion cannot fail to lead to grave and dangerous complications, ending in all probability in a succession of ignoble and costly wars, and the introduction of an era of revolution and anarchy among a people who previous to our intrusion among them had enjoyed, according to the testimony of com petent witnesses, a large measure of internal order, peace, and prosperity. We earnestly hope, therefore, that your lordship will send such instructions to our representatives in that country as shall save England and Japan from the calamity of such a course; and if intercourse between us and them cannot be conducted in a friendly spirit we ven ture respectively to submit whether it would not be better for us to withdraw altogether from their country. It is not likely that commerce can be successfully prosecuted with a reluctant and angry people ; and even if it could it would be more honourable for a Christian nation to make some sacrifice of commercial advantage rather than inaugurate among another people what may prove to be a long course of disorder and blood. " JosErK PEASE, President. " HENRY RICHARD, Secretary." ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC.—Tho ship S. L. Tilley, of Yarmouth, N.S., Cook, master, which arrived at. Greenock last week from Trinidad, reports having passed great fields of ice during the passage, having had a. narrow escape from collision. 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