The Sun. — London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 30. Lord REDEVALE, in the absence of the Lord Chan tellor, took hip seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Bradford in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palace, PRIVATE BILLS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, several pri. 'rate Bills were forwarded a stage. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The report on this Bill Wag brought up. Several other Bills were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 30. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) MESSAGE FROM TUE LORDS. A messenger from the Lords stated that their Lord. ships had agreed to the following Bills: — Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption. Amendment to Manchester Improvement. Copyhold and Enclosure Commissions. Smithfield Market Removal Lords' amendments agreed to. 'Militia Pay Soap Duties. • Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlauds Junction Railway. United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company. Lincolnshire Estuary. European and American Printing Telegraph Com pany, &c. Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Garnkirk, and Coat bridge, Pollee, and Govan, &c. Railways) (Amend. ment and Continuation, &c.) CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. The House then went into Committee upon this Bill. Clause 1, after a short discussion, was struck out. Clauses 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, and 8 were agreed to. On Clause 9, Mr. HEADL I.M proposed an amendment, to omit from the clause the provisions of exemption from the Operation of the Mortmain Act. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the amend ment. After a short conversation the Committee divided when there appeared — For the amendment ... Against it .., Majority ... The amendment was consequently lost. The clause was then agreed to. The other clauses of the Bill from 10 to 23 were agreed to. Mr. FREWEN proposed the following clause:— "And be it enacted,that upon the next avoidance cf any benefice, which has no church or chapel belonging to it, and which has a population of forty persons, or upwards of forty p ersons , an d w hich has not been u nited to any oth er b ene fice or benefices by order of her Majesty in Council, the said benefice shall remain and continue void until a church or chapel is built where divine service shall be performed; and the fees and emoluments arising from the said benefice shall from time to time, whilst it is void, be paid over to the archbishop or bishop of the diocese, who, together with the archdeacon of the archdeacoary, and patron or P atrons of the said benefice , shall act as trus tees for the receipt of the said fees and emoluments, which shall be appropriated by the said trustees for the purpose of building or assisting to build a church or chapel for the said benefice; and as soon as such church or chapel has been consecrated or licensed for divine worship by the archbishop or bishop of the diocese, then it shall be lawful for the patron or patrons to present a spiri tual person to the said benefice, who shall enjoy all the rights, fees, and emoluments, and perform all the duties appertaining thereto, and who shall be under the same ecclesiastical control and authority as any other incumbent in the same diocese: provided al ways, that if the said archbishop or bishop shall license any room in the said parish for divine service, then it shall ba lawful for the patron or patrons to present a spiritual person to the said benefice, who shall perform all the duties appertaining thereto, and who shall be under the same ecclesiastical control and authority as any other incumbent." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the clause, as not coming within the scope of the Bill. After a short conversation the Committee divided, when there appeared— For tie. clause Against it ... Majority ..„ —3 On the question that the clause be added to the Bill a discussion took place, in the course of which it was arranged that the Solicitor-General should draw up a clause embodying certain alterations which were sug gested by Mr. Gladstone. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Friday. PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Cceamittee upon this Bill. Oa clause 1 being proposed, Mr. M'CULLAGLI opposed the Bill, and observed that if the House agreed to it, they would adopt the principle that a single magistrate sitting at sessions might dispose of all cases included in the Summary Jurisdiction Act, with the exception of treason, and shou'd also be empowered to imprison a person with out fine for the spice of twelve calendar months. He asked the Reuse whether it was wise or expedient to in- Test a single magistrate with such considerable powers? Coloat4 DUNNE was perfectly satisfied that by enabling a magistrate to n'ijadic•ite summarily they conferred no benetit upon him, but, on the contrary, gave him a great deal of trouble, though the people would derive many advantages by such an arrangement. The ciau3e was agreed to, as were also the following eight clauses. On clause 10 bein , . proposed, Mr. M `CULL AG LI moved the omission of section 2 enaolieg one magistrate to adjudicate summarily in al. cases. 49 -30 ... 40 ... 37 Sir W. SO JERVILLE cpposed the amendment, be lieving that it would be a virtual denial of justice to in sist upon the attendance of two or more magistrates in all cases. After some discussion the Committee divided, when there appeared— FA- the amendment ... 13 Against it ... 49 Majority . . ••• ... —36 The clad Lie wa%; th,:n agreed to, and the Chairman was directei to report progress. The House resumed, and the Chairman obtained leave to sit again to-morrow. The rem,ininz: ordora were then disposed of, and the House adjourned, at Six o'clock, till to-morrow (this day), at Twelve o'clock. TO TilE 'EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The 1) shish c'iarter for the submarine and land telegraph,. !s granted to I%feasrs. G. Shepherd, C.E., and C. Button, patcatues of the submarine telegraph, and not to Messrs. Sheppard and Botton, as stated in your impression of this day. Plcaso correct this error, and oblige your obedient servant, G. SHEPHERD, C.E. Thlborn-bers, 29th July, 1851. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. THREE LIVES LOST. We received last evening a communication to the fol lowing effect from Lees, near Oldham:— Ail ,at nine o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, the boiler belonging to the mill of Messrs. Rhodes and Co., of Hey, burst —it is said somewhere near the dust-hole, in the bottom of the boiler—and of course the steam rushed out with tremendous force into the fire-hole. Over the boiler was a willow-room in which three men were working, and the force of the steam threw upwards a small portion of the flagged floor of this room. The men, hearing the explosion, and seeing the rush of steam from below, ran towards the door of the room to escape, and the steam concealing the aperture it had made in the floor, they unfortunately fell through it i n t o t h e steam and boil ing water in the boiler-house below. Two of them were almost instantaneously killed. When the steam had passed elf, and the water flowed away, the third man was extricated, still living, but he expired in a few moments afterwards. It is generally thought that the boiler was short of water; and it is said that the water-pump had just been looked to, and set to work. Another statement is, that there was no whistle to in dicate the quantum of water in the boiler. The boiler is almost a new one. Our correspondent adds the following suggestions:— That boilers should always be outside, and detached from the mill or works; that they should always have attached to them a whistle, to indicate the state of the water; one or two sufficient safety.valves; and a mer cury (4auge, to indicate the pressure of steam in the boiler. Previously to receiving the above communi ca ti on, we had heard a vague rumour of this fatal acc i dent, and had dispatched a. reporter to . the spot. He w as enabled to glean the following additional particulars. Hey is about two miles east of Oldhen, as the crow flies. The pre mises on which the accident has occurred are the pro ti of Messrs. James Rhodes and Brothers , and eon_ t of one largo building, four storeys high, and several smaller ones. A portion of the larger building and som e Schofield, who, ° I t he smaller ones are occupied by Messrs. Fielden and spinners. as well as Messrs. Rhodes, are cotton The larger building is filled with machinery, the whole of which, in both the occupancies, is turned by one. engine, the steam for which has been supplied by a boiler of about 42 unable last horses' power. We were _ , - n ev e e ss n ; in b g U t t o from i il s l)ect:he boiler in consequence of the dark and had a fine Iv at we could learn, it was cylindrical, Dow me, is fixedoringues. .4,,,a,teellar running beneath This boiler, which is nearly a at the south two build ings,CelleaT side of the principal mill. The buildings over thee end of the ar b e o p i nly one storey over the firing high; that fie e r r e i n s ig o in c e cup h i o e u d se a . s a i w m il m lo7 . room, while the other is the diately in front ef e l ..Th ~,,," a wall, which supeerteepdace of the 'boiler very Large pace below these Ha sound fiv.:, forming a ror.;. a :oe the e of the willow room; and the s gs and another used a 3 portion of the fl or, was the coal hole, to which access is eh'aived by a flight of steps lear e; e from the yard. In the willo w room there are . ' t in w -- o willows and a lap mac hin e. This last is placed x actly over the bill,- r; and the others immediately at the side of it. At all these machines men were at work yesterday morning, the names of the men at the w it. lowa being Jonah 3 r ierley and James W, interbettom, and of the mail at the lap machine, Samuel L or d. ; e.ght o' c l oc k yesterday morciag, end nothing unusual wa s o b - The engine was started about. ball-past before nine, wh en served until about ten minutes . the boiler burst with a loud noise, and the steam and water rushed fietcely out. The immedi ate effect of this was to throw down the wall supporting the e r'''\ ..: \\ . flagstones in the floor of the willow room, and h t 'I. ree men becualieg alarmed and running towards the tot, in order to got out, they fell down with one of , "IV? Omni into the space betieittl. At the time the : t ft t ‘.<7lN. - N•iP • , -- ' . . ii:k - .-, . • , 1 , 1 4: e• '.7.4 , ~' k i ft , i in . p.. 7 f? v , tY • -;,' . i 4 ~~lpxl THE SUN, LONDON, explosion happened, Mr. George Rhodes, one of the part ners in the firm was going into the willow room, and upon opening a door leading into it from the principal mill he was met by a cloud of dust followed by a rush of steam. He at once shut the door, and returned to the mill, from the lower floor of which he sent out all the workpeople, being afraid that the dan ger was not over. Some of these people going round to the door leading from the willow room into the mill yard, and finding that room full of steam and a portion of the flooring fallen in, were at once con vinced that the three men, whom they could not see, must be severely injured. After the steam had some what cleared a wa y, some persons d escen d e d i n t o t h e firing hole, where they found the three men, who had been working in the willow room, lying on the fallen flag. , The men wer e a t o nce brought out, when it was found that Winterbottom was quite dead, The other two were still alive, but almost immediately expired. Mr. Elliot, s u r geon , was speedily in attendance, but was of course unable to render any assistance, and the bo dies were soon afterwards removed to the Red Lion public-house, at Austerlands, where they are now lying. The bodies are all very severely scalded, but do not ap pear to have sustained any injury from the fall; and there can be no doubt that, as stated by the surgeon, death was caused by the scalding. Upon examination, it was found that one of the plates in the upper part of the flue, immediately over the fire box had been rent by the explosion to the length of its position, inches. Th e b o il er was no t m oved from position, nor was any damage done to the nachinery or the building, with the excepion of the throwing down of the wall, and the tailing of the large flag stone already m e ntioned. The cause of the accident has not yet been ascertained. The names of the deceased' were Samuel Lord, laptenter, about forty years of age, living at Le e s; Jonah Brierley willower, about fifty or fifty-five years of age, living at Hey; and James Winterbottom, willower, about 33, also living at Hey. Lord and Brierley have both left widows; the former one, the latter two children. Win terbottom was unmarried. The inquest is expected to be held to-day (Wednesday) at the Red Lion, Auster lands.—Manchester Guardian of yesterday. CHANCERY REFORM. It may well be questioned, if the professors of the common law had some tea years ago introduced a certain amount of substantial reform into their methods of pro cedure, whether they might not still have retained the business of the country. We were perfectly willing to have received changes at their hands, and pretty much in their own way, so they had given but a freer course to the ,administration of justice. No layman willingly takes 'upon himself the character of a law reformer. The doc trines with which he is called upon to deal, the circle of ideas into which he must transport himself, are so alien from his ordinary habits of thought, that he reluctantly rindertakes and gladly relinquishes the repulsive task. Nothing but the direct necessity, nothing but the con tinued spectacle of cumulative injustice, could induce any other than a professional man to broach or carry through inquiries of such a nature. It was not until the three superior courts at Westminster had clearly shown that even justice might be purchased at too high a rate, and not until they had manifested a de termination to persist in the most dilatory modes of procedure, that the people of this country took the matter into their own hands. The returns of the number of causes, and of the amount of property annually adjudicated upon before the newly constituted tribunals, afford the most satisfactory comment upon the admons tions of those reverend sages of the law who bade iu beware how we laid the axe to the root of the tree. We have before us the warning, the inroad, and the result. That result is well calculated to inspire us with confidence for the future, if the remedies introduced are of a sufficiently definite character to meet the wrongs complained of in their entire extent. It is not, however, just now our object to write an epitaph upon the buried hopes of those learned gentle men who had pinned their fortunes to the immortality of the common law system of procedure, but rather to bid their brethren of the equity side take warn ing by the result of their pertinacity. The amount of misery inflicted upon the country by the chicane of the common lawyers under the new roles has been of slight account by the side of the almost total negation of justice consequent upon the forms of proce dure in Chancery. In the class of cases submitted to the decision of the common law courts there were ways and means by which prudent men, not inclined to push matters to extremes, might stave off the calamity of a protracted lawsuit. But in the great bulk of Chen eery cases this is not so. Into court the reluctant suitors must go, and there they must remain until the most astute and practised brains in England have ex• hausted upon the property at issue all the resources of a perverse ingenuity. The equity lawyers reply that wellnigh all this delay, and weilnigh all this_ expense, must be accepted as inseparable from litigation. They may introduce, to be sure, a tew changes of no great mo ment, but substantially not much can be done. A negation of justice is the inseparable incident of property in dispute. This appears a very fatal argument as tar as their own interests are concerned. It has been already heard, and heard again, from one side of Westminster-hall, and fur a certain time it prevailed to stop all improvements. The time, however, has at last arrived when those who made use of it have been roused from their dream of security to find that they had made a miserable mistake as to the extent of human credulity. The best answer that can be given to the gentlemen of the Chancery bar who thus endeavour to maintain the credit of their system is to point to its results. Is it absolutely necessary that their forms of proce dure should be so tedious that a Chancery suit remains in a family like on heirloom, genera tion after generation? The other day, a case was brought before the Masters of the Rolls in which judg ment was prayed upon a bill which had been originally fied in the year 1748, more than a century ago. We have to turn back through two or three volumes of Lord Campbell's " Lives of the Chancellors," before we meet with the name of the judge who made the ori ginal decree in the cause. It appears that there was a Mr. Pope, who died in Madeira in the year 1743. Five years afterwards —in 1748—a bill was filed for an account of the dealings between this Mr. Pope and a certain Mr. Jasper. In 1753 Lord Hard wick° made a decree in the cause, and directed that ac counts should be taken. In 1764 there was a report to the effect that something more than 9,500/. was due from the representatives of Jasper to the estate of Pope. Mark the course of the transaction. In 1772—that is, about a quarter of a century after the filing of the original bill—certain moneys were paid into court, and a certain amount of stock was transferred. There it has remained ever since—how or why we are perfectly unable to say, for the application to the Master of the Rolls tee other day was an ea- parte one from Jasper's repre sentatives. The suit, so it was stated, had teen revived in due form, and as the Master of the Rolle exercised a very proper caution in not dealing, upon a mere one sided statement, with so large a sum as 10,0004, it bids fair to flourish for another century. The case is now re mitted to the office of one of the Masters in Chancery, and so it may be considered in a promising way for dis patch. In a case of this kind, and when the report is so meagre, wo cannot of course undertake to say that the neglect of the litigants since 1772 may not have been in some measure the cause of the delay; but with our previous knowledge of Chancery procedure there is little necessity for any explanation of this kind. It seems strange than when Pope's representatives had obtained a report in their favour in 1764, and money had been paid into court in 1772, they should not have taken steps to ap propriate the property bud it not been guarded by tee Chancery ,Dragons with all their usual care. There is, however, nothing extraordinary in the case that we should lay much stress upon it. Nothing would be more simple than to produce a series of similar illus trations of the procedure in the Court of Chancery. Here, then, is a specimen of the system in its results. We cannot, with such an instance before us, but doubt the statement of those gentlemen connected with the Chancery bar who inform us that very little is to be dune iii the way of amendment. To be sure we have an occasional order from the Chancellor which effects a few formal changes in the practice of his court, but so slight an alleviation of the evil scarcoly deserves the name of even an attempt at reform. It would almost appear as though the time had ar rived when we may entertain some well-founded hope of definite improvement. The final settlement of the great principles on which the commercial policy of this coun try is henc e f or th t o b e con d ucted has - left the minds of men free for inquiries of another nature. Ques tions of law reform during the last two sessions of Parliament have been approached by Members and by the public out of doors in a very different spirit from heretofore. It is no longer possible for a law officer 1 of the Crown, or an eminent lawyer in either House, to poohpooh or browbeat his fellow-senators into silence. We meet every day with cases in which lay members wrangle throughout the duration of a Committee upon points of detail with an Attorney-General, and will not be put down. More than this —the recalcitrant members are cheered on by the great body of the public, who have at last become aware that law need not of neces- 1 sity consist of a mass of confused technicalities. All of us who have had any practice of business are perfectly aware that an inquiry into the owner of any kind, in any part of the ship of property W orld, or held upon any form of tenure, can be carried t h rough w i t h ou t a century's delay, and without a very serious deduction from the value of the estate. There must be something radically wrong in a system which throws so much power into the hands of those who would delay or defeat justice. The very form of the bill, the method of taking evidence, the puerile pretezta under which a suit is shelved to be again commenced, and commenced to be again shelved, the technical necessity for making Shem and Japhet par ties to an inquiry in which merely the interests of the Ramebottoms are at stake, the dilatory proceedings in the massers'-offices, and twenty principal defects besides, could be readily enumerated which:must all be amended before we can look for any real administration of justice from the Court of Chancery. Let the equity oar look to it in time. The gentlemen engaged in that department of the profession have all the advantage of a practical warning before their eyes. Let them be very sure that if tho procedure of their court be not entirely remodelled their own personal interests may be very seriously affected by the delay.—Times. ST. LIELEN's.—An inquest was held on Thursday last before Charles Driffield, Esq., coroner, at the house of Mr. William lorbor, the Sefton Arms, on view of the body of John Hunter, a glassmaker, aged twenty-five years. The deceased wo r k e d at the Union Plate Glass wor k s, an d, on Wednesd ay l ast, he was carrying a large sheet of plate glass accident oeenrre from the kiln to the packing-room • the glass broke, and the top part of it fell on the deceased's neck, and cut through the "g'ular oo",i, The deceased survived only an hour after before, through na , c. Ire had been cu t on th e nec k once Verdict—" Accidentaling th td glass carelessly. death." e all" of STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TITESDAY.—By the Afriea, which ar rived in the Mersey on Saturday night, we learn that cot ton had lost from to 1 cent per lb. at New York during the week, and that rarely has a growing crop presented a more healthy or vigorous appearance, or a better stand than the present one does. In Liverpool, a considerable business continues to be done, and prices are reported to be about id. above those of Friday; but buyers find an anxiety to sell which enables them generally to do as well as on that day. In our own market, the operations in yarns have been on a fair scale for India and Russia; and the prices paid are about the same as on Friday and Saturday. The Ger mans still show much backwardness, and complain of the dull state of their markets, yet they continue giving out moderate orders. Mediterranean yarns, and low counts generally, remain scarce. There is still a good demand for warps, up to number 20's, both for continental and home consumption, but particularly the latter; and the makers are, in many instances, supplied with contracts far several weeks to come; yet higher prices cannot be obtained, and those who are open to orders take them on the terms which have lately prevailed. Medium pin-eop weft is quiet. In goods, there has been a fair business of a pretty general character. Some manufacturers of stout fabrics and printing cloths have entered into renewed engagements, of rather considerable extent. The Indian buyers, seeing an unfavourable telegraphic statement about piece goods, have held aloof, waiting for their letters, which will be received this evening. O❑ the whole, there is no decline to-day in any descriptions of yarns or goods, neither is there any advance; but there is more steadiness throughout, and many articles exhibit what is called an increased stiffness. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The peace market has under gone little change since last Monday, either in price or demand. In wool the demand is steady, and prices arm, with a scarcity of that quality of wool varying from 9d. to 13d. per lb. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our manufactured goods trade is, if anything, less active than of late; owing, in a great measure, to the interim which usually takes place at this season, prior to preparations becoming general for the autumn trade. The demand for thrown silk re mains quiet. The appearance of the market is, however, satisfactory; prices maintaining their firmness, which operates favourably with producers, who are gradually extending their operations. The raw silk market re mains very firm, with as upward tendency. The delive ries continue good. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—In our piece hall to-day there has been rather more doing in light fancy goods; but for heavy fabrics there is hardly any inquiry. Yarn remains in the same condition of extreme depression. The de mand is far below the production, and the quotations are consequently in a drooping state. Scarcely any wool is changing hands, and the turn is still in favour of the buyer. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market continues much the same as last week. A pretty active trade has been done during the week. It seems to be generally expected that we shall have a good autumn trade. The wool warehouses have been rather more active to-day. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market at the cloth halls has been good, and a fair quantity of goods continue to be delivered to order. Prices remain firm, and business in the warehouses is brisk. DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE. MR. SALOMONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ,zusc:trxsa The following are the competitors for Doggett's Coat and Badge, and other prizes, on Friday next:— George Daniel Weggett—Somer's-quay. Salter Martin Milford-lane. Alfred G. Andrews Battle-bridge. John Lashbrook Old Swan. George Bean Custom-house Lower-stairs. Joha — Webb Wapping, in addition to the coat and badge for the first man, 41. 10s. for the second, and 21. 103. for the third, be queathed by the late Sir W. Jolliffo, the Fishmongers' Company have liberally added a guinea for the first man, a guinea and a half for the fourth, and a guinea each for the two last. The race will be started, under the able direction of Mr. Dards, at five in the evening. Sin,—There appears to be considerable difference of opinion on the exact position of the question as to the admissibility of Jews into Parliament, and believing that as the House of Lords have chosen not to pass the Bill, it is not possible for that question to be more favourably situated than it now is, perhaps you will spare room for the following observations. My own opinion is, that Mr. Salomons has taken the oath and is entitled to take his seat, but I should be most wanting in candour were I to contend that the question is entirely free Irons doubt; and then the point is this, — in an admitted doubtful case what mode of proceeding is open to the least practical inconvenience. Much obloquy has been thrown, and in my judgment very unjustly, upon the Master of the Rolls for the reso lution of last session in the Baron's case, which, however, differs legally from that of Mr. Salomons; but, suppose that the Master of the Rolls had recommended the House to adopt a diffent course, and to pass a resolution de claring that the oath was well taken! Let us reflect upon the great inconvenience which might have arisen. Suppose in some score of actions raised to recover the penalties the Court of Queen's Bench had held that the oath had not been taken, and that the penalties were re eoverable, we should have a direct colli s i on b e t ween th e House of Commons and the courts of law—the former deciding that a Member had taken the oath, the latter convicting him in penalties for not having taken the oath. The House of Commons must have given way. From this unfortunate position the Master of the Rolls—worthy of the name of Romilly—has saved the House. No collision can now take place; for suppose the Court to decide that Mr. Salomons has not taken the oath, then they agree with the House of Commons. But suppose the Court to decide that Mr. Salomons has taken the oath required by law, and therefore the penalties are not recoverable, surely it is as clear as the sun at noonday that the House of Commons would ac cept that decision as the constitutional solution of a legal question, and immediately admit Mr. Salomons. Lord John Russell is clearly of this opinion, for al though the point was not directly raised, he said, "If in a discussion in a court of law new light were thrown upon the subject, there was no reason why the House should not avail itself of that new light." A Russell could not have spoken otherwise. If a majority of the House of Commons were to be so silly as not to avail themselves of that new light, and again turn Mr. Salomons out of the House of Commons, he would immediately commence an action against the Sergeant-at-Arms, and a British jury would give such damages as would induce the veriest bigot to cry, Hold, enough! Fo these reasons it appears clear to me that it is not possible for the question to be raised in a more favour able manner. Penal laws must be construed strictly, and in favour of the liberty of the subject. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, R. W. HOP INTELLIGENCE. (From the Maidstone Gazette.) BARMING.—During the past week some of the strong grounds have shown a rather better appearance than they dal before the rains came; as they keep growing and putting forth burr, they are likely to bear a fair crop, but there is a good deal of very slack bine, which has given way with en increase of vermin, and are not likely to do anything, or,,at best, but very little. MEREWORTH.—The hops in some grounds are mak ing a favourable progress, but where they are struck with the blight they daily get worse, and the vermin is as vigorous as ever. HADLOW.—The hops are generally improving, though the vermin is thick in some grounds. HOLLINGBOURNE.—The late thunder showers have produced a slight improvement. MALLING.—If some grounds have slightly improved, others have gone back more than an equivalent. YALDING AND EIUNTON.—Our hops for this week past made little or no improvement. BRENCHLEY.—A great portion of the hops in this parish have completely given way, and cannot recover; in other grounds there is a shade of improvement since the rain. GOUDHURST.—We are of opinion that three-fourths of the parish are very bad, with but very little bine, and in many gardens no lateral shoots ; among the largest plantations may be found one or two gardens which we may term splendid for the year. Unfortunately we have had no rains till this last week of any consequence, so that there is no visible effect at present; it is very evi dent they are past recovery. louTuast AND SEAL..—Within the last few days the hops have slightly improved. Mould has mado its ap pearance in a few gardens. SMARDEN AND BIDDENDEN.—ThO bine still remains in an unhealthy state in most grounds; the fly was seen in some gardens on Saturday as lively and brisk as ever. LAZ4BERHURST.—The hops in this parish are still very foul, and the vermin follow up the young shoots. The late rains have washed them, and they certainly look better. TENTERDEN.—The hops have improved daring the last week, where they are free from vermin; but upon the whole not more than half a crop can be expected. ORPINGTON.—The hops in our parish and St. M ary Cray are going daily from bad to worse. Our land does not appear to suit hops, and the only wonder is that hops are cultivated about here. FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, JULY 28.—Since last Thursday we have a decided improve ment in most of our grounds, and the very worst are cer tainly looking better. (From the Maidstone Journal.) MAIDSTONE, JULY 28.—As far as our observations go, the variable and wet weather of the past week has not but in a very few instances improved the hop planta tions of this neighbourhood, and though there are many gardens, especially about Farleigh, still free from blight, and which continue to maintain their healthy and vigorous appearance, we cannot announce that the pros pects of the hop-growers generally are improving— many of the gardens that were foul with vermin have already turned black from the growth of the usual fungus on the honey dew. AYLESFORD.—Notwithstanding the heavy rains we have had during the past week, the vermin still are as numerous as before. A very short crop this year. BIRLING.—We are very indifferent here—rather worse than last week. LINTON.—Our bine has grown eonsiderably since the rain, but we have also an increase of vermin in our up. per grounds —some of them are getting worse every day. MARDEN.—In some grounds a decided improvement is observable, in others the hops appear stationary. STAPLEHURST.—Th e effect of the late rain is visible in a few places in this parish; but speaking generally the plant is weakly, owing to the ravages of the vermin with which they are still infested, and precludes the possibility of growing anything like a crop. THURSDAY EVENING, ULcomn.—We cannot report any improvement this last week; the bine continues very foul, and much of it too sickly to make any effort for fruit. CRANBROOK.—The plantations have not made any very perceptible progress during the week. There has been a complete saturation of the grounds, and a few days' fine warm weather will no doubt work wonders and decide the fate of the growth. OTFORD AND SHOREHAM.—There is a decided im provement in some few of the hop gardens; but at least i❑ two-thirds of the plantation the prospect of growing any hops is entirely gone for this year. WROTHAM (TOWN DISTRICT).—We are decidedly worse than last week, the vermin following every shoot; the weather during the past week has been most favour able for their increase; and as one generation of them die a fresh one succeeds them in much larger numbers. CANTERBURY.—We have nothing favourable to re port this week of the hop plant. Our accounts, for the most part, represent the country grounds in a bad con dition. The attack of vermin, combined with slackness of bine, render the chance of a good crop very critical. Some of the well-cultivated plantations in this neigh bourhood have certainly improved a little, the hop look ing a good colour, and promising a fair yield; but this is far from general. Warm, still weather is now rrquirtd to bring them to maturity. Duty estimated at 75,5001. to 80,0001. TICEHURST.—The hop plantations are not doing so well as they were a fortnight ago; many gardens have gone the wrong way, and the others ar© at present quite at a stand. SUSSEX.—Our reports from Rye and its neighbour hood state that the lice have increased in most gar dens since the rains, yet, so sanguine are the hop growers of that district that the plantations will go through the blight, that they calculate upon growing from 10 cwt. to two tons per acre. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN PARIS. The police arrested on Sunday the young man who murdered a girl named Juliette Flame in a public house in the Rue du Cherche-Midi. His name is Joseph Humblot, his age 19, and his occupation that of a waiter in a coffee-house. The arrest was effected at 110, Rue St. Honors, in the residence of a concierge, who is a friend of his mother. He readily answered the questions put to him, and made this statement:—" I know," he said, " that I have com mitted a horrible murder, and I know the fate that awaits me. But lam not a monster—l was distracted—l had an attack of brain fever. During eight months," he continued, " I had intimate relations with Juliette; I loved her passionately, but at last I fancied I perceived she deceived me. Ido not know whether I was right or wrong, but a violent jealousy took possession of me, and I resolved to kill her first, and myself afterwards. I was under the influence of these ideas when I met her on Wednesday. We went into the public-house, and ascended to a bed room. A bottle of wine was brought us, and Juliette seated herself on the bed. It was nearly nine o'clock, and vertigo seized me. I passed my hand over her throat, which appeared to surprise her; but be fore she had time to make any observation I seized a razor which I had for some time carried in my poc ket, and, in one cut, made a severe wound in the throat. Poor Wretch! She had only time to cry Mother! mother!' when she fell dead. I was troubled, and for a few moments knew not what I did. But at last I reco vered my self-possession. I washed the blood from my hands and face. I opened the doo r , b at when half-way down the staircase, the idea of seeing her again recurred to me, and I went and kissed her for the last time. I hurried away. I went to the river and washed my trousers. Afterwards I went home, and said to my father and mother, Kiss me, for you will see me no more; I sin a great criminal, and deserve the scaffold!' In their stupor they did not think of stopping me. I went out of Paris and slept in a lodging-house at one of the barriers. In the morning I was agitated, and did not know where to go. So I re solved to commit suicide. But before dying I deter mined to try to see Juliette once again. I went to the Morgue, where I thought her body would be taken; but I arrived too late—she had been recognised by her mother, and the body had been removed. I listened to what was said in the crowd. A young girl has been murdered,' they said, • and the murderer after wards threw the body into the river.' I shrugged my shoulders and went away. I went to a church, with the intention of confessing to a priest, but not finding one, I wandered about the streets for some time, and at last left Paris. I only returned this morning. And now I have only to request that I may be condemned to death. My repentance and my chastisement will open to me the gates of heaven, and it is there alone that I can hope to see Juliette again." This statement was made with the greatest calmness. The prisoner had on a shirt stained with the blood of his victim. The expression of his features is remarkably mild. He had procured himself a passport for a foreign country. FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The following are the last returns of the gross re ceipts of the principal French Railways : NORTHERN.—From July 16 to July 22: Passengers, 349,2481.; goods, 192,006 f.; total, 541,254 f. ROUEN.—From July 13 to July 19 : Passengers, 114,442 f.; goods, 79,702 f.; total, 194,144 f. HAVRE.—From July 13 to July 19 : Passengers, 40,482 f.; goods, 34,635 f. ; total 75,117 f. ORLEANS.—From July 14 to July 20 : Passengers, 91,772 f. ; goods, 102,278 f.; total, 197,050 f. BORDEAUX.—From July 14 to July 20: Passengers, 49,3291.; goods, 42,539 f.; total, 91,868 f. VIERZON —From July 14 to July 20 : Passengers, 38,680 f.; goods, 37,422 E; total, 76,102 f. BOIILOGNE.—From July 14 to July 20 : Passengers, 39,477 E; goods, 16,759 E; total, 56,236 f. NANTES.--From July 12 to July 18 : Passengers, 22,434 f.; goods, 15,832 E; total, 38,286 E STRASBURG.—From July 16 to July 22: Passengers. 111,646; goods, 68,845 E; total, 180,491 E BALE.—From July 1 to July 7 : Passengers, 30.732 t.; goods, 31,043 f.• total, 61,775 E MONTEREAIL—From duly 9 to July 15: Passengers. 10,310 E; goods, 14.721 f.; total, 25,031 f. MARSEILLES.—From July 9 to July 15: Passengers, 48,623 E; goods, 22,190 f.; total, 70,830 f. LYONS.—From July 6 to July 12 : Passengers, 226,152 E; goods. 76,474 E; total, 302,626 f. CHARTRES.—From July 7 to July 13: Passengers, 32,907 E; goods, 13,055 E; total, 45,962 f. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-o 1 by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] When made up in I From what When PLACES. General Post-ottlee port dis- duo. London. patched. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Aug. 1 Liverpool Ang. 4 America (by U.S. pkt.) N, Aug, 5 Liverpool .. Aug. 12 America (by U.S. pkt.) M,Aug. 13 .. Southampt. Aug. 7 Africa (West coast)• • Nll4th of the month Plymouth Aug. 3 m a a an d r i a • ........ N;l9th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Aug. 18 Belgium N Daily .Dover .. Daily B ras il , . 2 d;9th of the mo n th S ou th amp t . A ug. 1 2 Buenos Ayres .. M, l 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12 California(via C hares) 1112 d & 17th o f month I Southern pt. Aug. 5 Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month IPlymouth•• Aug. 3 Constantinople * • • Ni7th 1 7th 27th ef molDover .. Aug.lo Central America .. Mi 24 & 17th of mon. Southampt. Aug. 5 Channel Isles •• NlMon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th.Sa Chili •. M!l7th of the month !Southampt. Aug 5 France M& N Twice d a il y .. (Dover .. Twieedail7 G reece * •• N 7 thl7th27thefmo Dover •• Aug.lo Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. •• M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mon.Thcr Honduras N 17th of the month Sonthampt. Aug. 5 Ireland .. •• M& N Twice daily —(Holyhead Twicedaily India(via Southamp.) M 20th of the month,Southarapt. Aug. 23 India (viaM arsenics) N, 7 th& 24th ef month Dover • • A 4. 15 Mediterranean (via Southampton) • • 3 120th of the mo n th Southampt. Aug. 23 I Mediterranean (via - N 7 th&24tkofmonth Do ve r • . A ug. 15 1 .,7 3 ;y 00.. M 2d of the month.. Southampt. Aug. 5 Madeira M 9th of th e month Southampt. Aug. 12 Malta* •• •• f 7th,17th,19th,27th / Dover Aug. 10 k 8430th of month 3 Nap l es * • •• N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover Aug. 2 Papal States* N sth 15th 25th ofrato Dover .. Aug. 2 r en i m ilar.. M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Aag. 5 Peru • • .. .. .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Aug. 5 Tuscany * .. •• N; s th 15th 25thofmo Dover •• Aug. 2 West Indies 17th of the month Southampt. Ang. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month Southanapt. Aug. 5 ountries thus mar] ISoathanapt. !Aug. 5 ced (*) are conveyed by and from Califot lue by every Am, via the United States al packet. ■ The mails to those c French packet ♦:A Marsei CALIFORNIA.—MaIIs to aro no, despatched and di WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, July 30. (Before FRANCIS BAYLEY, Esq., Judge.) MANAGERS AND ACTORS.—LEE V. FARREN. The plaintiff in this action is Mr. H. Lee, the light comedian, who sought to recover from the defendant, Mr. W. Farren, the respected lessee of the Olympic Theatre, the sum of 10/. under the following circum stances. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Herring, of Lisson-grove, for the defendant. The' case occupied some hours, but a condensed ac count will suffice. The plaintiff stated that on Easter Monday last he was engaged by the defendant to perform " characters," at a salary of 21. per week. The first part he took was that of Sir Roger de Coverley, then the Bottle Imp, Ro. cheater, in Charles the Second, the Marquis, in Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, Bco. He went on very well, and with apparent satisfaction to the management, till Wednesday, the 2d instant, when, being requested to take the subordinate part of Captain Gervais, the first officer of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton" play of the Lady of Lyons, be indignantly refused, and was immediately dis missed, 11. being offered him for three nights' services from the Saturday, on which night an engagement com mences from, and which he would not accept, as he thought he was entitled to his 21. for the current week, and St, a month's salary, in lien of a month's notice. For these amounts he now had instituted the present proceedings. Mr. John Richard Smith, an actor of 59 years' stand ing, said he was the original Bottle Imp, and from his experience, thought the man who played such a part would lower himself by acting as Captain Gervais, which ought only to be appointed to what were termed "utility men," or men who did anything.—(Laughter.) Mr. Attwood, who styled himself an "Old Actor," coincided with the last witness. What was termed a " utility man" was not even on a footing with a walking gentleman.—(Laughter.) JUDGE—W hat is a walking gentleman? Mr. Smith —Perhaps, from my long experience, I can toll your Honour, if Mr. Attwood will allow me. It is a distinct line of character frequently performed by the plaintiff, and represents a devout lover and a well-dressed young man. —(Laughter.) His HONOUR here observed that no evidence was brought forward of any specific arrangement between the plaintiff and defendant, and he could not even give judgment for the IL alleged to have been offered. With out, therefore, calli ng upon Mr. Herring to reply, he should give judgment in favour of his client, with an order upon the plaintiff for the costa of his attorney. JULY 31 1 1851 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, July 30. This was an action to recover damages from the de fendant, for the breach of his promise to marry the plaintiff. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Needham, were counsel for the plaintiff; Sergeant Shee was for the de fendant. Mr. CHAMBERS, in opening the case, said that the plaintiff, Mrs. Sophia Kingsford, had been compelled to bring the present action against the defendant in order to recover damages from him for very serious miscon duct, in having deliberately broken a solemn engage ment he had made to marry her. It was his duty to inform the jury that neither of the parties in the cause were young—on the contrary, they were both at a somewhat advanced period of life, the defendant being the older of the two; but it appeared to him that this was rather in aggravation of the defendant's misconduct than other wise. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to state the facts of the case. It appeared that the plaintiff was a person in humble circumstances. She was a widow, living with her daughter, who kept a chandler's shop at Deptford, and the defendant lived near her at the house of his brother. He paid her attention during the year 1850, and at length made ber a formal written promise of marriage ; but as he was at that time dependent on his brother, it was considered pru dent by both parties that the marriage should not take place until the death of the defendant's brother, from whom he had the expectation of receiving some con siderable property. The brother died in the month of October, 1850, and, as the defendant anticipated upon ' that event taking place, he came into possession of all the property that belonged to him, and he still continued his attentioas to the plaintiff, and repeated his promise to marry her; but on account of the death of his brother, and also the death of a sister of the defendant, it was considered right to postpone the ceremony for a certain time. The defendant, however, still continued his at tendees to the plaintiff, and in March of the present year he expressed his intention to go to Norwich for a short time, and said that at his return the marriage should take place. He went away accordingly, and, to the as tonishment of the plaintiff, it appeared that on the 13th of that month he married a Miss Mary Nicholls, and shortly afterwards brought her home to Deptford, where he took up his residence with his wife, close to the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel, in conclusion, said that it was under these circumstances the present action was brought. He did not put the case as one of blighted affections or disappointed hopes, but he did say that the defendant had grossly misconducted himself towards the plaintiff, and that she was entitled to compensation for the injury she had sustained by the defendant failing to perform the promise he had made to her. Witnesses were then examined, who made out the case as stated by the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff. It appeared upon the cross-examination of some of the witnesses that the plaintiff was at least fifty-five years old, and the defendant was sixty, and that when the parties first became acquainted he was living with his brother as servant of all work, and was in very humble circumstances, and it was evident that both parties con sidered the marriage ought not to take place until the condition of the defendant should be improved by the death of his brother. Sergeant SHEE made a most humourous speech to the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said it was a very rare occurrence for parties of the respective ages of fifty-five and sixty to come into a court of justice and ask for damages for a breach of promise of this description, and if juries were to sanction such actions by giving damages, he was afraid that the time of the courts would be wholly taken up with them. He must confess that the present case put him in mind of a story he had read of a gentleman who, having fixed his marriage day, made arrangements to have all the proceedings of the marriage carried on in the guise of a funeral.—(A laugh.) There was a hearse, mourning coaches, and mutes, and when the bridal party left the church after the ceremony the first thing that met their eyes was a newly-made grave. It was clear that in the present instance the plaintiff was not to be " made happy," as the defendant expressed it, in one of his letters, until the death of his brother, and the marriage was only to succeed the fune ral; and in all the love whisperings that took place be tween this old boy of 60 and the young lady of 55, the consent to marry was only given, " when brother should be dead."—(Laughter.) He did not deny that there had been a promise to marry made by the defendant, but what injury had the defendant really sustained by the breach of this promise? To talk of affection betwepn the parties under these circumstances was perfectly ridi culous, and as to the loss of any benefit that would arise to the plaintiff from the property that came into the pos session of the defendant at the death of his brother, they should not forget that if she was to have the money she must have had the old man as well.—(A laugh.) The CHIEF JUSTICE—Don't use too hard terms, bro ther Shee. He is only sixty.—(Renewed laughter.) Sergeant SHEE proceeded—He was not aware of any peculiar advantages appertaining to the ago of sixty, al though ho hoped ho sboald in time attain that knowledge. —(A laugh.) It was said that a young man married far a mistress, a middle-aged one for a companion, and an old ma❑ for a nurse; and it appeared to him that all this hearty old widow of fifty-five, with five young children and a chandler's shop, could have expected from an union with the defendant, was to have to nurse him after the expiration of a very short period of time. The CHIEF JUSTICE briefly summed up, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 40/. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Durham, July 29. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Special Jury.) SHEPHERD V. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. This was an action of replevin brought to try the right to the tithes of the rectory of St. Giles's, Durham, which were claimed by the defendant in right of his wife, as the lay rector. The plaintiff complained that his cattle had been seized for a tithe.rent charge, not payable to the defendant and not in arrear, he being tenant to a Mr. Oving ton, to whom he alleged the tithes of his laud belonged. Mr. Knowles, Q.C., Mr. Atherton, Q.C., and Mr. Jones appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Manisty for the defendant. It appeared from the opening of the Learned Counsel for the defendant, who had the right to begin, that the rectories of St. Giles and St. Nicholas, formerly part of the monastery of Kepier, at Durham, at the Reformation were leased for twenty one years by Henry VIII. to one John Franklin; that afterwards, in the sixth year of the reign of Edward VI, they were granted by the Crown to John Lord Ormeston and his heirs, and by him granted, in 1554, to one John Heath, the ancestor of the present Marchioness of Londonderry. By a subsequent marriage settlement in 1642, made in contemplation of marriage between John Tempest, the son of Sir Thomas Tempest, Attorney-General for Ireland, and Elizabeth Heath, the granddaughter of that John Heath, the rectories and all the tithes were settled on them and their issue, and were again settled on the marriage of a descendant of that John Tempest with Elizabeth Sudbury, niece of the Dean of Durham, in 1677. In 1706 another settlement in contemplation of marriage was made, but the lease only was put in (the release being lost), by which the rectories and tithes were given to persons named White and Nicholson, who, the defendant contended, were trustees of the settlement. A descendant of these Tempests was married to a Dr. Henry Vane, and his descendant Sir Harry Vane mar ried, in 1794, Ann Catherine Countess of Antrim, and on their daughter, the present Marchioness of London derry (married to the defendant in 1819), descended these rectories and the right to the tithes. In 1816 a private inclosure Act was passed, enabling Gillygate Moor to be enclosed, and the burgage tenants of Gilly gate, or St. Giles, in Durham, in respect of their rights of common, became entitled to allotments of the moor under that Act, which became liable to tithes in the same right as the tenements in respect of which they were claimed. Mr. Robert Ovington, one of these tenants, had allotted to him eight acres and two roods of this moor, and it was i n res p ect o f t h e t i t h e o f this allot ment, seized from his t enant , t h at t h e presen t action was brought. For the plaintiff it was objected that the right to the tithes was shown to be in White and Nicholson, and was never after traced to the ancestors of the Marchioness of Londonderry, and that the identity of the Tempests as descendants of the first Tempest entitled to the tithes was not satisfactorily established. These objections having been overruled, Mr. KNOWLES contended that the deed of 1706 being the last deed that showed title in the tithes, and all sub sequent deeds having been silent about them, and none having been received till 1829, and then only extorted under threats of a Chancery suit, a tithe composition must be presumed, and the Heaths, or some of their descendants, must be presumed to have conveyed away their right to the tithes. In support of this view he put in a conveyance of the tithes of four of the burgage tene ments to the owners thereof by one of the Heaths. Mr. WATSON having replied, His LORDSHIP directed the jury that they must hays some positive evidence other than mere non -reception of tithes to enable them to presume the tithes to have been conveyed away. The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found a verdict for the defendant. Leave was then given to move the Court above on some points reserved. In the Crown Court a _number of ordinary sessions cases of scarcely local interest wore disposed of in the course of the day. The criminal business is expected to be got through to-morrow. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 28. CRO VVN COURT. Cha,les Beardmore and Edward Bloor were indicted for a highway robbery on James Brothers, at Hanley. Mr. Kenealy prosecuted, This was a case of the new favourite mode of robbing in the dark, which seems to have passed from London into Staffordshire. The prosecutor on his way home. ward on the night of the :23d inst., when about half way oa the high road from 4311111310111 19 116 3 1.1 6 7, observed thie, • CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON. ) Edward Wood, 27, was indicted under the new statute of Lord Campbell, for being found at night with skeleton keys and other housebreaking instruments in his possession, with intent to commit felony. Mr. Deedes prosecuted. It appeared that a police-constable, who was acquainted with the prisoner, took him into custody at Boarshead under suspicious circumstances, and a quantity of skele ton keys and a crowbar were found in his possession, there being very little doubt that he was out upon some housebreaking expedition. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and a previous conviction for felony being proved against him, he was sentenced to be transported for ten years. John Bowden, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of feloni ously setting fire to a stack of wheat, value 1701., and he was sentenced to be transported for ten years. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Chief Justice JERVIS and a Common Jury.) KINGSFORD V. DYE. men, whom he passed. Scarcely had he got 15 paces from them, when he felt a sudden pressure on his throat, which was lquei zed tightly by the arm of a man from behind; another man stood in front of him, and as the strangling immediately disabled him he was lifted from the ground and flung down with some violence, the man in front robbing him of his watch and guard at the same instant. On recovering his senses he rose, and shouted, " Stop thief." The parties took to flight, but were both pursued by two other young men who chanced to be on the road at the time. Neither of them overtook the parties, but all three seem to have kept one of them (Beardmore) in view during the whole of the flight. A policeman named Cherry, attracted by the shouting, caught Beardmore, who was immediately re cognized by the prosecutor as one of the men whom he had passed just before he was robbed. The other pri soner escaped, but two witnesses (Germans), one of whom met him with Beardmore on the road a few minutes be fore the robbery, and the other, a musician, who was Beardmore's mistress, who deposed to his having made anxious inquiries after " h-er chap" about twelve o'clock on that night, and to having expressed a fear that he was apprehended, satisfied the jury that the parties really engaged were the prisoners. Bloor on the next day changed his clothes, and made some false statements to the police•superintendent at Hanley, which on cross examination of the superintendent he (Bloor) now at tempted to deny. His LORDSHIP briefly addressed the jury, who found the prisoners Guilty. A policeman and a woman having given the prisoners a good character, The JUDGE said that but for their charact©r he would have imposed a very severe sentence on them. Ha now ordered them to be imprisoned for twelve calendar months, wish hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Robert Johnson, a Scotch lad, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with attempting to pick pockets at the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park. Police-constable Capping, H 379, said he was on duty at the Exhibition yesterday atternoon about five o'clock, when he saw the prisoner, in the south gallery, put his hand to a lady's pocket. The prisoner soo❑ afterwards went and stood by a gentleman and put his hand into the gentleman's pocket and drew his handkerchief nearly out. Witness went forward and took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner protested his innocence. He had only come from Scotland with his father, who was a baker, about a week ago. Ho was looking at the articles in the Exhibition when he saw a gentleman's handkerchief partly hanging out of his pocket, and he touched the gentleman fur the purpose of drawing his attention to the circumstance, when the constable came to him and took him into custody. The constable was positive that he saw the prisoner attempt to steal the handkerchief. He had seen the prisoner about the Exhibition, on the outside, a day or two previously. Mr. HARDWICK sent him to prison for three months. After the prisoner was removed to the lock-up cells information was given to the gaoler, Parkin, that the prisoner was attempting suicide. On entering the cell the prisoner was discovered in a state of strangulation. He had tied one end of his handkerchief to his toot and the other round his neck, and had drawn the noose so tight that he must have died had not the gaoler made his appearance. The handkerchief was taken away and the prisoner, after being brought to, was left. In a short time afterwards an alarm was given that the prisoner was a second time attempting to destroy him self. Oa entering the cell the prisoner was found with his braces round his throat, nearly strangled. The gaoler was informed that the prisoner had offered a lad who was in the cell with him 4d. for a clasp knife to cut his throat with. Parkin reported the circumstance of these repeated attempts at belt-destruction to Mr. Hardwick, who, atter sending for a medical gentleman, decided upon requiring the attendance of the lad's father, in order to ascertain his previous character and conduct. The prisoner was remanded for that purpose. W ORS HIP-STREET. Edward Jones, a tall, powerful man, described as a hawker, was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged with cutting and wounding James Bates, with intent to murder him. The prosecutor, who appeared to be greatly debilitated from loss of blood, stated that the prisoner heel for some time past entertained the most hostile feelings towards him, iu consequence of some previous transaction con nected with his wife. On Sunday last he accidently met him, and was then warned by the prisoner that he had better prepare himself, as he had resolved to murder him before two days had passed over. He took no heed of the threat at the time, but while seated that morning in front of one of the houses in Red Lion-court. Kingaland road, the prisoner suddenly rushed upon him with the observation, " Now you are my victim," and raising his hand, in which he held some bright instrument, made a violent stab at his right breast. He succeeded by a rapid movement in partially evading the blow, but was instantly seized by the prisoner, who dragged him along the ground by the hair of his head, and repeatedly stabbed him in the back, declaring, with an oath, that be would kill him on the spot. He was at length rescued by some of the bystanders and conveyed to the residence of a medical gentleman, where it was ascertained that he had fortunately escaped with only one wound, although his clothing had been com pletely cut through in several places. Inspector Pascoe, of the N division, stated that the prisoner was given into his custody, and upon acquaint tug him with the nature of the charge he observed that the prosecutor had occasioned him constant misery for the last three years, and that he regretted the weapon bad not gone through his heart. The inspector pro duced a large pair of pointed shears, used by tailors i❑ heir trade, which he received from a person in the crowd, who had picked them tip near the ep, t, and stated them to be the instrument with which the injury had been inflicted. Mr. George Coward, the divisional police surgeon, stated, that upon examining the prosecutor he found that, in addition to an abrasion upon the left breast, he had received a triangular punctured wound beneath the left shoulder blade, from which he must have lost a consi derable quantity of blood, and that he considered the points of the shears now produced were calculated to produce such an injury. The prisoner declined offering anything in answer to the charge, and was ordered to be remanded until the ultimate result of his violence could be ascertained. A middle-aged man named George Edwards was charged with an assault of an aggravated and indelicate description, in Victoria-park, upon a girl named Martha Davis, 13 years of age. The case was conclusively established by the evidence of the prosecutrix and two other witnesses, but the facts were of too gross a nature to admit of publication; and the prisoner, who pleaded intoxication as an excuse for his conduct, was ordered to pay a penalty of 5/., or to bo committed in default for two months to the House of Correction; in addition to which he was ordered to pro vide substantial bail for his good behaviour for the suc ceeding four months. The prisoner could not procure the penalty by the close of the court, and was therefore transferred to prison in the van. LAMBETH. Yesterday Mr. George , of 9, Church-row, Newington, a young fellow of " Gent" like appearance, and who was said t o h o ld a l ucra ti v e sit ua ti on in the public office, Doctors' Commons, was placed at the bar, before the Hon. G. C. N or t on , and charged with the fol lowing gross outrage. Mrs. Mary Ann Thompson, a respectable married lady, residing in Walcot-square, Lambeth, deposed that on that morning herself, her daughter, her niece, ananda gentleman, a friend of theirs, returned from a party in a cab, and requested the driver to pat them down at the Ship Tavern, in the Princes'-road, which is close to he r residence. The moment herself and her niece got out of the vehicle, they were surrounded by three persons, one of whom was the prisoner, and the . latter m a d e use of an offensive and disgusting expression, and her niece, who was close to her, and to whom the expression was addressed, raised her hand for the purpose of pushi ng him away, upon which the prisoner instantly knocked her down. He also struck her three or four times in the most violent manner, and with his clench e d fist, while she was on the ground. Witness, in endeavouring to protect her niece received a violent blow on the nose, which caused her to bleed a considerable quan tity, and her dress was completely destroyed. She was struck by the prisoner and one of his friends, and if the police had not come up so opportunely she did not know what the consequence might have been. Her niece was so ill from the effects of the injuries she had received, that she was unable to attend. The first blow the pri soner gave her was on the face, and he subsequently struck her repeatedly on th e fa ce, and cut her right eye. Her niece, however, did not w i s h to press the charge, and would be satisfied by the prisoner begging pardon for his conduct. On her cross-examination by Mr. Games, the witness said she was quite certain the prisoner was the person who had struck her niece in the manner she had de scribed. Mr. NORTON desired that the prison©r might be de tained, and an officer sent for a medical certificate, as to the state of the injured party. In a short time after, the lady, Miss Elizabeth Couch man, entered the court, and said that, though very weak from the brutal treatment she had experienced, and the loss of blood, she was still enabled to give her evidence. Her right eye was dreadfully swollen and black, and her countenance bore evident proofs of the brutal treatment she had experienced. After confirming the greater part of the testimony of her aunt, she said the first blow given to her by the prisoner knocked her down, and on partially raising herself from the ground, he struck her a violent blow on the eye, and laid her prostrate. He also struck her several other blows, so that at one time she became quite insensible. Her sufferings were very severe from the effects of the injuries she received, but still as she feared that the prisoner was a respectable person, she did not wish t o press the charge severely against him. In reply to a question from the Magistrate, Miie Couchman said that the prisoner had attempted to strike her with the hooked end of the can produced, and which hook was composed of German silver. Mrs. Thompson here informed the Magistrate that the gentleman who had accompanied her and her niece the night before was unfortunately compelled to go out of town early that morning, or he would have attended as a witness. She hoped, however, that this was not neces sary, as it was not her wish, nor that of her niece, to press the charge. Mr. Games begged to tender, on the part of his client, his deep obligation for their kindness and mercy. H e also begged, be said, to express, on the part of his client, his heartfelt regret at his conduct, and for which he could not offer even the slightest extenuation. Air. NORTON remarked that the outrage was of ao ee rions a character, that it was his intention to las lye sent the prison, r for mat, and should do so still, utile se parti cularly called ~n by the ladies who had been so• grossly injured not to do so. Both Miss Couchrnan and Mrs. Thompson expressed their unwillingness to press the matter further, and Mr. NorToN convicted the prisoner in the penalty of 5/ , or two months, for the assault. The penalty was at once paid, and Mr. Games under- took that the ladies, who had behaved so kindly to his client, should have the full value of the injuries their apparel had sustained. RAILWAY FRAFb'IC RETURNS. LONDON ♦ND NORM-WESTERN RAILWAY . . -It'Ettllll of Traffic for the week ending July 27 : Passengers, parcels, &c. £45,556 13 8 Merchandise ... 16.681 0 3 Cattle „, ... 1,001 15 4 Total ... £63,239 9 3 Corresponding week last year 49,u22 10 9 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of th• traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending July 27 ... £27,542 7 1 Corresponding week last year... 17,447 3 0 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--ALROUIIt ; (11 Traffic for the week ending July 26: Passengers ... £15,348 14 5 Goods ... 2,283 1) 3 Total ... ... ....£17,632 13 8 Corresponding week last year... 13,025 8 2 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSIIIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles open.)—Traffic for week ending July 27 ..£17,179 3 9 Corresponding week in last year, (2451 miles open) ....£16,402 14 11 THE GRZAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.— (MiIes in work, 236.) —Return of Traffic for the Week ending July *4O, 1851 ; Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and mails ....£11,787 16 1 Merchandise and minerals ... 3,182 19 8 Cattle ... 278 811 Total .. .. ...£15,249 4 8 Corresponding week, July 21, 1850 (143 miles): Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £1,845 10 6 Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ... 1,523 13 5 ... £3,369 6 11 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles 0pe0,112.) Return of traffic for the week ending July 20:— Railway and canal . £5,054 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 5,027 0 0 Note. —The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD ItanwAY.—Trafflo for the week ending July 27 : Total ... MAIN LINE. Passengers ... Parcels, H. C. and D. Goods, cattle, &c. Mails ... Total -• MOLD. ... £2,397 3 6 ... 69 19 11 ... 574 9 5 ... 575 0 0 ... £3,616 12 10 ... .£54 7 8 1 0 6 81 9 11 Passengers ... Parcels, H. C. and D. Goods, cattle, &c. Total ... £l3B 18 1 STEAM-BOATS. Passengers ••• Parcels, H. C. and D. ... £504 5 3 ... 23 11 2 Total ... ... ... £527 16 5 SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open 29 miles.)—Trafgo for the week ending July 27 : Passengers, parcels, &c. ... Goods and live stock -.X426 4 7i -. 195 3 9 Total .. ~. .. £621 8 4i Corresponding week last year ... 469 10 Si CALEDONIAN RAILWAT.—(I6O miles opened.)-Return of traffic for the week ending July 20:— Passengers, &c. Goods, &c. ... £4,193 12 91 ... 3,592 0 11 Total* .. .. ... £7,688 13 81 Corresponding week la s t year ... 6.592 4 9i • Including Wishaw and Coltness, now in charge of a factor. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was rather better to-day. Great Western, Original Shares, were done at 84% - Midland Stock, 41 5 ,x. LIVERPOOL, JULY 30. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There has been a marked improve ment in our share market to-day, and a fair business Ivo been done at better prices. The transactions were as follow Lancashire and Yorkshire, 50 —London and North-Western , 124—Ditto, New Quarters, 4 p.—Midland, 425i —Ditto , Halves, 2”g dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 224—York and North Midland, 18%. _ MANCHESTER, JULY 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has been Awl to-day, with a fair amount of business doing. The transac tions were as follow: --Eastern Grunties, 64 n.—East Lan cashire, Quarters, I44—Lancashire and Yorkshire, O -- London and North-Western 124 Ditto, New Quarters, p.—Midland 42—South-Eastern and Dover, 22%. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—To-day being the fortnight account, there was little going forward beyond the settlement, which was not heavy, and passed off without the occurrence of all circumstance worthy of remark. The share market is quiet, but prices generally have an inclination towards improve ment. There was some little business done in private, and yesterday's prices were understood to be fully maintained. THE COUNTitv MARKETS. LEEDS,JULY 29.—We were moderately supplied with wheat to-day. The prices of Friday were barely maintained, and but little business done. Barley nominal. Beans and peas slow of sale. Other articles unaltered. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, JULY 29.—There was no change to notice in the market this morning, each article being very dull of sale, without alteration in prices. NEWCASTLE CATT LE M ARKET , J ULY 29.—Th e su pply Of beasts this morning comprised 651 head, being rather larger than that of last week. Trade very dull, at a decline of 3d per stone from the rates of last Tuesday, and part remained on' sold. The number of sheep and lambs also large, being 70 9 ' The trade for both descriptions of stock was firm at former rates, and nearly all sold. Beef, 4s to 6s Od per atone ; mutton , 4d to sd; lamb, 5d to 6d per lb, sinking offal. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 21—There were in the meal market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, ePch weighing 280 1 bt imperial, which sold thus :-3 at 11 a3s Od, and 9 a t 1/ 17s Od ; average p r i ce o f t h e w h o l e 11 17s 4d 0-Nth& 1 sack flour, which sold at 30s. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JULY 29.• - • Oat straw, from 8s Od to 103 Od per kemple of 16 stones trop wheat ditto, 6s 6d to 7s 6d; barley ditto, 7s Od to Os Od' Old hay, from 10d to Is per stone; new ditto, 8d to 10d. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JULY 28.—There were 5 ' bags oatmeal, an d 6 o f b ar l eymea l a t thi s d ay ' s mar k et, eac h o , which met a ready demand. Oatmeal up on the top and second qualities is per bag; barleyroeal the same as last week Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second chird. imperial .. 37a Od 36s 6d 36s 11.1 Barleymeal, per ditto ... 22s Od 21s 3d —8 Od Peasemeal —a Od —s Od —a 0" Flour ... ••• —s Od —s Od 0 d Pot barley ••• ••• —s Od —s Od Uu. t_3OAL MARKET.— YESTIRDAY. Bate's West Hartley.. 13s OdPensher Hartlepcol W. Hartl e y 1;s 6d IStewart's North Percy Hartley.. 13s Od Thornley New Tanfield ...... 13s Od Whitworth . Eavensworth'sW. Hart 13s 6d Backhouse Tanfield Moor 13s Od Tees faafield Moor Butes... 12a 6d Cowpon Hartley Wall's End, &c. Hartley _......... Hi1da ..................... 13s 3d Nixon's Merthyr and na Lumley ......... ...... 139 6di Cardiff ....... Ships at market, 25. Sold, 23. 135 9 d 1553 7 145 12s °I 133 au, 15c , A ° o 133 , 135 v`. FADVERTISEMENT.]—A most remarkable Cure in Hobart Town by Holloway's Pills and Ointment.--1410, r Wald', of Wellington-bridge, Hobart Tow n , wr i te* t h a t Hol loway's Pills and Ointment enjoy high reputation in Van pi" men's Land. He speaks of one man who had been for y•!'. l under the treatment of the medical practitioners, and was die charged from the hospital as incurable, and had become so miserably emaciated and weak that he could only move aboo with the assistance of persons supporting him. In this coaditial ke commenced using these medicines, which so completely re' novated kis health that he is now become a stout and heoltki; looking man, and his cure is solely att r ib uta bl e to t h e u se O' Holloway's Pills. -- Seld by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, '244, Strand, Loudon. CusToais.—The Customs authorities have err:ogee, for inspectors of the gauging department to b e stationed 111' the several great dock establishments and quays for ah e . en suing twelve:months,:t o i ns p ect an d supervise the gaug i ll of all foreign wines and spi r it s i mported into and delivere" from those places, and on other matters immediately On; netted with that d e p artment of trade—one for the /10' and West India Docks; one for the London Docks, e -) t„ . cept for the C rescent, West, and South Quays, which 117 to be included i n t h e duties of the inspector of the P" Katharine' s D oc k s; and also one for the legal quays on th e river side. BIRTHS. OF A 80L On the 23th inst., at the Priory, Ash-priors, Somerset, the wife of John Winter, Esq., of an heir. On the 28th inst., at Upper Phillimore-place, Kensington' the wife of Henry Gilbert, Esq. OF A. DiUGHTE7A. On the 27th inst., at Babworth Rectory, the Lady Franca Simpson. On the 28th inst., at Gloucester-road, Old Brompton, t he wife of R. A. Fisher, Esq. _....- MARRIED. On the 29th inst., at B a tt ersea , th e R ev . Henry Dearl et , vicar of Gillingham, D orse t, an d prebendary, of Salisbury: , '" Katharine Mary, youngest daughter of Ralph Smyth, L 844 of the Manor-house, Battersea. On the 29th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, Jame s Robert, second son of Clayton Freeling, Esq., of Har street, to Elizabeth Annabella, eldest daughter of Walpole Eyre, Esq., of Bryanston-square. DIED. On the 29th i ns t., i n the Savoy, Strand, Anne, the ivA- :( e to the Rev. Dr. Steinkopff, aged 78. On the 27th i ns t., at Fi nc hl ey - roa d , St. John's-wood, ',A° nrf Letts, the eldest son of J. H. Roberts, Esq. t At the Rectory, Kentisbeare, Devon, on the 27th in s aged 49, Frances Anne, the wife of tha Rev. R A. Roberttu On the 26th inst., a t St. G eorge ' s - road, N ott i ng -bill, ag ed 77, Emilia, widow of the late R. Sheil, Esq. ad At Bilboa-pa'k, near Elkin, Aberdeenshire, on th° ter inst., aged 82, Marg are t A u ldj o , t h e l ast surv i v i ng dang" of John Auldjo, Esq., of Portlethen, Kincardineshire. e t , , On the 27th inst., Mary Ann, wif e o f M onta gue GO" Esq., of Broad-street-building, aged 58. On the 28th in -t., Louisa, da ug ht er o f M r . C. LinE4s ll 9 of Goldington-street, Bedford New Town. -„--- London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOU'' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 00114° hilddhutex i Thursday, July 31,183 E 111... 2 - 4 5 41 8 ...___ , \~, 13( 'Lek Ate ut gi 1' b e II exec h ad any 4lati ka l ka] lA N , lein