The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

TIM GREAT SALE AT ALTON TOWERS. ALTON TOWERS, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The sale of the collection of armour and arms commenced on Monday, and was continued yester day and to-day, and brought to a close this after noon. The attendance of buyers was numerous, and included agents on the part of Government from the Tower of London. The interest attach ing to the sale seems to increase, and the number of visitors during the last few days who have per ambulated the grounds is very large. The railway has each diy brought thousands from different parts . of the country. The sale of Monday commenced with the armour and arms in the entrance ball ; after which the contents of the armoury were disposed of. In ad dition to shields, halberds, swords, and helmets, they consisted of several full figures in cap-a-pie suits. A. lay figure in a splendid cap-a-pie tilting suit of plate armour sold for 20 guineas. The day's sale realised 4551. 2s. 6d. Yesterday a fine fluted steel Cuirassier helmet of the time of the Restoration sold for 191. 19s. A fine circular shield sold for 91. 9s. A figure in a superb Spanish cap-a-pie suit, 22 guineas ; a lay figure in a three-quarters snit of tilting armour, 15 guineas. Several other suits sold for from la to 201. each. The produce of the day's sale was 4901. lls. 6d. The finest portion of the armour was sold to-day, consisting of several *splendid suits in the Talbot Gallery—a very fine tilting cap-a-pie suit of plate armour, engraved, 82 guineas ; a suit of fluted ar mour, of globose form, date 1550, 91 guineas ; a grand equestrian - figure of a knight, in a complete suit of plate armour, fluted, the figure holding in his hand a beautiful State sword, inscribed, " Ego sum Talbotti, pro vincere inimicos suos," sold for 71 guineas. Several flags and banners in the ar moury were next sold. A blue silk flag, carried by the Earl of Shrewshtuy at the funeral of Win. IV., was withdrawn. A number of curiosities and orna mental objects closed the sale. These included figures of Le Grand Talbot and his Countess_sold for 155.! ; and a bust of Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Graf ton Manor, carved in wood. _ The proceeds of the day's sale was upwards of 9001., being nbout 1,7001. for the whole. The Pale of the porcelain, sculpture, marbles, and marble tables in the Talbot Gallery, the Picture Gallery, and he Conservatory will commence to morrow, and the general impression is that for several of the articles there will be great competi tion and high prices realised. The marbles include the celebrated mosaic Roman table, wits exotic birds in the centre, Paid to be the most splendid of its kind in the empire. THE CROPS I v THE MIDLAND 410 UNTIES. We are now arrived at a crisis in the growth of the cereal crops of the country when some estimate can be formed of the prospects of the approaching harvest, and for many years it has not been the lot of the reporter to have so favourable a report to present as at this moment. The extremely hot weather towards the close of last month, when the wheat was in blossom generally throughout Wor cestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, led to some apprehensions of a failure in the kerning, but happily at the critical moment when it was wanting we bad some most acceptable thunder showers, which did no harm to the crops, but had a wonderfully fructifying effect, and have added some bushels per acre to the produce. The wheat is now full, and in forward situations is beginning to 'harden. The present sunny hot weather just suits it, and unless a very (peat change takes place we shall have a very early and no doubt a very bountiful harvest, for, independent of the average produce being larger than usual, there is an increased breadth of wheat planted, especially in Herefordshire. The barley also was much benefited—zindeed, saved by the rain, and is now in ear and looking promising. Oats are but little grown in this district. Beans were just come into pod when the rain opportunely arrived. They are a most excellent crop, being moderately long iu the straw, wiihout any appearance of the black bight, which sometimes shortens the crop by destroying the late blossoms. Peas are promising. The hay making is now drawing to a close. The week's interruption from rain has not been injurious, only discolouring some of the grass just cut. The crop is very good in this district—above 11 ton to the acre, and, with very littl e exce p t i on , w ill b e go t up in first-rate condition. The turnips have becn much infested with the fly, so that they have had to be sown two or three times. The turnip crop will be short. We have heard reports of the reap pearance of the potato di-ease, but have seen none. The early crop is abundant in quantity and of go 3d quality. The apples are partial. In some parts of Herefordshire, where the bloom promised a large crop, they have almost failed. The hop plantations are looking beautiful ; the bine has thrown out a promising midsummer shoot, and is free from blight. The Worcestershire plantations in this re spect have a great advantage over the Kent and Sussex this year. MURDER IN FRANCE. The Court of Assiz es o f th e L o i re t on S a t ur d a y tried a man named Lachau, of Olivet, for the mur der of h;sfathPr. In April last, the prisoner's mo ther di , d, and the mau accused his father of having appropriated a certain portion of her property to which he conceive I himself t, be entitled, and as the old man refused to give it up, he complained of him t o the Precut eur Imperial of Orleans ; but on investigation it appeared that there was no . ground fur the complaint and it was dismis , ed. This exaspe rated the man, and he conceivel a deadly animosity against his father. lie frequently said, " Since the Procureur Imperial will not do me justice, I must do it myself I must kill my father, and I will then kill myself !" On the 13th May, he said to some persons that that was the last day he had to live, for that he meant to murder his father and then com mit suicide. The persons in question advised himnot to think of anything of, the kind, but he said, in a rage, " He will not give me what belongs to me, and this very morning be sold some planks which are my property ! I must kill him, and will do so this very day !" Some hours after old La chau, who was a mason by trade, returned home in his cart, and as he, with the assistance of his daughter, was unharnessing the horse, the pri soner came up and began abusing him for having. sold, the planks. The old man retorted angrily, and either struck his son or seized him by the collar ; on which the prisoner, dragging him into a shed where there was a carpenter's axe, seized the axe and raising it above his head as if to strike called on him to give up the property he claimed. The old man refused, and the prisoner then struck at h'm with all his might ; but the daughter seized his arm and he missed his blow. The old man took to flight, and the prisoner purr suing, struck him three time with his axe ; one blow sliced off part of the face, and the other two were so grave that in three hours the old man died, without speaking a word. The son went up to his room, which was in his father's house, and quietly proceeded to place his papers and accounts in order ; he was so engaged when the officers of justice arrested him. Tire jury declared him guilty, and the court sentenced bim to death—the execu tion to take place in the form fixed by law fur par ricides ; namely, to walk barefooted to the scaffold with a shirt over his clothes and his head covered with a black crape. MAR,KET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended July 16, 1857, made up from the Re turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. WITSIAT 1 BARLEY I OATS RYE BEANS I PEAS 63.1 10(1 375 Sd 27s 2d I 40s 6d 145 s 4d 43s lid THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. waxier ataLay 1 OATS 1 RYE 1 BEANS 1 MAN 61s 3d 38 5 Ild 26511(1 40s 6d 44s lld 43s Od ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 75,992; barley, 1,280; oats, 3,413; rye, 15; beaus 2,190 ; peas, 352 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NJWGATI AND L EADIENHALL. 1: o 1 to 4s 4d ; Pork,he trade ruled d u ll as follows :—Beef, from 21, 8d e te ; Mutton, 3 s Od 4s 6d ; Lamb, 4s fid to .5s 6d; Val 4, 3,6 d 6d to 4s 6d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, July 15.—The show of stock here to-c lay was sea sonably large, and the trade generally ruled bea a tv drooping prices. B eef, from 3 s 0,1 to 4 s 4(1; M utt ,;;,' ' 4d to 49 8 4 ; Lamb , 59 O d to 6s Od ; Veal , 4 4 Od to 48 , 8,1 3 ; Pork, 3s 6d to 4 e 6 d per 81bs, to sink the o ff a l . ROMFORD, July 15.—To -day's market was well suppli o a and the trade ruled dull, as follows :—Beef. from 3s Od to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4 s 8 d ; Lamb, 5 s Od to 6s Od ; Veal, 4s Od to 4s 8,1 P • Pcrk, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs; Btu:skiing calves, 21s to 28e each. HAY MARKETS. S mrrwrizLD.-01drneadow hay, 310 s to 41108 Od; new do., 31 10% t o 415 5; o ld clover, 31108 to Si ss; new do., 3/.103 to 4/. 106; and straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 16 8 per load . Trade ste a d y . CUMBEIILAND.—OId meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 41 10s ; new do., 31 8s to 41 4s; old clover, 3110 s to 51 ss; new do., 31 10s to 41 10 s; and straw, 11 12s to 11 188 per load. A good demand. WHITKOHAPIIL.—OM meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 41 103 Od new do., 3188 to 414 e; old clover, 31 10s to 51 5s ; new do., 3110 s to 4110 s; and straw, 1.1 104 to 11 16 3 p er l oa d. Trade firm. _LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY l6, 1857 THE EMPEROE AND THE EXILES. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. (Front the Morning Advertiser.) We understand that the soundings obtained by Stung by his defeat in the late elections, it would appear that Louis Napoleon writhes once her Majesty's steamer Cyclops, which has been en more under the galling cone' gaged in checking for the Atlantic Telegraph Corn sight of the shores he oppresses, ,hers lies the free ction that, within ! puny the soundings taken by the United States soil of England, rejoicing in politic:l steamer Arctic, are very satisfactory, bottom hay -1 institutions,.. ing been found all the way across the Atlantic, and against which domestic faction and is.-breign levy _and t for the greater part of the distance composed of fine are alike vain and empty ; blest with a haildY cultivated raae, who, preserving from the estates -were found with the sand. The greatest times the g e rms of liberty, have so trained' ant sand and small mixedshells ; near this coast small pebbles sounded was about 21 miles. Caetam Days strengthened them, that they have foiled even the hurricane of Revolution, and struck root deeper depth and deeper into the constitution. Bet w e en that men 'has some intention of looking into Trinity British race and this despot's subjects, the last few Bay, but we understand that he is expected in years have seen a new spirit grow up ; both nations Queenstown by a certain date and is fearful of losing pouring oil into the wounds of manycenturies, and too much time by making the trip thither. sealing their late-born friendship by mingling their We have already given an account of the menu blood in the cause cif a threatened nationality. facture and the shipping on board the elgameran m The military feats of the Crimea formed, indeed, at Greenwich, of a portion of the submarine cable for a time, a ray of glory circling the Imperial dia- which is to unite thiscountry with America in tele dem. But the hour of triumph had hardly passed graphic communication, The other half of the s way, when the thorns with which that Crown was cable, 1,250 miles in length, which Messrs. Newell interwoven began to pierce. Frenchmen and Bri- and Co. contracted to supply, has already been tons bad cemented their friendship with their blood. completed, and is in course of delivery on board Their names had been writ together on many a glo- the Niagara, at Birkenhead. The Niagara is a rious trophy. They had challenged depotismiu the screw steam*. of 5,200 tons, pierced for twelve 11- person of i s most renowned champion, and had, to• inch guns, belonging to the United States navy, gether, compelled him to bite the dust. The din of and is under the command of Captain Hudson, an battle ceased, and ifs clouds passed away, bait before officer of considerable experience, having been at the treaty was signed which dispelled them, the tached to the service so far hack as 1812, and hay cloven foot of despotism peeped from under the Im- i.'g taken part in the Pacific Exploring Expedition. perial throne of France—Napoleon leaned to Alex- The Niagara is 345 feet in length, by 56 feet beam, ander. It was but natural that birds which plumed with engines of 1,000 horse power, and is the them-elves on the similarity of their feathers should largest vessel afloat in the world. Her screw is perch on the same bough. But the tough old a Griffith's propeller. She is anchored in the Mer- British lion lay growling at the root of the tree, and Bey, to take on board the cable, her great breadth when he began to roar in earnest, and threatened having prevented her from being docked at Birken to tear up their treaty, root and branch, the eagles head. The inner gates of the dock at Birkenhead of the Houses both of Romanoff and Napoleon were would have been quite large enough ; but, unfor silenced. But the great French nation saw what tunately, the outer gates, which are 20 feet less was going on, and began to lose faith in its idol. than the inner, are only 50 feet wide. The Niagara In the hour of his triumph the image fell from its bas now been receiving the cable for upwards of a pedestal, and its worshippers found that its proud fortnight, and it is being coiled on board at the rate feet were made only of clay. of 60 miles per day. Up to Tuesday evening about The Providence which dements what it designs 800 miles had been shipped, so that the whole of it to destroy, much about this time induced that sin- will have been stowed on board in the course of a gular accident, the Emperor of the French to few days from the present date. In order to make assault the liberties of the Belgian Press ; and the room for the immense coils in which the cable is just, manly stand against dictation made "by that deposited in the vessel, the forehold of the Niagara little kingdom was exchanged for a compromise has been cleared of the chain lockers, coal bunkers, somewhat i gn oble, but not, perhaps, unwise iu and tanks, and fitted with a level floor over the so small a power, seeing that the Plenipotentiary kelson, the beams having each been trussed with of the great British nation had endorsed the des- double stays, to compensate for the removal of pot's protest. It was not, however, expected that the stanchions. Part of the cable is also being the next act of aggression would be perpetrated on stowed in a space which has been cleared out on British soil, and that a demand would be made the main deck, abaft the engine -room, by displacing upon us to oust a French refugee from the bospi- some of the officers' lesrths and encroaching on the tality of the British hearth. Still less was it ima- ward-room. Three smaller vessels, of 500 tons each, gined that from the lips of the Emperor himself a the Wallace, the Ellen, and the Perthshire, convey rebuke would go forth, and addressed—of all the coils flora the works of Messrs. Newell and Co., things in the world—to the British Press 1 But such at Birkenhead, to the frigeta in the Sloyne, and was the fact. If it had been in British nature two of these craft were lying alongside the Niagara, to submit, we should have been sold to the Emperor one on either side, on Tuesday, and seen at a little of Russia ; we should have been compelled to drive distance, from the river, served to bring out the away from our shores Victor Hugo and his brethren vastness of her dimensions most completely. The in exile • and—worst of all—to surrender the cable, of the manufacture of which a very minute glory and safety of our nation—the freedom of description was given in the article above referred the Press. But Louis Napoleon reckoned without to, has a thick coaling of pitch and tar upon it, and his host. Our hospitality and freedom were sac - thei decks on which the cable rests, have been sifices too precious to make for the alliance of covered with sheet lead to prevent the tar, which the Bonaparte. Of the alliance of his subjects we accumulates at the bottom of the coil, from soak were sure. That compact was complete. ing through and saturating the timbers. The weight But not baffled by these signal defeats, Louis of the portion on board the Niagara will be about Napoleon now tries his hand again. Associating 1,200 tons. The process of coding is one which with him, as we have good reason to believe—the seems to possess great interest in the neighbour other despotic governments of Europe, he has pro- hood, and steamers from Liverpool are constantly claimed his august will with reference to this conveying visitors to the Niagara, whom Captain country in the semi-official journal, the Pays. It Hudson courteously allows to inspect the work. would be a pity to dilute this insolence by altering Among the visitors on Tuesday were Sir William the form in which it is expressed, and therefore Cubitt, and Mr. Wm. Fairbairn, of Manchester. we give it as the Imperial amanuensis wrote it The coiling on board is under the superinten down : dente of Mr. Woodhouse, C. E., who took part in " Since the re-establisbment of the empire, the French laying down the Varna and Belaklava teleeraph, revolutionists only show signs of existence as a corps de and this gentleman will accompany Mr..C. Bright reserve. Every attempt that has been made in France (who is the engineer-in -chief to the company, and has been made by Italians, and the men who will appear was one of the original projectors of the submarine at the bar of the Assize Court of the Seine, next month, line across the Atlantic) in the Niagara, to assist in are also Italians. Such a state rf things calls for a laying down the half of the cable stretching from vigorous repression. It is from London that all the middle of the Atlantic to the American shore. these attempts emanate, and it is in London that the evil must be attacked at its source. That the Eng- These two gentlemen will have to take alternate lish people should think it an honour that their country watch in the Niagara of the paying out of the cable during the progress of the work ; and Mr. Canning, should be the asylum for al who are unfortunate is no doubt a generous sentiment, and one which we can- who laid the line across the Gulf of the St. Lawrence not but make allowance for. But if it be proved that last yetr, with Mr. Webb, who has been engaged for London has become the principal theatre of conspiracies some years in l=ying down and raising the cables directed against all continental Governments, that con- between Orforduess and the Hague, will take the dottieres are enlisted there for a democratic and social same charge on board the Agamemnon. The war, that arm. and ammunition are manufactured there machinery for paying out the cable has been made for the purposes of assassination and civil war, the Eag- with great promptitude,by Messrs.C. 3 D liab people, with that practical good sense of which they Bergue and Co. ' of Manchester. The operations at justly boast, will admit that such an abuse of hospitality Greenwich, as we have before stated in the Sun, deprives the conspirators of every right to the proton ion have been assisted by two of the ablest electricians of laws meant for the security of the exle, and that energetic measures are called for to give satisfaction to of the day, Dr. Whi:ehouse and Professor Morse. th th e interests of nations allied with England, and to e The two vessel. Nia public conscience which has been so lung outraged by tiara, sail about the' the Agamemnon and the 25th inst., and are to be joined revolutionary excesse.." by H. M. frigate Leopard and the United States Here we have a laSesured exordium and an ayi- frigate Susquehana. These are paddlewheel steam parently reasonable peroration. But the plainEu,g- ere of considerable power, and are intended to pilot lish of it all is that Louis Napoleon, backed by the and assist the other ves-els when necessary. The Continental Governments, is anxious to try his four st,arners are to rendezvous in Cork harbour, hand on English hospitality, and to compel the Bri- and will probably sail together from thence about tish Government to succumb to the views of a coali- , the Ist Aug. Their final destination will be lat. tion of despots. It is all very fine to wrap up preg nan t matter in the complicated folds of many words. But what the Paysmeans is that despotism will suffe r the English game of hospitality no longer, if it can help it. Surely the Bonaparte must have been de mented indeed, if be imagine that such a threat, so shallow and so insolent, would be tolerated by the British pe 'pie. We have at present at the head of affairs the last man in the world to be influenced by so contemptible a threat ; a Statesman far more likely to resent thtn to acquiesce in its demands. But were the most craven Minister that ever dis 52 deg. 4 m. N., and long, 32 deg. 32 min., or the c , .ntral point of the arc of the great circle between Valentia Harbour and Trinity Bay. Having waited here for favourable weather, should the ele ments not be propToui to the design on their ar rival, a "splice" will be effected between the half of the telPgraph cable on board the Agamemnon and the half on bard the Niagiri, and they will part company—the Niagara and Suzquehana s dl jog w , stward,. for Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, di-tint 900 to 1,000 milei ; and the Againemnou and Leopard returning eastward, paying out their . _ graced British councils at the Lead of affairP, he dared not ! listen to such language. Behind the British Government stands the British nation, and no mock Emperor, no la.dstered royalty, ng aggra ga'e of despots, can shake its power, or move it from its traditions of freedom and hospitality. portion Of the cable until they inalieVaTentia Har bour, on the coast of Ireland. The arc of the circle thus indicated is 1,834 miles in length, so that could each vessel steer an exact course to desti na•ion, not subject to the errors of the magnetic needle or the disturbing influence of oceanic cur rents, each would have to pay out 917 miles of cable, but as that is impossible, each vessel has bet-n supplied with a surplus length of about 300 miles, to meet all emergencies. Supposing' that each vessel should be able to pay out the cable at the rate of about five knots per hour, or 120 per day, it will thus be seen that the operation of drop ping the great international link between this country and the United States, will have I:ean completed in eight days from the time the "splice" is effected in mid-ocean and the vessels part com- RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. GRAND TRUNK CANADA. The Loudon directors of this company state in their rep , rt hat the sections of the railway that were unfinished at the date of the last report,— namely, from Guelph to Stratford, 25 mile=, and from Brockville to Toronto, 210 miles, were c,m plated for traffic in October last year, thus making the total mileage of the company 849 miles. • The directors learn by their last advices from Canada that a traffic agreement of a very sitisfac tory character is nearly completed be wren the Montreal Ocean Steam Company and the Grand Trunk Company. A monthly line of screw steamers from Liverpool to Portland, calling at St. John's, Newfound , and, and Halifax, was established at the comme .cement of this year, and the directors are informed that it is about to be converted into a fortnightly line. Other steamship proprietors have been in communication with the company on the subject of running vessels in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway. At the commencement of the present year a thrirough traffic and emigration department was crginiz-d iu the London office. Many of the persons who have already travelled w.th through tickets, purchased previously to their leav ing Great Britain, have communicated to their fri , -nds at home the excellence of the arrangements fur their prOtection, and the comfort and speed with which they have been conveyed to their destina tions. The receipts on capital account to the. 31st of December, 1856, amounted to 7,727,4301., and the expenditure to 7,551,5891., leaving a balance of 175,8401. The revenue for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1856, showed that 170,836/, had been received, and 143,8531. expended, leaving a balance of 26,9831. pang. The outer coating of the greater part of the cable consists of a coil of 18 strands of seven-thread iron wire, as a protection to the gotta percha core, con taining the telegraphic wires, .from friction-or injury un'il it has been safely deposited on the bed of the Atlantic. But thoce portions of the cable which will have to be joined when the ves se l s par t com pany may possibly be subjected to an e x t ra st ra i n as the first unbroken link of it sinks between the sterns of the two vessels to find its ultimata resting place, and to meet this possible contingency 10 miles length of this central portion of the cable has been protected with a sheath of 18 steel, instead of iron, wires, and is supposed to be capable of sus taining a stream of 19 tons. The machinery made by Messrs. De Bergue and Ca. includes paying-out sheaves or drums of five feet in diameter, having grooves corresponding to the thickness of the cable, with a friction drum attached to them revolving three times as fast as they do, and with breakage power to check or retard the motion of the sheaves at pleasure. From the hold of each ship the cattle, passing over (cur of these sheaves to a few feat above the poop deck, will be dropped into the sea over a fiith sheave, placed aboie the stern. The exact amount of strain will be constantly indicated by an instrument for the purpose under the eye of the breahsman. At the sides of the vessel will hang down into the water new electrical logs, principally due to the ingenuity of Mr. C. Bright, the Atlantic Company's chief engineer. These immersed logs have vanes and wheels revolving at a rate propor tioned to the passage of the ship through the water, and making an electric circuit which is broken at each revolution. An electric wire, from the log to the deck, records there every revolution of the log, and consequently the exact speed of the ship. It must not be supposed when the ships part company that communication will be lost between those on board the vessels. The electriciatis have hold of either extremity of the coils of the cable, and will interchange signals constintly, so that each vessel will be master of the other's fate, and of every incident that may help or retard the progress of submersion, unless some unfortunate emergency should snap the link. When the topmasts of the ships have sunk beneath the horizon, and they are lost to view by the look-out-men, the inter-oceanic current of electricity will give instant record of all that passes, until the lengthening line of cable has been spun out from shore to shore. A bell on board each vessel will sound every second as each portion of the cable is payed out, and its silence will probably be the first indicatioa of any mishap arising from friction or overtension of the cable, and the vessels will have apparatus on board, so that in any such emergencies they can be backed, the cable recoiled until the faulty place is found, when a piece will be cut out and the perfect por tions reunited with as little delay as possible. In case of a storm, apparatus has been provided to al low for any extraordinary strain that may occur, and, if necessary, for cutting the cable without let ting the outer end of it slip to the bottom of the ocean, whence it might never be recovered. It' such an emergency there are large reels of auxiliary cable of great strength, which could be attached to the end ; and these auxiliary cables can be sus pended from huge float-shaped buoys on the surface of the water, capable of resisting a very consider able strain till all danger has passed. The month of August has been chosen fer the submersion of the cable as likely to afford the best conditions for the enterprise in regard to weather. The three great obstacles mai st to be fearel in such a work were fogs, floating ice, and storms. There is the greatest freedom from fogs in winter, from storms in June, and from ice in August, and, upon consulting Lieutenant Maury, from the 20th of July t..) the 12th of August has been fixed upon as the most favourable period for the undertaking. It may therefore be cmfidently anticipated that the result of this great enterprise, to which every one must heartily w;sh complete success, will be known to the world by about the 16th of next month, or possibly at an earlier date. The spirit which Lancashire entered into the project which is being so rapidly put into exe cution, is indicated in the fact that 15,0001. of the capital has been subscribed in that county. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-July 15. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. o,,mtnissioner Gaillimn].) IN THE MATTER OF THE LONDON, HARWICH, AND CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY (LIMITED). The prospects of this company stated that the capital was 100,0001., in 10,000 sharis of 101. each, with power to increase. 21. per share payable on allotment. Provisionally registered, with liability limited. The trustees were —Mr. D. Waddington, M.P., 4, Spring gardens ; Mr. J. 13.1.gsl uw , director of the Eastern Counties Railway ; and Colonel W. P. Waugh, director of the L'uldon and Eastern Banking Corporation (now bankrupt). The directors were—Colonel W. P. Waugh, Brank sea Castle, Dorset ; Mr. R. L. Leckie (late of Bombay), George-street, Portman-square ; Mr. W. Shaw, 1, Kensington -park terrace • Mr. G. °ra n t, (late chairman of th e Oriental. Bank, Born bay), 4, Great Russell-street ; Mr. F. C. Zillesen, director of the Dutch-Rhenish Rail way Company, Amsterdam ; Sir H. Durrant, Bart., Scottow Hall, Norfolk • Mr. H. Ward, H. E. I. C. S., K. I. , Alb ny ; Mr. J. E. Pan - ter, director of the St. George's Insurance Com pany, Pall-Mall and Fulham ' • Mr. A. Wall s , Ll , )yd's, and 11, Leadenhall-street ; and Captain Raymond, Albion-square, Dalston, managing di rector of the steam-vessels. The prospectus set forth that "the company was established with a view to afford the public increased facilities in the conveyance of mails, passengers, s p ec i e , an d mer chandise, batween England, via Harwich, and the ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, &c. A traffic arrangement for a term of years has been entered into with the Eastern Counties Railway Company on advantageous terms, and the directors have secured the co-operation of the authorities of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company, and• the other inland navigatiou and railway establishments in Holland and Germany—all of whom are so con vinced of the advantages to be derived from this line of communication, as the most desirable for passenger traffic, and the speedy c onve y an ce o f merchandise and perishable goods, that they are anxious to promote the views of the company to the fullest possible extent." This . was a petition. The following is the form of order drawn up : "In the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, Lon don, July 15, 1857. In the matter of the London, Harwich, and Continental Steam Packet Company, limited. In the matter of the Joint Stock Company's Act, 1856. (Before Mr. Commisioner Gonlburn.) " Whereas a petition was, on the 6th day o f J u ly, instant, presented i n this Court by Thomas Barton, Upper I Vellington-street, No. 2, advertiser, as creditor of the said company (for 8001), in pursuance of the pro visions of the said act, praying that an order might be made for the winding-up of the affairs of the said com pany, under the said act, and that, for that purpose, all necessary and proper directions might be given, or that such other order might be made in the premises as the nature of the case might require. No w, upon hear ing the said petition and the true affidavits of the said Thomas Barton, &0., sworn, respectively, on the 6th July instant, and the other depositions filed in this matter, and upon hearing what was alleged by Mr. Hackwood, of Messrs. Linklater and Hackwood, as so licitors for the petition, and Mr. Gustard, the solicitor for the said company, I do now order that the said ccm• pany be wound up by this court under the said act." Messrs. Linklater and Hackwood are the solicitors to the petition; Mr. Pennell is-the official liquidator. wilful murder of the female child of her daughter the house fivo or six times before, but saw no un. Emma Marson, at Olney, on the 13th of Decemb e r l aw f u l games played. lass. • Castoff, another defendant, was taken Verdict of not guilty was returned. by Burd,e to Goodman's lest n'ght for the first tine, and belreve i that by going he would be able to get some intirm 4ioit at:out a race at the house. Saw no gaming at the house while he was there. • Mr. L wis, for the defence, contended that noth ing had been put in evidence to show that this was, as alleged, a common gaming house, or that the parties found in the house were there for gaming purp , s-s. The reason why so many persons were in th- house was because some notoriety attached to Goodman. Mr. Bing.iam said as this procedure was under a new act, he would give his judgment next Wed nesday, NORTHERN CIRCUIT. YORK, JULY 14. CROWN COURT. --(Bef, qe Mr. Baron Channel].) Richard Stead wa indicted for forging and utter ing a certificate of his character wish intent to de ceive Bei nard Granville Layard, and ob oda thereby an appointment in the E tsc Riding constabulary at Beverley, on the 18th of April lase. The jury found the prisoner guiity. Seri' ence deferred. Isaac Rushforth, aged 42, and who is marked in the calendar as reading imperfectly, was indicted for feloniously administering a quinti'y of seeds of s paradise to Kitty Littlewood, with intent to pro cure abortion, at East Ardsley, on the 2d of Febru ary last. Mr. Shaw prosecuted, and Mr. Middleton de fended the prisoner. From the opening statement of the learned coun sel and front the evidencs of the prosecut rix, a sallow, ill-favoured I ookingyoung woman, of 26 years of age, it appeared that at the latter end of last year she resided with her father at Sheffield, and the priso ner lived in the Dewsbury-road, Leeds. The pri soner, it appeared, had got a reputation as a wizard, and the prosecutrix having been unwell for a con siderable time, and the doctors she employed doing her no good, acting on the advice of a neighbour, she went with her father to Leeds to consult the prisoner. The prisoner, as the prosecutrix described it, " ruled her planet and gave her some pills." Not improving under his treatm en t, s h e sent f or him to Sheffied, and the prisoner then told her she would never prosper unless she went to live at West Ardsley—a place near Leeds, and easily ac cessible. She and her father accordingly went to live at West Ardsley, and there the prisoner fre quently saw her. At first he gave her some medi cine, which he said was for palpitation of the heart. He then told_ her she woull never he well unless she suffers; 1 him to have connexion with her. This she refuaed several times. She afterwards removed to Eaat Ardsley, and the prisoner continued to at tend her, and at length she permitted him to have an improper intercourse with her, on his represen tation that she would never get well unless he did. On one occasion he gave her something which stu pefied her, and it was on that occasion that the in tercourse commenced, and it was of erwards con tinued for some time. At length sheb,-carne in the familyway, and the prisoner then brought her a quantity of seeds of paradise, and told her to make tea of it. and drink it. She did so, and had a mis carriage on the 26th of March. On another occa sion after that the prisoner brought her a bullock's heart and some shoemaker's awls. He burnt the heart and said the awls were to keep her enemies off. She was to, place them under her pillow and wear them in her pocket. He also sent her two pieces of parchment as charms, and said one would get her a young man and the other was to prevent her being bewitched. She gave him 5/. for these. On cross-examination it appeared she had a child 6 years ago, and that the prisoner hadgivenupiiaitiog her b 4ore she preferred this charge. The inspector of police who took the prisoner into custody, found a great number of fortune-telling books at his house, and books relating to "ruling the planets." On being taking into custody he said he had ruled the prosecutrix's planet and found she was be witched ; he ruled it a second time, and thought she was not. He found her illness arose from want of 'a man, and told her so, and riser, had intercourse with her, which she permitted. It was proved that the administration of au infusion of seeds of para dise was likely to be very injurious to a pregnant woman, and to procure abortion. The learned counsel for the prisoner objected that there was no proof of the administration of the thug by the prsoner. His Lordship overruled this objection, and, The learned counsel having addressed the jury for the defence, His Lordship summed up, and The jury found the prisoner Guilty. His Lordship said it was quite lamentable to think that such an amount of ignorance should pre vail. The prisoner had availed himself of the igno rance of the prosecutrix to seduce her, and after wards, to save her from a certain amount of expo sure, but also to save himself, he had caused her to take a noxious drug calculated to procure abortion. Such practices must be severely punished. The sentence of the Court was that he be imprisoned 18 calendar months, with hard labour. FRENCH ACADAMY OF SCIENCES. At the last sitting M. Mahistre communicated a contlivauce of his fur gradually shutting out the steam in any kind of steaneengines.—M. Bonnet sent in a paperou the chemical composition of bones, in which he adverted to various sources of error in previous analyses. Thus he thinks it impossible to determine the quantity of water contained in a bone; since, before it can be analysed, it must be exposed to a strong current of watertu cleanse it fromgrease and other extraneous matter ; so that, in fact, * quantity of water previously introduced is taken into account. Then, during the incineration of a bone a quantity of carbonic acid is evolved, which ig tle2refoie lost. To avoid these errors, he first lets the bone macerate in alcohol and ether, and weighs it when dry ; then, after burning the or ganic matter, he dissolves the phosphate of lime in hydrochloric acid, precipitates the solution by chloride of iron, rids the precipate by ammonia of the iron it contains, and then, by, a simple cal culation' he obtains the results. In a communica tion on the solubility o f fossil phosphates of lime in the acids of the soil, M. Deherain establishes that the nodules of phosphate of lime are n t easily soluble in carbonic acid ; but little so in acetic acid at 5 deg., unless previously exposed to the air for some time ; but that they are more soluble in acetic and carbonic acid* combined, after expo sure to the air. Hence he concludes that fossil phosphates of lime are inapplicab'e for manure in those kinds of.soil in which carbonio acid exists alone, unless they be previously treated with the stronger acids ; but that these phosphates ground to powder may be very useful in soils where acetic and carbonic acids exist together , as is the cwe in heaths recently cleared for culti vation. M. Templer sent in a note on the , neral waters of eondillac (Tarn), showing that, being impregnated with g ases , ai k al i s, i ron, and iodine, they are eminently/applicable both as me' dicinal waters in many ch ron i c affections, and during convalea_ience after certain acute disorders, and as waters for drinking at table, like Seltzer' water, &c.—The Minister of Foreign Affairs trans', mitted a communicition from the Minister. 01 Fut eign Affairs of Denmark, announcing that.tw'e of the blocks of wood thrown into the sea from the Imperial yacht, La Rein@ Hoitense, for the pur' pose of asce r t a i n i ng t he di rect i on and velocity 0 t ; the curl eut e , have beet, picked up on the coast Denmark ; one on the Ist of December last on the Kjetn, in the sub-prefecture of Skagafiord e andt the other in September (the exact date unknown) on the coact or filagr, in the parish of Bards's; strand. The former bad been thrown overboard on the 11th of July, 1856, the v'essel being in lat. 69 deg. 6 min. N., and long. 13 deg. 13 min. W' The paper contained in the latter block was spoilt" but enough could be decyphered to show that 0 was cast into the sea on the 28th of June, 185 6 1 in lit. 62 deg. 24 min. N., and long. 16 deg. 2 v• min. W. A letter was read from M. Lecq, an account of a shock of earthquake felt * 6 Clermont-Fernand ou the 16th ult., at 114 'pelt The directi on seeme d t o b e f rom north to south; 1 v lasted between three and font seconds, and N'f 3s accompanied by a rumbling noise in the. air' About 12 minutes afterwards a Second and lVeblet shock was felt, which lasted somewhat longer' Some time alt er a storm arose, with thunder- a nd rain. MIDLAND. A special meeting of this company was held -on Tu , sday, at Derby, to consider a bill now before Parliament authc.riiing the North-Western Rail way Company to abandon a portion of their railw.y, and sell or grant a lease of the undertaking to the Midland Company. A furmal resolution approving the bill, in com pliance with the standing orders of the Hour© of Lords, was carded. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN. A special meeting of this company was held on Monday, at Glasgow, to consider a bill now before Parliament for authorising a railway from Castle Douglas to Portpatrick. A resolution approving the bill was passed una nimously, and the meeting separated. CALEDONIAN. A special meeting of the company was held on Monday, at Glasgow, to consider two bills now bef( , re Parliament, and to make a railway from their line to Strathaven, and to maka a railway fioin Portpatrick to Castle Douglas. Formal resolutions approv,ng of the bill were carried unanimously. The Ceylon Railway Company have received a notifi cation from the Government that their terms hive been finally sanctioned ; and the guaranteed interest of 6 per cent. wilt accurdiegly accrue upon all the shares from the 6:11 inst. - The Scottish Australian Company have issued their report, preparatr,ry to a meeting on the 24th. After w r iting off 3,7281. fo beds-0 sets, the accounts show a profit of the half•ytar of 11,0741., out of which a dividend at the rate of 10 pPr cent. per annum is proposed, leaving 1,074/. to be carried to the reserved fund, whim 6 will thus be augmented to 5,9461, The contract for the sale of the Bon Accord property has been completed, and the results will appear in the next accounts. EXHIBITION& At this time, when so many exhibiti ons ar e o p en to attract public attention, and when the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manch es t er i s th e un i versa l theme of conversation, and is visited daily by many thousands, it may not be inappropriate to re fer to the subject of industrial art and to its progress since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Many of our manufacturers, in various a still greater propor tion of our operatives various industrial occupa tions, who had not until then enjoyed any opportu nity of seeing or knowing the progress that had been made in other countries in the same branches of manufacture in which they were themselves en gaged, and more especially those branches in which taste and design form an important element, were surprised to find that they had much to achieve in order to place themselves up on a l eve l w ith th e more artistic productions of our Continental neigh bours. Strenuous efforts have been used both by employers and employed, and the result has been a greater advance and improvement in the few ears that have elapsed since the Great Exibition than had been made for a quarter of a century pre viously, competition having proved more effectual to that end than all our Schools of Design. This was fully demonstrated at the Exposition Univer selle at Paris in 1855, where 'he highest awards were obtained by English exhibitors in three dif ferent branches of manufactures in which it had always been considered that French manufacturers enjoyed an incontestible superiority. In furniture, for example, Messrs. Jackson and Graham gained the highest awards for " improvements in Eng lish furniture," and Messrs, Minton and Co., and Messrs. Elkington and Co., in their respective manufactures, likewise gained the highest honours. It is on the great establishment of the first-named firm that we are about to make some observations, having recently sp en t some ti me i n con t em pl a ti ng the various object s in their extensive galleries and show-rooms, which form really a most interesting exhibition of art industry, in which the beautiful is combined with the useful in a manner truly grati fying to notice, and most tempting te the man oftaste. Here we find an extensive gallery of art bronzes and objects of the most recherche kind, co m prising reduc tions from all the celebrated chefs d'ceuvres of antique and modern sculpture. These reductions, by the celebrated house of Barbedienne and Co., of Paris (of whose productions Messrs. Jackson and Graham are the sole depot), by the process invented by Collas, who received the Grande Medaille d'Hon neur, and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour at the close of the Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1855, are mathematilly exact in their pro portions, and vary from 1-10th to 2-s.hs, or nearly half the size of the originals, together with t‘ e finest collecti on o f ornamen t a l clocks, candel a b ras , and lames, we h ave ever w it nesse d. W e canno t refrain from s p ec i a lly mentioning some of the sue pension lamps and chandeliers, of bronze, gilt, and silver gilt, the designs of which struck us as being perfectly novel, and extremely chaste and elegant. In another show-room, which is devoted to paper hangings and interior decorations, we noticed some highly artistic specimens, especially one in the style of Louis XVI., in which the walls and ceiling are highly enriched by ornament in relief aided by colour and gilding ; and, in order to give a com plete idea of the style, a chimney-piece and chande lier have been made en suite. In another depart ment we were shown an endless variety of magni ficent silk for hangings ; chintzes—the very perfec tion of printing—with many other new fabrics that we have not space to comment upon. In every in stance we saw aide by side the best productions of France and Germany, with those of our own manu facturers, and although the products of Lyons and Tours still maintain their superiority, there is, nevertheless, a great improvement to be observed in the manufacture of British furniture silks, both in respect to design and execution. Messrs. Jack son and Graham have long bean celebrated for the superiority of their carp3ts, and iu this department we have had the opportunity of seeing all the hn pr,vemeuts that have been recently effected by the application of steam-power to weaving velvet pile, Brussels and tapestry carpeting, by which the quality has been improved, and the cost of produc tion of the hest fabrics greatly economised. This es tablishmenthas become the side depot in England for the celebrated tapestries and splendid carpets of Messrs. Sallatiddrouxe de Lamornaix and Co., of Aubusson. Some remarkably beautiful suites of ta pestry for clears and sofas were shown to us, whic's we th i nk cou ld scarcely be surpassed in beauty of design or delicacy of execution, by the Imperial manufactories of the G obehus or B eauva i s. P ass i ng, by a covered iron bridge, over a carriage way at the rear of the. Oxford-street premis es , we enter the e xtensive range of build rigs in which the general furniture, show-rooms, and different work-shops are of brass,. iron, situated. The show-rooms alone cover asp tce of 9,000 superficial feet, and are filled with articles of 'arts in 1855, undoubtedly also, is the grand c tbinet which was cabinet furniture of the b . e-t class, sofas, easy chair, mahogany, douted and y th othere best On looking . at it with great atten•ion eawxnohdoidbbsie.tiesdtHeiateldr Parrs work of its kind that h ever been produced in any His Royal Highness Prince Albert remarked that it he hai . overseen, and his opinion was endorsed by the decision of the jury, who, in addition to the gold medal of honour, awardedmedals to the designer, modellers, and workmen employed a w g as '3 ° t ceietsrtYt. lung upon it. From the show-rooms . we passed through the various vrorkshope, in which the different &lair making awl Nner's work, are manu facturing operations of . modelling, carving, gilding, e c a a e b r i i n e e d t :. d All the best means and appliances for g, perforating, sawing, morticing, ensuring sound workm . anslnp have been brought into use, and several ingenious machines woi kedbysteam andpow power, for 10 economise production to its utmost practicable. extent. Reflecting upon the or furnish their houses, we completeness of this ii nportant . estAblishment in al! its departments, and the facilities it affords to those decoratetobe struck . with the great conveni enceadvantage of being able to find every re and thus to harenonise the re could cli a ri n n n o d g t t f o il with carpets . and curtains—fur with another througheut—Jeco rai ions and pspere, nitnre with ornascituyilseitoefuonndeetrhoinnge roof,. ments and . objets d'art, in a manner Indeed, we cannot spe ik too and upon a scale not hither attempted in this or skill, and judgment that highlya yot hoefr the country n ntr y . enterprise, has reared and conducts the establishment, of the taste that presides in every department, or the ex ecutive ability of the staff and workmen in the 'ern- Newspaper. ploymenr of Messrs. Jackson and Graham. —Lady's THE WILL OF' GENERAL GLRAEDIN. It may be remembered that the Marquis Ernest de Girardin some time ago took law proceedings to have the will set aside of the late General de Girardin, by which he bequeathed the bulk of the family property, not to him, the legitimate heir, but to Madame de Girardin, widow of the general, and to other persons; and the ground en which be based these proceedings was that the general was of weak intellect. The court authorised proofs of the alleged weakness of mind to be given, and on Monday M. Senard, advocate of the Marquis de Girardin, communicated at length to the court the proofs on which his client intended to rely. They were that the general bad accused the Marquis Ernest of having voted the death of Louis XVI. though be was not born at the time ; that he had once passed the wools evening at the Cirque, conversing with M. Emile de Girardin, a near connexion of his, and yet had 12 , 4 known him, and bad repeatedly asked him his name ; that be bad faneied he (tbe general) was charged with the whole administration of the State, and cou'd effect a saving of 500;0011,000fr. in the budget; that he bad gravely said he could conquer all Germany with 30,000 or 40,000 men, and take Sebastopol in a week : that he had talked indecently and wildly on all occa sions; that he was accustomed to stop people he did not know, an'l cry out to them " Charge ! halt ! gallap 1" that he had seriously believed a young man who had told him that he was 120 years of age, &c., &c. The court adjourned the further hearing of the affair for a week. 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Charles Finch, 26, a sullen, determined-looking young man, was charged with the wilful murder of Harriet Freeman, by cutting her throat, at the parish of Ravenhall, on the 24th May. It appeared from the statement of the learned counsel for the prosecution, and the evidence ad duced to support it, that the prisoner was a labour ing man belonging to Ravenhall, and that during the Russian war he entered the Land Transport Corps, and was employed in the Crimea, and re turned from thence about a year and a half ago. The deceased was a respectable young woman be longing to Kelvedon, but a few days before the 24th May, which was on Sunday, she had been in the service of a farmer named Upson, at Ravenhall. The prisoner and the deceased had been what is termed keeping cOmpany together both before and after the prisoner bad been to the Crimea ; but it would seem that shortly before the fatal occurrence he entertained the impression —f)1. which, however, there did not appear to be the slightest foundation —that during his absence the deceased had received attentions from another man, and he was repeatedly heard to declare that he would do her some injury. They were walking together on the 19th of May, and the prisoner a day or two afterwards told one of the witnesses that he had a razor in his pocket at that time, and that he was jealous of her in con sequence of her having been intimate with some young man in London, and that he would do for her the first opportunity that offered itself. On the following afternoon the unfortunate young woman left her master's house, about three o'clock, for the purpose of going to church, and just as she arrived at a stile iu a field near the town the pri soner suddenly jumped over the stile, and without saying a word he inflicted a wound on her threat with a razor. He then wont away a short distance and returned and ga-Ve her another wound ou the throat, and subsequently a third, one of them severing the windpipe, and being of a very dan gerous character. The deceased contrived to make her way to her master's house, where Mr. Tompkins a surgeon of Wiham, promptly attended and dressed the wounds, and for some time there ap peared a prospect of her recovery. but on the 26th of June she became worse, and died on that day ; and upon a post mortem examination it was dis covered that the injuries the deceased had received had caused extensive inflammation of the windpipe, and that this was the cause of death. The prisoner was taken into custody sitting in a ditch near the spot where the dreadful deed had been committed, and his jacket and cap, covered with blood, were found near him ; and a razor, which was the in strument he had made use of, was picked up close by him. He appeared to make no secret of his having committed the crime, and was ortinally committed to take his trial for wounding w ith in tent to murder ; but upon the event of the death of the deceased . subsequently taking place, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful mur der against the prisoner, and he was now triel upon that inqui-ition. - The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence of death was passed in the usual form. NORFOLK.OIRCUIT.—AYLESBURY, JULYI4. (Crown Court.—Before Lord Campbell.) Charles Doprell, aged 27, and Edward Birch, aged 33, were indicted for a burglary at the resi dance of Mr. Mitchell, the lessee of the St. Jamea's Theatre, on the sth of May. Mr. Payne was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoners. Mr. Mitchell owns a house at Iver, but is sel dom in residents. However, on the 4.h of May be went to enjoy his °Gum, curn dignitate at Iver, and ret red to rest at the usual hour. In the dead of night his man-servant was disturbed byfootsteps below, and, stealoag to the top of the staircase in his nightshirt, heard two men walking about the hall and drawing-room. He at once called our, " Who's there ?" and received for answer, " Who's that, you - ? Lay down, or we'll blow your brains our." The valiant butler, nothing dauntel, rejoined, " Will you ? I'll soon be down upon you," and repaired to his bedroom, where hung a prodigious old sword. Drawing this weapon from its rusty sheath, the butler sallied down to the lower floor, where he made such good use of his voice and weapon that the burglars beat a sudden retreat through the window by which they had entered, but not before they had collected a few valuables from the drawing-room. Early next morning a constable fell in with the two prisoners, in whose posiession most of Mr. Mitchell's pro perty was found, besides which awkward fact the butler identified one of them by his voice. Mr. Metcalfe having waived his address to the jury, The Chief Justice commended the learned coun sel for his judgment and discretioe, as the case was too clear to admit of argument, and when that was the case it was the duty of counsel to abstain from attempt•ng impossibilities. . The jury having ac once found the prisoners gu lty, they were both sentenced to five years' penal servitude. - James Ranter, aged 32, was indicted for malici ciouily firing certain furze growing on Hud well-com mon, in the parish of Eddlesborough, the property of the Earl of Powis ' the sole act i ng trustee uuder the will of th e late Earl of Bridgewater. Mr. Mills conducted the case for the prosecution. The prisoner, who is an Irish tramp, called at the house of a farmer on the 17th of June last, and asked for relief, and being met by a refusal he was afterwards seen to go into the high furze growing close to the homestead, and deliberately to set file to it in two places, after which he made off. The labourers who had witnessed the transaction, pur fired and overiook him, and when one remarked that it was a mercy he bad not set fire to the stacks and all the place he replied with an oath, •` That's . just what I meant to do. I should like to burn the - to a cinder." The jury found the prisoner guil . y, and he was thereupon sentenced to three years penal servi tude. Caroline Mason, aged 44, was indicted for the POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 15. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTACK ON A GAMING -HOUSE. - Charles Levy Goodman, 28, Coventry-street ; Charles Stewart, 41, Gloucester street, Queen's square, jeweller ; William John stone, 17, Arandel-street, Haymarket, medical student ; William Page, Alma Cottage, Manley place ; Robert Coombs, 46, Princess-street ; John M'Donald, Oak-cottage, Kentish-town, iron moulder; Henry Palmer, 3, Raphael-street, car penter ; Alfred Budge, Rochester-row, baker ; William Castoff, Moreton-street, baker ; Thomas Thompson, 36, Old Compton-street, tailor ; Henry Langdon, 10, Ponton-square, gentleman ; Maurice Ahithol, '76, York-road ; Lit leton Thomas Powis, 14, Romley-terra2e, Greenwich, fruit-meter ; Wm. Goalin, 4, Great Windmill-street, groom ; and Joseph Goodman, 28, Cove ntry -st ie et, were charged with being found in a common gaming house, 28, Coventry-street. C. L. Goodman, was charged with being the keeper of the house. He is the same individual who prosecuted Captain Earlam for the abduction of his daughter. Stewart was charged as do.rkeeper. °Mr. Lewis attended for the defendants. Superintendent Hannan stated that about one o'clock that morning he went to 28, Coventry street, and found the shutters and door closed. Inspector Lester, who accompanied him, knocked at the door, and some person, whom he believed to be the younger Levy, looked through the window of the shop door. After a short delay, the door was for:ed open, and witness and the police made their entry. They found Goodman at a table in the inner room, with a backgammon board and dice boxes on the tabl-. The o'her defendants were on the ()remises, and all patties present were conveyed to the station. Witness returned and searched the house. The table in the inner room was about six feet long, and covered with three cloths now pro duced. Eight or nine dice were found in a drawer. On Coombs a considerable sum of money was found. Did not see any of the defendants doing anything except smoking cigars. Did not see any unlawful game being played. Inspector Lester corroborated the statement of the superintendent, and proved that over the door of the shop was the inscription—" Abraham Good man Levy, licensed dealer in tobacco." After making an entry, and finding the elder Goodman at the table, with a backgammon-board before him, Goodman started up, and asked what it all meant. He told him that the house was believed to be a common gaming-home. Goodman denied it, and said that was his place, and his house was licensed as a tobacco-shop. The table before which Good man was sitting had three covers, one nai'ed to the table. This arrangement was for the purpose of deadening the sound of dice. Found about eight dice in a drawer, and 82 playing cards. There was a cribbage board in the drawer. There were a number of tobacco boxes in the shop but no cigars in them. There was no tobacco in the shop or money in the till. There were a few tobacco pipes and some tobacco in the window. About 2001. in notes and gold were found on Cooinvis. Police-constable Mitchell sai 1 that he watched the house and saw about 35 persons go in and out of the shop. Stewart had charge of the door all the time, and had acted as door-keeper for the last two months. Had not seen one person buy tobacco for the last two months. Mr. shed to have an opinion whether (.k ba was an unlawful game ! gam LewisLe backgammon Mr. Bingham said backgammon was not an un lawful game, but the present case did not involve a question of that kind. One of the defendants named Thompson . was then called to prove the case against the defend ants. He said he had ben in the room about three-quarters of an honr before the police came. Saw nothing but backgammon played. Did not play himself. Did not see dice used, except for backgammon. No playing cards of any descrip tion were used. No person made a bet. No one offered a bet. Did not know why so many persons were assembled together. Had purchased a cigar at Goodman's within the last month. Littleton Thomas Powis, another defendant, was called, but before ,being sworn wished to know whether he was bound to give evidence against himself. Mr. Bingham said, according to the new law, he could call a defendant and examine him as a wit ness, and if he refused to give evidence Vie de fendant was liable to a severe punishment. The-witness thanked the magistrate, but must decline to give evidence. Mr. Bingham having read the clause in the act to the defendant, The defendant said ho bad nothing to say, and therefore could give no evidence. Mr. Bingham—Then for the present you stand committed for refusing to give evidence. Alfred Burdge, anot her defendant, wal next called . Went with a friend into Goodman's shop to have a cigar. The company there were talking and smoking, and some were playing at backgammu n. Did not Nee any other game played. Had b een to Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET. JULY 14. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 8s Od to 108 Od per kemple of 1 fitat l tron; wheat do., 7s Od to 108 Od; barley do., 93 01 to Od. Hay from is ld to ls, 4d. EDINBURGH MEA.L—JuLT 14. There were in the market to-day 14 sacks oatmeal. 4011 weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 44s and a Od. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET —JULY 13. f There were in the market to-day 14 ba g s o f oa t me al, 0 0 barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales ready • Thlr "a' Oatmeal, per sack of 2801b s Fi rst. Second. 04 • imperial Barleymoal, per ditt o -a Od —s Od —s 03 Peasemoal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od a Od —0 DUBLIN, JULY 14. We had again a very dull market to-day. Wheat, 61 ; though scarce, was 61 to Is l ower . O ats suppor t e d tu b quotations of Friday, but Indian corn must be noted 9 :1 an advance of is t o 2 s , ow i ng to th e increased dernan and very small supplies. 36 1 White wheat, 35 01 to 38s 61 ; red ditto, 3i s Od to 61; ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s 6d ; grime ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 14s 61 to 178; ditto, nevi, • 01 to —s 01 ; o a t mea l , 15 s to 18s 0,1; here, new, to '4 Od ; rapese d, —s Od to —s 01 per brl ; oaken? (tour, 20 Od to 24s 01 per owt ; Indian corn, 403 01 to 42 3 Od 1" . 480 lbc. COAL, dARKI Prices of Coals per ton at :T.—JULY 15. the close of the market. %Wend, Ao. 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