The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The report of the directors of this company states that the balance of the 4i per cent. shares has been dis posed of at par, and the stock authorised to be created under the money bill of 1851 is now fully paid up. There have been issued 18,305 shares bearing 5 per cent. interest, amounting to 152,541/. ; and 11,695 shares bearing 4. per cent., to 97,4581. ; making together 250,0001. The expenditure on capital account during the half-year has been 21,8491. The works of the Denny branch have been contracted for, and the contractors are bound to have it ready for traffic by the let December, 1857. The gross joint receipts for traffic under the agree ment with the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company amounted to 170,3611., of which the Scottish Central proportion, including tollage, is 77.2061., and the proportion of the working expenses 81,8581., leaving a balance of 45,3471., being 3,9731. more than at the c responding period of last year. To this is added 1,1341. interest allowed on excess of plant, making 46,4811. From this is deducted 16,9431. for interest, law, taxa tion, and Parliamentary expenses, leaving 29,5381., being an increase of 2,9231. over the corresponding period of islet year. The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 5i per cent. per annum, less income tax, on the consolidated stock, payable on the 6th of April, leaving a balance of 1,488/. To this is added 5,4151. from the last account, making 6,9041. as the surplus fund. The capital account shows that 1,804,1031. had been received, and 1,812,6991. expended, leaving a balance of 8,5961. against the company. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st of January showed that 78,3951. had been received, and 34,3541. ex pended, leaving a balance of 44,0411., out of this deduct 14,5021. for interest on loans and preference shares, leaving a balance of 29,5391. DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN. The report of the directors of this company states that the alteration of the gauge between Dublin and Kings tow❑ is being rapidly proceeded with, and that, as soon as it is completed, and an uniform gauge established throughout, an increase in the traffic receipts over the Kingstown line may confidently be expected. With re ference to the subject of the directors' remuneration, it is etated that the usual charge of 4001 has been made for the half-year ending the 31st of August la=t, but for the following half-year, and for the future, it is considered that 2001, per annum will be a proper amount. Of the sum now available for distribution—namely, 12,3751., the board declare a dividend for the half-year of 4 per cent., free of income tax, on the paid-up capital of 305,0001., amounting to 12,2001., and carry forward the balance of 1571. to the next account. In conformity with the last half-yearly report, a call of 5 per cent, on the ex• tension capital will be made in August next. IRISH SOUTH-EASTERN. The directors of this company state that the arrange ments entered into with the Great Southern and Western Company for the working of their line have proved highly satisfactory, and enable them to declare a divi dend at the rate of 34 per cent. per annum, after the payment of which there will remain a sum of 4061., out of which they have placed 2001. in the depreciation fund, and carried 1061. to the credit of the next banyan*. The capital account slows that since the formation of the company the sum of 234,565/. has hem received on shares, 29,1001. from the Public Works Loan Com missioners, and 9,2001. on the security of the com pany's bonds. BAGENALSTOWN AND WEXFORD. The works on this line are progr.ssing in a satisfac tory manner, and it is expocted that the first division, to Burris, will be opened for traffic in the course of the pre sent year. RAILWAYS IN INDIA. Lieut.-Colonel Kennedy, in a report to the share holders of the Bombay and Baroda Railway Company, calls attention to the advantages of a judicious mode of proceedings in carryisg out railway undertakings, par ticularly in India. He complains of the delays to which the company bas been subjected in carrying out the con struction of a line from Bombay to Baroda and Ahme dabad, a length of 335 miles, which might have been completed in two years, under the judicious arrange ments sanctioned by the directors of the company, and approved by the local authorities in India ; but, owing to a decision of the Home Government, the construc tion of the best portion of the line from Bombay to Baroda, 180 miles in length, is to be delayed until after the section from Baroda or Surat to Ahmedabad, 155 miles in length, is completed for traffic. The disadvan tages of this course, in a commercial point of view, are shown. The longer the works are kept on hand the larger will be the amount of debt against the company in the shape of interest, and the cost of the railway to the Government will be increased in proportion. If the com pany had been allowed to proceed with the whole line from Bombay to Ahmedabad (335 miles), it could have been completed in two or three years, and the charge for interest would have been paid off out of a moiety of the surplus earnings above 5 per cent in the course f three or faur years from the opening of the line, which is esti mated not to exceed a oost of 6,0001. a-mile, including working stock and everything. He compares the posi tion of India, having an enormous population, fertile cultivated lands, valuable natural productions, fine archi tectural cities, and manufacturing communities, and the rental of the lands flowing into the treasury as public revenue, with that of America in 1782, which was des titute of everything except expanse of waste territory and energy in the small population. The latter bad advanced to great commercial rank in the world, while India bad remained pretty nearly in the same position as when presession of it was obtai❑ed. He contrasts the progress made by India and the United States of America as exhibited in the cotton trade carried en between England and those countries respectively. The returns show that England imported in 1820 from America 89,999,1741 h. of slave-grown raw cotton, and from India 23,125,8251 b. of free-grown raw cotton ; and in 1855, from America, 681,629,4241 b. of slave-grown raw cotton, and from India 145,179,2661 b., showing an increase of 591,630,2501 b. in the weight of cotton im ported from America, and of 122,053,4411 b. imported from India, or about one-fifth of the American increase. England in 1820 exported to America manufactured cot ton to the value of 1,194 5311., and to India, to the value of 850,906/. ; while England in 1855 exported to Ame rica manufactured cotton to the value of 3,649,8621 , and to India to the value of 6,532,4591., showing tn increase in the value of manufactured cotton exported 'o America of 2,455,3311., and in the value exported to India of 5,681,548/ , or mere than double the increased purchases made from England by the American States. He re marks that cotton wool, a staple produce of India, is purchased from the slave owner in America, brought to Manchester for manufacture, and thence sent to India for sale. It was impossible fur Indian produces to com p, to with American producers, owing to the Indian Go vernment withholding from their subjects railway coel munication, which the American Government sought wi!h all its power to supply. The first locomotive engine exhibited on the Manchester Railway, in 1830, was the signal at once responded to throughout England and the United States ; and before the first sod for an "ex perimental line" was cut in India there were 6,000 miles of railway open in England, and 8,856 in the United States of America.. At. present the length of railway opened for traffic in England is 8,297, in India 358 miles, and in the United States of America 26,000 tulles. The measures taken for the extension of rail ways in the United States of America are calculated to insure an annual increase of 2,000 miles, till the ag gregate mileage shall have reached 35,000 miles. The value of British iron exported to the United States in nine years, from 1847 to 1855 inclusive, amounted to 27,155,1531., and from England to India in the Fame period since the c - :nmencernent of railway construction there were 3,840,2301 He states that 8,000 miles of railway constructed on well-.selec'ed lines in India, although far short of the ultimate requirement, would place that cow-try in a very different commercial position from that which she at present occupies, and this might be effected in four years, for an inveettnent of 48,000,000/., whch ought under proper arrangements to give a return of 10 per cent. upon the outlay. The net rent of the land, now exceeding 13,000,0001. a-year, goes to the Government of India; in other countries the rent goes to land proprietors, from which class spring various capitalists. He maintains that the Gaverernen as the sole land proprietor there ought to execute the duties as well as enjoy the privileges of the three classes h represents—viz,, Government, land proprietor, and capitalist. 8,000 miles of rail way, costing 6,0901. per mile, 'moult only charge the land revenue to the extent of 2,400,0001. annually, or under one-fifth of the present rent, supposing the entire dividends to be disbursed by government ; o ,but that if a judicious and rapid principle °f construction were adopted the gnarAntee would be merely nominal. The public revenue would improve, and the industry of 152,000,000 of subjects would be romoted. He concludes by stating that the establish. sent of a Just and energetic Government of India, baying as a chief object the development of her vast indus trial resources, Ought to Le the first question of British policy. The commercial and trading communities of England would readily understand how such a • develop ment would act and react on their home industry, incom parably beyond ail the other soli-eta that could possibly be imagined, and that it was difficult to over-estimate the enormous effect upon home produce of transforming 152,000,0 00 of mi s era bl y pope cust omers rapidly into I. ch ones. [ADVERTISE3IENT.J—Jane Hallett, of Whitty H ea d years f rom , near Netlicrbuty. Dorset., suffered for many a bad leg. From the knee to the anele it lia.d several wound., so that she Was tie able to stand or move about the house. She tried a variety of means and applica, Cons, but with Out obtAinicg a curs. 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He tried._ a variety of remedies without the wished-for relief, but a few dozes of Hollo way's pills had a most miraculous effect, for in a few wieks a perfect and most excellent cure was effected by tl em.--S tld by all medicine vendors throughout the world; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, Londo n , an d 80, Maiden-lane, New York • by , A. Stamps, C ons t an ti nop l e; A . G u idi cy, Smyrna; 'and E. Muir, Malta. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT, STAFFORD, MARCH 20. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Willes.) James Tunnicliff, the keeper of a beershop, called the Royal Oak, at Thorne?-lane, near Newborough, in this county, was charged with obtaining divers sums of money, amounting in all to about 301., from Thos. Charlesworth, by false pretences—viz., by falsely pretending that the prosecutor (Thos. Charles worth), his wife, child, cattle, horses, goods, and chattels were bewitched ; that his (Thos. Charlesworth's) mother had procured several per sons named (Bull and Cotton) to be put upon the spell and charm of witchcraft ; and that he (the prisoner) had the power to remove and free them from it. The indict. ment, of course, negatived the various false pretences. The case has excited the greatest interest in this coun try, not only from the condition of the prosecutor, who is a substantial farmer, but also from the length of time the prisoner succeeded in keeping up his absurd delu sion, and the substantial profit he derived from it. The court was densely crowded throughout the trial, the au dience including a considerable number of " witches." Mr. Scotland and Mr. Macnamara appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Skinner and Mr. Davis (instructed by Mr. George Palmer, of Rugeley) defended the prisoner. Mr. Scotland, in opening the case, stated that it was one of a most extraordinary character, and probably the jury would learn for the first time that there were sti.l living in this country those who believed in witchcraft, and that there were cunning and designing persons who were ready to take advantage of such credulity to turn it to their own profit. The learned counsel then proceeded to state the facts of the case as they were proved in evi dence. It appeared that the prosecutor's milk and cheese were spoiled, and the dairymaid was ill, and, the prose cutor not being able to account for it, he was led by his servant to believe that the cheese, &c., was bewitched, and to send for the prisoner to get rid of the bewitch ment. The prisoner came, and at once told the prosecu tor that be (the prosecutor), his wife, horses, cattle, cheese, and cheese-kettle—(laughter) —were bewitched, and ob tained 71. from him to cure them Of the witchery. The prisoner succeeded in getting into the prosecutor's em ploy, and by working on his delusions he obtained various sums of money, amounting to nearly 301. The prosecutor and his wife and servants suffered at various times from illness of a peculiar nature, which there was reason to believe was brought on by drugs ad ministered by the prisoner. The prisoner told the prose cutor that his mother had got three persons, named Bull, Cotton, and Wilson, to put the spell upon him and everything in the house. Ultimately the prosecutor's child died. Mr. Skinner here said he hoped the learned counsel was not going to open a charge of murder, as that would prejudice the interests of the prisoner. Mr. Justice Willes said he understood the learned counsel introduced the matter in order to negative the defence which Mr. Skinner might probably set up, that the prisoner had the power which he pretended to possess. Mr. Scotland said he should prove that the prisoner had in his house certain roots and herbs, usual with per sons who pretended to witchcraft, though he did not suggest that the prisoner had made use of them. The learned counsel then proceeded to contend that it was absurd to suppose that there was such a thing as witch. craft, and said he should show that the prisoner must have known that what he attributed to witchcraft was the result of merely physical and natural causes. The learned counsel was about to contend that it was no de. fence to say that ordinary prud nce might have protected the prosecutor from imposition. Mr. Justice Willes said all the old cases were overruled, It was sufficient now if there be any false representa tion, which was sufficient to take anybody in, be he fool or be be wise. The following witnesses were then called : Thos. Charles worth, the prosecutor, a very respect able-looking young man, was examined by Mr. Macna mara. He said—l am a farmer, and live at Bromley Hurst, in this county. I was married at the end of 1855 My mother at that time was living with me, and left in the following February. She said she would take my two little brothers away from me, and I said she should not. There were some words between us, and she left. In April we could not get the cheese to turn, and the dairymaid (Catherine Charlesworth) was very ill. I could not account for the cheese not turning. At that time a man named T. Sammons was at work on my farm. In consequence of a convrsation with him I went to the prisoner's house, on Saturday the 26th of April. He lived at rhorney-lane, about four miles from my house. He kept a beerhouse. I had know n him 7or 8 years. My wife accompanied me. I saw the prisoner, and told him we could not get the cheese to curd, and the dairymaid was ill, and that Mrs. Willatti and Sammons said it was bewitched—(laughter)—and that Sammons told use he was in the habit of stopping such things as witchcraft. He said he would come over in the morning, and he should be able to tell me what was the matter, and who had done it. He said he must tell his wife he was coming to look at some calves, or she would not let him come for that purpose—the stop ping the witchcraft. The next morning he came into my house and saw me. When he cams in be said all my cows tied up by the neck were bewitched. They gave the milk. lie said two horses and myself were bewitched , my wife, the dairymaid, and the cheese-kettle. (Laugh ter.) Ile had not seen the cows nor the cheese-kettle. He said he could stop it by my paying 3s. 6d. for each of the cattle, 5 for myself, ss. for the dairymaid, and 56. for the cheese-kettle. (Laughter.) There were 27 co as tied by the neck. He wanted all the names of the cows put down. He said he could free my wife by taking one bit out of her dress. He said my mother had had a broad hand on me, and had only put her finger on her. He said it was my mother who had done it. I gave him all the names of the cows, and paid him the money, amount ing altogether to about 61. or 71. He asked rue to write a letter to a man named Conway, in London, for a ape ll book, to set the cattle free. I wrote the letter, and he took it away. He said he must see the horses be fore he went. I went with him, and he laid his hands on them. He then left. He said the da'ry maid must go away. The next day the dairymaid was n better, and the cheese was no better. (Laughter.) I went next day and told him so. He said he would come over the next morning and see to it. I had two cups of ale. On my way home I was took very ill. I had shooting pains in my chest, and my head was very had. When I got home I was taken with shaking and shivering. The prisoner came the next day, and saw me in bed, between 8 and 12. He said I must get up and have a little brandy. He said he had been round by Uttoxeter, or he would have been sooner. He said he did not think I should have been so bad, but I should soon be better. He did not say why I had been so bad. He said the reason was because he had had a contest with old Bull of Yeaverley, and he had bes t him. He said my mother had done it, and she had set Bull on. The prisoner then remained several days at my house. I got but very little better. I continued poorly. My mother had been to my Louse on the pre vious Sunday. I mentioned that to the prisoner. Be said she had put a curse on everything, bud he must ha►e more money to free all the young cattle. Ile charged me 3s. 6d. a-piece for all the sheep, stirks, and calves, and ss. for the goods and chattels. (Laughter.) I paid for 50 sheep, 12 stirks, 11 calves, and 12 pigs. I paid 3s. 6d. for the pigs. Re charged me ss. for my baby. (Laughter.) I paid about 151. on this occa,ion. (This evidence was objected to, but after a long discus sion was admitted.) Shortly after this the prisoner came into ray house as a servant. That was a few days after. Ile remained till the 7th of February in this year. During that time I had five attacks of ness ; the symptoms were generally the same as at the fint. When I was attacked the second time the prisoner said my mother had been to a man at Longton, named Cotton, and she had set Cotton to d o it. He raid he must go and see Cotton, which I suppose be did. He afterwards told me he and hii wife had been to see biw, and it cast him 1/. I d:d not pay him that. He said Cotton had charged him 1/. to show books against him. He 'aid he (pri- enner) had beaten him. On the third attack I conversed with the prisoner about it, and he said my mother Fad done it, and eho hail been to a man at Badley Iledg( % and tht re were two wurhing against me and my wife awl baby, that they wen putting witchcraft urin me. I - - - and my wif o wen t w ith hi m to Fee the man. • We went to Frogliall station. The prisoner said we must wait at the elation while be went to see Arnold. Ile went to Badley Hedge, and then came back and said that A meld lived at 1.14-re be left us at the rta!iou boid %%lie inubt not fear if she felt anything. He asked me for 10e. to get admitted at Arnold' s house, to s h ow books with him. I gave it to him. He stay ed away bout half-an-hour. He then said :here had been two at work, and that was why my wife was so bad. He said he could beat the other man without going o wife was taken very and lik ew i se the ba',37- , b r i h n e i. My syrn plows were the same as I had bad. She was taken with shivering and shaking. H e said that there were two workirg on us at that time, and that was the reason my wife was 20 On the fourth attack the prisoner said my mother had been to a man at Burton, named Phalan:, in Bond street. lie 7 ri idb i y u l it u r. st go and see PlinaLer. wanted 55. to sc gave it him. He went away, and shortly afterwards re: turned. He said he would bring the young man for us to see, but when he came back he said the young man would not come, and he had brought the old one. An old man came with and went into the room with him. The prisoner on the sth of January appeared to be taken ill. He came from home, and said the witchcraft was en himself, and he had had two very bad nights, and that it was Cotton who was doing it, and that if be did not go to Longton he should die. He seemed to be shivering, as I was. He wanted 3/. 10s. to go to Longton. He said that was to have the witchcraft taken off. When be came back he said be was obliged to get the super intendent of police to break his (Cotton's) door open, and that be (the prisoner) had been very ill at Longton, and obliged to have the doctor. He said it was thrmigh having had a contest with Cotton. He said he had seen Cotton, and that the police went in with him, and that Cotton was very stubborn. Oa the fifth attack (on the Bth of February) I sent for the prisoner. When he came he said my mother had been to a man at Derby, that I must be two or three days, and he would try to beat him without going to see him. He said my mother had been to Derby to see a man named Wilson to set the witchcraft on. On the 10th he saidhe must go to Derby, and I went with him as far as Burton. My wife went with him, and said she would go, as she was determined to see if he (prisoner) was correct. I gave my wife ss. On his return he said he bad had a contest with Wilson, but be had been very stubborn, and he would finish him in three days. (Laughter.) On the Bth of February the prisoner brought my breakfast into my room. He left the house shortly afterwards. I was taken very i , l after he had left with shooting pains in my chest and pains in my head. I was obliged to have it bathed with vinegar and water. On the 10th he came again r and on the 11th he brought my breakfast again. I felt the same symptoms as before. I sent for a surgeon, Mr. Higgins. I was very ill. My wife then fetched the prisoner, and when he came I asked him what was the reason I had been so ill, and had so many attacks. He said it was through Wilson dying, and I should be better new. I afterwards ordered the prisoner not to come on my premises—that was on the 17th of February. There had been a complaint by the servants. I was better be tore the doctor came. Crose-examined by Mr. Skinner—ln four hours I was well. Ido not know whether Mr. Higgins is here, and that is as true as the rest I.have said. Mr. Scotland objected to the question in that form. Mr. Justice Willes said that was a common form. (Laughter.) Cross-examination continued—Sammons is not here. lam 23. lam the owner of the farm, about 40 acres. My mother seemed to be offended at my marriage. She did not say that was why she left me. She went to live with my grandmother. She said I should not make any cheese, and it would all tumble to pieces. She came and said I should never do any good, and the cheese should all tumble to pieces. (Laughter.) I don't know whether she said she hoped I might lie in bed and rot, and nobody would come to help me. My wife or servants told me she said so. When my mother said that the cheese fell to pieces I recollect four of them fell to pieces. I did not know what to think of it. I almost think I went to Tunnicliff the day my mother left. My mother left on the 10th of March, 1856. On that day her mes sage was brought to me. She returned and said the cheeses should fall to pieces. Tke dairymaid was taken ill a few days before I went to the prisoner. He told me I must dismiss the dairymaid ; she must go off the place, or she would die, and I dismissed her accordingly. He did not say I must dismiss her because she could not make cheese. When I went to the prisoner I told him I thought there was something wrong; that Mrs. Wil latts said I was bewitched. I did believe I was bewitched, or I should not have gone to the prisoner. Mrs. Willatts is a neighbour. She is as wise as her neighbours, fur what I know. (Laughter.) Mr. Charlesworth, of Rikis end, asy wife's father, had sent for a Mr. Harrison. He is a wizard. They are not like blackberries. (Laughter.) I am not a wizard myself. (Laughter.) I have said I was afraid my father was in the same way as I was. lam right now, sir. (Laughter.) lam not bewitched now. I have not been bewitched. I have been dosed. I know Talbot. I saw him, and he said he would have cured the A itchcraft for me if he bad been sent for, and he would have kicked Tunnicliff off the place soon. I thought my father was bewitched, because he was in a poor low way. I don't remember that he died of delirium tremens. He died eight or nine years ago. He used to get drunk ouletiines. Sometimes I take something to drink. I get a little fresh sometimes, but not drunk. On the 10th Feb. I did not get drunk and lose my hat on the way home. Once I lost my has. The wind blew it off. Sometimes I keep a bottle by my bedside. It contains brandy, or perhaps a little gin. Sometimes we have a little brandy and sometimes a little gin. My " missus takes a little. (Laughter.) We take it if we are un well, sometimes two or three times in the night. I had upset my trap, but I was not drunk. The horse was frightened. I did not tell Mr. Hail, the prisoner's land lord, that the prisoner had had neither money, cheese, nor bacon from me, but was working regularly on the farm. Mr. Hali was going to give the prisoner notice, because he had heard these tales of witchcraft. This paper is in my handwriting. I wrote to contradict the reports in the Uttoxeter newspaper. The prisoner asked me to write it, and said they ,would transport him if I did not. I said I would build a house for the prisoner. The prisoner said he had 1001. he should like to lay out. I don't recollect saying to Mr. E. Bannister that I never gave him money, cheese, or bacon. I have so, because the prisoner said if I saidanythingabout money he would be transported fur seven years. I should not have gone against the prisoner if I had not found him out. When the prisoner left on the 17th of Feb. I reckoned with him, and found him 18s. 61. in my debt. What I had paid him to get rid of the bewitchment was not included. I have been to the prisoner's house, the Royal Oak. I paid him for what ale I had. I have been there with my wife and little brother and Mies Coates. I took a little brandy in my pocket. I had been very ill, and Mr. Higgins recommended me to have a little brandy. I never said to Edward Bannister I would sell my wife for a shilling. I have never been downright drunk in Ban nister's presence. Mr. Cope came ono night to my house. Toe new dairymaid, Ann Richrrdson, toll me that my dog had gone through the house and appeared all on fire. She Fail there appeared to be a ball of fire behind him. Some one said the house was all lighted by the fire. I was very ill. Mr. Cope came over to me on the lEls of February. I don't recollect telling him I was bewitched again. I don't remember his saying "Oh, nonsense !" He said the dog had bad something given to her, and she would die. I did not say that the dog had had rabbits' entrails and had had too much. I did not say we had drunk all the brandy. My wife asked if he had any. I did not pour out what there was and drink it myself. Ido not recollect my wife saying to Cope that the house would have fa len down just now if we had not said the Lord's Prayer, for there had been a noise like an earthquake. I don't undertake to say it was not said. I have two dogs. I was sober. We were not all drunk. I bad only a little drop of ale, ar.d Mr. Cope asked us to have some gin. My w.fe sent f o r a lawyer to make my will. That was the night I said my father was in the same way as myself. Mr. Harvey was by. Mr. Cope gave us some gin, and I and my wife took it neat. I bad not told Cope six weeks before I went to the prisoner that I had been bewitched and that I attributed it to my mother. I swear I was no drunk for several days before the 11th. I had a sup on the 10th —,oine brandy at Burton—with the prisoner. I did not throw my boot at the Fervant that Mr, Cope has not advised us to eat more and drink less, and we should be better. Nor did farmer Brown. Brown said I was a foul for going to Tannicliff, and ought to kick him off the plAce, for he was doing the witchcraft. He did not say it was delirium tremens, and it would kill me if I continued drinking. I told Mr. Pott that when I was going to Tunnioliff's I saw a wanderer on the mad, ani ri,y garters came untied, and that I was be witched. (Laughter.) I don't know bow they became untied. (Llughter.) I lost one calf before I went to _ . Tunnicliff. Tuumcliff drenched two that were ill and cured them the first day he came to work. I don't be- lieve in the witching now, not since my wife went to a2rby, and fund there was no man named Wilson. That was the 16 h Feb. I did not tell farmer Pott a - fortnight ago that I had got a lamb bewitched. Putt said the lamb was bewitched, and be had iticust , ll bccu beAitched several times. The prism , r has a daughter. She is subject to tits. I had not put on a white street and gone after her to tho pump to frighten her. (Tile witness hesitated.) I may have done it to one of the servants sometimes. I have riot done it to the girl in be 1. I have heard her complain. I believe she had two or three tits at our house. She was subject to them beforo she caint?. One night my wife was shaken very Ladly with shavers, the same as I was. The prisoner' worked with me as a labourer. He went borne when he liked. He (Tuncticlift) gave me this printed paper, and. said he composed it. (It was some doggrel verses ab,ut a itchcratt ) Re-ex twined 63r Mr. &Aland —While prisoner was with me I had two pigs ill, and seven cows dipped their calves. By a Juror—The cheeses fell to pieces in a fortnight after they were made. They cracked as they were on the floor. Sometimes they did not came well. I never had a cheeBe crack before. Elizabeth Chailvsworh, examined by Mr. Scotland, said the was the wife of the prosecutor. There had been something the matter with t!.e cheese before we went to the prisoner. We could not get the cheese to come, and the dairymaid was unwell. Sammons said the prisoner would Cure it. The prisoner told us to turn the dairy maid away. We did that the same night, bat the cheese continued bad. On the 28th A pril I was very unwell. I bad a great deal of shaking and pains, and so had the child toe. The prisoner had been there on the 27th April. We heard knocks that night, but could not tell where. Another night, on the 28th, we heard the cows all lament, and the horses prancing, the dog howling, and a many strange noises. There was some thing about 3- o'clock that was louder than the deg. The men were called up. I asked the men to drive it away. I heard it no more. In the morning I told the prisoner. He looked sleepy. He said he knew we shculd have an awful night, but he dursn't tell us for fear of putting us in bad spirits. One night be took a knife and p'ate, and asked me and my husband to go into a room with him and he would show us all our enemies ; but we were too ill to go. He would not let Mrs. Copestake go with him. When he came out of the room there veal a blueness over him. When he went in he said it would be either death or glen to him, and when he came out he se 11 he had succeeded. He said it was his (prosecutor's) mother who ball done it on us, and the brother on the stock. In bed one night (the Thursday night) after I was asleep I was snatched up in bed as straight as I am now, and I was shaken all to death. The prisoner was in our room sleeping there. We had no spare room. He said he would stay with us a few days till we were better. I asked the prisoner what he was doing, and he lit the candle. He got out of bed and lit the candle. I was very iiL The prisoner came to the bed and brought my Bible. He said it bad been with old Bull, of Yeaverley, asd that was why I was shaken so. (Sensation.) When I asked what he was doing he said nothing was the mat ter; I must go to sleep again. When the prisoner came to me I asked him to give me a little sip of brandy. I was better after that. He said his brother wanted the Bible to take to old Bull, and that was why I was shaken so. I had several attacks, all shaking. I saw my husband pay the prisoner on the 27th, and also a week after. The witness confirmed the evidence of her husband about their going to the Froghall station, to see Arnold and another man ; and also about their going to Burton to see the man Plimmer to free them ; and as to the prisoner's story about taking the police to break open Cotton's door at Losgton. She then gave an account of her going with the prisoner to Derby to see a man named Wilson. The prisoner left her at an inn, and returned in half an hour, and then accompanied her into the town, and pointed out the house where the man lived. In a week the wit netts went to Derby again, to the house next door but one, and asked who lived in the house pointed out, but she was told that no person named Wilson lived there. But she did not apply at the house itself. Crose-examined by Mr. Skinner---My child was seven months old when it died. It was nursed by me. It died of convulsions two days after the prison r brought me the Bible. Dr. Higgins attended the child. He is not here. The baby was a very stout baby till I knew the prisoner. My mother-in-law was not pleased at our marriage. I believe she wished that we might rot in bed, and that nobody might come to help us. She said we should never do any good, and all the cheeses would tumble to pieces. Before we sent to Tunnicliff we could not make the cheese come. I engaged a dairymaid fr .m my mother. There was one cheese very bad before the prisoner came. The prisoner took four cheeses away. I don't know that four cheeses were bad. The dairy maid came before we sent to Tunnichfr. The dairymaid was ill and the calves had got "the hoost " before the prisoner came. We thought they were bewitched. The prisoner told me if I did not stud the dairymaid away that night she would be a wanderer. I sent her to my mother's that night, before 6. She had been in a wild, queer way. My shakings lasted for two hours. There were like cats fighting in the room. I can't tell what shook me, whether it was a spirit or not. No man could shake me as I was shaken. (Laughter.) I went lietter altar the prisoner lighted the candle. A little spirits (brandy) soothed me, and I went better. The yells were like unto a dog, but louder. The yell went away when my man (the carman) bid it go. He is net here to-day. We believed that we were bewitched from April, 1856, till February 11, 1857. I never take spirits, except when I have spasm.. I did not see the fiery dog come into the house, bat I saw the blaze. I saw our dog, and then a dog after it on fire. (Laughter.) I sates the blaze, but not the dog. Our dog then sat down on his hind lege, with his tongue out, and his paws hanging down. (Laughter.) It seemed dying. The girl, Ann Richard son, who saw the fire dog, is here. She said if I did not send the prisoner away, she would go. The prisoner was then dismissed, the day after I had been to Derby. On the 11th of February I wished my husband to make his will, but he wished me to tell the man to make haste, or he would not see him alive. We sent for Mr. Cope on the 11th, because we were so terrified. I cannot tell what was said, I was so terrified at seeing my husband so ill, and the noises together. My husband has brandy sometimes ; be is so troubled with the wind. (Laughter.) I take it for the spasms, and he for the wind. (Laugh. ter.) Brandy always relieves us. (Laughter.) I asked Mr. Cope for a sup of brandy, because we had none in the house. That night there vas an awful shake at the door, and we said tie Lord's Prayer. We went over to Mr. Cope's. I showed my tongue to Mr. Cope to see how parched up it was. He gave me one glass of neat gin. I declined the water. The prisoner made this song and gave me 2s. towards having it printed. It cost 4s. I never heard it on the dulcimer. The prisoner's daugh ter was very bad while she was at our house. I never saw my husband in a white sheet. She was frightened at Mrs. Coates's and my husband was there. She had hysterics that night. Reexamined by Xr. Macnamara.—The prisoner took away the four cheese; to bury them. Elizabeth Heskett, examined by Mr. .Macnamara, said—l was in the service of prosecutor as nurse in 1856. I remember on one omasion in April the prisoner asked me for a plats and knife. He took it into the house. I saw a blaze and a smoke in the room where he war. He made wooden crosses and stuck them over the doors. Cross-examined by Mr. Skinner—When he came out of the room he appeared as he did before. He worked regularly on the farm as a servant. Re-examined by Mr. Scotland—He was a good deal in the house, and slept there all the time. Ann Richardson, examined,by Mr. Scotland, said—l went into the prosecutor's service last New Year's-day. On the Bth of February my master was taken very ill. The prisoner took his breakfast to him that morning. He made the tea and took it with eggs and bacon up stairs. In about half an hour my m as t er sa id h e f elt very poorly. He complained of his head and stomach.. I was taken ill the same day. The prisoner breakfasted with me. I had coffee; In about half an hour I felt poorly. I had pains iu my head arid stomach. I felt sick. The prisoner went home. I was worse on tee 11th, and my master too. The prisoner came on the 10th and said I should be better after that day. They went to Derby. The next morning the prisoner made the breakfast and took it up. The same day the prose cutor went out. He returned at 4in the afternoon, and was taken very ill in his head and stomach. The dog was very bad. The same night the master was very ill, and we heard something come into the yard like a car riage. Something came in the passage like the wind. There was our dog and the shape of another dog after it all in fire. Our dog went behind the door in tee yard with his tongue out. I did not see what became of the fiery dog. (Laughter.) The prisoner on Sunday night asked me to make him some tea. I refused, because I thought he had dosed me or bewitched me. (Laughter.) I complained to my master, and after that the prisoner left on the 17th of February. Cross-examined by Mr. Skinner —I had some words with the prisoner. My master and mistress had told me the prisoner had recommended them to send me away from my place. He bad said he bad found out some. thing about me and the cowman, and I gave him a bit of trey mind. My master only took a meat spoonful of brandy when he was poorly. My master had had some drink on the 10th—some little. I don't know how a man looks when he has had some little—l leave that to your judgment how you look. (Laughter). Both the dogs came in together. I don't know what became of the " shape of the dog." I bad never seen a " fire dog" be fore. I saw it quite plainly. Only me and master's brother saw it. (Laughter.) It came in at the door. I followed it. It went behind the door that was shut. I could not think how the dog got through. (Laughter). I did not smell any brimstone. (Laughter.) Our dog eat behind the door with his tongue out. It seemed to me a quarter of a yard long. (Loud laughter.) John Anderson, examined by Mr. Macnamara, said, —I am a pelice superintendent at Burton. There is a place called Bond-end, but not Bond-:street, at Burton. There is no person named Plimmer lives there. ebelh Charlesworth, examined by Mr. Scotland, said—l am a widow and the mother of the prosecutor. He married in Dec., 1855. I left him in March, 1856. I have known the prissier by sight, and seen him about. I have never said anything to him about bewitching or witchcraft. I have never attempted to do any injury to my son by witchcraft. Ido not know anything of a man named Arnold or Balt of Yeaverley, or Wilson or Plimmer at Burton, nor have I mentioned their names to the prisoner. Cross-examined by Mr. Skinner—l was not dissatis fied with my son's marriage. I never said my son would never do well, nor that he would never make any cheese —it would all tumble in pieces. I did not care about the marriage. I left because I thought I would give place to her. I never threatened the cheese. I had had a few words about taking away the two lit-le boys. My husband was ill eight mouths. By the Judge—l have lived eight years with my son. I managed the bowie for him. Edis Crisp, &police inspector at Rugeley, apprehended the prisoner on the 25th of Feb. In this house he found a root (briony), some leaves, and the printed paper pro duced. Dr. Monkton, of Rugeley, examined by Mr. Scotland, said he hail heard the evidence, and he could not form any opinion of what had caused the symptoms. He had formed an opinion on the evidence given before the magistrates. The root is the white briony (erionia din ica). It has irritating properties. This being the case for the pr•,secut'on, Mr. Skinner sail it was 11.1 d do wu that the false pre tence must boa false pretence of an existing fact ; but it was impossible that witchcraft c Auld be an existirg fact, for it was now recognised by the law that witch craft could not exist. his lordship sh tb o a u t ld if , b on e of c on a sut i Mr. Justice said h e was o f op i n i on t h at the case came d within the st atute , but he (Mr. Justice Will es ) would reserve the po i nt. &Ir. Skinner then a dd resse d the j ury for the d e f en d a nt. Ha said this case illu s t ra t e d an old say i ng, t h a t one fool ma de many; and th e wors t that could b e sa id ag ainst i re n t Mr. opinion,j Crowder,ustice the , prisoner was that he bad accepted what the prosecu tor bad said respecting him. It appeared the cheese had for several days been bad, and their man Sammons had hold them that it was bewitched. But where was Sam :nous ? Why was he not called 1 The prosecutor's mother had denied what the prosecutor hed attributed THE SUN, LONDON, , TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 185 7. to her about the cheese. That showed the delusions under which the prosecutor himself was labouring before he went to the prisoner, and that he had induced the prisoner to believe what he himself represented to him. When the prisoner came to the house he advised the prosecutor to get rid of an incompetent dairymaid, and be cured the calves. Another dairymaid was engaged, and at length she was got rid of; and after that there was no complaint made of the cheese, and the reason was that a competent servant was employed. The pro'- secutor's child died of convulsions—an ordinary disease, but the doctor who attended the chill was not called. The reason probably was that he would have been able to prove that the prosecutor and his wife were suffering from delirium tremens, brought on by drinking habits. The scene in the bedroom was merely the effect of an hysterical fit and the spasms, which always came on when the brandy was wanted. Did the jury believe a word spoken by the girl Ann Richardson about the " fiery dog l" The only question was whether it was true that when the prisoner left and went through the account with the prosecutor he had worked out all the money he had received from the prosecutor. The prisoner cool I not be called to give his version of the case, so that it rested entirely on the evidence of the prosecutor. He would therefore call Mr. Cope to show the state in which the prosecutors were on the night when they went to his house, and he would call upon them to say that no credit was to be given to their statements. Samuel Cope, examined by Mr. Davis, said—l am a farmer, living within a few yards of the prosecutor's house. I was called to his house between S and 9 o'clock on the 11th February. The prosecutor and his wife were there and Miss Richardson. The prosecutor had the brandy bottle in one hand and the glass in the other. He asked me if I would have some brandy. He was drunk. I said I would not have any, and he drank it himself. He asked me if I had any brandy, and I said I bad not. He said there was like 20 carriages coming in the yard. He then said he was so bewitched that he thought the house would have fallen on them. Mrs. Charlesworth said it would have fallen down if they had not said the Lord's Prayer. I saw nothing the matter. I saw the dug fed with rabbits' entrails. The dog was afterwards in a bad state. The prosecutor and his wife came to my house. They said they durst not stop. She wanted to send for a lawyer to make his will. She said their mother had done it all. She said their mother's family were all given to witchcraft, and were all bad ones. She showed me how her lips were parched. I said she had better give them a little gin and water. She took a glass of gin neat. The pro secutor came home shouting at all hours of the night. He had been drinking all that week. Cross-examined by Mr. Scotlsnd—l have been on good terms with the prosecutor. He has bad words with me. Mrs. Charlesworth was drunk when she came. She poured some gin down her husband's throat. , Thomas Brown, another farmer, said that in May last he was requested by his mother to talk with the prose cutor. He did so, and told him i: was nothing but de lirium tremens, brought on by drink, and he would die. He told me positively that he had paid the prisoner no money except for wages. Cross-examined—I have known the prisoner for forty years as an hone t man. It was a month or two be fore Christmas I spoke to the prosecutor. I saw him i❑ bed with ebiverings. It was like delirium tremens, which I have seen. Taomas Pott, another farmer, said the prosecutor had told him he and his wife and his cattle were all be witched. He was drunk at the time. He said a wan derer bad undone his garters. James Wariog, a manservant, lodging at the Royal Oak, proved that on the 11th of February last he saw the prisoner go to bed at 8 o'clock, and that he left him in bed at 5 o'clock the next morning. Edwin Bannister, a saddler, proved that the prose cutor was often drunk, and that on one occasion he said he would sell his wife for 6J. (Laughter.) He had seen the prisoner working on the farm. This was the case for the defence. Mr. Scotland having replied, Mr. Justice Wiles very carefully summed up the evi dence, and finally left it to the jury to say whether the defendant had made the false representations charged in the indictment, and whether he had thereby obtained any money from the prosecutor. There could be no doubt the prosecutor was a very weak and foolish, and perhaps draoken person, but he was still protected by the law. The main question was, whether the jury could believe the evidence given by the prosecutor and his wife. If they did, they must find the prisoner guilty ; if not, they must acquit him. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Justice Willes, after conferring with Mr. Justice Crowder, said that learned Judge entirely concurred with him in opinion that the pri over had been properly convicted. He had practised on the folly and weakness of the prosecutor and his wife, and thereby obtained front them as much as 221. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. SUBMARINE TELEG.RAPBS. An interesting paper on submarine telegraphs., by Mr. Brett, was read before the Royal Institution on Friday evening —the Duke of Northumberland in the chair. The author commenced by stating that he should confine himself to a narrative of the part he had taken in the promotion of submarine to!egraphs, and of the difficulties he had had to encounter in submerging them, particularly in the Mediterra nean. A mighty progress in science had led to the application of the power of electricity to telegraphic purposes, and the wide ocean had been spanned by this bond of intercourse. He disclaimed the merit of being the first to invent the submarine telegraph, but the idea occurred to him in 1845, when lie and his brother registered a plan for uniting America with eo a r n g d ed i , n the same year male a proposition to the Government to unite our colonies with the mother country ; but their offer not being accepted, they turned their attention to the continent, and received such encouragement from Louis Napoleon that in 1850 an experimental telegraphic wire was submerged between England and France. The *tither described the operation of laying it, and the excitement which attended the first op,ning of instantaneous communication between those coun tries. The.day after the line was laid it snapped asunder, but the possibility of communicating by a submarine w n .befor e telegraph lnanloBt h sh a 3e v rt i h n ae g nDc b to e mv e enoreri permanent Ostendli s hed, ietalwbi cable in length about 70 miles. The depths e viwnE n oaalirt i lols u aoup n inebd t gm e ;d red up to this time had been, comparatively speaking, trifling, the deepest part of the British Channelnot exceeding 50 fathoms. The next trial wos in the unknown depths of the Mediterranean. Comte; sions were granted to the author in 1854 by the French and Sardinian Governments to unite those countries with Africa, and the same year cables were successfully laid down between Piedmont and the island of Corsica, and between Corsica and Sar dinia—not, however, without many mishaps. He detailed some of them. The cable lay in the hold of a large steamer, and before paying out was passed several times round two large iron drums, to che.lk its progress when necessary. For a tome all went on welt, when suddenly the cable commenced run ning out with the utmost impetuosity, carrying everything before it, and causing the greatest alarm for the safety of the men in the hold, about 20 in number, engaged in hauling it out. About a couple of miles had run out before its fight could be arrested. When at length brought up by a sudden stop, it was found that the insulation of the line had been impaired, cinsequently the injured portion had to be recovered from the sea, and cut out, a difficult and laborious operation. The cause of the accident was the great weight of the length of cable in suspension when passing over a deep hole in the bottom of the sea. The submarine cable for connecting Sardinia with Africa in length 150 miles, and weighing 1,200 tons, was manufactured the same year, but the author found it impossible to obtain, either in this country or iu France, a steamer of s ufficiont size to lay it, all being engaged in consequence of the war. A large sailing vessel, towed by steamers, was employed, wIA ch becoming unmanageable, lost her course, and there was not sufficient cable to reach I<and. Under these circumstances it was determined to sever it, when about 26 miles had been paid out, and sive the re mainder for another attempt, which was made shortly afterwards from a steamer, and with a longer cable. Every precaution was taken on this i os dt t that h occasion; nevertheless, when about 60 miles had been submerged, another of those sudden and alarm ing runs of the cable oceu'red, curing, as b e f ore, the utmost anxiety for the, safety not only o f th e the ca but v ble lolent action the the insulation of the cable was impaired by the ac cident, and that the injured portion could not be oof pe th rs e on i s roa on coil. boa rdFeinx n; recovered from the sea at this end, to be cut out at before, it was decided to sever the cable, and re turn to Sardinia to recover it from the other end, which done the vessel steamed along under the ca ble until it reached the injured part, when a fresh join was made. This operation was successfully carried out, and considerable progress made, when the vessel was driven out of is course by currents, and again there was not enough cable t o reach land. Under these circumstances it was determined to buoy the end of the cable and telegraph to Eng -1 aid for more ; but while waiting the return of a steamer from Algiers, sent to procure A barge or lighter whereon to secure the cable, rough weather r u epr f r t rei o r scl e a e s r Tstdh aneegaad(fuloeittrilliinaoclrttillitimeeioeenspetrolleilreipdaclervodahrntiicio:hllyle,st are on, and a v i o l en t p l unge of the vessel severed ll o t vu l t i e ' d e ri t en h e ge e 'b ute l o e e o li tti t h t i e l l e i r t proved by the fact ' that depths o f near l y two mil , s laying the cable b3tween England and America. It is intended to attach the depots of the 28d Welsh Fusiliers, 821 Regiment, , 90th Light Infantry, and 93d Highlanders—the head-quarters of which are under orders to embark for China—;,o the Provisional Bat - talon, Chatham, as soon as room can he provided fn • them at that garrison. BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in. Cireulation during the Week ending Satur day, the t 4 day of March, 1357 : Average Amount. 11,408 10,576 PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G-. and T. Copeman Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbilry Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bath City Bank, Bath - -G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co Birmingham Bauk, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon OM Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— _ Hal ling, Smith, and Co 29,435 29,130 9,019 21,813 32,807 10,002 13,424 23,334 8,323 7,156 66,763 14,803 7,267 31,205 15,286 22,082 68,960 33,302 27,124 34,874 29,269 9,740 55,876 18,895 11,224 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Woriledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam• bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co 2,823 13,923 47,398 28,095 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coate and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bankc Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank,'"kon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby— W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Sniith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co )evonport Bank. Devonport— Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and- Co East Riding Bank, Beverley--,Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank. Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds--Beckett and Co. •• Leeds Union Bank, Leeds —W. Williams, Brown and Co. • Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewis Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and C 0... Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—St. Barba and Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire ,Bank, Lynn ' Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— . Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manning-tree Bank, Manningtree--Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hung Irford Bank,- Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monnionthshire Ag,ricUltural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank; Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross, and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Brornage, Snead, and Co 13,897 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell 24,830 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co 46,929 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny ! St Slocock 18,975 Newmark-tt Bank, Newmarket — Eaton, Ham. mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. gew Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. - Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons , and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton liridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire 'Pitney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverl,3y Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 48,215 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter -9,302 borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and 21,626 2,659 17,064 33,933 44,543 7,358 19,097 72,075 8,616 11,445 35,531 27,195 7,777 10,026 68,551 82,263 8,360 46,303 91,128 51,174 44,400 22,689 7,145 11,435 5,441 5,040 13,193 27,283 30,548 14,792 20,435 31,908 23,230 19,713 64,692 12,266 25,110 20,080 44,962 8,270 5,264 51,295 36,328 29,144 25,145 81,535 18,79 7,502 3,445 36,292 13,35 15,049 2,092 6,105 17,036 24,226 46,509 98,21 10,694 2,798 19,976 7,484 30,455 9,7& 8,044 10,416 11,962 28,188 W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and C 0..... Readily , Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, anddo. ... ............................................ 29,981 Richmond Bank, Richmond —Roper and. Co. 5,612 Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Roydß, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches. ter—Day and. Nicholson .... 7,207 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 14,808 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and 50n...... 8,792 Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, & C 0......., 12,297 Ross Old Bank, Heredfordshire, tOBB .- Allaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf. iron Walden—Gibsons and Co, ............... 32,246 3,950 3,963 NEW PUBLIC OFFICES. Country Markets. CHELMSFORD—MAIiau 20. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c in the port of London, from the following p March 16 to 21, both inclusive. I"; 4 .; I ,O q. 7 4 i 4 A o Colchester . Harwich Leigh Naldon , 370, 240 1 290 j 708 -)500 22 1605 ! - 250 KIRKCALDY—MARon 21. 50,32 5,19 tithlps at market... 1 92 609 I Sold. . 16 LOCAL SHARE MARKETB. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 22d inst., the Lady Amelius Wentworth Beauelerk. On the 19th inst., at Deerhurst Parsonage, Glocestershire, ;he wife of the Rev. George Butterworth. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 23d inst., at 7, Sussex-street, Warwick•square, th• wife of William Inkersole, Esq. On the 22d inst., at 27, Montague-street, Russell-squares the wifo of Charles Jack, Esq. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at the Church of the Assumption, War wick-street, Major the Hon. Henry H ug h Clifford, third son oft helight Hon. Lord Clifford, to Josephine Elizabeth, the daughter of the late Joseph Anstice, Esq. On the 19th inst., at Nice Lieut.-C,donel Hulme, com manding and Chevalier de la Legion d'lloneur9,sttoh ERmeginima,enys.:ungest surviving daughter ofJoseph S y k es , Esq., Ray well, Yorkshire. DIED. On the 21st inst„ at Hastings, J. Muggridge, of Newgated inarkel, aged 42 On he 22d inst. at Wilton-place, Kensington, Mrs, Stock. dale, widow of W illiam James Stockdale, Esq., formerly of Piccadilly, aged 68. On the 22d inst., at Finchley, Ann, daughter of tho late Rev. John Humphrys, LLD. On the 23d inst at 15, Hampstead-road, Elizabeth, wife of J. T. Burrow, aged 46. On the 22d inst., at Hemus-terrace, Chelsea, Miss Sarah Lundy, aged 62. On the 15th inst., at Hempriggs House, Caithness-shire, the Right Hon. Lady Duffus, aged 89. On the 21st inst., at Kingsland, Frances, relict of Mr. G. White, of Fenchurch-street, aged 84. On the 21st inst., at Berwick-upon-Tweed, suddenly, Gee. S. Brittain, Captain R.N. LONDON : Printed and Published by MI7RDO YOUNG. of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count' of Middlesex, Tuesday, March 24, 185 T. It will be in the recollection of our readers that a ',elect committee was appointed last session for the purpose of censidering the present stets of the public offices. The committee repotted that it was most desirable fur the public service, both as re gards economy and efficiency in the transaction of business that there should be a concentration of the public offices, and that such concentration should be effected in the immediate vicinity of Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament. Soon after this report was presented to the House of Commons the session closed, and the First Commissioner of Works, act ing upon the substance of that report, issued no tices that specifications would be drawn up, in ac cordance with which surveyors, engineers, and ar chitects might send in plans consisting of, first, a blo.ee plan for laying out the whole of the ground between the back of Richmond -terrace ; the front of the Irish office and Downing -street on the with, Great George-street and Wtsttninster-hall on the south, the Thames on the east, and St. James's park on the west ; secondly, a plan for a new fo reign-office ; and, thirdly, a pl an f or a new war de parqm-nt, the sites of both of which were to be between Downing -street and Charles-street. These specifications were accompanied with a map of the ground, which was to he dealt with in the block plans to be sent in. Various premiums were offered to competitors, and a comp-ti Von was opened to the whole world. A material item in theinstructions as regards the block plen was, that the site of West" mitts: er-bridge should form aprincip d feature in any design to be sent in. The time allowed for com pleting these designs was limited as regards artists resident within Great Britain to Friday, March 20, and as regards other artists the period was ex tended to tlie 4th Apt il. All the designs were to be sent to Westminster-hall. For the last few days a person has been stationed there to receive the plans, and as the clock struck 12 on Friday night the doors of the hall were closed. The scheme of open competition has been thoroughly successful, notwithstanding the opposition th a t wa s offered when the First Commissioner determined upon it. No less than 188 competitors have entered the lists, some of whom, it is believed, have sent in designs fur each of the prize s ; and when the fruits of foreign genius are received, the great hall, which is to be the scene of these results of artistic skill, will be sbarcely large enough to hold the plane. It is intended that there shall not be any dis tinction as to place between the British and the foreign productions. They will be arranged indis criminately, so that no favour may be shown to either the ore or the other. As aeon as elle 4th of April has passed away, the plans al ready sent in, and those to be then received, will be opened, and within a fortnight afterwards it is expected that arrangements will be so completed that the public will be admitted to view this inte resting exhibition of the talent of all nations. The wheat trade to-day was somewhat dull , at barely last week's prices. Barley■ were scarce, and being in request for seed must bo quoted Is, dearer. All other things un altered in value. Wheat, white, old, per s. S. T S. °/%., qr. 34 72 I Oats, per qr 24 3 0 new 37 71 1 Peas, Partridge 41 43 red, old 32 62 White 39 46 new.... 32 62 B o ili ng 39 45 Barley 35 46 D un 37 3 ! Chevalier 4O 54 B eans , Tisk .35 ' 3 ,' Grinding 35 46 H arrow ti c k s 39 41 , Malt 73 77 Mazagan 34 , 3 4 Chevalier 75 79 Ditto, new... 31 '' COLCHESTER— MARCH 21. A good supply of wheat, and only a limited business wai done, at rather lower prices. Barley not much inquired for, and prices were is per qr. lower on all descriptions. Beans and peas at an advance of is per qr. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 60s to 665; red, 50s to 58s; barley, 44s to 505 ; oats, 22s to 28s ; beans. Arazagan, 34s to 36,5; middle and small, 363 to 44e; P.m"' white, 38s to 42s ; grey, 38s to 425. ~ received nis, from d g 'r4 12 5 9 2 5 9 20 11 :--- 125,1037 To-day we had fair supplies of wheat, barley, and oats. Sales not so brisk. Prices generally in favour of the put' chaser. First Wheat. s ea o t d I 4 13 6 a s rle li r d 3 2Oas Oats. 35 05 " 114 Second Third 3os Od 1 331 01 1 20s Od 1 Oa Od Oatmeal, 363 to 38s per bag of 2801 b. GOAL MARKET.—Miatcu 23. Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market. 8. d. Wellsend, eta. Tanfield Moor Butes 13 0 1 4 . Holywell l5 6 &ugh Hall 16 S Wallsend, Ste. roes l7 6 South Hetton . 17 3'Coundon Tees l5 3 Northumberland 14 9 laswell 17 6 Riddell l4 9 South Kelloe 1 6 ! Belmont 15 6 Hartlepool l7 0 LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Th e mar k e t i s ac ti ve , a nd price's about stationary. London and North Western, 104U — Eastern Counties, 10g—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 'Ditto, 91., 15-16 pm.—E as t L ancas hi re, 974 Midland, 81# —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 38. i g —Grand Trunk of Canada, In—South Eastern, 22 1 g—North Eastern' Berwick Capital Stock, 211-- Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1i pm, —Whitehaven and J urness, 7 11-16.—Blackbta ll s 13f. MANCHESTER, MARCH 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was moderately active, with rather an improvement on the current rates of SO' turday, closing strong. Great Western of Canada, 26g — East Lancashire, 97/ —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1001 Ditto, new 91., par—Midland, 82 1i x. d.—South Eastern, 22 7-16 i d.—Sheffields, 38,—Union Plate Glass, 25. BIRMINGHAM, MAncn 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was doing a pretty fair business to-day. London and North Western, 1014 —Ditto, Eighths, 3-16 4 dia.—Great Western, Birming• ham pref., 19 101 —Birmingham Bank, Ai —Birmingham Fire, 10J--Crystal Palace, 24. 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