The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

ittiirbt X'Zifition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALL.S'—(This Evening.) NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. 4 to 1. aget Borderer 4 to 1 aget Janet 6 to 4 about the two, coupled (taken) GOOD WOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 aget Rosati (taken) . 10 to 1 aget Martinet 100 to 6 aget Gunboat 100 to 7 agst Barfleur 10 to 1 agat Fisherman 20 to 1 agst Hobgoblin 20 to 1 aget Van Dunck 25 to 1 aget Eloquence GOOD WOOD CUP. 6to 1 ag•t Anton (take 7to 1) 7to 1 aget (lemma di Vergy (offered) Bto 1 agat Florin 10 to 1 about Prior and Prioress coupled (taken) 100 to 8 aget Prior (15 to 1 taken freely) 100 to 6 aget St. Giles 20 to 1 aget Mongrel ST. LEGER. 2to 1 agst Blink Bonny 15 to 1 agst Drumonr PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. . The following circular has been addressed to anemhers of Parliament favourable to the Parlia mentary Oaths Bill : King's Arms Hotel, Old Palace-yard, July 20, 1857. Sir,—l am directed to inform you that Lord Pal merston will be happy to receive the Liberal mem bers of the House of Commons favou , able to the principle of the Parliamentary Oaths Bill, at Cam bridge House, to-morrow (Tuesday), at one o'clock, and respectfully to invite your attendance.i I further take the liberty of reminding you that the adjourned meeting of Liberal members will be held at three o'clock to-morrow (Tuesday), at the King's Arms Hotel, Palace-yard.—l remain, sir, your very faithful servant, SIDNEY SMITH. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE aF LORDS.—(This Evening.) The LORD CJBANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'cloc.);. OATH OF ABJURATION. Lord 0 A.MPBELL gave notice that to-morrow be should p - u't a question to his noble and learned friend (the Lori 4 Chancellor) respecting the appeal now pending of Salorrions v. Miler. Tae noble and learned lord al.o gave arotioe that to-morrow he should call the attention of the',r lordships to the abjuration oath as it at present SECOND RE &DINGS. 'On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills were read a second time :—London and South -I.Vestera Railway Acts Amendment.; New Qoay Pier and Harbour Railway ; Norfolk Estuary Estuary Acts Amendment ; Reading Railway Junction ; Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ; Stockport, Di4ey, and Whaley BriJge Ra lway ; Swan sea Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock ; Denthorp Turnpike Trusts ; Great Yarmouth Water ; Salford Borough (No. 1) ; Taff Vale Railway ; Bourne and Essender. Railway, Conistone Railway, Clyde Navi gation, Elie Harbour, Hamilton and Strathaven Rail way, .Lovrstoft and Burgh, St. Peter, Ferry and Roads, Paltenay Town Harbour, Richmond and Kew Exten 410'1 Rail way, Rhymney Railway, Tweod Fisheries, Vict6rit, Gas, Whitebaven and Furness Junction Rail way. grad Mersey Conservancy and Dock. THIRD READINGS. Os the motion of Lord REDESDALE the I,llow ing 'Dille were severally read a third time and pa'sed ; Lur yes and Wick6eld Railway, 11tfaiow and Fermoy, an , 1 Great Southern and Western Railway, Baring's 11,vorc e Bury Gas, Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1), S !lby darket, Weghton Market Turnpike Trust, West f.iorrierset Mineral Railway, Newton and Maclayalleth Railway, Prestwich, Bury, and Radcliffs Roads ; Shrop shire Union Railway and Canal • London and North- Western Railway, and Shropsh ire Canal Companies : Dundalk and Euni.killen Railway, East Somerset Rail way, Stratford-upon-Avon Gas, and Dartmouth and Torbay Railway. TrIAIViES CONSERVANCY BILL. Lord ST. LEONARDS moved the second reading of thi. bill. Th.. olject of the hill was to settle the dis puted rights of the Crown to the soil between high and low uater mark. The B3ard of Conservancy, to be ap pointed by the bill, would be invested with the rights of the Crown as well as those of the City. The Corporation bad expended upwards of 50,0001. in the irnprovemtut of the river Thames, and had not received the slightest coropimsation. Thin Duke cf NEWCASTLE ohkc'ed to the recnrid read'atg of the bill, on the ground that the Board of COD vervancy were utterly incompetent to discharge the iwljortaut duties that were to be entrusted to them. He aeked again of their lordships who had been down the ri ter ,as far as Blackm a il, to re fl ec t up on th e state of the river between that place and London bridge. He wished to know whether it was to be allowed to de generate into a filthy sewer, for, if it was so, it was greatly to be feared tbat, during the hot weather, if aranething was not done to improve the river, a frightful plague might be occasioned by the effluvium that arose at low water. The first step towards the improvement of the river was to em• bank it, as that was the only way to effect any lasting Improvement. In the hill there was no general plan laid down for the eff,ctual discharge of the duties that were to be conferred upon them, and they woull therefore become wholly irresponsitle. (Hear.) He was sorry the Government should not oppose the bill after the Board of Trade bad reported against the bill. (Hear, hear ) This bill was considered to be a private bill, but it nevortherless was one of the greatest importance, and he called upon their lordships, if they valued the health of the metropolis, to reject it, and with this view he moved that,the bill be read a second time that day three months. L and CAMPBELL said he had not had time fully to consider the bill, but he believed the right of the City to the right of the soil between high and low water mark was open to much suspicion. _ _ Earl GRANVILLE . said by the Paisting law the Corporation was undoubtedly the sole conservator of the river Throe's. The bill was merely one of cotnprc time hi regard to the rights of the Crown, and as far as he could see be thought the arrangement a fair one. After a few words from the Duke of NEWCASTLE and Lord ST. LEOZIARDS, their lordships divided, when there appeared— For the second reading of the bill Against it ... 44 Mai .)T ity [LEFT SITTING.] ~ -39 HOUSE OF COIVINIONS—(I'his Evening.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bilh were considered, and agreed to :—Brighton Ferry Docks; Glas gow City and Suburban Gas ; Scottish Central Railway ; Stamford and Essendine Railway ; and Victoria (Lon don) Docks'. Ley's Divorce Bill, and Smith's Divorce Bill were read a third time and passed. The Edinburgh, Canongate, and Montrose Annuity Tex Abolition Bill was read a second time. SHEPHERD'S DISABILITIES RE NIOVAL BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. FITZ ROY, chairman of the committee for private bills called the attention of the house to the circum stances connected with the bid, and asked their advice for his future guidance It appeared that Mr. Shepherd took orders in America, and officiated there as a Protestant clergyman for some time. Finding his health impaired by the climate, be returned to England, and on its re-establish ment he went back to America. He c ntinued there till he found a second time that the climate of America would not agree with his health, and he bad again t o return to England. His health was now be removedire-established, and he now asked by this bill to removed of Ills disability so as to hold preferment within her M a j esty ' s dominiOns. There were two acts In existence which prevented his holdieg preferment in the Church of England, viz. the 26th Geo. 111., and an act passed in 1810. Since 1843 there had been four similar applicatione, atid he (Mr. Fitzroy) wished to know if the house would consent to the law being put aside in this way, or whether it would alter the general law in reference to this subject? After a discussion, in which Mr. Foster, Mr B the Estcourt, and Mr. Kinn a i r d took part a Col. W. PATTEN urged that the house ought not to make an exception in Mr. Shepherd's case, but rather alter the general rule. Mr. GLADSTONE thought this a matter for general legi,l,tion. It was hard that a Protestant Episeu pal clergyrn:n of America shotild be under a s t atutory disqualification ; w hilst "Jumpers," " Shaken," a n d even " Mormons" might, if they came to this Country and conformed to the Episcopal Church, be ordained and admitted into the Church. He also referred to the anomalies relative to the validity of ordination in con nection with the Romish Church, and said be thought it was high time to alter the general law on this ques tion. Sir G. GREY considered it was hi ;It time to get rid of not only the anomalies, but the absurdities connected with the validity of ordination. He thought the house ought to pass the present bill. After some remark s from Mr. ROEBUCK, The bill was read a second time. FALKIRK BURGHS. Sir J. PAKINGTON brought up the report of the committee to inquire into the validity of the return of Mr. J. Merry for Falkirk burghs. ,Tae committee were of opinion that the election was void on the ground of bribery and treating through Mr. Metry's agents, hut without hie knowledge or consent. The committee further reported Mr. Merry's election expenses were returned at 2,436 i., that the election auditor only allowed 1,611/., li tot oxi W ; Id 014 l3O A "14 OVD Ay enable to state who had paid the ba• Laneter RR' DPORT ELECTION. The SPEAKER annonoced that the petition against the return for Bridport had hi , en withdrawn. RETURNS. and 0, Piece Several unopposed returns were granted without opposition, INDIA. Mr. ROEBUCK asked the Vice-President of the Board of Control whether the Government or the East India directors had received a telegraphic communica tion from India, stating that the Bombay Army had mutinied? He was induced to put the question from the statement he had seen in one of the daily papers. Mr. V. SMITH said that neither the Government nor the East India Company had received any such com munication. In consequence of the great excitement that naturally prevailed in reference to Indian affairs, he begged to state the present means of communication be twe,n the two countries. There were two mails a month; and as soon as they arrived at Suez, a short account of the contents of the mils were telegraphed to Trieste, and from thence to this country, in anticipation of their delivery. He was at a loss to conceive how it was the rumour referred to had originated. (Hear. hear.) He had no wish to interfere with the manner in which the respectable editors of the press in this country conducted their business, but he hoped after what he bad said relative to the means of communication between the two countries; that they would be cautious how they received rumours of this kind, which necessarily caused much uneasiness to the public. (Hear, hear.) He did not place the least reli ance in the rumour alluded to, and his impression was —from the last account—that there was no disaffection in the Bombay and Madras armies. (Hear, hear.) SAVINGS BANK BILL. _ _ Mr. BAXTER asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, cJosidering the advanced period of the session, and the fact of their being 30 amendments to the Savings Banks Bill on the notice paper, he would consent to withdraw that measure, and refer the whole subject to a select committee I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he did not consider the state of pnb!ic business would permit his bringing on the Savings Bank Bill this seas ion. The bill, at a subsequent period, was withdrawn. CAVALRY FOR INDIA. Capt. VIVIAN asked the Under Secretary for War whether it was true that the order to send additional cavalry from this country, on account of the news which was brought by the last mail from India, had been re scinded or suependedl Sir J. RAMSDEN eaid that two regiments of cavalry had been for Borne time under orders fur India. A third regiment was afterwards ordered for India, but that order had been recently su.pended. CRIMINAL LUNATICS. _ Mr. J. EWIRT asked the Secretary of State for the Home department, whether it was the intention of the Government to establish asylums to be e xclusively de voted to the confinemei.t of criminal lanatick.? Sir G. GREY said it was, and reminded the hon. member that a vote had been taken this session for the purchase of a site for that puronse. GREAT YARMOUTH HAVEN. Mr. WATKIN asked the Secretary to the Treasury if the attention of Government has been directed to the importance and facility of making Great Yarmouth Haven a harbour of refuge ; and whether he was pre- pared to order evidence to be taken and a report to be made on the suhj-ct, and to lay such report before the committee on harbours of refuge ? Mr. WILSON said that the committee now sitting would, no doubt, take evidence on that part of the coast as well as the other, hut he was not aware that it was the intention of the committee to orderits inspection. REFORM OF THE LITURGY. Mr. WALPOLE asked Lord R. Grosvenor if be in tended to proceed to-morrow week with his motion rela tive to a reform of the liturgy I Lord R. GROSVENOR said that, in consequence of the misconception relative to the scope and purport of his motion, he should be obliged to bring it on on the 28th. Should the motion meet with opposition, he should not press the house to a division, but postpone its further proceeding, in order to bring it forward at a more convenient seagon next Reqgion. ANNUITY TAX (SCOTLAND) BILL. In answer to a question from Mr. ELLICE, son , The LORD ADVOCATE stated that he would to morrow state what course he would take in reference to this bill. THE RUSSIAN TARIFF. In annwPr to a queßtion from Mr. NEWDEGATE, LJrd PALMEIiSTON said that he had received a communication from Lord Wodehouse, stating that the revised Russian tariff was published in the Russian language. It was the intention of the Russian Government to publish a translation of it in the French language, and as soon as it was issued he (L rd Wodehouse) would transmit a copy of it to this country. DIVORCE, &o , BILL. In reply to a question from Lord J. MANNERS, Lord PALMERSTON said it was his intention to proceed with the Divorce, Ric'., Pill on Friday next. b:UPPLY. • On the bringing up of the report of supply by the CHANCELLOR of the EX.CREQUER, Mr. BENTLNTCK called the attention of the house to the state of the naval and military defence.; of the country. [LEFT SPEAKING.] L'ANGELIER A SUICIDE. (From the Medical Times.) The presiding judge, caught, probably, by the advocate's sophi4try, fell into a similar train of rea soning, in the course of which he showe I a very general ignorance of the cDnduct and motives of suicides. The fa-it that L'Angelier sent for a doc tor, or rather allowed one to be sent for, and that he did not proclaim himself a suicide, argued, as the judge thought, that the man wasn't a suicide. Our psychologists will give us another reading. They will tell us that such proceeding is a mirke 1 s . gn of the mania of suicide ; and what most sui cides instinctively do when they hive brought on sympt imS, without death, is to send for a clec - or, and ei her to say nothing about, or even to deny, their own deeds. This is a natural sequencs of suicide. The act, however long premeditAted, is sudden and determined at last. Let it succeed, and the suicide can do no more ; let it succeed in part only, and when the agony of body approaches, the mania for death disappears. The desire still ta live increases with each pang that proclaims remaining lifr. nen the horror of the act and the shame de• ve'op as the impulse for destruction disappears. So —longing for life and shrinking from exposur., what more instinctive than that the suicide should send for relief, and suppress or deny his crime ? We are not writing theory here ; for if we were wo should be spelking as rashly as did those we would criticise. We speak from observat ou and fact in cases of suicide. Another strong point is, that the amount of ar senic taken by the deceased is in favour of suicide. From the proportion found in the stomach after death, it is probable that the real quantity swal lowed would have required for its solution nearly two quarts of any ordinary drink. Row could L'Angelier have been induced to drink any such quantity ? or, how could it have been given in the sold form without his knowledge ? Any way to connect the prisoner and the crime, after the evidence that was adduced, was impossible. It is true she bought poison —arsenic twice—aild that she tried to buy prussic acid. Ali h well. What d;d she want with them, say you, except to poison L'Angelier ? Let us see. She says that she used the arsenic as a cosmetic, but the prussic acid she does not account for. Let these facts pa-s. Let the scoundrel L'Angelier also move off the scene for a moment. Now what is the picture in the weeks preceding L'Angelier's death ? •A ruined hopeless girl, wrung with s grow, mad with rage at her own folly and sin, dying with fear at her father's wrath, educated by her seducer to the idea that suicide is morally right, thinking death better than exposure. This is the picture. And now let us ask whether, in such an hour of despair or temporary madness, the poisons might nut have been intended for a much more deeply injured and broken-hearted vic tim than Emile L'Anpelier ? The Patrie reports the total loss of the French ship of war Newton in the new harbour of Portau-Choix, Newfound land. CRYSTAL PALACE. —HALF-A- CROWN DAY.-00 Sa turday, the admissions on payment were 5,838 ; by sea son tickets, 2,296 ; total visitors, 8,134. nTHE CONVICT JIMMISON.—This wretched woman, who was convicted on Monday last, before Mr. Baron Chan nel', at the Yorkshire assiz-is for the cruel murder cf her child at Mooresholme, will undergo the extreme penalty of the law, on Saturday the Sth of August, should no reprieve or respite arrive in the meantime. Letters trots Castlebar state that the news of Mr. Moore's eviction from the House of Commons had creat ed tremendous excitement there. Lord John Browne immediately commenced an active canvass, in which he is said to have been most successful. Col. Higgins is tinnily expected, and everything portends a bitter con test. Great Northern Railway stock has shown great firm duri ng th e l ast f ew d ays, ow i ng t o th e anticipation that the company must now commence their purchases to extinguish the stock fraudulently over-issued by Red patb. As the ordinary and A stocks are still at a dis count—though in th e t ormer case at a very tr ifli ng one —it is presumed that there can be no legitimate motive for delay. [ADVERTISEMEN T , ] -11 olloway'e0intment and Pills. — Pain ig the premonitor of death ; relieve the p ain and you check the disease. These remeies are the marvel of the age, and the combination of rare medicinal sub. stances, the wonderful cures effected by there daily have estatlished them as two of the finest preparations ever made known. It is an astonishing fact that they will heal and cure ulcers of twenty years standing, and all cutaneous eruptions readily yiel,l to their mighty power —even after every treatment has been resorted to in effectually.—Sold by all medicine venders' throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, Loudon, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Gaietantinople ; A, Guidicy, Smyrna; and E, Muir, Malta. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following is the Royal Marine Contingent under orders to prepare for embatkation to China : —4 cad,tain., 5 first lieutenants, 4 second lieuten ants, 17 sergeants, 16 corporals, 4 drummers and buglers, and 300 privates from each division— Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Woolwich ; and 1. captain, 4 first lieutenants, 5 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 buglers, and 80 privates and gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery—total, 1,500. The staff of this battalion will consist of Brevet-Colonel Holloway, L. H., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, commanding ; Lieutenant-Colonels Walsh and Hooker ; Captain J. 0. Travers (already on the station by special order of the Admiralty), Brigade-Major ; Lieut. J. C. Travers, Acting Adju tant of the Ist Battalion ; Lieut. H. N. C. Blanck ley, Acting Adjutant of the 2d Battalion ; Lieut. C. W. Carrington, acting quartermaster of the Ist Battalion ; and Lieut. C. Gill, acting quartermaster of the second battalion. Three medical officers will be attached to each battalion. Colonel Holloway commanded the marine battalion in the expedition to Kertch. A new system of training naval cadets is about to come into operation afloat, in pursuance of the pro visions of an Admiralty circular dated the 23d of February last. The Illustrious, 72, Captaiii Robert Harris, is being fitted with accommodation by the dockyard artificers at Portsmouth for the first instalment of naval cadets who received nomina tions on the Ist of May to pass on the sth of August. The Illustrious is, we believe, to be stationed off Blockhouse, near the Gosport shore, which affords room alike f.r nautical observations and aquatic exercises. The appointment of the Rev. R. M. Inskip, chaplain and naval instructor on board her Majesty's ship Victory to be chaplain and, ff, st naval instructor to the cadets has been made. The cadets are to remain in the Illustrious different periods, proportioned to their ages, those of 13 re maining 12 months. and those verging upon 15 only six months. Their course of study comprises Euclid, algebra, nautical astronomy, French, and drawing, and their practic tl course (which is the primary object of placing them in a training ship heals sending them on sea service) will consist of instruction in rigging ships, managing boats, and the general principle of manoeuvring ships at sea, thus furnishing the ground work on which their fu ture professional knowledge is to be based. The cadets thus placed in the Illustrious may still be considered under probation, as the circular expresses that should they have to pass the required exami nation out of the training ship, or should they seri ously misconduct themselves or show unfitness for the navy, the Admiralty have reserved to them selves the right to discharge them. The cadets will be allowed to count only three months' time for the training ship, and will be permitted to pass for lieutenant after five years' service, including the three months, provided they have passed the inter mediate examinations, which have been judiciously arranged to insure a steady progression both in science and seamanship. Captain Harris has long been engaged in training the "novices" for the fleet. The Actaeon, old 26, surveying vessel, Captain Bate, with her tender, Dove, screw gun-boat, Lieu tenant Bullock, left Simon's Bay, May 30, with the French brig Le Genie, for China. The Alacrity, Inttepid, Lapwing, Lynx, and Viper, screw gun-vessel., at Devonport, are ordered to be rigged as three-masted schooners, and pre pared for commission. The Frolic, 6 sailing-sloop, Acting Commander L. W. Peyton, arrived at Devonport, on. Saturday, from the Cape of Good Hope. She left Simon's Bay on the 11th of May, and was towed clear of the land by the Shannon, 51, screw, Captain W. Peel. C. 8., the Shannon proceeding to Singapore, and Frolic to Table Bay. She is ordered to Chat ham to be paid off. The Hastings, 60, screw block-ship, Captain W. R. Mends (1852), sailed from Devonport on Fri day, for Liverpool, to be employed there as a coast guard training ship. The Megaera, 6, screw, Commander Purvis, left Simon's Bay, April 30, for the Mauritius, with stores and troops. On her return she will take 600 men to Calcutta, as orders for that service and destination for hPr, instead of returning to England, will have reached the commander-in-chief by that time. The Mohawk, 4, screw gun-vessel, at Devonport, is haling her rg shifted to that of a square-rigged vessel ; artificers are woik'ng extra time to com plete her as soon as possible. The Orion, 91, Captain Erskine, at Colon, June 20, was to procaed shortly to Jamaica. The Pelorus, 21, new screw corvette, recently launched. at Devonport, was commissional on SA lurday by Captain F. B. P. Seymour (1851), for service in the East Indies. The Pluto, 4, paddle, Lieut. Commander W. Sgin? , urna, having had her defects made good at Devonporr, sailed bn Friday for the west coast of Africa, t eking a mail; The Satellite, 21, screw, Captain Provost, was at Vancouvet's Island, on her important mission ; her consort, the Plumper, 12, screw, Capt. Richards, had not overtaken her. She had broken her shaft and was laid up at Rio. The Shannon, 51, screw frigate, made her pas sage to the Cape in 52 days under sail, having ex perienced fine weather all the way. Two fatal ac cidents occurred on board during the passage—Mr. Coaker, master's assistant, fell from aloft, struck the fore chains, and fell dead into the water ; and the other, George Brown, a boy of the first class, who fell from aloft inboard, and was killed. But for the admirable facility afforded by Clifford's plan of lowering beats, with which the frigate was fitted, the body of the unfortunate young officer could not have been recovered, nor the life of another boy, who fell overboard, have been saved. On both occasions the vessel was going at from eleven to twelve knots under all sail, notwithstanding which the boat was manned and lowered in little more than a minute. JThe Vulcan, 6, iron troop frigate, Commander ohn Seccombe, is undergoing a thorough repair at Portsmouth, when she will be well coated with Hay's composition, which will enable her to aye rage nine knots an hour. She is p.ogresQing under her new pendant with all possible dispatch. The Calabar freiehtship sailed from Portsmouth nn Saturday afternoon with the third portion of the 88th for India, as fully reported there. The Sparrowhawk, 4, steam gun-vessel, was com missioned at Portsmouth on Saturday by Comman der J. C. Byng for foreign service. The Roebuck and Assurance, sister vessels, • were also commis sioned on Saturday by Commanders Marten and Aynsley. Major Anderson's E troop of Royal Horse Ar tillery, under or3ers for India, arrived at head quarters, Woolwich, at 7 o'clock on Saturday even ing, from Dublin. The whole of the artillery force destined for India will assemble at Woolwich f r embarkation, and at present three troops of Royal Horse Artillery, and six companies of various b Ittalions, are under orders. It is not con templated at present to seed out any of the heavy ordnance. The Royal Artillery Regiment was on Saturday morning paraded in front of Headquarters, Wool wich, and was formed into column, for the purpose of witnessing the distribution of the Sardinian medals. Colonel Bloomfield, aide-de-camp to the Queen, doing duty as commandant of the garrison, attended by his staff, arrived on the parade ground at nine o'clock, and having inspected the column addressed himself to the offi cers and rcen about to receive the decoration, re marking at some length on the importance of this distinction conferred by the King of Sardinia to mark his estimation of their valour in the Crimea. He had been delegated, he said, by her Majesty to distribute the medals with every formality which might tend to impress upon them the value of the decoration as well as to stimulate their comrades in the exertion to obtain a similar reward. The gallant colonel then banded the medals in the following order—to Major-General J. E. Dupuis, C. 8., Lieut.-Col. H. J. Thomas, Lieut.-Col. E. B. Hamley, Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. C. Fortescue, Bre vet Lieut.-Col. C. S. Henry ; Brevet-Majors H. P. Yates, G. Shaw, G. C. Henry, L. W. Pen, and E Taddy ; Lieut. E. J. Ward, Lieut. F. A. Anley ; J. Hamilton, retired captain in the Land Transport Corps ; Sergeant M. Hunter, and gunner T. Ar thur. The entire number appointed to receive the decoration amounts to 1 general, 7 colonels, 19 majors, Pi lieutenants, 2 surgeons, and 15 non-com missioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artil lery, the renn &rider of whom areon home or foreign stations, and to whom the medals are to be for warded. The freigbtship Regina saled from Woolwich on Saturday, laden with military stores and ammuni tion for C ipe Town. The military store department at Woolwich have commenc3d despatching greased cartridges (marked, " For the European troops") for embarkation on board the freightships Monarch and Blenheim, at Gravesend, destined for India ; and also five other ships, loading in the London Docks, for the same destination, in the service of the East India Company. The freightsbip Spartan, in the London Docks, is 13 , ing laden with Ordnanceatores from Woolwich for Hong Kong, and the John Brie, for the Cape of Good Hope. The screw blockship Hastings, 60, Capt. W. N. Mends, left Plymouth on Friday evening for Liver- po , ‘l. OnFriday 6 officers and 160 rank and file of the Royal Horse Artillery arrived at Dublin from the Camp at the Curragh, and were inspected by Gen. Dacres. The troops embarked at about 4 o'clock on board the City of Dublin Company's steamer Prince, and proceeded direct to Woolwich, where they will remain a short time prior to their le tying for India. A number of extra hands have been entered in the Royal Arsenal, and workmen are employed extra hours, in c'msequence of the urgent demand for preparing ammunition, and especially Minis rifle balls, for shipment to India. Immense stores of these articles are available. THE NEEDLES LIGHT HOUSE.—This important beacon is at length to be placed in a position where it can at almost all times be visible 30 miles from land. Many thousands of mariners have passed through this dangerous passage without ever hav ing seen the present lights at all. The first stone of the new lighthouse has been laid near the SW edge of the lower cliff, and when complete will be the greatest possible boon to the merchant service. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD FASTORY, AND GALLANT RESCUE BY THREE OF THE ENGINEERS. —An apprentice named Potam was, on Saturday, in the act of adjusting a strap in a cer tain position, to do which he had to mount a lad der, when his foot slipped and his right hand was caught under the drum. The poor boy's shrieks brought instantly to his assistance three of the en gineers, Sterrick, Hepworth, and Dyson, the first two of whom grasped the suffering Ltd by the legs and body, and so saved him from being whirled in among the machinery. It was a perilous moment for all. Dyson, with excellent presence of mind, drew his knife from his pocket and severed the "strap," thus by a "second" releasing the boy from a fearful death. He received instant medical attendance, and it was discovered that the poor lad's right arm was braen in two places, besides his lower limbs and body being seriously strained, owing to his being held by the men. He was taken to feaster Hospital, where, as a matter of course, he will receive the best medical aid and comfort. We will hope that the courage and presence of mind displayed by Sterrick, Hepworth, and Dyson, may be deemed worthy of consideration,at the hands of the proper authorities. The following appointments were made on Sa turday at the Admiralty : A. Anderson, W. C. Shuckburgh, G. F. H. Boy es, and T. Howes, midshipmen, to the Pylades ; E. B. Wadlow, K. kerr, C. A. G. Bridges, and B. S. Hamilton, midshipmen, to the Pelorusi; M. R. M. Griffiths, C. B. P. Kelso, and G. H. Law son, naval cadets, to the Pylades ; G. Borton, W. E. Garnett, and John Anderson, naval cadets, to the Pelorus ; John C. Sabben, surgeon, to the Vulcan ; W. E. Hambly, surgeon, to the Firefly; A. Mitchell, surgeon s to the Pylades ; P. Slevin, surgeon, to the Pelorus ; J. P. Johnson, surgeon, to the Mohawk ; D. J. Dingair, surgeon, to the Assurance ; J. T. Cuddy surgeon, to the Roebuck; F. T. Johns, to the Sparrowhawk ; W. Dickson, to the Chesapi-ake ; W. T. Carr, assistant-surgeon, to the Chetsapeake ; W. B. Adam, assistant-surgeon, to the Fisgard • C. Morton, assistant - surgeon, to the Victory ; NI. Magill, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Vulcan; J. Patterson, assistant surgeon, to the Pylades ; R. Edwardes, assistant-sargeon, to the Pelorus ; G. B. Jenkins, assistant-surgeon, to the Chesapeake ; A. Jeffrey, paymaster, to the Pylades. RAILWAY INTBLLIOENOE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The half-yearly report of this company, to be presented to the proprietors on Friday next, has just been issued. It states the amount of capital raised to the 30th of June, 1857, is 7,797,2151., consisting of mortgage debt, 1,9t2,9351.; deben ture stock, 1,000/.; preference capital, 1,24,726/. ; consolidaeed stock, 4,618,5541. The total capita outlay during the past half-year has been 6,5231. The principal part of this sum has been expended in the completion of the telegraph, which now ex tends over every part of the company's lines, and in the construction of works, &c , necessary for the public accommodation. The amount of unexpended capital at this date being only 1,068/., and there being several works which cannot longer be delayed without injury to the traffic, it becomes the dory of the directors, in accordance with the intimation conveyed in their last report to call upon the pro prietors to sanction an application to Parliament for powers to raise a further sum of 200,0001. It has been so often demonstrated that business can only be developed and carried on with safety and advantage by a proper increase of the requisite ap pliances, that the directors do not feel it necessary to revert to the matter further than to assure the proprietors that, while asking them to approve of this application to Parliament, they will take care that no part of the amount is expended without the prospect of a satisfactory return ; in the mean time, they do not anticipate that any large portion will be imrnediAtely required, but in applying for such powers, they think it better to provide for contingencies which may arise. The gro,s revenue for the half-year has been 349,2241., showing an increase of 6,5461. over the corre-ponding half-year of 1857. On examining the details, it is satisfactory to find that, although in - the corresponding half year of 1856 a very large revenue was derived from the Naval Review at Shithead, the peace festivities, and the return of the army and navy with their munitions of war, during the past half-year the traffic has reached an amount higher than that of the period in which those unusual sources of revenue occurred, a result exceeding any expectation which could have been reasonably formed. The proprie tors will be glad to learn that there is every reason to believe that the West-end line will be completed to the river side by the end of the year, and judg ing from the manner in which the local traffic thus far has developed itself, the directors look forward with confidence to the realisation of their expecte lions as regards that line of railway. The fine weather w hi c h prevailed during tee past half-year enabled the directors to proceed rapidly with the relaying 13& miles have been com deinngolYw remain 10 miles to finish pe tea ; nd a accordingly the main line throughout. This work is pro gressing, and will be executed before the end of the year. As previously announced the whole of this outlay is to be borne by revenue, which has been again debited with 3,0001. being the proportion due to the past half-year. The at tention of the directors has been heavily taxed during the current session of Parliament, by the animlaonpYpfo were new lines of ion i ntro d uc ti o n of bills affecting the interests of the company. In the case of two water companies, at billsj necessity were c t e a ssit bill introducediso fora line from Havant toagreed avoided. to, Brighton and Port - mouth, the protective arrange ments required by th and rFativl we thus aoyt, h ve t ri 1 viz.-Ist e y . Casham, with powers to tun over and use the joint Portsmouth line and terminus. On the promoters perceiving 'the serious opposition which the bill would encounter, the clauses conferring the powers in question were abandoned. 2 d. A line from Clapham to London-bridge containing powers enabling the promoters to take a portion of this company's London-bridge terminus. After two days' discussion before a committee of the House of Commons, the promoters withdrew from further contest. An excursion from the Mid Kent (Lewisham and Beckenham) line to Croydon, run ning parallel with this company's four lines of rail to that place. This scheme was also defeated in the House of Commons—a result which caused the abandonment of another scheme for a line from East Croydon to the Caterham junctions. The only , bill which the directors were not successful in op posing is one for a new— line to Epsom, stetting from the South Western line between Wimbledon and Maldon. This bill was granted, although it was clearly shown to be a competing line which had previously been rejected by Parliament, not only when this company's Epsom line was originally granted, but also in a subsequent session. The directors are, however, glad to perceive a general determination on the par( of the committees of the House of Commons to adopt, at last, the policy so clearly pointed out by the select committees, presided over by Mr. Glad stone and Mr. Cardwell, w bo recommended Parlia ment not to allow money to be wasted in the con struction of duplicate lines, inasmuch as competi tion in railways can only result in injury to the public as well as to the shareh olders. The d eparture in this instance from the principle acted upon in other cases can only be attributed by the directors to the little importance attached by Parliament to a small line of about five miles, but so strongly did other committees of the present session appear to coincide with the views enunciated in the report of Mr. Cardwell's committee of 1853, that in one of the cases, where a large competing line was re• jetted, the committee based their decision on the recommendation of that committee. The directors feel that the proprietors will be interested in again perusing the recommendation referred to, which is as follows :—" Your committee consider that the principle heretofore established at law, that an act of Parliament constitutes an engagement between the promoters on the one side and the public on the other, is a principle deserving of more considera tion than it has hitherto obtain ed as a g uide t o , future legislation. This princip le, ri g htl y under stood, conveys to the promoters no right that their privileges shall be exclusively maintained when they cease to be consistent with the general advantage ; but it does imply, that having be 'n authorised by the Legislature to construct expensive works for: public use, the reseurces from which their just re muneration was to spring shall not be taken away upon any other than clear grounds of public policy. The observance of such a principle is valuable tothe public as well as to the shareholders, since it is of importance to the whole community to develop by every Melia those communications on which the freedom and facility of trade, and the safety and convenience of personal loccmotion, now depend, and to ensure to a reasonable extent the Viability pf 12 VRN N _JLQ4Ygeh igSW the properly so invested." At the last balf-yearly meeting the arrangemeres entered into with the Mid-Sussex (Horsham to Petworth), and the Lewes iind Uekfield Companies were reported to and sanc tioned by the proprietors; the bills of those compa nies have subsequen•ly passel the House of Com mons, have been unatiimott&y approved by a spe cial meeting of this company, and have been read a second time in the House of Lords. The net amount at the credit of the revenue account for the half year is 115,9271 , out of which the directors re commend a dividend of 24 per c( n'. fur the half year, amounting to 115,4641., leaving a balance to the credit of the current half-year of 4631. TTIE MUTINEERS AT UMB ALLAH. The following is an extract from a letter, dated Umballati, May 14, written by Mr. Evans, the gentleman who, having been made the scapegoat of the practical jokers at Canterbury, has most credit ably redeemed his position in the army, and was appointed to the 9th Lancers on the recommenda tion of Sir W. Williams for his good services at Erzeroum :—" Perhaps this may give you the first intelligence of the disturbance in this part of India, which is now in a very unsettled state. Since Thursday, April 16, we have bad incendiary fires of frequent occurrence, without being able to find out the perpetrators. On the 16th a barrack and a hos pital were burnt clown, and since that almost every night up to last Sunday some building has been set on fire. The bungalows, being low thatched build ings, are easily set on fire, which it is impossible to extinguish in a place so sadly supplied with water as this station. The native troops for some time have been showing a discontented spirit, without breaking out into open mutiny. There are here two native infantry regiments, the sth and 60th, and one regiment of native cavalry—viz., the 4th Light, besides some Irregulars ; and we have only one regiment of Europeans—viz., the 9th Royal Lancers and two troops of horse artillery. Last Sunday, after we had returned from church and had just fini.hed our breakfast, at about 10 a m., the alarm sounded for the regiment to turn out. The men were lying in the barracks un dressed, and many of them asleep, but in an almost incredibly short time they were all on parade and mounted and fully equipped ; the artillery were ready nearly as soon. When on the parade ground we found that the 60th Native Infantry had mutinied and turned out with their arms, but we could not go down because they had their officers prisoners and threatened to shoot them if we came down ; bet that if we did not they would re turn quietly. If our men had had the chance to go in at them, they would have made short work of them, they are so enraged at having had so much niglitwork lately in consequence of the fires, which are all attributed to the sepoys. They (i.e., our men) only get about two nights a-week in bed. At twelve o'clock, noon, we were turned out again in consequence of th© sth Native Infantry having turned out ; but we were again disappointed. They appeared to think us too attentive, and returned to their barracks. Forth° last two nights tho wives of married officers are sent down to the canteen for better security. An officer remains at the main guard all night, and an Artillery officer with the guns which are loaded, and ammunition is served out to the men. Two patrols go out every hour, and all is alert. Yesterday three compa4ies of the 75th (Her Majesty's) marched in from Kusssowlee. They started at noon on Tuesday, and arrived at about 2 p.m. yesterday (Wednesday). The dis tance is 48 miles, a wonderful march under an Indian sun, when the thermometer was 92 to 94 degrees in the shade. They had not a single straggler." EXTRAORDINA' Y PHENOMENON. The following letter trona the Hon. Charles Murray, her Majesty's Envoy to Persia, has been handed to us for publication by Sir Charles Lyell : —" Bagdad, May 23, 1857. My dear Sir Charles, —We have lately witnessed her. a phenomenon so strange that a brief description of it may not be uninteresting to you. On the 30th inst., a few minuses before 6 p.m. (which is here about an hour before sunset), 1 wassitting with my Mirza reading some Persian letters, when on a sudden I became sensible of an unusual obscuration of the light on the paper ; I jumped up, and, going to the window, saw a huge black cloud approaching from the w•rth west, exactly as if a pall were being drawn over the face of the heavens. It must have travelled with considerable rapidity, for in less than three minutes we were enveloped in total darkness—a, darkness more , intense than an ordinary midnight when neither stars nor moon are visible. Groping my way amid chairs and tables, I succeeded in striking a light, and then, f-eling assured that a sitnoom of some kind was coming on, I called to my servants to come up and shut the windows, which were all open, the weather having been previously very sul try. While they were doing so the wind increased, and bore with it such a &lige volume of dust or sand that before they could succeed in closing the windows the room was entirely filled, so that the tables and furniture were speedily covered. Mean while a panic seized the whole city ; the Armenians and other Christian sects rushed through the gloom to confess and pray in the churches; women shrieked and beat their breasts in the streets, and the men of all classes prostrated themselves in prayer, be lieving that the end of the world had arrived. After a short time the black darkness was succeeded by a red lurid gloom, such as I never saw in any part of the world, and which I can only liken in imagina tion to the effect that might be produced if all London wera in a conflagration in a heavy Novem ber fog ; to me it was more striking (I may almost say fearful) than the previous utter darkness, and reminded me of that darkness visible' in which the poetic genius of Milton placed the demons and horrid shapes of the infernal regions, This Jurii fog was d , ,ubtless occasioned by the rays of the western sun shining obliquely on the dense mass of red sand or dust which hai been raised from some distant desert, and was borne along upon the blast. I enclose you a specimen of the dust. The Arabs here think that it came from the Nejd. The storm seems to have travelled in a circular direc tion, having appeared first from the south, then south-west, then west, then north-west. After about two hours it had so far passed away that we were able to open the windows again and breathe the outer air. It cannot have been a sinfoom, for during those which I have experienced in Atahia and Egypt the wind is hot and stifling. On the 20th the wind was high, but only oppressive from the dense mass of dust that it carried wi t h it."— Professor J. Quekett, of the Royal College of Sur geona, having kindly examined the specimen of Red dustf, om Belaclad which accompanied Mr. M urra y' s letter, has informed Sir Charles Lyell that he could detect, under the mitroscope, only inor gan i c p a .- t'cles, such as quartz sand, in the dust. l here are no relics of Diatomacem apparent ; and, though a small portion of calcareous matter was present in the sand, yet be could observe no microscopic shells or other organic matter.—Literary Gazette. THE CASE OF THOMAS FULLER BACON. This prisoner, who was tried a few sessions back at the Central Criminal Court, with his wife, for the murder of their two children, under circum stances which at the time attracted a good deal of public attention, will take his trial at the ensuing assizes at Lincoln for the murder of his mother, by poisoning with arsenic, and from facts that have transpired since the removal of the pi-oiler from the gaol of Newgate, the trial will doubtless create very great interest, as involving the question whe ther the prisoner be really guilty of the heinous offences of which he has been accused, or whether he has been the victim of unfoitunatecircumsta - nces. The circumstances under which the murder of hie mother was supposed to have been committed were involved in a great deal of mystery, and there is very little doubt that the decision of th e coroner ' s jury was a good deal influenced by the disclo-area that took place upon the subsequent inquiry relative to the death of the prisoner's child ren, and the astounding fact has come to light within the last few days that Mrs. Bacon has admitted that she herself ad m i n i s t ere d th e p o i so n to her mother-in law. The details of the statement made by the unfortunate woman, have, of course, not been permitted to appear; indeed, there is a good deal of reserve upon the subject, as it is hardly known at.present what course the authorities in tend to take in the matter. It will be recollected that the principal evidence against the husband upon the charge of murdering his mother consisted of proof of the p nic h ase o f arsen i c, an d th a t lus ex planation of the c i rcumstance was t h a t the poison was purchased with a v i ew t o d es t ro y the rats with which his house was infested. The female prisoner now states that this was the fact, and she says that she her: elf administered the arsenic to the old woman, and that h er h us b an d k n ew nothing about it. It is understood that she has stated other cir cumstances which teed very strongly to show that she is speaking the truth, and there appears to be very little doubt that the state of her mind, at times, is such that she may have acted under a bort of uncontrollable impulse, and have been hardly aware of the consequences inquisition, a her acts. Besides the coroner's a bill for murder would, in the ordinary course, be presented against the prisoner Thomas Bacop ; but the whole matter will be disposed of by one trial, • and if th e i nqu i r i es s till p en ding should tnd to substantiate thestatement of the wife of theprisoner, it • is probable that no evidence will be offered against the prisoner, and that he wilt be discharged - without having to undergo the ordeal of another trial.—Dispatch. ASSIZE ENT EZZWENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, JULY 18. (Before Mr. Baron Watt. .) MIDDLETON V. WHEATCROFT. —SEDUCTION. Mr. Hill, Q C., and Mr. Jones were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Overend, Q.C., for defendant. Mr. Jones opened the pleadings. Sarah Middle ton was the plaintiff, and Thomas Wheatcroft the defendant. The action was for seduction, and the declaration alleged that the defendant seduced the plaintiff's daughter. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and that Rachel Middleton was not the ser vant of the plaintiff. Mr. Hill stated the case. The plaintiff is a widow, who was left with three daughters, and she brought this action against the defendant for the injury he had done by seducing her youngest daughter. The two eldest daughters reside with their mother, the plaintiff, but are able to support themselve?, as milliners. The youngest. girl, Rachel, who was the person seduced, was educated at Saint Philip's School, Sheffield, where she afterwards became teacher, at a salary of 201. a-year. She re sided with her mother, and when not at school she assisted her mother in the household work. The defendant formerly carried on business at the town of Sheffield, as a butcher and baker. In Nov., 1855, he formed an acquaintance with the plaintiti's daughter. He proposed marriage to her, and was receivod in the house of her mother as the approved suitor of her daughter. In this case the jury eon! d not inquire into any loss which the plaintiff's daugh ter had sustained by reason of the breach of promise of marriage, but the promise became material as showing the footing on which the defendant was re ceived into the house, and as showing that he was base enough to take advantage of his position to effect the ruin of this girl, when she was only 19 years of age. In the spring of 1856 the defendant had effee' ed the ruin of the plaintiff's daughter, who was delivered of a child on the 12th of Nov. following. An order of affiliation upon the defendant was obtain ed fi om the magistrates of Sheffield, and the learned counsel for the plaintiff said. that this ac'ion would possibly never have been heard of had not the de fendant, in the 4pring of the present year, gathered up his property, intending to proceed to Australia, and thus avoid the payment under the bastardy order. Upon this, the plaintiff was induced to take proceedings, which resulted in the apprehension of the defendant, who was compelled to give bail to answer this action. The plaintiff's counsel did not ask for vindictive damages, but for such a reason able sum as should recompense the plaintiff for the injury she had sustained. Mr. Overend, for the defendant, contended that there was no ground whatever for the suggestion that Wheateroft was about to proceed to Australia, and so rid himself of the responsibility of sup2ort ing his child, the fact being that this action was brought some time before a word was ever said upon that subject. No doubt the defendant was the father of the child, but he bad hitherto done all that was necessary to support it, for when the plain tiff's daughter went before the magistrates, he did not require h er evidence to be corroborated, but sub mitted to an order, on which he had regularly paid. The defendant was in a small way of business, andthe learned counsel entreated the jury not to give heavy damages, and that they would not at all events give the plaintiff anything for the consideration of the MA that the defendant had promised to marry her daughter. The defendant had already been dragged before the magistrates, andnow there was an ac ti on brought against him by the mother, and in all pro bability there would be another action at the next assizes, brought by the daughter for the breach of promise of marriage. He did not wish to say a word against the character of the plaintiff or her daughter; on the con rary he grieved for their condition, and admitted that the mother was entitled to damages in respect of the loss of her daughter's services, but he asked the jury not to let those damages be other wise than reasonable or temperate. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— damages 1201. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WORCESTER, JULY 18. (Before Baron Bramwell.) HAZELDINE V. HAMPTON AND WIFE--BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. This cause presented the novelty of an action brought by.a d:sippoint-d man against a lady and her husband for breach of promise made by her to marry h:m. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr, Byrne, for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Skinner, Q.C., and dr. Phip son, for defendants. • Mr. Huddleston stated the case. The plaintiff was a farmer and butcher at Stourbridge, and the male defendant was a lime and coal merchant at Brattel-1 me. Mrs. Hampton (formerly Anis Darby) had been sued successfully by plaintiff, and mar riage had been agreed upon ; but she afterwards jThe I him for her present husband. A le:ter to plaintiff from the lady was read, dated Sept. 14, 1855, in which she said, "I am sure I have been crying all the time I have been doing this letter, for I have thought so much of you. I love you far Letter than woman ever loved, and some thing makes me think you love me, so 'I may say there is no love lost. I will not think any more of G. W., but I will think of you, so do not say anything about him to me." There were two or three other letters, down to February, 1856, written in terms of moderate affection, but in one she askel plaintiff to lend her 101. or 201., in another she agan desired him to •`try and bring that money," and said—" T am much surprised to think you should put yourself so much over that young man. lam sure I was not with him the other Sunday. I was up at Brierly-hill on Sunday week at night, but I - am sure I did not see him, for a married man brought me home, because it was late. It was Mr. Grove, a grocer, but if you like to be lieve other people you can. I don't care how I have written this, fur I am so hurt in my mind about things." Winesses were called. Mist Parkes proved that the wedding was twice fired, but on both occasions a death in the family put it off. Mr. Haseldine,. father of the plaintiff, gave similar evidence, and said that he had arranged to give up his business to his son upon the marriage of the latter. It ap pea:ed, however, that the plaintiff had got Miss Darby's watch as security for rho money which she hail borrowed of him, and that he had also brought an action against her for the money, and received 301 or 401.. of it. Mr. Vernon, draper, pioved that the plaintiff had engaged a house, bought furniture, • and given the. lady presents for her marriage. Mr. Skinner, in addressing the jury for the de fendants, ridiculed the idea of bringing such' an action as this. He called the defendant's sister, Miss Sarah Hampton, Mr. Hampton, the father, and Mr. Luau Hampt. n, the brother, who proved that plaintiff called upon Mi. , s Darby at their house and had an interview with her, after which he was heard to swear at her, and say to her, " Now go to --, I've got all I want from you ;" ho then went away, taking her watch with him, and leaving her with her Mouth bleeding. This was five wet ks before the defendant, Mr. Hampton, paid his ad dresses to her. Some prope;ty was left her, and plaintiff's father had been heard to say, "It'll be a good thing for our Harry ;" but when it was known that the will secured the settlement of it upon her self at her marriage, he was heard to say, "She's worth nothing without her money." Plaintiff him self had talked very coarsely, and said he never wanted her. His lordship, in summing up, asked what on earth bad been the man's loss ? Why, he had lost a wife, and if there was but one woman left in the world, there might be some reason for complaint in this respect. There had been a contract, but it had been broken. He concluded by saying that he should not be disappointed if the jury did not find a verdict for the plain ift at all ; or if so, for more than the lowest coin of the realm. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.. NORTH WALES CIRCUIT. -...NEWTOWN. JULY 17. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.) • rtonEßTs V. EVANS. —BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. The only civil cause fur trial at these assizes was the above, is which the damages were laid fat 2001. Mr. Wintyre and Mr. Vaughan Williams were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Morgan Lloyd for the defendant. The defendant was a small farmer and horse dealer living at Cwmyrannel, near Carno. He courted the plaintiff for seven years, and even went so far as to procure a marriage license. She was the daughter of a small farmer, and her brother had married one of the defendant's Sisters. In Nov. 1855, the defendant suggested that they should be married in the ensuing December, and he went to a mercer's shop in Newton to buy things for the wedding, which, ho wever , did no t tak place. Unfortu nately the plaintiff had, in an unguirded moment, yielded to the solicitation of the defendant, and in the February following she gave birth to a child. After this he did not marry her. It was now con tended by his counsel that only a condition il pro mise was made, and that a reasonable time had not elapsed. The promise was made upon the under standing that they could agree as to the amount of dowry, but the plaintiff's mother would give no thing, and would have forced the defendant to marry her daughter. The judge said the defendant himself had fixed the day, and it was his place, having broken it off, to name another day. It was not a sufficient reason for breaking the promise to say that they could not agree as to the dowry, unless it could be shown that that was part of the original agreement. It was alleged that the plaintiff alone was to blame . *hat the rtiCtirlitge had Wit taken plaet as she had siid she would not have him at all. Mr. Mclntyre iii replying on the whole case, said the " reasonable time !night wry well be Fail to be the time before the child was born ; but the de fendant knew that the license would expire in three months, and that surely was a reasorkble time, The defendant had never Paid a word about the dowry until after she was effectually in his power, and he believed he could impose any condi!ions he pleased. The learned judge then summed up. He said the - jury would consider whether the defendant had insisted upon a dowry as a good excuse to evade an engagement which he was bound in law, honour; and morality to fulfil ; or whether the plaintiff had taken advantage ot . the position in which they were placed, and endeavoured to extort money from the defendant rather than marry him. If they found for the plaintiff, they would ot course look at the fall which she had incurred by her intimacy with the defendant, and give her damages. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff-7- damagei 1001. The plaintiff and defendant were both in court during the trial. THE " LATE HOUSE." Apart from the gravity of the subject under dis cussion, there was something irresistibly droll in the manner in which the debate on Lord John Russell's new proposition to admit the Jews was coLducted on Saturday morning. For at least the last - three-quarrers of an hour it was really "sg good as d play," and will not readily be forgotten by any one present. Commencing somewhere about two o'clock in the morning, after the house had been exhausted by a sitting of 12 hours' dura tion, it was continued until half past four, when the sun was far above the horizon. There were some 150 members present, about©. qually divided on both sides of the house, but they gradually dropped off, though the last of the maul divisions which took place showed that at * quarter-past four o'clock upwards of 130 still re mained. Most of the great Pat liamentary chiefs, however had retired from the scene, and the angry debate which en , tied was chiefly c, lifihed to younger, and less experienced men. A few . sleepy-looking "strangers" lingered in the part of the House de voted to that class of the community, and several seats in the reporters' gallery were for some time suspiciously vacant. One of our coatemporarie°, by ttte way, in its hot haste to rush into print on Saturday morning, stated, as an excuse for not con tinuing its report of the debate to the conclusion/ that at half-past four, when it went to press, the House was still sitting, though in point of fact it had then risen, while another characteristically; enough ignored the discussion on the Jew Di ll altogether. F - er some years past there has rarely been s° great an amount of party and personal feeling in" troduced into a debate in either House. Even Mf' Roebuck, who on a very recent occasion asked the House if it was to be Content to dwell in decencies for ever," appears ti have bee n a l arme d a t th e li cense wino some who took part in the discus ion allowed there' selves, for he very properly appealed to the Speal°, s !, at one time to know if th e t-rm "bully," used 1 4 one hon. member who took a conspicuous pact 411 tile debate, was Parliame t ita,y language. Til,° member for Midhurst, also, whil e s p ea ki ng on 01' of the motions for adjournment, called the attenti ol ; of the House to the light of the summer mcrni ll ,d, which reproached them, and i n th e sam e brow, said he would remain for twenty-four hours lone,' rather than agree to the introduction of the bi ll ' He conducl.d with some platitudes about " the ople of England," which called up Mr. Locke' the hew member for South w a r k, who reminded W e Opposition th at h e sat for a constituency sOs i t 10,000 in number, who felt strongly in favour c ' t the admission of the Jews, and, late as the h 1 1„ was, he would stay i n his place as long as . Warren to support the motion before the Hous e ' 6 Then there was an amusing little passage of et between Mr. M'Cann, the memb er f or D rog htl and, we think, Mr. Newd ega t e , but this only last e l for a minute or two. I t was followed by Colos e Knox jumping up in hi s pl ace on th e O p positici o side, and with great warmth and manner twi tie, Lord Bury with his Canadian p o litic s an d his ultr * l6 democratic sentiments as reflected in the 11 01) t i, lord's county newspaper, and charging him w. l Ol , taking a very conspicuous part in the uproar- w 1 ) 1 proceeded from Ministerial side. This g 31,0 rise to a storm of disapprobation, which grew 10 -11 c ler y when the colonel said something about the 1 101 ' t , lord's conduct that night bcilig worthy "the Pr o house meeting over the way," all u di ng to " gathering at the King's Arms, in Palace-yard, .% the Jew questii , n on Thursday. Lord Bury deal e i i that a Norfolk newspaper was any index of his m - a" tics, or that his conduct that evening had jile' d the remarks of Colonel Knox. Again, for ther sl was no end of such incidents, Lord GabralL de nearly ludf-past 4 in the morning, took advaail o of a motion for the adjournMent of the house 1 , / revive a quarrel which had been settled in the ea r ti ' d part of the sitting to as to the adjournment of t or Bath Election Committee on Thursday, a nd C° o plained of Mr. 11 , gbuck having spoken of hir a ,,, r . impertinent terms. The Speaker thereupon lob' s ( posed, and Lord Galway said he would withdl l e , the offensive expression, and say that Mr. P. c i l buck bad used language on that occasion v/ 11/ 0 f was " not pertinent." Thi s i ngen i ous mantle o f avoiding a difficulty restored the good humour m i the house, but Lord G a l wa y was l ess success i cio when he attempted a minute after to support of mo ion for adjournment by telling th e h ou se l'' c j i they had entered on the Jewish Sabbath, Word elici , ed a roar of derisive lau g hter. E ven t ua lly J- 1( 6 John Russell, who had looked calmly on for' SeT r tim , from his seat on a back bench on the Mi n t() terial s'cle, after making a significant remark as d the temper of the house, withdrew the bone contention, and the wrangle was brought Oak e ll —Times. Country Marko HADDINGTON GRAIN - MARKET—JULY 1 1 ' 0; WHEAT. RAREFY I OATS. i I ! °° o 4 First 66 s Od 41 s Gd 31s Gd 15.2° 11 Second 415 8d 375 6d 1 30,3 101 1 4 54 O. rhird 33s Od 305 61 1 283 Od 1 4u 3 „id Total quantity of wheat in market, 330 qrs., 39, 1 ;;Iti fll barley ~. 182 qrs. _ ,:„),1 oats ,1 169 qrs. , 113 , „JO CP lf beans ~i, 37 qrs., .2 2 " AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. otil° Wheat, 21. I' l ' 4 8 9-12ths 1 Barley, ...13. 17 6 0 0,0 Oats, ... 141010 10-12ths I Beans, ..... 21. 8 1 7-1' PP P ABERDEEN—JULY 17. Potato oats 26s 6d to 27s 0,1 1 4Olbs per bush. Common oats 25s Od t o 26 s 0 1 Bere 'os Od t o 32 s Od r, Barley 30s Od to 32 s O c l 1531bs 0 Wheat, red (spring)4ls j 01 to 4 e s Od ' white 4os Od to 46s Od 621bs 0 Oatmeal 20s O 1 to 21s Od per boll. - Flour 4ss Od to 46s Od per sack. lON MARKET. 1 0 Beef PRO to , per lb 6d to 9d I Butter, p lb. s 10d to o 'lo l Mutton, per lb 6d t o 9d I Eggs, p doz. Os 81 to 03 ' O .l Lamb, do., Os 8d to O. 9. I Hens, p pair 2s 6d to 3 0 1 Veal, per lb ... 6tl to Os 91 I Chickens,do.ls 6d to 2 '' pi Pork, perlb...o s 6d t o O s 7d Ducks, do., 03 Od tu °' 0 1 Salmon, pe r lb i s 2d 1 Ducklingsols 6d to 2 ' 6 ,1 Grouse, per brac e .....o s t o O s T ur k e y s, each 4s Od to 4 4 0.1 Tallow, p stone, Os to 11s 01 Potatoes, pr peck, 121 to Rabbits, each 3d to 4d. fil l o - 4 Butter for exportation (present cur e ) p er cwt.... " -8 - t 64 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. 0 F10ur,141b....0s Od to 2s 6d I Barley f10ur,14113.08 to x.',04 Oat! , la] Os Od ' 2s • - Oi CJs to 2s ld Bereuieal Od to 2s Od Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 4d Cheese, per imperial sti 4-lb. 10af...8d. tadf, dust, .... Os to „ per lb 2d t° id Sids, ........................... one, 4s. Od. to 4a 6d 2-Ib. 10af...4d. BIRTHS. OP A SON. • f l. On the 9th inst., at the Piraeus of Athens, the lauf °re" B. Neale, Esq., her M•jesty's Consul for Con - tinental° ) On the 15th inst., at Wimbledon, Mrs. H. Cox. _ On the 17th inst., at Dattmouth-park, Highgate, th e of A: C. Hook, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. lo teo o On the 16th inst., at 1, Carlton-gardens, the Viseel Goder,ch. On the 18th inst., at West-green, Tottenham, Mrs. ". Stephens. _ MARRIED. wt. On the 16th inst., at Hornsey, John White, of Eas), 0 0 ford, Notts, to Anne, second daughter of the We „TOO Hunt, Esq., of the city of London, On the 16th inst., at S c. L u k e ' s, Chelsea, Mr. ,„ Roe, of Charles-street, Lowndes-square, second sou of .. „. 01 ;014 Wm. Roe, Esq., of Hertford, to Marian Elizabeth ° elder daughter of Johu Stevens, Esq., of Sydney-stree t, ham•rvad, and Jermyn-street, St. James's. DIED. . _n4 o •- On the 16th lust , at Falmouth, Comman ler Ngeot/I°. Parsons Croke, RN , aged 72. g W On the 17th inst., at 85, Great Portland-street, St. — 4 bone, Joseph Ager ' vi r l ii° M.D., aged 77. . On the 16th i n -t ., at Duddon-lodge, Cheshire, Mr. - / Milburn, aged 39. erg On the 16th in s t., a t O x l e y, W o l ver h amp t on , W. 17(°3 Esq , aged 89. itlilie Ou the 16th inst., at Hawkhurst, K en t, the BCC. W eethrel , 15th 7l. e/ e On the gust., at Gatcombe-house, Isle of Wight , tenant-Co'onel Daly, aged 61. 1 . 0 40 0e1l On the 15th inst., Miss Morrill, of Pa r k-road, - o f ham. (l e ' On tbo 10th inst., at Gladswood, Colonel Spottio lo° of Gladbwood. 00 111, killed, in the mutiny of Delhi, Lieutenant E. 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