The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-14 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE' COURT, SATURDAY.

(Before Mr. RAFFLES.)
THE UNFULFILLED WISH.
John De Mont was brought up on remand on a charge of
being drunk and disorderly, at the Sailors' Home, and threat-
ening Mr. Murphy. The details of the case appeared in our
paper of Saturday and the hearing of the case was adjourned
at the request of the defendant, in order to produce witnesses.
He called four, 'but none answered.
Mr. Murphy said the defendant was a great annoyance tothe
Home when drunk, but when sober he was allowed the same
facilities as any Other perscn.
The prisoner, in a violent manner, declared that there was a
spite against him at the HoMe.
Mr. Murphy denied this, and said that in 185 S Mr. Mansfield
fined him £lO for crimping. •
Mr. Raffles fined him 10s. and costs.
THE CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST TWO BOYS
Two boys, named Philip M‘Mullin and Thomas Halloran, who
stood remanded on a charge of having killed another boy, named
Patrick Gibbons, on Wednesday night week,,inJohnson-street,
were brought up. Mr. Cobb appeared for the prisoners. , It
will be remembered that the prisoners were before the court a
few days ago, and on Thursday there Was an inquest held on
the body of deceased, when the evidence was gone fully into,
and appeared in our paper of Friday. The coroner's jury
returneda verdict of wilful murder against the lads, and the
coroner returned the case for trial accordingly. The evidence
before Mr. Raffles on Saturday was the same as that given
before the coroner; but his Worship took a different view of
the case, and sent the prisoners for trial for manslaughter.
A HUSBAND CHARGED WITH CAUSING HIS
WIFE'S DEATH.

John Higgott, of Edge-hill, was brought up on remand,
charged with having caused the death of his wife Elizabeth.
On Wednesday night the deceased was drunk, and the prisoner
gave her a push, when she fell, and died soon afterwards.
The details of thiS lamentable case appeared in our paper of
Friday. It all arose through the curse of drink, as it was
shown that deceased was an habitual drunkard. An inqueit
was held on the body; and the medical evidence clearly esta-
blished the fact that death was produced by extravasation of
blood on the brain, from natural causes; and that the fall from
the push of her husband had nothing to dd with 4. The same
evidence was given before Mr. Raffles, and he at Once dis-
charged the prisoner.
THE CHARGE AGAINST THE FRENCH SWINDLER.
Pascal, the Frenchman who stood remanded on a charge of •
having obtained goods from France, under false pretences, was
again broughtup. Mr. Bluck appeared for him. The secretary
of the French Consul was present, and said, in consequence Of
the expense that would attend bringing witnesses from France
to prosecute the prisoner, the parties would not come forward,
and therefore no further evidence would be given at present.
He requested the goods found would be retained by the police.
This was agreed to, and the prisoner WS discharged, the police
holding possession of the property for the present.
' (Before Messrs. BOOTH and HuTcnisoN.)
DOCTORS DISAGREEING!
A gentleman, described as Dr. Hamilton, of Mill-street,
charged another gentleman, described as Dr. Patterson, with
having assaulted him. Mr.
Cobb appeared for the complainant.
The way -

About three o'clock in the morning the defendant was at the
door of Dr. Dranbridge, of Mill-street, where he went for
the purpose of calling up that gentleman, to consult with him
about a patient, who, it seemed, was in a serious state. Pr.

Hamilton was going home, but it did not appear 'whether -hO
was out professionally or otherwise. He imagined that the
defendant was the son of Dr. Drawbridge, a young gentleman
with whom he was acquainted, and.therefqre addressed him in
rather familiar terms, whereon, as he stated, Dr. Patterson
struck him a blow in the face, withotit further "rhydie or
reason."

The defence set up was that Di: Hafitly= used insulting
language to, and pillled Dr. Patterson do*n tne door steps by
the:tail of the coat, and then the latter admitted that in self-
defenee lie ..ave the other doctor a "tap" on
.the face, and
contended he was justified in doing so.
A policenian and a servant-girl were examined for the defence,
and these were subject to a purgatorial crcus.examination by
Mr. Cobb, but with all Ws ingenious ability he could not shake
their eVidenee.. So the magistrates came to a conclusion and
dismissed the complaint, thus proving the truth of the adage,
" Who shall decide, when doctors diSagree I"

THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MR.

HATCH.

At the close of the case for the prosecution, on Friday,
Mr. Serjeant Shee addressed the jury at considerable
length for the defence, commenting severely 'upon the
evidence that had been adduced, and concluding by

expressing an opinion that when the jury had heard the

evidence he shOuld lay before them, they would feel it
to, be their duty, however painful it might be to their
feelings, to say: that the defendant was not guilty upon
the present charge.

The following witnesses were then examined for the

defence

Stephanie Augusta Plummer, an interesting .child
eight years of age, sister of the defendant, said :—I
remember my sister going to Mr. Hatch's, and I
remember going there too, a few days afterwards. We
arrived at Wandsworth in the afternoon, and 1 and my
papa and mamma went into the dining room, and saw
Mrs. Hatch there. Mr. Hatch was not at home. My
papa and mamma went away in the evening, and soon
afterwards I and Lucy Hatch were put to bed together.
My sister slept in an adjoining room, and 1 could hear
her come to bed, I could not sleep, and began to cry
because my mamma had gone away. After some time
Mr, Hatch came into my room. He was alone. He
asked me how it was I was not asleep, and I made no
answer. He then came up to my bed. [The witness
here detailed what she said afterwards occurred, the
particulars being, of course, unfit for publication.] Mr.
Hatch had nothing but his night shirt on, and I think
he came from his own room. After this he wished me
good night, and left the room. I had heard him go
into My sister's roam a few minutes before he came into
mine. On the following morning my sister told me
that Mr. Hatch had done something to her, and I said
he had done the same to me. Mr. Hatch called me
into his bedroom on the same morning, and Mr. Hatch
fetched my sister from her room, and she got into his
bed. Mrs. .Hatch was in the bed at the same time.
We all five were in the bed together—myself, Mr. and
Mrs. Hatch, my sister, and Lucy Hatch. Mrs. Hatch
got out of bed first, and she then dressed Lucy, and I
and my sister were dressed by the servant. My papa
and mamma came to Mr. Hatch's on the same day, and

I saw my sister go with my mamma to the water-closet.
After this my papa, mamma, and my sister and I went
into the garden, and Mrs. Hatch accompanied us. At
this time I had told my mamma what Mr. Hatch had
done. She asked me if I liked the place, and I told
her I did not, and shortly after this we all went away
in a cab to the railway station, and as we were going
home I heard my sister say how Mr. Hatch had treated

her, and I also told her what bad happened to me. On
the following morning Mr. Gay, our surgeon, was sent
for, and I and my sister told him what had taken place,

in his presence. I have remained at ,home with my
papa and mamma ever since.
Cross-examined by Mr. James—l had never been at
school before I went to Mr. Hatch's. I was on a visit

to my sister once at a school at Southampton, and my
mother came down and fetched us both away. I cannot
read or write. Sometimes she used to take me to

church. We went from our house in Wiltshire to Mr.
Hatch's. My mother used to take me to church regu-

larly every Sunday, but I have never been taught to
read my bible or prayer book. My sister first told me
omething Mr. Hatch had done. I, . knew what she
meant.. I don't know where I learned to know what
she meant, but. I did know. She did not say anything
more at that time, and I told her he had done the same
thing to me. I did not much like going to school, and

I was anxious to get away. I did not .tell my gover-
ness anything about what had happened. I don't
think I said anything about it to my mamma while we
were walking in the garden. I had told her before,
and as we were walking about I heard my mamma tell
my papa what Mr..llatcli had done. We all had tea
together after this, and my mamma gave Lucy five shil-

lings and a toy. Eugenie did not say anything to me
about 4Mr. Hatch until after school was' over at twelve
o'clock. On this same day, I think I was in my bed-
room alone 'with my mamma, and told her then what
Mr. Hatch had done. My papa was present at the
time, and heard what I said. I asked my mamma to
go up stairs, as I had something to tell her. My sister
heard what I said, but she did not say anything. Mr.
Hatch had a candle in his hand when he came into my
bedroom, and he placed it in the wash-hand stand. My
sister told all that had happened as we were going along
in the cab, and also in the rectory carriage, and before
Mr. Gay, and Mr. Pratt, the solicitor. I understood all
that she meant, and that it was something very bad and
wicked. My mother has talked to me about it several
times, and she spoke to me about it just before I was
called into court. I don't know what she said. Iforget
it. I was in waiting yesterday with my mother, and
sometimes' she talked to me about- this matter. My
sister Polly has told me what Lucy Hatch said yester-
day. I call my sister Mary "Polly." A paper was
read to-us last night by papa. He did not read the
whole of it. I don't know what newspaper it was that
papa read to us. lam sure my mamma did not tell me
what I was to say in court, but that I recollect that I
saw Mr. Gay, the surgeon, yesterday,,and he has been
walking about with me and my mother.
Re-examined—l don't think I have been told by any
body' what to say when I came here. I have been
waiting about the court to be examined, and when I
was. called I came in.
By Baron Channell—When Mr. Hatch was, in my
room, I saw Mrs. Hatch in her own room.
Baron Channell—Then she could see all that took
place ?
Witness—Yes. (This answer created great sensation

in the. court.)
Baron Channell—How far was Mrs. Hatch from you
at the time ?
Witness—Not very far:
Baron Channell—As far as you are from me? (About
ten feet.)
Witness—Not so far.
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on
?
Witness—l think it was upon the blanket, and under
the counterpane.
Baron Chauncll—Where was Eugenie ?.
Witness—l think she was on the blanket, and under
the "eounterpane, too.
Caroline Plummer, the mother of the defendant, was
the next witness. She said : Z remember taking my
daughter Eugenie to Mr. Hatch's, on the 11th of
August. I had dinner, or rather, I should say, luncheon,
with them. I did not ask Mr. Hatch; or any one else
in the house, to allow my daughter to go to his bed
in the morning; but I did say that she had been used
to be petted, and I wished them to be kind to her.
Mr. Hatch then said that she should be treated as
well as his own child, and she was in the habit
of coming into his bed in the morning, and Eugenie
should do the same. I never made the suggestion
that she should go to his bed. A fortnight
after this I took my other daughter Stephanie
to Mr. Hatch's, and during the whole day I had no
opportunity of speaking to my daughter. Eugenie alone ;
either Mr. or Mrs. Hatch was with us the whole time.
When it was getting near the time for taking our
departure I took the child to the closet, which was the
only place I could get to be with her alone. She burst
out crying immediately, and asked me to take her
home, and she appeared very unhappy. I returned her
next day to Mr. Hatch's ; but I cannot tell, what
made me do to. The witness, who appeared to'be of a
very excitable temperament, then said : " I am nervous,
you know; I fancied something was wrong, and I went,
back. I did not rush into the school-room, but went in
quickly, and I said, " Halloo, Lucy, running about the
passage and my children in the school-room ; I thought
there were to be no favourites here." I saw Mr. and
Mrs. Hatch shortly afterwards, and told them I was
come to take my children away. While the things were
being packed up I went with my daughter to the closet,
and she told me Mr. Hatch was such a disgusting
man. I asked what she meant, and she made a com-
munication to me. She did not state to the full extent
what had occurred, and I said " nonsense," and nothing

more occurred. I spoke to my husband, and he enter
tained the same opinion that I did. There was no
time for anything more to be said, as we had to leave by
the eight o'clock train. lam §ure that Stephanie did'
not say anything to me in the house. I gave the child.
Lucy a Noah's ark and five shillings before we left. We.
had hardly got out of sight of the house in the cab
when Eugenie told us what Mr.' Hatch had done to
her. We did not arrive at our residence in Wilt-
shire until the middle of the night, and on the following
morning we sent for our medical man, and Mr. Pratt,
our solicitor, came on the same day, and, after this we,
communicated with the bishop. Our object in this
was to spare our children the pain of a public exposure.
We subsequently received notice to attend at Wands-
worth before the magistrates, but on the day before we
were informed Mr. Hatch had retigned, and that our
attendance was not necessary, and we then obtained a
warrant for Mr. Hatch's apprehension, but it could not
be executed because he went away. I afterwards
received from Mrs. Hatch the letter that has been
referred to.

Cross-examined—Both on the 25th and on the 26th
I hadcep t no epportunity of being alone with Eugenie,
except in the water-closet. The witness spoke this in
a loud voice. I swear was not in a bedroom with

"Eugenie and my husband, alone, on either of those
days. The other party were always present.
Mr. James—Who do you mean by the "other party'?"
Witness—Mr. and Mrs, Hatch. Stephanie never
told me in the bedroom that Mr, Hatch had behavtd
indecently to het. If any one has said this it is a
deliberate falsehood. t can swear she did not tell
me so herself. I swear that I did not walk ronnd
the kitchen garden with my husband and my trio
daughters on either of those two days, and that I told
_ _ _

my husband what ,Stephanie had told me. She had
not told me at that time. I may have stated at the
former trial that Stephanie told me Mr. Hatch was
dressed, and that he unbuttoned his trousers; but if I
did say so it is a mistake of mine, She never did saysO.
I remember the child told me that she noticed Mr.
Hatch had, a
,very shabby night shirt on, or that it
was pieced or mended. I don't know whether I have
mentioned this before, but I was surprised that
the child should make such an observation. I don't
know whether my husband stopped the cab and brought
me some beer; it he did it was not an unusual
thing. I have not had brandy and water. to-day.
I did have some yesterday. To-day I, had some sherry
wine. I cannot remember whether I had any brandy
and water yesterday, but I had the day before. I should
like to have some brandy and water or sherry now. (A
laugh.) I did not drink beer with the policeman after

the conviction of Mr. Hatch. A bottle of stout was
sent for, and I drank part of it, and the remainder was
left for the policeman.
Mr. James—How many schools has your daughter
been at ?

Witness—As many as I thought proper to send her

to—eight or ten perhaps. She was only ,a fortnight at
one. It was quite long enough. It is very probable
that I threatened to publish a statement that the pro-
prietress of this school had not kept her agreement with
me.

Mr. James—Did she go to a school at Southampton ?
Witness—l dare say you know all about it. (A

Augh.)

Mr. James—Why did you take her away from South-
ampton ? •
Witness—Because she was not treated properly. I
am a very particular woman, although I do take a little
brandy and water and sherry wine, and I should be very
glad to give you some if you required it. (A laugh.)
Cross-examination continued—My daughter was at
three different schools at Bath. There was a reason
for her removal from each, and, besides, a change
does her good. (Laughter.) She told me from the first
that she did not like " the Hatches," and she was
very anxious to get away. I swear I did not hear
outside that the gardener had been examined this
morning. Mr. Plummer read a portion of the report in
the newspapers last night. I cannot read ; but whether
Eugenie fold her sister what had taken place during the
day in court lam not aware. I did not object to my
child going, to Mr. Hatch's bedroom, because I was
anxious that there should not be any jealousy between
the two children. My youngest child cannot read. I
do not wish to hurry her education, on account of her
health being delicate. I do not go regularly to church
or any other place of worship, but Mr. Plummer takes
the children to church occasionally. I did not take my
children to church during the year 1859, but I am as
good as those who do go. I have had a bad foot, and
my spirits have been failing since I lost one of my
children.

Mr. James—l ask you—without any reference to any
bodily ailment—was it your habit, as a mother, to take
your children to chapel or church?

Witness—No, it was not.

Cross-examination continued—l did not cause the
great bell of our house to be rung upon my return home
to celebrate the conviction of Mr. Hatch.

Re-examined—l should say that both the children
had told their stories before we arrived at Paddington,
but I am certain they had done so before we arrived
at home. My daughter was never removed from any
school on account of misconduct. She was beloved by
all. My children have been taught to say their prayers

—The Lord's Prayer,—not the Belief—the prayer for
their parents, and little hymns. My husband used to
take the children to church, but he did not go every
Sunday, hecatrse sometimes he was prevented by the
weather or some other cause.

At the conclusion of the examination of this wan ess
the trial was again adjourned.
The trial of Mary Eugenia Plummer was resumed on
Saturday morning, the fourth day.
Mr. Thomas Plummer, the father of the defendant,
was called and examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee. He
deposed that he resided in Wiltshire, and was a
person_ of independent means. He was a member of
the Church of England. Mrs. Plummer called upon
Mr. Hatch at Wandsworth, with Eugenia, and after a
general conversation as to terms, it was arranged that
the child Eugenia should remain, and that the other
child, Stephanie, should be sent afterwards. When he
made the arrangement he was positive Mrs. Plummer
made a request that the child was to be petted. He was
positive Mrs. Plummer never requested that the child
might,be taken into Mr. Hatch's bed. The witness then
contirMed all the evidence of Mrs. Plummer as to what the
children had stated respecting the conduct of Mr. Hatch
I towards them. In consequence of what he beard he took
the children away on the 26th ; they went away in a cab,
and afterwards by railway to Wiltshire. lie positively
denied that he associated with the cabman on terms of
equality, or that his wife drank beer or brandy with the
cabman. On his arrival at home at night, he ordered
his medical man to attend the.next morning, and then
sent for Mr. Pratt, the family solicitor. The surgeon
arrived about noon that day, and Mrs. Plummer
and Eugenia related the whole of the circumstances
to him in the presence of his mother-in-law. Mr.
Pratt shortly afterwards arrived, and witness com 7
municated all the facts to him. Both statements of the
children were submitted to him, and they did not differ
in the least particular. Mr. Pratt then advised that
proceedings should be instituted against Mr. Hatch; and
accordingly, by his advice, he went to London, and
there communicated with Messrs. Humphreys on the
subject. The result was, that a letter was written
to the bishop by Mr. Pratt, which he read over and
signed. He afterwards received notice that an inquiry
was directed, and he went with the children to
Wandsworth, when he was told that no inquiry
would take place, as Mr. Hatch had resigned. The
witness was further examined at some length, but
merely in confirmation of tho-statements of the children,
as described in the evidence of Mrs. Plummer yesterday.
He admitted that his wife was violent at times, and had
committed an assault upon one of their servants, for
which he had to pay £5 to compromise; his wife had
struck the girl with a candlestick, not a poker. She
kept no servants who could have instructed Eugenia in •
her knowledge of the person of man.
_ _ .

Tn cross-examination, Mr. Plummer said he was unable
to say whether or not himself or his wife had beer or
brandy with the cabman.
Mr: Pratt, sen., was called, and deposed that he had
acted as attorney to Mr. Plummer, and he said it was
in consequence of the statements made to him by Mr.
Plummer that he advised proceedings against Mr.
Hatch.

Mr. Pratt, jun., was also examined, and detailed the
statement made by the child to him, his writing the
letter to the bishop, and the subsequent proceedings
that took place at Ridley's Hotel, in consequence of
Mrs. Hatch's letter. When Mr. Hatch surrendered he
was in a state of great excitement, and merely said he
must have been mad when he had done what was
charged against him. Ho refused an apology, and was
given into custody.
Mr. John Gay deposed that he was a surgeon, and
resided at Swindon. •He was sent for by Mr. Plummer
on the 27th of August, when the children repeated to
him the story of the conduct of Mr. Hatch. so frequently
referred to. The witness said he was never betrothed to
Eugenia that he was ever aware of. 110 A ttoncicd her
as a medical man, and she always conducted herself with
propriety, and was a good girl. During the evidence of
the witness he was seized with a fit, and had to be
removed out of court. •

Mr. Gay, who had recovered from his fit, was retailed,
and stated that he had examined Eugenia on the 26th,
but did not find anything more than a slight inflamma-
tion on her person.
This closed the case for the defence. The Court then
adjourned.
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., addressed • the jury on,the ,
evidence. All his opening sentences were inaudible. He
proceeded to dwell upon the irreproachable character
which Mr. Hatch bore up to the time of this affair, and
contended that the whole superstructure of the wretched
story against him had been shattered by the evidence
which had been adduced. He urged that the prurient and
filthy ideas with regard to which Eugenia Plummer had
deposed had been put into ber head by her mother, and
that the child readily adopted them until they grew into
the story which she had told. He characterised the
whole matter as a wicked, foul conspiracy, and expressed
his opinion that Mrs. Plummer gave ,her evidence in a
state of inebriation, if not of positive delirium. tremens.
Mr. Baron Channell postponed his summing up till
this morning.

PILE GREAT EASTERN.-PREPARATIONS
FOR .THE START.

The Great Eastern is announced to sail on the 9th of
June for New York, and there is no doubt whatever
that she will sail punctually on the day fixed. Tho con-
fidence of the proprietors continues unabated in the
Success of the great undertaking; the payments on the
new .shares have been made with readiness, and the
value of the old shares has increased considerably within
the last few days.

THE CENSUS OF NEXT YEAR,—Lord Palmerston has
been waited upon at Cambridge-house by four deputa-
tions, representing the dissenting deputies, the Congre-
gational Union, the Board of Congregational Ministers,
and the executive of the Liberation Society ; who wished
to acquaint his lordship, as the head of the government,
with the strong objections entertained by the dissenting
body to that part of the Census Bill, now before Parlia-
ment, which compels every householder, under a penalty,
to state the "religious profession" of every one sleeping
in his house on the night of the census.

VISIT TO THE OFFICE OF THE LONDON
TIMES.

By the Correspondent of the Sew York Herald.

LONDON, March 24, 1860.
Irmo a Live London Newspaper is Printed—The Locality
Of the Office—The " Finishing Boom"—Compositors
and Proof Readers—The Puplicate Forms, and How
they are Made—The Paper Room—Quantity of Paper
Used and its Cost—The Wetting Machine—The Press
Room—The American "Ike" Presses—The First
Steam Press—Mode of Circulating the London Times
—Statistics, 4c:
Through the politeness of the manager of the estab-
lishment, I was 'permitted yesterday to visit the
mechanical portion of the office of the London Times,
and to spend sufficient time there to get a tolerably
good idea of this immense concern, and the manner in
which business is done in it. The offices as almost
everybody's knows, is located in "Printing House
Square," and probably almost everybody has imagined
. .

that "Printing House Square" is a large and noisy
Place in some busy thoroughfare of London, and that
the Times office would of course be in some locality
where it could at least be easily found. Such, how-
ever, is not the case, and without a map, and constant
inquiry, it would be almost impossible for a stranger to

find it, even when placed within a block of the office.
Striking towards the Thames from off Ludgate-hill, in
the vicinity of Blackfriar's bridge, I threaded half a
dozen narrow streets, and when near the river, and
satisfied that I had lost my way, I came upon a little
triangular space, from one side of which rose a dingy
looking brick building, over the door of which was a

little sign, "The Thmes office," and underneath the arms
of England. It was a perfect solitude, within three
minutes' walk of one of the great arteries of London.
Upon entering I was shown into a small room, called
" the finishing room." Here, upon presenting my

card, I was introduced to a very gentlemanly man, who
informed me that he had been connected with the paper

for more than forty years, and who offered to show me
over the establishment. In his room the forms are all
made up, the galleys being brought down from the com-
posing room, and the one adjoining, for that purpose.
Here, alone were the galleys of matter, and advertise-
ments leftover, of the latter of which my guide informed
me there were often sixty or seventy columns, for which
space cannot be found even in the immense double sheet'
which is, daily published. The day before, two thou-
sand advertisements were taken in at the office, which
is alongside of this "finishing room," and which is
devoted exclusively to the reception of advertisements—
and about fifteen hundred different ones go into the
paper daily, making,up from eight to ten pages of the
sixteen printed. About sixteen columns of these daily
are advertisements of servants wanting places. These
are charged eighteenpence each, and are limited to three
lines, many of them being rewritten after coming to the
office, and made to conform to the prescribed form. No
difference in price is made on account of any additional
number of insertions. From here we went into an
adjoining room, where the "day compositors " were at
work upon the' second edition of the paper, which is
printed at half-past twelve o'clock, and contains, in
addition to the morning news, the letter of the Paris
correspondent, and such foreign matter as arrives in the
morning mail. There are fifty compositors employed in
this department, and who, after the evening edition is
worked off, go to work upon the advertisements, while
there are seventy compositors employed upon the night
work, making in all one hundred and twenty composi-
tors. To correct their matter there are employed
twenty-four proof readers, one half for the day and the
other for the night.
From this composing room we went into the foundry.
The morning edition of the Times varies from sixty to
seventy thousand copies, and in order to save the time in
printing, and the expense of setting up an extra form, a
duplicate of the original form is made here to be worked
upon one press, while the original itself is on the other.
This is effected in the following manner :—The form
being brought down here, a pulp of papier in ache, pre-
pared by some secret process, is spread on it, and beaten
into it with a large heavy brush. This process and the
hardening of the mould occupies but a minute and a
halt; and when it is taken off the form it, of course,
presents a perfect fire simile of the form itself. It is
then placed in a sort of a press, and while yet pliable is
shaped in the circular form which it is necessary the
forms should have to accommodate themselves to the
cylinder presses, and then the molten type metal is
poured in, and in two minutes more it is cooled, and,
being taken out of the mould, the imperfections which'
have occurred in the casting are rectified, and iu half an.
hour this form is ready for the prT. It would require
the work of seventy men seven hours to effect the same
purpose as this little piece of work—which is done in

thirty minutes.
The papier ;nada process of moulding has been in
use in the TiM4S office about five years. The secret of
the composition is known only to the discoverer, an
Italian named Dalegani, who lives in London, and who
brings the prepared pulp to the Times office every even-
ing. He has not been able to procure a patent for his

invention, it being alleged that it is only an improve-
ment upon the ancient method of stereotyping with
plaster moulds. They say they rind the composition
superior in every respect to plaster, it being much
cleaner, and not injuring the face of the type so much.
Six duplicates may be taken from one of these moulds
before it is burnt through. The last page, containing
the leading article of the Times, is sent down to the
foundry abeitt four o'clock in the morning, and at a
quarter pastsix the impre.ssion is off.
From here we went into the paper room, which is by
the side of the foundry, on the basement floor, passimg
through a large carpenter's shop, where halt a dozen
men are kept constantly at work, and looking into
several neat little bathrooms constructed for the accom-
modation of the workmen. The paper room we found
tilled up with paper ; and here I obtained some in-
teresting statistics as to the amount of raw material
consumed in the publication of the Times.
The paper is furnished from four paper mills, the pro-
perty of the proprietors of the Times, aad is made en-
tirely of linen. During the Russian war, (as a great
many of the rags come from Russia, and there being,
therefore, a fear that the supply might be cut short,)
the proprietors offered a reward of ono thousand pounds
sterling for the discovery of a substitute for linen. All
sorts of material—straw, vegetable fibres of a great ,
many descriptions, shavings, &c.,—=were sent them to
experiment upon ; but they found nothing which would
answer the purpose, and by some means managed to
keep up the supply of rags during the continuance of
the war. Nine tons, or ninety thousand sheets of this
paper are used daily, and there is only room here to
keep three days' supply on hand. Each sheet costs the
proprietois a penny and a farthing and a fraction ;
that the bifo-snEets on winch the paper is iitinted, with
the duty, the guide informed me, cost fully threepence,
the price at which the paper atter it is printed is sold to
the newsmen—the
,profits of course, then, must be
derived entirely from advertisements, and the addition
to the circulation of the paper is no direct, pecuniary
advantage... The circulation has, however, increased
considerably within the past ten:years. In 1851 thirteen
millions of copies were printed; in 1857, sixteen mil-

lions one hundred, thousand ; in 1858, sixteen millions
seven hundred and eighty-five thousand km hundred
and fifty-six ; and last year over seventeen millions, or
an average of fifty-four thousand copies daily, were
printed. The largest number ever printed of any single
edition was on the day after the funeral of the Duke of
Wellington, when seventy thousand copies were struck
off.

At the further end of this room is a machine, which
is used for "wetting down," the old process of doing
this the hand having been discarded abOut.five years
since, and the machine now in use having been invented
by tin employ 6 in the paper room. Tbo .pparatuc is
very simple, consisting of a woollen apron, upon which
the paper is fed, and which carries it under a cylinder
and brush, the whole being wet, and the paper, twenty
four sheets of which are fed at one time, coming 'out
thoroughly dampped. It is piled away in an
adjoining room, and twelve hours afterwards is all

turned by hand. By this machine 110,000 sheets may
be wet down in seven hours, with the labour of three'
men—the same amount of work which, under the old'
process, ;equired the labour of twelve men 'twelve
hours.

From this we went up into the press-room,. where, by
this time, the evening edition was being worked off upon
two of Applegath's eight-cylinder vertical presses.
This is certainly one of the most beautiful pieces of
machinery I ever saw. Four pages of the circular forms
are screwed on to an upright cylinder, which forms the
centre of the huge machine, which, in all its parts, is
about thirty feet in diameter. Then ranged around a
platform above are eight pairs of feeding rollers, which
take the sheet, and, conveying it to the cylinder, pass it
round it, and then by means of rollers and tapes pass it
back directly under the feeding rollers where it entered,
and where the fly-boy sits to take it off. In this way
eight sheets are turned off from the press each second
and a-half, amounting to twelve thousand five hundred
an hour—the two presses in the morning, in two hours,
printing fifty thousand sheets. , These presses have been
in operation since 1848, and have never been out of
order but once, when a Prussian officer, who, was exa-
mining one of them a little too minutely, had the eape,
of his cloak caught in the main cylinder, and would
himself have followed it, had he not retained sufficient
presence/of mind to unclasp his outer garment, which
he must have done with lightning-like quickness. As
it was, his cloak was torn into very small rags. There
was no second edit.° i of the Times that day, and the
proprietors were subjected to a little bill of repairs,
amounting to £3OO. These machines cost £3,000 each,
and are superintended by the brother of the inventor.
Each one requires sixteen men to feed and fly it.
In the adjoining room are two of Hoe's ten-cylinder
presses. These were built in Manchester, and one has
been in use for two 'or three years, and the other has
just been completed. These are used for printing the
advertising pages, which go on at seven o'clock in the
evening, and the first side of the news, which commences

at two o'clock in the- morning. These machines out
.£6,000 each. They throw of each, 16,400 impressions
an hour, and have been made to print 20,900.; but they
complain of them, that they had them manufactnred
with the Understanding that they would print 35,000 all
hour, but that they found, when they struck off over
17,000, some of the more delicate portions of the ma-
chinery were liable to breakage. Notwithstanding this,
however, it seems they had another machine built, at
double the cost of their Applegath machines, and thus
John Bull pays homage to the inventive genius of
Young America. It was in the office of the London
Times that, in November, 1814, the first steam press, a
double cylinder machine, was put up, and by hard work
they managed to make it throw off twelve hundred im-
pressiots an hour. What a change in the facilities for
multiplying impressions betwqen that time and this.
From the press-room we entered the " publishing
room." The edition of the Times is all sold to newsmen,
and the proprietors have nothing to do with furnishing
subscribers With the paper. No mailing is done at the
office, neither are the names of subscribers taken there.
Shonld a person in America send a draft or the money
to the London Dines office for a year's subscription, the
order would immediately be handed over to a newsman.
The principal one of these in London is a man named
Smith, who takes daily from the Tunes office twenty-
four waggon loads—about twenty-eight thousand papers
a-day. He gets sixteen thousand of these at half past
five in the morning, to send off to his agents and sub-
scribers all over England by the first train. About
19,000 only of the edition of the Times is circulated in
London. Besides Smith there are about one hundred
and fifty newsmen in London, who purchase and circu-
late the Times; and the town publication is usually
delivered about seven o'clock in the publishing-room--
each newsman taking his turn to be served first, an
alphabetical list being made out, and A served first one
morning, B the next,' and so on to the end of the list.
The newsmen pay threepence each for the papers, and
sell them for fourpence. The newsmen order their
papers the day beforehand, and no more are printed
than they -call for. The publishing-office presents a
very lively scene. The most spacious portion of it is in
front of the counter, and here are two or three hundred
boys waiting for papers. They are counted from behind
by a young man, who counts three hundred papers a
minute, and the boys fold them on the tables in front.
A few statistics and I am done with the mechanical
department of the London Times. The receipts for

advertisements are about £250,000, or a million and a

quarter of dollars annually, and the receipts for the
paper about the same. The receipts for the sale of the
paper, being cancelled by the actual cost of the raw
material, of course, amount to nothing, and there is an
expense of about £lOO,OOO a-year required to carry on
the establishment, leaving, therefore, a profit of £150,000,
or seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum.
Three hundred and fifty men are employed in the various
departments, from the editor down to the fly-boy.
Twenty of these are Parliamentary reporters, engaged
in reporting the debates. These each take notes fifteen
minutes at a time, and then retire to a room in the rear
of the reporters' gallery to write them out, and four
cabs are kept constantly running during the time of ses-

sion, between the London Times office. and the houses
of Parliament, to bring the copy which these indefa-
tigable workers furnish. But I am getting on to
another branch of my subject, and shall leave the edi-

torial characteristics of the office for a futtireletter.

CRUEL EXECUTION IN MONTENEGRO.

RAGUSA, April 28.

Seven individuals of the Luchich family, of Vikovich,
in the Nahie Cerniska, all young persons, appropriated
20 lb. of lead, on occasion of the transport of a qua-
tity of this metal, with which they were entrusted in
the year 1855, on account of Prince Spizza, and directed
to be delivered at the house of the Pope Philip Bokan.
Eventually repenting of this fraud they avowed it
to Bokan, who promised to pardon them, without
even demanding restitution. Notwithstanding this he
declared the fact to the Prince, and the seven persons
implicated were put in prison, and suffered the basti-
nado, and then, after having a cloth tied round each of
their persons, and a stick placed in their hands, they
were paraded through several bazaars. After having
suffered this punishment, which is deemed very igno-
minious by the natives of this country, they were driven
out of Montenegro. Among these unfortunate men
were Giuro Dragov .and Marco Jovon Luchich, who
resolved to take vengeance for all this suffering and
dishonour on the traitor Bokan.

On the 16th of last month, about seven o'clock in the
morning, Bokan left home, accompanied by his nephew
Stauko Giurov, intending to go to the Bazaar of Bieka ;
but when they arrived near the village of BUkovich
they were attacked by the two Luchiches. The whole
four discharged their muskets, and both the Bokans
and Marco Luchich'fell dead on the spot, and Giuro
Dragov Luchich succeeded in escaping to Albania.
The Prince, informed of what had occurred, caused
more than thirty individuals of the Luchich family to
be arrested, and ordered them to be transported to
Cetinia. A few days afterwards he pronounced sen-
tence of death against Stanko, the brother of Giuro, and
. Ivo, the brother of Marco Luchich, and commanded the
nearest relatives of those unhappy men to put them to
death with their own hands. In accordance with this
decree, -Drago Luchich was required to kill his son
Stanko, and Nico Luchich to kill his brother. It was
further ordered by the Piince that the execution should
take place in the before-mentioned village of Bukovich.
Having reached the spot, the inexorable Perianikes
forced nld Drago Luchich, whose prayers and cries were
disregarded, to aim his pistol at his own son, and it was
not until the pistol had missed tire twice that it was
snatched cut of his hand and discharged against Stanko,
who fell mortally wounded.
Nico Luphich covered his eyes with one hand while
he fired at his brother, who expired at the same
moment.

'The senators and the Perianikes quitted Bukovich
after this execution, but not before they bad seiied all
the arms belonging to the Luchich family, numbering
seventy men. The people of Montenegro assert ,that
such an act of cruelty is without example in their
country.

The Earl of Derby has issued cards for a dinner party
on the 18th inst., at his mansion in St. James's-square.

As many as 1,000 Jews of Tetuan are stated to have
taken passports from the Spanish. authorities to establish
themselves in different places in Spain.
Preparations are in progress for a voyage which Prince
Napoleon intends to make to all the principal ports of
the Mediterranean and Constantinople.
FLOGGING HUSBANDS.—A petition to Parliament
has' been very numerously signed by females of Wool-

41.0 bill miroduced tiy, .Lord Raynham,
which provides for the infliction of corporal punishment
for assaults upon females.
GREAT PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—We understand that Mr

Charles Nalby, of London, a celebrated pedestrian; has
been matched, for a bet of £5OO, to walk 1,500 miles in
1,000 hours. The fe.at is to take place in a short time,
either at'Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield, or Sheffield.
—Derby Reporter.
Her Majesty's royal paddle yacht Victoria and Albert

has been lashed alongside the sheer jetty at Portsmouth
Dockyard, for the purpose of receiving her new shaft,
which arrived in the yard on Thursday morning. The

staff of the steam factory are at work upon her day and
night ; and her repairs, &c., are expected to be com-
pleted in about a week's time.
Cosi or A GUN FACTORY.—The expenditure at Enfield
factory, during the financial year ending with March
last amounted to £21.5,557, more than half of which

went in wages, aliont £56,000 in stores, and £32,000 in
buildings and machinery. During the year there were
delivered into store from this factory. 87,405 musket.
rifles complvle, of Chu piffixtu of 0.53.

THREE HITNDRED YEARS Aoo.—The following reso-
lution appears on the, books of the Boston Corporation
for the year 1545 :—"Resolved, that no beer shall be
drunk that has not been brewed in the borough." We
fancy that some of our modern topers would not relish
the re-enactment of this restriction of our forefathers of

300 years ago. It was certainly carrying out the spirit
of protection with a vengeance.—Stainford Mercury.
FALLING IN OF A CAVE AT,-4EIGATE.--A large sand
cave on the premises of the Red Cross Inn, Reigate, fell

in on Wednesday morning- about twelve o'clock. Over
this cave there were erected several cottages; and it was
soon discovered that no less than five of these buildings,
or at least portions of them, including all the staircases,
had fallen in with the cave. The inhabitants fortu-
nately escaped, however, though the bedsteads in four
of the cottages were actually partly hanging over the
immense chasm, and in one of them a poor woman was
lying very ill, her doctor having just left her. The
inhabitants of the town have very kindly got up a sub-
scription in aid of the poor people who have their furni-
ture destroyed by this extraordinary accident.
THE NEw ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The Right Rev.
Charles Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham, who has
been nominated to the Archbishopric of York, rendered
'vacant by the death of the most Rev. Dr. Musgrave,
.was born at Rochester, 1794. He was educated at
Westminster School, wherioe he proceeded to Christ
Church, Oxford, where he gained a studentship in 1812.
In 1815 he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts, being
first class in.classics, and was public tutor of Christ
Church from 1818 until 1828. Prior to his resignation:
of the tutorship, namely, in 1827, he was presented_by
Mr. C. B. Wall, the then patron, to the rectory of West
Tytherley, near Stockbridge, Hampshire, which he held
until 1829, when he was appointed to the head master-
ship of Harrow School. This appointment he held
until 1836, in which year the act was passed constituting
the new bishopric of Ripon. Dr. Langley was' appointed
the first bishop, and held the bishopric until 1856, when,
upon the resignation of Bishop Maltby, he was tran-
slated to the bishopric of Durham. The new archbishop
is the son of Mr. John Langley, late Recorder of Ro-
chester, and subsequently magistrate of Thames Police-
court. He married, in 1831, the Hon. Caroline, eldest
daughter of the first Lord Congleton,