The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

THE ROUPELL CASE.
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The following additional particular, in reference
to this most extraordinary trial will doubtless be intereatia4
to the public :—lt was stated that after Mr. Reopen had
bean examined before the magistrates at Guildford he was
fully committed to take his trial at the Cestral Criminal
Court, and as the August session of that court had only just
commenced, end the grand jury were still sitting, it was
thought that he would have been at once conveyed to New.
gate, and that the case might possibly come on et
the present session. It appears, however, that the
committal was for the September session, sod the
prisoner was consequently, in the ordinary course, taken
to Horsemooger-lane prison, the county gaol for
Surrey, within which district the offence was ellegel
to have been committed, and he will be removed to New-
gate with the other Surrey prisoners shortly before the
September session, which will commence on the 22nd of
that month. It appears to be not at all improbable that
some more proceedings of an extraordinary nature are likely
to arise in reference to this peculiar case. The public are
aware that Mr. Roupell was given into custody by Mr.
Baron Martin, the presiding judge, sad taken before a
magistrate upon the charge of forging the deed of gift. The
only evidence that was then gone into in support of the
charge was proof that he had admitted while order en.
amination that he bad forged the deed in question, aid
upon this evidence alone he stands committed. It appears
however, that such evidence is oonsidered totally in:
sufficient to support such a charge, and that,
if he should be tried upon this evidence alone, the result
would be that he would be acquitted. It appears to be also
very doubtful whether such evidence would be admissible,
particularly as it was given without any caution frees the
judge that Mr. Roupell was not bound to answer any gees-
tioes that might tend to criminate himself and under the
compulsion of an oath. This case would appear to show the
necessity for • public prosecutor, or some official whose
duty it should be to see that justice was not defeated. Mr.
Tongue, the gentleman who was bound over to prosecute, is
merely the associate who site ou the civil side during the
assizes, and he is not at all connected with criminal matters;
and if he were to incur the expense of putting the caw into
the hands of some experienced attorney, with instructions
to proceed with the prosecution and procure the necessary
evidence to support the charge, it would appear that there
is no source from whence the money so expended could be
refunded, so that it is not very likely that he will incur la
serious a responsibility, and there is no one else to do so.
From the abrupt termination of the case at the Guild-
ford assizes, the evidence that was to have been adduced
on behalf of the defendant was not alluded to, bat V this
had been gone into, it would have tended to make the in.
quiry of &still more extraordinary character. The defendant,
Mr. Waite, is • tradesman in London, and possessed of con-
siderable property, and the Norbiton Farm estate was per.
chased by him ►t the Auction Mart for 15,00 W., and he has
since laid out 5,000/. upon the property, so that he had arery
large sum, at stake, and when he was called open to gi►e op
the property on the ground that the deeds that were exe-
cuted were not valid, upon the supposition that a forgery
had been committed, be spored no expense in procuring
evidence, and the ease that would have been set up on his
behalf was that both the deed of gift and the will of the
tad September, 1856, under which Mr. Ronne!' came into
possession of the property, were genuine instrument', sad
very strong evidence indeed would have been brought for-
ward to establish these facts. It would, of course, have
also beessauested that William Roswell's confession of per
was merely an afterthought for the purpose of getting
the property back to the use of his family, and there were
a gresit many strong bats that would have materially fa-
voured such • suggestion. It appears that there were
Dearly fifty witnesses at Guildford on behalf of the defend-
ant, a great many of whom had had intimate and extensive
business transactions with Richard Palmer Roupell, the
father of Mr. William Reopen, and were perfectly well
acquainted with his handwriting, and the greater part of
those witnesses would have expressed their positive belief
that the signatures to the will and the deed of gift were
the genuine signatures of the old man, and they would
have spoken to this important fact without the slightest
doubt or hesitation. It at the mme time appears to be
perfectly clear that but for what has since taken
place the genuineness of those signatures would never for
one moment have been disputed. Besides the evidence of
theme witnesses as to the handwriting, there were • great
many who would have proved that the deceased had upon
several occasions stated that he had given the Kingston
estate to his son William, and that he had nothing more
to do with it.

It has beat already stated that the amount of
squandered easy by Williamßoupell was =
200,000/. and 900030 f., bat there are good grounds for be-
lieving that, in additioa to this enormous sum. he is con-
siderably in debt, and otherwise involved. Bofors be left
Guildford be was, it is said, served with writ for lOW. by
one of the ofßoers of the sheriff of Surrey.

Rot-TELL v. Werra.—Thu following appears
under this bead in the Times of this morning :—" Permit
me to say, in answer to • letter iu this days paper, that
your correspondent who signs himself • A Clerk al 30 yam'
' experience is extremely ignorant. In this CMS he is
wrong both io premises and argument. The copies of the
deeds in question, when they left my bands (although, for
an assigned remelt, written on parchment) bad neither
damps nor Pala, our, in fact, any formality about them to
constitute them duplicates of original deeds ; nor could any
person who looked at them be imposed upon by their ap-
pesranoe, or have taken them for duplicates of mistral
deeds.—l am, Sir, your obedient gement, •Tas TRADE.I.
MAN WIIO COPIED THE Desist.—Aug. 22."
Tan MANCHESTER MURDER.—Mrs. Taylor has
Dot yet left Liverpool, and in an interview which she bad
with her hothead after he was condemned on Thursday, he
desired her not to leave until after his execution. Taylor
himself appears but slightly affected with his awful position,
and expresses not the slightest contrition for the act for
which he is to die. Even Whet) he alludes to the 'abject he
justifies his conduct, and intimates that under similar cir-
cumstances be would do the same thing again. The uncle
of Mrs. Taylor, who wee in Liverpool during the trial, still
remains in the town. The father, sister, and cousin of the
unhappy man visited him previous to his trial.
THE MITUDIEER HATER—We made the fullest
les respecting what is still being don.by the coasts,-
7to secure the arrest of Hayes, and we learn that
upwards of 200 men are almostoonatently searchin in the
vicinity of the murderer's home in the county
and of Rilcommoo mountain. It is • fact that the last time
:Hayes was seen near the locality of the murder, so far se
the authorities are aware was one hour after its occur•
recce, when he was observed passing the bridge of Dols.
All intelligence since is based upon rumour or surmise.
Hayes, in point of fact, has succeeded up to this in bal-
ding the constabulary.—Clonsel Chronicle.
A Salm LAND Tuietursi.—ln every parish or
district in the south of Inland there is "a committee" foe
the protection of the temente, and for the regulation of
mikes connected with land. This committee in • sort of
court, which receives charges, examines witnesses, pro-
nounces sentences, and provides funds for the execution of
those sentences. How far the committees are controlled by
a central authority does not appear. They aim at a sort of
rough justice, according to their notions of right and wrong.
They do not execute their code rigidly on persons of their
own class, except in extreme cases
A WOMAN IN MAN'S ATTIRE—On Tuesday, at
the Gateshead Police-court, John Weabe and Maria Dixon
were placed in the dock an suspicious characters. Not-
withstanding the difference of sex, the magistrates (meld
necessary to ask which was 111.O' be anal which Dixon, for
on the names being called, two persons, both apparently
dont, strong lads, were brought forward. It appear 4
however, from the statement of Mr. Superintendent Scherer,
that Ditto was a female in man's clothes, and that os
Saturday night she and the male prisoner went into the
Steamboat public.house, and sold to the landlady some
petticoats and other female hAiliments. Suspicion bring
wormed, information was sent to the police, the two pities
were taken into custody, and Dixon, on being uked if she
was • female, acknowledged the soft impeachment. She
was a ronodly-formed, strong-looking poses, and with hair
cut short and parted on the left side, might well be mistaken
for • young man. She heed pale blue eyes, end a roued and
not unpleasiog face. Her companion, leeabe, might be
either an agricultural labourer or a oarvie. He was a young
fellow, not ill-looking, and wore a smock and red neckerchief.
He said that he met the female on Friday, and that they
had agreed to go harvesting together, she putting on man
clothes, braves she could earn more money in the male cha-
racter than in her own. From questions put to her in the
bench, however, it appeared that this wee not a Dow fired-
She said she was a native of the Highlands, but had been in
these parte about two years. She had generally worn male at-
tire, because she could get more money by working ass This.
sad she bad so worked at Wilton Park for nearly twelve
months ; the bad also worked at Speonymoer Iron Worts.
seedbed been working down a coal pit at Leasingthorr6
At Bishop Auckland she had • quarrel with a man about
wages, in consequence of which she was sent for three
months to Durham gaol There her sex was discovered.
sad eines she came out she had been in female garb. she
bad pat herself, she said, into man's clothes win to work
for money to take her to Australia. She added that As
was twenty-four years of age. The bench recornmeodel her
to assume her proper attire, and on her promising to do to
site and the male prisoner were discharged. Amongst etilm
articles found in her possession, in a bundle which she
serried about with, were a looting glass, • small phoSqtrda,
atm female, who, she said, had fallen in love with hoc
a look of hair presented to her by another female, who ola
bola captivated by what appeared to he a very headseas
bar at sleets= or twenty years.—Sunderland Herald.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

SOUTHWARK.
DWELT' HIGHWAY 101013r1IT.

Anti Judge, a notorious thief, was brought before Mr.
Combe by Pomeroy, 110 M, charged with being concerned
with James Filcher in custody, and two others not in cus-
tody, in assaulting William Jackson, and robbing him of •
gold chain.
Pomeroy said that on Thursday night, about 10 o'clock, he
ass on duty in the Borough-road, when be received in-
formation that a gentleman bad been knocked down and
robbed in Warwick-street. He proceeded towards that
bcality, and met • gentleman who appeared to have been
roughly handled, and who, on proceeding to the station-
house, informed the inspector that he was phasing up
Warwick-street from the Blackfnara-road to the Borough-
road, when he was suddenly pounced upon by two men
and two females. He gave such a deecriptios of the persons
that witness was satisfied the prisoner waa one, and meeting
her on Friday night near London-bridge he told her what
she was charged with. She denied all knowledge of the
rubbery, and swore that she was not in the neighbourhood
of the Boroogn.road on Thursday night. Witness, how-
ever, saw her with two other females in that locality about
ten minutes before the gentleman was robbed.
Mr. Combs observed that • man was brought before him
on the same charge on Friday. Did he know that man?
Pomeroy replied that he did. His seine was Picked, and
he believed him to be a ticket-of-leave 'convict Kemp,
Isl M, apprehended him on Tbunday night near where the
robbery was committed, and he was searched, but none
of the property was found on him.
Mr. Combe asked whether the prosecutor was present.
Pomeroy replied that he was not. He understood that
he was suffering from the injuries he received, but he would
no doubt be able to attend in a few days.
The prisoner here denied all knowledge of the robbery,
and declared that the officer was mistaken.
. .

Mr. Combs asked when the nom was—to be brought up
again.
Pomeroy replied on Friday next.
Mr. Combs accordingly remanded prisoner until that day. ,

STRATFORD.

A well-known mendicant was placed at the bar on •
charge of vagrancy under the act of parliament.
Police.constable Hunter, 137 K, deposed that he knew
the prisoner as an old beggar. He watched her and maw her
go to the residence of Mr. Henry Ford Barclay, one of the
county magistrates, at Walthametow. One of the servants
opened the door, and he heard her solicit alms. Her im-
portunities were very pressing, and she refused at first
to go away until she received some bread and cheese.
Witness knew that she was a regular mendicant—she having
been repeatedly convicted, and took her in custody.
The magistrate said he recollected the prisoner well.
She bad been before him on several occasions for a similar
offence, and was out of the most incorrigible beggars he had
ever met with. Upon one occasion when she was brought
before him she had gone to • lady and represented
that her child was dead, and that she was thereby thrown
into the deepest trouble. The lady on that occasion
relieved her alleged distress, bat some of the lady's friends
had their suspicions aroused by the overcolouring she gave
of the sufferings of her deceased child. After they had re-
lieved her they were determined to watch her, and she left
the house. They maw her go to the back of the
house and make to a hedge where they saw a fine
looking gipsy child basking in the sun. They then
listened to the conversation, when the child
exclaimed, " Mother, how long am Ito be dead r The
mother replied, " Not much longer, my dear ; wait until I
go to another house." (Roars of laughter.)
The prisoner in reply to the charge said that she was in
great distress at the time, and was sorry for what she bad
done.
She was committed to prison for one month.

SUICIDE THROUGH THE LOSE or A SON.--(THIE
DAT.)—This morning Dr. Lankeater• held so inquiry at the
Coopers' Arms Tavern, Hatapden-street, Somers-town, into'
the circumstances leading to the death of Mrs. Margaret
O'Brien, aged 40 years, the wife of a shoe-1
maker, residing at 4, Middlesex-place, Middlesex-
street. Dennis O'Brien depolied that deceased was bis
wife, sod a remarkably sober woman. They had a son, to
whom she was devotedly attached, who left his home seven
years ago, at the age of 16. They never heard of him again,
and this deeply affected her mind, and produced, not
only despondency, but screaming or hysterical fits, in which
she would frantically exclaim, "Oh, my poor boy, what
has become of him," and " I shall never see him
again," du. Since Christmas she gradually became more
and more despondent, and her fits grew more frequent and
violent until shortly before her death, when she appeared
to have become crazy. About three o'clock last Wed-
nesday afternoon she was dreadfully excited about
her son, and soon afterwards she was taken
alarmingly ill. and died within fifteen minutes.
She never threatened to commit suicide. Other evidence
showed that at half-past 2 on Wednesday afternoon the
deceased purchased a pennyworth of oxalic acid at the shop
of Mr. Bailee, druggist, 5, Cesulston-street, and the medi-
cal testimony clearly proved that she diet through having
swallowed it. Verdict of "Suicide from poison in a state
of unsound mind.'

DlssErraora Ftee.—Yeaterday morning a fire
broke out in the Blakeridgo WU, Batley, near Dewsbury,
belonging to Messrs. J. and J. Taylor, woollen manatee.
turers. The hands at work in the top rooms being unable to
escape by the stein:saes, got out of the windows end
suspended themselves from the window frames, at a height
of 110 feet from the ground, until ladders could be procured.
Maoy, both men and women, retained their bold until the
flames had so scorched their fingers that they win
compelled to drop to the group'', many of them
sustaining revere injuries. Tso young women are
said to hove been fatally injured, and three others
were so severely bruised as to be unable to walk.
There were seven fire engines beside the town's hose at
work, but their combined strength was of no avail. The
damage is estimated at 15,C00/., most of which, it le be-
lieved, will be covered by insurances effected in the Sun,
the Royal, and the Leeds and Yorkshire offices. The firs is
supposed to have originated in the "plucking-room," by
the machine coming in contact with some metallic substance.
Since writing the above, the remains of one of the workmen
have been found. His name was James Kemp. He was
discovered amongst a heap of debris, burnt almost to a
ender.— dlancAnter Guardian.

A SERI( PRINCZ OF WALL); IN BremINORAIII.
At about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a tidy.looking me-
chanie, apparently about 40 years of age, sauntered into the
Branch Bank of England, in Beunett's-hill, and quietly
requested as advance to the moderate extent of 30.0C3L
To the very natural inquiry concerning the kind of security
be intended to give, be replied that he was the Prince of
Wales, and should not think of giving any security what-
ever. As this revelation concerning his high rook and
position did not produce the money, his royal highness
condescended to explain that he was on a tour through
Eogland, and that, having run out of cash unexpectedly,
the advance he requested was absolutely necessary. Still
the clerks were incredulous, Rod our mechanic referred
them to the directors of the Rank of England, and re-
quested them to communicate at once, as he was in urgent
need of the money. After some further parley, the clerks.
finding that the poor fellow was evidently crazed, induced
him to leave the hank, but no sooner had be done so than
be commenced smashing the windows with stones. A
large crowd imnierliately collected, and he was soon given
Into custody. On his being titre° to New-street station
it was found that his name was Isaac Green, and that be
wan a tin-Plate worker, living at the back of 188, St. Vin-
oentstreet A letter was found upon him, apparently
written in answer to one he bed sent to the directors of
the louden and North-Western Railway, asking for a loan
of lOW., to aid him in effecting some railway improve-
ment. It did sot appear that his request had been com-
plied with. It seems that be called at the hank for an ad-
vance a few days ago, and that on the evening of the same
day the bank windows were brakes). His manner then,
boa,v,r, was so quiet and inoffensive that no suspicion
wLatsver attached to him.—Birmingham Daily Past.
THE REV. J. LIVHSEY.—The more the case of
the tiny. J. Livesey, incumbent of St. Philip's, Sheffield, is
nnilenumsl. does it appear to be in his favour. From the
commencement of the attack upon him, when these uowar.
fautal.b charges were brought against hie, it could scarcely
be believed that they would be sustainer after due inquiry.
A btter has been received from the Archbishop of York, in
"Ply to the resolutions passed at the meeting of seat.
hollers of St Philip's. His grace speaks very favourably
of the conduct of Mr. Livesey, expressing as °plume that
he his committed as error of judgment only, and not acted
hero any improper motive.—Yorkshire Gazette.
GoVERNNENT WARNING TO AN IRISH LAND
Abraham Goatee, agent over the Earl of
titradbroke's estates in the county of Waterford, and of the
extensive property of Lord Clifden, in the county of !N-
-inny, has been warned by the government of his intended
asameination. While paying one of his accustomed visits
to Gowan ensile on Thursday last, he was met by the sub-
inspector of the district, who conveyed to him, by order of
government, the startling intelligence above announced,
and this was rendered still more alarming by the presence
Of a police party, some of whom were at the moment
Patmiling the grounds, and others of whom had been told
off as a body-guard to attend Mr. Coates whenever he
ro,_ eyed abroad. The amount states that the government
is aware that assassins 11170 hired, and that pistols have
been Purchased to enable them to perpetrate their design.
COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAlLWAT.—OoTbanday evening the express train
which leaves London for Manchester at 2.421 p.m. ran into
a train of empty carriages, immediately after pawing
throueh the Bletchley station. The empty carriage, were
Ilaing shunted at the time. Fortunately, the driver and
mini saw the obstacle in front of them sod immediately
applied the breaks. This bed the effect of checking the
speed of the passenger train, and proportionately lessened
the forte of the collision. As it was, several of the pas-
'coleus sustained some severe cuts about the head, and
were so much shaken and injured as to necessitate their
being left babied. An eye-witness describes the escape as
as almost miraculous, and due in a great measure to the
Prompt action of the driver and his assistant and the
guard. The train wee detained for two hours.

oßsar NORTHERN RAILWAT—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly meeting was held this morning
at Kisg's-crues, Mr. EDMUND DINIBOI,I is the chair.
The report, which has airway appeared, was taken as
react

Mr. DENISON, in moving it. adoptiuo, said the meeting
would no doubt be struck with the increase of the capital
' account. The item of 280,0001. for the Hertford and Luton
line had, however, so far yielded a good return, and he had
no doubt th►t the arrangement would prove • very bens-
, ficial one. The total addition to the capital account
bad been upwards of 400,000/. ; and while he
regretted that that addition should have been made,
he contended that the expenditure had been prudent.
When they proposed to create the Four per Cent. Debeo-
turn stock, they were told that they would never be able
to get it taken up; but the amount of that stock was
now over 2,000,0001.—a striking proof of the confidence
which the public reposed in the Great Northern Railway.
The revenue account did not we►r quite so goal an appear-
ance as it might otherwise have done, in consequeoce of
the charge for the Nottingham and Grantham Rail-
way and Canal. That was not quite so good
a scheme as the Hertford and Luton line;
but it was, notwithstanding. a very good ar-
rangement, because it secured the Nottingham traffic,.
Tho total increase in the receipts had been 19,21 W.
10s. Bd., the greater part of which was owing to
the diminution of expenditure, which was 18,0731. lees
than that of the first six months of 1861. The result was
that the directors were able to propose a dividend of 4i per
cent. per annum on the original stock, or I per cent. more
than in thej corresponding half of last year. He ro-
gretted that there had been so large so expenditure iu the
shape of parliamentary contests; but those contests had
been forced on them by the necessity of defending their
property.
Mr. V. KNIGHT—Is not the remedy worse than the
disease ? . .

The CHAIRMAN—I cannot tell you. The patient doesn't
always know. Some people would rather go through a
painful malady than be bled. Count Cavour, on the other
hand, insisted on being bled; and it kiiled him. (Hem,
hear.) For his own part he (Mr. Deeisoo) was strongly op-
posed to the existing system of private legislation • but he
could not help it. If they could persuade parlilemut to
pass a law condemning the parties who promoted unsuc-
cessful bills in the costa of the opposition, he should be
very glad, and he had no doubt it would have a very salu-
tary effect. (Hear, hear.)
In answer to Mr. Gots,
' • '

TheCumasAN maid there was a general opinion amongst
lawyer.—he could not say whether it was general amongst
the judges —that Lord Ch,rapbell's act had not exactly
proved the same thing in operation as its noble author had
intended. No doubt the law was unjust. Nothing could
be more inequitable than to base the amount of compensa-
tion upon the passengers income tasked of upon
hie fare. The companies would be only too
glad to compensate the public on the latter holds.
A very small insurance fund paid by the passengers would
be quite sufficient ; but he was afraid that the House of
Commons was more anxious to protect the public than to
protect railway shareholders- By an act reseed by the
government of Lord Derby, no one could claim more than
bOL for a racehorse worth 4,0001. unless it had been specially
insured ; and he did not see why the same principle should
not be aMied to passengers.
' Mr. %mom., while congratulating the meeting on the
results of the past half-year, strongly condemned the policy
of amalgamations and subscriptions to new branches.
Another shareholder drew attention to a statement made
by the chairman at • recent meeting, namely, that the
charges of this company for minerals were not remunera-
tive.

Mr. DURSO:4 reminded the meeting that the directors
could not agree to the smallest amalgamation or sub-
scription without coining before the shareholders and
obtaining their reagent. He could not say that the
Nottingham and Grantham line of itself quite repaid them
for the outlay, but it secured them the indirect traffic over
a hundred miles of railway. The meeting must remember
that the distance between Nottingham and Loudon was as
short by the other line as by the Great Northern ; and if
they bad allowed the Grantham line to get into the hands
of their rivals the result might have been very serious. It
seemed to him, therefore, that the price had been a very fair
one, both for this company to give, and for the Grantham
Company to receive.
The report was then received; and dividends of 2/. se.
per cent. on the original stock. 3/. on the B stock, and
1/. on the A stock were formally declared. Resolutions
were also passed empowering the directors to exercise the
borrowing powers conferred by the Gersten and Liverpool
Railway Act of 1861, 75,0001. ; the Great Northern and
Metropolitan Juoetion Act of 1860, 10,01:K/4 ; and the Great
Northern (Hereford and Luton Purchase) Act of 1861,
6.0001. ; making a total of 91,0001.
The meeting hewing been made special, resolutions were
pissed sanctioning agreements under the powers of the
Stockport, Timperley, and Altriucham Junction Act,
1861," the " West Cheshire Railway Acts, 1861 and 1862,"
the " Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway Act, 1862,"
and the " Hatfield and St. Albans Railway Act, 1862," and
authorising subscriptions to the capital of the said West
Cheshire ; Edgware, Highgate, and London. and Hatfield
and St. Albans Companies, and the creation of stock for that
purpose.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business
of the day.

THE ROIIPELL TRIAL.—A verbatim report of
the recent trisl of " Itoupell v. Waite," et Guildford, has
just been published by Mr. Vickers in the form of • pam-
phlet, under the title of "The Great Forgeries of William
itoupelL late M.P,for Lambeth."

SPIII3AD OF SNAIL-Pox IN SHEEP.—We were
treatly io hope* that in another fortnight we might
enabled to announce that the small pox
which broke out so unaccountably in Mr. Joseph Parry •
flock of sheep about seven weeks ago bad been got
rid of without spreading to any other flock. Up to Monday
morning last, no symptom of infection hail manifested itself
beyond Alliogton ; and as • few more days would
have seen Mr. Parry's sheep through the last stage
of the disease, the adjoining flockmastere entertained good
hope that the loathsome and fatal malady would have been
eradicated without doing farther mischief. We regret,
however, to say that the disease has shown itself in
• flock of 400 beautiful fat wethers belonging to Mr.
Harding, of Etcbelhsmpton, which were being corn-
fed in preparation for Wilton Fair, on a spot at least
• mile and • half from Alliogton, and divideu from it by
the canal and intermediate farms. Naturally apprehensive
for the safety of his flack, Mr. Harding had, imme-
diately upon bearing that the disease had broken out
among Mr. Parry's sheep, had his own flock removed to the
remotest corner of his farm. They were accordingly placed
in a field near " the Monument," adjoining the Salisbury-
road, where it seemed almost impossible that the disease
could reach them, without, at all events, firstpassing through
the flocks which were folded on the intermediate farina.
About midday, on Monday, however, the attention of the
shepherd was welted by the staggering gait of some of the
sheep and upon an examination being made, it was us mistake-
, ably apparent that the dreaded malady bad come among
, them. Mr. Harding at once went over to Ailing-
' ton to consult with Mr. Parry, and Boding that
Professor Simonds was expected from London on
the following day, he awaited the arrival of that eminent
veterinary, and on Tuesday Professor Simonds examined the
flock, and by his advice the whole of the sheep were yester-
day inoculated, as the moat likely means of lessening the
fatal consequence* of the attack. The consternation which
this fresh outbreak has caused will readily be une.erstood ;
and the danger is the more alarming from the inexplicable
way in which the disease has been conveyed. Had it ap.
peered in either of the flocks on adjoining farms to Mr.
Parry's, it might in some way have been accounted for; but
there is no means of secaunting for its appseraoce on the
spot where it has now shown itself—far removed, as we
have said, from Allington Farm, and with flocks folded on
intermediate land, which up to the present time are per-
fectly healthy and well. It is said that starlings msy convey
the virus from one flock to soother, and it is just possible
that this may have been the means of communicating the
disease from Mr. Parry's to Mr. Harding's flock ; but then
there is the extraordinary fact that the intermediate flocks
remain noseathed.—Denzes Gazette.

MULTIPLICATION AND COST 01, RATFL—The enor-
mous number of 651,050 living rats springing from one pair
in three years (observes a writer in the Farmers' Oevegte)
appears a thing almost incredible. Yet it is an arithmetical
fact. Nevertheless. for the satisfaction of those who
may feel curious in the matter, and have an incli-
nation to investigate for themselves, I will give the
round numbers of young, each littering, u they transpire.
Therefore, suppose we commence with Lady-day, 1856,
and finish on Ladpday, 1859, then we shall find the
following to be the result:—First litter, 8; second litter,
8. In the third littering, the first young ones being
then six months old, the tour females, with their
mother, will have a litter each, which, together, will
number 40. Thus they will fall in to the fioish
:-
-Fourth littering, 72; fifth, 232; sixth, 520; seventh,
1,448 ; eighth, 3,528 ; ninth. 9.320 ; tenth. 23,432 ; ele-
venth, 60,712; twelfth, i 54.440; thirteenth, 392%288.
Now add all these together, and the number will be 651,050.
Wooderful as this calculation may appear, vet what
will be more wonderful still is, that presently I shall
be able to prove that they would eat and waste more
food than would suffice to feed over 65,000 human
beings. Or, to render the thing easier of comprehension,
let us suppose them to have but one litter more—making 14
litteriogs in 3 years and 3 month —and then we shall Sod
the number to be 1,015,048, which would eat and destroy
more grain than would supply the whole of the British army
with Ilb. 9oz. of bread each day by day, even though they
numbered 101,504 men. _

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THE Toseasoits.—The Frreman's Journal of
yesterday says :—" This now notorious Federal man-
of-war has again looked in' on us, having arrived
off Kingstown in the man-of-war roads on Thursday
at 3.30 a.m. Owing to the very considerable distance
she was lying out in the hay, very few visited
her. She appears rather deeper in the water than when
she was here lest, which may probably amount for the
coal, it is reported, she received on baud in Belfast
Lough. Some of the officers belonging to her arrived in the
city, and visited the several places of attractive interest.
We are given to understand that at about 12.30, Captain
Craven received a ' permit' to leave, and he will, pro-
bably, take his departure during the night, if be has no
defeats to make good—where to is not known, but sonic of
his inea may the Mediterranean."