The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-04 00:00:00

THR MILITARY GUN
.7:R4D6 OF BIRMING-

The members of the Military Goo Tads of Bir-
mingham have primate& Mr. Monti, /I P., and Mr.
Newdegate, M.P., with tastisonials to mark their set S. of
the important mrvices whisk those gentlemen rendered to
the trade, and to the country at large, in 1:.• small arms
etinamittie, which eat two years ago.
This prasentation took plea at a dinner, given at
the Royal Hotel on Friday night, at whisk, is addition to
the newts, there were gratin Mr. Bpaoner, 11l P., Mr.
Boholeaeld, M.P., the Mayor of Birmingham. (T. B. B.
Hodgson, Est.), and about oars hundred otter gartletnen,
amongst whom ware the heads of all the prinaipsi firma in
this trade.
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The testimonial to each gentleman took the f so of s
pine of plate manufactured by MUM. Elkington ant
Mason, sod dinned by Mr. Charles Grant. The profile
dots eoasist of two groups in otydised silver (tot ammo)
one for each of the two geodesic. The incident uepic
la one of the most memorable speodee in the battle
of likermann. It represents the noel i• deepens, of that
courageously defended point the Sand Beg Bettor,. The
group consists of four figures, an *Meer, a flag seisms. end
two prints., kie Out four who have centred the battery
after the last retreat of the UMW The odloer with
unmated presare le labidas his nes Ileeemed fa pseud rit
Iles ijiluttenty; en his maenad the anion. of the
upon the he ; the others are prep • nog to v-
itt?: listened attack. About the battery are sat ered
nod boss and gaffing, • shattered musket, and a !torsion
Mama The group is very spirited and tiff:am, ; a• d in
*details, even to the Wands of the military onentens,
elaborately accents and woaderfolly perfect. liven the
gene hove been modelled by wale from the far famed Mond
rite, sad the regimentals from photographic copier. The
poops ore executed In siiver,oxydised and gil , and snout t d
on pedestals of Sinn marble, each beans/ on the to.it a
wreath eneloeicg the word " Inkermano," end on tre beck
a silver plate, with the Inscription, varied of cisme
present..: "Pretreated to George Frederick Mentz, Esq.,
by the mambos of the military arms trade, in grateful
eakeowledgesent of his ions, whereby thTy
stabled to prove their ability to furnish an adages, moo/
name for the public mimics without moisten* from soy
foreign sources, or from a goverameat fac•ury. 1856."
In addition, both gentlemen were presented erithn double-
barrelled fowling-piece and a mini 6„ specimen it the
Ines improvement in this arm, both bearing •pprtirmate
ineriptions, but upoa toe rifle of Mr. Needs/ate nskieg
=dreferense to the 'gallons of one of hes aneennts, Sir
Newdegate, who in the reign of William 111. n-
etted his iallasse to pt the military gun trade introduced
loM Illnelegham.
The pronedinp in connexion with these press °teflon'
failed forth Dome statements as to what the sane oh Bir-
sieves' boa done to supply the government with small
arse dudes the last two years; whict it mey be w rib
while to reason, by way of contrast with whet so gi sea-
miest has Itself been able to achieve by mean of the pet
project of the Ordains:re—the royal t.etory at Enfl.id.
Partly in onsequence of the limited number of small arms
required by government in time of peace, the trials r ad be-
am* to eons eztent disorganised ; rid workmen had colt red
upon other occupations, sad young men had not born in-
'treated, because of the absence of employment for that
kind of laboar. Is the ten years from 1844 to 1853. •he
average number of small arms produced was 74 OW ;
in the last three years it had fallen ff to
22,000. From Morn, 1861, to March, 1852, L
supplied only 7,000 gins; and for the spas i.f fif en
months Shahan= was not called upon for a skids gun.
The government, conscious of the disorpaisation et t s
trade, which lad °martinis cos/egoism of this stoppage of
the demand, used it as an argumeat fir the necrsotty of
estalaisbing the Infield factory, a declaration having b-ea
made that the London and Birmingham trade j Andy could
not produce more than twenty rt. thirty thousaed nuns per
year. The trade was heard before the parliamentary com-
mittee, neoprene* given to produce 150,000 guts in the
first two years. Toe report of the Gomm atm f4coaessvad-
log that the system of contracting for the supply i.f smell
eras ihnsld mot be di/cautioned, was made in Match, but
it was not until the following November that the sad. w
set to work. The rosin was 160,000 in two
whereas there have sirealy bees sent in 272.000,
of this number 240,000 Wog Misid rifles; of
a quality (the chairman said) which the world
sever saw, and meek as no Tosetry la the • orld
Gould peal. la the meantime, 106,4001. has been *s-
peeded at Frigid, and asig sot • pan has been praiseed.
And, a Me gendsensleinWt,tieerilso lions supply from
Line aloes, not neeediag 20,000 gun.
Attar the formal ceremony of prterotation, Mame.
Moan and NIWDIIOArIi aekeowledged the compliment
paid .0 them. The former enaselled he trade to
ct-
dsevour by all possible means te tasks their gone at toe
lowest pries, is order to show to the government they were
not the Walsh set of bombed, they wen repremented to he.
The "County members" having bees toasted, Mr.
Broomaa, M.P returned thanks amidst mach chtnalag.
Altars hw prefatory obeervatici a he alluded to the Met
test it was evident government intended to diddle the
trade by going M foreign souring for a supply M arms, who
deceived them in tam They had to come beck to the Bir-
mingham trade; and so it would be as losg as there was
German interferesce with Baobab affairs.
Mr. BOKOLIPIRLD, M P., proposed the Military arms
trade of Landes and Birmingham."
Mr. Balusarr, of Loudon, sad Mr. Bertnnonwn, of B
retained thanks. The latter said be had one or
two▪ facts to mention which had not been alluded to. The
first was, that the orders given by goys mesh co
America—wine, according to government, oven Total he
made by mentinery et a rapid pace and • smell price—bad
hens coatmeted fee at a price at le eat fifteen per cent. lugher
than was paid te home contractor'; and though this octet
had been given oat two yens, not a tingle gun war yet in
seen. Beandly, that the two hundred men drawo by
verament for the aeoeinities of the stets would rr-pr• seat
men than the number of arse supplied from all foreign
souse. Thirdly, as to Os shape or pattern of the sight, womb
mused a great delay in the azecuti-in of the first orders
given for the handed musket of sawn 1863, the alterariln
la the pattern after it had been sanctioned ny the Sma,l
Anse Committee at Woolwich, nod alter is (Cdr Elwin-
barn) had made it, raised ;he slop sin Hirsh ham boat
1,000 a week to 6,000; so that if the alteration had been
side at the time it wee first ensgetted this increased sot ply
would have bees going on =onto@ before it commenced.
The amount subscribed fir these traditional' amounted
to POW , raised by small ontributions amongst the workmen
M well as the mestere.

THE BISHOP OP EXETER AND THI TORRINGTON
RIIIII•L Botha.—Lt will be probably recollected that
shortly Delon the prorogation of parliament the toeduct of
the Bishop of Rioter, with reference to the novena.. crat.on
of the Torrington banal ground, was broutht under the
mosiderstiost of the Home of Lords by the B it of Pure-
mouth. This burial gtound has been provided, in hound+• re
with the provisithe of the late sets of parliameet to Deb- fish
istraatural burials, sad ill prof eriy famed and proftered
*galas% treepassese. The Bishop of Bator refuses to con-
' menu that part intended for the memhers of the eatahli.hed
shush, ea the groomed that one end—that which comes eine
to the etheentere, although the while greed is au rn.uadr d
with a high substantial wall—is open, sod that the burial
ground is not fenced according to the canon., and ut.der
that tubeisal objectioo, withoat say regard to the niters d
times and eircenestuees, his lordship refuges to censures"
that petiole et it. A few days since the bishop's secretary
ioformed the buried board that the bishop wined c ,oseenite
eathiettgerofitteiall""oneardolno' stethonththeulTdrriaV the eel.
crltel'asred
A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 26th ultimo
says :—.. Among the numerous foreigners seen hers of late, the 4th alt., recommending a raring as • Hoe of Gemara• io' is,
there is one whose appearance hes produced a corrals sense• but the-board, with bat use dissentient, declined the teems,
and prefer waiting till nest session in the h .pts that SR
I ties. I allude to the lamas Sir Charles Napier, who his
NM at lest so breakfast at Decayed% end dine et St. effectual cad seams' alteration will be made in the law,
Pretersbergh, but is a much more peaceable way than he resderiag the consent of the bishops as to the finished sic e
reposed to do some two years back. Decidedly it would be of the iirohhd wihr.......0f0,f00 .5.,
'armee if we c mid but bear wh.t chaps bas been pro-
Mend ia his °pistons by the sight of the fortifications et ROBBER; OP WATCHES AT RIPON—Ter. o men were
apprehended at Herewood Toliar lest evenirer (Pray),
by Mr. Pollard, sispaiatendeet constable for the Writ
Onenstadr. True it is that Sir Charles Napier is the object
of mama cariosity, but no porton here thinks of bearing
him soy ill willoww that he Domes as a Mead. They say
G. 8. &emit, Big , West Riding magistrates, this morn-
?tiptoe, and brought before the Rev. J. A. Ilt,adec ' red
he intends presenting himself to the Emperor after his
ing, at the Leeds Court-bower. The peieeher.' nom. s
Majesty's return." are Tom Lesley. alias Node, alias .. Carly Tom," and Tom
His Excellency the Count of Chreptoeitch,ci-devant smith. Kr. I,_,
...lard stated that et helf-psst ten on the
Beep Emraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of previous morning be saw the prisoners driv gig WI the .sire
nos of Berewood. Bevis; quickly follow, d them end tarnßussia to the King of the Belgians, and now appointed
Auhameder to the Court of ISt. James's, has arrived et is wait for sic hours, Cosy Were copier, d. Thirty five
Brawls. silver watch,* end Otte gold restart, with parch and seals
We read in a letter from Vienna: „In oonsequence attached, were loath is the vehicle enclose tis a testi,. rn
of the changes introduced into the affair of the ermeteriee, bag. The prisoners Were searched, gad on Lane y acre
Prouty used is consmon, the jr.verament bee asithorteed fogad some hossebreskieg implements. Mr. Collinmin,
*he proteetaut isesfaisies to provide themselves with came- superintendsat atilt Wirth county pgice, said he had oar
series of their own. At this moment, the proustants cit this doubt that the property was that which had heen ,t len
city are in treaty with the municipal council for a grant of from Mr. Blakehorongtee chop on Wednesday ni•ienicer lad.
laud. As the great distant's to be passed over does sot Lessay declared that be bad nothing to do with the vtihery,
permit the establishes's% of ono barial-grosad for their use, ad Smith atoll supported that statement. B pri.neers
there le an intention of setting apart fur them ellotmeets in were then remonded till Tandev next.—Lomis Mercury.
the four chief cemeteries, where they eta erect chapels with A MAN STABBED BY HIS WlFlL—Ahout 10 o'clock
e belfry and bells; a privilege they did not press before lest evening emelt wee taken icon King's College Hiatt oi,
whoa they had only the caueltyards is essmaton. severely bloodiest from two wounds in the heart, whet had
The butepoodance Bedgs has • letter from Jeddah, been iefl.chid by his wife. It app, an that the parties, who
reside in ..mart atrut,ing on Clare-muket ware dritikii
June 14, which says:—" An attempt was male some days
_.,,_..,__As. whim.. ... . . i g
ago to usessinate the reoreseatetive of her Britannia Ma 'I" nail "-.."' 01 pate arising between the ha-
beas' awl wife, the latter seised a large Welt knife and
piety. Forteastely foe this peat, be had stayiag with him
sums, hi. mkt. is iii. tempi. boron
... ,
011 that day el% Bestial' captain, who permived the Millie a Wee thstraiDed.
at the smiths he mu on the poiat of stabbing tee consul,
_....,Pilic• were clalid la. and Die men removed to the hos.
who was sleeping la his 'alma The espial., with the Imtto , ._. .. ,
wigwam if his Istist, sommewied la disarming the amesels,
for the maser in white she executes the frosty of peace,
V se e tiozegm was seized on the 30th ult. at
who was thea headed eves I. the pollee." Berlin ter as article fa which Buda was severely crit•e'sed
hi B.ll6lvollny, hal.. deesetealCastelismeh*satliefre. mlaLttyeerea,toine•AYix• r basil. i " 113' "Pit to the fortilkSlMllt of Rea and
' abut AIN teYowled Coneebera."

of Norfolk temilise.
The toast was drank la sasses.
Vll/0000t BURT (en of the staircase), gnus")lies
Nightingale, and the holies who have served their isometry
abroad sad at beige." (Load is' rms.)
Lord L 0171111.0 proposed the balms of Mts. Wyndham
sad her goes. (lend cheers.)
Mejor-Generel Winans"' responded.
gear rd ether touts of s tormel obarseter were given and
responded to, sad t►e compeer did not septets uti s late
►oar.