The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-26 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1852,

The Maincheater Cup of 501., added to a handicap cf
10 soya. each, h ft, and 3 only if declared; the winner
to pay 10 sons. towards expenses, and thi-i st.cind to
save his stake. One mile and three-quarters. (20
Subs., 11 paid.)
Mr. Bothwell's Lorry Whent, 3 yr 3, 6;t 91h(Aldcroft) 1
Mr. James na Sister to Fencer, 5 yrs, 63t51b (Voile) 2
Mr. W. Phillips's ,iary Nobbler, aged, Est 61b (Hall) 3
Mr. Worthington's Biehet'63, 3 yrs, Est 71b (Carroll) 4
• Mr. Henderson's Crabby, aged, Est 91b ...(Morton) 5
Mr. Shepherd's Alp, 6 yrs, Bst (Osborne) 6
Betting-6 to 4 egst Mary Nobbler, 2to 1 apt Lorry
Whent, 5 to 1 agst Sister to Fencer, 5 to 1 agbt Crabb,
and sto 1 agat Alp. Won by a neck; two lengths be-
tween second and third.
The Scurry Stakes of 3 soya. c ach, and 20 added. Three-
quarters of a mile. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Chilton's Audubon, 2 yrs, bit (Carroll) 1
Mr. Walker's Alma, 5 yrs, B,t 21b
Mr. Williins's May-Blossom, 3 yrs, fist 70) (Alderoft),
Captain Scott's Day and Martin, 7st 41b (Osborne),
and Mr. Saxon's Cauriri, Bat 51b, also ran. Won by
two lengths. _ _

DERBY RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Produce Stak,-8 of 10 SOW. each, and 50 added;
colts Bst 71b, fil ies and geldings Bst 31b. Ono mile
and a half. (16 :-iubs.)
Mr. IL E ch f Bal7etto, B,t ...(Whitehouse) 1
Mr. W. Jepson's Bess of Hardwicic, Bst (W. Sharpe) 2
Mr. G. Barton's Bethgelert, Bst 41b (G. 021 et)
Mr. John Scott's Dun Carlos, Bst 41b (Elarrisoa) 0
Mr. Copeland's Director, Bst 71b ... . ..(Marlow) 0
Betting—Even on Bothgclert, and 3 to 1 each apt
all the others. Won by a head after a lino race with
three; half a length between second and third.
The Grand Stakes of .5 ECM. each, and 40 added, for
three yrs old and upwards. Ono mile and a half.
(3 Subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's Infidelity f, sst 91b (Ashmall) 1
Mr. T. Parr's Carinetta, 3 yrs, sst 51h (50/.) (Wells) 0
Mr. J. Scott's Don Carlos, sst 51b (501) (Sherwood) 0
7to 4 on the filly. Won by a head; a dead heat for
second place. The winner was sold for 105 guineas.
The Tradesmen's Plate of 100 soya,, added to a handi-
cap of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared; the
winner to pay 20 soya. expenses, and the second to
save his sake. Two miles. (26 Subs., 15 of whom
declared.)
Lord Calcdon's Aaron Smith, 7st Sib . (W. Sharpe) 1
Mr. T. Part'a Weathergage, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Charlton) 2
Mr. R. E. Oliver's Sir Rowland Trenchard, 7st 71b.. 3
Mr. T. Parr's Carinetta, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (Wells) 0
Mr. Drinkald's Snarry, 3 yrs, sst 6lb (T. Sherwood) 0
Betting-2 to 1 agst Weathergage, 2to 1 agast
Snarry, 3 to 1 agst Aaron Smith, and 4 to 1 agst Sir
Rowland Trenchard. Won cleverly by half a length,
Sir Rowland Trenchard a bad third, and Carinetta
beaten off.
The Maiden:Plato of 30 soya, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sous. each, for three yrs old and upwards,
about one mile and a half (4 Subs.), was won easily in
two beats by Mr. Coates's Hated, 3 yrs, Est 131 b
(Charlton), beating Lord Chesterfield's Bihar, 3 yrs,
7st (Ashmall), Doctor Buck, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (West),
and The Drag, 5 yrs, Bst 6lb (White).
TAUNTON RACES.—Frasr DAY.
The Taunton Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft, and 3 only if
declared, with 30 soya. added. One mile and a half.
(11 Subs.)
Mr. G. Drewe's Odiham, 4 yrs, Bst (G. Knight) 1
Mr. Crossing's Madame Wharton, 4 yrs, 8s 51b 2
Mr. T. Stevens's Sleeping Partner, Bst 71b... (Yates) 3
Won by half a length.
The Ladies' Plate of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of
3 soya. each, for three years old and upwards, once
round and a dis (3 Subs.), was won in two heats by Mr.
Elwes's John of Berwick, 5 yrs, got 51b, beating Surge,
7st 81b, and Fazeley. 9st 101 b.
The Innkeepers' Plate of 20 sows. and a Sweepstakes
of 3 soya. each, were won cleverly in two heats by
Sleeping Partner, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (Yates), beatings Phan-
tom and John of Berwick.
A Handicap of 2 soya. each; and 15 soya. added; one
mile and a half, was won by Mr. Cathie's Surge, 7st
71b, beating Madam Wharton, Bst 101 b, and Cingari,
7at 101 b.

ROYAL IRISH AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION
IN KILLARNEY.
We have often referred with admiration to the perse•
vering and successful exertions of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society, and of the Rayal Dublin Society also,
during all the distress and difficulties of the past eight
years. Their annual exhibitions—latterly fully equal
to any similar displays in England or Scotland—have
given a decided impulse to agricultural enterprise. The
recent exhibition in Galway, under the auspices of the
former society, ailorded most gratifyicg evidence of
steady improvement in Connaught, which had been
not very long since in a state of utter prostration.
We are happy in being enabled to announce that the
next annual exhibition of the Agricultural Society
will take place in Killarney. and that wo can con-
gratulate our friends in Kerry and the adjoining
counties upon an arrangement calculated to confer so
much advantage upon that part of the country. The
necessary preliminary steps for effecting that object were
taken, before the close of the Galway Exhibition, by
Mr. Ilene Mahony, with the earnest co-operation of
that sterling friend of Ireland, Mr. William Dargan, who
has generously volunteered to give the necessary indem-
nity to the society, on his own account for 5001. But we
are confident that the gentlemen of Kerry will gratefully
and thankfully decline his offer, which, however, has se-
cured the holding of the Cattle Show for 1853 in Kil-
larney. We have learned that Mr. St. John Jeffreys,
of Blarney Castle, although he has not an acre in Kerry,
has joined Mr. Mahony in tendering his subscription to-
wards the indemnity fund of 500/. In short, the matter
is settled, and it only now remains to adopt all needful
measures for rendering it completely successful. We
have some reason to believe that the Queen and Royal
Family contemplate a visit to this city curing the Great
Exhibition of 1853, which owes its origin to the public
spit it and munificent enterprise of Mr. Dugan.
From the Irish capital her Majesty and her illustrious
consort might proceed, by the railway constructed by
him, to visit the far-famed scenery of Killarney, at the
opportune period of the Cattle Show. This would in•
deed be a royal progress, the very anticipation of which
would cheer the hearts of her M°.lesty's to and
y
devoted subjects in this portion of her realm.
The Irish
and English Yacht Clubs would have it in their power
to
contribute to the usefulness and glory of the event by
having their Regattas for 1853 at Bantry Bay and at the
Kenmaro River. This is a subject in which our hopes
and feelings aro deeply engaged; and, because we see the
prospect of great advantages for the country, we ear-
nestly urge the necessity and duty of prompt and cordial
co-operation, on the part of all who have the means of
promoting the grand object we seek to accomplish.
When our gracious Sovereign paid her first visit to
Ireland, the country was but struggling out of the diffi-
culties of a terrible famine. That period of disaster has
passed away; and with the brighter prospects that now
open upon us, we would hail with joy the second advent
of our beloved Queen, to receive renewed pledges
of affectionate loyalty from her Irish subjects.—Dublin
Evening Post.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GRIAT NORTHERN RA ILWAY..- (Miles in work, 2851
Return of Traffic for the Week ending Aug. 15, 1852:
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £8,490 12 7
Merchandise and minerals ... 5,274' 1 2
Cattle ... ... 308 9 8

Total .. £14,073 3 5
Corresponding week, 1851 (2411 miles):—
Passengers, parcels, &c. £10,553 19 2
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ... 4,229 8 3

---
Total ... ...£14,783 7 5
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending Aug. 22. £21,137 14 11
Corresponding week in last. year (260
miles open) .. ...£19,128 7 8
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAu.wer.—Traffics for the
week ending Aug. 22:

RAILIVAL

Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £3,397 14 4
Goods ... ._ ••• ... 670 12 11

as, I'IRET of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
oee of the Western States of Arne-
fie-, before civilization tied entirely conquered nature,
considerable annoyance was experienced from the
multitude and ferocity of the indigenous bear:, and
to such a pitch did the evil arise that it was taken
under the immediate cognizance of the local Govt rn-
ment. 'With the view of acc..lerating the extinction
of this troublesome tribe, these authorities recurred
to the ingenious and highly p-pular machinery of
" bounties"—that i 3 to say, they promised to pay from
the common tree, ury a certain sum for every bear's
head that was produced. To be sure, it was already
the interest of every man to lend his best aid to the
extirpation of a plague from which he, as well as all
the rest, was suffering; aryl, if the work properly
pertained to the people, it could hardly be requisite to
pay the people fur doing it. However, the terms
were published, and the coffers of the State were
pledged to a fixed premium upon slaughtered bears.
The new pursuit thus opened was followed with ala-
crity by a good many woodsmen, but to none did it
appear so profitable as to a certain citizen, highly dis-
tinguished for his intelligence, but not hitherto re-
markable for excellence in sportsmanship. At last
the steady and increasing supply of bears' heads
from this quarter attractt d some close inquiry, when
it was discovered that the producer had been privately
breeding the animals to a very large extent. The
" bounty" awarded by the State was sufficient to
render bears a profitable agricultural stock, and was
accordingly made instrumental in perpetuating the
identical race it was designed to extinguish. On the
practice being denounced as unlawful, and the pre-
miums being withdrawn from this home manufacture,
the proprietor, it is said, at once turned his whole
stock into the woods, and thus supplied the neighbour-
hood with rather more hears, upon the whole, tban
they had enjoyed before the first experiment of
"bounties." Whether this story is either very true
or only very well imagined we are not much con-
cerned to decide, but if any reader is inclined to dis-
miss the former supposition as intrinsically
we can help him to a fact of the present day which is
very little behind the American anecdote. The
French Government pays a " bounty" upon the cap-
ture of herrings, not, indeed, with a desire to sweep
the sea of these savoury little creatures, but with
the " higher aim," as it is termed, of fostering a
hardy school of mariners. It appears that these
prize scholars repair to the British shores to fish
but, as the work comes by no means .so naturally to
them as it does to us, they are in the habit of pur-
chasing herrings from our Scarborough and Yar-
mouth sailors, and presenting them for payment as
their own proper and original produce. So noto-
rious has the practice become, that overseers are now
appointed to secure the Government in fair play ; and
at this very moment a fine French steamer of war,
with a couple of tenders, is stationed off Shields—not
to protect, as Mr. Webster would express it, " the
hook and line, bob and sinker" of these honest fisher-
men, but to keep a watch over their doings, and see
that they perform the part for which they are paid.
On the whole bargain, therefore, the French Govern-
ment first pays a gratuitous " bounty" on the take of
fish, which are not taken by the alleged takers • next,
provides an encouragement extraordinary for the very
rivals which it is aiming to surpass; and, finally, in
order to stop the cheat, is obliged to find men-of-war
to prevent its own traders from defrauding its own
exchequer. A more delightful illustration of Pro-
tection it would be hard to find. This is
the species of favour for which our North Ame-
rican colonies have recently been petitioning.
It is said that their fishermen ought to have " boun-
ties ;" that is to say, that, over and above the natural
inducements to take fish for sale, there should be a
special premium on every cod's head and shoulders,
contingencyol of mariners" to
of war.
Now, it should be understood—if, indeed, there can payable by the State. Nothing less, it is declared,
will put the colonists on a level with the Americans,
whichand maintain awi ne t ai n
must that
resort
in the
"hardy
school
be any misconceptions after the late discussion of the
subject—that the fisheries lie off our own coasts, and
not off the coasts of our neighbours ; that three miles'
space, measured from the shore, is secured to us abs
solutely : and that to the more distant grounds of the
north we are many leagues nearer than the Ameri-
cans. The consequence of these advantages is that
our fishermen can employ a smaller class of vessels
than their rivals, and thereby start with a less expen-
sive outfit. The best fishing grounds lie at their
very doors, and they can use light manageable
nets with great effect. It was urged, too, by Mr.
Everett, in his note to Lord Aberdeen, that all the
rough materials of the trade—such as timber
and iron, canvass and cordage, hooks and lines—were
cheaper in the colonies than the States, and that the
former were notoriously favoured in all facilities
for salting and curing. It was in consideration, in-
deed, of the superiority thus enjoyed by the colonists
that the protective duties of the States were instituted
—an arrangement by which the Americans are sad-
dled with a halfpenny a pound on all the fish they
consume for the satisfaction of going out to fetch it
themselves instead of having it brought to their doors.
Now, with the views of the United States Government
in this respect we will not at present concern our-
selves. They have made it a duty not only to purvey
fish, but to create fishermen, and fishermen have been
forthcoming. On the other hand our colonies, it is said,
are being fast excluded from their natural avocations
under the operations of the system thus artificially
maintained, and it is proposed accordingly to set them
on their feet again by taking a leaf out of the Ameri-
can book, and protecting our seamen as well as theirs.
But, we ask, where is this competition to stop ? We
may describe the whole rivalry as a race for the
working of the fisheries. The fish require men to
take them, and there is a struggle between two States
which shall supply these men. The British colonies
have the precedence of natural superiority, which the
Americans encounter by artificial encouragements
on the other side. These encouragements it is
proposed again to counterbalance by colonial
bounties, in which event the Americans must
tither increase their own protection or retire from
the field. They are not very likely to adopt the hit-
ter alternative, so that the only discernible result
is a race of folly which would end in making a
dish of salt fish about as costly as a haunch of New
Forest venison—a joint estimated, we believe, all
forest charges included, at the value of 130 guineas,
or thereabouts. But the experience of commerce is
now sufficient to prove that- these artificial arrange-
ments are never desirable. If our colonies, with all
their inalienable adventages of situation and produce,
cannot find encouragement enough in the ordinary
way of trade to practise fishing, the conclusion is, not
that fishing should be made still more attractive by
pecuniary bounties, but that some other calling must
supersede it. We need hardly say, however, that
such an event is utterly improbable. No doubt the
colonists would be glade of a bounty, but they are
not likely to fail for want of it. The Yarmouth
boatmen would still be the best herring fishers, even
if Holland or Denmark gave a premium of a shilling
on every fish.
lIERALD.—" There is no doubt," says the Times
of yesterday, " that the correct principle of taxation
is, that every one should contribute to the yearly ex-
penditure of the country in a fixed proportion to the
amount of property in his possession during that
year ;" and he informs us that he is supported in this
opinion by Mr. Farr, in his evidence before the Select
Committee of the House- of Commons. We take
leave to differ from these high authorities, and shall
briefly state our reasons for so doing. A man may
possess property in land, houses, shipping, or rail-
ways, and yet the produce of such property forms
the incomes of many individuals besides himself; and,
therefore, to tax him because he is the possessor, and
allow all these others to escape taxation, would simply
be a gross injustice. " Let the tax,' says our contem-
porary, " be levied on the value; of the property, no
matter what they may be, the land in fee, a post in
Somerset House, the Treasury, skill in healing human
disorders, or in playing on the fiddle." We ask what
is the property " in possession" of the man whose income
is derived from " playing on the fiddle," or from his
" skill in healing human disorders?" What is the pro-
perty "in possession" of a man with an income of
1,0001. a year in Consols ? and what the property ia in
possession of another who "has the reversion of rents
of 1,0001. a year after the death of another party?"
Again, how are we to ascertain the "capitalised value
of industrial incomes, called inherent property," when
these incomes may become doubled in real value,
although their nominal amount in pounds sterling re-
mains the same ? How repeatedly have we been told
by the Times that the pound sterling has double the
purchasing power now to what it possessed twenty
years ago? And another alleged high authority on
such subjects, the editor of the Economist, admitted
some short time back that an income of 8001. a year
now was equal to more than 1,0001. a year in 1820;
and in this we perfectly agree. If, therefore, by
Legislative enactments, you compel the labouring
classes, who produce all our material wealth, to part
with twice as much of their labour, or the produce of
that labour, to provide the pound sterling wherewith
to pay the professional man or tax-gatherer on behalf
of the fundholder, aid yet estimate the " capitalised
value of their inherent property" (we like the phrase)
by a common rule, and tax them accordingly,
would there not be good reason to com-
plain of injustice and fraud, greater even
than can betel any class under the existing
system, bad as it may be? The really true and
equitable principle of taxation is, that every member
of a community should contribute to the public ex-
penditure of the country in proportion to the amount
of national produce or income annually received by
him. The Times has altogether failed to fathom the
depths of this most important subject, and to enable
us to reach the bottom we must first ascertain the
source of all incomes ; and if we admit this to be the
soil of this country and its dependencies, and the in-

! dustry of our people employed thereon, or on produce
I obtained in exchange for our own, it will at once be
seen that every uteri's income cansists of a portion of
I the produce of the nation. And as the public revenue
must be derived from the tame source, and is only a
portion of the national pro -lace or income made over
to the state by the members of the community at
large, and who would otherwise retain such portion
for their own benefit, it follows indisputably, that, in
a perfectly equitable system of taxation, each indi-
vidual should give up to the state a portion of the
national produce forming his income proportionate
t') the whole amount of that
produce or
income received by him. The man with 1,0001. a
year from landed property or Consols has not, strictly
speaking, an income to this extent. If he pays his
lawyer and doctor 50/. each, and other persons 20/.
annually, out of it, for services rendered, this
i
portion
of their professional incomes is derived from the same
source as his own, and the produce of 4,0001. out of
the 33,3331. of his Consols is the " capitalised value"
of this portion of their incomes. And to charge the
nominal possessor of this sum a certain tax uponthis
4,0001. in Consols,
and allow the parties to whom the
iuterest upon it is eventually paid to escape, would, in
our humble opinion,
be trIOSt 116 ust. "Let every
man contribute in proportion to the amount of value
in his possession,"
says our contemporary.
But
there could scarcely be a more false and
fatal method of taxation adopted. The land-
owner, or shipowner, or railway owner may be
in possession of real property ; but if, as shown
above, they annually transfer a large portion of
the produce of such property to make up the in-
comes of professional
'nen, in return for services
rendered, on what possible plea should the man in
possession be taxed, and the others, though de-
riving their incomes from the same source, escape?
Oh ! hut, says our contemporary,
11The 1/. paid to
Dr. Chambers or Sir B, Brodie is a simple 11.,
while 11. from landed estates or the funds repre-
sents 301. besides itself."
But will not this 11., when
paid to the physician, represent just as much the
30/. whence it is derived as when it remains in the
other's pocket? But, repeats
scotmhee fro his „
writer,-
the merchant and manufacturer "must insure against
the dropping in of hii own life," But all men are
equally mortal, and if the land or
railway pro-
prietor leaves to his son an i
sessed property," do not the mercantile men, the
shopkeepers, the solicitors, the auctioneers, bequeath
in their flourishing and profitable business just as safe
and good an inheritance ? Are there no risks in
pos
land, shipping, or railways---no risks in being a bond-
holder in a debt of 800,000,0001. sterling ? Is the
income therefrom so much more secure than that of
the cotton spinner, whose " property in possession"
may not be valued at 20,0001., and yet may yield
him an income of 2,0001. yearly ? All admit the
evil and injustice of the existing income-tax, but the
"great difficulty of providing a suitable remedy,"
and which the 7imes so readily
admits, rem
much unmoved as before our contemporary
under-
took the task of removing it. We think abolition the
safest and best mode of dealing with all such inquisi
torial taxes.

EXCURSION TRAINS.
A speedy alteration must be made in the system of
excursion trains, or it will become totally impossible to
pees along any of the great lines with a reasonable
amount of safety. What are passengers to do? If the
danger only menaced those who travelled by these ex-
cursion trains, we should have an easy remedy; but the
fact is that an excursion train is somewhat in the nature
of a cannon ball, which sweeps the surface of the line at
uncertain intervals, and which does not invariably share
the destruction it scatters around it on its progress.
Perhaps it would be the safest thing a passenger could
do to take his place about the centre of an excursion
train. The train by which he travels will probably run
into some others which may be waiting at the various
stations along the line, but that will only affect the pas-
sengers in the first two or three carriages. It will also,
in all probability, be run into by other trains, but then
the passengers in the last two or three carriages will be
the victims of that mishap. Meanwhile, the circumspect
traveller will sit calmly in the midst of the ruin around
him, with his lint and diachylon ready for application,
and perorate at his case rgainst the imprudence of
those who have availed themselves of the regular
conveyances on lines which are travelled over by excur-
sion trains. The system is an outrageous one, and from
every point of view from which it may be regarded is
obnoxious to the reproach of fraud and of a wilful dis-
regard of human life. If the companies can afford to
carry passengers at these reduced fares, why do they
not give every traveller along the line the benefit of the
reduction in price? We say if they can afford to do it
—that is, to carry out the operation with perfect see
unity to the passengers; for it is a highly criminal act
to run more trains along any flue of railway than the
staff of the company can properly and efficiently manage.
Now, the method by which these excursion trains are
run at so very reduced a scale of fares is simply this:—
a particular company engages as many servants as may
be requisite for carrying on its regular business. There
is just as much to do upon any line of railway as the re-
gular servants of the company can accomplish with
reasonable security against accident. Suddenly the
thought strikes some sharp-witted member of
the board that, as there is still the perma-
nent way, the unemployed carriages and loco-
motives, and the clerks, porters, and servants
of the company, it would be a very bright idea to send
an additional number of trains along the line at reduced
fare>,. The mere existence of a discraparcy between the
regular and the fortuitous fare will be sufficient to attract
the public. Who would noto to Manchester and
back, or to Bath and back for ss.g ? If there were no
other inducement, it would bo enough that the toll was
so preposterously small. All that the company
care for
is that the receipts should cover the costs of the journey
and tae deterioration of the rolling stock, and leave
something of a margin over. All that remains is net
profit—gained. no daub!, at imminent risk of life and
limb to the public—but still it is gained. Accidents
may occur now and then—and just now they are oc -
earring with frightful frequency—but it is practically
found that the impulse which prompts
passengers to
avail themselves of these cheap trains is a
continuous
one, while the terror caused by a railway
.tragedy. is
transitory in its effect, and does not materially affect
receipts. h
whic
Tho frightful accident at the Bolton station,
we recorded yesterday, is a Ver-
y fair instance of the coli.
sequences which result from running excursion
trains in
so very wanton a manner. The details of the
story are
given in a very few words. The 5.30 train from Liver
.At Bolton
pool was duo at Bolton at 7.20, but in consequeece of
gross mismanagement was tteo hours late.
the passengers by this train had to be sorted out—some i were going to Manchester, some to Yorkshire—fur it just on the other side of Bolton that the line branches
into two. Late as this train arrived at Bolton, it went
away, proportionately, still later. The carriages bad
lost in separating the Yorkshire from the
been indiscriminately packed, and twenty: minute' were
passengers. " Only those persons," writes our
ta.corres-
pondent, " who have seen the Bolton and rrestuu :er-
Lion% and have observed how far short they are ofen
of
rants, and not only deficient in number, but
iii
fnil the right stamp, can form an idea of the disgrace:
train
con-
fusion which such a scene presents." While tb
still
of which we have just spoken was standing
train
there came up a second train—an excursion train
from Liverpool—with 36 carriages. We should, perhaps,
havethe first
Manchester
have said that there were also 3G carriages in t came
train. While these two were standing there, neat came
and
luggage trains aro not often deficient in
arrivedleng a fourth
up a luggage train (from Liverpool to Manelsestteb?
general powers of obstructiveness. Then to
train. This was an excursion train from Fleetwoodfifth—
Manchester, with 25 carriages. Then came a s irgtb.
luggage train laden with timber, and of enormous line,
It is said that these five trains occupied a mile of
h render
which was hopelessly blocked up. As though 0 aeme.
the situation of the unfortunate passengera ine_r_,B aloof
ling) it appears that the line for this mile exteeu
series of
a curve which is well nigh covered in with ° dark.
small bridges and tunnels. The night was veryt a place
or in
At the distance of a mi'e from Belton, and tamale, and
called Btillfield, stands the cabin of a poin
250 yards beyond this cabin a signal poste. _
d extended
mous length of trains we have desorib
the cabin
from the station to midway between
re in this
and the signal post. When matters
Vlllt a sixth
Position, and all five trains at a atanda from Liver-
train—the regular late passenger trlii The points-
pool to Manchester—came up at tell sPe • in order to
man Should have shown the light signal,
but he had
quietly walked away from his post ahtnatnelg
check the speed of the advataneg
tram,
aarter to 9
The error-
it was now nearer 10 than 9*---1" been the or-
guished the signal light, as anpears to "a
c hing extraordinary
dinary practice when there was not
of the advancing
in the condition of the line. The driver
until he arrived at
first extin-
the signal post—a distance of only
train did not sight the obstruction
with frightful
last carriage, into which his train ra
d to pieces, and
violence.
the train which was run into
e. Three carriages were smashed
that
" may be considered a most fortunate circumstance
luggage train
to speak eta
laden with timber, or we should have
lla
not more
far more terrible catastrophe. Providentially,fifteen
persons re-
than on© life is in serious clang"' ba
t alarming deecrip-
ceived wounds and inuries of a m
and from the
Lion. From the nature of the accident,em train was
speed at which the Liverpool and ess our wonder
travelling, we scarcely know how to expresserin finitely
not
that the consequences of the collision were
morn severe.
accident, obviously
The immediate cause of the intsman from his
enough, was the absence of the. P°al on an evening
post and the withdrawal of the
signs]
the line. Thu
e hen tuch wild confusion existed uponquitted his station un-
wretched man, who seems to have
stupidity and fatigue,
dc r the influence of a combination or
rsatter the
committed suicide about a couple of hours
of his occidentsharp
oceur:ed, so nothing more can be 8 0 may every now
the matter. 7he best arranged sehem
through the miscon-
duct then fail in producing its effect
..
the
duct or carelessness of individuals; but in
.case of the
now speaking it is the
railway company of which we are
long
as they eon-
whole system which is in fault. ssefficient or defective
tinue to work their line with an 'l3 - over again. The
staff, accidents will occur over and
n,
ne d neglect may
best evidence of their misenanagensee-
culaoked up, as it
be found in that long mile of railway, choked
of overdue luggage
WAS on Monday night, with a series
that should be
and excursion trains. The first remedy
change in the
applied is rho introduction of an
fextensiveshould not be
system of excursion trains, if, indeed, they
abolished altogether. Let the regular fates be lowered.
was only1
dayards from
the

---
so that passengers may go upon whtt excursions they
will by the regular truins, and 19t the reguisr busine
of t.he lines be' conclueA without icter:cption. Tbat
will constitute our best security rgiinst der ger.-- Tinics.

NAVAL ILVIII.LLII-th.NCE.

His Grego the Duke of Northumberland has left the
Admiralty for Alnwiel: Castle, Northumberland, to co-
tertaia the members of the Aramelogical Institute.
APPOINTMENTS.
Commander Edward Wechy Vensittart (1849), pro-
moted from the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, ha,
:ivy,
nsnbni
oehhoseleott, nBees
d3wrehae7apae,fsssprs
aeoso
n,
declined
from
appointed
er.
in
tcocnenftli
ncdihtntii
h,
ertt
hdeccol
di
srtoteheirti
oeonempfaudepluot
espi command
t,t2himn.
aatsmn Commander Ade in nso lieutenantatf.t
a:
,t hocl eif
eoouttmßfhht
et
neiehtntiacieasit
irnoeidnitrnea,,n.rgv.plciv2sra
~1",1
wit,: apils t,.,
Douglas (1851), son-in-law of Sir W. Parker, and pro-
moted
,t adr
during
oreinnhtgie entered
atehpdeptoohile:l:6tnrr:aal
:v2Siy:rtniitsitetofolunBlll3t
osill
t,e:trpaconicTaa.ssatetidyoooafhpci.
yacht,
tk:ani
hei aai it
ii
,nl,Eltrlbtliec. trtir, ntie.
he served ashero at arc capture of the Woosung Wee-
B 6 o
acting
omndasAt'learsoterrath—!Rle47:arAdl:Ausland (184") former] •
SsAie).c' apprentices'icaster 18t4en7)(1,tro,f I:1: vooAnipeogrmt,r4s,o the Sromboli 6,
csbelrecorrukegt
oahrftyth'hsoemc
actingt
ai
n
nia, 104.
and late of ;in,: Ncutil2
screw troop-ship,-,
Gordon C. Sinclair to the Wasp
stoteMitt9thmaiedslsrellioriar'"ulinpiA:4ltus:::l:: tvidi ncret°—nlVlC( :Al
artir:lsleal:Bv:. alttilr:stonittlauethlllnupre;:-
nalbkisesitlaitagnsthipEoDginvettrJt.oseph Williams, to the In-
flexible, 6, steam-sloop, Portsmouth.
Nava Cadet—Hugh 13. Hamme:sley, to the Sane
Pareil, 81, screw-ship, Davonport.
Gunner—William Dick, to the Darirg, 12, fitting at
Chatham.
ARRIVAL FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA.—Hound, 8,
Commander Robert Hall (acting), arrived at Spithead
on Tuesday night from the coast of Africa. She left
Ascension the 19th July, consequently has been 37 days
on her passage, not touching at Sierra Leone. She has
been out two years and eight months, and has been
very healthy, but has only taken one prize, and captured
Some slaves. She has come recently from Princes
Island. There was nothing doing on the coast when the
Hound left, and no capture made. The Penelope, 16,
steam-frigate, Captain Tyster, with Rear-Admiral
Bruce, was at Ascension; and the Athol store-ship,
Lieut. Commander Pearse, all well; and the island and
ships of the squadron all healthy. The Hound has
office Mr.
0 f Robertthe B
Penelope;o ee, principal
ir.
E . clerkG .
Pearce,
rtshee,
Athol; and about nine or ten seamen, in-
valids;Dolphin 3,commander of the Penelope, who
superseded Cap Hillyar, on promotion; and Lieut.
Mr. Henry Temple, late commander of the
Gt. B. Puddicombe, R.M., from the Tortoise guard-ship.
The Hound spoke the Trincomalee, 24, Captain W.
Howston, on e
the 22d, in the Channel, and likewise
steamer, bearing a pendant, but she made
Hound has been command
°
no number. The under the f
Acting Commander Robert Hall for the last fourteen
passed a large
months, and appears to be in excellent order, and re-
markablymorn-
ing, and will be mustered r
clean. She got
andout her boats yesterday
is the next vessel home. Then the ro-
meDthoelupshiaTea3m,-sloop, Commander Foote. The latter
vessel had been very unhealthy, from lying at anchor so
long in the Congo, but her crew were recovering.
orreeliTalbot,
Commodore
he ne w l y,Att,
yp pv
ioliin
att e dt
hCeo mc
Cape,
dhear s-
the
will be ready for sea by the 4th September, when she
ri ne
-tCCu
Meander,rohnTeemdf Commodore
dorom
44,1 e a vi
ne oGf absence,dlie g h
am an d
Reach h a s.
Thejoined
Meander
,
will proceed to Portsmouth, and be paid advance, pre-
paratory to leaving for her destination.
w comma
believe, n d o f Lel ineeWeafs pt,hle4y, !Deur:
gwe-sstl o
eo
epm, a.t
Commander Lord John Hay, who has recently been
in August, 1827, became a lieutenant in
admWpaaploneood:lnewwtriesacdshot,nob iett:111;
nee list. He is son of the Marquis of Twe e d -
his late uncle, Rear-Admiral Lord John
tieutenant to
superintendent of Devonpert Dockyard, and
ri ate Greenock, now at
1846, and commander in August, 1851. He was flag-
Woolwich, was sold last week to the Australian Mail
built at an en
Company. This ship was9.She
wHaaTsyb'ew promotedhiwhen
n
by Scott and Sinclair in 184 is of 1,413 tons, and
had machinery of 565-horse power ; but, like
originally
legmra, and other iron screws,
the Simoom, Vulcan, A
could it was found on trial that she not carry her
she was. taken into Woolwich,
ma-
chinery and the proper armament and stores. of a
accordinglyman-
of-war, dock since the 4th of March,
soctirehwi s decease.steam-t' g
having
be tried down river on
been
nes substituted. for her too heavylori-
gwo
ifhn- wea
:eery
a,
esaamhcnheadilnlbeearrsye.bn eg
Sa-
turdsy, to ascertain the working state of her engines.
Orders have recently been issued to prepare the Ter-
magant, 24,
designed by Mr. Joseph White, of Cowes, has been kept
in the back ground, although she is one of the few full-
screw-frigate, for commission. This ship,
full-
powered screw-ships we have in the service, having en-
gines of 620-horse power, by Seaward, to 1,547 tons. It
is high time that she should have a good turn at sea, in
order to prove the economy and advantage, or otherwise,
She is to
of a vessel with so much horse-power to tonnage, and to
ascertain whe:her it would not be advisable to give her,
as they have done most of the others built at the same
time, less heavy machinery.
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.
We have stated that Rear-Admiral Deans Dandas,
C. 8., with his fleet, left Gibraltar for Vourla, on the
16th inst. Oo the 10th 1,000 marines were landed for
shore exercise, and on the 11th a body of 1,200 seamen,
small-arm men, and twelve guns were landed, and were
exercised on the neutral ground, in the presence of the
Military Governor, General Sir R. Gardiner and staff.
The seamen went through the field movements with the
utmost credit, and the whole sight is described as one of
which an Englishman might justly be proud. All went
off exceedinwy well; • the firing was good, and not a man
straggled or was intoxicated. At twelve o'clock at noon
the entire force was embarked on board their respective
ships, and were at their dinners. The Mediterranean
squadron, we hear from all quarters, is a credit to the
country, and what is more, the efficient force is a con-
tented and happy one.
Phaeton, 50, Captain G. Elliot, left Gibraltar, on the
11th, for Algiers, thence to Malta.
Spiteful, 6, steam sloop, Commander G. Parker, and
Antelope, 3, steam vessel, Lieutenant Commander C.H.
Young, were sent on a visit from Gibraltar to the Riff
Coast, to show the pirates that they were looked after.
THE FRENCH MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.—The Frenh
experimental squadron anchored before Naples on the
12th. The Icing invited, on the 15th, the officers to a
grand dinner on board the Neapolitan steamer the Tan-
crede. On the 17th another dinner was given to the
French by the Neapolitan officers in the arsenal; and on
the 22d Admiral de la Susse was to give a grand ball on
board the Ville de Paris.
The screw squadron Arrogant, 46, Captain R. S. Ro-
binson; Highffyer, 21, Captain Matson; Dauntless, 33,
Captain Halsted, and Encounter, 14. Captain Gordon,
have not yet been reported. The squadron left Gibraltar
on the 11th inst.
At the request of Captain Henderson, C. 8., of the
Blenheim, 58, screw-ship, that vessel will proceed to sea
on a cruize for three weeks or a month, to exercise her
crew in seamanship and gunnery. The crew of the
Blenheim are now complete, as the officers and seamen
lately employed in the Odin have returned to her.
The band of tho Portsmouth division of Royal Marines
went to Osborne yesterday afternoon to be ready to per-
form in tho grounds this day, in honour of the anniver-
sary of Prince Albert's birthday.
The destination of the Bittern, 14, Commander Van-
sittart, fitting at Sheerness, is to the East Indies station
as soon as she is ready. Sho is to have a complement of
30 officers and men.

The destination of the Daring, 12, Commander
Lacon, fitting at Chatham, is the North America ai.d
West Indies station. She relieves the Sappho, 12,
Commander tho Hon. A. Cochrane. The Daring's
complement is to ho 130 cflieers and men instead of 125.
Devonport Harbour at present has a gallant appear-
ance. There are the Impregnabte, 78. flsg-ship; St.
George, 120; Hogue, 60, screw-ship; Edinburgh, 56,
screw-ship; Sans Pareil, 81, screw-ship; and 21a-
gicienne, steam-frigate, besides the smaller craft.
Archer, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Strange, is
ordered from Lisbon to Portsmouth ou the arrival there
of the Retribution, 28, steam-frigate, now en route.
Barraeouts, 6, steam-sloop, Captain the Hon. S. T.
Carnegie, remains a short time at Madeira for the pro-
tection of British interests, before she returns to
Spithead.

Brisk, steam-sloop, will be completed for the reserved
squadron at Devonport, by the 30th.
Dasher, 3, steam-vessel, Commander Lofebre, having
had her defects completed, has proceeded from Ports-
mouth to tbo Channel station.

Electra, 14, at Portsmouth, is ordered to have her do-
feots made good for service at sea.
Geysor, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hand, is ordered
to Dcvonport from Galway, where she has been protect-
ing the fisheries, to refit for foreign service.
Gladiator, 6, steam-frigate, at Portsmouth, is ordered
to be repaired for further service.
Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain lII•Dougall, will be
paid off at Devonport, on the 2d of September.
Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Wooldrige, is
now complete for service at Portsmouth.
Lightning steam-tender, Master Commander Allen,
at Woolwich, has been ordered to the coast of Northum-
berland, with a new lifeboat.
Medina, 3, steam vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Ba-
thurst, was paid off at Woolwich, from the Mediterra-
nean packet service, yesterday.
Megwva, screw troopship, Commander J. 0. John-
-1
eardw: bSehcompletedtake
b2yo tOll troopsciek
dockyard
%yVielsi
John-
son, wus reody to come out of dock at Sheerness, yes-
wteeredkaya.fteSr:
4;he
of September, and all rPody for SKI within a
Indies,

Miranda, new steam-sloop, just arrived at Sheerness
from the Clyde, has' been ordered t ) proceed to Le,th,
pith stores to be rent to the Last
Niger, 14, screw-sloop, Commander G. L. licathp will
be wady to come out of dock at Portsmouth by tne Ist
of September, arid will bo ready for sea by the 7 tb.
at
Odin, 12, steam-frigate, was complete for sea aVITh
Portsmouth, yesterday,
left the
Resistance troop-shin, Commander Bradshaw'
artillery
river on Tuesday, for Gibraltar and hZalta, With h stores
troops and stores. She returns to the river wit
and the relieved artillery compani"•
T. Jones, pro-
Sampson steam-frigate., While Pout through the
ceeded to sea from Spilliead, goingShe is gone
Needles passage, at ono o'clock yesterday'
to Gibraltar.
Savage old brig is fitting at Davenport for a chain.
lighter for Malts. Kingconae
Sbalootn,
for lO, iron screw frigate, Captain Saturday,
will be complete sea at Port,smou! by
She Will be tried this day.

Trident stern•vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Harvey,
wiil be complett,d et Woolwich this day. 6ho is to be
paid odvoece wagea. Portsmouth.
Tyre store•sliip, Master-Commander Wellington, will
be ready to leave Woolwich with stores for Ascension
and llio by the Ist of Sep:eaiber.
Valorou_ss cam-ship, will be completed for the reserve
squadron et Devonpert on the 31st.
Vestal, 24, Captain C. B. Hamilton, at Spitbcad, is
fully m r.nneJ. Rear-Admiral-Superintendent Prescott,
C. 8., piid her crew advance wages yestc•rday, and she
will probably sail on Saturday for Halifax. Captain-
Hamilton, we are glad to hear, is better.
Vivid steara-packet, Mas!f!r-Commander Luke Srei-
thett, arrived at Portsmouth 'yesterday afternoon, and
wont into harbour to coal; she will go to Cowes this day,
to embark the carrico.es and suite of the Grand Duchess
Of Russia for Dover. 6
Wasp, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Lord John Hay,
will be completed at Woolwich by the middle of next
month.

Widgeon steam-v. 03301 has arrived at Devonprt, from
Woolwich znd Portsmouth, cn. route to Pembroke,
to be
employed es e. tog tender, in Le n of tim Proiperu.
DEVoNPORT, AUGUST 24.—Equestrian, convict-ship,
arrived tn Monday, end communicated with the autho-
rities at DJ:tmoor, from which
place she svill complete
her cottp!ent, previous to sailing for Hobart Town.
WooLwicd. AUGUST '2s.—The Trident steam sloop,
Licutonant-Commauder .11a.rvey. will leave Woolwich at
sn early hour to-morrow tor Grvenhittie, to have her
compar,scs ...djusteal by Captain Johnson, and i 11 then
proceed to Plymouth, and thcaco to her dvaination.
The Medusl. s-ecta-vesel, Lieutenant-Commander
John 0. Bathurst, was paid off at this port to-day,
The The steam-vessel cent down the river ynsteratty
at six o'clock A M., in charge of Lieutennt Robertson,
and returned at five P.M., having been employed all day
in trying her engines, which were found to work. well.
ASSIZE INTELL/GENCE.

NORTH. ERN CLEColT.—Liverpool, Aug. 19

CROSDIK V. YOUNG.
This was an action brought by Ur. Crosbie, tailor
and draper of Stafford, against the proprietor of The
Sun, for a libel. The defendant pleaded that hedis-
closed the author of the libel, and gave up the manu-
script, in satisfaction of the cause of action.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS, counsel for the plaintiff,
stated that an arrangement in this case had been come
to on both sides to withdraw a juror.
Mr. WATsois, Q.C., for the defendant, said, this
action is brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Crosbie, against
Mr. Young, who ie the editor and publisher of The
Sun newspaper, under the following circumstances:—
A gentleman brought to Ifr. Young a report of a
trial which took place in Staffordshire, and on the
full assurance that this report was copied from the
Staffordshire Advertiser, and that it was a correct
report, it got into the newspaper. In a few das
y
afterwards an application was made to Mr.
when he found he had been imposed upon Young,
fore gave up the name of the author; 'and there-
and be would
have inserted anything in his newspaper to remove
any imputation from the character
of Mr. Crosbie. He believes there is no truth whatever in the state-
ment made against Mr. Crosbie. We have, in Mr.
Young, a gentleman of influence and character. Mr.
Young has conducted The Sun for many years with
the greatest respectability, and he regrets that such
a thing should have got into his newspaper. He was
imposed upon by a person whom at present I shall
not name.

Mr. Sergeant Mums—The only object which my
client, Mr. Crosbie, has in corning here is, being a
tradesman, depending on his reputation for his well-
being in society, he wishes to set himself right with
the public and with his customers. Mr. Watson has
done only what is right in withdrawing the imputa-
tion from Mr. Crosbie, and expressing regret. Mr.
Young, no doubt, bas been imposed upon, and the re-
port in his newspaper was a pure fabrication, without
the slightest shadow of foundation.
Mr. WATSON—We have made inquiries, and we
find Mr. Crosbie to be a very highly respectable man,
and Mr. Young is very sorry. Mr. Young gave him
every assistance to obtain redress from the author.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 25.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.)
IN RE GREEN.
The bankrupt in this case was described as a
wholesale stationer and paper-maker, of Bread-street-
bill, and of Postford Mills, Surrey. Ills debts are,
to unsecured creditors, 1,9081. ; to those holding se-
curity, 5,4991.; estimated assets, 1,5301.
Mr. LINKLATER said he understood the assignees
required further time to examine the accounts. On
the part of the bankrupt he would consent to an ad-
journment for a month. Adjourned accordingly.

IN RE KFLLY.
Charles Louis Kelly, grocer of Woolwich, applied
for his certificate. His debts were 1,300/. ; assets,
764/. ; profits, 848/. ; losses, 486/. ; earnses, 9841.
Mr. LINKLATER supported ; Mr. SA.NDON, for the
assignees, offered no opposition ; and his honour
granted a second-class certificate.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug. 25.
(Before Mr. William )
Thomas James Holloway, a respectable-looking lad,
17 years of agy, was indicted for stealing a cloth coat,
value 61 10.., the property of Capt. Win. Shepheard,
R.N., his master.
Mr. Payne appeared for the prisoner.
The material facts of the case were these. The
prisoner had been for some months in the employ of
the prosecutor, who formerly resided at Woodbine-
cottage, Eslinr, and latterly at 102, Jerinyn-street, as
messenger and general servant, and it was part of his
duty to convey articles to and from the Saner United
Service Club, of which the prosecutor is a member. 00
the 22,1 of July he went to the club, and from a port-
manteau or carpet-bag which was lying in the ball,
and which belonged to Captain Shepheard, he took a
new Coat, just sent from the tailor's, and valued at Gl.
10., and went away with it. On the same day he
pledged it for 11., and on the 28th he was given into
custody.
Captain Shepheard raid the portmanteau from
which the coat was taken was at the time, if be might
borrow a phrase or expression from his Learned
Friend on the right (Mr. Payne), in transitu.—
(Laughter.) When the coat was taken there was
pinned to it an artificial sprig of myrtle, furnished to
him by a sweet young lady in the Burlington-arcade.
(The coat was produced.) Why, said the Captain
(in answer to an inquiry whether he could identify
the coat), here is the very pin put in by the young
lady herself; but the myrtle is not here. Oh, yes,
the coat is mine. My Lord, she is a very pretty
young lady, but married.—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. PAYNE—Mad! Why then there's a good pair
of you. The Captain—Who said she was mad ? I
said she was married, Sir. God forbid that I should
say she was mad. Oh ne, she's not mad.—(Laughter.)
Mr. PAYNE—WeII, captain, you borrowed the
phrase in transitu ; now, are you yourself not always
in a state of transilu? The Captain—No, I am not
always in transitu. I wish I was.
Mr. PAYNE—Why you are never more than a
fortnight without being in transitu to a station-house.
The Captaia—Yes I am, if they let me alone.
Mr. PAYNE—Are you not very often at station.
houses ? The Captain—Yes, indeed, I am ; but that's
, not transitu—that's durance, you know.—(Laughter.)
1, I wish you to know that no man ever yet shook tilt,
imperturbability of my good humour, and therefore.
m
you had better not try it now. But you --
may, yes
d try;
o— and you will see.—(Laughter.) I've given
you warning, you know.
Mr. PAYNE—WeII, are you not the celebrated
Captain Shepheard who figures to often at the police-
courts ? The Captain—Yes, I am ;
eta not responsible for all themenonsense they put in
but recollect I
the papers about me. Allow
seen the Morning herald of t
I have not.o-d to ask if you have
Mr. PAYNE—No, aY ?—(Laughter.)
then, I wish you had, for it The Captain—Well,
contains in a letter of
mine, a complete refutati^n. It does indeed.
Mr. PAYNE--Were '
stabbing a man with you not fined at Brentford for
I was fined 103, b tha fork ? Captain—Yes, I was.
Mr. PAYNE .37 e magistrates.
were you not ? And confined, too b the magistrates,
The C '
Ca ta —no. You t
that well enough.
by the I was confined by the police, no
magistrates. Thelo3.;
fined me but very
improperly,P 1 ii, too,
I Y know
you know thyat.—(Laughter.) for
°Bed him de-
Mr. PAYNE—And then you amain
twining a portmanteau, and he proved y:_11.
money ? The Captain—Yes; that wars 0 owed him
witness the
Mr. PAYNE—And you produced was sent
lady with the lovely foot, the ehoPoeu ,anted the ma-
to China as a model, and which Y(
" Loud laughter)—
gistrate to look at, but bergau_
the Exhibition foot,, ps
""0 ?
The Captain—
vvith
glee)-01), my friend,
That is precisely sc. (
gistrate would have been bad
how delighted thhe villa- bad seen it. You would not
have laughed at c
he seen it ! I wish you I'm hanged if you would.
Mr. PAyNE--13ut you used to shoot arrows into her
F
The ap tai n—Ab, s sbe said.—
leg, did you not
made use of an Cexpression too indelicate to
(lie here
and excused hitir,elf for usin it be repeated,
a common phrasep
curing the Cot!rt that it was technical
in the profession he bs longed to.)
Mr.
./,A).„E_And you rimused yourself sometimes
Captainsometimes
by biting
off tails.—(Lsughter.)
The
--I triEd the thing once on a puppy, but did not
succeed. No, I did not succeed, so I did not try the
experiment again.
Mr. PAYNE—And you used also to pull flowers
of other people's gardens? The Captai 1-011out
, yes,
hollyhocks—it was only hollyhocks.
Mr. PAYNE—And you were taken before a m gis
trate for beating two boys, and fined
The Led ;and Captain
a°---
—Yes ; I was fined 51. I was, in
locked up. But, as you ask the question, limust ex-
plain the circumstances. I was fined 51.
a Saturday, and I had but 21.2. and as I couldwa not gent
h-ofi
the 3/. on the Sunday, why,
I was in Coldb
at !ids
till Monday. I summoned the officers for what they
t
bad done, and shall again most certainly. I've the whole thing before her Majesty's Secretary for
the 1.7191ne Department, itild shall bays the offiCeza pp

rgain assuredly, though •
the tnngts.4. rate I,,properly,
us you know (winking at the Lie.irned Couu-0,:3) &Ls.
nr,:,,ed the summons.
Mr. PAYNE—ADd you " then the wind is
southerly I know a hawk irc.n c handsaw—ahem,
Shakspeare." The do you never quote
Shalcspesre ? I beg your paHen, '4llm ycu do you
should quote correctly. Just tura to ftalrlet, and
see what he says on the zubj,ot of the reutherly wind,
and 'hawks and handsows, tr,tl you will ye you are
wrong in ycur quotation. A.benai I've a witness here
to prove it.

Mr. PAYNE—What, the Indy with he lovely foot,
who used to live with you as your wife ? The Cop-
tain—
ee to Net the same. It is a lady, ththough; would you
like s her
Mr. PAYNE—NO, thank yott, Cnptaiu. How many
times have you been locked up is st::.tion-houses ?
The Captain—Which station_ was,-? you know I
must 14e particular in answering that question, as I'm
on oath. Let me see—twice :it Vine street once at
Westminster. Now, mind, I give you this infbrrna-
tion gratuitously; it has not yet zTveared it. the
papers.—(Laughter.) It was once for throwing au
oyster-shell through a fanlight.
Mr. PAYNE—Were you ever in a lunatic asylum ?
(to the Coart)--My Lord, to that pies-
C
very discursive answer, if I am to
Thetjan
ICampittasit ngive a
answer it at all. If it can be considered a.-sc such a
question lizs anything to do with the case, 1 will
reply
%jib pleasure; but I must go on at length if I
once begir.
Mr. PAYNE—Oh, very well, I will not press it.
Tbe Captain—Well, I'm sorry for it. I wig had.
Inansve
rto (Al
further
questions the gAlant Captain
said he had never had conversation of a loose, immoral
kind with the prisoner. He might have asked him to
pay a cabman for him, as any gentleman might desire
his servant to do, but he had never asked him to pay
for his dinners. He was not in the habit of carrying
money about with him, beeause the last time he did
he was robbed of sixteen sovereigns, and now he car-
ried not more than as many shillings. As to the state
of his mind, be could refer to Sir W. Burnet, Dr.
Richardson, and Dr. Anderson. He had said he
should like to have the prisoner transported, but it was
all out of kindness to him—(A laugh—as be (the
Captain) had influential friends at the antipodes who
would take care of him and bring him on in the
world, while if he went to the House of Correction he
would be corrupted and ruined.
Mr, PAYNE, in his address to the jury, urged that
the prisoner had no intention of stealing the coat.
The act of pledging was not necessarily an act of
theft; the prisoner had not sold the coat, and by doing
so placed it out of his power to restore it to the
owner; but he had thought, from the intimate teras
on which he had been with Captain Shepheard, al-
though he was his master, that he might take the coat
and raise upon it a small sum—it was pawned for about
one seventh of its value—to enable him to go into the
country to see his sister. It was a dangerous prin-
ciple to lay down with regard to servants ; but, con-
sidering the extraordinary conduct of the captain,
who he thought was crack-brained, and as mad as a
March hare, and *he terms of familiarity be had been
on with the prisoner, who asserted that he bad had
repeatedly to pay for the captain's dinners, it might
reasonably be inferred that he had no intentiontl of
actually stealing the coat.
Mr. Oakley, a partner in the house of Fortnum and
Mason, gave the prisoner a good character for honesty.
The prisoner had been five years in the employ of the
leftanud
after
ra a
his ownlor
tu
accord.cons
firm, and
a
consultation, acquitted the
prisoner.
The prosecutor then went to Ur. Payne
dially shook him by the hand, laughing and con-
considerable mirth among thehecartily. He
saying to " his learned friend," " Ah,
rn;usesel by
Diddler, have you such a thing as halfsa-crown about
sou?"

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE.
The following is the basis of a proposed arrange-
ment with respect to a reform in the present systeie
of international postage, which has been issued in a
circular under the sanction of the association recently
formed at the Society of Arts. As it is essential that
the postal revenue should be divided in fair proper..
tion between the contracting parties, and as it is de-
sirable that each country should be allowed to use its
own coins, weights, and measures, in the collection
of that revenue :

" To satisfy these conditions," says the circular," the
following plan is proposed. Let a postal union to
farmed between as many countries as possible, on the
following simple ground.:—
" 1. Each country shalt fix a rate of foreign postage
at its own discretion, provided that rate be uniform to
every country in the proposed postal union, and every
part of that country; and that rate shall be prepaid in
all cases.

" 2. Each country shall envige to receive, transmit,
or delivn to its address, free of any charge whatever,
any letter parsing to it free from the post-oilices of Mc
other subcribing couritries.
66
Li other words, each country chall /cry a revenue
on letters otittrfir6s, nuns Ott letters ice ardo.
" each country would collect its own revenue in
its Own Coin, wiiject to its own regulations; uniformi[y
and simplicity would be secured as fur as they arc prac-
tically to the Inhabitants of a country, and
revs would conic of Indeed no Government wcald
enter into such an arrangement dint did so.: reeevasa
the' advantage of cbesp pistnge, and no ceunky would
very long charge its cirz,ns touch more for the eatriugo
of 5 letter than a strong, r would have to pay for Ulu/
reply to that letter, when the service remlcred is pre-
cisely the same."

S-uch a plan as this requires only time and the
earnest co-operation of a few men to enlist the public,
and after the public the Legislature, and after tho
Legislature the Government, in favour of its prin-
ciple, if not of its details. The principle being uace
concedes, the details will soon shepe themselves to
the general convenience; and we cannot bring our-
selves to doubt hut that, sooner or later, the postage
of the whole world will he Proportionately as cbcap as
that of Great Britain. Public opinion difregs as to
the policy of some movetnents which call themselves
by the name of peace ; but this is a peace movement
about which there can be no difference, and which is
certain to unite in its support as soon as it is suffi-
ciently known and proved to be practicable, men of
all countries, all classes of life, and all shades of opi-
nion.—illustrated Lowion News.

COURT CIRC ii LAIR.
Her Ma GSI3ORNE, WEDNESDAY.
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Earl and Cuuntess of Derby. ando
attended by the Countess of Desart and the
....11,,n.
aary Seymour, drove over to C4risbrooke u 1,6 I.'le
yesterday afernoon.
Colonel Buuverie was in attendance on
d their
included
The royal dinner party yesterday lei
bridge ntrd
Royal Highnesses the Duchess
of tCe e irD of Derby,
Princess Mary, the El4.irl and
e"1311 Aro' /lees Spetb,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney'ck. horseback.
Lady Suffield, and Baron Kues,:be

the Cambridge University Commi▪
ssion had it
i
meeting yesterday at the caleial residence of the
irst Lord of the Treasury, n Davvning•street.
Present—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ev
Professor Sedgwiek, and the Lev • 11•
(secretary).

pßiNcred
COWES,(4IF:LB:::. —7.-=---;euds B-:.'sß
frothvi- 4.:
H.:Dco I:YOR:3—FErCsoTPOa :dl-1:111' al
. DriEl Tr::: VA.I))ll j
in, theTGi
.
yachts will -I3They will be brilliantly lightud up
of Odb"ne,:d a gland display of fireworks macie front
c Biog., u" - 1 Marine band arrived at Cowes this
Ve nu, Ito) u
them ' Tomorrow will bo a grand day at the
Palace' isi JEsTY'S ANNUAL RUSTIC FETE .111%Th A „ IN HONOUR
PRINCE sILBERT'S BIRTHDAY.—On SlttUrday IleXt
°F gathering will take place of the (2,,, ,
Oda annual
tradesmen, servants, and tenants, and .eeti 3
their funailies, the
I sailors from the yachts, the labourers on the farms, in
i nr2jors3to.'hial
the
aftero"n"
rra
fact, of all parties connected with her Majesty '6 establish-
meet
pj
Lui
on jumping
n og
and throwing matches, and all other d
meet at o.borne, when they will ,enj,y theinselvea each
after his own style. There will be runnien,gei,
rustic games and sporti—her 'Majesty,
lgbetrbte,
and the Royal children being present, ani:i'Ll:Te A
osiri
sport as much as the rustics or tne sailors.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury leave
nod the Earl and Countess
Grantham House on Friday,
Grove 'louse for the season
of Wilton and family leave
on Monday next.

--..............•••••••••
The children of the Royal Military Asylum, Chel-
sea,,
with their military band, visited " Wyld's GreatG.ibbe,l
in Leicester-square, yesterday forenoon. The boys weres
very much gratified with their treat, and since the new Ytem of education has been adopted the children
fa-
miliar with every "
who has
quarter of the globe,"
the constant care of the head-master Mr.
2114 e
of youth.
written some valuable works upon the education.
it II ithin the last
The little soldiers looked remarkably, welt have been whichd
few years their diet, health, and education have seemedhas bean
d ihe band
pro-
perly attendLcl to, which formerly
wpererkuto cheer their com-
played some lively airs through the rades on ‘• Id all quarters of the
glue,"through the ranks, indi-
a pleasing couuttnance to be sees which cawed many
lber they would see the ori-
eating, no doubt, some day .
mat spot—when they
Queen and country. were fonrforeign climes defending their
i NATIONAL 01/FH Grr:Ls' IlomE.—A meeting
was held at the LectureA Ball,
all, Richmond, en Thursday last,
on behalf of the National Orphan Girls' Home at [lana-
;mote the interests of the society, and
to bring its claims ,
rnorrei
prominently before the notice of the
public. Mr. W. i inter occupied the chair, and briefly
common, in order to p
opened the proceedings. s.
There were many other charities,
he said, in the
neighbourhood, but the Orphans' Home had
peculiar claims upon
their sympathies. Several monitions
furtherance of the objects of the charity.
ted by the Revs. F. Brown, Harry Dupuis,
or
which were T.`c,. r. Hough, P
'l'. Jackson'
Christopher.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed
A.
to the amount
were pass_edsumnp
duringwhich b ' .
~,, a sa scription
eedin, ,
the proc
d'n 100/ from AI and Mrs. Woods, of Pur-
r-. Pyne, A. Wilkinson, and
ri°lsl —inclu I g • Ir.
,I,L's•lnn, 5!. from Lord D. Stilart, Da.,
ur, Fayutcr—lias PALIQUcVd. and 101, from