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to the owner what he considered his good fortune; but,
on that gentleman examining the prize, to his utter as-
tonishment and regret he discovered that his captain had
possessed himself of a large portion of the hempen cable
which encased the electric wire of the Irish Telegraph
Company. Mortified to think that his skipper had thus
brought to a stand, in so unceremonious a way, the la-
bours so industriously undertaken, and so elaborately
spread abroad through the English and Irish press, the
owner of the vessel hastened into Belfast to communicate
the intelligence to the managers of the company. Great
was their horror to hear what he had to relste; and so
strange was his history that the gossips of the town were
more incredulous than believing in giving credence to the
history of such a piece of deep spa fishing. The 472
yards so strangely abstracted from the cable were re-
shipped at Larne, and brought to Belfast. We suppose
a renewed splicieg will speedily take place, and another
attempt be made to pass the c iblo across the Channel.
We trust this endeavour will prove more successful than
the preceding ones.—Northern Whig.

THE GREAT IrOtigSHIRE AGRICUL-
TURAL 8110iV AT SHEFFIELD.
The fourteenth annual show of the Great Yorkshire
Agricultural Society cmrnenced its manifold proceed-
ings at Sheffield on Monday. A high degree of interest
has been excited by this event amongst its vast urban
population. It has engrossed public attention, in fact,
all the week, to the exclusion of almost every other topic
The elections and things political have been overlooked
as matters of no immediate moment. Wo trust we are
correct in assuming that this intermixture of the agri-
cultural and manufacturing population of this " epitome
of England," as the vast county of York is not inaptly
styled, will prove a mutual benefit, and as such, an ad-
vantage to the nation at large. The instructive advan-
tages of the great periodical agricultural gatherings to
husbandry itself have been over and over again demons
strated for some years. As to the Yorkshire Society,
from its commencement down to its present moment it
has steadily increased in strength and importance, and in
usefulnesa. It has proved itself an indispensable adjunct
to the successful pursuit of the agriculture of the county,
and in that manner its roots have been continually
spreading, and striking deeper.
The eyes of a large section of the great body of British
farmers have been opened of late to the absolute neces-
sity of stretching their sails to catch every passing
breeze of improvement, and the numbers of the en-
lightened and enterprising are daily on the increase at
an ever-augmenting ratio. The demand for implements
and machines of the best kind thus created has awak-
ened already a large amount of enterprise, and infused
much new blood into the body of agricultural mechani
clans; and we infer, from all that we observe around us,
that to that class of the manufacturing community a pro-
fitable mine remains yet to be worke. The seeds of a
still further improvement have been sown, we trust, by
the holding of this exhibition at Sheffield. We do not
despair of seeing Sheffield, at no distant period, an im-
portant seat of manufactures in the department of agri-
cultural implements.
The centre of the society's operations is a grass field,
situated about a mile from the centre of the town, known
as the Royd's Cricket-ground. All things considered, a
better site could not have been chosen. The field is as
level as a bowling-green, and under no disadvantage in
respect of draining. Its situation has been found very
convenient. The internal arrangements of the show-
ground were admirable, and such as manifested great ex-
perience of multifarious requirements.
The entries exceed those both of the Thirsk and Brid-
lington meetings, the excess ovet the latter being of
nearly 100 entries. Among the noble exhibitors. who
are more numerous than usual, are the Duke of Devon-
shire, Earl Fi,zwilliam, Lord Feversham, and Lord
Wenlock. There are about 60 exhibitors of implements,
and 400 entries in this department. There is a large
entry of stock, the number being pretty nearly 600.
JUDGES.
IMPLEMENTS —Mr. Peter Love, Naseby, Northamp-
tonshire; Mr. William Hislop, %Volley, Wakefield; Mr.
Peter Stevenson, Rainton, Think; Mr. Thos. Oath-
waite, Basinesse, Catterick; Mr. C. E. Amos, South-
wark, London.
CATTLE.—Mr. John Moore, Badsworth; Mr. Thomas
Tindall, Wheatley, near- Rotherham; Mr. J. F. Butter,
Thorngurabald, Hedon.
FOR BEST COW FOR DAIRY PURPOSES.--.MY. T.
Turner, Eastwood, Rotherham.
SHEEP AND PIGS.—Mr. W. E. Hobson, Kettleby,
Thorpe Brigs; Mr. John Brown, Wranbrooke, Wake-
field; and Mr. Charles Hudson, Blyth, Bawtry.
HORSES;—Me. George Gurnell, Sturton, Brigg; Mr.
Thomas Sowerby, Newton Morrell, Darlington; and Mr.
Charles Garfit, Tabley Hall, Knutsford.
POULTRY.—Mr. T. H. Travis, York; and Mr. Edward
Bond, Leeds.
The field committee consisted of Messrs. M. J. Elli-
son, William Fowler, and Vincent Corbett.
The trial of reaping machines and other implements
took place on Tuesday in the presence of a large number
of spectators, and excited much interest; and the award
of prizes, so far as completed, was to be read last night
at the Council dinner.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 5.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Lew.)
IN BE HENRY COLEMAN.
The insolvent, who described himself as a dramatic
author and lodging-housekeeper, was opposed by Mr.
Dowse and Mr. Macree for various creditors. Mr. Cooke
supported.

'the insolvent was a bankrupt in 1838, and again in
1848, soon after which latter period he went to Boulogne-
sur-Mer, and commenced business in partnership with a
Mr. Harris, as ale and wine merchants, money changers,
and bankers. This business went on until August, 1851,
when ho left Boulogne on account of not being able to
meet a draft for 3701. which he had given to a creditor.
During his absence, proceedings according to the French
bankrupt law were taken by the creditors, and while
Mr. Harris received his immediate certificate, the insol-
vent, not having surrendered, was condemned par contu-
mace to ten years' labour at the galleys. The insolvent
said he believed now that if he had surrendered he would
have obtained his certificate, but had been induced to
quit France by the knowledge he possessed of the se-
verity of the French laws relating to bankrupts.
A long inquiry was gone into respecting the disposi-
tion of some furniture in the insolvent's house, which
was promised to be given up to the creditors.
In the course of the examination, the insolvent was
asked his means of livelihood since his return to this
country, to which he replied that he had written dra-
matic pieces, including two melodramas for the Maryle-
bone Theatre—Leila the Betrothed, and Poll of Padding-
ton—for each of which he received the sum of 51,, the
mention of which sum produced a roar of laughter
throughout the court.
Mr. Commissioner LAW thought that some of the
creditors who had dealt with the insolvent as a banker
might have reason to complain of him, but as they did
not appear to oppose, the court could not do so for them.
As to those creditors who had opposed, their opposition
was of a general character, and not of a nature to induce
him to delay the insolvent's discharge.
A discharge, conditional upon the delivery of the fur-
niture to the auctioneer of the court, was then pronounced.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Abraham Monkeen, a 'Endo° bqrir, who has been a
great number of times in custody, convicted and punished
by various lengthened terms of imprisonment, for as-
saults upon women, was placed at the bar for final exa-
mination for an outrage of a similar nature upon an
unmarried lady residing at Sutton-place, Upper Hackney,
The case excited the greatest interest in consequence
of the publication of the evidence given at the first
examination, and the court was inconveniently crowded
throughout the hearing.
On the prisoner being remanded from this court at
the first hearing, after making a desperate attempt to
split open the head of the gaoler with a pewter pot
in the cella of the court, he was conveyed to the
House of Detention, where he was placed in a cell
alone, and immediately huddled himself up in a cor-
ner, with an obstinate determination neither to take
food nor to speak to any one, though he can
talk English with tolerable fluency. In this
morose temper and position he remained until
the following morning, when one of the turnkeys
went in to look after him, and the prisoner instantly
hurled a heavy missile at his head, and the next day
so violently assaulted another of them that they
found it necessary to lock him up in one of what are
called the "silent cells." This, however, appeared
to have produced no beneficial effect upon him, and,
though confined in that manner until it was requisite to
bring him up to this court, the instant the officers of the
prison attempted to remove him to the prison van, under
the inspection of the governor of the prison, as soon as
he caught sight of the latter he made a desperate at-
tempt to inflict vengeance upon him, and it was only
with the greatest difficulty, and by main force, that he
was lodged in the yea. Upon being brought to this
court he displayed such a vindictive disposition that it
was necessary to have four officers to lodge him in the
dock, where he instantly crouched down upon the floor
with his knees up to his chin; and, Seaman, a constable
of the H division, who frequently acts as a very useful
interpreter in such cases, was sent for to translate the
evidence of the witnesses to him. This, however, was
found to be perfectly unnecessary, as the prisoner at
once told him that he thoroughly understood all that had
been detailed against him, and launched out such a num-
ber of disgusting appellations towards the magistrate
that the interpreting constable was obliged to request
that all women might be ordered to leave the court
before he could repeat them.
Sergeant Mote, of the N division, and Boris, 397 N,
were then both sworn to identify the prisoner as having
been tried, convicted, and sentenced to lengthened terms
of imprisonment for similar outrages upon respectable
women, and upon Mr. Hammill asking Mr. Vine, the
chief derk, and Alderman, the gaoler, if they also re-
cognised the prisoner as having been before guilty of
such outrages, they both at once did so, and the latter
stated that the prisoner had been placed at the bar of
this court and punished repeatedly, not only for out.
rages of that kind, but for begging, accompanied by
terrifying threats, and also moat outrageous attacks
upon the police.
The evidence given by the prosecutrix and her sister,
two ladylike young women, who were accompanied by
numerous highly respectable friends, and upon whom
the magistrate passed a complin,,,,trary
"Ingiutn for
their fortitude in appearing to prosecute such a case on
behalf of the public, was then reduced to depositions b
Mr. Hurlstone, the second clerk, in much the same
terms as those before detailed, but with additional cir-
cumstances of aggravation, and the prisoner having dog
gedly refused to offer a single word in extenuation of
his conduct, was ordered to be fully committed to Ne
gate for trial. w-
The prisoner was then locked up in a cell by himself,
and on the van reachieg the court the stwier
attempted