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company of friends but one, not the least illus-
trious, is left to us. Lord Lincoln took an ordi-
nary degree in 1832, when the late Lord Elgin ob-
tained a first class in literis humanioribus. The same
year he took his seat in the Lower House as member
for South Nottinghamshire, being returned unop-
po,ed with the present Speaker. In January, 1535,
in July, 1837, in July and September, 1841, be was
returned unopposed again, his colleague being, from
1837, Colonel Rolleston, a Conservative like him-
self. By 1846, Lord Lincoln had changed his
views on the subject of the corn laws, and bad
decided to follow Sir Robert Peel in promoting
their repeal. His lordship's father was furious.
That a son of his Louee should presume to have a
will of his own—" to do what he would with his
own," in fact ! In the February of that year Lord
Lincoln stood again for the division when appointed
Secretary for Ireland. Mr Hildyard opposed
him with the ducal interest, and the poll showed
for Mr Hildyard 1,736, for Lord Lincoln 1,049.
In the following month the earl stood for North
Notts, but here again the paternal Eumenides pur-
sued him, and the votes were, for Lord Henry Ben•
tinck, 1,742 ; for Lord Lincoln, 217. In Maya seat
was provided for the hapless secretary for the Fab-
kirk burghs, though here a close opposition came
from the Liberal quarter, the Earl only polling 506,
to 495 polled by Mr. Wilson of Dundyvan, and
similarly in 1847 Mr. William Sprott Boyd (Libe-
ral) being within 31 of his lordship (522 to 491).
Necessarily these contests were more than usually
painful to a man like Lord Lincoln, whatever mo-
mentary triumph their results may have afforded to
his nearest relative.

Lord Lincoln was not a brilliant speaker, or an
orator in any sense of the word. Like his great
master, Peel, cold, reserved, and methodical; not
impulsive, or impetuous, or fervid, like his dis•
tinguished fellow-student, Mr. Gladstone, he
never much pleased the House of Commons, and
on one memorable occasion was even counted out.
His maiden speech was delivered July 29, 1835,
against the Polls at Elections Bill. We next find
him (Jane 28,1836) speaking against the Dissenters'
Marriages Bill. He proposed the postponement of
the bill' to that day six months, as by it the Church
would bo placed in the position of an inferior. On
the Ecclesiastical Bill for abolishing the collegiate
character of Southwell Church (1840)—which is
precisely what Mr Beresford-Hope and his friends
want to re-establish, not only in Southwell but in
all larges towns—Lord Lincoln and Mr Gladstone
were tellers for an alternative proposal to create
four canonries of £l6 asyear for parochial purposes.
They received 15 votes, and their opponents 54, but
the soundness of their views has been vindicated
proposals which
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On the 7th of February, 1842, it was Lord Lin-
coln, then Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, who was deputed by the House of Com-
mans to congratulate Prince Albert on the occasion
of the birth of the Prince of Wales. The same
noblemanovho heralded the heir's birth, officially,
to the Commons, became one of his royal highness's
highest officials in his Duchy, acted as his guardian
on his foreign tour, and was visited on his death-
bed by the prince in person.
As Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests,
he signalised himself by providing out of the
Crown Lands for the neglected clergy of the
Forest of Dean, and for the spiritual interests of
11,000 souls dependent for their daily labour on
Crown property. Dr. Bowring, Mr. Joseph Hume,
and Mr. Thomas Duncombe opposed this " fresh
encroachment of the Church ;" but even Mr.
Henry Berkeley supported it, and it was carried.
In 1843, when ho procured the suspension of the
writ for Nottingham on the ground of Mr.
Walker's bribery, his father, the duke, vehemently
condemned the step. With various services of prat
tical utility, the improvements of drainage, the
widening of the streets, the establishment of Vic
curia- park, the proposal of an embankment between
Westminster and Blachfriars, the Earl of Lincoln's
domestic career closed in 1846. As Chief Secretary
for Ireland he left no mark, and indeed his tempera-
ment was hardly suited to Irish latitudes, especially
considering the perpetual political struggles on the
corn laws in which his duty to his chief compelled
him to mix at home. Between 1846 and 1852 he gave
a qualified support to Liberal principles, so tar as
the free trade of Sir It, Peel was affected by them.

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men in the nation ;
but it wanted cohesion, and
unluckily it wanted something more, lacking which
no talents and no virtues can save a Ministry
from ruin—the loyalty
of its members one to the
other. There seemed to be a malignant spirit in
it which knew no rest because it was not the guid-
ing spirit of affairs, The departments broke down
under the work, to the details of which Ministers
and clerks were alike new. When the Colonial
was separated from the War Department, the duke,
in choosing the latter, had shown patriotism and
ambition, but he could not make or remodel a whole
troops
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and coffee, only the biscuit was mouldy
coffee green. The opening of the session of
1855 witnessed the beginning of the end. Mr Roe-
buck gave notice
in the House of Commons of a
committee of inquiry into the whole administration
of the war. On the day when he was to bring it on
Lord John Russell resigned office, The motion came
on. Lord Palmerston and all his colleagues man-
fully stood by the duke. " The Duke of Newcastle,"
said Mr Henley, always candid and generous, "is
the most ill-used man in England ; his colleagues
got him into a fix and then left him." The motion
was carried, to the astonishment of the House, by
305 to 148. Next day Lord Aberdeen resigned, and
in a manly way eulogised the duke, whose explana-
tion and vindication can hardly yet have been for-
gotten. What stung him into a noble and touching
burst of eloquence was the charge of "indifference
and indolence." e My lords," he exclaimed, " as re-
gards the charge of indolence, I can only say that
the public have had, at all events, every hour and
every minute of my time. Not one hour of recreaa
Lion or of amusement have I presumed to think that
I was entitled to take. My lords, the other charge,
that of indifference, is still more painful to me. In-
difference, my lords, to what ? Indifference to the
honour of the country, indifference to the success
and the safety of our army ! My lords, I have
myself, like many who listen to me, too dear hos-
tages for my interest in the welfare of the military
and naval services of the country to allow of such
a sentiment. I have two sons engaged in those
two services, and that alone, I think, would be
sufficient to prevent mo from being indifferent;
but, my lords, as a Minister—as a man—l should
be unworthy to stand in any assembly if the charge
of indifference under such circumrtances could be
truly made against me. Many a sleepless night I
have passed, my lords, thinking over the evils
which the public think, and say, I could have cured,
and which, God knows! I would have cured if it
had been within my power. Indolence and indiffe
rence are not charges that can truly be brought
against me. I deny the charges ; and I trust that
my countrymen will before long be satisfied, what.

ever they may think of my capacity, that there is
no ground for fixing this unjust stigma upon me."
No fair man could deny the justice as well as the
indignant emotion manifest in this vindication,
which has long since been justified.
As Secretary for the Colonies, from 1859 to 1864,
the Duke of Newcastle has held an even balance
between the separatists and the unionists. He has
insisted on Canada defending itsilt from a supposed
invasion ; he has condoned, and then condemned,
the Ashante© hot-headed frolic of Sir Benjamin
Chilley Pine; he has supported the Hudson River
Company's amalgamation into another " Company'
(Limited)." Very much to his honour he encouraged
and promoted the explorations of Africa and Aus-
tralia. He was the firm friend of C ►=stain Grant.
and (alas ! that it should be written—the late)
Captain Speke.

With regard to his career in the Upper House, it
may be mentioned that he helped greatly forward
the Oxford University Reform Bill, of which his
colleague Lord Canning took charge. When the
famous question of Lord Canning's conduct to the
Talookdars of Oude caused such a political commo-
tion, the Duke of Newcastle warmly defended his
old friend, observing that if the censures on Lord
Canning had been deserved he would not have
stood up for him, but he insisted that the Viceroy's
conduct had been firm and decisive. In the same
year (1858) he supported the admission of the Jews
to Parliament. His policy in regard to church-
rates was varied within two years, during
which he had been associated with Mr. Miall, it
is understood, on the Education Committee. In
1858 (July 2) be considered that no man had
a right to refuse to pay taxes on religious
grounds, and he should vote against the Abolition
Bill as "an abstract proposition." In 1860 (June
19), however, he " had come down prepared to
vote against the Abolition Bill, but the altered tone
of the House of Commons rendered all com-
promise impossible. He regretted the bill, but
must vote for it, which he did, with 31 followers,
against 128 opponents.
It is proper still to say that the duke was always
one of the stanchest of Churchmen. To him is
owed a heavy debt of gratitude for his willing and
cordial concurrence in the establishment of so many
new Colonial sees, and the selection of sound and
earnest men to fill them. In his domestic relations
few have better proved their Churchmanship than
when, on succeeding, a poor man, to an impoverished
and encumbered inheritance, he applied himself first
of all to the restoration of every church in his gift,
the establishment of schools and rectories where
none existed before, and the careful regard for the
proprieties of the Church offices being observed by
the clergy, whom he chose for their merit only to
fill the livings in his gift. By these things he much
more merited, and in truth obtained, the honour of
true Churchmen than by being a careless indiffe..
rentist in practice, but a stickler for trumpery
points of ecclesiastical dues in Parliament.
The Duke cf Newcastle was selected by her
Majesty to travel through her North American
dominions with the Prince of Wales in 1860. The
royal and distinguished party embarked in the
Hero, from Devenport, on the 10th July, arriving
at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 23d of the
same month. From Newfoundland to Nova Scotia,
from Halifax to Quebec, to Montreal to Ottawa (the
new capital chosen by the Queen), at the Falls of
Niagara, on a gigantic timber-raft down the St.
Lawrence, from Canada to New York, through the
Stated now so bitterly at valiance—in each city
through which he passed the glowing tale is never
varied. All newspaper readers are familiar with the
interesting details of the prince's visits to Montreal
and naiad x,as well es New York; the enthusiasm he
excited in and out of the Queen's territories, and the
opinions expressed of the firm and judicious bear-
ing of his Mentor, the duke—especially in the
nott.ble skirmish with some indiscreet Canadian
Orangemen who desired to flaunt the emblems of
their party i❑ the face of the youthful prince, who
could know no party.

Of a statesman so honoured and so regretted
it almost seems a mockery to give the ancestral
honours and personal dignities which he bears no
longer; but as a mere record, it may be stated that
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, K.G., Duke
of Newcastle-under. Lyme, in Staffordshire, Earl of
Lincoln, and Baron Clinton, Lord Warden of the
Stannaries of Cornwall and Devonshire (1862),
Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (1857), Rider
and Master Forester of Dartmoor, Lieut.-Colonel of
the Sherwood Rangers (1853), High Steward of
Retford (1851), Keeper of St. Briavel's Castle, &c.,
was born in Charlotte-street, Berkeley-square, May
22, 1811, and by his marriage (Nov. 27, 1832) with
Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Hamilton Douglas,
only daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, has sur-
viving issue four sons and a daughter. The latter,
Lady Susan Charlotte Catherine Pelham-Clinton,
married in April, 1860, Lord Adolphus Vane Tem-
pest, M.P. for South Durham, who died a few
months ago. The second son, Lord Ed ward William,
born in 1836, is an officer in the Rifle Brigade ; the
third and fourth, Lords Arthur and Albert, born
respectively in 1840 and 1845, are in the navy. His
grace, who became Duke of Newcastle in the sum-
mer of 1851, is succeeded in his titles and estates by
his eldest son, Henry Pelham, Earl of Lincoln, born
Jan. 25, 1834, and educated at Eton and Christ
Church, Oxford, who married, Feb. 11, 1861, Hen.
rietta Adele, daughter of Mr Henry Thomas Hope,
of Deepdene, by whom he has issue two daughters
and one son and heir, Lord Clinton, born a week or
two back. The present Duke eat for Newark from
1857 to 1859 as a Conservative, and unsuccessfully
contested the borough of Nottingham as a Liberal
against Sir R. J uckes Clifton, on the elevation of
Mr John Mellor, Q.C„ to the Judicial Bench. He
is a deputy-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and
lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers.
As to the family of the Clintons, it is uncertain
whether they trace their descent from " William
de Villa Tancredi, Chamberlain of Normandy and
Maude, his wife, daughter of William de Arches,
descended from Weira, sister of Gunora, Duchess
of Normandy," and so were somehow connected
with Clinton near Woodstock, or whether they are
of purely Anglo• Saxon origin. We hear of a John
de Clinton of Amington being summoned to the
House of Peers in the 27th year of Edward I.'s
reign (1299.) His younger son was created Justice
of Chester, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lord Ad•
miral of the Seas from the Thames westward, and
Earl of Huntingdon; while his grandson partici•
pated in the glorious achievements of the Black
Prince. Edward, ninth Lord Clinton, was created
Earl of Lincoln in 1572. The fourth earl was
heartily in favour of Charles 1., and was carver at
Charles ll.'s coronation. The seventh earl, who
was gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince George
of Denmark, married the sister of Thomas Duke
of Newcastle, and his second son inherited from
his uncle the dukedom, the remainder having been
granted in November, 1756. But whatever may
be the lineage of this great family, there is one
thing quite certain, and much more important, that
no member of either house—Pelham or Clinton
was a more honest and loyal servant of his Sove-
reign than the duke whose death we record this
day.

THE HIGHWAY ACT, 1862.—At the Quarter
Sessions held for the eouhty of Monmouth, at Usk,
on Monday last, Lord Llanover, who had acted as chair-
man of the Committee of Justices, moved that the provi.
sional orders for the adoption of the Act throughout the
county, which were made at the previous sessions, ho con-
firmed. Lord Tredegar seconded the motion, which was
supported by Col. Clifford, M.P., Mr Morgan, M.P., and
others. Captain Tyler opposed it; and Sir Thee, Phillips
moved, and Mr Williams, of Llanjibby Castle, seconded an
amendment that the further consideration of the subject be
adjourned to the January sessions. On the question being
put from the chair, the original niotien was carried by a
large majority. The election of waywardens was then fixed
for the 25th March, and the first meeting of the Board will
take place PA the 31st March.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Tho screw gun vessel Foxhound, 4, 200 horse power,
Commander W. H. Anderson, which arrived at the Noro a
few days since from the Mediterranean, to be put out of
commission, has been inspected by Vice Admiral Sir C.
Talbot, K.C.8., Naval Commander in Chief, who mustered
the crew and visited the various portions of the ship. The
Foxhound has been taken into the great basin, where she is
being stripped and dismantled preparatory to being put out
of commission on Saturday next, and paid off into the
Chatham Steam Reserve.

The Achilles, 30, 1,250 horse power, Capt. E. W, Vansit-
tart, ironelal frigate, has been inspected at the Nore by the
Vice Admiral Commanding in Chief, aud, having had her
compasses adjusted and in all respects been made ready for
sea, will take her departure from the Medway this morning
for Plymouth, there to be docked for the purpose of having
the marine deposits on her bottom removed, and her valves
overhauled and examined, after which she will take a short
cruise, probt.bly with the Channel squadron. She leaves
Chatham under-manned, and considerably short of her
complement t,f blue-jackets, but it is probable she will pick
up the remainder of her crew at Devonport, although the
old difficulty of manning the vessels fitting and to be fitted
for sea is just now causing considerable anxiety at the
Admiralty, from the apparent scarcity of A. B.'s and ordi-
nary seamen, and the eagerness with which they are enter-
ing the American navy, The Achilles was inspected yester-
day by the officials connected with the master-shipbuilder's
department at Chatham Dockyard, and Mr A. Moore, prin-
cipal assistant master-shipwright, Mr Baker, chief engineer,
Mr Penny, foreman, under whom the Achilles was built,
together with a number of shipwrights, will proceed round
in the iron frigate from Chatham to Davenport, in case any-
thing should transpire requiring their attention on board..
On the occasion of the Achilles making her recent run from
Chatham to the Nore and back to her moorings in the Med-
way, her machinery worked with remarkable ease and steadi-
ness, the six after-boilers used generating an abundance of
steam, After her preliminary run the frigate turned round
and steamed up to her moorings in the river, taking them
up with as little difficulty as a yacht. So easy was the work-
ing of the engines and machinery that the fact of the vessel
being under way was scarcely perceptible to either officers
or men. The Achilles hae received her powder and cartridges
from the magazines at Upnor for her 110-pounder and other
rifled guns, the ammunition for her 100 pounder smoothbore
guns being supplied from the Woolwich arsenal, none of
the latter description of cartridges being at present kept in
store at Chatham,

The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, un-
shipped her Griffith's screw propeller yesterday in Chatham
harbour, the recent experimental trials with that vessel
proving the working of the screw to have been exceedingly
unsatisfactory. A new screw is to be placed on board, and,
as it is thought that the sternposts of the corvette may have
experienced some injury during the late alterations to the
propeller, it is probable she sill be docked to enable an
examination of the vessel to be made.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel despatch vessel Salamis,
Commander F. G. Suttie, went alongside the wharf at
Woolwich yesterday, and unshipped the baggage of his
Royal Highness the Prince Victor Albert and suite, who
landed at Hull on the preceding day. Commander Suttie
proceeded to the Admiralty to receive his instructions, and
the salamis in the meantime went alongside the Mercury
coal depot to fill in her bunkers, as it was expected she
would be ordered to return immediately to Copenhagen.
At a naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board
her Majesty's ship Victory at Portsmouth, for the trial of
Thomas J. Turner, ordinary seaman, of her Majesty's ship
Vesuvius, on two serious charges of assault, dm, the Court
found the charges proved, and sentenced the prisoner to
three years' penal servitude.
After the conclusion of the military display on Southsea
Common by the troops in Portsmouth Garrison on Monday,
the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied :by Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., Sir R. Airey, Col. Clifton, and a nume-
rous staff, rode out along ,the line of sea beach, between
Southsea Castle, the southern entrance to Portsmouth.llar-
hour, Channel entrance from Spithead, and the sea to the
glacis of Fort Cumberland, which commands the entrance
over dangerous shoals and through tortuous and narrow
channels to Langston harbour. Ho inspected cut Eerily as
he passed along the new forts at Lumps now occupied
by the Royal Artillery, and the still more recently erected
fort at Eastney which stands on the line of shore in front of
the barracks now in course of erection for the accommo-
dation of the Royal Marine Artillery. The length of
the line of beach between Southsea Castle aud Fort Gutnber-
land is about 4,500 yards, and on this intermediate space at
about equal distances from each other, stand the Forts of
Lumps and Eastney. The former is a well-builtearthwork,
with means, at present, of mounting nothing heavier than
65 or 100 pounder guns, but which moy be strengthened, if
required, to carry much heavier ordnance. The work nt
Eastney has been most expensive. So far as its offensive
powers exist they are comprised in a couple of bastions, on
the same principle as Lumps Fort, but separated by a long
curtain, so that the entire work extends the length of the
new marine barracks building, some 200 yards in its rear.
The lavish expenditure, however, referred to has been be-
stowed upon the construction of a singularly expensive and
curious wall, built up in the dry ditch in front of the work,
and which in the opinion of the majority of military mon is
remarkable only for its complication in detail and its use-
lessness. The consideration of the junction of the waters of
Chichester, Langston, and Portsmouth—a series of inland
sea waters some 20 miles in length, parallel with the waters
of the Channel—could not have been undertaken in any
spot more favourable for the purpose than that where the
Duke and his staff drew up, at the end of their ride from
Southsea, on the glacis of Fort 'Cumberland. On the return
of the Duke to Portsmouth he alighted at the Government-
house, where, with his staff, he remains the guest of Major
Gen. Lord W. Paulet during his stay in the garrison.

Yesterday morning the Duke recommenced his inspection
accompanied by Major Gon. Lord W, Paulet, Sir R. Airey
and Staff, with a visit to the Royal Sovereign turret ship,
Capt. S. Osborne, C. 8., lying alongside the railway jetty of
the yard. A considerable time was spent on board, and
every part of the ship on deck and below, with the turrets,
guns, and fittings, was examined minutely, and in the work-
ing of the turrets especially considerable interest was mani-
fested. From the Royal Sovereign the Duke proceeded to
the Anglesea Barracks, Portsea, occupied by the 21st Regi-
ment, which was drawn up on the parade ground for inspec-
tion. From the quarters of the 21st the Duke left the gar-
rison for Hilsea, where ho visited and inspected in their bar-
racks, stables, and on parade tho two batteries of field artil-
lery at present stationed there. He afterwards proceeded to
Portsdown and inspected there, necessarily in a cursory
manner, the stupendous forts now constructing along the
ridge of the Down; the central and western ones—Widley,
Southwick, Nelson, and Wallington, are rapidly approach-
ing completion, but those at the eastern end of the Down—
Purbrook, Crookhorn, and Farlington have not yet made
any progress beyond their excavations and the rough for-
mation of their glade. Admiration cannot but be freely
accorded to the comprehensiveness of the designs of these
works, either as taken singly or as parts of one general
plan. There is much to condemn in the want of judgment
shown in the execution of some portions of the work in more
than one of the forts. For instance, at Southwick the main
magazine (some 50ft below the surface of the parade ground)
collapsed from too early a removal of the supports, and the
ground had to be excavated, and the magazine recon-
structed, at great cost, and at Widley some portions of the
brickwork and the composite wall of the escarp have been
carried out without any regard to the nature of thy work It
would have to perform. The wall of the escarp is being re-
built after having fallen into the ditch of the fort, and
brickwork panels in the casemates. at the termination of the
rampart, on either side of the gorge, aro now shored up by
timber supports, to prevent their giving way under the
pressure of the new made ramps of the earth at their baok.
From Portsdown-hill the Duke completed the circuit Of
Portsmouth harbour shoreline by passing through the
village of Fareham and returning to Portsmouth by Gos-
port, calling in and inspecting on his way the advanced forts
in fsont of Gosport at Brockhurst, Rowner, and Grange.
About sunset, on his return to Portsmouth, he embarked on
board her Majesty's steamer Sprightly, Commander G.
Allen, and paid a short visit to the works on the Horse and
Noman shoals for the foundations of the intended marine
forts for the protection of Spithead. He also visited the
site of the proposed forts on the Spit Bank and the Hyde
Sand; where borings are being made to ascertain the suit-
ability of the underlying strata for the work. Tho site
selected on the Spit by the last commission has been
abandoned after examination by boring, it having been
found that nothing but silted up matter could be obtained
at a very considerable depth from the surface. A fresh site
having boon selected about 500 yards further in shore, the
nature of the ground at no great distance from the surface
M the shoal has been found admirably adapted to support
a large work, and it is most probable that on this spot
will be erected the third of the Spithead forts.
The appointment of principal of the surveying and topo-
graphical departments at the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, vacant by the appointment of Lieut.-CA. H. Y.
D. Scott to the charge of the South Kensington Museum,
has been conferred on Lieut.-Col. A. A. Fisher, C. 8,, Royal
Engineers, who has commenced the duties of the depart-
ment. Lieut.-Col. Fisher has seen considerable active ern•
ployment, having served during the Crimean campaign and
also in Chita from 1857 to the close of the war. lie come
mended the Royal Engineers in the expedition to China in
1859, and was appointed ono of the allied commissioners for
1
the government of Canton. He subsequently served with
the force under Sir Hope Grant In the campaign of 1860.
Capt. R. Harrison has been appointed adjutant to the
Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, in succession to
Capt. C. E. Harvey, promoted and removed. Prior to his
appointment Capt. garrison was attached to the staff of

years.

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The difficulty of obtaining good seamen for tholeet islao w'''
severely felt at Woolwich. It is stated that upwards of 1,000
continuous service men who entered at the commencement
of the Russian war from the merchant navy have refused
to renew their engagements, and that many whose term of
10 years has nearly expired have requested their discharge,
on being paid off, The grievance complained of appears to
be the new regulations issued by the First Lord, and deno—
minated "the Somerset discipline." The stoppages of grog
and pay, and the retention, :after the term of punishment,
of defaulter's names on the black list are much objected
to. A notification has been posted at Woolwich for some
weeks past requiring men for the 107 gun ship Victoria,
but with small success. The flagship Fisgard, formerly
crowded to inconvenience, has now but few men berthed
there,

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct 18.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)

John Jones, 26, and William Shearman, 18, were in-
dicted Jfor attempting to steal a watch from the person of a
man whose name is unknown. Junes was farther indicted
for stealing two cloth capes, of the value of 2s. 61, the
property of William Gledden.
Jane Gledden, of No. I,Crown-street, Soho, said she was
the wife of William Gledden, a shoemaker, and on Satur-
day, the 24th of September, the prisoner Shearman entered
their shop and offered two cloth capes for sale for 6s. Sho
bought them, giving him 2s. Gd. for them, and then he went
away. The moment he got out at the door, the other pri-
soner, Jones, entered the shop, and said she had bought
two capes of a young man, and he wanted to know where
they were. She produced them, upon which he said, " I
shall take you into custody for buying these capes with a
guilty knowledge. I have been a month watching your
place; now I've got you to rights, and I am only waiting
for another officer to search your place." He then walked
round the counter, put his hand into his pocket, and pulled
out a pair of handcuffs, which he held in his hand, and
walked up and down the shop, and told her that she must
prepare herself to go to the station-house with him. She
asked him where the young man was whom she had bought
the capes of, and he said that he was gone with another
officer to the station-house and could not come back. II
then told her that she must at once put her things on and
go with him to the station-house, She said she would
go with him, although she had done nothing wrong,
for although they were poor they were honest people.
He still marched about the place with the handcuffs
in his hand, when he said, " If you give up the capes
make it all right for you'at the station." She asked him
how he could do that without her going to the station-
house, and he replied, " Oh, I can always make up a
story about it that would do very well." Having put
back the handcuffs in his pocket, he said after all that
she must go to the station. She was about to go when he
said, "Never mind, I can make it all right." She asked
him if he would come back in the afternoon and let her
know how the matter went on, and he promised to do sof
but he never came back. Jones took the capes from the
counter and walked away with them. She did not see the
prisoner Jones again until the following Saturday, when she
recognised him in custody at Bow-street as the man who
took the capes away.
William Ackrell, police-sergeant 15 F, said he was on
duty in plain clothes abut seven o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, October 1, when he saw the prisoners and another
man. Knowing them he followed them as far as Exeter-
hall, where there was an alarm of fire, and a great many
persons were assembled. He saw them pushing back-
wards and forwards on the pavement in the crowd. Sher-
man was in front, and the other prisoner was "covering"
(hiding) him. Ho saw him feeling the dresses of different
females with his left hand, They went and stood in front
of a gentleman who was wearing a gold watch, and ho
saw Sherman take the gentleman's watch from his pocket,
but before he had time to separate it from the chain the
gentleman pulled his coat together, buttoned it up, and
left the watch hanging by tho guard. The prisoners
then crossed the :road and he followed them, and with
assistance took them into custody. He (witness) strug-
gled with Jones, and while doing so he saw him take a
pair of handcuffs from his pocket, Which he threw from
him amongst the crowd.
Mrs Gledden saw the prisoners at the station-house, and
picked them out from several other persons as those by
whom she had been successively visited about the two capes,
Shearman as having sold them, and Jones as the man who
called, showed her the handcuffs, and took the capes away.
George Finnis, police-constable 45 B, said he had known
the prisoner Jones for many years, and he was convicted in
1861 in this court, and sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment. He was a soldier in the Guards, but was discharged
on account of his bad character.

The Assistant Judge sentenced Jones to be kept in penal
servitude for 7 years, and Shearman for 5 years.
As soon as the sentence was pronounced Jones bawled
out " Y.at -, when I come out again l'll shoot you I"
and the other prisoner launched out into a volume of abuse
to the learned judge, and it was with some show of resis-
tance they were taken to the cells below.
John Sewell, 18, and John Seliwood, 20, were indicted
for stealing a silver watch, six silver teaspoons, a pair of
siver sugar tongs, six cut bottles, brooches, table-cloths,
table covers, and an iromense quan'ity of wearing apparel,
the property of Henry Bradden. TLere were four other
indictments of a similar description, and (he enumeration
of the articles stolen eccupi,d the court a considerable time
in reading them.

In the case of Mr Bradden, it appeared that he was a gar-
dener, living at Colney Hatch, and on Monday, the 19th of
Septtmber, he went from home, locked up the house, and
left everything safe. Oa his return home about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon he found the doors and windows broken open
and some slates taken off the roof. A man named Jones saw
a costermonger's barrow with a pony standing in Colney
Hatch-road, and Selwood was sitting in it. Sewell put a
sack to a man who was inside a fence, and shortly after this
the man came back dragging a sack which was then quite
full. As soon as he saw the witness Jones he dropped the
sack, jumped over tho fence, got into the barrow, and made
his escape. Sewell and Sellwood were also seen at the place
by other witnesses. The prisoners were subsequently taken
into custody on another charge, and on the person of Sewell,
on his being searched at the Tottenham station, a silver
thimble was found, which was identified by Mr Bradden as
one of the articles stolen from the premises.
The practice of the prisoners was, it appeared, to go round
Hornsey, Colney Hatch, and its neighbourhood, with a bar—
row and pony, under pretence of selling greengrocery, and
thus get access to premises to sell their articles. When they
saw a favourable opportunity they plundered the houses of
anything they could lay their hands upon and drove away
with it. _ _ _

The jury found the prisoners guilty, and the other
dietments were not gone into.

The Assistant Judge said these were daring robberies',
and it became his duty to send the prisoners away. Ho
then sentenced them to ba kept in penal servitude for five

(Before Mr Payne.)

John Caldon, 20, a labourer, was placed at the bar
charged with stealing a sou'wester, the property of George
Smith Barnard, to which he pleaded not guilty.
Police-constable 498 K, said—On Saturday morning, lst
inst., I saw the prisoner in St. George's-street, St. George's,
and noticing that he looked very bulky, I watched him and
saw him take the sou'wester from his breast and put it oa
his head. I took him into custody. He said he bought it
of a shoeblack.

George Barnard, 111, St. George's-street, St. George's,
identified the sou'wester as his property. It was not sold
to anyone. _ _

The prisoner in his defence said he was going along the
street when he bought the sou'wester of a shoeblack.
The jury found him guilty.

William Aokrill, a very active servant of the F division,
proved several convictions against the prisoner, who he said
was a very old thief.
M. P.p., NUM be Celt Aispused to sentence the prisoner
to imprisonment.
The prisoner—Oh, give me penal servitude, my lord—l
shall never do any good if you don't. _

Mr Payne—Theoffenceis bat a slight ono, and I don't
think it justifies seven years' ponal servitude. The sen-
tence is two years' bard labour,
The prisoner—Do, pray, give me five years. Yeu had
better put on the other three. (Laughter.)
Mr Payne did not feel so disposed, and the prisoner was
removed,

MR GLADSTONE AND THE PEIOTOORAPHER.—A,
project, suggested by Mr M'Lachlan, for the formation of t
photographic gallery or museum in which negatives should
be preserved of the portraits of great men, has been before
thepublic on several occasions, and has been mentioned itt
the Manchester City Council more than once. Mr Glad-
stone,
g his avehisassistance towards carrying out
is sem on Friday,e. Upon
arrival with Mrs Gladstone at the
Victoria Station in the morning he was received by the mayor
this
and the Town Clerk, and they were immediately driven in.
the Mayor's carriage to Mr M'Lachlan's gallery, Stamp-
office-buildings. Mr Gladstone was soon placed in a position
to admit of a characteristic portrait being taken, but Mr
M'Lachlan experienced a difficulty in determining upon,
what object to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to fi
his attention. In the emergency he put his hand into hid
waistcoat pocket, drew out a sovereign, balanced it adroitly
on the back of a chair, and asked Mr Gladstone to look
intently at the coin. The object was defeated by the spon-
taneous laughter that the act produced. Mr Gladstone
remarked that Mr M'Lachlan had selected the best possible
thing for him to look at--it was quite a bait. Mrs Glad-
stone said Mr M'Lachlan had shown that ho possessed a
deep knowledge of human nature. After the mirth, is
which all present joined, had subsided, two or threo suc-
cessful negative portraits of Mr Gladstone were taken,—.
Manchester Guardian.

It is well known that the time is not far distant
when most of our shipping will be built of iron. Indeed,
some of our most eminent shipbuilders are making arrange•
ments already to meet this change. In East Boston, both.
Donald I\l'liay, the builder of the Great Republic, and him
brother Nathaniel, of the firm of INl‘Ray and Aldus, are at
present working upon iron yesselo,-14ercEngian4paper.