The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-12 00:00:00

Her Majesty's Ship Bulldog.

The Secretary of the Admiralty presents his com-
pliments to the Editor of 2he Sun, and requests
insertion of the following paragraph
With reference to the reportel loss of her Majesty's
ship Bulldog, letters have been received from Vice-Admiral
Sir Jamos Hope, dated at Halifax, the 20th of September,
in which he states that her Majesty's ship Galatea arrived
there on the 27tb, having left Bermuda on the 24th, and
reported that the Bulldog had sailed from Bermuda for
Jamaica on the 14th of September. There appears to be
no truth in the report of the Bulldog having been lost be-
tween Bermuda and Halifax."
Admiralty, Oct. 11, 1864.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A GENTLEMAN AT NEW-
ItARRET.—On Monday afternoon, as Mr Francis Beard, of
Mortlake, was riding a highly-spirited horse on the road,
within a mile of Newmarket Race Course, in passing a
farmer's spring cart, a gig bore down upon him with great
velooity, so closely as to cause the step of the vehicle to
out his right leg through his trousers and boot, and pierce
the right flank of the horse, which made him rear and fall
back upon the unfortunate gentleman. He was taken up
in a state of insensibility, but although suffeting from a
fractured arm and other serious injuries, fatal consequences
were not apprehended. The animal, a very valuable one,
will be rendered useless.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE.
—At the City Police Court, yesterday, two brothers,
named Charles and Thomas Stansfield, were called upon to
answer charges preferred against them by Police Con-
stable William Wilkinson, of the C division, The police-
man, who appeared with his head bandaged, said that at
half-past eleven o'clock on Monday night he heard screams
in Ashton Old-road Ardwick, and upon going to the
spot saw Charles Stanefield ill•using his wife, who
wanted to give him into custody. Witness told them
they must settle the dispute between themselves. With
some difficulty he got them to leave the street, and went
on. He had not proceeded far when Charles Stansfield
returned and beat his wife as before. Ho separated
them, and as Charles Stanefield refused to go away, wit-
ness took him into custody. He was rescued by his
brother Thomas, and making his escape welit into the
shop of his father, who is a butcher. Witness took Thos.
Stanefield into custody, to take him to the police
station for rescuing the other prisoner. Charles then
came out armed with: a butcher's cleaver, with which he
struck witness deliberately four times, on the head, arm
and shoulder. The cleaver was produced; it had a large
heavy steel blade, and was a most Drmidable weapon.
The certificate of Mr T. N. Deane, the police surgeon,
stated that the policeman was suffering from a severe incised
wound over the left temple, dividing the artery and indent-
ing the bone, and being two and a half inches in length.
The prisoners were committed for triat at the assizes.
HEAVY PENALTIES AGAINST A PAWNBROKER.
—At Dudley, on Monday, Mr Thomas Kendrick,
pawnbroker, was charged with having issued 60 pawn-
tickets which did not contain upon them the information
required by the Pawnbrokers' Act, as to the position of
the person pawning, or the number of the entry in the
pawn-book, Some weeks ago, Mr Kendrick pleaded
guilty to seven charges of a like nature, made against him
by Mr Wootton, auctioneer, of West Bromwich, and was
fined £5 and costs in each case. Subsequently, twelve
informations were laid against him by Mr Rowley,
auctioneer, of 13rierley-hill and Stourbridge; but that gen-
tleman, when the cases were called on, intimated that he
would decline to give evidence, as the defendant had made
a very fair and proper arrangement with him, The over
seers of the parish, therefore, took the matter up on public
grounds, and obtained leave to issue fifty summonses
against Mr Kendrick. After hearing evidence, the Bench
inflicted a flue of £5 and costs in each of twenty-three
cases (the whole amount of the fines to go to the overseers
of the parish), or in default three months' hard labour.
MEADOWS IN MOUNTAINOUS DISTRICTS.—

Among the means devised for averting the scourge
of inundations, the replanting of woods on the naked
declivities of mountains held a prominent place. The
Administration of Woods and Forests in France took up
the matter seriously, and, under the able direction of N.
Vieaire, the work of replanting the mountainous districts
of the south-east, south-west, rnd centre has for the
last few years been rapidly progressing. But this would
still be insufficient to arrest the evil without the aid of grass,
which, covering the steep slopes with a compact and tena-
cious turf, prevents 'the earth from being washed away by
heavy rains. Moreover, owing to the great resistance
offered by grass to the downward progress of water, a great
deal of it has time to be absorbed by the soil, and, when
this is practised on a large scale, it has a material effect in
diminishing the volume of water and rendering therefore
the overflowing of rivers less frequent—not to mention the
advantage resulting from the retention of all the fertil-
ising principles of the muddy water which runs over
the grass. The meadows thus formed afford nourish-
ment to an immense number of cattle, whereby good
manure is obtained for the adjacent fields. This theory
is the roeult of much attention paid to the subject
by M. Bargne, a landed proprietor possessing a farm at
the very sources of the torrents which descend from the
mountains of the Lotere, and who has himself carried out
the plan he recommends to others. His farm has lately
been visited by M. Herve-Mangon at the request of the
Societe d'Encouragement, and been highly approved of by
that eminent rural engineer. In order to form the sloping
meadows in question, M. Bargne first smooths out all the
irregularities of the declivities, and, before sowing, cuts
number of trenches act ose, very slightly inclined, so as to
retain the water as long as poieible. Ile nest bars the
ravines with piles of stones, whereby the water, instead of
running down, necessarily flows into the trenches. This
prevents it from scooping out the earth as before, grass
begins to grow, and the water then filters slowly through
it, and thus a barren soil becomes fertile in a very short
time.

The Fatal Accident at London Bridge Station,

Last evening, Mr W. Payne, coroner for Southwark, held
an inquiry at Guy's Hospital respecting the deaths of two
men, George Start and James May, who were cut to pieces
last Saturday morning, near the London-bridge Station of
the South-Eastern Railway.
_

J. Ashton, engine driver, said—On Saturday morning he
was bringing up the Hastings express train, due at London-
bridge at 11 15, When within 500 yards of the station, the
train was switched off the main up-line on to the Croydon
up-line, which is within 2ft 4in of the parapet. Just at
that moment he saw the two deceased between the metals
and the wall. Ho reversed the engine and put on the breaks,
but the train was on them in a moment, One of them
looked at witness, and caught hold of the other to pull him
out of the way, when they were struck by the buffer-beam
which projected over the metals. Witness saw them spin-
ning round between the carriage and the wall for the whole
length of the train. There was not room for any person
to stand between the wall and the projections of the train
—there could be no escape from such a position.
James Elwards and John Buggy described the fearful
state in which they found the two deceased on the line.
May had been crushed against the wall for a distance of
100 yards from where the train first struck him, and a
trace of blood along the parapet was distinctly visible. He
was cut to pieces. Start was not so badly crushed, and he
lived two hours. They had been employed to post bills of
the " Route to Paris" on a board over the parapet at the
viaduct, and to enable them to stand on the parapet they
had a small ladder with them. Trains were passing the
spot every three or four minutes, and it was not possible to
tell until the train was within 60 yards of where they stood
whether it would continue on the main up line or come in
next the wall on to the Croydon up line.

Mr May, inspector of the South-Eastern Company's ad-
vertising department, said that the deceased Were employed
in the engineer's yard, and he directed them to paste the
bills because they knew all about the trains. If they had
commenced their work at 6 o'clock they could have had it
all over by 9, before the heavy traffic: commenced, but they
deferred the business too late.

The Coroner having summed up,
Thejury returned a verdict that the deceased were killed
accidentally while pasting bills on the South-Eastern line,
and the jury recommended that all bills should in future be
pasted before 8 o'clock in the morning, and that no adver-
tising boards should be erected within at least 200 yards of
a switching junction,

Lord Enfield, M.P., and lilr, Lindsay, M.P.,

at Uxbridge.

Lord Enfield and Mr. Lindsay, M.P., were among the
speakers at the annual dinner of the Middlesex Agricul-
tural Society, which took place at Uxbridge on Friday. Lord
Enfield defended the foreign policy of the Government—
especially with regard to the American and Dano-German
wars. With regard to domestic affairs, it had been said by a
high authority that they would do well to "rest and be
thankful." That came well from an old veteran who had
borne himself nobly in many a well-fought political field ;
but with regard to those younger men, who had yet their
political spurs to win, he thought they ought to have another
watchword, "Move with the times." (Cheers.) If they
looked around them, they saw that in Parliament they had
yet much work to do. In the state of their laws, and in
many other matters to which he need not particularly allude,
there was a wide field for their exertions. Everything in the
material and physical world was advancing, and daily pro-
ducing new fields for honourable effort and employment,
and they could not, therefore, sit with their hands folded
and say that as legislators their labour was at an end ; on
the contrary, he believed that before them they had a great
future, and if they again conferred upon him the honour
of being one of their representatives, he would ever be
animated with a warm desire to pursue the path of peace,
progress, and improvement in all matters which affected
the prosperity of the country.—Mr Lindsay said he
agreed with his noble friend that their wisest course was
not to interfere in the American contest. Mediation would
be useless, and he had never advocated mediation, much
less interference, but had always been an humble, earnest
advocate of peace. He had looked upon this vain and
wicked war with horror and disgust. (Hear.) He agreed
with the statesmen of England when they pronounced
through Mr Gladstone that the Southern people, both in
the management of their internal affairs, and in the defence
of their liberties and their homes, were a nation. The ma-
jority of the people of England felt that they were a nation
able to defend themselves against the masses of the North ;
and he thought it was their duty, not to interfere, not to
mediate, but to advise their Sovereign, in the exercise of
her just prerogative, to receive at her Court the represents
tive of a people who had shown themselves, in every sense
of the word, a nation. (Hear.) The other Great Powers of
Europe were willing to follow their example, and he be-
lieved that the moral effect of recognition would have
stayed the dreadful war. The Northern Government,
through Mr Seward, had now avowed that the restoration
of the Union, and not the extinction of the iniquitous Bye-
tem of slavery, was the object of the war ; and if England
and the ether Powers of Europe hal recognised the South,
and thus shown that they believed the restoration of the
Union to bo vain, the moral effect on the people of the North
would most likely have been such as to stay this desolating
war. England had great interest in seeing the people of
America great, prosperous, and industrious; and he feared
that the policy which had boon adopted by those who had
the destinies of England in their hands had been a mis-
taken one. There now prevailed in the North an exaspe-
rated feeling against England ; and if in connection with
their American colonies, they got into trouble with the
North, they had lost the warm hearts, if not the material
aid, of the South. (Hear, hear.)

FRIGHTFUL FALL OVER A BRIDGE.—A van con-
mining two persons was crossing the bridge at
Airdrie a few days ago, when it came into violent contact
with the parapet. The occupants of the vehicle were thrown
over the bridge, falling a distance of some 30 feet into the
rocky bed of the river below, which, unfortunately, was at
the time almost free of water. They were followed by the
horse and machine. Singularly enough the horse fell on
its feet, and was led home afterwards apparently not much
the worse of the accident. It was not eo with the men, one
of whom was picked up insensible from external and inter-
nal injuries, and carried into an apartment adjoining the
store, and the other had his jawbone broken, and a number
of teeth knocked out, but was in a condition to be carried
home. Hopes of the recovery of the latter are entertained,
but the life of the former is despaired of.
THE " BLACK BALL'' Smrs.—Advices have
been received in advance of the Australian mail,
per telegram from Suez, of the arrivals of the ships
Southern Empire, Captain Reeves, and the Royal Dane,
Captain L. Davies, both from Liverpool, at Melbourne, the
Royal Albert, Captain Davis, from London, at Sydney;
the Young Australian, Captain C. Grey, from London, the
Fusiliers, Captain D. Carvosso, from London, and the
Sultana, Captain H. Williams, from Liverpool, all at
Brisbane, Moreton Bay. And of the sailing of the ships,
the Matilda, Captain Stevenson, the Southern Empire,
Captain Reeves, and the Duke of Newcastle, Captain
M'Kenzie, all from Melbourne.
NUMBER OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—The Inland
Revenue returns show that the number of bill stamps used
by the public is constantly increasing. In the financial
year 1861-62 the number issued from the Stamp-office was
5,397,195, and in the next year, 1862-63, 5,501,483. This is
exclusive of foreign bills. 1,795,187 stamps for foreign bills
were sold in the year 1861-62, and 1.961,602 in the year
1862-63. In this latter year stamps were sold for 6,740
inland bills, and 4,288 foreign, to be drawn for upwards of
£4,000 each. There is no return as yet of the number of
bill stamps sold in the year 1863-64, but it must be very
large, for the stamp duty received from them was more by
15 per cent. than in the year 1862-63.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—WOOLWICH, Oct. 10.—
rhe police are now engaged endeavouring to dii.
cover the perpetrator of a vile attempt to kill cr injure some
persons connected with the Gun Factories' department of
the Royal Arsenal; It appears that a few days since a set
of drawers was removed from another department to the
clerks' offices at the Royal Gun Factories, and one of the
compartments was opened with some difficulty, when it
was found to be filled with powder and ball cartridge, a
flint-lock pistol, loaded and primed, being placed in such a
manner that a blight concussion would have caused it to
explode and the ammunition to become ignited. Fortunately
the pistol did not explode, and the object of the miscreant
was defeated. It is suspected that the attempt was made
by one of the employes at the department who has recently
been discharged.

SALMON FISHING IN THE NORM—Since the

withdrawal of the nets, capital sport has been ob•
tained upon most of our northern rivers. As regards the
Ness, Sir Joseph Hawley has just left for the South, after
a most successful season. Mr A. Denison is killing fi-h
almost every day, and a few have been caught occasionally
by anglers during the past week. On Tuesday, the Mar-
quis of Blandford plied the water of Mr Baillie, of Lays.
His lordship hooked several fish, but unfortunately
larded none of the number. Monday next is the last
day of the season. The Spey has been yielding splendid
baskets. Among the moat successful anglers who have fro-
quented that river were Lady Alex. Gordon Lennox and
Lord Francis Gordon Lennox, who fished the Gordon Castle
waters. Lord Algernon Gordon Lennox, Capts. Campbell
and buncombe, Mr Knox, and Mr Arkwright have also
met with capital sport on the same part of the river. On
Monday last, at Glentulchen, Mr Bass, M.P„ killed three
salmon, and on the same water, the- following day, a like
number was captured by Dr Hurrell. One of the fish caught
by Mr Bass was a fine clean specimen of 181bs—he gave
upwards of an hour and a quarter's play before being landed,
Major Water has had a few days' good fishing on the Dove-
ron, capturing several clean run salmon of from l7lbs to
201bs each. On the Tay and Earn the fish are very nume-
rous, and it has been noticed that they are betaking them-
selves to the spawning bed s much earlier than usual. Some
of the salmon caught on the Earn weighed as high es 30Ibs.
In most rivers grilse and sea trout are more than usually
large and abundant, and should the spawning season prove
favourable good fishing may be expected next year,—/is
verness COW le2'.

SECOND EDITION.

BUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocx.

AUSTRIA.

Advices from Vienna contradict a rumour pub.
lished by some foreign journals that the Austrian
Cabinet had opened negotiations with that of Spain,
in order to come to an understanding as to the policy
they should pursue in common on the subject of the
Franco-Italian Convention.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

S PORTING INTELLIGENCE. —This Day,

NEWMARKET RACES—Tars DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.

_
Collorrinia -
••• 1
Amber .
.... •• • 2
OATLANDS PLATE.

Saccharometer
Principal 2
Vabalathus

Nino ran.
BEAUFORT STAKES.

Sir Roger
Black Rock .. 2
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.
Trumpeter colt
Eltham .. 2
Redmire

Ten ran.
HANDICAP.

Gownsman 0 1
Lytham
Attraction 0 3