The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

Botcherley, to recover £3OO for damages and demurrage
arising out of a collision in the river Tyne, a "steam hop-
per" laden with river scrapings belonging to the defendants
having run into the plaintiff's vessel and greatly damaged
her, causing her to be delayed repairing 32 days, for which
demurrage at £2 a day was claimed and the cost of her re-
pair. The collision took place on the 13th of February,
during a hurricane of wind, the steam hopper going down
the river laden to sea, and the plaintiff's vessel going up the
river. The plaintiff's case was that it was entirely the fault
of the defendant's steamer, which took the wrong course.
The defendants' case was that it was the fault of the plain-
tiff's vessel, which was ont of its course, and that the de-
fendants' steamer could not have safely d pne otherwise
than she did,

Mr Temple, Q.C., and Mr Udall appeared for the plain-
tiff, and Mr James, Q.C., and Mr Bruce for the defendants.
The civil business was concluded to-night.

CROVN COURT.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)

In the Crown Court the town prisoners were tried before
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn to-day. Tho principal case
was a charge of rape against a man named James Carlow,
an engineer, who was charged with successive rapes on four
little girls, at different times, all the children being under
the age of 10 years, and he had induced one to bring the
others to him. Thu particulars were most disgusting and
unfit for publication.
The prisoner was found guilty on two charges, and sen-
tenced to 15 years' penal servitude.
This finished the assizes.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-DERBY, JULY 18,
LINACRE V. ADAMS.

This was an action by the executors of a carpenter to re-
cover the value of work done by the deceased upon a house
alleged to belong to the defendant.
Mr Serjeant Hayes and Mr Wills were for the plaintiffs,
and Mr Boden, Q.C., and Mr Mellor for the defendant.
The plaintiffs alleges that the work had been ordered by
the defendant, and that he had offered to pay the amount
claimed (£23125.), if they would deduct £7. This proposal
not having been acceded to, and the defendant not paying
the money, the plaintiffs consulted their attorney, who
wrote a letter to the defendant demanding payment, and
winding up with the usual request for 3s 6d for the costs of
the application. Upon receiving this letter the defendant
consulted a local preacher named Shore, who appeared to
act as his legal adviser, who had wrote a letter in reply.
stating that the amount claimed had been overpaid, and
winding up as follows :

"As for the 3s 6d you charge Mr Adams, I can honestly
tell you I will never pay you, neither in this world nor yet
in the world which is to come, (Laughter.) So, if no one
pays you the 3i 6d in this world, you must claim it in the
next, in that country where lawyers go to. (Roar of
laughter.) Even there your claim will be as just as it is
here, and the £23 12s will share just the same fate, so you
can proceed as soon as you like and at fast as you like."
The defence now set up was that the house belonged not
to the defendant, but to his son, who was employed at the
railway station, Derby, at wages of £1 a week, and that the
work had been done for him and not for his father.

The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount claimed.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The ironcased sloop Enterprise, 4, 993 tons,' 160-horse
power, Commander C. J. Rowley, still lies at moorings in
the Medway, at the entrance to Chatham harbour. The
principal alteration already made has been the construction
of the wrought-iron casing, round the funnel, inside the
battery, whereby considerably increased room has been ob-
tained for working the heavy guns with which this iron-
cased ship is armed. Instead of the armament she has
hitherto carried the Enterprise will in future mount
two of the 100-pounder, smooth-bore, wrought-iron, 61-ton
guns, and two of the 100-pounder naval Armstrong guns,
of 84 cwt, each. During the recent experimental cruise the
Enterprise showed that she excels both in steaming and
sailing qualities most of the other vessels composing the
squadron. There are some minor alterations to be made
on board before the Enterprise leaves the Medway.
The Research, 4, 200-horse power, Capt. A. Wilmshurst,
the second of Mr Reed's ironcased ships, has been removed
from the Medway into the great basin, where she is under-
going some trifling alterations, and making good defects.
Among the other improvements which are being effected on
board is an alteration in the funrel, which has been taken
completely out of the midship battery and placed further
forward in the ship, thereby giving a very considerable in-
crease of fighting space in the battery—a most important ad-
vantage, the value of which in a vessel of this class cannot
be overrated. She is also having strengthening beams in-
serted beneath the battery deck, in order the better to resist
the recoil of the enormous guns with which she is armed.
Mr Reed is also making some important improvements in
the arrangements for firing the battery guns, both forward
and aft. Hitherto the iron plates forming the port and
starboard bulwarks forward of the battery have been taken
down when it was necessary to fire the guns in a line with
the ship's deck ; but there being several objections to this
arrangement—not the least of which would be the loss of
time incurred when the vessel was being cleared for action,
Mr Reed intends to alter the bulwarks so that they may
open inboard, on a hinge, by which arrangement they can
be cleared and the guns trained in a few seconds. This
considerably simplifies the arrangements for cleating for
quarters, and will also, it is believed, have the effect of
keeping the decks more clear and preventing the smoke from
the guns rolling inboard. The Research, before being put
out of the basin, will bo fitted with a donkey engine.
According to orders received at Chatham, the armament of
the Research is to be altered, and she will in future be sup-
plied with four of the 100-pounder 6 ton smooth bore
wrought iron guns.

Yesterday a number of boys and lads from the training
ship Wellesley, 72, in Chatham harbour, left that vessel,
and wore conveyed in the Wildfire, paddlewheel steamer, to
the Nore, where they joined the Clio, 22, Captain N. E. B.
Tumour, fitting for the Pacific, and the Fawn, Commander
C. J. Wrey, fitting for the West Indies.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

Thirteen hundred deaths were registered in London in the
week that ended last Saturday. Of thes3 667 were deaths
of males, 633 of females. The average number of deaths
for the 28th week of 10 years, 1854-63, is, with a correction
for increase of population, 1,212. The actual number is S 8
in excess of that which is obtained by calculation.
The deaths from diarrhoea increase steadily, but slowly,
and, after having been 71 and 81 respectively in the two
previous weeks, rose to 97 last week. The mortality from
measles continues high, but it has not increased within the
last two months. It was fatal in 81 cases in the week, the
average for corresponding weeks being only 34; 84 of the
97 cases of diarrhoea occurred to infants less than two years
old.

There were 6 deaths from measles in the Poplar sub•
district, and 5 in that of St. James, Bermondsey. Of d 8
deaths from scarlatina in the metropolis, 6 occurred in the
sub-district of St. John, Westminster, and 9 in Hoxton.
A young man died in Middlesex Hospital of apntel from
chloroform and loss of blool during an operation. A. boy,
aged three years, died of laryngitis from drinking boiling
water out of a kettle.

A widow died at the age of 98 years.
Last week the births of 955 boys and 919 girls, in a 111,874
children, were registered in London. In the 10 correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1851-63 the average number (cor-
rected) was 1,885.
METROPOLITAN WATERS FOR lONE, 1861.

The domestic waters supplied to London are generally in
a purer condition than in the preceding month, according
to the analyses of Dr Robt. Dundas Thomson, F.R.S. The
East London and New River contain less total impurity
than in the preceding month, and the latter only ono-half
the amount of or/Janie impurity which it contained in May.
Total impurity Organic
per gallon. purity.
g,re. or deg. grs. or deg.
Distilled Water o 0 0.0
Loch Katrine water, new supply

__
...
to Glasgow 2.35 •60S
Manchester water supply
THAMES COMPANIES.
Chelsea ~ 1712 1.12
West Middlesex 16.16 1.24
Southwark
Grand Junction lB.BO 116
Lambeth
OTIIER COMPANIES.

Kent
New River
East London
The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the
gallon 2.35 degrees or grains of foreicrn matter in solution.
of which •605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal
origin.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29'931 in. The reading
fell to 29.87 in, on Wednesday, and rose to 3001 in. on
Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week
was 60.8 deg., which is 0.9 deg, below the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher).
The mean daily temperature was below the average on every
day except Monday. The highest day temperature was 79
deg., and occurred onMenday; the lowest night temperature
occurred on Friday, and was 45.8 dog. The range of tem-
perature in the week was therefore 33.2 deg. Tho difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air tempera-
ture was 9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was
73, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind
blew almost constantly from the north-east, The rain-fall
was only 0 02 in.

Ireland, by a recent Act of the Legislature, enjoys the
advantages of registration. Mr Donnelly, the Registrar-
General of Ireland, to make it as useful as possible in pro-
moting the public health, now publishes a weekly table of
the causes of death in Dublin. Dr. Burke, in whose bands
it has been placed by the Registrar-General, adopts the
same forms as are in use in London; thus facilitating the
comparison of the two returns. The birdas registered in
Dublin during the weeks ending the 9th and 16th of July
were 134 and 142, and the deaths were 90 and 75.

The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr. Glatt"' wore
303 in the week ending the 9th of July, when the mean
temperature watt 67.5 deg., that at Greenwich having been
5(.; 6 deg.