The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

TfT E SUN, LoNDON TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST
_ 10, 1852.

were sold in, 1851. Altogether forming a most ele-
gant and useful collection. It is their intention to
exhibit the same at Me Yorkshire end other meetings.
—From the Agricultural Magazine, Plougs, and
Farmers' Journal.

boats, overtaken, and two marines placed in charge -of
each vessel— five in number. An application was then
made to the inspecting commander of the coast-
guard at Southend; and the vessels were clelivz.sred over
to his charge by Lieutenant Bullock, R.N., in order
that the stores might be prop,erly secured end accounted
for hereefter; that on the rell.iwibg day part of the
boats from Southend returned to the schooner,
and the crews of them cut away the masts and bowsorir,
loaded their vessels with slores and cargo belonging
to the schooner; and upon further application being
made to the Admiral's ship, the Wildfire (steamer) was
sent off to remain permanently by the schooner to pre-
vent further depredations being committed on her. Two
vessels, with divers and apparatus on board, were ern.
ploy ed for the purpose of lightening the vessel, by the
discharge of the cargo, preparatory to her being raised.
And these uppearers do protest, and I, the said
notary, at their request, do hereby legally and
solemnly protest against the said bad weather, acci-
dents, and occurrences, and also against the said
boatmen from Sou:hend for their illegal and
piratical conduct, in taking possession of the said
schooner, and for all other loss or damage occa-
sioned thereby, the same being owing to the facts and
circumstances beforementioned, and no' by any neglect,
misconduct, or delauit of the said master or any of the
crew of the said schooner; the whole to be allowed and
recovered from such person or persons, iu time and place
convenient, as occasion shall be or require.
" WILLIAM KINNEAR, master of the
schooner Renown, of Allea.
" ARCHIBALD DEWAR, mate.
" SAMUEL HATCH, seaman."

PIRACY AND GOLD ROBBERY.

- - - ---
(nom the Melbourne Argus of April 3.)
Yesterday morning (April 2), at an early hour,
two boats, with muffled oars, containing twenty-two
men, armed to the teeth, proceeded from the beach at
Sandridge to the barque Nelson, lying off the light-
house at Williams Town. This vessel, which has
recently arrived from Geelong, en route to London,
had on board 8,183 ounces of gold. Not-
withstanding so large an amount of treasure was
deposited in her, no watch was kept, and the
pirates succeeded is boarding her, and securing
two men and a boy, who were in the forecastle,
before they could raise any alarm. Having di6e
versed themselves over the vessel, some went aft
and seized the chief officer and a friend, together
with the carpenter, who were asleep in the cabin,
whilst others employed themselves in throwing over-
board all the small arms within their reach, as well
as the swivel-guns mounted on the poop deck. Mr.
Draper, the chief officer, received a slight wound in
the thigh, from a shot fired by one of the robbers,
before they succeeded in overpowering him and
his companions, which they soon did, and
having lashed their hands together, they com-
menced plundering the lazarette, of the position of
which they appeared to be well acquainted. Captain
Wright, the commander of the vessel, was ashore, and
seven only of the crew remained on board. Having
secured the treasure of which they were in search,
and deposited it in the boats, they took the precaution
before quitting the vessel of imprisoning all hands in
the lazarette, where it is difficult to conjecture how
long they might have remained had they not been
released by a seaman, who, in the early part of the
fray, during the confusion which ensued, succeeded
in secreting himself, end who emerged from his
hiding place when well assured of the departure
of the assailants. So soon as the chief
officer was liberated from his confinement
he proceeded to Williams Town, and gave informa-
tion to the proper authorities of what had occurred.
The harbour master's and water police boats were
immediately manned and proceeded to sea, in the hope
of overtaking the plunderers, but they could discover
nothing until daylight, when they found one of the
boats half a mile from the beach towards St. Kilda,
broadside on the sand, together with the tracks of dray
wheels brought there to convey away the plunder.
Another boat was found on the beach at Williams
Town. Upon the arrival of Mr. Level, the inspector
of water police, in town yesterday morning, with in-
telligence of the occurrence, Captain Start started
off with a body of the mounted police, and scoured the
country, with the view of discovering what direction
the dray had taken after leaving the beach. Up to
the time of going to press last night, we regret to say,
no tidings had been heard of them ; but it is expected
that, in the event of their capture, some of their num-
ber could be recognised, though many of them had
the lower part of their faces disguised in black hand-
kerchiefs, with caps over their eyes.
(From the Argus of April 6.)
There is little to add in reference to the daring act
of piracy committed on board the Nelson. Yesterday
morning as a compositor in our employment, named
Mr. Masters, was proceeding to the beach, within
half a mile of the hotel, at a short distance
from the land, he stumbled over the empty boxes
which had contained the gold, and which were
concealed in the tea-tree scrub. They are now lying
at the watchhouse. A fancy pipe was also found
close by, as well as a blue shirt, which perhaps
may afford some clue to the perpetrators of this
daring deed. In the hurried division of the spoil,
some of the gold had been spilt about the place,
and several people were employed yesterday after-
noon in carrying away the sand for the purpose of
washing it. A. bag of gold dust was found on Satur-
day morning, which is believed to have formed a
portion of the plunder.
The following is an extract from a private letter,
dated Melbourne, the 19th April:—
" Several persons have since been apprehended on
suspicion of the robbery of the Nelson, and one man
has been committed for trial."
RACING FIXTU

TIIE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE
BRISTOL CHANNEL.
On Thursday we gave the details of a most me-
lancholy accident which occurred in the Bristol
Channel off Clevedon, and which resulted in the
deaths of four young men, three of whom were the
sons of respectable tradesmen residing at this fashion-
able watering place, and the fourth had recently come
to live there. One of the bodies has been recovered,
arid an inquest has since been held on it by Mr.
T. L. Whitmore, the deputy-coroner for the district,
when, in addition to the facts already given,
it was shown that on Saturday, the 31st ult., three of
the deceased were engaged about some new build-
ings in the process of erection at Clevedon. It was
then agreed on to make up a boating party to go
to Weston-super-Mare the following day, to which
altogether five persons consented—namely, the four
deceased men, George Hurdle, mason, aged 28 ;
William Laurie, 22, a carpenter; Samuel Fripp, 29,
lime burner; James Davis, 25, baker; and also
another young man named Charles Merchant, a mason.
Hurdle undertook to steer the boat. They started
early in the morning, and after about three hours'
sailing they arrived safely at Weston, where they
spent the day. In the afternoon they all re-em-
barked, except Merchant, who expressed his inten-
tion of remaining at Weston all night, and returning
to Clevedon by the first train the next morning. The
four deceased were never again seen alive. The body of
Davis was discovered the next day on the sands at a
place called Woodspring, in the parish of Chew-
stoke, about four miles from Clevedon, and the
boat itself was found upset near Kingston W
havi harf.
The body of Davis presented a shocking sight, ng
been much eaten about the face and neck by crabs,
several of which were hanging about it when it was
recovered. The boat, it was stated, was a very
small one, and by no means fit to venture to sea in.
It is supposed to have capsized off a very dangerous
point, known as Fiddler's-point, or to have
orrosenat
e h a
sc o nlsei f deceaseddt e r
a-
struck a sand bank immediately beyond
wasand turnedververy
gusty,
nosvt eyr:
and
It
thes wind
eee ins that the night
kiivle,leystanfnt.er 4lto'icsloscakid, ththeattimtnee u
the party started from
were fully warned of the danger they incurred by
venturing across so dangerous a part as Fiddler's.
point, where there is a strong current and two tides
meet. All four of the deceased were much respected
at Clevedon. The jury returned a verdict of acci-
dental death. One of the young men
widowed mother, who is a respectable shopkeeper at
Clevedon, to deplore the loss of an only son.

proposed
BRITISH A RCHzEOLOGICAL
ASSOClATlON.blieneheelfd tahteNewark,
a6t—tMheeeCtinlignton August
eofn Arms;
proceed-
in
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theollo wcionnggirse islsn,
toou t
general
olothmittotee2
evening meeting in the Town-hall; president's address;
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td a
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dAi
nuagr A. 1
; II
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papers; order of business. Excursions will be made on
the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to
Newstead Abbey, Lincoln, Worksop, Clumber, Belvoir,
Ilawton, Southwell, Thurgarton, Nottingham, and other
places, which, when arranged, will be announced in a
future programme. On Friday there will be a public
dinner ; and on Saturday, a closing meeting in the
Town-hall. Amongst the papers already announced
are—Mr. Ll. Jewitt, on Ancient Customs and Sports of
the County of Nottingham; Mr. Bateman, on some of
the Contents of the Nottinghamshire Barrows ; Mr.
Wickes, on the Churches of Nottinghamshire and Lin-
colnshire; Mr. Pettigrew, on Newstead Abbey; Re,. J.
F. Dimock, on the History of the Collegiate Church o:
Southwell; Mr. Ashpitel, on the Architecture of the
same; Mr. Halliwell, on the Era and Character of
Robin Hood; Mr. Gulch, on Robin Hood and the Bal-
lads; Mr. Bridger, on the Mint at Newark; Mr. Dues-
bury, on Newark Castle and the Siege of Newark; Mr.
O'Connor, on the Painted Glass in Lincoln Cathedral, &e.
--Builder.

RES FOR 1852.
UST.

A ETC

Wolverhampton 9
Great Yarmouth lO
Gloucester (Frog Castle) 10
Hazel Grove
Tonbridge
Reading
Coventry l2
Lynn ... l2
Lichfield l6
Plymouth, Devonport,
and Cornwall l7
York
Pinner lB

Radcliffe 23
Taunton
Barnsley • .. 23
Barnet 23
Westbury
Egham
Derby
Tiverton 26
Canterbury 26
805t0n..... 26
Stonrbridge 3O
Eccles
Lincoln
dIIER.

Morpeth
Stirling
Marlborough 3
Bridgnorth
Cheadle
Warwick 7
Whitehaven .
Southport
Weymouth 8
Rochester and Chatham 8
Airdrie
Weston Zuyland and
Bridgewater
OCT(
Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club . 6
Yorkshire Union Hunt 6
Wrexham
Newmarket S. 0.

Doncaster ...... 14
Redditch 2O
Tenby 2l
Eglinton Club
Bedford
Leicester 22
Liverpool 11. (iloy121o) 22
Manchester Autumn 23
Newmarket F. 0.
Chesterfield ,. 29
Western Meeting 30

SEABORNE DTA IL S.
IN algnifie3 that the mils are sent frorq the General Post-o.llet
by the -light—and M by the morning--dispatch.)

When made up in From what Wheri
GeneralPost-Oilice port die-
London: patched.
„I/net-Ica (by Brit. pkt.)NlAug. 13 Liverpool .. Aug. 17
AllluriCa (by U.S. pkt.) N •• • • Liverpool ..'Aug. 15
America (by U.S. pkt.)M'Aug. 10 .. !Southampt. !Aug. 24
Australia (via South-
ampton) • • • • •• M • • .. Southampt.
Ditto (via Marseilles) N ,Plymouth..
Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N:2d of August ..Plymouth.. Nov. 30
Africa (West coast).. Nll4th of the month :Plymouth July 29
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo.lDover .. Aug. 18
Belgium • • .. •• N Daily ..iDover .. Daily
Brazil .. - • .. Ml9th of the month (Southampt. Aug. 16
Buenos Ayres 1119tli of the month Southampt. Aug. 16
Callfornia(viaCkagTee)M 23 & 17th of month , Southampt. Aug. 16
Cape of Good Hope Nl4th of August • • IPlymouth. „Arrived
Cape de Verde N2d of the month .. Plymouth.. lArrived
Constantinople* ...• N 7th 17th 27th of mo , Dover .. Aug. 10
Central America .. 1142 d & 17th of mon. iSouthampt. Sept. I
Channel Isles .. NI Mon., Wed., & Fri. ISouthampt. Tu. Th. Sat
Chili • • .. Ml2d & 17th of mnth ISouthanipt.lAug. 16
Franco .. Tvvice daily ..'Dover .. Twicedally
Greece* • • • . . N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Aug. 10
Hamburgh N, Tuesday & Friday 'London Tries. Sat.
Holland .. Wodnes. & Satur.,London Moc.Thur
Honduras .. 17th of the mouth Southampt. !Aug% 16
Ireland &N: Twice daily .. 'Holyhead —lTwicedall)
India(via gouthamp.) M 20th of the month'Southarapt. !Aug. 28
India (via, fioseilleo) N,Bth& 24th of month I Dover ..
India, via C. of G. Hope N 15th of month !Plymouth .. !Arrived
Mauritius .. 15th of month 'Plymouth .. !Arrived
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) M 20th of the month Southampt. July 28
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) N'Bth&24tis ofmonth Dover •• I
Mexico Ml2d of the month.. Southampt. Sept. 1
Madoira .• Mi9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 16
Malta* • • .. f 7th,17th,19th,27th, Aug.o
Dover g.
& 30th of month I j
&tries* .. •••• N 6th 15th 25t1, of me Dover 'Aug. 12
Papal States* N '6tlllsth 25th of Imo: Dover .. Aug. 12
-ininsula MB7th 17th 57th ef moi Southnmpt. !Aug. 16
Peru • • •• •• & 17th of ninth, Southampt !Aug. 1G
Tuscany* .. N 15th 15th 25th of mol Dover .. 'Aug. 12
Nest Indies M 17th of the month 'Southampt. 'Aug. 16
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) M 22 of the month .. Southampt.i
The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
French packet via Marseilles.

NOVE,
Worcester Autumn ... 2 I
Epsom .................. 4
IRISH RACE

AID
Phcenix Park............ 10
Roscommon ............ 11

merick ............... 1
Carragh .................. 7
Johnstown ............... 21

Curragh .................. 12 I
Down Royal Corp ...... 20

Perth .................. l4
Holywell Hunt
Richmond ....
Lanark ..................
Newmarket Houghton 25

IBER.
Cowbridge Rant ... 10

]S TO COME.
,lIST.
Tuara .
Ballinrobe .....
31
:FIBER.
Cashel
Kilkenny 2B

BE R.
Carlow

THE WRECKERS AT THE NORE.
The subjoined protest has been entered by the
master of the schooner Renown (which vessel was
pillaged by wreckers on the Nore Sand), with a view
to ulterior
the Admiralty Court :
, ,
That
at; steering a coarse W.N. W. i N.
proceedingsl 1
p m ,while
hil
e in
the ship struck on the Nore Sand, end immediately filled.
It being then the last quarter ebb, and, after repeatedly
striking heavily, the water flowed in from the atter part
of the vessel. The pumps were reit on, and continued pump-
ing. Finding the leak increasing on the pumps, and also
finding no hopes of keeping her, they made preparations
for getting the beet out. That at twelve o'clock at mid-
night they git the boat off, and hung by the ship till
two o'clock A.M., when, in consequence of the boat being
loaded with the clothes and provisions, and beginning
to make water, and the sea running heavy, they (the
crew) were compelled to leave the ship and take to their
beat, and pulled into Sheerness to procure assistance.
That at about four AM. they reached Sheerness, and
applied to Mr. Edgcumbe, a ship-agent there, and
received from him the assistance of a boat and two
hands, in which three of the crew, namely, the mato
and two seamen, returned to the ship, and this ap-
pearer, Archibald Dewar (the mate), further states
return
Mat he, and Samuel Hatch and William M'Lazen, sea-
men, together with the two boatmen provided by Mr.
Edgc-Anbe,
ce
came on
officereight Afound andan asked appearer by what au-
thoritythey
board the vessel ? The mate re-
plied, he had returned from
Sheerness, where he had
been for aesistance ; and the, master who remained
there on other duties, had delivered
,
elivered to him the cer-
tificate of registry of the schooner,
be produced to the chief officer of
which document
the production of which he said he the coast-guard; on
loft the vessel in charge of the appearer, wassatisfied, and
Dc-
war; that appearer then gave directions to
the Archibald
men employed to unroeve the running gear and unbend
and
the sails, in order to save the stores in as perfecta
a state THE COAST DEFENCES.—A survey, under
tathe
as the case would admit of, knowing that a barge had Board of Ordnance, by Captain Fanshawe, R:E , and Captain
been been engaged by Mr. Edgcombe, and which was then Gambier, R.A., is now being made along the Sussex' coastpin
coming down to receive them. She then succeeded in as far as Fairlight, to ascertain the capabilities of the several
saving six sails. That between nine and ten o'clock, forts for the national defence. A similar survey by Captain
A.M.,from ten to twelve vessels and boats came Gambier and Captain Gordon, IRE., has been made from
aloweside, and the crews of which came and took Littlehampton (Sussex) to Hurst Castle (Dorset), with
" of both masts and rigging, and immediately the same object. Oa Wednesday last a board of military
possession
using sharp hatchets for the and scientific (civil) officers, presided over by Colonel Sir
commenced cutting away, Frederick
Smith, C. 8., M.P., Commandant of the Royal
the mate, told them not to
purpose. That appearer, Engineers in Portsmouthgarrison, made a tour inspection
touch . of inspection
engaged assistance, but they
touch anything, as he had . along the Gosport shore, with the object of selecting sites for
to avoid •
still continued cutting away, and in ordert injury a chain of new fortifications.
from the falling rigging and materialsey away by those The reports of the state of trade in the •
obliged to go aft for for the provinces
persons over their heads, they were
were also made by some activity.
safety on the taffrail. Attempts At Manchester business has been on a smaller
' boat lorgsidc, l
persons to crush or smash appearer 's
aArchibald scale, in
ii consequence of lessened shipments, but the home de-
which had in it their stores. That appearer,
tinned thatascontinued large. From Birmingham it is men-
Dewar, finding himself overpowered, sent the boatd withhat
in the ironworks, owing
is expected among a large class of men
the stores into Sheerness, and remained on board. That in
that it will wing to the late improvement in prices,
probably be met in th
at about ten A.m., appearer, William Kinnear, and Mr.
strike of the engineers was met in Londeonsaame
the
as the
Edgcombe came on board, and the boatmen were of the year. The inconvenience from the distturtbaenboeginantinhg
cautioned that they were acting illegally—that their ser- copper-market is still felt, but in all other branches oef mi anue
vices were not required, as preparations were made, and facture there is full employment. The constant appearance.
sufficient assistance engaged to save the property without of articles of new design is stated as MO of the consequences
their aid; that they replied, 'We do not care whet you of the Exhibition of 1851. In the woollen districts the
say, we shall do as we like ; we are at work for the transactions have been numerous, although not quite to the
same extenttasoin the preceding week, and prices are firm.
underwriters;' that finding all remonstrance was useless,
appearer, the master, and Mr. Edgcombe, applied to the The exgarnt isursueale. considerable,.t.utrini and the American orders
admiral's ship for assistance; and an arrangement was
lrger
alteration, but the Aijrarlantthere has been no par- '
titular. shipments create stea-
made for a man-of-war steamer being sent out to pro- The Irish linenmarket has 13
an rather dull.
diness.
tect the property, and take charge of the stores and
cargo which had been plundered from the skip; that on THE AMERICAN WHEAT ElauvEsT.—The harvest
the approach of the man-of-war steamer, at between, two is in great part gathered even as far north as Wisconsin ;
and three p.m. of the 25th, the vessels which had plan- and in quantity and quality the wheat generally exceeds
dared the schoonerunder weigh, and sailed towards
got
Southend. merely local, and in the estimate of the aggregate crop hardly
" They were chased f , worth conaidering.—New rork'Journal of Commerce.
by the 111 au - o awar s steamer's -

RAIL WAY SHARE MARKETS'.

BRISTOL, AUG. 9.
&mac ExcllAxnx.—The market was somewhat firmer
to-day, but there was little business doing. Great Westerns
were done at 93.

LIVERPOOL, Atm. 9.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—Our share market appears to-day:to
have recovered from the depression of Friday and Saturday,
but still is not strong. The unfavourable half-yearly state-
ments and diminished dividends of the leading railways have
'(riven a shock to public confidence, which has a depressing
effect upon prices. The transactions were as follow :—East
Lancashire, 17?}—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 8 )14 —D i tto,
Preference, 6 per cent., 1511—London and North- Western,
1251/2—Ditto, New Quarters, 31N—Ditto, Fifths, 4!, p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 321 —Midland, 73 4
—South-Eastern and Dover, 2034.
MANCIIESTER, AUG. 9.

STocr: EXCHANGE.—The share market opened well this
morning, but declined in a slight degree towards its close.
The transactions reported were—Leeds, 803!,—Sheflields,
33:k--Midlands, 7314—East Lancashire, 1714—Ditto, Pre-
frence, Quarters, 914—Eastern Counties. 10:1i—Caledonians,
2014—Leeds, Fifths, 4y3 dis.—Manchester and Birming-
ham (C), Quarters, 1 15.16 p. South-Eastern and
Dover, 20

-- NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOITTIT, MONDAT.—The Fire Queen steam-
yacht, Lieutenant Mason, of the Victory, Acting-
Conammder, proceeded to Ryde this afternoon, and
brought to off the pier, where she embarked her
Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Catherine of
Russia and her royal consort the Prince George of
Mecklenberg Strelitz, and brought them to this har-
bour, with the Russian Imper;al Standard at her
main, which the fllO.-ship Victory saluted. The
illustrious visitors landed at the King's-stairs in this
dockyard, where Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs and
staff was in waiting to receive them, and proffered
his carriage to convey them to the railway terminus
at Landport, en route to London, leaving by the 2.15
px. train. Their Highnesses will return to the Isle
of I.Vioht in about a week. •
The Harpy iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Williams, removed her ammunition at Suit-
head this morning, and came into harbour this after-
noon to be paid off.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—G;oucester, Auq. 7,
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)

MASTERS V. JOIINnON.
Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Mr. Phipson appeared for
the plaintiff; Mr. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. Gray for
the defendant.

The Wasp, 14, steam-sloop, Acting-Commander
Pritchard, whose arrival at Spithead we noticed
yesterday, left the Bights on the Ist of June,
and Ascension on the 19th, at which date the Pene-
lope, 16, Captain Lyster, carrying the broad pendant
of ommodore (now Rear-Admiral) Bruce ; Cygnet,
3; Bloodhound, 2; Tortoise, 12 ; were lying at that
island. Iu the Bights were the Volcano steam-sloop;
Water witch, 8; Myrmidon steam-tender; Hound,
10 ; and Polyphemus steam-sloop. On the south
coast were the Alecto steam-sloop, Prometheus, and
Firefly (senior officer) steam-sleeps; Harlequin, 12,
and Dolphin, 3 ; and on the north coast the Crane, 6,
and Spy, 3. The Wasp brought home Mr. James,
mate of the Spy, as Lieutenant of the Wa-p ; Dr.
Walling, joined from the Penelope ; Mr. Blakely,
mate, ieting-Lieutenant of the Volcano ; and Mr.
Phillips, mate, Acting-Lieutenant of the Cygnet. She
reports the Firefly and Prometheus each having lately
made a prize, but the slave trade was effectually
checked. Lieutenant Cartright of the Sealark, and
Lieutenant Spencer, also Lieutenant Bent, on pro-
motion, have come home in the Wasp ; also Mr.
Green, second master, invalided. Dr. Cockburn, sur-
geon of the Wasp, died on the coast The foremast
of this vessel is very defective, and will have to be
taken out, and she needs a new after cylinder. She
was officially inspected by Flag-Captain G. B.
Martin, C. 8., to-day for the Port-Admiral, and her
crew exercised in gunnery. She sails for Woolwich.
The Niger, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Heath,
was inspected at Spithead,this afternoon by the Flag-
Captain Martin, and her crew exercised in gunnery.
She is ordered into this harbour to be paid off.
The Leopard, 10, new steam-frigate, has been
masted to-day, to be fitted out as one of the advanced
squadron in reserve at this port.
The Edinburgh, 56, is in the Angle Dock, with
sails bent. She is to come out again on the 12th inst.
Her catheads require to be raised, as her two fore-
most ports on her lower deck cannot be opened, as the
best and small bower anchor stocks come just before
them. She is coaling in dock. This ship in her prac-
tice cruise fired away in day and night practice no
less than five tons of gunpowder, and a corresponding
allowance of shot and shell. In a night exercise at a
floating lantern the gallant Captain Chads himself
knocked the lantern away, but the half-crown
(awarded to such practice) was given to the captain
of the gun from which the shot was fired.
The ships at Spithead, the Blenheim, the Tiger, the
Wasp, and the Niger, got the man ropes on the
yards this morning, in anticipation of the royal squa-
dron passing through the anchorage.
The 7th Royal Fusileers leave this garrison to-
morrow and the next day, in two divisions. An Irish
steam-boat is now alongside the dockyard, embarking
baggage. She will sail to-morrow with the first di-
vision, returning back for the second.
The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen,
acting master R.N., commanding, left this evening for
Plymouth with supernumeraries.
The Marlborough Indiaman (one of Smith's fleet)
sailed from St. Helen's to-day, for Port Philip;
Australia, with emigrants.

The Vimiera emigrant ship sailed from Spithead
this afternoon, for Australia.
DEVONPORT, AUG. B.—Orders have been received
here to hasten the CornwEllis, now in No. 5 Dock
fitting for a military depot at Hong-Kong. Ship-
wrights will be taken from the Havannah and Brisk,
and from such other works as they can be best
spared, and the ship will be complete about the middle
of October.

The Savage brig is to be prepared and fitted for a
chain lighter for Malta. Jury masts and sails are to
be prepared for her, and report when she is ready.
When sawyers fall back as labourers in the dock-
yards, they are to be paid as skilled labourers, at the
rate of 2s. 6d. per day.
Aid lighter arrived to-day with stores from Chatham.
SHEERNESS, MONDAY. -- Her Majesty's ship
Daphne, 18, Captain E. G. Fanshawe, made her
number off the Nore yesterday at 2.50 P.m., and
saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline
Percy, Commander-in. Chief, which compliment was
acknowledged by the Waterloo, 120. The Daphne
then beat up to the Little Nore, where she anchored.
She has been in commission since the 28th of October,
1848, and was designed by Sir W. Symonds, launched
at Pembroke in 1838, and is of 726 tons burden. She
is to be paid off at Chatham.
Her Majesty's brig Nerbudde, 12, has been taken
into dock at Chatham-yard for the purpose of being
got ready for commission. She was built at Bombay
in 1847 from designs of Sir W. Symonds, and is of
445 tons measurement.
Her Majesty's brig Daring, 12, at Chatham, has
been docked for the purpose of having her bottom
examined and defects made good. She was built in
1844 from designs of Mr. White, at Cowes, and some
years since formed one of the experimental brig
squnaddsr,osni,ising Fish,consisting (with herself) of Sir W. Sy-
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latter in the Adriatic, and the Flying Fith is con-
demned as unfit for further service. The Daring, we
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bear, will be shortly put in commission.
Flee Majesty's ship Nankin, 50, of 2,049 tons,
launched at Woolwich in 1850, and built from designs
of Mr. 0. W. Lang, is brought forward for actives
men belonging
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commission n
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expire the latter end cf the ensuing
to the Coast Guard at this port
have attained a great degree of proficiency in the great
gun exercise, Sec. A short time since, while firing
with a reduced charge at a target placed in the sea at
a distance ?fBOO yards, the shots were directed with
much precision,
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The plaintiff was a commercial traveller, and the
defendant a wholesale draper at 13irmingiaam, and the
action was for 1661., the balance of a three-quarters of
a years' salary at 2501. a year. The chief question
in the case was, whether the plaintiff was engaged by
the week at 41. 103., or by the year at 2501. Both
plaintiff and defendant were examined, and they swore
point blank against each other, the plaintiff swearing
that it was a yearly hiring at 2501., and the defendant
swearing that it was only a weekly hiring at 41. 10s.
Each was corroborated to a certain extent by other
witnessc,,e and evidence.

Hii 14021)3111P, in summing up, expressly told the
jury that, whatever way they might decide, it would
be impossible to arrive at any other conclusion than
that either the plaintiff or the defendant came into the
wituess-box with a deliberate iWentioa to forswear
himself and deceive thvai.

The case commenced about two o'clock yesterday,
and did not close till ten o'clock to-day, when
The jury, after a few miautes'consultation, found a
verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed.
The following case was tried before a special jury :

CHESSHYTLE V. NORMAN.-LIBEL.
Mr. Alexander,' Q.C,, Mr. liating, Q.C., and Mr.
Fallon appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Whateley,
Q.C., and Mr. Pigott for the defendant.

This was an action against the publisher of the
Cheltenham Examiner, for a libel on a Cheltenham
attorney. The libel appeared as an advertisement, in
the shape of a letter from " A Looker-on" to the
editor. After alluding to two cases of alleged ob-
struction and assault, brought by a Mr. Blagdon, a
county magistrate, and the Rev. Mr. Shute, against
a man named Hill, end heard before two magistrates
at petty sessions at Cheltenham, when plaintiff ap-
peared as Hill's attorney, the libel stated that he,
" after most unnecessarily having attempted to brow-
beat Mr. Shute, and seeing that the case was evi-
dently against his client, got up, and instead of
making a defence, commenced a most bitter and un-
provoked attack upon the character of Mr. Blagdon
—assailed him with the vilest epithets, and charged
him with the meanest motives, by no means re-
straining his observations to the truth or the evi-
dence before him. This conduct, though extremely
bad al disgraceful in itself, I do not so much find fault
with, and doubtless Mr. Chesehyre thought it was his
proper line of business ; and, not pretending to be a
gentleman, of course he cannot be supposed to have
any respect for the feelings of a gentleman. So this
point I dismiss. But really, Sir, I think any right-
minded man must feel exceedingly indignant that the
presiding magistrate could allow an attorney to vilify
and asperse the character of a country gentleman, a
member of the bench on which he was sitting, and, I
may add, who has been a member of that bench for
a number of years—that be permitted such slanderous
and disgraceful language is most lamentable. Such
violent language as Mr. Cliesahyre used ought to have
been checked at the outset; or, is it come to this, that
a gentleman cannot appear as a witness in a case with-
out being insulted to his face by an insignificant at-
torney who may be entrusted with a vagabond's de-
fence. The presiding magistrate's duty was plain. No
such language should have been permitted • if such
infamous conduct were universal our courts Of justice
would soon be converted into bear-gardens, and any
gentleman who might happen to thwart the views of a
paltry attorney might be called upon to listen to lan-
guage which, according to the established rules of
society, he evidently could not resent. In conclusion,
I am sure you will agree with me when I say that it
augurs badly for our town, when a bench of magi-
strates will listen to the insulting tirade of a vulgar
demagogue, who would court popular favour at the
expense of truth and justice. As Mr. Blagdon very
wisely remarked, such conduct as Mr. Chesahyre
displayed may win the applause of the mobility. But,
Sir, is the bench to be mobbed ? are our laws to be
hoodwinked? are the ends of justice to be defeated
by impudent blusterers ?" Immediately on the appear-
ance of this document the plaintiff desired that the
author should be given up • but the defendant de-
clined to do so, and said he should be legally respon-
sible for it. Thereupon this action Ras commenced.
The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a justification
to the effect that Mr. Chesshyre's conduct at the
petty sessions warranted the description given of it.
The evidence of the two magistrates who presided on
that occasion completely disproved this justification,
and showed that the plaintiff's conduct was most pro-
per and becoming, and that the utmost that could be
said against him was, that he was irritated as well as
Mr. Blagdon, and that he did say that the charge was
a trumpery one, and that he used the word partisan
in reference to Mr. Blagdon.
Mr. WIIATELEY, in addressing the jury in mitiga-
tion of damages, urged that the libel was an excellent
advertisement of the plaintiff, for which he ought to
be thankful ; that to publish of him that he browbeat
a county magistrate was very likely to make his for-
tune ; that he must feel so in his heart, and that he
would never have thought of bringing the action if it
were not for the temptation of costs.
The jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict
for the plaintiff-' -Damages, 403.
His LORDSHIP granted a certificate for the costs of
a special jury.

SOUTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Aug. 9.
CROWN COURT.—(BeforeMr.Justice CROMPTON.)
The assizes for the county of Chester commenced
to-day. Mr. Justice Crompton presided in the Crown
Court, and Mr. Justice Taifourd at Nisi Prius.
Numerically the calendar was lighter than usual,
but several of the cases, including the Stockport
rioters, were of a serious character.
The grand jury having been sworn,
Mr. Justice CROMPTON proceeded to deliver his
charge. He said he was afraid that he could nut
congratulate them as he had had the pleasure of
doing the grand juries all around the Welsh Circuit,
as to the state of crime in this county. Although
there were not so many cases in the calendar as there
had been on former occasions, yet it contained a con-
siderable number, and many of them were cases of a
serious description. Among them he found that there
was a very frightful case of the murder of a mother by
her son, which would very likely involve the state of
mind of the individual charged with the offence.
After alluding to some of the general cases in the ca-
lendar, hie Lordship dwelt at considerable length on
the charges arising out of the Stockport riots. He
lamented extremely the disturbances which had re-
cently taken place in the large manufacturing town
of Stockport. Religious animositios seemed to have
arisen between the Roman Catholics and her Ma-
jesty's Protestant subjects in that town, and in some
measure also a feeling of hostility between the
English and the Irish existed. It was very
much to be lamented that these dissen-
sions should occur, but it would be for the
grand jury minutely to inquire into the charges
preferred, to see if the law of the land had been
violated and the Queen's peace broken. Probably
they might find that the law had been violated on
both sides, and that both these parties had brought
themselves within the terms of the statute bearing on
the offence. He should not think of reminding gen-
tlemen like themselves that they must look at each
individual case in order to see how it was made out
against the respective prisoners, without any regard
to what might be the individual feelings of each.
Should they find the charges brought boon to any of
the prisoners the law must be vindicated, and the
parties must be taught that we could not yield to
those outrageous mobs which the laws of England
so strongly deprecated. Oue of our late Judges had
said " he thought it right to show the abhorrence
with which the laws of England viewed the riotous
assemblages of the people." If any portion of the
community feared that their religious rights were
interfered with they must be protected. The law
protected them in their parsons and property and
in the exercise of those religious rights which were,
perhaps, dearer to them than their lives—the
right to worship their Maker in the form they
ha,l inherited from their fathers. In this respect the
law of England placed the Roman Catholic on the
same footing as the Protestant, and protected their
places of religious worship. There were statutes in
force particularly bearing upon their religious places
of worship, and it was of importance that they should
have every confidence in the just administration of
the law with regard to themselves. The Roman
Catholics should have confidence that the Govern-
ment would not interfere with them in the exercise
of their religious services, and, indeed, there was flit
pledge of the Crown to that effect, for, on a rt,:cent
occasion, warning the Roman Catholics against the
violation of some particular statute, the Queen was
advised to say, " We are resolved to protect our
Roman Catholic subjects in the exercise of their reli-
gious rights." While they kept within the law the
rights of the Roman Catholics would be as much re-
spected as the rights of Protestants themselves. In
these cases their duty :would simply be to inquire
whether there had been a violation of any particular
law, either on the one side or the other. The Learned
Judge, in continuation, proceeded to point out the
bearing of the law upon the subject. They
were, perhaps, allj aware that where two or
three persons were assembled together, and a
riot took place, the law was violated, and such a -
peered to have been the case as regarded the charges
in question. He had not had an opportunity of
making himself acquainted with all the details of
these alleged outrages, and, indeed, had he done so,
he should not have considered it necessary to dwell
upon them before the grand jury. If they found, as
was alleged, that the persons charged had been en-
gaged in pulling down and, demolishing places of re-
ligious worship, then in that case the persons who

APPOINTMENTS.
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(1831), to the Britannia, 120, flag-ship of Rear-Ad-
miral J. W. Dundas, C. 8., on the Mediterranean
station, vice Goldsmith, returned to England by the
last mail packet.
Lieutenants--John A. TI. Boyd (1845), to the Vic-
tory fl3g-ship at Portsmouth ; George D. Murray
(1848), to the Inflexible steam sloop at Portsmouth.
Assistant Surgeons—John Murphy (1848), at pre-
sent serving in the Imaum at Jo inaica, to he assistant-
surgeon at Jamaica Hespital ; Charles 11. Chambers
(1851), acting assistant-surgeon in the Niger, is con-
firmed to that vessel, now at Portsmouth.
Midshipmen—Henry Batten, to the Impregnable
thg-ship at Dovonport ; W. J. -Johnston to the
Queen, 116, at D,vonport ; and James A. Poland, to
the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth.
Commanders—Edward F. N. K. Wasey (1850)
and Henry J. Lacon (1842), having completed a
knowledge dge
having o!'
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passed
of study of steam at the factory at Woolwich
Dockyard, they Were examined by Mr. Charles
Atherton, chief-engineer,
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a session of council, on Saturday
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.
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serisl.svir.
The prizes and certificates of honour of the classes for
th„ummer term of the faculty of medicine were an-
.—Senior class : Gold
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MIDWIFERY (Professor Murphy, m.D.
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second silver medal, Mr. T. Hillier. Certificates: fourth,
Mr. R. W. Carter;
John Edwards;
filth, Mr. A. Tronsdale; sixth, Mr.
J. W. Wilson.
OP/ITELA.LIIIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY (PI OfeSROT
Wharton Jones).—Silver medal, Mr. F. W. Sayer;
second certificate, Mr. W. Roberts.
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE (Professor Carpenter,
(
M D.)—Prtz-s (equal), - c Mr. W. Roberts and Mr. T.
Hillier; second cartificate, Mr. J. J. Godfrey,
MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS (Professor
Garrod, M.D.)—Gold medal, Mr. G. Buchanan; first I
diver medal, Mr. S. Nesfield; second silver medal, Mr.
11. maudesiev. Certificates: fourth, Mr. J. puwe,s;
firth, Mr. H. Edwards; sixth, Mr. A. Trensdale; seventh,
Mr. J. I'. Parker.

bed thecre Peerage, and a
created in North
RUMOURED DEATH OF LORD TANKERVILLE.--
Saturday's Gateshead Obstreer states that intelligence reached
that office just as the paper wasgoing to press,• announcing
the death of the venerable Earl of Tankerville. should
this intelligence prove correct, Lord Ossulston, his Lordship's
Ne,ladceasnt c
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Northumberland, where Lords Odaulston • and Lovaine were
returned at the recent election.
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I had so outraged the law must undoubtedly be
pun ished. In considering the cases of rioting which
weuld be laid before them, the grand jury would
ascertain how far the prisoners had gene m pulling
down and demolishing any places cf worship. With
the view of guarding the religious rights of the
Roman Catholics, the statutes to which he had re-
ferred ware in force for :the purpose of protecting
their religious places of worship. Now, if they should
find that any of the prisoners charged proceeded so far
in their rioting as to begin to destroy and demolish the
chapels of the Roman Catholics then they would come
within the statue, but they must be satisfied that there
had been an intention to demolish, either by fire or
some other mode. It was not necessary that the
places of worship should actually have been de-
molished, because it might be that the presence of
the police had prevented the demolition being com-
pleted. The intentional beeinning of the work of
demolition was sufficient to bring' the prisoners within
the meaning of the statute. Li the year 1730 they
all knew what dreadful excesses took place by in-
furiated mobs pulling down houses and chapels, and
it was frightful to contemplate such la wle,s proceed-
ings taking place in the present day. Fur the pro-
, tection of society, no less than for the honour of the
country, such disgraceful outrages must he checked,
and the authors of them severely punished. These
proceedings at Stockport appeared to him to be no
less an outrageous violation of the laws than the riots
which took place in the time of the late Lord George
Gordon, and he repeated that it was of the greatest
importance that such outrages should be effectually
put down. Ha did not wish to address them on
the question of religious differences and animosi-
ties, neither did he wish to allude to the
acrimonious feelings which he feared existed
to too great an extent between certain classes of
Englishmen and Irishmen who might be residing in
such places as Stockport ; but he must remind them
that as Ireland was a portion of the United Kingdom,
the Irish had as great a right to take up their resi-
dence in Stockport as any of the gentlemen before
him had to reside in the county of Chester. With
regard to the charge of homicide which had arisen
out of these charges, the coroner's jury had returned
a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. It
would he their duty to see whether the charge of
murder was fully brought home to the prisoner. The
depositions in this case were very long and very con-
fused. It would appear that the prisoner struck the
deceased with a poker. Now, should they be of opi-
nion that the blow with the poker was deliberately
inflicted, then it would be a case of murder. If,
however, they should be of opinion that the blow was
struck in the heat of the moment the offence would he
reduced to manslaughter. After some further general
remarks his Lordship dismissed the grand jury to their
duties.

The bills in the Stockport case were before the
grand jury when our report left. The case excites the
most intense interest,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

John Thomas Parry, a compositor, was brought up
by Ware, the pierman, at Blackfriars-bridge, on a
charge of attempting to commit suicide.
John William Ware said, at about .5 o'clock in the
morning his attention was called to the prisoner in
the water, and on rowing to the spot indicated, he
saw the prisoner roll over into deep water. Witness,
however, succeeded in rescuing him, and having taken
him to the receiving house ashore, searched him, and
found only a farthing and soire trifling articles of
little or no value. Prisoner told him he had been
driven to desperation by poverty.
Alderman FINNIS asked if the officer had made any
inquiry at the prisoner's place of abode ?
The officer said he had done so, and the prisoner's
wife and other friends were in court.
The wife then stood forward, and in answer to in-
terrogatories from the Alderman stated that her hus-
band had had very little work to do lately, and some-
times did not earn 53. in the week. She had ten
children, and eight of them were young and at home
with her, and in great distress. Her husband left
home on Friday morning to seek for work, and find-
ing he did not return on Saturday, she applied to the
West London Union for relief, when she was told to
send her husband.
Alderman FINNIS inquired whom she saw at the
West London Union ?—The wife said she saw the
relieving officer and the overseer.
Alderman FINNIS then asked if she stated her chil-
dren were actuelly without bread, and on receiving a
reply in the affirmative he commented with some
warmth upon the cruel neglect in leaving the children
to starve until the husband could be found to make a
personal application for relief. He would remand the
case, in order that the relieving officer and overseer
might attend and explain why they omitted to relieve
the distressed family and the prisoner.
The prisoner, on being asked what induced him to
contemplate committing such a fearful act as self-
destruction, said that not being able to obtain work
on Friday, and having no money to take home, he
could not return to see his children wanting bread.
He had no means to get a lodging elsewhere, and at
last he was reduced to such a distressed state of mind
that he scarcely knew what he:did.
The prisoner was remanded.
BOW-STREET
James Donaldson, who has been two or three times
in custody for "smashing," although never convicted,
was charged before Mr. Hall with passing two coun-
terfeit half-crowns at the St. Clement-Danes' Savings
Bank, in Norfolk-street, Strand.
Mr. Bellamy, a clerk from the office of the Solicitor
to the Mint, begged to inform the magistrate that the
charge could not be substantiated; but as the gentle-
man who attended from the bank appeared anxious to
have the case gone into, it might be more satisfactory
to proceed with the examination.
The prosecutor, a gentleman connected with the
savings bank, stated that a short time back the pri-
soner applied at the office for a copy of the rules and
regulations, which are supplied at 2d. each. He ten-
dered half-a-crown in payment and received the
change from a gentleman who was acting at the time
as manager, and who placed the coin in the drawer
with about 101. worth of Silver. It was afterwards
found to be a bad one, and was consequently put aside,
in case the prisoner, who was immediately remembered
and su‘pected, should present himself at the bank
again. Last week the prisoner made another application
for the same book, and again tendered a bad half-
crown in payment. He was at once identified by
witness, who produced the former coin and placed it
on the counter, at the same time taxing the prisoner
with having passed it, and stating that he should send
for a constable. The prisoner, without saying a word,
took up the halfcrown and swallowed it ; but the
counterfeit piece which he tendered on the second
occasion was retained.
Mr. HALL thought that this appeared a proper case
to send to a jury.
Mr. Bellamy begged his worship to bear in mind
that there was no evidence of the first halfcrown being
the same that the pri over tendered. It was not
marked at the time, but placed in the till among other
change—not by the witness, but one of the managers
of the bank.
Mr. HALL—If that is so, then the prosecution cer-
tainly fails.
The prosecutor—But if that fails with respect to the
first halfcrown, surely there is evidence enough to
convict him of tendering the second ; for the co was
retained on the spot, and the prisoner given into
custody.
Mr. Bellamy contended that the prosecution in the
second case could not be supported because there was
not the requisite evidence of a previous tendering or
of the prisoner's having other bad money in his pos.
session.

The prosecutor—Why, I understand he has been
repeatedly in custody at this court for the same
offence.
Mr. HALL—Very likAy, but we cannot place that
fact upon the depositions. It might be stated to the
judge after the trial, but no one would be allowed to
go into the witness-box and tell the jury of these cir-
cuinstances. You see, you are compelling us to let
the prisoner know the secrets of these things.
The prosecutor—l am afraid, Sir, that the " se-
crets" are already known too well from the facility
which they seem to afford for the commission of this
class of offences.
Mr. HALL—I cannot detain the prisoner on this
evidence.
The prosecutor—Then what is the use of giving a
man into custody for passing bad money ?
Mr. HALL—The prisoner is discharged.
MARYLEBONE.
John llollingshed was charged with having stolen
a quantity of silver plate, value 1301., the property of
his master, Mr. James Tilyer Blunt, of 3, Dorset-
square.

Prosecutor, on being sworn, said—The prisoner
has lived with me as footman, and as I was about to
leave town I was anxious to look over the plate, and
proposed that I should do so last Thursday. At the
prisoner's request I postrned it until Saturday, on
the afternoon of which day, upon my going home, I
ascertained that the prisoner bad absconded. I imme-
diately went to the plate chest and missed therefrom
a great deal of the valuable property which it had
contained, and upon making the discovery of my loss
I gave information to the police.
_ _

Mr. BROUGHTON (to the prisoner)—Have you
any question to put to your master ? Prisoner—l
hope he will forgive me as far as he can. I intended
to have got the articles out again as soon as I could.
Sergeant Kelly, 8 T—At six yesterday evening I
was on duty at Brook-green, Hammersmith, when
the prisoner told me that he wanted to give himself
up for pledging Mr. Blunt's plate, at the same time
alleging that he was very sorry for what he had done.
He had with him a wotnan whom he said was his
wife. I told him that the plate was valued at 130/.
lie made no observation upon my mentioning that,

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