The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1864.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-'PHIS DAY-WARM
and DRY.

CRYSTAL PALACE,-GREAT SUCCESS
lIJJ YESTERDAY.—Every holiday maker, every juvenile,
must visit the Palace for the Thousand-and-One Attractions
combined there this week.
Come early. Open at Ten. Palace lighted up at dusk.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-THIS DAY.-
CHRISTMAS HOLlDAYS.—Combined at-
tractions, more varied than ever. AMUSEMENTS from
morning till night. Impossible to describe a 1 in advertise-
ments. The PETIT BLONDIN, the juvenile Rope dancer ;
MrJACKS' )N BAINES, the Champion American SKATER;
SILVESTER, the Charmed Monster, &c. ; the ELLISIRA
BROTHERS, the classical gymnasts ; BARNES, the
CHAMPION,. VAULTE ti in his sixty somersauli ; JEAN
BOND and-his wonderful DOG; HERR WILLI. ‘, the
great German Contortionist. J. 11. STEAD, the Cure.
Most amusinz CLOWNS. Pantomimic BALLET, with Mr.
STEAD as SIMPKIN, forming an unparalleled variety of
Holiday Amusements.

In addition to these, the FINE ARTS COURTS, in variety
and beauty. are unequalled in the world. The decorations of
the Palace, with the GREAT CHRISTMAS TREE, should
be seen by all. The GREAT FAIR and BAZAAR, the beat
opportunity for Christmas nesents. The SHAKSPERE
HOUSE The MONTANARI MODELS. The Swings,
Round-abouts, Invigorators, and other popular amusements.
The Galleries of MODELS and SHIPS. The extraordinary
Chimpanzee. The unique Aquariums. All these things
render the Crystal Palace the ONE PLACE for HOLIDAY
ENJOYMENT.

This Christmas, EDMONDS' date Wombwell's) WIND-
SOR CASTLE GREAT MENAGERIE will be exhibited,
adjoining the Palace. This extraordinary addition to the
other attractions is, like the Palace and its approaches, all
under cover. Admission to the Menagerie, Sixpence.
Admission to the Palace, One Shilling. One Hundred and
Fifty Railway Trains daily, from London Bridge, Victoria,
and Kensington ; also from London, Chatham, and Dover to
Sydenham Hill Station. Palace lighted up at dusk.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-THIS DAY.-
Attraction Extraordinary during the CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS. The Entire of EDMONDS' (late Wombwell's
ROYAIJ WINDSOR CASTLE MENAGERIE, the most
extensive and valuable Zoological Establishment in Europe.
Entrance from the Tropicsl Department. Warm, dry, and
every comfort studied to render it one of the most agreeable
as welt as plea on,tr, resorts in or o 'cot London,- The RIVAL
LION-HUNTERS, in heir daring and exc ting illustrations
every alternate hour, with Iwo separate groups of highly-
trained lions, lionesses, and tigers; together with a magnifi-
cent stud of performing panthers and leopards, surpassing
everything hitherto submitted for public inspection. Two
huge educated elephants, male and female, the largest in the
country. The only Indian male rhinoceros travi lling. The
menagerie comprises some very rare specimens of the animal
kingdom, among which recently imported those w...nderful
creatures the Hamadryads, or Lion Slayers, are very singu-
lar, and the only ones ever brought to th s country. Noble
Royal- Bengal Tigers and Tigresses. Majestic African,
Asiatic, Barbary, and British-bred Lions and Lionesses,
with Baby Lions, whelped at Windsor in November list.
Llamas, Alpacas. A pair of Burche'l Zebras ; two very fine
Polar Bears, Nyl Ghaus, Zebus, or Sacred Bulls, black ursine
Sloth Bears, Hyenas, Wolves, Jackalls, &c„ &c. War Camels,
and Dromedaries, with infant Calf ten months old. A splen-
did Aviary of Foreign Bird's. from every clime. Monkeys
from all parts of the globe. The Reptiles are profuse, and in
g reatvariet y.

Oren at 10 daily. Admission to the Menagerie, 6d each.

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programme at each Levee.

They will be drawn to and from St. James's Hall in their
Lilliputian Carriage by four of the Smallest Ponies in the
world, presented to them by General Tom Thumb;

Box Office from 10 till 4 o'clook.

Admission, ls. and 2s. ; reserved seats, 3s. Children half
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Challenge to Fight a Duel.

Yesterday at the Justice-room of the Mansion-house Wm.
Brownrigg Lumley, described as a retired major in the
Indian Army, residing at 23, Kildare-gardens, Weatbourne-
park, and who had been apprehended that morning on a
warrant by Sergeant Michael Haydon, was brought before
the Lord Mayor on the charge that he did on the 23d of
December unlawfully, wickedly, wilfully, and maliciously
compose, write, and send to one Lawrence Desborough, the
younger, a certain letter and a paper-writing containing a
challenge to fight a duel with him, the said Wm. Brown-
rigg Lumley, against the peace," Sec.
Mr Wontner, solicitor of Bucklerabury, who conducted
the prosecution, said the defendant was, he believed, a
major in her Majesty's Indian army. and he had now to
prefer a charge against him for having sent a challenge to
the complainant, Mr Desborough, and that under circum-
stances as disgraceful probably as any that had ever come
under his Lordship's. notice. Happily in this country,
duelling was quite foreign to the present state of public
feeling, and a man who now sent a challenge to another
rendered himself liable to have the state of his mind doubted
or to be accounted a blackguard, seeing that the practice of
duelling as a mode of satisfying wounded honour was en-
tirely scouted. Even an officer in the Indian army should
have known that to send such a message was a mere piece
of braggadocia and nothing more. In this case the defend.
ant had addressed letters to the complainant, which any
gentleman might well be ashamed to write, and in that
opinion the Lord Mayor, after he had heard them read,
would probably concur. The complainant, Mr Desborougb,
jail., was a member of a firm of solicitors, of 60 years'
standing in the city of London, and one which did honour
to the profession of the law—the firm of Desborough,
Young, and Desborough, of Sise lane. In the course of
their professional duty in the present year, they had to
attend to a matter of very great delicacy and impor-
tance, into the circumstances connected with which he
would not now enter, but in which ho might
say Major Lumley was the principal party concerned. In
superintending that matter they sent in a bill of costs for
about £9O in November last, and it was arranged that cer-
tain dividends on shares in Cornish mines were to be handed
over to Messrs Desborough to pay an annuity under a deed
which they had prepared in the matter in question in the
interest of the Major. The bill of costs having been deli-
vered in November, on December 19 a check for £2O came
into the hands of Messrs Desborough from Truro, and it be-
came necessary, in order to its being cashed, that it should
be returned through their own bankers to Cornwall before
it could be credited by them to their account with Major
Lumley. On the very day on which they received the money
they wrote to Major Lumley apprizing him of the fact, and
stating at the same time that, inasmuch as their account
was outstanding, they thought it better to place the amount
to his credit if they had his consent to do so. To that letter
they received a very peremptory reply from Major Lumley,
objecting to that, and insisting that in the course of the fol-
lowing day he should send the amount to his army agents,
in Parliament-street. Mr Desborough immediately wrote to

him to the effect that the check had been cashed in Corn-
wall and passed to their account in London, and he would
receive a check from them for the amount. Anyone would
have thought that that would have been satisfactory to any
gentleman, but it was not so to Major Lumley, for he went
forthwith to the office of Mr Desborough, and walking into
his private room in a boiling rage, demanded, in an exces-
sively insolent manner, to know why he had kept back his
money. adding that he had consulted a solicitor, who told
him their bill of costs was not payable until it had been
taxed. Mr Desborough said he was quite sure no solicitor
could have so advised him, inasmuch as they had an imme-
diate right to have their bill paid without any taxation, to
which it was in no wise subject. The major repeated
that a solicitor liad so advised him, and then, having applied
coarse epithets to Mr Desborough, and called his veracity
in question, Mr Desborough rose from his chair and in-
sisted on his leaving the room. The major did so, and imme-
diately after he left Mr Desborough went to the office of the
solicitor to whom the Major had referred, and there found
the Major himself waiting to see the gentleman in question.
After the Major had seen him and had gone the solicitor
told Mr Desborough that he had never until that moment
seen Major Lumley before, and that the object the Major
had had in calling upon him was to apologise for having
made use of his name and to hope that he would excuse him
for having done so. The Major therefore must have said
that which was palpably untrue in stating that he had been
advised by a solicitor that he was not bound to pay their
bill of costs until it had been taxed.

Major Lumley (interposing)—l totally deny all thie, my
Lord Mayor.

The Lord Mayor—Wait, Mojor Lumley; you will have
an opportunity of making your defence in due time.
Mr Wontner, resuming, said under the circumstances Mr
Deshorough wrote to Major Lumley, to the effect that after
his behaviour the firm would insist on applying the £2O odd
towards the payment of the account he owed them, and it
was therefore useless to hold any further correspondence on
the subject. On the following d,ty Sir John Louis waited
on Alr.Dasborough tit-ttis office, and hituded,,him the fol-
lowing letter :
"23, Kildare-gardens, Westbourne-park, Dec. 22.
"Sir,—The bearer of this letter, to whom I beg to intro-
duce you, is my cousin Sir John Louis, and an officer in
her Majesty's Indian Army.
" I must premise that in addressing you on this occasion
I waive and put aside entirely the pecuniary misunderstand-
ing which has arisen between us as being comparatively of
little importance, and one which can be readily investigated
by our respective solicitors.

"But what I have to call your attention to is a subject
of graver aspect ; and to it, therefore, I request your earnest
and immediate consideration.

"Yesterday afternoon you insulted me in your own
office in the grossest and most absolute manner, to wit—.

" You first shook your hand menacingly in my face. You
then contradicted me in terms so furiously offensive as to
constitute the ' lie direct,' and you completed the outrage
by endeavouring to thrust me with such violence from the
room, that it amounted to the last indignity to which a
gentleman can be expose,?—viz , ' a blow.'
" This treatment I consider as not merely dishonouring
my person and reputation, but also the commission I have
the honour of holding in her Majesty's Indian army.
I therefore demand from you that 'satisfaction' which,
under such conditions, one gentleman is entitled to from
another.

" In order that misconception may not create delay in the
object I have in view, I must further state that I will not
attend to denials, explanations, or terms of conditional re-
paration of any sort whatever, requiring at your hands sim-
ply a written apology or a meeting.

" You will therefore have the goodness to inform the gen-
tleman who is the bearer of this honourable message, whe-
ther, in plain English, you will fight or apologise,--I am
sir, your obedient servant,
" WILLIAM BROWNRIGG LUMLEY
Major on the Indian Retired List:
66 o Lawrence Desborough, Esq., jun., per the hands of
Captain Sir John Louis."
.11)jor Lumley remarked that that was a correct version
of the letter he sent.

Mr Wontner, continuing his statement, said the Major
appeared to be perfectly familiar with the communication.
Mr Desborough was thunderstruck at receiving such a let.
ter; but, addressing Sir John Louis, who had said he was a
friend of Major Lumley, said if he had came there in that
capacity to arrange a duel between the Major and him he
had most unequivocally to tell him he would neither apolo-
gise nor fight. He was, however, ready to state what had
occurred to Sir John Louis, and ho did so. Sir John then
left, intimating that he would communicate with the Major.
On the folio wing day Sir John called again onMrDesborough
and presented to him the following letter :
" 23, Kildare-gardens, Weatbourne-park, Dec. 24.
"To Laurence Desborough, Esq., jun., solicitor, of 6,
Sise_lane, City.
" Sir,—Sir John Louis having delivered to me your reply
to the honourable message I sent you yesterday through
him, in which you decline either to fight or apologise, and
adopt moreover a tone of unexpected and barefaced denial,
the only recourse that remains open tome now is to announce
to you that I shall henceforth consider you as beneath the
notice of all who are ' gentlemen to the manner born,' and
the only inconvenience you need further apprehend from
me is a sound and wholesome flagellation, whenever and
wherever the chance of administering the same presents
itself, my only hope and prayer being that the desired op-
portunity may occur in the vicinity of clear and running
water, so that I may be enabled to cleanse my hands as
speedily as possible of that taint which must necessarily ac-
crue through contact with a snob, a liar, and a coward.--I
am, Sir,

" WM. BROWNRIGG LUMLEY, Major on the
Retired List of the Indian Army."
A pretty effusion that for an officer of the Indian army to
write, even though he was on the retired list and not in
active service. These wore the circumstances which Mr
Desborough, through him (Mr Wontner), had felt it his
duty to bring under his lordship's notice, conceiving that it
was not to be tolerated when a solicitor di t his duty in any
professional matter entrusted to him that a client was to
turn round and send letters to him of so insulting a charc•
ter. The first of these letters—viz , that containing a chal-
lenge—would subject the defendant to an indictment, and
the second was, to all intents and purposes, a slanderous and
libellous communication. He should put these letters and
the attendant circumstances in evidence, and would be
satisfied with any course which the Lord Mayor might
choose to adopt in the matter. _ _

Mr Laurence De•borough was called. He said—l am
a solicitor in Sise-lane, and a member of the firm of Des-
borough, Young, and Desborough, During the present
year I have been concerned in the conduct of a family
matter, in which Major Lumley was deeply interested, It

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resulted in the Major executing a deed by which a certain
annuity was secured, accompanied by the transfer of some
Cornish mining shares. Our bill of costs amounted, I
think, to £99 5s 10d., and it was forwarded to the Major in
due course. On the 19,11 December I received from Corn,.
wall a check on the Truro Bank for £2O. I had previously
in hand a small amount of £6 odd. Immediately on the
receipt of that cheek I wrote to the Mejor, and suggested
that I might as well place that sum to our account against
him, or rather I prep esed to do it if he had no objection.
On the following day, the 20th of December, I received a
letter from the Major, in which he objected to that
course, and on the 21st I wrote to him informing him
that as soon as the ch ck had been cashed in. Cornwall and
remitted to our bankers I would send him our check for
the amount. Oa the 21st the Mejor called on me at my
office in Sise-lane. I was out at the time attending a ward•
-
mote, and a few minutes after my return the Neje!. came
into my private office. He walked up to a table which was
between him and me, and said, " Sir, I demand my money."
I said I had not got his money. He replied, "You have
got my money; you have got £26 15s of mine." I told him
he had already had produced to him a copy of a letter writ-
ten to him explaining that I had not got the £2O, which
was the fact. He replied he did not care for that : I had
got his money and he would have it. My father, who
was present the whole time said, " Will you take a chair,
Major Lumley ?" He said in a loud tone, "No Sir, I will
not take a seat here; I will,have war to the knife; and in
reference to your bill of costs, sir, that you sent into me I
haze been advised by my solicitor (naming him) that no
bill of costs is due until ft has been taxed." My father re-
plied, "If you have been so advised it is nonsense." To
which I added, " Nor do I believe you have been so ad-
vised." The Major said, "Nor do I believe one word that
you say, and I give you further notice, that I intend to have
your bill taxed. But (he said), that has nothing to do with
the matter ; I have come here for my money and my money
I will have." I replied again and again that I had not got
his money, and, he as often reiters,ted,that had. then_.
rose from my chair and walked round the table and a chair
which had been between Major Lumley and me the whole
time, opened the room door and requested him to leave my
room. He did not go, although I requested him three times
to do so. I then put any hand upon his shoulder, and he
went out of the room. After he had gone I went directly
to the solicitor whose name he had mentioned, and found
Maj )r Lumley waiting to see him. On the Major leaving,
I saw the solicitor and learnt from him that the
Major was a stranger to him; that he had not seen
him before that occasion ; that he had never con-
sulted him on that or any other subject before,
and had apologised to him for using his name in the matter,
asking at the same time if there was anything more he
could say to apologise for having so done. I had taken from
my pocket a check, with the intention of saying to the soli-
citor that if he wished I would hand it to him, but finding
him a stranger to Major Lumley I left without saying any-
thing to him about the check. On the following day, Sir
John Louis called at my office, hut I was not in, and he did
not see me. On the next day Sir John Louis called again,
and produced the letter which was first read by Mr Wont-
ner in his opening statement. I said before I give an
ar swer I must ask Sir John a question—viz., whether he
came solely to take an answer back whether I would fight
or apologise, or, in other words, if he came as a " friend ?"
In that case, I said, I would be very simple; I would not
apologise, and I would not fight; but if Sir John was really
a friend of Major Lumley I would like him to hear all the
circumstances. He said he wished to hear them and I re-

latcd them to him. He said there were many circumstances
which Major Lumley had not told him, and he then left,
remarking that he had an appointment with Major Lumley
at 2 o'clock, and promising to communicate with me again.
On the next day (Saturday last) Sir John Louis came to my
office again, and presented me with another letter.
Mr Wontner—That is the second letter which I read,
and in which he splashes you with a lot of pretty epi-
thets ?
Witness—Precisely.
Did you make any reply to that letter ?
Witness—None whatever.
You then, I believe, applied for a warrant at this court
to have defendant apprehended, and it was granted ?
Yee.

From your knowledge of the Major's temper and bear-
ing do you go in apprehension of danger from him P—l
have not the slightest doubt that if Major Lumley were
to meet me he would carry his threats into execution if he
had the means of doing so.

At the present time, I believe, you aro suffering from a
severe of gout ?—Yes, I am.

Major Ltiudey, having declined to ask the witness any
question, explained that it was only within the previous two
hours that ha had had any notice of this proceeding, and
ha was therefore not then prepared to enter on his detente.
The Lord Mayor said the warrant, in reality, was issued
on Saturday, but that neither ha nor the complainant had
wished to inconvenience him on Christmas-day, and that
wis the reason why it 'had not been executed until that
morning.

Major Lumley said that was exceedingly considerate, but,
at the same time, he had not teen uffirded an opportunity
of taking legal advice, which he had wished to do. His
solicitors were out of town, as was also his principal wit-
ness, Sir John Louis. He found, too, that even his friends
at the various clubs who would have became bail for him
were also in the country ; and, under the circumstances, he
asked the Lord Mayor to remand the case until Friday, offer-
ing, at the same time, to eater into his own personal recog-
niz inces to appear again on that day. He wished it to he
understood, however, in the meantime, that he totally denied
the greater portion of the evidence which had been given,
ani he should be in a position to disprove it on a future day.
The Lord Mayor—You cannot deny writing the letters,
Major Lumley ?

➢iajor Lumley replied that that was a question with him,
and he asked whether if he admitted writing the letters he
could go on defending himself against the proceeding. He
hoped on the next occasion to have the advice and assistance
of eithe! Mr Sergeant Parry, Mr Sergeant Ballantine, or
Mr Sleigh.
The Lord Mayor said, under the circumstances, he would
adjourn the case until Wednesday, taking Major Lumley's
own recognisances in £250 to keep the peace towards Mr
Desborough, jun., in the meantime, and to appear there
again on that day.
Major Lumley declared on his word of honour that he
would do so. lie afterwards entered into the requisite re-
cognisances and left the court.

The System of Overstocking Cows.

IMPORTANT CONVICTION.

Mr Ealing Johnson, a cow dealer, of Syston, near Leices-
ter, appeared yesterday at Clorkenwell Police-court, to
answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the Proven-

Lion of Cruelly to Animals, which charged him with having
cruellyill-treated, abused, and tortured a cow, iticontravert-
tion of the statute 11th and 12th Vie., cap. 92, sec. 2.

Mr Ricketts, solicitor, with Mr Love, from the society,
by whom the case had been investigated, conducted the
prosecution ; and Mr Field appeared for the defence,
Mr Ricketts said the case was one of considerable im-
portance to cowkeepers and cattle dealers generally, whose
interest it more immediately affected, the prosecution being
directed against a practice in the trade which was fraught
with great inhumanity to the animal. He was glad, how-
ever, to observe that the practice had somewhat abated
among the more respectable class of dealers, but the so-
ciety was anxious to see it abolished altogether, being ad-
vised that it was unnecessary as well as cruel. The present
case was one of an aggravated character. The brief facts
which he (Mr Ricketts) intended to prove were these :
The day prior to that named in the summons, the defen-
dant brought or sent up a cow from Leicester, which was
heavy in calf. Upon its reaching London the cow was
taken to the lairs at the Cattle Market, and on the follow-
ing morning which was market day, the cow gave birth to
a calf at 4 o'clock. The morning was very cold add wet,
notwithstanding which, after the cow had calved, but be-
fore the operations of nature were completed, the cow was
driven into the market to be sold, and there exgosed to the
inclemency of the weather in the open market, It was kept
standing for hours, moaning rnd bleating, its calf kept
away from it, whilst its udder was distended to a most
unnatural siza, so much so that the teats were swollen
out ready to burst, and the milk running from
them, whilst, as though to aggravate its suffer-
ings, a calf was lying in front of it muzzled, and the
cow making efforts to raise it. In this state the cow was
seen by a number of persons cringing and twisting itself
about in great agony, its legs straddling on account Of the
extension of the udder, presenting at once a most cruel and
disgusting sight. The defendant, when appealed to by the
witnesses, treated their complaints with contempt and abuse
into the bargain, and persistently refused to relieve the cow
by milking it or by any other means. These were the facts
he (Mr Ricketts) was instructed to bring under his wor-
ship's notice, and if they were proved he had no doubt the
magistrate would consider it a case calling for asubatantial ,
penalty. lie wight only mention that the principal feature
in the case which this prosecution was directed against was
the overstocking.
Messrs Thomas Newman, William Wylde, and Charles
Fisher, City officers and inspectors of meat at the market,
were called, and their evidence bore out all the material
facts as stated in the opening of Mr. Ricketts.
Mr Arthur Cherry, veterinary surgeon to the Metropoli-
tan Police, stated that the exposure of a cow under the cir-
cumstances given in the evidence was calculated to produce
painful irritation and fever to the whole system, It was not
only an ill-advised act, but a most cruel one. With regard
to the overstocking, that of course was indicated by the die-
tension of the udder, and that alone would produce at all
times the most intense y4in to the animal. There could not

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be two opinions on the matter, abetfia,Abt c
a cow was most unfeeling and or j.
Mr Love said the motive. for ov6abokirt-gift,W M
found in the fact that it gave the aninK the Warw.° of
being a good milker, and so it would fetch more money.
The object was gain, and that alone,
Mr Rickstts said that was the case for the prosecution.
Mr Field, for the defence, contended that, assuming the

whole that had been stated to be true, there was no case
within the meaning of the act of Parliament. He referred
the words of the section under which the information had
been laid, and argued that, to bring a person within the
meaning of the statute, some overt act, some active it diction
of torture must be proved. Here there was none, withcut it
was the act of driving the cow 150 yards from the lairs to
the market. He should call witnesses, and ask for the dis-,
missal of the case against his client.
Two men in the defendant's employ were then called, and
i
endeavoured to show that every care had been taken of the
cow, and that there was no more cruelty in the cow stand.
ing, in the open market than in the lairs. They, Law,ver,
admitted that the calf was never put to end; the cow after
ten o'clock in the morning, at whitth time it was taken to
the calf market and sold. The calf spoken of by the side of
the cow belonged to some other animal.
Mr John Camp said he was a cowkeeper and dairyman,
residing in Arg3ll-strcet, Eurton-road, and saw the eon; in
question at eleven o'clock in the morning, wh..tri there was
nothing wrong with it; and notwithstanding all that hod
been stated by the witnesses, he saw no cruelty in the case
a'. all.

Mr Staveley, veterinary surgeon at the Cattle-market,
stated that he saw no opportunity in removing the cow into
the market so soon after it had calved. Under ordinary cir-
cumstances the cow could not suffer from it. Much, how
ever, would depend upon the temperature of the ph.ce from
whence the cow was brought.
Mr Ricketts stated that the lairs were roofed in as sheds,
and there was plenty of straw for the cattle to lie on.
Staveley said, with regard to the udder, if it was d's,
tended to the unnatural extent as stated by the witnesses,
from the milk, he must admit that there would be pain ;
but the distension did not always proceed from that cause.
It was sometimes a distension of the skin ( nly, orising from
some disorder beneath it, and that was unavoidable. He
did not examine the cow in question, and therefore could
not tell.

Mr Ricketts said the evidence tendered for the &fence
had clearly proved his case.

The magistrate said the case had been clearly made out
to his mind. Indeed, it was almost like two offences, for un-
.doubtedly tne cow suTeNlfrorn.beingss„xposed
in such weather, and in a mar"ket p,ao;;hich waa'weli
known to be one of the bleakest and most open spots round
London; and as to the overstocking, common sense might
almost tell one that it caused great pain and torture to the
animal. Mr Cherry's evidence was quite conclusive upon
that point, and Mr Staveley'a went to support it more than
anything else. He (the magistrate) knew that it was the
practice among a certain class of small cattle dealers and
jobbers to overstock their cows in order to effect a readier
sale. It, however, was a cruel practice, and could not be
permitted to continue. He should inflict a fine of £3, and
and in default of payment imprisonment would fjllow.
Mr Ricketts said there had been some expenses incurred
by the society and asked for costs.

The magistrate said that in addition to the fine defendant
wou'd have to pay £1 108 costs.

Mr Field said the question was one of vast importance to
the trade, and ho should advise his client to appeal against
the decision. He wished, however, for time to consult with
his client upon the expediency of the course. Ultimately it
was decided that notice of appeal should be given in 43
hours, or the fino should be paid.
The court was crowded with cattle dealers and others,
who appeared to attach much interest to the proceedings.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

Our Malta correspondent under date of the 20th
inst. announces the arrival at that place of her
Majesty's ship Wanderer, 41, Commander M. C.
Seymour, from the Pirmas, and of the surveying
vessel Firefly, Lieut.• Commanding G. R. Wilkin-
son, from Trapani, both on the 18th inst. Her
Majesty's ship Gibraltar, 81, Capt. J. C. Prevost,
left Malta on the 19th for Gibraltar.

The ironclad screw frigate Valiant, 24, 800 horse
power, having completed the usual trials of her
machinery, previously to its being received from
the hands of the contractors, Messrs. Mandalay,
Sons, and Field, is now being brought forward for
the first division of the Chatham steam reserve,
and will be attached to the squadron in the Medway,
under the orders of Capt. W.K. Hal], C.B Accord-
ing to existing orders the Valiant will remain in
the Medway until the ensuing spring, when she
will be sent round to one of the western dockyards,
probably Plymouth, where she will be docked. Her
bottom will be scraped and cleated preparmory
to
the new Ciibbarue mercurial anti-fouling coinpo;,i.
tion being applied to her hull, which is cow very
foul. She will afterwards be put through a series
of trials to test her steaming capabilities, in order
to enable the authorities to compare her rate of
speed with the sister ironclad frigate Hector. The
Valiant three she has been received over from the
contractors, the Thamrs Iron Shipbuilding Cur-. 1.•
pany, has had some important alterations tffectcd
in her rig, which is now more in keeping with a
vessel of her siza and character than her former
appearance aloft.

The ships of war on the Australian station at
the date of the last advices were the Harrier, 17,
ActingbCommander Swan, at Sydney (ordered
home) ; the Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins; the
Eclipse, 4, Commander Frcemantle; the Curacoa, 23,
Commodore Sir W. Wiseman; the Esk, 21, Acting.
Capt. Philmore ; the Falcon, 17, Commander Par•
kin, all at New Zealand ; and the Salamander, 4,
Commander the Hon. J. Carnegie, at Sydney.
Tho Duke of Somerset and Admiral Sir Fred.
Grey went down from London to Dartmouth espe•
cially to be present at the distribution of the prizes
to the cadets on board the Britannia training vessel,
Capt. R. H. Powell, C.B. When the different prizes
had been distributed, his Grace addressed the cadets
at some lergth and in very eloquent terms. The
following cadets, having completed their course of
instruction on board the vessel, were found qualified,
'on Tuesday last, for seagoing ships :—First class
certificates, with rating of midshipman, and months
sea time—F. Beauclerc, Admiralty prize for study,
Admiralty prize for French, priza for proficiency in
the use of nautical instruments, and prize for volun-
tary nautical astronomy ; W. S. Taylor, prize for
study and good conduct ; H, Barry, Admiralty priz
for seamanship, and prize for voluntary navigation ;
R. Findlay, prize for proficiency in navigation, and
prize for good conduct; W. Prothero, prize for pro-
gress in study and good conduct ; E. Gamble and F.
Snell, rating as master's assistant, and prize for pro.
gress in French ; R. Gresley and J. W. Reeve, prize
for seamanship and good conduct; H. V. Baker,
prize for good conduct Watcot, R. G. Craigie
F. Wyley and G. Fiimer, rating of master's assistant ;
A. Turner, C. Aylen, and H. Mackenzie, prize for
good condict; E. Chichester and Jas. Russel, prize
for good conduct. Second class certificates, with six
months' sea time—R. James, C. Aburthnot, C.
Streeten, andE. Jones. Prize for good conduct—C.
W. Stuart; with rating of master's-assist., F.Grassie,
W. C. Forsyth, and H.Dawson. Priz3 for drawing—
A.Rogers, J. Broadley,H.Savile. Prize for good con-
duct—E. Leab. Rating of master's-assist., and prize
for good conduct—E. Richmond. Prize for good
conduct—H. Wyatt. Admiralty prize for drawing.
—J. W. Brown. Rating of master's•assistant.—
C. Cochran, C. Spring, W. Almack, and C. C. Stuart,
Prize for good conduct.—W. Doveton and G. Long.
Third-class certificates.—G. Leckie, A. Stone, C.
Hicks, F. Ross, R. W. Stuart, and H. Henderson.

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