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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

money, but said he had left him two sixpences in
his pocket and some coppers, lest he should be des-
titute, and had assisted him to button up his clothes
which were buttoned awry. He then left him on the
walls of the town, and not being easy in his mind
about him had returned after his tea to look after
him, and after a search had found him lying near
the flagstaff, he having apparently fallen off the
wall. With some difficulty he got him on his back
and carried him across the country to the Cowpont
gate, and was obliged to rust two or three times as
ha went, and he then threw him down at Mrs. Da-
vidson's door, that she or some person passing
might see him, and watched near till he saw the
police take him away. This statement was taken to
the deceased and read over to him, and he in a dy-
ing declaration denied its truth, and said that the
injuries he had received were done by the prisoner
by kicks when tie robbed him, and alleging that the
prisoner " had murdered him right out." It was also
shown that the distance the prisoner said he had
carried the deceased was 640 yards and was over
very rough ground, with several walls and stiles and
ditches intervening. It was elicited that it was not
impossible for the prisoner to have carried the de-
ceased as stated, but very improbable.
For the defence the drunken state of deceased, as
proved by several witnesses, was urged as render-
ing his recollection of what had happened to him
not to be relied; on. His deposition was but the re-
collection ofa drunken man, and his dying declara-
tion was, in truth, but a copy of hisideposition, read
over to him, with an averment added to it by the
magistrate's clerk, that he believed he was dying
and had no hope of recovery, and assented to in
monosyllables by the deceased and signed by him.
It was unworthy of any credit as to the facts it
professed to describe. The prisoner's statement was
urged as likely to be true. He admitted the rob-
bery. It was unlikely he should have taken the man
to Airs. Davidson's door to rob him there, having
the solitude of the walls, where he could do it.
His statement that he left the deceased two six-
pences in his poaket and some copper was con-
firmed, also that he had buttoned the deceased's
dress awry. This would seem to show that the
drunken and helpless man had been robbed and left
as described by the prisoner, and that he was after-
wards found by him and carried to Mrs. Davidson's
door, where he left him. The injury to the spine in
all probability, from the strength of the part in-
jured, could only have been done by a fall on his
back on some stone, from some height, and this
might have happened to the deceased after he was
left alone, or when he was being carried across the
rough country to the Cowpontgate, and was lifted
helpless over the stiles, or when he was thrown
down at Mrs. Davidson's door-step. If the injury
of which he died were received in any of these ways
then it was not an injury inflicted by the prisoner
in the commission of a felony, and the jury must
acquit him, as the crime of murder was not esta-
blished.
His Lordship, in summing up, told the jury that
they must be satisfied that the violence which had
resulted in the death of the deceased was used in
committing the robbery; for although the prisoner
might not have intended to murder the deceased,
yet if death resulted from the violence used while
robbing him, that, by the law of England, was
murder, and they must find the prisoner guilty.
But if they were not satisfied of that on the evi-
dence they must acquit him.
The jury retired and, after a short absence, re-
turned with a verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then put on his trial on a charge
of robbery with violence. He admitted the robbery
but denied any violence. On this occasion he was
not defended, and after the patience of the Court
was much taxed by long and pointless cross-exami-
tions of the winesses by the prisoner, he was found
Guilty, and sentenced to six years' penal servitude.
The case occapied the day.

about five o'clock, the woman with the child went
to a wine merchant's at Uppingham, where she
bought some rum, whieh was given to her in a
bottle similar to that found in Mr. Finch's
grounds, and having the name of the wine mer-
chant, ". Compton, Uppingham," stamped upon it.
The prisoner was also near Uppingham in com-
pany with a woman and child about the same
time going in the direction of Oakham.
On the same evening, about midnight, a publican
at Oakham, named Fletcher, was standing at the
door of his house, and saw the prisoner, whom he
noticed because he supposed he might be in search
of a lodging, going along the Burley-road in the
direction of Mr. Finch's house, and a very short
distance from it. This witness, however, held not
seen the prisoner before, and when taken to identify
him was shown the prisoner alone in his cell. The
witness also on cross-examination denied that he
had told Mr. Garton, the governor of the gaol, that
he had not seen the man's face and could not iden-
tify him ; but on these points he was contradicted
by Mr. Garton. On the morning after the burglary
the stolen label was picked up on the Uppingham-
road, about 100 yards from Oakham ; and about
7 o'clock the same morning a man was observed
from a distance of 300 yards in a field in the parish
of Bidbrook, which is about seven miles from Oak-
ham and one mile from Uppingham, walking up
and down and apparently waiting for some one.
The man was dressed similarly to the prisoner ;
and on afterwards searching the place where he had
been walking about, the bead workbag, the elk-hoof
scent-bottle, the miniature case, and the agate cups
and spoons were found under a bramble bush,
covered with hedges. About three on the day fol-
lowing the prisoner went to the lodging-house at
Stamford from which his sister had. been previously
taken by the police, and, on learning that his sister
had been apprehended, went away. He was appre-
hended in Nottingham on the 29th of October, and
searched by the policeman, who felt in his pockets
but found nothing. He was then brought to Oak-
ham, and his clothes were taken off and emptied
on to a table which had been previously wiped clean
with a duster. On this occasion a bead similar in
' size to those upon the workbag and some little bits
of enamel were found in the pockets. It was also
noticed that the prisoner's coat sleeve was smeared
with paint, apparently corresponding with the
paint on the gate at the bottom of Finch's lane,
which was of a light lead colour, and had been
made in obedience to special directions from Mr.
Finch. The prisoner's boots were also examined,
and were stated by several witnesses to correspond
in length and breadth with the footmarks near the
library window ; but it turned out that Mr. Garton
had been round the house before the footsteps were
discovered, and it was not clear that the footsteps
spoken to by these witnesses were not the footsteps
of Mr. Garton, as there was nothing peculiar about
the footmarks in the shape of marks or nailprints
to distinguish them from the footmarks of any other
boot of a similar size. The wrench, iron bars, and
chisels found in the house and grounds were proved
to have been taken from a wheelwright's shop in the
Burley-road, facing Finch's-lane, which appeared to
have been entered on the night in question by some
one, who had removed the fastening upon the out-
side.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—NEWCASLE, Feb. 28
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
George Vass, 19, was charged with the wilful
murder of Mary Dochartv, on the Ist January last.
Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. Bruce ap-
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It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the prosecution, and from the
evidence of the witnesses called, that the deceased
was the wife of John Docherty, a tailor, Newcastle.
She was 50 years of age, and on the night of the
31st December last her husband having given her
3s. she was spending it in drink, when her hus-
band had some words with her about,it, and tried to
prevent her entering a publichouse to get more.
He left her and went home. Afterwards a man
named Henry Branscombe and three boys named
William Gillespie, John Bushaw, and John Nesbitt
saw the prisoner bringing the woman out of a pas-
sage called Stebley's-passage. He had hold of the
woman by the hair of her head and by the arm, and
took her to a street called the West-walls, where
she was heard to cry "murder." The prisoner
shouted, " Lie down, you -." She cried out,
" Oh, dear !" and lay down on his pushing her
down. At that time she had on a bonnet with red
ribands. He kicked her while she was down, and
Branscombe called out to him, what are you strik-
ing the woman for ? and the prisonar answered,
" I'll strike you, you -;" this witness then went
away. The boys remained, and saw the prisoner,
after kicking the deceased while she was down, pull
up her clothes and ravish her. She kicked about
with her legs, and the prisoner struck her over the
face, and the witness Gillespie called out to him,
" Vass, give' over ; you are killing the woman." The
prisoner replied with some coarse language. He
knew the prisoner before. The woman at the time
was very drunk. The prisoner then got up from
her, and the witness saw him begin to take the
clothes off the lower part of her body and strike
her several times on the face. The prisoner appeared
then to have left the deceased, and about 2 o'clock
on the morning of the Ist of January he appeared
to have gone home, where a young man named
George Story, another named Spencer, and another
named Connor were. He complained that he had
been fighting, and that his hands were bloody. On
these men leaving his home ho followed them, and
linking his arm in theirs, said, " Come along the
back walls and I'll take you to a woman. They
went to the back walls and saw a woman lying
dead, covered with a shawl. Story took the shawl
off her, and saw that her face was covered with
blood ; as she did not move he said to the others,
" She is dead." Her hand was cold. The prisoner
went and leant against a wall and did not speak.
They then sought for a policeman, and told the pri-
soner he had better wash his hands if he had been
fighting. The prisoner then went away. William
Tate, a police-constable, having been found, went
to the body, and found it lying dead twenty
yards from Elliott's-corner, on the back, in the
carriage-way. The clothes were all torn off. Her
legs and breast were bare and dirty, and she had
nothing on her head. Her face was covered with
blood, and he noticed blood on the ground. Her
hair was matted with blood and dirt, the ground
was all paddled about, and there was a quantity of
blood, as if a struggle had taken place. A shoe, a
torn apron, and a piece of a woman's dress were
found near where the body was. The prisoner was
then taken into custody, and accounted for finding
the woman by saying he was going that way and
fell over her. He could not account for his bloody
hands. A post mortem examination of the body of
the deceased showed that her hair was matted with
blood and cinder-dirt, her face completely disfigured
and her nose flattened, and the body generally be-
grimed with dirt. There was a contused wound
over the right hip bone. On examining the head
there was a suffusion of blood under the scalp, and
part of the scalp at the back of the head was de-
tached. The brain was much congested and there
was fluid in the ventricles. The liver was ruptured
by violence. A succession of kicks might have done
it. There was black blood also suffused over the
intestines. The vagina had about a teaspoonful of
cinder-dirt in it. The bones of the face were
smashed in. The clothes of the prisoner had been
examined and there were stains of blood upon them.
ravTishheeddeafenndcelerfatitsheedrwe asanthdatththaet wthoemianniuhraieds shebeen
nut eustat. a had probably e0....d by a car-
riage-wheel going over her, and that her death was
consistent with there having been no murder at all.
His lordship having summed up the evidence,
The jury retired, and after au absence of 20
minutes returned with a verdict of guilty.
His lordship, having put on the black cap, pro-
ceeded in a very impressive manner to pass the
awful sentence of death on the prisoner in the usual
form, holding out to him not the slightest hope of
mercy.
This case and a charge of rape against a man
named Patrick Manion, aged 21, who, between 5
and 6 on New Year's-morning committed a rape on a
respectable married woman, who had gone from her
mother's house in Brixton-street, Newcastle, to seek
her husband, and who was ravished in a most brutal
manner in the streets of Newcastle, occupied the
day. The prisoner Manion was found guilty, and
sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for the term
of his natural life.

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Mr. Justice Willes opened the commission here
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10 o'clock this morning.
John Taylor and John Grant were indicted for
setting fire to a stack at Rhyall, the property of
William Wright.
Mr. Palmer appeared for the prosecution.
The prisoners, who had been seen about the vil-
lage begging before the fire brought out, admitted
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accidentally. The stack was discovered to be on
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return with him,which after a short he3itation they
did. They were then given into the custody of a
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peated this statement several times. Some soap, a
few rags, a book, and Lucifer match were found on
them.
The prisoners, on being called upon for their de-
fence, said that, being in a miserable condition, in
total want of food, and without decent clothing, in
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mit any number of acts of arson with impunity,
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William(
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gre.d Justice
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charged with the
wilful murder of Thomas Hamilton, at Berwick-
upon-Tweed, on the let of November last.
Mr. R. Fowler and Mr. Greenhow appeared for
the prosecution ; and Mr. Campbell Foster (at the
request of the learned Judge) defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the prosecution, and from the evi-
dence of the various witnesses called, that the de-
ceased man, Thomas Hamilton, was a farm labourer
with a farmer named Grey, near Berwick, and about
50 years of age. He left Mr. Grey's at Martinmas,
and on the let of November went to Berwick, and
there met with the prisoner. At that time he had a
silver watch and about 10s. in money upon him.
About 4 o'clock in the atternoon he was met by a
person named Dixon, who knew both him and the
prisoner, walking down Hyde-hill, Berwick, towards
the Nag's Head. At that time he was drunk, and
the prisoner was leading him by the arm. They went
into the Nag's Head, and each had a glass of whisky,
and were then seen going towards the walls of the
ramparts, on which there is a walk, by a man named
Young—the deceased very drunk, and Young ad-
vised the prisoner to put deceased with his back
against the wall. The prisoner said they had not
far to go, and pulled the deceased along. About 7
o'clock Mrs. Ellen Davidson, who lives near the
Cowpont-gate in the walls of the town, and who has
a warehouse in the gateway, crossed the road to her
warehouse. It was then moonlight. She heard a
voice as of trampling and struggling, and a cry of
distress, and looking towards whence it came saw a
man in the act of falling near her door, and a little
man, who resembled the prisoner, running in the di-
rection of the town. A woman named Conolly was
at that time coming down that street, a few minutes'
walk from Mrs. Davidson's house, when she was run
against by the prisoner, whom she knew, and whom
she asked if he had been fighting, or if any one was
in pursuit of him. He told her the bailiffs were
after him, and she was to " keep dark," and said he
would give her a glass. He pulled out of his pocket
a silver watch and some silver, and looked among it
and said he had not a sixpence or a shilling—they
were all 2s. pieces. The police on being sent for by
Mrs. Davidson found the deceased lying near the
doorstep, drunk, and his legs apparently paralyHis trousers were found buttoned awry, two sed.
six-
pences in his pocket, and some copper. He was
carried to the police-office and then to the dispen-
sary,iow vesetrtdeobrrsa:
his eyes were blackened, that the lower part of his
and there on examination it was found that
body and perineum were much discoloured, as if by
kicks, and there 'has a contusion on the lowest dor-
salhis legs were paralysed. From this fact it was con-
cluded that the spinal cord was injured, and a sub-
sequent:
vertebrae
gave the deceased great pain ;
post mortem examination showed that the
placed, pressing
on
in his back and pull:
the spinal narrow. The evidence
of Mr. linker the surgeon, was that this injury was
most likely to'have arisen from a fall, and not from
a kick. It might have arisen from putting a knee
was forced
violently inwards and dis •
cus-
tody, and made a
with robbery with violence, statementprisoner was taken into
declared to be false, backward on
andwas
s which he afterwards
been robbed of his watch and three sedeceased having
thethe evidence charged
down and kicked him on the loins an k
or four florins,
and charging the prisoner with having
dn obcakeekd
ahimnd
lower part of hie person, and robbed him.
The dying de-
ceased got so seriously ill that his
declara-
tion, embodying the facts previously deposed to by
the deceased, was taken, and on the 25th of De-
cember last he died from the injuries he had re-
ceived to the spine. Before his death the prisoner
made a statement to the gaoler, which was taken
down in writing, in which he confessed
that he had robbed the deceased of his watch and

After a long and patient investigation the jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was
sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
These three cases comprised the whole of the
basiness at these assizes. There was one civil cause,
and the defendant came with his witnesses pre-
pared to try it, but the plaintiff's courage seems to
have failed him at the last moment, and the cause
was not entered.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey left his late
official residence in Portsmouth Dockyard at 7 30
on Friday morning. The whole of the resident offi-
cers and others, with the various workmen em-
ployed in the yard, assembled, and formed a con-
tinuous line from his residence to the east sate.
The officers and men of the metropolitan police off
duty, with their superintendent, Mr. Guy, formed
up opposite the police residence at Factory-gate.
The convict warders and civil guard also assembled
in front of the convict prison, and all joined in
giving the Admiral a hearty cheer as he passed
through the yard. The folio ‘,

been previously received by the gallant Admiral :
" Portsmouth Dockyard, Feb. 27, 1863.

This case excited great interest in the county, the
Rev. Mr. Finch, the vicar of Oakham, being well
known as the possessor of many rare and valuable
medals, coins, and other curiosities, a great number
of which were carried off on the occasion in ques-
tion. The Rev. H. Finch lives in a house which
stands just outside the town of Oakham, one en-
trance to which lies through a short lane, called
Finch's-lane, leading out of a street called the
Burley-road. The ground floor of the house consists
of a double hall, a dining-room, drawing-room, and
library en suite, and a room in which the man ser-
vant usually sleeps, whose custom it was to bolt
himself in, leaving the key of the door in the lock
on the outside. On the morning after the burglary,
Oct. 25, the housemaid on coming downstairs found
the dining room in confusion, and on calling the
man servant, discovered that he was locked up in
the room in which he slept. She let him out, and
together they examined the dining and drawing
rooms and library, and found indisputable signs that
these rooms had been ransacked by some one in the
course of the night. On examining the house it was
discovered that it had been entered by the library
window, the shutter of which had been forced, an d
on searching the garden there were found a few yards
from that window an iron bar, a wrench, and an
empty bottle. stamped with the words—" Compton,
Uppingham," and which appeared from the smell
to have contained rum. It was also observed that
thero was a mark on a gate at the bottom of Finch's-
lane, leading to the house, which had been re-
cently painted, as if some one had rubbed his sleeve
against it. Some cotton and lucifer matches were
discovered in a field a little distance from the house,
and some footmarks, two of which were distinct,
were found in the neighbourhood of the library
window. There were two little dogs in the house
on the night in question, one of which slept near
the room in which the man-servant was locked up ;
but no one heard either of them give any alarm. In
the house were found some chisels, which appeared
to have been used to force open the boxes and
caskets containing the property which was carried
off. Among the articles were a bead work-bag, an
elk's•hoof scent bottle, a miniature case, some agate
cups and spoons, a silver label, and a mother-of-
pearl shuttle. There was also taken a gold snuff-
box covered with enamel, which had been presented
to Lord Hampden 30 or 40 years ago, when am-
bassador at Turin, and which Mi. Finch had been
in the habit of using, but which he had laid by for
some time because the enamel had begun to chip off.
This snuff-box, with the remainder of the articles
taken, has never been recovered. On examining
into the prisoner's movements previously to and
after the night in question, it was proved that the
prisoner came to a lodging-house at Oakham,
ac-
companied by his sister and a child, on the 16th of
October; that he gave his name as Timothy Jen-
kins, a shoemaker, and remained there two days.
The night before the burglary he was at a lodging-
house at Stamford with the woman and child, and
left on the following morning, the 24th, about 10
o'clock. The woman returned to the house with
the child on the evening of the next day ; but the
man never came back. On the evening of the 24th,

" To REAR-ADMIRAL THE HON. GEORGE GREY.

" Hon. Sir.—On retiring from your command as supe-
rintendent of this yard, eve, the workmen, take this oppor-
tunity of expressing our deep appreciation of the kindness
we have at all times receivedat your hands. We feel assured
that you have on all occasions studied our comfort and con-
venience, with a strict regard to the benefit of the service.
" The great advantages conferred upon us and the service
by the erection of the new and commodious'dining-hall'
are such as to elicit our warmest expression of gratitude.
" In conclusion, we regret that the time of separation
has arrived, but it is our sincere wish and desire that you
may be long spared to:fill similar :important situations of
public trust.
" Signed on behalf of the workmen of all branches in the
yard."
Rear-Admiral Sir Robt. Smart's squadron sailed
from Spithead at 5 30 on Friday evening for the
Downs to await the arrival of her Royal Highness
the Princess Alexandra at the Nore. The fleet con-
sists of the flagship Revenge, 73, Captain C. Fel-
lowes ; the Warrior, 40, iron-plated frigate, Capt.
Hon. A. Cochrane; the Black Prince, 40, iron-
plated frigate, Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright ; the
Defence, 18, Capt. A. Phillimore ; and the Resis-
tance, 16, Capt. W. C. Chamberlain. The fleet
left Spithead by the East Channel under steam
only, the Revenge leading. They will return to
Spithead by the 9th. The Emerald, 34, screw,Capt.
A. Cumming, sailed from Spithead yesterday to
join the squadron. It is stated that the squadron,
after escorting the Princess to England, will return
to Spithead, and on the day of the Royal marriage
be dressed out in coloured bunting, and at 1 p.m.
fire, in company with the ships in the harbour and
batteries on shore, a Royal salute. At 8 p.m. yards
will be manned, blue lights burnt at each yard arm,
and another Royal salute fired bythe whole squadron.
The Spiteful, 4, paddle, Commander C. F. W.
Wilson, arrived at Spithead from Bermuda with
naval stores and a few invalids and sailed again yes-
terday for Woolwich. She sailed from Bermuda on
the 6th February.
The Meg era, 6, steam troopship, Commander S.
H. Henderson, arrived at Spithead at 6 30 on Fri-
day evening from Guernsey, with the remainder of
the 2d battalion 18th Foot and a battery of the
Royal Artillery and women for Parkhurst and the
Royal Artillery for Woolwich.
The iron plated ship Royal Oak, 34, 800 horse
power, in dry dock at Chatham, is filling up with
her sea and other stores as fast as they can be put
on board. Sails were bent yesterday, and from the
energy which is being displayed by the swarm of
mechanics, shipwrights, joiners, and labourers who
crowded her decks there is no doubt that she will be
ready for undocking by the middle of this month—
the period anncucced in the House of Commons by
the Secretary of the Admiralty. It would, however,
be useless to conceal the fact that several weeks, if
not months, must yet elapse before the Royal Oak
can be anything like readp to be despatched on her
experimental cruise, as there is yet a vast amount
of work remaining to be executed on board before
she is in her sea trim. Under the eye of an experi-
enced:and energetic officer there is little doubt that
much greater progress would be made in the work
of fitting and completing the Royal Oak than is
possible under the existing
Capt. F. A. Campbell, who has been appointed
dockyard regulations.to
the command of the first of our iron cased aquad ron,
bears a deservedly high character in the service,
and is just the officer to superintend
a vesselintendev aser theythinre-
lating to the fitting out of such Royal
Oak. Unfortunately, however, although virtually
appointed to that frigate some 10 days or a fortnight
since, he has not yet taken the command, and it still
• seems uncertain when the Royal Oak will be com-
missioned. The principal work remaining to be
completed on the upper or fighting deck is the con-
struction of the shot-proof turret, or reconnoitring
tower, to be used by the officer in charge of the
vessel when the ship is in action. The position of
the turret is about mid-distance between the iron
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an opening from the main deck. The form of the
turret is elliptical, and it is intended to construct it
of sufficient strength to resist the effect of any shot.
The inner skin of the turret, or " conning" tower,
is composed of sheet iron 9-16ths of an inch in thick-
ness, and firmly rivetted together. On these is laid
the teak planking, 9in. in thickness, the whole of
the exterior being cased with 41in. armour plates of
the same thickness as those used in encasing the
outside of the frigate. Ti►e first of the plates for the
tower was got on board on Friday, having been bent,
planed, drilled, and polished in the factory. The
plate operated upon was one of the ordinary 41-in.
4 ton armour plates in store at Chatham Dock-
yard, and considerable interest was attached to
the process of bending it to the required shape,
from the circumstance of the whole question relating
to the present system of bending and preparing the
armour-plates for ships of war being just now under
the consideration of the Iron Plate Committee. The
plated used was one of the rolled kind, from the
establishment of Messrs. Beale and C0.,0f the Park-
gate Ironworks, Derbyshire. The shape to which
the slab was bent was that of the large arc of an
ellipsis. This was accomplished by means of a new
description of plate-bending machine fitted at Chat-
ham, the invention of Mr. Armstrong, who is em-
ployed on the iron-frigate Achilles,and under whose
superintendence the plates for that vessel are being
bent. It this instance the plate waa heated to a
"black" heat, and afterwards placed in the press,
when by means of the hydraulic ram the required
bend was given it. A minute examination of the
plate on its being removed from the machine failed
to detect any rupture of the fibres of the iron, and,
to all appearance, the plate was in every respect as
sound as before it was operated upon. The slab
was afterwards planed, drilled and smoothed, and
to-day it will be bolted to the exterior of the
turret.

Lord Lovelace (the Lord LieutenVAof.
lck
Surrey),co
G,oorsegne-:
with the High Sheriff and the fou'r 31It Parl
A
tary representatives of the county (.
Mr. Locke King, Mr. Briscoe, and
Cubitt), and by the Lord Mayor and the &hex. of
London and Middlesex, the whole pageant up to
that point being composed probably of not mot e
than a dozen carriages. At the south end of Lon-
don-bridge, where the civic jurisdiction begins, the
cavalcade will receive an enormous accession and.
in its passage thence to Temple-bar, the western
confines of the city, it will perhaps be more inter-
esting as a spectacle than in any other part of
route. On London -briage the Royal Reception.:
Committee and the rest of the Corporation, w
the Court of Lieutenancy and the governing bodies,
of the principal livery companies, numbering up•
wards of 300 persons in all, will be waiting to con-
duct the Princess through the city, and the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs taking the places assigned them
there, the cortege will then proceed on its way. The
civic dignitaries will wear their robes
ill
ahpapeadgersoffice,of office, and the Court of Lieutenancy il
in uniform. The Masters and 'Wardens of the
livery companies in open carriages, each drawn by
four horses, with postillions wearing the colours of
the respective bodies, will lead the way ; the banners
of each of the companies being borne before their
different representatives. The deputation from the
Lieutenancy will follow in open equipages; then
the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex ; the Lord
Mayor in his private state carriage, drawn by six
horses; and then the members of the Courts of
Aldermen and Common Councilmen in carriages.
In something like this order the Prince and Prin-
cess, with the rest of the Royal party, will be
escorted to Temple-bar, by way of King William-
street, the Mansion-house, and Cheapside, thence
round the south side of St, Paul's Cathedral, and
onward by Ludgate-hill and Fleet-street. The
details of the pageant, so far as the Corporation of
London is concerned, are not yet settled, but the
principal features in it have been indicated. At
Temple-bar the civic authorities will resign the
post of honour to the Duke of Buccleueh, as Lord
High Steward of the city of Westminster, who
with the Dean and Chapter, the High Bailiff, the
members of the Ancient Court of Burgesses, and
other representative bodies of the citizens, will con-
duct their Royal Highnesses to the entrance to
Hyde Park, by way of Pall-mall, St. James's-street,
and Piccadilly, the Corporation of London, headed
by the Lord Mayor, with the Court lof Lieutenancy,
bringing up the rear.
In the city the Volunteer force will form a con-
spicuous feature in the ceremony. The old Artillery
Company will be drawn up in front of Adelaide-
place and Fishmongers'-hail, at the north end of
London-bridge, with a battery facing the bridge
from King William's statue. In the open space in
front of the Mansion-house, the whole of the Lon-
don Rifle Brigade are to be massed, stretching
across from the Bank of England to the corner of
Lombard-street. Another of the city corps
will be grouped between St. Martin's-le-Grand
and the Peel monument, at the top of Cheapside ;
and a third will occupy the vacant ground at the
junction of Cannon-street with St, Paul's-church-
yard. In all cases the Volunteer corps will be pro-
tected by barriers from the pressure of the crowd
from behind. It is probable that some of the Surrey
Volunteers will be placed at salient points of the
route in Southwark, and that the Westminster
corps may do similar duty in Trafalgar-square.
It is understood that none but the Royal car-
riages will enter the long quadrangle in which
the Volunteers will be drawn up in the park. The
corps, which are ordered to be on the ground not
later than two o'clock, will be formed in two double
lines, facing inwards, each line four deep and 40
paces apart, to allow room for the staff of the brigade
and divisional generals in front. These double lines
will extend across the open ground from the back of
the Achilles statue to the Marble Arch. Up to
Saturday evening the numerous corps had received
the sanction of the 'War-office to take part in the
demonstration, but of course a very considerable
number of additional applications will be received
in the course of to-day, so that the total number on
the ground on Saturday will probably exceed 16,000.
The Royal carriages will simply pass along be-
tween the lines, receiving a Royal salute, and, issu-
ing forth at the Marble Arch, will be followed by
the rest of the cavalcade towards Paddington. Not
much has yet been undertaken by the Great
Western authorities at the Paddington station,
but with the immense staff at their disposal two or
three days would be ample to effect all that is re-
quired even for an occasion like the present. At
Slough, and along the road to Windsor, the prepara-
tions are all well advanced, while in 'Windsor itself
it is intended to illuminate both on the night of the
arrival and the wedding.

The following appointments were made on Thurs-
day at the Admiralty :—John A. P. Williams, as-
sist.-paymaster, supernumerary to the Victory;
Ronald Taylor, in the Marlborough, confirmed as
engineer ; W. Roberts, first-class assist. engineer to
the Indus, for the Forth ; and Robert Hall, second
class assist engineer, to the Defence.
The following appointments were made on Fri-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. T. Key, flag lieut.
to Rear-Admiral G. Elliott, superintendent of Ports-
mouth dockyard; Lieut. St. Vincent Lake, to the
Wellesley; Lieut. W. L. Martin, to the Formidable;
W. D. Jeans, secretary to Admiral Sir M. Seymour,
K.,C.8., Commander-in• Chief at Portsmouth; S. G.
Robinson, paymaster, Henry S. Ray, and F. Le B.
Bedwell, assist. paymasters, and F. L. M. Dyer,
clerk, to be secretary's clerks to Sir M. Seymour ;
Charles Mackern, assist. paymaster to the Indus ; H.
S. B. Giles, assist. paymaster to the Pembroke.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Francis W. Prosser
and Lieut. T. H. Royse to the Cornwallis ; Lieut,
A. Buller, Lieut. E. W. Hereford, and Lieut. E.
Rice to the Excellent ; Lieut. T. V. Williams to the
Racoon ; Lieut. S. W. James to the Blenheim; W.
Hewlett, master, to the Indus for the Valorous;
and Walter H. Worsfold, master, to the Fisgard,
for the Archer.