The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

An Irish Breach of Promise Case.

At the Antrim assizes, on Saturday and Monday,
Baron Fitzgerald and a special jury were engaged
in hearing a breach of promise case. The plaintiff,
Miss Jane Marian Shallow, was a milliner at New-
castle, in the county Down. The defendant, Mr.
James Savage, a widower, was much older than the
plaintiff. He was a coal and timber merchant,
residing at Newry. He became acquainted with
her in the year 1860, and an attachment springing
up between them, he professed himself to be a de-
voted lover. At last their marriage was fixed
for the 17th of June, 1861. In consequence of
this the plaintiff was induced to sell off the greater
portion of her business, as defendant assured
her he was worth £7,000 or £B,OOO, and, therefore,
there would be no need for her to continue it.
When the 17th of June arrived the defendant
backed out from fulfilling the engagement
, then, on
the ground of ill health, though it didn t appear to
be very serious. September was next named for
the interesting ceremony, but once more he de.
chleirneadp,paentidte,
appetite,
indulged inmiantdtueirofcourse,the plaintiff lost
nothing
but crying
and fretting—indeed, her mother stated that for
four months she hardly came down from her bed-
room• Iviieo asked why he had bought her the
,6 wedding dress," he denied he had done so.
lie was a sporting man, and as one of his
withdog s
bad won a wager, he presented the plaintiff • a
new dress on the occasion. One of the strongest
pi proofs that he really was courting the • ;.ct ainti.: was
the fact that, during a comparatively short time, he
sent her 200 letters. Most of them were of a very
prosaic and insipid character. However, in one or
two he described his tender love for her "as being
like a lava flood that burns in the breast of Elna's
flames." This burning sensation must have soon
gone off, as he forsook the plaintiff and married
juran-
other lady. The
guineas, though she hady awarded the plaintiff 100
estimated the outrage on
her feelings at £3,000.

SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AT A CRICKET MATCH.—
Yesterday Captain Stewart, of the 2d Life Guards,
met with a serious accident while engaged in a match at
cricket in the barrack-field at Woolwich, between the
Household Brigade and the Royal Artillery. Captain
Stewart, in attempting to catch a short ball from the
wicket, fractured the middle finger of his left hand, which
was also severely lacerated. He was taken to the Royal
Artillery Infirmary, where the wounded hand was care-
fully attended to, and, being informed that amputation
would be necessary, he was removed to London at his own
request. Captain Taswell, R.A., was also severely wounded
in the same match. The ball struck him with terrible force
between the eyes, and for a moment it was feared that the
blow was fatal. The sufferer will, it is stated, bear traces
of the wound through life.

GRANITE CYST FOR THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT
AND THE QUEEN.—A stone has been successfully
cut from the Cairngall Granite Quarry at Peterhead, which
is to form a tomb for Prince Albert—on a smaller scale, but
on the same principle as the tomb of Napoleon at Paris—
being placed on the floor of the vault, and not underground.
The stone is ten feet long by about seven broad, and three
and a half deep; and it is to be cut into a sort of sarco-
phagus, to rest in a pedestal. Two cysts are to be cut in
the stone for the insertion of coffins and lids left to be
cemented down, The body of the late Prince is to occupy
one cyst ; and we believe it is the express wish of her Ma-
jesty that her own remains shall be deposited in the other.
The obtaining of this stone has been a work of extreme
difficulty—one or two fine blocks having been already re-
jected for flaws. The stone weighs übove 18 tons, and will
at once be conveyed to Mr. ilacdonald's establishment in
Aberdeen, to be dressed and polished.—Peterhead / Sentinel.
Several of the French journals state that the ie...
auguration of the statue of Napoleon as a Roma,
Emperor on the column of the Place Vendome has been
postponed to the 15th October next, and that the statue to
be removed will be placed on the Rond Point of Courbevoie,
at the spot where the mortal remains of the Emperor were
landed on the banks ot the Seine.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Lords of the Admiralty at present at Ports-
mouth, comprising the Duke of Somerset, ii.G.,.Sir
F. Grey, 1i.C.8„ Rear-Admirals Eden and Paget,
and Capt. Drummond, landed at the new landing
stairs of Portsmouth dockyard from the Admiralty
yacht Enchantress at 10 a.m. yesterday, where they
were joined by Rear-Admiral S. Robinson, Control-
ler of the Navy, and Col. Greene, R.E., Director of
Works, Mr. Malialieu, Superintending Inspector of
the dockyard metropolitan police, and other officials,
Immediately after landing, the Board, with the ex-
ception of the Controller, who remained behind in
the dockyard, entered carriages in waiting, and pro-
ceeded to Fort Cumberland to inspect the Royal
Marine Artillery stationed there, and to the new
barracks at Eastney, about a mile distant from Fort
Cumberland, and midway between Fort Cumberland
and Southsea Castle, to inspect the extensive range
of barracks which is now in process of erection as
the head-quarters of the Royal Marine Artillery.
The inspection at Fort Cilmberland was conducted
in the usual mannar, and the appearance of the men
on parade and in the batteries, as well as the pro-
ficiency displayed by them in the details of their
various duties, met with the highest praise. In
their visit to the new barracks at Eastney the ge-
neral plan, and progress of the works were explained
to their Lords by Col. Greene, R.E., and Mr.
Woods, C.E., Superintending Civil Engineer of
Portsmouth dockyard and the adjacent district.
£68,000 was the original total estimate for this
work, £B,OOO being for the purchase of land, and
the remaining £60,000 for building the barrack.
£47,000 was voted for the work previous to the
passing of the Naval Estimates for 1863.4, and
on the introduction of those estimates an ad-
ditional £20,000 was asked for and passed.
Revised Estimates are promised in the Naval
Estimates for 1864-5 relative to this work, whey no
doubt the original total estimate of £65,090 will be
found insufficient for the due completion of the
whole, and an additional sum asked. That portion
of the barracks designed for the married men's
quarters is nearly completed, no accommodation of
the kind existing in the present headquarters of the
corps at Fort Cumberland.
At about 1 p.m. their lordships returned to Ports-
mouth and embarked on board the Enchantress for
luncheon, after which they crossed to Gosport and
inspected the Royal Marine Light Infantry at For-
ton and the gunboat sheds and slipway at Haslar.
Under the sheds at Haslar are five gunboats build-
ing on an improved model. In the same place are
42 of the old class, which have cost thousands of
pounds in repair to their hulls, which are now more
than suspected of being rotten from stem to stern.
In the evening the Duke of Somerset and other
Lords of the Admiralty, with the Controller of the
Navy and other officers, were entertained at dinner
at the Admiralty-house by Vice-Admiral Sir M.
Seymour, G.C.8., and afterwards patronised the
ball in aid of the funds of the Seaman's and Ma-
rines' Orphan Schools, at the King's Rooms, South-
sea.

The inspection of the dockyard by the Board will
take place this morning. Yesterday Rear-Admiral
Robinson visited the Orontes, screw troopship, the
Hector. iron frigate, and the Racoon, corvette.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday in her Majesty's steam yacht
Fairy, accompanied by Major Cowell, R.E. His
Royal Highness, who wore his uniform and sword
as a lieutenant in her Majesty's navy, had arrived
from Osborne expressly to attend the funeral of a
seaman-gunner late belonging to the Racoon (the
Prince's ship), named William Keyer, aged 22
years, who was killed by falling from the foretop
of the Racoon on the 31st of July- On his return
from the funeral the Prince immediately re-embarked_
on board the Fairy, and returned to Osborne.
On the Fairy's first arriving in the harbour from
Osborne the Prince went on board the Enchantress,
and paid his respects to the Lords of the Admiralty.
Some very interesting testing of English and
French manufactured armour-plates took place at
Portsmouth on Tuesday and Wednesday last, under
the superintendence of Capt. Astley C. Xey, C. 8.,
commanding her Majesty's gunnery ship Excellent,
the practice against the plates being carried on in
the usual manner, with a solid castiron shot, fired
with 16ib of powder from a 95cwt 68. pounder, at
200 yards distance, the plates being bolted on the
sides of the Thunder target-ship. The plates were
four in number, and comprised two manufactured
by Messrs. Petin Gaudet and Co., of France ; one
of 51in thickness of metal, 15ft 7in in length, and
3ft 4in in breadth, and the other of 4iin of metal,
and of the same length and breadth as the 42in
plate. The third /gate was a; 51-in, from _the Mill-
wall Iron Works, for the Agincourt, 15ft 7in in
length, and 3ft 5-}-in in breadth ; and the fourth was
a slin bent plate for the Royal Sovereign's turrets,
from Messrs. Beale's, of the Parkgate Works, York-
shire. Messrs. Beale's plate, the Millwall, and the
French 4-1-111 were tested on Tuesday, the French
53in being reserved for trial on the following day.
The Millwall plate received 11 shots, and was very
severely tried by overlapping shots at either end,
but stood the test splendidly, and was considered a
plate of very superior quality. The small cracks
exhibited by the overlapping shot blows were very
insignificant, The metal of which the plate was
built was evidently of very good quality, and
its manafacture was excellent. Messrs, Beale's
plate was not quite so good. It showed a
number of small cracks and an inclination to open
from the back—in fact the weakness generally ex-
hibited by " bent" plates, whether bent from the
rolls or by an after process. Still, it was anything
but an inferior plate. Messrs. Petin Gaudet's
turned out, as had been anticipated, from its evi-
dent carelessness of manufacture, very unsatisfac-
tory indeed, and failed in all the conditions of con-
tract as relating to its shot-resisting powers. The
metal was allowed to be good, but its manufacture
was execrable. When examined at the close of the
firing, its welding was found ito be most imperfect.
It had the appearance of being a rolled plate, and
rolled 44in. plates are generally finished by placing
four nin. layers of iron, carefully cleared from all
mitt or oxyde, together, and then rolling the 10in.
mass down to the required 4-1-in. The separation of
these four layers in the French plate disclosed the
'act that
no care had been taken in cleaning the
surfaces of the four layers of iron, and consequently
Perfect adh •
impos-
sible. co adhesion under the rolls was simply
Adrairaltyral!ared with the 41-in. plate supplied to
On Tiletiday Petin Gaudet and Co., the one tested
of Tuesday,: avaatlY inferior character. The result
in the trials placed the three plates tested
following,s;7lrder
for Agincourt :—No. 1, Millwall Company,
Sove-
reign, siin.; No, 3,
2, Beale, for Royal a
full allowance being Petin Gaudet and Co.,
tion for the extra inch
made in this classifica-
plates. No. 3 received .of metal in Nos. 1 and 2,
in all 15 shots,
distributed, three being edge pretty well
spots overlapping. No. idblowa, and in two
an indent of 2 1-10 in., and ha
era diameter of 9in.,
indent. No. 2 had an indent ack ein. across the
of tin. and
Bin. long. No. 3 and 7 just impinged in
the a crack
cir-
cumference of their indents upon each other, the and
or,
opened cracks 12in. and 6in. long. No.
over
lapped No. 2 4in., and drove the plate's frac-
tured part in a circular form within the -
in-
dents into the ship's side 4 6-10 in ~ or beyond
the plate's back. No. 10 overlapped upon
2 and 5 (the last mentioned), aua broke
the plate further into the ship's side, the area of
the fracture being 16in. by 10io., measuring from
centre of each blow, in a triangular form, oin. at
.
the base by 6iti. each No. 13 was also attended
with bad results for the plate's reputation, the shot
striking full on the plate in its centre, near its upper
the metal away considerably to
edge, and breaking
rs Petin Gaudet's 51-in. plate
the upper edge. Mess .
yesterday was tested slowly and carefully, and
mphant manner
came out of the trial in a most trio d
it on full
—in a manner, in fact, which place
shotslat t riedhe
terms of equality with the Mill
in all. Thet
day previous. ft received 17
welding that
laminations showed the same faulty
exhibited • and the
the 41in. of the previous day
no. to the
success of the plate was undoubtedly owi
superior quality of the iron, and not to its Manu-
facture.. The trial of these French plates again
prove that the production of a good armour-plate i 5