The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

Won by a length, a bad third. Lothian's King fell.

BETTING AT MANCdESTER—WEDNESDAY.
For the Cambridgeshire Gemma, who a few days since
had supporters at 20 to 1, and who afterwards receded to
1,000 to 6 (offerel), was backed to-day, apparently for good
money, at all prices to 100 to 3 (taken and wanted).
During this process Limosina receded to 8 to 1 be;ng laid ;
buj afterwards her friends rallied, and 5 to 1 was booked.
No lg of importance was done on any of the others, with
the of Hubert, who appears to be hopelessly gone.
Closing prices :

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
sto 1 agat Limosina (taken)
6to 1 agst Catch-'em Alive (offered)
11 to 1 agst Carnival (taken)
11 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken)
16 to 1 agst Port Royal (taken)
20 to 1 agat Borealis (taken)
30 to 1 apt Jack of Hearts (taken)
33 to 1 agst Gemma (taken)
33 to 1 apt Despair (offered)
100 to 1 agat Hubert (offered)

COMPENSATION CASES.

GUILDHALL-WEDNESDAY,

Mr. Alderman Hale presided; Mr. White appeared on
behalf of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany; and Mr. Tindal Atkinson, instructed by Messrs.
Lumley and Lumley, of Moorgate-street, conducted the
case on behalf of the claimant for compensation.
The subject-matter in dispute consisted of premises situ-
ated at No. 5, Water-lane, Earl-street, Blackfriars, which
were occupied by Miss Eleanor Knight, who carried on a
retail business there for the sale of cigars, tobacco, news-
papers, fancy stationary, lemonade and gingerbeer, and a
miscellaneous collection of other small articles. It appeared
that 13 years ago she took the house and opened the shop in
the same line of business which had been carried on there for
the last 40 years. It was a shut-up shop, bat immediately she
opened it she did a good trade, and had done so eversince. She
had paid £4O for a new shop front, £22 for fixtures and
fittings, and her rent, including rates and taxes, was only
£l7. The gross takings of the year amounted to £758, of
which £278 was the annual profit, from which, however,
had to be deducted £47, which would reduce the actual
income to about £230. The gross takings, of course, in-
cluded about £3O a year which she received from her
lodgers. There was no means of testing the accuracy of
these estimates. inasmuch as no books had been kept, it
being a ready-money business, and no vouchers of any kind
were produced. The claimant was in failing health, and
too ill to be subjected to a rigid cross-examination; and a
person who managed her business for her exhibited such
an extraordinary amount of obtuseness as to render it an
impossibility to get anything like an intelligent statement
from him. The Courtwere, therefore, compelled to rely solely
upon the written claim for £5OO, and the evidence of Mr.
Fi yer, a wholesale tobacconist, who had for the last 15
years supplied the claimant with cigars and tobacco; and
he, having selected the year 1858 as the test of the business
done on the premisesin question, said he had supplied goods
during that year to Miss Knight to the amount of £2OO, but
that her trade had lately fallen off. The goodwill of such a
business might be worth £lOO or £l5O, but, of course, the
value would much depend upon the nature of the tenancy
and the length of the lease. The claimant's business was
such that the goodwill would have been worth £2OO if
there had been a good lease with it.
Mr. Warwick, the overseer of the parish, said he always
considered the claimant did a very good business, and he
knew there was no place she could obtain in the neighbour-
hood where she could carry on that class of business on
easing her present shop.
Mr. T. Atkinson said this was a case where the business
had been the support of the claimant, her mother, and her
sister's family. She had established the business by her own
exertions during a period of 13 years, and he submitted it
was a case for substantial compensation, particularly as she
being in failing health, and not able to obtain a place in
the neighbourhood, would have to recommence life with
greater difficulties to overcome, and not the same health and
strength to carry her through them.

Mr. White urged upon the magistrate's notice the total
absence of books, vouchers, and proper accounts to show
that the business was what it had been represented. The
company were anxious to deal liberally with all with
whose interest they interfered, but the claims of annual
tenants being by far the most numerous and the most
fallacious, it behoved the company, on behalf of the share •
holders, to watch those claims very narrowly. Ia the pre-
sent instance the claim sent in was for £5OO ; the com-
pany had been the claimant's landlords for two years, during
which time she had not paid a fraction of rent. They had
offered her £2OO as compensation, which had been refused,
and if the Court thought the very unsatisfactory statement
of the witness who managed the business for Miss Knigh
sufficient to justify him in dealing with the case, he would
suggest that the utmost that the claimant would be entitled
to would be one year's profits, the goodwill of an annual
tenant being worthless.

Mr. Alderman Hale said he perceived there was a discre-
pancy of a third between the business alleged to have been
done in cigars and tobacco, and the quantity of such goods
stated to have been supplied, and in the rest of the items he
thought the calculations excessive. He was desirous of
doing strict justice to Miss Knight, and with as much libe-
rality as was consistent with justice to the company, and had
come to the conclusion to award £195 for one year's profits,
£l2O for goodwill, and £lO for expenses of removal, making
a total of £325, possession of the premises to be yielded
within 14 days.
Mr. Atkinson asked for costs.
Mr. 'White said the worthy alderman had dealt so libe • rally with the claimant that costs ought not to have been
asked for.
Mr. Alderman Hale declined to order costs.
There was another case of a similar kind, in which John
Pleasant, a tailor, in busines4 M Water lane, claimed £175
compensation.appeared for the company, and Mt. Eadey for
Mr.
White
the claimant.

In this case the claimant stated that his rent was
£36 a
yePr. rates and taxes £lO, and repairs about £lO. That
when he entered into possession of the premises twelve
years ago he paid a premium of £3O, and that he paid two
journeymen £1 each per week all the year round. He
kept no books, but produced a set of books which he had
made up from invoices and the measure book for the
purposes of this claim. He estimated the wages for
1862
' including about
at £101; stock purchased, £116; rent and taxes, £52; and
repairs and 'sundries, £25, making a total of £297. His
£gross thaio,keihr.l.
he
duringreceived the
t.r
eyear e
dwgeerres,£:l4l2e
11, after deducting
£287, left a net profit of £145, to which was to be added £lO
for removal, and £2O as a proportion of the premium Pa id
by
claimant
making up the claim of £17:5.
The had
succeeded in getting anot her
ea
said
2 yheea r
hs ago,
house in Warwick-lane, at the advanced rental of eel°,
which, with rates and taxes, would make a serious di4ffer.

Yester lay Captain M %Mop, the inventor of the apparatus
for cleaning iron ships' bottoms afloat, which was recently
tried on the bottom of the iron frigate Recruit, 6, in
Chatham harbour, visited Chatham dockyard in order to
make the necessary arrangements for a further trial of the
invention. The labourers completed cleaning the bottom
of the Recruit yesterday, and every part of her hull is now
exposed to view, the marine encrustations, weede, &c.,
which covered her bottom at the time of the vessel was
placed in dock having all been scraped off. On both sides
the hull nearly every particle of the anti-fouling compo-
sitions with which she was originally paved over has
disappeared, leaving the iron plates of her bottom in nearly
their original state, with the exception, perhaps, that in
several parts the ravages of the marine insects on the iron
plating are very conspicuous. The hull of the Recruit is
now ready to receive a new coating of the composition by
Mr. Hay, and the anti-fouling mixture by Mr. Crispin,
which will be applied, as before, on different sides of the
bottom, in order that an extended trial may be made to
ascertain their respective merits.
Tenders have been issued by the War Department for the
contract supply of a large amount of pig iron, to be deli-
vered at the Royal gun factories in Woolwich Arsenal, to
be prepared for the manufacture of the new species of naval
guns, 50 of which are ordered to be commenced forthwith.
The officials of the Royal carriage department at Woolwich
have received instructions to construct an equal number of
carriages on a principle already approved by the Secretary
of State for War. The gun, it is stated, will be somewhat
similar to the 100-pounder smooth-bore gun, which with-
stood a severe experimental test at Shoeburyness at the
commencement of the past summer, and which was after-
wards tried with success on board the gunnery ship Excel-
lent, at Portsmouth.

The mechanics employed in the smithery at Chatham
dockyard are now engagel in forging the first portion of the
stem for Mr. Reed's new iron frigate Bellerophon, the next
vessel to be commenced at Chatham, as soon as the iron
ship Achilles is out of hand. The stem will be composed
of three immense pieces of iron, and will be the largest
forgings of the kind ever attempted at Chatham dockyard,
the stem and stern portions of the Achilles having been
manufactured by a private firm. In order to afford greater
facilities for the work, and to meet the increased demand
made on the establishment since the introduction of iron
shipbuild;ng, the smithery is to be considerably extended,
and, in addition to another large and powerful steam ham-
mer, some new furnaces of an improved kind are to
be forthwith erected. The object of the Admiralty
in having the principal forgings for the new iron
ship made in Chatham yard is to prevent a repetition of the
delays which were experienced in the early stages of the
construction of the Achilles, caused chiefly by the long
time occupied by private firms in producing similar forgings
for that ship. With the same object in view the form of
the forgings for the Bellerophon have been greatly simpli-
fied under the personal direction of the Chief Constructor of
the Navy, who has sent an Admiralty draughtsman to
Chatham dockyard, where he has been engaged for some
time in the preparation of the detailed drawings of the vari-
ous parts of the new ship, in order that every practicable
improvement may be made in carrying out the designs for
her construction. There can be little doubt that this ar-
rangement will tend greatly to facilitate the progress of the
Bellerophon, and thus reduce the time and labour expended
upon her construction. It will also, it is to be hoped, be
the first step towards putting an end to those changes and
alterations which have hitherto been so frequently made
by the Admiralty during the building of new ships at Chat-
ham and the other dockyards.
An announcement was yesterday made at Chatham
dockyard, in accordance with a notification received from
the Admiralty, that the appointment of timber inspector
will in future be filled from the most efficient foremen of
shipwrights, at the several dockyards, and not, as hereto-
fore, by seniority. This decision has been arrived at in
consequence of the inconvenience and expense arising from
the existing arrangements in taking foremen, at an ad-
vanced age, and giving them the appointment of timber
inspectors at a salary of £lOO per annum, and at the end of
two or three years allowing them to retire at the full super-
annuation allowance. Considering the comparatively small
quantity of timber now used at Chatham dockyard since
the introduction of iron shipbuilding, it becomes a question
for the consideration of the Admiralty whether, as the
duties heretofore pertaining to the office of timber inspector
are very considerably reduced, the office itself might not be
abolished, or, at least, amalgamated with some other ap-
pointment, whereby a very considerable saving might
annually be effected.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Thomas E. Biddlecombe, master, to the Fal-
con ; William A. Callagan, to a naval cadetship ; Peter
W. Rolston, surgeon, to the Falcon; James W. Ashton,
second master, to the Formidable for the Lizard ; Isaac
Waugh, assist.-surgeon, to the Falcon; and Benjamin H.
Chimmo, assist.-clerk, to the Fisgard,

THE ARMY.
The I battery 4th brigade Royal Artillery, in command
practice at the school of gunnery, Shoeburyness, have re.•
of Lieut.-Col. Barstow, having gone through a course of
turned to Woolwich, in preparation for their departure for
New Zealand, which, it is rumoured, has now been deferred
until tho 7th of next month.

Three of the guns to be used in the forthcoming competi-
tion between the Whitworth and Armstrong guns were yes-
terday mounted, and fitted to the trunnion bearings in the
new gun mounting park in Woolwich Arsenal. One is a
12-pounder Whitworth muzzle-loading gun, one a 12-
pounder Armstrong shunt gun, and the third a 12-pounder
breech-loading gun, finely grooved. Three others are
shortly expected.

The embarkation of the 76th Regiment on board the
Hornet and Atalanta, hired sailing transports, at Portsmouth
was deferred from yesterday until to-day. The regiment
will leave Aldershott this morning in two divisions, and
proceed to Portsmouth by Special trains from Farnborough
at 9 30 and 10 30 a.m,