The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

36,370 33,610

abroad -
Wages to artificers, &c., em-
ployed in her Majesty's
establishments at home 1,121,878
Wages to artificers, &c., em-
ployed in her Majesty's
establishments abroad
Naval stores for the building,
repair, and outfit of the
fleet ; steam machinery, and
ships built by contract :
Section I. Storekeeper-
General of the Navy 1,334,051
Section 11. Controller of
the Navy
New works, improvements,
and repairs in the yards, &c 433,298
Medicines and medical stores 66,000
Miscellaneous services

1,147,678

69,957 66,081

1,774,184

867,349 1,453,561

464,170
66,000
98,708

Total for the effective ser-
vice
Half-pay, reserved half-pay,
and retired pay to officers
of the Navy and Royal
Marines
AlilitAry pensions and allow-
ances
Civil pensions and allow-

£10,228,029

719,341 702,308

antes

194,932

194,282

Total for the naval service.. £10,465,882 £11,605,655
FOR THE SERVICE OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF GFOYERN-

MENT.

Army department (conveyance
of troops)

£270,150 £183,650

Grand total £10,736,032 £11,794,305
It will be observed that the principal decrease has
taken place in the Storekeeper General's Depart-
ment and that of the Controller of the Navy, which
have to do with timber, steam engines, and iron-
plated ship-building.
There is a large increase in the cost of convey-
ing troops between Great Britain and the colonies,
which must mean, we hope, the return of regiments
at present out.

The Murder at Kingswood Parsonage.

It may be remembered that in June, 1861, Mrs
Halliday, the wife of the parish clerk of Kings-
wood, near Reigate, was murdered at the par-
sonage-house there, of which she had charge in
the absence of the incumbent's family. In the room
where the poor woman was murdered there was
found a package of papers, which proved of the
highest importance. There were several letters
in a foteign language, bearing date so recent
as the Friday before the murder. These letters
were in a pocket-book, which also contained
the names of several persons, and the name of
the person to whom the letters belonged—Johann
Carl Franz. There was also a letter from the cele-
brated vocalist, Mdlle. Titiens, which, it appeared,
had been written by that lady, in reply to an
application for money, from a distressed German,
who wanted assistance to ecable him to reach his
own country. After a time the police succeeded in
apprehending this man Franz, and he was committed
for trial at Croydon assizes, when it was proved
that he had been seen near the parsonage-house on
the day of the murder, along with another foreigner,
and that some cord which it was proved that they
had previously purchased of a Mrs. Pitcher at
Reigate, resembled the cord with which the legs of
Mrs. Halliday had been tied. Wben the Superin-
tendent of Police showed Franz the package of
papers which had been found in the room he for a
moment turned pale, and then hung down his head,
seemingly absorbed in thought. Some days after,
he made a statement to the effect that while travel-
ling in the company of two Germans from Hull, they
robbed him of a bundle containing his clothes and
the papersin question. The inference which the pri-
soner wished to be drawn from this was, that the
men who had robbed himihad committed the murder.
At the Croydon assizes, held on the 6th of August,
Fianz, who was described as a native of Saxony,
was placed upon his trial and acquitted. Here the
matter rested, and the police did hot succeed in
gaining any further clue until Saturday last,
when a supposed accomplice in the murder
was apprehended at Hull. Two months
before the commission of the murder, a
foreigner, named Edward Schmidt, came to
the house of Johann
Pifer, a German
lodginghouse keeper, residing in Myton-street,
Hull. He remained there eight days. and then
went away. Before going
.he gave Pifer an old
coat in lieu of payment for his lodgings, as he had
no money. Two days after the man Schmidt had
left a person named Franz came to lodge at the
house. Pifer bad previously observed in Schmidt's
possession a faded brown pocket-book. Schmidt
and Franz appear afterwards to have met at the
village of Cave, and here while asleep it is supposed
Schmidt took Franz's papers from him and put them
in his own pocket-book. When Franz was tried for
the murder Pifer atated that he believed that the
pocket-book which was found in the roomiwhere the
murder had been committed was the same he had
seen in the possession of the man Schmidt. On
Saturday last, Pifer saw Schmidt in High-street,
Hull, and passed him. He afterwards met him
again about half-past four o'clock, near the Wilber-
force monument. Pifer stopped him and said,
" Why did you steal the papers from Franz P"
Schmidt replied, " I am the man who committed
the murder, but you cannot prove it." Pifer then
seized him and held him until the arrival of a police
constable. Yesterday, Schmidst was placed at the
bar of the Hull Police Court, and was remanded
until to-day.

The Fish in " The Field" Window.

Mr. Frank Buckland, 2d Life Guards, in a letter
,o the Field, say st—" The young trout, salmon
and salmon trout, are growing very fast ; in many
absorbed, and
the mouth.
ot
!hey
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aumbilfewicaldays
It is interesting to observe how, as the bag de-
bbaeggiiun to nearly
feed
creases, the form of the fish grows into shape and
assumes the proper fish colour. My bridge experi-
ment has succeeded well, but for plates of zinc I
have eubstiteted bits of common slate, such as are
used for roofing houses. These, supported by four
stones, form capital " hides" for my young fish, and
it is most amusing to see them all run away fright-
ened when I lift up the slate. I have found from
painful experience that the quantity of water
sufficient, say for five hundred eggs, is not suffi-
cient for 500 live fish. When born from those eggs,
FEES ON PRIVATE BILLS.—The Parliamentary
return to which we referred lately with reference to the actions of hundreds of tiny gills soon absorb the
the House fees charged on private bills also contains a list oxygen from the water, and I have been obliged to
of all the appearances of counsel on the railway bills of 1861 increase the stream and thereby the labour in sup-
and 1862. It is in one respect ambiguous, as the House plying the water. We are rearing fish under con-
exacts fees on every petition which is appeared on, jointly siderable disadvantages, A warm sun during the
or separately; though it is a common practice for a num- day, and gaslight during the night (to say nothing
ber of landowners' petitions to be represented under one of the heat of the steam engine below, which is used
brief, given to one counsel or set of counsel. Allowing for for printing off the Field) are not the most fa-
this, so far as the return enables us to do, in the year 1861, vourable conditions for young fish ; not withstand-
when there was the largest number of committees or ing all these most un-salmonlike conditions, I have
groups of Railway Bills, the House fees, amounting to a merry nursery of baby fishes, though, of coursy.ol
£6 -1,372, appear to have exceeded the counsel's fees by 30 have to pick out the dead ones every morning.
per orl ;10
per cent., taking them all at 15 guineas a day; that is, as- not, however, think I lose more the
ltlion. Our friend,
suming a consultation to take place every day, which may per cent. of the number, but theen lutlue wretches re-
or may not be, according as the particular case or :petition Quire a great deal of care and att
e, that I must be a
happens to be under discussion in the committee. The Mr. Ponder, thinkieg, !,., PP
usi I doctor, has kindly sent me
return does not include the fees on counsel's briefs,
of which the House has no knowledge, but they ausphaubsowttelell
already hatched out a most
generally amount to much less than the daily fees Hampton. •Imenurnyself, viz., a trout with two heads,
or "refreshers," which appear to have also come curious spuenact
bilical vesicle. This double fish is alive
fauulliaaofhveucrian les from his apparatus, at
into use, with the leading counsel at least, in the and one um
Mr. Ponder has sent me not only a oimi-
common law and other courts, in consequence of the great cl
length to which important trials now extend. The names
tail aPnd two heads, which are joined together ; also,
of 51 counsel appear in the list for 1861, of whom 16 are
a charr with four eyes, a trout with body twisted
la:r sweecimen (also alive), but also a fellow with one
Q.C.'s, The return to be complete as a basis for legistleal-1
like a bell spring ; besides this, a trout with body
tion or regulation (except as to the house fees, whieh
which as round as a ring, as well as numerous other
acients fit for the Orthopeedic Hospital.
their own tale), ought to comprise many othersittohme
Allies, of Worcester, has sent me an enormous
Mr.
the companies could give in the gross, sucsh,
salmon, which ho found dead, and rather high, on
for short hand notes, agents and solicitors' hparrecis.
urinary engineering expenses, coat of distinguish-
the banks of the Teme, near Worcester. He has a
sleo:wqueirtej
aiwn.theosfhhadime,
bag the engineers from others, an sL.
er 001, Monday
; and the skin is worn off his
nose which places Punch's no
THE GEORGE GRIsWoLD.-- Iv . p
fowfiotnrtehs.se:sh,argessc:
Evening.—The
captain and lieutenant of the I' Pr°Pose to make a post-mortem to-morrow, pro-
ber of Commerce to the Vious to his being sent to the British Museum,
to-day at St. George's-hall,
address from the Liverpool Cham- i T
and enthusiastic The ayor of an-
1,/ k where Dr. Gunther has scientific designs upon his
at a crowded dings. apparently worthless carcase.
cheater took part in the proceedings. Through
George Griswold was presented
meeting. n
Through the kindness of S. Gurney, Esq., M.P.,
MYSTERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. he Paris corre. and J. Hibbert, Esc., of Chalfont Park, I have been
spondent of the Times says :—" The Emperor of enabled to restock my glass rods with some fine ape-
Russia is coming to Paris in the spring ; such, at least, is civaena of trout ova, some of which I took from the
his present intention, as well as that of his imperial friend. fish, others I took from the fishes' nests—rather cold
The object of the projected visit is said to be to come to an work—but all giving good promise of future life.
understanding as to a common action in Belgian affairs It will be curious to see whether town or country Will
after the demise of li.bag Leopold," be able to hatch these fish out first.