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London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS.

Royal Hospital, Chelsea,
14th Aug., 1F63.
ROTT9gTus,HONOURABLE the LORDS
TpiTATin'd
COMMISsIONERS of this HOS-
L, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to
receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as
nay be wilting to Contract for victualling the in-pensioners
,
the said Hospital, from the Ist October, 1863, to the 30th
siretpieteletnsb:fr, 1861, both days inclusive, with the following
provisions, /cc., viz.:—Beef and Mutton, Bread,
Pee°Be, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice,
nper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sugar, Milk, Onions
Or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory
and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole
ration according to the established allowances of the house, as
Specified in the form of Tender, which may be obtained at the
office of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 and 3
o'clock, which 'render must be filled up and delivered, sealed,
at the Board-room of the said Hospital by the party or
Parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their
bßhalf. on Tuesday the Ist of September, at 12 o'clock. at
which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same
into consideration.
It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required
to find Security to the crown for the due performan, e of the
Contract, and that no Tender will be received after the d
and hour above mentioned.
lowest Ten
The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the
der.
A. J. MOORHEAD,
Secretary and Registrar.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

The business of Vie Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths ,-Jf the profits periodically made to
Parties insuring, who he.ve thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £410,000; and the Society
now holds a large R esc.rve applimble to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charged by the 'other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.

For prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E,C.

PASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS
PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES,
16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C.
Passengers by Rail, Road, or Water, and others suffering
from loss or injury to themselves or property, should apply
for redress and compensation at the above Offices ; established
to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
vantageous terms.
Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed
to " The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,00,
Accumulated Funds in band over 1,000,000,

Chairman in Liverpool :
criaßLEs TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairman in London :
_ -

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRA.CrS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.

The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.

FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close o' the year, to announce, for file first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £.300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of i)uty is again fully maintained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realises in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of a'Ay year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s.
5d., and of The North American business, whichis kept sepa•
rately, £11,097165. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's business has been carefully
watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
future to the participating life assurer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assurance amounts to X 143,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
If. to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
pies Directors conclude their 'present Report with the esion of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORTH BRITISH ANT MERCANTILE
SURANCE COMPANY.

Estalished 10.
Incorporated by Royal CharterBo and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds......
Annual Revenue..,,..,,42,322,828
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
In suran,es 2-ranted both at Home
and in Forcig,n Countries
on the most liberal terms.
LIFE DPR
Every facility offered to lEnsuArers.T SENT,
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life business transr.cted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount Incured.
1,037 £763,334 Premiums.
£23,641 Forms of' Proposal and every information will be 0 0
furnished
on application at the

:
L0ND0N..... OFFICES
~...... . ...... 58, Thresdneedle-street.
................. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothby.
~ West-end °Mee.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pallmall.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Govtrnor.
GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Es Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattle", Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidsou, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, 11;:sq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Dr nee, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlinann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale. W, Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
RWm obt. Atuadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
Jas, Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
nearl
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
y 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits--with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within th
United Kingdom, free of charge.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secrecgry.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE

COMPANY,
No. 11,
Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 182 t
esubseribed Capital, Two Millions.

DIRECTORS.
....
cut,:iiiLe LrNITOILFLAILQUeIIuARRT,IBsaAs,qm.,.r., Chairman.
Fleury Hulse Berens, Esq., •
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. GShaw vr E
Yo. b oi,
euDfceehpeurete, 3',
Chairman.B
sqq.
charles on ham
Esq. I John Martin, ESq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Batt James Morris, Esq, Esq.
James Goodson, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., Ma'
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. 1 Alibenralßm.
Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. J.
egbo
al dr
ts
8, , Esq. Esq Esq.
' Henry Vii,,ne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. ) Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. i Noel Whitin Ea%
Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary

Company now LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER RTMENT.—UNDER Tn PROVISIONS 0 AN
Quinquennial
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this
1821, the
tirers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the prolivtB"eirs to new? In-
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium withoiaL
Profits. ParffolPation of
Since the establishment of the Company
,
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured ha in
cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent has exceeded ill
Bonuses of £1,058,000. Reversionary
After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the
Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon- Life
amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from
Branch .V 07,000 annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
per
independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.
. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER C0RP5....../co
I, ,xtra Premium is required for service therein.
vall'u(),ANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
a elved
4' ff such value be not less than £5O.
AS6IG,„.
a„..,MENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
mt.:
oi.!egistered.
or Pohey'lit4 FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
every FIRE DEp Ps.
Losses descriptioncausedTMENT t s are effected upon
of property at moderate ra es.
Company, by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
In the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, E.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting* into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued suppc,rt,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, EdwP-
Mars terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Cont.
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Retries and Co ; and
Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co_,; Smith, Payne. - -.son( and
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Bdaarnrcleavd
and,Cdon„dC Liverpoolo . Gly n
and Co. ; W .11iams, Deacon, and Co. • and Co. ; Denison
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. - , 0-verend, Gurney, and
and at the Hospital.
ST
....NPORD S. SMITH. Secretary.

ROYAT, NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Graeious Mkjesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
F.R. S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S.,
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments un the Coasts of Eng7and, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800
or which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart lages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi-h can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions:—

Her Majesty the Queen • • • • s. d
annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. •• .• • • annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. •• • • • • • . annual 11 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm. 14(1 •• • • • • • • • 4th dou.l
Erie, Lord C'hief A 0 0 ostice - • • • don. 10 10 0
l'anshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. •• 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting Carriage .• • • • • • • - • 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. • • don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. • • • • 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • • don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • •• • • 30 0
Stirling', Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Thom, s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship • • • • • • - • 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percisval, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co•• 9. Strand ; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by a.l the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the IlnitedKingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis, le
John-street, Aderpa'London, W.C.
at the Office of the Institution, 74,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Bnimm, Aug. 15.
(Before Mr, Justice Willes and a Special Jury.)
LEAT V. STOODEN.

This cause, which the learned judge admitted was one of
the most extraordinary that had ever come before him, ex-
cited an unusual degree of interest. The court was densely
crowded throughout the day, and up to the late hour of
night at which it terminated. Ladies were requested to
withdraw.

Mr, Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Stock were for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Karslake, (LC., and Mr. Montague Bere for the
defence.

The damages were laid at £2,000,

Mr. Stock opened the pleadings. Mary Leat was the
plaintiff, and Robert Stogden the defendant. The declara-
tion alleged that the defendant had spoken certain slander-
ous words of the plaintiff, imputing to her that she had
allowed him to have criminal intercourse with her, that
consequently she had lost position in society ; and one Elias
Pidgley had refused to marry her. The defendant pleaded
the general issue, and also that the words spoken were true
and on those pleas issue was joined.
Mr. Coleridge said the action was brought by Miss Mary
Lest against a person named Stogden for imputing to her
that which to a modest woman was the most cruel imputa-
tion he could cast upon her—that on repeated occasions she
had acted unchastely with him. If anything could add to
the unmanliness, the baseness, and the cowardice of the de-
fendant's conduct, it was the fact of his having been on
terms of long intimacy with the plaintiff, and having been
engaged to marry her. Miss Leat was a young lady about
25 or 28 years old; she was a fatherless girl, and livedwith
her widowed mother, who had carried on a farm in Devon-
shire, but who had now retired and lived at Topsham. The
defendant Stogden was a person of some 30 years of age, who
lived in the same place, and carried on the business of a
farmer. An intimacy commenced between them, and in
1858 he became engaged to be married to Miss Leat. The
courtship was continued till a time in 1862, when it was
broken off. The defendant had taken to habits of intoxica-
tion, and he came on one occasion to the house of Mrs,
Lest whilst in that state, and behaved with such violence
that Miss Leat and her mother were compelled to order
him out of the house, and send for some member of his
family to remove him. Miss Leat refused to have anything
farther to do with him. Afterwards a young man in the
neighbourhood named Pidgley formed attachment for Miss
Leat, and became engaged to marry her, and things went
on without interruption until the 27th February last, on
which day Miss Leat was in Exeter with her mother, Mr.
Pidgley, and a young lady or two, when, as they were
walking down the High-street, Stogden came up to them
and wished to speak with the plaintiff. She declined to
have anything to do with him, and moved aside, upon
which he used the slanderous language complained of, and
subsequently repeated the same offensive expressions. An
opportunity had been given to the defendant to withdraw
the calumny and make an ample apology, but he refused,
and had had the audacity to put upon record a plea of jus-
tification, alleging that the words were true.

place, and feeling that some persons might think it
would be keeping the plaintiff's right to reCoVet, in
abeyance, the Court calls upon you to enter into your
own recognisance in the sum of 4206, to appear before the
next Gloucester Assize, to answer this charge if called upon
to do so ; and the plaintiff will take advice as to whether
she will put this in force—whether she will renew her great
grief by punishing you for the evil you have committed.
His lordship next dismissed the grand jury. He thanked
them for their as,istance, and he said that he trusted the
serious grievance which interfered with the administration
of justice would soon be removed, and they would have a
criminal as well as a civil assize at Bristol.

Miss Mary Leat, a pretty and modest-looking young
lady, was then called and gave a narrative confirmatory
of her counsel's opening. She gave her evidence with a
propriety of demeanour which at once gained her general
sympathy, and once or twice she was affected to tears.
There was not, she said, the least foundation for what he
had said respecting her. Never on any occasion had there
been improper intimacy between them ; that she solemnly
swore. The engagement with him was broken off in March,
1862, in consequent of his being tipsy and violent, and
calling her mother a liar. She had seen him in that state
frequently before, and she therefoxa resolved to break off
the match.

Mr. Gurney (the associa'e) then formally bound over the
defendant to appear, if called, at the next Lenten Assize for
the county of Gloucester,

Mr. Karslake cross-examined the plaintiff, and put into
her hands some letters written to defendant from Topsham
in April, 1862, in which she signed herself "affectionately"
his, and proposed places at which she would see him, and
in one of which she asked him if they were to part to let
them meet and part as friends. She stated that those
letters were in answer to letters from him, and the meet-
ings proposed to prevent his coming to the house, to wbich
her mother objected. She did meet him at Topsham, but
he was not then an affianced lover. They were not to have
been married at Lady-day, and she did not engage a ser-
vant named Buck. Was not in the habit of walking with
him late at night. He never slept in the house but once
—on the night of his brother's death. She always slept
with her mother. There were always servants in the
house. Never sat on a sofa with him after her mother
had gone to bed. No doubt she had sat in the room alone
with him.

Mrs. Charlotte Lest, the mother, Miss Mary Hodge,
Mr. Maher, a farmer of East Brent, and Mr. Charles
Pidgley, farmer, of Heavitree, were called in support of
the plaintiff's case.
Mrs. Leat said her daughter always slept with her. She
was her only child. Defendant had never been in the house
after half-past nine o'clock unless they had company.
Mr. Pidgley said he had declined to marry Miss Leat
unless the slander was cleared up. He had continued his
suit on that condition.

Dr. Brent, of Woodbury, stated that he had been in
practice twenty years, and had had great experience, and
that he attended the families of plaintiff and defendant.
Miss Leat had required him to examine her, which he did
in the presence of her mother. Was perfectly certain that
she never had improper intimacy with any man.

Mr.Karslake then addressed the jury for the defence. He
admitted that the charges against the plaintiff had been
grave and serious, and Mr. Stogden, who had used them
in a moment of jealous irritation, regretted having used
them at all ; but he adhered to their truth, and re-
fused to retract them, and, having put a plea of justifi-
cation on the record, he claimed his right to come there
and support it. The defendant would pledge his solemn
oath that he had over and over again had criminal inter-
course with the plaintiff, and he would call evidence in
confirmation of his statement. If the publicity which the
case has gained was painful to the plaintiff she had herself
to blame for it in bringing that action.

His lordship advised the plaintiff to forget the prosecu-
tion, and trust her vindication to the opinion of every right-
hinkin g man.
As the plaintiff left the court with her friends she was
loudly cheered by a crowd in and about the hall.

Robert Stogden was called, and swore, in the course of a
lengthened examination, that he formed an illicit connec-
tion with the plaintiff within a month of his engagement to
her. It was commenced in the yard outside her mother's
house, and repeated constantly afterwards down to March,
1862. The witness denied that the engagement was then
broken off, but admitted that there was no improper con-
nection afterwards. He said he had meetings with Miss
Leat down to about the time of his exposure of her, but
was not aware she was to be married to Mr. Pidgley till the
day in question, when he met her mother, who told him so.
Upon cross -examination by Mr. Coleridge, he made very
contradictory statements.
The learned Judge said he hoped Itere was a shorthand
writer putting down his evidence. He also directed, at the
close of the examination, that 'Lie might not be allowed to
leave the court.

Upon re-examination,
court for money b i:ne defendant admitted that a
judgment had been (:•• „rained against him in the county
said she had 0- _his farm at
-fen him to purchase things or
'5l had had of Miss Leat, but which he
her mother's
sale.
sale.
Jam; Lang, who had lived servant at Mrs. Leat's for
siy
weeks in 1861, deposed that he had repeatedly seen an
immoral intercourse between plaintiff and defendant : but
upon cross-examination he said it always occurred in the
front kitchen, the door being ajar, and he being in an ad-
joining kitchen with the door open. He never mentioned it
to anybody till lately.

The Judge ordered this witness also to remain in court.
Mina Berry, a girl of 17, also deposed to having wit-
nessed an impropriety in 1861, which she saw through the
keyhole of a door. She had never mentioned it to a soul
till a Mrs. Room had asked her about it.

After a witness, whose evidence was immaterial, had
been called,
Mr. Kerslake summed up his evidence, contending that
it afforded ground upon which the jury might arrive at a
conclusion favourable to the defendant.
Mr. Coleridge replied in an able address, in which he
strongly denounced the conduct of the defendant, quoting,
in the course of his remark, the well-known speech of
Emilia in " Othello," which ends with an invitation to
,4 Place in every honest hand a whip,
To lash the rascal naked through the world I"
The speech was received with a loud burst of applause,
which the officers of the court found difficult to repress.
The learned judge summed up
with great ability, stating
that if the jury believed the plaintiff, and the evidence of
Dr. Brent, and that the defendant had foully and vilely
slandered her, and had made against her a charge which,
if not disproved, must have embittered her life, the jury
would then have to say what sum, if any, could compensate
her for the anguish she had suffered.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after a
lapse of twenty-five minutes they returned into court, and
and found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages, £6O.
His Lordship—Where is the defendant?
The defendant stood up just behind his attorney facing
the bench.
His Lordship—Robert Stogden, the verdict of the jury
has brancied you as a man who has committed wilful and
corrupt perjury, and the Court has anxiously considered
whether it ought not to commit you for trial for that offence.
If there were a criminal assize in this city, where the trial
has taken
where place--if a
yource—
your trial for perjury could have taken
place crime has been committed. and if the
if
witnesses were not put to any trouble and delay by going
to a new place, to the city of Gloucester, where the case
could not have been heard before the next assize, and
where new counsel would have to be instructed, and you
might after all have slipped through the nets of criminal
justice, the Court would have committed you for trial
for that offence. Upon considerationx, however, seeing
the disadvantages under which that trial would take

TtiE SUN, LONDON, FUEsDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1863.

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file, 47 wom and 37 children, is expt
the camp to-morrow.
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the E and F batteries Royal Horse
command of Capt. A. M. Calvert a:
the Hon. B. Fraser, were yesterday couvt..yed to
' Shoeburyness in barges, for the purpose of a course
of target practice In gunnery. The officers and
men of the batteries, 382 in number, will be in-
spected this morning on parade at Woolwic,`l, and
will proceed to Shoeburyness in one of the river
steamers.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
ir
Whilst the Duke of Somerseti was holding his
levee at the:office of the Adrnuperintendent in
Devonport dockyard on Saturday morning, Ad-
miral Sir F. Grey, Admiral
,Eden, and
Commander
Drummond, proceeded across Hamoeze to the
exercising field (near Torpoint) of the gunnery
Cambridge, Capt. C. J. F. Epi art, where the crew
formed into six companies of light infantry, drawn
up under Commanders Jones and Parry, and Lieuts.
Nicholson and Nlitche.ll. From their four field pieces
hey fired a s:ute of 19 guns, and then formed into
open column, formed into line, presented arms,
broke into open column, fired in companies, threw
out skirmishers, formed in square to receive ca-
valry, &c. The skilful manner in which the sea-
-1
men went through these intricate military evolu-
tions elicited the approbation of Admiral Grey, who
with his colleagues, and Port Admiral Sir Houston
Stewart, left Torpoint at noon, and recrossed Ha-
moaze. Here they met the Duke of Somerset, with
whom they proceeded to inspect the fortifications at
Tregantle and Sereasdon in Cornwall.
At four o'clock the Lords of the Admiralty, in-
cluding Mr. Stansfeld, accompanied by Mr. Ro-
maine, and Col. Greene, Director of Works, went to
Keyham steamyard, where they were received by
Rear-Admiral Superintendent Thomas M. C. Sy-
monds, C. 8., Mr. R. Townshend, superintending
civil engineer, Mr. Miller, chief engineer of the
yard, and inspector of steam machinery, and the
Master's Attendant Commanders Brown and Bid-
dlecombe. After examining the iron-plated Prince
Consort, which is in the south basin, they went
through the great quadrangle to the site of the
proposed extension of the north basin. The details
were pointed out by Admiral Symonds. Thes.r
lordships then proceeded to Plymouth citadel, where
they met the Secretary for War, the Earl de Grey
and Ripon, and Captain Martindale, of the Royal
Engineers, who had just landed from an inspection
of the new circular fort erected on Drake's
Island. Under directions of Colonel Shuttleworth
and Colonel Maberley, of the Royal Artillery,
25 rounds each were fired from three Armstrong
guns at a floating staff some 2in. thick, fixed off the
south point of Drake's Island, at a distance of 3,100
yards. Two wedged guns, one a 40-pounder, the
other a 70-pounder, mounted near the flagstaff on
the citadel, were commanded by Major Palmer of
No. 2 battery, and Captain Glanville, gunnery in-
structor. One ordinary Armstrong 1101 b. at King
Charles's bastion was under command of Lieut.
Sandemann of No. 8 battery. The wind at the time
was strong from the south-west and the atmosphere
somewhat thick, notwithstanding which the prac-
tice was exceedingly good, as most of the balls fell
near the distant mark. At the conclusion Earl de
Grey and Ripon and Capt. Martindale, in company
, with the Commander-in-Chief of the West District,
Gen. Hutchinson, inspected the quarters of the offi-
cers, the barracks of the men, their recreation room,
library, &c. From Plymouth the Secretary of War
will, it is said, proceed to Falmouth, and possibly
to Pembroke. _ _

The drawings and models for the new iron frigate
Bellerophon, ordered to be constructed at Chatham
Dockyard from Mr. Reed's plan, are being prepared
at the dockyard under the superintendence of one
of the officials sent down from the Admiralty for
that purpose. The Bellerophon is to be exactly
300 ft. in length, with a breadth of beam of 57ft. ;
her draught of water will not, it is expected, exceed
26ft. In order to arrive at the greatest strength of
material to serve as a guide in the construction of

The new cavalry barracks at Colchester are now
nearly completed. The greatest advance has been
made in the officers' quarters, which. are hlndsome
and well arranged, end stand out in strong contrast
to the accommodation afforded to the camp. Thn
officers' quarters form an extensive quadrangle, and
it is stated that the mess establishment will be supe-
rior to any other in the kingdom. The mees-room
itself it,. 50ft. lonz by 24ft. wide, and 16ft. nigh,
and is elegantly fi:.ted up. The first ft!?(.`
second floors comprise the various room 4 of
the officers, each of whom will have a sitti.-tr-
room, 17ft. by 141 t., and a bedroom udjoir,-,
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tilation has also been very carefullyaotftended to.
It is intended to commence the erection a
block of buildings adjacent to those now secondnearly
completed. The contract has been taken by the
same builders, Messrs. Lucas Brothers.
The new battery on Drake's Island mounts 21
guns ; its level is 35ft. above high water mark. The
front piers are constructed of granite blocks, 14- to
4 tons each in weight, and the dimensions of the
shell recesses sunk in the rear of these piles are
3ft. x2X 2. The openings between the piles are
12ft. wide by Bft. high; wrought iron shields 10in.
thick will be fitted here, so as to leave openings of
only 3ft. by 2ft. for tht, ale guns. Thl
battery sweeps round from east to south, and south
west, so as to command the whole of the Sound ;
on this curve the length from centre to centre of the
openings is 24ft. Gin., and on the straight 24ft.
The rear piers are built of rubble masonry with
wrought limestone groins; they are 10ft. long, 4ft.
wide, and Mt. 1 lin. above the level of the floor.
Brick arches spring from the top of the rear piers,
sft. llin. above the floor. Concrete, 3ft. thick, is
laid on the top of the arches. The battery walls
are ift. 3in. above the floor level ; this concrete
is covered with asphalte lin. thick, put on in
two layers, each half an inch thick. The dis-
tance of the walls from front to rear is 34ft. ;
the piers are 12ft. thick; the distance to
the rear is 12ft., and to the rubble wall 1011.
The narrowest part of the roadway at the rear of
the battery is 15ft.

the Bellerophon, and especially in the matter of her
shot resisting surface, orders have been received at
the dockyard for the construction of a target to be
used in a series of experiments at Shoeburyness, to
test the strength of the manner in which it is pro-
posed to construct her sides. This target is now
being put toOther at the Jlillwall Ironworks, and
will shortly be ready to be operated upon. The

target is t,) be constructed of 10-inch iron frames,
placed about two feet apart, on which will be first
laid a covering of iron plates of about two inches
in thickness. This will serve as the " skin " of the
target, preparatory to a backing of 12-inch teak
planking. The target will then be finally covered
with iron armour-plates, of from Sin. to 7in. in
thickness, but the exact thickness has not yet been
decided upon. From the results of experiments
already made on various descriptions of targets at
Shoeburyness it is confidently expected that this
construction will exceed in shot-resisting strength
every other description of plating hitherto adopted
in this country, and if the arrangement is found to
succeed the same mode of construction will be fol-
lowed in building the Bellerophon.
The launch of the Research, 4, 1,260 tons, iron-
cased frigate, the first of the vessels constructed on
Mr. Reed's plan, took place at Pembroke on Satur-
day evening. The ceremony of " christening" the
ship was performed by Miss Kerr,daughter of Capt.
Lord F. H. Kerr, of the Blenheim, 60, 400-horse
power, flag-ship at Pembroke. The vessel's mean
draught of water after launching was found to be
only 8 feet, or nearly a foot less than was calculated
upon by the dockyard authorities. As she lay on
the stocks there was but one opinion as to her ugli-
ness, but on getting afloat she was pronounced a
rather stylish craft. She is intended to carry only
four heavy guns, but will be entirely encased with
from 4to 43--inch armour-glates. At present she
has only four plates bolted to her sides, but the re-
mainder are to be put on as speedily as possible,
after which the Research will be sent to Devonport
to be fitted for commission.
The troop ship Orontes, Capt. H. w. Hire, front
the eastward, arrived in Plymouth Sound, yester-
day (Monday) morning, en route for the Medi-
terranean.

The J ohnßanfield, hired sailing transport, has

commenced shipping, in the Docks,4oo tons of Arm-
strong shells for Hong Kong, from Woolwich
Arsenal. A number of 20-pounder naval guns, 40-
pounders, and 110-pounders are in readiness for
embarcation at Woolwich for Simon's Town, andl
also for Auckland, New Zealand ; as well
:U 3.
nder
inch mortars, 8-inch iron howitzers, and 24;P
guns for Quebec, and commissariat stores for the
Mauritius, the whole of which are awaiting
nage for shipment.
The hired transport Mari
an:e Indian line of tele-
graph, shipped
a cargo of electric wire for t
.
graph, at Henley's factorye Thames.
,
at Northa Woolwich,
sailed yesterday from the
The following appointments were yesterday at
the Admiralty Robert W. Clarke, staff surgeon,
:
T. Farwell, assistant pay-
to the Saturn; John
master, to the
Asia ; and Daniel Wishart, in the
Brisk, promoted to the rank of acting first-class
engineer.
assistant-