The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

STOCKTON RACES.-THIS DAY.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
BILLINGHAM GRANGE STAKES.

Zetland •
Lachesis
Weatherden 2
3

SIXTH BIENNIAL STAKES.
Old Orange Girl 2
1
Comet
CORPORATION .
Richard
PLATE.

Joey Jones
Entremet
2

Nine ran.
GRAND STAND STAKES.

Curatrix
Aslanga
2
GARBUTT NURSERY HANDICAP.
The Tippler
1
The Robber
2
Unfashionable Beauty
Nine ran.
MIDDLESBOROUGH HANDICAP,
Caller 0n........
1
Upperhand
2
Ophelia
3

Four ran.
STOCKTON CUP.

Beverly -_
1
Brighton .......
Ring of Kars

Six ran.

STOCKTON Cur.—Bonny Breast Knot scratched at 1
o'clock this morning-.

BANE OF .ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 27th day
of Aug., 1862:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued
.. a31,517,885' Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities . 3,6.31,400
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,867,885
Silver Bullion

X31,517,885',
Proprietors' Capi-
I3ANRING DEPARTMENT.
Government Seed-
tal X 14.553,000 rities (including
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
3,331,215 DeadWeightAn-
nuity) £11,036,097
eluding Exche- Other Securities 18,973,198
quer, Savings ' Notes
missioners of Na- Coin
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver 810,8 3
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 7,508,882
•
Other Deposits 14,685,00d
Seven Day and
other Bills E24,r65 •

£31,517,885

£41,082,168

X 41,082,168
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

Aug. 28, 1862.

SOU7ILEASTERN _RAILWAY COMPANY.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING THIS DAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of proprietors of flair
_company, was held this afternoon at the Bridge Douse
Hotel ; the Hon. J. Byng, chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors, in the chair. The report of the directors, an abstract
of which we have already published, was taken as read.
The CRAIRMitN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said that the report showed an increase in the net receipts,
which enabled them to declare a dividend at the rate of
£4 ss. per cent. per annum as against £4 3s. 4d. last year.
This was satisfactory, considering the circumstances which
had occurred. The diminution of traffic occasioned by the
depression of trade and other causes had been made up by
an increase in the Continental passenger traffic, in con-
sequence of the large number of visitors to the Exhibition.
Of course the chief adverse influence they had to contend
with was the opening of a rival line to Dover, and the con-
sequent competition compelling them to lower their fares ;
but it would be observed that there had been a large increase
of passenger traffic in numbers, though a slight diminition
in receipts.

After some discussion, the report was a adopted.
A resolution; declaring a dividend in. terms of the report
was then agreed to, an,' the meeting thereafter nominated
two new directors in accordance with the resolution. Messrs.
Bulkely and %Vbatman, the gentlemen recommended by the
directors, were elected.

The meeting was then made special for the purpose of
authorising the conversion and consolidation of such of the
" Fixed 41 per Cent. Preference Shares" of the company,
created let Sept. 1859, as have been fully paid up into Fixed
4f per Cent. Stock, under the powers and provisions of the
Charing cross Railway Act, 1859, and the Companies
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. Authority was given to
the directors to carry these proposals into effect.
A vote of thanks having been given to the chairman, the
meeting separated.

THE VISITORS TO WOOLWICH ARSENAL.-0 n
account of the number of persons attracted to London by
the Exhibition, the demand for tickets of admission to
Woolwich Arsenal has totally exhausted the stock recently
printed. On Tuesday, lithograph tickets admitting upwards
of 1,600 persons were made available. About 250 persons
who had gone down to Woolwich unsupplied with tickets
were denied admission, the regulations to that effect having
been rigidly ordered to be observed. Yesterday a great
number of persons without cards of admission were also
disappointed, and were obliged to return to London. It is
suggested that the hours of admission, to be printed on the
new cards about to be issued, should be from half-past oto
half-past 11 (as the factories and workshops arc closed for
the men's dinners , and from 2to 4. This would obviate
the many murmurings and complaints of a want of courtesy,
&e., on the part of applicants who present themselves be-
tween 12 and 2, as they would then be made distinctly
aware of the regulations.
THE HARVEST IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.— Under
the influence of most splendid weather farmers have been
enabled to make considerable progress with the harvest
since last week. Along the banks of the river Trent for
miles the cutting of wheat is general, and many fields have
been carried in first-rate condition. Around Ruddingtcn
there are some splendid crops, and the yield will be pretty
nearly to the average. Barley is likely to turn
out far beyond anticipation. Oats are exceedingly plenti-
ful. Beans aT:d peas have done very well indeed. In the
vicinity of Basford some of the best crops in the county
have been grown, and in this district wheat will be a
fair crop, but on the poor land around Mansfield
the yield will be light. In the central part of the
county a good deal of grain has fallen to the sickle,
leading is general, and farmers speak far less gloomily
of the anticipated yield. Wheat looks best on the heavy
soils; the ears are larger than for some years past, both
on the light and clay soils. Barley scarcely ever looked
better, and cutting will shortly commence. Peas are re-
markably well podded. Beans have suffered to a slight ex-
tent from the smother fiy, but the crops will be abundant.
The second crops of red clover are exceedingly promising.
Swede and white turnips look splendid. The disease among
potatoes, at present, is very exceptional, and the tops look
healthy. Harvest work is general in the vicinity of East
Retford, and wheat is well spoken of.
THE REPRESENTATION OF STOKE UPON-TRENT.
—There are now three candidates for the representation of
the Parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (the Staf-
fordshire Potteries), viz. :—Mr. H. R. Grenfell (Liberal),
Mr. A. J. B. Beresford Hope (Conservative), and Mr. Ser-
geant Shee (Liberal). Mr. Grenfell is introduced to the
Liberal p,rty by the Right Hon. C. P.Villiers, 31. P., the
Hon. P. L. Gower, M.P., and Mr. T. G. Baring, chairman
of the Liberal Registration Association. In his address,
just issued, he says he is prepared to support an exten-
sion of the franchise, a well-considered re-distribution of
seats, vote by ballot, the abolition of Church-rates, the
extension of education, the foreign policy of the present
Government, and the local interests of the district. 31r.
Beresford Hope's friends aro making a Vigorous canvass,
and it is felt that his return may be regarded as certain,
unless the Liberals are united. Mr. S. Pope (Radical) has
also issued an address, in which he says he is prepared to
offer himself as a candidate on being invited to do so by
a considerable number of electors. Mr. Montagu Chambers
appears to have retired from the field.
A RIVAL TO THE RoLI, OF BATTLE ABBEY.—
One of the most remarkable learned gatherings of thepresent
year was held recently at the small Norman town of Dives,
the old church there of *Jew
to inaugurate the affixing in
and a carefully compiled list of the companions of William
the Conqueror, in his conquest of England in 1066. Dives,
almost unknown seaport„ was once among
though now an
the most important Norman ports, and is still a locality of
mighty memory, for nigh to it, at the mouth of the river
Dive, according to Hurtle and Lingard, and all historians,
was the appointed rendezvous of William and his leading
warriors prior to their embarkation. In the church of
Dives, still standing, William, before he started, offered up
a prayer to God. An eminent and munificent Norman
savant, M. de Caumont, erected last year a commemorative
column on the very spot where the famous host of the
Conqueror met ; and it is under his auspices that the recent
inauguration of the roll of them has taken place. It was
intended to be an international fete, but owing, in all pro-
bability, to the notice :of the event being about to occur
having been given in the English papers, no English were
present. The stormy weather, too, prevented many from
attending. Nevertheless, the fete went off hilliantly. A
meeting in the Market-hall of Dives, a religious service with
choice music in the church, a promenade to the lately
erected column, and a banquent with 200 covers, formed the
principle features of the affair,

THE LATE DISCOVERY L CASTLE-
SZREET, TONG-ACRE.

THE MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
Information was received yes'orday by Superin-
tendent l‘l'Kenz e, of the F division, by which all
doubt or mystery with respect to the blood-stained
linen, &c., lately thrown away by a woman in
Caste-street, Long-acre, is completely removed. It
appears that a gentleman, whose name and address
and circumstances are known, was in that habit of
visiting an unfortunate woman living in Tower-
street, Seven-dials. On Friday,lsth inst, he called
on her, and saying that he was not very well, asked
her to allow him to lie down in her room, to which
she consented. After he had been in bed some
time she went to the room and found him in-
sensible. She sent for Mr. Roberts, surgeon, of
Earl-street, who, after applying restoratives with-
out effect, and opening a vein in the arm, pro-
nounced life to be extinct. Information was given
to the coroner in the usual manner, an inquest was
held, and Mr. Roberts made a post-mortem exami-
nation of the body, the result of which was that
the cause of death was disease of the heart aid con-
gestion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict
of natural death. The post-mortem examination
took place in the room where the man died, bfiiing
the woman's bedroom, and Mr. Roberts cut away
the shirt and undershirt as being the easiest way of
removing them from the body. They were stained
with blood, partly from the opening of the vein, and
partly during the post-mortem examination. The
woman was puzzled how to dispose of the
blood-stained articles, and foolishly took them out
into the street to throw them away. This is the
simple explanation of the " supposed murder."
It ie curious that the police were occupied during
a great part of Tuesday night in investigating cer-
tain information affordel by the friends of a person
who has been missing from home since the sth inst.
He was a cylinder-sinker, formerly employed on
the Eastern Bengal Railway, and had but lately
returned from India. Two maid servants and a
washerwoman employed at the coffeehouse where
he lodged, identified the torn and bloody shirt as
having belonged to him. They are clearly mistaken
in that identification, as the articles are unques-
tionably those removed from the body of the gentle-
man who died at the house in Tower-street, and
who of course was a very different person from the
Indian cylinder sinker.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE

NORWICH, Aug.—Full particulars have been re-
' ceived to-day at the chief office of the Norfolk
County Police of a shocking affair which occurred
on Monday, at North Lopham, near }lading. It
appears that a cloth hawker named Richard Roberts,
who has for some time resided at Lopham, has been
for the past two years keeping company" with
Eaza Hunt, a young woman living in the parish,
who owns some cottage property of the value of
about £2O per annum. Their wedding has been
repeatedly arranged to take place; but it has been
postponed from time to time for reasons which are
not generally known, except that Roberts has been
in pecuniary difficulties. These misfortunes and the
fact that a rival local suitor had appeared for the
hand of the young woman seem to have preyed
upon his mind ; and from a few broken sentences
which the injured woman has been able to articu-
late to her attendants, it has transpired that on
Monday morning, at an early hour, he called her up,
having come down by mail train from London_ She
let him in to her house, and he took a chair in the
front room of the cottage, she returning to the bed
in which she had sleeping with another woman.
About 8 o'clock both the women got up and went
downstairs, where they found Roberts still in the
front room reading a book. Hunt proceeded to
prepare breakfast and the other woman having
left the house, the parties sat down to breakfast
together. Suddenly, according to the young
woman's statement, without using any angry ex-
pression, Roberts seized her violently, threw
her down, knelt on her, and cut her throat.
She screamed loudly, and a neighbour named
Higgins, living under the same roof, rushed in to
her assistance, but the injuries which she had sus-
tained were so serious that she soon lost all con-
sciousness. When Higgins and the other persons
who had collected began to recover from their
alarm they found that Roberts was standing in the
room also severely wounded, and bleeding profusely.
He, ran upstairs, and being pursued was found
crouching under a bed with a knife in his hand, and
insensible. The circumstances were at once reported
to Mr. Cockell, one of the local magistrates, who
issued' a warrant for the apprehension of Roberts ;
but it was found that the injuries which he had
inflicted on himself were so serious that he could
not be removed, and last night he was scarcely ex-
pected to survive. His intended victim has rallied,
and some hopes are entertained of her recovery.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE
FOR,9ERIES.

Yesterday John Lee was brought up before Mr.
Bigge, stipendiary magistrate, at the Town hall,
Brighton, charged with uttering a forged £5 Bank
of England note, well knowing it to be forged.
Superintendent Barnden briefly stated the case,
the facts of which have already appeared in The
Sun.

Richard Alexander Bevan, a partner in the Union
Bank in Brighton, stated that the note prod need,
purporting to be a Bank of England note, was paid
into their bank on Monday, the 18th inst., and sent
to the bank of Jones Lloyd and Co., their bankers,
on the following day. The initials on the note are
" L. T." the number is 83,165, and it is dated 26th
of March, 1862. He received the note himself', and
it was forwarded to London by one of the clerks in
the bank. It was returned by Jones Lloyd and Co.
on the following Friday, as it was discovered that
the note was forged.

Prisoner, in answer to Mr. Bigge, said he had no-
thing to ask the witness. He was an inuocentman.
Caleb Ken ward, an apprentice to Mr. Corder,
linendraper, North-street, deposed that prisoner
passed the forged ,E 5 note produced on Monday the
18th of August, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
He saw prisoner standing at the counter.
Prisoner here interrupted witness, calling upon
Almighty God to witness his innocence. He was
as innocent as an unborn batie.
Witness continued—An apprentice brought him
the note, and he saw the change given.
Prisoner—l can prove I'm a highly respectable
jeweller in London.
Witness—When the note was brought to hint he
was in the adjoining shop. He (witness) took the
note to Mr. Corder, and then took it back to his
desk, where it remained till the evening, when he
delivered it to Mr. Frederick Corder with other
money. That was between 5 and 6 o'clock. He
Georgegci
did not see any more of it. The apprentice who gave
him the note was named Thomas 111eat,Per. Witness
and saw another
gasasvisetl‘ainetangaemr Xed4 Os, 9d. in in
Starr change,
glue
e it to prisoner..
Witness first saw the prisoner when he went to
show the note to Mr. Corder, and also when the
money was paid to him by Starr.
Superintendent Barnden—How long were you
standing by the counter when you saw the pri-
soner there ?

Witness—Tao or three minutes.
y
Did you take particular notice of hit. Yes, I did.
Have au any
doubt at all about the prisoner?
—Not the slightest doubt. sir.
By Mr. Birzge—Saw prisoner on Saturday in
Lewes Gaol. He was brought before witness.
By Superintendent Barnden—Previous to his
going to Lewes he was cautioned that if he ha,l
any doubt about the prisoner's identity he should
give him the benefit of it ; but he had no doubt.
By gr. Brigge—The note was not endorsed when
first brought to witness ; but prisoner afterwards
endorsed "Frederick Lardner,l4, King's-road,
Chelsea."

Mr. Gadston, clerk in a firm at 34, Old Jewry,
London, here entered the room, and said ho was
d ,
-irons of representing the prisoner.
I‘lr. Bigge decided that he could not allow this.
If solicitors appeared for a prisoner the magistrates
had some control over them, which they bad not
over a clerk.
Mr. White, chief officer, then asked for a remand
till Tuesday next, which was granted.
Mr. Gadston—Will your Worship accept bail?
Mr. Bagge—Certainly not.
Prisoner burst into tears, and called upon.
Almighty God to attest his innocence.
He was then removed.

EXECUTION AT WARSAW.—A letter from Warsaw,
of the 21st inst., in the Independence, says :--4( The
execution of Louis Jaroszynski for the attempt on the life
of the Grand Duke Constantine took place this morning at
nine o'clock, on the glacis of the citadel, in presence of a
crowd composed of about ten thousand persons, among
whom were a large number of women belonging to the
middle classes. He was brought to the place of execution
in a cart drawn by one horse, seatod, and having beside
him a Capuchin monk, holding a crucifix. On arriving at
the foot of the scaffold the sentence was read to him, and ho
was covered with a long white dress which covered his
bead; in a few seconds human justice was satisfied. This
melancholy spectacle made a deep impression on the crowd,
especially the female portion, but no disturbance took place.
Jaroszynski had been condemned
by the court-martial to
be shot, but the authorities charged
the trial ordered him to be depri with the revision of
ve
to his condition, and he was dof the rights attached
executed by hanging."
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The payments
at the building yesterday were 48,168, shilling-day tickets
737, and season tickets 3,950, making a total of 52,695
Yitiitcrs—just about the usual average for Wechloday.