The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1865.

years past ; but reservoirs of one kind or other are
now so numerous that a want of water can never be
so widely felt again, as it was a few years since dur-
ing a dry summer.

" On the whole, the yield of gold from the reefs
has been, perhaps, better maintained than the yield
from the alluvial ground, if we except the deep
leads. And from the reefs generally there will be
no falling off, if there is not an absolute improve-
ment, for the opening of roads into the mountain
regions is being taken advantage of to send machi-
nery where none has been before, and where there
are thousands of tons of rich stone ready for
the mill. Such is the case at the Crooked
River especially, and it will not be long before
many sets of stompers are at work there.
The Wood's Point reefs are still yielding freely,
and averages of 4oz. and soz. to the ton are
not unfrequently announced from the reefs on the
other side of the range. A few rich veins have been
opened in other directions also, a parcel of 18 cwt.
of stone from one of these near Mount Korong pro-
ducing 1950 z. 6dwt., or at the rate of 210 oz. to the
ton. One ton of stone from a reef discovered a
couple of months since in the M'lvor district pro-
duced no less than 2310 z., the yield from 60 tons
crushed during that time having amounted to 700 oz.
13dwt. in all. Forty-two tons out of another reef
in this district produced 186 oz. lldwt. Very good
stone has also been taken out of the Pyrenees Reef,
110 tons of this having "yielded 4470 z. Then 11
tons from a new reef in the Castlemaine district
produced 114 oz. and a load of surface stone from a
reef just found at the foot of Mount Alexander
yielded 38oz. Among the best yields lately obtained
in the Bendigo district was one of 117 oz. from 30
tons out of Specimen-hill, and another of 2560 z.
out of 80 tons out of a claim on the Windmill-hill.
The Tarrangower reefs have also been yielding very
fairly ; but the Inglewood reefs are now yielding
comparatively little, nor will there be any improve-
ment in them until there has been a sufficient ex-
penditure of capital, for the best of them are down
to the water-level. The Port Phillip Company, at
Clunes, crushed 1,160 tons of stone last week, with
a yield of 3580 z. 12dwt. ; and during the month of
Nov. 4,210 tons, with a yield of 1,7070 z. Bdwt. The
Clune United Company crushed 600 tons, from the
deep ground in their claim, during that time, with a
yield of 3630 z. 6dwt. Large returns have been ob-
tained by the principal deep-lead companies at Bal-
larat lately, and shares in these have advanced still
higher in price, without the aid of speculation. Thus,
the Koh-i-Noor Company washed out 1,6780 z. dur-
ing one fortnight, and 1,2520 z. the next; but the
Band of Hope Company did even better than
this, having obtained 1,9690 z.. for ten days' work
in the first period, and 2,7570 z. during the
second fortnight. It is not many weeks since
this company broke into the gutter, and such
returns, which are expected to be steady, will
help to keep up the total yield of the colony. The
largest of the lately found nuggets was one of 860 z.,
obtained by a party of Chinese at Burnt Creek.
Others weighing 450 z., 310 z., and 250 z. were found
respectively at Tarnagulla, Inglewood, and Kin-
gower."

shore of Morecambe Bay, with a pier and breakwater pro-
jecting 850 yards into the sea. Capital, £96,000 ; loan,
£32,000.
SWANSEA VALE AND NEATIL AND BRECON JUNCTION.—
For branches to Abercrave and to the Swansea and Neath
Railway. Capital, £45,000 ; loan, £15,000.
AEON VALLEY.—For a railway to the South Wales and
Llynvi Valley Railways. Capital, £138,000; loan,
£46,000.
OGMORE VALLEY AND ELY VAITIIY EXTENSlON.—Amal-
gamation.
PONTYPOOL, CAERLEON, AND NEWPORT.—For railway
from Pontypool to Caerleon, and to the Great Western at
Newport. Capital, £lOO,OOO ; loan, £33,000.
DUNDRUM, FOICROCK., AND KINGSTOWN JUNCTION.—For
a railway between these places, and communicating with
the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway. Capital,
£50,000 ; loan, £16,000.

BRAY AND ENNISKERRY.—A railway from the Dublin,
Wicklow, and Wexford near Bray to the town of Ennis-
kerry. Capital, £30,000; loan, £lO,OOO.

WEALD OF KENT.—Deviation.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S AND TIEETFORD.—A railway from
Bury St. Edmund's to Thetford. Capital, £120,000; loan,
ZlO,OOO.

The bills withdrawn were those for the King's-cross,
Islington, and Limehouse Railway ; the Blackwall, Green-
wich, and Woolwich Railway ; the East Surrey ; and the
Saltcoats Harbour.

Evans, but confessed he was entirely tired of such Liberals
as Sir J. Shelley, whom he stigmatised as a fictitious re-
former who took care to walk out of the house when it was
about to test the Ministry on the question of reform.
Mr. MARSHALL observed that such/had been the incon-
sistencies of the sham Liberals—men who were mere popu-
larity-mongers, who pledged themselves to everything they
were asked, and as soon as they got into Parliament threw
all their pledges on one side—that, as one of the electors of
Westminster, he would rather have a Liberal Conservative
like Lord Stanley, or some one they knew something about
than a Liberal who, for the sake of getting into Parliament,
was ready to profess everything and sacrifice all his profes-
sions the moment he got in.

After some observations from Mr. Walton and Mr. Long-
staff,

Mr. BIDGOOD said he thought it would be absolutely ne-
cessary that a perfect understanding should be come to
between the committee and any future members on such
great and fundamental questions asreform, university tests,
church rates, and so on, for it was upon these conditions
only he could consent to be a party to the movement.
Any division among liberals was much to be deprecated.
The line between liberalism and liberal conservatism had
become so indistinct, that it was very difficult for a voter to
say, " I will not vote for you in consequence of a name,"
and he had no doubt that many gentlemen on the conserva-
tive side of the house more truly represented the views of the
liberal electors of Westminster than many who sat on the
liberal side of the house. That made the position of the
voters difficult. Major Lyon had made a reference to the
old Rump of Westminster. Well, the old Rump of West-
minster had done some little good in its time. (Hear, hear.)
He hoped that its example would be followed by any new
organisation that might be formed. There had been no
contest in Westminster for upwards of 12 years, which he
considered a very great advantage. If they could keep out of
a contest in consequence of this organisation, so much the
better. General Evans had faithfully served them, and
they honoured him. With respect to Sir J. Shelley, he
was there to challenge anyone to say that either he had ab-
stained from voting in favour of measures he proposed to
adopt, or that he had voted for measures to which he had
stated that he was opposed. [A voice—" He walked out of
the house on the very first occasion when the ministry was
tested on the question of reform."] He would pledge him-
self to produce the address of Sir J. Shelley on his coming
forward, and he would defy them to point to a single in-
stance in which he hid dishonoured his pledged. Ho hoped
the meeting would not be led away by a reference to model
members, who saw their constituents once a year as a rule.
The whole thing was balderdash. Just in proportion to
the manner in which men ran about and pandered to their
constituents were they useless and valueless in the house.
He should wish to see an honourable, upright, strong-
minded man representing them, and he urged the meeting
to beware of men who had nothing to recommend them
but glibness of tongue, and who had no political character
to lose. He went with the meeting in the formation of the
committee, and he was sure that the result would be that
at the next election two good and true men would be
elected. (Cheers.)
Mr. BEALE explained the present political position of the
City of Westminster. The present organisation was
really intended to heal the breach which took place in 1852,
and he was rejoiced to find that Mr. Bidgood had given in
his adhesion. The fact was that the quietude of Westmin-
ster for the last 12 years was not the quietude of content,
but that of death. The representatives of Westminster
took no part in the great debates on imperial questions, and
the condition of the borough had for a long time been a by-
word. He believed that the effect of the formation of this
committee would be that it would open to the City of
Westminster a new political future, and that the voice of
its representatives would be again heard on imperial ques-
tions, so that they would once more be raised from the dull
level of mediocrity in which they now stood.
After a few observations from Mr. Cocks, Mr. Smith, and
Mr. Hilton, the resolution for the formation of a committee
was pu: to the meeting and carried unanimously.

The CHAIRMAN announced that Mr. Donald had kindly
placed one of the rooms of St. James's-hall at the disposal
of the committee free of charge. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to Mr. Donald was carried by acclama-
tion, and a similar compliment to the chairman for presid-
ing concluded the proceedings.

The Garotte Robbery at Sheffield on Earl
Fitzwilliam's Coal Agent.

SHEFFIELD, Feb. 13.
The police have at length been successful in appre-
hending the third ruffian engaged in the desperate at-
tack on Mr. Burnby, on the 23d December, and from the
effects of which that gentleman is still suffering severely.
It will be recollected that, on the first examination of the
prisoners already in custody, and whose names are Dennis
Carr and Henry Smith, it was asserted that Hall—who
was supposed to be the man who had seized Mr. Burn-
by from behind, and not only half-strangled him, but
called upon his comrade Carr to hit him lower in the
chest—had left Sheffield for Birmingham, and had escaped
from the hands of the police there. On Thursday, Mr.
Unwin, solicitor, who was engaged for the prosecution,
applied for a remand, in order that the police might use
further Andeavonrg to produoo Hall at the next examina-
tion. This reasonable application, though opposed by
the attorney for Carr and Smith, was readily granted by
the bench of magistrates, and I am now able to state that
on Sunday the police succeeded in capturing him and
lodging him in safe custody. His apprehension was
effected in the following manner :—From information
which the detectives had received, that Hall had an aunt
residing at Stannington, a village a few miles from
Sheffield, it was thought very likely he might make for
her house as a harbour of refuge, and it was determined
to search it on Sunday evening. Knowing the desperate
character of Hall, the officers took the precaution of
arming themselves well, and being very stealthy in
their movements, for at Birmingham he had escaped out
of a front window with nothing on but his night-shirt,
and it afterwards turned out that he had walked the
whole distance from that place to Stannington at night,
sleeping in the daytime to prevent being identified by the
police. Mr. Whiteley, who was the detective officer in
charge of the case, taking with him detective-officer Winn,
Inspector Bosher, of the West Riding constabulary force,
and two other assistants, arrived at Hilsborough police-
station in a cab about half-past nine. Leaving the vehicle
at the station, Mr. Whiteley and his men proceeded on foot
to Stannington. Here, after making inquiries, they found
out the cottage in which a Mrs. Furniss, the aunt of Hall,
resided. Placing one officer at the front door, another at
the back, while a third went into the next house to prevent
any alarm being given by Hall's relatives, who were stop-
ping there, Mr. Whiteley, with Inspector Bosher, demanded
and obtained admittance. Mr. Furniss, the husband of
Mrs. Furniss, who remained in bed, admitted that he had
seen Hall that afternoon, and that he had left for Sheffield
with another man. Paying no attention to the statement
Mr. Whiteley went up stairs and searched minutely every
room, but could discover no trace of him. It should be
stated that to the cottage of Furniss a shop had been added
and from one of the bed-rooms a (Icor opened into the sltop,,
in which a trap-door had been constructed, leading to an-
other room underneath the shop, and communicating with
the back part of the premises. Mr. Whiteley at once saw
that this spot was in all probability his hiding-place, and
almost immediately afterwards he found Hall in custody of
Detective-officer Winn and Police-constable Pople. The
resistance made by the prisoner was of the most desperate
character, for in coming out of the back-door of the cottage
he knocked Pople down, and would in all probability have
again defeated the ends of justice had not Mr. Whiteley,
with great foresight, placed Detective Winn as a reserve
man. He immediately seized Hall, and in doing so re-
ceived a violent blow from him on the nose, and a desperate
struggle ensued, Winn never leaving his hold, and using
his staff whenever he had a chance. At last the prisoner
cried out " I yield." " Then put out your hands," re-
plied Winn,lo put on the handcuffs. At this instant the
ruffianism of the scoundrel was particularly manifested, for
he inflicted a serious injury on the officer in a most delicate
part of his person, and but for the latter hitting him until
be was insensible he would have made his escape, for he
was as lithesome as an eel, and the fastest runner in Shef-
field. Being now secured he was brought to Sheffield in a
light cart and lodged in the cells of the Town Hall. 'The
serious nature, however, of the wounds he had received
compelled the immediate attendance of the police doctor,
who dressed his wounds and ordered him to be supplied
with stimulants. This treatment is still continued, for he
remains in such a prostrate condition that he was unable
to attend before the magistrate with the other prisoners,
Carr and Smith, who were consequently remanded until
Monday next, when it is to be hoped Hall will be suffi-
ciently recovered to bear an examination. I should add
that Hall is a fine, wiry young fellow, about 27 years of
age, stands about sft. Bin., and is a grinder by trade. He
may be said, however, to belong to the criminal classes,
for he has often been summarily convicted, and was looked
upon as one of the cleverest cracksmen in Sheffield. The
apprehension of such a desperado naturally created great
excitement in Sheffield, and too much credit cannot be
given to Mr. Whiteley and his assistants for the indefatig-
able industry, courage, and skill which they displayed in
the conduct of the case, and which promises to break up a
gang that has long been a terror. to the neighbourhood.
Carr, the other prisoner, is a returned convict, and Smith
has suffered several previous convictions. Winn has suf-
fered so severely from the struggle that he is unfit for duty,
and it may be some time before he recovers.

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