The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 180

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

DISTURBING THE CONGREGATION IN A CHURCH.—SIN-
GULAR CASE.—James Barnard, a carpenter, who refused
his address, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with being
drunk, and behaving in a disorderly manner, in St. Mark's
Church, North Audley-street.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kingsley, the pew-opener at St. Mark's
Church, North Audley-street, said—Yesterday afternoon
about four o'clock the prittner came into the church and
made a disturbance—disturbing the whole congregation.
He threw himself down on his knees and howled worse
than a dog. He then ran out of the church, and I, accom-
panied by the bell-ringer, pursued him and gave him into
custody. The prisoner did not appear to be drunk.
The prisoner—l did not run out of the church. It was
the working of the Holy Spirit.
Mr. Mansfield—The Holy Spirit ! you are charged with
being drunk.

The prisoner-011, it's all false.
Police-constable Henry Brown, 74 C—At four yester-
day afternoon I saw the prisoner running in Davis-street,
pursued by a crowd calling out "Stop him, stop him !" I
stopped the prisoner, and he said " Let me go, it's all right.
I've done nothing." The pow-opener then came up and
gave the prisoner in charge for disturbing the congrega-
tion of St. Mark's Church. The prisoner was drunk, and
under his coat I found a large iron sash weight attached
to apiece of cord round his waist.
The prisoner—That is for my protection. I was not
drunk. It's false. I've as much right to go to church as
any of you. The church is for the poor as woll as the
rich.
Mr. Mansfield—You are charged with being drunk and
disorderly.
The prisoner—lt's all false. Look at my hat; see how
it's been knocked about. It's a scandalous thing.
Mr. Mansfield remanded the prisoner that inquiries may
be made respecting him.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.

JANUARY.

Manchester
FEBR

1

ARY.

Lincoln

Nottingham Spring
ESC H.

Derby Spring. 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring
-

C rox ton Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

Ne wmarket Craven 2
Durham
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Chelmsford Spring
_ _

Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Chester
Curragh
:AY.

Ascot Spring 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring
JU.

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Summer 29

Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
ELY.

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
AUG

Down Royal Corp lB
Stamford l9
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon
UST.

Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham l4
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l
SEPT]
Warwick September 4
Curragh
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Canterbury lB

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 2B
Weymouth 3O

MBER.
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 24
Newmarket Ist October 26
2

OCTOBER.
Northampton 2 I Newmarket Houghton 22
Newmarket 2d October 8 Worcester
Curragh
NOVE

MBER.

Lincoln
Liyorpool

I Shrewsbury
Leamington Hunt ll

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.....Deo. —.
Ditto, via Marseilles lan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Jan. 4.
Ditto, by French packet Dec. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Dec. 22
China. Penang., and Singapore, via Sou. hampton Dec. -.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton . Dec. —.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Dec.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 27.
Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 21.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil:e 3 Jan. 5.
Newfoundland / 111 I Jan. 17.
Portugal . Jan 4.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet .. ..Dec. 28
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-

ton ..

Ditto, via Cork & • • •
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Dec. I'2.
West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico Dec. 2).
Cuba and Mexico
Bahamas, via New 1 ork. Jan. 11.
Bermuda, ditto

MARKETS—This Day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

For the time of year about an average supply of each
kind of stock was on offer in our market to day, in fair
average condition. As very few buyers were in attendance,
sales generally progressed slowly, at about last week's
quotations. The arrivals from Scotland amounted to 194
head. _ _ _

Per 81b to sink the offal.

adsd a d s d
Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 2 3 6 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 4 5 10
Second quality do ..3 8 4 2 Prime b'thdowa n 0.6 u 6 4
Prime large oxen —4 4 4 6 Large coarse calves. 3 8 4 2
Prime Scuts, &c.... 4 8 4 10 Prime small d0......4 4 4 8
Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 8 4 4 Large hogs .4 t 4 6
Second quality do ..4 6 5 2 Small porkers 4 8 5 0
Lamb....os Od to O. Od.
Suckling calves, 193 to 2.5 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 305
t') 325 each.

New Water Supply.

Upwards of 100,000,000 of gallons is the daily
supply of water to 3,000,000 of people in the metro-
polis. But it is chiefly river water, and impure to
a considerable degree. Besides, it is not sufficient,
and may become less ; and it is dear, and not likely
to be supplied at a less charge so long as eight
monopolist companies are favoured by Parliament
with the power to do just as they think fit, without
much regard to the ratepayers to whom the water
is a necessary of life. At present the gross revenue
of seven companies is £702,059 ; their working ex-
penses £275,547, and the " amount actually paid
in dividends and interest on borrowed money,
£404,585." The last item is far from agreeable to
those who have obtained the abolition of all other
great monopolies, and there is no good reason to
offer why it should be continued.

The metropolis wants more water for domestic
use, for trade purposes, for fires, and flushing drains.
But if a sufficiency were taken from the river there
would be an end to the navigation, and the droughts
make the supply, such as it is, still worse.
The other sources of supply have long been exa-
mined, and fully debated; and there appears to be
no soft water nearer than North Wales. To this
supply an able hydraulic engineer, Mr. John F.
Bateman, aided by a large experience of 30 years,
now directs the attention of the public in a well-
prepared pamphlet on the subject; and he does so
at a time when the existing companies are extend-
ing their works, and when the subject is likely to
be considered on general and public grounds. We
have also the good examples of Glasgow, Manches-
ter, and Liverpool to refer to as guides, and some-
thing like a metropolitan corporation—in the Me-
tropolitan Board of Works—possessed of general
financial powers over the metropolitan rental for
certain purposes. During 10 years, too, these have
been usefully exercised.

To such a corporation as this Mr. Bateman pro-
poses to entrust the whole water supply, in order to
obtain within the next years 130 million gallons daily,
and ultimately 220 millions, of pure soft water. The
cost is to be about eight millions and a half, and for
the larger supply about two or three millions more.
The money would be obtained within the seven
years, as the works advanced, by loans, probably
under Government guarantee, at a limited rate of
interest, or about £4 per cent. If so, the cost yearly
for interest, working expenses, and payment of divi-
dend annuities to existing companies, would be
about £914,000 ; and the income from water rates,
at 10d. in the pound for domestic purposes, and 2d.
in the pound as a public rate on the metropolitan
rental of about 18 millions, and the sales of water
for trading purposes, would be about £950,000.

The districts selected are near Cardigan Bay at
the sources of the River Severn, where three large
mountains rise to the heights of 2,914, 2,979, and
2,500 feet. Two districts are marked out, each being
upwards of 60,000 acres in extent, and the lowest
discharge pipes from the reservoir would be 450 ft.
above the level of Trinity high water mark. It is
proposed to form three reservoirs or lakes, one five
miles long, another four miles long, and a third
nearly as large. These would contain 2,761,000,000
cubic feet of water, and another could be made to
give 150 per cent. more water than is available to
Glasgow from Loch Latrine, or 2,230,000,000 cubic
feet.

From these sources the aqueduct to the metropolis
would be 183 miles in length, carried through the
successive mountain ridges principally by tunnelling,
in the same manner as the aqueduct from Loch
Latrine to Glasgow, and by tunnel or aqueduct
through the comparatively open country.

At Stanmore the service reservoirs will be 250 feet
above Trinity high water mark, and thus command
most of the metropolis by gravitation. At present
the water companies use steam power, equal to
10,790 horses, to pump water. They supply about
470,000 houses with 108,500,000 gallons daily, dis-
tributed through 3,000 miles of mains and branches.
They possess a very small extent of subsiding re-
servoirs or filter beds. Their works have cost, prior
to 1850, £4,738,878, and since 1852, for alteration
of works, of £3,875,334.
The scheme proposed is so simple and excellent--

Lndeed magnificent, as to lead us to hope that the

ratepayers may be wise enough to have it at once
adopted, and from " the flanks of the mountain

ranges of Cadar Idris and Plynlinunon in North
Wales" let us obtain our future water supply, soft
and pure, from an abundant rainfall.

Agricultural Prospects.

All accounts agree in stating the finish of wheat
sowing to have been satisfactorily accomplished
during more than the recent run of fine dry weather,
with the wind prevailing from the N.E., accompa-
nied by a very high barometer. The week opened
fine and dry, but with occasionally a thick atmos-
phere ; wind N. Monday was a thick foggy day,
very dense in the forenoon, wind N. to N.E., ther-
mometer 46 deg., and barometer 30.45 in. On Tues-
day the wind got round to the S.E., barometer down
to 30.10 in., having fallen steadily most part of the
day, with slight drizzling rain, and a change appeared
at hand in the state of the weather. Our advices on
that day from Lancashire stated :—" A continuance
of fine dry weather has proved of great importance
to the agricultura 1 interest in enabling a considerable
further breadth of wheat land to be planted, and the
fall-sowing of grain may be counted upon as almost
completed, and the early-sown is generally reported
as looking well on the ground." From the East Riding
of Yorkshire it was remarked :—" Weather is now
mild and open, and the young wheats are looking re-
markably well." From Northumberland, " The wea-
ther since our last report has been fine ; wind N. and
N.W. To-day is frosty ; wind S.W." The advices
from Scotland as regards the season have been fa-
vourable ; as from thence it was stated—" We have
had a week of beautiful weather for the season of
the year, with an unprecedentedly high barometer.
Wheat sowing has been resumed under favourable
circumstances." On Wednesday the wind was round
to the S.W., and slight drizzling rain fell at times.
During the remainder of the week the weather con-
tinued thick, and at times extremely foggy, with
the wind mostly from S., and colder than in the
earlier part of the week ; while rain appeared to
threaten, but still it held up, and closed fine for
the season. The wheat first put into the ground has
made good progress, not having been checked by
any frost, and our advices from Surrey relative
thereto state—" The mildness of the weather of late
has caused the early sown wheat to grow fast, and
high above the ground, such as the farmers call
winter proud, and a little check would now be bet -
ter. Just inithis neighbourhood the cattle have been,
with one or two exceptions, free from the plague ;
but at no great distance it has raged very much.
It is indeed a fearful visitation. The corn markets
all round are without change. Good wheat commands
a pretty ready sale, and the millers say the best of
last year's crop makes good flour." There is no oc-
casion to depreciate this description, at any rate ;
but it is better than at one time expected, and if
the very damp qualities, arising from the heavy
rains before the stacks were thatched, should be al-
lowed to remain until next March, the usual drying
winds of that month will bring the corn round, and
it may then command remunerating prices. On the
whole agricultural prospects, as regards grain, are
not now so bad, but those who are experiencing the
cattle plague are suffering the most. Yet there is a
superabundance of prime meat this Christmas for
every class of the community, and, what is more,
this is now obtainable at very moderate prices.—
Mark-lane Express.

A NEW STEAMER FOR THE INMAN LINE.—
Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, of Partick, have launched an
iron screw for the Inman line of Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia steamers. Tho vessel, which is named the
City of Paris, is 373 feet in length 40 feet in breadth, and
27 feet in depth, while her burden is 2,800 tons, old
measurement. The hull of the City of Paris is divided
into eight water-tight compartments by bulkheads ; and
each compartment will be fitted with a steam fire annihi-
lator, and a centrifugal pump capable of lifting more than
1,000 gallons of water per minute. A double set of steer-
ing gear has been provided. The City of Paris will be
propelled by a pair of direct-acting horizontal trunk
engines of 680 horse power nominal. Messrs. Tod and
Macgregor are about to lay down the keel of another
steamer for the Inman line, but of smaller dimensions
than the City of Paris.

Noble and Distinguished Men.

(From Who's Who for 1866.)
The oldest duke is the Duke of Northumberland, aged 87;
the youngest, the Duke of Norfolk, aged 18. The oldest
marquis, the Marquis of Westmeath, aged 80 ; the youngest
the Marquis of Ely, ages 16. The oldest earl, the Earl of
Onslow, aged 88 ; the youngest, the Earl of Charleville,
aged 13. The oldest viscount, Viscount Gough, aged 86;
the youngest, Viscount Downe, aged 21. The oldest baron,
Lord Brougham, aged 87 ; the youngest Lord Rodney,
aged 8. The oldest member of the Privy Council is Lord
Brougham, aged 87 ; the youngest his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, aged 24. The oldest member of the
House of Commons is Sir William Vernon, Bart., member
for the county of Armagh, aged 83 ; the youngest the Earl
of Tyrone, member for Waterford, aged 21. The oldest
judge in England is the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington,
aged 83 ; the youngest, Sir James P. Wilde, aged 49. The
oldest judge in Ireland, the Right Hon. Thomas Lefroy,
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, aged 89 ; the youngest,
Justice Keogh, aged 48. The oldest Scotch lord of session,

the Right Hon. Duncan 111• Neill, Lord Justice General,
aged 72 ; the youngest, David Mure, Lord Mure, aged 54.
The oldest archbishop, the Archbishop of Canterbury, aged
71; the youngest, Archbishop of York, aged 46. The
oldest bishop, the Bishop of Exeter, aged 88 ; the youngest,
the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, aged 46. The oldest
baronet, Sir Stephen L. Hammick, aged 88 ; the youngest,
Sir Henry Hayes Lawrence, aged one year. The oldest
civil and military knight is General Sir Arthur B. Clinton,
aged 93 ; youngest, Sir Charles T. Bright, aged 33.
The House of Peers at present consists of 1 prince, 2
royal dukes, 3 archbishopes, 25 dukes, 31 marquises, 158
earls, 30 viscounts, 28 bishops, and 158 barons—the total
number of peers being 435. The Bishop of Bath and Wells
sits also as Baron Auckland. The following clergymen have
also seats in the House of Peers as lay peers:—The Rev. A.
E. Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire ; the Rev. William
George Howard, Earl of Carlisle; the Very Rev. William
John Broderick, Viscount Midleton ; the Rev. Wm. Nevil,
Earl of Abergavenny ; the Yen. Fredk. Twisleton-Wyke-
ham-Fiennes, D.C.L. Lord Saye and Sele ; the Rev. Henry
W. Powlett, Lord Bayning ; the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel 11.
Curzon, Lord Scarsdale ; and the Right Rev. Thomas
Plunket, Lord Plunket. The heir-presumptive to the title
of Lord Arundell and Wardour is his brother, the Rev.
Everard Aloysius Gonzaga, a Jesuit priest. There are 115
peers of Scotland and Ireland, who are not peers of Par-
liament ; there are 217 members of the Privy Council ;
and the archbishops, bishops, colonial bishops, bishops of
the Episcopal Church of Scotland, and retired bishops,
aumber 98. There are 849 baronets, 450 civil and mili-

tarp knights, 107 noblemen and baronets who are Knights
of the various Orders, 17 Knights of the Order of the Star
of India, 717 Knights Companions of the Order of the
Bath,4 field-marshals, 578 general officers in the army, 323
generals in her Majesty's Indian army, 313 admirals in the
navy, 54 judges in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 159
Queen's Counsel and Serjeants-at-Law in England, and
92 in Ireland. There are 174 deaths recorded of those
whose names appeared in Who's Who, and who died
between the 30th November, 1864, and Ist December, 1865,
with the dates of their birth and death.