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London, England, 1862-10-21 00:00:00

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SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Gibbons.)

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EXTRAORDINARY COLLISION CASE -MACARTHY V. THE
GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an action to recover £lO 14s. 6d. damages to a
horse under very singular circumstabces.
Mr. Gray appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Ashley,
of Charles-square, Hoxton, for the company.
The plaintiff's witnesses deposed that in the Broadway,
Ludgate-hill, there was a deep hole from which rubbish
was carted by the plaintiff. The cart was backed to within
a few feet of the hole ; the horse's head being towards
the street. On the 9th June last plaintiff's cart was in its
place when a van belonging to the defendants, laden with
paper, in endeavouring to get by struck the shaft of plain-
tiff's cart, which was with the horse precipitated into the
hole, from which the latter was with difficulty extricated.
Mr. Ashley—I believe it is a blind horse.
In cross-examination one of the witnesses said that the
wheels of plaintiff's cart were properly scotched up with a
large piece of atone to each wheel. Defendant's driver
could have avoided the collision with a little care.
Mr. Ashley, on the part of the Company, said his clients
were anxious in these cases to get at the facts. The Cora
pany's driver had been in its service for ten years, and was
a steady man. He was taking a load of paper to the Times
office, and no doubt the noise of the heavy van frightened
plaintiff's horse and caused it to back into the pit. It was
usual to scotch up wheels with a long stout piece of timber,
and had that been done in this case no accident would have
occurred. Mr. Ashley called two officers, and, after hear-
ing their evidence, his Honour held that plaintiff's wheels
were properly scotched up, and found for plaintiff for
£7 19s. 6d. and costs.

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THE St*, LONDON, TfJES9AY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1862.

7HE WAR IN AMERICA.

We extract the following from a letter which
appears in the columns of a contemporary :

"As it is improbable that any very decisive events
will occur before winter sets in, it is important to
consider what will be the relative strength of the
armies next March, should the war unhappily con-
tinue. Suppose that the nominal force of the North
at the opening of this campaign will exist in reality
next year. It is, indeed, difficult to imagine how
the Washington Government will support and handle
in the field 700,000 men. Whatever the number of
men, there are limits to the supply of arms, stores,
transport, and the power of floating paper money.
Were the North next month to call for and obtain
another million of men, this, so far from adding
to its strength, would weaken it. They must be fed
and paid, and they could neither be brought into
the field nor used there to advantage in a country
so ill adapted for the operations of very large
armies. But, taking 700,000 as the number on the
one side, what will be that on the other I' It may
be safely estimated that the Confederates have now
300,000 men under arms, and that in March next,
after the new levy has come into action, they will
have 450,000, including irregulars and all branches
of the service. If, then, the attempt to subdue
the country has proved futile when the propor-
tionate strength was as 500 to 150, what will be the
prospect of success with the numbers as 700 to 450?
With these elements, and basing a judgment upon
the experience of the past, there cannot be a reason-
able doubt of the ability of the South to maintain
its independence."

Mr. Chase informs us that he is spending at the
rate of £155,000,000 sterling a year. The whole in-
come of the Federal Government when the war
began was £11,000,000.

EAST CUMBE.RLAND AGRICULTURAL

At the dinner of the East Cumberland Agricultural
Society, G. H. Head, Esq., of Rickerby House, presided ;
the Hon. Charles W. G. Howard, M.P., officiated as vice-
chairman.

Mr. R. FERGUSON proposed the health of the members
for the city.

Mr. LawsoN, M.P., in returning thanks on behalf of his
absent colleague and himself, said he did not know that
during the last session of Parliament there were any sub-
jects discussed having a particular bearing on the agricul-
tural interest. The last session, if not one of the most in-
teresting, was certainly one of the most unexciting and
uneventful of any they had seen for years past. At the com-
mencement they seemed of such friendly dispositions and
so quiet, and seemed so to agree with one another, that the
old simile of the happy family seemed perfectly applicable
(Laughter.) But this blessed calm did not continue the
whole session. (Laughter.) After a while the trump of
war was blown, the battle was set in array, and the hostile
forces faced each other—(laughter)—but when they ex-
pected the shock of battle the opposing party left the field
and left them in possession of it. (Laughter.) It was one
of those things which would have given the greatest plea-
sure to his volunteer friend—a sham fight. (Laughter.)
Members of Parliament were in the habit of getting up and
confessing their faults and saying they had done very
little, but he did not know that any great complaint had
been made of this. Some were of opinion that the House
of Commons was a perfect reflex of the national wishes,
and the reason why they did not carry any great measures
was that they were not wanted. (Laughter and cheers.)
He congratulated the gentlemen who held that opinion
that the theory was consistent with the prac-
tice—the theory being that the country wants the
House of Commons to do nothing, and the prac-
tice that they do it uncommonly well. (Laughter.) One
thing they never neglected—they never neglected raising
the revenue. (Hear, hear.) Their rulers wished them tobe
well prepared against any foreign foe, and the cheerfulness
with which the country bore a taxation unheard of in times
of peace was most extraordinary, and in some respects most
gratifying. (Hear, hear.) But they could Rot conceal from
themselves that if bad times should continue, and if the con-
flict across the Atlantic should not be brought to a conclusion,
they would have great difficulty in raising the enormous
revenue. (Hear, hear.) No Legislature or bad Govern-
ment had conduced to the distress they saw, and he did not
know that any measure of the Government could afford relief;
and although they could do nothing to stop the miserable
conflict which was now going on in America he was sure
he expressed the feelings of this meeting when he said
they most earnestly longed for a message to arrive which
would proclaim the restoration of peace on the other side of
the Atlantic, and restore prosperity to our own suffering
classes. (Cheers.)

The Hon. C. HOWARD, M.P., proposed " The Mayor and
Corporation of Carlisle." There might bo times of diffi-
culty in Carlisle, and it would require all the energy of the
Mayor and Corporation to do what was in their power to
relieve those who have been hitherto employed in the cot-
ton manufactures. He hoped the time might soon come
when peace would pl.( vail between the North and South.
(Hear.) Enough bloodhad already been shed, and he hoped
the North would now see it was not in their power to make
conquest of the South. (Cheers.) But while he said this he
did not wish his feelings should be misunderstood. It would
be a grievous thing to humanity if the South, in addition to
obtaining their independence, should acquire any consider•
able extension of territory—(hear, hear)—as it would be
likely to lead to the greatest evil that can happen mankind
—the extension of the system of slavery. (Cheers.)
Mr. BENDLE responded, and called attention to the fact
that he had net fulfilled his promise of providing a bull, as
the Mayors did of old, for the benefit of the city.
(Laughter.)
Mr. P. H. HOWARD proposed the health of the Presi-
dent of the Society in complimentary terms, and in the
course of his speech he alluded to American affairs.
He paid he trusted the time had arrived er was very
speedily to arrive, when the intervention of this coun•
try and the other Great Powers of Europe might re-
store peace to that land—so that we should be able to
claim those high promises and blessings bestowed and
proclaimed as belonging to peace makers in Holy
Writ. (Cheers.) We know that unless in a state
of complete exhaustion, neither of those mighty belligerents
san sue for peace, and, therefore, peace must come from ex-
ternal well-wishers, We aro by no means so unpopular in
the United States as the more exaggerating portion of the
press of that land would seem to say ; and he believed we
should lose more by any coldness and indifference to their
lot than by anything like active intervention. By thus
per
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repliedng o p eirna t
ai ves.
restoring peace to that land we should also restore pros-
suffering
lengthy( Chsepeerese.
)h, in which he
traced the progress of agriculture in the last few years. He
advocated the introduction of improved breeds of stock, and
new machinery, and pointed out the advantages of deep
drainage and other modes by which the fertility of the soil
could be increased.

Capt. JAMES, of Barroch Park, in proposing the health
of the hidges, referred to the remark made by the chairman
about farming by the almanack. He thought our ancestors
were not so far wrong. From his own experience he knew
that on fallow wheat sown before Brough Hill, and on
other land wheat sown before Martinmas would be nine
times out of ten better than if sown at other times—(hear,
hear)—and he had also found that oats sown on the let of
April would be nine times out of ten better than if sown on
any other day in the season. (Hear, hear.) He called on
the judges not to be mealy-mouthed, but if there was a blot
in the show to tell them what it was, (Cheers,)
Mr. FORSTER having replied, speaking highly of his de-
partment, Mr. FAWCETT proposed " The Vice-President,"
who replied. Mr. LAWSON, M.P., proposed "The Press,"
suggesting the formation of a farmers' club in Carlisle. Mr.
W. STEEL responded on behalf of the representatives
present.

The SECRETARY read the following report of the In-
spectors of Green Crops :

GREEN CROP.—INgPECTOR'S REPORT.
" To the Committee of the East Cumberland Agricultural
Society.
"Gentlemen,—Agreeable to your instructions we pro-
ceeded to examine the different lots entered for competition
for the prizes offered for the best green crops. The num-
ber of competitors was large, being no fewer than fifteen,
and, being spread over a great extent of country, entailed
a considerable amount of labour, and required a good
deal of time ; but for which we felt sufficiently rewar-
ded by having to examine crops so much superior to
what we had expected to meet with, owing to the unfa-
vourable nature of the season. For farms above 150 acres
there were four entries, and for farms under 150 acres there
were 11 entries, and after a careful examination of the dif-
ferent points required to be attended to by any one who may
wish to compete for a premium for green crop, we award the
prize for the larger class of farms to Mr. Robert Graham,
Holm Gate, and for the smaller class of farms to Mr. John
Harrison, Ure,erby. And we feel we should be wanting in
duty to the society which, in offering those premiums, hopes
to be able thereby to encourage an improved mode of culti-
vating green crops, if we did not suggest to some of the
oacom-
petitors that they might have had their land morecln
and the turnips better thinned and got up. This recom-
mendation, however, we are glad to say, applies o.noly,!La
very few, several of the others, as well as those to
good
we have awarded the prizes, are not only very com-
mended,crops but are well got up and deserve to be hi
the weather during the past season —We_
Thomas Wright,
yours respectfully, Thomas Donald,
more especially after the unfavouarareb,legennattluermeenof
Robert Armstrong."
health of the Secretary (Mr. Thomas,, J
Te Successful The Chairman, in complimentary term_
re-
sponded.—The Vice-Chairman geovfe
Broomhills, Com-
petitors,"replied.—
The to which Mr. Birkett,
Unsuccessful Competitors," to
Chairman gave "The
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gave "The
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Trade of Carlisle," paying - d Mr. Blamire, as two
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to the late Sir James
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proposed the
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The proceedings
who acknowledged the corn;i
o'clock.