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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1.865.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

DISTURBING TILE CONGREGATION IN A CILURCII.—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 prisoner came into the church and
made a disturbance—disturbing the whole congregation.
He threw himself down on leis 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—Oh, 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 pew-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 a piece 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 well 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.

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JANUARY.

Manchester
FEBR

Lincoln 2O

ARY.

Nottingham Spring 27
Cromton Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

MA:

Derby Spring 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring
-

Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Chelmsford Spring

RIL.
Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Chester
Curragh 24
:AY.

Ascot Spring 1
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring
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Epsom Sun mer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Summer 29

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

ILiverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
"LY.

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract 9
Abingdon
Reading

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

AUG

Brighton 7
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham 14
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter . ..... 28
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 28
Weymouth 3O

SEPT

Warwick September 4
Curragh
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Canterbury lB

IMBER.
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 24
Newmarket let October 26
Walsall
q3ER.

OCT

Northampton 2
Newmarket 2d October 8
Curragh
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Newmarket Houghton
Worcester

22
~ 30

NOVEMBER.
Lincoln
I Liverpool

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 leas 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 i 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 lugs experience of 30 years,
now directs the attenticn 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-
thingt
like a metropolitan rporation—in the Me-
tropolitan Board of Wor —possessed of general
financial powers over
~he etropolitan 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 £944,000 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 millons, 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 thret reservoirs or lakes, one five
miles long, another lour 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. mere water than is available to
Glasgow from Loch liatthe, or 2,230,000,000 cubic
feet.

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

At Stanmore the mrvice reservoirs will be 250 feet
above Trinity high vater mark, and thus command
most of the metropois by gravitation. At present
the water companies use steam power, equal to
10,790 horses, to pupil water. They supply about
470,000 houses with 108,500,000 gallons daily, dis-
tributed through 3,0)0 miles of mains and branches.
They possess a very 'small extent of subsiding re-
servoirs or filter bedi. Their works have cost, prior
to 1850, £4,738,878, 2nd since 1852, for alteration
of works, of £3,875334.

The scheme proposed is so simple and excellent—
indeed rnagnifledift; as to lead us to hope that the
ratepayers may be wile enough to have it at once
adopted, and from the flanks of the mountain
ranges of Cadar Idis and Plynlimmon in North
Wales" let us obtain Jur future water supply, soft
and pure, from an abindant rainfall.

AgricultirPl Prospects.

All accounts agreen stating the finish of wheat
sowing to have beensatisfactorily accomplished
during more than thErecent run of fine exy weather,
with the wind prevaitng from the N.E., accompa-
nied by a very high birornetez. The week opened
fine and dry, but wit). occasionally a tb'ck atmos-
phere ; wind N. Maiday was a thick foggy day,
very dense in the fornoon, wind N. to N.E., ther-
mometer 46 deg., am barometer 30-45 in. On Tues-
day the wind got round to the S.E., barometer down
to 30-10 in., having falen steadily most part of the
day, with slight drizzl;.lg rain, and a change appeared
at hand in the state d
the weather. Our advicea on
that day from Lancasi
stated :—" A continuance
of fine dry weatlft hrs
proved of great importance
to the agriculture 1 int
frest in enabling a considerable
further breadth of what land to be planted, and the
fall-sowing of grain /fay 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 tht young wheats are looking re-
markably well." Frort Northumberland, " The wea-
ther since our last report has been fine ; wind N. and
N.W. To-day is frost?' ; 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 in;this 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
iall 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 Epres,;.

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. The 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. Tho 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 par 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 aro 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 dukeis 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, aged 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 /11. Neill, Lord Justice General,
aged 72 ; the youngest, David Mure, Lord Mute, 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 Ven. Fredk. Twisleton-Wyke-
ham-Fiennes, D.C.L. Lord Saye and Sele ; the Rev. Henry
W. Powlett, Lord Bayning ; the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel H.
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,
number 98. There are 849 baronets, 450 civil and mili-
tary 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 offioers 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.

The Amelican War Report.

The Secretary emphasises the beginning of his report
by contrasting the expenditures of the Department in the
last year of the war and the first of peace—the former
being 5516,240,131 70, the latter, by estimate, $33.814,46183.
On the Ist of May, 1865, there wero a million of men in
the army; to-day there are less than 200,000, and by May
next it is expected the number will not exceed 50,000.
The progress and success of the war which made.
this vast reduction possible are detailed at consi-
derable length. Immediately after its close orders
were issued to stop drafting and recruiting, reduce
purchases of arms, &c., muster out supernumerary
officers, and unfetter trade and commerce. From the
Veteran Reserve Corps nearly all the enlisted men have
been mustered out at their own desire. Recruiting for
the regular regiments continues. Lest it be thought that
the proposed standing army of 50,000 (which will be capa-
ble of increase to 82,600 without additional organisa-
tion) ba too small for possible emergencies, the Secre-
tary reminds us that either against a renewal of the
insurrection or in case of foreign war it will be
possible to call out on the instant an immense number
of veteran troops; that the Government has in its
arsenals more than a million of small arms, more artillery
than it can conveniently take care of, three years' supply
of ammunition, and an abundant stock of clothing and
quartermaster's stores. The present military organisation
embraces nineteen departments.

The operations of the different bureaus are detailed at
considerable length. Eight volumes of reports of battles,
with maps and indexes, are in press. The Adjutant-Gene-
ral describes the rapidity and precision with which the
mustering-out of the troops proceeded. Regiments be-
gan leaving the army of the Potomac, numbering
162,851 officers and men, May 29, and in six weeks the
whole were gone. The average per month for the whole
army was 296,442. The Provost-Marshal-General in-
cludes in the statistics the enormous number of 2,759,019
men as the aggregate of quotas called for. The number
constructively put into service was 2,656,553, and the defi-
ciency of 102,496 would have been speedily made up but
for the close of the war. The total disbursements of the
Paymaster-General since the beginning of the war were
$1,029,239,000, of which during tho year ending June 30,
1865, $300,733,635 95 were paid to volunteers. Lossesand
defalcations were $511,000 ; expenses of disbursement
$6,429,600, being less than three-fourths of one per cent.
The Surgeon-General reports that dining the last year
there were 201 general hospitals, with a capacity of 136,894
beds ; and in general hospitals alone 1,057,423 cases of
sick and wounded have been treated during the war, the
rate of mortality being 8 per cent.
The extraordinary services of the Quartermaster-
General's Bureau are duly recounted, among which not
the least remarkable was the transfer of Hooker's command
in 1863, numbering 23,000 men, with artillery, trains,
animals, and baggage, from the Rapidan to Stevenson,
a distance of 1,192 miles in seven days. The
Quartermaster depots supplied to the army during
the war 23,000,000 bushels of corn, 78,000,000
bushels of oats, 1,500,000 tons of hay, 550,000
cords of wood, and 1,600,000 tons of coal. Dining the last
fiscal year alone 141,632 cavalry horses were purchased.
Tho retrenchments in the Department since the close of
the war have been numerous and thorough. The Com-
missary-General of Prisoners reports 98,802 prisoners
in custody from Jan. 1 to Oct. 20, beside which 174,223
surrendered and were released on parole.
The whole number of colored troops enlisted during the
war was 178,975. Their losses from all causes except
muster out were 68,178. After existing orders for dis-
charge are executed, the number remaining in service will
be 85,024.—New York Tribune.

TRIAL OF POACHERS FOR MURDER.—The trial of
D. Booth, W. Sykes, A. Savage, J. Teale, J. Bent-
cliffe, and H. Bone, on the charge of murdering William
Lilley, gamekeeper on the Silverwood estate at Ravenfield,
was commenced on Thursday at the Leeds Assizes before
Mr. Justice Shee, and did not close till Saturday. The
alleged murder occurred in this way :—The deceased and
three other watchers went out to protect game in Silver-
wood, and about ten o'clock at night seven men were seen
in the wood setting snares. The watchers rushed upon
them, and Lilley, who was foremost, was struck down by a
blow from a stick, and then belaboured on the head and
body. He was fearfully injured, and died the day follow-
ing. Sykes, Teale, and Bone were identified by the
watchers, but the chief evidence against them was that of
Robert Woodhouse, an approver. The jury found Teale,
Sykes, Bone, and Bentcliffe guilty of manslaughter, and
Booth and Savage not guilty. Teale and Sykes were sen-
tenced to penal servitude. Booth and Savage were re-
tained in custody, it having been intimated by the counsel
for the prosecution that a charge of night poaching would
b 3 brought against them.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM. —A refreshment room has
just been opened at the British Museum for the con-
venience of the general public visiting that establishment,
in addition to those recently set apart for the officials and
the readers. The purveyor, Mr. R. H. Muffit, has been
appointed by the trustees, upon the express condition that
he should supply light refreshments of every description,
and of the best quality, at a moderate cost. Visitors from
a distance have long felt the want of this accommodation,
which formerly was only to be obtained outside the walls
of the museum. This addition to the comfort of visitors
has been procured for them by the principal librarian, Mr.
Panizzi. The entrance to the public refreshment room is
from the Greek and Roman galleries.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.-
-A man who served his tine to a tailor, and subsequently
followed the business profitab:y for many years, now rules
in one of the most potent nations on earth, so potent
that all Europe waived with anxiety the arrival of his
Message, transmitted on the 4th inst., to the United
States Congress. Fabled Oriental romance pales before this
significant fact, a fact which must tell hereafter on the policy
of the world. The message itself is a proper sequence to
the American rebellion. The arms of the Federals were
triumphant. The Mes:,..ge is a message of peace and
mercy. There is no exultation about it ; the story ren-
dered boasting unnecessary. The anticipations of France
and England have been falsified. The Union, as the
British Government and the governing clasees in this
country anticipated, has not gone to pieces. Instead of
being made weak by formidable resistance and great
danger, it has been made stronger. The people rose
equal to the occasion, and now they are a military people.
Without ignoring the proud pursuits of trade, manufac-
ture, and agriculture—without measuring their strength
with great military nations, the experiments forced on
them have enabled them to estimate the relative capacity
between themselves and European Governments:—Liver-
pool Post.
Chappuis'; registered whist-marker, for long or
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wholesale and retail booksellers, stationers, and fancy
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