The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-04 00:00:00

T_HE SUN, GON9ON, THURSDAY EVE NINE, SEPTEVIBER 4, 1862.

tire from active service in the field are without
foundation.

A despatch from St. John's of the 22d says :

" The barque George Henry, of New London,
Capt. Budington, from Frobisher's Bay, has arrived
here short of provisions, and with Mr. Hall, of the
new Sir John Franklin expedition, on board.
" The expedition lost one man the first winter
out. He froze to death.

"Mr. Hall reports that in consequence of the
loss of some of his craft he was unable to prosecute
his mission to the extent of its purpose.
" The expedition had probably determined the
fate of two boats' crews of Sir John Franklin's ex-
pedition, who perished in endeavouring to return.
" Mr. Hall learned the fate of five men captured
from Frobisher on his first voyage, and identified
the exact places of their landing.
" Mr. Hall explored over 1,000 miles of the coast,
including the so-called Frobisher's Straits, which
proved to be a deep bay, terminating in lat. 63 48,
long. 70 west.

" Mr. Hall also discovered a great glacier and
mountain of fossils between Hudson's Straits and
Frobisher's Bay.
" The George Henry was about to start for the
States in October, 1861, but was prevented doing
so by the ice until the 9th inst. The ship's com-
pany subsisted through last winter by the hospita-
lity of the Esquimaux."
The latest political and commercial news via
Cape Race has been already published.

now suffering with such exemplary patience and
fortitude." The order announces that the subscrip-
tion lists will remain open during the current month,
the subscriptions of the officers and troops being
voluntary, and under no circumstances is an indivi-
dual to be asked to contribute. The contributions of
the private soldiers are not to exceed 3d. per day,
those of corporals 6d., and sergeants 9d., which
amounts might be paid out of the " clearance"
money at the end of the month. The subscription of
officers are not to exceed half a day's pay. The offi-
cers commanding the various corps, together with
the heads of departments are invited to form them-
selves into a general working committee for the
purpose of carrying out the necessary arrangements.
By the appointment of Major-Gen. Sir John
Michel, K.C.8., to the colonelcy of the 86th Royal
County Down Regiment, and Major-Gen. J. Nap-
per Jackson to the colonelcy of the 3d West India
Regiment, two pensions for distinguished and meri-
torious services are placed at the disposal of his
Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,
In accordance with orders received at Chatham
garrison from the Deputy Adjutant-General,Horse-
Guards, a selection was yesterday made from the
non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal
Engineers under instruction in the topographical
and surveying departments at the Royal Engineer
establishment to fill the vacancies which have lately
taken place in the companies of Royal Engineers
employed in the trigonometrical survey of Great
Britain. The non-commissioned officers and engi-
neers selected will, on being approved by the Duke
of Cambridge, be for warded to Southampton, the
headquarters of the companies employed on the
survey.

An announcement was yesterday promulgated at
the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, that in
consequence of the present state of the cotton-market
the price of all cotton articles issued to non-com-
missioned officers and men will be increased 3d. per
article.

Yesterday a general parade of the troops now at-
tached to the invalid depot, Chatham, took place at
Mary's Barracks, when the names of a number of
non-commissioned officers and men of various ca-
valry and infantry corps, who have recently been
invalided home from India and the colonies, the
whole of whom have been inspected by the Commis-
sioners of Chelsea Hospital and found unfit for fur-
ther service, were announced, the men selected being
ordered to receive their discharge from the army
this morning. The troops selected for discharge are
granted pensions, according to their length of ser-
vice, and each man will be forwarded to his home
at the expense of Government.
We regret to announce the death of Lieut.-Gen.
Sir R. Doherty, colonel of the 11th Foot, which
took place on Tuesday in London. The deceased
officer entered the service in 1803, and saw much
service in the West Indies and the coast of Africa,
both in his military capacity and as a colonial go-
vernor. He returned a few years since from the Ja-
maica command, and obtained the rank of lieut.-
gen. in 1858. By his death another regimental
colonelcy becomes vacant.
The statement in our impression of the 21st of
August concerning the fort recently erected on the
Mumbles Rock, in Swansea Bay, which declared
the works unable to stand the concussion of heavy
ordnance, and that already a large rent had ap-
peared in the masonry, is, we are informed, untrue,
as the character both of the foundations and of the
general building is unusually strong.

also in this instance remaining remarkably free
from radiating fissures or cracks. No plates have
ever been before submitted at Portsmouth to so
severe a test, and none have as yet so successfully
resisted the impact of shot as these two have done.
Still these plates must not by any means be taken
to represent the ordinary quality of our ships' iron
armour. The Java target ship, lying in Portsmouth
harbour, has now a number of armour plates on her
sides which have been tested in the usual manner
with the 681 b. cast iron shot, propelled by 161bs.
of powder, at a distance of 200 yards, and the dif-
ference in the effects produced by the shot on the
various plates is astonishing. Upon some the shot
has made an indent, impressed its " mark" as
though upon a piece of soft baker's dough, of an
inch or an inch and a quarter at its greatest depth,
and this has been the extent of the mischief. Not
a crack is observable, nor is there a bolt started.
The good metal in this instance has faithfully per-
formed its duty. It has allowed the would-be in-
trusive shot to leave its mark behind, but the shot's
further progress has been stopped, and it has been
hurled backwards in a hundred broken splinters,
and this without the slightest injury to the plates'
" backing" or frame of the ship. Other plates,
again, have broken up like sheets of glass beneath
the blows of the shot, and driven into the ship's
side by each successive shot have shattered
the timbers and planking into matchwood,
and have been turned into an active agent in
the destruction of the ship they were intended
to protect. The inference to be drawn from an
inspection of the Java's side and her tested armour
plates would appear to be this :—lf plates of iron
can be manufactured of sufficient strength and tena-
city to resist the penetration of shot, wrought or
cast, from the 95cwt. smooth-bore gun at close quar-
ters, it must be an immense advantage and protec-
tection to the crew to have their ship clothed with
defensive armour. But, on the contrary, to clothe
a ship with such brittle material for tumour as may
be now seen driven into the sides of the Java would
be merely to insure the ship's destruction the first
time she came under fire, when she would in all
probability speedily go down from the effects of
leaks caused by her broken armour plates.
If the published accounts received in this country
of the testing of armour plates in France be correct,
the results obtained there are much more favourable
to the resisting power of the 4-1-inch plate than the
generality of such results in England. On the other
hand, it is asserted by the English manufacturers
themselves that the quality of plates forged in Eng-
land is much superior to that of the best plates of
France. In the Paris correspondence of a contem-
porary has appeared some very important and in-
teresting extracts bearing upon this point from an
article by M.Boinvilliers, a member of the Imperial
Naval Commission of 1857. In one part of this
article M. Boinvilliers, in referring to the trials of
iron shields at Vincennes, says :
" The Emperor himself attended many of these trials.
He was particularly pleased with the result of a heavy dis-
charge against an iron plate forged by MM. Petin and Gau
det according to the plan definitively adopted. This proof
consisted in firing shot in succession, at a distance of 20
yards, against the pattern plate, attached to a wooden plank
representing the side of a ship, much weaker than the pro-
jected frigate. The guns employed on the occasion were
three, one of which was a 50-pounder on a French model,
and two others of 68 of the strongest English model exist-
ing. They were of the smooth bore, &c. . . These guns
were therefore fired with the largest charges of powder they
could bear—that is, 161 b. for the French guns and 171 b.
for the English guns. The three shots were fired so simul-
taneously that only one report was heard. The Emperor
quickly approached the plate, the subject of the trial, and
found it not in the least shaken, but bearing a deep mark
of the three shots, and perfectly hot to the touch from the
concussion, but without the slightest crack."

If these results are correct, better plates can be manufac-
tured in France than those manufactured by the Thames
Iron Works Company, by Messrs. Brown, of Sheffield, both
of which were tested under the severe circumstances to
which we have referred, and also superior to the plates ma-
nufactured by Messrs. Beale, which stood so severe a ham-
mering on Jones's target, both in its angulated and up-
right position—in the first named from the 95cwt. 68-
pounder, and in the latter from the Armstrong 110-pounder.
In this report of M. Boinvilliers there is, however, a grave
error, which may not be unaccompanied by others—errors
which, if corrected throughout the report, might give it a
different colouring altogether. M. Boinvilliers states that
171 b. of powder was used for the English 68-pounders—
" the largest charge of powder they could bear." So far
from this being the case, we have shown that in the firing
last week at the Thames Iron Company's and Messrs.
Brown's plates the shots in each case were fired with 211 b.
and 251 b. respectively. It is probable, therefore, that the
two guns " of 68, of the strongest English model existing,"
which were used in testing the plates at Vincennes in the
Emperor's presence, were not English guns at all, but
guns made after the English plan, yet very different wea-
pons from our magnificently smashing weapon, the' 95cwt.
68-pounder. Again, " the strongest English model exist-
ing" of the 68-pounder is the 112 cwt. gun, which is fired
with a charge of 181 b. of powder, but would bear a much
heavier charge with perfect safety.

A RAILWAY 211 ROUGH 7HE PYRENEES.

The successful completion of a Spanish railway across the
Pyrenees, and the first which has actually passed over either
of the two greatest of the montainous ranges of Western
Europe, may perhaps be deemed of sufficient interest in
several respects to deserve a passing notice.

Various circumstances also in connection with the under-
taking of which the first and most difficult portion has been
thus happily accomplished are remarkable enough ; and they
are indicative of the rapid though silent progress which
Spain is making.
On Aug. 20, 1862, the first railway train, drawn by loco-
motive engines, crossed the chain of the Cantabrian Py-
renees, over the northern division of the Tudela and Bilbao
Railway, from the seaport of Bilbao to the town of Miranda
on the Ebro. On the 22d the Minister of Public Works for
Spain made his inspection from Miranda to Bilbao, return-
ing on the 23d, the passage across the mountains being
made by trains running also in both directions each day.
The distance from Bilbao to Miranda is about 66 English
miles, of which more than 40 miles are in ascending from
the coast to the summit, which is 2,163 feet above the sea,
being the lowest pass in the whole range of the Pyrenees.
The northern slopes are almost invariably steep. Here the
difficulties to be overcome are concentrated. In the pre-
sent case they have been surmounted by winding along the
shoulders of the mountains, with heavy works of excava-
tions, tunneling, and embankments, until the railway re-
sembles a turnpike road more than such a line as is usually
considered should be made to enable a locomotive engine to
travel over it with speed and safety, and dragging heavy
loads. The average rate of ascent from the sea 1154 feet per
mile; the maximum is 76 feet. The predominant curvature
has a radius of 300 yards only, and the curves are constantly
reversing. There are two points on the line at the entrance
ofthe Cocha, or basin of Ordima (the ancient capital of the
Province of Biscay), distant only 600 yards apart measured
horizontally across the neck or gorge of the basin, which
arc distant fully 81 miles from each other in travelling along
the line, and which differ 456 feet in level. A technical de-
scription of the railway would be out of place here, and it
would occupy pages to paint in words the grandeur of the
mountain scenery, seen as it was, in full perfection, under
the beautiful sunny sky which beamed over each day's pas..
sage of the trains. The changes of view were almost as
rapid as the motion of the locomotive engine, owing to the
tortuous character of the course, forced upon the engineer
by the rugged country traversed. The last glimpse of the
northern landscape which the passengers had was over the
Gujuli waterfall, and down to a depth of 400 feet to the
bottom of the ravine into which it fell; after which the
carriages rushed into the summit tunnel to emerge into a
wider meadow with a gently falling stream ; for the de-
scent on the southern side is very gradual, the average rate
from the summit to the Ebro being less than 24 feet to a
mile. The valley being wide the curves are also much
easier. The most remarkable point in the descent is the
pass or gorge of the Techas, through which flows the river
Bazas at the village of Subijano-Morillos, where Wellington
had his head-quarters a night before the battle of Vittoria,
in the summer of 1813.

The time occupied by trains between Bilbao and Miranda
is two hours and three quarters. To the powerful loco-
motives of this railway, the sharp reversing curves and
steep gradients in ascending from the north to the sammit
appear to make no difference with trains of seven or eight
carriages.

On the occasion of the crossing of the mountains on the
22d of August, there was the usual cortege of authorities
and ( fficials meeting the Minister of Public Works and the
gentlemen of his party. Thy
Usual breakfast was set out,
but there were no toasts and no speeches. Upon arriving
in Bilbao a small steamer took the distinguished group down
to the mouth of the river (Nervion) where a good view was
obtained of the deep Bay of Bilbao, where it is proposed to
construct a breakwater more than a mile in length, within
which nearly 1,000 acres of sheltered anchorage will be at-
tainable—in fact/ a safety harbour,so much required at
the extremity of the Bay of Biscay.
The southern division of the Tudela and Bilbao Railway,
(which is to be completed by the early part of the year
1863) proceeds eastward from Miranda for nearly 90 miles,
always on the right or south bank of the Ebro, for strategic
though not for engineering reasons. In its course are passed
many places of ' historical celebrity or interest—Ram 11
Briones, Cenicero, Navarete, Logrono, Calahorra, Alfaro,
and various others. Between Alfaro and Tudela this rail-
way joie tto ramplona and Zaragoza line now in operatio

and the line from Zaragoza to Barcelona was opened last
year.

The amount expended and to be expended on the 155
miles of the Tudels. and Bilbao Railway is about £2,500,000
sterling. The 66 miles from Bilbao to Miranda (including
20 miles of the most difficult railway works known, princi-
pally through the Pyrenees) have cost merely for construc-
tion more than £1,000,000 ; the 89 miles along the Ebro
have been made for four-fifths of that sum. The rest of
the money has been spent on stations, rolling-stock, man-
agement, &c. The total with all paid and capital account
closed is £16,000 per English mile, and is within the capital
of the company. The whole of this capital is Spanish money,
mostly subscribed by Bilbao and its commercial connections.
Not a share is held out of Spain or the colonies of Spain.
No bonds have been issued, nor any mortgages given. The
credit of the company and of its directors stood high enough
to procure them all the financial aid they wanted ; and they
were spared the necessity of having to issue their obliga-
tions at the ruinous discount common to other railway com-
panies on the continent. There is a Government subven-
tion equivalent to 30 per cent, of the capital, but the period
and conditions of payment are such as to keep back the in-
stalments, anC meantime the company have been thrown on
other resources, which have not failed them in the hour of
their need.

It should be mentioned that this line joins the Northern
Railway of Spain at Miranda on the Ebro, which railway
is opened from Madrid to the southern slope of the Py-
renees, near Alzazua, about 25 miles N.E. of Vittoria,
with the exception of a gap of 30 or 40 miles, including the
Guadarama Mountains. By this route the Minister of Pub-
lic works (Marquis Armigo de Vega) returned from Bilbao
to Madrid in 18 hours, of which only 12 were by railway.
When the above gap is closed, as it will be next year, the
journey from Bilbao to Madrid will be performed in 14
hours. It will perhaps be some years longer before the
Northern Railway of Spain will be completely connected
with the French lines at the frontier ; but towards the end
of next year (1863) there will only remain a portion unfi-
nished equal to four or five hours' travelling by diligence
across the Pyrenees, forming the only exception as to a
through route by railway from Paris to Madrid; and, in-
deed, the distance between these two capitals may then be
traversed in 36 hours, notwithstanding the above drawback.
In the Engineering Court at the International Exhibition
there is to be seen a very fine and accurate model on a large
scale of the Passage of the Tudela and Bilbao Railway
across the Pyrenees. It has been pronounced by competent
judges to be the most perfect topographical and geological
model yet exhibited. An inspection will give a better idea
of the character of the railway than any description by
words. The engineer•in-chief of the railway, as well as of
the proposed breakwater, is Mr. Vignoles, F.R.S. Thecon-
tractor who executed the works through the Pyrenees, and
from Bilbao to Miranda, is the celebrated Mr. Brassey. The
iron for the railway, the engines, and the vehicles were
made in England, as were also nearly all the materials for
the station except the mere shell of the building. The
chairman of the company is Senior Don Pablo de Epalza,
who may be considered as holding the highest rank as a
Spanish merchant. The managing director is Senor Mon-
tesino, formerly director General of Public Works in Spain.
He is a member of the Cortes, and one of the Commission-
ers for Spain at the International Exhibition.
On the completion of the Tudela and Bilbao Railway, it
will :become the great channel through which the corn,
wine, and oil of Castile, and the rich agricultural provinces
west of Burgos and Valladolid as far as Leon, will find their
way for exportation at Bilbao.

THE LATE MYS7E.RIOUS MURKER IN

THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY.

COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS.

SITTINGBOURNE, WEDNESDAY.
This morning the two prisoners, William and
Edward Johnson (father and son), were again placed
at the bar of the county Justices'-office, before the
Rev. G. B. Moore and E. Twopenny, Esq., on the
charge of murdering Wm. Elliott, at Minster, at
Sheppey, on July 29 last. They appeared to treat
the charge with a good deal of indifference. Consi-
derable interest was manifested in the proceedings,
which occupied eight hours.
Mr. S. G. Johnson again appeared on behalf of
the accused, but refrained from putting any ques-
tions to most of the witnesses examined.
The Chairman (Mr. Twopenny) announced that
the bench had determined to begin ,announced
novo, and the
following evidence was then given :
John Ralph, labourer, living at Halfway House,
near Minster, deposed that on the 30th July last,
while going to his work with four others, about ten
minutes before six, he observed that the wheat in
Mr. Vincent's field was trampled down. About six
feet from the fence, in the wheat, he found the cap
produced, with shot holes through the peak. It ap-
peared as if the body of a man had been dragged
through the wheat, I:,,nd the track went straight a
little way and then turned to the left, and there
witness found the dead body of deceased lying—
about a rod from the cap ; it was on its back, with
the left arm up behind the head. He also found a
piece of paper, stained with powder, on the bank
opposite the track leading to the body. There was a
large pool of blood where the cap was picked up.
Cross-examined by Mr. Johnson—The track was
about the size of a man's body. It appeared as if it
had been dragged by one arm and the collar. Could
not say from the appearance of the wheat in what
direction the shots came.

Elliott (sister-in-law of the murdered man) said
the deceased lodged with her at Queenborough. On
the night of the murder deceased left her house
about half-past eight, in his usual health. He was
in the habit of going out for a walk about that time.
The next time she saw him he was dead. He had
neither money nor a watch with him at the time he
left witness's house.

By the Bench—Deceased was not in the habit of
poaching, or looking for rabbits as ehe was aware of.
Never knew deceased to take a gun out with him.
Believed the deceased had no acquaintance with the
prisoners.
George Edward Elliott, surveyor, produced aplan
of the locality where the murder was committed,
and spoke to the correctness of the distances
marked.
John Mackrell, farm labourer, heard a cart pass
along the road near the 13 acres field mill, about
five or ten minutes past nine, on the night of the
murder, from the direction of Queenborough and
King's Ferry towards the Halfway House.
It stopped at the place where the body
was afterwards found. A few minutes after
the cart stopped witness heard the report and saw
tha flash of a gun. It was too dark to see either the
cart or the persons in it. Witness did not hear
any cry for assistance. Shortly afterwards he
heard another cart go along the road, but he could
not say in which direction.
Edward Strode, surgeon, deposed to examining
the body of the deceased, and described the nature
and direction of the wounds, It had been shot in
both shoulders, both breasts, both sides of the face,
and on the forehead, the right shoulder and breast
most, thus showing that the deceased must have
been below the line of fire at the time. The lungs
were penetrated through the right breast, and
death must have been instantaneous.

William Pilcher, William Edwards, George
Brown, and several other witnesses, repeated their
respective testimonies, the substance of which has
already appeared in our report of the inquest upon
the body of the murdered man.

Ambrose Kite, of Sheerness Dockyard, saw the
prisoners on the night of the murder with their
cart at the top of Mile Town, a few rods from the
Queen Hotel. They drove away in the direction
of the Halfway House. William Johnson had a
bundle under his arm. It was about a quarter past
ten.

Sergeant Noakes, K.C.C., stationed at Sheerness,
deposed that on the night after the murder he met
the prisoners at the Halfway House. He asked
them if they did not come along the road from
Queenborough turning in a cart the previous night.
They were both about to answer, when the elder
prisoner told the younger one to hold his tongue
—he would answer. He then said they did come
along that road. Witness then asked if he met
any one. William Johnson said " No," but almost
immediately corrected himself by saying that
he met young Mr. Lees at the haystack. The
stack is in the corner of the meadow adjoining
the wheat field where the murdered man was
found. Witness asked if he had a gun with him
in his cart ? The prisoner said, " Yes ; they took
it out the day before to shoot a stoat with.
He had only one charge of shot, and the gun was
then standing empty in his stable." Witness
then said " I suppose you have no objection to my
riding down to see the gun." He replied " Oh, no,
get up." Witness did so, and rode to Mile Town.
When about halfway between the Halfway House
Mile Town the prisoner said " Cannot one of us
get down and walk with you, and the other drive
the cart on, as it will make such a talk if we are
all seen together." Witness said he had no objec-
tion to do so. When they got to the top of Mile
Town witness said if Wm. Johnson went down with
him the younger prisoner could go on with the cart.
Witness and Wm. Johnson then got out of the cart,
and Edward Johnson drove on down Mile Town at
a brisk rate, the horse being a fast trotter_ On
going with the prisoner William to his stable, near
the Hope beerhouse, he looked in two or three places
where he said his son was in the habit of keeping
the gun, but could not find it. In less than five
minutes Edward Johnson Lame in with the cart and
said " Did not Mr. Brown order Regents of you ? "
(The younger prisoner had previously stated that he
was going to Mr. Brown's.) Wm. Johnson then
asked where the gun was. Edward Johnson took
it from behind a post in the barn. (Gun produred.)
The point of the ratnroad was flattened. It was
then nearly 4 o'clock. The nipple of the right-
hand barrel was a little rusty, but the left-hand
nipple had the appearance of having been recently
discharged. He told the prisoners that. The younger

prisoner said "That is the one we fired at the stoat."
Could not say whether the word yesterday was used
or not. Witness then went with Wm. Johnson to
his residence, and a leather shot pouch was produced
which the prisoner said he wal3 in the habit of using,
and emptied the shots from it into wh'nebs's hand
(produced). On the following Friday morning wit-
ness went to the prisoner's premises, and about two
or three feet from the barn door he found two snail
pieces of paper (produced). They smelt of powder•
Ralph Allsworth, landlord of the Odd Fellow"'
Arms, near the Halfway House, said Wm. Johnson
came to his house about 7 o'clock on the evening
following the murder, when they entered into coo_
versotion about the murder. Witness said it mus t
have been spite, for the man could not have been
shot for what he had got, and he (witness) believel
he had been shot twice—first in the road, and then
dragged into the field. That the party came back
on finding he Ix as not dead, and shot him again, as
there were so many shots. The prisoner made no
reply, but shortly after left the house. The next
morning the prisoner again called, whilst witness
was talking with Mr. Newport and Mr. Parker
about the murder. Witness remarked that, as it
was reported the man was shot by accident, he,
believed Johnson was innocent, as he cons!dered
that he had too keen an eye to shoot a man tar a
hare. " Yes," the prisoner replied, " you made me
savage the other night. I was a good mind to sw ear
at you." Witness asked for what. Johnson said,
" Because you said the man was shot twice." Wit-
ness repeated hia belief that from the number of
shots the man must have been shot twice. The pri-
soner said, " Who do you think would shoot him
twice ?"
Thomas Gorfett, schoolmaster, of Queen bo.rough,
repeated the testimony he gave at the previous ex-
amination, and the witness then asked the magi-
strates if he could be protected from personal vio-
lence threatened him by the brother of the prison er's
and a person named Hammond.
The Bench replied in the affirmative, and after
the witness swore that he feared he would be'
assailed and maltreated unless protected by justices,
the two persons referred to were ordered into cus-
tody to answer the charge preferred against them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Johnson—This letter is
in my handwriting (put in and read). The sugges-
tion in that letter that the words I beard might
have been, " The man that was shot 1 never knew,"
has not altered my opinion in the least, lam still
of opinion that the words Johnson used were, "The
man I shot I never knew." I wrote the words down
the same night on the piece of paper produced.
I struck my pen through the words the next
morning because my wife suggested that if the /paper
fell into other people's hands it might be suggested
that I had murdered some one.

J. Rolfe, K.C.C., produced the clothes worn by the
deceased at the time he was murdered. There was
no appearance of his pockets having been rifled.
Sergeant Noakes recalled. On the 22d ult., the
placards were received from the head-quarters,
offering a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the
perpetrator of the murder.
Wm. Palmer (the driver of the second eart spoken
to by several of the witnesses) deposed to passing
the spot where the murder was committed, aboutl.o
minutes past 9 the same evening. He saw a math
sitting by the corner of the meadow with his hand
on his chin. He had a dirty white smock and dark
cap.

By the Bench—Have never said I saw a body
lying exactly where the body of the murdered man
was found.

Mr. Johnson reserved his defence, as it was evident
the justices intended to commit the accused for trial.
Indeed, it would be the best course that could be
adopted, so far as the prisoners were concerned.
He applied for them to be admitted to bail, as sub-
stantial surety could be forthcoming.
The prisoners were then formally charged with
the offence, and they both replied that they had no-
thing to say.
The Bench fully committed both the prisoners
for trial for the capital offence, but agreed to admit
Edward Johnson, the younger prisoner, to bail,
himself in £5OO, and two sureties of £250 each.

G'OUNJR M4RJLI 6.

NE WARS-WEDNESDAY.

Our market was moderately supplied with wheat, and
new was taken off at 2s to 3s per qr decline. Barley in fair
supply, at late prices. Oats a steady trade. Beans were
scarce.

White wheat new, 59s to 61s
Red do. sss to 59s
Old white 60s to 64s 11
Red do. 56s to 608
Barley, malting 38s to 40s 1
Peas,....

Barley, grinding 30s to 32s
Oats, old, .. 26s to 30a
New do 23s to 270
Beans. 40s to 44s
Beans. new.. to —a
,39s to 408

BOSTON-WEDNESDAY._

To-day's corn market was fairly supplied with wheat,
and prices were 2s to 3s per qr under last week. Barley a
very small show, at about the same rates as of late, Beans
in tolerable demand, but scarce.

White wheat.....sBs to 60s Barley 32s :to 37s
Red sos to 57s Oats, new, 24s to 26s
Beans ....42s to 50s Peas 40s to 60s,