The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMI3EIt 9.6. 1854.

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Lord George Paulet (1833), at present in com-
mand of the Bellerophon, 78, on the Mediterranean and
Bleck Sea station, to be naval aide-de-camp to her Ma-
jesty.
Lieutenants— William L. Lambert (1842), from the coast
guard, to command the Royal Charlotte, revenue vessel ;
Lewis M. Croke (1854), recently promoted from mate of
the Imperieuse, 50, screw steam-frigate in the Baltic, to
the Powerful, 84, at Portsmouth.
Chaplain—Rey. Douglas Bontflowcr, to the Cossack, 21,
screw steam-corvette, at Chatham.
Payniasters—S. H. L. Giles (1846), to the Nankin, 50,
at Chatham ; William Soady (1811), to the Victory, flag.
ship, at Portsmouth ; John Bell (1821), to the Royal
Wil-
liam. 120, at Devonport.
Master's-Assistant—Frederick Seaton to the Curlew
screw steam-sloop, at Portsmouth.
Clerk—John Shepherd (1850), from the Polyphemus
paddle-wheel steam•sloop, just paid off at Portsmouth, to
the Cossack, 21, screw steam-corvette, at Chatham.
Clerks'-Assistant—Alfred W. Williamson, to the Fie-
gard, flag-ship, at Woolwich.

WOOLWICH, Sm. 25.

11r. Thomas. Baker, inspector machinery afloat, and
and at present borne on the books of the Britannia, 120,
flag-ship, for the purpose of inspecting the war steamers
in the Black Sea, has received a letter of thanks from Vice.
Admiral Dundas, for the very excellent manner in which,
with the assiat:ince of the engineers of the fleet, he had
altered the position of the starting-gear of all the war
steamers in the Black Sea fleet, to render that gear, so
important to be protected from shot or shell, less liable to
be injured in actual warfare. Mr. Baker has effected his
object by placing the starting gear under or near the base
of the engines, instead of being near the top level, or above
the engines.
The Royal Albert, 121, is to be taken round to Ports-
mouth, to be finally prepared for proceeding to the Black
Sea, where that splendid screw steam-ship is to serve as
flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Dundee, commander-in-chief on
the Mediterranean and Black Sea station, and the crew of
the Britannia will be turned over to her on her arrival
there.

Late as the period of the season is for operations in the
Baltic, it is prob:,ble the country will shortly have interest-
ing intelligence from Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier,
commander-in-chief on that station, as despatches of a very
important nature were forwarded to him on Saturday last.
The brass guns captured from the Russians have been
placed in the icon stores in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 25.

The Miranda arrived here on Saturday last, and moored
at 2.30 p.m., having had three months of unremitting work
within the arctic circle in the White Sea. This ship, dur-
ing the 80 days she was in the White Sea, anchored 48
times, and whilst under way and at anchor, has boarded
375 ships and vessels, showing the immense trade that will be
lost to Russia from her folly, besides being obliged to sell
all her ships at a ruinous loss in price. Only three were
captured, and these fell to the Miranda, and are on their
way home, loaded with flour, fish, and oil ; but the un-
kindest cut of all to the Czar was the destruction of Kola,
the capital of Russian Lapland, a place conceived to be
beyond the reach of ships. Kola is described by the Rus-
sian Admiral Sutkes in his journeys as the celebrated capi-
tal of Russian Lapland, which under Peter the Great be-
came a fortified city, and which in 1809 was visited by
the English, who sent in two gun-boats to destroy two
vessels, but who made no direct attack upon the town.
Captain Lyons has visited it in 1854, made a direct attack
upon the town, and expunged it from the list of capitals.
Ho had thirty miles of a difficult river to navigate, five
miles of which are laid down in the chart as unnavigable,
and which in some places is so narrow as scarcely to admit
of the ship swinging, with a current running seven knots
an hour. The uncertain knowledge of the strength of the
enemy offered no check to his determination to place his
ship alongside the battery. Success attended his daring.
Phe Miranda lay within point blank range of the battery.
The governor of the city would not come to terms. Their
guns were manned, and every tower and building loop-
holed and filled with men. But we could stand their
shot, and shell, and red-hot shot within musket range. In
less than an hour their guns were dismounted, their bat-
teries in ruins, and their city in flames. One tower of the
fortified cathedral alone now stands to mark the spot
where Kola once had been.

1 The proceedings of the Miranda, as given by ono of her
blue jack ts, may be found interesting to many :
" Miranda left Sheerness, the 3(1 of May, under sealed
orders, and anchored at Spithead on the 4 h at six p.m., left
Spithead on the 6th at one p.m.; on that day chased seve-
ral vessels, and proceeded agai❑ under sealed orders; re-
turned to Spithead again o❑ the 15th ; on the 17th vic-
tualled the ship, on the 19th left Spithead, anchored in
the Downs on the 21st at two a.m., weighed anchor and
ran through the Gull etream, proceeded north on the 24th
at eight p.m., ran for Lerwich Harbour, anchored at eleven
p.m., on the 26th left Lerwich Harbour, and the Bth of
June anchored in Hammersfort Bay ; having worked
through the Sound on the 10th of June, steamed through
Rolffso Sound for sea; on the 19th of June chased and
captured the Russian schooner —, which ',was after re-
leased ; on the 22d stood in for anchorage under Cross
Island, loft Cross Island on the 24th; on the 2Gth anchored
(with a strong current running towards Archangel) off the
mouth of the river Dwin ; at ten p.m., in Archangel Bay.
We were employed in boats, boarding several vessels. On
the sth of July we weighed, and proceeded for the Murman
channel of Dwina River, leading towards Archangel Bay.
On the 9th, anchored near Tetrina ; got under way, and
proceeded for anchorage at Cross Island. On the 18th
rounded the Island of Solovetskoi. When about a thou-
sand yards distant from the shore, our first lieutenant ob-
served a number of soldiers, with several field pieces, in
the woods. His glass and eye are first rate. A gun was
fired to dislodge them, which they quickly returned with
shot, grape, and canister—a sharp shower—lots of them
struck the ship. We kept up a sharp fire from the star.
board broadside guns. The enemy retired into the bush-
wood in the rear. We then anchored off Solovetskoi Mo-
nastery at about midnight. On the next morning, the
19th, saw the soldiers employed throwing up temporary bat-
teries. Our ship, with the Brisk in company, hoisted a flag
of truce, and fired a blank gun. The Brisk sent a boat on
shorn with a flag of truce. The Russians sent a boat off to
meet the flag of truce. The boat then returned on shore.
At 8.20 weighed anchor, hauled clown flag of truce, and
opened fire on enemy's battery with long gun, firing shot
and shell, which was pretty smartly returned by the bat-
tery, and also from two towers of the monastery, and mus-
ketry from the shore. The Brisk also opened fire soon
after. About 9.20 a round shot from the battery killed
King Marshall, an ordinary seaman and man of colour,
formerly a krooman from Sierra Leone—a very good darky
he was. Another shot wounded Stephen Hall, fracturing
his right arm close to the shoulder. In about ten minutes
we had him down on the orlop deck, when our doctor,
John A. Corbett, put him under the influence of chloro-
form, and took his arm off close up to the shoulder. Hall
never moved. It was certainly very quickly done, and in
proof that our doctor made a good job of it, in eighteen
days ho went to work, such as he could do, single-handed.
. .

We then opened fire from 121 b howitzers, and also from
the tops and gangways, to dislodge the enemy from their
cover of trees and bushes. At 11.20 the enemy were seen
deserting their batteries. They shortly again returned to
their guns, and were again driven away by the precision of
our firing. Wo then commenced shelling the monastery
from our pivot gun, at the same time keeping up a heavy
fire from our broadside guns, also with small arms men on
battery and cover. We then proceeded easily, steaming
up the inner passage to out-flank the battery, and also to
close in monastery. We then commenced firing red-hot
shot on the monastery. We silenced the fire of the enemy
at about 6 p.m. on the evening of the 19th. On the 31st
we landed at Shayley Island, and destroyed all the public
buildings by fire, together with nine guns felled on shore.
" We coaled on the ',.9th of July. near Cross Island. On
the 22d of August our master, Mr. G. Williams, succeeded
with the boats to buoy a passage up to Kola. It is a queer
river, as if nature had intended everybody coming there
to be deceived in the passage. On both sides the river,
for about a mile and a half, the deepest soundings are the
side channels. You then suddenly come to a regular bank,
and we were obliged to back out again ; but the master,
after very particularly sounding the midship channel,
found water np, and at 6.30 a.m. we anchored off Kola in
five fathoms water. We shortly after observed a flag of
truce coming off from the fort, and hoisted a flag of truce
in return. Our third lieutenant, Mr. C. W. Buckle, went
away in the gig to meet the flag of truce with a letter, iu
which, we understood from the quarter-deck officers, an
immediate surrender (rather sharp practice, but British
blood had stained our decks) was demanded of the fort,
garrison, and Government proporty. We could see the
different forts with the men at their guns. We were kept
at quarters during that night. Our gallant commander
gave orders to splice the main brace with a good glass of
the Queen's own at midnight. We barricaded the tops
with hammocks for our riflemen.
"No answer being returned in the morning, we hauled
down the flag of truce and opened fire with grape and can-
ister, to dislodge musketry from the batteries and stockades.
Our ship was got up within 250 yards of the battery. Our
first lieutenant, John F. C. Mackenzie, and Mr. Charles
W. Nanthorp, mate, accompanied us in command of the
shore party, sou 1844;4, our good is gallant firat

nant headed our party of blue jackets and marines, and
trotted up sword in hand to dislodge the enemy from the
ruins of the batteries and to seize their guns. Immediately
upon our pulling in shore, the enemy opened a sharp fire
upon us from the different parts of the towers and the
monastery. Our ship continued to fire to cover us. It was
about 2.30 when we landed, headed by Lieut. Mackenzie,
who was the first into the battery, which we found
completely destroyed by the ship's fire. The enemy were
going off beyond double quick time, m if the real old
Nick was after them. We took on board one of the
battery guns which had been broken by a shot from our
ship ; all the other guns were completely buried in the
ruins. All the Government stores were destroyed. Jolly
Jock, as we dub our first lieutenant, did honour to his
little clan of the Miranda. During our fighting the enemy
had been busily employed taking up all the buoys our
master, Mr. Williams, had laid down for coming up the
river, and he had all his work to go over again, to buoy
the channel for our going down again. By 7.30 a.m. on
the 24th, we had destroyed the whole of the town. It

was a tremendous scene of destruction ; the buildings,
stores, and monastery all in flames, and each bell, as their
stupendous beams burnt through, fell to the bottom of the
tower, tolling its last knell. There were seven bells, and
from the sound on falling they rang like the Big Tom of
Lincoln. We made Flamboro' Head Light on the 22d day
of September, and called at Yarmouth. A lot of papers
were brought on board. Wei !might a little here and there.
of the good news of the fall o(Bomarsimi, andithe jolly
good health of the English and French engaged there was
drunk throughout every mess that day.
" We have a real live Russian boy, about ten years of
age. He was taken out of a fishing lugger which had been
deserted by her crew. The poor little fellow was found
locked up in the hovel called a cabin, and if not taken
must have been starved to death. It appears be had neither
mother nor father living, and his relatives had put him on
board the lugger to work his way through life. The poor
little fellow was christened Kola Miranda, but he will not
now answer to that name ; he does not like the name, and
has given himself the name of Jack Miranda. He is an
intelligent little fellow, and is a great pet amongst all
hands. He cannot be prevailed upon to leave the ship.
"The Miranda has had touch.and-go on the ground on
many occasions; she is to go into dock for repairs, and
there are also some defects in her machinery department."
Sir James R. G. Graham and Sir Baldwin Walker ar-
rived here yesterday to -make an official visit this day,
when a general muster of the yard will take place. They
attended with the commander-in-chief divine service yes-
terday at the dockyard chapel.'

The crew of the Miranda have been remarkably healthy;
no contagious disease of any kind has occurred.

SHEERNESS, SEPT. 26.

The Melampus store-ship, Master Commander (pro tem.)
Assistant Master Attendant John Jackson in command,
arrived here yesterday from Pembroke.
The Miranda received orders by electric telegraph here
yesterday to proceed to Portsmouth to make good some
slight repairs to machinery preparatory to her proceeding
for the Black Sea. She left here at four p.m. yesterday
in pilot charge of Mr. Milbank, Trinity pilot.
The Miranda has brought home a very ancient bell
(which is now being used as a ship's bell) ; it was taken
from the ruins of the monastery at Kola, in the Gulf of
Ortega. It measures in extreme. circumference '6 feet 4
inches, and the internal depth is 2 feet 1 inch. It has a
magnificent cathedral tone. The date on it is "Anne
1656." Around the upper rim, in beautiful relief, is a hunt-
ing party, with flags, horsemen, and dogs, and around the
outer base is a splendid raised wreath of grapes and pine-
apples, which is only broken by the figure of a priest hold-
ing a cross in his left hand, with a book in his right hand
laid over his left breast. The following letters are raised
in old Roman characters :—K. 0. R. D. T. *—K. L. E.
M.—A. N. * M. E. F. E. C. I. T.

The Hannibal goes out of dry dock to-day, and the Ho-
ratio takes her place.

The Royal Albert got up steam on Saturday, and steamed
out of the fitting basin in first•rate style, proceeding to her
harbour moorings to receive her armament, &c.

PLYMOUTH, Sur. 25.

The Conrad, hired transport, has had her defects made
good, and is now alongside the Victualling-yard, chipping
bread for the Black Sea fleet.

The Algiers, 90, screw steam-6140m tiketfotit of dock
at Keyham on Saturday evening, and lay in the basin till
this morning, when she proceeded into the Sound undor
easy steam, in charge of Mr. Brown, assistant-master-at.
tendant. Powder boys are ready with her powder. The
Janus, steamer, arrived yesterday morning with a gun•
metal screw propeller for the Algiers. The Algiers will
ship her screw in the Sound.

The Centurion, 84, was brought alongside the dockyard
on Saturday, and will be fitted for a screw immediately.

MILITARY.

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ROYAL ENOINEERS.-dye have authority for stating
there is no truth in the statement published on Friday,
" That it has been decided that a grand night attack will
take place at Chatham on the night of Wednesday, the
27th inst., under the direction of Captain M`lierlie." •
Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, Royal Marines, with other
officers forming a district court-martial, assembled at Chat-
ham on Friday and Saturday, for the trial of the following
prisoners:-Private Martin Haley, 24th, was found guilty of
desertion ; Private James Connors, 99th ; Private Mark
Coates, 99th ; Private Wm. Wade, 12th Foot; and Private
David Macguire, 27th, were separately tried for desertion
and found guilty, and Private J. Britain, 37th, was tried
for deserting his regiment in 1846, when it was stationed
at Monmouthshire. He wasbrought in a prisonerto Chat-
ham under escort, when he confessed to Colour-Sergeant
Woods, of the same corps, that he was a deserter; the
prisoner surrendered himself to the civil power. The issue
of the above trials will not be known until the proceedings
are confirmed at the Horse Guards.
THE WAR IN THE EAST.-Itecruiting is most actively
going forward on account of the following regiments doing
active foreign duty, viz., the Ist battalion of the Ist
Royals, the 4th, 13th, 20th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 34th, 41st,
42d Highlanders, 44th, 47th, 49th, s.lth, 57th, 63d, 79th,
88th, 930, 95th, 46th, 55th, the Rifle Bri.2ado, and Royal
Artillery. Recruiting is also
going on for the following
not on war duty-18th, 51st, 54th, 56th, 66th, 720, 80th,
820, 90th, and 91th. For th 6 cavalry recruiting is also
going on very actively. The Scots Greys, though in the
East, have no recruiting party in London, as in the case of
other regiments. The complement for the sth, or Princess
Charlotte of Wales' Dragoons, which regiment was almost
cut off to a man by the cholera, while encamped in the
East, will be made up as soon as possible. At present the
corps is virtually disbanded, the survivors having been in-
corporated with the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards,
now commanded by Colonel Hedge.

The purchase of troop and artillery horses is actively
going on. _

The 94th Regiment, at Chatham, is being organised as
quickly as possible since the return of the right wing, in
expectation of soon getting the route for Canterbury.
Highlanders has boon
rom they could not obtain
Thoyeedaepforottnofltvhion462telstßeerg,
wimehnerteof
recruits, to Stirling Castle, where they will no doubt ob-
tain many fine Highland lads from the glens in Perth and
Stirling shires.

The depot of the 93d Highland Regiment has been sent
from the Isle of Wight to Dundee, for the same reason.
Tho Government has chartered the steam-ship Sarah
Sands to convey the second battalion of the 71st Highland
and she was to
of the 2d lLeiagvhatQlnuefabnetery omonfrFridQayuelbaesct. toT4Eengdleapnodt,
bat-
talion is at present stationed at Chatham.

Orders have been received at Quebec for the following
officers of the Royal Engineers to proceed to England im-
mediately :—Lieut.-Colonel Henry P. 'Wulff, Captain Hon.
H. F. Keane, at present stationed at Montreal ; and
Lieutenant A. R. Vyvan Crease, at Quebec; Lieutenant
B. A. Wilkinson, at present stationed at Toronto; aad
Lieut. George Ranken, at present stationed at Quebec.
Two companies of the Royal Artillery have been ordered
home from the West Indies, without any other companies
being sent out to relieve, and they aro now on their way
in one of the West India Mail steam-packets, and will
land at Southampton. The companies are Captain J. W.
Domvile's company, 10th battalion, stationed at Barba-
does since October, 1851, and Captain Thomas Knox's
company, 9th battalion, stationed at Barbadoes since Sep-
tember, 1852.

LIMERIOK, SEPT. 23.—Limeriok has at length been to-
tally ungarrisoned. For the first time since the siege, the
city of the violated treaty is loft in the keeping of a hand-
ful of raw recruits. The 57th depot has gone off to Birr,
and the 40th depot has been removed up to the New Bar-
racks, to replace the "Die Hardy." The Castle Barracks,
in which the 40th was stationed, has, since their removal,
been closed, and there are at present a sergeant, a corporal
and two or three privates keeping possession of A.—Lime-
rick. Chronicle.

POISONOUS PLANTS —A case of growing poisonous
plants was tried at the rolice court on Monday. Mr.
Bailey, surgeon, appeared to make a complaint agains.
William Dellor, chicory dealer. Dellor has a field in hi
occupation, near the Barnwell gravel pits, in which he i,
growing three different sorts of poisonous herbs, and th.
field is not protected by fencing ; the consequence is
that children frisk about the dangerous berries, and thre.
have nearly been sacrificed by eating them. The mayor
requested Superintendent Jaggard to call on Dellor
expo4tulate with him on the impropriety of growing hi
" villanous stuff"" in the neighbourhood of a populou
place, and even without a proper safeguard,—Cambridyt
Pre a.

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE TO NEW
SOUTH WAL6S, VICTORIA, AND
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

General Post-office, Sept., 1854.
On and after the let October next, the postage upon
letters conveyed, whether by packet or private ship, be-
tween the United Kingdom and the following British
colonies, viz.:—
New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia will
be reduced to a combined British and colonial rate of—
For a letter not exceeding
Half an ounce in weight Os. 6d.
Half an ounce and not exceeding one ounce Is. Od.
One ounce and not exceeding two ounces 2s. Od.
and so on, increasing one shilling for every ounce or frac-
tion of an ounce.
The postage of these letters may be paid in advance;
or they may be forwarded unpaid at the option of the
sender.
The foregoing reduction of postage will extend to all
letters directed to Van Diemen's Land which are sent
by the Australian mail packets, whether those which
go direct to Australia, or those which take the route to
Singapore, as well as to all letters for New Zealand
specially addressed "via Melbourne" or •' via Sydney,"
but, upon such letters, both those for New .Zealand,
and those for Van Diemen's Laud, the postage must be
paid in advance, or the letters cannot be forwarded.
To the reduced rate of 6d. a French transit rate of
sd. per quarter ounce must be added in the case of al
letters for the above-mentioned colonies, which may be
specially addressed to be sent via Marseilles, making
the total charge upon such letters— •
When under a quarter of an ounce in weight Os. lid.
When weighing a quarter of an ounce and under
half an ounce
When weighing half an ounce and under three
quarters of an ounce
and so on,

The correspondence of Western Australia is forwarded
as a rule by private ship. Letters for that colony spe-
cially addressed to be transmitted "vict Singapore," will
continue liable to the existing rate of ls. the half ounce,
or, if also directed to be sent "via Marseilles," to the
existing rate of Is. 10d. the quarter ounce ; but letters
for Western Australia, addressed to go by the direct
Australian packet, will be sent in the mail for Mel-
bourne, and will be liable only to the reduced rate of 6d.
In all cases the postage must be prepaid.
It must be understood that the foregoing reduction of
postage applies only to letters put into the post on or
after the Ist of next month, and that all letters which
are put into the post before that date will be charged
with the existing rate of postage.
PARLIAMENTART PROCEIDINGS.—On and from the
same date, the rates of postage now chargeable upon
packets containing printed votes and proceedings of the
Imperial Parliament, sent through the post to New
South Wales, will be repealed, and all such packets will
be forwarded only by the direct packets, and will be
subject to the rates of postage which are levied on printed
books sent to that colony, viz. --

For a Packet of Parliamentary Proceedings, not
exceeding—

Half a pound in weight Os. 6d.
Half a pound and not exceeding one pound le. Od.
One pound and not exceeding two pounds 2s. Od.
Two pounds and not exceeding three pounds 3s. Od:

beyond which weight no packet can be sent at a reduced
rate of postage.
The following conditions, however, must be observed :
Ist. Every such packet must be sent without a cover,
or in a cover open at the ends or sides.
2d. It must contain a single pub!ication only, the seve-
ral sheet■ or parts thereof, where there are more than
one, being bound or sewed together.
3d. It must not exceed two feet in length, breadth,
Width, or depth.
4th. It must have have no writing or marks upon
the cover, or its contents, except the name and address
of the person to whom it may be sent.
sth. The postage must be paid in full, by affixing out-
side the packet, or its cover, the proper number of
stain ps. _ _

If any of the above conditions be violated, the packet
must be charged as a letter, and treated as such in all
respects.

To prevent any obstacles to the regular transmission
of lettere, any officer of the Post-office may delay the
transmission of any such packet of printed ♦otes and
proceedings for a time not exceeding 24 hours, from the
time at which the same would otherwise have been for•
warded by him..

THE REOISTRATION►q.

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CITY OF LONDON.

Mr. Thomas Young M`Christie, the barrister, yes-
terday resumed the revision of the lists of voters for
the city of London, in the Court of Queen's Bench,
Guildhall.

In the list for Lawrence Pountney-lane, there were
three notices of claims and five objections sent in to the
overseers, but it appeared that only one of the claims,
and none of the objections had been published.
Upon the list being revised, the published claim was
gone into and allowed, but upon the application of Mr.
Sidney Smith and Mr. Ledger, to substantiate the two
remaining claims and objections,
The Revising Barrister expressed a doubt whether he
could entertain them, in consequence of their non-pub-
lication by the overseers.
Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. Ledger contended that
this non-publication could not deprive parties of those
rights conferred upon them by act of Parliament.
Wherever a list of voters was not published, a remedy was
provided by the 27th section of the Reform Act, of
making the existing register the list, thereby saving the
rights of the electors. The 26th section also provided
against imperfect publication, by enabling the revising
barrister to revise and adjudicate a list published for any
portion of the time required, whilst the 38th section, as
applicable to claimants, required the barrister to call
upon the parties to prove their qualification by proof of
the due service of the notice required to be given. If
the reverse of that were the law, the overseers might re-
strict the rights of claimants or objectors as the case
might be.
The Revising Barrister took the same view of the
question, and allowed the remaining claims and ob-
jections.

In the list for the parish of St. Peter-le-Poor, in the
ward of Broad-street, Mr. John Sim, of Coombe-hill,
claimed to have his name inserted as owner and occupier
of a house, No. 39, Old Broad•street, which bad been
omitted by the overseers.
Mr. Sidney Smitb, ithsupport of the claim, said that
the Messrs. Sim were the owners and occupiers of the
premises in question—that the premises were not only fit
for business, but for a dwelling-house and fit for the
reception of a family—that the servants employed were
not ,merely housekeepers for the place of business, but
were domestic servants, and administered to the wants
of the partners, who had separate beds in the house, and
that it was a proper occupation. He should quote the
opinions of two gentlemen who were considered as authos
rittes upon this point, which ho thought would esta-
blish his claim. Mr. Smith then read extracts from
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" Elliott and Rogers on Registration Cases," which
stated that it was not necessary for a person to sleep
continuously on the premises, so that there was an un-
brokeh right of doing so. In this case the claimant had
a bed assigned exclusively to himself, in his own house,
to which be went every day for the purpose of trans-
acting his business, and having a room assigned to him
where he could sleep, be (Mr. Smith) contended that
it was as complete a residence as could be set up, but
it was not necessary that he should sleep there every
night. It was like the case of officers in the army, who
were frequently travelling abroad for a long period, but
they did not lose their qualification. The law did not
so much require a man to sleep at a particular place,
but the power of doing so to the exclusion of any-
body else. What was there in this case but an animus
reverdendi f Where a man has a residence, and a bed
there, he occupied it when he pleased. He had not
occupied it for six months, certainly, but still he had a
continuous occupation.
A clerk from the establishment was called, who stated
'that the partners in the firm had beds in the house, in
which they occasionally slept, but that the claimant,
although he had a bed there, had not slept in it for the
last sixteen months.

The Revising Barrister considered that this was not a
residence within the meaning of the act ; but if Mr.
Smith wished to have a case upon it for the court above,
he would grant it.
Mr. Sidney Smith said most undoubtedly he should,
as there was but one case in the books bearing upon the
point.

Mr. Burton, the governor of Whitecross-street Pri-
son, claimed in respeot of his occupation in the parish
of St. Giles, Cripplegate.
The Revising Barrister considered that Mr. Burton's
residence was compulsory, and disallowed the claim,

[PRICE SD.

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claim, all of which were admitted, and 60 oljections,
of which 3 were withdrawn, and 57 were sustained. The
name of Lodge Raymond de Montmorency (Lord Frank-
fort). 14, Buckingham-street, was struck out, as also the
names of Andrew Mortimer Drummond, Andrew Robt.
IDrummond, Charles Dru
mmond, Robert Drummond,
I William Franks Drummond, Harvey Drummond, Edward Athelin Drummond, and
for 49, Charing-cross. all of whom -were returned
To the list of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, there were
14 objections, of which 13 were al/owed and 1 was with•
,
drawn.
Tne Court will sit this morning at 11 o'clock,
the lists of the parishes of St. Margaret, St. John when
, St.
James, and St. Clement, will be
submitted to revision.

LAMBETH.
Yesterday Mr. Archer Ryland, barrister-at-law 'halo
his court at the Sessions-house, St. Mary, Newington, to
revise the list of voters for several parishes
in the borough
of Lambeth.
Mr. Percy Hart, of No. 4, Studley-terrace, in the
parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, sent a written application
to have his naive placed on the register, from which, he
stated, it had been omitted. The Barrister entertained
some doubt whether he could comply with the applica-
tion, as previous-notice had not been given to the over-
seers, nor bad the claimant appeared in person to support
his application. The legal gentlemen -present offered
their aid to solve the difficulty, and, after some friendly
reference made to legal authorities, the
farm , was about to give his decision on the point;
wher, IA was forestalled by a rate collector calling out,
•" Why, he resides in my district, and the name is in the
list, quite right ;" and on reference being made to the
list, it was found to be so.
The list contains the names of about 9,000 voters,
and there were but six claims made, four of which were
allowed.

APPALLING ACCIDENT AT A GRINDING
W HEEL AT SHEFFIELD.

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SHEFFIELD, SATURDAY AFTERNOON,—About 2 o'clock
this afternoon, a portion of an extensive grinding-wheel,
known by the name of the " tower wheel," suddenly fell
in and buried eight of the workmen in the debris. The
tower wheel is situate in Blonk-street, Wicker, and is a
most conspicuous object to the visitor to Sheffield, being
seen from the railway termini to rise with lofty castel-
lated towers above the surrounding buildings. That
portion of the building which has fallen was used by the
file and table-blade grinders, and was situate at the rear
of the most extensive portion of the building. The
ground floor contained the boilers, and the floors of the
upper storey were formed of brick arches, of which the
outer wall formed one abutment, and the inner wall
rested on cast-iron pillars. The building was girt toge-
ther by iron rods running from front to back of the build-
ing, and underneath the arches or floor of the second
storey. It is conjectured that the vibration of the ma-
chinery constantly at work had loosened these rods from
their fastenings, and so deprived the outer wall of the
support necessary to preserve it. However that may be,
the outer wall about two o'clock suddenly fell out„letting
down the arches, and the whole of the rooms above also
fell with a tremendous crash, burying eight men, who at the
time were at work in the rooms, in the ruins. Being
Saturday afternoon, rryiny of the hands were absent who
otherwise would have been at work. The crash of the
falling buildings alarmed the whole neighbourhood, and
speedily drew to the spot an immt nse crowd of persons.
A large force of workmen were immediately set to work
to search the ruins fir the unfortunate men who were
'entombed, and in the course of half an hour the %%hole of
them were extricated and removed to the infirmary.
They were George Tingle, Park, 30, table blade-grinder,
seriously injured in various parts of his body ; John
Mitchell, 16, table blade-grinder, Park, large wound on
the front of the leg ; William Headley, 16, fork-grinder,
Andrew-street, Wicker, compound fracture of the left
leg, and injuries on the face ; John Ibbotson, 18, ivory-
cutter, Fir-view, fractured leg ; Albert Berry, 13, file-
grinder, New-street, cuts on the bead and leg, and frac-
tured foot ; Charles Makin, file-grinder, Sergeant's-row;
John Ridge, ferkgrinder, Wicker ; and a young man
named Ibbotson, were all bruised, but escaped without
fractured limbs. One young lad, when the place was
falling, clung to a window sill, and escaped without a
scratch. A portion of the outer wall fell upon a horse, il-
- it so much as to render its destruction necessary.
The damage done to the building is variously estimated
at from 1,0001. to 3,000/. The extent of the calamity
has been greatly exaggerated, the reports being that 19
men were killed, and 30 buried in the ruins. No life
bas been sacrificed. Eight men and lade hare, been
juredi some of theth very seriously.