The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

MEAT MARKETS.

NEIVGATE AND LEADENUALL. - The supplies of
meat are moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows :
Beef, from 3s 4d to tis Od ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s
4d ; lamb, 5s Od to 6s 2d ; veal, 4s 4d to 58 Od ; pork,
4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs. by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, June 20.—The supplies of stock here to-
day were only moderate. Generally speaking, the trade
ruled steady, as follows : Beef, from 4s 2d to 5s 6d;
mutton, 4s Od to 5s 6d; lamb, 6s Od to 7s Od; veal, 4s 4d
to 56 2d; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, June 20.—Our market continues firm, as fol-
lows :—Beef, from 4s M to 5s 6d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 8d ;
lamb, 6s 2d to 7s Od ; veal, 48 4d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 4s
Od to 5s Od per 81bs; suckling calves, 16s to 19s; quarter
old store pigs, 23s to 30s each; and milch cows, £l4 Os
to £l9 Os each.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill and a Special Jury.)
STONE V. LORD LLANOVER.
This was an action to recover damages from the defen-
dant for having published slanderous and defamatory words
of the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a
justification.
Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Sergeant Pigott, Mr. Hawkins, and
Mr. Phipson were counsel fur the plaintiff; Mr. E. James,
Mr. Bovill, Mr. Huddleston, and Mr. H. James represented
the defendant.
The case, which was commenced yesterday, was resumed
this morning, and is likely to last several days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THLS D..11'.;

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—CharIes Collins, a boy, was :charged
with embezzling money received on account of his em-
ployer, Mr. Vanstono, agent for farm produce, 43, Cleve-
land-street, Fitzroy-square.
The prosecutor, it appears, being ill, had employed the
lad to deliver milk, &c., to his customers, amongst others to
a Mr. Simpson, of Calthorpe.street, and the prisoner had
received from that person the sum of 175., but failed to ac-
count for the same to his employer.

The prisoner reserving his defence was, after reading
over the depositions, committed for trial.

THAMES.

Tots ANNUITY SOCIETIES.—This morning, Mr. Selfe
received numerous communications from persons respecting
the proceedings of the committee and directors of the
United Kingdom Benevolent Annuity Fund and the
United Kingdom Mutual Annuity Society, which have
been designated " a sham and a swindle." All the infor-
mation conveyed to the magistrate confirms him in the
view originally taken by him, that the two societies were
got up by several individuals for their own bene-
fit, and without any intention to benefit the
poor annuitants who were elected. Among the
magistrate's correspondents are many benevolent persons
who have expressed great indignation at the deception
practised upon them, and who were led into the belief that
the annuity fund was in all respects to be considered as a
charitable institution, instead of which its affairs were
transferred to a Life Assuiance Society to be worked for the
benefit of that society. The Chancery suit between the
United Kingdom Annuity Fund and the Anglo-Austra-
lian Life Assurance Society is not expected to terminate for
some time, and there is no prospect of any funds being
forthcoming from that source to pay the poor and aged an-
nuitants, who arc in a state of great distress.
It is understood that proceedings will be commenced
against the committee of the United Kingdom Mutual An-
nuity Society, which has been registered under the
Friendly Societies Act.
Mr. Selfe recommended the friends of the annuitants who
had not already sent in their claims to do so without delay,
and forward their statements to Messrs. Tucker, Greville,
and Tucker, the solicitors, in Swithen's-lane, Loml'ard-
street, who are instructed for till plaintiff in the proceed-
ings in Chancery against the Anglo-Australian Company.
The printed form of prayer used at the ordinary, general,
and special meetings of the United Kingdom Benevolent
Annuity Fund or Society was exhibited in Court this day.
It is a very long one, and Mr. Stoddart, a solicitor, who
has been consulted by some of the annuitants, said it ought
to commence thus—" Let us Prey."

TESTIMONIAL TO 3IP. BEATTIR OF

THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.

On Tuesday an event of some interest to the
railway world was celebrated at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, when upwards of 70 gentlemen
(the large majority of whom are connected with
engineering pursuits) assembled to do honour to Mr.
Joseph Hamilton Beattie, the locomotive superin-
tendent of the South Western Railway.
Mr. JOSEPH LoCKE, M.P., occupied the chair,
and after having proposed, in terms which were
fully responded to by all present, the usual com-
plimentary toasts, he addressed himself to the itn
mediate purpose of the evening, observing that that
purpose was described on an ornamental scroll
which tad just been handed to him. The descrip-
Lion was as follows :
" TO JOSEPH HAMILTON BEATTIE, ESQ.

" Sir,—l have been deputed by the gentlemen
whose names arc subscribed to request your accept-
ance of the accompanying testimonial of a silver
dinner service, of elegant design and workman-
ship, and a purse of 500 guineas, as a record of
their sincere estimation of your inventive and self-
reliant mechanical skill, generous friendship, and
honourable conduct during your successful career,
and I trust you will ever have occasion to regard
us as your attached friends.—l am, sir, on behalf
of the committee, yours faithfully,
"ROBERT F. FAIRLIE, Chairman."
Then followed the list of subscribers to the testi-
monial.

Mr. LOCKE, in presenting the. testimonial, ex-
patiated with much earnestness and good feeling
on the prosperous career of Mr. Beattie, and ex-
vb,ined tb' ctreumstances under wnicn tne present
tribute originated. The gentleman in question
had long been engaged in bringing forward inven-
tions connected with engineering pursuits, and it
appeared that certain great railway companies had
availed themselves of those inventions without
making any pecuniary acknowledgment of them.
Mr. Beattie therefore determined to try the question
in a court of law, and a subscription was set on
foot to pay his expenses in the event of his being a
loser by the proceeding. Mr. Beattie, however,
did not lose, but was successful in his law-suit;
and the result was that the committee which had
been formed to promote the subscription had re-
solved that the money should be spent in a testimo-
nial—honourably due to one mho had done so much
good in his useful profession. Hence the magnifi-
cent service of plate, and the purse containing 500
guineas, which he (Mr. Locke) now had the grati-
fication of presenting to Mr. Beattie, whom he was
proud to say he had known for 30 years, and had
watched his successful career with great pleasure
and satisfaction.

The words accompanying the testimonial having
been read by Mr. H. J. Cohen, the secretary to the
committee, Mr. Bentti© returned thanks in a brief
but impressive and grateful speech. A tribute of
thanks was then paid to Mr. Robert F. Fairlic, the
chairman of the committee, far the untiring energy
he had displayed in promoting the pre-
sent object, and the evening was brought to
a close in a manner which must have
been gratifying to all who may be placed
in a position, as Mr. Beattie has been, to meet and
overcome " engineering difficulties." Amongst the
company present were Sir John M'Neill, Lord Al-
fred Paget, Mr. Errington, Mr. Brassey, Sir Charles
Fox,' Mr. England, and others well known in the
railway world.

APPOINTMENT OF RADCLIFFE OBSERVER.—The
trustees of the late Dr. John Radcliffe met in London on
the 19th inst. for the purpose of electing a successor to the
late lamented M. J. Johnson, Esq., for the important office
of Radcliffe Observer at Oxford. The choice of the trustees
has fallen on the Rev. Robert Main, M.A., first assistant
at. the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, where he has been
engaged for the last 25 yea's. Amongst the candidates for
the office were many of the first astronomers of the day.
The new Russian 4,i per cent. loan of £8,000,000,
the negotiation of which has been entrusted to Messrs. Bar-
ing, is expected to be introduced in the course of a week or
a fortnight.
ICE MADE BY STEAM POWER.—Considerable in-
terest has been felt in scientific circles by the experiments
which have been going on during the week at the works of
the Liverpool Ice Company, in Boundary-street, in the
production of ice by steam-power. It is not easy to explain
the mode in which the ice is produced, but it is neverthe-
less so simple and apparently inexpensive that the machi-
nery which produces it must find a locality in hot climates.
The patentees adopt the convene of the well-known prin-
ciple that heat can be converted into power by the employ-
ment of power to abstract heat, and the process is entirely
mechanical. —Liverpool Courier.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners will receive tenders to-day
(Thursday) for ships to proceed to Adelaide, South Aus-
tralia, and to Sydney, New South Wales ; the former to be
ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the
commissioners may appoint between the 24th July and the
2d of August; and the latter between the 2d and 9th of
August.
FATALITY AT THE gDGEHILL STATION OF THE
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The Liver-
pool borough coroner held an inquest on Tuesday last,
on the body of a young man, an engine cleaner, at the ,
Edgehill station, on the London and North Western Rail-
way, who was killed on Monday afternoon at that station
by being run over by carriages propelled by an engine. A
number of similar accidents having recently occurred at the
same place, the jury made a presentment to the effect that
it was dangerous to place engines behind carriages, unless
an unusually good look out was kept.
THE CHANNEL FLEET AT LEITH.—The weather
yesterday being highly favourable for pleasure trips to the
fleet, steamers of various build, size, and condition, belong-
ing to the Tay and the Tyne, as well as to ports on both
sides of the Forth, put off at all hours during the day from
Leith and Granton, crowded with passengers, and ran neck-
and-neck races with each other to the great focus of attrac-
tion, St. Margaret's Hope. A fine easterly breeze, which
sprang up in the morning and continued nearly all day, was
also turned to good account by numerous fishing-boats
and cobbles, which ran up the river with well- filled
sails, carrying more select, or at least small parties
from Leith, Newhaven, Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, and
elsewhere. The throng of visitors was of a more mis-
cellaneous character than on Saturday, and not quite
so overwhelming; and they were also, generally speak,
ing, distributed pretty generally over the different
vessels in the fleet. In all the ships they were not only
received with that hearty courtesy which is so marked a
characteristic of the officers and crews of the British navy
when at home in their floating castles, but in most cases the
visitors were entertained with music from the ships' bands,
and in one vessel (the Mars) dancing was continued for a
couple of hours with great spirit on the maindeck by the
officers and their lady visitori, and hornpipes were danced
with much kkilland tasteby several of the galku.—Scotsman,

ROY AL BOYANIC SOCIET.P.s GA ED_F:N69.

Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the.
weather, especially after three o'clock, there was a..
large and fashionable attendance at the Botanic,-
Gardens yesterday. Among the persons of dis.
tinction who were present were the following :-y.
he Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary of Camp
bridge, the Duchess of Mecklenburgh, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Duchess of Montrose, the
Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countesi
of Cork, the Countess of Bradford, the Countess or
Chesterfield, Earl Delawarr, the Bishop of Win..
chester, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord and Lady
Bingham, Lord H. G. Lennox, Lady Cheshatn.
Lord and Lady Bateman, Lady Leigh, Lady Oc-
tavia Stewart, Lady and Sir J. Anson, Lady-
Louisa and Miss Moncrieffe, Lady and Sir R. Pcel,
the Hon. Mrs. Curzon, the Hon. Mrs. Cavendish,
Sir Walter Stirling, Sir R. De Burgh, Sir W. Ball;
Sir P. Cornwall, Lord Kildare, Lady Farnham, and.
Mrs. Sotheron Estcourt.

The following were the awards of Prizes for the
best Flowers, BL-c.
EXTRA GOLD MEDAL.—To Mr. T. Whitebread,
gardener to IL Colyer, Esq., Dartford, Kent, for 16
stove and greenhouse plants; to Mr. Bullen, gar-
dener to J. Butler, Esq., Woolwich, for 20 exotic
orchids.

LARGE GOLD MEDAL.—To Mr. W. May, gar-
dener to J. Spode, Esq., Hawkesyard, Envier,
for 16 stove and greenhouse plants; to R. War-
ner. Esq., Chelmsford, for 20 exotic orchids.
MEDIUM GOLD MEDAL.—TO Mr. B. Peed,
gardener to T. Tredwell, Esq., St. John's Lodge,
Norwood, for 16 stove and greenhouse plants; to
J. and J. Fras3r, nurserymen, Leyt On, for 12 do.; to
Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Chesil!,
Surrey, for 10 stove and greenhouse plants ; to
Mr. Gedney, gardener to the Rev. 'W. Ellis, Hod-
desdon, for 20 exotic orchids ; to Mr. Woolley,
nurseryman, Cheshunt, for 16 exotic orchids ; to
Mr. R. Stone, gardener to J.Day, Esq., Tottenham,
for 12 exotic orchids ; to Mr. E. P. Francis,
nurseryman, Hertford, for 10 roses in pots. -
GOLD MEDAL.—To Mr. B. Zaxendine, gardener
to H. Smallpiece, Esq, Millmead House, Guild-
ford, kr 16 stove and greenhouse plants; to Mr.
Kaile, gardener to the Earl Lovelace, Horsley
Towers, Surrey, for 10 stove and greenhouse plants ;
to Messrs. Jackson and Son, Kingston, for 10 Cape
heaths; to Mr. Peed, gardener to T.Tredwell, Esq.,
Norwood, for eight Cape heaths ; to Mr. May,
gardener to J. Spode, Esq., for eight Cape heaths ;
to Mr. 0. Rhodes, gardener to J. Philpott Esq.,
Stamford-hill. for 20 exotic orchids ; to Mr. Carson,
gardener to W. It. G. Farmer, Esq., for 12 exotic
orchids ; to Mr. Turner, Slough, for 12 pelargo-
niums ; to Mr, Nye, gardener to E. Foster, Esq.,
Clewer, near "Windsor, for 10 pelargoniums; to
Messrs, Lane, nurseryman, Berkhampstead, for 10
roses in pots.
LARGE SILVER GILT.—To Mr. Page, gardener
to W. Leaf, Esq , Streatham, for 10 stove and
greenhouse plants; to Mr. Carson, gardener to
W. Farmer, Esq., Lower Chcam, for six stove and
greenhouse plants; to Mr. Page, gardener to
W. Leaf, Esq., for 12 exotic orchids; to Mr.
Bunney, nurseryman, Stratford, for six exotic
orchids; to Messrs. Dobson, Isleworth, for 12 pelar-
goniums ; to Mr. Bailey, gardener to T. T. Drake,
Esq., Shardeleus, Amcrsham, Bucks, for 10 pelar-
goniums ; to Messrs. Paul and Son, nurserymen,
Cheshnut, for 10 roses in pots ; to Mr. Terry, gar-
dener to R. W. G. Puller, Esq., Youngsbury, Herts,
for six roses in pots.
LARGE SILVER MEDAL.--To Mr. Chilman, gar-
, dener to the Rev. W. C. Denshire, Ashstead House,
Epsom, for six stove and greenhouse plants.
To Mr. Harlock, gardener to R. W. Nutter, Esq.,
Wanstead, for eight Cape heaths ; to Mr. Page,
gardener to W. Leaf, Esq., for six Cape heaths ; to
Mr Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, for six
exotic orchids ; to Mr. Turner, Slough, for six fancy
pelargoniums ; to Mr. Bailey, gardener to 'l'. T.
Drake, Esq., for six fancy pelargoniums.