The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-27 00:00:00

For. Against. For Against.
Mr. C. Gilpin Sir P. Egerton Mr. Hatched Mr. HUI
Mr. Brand Mr. B. Stanhope Mr. Fenwiek Nr. Conolly,

CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT
CONTINUANCE BILL.
Order for Third Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill do pass :"—The house
divided; Ayes, 92; Noes, 59.
AYES-92.
Adderley, C. B. Farquhar, Sir M. Mowbray, J. H.
Annesley, Hon. Hugb. Fellowes, E. Naas. Lord
A rbuthnott, Gen. H. Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Newdegate, C.
Ayrton; A. Forrester, Col. Newport, Viscount
Bailey, C. (lard, R. Nisbet, It. P.
Bernard, W. Garnett, William North, Colonel
Beach, W. Gray, Captain Palk, L.
Beecroft, G. Hall, General John Palmerston, Viscount
Blackburn, Peter Hamilton, Lord Claud Patten, Col.
Boldero, Col. H. G. Hamilton, G. A. Peel, Gen.
Bonham-Carter, J. Hardy, G. Puller, Christopher
Bridges, Sir B. Henniker, Lord Russell, Lord J.
Butler, Mr J. Hodgson, William Russell, A.
Burrell, Sir C Hope, %lexander Sclater, George
Butler, C. S. Howard. C. Scott, Major
Cairns. 11. Hume, W. Sibthorp, Major
Cecil, Lord .R. Ingham, R. Smith, Sir F.
Cla'k, J. Jertnyn, Rt. Hn. Earl Spooner, R.
Cobbett, J. M. Kelly, Sir F. Stirling,:W.
Collins, T. Knatchbull-Huguessen Vance, John
Cooper, E J . Knight, F. Vane, Lord H.
Corry, H. T. L. Knightley, R. Vansittart, W.
Cross, R. A. • Knox, Col. B. W. Verner, Sir W.
Cubitt, W. Langton, H. G. Walpole. 8.
Darner, L. D. Leroy, Anthony Warren, S.
Davey. R. Lennox. Lord H. G. Whiteside, J.
Disraeli, B. Lovaine, Lord Whitmore, H.
Du Cane, C. Lygon, Hon. F. Williams, Colonel
Du Pre, C.i Macartney, George
East, Mr J. Manners, Lord J. TELLERS.
Edwards, Henry Mills, Arthur Jollinn, Sir W.
Egerton, IY. Morris, D. Taylor, Colonel
DIOEI3-39.
Duncombe, Thomas Stapleton,John
Dunlop, A. Sykes, Colonel
Ewing, Crum Taylor, S.
Fox, W. J. Thompson, General
Freestun, Colonel Tolletnache, F.
Greene, John Trelawny, Sir J.
Greer, Samuel Turner, J. A.
Gregson, Samuel Villiers, C.
Grenfell, Charles W. Watkins, Col.
Griffith, C. Westhead, Joshua
Hadfield. George Whitbread, S.
Hankey, T. White, James
Hardcastle, Joseph Wickham, 11.
M'Cann, J. Willcox, B.
O'Donoghoe, The Williams, W.
Rich, H. Wilson, J.
Roebuck, J. A. Wood, W.
•
Rothschild, Baron
Smith, V. TELLERS.
Smith, A. Osborne, R.
Somerville, Sir W. Byng, G. H.C.

Adair, 11.
Anderson, Sir J.
Bagshaw, Robert
Baines, Rt. Hon. M.
Bass, M.
Berkeey, lion. U.
Black, _Adana
Bowyer. G.
Brady, T.
Buchanan,
Gen Walter
Buckley, .}
Calcutt, F.
Clay, James
Codrington, Gen.
Cos, W.
Cranford, E. 11. J.
Delglish, R.
Davie, Sir IL R. F.
Dillwyn, L. L.
Duff, 11.
Dunbar, Sir W.

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Cherbourg, we learn from the Moniteur de /cc
EOM, the French official •me wspaper for ail matters
connected with the neyY of France, "is the lOng-
continwid rivalry beiWeen the two !idiom', France
and England. The necessity for such a port Was
first felt after the decisive victory of La Hogue,
and Vauban-was conlipiesioned by the French Go-
vernment to select a spot on the French coast which
would he suitable as a point of aggression against
England. Years passed on, and the project of
cutting out of the granite rock a work of such tnag-
nitude as might serve to overawe the English
slumbered, and was only revived by the policy of
the first Napoleon ; but from the very commence-
ment of the works, according to the French offi-
cial authority, they were decreed, " with a view,
it is hardly necessary to remark, to offensive and
defensive hostilities" .with this country. "Is it
not woLderful," asks our contemporary, "that at
the moment when the finithing touch is about to
be given to this formidable establishment the two
sovereigns of France and England should meet to
celebrate its completion t" The Moniteur describes
the works about to be inaugurated as a mageifievent
harbour, 400 metres in length, 200 in width, the
height f the quay 18, and the depth of water nine
metres.
THE POSITION.—We will inform our readers
upon data, upon which the utmost reliance can be
paced, what Cherbourg really is. First, let it be.
clearly understood. where it is situated. . Cher-,
bourg, then is about midway on the French coast
of the English Channel, about equi-distant from
Calais and the western extremity of the French
coast at Ushant. The coast juts out into the chan-
nel in what is called the "Departments of the
Channel." At the north-west extremity of this
projected land is Cape La Hague, or La Hogue;
memorable in the naval annals of this country by
a victory won by our countrynien over the French
fleet. Just eastward of this point commences
small open bay, near the centre of which stands th
town of Cherbourg. It is directly south of the Isle
of Wight, about sixty miles from Sandown;
and of course a trifle farther from Portsmouth.
Off the western coast. of this Department of the
Channel lie the Channel Islands—Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, and Sark. The little bay, if we may sp
call it, of Cherbourg is wholly unprotected, and,
except for purposes such as those for which it ws
designed, it is not possible t) conceive a more u
suitable or more unpromising place for the con-
struclion of a harbour.

' THE BREAKWATER AND ITS BATTERIES.—TI
first thing that was nece,sary to be done to mil
this unpromising spot suitable for a Sebas opol
the channel was to construct an immense brea
water, running east and west about 4,000 yards, 4
nearly two and a-half miles in length. It is form(
of stone, and some hundreds of thousands of tol
of materials have been thrown into the water •
raise it to the level and form the parapet. Til
great work was commenced in 1783, and was n
completed till 70 years afterwards, iii 1833, and
entire c ,st has been 67,000,000 francs (2,680,000
The breakwater is protected by immense blocks
granite, but such is the violent action of the a
upon them that they require several thou-stand to
of granite every year to replace those which a
carried away or destroyed. The ends of the e
bankment, fotmiug the eastern and- west
channels, . are formed of blocks of hydraulic come
each of which is' said to weigh about 40 tons.
width of this artificial- breakwater is 140 yards; a •
it slopes from the c-ntre on each side inwards at
angle of at out 170 degrees. In the centre-of t
great work is a-large fort, called "Fort Centro
and- at each end there is also a missive circular foli
the guns of which sweep in every dirrection, air
there are six batteries, placed three on each si 1
between the centre aid the extremities. facing
wards the harbour.

THE ENTRANCES, THEIR DEPTHS AND DEFENC
—There are two entrances to Cherbourg, .otie
the east and the 'other at the west end of t
strongly fortified role. At the eas'ern waren]
the channel is narrowed by the island of Pt]
upon which is erected a large fort, celled " F
Imperial," which, with the corresponding, fort
the eastern end of the mole, completely comma
the narrow -passage, and its guns cross fire v
other forts to be afterwards niptioned. The vi
tern channel is equally proeenAed by an imme
fort, called "Fort de -Qeer9neville," on the m,
land, and which is imtne'dia'ekir opposite the for
the west end of the embankment. The dept
water in those channels is marked'on. tbe.l.Frt
Admiralty' charts at from 12 to 13 metres (30 t 4
feet), but these immense forts one would cons
sufficient to sink in an instant any ship w
would attempt to effect an entrance. They f
]
however, but a fraction of the fortifications 1
which the place abounds.
THE OUTER BASIN. —A ship entering by the
tern channel would not only receive the con
trated file of the firs on each side of the Chen
but there is another huge fort erec ed upon a r
dry at low water, called "Fort Chavagnac," IV
is between, but a little in the rear of, th • web
of the mole and the great Querqueville Fort.
ing run the gauntlet of these works, ships w
fiud themselves in a t lerably capacious bl
where from every point of the co'n pais, in what
position they might lie, they would be riddle
the crossfire of bstteties and forts which swan
every directi ii, and which help to swell the ai
gate of 3,000 guns of large calibre which
mounted in the works in different parts of th
parently impregnable position. This outer p.
harbour, according to the report of the comm
appointed by M. Decres, the Minister of Mar
Napoleon 1., presented in 1811, contains au
age for 25 ships
of the line in summer and
winter. It was completed and inaugurated in
in the presence of the Empress Mario L misa.
dock', which have been exceva ed from the g
rocks, he in the southwest corner of the ba
harbour formed by the great mole, and their
lug is towards the (Dee.
THE INNER FORTIFICATION OF . THE DO s.--
Along the fwea of the docks there are nuts erous
small forts and batteries which command not only
a portion of the entrance by the Mole, h 't, as-
sis'ed by ocher batteries on the shore, woul soon
" sink, burn or destroy" anything which had assed
the orded of the outer forts. The docks are f rmed
of a Large basin, communicating with one o the
1
north, and this again with a large ewe to thq west,
there are three smeller basins beyond these let the
north, and there are three at the southern it of
la
the excavation, int) which an entrance is o taiued
through the central opening and basin. ,
THE BASINS.—There are nine basins in a 1, and
it is the completion of the inner floatiug,doc • called
"Dock Napoleon the Third," which formsel e sub-
jectiof the forthcoming celebration, and the imen-
sions of which, given in the Monikur, wiA have
already stated. It has crest 16;000,000 francs
(640,0001.), the first floating dock having been com-
pleted in 1829.
FORT DES FLAMANDS.—At the entrance-of the
dock is a gigantic fore, built on what is marked on
the French Ad iralty charts as Bisse du Owned.
It is a rock dry at low water, and upon this has
been constructed the huge work called " Port des
Flamands." This is one of the many works ti) which
we have referred as supporting the outworks in the
channel for the protecion of the entrance. The
fire of Fort des Flamands crosses wi h that pf Fort
Imperial at the east ern (lid of the mole, ,and it
would appear absolutely impossible for any vessel
to pass 'the concentrated fire of these Mounted
would be thoroughly and com-
pletely raked by the scathing fire_which the's() forts
ofbfrthes ;
leuacckhl e side,
e ante as well as the fore, and every part
of
would send forth.
REDOUBT TOUR LL VILLE, &C.—To make secu-
rity double surer this Fort des Flamands is sup-
per ed by a redoubt called " Tour la Tille;" Ap-
proaching nearer the entrance of the cl.rck there is
Fort du Galet, still nearer Fort du Longlet and
• Fort du Hemet. The official statement is :" Cher-
beurg is defended by a fort constructed , in the
Hornet, :
island of Pelee (Fort Imperial); which -'was com-
menced in 1783 and fin Fart Ctia-
ished in 1794,
vagd
n aeii Fort
de Querqueville, Fort des Flamands,
Fort , and St. Anne's Battery."
THE LA.NDSIDE FORTIVICATIONS.—We now come
to the other fortifications which surround Cher-
bourg on the land side, and which completely
dominates the whole of the
_town and harbour.
There are 14 forts and redoubts, which form two
semi-circles around the town on the land side, the
outer orie consisting of a chain of de' ached star orts,
and the inner being formed of a line of redoubt's:
The inner line of redoubts terminates-at each end,
near the harbour, the nearest one on the western
side being what is termed the Battery St. Anne in
the description of the Moniteur, and that on the
east being the Tour la Ville, which we haSe referred
to as the support of the Fort des Flamands. The
other redoubts, which complete the inner line, are
c died des Complex s, which is close by the cemetery,
du Tot, des Fourches, d'Octeville, and t;e Trotebece
These are all in a commanding position, and the
guns would sweep the outer harbour as well as_the
entrance chaanels, The chain of forts .which our-

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Mr. Francis. Worrell Stevens, of No. 3, Royal
Exchange, dealer in shares, waa brought before alit
Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, yesterday, iti
the custody of James Brett, the detective officer,
charged, according to the police list, with having
appropriated to his own use the sum of 4,799!.
(balance of the sum of 6,0001.), the same having
been entrusted to him as a stock and sharebroker;
on or -aly)ut the 21st of June, • for the purchasing
shares in the London aid Brighton and South
Coast Railway Company, which said shares he had
failed to purchase.
Mr. Booth, of Surrey-street, appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Humphreys for the defence.
The property stated to have been found in the
possession of the defendant when he was appre-
hended consisted of three Bank of England notes
for 1,0001. each, one for 5001., one for 2001., and a
purse containing 5/., &c.
Mr. B.)oth said he appeared for Mr. Octavius
Cobb Rooke, who at present resided at Hatchet,'s
Hot-1, in Accadilly. The case was brought for-
ward upon public grounds, upiin the act for the
better protection of the public from fraud in the
purchase of stock, &c., and his lordship would see
from the evidence whether it came under tte 4th
provision, or under some other clause of that sta-
tute. Mr. -Booth was proceeding to state the
substance of the evidence, which was sub:iequently
given, when
Mr. Humphreys, who said he had only been just
engaged for the defence, intirnated,that be had been
given to understand that his client was ready to
pay the difference batweeu the money which had
been taken from him by the officer and the whole
amount received into the bank. Und,tr such a state
of things be could not see what could ba the object
of proceeding any further.
Mr. Booth said
.his client was not satisfied with
the propOsition, and thought it w.as necessary to go
into evidence.
Mr. Humphreys—The balance between the two
sums is ready, I repeat, to be paid over. There
was, I am informe I, an arrarigealeutttrit the whole
was to be paid over to the bankers by the 30th of
the mouth, and it will be paid over at once. I
hold in my hand a document which was signed this
morning, anti I sin astonished, af. er reading that,
that there is an intention to proceed.
- Here Mr. Humphreys handed- a paper to the
Lord Mayor, who said,- upon reading it, " I do
not call that a settlement at all."
Mr. Booth said.there were certain circumstances
connected
til atthep
awiittihe u
ahe is
of the
t hINe• hi c h
transactioninada .i t
shouldileCrSi a ry
be
detailed: ."
The Llrd' Mayor—l am ready to hear the evi-
d mice.

.Mr. Oatavius C. Rooks said—l first became ac-
quainted with Mr. Stevens in the beginning of last
mouth, when I saw him at his Offi.:e in the Royal
Exchange. I told him 1- bad seme tru-t money
b invest, and I 'asked bin] what was the best invest-
ment I could make in the market.. He gave me
certain advice, but nothing followed from it. Some
days:aftervards I again saw him at his office, and
had brought with me a cheque, ei‘gued by the two
trustees in whose naneessthe Money. Was then lying,
at 11Pssrs. Child's, the leinkere' which cheque was
for 6,000/4 and drawn upon Messrs. Child, atel
-made-payaNlo to the' aecrztary ;of _the London and
Brightoneßailvrey Qin:teeny, but not to beam. I
showed le;ni .tkeque,:tuaiii-theefiefetidant said
that he was afraid it would not
_be avail able for the
purpose required, but he sent his' sOe with me to
Com pany, . to see if' it 'eciuld- be Made available in
the -Of4oe'rof the LoUdon -and` B ighton way
its then form. • We were 'there-told it could not to
-made available in its form, and we retained to the
office of the defentlaut, and the defendant was told
of the information we. had received front' tee secre-
tary, and he accompanied me to Messrs. Childs, to
take- their 'acl vice. We there received one of their
printed forms to be forwarded to the trustees, in
order that they might fill it up in an available
manner, and Mr. Stevens (the defend nt) filled
up the cheque, making it payable to the secre-
tary of the London and 'Brightou Reilwey
Company, cr beater, and I sent that cheque to one
of the trustees, with a letter. In a few days after-
wards I received the new cheque' for the same
amoun*, signed by the two trustees, and I to Jk the
cheque to the defendant and gave it to him, for the
purpose of purchasing the London and Brighton
shares to that extent, with the exemption of 601.,
which he returned to ire for the purpose of paying
the 1/. per cent. dtry on the 6,0001. That was all
that took place at tiny. time. I saw him afterwards
on one or two occaQions, abut the 2d or 3d of the
month, and he stated to me that be Irv( put chas
the whole of the shares, but`they ware not yet de-
livered, and he showed me a-memorandum of the
prices.
Mr. Humphreys.—ln all probability that paper
is amongst the numerous documents wYch have
been taken by the officers from my client.
Brett (the detective) said he had not had time to
examine the documents.
The Witness, in continuation.—He gave me a
cheque for 511., stating that that was tie balance
between the amount of the shares purchased and
the amount of the cheque and the 601. He told
me the whole business was now settled, with the
exception of a paper which would be forwarded to
me to North Wales, to Beaumaris, to which I in-
tended to proceed, and the coupons could be lodged
at Messrs. Childs, iu the names of the two trustees
and my own name. In my first instructions to
him to purchase, I gave the names of all the trus-
tees verbally, and he wrote them down. I have
*not any of the documents, but I can refresh my
memory from some papers which I have at home.
At a-subsequent interview, considering that there
would be a great deal of trouble in getting all the
signatures, I instructed him in my own name, and
to lodge the coupons in the names of the other two
trustees and my own, jointly, at Messrs:. Childs.
He said it would save trouble, and have precisely
the same effect with regerd to the security of the
trustees. I then proceeded to Mess's. Childs, and
stated what I had done. I left London on the fol-
lowing Saturday, No letteror written communi-
cati n had passedbetween us up to this time. I after-
wards wrote to him from Beaumarie, and on 19th
July I saw him there. I had received a note from him,
stating that he was waiting at the. Post-office to
see me, and I immediately Went thither to see him.
He was standing outside the door of the post-office,
and he conducted me into a ropm, and there gave
me a document to sign, which he said was the Isom-
pletion of the business on my
form, and I was to eign it. I did so. and the
paper produced is that docuMent. He stated.. that..e
it was the completion of..my busineee with
tie%
part. It was a prin,ed
exception of going to the railway company
not see the- account which" is now attached to it.
The document for the transfer of 1,000 Loudon
and Brighton shares. .
transferred. When I signet the document lodid
.purchased the shares ? • .
Witness—He bad told me that all the shares
also presented to me piece
a
were purchased. He
The Lord Mayor—Had he told you that he had
• t I aske
him what that was for, and he said I was to sign t
with a stamp upon . d
i
be the receipt for the shares. I
of, paper
as
thati nwbol
would
d k,
then signed it.
Brett then produced the paper.
Witness—l believe this is my signature to this
paper, which was to be a receipt for the shares. It
is dated 19th July, and purports to be a receipt
for 1,000 shares in the London and Brighton Rail-
way Stock. This occupied two or three minutes.
The defendantsaid he was in a great hurry, and
his carriage was at the-door, and nothing else was
said on the. subjedtbut a few words about the affair
being ended. here was some other conversation,
and he said something to the effect that he had
come to Bangor on some business for Mr. AshtOn
Smith, but 'nothing further with reference to my
affairs ; and he then got into his carriage and went
away.
Lord Mayor—Did you ask him about the busi-
ness he came there for?
Witness—No ; he made the statement of his own
accord.

The whole of the troops in garrison, consisting
of the Royal Horse Artillery, the Field Batteries
and Foot Artillery, the Royal Marine Light In-
fantry, and the Militia regiment of Antrim Rifles,
assembled at Woolwich Common yesterday morn-
ing in full equipment for inspection by his Roy '1
Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, an
to carry out the details. of a field day and sha
fight. His Royal ,Highness arrived at the glrris
at ten o'clock, and was received by Major-Ccener 1
Sir W. F. Williams, Biigade-Major'Shaw, Cap ,
Freith, ' and a brilliant staff of military officer .
His Royal Highness having minutely inspect d
each .treop and coinpany, they they marched paA
in the usual manner, and at the' termination of tlie
inspection the bugles sounded for the more excit-
ing evolutions and details of the battle field.
Tile comp 'ales of Royal Marine Light 'lnfantry,
comtnandt d by Colonel'BroWn acid Lient.. Colonel s
Hopkins and' Fleming, took up a position on
the . brow of a hill near the Royal Military
Academy, and the troops of Royal Horse Artillery,
commanded by Majors C. G. Arbuthnot and G. V.
Johnson;:werelhen,broeght into exercise. After a
series of evolutions, during which skirmishing par-
tied of the Antrim'Rifics Were sent; out.--each fore-)
Wt supposed in-turn to have the advantage—t e
Horse ...Krtilltfry, :commanded by Colonel
,Mau e,-
dashed into the valley,, dismounted, unlimber d,
and fired at the retreating enemy in a roastet;ly
style. Four field. batteries, commanded by.Cbl.
Teesdale; took a prominent part in the proceedings;
and the firing was incessant. during 30 Minutes.
The evolutions, and especially the 'fire of the Royal
M brine Lightlaantry,.. marked the effiCiencY and
value of that c,apa, and its superior training. Th.e
ground was well kept by the riding-house esta-
blishnient, under the command of Colonelllenry,
a Crimean hero, who!lost an arm before Sebastopol.
The field day
.terminated at halt7past 12 o'clock,
when the bugles'. sounded fir marching- off t' e
ground, add the tmial salute was given. His Royal
'Highness, before leaving the pound, addressed Sr
yv. F. Williams and the whole of the field offiCers
to the effect. that the 'proceedings met. with its
entire Ei atis ts et on, which opinion was notified in
garrison Orders at the termination of the review.
After visiting the officers' mess-room his Royal
Highness left for . London.
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