The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Ate. 18.

The Qeeen has been pleased to approve of Don Enrique
de Vedia as Consul at Liverpool for her Royal Highness the
Duchess Regent of Parma.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AIJG. 19.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a
despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lagos, report-
ing that he has concluded an agreement with the King
and principal Chiefs of Abeokuta, and the Presidents of the
Trading Corporations of that town, by which the monopoly
hitherto enjoyed by the latter, of the trade of Lagos, Abeo-
kuta, and the towns on the coast, has been abandoned.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm, reporting
that by a recent Swedish Order, all hides, hoofs, and other
portions of cattle not certified to be imported from countries
other than those in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea,
between Hango and Lubec, will be required to be kept free
from contact with live animals, and susceptible articles of a
similar nature, also they will be required to be separately
warehoused and purified with lime or otherwise before deli-
very.

WHITEHALL, JULT 10.
The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Edmund Cockburn, Bart.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
at Westtainster,bas appointed Edward Walker, of Dol-
gelley, in the county if Merioneth, Gentleman, to be one of
the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledg-
ments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the
act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for
the substitution of more simple nodes of assurance, in and
for the county of Merioneth.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
East Kent It giment of Militia—Dominick Daly, Gent.,
to be Eacign, vice Monypenny promoted.
The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gasette of Tuesday last, the 17th inst.:-
Ist Regiment of Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia,—
Louis Robert James Verbturrne, Esq., late a Captain in her
Majesty's :27th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Stevenson, Sheffield, Yorkshire, auctioneer and
commission agent.

BANKRUPTS.

James Massey, Crown Inn, Cranbourne-passage' Leices
' ter-square, victualler and innkeeper, to surrender Aug. 30
and Oct. 2, at half-past 11, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basingliall-street, London. Official assignee, Mr. Whit-
more, '2, Basingball-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Cooper and
Hodgson, 3, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, and 8, Sise-
lane.
Frederick How, Whitstable, Kent, butcher, to surrender
Aug. 30, at half-past 12, and Oct. 8, at 12, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Official assignee,
Mr. Whitmore, 2, Basinghall-street. Attorneys, Messrs.
Mason and Start, 7, Gresham-street; and Messrs. Sankey
and Son, Canterbury.
Leonard George Boor, 139., St. George-street, St.George-
in-the-East, surgeon and apothecary, to surrender Sept. 4,
at half-past 11, and Oct. 5, at 11, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Official assignee, Mr.
Graham, 25, Coleman-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Morris,
Stone, Townson, and Morris, Moorgate-street-chambers.
Samuel Richard Whitehouse, Snape-street, Birmingham,
factsr, to surrender Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, at 10, at the
District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham. Official assig-
nee, Mr. Kinnear, 37, Waterloo-street, Birmingham.
Attorneys, Messrs. Hodgson and Allen, Waterloo-street,
Birmingham.
Samuel Wright, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford-
shire, grocer, to surrender Aug. 30 and Sept. 20, at 10,
at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham. Offi-
cial assignee, Mr. Kianear, 37, Waterloo-street, Birming-
ham. Attorneys, Mr. Adderley, I.ongton ; and Mr. Smith,
Birmingham.
Henry Slater, Balsall Heath, King's Norton, Stafford-
, shire, brewer and maltster, to surrender Sept. 2 and 24, at
1 half-past 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Birming-
ham. Official assignee, Mr. Whitmore, Temple-street,
Birmingham. Attorneys, Mr. Jackson, West Bromwich ;
and Mr. Smith, Birmingham.
William Smith Slater and Thomas Herbert, Birkenhead,

Cheshire, steam saw mill proprietors and timber merchants,
to surrender Sept. 6, at 11, and Oct. 4, at 12' at the District
Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool. Official assignee, Mr.
Morgan, 10, Cook-street, Liverpool. Attorney, Mr. Gill,
Albion-buildings, Market-street, Birkenhead.
John Og Mackinnon, late of Liverpool and Birkenhead,
commission and general agent, to surrender Sept. 6 and
Oct. 4, at 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Liver-
pool. Official assignee, Mr. Cazenove, Eldon-chambers,
South John-street, Liverpool. Attorneys, Messrs. Francis
and Almond, 31, North John-street, Liverpool.
Benjamin Bradley, Manchester, iron merchant and agent,
to surrender Sept. 10 and 20, at 11, at the District Courtr
of Bankruptcy, Manchester. Official assignee, Mr. He -
nainan, 69, Princess-street, Manchester. Attorneys,
Messrs. Bellhouse and Bond, Princess-street, Manchester.

SCOTCII BANKRUPTS.
Hugh Millar, Dairy and Kilwinning, Ayrshire, iron-
monger, plumber, and gasfitter—William Gill, Balrnade,
Aberdeenshire, general merchant—James Scott, Ballantrae,
Ayrshire, farmer—Rev. Donald Chisholm, minister of the
united parish of Boleskine and Abertartf, Inverness-shire.

THE 111-YSTE7?IOUS DEATH AT

ACTON.

At the iTammersruith policc-court, yesterday, this extraor-
idnary case, which has caused so muck curiosity from the
peculiar nature of the circumstances and the termination of
the cor.)uer's icquest, was again opened before Mr. Day-
man, the magistrate of ti is court. Lieut. Clacering Was
placed at the bar, haying surrendered in disebarge of big
bad, charged, on bh, own confession, with having caused the
death of John Gates, near Acton.

Mr. Sergeant TZallantine appeared for Lieut. Clavering
Mr. Ginrd attended to watch the case on the pqrt of Capt.
Miller. The evidence taken on the former occasion having
been read over,
Mr. Tarlttoh, superintendent of police, in answer to 31r.
Dayman, crated the result of the inquest.
Capt. Miller was then called and exatt.ined, and rep,:at, d
his t-tatement at tie urcnier's icquest, staticp: tt,at he wai
wafting net vsith Lieut. Clavering on the I,igiit in citteirti:,n,
when thry met near Pii,Jy-lane a tr.t,napparently drunl,7.

He, frornhis !perch and manner, look the deceased to 1,0
foreigner. Ile mad: a rush at then, aid said he would co
for them b„ta. (layering was the nearest to him, and a
violetit attack was made upon Idea by the ualortuna:e de-
ceased. Witness seeing at the time somethiag in the inch's
hand which appeared like a knife, bit might have
been a Isistol, called out to Clavering, " The man's
foreigner; take care, he has a knife in his hand." The
deceased struck Lieut. Claveting a '.iilent blow on the
head, and a strugLzle ensued with the swardstick, the sheath
of which was cone. After t.`.ey left the man, Lieut. Chi-
ve:nig said, " I hope I have not pricked the man." Witness
said, " You need be under no apprehension—you never
struck 1..4n ;" but added he might have touched him in the
arm. In a subsequent conversation, after passing the cart
and telling the driver a man was lying in the road, Lieut.
Claver!og said, "I am afraid something is wrong." Wit-
ness said, " You have done nothing of the kind—you never
neveriselllrlrr..DS ea
3r,gus
nra
unn
et_kl3Ttahhl
el
the
nnditegi
cnheeta---s Id
was. a m positively certain the
struck him."
prißßsoyyn
pitch dark; there were
no
Superintendent Tarleton, in answer to the magis-
trate, A. lights.
said that part of the road was not lit with lampsfir
nearly a mile.
Henry George, in the service of Mr. Scots, Ealing, re-
peated his evidence given before the coroner.
Police-constaable T 236 deposed to finding the deceased
lying in the road bleeding, but quite dead.
Mr. Lingliam, surgeon, also proved that the death of the
deceased was occasioned by a wound half an inch in
length, penetrating the lungs, and might have been caused
by the swordstiek produced.
By Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Was present at the ia-
quFst, and heard the statement of Lieut. Clasering as to the
mode in which the wound was inflicted ; that statement was
in witness's opinion perfectly consistent.
Capt. Miller, in answer to Mr. Dayman, said the alter-
cation did not last half a minute.

In reply to the magistrate,
Mr. Superintendent Tarleton said Ile had no further evi-
dence to offer.

Mr. Gates, the son of the deceased, was anxious that the
case should be adjourned.

Mr. Dayman said he saw no reason for doing so. It
appeared to him to be a misadventure.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said Mr. Oates was present at
the inquest, and there was no suggestion that further evi-
dence was to be offered.

After some further conversation,
Mr. Dayman said, looking at the whole of, the Gyiden ce ,
he could come to no other conclusion than that the death
was occasioned by mischance.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said, if it had been necessary, be
could have called a number of witnesses to show that Lieut.
Clavering was of the most mild and kindly disposition, and
would be the last man in the world to have wilfully com-
mitted the ()Renee.

Mr. Gates, the son of the deceased, again strongly urged
the adjournment of the case, and endeavoured to show that
the statements of Capt. Miller were inconsistent. The de-
fendants had assaulted a drunken man with a sword-stick
in the dark.

Mr. Dayman—But the defendants might have been under
the apprehension they were about to he attacked, and Lieut.
Clavcring had raised the stick in self-defence when the un-
fortunate max laid hold of it, and withdrew the sheath. He
could not come to any other conclusion than that it was a
mischance, and saw no reason for adjourning the ca,e. If
the prosecutor should obtain any further evidence, it would
be competent for hint to take further proceedings, but as the
evidence stood he felt bound to dismiss the case.
Lieut. Clavering was at once discharged, and kit the
court with his friends.

IRE LAND.

:DUBLIIV, FRIDAY MORNING.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW.
The English exhibitors at Londonderry lave not been
unsuccessful, as the following award in reference to the
prize cups will prove :
The Purcell challenge cup, for the best animal in the
neat cattle classes, was awarded to Mr. James Douglas, of
4.thelstaneford, for the short horned heifer, " Queen of
Trumps." The same cup was won by him last !ear at
Waterford. The Waterford challenge cup, for the best lot
of three short horns, was also awarded to Mr. Douglas.
The society's cup for the best farm horse was awarded to
Lord Dufferin fur his horse " Sir William Wallace." The
Croker cup, for the best thoroughbred horse, was awarded
to Mr. Hugh Fowler, of Preston, Lancashire. The
Farmer? Gazette challenge cup was awarded to Messrs.
Jolla Gray and Co., of 1.3-adingston, for the best general
collection of implements. The money prizes of the society
amount this year to £1,200.
After his Excellency had spoken at the banquet on Wed-
nesday evening—a telegraphic report of his speech, which
was the only part of the proceedings that had reached
Dubli❑ at the time, was enclosed in Thursday's letter—a
number of toasts were given and responded O. Among
others, Lord Talbot de Malahide proposed, " the Royal
Agricultural Society of England."

Lord Berners, President of the Royal Agriculture
Society of England, in reply, said—l have the honour to
return thanks for the high token paid the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of Englated, and J.trust in doing so I shall not
be considered presumptuous if I consider her the elder sister
of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. I consider
it a high honour to have been elected its president, and
no less so in being called on to return thanks to so
distinguished an assemblage. The Royal Society of
England is formed on as broad a basis as your oven,
divesting itself of all party and political feeling. It is
established solely for the promotion of the good cause of
agriculture. (Cheers.) In England it has affected a great
good, and I trust that in Ireland it will do the same—that
of dispelling a feeling among the people that the interests of
landlords and tenants are not identical. (Hear, hear, and
loud cheers.) 1 have therefore great satisfaction in listen-
ing to that cheer. I hear the sentiment of the necessity of
union between landlord and tenant cheered in England
and Scotland, and it was gratifying to find it so here also.
We, as landlords, have but one interest, and that inter-
est is identical with the prosperity of the cccupier, and
his with that of the labourer. It is on united action that
the prosperity of the kingdom depends. (Loud cheers.) In
looking at your show to-day, and especially on seeing
the shorthorns and cattle generally, I was ,exceedingly
gratified. It was a show worthy of some of the elder socie-
ties of Eneland. (Hear, and cheers.) These societies and
meetings must do much good—they enlarge men's tniude,
and lead them to think, diffuse a knowledge of, and give
encouragement to, the science of agriculture. (Hear.) I
believe, however, that the great sou. ce of the wealth of the
eountry is derived from its agricultural implements. (Hear.)
Believe me, those who use most implements engage the
greatest amount of labour. (Hear, hear.) Before sitting
down, I wish to express the high gratification I felt to-day
in viewing the beauties of your noble river, and in enjoying
the hospitality of the port and harbour commissioners, and
in hearing your expressed loyalty and determination to
promote the cause of agriculture. (Cheers.)
AIIRICULTURAL RIOTING IN TIPPERARY.
The Clonmel Chronicle reports further excesses in this
part of the country, of a similar nature to those that have
recently taken place at Kilkenny. That journal says:—
"Tuesday night and Wednesday morning it was cur-
rently rumoured in Clonmel that a party of harvest-
labourers, armed with sickles and with other weapons, went
through that neighbourhood, intent upon the destruction of
all agricultural machines and scythes found at work. Any
of the latter which were found were broken by the rioters.
The police, under Sub-Inspector John C. Browne, gave
pursuit and came into collision with them. A few stones
were thrown :by the mob, one of which struck the sub-
inspector. Tierce ate eats are reported to have been made."
Under the heading of authenticated particulars, the
Chronicle adds:—" From our special correspondent we
learn that the body of rioters who turned out on Wednesday
did not exceed forty persons, hut though small the band
showed themselves determined to act with much vio-
lence. They broke a scythe belonging to a farmer residing
near Carrick, and afterwards trampled down an extensive
field of eats, in order to prevent its being cut with the
scythe, as some adjoining fields had previously been. A
woman who threw stones at the police has been arrested,
and also the ringleaders, a returned convict named Collins,
and a fellow named Sullivan, who are at present in cus-
tody The police, under Sub-Inspector Browne, have
acted with considerable promptitude and vigour; but it is
hoped that a military force will be despatched to this
locality, so as to prevent any further rioting. Mr. Browne
kindly procured an implement for the man whose scythe was
broken, and he immediately set to work again right heartily.
We regret to learn that another party of labourers proceeded
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon to Old Court, distant a
few miles from Portlaw, and smashed an excellent reaping
machine belonging to Major Quentin, which that gentle-
man, who is a well-known patron of the most improved
agricultural system, had lent to a neighbouring farmer after
he had cut his own eorn. The authorities should look to
what promises to prove a very serious matter, and at once
adopt such precautionary measures as will deter those
parties from continuing these f Cish attempts at destruction
of property. At Kilkenny the riots have been met with '
prompt measures; and these have, up to the present, been
effectual in staying the progress of this fell spirit, at least
in that county. A similar example in this and the county
Waterford would, we are confident, be attended with an
equally satisfactory result."
THE COAST DEFENCES OF IRELAND.

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The commission ordered to inspect and report upon the
coast defences in the south of Ireland is now at Tralee. The
members consist of Capt. Westmacott, R.E., Capt. Wilmot,
R.N., and the officers commanding the Artillery and Engi-
neers in the Cork district. They are to visit Kenmare,
Bantry, Kinsale, Cork, Youghal, and other places.
GRAND MILITARY SPECTACLE AT WOODLANDS.
The following lively de•cription of a military spectacle of
rather an unusual character is taken from the Freeman :
"An opportunity was afforded yesterday to a limited
number Of visitors from the city and elsewhere of witnessing
a most interesting military spectacle in the encamp-
ment of the entire of the troops in garrison—cavalry,
Infantry, and artillery, to the number of 6,000, on
the extensive demesne grounds of Woodlands, belong-
ing to Col. White, and situate on the right bank of
the Liffey, about two miles from Knockinaroon-gate and
one from the little tows of LtIC;)11. The precise reason
for this unusual military display is not e:early known, but
the general opinion seemed to be that it was carried oat at
the suggestion of Lord Seaton, the Commander of the Forces
in Ireland, for the purpose of affording to the younger and
more Inexperienced of the troops a little practical experience
of the soldier's life in the open field under the most favour-
ing circumstances. In this view the affair of yesterday was
a complete success in every particular, and appeared to give
unqualified satisfaction to all concerned. Pursuant to a
general order the following troops marched from their bar-
racks at an early hour in the morning to the fifteen acres,'
where they were paraded at eight o'clock sharp. Cavalry
—The let Royal Dragoons, 2d North British or Scots Greys,
and the 13th Light Dragoons, under the command of Gee.
Parlby. Infantry—The 2d Battalion of the Coldstream
Guards, the 30th, 55th, and 76th Regiments, and the For-
farshire Militia Artillery Regiment, under the direction of
Major-Gen. Gascoigne. In addition to these therile were a
t
troop of Horse Artillery, a battery
conveying of F
field squid-
an
12 guns, and a small military rain
sites. The entire formed a well equip bpedfor and6,ooo formidable
little army, numbering, as stated ee, men,
under the chief command of Lord
dtSeaton.
ater The a
routeshort and
hav-
ing been given, the troops set o, and
agreeable march alongl% ' the smilingd valley of the Liffey,'
d
reached the entrance gate to oo lan son the low road,
passing through which, and up a narrow, ascending pathway
they Came to the extensive encamping ground, on which they
were to pitch their tents for the day. A better or more which is
position could not be selected. The demesne,
la
which is
considerably elevated, forms a sort of tableland of irregular
i
shape—spacious, and beautifully wooded in various pia e.
where the ground slopes away, and from almost ev, ry Foist
there is a splendid prospect of the eircurnjacent country and
the Dublin mountains. Some field exercises having been
gone throagh with steadiness and precision, the order to en-
camp was given, and in a moment the whole of the troops
were busy at their work. The dragoons dismounted, plc-
queted their horses in columns, and threw aside their aims
and accoutrements. The infantry did the same ; the artil-
lery were placed iu a convenient hollow, and the ground
ha% lug been marked out, in less than an hour 200 gay white
tents studded the demesne. The encampment hating
been formed, and out-lying pickets placed in suitable posi-
tions, the troops then had nothing to do except distribute
themselves in their respective quarters, and make prepara-
tions for their dinners. At two o'cl, ck the whole army
were partaking of that meal in peace and security, and the
various grouping of the stalworth, bronze-faced soldiers, as
they lay in a hundred places under the tents—outside the m
or elsewhere, eating, drinking, and talking—some in full
uniform, others in the freer costume of shirt and trousers,
and many wearing a head-dress of the Arab fashicn—
famed by twisting the handkmedei on the head in a
peculiar manner, made up a striking and highly pic-
turesque scene of British soldiers un ' the tented field.'
The officers cf the several regiments messed together
under the trees, from the branches of which their uniform
caps and helmets depended, and during the whole of the
repast the bands played a selection of spirited airs. The
general effect was animated and inspiriting in a high degree,
and it is to be regretted that the novel and beautiful spec
tacle of yesterday, so much superior to the ordinary field
day in realising our ideas of troops campaigning, was en-
joyed by so small a number of spectators. There were only
rt few ladies and gentlemen present during the day, although
it was notified that pedestrians would be admitted to the
dewesue, and perhaps the limited attendance of visitors may
have been the result of some misunderstanding as to the
gate by which they were to enter, as the female janitor
in charge of the low road gate refused admittance to
visitors, without stating that they could get in by any other
entrance. A double allowance of grog was served out to the
troops, in consequence of the extra labour imposed upon
them by the occasion; and they received it cheerfully, and
disposed of the xpeditiously. The horses were then fed and
watered in river, after which the order was given to
.I,:e the tents. In a. very short time they were all down,
e•txt
and packed In the military train : cavalry and infantry re-
er accoutrement?,
confusion,w
which
ht
rleaayll vstrewnthe
tweed their. arroshlainndexafreicelt
about, seemingly
and the entire of the troops .h
caving
corapleMet regularity;
been forseed in regular order, marched away in th same
and were all in barracks before five
order as they Came,
o'clock."

CARDINAL WISEMAN IN BILLINASLOE.
to Ireland is creating
The visit of this great dignitary
intense excitement amongst the Roman Cathlemolic populat.on.
-* Weal
On next Wednesday be is to celebrate a son high mass
at Ballina?lue, to raise funds in aid of one of its ece.esia..
edifices, and in commenting on this event a Dublin evening
paper says :
"The public are aware that next week Cardinal Wise
the risman,
at..-bbishop, and so forth, means to pay a tto ing
uest intent.
'own of Ballinalloe, on some rn3sterions q
Whatever be the motive of the journey, wheqier it have
a ly connection with disputes among the Irish dignitaries of
thct newish system or not, let us commend the worldly
ni of the priests of that district, who have advertised
their in **cation of turning their chapel into a show-box on
the occas.on, and of exhibiting the distinguished exotic at a
per heel. The following announcement adorns
smart price.
eiery gate,'N,ato and !al!vi3OY s'ation, and dead wall, in the
kingdom of f- millaught
Here follow, the prices of admission, which range from
fel"
entrance into the ''select" parts of the
chapel O The /idvertiseinent then proceeds :—"Seats in
• a
"bird Division...ongle tickets, 55.; ticket of admission
a ithin the enclose4tarea-28. for men ; 18. fur women and