The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

In consquence of orders to that effect, issued by
commanding the forces at
sErf thee line at the garrison are not
l‘rCelliciaajutoihrraeGindeilolteraroatotliend drill before breakfast during the
winter months, the interval between their rising
and parades.
rbeingi now employed in their barrack-
m ler has been received by the troops
with a
great deal of satisfaction.
Yesterday
his order
was a
.general muster of
roo
,h
the
officers and men of the various branches of the ser-
vice now quartered at Chatham garrison, the vari-
ous corps assembling on their respective parade
grounds under the command of their com d' man mg
officers. The strength of the garrison at Chatham,
including the Royal Engineers and Royal Marines,
is now about 5,000 bayonets.
Lieut.-Col. Maude, Royal Horse Artillery, has
left Woolwich for Dublin to assume the functiops
of his new appointment, as deputy inspector-gene-
ral of constabulary.
Capt. Barnett's Bth company 4th butt. Royal
Artillery yesterday removed from head-quarters,
Woolwich, to relieve Capt. Forbes' 2d company Ist
batt., ordered from Shoeburyness to Sheerness.
A circular memorandum was yesterday received
atWoolwich from the War-office, directing an allow-
ance of 2d. per day to be granted to all married
non-commissioned officers and• men of the Royal
Artillery who are not•provided with garrison guar-
t?rs, to be notified under the head of lodging money
fir themselves and families.

.The following, is a complete list of the railway
and other,private. bills (151 in number) for which
the plans were lodged before eight o'clock last
night, at.the Board of Trade, in accordance With
the standing orders.of the two Houses of Parlia-
ment ::--,,
Bradford; Waliefieid; and *Leeds—Stanley and
Methley Branch.
43edford, Potton. and Cambridge..
Breconshire Railway and Canal. •
Brecon and-Merthyr-ly (Ivil Junction.
BaPenalstown and Wexford—Deviation, Revival
olPowers, &c.
Bristol and Kingroad.
Birmingham, Erdington, and Sutton-Coldfield Rail-
way (-Western Line).
Border Union—North British.
Berks and HantsExtension—Hungerford toDevizes.
Burton-upon-Trent.
• Birmingham, Erdington, and Sutton-Coldfield.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction—
.
Hooton ,to- Helsby.
Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds--Branch to Ossett.
Beckenham and Sydenham Junction.
Belfast and Londonderry Junction...
Border Counties Extension:
Charlesville and Patrick's Well.
Cowes and Newport. .
Central Wales—Llandrindod SeCtiOn..
Colne Valley and Halstead Extension.
Cakdonian--Branches to:''Wilsontown Mineral
Fields, h
CarliskAAngliolni, aitif Ilnet,nl i• -
Castle-Douglas and Dumfries—Deviation.
•
County of Donegal.
Charleston Railway and Harbour—Alteration, &c,
Cleveland—Extension. •
Cork and Kinsale.
Chester and Holyhead—Extension at Holyhead.
Dublin and Drogheda—Widening. of Terminus at
Dublin, &c.
Doncaster •and Wakefield.'
Dundee and Newtyle—lmprovement, &c.
Dartmouth and Torbay—Deviation.
Dublin and Wicklow—Extension to Gorey.
Dublin and Meath Extension to the Great
Southern and Western Railway.
East Suffolk—Extension to Aldborough.
Epping Railways.
Formatine and Buchan—Deviation.
Findhorn.
Great,North of Scotland—Closing of Road.
Great Northern and Western of Ireland—Castlebar
Extension.
Garston and Liverpool.
Great Western—Works in Connexion with the
West London.
Great Northern—Junction with North London.
Guildford and Leatherhead.
Holywood and Bangor.
Hampstead Junction—Deviations, &c.
Herne Bay and Faversham—Margate Extension.
Hereford and Brecon.
Hooton and Neston.
Isle of Wight—Eastern 'Extension.
Inverleithen and Peebles.
Isle of Wight Railways.
ISle of Wight.
Kilrush and Kilkee Railway, and Poulnasherry
Embankment.
Kingsbridge and South Devon.
Kensington Station and North and South London

Junction.
Kingston.
London and North Western—Extension to Ossett.
London, Dunmow, Clare, and Bury St. Edmunds.
Llyfia Vale Railway and Harbour.
Lancashire and Yorkshire—Oldham to Rochdale
and Royton.
Llany-mynech,
Leith and Caledonian Junction,
London, Brighton, and South Coast—Shoreham,
Henfield, &c. Deviation, &e.
Llanidloes and, kewtown—Extension to Shrop Shire
Union Canal, &c.
Llynn Valley—Deviations.
Little Bytham and Hacconby.
Leatherhead and Dorking (No. 1).
Dancashire and Yorkshire—Branches from Brad-
ford, Wakefield. and Leeds Railway.
Loud ~.nd South Western—Amendment and Ex-

A,ttir.;

„Ay
Id 11 (), t Nort - e -.to Adwalton,
- •
Liverpool, Garston, and Allerton.
Londonderry and Loughswilly—Extension of
Time, &c.
Liverpool Stations Junction Railway.
Lancaster and Carlisle—New Railways to More-
cambe, &c.
Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction—Branch at

Bradford.
London-bridge and Charing-cross.
Leatherhead and Dorking.
Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction.
Mid-Sussex and Arundel and Little Hampton
Juhction.
Manchester, Liverpool, Swansea and Milford
-Haven Junction—Mid-Wales Sections.
Maybole and Girvan—Deviation.
Mialand—Erewash Valley, Extension, &c.
Mount Sorrel.
Midland Great Western—Cavan to Clones.
Midland Great Western—Deviation of Sligo

Extension.
Midland Great Western—Branch to River Liffey.
Mid-Kent—Junction Railways at Beckenham and
Norwood.
Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny.
Metropolitan—Deviations.
North Western Railway of Ireland—Elphin to
Castlebar.
North Western—Junction with Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway.
Newry and Armagh—Deviation and Branches.
Nuneaton and Hinckley.
New R.osS.
North Eastern—Nidd Valley Branch.
North, West, and South London Junction.
Norwich and Spalding—Holbeach to Sutton
Bridge. •
Newcastle-under-Lyne, Silverdale, and Madeley
Junction.
North Eastern—Harrogate Branches.
Norwood and Streatham.
North and South London Junction Railways.
North London, Paddington, Richmond, Hampton
Court, and Kingston.
North Staffordshire—Branches.
North and South Metropolimn Junction.
Oldham, • Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guidebridge
Junction—Extension to Rochdale.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton—Exten-
sion of Kingswinford Branch.
Omnibus Subway—Westminster to Royal Ex-
change,
Portsmouth New •Docks and Railway.
Pimlico, Hammersmith, and Kew Junction.
Ringwood, Christchurch, and Bournemouth.
Rowsley, Bak.ewell, and Buxton.
Ruabon Harbour and Denbigh—Llangollen Sec-

tions.
Ruabon and Denbigh—Ruthin Section.
South Durham and Lancashire Union—Deviation.
Sirhowy Tramroad.
Swanage Railway and Pier.
South Yorkshire and River Dun—Crossing of
Roads, &c.
Scottish Central—New Access to Station at Perth.
South Staffordshire—Cannock Branch—Additional
Land.
Scvenoaks.
Silverdale and Newcastle-under-Lyne.
South Wales, Pembroke, and Tenby Junction.
South London.
Stockton and Darlington—Branches.
St. George's Harbour (Harbour-plan).
South Eastern and West London and Dulwich
Railways.
South Metropolitan Railway and Westminster
Station.
Tendring Hundred-7Colchester to Wivenhoe.
Thame and Aylesbury.
Tunbridge Wells, Uckfield, and South Coast Junc-
tion.
Tenbury.
Thames Embankment and Railway.
Ulster—Monaghan to Clones.
Vale of Llangollen.
Victoria Station and Pimlico—Enlargement.
Victoria Station and North Western and Great
Western Junction.
Watford and Wendover.
Weedon and Leamington.
Witney.
Wenlock and Severn Junction.
Worcester and Hereford—Branch to the Severn, &c.
Wandsbeck.
Waveney Valley—Revival of Powers, &c.
Wandsworth and Putney.
Wimbledon and Dorking and Epsom and Leather-
head—Joint station at Epsom.
West London—Extensions and Dock.
Wells and Fakenham—Tramways.
West London and Pimlico Railway and Dock.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFOIM, Nov. 30.
Mr. Baron Bramwell arrived in this town yester-
day, and opened the commission with, the usual
formalities. His Lordship afterwards attended
Divine Rerviee at St. Mary's.
The calendar is heavy, and contains the names
of 49 prisoners, charged with offences of a serious
description.
In the course of the day the .grand jury came
into court and ignored the six indictments which
had been preferred against Frederick Cook, the
railway guard, for manslaughter, in respect of the
accident which took place on the Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton Railway, on the 23d of
August last, near Dudley.
As soon as this finding of the grand jury was
announced, some person in court began to applaud,
upon which
Mr. Baron Bramwell said that nothing was more
indecent than that those who did their duty in
court should be applauded. If that were allowed,
those who did not gratify the public opinion would
be hissed, and thus in every case there: would be,
applause or hissing in court, according to the
opinion of the public, and it Would become quite
impossible for those engaged in the administration
of justice to discharge their duty properly. His
Lordship said he would commit. to prison the first
person whom he caught acting in that way. His
Lordship added that it must not be supposed, be-
cause he disapproved of the applause, that he disap.
proved the finding of the grand jury, for, he must
say,-it was•in accordance with his own. opinion.
Mr. Motteram, who (with Mr. Kettle) appeared
for the prisoner, applied that he might be dis- •
charged from custody. He had been in prison since
August last.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said, he regretted that a
coroner had no power to admit .to bail. If the
parties had gone before a magistrate the prisoner I
might have been bailed. It was clear he ought to
have been bailed.

Mr. Kenealy, who (with Mr. A. S. Hill) ap-
peared for the prosecutor, said he and his learned
friend had considered the case with the care which
its great importance demanded, and they had come
to a different conclusion. There was a good deal of
scientific evidence, and Captain Tyler, the Gov,ern-
ment inspector, had been examined.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said that if that was the
learned counsel's opinion, it would be better that
there should not be a preliminary trial. Thee pro-
secution had better go on.
Mr. Kenealy asked to be allowed time further to
consult with his learned friend on the subject.
The learned Judge said the case could stand over
for the present. In the meantime the prisoner was
liberated on his own recognisances to appear and
take his trial during these assizes.

It was understood that the bills were thrown out
by ,the grand jury in consequence of the absence of
Captain Tyler, the Government inspector, who had
been bound over to prosecute.
At a later period of the day,
Mr. Kenealy said he had further consulted with
his friend Mr. Hill, and they were both of opinion
that, after what his lordship had said, it was not
expedient to present the case to the jury on the
coroner's inquisition, and, as there were 46 wit-
nesses, he thought it better to state at once that he
did not intend to go on with the prosecution.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said he hoped the learned
counsel would not be swayed by what he (Mr.
Baron Bromwell) had said. The observation
which he had made was relevant in reference to the
interruption which had taken place in. court—viz.,
that he did not disapprove the finding of the
grand jury; but, of course, he had not so much
knowledge of the case as he would have had if it
had been gone into. His lordship did not think that,
on the materials before him, the prisoner ought to
be convicted.

Mr. Kenealy said he could not make the case
stronger.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said he did not disapprove
the learned counsel's retiring from the prosecution,
for he thought the prisoner ought not to be con-
victed. The only evidence against him was scientific
evidence, that he ought to have stopped the train in
a shorter time. The question for t'e jury would
have been to weigh that evideme L,A,-inst the posi-
tive evidence of the persons who trry with him,
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Nvdaid, therefore, htve ;'.e-tuinst tad.
His lordship observed, it was one t: ,ing to try an
experiment when there vVas no peril, and another
thing to act when in the midst of peril. There was
a great difference between the two cases. It was
not a safe case for a conviction, and his lordship
quite approved of the prosecution not going on.
The prisoner was then formally acquitted, and
discharged.
Richard Shaw, 19, clerk, pleaded guilty to a
charge of forging a check for £534 19s. 4d., and
uttering the same to Wm. Kenwright Harvey, trea-
surer to the Guardians of the Poor of the parish of
Stoke-upon-Trent, with intent to defraud the said
.guardians.
He also pleaded guilty to another charge of
forging a check for £3O.
Mr. Alfred Young, who appeared as counsel for
the prosecution, stated he was instructed to recom-
mend the prisoner to mercy on the ground of his
youth and his good character up to the present
time.

Mr. Baron Bramwell said, the lowest sentence
usually passed on offences of this description was
four years' penal servitude, and he felt bound to
pass that sentence on the prisoner ; but, at the
same time, there were circumstances in the case
which might justify an application to the Crown
for a mitigation of the sentence, and, if such appli-
cation were made, he should be willing to second
it. His lordship then sentenced the prisoner to
four years' penal servitude.