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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1859.

T-;ONDON & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
-1--1 —The Directors beg to announce that the adjourned
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THURSDAY, the 2d day of June, 1859, will be held for the
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The Directors will on that day proposethe further adjourn-
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Waterloo-bridge Station, London, 26th May, 1859.

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CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
JAMES CONSEDINE, 58, Pall-mall, London,
Plaintiff's Solicitor.

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THE MANNING OF THE 1W 0 YAL
NA ry.
The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Times :
Sir' —I resume the subject discussed in my two
prece ling letters.
The recommendations of the Manning Commis-
sioners for improving the condition and prospects
of the seamen, if not in all cases judicious; are at
any rate most liberal • but the Commissioners have
not avoided the mistake, committed by many who
have preceded them in s:_milar inquiries, of dealing
too much in prospective benefits. They appear to
have looked upon seamen as a most provident, far-
seeing, and calculating class, capable of appreciating,
at their full value, deferred payments. Offers of
pensions, reduction of time of service for pensions,
and all promissory benefits of that kind, to be
realised at more or less remote dates, are not valued
at anything approaching their cost to the public.
Seamen discount these advantages at fabulous rates.
Ask any sailor, and he will tell you that such baits
are too far from the hook to attract men into the
service. When a seaman has served four or five
commissions the pension may enter into his calcu-
lations, but certainly not before. Pensions, however,
we must have ; but they should be fixed at a
minimum, while pay for effective service should be
placed at its maximum. There is one thing which
Jack understand the meaning of as well as any
man—and that is, ready money. A moderate
bounty will be, far mare>ffestual in procuring,.
volunteers than the promise of an extravagant
pension. The grants of clothing, bedding, and
mess utensils are benefits; in the right direction ;
they will be felt immediately, and will be estimated
as immediate additions to pay ; but unless more
stringent measures are taken to punish purchasers
of seamen's clothing the Jews at the ports will reap
a rich harvest. As all sailors' jackets are of the
same cut and of the same material, why should
not the Admiralty have a cloth woven expressly
for the navy, the same in every respect as the
present cloth, but with a rogue's yarn, that is,
with a thread of a description different from the
material of the cloth, and so interwoven that every
foot should contain part of this distinguishing
mark on the inner surface ? Broad arrows in paint
are of no use; a seaport Jew is so fertile in expe-
dients that he can easily remove the paint by using
chemicals ; but the rogue's mark would, I think,
puzzle his ingenuity. This mark might also be
useful occasionally in detecting a deserter.
I observe that the Commissioners recommend that
the benefit of free clothing, &c., should be confined
to men to enter for 10 years' continuous service,
and they " strongly recommend" the earlier pay-
ment of wages and of allotments while a ship is
fitting out. Every man who intends to desert will,
of course, enter for continuous service. Sir Richard
Bromley states in his evidence that " the number of
deserters has been very great, especially of conti-
nuous service men." lam disposed to think that
the scheme of continuous service requires watching,
and that Parliament should put the Government to
the proof that the system is not abused.
The case of warrant officers is a most difficult
one. I think their discontent may be ascribed
wholly to the loss of position. When I first entered
the service, half a century ago, the warrant officer
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and brigs, the warrant officer's position was next to
the master; and, as the smaller vessels carried only
four commissioned officers superior to the warrant
officer, the latter had a very fair chance, in any
well-contested action, of falling into the temporary
command, and, if successful, of immortalising him-
self by fighting the last round. There is but one
case on record of a warrant officer being the first to
strike his colours.

In every change the warrant officer has unfor-
tunately retrograded. If he had not so much to
complain of in the loss of positkon I am inclined to
think we should have heard but little about the

loss of the widows' pensions ; but in seeking redress
he has considered it good policy to make his griev-
ances many and strong.
The CommiSsioners have recommended the restora-
tion of pensions to the widows of warrant officers,
which were discontinued some 30 years ago, in con-
sequence of a report from a committee of the
House of Commons ; but their arguments are singu-
larly weak, and the evidence on the subject very
incomplete. Some of the witnesses, who were very
competent to give sound opinions on the policy of
such grants (Sir James Graham, for instance), were
not asked a single question on the subject. The
Commissioners have rested their advice chiefly on
the evidence of the warrant officers themselves.
One witness argues that widows' pensions should
be granted because they will give facilities to war-
rant officers for settling in life ! But Mr. Pennell,
Chief Clerk in the Admiralty, assigns as one of
the reasons why the pensions Mere withdrawn
" the fact that a man's being married led him natu•
rally to shrink from sea service, and that he was
not so ready to accept it as before." Captain Den-
man considers the regulation which put an end
prospectively to the grant of pensions to the widows
of boatswains and other warrant officers as " a blow
to the deareSt affections" of those officers. The
Commissioners were unable to resist this pathetic
appeal. But, in truth, the grant of pensions to
widows of either commissioned or warrant officers,
except when killed in action, was a grievous mis-
take.

I fear to touch upon financial considerations;
and yet can any true friend of the Navy safely
overlook them ? The recommendations of the Man-

ning Commissioners, if adopted, will involve a per-
manent addition to the annual expenditure, and,
consequently, to the taxation of the country, equal
to the interest of at least £20,000,000 sterling, and
there is too much reason to fear that this estimate
may be greatly exceeded. Royal Commissioners
are not infallible ; their recommendations arc gene-
rally the result of a compromise; but in the pre-
sent instance a compromise was not sufficient to
secure unanimity. The
,Government has laid the
report of the Commissioners, and the evidence,
before Parliament, and has thus invited public dis-
cussion upon them. Ido not mean to undervalue

their suggestions, doubtful and complicated as some
of them are ; I simply ask, before we are finally
pledged to the enormous cost of them, that, as wide
differences of opinion exist on the subject, they
may be submitted to the test of that severe public
sifting which seldom fails to influence for good the
decisions of our rulers.—l am, &c.

BLUE JACKET.

United Service Club, May, 1%9.

ABDUC,TION OF A T'Ol'L'.

A case of co:isiderable interest, relating to the ab-
duction of a voter from the borough of Northallerton
was heard, by adjournment, on Thursday last, at
Richmond (Yorkshire). Mr. 'Wrightson, the Liberal
candidate, was returned at the late election at North-
allerton by a majority of two votes only, the unsuc-
cessful and Conservative candidate being Mr. Mills,
of London. The abancted voter, who, it is alleged, in-
tended to have polled for Mr. Wrightson, is Mr.
Wm. Tutin, the occupier of a farm near to and
within the limits of the borough of Northallerton.
Three of the parties who were charged with the
abduction are respectable farmers. They live in the
neighbourhood of Northallerton, and their names
are Jeremiah Dobson, Richard Oastler, James Pear-
son, George Dixon, and Isaac Walker, he (Walker)
being the driver of the carriage in which Tulin was
removed a distance of 30 miles on the night of Fri-
day, the 29th April, the day of nomination.
Mr. Trevor, of Guisborough, deputy clerk of the
peace for the North Ridinc, of Yorkshire, appeared
for the prosecution ; and Mr. Blanshard, of the
Northern Circuit, was counsel for the defendants.
Mr. Trevor, in opening the case, said lie appeared
to prosecute an information which had be-n laid by
Mr. William Tutin against the defendants for
forcibly taking him away, and impeding and pre-
venting him from polling for the borough of North-
allerton. The act of Parliament on which he
intended to proceed was the 17th andlBth Victoria,
cap. 102, sec. 5, which is generally called ' The
Corrupt•Ptactices Prevent rcifi'Act." Without going
into the evidence in detail, he wished to state
generally that Mr. Wm. Tutin is a voter for the
borough of Northallerton, and he promised and in-
tended to give a vote. On the day of nomination
he went to the house of the defendant Dixon, where
some whisky and water were mixed by the defend-
ant Pearson for him, and from seven o'clock in the
evening of that day he was utterly insensible, and
did not awake until about seven o'clock on the
following morning, at Reeth. He (Mr. Trevor)
would prove to the magistrates that the defendants
Oastler and Dobson were the parties who conveyed
Mr. Tutin while he was insensible in a carriage
from Northallerton to Reeth, and that the carriage
was driven by the defendant Walker, who is in the
employ of the keeper of the Golden Lion Inn, North-
allerton. The carriages were changed at Catterick
Bridge at 12 o'clock at night. Mr. Tutin attended
the nomination on Friday morning, April 29, and
went to Dixon's house about four o'clock in the
afternoon of that day. He arrived at Reeth at two
on the following morning in a state of insensibility,
and was carried into the inn there.
Mr. Tutin, the prosecutor, deposed that he lived
at the Halfway-house, near Brompton. His house
is in the township of Northallerton, and he is a
voter for that borough. He was canvassed for his
vote, and he attended the nomination of candidates
at Northallerton. After the nomination he went to
Mr. Rieveley's, where was Mr. Wrightson's com-
mittee room. About half-past 2 o'clock witness wen'

home and dined there. Ire went to the house of the
defendant Dixon between half-past 4 and 5 o'clock.
His house is about 'a quarter of a mile from that oc-
cupied by witness. He saw Mr. Dixon, Mrs. Dixon,
and Miss Dixon. and he had tea with Mrs. Dixon
and Miss Dixon. After tea be had some gin,and
water. A glassful was mixed for him, but he only
drank about a quarter of it. After the gin and water
came in he saw the defendant Pearson, who said he
would send for some whisky he had at home. • The
son of George Dixon brought the whisky, at Mr.
Pearson's request. Mr. Pearson poured some of the
whisky into a wine glass, and asked witness to
taste. He took a "sup" of it, and handed it over to
Mr. Dixon, who tasted it, and handed it' to Mr.
Pearson. The latter took a " sup" of it, and said,
" You should take it like this ' • drink it off." Wit-
ness said he could not. Mr. Pearson drank it elf,
and some hot water was brought in by Miss Dixon.
Mr. Pearson then mixed glasses all round ; he mixed
three. He did not drink a quarter of his glass-
After he had drank a little of it he handed it to .Mr.
G. Dixon, and said, " George, will you take a drink
with me ?" and he replied, " I will make a glass •
for myself." After witness had drank about a quar-
ter of his glass he recollected nothing further but
being at Reeth at 7 o'clock the next morning.
(Laughter.) He had never been at Reeth before,
and lie did not know where he was when he awoke.
The first person he saw that morning was the de-
fendant Richard Oastler, who said to him, "How
have you come here ?" Witness said he didn't know.
He also told Oastler he wanted to go to Northaller-
ton to vote. Oastler replied, " We are,going ; there
is a carriage for us, when we get our breakfasts, to
take us there." The next person lie saw was the
defendant Dobson, who said, "We will have our
breakfasts, and then we will go to Northallerton."
While Oastler was in the room Dobson asked wit-
ness how he came there, and he replied he didn't
know. They all three then sat down to breakfast
together, and witness said he wanted to be at
Northallerton to vote. Oastler replied they wanted
to be there too. After breakfast he had a glass
of gin and water, which was ordered by Dob-
son. The carriage then came to the door. He
and Oastler got inside the carriage, and Dobson
went outside. Witness did not know the road from
Reeth, and he did not know at that time where
the carriage went to. They arrived at a public-
house at Arkendale, and witness had a glass of gin,
which was ordered by Dobson. They stayed at
this house perhaps half an hour, and got into theA
carriage again, and he recollected nothing after,
except being at Catterick Bridge that afternoon.
He had some tea with Dobson and Oastler, who
left him. He afterwards went to the railway sta-
tion. Oastler had previously asked him if he bad
any money to pay his fare, and he said he had. On
arriving at the station he took a ticket for North-
allerton. Ile fell asleep in the carriage, and awoke
at Darlington. He arrived at home the same even-
ing. He paid no part of his expenses, except for
his railway ticket. He did not give permission to
any person to take him to Reeth. When he returned
to Northallerton it was too late for him to poll.
Thomas Shutt, postboy at Catterick Bridge, de-
posed that that place is 12 miles from Northaller-
ton and 14 from Reeth. Witness was called up on
the night of the 29th of April, and a carriage was
got out to go to Reeth. He saw a carriage at the
door which had come from Northallerton, and Isaac
Walker was the driver. Mr. Tutin was taken out
of that carriage and put into the other. The defen
dants Dobson and Oastler were with him. Witness
drove away from Catterick, and Dobson and Oastler
rode near him, leaving Tutin alone inside. Mr.
Tutin was very drunk. [Question : Insensible,
wasn't he ?—Yes, sir, there was no life in him, I
think. (Laughter.)] The first place they stayed
at was the tollbar, the other side of Richmond, and
seven miles from Catterick Bridge. Before they
stopped there Oastler and Dobson had told him
who the man was inside the carriage. They said
they were on a bit of a lark, and they wanted a
ride out a bit. (Laughter.) They asked him if the
postboy had said anything to him about it, and he
said he had not. They then said, they had better
tell him they were upon a bit of a lark, up by
Reeth and that way, to get him out of the road a
bit. (Renewed laughter.) They also said they
wanted to keep him out of the way of the election
until about two o'clock. Witness could not say
which of the two made this remark, but they were
both sitting near him. They arrived at Reeth about
two o'clock in the morning. Mr. Tutin was then
taken into the inn, and he was no better than when
they started from Catterick. Witness got up about
seven o'clock the same morning, and Dobson said
they wanted a conveyance a bit further up, to
spend the day. They wanted to go ,to Leyburn,
but witness objected, as he thought his horses had
got enough. Witness was then ordered to go to
Arkendale. Mr. Tutin, who appeared very well,
got into the carriage. They stayed at the inn at
Arkendale about half an hour, and then drove back
to Reeth. They arrived there about 1 o'clock, and
remained an hour and a half or two hours. It would
be about half-past 4or nearly 5 o'clock when they
arrived again at Catterick Bridge. Witness after-
wards saw Mr. Tutin on the platform of the rail-
way station, and lie said he had got his ticket, and
was all right. Dobson
paid witness, and the turn-
pike as well.
Mr. Blanshard, for the defence, contended that
there had been no restraint exercised upon the pro-
secutor by any of the defendants, that there had
been no fraudulent contrivance to prevent him from
registering his vote, and that he was absent on the
polling day of his own free will and consent. Such
being the case, the defendants would be entitled to
have the information against them dismissed.
After some further evidence the case against
Pearson, Dixon, and Walker was dismissed, and the
defendants Dobson and Oastler were held to bail to
appear at the next York Assizes,—themselves in
the sum of £lOO each, and two sureties each of £5O.

THE LIMERICK ELECTION RIOT.—VERDICT OF
MANSLAITGHTER.—At Limerick, on Wednesday, the in-
quest which bas been for some time sitting on the bodies of
the men killed at the riots during the late election for that
city was brought to a conclusion. The jury returned a
verdict of manslaughter against Edward G. Bell, R.M.,
and 26 policemen who composed the firing party.