The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-12 00:00:00

THE

!DER,

The examinat'ou of the prisoner Normington was
resumed on Saturday morning at the Leeds Town
Hall, before Ralph Markland, Esq., and other
magistrates. Bearder was also brought up on re-
mand.

After several witnesses had been examined, and 1
the depositions had been read, the persons in the !
dock were ordered to sit down, and
Mr. Barr told the prisoner that he was charged
with the murder of Richard Broughton, on the 6th
of August, near Roundhay.
Mr. Markland then charged the prisoner in the
usual way, and
Mr. Barr asked him if he had anything to say.
The prisoner replied " Yes ; well, it was not me
that did it ; and after observing that he was reliev-
ing himself as the old man passed, he continued—
Just after I had got down I heard the old man
scream, and I jumped up and saw the old man sit
down against the stoop in the foot road. I ran with
my breeches down. There was another man stand-
ing over him with a stick over his shoulder. Then
I ran, and the other man overtook me in Foundry-
lane, and when we had got a little past there he
showed me a watch, and I asked him where he had
got it, and he said he had pushed yon old man
I down, and then hit him with a stick on the side of
I the head and maddled him. I said to him, " Where's

the stick ?" and he said " I have thrown it away."
I said to him, " Have you hurt him?" and he re-
plied, " No." I told him that I had seen a drop of
blood running down his cheek as I set off running,
and I said to him " Thou murderer ! if I had known,
I would not have come up fields with thee ;" and
he replied, " Thou has no occasion to be frightened
as long as it is me that's done it." I said, " Well,
' I know thee, and can tell thee when I see thee," and
he replied, " The next time thou sees me it will be
in a farther country." I said, " Well, it doesn't
choose where I see, I shall know thee."
The prisoner was next charged with stealing the
watch.
The Prisoner—l have nothing to say on that
charge.
Mr. Barr—There is a distinct charge that you
robbed the man.
The Prisoner—l did not rob the man. The
other man did, and I did not know of it until he
had done it.
The Bench then committed the prisoner for trial
at the assizes on both charges.
The man Bearder was next ordered to stand up,
and
Mr. Markland said—There is not sufficient evi-

dente against you on this charge, and you are
therefore discharged, so far as this case is con-
cerned. If any other evidence transpires we shall
know where to find you.
Bearder asked if he could not have his clothes
back with him ; upon which
Mr. English said they were in tho custody of the
West Riding police.

FIGHTING FRENCH SPORTSMEN.

A Nice journal, the Avenir, has the following
" The Jockey Club of Paris, it is known, had seve
ral of its members among the officers who served
in the army of Italy, and two of them, Count de la
Rochefoucauld and Viscount A. Talon, escaped death
in a miraculous way. The former, in charging the
Austrian cavalry, received five wounds and was
made prisoner. None of the wounds were mortal,
but one of them was caused in a very extraordinary
way ; a hulan placed his pistol close to the count's
forehead and pulled the trigger, but the ball, in-
stead of shattering his skull, went round the frontal
bone, tearing off the skin, and at last went out
into empty space, making a hole in the kepi. As
to M. Talon, whilst charging at the head of his
company at the battle of Solferino, he arrived in
an Austrian square, and received a charge of balls,
which, however, only wounded his horse, without
touching him. The horse fell, but the rider
jumped up, sword in hand, and presently had his
kepi cut through by a sword ; a moment after he
received a second blow on the head, but in the
confusion which prevailed the hand of the soldier
who struck was turned aside, so that the flat of
the sword only hit him ; in another moment a
dragoon placed his carbine close to the viscount's
cheek, but it missed fire. M. Talon then received
a violent thrust from a bayonet, which threw him
to the gr,_,und, but the soldier who gave it was
astonished to see him soon after rise and get away.
The soldier no doubt thought the young officer had
some talisman about him, and so he had. In the
campaign in the Crimea M. Talon one day com-
plained that he had broken the glass of his watch,
and could not get it replaced. One of his soldiers
said, ` Lieutenant, you have no need to carry your
watch to the Palais Royal—l am a watchmaker by
trade, and have some tools in my knapsack. If
you have a piece of 2f. I will put you in a glass
that will never break!' M. Talon gave the man
his watch and a piece of 2f., and the man very
skilfully beat out the coin until it became large
enough, and then fixed it in the case so as to oc-
cupy the place of the glass. The watch then pre-
sented this particularity, that the cases were gold.
and the part where the glass ought to be seen silver.
On his return to France M. Talon continued to wear
the watch, both as a curiosity and as a souvenir of
the Crimea. He had it in his pocket in the battle
of Solferino ; and it was against it that the point
of the Austrian bayonet struck. dint so violent
was the thrust that the point of the bayonet passed
through both the coin and the watch! Thus,'
said M. Talon to his friend, in recounting the affair,
I owe my life to a piece of 2f.!" And the money.'
said a gentleman present, was well invested.' The
remark, though not new, was appropriate.

THE PADIHAM STRIKE.—We have received the
following telegram—" Blackburn, Sept. 10.—A meeting of
the Blackburn masters' committee and of operatives took
place last night at Blackburn in relation to the Padiham
strike, when it was decided, subject to the approval of the
weavers's boards of management, that as that committee's
list was only an exceedingly small fraction below the stand-
ard list of prices, the operatives should resume work imme-
diately, if the Padiham masters would undertake to pay
them according to the list of that committee. The opera-
tives' deputation is to report the decision thereon to the
meeting next Wednesday.
ACCIDENT TO THE HON. FREDERICK VILLIER,S.
—We are sorry to hear that the Hon. Frederick Villiers,
son of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, met with a fall
while trying a young horse on Saturday forenoon at Mr.
J. Mason's. Although an experienced horseman he was
thrown, and sustained a dislocation of his collar bone. Im-
mediately after the accident the best medical aid was afforded,
and the hon. gentleman was conveyed to Lord Jersey's re-
sidence in Berkeley-square. Lady Elizabeth Villiers was
sent for to town owing to the injuries her husband had
sustained. We aro gratified to add that no serious cense •
quences are likely to result, but quiet for some time to come
is indispensable for recovery.
THE LAST OF THE SHANNON.—I read that as soon
as the breaking• up of the Tartar, frigate, is completed, in
Chatham Dockyard, "the St. Lawrence (one of the old 46-
gun frigates) will be taken into the same dock and broken
up." This St. Lawrence is, I believe, no other than that
famous old Shannon which fought and captured the Chesa-
peake in the American war. Her name, having taken an
imperishable place in history, was transferred some few
years since to the large screw frigate which now bears it
(and which has herself been made memorable by the late
gallant Sir William Peel). The renowned old hull has since
been lost sight of under the name of the St. Lawrence. If
I am not mistaken respecting these facts—and I can hardly
be—many will, doubtless, be glad to learn that a last look
may yet be taken of this famous old vessel.-IVotes and
Queries.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey's Food for Cattle is now
beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer,
breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting
care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high
ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand-
ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled
against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted
value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest.
Experience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable
saving in the consumption of provender ; secondly, that it
produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its
influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an
early development of fat. Mr.. Thorley, originating this
singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated
to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive
mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this
he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural
desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap-
plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Ems;.
lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an
unwillingness to rely t pen Its efficacy, fancying he possessed
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed
andfatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employment
or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has
been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap
addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in
all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted
to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will be
realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time
usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes
apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application
of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present
unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene-
ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles of
food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is. a
nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certainly
it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's
possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the
and increasing the physical power of all animals,
—a matter of
s
and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other
food, materially assists their digestive powers
ahteoanilthc
great consequence, since it is an undoubtedo , fact that act:she!.
nourishment contained in their ordinaryiloenacis l'''
quent upon the impaired or defective act
orEans ; it will also be found to be particularly
in o "cultartlhysbengeficial
In cows its effects are
been
ernestoovrienr-gwtoorkgeodo,dor workingbeeom ecownedaitoPirohmorses which rareav
naturally of a feeble constitution.
undoubted, indeed almost
yield of milk and butter, whilst
it at the same time enriches
marvellous, nearly doubling the
its fattening qualities are still
the quality of both. In Rigs In a few weeks its manifest
more remarkable, displaying
111.4 kind of compound or manu-
factured over every.
theding of swine. Such has
aeorirfaawbourir
carried
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offaf e el theirthe
nobility,
tea inthat Ate all our great cattle shows
factured food adopted
been its marked success,
endation h been principal.
Royalty, noblemen, and others
ave awarded.
mixes whilst cards
it
th
The patronage on
r Th,orley' s Foooofd,hosofvywealitmnyvm,
an of our leading agriculturists, must prove a
clergy, a—
great incitement pursue
to this gentleman to his onward
worse; and he may
confidently rely, in producing so
favoured a highly- compound, on a eontinuatinu of such
• high endAtatiuguished patronage.;

TH_

:AIL.

•
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ripon, Capt. J. S. Field, arrived at Southampton
at 5 p.m. yesterday, with the heavy portion of the
Bombay mails, in charge of Mr. George Gilpin, of
the General Post-office. She brought 18 first-class,
21 second class and servants, five children and two
deck passengers—total 46 ; among whom were
Lieuts. Pearson, Reid, and Hizlerigg, from Bom-
bay. On freight she had £620 in specie, 544 boxes
raisins, 893 bales silk, 58 bales flax, 200 serous
pants,
almonds, 20 packages gums,l9B packages elep
teeth, 11 casks wine, and 50 packages sundries.
The Ripon left Alexandria on the 27th August,
Malta the 31st, and Gibraltar the sth September.
She experienced strong head winds all the bay
She
al
home, and was detained off the coast of Portug
by thick weather.
Oa the 30th ult., at 5 p.m., the Ripon passed the.
Company's steamer Ceylon, bound eastwai d; 3d
inst., at 6 p.m., the Orissa, bound eastward ; and on
the 7th, at noon, the Pera, bound southward. ,
Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Princess Royal/
Conqueror, Renown, Cressy. Centurion, Argus, LaP;
wing, Wanderer, and Assurance were at Malta, and
the Vulture at Gibraltar.
Durin a thick fog which prevailed on the morn-
ing of the sth at Gibraltar, the British steamer
Cairo ran ashore off the Tunara, on the eastern
beach, and the Government steam tug Redpole was
sent to her assistance.
The Turkish steamer Chirkit Hairre, Capt. W.
H. Huson, 12 days from Cowes, seven from Pit'
mouth, and 70 hours from Corunna, in ballast, 0!
lust.
Constantinople, arrived at Gibraltar on the Ist_
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer ,
Orissa, Captain Joy, five days hence, arrived at
Gibraltar on the Ist, and proceeded to l‘lalta ann.
Alexandria.
The following outward-bound British merells27,
!!
steamers had arrived at Gibraltar :_August
the Gibraltar, Captain Hall, from London, 'WA!
general cargo and Government stores for Gibra.l
tar and Cadiz • 31st, the Vasco de Gama, Captal
Dow, from Glasgow and Lisbon, with fromgelerit
cargo ; Sept. 2, the Crimean, Capt. Wakeham, A '
Liverpool, with general cargo, for Leghorn sn,.
Naples ; same day, the William France, CaP,
Harris, from Liverpool, with telegraph wire, for
Malta and Alexandria; 3d, the Visitor, Car"
Vowden, from Swansea, with patent fuel, consigned
to the Peninsular and Oriental Company. 9
Iver
Latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar
as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 51; Paris, ditto,
sf. 32c. ; Marseilles, ditto, sf. 30c. ; Genoa,
sf. 33c. •, Madrid, eight days' sight, dig.; Catli°'
ditto,
ditto, dis. ; Malaga, ditto, par ; Seville,
dis. ; Alicante, ditto, dis. ; Valencia, ditto,
dper;
Barcelona, par. Spanish pillared dollars, 3 -
cent premium—none, and no demand. • ed
The following French vessels of war had Orr%
at Cadiz :—Aug. 26, the steamer Ronther, 4
Commander De Morjan s, from Toulon and Carurn.
gena ; the steam gunboat Redoute, 2 guns, Co,h,
mander Loyer, from Toulon. On the 27th, '•
der
steam gunboat Sante Barbe, 2 guns, Coin
Perier ; the steam gunboat I'Eclair, 4 guns, `l,l°the
ditto,
mander Thovart, from Toulon and Malaga;
Tan-
steamer Tysiphone, 4 guns, Capt. Benie, from lilts,
giers. On the 28th the following steam guabaader
all from Toulon :—La Fleche, 4 guns, Comm° e.
Grosset ; La Lance, 2, Commander Butil ; L'A-rcla%
buse, 2, Commander Pezzier • and the Salv,era..
Commander Lefevre. The gunboat Redoute 2, "the
mander Loyer, left Cadiz on the 28th, and gtb•
steam sloop Tysiphone, 4, Capt. Renie, on the 2
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for the westward. The Spanish steamer Jovella 0.0:
put back to Cadiz from off Cape St. Vincent on
27th, with machinery broken.