The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, MARCH 28, 1866.

give it to Gough. Ballard $OOll after took the coin
out of her pocket, gave it up, and ran away. Bal-
lard asked Mr. Gray to forgive her, and she would
never do so again. When she saw Ballard put her
hand into Gough's pocket they were not standing up
to sing, but sitting on a bench.
Mrs. Worthington, the schoolmistress at the Ink-
berrow National School, was called to speak to the
character of Ballard. She said her general impres-
sion was that she was untruthful, but she could not
recollect any distißct instance of untruthfulness.
Mr. Worthington, the schoolmaster, proved that
Ballard had been at the school for three or four
years. He had punished her for indecent language
and for lying on her tacit admission. He had never
discovered her in any dishonest act.
Policeman Hall took the prisoner into custody
on the 12th and conveyed her to Redditch—seven
miles. They walked the whole distance; she cried,
and asked Mr. Gray to forgive her. Mr. Gray
ordered him to apprehend her, and to take her to
Redditch. No information was laid, and no warrant
was issued. He did not instruct the sergeant of
police to keep her in his house.
Sergeant Brown received the girl on the 12th ; he
locked her up for about a quarter of an hour, but
she scramed so that her cries went through the
whole building, and he did not like to leave her in the
lock-up. He therefore took her into his own house,
and she had her meals and her bed there. (Ap-
plause in court.) He took her before Mr. Millward,
who remanded her.

The Rev. G. R. Gray, vicar of Inkberrow, de-
posed that he had representations made to him of
the bad conduct of Ballard. After church on the
11th inst. representations were made to him about
this stealing of a penny. He afterwards told the
policeman to keep her at his house until he should
think what to do about it. He afterwards went to
him and said it was a serious case, and that she had
better be sent to Redditch. If this had been the
first offence he should only have reprimanded her.
He was sorry he could not say much for the way
the prisoner was cared for at home. He had but
one object in what he had done—the proper correc-
tion of the child. He simply attended last week as
a witness, but as the case was not gone on with,
and as no evidence was taken, he did not think it
was necessary to descend from the Bench. He had
known the family for 20 years ; in fact, he had bap-
tized most of them.

The charge was then read over to the prisoner,
who was called upon to plead, and she pleaded not
guilty. The magistrates then retired, and on their
return into court,

The Chairman said the magistrates had given the
case their most serious consideration, and they were
unanimous in saying that they believed there was
no felonious intent. The prisoner would therefore
be discharged.

The decision was received with loud asplausc.

YACIIPS AND BOATS.

Iron ship building is now as common almost as
wood, many of our most renowned yachts being of
iron. In constructing iron ships the ribs or frames
are made of single angleiron, which by being heated
in furnaces have been bent to the required form,
and are placed at about 18 inches or two feet apart,
they are then riveted to the keel, which is also of
iron, and the plates are then placed outside these
ribs or frames, and riveted with white-hot bolts to
them, the contraction of the bolts when cooling
drawing everything together with immense force—
the plates in large ships when thick are placed end
to end with a strip on the inside which is riveted to
the plates ; this is called butt-jointed, but if the
plates are thin they are lap-jointed, or placed edge
over edge, like clincher building in
wood, and
riveted along the edge ; when the riveting is com-
pleted the finish is given to the work by what is
called caulking, which is by driving a hard steel
punch against the edges of the plates, so as to
make them swell up tight, and then the workman
hammers the lap-edge of the plate against a holder
up inside, so that when the iron is painted or
tarred, the seam is quite tight, and any damp that
may penetrate, by causing rust, only tends to make
the work tighter. The first iron racing yacht I re-
member was the Bluebell, a cutter of 30 tons,
the property of Capt. Disney Roebuck ; she was
one of the fastest vessels of her time, and I believe
won many cups and prizes ; since then there have
been many celebrated iron yachts, the Mystery,
Thought, Titania, &c., and from day to day we see
iron yachts being launched, and after a victory or
two are eclipsed by the design of some new builder
who obtains a fleeting celebrity. We have a curious
insight into the method of shipbuilding at the time
of our Saviour, for Trajan's ship, which had sunk
in the Lake of Riccia, about A.D. 80, was raised
about the year 1475 (1,300 years after she had
sunk), at the time Leo Baptiste Albert was writing
his book on architecture ; she had lain sunk all this
time, and was moderately sound ; her mode of con-
struction was by double planking, caulked with
linen rags, and daubed with pitch, and over all was
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crew being in some cases good musicians, and form-
ing a very fine band, as on board the Tyne, Mr.
George Stephenson's splendid schooner yacht, or in
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pressly for racing purposes, and in the midship sec-
tion look exceedingly like a pegtop, everything being
sacrified for speed and false stability, hardly room
being provided for berthing the crew, which is in
most cases compulsorily very large, from the num-
ber of hands required to manage, shorten, or set
the sails quickly enough; in many cases a race de-
pending on the quickness with which one sail can
be taken in or set in place of another. Some very
wealthy men keep two yachts, one for racing, and
the other for comfort—Mr. T. Turner having the
Wildfire for racing, and the Constance, topsail
schooner, of very large size for his family to be on
board. Nothing could have been finer than the sight
when the French fleet came into Spithead last year,
as an immense number of yachta from all parts of
the country had assembled at the Isle of Wight, and
went out to meet them; and every day whilst the
fleet remained these yachts cruised about, and the
owners visited the various ships. On board the vari-
ous French vessels which I visited the officers and men
were far more struck with our fleet of yachts, and
the way in which they were handled, than by our
fleet, or even Portsmouth ; and they expressed their
wonder at the way in which both ladies and gentle-
men seemed to understand the art of sailing and
managing their vessels; the way in which the yachts
sailed up and down, and round the vessels of the
fleet without any accident, was the universal won-
derment of the Frenchmen, and combined with the
great smartness of the crews of the yachts made
them declare that no other country could show so
splendid a sight. I only wish that as the Prince of
Wales has now become a yacht owner, lie would call
together a meeting of all the various yacht clubs, at
the Isle of Wight (the most natural bead-quarters
of a yachting fleet), and then pass them in review be-
fore him. If he did so, and the response to his call
was only such as it should be, there would be such a
gathering as would make old Neptune spear some of
his finest fish for the Prince's table whilst in com-
mand of his pleasure fleet. I believe, if this was
done in time, that by the end of August there would
be a splendid gathering of yachts, and most yacht
owners wo,uld at the same time confer a great com-
pliment On the Prince, and a benefit on their coun-
try if titi.ey would ship no men in their vessels who
were not men of the Royal Naval Reserve, thus
adding an immense number of the finest and smartest
sailors in the world to our fleet in case of emergency,
and if no necessity should arise for them, then a be-
nefit is conferred on the men and their families by
the present pay they would get, and the eventual
pension they would be entitled to. I hope yet to
see a rule established in all yacht clubs which will
enforce all members to employ only men of the Royal
Naval Reserve, which rule on being known would