The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-16 00:00:00

THE NA TAY.

The screw steamship Revenge, 91, was towed on
Wednesday from Keyham basin to the Devonport
dockyard, to expedite her fitting.
The gunboat Forward, Lieut. Robertson, was
masted at. Devonport on Wednesday, partly rigged,
and warped to the hulk Argo.
The screw steam transport Himalaya, Commander
Seccombe, left Plymouth on Wednesday evening
for Portsmouth.
The screw steam frigate Liffey, 50, Capt. Preedy,
was towed out of Plymouth S and on Thursday, by
the steam tug Confianee, and sailed for the Medi-
terranean.
The screw steam frigate Topaze, 51, Capt. the
Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, saluted the flag of the Port
Admiral, on Thursday afternoon, as she passed
down Hamoaze into the Sound. She made an ex-
perimental trip outside the breakwater in the even-
ing, to try her engines.
The sailing ship Vanguard, 84, was towed on
Thursday by the steam tugs Zephyr and Confiance
from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, where the
paddle-wheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Commander
M. B. Dunn, took her in tow for Sheerness. The
Vanguard is in charge of Mr. Paul, Assistant-
Master attendant at Devonport. She is to be
lengthened and converted into a screw.
The Rhadamanthus steam storeship sailed at 5
a.m. yesterday, from Portsmouth for Woolwich,
calling at Sheerness with supernumeraries.
The Hornet, 17, screw, has been towed from
alongside the Sheer jetty at Portsmouth, to a berth
in the harbour, preparatory to being placed in the
steam basin for docking and repairs.
The Dauntless, 32, screw, Capt. Edmonstone,
will move out of the steam basin to-day, and after
testing her machinery outside Portsmouth Harbour,
berth alongside her hulk to complete her outfit.
The Neptune, 91, screw, Capt. Sir W. Hoste,
Bart., will make her second trial of speed at the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, on Monday. At the
conclusion of the trial she will bring up at Spithead,
where she will take in the remainder of her guns,
stores, provisions, &c.
The Beagle, 6, despatch ,vessel, will get her steam
up in the steam basin at Portsmouth this morning,
to test machinery, &c.
A court-martial was held yesterday on board her
Majesty s ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, to
try Mr. Goodyer, late paymaster of her Majesty s
ship Hornet, on charges of neglect of duty in not
furnishing proper returns of the ship's accounts to
the Admiralty, &c. The Court, comprising. Capt.
Gcorge T. Gordon, commanding steam reserve,
president; Capt&ns A. Farquhar, Wilson, How•
lett, C.B.,Edmonstone, Mugu re, and Crawford,
with Mr. lellyer, Deputy Judge AdvocE te, having
heard the evidence adduced on behalf of the prose-
cution, and also what the prisoner had to say in his
defence, declared all the charges proved, and sen-
tenced him to be dismissed her Majesty's service,
and further declared him ineligible for entry at any
future peri )d.
A court-martial assembled on board the Impreg-
nable, at Plymouth, on Wednesday, to try William
Stephenson, able seaman of the Hogue, for muti-
nous conduct towards the boatswain of the Cmsar.
The, prisoner pleaded guilty, and was s•-ntenced to
receive fifty lashes and be imprisoned for two years.
While the corporal punishment was 1-eing inflicted
on board the Caesar, in Keyham-dock, on Thursda
morning at seven o'clock, several artisans and
labnurers then entering were attracted alongside
by the cries of the prisoner, and expressed dis-
approbation by hisses and groans, in which
they were joined by the Turkish sailors
assembled on the deck of their own ship,
which lies near. On this the Marines of
the Caesar were sent on shore, and were drawn up
in a line to disperse the people, when Burney, act-
ing leading man of shipwrights, and an apprentice
was seized and reported. Burney is suspended
until the return of the Admiral Superintendent, Sir
Thos. Pasley. He had charge of the hired men on
the Shadia, and alleges that he ordered them on
board, but they would not go.
Mr. Charles C. Ick was yesterday appointed pay.
master to the Cyclops.

RAILWAY IN TELLIGENI.v.E.

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GREAT WESTERN AND BRENTFORD.
Yesterday the ceremony. of opening this com-
pany's-docks and railway was performed with great
rejoicing at Brentford. Special steamers frquk Win_
don and Westminster bridges, decorated with flags,
and conveying. the friends of the undertaking,
opened-the new docks at about 20 minutes to four.
About the same time special trains started from the
Southall' station of the Great Western Rail-
way to Brentford, conveying the directors and their
friends. The event was celebrated at the Town-
hall, BrenTford, by an excellent dinner, at which
Mr. I)avey, the deputy chairman, presided. Various
loyal and otl er touts. were given and responded
to, and the whole of the proceedings were conducted
in a satisfactory manner.
It is fully expected that this short branch of 4f ,
miles in length, from the Southall station of the -.
Great Western Railway to the docks at Brentford,
will be of great advantage to both companies.
Hitherto all the heavy traffic upon the Great Wes-
tern Railway destined, for the port of London
has left the main line at Bull's-bridge, whence it
has been taken down the Grand Junction Canal to
Brentford. For a long time past the means of
transit thus afforded have proved quite inadequate
for the greatly increased traffic which the opening
up of the Welsh coalfields and the connection of
the Great Western line with Birmingham, Wolver_
hampton, Birkenhead, Manchester, and other places
have brought upon it. Between Bull's-bridge
and B.rentford there are upon the canal no
fewer than eleven locks, and the delay which
these occasioned was enhanced in winter by
frosts and in summer by droughts. The tonnage
dues also were heavy, and all these circumstances
affected very prejudicially the _goods and mineral
traffic upon the trunk line. These considerations
led to the construction of the new railway and dock,
which were yesterday opened for public .traffic.
Starting from a junction with the main line
at
Southall, which is about a mile and a half on this
side of Bull's-bridge, the new line proceeds in a
south-ealterly dipection through a highly-eultiiited ..7
market garden district to the dock at Brentford, a
distance of 42 miles. At present only a.single line
is laid, because, in the first instance, goods traffic
alone will be conveyed upon it, but the whole length
is ballasted for a double line, and platforms and
stations are being construoted at the town of Brent-
ford and at the dock for the accommodation of pas-
sengers, which will be opened in about a fortnight.
A considerable revenue is anticipated from this
source, because the dock being exactly opposite one
of the entrances to Kew Gardens, where- a ferry
has long existed, passengers may, by this'route, be
conveyed from Paddington to Kew in 35 minutes.
The formation of the line has presented few engi-
neering difficulties • but at Windmill-bridge it was
necessary to carry the railway under both thehigh-
way and the Grand Junction Canal. There are thus
at this point three distinct modes of transit cross-
ing each other, all at different angles, but having a
common centre. On the top is the road, below is
the canal, and underneath is the railway ; the total
height from the rails to the road does not exceed
34 feet. To execute this work the canal had to be'
diverted, while a cast-iron trough, 8 feet in depth,
was formed for the purpose of carrying the canal
over the railway. The towing•path consists of cast-
iron roadway plates, bracketed out from the side of
the trough, and the whole structure is borne upon
strong abutments of brick, supported in the middle
by a centre pier. One hundred and forty tons of
cast-iron were used in this work, and the cost'of
its construction was about £5,000. At a little more
than three miles from the junction the railway
crosses over the loop line of the South-Western. A
viaduct, 240 yards in length, carries it through the
town of Brentford, where it crosses the London
road by a wrought-iron bridge of 50 feet span,
and the Grand Junction Canal by a similar bridge
of 70 feet span. From the end. of the viaduct a
double line is laid into the dock, just before reach-
ing which the canal is again traversed by a bridge
of 90 feet span.
The dock itself is a work of considerable impor-
tance, and the facilities which it is intended to
afford the Great Western for L the cOnveyance of
heavy traffic to and from the Pool are expected to
be very great. The dock encloses four and a half
aches of water, having a depth of 13 or 14 feet at
high water, and an ample depth to float barges at
low water. Here every convenience, such as
covered sheds, cranes, shipping, staiths, and so
forth, are provided, so that the shipment of goods
and minerals may take place with the utmost ra-
pidity.
It is calculated that the journey from the
dock to the Pool will be accomplished ix one tide.
BY.ry attention has been paid to insure the solidity
of the works. The 'dock is said to be perfectly
watertight throughout the whole area, and-so well ' -
provided with rails for the goods' accommodation that upwards of two miles of line are laid on this
part of the undertaking. The space and ap-
pliances were estimated to admit of traffic to the
extent of 500,000 tons annually, an amount which
the dock has been specially designed to accom-
modate. A telegraph from the dock to the Pool
of London completes the arrangements of this un-
dertakihg. The Great Western Company under-
take the working of, the line, and guarantee to
carry at least 100,000 tons of goods and minerals
over it annually, exclusive of coal, coke, and
stone. The present traffic at Bull's-bridge, how-
ever, and contracts already entered into warrant
the expectation that double the specified amount of
traffic will pass over the line. It appears that the
actual cost of these works, as executed by Messrss .. •
Treadwell, the contractors, under the superinten-
dence of Mr. E. F. Murray, the resident-engineer,
has been only X 130,000; and the total cost from
first to last, including preliminary, law, and Par-
liamentary expenses, and the purchase of land, has
not exceeded £200,000.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE
IN LEEDS.

On Thursday afternoon, a little before three
o'clock, Mrs. Watts, a widow, aged 75, and who re-
sided at 4, Westminster-place, Castle-street, West
End, Leeds, rushed to the door of a neighbour
named Miss Tutin, with a towel wrapped round her
throat, and told her that her throat had just been
cut by one of her lodgers, named Abraham Fawcett.
As slue removed the towel the blood spurted out like
water from the spout of a kettle. Miss Tutin gave
the alarm, and the poor old woman was shortly
afters ards attended to by Mr. Nunneley, surgeon,
who sewed up the wound. Mrs. Watts was next
asked where Fawcett was, and she replied that he
was cutting his throat just as she rushed out of the
house. The neighbourhood being alarmed, Mrs.
Watts's house was examined, and sure enough Faw-
cett was found on the floor of Mrs: 'Watts's bed-
room bathed in blood. The room had the appearance
of a slaughter-house. From the fragmentary narra-
tive furnished at intervals by Mrs. %Vatts and the
other residents in the house, it would appear that
Fawcett, a young man of 35, was employed as a
cloth dresser as Mr. King's establishment in North-
hall-lane. He has lodged with Mrs. Watts for 12
morning, when be
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Monday last Mr. King entertained his "bands"
to dinner, and since then Fawcett has been drink-
iwnags.
seenH e wasa
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Lisbonsh on i Thursdaylnn.
rn
About onagl-past two
he went to his lodgings, and finding the door fast
entered by the kitchen window. Mrs. Watts had'
gone to lie down on the bed. He appears to have
gone up stairs, and when he entered Mrs. Watts's
room he made certain improper overtures to her,
which she, of course, resisted. He appears to have
become suddenly maddened, for he drew his own
razor from his pocket, and cut the poor old woman's
throat. She managed, however to from the
room, escape
room, but as she was l • .
leaving it she saw Fawcett
attempt his ownlife. The subsequent circumstances
have been already narrated. On Thursday night,
when our correspondent was at the house, which is
one of a row of oath..
bes in the centre of a densely-
populated district, hundreds of people were congre-
gated about the greatest excitement prevailing.
Hefound Mrs. Watts in a very dangerous condi-
tion, the wou d h •
n having been re-opened by a fit of
coughing and the bleeding having continued for
half an hour before medical assistance could again
be procured. The incision is a deep and long wound.
Fawcett has also a inflicted desperate
gash on his
own throat, and he has been asleep—probably from
the stupefying effects of the liquor—almost ever
since the occurrence. Mrs. Watts was scarcely ex-
pected to survive the night. The only motive for
the attack appears to have been the one given
above.—Man chester Guardian.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—At the
Weekly meeting of the Board of Works, yesterday, a report
was brought up from the Main Drainage Committee, re-
commending that in consequence of the increased duties
in addition to
and expenses of the engineer of the Board, by reason of the
main drainage works, the sum of £2OO be the annual allow-
reffushineurettg,bbylusthheaine
ance to the engineer for travelling expenses,
his present salary and allowance. After some discussion,
the recommendation of the committee was carried by a ma-
jority of 22 to 2.
~..[ ADVEATISEM TNT.
pitation,Determination ]—Holloway's Pills and Ointxaent.
.passing thought—hence tb
andggrapaind"
regulators of the heart's impulse. Under Holl sway's d
shortnessof blood
oftA the
bre
breath
head,
ha
specifics the current of blood throughout the body becomes
suffusion of chest and cheeks is avoided, and nervous a
em-
barrassment prevented. They, in like manner, steady and unchanged by the
remove ex-
cessive sensibility so often the opponent to the ease and.
grace inherent in the healthful and strong-nerved
and eradicate the doubts of the frames
declining from intense study, free-linervous. In intellect,
equal remedy is attainable. ving,or over hnxiety
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give
muscular
energy.to the , Without exaggeration
an they
paralysed & ease to the
pained,