The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

LLANELLY.

RAILWAY BILLS.

The committee of the Lords have passed the bills
of the West Hartlepool Railway for regulating their
capital and traffic.
Saint resolutions of both Houses of Parliament
have been passed discontinuing the present system
of engrr'ssing bills, and providing that in future
ei.ving the Royal assent. The Master of the Rolls
every bill shall be printed immediately after it shall
have been passed in the hoase in which it originated.
When a bill has passed both houses a print on vellum
is to be furnished to the House of Lords before re-
is also to receive a copy, and as it is considered ex-
pedient, with a view to economy, convenience, and
despatch, and diminution of the chances of error,
that one printer should_ print thepublic general
bills for both houses, and as the Queen's Printer
is, by 'virtue of his t.ffiee, bound to print the Acts
of Parliament, it is deemed 'advisable that the
Queen's Printer should be employed for that pur-
poie by both houses in Atari::

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Nichols.)
THE GALWAY CONTRACT —IN RE GEORGE
O'MALLEY IRWIN.
This insolvent, described as a barrister-at-law,
whose name has been frequently before the public
in reference to the Royal Atlantic Steam Naviga-
tion Company, appeared under the Protection Act.
Mr. Sargood opposed, on the part of Mr. John
Orrell Lever, M.P. ; Mr. Sturgeon supported ; Mr.
Peverley, of Coleman-street, being attorney for the
insolvent.
An application was made, on the case being
called, by Mr. Sturgeon to postpone the wise
until December, as there were some documents
to be examined, and Mr. Irwin stated that he
expected to obtain some funds from friends
in Ireland to pay the costs of the nonsuit, for which
he had been arrested by Mr. Lever, and discharged
out of custody a few weeks ago by this Court. The
insolvent added, that he intended to proceed with
his claims against Mr. Lever for services rendered
in the promotion of the Galway Packet Company.
It was also stated by the learned counsel for the
insolvent, that the insolvent had a petition of right,
and a settlement was expected by which he would
be enabled to pay the costs claimed by Mr. Lever.
All he wanted was au adjournment until the
December sittings.
Mr. Sargood apprehended that no ground had
been shown for the application, and complained of
the insolvent's conduct towards Mr. Lever. •
Mr. Commissioner Nichols said, as the applica-
tion was objected to, he could not grant it, and
therefore the case had better proceed.
The insolvent then underwent a long examina-
tion by Mr. Sargood, and from his statement it
appeared that in the first action he brought
against Mr. Lever for services the jury gave
£l,OOO damages. There was a new trial, and,
after an intimation from the jury, his counsel,
Mr. Digby Seymour, elected to be nonsuited.
The costs were £262, and he had been arrested
for the same and taken to prison. There was
another action, and the record had been with-
drawn. The insolvent admitted that, since his
discharge by the Court, he had presented a peti-
tion to the House of Commons, through Mr. Con-
ingham, and the committee was not named be-
cause Mr. Lever stated that the statements had
reference to matters before he was a member of
Parliament.
Mr. Commissioner Nichols said he had nothing
to do with the petition presented to Parliament.
All he had to do with was the debt in the sche-
dule, which was for costs of a nonsuit.
Mr.f Sargood wished to show the animus of the
insolvent towards Mr. Lever. It had been a sys-
tem of malicious persecution against a gentleman
in every possible manner, and it still continued.
It further appeared that yesterday the insol-
vent had been at the Westminster Police-court
agairlit Mr. Lever, on a charge of libel contained in
a pamphlet, in which he had stated that he had
been " victimised by an impostor." The secretary
of Mr. Lever was not produced, and, as the charge
was not sustained, the summons was dismissed.
The proceedings in the action " Irwin v. Lever"
were put in evidence, and Mr. Gilding, clerk to
Messrs. Valiance and Valiance, the attorneys for
Mr. Lever, was examined on the subject. Mr. Lever
had been examined, as well as the insolvent and
other witnesses in the law proceedings. Mr. Lever
was not now in attendance.
Mr. Sargood made an energetic speech on the
part of Mr. Lever, complaining of the persecution
of that gentleman by the insolvent, and of the
groundlessness of the pretended claim made by the
insolvent. He submitted that the debt for the costs
had been improperly contracted, and that the in-
solvent was not entitled to further protection.
Mr. Sturgeon commented on the absence of Mr.
Lever on the present occasion, and urged that the
insolvent was entitled to his continued protection.
The insolvent believed that he had a claim against
Mr. Lever, and was anxious to pay the costs of the
nonsuit that he might proceed with the matter. He
denied that the gentleman now before the Court
was influence i by the motives described by his
learned friend.
Mr. Commissioner Nichols, in giving his opinion,
observed that he had to look at the debt due to Mr.
Lever on the schedule. L was for costs on a non-
suit. In order to show that the debt had been in-
curred without reasonable expectations of payment,
or in other words that it was a vexatious action,
there must be some evidence given to show that the
insolvent had no ground for his action. Now he could
say, as the insolvent claimed for services, there was
no evidence given except by him, that he had no
right to bring the action. His opinion was that
the evidence would not warrant him on arriving at
the conclusion that it was a vexatious action, and
therefore he should appoint a day for the final
order, and renew the protection.
The final order was appointed for Dec. 4.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, July 31.
(Before Mr. Baron Channel].)

CLAMPIT V. PRIDIIAM-BREACH OF PROMISE OF

MARRIAGE.

This was an action for breach of promise,
damages being laid at £l,OOO.
Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Carter ware counsel
for the plaintiff; and Sir F. Slade and Mr. Bullar
appeara for the defendant.

Mr. Collier stated the case. The plaintiff was
Miss Clatnpit, and she carried on the business of
a draper in Bridge-street, Exeter. She was a
highly-respectable woman, and had carried on her
business with great propriety for some time. He
could not call her a young woman, because he be-
lieved she was nearly 50. (Laughter.) The de-
fendant, who was a c!ergyman, the rector of a parish
in Lincolnshire, but had resided in Devonshire for
some time, became acquainted with the plaintiff in
this manner. In December last, he came to Miss
Clampit's shop for the purpose of inquiring the
character of a servant. He called a good many
times, and appeared to have become very much
attached to her. Belonging to the Low Church
party, and the plaintiff being a Dissenter, there
was a good deal of conversation on religious sub-
jects, and defendant said he had written a work on
Church reform, a subject in which he was a good
deal interested. He lent her the book, and after
that she received a note which a good deal sur-
prised her. It was to the effect that when he
called upon her a fortnight ago, the plaintiff made
a declaration respecting the conduct of servants,
generally speaking, which gave him a high opinion
of the integrity and uprightness of her mind ; that
he loved a woman of such a disposition, and should
like to obtain one for a wife, who could say from
her hez.rt—" Dear John, I love you sincerely ;"
(laughter)—and that he wanted a partner to sooth
and comfort him in passing through this wicked
world, and in walking—not in the broad road that
led to destruction, but in the narrow path that led to
eternal life. Now, undoubtedly, the defendant was an
old man, u awards of 70. The other side said he
was 80. (Laughter.) But he (the learned counsel
was informed that he was remarkably vigorous,
and like Adam in " As You Like It,"
" His age was like a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly."
(Laughter.) He did not know then, if a man was
old, why he should not take to himself a wife in his
old age to sooth his declining years. He did not
pretend that there was any romantic attachment,
but he should show the jury that there was a dis-
tinct contract to marry entered into by a man in the
possession of his understanding. The learned coun-
sel then stated that defendant had fixed the day and
given instructions for the marriage ; that he had
engaged Miss Pethybridge, a governess, to super-
intend the plaintiff's business whilst they were ab-
sent on their married tour; that he had agreed to
settle £5O a-year on the plaintiff, having informed
her and others that he had an income of £3OO a
year, and that the licence was taken out; but that
in consequence of the defendant's daughters having
over-persuaded him, a caveat was lodged with the
registrar against the marriage, and it did not ac-
cordingly come off.
A plea had been put on the record to the effect
that the defrndant was of unsound mind, and after
the case had been proceeded with for some time it
was agreed between the learned counsel to settle
the matter without going to the jury, awl:accord-
ingly a juror was withdrawn.

THE HARVEST IN ESSEX.—The continuance) of
fine weather during the past few days has had a most bene-
ficial influence upon the corn crops, now generally becom-
ing fit for reaping. The wheat upon the more upland and
light soils being quite ready for the sickle, harvest com-
menced in many districts on Monday, and large breadths of
wheat are now standing in sheaves, but the harvest will not
become general for another fortnight. The aspect of all
kinds of grain is satisfactory, and expectations of a full
average yield arc entertained. The potato disease is un-
mistakeably spreading, and fears are awakened that its
virulence will equal if not exceed that of former years.
[ADVERTISMIENT.]—TioIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Precautions.—lt often ha-vens that a sickly person fails in
obtaining a cure, though the malady is perfectly remediable
by medicine. This arises frequently from misunderstand-
ings as to the dose or its repetition. Such errors cannot
occur to those using Holloway's medicaments, as full
printed directions envelope every packet, that the invalid
may frequently refresh the memory. By their guidance
progress towards the relief or cure of the malady advances
without doubt or drawback. Holloway's simple directions
are intelligible to all; a little attention alone is required..
There is nothing dangerous or disagreeable in the ConlPosi-
tion of either the ointment or pills. They act harmoniously
together, and in all distas% exercise the most soothing and
wfwkeomo action

TURIN, July 27.—The projected railway tunnel
through the Alpine barrier between France and
Italy, that is, between Savoy and Piedmont, is
actually fast progressing towards its perfect reali-
sation, and the new method, the new motive
force employed here to pierce a carriage way
through seven or eight miles thickness of the
mountain, has proved even more efficient than its
inventors had promised.
The excavating machinery, as designed by
Messrs. Grattone and Sommeiller, consists of a set
of chisels and steel pointed instruments propelled
against the solid rock by the elastic power of con-
densed air in a closed horizontal tube, when the
air has been suddenly compressed by a rush of
falling water poured down into a vertical tube,
at the other end of the horizontal. This econo-
mical substitute for steam, in a country where
there is no coal, but where torrents and cas-
cades are available at every turn, is now rapidly
opening a new high road for our travellers and
traffickers to pass from England via France and
Italy, to Egypt, India, and Australia. Instead of
having nearly to circumnavigate the Mediterranean
as they now do, from Marseilles all round outside
the islands of Sardinia and Sicily to Malta, and
thence to Alexandria, they will have an unbroken
land journey from Calais to one of the Adriatic
ports, almost within sight of Corfu, and there em-
bark in the Vectis or some other English mail
packet, shortening the voyage to Alexandria by
two-thirds of its present duration.
The Minister of Public Works, Commendatore
Peruzzi, accompanied by several members of the
Chamber of Deputies, and an Inspector-General of
French Engineers, devoted two nights and the in•
tervening Sunday, without absenting himself from
his usual week-day labours, to visit the Italian end
of the tunnel at Bardoneche. The French end of
it is at Modane, and they are cutting away at the
same time, with about equal speed, approaching the
dead waist and middle of their gigantic enemy, the
mountain, through whom they are boring such a
hole. In the presence of this company, and of
several distinguished Italian mechanicians, the
boring apparatus, within less than one hour, made
70 perforations, varying from 60 to 90 centimetres
in depth, in the vertical face of the schistose rocks.
The machine is then drawn back along the tunnel,
for a hundred yards or so; the holes, which may
be an inch or so in diameter, are charged with gun-
powder, and exploded like an ordinary mine.
With a single pointed drill, moved entirely by this
force of condensed air, a hole of sixty centimetres
in depth, or about two feet English, is bored in
ten minutes, which the manual labour of three
strong miners could not do in an hour. The ordi-
nary action of the machinery is to pierce twenty or
thirty holes simultaneously in a narrow space where
three or four men could not easily stand working
together. The time gained by applying this new
system may therefore be easily calculated. Some
time must of course be lost in withdrawing the ap-
paratus, after boring a set of holes three or four
feet deep, then exploding them and removing the
rubbish, after which the set of borers may again be
advanced, and the air tubes adjusted for another
stroke. The whole series of operations does not,
however, require three or four hours, so that several
distinct steps forward are made in a day. For the
last few weeks, on the Modane side, they have been
getting on at the rate of six matt es a day, which is
at the rate of more than two kilometres.; or more
than a mile and a half in the year. It is reasonably
expected that as theworkmen grow more expert they
will do tt.ree kilometres a year, at which rate the
tunnel will be finished in 1864. The increasing length
of the horizontal air tube, as the boring proceeds, is
found not to diminish the motive force, although
where it stands at present the boring apparatus
works at a distance of 1,500 metres from the place
where the water falls. Another unfavourable pre-
diction was, that they would come upon granite, or
tap subterranean lakes. The rock, however, is of a
very manageable consistence, being a rather soft
schist, with some veins of silex ; and very little
water oozes from the roof or sides of the tunnel.
The contracts that have actually been nego-
tiated, and which the Legislature has approved,
along with some other contracts still open to
on
th
earth-subduing Titans of the modern
rised to
world,
terms which the Ministry has been aathopprovede,
propose, extend from the northerntothesouAtlhpesrnei
Maritime
southern-
most regions of Italy. From the
tunnelled. between
the
port systeme r
Piedmont and Liguria, which wuillebne,
the line this morning decided
p
port of Savona and the city of Turin, the
already stipulated for and decreed
which havedreachesdowbneetno
those Neapolitan transverse lines
conceded to M. Talabot and his partners, con-
necting the Tyrrhene shore with the Adriatic, con-
necting the Gulf of Salerno with Bari and 'faranto
on the opposite side. Below these lie the Calabrian
and Sicilian lines, included
nciwuditehd
AindntahelihaanstdyLmm
agreemente
ifor
that Garibaldi made
all the railways of the Two
Sicilies, which is a
subject of dispute. The general design that pre-
vails throughout all these grand and useful under-
takings, since the reyolutions of last year is that of
Italian unity. They are intended to'supply a con-
tinuous st ries of locomotive traffic roadways along
that inevitable direct channel of commerce between
LAZ'ope and Azia, from Bloat Celli», Whoa

NEWARK—JULY 31.:
The show of wheat from the growers to-day was bY. lif..
means abundant, and sales took place at fully former price',
Barley hardly an average show, and trade was inactive, at
recent rates. Oats were scarce, with a steady ingul/Y.
Beans were in moderate request at late quotations. 3so
White wheat, new, 65s to 70s Barley, grinding.. 30s t° 4.:
Red do. 6os to 65s Oats, old, .. ...... 32s to °Q.,
Old white 6ss to 70s New do 24; to 2"`
Red do. 50s to GOs Beans.. 54s to 580
46$
Barley, malting.... 38s to 42s Beans. new.. 40s to
Peas, 40s to 505.

HULL—JULY 30.
Our market to-day was fairly attended by the trade, Oct
we had a moderate supply of wheat, which was sold ra-
ther freely at late currencies. Foreign in good detioglclA
Barley met with a large demand for feeding purposes, aa,`;
malting sorts were inquired after. Fine samples t,f 05't
were scarce, and a shade dearer. Beans and peas dull a'
sale, but prices unaltered.
Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 60s Od to 640 9,11
Old red
New white .. ~
Newred .... ~
Dantzic, Konb , &c, old white 54520485 s Cl°Ocidd tttooo 5g
605
ssB
Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 50s Od to 688 od
Baltic and Hamburg, red Ms Od to 570 03,
St. Petersburg and Riga, old 46s Od to 483 1
Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 36° 03
Grinding 3os Od to 32,5 03
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish s2s Od to (-4s ocit
Grinding 27s Od to 203 oct
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga, per st 0512d to °le
Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 051). I
Swedish and Danish ool2ld to Osloi
Beans ....English, old, per qr.
New pigeon 42s Od to 44 0;
New tick. 4os Od to 420 pd
Egyptian 3
Peas .. Foreign breakers
33 086 58 01
3 8 0i .
d' to
Od
tt oo 433 Fs: v°ol 31
Grinding
Tares ....Spiing. —s Od to --- od
Indian Corn
,:'2 odLinseed, feeding s2s Od to 563 0d
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull)
£8 15 0 to £9 A 0
Foreign: BIOZO to ,i, A
10v 0
,
Rape cakes 5 0 oto g
Bones

BRISTOL SUGAR—JULY 31. eelct
We have had a very quiet market for sugar this W.O
and to effect; sales of any importance importers would bt'f „
or
to accept something less than last week's prices, excePol,
fine kinds, which maintain previous rates. Rum VerY
and rather lower.

COAL MARK
trrices of Coal per Ton at
s. d.

ET-JULY 31.

the close of the market

Walls End.
O d •
. A
Shineliffe ll vo
Trimdon Thornley... •1,7 Q 6
Eouth Hetton
Hetton
Eletton
Hartlepool ..
: ............. ,114(99
Russel's Hetton .... .
.. . 0
sptUeltarillt,; ............ 16 6
•• • •..... 18 6
Byron ...
Ships at market, 87 sold, 61.

Camay and Duffryn
Malting
Do. Anthracite 21 6
Wyl am 15 6
\\Talker Primrose 12 9
Tanfield Moor 13 3
Hartlepool West Hart-
ley l6 3
Craghead Hartley 15 0
Hastings Hartley l7 0

THE ARM OF ST. JOHN THE 113APTIST.—Tiei.
commission charged to carry back to Barcelona the right
arm of St. John the Baptist left this city yesterdaY. 111.
whichremarkable relic had been taken from Barcelona, to wh'
place it belongs, to the oratory e the Queen, and the baPPY
accouchement of.her Majesty is ascribed to its influence.
This holy relic was the object of great veneration on the
part of the pious persons of Madrid all the time it was es'
posed in the church of San Francisco el Grande. The none
were not deprived of the privilege of adoring it, the 'Veil'
Prior Commissioner, accompanied by three members of
tile
order, having presented the precious treasure in each of
28 chapels of the convents of this capital.—Madrid Gazette.

BIRTHS.
BADDELEY.—On the 27th ult., at Gorleston, Suffolk, the
wife of Lieut.-Col. Baddeley, of a son.
CHOLMONDELEY.—On the 26th ult., at Abbot's Moss, Che-
shire, the Hon. Mrs. Cholmondeley, of a daughter. 4.
NIAS.—On the 29th July, at Surbiton, Surrey, the wife
Rear-Admiral Nias, C. 8., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
HEILVEY--BENTON.—On the 30th ult., at St. Georgd°l
Hanover-square, Lord Augustus H. C. Harvey, secli t
r
son of the Marquis of Bristol, to Mariana, the young of
daughter of the late W. P. Hodnett, Es , and widoW
Esq., 63d Regiment, o Stet
Eaton-square,
Ashton Beny on,b.wortb.-
park.
DES Vows.--On the 30th ult at St. Peter's,
SLADE—
s, son of the a
Charles Des Vocus, Bart., niece to the Slade Bart to C • to Sir
•/Cecilia Louisa, daughter of the la f
Winchester. t:laSrigruiJsehou

B
wife of Mr. James IL A T
Andrews. } S.
BANATDRituEiwissT.:Antr'lWillow Cottage,Hampstead, Harriet, the
the 27th alt., very suddenly, at 10. Port-
land-terrace, Southsea, Commander John. A. Bathuist,
N
*--,•7 youngest son of the late Commodore Bathurst/
es'el
BITHREY.—on the 29th ult at 7, Bury street, St. Jam
Mr. W. Bithrey.
FISHER.—On the 24th ult., in Beaumont-street, Erzabcth,
relict of the late Itear.Admiral William Fisher.
PELLEw.—On.tho 28th ult., at Marseilles, Admiral thl?
Hon. Sir Fleetwood B. Fellow, C. 8., K.C.I-1., eldest
surviving son of the late Admiral Viscount Exmouth,
G.C.8., aged 70.
ROBERTS.—On the 27th ult., at Marlows, Hemel HeroP-
stead, Herts, Wm. Roberts, Esq., a-ed 61.

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