The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-26 00:00:00

WALSALL RACES.-WEDNESDAY.

The Trial Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added, for all
ages. Optional selling weights. One mile. 6 subs.
Mr. B. Land's Bayard, 3 yrs (£5O), 7st 121 b (Salt) 1
Mr. Bates's Rajah Brooke, 4 yrs (£5O), Bst 71b.. (White) 2
Mr. Carr's Maid of Peru, 8 yrs (£5O), 7st 91b (J. Frost) 3
Mr. Wood's Camperdown, 3 yrs, (£5O), 6st (E. Taylor) 0

In the first attempt the lot fell into a ditch at the railway
turn, and Ple stewards decided it was no race. At the
second attempt Bayard won by a length ; two lengths be-
tween the second and third. Camperdown bolted.

The Town Plate of 3 sow each, 1 ft, with 20 added. Win-

ners extra. The winner to be sold for 40 sovs. Three-

quarters of a mile.
Mr. Price's Holderskye, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Thomas) 1
Mr. Wood's Fairy Knowe, 2 yrs, sst 71b .. (E. Taylor) 2
Mr. Bates's Cumberland, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
The following also ran :—Macaw, Bayard, Doritta.
Betting—Even on Cumberland-5 to 2 each agst Doritta
and Holderskye.

Won in a canter by three lengths ; two lengths between
the second and third; a good fourth. Doritta and Bayard
bolted, and did not pas the post.
The Tradesmen's Cup of 100 sous, added to a handicap
sweepstakes of 6 soya each, 2ft to the fund. Winners
extra. One mile and a half. 26 subs.
Mr. S. Hunt's Bradfield, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (Thomas) 1
Mr. Wright's Twinkle, 3 yrs, sst 91b (H. Taylor) 2
Mr. Land's Yorkshire Grey, aged, 7st 71b.... (G. Frost) 3
Greenwich Fair, Diadem, and Caliban also ran.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Twinkle, sto 2 agst Caliban, and 4
to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey.

The latter was first Off, but soon gave way to Twinkle,
who carried on the pace to the home bend, when Bradfield
came through, and, having all safe at the distance, won
cleverly by a length, a head dividing the second and third ;
Greenwich Fair was fourth, Diadem fifth, and Calibau
sixth.
The Two-yr-old Stakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft, with 25 added;
cons, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; winners extra ; allowances,
ito.; the winner to be sold for 100 sow, if demanded; if

entered to be sold for £5O allowed 51b. Three quarters
of a mile. 7 subs.
Mr. J. Land's Dunoon, £5O, Bst llb (Salt) 1
Mr. Rigby's Strawberry Leaf, £5O, 7st 111 b.. (Chapman) 2
Mr. Hopwood's Charles Fox £5O, 7st 111 b (Ogden) 3
Mr. Adkins's Doritta, £5O, Bst llb (W. White) 4
Captain Bernard's Paroquet, £.50, 7st 71b .... (Thomas) 5
Betting-6 to 4 agst Paroquet, 7to 4 agst Charles Fox,
and 4 to 1 agst any other offered.
They ran well together, Doritta with a slight lead, up to
the distance, where she gave way to the others. A splendid
race ending in favour of Dunoon by a head, half a length
dividing second and third.

The Stand Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added; win,

ners extra. One toile.
Mr. Wadlow's Diadem, 4 yrs, 7st slb ~ (Whiteley) t 1
Mr. Wood's Caliban, 3 yrs, Est (E. Taylor) t 2
Mr. B. Land's Cheesecake, 4 yrs, 7st (Besley) 3
Mr. Thompson's Sherwood's 3 yrs, 6st 3lb(H..Taylor) 4
Betting—Even on Caliban, 6 to 4 agst Diadem, and 3
to 1 agst Sherwood.

The two favourite singled themselves out from the com-
mencement, and ran a splendid race home, the judge de-
ciding it a dead heat, Cheesecake finishing some distance
from the second.

Deciding Heat-5 to 4on Caliban, who was defeated
easily by half a length.

SIB E. B. LYTTON AT HITCHIN.

The annual meeting of the Herts Agricultural
Society was held yesterday at Hitchin. The exhibi-
bition of stock, roots, and implements was held in a
field north of and closely adjoining the town. There
was not a large show of stock, but the cattle and
sheep were very good, and there was evidently a dis-
position to try the long-wooled sheep in Hertford-
shire, the Downs having hitherto had almost exclu-
sive preference. The show of horses and pigs was
not first-rate. Mr. Perkins and Mr. Galward exhi-
bited implements, and Mr. Dorrington a goodly
show of mangold, swedes, turnips, and other roots.
The dinner was held in the Corn Exchange at 4
o'clock; Mr. C. W. Giles Puller presided, supported
by the Right Hon. Sir E. B. Lytton, M.P., and
Mr. H. Surtees. On the left were Mr. Abel Smith,
M.P., and the Rev. E. Prodgers, jun. ; Mr. Robt.
Dimsdale, was Vice-Chairman.

After dinner the Chairman proposed the usual
loyal toasts ; also " the Army and Navy and Rifle
Volunteers." The Vice-Chairman proposed "the
bishop and clergy of the diocess," and paid a well-
merited compliment to the Bishop of Rochester.
The toast having been duly hououred, it was
acknowledged by the Rev. E. Prodgers.
Sir E. B. LYTTON then said—l have been re-
quested to propose the next toast ; it is " The
Health of the Lord Lieutenant of the County." It
is with sincere, pleasure and pride I speak of my
friendship for Lord Verulam. lam proud because
it allows me an opportunity to observe that one of

the greatest noblemen in the ranks of society in this
country had to commence his connection with pub-
lic life as a servant of the public. It was as a mem-
ber for this county that Lord Verulam learned those
duties to his Sovereign and to the country which
he now so ably discharges, and I am sure his lord-
ship is entitled to all the honours that we can pay
him, and therefore I now propose " The Health of
the first magistrate of the county, your Lord
Lieutenant."
The toast having been drunk,

Mr. JAMES SMYTH, of Bygrave, the principal
tenant farmer of the county, proposed " the health
of the county membars," and said he hoped when
they returned to Parliament they would not forget
the malt tax.
Sir E. B. LYTTON—Gentlemen,--I thank you for
the honour you have done to my colleagues and me.

It is not the least agreeable feature of these meetings
that all the differences of political party are sus-
pended, and that you can thus combine in one good
wish those who represent both the great sections of
opinion in this county, and who sit on opposite
benches in the House of Commons. And having
thanked you on behalf of my colleagues—to whose
diligent and able performance of their Parliamen-
tary duties I can bear a cordial testimony—l may
the more gratefully thank you for myself, because
my share of that good health which you so kindly
wished to Akt,all amonaricho A;,mrnnortionately
01/ L y upon youi - ,

'once. I thank you from my heart that the indul-
gence has not failed me. lam sure that my many
friends around me will be pleased to hear that the
comparative rest which I have thus been enabled to
take has sufficed to restore my strength. Gentlemen,
since I last addressed you in our annual meetings
great changes have passed over the Old World and
the New. Let me entreat your permission to speak
of those changes. I can do so without provoking
any differences of opinion ; and whatever affects the
civilised races, from the ()flier side of the channel
to the shores of the Atlantic, must have an in-
terest for England ; and whatever interests Eng-
land must interest not the least those who invest
their capital in its soil, and whom all the inte-
rests of industry attach to the safety and welfare
of the land. Great changes have come over Eu-
rope. When I last met you here what was Italy ?
—a discordant variety of petty States, in which
the friends of order were the puppets of Austria,
and in which the friends of liberty seemed wild
conspirators who could use no other weapon against
tyrants but the dagger of the miserable assassin.
Now, what is Italy ? A great nation, a constitu-
tional monarchy ; the tryant is gone, and let us
hope that the assassin is disarmed. Like the en-
chanted princess in the old story books, who was
thrown into a death-like slumber till the walls that
confined her fell down before the trumpet of her
destined deliverer, Italy has risen out from the sleep
of ages restored to the bloom, but exposed also to
the passions and struggles of youth. Heaven guard
and Heaven bless her ! It is for the interest of
England that Italy should enter into the great
community of constitutional nations. Foreigners
misunderstood the fo"eign policy of England. I
will endeavour to explain what it is. England is
a free nation, and its statesmen must consult pcpu-
lar opinion ; the popular opinion of a free State
goes with the free. England is a commercial and
a manufacturing nation. It is the interest of Eng-
land that good government, with the elements of
progressive prosperity, should be established every-
where, because it is only in good governments that
the interchange of her commerce is secure, and in
proportion as the foreigner prospers the probability
is that he will widen the market for our English
manufactures. We have no interest in tyrannies,
where all progress is arrested. We have no interest
in revolutions, where all property is insecure. But
we have an interest in the rise and progress of
every people who adopt that temperate form of con-
stitutional freedom which our own experience has
proved to be the best for the development of hu-
man energies; and if to that good feeling we must
seek a selfish motive, it is because every people so
rising would naturally become our ally through
the sympathy of freedom, and our customers
through that commercial prosperity which is the
usual result of political freedom. In these few
words, if foreigners would condescend to reflect,
they would find the true key to the foreign policy
of England. We have an interest in the regenera-
tion of Italy. We have also an interest, certainly
not less, in the success of that great experiment in
which Austria has passed from the haughty repre-
sentative of hereditary despotism to the ranks
—still, unhappily, few—of constitutional monar-
chies. No politician worthy the name of states-
man, no educated man, who will cast his eye over
the map of Europe, but what must acknowledge
the immense importance to freedom and to Eng-
land of establishing, midway between Russia and
France, midway between the two great military
and absolute empires of Europe, a constitutiona
monarchy of immense resources both in territory
and in population ; resources that have utterly
failed to Austria while her Government was despo-

tic, but which may develope, as our resources have
developed, under a system precisely analogous to
our own. King, Lords, and Commons, with Mini-
sters and representatives responsible to the people,
and criticised in safety by a free press—such i$ the

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are agreed. On this my Lord Russell can offer his
generous compliment to his predecessor the Earl of
Malmesbury, of whom you will permit me to say
thus much, that to that comprehensiveness and
liberality of judgment which generally comes from a
wide knowledge of mankind and of the world.
Lord Malmesbury unites that manly frankness
which is the attribute of moral courage and un-
deviating honour, And as Lord Russell has paid a
just tribute to my esteemed colleague in the late
Cabinet, so I in tarn can say with sincere pleasure,
that on the whole—without approving every
word in every despatch—but on the whole, in a
time of great and anxious difficulty, Lord Russell
had, in my humble judgment, wisely maintained the
interests, fearlessly upheld the honour, and faith-
fully represented the general opinion of the British
nation. But, gentlemen, it is not in the Old World
alone that great changes have passed since I last
addressed you. Many of you will remember that
when I took the chair, now so ably filled, at our
meeting in this town, there came with me, as my
guest and as yours, Mr. Dallas, the distinguished
diplomatic minister of the then United States of
America. You will remember the enthusiasm with
which he was deservedly greeted, and the applause
that followed every affectionate allusion to our Re-
publican kinsfolk, with whom nevertheless there
was at that moment, as there has been often before,
one of those irritating questions in which much was
sternly asked by young Brother Jonathan and
mildly conceded by old John Bull. Well, we
Englishmen respected the giant Republic in its
apparent unity and its fancied strength, and no true
Englishman will be mean enough to exult in the
pangs of its separation and the horrors of its civil
war. But even then, when Mr. Dallas was our
guest, I never conceived, nor do I understand how
any far-thinking statesman could conceive, that a
fourth part of the earth could long be held under
one imperial form of government. That separation
between North and South America which is now
being brought about by civil war I have long fore-
seen and foretold to be inevitable; and I venture to
predict that the younger men here present will live
to see not two, but at least four, and probably more
than four separate and sovereign commonwealths
arising out of those populations which a year ago
united their Legislature under one President and
carried their merchandise under a single flag.
And so far from thinking that these separa-
tions will be injurious to the future des-
tinies of America, or inflict a blow on that
grand principle of self-government in which the
substance of liberty consists, I believe that such
separations will be attended with happy results to
the safety of Europe and the development of Ame-
rican civilisation. If it could have been possible
that, as population and wealth increased all the
vast continent of America, with her mighty sea-
board and the fleets which her increasing ambition
as well as her extending commerce would have
formed and armed, could have remained under one
form d I government, in which the Executive has

little or no control over a populace exceedingly ad-
venturous and excitable, why then America would
have hung over Europe like a gathering and de

structive thundercloud. No single kingdom in
Europe could have been strong enough to maintain

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gigantic resources of a quarter of the globe. And
this unwieldy extent of empire would have been. as
fatal to the permanent safety and development of
America herself as the experiment of all history
tells us an empire too vast to maintain the healthy

circulation of its own lifeblood ever has been, since

;he world began, to the races over which it spread.

By their own weight the old colossal empires of the

East fell to ruin. It was by her own vast extent
of dominion that Rome lost her liberties, under the
very armies which the extent of dominion compelled
her to maintain, and finally rendered up her domi-

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nion itself to the revenge of the barbarians she had
invaded. The immense monarchy founded by the
genius of Charlemagne fell to pieces soon after his

death, and those pieces are now the kingdoms of
Europe. But neither the empires of the East, nor
the commonwealth of Rome, nor the monarchy of
Charlemagne could compare in extent and resources
with the continent of America—and you will re-

member that the United States claimed a right to
the whole of that continent and the ultimate fate
of America under one feeble Executive—the feeblest
Executive perhaps ever known in a civilised com-
munity—would have been no exception to the
truths of history and the laws of nature. But in
proportion as America shall become subdivided into
different States, each of which is large enough
for greatness—larger than an European kingdom

—her ambition will be less formidable to the rest
of the world, and I do not doubt that the action

of emulation and rivalry between one free

State and another, speaking the same language and
enjoying that educated culture which inspires an
affection for all that enlightens and exhalts humanity
will produce the same effects upon art and com-
merce, and the improvements in practical govern-
ment which the same kind of competition produced
in the old commonwealths of Greece. Heaven grant
that my convictions may not be erroneous. lam not
then, one of those who say that the impending sepa-

ration of the American States proves the failure of
her experiment of Democracy. Any other form of
Government would have equally failed in keeping

together sections of a community so geographically
cast, with interests so antagonistic to each other.
But this I may say, that when we see liberty and

law alike suspendedin the moment of danger, print-
ing presses destroyed by an unresisted mob, or the
opinions of public writers stifled by a Democratic

Government—when we see an American President

so bewildered by his own armies, or so despairing of
the skill of his own generals that he offers to the
Italian Garibaldi the command of American pa-

triots—l think, without vanity, we my say that
in those acts of good government which can pre-
serve freedom in the hour of danger, and enable a
nation to right itself by the brains and the hearts of
its own children, America has more to learn from

England than England to learn from America.
Let us, then, turn our eyes back b our own country

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humbly grateful for the blessings we enjoy, and
manfully resolved to defend and maintain them.
While our august but inscrutable ally stands armed

to the teeth, with one hand so resting on the gates
of war that they open or close at his touch, Eng-
land has not been unmindful of her safety, but has

not departed from her wise constitutional abhor-

rence of vast and costly armaments in a time of

peace. She has, indeed, strengthened her navy, and
I do not doubt that the present Government has in
this worthily maintained the same policy of pre-
caution which occupied the unceasing and anxious

care of the Government of Lord Derby. But
there is this distinction between a navy and an

army. An navy never can threaten the liberties

it is intended to guard. For our military defence
we have raised, without cost, without danger to
constitutional principle, a force which is not aggres-
sive against other countries, but which quietly
proves our determination to defend our own. Re-
lying on the loyalty of its subjects, the Crown of
England encourages the use and discipline of arms

—not as an habitual profession, but as a citizen's
duty, whenever the signs of the time warn him that
he may have to defend his own hearth from a fo-
reign invader. Thus have sprung up our Volan-
teers,—not mere raw, undisciplined, unskilful pre-
tenders, like the old city Train Bands ridiculed in
our popular farces, but patiently learning the use
of their weapons ; so that a wasp could not more
safely enter a beehive than an invader could brave
all the stings in the rifles of England. And hers,
let me pause to d, justice to our noble Hertford-
shire countryman, Lord Cowper. Superior to all
those allurements which not unnaturally incline a
young man of his rank and wealth to look upon life
as a child looks upon a holiday, when, while other
folks are at work all around him, he has nothing
to do but to play, this true representative of the
manly, patriotic English aristocracy has devoted
himself heart and soul to show that this shire of
Hertford is not more fertile of barley than it is
fertile of men—men who can defend the soil that
they till and the harvests they reap. But England
has done more than defend her shores. Her moral
influence has been felt in every step that has ad-
vanced the condition of the world. It was my task
when in office, conjointly with Lord Malmesbury--
thcugh to him belongs the far greater ,share of the
merit--to aid and to stimulate France in what to
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was the example of England. We have
not assisted Italy with our arms, it is true, but
then we have not asked froni Italy the cession of
Savoy and Nice. And, if the Government of Sar-
dinia should preserve the courage to refuse further
concessions of Italian territory, what can so main-
tain their resolution as the earnest dignity with
which England has already protested against the
terrible doctrine that the recognised boundaries of
European kingdoms are to be altered by secret
compacts and family arrangements? We have
morally opposed ourselves to the domination of
Austria in her old Italian possessions. But when
Austria, dismayed at her own feebleness under
despotic forms of Government, seeks to invigorate
her system by constitutional changes, she looks
neither to Russia nor to France for a model. She
looks to England, and the Constitution she gives is
copied from our own. Thus, wherever we look, not
the arms but the example of England has advanced
the condition of the world. Nor have we arrested
even the progress of an empire which, as its object
is commerce and not conquest, may possibly be more
durable than the empires to which I have before
referred. While France was premeditating the
petty acquisition of Savoy and Nice, which will cost
her treasury more than they can ever give to her
commerce, we have been laying the foundations of
a new and mighty colony, which every year will
more and more enrich our trade by the wants of its
spreading population, and maintain the rewards of
our agriculture by the influx of gold from the richest
mines which have yet been discovered. Pardon me
if I speak of the colony it was my duty to advise
my Sovereign to found, with the assent and
the aid.of my colleagues in office—l mean British
Columbia. That colony, with its neighbour Van-
couver, taken from the Hudson's Bay Company,
' gives to England her only possession on the
Pacific Ocean. But that possession is the key to
the Pacific, and had I still been in office, long be-
fore this, I venture to think, one line of British
settlements would have sprang up to connect the
Pacific with the Atlantic. Quietly, inoffensively,
with no alarm to Europe, no threat to the civilized
laws of nations, England has thus annexed from
the wilderness—annexed to her Crown—a country
larger than England itself, and which before a
quarter of a century is over wilt add millions to our
national industry in support of the profits of agri
culture, the wages of labour, and the interchange
of commerce. lam not out of place in thus allud-
ing to that act in my own special administration of
which I am most proud, for it was the choice of the
electors of Hertfordshire that sanctioned my ap-
r-2"*-- -.."-" ' ' --' 4" own ; and if in
future generations my name should ne 1....,,—___
1), ,sc,anevion with the commencement of a colony,
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destined, I believe, to be tb.. .......lrbiagt of all that
now speak our language, it will be as the represen-
tative of this county of Hertford, with which I
identify every public honour that I can achieve by
labour, and to which I gratefully acknowledge
' every obligation that man can owe to those who
exaggerate his merits and are lenient to his faults.
I detain you too long. I ;now hasten to a close.
Some among you may say, "This is an agricultural
meeting; why does not our member confine himself
to agricultural topics ?" My answer is short.
Simply because every man here can speak on those
subjects better than m 3 self. But when you drink
my health as one of your members, you remind me
that I am sent to Parliament, not as the represen-
tative of short horns and long-horns, of turnips
and wheat ; I am the representative of thoughtful
and intelligent men, who expect me when I meet
them to speak of things which a legislator is
supposed to study, mindful only of the one con-
dition, which I hope I have not infringed, that he
does not introduce the acerbities of party
into a convivial meeting. But a special object
of these festivities is, after all, to bring us together
to unite tenant and landlord, to promote frank
discussion, and cement kindly intercourse. And
for this reason I am here to-day, altering the plans
I had formed for the autumn, in order that I might
come among you—not to volunteer lectures on
farming to practical farmers, but to hear with re-
spect all that farmers can say on that subject to me.
I am here as the representative of your interests
and opinions in Parliament, to thank you with
sincere and earnest gratitude for the indulgence you
all, on both sides of party, showed to me when my
strength broke down in my efforts to discharge to
the utmost the duties which I owed to my Sove-
reign and to you ; and to assure you that now, in
recovering ray health, my remembrance of your
kindness will make me still more anxious to merit
your trust as long as I remain in your service.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Puler) also returned thanks.
He alluded to the scanty legislative measures passed
last session, and said, with reference to reform, that
improvements had been going on so fast since 1830
that no wonder the desire for further alteration
should become exhausted at last, and perhaps it was
as well that it should. He did not agree with Sir
E. B. Lytton that it was desirable the United States
should be split up into three or four republics, and
instanced the South American Republics as an in-
stance of what might ensue if the present North
American Republic became divided.
Mr. SMITH, who was received with enthusiastic
cheering, after some introductory observations, said
he looked with hope on the future, seeing the excel-
lent harvest, and if there was any deficiency in
the yield he believed it would be made up by the
quality. He expressed the gratification he felt at
the establishment of constitutional government
in Austria and Italy, and his sincere regret
at the unfortunate civil war in America. He
was sure he would find an echo in their hearts,
when he ventured to express his thankfulness
to Almighty God for the good harvest time
they had just had. Science could do much ; it
could give them reaping and sowing, add plough-
ing and other machines, but it could not give them
the genial and refreshing shower, it could not make
the corn grow, it could not ripen it; and this year
there was no likelihood of any interruption to the
prevailing peace; and for all these things they had
much to be grateful. He again cordially thanked
them for the honour they had done him. (Cheers.)
Mr. SURTEES ptoposed "The Health of the
i Chairman."

The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the honour
done him, said those occasions were very agreeable,
not only as they brought landlords and tenants
and friends together, but they gave young
.aspi-
rants to the House of Commons an opportunity of,

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as to the American question, be;ievin it was- ni6 t
important that the {John; should. be preserved, to
prevent the epread of slavery, as well a 3 for the
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general welfare and prosperity of the country. lie
earnestly hoped the society which had been the
means of calling them together would long prosper
and, as an earnest of their feelings, he called on
them to give three time' three for the Herts Agri-
cultural Society.
Three cheers having beer given, other toasts fol-
lowed of minor importance, concluding with "The
Town and Trade of Hitchin."

EXTRAORDIA.IRF C.4BE.

(From the 11.iri!linghant Daily p,st.)

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time in the investigation of an extraordinary charge
of riot, preferred against eight men—Robert Hales,
of Mow Cop; Thomas Hales, of Mow Cop; Georg.,
Machin, of Biddulph ; John Hall, of Mow Cop;
Thomas Hales, of Longton ; Thomas Hales, of
Wolverhampton ; Richard Cresswell, of Mow Cop ;
and Joseph Hales, of Mow Cop. Mr. Heaton
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Stevenson
for the defence. The case excited considerable
public interest, and during the inquiry the court
was crowded.
The facts of the case for the prosecution, as ad-
duced in evidence, may be thus briefly stated. On
the morning of the 9th of September the family of
Mr. Oldacre, a retired solicitor, residing at Norton
Green Hall, a mile or two from Burslem, Stafford-
shire, were surprised by receiving a visit from nine
or ten men, whose object was evidently not a friendl3r
one. Among these men were the prisoners, with
the exception of Hall and Hales, of Wolverhamp-
ton. They demanded possession of the hall, and
Mr. Oldacre, who is an old gentleman, and who was
dressing when he heard of the strange claim on his
property, came down stairs and asked the intruders
the object of their visit. Hall, of Longton, said
they had come to take possession of the hall.
Mr. Oldacre asked, " How do you make out your
claim ?" A man named Harding, not pre-
sent, thereupon produced a paper, which he said
was a copy of the will of Ann Meir, a former pro-
prietor of the hall. Thomas Hales, of Lnegton,
then said that he claimed-the property- as heir-at-
law of Alfred Hales, -arid h‘n afterwards said he
claimed it by an assignment of Thomas Hales, of
Wolverhampton, who was the real heir of Alfred
Hales. Mra Oldacre told them they had no claim
whatever; if they had they should go to a lawyer
and take proceedings in the regular way. They
replied they had come to take possession, and they
would have possession. Mr. Oldacre replied that
they had no_claim, and requested them to leave the
house, but they refused. Thomas Hales, of Mow
Cop, and Richard Hales had got hold of the keys
of two entrance doors of the hall, and refused to
give them up. The two parish constables of Nor-
ton presently came to the hall, and the men still
refusing to give up the keys, they were taken
away from Thomas Hales, of Mow Cop, who had
got both, and who struggled violently to retain
possession of them. He also tried to hide one of the
keys inside his trousers. The men were then put
out, all but two or three who had previously gone
when requested. On the following morning the
prisoners returned to the hall with nearly 100 men,
and on their approach all the doors and other en-
trances to the house were secured. Mr. Oldrace
went out to meet them, although very much alarmed,
and expostulated with them, begging them to act
like Englishmen, :and not do -what Englishmen
should be ashamed to do. They again said they had
coma to take possession of the property ; and Thos.
Hales of Longton, introduced Thos. Hales of Wol-
verhampton, as the real heir of Alfred Hales, a for-
mer owner, and said that he held an assignment of
the property executed by the heir. Thos. Hales, of
Longton, in reply to Mr. Oldacre's further remon-
strance, told him they were not come there to be
talked to, but to take possession of the hall, and
possession they would have. Mr. Oldacre forbade
them to approach the house, whereupon Thomas
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whole body made a rush at the kitchen door, and
kicked it violently. The prisoners were ringleaders
in the attack. Not succeeding in opening the door
with kicking and pushing, they got a heavy piece
of wood, and with that forced it open, following
the accomplishment of the feat by a loud cheer.
They entered the back kitchen, and made for the
inside kitchen door, a very strong old-fashioned
oak and nailed door, and after battering it for
a considerable time, they broke it in two
or three places, and then knocked it down.
This exploit was also followed by a cheer.
A great party rushed into the house, and whilst a
portion made for the apartments, and seized all the
it-fo'friEttkfiTfickalkl437 their hands on, and brought
it in the yard. Mr. Oldacre strulgrectillidregiqd
the hnuae to protect it as well as he could from the
spoliation which was going on ; but Hall, who was
stationed at the door to prevent those oustide from
going in, and those inside from going out, pushed
him back and struck him, and immediately another
man struck him—he believed Joseph Hales. At last
Mr. Oldacre got inside and went into his study,
where he found Cress well endeavouring to prevent
his daughter opening the window to let in some
neighbours, who had come to his assistance. Ulti-
mately, after some trouble, a large number of neigh-
bours got in, and the assailants were ejected. Be-
sides the damage done to the doors, the study
window was broken, and other injuries effected.
In cross-examination Mr. Oldacre said that in
1859 he received notice from Thomas Hales, of
Longton, that he claimed the hall, and that he
should take proceedings to recover it. Mr. Webb
Ward was the attorney who served the notice. Mr.
Oldacre entered au appearance, but he had heard
nothing of the claim since. He had told Hales that

if he wanted to prosecute the claim he would give
him £lOO to do it, on condition that if he did not
succeed the £lOO should be returned. Mr. Oldacre
denied that 100 or 200 " roughs" of Norton came
to his assistance armed with bludgeons, or that he
had concerted to have a mob present. There were
perhaps N persons there, and some others were
from the foundries, but all came voluntarily to
give him what assistance they could, and no per-
sonal violence was used.

Hannah Mayer, beerseller, Norton-green, said—
On Sept. 19 Robert Hales, Thomas Hales, of Long-
ton, and Thomas Hales, of Mow Cop, came to her
house and had some ale. While there, Thomas
Hales, of Mow Cop, said they had been put out that
day, but they were going to bring a large army the
next day, and they would get possession, or else
take off the roof. She went to the hall the next
morning, while the crowd were in the back yard.
She was knocked down and kicked on the hip by
Thomas Hales, of Longton. Mr. Oldacre was
pushed about a great deal.
Samuel Turner, a farmer, and one of the parish
constables of Norton, deposed to going to the hall,
and seeing the crowd break open the doors and
hall, and strike Mr. Oldacre on the breast.
When the mob went into the house and began
to remove the furniture witness went for assist-
ance, and brought back a number of persons,
whom he charged in the Queen's name to help to
put down the riot. A party got in through the
windows, and another party advanced upon the mob
from the front, and then after some trouble the in-
truders were turned out. Witness was lashed
about fearfully by the Hales, and he described the
whole scene in the house as a regular riot.
Miss Francis Oldacre, daughter to Mr, Oldacre,
corroborated many of the material points in his evi-
dence.

John Arrowsmith, carpenter, gave corroborative
evidence.•

At this point an adjournment of the case was
asked by Mr. Heaton and granted. Mr. Heaton
asked that the bail of the prisoners might be en-
larged on account of the serious form the case had
assumed, but Mr. Stevenson opposed the applica-
tion, which was refused.

The prisoners were then bound over to appear at
Hanley on Monday next.

FEARFUL LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION.—SIIIELDS,
Sept. 24.—A most fearful locomotive explosion took place
at Stella Gill, a station on the Pontop and Shields (coal)
branch of the North-Eastern Railway, about 14 miles from
this place, at 10 o'clock last night. A locomotive engine,
No. 84, was standing at this station, having attached to ita
train of laden coal-waggons for the Tyne dock. Jolla
Smith, the engineman, Wm. Hunter, the fireman, and John
Leatham, the guard to the train, had been stanO%ng tub/
the tender of the engine talking some time, wham Le:there
went forward to the buffer ends. He had scsenelreboileY
r and
'Sing
when the the engine exploded with awful vinili;„„„
self to pieces, and scattering fragments
sons standing
machinery in every direction.
Sclera fellows on the en •
about had narrow escapes ; but the P°orkilled on the spot ;
gine were fearfully hurt. Lead
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and the injuries sustaihed by
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.and the engin.em. an and fireman
anht
were of the most serious aura°
Hunter, the
firemwas quite unconscious this morning,
but the
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man.
"man was in a more hopeful condition. The coroner
engine
will hold an inquest at Shields probably to-morrow.

METROPOLITAN and PROVINCIAL BANK
(Limited.)
Established tinder the Joint-stock Banking Companies
Amendment Acts, 20th and 21st Vict., cap. 49, and 21st
and 22d Vict., cap. 91, which specially limit the liability
of each Shareholder to the amouct of his Shares.
Capital One Million, in 10,000 Shares of £lOO each.
Of which it !Allot intended to call up more than £25 per
• Share.

With power to incr Meeting Millions by resolution of
General of Shareholders.
Deposit on. application £2 per share, and alurther deposit
of £3 on allotment, making £5 per share.
If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full.
It is provided by the Articles of Association that no call
shall exceed £5 per share, and that at least three months
shall intervene betweenwo successive calls.
DIRECTORS.

The Right Hon. the Lord Fermoy, M.P. for Marylebone,
5, Clarendon-place, Hyde-park-gardens (Chairman).
B. J. Blyth,- Esq. (Firm of Charles BI) th and Co.), Crip-
plegate -buildings, Wood-street.
Thomas Campbell, Esq., 5, Westbotune-street, Hyde-park-
gardens.
John Geary, Esq., Hyde Side, Edmonton.
John V. Gooch, Esq., C.E., The Firs, Frimley.
Sydney Gurney, Esq., 1, Paper-buildings, Temple.
George Haines, Esq. (late of the firm of Brown, Eagle, and
Co.), 36, Lombard-street.
William Hawes, Esq., Skinners'-place, Sise-lane.
0. Goldsmith Kirby, Esq., Director of the Albert Insurance
Company,
Cyrus Legg, Esq., Bermondsey.
Thomas Miers, Esq., Director of the Commercial Gas Coin-
pany.
Isaac L. Mocatta, Esq., 2, Upper Montague-street, Russell-
square
W. F. Drought Stephens, Esq., 12, Cleveland-gazdens,
Hyde-park.
(With power to add to their number.)
MANAGER. The Directors wll secure the services of the
tanager that can be obtained.
most able and exPerieneed M
BROKERS.
Messrs. CrosleY Brothers, Manchester.
Messrs. Hoy
Messrs. and Son, Manchester.
Messrs. Gasquoine and Chamberlain, Liverpool.
Nathaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham.
M, B. Beverley, Esq., Leeds.
Messrs. F. E. and S. Smith, Sheffield.
Messrs. William Connell and Co., Cork.
73,,,„ntnRs.—Bank of London, 52, Threadneedle-street, and
Charing-cross.
AUDITORS.
Henry Chatteris, Esq., 6, Lothbury, Public Accountant.
W. Barton Ford, Esq. (Clarke, Ford, and Co.), Nicholas-
lane, Lombard-street.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Crosley and Burn, 34, Lombard-street.
Messrs; Wickens and Brutton, 4, Tokenhouse-yard.
SECRETARY.—J. Pope Cox, Esq.
TEMPORARY OPPICES.-27, Gresham-street, Bank.
Hitherto the entire property of the shareholders in Joint-
stock Banks has been liable for the debts and engagements
of the Bank of which they were proprietors, and the risks
and inconveniences which have occasionally occurred
therefrom have necessarily deterred many from investing
their capital in shares in such undertakings.
The Joint-stock Banking Companies Amendment Acts,
passed expressly to remove this uncertain risk, and to give
confidence in Joint-stock Banks, have entirely obvioted
this objection as regards Banks of limited liability, and
the " Metropolitan and Provincial Bank (limited)," has
been established under the express provisions of those Acts,
so that no shareholder therein can possibly be liable for
any sum beyond the amount of the shares he holds.
The following tabular statement of the business results of
four of the London Joint-stock Banks to the 30th June last,
clearly indicates their advancing success, and the present
market value of their shares.

Joint-Stook Banks. -4.
:52• is fli
..) 4,. pc, 4
t t IE
..0 sa, p
AU 4 I 4 1

London and West-! X Ct.
minster 1,000,000 14,821.650 20
_ _ _ _

London Joint-Stock.. 600,000 14425,031 25
Ernionßankoi Londonj 600,000 10,415,020 10

Banks with Provincial
Branches.
London and County.. 500,000 5,973,348 10
National Provincial Not
Bank of England .. 600,000 published 18

E ao
ua
gglazq
8 0.4
4 :61.',?;

£1 £

20 66 131,592
10 30 84,006
12 25ii 95,616

I
20 36 40,744

1108 1 70,900

The current accounts and deposits held by the London
Joint-stock Banks on the 30th of June last, amounted to a

total of £47,315,356, being £5,407,772 more: than the total
at the corresponding period of last year ; there is, therefore,
ample room for others, and especially for one which will
secure all the benefits of the existing Joint-stock Banks, and
at the same time positively limit the liability of every share-
holder therein. And with regard to the customers, as it is
not intended to call up more than £25 per share of the sub-
scribed capital of the bank, the remaining £75 will form an
ample guarantee to them.
The " Times," in its Money Article of the 2d February,
1860, with reference to the Bank of Manchester, the con-
stitution of which had been recently changed to limited
liability under the new acts, remarked :—" At a meeting of
the Bank of Manchester yesterday a very satisfactory
account was given of the results of registering under limited
liability. That step was adopted in July last, and the
balance-sheet now presented for the past half-year showed
that the deposits have increased, and that while the general
condition of the bank has improved, th 9 shares have become
more widely diffused, the augmentation in the number of
holders being 40 per cent. It is believed, likewise, that the
proprietary now includes many persons of wealth and pru-
dence, who would have avoided all commitments of an
undefined character. At the same time the marketability
of the shares and also their value have been favourably
influenced."
At the Half-yearly Meeting of the same Bank, held in
January last, it was shown that since the Company had

become.' limited the shareholders had very nearly doubled
in number, while the current accounts had increased 35 per
cent. and the lodgment accounts e per cent., with a cor-
responding increase in the amount deposited.
The Liverpool Commercial Banking Company, originally
established with unlimited liability, have also taken advan-
..

Cage of the new principle, and the- fallturißiteit4r nerd-6n'
Pi7ll ea last :—(4 It is in a high degree pleasing to
the Directors to be enabled to state, as they confidently do,
that the principle of 'limited liability' adopted by the Bank
has so fully justified their hopes. The general business of the
Bank has never been better; no branch of it has suffered ;
on the contrary, new and valuable accounts are added,
bringing an increase of business, while some substantial and
valuable proprietors, who objected to hold shares under
unlimited liability,' have joined the Bank as shareholders;
the number of proprietors is increased, and the price of the
Bank's shares shows that they are considerably enhanced
in public estimation."
The Directors, Auditors, and other Officers will be re-
quired to make the usual declaration of secrecy.
Powers are taken in the articles of association to estab
lish branch banks in the metropolis and the provinces, as
soon as the business operations of the i auk justify its ex-
tension.

The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank (Limited) will—
Receive Current Accounts, and allow interest on minimum
monthly balances of not leas than £2OO.
Discount approved Commercial Bills.
Receive Money on Deposit for periods and at interest to
be agreed upon.

Piue CirCular Notes and Letters of Credit for all parts
of Europe and elsewhere.
Effect Purchases and Salesin British and Foreign Stocks,
Funds, Securities, and Shares in Public Companies.
Undertake the Agency of Foreign and Country Banks.
Receive Interest, Dividends, &c., on Government and
other Stocks, Annuities, Pensions, &c.
And transact every other description of banking busi-
ness.

A deposit of £2 per share must be paid to the Ccmpany's
bankers previously to the application for shares being sent

Applications for shares in the annexed form, accom-
panied by the receipt for the deposit, to be made through
the Brokers or the Secretary at the Company's Temporary
Offices, 27, Gresham-street, Bank, London.

THE WEATHER.—SuN ()Priem, SEPTEMBER 26, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
57—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
56—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.72 ;
WlND—North-Westerly; light, with cloudy weather, and
occasional sunshine.