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pointment of as umpire ; but the bill proposed
(should arbitrators disagree.) the appointment of
umpires by the Spk aker of the House of Commons,
who should have absolute rower to decide the ques- ,
tion in the course of 28 days. Should he be
unable to do se by the end of 28 days, another um-
pire would be appointed to decide the matter, and
so on, until an award be made. Then the provi-
sion for serving notices declared that every notice
from the Post-office to any director, secretary, or
clerk, or left at any station of such company, should
be deemed a sufficient notice.
The CHAIRMAN stated that as the bill was to be
read a second time on Monday it would be requi-
site to takeimmediate steps to oppose it.
A discussion ensued, in which the representat-
tives of the great railways took part, in the course
of which it was stated that the measure was imprac-
ticable, fraught with danger to the public, and cal-
culated to upset existing agreements between the
railway companies and the Post office, which ar-
rangements had been arrived at after long and
patient negotiations. The Marquis of Chandos and
Mr. Stewart represented the London and North
Western Railway ; Mr. Saunders, the Great Wes-
t : Mr. Denison, M.P., and Mr. Packe, the
Great Northern ; Mr. Leeman, the N orth-
Eastern • Lord Villiers and Mr. F. Saunders, the
South Wales and Vale of Neath ' • Mr. Teulon, the
South-Eastern ; Mr. Scott, the London and Brigh-
ton ; Mr. Love and Mr. L. Simpson, the Eastern
Counties ; Mr. E. Watkin, M.P., the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire • Mr. Wickham, M.P.,
the Lancashire and Yorkshire ; Mr. H. Pease,
M.P., the Stockton and Darlington ; Mr. Stirling,
the Scottish Midland and other railways ; Mr. Ham-
ilton,
M.P., the Dublin and Drogheda ; Mr. Jef-
fers, the Great Southern and Western and other
Irish railways ; Mr. I. K. Arthur, the London-
derry and Edniskillen and Coleraine Railways.
There were also gentlemen present representing
other railway companies in the United Kingdom.
Letteis were read from the London and South-
Western, the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire,
the South Devon, the Monuaouthshire,.North Bri-
tish, and other companies concurring in the object
of the mee+ing. -
Mr. Hamilton sketched out the first resolution
—other gentlemen proposed others ; but eventually
the following resolution, proposed Isy Mr. Swift
and seconded by Mr. Leeman, was unanimously
adopted, viz. :
" That the Bill is so fraught with danger and incon-
venience to the public, and is so unjust and uoremon-
able towards the railway companies, that it is the duty
of those interested in that property to offer the most no-
' compromising opposition to it, and that the Government
be respectfully urged to withdraw the Bill." •

It was unanimoußly resolved,—
" That a deputation be appointed to wait upon Lord
Palmerston and the Chancellor of the Exche per, to
convey to them the foregoing resolution, and to urge
that the Bill be withdrawn."

The names of gentlemen to form the deputation
having been given to Mr. Coates, the meeting sepa-
rated.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

There are now 13 ships already taken up to em-
bark troops from Portsmouth for India during the
present month.

- The Sir George Seymour arrived at Spitheid
yesterday. She will embark a portion .of the 7th
Foot for India.
The Norman Morrison freightship, Capt. Orchard,
arrived at Sp ithead on Saturday, from Jamaica, with
the following officers and troops of the 36th Foot --
Captain Lloyd, Captain and Mrs. Shaw, Ensign
O'Connell, Ass.stant-Surgeon Tobin, and 214 rank
and file, also Lieu`. and Mrs. O'Flanagan and one
private of the 3d West India Regiment. She dis-
embarks them this morning.
On Saturday a medical board, presided over by
Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8., was held at Fort Pitt,
Chatham, for the purpose of making a medical in-
spection of 120 non-commissioned officers and men
of the 3d (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, 15th
Hussars, sth Fusiliers, 9th Foot, 17th, 20th, 32d,
89th, and the Royal Canadian Rifles, the whole
of whom were forwarded to Chatham garrison,
owing to their unfitness for further service.
A detachment of the Bth (the King's) Regi-
ment, consisting of 30 non-commisioned officers
and privates, left the Provisional Battalion at
Chatham. on Saturday, and embarked at Graves-
end, on board the Cressy, for Calcutta. The fol-
lowing officers of the Bth Foot proceed to India
to join head-quarters, viz. :—Lieut. A. E. Cor-
field, Ensign A. Moynihan, and Ensign W. E.
Whelan. The 3d battalion of the Rifle Brigade
embark in the Cressy for conveyance to India.
Admiral of the White Sir R. .11. Bromley died
at Stoke Hall, on the Bth inst.; in his 79th year,
as noticed in our obituary of Saturday. By the
death of Admiral Bromley the folio wing promo-
tions take place on the flab list :
Admiral of the Blue Jain Sykes, to be Admiral
of the White.

Vice-Admiral of the Red the Right Hon. George
Ea.l of Cadogan, C. 8., to be Admiral of the Blue.
Vice.Admirsl of the White Sir Charles Napier,
K.C.8., to I e Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir George Rose
iral of the Red Arthur Fanshawe,
Sartorius, to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
0.1113. rt-o iAdirno
Vice- Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir G. R. Lambert,
K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue C. R. Drinkwater
Bethune, C. 8., to be Rear Admiral of the White.
Captains William Hargood and Sir Thomas
Raikes Trigee Thomson, to be Rear-Admirals on
the Resolved List.
Captain Robert Smart, Aide-de Camp to the
Queen and Superintendent of Pembroke dockyard,
to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
The Vulcan, 6, iron s. aim troop frigate, Com-
mander Furneaux, was paid off at Portsmouth on
p. m . yesterday, supposed for Liverpool.
Saturday.
The Hastings, 60, Captain Mends, C.B. left Spit-
having had defects made good at
head at 3
The paddlewheel steamvessel. Pluto, 4, Lieu-
Lweil'lnes'hortly sail from Plymouth to tenant-Commax der W. Swinburne, which grounded
npe:vro Sierra Leone,
re-
sume her station on the coast.
The screw steam sloop Nile, 91, was place 1 in
the dock at Keyham ou Friday, b make good
ompletely fitted at Davoupoit, was
defects.
Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, and The Boscawen, 72, Captain R. A. Powell, C. 8.,
h
e
in-
spected by Port-Admiral Reynolds on Friday.
towed avhaving
intob been
n
Her crew were paid wages the next day, and she
was appointed to sail yesterday for the West Coast
of Africa, and the Cape of Goop Hope, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Grey, commander-in-chief on
that station.
Her Majesty's steamer Monkey, tender to the
flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, Master-Commander
Syndereombe, has been thoroughly repaired.
The six-gun paddlewheel steam sloop Argus,
Commodore Charles Eden, Controller of the Coast-
guard and Royal Naval Coast Volunteers was taken
into dock on Saturday at Woolwich for repairs.
The military store steam transport Balaklava, in
proceeding down the river on her voyage from.
Woolwich to Portsmouth, laden with guns, car-
riages, powder, and geueral ordnance stores, was
on Thursday last seriously damaged by coming
in collision with a brig named the Joseph and
Mary under full sail. The Balaklava's bulwarks
were ripped out, her main-mast, boaft, and davits
carried away, and her rudder disabled, in conse-
quence of whichshe ranfoul of abrigantineschooner
named La Liberale, which vessel was bilged, and
damaged to an extent compelling the necessity of
her being towed into dock. Tue Balaklava, how-
ever, is reported to the department to have arrived
safely at Portsmouth.

GRAND NIGHT ATTACK AND SIPGE O'3ERA
MATS BT THE TROOPS AT CHATHAM.

eers, and the Ram India
lonOgninFgrtiodatyhenßigohytallatntghieu whole of the troops be-
Company' Sappers and Miners at present at head-
quarters at Chatham, together with the troops from
the provisional battalions and those of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry, were engaged until nearly
midnight in some siege operations of a very inte-
resting description., together with a night attack
on a strongly fortified position defended by a large
force from the garrison. The plan of the operations
carried out consisted of an attack on those portions
of the line of fortifications which surround Chat-
ham garrison, known as the Spur Battery, the
Kiite
's
Edward'sßaetio
nthileairtir,ialnc, the spot selected by thee of Wales's Bastion, and
Prince
attacking party as the base of their operations being
the extreme end of the lines, where the usual pre-
parations were made for tracing the parallels, con-
structing batteries, consisting of sunken, half sun-
ken, and elevated, together with the other siege
operations usually undertaken by a large force in
their atta :k on a strongly fortified position. The
entire works of the attack and defence were under-
taken
by the Royal and East India Company's
line,
Engineers, the troops of theand the Royal
Marines, the whole being under the general super-
intendence of Colonel H. Sanclhatn, director of the
Royal Engineers established at Chatham.
The officers and troops selected to take part in
the proceedings to be undertaken assembled on the
general parade ground at Brompton Barracks
shortly before dusk, where they were formed into
two divisions, consisting of the right attack, under
the command of Captain W. H. Noble and the
officers of the Royal Engineers ; and the left attack
under the command of -Captain G. R. Lempriere
and the officers of the East India Coinpany's Sap-

pers and Miners. The defence of the garrison de-
volved on a strong bo ly of troops selected from the
Engineers and the Royal Marines, who were placed
under the command of Quartermaster N. Bradferd,
R.E., tho direction of the whole plan of operations
being entrusted to Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. G.
Ross, assisted by Major F. C. Hassard, R.E. and
a staff of officers. A strong body of troops of the
line, selected from the 24th, 27th (Enniskillen),
32d, 52d (Light Infantry), 61st, 64th, 70th, 75th
78th (Highlanders), 84th, and 86th Regiments, cora
manded. by Major 1. D. Ellis, Captain R. H. Price
(35th Regiment), and Captain J. J. Bourchier,
52nd Light Infantry, furnished working, cover
ins, and skirmishing parties. A body of the Roya
Marnes took up their position inside the works
for the purpose of working the mortars and guns.
The Marines were placed under the command of
Capt. F. L. Alexander and six officers of that corps.
On the assembling of the troopz in the parade-
ground, they were detailed off for their respective
duties by Sergeant-Major Jones, R.E., and each
man made acquainted with the position he was to
occupy. The troops comprising the right and left
attack were formed into 14 divisions, consisting of
men for tracing the first and other parallels ; a
strong party to make the necessary excavations for
the trenches and batteries ; parties to occupy the
batteries when formed together with pickets,
patrols, blue lights, and covering parties, Lieut.
G. Philips, R.E., being appointed to superintend
the working parties. The whole of the men em-
ployed in the attack and defence were furnished
ev,th several rounds of blank cartridge, the attack-
ing parties being a'so provided with pickaxes,
shovels, and other engineering implements.
As soon as it had become sufficiently dark to
commence the operations the defending party
marched off for the purpose of manning the Spur
Battery, Ring's Bastion, and the other points in-
tended to be attacked. The of tacking force, led by
Col. Ross, shortly afterwards marched out of the
garrison over the drawbridges, taking the road to
the Great lines. As the night was very dark, and
the whole body of troops marched in strict silence,
their movements were not observed by the besieged
party within the garrison. On reaching the lines
' the attacking party received orders to scale the
fences, which having been done, they immediately
commenced operations against the fortress by trac-
ing a first parallel to the brow of the hill on the left,
the distance being 600 yards ; a second parallel, in
continuation, on the right, was also traced, the paral-
lels thus formed bind 1,100 yards in length. In this
occupation the troops were engaged nearly an hour,
after which a line was formed extending nearly a
mile, the working parties commencing operations for
excavating a trench six feet wide and three in depth.
While so occupied the parties at work were defended
by a covering party of troops of the line ; advanced
pickets were also sent out. After some time the
parties within the garrison observed the movements
of the enemy, and preparations were immediately
made for driving them from their works. A sortie
was first made from the garrison, led on by Lieut.
R. G. Thorold, R.E., and on issuing from the for-
tifications those engaged.fell in with the advanced
pickets. A skirmish ensued which lasted some
time, until the party from the Spur Battery felt it
necessary to retreat. On, retiring they burnt fire
balls to indicate to those within the works their
position, and when at a distance of about 200 yards
from the garrison a number of blue lights were ex-
ploded, to enable those inside to direct their fire.
As soon as the party making the sortie bad reached
the garrison the whole line of defence was instan-
tanemsly illuminated from one extreme to tl;:e
other with large blue lights. The effect was bril-

liant in the ex7reme, the whole extent of the line,
and, indeed, the country for miles round, being
plainly visible, and enabling those withidthe works
to obtain a correct view of the immense body of
troops forming the attacking party. The night
being very dark, the illumination of the garrison
was visible at a great distance, and presented the
appearance of a large town being on fire. The in-
stant the signal was given the whole force of the
garrison opened a tremendous fire on their assail-
ants with the mortars, guns, and muskets. On the
alarm being sounded along tha ranks of the attack-
ing party each man stood to his arms, and imme-
diately the whole line poured in a heavy fire, the ap-
pearance of a line of troops nearly a mile in length
firing volley after volley having a grand effect.
After the firing bad continue I on both sides for
some time that from within the garrison lessened
until it altogether ceased, and the attacking party,
having repulsed the sorties, and silenced the guns
from the fort, were permitted to continue the siege
operations without further molestation.
The whole of the operations were not concluded
until nearly midnight, when the entire body of
troops returned to their quarters. On the follow-
ing morning an inspection of the tracings and pa
radels was made, when they were found to have
been correctly performed. An immense number of
persons assembled to witness the rare and interest-
ing spectacle of siege operations carried on at night,
bnt not the least accident occurred.

ASSIZE IA TELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-HERTFORD, JULY 11.

The Lord Chief Baron arrived at Hertford by the
5 o'clock train on Friday, but it was of course too
late for his court to be opened; but this morning.
both le%rned judge; were engaged in disposing of
the remaining causes.
(Bdore the Lord Chief Baron and Common Jury.)
CHAPMAN AND ANOTHER V. RUDWAY.)

Mr. Lush Q C., and Mr. Petcrsdorff 'for the
plaiutiffB; Sergeant Shea and Mr. Pollock for the
defendant. _ _ _

The plaintiffs are wins and. spirit mr'rchant3 in
Londun, and defendant is a publican and aw3tioncer
at .Birmingham. It appeared that a person named
Felton, in the servica of till plaintiff, obtained an
order for goods from the defendant to the amount
of 491., and at the end of six tno qthq, which was the
usual period of credit, the plaintiffs applied for pay-
ment, but he refused to pay on the ground that 3
arrangement with Felton was that he was to have
12 mouths' credit. Felton, it appeared, had died in
the interim, and this action was brought to enforce
payment before the expira.ion of 12 months, the
period of credit to which the defendant considered
he was entitled.

_Sergeant Shea, on behalf of the defendant, said
it was to be regretted that the plaintiffs should have
gone to the expense of bringing this action, when
he should be able to satisfy the jury in the clearest
possible manner that the airangemeut made by the
defendant with Felton was that he was to have 12
months' credit. The plaintiff; had been distinctly
informed of the fact, and the defendant had ex-
pressed his readiness to pay the amount the moment
the period of credit had expired, but they persisted
in going on with the action. If he proved these
facts the d fondant would be entitied to a verdict,
but the plaintiffs had no one to blame but them-
selves for the expense and trouble that had been
created.

Evidence was then adduced, which clearly made
out the statement of the learned sergeant, and Mr.
G. Smith, the attorney, of Birmingham, who was
at the time concerned for the defendant, proved
that when the present action was commenced he
made a communication in his behalf to the plaintiff
and offered to pay the moue) if the cots of the de-
fendant were paid and the actoti discontinued.
The Lord Chief Baron inquired of Mr. Lush
whether he thought he could expect a verdict after

the evidence that had been given for the defendant,
and he replied that he was afraid not.
The plaintiffs were then nonsnited.
GILLIGAN V. BARFORD.

This cause was tried by a speeill jury.
Serjeant Shee, Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. Locke
were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. C. Pollock and
Mr. Codd appearAl for the defendant.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a
young man named William Gilgit], against the
defendant, who carries on an extensive business at
St. Alban's as a straw hat and bonnet manufac-
turer, to recover damages for having caused him
to be unlawfully imprisoned upon two charges, one
of stealing a cash box, containing a considerable
sum of money, and another of stealing wine. It ap-
peared that tle plaintiff was the son of one of the
officers of the Herts constabulary, which was sta•
tioned at St. Albans, but who, it appeared, was pen-
sioned in 1850, and went to live in Ireland. In 1848,
the plaintiff, who was then about fourteen yeartz
'old, went into the service of the defendant, and he
was employed about the warehouse and in the
stables, and he remained in the service, except dur-
ing a short interval, until the mouth of December
of la.t year, when the occurrence took place that
was the ground of the present action. It seemed
that Mr. Barfori, w!io was a widower, had married
a second wife, and that very soon afterwards he
and his wite became mutually jealous of each other,
and that this feeling on the part of the latter was
carried to such an extent that when her husband
was out upon business she used to go after him. to
watch his proceedings, ant the plaintiff, who is a
good-looking young fellow, generally accompanied
her on these Occasions, and, as was observed by the
Lord Chief Baron in the course of the case, it ap-
peared that "Mrs. Barford went out to take care
of her husband, and the plaintiff went to take
care of her." This sort of proceeding very
naturally gave great annoyance to the defendant,
and he and the plaintiff frequently quarrelled,
and even resorted occasionally to blows, and it
was alleged on the part of the plaintiff that the pro-
ceeding of which he complained was an act of spite
cn the part of the defendant to revenge himself
upon Gilligan for taking the side of his wife in their
matrimonial squabblea. The circumstances which
led to the charges being made against the plaintiff
appeared to be these ; in the mouth of October last,