The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 7:1861.

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to the people at an election to be held on the first' , —whether a surrender of thy'. forts ;and a virtual
Monday in August next, when the ballots are to ' 1 recognition of the new Confederacy, or the retention.
decide "For Co-operation," or "For Secession." In 'of the forts and war. Mr. Breckinridge, too, has
the Missouri State Convention, on the 22d, Mr. taken the field in an elaborate attack upon the in-
Henderson, chairman of the committee to which augural, as coercive and oppressive. Evidently
was referred the communication of the commissioner alarmed at the Union strength in the South, he de-
frota Georgia, presented a long report declaring flounces, in advance, Mr. Seward's policy as subtle,
against Secession, and exhorting Georgia and other dangerous, and demoralising, building up an anti-
seceding States to desist from the revolutionary slavery party in the Southern States under the
measures commenced by them, and unite their navie and in the disgnise of a Union party. The
voice with theirs in restoring peace and fraternal South, he says, will not submit, and he calls upon
relations between all the States. It was expected the Administration to avoid collision by removing
that the Virginia Convention would recommence a all the troops from the border of the Confederated
conference of the Border Slave States, to be held at States. A motion to that effect, offered by Mr.
Frankfort or some other point towards the last of Mason, of Virginia, is pending in the Senate, with-
May. The Secession feeling was on the increase in out the slightest chance of passing.
North Carolina. I The New Hampshire election results favourably

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

to the Republicans, though by a decreased majority.
If they can carry Connecticut the Administration
can adopt a more vigorous policy, one would think.

Money was in more active demand at New York,
especially on the part of the jobbers; still the
supply continued largely in excess of the demand.
The competition for paper had been gradually re-
ducing the rates, and the applications for discounts
becoming lighter every day this reduction was still
going on. The rate for money on call may be
quoted at 5 to 6 per cent., while many of the old-
established houses borrowed all they wanted at 4.
First-class bills had become exceedingly scarce,
and the alteration of the classification had become
a necessity.
Loans on call, State stock securities, 5 to 51 ;
ditto, other good securities, 6 to 61 ; prime en-
dorsed bills, 60 to 90 days, 51 to 6; ditto, four to
six months, 6 to 61; first-class single signatures,
four to six months, 61 to 7.
Foreign exchange firm. On London, 60 days'
bankers' bills, 107 to 1071; ditto, commercial bills,
1061 to 107.

TILE NAVY.

The Duke of Somerset, Vice-Admiral the Hon.
Sir R. S. Dundas,K.C.B., and Capt. Moore, private
secretary to the First Lord, yesterde.y paid a visit
of inspection to Woolwich dockyard. Their Lord-
ships entered the yard at 4 p.m., and were received by
a body of the principal officials, namely, the Commo-
dore-Superintendent, the Hon. J. R. Drummond,
C.B. ; Commander Hawker, Mr. Thomas, and Mr.
Hall, of the flag ship Fisgard ; Mr. Hatherton, and
Mr. Patridge, chief engineer and assistant of the
factory; Mr. Thornton, assistant-master shipwright,
in the absence of Mr. Turner, now on the sick list ;
Mr. J. Petley, commander of the Admiralty yacht
Black Eagle, Mr. Sturdee, commanding the troop-
ship Rhadamanthus, &c. Their lordships proceeded
first to the Commodore's offices, and went over an
inspection of the books and system of official ac-
counts, whence they were escorted through the prin-
cipal thoroughfare to the fitting basin, and went on
board the floating battery Trusty, in course of fit-
ment with Captain Cole's patent target. Their lord-
ships examined with minuteness the preparations
entered into for that purpose, which have necessi-
tated the cutting away a portion of the upper deck,
as the target is intended to rest on a pivot attached
to the lower deck, which will have to undergo con-
siderable strengthening. They then proceeded on
board the Wye, under conversion as a storeship for
the West African station. Their lordships were
detained some time in an examination of the new
system of superheating steam invented by Mr. Pat-
ridge, assist.-engineer of the factory, and which
has been fitted on board at an extremely low rate of
expenditure, and turned out in working order in
the short space of 14 days after receiving the Ad-
miralty instructions for that purpose. After in-
specting the various compartments of the Wye,
they went on board the 51, screw steam frigate
Bristol, launched from the yard on the 12th of
February last, and examined her throughout. They
next visited the masting stores, and entered the fac-
tory for the purpose of examining the process of
grooving and tongueing the iron slabs in process of
preparation for the Warrior's sides. Their attention
before leaving the factory was called to the design
of a 20-horse power steam engine about to be manu •
factured in the factory, to be fitted on board the
Warrior, for the purpose of pumping water to and
from every compartment of the huge vessel, and also
to serve the purpose of clearing the gun deck from
smoke in time of action and practice with the
guns, by mewls of a fan to be worked by the engine ;
likewise to hoist up the ashes and other refuse from
the stokehole, &c. Their Lordships then visited the
timber stacks, made an inspection of the 91 screw
steamship Repulse, and the 21 screw steam corvette
Wolverine, under construction in the yard, the
latter vessel to be fitted with iron beams. They
thence proceeded towards the testing-house and
examined a batch of seven anchors and cables re-
cently received from the firm of Messrs. Brown,
Lennox, and Co., of Millwall, intended for the iron
cased ship Warrior. Their Lordships afterwards
examined with attention and interest a number of
Brown and Lennox's patent cast-iron, annealed and
galvanised blocks, to be used in the rigging of ships,
and intended to supersede the old wooden blocks.
To demonstrate the advantage of these blocks it was
stated that they were in every way superior to the
wooden ones, both in wear and price, and although
made of cast iron, they were not subject to be broken
—as a proof of which a coupie were cast with great
force upon the solid pavement, and were in other
ways tested and found to be intact. The Board of
Admiralty having terminated their inspection, left
the dockyard for London at 5 minutes before 6
o'clock.

(From a Correspondent of therinzes.)
NEW YORK, MARCH 19.

The President yesterday sent in his foreign ap-
pointments to the Senate for confirmation. Mr.
Charles Francis Adams, the nominee for London, is

a representative of one of the few historic families
of the United States, His grandfather, by his influ-
ence, secured the appointment of Washington as
Commander-in-Chief, by his eloquence procured the
adoption of the Declaration of Independence, was a
leading member:of the Congress, Minister succes-
sively to Holland and England, and closed his poli-
tical career as second President of the United States.
His father rose successively from the post of Secre-
tary of Legation at Stt. Petersburg to that of

President ; and then, returning to the House of

Representatives as a member for Massachusetts,
commenced and led the contest that has terminated
in the election of Mr. Lincoln, and died upon the
floor of the House. The new Minister was the can-
didate of the Free Soil party for the Vice-Presidency
in 1848, and a member of the late House of Repre-
sentatives, where he distinguished himself by the
moderation of his views and his desire to adopt a
policy that should preserve the allegiance of the
Border States. Mr. Dayton, the new Miniher to
France, has long been in public life. He repre-
sented the state of New Jersey successively in the
House and in the Senate, and was the candidate of
the Republican party for the Vice• Presidency in
1856. Since that time he has been in retirement,
owing to a continued democratic majority in his
own State. Mr. Marsh, who goes to the new
kingdom of Italy, was for some years a member of
the House of Representatives, and afterwards Mi-
nister at Constantinople during the Presidency of
General Taylor and Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Webb, the
editor of the New York Courier and Inquirer, was
formerly Minister at Vienna. Mr. Thayer, the new
Consul General at Alexandria, is one of the staff of
the New York Evening Post. Journalism thus
secures two of the foreign appointments.
While the Government at Washington is attend-
ing to the offices, that at Montgomery is secur-
ing itself in its seat by legislation that is in many
respects wise and sagacious. Indeed, it must be
confessed even by their worst opponents that they
have exhibited very great sagacity in many of their
movements since the great one. Their permanent
constitution has reached. In its form and general
arrangement it follows the ' Constitution of the
United States, but it differs from that instrument in
several particulars. The President is to be elected
by the same machinery as the President of the
United States, and is to serve for six years instead
of four, not being eligible for re-election. The two
Houses of Congress are to be organised as in the
United States. The Now York herald of this
morning sums up the main points of difference thus :
1. That African slavery in the Territories shall
be recognised and protected by Congress and the
Territorial Legislatures.
2. Tbat the right to slaveholders of transit and
sojourn in any state of the Confederacy, with their
slaves and other property, shall be recognised and
respected.
3. That the provision in regard to fugitive slaves
shall extend to any slave lawfully carried from one
State into another, and there escaping or taken
away from his master.
4. That no Bill or ex postfacto law (by Congress
or any State), and no law impairing or denying the
right of property in negro slaves, shall be passed.
5. That the African slave trade shall be prohi-
bited by such laws of Congress as shall effectually
prevent the same.
6. The absolute prohibition of all bounties from
the Federal treasury, and all duties or taxes on
imported goods intended to promote or foster any
branch of home industry.
7. A positive prohibition of Federal appropria-
tions for internal improvements, and the substitution
of local tonnage duties for such improvements.
8. The restriction of Congress by a majority vote
to such appropriations as may be recommended by
the President or some executive department, all
other appropriations requiring a two-thirds vote,
9. The holding of contractors to the strict letter
of their contracts.
10. That the Post-office department shall pay its
own expenses.
The ultra men of South Carolina reject this con-
stitution, but the better opinion seems to be that it
will be ratified by all the States, through their
several conventions, no appeal to the popular vote
being necessary. It is one feature in this revolution
that no appeal has been made, except indirectly, to
the people of the seceding States to ratify the acts
of their leaders.

It is understood that the Gibraltar, 101, went
outside Plymouth Breakwater on Wednesday for
the purpose only of making a preliminary tri4.l to
ascertain the most suitable pitch for the screw (Grif-
fiths's). The official trial of the'engines will take
place about a fortnight hence. It is stated that on
Wednesday too many revolutions were made in
proportion to the speed attained. The pitch is to
be altered from 231 to 25.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Buzzard, 6, was
transported yesterday to the sheer hulk in Hamoaze,
where her masts and bowsprit were taken out. She
was then replaced in the Devonport Dockyard,
where her crew will be paid off.
The screw steam storeship Industry, 2, recently
returned from Rio Janeiro, left Plymouth on Wed-
nesday evening for Woolwich.
The gunboat Procris, 3, Lieut. the Hon. J. Car-
negie, in Plymouth Sound, was swung yesterday
morning for the adjustment of her compasses.
The statement which has appeared in several of
the papers, that the Lords of the Admiralty have
decided on not having the
,mail-clad iron steamer
Achilles, 40, built at Chatham dockyard, is with-
out foundation, as no orders whatever have been
received at that establishment for suspending the
preparations for commencing the vessel, the works
connected with which are in active progress.
The only delay which has arisen up to the pre-
sent time has been occasioned by the non-
arrival of the powerful machinery required
for the preparation of the ironwork for the ves-
sel ; but it is expected that within a very brief
period the whole of the machinery will have been
delivered by the contractors at the dockyard, ready
for erection. The largest of the galvanised iron
workshops has been completed by Messrs. Grissell
/ and Co., and a numerous body of workmen in the
employ of Messrs. Foord and Sons, are now engaged
in erecting the various buildings for the different
kinds of machinery, and in preparing the concrete
foundations on which the heavy drilling, punch-
ing, planing, cutting, and other machines will be
placed. Large quantities of iron still continue to
arrive at the dockyard from the several iron com-
panies which have entered into contracts with the
Admiralty for providing the beams, plates, and
other heavy parts of the ship.
An attempt was made at Portsmouth on Wednes-
day evening to place the new screw frigate Glasgow
in No. 8 steam basin dock, but which had to be aban-
doned when the frigate was partially in, owing to
the want of the necessary depth of water over the
invert at the dock entrance. The frigate remains
partly in and partly out ofthe dock, but lies as safely
as she would in the basin, b3ing water-borne in
every part. She, however, affords an illustration of
the scarcity of dock accommodation at Portsmouth.
In the steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard the
Pandora, 5, screw, has shipped her eylinders and
condensers, with the greater portion of her machi-
nery, and is expected to receive her boilers to-day.
The Chanticleer, 17, screw, is also in the hands of
the contractors fitting her machinery. Both these
are new vessels. The Elfin royal paddle yacht has
received her new boilers.

Their legislation is also important. The State of
Louisiana has transferred to them about 500,000
dols., which was in the hands of the officers of the
United States at the time of the separation, which
they have accepted. They have also passed a Tariff
Act, in which the highest rate of duty is 25 per cent.
ad valorem, and in which in its simplicity contrasts
strongly with the elaborate piece of stultification i
lately enacted at Washington. They have organised
an army of some 10,000 er 12,000 men ; they have a
proposition before them imposing an ad valorem
duty upon negro slaves imported from the slave-
holding States of the United States, the discussion
upon which was cut short by the decision of the
President that it was a subject for a secret Session.
They are establishing Admiralty Courts, creating
judges, commissioning officers, and have afloat a
navy of one vessel, which they have gallantly called
after the wife of their President, Lady Davis. They
have commissioned representatives to proceed to
Europe and secure their recognition there, and, so
far as relates to the organisation of Government,
the enactment of laws, and the creation of civil in-
stitutions, they have, by skilfully using the mate-
rials at hand and adapting them to their necessities,
in the short space of three months surrounded
themselves with all the ordinary insignia of Go-
vernment and marks of nationality. So much for
the vigour of the new Government. Per contra, as
merchants say, we have the facts that a large num-
ber of people of some of the States do not willingly
submit to the new order of things, that the leaders
have not allowed the people to pass an opinion
upon their acts, and that there is an evident doubt
as to the result should a submission be made to
the popular vote. In the State of Texas, indeed,
the unionists and disunionists appear to be
on the brink of a collision, and it is not
impossible that the struggle may begin among the
Southern people themselves.
While these active measures have been taken at
Montgomery, the Administration at Washington
has been occupied with the distribution of offices,
for which the pressure continues as great as ever,
and with the discussion of its policy as to the re-
tention of the forts. Sumter and Pickens are still
in its occupation. Mr. Douglas has been skirmish-
lug with the Republican members of the Senate
1114 vain attempt to ascertain the President's policy

The eighth anchor for the use of the Warrior, in
course of manufacture at Messrs. Brown, Lennox,
and Co.'s, was yesterda) brought to the process of
what is technically termed shutting up—viz., the
bringing and welding together the arms and the
thank. The process was witnessed by a number of
scientific gentlemen and others connected with the
iron trade, and many ladies were also present. On
being drawn from the fire, almost in a state of
fusion, the three parts were brought together and
united under the operation of a powerful hammer,
suspended over the anvil, worked by means of a
hand lever,and giving a stroke of seven tons weight.
This operation was followed by the assistance of 164

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hammertnen, who worked with extraordinary regu-
larity within a circle of less than 30 feet, their
strokes being directed by a leading man, over the
entire surface of the parts about to be welded, and
which hare been proved by the Admiralty test to
he inseparable. The weight of each anchor is five
tons 12 cwt. The entire batch of seven, already
completed, have withstood the test well.
Sir W. Armstrong's contract for the erection of
hydraulic cranes and capstans in Portsmouth dock.
yard is now being rapidly effected. The pipes used
in the work aro connected with each other in a
peculiar manner by a socket joint and stout.shoulder
pieces round the end of each, and when jointed
braced up by nut and screw bolts through the
shoulders. The quantity of piping used in the
work must be enormous, as the length required for
the working of two capstans only, on the north
quay of the basin, taking the distance from the
accumulator in the new foundry, is no less than
2,160 feet.

they are fit for duty, when they will be sent up to
headquarters to join their respective companies.
By this arrangement all the marines stationed at
headquarters will be those who arc fit for duty.
The remaining military invalids on board the
screw steam hospital ship Mauritius were disem-
barked at Portsmouth, yesterday, and forwarded
to their destinations by the 9 15 a.m. up train—
the artillery, 16 in number, to Woolwich, and the
otter men, 103, from various regiments, to Chatham
these latter accompanied by 32 of the Medical Staff
Corps. The Mauritius is ordered to return stores and
fittings at Portsmouth. A special report will be made
by the military and medical authorities on the fit-
tings. of this ship, and also on the Sir Wm. Peel
screw hospital ship, which is daily expected at Spit-
head from China and the Cape.
The 6th battalion Military Train, now quartered
at the Hut Barracks, has been ordered to be -in
readiness to move from Woolwich to Treland on the
Bth.

About 200 men are still employed at Greenock
on the Black Prince. Nearly all the 10 boilers have
arrived, and have been placed on board.
The Atlas, 91 guns, has been taken out of dock
at Sheerness to her moorings in the river, having
had her machinery tested to 401 b. pressure and her
condenser to 201 b. Subsequently steam was got
up to see that she was all right after the pressure.
The trial was in every respect satisfactory. She
will be shortly taken out to the measured mile for
trial of her speed. '
The Isis, 44, recently converted into a store and
coal ship, to be stationed at the island of Ascension,
in command of Capt. F. L. Barnard, after having
her compasses adjusted, was inspected by Vice-
Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, Commander-
in-Chief at Sheerness, and sailed yesterday for
Devonport and Ascension. Capt. Barnard will
leave his ship on her arrival at Ascension, and will
join the Meander, 44, store ship. The captain is
appointed Governor of the Island of Ascension, and
his family accompany bim in the Isis.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Mr. Howard F. Hay has
been nominated to a naval cadetship; Benjamin
Brierley, acting 3d-class assist.-engineer, to the
Cumberland, as supernumerary ; Wm. Hair, acting
3d-class assist.-engineer, to the Indus, as supernu-
merary ; Charles F. Gulliver and Charles J. Bigley,
second masters, as supernumeraries, to the Victory;
and Wm. H. J. Aitken, assist.-paymaster, to the
Emerald.

R 4 ILTVAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH-EASTERN.

A special general meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-
bridge, for the purpose of considering, and, if so
determined, of approving the following bills now
pending in Parliament, viz. :—A bill (as amended
in committee), entitled " A bill. to enable the South-
Eastern Company to raise a further sum of money
and to increase their subscriptions to the under-
taking of the Charing-cross Railway Company,"
and a second bill for authorising the Charing-
cross Railway Company to make a line of railway
from their authorised line into the City of London,
with an additional line in Southwark, and to raise
further monies, and for other purposes." The Hon.
Mr. Byng was in the chair.

The-SECRETARY (Mr. S. Smiles) having read the
advertisement by which the meeting had been con-
vened,

The CHAIRMAN said—We have called you
together for the purpose of receiving your formal
sanction to two bills now before Parliament, the
one the Capital !Bill, and the other the Charing-
cross City Terminus Bill. A special meeting has
already been held on the subject of the first, and on
the 25th of October last you authorised the direc-
tors to proceed to Parliament for the requisite
powers on the explanations then given to you. Its
object is to enable the directors to create capital
for the purpose of executing numerous new works,
and to purchase sundry new working stock, as
authorised by you at the half-yearly meetings held
during several years past—and also to increase the
subscription of the company to the Charing-cross
Railway. The second is a bill for the purpose of
enabling the same railway to be extended into the
City, with a terminus in Cannon-street. It has
already passed the House of Lords ; and as it is
proposed to take powers in it to enable the South-
Eastern Company to subscribe towards the under-
taking it is necessary to submit the bill for your
approval before it can be introduced in the Lower
House. I ought to add, however, that both bills
are merely permissive ; and before anything can be
done to exercise their powers you must be spe-
cially called together, and your regular sanction
obtained with this object. I now beg to move
"That the draft now submitted to the meeting of a'
bill before Parliament to enable the South-Eastern
Railway Company to raise a further sum of.money,
and to increase their subscription to the Charing-
cross Railway Company, be, and the same is, hereby
approved, subject to such alterations as to Parlia-
ment shall seem meet."

Mr. GORDON THOMPSON (the deputy chairman
seconded the resolution.

Mr. BEVIS wished to know the exact sum which
the South-Eastern would contribute to the Charing-
cross undertaking.
Mr. FILDER, of Manchester, asked whether the
statements made in a circular published by Mr.
Child, one of the directors, was correct as to the
sum of £750,000 which would have to be paid for
St. Thomas's Hospital, and also £160,000 for the
tolls of the Hungerford Bridge and Pier, which
sums would have to be added to the capital cost of
the railway ? (Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said—The statement to
which the proprietor refers is unfortunately very
inaccurate. The writer of it has not only included
in his estimate of the cost of the railway the capital
which the company has estimated as the full value
of the hospital property required for the purpose of
the railway, but also set down as a further capital
cost the whole of the demand made by the gover-
nors of the hospital. I need not tell you that this
is an altogether erroneous mode of estimating
capital expenditure. What the hospital go'vernors
ask is one thing ; what they will be paid is another ;
and you know very well that nothing is easier than
to make a very large claim—(hear)—but we stiN
believe that in our original estimate of capital we
have set down an ample sum to cover the actual cost
of the hospital property required for making the
railway. The statement made in the same publication,
that " a decision has been come to which will compel
the railway company to purchase the entire estate,"
is not correct. The Vice Chancellor has merely
granted an injunction to restrain the Charing-cross
Company from proceeding, under their notice, to pur-
chase the portion of property required for the rail-
way on the verdict of a jury, until the case has been
argued and a decision come to. But even in the
event of the Charing-cross Railway Company being
compelled to purchase the whole property we shall
not have to pay what is set down in the circular—
that is, the whole claim of the hospital, in addition
to our own estimate, but only what the property is
proved to be worth before a jury, and what it will
now sell for in the market. Assuming that we do
buy it, the purchase will not add to our capital ex-
penditure any thing like the sum which had been
published in the circular. I need not tell yon that
whatever the surplus property will sell for will
fairly have to be deducted from the capital cost of
=king the railway. (Hear.) There is another sum
specified in the circular as extra capital cost of the
railway, in the amount authorised for the purchase
of the tolls of the Charing-cross Bridge and Hunger-
ford Pier. It might be inferred from his statement
that these tolls were to be extinguished by the con-
struction of the railway greatly to the increase of
its capital cost. But the writer has omitted to state
that these tolls actually yield a act income of nearly
£B,OOO a year, and there is every probability of this
income being largely increased on the construction
and opening of the railway and terminus. In short,
I may state that the tolls capital is altogether dis-
tinct from and forms no part of the cost of construct-
ing the railway. It is only right to state these views
at present, as Iregret to find that unnecessary alarm
has been created by the unguarded statements made
in the publication referred to. (Hear.)
After a short conversational discussion the reso-
lution was carried.

The CHAIRMAN next moved—" That the draft
now submitted to the meetine, of a bill before Par-
liament for authorising the Charing-cross Railway
Company to make a line of railway from their
authcrised line into the City of London, with au
additional line in Southwark, and to raise further
moneys, and for other purposes, be, and the same is,
hereby approved, subject to such alterations as to
Parliament shall seem meet."

The resolution having been seconded, a lengtheneC.
discussion took place, which resulted in an amend-
ment for the postponement of the question until the
next half yearly meeting. The amendment was.
however, eventually withdrawn, and the original
motion carried.

The CHAIRMAN said--I have now to declare this
meeting special, for the purpose of submitting the
working agreement entered into with the Charing-
cross Railway Company. The heads of this agree-
ment were approved by you as far back as the 24th
February, 1859, when you authorised the agree-
ment to be completed, and the company's seal was
affixed to it accordingly. The Charing-cross. Act,
however, required that it should receive the ap-
proval of the Board of Trade, and after that be
formally confirmed by the two companies concerned.
The Board of Trade have given their sanction; the
Charing-cross Company have given theirs ; and all
that is now required is the vote Of this company.
We have postponed this business more than once—
on one occasion because of an informality in the
advertisement, and on another because it was
thought better that the whole arrangements
between the two companies should be incluGd
in one agreement. But the confirmation of the pre-
sent agreement will not prejudice us in any way
with reference to any future modification and en-
largement of it, if found expedient, guarded by
the following resolution, which I have How to pro-
pose to you for your approval ;—" That this meeting
do hereby approve of the draft agreement now sub-
mitted between this company and the Charing-eross
Railway Company, and authorise
.the directors to
affix the company's seal thereto when engrossed."
The resolution was carried, and a hearty vote of
thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

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MIDDLESEX S_ESSIONS,-..lpril 4.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)
The Court did not sit yesterday ; to-day the bail
cases were taken.

Leon Roberts was indicted with Julia Roberts,
his wife, the latter for stealing and the former for
receiving a roll of cloth, value 505., the property of
James Platt.

Mr. Dickie was counsel for the prosecution; Mr.
Sleigh for the prisoner.
The female pleaded guilty.
It appeared that the prisoners, with a third per-
son, went to the shop of the prosecutor, a cloth
dealer in St. Martin's-lane, and the charge against
them was that they, in concert, stole a piece of
cloth. The male prisoner was stated to be a skilled
workman in gold chain making, who had recently
come from Paris, and having lost his portmanteau
on the journey, hadigone with his wife, whom he
joined in London, to purchase some cloth to be made
up into clothes, as, in consequence of his loss, he
had scarcely any, when his wife, in a fit of " klep-
tomania " (a Greek word signifying an uncontrol-
lable propensity for pilfering), took this roll of
cloth.

After the opening statement of thelearned counsel,
and perusing the depositions in the case,
His lordship ruled that there was no case against
the male prisoner, and under his direction the jury
found him not guilty, and he was discharged.
His Lordship, after cautioning the woman as to
the serious consequences which would inevitably
result to her in the event of her ever again being
convicted, said the Court was disposed to deal very
leniently with her now, and the sentence upon her
therefore would be only three months' hard labour.
She seemed much affected, and the husband, hav-
ing been discharged, applied for an order to see his
wife before her removal, which his lordship, with
his usual kindness and consideration, at once
granted.

- Mary Ann Harrison was indicted for keeping as
a brothel the house 17, Bolsover-street (late Upper
Norton-street).
This was another prosecution by the parish of
Marylebone against the brothels in the neighbour-
hood of Portland-place, and evidence having been
given in support of the charge, the jury deemed it
conclusive, and found the defendant Guilty as a
common brothel keeper.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted on behalf of the parish ;
Mr. Sleigh was for the defendant.

The latter learned gentleman addressed the Court
in mitigation of punishment, having previously
stated that it would be useless to contend against
the evidence. He urged that, as the house had been
given up, the justice of the case would be met by the
defendant entering into the usual recognizances to
appear for judgment when called upon.
Mr. Metcalfe said that course had been adopted
in many cases, and had proved ineffectual. It was
for the Court to determine what to do. He could
not consent to the arrangement proposed.
His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to three
months' hard labour.

William Steverson and Rachael Steverson, his
wife, were indicted for keeping as a common brothel
the housd No. 30, Bolsover-street, and corner of
Carburton-street.

This was also a prosecution by the parish of
Marylebone, and the case was fought out, evi-
dence being given on both sides ; the question
being whether the house in question had been
kept by the defendants as a brothel, or as an ordi-
nary lodging-house. Lodgers in the house, of
respectability, were called for the defence, and they
deposed that it had not been conducted in the way
described, or they wculd not have remained in it,
and the defendants were well spoken of as persons
of good character.

The learned Judge summed up at great length,
arid the jury after some consideration found the
defendants not guilty, and they were at once dis-
charged.

MR Cooper said it had been a very gross case of
prosecution, however good might have been the
intentions of its promoters ; but the defendant had
been a respectable inhabitant of Marylebone for
nearly 40 years, and he could have had half the
parish to testify to that effect. It might not end
here.

Mr. Metcalfe said it was simply a public duty
that had been performed in taking these proceedings.
James Donovan, Margaret Donovan, Lewis
Donovan, and Daniel Moriarty were indicted for a
forcible entry of the premises, No. 2, Alexander
place, Brompton. There were other charges laid
in the indictment, but the defendants pleaded guilty
to that of forcible entry, and were ordered to enter
into recognizances to appear for judgment when
called upon.

Mr. V. H. Lewis prosecuted. Air. Metcalfe and
Mr. Sleigh spoke on behalf of the defendaits.
A complaint was made in this case by a widow
lady, the prosecutrix, that she had paid £9 10s. to a
person named Smythe, clerk to Mr. Delamere, a
solicitor to attend to the case for her, and she
understood that counsel was to appear for her in
the prosecution at the last session, from which it
stood over; but, although she had paid the money,
no counsel was engaged, and no one appeared on
her behalf, although it appeared by an account
furnished by Mr. Smythe £slos. had been paid
to counsel, which was not the fact,

The Assistant-Judge directed the attendance of
Mr. Smythe, who stated that he had only acted
in the matter as clerk to Mr. J. Delamere, and the
expenses had been paid on three remands at the
police-court, including the expense of subpoenas.
Mr. Metcalfe handed in the written statement,
which represented that £5 10s. had been paid tr,
counsel, while, in point of fact, no one had een
instructed, no fees paid, and no one appearer!„. to say
a word for the prosecutrix when thr, case was
called on.

The Assistant-Judge said Mr. Smythe might
make any statement he liked, but it was not im-
probable that whatever h' might say would be
repeated in another plac,e.
Mr. Smythe said, although it appeared on the
paper that the counsels' fees had been paid, they
had not, but would be. (Laughter.)
The Assistant-Judge said the papers, and, in
fact, the whole of the matter, would be referred to
Mr. Allen, the county solicitor, for strict inquiry,
and further proceedings might be taken at the
public expense.
Mr. Metcalfe hoped that, coupled with the in-
quiry his lordship had ordered, one might be, how
certain, parties employed these persons.
Ihe Assistant-Judge said that certainly would
be combined with the other investigation, and there
were practices which the Court was determined to
stop, if possible. Here was a woman who paid
IA 10s. to a person to undertake her case ; it was
represented to her that counsel had been paid .£5
10s., which was a fabrication ; no one appeared on
her behalf when the case was called to say a word
for her, and it was a matter in which further in-
quiry must be made.

Mr. Smythe said he had paid Mr. Sleigh fees
regularly for five years, and these fees would have
been paid. There had been attendances at the
police-court end subpoenas, and, though the fees
charged in the memorandum produced had not
actually been paid, they would have been.
The Assistant-Judge said the case was in Mr.
Allen's hands.

Mr. Smythe asked if he could have permission to
furnish Mr. Allen with a copy of Mr. Delamere's
bill of costs.

The• Assistant Judge said Mr. Allen would do all
that was requisite. The Court was determined to
put an end to these practices.
John Smith, tried on Tuesday for stealing a pair
of boots, was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude
by Mr. Payne, Deputy-Assistant Judge. Foulsbam,
the sessions officer for the House of Correction,
Westminster, proved no less than 13 convictions
against the prisoner, and his last sentence was four
years' penal servitude.

In a ease of pot stealing the learned Judge remarked
that it would be well for the publicans to consider
whether it would not be more desirable to substi-
tute some other sort of pots than those made of
pewter or white metal, as the pots now generally in
use were made of material which was well adapted
for the use of coiners, and afforded a considerable
temptation, not only to the makers of counterfeit
coin, but to those who were actuated by mere mo-
tives of dishonesty.