The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

TETE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1861.

The draught of air is secured by means of two large
metal pipes, which pass throughout the entire
length of the vessel from stem to stern. In addition
to the natural draught through these, the air, when-
ever it is neeisary, can be driven through them at
a prodigious velocity by fans worked by a 30-horse
power auxiliary engine. These pipes ventilate all
the coal bunkers, and keep a constant passage of
air through the 'tween decks, and ordinary canvas
hose pipes screwed into the sides of the pipe convey
strong currents to any portion of the ship, just as so
much water would be conveyed. When in action a
powerful draught of air can be sent by the fanners
through all the pipes and coal bunkers. The latter,
of course, communicate directly with the coal shoots
on the main deck, the covers of which being taken
off will allow a great stream of air to rise almost
between each gun amidships. The smoke, there-
fore, of the guns will be, it is hoped, driven out
through the 'ventilators over the portholes. But
for some such arrangement as this, with the very
narrow portholes of the Warrior and the quantity
of smoke generated by the firing of breechloaders,
her main deck wonid be little short of suffocating
during an engagement. The stoke-holes, it is anti-
cipated, will be very cool, but the engine-room not
so much so. It is very likely, therefore, that the
latter will be fitted with down and upcast air-
shafts, which will do all that is necessary in re-
spect of ventilation. The designs for the six
new ironsides the Admiralty are about to build
have not yet been made known publicly. Official
rumour says that they are to be 40 feet longer,
three feet wider beam, and with a flatter floor than
either the Warrior or Black Prince. They are to
be of 7,500 tons, instead of 6,500, and this additional
thousand tons and greater midship section will
enable them to carry armour-plates over all, from
stem to stern. They will haveno beak of any kind,
but will be almost as straight at bow and stern as
the little river steamers. The stem, however, though
rising at a right angle from the water, will be as
sharp and fine as the edge of a wedge. We do most
sincerely hope that the official incubation of these
schemes is nearly over, and that they will soon re-
solve themselves into something more tangible than
Admiralty on lids. If all six had their keels laid
and were fast progressing, we should still have done
very little to diminish the immense distance by
which France has outstripped us in respect of these
vessels. She can show 15—some quite, and some
almost ready—against the Warrior, to be ready in
October, Black Prince, Defence, and Resistance, to
be ready in December, and two which have just
begun building. As for the Achilles at Chatham,
it is even more mythical than its redoubtable name-
sake. It has been building we are told, for more
than a year, yet it is only within the last few days
that some of the keel plates were laid. The Admi-
ralty have had warnings enough given them by this
country with regard to iron ships, but all our warn-
ings have been as nothing compared with the un-
mistakable monitions they have had in the prepara-
tions of France. Yesterday the Thames Ironworks
received an order for an iron steam ram for the
Russian Government. The vessel is to be 3,500
tons, and to carry a heavy armament of 40 guns.
She is to have a most prononce " beak" projecting
under water more than 20 feet in advance of the
apparent bows. If this ship attain the high rate of
speed for which she is built, she will be an over-
match for a whole Channel squadron of ordinary
wooden ships.— Times.

that the mode of fastening on the plates Was the •
weak point in the structure, and the target was
then spared utter demolition. The angular principle
is so far proved good; its practicability is another
question, and it is certainly defective as yet in the
method of joining and fixing on the plates. Still, we
regard a method so far successful as an advance to-
wards the perfection of iron armour against at tillery
—and just now, when our wooden ships are being
made to carry heavy armour plates it is particularly
incumbent upon the Iron-plate Committee to sift
every source likely to afford a lighter and a less
expensive kind of armour. Above all, it is most
desirable that for these wooden ships which are only
waiting for their armour, a form of plates should be
found that can be made and put on in less time than
the large and cumbrous slabs of the Warrior. Where,
as we believe, the artillerists have got the start' of
the armourers is, in obtaining mechanical strength
as a property of their guns, while the shipbuilders
have been thinking only of hanging vast scales of
dead material, like the sandbags of the trenches,
upon the sides of their ships. The armour will have
to be as scientific in its construction as the weapon,
and our naval architects must renounce the clumsy
expedients of mere walls of iron and wood, ever so
thick or so superlatively good of their kind. Pro-
tection of this kind is the easiest to obtain, but it
is at a comparative sacrifice of some of the most
vital qualities demanded of a ship of-war in these
times—speed, handiness, armament, and the means
of keeping the sea.—Daily News.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND.

The directors of this company have just decided
on recommending to the proprietors a dividend on
the ordinary stock of the company, for the half-year
ending June 30 last, at the rate of 61 per cent. per
annum.

was the only additional capital that had been asked
for, notwithstanding the increased expenditure
upon their works.
The motion for raising. the additional capital was
put and carried, and thankg to the chairman closed
the proceedings.

31IDDLF,SEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Whately, Q.C.)

Honey Trumper, 21, was indicted for stealing a
silver tea-pot and other articles, value £6, the pro-
perty of Ann Smith Hyatt, in her dwelling house.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Lloyd was for the
prisoner.
Ann Aldridge, a young woman, said she was ser-
vant to Mrs. Hardy, of 26, Camden road Villas, and
the prosecutrix, Mrs. Hyatt, lived next door. On
the Bth of July, at a quarter to three in the after-
noon, she was sweeping the drawing-room, when
she saw a man with a basket looking up at the win-
down of the next house. He put his basket down,
went on his knees and crawled into Mrs. Hyatt's
house by the window, and when he came out he
had with him a tea-pot and milk-jug. The prisoner
was that man. She had not seen him before, but
she was certain he was the man, and on seeing him
in custody she pointed him out from a number of
other persons. She called to the next door servant
as he was going away to stop him, and she went in
pursuit, and both had a good view of him.
Ann Read, Mrs. Hardy's servant, also identified
the prisoner as the man, and a police constable said
he saw the prisoner loitering about the Camden-
road Villas, with a basket, on the day and about
the time the robbery was committed. On the girl
Aldridge giving the alarin the prisoner dropped the
property, which was found in the garden afterwards
by Mrs. Hyatt. Tr.e policeman knew him pre-
viously, and knew his father, and knew where he
lived ; and he also knew a grandson of the father's.
The prisoner was taken in Maiden-lane, at the
corner of a court. He said to the officer when
charged, "All right. I'll go with you where you

The derence was an alibi. The prisoner's father,
Abraham Trumper, greengrocer, 11, Queen's-ter-
race, York-road, said the prisoner was his son. He
had a grandson very much resembling the prisoner,
and he had not seen him since this robbery. On
the day of the robbery his son was with him at
dinner at one o'clock, and he was with him at three
at a workshop, where there were three other per-
'sous. He was with him from that time till a quar-
ter past four, when he left him with a horse and
cart in the Hampstead-road.
Other evidence was given that the prisoner could
not have been there at the time, but the jury found
him guilty, and he was sentenced to eighteen
months' hard labour.

His lordship said that he agreed with the jury,
and much regretted that the prisoner's father had
been induced to give the evidence he had.
Mr. Cooper said the girl Aldridge had behaved
extremely well in the matter, and had given her
evidence very creditably, and suggested that it was
a case in which his lordship might avail himself of
the power he had of ordering her some reward.
His lordship said he quite agreed with the learned
counsel. The girl's conduct had been very praise-
worthy. Such servants had great trust placed in
them, and he should direct that she receive £1 in
addition to the usual expenses.
Louis Geneste, 28, was indicted for fraudulently
obtaining from Robert Lewis the sum of £lO with
intent to cheat, &c.
The prosecutor was a tobacconist in St. James's-
street, and the prisoner had been an occasional cus-
tomer. He paid for a pound of cigars with a cheque
drawn upon Mr. S. W. Cunningham, of King's
College, his father's executor. He said that he was
authorised to draw upon him. The cheque was for
£1), and the prosecutor believing, of course, that it
was genuine, gave him the difference. Mr. Cun-
ningham had known the prisoner from birth, but
never authorised him to draw upon him. He was
an executor under the father's will, and the prisoner.
had a life interest in a small sum ; and the cheque
now in question, which was not the first of the kind,
he refused to honour, as he had others, The prisoner
wrote to him asking him to honour it ; he replied
that he had not a farthing of his in his possession.
The prisoner's life interest was about £250.
The prisoner was acquitted.
Thomas Wallis, 21, was indicted for unlawfully
attempting to obtain by false pretences the sum of
305., the money of her Majesty the Queen, with in-
tent to defraud.

Mr. Best prosecuted; the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Dickie.
Mr. Best stated that the prisoner had falsely
represented himself to be one Arthur Cane. The
latter was entitled to some bounty money, as one of
the Royal Elthorne Middlesex Militia, which was
payable in Gerrard-street, Soho. He presented
himself there, and answered to the name of Arthur
Cane, on the 24th of July, to receive the bounty, 30s.
in amount, and said he wai that person, in answer
to a question put to him by the sergeant, who sus-
pected that an attempt at fraud was intended. Tile
sergeant asked him other questions, the replies to
which satiofied him that he was not Arthur Cane,
and he communicated with Captain A.D. Bell, and
the result was that the prisoner was given in
charge.
The defence suggested was that the prisoner had
been sent by Arthur Cane for the money; but the
jury found him guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy.

His Lordship said he believed the prisoner had
been advised by some scoundrel or other to do what
he had done, and he should sentence him to three
months' imprisonment.
A great number of cases of larceny from the per-
son and petty larceny, in which the prisoners
pleaded guilty, were disposed of. •

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)

GROSS OUTRAGE IN COURT BY A PRISONER.

Richard Lomax, 20, was indicted for feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James
Clothier, and stealing therein a diamond brooch
value £lOO, his property.
The prosecutor was a jeweller, carrying on busi-
ness at 121, Pall-mall. About seven o'clock on the
evening of the 25th of Juls , as he was sitting in his
shop, there was a crash at the window, and he ran
to the door, when he saw the prisoner making off
as fast as he could. The prosecutor followed in
pursuit, and the prisoner was stopped in Waterloo
place by another person, and a fourth person picked
up two pieces of a diamond brooch, wllich had been
taken from the shop window, and which was of the
value of 1100. A piece of wood forming part of a
bracket from which the brooch was stolen was also
picked up. The prisoner had passed the spot where
the property was found; and when asked if he had
taken anything else, he said he had not. To the
police-constable the prisoner said ho had tried to get
an honest living, but could not, and therefore he
meant to lead a dishonest one; that he had been
starving, and was refused admission to a workhouse,
but that was untrue. When before a e magistrate
he coolly said, " All I've to say is, that I meant to
have it—that's all "

The prisoner was found guilty. He had been in
prison, but no former conviction was charged against
him.

The learned Judge sentenced him to be kept to
penal servitude for the period of three years.
While the prosecutor was giving his evidence the
prisoner pulled out of his pocket a piece of flint
about the size of an egg, and threw it with all his
might at the prosecutor, having evidently aimed
it at his head. Fortunately it missed him, and
struck the wall, just above the head of one of the
jurors in waiting. It was handed to the judge, who
directed it to be kept in the csstody of Mr. Hogg.
kinson, the clerk, and said he would cause it to be
inquired into by the visiting justices of the House
of Detention how it was that the prisoner was in
possession of the stone when sent to the court for
trial. •

The prisoners sent to the House of Detention are
strictly searched on entering and on leaving, but
the vigilance of the officers is sometimes baffled by
the cunning and ingenuity of the prisoners. How
this prisoner had the stone about him without its
being detected is a matter of surprise. A full in-
vestigation will take place. The prisoner is a one
arm man.

Thotras Falthrick, 31, was indicted for stealing
four ounces of tobacco, the property of Emmanuel
Jonas and others, his masters, cigar and tobacco
merchants, of High Holborn.
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted.

It appeared that the prisoner was one of a large
number of workmen employed by the prosecutors,
and was found leaving the premises with a quarter
of a pound of tobacco concealed in his boots.
He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months'
hard labour, the learned Judge remarking that in
any future case that term would be doubled.

George Grant, 3, a gardener, was indicted for
and convicted of indecent conduct in the gallery of
the Marylebone Theatre. He was sentenced to
hard labour for one year.
It was stated that he had been previously coma
milted for a similar offence.
Mr. Gent prosecuted, and Mr. Cooper defended.
Wtu. Pulley, 2-1, porter, was indicted for stealing
two 55. 'packets of copper coin, the money of George
Clamtree, his master. The prosecutor was an
eatinghouse keeper in Church-street, Shoreditch,
and the prisoner stole the two packets of copper,
and concealed one En a closet and the other under a
water-butt. Tie was found guilty, and settt9;ead
to nine months' hard labour,
Mr. Pater prosecuted.
' Thomas Ryan, '2l, was indicted for stakiin et

coat, &c., the property of David Barnett. A robbery
was committed on the premises of the prosecutor, in
Middlesex-street, and a coat, part of the stolen
property, was, it was said, pawned by the prisoner,
but there was some doubt about that, and the jury
acquitted bim.

Mr. J. E. Palmer prosecuted ; Mr. Pater defended.

Fl?,0:11 THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 3.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, unto Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Maurice Fre-
derick Fitahardinge Berkeley, G-.C.8., and the heirs male
of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title
of Baron Fitzhardinge, of the city and county of Bristol.

FOREIGN-OFFIUE, JULY 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John
David Hay Bill, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at
Maranham, to be her Majesty's Consul in the Island of
Reunion.