The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESpAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1859.

R E A.T WESTERN RAILWAY.-
TOURISTS' SEA-SIDE and FAMILY TICKETSnow,
available for a month, or longer by e) payment, are
issued at Paddington
To WEYMOUTH, 355. First-class, and 255. Second-class
to parties taking not less than Four First or Six Secoud-class
tickets.
To DAWLTSH, TEIGNMOUTTI, TORQUAY, BIDE-
FORD, or BARNSTAPLE (for ILFRACO ABE), 60s. First-
class, and 355, Second-class to parties taking not less than
Three tickets.
To the ISLE of MAN, via Chester and Liverpool, 70s. First-
class and 50s. Second-class,
To BANGOR, BEAU3IARIS, and LLANDUDNO, 70s.
First-class and 50s. Second-class.
To CAItNARYON, via Llangollen-road, Cap
eI Curig, and
Llanleris —to BALA, via, Llangolldn-road or Corwen—or
to NEWTOWN, via Oswestry, 70s. First-class B,nd 50s.
Second-class.
To NARBERTH-ROAD and NEYLAND for TENBY
and MILFORD HAVEN; 70s. First-class and 50s. Second-
class.
To KILLARNEY and SOUTH of IRELAND via Milford
Haven and Waterford, £5 ss. First-class and £4 Second-
class.
To JERSEY and GUERNSEY, via Weymouth, 455. First-
class and 355. Second-class.
Full particulars may be known on application at. the Pad-
dington Station. --. I

SOUTH WALES RAIWAY. —he Directors
of this Company are prepaLred to receive T
TENDERS of
LOANS on DEBENTURE BONDS, to meet Debentures
falling. due.
freposals to be addressed to the undersigned.
By order, FRED. G. SAUN D E RS, Secretary.
10, Eastbourne-terrace, Paddington, 9th July, 1859.

RED SEA AND INDIA TrLEGRAPH
COMPANY (Limited).
Notice is Hereby Given, That the Transfer Books of the
Red Sea and India Telegraph Company (Limited), will be
closed frnm th 23d to the 30th July, in elusive. preparatoryto
the payment of a half-year's interest, guaranteed under the
contract with the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, the warrants for which (payable to the proprietors
of shares registered in the Books of the Company on the 23d
instant) will be issued on the 15th of August next.
By order of the Board,
C. L. PEEL, Secretary.

Dated this Bth day of July, 1859,
62, Moorgate-street.

THE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen
is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these
elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require-
ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu-
sive character.
L'ou.trouve dans la Salle de Lecture nnn seulement les
meilleurs journeaux Anglais, mais aussi Allemand, Francais,
et Beige.
F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

THE LONDON.—S AW Y E R'S famous
LONDON DINNER, consisting of two soups, two
fish, two entrees, oints, two sweets, cheese, and salad, at a
fixed charge of 2s. 6d. (attendance, 3d.), is served from Two
...

till Eightin the spacioufi Saloon.
In the Coffee-room, Dinners from the ioint, with vegetables,
cheese, and salad, Is. 6d. (attendance :id.), and soup, fish. en-
trées, &c., a la carte, are served from One till Nine o'clock.
Ladies' Private Rooms and Dining Saloons. Spacious and
well-ventilated Wine, Coffee, and Smoking Saloon.
An extensive and carefully selected stock of Rhenish, Mo-
selle, and other Wines, imported expressly for the London
Dinner. Open on Sundays from Four till Nine.
F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

THE ANCHOR, 67, Cheapside. The largest,
best ventilated, most comfortable, and superior
DINING, Coffee, Wine, and Smoking SALOONS in the city.
Hot joints from 12 till 8, and soup, fish, entrees, Sze., a la
carte. I'he famous luncheon bar and coffee-room furnished
with every delicacy, from 10 till 8. Ladies' private rooms and
dining saloons, spacious and well ventilated. An extensive
and carefully selected stock of foreign wines of every descrip-
tion. Wedding* breakfasts and other entertainments con-
tracted for.— FISHER and ROBERTS, the Anchor, nearly
cpposite King-street, Cheapside.

THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, Queenstown.—Mr.
ROBERT WILSON respectfully apprises tourists and
families visiting this delightful watering-place, the air of
which is famed throughout Europe, that the splendid esta-
blishment so well known as the " Queen's Hotel" has come
under management. This is one f the finest in the
Unitedhis
Kingdom ; and besideshotel being furnished with, all the
luxuries and appliances of a First-class Hotel, it combines all
the advantages of a beautiful situation, commanding charm-
ing views, the best attendance, ample accommodation either
for families or single visitors, close contiguity to the steam-
boat pier, and the finest promenades of Queenstown, and a
scale of prices so moderate as to enable its visitors to enjoy
all the advantages of a first-class hotel on the same terms
they would have to pay in a minor one. From its open and
healthful situation the. Queen's Hotel is also peculiarly suit-
able for invalids.

THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon-
-1- street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced
one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is
open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public
buildings and places of business, and being connected with
the Railway StatiOn, affords railway passengers arriving or
de,arting by every train day or night, the advantage of being
on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately
attended to.
The public should know that under the present manage
ment they will find every comfort and convenience at the
same charges they are paying at the minor hotels. It has
accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors,
is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is
so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that
Beds'can be had from ls. to 2s. ; Private Rooms, from 25. to
4s. ; Breakfasts, from is. Gd. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 2s. ; and
all other charges of that moderate character which will give
satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a
visit.
The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ;
a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen
P. ivate suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner
Parties, Public Meetings, &c., &c. ; two first-class Refresh-
ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms.

A Night Porter in attendance.
EDWIN TAYLOR.

Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent
Hotel, Filey.
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N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea
for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up-
wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'Hate at
five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the
trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms.

sale house in Wood street, Gresham-street, or the
surrounding districts, and receive them with the
least possible delay ; or a person detained in the
City by unforeseen business can communicate to his
family not to expect him home at the usual hour;
or, indeed, the cases which may arise are so nume-
rous that. we need not speculate upon them. This
company will have its instruments on the second
floor of the building, while the. instruments of the
Submarine and the Magnetic Companies will be.On
divisions of the third floor--41l the rooms above
the first floor being secured from the , intrusion of
strangers, who must confine .their businCss to the
public office on the ground floor, and the:Secretaries'
and clerks' offices on the first.

Coupled with the great engineering and mecha-
, nical advantages by which the Submarine Company
were the first to secure to the public the great boon
of telegraphic communication under the sea with
the Continent, it was the first to seduce the prices
of telegraphic messages to an extent that would
only two or three years since have been deemed as
fabulous, haviog in connection with the. Inland
Company (the British and Irish Magnetic), not-
withstanding an exclusive concession in France
and other countries, and therefore without the
pressure of competition, reduced the tariff for a
message' between London and Paris from 19s. to
Bs. 6d., and between Liverpool and Paris. from £1
lls. 6d. to the same sum of Bs. 6d, ; and that these
reductions have not been unfavourable to the com-
pany
is shown by the fact that the dividend, which
ranged from 7 to 8 per cent, on the original capital
of £75,000, is still kept up on the increased capital,
the messages having increased
in proportion to the
facilities and accommodation granted to the public.
The number of despatches transmitted is still aug-
menting month by month. Neither should it be
forgotten that, irrespeetiye of the reduction of the
Continental rates,.the directors and officers of the
Submarine Company were the first; in connection
with the Inland Company, to inaugurate and carry
out' those reductions in the tariff for the trans-
mission of messages throughout the United Bing-
dom from which the public are at this moment so
largely benefiting.
As the weight and dimensions sof the various
cables may prove interesting to the public, we sub-
join the following particulars, with which we have
been favoured by Messrs. Glass and Co., who have
manufactured the Hanoverian, Danish, and Folke-
stone cables of the Submarine Company :--
The Folkestone and Boulogne cable is the finest
and strongest yet lai 1. It contains a large hempen
core, round which are wound six gutta pereha
wires, No. 1 containing copper conductors. These
gutta percha wires are again served with a thick
covering of hemp, on-which rests the 12 No. 0
iron wires forming the outside covering. The dia-
meter of the whole is 11 in., and the weight about
10 tons per mile. The length is 25 miles, thus
giving a total weight of 250 tons. The Hanoverian
cable contains two conducting wires, served with a
great quantity of hemp, and with 10 No. 2 iron
wires for shore end, and a somewhat smaller wire
for the deep sea portions. The diameters are 11 in.
and 1 in. respectively. The weight is about 6 tons,.
and 31 tons per mile. The total length is 280
miles, and the gross weight about 1,030 tons. The
Danish cable is provided with a hempen core and
three conducting wires, a thick serving of hemp,
and outside is 10 No. 2 iron wires for those ends,
and smaller wire for the deep sea lengths. The
diameters are an inch and a quarter, and an inch and
a thirty second ; the weight about 61 tons, and 41
tons respectively per mile; the total length is 380
miles, and the gross weight about 1,710 tons. The
Ostend cable, we are informeg., contains six conduc-
tors wound outside the gutty pereha with hemp,
and covered with 12 iron wires. The diameter is
an inch and three-eighths nearly ; the weight about
71 tons per mile ; the length 70 miles ; the total
weight 525 tons. The Calais cable, the last men- •
tioned here, but the first cable submerged and the
model for all submarine cables since suctlessively
worked, contains .a large hempen core, four con-
ductors in gutta percha, a thick serving of hemp .
outside these, and 10 iron wires, No. 1, over all. •
The diameter is nearly an inch and three-eighths,
the length about 30 miles, and the weight 225 tons, •
or about 71 tons per mile. The two latter cables
were constructed, we believe, by Messrs. Newall.
It will thus be seen that this company in a day or
two will be working with 21 wires and about 3,770
tons of submarine cable, or a grand total tonnage
which sinks the Atlantic into insignificance ; and
with all these cables there has, up to this moment,
been absolutely no failure in the laying, and there
they lie as an example of what may be effected by
the joint-stock system of this country,i supported by
public enterprise and guided by public wants.

there must be some enormous`difficulty in the way
of adopting this principle at the Admiralty if we
are to judge from the length of time the Board has
had this principle, before it without adopting it.
This principle was recommended by a Commis-
sion in 1806; but the recommendation has not been
acted upon to this day. It may be admitted that
it would require for carrying it out an addition to
the existing official machinery of our Dockyards ;
for, if you fix on your price beforehand, you must
make somebody or other responsible for that price
not being exceeded. Yon may say that the Ad-
miralty is responsible, but to make a man respon-
sible to himself is not doing much ; you must have
some official personage, who bindshimseli tcr a par-
ticular sum as the cost of labour in building a vessel,
and who, iF it exceeds that cost,. must take the
excess upon himself. That is the sort of personage
you want, as supplementary to the 4xisting service
of the Admiralty for working this principle, and
applying the merchant sytem to the labour in our
Dockyards. A private shipbuilding firm does not,
of course, want any supplementary personage of
this kind, because it takes the office upon itself.
When the sum is fixed that the ship should cost, the
firm is its own guarantee that it shall cost no More;
if it does cost more, the shipbuilder pays it and
bears the loss. That is the strongest security
against careless expenditure which you cart have.
But the Admiralty does not stand in this position
towards the vessels it builds; it may fix before-
hand on the cost, but if the cost is exceeded, the
Admiralty does not lose, but the publie. What
you want, then, is some personage who shall lose
if the mit of the labour in building a ship exceeds
the proper estimated one, who binds :himself to a
given sum, and is responsible for the eNcosa if more
is spent. You want in f4i-lt a sort of work eon-
traetor.-40110 wha does on the single article of la-
bour what your shipbuilder does.ripon the whole
field of material and labour together, •
This application of the " mcraant systein" is
now being again recommended to the Admiralty,
and the recommendation ponies from high quar-
ters, It is simply, in essence, that of contract AT
purchase. The principle of contract is stirp4ay par-
tially used by the Admiralty it contracts fur its
steam-engines, it contracts for tts.anohors; nay, it.
has just contracted for the most extraordinary
piece of work it ever undertook—the new Steam
Ram. The Admiralty does not, and indeed is hal Illy
expected, to throw itself wholly-upon this prin-
ciple, for the reasons above mentioned, It picks its
firms with which to deal, and picks them, as Mr.
Lindsay observes, muoh too timidly and exclu=
sively the consequence of which is that it pays
£6O for an engine which it -might get for £4.0, and
only the other day paid £a,mo for 17 anchors—
/, e., nearly £2OO a-piece. , This is to make the Ad-
miralty contracts a monopoly. Still 'it is an ac-
knowledgment of the principle of contract, and
there can be no reason why this principle should
not be applied to the subject of labour. If the Ad-
miralty cannot throw itself wholly upon this prin-
ciple, and buy its ships altogether for fear of being
cheated in the material, it may still do so partially
and apply it on the simple artiolc of labour.—

LAW INTELLIGENC.E-July 11,

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, in London, before Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN Y. BUSTY.
This was an indictment, charging George Bush;
an attorney's clerk, with perjury, alleged to have
been committed on the trial of an action of " Smith
v. Wisby" before Mr. Justice Erle, in January last.
The prosecutor, Smith, is a builder, carrying on
business at Bishop Stortford, and it would seem
that in the month of November, 1850, be was ap-
plied to by a person named Wisby, a resident in
the same neighbourhood, and who wha about to
take a small farm from a gentleman named Haw-
kins, to go over the farm and see what repairs
were required in the buildings upon it. Ultimately
Wisby took the farm, Mr. Hawkins agreeing to
allow £5O out of the rent for repairs. Upon that
Wisby gave the order to Smith to execute the
needful repairs, and Smith's bill came to £7O. As
Smith had some difficulty in getting his money, he
employed a Mr. Ley, an attorney at Bishop Stort-
ford, to take proceedings for him in the first place
against Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins, however,
paid the plaintiff the £5O which he undertook to
allow Wisby out of the rent, and denied his further
liability. And now commenced the second action,
that of " Smith v. Wisby," for the balance of the
I account, amounting to some £29 or so. At the trial
the contention on the part of the defendant was
that Smith had undertaken to do the whole of the
repairs for the sum of £5Ol that his contract was
with Mr. Hawkins, and not with Wisby ; that
Hawkins had paid him the £5O due, and that it
was quite an afterthought his attempting to charge
Wisby with the balance said to be duo. ,
In support of Wisby's case, the defendant, Bush,
who had been a clerk of Mr. Ley, the attorney ori-
ginally employed by Smith, was called, and he
swore that in November, 1857, he had seen Smith's
books at Smith's house, and that the entries in the
books having reference to this transaction made no
mention of Wisby's name at all ; but that Haw-
kins's name stood by itself. That showed that this
attempt to make Wisby share in the outlay on the
repairs was quite an afterthought. On the other
hand, the books being produced showed Wisby's
name coupled with Hawkins's in every entry bear-
ing upon the transaction. If, therefore, Bush's evi-
dence was true, Smith must have altered the books
subsequently to his determining to sue Wisby. At
the trial, the jury, unable to reconcile the testimony
on both sides, was discharged without coming to a
verdict.

To-day tha question which the jury had to deter-
mine was, did Bush knowingly and wittingly swear
to what was untrue, when he declared that at the
time he saw Mr. Smith's books there were no such
entries in them as when produced at the trial ; or,
allowing for the lapse of time which had intervened
between his alleged inspection of the books and the
trial of " Smith v. Wisby," was he simply mistaken
as to what he saw.

The jury, without leaving the box, found the
defendant not guilty.
Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. G.
Francis, appeared for the prosecutor ; Mr. Sergeant
Parry, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. J. M. Howard, for
the defendant,

SECOND COURT.

Sittings at Nisi Prius.—(Before Mr. Justice Black-

burn and Common Juries.)

BAY LE Y. GRAYSON—A SCENE IN COURT.
This was an action to recover £3O, the value of a
bill of exchange accepted by the defendant and en-
dorsed to the plaintiff, The defendant pleaded
fraud.
Mr. Pearce appeared as counsel for the plaintiff,
and Mr. George Francis for the defendant.
From the state of the pleadings the defendant,
who is an attorney, was examined in support of
his plea, but in his cross•examination his replies
were in direct contradiction to an affidavit he had
made.
Mr. Justice Blackburn asked the learned counsel
for the defendant if he thought the jury would,
after this evidence, give him credence ?
Mr. Francis believed the matter was capable of
explanation.
The jury said they could not believe the defend-
ant.
The witness was at this stage of the proceedings
taken suddenly ill, and had to lean on the bar in
front of the witness box for support, and would
have fallen if a juryman had not jumped out of the
box to his assistance. The officers of the court also
supported him, and he was led into the air.
Mr. Justice Blackburn desired that the defendant
should be detained in custody, and on his recovery
brought before him. His lordship then said to the
defendant's counsel he thought it was his duty to
commit the defendant for perjury, and left the
court for the purpose of consulting with the Lord
Chief Justice, who was of opinion that as there
would not be proper evidence in support of the
charge of perjury, it would be better not to commit
him. When
Mr. Justice Blackburn returned he stated that
the Lord Chief Justice and himself both regretted
that under the circumstances it would be useless
to commit the defendant for perjury.
He was accordingly discharged out of custody,
and a verdict was immediately returned for the
plaintiff, his lordship granting immediate execu-

tion.
NOBLE V. DAVENPORT.-ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE OF

A SURGEON.

This was an action brought to recover damages
for the alleged negligence of the defendant, who
pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Lush and Mr. Hannen were counsel for the
plaintiff; Mr. Tindal Atkinson and Mr. Murphy
represented the defendant.
Mr. Lush, in opening the case, said that the
plaintiff was a blacksmith, barrying on business at
Abridge, in Essex, where the defendant practised
as a surgeon. One Sunday evening in August the
plaintiff's wife and son were riding in a cart when