The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

THE NEW AGRICULTURAL HALL AT

ISLINGTON.

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The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of
this edifice took place yesterday afternoon. It did
not occupy more than ten minutes. Owing to the
unfavourable state of the weather the attendance
was not so numerous as it would, no doubt, other-
wise have been, though it included some of the
leading members of the Smithfield Club. The stone
was laid with the usual formalities by Lord Ber-
ners, to whom an address waspresented by the pro-
moters of the undertaking, and who made a few
congratulatory remarks in reply. We believe that
the project thus quietly inaugurated owes its exist-
ence to a growing conviction that the Christmas show
of the Smithfield Club has outgrown the space and
accommodation of the Baker-street Bazaar. It was
at one time proposed that the new hall should be
erected by the club itself, but on second thoughts
the members of that body came to the conclusion
that it ought not to enter into any building specu-
lation. Under these circumstances, early in the
spring of last year, a number of gentlemen who,
either as breeders or exhibitors of stock, or as manu-
facturers of agricultural implements, are deeply in-
terested in the prosperity of the club, formed them-
selves into a company for the purpose of providing
a suitable building for the Christmas shows. They
elected Mr. Jonas IVebb as their chairman, issued
a prospectus explaining their intentions, and invited
subscriptions for a capital of £30,000. Since that
time all the shares have been taken up, a conveni-
site has been chosen, and in less than 12 months the
building will be ready to receive a greater multi-
tude of visitors and a larger collection of stock and
implements than have ever been accommodated in
any country at a winter show. It will be a plain,
but not ungainly edifice, composed chiefly of brick,
iron, and glass. The principal front will be in
Liverpool-road, and its most striking features will
be two towers, one on either side, each 95 feet in
height. The spacebetween will be partially occupied
by the spring of the roof, the arch being filled in with
wrought-iron foliage and glass. On one side of the
main entrance there will be a police-office and a
parcel and cloak room; on the other side there will
bo an inquiry-office, a post-office, and a telegraph-
office. The body of the building will be fitted up
for the exhibition of cattle. A space of 384 feet in
length and 217 feet in width will be covered by an
arched roof of iron and glass, and will be sur-
rounded by a gallery 36 feet in breadth, supported
by iron columns 24 feet apart. The span of the
roof will be no less than 130 feet. Behind the
cattle show there will be a place for the exhibition
of pigs. This division will be 100 feet square, and
will have a ridge and furrow roof of wrought-
iron. Ample provision will be made for light-
ing and ventilation ; for, in, addition to the glass
in the roof, the walls will be pierced by numerous
windows. The plans also include first and second
class refreshment-rooms ; in short, no pains will be
spared to promote the comfort of visitors. The
entire length of the building will be 500 feet ;
breadth, 220 feet; superficial area, 110,000 feet.
The architects aro Messrs. Peck and Stephens, of
Maidstone ; and the builders are Messrs. Hill, Ked-
dell, and Robinson. The cost of the edifice is esti-
mated at £25,000, exclusive of the site.

A MYSTERIOUS RING .—The London correspon-
dent of the Belfast News Letter tells this story : —On Tues-
day a well-known auctioneer of Bond-street submitted for
sale, by auction, a quantity of miscellaneous property,
" received from the country." The sale included a library
of books, somo costly furniture, a quantity of plate, and
several articles of personal jewellery. The effects were evi-
dently of a very superior description, and must have be-
longed to persons of some social position. Among the lots
was a ring, described in the catalogue as ccan ancient gold
ring, set with diamonds." The upper part of the ring was
oblong in form, and the diamonds were set in a hard ena-
melled substance, made to represent emerald. Tho intrin-
sic value was said to be about £l2 or £l3. Several persons
present bid for the ring until the price went up to £l5,
when two gentlemen were observed to bid against each
other with great pertinacity until it reached 170 guineas.
The secret history of the ring did not transpire,
name of the
and the
auctioneer very properly declined to give the
owners of the property.
BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS..—" Perfection of
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silver watches, 2 to co guineas. Benson's new Illustrated
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select with the greatest certainty the watch best adapted to
their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of
a remittance. —J. W. BensOn, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, 40 and
47, Ciankill, L9ndon, E.C. _ ZstaPlielled 1749.

FBO2I TILE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

CITY OF CARLISLE.

The Gazette contains the Speaker's warrant for issuing
a new writ for the electing of a member to serve in Parlia-
ment for the city of Carlisle iu the room of Sir J. Graham,
Bart., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-:MALL, Nov. 5.

3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards— Cornet Francis Anthony
Strickland Mannock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Nathaniel Gould, who retires ; Charles Henry Collette,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Mannock.
17th Lancers—Cornet Geoi go Rosser to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Young, whose promotion, by purchase, on
the 23d July, 1861, has been cancelled.
Royal Engineers—Second Captain Charles John Fowler
to be Captain, vice Frederick Henry Rich, seconded;
Lieut. Charles Anne Law do Montmorency to be 2d Cap-
tain, vice Fowler.
4th Regiment of Foot—Captain Augustus Edward Henry
Ansel' to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet•Lieut.-Col.
George Henry Tyler, who at:cos ; Lieut. Daniel Geran
Clery to be Captain by purchase, vice Anson; Ensign
Francis Robert Sandyss to bo Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Clery.
sth. Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Charles Henry Leet, to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas Ravenscroft Whitty,
who exchanges,
6th Foot—Captain St. Andrew B. St. John, from the 10th
Foot, to be Captain, vice John Grahame, who exchanges.
Bth Foot—John Barton Sterling, Gent., to bo Ensign, by
purchase, vice John George Brown, who retires.
10th Foot—Captain John Grahame, from 6th Foot, to be
Captain, vice St. Andrew B. St. John, who exchanges.
11th Foot—Lieut. Roper Dacry Tyler, to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Capt. F. T. Lyster, who resigns that ap-
pointment.
13th Foot—Lieut. George Hibbort Anchitel Kinloch, from
the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Ed -
ward Bolger, who retires upon half pay.

19th Foot—Lieut. Samuel Gordon M'Dakin, from the 42d
Foat, to be Lieutenant, vice Duncan Campbell Affieck,
who exchanges; Ensign Robert Gayer Traill to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Dickinson, whose promotion,
by purchase, on Aug. 23, lti6l, has been cancelled; Lill-
wall Scott Powell, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Traill.
26th Foot—Major Shurlock Henning, from the 88th Foot,
to be Major, vice Wm. Thos. Betts, who exchanges.
32d Foot—Lieut. Henry Sparke Stebb to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Brevet-Major Wm. Ruddman, who
retires upon full pay ; Ensign Walter Philip Walsh° to
bo Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Stabb; Lieut.
Cornelius Francis Clary to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Stabb.
promoted.
33d Foot—Ensign Rowland Hill Fawcett to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Arthur Marmaduke Peter Browne, who
retires ; Charles Malan Tubbs, Gent,, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Fawcett. •
42d Foot—Lieutenant Duncan Campbell Aftleck, from the
.19th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel Gordon
M'Dakin, who exchanges.
67th Foot—James Heydon Archibald Rutticdge, Gent„ to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice George Charles Henry
Holmes, who retires.
88th Foot—Major Wm. Thomas Betts, from the 26th Foot,
to be Major, vice Shurlock Henning, who exchanges.
90th Foot—Captain Arthur George Evelyn Morley, from
half Tay, late 43d Foot, to be Captain, vice Wm. Knight,

who retires upon half-pay.
93d Foot—Ensiga, Robert Wm. Thew Gordon, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Charles Dennis Potts, who
retires ; Charles Wm. Selby Lowndcs, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchme, vice Gordon.
96th Foot—Lieutenant James Morrison Kirkwood, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Walter Barnes Pugh, who
retires; Ensign Justinian Henry Strong, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Kirkwood ; Gentleman Cadet
Arthur George Hay Church, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Strong.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Arthur Howard Southey,
from the 28th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Sykes, who has retired.
Royal Newfoundland Companies—Chas. Coghlan Smyth,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cavanagh,

promoted.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Lieut. Edwin Hewett to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Edward Nathaniel Robt.
Gatehouse, deceased ; Ensign Francis Charles Gavegan
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hewett.
UNATTACHED—Capt. and Brevet-Major Samuel Burges
Lamb, from the 10th Foot, to be Major, without purchase.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Assistant. Surgeon Thomas
Ravonscroft Whitty, from the sth Foot, to be Staff..
Assistant •Surgeon, vice Chas. Henry Ileet,who exchanges.
BREVET—Captain and Brevet-Major William Rudman,
retired full-pay 32d Foot, to have the honorary rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel.
BANKRUPI S. _

Samuel Day and Joseph Thomas Thackray, plumbers,
Fenton, Staffordshire.
William Burgess, grocer, Hanley, Staffordshire.
William Smith, jun.., grocer, Longton, Staffordshire.
Charles Davis, upholsterer, Bath.
Nicholas Lomas Riorns, stationer, Exmouth.
Henry Johns, shoe deafer, Camborne, Cornwall.
John Neale, druggist, Voneaster.
John Bennett, builder, Everton, Liverpool.
Charles Smith. commission merchant, Liverpool.
William Cosby, plumber, Manchester. •
Thomas Brown, woollen warehouszsman, Manchester.
Henry Seholefleld, merchant, South Shields.
John Evans, provision dealer, Hulme.
John Coulter, boot maker, Salford.
Jonathan Cox, commission agent, Higher Broughton.
James Fester Wilkinson, commission traveller, Ilultue.
Benjamin Swift, salesman, Cheatham.
John Forbes Hopwood, book-keeper, Hulme.
Josev.h Kelly, journeyman joiner, Hulme.
William Barnes, provision dealer, Newton, Lancashire.
James Reeves, licensed victualler, Willenhall, Stafford
Joseph Lovegrove, yr., spirit merchant, Wolverhampton.
John Lewis, ale dealer, Bushbury, Stafford.
John Starling Day, surgeon, Brentwood, Essex.
John Peter Bibb, inspector of railway police, Lancaster.
William Fletcher, late of Liverpool.
Isaac Fish, clerk, Rutland-street, South Lambeth.
Wm. Foster Smith, hosier, Coventry-street, Haymarket.
Solomon Davis, corn dealer, St. George's-street, St.
George-in-the-East.
James George Pickering, gentleman, Dalston.
Thomas Barker, tailor, Station-road, Reigate.
Francis Hewer, butcher, Hereford.
Stephen Nicholson, solicitor, Leeds.
Christopher Smith, commission agent, Huddersfield:
Henry Wostenholm, cutlery manufacturer, Sheffield.
Luke Frith Bingham, auctioneer, Bakowell, Derbyshire.
Wm. Wood, butcher, Leeds.
John Chappell, mungo manufacturer, Ilorbury, York-
shire.
Thomas Austwick, farmer, Monk Fryston, Yorkshire.
John Henry Welchman, general agent, late of Upper
Stamford-street, Surrey.
Robert Eden Hope, oil merchant, Mark-lane, City.
Richard Deacon Dodge, commercialtraveller, Southwark
Charles Itoe, schoolmaster, Roydon, Essex.
Charles Cowdery, licensed victualler,; Bloomsbury,
James Moss Sperling, late or The Grove, Clapham.
William Babington, provision dealer, Lower Walton,
Lancashire. .
Robert Kelly, grocer, Liverpool.
Walter Lepard Crockford, milliner and laceman, Bir-
mingham.
John Smith, farmer, Longworth, Lancashire.
RI win Bendall, carrier, Blaisdon, Gloucestershire.
Thomas Henry Bates, coal dealer, Walsall.
Richard Hall, builder, Walsall.
Isaac Lewis, baker, 3, Langdon-place, Camberwell.
John George, baker, 2, Providence-buildings, New Kent-
road.
George Richards, licensed victualler, Billingsgate
market.
William Stoten, baker, 18, 13aekchurch-lane, St. George-
in-the-East.
Charles Williams Brown, clerk, 14, Morden-grove,
Lewisham-road, Greenwich.
Phillip Bastard Peek, commercial traveller, 100, Drum-
mond-street, St. Pancras.
William Kennedy, bricklayer, Lancaster.
William Wade, baker, Wickham Market, Suffolk.
Thomas Ridgway Coles, printer, Brighton.
Morris Goddard, greengrocer, Brighton.
Edward Ilea' es, shipwright, Dovonport.
William Jessup, blacksmith and grocer, Ryarsh, Kent.
John Ladd, builder, Turner's-road, Limehouse.
James Sutherland Menzies, private tutor, Kilburn, Mid-
dlesex.
Samuel Shiekell, licensed victualler, Blackman 'street,
Southwaik.
Henry Mort Feist, newspaper reporter, Cleveland Cot-
tage, Sutton, Surrey.
Bernhard Behrenz, brush manufacturer, Southampton-
street, Camberwell.
John Henry Gibbons, chemist, Cheshatn, Bucks.
Henry Tuson, printer, Cottage-place, Salmon-lane, Lime-
house.
Christopher Storry, mess master, Winchester.
Ercole Mecath, professor of singing, Brighton.
Henry Adeano and William Baker. iron bedstead-
makers, Stanhope. street, Hampstead-road.
William George Bartlett Harbord, ship chandler,
Tooley-street, Southwark.
Charlay Wray Lewis, barrister-at-law, Barnes-terrace,
Barnes, Surrey.
_ James Scraggs, draper, High-street, Watford, Hertford-

shire.
Samuel Francis Hooper, commission agent, Bernard-
street, St. George's, Bloomsbury.
William Henry hapman, livery-stable-keeper, Garway-
road, Westbourne- grove.
George Green, upholsterer, Hertford, Hertfordshire.
William Simmonds,builder, Little Peter's-street, West-
minster.
Henry Albert Ball, dairyman, Brixton-road, Surrey.
William Wnett, 14, Chapel-place, Cavendish-square.
Michael Duffy, beer-house keeper, 73, Wapping-wall,
Shad well.
Henry Nodes, undertaker, Robert-street, Chelsea.
Alexander Cohen, marine store dealer, Now-street)
Gravel- yard, Houndsditch.
James llolroyd, warehouseman, Basinghall-street, City.
o
Thomas Benham, baker, Brighton-road, Aldershott.
Edward Davies, boot maker, Townshend-road, Sr
tt
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Wood.
Henry Garrett, attorney's clerk, Upper
Gray's-mn-read.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

John Scott ani Sons, shipbuilders, Greenock.
William Forrest, grocer, Brokley, Lanarkshire.
Patrick Durnan, boot maker, Glasgow.
William Young, builder, near Elgin.

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LOSS OF THE BRIGANTINE EMILY,
OF CORK.-OFFICIAL REPORT.

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS OP THE COMMITTEE Or
PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE.
My Lords,—ln compliance with your lordships' commands,
communicated to me by Mr, O'Dowd, the solicitor for the
Merchant Shipping Department of the Customs, I have, in
conjunction with Inspecting Commander Thomas Goss, of
the Queenstown Coastguard Division (Nautical Assessor)
made inquiry into the circumstances attending the recent lost
of the brigantine Emily, of this port, and have the honour
to submit the following as my report of the circumstances,
and my opinion thereon :—Tho Emily was an American-
built vessel, and registered as of the port of Cork, in 1859, in
the name of Mr. George Howe, and commanded by Mr.
Timothy Bease, who holds a certificate of competency, Nu
12,885. She proceeded from Cork on the 20th August, on.
a voyage to Miramichi, under command of Captain Bease,
with a crew of five able seamen and one boy. Sh e carried
neither cargo nor passengers, but had on board 90 tons of
ballast, which, adverting to the fact of her total register
tonnage being only :150, may be considered an adequate
quantity. The weather during the early part of the voyage
was variable, but not unfavourable. On the 14th of Sept.,
however, it began to blow freshly from the westward, and
the first casualty then occurred—viz., the breaking and
working of the cap of the mast—increasing in violence
until the 24th, when the ship had proceeded on her voyage
as far as fat 47 3, and long 3G 55. She then appears to have
laboured heavily, drifting in the course of the two following
days about 50 miles to leeward. Deeming it impossible to
pursue the voyage to America at that advanced period of
the year, and the more especially as the vessel was leaky,
they made the Fastnet Rock, bearing E.S.E. seven miles
distant, the wind then getting round to the south, with
every appearance of a bad night. Failing to weather the
Fastnet, they bore up for Berehaven, and rounded the
Roancarrig Light to the eastward at 11 30 p.m., passing be-
tween Itoanc,arrig, and in close contiguity to it. This is
not the passage which a prudent seaman should have
chosen. The passage recommended by the sailing directions
being north-westerly of Roancarrig Island, the latter would
have been a safe and direct course to the anchorage. After
rounding Roancarrig Light, they hauled up •on the pert tack
under single-reefed topsail and mainsail, standing towards
main land. As they approached the Haven the wind veered
to the westward, which broke the ship off when within,
about two cables' long th of the mainland. They then put
the helm down to throw the vessel on the other tack, but
finding that she would not stay, and there not being suffi-
cient room to -wear her, they hauled the jib down, let go the
port anchor, which brought her head to wind, and veered
out:3o fathoms of cable, tile wind still blowing strong from
the S.W. The anchor was, .however, brought home, and the
vessel's stern touched upon the rock, or the mainland, hav-
ing then 4ft. of water in the hold. Obtained the assistance
of two shore boats and 14 men, and carried out a stream an-
chor and 5-inch hawser, which hove the vessel off the rock ;
but owing to the heavy strain, the hawser parted, and she
went broadside on the rocks, where she bilged, broke her
keel, stern post, and stern frame, unshipped her rudder,
filled with water, and became a total wreck. It appears in
evidence that the lead, instead of being ready for use, was
stowed away in a locker below, and that on way to Bern-
haven, though the master was not; acquainted with the lo-
cality, and the night very dark, the• lead was not used. It
also appears in evidence that the only chart on board the
vessel was Norie's General Chart of the English Channel
—altogether on too small a scale tos show the master any of
the difficulties he was approaching. It may also be added,
that the chart was so old and obliterated as to render it im-
possible to distinguish the rocks in the vicinity of Roan-
carr•ig. It also appears that the master was ignorant of
the safe anchorage which he would have found in the har-
bour of Crookhaven, after passing the. Fastnet. Under all
the circumstances, I regret to have to report to your lord-
ships as my opinion that the loss olf the Emily is attri-
butable to the default of Captain Besse, either in not hav-
ing gone into Crookhaven, or omittitig to do so; in not
having taken the approved established passage between
Roancarrig and Bore Island; as also for not having used.
his lead, as he ought to hayed one under the circumstances.
Several testimonials having been produced in favour of
his antecedent character, and it appearing that he and his
crew suffered great bodily exhaustion prior to the oc-
currence of the wreck, I submit as my opinion that tho
case is one in which your lordships might deem it expedient
to adopt a lenient course.
I have, &c., EDWARD ORME.
I concur with Edward Orme, Esq., R.M., in the fore-
going report. THOMAS Goss, COM. R.N.,
Inspecting Commander Queenstown Division.
Cork, Oct. 29, 1861. •

COUN2.RY MARKETS.

BRISTOL—Nov. 5.

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Our market this morning was fairly attended, and the
wheat was in good inquiry. Both new and old samples
of fine:quality brought fully late prices.

LEEDS—Nov. 5.
We have had a good show of grain to-day, and but a
very moderato attendance. .A...limited business was done
in wheat of fine quality at an advance of is per qr upon
last week's currencies. Fine barley is lower. Oats and
beans at fully late rates.