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what it was int3nded, a bill for the benefit of the wealthy
classes, wniiet poor societies that were struggling to meet
their liabilities did not come under its provisions. At
the request of the Society of Arts he had introduced this
bill to remove this anomaly.
On clause 2,
Mr. SPOONER moved to omit the words "science
and literature," and to insert "art," on the ground that
he bill as it stood would exempt club-houses from local
rating.
Mr. J. LOCKE (Southwark) objected to the bill.
He considered that these societies ought to bear their
share of local rates. To relieve them from such rating
was an injustice, because it was done at the expense of
•he poorer class of ratepayers, who derived no benefit
from these societies.
Mr. BOU V ERIE concurred withthe hon. and learned
member for Southwark, that these societies should
not be exempted from rating. The principle, however,
had been affirmed by Parliament, and this bill did not
create a new principle. When they came to the clause
making Mr. Tidd Pre tt's decision, relative to societies
to be exempted, final, he should move its omission.
After some discussion, in which Mr. Evans, Mr.
Fuller, Mr. Beresford Hope, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Ayr ton,
Col. Sykes, General Thompson, Mr. Pease, Mr. Palk,
and other hon. members took part,
The committee divided—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority —5O
The amendment was accordingly lost.
Mr. BOUVERIE moved to omit the word " educa-
tion." The law at present exempted science and art,
and be thought the principle of the bill should not be
extended to the various charitable schools throughout
the country in connection with religious societies. It
would limit the exemptions to the present area.
Mr. HARDY was opposed to all exemptions, and he
condemned the conduct of the managers of many of these
institutions, who paid more money in contending points
of law relating to rating than would pay the local rates
for a great many years. Under the clause, societies
with clubs would he exempted from the operation of the
bill. He should test at the proper time the opinion of
the committee, by moving the re-introduction of the
words, " exclusively used, &c.," in the present law to
which objection was taken unto this bill. The word
" education" had too great a signification to be retained
in this clause.
After a lengthened discussion the committee divided,
For Mr. Bouverie's amendment lll
Against it
Majority —29
Mr. HARDY then moved that the words should be
"science and art."
Mr. HUTT opposed the amendment.
Mr. W. EWART said the introduction of the words
" fine arts" would make an ariitocratio distinction,
which the promoters of the bill wished to prevent.
Their object was to give the working classes every en-
couragement in perfecting themselves fn their respective
arts, and hence it was that the clause was drawn in its
present, form. Exemption from the bill required that
the buildings should belong to societies, and not estab-
lished for profit.
After some discussion the committee divided—
For the amendment 97
Against it 96
Majority —l
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. B. HOPE moved as an amendment the insertion
of the words " or elementary instruction" after the words
" scierce or arts "
Mr. BOUVERIE opposed the amendment, which
was negatived without a division.
Mr. HARDY moved the insertion of the word " ex-
clusively," after the words "literature, science, or the
fine art.," as necessary to prevent those societies from
being improperly turned into clubs.
Mr. J. LOCKE (Seuthwark) said that to prevent this
bill from being taken undue advantage of, the words
" cup of tea" should be inserted to describe the nature
of ;he refreshments to be consumed, or else they might
be extended to brandy and soda water—(laughter)—and
from that to all the advantages of a club.
The committee ultimately divided. The numbers
were—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority e. ----45
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. HUTT said, that as the amendment has rendered
the efforts of him-elf and friends nugatory, he inti-
mated that he should withdraw the bill, and moved that
the chairman do leave the chair.
The motion was agreed to, and the house resumed.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES

THE ATL.NTIO TEL !GRAPH.

We understand that the soundings obtained by
her Majesty's steamer Cyclops, which has been en-
gaged in checking for the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany the soundings taken by the United States
_ _

steamer Arctic, are very satisfactory, bottom hav-
ing been found all the way across the Atlantic, and
for the greater part of the distance composed of fine
sand and small shells ; near this coast small pebbles
were found mixed with the sand. The greatest
depth sounded was about 21 miles. Captain Day-
men has some intention of looking into Trinity
Bay, but we understand that be is expected in

Queenstown by a certain date and is fearful of losing
to.) much time by making the trip thither.
We have already given an account of the manu-
facture and the shipping on board the Agamemn n
at Greenwich, of a portion of the submarine cable
which is to unite thiscountry with America intele-

graphic communication. The other half ofche
cable, 1,250 miles in length, which Messrs. Newall
and Co. contracted to supply, has already been
completed, and is in course of delivery on board
the Niagara, at Birkenhead. The Niagara is a
screw steamer of 5,20 G tons, pierced for twelve 11-
inch guns, belonging to the United States navy,
and is under the command of Captain Hudson, an
officer of considerable experience, having been at-
tached to the service so far back as 1812, and hav-
ing taken part in the Pacific Exploring Expedition.
The Niagara is 315 feet in length, by 56 feet beam,
with engines of 1,-000 horse power, and is the
largest vessel afloat in the world. Her screw is
a Griffith'e propeller. She is anchored in the Mer-
sey, to take on board the cable, her great breadth
having prevented her from being docked at Birken-
head. The inner gates of the dock at Birkenhead
would have been quite large enough ; but, unfor-
tunately, the outer gates, which are 20 feet less
than the inner, are only 50 feet wide. The Niagara
has now been receiving the cable for upwards of a
fortnight, and it is being coiled on board at the rate
of 60 miles per day. Up to Tuesday evening about
800 miles had been shipped, so that the whole of it
will have been stowed on board in the course of a
few days from the present date. In order to make
room for the immense coils in which the cable is
deposited in the vessel, the forehold of the Niagara
has been cleared of the chain lockers, coal bunkers,
and tacks, and fitted with a level floor over the
kelson, the beams having each been trussed with
double stays, to compensate for the removal of
the stanchions. Part of the cable is also being
stowed in a space which has been cleared out on
the main deck, abaft the engine-room, by displacing
some of the officers' berths and encroaching on the
ward-room. Three smaller vessels, of 500 tons e tch,
the Wallace, the Ellen, and the Perthshire, convey
the coils from the works of Messrs. Newall and CJ. ,
at Birkenhead, to the frigate in the Sloyne, and
two of these craft were lying alongside the Niagara,
one on either side, on Tuesday, and seen at a little
distance, from the river, served to bring out. the
vastness of her dimensions moat completely. The
cable, of the manufacture of which a very minute
description was given in the article above referred
to, has a thick coating of pitch and tar upon it, and
the decks on which the cable rests, have been
covered with sheet lead to prevent the tar, which
accumulates at the bottom of the coil, from soak-
ing through and saturating the timbers. The weight
of the portion on board the Niagara will be about
1,200 tuns. The process of coding is one which
seems to possess great interest in the neighbour-
hood, and steamers from Liverpool are constantly
conveying visitors to the Niagara, whom Captain
Hudson courteously allows to inspect the work.
Among the visitors on Tuesday were Sir William
Cuhitt, and Mr. Wm. Fairbairn, of Manchester.
The coiling on board is under the superinten-
dence of Mr. Woodhouse, C.E., who took part in
laying down the Varna and Balaklava telegraph,
and this gentleman will accompany Mr. C. Bright
(who is the engineer-in-chief to the company, and
was one of the original projectors of the submarine
line across the Atlantic) in the Niagara, to assist in
laying down the half of the cable stretching from
the middle of the Atlantic to the American shore.
These two gentlemen will have to take alternate
watch in the Niagara of the paying out of the c &de
during the progress of the work ; and Mr. Canning,
who laid the line across the Gulf of the St. Lawrence
last ye sr, with Mr. Webb, who hts been engaged for
some years in laying down and raising the cables
between Orforduess and the Hague, will take the
same charge on board the Agamemnon. The
machinery for paying out the cable has been made
with great promptitude, by Messrs. C. De
Bergue and Co., of Manchester. The operations at
Greenwich, as we have before stated in the Sent,
have been assisted by two of the ablest electricians
of the day, Dr. Whitehouse and Professor Morse.
The two vessels, the Agamemnon and the Nia-
gara, sail about the 25th inst., and are to be joined
by H. M. frigate Leopard and the United States
frigate Susquehana. These are paddlewheel steam-
ers of considerable power, and are intended to pilot
and assist the other ves-els when necessary. The
four steamers are to rendezvous in Cork harbour,
and will probably sail together from thence about
the Ist Aug. Their final destination will be lat.
52 deg. 4 m. N., and long 32 deg. 32 ruin., or the
central point of the arc of the great circle between
Valentia Harbour and Trinity Bay. Having
waited here fur favourable weather, should the ele-
ments not be let opit•ous to the design on their ar-
rival, a "splice" will be effected between the half
of the telegraph cable on board the Agamemnon
and the half on bard the Niagsra, and they will
part company—the Niagara and Susquehana sail-
ing westward, for Trinity Bay, Newfoundland,
distant 900 to 1,000 miles ; and the Agatnemnou
and Leopard returning eastward, paying out their
portion of the cable until they make Valentia Har-
bour, on the coast of Ireland. The arc of the circle
thus indicated is 1,834 miles in length, so that
could each vessel steer an exact course to its desti-
na•ion, not subject to the errors of the magnetic
needle or the disturbing influence of oceanic cur-
rents, each would have to pay out 917 miles of
cable, but as that is impossible, each vessel has
been supplied with a surplus length of about 300
miles, to meet all emergencies. Supposing that
each vessel should be able to pay out the cable at
the rate of about five knots per hour, or 120 per
day, it will thus be seen that the operation of drop-
ping the great international link between this
country and the United States, will have been
completed in eight days from the time the "splice"
is effected in mid-ocean and the vessels part core-
d the greater part of the cable
com-
pany.
The outer coating
consists of a coil of 18 strands of seven-thread iron
wire, as a protection to the gutta perche core, con-
taining the telegraphic wires, from friction or injury
until it has been safely deposited on the bed of the
Atlantic. But those portions of the cable which
will have to be joined when the vessels part com-
pany may possibly be subjected to an extra strain
as the first unbroken link of it sinks between the
sterns of the two vessels to find its ultimate resting
place, and to meet this possible contingency 10
miles length of this central portion of the cable has
been protected with a sheath of 18 steel, instead of
iron, wires, and is supposed to be capable of sus-
taining a stream of 19 tons. The machinery made
by Messrs. De Bergue and Co. includes paying-out
sheaves or drums of five feet in diameter, having
grooves corresponding to the thickness of the cable,
with a friction drum attached to them revolving
three times as fast as they do, and with breakage
power to check or retard the motion of the sheaves
at pleasure. From the hold of each ship the cable,
passing over four of these sheaves to a few feet
above the poop deck, will be dropped into the sea
over a fifth sheave, placed above the stern. The
exact amount of strain will be constantly indicated
by an instrument for the purpose under the eye of
the breaksman. At the sides of the vessel will hang
down into the water new electrical logs, principally
due to the ingenuity of Mr. C. Bright, the Atlantic
Company's chief engineer. These immersed logs
have vanes and whe-ls revolving at a rate propor-
tioned to the passage of the ship through the water,
and making an electric circuit which is broken at
each revolution. An electric wire, from the log to
the deck, records there every revolution of the log,
and consequently the exact speed of the ship. It
must not be supposed when the ships part company-
that communication will be lost between those on
board the vessels. The electricians have hold of
either extremity of the coils of the cable, and will
interchange signals constantly, so that each vessel
will be master of the other's fate, and of every
incident that may help or retard the progress of
submersion, unless some unfortunate emergency
should snap the link. When the topmasts of the
ships have sunk beneath the horizon, and they are
10-t to view by the look-out-men, the inter-oceanic
current of electricity will give instant record of all
that passes, until the lengthening line of cable
has been spun out from shore to shore. A bell on
board etch vessel will sound every second as each
portion of the cable is payed out, and its silence
will probably be the first indication of any mishap
arising from friction or overtension of the cable,
and the vessels will have apparatus on board, so
that in any such emergencies they can be backed,
the cable recoiled until the faulty place is found,
when a piece will be cut out and the perfect por-
tions reunited with as little delay as possible. Iu
case of a storm, apparatus has been provided to al-
low for any extraordinary strain that may occur,
and, if necessary, for cutting the cable without let-
ting the outer end of it slip to the bottom of the
ocean, whence it might never be recovered. In
such an emergency there are large reels of auxiliary
cable of great strength, which could be attached to
the end ; and these auxiliary cables can be sus-
pended from huge float-shaped buoys on the surface

(QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY) (IRELAND) BILL.
The motion for the second reading of this bill was dis,
charged. and the bill withdrawn.
MEDICAL PROFESSION (No. 1) BILL.

Mr. HEADLANI moved that the order for going
into committee on this bill be discharged on the ground
that there was not time this session to carry the bill
through Parliament. He thought the Government
should next session bring forward a bill based on the
principles the house had affirmed in reference to this
unesti,m.—A.crreed to
SMOKE NUISANCE (SCOTLAND) ABATE VIENT
BILL.

This bill was committed pro forma for the introdus.
tion of amendments.
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS BILL.

Certain formal amendments to the bill were considered
and agreed to.

SUPPLY.

The report of supply was brought up and agreed to,
BILL CEL&MBER (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This hill was read a third time and passed.
MILITIA BALLOTS SUSPENSION BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
LAMBETH ELFCTION.

Mr. INGHAM brought up the report of the com-
mittee appointed to inquire into the return for the
borough of Lambeth. Toe committee decided that Mr.
Roupell was duly elected, and declared the petition
frivolous and vexltious.

ELECTION PETITIONS.
The petitions against the returns of Peterborough
City and Totnees were withdrawn.
GLEBE LANDS (IRELAND) BILL.

This bi l was read a third time and passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the house adjourned at 6 o'clock.

TRAGICAL. AFFAIR NEAR PAVIS.

A tragical affair took place at St. Germain en Laye,
near Paris, a few nights since. A young man named
Decamps, for many years in the service of a gentleman
of the town as valet, is married to a young woman five
years younger than himself, and has two children by
her. She resides with the children in an apartment in
the Rue de Versailles, and her husband was accustomed
to go to see her frequently, though, as her conduct was
rather light, quarrels often took place bet ween them. 0,,
the evening in question, the man took a gun and went
out to shoot rabbits, but not finding the sport good he de-
termined to visit his wife On knocking at the door he heard
a noise in his wife's room, and after the lapse of a few
minutes; she came down and let him in. He poked why
she had been so long in coming, bnt she gave him some
vague reply. They went up to the room together, and
the man, instead of going to bed as his wife wished him
to do, lighted a lamp, and after a few seconds reflection,
went to a staircase which leads to a granary at the top
of the house. At the top of these stairs he saw, crouch.
ing down, a man whom he recognised as a Swiss named
Duvillard, coachman to a gentleman residing in the
town. Not doubting that this man had been with his
wife, he rushed on him, and drawing a knife from his
pocket, but not opening it, struck him repeatedly with
one end of it. Duvillard defended himself, and pre-
sently the two men, who were struggling with each
other, rolled down the stairs into the bedroom. A ter-
rible fight then took place between them in the
dark, the lamp having become extinguished, and the in•
jured husband seemed likely to get the worst of it ; but
he suddenly seized an old Spanish sword, given him as
a curiosity by a previous master, which was- hanging on
the wall, and with it he assailed his adversary with great
fury. The Swiss defended himself as well as he could,
and smashing the window, shouted out " Help ! mur-
der !" but the other continued to cut at him with the
sword. At length the Swiss fell mortally wounded.
The occupants of the house awakened by the noise of the
fray and the man's cries, arrived, and Decamps at once
opened the door to them. He pointed to his victim,
who had dragged himself to the landing pace, and
who was in the agony of death. In a minute or two
the Swiss died, and then Decamps calmly related the
particulars ; after wh ch he said he would go to the
commissary of police and give himself into custody ; the
neighbours, however, begged him to remain, and they
sent for the commissary, who soon arrived, accompanied
by some officers and gendarmes, and arrested the man.
When the quarrel commenced, the woman slipped from
the house, leaving her two children, one aged seven, the
other four, asleep in a cradle near the bed. The next
morning, the woman presented herself before the com-
missary of police, and after being interrogated was
allowed to return home • the man has been sent to the
pr• on at Versailles. The Swiss was 30 years of age,
and leaves a widow, a young woman in service at Paris.

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of the water, capable of resisting a very consider-
able strain till all danger has passed.
The month of August has been chosen f,r the
submersion of the cable as likely to afford the
best conditions for the enterprise in regard to
weather. The three great obstacles m..st to be
feare 1 in such a work were fogs, floating ice, and
storms. There is the gr,atest freedom from fogs
in winter, from storms in June, and from ice in
August, and, upon consulting Lieutenant Maury,
from the 20th of July to the 12th of August. has
b?en fixed upon as the most favourable period for
the undertaking. It may therefore be confidently
anticipated that the result of this great enterprise,
to which every one must heartily w'sh complete
success, will be known to the world by about the
16th of next month, or possibly at an earlier
date. The spirt which Lancashire entered in' o
the project which is being so rapidly put into exe-
cution, is indicated in the fact that 15,000/. of the
capital has been subscribed in that county.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-July 15

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN THE MATTER OF THE LONDON, HARWICH, AND

CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET COIWANY (LIMITED).
The prospects of this company stated that the
capital was 100,0001., in 10,000 sham-s of 101. each,
with power to increase. 21. per share payable on
allotment. Provisionally regiwered, with liability
limited. The trustees were—Mr. D. Waddington.,
M.P., 4, Spring gardens ; Mr. J. Bagshaw, M.P.,
director of the Eastern Counties Railway ; and
Colonel W. P. Waugh, director of the Landon and
Eastern Banking Corporation (now bankrupt).
The directors were—Colonel W. P. Waugh, Brank-
sea Castle, Dorset ; Mr. R. L. Leckie (late of
Bombay), George-street, Portman-square ; Mr. W.
Shaw, 1, Kensington-park terrace ; Mr. G. Crant,
(late chairman of the Orienta Bank, Bom-
bsy), 4, Great Russell-sti ertt •, Mr. F. C.
Zillesen, director of the Dutch-Rhenish Rail-
way Company, Amsterdam ; Sir H. Durrant,
Bart., Scottow Hall, Norfolk ; Mr. H. Ward,
H.E.1.C.5., K. 1., Albiny ; Mr. J. E. Pan.
ter, director of the St. George's Insurance Com-
pany, Pall-Mall and Fulham ; Mr. A. Walls,
Lloyd's, and 11, Leadenhall-street ; and Captain
Raymond, Albion-square, Dalston, managing di-
rector of the steam-vessels. The prospectus set
forth that "the company was established with a
view to afford the public increased facilities in the
conveyance of mails, passengers, specie, and mer-
chandise, batween England, via Harwich, and the
ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, &c. A
traffic arrangement for a term of years has been
entered into with the Eastern Counties Railway
Company on advantageous terms, and the directors
have secured the co-operation of the authorities of
the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company, and the
other inland navigation and railway establishments
in Holland and Germany—all of whom are so con-
vinced of the advantages to be derived from this
line of communication, as the most desirable for
passenger traffic, and the speedy conveyance of
merchandise an d • perishable goods, that they are
anxious to promote the views of the company to tie
fullest possible extent."
This was a petition. The following is the form
of order drawn up :
"In the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, Lon-
don, July 15, 1857. In the matter of the London,
Harwich, and Continental Steam Packet Company,
limited. In the matter of the Joint Stock Company's
Act, 1856. (Before Mr. Commisioner Goulburn.)
" Whereas a petition was, on the 6th day of July,
instant, presented in this ourt by Thomas Barton,
Upper Wellington-:street, No. 2, advertiser, as creditor
of the said company (for 8001), in pursuance of the pro-
visions of the said act, praying that an order might be
made for the winding-up of the affairs of the said com-
pany, under the said act, and that, for that purpose, all
necessary and proper directions might be given, or
that such other order might- be made in the premises as
the nature of the case might require. No w, upon hear-
ing the said petition and the true affidavits of the said
Thomas Barton, &c., sworn, respectively, on the 6th
July instant, and the other depositions filed in this
matter, and upon bearing what was alleged by Mr.
Rack wood, of Messrs. Linklater and Hackwood, as so-
licitors for the petition, and Mr. Gustard, the solicitor
for the said company, I do now order that the said ccm•
pany be wound up by this court under the said act."
Messrs. Linklater and Hackwood are the solicitors to
,he petition ; Mr. Pennell is the official liquidator.

EXHIBITIONS.

At this time, when so many exhibitions are open
to attract public attention, and when the Exhibition
of Art Treasures at Manchester is the universal
theme of conversation, and is visited daily by many
thousands, it may not be inappropriate to re-
fer to the subject of industrial art and to its
progress since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Many
of our manufacturers, and a still greater propor-
tion of our operatives in various industrial occupa-
tions, who had not until then enjoyed any opportu-
nity of seeing or knowing the progress that had
been made in other countries in the same branches
of manufacture in which they were themselves en-
gaged, and more especially those branches in which
taste and design form an important element, were
surprised to find that they had much to achieve in
order to place themselves upon a level with the
more artistic productions of our Continental neigh-
bours. Strenuous efforts have been used both by
employers and employed, and the result has been
a greater advance and improvement in the few
ears that have elapsed since the Great Ex'bition
than had been made fora quarter of a century pre-
viously, competition having proved more effectual
to that end than all our Schools of Design.. This
was fully demonstrated at the Exposition Univer-
selle at Paris in 1855, where the highest awards
were obtained by English exhibitors in three dif-
ferent branches of manufactures in which it had
always been considered that French manufacturers
enjoyed an incontestible superiority. In furniture,
for example, Messrs. Jackson and Graham gained
the highest awards for " improvements in Eng-
lish furniture," and Messrs. Minton and Co., and
Messrs. Elkington and Co., in their respective
manufactures, likewise gained the highest honours.
It is on the great establishment of the first-named
firm that we are about to make some observations,
spent some time in contemplating
havingthe various
recently
ob ies in their extensive galleries and
show-rooms, which form really a most interesting
exhibition of art industry, in which the beautiful
is combined with the useful in a manner truly grati-
fying to notice, and most tempting to the man of taste.
Here we find an extensive gallery of art bronzes and
objecte of the most recherche kind, comprising reduc-
tions from all the celebrated chefs d' ceuvres of antique
and modern sculpture. These reductions, by the
celebrated house of Barbedienne and Co., of Paris
(of whose productions Messrs. Jackson and Graham
are the sole depot), by the process invented by
Collas, who received the Grande Medaille
d'Hon-
neur, and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of
Honour at the close of the Universal Exhibition at
Paris in 1855, are mathematilly exact in their pro-
portions, and vary from 1-10th to 2-sths, or nearly
half the size of the originals, together with the
finest collection of ornamental clocks, candelabras,
and lamps, we have ever witnessed. We cannot
, refrain from specially mentioning some of the sus-
pension lamps and chandeliers, of bronze, gilt, and
silver gilt, the designs of which struck us as being
perfecly novel, and extremely chaste and elegant.
In another show-room, which is devoted to paper-
hangings and interior decorations, we noticed some
highly artistic specimens, especially one in the style
•f Louis XVI., in which the walls and ceiling are
highly enriched by ornament in relief aided by
colour and gilding ; and, in order to give a com-
plete idea of the style, a chimney-piece and chande-
lier have been made en suite. In another depart-
ment we were shown an endless variety of magni-
ficent silk for hangings ; chintzes—the very perfec-
tion of printing—with many other new fabrics that
we have not space to comment upon. In every in-
stance we saw side by side the best productions of
France and Germany, with those of our own manu-
facturers, and although the products of Lyons and
Tours still maintain their superiority, there is,
nevertheless, a great improvement to be observed
in the manufacture of British furniture silks; both
in respect to design and execution. Messrs. Jack-
son and Graham have long bean celebrated for the
• superiority of their carpets, and in this department
we have had the opportunity of seeing all the im-
provements that have been recently effactod by
the application of steam-power to weaving velvet
pile, Brussels and tapestry carpeting, by which the
quality has been improved, and the cost of produc-
tion of the best fabrics greatly economised. This es-
tablishinenthas become the ssle depot in England for
the celebrated tapestries and splendid carpets of
Messrs. Sallandclrouxe de Lamornaix and Co., of
Aubusson. Some remarkably beautiful suites of ta-
pestry for chairs and sofas were shown to us, which
we think could scarcely be surpassed in beauty of
design or delicacy of execution, by the Imperial
manufactories of the Gobelins or Beauvais. Passing,
by a covered iron bridge, over a carriage way at the
rear of the Oxford-street premises, we enter the
which extensive range of buildings inch the general
furniture, show-rooms, and different work-shops are
situated. The show-rooms alone cover a space of
9,000 superficial feet, and are filled with articles of
cabinet furniture of the best class, sofas, easy chairs,
and bedsteads of brass, iron, mahogany, and other
wood.. Here, also, is the grand cabinet which was
exhibited in Paris in 1855, undoubtedly the best
work of its kind that has ever been produced in any
age or country. Oa looking at it with great attention
His Royal Highness Prince Albert remarked that it
was the finest thing he had overseen, and his opinion
was endorsed by the decision of the jury, who, in
addition to the gold medal of honour, awarded medals
to the designer, modellers, and workmen employed
upon it. From the show-rooms we passed through
the various workshops, in which the different manu-
facturing operations of modelling, carving, gilding,
cabinet and chair making, and joiner's work, are
carried on. All the best means and appliances for
ensuring sound workmanship have been brought into
use, and several ingenious machines worked by steam
power, for shaping, perforating, sawing, morticing,
and turning, tend to economise production to its
utmost practicable extent. Reflecting upon the
completeness of this important establishment in all
its departments, and the facilities it affords to those
requiring to decorate or furnish their houses, we
could not fail to be struck with the great conveni-
ence and advantage of being able to find every re-
quisite under one roof, and thus to harmonise the
style of one thing with another throughout—deco-
rations and papere, with carpets and curtains—fur-
niture with ornaments and objets d'art, in a manner
and upon a scale not hither attempted in this or
any other country. Indeed, we cannot speck too
highly of the enterprise, skill, and judgment that
has reared and conducts the establishmeut, of the
taste that presides in every department, or the ex-
eoutive ability of the staff and workmen in the em-
ployment of Messrs. Jackson and Graham.—Lady's
Newspaper.

Int saw no un-

wilful murder of the female child of her daughter the house five or six times before,
ma Marson, at Olnty, on the 13th of December lawful fzamesphyed.
William Castoff, another defendant, was taken
by Burd,e to G,..odinan'A last, n7ght fur the- first
tittie, and heLeve l that by going he would be able
to g° surne inforingtion a! out a race at the louse.
Saw no (raining at the house while be wets there.
Mr. Lewis, fur the defence, contended that noth-
ing had been put in evidence to show that this was,
as alleged, a common gaming house, or that the
parties found in the house were there for gaming
purp-s-s. The reason why so many persons were
in th home wai because some notoriety attached
t) Goodman.
Mr. _Bing tam s.lid as this procedure was under a
new act, he would give his judgment next Wed-
nesday.

Verdict of not guilty was returned,

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
YORK, JULY 14.
CROWN COURT.—(Bet. ire Mr. Berton Channel).)
Richard Stead wa, i indicted for foreieg and ut er-
ing a certificate of his character wi h intent to de-
ceive Bernard Granvill -Layard, and ob ea iii thereby
an appointment in the E rsr. Riding constabulary at
Beverley, on the 18th of April last.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Sentence deferred.
Isaac Rushforth, aged 42, and who is marked in
the calendar as reading imperfectly, was indicted
for feloniously administering a quantify of seeds of
paradise to Kitty Littlewood, with intent to pro-
cure abortion, at E eat Ardsley, on the 2,1 of Febru-
ary last. At the last sitting M. Mahistre communicated a
Mr. Shaw prosecuted, and Mr. Middleton de-
contrivance of his for gradually shutting out the
fended the prisoner. steam in any kind of steaireengines.—M. Bonnet
From the opening stet ement of tl'e learned corm-
1
I sent in a paper on the chemical composition of bones,
seland from the evidenc, of the proseeutrix, a sallow,
in which he adverted ti various sources of err r in
ill-favoured.lookingyoune woman, of 26 years of age,
previous analyses. Thus he thinks it impossible to
it appeared that at the latter end of last year she
determine the quantity of water contained in a bone;
resided with her father at Sheffield, and the priso-
siece, before it can be anely.-ed, it must he exposed
nett lived in the Dewsbury road, Leeds. The pri- to a st•oog current of waterte cleanse it fromerease
souer, it appeared, had got a reputation as a wizard,
and other extraneous matter ; so that, in fact, a
and the prosecutrix having been unwell for a con-
quantity of water previously introduced is taken
siderable time, and the doctors she employed d ring
into account. Then, during the incineration of a
her no good, acting on the advice of a neighbour,
bone a quantity of carbonic acid is evolved, which
she went with her father to Leeds to consult the
is therefore lost. To avoid these errors, he first
prisoner. The prisoner, as the prosecutrix desert Led
lets the bone macerate in alcohol and ether' and
it, " ruled her planet arid gave her some pills."
weighs it when dry ; then, after burning the or-
Not improving under his treatment, she sent for
genic matter, he di-solves the phosphate of lime
him to Sheffield, and the prisoner then told her
in hydrochloric acid, precipitates the solution by
she would never prosper unless she went to live at
chloride of iron, rids the precipate by ammonia
West Ardsley—a place near Leeds, and easily ac-
of the iron it contains, arid then, by a simple cal-
cessible. She and her father accordingly %%eat to
culatien, he obtains the results. In a communica-
live at West Ardsley, and there the prisoner fre- tion on the solubility of fossil phosphates of lime
quently saw her. At first he give her some medi-
in the acids of the soil, M. Deherain establishes
eine, which he said was for palpitation of the heart.
that the nodules of phosphate of lime are n t easily
He then told her she woul i never he well unless
ue in cut lin etic
she suffered him to have connexion with her. This solbl
acid at 5 deg.,arbonic acid ; b
unless previously ettle so i
xposed to the
she refused several times. She afterwards removed
air for some time ; but that they are more soluble
to East Ardsley, and the prisoner continued to at-
tend her, and at length she permitted him to have iu acetic and carbonic acids combined, after expo-
•
an improper intercourse will her, on his represen-
sure to the air. Hence he concludes that fossil
phosphates of lime are inapplicab'e for manure in
tation that she would never get well unless he did.
those kinds of soil in which carbonic acid exists
On one octasiou he gave her court ut g which stu-
alone, unless they be previously treated with the
pefied her, and it was on that occasion that the in
stronger acids ; but that these phosphates
tercourse commenced, and it was of erwards con-
,round to powder may be very useful in soils.
tinned for some time. At length shebecame in the
where acetic and carbonic acids exist togethert.
familyway, and the prisoner then brought her a
as is the case in heaths recently cleared for culti-
quantity of seeds of paradise, and told her to make
vation. M. Tampier sent in a note on the mi-
tea of it. and drink it. She did se, and had a mis-
neral waters cif Condillao (Tarn), showing that..
carriage on the 26th of March. On another occa-
being impregnated with gasps, alkalis, iron, and
sion after that the prisoner brought her a bullock's
iodine, they are eminentlylapplicable both as me-
heart and some shoemaker's awls. He burnt the
dicinal waters in many chronic affections, and
heart and said the awls were to keep her enemies
during convalescence after certain acute disorders,
off. She was to place them under her pillow and
and as waters for drinking at table, like Seltzer-
wear them in her pocket. He also sent her two •
water, &c.—The Minister of Foreign Affairs trans-
pieces of parchment as charms, and said ono would
muted a communication from the Minister of
get her a young man and the other was to prevent
Foreign Affairs of Denmark, announcing that two
her being bewitched. She gave him 5/, for these.
of the blocks of wood thrown into the sea from the
On cross-examination it appeared she had a child 6
Impelial yacht, La ReMe Hortense, for the purs
years ago, and that the prisoner had givenupvisitin g
her hsfore she preferred this charge. The inspector Pose a ascertaining the direction and velocity of
the curreute, have been picked up on the coast of
of police who took the prisoner into custody, found
Denmark ; one on the Ist of December last on the
a great number of fortune-telling books at . his
e Kjetn, in the sub-prefecture of Skateatiord, and
house, and books relating to "ruling the planets.
On being taking into custody he said he had ruled the other in September (the exact date unknown)
on the coast of Hlagr, in the parish of Bardas;
the prosecutrix's planet and found she was be-
strand. The former had been thrown overboard
witched ; he ruled it a second time, and thought
on the 11th of July, 1856, the vessel being in lat.
she was not. He found her illness arose from want
69 deg. 6 min. N., and long. 13 deg. 13 min. W.
of a man, and told her so, and then had intercourse
The paper contained in the latter block was spoilt;
with her, which she permitted. It was proved that
but enough could be decyphered to show that it
the administration of an infusion of seeds of para-
was cast into the sea on the 28th of June, 1856?
dise was likely to be very injurious to a pregnant
in lat. 62 deg. 24 min. N., and long. 16 deg. 20
woman, and to procure abortion.
min. W. A letter was read from M. Lecq, giving
The learned' counsel for the prisoner objected that
there was no proof of the administration of the drug an account of a shock of earthquake felt at
Clermont-Ferrand ou the 16th ult., at 11A a.m.
by the prlsoner. . The direction seemed to be from north to south; it
His Lordship overruled this objection, and,
lasted between three and fonr seconds, and was
The learned counsel having addressed the jury
accompanied by a rumbling noise in the air.
for the defence, About 12 minutes afterwards a second and feebler
His Lordship summed up, and shock was felt, which lasted somewhat longer.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Some time atter a storm arose, with thunder and
His Lordship said it was quite lamentable to
rain.
think that such an amount of ignorance should pre-
vail. The prisoner had availed himself of the igno-
rance of the prosecutrix to seduce her, and after-
wards, to save her from a certain amount of expo-
sure, but also to save himself, he had caused her to
take a noxious drug calculated to procure abortion.
Such practices must be severely punished. The
sentence of the Court was that he be imprisoned
18 calendar months, with hard labour.

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

Country Markets.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 15.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTACK ON A •
GAMING-HOUSE. - Charles Levy Goodman, 28,
Coventry-street ; Charles Stewart, 41, Gloucester-
street, Queen's square, jeweller ; William John-
stone, 17, Arundel-street, Haymarket, medical
student ; William Page, Alma-Cottage, Manley-
place ; Robert Coombs, 46, Princess-street ; John
M`Donald, Oak-cottage, Kentish-town, iron
moulder ; Henry Palmer, 3, Raphael-street, car-
penter ; Alfred Burdge, Rochester-row, baker ;
William Castoff, Moreton-street, baker ; Thomas
Thompson, 36, Old Compton-street, tailor • Henry
Langdon' 10, Ponton-square, gentleman ; Alautice
Abithol, 76, York-road ; Littleton Thomas Powis,
14, Romley-terrace, Greenwich, fruit-meter ; Wm.
Goslin, 4, Great Windmill-street, groom ; and
Joseph Goodman, 28, Coventry-street, were
charged with being found in a common gaming-
house, 28, Coventry-street.
C. L. Goodmm, was charged with being the
keeper of the house. He is the same individual who
prosecuted Captain Earlam for the abduction of his
daughter. Stewart was charged as do akeeper.
Mr. Lewis attended for the defendants.
Superintendent Hannan stated that about one
o'clock that morning be went to 28, Coventry-
street, and found the shutters and door closed.
Inspector Lester, who accompanied him, knocked
at the door, and some person, whom he believed to
be the younger Levy, looked through the window
of the shop door. After a short delay, the door
was forced open, and witness and the police made
their entry. They found Goodman at a table in
the inner room, with a backgammon board and dice
boxes on the tabl-o The other defendants were on
the premise=, and all parties present were conveyed
to the station. Witness returned and searched the
house. The table in the inner room was about six
feet long, and covered with three cloths now pro-
duced. Eight or nine dice were found in a drawer.
On Coombs a considerable sum of money was found.
Did not see any of the defendants doing anything
except smoking cigars. Did not see any unlawful
game being played.
Inspector Lester corroborated the statement of
the superintendent, and proved that over the door
of the shop was the inscription—" Abraham Good-
man Levy, licensed dealer in tobacco." After
making an entry, and fiuding the elder Goodman
at, the table, with a backgammon-board before him,
Goodman started up, and asked what it all meant.
He told him that the house was believed to be a
common gaming-house. Goodman denied it, and
said that was his place, and his house was licensed
as a tobacco-shop. The table before which Good-
man was sitting had three covers, one nailed to the
table. This arrangement was for the purpose of
deadening the sound of dice. Found about eight
dice in a drawer, and 82 plao ing cards. There was a
cribbage board in the drawer. There were a
number of tobacco boxes in the shop but no cigars
in them. There was no tobacco in the shop or
money in the till. There were a few tobacco pipes
and some tobacco in the window. About 2001. in
notes and gold were found on Coombs.
Police-constable Mitchell sai t that he watched
the house and saw about 35 persons go in and out
of the shop. Stewart had charge of the door all the
time, and had acted as door-keeper;for the last two
months. Had not seen one person buy tobacco
for the last two months.
Mr. Lewis wished to have an opinion whether
backgammon was an unlawful game
Mr. Bingham said backgammon was not an un-
lawful game, but the present case did not involve
a question of that kind.
One of the defendants named Thompson was
then called. to .prove the case against the defend-
ants. He said he had been in the room about
three-quarters of an hour before the police came.
Saw nothing but backgammon played. Did not
play himself. Did not see dice used, except for
backgammon. No playing cards of any de-,crip-
tion were used. No person made a bet.' No one
offered a bet. Did not know why so many persons
were as,embled together. Had purchased a cigar
at Goodman's within the last month.
Littleton Thomas Powis, another defendant, was
called, but before being sworn wished to know
whether he was bound to give evidence against
himself.
Mr. Bingham said, according to the new law, he
could call a defendant and examine him as a wit-
ness and if he refused to give evidence the de-
fendant' was liable to a severe punishment.
The witness thanked the magistrate, but must
decline to give evidence.
Mr. Bingham having read the clause in the act
to the defendant,
The defendant said ho bad nothing to say, and
therefore could give no evidence.
Mr. Bingham—Then for the present you stand
committed for refusing to give evidence.
Alfred Burdge, another defendant, was next called.
Went with a friend into Goodman's shop to have
a cigar. The company there were talking and
smoking, and some wee playing at backgamm,,n.
Did not see any other game played, Had been to

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET.
JULY 14.
Supplies of all kinds these last six days largo.
Oat straw, from 8s Od to 10s Od per kemple of 1 stones
trop; wheat do., 7s Od to lOs Od; barley do., 9s Od to Os
Od. Hay from is ld to ls. 4d.

EDINBURGH MEAL—JULY 14.
There were in the market today 14 sacks oatmeal. each
weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 44s and s Od.

DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JULY 13.
There were in the market to-day 14 bags of oatmeal, 0.01
barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales ready.
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. I Third;
imperial
Barleymeal, per ditto --a Od ,—s Od i --s 1
Peasemeal, per ditto
od s Od I—a .Od
Flour, new, per ditto —a Od —s _3 Od
Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od —a Od —s Cd

DUBLIN, JULY 14.
We had again a very dull market to-day. Wheat, el.
though scarce, was 6d to is lower. Oats supported the
quotations of Friday, but Indian corn must be noted' at
an advance of is to 2s, owing to the increased demand
and very small supplies.

- - •
White wheat, 353 Od to 38s 6,1 ; red ditto, 34s Od to 365
6d, ditto now, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25a 6d ;
ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 14a 6d to 17s; ditto, new.,
Od to --s Od ; oatmeal, 15s to 188 Od; bare, new, —-3 to —7,',
Od ; rApese (I, —8 Oct to —s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 2u:
0(1 to 213 Od per cwt ; Inaian corn, 403 01 to 12i Od
480 DA.

COALI stAftlif
Prices of Coals per ton at

M.—Ju LT 15.
the close of the market.

s. d.
North Percy Hartley _l5 6
Bebside's Hartley l7 3
fautield. Moor l4 0
Walker Primrose ... l4 0

Wallsend,

Qt'allsend, /to.
Tees l9 0
Acorn Close l7 3
Gosfor th l6
Harton
Riddell l6 0
Eden Vain
Montague Garesfield 14 0
Whitworth l6 .
Stewart's. 18 9;
Elunwick l5 6
Ships at market

s 14‘;
Braddyll l7 '
6
Lambton lB
Belmont 16 0
0
Hetton l9 0
Hetton Lyons Main ~ 16
South Hetton 18 '
6
Russell's Hetton 17 6
;eaham l7
3
Kelloe 18 6
Hartlepool lB
Hartlepool Hetton l7 6
14imdon
South Kelloe 17 0
ileugh Hall l7
1;, 82 ; sold, 70.

RAILWAY TRAPPIO RETURNS.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Trta 0
return for the week ending July 12, 1857 ti8,283 0 0
Corresponding week last year
GREAT NORTHERN ILAILWAY.—Traffic return for
,00
K 1
weak ending July 5, 1857 £2t,351 it)
Corresponding week last year 2O-`
,295 16
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return 1
the week ending July 12, 1857 £6,669 0 0
Corresponding week last year 6,774 0
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic rei
turn for the week ending July 12, 1837 £26,329 6
Corresponding week last year.. 25,321 13
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic riej
' turns for the week ending July 14, 1857 £12,917 12

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.--'1"/
adjourned special general meeting of the proprietors o
this company took place yesterday, at the Euston-squa°
station, for the purpose of considering a bill no w before
Parliament, authorising the construction of a railyil
from Castle Douglas, in the stewartri of KiiriccucThries
to Portpatrick, in the 'county of Wigtown. Mr. Robert
Benson, deputy-chairman, presided. After a' 13131;
conversation, a resolution was adopted agreeing to 4'
bill, and authorising the directors to consent thereto
The proceedings occupied but a very few minutes.