The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

ABSTRACT' OF THE ACCO
, CHARLES PETTITT ALLEN, Treast
.61iddlesex, from the sth October, 1867, to Janr
AS TO THE ORDINARY GENERAL
RECEIPT.
dance in Bank of England on sth October, 1:
RATE.
Arrears of rate made on 11th July, 18;7 £4,131
Rate made on 17th October, 15U7 .. 34,80'

38,913 12 0
Arrears of rate on,4th January, 1868 5,260 14 9

N°. 23,591.

Amount of rates received .. 33,682 17 3
..
Houst OF CORRECTION AT COLD BATH FIELDA
From the Lords of the Treasury to-
wards the maintenance of convicted
prisoners from Ist April to 30th
September, 1367 .. • . 8,190 9. 3
..
For materials worked up and labour
done by prisoners .. 130 3 6
..
For bread, officers' uniforms, and
cocoa supplied to and printing done
for the House of Detention .. 191 17 9
For bread, officers' boots, prisoners'
shoes and brooms made for and
flour supplied to the House of Cor-
rection at Westminster .. .. 5:0 9 Il
For wheat, flour, and cocoa supplied
to the County Industrial School at
Feitham .. 694 3 6
For officers' uniforms supplied to
Hanwell Asylum.. 56 14 0
..
For maintenance of military prisoners 2 15 0
Ditto of Customs ditto .. .. 4 6 9
Ditto of Excise ditto .. 0 9 0
tY sale of old stores and materials .. 191 11 7 '
Ditto of mats .. .. lB 1
Compensation for uniform retained
by officers on their leaving the ser-
vice of the prison .. 1 0 0
..
Sums taken from vagrants to be ap-
plied towards their maintenance.. 0 12 6
For copies of commitments .. 0 4 0
..
Rents of property in Oldham place
and Oldham-gardens .. .. 59 4 11
For presses for the Clerk of the Peace's
office

PILICF 4d.
STAMPED sd.

TO MONIES BORROWED FOR ENLARGING THE HOUSE
01' CORRECTION OF COLD-BATH FIELDS
RECEIPT.

manner towards the bow and stern, diminishing
from Sin. to Gin., and then to 4in. The latter
thickness, however, is only used in places where it
is almost impossible a shot could strike, such as
under the counter or under the bows. Wherever it
is probable a shot could strike there is never less
than Sin, of armour and nearly always Biu., with a
powerful 10-in, teak backing and double iron skin.
Just aft the bowsprit and just forward of the
stern two immense bulkhea Is, each of 6-
inch armour and 18in. of teak, are con-
tinued from the lower deck up through the main
deck, and rise to the height of 7 feet above the
spar deck. On this spar deck these ponderous
protections are curved into the form of slightly
semicircular shields, each pierced with four port-
holes for cannon and loopholed for musketry.
Within these shields are to be carried four 300-
pounders, which can be used to fire straight fore
and aft or as broadside guns. Except the men pro-
tected by these shields, the ship, on going into ac-
tion, would not have a man upon her spar deck.
When we say that the main deck is of iron half
an inch thick, and the spar deck of the toughest
steel half an inch thick, that she is to be fitted with
cupola furnaces for heating red-hot shot and filling
shells with molten iron, and that though only ship-
rigged she will carry a crew of 700 men, we have
said quite enough to indicate the tremendous powers
of this great ship
The King William could be launched to-morrow
if necessary, but it is so much more convenient, as
well as less expensive, to complete her fittings while
she is on the stocks, that it has been decided to de-
fer her launch till after the spring tides of March
next. Then she will be removed to the Victoria
Docks, and by the autumn be ready to make her
first cruise to sea, armed and equipped from stem
to stern. From first to last she will cost about
£400,000, but in strength and in armament she is
a fleet in herself.

1867.
Oct. 5. Balance in the Bank of England in the joint
names of Henry Pownall, Esq., Henry Morris
Kemshead, Esq., and the County Treasurer. ..£19,0133 9 0

EXPENDITURE.
Paid Mr. William Ifenshaw further on account for
works executed by him under his contract for
erecting new buildings .. -. £5,800 0 0
..
Paid Mr. William Irons for excavating and carting
sway earth from the foundations of the new
.. . • buildings .. .. ..
Paid Mr. F. H. Pownall, architect, commission on
the above-mentioned sums .. • -..
Paid Mr. John Laidlow, clerk of the works, twelve
weeks' wages to the 14th day of Dec. 1867.. ..
Total Expenditure • • - •..
Balance in the Bank of England in the three names
mentioned per contra on the 4th Jan., 1868.. .. 14,292 9 0

84 0 0

269 4 0

37 16 0
5,691 ' 0 0

£19,983 9 0

AS TO MONIES BORROWED FOR ENLARGING THE
HOUSE OF DETENTION.
DR

A a. d

Balance in the Bank of England in the joint names
of Henry Pownall, Esq., HenryMorrisKemshead,
Esq., and the County Treasurer, on sth Oct., 1807 611 9 8

48 0 0
10,142 9 0
.Eiottsz OF CORRECTION AT WESTMINST=
From the Lords of the Treasury to-
wards the maintenance of convicted
prisoners from Ist April to 30th
September, 1867 .. .. .. 2,645 15 6
For materials worked up and labour
done by prisoners l4O 2 6
..
For stockings supplied to the House of
Correction at Coldbath Fields .. 33 0 0
For boys' socks made and repaired,
and washing and mending linen for
the County Industrial School at
Feltham .. .. 62 0 0
.. ..
Vor straw bonnets made and supplied
to the County Asylum at Hanwell . 8 12 0
For mats, old lead, and iron bedsteads
s old • • .. . • 8 15 11
..
For grazing in the outer ground . 6 0 0
For the maintenance of . Customs'
prisoners.. • • .. .. 2 3 6

CR.
Paid Messrs. G. Haden and Son the balance due to
them for providing and fixing warming and
ventilating apparatus .. .. • .
Mr. Samuel Thomas for locks supplied for the
enlarged wings .. .. .. ..
Mr. Henry Lovatt on account of his contract,
for constructing a new Gallery .. .. 100 0 0
Mr. F. H. Pownall, architect, commission on
the last-mentioned sum .. ..
Balance in the Bank of England in the three names
mentioned per contra, on 4th January, 1808 .. 851 511

125 16 3

29 7 6

5 0 0

£6ll 9 8

AS TO MONEY BORROWED FOR ALTERING THE HOUSE
OF CORRECTION AT WESTMINSTER.
DB.

£ s. d.

Balance in the Bank of England in the joint names
of Henry Pownall, Esq., Henry Morris KentsbNld,
Esq , and the County Treasurer, on sth Oct., 1867 250 18 6

2,005 9 5

Flousz o r Diaz/max.
For maintenance of deserters ••
33 13 0
For copies of commitments.. 0 2 8
••
13S sale of wash .. .• •,
116 0

Paid Mr. Francis Dudley the I;alance due to him
under his contract for altering the single cells .. 227 0 0
Paid Messrs. G. Haden and Son part of the balance
due to them under their contract for warming and
ventilating cells in the A., 8., and C. sections (the
remainder being paid out of the general County
••
Fate) •• .. 29 18 6

S& 11 8

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FELTITAH,
By sale of farm produce .. .. 299 0 6
Dc., of old metal and coal tar .. 11 2 6
Towards the maintenance of Juvenile offenders in
the school, viz.:—
From the Lords of the Treasury ..
The Inspector of reformatories ..
Collected from the parents or relations
of the boys .. ..
It aid by the Lords of the Treasury
the expense of removing boys from
the school
• " .• 16 2 n
922 6
• •

4:256 18 6

487 10 4
611 2

The accounts of which the above is an abstract were presented
to the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex, on the flth
inst., and were audited on the same day by the following Justices
:•! the Peace for the said County, namely—Henry Morris Kern-
shead (Chairman), Francis Brocleman 111crley,iliain Peter
Bodkin, Thomas Lewis and Benjamin Sharpe, Esqs., and were
audited and allowed by the same Quarter Sessions, on the 16th
instant.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Fees received by inspectors .. • • 76 1 2
Pines andypenalties 79 16 9

CHARLES P. ALLEN,
Treasurer of Middlesex.

The Crocodile, screw troopship, Captain Watson,
was undocked at Portsmouth early yesterday morn-
ing, and was berthed alongside the railway jetty,
where she afterwards received on board a detach-
ment of officers and men from the depots of the 93d
and other regiments. She will sail from Ports-
mouth this morning for Queenstown to till up her
complement of troops for India, and will then pro.-
ceed to Alexandria.

SUNDRIES.
Expenses repaid of inquiry into the insanity of two
lunatics and removing them .. .. • .

Total receipt

..£51,774 18

EXPENDITURE.

House of Correction at Cold-bath Fields

General expenses ..
Tontine annuities
Interest of monies borrowed
Principal repaid
Annuities to retired officers

£ s. d. £ S. d.
.. 13,754 16 11
.. 299 17 8
.. 1,661 15 10
.. 2,016 19 4
.. 416 2 11

The Serapis, screw troopship, Captain Soady, is
under orders to sail from Portsmouth on Sunday
next for Queenstown to embark her next quota of
troops for India via Alexandria.

18,149 6 -8

Rouse of Detention at Clerkenwell :
General expenses .. 2,091 9 8
Interest of monies borrowed .. 193 3 0
Principal repaid -.• . •• 60 0 0
Annuities to retired officers .. 107 12 5

-- -:L-- 2,492 5 1
GHouse of Correction at Westminster:—
eneral expenses • .
Interest of monies borrowed 3,772 13 9
.. 504 18 0
Principal repaid • • „ 1.616 13 4
.. 2 0 410 Annuities to retired officers

The screw troopship Simoom, Capt. T. B. Leth-
bridge, is expected to sail from Portsmouth for
Queenstown, Ireland, on troop service, to-morrow.
The Danae, 6, screw sloop, Captain Sir Malcolm
111‘Gregor, will make the two trials of speed over
the measured mile, at fixed draugh's of water, about
the end of the present week. After these trials have
been concluded the Danae will sail for a term of
service on the Wrest Coast of Africa. She will be
accompanied from Spithead as far as Madeira by
the screw corvette Pylades, 17, Captain Cecil W.
Buckley, Y.C., now lying at the anchorage, and
the two vessels will make a series of competitive
trials in steaming power, consumption of fuel, &c.

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County Industrial... IGeneral Expenses 5,319 17 7 6,104 911
School for Boys. j Interest of monies
borrowed .. 507 14 2
Principal repaid .. 666 13 4
Payments for boys on
•
their discharge .. 224 0 2
6,718 5 8
Conveyance of male juvenile offenders to the Indus-
trial School at Feltham ..
2 1 8
• •
Reformatory School-ship Cornwall—
maintenance of boys .. ..
17 16 147 12 10
Ditto Clarence ditto ..
The Philanthropic Society's Reforma-
tory School—ditto .. 9 15 0
Reformatory School at Wandsworth—
..
--ditto .. .. .. 31 5 8
Ditto at Brook Green—ditto and
clothing . •.. .. 18 8 7
SO
Ditto at Mount St. Bernard's
Maintenance of Boys .. .. 111 2 1
Ditto at Farkhead, Glasgow
Maintenance of a Boy .. 0 19 7
... Reformatory School at Hampstead 236 19 10
Maintenance of Girls .. 155 5 8
timpl,v Stoke Reformatory—Maint.e.-
ali.ai of Girls .. .. .. 18 12 10

A very interesting trial was made of a steam
cutter, built on the lifeboat principle, at Portsmouth
yesterday by the Government officials of the Steam
Factory and Reserves. Steam launches have been,
as our readers are aware, for some time established
as a part of the fixed boat service of men-of-war of
the first and second class. The lifeboat principle
has also been, to a certain extent, adopted by the
Admiralty for steam launches, but the boat tried at
Portsmouth yesterday represents the adoption of the
principle in an improved form to a class of boat
capable of moving with great rapidity, as a means
of communication, or as a look-out vessel on coasts
or rivers, at the same time with sufficient towing
power to take charge of all the other boats of the
ship. The boat tried yesterday is designated by the
Admiralty " Steam Cutter No. 3," being the third
of the kind built for the Admiralty by Mr. S. White,
of East Cowes, Isle of Wight, and also fitted by him
with her machinery. She is 38ft. in length, 7ft. in
breadth, and 3ft. in depth. She carries a one
6i-inch cylinder engine of a nominal power of
three horses, which drives one common four-bladed
screw. The engine and boiler are wonderfully com-
pact in their arrangements, and the workmanship
is all of a first-class character. The trial was con-
ducted with the same strictness in all the conditions
which govern the trials of all her Majesty's ships,
and the results gave the most complete satisfaction
to the officers who had its conduct. Six runs over
the mile gave the boat a mean speed of 6.978 knots
—the highest rate yet obtained with so small a
boat, the mean revolutions of the engine being
277.3, and the steam pressure in the boiler 651 b.
The boat made complete circles, in testing her turn-
ing powers, of 48ft. diameter, or only 10ft. in excess
of her own length. The introduction of boats of
this useful and safe description into her Majesty's
navy, we understand, is due mainly to the opinions
entertained on the subject of the boat service of
the navy by the Controller and the Chief Con-
structor.

--- MILITIA STOREFIOUSUS--• 173 18 6
Penis, Taxes, Insurance, Fuel 1,048 6 8
Interest of monies borrowed .. 304 5 2
Principal repaid .. .. .. 800 0 0

----- 2,150 11 10
PROSECUTORS AND AVlTHicssz...
Central Criminal Court .. • • 674 15 11
Middlesex Sessions.. ..
Criminal Justice Act .. 1,631 14 9
38 11 7
..
Juvenile Offenders Act .. .. 08 0

------ 2,395 10 8

The Earl de Grey and Ripon screw steam store-
ship, Mr. H. T. Moore, in the service of the War
Department, yesterday sailed from Woolwich
Arsenal, laden with 130 tons of Palliser and other
shells, 6i-ton 'Woolwich guns, bales of blankets,
rugs, for distribution at Devonport. Before
taking her departure, the officers and crew were
subjected to a course of drill with the swords, sea
muskets, six-chamber revolvers, boarding pikes,
and other arms, with which they had been provided,
in order to protect and defend the ship and cargo
in case of invasion.

The old colours of the 54th (West Norfolk) Regi-
ment were deposited with appropriate ceremonial in
Norwich Cathedral on Saturday.

The regulations contained in the War.office
memorandum issued some few weeks ago, as notified
in The Sun, giving instructions to examine the work-
ing men of the Military Store Staff Corps employed
in Woolwich Arsenal, on leaving the establishment,
in the same way as civilians, were put into effect
for the first time on Saturday last. Sergeant
Major Richey, acting provost of the military po-
lice of the garrison, was in attendance on the men
being marched out for the dinner, and the first two
men called out to be searched were found to have
stores concealed on their persons. James Mande-
ville, a private of the Military Train, had possessed
himself of some pieces of leather straps, value
2s. 6d., and Charles Taylor, Depot Brigade, two
small bottles of paint and turpentine. They were
both handed over to Inspector Beard, of the civil
police, and were accused before Mr. Maude, the
magistrate. The former was fined 505., which was
collected among his comrades and paid to the court,
and the latter was discharged as not guilty, on the
plea being accepted " that being under a course of
writing instruction on wood in the arsenal he in-
tended to continue his study at the barracks." Isis
commanding officer attended and gave him a very
good character.

The honour of knighthood has been conferred on
Sir Charles Wheatstone, as a reward for years of devotion
to a discovery which has done more to assist tho progress
of civilization and peace throughout the world, than any
other invention within the memory of man.
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His Majesty tho King of Italy has conferrecii
upon Sir John Bowring the honour of a knight-com•'
mandership in the noble Order of St. Maurice, on the
occasion of the ratification of the Italo-Hawaiian treaty.
The Hawaiian Order of Kamehameha 1., we understand,
was at the same time conferred on the Italian Minister for
Foreign Affairs, andi on the Marquis d'Azeglio, Minister
Plenipotentiary 4nd Envoy Extraordinary to the British
Court.

Mr. C. W. Preedy, thehon. secretary of the
Hunstanton branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, has just received from his Royal Highness the
Prince of \Vales a donation of ten guineas in aid of the
" Licensed Victualler" Fund. This lifeboat station is
within eight miles of the royal residence, and the boat was
launched on Sept. 5, 1867, since which time it has saved
the lives of 31 sailors-16 from the barque Thetis, and 15
from the barque Hammonia.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A CLERGYMAN.
—The Bristol journals report that the Rev. Benjamin
Spoke, of Dowlish, near Ilminster, and brother of the late
Captain Speke, the African explorer, has disappeared in a
very mysterious manner. The rev. gentleman left Ilmin-
ster station for London, on Wednesday week, for the
purpose of officiating at the wedding of a friend on the
following day. lie was to have dined the same evening
with a relative, but he never put in an appearance.
About 5.30 on the Wednesday afternoon Mr. Speke pur-
chased a hat in Warwick-street, but with his exit from
the hatter's shop all trace of him is lost. Advertisements
in the London papers offering £lOO reward have elicited.
no response.
The English public have quite enough on their hands
with the Abyssinian expedition. The correspondent of
the Daily News says England must be prepared to provide
more than the two millions sterling modestly requested by
11" r. Disraeli. The budget of 1869 must exhibit an
expenditure at least six times that sum. Let us
hope this is an exaggeration. According to the Times oA
India the people of Bombay have read Mr. Disraeli's
"rough, but careful and confident estimate," that the ex-
penses of the expedition, assuming it to be over by April,
would be only four millions, with amusement. We can
assure them it causes no amusement at home. Yet there
may be ground for making merry with the estimate, if the
transport service alone costs a quarter of a million a month.
It would be the worst of all extravagance to throw away
this dear-bought experience.

Sir Roderick Murchison may well be proud of ,his
triumph in the dispute as to the safety of the great African
traveller in opposition to authorities like Sir Samuel Baker.
Nob only is there every reason to believe the traveller
alive, but also that the story of the Johanna men was
forged in the way and for the purpose which Sir Roderick
surmised—to conceal their cowardly desertion of Living-
stone.

Both Liberals and Conservatives are on the alert in.
North Lancashire. There has been no contest in that
division since the passing of the Reform Act, so that it is
impossible to say how a struggle would go were either of
the two political parties to attempt to return two men.
At present the sitting members are Colonel Wilson Patten,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Marquis of
llartington, Secretary of State for War in the late Govern-
ment. The Conservatives, at all events, appear prepared
to fight for both seats, and have selected Captain the
Hon. F. A. Stanley, second son of the Premier, and
now M.P. for Preston, as their champion. . On the
other hand, the Marquis of Hartington will endeavour
to retain the seat which he has held 'for nearly
eleven years. Both sides will attend to this year's regis-
tration in earnest. The novelty of a contest in North
Lancashire, combined with its magnitude, will be an
affair of national interest. The Conservatives could have
no better candidate to fight their battle than a Stanley.
At the same time, it will be remembered that in one
portion of the division the house of Cavendish is possessed
of a potent influence, and this, coupled with the general
satisfaction which Lord Hartington has given to the con-
stituency, will be a force which the Conservatives will
doubtless weigh very seriously before they offer to encounter
it. His lordship moved the vote of "no confidence''
which expelled the Derby Government from power in
1859, and if he could be ousted by a son of the then ejected
Prime Minister, it would be a Tory triumph of no mean
degree.

The equity barristers practising in Lincoln's Inn find it
impossible to reconcile the various statements which have
been made respecting Lord Justice Sir John bolt. The
Solicitor's Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Dublin
Mail declare that the learned judge is recovering, that he
has no idea of resignation, and that he will soon again be
enabled to take his seat in the Court of Chancery Appeal.
On the other hand, the Telegraph " believes" that Sir
John bolt will not again take his seat upon the bench ;
while the Imperial Review is enabled to state that the
Lord Justice has placed his resignation in the hands of
the Lord Chancellor. No decision has as yet been arrived
at with regard to his successor.

The particulars of the arrest of Mr. George Francis
Train shew that when the tender of the Cunard Company
brought into Queenstown the passengers who wished to
land from the Scotia, a powerful body of police at once
went on board and seized Mr. Train, Mr. Gee, an Eng-
lishman, and Mr. Durant, an American railway contractor.
They were taken to the house of Mr. Beamish, a magis-
trate, and Mr. Tarrant, another magistrate, having shortly
afterwards arrived, an investigation began, Mr. Train
was very indignant at having been molested, urging that
.he was an American citizen, that he had committed no
offence against the laws of Great Britain upon British
territory, and that interference with his liberty was un-
warrantable and an insult to the United States, whose
protection he claimed. Mr. Train also demanded the
charge upon which he was arrested. The magistrates
came to the determination of releasing the three prisoners.
Mr. Train proceeded with his two companions to the
Queen's Hotel, where they intended to pass the night.

The three gentlemen had not been long in the Queen's
Hotel when two detectives arrived, and requested to be
ahewn to Mr. Train's apartment. This was about mid-
night. The officers at once proceeded to search his bag-
gage, at which Mr. Train expressed great indignation
The police found nothing beyond a bundle of papers
the contents of which have not transpired. Notwith
standing Mr. Train's protest, the police intimated that
they had orders to remain in his apartments for the
night, apparently for the purpose of keeping him under
surveillance. This they did, keeping a close watch
upon Mr. Train. In the morning Mr. Train was
informed that he was to be conveyed to Cork by the two
police officers, against which he formally protested. At
one o'clock the detectives and their captive proceeded to
Cork, arriving at two. Mr. Train was removed from the
station in a cab, still accompanied by the detectives, to the
county gaol, where he at present remains remanded
for eight days. After their discharge by the magis-
trates Messrs. Durant and Gee were not further mo-
lested.

These proceedings, combined with the arrest of Dr.
Waters, the prosecution of the Nation for having published
seditious libels, and the removal from the Cork commis.
sion of the name of a magistrate who subscribed to the
fund for relieving the Manchester murderers' families,
shew that the Irish Executive is using the greatest vigi-
lance in dealing with the Fenian conspirators, their aiders
and abettors. A general meeting of the attorneys of Ire-
land has been held at the Four Courts, under the
presidency of one of the new knights, Sir Richard
Orpen. A loyal address to the Crown was adopted,
expressing the strongest condemnation of the Fenian con-
spiracy, and the determination of the lawyers to support
the Government by every means in their power.

The Times contains a letter from " Historicus," directly
combating the views of Lord Hobart on the Alabama
question. Lord Hobart assumed that the "
limited
reference " included the question of the recognition of the
Southern States as belligerents only so far as it affected
the main issue of compensation,
and that Mr. Seward did
not, in fact, demand that the arbitrators should determine
this question. " Historicus" quotes Mr. Seward's
despatches, in which "the failure of her Majesty's
Government to prevent or counteract the .aggression of
British subjects" on United States commerce was said to
be directly traceable to that " unfortunate cause "—the
recognition. Mr. Seward, indeed, demands that the
" whole controversy" should be referred to arbitration,
and, in the view of the American Government, the recogni-
tion of belligerency is the principal question in the corre-
spondence. "Historicus" argues that the right and propriety
of recognising the Southern States as belligerents is not a
question on which any reasonable man has a doubt. Mr.
Seward, in 1867, says that but for the English proclama-
tion of neutrality there would never have been civil war
n the United States. "It was England that baptised the
slave insurrection a civil war ;" but " Historieus" reminds him
that on May 4, 1361, nine days before the English proclama-
tion,Mr.Seward wrote to Mr. Dayton in Paris : " The insur-
gents have instituted revolution with open, flagrant, deadly
war, to compel the United States to acquiesce in the dis-
memberment of the Union. The United States have
accepted this civil war as an inevitable necessity." Simi-
larly, in a letter to the Spanish Minister, the American
Secretary wrote that the blockade would be established on
the principle recognised by the law of nations ; and he even
used the words "Neutral States," which could have no
meaning if war did not exist. It is simply nonsense,
therefore, to pretend that the President's Government at
that time regarded the rebellion as merely a local insur-
rection. If the United States quarrel with us on the sub-
ject, it will be, says " Historicus," because they are deter-
mined to quarrel.