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London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

TE SUN, *LONEON, MONDAY PEN 11NG Au-Gusr 17, 1857

were instituted against her, and her agents had made the
discovery. The husband might have repented of his
error, and his subsequent conduct have been such-as to
give his wife no cause of complaint. It was a question
that might safely b.. left to the diecretion of the court.
Lord J. RUSSELL supported the proviso.
_

After some discussion 'the committee divided. The
numbers were—

For the proviso
Against it
M,jority against it

~ 41
.. 80
.. -39

Mr. BOVILL moved an amendment, that " no de-
cree shall be issued by the Court where a petit'oner shall
have been gaily during the marriage of misconduct or
neglect towards the other party to the marriage." He
urged that this discretion, which was similar to that
exercised by the House of Lords, should be granted to
the Court.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL accepted the principle
of the words of the amendment, but thouht them too
general for the object in view. He wouid consent to
the introduction of words for withholding the decree
where the aduitery was caused by the neglect or miscon-
duct of the husband.

Mr. BOVILL consented to the modification, andithe
amendment so altered was inserted in the clause.

Mr. BOVILL then moved another amendment, that
the decree should n t be granted "where the parties
shall have been living apart from each other by consent
previous to the adultery."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL agreed to the intro-
duction of words to carry out the object of the hon. and
learned member for Ga Ilford.
Mr. BOVILL then moved a third amendment to give
the Court the widest possible discretion;--the same as
that enjoyed by the House of Lords. After the limita-
tion for divorce in the clause he moved tl add "or where
a petitioner couk not as heretofore have obtaiued a
divorce."
After some discussion the amendment was negatived
without a division.
On again putting the motion that the clause stand
part of the bill,
Mr. MONSELL proceeded to raise the question of
marriage by divorced persons, which he said would be
contrary to the laws of Cbristendom, and he instanced
the frightful consequences that had resulted to society
from such a permission in Prussia. He asked the com-
mittee to express its opinion on the subject, and he
therefore moved the expulsion of the clause.
The committee then divided. The numbers were—
For the clause B3
Against it 2l
Majority
The clause was then added to the bill, and the house
resumed.

The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, the
Probates and Letters of Administration (Ireland)
and the Jurisdiction in Siam Bill were read a third
time and passed.
The Cust.)ms and Excise Bill, and the Customs Bill
were considered or amended and agreed to, and ordered
to be read a third time to-morrow.

The sitting was suspended at 4 o'clock.
The house resumed at six o'clock.
[LEFT SITTING

Country Markets.

DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—AUG. 14.
Qrs. Best. Current. Infeiin
641 Wheat 603 63 3Bs 7d
233 Oats 34s 03 3ls lid 26• 61
110 Barley 38s 03 34s le 293 9d
15 Peas & beaus 60s 64 49i 901 49 ed

HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—Ana. 14.
WHEAT. BARLEY OATS. I snAng•
First 6Bs 03 38s 63. 363 93 1 52s 01
Second 43s 53 I 34s 6d I 333 5d j 46s 111
Third 34s 03 132 s 0.1 131 s 03 I 45s vd
Total quantity of wheat in market, 1114 qrs.,lolB sold
barley „ 243 qrs., 214 sold
oats ,; 3.31. qrs., 306 s.,ld
11 fl beans ~ 37 qrs., 37 sold
AVERAGES PER IMPIRTAL QUARTER.
Wheat, U. 19 10 0-12ths j Barley, ...1/: 13 4 3-12ths
Oats, ... 11. 12 4 11-12ths I Beans, .....21. 710 0-12th

PP I

ABERDEEN—AUG. 14.
Potato oats
Common oats 22ss
00Cd1 ttoo
2246: 01 Od
rt Elbe per bushel
Bere qOs Od to 3 s Od 1
„531bs
Barley 30s Od to 31s Od
Wheat, red (spring)36B Od to 40s Od
1621b9 ~ , white 36s Od to 463 Od f
Oatmeal' 2os 01 to 21s 01 per boll.
Flour 448 Od to 45s Od per sack.
PROVISION MARKET.
Beef, per lb 61 to 9d I Butter, p lb. is —d to Is lc
Mutton, per lb 6d to 9d Eggs, p doz. Os 9d to Os 10d
Lamb, Ldo., Os 6d to Of. 81 I Hens, p pair 2s 6d to 3s 0.1
Veal, per lb ... 5d to Os 7d I Chickens,do. is 6d to 2f. 0 I
Pork, perlb...os 6d. to Os 7d Ducks, do., is 6-1 to 1 00
Salmon, per lb .........ls Od Ducklings,o Is 6d to 24 0
Grouse, per brace Os to Os 1 Turkeys, each 4s Od to 4-s 6 i
Tallow, p stone, Os to HS 0-1 Potatoes, pr peck, d --to 10
Rabbits, each Od to OJ.
Butter for explrtation (present cure) per cwt.... 988 to 103 s
Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen --d to 7d
RETAIL PRICES.
F10ur,141b....0s Od to 2s 6d Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2s 2d
Oatmeal Os Od to 2s ld „ dust,
Beremeal ....Os Od to 2a Od „ per lb 2d to 2i.1
Peasernoal... Os Od to 2s 4il Sids,
7d
Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6a
4-lb. 10af...8d. I 2-Ib. loaf ...4d.

THE LATE STORMS.

About two o'clock on Friday morning last the
electric fluid struck a portion of the goods shed, at
the Bricklayers' Arms station of the Sou, h-E 'stern
Railway, and caused so severe a concussion that
the porters who were unloading the train contain-
ing fruit for the metropolitan markets instantly
jumped off the platform in a state of the greatest
terror. The chief officers on duty, Mr. Biggs and
Mr. Wells, examined the iron roof, and immediately
orlered a policeman to prevent all persons from
walking uuder it. This order fortunately was
strictly obeyed, as about two hours afterwards a
portion of the roof, about 350 feat in length, toge-
ther with the massive girders and iron pillar4' fell
with a tremendous crash, the fragments completely
covering 25 waggons. Notice of the occurrence was
forthwith given to the general manager, Mr. Ash-
croft, by Mr. Noden, the goods manager, who had
just returned from the continent, and a body of 100
labourers was immediately employed to remove the
fallen materials. In consequence of the terrific
storm on Friday evening this operation was con-
siderably delayed. In the course of Saturday,
however, the wreck was completely cleared away.
No damaged occurred, except the loss of the shed,
nor were the trucks seriously injured. Had it not
been for the precautions taken by the officers on
duty, probably a serious loss of life would have
occurred, there being on an average about 5) men
o intinually at work on the platform. Immediately
the roof fell in, Mr. Noden ordered the muster-roil
to be called, and no one was missing. Although
the accident caused serious inconvenience, the
roods trains left the station at their appointed
tams, and the market trains arrived on the follow-
ing (Saturday) morning, and their contents were
despatched to their destination as usual. This is
the fourth occasion on which a portion of the
original roof of the Bricklayers' Arms station has
fallen within the last 12 years.
In the aunty of Essex the market-gardeners'
grounds were flooded to an alarming extent, and
many low-lying parts were inundated by the heavy
rains wh ch fell on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Several lofty trees were struck by lightning, and
the roofs of many houses were severely damaged
by the electric fluid. In the small villages of
Epping, Chigwell, Malden, Barking, Dagenham,
Ilford, Brentwood, Hornchurch, Lea, Ongar, Rom-
ford, Stratford, Walthamstow, and Woodford, the
farmers have been great sufferers, and their crops
have been damaged. The Colchester line of the
Eastern Counties Railway in various parts pre-
sented an unusual and singular appearance, more
particularly at Bury St. Edmunds, Norwich, Yar-
mouth and Lrwestofr. The usual excursion trains
on the Cambridge and Colchester lines were rather
delayed by the violence, of the storm, but no serious
accident occurred.
In the suburbandistricts of Hackney, Homerton,
Old Ford, Kiugsland, Bow, Haggerstone, Dalston,
Shacklewell-green, Stoke Newington, • and other
eastern parts of the meteopolis, the effects of the
storm were more severely felt by the owners of pro-
perty, who have suffered -by the floods.
The residence of Mr. Nicnole, the builder, of No.
25, Strathmore-terrace, Back-road, Br. Paul's,
Shadwell, was struck by lighming. A large stone
chimney was forced from the brickwork of the roof,
and carded by a sudden gust of wind *moss the
street into the back premises of an opposite neigh-
bour, by which the roof of an outhouse was par-
tially destroyed, but no personal injury was sus-
tained by the inmates. The roofs of several
buildings in the same neighbourhood were also
similarly damaged.
At half-pest 11 o'clock on Friday there was a
terrific discharge of lightning, by which the south-
east pinnacle of St. Michael's Church, Stamford,
was instantaneously struck down. The church of
St. Michael is a modern structure, erected in 1832.
It is situate in the centre of the town. The south-
east pinnacle, which received the electric fluid, was
composed of a mass of masonry, weighing about
15cwt. ; the iron clumps or ties by which the work
was bound together, served as partial conductors.
At every break in their arrangement a series of
disrupture discharges of the electric fluid took place
in lateral directions, driving out large masses of
the stonework, spreading them over the roof of the
nave and churchyard, doing considerable damage
to the roofing and tombstones. The effect' of the
fluid when it reached the base of the pinnacle,
from not meeting with a ready conducting me-
dium, was to uplift the whole mass, imparting to it
at the same time a kind of circular motion to the
southward, the apex of the pinnacle falling in a line
with its original base, and the base having traver-
sed about the eighth part of the c'rele, fell into
the ro of the tower. Immediately at the base of
the pinnacle there is a three-inch iron spout or
tube erected to convey the water from the
tower-roof. This iron tube the electric fluid.
entered, and finding through it an unopposed
channel, passed down the tower, and finally
into the earth, without doing more damage.
The iron tube or spouting in this instance, and
by mere accident, acted the part of a lightning con-
ductor, and served to protect the other parts of
the tower from most serious injury, if not entire
destruction.
On Friday the town of Rexford was inundated
with water to an extent that has had no parallel for
the last 62 yeais. In at least half-a-dozen places
the watsr rose above the basement floors of
the houses, and in Spring-gardens and the lo-
cality mar the railway-station persons were taken
out of their houses in boats. The deluge swept
quite through the market-place, which is in the
centre of the town, and even invaded the church-
yard, which is still h'gh-r up. From Betford to
Bawtry, along the course of the Idle, and on bob
sides of the Great Northern Railway, the lands
were more or 1 E 33 submerged, and all kinds of crop-,,
wheat, barley, oats, beans, turnips, and potatoes,
were saturated, not only the lowlands being
flooded, but the highlands also, to an extent un-
known before. At Bawtry all the flat country in
the direction of the Trent was like an immense lake.
At Dencaster the river Don overflowed and covered
the adjacent lands with water. A bank erected on
the north side of the stream by the river Don
and South Yorkshire Railway Company some
years age was cut on Saturday evening by a
party of men, mostly mariners and inhabitants of
that part of the town which is exposed to the
severest effects of the Don floods. During
the whole of Saturday quantities of wheat, oats,
bay, &c., were carried down the river, having been
sweptoutof the fields where harvest operations have
been a. rested. by the late he ivy rains. At Mt3X-
borough, a few miles above Doncaster, the flood is
the h ghest recorded, and several head of cattle
have been lost.

A great fall of earth was caused by the rain at
Scarborough, on the eastern face of the Castle-hill.
A semictrou'ar piece of about half an acre has gone
sheer down, le-tvince a precipitous face from the top
to the bottom, a depth' of well nigh 200 feet. The
quant.ty of earth and rock which has fallen cannot
be less than a hundred thousand tons in weight,
and is probably much more. There was a large
cavern there, which was entered from the castle-
yard, at no great depth below its surface. It was
regarded as a curiosity by the people of Scar-
borough, and when the 28th Regiment had an en-
campment in the castle-yard, three years ago, the
officers sometimes had their mess in the cavern.
This rude banqueting hall has perished along with
the portion of the cliff which has fallen, and may
have been the cause of this fall, by filling wi.h a
weight of water beyond the telacity of the cliff to
resist'.

Manchester and its neighbourhood were visited
with heavy thunderstorms on Thursday, Fri-
day, and Saturday morning, resulting in the flood-
ing of the rivers to a height which has not been
known for many years and a serious loss of life and
property. Heavy rains had fallen on the earlier
days of the week, but the first thunderstorm was
on Thursday evening, when the lightning was ex-
tremely vivid, coming in triple flashes, and the
rain descended in torrents. During Thursday
night and up to 10 o'clock on Friday morning there
was a succession of very heavy showers, and the
rivers Irwell, Irk, and Medlock were swollen dur-
ing the whole of the day. The most serious storm
however, was one which commenced about 10
o'clock on Friday night and lasted until 2 o'clock
on Saturday morning. The flashes of lightning
and peals of thunder followed each other with un-
usual rapidity, and the deluge of rain that came
down converted the streets into pools of water.
The rivers hid risen above the level of their

deep channels, and in many places were over-
flowing their basks. Many people say these
streams have not been so high for 30 years
past. The destruction of life and property by the
floods was very imperfectly known up to Saturday
night. A man was drowned in the Ir well, near the
Victoria-bridge, and several lives are said to have
been last at Blue-pits by the bursting of the reser
voir, and higher up the streams it was reported that
lives had been lost, including two boys named
Robinson and Fos, drowned at Ashton-und-r-
Lyne. The destruction of property has been very
great in Manchester alone, caused chiefly by the
overflow of the Medlock. We have heard it vari-
ously estimated at 40,0001. to 50,0001. Among the
principal buildings flooded were the cotton mills of
Messrs. J. and W. Bellhouse, Messrs. Birley and
Co., Alderman Barnes, Messrs. Hilton and Co.
(Bolt-town), Mr. Jones (Mount-street), and the
Hanover-mill. The moat serious loss among these
cases will probably have accrued to Messrs. W. and
J. Bellhouse. In their mill the water is said to have
risen 3 feet 6 inches above the level it attained in the
flood, of last'August. The cotton mill of Messrs.
Marsden at Ancoat-bridge was flooded to the depth
of nine feet, and the night watchman on fluty had,•

a narrow escape. Hanover cotton-mills, at Buxton-
street, were flooded to a depth of 17 feet in the
boiler-heuee, and of 5 feet in tie throstle-roan.
At Mr. Thomas Chester's brewery, Stove-street,
33 pockets of hops were immersed, 37 puncheoes
of ale destroyed, asid a portion of the building da-
maged. The 10-s is estimated at about 7501. At
some cottages in this street not only the cellars but
first story rcoms were under water, the fib id en-
tering the bed-rooms. Mr. Stone, of the Bridge
Inn, had his stables flooded and one of his horses
was drowned. Mr. Crabtree, dyer, also lost a
horse in a similar way. Among others who suf-
fered serious damage in the same neighbourhood
are Mt ssrs. Teenat and Co., manufacturing che-
mists ; Mr. Simister, confectioner ; Mr. Arnold,
grocer ; Mr. Ridings, innkeeper (Royal Oak) ;
Messrs. T. Cunliffe and Sons, printers ; Messrs.
W. Andrews and Co., dressers and dyers ; Messrs.
Wren and Hopkinson, engineers ; Messrs. New-
ton and Co. dyers ; Mr. James Donaldson,
dyer; Mr. W. Brigham, iron works ; Mr. J.
Kearney, Messrs. J. P. Westhead and Co., Mr. S.
Potts, Mr. Marsland, spinner ; and Messrs. Ram-
sey and Co. On the Irwell the river had inundated
the works of Messrs. Lockett, Sons, and Leak,
engravers ; of Mr.' Muir, machine maker ; Mr.
Harding, cotton spinner • and Mr. De Bergue,
machine maker. The total in the Irwell, above
the usual water level, was about 15 feet. It is feared
that considerable losses have been sustained up the
stream, as large quantities of timber, a cow, pigs,
and some household furniture, were seen floating
down the river. The rivers Edlerow and Mersey,
from Dinting to Stockport, and down in the agri-
cultural portions of Cheshire, were much flooded,
and crops of corn and other produce on the banks
of the Mersey will have suffered much damage.
The house of Mrs. Ovy, 17, Clarence-stree', Chorl-
ton-upon-Medlock, was struck by lightning on Fri-
day night, and set on fire, but the property was
saved with trifling damage.
A letter from Stowe, in Lincolnshire, states that
on Thursday, during a thunder storm, stacks of
corn were set on fire by the lightning • and in one
instance a field of standing corn was also set on fire
by lightning and destroyed.
The West Riding of Yorkshire was visited on Fri-
day night with a terrific storm of thunder and light-
ning, causing great destruction to property, and
which unhappily, dienot terminate without loss of
life. A house at Morley, nearly opposite to the
railway station, was completely washed away by
the flood, and at Saddleworth a great portion of
the towing-path connected with the canal was
washed away. The Standedge Tunnel, the property
of the London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany, which is nearly three miles in length, was for
some time three feet deep in water, causing great
delay to the mail train to Manchester and Crewe.
At Marsden two bridges, one built of iron and the
other of wood, were destroyed, as also a great num-
ber. of cattle ; and much damage was done to the
mills, the lower stories of some being completely
filled with water. At Milnesbridge, near Hudders-
field, several mills and houses were flooded, and a
bridge over the river was torn up to the foundation,
and not a vestige of it now remains. Messrs. Wal-
ker and Sons, dyers, had their premises deluged by
the overflo wingof the canal, and 150 piecs s of valuable
mohair clothes swept were away, and great d image
-o done to the premises and works, estimated at
upwards of 1,0001. -The premises of Mr. W. Ar-
nold, boilermaker, were also completely inundated,
and much damage done, large iron boiler flues,
weighing 30 cwt., being carried away. The foun-
dation of the gasometer was completely twisted
round by the force of the current. The damage at
these works will be several hundred pounds. Seve-
ral cottages, too, in the neighbourhood wore so
filled with water that the inmates were nearly
swimming in their beds, and on the doors being
opened their goods were washed away. At Holm-
firth the inhabitants, or many of them at lease,
passed the night in the streets, having learnt such
a lesson in 1852 that they were afraid to go to bed.
The damage done there, however is comparatively
small. A portion of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, between Brockholes and Henley, was ren-
dered impassable, and many mills in the Holme
valley were flooded and the machinery therein
greatly damaged. At Folly-hall, Huddersfield, the
river overflowed its banks, and Kaye's factory and
the adjoining houses were flooded to the depth cf
several feet, leaving a thick deposit of mud and
sand in the roads. A short distance lower down
the river, at King's-mill, a smith and carpenter's
shop was washed down, and still lower down two
large .bridges were swept away by the madly on-
ward-rushing torrent. Lower down the river
widens considerably, consequently the water had
less force, but for a considerable distance on each
side the fields present an appearance of one solid.
mass of water. At Farnley, a village about three
mile-i distant from Huddersfield, a worn _nanied
Betsy Farrand, who was housekeeper to Mr. Edwd.
Roberts, of etorthes-moor-house, was struck by the
.electric fluid on Friday night, and was killed whi'e
she was sitting sewing in a chair. The near Holme
subsigitel as rapidly as it overflowed, and strangers
wouldlee at a loss to conceive the possibility of so
small a stream having inflicted so mewl damage on
this locality. From nine o'clock in the ese ning the
rain came down in torrents, accompanied by heavy
thunder and vivid flashes of lightning, and conti-
nued without intermission until 4 or 5 o'clock the
following morning. There had also been much rain
during the week, and the rivers and streams had
been much swollen in consequence. Never since
the Holmfirth flood has there been so much damage
done, and even then it was less extensive in many
places than now.
y were and Fridaylast the town and county
of e visited by the most violent and
ODneTrbh
destructive thunderstorms that have occurred fur
many years. On the Little Chester read, about a
mile from Perby market place, the houses were ex-
and the turnpike for a mile was
in water, and being market dayedidiceopnvenienice was consequently sus-
tained.t
On the Nottingham road leading out of
Derby the -flood was also very high. But the
greatest injury done is that occasioned to the wheat
crop, some hundreds of acres being under water.
On the hanks of the Trent and Dove the damage is
very serious, while lamps, sheep, and other live
stock have been swept away. The oats generally
were gathered, but the wheat harvest had scarcely
commenced. The effect on the Derby corn-market
was a rise of 3s. a-quarter. On Friday even.ne
auceher storm commenced about 8 o'clock, and con-
tinued until 11, the rain again descending heavily;
in consequence of this there was little abatement of
the flood during Saturday. Many of the local lines
out of Derby were blocked. At Sutton, near
Mansfield, a culvert burst, and blocked both lines
for many hours. At Fickerton, on the Liuco'n
line, the road was for about two miles completely
under water, and the sleepers were washed from
under the rails. On the North Safford line the
water washed. about 100 yards of line away at Hare-
castle. The. Ripley br.ench of the Midland Rai'-
way was almost wholly submerged, and great
damage was sustained. The flood continued very
high throughout Saturday.
The town and country round Whitchurch,. Salop,
were ou Friday morning the scene of one of he
most terrific storms of thunder and rain known in
these parts for many years. The weather for the
we:k had been of a nature to puzzle its observers,
who have been totally unable to explain its move-
ments on any known principles of meteorology.
Town of Whitchurch stands in a hollow, with tee
land gently rising on all sides of ie, the Bickert )n
hills being some 10 miles distant, and the Welsh
hills forming the back-ground of the landscape. This
position affects it to ecertain degree, and, conse-
ly, the amount of rain is a little above the aver-
age, the &M t' 27.18 in. Still, August
last year having
is not generally a wet mouth,6 and its average for
the last two years has been only 1.321 inches. This
month the rain commenced on the 6th, and be-
tween that date and the 12th the amount registered
was 1.925 inches, the b srometer meanwhile ranging
between 29'5 and 29.9 inches. On, the 13th the
fall was .805 inches, and people were beginning t )
hope that this was the end of it, and the fine wea-
ther returning. The event showed they were saely
mistaken. By all accounts it was fine till nearly
four o'clock next morning, when the storm com-
menced, and continued till nearly half past six.
The rain fell in torrents, while the vividness of the
lightning was terribly graud. As yet there are no
tidings of damage done by lightning, but the ra-
vages of the rain are only too palpable. The
amount registered by the rain-gauge in less than
three hours is almost incredible-3.18 inches. The
Chester and Ellesmere canal has overflowed its
banks, and in the town all the ordinary outlets
were insufficient for the carrying off so large a b ely
of rain, and the water flowed down the High-street
in a stream. Many of the houses in the centre of
the town, where the ground is low, have been com-
pletely flooded, and the damage done is consider-
Wile. At one shop in the High-etrr et a large pump
was found useless for the removal of the water col-
lected in the cellars, and the parish engine was put
in requisition. The post:office suffered severely,
but fortunately, owing to the exertions of the post-
master the mail bags were uninjured, and the letters
were delivered at the usual hour. The cellars of a
public-house, the Fox and Goose, were filled, and
the flags of the floor above torn away, the contents
of the cellars being spoiled, and some owls de-
stroyed.

The meteorological report for the morning is as
follows :—Barometer, 29 56 inches ; thermometer,
59 deg. ; wet bulb thermometer, 59 deg. ; amouut
of rain. 3•inches; wind, W.
On Thursday night the electric fluid s'ruck the
Flag Tower of Windsor Castle, displacing about 4
tone of the parapet, but fortunately did no further

damage to any other portion of the Castle. One of
the trees in the Home-park nearly opho-i►e the re-
sidence of the Duchess of Kent, was struck by the
lightning and stripped of a cons'derahle portion of
b irk. An elderly female, named Wilkins, w.s
found dead in her bed on Fri 'ay m•:rning ; her
death is supposed to have bean occasioned by
fright at the violence of the storm.
At Thorpe, the lightning struck a barn belong-
ing to Mr. Joaeph Taylor, causing great destruction
a farm property and produce.
At Reading the storm was equally terrific and
desq.uctive ; the lightning struck the engine-house
at Messrs. Rirratt, Exall, and Co.'s,

French piele wgs rend to me by Mr. Payne, but I
swear I never slw the defendant's work .befor3-
I wrote thy oam. The incidt-mts and chlr,tcters in
our piece are differi,nt from Viose in the Paella.
There was a suffocating by charcoal seen,,, a pistol
so -rae, and a supper ticene, and a double scene on
the stage in the French piece, and so there are in
ours, but the incidieuts.ar©y managed. Air. James—The first act end., I believe, by One
of the characters, Raven,itore, handcuffed
by the police as the drop fall.; and then there is a
tableau. That, of course, is not in the French
original ?

Witness---Ceriainly not. (A laugh.)
Mr Janes—And at the conclusion of your piece,
Martha, another of the characters, aidresscs the
audience, and SITS, "May we, with your permis-
sion, siy all right, and reckon on a repel4t to-mor-
row night." (Much laughter.) That is, of course,
also original."

Witness—That was not in the French piece. He
went on to sly that the title f Mr. B,eede's piece
was Poverty and Pride, and. Mr. Payne gave t!eir
piece the title of The Pride of Poverty; or, the
Real Poor of London.

Cr..ss:exam- ina, ion—Poi.oning by charcoal was a
very common incident of a play, not only in Franca
but at the Strand Th"atre. (A laugh.)
Mr. James—l believe another "incident" in
your play is wher.3 R►rens`one -stuffs a table-
cloth into a hole in the pa; ti ion to keep the
draught out, and at the same time says there is
enough wind to blow a man's teeth down his throat,.
(Laughter.) That, I suppose, is another original
feature, and w not in the French piece.
Witiiess.—lt is not in the French piece.
In answer to further questions put by Mr. James,
the witness said that one or two of the incidents in
his play were similar to those in the French, but he
consid-red the general character of the piece was so
altered that it might fairly be cansidered an origi-
nal productim.

Mr. James. —I Fee that. while the charcoal officer
is going on on one side, Ravenstone, who is on the
other, the stage being divided and forming two
scenes, seems 10 be more sensible, for he says he
shill have his supper and proceeds to eat 4 ounces
of boiled beef. (A laugh.)
Mr. ChamberA.—Thera is no "bouilli" intro-
duced in the original piece. (A. laugh.)
_ The witness then said that there was a fraudu-
lent banker in his piece and so there was in the
Frsnch.

Mr. James. —The_only difference being that in
your piece he is a " British Bank"—er.
Witness.—Exactly so.
Mr. B. Barnett deposed that ho was the joint
author of the piece in question, with Mr. Johnstone.
He understood the French lancruao porfecly, and
his attention was attract ;d -Co the French piece
" Les Feuivres de Paris," and he got a copy of it
and read it carefollY through, and after wards read
a rough translation of it to Mr. Payne, and he said
that it was too long, and suggested that witntss
and-Mr. Johnstone should •write a short drama ;
and upon this they wrote the one in question.
They only adopted the resin incidents of the
French piece, and intro 3 uced altogether new chit-.
ramters.' The comic chary ier of their plece was a
man who sold books in a lo,irrow. In the "Freaur
piece a signpain'er was the comic peraona4e. He
sail the idea was taken from the French piece, but
he considered that their own piece, notwithstand-
ing,:wasquite

The Ch of Baron, at the conclusion of Mr. Bar-
nett's evidence, s =id he really thought it was quite
useless to g. in to anym,,re evidence. The only ques-
tion was whether the plaintiffs' piece was a piratical
imitat'on of the other, and this could much m.ire
easily be ascertained by reading over the original
French piece and the two others.

Mr. fam?s said he should submit that the pl tin-
tiffs had mide out no case at all, and. that, as they
had not complied with-the provisions of the Copy-
right ACt, they had n 1 property what3ver in the
piece in question, and had no ground of action.
Vtie question was one of considerable importance,
undoubtedly b )th to Englishand to foreign author 4,
and the defendant, as tie authorised agent of the
latter, and who iu that capacity hal duly registered
his work, ":was very anxious that the point should
be settled.

The Chief Baron said he was certainly of opinion
that if the plantiffs had not registered their work
they had no legal property in it, and had no ground
for sustaining the present action.
Mr. Gtambers said .that this was a question of
law which he should wish to have settled.
The learned counsel-on both sides then conferred,
together, and the result was teat as arrangement
was come to that the.plaintiffsshoald be nonsuit3d,
but with the understanding that all the facts an I
the question of law should undergo further consi-
deration, and if the result shoul,l be in favour of
the plaintiffs the nonAiit wal to be set misde' an 1
the aiurt woul,l be empowered to ASS9SS the dam-
age sustained by thew.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, AUG. 14.
THE CROWN COURT. rt
(BefO;e Mr. Baron Watson.)
--James Davies was indicted for the wilful mu-der
of Robertolitiules ac Liverpool on tlia 25th of May

Mr. Blair appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
A.soinall'far the defer;ce of the pris tner.
It appeared from the statement of the learned
counsel for the prosecution and from the evidence
adduced that the prisoner is a t tilor by trade, and
resided at No. 3 Court in Bos'ock-street, Liver-
pool. On the night ofthe 25i hof May last the pri-
soner entered a pubic house in Scotand-roa I,
drunk and in an excited state, and asked a man
name: Robert Hodson to go down with him to his
house, as there was .a man in bed with his wife,
and he could show hini(aodson) some fun.
_Hod-
son went-with him and on arriving at the prisoner's
his wife was found sitting on a chair in the lower
ro an. The deceased then struck and abused his
wife, and asked Hodson to go upstairs with him.
He followed the piisOner into a room upstairs in
which there was a bed. No one was in the room,
and the prisoner looked under the bed and said hie
was in the house somewhere. The bedclothes were
tumbled. Th-y then went into the garret and
found the deceased there, lying on a bet on the
floor, apparently asleep, with his clothes on. The
prisoner said, "The is here," and ran and
jumped on the deceased'd face. The deceased
turned and fell on the florin The prisoner: then
took from his pocket a pair of miss era and shoved
them into the side of the deceased, woo male no
resistance and did nit speak. Hodson asked the
prisoner if he meant, to kill the min, and the pri-
goner cried out, "Stand bac:t.' -or I will serve you
the same." The prisoner rh-n went down stairs,
and Hodson went for Dr. Horrocks, with whom
he returned immediately. The deceased was then
dying and unabln to speak, and died in ten minutes.
On examining him two wounds were found in the
upper part of his left breast, and also some con-
tused wounds on his face. On a post mortem ex-
amination the aorta wal found to be perforated in

two places, and the dece,oted had died from loss of
blood. There 'were other two wcuuds, which
penetrated the chest. The examination of the
body of the decea-ed showed that he had had re-
cent connexion with a woman. -
_ _

His lordship, in summing up the evidence, c►lled
the attention of the jury to the law as laid down
by the text writers that a man killing another
caught in the art of s.dul'ety with his wife was not
murder, but inans!augliter in the lowest degre,,
and it was for them to sty whether the circum-
stances of this case warranted such finding.
The jury 'found the prisoner guilty of man-
slaughter of the lowest degree.
His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to four
days' imprisonment.
Hannah Smith, single woman, 44 years of age,
was indicted for the murder of her infant child.

The jury acquitted the pri.oner on he ground of
insanty, and she was orderei to be detained during
her M*jesty's pleasure.

AUGUST 15.
CIVIL COURT.—(Btlfore Mr. Baron Diannell.)
WOOD V. GARSIDE.

This was an action for breach of promise of mar-
riage. The defendant pleaded that he did not
promise,
Mr. Mono]; Q C., and Mr. Ovens appeared for
tht, plaintiff; aid Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Spinks
for the defendant.

It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the plaint ff that the plaintiff
was a framer's daughter of Old-dame, in Saddle-,
worth, near Oldham, and that the defendant is a
master dyer of Saddleworth. The plaintiff is a
person in a humble station of life, about 21 years
of age, and at the time tie defendant became ac-
quainted with her she was a person of rare personal
beauty. Her father was some time ago a fat'iner, -
haiVing some land and keeping cattle ' • bat lie be-
came reduced in circum.tances, and his children
were under the necessity of going out to earn their
own living. At an early age the plaintiff was under
the necessity of going to the place of business of the
defendant, who is in a superior station of life, for
the purpose of taking dinners to her br.rthers and
sisters, who worked at the ritanufactory at Saddle
worth. The defendant carried on a business of
considerable extent there. He was of considerably
greater age than the plaintiff, and when the ac-
quaintance first commenced she was ab .ut 17, and
he was upwards of 30. He manifested great anxiety
to win the affections of the plaintiff, and she re-
ceived his advances with much coyness. Both to
her mother, her father, and other relations he hid
over and over again avowed his deep attachment.
He was told there-was a disproportion in their years
and a disproportion in their for.unes —that the
marriage would nO be a suitable one on his part
.)

and that he bad bolter abstain. He stated that he
h td fixed his affec ions firunly ai:d strongly won her,
an I -hat h, could no live withou : her. On one oc-
ca i n he spoke of hu,l&ng a houss for her in anY
s'yle she ,laose, and for a long period of time he was
m st assiduous in his attentions, and even risort-d
to ing-iious exiled eats for the purpo-e 0 otraliiing
access to her. He. at length succeeded in his at-
tentions and removed her zeluct Alice, and no donq
her affections were given to him, for shortly . a`ter,
she give birth to a child. In the condition 01
misery Lnd_disgrace to which she was reduced her
father went to the defendant and told him his
daughter was fret-ing h-rself very much,_ and the
defendant sail, "I don't mein to do anything ; I
have bad an I 'wanted."' The father told him he
was a sc,iundrel, -and then left him. These were
the whole facts of the case.

These facts having been proved by the pliintiff':'
mother, a wailers named Solomon Coates proved
that he was the cousin of the plaintiff, and hid
known Garside for more than 20 years. He is
woollen printer. I have had many transactions'
with him. I-have a sister named Shaw, who lives-
n--ar the place where the deferid.int residee I r--
collect one day Mt s. Shaw, her husband, the plain'
tiff, and sister Mary, corning to my house. It was
on a Sunday, and they had dinner at my hou"e'
After dinner we wont out to walk, and met with
Garside near our house. This was the third Sun-
day in August, 1853. Defendant walked along'
with me, and he stid he had fallen in love with
Miss Wood when she used to visit Shaw's 'hou-o.
He saidatshe wits very shy, and wanted me to speak
to dier ; but I said-I thought it was not an equal
match. He said it was no matter, he would have'
her; he had money enough, and he would mace
over 1001. a-year to her, and build her house where-,
ever she thought proper. At tea, of erthe walk,
the defendant paid great attention to Miss Wood',
hut she was very shy. I remember their leaving to-
go home; they all went in the same conveyance.
Before g tieg he pressed me to persuade her to listen'
to him. In July, 1856, I saw him. The plaintilt
and her sister were with him. He told me he was
very glad she was so altered, and they were going
to he.married. He asked me if I could give him -
any information how to get married. (Laughter.)-
He didn't want it published. I asked his reason ; '
he sail that as . his father was old it might-
make 7,002/. or 8,0001. dfffereuce to hinl•
He talked about going to Gretna-green to be
married ; but I said I didn't understand anything•
oat that. Mr. White, the sexton of our chinch,'
just then came up, and I said, "This gentle-;
man wants to speak to you." I then left theta-
A short time after this Mr. White brought me!:
letter, and -Laid me to give it to Garside, which .1:
did. He read it, and. said, "It will be just the
thing." Ho asked. me if I could allow my wife to;
reside with the pltintiff in the Isle of Man fer 30
days ; it needed that time before they could get.
married. I consented, but afterwards he corn".
plained that work lied come in to prevent his gO7.
ing. He said they would be married, however,
before • Christmas. He wanted me to see an at-
torney who would bind them to be married before
Christmas. . I went to Mr. Stranding, but be
lauehed at me. I subsequently got a doCutneat,
from Mr. Stranding, and gave it to the defendant.
John White said—l live at Rochdale,. and am
sex' on of the parisha
church. I recollect Sandal
in Auguet, 1855, and remember being consulted
by Mr. Gareide respecting a marriage license.
asked if they both resided in the parish, and ho
said they did, arid that they were bath of ae'e.
He said he wished to be married to Hannah Wood.t'
I told him how to get a license. He inquired if
he could he married at Gretna-green, or at the Isle?
of Man, as he didn't want his felks to know of it,`
as they were very rich., He seemed very. seriode
in the matter, .as they generally are in those mat'
ters. (Laughter.) • •
Cross-examined by Mr: Hill. —What occupation.,
were.. you ? - : . '
Witness.—l was sexton.
Mr. Hilt —Well, but a.sexton is to help people
to get into the grave, not to help to get them
married.

Witness.—But we have to get a population be-
fore.we. can bury them. (Loud laughter.)
Sarah. Wintarbottom said she was the sister of
the plaintiff, and the wife, of James Winterb ittorn,•
of Higgiushaw.. She'proved a promise of marriage
by the detendant'to the plaintiff, and when witness
s id they were very different in age, he said, "Oh,'
but,money will make that all right, and I'll-make
over 1001. a year to her." He refused ,to leave
the house, and said he must either marry tier or no.
one else would. He s:sid his heart beat for her
b nth night and thy, and if Ole would not marry.
him h-) would drown himself.

Of 03S• ex irnined. by Mr. Hill—Her husband kept.
the Hare and Hounds.': -It. was a sporting house.
The plaintanever went to the racing ground, but
served drink in the h,use.

Ge.ei Wood, the fath-T of the p'aintiff, said—to
1856 I t,b,terved my daughter was fretting, and
went to Mr. Garsije. I toll iiitu he never CrCa°
to see my daughter since her misfortune, for she
had mi-carried. He said, "No, I think I have
done with her. have nothing more to do with
either her or you." I said, " You are a bonny man
—y-ou 'aro a d--• scam."
Mr. Hill,' on. beha'f of the defendant, addressed
the jury at considerable length. He asked where
two parties came into court under such circum-
stances as the plaintiff an I defendant, giving tba
plaintiff all the advantage of y.uth and beauty,
and the manner in which she had been wronged
what chance had any one of dealing diTassionatelY
with the case ? The feelings of the jury must of ne-
cessity exercise !,.n influence on the judgment ' •
.but
he appealed to them calmly to curisider a!1 the cir-
eumst:nces of the case. He commented on the
singular fact that no evidence had been produced
to show how the plaintiff had passed ber time, or
with wh,.,m she had consorted between July or
August, 1855, and the time Of the mi,ctrriage is
1856 ; and he earnestly called upon the jury to
exercise the utmost amount of caution in coming
to their decision.

L rdship having minutely summed up th.o
evidence, the jury returned a verdict for the phi/t-
-ar—Damages, 3501.

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, AUG. 15.

STOCK'EXCHANGE.—TIA transactions in this markeib
have been dull, but p-ices have slightly improved. Midiland, 841 I—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 99; - Ditto, new 91., 4 p.-- •
London and N rth-Westerns, 102 k dedonian, 3f31
—Grand Trunk of Canada, 13--Great Western of Caw
nada, new, 11 p.—South Eastern, 211 21—Dutch Rho.
nish, 4 d.

LEEDS, AUG. 15.
&roux EXOHANGE.—The market inactive, and pricewithout .aoy material change. New Cantaa, 10 9-16--•
Midlands, 811--North Eastern, Leeds, 22g.

M NOHE3TEIt, AUG. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was moderately active
to-day, and prices were rather steadier. Sheffield,
-:—Lon.ton and North -Western N.:w Eighths, N d.—Law
cashire an i Yorke)ire, 99.} il—Ditto, new 9/., dis.
Great Western, 53 —Midands, 84:;—Dovers, 2111-7-Gran:ol
Trunk of Canada, 13—Eastern Countiou, 114.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was r►ther better to.•
day. There was an improvement in prices. Binning.-
ham and Stour Valleys, at S -Great Westerns, at U.--
London and North Western, 1011.

enTsTAt PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.--Saturd'ar,
Aug. 15. Aoi sions on 'p4.yrtieut, 10,245; ditto by
adon ticicet, 1,789 ; 1.-)tol, 12 034.

BIRTHS.

OP ♦ SON.

On the 12th inst., at Eccleston-terrace, the wife of Lieu
tenant-Colunel Evelyn.
On the .11th inst., 130, Westbourne-terrace, the wife
of John George Maclean, Esq.—twins.

• ' OF A DAEGHTER ,
On the 14th inst., at Thornhill-square, Mrs. James
Spence .
On the 1.511 inst., at Great Amwell, Herts, the wife of
Edmund Di Beurdillon, Esq.
inet'itittnahieFrarßlanc,s,
, , • MARRIED.
Charles Hughes
Rev.
Hughes D'Aeth, of
foal, Barham,
Reartoa rAhan
only daughter
of the late General Sir Henry T. Montresor, K.CB., &0.,
of Denne bill, in the same county.
On the 13th inst., at Spanish-place, John H. S. Pigott,
DIC n'OAonewt the
en
third
hc3ii:dritn,s soStn. e'
Esq., of Brockley Hall, Sometsbtshire, to Blanche Mary",
second daughter of Eleory'R. Arundell, Esq., of 32, Oxford-
square, 11y-de-park.