The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

711 E NAVY. The Royal Sovereign, at Portsmouth, has only at present some 30 hands, mechanics and labourers, employed upon her in her conversion to a shield ship, and the majority of these are engaged in com pleting her new stern. All other work, w ith one exception, is in a state of suspension. This state of things clearly indicates that the authorities have as yet arrived at no decision as to the exact course to be adopted t o g i ve t h e sh i p the eff i c i enc y she will be supposed and ought to possess as a shield ship, and which she would doubtlesshavehad, had it been possible for the Admiralty and Capt. Coles from the first to have worked harmoniously together. In the conversion of one of the largest of our ships, constructed to carry broadside guns, to a vessel on an entirely novel principle and carrying guns only amidships, it certainly seems but reasonable to sup pose that the position of the guns and their line of fire from the shields of the converted ship should have been fully taken into consideration before the drawings for the ship's conversion were issued. Thi s , however, is just what has not been done. The Admiralty, in their very pardonable eagerness to give Capt. Coles a fitting ship for his first essay, unfortunately kept the details of her conversion in their own hands. They restricted Capt. Coles to preparing the necessary drawings for her towers and shields, and, selecting one of the latest constructed and finest of our three-deckers, placed her in the bands of the master shipwright's department at Portsmouth, to razee as quickly as possible, accord ing to furnished drawings. The work was done in a wonderfully short time, and the progress of con version was carried so far that the ship had received her armour plates on her sides and the towers on her deck, when the awkward discovery was made that, in lieu of a vessel that should possess extraordi nary offensive and defensive powers, we have some thing in the shape of a huge mooring lighter, the offensive and defensive powers of which, if com pleted es a shield ship in its present form, would be very limited indeed. To remedy this error as far as is possible, it is now proposed to raise the deck at the crown of the tower over the engine -room to a height of 2ft. 6in. above the present deck, sloping the beams to the ship's side to 18in. above the ends of the present beams, and thus giving the guns about four degrees of depression amidships. For ward and aft the position of the guns for delivering a fire ahead or astern would be greatly improved, but the line of fire at its contact with the water would still be, of course, at some considerable dis tance from the ship. This elevation of the deck in the centre and slope outwards taper off to the level of the present deck forward and aft from amidships. They thus reduce the sheer of the deck to a straight line. Where the wooden beams of the ship have been taken out for the reception of the towers, the iron beams which will extend from the towers to the ship's sides will be fixed in the proposed raised position, giving an increased height between decks, extending the air space, and improving the ventile. tion below. The wooden beams, which do not re quire removing to allow for the fixing of the towers, will not be disturbed from their original position, but will be filled up over all with timber, to bring them on a level with the iron beams, and to complete the formation of the raised and sloping deck. The whole of the beams, iron and wood, will be covered with 6in. planking and lin. iron plate. The pilot house will be erected in front of the funnel. The muzzles of the guns in the shields will be about 201 t. from the ship's side, the latter being 7ft. above the water-line. Drawing a line from the muzzle of the guns, when at their greatest possible depres sion, to the point at which their shot would strike the hull of a ship's launch or gunboat on the water, it is evident that there must always be a consider able space round the Royal Sovereign wh ere a large number of such craft could lie out of all dan ger from the guns of the shield ship. At the same time they could pound her sides with solid 68- pound shot, throw men on her decks, wedge up her towers, and drop shells or other explosive sub stances into them, and thus force her to a speedy surrender. These serious objections to the Royal Sovereign as a shieldship arise entirely from her inability to depress her guns, owing to the manner in which she had been razeed, together with her width, one of the great requirements of the shield principle being that the ship, to carry plates, must be long, of narrow beam, and yet with sufficient flatness of floor to enable her to carry the great weight of the towers and their shields in addition to her guns. The Royal Sovereign is unfortunately of great beam, has a rising floor, and will draw so much water that the only effectual means for ren dering her a really efficient ship —to give her angu lated armoured sides, cannot under present circum stances be adopted. It has been suggested that her flotation might be much increased, and her draught of water thereby lessened, by giving her a false bot tom on Mr. Reed's plan, its greatest extent being at the midship section, and falling in at each end of the ship, By this means the ship's upper deck might be placed at a greater angle, and partially covered with armour-plates, which it would certainly re quire under such circumstances. The crossed dia gonal planking, on which will be hung the armour plates of the ship's sides, extends only as far as the plates are themselves below the water line; and here appears to be another serious oversight, for had this crossed planking been carried down to the ves sel's keel it would not only have immensely strength ened the ship, but would also have lessened her draught of water, and given her the means to carry any additional armour required for her upper deck. To say that such ships as the Royal Sovereign, low as they will be in the water, require no armour covering for the upper deck (when, like the Royal Sovereign, they are to carry only guns of the same calibre as an ordinary frigate having five times her number), is simply absurd. Such a frigate as the Mersey ranging up alongside the Sovereign would send a broadside down upon the latter's unprotected deck which would go right through her and sink her at once. Give the shield ship guns of such cali bre as no other description of ship could carry, which was the intention of the inventor, and then the Mersey would be careful how she attempted to range alongside such an antagonist. With respect to the number of shields to be carried by the con verted ship, it h as b een decided, we think very un wisely, to give the ship five, 'rescinding a previous order to fit her forfou r of larger diameter. Now, as t h e five shields will only carry 68-pounder or 110- pounder Armstrongs, the shield ship will, in fact, have but 10 guns of the same calibre as the 50 guns of the ordinary frigate, and her offensive powers will thus be reduced to a minimum. There can be reaso n assigned a ga i n no possible t fi tt ing the ship with four towers and shields, in lieu of the five diameter to in efficient ones, of su fficientcurry e i g h t of the largest calibre g uns that can be forged. She would then possess a p ower of gun superi or to all other classes of ships, for one of the great features of Captain Coles' s shield tower is that it can, by the peculiar manner i n w hi c h its g u ns are mounted and the ease with which they can be wo rked, carry gun s of extraordinary size and power, such that it would be found impossible to mount and work in the ordi nary manner on a ship' s d ec k. It s hould also be taken into consideration that the greater the diameter of the towers the nearer the muzzles of the g uns must be to the ship's sides, and con sequently their powers of depression would be proportionately increased, which would at the same time increase the ship's powers of defence against small craft at close quarters. Captain Coles has now been ap pointed to superintend the further conversion of the ship, and it will therefore be the duty of that officer to bring under the notice of the Admiralty such suggestions as ho may think necessary to render the Royal Sovereign thoroughly efficient as a shield ship, prove the value of the principles he has so long and earnestly advocated, and remove the impression, which has already gained a certain hold in the opinions of many conversant with naval matters, that the cuttin g down of a ship such as the Royal Sovereign for conversion, on a novel, and to all but the inventor an unknown principle, has i n volved an enormous anduseless expen diture of public money. When in sea • trim the estimated draught o f water of the Royal Sovereign will be she will carry he r 26 feet.upper deck at the sides water line, the 7 feet abov ea nti the muzzles of her guns 9 feet 6 inches. The: Coil:11416Mo lu t ranwport Merrimac, Capt. Rowe, which has since June 7 been waiting in Plymouth Sound, took in her sea s": e ' it yesterday, and was appointed to leave to-night. She is heavily laden, and rvlll probably proceed to Nassau, her original port of d es ti na ti on , a ft er touching at Madeira. The departure of the Mer rimac appears to have been hastened by intelli gence received yesterday. The Middlesex, Capt, Mommell, belonging to Mr. John Marshall, of London, with troops for Cal eutta, passed down the Channel on Monday ; all The Rattler, screw steam sloop, was taken from her moorings in Sheerness harbour for the trial of her machinery at the measured mile. Capt. T. P. Thompson of the Steam Reserve, had charge of the vessel, and Mr. George Blaxiand, chief engineer in the Sheerness-yard, Mr. Urquhart, engineer of her Majesty's ship Collingwood, and Mr. Martin, as sistant-master shipwrigb t, were in attendance on the part of the Government. The contractors were represented by Mr. Herbert Maudslay and Mr. Talfourd Field. The machinery, which was built by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field, was in charge of Mr. Warrener, manager to the firm. The vessel is fitted with double-piston rod direct acting horizontal engines, of 200 nominal and 800 indicated horse-power. Her ave rage speed, with full boiler power, was 10.280 knots per hour ; her average number of revolutions 88 ; her pressure of steam 201 b. ; her vacuum 23 ; and at half-boiler powor her average speed 7'692 knots per hour. She turned the half circle in 2 min- 38 sec. ; the full circle in 5 min. ; was stopped in 10 sec. ; turned astern in 20 sec. ; and turned, easy a-head in 5 sec. She carries a Griffith's screw, with a pitch of 14ft., and a diameter 12ft, ; her draught of water is 14ft. 3in., both fore and aft. The trial lasted six hours, and is considered one of the most satisfactory which has taken place for some time in Sheerness. The Rattler has been lately commissioned by Com mander Edward H. Howard, for service in China, and carries 12 32-pounder and five 40-pounder Armstrong guns, and a crew of 200 officers and men. She will be ready for sea in a few days. The Racoon, 22, 400 horse-power, was yesterday taken on her second trial trip from Chatham har bour as far as the Maplin Sands, for the purpose of testing her machinery, when the trial was considered far more satisfactory, the vessel attaining a speed of more than a knot an hour over her former rate. She is to be attached to the first division of the Chatham steam reserve, as it is understood that the intention of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred to proceed on a cruise to Australia has been abandoned at least for the present. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—William Williamson, engineer, to the Indus, for the Porpoise ; John A. Mould retired with the rank of deputy inspector of hospitals and fleets; Robert J. H. Tucker, assist.-paymaster, in charge of the Vindictive ; and Edward B. Pilans, assist.-paymaster, to the Cumberland. 7HE ARllll' . Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Prince George of Saxony and suite, accompanied by Col. Cavendish, went down to Woolwich on Mon day and inspected the garrison and department of the Royal Arsenal. The Princes arrived at Wool wich precisely at 1 in two of the Queen's carriages, preceded by a pair of out-riders, and were received by Gen. Sir Richard Dacres and his Staff. Having lunched with Sir Richard Dacres and the officers of the Royal Artillery at their mess, they witnessed the marching past of the whole of the troops other wise unemployed, and at 3 o'clock they proceeded to the Royal gun factories, the officials of each de partment being in attendance in full uniforms. Mr. Anderson, the only civilian, wore the uniform of a colonel of iVolunteers. Their Royal Highnesses having expressed a desire to see the manufacture of the Armstrong gun in all its stages, were conducted first to the new forge erected expressly for that purpose, where the ponderous steam hammers were in full operation. Although the heat was intense, their Royal Highnesses lingered in the department upwards of an hour and-a-half, and witnessed the entire manufacture of the gun with manifest inte rest and gratification. iTbey then passed through the harness stores and the other departments, and left for London at half-past five. Serg.-Major Ashton, chief of the military police in Woolwich garrison since its first organisation, having been convicted of neglect of duty in not pre venting the maltreatment of a prisoner under his charge, was yesterday condemned, by order of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, to be dismissed from his post and to return to his regiment. The prisoner referred to (under the pretext that he was dirty) was submitted to the inhuman treatment of being stripped in the barrack cells and scrubbed over the naked body with sand and scrubbing-brushes until he was literally skinned. He is now an inmate of the hospital, in a most deplorable state. By permission of the Secretary of State for War the officers and volunteers of the 12th (Chatham) corps of Kent Artillery, under the command of Captain Beveridge, have commenced their annual course of shot and shell p rac ti ce from the 68-pounder and 32-pounder smooth-bore guns mounted on the fortifications commanding the en trance to the Medway. The target Was moored 1,800 yards from the shore, at which range some excellent practice was made with the common seg ment shell and the solid shot. LORD BROUGHAM ON 7.E VOL UN TEERS. _ After the inspection of the Cumberland Rifle Volunteers, on Friday last, at Ricerby Park, by Lieut.-Col Harman, volunteer inspector for the northern district, the officers dined together at the County Hall. Lord Brougham, who was present as a guest, made the following remarks :—" 1 consider the volunteer has added to the army and to the militia a most important part of the defence of this country. It is not that I have any alarm upon the subject—(hear, hear)—there never was a time when it was less probable, and I might almost say, less possible to happen. But, nevertheless, we are to be prepared for all—even the remotest possibilities. Does any man, who insures his house against fire, or his property from shipwreck—shipwreck, no doubt, depending more or less upon the tides and seasons, upon the winds and the waves, may be insured against natural apprehension of that risk— but against fire, does any man suppose his house is likely to be burned from the fault of his servants or from the fault of his neighbours ? and yet it is only from the fault of one or other, the carelessness of j one or other, that fire is likely to happen ; but no one reckons on that, no one thinks that likely; yet he makes sure in case of accident happening, he makes sure by insuring to the amount of the value of the house. (Cheers.) But we do a much better thing than that in providing largely for the defence of the country. By insuring against the risks of fire Iv fa have no part in preventing the fire from happen lot?f;etth:hpremium of insuran ce we may pay to secure no ten _ n e loss we sustain if fire should happen has hatever to prevent that fire from hap the countr t w is e very different with the defence of prepare not only to insure our selves, incase oftto r i s k of invatioraprobable and hardly to be ex (ch%,l::it we insure to prevent that r P i e s e k t invasion. The more prepared we are the less likely it is th a t . shall be called upon our resolutionietoe effect, by providing for lad of peace, peace all over the world, / defence. I, as a hi e peace, universal hold that it - is most otoureaSrerlT important and most salutary, and /neat likel to id be pre • tse lf. I beg your pa rdon pared to defend for hav preserve that peace, that every natio n s h oo , what really opoo " r ed self ienvgi d dwelt enttru s t o h slo;nbgutuPlohnear a good deal of mit were in a panic, and p e sentation abroad; I sa y that we are n ot were afraid and alarmed, as if people alarmed, (Cheers.) There is no pan ic, but 70 are determined t o prov id e aga i ns t a ll jgobabilities— against risks th a t are hi ghly impro b a ble, but which we are prepared al so t o ma k e nex t to impossible. THE HARD WORK OF THE SESSION, 1862. —The following i s the number o f d ays on which each chairman o f committees on groups of railways bills has sat during this session :—Lord Stanley, 65 ; M r. Adair, 56 ; Mr. Hassan], 47; Mr. Howes, 12; Mr. Mo w b ray, 18 ; Mr. Puller, 5 9; Mri 6oholefleld, 36; and Mrl Wood ; 38. TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1862. Z4W INTELLIGENCE.-July 29. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell.) HAWARDEN V. DUNLOP.-..-JUDGMENT. Sir C. Cresswell gave judgment in this case, the particulars of which have been frequently placed before the public. The application came before the Court one motion on the part of the plaintiff, praying the Court to grant letters of administra tion with the will annexed, to the effects of the late Lord Elphinstone. The defendant, who was ap pointed executor under the will, had applied for confirmation in the Consistory Court of Dumbarton shire. Lady Hawarden disputed the will, and when the case came before the Court a compromise was effected, the opposing counsel being appointed to determine the construction of an agreement upon which depended the issues to be tried. The counsel, Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Montague Smith, could not agree as to the terms of the agreement, and the defendant applied to this Court to have the confir mation obtained in the Scotch Court, and which had been deposited in the Court of Probate, delivered out to him, with the seal affixed to it. The 'plaintiff op posed this proceeding, and filed a bill in Chancery, and prayed for representation, as next of kin, of so much of the property as was in England. The plaintiff next applied to have the confirmation deli it, but the defendant declined it. His lordship vered out, with the seal of the Co u r t attached to thought the application mig ht be g rant ed so far as to substantiate the proceed in g s in e quity_ If such decision aCnhyawaeyll interfere with what w as equitable,or would kn ow p er f ect l y the wouldin Vice Chancellor well how to deal with it. The application was ac cordingly granted. Mr. Anderdon inquired how the Court had de termined the question of costs; but Hi s Lordship declined to say anything as to costs f or th® present. IN THE GOODS OF T. DOVE-JUDGMENT. In this case the testator was a soldier and was un able to make a will ; and this will was drawn up by the military authorities, in accordance with a form of will when children were supposed to be left, which was not the case of the testator. The whole question turned on the validity of the instrument in consequence of the introduction of this unnecessary clause. Sir C. Cresswell, in delivering judgment, said it was a curious case, but decreed probate of the will with the omission of the clause in question. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT..—MAIDSTONE, July 29. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) A soldier named Lumsden was indicted for the manslaughter of Alex. M'Cull, on the high seas. Mr. Poland was for the prosecution ; Mr. F. J. Smith was for the prisoner. The case arose out of the old nautical custom of " shaving" persons on board ship on the occasion of their first crossing the Line. It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased were invalided home from India, and while crossing the Line the usual sports in honour of Neptune were indulged in. The prisoner had in the earlier part of the day been engaged below, but M'Caul had been on deck taking part in the amusements, and had, according to one witness, been drinking rather freely. Towards afternoon Lumsden brought some tea on deck, and when M'Caul saw him he said, " Now, comrade, you shall be the next for shaving." To this Lumsden answered, " I'll not be shaved without giving you a smack on the head," and hit M'Caul with his open hand under the ear, but in a good-humoured way. The unfortunate man fell back stunned, was raised, bat only spoke once before he expired. For the defence it was urged that both men were taking part in the sports, and the blow was given in fun to add to the amusement. The learned Judge, in leaving the case to the jury, told them the law was, that if death ensued from a blow unlawfully given it was manslaughter, even without malice or intent to kill, and that there fore the question for them was whether the blow was given unlawfully—i.e., in anger and purposely, or whether it was merely given casually and in a frolic in which both the men were engaged. A good test for them to apply was whether, if the deceased had lived, he would have sued the pri soner in an action for an assault ; if not they should acquit the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner not guilty. A youth was indicted for a rape on a young girl. Mr. Biron was for the prosecution ; Mr. Ribton was for the prisoner. The prosecutrix and the prisoner were both in the service of the same person, a farmer in this county, and one evening, the prosecutrix having been out, the prisoner met her, and, according to her evidence, committed the offence. Slight screams were heard by one of the witnesses, but not such as to attract much notice, and the girl on her return home made no complaint to her mistress, and next morning made the prisoner's breakfast as usual. Afterwards, however, her mistress taxing her with her clothes being dirty, and pressing in quiries on the subject, she made for the first time the present charge. The jury found a verdict of not guilty. In the course of the above case a point of criminal procedure of some interest was ruled. The girl's mistress did not appear, but her hus band stated on oath that she was pregnant and unable to attend. On cross-examination it was elicited that he was unable to state how far ad vanced she was, and it also came -out that she was about the house attending to her duties as usual, and had prepared breakfast for him that very morning as usual, and had not yet been confined to bed. He, however, stated that a f or t n i g ht ago h e had driven her to Maidstone, and that she had suf fered somewhat in consequence. Upon this evidence it was proposed on the part of the prosecution to put in her deposition. Mr. Ribton, on the part of the prisoner, objected that the deposition was not admissible under the statute allowing such a course where the witness was unable to travel, there being no sufficient proof that she was so unable, especially as no medical man had been examined. The learned counsel, at some length, urged that it was a question of great importance to the administration of criminal jus tice that witnesses should be examined in person, and it would be dangerous, especially with refe rence to the Courts of Quarter Sessions throughout the country, to allow depositions to be substituted for oral evidence upon such light proof of the inability of the witnesses to attend in court. The learned Baron, after some consideration, said he should allow the deposition to be read; but at the same time intimated that he should, if the pri soner were convicted, probably reserve the point for the consideration of the Court for Reserved Crown Cases. The prisoner, however, as already stated, was acquitted, so the point cannot come before the Court above, and it is mentioned as one of great im- portance in the administration of criminal justice. The Court was occupied most of the day with cases unfit for publication. In the course of one of these cases, a charge against two boys for abusing a girl under 10 years of age, a point of procedure arose. A policeman had been bound over to prose cute, who had employed no attorney, and, conse quently, no counsel had been instructed. The depositions were handed to Mr. F. J. Smith by the Court, to conduct the case. Some difficulty arose as to the proof of the girl's age, and there was no direct evidence of it. _ _ The learned Judge said the jury might judge of the age of the child from their own view, but then they must be quite satisfied of it, and if there was any doubt they must give the prisoners the benefit of it. The jury found a verdict of not guilty. The learned Judge said this case showed the necessity for a public prosecutor. The policeman who had been bound over to prosecute was not bound to employ an attorney (unless ordered to do so), and of course was not supposed to know the rules of evidence. The result had been that the case had not been properly got up; and had broken down from the want of the proper evidence being adduced. The prisoners were then discharged. MIDLAND CIRCUIT-LINCOLN, July 28. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Common Jury). RICHMOND V. SMITH. This was an action for the seduction of the plain tiff's daughter and servant. The defendant pleaded " Not guilty," and that the daughter was not her father's servant. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien and Mr. Flowers were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Stephen for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien said that the plaintiff with sought compensation for a very serious wrong done him by the defendant in the seduction of his daugh ter, and the loss of service consequent upon that seduction. The plaintiff was a publican at North 1 ., 1 veyton, and the defendant at the time of the se • - 'uotion liv e a t F enton , and a bout h alf a mile from d • 1.1113 I - aintiff The defendant had been acquainted knineoVaantiff for a number of years, and indeed had service of his f r Bl child. ii e ll e ,the daughter ever since she was a series of let"t:,uld lay before the jury some of a the whole of which were at the him at vari ous ti mes, the young girl to m ee t the defendant solic i ted he required thorn, in which s o, and of writing to hike was in the h a bit of d o i ng of her letters she infor mea ?,asionally, and in one familrwßY. In reply the n ~te. she was in th met ant wrote lie fo7,e lows :—‘, If what you say is true, it will be easy to stop it." These, said the learned sergeant, are the letters. This is the manner in which this person 9f mature years was in the habit of addressing this child. The defence to this action might be that the girl was of loose character, and her father disentitled to compensation for her seduction. A man who would avail himself of the position which he had to seduce his neighbour's daughter was quite capable, for the purpose of saving his pocket, of instructing his counsel to malign her character. The daughter, Ellen Richmond, a girl of 19, said that she had known the defendant from her child hood, and that when she was about 17 he met her in Lincoln, and induced her to take a walk into the country ; that he had taken advantage of a lonely spot to effect her ruin, but that what then took place was against her will. Th e i nt i macy b e t ween th em con tinued until she was delivered of a child in Aprii last, the paternity of which defendant had tried to induce her to saddle on another person. It appeared that the girl's occupation as a dressmaker took her occa sionally from home, and that she had slept for months together away from her father's house, to oblige, as she said, the timid housekeeper of some neighbour. Mr. Sergeant O'Brien, in summing up, called upon the jury to g i ve exemp l ary —nay, vindictive —damages. Mr. Macaulay said that the plaintiff had not been called, and that no explanation of his absence had been offered. The jury would see what sort of per son the girl, whose seduction had been effected in a field or under a hedge, was. She seemed to have become attached to the defendant and to have in trigued with him, and in so doing she was as much a traitress to the defendant's wife as the defendant himself Had her father taken adequate care of her ? He was unable to show that he had, and so he had been kept out of the witness box, and the case had been allowed to rest on the unsupported testimony of the girl. Her statement as to her having slept at a neighbour's house was quite uncorroborated. The case was one of great immorality no doubt, and a grave social wrong had been done by the de fendant, but the father ought to have satisfied the jury that he had exercised due circumspection in respect of this loose and immoral young woman. The Lord Chief Justice said the jury were not to express by their verdict any censure on the defen dant's conduct. The plaintiff was not to gain be- cause the defendant had behaved shamefully to his wife and children. The defendant would be called upon to account for his conduct before another tri bunal, but the jury had no power to punish him for immorality. If the father had sent the girl out, careless of what became of her, he would not be entitled to claim damages. The imputation on him was that the daughter was left in an exceedingly unguarded manner. Still, the care which be be stowed necessarily depended much on the position and circumstances of the persons. The jury, after some deliberation, found a ver dict for the plaintiff.—Damages, £2O. • CROWN COURT. (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) Elizabeth Vamplew, aged 13, a servant, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging her with the wilful murder of Kate Mary Taylor, an infant about ten weeks old, by administering a certain poisonous substance, called Battle's Vermin Killer, at Alvingham. Mr. Sargeaunt and Mr. Cave conducted the pro secution ; the Hon. E. Chandos Leigh, at the re quest of his Lordship, watched the case for the prisoner. Mr. Sargeaunt, after desiring the jury to dis miss from their minds any reports they might have heard, and to confine their attention to the evidence alone which he was about to adduce, stated very briefly the facts of the case, excepting only state ments made by the prisoner, which he thought it better should be heard by the jury from the mouths of the witnesses to whom they were made. The deceased was the child of a respectable farmer and his wife living at Alvingham in this county. The household consisted of the father, Edwin Taylor, his wife, the prisoner, who had entered the service without a character, and Betsy Clarke, the kitchen-maid. On the 10th inst. the prisoner had leave from her mistress to go to a school feast at Grimbleby, a village about four miles from her home. During that day the mother of the child took charge of it, and it was in perfect health. The prisoner returned about eight o'clock in the evening, and shortly afterwards the family went to bed, leaving the child asleep on the prisoner's knee downstairs. The child immediately afterwards began to cry. The mother went down and tried to feed it, but, firfding that it refused its food, she took it upstairs to her own bed. The child still continued crying, and, as it grew werse, the mother put it into a warm bath, but it died soon after ten on the following morning. In addition to these facts, which were proved by the father and mother of the prisoner, the follow ing evidence was given : Betsy Clark, with whom the prisoner slept on the night of the 10th, proved that, upon hearing that the child was dead, the prisoner merely said, Oh, is it ?" and, on the day after, when in formed that a coroner's [inquest was to be held, asked, " Will they know whether it's poisoned or not ?" Clarke answered, " Yes ; they'll know if they come." The prisoner replied, "How can they know ? They are only men like master." Nothing had previously been said about poison. Wm. Mitchell, the deceased child's grandfather, on going upstairs after tea, found the prisoner cry ing, and inquired the reason. She asked whether they would commit her to prison. Mitchell said, " 1 don't know ; surely you have not given the child anything ?" The prisoner answered," I have given it poison, but I did not think it would kill it so soon." Mitchell inquired whether she gave the poison in liquid or powder. She answered, "In powder." He asked, " Why and she replied, Because I was tired of hugging the child about." Mary Wright, wife of a grocer in Grimbleby, proved that on the 10th the prisoner had come to buy a doll, and had at the same time purchased a 3d. packet of Battle's Vermin Killer, saying that her mistress bad sent her for it, which was false. When in the custody of the superintendent of police, and on the way to the station-house, she said, " It's a misunderstanding; it was white mercury that I gave the child. I got it out of my mother's drawer when she was out." A post mortem examination of the body was made by Mr. Roe, a surgeon of Louth. The organs were generally healthy. The stomach and intestines, with their contents, were sent to Professor Taylor for examination, and a minute portion of a grain of strychnine was detected. The symptoms described as preceding the death of the child were such as at tend death by strychnine, and do not accompany death from natural causes. Battle's Vermin Killer is a powder consisting of flour, coloured with Prus sian blue, and containing about three-quarters of a grain o f s t ryc h n ine is th e 3d. pac k e t. One-six teenth part would be sufficient to destroy the life of so young an infant. The learned counsel for the prisoner elicited from Professor Taylor that the brain of girls of the pri soner's age is sometimes affected by the occurrence of irregularities of the system. in his address to the Jury on behalf of the prisoner the learned counsel entreated the jury not to attach too much importance to statements made by the prisoner when under the influence of terror, and when subjected to questions which no magistrate, not even his lordship, had au thority to put. He contended that the evidence failed to show that the prisoner had capacity to commit the crime, or had acted with deliberate malice. She had, it would rather seen, given the child what she thought would put it to sleep, and this, which she had stat e d, was renderel pro b a bl e b y t h e op i n i on given by a nurse w h o h a d b een ca ll e d i n an d h a d said that it h a d h a d some sleepy stuff given it. The jury age wereliable to be affected. would take into consideration Professor Tay lor's evidence resp ec ting th e manner in which girls of the prisoner's His Lordshi p, before slimming up the evidence, adverted to a case whici he remem b ere d to h ave occurred Years ago, which it was thought 60 right to direct the jury to fi n d a ver di c t o f w i l f u l murder, and a f terwards to recommen d th a t an immediate reprieve shouli be granted. It had then struck him as a strange inconsistency that a pri soner should be rightly convicted oflwilful murder, and at the same time be deemed to deserve a remis sion of the sent ence. Tie crimes of murder an d of manslaughter were i n some i nstances very diffi cult of distinction. The distinction which seemed most reasonable consistel in the consciousness that the act done was one whith would be likely to cause death. No one, howeter, could commit murder without consciousness )f it. The jury must be satisfied, before th ey coed fin d th e p r i s oner guilty, that she was conscious, L nd that her act was deli berate. They mu s t be satisfied that she had arri ved at that maturity of the intellect which was a neces sary condition of the trine charged. Having com mented on the facts, hi s L or d s hip l e ft it t o the jury to give such a verdict In in their consciences they thought the truth and justice of the case required. Verdict "Guilty deferred. of manslaughter." Sentence WESTERN CIRCU . rr. u (Before Thomas N eurin a he C n M R , rOt Post-officeseteEl t K xT E e T a t E i tn clerk,'g.j) wyh2o9. was yesterday of staling a post letter a nd two the bar to r eceive sentence. icuon Thevlcatlearned Judge addressed him with mu ch feel half-sovereigns ing :—You hav© b een conv i c t e d u po n the clearest which it contained, was this morn evidence of st ea li ng a post letter an d th e money it c ontained, and I cannot b e li eve f or a s i ng le moment that this was Tour first silence. The irregularities in the Post-office were so frequent, and led to so many I complaints, that at length those means were resorted I to which ended in your detection. You have been many years in the service of the Post-office, and I much fear that this system has prevailed for a con siderable time. The difficulties of detection are great ; long acquaintance with those difficulties enabled you to escape detection for a considerable time, but at length you were detected. When the immense importance of preserving the Post-office communications inviolate is considered, it becomes absolutely necessary —and it has been felt so by all the judges—to make an example of every person who shall be convicted, in order that the servants of the Post-office may clearly understand that when they break the confidence reposed in them they must expect to be severely p un i s h e d. I h a v e taken time to consider if I could make an exception in your case in consequence of the recommendation of the jury; but, inasmuch as the Post-office autho rities only employ those who have received good characters, it is that good character that enables the servants of the Post-office to commit these thefts. You must be kept in penal servitude for four years. The prisoner appeared to be almost prostrated, as it was evident he did not expect to ba convicted. George Wooicombe, a letter-carrier in the service of the Post-office at Totnes, pleaded " Guilty" to au indictment charging him with stealing a post letter and two half-sovereigns. The learned Judge told him that he was not an educated man, and had not had the advantages of the unhappy man who had just left the b ar; h e would therefore be kept in penal servitude for three years. Charles Joseph Pitcher was indicted for the manslaughter of his wife, Mary Ann Pitcher, on the 9th of April, at Plymouth. Mr. Cox prosecuted, and Mr. Carter defended the prisoner. This was one of the melancholy results of drink. These people went early in the morning to a beer house in Plymouth, and began drinking. They continued drinking. They soon commenced quar relling ; they struck each other ; and these things continued till the afternoon, the woman being fre quently on the floor, and the prisoner kicking her till she became insensible. She bled very much, and the bleeding continued until she died in the course of the afternoon. It was shown that the deceased had taken up the poker and shovel with which to strike her husband, because he would not give her money to get more drink. She was like a mad person. The prisoner, when sober, was an industrious, quiet man. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recom mended him to mercy on account of the provocation. The learned judge said this was another instance of the effects of drink, and th a t f rom b e i ng a quiet man he had in consequence of that drink now become a convicted felon. The sentence would be six months' imprisonment with hard labour, and he trusted this would be a warning to him for the rest of his life. Ann M'Gregor, alias Honor Matthews, was in dicted for stealing gold and silver jewellery, silver and plated spoons, forks, teapots, candlesticks, snuf fers and tray, wearing apparel, and other articles, the property of John Evans Bowden, her master, on July 10. Mr. C. A. Turner prosecuted. It appeared that Mr. Bowden was a gentleman living at Newton Abbotts. The prisoner was his servant. She had been recommended to him from the workhouse. On July 10 Mr. Bowden and his family went from home for the day, leaving the prisoner in the house. On their return in the even ing, about nine o'clock, the prisoner had gone, and they found every room in the house had been ran sacked of almost everything that was portable, fill ing several baskets. The value was upwards of £lOO. Inquiries were made, and several of the stolen articles were found to have been pledged at pawnbrokers at Exeter. The prisoner was traced, and was discovered in a cart near Saltash,having with her a reticule and a box, which contained a large quantity of stolen property. It was proved that in 1860 the prisoner had been convicted in this court of a very similar robbery almost equally large in amount, and was then sentenced to six years' penal servitude. The prisoner was convicted, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Williams and a Common Jury.) WOODROW AND WIFE V. SCOTT. Mr. Carter appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Col lier, Q.C., and Mr. A. Turner, for the defendant. The plaintiff in this case was a small farmer liv ing in the neighbourhood of Germansweek, in this county, and in the month of July, 1860, had occa sion to go with his wife to Teignmouth on some business; they walked there and having transacted their business returned, taking with them a young horse, which they rode by turns. On arriving at about nine o'clock in the evening within a mile and a half of Moreton Hampstead, the wife being on the horse, they heard the sound of another horse galloping along the road. The husband called to the wife to " haul" in to the side of the road, which she did, but the defendant came riding up very fast, and instead of keeping in the road he passed be tween the wife and the hedge, and in doing so, with a whip or stick that he had in his hand, he struck the young horse on which she was riding, which caused it to start off. The defendant then turned round, and struck the horse in the face another violent blow, which made it spring forward, on which the wife was unseated and thrown under the horse, her foat caught in the stirrup, and she was dragged for some distance along the ground. She was ultimately picked up senseless, having sus tained some very serious injuries from which she alleged that she still suffered, and had been ren dered unable to perform her household work as before. The plaintiffs and other witnesses were called to prove the above facts, and, in order to identify the defendant as the man who struck the hor se , th e plaintiff:swore that he was riding a cream-coloured horse, and that he noticed his manner of riding. He also swore that he and his wife met only one person on the road, and that person had passed up a lane leading to the defendant's farm. The female plaintiff convulsed the Court with laughter by the answers she gave in th e c o urse o f her cross-examination. She was asked whether she did not drink a little at times. She said, "No I dont ; and if thee dost say I d o , th ee b e ' est a li ar; " and as Mr. Collier generally has a glass of cold water before him, she added, " I should like to know what thee hast got in th a t g l ass ." U pon M r , Justice Williams asking her a question she said, "My good man, " dont ask me such questions." The defence was that the defendant was not the person ; that although he was on the road that night at about the time alleged he h a d me t no one ; that he was riding a light chesnut horse ; that the plaintiff and his wife had at first stated the horse the man who caused the accident was riding was a gray horse, and other witnesses of the plaintiff proved that about the same time they had seen a man on a gray . horse going in a different direction from the plaintiff's house and coming from the seat of the accident. The defendant and other witnesses were called to prove these facts. The learned Judge told the jury that the ques tion was one entirely . for them as to whether they believed that the plaintiff had sufficiently proved the defendant was the man, and as to one part of I the alleged special damage—viz., that the plaintiff had been deprived of the comfort of his wife's so ciety—remarked that if the lady conducted herself at home as she had done in court h e did no t thi n k the jury would consider him entitled to heavy damages on that score. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, £5O. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 29. WESTMINSTER.—A few days ago Mr. Eugene Plumber M'Carthy, solicitor and notary public in Ireland, was charged with double bigamy and per jury in making an affidavit to obtain a license for his third alleged marriage. The evidence in support of the charges went to show that the prisoner was married on the 28th of Jan., 1839, to Catherine Crea g h , at Cullingford, near Dublin, by the Rev. J. G. T. Schultz • that he was aga in married on the 29 t h of June, 1844, ' to Miss Mary Anne O'Bryan, at St. Peter's, in the county of Cork ; and again to Emily Verley, at St. James's, Holloway, on the 22d of May, 1852, the affidavit for which last marriage set forth that prisoner was a bachelor. Prisoner was then remanded upon the application of Mr. Lewis, in order that he might procure fur ther evidence against him to complete the cases. Yesterday, upon the prisoner being s gain brought up, Mr. Wontner attended on his behalf, and the case was reopened the validity of the first marriage being questioned. The proof of this marriage rested upon the testimony of a gentleman who was present when some ceremony was performed, and the pro duction of the following two letters written by the accused many years afterwards to Mr. Miller, a solicitor, which were repeatedly referred to, and which should be read with attention ; " 16, E a t on - s t ree t, Woolwich, S e pt. 5, 1860. " Sir,—l could have wished that the recital of the marriage of 1839 should exonerate me from committing a deliberate fraud in the marriage of 1844. It was some years subsequent to the latter date that the validity of a marriage without banns or a license by a dissenting minister was recognised. All the circumstances attending the marriage of 1839 strengthen the conviction it was worthless, until to my consternation the courts decided other wise. I Take then gt very young man ; the woman lived with me previously, and a certificate was had only to save appearances. In 1839 we separated ; the woman, no more than myself, viewed it valid. She resided in the city of Cork; I also resided near it. She never sought me, and knew where I was residing. I was married by license, in 1844, at St. Peter's, Cork. Frequently saw the woman in the streets. Was never molested or accosted by her ; never made the least charge upon me, for she, as well as myself, attached no value to the marriage, and I remained so contented until, as I have already said, the question was raised on circumstances simi lar, and the courts decided their validity. Hence I am fairly entitled to be absolved from any fraud in making the contract of 1844. ,, After alluding to some legal proceedings being taken to cancel a deed of settlement, the letter concludes—.‘ obedient servant, E. A. MCARTHY." I am, your A postscript says :—" I need scarcely add you shall find me ready to do any and every act you may deem necessary to secure Mrs. M.'s rights —as re compense for an involuntary wrong it is justly due." The second letter was as follows : " Woolwich, Sept. 9, 18G0. " Sir,—The place of celebration of the ceremony of 1839, in Cullingford, a suburb of Dublin—the celebrant, the Rev. Mr. Schultz, a German Luthe ran minister, at his residence. The register he keeps is in the Prerogative or Consibtorial Court, Dublin, lodged and impounded there since Lis mar riages were first questioned. lean afford no informa tion of Creagh's death. I did hear it asserted in 1855, but where I know not; it mayhave been Cork,the last place I heard of her, but persons of her class assume names, and have aliases for everyweek of the year, and it may be no easy matter to satisfactorily trace her. She was in London a considerable time after 1839, and in Dublin also as long. There can be nodoubt that she was in Cork early in 1855, and no difficulty in proving it. The decision settling the validity of Schultz's marriages is well known in Ireland, and I have no doubt many a heedless young man found himself snared by it as I did.", (Herb follows some remarks about the settlement deed before alluded to, and the letter is signed ":E. A. WCARTHY.") Miss Mary Anne O'Bryan, of 30, Westbourne place, Eaton-square, was cross-examined by Mr. Woatner—She said she was first acquainted by her brother Dr_ O'Bryan, of prisoner's first marriage in 1852. She did not then believe it. He told her about a year after that he had seen the certificate of that marriage. Witness was married in 1844, and continued to live with him till 1852, when he went away with Miss Verlay, Witness fetched him back, but he went away again with her. Her friends wrote to him. She and her family sold off his goods. Could not say whether her brother took prisoner's position of sole notary at Queenstown— - this was the first time she ever heard her brothelr was a notary. Never heard positively that he got it. Had heard Robert O'Bryan was practising there as notary. Was only acquainted with it by hearsay. When married to prisoner her property was not settled upon her, but after being married seven or eight years he settled it upon her in April, 1852. In 1860 she was desirous of recovering the sole control of the property, and instituted a suit in the Irish Chancery Court—he wrote the letters produced to facilitate her getting the money out of court. She supposed he did it for that purpose. Witness and prisoner were living together in 1860, when these letters were written. Witness had not read them before they were sent, but posted them herself, as prisoner was lame. Witness continued to live with him after this, but left him when she found she could. It was June twelve months when she last lived with him ; had since corre sponded with him in answer to his letters for money. Had seen him, but not frequently. Had lived in Belgrave and Warwick places, and there being some arrears of rent an execution was put in, when she declared herself to be a single woman, and wished she had done so sooner. Could not say her brothers gave him into custody on his coming to the house at that time for this bigamy. By Mr. Arnold—Thought it was after the mar riage with Miss Verlay that witness became acquainted with the prisoner's marriage with Cathe rine Creagh. By Mr. Lewis—X9oo of the money she obtained from the Court of Chancery, to facilitate the getting of which the letters had been written, went towards paying prisoner's debts. Mr. Warrington, the only witness to the first alleged marriage, was called and cross-examined_ He said he was present at Schultz's when the pri soner and Catherine Creagh were there ; he was present at prisoner's invitation. Schultz was a very notorious person ; he performed marriages when persons had not time to contract them through the church. There was a ceremony of some sort gone through, but he could not say what. Schultz read and spoke in some form, and witness believed they were married at that time. Saw no books used by either of the parties. Never saw such a marriage before. Prisoner said he was anxious to make Ca therine Creagh reparation and marry her. By Mr. Arnold—Could not say whether any reli gious form was used at the marriage. Could not say whether Schultz was in canonicals ; thought he saw the parties kneel, but could not say, Mr. Lewis urged that the prisoner's own admission in the letters of marriage was evidence of the feet. Mr.Wontner addressed the court with much force, urging that before this case could be sustained, it would be necessary to prove the validity of the first marriage. An Irish policeman was called to prove that Schultz's marriage had been acted on as valid in the courts of law in that country. Mr. Lewis having urged that the bigamy was clearly made out, and ought to be sent to a jury, Mr. Arnold thought that with the letters and the evidence of Mr. Warrington of a ceremony, there was a prima fame case made out, and committed the accused for trial upon the first charge of inter marrying with Miss O'Bryan while his former wif e Catherine Creagh was alive. No evidence was given in the other case, but it was stated during the proceedings that indictments might be preferred, and that in such cases notice would be given to the opposite side, a course Mr. Arnold thought would be hard upon the accused, after her family had suffered 10 years to elapse without a prosecution. Prisoner was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Arnold offered to take one surety in £2O, as he thought it not a case in which the prisoner should be locked up. -- WORSHIP-STREET.—ANOTHER SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Rebecca East, stated on the police-sheet to be only 15 years of age, was charged before Mr. Leigh with attempting to com mit suicide by poison. William Barrett, a gardener, living in Grove street, Hackney, said—Yesterday morning I was iLformed by a gentleman while in Victoria-park, that a young girl was in the inclosure in a very excited state. .1 instantly went in there and saw the prisoner loitering about. On perceiving me ap proach her she dashed a bottle against the iron rail ings, and it broke. I asked her to go with me to a medical man, but she refused. Subsequently I took her to Dr. Davey's outside the park, and he gave her an emetic. Cornelius Donovan, a park constable, produced a small phial in fragments labelled " Poison," and said—l picked this up from the spot where the prisoner had been in the enclosure. She told me she had not drank all the contents, or did not take it at all, and that she had been seduced by a person who had brought her from the country, and left her directly afterwards with 17s. In her pocket I found this pocket-book. (Witness produced a pocket-book, in which was written in an excellent hand, "Rebecca Lucenia Evangeline East, born September 1," and contain ing, among other memorandas, letters from a soldier expressive of strong devotion to some female.) Witness continued—She told me that she had picked up the book. Mr. Stafford (clerk) to the prisoner. It has your name in it ? The young girl, who had not hitherto spoken, made no reply until Bendall, the gaoler, repeated the remark, and then, as also to subsequent ques tions, she answered almost inaudibly, and with her head bowed forward; her first words were, " I wrote my name in it." Mr. Leigh—ls it true that you have been seduced ? Prisoner—Yes. Mr. Leigh—What is the name of the person . who seduced you, prisoner ? Prisoner—Thomas Leigh. Mr. Leigh—Where did you come from ? Prisoner—Lincolnshire. Mr. Leigh—When ? Prisoner---A fortnight ago. Mr. Leigh—Where ? _ _ Prisoner—ln Whitechapel. Mr. Leigh—Where are your parents ? Prisoner—My mother lives in Portsmouth. Mr. Leigh—Have you any relatives in London ? Prisoner—A sister in Manchester -square. Mr. Leigh—You say that you c ame from L incoln. shire. Who were you with th ere ? The Prisoner gave some name, which sounded like " Mrs. Tudd." Mr. Stafford—Where did you sleep last in London ? No medical evidence was furnished, and a re-: mand was ordered. The prisoner h as a ver y young appearance, with regular features, but betokening r , recent ment a l ress. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, July cotton market is daily gaining strength, and this day.' oa lea exceed 8,000 h ales --- one-half•on s peculation and for ex port. Prices ar© id to id per lb higher than last Fri doe g arrest rotes, dirt: THE ALL 'EGED MURDER AND _ROBBE. 1 . 0 1 A DEACON BY THE t7A.ROTTE. Yesterday the inquiry was resumed before Mr. s, one of the Middlesex coroners, at 'avert], Hoxton Old Town, respect tJhoehn GreenHu Humphrey ey respect ing 'the death of Mr. Samuel Chapman, aged 70, deacon of Ebenezer Chapel, Bova% who was found insensible in the a djoining house, and who was alleged to have been robbed and violently garotted under , l ircumstances of an extraordina'ry and mys terious iiature on the 7th inst. Inspector Wiseman, of the N division, attended to watch t,`le case on beh.tlf of the commissioners of I,isre.nEte.dS. the W familyooi from the office of Mr. of deceased. The evidenc,c3 taken on the former occasion went Ashley, , and re p ' r ‘ c to show that deceased resided alone at No 1, Reeve's-place, an d that he received " ,`he monies of the chapel of which he was deacon. On the day in question he was found lying on the' floor quite speechless, and with his cravat, which he always wore loose, so tight About his throat that it was difficult to remove it. There were signs of a. struggle on the floor, and his purse could not be, found. Deceased the next day placed his hands first around his daughter's throat and then about his own, apparently to indicate that he had been garotted. A pol;;cema.n's staff, which he usually kept at hand, was . missing, and when found there were marks of blood upon it, at which the old gen tleman seemed much pleased. Finally it was shown that death resulted from an injury to the brain from a blow or from strangulation, and not arising from natural canoes. Vpon the coroner takino his seat, the depositions were . read over. Mt 's. Anne M. Brennan, dai:ghter of the deceased, said that she arrived at deceased's house at 10 o'clock on the evening of the attack, an d remained until the following morning. Her sister, Mrs. Gardiner, was there, and witness did not hear lu.v express any surprise about the purse being missed. The first witness heard of its not being forthcomit: . g was on the following Saturday. She then heard that the purse was missing, and that some one had got in and done Mr. Chapman some injury. Mrs. Gardiner led witness to believe that her father had been injured. She said nothing of the kind before. She then said that she could not find the purse, and witness said that it must be about the place. The day of the funeral witness found the purse between some books in a cupboard in deceased's room. It was apparently concealed, and empty. • Deceased before his death, when the purse was spoken of before him, pointed to a box, but the purse was not there. He might possibly have meant to point to the cupboard, which was near the box. Witness often used the cupboard, but never saw the purse in it. Mr. Chapman had a pension of £1 per week, which he took monthly. He drew his money, as witness understood, three weeks before his death. Deceased did not tell witness that he drew it then, but she supposed he did so, b e , cause he went into the City. the Coroner—She was not present when he pu t his hands up to his throat. She asked if it was a friend, and he said, " No." She merely meant by "if it was a friend," whether any one had be en in to see him on the day he was found speech less. His neckerchief was always worn in one 'owe knot. She would think it very extra ordinary 3 ,.f it was found so tight that a deep mark or indentat:on was around his neck. She could not account for it. No one was present when she asked decease\ d about the friend. She took the op portunity of . being alone with him. That was because she was anxious to know about it. If she had waited until Mrs. Gardiner came in he might not have been sensible enough. Mr. Wm. Lowe, g 3, Wellington-street, Victoria Park, said he was very . intimate with deceased, and he had every reason to believe that deceased was quite comfortable and well supplied with money. He had lent some money to witness at Christmas, and had never applied Aver its return. He wore his necktie in a loose fold. _ _ _ A juror stated to the Court that on looking over the house he observed (marks of fingers on the kitchen window, and close to it a button, which had evidently been torn off a wan's coat. He showed the appearances to Detective Devitt. Mr. Elliston, deacon of the chapel, re-called, and said that the pew-opener fetched him to deceased's place on the Monday. Mrs. Gardiner arrived an hour afterwards. There was no general search in stituted then. A couple of days after the attack Mrs. Gardiner said that if the purse could not be found she should believe her father was murdered. She said the same to witness's wife. Witness did not know whether she had searched for it, and she did not search for it in witness's presence. The Coroner said that the police authorities had only just taken up the case, and they were most anxious that for the ends of justice there should be another adjournment at the present stage. The inquiry was accordingly adjourned. CO UNIBY MABK 141 S. - . 4 ,.... , LEEDS-TUESDAY. The wheat trade is quiet to-day, without alteration from Friday's prices; fresh red not plentiful. In other sorts very little business doing. Spring corn unaltered. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. We have had a quiet business at our market to-day, and the tone was somewhat easier than that which prevailed on Friday. Prices remain stationary for all articles, with the exception of Indian corn, which experienced a decline of 3d per qr on Friday's currencies. SHEFFIELD--TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a slow trade. The supply was below the average, and notwithstanding the favourable and cheering aspect of the weather, prices were about the same as last week. Red wheai,Periead of 3 imperial bushels...2os Od to 22s 6d White , ...22s Od to 23s Od Se New red i .. ...21s Od to 22s Od 1 New white 1) 1 , ...23s Od to 24s 6d Beans If I , ...168 Od to 19s Od Peas, per qr. 54s Od to 58s Od Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, „ 3Bs Od to 42s Od Oats )1 2os Od to 26s Od Millers' prices for flour-2s ld, 2s 3d, and 2s bd per 111 b. DUBLIN-TUESDAY. To-day's corn market was fairly supplied with wheat, and prices at about the same as last week. In Irish grain nothing doing save in oats, which are in retail demand, at late rates. s. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. Wheat, white.. 30 oto 34 0 Beans.. . 24 oto V 0 Do., red .. 27 0t032 0 Bere Do., new .... —oto 0 I Rapeseed ..; Barley Oats Do., black l3 otols 0 Indian corn .. 30 6to 31 0 FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Atunralia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Axg. 18. via Marseilles ..... Aug. 12. clraail and Cape Verds, by British packet Aug. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. 2- - via Marseilles Aug.il2. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Aug. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 2. via Marseilles Aug. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 14. via Marseilles Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 2. —,=a via Marseilles Aug. 8. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. Aug. 4. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Aug. 6. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet July 30. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Aug. 10. Bahamas, via New York Aug. 28. Mexico Aug. 28. I All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, Aug. 13. California, and British Columbia. BIRTHS. 26th the inst,, uyvai fp h i a o t ef CommanderoSe t e . , A A Augustine , g u em Admiralty, Du ro x a s d T , E C n am VIL den E.— Ne o w n t- ttotli un ste 'lle, R.N., of h —° S.W., of a son. HOPE. —On the 26th inst., at Belmont, n ear Edi n b urg h, the Hon. • M rs James Hope, of a son. mETHvEs ..—On the 27th inst., the Hon. Mrs. St. John Methuen, of a son. MARRIAGES. B ED DARD—GRAINGER.—On the 29th inst., at Saint Ed mund's Church, Mr. Willi am Beddard, jun., of Dudley, to Harriett, second daughter of E. Grainger, Esq., Mayo r of Dudley. SEYMOUR—TIIORPE.—On the 29th inst., at Saint Peter's, Pimlico, the Rey. Will iam Seymour, rctor of Landulph, Cornwall, to Alice, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Thorpe, and the C ountess of Pomret. BADGER.—On th DEATHS. e 26th inst., Thomas Badger, Esq., of ic h ic o s m . Rotherham, solicitor, aged 70. Bt — B.B o j ow th p e er 2 B 7 i t ak h s a t g ., ed a 3 t B. Queen's-road, Peckham, DENISON.—On the 26th inst., at Burley, Leeds, Merv,* Edmund, infant son of William Beckett Denison, Esq., and the Hon. Mrs. Denison, aged eight months. ECKETT.—O n the 28th inst., at Cleveland, near Bristol, the Rev. Robert Eckett, of 6, Argyle-square, London, aged 65. FINL A YSO N. —At 47, Devonshire-street, Portland-place , Duncan Finlayson, Esq., aged 61. M'ARTHUR.—On the 28th inst., at Gerrard's-cross, Backlit Major-General John M'Arthur, aged 72. PITMAN.—On the 25th inst., at Montague-place, Russell squale, Mrs. Ann Pitman, widow of the late Thos. Dis Pitman, Esq., aged 95. LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No. 11 t► Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho_Conntl of July W, KNIM= s ~, .~:.. L