The Sun. — London, England, 1862-07-04 00:00:00

CORRESPOND .N OF NAPOLEON I, The tenth volume of the correspondence of Napo leon I. has just appeared. It comprises the period between the Ist of October, 1804, and the 28th of jqne, 1805, during which 894 letters were written oil the most important affairs of State, from the ar n3y, navy, public works, finance, the public and private conduct of public functionaries of every 'rade, to the squabbles of the op era dancers in One of the first that caught my eye on 01 )9ning the volume is the following :-- " Chalon-sur-Saone, 17 Germinal, an XIII, (7 April, 1805). "M. Forfait,—l have received your letter. The Minister of Marine has informed me that, by your own admission, you have an interest in many public com panies, both of cont ractors of public works as of constructors. I myself was much annoyed at seeing that you bad an interest in the business of a contractor of Antwerp. Such things are incom tible with the confidence which I give to persons in I take into my service. Yet I will do you to think that in no circumstance this nyinfluence on your duties. If commer al speculations appear more advantageous than )ur services in the Council of State or in the larine Department, I have no objection to what may be advantageous to you; but if you mean to continue serving either in the Council of State or in the navy, I require of you to give up every species of interested connection with contractors or constructors under any pretext whatever. NAPOLEON." Paris. the jus. M. Forfait, I suppose, made his choice, though what it was we do not know. Before this letter was written he and his friends, no doubt, denounced the "calumniators" of public functionaries quite as vehemently as M. Billault did the other day in the Legislative Corps, to the applause of his hearers, who are always disposed to admire courage of every kind, and who know that he generally succeeds )est in fiction. Had Napoleon I. _lived to our d a y, he would see that M. Forfait and nis like were only in the infancy of their art. From Chambery he writes on the 17th of April, 1805, to Fouche, Minister of Police : " The Bulletin de l'Europe (a paper of the day as unfortunate as the Courrier du Bimanche) is a.nieka.ted by a bad spirit. I am astonished, how ever, to find Esmenard there. Tell them, for their own good, that the days of the Quotidienne [the Union of the present day] have passed away. They dare not indulge their evil disposition. People see that they are kept within bounds; but the tip of ear is seen, For instance, had they nothing better to say, when speaking of the addresses, on the topographic office ? I mean that the newspaper serve the Government, and not oppose it. Esme nard is a man of merit, but Michaud is, as ever, a rascal. " NAPOLEON." On the 28th of June, 1805, he writes from Plais ance a letter to his " cousin," Marshal Berthier, full of instructions on the preparations for the invasion of England. The following extract is curious : " Keep your eye on everything. Master all the details about provisions, eau-de-vie, shoes, and everything concerning the landing. Have every thing in your portfolio in perfect order. Put on board a great quantity of artillery tools—you know there is always a deficiency in campaigning. I shall have to lay siege to Dover Castle, to Chatham, and perhaps Portsmouth. Talk it over with Mares col (General of Engineers). It is possible that I shall have troops enough to besiege the three places at the same time. We must have no ifs,' or buts,' or Vors'—all the chances are calculated beforehand. Let tools of every kind be shipped, and take care that nothing be wanted. I don't know how many companies of miners I have ordered." Nelson seems to occupy his thoughts during a great part of this period. He writes to 'Vice- Admiral Decres the same day : "I am still without any positive information. It would appear that Nelson has been to the West Indies, but with ten ships only. Anyhow he could not have left but on the 25th Floreal (15th of May). In that case Magon will have arrived before him. Nelson was first before Surinam, then at Trinidad, and then at Barbadoes. This leaves a chance for the arrival of the President frigate, which sailed on the let P rairial (20thMay)—that is, mith hardly any days difference, and with the advantage of one ship against a squadron, following a shorter route, and losing no time in giving chase or seeking for in formation. Nelson will lose two days at Cape Verd. He will take many days in waiting for the frigates and vessels chasing on his way. When he learns that Villeneuve is not at the Windward Islands he will go on to Jamaica, and while he is occupied with taking in provisions and waiting for him that great blow can be struck. This is my calculation. Ship at Brest all the provisions you can. Can't we do anything with this ship of the tine L'Ocean ? Don't forget the gunboats. Let all that are in the ports embark on the sth Thermidor (25th of July). Let good troops be embarked, and let everything, even to the pinnaces, be armed; 18 and 24-pounders are everywhere 18 and 24- pounders. Send the captain of a frigate to Havre and one to Dunkirk to hasten the departure from both. Order the Cannoniere frigate to be ready with its stores, and leave in 24 hours after the rrival of your courier. You know how useful this ;ate must oe to us. Keep ready at Havre one two good sailing brigs to carry orders. In so critical it is a great relief to ga,t news y. I suppose you have at Cherbourg a ovisions at least for every one." TO t same he again writes the same day, still ,bout Nelson ; "I em in receipt of your courier and your letters om Guadaloupe. I beg of you to reassure me by courier, for I tremble lest the English stion of all by that way. . . Let that we have now against us. There are but sels before Brest, six at Rochefort, and eight rrol. We don't know what is in the Mediter- our first ranean, bat certainly there are not more than four ships'. W:i want information about Nelson and Col- En v y ° . i . 'oe They were together on the 25th Floreal on the Spanish coast with 17 ships. They then l iart "ltxaupanv, and we really know nothing about them since. If they are together, they arrived on he 26th Prairial at Surinam, and on the Ist Mes ;:lor at B ar b adoes. If they then appeared li s : ' "re Mar % in iclue they found our squadron Ilii-seti of 11 French and six Spanish .!',.-ce.'-buttle ships. Nelson will have done one ;f' two things—tried to rally a squadron, as vi a neuve will have left, or, when Villeneuve knew or the arrival of Nelson 1 4 theseis waters, he will [l ,-. a i q have left. But it i s , .., - ham to believe that a ny news the v,,, r without getting , nth would send 17 men of war to the West In dies , , ' w hi le Nelson, with his 10 vessels, joining Cochran e who has six, and witlit the three that a re at Jamai ca , will h ave 19, which will give him the superiority over our When quadron—it i s , I sa y, bard to believe that he enemy has thus the chance of finding him se l f raster everywhere, he would blindly abando n ndia. There is another observation. If the two :ngiish squadrons together have been in Am . erica icy will have passed Cap e V o ra, and will not 'rive but on the sth Messidor—that is, 40 days If, on the othe r h an d , N e l son w as alone, ' will have been so without hesitating and seeking iy information. Then what will he do with his ) ships ? He will loae eight or ten days in join - o no Cochrane ; during which Villeneuve will leave, Ind the enemy will be weakened at the moment of combat by being deprived of Nelson's and Cochrane's squadrons. It is certain that Nelson was short of provisions. He must have landed on the coast of Africa to take in water. His crews were worn out with fatigue. He landed his sick at Gibraltar. Hi s crews I believe to be incomplete ; and he will be more prudent and reserved. My opinion is that Nelson has gone to America, and that Collingwocd has gene to India. Anyhow we ought to have every day new data;to go on." Amid all these plans he had time to write the nv.-ing• t o M . c ambhceres, which is dated 11th , 1805, oyagc A nTi 31y Cousin,--4 herewith . send you a memorial licL his been addressed to me by the leader of o pera dancers. It seems to me at the first proper to let Dupo n t man has not yet get up the ballets. : e year of reputation. u cceeds in SO amin t a manner in a This Wh( branch, it is a little too hasty to deprive people of it who have grown gray in it. With regard to the reforms to be made, make me out a detailed report, an d draw out for me a fresh code of regulations. " NAPOLEON." Again, to M. Champagny, Minister of the Interior, 16th December, 1804 : " M. Champagny,—A number of poets and musi cians have distinguished themselves by the odes, pieces of music, and other productions which they made on the occasion of my coronation. We ought to make them presents in proportion to the goodness of their works. I wish you would collect all that has been done on that occasion. " NAPOLEON." A cousin of the celebrated General Hoche petitions 'or the place of usher or valet de chambre. The petition is referred to the Emperor, who writes in the margin : " A little place is granted to him in the Excise. Forwarded to Francois, Counsellor of State." The Minister of Marine proposes to the Emperor to cancel the nomination of a young man in his Department, on the ground that his father was a man of bad character, and that one of his relations had been condemned to hard labour. Napoleon, much to his credit, writes (20th of February, 1805) in the margin : " Rejected. The young man must be kept in his employment. Faults are personal." He gives instructions (7th of June, 1805) to Prince Eugene Beauharnais how to regulate his conduct as Viceroy : " My Cousin,--In confiding to you the govern ment of our kingdom of Italy, we have given you a proof of the esteem with which your conduct has inspired us. But, being still at a time of life when one is not acquainted with the perversity of the human heart, we cannot too strongly reco:nmend you to be circumspect and prudent. Our Italian subjects are naturally greater dissemblers than the citizens of France. You have but one method of preserving their esteem and forwarding their in terests ; it is not to accord your entire confidence to anybody, and not to tell anybody what you think of the Ministers and of the great officers who sur round you. When you shall have spoken candidly and unnecessarily, remark to yourself that you have committed a fault, in order that you may not re peat it. Show for the nation you govern an esteem which it is necessary to manifest the more you dis- cover reasons for esteeming it less. A time will come when you will admit that there is a great dif ference between one people and another. The ob ject of your Government being the happiness of my Italian people, th e sacr ifi ce o f y ou r prejudice against such of their customs as displease you is the first of your duties. Make it your glory to be a Frenchman in every position except in that of Viceroy of Italy, but in that you must cause it to be forgotten, and you will not succeed except by persuading the Italians that you love them. They know that we love only those we esteem. Cultivate their language—let them form your principal so ciety—distinguish them at your festivities in a marked manner—approve what they approve, and love what they love. Speak as little as possible. You are not sufficiently informed, and your educa tion has not been sufficiently perfect, to permit you to enter on a discussion without reflection. Learn to be silent, and be assured that silence often produces the same effect as science. Do not be ashamed to ask a question. Although a Viceroy, you are only 23 years of age, and, whatever flatterers may tell you, everybody knows secretly the extent of your acquirements, and they grant you more esteem through the hope of what you shall be than through the opinion of what you are Give no credit to spies. There is more harm than good in having them ; you have nothing to fear at Milan, and perhaps even in no country. Your military police, who , narrow you as to your troops, are all you want . . . Your great interest is to treat the natives well, to know them all, to know their names and their families. Do not be very familiar with strangers. There is nothing to gain with them. An ambassador will not say any good of you, because his trade is to say all the bad he can. Foreign Ministers are, in all the force of the term, titled spies. There will be no harm in keeping them at a distance, for they are always more dis posed to esteem those they see little of than those who show them friendship and kindness. . . . Mejan (the Viceroy's secretary) will be of use to you if he does not seek to make money; and he will not do so if he knows you ore watching his acts, and that a single fault of the kind would destroy him in my mind and in yours. He must be well paid, and have the hope of every sort of promotion ; but for that he must be on foot night and day. If he get the habit of working only at fixed hours, and amusing himself the remainder of the day, he will be of no use to you. You will have to repress in him, as in the other Frenchman, the disposition which leads them to despise the country, all the more that melancholy will be added to it; for the Frenchman is good for nothing anywhere but in France." ME7ROPOLITAN DRAINAGE. Yesterday, in pursuance of an invitation issued by the Metropolitan Board of Works (through Mr. H. Bazalgette, their engineer) to the members of both houses of Parliament, a large number of peers and commons assembled in the tea-room at half-past ten in the morning, the Board of Works being anxious to give the members of each house of the legislature an opportunity of viewing portions of the main drainage works during their progress, " as they are of an unprecedented character, and cannot be viewed after completion." About 120 gentle men accepted the invitation, and among the list of names we observed those of Lord. Calthorpe, Lord Fortescue, Lord Hamilton, Lord Overstone, Lord Exmouth, Lord De Ros, Lord Belper, Lord Deiamere, Lord Robert Montagu, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Caithness, Lord Rag lan, Lord Burghley, Lord John Manners, Lord Gage, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lord Powis, Lord Proby, Lord Dartmouth, Lord Hotham, Lord George Lennox, the Earl of Essex, Lord Orkney, Lord Naas, Lord Longford, Lord Redesdale, Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P,, Sir William Fraser, Col. Greville, Hon. Mr. Portman, Sir P. Egerton, Colo nel Cartwright, Colonel Russell, Right Hon. Mowbray, Hon. Mr. Tollemache, Hon. P. Bouve rie, Hon. Locke King, Sir M. Cholmondeley, Sir Henry Bruce, the Hon. G. C. Bentinch, Hon. Ci Calthorpe, Colonel Sykes, M.P., Alderman Sidney, Messrs. H. J. Adams, W. T. Milford, T. Main waring, M. C. Onslow, H. W. Freeland, John White, F. Doulton, W. Tite, Thos. Miller, &c. At the hour named, the engineer of the Metro politan Board of Works, Mr. Bazalgette, proceeded briefly to describe the character of the works. He commenced by alluding to the former system of carrying the sewage of houses into cesspools. Sub sequently sewers were built, which were partially covered over, brick sewers of various sizes being left open, and this proved to be a very defective system. In 1847, by an Act of Parliament passed ` . pau the subject, all persons were required to de trop their cesspools, and to divert their sewage into the sewers. That Act had been in operation since 1847, and had been carried out most vigor ously. Eight thousand houses in one year had their cessp ee i e royed, and the sewage was turned into the Thari a ,: • This polluted the river, and in d r y seasons and , at a low level, a s much as from f our to not weather the Thames in many it became very offensive. Th e land a were built with b asements and the below the level of high water. Upon that s p i l x a c f e e s e t was, entered the Thames at the level co nstructed belo w the basement, o f l and o w water. The sewers the sewage slaenwdershowuesrees would only discharge the sew age at low water, or unde r low water, and the sewers were tide-locked for ls hours out of th e 24, so that th e s t ag nant sewers being pent sewage evol ve d the mos t noxious up the gases. The tide in the river rising above them shut the flaps at their mouths, and hence the sewage was pent up. An other objecti on to the t h e n existing system of drainage was its being discharged only at low water, an— a was thus diluted with the water, and w as carried up the r i ver i nstea d o f d o wn the river by the receding tide. N ew sewers could not be Constructed for want of deeper outfalls. Various plans had been devised to remedy these evils, and a . main feature in the plan now b e i ng ex ecuted Was ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1862. the interception and carrying off of the sewage from the existing sewers, as much as possible on the prin. ciple of gravitation. LI the execution of such a plan one great difficulty to be overcome was the varying quantities of water to be carried off. The actual sewage amounted to about 12 millions of cubit feet per day of 24 hours ; but it varied in quantity, the flow being the greatest at midday and the least at midnight. The intercepting system on the north side was divided into the north high-level sewer flowing rapidly from Hampstead to Bow. The middle-level sewer commenced at Kensal-green, and flowed through Oxford-street and the City, and united with the high-level at the penstock chamber at Bow. From thence they proceeded to Abbey Mills, in the I Marshes, where they would be joined by the low level sewer. The low-lever sewer was intended to pass as near as possible to the margin of the river from Chelsea to Abbey Mills, where a pump ing lift of 37 feet would be constructed ; from hence it was intended that the streams of the three sewers should flow by gravitation at high water at Bark ing Creek. Here an underground reservoir would be constructed 13 acres in extent, so that the sewage might then be discharged into the Thames during the two first hours of the ebb tide only. Thus the sewage would be driven by 100 times the volume of water with which it was now diluted, and would be conveyed by the time of low water following to the distance of 26 miles below London-bridge. The south side was similar to the north, but the levels being generally lower, more pumping was required. The sewage from the high-level sewer would flow t f l o o r : - C l e r v e s e l k , s e t o w a t g h s e w o u o t u f a l d l 1 p i n a s sE fromri t h A P T arses Lambeth, ~ by gravitation from Clapham and Norwood, under Deptford Lambeth, and Bermondsey to Deptford Creek, where it would be pumped at the higher level, and the united streams would flow in one channel 10 feet 6 inches in diameter to Crossness Point in Erith Marshes. There was a reservoir and pumping station, the contract for which would be let to-day (Friday) by the Board of Works. The high-level sewer on the north side of the Thames was completed already, and sewage from Hampstead through it was discharged into the River Lea through the " storm overflow." The middle-level sewer was about half completed, and the northern outfall was in the same state of forwardness. The low-level sewer was not yet commenced. On the south side the south outfall was completed. The south high- level was drawing towards completion, and the south low-level was not yet commenced. The Deptford pumping-station was about three-fourths completed, and the engines were being now fixed. The esti mated cost of these works was £3,000,000, and the contracts let, or in hand, were about £2,000,000, of which £1,500,000 wore complete. In these works they would consume 800,000 cubic yards of concrete, 4,000,000 cubic yards of earthwork, and 300,000,000 of bricks. The company proceeded from the House of Com mons by steamboat to Blackwall, where a special train was in waiting to receive them, and they in spected the 'junction of the high and. middle level sewers at Bow, and inspected the various works there and at Barking, where a very elegant luncheon was provided at which some complimentary toasts were given. After this the steamer conveyed the, company to Greenwich, who descended into the south outfall sewer, about 20 feet below the surface'; and they walked through about a quarter of a mile of the sewer, which was beautifully lighted up, and an opportunity was afforded to every one to drink champagne in a sewer, for the only time, in all human probability, in their lives. The length of the works is seven miles. The work is a marvellous and astonishing one, and one which we are assured will endure for ever. The contractors are : For the north outfall sewer, Mr. Furness; for the south outfall sewer, Mr. Webster; for the middle level, Messrs. Brassey ; for the pumping station Mr. Aird. Messrs. Cooper, Grant, and Lovick respectively are the assistant engineers for the north outfall, the south outfall, and the middle-level north. The rain did not cease for five minutes during the day, but this misery was greatly compensated by the princely hospitality which was shown to the guests, and the good humour and bonhommie which distinguished the company. convenience in a manner which would reflect credit on them. The designs sent into the committee were all by men of such undoubted eminence that it had been truly said the court could scarcely err by select ing any one of them. With regard to the question of cost he was enabled to state, on the authority of the Chamberlain, that the council need have no hesitation in adopting any design for a bridge, the , estimated cost of which was not more than £300,000 and that they might even go further to the extent of an additional sum of £50,000 or £70,000. Mr. Hartridge caused some laughter by asking if the council, supposing they adopted any one of the five designs, would be bound to build a bridge ? Mr. Vallance replied he had thought the court had decided that question 18 months ago, and that he would be a bold man who would say the corpo ration should continue to patch up the present ricketty structure. The court having agreed to the report, Mr. Deputy Harrison moved that they proceed by show of hands to reduce the five designs to two, and then elect one of the two for adoption. Upon that a long discussion ensued on the com parative merits of the five designs, having regard to the questions of headway and navigable waterway, cost, materials of construction, the gradients of the proposed bridge and its approaches, breadth of road, the span and character of arches, foundations, and time and mode of construction. The design of Mr. Brunlees' was advocated for adoption chiefly by N r. Alderman Rose and Mr. Hadley ; that of Mr. Cubitt by Mr. Kearns, Mr. Deputy Elliott, and Mr. Alderman James Lawrence ; and that of Mr. Page by Mr. Rowe principally. Mr. Alderman Philips said the five designs were all so admirable that the Court might safely put the names of the engineers into a hat and draw one at hap-hazard, and adopt his plan. Mr. Deputy Fry, Mr. Lawley, Mr. Bengough, Mr. H. Lowman Taylor, Mr. Barnes, Mr. R. N. Philipps, and Mr. \Vaterlow also took part in the discussion. Each of the designs was then submitted alpha betically to a show of hands until the number was reduced to two. The result was first to eliminate that of Mr. Mylne, then that of Mr. Fowler, and thirdly, that of Mr. Page, leaving those of Mr. Brunlees and Mr. Cubitt from which to choose. Eventually the Court, on a show of hands, adopted that of Mr. Cubitt by a large majority. A division was called for but foregone, the ma jority being so decisive. Then, on the motion of Mr. John Young, jun., it was referred back to the bridge-house commit tee to take all the necessary steps with the least possible delay for erecting the proposed bridge after Mr. Cubitt's design. --....,. taken improper ;:oerties with witness. Had never said he had. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine--Do you really mean to say you never accused him of dul i ng so ' Witness (with great hesitation)-- No. You did accuse him ?—Yes. - v ?--No, Then it was a falsehood you told just nod it was not. The Judge—What did he do to you? ‘i at Witness—He has kissed me. He never did except in Mrs. Grey's presence. Cannot tell hov► often he did it. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Did he ever take any further liberties with you ?—No. Have you not sat on his lap ?—Yes, but that was also in Mrs. Grey's presence. (A laugh.) Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Was it ? Perhaps you sat on one knee and Mrs. Grey on the other ? Witness —Yes. (Laughter.) I went with Mrs. Grey to Smith's about the riding lessons. She in troduced me to him as a young lady friend of hers. I have ridden out with them myself. The case against Mr. Winteringham was proved by a laundress at St. Clement's-inn, where the re spondents cohabited for some months. The learned counsel having addressed the court, and C. Cresswell having summed up, The jury found all the issues for the husband, with a farthing, damages against each eo-respon dent. 'BLACKFRMRS BRIDGE. Yesterday, at a special meeting of the Common Council, held at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor in the chair, the subject of the proposed new bridge across the Thames at Blackfriars underwent a long discussion in a very full court. The Bridge House Estate Committee, to whom the question had been twice referred for considera tion, eventually determined to recommend that the bridge to be erected by the corporation should be one of five arches, springing from an abutment in a line with the present wharf lines on each side of the river. Having regard to the length of time that would necessarily be occupied in the construction of a stone bridge, as compared with one of iron arches, and to the very great difference between the cost of a stone bridge and that of an iron one, the commit tee were of opinion that it would not be desirable to adopt a design for a stone bridge. Of 16 designs submitted to them by engineers of eminence they selected five, each of five arches, as best calculated to meet the requirements of the public ; namely— stating them alphabetically, as the committee had done—the design, sent in by Mr. James Brunlees, for abridge of five elliptical arches, at the estimated eost of £230,573, including the cost of a temporary bridge ; the design, sent in by Mr. Joseph Cubitt, for a bridge of five segmental arches, at the estimated cost of £265,000 ; the design, sent in by Mr. John Fowler, for a bridge of five elliptical arches, at the estimated cost of 1380,000 ; the design, sent in by Mr. Robert William Mylne, for a bridge of five seg mental arches, at the estimated cost of £308,000, ex clusive of a temporary bridge and the reconstruction of the outlet of the Fleet sewer ; the design, sent in by Mr. Thomas Page, for a bridge of five segmental arches, at the estimated cost of £260,000, including allowance for contingencies, and for removing the present bridge. These designs the committee pre sented yesterday, with an accompanying report, to the Common Council, for them to choose one for adoption. Pictorial representations of the five selected designs were exhibited in the Council Chamber, and sketches of the unaccepted ones were shown in the adjoining committee-rooms. Mr. Brunlees' design had a centre arch of 209 feet 4 inches span, side arches of 196 feet 6 inches, and abutment arches of 163 feet 4 inches. The head way of the centre arch above Trinity high-water was 26 feet, the distance from abutment to abut ment 995 feet, and the available water-way for navigation 929 feet. The average gradient of the bridge was 1 in 50, with 70 feet breadth of way. In Mr. Cubitt's design the span of the centre arch was 189 feet, of the side arches 176 feet, and of the abutment arches 164 feet. The headway of the centre arch was 27 feet above high water, the dis tance from abutment to abutment 963 feet, and the available waterway 869 feet. The breadth was 75 feet, and the steepest inclination of the bridge was lin 40. Mr. Fowler's centre arch was 184 feet in span, two side arches 173 feet each, and two land arches 162 feet. The headway of the centre arch above high water mark was 22 feet, the distance from abutment to abutment 925 feet, and the available waterway 854 feet. The gradient of the bridge was 1 in 50, and the breadth 80 feet. The centre arch of Mr. Mylne was 216 feet span, the side arches 199 feet, and the two land arches 156 feet ; the headway of the centre arch being 26 feet, the distance between the abutments 987 feet, and the available waterway 926 feet. The span of Mr. Page's centre arch was 200 feet, of the adjoin- 1 ing arches 188 feet, and of the abutment arches 164 feet. The headway of the centre arch above high water mark was 23 feet, the distance between the abutments being 994 feet, and the available water wayi 903 feet. The breadth of the bridge was no t 1 less than 75 feet, and the gradient was 1 in 50 on r a e n p a o rt, the Middlesex, and 1 in 40 on the Surrey side. \ h Mr. W. VALLANCE, chairman of the Bridge house Committee, in moving the adoption of their all its bearings. this labourexplained that they had devoted much time to the investigation of the subject in that was a the corporation of L .performance of a Work of grea t / H ot e d. frg i e n d vol u vi p n o as th it e dia cou th r e t question of vast importance to public utility and THE MURDER AT FORDINGBRIDGE. FORDINBRIDGE, THURSDAY. The examination of John Jacob Gilbert, for the murder of Mary Ann Susan Hall, the only daughter of Mr. Hall, of Midgham Farm, whilst on her way to church on the morning of Sunday week, took place' o-day. Considerable excitement prevailed, and on being brought up from the police-station, where he has been confined since Monday last, the prisoner was followed by a large crowd of persons, and the fact of his having contemplated, if not attempted suicide, in his cell a few days since, has given additional interest to the ease. The magistrates on the bench were the Rev. W. J. Yonge (chairman), Rev. R. F. Purvis, J. Coven try, Esq., and J. Churchill, Esq. The prisoner looked extremely pale and dejected. Helen Smith deposed—l am dairymaid at Mr. Hall's, at Midgham Farm. On Sunday morning, the 22d of June, Miss Hall left home about 10 for the purpose of going to church at Fordingbridge. I went to Fordingbridge about 12. The cows were then quietly in the meadow, and I did not see any parasol flying about. I left the farm to go to church in the afternoon, but did not go in, as it was late. I met the prisoner in the lane, not a great distance from the church. It was about a quarter before three. He was going towards Holmes's-lane, where the body was found. I did not speak to him, nor he to me. I knew him very well by sight. I met the prisoner about half-way between Mr. Cottman's house and John Gilbert's, about a quarter of a mile from where the body was found. Robert Haskell—l am a labourer, and live at Mudsmore. On Sunday morning, the 22d of June, I had occasion to go to Harbridge to see my daugh ter. I went along the footpath leading to Midg ham about half-past ten. I passed over the stiles on each side of Jack Holmes's-lane, where the body was found. The dew was beaten off the grass, as if there had been a "scamper" there. I saw foot marks, and a place where somebody had fallen back into the hedge. I thought some children had been there to play. The mark in the hedge was a little way up the dirty lane. I saw that something had passed or been dragged up the water. Thorns, nettles, brambles, and all sorts of bushes are grow ing in the hedge. I saw a treading of feet from the stile up to the water. I went a step or two, but could not go further for the water. There was no body about. I sat on the stile for a minute or a minute and a half. Afterwards, on looking towards Bickton, I saw the prisoner coming up under the hedge. He was coming towards me. I then got over the rail into another piece of pasture on my way home. The prisoner was on the other side of the lane. As I passed I got nearly opposite to him, He was 20 yards off. I watched him. He wore a brown smock frock, and was wet up to his knees. He had his boots on, but they were unlaced. I did not speak to him. I saw the cows in an " uproar," which made me look over the hedge. They were in the same field as the prisoner. When I left, the prisoner was leaning against an ash tree. The cows were on the Fordingbridge side of the dirty lane, but as close as they could get to it. By the prisoner—You had a brown slop on. Prisoner—No, I hadn't ; I had on the same clothes as I have now. (The prisoner had pre viously denied being near the spot before the after- noon): John Gosney—l live at Fordingbridge, and am shepherd to Mr. Thompson. I know the prisoner, and where he lives. On Sunday morning, the 22d June, about a quarter past 11, I had occasion to go to my sheep in Amberlands, near where the body was found. I saw the prisoner Gilbert there, in the ditch. He was leaning his side against the bank picking something off his clothes. When he saw me he got out of the ditch and walked off. I was 62 paces from him when I first saw him, and 18 when he got out. He picked up something from the opposite side of the ditch, but I could not see what it was. He walked away quite smart, so that I could not speak to him, which I should otherwise have done. Caroline Philpott—l live in Frog-lane, and the prisoner lodges in my house. He is my husband's half-brother. He got up between 7 and 8 on Sun day morning, the 22c1 June. He took breakfast with us. He left the house at half-past nine, and I didn't see him again before dinner time, after the church people had come out. He wore the waist coat and coat which he has on now, but not the trousers. He wore the trousers produced by the police. He also wore a white abirt—the one pro duced. It is an old shirt which he kept in case he came home wet through. I last washed it about a month before the murder. I don't think that it wanted mending when I put it by. He put on the shirt the Tuesday before the mur der. The sleeves were not broken as they are now when he put it on (the sleeves were broken and muddy). He changed his shirt on the Sunday, after dinner, just before church time. He put on another white shirt. I did not see whether the sleeves of the other shirt were broken when he went out in the morning. The sleeves were tucked in a roll when I brought the shirt down for the police. The policeman said the sleeves were wet, and that they smelt of mud. The prisoner had a check shirt, which was upstairs on a nail. He had not the check shirt on on Sunday morning the 22d June. It was just before church-time--3 o'clock— when he left the house in the afternoon. I went for a walk with my little girl, and met prisoner coming up the field with a parasol in his hand. He was coming towards home. I said, " George, where on ear th has 't found that r' He replied, ‘‘, I found it down in Harding's flying about and the cows mak ing a great noise." He asked whether Charles, my husband, was at home, and I said " Yes." He said he wanted him to come down, as there was some thing down there. I asked him what, and he said, co A woman in the ditch, smothered in mad." I told him that he had better go to the police if she was dead. Nothing more passed, and he went off to the sergeant of police. Just at dinner time I heard my little boy Charles say in the prisoner's presence that he had been seeingiThele George hanging his stock ing out on the bush. The boy put his hand on the prisoner's tr ousers and said, George, your trousers are wet." The prisoner made no reply. I saw the stockings hanging on the hedge. They were then ' dry. He h ad a clean pair upstairs, which I put for him on Saturd a y ni g ht. He p ut them on after din ner, but I didn't see him. 1 was in such a trembling after I heard of his being charged that I did not look at his things. I did not look at his boots when he came home to dinner. He has got a short brown slop,but did not wear it that I know on the Sunday. The slop was produced and the witness Gosn e y was r ecalled, and stated t h at it appeared to be the same which the prisoner had on when he saw him. Haskell, however, was of a different opinion * It wa s a darker slop that the prisoner wore, but then Fig h it m t have been wet. Fa Tanner, next door neighbour to the last corroborated portions of her witness, the evidence. She wa s at home from 9 o'clock inmorning until 1, and went into the last witness's house three or four times, but did not see the z e i c ri soner. Saw him Asked t h er e at a quarter to 4. him how he came w ith the parasol whi c h b e had in his hand. He, re plied that he had pi c k e d i t up i n Mr. Pi n horn s flyingabout, and th e cows after it. lie added that in the watery lane he found . said woman he smothered in water and mud, dead. He lifted her up, and that she was dead and stiff. He said there were some books alongside of her. He said they looked t o be church-service books. John Tur ner —l li ve at o rdingbridge, c and know the prisoner, wh o li ves with C. rhilpott, near the church. I have known him two years One Sunday about five it weeks ago "I was a t Midgham-moorwith him. It was a e o n 'lO o'clock, just as the people were goin g t o c h urc h. We saw Miss Hall coming along the path, towar ds Fordingbridge church. She went o u t o f the footpa th to pass us, After again. passing us she went i nto the foot p ath The prisoner said, " An ybody could easily have all she has, and no one w ould know anything about it." lie 86(3.) " There she goes." I said, " Y es. Miss Ha ll, is it not r' He said, " Yee Nothing else was said that morning . About a f ortnight afterwards , on a Sunday, the prisoner came to my house, and asked me if I was going for a walk. It was about nine o'clock in the morning. I went with him round the allotment gardens, Whilst there the pri- MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A MAN AND HIS WIFE AT WALLASEY. On Tuesday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a most distressing calamity happened at Wallasey, resulting in the untimely deaths of a young man named John Howard and his wife, Anna Howard. It appears that during the evening the deceased man was at a beer house at New Brighton, kept by a Mr. Copeland, and that about 11 o'clock his wife went to the house in question, and after some persuasion prevailed upon her husband to go home. A boy about twelve years of age, the brother of Howard, was in company with the latter and his wife as they were on their way home. A few mi nutes before they arrived near to a field in which is a deep pit called the " Captain's Pitt," somewords took place between the husband and wife, the hus band being heard to say, " Well, you had a share of it ;" when the wife rep Fed, "No, I had not." The husband rejoined," Well, I will see about that when we get home." Some further altercation having taken place between the unfortunate couple, the husband said he und immediately after making the threat was determined to drown himsea'n he o l i'll away from his wife and brother, exclaiming, diately in the direction of the pit, drown myself in the Captain's Pit." a irame with the deep. His wife and brother followed him:o y'n out his intention of preventing him from overtake him he rash design ; but before they delberatelv threw off had arrived at the pit, and ent his distracted whichil iesr9a fathoms his coat and hat. At this moment and endeavoured , e-til f threw himself and despair, wife and brother came u p h to h pit, but he succeeded to drag him away from , , Ohs ll7 ing to the edge of the p fi it t 0 1 1 1 in extricating himself fromt grasp , in wife, screamed oat,,believed, with with the intention of sav self !" and, it is .bie,God, he has drowned him screamed his life, herself dashed into the pit after him. The. P o • elf with grief. After if 130551 0 r boy , as may well be imagined, was almost beside himself listen ing for a few mom ents (it f , fa i nt s , and was of course quite dark) he heard a strugg le and afew groan e public office—i being both drowned, he ran to t h -anbeing convinced tha t the unfortunate c up aol t e were near 12 o'clock at night—d gave information that his brother and sistorin•law had both just soner proposed to go to Midgham-moor. We went, been tirowned in the Captain's Pit. Two of the and got there just as the bells struck out for church. officers, assisted by three men belonging to the As we were g oing through Mr. Thompson's field, E gr em, out F erry, went to th e p it, takin g with called Lapersey, we met Miss H a ll. Sh e was coming them a , numb er of grappling irons, and after drag towards Fordingbridge church. We sat on Mr. ging for son le time both bodi es were drawn out, Thompson's stile, in the same field. Miss:Hall passed and ul as before that. Prisoner said, n Mi ss H a ll i s a nice w h e re axey will remain till after the coroner's young itely taken to their residence,s young girl,isn't she ?' That was after sh e h a d passed. i nq uest, w tch will take place at the Black Horse On the Saturday night before the murder he asked Inn, this at ernoon, at five o'clock. me if I was going for a walk the next morning. I We -andel stand that the unfortunate deceased_ asked him where he was going. He said " Some- man (who wa s2B years of age, and his wife 27) was where for a stroll," but did not say where. I asked very hignly y espected in Wallasey, and enjoyed the "rn where he called somewhere, and hi. and leave he replied confidence ant I esteem of his employers. The par' naewhere for a wag% the same as usual." That ties had been married about four years, " So, - know. From what he said, I thought h is all i abuse Miss Hall. The wife was considerably advanced meant to 'risover—l did not ask you, the night years of age. e b in eh p i r n e d gn t a h n e c m y. one child, between two and three By the 1 , r der, to go with me on the Sunday cease dlivedcomfortablytogether ,something Although to all appearance the de" vcry mind, before the mu . Ald not say to me, "Where to ?" morning. Youattempted must have been preying on the usband's 9 given evidence that Ido not we learn that a bout three weeks ago he atte labout. and Prisoner—He 111 1 know anything at a , live at Fordingbridge, - Thomas Turner—lsuicide at New _Brigt ,ton. Sunday, the 22d of J une ' know the prisoner. CL the body was found, about I went to the spot w here • persons arrived at the ot half-pastsame ti m e 4. The Several prisonerother there about half an gti ad carried of blood the corps hour on hour afterwards. After we h to Midgham I saw two or three spot quite fresh. I have the prisoner s waistcoat. It marks have been seen the waistcoat since. The was mart; were on the scraped or rubbed out_ Th e collar. ss avid — Martha Turner, wife of the la st witne On Sundey afternoon, the 22d of June, tne soner went by me about half - past four. He tuld me that he had found a woman dead. He was goino; towards the spot. 1 asked him where he had found her, and he said down in the moors. I asked him who it was, and he said he didn't know. I asked him if she was a poor girl, and he said, " No, she is a respectable girl, with gold ear rings in her ears." I asked him how he came to find her, and he said he was going through the field, and looked over into Harding's, and saw something flying about. He went and picked it up, and it was a parasol. He went away toward the hedge and looked into the ditch, where he saw a woman dead. Ile went to her and lifted up her head, and she was vOrY stiff. I asked hint how he thought she came so , and he said, " She looked stifled in the mud." a „1-ed him whether sho was on her face or her back, an "1 he said, "On her back." I said, " If she had been ..Itifled she must be on her face." He said '` No she Pe, as on her back, with a dark , , ring round her neck." There was a spot of blood on his waistcoat about tt.'le size of a threepenny piece. It looked quite fresh. The prisoner' said that he didn't know who the won. -lan was. A wa.7st coat has been shown to me by Serg o ,ant Ede. Some thing appears to have been done to it. The blood is net so bright as when I saw it before. He said that she had a book in her right hand, on her breast, and another book by the side of her. Mr. Raike, surgeon, repeated the evidence whiell he gave before the coroner at the inquest on Mon day week. I made a post mertem examination of the body of Miss Hall on the 23d of June. I am of opinion that death resulted from violence, partly from strangulation and partly from immersion. There was a considerable quantity of muddy water in the stomach, of the same description as that in the ditch. There was extraordinary lividity and congestion of the features, and the eyes were blood-- shot, protruding and prominent, to an extent I never saw before, even in an ordinary case of hang ing or drowning. There were also external marks of compression on the throat, and blood effused in ternally on each side of the windpipe, corres • ponding with the windpipe. Such compression might be produced by the hand. Below these marks there was a long narrow mark, caused I believe by the bonnet strings, but they had not been twisted into a ligature. I do not think that the body was dead when first immersed. If it had been there would have been more water in the lungs and less in the stomach. The ordinary marks of violation were absent, but the evidence on this point is entirely negative. They might or might not have been attempt. After a most careful exa mination of the body I could find no spot from which blood had exuded. Blood might have flowed from the nostrils. The ears, mouth, and nose were full of thin mud when I first saw the body. Mr. Superintendent Stannard—l am stationed at Ringwood. On Sunday, the 22d June, from infor mation which I received, I came to Fordingbridge. The prisoner Gilbert was in custody, I went to him, and told him he was charged with the murder of Miss Hall, and being a very serious charge, I told him to undress for me to examine his clothes. He undressed. I cautioned him to be careful how he answered me. I asked him at what time he changed his shirt and stockings, and he replied, " This morning, before breakfast." The lower parts of his trousers were very wet up to above the knees, with stinking mud inside the legs at the botioms. I said, "Your trousers are very wet," but he said be did not know they were. I asked him where he picked up the parasol, and he replied, " About 18 yards from the body. I could see the body when I picked it up." Police-constable Rodaway brought the shirt and stockings while I was in the room with the pri soner. I held the shirt up and asked him if it was his. He said, " No, that's not my shirt ; I have only this one (meaning the one he had taken off at the station) and a blue striped one, which I pulled off this morning." Both sleeves of the shirt were wet up to the elbows and smelt very strongly of mud. The stockings were also wet. On Monday, the 23d, I went to Mr. Thompson's field, with Gosney a nd others. Gosney pointed out a spot in the ditch where he saw the prisoner. There were three lots of grass pulled up, which smelt of mud, and ap peared as though they had been used for wiping clothes. The mud smelt the same as that in the gully and on the prisoner's clothes. On Sunday last, the 29th, I was conveying the prisoner from Ring wood to Fordingbridge. I did not speak to him. He asked me if he could see his brother at Fording bridge. I told him that I did not know yet, and asked him what he wanted him for. He said, "To prove what time I was at home on Sunday." I told him that his brother and sister would both be be fore the magistrates, and would prove that he was home at half-past 12. He said that was right. I said, "It is such a serious h c arge you want a wit ness to prove where you were on Sunday morning. He was silent then for some time. He "The only man that I saw when I was down that way on Sunday morning was Gosney. When he came into the field I was down under the hedge." By the Bench—The parasol was perfectly clean when I saw it. It is impossible to have seen the body at the spot where he said he picked up the parasol. The body could only have been seen in another field. I examined the prisoner's boots on Sunday evening, June 22, and found mud and duck weed from stagnant water between the lace holes and the tongues. The tongues were sewn to the sides of the boots. The evidence having been concluded, the priso ner was charged in the usual form, after which The chairman asked him if he wished to say any thing in answer to the charge. Prisoner—l have nothing at all to say. Magistrates' clerk—Will you sign this ? Prisoner—No, sir. Chairman—Then you stand committed for trial at the next assizes for the murder of Mary Ann Susan Hall. The prisoner was at once removed. The proceed ings lasted about six hours. THE .iIIUBDEB 2VEAR ASHTON-UNDE, ,T,YN.E. It being known in Ashton-under-Lyne that two men had been apprehended in Manchester charged with the murder of Po lice-constable Ju m p , Hurst, the police office of that town was surrounded on Wednesday morning by hundreds of persons el pecting to hear the prisoners examined, but theY were disappointed, as it was determined not to bring the prisoners up that morning. After the apprehension of the prisoners in Manchester thel were brought to Droylsden, Ward, alias Knowl es : being left there ; Burke, however, was broughe forward at Ashton, and afterwards taken to th police station at Wilshaw , on the Ashton and Old ham road. Both the prisoners are members of the Brickmakers' Association. On searclling the prisoner Ward's house , on Tuesday night, a horse-pistol was found. Powder was found in be tli the prisoner's pockets, and a percussion cap W B5 found in Burke's pocket. A horse-pistol h a s also been picked up near the railway, at Broyled e !' together with a box of percussion caps. The PT stoners will also, it is asserted, be clearly identified • APPREHENSION OF THREE OTHER 3 0 ' (From the Belfast News Letter.) BELFAST, Thursday Morning.—Yesterday spector M'llroy, of the Belfast detective force, er prehended three men, named EmanueL Tl ho William Faulkner, and John Wakefield, bri e 0 , makers, who arrived from England th at morn l % by the Fleetwood steamer, on suspicio n of Will,' Lourdeved, or taken part in the disturbanc es, which the policeman was murdered at Asht ° under-Lyne COUNTRY MA RILL IS. , V BIRMINGHAM—JULY 3. on a There was a very short supply of English Whi t ' at prices were m iler in favour of the buyers. Foreign d, eo . d e cline of is per qr. Barley still quite as dear, an d t held ing to an advance. Oats and beans unaltered. P eas for is more money. MANCHESTER—JULY 3. A cur' Wheat was in tolerably fair request, at the extreloi rencies of this day week. Flour in moderate dennly",'ther maintained previoui3 prices. Oats and oatmeal wer e c orn higher. Beans the turn in favour of sellers. Indian was 3d to 6d per .qr lower. PLYMOUTH-3= 1. h cl‘e d The favourable change in the weather has rather o—erms. the prices of wheat, wl l i c h . can be bou g ht on easier le 60 0 White, 62s to 665; red, 63s to 65s p er q r ; French dims, to 62s ; American,_ 58s tkl 63s ; Spanish, 7 4 s to 760Ltus per sian, 60s to 625. Barley a t previous rates- 34 s to and o qr for malting ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, 228 to 28 0 ; beans, —s to —a; flour, 42,s to 42s 6d. —.-- EDINBURGH GRAIN—Jul:sr 2• so ld 14 A fair demand for coun tr y wheat to-da y , which the prices of this day week. Wheat on the top Os 6d up ...average Os 2d .4 11 0 13 10 • Barley on the top 6d down average Os 7d ' Oats on the top Os 6d up. Beans on the top Os &I downOs 7d d "' averageavere Total Supply and Sales. Wheat........ 6';'o qrs Sold 514 qrs 8ar1ey........ 20b' qrs Sold 15 3 cg s Oats 1129 qrs Sold 821 qrs Beans ll2 q:s Sold 6 6 cl l.B o c i• Flour sells as follows :—WVites, 478 . 0 d ; extras, 4 58 households, 38s 6d ; shop, 36s 6d., Os 4d 111:4,. CORK—Jun: 2. •,•I ted The following' were the quotations this morningo ',11 3 wheat, —s Od to —s Od ; white, 22 s Od to —s Od; bar" 6d to —s Od ; oats, 13s 6d to —s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD.—JVLIC 1 . ~e ral lf A short supply of fat beasts to -da y , the quality gemeadily middling. Sheep and lambs in limit ed show, and r disposed of. #A 6 la bi B ee t Old to 7d Veal . 0 „... d to 6d Lamb Mutton .. 6ld to 7d Pork 8d to 9d Rough fat, 4s Od P er °t°ile. Hides, 3d to qd ; calf skins, 5d to 61:1' .FOREIGN MAIL P.ACKET T ; s DUE. Australia and Mauritius,MA MAILS outhampton. .... drazil an d 6 .. STaullYy. 19 China,Penanagp,e Verds, byvi ßa Ariltairshseipllaecsko.t.. ............ .. 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California, and British C01umbia........... ----- --___•_,_- ___—•- ,------ ~•• I.TB 17• SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN ---- ' in the Some excitement was caused yesterday mo wing /I - , oir• neighbourhood a of Gordon-square, St. Pancras, by i sever ed ulation of a rumour that the head of a man, neva , ,010 886 from the body, had been discovered in the piece 0 , oh, waste ground attached to the catholic and apostolic chur Gate Gordon-square. It appears that a labou rer name,' a I ds was passing by the church at about 10 o'clock/ en t he attention was attracted to a ghastly ob j ect, wbjell i n; appearance of being the head of a human being' lying; g er i ar the enclosure. He communicated his impression to sev w _ passengers, and a crowd soon assembling a Messenger fe despatched fora police-constable, who on his a rrival $ t tu t . spot, obtained possession of the relic of hut:Willi, for stivro it proved to be ; but by whom and for what Purpose it .00,,, deposited where it was found remains a subject of conj ..._ ture. The head, which appeared to have beeu scientifies."_ separated from the trunk, was conveyed to the Lona.‘o: University Hospital, where it will remain while the pol/e l3 are making an investigation into the circurastallee• ___ [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pil ls . -e . Unseemly Eruptions.—No means heretofore discover su are so competent to cope with and conquer all bleraishe, boils, eruptions, redness and roughness of the skin, as theta celebrated medicaments, which to be praised need only. o be known. Holloway's remedies cool the aystem, regulate the whole body the circulation, and so thoroughly plirlfY -- away that whatever is hurtful must inevitably. be h a l one can be and succeeded by healthy structures, •ri,welloicreetio v irtues of derived from rich and pure blood. .-!' - s toilet -table is d a ted : u!' this unguent have been long app re_ 08 , 00 : it soothes and well ce appointed which lacks it . E! _PI-010, an d, when assisted . 1 cleanses the most fine. and tenaer ' osc valuable beautifier. by Holloway's Pills, is the so —____ ____--- 1.0 s. 33rat 49, Claester-squaret the wife BAILLIE.—On the 3‘,l,aita E s q., of a son and heir. of James William -D inst., at Totteridge, Mrs. Lloyd Basehdale, o 30th ult., at the Marquis of Bristol's, HERVEY eleraptOWll, Brighton, the Lady Aug""s Susses-suaroei a son. tue lier vei ' 3d inst at 35 Hill- tr t Berkeley' —.On the , 8 e e t, BAXENDALE,---fo:isothne. Emily alsh, of a son. MARRIAGES. ke Lao:y.—On the 2d inst., at St. James's Churcb) --St. James's, John Orred, Esq., of Ashwicke, county , 01 Glouceste r, to Frances, youngest daughter of the lat e • Bilton, Esq., county of Lancaster. WATERS —BURGESS.—On the 3d inst , at St Georgo:th Bloomsbury, John Waters, Esq., M.R.C.S. of 1, Salt' . ain pton-street,Bloomsbury-square, to Mahafah Devereu% Burgess, Esq., of 75, Cannon-street, city. DEATHS. nad, BAR . BARNES.—On the 30th ult ,at her residence, Hanler r- Hornsey-road, Miss Ann Barnes. „ e atb, CAMPBELL.—On the Ist i ns t., at Kil cregg an, Rose— N. 8., Mrs. Leone Campbell. -p„. l Of MILLIGAN.—On the Ist inst. Robert Milligan, '-'-'"'' Acacia, late M.P. for Bradford, aged 76. SAMUELS.—On the I s t inst , a hi s r esidence, Barton1011:' Chorlton-upon-M e dl oc k , Manchester , John S ainue ' Esq., aged 74. SE C IT hr EC i K st E opTr Ou squa re, WARD.—On th e 2d inst., at the Parsonage, King" in' , in' E.C., Jane, th e wife of the Rev. Henry Ward, 01 . ' estehveeelkset, Esq., inst. aged at S7ta7n. w ell Moor, Staines,square, cumbent of St. Barnabas, aged 42. wA _le Of WILKS.—On th e 2d i nst ., a t Dartford, Charl otte, Mr. Robert Wili________.---7--- _________ _ , nt Of °f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE SUN Of& ~., o f LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN Cli o 23 ; 1 7:112, cow./ Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the k idollesex.—Friday, July 4, 1862. LAW INTELLIGENCE. -July 3. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) BOOTH V. BOOTH. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Pritchett, for the petitioner; Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., for the respon dent. In 1855 the petitioner, a medical practitioner at Swinton, near Manchester, married the respondent, who had been living in his service as a domestic for about a year. There was much disparity of age be tween the parties, Mr. Booth being about 65 and his wife about 37. There had been no issue. In February, 1860, the petitioner's suspicions were excited, and he thought it necessary to dismiss a medical student who was lodging in his house. The cohabitation then ceased ; but the parties continued to take their meals together. A servant, named Jane Eyles, deposed that after this her mistress carried on a clandestine correspondence with some person unknown; that in December, 1860, she was two or three times away from home at night; and that in the September following she gave secret birth to a child. The witness said that she had not previously noticed any change in the respondent's figure, she was in the habit of wearing so large a crinoline. On the discovery of the child's body the police and a surgeon named Rowe were called in ; and the respondent confessed that it was not her husband's. She was then taken into custody. The jury found a verdict for the petitioner. Decree nisi. PALIN V. PALIN AND DODDS. In this case the petitioner did not appear, but on the application of Dr. Spinks a verdict was taken for the co-respondent. CLARK N. CLARK AND INGLE. Mr. Serjeant Pigott and Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Wills for the co-respondent. The petitioner, a seafaring man, of Knottingley, in Yorkshire, claimed the sum of £l,OOO as da mages against Henry Ingle, a small farmer in that neighbourhood, for debauching his wife. The mar riage took place in 1852, and the co-habitation lasted till July, 1861, when the petitioner, taking a policeman with him, entered his room by means of a ladder, and found the respondents in bed to gether. He had previously forbidden the co-re spondent to come near his house on pain of death, and he could scarcely be restrained from throwing him into the street without his clothes. At the intercession of the constable, however, he was in duced to let both respondents dress and depart. Since then they had lived together as man and wife. Mr. Wills addressed the court in mitigation of damages. The parties were all in very humble cir cumstances, and the wages of the petitioner were only about 15s. a week. Verdict for the petitioner, with £lOO damages. Decree nisi with costs. GREY V. GREY, SMITH, AND WINTERINGHAM. Dr, Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Searle, for the petitioner ; Me. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Aspi nall, for the respondent; Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Tayler for the co-respondent Smith ; Mr. Prentice for the co-respondent Winteringham. The petitioner , Mr. F. Sheriff Grey, was a ship ping-broker in King William -street, City, and his wife, Louisa Sexton, a music mistress. They first met at Mr. Grey's lodgings, where Miss Sexton used to give lessons to a young lady that also lived there. He fell in love with her, and ultimately he married her in May, 1859. The match, which was not approved of by his friends, resulted in the birth of a child. After cohabiting in various places, the parties at last removed to Forest hill Villas, Sydenham ; but Mr. Grey's busi ness necessarily took him a great deal from home. He had in fact an office in Liverpool as well as in London. Towards the end of 1860 Mrs. Grey imagined that it was necessary for her health that she should have horse exercise ; and she ob tained from her husband leave to take lessons from a riding-master, at Sydenham, named Smith. The petition alleged that Smith very soon abused his position to seduce the respondent, and therefore he demanded of him the sum of £l,OOO by way of damages. This affair having been discovered, the petitioner broke up his establishment, and sent his wife away, allowing her only to take her linen ; and it was alleged that she had formed a second liason with the co-respondent Winteringham, a civil engineer, in St. Clement's-inn. Of him the petitioner claimed £5OO. The defence was a denial of the charges, coupled with recriminatory pleas of cruelty, desertion, and neglect, conducing to adul tery. The charge against Smith was sought to be esta blished by a servant named Maria Fisher, who said that he used to visit at the house, and go into Mrs. Grey's room. On one occasion while Mr. Grey was in Liverpool he did so while Mrs. Grey was-lying down on the bed. Witness afterwards knocked at the door. Smith came and opened it. His clothes were in disorder, and he said that he had broken his braces. The respondents used to kiss at parting. On another occasion, when Mrs. Grey came home, witness said to her, " You have been undressed." She replied that she had been into some house in London with Mr, Smith for two hours, and that there was a nice fire in the room. Cross-examined by Mr. Huddleston—Heard Mrs. Grey one night call " Murder." Got up and ran down stairs. Mr. Grey had been boxing her ears, and there were marks of his fingers on her face. Mr. Grey turned them both out of the house into the garden. Mrs. Grey had only on her dressiog • gown and slippers. Mr. Grey said that respondent " Might go to the she belonged to." Told him that he was worse than a beast to treat her so. They went to the station to see if there dent'sa. train to take them to town to the respondent en mamma, but it was toe late. One night h her in. She then took the garden broom,b rok e wit_ the respondent came home late he refud w the back window, got in that way, and ran ness, who was in bed with the baby. her watch and chain and threw them to witness. Mr. Grey pulled She the bed intoclothes and down the hiswife snatched up the watch. Then he tore off bonnet. Then she ran into her own room, witness followed her. Found her bed and her master kneeling on her. u off her, and then pushed him out of the n room, and up t t o ook off partlyunder the P ed him room. He in charge. Was very violent, stable came he would ana not the wife g r i e v s e po h n i d s en At last he fetched a policeman ; but witness did not He said that she was drunk, but when " the c c i o n n g : think she was, and the policem an said Had seen them fighting on other occt? si . By Mr. Sergeant Ballantinc.....Smith had - neVer s o h n e s was not. r , y .._