The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The De fence, 18, screw, iron frigate, Capt. R. A. Powell, ( 2.8., weighed her anchor at Spithead at 8.30 a.ol. yesterday, to make her second trial of speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Capt. H. Brriadh , ud, of her Majesty's ship Asia, and com mand.ing the reserves at the port, had charge of the trio), ; Mr. Jones acted as pilot ; the machinery was under the care of Mr. G. Murdoch, inspector of machinery afloat, and Mr. Miller, assistant-engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard. The weather was favour ab).e for the trial, but at times very thick. The wind Irma light, at west-northwest. The ship's draught •of water was nearly the same as on her former trial —being 25 feet 5 inches aft, and 24 feet 3 inches forward. She was complete in her stores, and had 440 tons of c3al on board. After completing the first mule to the westward the weather became thick, and the ship was taken off the trial ground for a short time ; but the weather again cleared up, and the runs at full power showed a mean speed of 11 . 612 knots an hour. This completed the trialb 7at the measured mile, thick weather again setting in and preventing the half-boiler trials being car ried out. The ship was then taken into deep water, and tested in going round the circle, which she completed in 8 minutes and 10 seconds. In test ing the engines, they were stopped, from the time of moving the telegraph on the bridge, in 12 se conds, started ahead in 15 seconds, and astern in 11 seconds. The temperatures on deck and belaw were as follows:—On deck, from 45 to 49 deg.; in the middle of the engine-room, from 90 to 100 deg. ; and in the stokeholes, from 88 to 96 deg. The speed made on the first trial was 11.357, and that made on the present occasion 11.612—a quarter knot less than had been anticipated. The steering qualities of the ship were found to be as uncertain as on the former trial. At the conclusion of the day's pro ceedings the ship again anchored at Spithead,where she awaits orders from the Admiralty as to her future movements. The iris , 26, attached to the ordinary at Chat ham, was yesterday hauled under the floating 3 1 `.ear3 in the harbour to ship the boilers and machi nery for the screw gun-vessel Myrmidon, 4, 250- horse power, building at Chatham. The utmost energy is being displayed by the dockyard officials at Chatham to have the iron screw frigate Resistance, 18, ready for undockitag on Monday next, on which date she will leave the dock in which she has been lying for some time past, and proceed immediately afterwards totheWore to try her speed at the measured mile, Maplin Sands. There are upwards of 300 hands employed on board, exit a vast amount of work still remains to be corn :pleted befoie she is fit for sea. Additional plates of iron, rather less than one inch in thickness, are being placed at the stem of the vessel, beneath the catheads, to prevent a similar disaster to that which befell the Defence by the anchor knocking a hole through her plates. One side of the bottom of the Resistance has been payed over with a composition the invention of Mr. Redman, of Chatham Dock yard, and the other with the composition invented by Mr. Hay, of Portsmouth Dockyard, in compli ance with instructions from the Admiralty to have both preparations tried on the hull of this ship, in order that their merits may be fairly tested and compared. The nndernamed have been nominated to naval cadetships:—J. D. Kirkness, Josh. H. Lane, Henry J. F. Harrison, Herbert Horner, Charles Edward Huggins, Edward W. C. Amcotts, Francis C. BridgPman Simpson, Alexander Baring, R. J. Bar ton, Charles R. Gordon Beresford, Henry H. Boteler, Henry B. Callander, Gilbert Edward Corn wall, Frodsham H. Crutwell, Philip Ernest Cres well, Mkicolm de Sanmarez,Edye, Henry Fletcher, George A. Giffard, William H. G. Goodlake, A7.thnr G. Hall, Alfred G. H. Hervey, George O'Connor, Robert Murray Ramsey, Francis R. itS'andilands, A. Cornwall Taylor, Alfred A. Tay lor, and Charles Reeve. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :--Captain Lord Gilford to the Tribune, commissioned ; Capt. his Serene High ness Ernest Prince of Leiningen to the Magicienne, commissioned ; Commander E. C. Symons to the Lee, commissioned ; Lieut. E. White, Lieut. Charles P. Bushe, and Lieut. Francis Durrant to the Magi cienne; Lieut. Arthur R. Tinklar, Lieut. William W. Smyth, and Lieut. Frederic A. Sargeant, to the Tribune; Henry Bond, master, to the Tribune; George A. Macfarlane, master, to the Magicienne ; John C. Gruchy, promoted to chief engineer ; Mat less G. Autey, paymaster, to the Magicienne ; James W. P. Foord, paymaster, to the Tribune ; Joseph G. W. Hoare, assist-paymaster, to the Ma gicienne ; Henry Knight, assist.-paymaster, to the Tribune ; Albert H. Carlyon, clerk, to the Warrior ; J. G. Card, clerk, to the Implacable ; Edward A. Dyer, clerk, to the Tribune; and Thomas W. Snell, clerk, to the Magicienne. THE ARMY. The annual distribution of the prizes and rewards to the best marksmen of the Chatham division of the Royal Marines Light Infantry has just been made at head-quarters, Chatham, and the Lords of the Admiralty, in a general order on the subject, have expressed their high approval and gratifica tion at the proficiency to which the non-commis sioned officers and men have attained, as compared with the return for former years. The number of I men to whom prizes have this year been awarded is 141. The best shot of the division received a badge of crossed muskets and crown embroidered in gold, with a gratuity of 3d. per day for one year ; ten first-class marksmen were decorated with a badge of crossed muskets worked in gokl, and re ceived 2d. a-day for one year; and 130 marksmen received id. a-day in addition to the usual pay, and a permission to wear a badge of crossed muskets worked in worsted. Each of the men will be allowed to retain these marks of distinction until they shall have had an opportunity of again competing for these rewards. The regulations heretofore in force limited the number of paid marksmen to 10 per cent., the whole not to exceed 100 men in each year, but the Lords of the Admiralty have had under con sideration the relative proportion of men borne upon the rolls of a regiment of the Line and a division of Royal Marines, and have decided that in future good shooting prizes shall be granted to the Royal Marines at the rate of 10 per cent. upon the average number of men borne upon the shore strength, with out limit. Ir. consequence of the corps of Royal Marines being 'considerably below its proper strength, an official intimation has been received at Chatham from the Admiralty that all discharges of men by Tiet r ebase will, for the present, be suspended. Re cruitingea age veryfavourably. .numb e r of men who have joined at the month. tysai.ns is at the rate of about 120 per not over 30 y irection of the authorities old soldiers, w i th „ mi ., _, a a r r a s of age, who have been discharged .tand : r ' fo u r a n,rocte”,are allowed to re-enlist. The ° age is 5 feet 5t lads from 18 to 20 years of I in - oats :9, and from 20 to 30 years of lige, 5 feet Colonel John n , wki ns Gascoigne, C. 8., ap pointed Second Coan nnna E of the Royal Marine Divisi at duties on of his W office. oolwich, yesterday entered upon the Hospital on f Z The first steps have been tak en the erection of Charlton the Royal Artillery mon, within the boundary com near Woolwich-common. A large giu n a parish, building materials has been carted to tiliateitY of a and a great porti on of the foundatiort l aid r t t , The frotitage facing the o ld Dover-road, wbiueii divides Woolwich and Kid brook-common, w il l be VOO feet in length. The site, with the exception of its vicinity to the cemetery at the back, is con sidered well chosen, on account of its highly salubrious and cheerful position, which • over looks an extensive and varied track of country on all sides. The infirmary grounds will extend over an' enclosed area of eight acres. The diffi culties of forming a solid stratum for the founda tio4,walls have been found greater than was antici- Plted, from. the boggy state of the subsoil , which in s Plaees ha, required a layer of concrete .eight feet in depth. lT he materials for this were carted from the gravel quarries at Piumstead, a distance of I about three miles. The establishment intended for ) washing the hospital linen by means of steam machinery, commenced last year on Woolwich-com mon, is partly roofed in. The period for the com pletion of the building is three years. The Ist Somerset Militia are ordered to assemble at Taunton for their annual training on the 24th proximo. The recruits come up 14 days sooner. LA iv 1N TELLIGBNCE.—March 13. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) BURROUGHS V. BURROUGHS AND SILCOCK. Sir F. Slade resumed and concluded his speech on behalf of the petitioner in reply upon the whole case. Having dwelt on the unsatiefaetory character of the Old Bail:4 alibi which. had been attempted to be set bp by the respondents, he indignantly de notneed the conduct of Mr. Silcock in making so shameful a charge against a respectable young lady like Miss West, for the mere purpose of saving his pocket and evading the duty which rested upon I.im of marrying the woman he had seduced. The evidence of Jane Gibbons was not only hideously impossible, but the wretched girl in the affidavit she had previously made in the case had not said one word respecting the extraordinary details which she had given in the witness-box. As to the story of Mrs. Blackburn, it was not only absurd on the face of it, but it proceeded from a woman who was living in adultery, and who admitted that she had sworn a false affidavit. The third charge was like wise so contradictory to be unworthy of a moment's consideration in the teeth of the young woman Helen Reed's oath. No one that had heard the whole case could hesitate to say that the defence had been a most wicked one, and the learned coun sel called on the jury, by their verdict, to mark their sense of Mr. Silcock's conduct. Sir C. Cresswell observed that a vast amount of evidence had been given on one side and on the other. It had been to a great extent very contra dictory, and he feared that there had been some where an attempt to pervert the course of justice. The case was one of the very greatest importance, for it deeply affected not only the interests of the parties before the court, but the well-being of married life itself; and if juries were not suffi ciently men of the world, or sufficiently acute to dis cover the truth, the court, instead of being a public advantage, would soon become one of the greatest nuisances that had been inflicted upon the country. The learned judge then proceeded to dismiss at very great length the evidence which had been given in the cause. With regard to that of the Rev. Joseph Neville White, the vicar of Stalham, he observed that the Jury had been requested as a matter of common charity to believe that gentleman's acts rather than his words. No doubt a stern moralist might think it was the duty of a village pastor, on discovering a parishioner in the commission of adul tery, to proclaim her guilt. Some persons, how ever, might take a different view ; but it was for the jury to say whether they thought the rev. gentle man's conduct in holding his tongue had been so heinous that they would prefer to think he had vio lated his oath. Let them remember the position in which the rev. gentleman was placed. He might have been cross-examined as to his motives ; but the counsel for the defence had not thought proper to subject him to that process. Perhaps the rev, gen tleman might have remembered that to take upon him to denounce this lady would be to assume a great burden ; for there were three persons by whom he might have been contradicted, namely, the respon dents and Helen Kent. The Silcocks were moreover persons of some little importance in the village, and to have revealed what he had seen might have made a very unpleasant division in that little community. It was for the jury to say whether there was anything in these considerations to reduce the rev. gentleman's conduct to a lower degree of guilt than perjury. Again, it was said to have been another delinquency on his part to let his wife remain on familiar terms with an adulteress. Possibly, however, he might have had such confidence in his wife as not to think her likely to be contaminated by any contact she might have with Mrs. Burroughs, however guilty that lady In ight have been. As for anysense ofdegradation Mrs. White could not have felt that unless she had known Mrs, Burroughs's real character. Many a virtuous person in this great metropolis might occasionally find herself in the same drawing-room with some other person that had violated the laws of chastity, but she did not feel degraded by the association unless she knew of that other person's guilt. A third delinquency on the part of the reverend gen tleman was that he had allowed Mrs. Burroughs to continue to be a district visitor in the parish. The Court had received no precise information as to the functions of a district visitor. If they extended to the offering of spiritual advice and counsel he (the learned judge) should say that the reverend gentle man had done very wrong ; but if district visitors merely assisted him in inquiring into the personal necessities and distress of hie poor parishioners, the reverend gentleman's conduct might wear a different aspect. On the other hand, it was for the jury to say whether the behaviour of the witness had been such that they would be bound, as a matter of charity, to think that he had been guilty of wilful perjury. With regard to the alibi, his lordship pointed out the uncertainty and the contradiction of the witnesses with regard to time ; and reminded the jury that they would have to set the evidence of those witnesses against the positive oath of Mr. Whit©. The learned judge next pointed out the gross inconsistencies, contradictions, and improba bilities in the evidence of Jane Gibbons, and the' absence of anything like a real confirmation from independent witnesses of her story. As for Mrs. Blackburn, it was for the jury to say whether they it likely that a man could commit some thing very like a rape whilst he was holding a horse. If there was the smallest reliance to be placed in the evidence of this woman—and it seemed that she was living the life of a common pro stitute—she had made a false affidavit, through the instrumentality of Mr. Silcock, in order to induce the Court to allow this charge to be placed on the record. Sir C. Cresswell also complained of the conduct of Mr. Silcock with regard to the manner in which the charge against Helen Reed had been admitted upon the files of the court, and he commented upon the evidence by which that allegation was sought to be proved. The jury had had Miss West before them. It was clear that there had been more visit ing at Mr. West's house on the part of Mr. Bur roughs than was perhaps prudent, and there had been some familiarities, kissing and the like, which had been better left alone ; the jury bad heard the denial of the young lady herself and the testimony of her family. The learned judge concluded by putting the questions raised by the pleadings to the jury for their answer. After deliberating for two hours and three-quar• ters the jury found that none of the charges of adul tery had been proved, thus acquitting both the peti tioner and the respondents. GRAY V, GRAY AND THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR (INTERVENING). Sir F. Slade, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks appeared for the Queen's Proctor; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and .1)r. Warnbey for the petitioners. On the 17th of January, 1861, Mrs. Mary Louisa Gray had obtained a decree nisi for a dissolution of her marriage with Richard Thomas Clement Gray, on the ground of bigamy. In March follow ing the Queen's Proctor appeared and alleged collusion, and also that Mrs. Gray was herself liv ing in adultery with a person named Kendal. In her answer she admitted the adultery, but denied the collusion. The case on behalf of the Crown was this. In JB5O, Gray, who had been a commission agent and a provision merchant, sued Kendal, an omnibus proprietor, in an action for trim. con., but the cause was settled, and did not come on for trial. In 1852 Gray, representing himself to be a single man, married a Miss Adams, with whom he lived in Prescott -street, at Wapping, and at Moulsey. In 1853 Mrs. Gray called on Miss Adams and ac quainted her with the fact that she was herself the wife of her supposed husband, and that she was the mother of three children by him. After this Gray was arrested on a charge of bigamy laid against him by an uncle of Miss Adams, but as that lady did not choose to leave the prisoner, the prosecution was dropped. It was then taken up by the Crown, and Gray, convicted at the Old Bailey, received a month's imprisonment. He returned to Miss Adams, but that lady stated that she had not lived with him for the laSt three years. Ultimately Mrs. Gray, though still living with Kendal, brought her suit against her husband in the present Court. He did not appear, and a decree nisi was obtained in due course. Miss Adams having been examined, Sir F. Slade proposed to interrogate Mrs. Gray herself, but Mr. Chambers objected, alleging that she was not a competent or compellable witness on such an issue. Sir C. Cre sswe ll h e ld th a t o bj ec tion to be good, and directed the jury that there was no evidence on the i t collusion. y ho ;round of Sir e having found accordingly, t ty re mr r ;ell dismissed the petition ae to costs. ray's adultery, but made no order BENSON'S WA,Ten,ii ~-- - - Gold watches, 6 to ICOguineas; -11111 JO and niechanism."—Mornin g 1. 04 41 : 1) CLocKs.--" Perfection of o.l'haTeli beSt adapted to silver watches, 2 to f',o g,* Pamphlet, free for two stamps de 8 I : arn e i n r.t b l o v n e ' . so adf ne,,,,evttwe; every c Illustrated onstruo of the world to tion of watch, enables persons in select with the greatest certainty th their use. Watches sent free and safe , a remittance.—.l. W. Benson, 33 and 34, I receipt of 47, Cornhill, London, E.C.—Established 1743. SUN, LONDON; FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1862. ASSIZE 1141TELLIGEACE. HOME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, March 13. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) MURDER. Rebecca Law, 24, described as of no occupation, was indicted for the wilful murder of her husband, Samuel Law, by chopping him on the head with a wood chopper. She was also charged with the wil ful murder of Alfred Law, her child, 16 weeks old, by beating it on the head with a hammer. The wretched prisoner appeared in a dreadful state of exhaustion and distress when she was placed at the bar, and she was evidently hardly conscious of what was going forward. When she was called upon to plead she hesitated for some time, and at first seemed inclined to say that she was guilty, but eventually a plea of not guilty was taken. Through the kind interference of Mr. S. S. Lescher, the high sheriff of - the county, she was de fended by Mr. Ribton ; the prosecution was con ducted by Mr. Walford and Mr. Philbrick. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in open ing the case, said the facts lay in a very , narrow compass, and h e was a f ra id th a t w h en th e Jury had heard the evidence that would be laid before them, they would not entertain the slightest doubt that the prisoner had destroyed both her husband and child, and the only question that, in the result, they would have to dispose of would be whether at the time the fearful act was committed she was in such a state of mind as to render her criminally responsible. The witnesses for the prosecution were then ex amined, and the facts disclosed were undoubtedly of the most painful and distressing character. It ap peared that the deceased, at the time he met his death, was about 28 years of age, and he and the prisoner had been married seven years, and four children were the result of their union. When the melancholy affair took place two children only sur vived, one aged 16 weeks, and the other about six years. The husband was a labouring man, and he and the prisoner and the two children oceupied a miserable cottage at Clavering, near Saffron Wal den. It seemed that the unfortunate man was fre quently out of work, and the family were in a state of great distress, and it appeared that in December of last year the husband was convicted of breaking a gate, probably to be used for fuel, For this offence he was fined 10s. by the magistrate, and in default of payment was committed to Hertford Gaol for a month, and the consequence of this conviction was that the prisoner and her two children were sent to the union workhouse. The term of im prisonment to which the husband had been sen tenced expired on the 10th of January, and it appeared that on the 12th the deceased went to the union workhouse and took the prisoner and his children away from that establishment. On the same day they proceeded to the cottage of the father and mother of the deceased, and had their dinner, and in the same afternoon the prisoner, the children and the deceased proceeded to their own wretched home, and the latter was never again seen alive. This was, as above stated, on the afternoon of the 12th of January, but the exact time when the fear ful deeds were committed by the prisoner—although it is conjectured they must have occurred at a late hour on the following night, the 13th, and that very probably the attack was made upon the hus band while he was asleep—has not been ascertained. The first thing that was seen of the prisoner after wards was between one and two o'clock on the morning of the 14th of January, when she made her appearance at the house of her own mother, who occupied a cottage in a village called Langley, a few miles from Clavering, carrying in her arms her eldest child, She was covered with blood, and in a most distressed and excited condition. It should be stated that on the day when the deceased fetched the prisoner and the children from the union, while they were at the house of the father of the deceased, he read some portions of the Bible to the prisoner, and made some reference to that portion of the Holy Scriptures in which the devil was represented to have tempted our Saviour, and the prisoner made use at that time of the expression that " the devil frequently tempted people to cut their throats, and that he had tempted her is that manner, and she should cut her own throat or her husband's before long." Having aroused her mother when let in, the prisoner exclaimed, "Oh, dear mother, some one has broke into the cottage, and has cut poor Sam all to pieces, and a cart came by, and I got into it and got away." The prisoner was put to bed by her mother, but she continued in a very excited condition, and after a short time had elapsed she addressed her mother, and said, " Dear mother, do you wish to know what I done it with ? if , you did you would tear the hair off my head.' She continued raving and talking in a most incoherent manner, and among other observations she made use of was one that she wished her mother had killed her when she was born, and said if she had done so, it would have been much better for her. The mother asked her what had become of the baby, and she replied that she had killed it, and she only wished she was as sure of going to heaven as that child was. Mr. W. H. Codlin, a tradesman at Newport, near Clavering, deposed that upon receiving information of the prisoner's conduct at her mother's house, he proceeded to her cottage at Clavering, and arrived there about 9 o'clock on the morning of the 14th of January. The first thing he heard upon entering the cottage was a child crying, and upon going into the lower room he observed a large quantity of blood, which appeared to have flowed completely through the floor and the ceiling of the upper room. Upon going up stairs he saw the marks of several bloody footsteps, as though some person had been walking about from one room to the other. When he entered the bedroom he saw the body of the deceased lying extended on the floor, with the feet partly under the bed, and he observed that there were a great number of deep gashes upon his head and face, 50 at least in number, and he was quite dead and cold. The room was dark, and he felt for the child and found it lying on the bed, and at that time it was alive. Having wrapped .up the body of the child, he returned to the house of the pri soner's mother at Langley, and found her still there. When she saw him, she laid hold of his hand, and burst into tears, and said, " Poor dear Sam is gone, ain't he ?" Witness made her no answer at that time, as there were a good many people about and the prisoner was in a very excited state, and he procured a vehicle, in order to convey her to New port and place her in the charge of the police. As tney were going along, the 'prisoner address, d him and said, " Poor Sam is gone ?" and witness replied, " Yes, he is." The prisoner then put the question, "And the child too ?', and he said that it was. The prisoner then said, "Yes, I hit the child on the head with a hammer, and poor Sam, while he laid lasleep, I took a chopper and hit him across the head; and when I hit him, oh dear, how he 'scrunched' up his shoulders, and I splashed on to him as hard as I could, and he struggled about very much. All the time I was hitting him what a noise there was on the stair; they kept on blundering up and down stairs." Witness asked her who she meant was blundering up and down stairs, and she replied " The devil, but I was not afraid, for I stopped in the house an hour and a half after it, and then I went upstairs again, took hold of his arm, and said, ' Poor dear Sam, do you know me ?' He made a kind of a groan, and, oh dear, how I did splash on to him again." The prisoner afterwards said, " I saw this murder committed' two or three months ago. I saw it as plain as I saw it last night, and I heard his shrieks and cries, but I did not think I had got to do it." As they were proceeding on their journey the prisoner again addressed him, and said, " I left my cottage about 12 o'clock at night. I went through the fields and thrtragh the wood, and took my other child with me. I looked at a good many places to try to find a place to drown it, and when I. found a place I thought that if I threw it into the water some one might hear its shrieks and cries." ,Witness then said to her that he wondered she did not drown herself; and she replied, " I intended to do so, but I thought that if I had but one day out of hell—but one day out of torment, it would be betterifor me." The prisoner made the same statement several times as they were going along, and she also told him that her husband had used her very ill, and that he had told her that if she should die, and he had another wife, he should treat that wife much better than ho did her. Mr. Robinson, a surgeon residing at Newport , proved the dreadful nature of the injuries that were received by deceased, and also that they were all of At character likely to have been inflicted by a wood chopper that was produced, and which was found in prisoner's cottage, covered with blood, on the morn log after the dreadful occurrence. The child's death, it appeared, had been occasioned by a blow from a blunt instrument such as a hammer. This gentle man also proved that he attended the prisoner professionally after her confinement with the deceased child, and that she was, from cer tain causes, suffering from great exhaustion and weakness, and her state was such as to have been likely to lead to a morbid condition of the brain. Ile also said that he considered the prisoner was naturally a woman of weak intellect. Mr. Walford having intimated that this was all the evidence he considered it necessary to produce i n support of the prosecution, Mr. Ribton said that pe believed tie surgeon of the Union, and a clergy manehePrisoner while she wa s i n present, and he should like to have them examined. se w e e n r e workhouse, who had Mr. Justice Erie said that if their evidence was at all calculated to throw any light upon the con tion of mind of the prisoner, he thought they ought by all means to be called as witnesses. Mr. Walford said he would readily agree to his lordship's suggestion. Mr. F. Walsh, medical officer to the Saffron Walden Union, was then examined, and he stated that during the period the prisoner's husband was in gaol, she was under his charge in the workhouse, and he considered that her mind was deranged, and that she was subject to delusions to such an extent that he felt It necessary to place her under some restraint, and to direct that she should be watched. Before she left the union she was, getting much better, but the master of the workhouse would not allow her to leave the establishment until witness had giuen a certificate that she was in a lit condi tion to do so 4 Sho was getting much better, and he considered she was likely to recover more rapidly in her own home than in the union workhouse. The Rev, Mr, Holdernesse, who had seen the prisoner while she was in the union, gave similar evidence, and he also said his ovirn irOptession was that the mind of the prisoner was 'Very much deranged. The learned Judge said it appeared to him that upon the facts of the ease, and the evidence already before them, the jury would feel themselves justified in returning a verdict acquitting the pi isoner on the ground of insanity, and that it was not necessary for Mr. Ribton to address them. The jury expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the evidence that had been already adduced, and they accordingly at once returned a verdict that the prisoner was not guilty, on the grouhd of insanity. A similar verdict was then taken against the pri soner upon the second indictment for the murder of her child, and the learned judge directed that she should be detained in custody during her Majesty's pleasure. The wretched woman, who cried bitterly, and seemed to be suffering acute mental anguish during the proceedings, was then removed from the dock by the turnkeys in an almost unconscious state. CHILD MURDER. Eliza Ann Cheverton, 28, a rather good-looking woman, described as a widow, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, Emma verton, by drowning it. Mr. Pearce and Mr. Martin prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Philbrick. The jury, after a very - brief deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner was ordered to be discharged. THE MURDER AT Dum Henry Eagle, a determined -looking young man, was charged upon an indictment, and also upon the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of Jas. Barber. Mr. Walford and Mr. Pilbrick tato:united, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Woolletf. The offence imputed to the prisoner was only committed on last Saturday, and. the facts will be fresh in the recollection of the public. An applica tion was made to the learned judge on Wednesrlay by the prisoner's counsel that the trial might be postponed to the summer assizes, but his lordship said he had looked at the depositions, and did not see anything in them that appeared to Justify him ill consenting to the postponement of the case ; but if the prisoner desired to have an opportunity of producing witnesses, and made the application on that ground, he would readily &weed to it. Mr. Woollett subsequently withdrew his application, and the trial was consequently proceeded with. The j ury found the prisoner guiltyof manslaughter, and he was sentenced to 10 year's penal servitude. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman and a Special Jury.) SANDERS V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is an old man engaged in the occupation of a well sinker, to recover damages from the defendants for loss he had sustained by reason of his son being killed upon their railway, as was alleged through their negligence. Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Butler Rigby were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Bushby appeared for the company. .The case on the part of the plaintiff was that on the night of the 20th Dec. his son was in the act of crossing a tramway near the Victoria Docks, when a goods train was shunted upon it without any notice, and the consequence was that he was knocked down and killed. The case on behalf of the company was that the parties shouted loudly to him, that lights were held up, and every reasonable precaution taken, but that the deceased walked on across the lines smoking his pipe, and that the ac cident that happened to him arose entirely from his own want of caution. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, March 13. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channel.) THE GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION OF THE REV. H. S. FLETCHER. Horatio Samuel Fletcher, 55, clerk, was arraigned charged with being then trustee of the several and respective sums of money hereinafter specified, for a certain public purpose (that is to say), for the sav ings bank at Bilston, did unlawfully, with intent to defraud, convert and appropriate the sum of £lOO, on the Ist, Bth, 15th, 22d, and 29th Jan., 1859, all respectively, and on the 25th March, 1861, to and for his own use and purpose, in all £6OO. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Dowdeswell were for the prosecution, and Mr. Matthews was for the prisoner. The learned sergeant said that he appeared on behalf of the Crown officers to prosecute the pri soner, and was charged witha serious misappropria tion of money which had come into his hands as officer of the Bilston Savings Bank. Mr. Fletcher was apparently a person who had gained the con fidence of the greater part of the residents of Bil ston, and was elected by them to the perpetual curacy of Bilston some time before the year 1838. From that time to this Mr, Fletcher had filled the office of perpetual curate. There was established in Bilston in the year 1838 a savings bank. In 1839 Mr. Fletcher became trustee of that bank, and, in the same year, secretary also. In 1848 he became further the treasurer as well as secretary ; and he continued to fill the several offices named up to July, 1861 ; and filling those offices, and not being subject to the wholesome checks which should have surrounded him, he was able to commit the irregu larities—he was induced to say frauds, but the jury would have to say if they were—with which he was now charged. After the 20th of N0v.,1844, the prisoner received £5O a year.for his services as secre tary. It was a part of the prisoner's duty to keep a deposit book in which the several items deposited were entered against the names of the respective depositors, and also to enter the same item in each depositor's pass book. The deposit bock and the depositors' pass books must therefore correspond. It was, however, also necessary that an annual statement shouldbe made out and' supplied to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Notional Debt, and also pnblished. Fortunately, and as a further check to the annual returns, the Commis sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt wisely resolved in 1854 to ask—for they could not compel--the managers of savings banks to furnish them with a weekly statement of the affairs of the bank, the last weekly statement to be made up to the 20th of - November each year. Mr. Fletcher had conducted the affairs of the hank for 13years without any practical supervision, no one interfering except occasionally the name of Mr. Heafleld appeared in the weekly returns as a witness to their accuracy ; but that gentleman didnot test their accuracy, taking it for granted that they were correct as presented to him. The proceedings were brought net under the Savings Bank Act, but under the Fraudulent Trustees Act, because under the Savings Bank Act he would have to be charged for not having accounted to the treasurer. Seeing, however, that he was trea surer as well as secretary, and that he could not well be said not to have accounted to himself, he could not be charged under that act. Fortunately the Fraudulent Trustees Act, which was of very recent date, provided for such an emergency, and made the misappropriation by any trustee of any property a misdemeanour, an offence with which Mr. Fletcher was now charged. Matters continued to be conducted at the Bilston Bank in the loose manner he had indicated up to April, 1861, the pri• soner holding the respective offices of trrustee, ma nager, secretary or actuary, and treasurer. At that date a new committee of management was appointed. Then the discoveries were made. The frauds which were then brought to light had a double applica tion. The deposit ledger and the depositors' pass books having of necessity to agree, the entries in those books were correct, but those in the weekly and annual returns were falsified. The amounts re ceived were returned as less than the real amount, and the amount of outgoings was returned as less, and in this propriated. A w r it h a d b e en served upon Mr. Fletcher by way upwards of £B,OOO had been mis a p• the trust ee a n d committee of manage ment for even a l arger sum than had been disco vered to have been abstracted, and he had allowed indgment to go by default, thus confessing his guilt. Evidence was given by Mr. J. Tidd _Pratt, Mr. John Hawksford (the present actuary), and the Rev. J. H. Heafield (the trustee and manager re ferred to by Sergeant Pigott) t and it bore out the opening. It transpired that a dividend of the value of lls. had already been paid, that a further dividen d of a bout 2s. 6 d. was al rea dy i n h an d ; mad that bu t for this prosecution the committee of management had. hoped to have realised the full 20s. in the pound. His Lordship remarkedupon the position in which the committee of management would be placed if it could be successfully shown that they were attempt ing to treat this offence as a civil case. Mr. Matthews, before addressing the jury, main- I tained that neither according to the terms of his appointment as trustee of the bank, under which he vas treasurer. had the prisoner offended against the terms of the Fraudulent Trustees Act. Sergeant Pigott, having to leave for theNisi Prius Court, the reply devolved upon Mr. Dowdeswell, who maintained that the pri soner in his double capacity of trustee and secretary was trustee to all intents and purposes. His Lordship admitted that the case was a very grave and serious one, and adjourned the case till the following morning ; in the meantime he would confer with his brother Crompton. The prisoner was admitted to bail till the next =Thing: POLITE-11VTELL111ENCE.-111arch 13. GUILDHALL.—John Leopard, a fashionably. dressed your man, who was d es c ribed as a p or t er, was charged before gir It. W. Carden with stealing two pieceg of silk, value SA the property of Messrs. Hilditch, of Ludgatc-hillf his einp!opYq. Mr. Hilditch said they had been missing vroperty for some time past, and suspicion was at length directed to the prisoner in consequence of the two, pieces of silk produced having been found concealed in the coal cellar, They were not removedrat that time, but information was immediately given to the police. Hann, 460, said he secreted himself in the cellar on the afternoon of the sth of March, and alsont 7 o'clock in the evening he saw the prisoner enter the cellar and take away one of the pieces of silk. He returned about 9 o'clock, and on being interrogated as to what he had done with the silk he said he had left it with Mr. Miller, of thc Hop Pole publichouse, in the Edgware-road. He then went into the cellar and brought out the other piece of silk, both of which he said he took:from the stock in the silk department up stairs. He searched the prisoner, and found in his possession eight invoices for silk goods in pledge, all of those invoices being upon Messrs. Hilditch's billheads. He asked the prisoner what he had done with the property mentioned in the invoices, and he stated he had pawned them, and gave the names and addresses of the pawn brokers. _ _ Several pawnbrokers attended and produced in all about 12 dress-lengths of silk, pawned by the prisoner for sums -varying from £1 to £2 2s, and in nearly every instance prisoner showed the pawn brokers a receipted invoice purporting to show that the prisoner had bought the silk of Messrs. Hil ditch, and paid for it. Sir W. Carden commented upon the indiscretion of the pawnbrokers in taking in property at half its value, when the invoices indicated that the silk had been purchased on the previous day. Mr. Hilditch said the prisoner had been only 18 months in his employ, during which period pro perty had been missed to the value of £250. Hann, the officer, said there were several other pawnbrokers who ought to have attended, and he therefore asked fora remand. The silk prodneed having been identified, the prisoner was remanded. MARYLEBONE.—Georgeßnekingham, a surly looking fellow, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Mansfield, charged with a most savage and brutal outrage upon 'Catherine, his wife. Complainant, whose head was enveloped in a linen wrapper which was saturated with blood, de posed that been 7 and 8 o'clock this morning the prisoner came to her lodging in Nightingale-street, Lisson-grove, while she was in bed, and gave her several severe blows on the face and body, in addi tion to which he seized hold of her head and dashed it with all his force against the bed post. Mr. Mansfield —Has he ever ill-treated you before? Complainant (crying)—Oh, yes, sir. Only the day before I was confined, which is three weeks ago, he beat me shamefully. He also used me badly last Sunday, and as I considered my life was in peril, I left him the next evening. Mr. Mansfield—Have you been to any surgeon to have your wounds dressed ? Complainant—Not yet, your worship. I have merely wrapped my head round as well as I could to stop the bleeding. The prisoner, on being asked what be had to say, replied—She has taken things away from my room while I have been out at work, and has gone away leaving me to look after a child a year and a half old. 'Mr. Mansfield (to prisoner)—Your conduct has been of a most brutal description, You have as saulted this poor woman only a day before her con finement, which very recently occurred, and this morning she is again cruelly attacked by you. (The worthy magistrate added indignantly)—You mis creant, it is my duty to punish you severely, and you are therefore sentenced to hard labour in the House of Correction for six months. (On his being removed from the bar he endeavoured to rush towards his wife with the evident intention of striking her, but was prevented by Ansted, the gaoler, from effecting his purpose). LAMBETH.—Henry Turner alias Ware, and Henry Mount alias Davis, returned transports and determined thieves, were brought before the Hon. G. C. Norton, for final examination, on a charge of entering the dwelling house of Mr. Woodley, a gentleman residing in Carlisle-lane, Lambeth, and stealing therein various articles of property. From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday evening last, during the absence of prosecutor and his family at a place of worship, the prisoners and a third man were seen to open the front door of Mr. Woodley's house; the two former went in and the latter remained on the pavement in front, on the look out. Information was given to the police, and the prisoners were taken, Ware when about to make his escape by the back door, and Davis a few doors off, while concealed in a water closet. On examining the house it was found that the prisoners had broken open every drawer and cupboard in the place; and one in particular, in which was deposited bills of exchange and promissory notes of the value of £12,000, but these valuables had escaped their no tice. There were also found a complete set of house breaking implements, skeleton keys, and an instru ment of a most formidable kind, formed of a clock weight, and which if used would be much more dangerous than any life preserver. Various articles of wearing apparel and other property had been re moved from the drawers, and placed ready to be carried away, and had not the prisoners been dis turbed they would have had a rich booty. The evidence in the case was quite conclusive, and Sergeant Langridge, who has charge of the case, informed the magistrate .that the prisoners were well known, and had not long returned from trans portation. The prisoners were committed for trial. GREENWICH.—George Ashmore, a fashion ably-dressed. man, describing himself as a draper, out of employment, was charged before Mr. Maude with stealing a till containing 145., at the house of Mr. Walters, of the Royal Standard, Pelton-road, Greenwich. From the evidence given it appeared that about four o'clock on the previous afternoon the prisoner entered the house, and having been served with a glass of ale by the prosecutor, was left standing in front of the bar while he (prosecutor) went into a back yard. A few minutes afterwards a customer, sitting in the parlour, hearing the noise of a till and money falling, ran out, and saw the prisoner inside the bar, and found the till and money on the floor lying at his feet. The prisoner immediately left the house, but was subsequently traced by the prosecu tor and another person to another publichouse, about half a mile off, and on being told he was wanted he left that house and ran off, but being pur sued and overtaken, he was given into custody. Theprisoner, in his defence, denied the charge, and said that on the prosecutor leaving the bar he noticed the drawer of the till was not closed, and he thought it very unbusinesslike. He then commenced walking backwards and forwards in front of the bar, when hearing the till and money fall, he looked into but did not enter the bar, upon which the per son came out of the parlour. Thinking this per son would let the landlord know of the till having fallen out ho left the house. Mr. Maude inquired if the prisoner could produce any one to speak to his character ? The prisoner replied that he had been the princi pal person employed for 10 years in a London dra pery establishment, but he had no one present. Mr. Maude said the case was one for a jury, and ho should commit the prisoner for trial. Ho would, however, accept bail, in two sureties of £5O each, for his appearance at the sessions. The prisoner had no bail to offer. He was fully committed for t r i a l a t the next Old Bailey sessions. SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—There is at present to be seen at the Camden-head, Camden-gardens, on ancient leaden coffin, found by a poor man in the garden attached to his cottage. It is folpposed to have lain there upwards of three hundred years. [AnvEwrisEmENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Healthy Complexion.—Nothing ;betokens feeble or failing constitutions sooner than the skin. Its condition is the external evidence of perfect regularity in the internal animal machinery, which can always be safely reduced to order by Holloway's specifics, without doing any present or perspective damage to the tenderest organisation. Hollo way's Ointment outrivals the use of all cosmetics, the most harmless of which hide, rather than cure the evil, whilst some are positively injurious. The Pills assist the work by' establishing healthy digestior, and painlessly producing perfect assimilation. Under this wholesome cours e the sallow face soon gives way to a brilliant com plexion, the whole skin feels soft and silky, and renewed vigour of body and mind animate the frame. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIEI Y. A crowded meeting of this society was held on Monday evening; Lord Ashburton, president, in the chair. Among those present were Sir Roderick I. Murchison, vice-president ; Lord Colchester ; Generals IV . Monttith, Sir H. Rawlinson, Sir A. Scott Waugh, and C. R. Fox ; ; . Admirals Anson and Sir George Back; Consul Parkes, from China; Colonels Lardner, Etrange, Sotheby, White, and Shaffner, U.S. ; Captains Collinson, Bedford, Crau furd, and Pim, R.N. ; Right Hon. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir William Holmes, of Demerara, Major Cooke, Ron• Arthur Kinnaird, M.P.; Captains llyde, Pooke, Young, Oldershaw, Murchison, Sprye, Hand, and Petrie ; Sir Charles •Bright,• Lieutenants Brine and Wing, R.N.' Mr. Hanbury, M.P., Lieutenant Rokeby ; Drs. Hodgkin, M'Cosh, Tidman, Beke, 33right, Camps, and Cornwell; Messrs, Brooking, Osborne Smith, Charles White, Spottis woode, Bohn, Findli,y, 4rroWsmith, &c., &c. PRESENTATIONS.—Sir William Holmes, of Demerara; Lieutenant Arthur Wiup,., R.N.; Samuel Day Goss, M.D. ; and Joseph Levick, Esq., were presented upon their elec tion. • Ennuraoivs.—Lieutenant James Murray Grant, 11. B. 11. Birehill, Fi:edetiek Elliot Blackstone, John F. Laurie, William Leslie, M.P., John Thomas Quin, James Rae, J o seph Rigby, Russell Morland Skinner, Henry Arthur Surridge, and 'William Wells, Esqs., were elected Fellows. ACCESSIONS.—Among the accessions to the Library and Map-rooms were, Roeser's Notes on the South Atlantic ; Map of Peru, showing the deposit of nitrate of soda; oheets 6, 1 t, ask 14 of Philip's Imperial Atlas, &c., &c. EXHIBITIONS.-14aps, plans, and views, illustrating the paper by IVZ. Mouhot, were exhibited. Before proceeding to the reading of the papers, The PIZSIDENT stated that letters had been received from Consul Petfaeriek, dated Khartum, Nov. 25, announc ing his safe arrival, with his wife, medical attendant, and a photographer, after a tedious journey up the Nile, at that place, about the middle erf October. He had been detained Rom pushing forward by serious illness, from which he was fast recovering; but he had lost no time in carrying out the object of his expedition, which is to effect a meeting with Captains Speke and Grant, if possible in the neighbourhood of Gondokoro or Lake Nyanza, and to give them a helping hand in traversing the country. He had accordingly sent forward two parties of armed men, with provisions, medicine, and clothing, with instructions to place themselves at Captain Speke's disposal, should they fall in with him before he himself overtook them; and at the date of his last letter he had despatched a third body of armed men, and was then organising a fourth, to be fol lowed immediately by a fifth party, forming in the whole a body of about 160 armed men, to proceed with into the in terior for the protection of the exploring party. Dr. SHAW then read two letters, which had been trans lated by the Foreign Secretary, Dr. Hodgkin, and which gave a very interesting account of M. Mouhot's travels in Cambodia. M. Mouhot had passed through Cambodia from east to west and south to north, up the Mo-kong, near to the frontier of Laos, and visited the savage and indepen , dent tribes which live between these two countries and Cochin-China. Then, having crossed the Lake of Touli- Sap, and explored the provinces of Ongeor and Bottom bong, where there are some splendid ruins and a monu ment—the Temple of Ongeor the Great—he next passed from the basin of the Me-kong into that of Menam, and, setting out from BatiaMbong, crossed to the west as far as Bangkok. The paper then referred to the products of the country, which consist of cotton, fish, iron, gold, and copper. M. Mouhot concludes by stating that he intends starting on another tour, to the north-east of Bangkok, in the basin of the Me-kong, towards the frontier of China. A letter was then read from Mr. Campbell, R.N., F.R.G.S., to Madame Mouhot, in which he enumerated the obstacles M. Mouhot had since encountered. The PRESIDENT observed it would be desirable to obtain some infOrmation as to what were the probable future des tinies of this country. Cambodia we knew from history had been the seat GI empire, holding Siam, Tonquin, and Cochin China, as subject states; while the drawings on the table showed to what extent the civilisation of these people must have arrived it. Mr. CRAWFURD, who visited a pm:Gen of the country some forty years ago, stated that Corabod,_a was a corrup tion of Gamboge. It was one of five or six nations lying between India and China, of second or third raie civilisa tion, never equalling physically, morally, or intellectilalls the Chinese or the Hindoos. It was at present a pocr State, having been encroached upon by the Siamese on the north, and the Annamites and other people on the south. The wild tribes whom M. Mouhot supposed to have de scended from Thibet, were, in his opinion, the inhabitants of the mountain districts, who had escaped from the bond age of the people of the plains. With reference to the de signs of the French to achieve the conquest of the country, Mr. Crawfurd expressed his belief that they would have to encounter the most formidable obstacles, owing to the heat of the climate, and wooded surface of the country, so pro ductive of malaria in tropical climates ; that they would, in fact, find it another Algeria, 15,000 miles distant. The capital was 700 miles from Saigon, and even if the French 'succeeded in reaching it, they would find there one of the largest and most regular fortifications in the East, con structed by a French engineer. Some of the drawings re presented evidently Bhuddist temples, and they reminded him, though inferior in quality and beauty, of similar monuments which he had seen in Java. Dr. HODGKIN said, in addition to the drawings and charts, M. Mouhot had sent some elaborate descriptions of the ruins which he had found at Ongeor. These descrip tive papers were full of the most interesting information as to the structure and workmanship of the ruins in question, many of which were constructed of large stones elaborately carved and covered with designs of imaginary animals, as well as cf beasts of bluden. These temples were found in a district completely embedded 'in the forest, and in such a state of ruin that trees were found growing upon the roofs. The inscriptions, from their antiquity, were not intelligible to the natives, yet they so nearly resembled the Siamese character that he had no doubt they would soon be deci phered by skilful archivologists. After a few remarks from Sir RODERICK MunciiiSoN on the acquirements possessed by M. Mouhot, and allusion to the circumstances of his wife being a Scotch lady, and a member of the family of Mungo Park, Mr. CRAWFURD mentioned that the alphabet of the Cambodians was evidently of a phonetic character. The PRESIDENT, in closing the discussion upon this paper, remarked upon the compliment which M. Mouhot had paid them by sending his communication to the Royal Geographical Society of England. Mr. GALTON then read the second paper, by Mr. Edward O'Riley, on his travels to Karen-ni, through the Shan States to Tungu. Mr. O'Riley's party consisted prin cipally of four elephants, with their attendants, ten armed Burmans, two converted Christian Karens of the American Baptist Mission, who accompanied the party as a medium of communication with those tribes through whose locations it was found necessary to open the road, some hired coolies, &c., &c. The route, which lay across a mountainous coun try where no road existed, led over five principal ridges, varying from 4,000 to 7,500 feet. The paper, as well as describing the journey, gave a most interesting account of the different tribes inhabiting those parts. Mr. SPENSER ST. Jourr, F.R.G.S., late Consul-General for Borneo, then read short extracts from his paper on the North-West Coast of Borneo. Mr. St. John principally I confined himself to a description of the great moun t a i n . of Kina Balu, and the people residing at its base. Ho ac cepted Sir Edward Beleber's calculation of the height of the mountain, viz., 13,698 feet, as the most correct. Mr. CILAUFURD drew a contrast between the populations of Borneo and Java, attributing the striking difference which was observable to the geological formation of the re- spective countries. Borneo, which was of primary forma tion, was occupied by about a hUndied different tribes, all of them fierce and savage; and-although the island was eight or nine limes the size of Ireland, the population did not exceed one or two millions. Java, on contrary, which was of volcanic formation, contained a population of twelve millions in a far more advanced state of material comfort and civilisation, Borneo, however, promised to be a coun try productive in minerals. Thanks having been voted to the authors of the papers, the president adjourned the meeting to the 24th instant. DEVOTED FRIENDSHIP.—The Tribunal of Paris yesterday tried a young man named Andre Telliez, a na tive of Bassuel (Nord), on a charge of desertion, and alloy, - ing another person to serve in the army under his name. The circumstances of the case, as stated on the trial, pre Isentthea r y a e r a e r 18 instances 7, the e o f prisoner, devoted and friendshiphis fr i en d, in hum Joseph ble I p i f a e : mard, botnhssnonpstionfnpooTr u p e ea p sa i n is t o s n . a w r e d re re c w all a ed l u ow pon nu to m d b ra er w , for the had co ri no means of finding a substitute,but his more fortu nate friend determined to go in his stead, concealing his in tention, however, till the last moment. When Telliez was ordered to join his regiment, Pamard accompanied him to Lille, and, on arriving at the barracks, ho persuaded Tel liez to let him go in his stead. Telliez at last consented, and Pamard was incorporated in the 75th Regiment under his friend's name, and served through the campaign nof , Italy with great distinction. In 1861 , Pamard, s t ill under the name of Telliez, was with his regiment in garrison at Lyons, and he there became so deeply enamoured of a young woman that, in order to pass part of his time with her, he committed several breaches of military discipline, and ulti mately deserted. A warrant was issued for the apprehension of Andre Telliez,and transmitted to his native village. The real Andre Tellies was accordingly arrested, and then the w h o l e deception was discovered. They were both pro secuted for the offence, and on the day of the trial, I'amard who had not bven arrested, took his place beside his friend at the bar of the Assizes at Douai. They were acquitted by the jury, but as Telliez, purely from ignorance, did not then join his regiment, he was again arrested. In reply to the questions of the Tribunal, ho stated that while his friend was with the army he sent him what money he could spare after supplying his mother's necessities and his own, amounting in all to about 200 f., and that, when acquitted at Lille, having received no military orders, and not knowing what regiment to join, he had returned home, where he was arrested. After hearing counsel for the pri soner, the Tribunal deliberated a few instants, and then unanimously brought in a verdict of acquittal, 'SPORTING INTE LLIGENCE. DON ' . ...IA,STER SPRIN G MA. ',TING —T HUB.SDAY. The Trial S takes of 5 cove eachoc ith 30 added, for 3.yr • olds and upwards, winners extra, mares and geldings al lowed 3163, with maiden allowances • t 51b (E. Foster) 3 T.Y.C. 9 subs. Baron Nivie re's Benjamin, 3 yrs, Gst . 91 b (limiter) Mr. T. Pan 's Dusk, 3 yrs, Gst 121 b (ca r. 75t) (Clement) 2 Mr. G. W. Morris's Brahmin, 3 yrs, 7 . st, Mr - ,. J. Oslyt xrne's Weatherden, 3 yrs, 6sft . 1-21 b (Whiteley) 4 Mr. Rodgeg es Queen of Trumps, 3 yrs, t6st 61b (Heslop) 5 Mr. C•axon'ii, Will Watch, 3 yrs, fist 91b ... ' (Midgley) 6 Betting' 4 to 4 agst Benjamin, 4to 1 4 sick agst Weather. den and JThis l 6 to 1 agst Will Watch, and 8 to 1 agst -, Brahmin. AN "eatherden and Dusk made the running to the distanc,e, when Benjamin got up to the pa i r. Weatherden i ns t an tly falling away, the two ran a fine rE te home, Ben jamin winnhw d. - tine race by a short head. Brahmin was. . beaten from Luck by three lengths. Weatherden a bad fourth. Will Water ' s, beaten off, last. The hopeful Stakes , t , f 5 Boys each, with SO added for 2-yr olds ; colts Bst 71b, t illies Bst 31b, winncrs extra, maiden allowances. Hoful course, about 5 furlongs. 20 subs, pe Baron N.viere's Dirt. Clib ap, Bst 101 b (inc.'ud. 7 1 b ex.) (H. Grimshaw) 1 Mr. R. E. Wilson's X elle Tula, Bst 31b (car, B st bib) (J. Osborne) 2 Mr. Temperley's Alice, Bst 31, 13 (Doyle) 3 Captain Coates's The Avens•er, Bst 71b .. (G. Foritham) 4 Swift, Formidable, Vishnu, a nu' The Fallow Buck also ran.. Betting-6 to 4 agst Bohemla, 3to 1 agst Dirt Cheap, 4.. 1 to 1 agst The Avenger, and 10 to 1 agst any other (off). Ther Callow Buck was very unruly at the post, causing a lot of false. starts ; and when the flag fell she was felt at the post, and tOok no part in the race. A fine race in with Dirt Cheap arid the favourite from the half distance, Dirt Cheap obtaining the advantage within a couple of strides of the chair, and winning - cleverly by a neck; fc air lengths between the second and third. The Avenger wa a close up fourth, Swift next, Formidable sixt.b, with Vishnu whipping in. The Doncaster Spring Handicap of 10 sovt9 each, with 10th added, for all ages ; winners e. xtra ; the x lecond to save his stake. St. Leger Course. 01 subs, H .of whom paid 3 cove each: Mr. Savile's Conundru m, 4 y rs, 7st Gib .. (G. Fox dham) 1 Mr, Fobert ns Upperhand , 5 y rs. Bst 21b (b`oyle) 2 Mr. T. Parr's Tolurno , 3 y rs, 7st 21b ........(Clervont) 3 Mr. &Axon's Little Dick, 5 yrs, 7st 81b ....,,, (IVlidevy) 4 The following, also ran :—Benjamin, Huby, Mayflower, Arcadia, Bannerdale, and Watchfire. Betting--9 to 4 agst Conundrum, sto 1 each agst Watch -.i. ii:e and Arctmlia, 6to 1 agst Tolurno, 7to 1 agst anner- , dale, And 10 to :.1 agst Upperhand. Benjamin cut B out the work at a good p a ce, with Little Dick, Watchfire, Upper hand, Bannerda le next. Conundrum (who got badly off) was some lengths i.ehind the front lot. Before reach in g the distance Conundra. 'mhad run through his horses, and lengt Upperhand had to finish to themselves; Conundrum h and a half; a neck separating with Upp winning easily by was a .bad fourth; the two last a the two next; Little Dick , being Benjamin and Huby. The Londesborough Plate of .X5O, for 3-yr-olds and up- wards ; winners extra. Red House in. Col. Towneley's Whitewell , 4 yrs , 7s, 21b.. (J. Snowden) I Mr, J. Newbold's Lady Bird, 4 y r s '.st 21b (Clement) 2 Mr, C. Peck, jun 's;Berbice , 4 yrs, yrs, tZlb (E. Harrison) 3 Mr. Ringrose's Donne Canne, 3 yrs, Est .. • . (Whiteley) 4 The following also ran :—Charles Fox, Heilstorm,Young Viscount, Simon the Cellarcr, Garrison Bea.uty, and Lord. Chancellor. Betting-4 to 2 agst Whitewall, 4to 1 agst hailstorm, 7 to 1 agst Chak-les Fox, and 10 to 1 agst 13erbice. Another' long delay at the poet, Hailstorm, when the flag fell, being: left behind. Bernice, with Lady Bird, held the command to the distance, whece \Vhitewell joined them, and a good race u mting the second and third. Donna in took place, Whitew , " ll winnin g cleverly by half a length, a length and a half soy Canne was a bad fourth ; Charles Fox next. , vs each, with 25 added; for The Municipal Stakes of (. 5 st , lOst 121 b; :ix and aged, list; rra ces and geldings allowed two-yr-olds, 7st ; three, Bst . 121 b ; four, lost Elb ; five„ 31b ; the winner to be sold for DO selling allowances ;; the second to save his stake. Half-0 - mile. Lord Strathmore's Ceres, 4 yrs (£40)...... Mr. A. Young's Erica, 4 yrs (£4O) Mr. Kennedy's Tiny, 2 yrs (£6O) The Stand Plate of 5 sous each, with 20 adJed for all ages ; the second to save his stake. Red House in. Mr. G. W. Morris's The Brahmin , 3 y rs, 85t..... 1 Col. Towneley's Whitewell, 4 yrs, Bst 71b .. •• • • 2 Mr. T. Spencer's Why-not, 6 yrs, 7st 131 b Five ran. COUNTRY 111A,11.K.E.26. I.* BIRMINGHAM—MAncn At to-day's market there waa a fair supply of wheat, which sold at a slight decline upon late prices. Barley ra ther lower, Oats held for late pries. Beans is per qr. cheaper. LYNN—MARcx 11. Wheat of the best descriptions and in fair condition sold moderately at barely former Orms. Bar:ley scarce, at ra ther more money. Other arlicles firm. Old white 58s to 62s j 8ar1ey...... .......34s to 36.5% Rod .. Ms to 5 7s I Oats ... ...22s to 26s B eans .4os to 44s I Peas ~.44s to 48$ PLYMOUTH—MAncn 11. The market was thinly attended, with a retail demand for:wheat and flour at about last week's currency. White wheat, 65s to 665; red, 63s to 64s per qr; French do., 603 to 625; American, 61s to 638; Spanish, 74s to 7 68 ; Ras" sian, 60s to 625. Barley at about late rates-34s to 38s p® qr for malting; grinding, 28s to 30s; ottts, 22s to2Be ; beans, —s to —s flour, 43s to 46s Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN—MA.IIO.a 12. Wheat on the top 4s Od down Barley on the top Os Gd up. Oats on the top Cs 6 d down average Beans on the top is Od down average aver e 05 . 0 . 1 ,s s 4 31 d dd d dd 0 00 w n ww average Os Id up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat........ 1103 qrs Sold 767 qrs' 8ar1ey....,,,,1 480 qrs Sold 844 qrs Oats .,,3205 qrs Sold 1546 qrs Beans 655 qrs Sold 249 qrs Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat....: .. , .... £2 15 0 7-12ths New wheat „ „.,,. 0 0 0 0-12ths Barley . 112 0 4-12flis Oats 1 6 1 10-12flas Beans .. 2 4 0 1-12tlis CORK—MARCH 12. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 24s Od to —s Oil ; white, 31s Od to —a Od; barley lla 6d to —s Od ; oats, 7s Od to 14s 9d. DERBY SMITHFIELD —Maraca 11. There was a good supply of fat beasts to-day, and the quality was good. A clearance nearly effected. The supply of sheep was large, at high prices. Fat calves were more plentiful, and sold well, The show of fat pigs was large, with a brisk demand. Beet 6d to 61c1 Veal Mutton ... 71d to Sid Pork Lamb Od to Oct Rough fat, 4s 3d per stone. Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skivs, 5d to 6d. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET Li5T. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Mar, 2 1 via Marseilles l‘iar. 15. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. April G. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar. 2 . via Marseilles Mar. lu• Falkland Islands . April 6.• Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 21.- - via Marseilles Mar. 15. India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 13. via Marseilles Mar. 22. Lisbon Mar. 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 13. via Marseilles Mar. 15. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo , U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet. , . • Nan 19. by. U.S. packet.. .7 Mar. 12 . ........• by Canadian packet. • INar. ---.. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Bahamas, via New York 111,g. 13. Mexico ................ Mar. 28. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1.. ~, • Mar. it , . California, and British Columbia.. The Rev. Father Felix began his conferences at Notre-Dame, Paris, on Sunday, in presence of a numeroug congregation. The subject treated this year is the progress of Catholicism in an intellectual point of view. BIRTHS. BAGGE.—On tke 12th inst., at Ghent, tho widow of the late Rev. Henry T. J. Bagge, of a son. COWARD.—On the 12th inst., at Lower Norwood, Mrs. W' Coward, of a son. STEPIIEN.—On the 12th inst., at 4, Leo-terrace, Blackheath! the wife of James Stephen, Esq., barrister-at-law, of u son. MA RRIAGES. ADCOCK—SILLs.—On the 11th inst., at Barrowby, Alfr c6l William Adcock, Esq., 24th Regiment, to Mary, th e w older daughter of the late William Sills, Esq., of C se thorpo. CARMICHAEL—BAX 1 Elt.-011 the 11th inst., at St. Johil'' 4 ' Angell-town, Brixton, John Humphreys Carmichae l :, Esq., the second son of the File F. Carmichael, Esq., °L Abergelo, to Maria, eldest daughter of Alexander Baxte r ' Esq., of Bermondsey, and Brixton. DEATHS. BLACKBURN.—On the 9th inst., at thavesend, Mr. J° sll. Blackburn, of Wormwood-street, London, aged 76. FIRMIN.—On the 1 lth inst., at New-cross, William r el l ll 3' youngest son of the lath Samuel Firmin, Esq., of lu Strand, aged 23. LEGII—On the 12th inst., at 37, Lowndes. square, F iers William, the third son of William J. Legh, Esq., A LF. ' aged two months. NEWLAND.—On the 7th inst., at the Deanery, GoreYt i . Ireland, the Very Hey. Henry Newland, D.D., D ean ° Ferns, aged 66. THomsoN.—On the 3d inst., at Gibraltar, James Th°l2l - Esq., Hanseatic Consul, aged 69. WooDALL.-0a the 13th inst., at 5, Upper Baker-street, Regent's-park, Elizabeth, third d.tughter of the late 3.1 r. John Woodall, Orchard-street, Portman •square. LoNport : Printed and Published by MURDO Y°" ° , 7 ' of No. 1 12 , St ra nd , Printer, at THE SUN Office, NO . 11 1 stran d, in the Prec' ne t o f t h e Savoy, i n the C° lluti ° Middlesex,--Friday, March 14, 1862. ~..