The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

_RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BRISTOL AND EXETER. The half-yearly accounts of this company to the ItOth of June last were submitted at a meeting of the directors held yesterday, when a resolution was passed recommending a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum for the past half-year. MADRAS. The report of the directors of this company states that the contracts of the company with the Govern ment comprehend about 850 miles of railway, con sisting of the main line running south-west from Madras to Beypoor on the Malabar coast, with its branches to Bangalore and the Neilgherry-hills, making together about 515 miles ; and the Bellary, or north-west line, extending f r o m th e A rconum station, 42 miles from Madras, on the main line, by Cuddapa and Bellary to Moodgul, where it will form a junction with the Great Indian Peninsula Company's line coming from Bombay. Its length will be about 330 miles. The main line has now been for some months open as far as the station of Gorriattum, 96 miles from Madras. Its further opening has been unexpectedly retarded by the non completion, through unforeseen difficulties in con struction, of the bridges over the Goriattum and Palar rivers. The former, however, may now be considered finished, and the latter is so far advanced as to give every prospect of its being ready by the end of the year. In the meantime, a temporary way is being laid for the passage of waggons and loco motives across the bed of the river. On the fur ther side, as far as Salem, which is 206 miles from Madras, a considerable extent of the perma nent way had been laid, and the whole of this p ar t of the li ne is reported as sufficiently advanced to insure the opening for traffic to that important station by the end of the year. By that time also the chief engineer expects to complete so much of the western portion of this line as lies between Bey poor and Palghaut ; and soon after the sec ti on be tween the latter and Coimbatoor, a distance of 90 miles from the Malabar coast. There will then re main to complete of the main line the intermediate distance between Salem and Coimbatoor, the most important work of which is a bridge over the Cau 'very river, near Errode, 240 miles from Madras. Its length between abutments is 510 yards, the openings are 22 in number of 50 feet wide each, to be spanned at the height of 50 feet above the bed of the river by iron girders placed on stone piers. These piers are well advanced, and will be ready to receive the girders when they are sent up from Madras, where they now are. The other works on this central part of the line being also in a forward state, and all the permanent way materials required from England being in store, it is confidently ex pected that by this time next year it will also be completed, when there will be through communi cation by railway across the peninsula from Coro mandel to the Malabar coast, 405 miles in length. With the exception of the bridges, the works of this line have not been generally of a heavy character. There are no tunnels, and not many heavy cuttings or embankments. The Madras Government have resolved to take immediate steps for the construction of a harbour at Beypoor, sufficient to secure the safe landing and shipment of the overland mails and passengers. The engineers are now engaged in setting out the Bangalore branch. It forms a junction with the main line at a point about 125 miles from Madras, ascends by a very favourable pass- to the tableland of Mysore, and, having reached the level, pursues an easy course through a productive and well peopled country to Bangalore, a distance of 81 miles. The steepest gradient will not exceed lin 81, with moderate curves. The proposed branch to the foot of the Neilgherry hills would branch from the main line near Coimbatoor, and be from 28 to 30 miles in length. The Bellary or North-West Railway branches from the main line at Arconum, 42 miles from Madras, proceeds by Cuddapa, Gooty, and Bellary, to the town of Moodgul, where it is to form a junction with the Bombay line. The entire distance from Madras is upwards of 370 miles. A capital of £2,500,000 will probably be sufficient to complete it in every respect, including rolling stock. The share capital raised at present for the main line consists of £1,500,000 5 per cent. stock, £1,000,000 41 per cent. stock, and £500,000 41 per cent. stock, together £3,000,000, leaving £1,000,000 of the estimated capital still to be raised. Debentures for £500,000, converti ble into stock, have been issued at 5 per cent. interest, payable in five years. Estimating the cost of the main line and branches at £4,000,000, and the length at 515 miles, the cost would be £7,787 per mile. But the cost of the 96 miles actually completed and at work, including stations, &c., does not exceed £5,600 per mile, to which, if £1,200 per mile for rolling stock be added, the total expenditure would be £6,800 per mile. But from the great rise which has taken place in wages and prices throughout the country the cost of the uncompleted portions of the railway, it is appre hended, will exceed that of the first constructed sec tion. The amount of capital issued for the Bellary line is £1,000,000, of which one-fourth has been called up. On the Ist July, 1856, the main line was opened for traffic to Arcot, a distance of 65 miles ; on the 7th of May, 1857, it was opened to Vellore, making 81 miles open ; and on the 19th May, 1858, to Goriattum, 96 miles from Madras. The traffic for the half-year ending December, 1856, amounted to £11,720 ; ending the 30th of June, 1857, to £14,345 ; ending the 31st of December, 1857, to £18,480; ending the 30th of June, 1858, to £lB,OOl ; ending the 31st of December, 1858, to £21,760 ; and ending the 30th of June, 1859, as estimated, to £23,870. The net receipts were re spectively £5,665, £7,309, £10,046, £9,970, and £13,143. Taking the aggregate cost at £6,800 per mile, and the working expenses at 50 per cent. of the gross receipts, it would give a result of above 31 per cent, on the capital expended. GREAT LUXEMBOURG. The report of the directors of this company states that the total gross receipts on the line from Brus• sels to Namur amounted for the year 1858 to £56,431, and the working expenses to 23,217, leav ing a net balance of £33,213. On comparing those results with the preceding year an augmentation of £8,293 in the gross receipts, and of £7,563 in the net revenue, is shown. The working expenses having been reduced from 46 . 71 per cent. to 41.14 per cent. of the gross receipts, it states that there is every reason to believe that the revenue of this part of the railway will continue to increase, and that its local resources are only partially developed. The opening up of the resources of traffic in the country traversed by the railway from Namur to Arlon, and the international traffic which wilt par tially arise after the connection is formed between this railway and those of France and Germany, must tend to increase the traffic of the line from Namur to Arlon was opened for traffic throughout to Arlon on the Bth of November last, and the gross amount of receipts to the end of 1858 were £15,238, exceeding the working expenditure of £264 only, and a demand has been accordingly made upon the Belgian Government for payment of the sum due to the co m p any i n t erms of the convention of 1852, by which the company is guaranteed a minimum annual revenue of £32,000. The line having been only opened during a portion of the year 1858, the minimum net revenue for that year should be £11,133; of this sum the proportion to be paid by the Government amounts to £10,869. The Go vernment contend that the expenses of working the line ought to be calculated so as to show a larger net profit than has really been obtained. The matter is still under discussion, and in the mean time the sum of £4,000 only has been placed to the credit of revenue, pen di ng the negotiations with the Governme n t for the settlement of this account. The extensive line from Arlon to the frontiers of Luxembourg will be ready for traffic in the course of the mon th . Th us an uninterrupted communication will be secured to the city of Luxembourg and to the Strasburg Railway by Thionville. The report states that the late war and the state of continental politics have exercised an unfavourable influence upon the t affi C o f thi s as th . s as well as of every other railway in the country. As the receipts from the traffic increase the pro portion of the working expenses will diminish to a very satisfactory amount. The rolling stock, as well as the permanent way, have been maintained in good working condition. The net revenue from the small part of the canal opened for traffic amounts to £B5B. Since the close of the year 1858 the works of the canal, for a distance of 16 mile s , h ave been completed. The directors propose to declare, at the meeting to be held at Brussels on the 18th inst., a dividend of is per share. The directors state that the sum which will be received from the issue of th e remainder of the obligations will be fully sufficient for the completion of the extension lines to the Luxembourg and French frontiers, as well as for all additional station works, rolling stock, &c., so that no f ur th er ca pital will be required. The general balance-sheet shows a total of £2,639,034, of which £1,800,945 consists of share capital and £735,305 received on account of obligations, mak ing together £2,536,350, The general revenue account for the y ear 1858 s h ows, a ft er paying pre ference charges, a balance of £5,171, including a balance of £2,158 brought into the accaunt from 1857. DARTMOUTH AND TORBAY. A portion of this railway having been com pleted, it was opened to Paignton on Monday. The day was observed as a holiday, and about 14,000 persons assembled to celebrate an event of to much importance to the keality. ASSIZE INT.ELLIV2NCE. HOME CIRCUIT. —LEWES, AUGUST 3. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a Special Jury, GILL V. WRIGHT AND WIFE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recovee damages for slanderous words alleged to have been spoken of her by the female defendant in reference to her position as a schoolmistress. The defendants pleaded a denial of the alleged slander. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Hannen were for the plaintiff; Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., were for the de fendants. This action arose out of some very painful pro ceedings that were not inaptly described during the trial as the Brighton school scandal. It will be remembered that in the month of January last a statement appeared in a London weekly news paper, headed " A fashionable school—high life below stairs," in which it was represented four young ladies, pupils at a fashionable school in Brighton, had been sent home to their friends in the family-way, and that a page in the family, 16 years old, was supposed to have been the author of the mischief, and that he had absconded and the school had since been broken up. This paragraph was copied into other London papers, and also into the Brighton journals, and it, of course, created the most intense excitement at that time. Various in quiries were made with a view to discover whether there was any foundation for the statement in ques tion ; at length the Mayor of Brighton felt it to be his duty to convene a public meeting of the inabitants to consider the matter, and resolutions were come to that the statement in question was proved to be an utter fabrication, and to have no foundation what ever. The newspapers that had published the statement also contradicted it, and apologised for having inserted it. The plaintiff in the present action, Miss Georgiana Gill, is the proprietress of a highly respectable school at Brighton, and she brought the present action against the defendants on account of Mrs. Wright, as she alleged, having made a representation to a lady named Holloway, the wife of a clergyman, who also keeps a school at Brighton, that the paragraph in question related to her school, and that she knew of one young lady having gone home who had not returned to the school after the Christmas holidays in consequence of her condition of health. The defendant, Mr. Wright, is a dancing-master at Brighton, and he had been in the habit of instructing the young ladies at Miss Gill's establishment, but it seemed that last September he was discharged by that lady on occount of several of her pupils' parents express ing a wish that a French mistress should be en gaged to teach dancing to the pupils, and it was suggested that the slanderous statements had been raked up, after the falsehood of the original publi cation was made ms n ifest, out of a revengeful feel ing on account of the dismissal of the defendant from his position as dancing-master, with a view to injure the plaintiff. The alleged slanderous words imputed to the female defendant were that in the course of a conversation that took place be tween her and Mrs. Holloway upon the subject of the school scandal, she stated that the transaction occurred at a school out west, not a hundred miles from Brunswick-square, and that all fingers pointed at Miss Gill's establishment, and that she knew of one young lady who had not gone back to the school on account of the state of her health. She was also represented to have said that she was not sorry for Miss Gill, as she had behaved very ill to her husband, and had become very high-minded, and it was a judgment upon her. Mrs. Holloway, the principol witness in sup port of the plaintiff's case, was examined, and ;he deposed to Mrs. Wright having made the statements above mentioned to her, and she proved the time when they were made as being sub sequent to the public meeting, when the original statement was proved to have been an entire fabri cation. Upon being cross-examined Mrs. Holloway would not state positively that she had not been charged with having very much exaggerated w*lat Wright had said to her, and it also appeared that Miss Gill had threatened to bring an action against herself and her husband if she did not write down what had been said by Mrs. Wright. She also said that Miss Gill was very much excited upon the subject of her establishment being pointed out as the one where these disgraceful transactions had occurred, and that she was like a " chained lion," ready to bring an action against anybody. After she had given up Mrs. Wright as the author of the scandal that lady accompanied her to Miss Gill's, and she then denied having made some of the statements that were imputed to her, and aiso expressed her sorrow and regret that the transaction should have been supposed to have taken place at Miss Gill's school. At th:s stage of the case the learned judge sug gested that it had proceeded quite far enough to set all the parties right in the estimation of the public. It was admitted that there was not the slightest shadow of foundation for the suggestion that had been made, and if the defendants apologised for having rashly made the statement in question, it appeared to him that the trial might at once come to an end. The suggestion of the learned judge was not, however, acceded to, and the case proceeded. Miss Gill, the plaintiff, was examined, and she stated that she had kept the school for 14 years and Mr. Wright acted as dancing master to the young ladies until last Michaelmas, when she dismissed him, and engaged a French lady, named Madame Michet, in his place. She said that upon receiving a communication from Mrs. Holloway she called on Mrs. Wright, and asked her to give up her autho rity for the statements she had made to that lady. She denied having made some of the statements im puted to her, rnd with regard to others she said, that if she had to give up her authority she should say " all Brighton," for the matter was talked of in every quarter. The plaintiffadmitted that when Mrs. Wright came to her house in company with Mrs. Holloway she expressly denied in her presence having made several of the statements that she imputed to her, and she also said that she was very sorry for the reports that had got into circulation respecting Mrs. Gill. In cross-examination Miss Gill said that she first heard of the scandalous rumours that were in cir culation in January, and she was also aware that her school and several others were mentioned in the town, but so long as the accusations were ge neral she said she treated the matter with contempt, and it was not until she heard that her school had been specially alluded to that she took any steps to discover the author of the calumnious report. Mr. Bovill, in his address to the jury, for the defendant, and it appeared to him that the plaintiff had been very ill-advised in bringing this action, and in again bringing forward such painful mat ' ters, when it was clear that it had been established that there was no foundation for the statement that had been made originally, and not the slightest im putation had been cast upon the pLiintiff's esta blishment. He then urged that the evidence of Mrs. Holloway could not be taken as strictly accu rate, and that there could be no doubt that the con versation which she represented to have taken place in February actually occurred in January, when it was admitted the rumour was in every body's mouth, and he said he should show that was actually said by Mrs. Wright differed very mate rially from the interpretation put upon it by Mrs. Holloway. Mrs. Wright, the defendant, was examined, and she stated that she had certainly had some con versation with Mrs. Holloway upon the subject of the " school scandal," but in the first instance she was unwilling to say anything upon such a disagreeable matter, and only did so upon being pressed by that lady. She said, however, that she merely mentioned what was the general topic of conversation in the town, among all circles, and denied positively having made many of the state ments deposed to by Mrs. Holloway in her evidence. A young lady named Churchman, the niece of Mrs. Wright, was also examined, and she confirmed her evidence in several particulars. Mr. Justice Blackburn, in summing up the case, said that there was one matter for congratulation in connection with this inquiry, which was that it now appeared to be admitted on all hands that there was not the slightest foundation for the very seri ous charge that was originally made. The only question for the jury, however, was whether it was made out to their satisfaction that the female de fendant had made use of the slanderous language that was imputed to her, and upon that point the evidence of the defendant and that of Mrs. Hollo way was directly contradictory, and they would have to say which story was most entitled to credit. The jury, aftet a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £25. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—DERBY, AUG. 3. (Before Chief Justice Erle.) CRESSWELL AND °TILERS V. JACKSON AND OTHERS. p lr at l e V h lL ed L E p X a T r li c e A I O R waD I N ds A eu ß s yesterdayour wit nesses were calledin; case, and Mr. Macaulay having replied upon the whole case, The learned Judge summed up. The simple ques tion which the jury would have to decide w ther the codicils were those of the testato a r s . , w T h h e e cas e was of considerable importanc e in : L oney, and also to the c h aracter and futurepo point tntoef rests of a number of gentlemen who were connected th en certainly it. If the jury found for the def endantsn certainly forgery had been committed, perjury h a d been committed, and a conspiracy entered into against a great n - amt , er of people. His lordship having commented on the evidence at some length, VilE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENISti, AUGUST 4, 1859. said if the jury were of opinion that the verdict ought to be for the defendants they could state so without specifying that there had been forgery or a conspiracy; but if, on the other hand, tht y con sidered that the plaintiffs had made out their case, a verdict for them must be given. _ _ _ At half-past six o'clock the jury retired, taking with them photographs of the codicils and the du plicate copies of the will. They returned into court nearly an hour afterwards and gave a verdict for the plaintiffs. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—HEREFORD, Aug. 3. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) THE LEDBURY MURDER. John Isaac Jones, 26, attorney's clerk, was charged with the wilful murder of Harriet Baker, at Ledbury, on the 17th of May, 1859. Mr. Skinner, Q.C., Mr. W. H. Cooke, Mr. J. J. Powell, and Mr. Cleave appeared for the prosecu tion; Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Henry Jams defended the prisoner. After the despatch of our report yesterday and the trial of all the other prisoners this case was called on. It appeared from Mr. Skinner's statement that the prisoner was a clerk in the office of Mr. Mase field, a solicitor of Ledbury, and the deceased, Mrs. Baker, had charge of that gentleman's offices. On the night in question, the 17th May, Mr. Masefield had gone to London ; Mr. Woodward, one of the clerks, remained at Mr. Masefield's house till a late hour at night, and when he left, about 10 o'clock, he met the prisoner going towards Mr. Masefield's office, or, it might be, towards the prisoner's house, which adjoined thereto. There was a back door to Mr. Masefield's office, and by the passage which led to it the prisoner could also reach the back door of the house next door, which was Mr. Bowcott's house, where the prisoner resided. At about 10 o'clock on the Tuesday night a Mrs. Jackson left the deceased, apparently preparing to go to bed. The back door had been fastened, and the bell put upon it. When Mrs. Jackson left there was nothingon Mrs. Baker's table, but the next morning, when the house was entered, there was a tablecloth and two glasses and a jug on the table. The house had not been forced in any way, and therefore, when it was discovered in the morning that Mrs. Baker was murdered, the inference was that she had been murdered by some one who had obtained access to the house in a friendly manner. It appeared that Mrs. Baker had been engaged in mending a pair of trousers for the prisoner, and the learned counsel suggested that those trousers might have afforded an occasion fur bis calling on her that night. There were two glasses on the table, sugar, a jug of water, and in one of the glasses there was gin and water. That seemed to show that after Mrs. Jackson had left the deceased some one had been there with whom she was inti mate and had taken some gin and water. Prisoner had recently bought some gin. The prisoner, at the time in question, lived in a chamber in Bowcott's house, which did not put him in communication with the other people in the house, and he used a latch key, which opened the back door of his house. Bowcott put out his own ligt.t at 20 minutes past 10, and at that time he had not heard the prisoner come in. The next morning prisoner got up early, and went out to clean his shoes. Among the things missed from Mr. Masefield's premises were some small silver coins, one of which was a particular six pence, and in a lane much frequented by labouring men at an early hour in the morning a packet of coins was found, which could not have been there at an early hour; but about 8 o'clock, and near the time when the prisoner was out, a man named Burden found the packet of coins near the spot where the prisoner was seen, and the suggestion was that the prisoner had thrown them there. The prisoner had his breakfast on that morning (the 18th) some what earlier than usual. After breakfast Bowcott, who supplied milk to Mrs. Baker, knocked at the house, and could not obtain access. Pebbles were thrown at the windows, and the prisoner procured some peas for the same purpose. In the meantime prisoner went to a publichouse and had some brandy, and on his return he looked through the keyhole of Mr. Masefield's back door, and presently said, "Oh, I have found the key." Of the finding of that key it would appear he had given two accounts. He unlocked the door and entered the house, and, on entering, a little girl who lived in the house was seen dressing herself,andon being asked where Mrs. Baker was the child said she had gone out. Near the foot of the stairs there was a bar. The stairs led to Mr. Masefield's office and another room called Owen's room. The prisoner said he tripped against the bar, which had the effect of throwing him forward on the stairs, so as to enable him to see that Owen's door was open. Another accouht given by the prisoner was, that he had gone to the stairs to pick up a piece of a newspaper. On going up stairs into Mr. Masefield's office it was found that Mrs. Baker was lying dead upon the floor, and her clothes were on fire. The learned counsel then detailed the temptation that might have led pri soner to commit the crime. There was a book in the office, accessible to the prisoner, which would show t , :at at the time there were large sums of money in the office, and the book would appear to contain an entry made by the prisoner himself, after the entry as to the money, which would show that he had the book, and might have seen the previous entries. In the prisoner's box there was found a bludgeon, such as might have caused the blow which was on the forehead of deceased. This blow might have caused insensibility, but it was evident that death itself was caused by strangnlation, effected by a cord found on the spot. Whoever intended to rob Mr. Masefield knew where to look for the plunder, for he went direct to the drawer where alone money was kept. Prisoner had the opportunity of know ing that a large amount of money had been in the house, and from the circumstances which the learned counsel detailed it would appear that the prisoner was not aware that a large portion of it had been removed and deposited in the bank. A light in Mr. Masefield's office would be seen in Mr. Masefield's house, and therefore probably if the mur der was committed by any one who was acquainted with that circumstance he would go upstairs in the dark. It would appear that the door of the office was forced open, and the lock• of the drawer was forced open by instruments which were not brought to the premises for the purpose, but which were on the premises at the time. The lock of the drawer appeared as if it had been forced open in the dark, and another circumstance which led to the same inference was that two lucifer matches, which had been fired, were founed upon the ground. Only one drawer in the desk was forced open, and that was the drawer which contained the money. The drawer in one compartment contained about £7, which was taken. Another comp ar t men t con t a i ne d I some money which was not touched, and N o . 3 con tained some postage stamps, some of which were taken and some left. The learned counsel here re ferred to several circumstances, which led to the conclusion that the robbery was committed by some person who was well acquainted with the premises, and with the ways of the house, and as to the deposit of money in the drawers, money hav ing been left untouched which bad been deposited in unusual places. The little girl had been re moved to Bowcott's house, and when the girl's father came to fetch her heaskcd theprisoner where the murder was committed, and he said. ".In the room below." The learned counsel said that it ap peared that gin-and-water had been taken by some one, and a bottle containg gin was found on a shelf over the sink. The prisoner had bought gin at Greenway's in a green bottle, and had promised to return the bottle, and he did return a bottle, but he did it in this way,—he exchanged a white bottle for a green one, and, having had the green bottle washed with gin, he returned that bottle to Green way. The learned counsel stated that checks on the National Provincial Bank and money and post office stamps were stolen, some of these latter hav ing been found on the floor of the office. It would be proved that the prisoner was poor and in want of money. He had been in the workhouse at Led bury and eventually became a schoolmaster, but his salary never exceeded 18s. a week. The prisoner had kept two diaries, which would show that he was altogether without friends, and not likely to be in receipt of money. The name of Jones was not the prisoner's real name, but one which he had as sumed. On the 23d of March the prisoner had re ceived a check for his quarter's salary, which was paid immediately, and evidence would be given to show that all that money must have been expended ; but it would be shown that after tte murder he had £ll or £l2 in his possession. Postage stamps were stolen, and 54 were found in the prisoner's possession. In an envelope in his pos session, there was found some blue stamps which cost 2d. It appeared that every stamp was marked with letters, and those found on the pri soner would be shown by the letters not to be duplicates with those which remained, and there fore they might have formed part of the same sheet of stamps. There was another peculiarity, which seemed to show that they belonged to the same parcel. It would also appear that, on the 28th of June some ashes were found in the prisoner's fire place which would be proved to be the ashes of Bank of England notes; and, as two bank-notes were missed from Mr. Masefield's office, it was sug gested that these were the two stolen notes which the prisoner had destroyed. Part of the word " bearer" was still visible on the ash. On the 30th of June some more ashes were found, which would be proved to be the remains of a check of the National Provincial Bank, two of which were stolen. The officer of the bank would state that when the notes were spoiled he was in the habit of burning them, and he could speak not only to the gereval appearance of the ash, but the letters "Nati" and " er" of the word " bearer" were visible by a microscope. After the ashes had been found search was made for some blank checks which had been seen in the prisoner's possession, and the re mains of those checks were found on the back pre mises torn up, but when the pieces were put together they made up the three checks on the National Provincial Bank whieh had been seen in his posses sion, and this showed that the ashes found could not have been the ashes of those checks. The learned counsel said there was no direct evidence against the prisoner, the evidence was entirely circumstantial, which, however, was sometimes even more satisfactory than direct evidence. He concluded his address by expressing the hope that the minds of the jury might be so enlightened as to do justice between the Crown and the prisoner. A model of the premises was here produced, and proved to be accurate. _ - Mr. G. W. Masefield deposed—l am a solicitor at Ledbury, and deceased was employed to take care of my offices. Prisoner was a copying clerk in my service, at a salary of 18s. a week. He had been in my service since March, 1857. Another clerk, named Dew, sat in the lower office with pri soner and Mr. Woodward, the managing clerk, and my two sons sat in the upper office adjoining mine, in what is called Owen's room. I was accustomed to keep my money in the first compartment of the drawer produced ; in the second compartment were some promissory notes and small money, which are still there ; !n the third were postage stamps to a considerable amount. A cash-book and rough cash book are kept in my room, and in the lower room were kept a call-book and a letter-book. My cus tom was to send money to the bank by my son, who entered it in the rough cash-book. I went to London on Tuesday, May 17, and before I went I gave Mr. Woodward £224 ls. sd. to take to the bank, partly in cash and partly in cheques. The book in which this would be entered was locked in my safe. My son balances the cash-book, and when there is a considerable balance in hand he banks it. I was in London when I heard of the murder, and I returned on Thursday. I did not go into my own office until the following Sunday. On the 28th of June I found some ashes in the grate of the room where prisoner formerly slept. Cross-examined—Mrs. Baker and her husband were about 50 years of age. She was a respectable decent woman, in whom I had great confidence. I rarely kept money in the offices at night, and always banked before going to London. It is well known in Ledbury that I am agent for several coun try gentlemen, and that large sums come into my hands. Re-examined—l rarely go out on Tuesday, which is Ledbury market. I left hurriedly. Mrs. Baker was a very slight person. Mr. E. Masefield, son and articled pupil to the last witness, proved the custom of the office as re gards the receipt of money, and that no drawer was forced in his office on the night of the murder, except that which would be known to the prisoner to contain money. Cross-examined—The other drawers were pulled out, but nothing in them was touched. About £5O was lost altogether. The court rose at six o'clock, and the jury were provided with accommodation in an apartment in the Shire-hall. AUGUST 3. The Judge took his seat this morning at nine o'clock. The court was, if possible, more crowded than yesterday. George Edward Masefield recalled—The gold coins might have been in half sovereigns as well as sovereigns. William Masefield deposed—l occupied a desk in Owen's office and a locked drawer in Mr. Wood ward's desk there. On the Tuesday night I left the drawer locked. I had £2O in it. That drawer was not broken open. £lB belonged to the cricket club and £2 to the office. Only Mr. Woodward and another person in the office knew that I had the £lB. I accounted to my brother for money once a fortnight, and he put it in the drawer that was broken open. I was in the office till eight o'clock, and had sat for the last hour in my father's office. I left the papers in the usual state. The next morning (Wednesday) I found three keys on a steel ring on the gravel path leading to the house. I gave the keys to Bergeant Tanner. Richard Dew said—l am generally the first per son in the office in the morning and the last at night. On the night in question I locked Mr. Masefield's office and Owen's office, and closed the front door. The door is entered from without by a latch key. It was Mrs. baker's duty to fasten the front door. I locked a strong closet in Mr. Masefield's room. Jones left at seven I locked up ten minutes after eight. Jones has from time to time borrowed money of me. In March I lent him £2. I was repaid the last day in March. On the day after the murder the prisoner paid me Is. in postage stamps. Jones was occupied in making out Mrs. Baker's accounts, and he was frequently in her part ,of the premises. Cross-examined—The prisoner was agent for an assurance office for some months, and had had cor- respondence with them. Mr. Masefield had only one locked drawer, and that was generally known in the office. I have borrowed money of the pri soner, and have sometimes bought stamps of him previous to the magisterial examination. The constables were present when prisoner let me have the stamps. I believe he tore them off some others. In arranging the Baker papers Jones acted as clerk to Mr. Masefield. I put the key of the closet in a bag left in the room. It was the custom to take the bag downstairs. Wm. Fred. Woodward deposed—l am a solicitor and managing clerk for Mr. Masefield. On the Tuesday I had left the office about seven, and was at Mr. Masefield's house, and when I left at about 10 I met prisoner 92 yards from Mr. Masefield's residence. I had heard the church clock strike 10. Jones to get to his lodgings would have to enter the stable-yard by Boi,vkett's house, and so into the back door. I had received from Mr. Masefield a sum of money amounting to £2OO odd. I received the money and kept it in my pocket, I believe. I sat in Owen's room. I took the pass-book with me to the bank. Cross-examined—l was in the habit of receiving money at the office. I kept it in a drawer in my desk ; I had no other locked drawer. Charlotte Jackson said—l am housekeeper to Mr. Nott, and was acquainted with Mrs. Baker. On 17th of May I was at her house, at about half past eight o'clock. I stayed till 25 minutes to 10. There was a little girl named Pain there. I as sisted the child to bed. There was a cake and knife, candlestick and candle on the table, which was covered with an oil-cloth. Mrs. Baker was mending a pair of trowsers. She told me they were Jones's. When I went away the oilcloth remained on the table. I left by the front door. The back door was fastened, and the bell put on by Mrs. Baker. The table-cloth was on her shelf. It was customary for her to leave her widow's cap in the sitting-room. On the following day the candle on the table was longer than I had seen on the previous night. 1 have seen Jones at Mrs. Baker's. I did not see women at the door. I did not see any newspaper in the room. Cross-examined—The I ack door was fastened about nine o'clock, before the child had gone to bed. I went up stairs with the child, and remained ten minutes. Mrs. Baker opened the latch of the front door for me to go out. By Mr. Skinner—l sat by the fire, which is close to the door, and could have heard anybody come into the back kitchen. Thomas Bowkett said—l am parish clerk of Led bury. I live next door to Mr. Masefield's office. I was acquainted with Mrs. Baker, and put up her shutters for her on the 17th of May, at ten minutes before nine. I heard her key the shutters. I gene rally fasten my door at ten. I sleep on the ground floor. That night the door of my bedroom was open. I was in bed at about half-past ten.. . By the Judge—l am 81 years old. Witness added—Jones slept above me. I very seldom heard him come home. He had lodged with me since the 9th of November. He had a latch key by which he could let himself in. I had given him notice to leave because he kept bad hours. Next morning I took up milk for Mrs. Baker. Another young man lodged with me. Both were up when the milk came, and when I took the milk they were at breakfast. I tried back door and front, and could not get in. 1 got my h ,- .mmer and ham mered at the door. Mr. Powell came, and we threw at the window. Jones then came up. I went to my house, and subsequently Jones went into the back yard, and came back and said he had found the key. I said, I will come with you and go in. We went to the back door, which he unlocked, and we went in. The child was dressing herself in the sitting room. I opened the shutters. I fetched the milk and papciii I met Jones, who I had left in the house, in the back yard with the child. He beckoned to me to follow him to Mrs. Baker's. I went through the back room to the front, and into the lower office. Owen's room door was open. Mr. Masefield's room was a little open. I was going in and the smoke stopped me. Hooked and saw Mrs. Baker lying there, her feet to the door. I ran down stairs and gave the alarm, and got some water and threw over Mrs. Baker. Mr. Griffin, a surgeon, and a policeman, were sent for. Jones paid me 2s. 6d. a week for his lodging, and d. a day for milk and vegetables. He changed his room two months before the murder. Cross-examined—Prisoner had had the latch key eight or ten days. The forepart of the right i s my best sleep. I sleep till one or two o'clock generally. Jones.and the other lodger breakfasted together that morning. I was down the first that morning. I got up between six and six and seven. Jones came down earlier that iiorning than ever I had before known him. 1141 child had said that Mrs. Baker had gone out. Jones lt.!koned to me in a way to make me think there was sumnthing serious happening. I should think the fire had been "mooring" three or four hours. Jesse Prestige—l was an under-gardener at Led bury in May last, and lodged at Bowkett's. I ()e -1 cupied a bedroom adjoining Mr. Masefield's offices. On the 17th of May I went to bed at ten o'clock. I came down in the morning at half-past five and went to work before six. At eight o'clock I came back to breakfast. I had to go through Cabbage lane on my way and return, but saw no money there. Jones was downstairs, and remarked that he was down early. We have breakfasted together before, but not very often. Mr. Bowkett came in, and said he thought it strange that Mrs. Baker was not up. On that Jones got up from his breakfast, and said he had to go to the butcher's to order some meat. Jones said he would throw up to her window and try to awake her. At ten o'clock I saw Jones at Mrs. Baker's door, and he said a very sad affair bad happened there. On the Monday Jones borrowed 2s. 6d. from me. On Thursday he repaid it. On the Wednesday even ing Jones asked me if I heard him come in the night before, and thought we must have heard him for he saw a light in Mr. Bowkett's window when he came up. I said we did not hear him. He remarked that Bowkett had said at the inquest that he had not heard him (Jones) come in since he had the latch key. Cross-examined--I slept very soundly during the night, because on the previous night I had been awake with the toothache. I had borrowed and lent prisoner money. When I lent prisoner the ls. he said, " I am not short, I have money by me; but Ido not want to break into it." This was in an swer to a remark of mine on one occasion, namely, Christmas-eve. I had seen some sovereigns in his purse—l should say ten or twelve. By the Judge—lt was at Jones's request the bed room was altered, for he said it was too cold ; and I took Jones's because mine was too hot. This was three months before the murder. Thomas Powell-1 am a joiner. At a quarter to nine on the 18th of May I went to Mrs. Baker's side door. I threw gravel at the window. Jones came up and offered me a handful of peas. Mr. Bowkett them came. After that I saw Jones be tween B rwkett's house and Mrs. Baker's; he beckoned me and I followed him ; he said he had found the key, pointing to the path under the office window, and so got in. He said, " What do you think of that ?" I looked at the carpet, and said to the child, " Bessy, you have had a smartish scuffle here." The carpet was not nailed, and was much tumbled. Jones said, " Where is Mrs. Baker, is she gone cut ?" The child said, " Yes." Jones said, " How long has she been gone ?" The child said, " Not long." I then went out and to my work. I afterwards saw Jones in four or five minutes with the child in his arms. I asked him if he had seen anything of Mrs. Baker. He took me by the shoulders and said, " Powell, Powell, Powell, she is dead and burning." He cried for water. I gave him a pint basinful, which he drank. I went back to Mrs. Baker's, and on the top. of the stairs the door was open and the room was half full of smoke ; the deceased was on the floor. There was no fire on the corpse, but the boards and cocoa-nut matting were burning. I got water, and Jones also brought water. Mr. Griffin, surgeon, was sent for and arrived. I did not notice anything uncommon in Jones. Cross-examined—l, like Jones, was much agitated when I saw the body. Bowkett was also much put about. Joseph Playsted—l am a glazier, of Ledbury. Heard of the murder, took water to the room, and saw the body. Prisoner came into the room where the body was, with Mr. Griffin. Jones walked into the room, and went and opened the window. He touched the drawer that has been produced. The drawer was partly opened. He drew it further out, and said there had been a robbery. I observed it had been broken open. Mr. Masefield's door had been forced open. Mr. William Griffin, a surgeon at Lethbury—On the 18th of May, a few minutes past nine, I found the dead body, and made a superficial examination. There was a mark on the forehead, a mark round the neck, and a noose lying near. The noose was found lying near the right leg, partly covered by charred clothe and ashes. The noose is singed. I saw fragments of burnt paper, The prisoner Jones entered the room, went to a drawer, and said there had been a robbery, and pulled the drawer open. I found some lucifer matches, one wood and the other wax. I could form no opinion of how long the fire had been burning. I found a lucifer match-box empty. The texture of the dress was glazed cotton ; the under-garments, composed of calico and flannel, had been ignited. The body was blistered in some parts, ' and in some parts charred. The floor was burn ing under the right arm. I picked up the box of the lock of Mr. Masefield's door near the body. A pair of pincers was found in the desk in Owen's room. I found a widow's cap in the sitting room. There was a cloth on the table, with a candle partly burnt out. There were two tumblers. In one there was a small quantity of gin and water. One person, apparently a child, had slept in the bed. I found a woman's night dress, which had not been used that night, on the bed. I spoke to Jones. I was talking to the child in the sitting room when Jones came in. I asked him if he heard anything in the night ? He said " No," and added that he went to bed at a quarter past ten. He knew it was that time, because Bowkett was up. On the morning of the inquest the foreman asked me if I knew where the key was found. I asked Jones, who was standing near, and he said, " Underneath the clerk's window, for I put this dead ivyleaf to mark the spot." We were standing close to the window at the time. I said which way was the bow of the key, and he said it lay prrcisely as that ivyleaf lays. Mr. Wood and I made a post mortem examination of the body, and we are of opinion that strangulation was the cause of death. The bruise on the head might have caused insensibility, but certainly did not cause death. A jagged stick might have made the bruise ; it could not have been a smooth one nor an iron instrument. 1 could not detect the smell of gin and water in the stomach. The noose on the neck would stop articulation. There was no appearance of a struggle on the body. I picked up two red postage stamps Rnderneath the drawer. There was some copper money lying on the desk. Some twopenny stamps were fonnd in Jones's ; room, I believe. They were found in a small box in a large box. I saw a wooden instrument there 1 on the occasion. Superintendent Turner—l produce blue stamps taken from the drawer that had been broken open in Mr. Masefield's office. Those marked from the cross were taken from prisoner's box. Mr. Griffin continued— On the morning of the murder I examined the grate in the prisoner's room and found nothing. On re-examination of the grate on the Ist of July, 1 found ashes which I have preserved. There were spots of blood in the bed of the deceased, on the upper sheet. I do not know how long they had been there. There was blood on the cheek of the deceaed, which had run out of the mouth. From the appearance of the blisters and the serum in them, if rigidity had set in before fire was applied I should not expect to find it. I did not see whether anybody had slept in prisoner's bed on the night of the murder, the bed was made when I went into the room. Re-examined—l found no duplicate stamps on comparing them, no two the same. G. Tanner deposed—l am superintendent of the police at Ledbury. I found the stamps on prisoner, and in Mr. Masefield's drawer. I found the black oottle produced in Mrs. Baker's chest of drawers. On the 24th of May I apprehended prisoner at his lodgings, and searched him. I found £lO in gold, ss. 4d. in silver, and 21d. in copper, a counterfeit crown piece, 62 red and two blue postage stamps, and five receipt stamps. I found this pocketbook in the prisoner's pocket, and the books produced. [The entries were read, showing the spirits pur chased by prisoner, and accounting for his move ments.] Mr. Skinner put in two books said to contain con flicting accounts of prisoner's previous life, and something to show a bad pecuniary condtion. It was in one of these the prisoner signed himself as "Robert Dibble." The Judge decided that it would be safer not to admit these books as evidence, and accordingly no entry was made from them. John Paine said the prisdner told him the mur der was committed in the hiirer office, and that two cheques were lost. John Barden, draper, deposed that he found a packet of silver coins in Cabbage-lane at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning. One of these coins was identified by Mr. E. Masefield. A number of witnesses were called to prove that no such packet was lying in the lane between five in the morning aid half-past seven. This thorough fare was much frequented by men going to labour. Miss Adelaide Cole. of the Bell Inn, deposed that the prisoner had liquor at the house, and borrowed a black bottle, which he washed out with gin, say ing he wanted it for a particular purpose. Mrs. Green way, of the Express, said that on the right of the murder the prisoner bought a pint and a half of gin, which he took away in a dark bottle. He returned the bottle next evening, and it smelt of gin. Superintendent Tanner here produced two bottles which were found in lones's box —one a dark and the other a light one, the latter containing gin. Frederick Williamson, detective officer of London, said he arrested the prisoner, who said, " I suppose you have got the right man ?" and on being cau tioned he said, " I shall remain neutral." £lO was found in his , box, and he said he had saved it, partly at Ledimry. Saw at the first search two blank cheques in the box of the National Provin cial Bank, and a cheque on Webb and Co.; but on searching a week afterwards they had disappeared. Prisoner accounted for going up stairs on the morn ing of the murder by saying he fell at the bottom of the stairs and stumbled upon them, and whilst laid on the steps he saw the door open. This it was found could not be the case. Walter Biddle, of the police force, said that on the day aft r the second search he examined the refuse in the petty, and found the remains of two cheques of the Naiionaf and Provincial Bank and one of the Ledbury Bank, all blank. Evidence was then given to show that the pri soner received £ll in March, but that he had paid since then numerous small debts which he owed in Ledbury, and had since borrowed money of several persons. Chas. J. Tins was called and said—l am employed by King and Co., of London, who make the cheques for the National and Provincial Bank. I frequently destroy them, and am familiar with the appear ance of the burnt ashes. I find in one of the glasses now in court very perfect remains of one of those cheques. The ash is the remains of the red sur face of the cheque, which turns white on the appli cation of heat. Upon one of the cheques this day week I saw traces of capital letters such as are en• graved on the cheques, being the termination of the word " bearer." After some further unimportant evidence the case for the prosecution closed. Mr. Huddleston, who displayed great emotion, then addressed the jury for the defence. The case was proceeding when our report left. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-Aug. 3. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) CIIILD STEALING. Sarah Taylor, 38, a dirty, dissipated-looking woman, was indicted for feloniously and maliciously by force leading and taking away a child of the age of 12 months, with intent to deprive Mary Leed ham, the mother of such child, of its possession. The mother of the child said that she was a single woman, cohabiting with a man named Thomas Wiggins, in Charles-street, Drury-lane. On the 30th of March she and Wiggins had some words, and she went out with her baby in her arms, and sat down on a doorstep in Lumber-court, and then went into a public-house in Dudley-street. There she found the prisoner, whom she had not known before, and they got drinking together. First they had beer, then rum, and, after conversing some time, the prisoner gave the child some barleysugar, and said if she would allow her to take it home to her own place, which was close by, she would give it some sop. She gave her permission to take the child, and did not go with her, as she had no stockings on, and the prisoner promised to bring her a pair back. After the prisoner had been gone some time and did not return she went in search of her, but she was nowhere to be found. She bad told the prisoner where she lived. She saw nothing more of the prisoner until she met her at the exe cution of Adams at the Old Bailey, and she had then the child with her, and was given into custody. From other evidence given it appeared that the prisoner had been begging with the child, and when she was taken into custody she had some boxes of lucifer matches with her. The prisoner said, in her defence, that the mother lent her the child of her own free will to take into the country for a week, and told her where she lived, but when she wanted to return it she could not find the place. She did take the child into the country, tended it well, fed it, and kept it clean. Thejury found the prisoner guilty. The Assistant .Judge said there could be no doubt that the prisoner kidnapped the child for the pur pose of going about to excite the sympathy of chari table persons, a purpose for which, it was well known, a great many children NN ere hired at a good price in this metropolis. There was no evidence that the prisoner had ill•used or injured the child still further to excite sympathy, or the punishment would be a most severe one ; on the other hand, there was ground to believe she had been very kind to it, for which reason the sentence would be a very light one, three months' hard labour; for any future offence of the kind the sentence would be a far different one. (Before Mr. Payne.) Paul Decuzpere, alias Thuillier, 32, described as a merchant, and Amelic Decuzpere, 28, his wife, were indicted for stealing an oil painting and a plated coffee pot, the property of David Gardener Bevon, in his dwelling-house, and four pictures, value £l5, the property of Henry Magner, in his dwelling , -house, and a timepiece and other articles, value £2O, the property of Raymond Collins, in his dwelling-house. It was clear from the evidence that the prisoners had carried on a system of plundering furnished lodgings to no little extent. They were indicted on three charges only, but at least a dozen could have been brought for ward by the police. The prisoners ttok well fur nished lodgings, and decamped with every portable article of value, at the first opportunity. They were convicted on two indictments. In the course of the trial a question arose as to the prisoners being man and wife legally. They had lived together and passed as such ; and the constable in the case, Lam bert, E, handed in a marriage certificate which he found in a box belonging to the female prisoner, and which both prisoners said was the certificate of their marriage. It was an extract from the Re gistre des Actes de Marriages, and signed by the maire of the fourth arrondissement of Paris, and it certified that Antoine Thuillier, of the department of the Haute Marne, was married on the 20th of June, 1849, to Louise Claudine Marguet, lace worker, of the eighth arrondissement of Paris. The learned judge held that this document, with which the prisoners had identified themselves, taken with the other circumstances, was prima facie evidence that they were man and wife, and left it to the jury to say whether she had acted under the control and exercise of her husband, or had taken a principal and independent part in the robberies. They came to tne latter conclusion, and consequently found her guilty. Jonathan Whicker, the inspector of the Metro politan Detective police, stated that in March last a picture of the Holy Family, worth, it was said, £2,000, was stolen from the Museum at Amsterdam, and information being transmitted to the London police, mea sures were taken, and the picture was traced to Mr. Attenborough's, in the Strand, where it had been left by the prisoners the day before, who asked £1,500 for it.. On the following day the prisoners were apprehended in Cockspur-street, but as there was no extradition treaty between this country and the Netherlands they were discharged, the felony having been committed in that country. Since the prisoners had been in custody on the pre sent charges, information had been received from the police authorities in Paris that the prisoners had been tried there, in their absence, for swindling and fraudulent bankruptcy, and condemned the man to 20, and the woman to 10, years' hard labour. The court sentenced the male prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for eight years, the woman to six years. WORDSWORTH'S COTTAGE.—In the orchard many of Wordsworth's best and earliest poems were written : " The Brothers ;" " The Pet Lamb ;" "Ruth ;" " Michael ;" and the magnificent " Ode to Immortality." 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Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co. ; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and:Co. at South. ampton, Randall sad Son. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. One morning, while the war was yet at its height, the Prince Imperial, who is an intelligent and at tractive child, and speaks English, they say, even better than French, terribly puzzled his attendants who were at table with him by suddenly asking, " You are always talking of the Austrians being beaten, beaten. What have the Austrians done to be beaten so much ?" "Mais, Monseigneur, they are not sages —not well behaved." " But what have they done—what have they done ?" When the Prince saw the wise persons whom he questioned rather at a loss to explain the shortcomings of the Austrians towards the French, he said " Oh ! yes, now I know, now I know ; they don't keep their hands and faces clean, and they won't say their prayers !" Carelessness in the matter of ablution and occasional neglect of private devotion were the only offences which, in the innocent mind of the Prince, could at all justify the punishment inflicted on the Austrians. Now, as peace is made, his Im perial Highness is probably convieced that a con siderable reformation has been effected in both these respects, and that the Austrians wash their hands and recite the rosary. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Bristol Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap). One mile. Mr. Savile's Queen Charlotte, 3 yrs, 6st 61b.. (Custani 1 Mr. T. Hughes's T. P. Cooke, 4 yr s , 7 s t 41b (L. S now d en 2 Mr. La Mert's Bel Esperan z a, 5 y rs , B s t 41b (Clements 3 The following also ran :—Babylon, Tocher, Humility, Maradan, Beauty, Twang, and Coxcomb. Betting-5 to 2 agst the Newminster filly, 7to 2 agst Queen Charlotte, 6 to 1 agst T. P. Cooke, 7to 1 each agst Babylon and Bel Esperanza. Won by two lengths; a head between the second and third ; bad fourth; Humility was fifth, and Tocher sixth. On going to the post the Newminster filly broke away, ran a considerable distance before she was stopped, and did not get back in time to start. The Brighton Nursery Stakes Handicap of 10 soya each, with 100 added ; winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. 35 subs. Mr. J. Merry's Cecilia, 7st 101 b Mr. Hargreavo's Horace, 7st 71b (Bullock) t 2 Mr. Lowther's Brine, 6st 131 b The following also ran :—Be Quick, Simple Simon, John Bull, Hersey filly, and Ringlet. Betting-6 to 4 agst Horace, sto 1 each agst Cecilia and Ringlet. A dead heat ; Horace met with a disappointment within a few strides of the chair ; the third beaten a length. John Bull was very fractious at the post, and did not get off. Deciding Heat-6 to 4on Horace. Cecilia made all the running, and won by three lengths. The Brighton Stakes Handicap of 15 sous each, h ft, with 100 added ; the second to receive 25 soya out of the stakes. About one mile and three quarters. Mr. G. Payee's Rechab, 3 yrs, sst 61b .. . (Drewe) 1 Mr. S. Jacob's Eltham Beauty, 3 y rs , sst. (J. Daly) t Count Batthyany's Courier, 4 yrs, 6st 61b.. (H. Bradley) t The following also ran . —Charles the Second, Killigrew, King of the Gipsies, T. P. Cooke, Pactolus, Queenstown, and King William. Betting-5 to 2 agst Queenstown, sto 1 agst Rechab, 6to 1 each agst Killigrew and Eltham Beauty, 8 to 1 agst T. P. Cooke, 10 to 1 agst Courier. A fine race in ; won by a head ; a dead heat for second place ; King of the Gipsies was a bad fourth, Queenstown fifth, and Killigrew sixth. The Marine Plate of 100 sous (handicap) ; winners extra. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. J. Merry's Conjuror, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Bray) 1 Mr. La Mert's Bel Esperanza, 5 yrs, Bst (Fordham) 2 Mr. Saville's Montebello, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b (Charlton) 3 The following also ran :—Theodora, Kinneraley, Julie, Pandora, Poacher, Nassau, and Syringe. Betting-7 to 2 agst Theodora, 4to 1 agst Pandora, sto 1 agst Montebello, 6 to 1 agst Conjuror, 7 to 1 agst Syringe, 8 to 1 agst Nassau, 10 to 1 agst Bel Esperanza. Won by a length, a head between the second and third ; half a length between the third and fourth ; Pandora was a bad fifth. The South Down Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 added„ for two-yr-olds and upwards. Optional selling weights &c. T.Y.C. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Towsey's Smut, 2 yrs (S5O), sst 51b...(W. Bottom) 1 Mr. Barratt's Mainstring colt, 2 yrs (.C5O), sst 81b(Drewe) 2 Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Helia, 3 yrs (150), , 7st (Ferdham) 3 Betting-11 to 8 agst Mainstring colt, 7to 4 agst Smi It, 2 to 1 (at first even) agst Helia. Won by half a length; two lengths between the sea )nd and third. The winner was sold to Mr. Hadland for 80 guineas, and the Mainstring colt was claimed under the Newmarket rule by Mr. Crawfurd. Seventh Brighton Biennial Stakes of 10 soya each, wit' b. 100 added ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners ( extra. The second to receive 50 soya out of the stakes. P ;ristol mile. Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Mayonaise, Bst 131 b (inc. 911 . i ex) (Fordl ism) 1 Mrs. Osbaldestone's St. Clarence, Bst 101 b (inc. 31b , ex.) har Ito r) Mr. T. Stevens's Cynthia, Bst 41b ) 3 Katrine and 'Brookside also ran. Betting-7 to lon Mayonaise, who waited r pon St. Clarence to the half-distance, when she came out, and won easily by a length ; bad third ; Brookside did not pass the post. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK-Au G. 3. a There was a moderate supply of wheat to day, with dull business at the annexed prices :—White whey Od to 52s Od ; red, 44s Od to 49s per 36 st. ; be Ans gos Od to 52s Od per 38 st. ; barley, 28s to 30s Od per qr from 484 . ; oats, 28a to 33s per 24 st. BOSTON—AuG. 3. The show of wheat was fair, and a thin a 1 tendanc,43 of f arme rs. Wheat in tolerable demand, at full 3 late prices. Very little barley on offer. Oats in small sal >ply, with a fair inquiry. Beans a scanty show and firm, a t last week's rates. Wheat .... 408 to 46s I Oats.. White do 45 8 t o 50s Beans Barley ..... 27 s t o 30s Ditto, old ..... ~.—s I o -•••A MELTON MOWBRAY—AUG.: There was a moderate show of wheat, whip h met an in active demand, at about late rates. White NI heat, , 14s to 488; red, 40s to 44s per 36 atone. Spring 3orn in small supply. Oats were from 30a to 34s per 24 s cone. Beans firm, at 48s to 52s per 38 stone. DUBLIN—AxG. 2. Our corn market to-day was dull, and 131 it little wheat was sold, with no advance on the currency .ts of Friday. There were a good many samples of new bet :e andit few of new oats, in good condition. Some triflii ig lots of new rape sold at 20s to 225. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 26 0 to 27 0 Do., red 24 0 to 25 6 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black l4 0 to 15 0 s. d s. d. Do., new ... ~ 12 () to 14 0 Bere . l3 I to 13 6• Rapeseed ~ 26 1 0 to 29 0 Oatmeal.... .. 14 ,6to 16 0 Bakers' flow 15 6 to 20 0 Indian corn .. 29 oto3l 0 COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at ET—Aua. 3. the close of 1 ,be ma cket.) We dle En d. s. d. Bates' West Hartley 14 0 Buddle's "West Hartleyls 0 Grey's West Hartley l4 6 Tanfield Moor 13 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 0 Walker Primrose 12 6 Clark's West Hartley l5 0 Lambert's West Hart- B. d. Braddyll's Hettor l6 0 Heugh Ha n Keiper GI range.. .... l6 3 Framwell gate.. „, .. l5 3 Whitwor th..... l4 6 South IC, elloe .. l6 3 Russell' a Hetton 16 0 South F fetton.. - 17 3 Stewart ~ 8 .. Cassop l6 0 Hettor ~. .. .... l7 6 Hunw ick • 14 0 Trims' ion Hartl epool 16 .6 Kello a Carat loc.. • 16 0 Nixon's Duffryn 2l 6 Pow ell's Duffryn Steam 21 0 ley 14 9 Haswell Gas. l2 6 Howard's West Hart- ley 15 0 Benton West Hartley.. 14 6 Eden Main 15 6 Birchgrove Graigola ..20 0 Walls End. South Hartlepool 16 0 Haswell l7 6 Ships at market t, 49 —Sold, 32. BIRTF CLIFFORD.—On the 29th ult., at Cannington, Somerset, the Hon. Mrs. H. Clifford, of : A daughter. Hoxywoon.—On the 2d inst. at Evington place, Kent, the wife of Sir Courtenay Ho - aywood, Bart., of a daugh ter. MosEs.—On the 3d inst., at ] ?ern Lodge, Clapham-park, Moses, Esq., of a daughter. 4, Torrington-square, Mrs. wr t i lr so w N i . f_e of Edward a2rdd inst., Wilson, of a daughter. MARR lAGES. ABBOTT—SMYTH. — On the 2d inst., at St. Gabriel's Church, Charles Stuart A ibrey Abbott, Esq., only son of the late Hon. Charles A bbott, to Penelope Mary Ger trude, daughter of Colone Smyth. and the Hon. Mrs. Rowland FOOT—STEEL.—On the 2i inst., at St. Saviour's, Pad dington, William Ray ne the third son of James Foot, Esq., of Westbourne-ter, the cnly daughter of 3 ace-road, Hyde-park, to Mary, K.C.B. .ajor-General Scudamore Steel, DE ATHS. CLARRE.—On the 31st u.l at the Powe, Keswick, Cum berland, Andrew R. Cb E sq. CROMPTON.—On the 2d i Ist., at Sunayside, Upper Avenue road, Roger Crompton, Esq ., late of Kersley, near Man chester, aged 62. FLEMING.—On the 30th nit., at Edinburgh, Colonel Jae. Fleming, cf Kinlochla igh, Appin, late of H.M.'s 22d Regiment. FORES.—On the 25th ult at Kilburn, Mr. Fores, of South Audley-street, aged 65. Gru.—On the 28th ult., it Bunt.tock, Major William Gun]; aged 71. SHAW.—On the Ist inst ~ the Rev. Joseph Shaw, 8.D., for fifty-two years Fello wof Ch -ist' s College, Cambridge, aged 73. WIGGINS.—On the 31st u It., snd denly, at Newport. Isl e of Wight, George Wig, ;ins, q., of 87, Lansdowne' place, Brighton. --'•-•--+.„ ---•--... ,ONDON : Printed and Pul ►lishod i, • MURDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Print, pr, at v a , Sue Office, No. 112 Strand, in the Precin c t o th e hart Irt in the CeUntY • 1 Middlesex, Thursday, Al! gust 4, 184 ;9.