The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-22 00:00:00

A INDIA. OPERATIONS IN OUDE. (Continued from the Times of _December 21.) -THE' CAMP, PURSAIDEPORE, Nov. 9. At 4 ecloCk this• morning the firstbugle.sounded. At - s,Ahe column marched froin I3eylah to Leowlie, 10 Miles distant on the road to Amethie. Those_ Indian marches, picturesque enough at the close, and interesting when -the sun rises, are' immensely dis agreeable in their preliminaries and ~their com mendement.' Only an iron will and. long experience can enable one to overcome the tumult which reigns all the night before, and to snatch a few_ hours of sleep:: The klassies; - or tent pitcher's, are .a most peculiar-class - of .men. The moment the tent is pitched, their-cares . for the day are over, and all the, day they _sleep under -the eaves. of the tent accord ingilyf,but as darkness falls they get up and wander aboiit stealthily, - tapping tent-pegs and preparing for tho great business of their existence. • It is in vain that order afterorder has . been. issued. to the klassics not to touch a tent-peg till the first bugle gonna-. It is their caste -to tap tent-pegs ;. they are born to it, bred to it, and die to it. The whole race of men belonging to this order would endure: martyrdom iti-the faith that tent-pegs, when in thu groandf are to -be -knocked out of it, and -when out of theground. are to be knocked-into lit.. Whew awake they can no more resist their impulses on this head than a London pickpocket can refuse the ap peal of an easy pocket handkerchief. Soon, after dusk the noise begins—tap ! tap ! tap ! far and near like a fire of muiketry, for many a weary acre o . canvas-covered ground. This is called tonking— striking the long deep Indian tent-pegs on the sides, so as to loosen them in the earth, and to pre pare them for easy extrication when the tent is to be struck. The ground shakes with those myriad knockings—one gets feverish, restless, rushes out on the persecuting klassie, and, as he falls in the dark over the tent ro . pes, beholds a white, ghost-like form glide away into obscurity. The' houts, cries, and noises of the bazaars swell into a tempest as the sutlers prepare to pack up their, goods and move off in the early night. Then, long before the first of the small hours, the camels which are to move your house and furniture are brought close to the head of your bed. The " ships of, the desert" are anchored beside you, and the canvas offers no resistance either to the dreadful vapours which come from the holds of those ships or the sounds which rage on board. Those ships are always in a state of mutiny. A camel's life is a long and loud protest against the load that is put on his back, and he wisely enters his protest be fore his suffering begins. I know of no sound more sleep-destroying. Then there is the trum peting of elephants, the barking of dogs, the yell ing of jackals, and, above all these, the hideous dissonance of the many-voiced camp. The camp bells and gongs, too, vary in time. They are generally a quarter of an hour or more before they finish striking one o'clock. The smoke of the camp fires steals into the tent and half chokes one. Look out and you will see something like' a Fuseli's dream of Pandemonium—blazing fires, surrounded by black men in white clothing, moving to and fro, with strange quaint heads of camels, elephants, and other animals peering . through and above them. A reddened smoke hangs in the air like a pall over the scene. Towards morning the horses begin to neigh, and those animals are mostly sound-lunged, and are picketedclose behind the tents, so that—but what is the use of my endeavouring to describe the sights or sounds of an Indian camp ? My letter has already exceeded the limits of newspaper capacity in its most indulgent moments " out of the season. It is written, too, with difficulty on a table 18 inches high, from a stool afoot higher. We marched then from Beylah to Dehmah, about 12 miles, where we halted for the day. In the evening the messengers from Amethie came in with more letters, but the authorities, civil and military, stuck to their text, and Lord Clyde refused to see the Vakeel at all. On the morning or the 9th, at dawn, the columns marched towards Amethie, and reached the plain at the eastern angle and face of the work about 11 o'clock. Here they halted and pitched their tents about 1 o'clock, within 21 miles of the fort ; the jungle round which could be seen distinctly, and a small portion of one of the interior buildings from a knoll in our front.. About 12 30, as we wererest ing in a tope by a Hindoo temple, waiting for our tents to be pitched, the sound of a heavy gun from the fort roused us all up; again and. again the sound of the shotted gun was heard, and some sup posed that it was Sir Hope Grant actually attack ing the place on his own account, but the appear ance of that gallant officer in camp with a small escort, enabled us to learn that the guns we had heard were fired upon him as he rode across the plain from his camp to visit the Commander-in- Chief. He rode over to look at the place, and the Sepoys at once opened two guns on his escort at 500 yards distance, which forced them to retreat abruptly. Here was a new complication—Lull Madho's people had fired on our troops. Lord Clyde was somewhat put out by the occurrence, which he could have wished undone if that were possible, al though he was irritated against the Raj ah on account of the tone of his last letter, in which he actually asked for an indemnity, and took a most ridiculous stand as to guarantees for the promises made to him. The reply was decisive. If the Rajah did not come in before 10 a.m. on the 10th, the British columns would assault the place. Again the Vakeel came in to Major Barrow, and at night it was whispered among a few that the Rajah had sub mitted. In fact, at 1 p.m. on the 9th, three British forces—one under Lord Clyde, the other under Sir Hope Grant, and the third under Briga dier Wetherall—had pitched their tents, one on each accessible face of the defences of Amethie. The effect of this apparition oa the Rajah's Councils may be conceived. But 12 hours before he had been full of mighty airs; he had been talking of his honour, of his losses, and of material guarantees. Now he sat down and wrote as follows : TRANSLATION OF A LETTER FROM RAJAH LULL MADHO SINGH, OF AMETHIE, TO MAJOR. BARROW, Nov. 9. After compliments.—" My Vakeel had not come in (from our camp) when the cavalry of the Atiha Division (Sir Hope Grant and his escort) neared my fort, and were fired on - by the sepoys. When my Vakeel returned I then learnt that you would at a distance wait my reply to your pro posals, and for this reason you had encamr ed one koss from the fort. But the cavalry of the division caused the sepoys to fire on theft by advancing so close to the fort. As I Lowe- no wish to 43neounter-the troops of. the Goveniment, appealllberefore beii for some pledge from Govenamemt that I may And remove raVielf to solna other British:ol4.. the Government can chi as they ?tense with the fort-and caniton" • ( '(Sealed and signed 'by-the, Rajah.) he'inade ample submission in words; ex:- r eused himself for. the • act of the sepoys, very in genionsiy throiving the blame on us, who . had broken. an 4,greement, and it only remained te.see if 116 . carried his' promises into effect,. That night, as we heard, heleft the•fort stealthily, and repaired to a village near at hand-. He neither told his.fol lowers of the negotiation ; of the. Proclamation, nor , of the amnesty.. He said he dared not tell them. He left thetn'te- find it out' • Major Barrow, havinivarralif,Ped with the Rajah of Amethie that he slionld come in the morning. before 10 o'clock, rode'eut'to the village appointed AS"the place of rendezVouS, aliout 't mile in front of our camp, accompanied by Colonel Sterling, Mili tary Seeretary. to. the Cornmander-in-Chiel. The Rajah, with two or three attendants; was waiting 1 O reedy° ' them on horseback. He is a square r uilt, powerfully-moulded man, rather below the Middle height: His featufeii are regular, his eyes full and intelligent ; his black: hair falls in loose locks over his shoulders from beneath the folds , of hisjtiarbati; and the jet of his bushy moustache, beard, and whiskers, is not streaked by a single gray hair. As he approached our camp, in com pany, with the British Commander,' the officer of one of our pickets, seeing-the small body of horse men adVaiieing 'towards his' post, mounted his I)ragoons, and rode to' thdet thtm; at which the Rajah showed seine' Signe of "Uneasiness, but the matter was soon explained. Soong however,‘ the Rajah had cause for. 'greater uneasiness. Three 'vultures, which were gorging theniselves with offhl is"'Math,' rose with ' heavy -flapping from the The- 'Rajah's' horse, a 'Temarkably fine animal, shied. -.violently and fell, throwing the -tajal.l-to the ground with considerable force ; so tik" ll P -- Party were obliged to continue their jour ney to the camp on kind ''ivas calculat e d t a foot, occutrence. of `this produee the very deepest IntpreSOonoli the mind of a man, like all ° Itlt ji ts ' exceedingly superstiti ous , and a firm believer )° in all signs and tokens, and his demeanour became very subdued and sullen. His arrival in our camp v.ras not very dignified. The soldiers of one of the' English regiments turned out of their tents to look at . him, and no doubt would have " chaffed" as his Vakeel had been subjected to that e peculiar exercise o f the esprit moqueur of the British infantry, had they been permitted to do so. Many of: the men in full undress followed him into head-quarters camp, and the camp f o il owe i s, ,syces, gra.sseutters, and peons, idling about, swelled the crowd, which thronged the end of the main street of the camp till it was dispersed by the sen . tries..:-The Rajah, wearing his shoes, entered, with Major Barrow, inside his tent, and then the diplo matic and civil portion of the proceedings com menced. I cannot say that the results were so satisfactory as could be desired. The Rajah stated that he had inside his fort 1,500 sepoys of the 15th Native Infantry and other regiments, and 2,500 of his own followers. These men were all in perfect ignorance of the Queen's Proclamation and of the amnesty, as the Rajah said he did not dare to ac quaint them with the contents ofthose documents, nor had he given them the least hint of the negotiations with Government. In fact, he had left the fort by stealth, and had concealed his surrender froln his 61SEMI garrison. So far -therefow it was .impossible to know what course this form would adopt; but the Rajah was of opinion that his adherents were strong enough to compel anydissentients to obey his orders, and he declared that he had no doubt he could hand Ili over eke. fort, Ahe guns, and the arms of his. fol lowers. His Vakeel or minister was despatched to make known to the garrison the fact of the Rajah's submission and the surrender by him of his fort and materiel of war. After a long interview, the Rajah was taken by Major_ Barrow to Lord Clyde, who re ceived, him in his dinner. tent in the presence of the chief of his staff and one or two officers. The Com mander-in-Chief was no doubt rather distiPpeinted when he heard of, the real state of the case. The Rajah, indeed, had surrendered, and so far had com plied with, the terms granted to him; but his fort was still in the hands of those who might turn out to be our enem4.,s, and Some of whom were -certainly guilty sepoys, whose escape it was most desirable to prevent. Besides, they might be making use of this time to drag away the guns, and to desert through the dense jungles which encloSed one side of the fort. Still, we could not preci . pitate matters by attaeking the place 'before the Rajah had tested his authority. We had promised not to close in upon Amethie for the day, so that a Considerable time would be afforded to the .Sepoys to take to flight, which, indeed, we could not prevent under any circumstances, as the force at our command could not surround the place, one side of which, as already stated, melts, as it were, into a formidable swampy jungle, extending many miles towards the south-west, through which are paths known only to a few natives. When the visit to Lord Clyde was over the Rajah again went to Major Barrow, and messengers were despatched to the fort with instructions as to the surrender of the place ' • but Lall Madho remained in the neighbourhood of our camp with one of his friends, not daring to show himself among his followers. The chief of a neigh bouring fort also came in and made his submission to Mr. Carnegy, the Assistant-Commissioner of his district. This gentleman, " Pretty Poll Singh" by name (I am not quite sure about the spelling) , arrived in a palanquin, preceded by a bearer with a large silver mace, and followed by servants and men armed with flint carbines and matchlocks. He is a tall, stout man, of a stern face, ornamented b s now-white moustaches, and was dressed in rich shawls and stuffs—making a far greater show than the Rajah, as was natural from the circumstances under which the latter came in. He sat in his litter at the end of the " street," smoking his hookah, and surveying the few promenaders be tween the canvass houses with great equanimity. In his train came a kackery, in which lay an old iron carronade much the worse for age, a six-bar relled revolving matchloek, several flint pistols in various stages of decomposition, some bearing marks of being recently burnished, half-a-dozen swords, and a - few old firelocks, mostly fired by matches. These were his arms, of which he pro fessed to have made a total surrender, but I fear our friend of the simple and eccentric name was playing the gay deceiver , and that in various )eels and ponds and wells there are lying now (in a different sense from the talookdar's lying) some of those four or five cannon as to which the Commissioner made such tender inquiries in vain, as well as those stands of arms which the chief is believed to have possessed. What the result of these inquiries may be it is difficult to say. The talookdar declared himself pleased at the surrender •of his arms to the Queen's Government, and as a token of goodwill brought in plenty of lambs, kids, fresh vegetables, and such like pastoral and Oriental blandishments. Nor was he our only conquest this morning. Several landholders of greater or less importance presented themielves, and Humrunt Singh, of Kal likunker, on the Ganges, who was recently amusing himself by plumping round shot into our steamers, is now quite domesticated on the premises, and waddles up and down our street in a pleasant free and-easy manner quite charming to behold. One looks at him very much with the same sensations as Mr. Briggs must have felt when he had Rarey-fied his horse, and reduced him to complete submission. He is an agreeable old person, very like a Turkish pasha, being stout and bow-legged, salaams genially to us all, and seems altogether the last man in the world who would regard the firing of 12-pounders, double-shotted, against passenger boats as an agree able pastime. Pretty Poll Singh is not nearly so nice a person. Indeed, if stories be true, our friend, whose name suggests such nice reminis cences of little boys in the street addressing the feathered captives of one's household through the domestic area railings, was in times gone by a per son of the most perverted notions on the great questions involved in the observance of the laws of real and personal property. Whenever our officers went out shooting in this district, they were always enjoined to " look out for Pretty Poll Singh' castle. By Jove, if he sees you he'll be down uponyou. The creature was a bird of prey, and maintained his rights of sporting with more than the tenacity of a Norfolk parson. No doubt, he will make an admirable subject of the Queen's but I would not advise any one to shoot over his tiger preserves without leave, for the process in his courts was, and may be yet, very , sharp and very short. A police thannah may clip his wings and cut his claws. Yesterday, as we were breakfasting on the ground, under some trees, the instinct of our syces told them—for they could not see it—that there was a stack of forage inside the wooded enclosure, where we lay like serpents on our bellies, devour ing our meal. In a very few minutes the stack was resolved into peripatetic bundles or trusses suffi ciently large to conceal the bearers to the calf of the leg, which were being duly carried off for the horses, when Major Barrow interfered and ordered them to put down their loads. He was at once obeyed, and I was pandering on the wonder of the farmer, when he came back, at finding his huge stack scattered all over the ground in separate heaps, when the Major's departing left the ground to the syces, who, at once reappearing from among the trees through which they had vanished, gathered up their trusses and walked off with them uninter ruptedly. Flogging does no good. If the whole army were turned into provost-marshals' assistants, or flagellators under the orders of the civil magis trate, they could not flog all the offenders. Sowars charge over the plains in vain. Capt. Thomson was told by the Commander-in-Chief that he might have any-nuinber of cavalry -he required -to -prevent or arrest depredators, 'for Lord 'Clyde has all an old soldier's detestation - of- plundering ; but still the work goes bravely on. Last night a village was set on fite,-and the flames , lighted' the heavens in front of the camp. Th&villagers arc apprehensive of being punished if they defend their property, for theyi are tahl that if they fire A shot 4gaiAlt ustbey are deemed destruction,. but they. are -now in formed they may protect their gepl>, chattels, and crops -against camp folle,wers,•tkongh they must not use force; to .check. any depredations pn the part of soldiers, as the latter will be puni§hed by the mili tary authorities. At present, however, lie soldiers are not guilty of any such offences. One or more of our camp followers dead 14 the field near the cairn this morning, but g is inapassiblg to say whe ther thoenetny's Sowars, some of:w.liOmwerecaper ing about near our posts, or the villagers resisting plunder, 13eipetrated the deed• ,Certainly; the Oude fanner; has been plaCed'in anuist anxious position during ; the Jast',l2 months. ! Left at the inercy of the rebel, chiefs; he : waft compelled, no matter what his inclinations, topay-taxes and.revenue to the rebels. If he fled, all his property was taken and his land cetifiseatedo:•Wherei indeed,,could. he fly? If he re mained hevas called upon. for military, service.. At the same time he knew that: when , our power was restored,he was liable .to be hanged, and that he would have to -pay the revenue over ; again. Surely he: must have thout , ht his deities ;unkind and his lot miserable ! . , Of this, I can ,say ajor Barrow's mes sengers.eould gain na, admittance ,te the ,fort. . The gates were closed all day .The Rajah either had, or pretended hp had, no communication from inside the ket., Orders were icciardingl3:7;giyen for, the al)» proactk i eEpur colguato tlie,MlOwing,morning. , . • On.the !morning of the 11th, at daybreak, all the troops of the three different columns were paraded, ready for action, in front of their respective camps. Thus the pickets of the enemy (if they had any) would have seen the cavalry, infantry, and artil lery of Sir Hope Grant's force arrayed against them on the north. Not quite two miles to the left flank they would have beheld the troops under the Commander-in-Chief in person, and again, at right angles to the left flank of that little army, would have been visible the squadrons, battalions, and guns of the force under Brigadier Wetherall, about three miles intervening, which would have been speedily filledup by the expansion of the troops into line intervening between the two columns. But on the southward and westward of the fort the enemy would have beheld their sure allies extending as far as the eye could reach. There —up to the parapets of the place—and entering the Rajah's courtyard, were files dense and firm as iron alw, upon a e y o d l t u i ffio m te n iui of prickly thorn, adamantine shrub, and bamboo, set n aw tcto tracks. el column I s . u t steal milesbeast t he deviousbo r e y beyond e hsy horizon, thato thro uw i a g n hl d d its visible line, spreading and growing wider and denser, lay this safe refuge of the enemy. And they sought it. Hour after hour passed away in impati ence, the troops standing to their arms, officers (booted and spurred) walking up and down the streets of the camp, asking for news in vain, for news there was none, each man enforcing the rea s9ns why he thought the enemy - would fight or would not fight, as the case might be. Major BarroW still confident "it would all be right," other poll- rti_N SUN, LONDOA, WEDITES6AY: ticals equally positive " it `would all be *wrong," ani.' the military and sorne chilians convinced that it was a mistake to have anything to do with ticals su.ehmatters at all. The Rajah's messen-, gers were in the fort, but 4ill` no . news came from them e The Rajah himself was in camp with Major Barrow, but could ~ a v nothing, except that he knew nothing. What the epoys would do he knew not, but he was of opinion they would not fight. - At last it was announced that if the Rajah's servants had not returned at 9 o'clock the assault on the placc would be ordered forthwith. Long before that our arrived, perhaps half. past 7 or so, a - Sikh trooper rode into our camp with the intelligence 'that the place was evacuated, and that not a soul Was to be found but some old men and: servants within the Walls of Amethie. It turned' out that the trooper formed one of picket outside the place, and that early in the', morning they observed 'a man near the ditch whose appearance attracted their attention. On his approach they challenged him*, and, in 'reply to their queStions; he said he was not afraid of going near the batteries, because till' the sarrisbn ha& marched off' through the jungles during the' night. :The picket tested the truth of the man's story ; they made him lead the way, saw that the place was abandoned, and returned to Sir Hope Grant with the news. He sent off the trooper to head-quarters, and the news was soon diffused that there was to be "no fight," and some appre hensions were expressed that the Rajah was play ing us false, and that he knew well the Sepoys and his matchlock men were escaping. Before this news reached us it became known that 600 Sepoys had actually got into the jungles in the course of the night, but it was believed that the others would fight to the last, as they declared they would, and that the matchlock men, mostly dependents of the Rajah, would sneak quietly away to their villages. Orders were at once issued for the occupation of Amethie. Col. Harness, Royal Engineers, with a company of Royal Sappers and Miners (Major Len nox), Lieut. Beaumont, Royal Engineers; Colonel Riddle, Royal Artillery ; Major Turner, Royal Ar tillery ; a detachment of Royal Artillery, a party of H.M.'s 54th Regt., and a troop of the 6th Dra goon Guards (Carabineers), under Capt. Betty, Capt. Bradford, Capt.:Russell (Commissary of Ord nance), and Capt. Thompson (Civil officer), preceded by a guide and the Vakeel of. the Rajah, set out from camp before 9 o'clock for that purpose. The plain is nearly a clear level, intersected here and there by irrigation cuts, dotted with pools, where the surface sinks below the general level, degene rating at some places into marshy soft soil, covered with rank vegetation. Crops of dall and various cereals surround the villages, which consist of only six or seven houses, low crowned, and hidden under groves of trees. Having marched a mile or so, the trace of an earthen bank became visible in our front and on our left, but the gaps in the low jungle before it and in the trees which covered it only permitted occasional glimpses of the outer works of Amethie. Above the trees the high walls of a flat-roofed house shone brightly in the sun, and the cupola of a small temple was visible in another direction inside the fort. With the exception of a red flag Waving above the trees, and the bare patches of earthen parapet; nothing else could be seen. As we jogged.on, however, and inclined more to the right, making a sweep to avoid some marshy ground, two bastions of considerable command, artfully con structed among the trees which grew out of the parapet of the outer defences, could be discerned, and on getting nearer it could be ascertained that there were embrasures in the rampart itself, nearly flush with the level of the plain. As this was the first of those famous jungle fortresses we had seen, its outward aspect was examined with eager interest. I confess my impression was that there was very little to see. The parapet in front of us did not rise more than four feet at the outside above the level of the ground; beyond it there was nothing but stunted bushes, and it was very difficult to make out the actual line of the defences at all, only three bas tions or elevated earthen platforms with embrasures being discoverable along the front. As we got nearer there was nothing more to be seen. We passed a deserted village, which had been plundered by the followers of the Rajah, so it was said, and then, taking a half turn to the left, advanced directly towards the Fort. It is not more than two miles and a half from the front of our camp. When we had come within about 150 yards of the principal bastion we perceived that at its base was a pond, or piece of dirty water, about 30 yards across at its broadest, and on our left narrowing into the dimen sions of a ditch. On our right, where it narrowed in the same way, a ramp of earth crossed it to the top of the ramparts. A flimsy gateway of rough wood guarded the passage of the ramp, which was about six yards broad and as many long. The top of the rampart was about the same breadth. We now observed that there was a very deep ditch in places filled with water between the rampart and the plain—in fact, a regular ditch, with scarp and counterscarp. It varied in depth from 15 to 25 feet, and seemed to be about 20 feet wide at the top. At the inner face of the rampart (which was formed by the earth thrown up to make the ditch) there was nothing visible but jungle. This inner face was about five feet deep to the terreplein, and there was a regular banquette formusketry. A space of 10 or 12 feet had been cleared away between the base of the rampart and the jungle, in which, shaded by the overhanging trees, lay the bedsteads of the Sepoys who had recently garrisoned the place. Their cooking places had recently been used. Some articles of their clothing still lay on the ground, and in one place their chupatties, or wheaten cakes, remained half-baked by the open hearth. Turning along the rampart to the left, the top led us to a gateway in a strong -mud wall pierced for musketry, near which rose the bastion, one side of which swept the ramp and the top of the rampart for a couple of hundred yards with its fire. There were no guns to be seen in the embra sures. Sentries were placed on the gate with orders to let no one out, and a party of the 54th marched into the Fort, while the Carabineers were ordered to keep watch and ward outside the exterior wicket. Dismounting, the party of officer's proceeded to walk round the rampart towards their right, placing sentries as they advanced. The line of rampart was very irregular ; there was no flanking fire whatever. The principal damage to be feared would be from the fire of musketry on assailants at the other side of the ditch, whose heads would be about on a:level with th 6 43f-jhe ildfenders of the rampartas they aimed through „their loopholes, T batteries; such as they'were; eonsisted - ot 'small mud works a few feet inside the rampart, and just high .enough to carry the fire from the embrasures 6i -el. it. From:these veiy harrow'-'patll4 led through the jungle. The first battery we came en contained a verY 'feeble •cohorn mortar in:: an -early'stage of infancy, mounted on a primitive and very. hilly eile carriage. ,This piece of ordnance did not exceed; Oiould s,ay, two inches in diameter ; close "to it Wa,s an old 'iron "9-Peunder, the frail ' scoured with rope. It had been, reCently - discharged, and Was, no doubt, the gun frOm Which the scpOys had fired six or _ f seven round shot :on Sir Hope Grant's recoitit'azssailec,"tiO dai=s. before, for the cheeks of the chibraSUre were all blackened with pOWder. We continued our FiroMenade on the top of the low rampart—the ditch and the open country on Our right,' the interior, of the fort and the jungle on our, left—tilf struck us that it *as rather a 'fbelish thing to leave our horseS outside such a fine , sunshiny: d hyt--and that 'We might as well have Ode. ilbw and then we came :uPon zigzags 'cut in the jungle:7 ith great `labour, trenches intended Car rifle • pits and Wells. At , last - s sir bastion seemed to close up our researches, and We we're glad, to . clinib • up through-Ahe ,erahrasure,,,where,,Art eight-inch.; short brass howitzer; laden to: the muzzle and with fresh•prifiiing laid, was waiting to receive; us'. But there was no one to fire it. Descending into the , battery by means of this gun, we took a path which led through the jungle, precedqd by our • ggi&C, and' made towards the inner line'ef the fort. • Thejungle. was silent and saVage as need be. If one of those brutal little .tusheS but caught a hold, of you, how he tore and seratehed and. bled ' ;W:e wallce t d pn and on 04 Ois; . winding here and :there :thiouih the walls of sharp verdure—leaves of broken bottles and stems of fishhooks—till at last we came to a high mud wall with a battery sweep ing the flank of a zigzag approach to a large gate. way of wood. The guide knocked and shouted, so did the Vakeel. Some one approached from inside, the wicket was thrown open, and, in we marched to the inner fort of Amethie. But with the exception of the defences I have mentioned, and the natural strength of the jungle, there was really and tru l y nothing to give one the idea that an assault of in fantry, provided with ladders to cross the ditch, and covered by artillery fire would not carry the place in ton minutes. The wall round this part of the place was very bad, only one weak - bastion was visible. Inside it lay the village or dependencies of Am.sthie, the palace itself surrounded by another mud wall; being close at hand before us. The houses of the village were of the usual Indian type —rather worse, perhaps than usual. The guide pointed out to us a large building with the ground story open and raised on pillars, which was, he said ; the mansion provided by the Rajah for strangeri.. There were some fine bullocks wandering al)out, looking uneasily for their gun carriages, no doubt. Others were in large cow-yards on our right. Two ( greyhounds, hearing our voices, leaped out and ' bayed at us, but presently the:clink of sword• and spur brought out a few men—the Rajah's retainers —to watch the unaccustomed intruders. They were sullen, sulky, gloomy, and upcommunicative, and the presence of their master's Vakeel scarcely made them respectful. Colonel Harness and most of the party halted to take angles and directions and indulge in scientific -abstractions, while 'two or three, with less of duty and more curiosity on hand advanced straight on to the gateway of the mud wall around the palace and Zenana itself. The sepoy on duty scowled 'as we entered and .passed him. Before us, in one enclosure, , about 60- or 70. yards square, stood the Rajah' palace, filling one side of the square. On the right was the.bare , wall; on the left an arched building. of - brick, not yet finished of cementedrand behind, US.WAS the continuation of the bare wall, the gateway, and some storehouses': A tank and well lay, in front of us. A kind of dry well served: an the .chief maga ' zine, but it was empty. The house itself presented; a fair facade, divided into three parts, the Royal fish, of Lucknow over the entrance, and ,fish and 'cocks ornamenting, the - battlements.. . . It. ,was covered with white chug= or, cement, ,and shone. like marble. In one angle of the court was a child's plaything—a half-pounder brass gun on a carriage, all the arms we saw. Some servants came out,. and. oneled us up by a tall-stepped staircase,te,the first floor. The divan was,, ..carpeted-a' large 'viol : bandoline stood in the corner, and at the end were some cushions. All the valuable fur niture had been secreted or removed. The other rooms were plainer still. We mounted to the flat roof and looked out on the jungle, spread ing away like a dark green sea, and on the defences of the place. Was this really the fort before which three columns of English soldiers had been assembled for siege and assault ? As we were examining the features of the landscape and de termining the localities of our camps, the tramp of men in the courtyard below , announced the arrival of our party. The Engineers at once set to take some angles and make some observations ; the Artillery to hunt for stores and munitions of war. Their orders were, " Break open doors, if locked, and cases—take hrms, ammunition, and no thing else." The doors—for all were locked—soon went merrily—and the arms began to be collected in the open yard in the centre of the house. Tul wars, old flint pistols, two antique fowling pieces, a few shields, half a dozen matchlocks, constituted the arms, but now and then one of our men bowled out a brass shell - recently cast and, filed—some of eight or nine inches, others of three or four inches diameter, rn all parts the artillery continued their search with avidity and care. Boxes of matches for matchlocks were discovered, earthen pitchers filled with bullets, cartridges in no great quantity, and numbers of our Mime and Enfield bullets, which had been flattened and put out of shape from having been fired; and were afterwards picked- up by the rebels. While these works were being prosecuted, Lord Clyde, attended by the Rajah and Major Barrow, Sir W. Mansfield, and a number of Staff officers, rode into the courtyard. His lordship was evidently much displeased. He had heard that oily nine guns of all sorts could be found in the fort and works, and he had seen the nature of the latter with his 'own eyes. The im pression was natural that the Rajah had been duping him, or was trying to do so. " Tell the Rajah," exclaimed Lord Clyde with great energy, " that he must, produce his guns. Tell hint I know he never would have dared to dream of re sisting me, aware, as he was, that I had 80 pieces a t artillery, ,if -he had net the guns_ .of which we have heard." Major Barrow .. explained to the Rajah what the• Chief had said, and sternly accused him of saying that which was not. The . Rajah seemed uneasy, but affected to believe we had all the guns he ever had. " Tell him, Major Barrow," said Lord Clyde, " that I will keep him prisoner till he produces the guns ; I will stand no nonsense." In fact, the Chief had seen that the place could not have stood against us for one hour, and he was naturally irritated at the presumption of the Rajah, who had treated his earlier offers with something amounting to insolence. He had a shrewd suspicion, too, that the strict seclusion of the fort of the previous day had been a device to prevent our knowing what was being done inside while the guns were in the course of removal, and he felt that his forbearance had been met with ingratitude and deceit. Major Barrow could, of course, exculpate himself from any charge on that head, but no doubt the General, as Generals in India often have had cause to do, chafed against the restraints imposed on him, and felt that the surrender of the walls of Amethie without guns or garrison was but a poor conquest for the com mander of such an army. Still thecivilians might have been deceived. They might have erred when they fixed the number of guns in Amethie at 22, and finally increased them to 30. As to the se poys, there could be no mistake. The Rajab him self confessed that 1,500 of them, belonging to 30 or 40 different regiments of our old native army, had been in his service. They had run, he said, because they could not believe in a day or two that we were going to undo all the rope we had twisted in a year. As to his match. lockmen, they were his own villagers, and he pro mised to make them bring in their matchlocks. Still Lord Clyde was much dissatisfied. He went into the house and had the Rajah called before him, and there, by the mouth of Colonel Metcalfe, head interpreter and commandant of head-quarters, he administered a verbal castigation to the chief, which made the wily Asiatic turn almost pale with fear and anger. Meantime more stores of war had been found in the Palace out-offices,—thousands of cannon shot of all sorts and sizes, some shell, and very few arms. The chief offered to show with his own hands where the magazines were, and led Major Barrow and Major Turner to most artfully constructed powder magazines in the depths of the jungle. While the Rajah on horseback was de fending himself as well as he could against the ac cusations preferred with too much show of justice against his good faith, his eye caught the figures of our soldiers wandering through his rooms ; he heard the crashing of his doors, the creaking of his hinges, the bursting of hiastorehouses, and saw his shot and shell, hurled by invisible hands, hopping and clinking from cellars and dark rooms out into the open day in his court-yard. A man stepped out with a velvet cramoisie saddle and holsters, but the glance of General Mansfield detected the act, and ho ordered the soldier to take it back, and leave it where he had found it. No wonder the Rajpoot, within whose halls no alien had ever set foot, felt bitterly. Externally, however, he showed little emotion, but once as a pile of firelocks fell with a crash behind him he gave a little nervous turn on his horse, and-I could see he was making reat efforts to conquer his feelings of apprehen on and indignation. -'Again; ,he was. preese* on si the subject of his guns: With the"coarseness t which characteri§Ps' Asiatic films's - 0 'now -and thin he overdid his part. 'He protested, -n 'pon honour' he did not know ; : and.- theli;.: . with sublime impu dence, calling for hikr head' man, requested that, he would be'priod enimigh to try and recollect how many _ gu ns sere inside the fort. -The, Vakeel said there ifel'a 'nine-.-the 'orthodox - . number. " Major Barrow,.hbweVer c persisted: Lord Clyde de . dared he stl6tlld keep him prisoner. Here scented ft pretty beginning for our treaty, and anuiesties, and proclatnations---foreed ter break faith, by: the perfidy of our friend,:orrather forced to appear as if we had done so by the 'neglect .of this man to pe..- . ferm his promises. ;By-degrees the.' Rajah dis • 'Covered what we , were: , driving_ at, poor. innocent man ! He had-,only nine guns i abut there were other guns in - the fort. .Forinstance, one neighbeur of his—some Ram, or Singh,.or Buxt-hadneposited . three guns-in the fort ; Which didnot helm gto him! - M Did we want those? .sph,really. !, Well, then,we could have them ;" and so on. By the evening, .between the. admissions;- of,„ t4e, ~ Rajah and the researches -of the artillery, we had screwed 16,gunS more out of the place. ,The„.eieilians hare been greatly in -.error if there,were-not Tr theY were right, what haa .become of those Wins ? •• : ThO chief returned. to camp,.pd,. as. there.wal , P o taing .but jungle to be seen in. the fort, .):Il9s t .us ,fol lowed his example. The.,RAjah ; rode back a quasi free, but a pledge. for, guns, beside Major 13a7pyi:, lie stays in a,. lielglll,4opring T Wage w ith his friend and our friend, , Ajeet Singh. , He is melaneholy and sad, and, though he' does not think much of ,telling a lie, is very tender with ,respect to his de parted honour. His house hai been entered by strangers, his fort will be dismantled, his guns destroyed. And yet this man has had the address to save his garrison, to open a shower of round shot against an English general, and to see gather ing against his fort the armies of England, led .by the Commander-in-Chief and two other Generals ! Nov. 13 AND 14. The fort of Amethie, thus fOr the time in our possession, will b e made the head-quarters of the Sultanpore force, under Brigadier Pinckney, the garrison being composed of two guns of Gordon's Battery, three Companies of her Majesty's 54th Regiment, a wing of the 9th Punjab Native In fantry, and the Pathan Horse. When the premises are returned to the Rajah he will find them very much altered. His ramparts will fill up his ditch, his bastions will form agreeable mounds from which to survey the place where the jungle once offered an impenetrable barrier to man and beast. But at present the Rajah has no desire to return. He is humiliated, or pretends to be so. He prays to be permitted to live in some city far away from his estates, and that we will manage them for him, and he has got a month to consider whether he wishes to make a formal application to thisleffect or not. The - pontoon train, no longer required, returned to Pertabghur on the morning of the 12th, and Sir Hope Grant's force had . broken up camp, and were in full march to the westward before' 3 - o'clock - on' the afternoon of the 11th. Our next step will be to reduce Beni Madho to submission, and it is pre bable that the terms which the clemency of the Government may enable the Commander-in-Chief to offer to that notorious rebel chief will at .nee dissuade him from hopeless resistance, and make him only too happy to ,accept-such pardon and generous forgiveness. Gtr the 12th Sir Hope tVENINC+,- I)ECEMBEIt 22, 1858. Grant marched towards Pursaidepore ; Wetherall's column marched in the same direction. On the morning of the 13th Lord Clyde and head-quarters, - escorted by the 'Carabineers and her Majesty's sth Fusiliers marched to Adeypore, 19 milei on the road to Pursaidppore, which we reached to-day at 10 o'clock. Sir ,Hope Grant i`s . on our right; Beni Madho •has sent in to know what terms he may expect, and the Governor-General has enabled Major Barrow to relax the strictness of the condi tions originally'preseribed, and'-to offer this leader in the revolt something more than'his life. The Amethie Rajah has been left behind ; his castle walls are fast coming down. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YonK, DEC. 20. (Before Mr. Baron Watson.) John Taylor Whitworth, aged 22, was indicted for the wilful murder of Sally Hare, at Throapham St. John's, in the West Riding, on the 7th of October last. Mr. Maule and Mr. Fullarton prosecuted ; and Mr. Seymour defended the prisoner. The deceased, it appeared, was a servant girl of 17 years of age, and servant to Mr. Cuthbert, a far mer at Tottenhall Thorpe. The prisoner was a farm servant in the service of a gentleman named Machin, who is a magistrate of the county of Nottingham, and lived about six miles from where deceased was in service. It appeared that the prisoner and de ceased had courted for two or three years, and that the prisoner had removed from service, in Lincoln shire in order to be near the deceased. On the even ing of Sept. 30 the prisoner called to see the deceased at Mr. Cuthbert's. He had a cap on and a halter in his hand, and said he had been taking a horse of Mr. Machin's to grass. He remained with deceased till between 8 and 9 o'clock, when she asked her mistress's permission for him to remain till he went 'to his horses. This, after some demur, was granted, and the prisoner remained at M r.i Ctithbert's house until between one and two o'clo6k in the moiing, when he left the house with the deceased. Shortly afterwards the deceased returned with her throat cut and screaming to the house. Mrs. Cuth bert got up to see what was the matter, and the do ceased came to her, her hands and arms cut very badly, her throat cut and bleeding, a cut on her jaw, and her hair down. In consequence of what she said Mr. Cuthbert went to a place on a common about 250 yards from his house, and •there found many traces of a struggle, a pool of blood, and a cap and a halter, which were identified as similar to those the prisoner had had. An open tlasp knife, bloody, was also found a few . _ yards over a hedge near this spot, as though Allitiwn there. Next morning, at half-ptreven o'clock, a man in the service of Mr. Machin, named Clark, while in his master's fields, saw the prisoner walk ing about in the fields ; he was without cap, and appeared to be very wet and dirty. His jacket sleeves appeared to 'have been washed out and were wet ; his shirt was bloody and his throat cut. Clark said to him, " Why, Jack, where hast thou been P" He replied, "I don't know -where I hive been." He asked him, " What _ _ have you_ een doing ?" He said, " I don't know, Clark, what I have been doing." Witness then said, " What do the police want you for ? Why you have cut your throat." He said, " Yes, and the girl's too." Witness then took hold of him and said, " You must go along with me," and he took him to the police-station. Some little time before, the prisoner had asked witness if sheep salve was a poison. Witness told him it was. He then wanted to know how much would poison a person, and he told him as much as would stand on his finger. Witness afterwards missed a tinof sheep salve from the out-offices where he kept it. The prisoner had not been sent with any horses that afternoon. On being taken into custody a knife was taken from the prisoner, and he said, " That is not the knife ; she got it away from me." Mr. Wm. Latimer, a surgeon, was called in to attend the deceased, and he found her with a transverse punctured wound on the throat, whichhad passed through the trachea and oesophagus and had reached the vertebrae of the neck. She had also a cut on the jaw, several cuts on the hands and arms, and a bruise on the temple. She died on the 7th Qct. of bronchitis caused by the wound in the neck. She stated to him once or twice on the first and second time he saw her that she did not think she should get better. He considered her in danger, but had a hope she would recover. Sarah Turner, the nurse who at tended the deceased, stated that the deceased said she should die, both before and after Mr. Latimer dressed her wounds. Witness told her she thought she would get better. The deceased said she thought she would if Mr. Latimer could see in her throat as he could see her hands. She said this many times, that she should get better if it was not for her throat. Mr. Latimer spoke cheeringly to her, and she appeared cheerful after that and in better spirits. She was easier after Mr. Latimer had dressed the wounds. The Hon. and Rev. W. Howard, rector of Whes ton, and a magistrate of the West Riding, stated that he saw the deceased on the night of the Ist of October, about ten o'clock. He told her that she was in very great danger, that he came to her as a magistrate, and not as a clergy• man, to hear from her simply what had occurred on the previous night. He told her that she was likely to die. He hoped it might please Almighty God to bring her round, but he believed she was in very great danger, and he thought it very possible that these injuries to her would be fatal. He was there to hear her, and whatever she said, should she die, would be produced in evidence on the trial of the prisoner at York Assizes. " You must, there fore, tell me the truth, and nothing but the truth, without any fear or reserve." She said nothing. Finding that, he said to her, " It would be a very sad and awful thing for you to go into the presence of your Maker having told me anything in your present situation which is false." She still said nothing, and he was rather embarrassed, and he told her he should administer an oath to her, which he did, and having sworn her, by means of questions to her, he got her to make a statement. She spoke in a straightforward manner with difficulty. The prisoner was not present. He took down what she said, and read it over to her, and asked her if it was perfectly true and the whole trutlf,ancl she said it was. Slie.:then pit her mark to this. (The - statement she 'made was hbrd offered ibr eVisclence.) - • It was "objected by the prisontk's -counsel that it ▪ was not:ldmissible 'as edetwsiti6n,.: and that it was not adtnissible- as a dying declaration. It , ;vas net . spontfineously made under the belief of immediate and impending death. - "l'fie — ivideifee - diriforSlo* that this Was her feelini-;:iiiid the nirgiitrate WhO had attended her had appiared to in doubt that it was. The statements - as to her condition came from him, and not front. her . ; and, neting under a doubt,-"be hdd administered an oath-to her. It was contended for the. liriAebution that the statement was admissible if the- deceaSed at the time, frbM her State of Weakness, was ,ftensible of her danger. The various cases on .th.e subject 'were re ferred to. His Lord Ship said he hatieriAdei'pa this case nOt for the firklime.. He had heard theevieleme ari a the arguments, and he WEI& of opinion'that - the evi dence WAS Omissible. He" thought it.must be tken, on the whole; that the evidenco was -spontaneously given. 1f she made the statement finder , a Sense of impending danger, then- he thoug-ht -the state ment admissible. It had . been put to her very strongly by Mr. Howard 'that ,she was ,in great danger, and she was relieatedlytOld' that she was likely to - die. She made - na, w,6r, to -tha!t. If she had had hopes of recovery one • would have . thought she would have expressed 'them. 'at that time. The result of all the-evidence on - his imind was that slie had no hopes of - rbeorering• at that time; that there was not "the slightest hope at that time in her mind of recovery, looking at her state and her expressions. He thought she was at that time under a sense of impending danger, and that the evidence was therefore receivable. Mr. Seymour asked his Lordship to reserve a case for the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeal. His Lordship said if he should entertain any doubts he would reserve the case. At present he had none. The statement of the deceased was then put in and read. It was of considerable length, and stated that she and the prisoner sat quietly at Mr. Cuth bert's till between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. When he got up to go away she walked with him over the common. They had some words. He accused her of going with another man, and asked her to take poison, and he would take it too, and they should die together. She refused. He then made indecent proposals to her and took liberties with her, which she resisted. He threw her down and knelt upon her, and drew his knife from his pocket and opened it. He then covered her mouth with onehand, while with the other he cut her throat on the right side with his knife. She seized his hand, and he cut .her hands. -.She at last, in struggling withliim, got hold of the hair of his head and threw him off her, and when she was en deavouring to get up lie stamped on her head with his feet. She then got up and ran to her master's house. It appeared that after the deceased Iva* dead the prisoner asked to see her, and kissed t. dead body several times, and appeared to be deeply affected. When before the coroner the prisoner made a statement which the prosecution declined to put in evidence. The learned.counsel for the prisoner then addressed the jury for the defence, contending that it was consistent with the facts, a part only of which they knew from the statement of the deceased, that there had been al struggle, botwfPn- them, in the course of, which the prisoner's throat was wounded i)y the deceased, and that afterwards, while in hot blood and during the' struggle, the deceased.had'received the wounds of whicir she died. What this state of 'acts would constitute manslaukhtbr, and not murder. . . His Lordship in summing up directed the juiyas . to the law, and then read Qvcr the evidence. The jury, aft& an absence of half an hour, found the a rison er His Lordship immediately put on the black cap, and the usual proclamation having been made, passed upon the prisoner* awful sentence of death in. the usual form: The prisoner was then removed from the dock. pEc..2l, • • (Before Mr. BarOn r Watson.) ' - *THE POISONINGS AT I3RADFORD. • Charles Hodgson, chemist, was indicted for the manslaughter of Elizabeth Mary Midgley, at Brad ford, on the 30th of October, by negligently selling arsenic, which was manufactured into lozenges, in stead of " terra albs," of which lozenges deceased partook. Mr. Price and Mr. Middleton prosecuted ; Mr. Campbell Foster appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Price, in stating the case, said that this was a charge of manslaughter by negligence, and to make it out to be manslaughter when a person is carrying out his lawful trade gross negligence must be proved. He then quoted Tessyman's case, in which a che mist's apprentice, who negligently sold a poison for medicine,- which caused death, was held guilty of manslaughter, and Regina v. Lowe. Mr. Price then stated the facts. The deceased was a little girl resid ing with her mother at Bradford, and on the 30th of October the mother bought some lozenges of a man named Hardaker, who kept a stall at Bradford , market. The little girl hadpart of one of the lozenges given to her, and some time afterwards another part. The little girl was taken ill and died with all the symptoms of poisoning by arsenic. The man Hardaker had bought his lozenges from a con fectioner called Neal. Neal kept a shop at Brad ford, and was accustomed to use a substance called daff," which is a preparation of gypsum, and, is called in commerce " terra alba," to mix with his lozenges.' He sent to the shoP of the prisoner Hodgson, who was a chemist at Shipley , near radford, for some. Hodgson Was in bed ill at • this time, and at first hesitated about letting the man have it. Ultimately he instructed -- his assistant Goddard, who had only been. with him three weeks and knew nothing of drugs , to go up to a garret and get 121 b. of " terra alba ." He told him it was white and like flour, and was in a cask in the corner of the room. There were several casks in the garret ; one con tained: arsenic, which bears a certain resemblance to "daff." The boy Goddard took 121 b. of arsenic out of this cask, and gave them to Neal's man. The result was the arsenic was made up with peppermint and other things into 401 b. of lozenges. There was no label on either cask. The question for the jury would be, Did the keeping a barrel containing arsenic in such a manner, and to which he sent his assistant, who was ignorant of drugs, with such indefinite directions, amount to such gross negligence, in case of its causing death, as to be manslaughter ? The following witnesses were then called':— James Archer—l know Mr. Neal, a confectioner at Bradford. I have often called on Mr. Hodgson, who keeps druggist's shop at Shipley. When I have called on him he has told .me that he had some " terra alba" (that is "daff"), that he knew Mr. Neal used. I mentioned it to Mr. Neal, who said I might bring some next time I went; and I conse quently went to the shop of Mr. Hodgson at Ship ley. There I saw the young man Goddard, and told him what I came for. Goddard then went to Mr. Hodgson, who, he daid, was sick. When he 'came back he said Mr. Hodgson said I had better let it alone this time. Then I said if he could oblige me with 121 b. it would do. He then left me, and in a short time returned, and said I might have 121 b. Shortly after he brought me in two parcels ; they were paper bags, which I wrapped up in canvas, and put them into a tin box. I then returned to Mr. Neal's, at Bradford, and I put the tin box on the shop floor with my other boxes. This was on Monday, aid I gave the box on the Wednesday following to Appleton. Wm. Goddard examined—ln Oct. last I lived with the prisoner Hodgson, at Shipley, and had been with him three weeks as assistant. I had for merly been at school as a pupil teacher: I was going to be in the Excise ; and if I did not get a situation there I was going to remain at Hodgson's to learn the business of a chemist. On Monday, Oct. 18, in the afternoon, in consequence of what the last witness (Archer) said, I went to Mr. Hodg son. I told him there was a man in the shop who had come for some " daff." Hodgson said, " I dont't know what it is." So I went back to ask the man what it was for, and whom it was for. The man said it was for putting in spice, and was wanted for some man in Bradford. I then went back to Mr. Hodgson and told him this, and I de • scribed to him the man who had come for it. Hodgson told me to go back and tell the man to wait till he could attend to it himself. I did so ; and again returned to Mr. Hodgson, as the man insisted upon having it. Mr. Hodgson said I should find it in a corner of the room in a barrel, aid I asked bim what kind of stuff it was. He said it was white and like flour. I went into the shop and got a pair of tea•scales. I got some weights and went up to the garret, and I went to the wrong cask, which cask had a little box on it. I took the box off. I looked in the barrel, and saw the con tents were white and something like flour, and I weighed out 121 b. I put it into two bags, and I gave them to Archer. I don't know the difference between arsenic and "daff "by appearance. I knew the arsenic which I had to sell in the shop, which was coloured and labelled. I saw another cask in the room. As far is I know, the casks re mained in the same condition till Burniston, the policeman, came. Cross-examined by Mr. Foster—My master told me that it was white and like flour. I handled the stuff first. I can't say whether it was soft as flour, but it did not feel as light. I saw several casks in the room. This cask was on the top of the staircase, and not in the corner of the room. The cask I went to was at least four yards from any corner of the room. I had been in the attic before, which was used as a warehouse by Hodgson. I had been up there with him. He has pointed out to me part of the things in that room. He had pointed out to me this barrel as containing arsenic. He told me to be aft4 ".* lP it.-==There.:wtis a barrel in the corner of `the' room which' e'en - ft:tined "tetra .alba " " daff." My nraster wtte very ill in bed. When -Archer determined fo have _ the Aar he spoke angrily to me. :I had served before, in the shop, but - had not sold things from the warehouse, and the man's anger . flurried 'me, as. I had to leave the shop againSt thd rules of my master, My niaster always told 'me: to . be very careful about -poisons. He toldone never to sell any poisons unless he was present. !Lliad been' fire years a pupil teacher.. knew i arsemh wts poison... • Re-examTe&by Mr, Price—l was applied tihy the attorney for the :prosecution, and • ref,,a, to answer any questiorts. I believe the prisoner is going to marry a relation olinine - 1145elgSon pol4ted out to me the arsenic the first week rwas there. did not know what F' terra 'albr"'Was.: L was arrested. • f.: - Mr. Barciii Itation said that he really could!not see 'any'negligefice. ,When,he firgtre44 the dePoSi. tions he had :made up his , •mind , to leave •the.ques , tion of negligence to ; he court of criminal' appeal, Mr. Price said he would call another. witness, and if his loridship,did not • think that he carried the case any further, he Watild not go on. Burniiton—l am a detective officer. I went on the 'tfst Detober io MT,' Hodgson's' shop. The cask containing arsenic was about 14 or 15 inches from the top of the rail at the stair head, and was not•near a corner of the room. The " daff" cask was about four feet from the lefthand corner. There was no cask then in any corner of the room. There was no label on the arsenic cask. The "daff" cask was covered by some paper and a desk. Cross-examined—On the Wednesday following I found a clean label on the bottom of the arsenic cask, which was found to be 1571 b. weight. The cask of " daff" was not in the exact corner of the room. I should call it in the corner. The sale of the arsenic was on Monday, the 18th. I should not have gone to the arsenic cask if I had been directed as Goddard was. His Lordship said he really thought there was no case for the jury. Mr. Price said he thought the prisoner ought to have reminded the boy of the arsenic. His Lordship, however, directed the jury to acquit the.prisoner. How could it be said that there was any negligence here? There must be criminal negligence to convict the prisoner. He did not know what a man could .o more, except not keep arsenic. He had warned this young man that the cask contained arsenic, that it was poison, and had directed him to go to another place for the article required. The jury acquitted the prisoner accordingly. Mr. Price said great credit was due to the police in preventing the spread of these poisoned lozenges, which had already resulted most lamentably in the death of 21 person. ;he The Seybouse of Bona, in Algeria, says :—" A lion-paid a visit on the night of-the-4th to the neighbour hood of Fort Genois, and seized a mule tied to a tree, and was proceeding to devour it, when the cries of the animal brought out a matt with a lantern, the rays of which frightened the assailant. The lion returned the night fol lowing for its prey, which had been removed. The inha bitants finding that the animal had thus come back thought it might do so again, and accordingly on the following night they placed the carcase, over is concealed pit, but vnthout effect, as no further visit took place," OdUN KEYS. LIVERPOI )L-DEC. 21. At to-lay's market a motleratc business was transacted for who.4,ADA fi i of the_ hest qualities ; infaricrr deserip tions altogether unma.nag,eiWT Egyptian beans improved . 6d per qr., and other article:4 unchanged in value. The im ports and exports of grain and flour since Tuesday last are alike small. The weather has been. favourable for the agri culturist. _Latest Returns of Britfoh.wheat : 108,311 quarters, at .. ,41s Od Corresponding week 1857 100,416 quarters, at .. Corresponding week 1856 : 107,808 quarters, at 49s 5d "60s ld LEEDS-DEC. 21. At the market this morning there was a moderate sup ply of wheat, for which the demand was steady at fully the late rates. In ordinary and inferior samples scarcely anything doing. Most other articles maintained former rates, there being an active demand. Averages for the week : Wheat . 3,103 qrs., sit 4ls li Barley. ...... . . 2,3,54 „ ...33s 21d. 0at5.......... 101 „ D. ..... .23s llid Rye ---• ), —s Od Beans lOO „ ........43s Oid Peas .. 10 „ 4os Od Arrivals this week : .2,466 qrs. Wheat . Oats Barley Beans Rapeseed Linseed 2OO SHEFFIEL ,D--DEC. 21. The market to-day continues much the same as last week, with a small supply, at the following prices : Wheat lss to 168 Oats.. 2os to 32s White do l6s to 20s Beans, new —s to 42s Barley 27s to 31s Ditto, old .35s to 398 _ Millers' prices for flour—ls sd, is 7d, and is 9d per 141 b. - Hay, 80s to 85s ; wheat str to 34s ; turnips, Ms to 20s pei Lw, 27.8 to 34s ; oat straw, 28s ton. SUNDERLA: STO-1/Ec. 18. attended, but in the trans turn in - value favoured the To-day's market was well actions which occurred the buyer. _ _ Wheat 368 to 42s White .415 to 44s Barley .278 to 305 Flour, 295 to 30: Oats.... 2os to 240 Beans ....... 4os to 44s Peas ...—s to —s Od per sack. RICHMOND-DEC. 18. There has been a good supply of grain at market to-day, and to effect sales a slight reduction had to be submitted to. White wheat, 5s Od to 5s 9d per bushel; red, 4s 34 to 6s 6d ; barley, 30s to 34s per qr. ; oats, 18s to 225. ROCHDALE—DEc. 20. There was a moderate supply, and generally a steady market for wheat, but the prices remained without much change. Barley and beans is cheaper. In the provision market there was a small show of potatoes, and the trade was brisk, with lower prices at the close. Flukes, 9s to 108 ; radicals, 8s 6d ;- Wellingtons, Se per 2521 b. COLCHESTER—DEC. 18. At this day's market there was rather a less supply of wheat, and sales were effected at the quotations of this day se'nnight—in some instances is per qr dearer. Barley of fine quality continues scarce. Wheat, white 42s to 503 I Beans, Mazagan..3sB to 3 80 red 36s to 46s Middle & small 40s to 444 Barley 3os to 443 I White peas 423 to 44 s Oats 23s to 30s Grey.. 40s to 42s GLASGOW—DEC. 20. The market continues quiet, but prices are about sup ported in the few transactions recorded this week. BELFAST—Dm. 20. With a fair supply of wheat from the growers, the trade was steady, at about the rates of last week. CORK—DES. 20. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 17s 6d to 20s; white, 198 0d to 22s 3d; barley 10; Od to 128 Od; oats, lOs 6d to 12s 6d. NORWICH CATTLE—DEC. 18. There was a good show of store beasts to-day, consisting of Scots, shorthorns, Irish, and Devons. Sales were very fair. The selling price for Scots was 4s to 4s 6d ; short horns, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; Irish, 3s to 3s 6d per stone of 141b$. estimated weight when fat. Fat beasts firm at 8s Od to 8s 6d per stone. Sheep—Fat sheep, 8s to 8s 6d, prime lots 980(1 per stone. Pigs—Good store pigs, 15s to 20s per head. Tat pork, 5s 6d to 6s, prime 6s 6d per stone. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTEP.DAY. ' Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 17/ 11 171 Antwerp Brussels — 25 30 2.5 35 Hamburgh - 13 7k Paris Short. 25 10 25 15 Ditto Marseilles — 25 32} 2.5 37 Frankfort on Maine — 1181 119 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh —• 35 361 M a d r id — 44 49 C a di z — 49 49 Leghorn — 29 60 29 65 Genoa — 25 40 26 50 Naples Palermo — 121.1 ; 122 Messina — 122 122 Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York E.I. CO"s bls. House Ms. 6 01 Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 2. Bombay ditto -26 26 i 233 Madras ditto — 2 East. India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to the Bth inst. Bengal ..... .....t1,201 5 0 Madras 0 0 0 Bombay £1,201 5 0 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per oz. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 00 0 LOCAL SHARE MARKET'S'. LIVERPOOL—DEC. 21. The market was quiet at the opening, and was stencil throughout the day, closing not quite at the best :- North British, 68 59—York and North Midland, 764 n-- Eastern Counties, 12 1-16 I—Midland, 102 1 - 4 Chester an d Holyheads, 44 I—Caledonians, 88 88i—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 99—London and North-Westerns, 96 Ir . ' East Lancashire, 96 7—Dutch Rhenish, 3 9-16 dis.-- Grand Trunk of Canada, 91 3-16—Great Western, 55 - Leeds Northern, 484Doviers, 22 9-16-13erwickti, 945 Gneat Westertof can*, z 161—B1ackburus, 11 Birkenheads, 67 67f. Dens—Die. 21. There was little business, and prices were rather better. Norili Wisiern; 131—Craven Moor Pref., Ifs. 3d. MANCHESTER-L---IJEC. 21. The market was inactiVt A heavy and general busine o6 being reportdd,i and .prices closed rather easier. Doverft 22i—Sheffields, 39)„—Ditto 31 inx., Cents., 691 n—Midlanch `lo2l—lsrorth - StiiffOrd, 4'd.--"Eagt Laficaihire new 4} Cents. 'l-16 pm,47-Grand Trunks,, 91 7 -Blnekl;urnri, No„,,h,,vesorns, „,. is r ißizi*NGllANt—Drx. The transactions in shares to-day. wareAhnited —Sow' iStaffords, 101 to IOU —Birmingham and Stour Valleys, 8-- 3lidland„ 102—Birmingham Canals 95 96--Stourbridge Canals, 325. Some of the journals have stated that a few dal e ago, as a gentleman of the Paris press was engaged tu writing, he - all at once sank clown, and that his intellect u facultiesjiisappeared I The gentleman in tjuestion was . i l4 * 1 , Remit, of the Journal des Debate: His state at WI moment is very dUngerous, but it is hoped he may avo w Wally recover. • BIRTHS. BUXTON.--On the 20th inst., at 7, Grosvenor-ereseen t t Belgrave-square, the wife of Charles Buxton, Esq•l M.P.., of a daughter. DIGBY.—On the 20th inst., at Belgrave-square, Lao Digby, of a son. RAWLINGS.—On the 19th inst., at 12, Russell-place, Fi,t ° ,: roy-square, the wife of John W. Rawlings, Esq., L 3 daughter. . ROBERTS.—On the 18th inst., at Hampton Court, the wi fe of Charles Roberts, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. .140 HAVELOCK—CREAK.--On the On the 16th inst., at the church, Stoke Dameril, Devon, Joshua, second son of tb o i late Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, Lucknow, Lieut.. 6th Bombay N. 1., to Isabella LOU': second daughter of the late William Creak, Esq., Con e mender R.N. SllULTZ—Buntor.—On the 20th inst., at St. Pane. Church, Martin Shultz, Esq., of New York, Atn 6eo, to Anne, widow of the late Sir R. H. Bishop. DEATHS. BURDETT.—On the 17th inst., William Jones, s econd . °l3 of the late W. J. Burdett, Esq., of Copt-hall, Twicices ham, Middlesex, and Stowey House, Somersetshire' 44. DOUGLAS.--On the 17th inst., at Queen's-town Lo g ' Southsea, Vice-Admiral P. J. Douglas, aged 71. is GlBsoN.—On the 19th inst., at Saffron Walden, Fr 6l/c Gibson, Esq., aged 53. an d GORTON.—On the 19th inst. , at Addiscombe, Croydon' 6 3, of Wharf-road, City-road, Wm. Gorton, Esq., age"' e a, HEWITT.—At her residence, 3, Dover-place, Kent .ro t ue Angel, widow of Henry Thomas Hewitt, Esq., late of Stock Exchange. Ca' MACLBAY.—Onthe 19th inst., at 51, Welbeck-street' of vendish-square, Jane, wife of Major Kenneth Maclnal, Keiss, Caithness-shire, N.B. WILLIAMS.—On the 20th inst., at Stamford-hill , Jo b Williams, Esq., of Jewry-street, Aldgate, aged 87. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO yOtTl4O, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 c f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the eoulati Middlesex, Wednesday, tecenibir 22;1858.- OPE eren, on i vE V e,lock , L'rtvi .s Fifth 'with t Urnbei The dat 1) 71 14rket i LEC7 L n terees vio/ 46 . D it . nOpi n 4uthor IT° o 1 Prey I td Sot tae ttn~ fli vi 4-1 1 4 t 411 11117. 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