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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Wvinc 19, - _ COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prins in Middlesex—Before Lord Chief Justice Coc‘Aburn and a special jury.) RICE V. G RA.HA.NI........EXTRA.ORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAVIT AGAINgT A COLONEL. The plaintiff in this case was a lodging-house keeper, and. some time ago he let apartments in the h o use, 3, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, to the defendant, Lieutenant-Colonel Graham. The action was to recover damages for an assault, and for injury done to some furniture in the apart- Inuits. Mr. O'Malley, Q.C. and Mr. Russell, appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and _ . POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 18. Mr. Quain for the defendant. Mr. Richard Rice said—l am the plaintiff, and I get my living by going out waiting and by keeping a lodging-house. In the. latter part of last year Colonel Graham had my principal apartments, at 4/ 15s a week, including attendance. On New Year's Day last I put a dish of apples on the table —the apples belonging to Colonel Graham — and I pointed out that one was rotten. The colonel said, "Take it away, " and I did so. He said rather angrily, t, Why d o you put r otten apples on the table"?'and asked me where _e I kept them, and I said, "In t he sideboard." H. ll said, " Why do you keep the m where they rot I said, in a proper tone and man h ner e , e l a they would probably rot the same atnyewweerrda.Hsee. Be said, " What 1" and i repeated 'h e Go out of the then got up, came to m e, an sad, d a di will, l sir, as ro om, you scoundrel." soon a s h a ve got my things. He Instant y caught hold of me to put me out of the room. I said, "I don't go out like this." Colonel Graham has lost part of his right arm, but has on the end of the artificial arm an iron stump. He struck me twice in the face. The lamp was upset and put out, and w e got on the floor. I let him get up, and he struck me once while lying on his back, and again when he got up. We still scuffled. He took hold of my right hand and put it in his mouth, and held it there for more than a minute. I thought he would bite my finger off. Whilst my hand was in his mouth he struck at me, and bit the door, on which there are seven distinct marks made by the iron stump. The butler's tray was upset, and knives were lying about the floor. I thought that a man who would bite might do worse, and I called for the police. Two policeman came. I then had hold of the colonel, who was lying on his face on the floor. I after wards went into the room again, in consequence of the oil having been upset, and the things lying about. He came at me in a menacing way, and said, "Get out of the room, you scoundrel," and I went. I had two black eyes for more than a month, and had a bruise on my forehead. The damage to the furniture was 3/. 17s. 6d., and oil was also upset on the carpet, and glass broken. Compensation was applied for next day, and pro ceedings threatened, and the answer was a letter from the colonel's attorneys, saying they would appear to process. The witness was cross-examined, but his first statement was not materially altered. Mrs. Emma Rice—l am the plaintiff's wife. I was at home when the affair occurred. I got home at half-past five. My husband was stand ing at the door. His face was much bruised, and there was blood over his face, shirt, and trousers. Colonel Graham was gone out. He came home at about half-past nine. He was very quiet when I went into the room .There were no marks of violence on him. The next morning the colonel said he would leave, and I said he must give a week's notice. He said he had done it, and would go to-morrow. I asked for compensation for the broken furniture, and he said he would not pay a farthing. Henry Elliker—l am an upholsterer. I went to the plaintiff's house on New Year's Day, at a quar ter to eight. Mr. Rice was at the door with the policeman. There was much blood on him. One of his eyes was much swollen. I saw the colonel next day; there were no marks on him. The damage to the furniture was 31. 17s. 6d. There were seven marks on the door of the colonel's room made by some blunt instrument, a quarter of an inch deep. George Thorpe, a police constable, said—When I went into the room the colonel was on the floor, and the plaintiff was holding him, apparently to prevent his striking him. They then got up. The plaintiff had bruises on the face, and his finger was bitten and the flesh torn. There was a good deal of blood. The plaintiff was so exhausted that he could not speak for some time. There were no marks of violence on the colonel. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine addressed the jury for the defendant, and then produced the following evidence. Col. Graham said—l am a major in her Majesty's 19th Foot, and a breve' c lone!. I lost my right arm in the Crimea, where I was aide-de-camp to General Eyre. I took tlie apartments of the plain tiff in November last. On the evening of the Ist of January I was dining by myself, and after dinner turned to the fire to read, when Rice put the apples on the table, and said some or one was rotten, and I said. "Take them away." I asked, " Where do you keep them ?" and when he told me said, " Why the deuce do you keep them there; it is too hot.' He said in an insolent tone, " I do not make the apples bad." I said, "Leave the room ; you are insolent." I told him to leave more than once. He said, "I will not leave ; it is my room." I said he was an impertinent scoundrel. I put nay hand on his shoulder to remove him. He seized me round the throat with greatforce with one hand, at the same time catching me round the body with his other arm, pinning my arms down. We then struggled some little time, and iu the struggle the tablecloth was, pulled off, causing the lamp and other things to be thrown down. It ended in my being thrown down. I was undermost. He had his hand on my throat aud held so tightly that I th oug h t I s h ou ld b e en tirely throttled. I tried to get my left hand loose. I succeeded, and struck at his face as he was beset-- jug over me. This made him draw back a little, and I succeeded in getting on my legs. He regained hold of my throat, and forced me into a corner. He had hold of my throat with his right hand, and kept his other arm round my waist, pinning my arms to my side. Being nearly throttled, the only way I could make him leave hold was by biting his finger, which I did severely. This made him loose his hold, and I got my left arm and the stump of the right arm free. I contrived to get him by the back of the head, and it was then I struck him with the stump. I confess at this time I tried to do him all the harm I could. The stump is a leather stump, and there is a socket into which a hook may be fitted. The socket did the harm. (It was a socket projecting some distance from the stump.) The struggle continued fer some short time, o• he tailing out all the ti me " po li ce. " I t en d e d by his throw-1 bog me down again, and grasping my throat ' nearly throttling me. It i s not true that I put f his finger got into my mouth and bit i t . I holdo it with my ' mouth whilst he had h o ld of my throat. The Lord Chief Justi ce —l do not kn t. o w how you could bite the hand with ou t carrying it to your mouth. Witness—lt is difficult to explain, but I should not bite any man unless obliged. I did not carry the hand to my mouth. I bit him to make him re lease my throat. I got several bruises on my head, but I bathed the place to prevent there being any mark. The chief injury was on my throat from being nearly throttled. Cross-examined —I was very much excited, but 1 can say I did not put his finger into my mouth. I bit him to make him release my throat. I was excited when I called him " an impertinent scoun drel," but I only put my hand on him in a very quiet way. I had told him once or twice be fore to leave the room. I had got his head "in Chancery " when I pummelled him with the stump. Re-examined—l cannot tell exactly how I got his finger in my mouth. I had before felt a throt tling sensation. To the jury—When I called him "an imperti nent scoundrel." I told him to leave the room, and put my hand on his shoulder. He then seized me by the throat, and then I struck him. The man bad twice before refused in the most insolent man ner to leave the room before I put my hand on his shoulder. The Lerd Chief Justice directed the jury that it was admitted that the defendant had committed the first act; tuft by putting his hand on the plaintiff's shoulder, but the important question was whether the defendant was justified in what he had done. If the defendant had ordered the p'aintiff to quit the room and he had positively refused to do so, he became a trespasser, and the defendant was en titled to use necessary violence to remove him. The Plaintiff admitting however, t on the record, said that even unneces sary viole be tru e , th e d e f en d an t h a d use d i The jury found-nce; verdict for the plaintiff— damages, 251. MANSION-HOtSE.---John Francis Grossmith, .icensed victualler, the Three Tuns, Jewry-street, Aldgate, appeared in discharge of his recognisances, for further examination on a charge of having vio lently assaulted the Rev. E. J. May, head master of the Brewers' Company's School, Trinity-square, Tower-hill. Mr. T. Atkinson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh for the defendant. On the previous occasion Mr. May was too ill to attend, owing to the injuries he had received, and the evidence taken was confined to medical testi money regarding the nature and extent of those in juries. Mr. Atkinson, in opening the case, now said that the form into which the charge would ultimately solve itself might be either that of a felony, or a misdemeanour under Lo rd Campbell's act accord ing to the character of the evidence which he should bring forward ; but the assault of which the Rev. Mr. May complained was one of the most savage attacks it was possible for the malice of man to conceive or for his revenge to execute. The learned gentleman then stated the character of the assault, and called The Rev. E. J. May, who said, I am head mas ter of the Brewer's School, Trinity-square, and live there. I remember Monday, the 7th of June. About twenty minutes to twelve at night some one knocked at my door. lam a bachelor, and have a housekeeper in my house ; that is all. At the time of the knocking at the door she was in bed, the house being all locked up and the key taken up stairs, and I was on my way to bed when I heard the knocking. I called out " Who is there ?" and a voice said, " I want to see the Rev. Mr. May immediately." I went to the door, and without opening it answered, " You cannot see the Rev. Mr. May now. He is going to bed, and you must come in the daytime." The voice again replied, " I want to see the Rev. Mr. May very partied larly." After some little further parleying I fetched the key and opened the door, which appeared to be pushed from the outside, as it flew open suddenly. The defendant immediately rushed past me, and went into a room at the end of a passage. I did not say anything to him as he passed me, but fol lowed to see what he wanted. When I entered the room he got between me and the door, and said to me, " You caned my boy some months ago. He is ill now, but I am a man as well as you are ;" and so saying he showed me in a rather significant manner a stick in his hand. The stick now pro duced is the stick, which he left behind him. (The stick referred to was a knotty walking-stick, rather heavy, and about an inch in diameter at the butt-end, and tapering to half that thickness at the bottom. I wished to get rid of Mr. Grossmith, and replied to him, " It is too late to enter into such particulars to-night, If you wish to say anything about it come in the day-time, and I shall be happy to hear what you have to say. It is past 12 o'clock, and I was actu ally going up to bed." Mr. Grossmith replied, raising his stick to his shoulder in a threatening manner, " D— you ; suppose I take it out of you." I believe I said, but I am not sure, "I would ad vise you not." I made to go to the street door, with the intention of getting a policeman's aid, say ing, as I passed him, "Mr. Grossmith, I must re quest you to leave my house." As soon as I said that Mr. Grossmith exclaimed, "D— you, you brute, I'll murder you," at the same time stt ik ing me ou the head wi.h the stick. The first blow knocked the candlestick out of my hand and extin guished the light, and he repeated the blow several times on my head with the stick, exclaiming, "I'd murder you—l'll do for you." I felt tnat my saftest plan was to keep within range of his stick, and I hit at his face right and left, as well as I could in the dark, and at last wrenched the stick out of his hand. I heard some water run down the well from the flower-pots which had been upset, and thought it was blood running from my head, which was bleeding very mucb. I believed that I was dying, and with all the strength I could muster I struck a downseght blow at him with the stick, and he want down on the ground. He immediately caught hold of my feet and jerked them forward, throwing me on my back on the staircase. He then sprang upon me, kneeling on my chest, and with his left hand seized my throat, continuing to hit me with his right hand. I called for help as loud as I could, crying, " Mason, Mason, Police, Police" (Mason being my housekeeper). When I raised the cry for the police defendant ex claimed, "D— you, I'll stop your cries. I'll mut der you before any help can come to you. I came on purpose to murder you, and I'll do it." We con tinued to struggle together, I with my left hand endeavouring to wrest his hand from my throat, and in the struggle we got near the street door, the struggle having cominued at least ten minutes before we did so. I immediately made a plunge forward at the lock, knowing exactly where to find it, and opened the door. Be, at the same moment, I relaxed his hold on my throat, and struck me a blow on the chest with his right hand, which sent me reeling the whole length of the passage. He then ran off saying, " You d— rascal, I'll murder you yet." He left his hat and stick behind him. I went immediately to the station-house in Seeth ing-lane, and from thence with some officers to Mr. Grossmith's house, but we did not see him there. I then went back to the station-house, and from thence to Mr. Moore's, the surgeon, to have my wounds dressed. Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—l have been head master of the school about six years. I was sum moned to this court upon a charge of assaulting Mr. Grussmith's little boy, and upon that charge the Lord Mayor held me to bail to take my trial, but the bill was ignored by the grand jury. I have also, and since that time, been summoned on another occasion on a charge of excessively beating the son of the Rev. Mr. Roberts, who was a pupil in the school, and who has since been removed from the school. That summons was withdrawn, and the charge, the of re, was not publicly investigated. On the night when Mr. Grossmith came to me he did not tell me his name befcre I opened the door. If he had, I should not have opened the door. When I opened the door, I do not recollect his saying, 3 7 n child "My poor child is dying," but only that have n was 111. I to car d r i y d himn not ohesatraihrs to bedimsay, ‘t‘ol_ nieht, as he is to o ill to walk." P When lie got in he did not endeavo ur to child. By Mr. Atkinson—The son of the Rev. Mr. Roberts has been dismissed from my school for bad behaviour and for cruelty to the other boys. By Mr. Sleigh—The boy Roberta was dismissed after the summons was taken out, but he had been sent home once before, when he was brought back by his mother. Mr. F. G. Moore, surgeon, deposed that on the night of the assault he found some wounds on the head of Mr. May, one of which divided the scalp, but without injuring the bone, and also some wounds on the arms. The wounds were not of a dangerous character ; but they rendered Mr. May unfi; to attend his duty, as it was necessary for him to have perfect quiet. Witness had been attending Mr. May up to the present time. After some corroborative evidence as to the state of Mr. May after the assault, Mr. Atkinson said his case was concluded. Mr. May was then recalled at the desire of Mr. Sleigh, and in reply to questions put by the learned gentleman t 'trough the Lord Mayor said cannot tell whether Mr. Grossmith, when h. left my house, was bleeding likewise. On the oc casion wh en I was summoned her e f or assaulting his son, Mr. Grosstnith offered to forego all pro ceedings a ga i nst me i f I would pay a sum of money to the poor-box, but I declined to do so. Mr. Sleigh sail h had acted in th e same he only wished that Mr. May that occasion, now that had animated the defendant on'atht he (Mr. Sleigh) occasion, and he hoped that should not now appeal to his Christian feeli ng i n vain. It would have been better, under all the circumstances, if the case had not been brought t o th at court there, he hoped it w ou ld b e d. at all ; but being isposed of in a sum mary manner. He had been compelled to ask Mr. May about tke matter which gave un fortunate case, as it was in consequence of the weak and suffering state of hi s poor child, a deli cite boy, who had been getting gradually worse since that time, and whose days perhaps wer e numbered, that Mr. Grossmith sought Mr May for explanation. He did not mean te say that the clidd's condition had been produced entirely by the vio!ence of Mr. May, but ho would say that the defendant was honestly under the impression and belief that his child's days had been shortened by the severity of the punishment that had been inflict d upon him ; and, knowing this fact, it was with the greatest surprise that he had heard his learned friend (Mr. Atkinson) characterise the assault as one of the most malicious and unpro voked attacks that the wind of man could con ceive. Tha- there had been assault in point of [ADVERTISEMENT.I—rw Iow - law he could not deny, but:it was plain the defen hazard in say log that the popu a i Y a : B it Pi ll4 .—Thera is no dant acted from the impulse of an injured man, to remedies in this cluntry ti wi Y_ of , Professor Hollo- whom explanation had been refused, after his ten way'sirtens in whist) sick persona Prufetshsiount:hPara".d. Tne Merest feelings had been outraged. He a-ke the to death have recovered under the „eratyiocnondemned Lord Mayor to deal with the matfer summarily, tiracle•working pills, are so nuineroui and the , e and though he did not ask the rev. prosecutor, in authenticated, that the most stubborn so we!l the language of that gospel whose doctrines he silenced. Hosts of sufferers from indige,tion incredu lity is preached, to offer 0116 cheek when the other bad liver coin plaints, nervous debility , disorders of the bowe,,, ersi _ been smitt en , or because his brother had offended deptic fits, and other diseases, have been cured by thi s against him seven times, to forgive him seventy unapproachable medicine when every other means had times seven—he did appeal to him to show that he ffsijed. The press teems with the testimonials of the I was a Christian minister, i 1 not only in profession but :p art:es, and while we wonder we are compell e d to be - also in practice and .li•ve.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the obstacl e i n the way spirit, by not throwing any world, and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, matter by a ay of a summary settlement of the pecuniary fine. Strand, London. Mr. Atkinson in reply, said it was a very painful T - L 0 M D - 0 rk}-, STTN, duty which he had to perform, for he felt as much as Mr, Sleigh for the position in which the defendant had placed himself, but it must not go forth into the world that a man might at midnight go to a house armed with such a stick as that which had been produced, to demand explanations, and com mit a most murderous assault , if , a t that unreason able, hour, explanations were ref used. As to the I evidence, it was of' the most daninatory character, 1 and it was idle to talk of offering an apology after such an assault. Taking all the circumstances into account, it was for the Lord Mayor to decide whe ther the case did not come under the law which made an assault a felony. It was perfectly clear that the defendant went forthe purpose of commit ting an assault, and not for explanation, and in his (Mr. Atkinson's) opinion, the case came within Peel's Act, as it was called, so as to leave the Court no choice in the matter, but to commit the defen dant for trial for felony. The Lord Mayor—The evidence having been gone into, the case is quite out of the hands of Mr. May, and to my mind the evidence is quite conclu sive as to the nature of the assault, so that I can only commit the defendant to take his trial for felony. Defendant, who left himself in the hands of his le2al adviser, was committed accordingly, but was admitted to bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties in 1001. each. THE TRIALS OF SIR H. MEUX AND LADY DINORBEN. (Prom, the Times.) If a great scandal would burst and die we might pass to windward and go on our way in silence. But it is not the custom of such things to come stillborn. They walk the town, they offend our decent instincts, they give occasion to the populace to say to one another, " See that mean dirty thing. It has escaped from a great house. All great houses have familiars such as this, but they are kept close ri.t home." Nothing can be more natural, but no thing can be more unjust. When the private life of some rich or noble house is revealed it is because some unusual circumstance has disturbed its ordi nary tenor. The curtain always rises, not upon a calm domestic scene, where every member of the family is most unostentatiously employed in the duties, the pleasures, and the affections of home ; but there are 12 sworn jurors of puzzled aspect, a judge much lamenting that he is obliged to play the part of moderator in the great strife of conflict ing scandals, witnesses who have ransacked their memories to produce every little dark-coloured fact, and a long array of lawyers, applying the micro scope of their venal rhetoric to every small word or act, or scrap of writing. With these helps a small matter may be worked up into a large scandal. Moreover, the public does not always trouble itself to distinguish between the fringes and skirtings and the solid broadcloth. There are men and women who figure in " high life" for the first and last time in the report of a divorce case. It is not more just to estimate the morals of our higher classes by the proceedings in the House of Lords or the Court of Chancery than it would be to judge of our middle classes by the reports of the Bankruptcy Courts, or of our lower classes by the revelations of the police • offices. The past week saw the termination of two of those uncomfortable cases which unfortunately do not expend all their discredit upon those immediately concerned in them. No one, we presume, would care to become the historian of the house of Meux, and it is fortunately unnecessary to go further back in point of date than the year 1841, when the pre sent Sir Henry Meux, having passed through Eton and Christchurch, and being strong in body, if not in mind, succeeded to the Hertfordshire estate and to the enormous profits of the brewery. How he spent this income it is useless now to inquire. He has three sisters, Lady Malden, Mrs. Arahin, and Lady Smijth. Lady Malden previous to her marriage had kept his house for him, and to her he had obli gations which he seems to have most generously dis charged. In 1855 this rich and prosperous man married a daughter of Lord Ernest Bruce, and a son was born to him. He was therefore at what men call the height of his prosperity, when the shadow of a terrible doom stole over him. Before his son was born he made a will, leaving his real property to any eldest son, and 20,0001. each to any other children he might have. His wife took a life interest in the remainder, but Lis sisters were not mentioned. The law, however, would remedy this omission in case the infant son of Sir Henry should die. Sir Henry's sisters would then take as coheiresses on the termination of Lady Meux's life interest. In July, 1857, Sir Henry made a codicil to this will, and thereby left his property to his children, but, if there should be no children, then to his wife absolutely. Between tha will and codicil, therefore, there is no practical difference if the infant, Henry Bruce Meux, should grow up to manhood. But there is a chance that this chill may die, and if that should happen the property would, under the terms of the will, go t ) the sisters after the death of Lady Meux, and would go to the widow absolutely under the terms of the codicil. Sir Henry Meux has become an idiot. About that there is no question. No one is interested in ques tioning it. The whole inquiry is a tight over the anticipated or imagined grave of the infant boy. The object of the sisters is to prove that their bro ther was mad on the 3d of July, 1857 ; if it can be established that he was sane up to the 4th of July it is sufficient to answer the purposes of the wife. It is an edifying contest, and the proceedings pre servo a consistent relation to their object. It was proved that before theclose of 1856 Sir Henry shot badly, and in some Cambridgeshire cover-shooting shot General Hall in the leg. Lord Charles Clinton remarked that 'it Henry had an impediment in his speech, but was not drunk. The Hon. Charles Butler found a difficulty in understanding what he said. Sir Henry told a Mr. Blagg that certain voters would vote for him who he (.Ir. Blagg) knew would not do so. Mr. Marjoribanks remarked that he walked badly. Lord Ra,nelagh recom mended him to give up Hertfordshire and stand for Middlesex, for the same reason, it is to be sup posed, as that given for Hamlet's being sent to England. Moreover, when he canvassed he left to his professional agents the work of persuasion, and limited his own form of salutation to " Will you vote for me ? lam the senior member." The sisters three, moreover, in their anxiety for trutb, or in industrious prosecution of their case, ranged the menials of the household in their ranks. Sir Henry had intimated a belief that his butler was a liar, and had scrutinised the weekly bills of his French cook. The doctors, as usual, differed—they differed in contraries and in contradictories, they differed categ rrically and hypothetically, they dif fered subjectively and objectively, they differed in diagnosis and in treatment. Weighing their evi dence in a pair of scales, the overweight seems to be the opinion of Sir Benjamin Brodie—namely, that he did not think Sir Henry's judgment upon the qualification of an attorney worth much. We could Lind 50 attorneys to say as tench for Sir Benjamin Brodie. Far be it from us to say that Sir Henry was not quite mad when he shot badly, and walked badly, and talked badly, and canvassed badly, and doubted the veracity of his butler and profanely questioned the accounts of his French cook. There certainly wore some other facts which would carry the case rather further. But, if we must admit that each of the imputed acts of commission and omis sion is an important item in an indictment against a man's sanity, we must also tremble to think of the mental c rntlition of many „Treople we have been associating with for years. After a nine days' wrangle, at a c:st of some 6001. or 7001. a day, over the broken intelltet of this poor lunatic, the jury came to the very sensible verdict that they could not tell when his insanity assumed an aspect which rendered him incapable of testamentary disposition. They were right. As we approach and pass the sol stice we can can detect a change of temperature ; but who can tell by his own mere organs of sense at what moment he is passing the line ? The jury seem to have felt that the inquiry, so far as it was a contest . , was unnecessary. Their de cision as to the validity of this codicil would have been binding on no one. It was only an un seemly scramble for a better place in a future fight —a fight only to come off in case of the untimely death of the baby. Throughout this melancholy exhibition the palm of unblushing coolness must be awarded to Mr. Montagu Chambers. .During a contest wherein every champion bore as his motto " Aurc sacra fames," this philaophical and ethical ornament of the Bar and the Legislature read a serious lecture to Lady Meux upon the evils of too great riches, the disadvantages of wealth, to a widow sought in marriage by an ardent lover, and the danger of exci.ing the loquacity of an evil nieak;ng world which might accrue from the fact of a mother having a pecuniary interest in the death of her off4pring. The delicacy and good taste of ca, ce s N i rli, ll , c er a a e t e c ' s 1 ? () shall we t e p : i o or s a 4t h y io i ,,f stoh (le utiami net this app ea l, un d er the peculiar circumstances of the h g o l f i ly t the other ' cause celebre of o tl f ia t t he it n re e T e i n ts cy 7 o to r to the earlier h is• oristtes of the C turf . of good King Charles 11. It mty be stated in very few words. A dowager lady of rank occupies her leisure in writing scandalous anonymous letters of, to; and about her nephew, and when he expostulstes sends her brother, a fighting Colonel, who has already "had the misfortune" t kill his man, to demand satisfaction ; which we must suppose means to shoot the nephew through the body, or at least to break an arm or leg. This new phase of nepotism was submitted to the double lights of the police court and the Court of Queen's Bench. The un happy nephew, to avoid fighting the brother of his uncle's wife, was compelled to come into court and • • ti f ft 'ONDA v iNG ) erpe'ug ...le had lived for six he turned the poi`' ...lower of filth. Wherever t e e llh s —man met him with a letter, and this letter 0 — ways contained precisely thelmost dis of persecution. 17 ya r agreeaV thing that could be suggested to him at isunsadder tale a lc p that particular moment. There is a French farce wherein the heroine is persecuted nearly to death for repeating a little scandal. Having inadvertently said that a gentleman's wife had been unfaithful to him, the husband makes her responsible for the name of his rival. By every post, in every society, wherever she may be, she receives a letter with the unvarying inquiry, "Madame, s'il vows plait—son nom." She found the persecution insufferable. So Mr. Hughes, when he was about to be married, found himself assailed by imputations that he was insolvent, illegitimate, eaten up with the king's evil, and subject to hereditary madness. When he does get married he cannot receive his mother into his own house but the postman arrives at his mother in-law's door with a protest. Even his housekeeper is not allowed to pursue her course in peace, and the butler is shot through the character by an epis tolary revolver. Now, a man may know himself to be very solvent and very healthy, and may find the society of his mother a solace, and may know his servants to be honest, but still get impatient of a pertinacious correspondence such as this. He may be innocent of band boxes, and of those who carry them, and yet not like to be called " Bar dbox Hughes." But if the offence had terminated here we need not have had a public esclandre. A private exposure wou!d have been sufficient; society would have punished this Candia, who draws her poi.ons from the inkpot. An old woman's spite and malig nity are not thought worthy of much notice, unless t hey could succeed in effecting mischief; and in this case there was no special damage, as the lawyers call it. But when these letters are followed up by the visit of a fighting colouel and by public denial upon oath of the authorship of the letters, we seem to see a shameful act deepening in colour to a crime. We are startled to find a woman of rank coming into a cunt of justice, and solemnly, in the face of the world, committing what the jury found to be perjury; but we have no right to be surprised that a woman who could write the letters produced upon this trial should try to shield herself from the dis grace of detection even by such awful means. The jury have declared that the scandalous anonymous letters which so persecuted poor Mr. Hughes were written by Lady Dinorben, and this after she had appeared in the witness-box and had on her oath repudiated them. The Judge's summing up and the evidence in the case seem fully to bear out the verdict. By a retributive piece of poetical justice, the wickedest and most unwomanly words which the letters contained were written in the natural handwriting of the writer. We began by deprecating that habit of unjust generalisation which imputes to a whole class the irregularities of a few unworthy members, but we have no mercy for persons in the enjoyment of dis tinctive titles and a certain social rank who commit offences against good taste and proper delicacy of feeling, still less when they commit crimes. Their temptations are less and their education is better, and their example is more pern cious, than when the offenders are from the common ranks. They are also more amenable to the voice of society than to the whip of the law, and they must submit to point a moral though they do not adorn a tale. SEDUCTION OF ENGLISH GIRLS IN PARIS. A case of a very painful nature, but of consider able interest, was yesterday submitted to the Tri bunal of Correctional Police. A woman named Mesmeurice, 48 years of age, and who stated that she lived on her property, was tried on the chirge of what the French law calls " outraging mot ality, and exciting girls under age to debauchery." A police-officer said that in the morning of the 11th of May last, as he was on duty in the Rua de la Pompe, at Pas y, he heard cries of " Help," " Murder," in a house, and on entering he found in a splendidly furni-hed apartment on the ground floor a young Englishwoman, remarkably hand some, who complained that the mistress of the place had been beating her. He took both the women before the commissary of police, and that functionary, after hearing what they had to say, had the elder taken into oust° ly. Toe President, addrassing , the prisoner, said, "You are accused of exciting to debauchery ?" "It is not true, sir." " Listen to me—you are aecu ed of having frequently received young girls from Eng'and, of letting furnished apartments to them, and of giving them up to men." "My ad voiate will explain, sir—l am so troubled." An swer my question. You occupied larger apart ments than your fortune or style of living justified —you let part of them to young girls, who " No, sir, Ido not let lodgings." "You did, and I can tell you the names of some of your lodgers— Charlotte, Fernand; Melly, and Sarah. Amongst the girls was one of 1G or 17 years of age, Char lotte B.Althaz ir by name, who will be called as a witness, and this girl you introduced to a very wealthy man, a Russian princee it is s rid—he pay ing you liberally ?" "It is true that a Russian prince sometimes came to the hi. butit was not I who made him known to Charlotte—they knew each other before." " You are accused of having brought this girl from England to speculate on her beauty." " I did not go there to seek her—she came to me." "Did you not go frequently t) England?" " I did, but it was on business.' " What business ?" "To seek money due tome." " Due by whom !" " Sir, it was an old friend who made me an allowance." " It is easy enough to get over money from England, and you need not go there to s-ek it." " I have:nothing to do, and I like travelling." " Aed you knew how to make your travelling profitable. We are told that Char lotte Balthazar received large sums from the Rus sian prince—on one occasion as much as 4,000 f." That is true, sir ; the foreigner gave a good deal of money t Md•lle. Charlotte, but I had nothing to do with their conventions. When she came to me she said she was an Irishwoman who bad come from England, awl that she was in distress." " Call the girl," said the President ; " she shall tell her own story." The girl then stepped forward. She is remarkably handsome, with a brilliant com plexion and black hair, tall and graceful. " What is your name ?" asked the President. " Maria Theresa Balthazar," said the girl. " Your name is not Charlotte ?" " No, sir, that is a name which Marline. Mesmeurice gave me." " What is your age ?" " Seventeen." " What is your occupation?" " I have none." " Tell us what you have to say, but take care to state nothing but the truth." "I was in England, where I lived with a cabinet maker." " You had then no parents ?" " I had left them. In England a girl can quit her parents at 14 years of age." " She does wrong to do so, especially when she does it for the purpose of tak ing to evil courses —but continue." " I knew at London a dressmaker, who often asked me why I did not go to Paris, where I should be very happy. t always answered, No, no, 1 will remain iu Eng laud.' One day, however, she introduced me to Mme. Mesmeurice, who had gone to London to seek for girls ; and Mme. Mesmeurice said that if I would ace enpany her to Perie she would, as I was so beautiful find me a prince who would throw him self at my feet, that she would make me marry a prince." (The girl spoke French with great facility, and with only a slight Eiglish accent.) And you de termine lon coneng to Paris ?" ' Yes, sr, I came with her. But I soon repented of having done so. She had promised me tine dresses, fetes, pleasures, but was unable to keep her promise. At first, I had oven enough to eat. She was in such distress that one evening, not being able to give me any dinner, she took me to Musarcl's concert, and there introduced me to a negro, frightfully ugly, who gave me 20f. Afterwards, however, I had a prince." The President said, "You have acted very ill, and you must return to your parents." "Yes, sir." " Before knowing the Russian prince, did the accused introduce you to other men ?" "Yes, sir; during a fortnight a good many cam e." "Did she give you the money which she received from those men 1" " No, sir ; I never had a sou, even to buy a cake ; she kept all." "She lodged, boarded, and cloth -d you ?' y es, sir . " " Now as to the Russia,' ; he gave a good deal of money ?" " Yes,. sir ; 4,000 f. a mouth, without counting presents." " the accrued give anything to you ?" Nothing whatever." "Did you see any other English girls at the prisoner's house ?" "Only one, Nelly Bee ; but she had the luck to find a protector, an I went away." "You appear intelli gent, and yet you c ill that luck ! Ho w old was hit Nelly ?" " Eighteen." " You saw no others iu her house ?" "No ; but the concierge told me that she was accustomed to t dee French girls to England, and to bring b ick English girls—th it that was her ckl ii.g." " You affirm that all you have said is teue. It is true also that she beat you T' "Yes, sir. The Russian prince had to go on a journey, hut b foie swain; out he sent us hi= seen.) , ary wi , h 4,000 f. The secretary gave 2,000 f. to Mine. Mi s neurice, and 2,00ef. to me. When he left, Mm Mesmeurice m ele me drink a goo c e intoxicated. iipy u 1 y s eOlfn about that m da y, y deal, tier e fo a uec,l could not o ot money, but s!ept all day lonee'. The next day, which was a Sunday, I missed my 2,000 f., and asked fur it she got into a passion, absued me, and gave me a blow on the mouth, which made it bleed. Th • next the dispute recommenced, and she gave me a kick, which hurt me a good deal As I do not know the law of Paris, I cried for help, and a policeman cunt), and delivered me." " All that this girl says" cried the prisoner, "is a•tissue of falsehoods" Three wit nesses were then examined ; they deposed the woman Mesmeurice was in the habit of keeping T .1 rr girls in her house ; that .Mlle. Charlotte was the favourite of the Russian prince, and used to drive - rrnt-every day in a dashing equipage, and that after the donation of 4,000 f. by the prince the two women quarrelled and fought. It appeared from what one of the witnesses, a journeyman printer, said, that the woman before going to Passy had lived in the Rue Pigalle, in the same house that he did, and that there she had with her "ladies who had plenty of lovers." " Were these females Eng lish or French ?" asked the President. "English, and all of them were young and pretty," was the answer. " Don't listen to this man," cried the woman, "heis a liar." [The Public Prosecutor afterwards pleaded in support of the prosecution, and M. Lachaud, advocate, defended the prisoner.] The tribunal condemned the woman to a year's im prisonment, 100 f. fins•, and five years' interdiction of civil rights. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY MOANING. GALWAY AND AMERICA. The people of Galway have had to endure an other disappointment—only, however, a temporary one. On a close examination of the Indian Empire it was ascertained that some trifling repairs were required, which, owing to the slowness of the work men, would, it was feared, necessitate the postpone ment of her sailing till this evening. The mail sent by this conveyance was very small—not 1,000 let ters, the average number being from 12,000 to 15,000. The somewhat sinister accident which be fell the steamship on her first entrance into Gal way Bay has created quite a sensation here, and the result of the trial of the two pilots is looked for with no ordinary anxiety. The following narrative of the transaction is condensed from the Evening Mail : " She was boarded at Blackhead by two men re presenting themselves as re2ular pilots, who under took to guide her safely to her moorings. It was night, but calm and cloudless, and in the twilight of a summer's sky landmarks and objects at sea familiar to the experienced mariner's eye were dis tinctly visible. The vessel was taken in by those ►men, whose bearing, however, was so little satis factory or assuring to the captain that (contrary, it is said, to their advice) he slackened her speed to one third of the rate at which he bad been steaming. It was well that ho did so, for in less than half an hour they tor) k the helm she struck upon a rock, and there remained for two hours before she could be relieved. Had she been going with all her steam up at, the moment of the co lision there can be little doubt that she would, at least, have received irreparable injury. Happily no ma terial damage was sustained, and, she has this day de parted notwithstanding the omen, melioribus fates. The rock of St. Margaret, which was near being so disastrous to the enterprise, is 83 far out of the usual course by which ships approach or leave the port of Galway that more than half a century has passed since any vessel was known to have come in contact with it. Its place is well known on the charts. It is, moreover, marked by a large buoy, so conspicuous that Capt. Courtney descried it at a distance of a mile, and called the attention to it of one of the self-styled pilots. But that trusty guardian assured him it was only a small boat ; and then there was scarcely time to order the engineers to back the ship when she came bump upon the rock. Other indi cations of wilful blindness have been mentioned, but we content ourselves f r the present with those which have been proved in a publ c court. They present a case full of suspicion. A numerous bench of magistrates, com prising men of a'l the varieties of our social and political state, have committed the two pilots for trial at the ap proaching assizes. There was no difference of opinion on that subject. Whether it was through criminal neglect, or ignorance equally criminal, or from a still more nefa rious motive than either, that so untoward an event oc curred, we leave to the investigations of ju.tiee toascer tain. We hope that a strict and searching inquiry will be made, and that neither pains nor expense will be spared to trace it to the source." Another Dublin journal (the Express) deals more mysteriously with the conduct of the pilots— " It remains fora jury to decide whether they were guilty or not of the crime of intending to destroy the steamer. It seems to be the general opinion in Gal way that the facts cannot be accounted for except on the prr ■umption of their guilt. This, however, should be left to the decision of a jury of their countrymen. If they should be found guilty the crime is one of the foulest on record. But if they are guilty others are guilty too. If they did run the steamer on the rock intentionally, they were the agents of a diabolical cmispiracy, which should he traced out ; and, if the chief criminals can be detected, no puni-hment would be too severe for them. Suspicion points to Liverpool as the seat of this con spiracy. The motives assigned are commercial jealousy, and the self-interest of parties engaged in the Liverpool shipping trade. Should this prove to be the case— which we trust it may not, for the credit of our civilisa tion and the honour of humanity—it would furnish the strongest possible argument in favour of the enterprise of Mr. Lever. If those who are most capable of judg ing did not apprehend that it would be completely suc cessful—that it would at least attract all the Irish traffic, and especially all the Irish emigrants, and so interfere materially with their own interests—they would not adopt such atrocious means 5 defeat the proj•sct. horrible, and execrable as the attempt was—assuming that it was made—it furnishes a most satisfactory augury of success, especially as it was so providentially and so mercifully frustrated." GALWAY, SATURDAY. The Indian Empire sailed for America at 12.15 p.m. to-day. A. lifeboat, built by the Messrs. Forrest, of Limehouse, boat builders to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was on Saturday shipped on board a Russian steamer for Russia. Her dimensions are as follows :—Length, 30 feet ; breadth, Eft. 4in ; depth, 2ft. Bin. ; draught of water, without crew, llin. ; with crew and gear, 14M. Will bold 24 men and the deck be free from water. Pulls six oars single banked. The stability of the boat is such as to allow 15 men to stand on her gunwale before it becomes level with the water. The b3at self-rights and clears herself of water in 20 seconds. She was designed and supervised while under construction, by Mr. James Peake, Assistant Master-Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, ex pressly for the Emperor of Russia, and is the first boat of her class which haw left the Messrs. Forrest's buildieg.yard. A sister boat, not yet complete, is being built by order of the Board of Trade for pre sentation to the port of Calais, in testimony of the gallantry of :some s3amen of that port in re , cuing a British sailor from shipwreck off their coast. The labourers of her Majesty's dockyard and arsenal at Woolwich were last week regaled with their usual annual entertainment from the bounty of Mr. George H&l Graham, in the grounds of Sir Thomas Wilson. The echo .1 children were also, according to a recent custom, provided with tea and cake. Upwards of 3,000 tickets were circu lated for the occasion. [Aoviner[sEsorr].—it would be to some extent a nee :et of the duty which we owe to our readers, if we failed to allude to the unprecedented mass of evidence that has reached us, in proof of the remedial efficacy of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, in many disorders which, whilst most painful and distressing in their symptoms, have,' at the same time, through their obstinacy and continuity, been inaccessible to medical skill. We have looked over some of the lists of heartfelt testimony to the beneficial effects of this Food, in various and complicated stages of disorder, including elys pepsia (indigestion), constipation, functional irregularity, obstructions, acidity, cramps, spasms, fits, heartburn, diarrhoea, nervousness, affections of the liver and kie!neys, flatulency, distention, palpitation of the heart, nervous head ache, deafness, noises in the head .and ears, giddiness, pains between the shoulders and in almost every part of the body, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach, erup tions on the skin, scurvy, fever, scrofula, impuritio poverty of blood, consumpjon (if not beyond human aid) dropsy, rheumatism, gout, influen:a, grippe, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea, low spirits, spleen, general debility, paralysis, cough; asthma, tightness across the chest, phlegm, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blush ing, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, delusions, loss of memory, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, mel en choly, groundless fear, indecision, wretchedness, thoughts of self-destruction, Ste. One or two examples, from the FIFTY THOUSANDTestimonia!s received by Messrs. Du Barry, may be interesting and useful. The Yen. Alex. Stuart, Arch deacon of Ross, informs us that he has been relieved from excessive nervousness, pains in the neck and left arm general weakness of constitution, and other a lments, rendering his life very miserable." Mr. Hunt, barrister-at-law (a gentle man 85 years old) certifies that ho has been radically cured of paralysis of 60 years' etandieg, as well as of other afflictions ; and after a long life of comparative misery, he gratefully pro tests that he is now "a stranger to all complaints, except a hearty old age." Major Echo states that, after " having suffered fearfully for two years from an enlargement of the liver, and an inveterate diarrhoea," which had totally defied the most eminent medical aid, and had brought him to the brink of the grave, being unable to lift his arms from perfect exhaustion," he had recourse to the Food, and he then goes oito say :—" The result of eating this delicious Food is the perfect restoration of my health within a month, and I take a peculiar pleasure in recommending all sufferers to follow my example." But to pursue these testimonials would be an end less task. Upon 50,000 authenticated certificates, we have the " great" and auspicious fact that, for the first time in the history of pathology, an agent has been discovered which completely effects all that had hitho to been fruitlessly attempted by all the nauseous preparations of the labora tory. Not merely in its remedial, but in its preserva tive capacity, as a protector, as well as a restorer of health, its efficiency is attested by the grateful evid nee of those who have had experience iu propria persona.—The cir cumstances brought to light in connection with its use as toed for infants, she w teat whilst it prolongs the lives of thousands of adults, it is calculated to cause many to reach maturity who would otherwise perish in early childhood. Altogether, we confess to the pl using conviction that the extended use, amongst all classes, of Du Barey's,Food, must produce a marked change for the betterthe ave rage v.lue of life, and i n the sanitary statistics of our era. Supported by testimonials from the following celebrated Pro fessors of Chemistry: Dr. A Ure; Dr. Shorland; D. Harvey; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker Dr. Wurser ; Dr.; Ingram ; Lord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Caetlestuart; Major Gen, Thomas King, and many o th e r r espectable per sons, whose health has been restored by it, !after all other means of euro had failed. Suitably packed with full instruc tions. In canisters, llb. 2s. 9d.: 21h. 4s. 6d.; Sib , 11& ; 121 b. 225, The 121 b canisters aro sent carriage free on re. ceipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Important Cautiou against the fear fel dangers of spurious imitations. --The Vice t -Chaecellor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunctionoa .he 10th March, 1851, agaiust Alfred H oo p e r Nevin for imitating "Da Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." 1.8 8. FRIG Prom the Official Ltst. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FI LONDON, FRIDAY, Jurrx CANALS. Samoa of Compau; es. I i,.. Dividend 1 per au Annum. Price.! Names of Compahies. 93 71. p. et. 40 41: 100 111. 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Stock 100 0 0 - Crystal Palace Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 - Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City 274vigation Bonds 3%1. per cent - - - Electric 'relegraph .• 6/. per cent. Stock. 100 0 0 104 Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 5 0 0 all 1 34 EtigAlris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - r Equitable Iteversionry 51per cent. 100 5 0 11t 0 0 -i- Date New - 50 0 0 22 10 0 -, Gen. Revers. & Invest 5l. p c and 11. 100 0 0 00 0 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - a o v i i n g n a i t b io u n s 11021/.. percentperct. & 1 4 5 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 26% G L o e : l ' il . S o i t i e t a l i e n n N . Hudson's Bay.. W. per cent. Stock Stock - Eltangerford - Loa. Ne. &Na. Mauso - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 51 per cent. lb 0 0 all - Mex. &S. American ' - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp - 25 0 0 50 0 -- N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb Si. per cent. - 100 0 0 - Nor. [Sri, Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all North of Europe, Stm. Cs, per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 Price'sPatentCand. Co - 29 0 0 all 16% Peel Itiver.Lanti&Min. - 5 0 0 all 2 Pen. & Oriental Steam -7/. per cent 50 0 0 all -r- Ditto New - 50 0 0 10 0 0 1113 Reversionary Int. Soc l%l. pr cent 100 0 0 all - Ditto New - Royal Mail Steam 4l. p. share. 100 0 0 1( 0 0 59 3 i Scottish Aus. Invest -151. per cent. 1 0 0 all Ij% South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all 12% Trust and Loan Corn?, 734., pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 - Vali Diemen's Land los. 1100 00 / 28 10 0 - 6 par cent. Bonds - - ' EVENINt; [B, 1858. Dividene per Annum 281. 121. 10s. 11. 16s. 10s. 7s. Od. X i. d. 100 all WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. Paid. Price 51. per cnt. 61. per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 41. per cut. Si. per cnt It. per cent. BJUDG Dividend per Annum. 105 per cent., •• • • i IL 125. Od. li. es. Od. 28s. DOCK! Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cont. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. f 9 51. pr cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per 0. [lr AND CO: Dividend _ per Annum. 77. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 2/. 6/. per cent. Si. per cent. 101. per cent 21. ss. 41. lhs. 4/. 10s. 61. per cent. *;',• per cnt. 5/. Si. per cent. IGs Od per eh. 7 per cent. £ s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 61 41 0 5 1 8 Amount of Share. X a. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 • 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. X 0. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 stock. Stook. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 OOMP. Amonnt of Share. X i. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 ICE COMPANIES. Dividend per ♦nnum. ♦mount of Share. 20 0 0 100 0 0 IINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. 10/. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. p. c. & In. C. per cent. 51. per cent. 181. per cent. 6!. per cent. 211 per cent. 18 per cent. 16pc.&bs 91 .per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent.l V. p. ctlzba. 1 $l. per cent. 51. per cent. 101. per cent. 111. per cent. 151. per cent. X I. d . Paid. I Price. X s. d. Stock. If MO 0 0 100 0 • S 0 0 Stock. ao "o 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 £ ■. d. •11 160 • 0 all 12 II 0 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 41 " 0 0 0 all 52 0 0 16 0 0 all 10 • 0 all 4 0 0 Paid. V. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. il. p.c. & bs. 15s. 01. & 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 105. 5/. 5 pr ct.dc bs. 41. per share, 11. 18e. ss. 5 1 4 per cent. 1/. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. 5/. per cent. t2l. per cent. 14s. 51. p. et. & bs. 23 & 2s bons. 211. per sh. 4s. per share IBs. & bs. 4 per cent 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 6 per cent 51 p. Ct. 51. per ceit. 51. per cent. 12 per c. 6 p bs p.c &ID! I/. 14s. 41. & bonus. 51. & bonus. 51. & bonus .£ 5. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 J :00 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 • 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 II 5 0 0 Stock. £ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 al 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 9 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 l 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 a l .l 4 0 0 47 5 C 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 o 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 A a. d. •ll 111 15 0 10 0 0 •11 6 0 0 60 0 0 2i 0 0 20 0 0 ,o "6 0 50 0 0 10 0 • 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 V I 5 0 0 22 10 • all 15 0 0 25 • 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 SHOCKING MURDER. An inciniry of a very painful and distressing cha racter took place before Mr. T. Sword er, the coroner for Hertfordshire, - at Cheshunt, on Friday, into the circumstances under which a highly respectable young lady, 25 years of age, named Sarah Jane Butler, met her death. The jury having performed the painful du , y of viewing the body, which pre sented a dreadful appearance, the head being frightfully contused, and the skull fractured in several places, a number of witnesses were exa mined, and the following facts were disclosed. It appeared that the deceased young lady had gone to visit a married sister, Mrs. Braye, the wife of a chemist at Cheshunt, and on Tuesday afternoon the two ladies went out fur a walk, and paid a visit to a friend named Prior, who lives near the Brox bourne railway station. They set out on their return home about half-past eight o'clock in the evening, and had gone about a mile when the tragical occurrence took place. On their way from Broxburne to Cheshunt the ladies had to go for some distance by the side of the river, and they then passed several cottages, and a short distance from this spot there is the high road. When they had passed a few yards from the last of these cot tages, which is occupied by a person named Carter, the ladies saw a man approaching, and it would seem that his appearance excited some alarm, for Mrs. Bray', proposed to her sister to turn back, but tie young lady replied that it was daylight and there was no necessity for being alarmed, and they proceeded on their way. The moment they cam* close to the man, it appeared that without saying a word he attacked Miss Butler with a bludgeon, struck her first a tremendous blow on the side of the face, and then beat her upon the head until she fell senseless, and he then walked away. It ap peared that the man did not attempt to offer any violence to . Mrs. Braye, and that lady was at first so dreadfully terrified that she was unable to scream or to give any alarm. Carter, the occupier of the cottage, however, happened to come the moment the assault was being committed, and procured the assistance of a police constable, and went in pursuit of the man as he waswalking on the high road, and he was secured without offering any resistance. The poor young lady was taken up in an insensible state, and covered with blood, and as soon as a car riage could be procured she was conveyed to her sister's residence, and Mr. Dixon, a surgeon, resid ing at Cheshunt, and some other, wofessional gen tlemen, promptly attended upon hex," but it was evident, from the fearful charactet 6r - the injuries she had received, that the case warsl6/9eless, and she remained in a state of insensibiiiiitiitil about 11 o'c!ock at night, when she expired. The mall who had committed the outrage was taken to the police station at Hodde' den, and he appeared to be quite calm and collected. He was asked if he knew what he had been doing, and he replied, "Yes, 1 have been hitting a woman on the head, but I hope I have not hurt her." He was afterwardss,sked heir he would like to be served in the same manner, and he laughed and said, " Not at all." Ho vol afterwards told that the young lady he had struck was dead, and he made no reply. On the following day one of the attendants be longing to the Horton Lunatic Asylum arrived et Hoddesden, stating that he was in search of a Ps' tient, named Henry Arnold, who had made 11 15 escrpe from that establishment a few days before, and upon his going to the lock-up he at once idol' tified the man who had committed the outrage as that person. He at the same time expressed his sur prise that he should have been guilty of such anent of violence, as during the time he was in the asylum he was looked upon as perfectly harmless, and had been allowed to do some work about the building' which gave him an opportunity of making his escape, and it is supposed that he was on his way to his native village, a place called Newton, in Cam' bridgeshire, at the time he committed the dreadful deed. The jury after hearing all the evidence, said there was no doubt that the prisoner was insane at the time he assaulted the young lady ; but the Coroner explained to them that they had no power by la A to enter into the question of the state of mind 0 ' the party by whom the death had been occasioned' which could alone be disposed of before another tribunal, and that upon the facts before them th e only coursethey could t a ke wa s t o re t urn a verdict of " Wilful Murder." The jury accordingly returned a verdict to that effect, and the coroner at once issued his warrant for the committal of the prisoner Henry Arnold, to take his trial at the ensuing Buo y mer assizes for thr county of Herts. It is almest needless to add that the melanchell occurrence has created the greatest possible alarm and excitement throughout the whole neighbour' h. od. Country Markets YORK—JuNN 19. We had a fair attendance of buyers to-day, and an 1111 ' rage show of wheat—superior samples of white realisiot 445, and red 42e per qr. A small supply of oats, wb i , sold mostly in favour of the buyer— goo d sor t s being , posed of at is 20 per stone. Other articles as before. NOTTINGHAM—JUNE 19. bsi The supply of grain was limited to-day, an d w's 0 .n average attendance of far m er s . Wh ea t wa s talc% of last week's rates. Barl e y me t a h eav y sa l e , a t rac e° rates. Oats scarce, and easier to buy. LEICESTER—JUNE 19. At our corn market to-day there was a fair 'boy wheat, and prices were about the same. Barley Wag sad_ thor dull, at late prices. O a t s i n s l ow re q ues t, al 2 " trifle cheaper. Beaus scarce, at late rates. Wheat, wLite 46s to 48s red 40s to 44s Barley, grinding 2Bs to 32$ Bean; - 4Ol to 441 Oats Peas 42s to 441 OXFORD—JUNJ 19. , but There was a poor supply of wheat, and the deman d bu t very languid, and, although pric e s d ec li ne d i s p e r qr, a, little business resulted. Other articles weire in limite d mand at former prices. a/ 0° PER QUARTER.I PER 4 0- ,361 Wheat, red (old) 39s to 451'Barley, grinding ... , t 0 . 430 Ditto (new) - s to —slßeans Ditto, white —s to —a l Peas -s A Ditto (old) - ._..: 3ss Barley, malting ... 32s to 35E,Flour, per sack --- i ROCHESTER— JUNE 19. At to•day's market grain realised the following rates' Red whew 22s 6d to 23s Od White wheat — Gd to 23s Od Barley l2s 3d to 13s 6d Oats 163 01 to 170 Od DATAKRITH GRAIN MARKET—Ju 17• . 10 ( Qrs. Best. Current. ~ 1 ' 1°1 .0 3 172 Wheat 44s 61 ,6,1 432 Oats 29s Gd 268 44d 23' 0J 34 Barley 9 8s Od 2ss 7id 242 . 0. 1 29 Peas & beans 44s Od 42a 10d HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—JUNE 1 5 ' • w 34 9 E1 4 a : 1 1 ' 76 ad . First Second Third 34s 01 1263 Oki 1263 /1 I 39 ' 0 13 / 1283 61j 41 . 0.1 Total quantity of wheat in market, 2 4 8 3 1 q ii r r B 3 : , 2 0 8 4 : olo i l i d PP barley „ 432 qrs. ' , 43 , o ici oats P 1 PP beans 91 29 qrs., ° AVERAGES PER IMPIRIAL QUARTER. ,intle 1 1 22879A:R1.33°Yda I 30 ° s ATI O . (1 I 411A :1 ° J 1 Wheat, 2/. 0 8 7-12ths 1 Barley, ...11. 8 5 n ' . igtti° Oats, ... 11. 8 6 3.l2ths r8eau5,.....21. 0 7 S' , , DUBLIN—JUNE 18. ; Our corn market today was as dull as po ss ible ; business was confined to mere retail to supply th• of the moment. White wheat, 26s 6d to 28s 61; red ditto, 24s O il t°,l ' Gd; ditto new, s ..0 ; barley, ma lti ng, 13 s to 17 s Od; /h ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 153 to 16s Od; ditto, new,, to --s Od; oatmeal, 14s Gd to 16 s 6d ; bore, new, , 1 4 ! ; rapeseed, —s Od to s Od p er b r l ; b a k er s' il°1:1 r e , od tolB3 6d per owt ; Indian corn, 35s 0 i to 37g 4qo lbs. BIRTHS. p oll" ELLWOOD—On the 16th inst., at 2, Gothic Villa s, - o ' ° li t,er , park, the wife of Mr. Edward Ellwood, of a daug Sot' PEARSE —On the 14th inst., at Gaywood. RectorY, of folk, the wife of the Rey. Robert W. Peluso , dsughter. eof PEDLEY —On the 16th inst., at Stubbing Coux'_: l l. Chesterfield, the wife of T. H. Pedley, Esq., of a lAES. t_ 7f .;reb, CAT—RANKING—OnM ARR the 17th G inst. at Christ C' Ramsgate, Lieut. Robert Barclay day, R.N., 19 1,, - gol t ; B. Cay, Esq., solicitor, Vale, Ramsgate, to •' - ‘ ,7 th" Del'Hoste Ranking, daughter of Robert Ranking' - Vale, Ramsgate, late of Hastings. TURNER—SWINDLEY—On the 17th inst., at 1 101 1 Church. Maidstone, Henry, second son o f Skinl iet e jell ner, Esq., of Lower Claptun, Middlesex, to daughter of John Swiudley, E•q., Cavalry DOP°" - stone. DEATHS. ile prf COOK —Oa the 18th inst., at 22, Budge-row, 311. * Cook, aged 60. ib .gl; o9 ' FO:,KA RD -On the 17th inst at North-street , D. M. Folkard, Esq., aged 66. M ONTEFIORE —On the 17th inst., at his resid en° l 4 Amptou-place, Gray's-inn-road, Moses Montefior°' ' aged 73. SCOIT- On the 16th inst., at 2, Warwick-villas , road, Kensington, W., suddenly, Hebei t s c ot t, late or Madras Medical Service, aged 70. . v W:iLe,,LrIATMrSu-r-00,niuthiceh1a5etlhinst,at hiN. o esid m en . c r e . , T o r l . el S i g e° Williams, Cornwall, aged 70. .<, ( 1 70 14 LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO - 11 0, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 00140 if U 2, Strand, in the Precinct of the SavoYs la the of Middlesex, Monday, Jane 21, 108. 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WAI t , Public that 1 of the ALTIANI CPular and m ',O.NDAY, Jun Two Perform tO Ttnences at 1 I t 7 o'clock, co: • , rtistes, and entetts tTective 31111tai ttuitled Co n eluding wit VANE IN T -41g a d e. k Admission—l Resemi ~rirate Boxes Leicest 2ert from 10 a. 'ten under 9 ye Under The most pc Structed under ati tlanabra Pala, . I.,%ll.—Seasor roe, METTI ASSIT O l itee, London, ozins on advant Policies 4 saured within be ing deducted INTERN itsh,‘dSOC [ET h ' as been anal st t4)ll, les of aunt N r ring within nual premlur “ , s death be g e t trace. THE 42 1 ) 0 wore I by VIVORE EDMO wrn. Kenwo Samuel Kin 7, John Elliotsc P.R.S. Profbmor W J. Elliot Mess llossrg. Greg :11P ne%t Q 'IV, 1860. Nney taken gut nia The followt tailonal Life The Society . Two-thirds'te years. Its subscrib .5 Investm ' , one hundre Its annual The numbe About one • Slnce Its co got three hand For prospe Matt, 142, Sti 142- , Strand .........._____ Il t l iV AND l'ittPnt Office TRIESESI 'eVold of tas Ti olcl in tin c' ‘'alneatt, Lai LAX nsequence, 100 long resl( strength and L I M in the Zinttewr m: .I, rAGE, th, tf rectuallv, 1 er adicates a' I nrms, (fleet I: ' , 4111 e, Pain: , ohaivi and NIA of the 1 Is the g !vat t oms. It al: litaneous I . lions and it t he virus ol inrou z h th, n ever-failin t he English Uon or the I the world c an y Part of oXtra, whic 12s. s, 1 :hrtlett IJc rulge) ; fo rd.street ; Nv ards, St, " HUM Arica is., 1 ,„ ° Pinions of Dona for th • Dedinfents dreadful re b enefits ODerfnatoz loose:, the 41 W 42 1 -‘33 lhl 0t45 IRO IMSI 6 504 y, 1056 51. Os lis Paid. fIES. Paid. _ 100±,i Price. 1003( 276 44 15 16% W. 8.