The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-20 00:00:00

2 HE .E.XT_RAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT NEWCASTLE. TUESDAY EVENING. At the Gateshead Police-court this day, before the Mayor, Alderman Pollock, and Messrs. Hawke, Wake, Hodgson, and Crawshaw, magistrates, the case of " Manson v. de l‘laricourt" came on, which has excited so much interest in this town for the last few days. The police court was densely crowded with people, and numbers, unable to gain admittance, assembled outside. A little before 11 o'clock Viscount de Maricourt, accompanied by his brother, and attended by his legal adviser, Mr. E. Glynn, came into court, and a few minutes afterwards Mr. Manson, the com plainant, attended by Mr. Scaife, made his appear ance. Mr. A. Pring offered his services as interpre ter and was sworn to interpret to the def en d an t, who did not understand English sufficiently well to enable him to comprehend the information. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Scaife detailed the history of the assault and the 'circumstances which led to it. He described the Westgate municipal ward contest, and read the letter of Oct. 12th, abusing Mr. Dunn, the Count de Maricourt, and the " arch-traitor" Louis Napo leon. On the day on which that letter appeared in complainant's paper, the Northern Daily Express, a card, with " M. de Maricourt, lime Dragoons," was left in the office, and on the other side an invi tation to meet the writer in the smoking room of the Central Exchange. That letter the editor never got till next evening, but on the morning afterwards a gentleman—who would be proved to be the de fendant—called at the newspaper office, asked for the editor, and after having walked about the office for some time in a very excited manner, he pulled out a pistol and demanded where the editor lived. Re then went up stairs into another room, and walked about in that room in a very excited away. The next thing was the young gentleman calling at the house of the editor at Gateshead, and without Iny colloquy at the door, he with one bound burst intothe room and stood beside the editor. The learned gentleman then recounted the facts which havo become so notorious, as to the behaviour of defendant. He went on to state that defendant and complainant having gone together to the consulate in Grey-street, they ,met the Count de Maricourt there, and the complainant expressed his regret to the consul that he should have said what he has' done if the charge against the count was untrue. Complainant proceeded to make an apology for what he had said in the paper; but a subsequent letter which he (Mr. Scaife) would put into court would show the reason why this apology was not published. The latter part of Mr. Scaife's address was a very able exposition of the English law, judiciously admit ting some extenuation of the defendant's fault. He demanded for the complainant the full and impar tial protection of the law. He disclaimed all idea of vindictiveness on the part of the complainant, and asked only for the protection of that law which the defendant himself would receive. Mr. Scaife then examined the following witnesses for the case : Mr. John Henry Rutherford, manager of the Northern Daily Express, proved the visit of the defendant on the 13th inst. He was very much agitated, and pointed out the letter, and also the editorial notice attached. Mr. Mather, the book keeper, there being no other person present who was conversant with the French language, con versed with the defendant, and ultimately witness gave defendant the editor's address, and requested Mr, Mather to accompany him to the house, but that order he shortly afterwards countermanded. Witness afterwards found the letter produced, which had been left for the epitor on the previous evening. Mr. John Lowther, a reader in the newspaper office, identified the defendant and his brother as being the persons who left the letter on th. pre vious evening. Mr. Christopher Mather, book-keeper, corro borated Mr. Rutherford's evidence. Mr. J. B. Manson, the editor, being sworn, de tailed the circumstances under which the Viscount came to his house, and proceeded to state as follows : —The Viscount told me I had slighted his card. I asked him, what card ? He said his card invit ing me to the smoking-room of the Central Exchange Hotel. I said I had neither received the card nor the invitation, and I again said he must leave me to my work, and let the Count call upon me at the office. He said the Count could not come and that he had come for me. All this time I and defendant were standing opposite to each other, the pistol in the hand of M. de Maricourt pointed at me. Defendant spoke English with diffi culty, and I did not understand him. Defendant told. me I must come with him, and I answered I could not come. I was told a cab was waiting with his brother in it, and then I agreed to go with defendant, on the understanding that he would go to the Consulate. I asked to be allowed to dress, and the Viscount agreed to let me. The brother was waiting outside, with a thick stick in his hand, and the Viscount had also a stick in his hand, but never offered to use it, nor to use a horsewhip. I may say that I went voluntarily, but on compulsion. I was not dragged there, but I certainly went with the pistol at my head. I was in such a fear as I never was in my life before. (Laughter.) I was thinking of the serious sight that Mrs. Manson in a moment might have placed before her eyes. It was my im pression that the pistol might go off in the agitation of the defendent—that was my greatest cause of fear. The witness then explained all the circumstances which occurred between leaving his house in Gates head and the arrival at the Consulate, Grey-street. He met the Count de Maricourt in the office of the Consulate, and on the Count saying that he had never interfered with, though he admired, our in stitutions, and that he defied the man to say he ever asked his vote, he (the complainant) agreed to pub lish next morning the words the Count had uttered, and after some other matters passed the Viscount conducted him down stairs, where, after expressing his satisfaction at the result of the interview, the Count offered his hand to the complainant, who ac cepted it, and they separated. Cross-examined by Mr. Glynn—Witness had been editor of the Northern Daily Express from July, 1856. He was the writer of an article headed " Madame," in the Express of Sept. 24. He also wrote the editorial notice at the foot of the letter of Oct. 12, and the article headed " Doings in the Westgate." There was a period during his editor ship when he resided out of Newcastle with his family. He lived away for many reasons, but had no particular reason for it. Mr. Glynn said he would not press the question as to the reason of complainant's absence from New castle, because he did not wish to throw dirt on the complainant's character. Cross-examination continued—The manner o f the defendant was anything but deliberate. As an editor witness was entirely responsible for the publication of the editorial letters ; in that he acted as the agent of the proprietor. The proprietor was Mr. Mar shall, but witness declined to state who interfered in the paper. He would not state, either, who " Martyr,' the writer of the first letter, was. That letter was corroborated by four persons, and witness deemed that this corroboration was quite sufficient to justify its publication. Mr. Lehorey, superintendent of police at Gates head, stated that he apprehended the defendant at Blyth on the Saturday. On Friday, between 4 and 5 o'clock, he got a brace of pistols from Mr._Pape, of Collingwood - street, which had been given Co him by the son of the French consul. Those pistols he now produced in court. Mr. Manson, being recalled, thought the pistol now produced had some similarity with the pistol he had seen, but that in the hand of defendant was very bro's-n. He admitted that he could not see whether the pistol was cocked or not. He heard a clicking lik e th e coc ki ng of a pistol, and he saw , from the con s t ruc ti on o f th e p i s t o l, that the trigger could i not be use d un l ess t h e pis t o l were coc ked. N r. Anthony Pape, la nmaker, deposed that the defendant and h is br oth er call ed at his shop on Wednesday ni g ht st They . came -to gat a bullet mould and key. T h e l materials were asked for by defendant. pistols which pis t o ls o s pro duced in court, were the de f en dant been gave to wit ness. They had apparently b time. The charge was lo a d ed I for some exract e e n d. t consisted in both pistols of powder and a piece of lead hammered up to make a ball. Cross-examined—The pistols were not e ef fi ciently u loaded at all. He . would not have them if he had wanted to shoot a man. Its n ot. Mr. as likely that the pistol would miss fire as Mr. Glynn then addressed the mafliis: mi raadtesrinatde fence of his client. He expressed of the services which the press had rendered to admiration country, and the respect and jealousy with which he should look upon any interference with the liberty of discussion, but he observed that there were times in which this liberty was exceeded, and law yer though he (Mr. Glynn) was, he would say that the law afforded no protection in many cases in which a person was attacked in the press. The Count de Maricourt, since he came to reside amongst us, wa s known but to few persons, for his disposition was a siugularly retiring one; he ha d come into public only on one or two festive occasions, such as the launch at Messrs. Palmer's ; but on the occasions when the Count had spoken, so far from his lan guage being in bad English, he (Mr. Glynn) thought the Count expressed himself admirably. The Count, however, was not known to many persons in Newcastle; but in order to hear of the name of Maricourt we should go to the Infirmary , or amongstngst the poor 'and destitute in the abandoned districts of the town. (This allusion elicited loud applause in the court, which was, however, in stantly checked.) Mr . Glynn, after referring to the offensive article headed " Madame," but declining to read it, then went through the direct attack on the Count made in the paper on the 12th October. He contended that the terms employed were offen sive in the highest degree, and as for the conclusion of it he submitted that a more monstrous, more hideous attack was never penned against any man. The man who wrote that attack was one who would insult a woman or strike a priest. The Count de Maricourt was one whom the town of Newcastle should have been delighted to honour. His name had been mentioned in the highest terms of corn mendativ by Lord Palmerston and M. Guizot for his conduct whilst at Messina, where the Count had been the means of saving hundreds of lives from the soldiers of the King of Naples ; and yet this was the man who had been chosen now as the ohj ect of one of the vilest attacks that was ever penned against any man. The hands of the Count were tied by his diplomatic position, and the bench would take into account the feelings under which the young man, his son, was labouring. They would observe that his father had been deeply insulted— and he himself was a soldier bred up in all the notions of a French soldier, and without the cool ness which could calmly look on the offence which had been committed. He (Mr. Glynn) would ask what would have been the feelings of the son of any gentleman on the bench under such circum stances ? He would ask what would have been the feelings of any magistrate now before him had his son acted as M. de Maricourt did? He admitted that the young man had made a mistake in taking a pistol instead of a whip or stick ; but had the cir cumstances been changed, and had any gentleman on the bench been placed in the position of the Count de Maricourt, he would venture to say that while as a magistrate he would have condemned the proceedings, yet as a father he would have pardoned it. This young viscount, he must observe, belonged to the old nobility of France; his ancestors had fought in the Holy Land, and their name had never been disgraced. This young man had entered the French army, in the 31st Regiment of the Line, as a private soldier, and in the Crimea he first made acquaintance with our own soldiers in sharing his crust of black bread with starving English com rades on the banks of the Tchernaya. With regard to the circumstances of the assault, he was satisfied that it would be impossible to get a correct de scription from the terrified editor. He was instructed to say that the terms used by M. de Maricourt were, " Unless you come to my father I - will do so and so ;" and there was every probability that this version was the correct one. With regard to the pistol, the evidence of Mr. Pape was conclusive on that point. Mr. Pape said he would not have chosen such a weapon if he wanted to take a man's life. The viscount had arms in the house kept in good condition; and was it likely that he would take these things—playthings for children which had not been used for months—if he had any serious intentions? His purpose was purely to excite a salutary fear in the editor, and bring him to an ex planation and apology, which he could not other wise have obtained. The whole affair was a bur lesque. Instead of getting the pistols cleaned be forehand defendant took them in their foul condi tion, when they were pretty sure to hang fire if they were used, and then he got them cleaned after the deed was done. Mr. Glynn then adverted to the case of M. de Pene, to which the editor had subse quently referred, and, after very humorously draw ing a distinction between that affair and the pre sent, he concluded an able address. The magistrates then retired, and after an absence of about a quarter of an hour, they returned and sat down, when the excitement of the audience im mediately calmed down into silence. The Mayor then gave judgment. He said the bench considered the assault proved, and fined the defendant L 5 and costs. On the young Viscount coming out of court he was greeted with cheers, which were not stilled until he had reached the High-level-bridge. He acknowledged these congratulations by moving his hat. Mr. Arthur Pring thanked the magistrates, at the instance of the Viscount, for tho patient hear ing which they had accorded to him. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge, at Westminster). Alexander Muir, 20, labourer, was indicted for a misdemeanour, under the 88th sect. of the Mutiny Act, in having unlawfully attempted to procure and persuade John Burnell, a soldier belonging to the Royal Horse Artillery, to desert from her Majesty's service. Mr. T. Atkinson conducted the prosecution, which he said had been instituted by direction of the au thorities at the War-office, and it was not an unim portant one, the charge being that the prisoner had endeavoured to procure the means, for a rider of the Royal Horse Artillery, to desert for the pur pose of enlisting into the East India Company's service, for the sake of the extra bounty. This was not an isolated instance ; the same thing had been systematically carried on, and of course, when de !tection took place, it was but the duty of the au thorities to bring the offenders to punishment. _ John Burnell stated that he was a rider in the •Royal Horse Artillery, and on Sept./7th he left Woolwich with a forged pass, intending to desert, . nd on the followirr , day he met the prisoner in 'Charles-street, Westminster. He asked witness if he was on leave, and he replied that he was. They were together some time, and at night he slept at a coffee-house. On the following morning he again saw the prisoner, who told him that he was a dis charged soldier of the Coldstream Guards, and had. his discharge. Witness then told him he wanted to desert, and prisoner said he would take him to a place in Petticoat-lane with his (prisoner's) dis charge, where he could change his uniform for plain clothes. Witness told him that his pass was a forged one. The prisoner then took him to a place near Tower-hill, to a dealer in clothes, who referred them to another place. A policeman came up and took him into custody, on suspicion of attempting to desert. (The witness was in military custody in court.) Policeman Storer, 56 H, stated that he noticed the prisoner and the artilleryman together on Tower hill, and having some suspicion that the latter meant to desert, from the dirty slovenly condition of his uniform, the appearance of the prisoner, and their looking about for a clothes dealer, he watched them. They went to a shop, and on leaving he made some inquiry, and then went after them. The prisoner said the man had. his discharge from the Guards with him, which statement was false, az he knew that the soldier wore the Artillery and. not a Guardsman's uniform, and he took him into cus tody for attempting to desert, and the present charge was made against the prisoner. The prisoner said nothing in his defence. The jury found him guilty. Mr. Atkinson said it was quite a system for sol diers to desert from the line and to enlist in the East India service, for the sake of the bounty. Such had been the intention in this instance. The Assistant-Judge deferred the sentence. John Oxley, 47, was indicted for stealing 45 flannel shirts, 30 pairs of trowsers, and other articles, of the value of £6O, the property of Chas. Russell Harrison, his master. He pleaded guilty. Mr. F. H. Lewis stated that the prisoner, for whom he appeared, had been 23 years in the army, but forfeited 20 years of that service for being absent without leave for 21 days. He served in the Crimea, and had the medal and clasps for Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, and the siege of Sebastopol. He was servant to Pakenham, and after his death to Sir Charles Russell. Subsequently he was dis charged from disabilities, without being entitled to any pension. He then entered the service of the prosecutor, a fencing-master in the Haymarket, at a salary of 12s. a-week. No doubt he had pledged property of his employers, but the whol e o f i t cou ld be redeemed for. £lO. The prisoner had a family to support. The prosecutor stated that the value of the pro perty was £6O, although only £lO had been raised upon it. The prisoner had been in his service about 18 months, and by his pay and gra tuities h e made about 18s. per week. The pledg ings com menced in January last. Sentence was deferred. Edward Williams, 18, was indicted for stealing a parcel of fancy Coburg dresses, value £3, the pro perty of Messrs. J. Milligan and Co., of, Gutter lane. Mr. Cooper prosecuted. It appeared that prosecutor's traveller left his phaeton at a draper's door, when, notwithstanding it was being watched by a boy, the prisoner managed to get behind unobserved, and to steal a bundle of coburgs. He was stopped with it by a policeman, whom he told he was going to take it to his master's as he had picked it up in the street. He was taken to the station, and information was afterwards re ceived of the theft. The traveller did not miss the parcel until he had gone some distance from the shop. The prisoner was found guilty, and it was then proved that after several previous convictions, he was sentenced on Sept. 11, 1854, to four years' penal servitude, which expired on the 10th ult., and he was discharged from Parkhurst on that day. While in Parkhurst, he behaved very ill, and aided some of the prisoners to escape. When his sentence was up, he was under punishment for insubordination. The Court sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude, and hoped he would be sent to Western Australia. Richard Bowleg, 31, was convicted of stealing a piece of bacon. He had been four ve fo ne t a im rs e , s tr e a o n n s v i tt r e ta d,. t a i n o d n h a Itd b a e p e p n e a s r e e n d t e t n h c a e t d h t e o h s a e d for y about 11 months THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1858. been working honestly for a livelihood since his discharge. Sentence was deferred. Mr. T. Salter prosecuted. Henry Williams, 25, was convicted on Monday of stealing a mantle, value 55., the property of Martha Packhorse, from a shop-door in High-street, Poplar. The prisoner had only just served a sentence of 12 months when he committed this theft. There were four other convictious against him, and he had been transported for seven years. He was now sentenced to eight years' penal ser vitude. Maria Hart, 48, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen 211bs. of meat, the property of Francis Ravenshear. She had been three times convicted summarily of stealing meat. A respectable-looking elderly man stated that the prisoner was his wife. He had been in a far better position in life than he was at present, and the pri soner had been a good wife to him until she got con nected with parties who led her into habits of drinking, and when they had got her to spend all her money, and she was under the influence of drink, she committed these acts of larceny. It was invariably meat that she took, not because she was in want; it was all through drink. He yet had hope of making her a bright woman, and at the expiration of the sentence the court might pro nounce, and he hoped it would be a lenient one, he would send her to Canterbury, as he had an oppor tunity of doing, and so break off her acquaintance with those persons whose evil counsel and advice had been the cause of her intemperate habits and her present position at the bar. She never did any thing wrong except when in a state of inebriety. The Assistant-Judge sentenced her to six months' hard labour. Waterloo, on 15th August last. He had been con victed at the Southwark Police-court for stealing a pair of trousers, and was sent toWandsworth House of Correction. The prisoner's name appears in the Gazette as a deserter. _ Mr. Ingham—How do you know that the pri soner is the same boy mentioned in the Gazette Witness—Mr. Lay-land, the superintendent of the Reformatory School at Wandsworth, is present, and will speak to that fact. Mr. Lay-land—The boy was bound from our school. Mr. Ingham—Does the captain of the Waterloo wish to have him back ?. _ _ Mr. Layland—Yes, sir. I have communicated with him, and he expressed a wish to have him back. Mr. Ingham—Some time ago I received a letter from Captain Greet, stating that I should in future not send the worthless deserters back to him again. Mr. Layland—The captain of the Waterloo is perfectly well aware of the boy having been con victed. Sergeant Bocking—Your worship, if the autho rities did not wish to have him back a ga i n , th e y would not have placed his name in the Gazette. Mr. Ingham—Yes, I remember there was some arrangement that I should not send back those deserters who were not mentioned in the Gazette. Well, boy, have you anything to say ? Prisoner—Nothing, sir. Mr. Ingham—Then you will be taken to th e Crocodile receiving ship, lying off the Tower. Mr. Layland—This is the only boy out of be tween 30 and 40 others who have been bound to the navy from our school that has deserted. The prisoner was then removed. bring me authentic news of these little song sters or their descendants, and I soon received satisfactory information that they had been seen and heard. And since then, it being known that I was taking some interest in such experiments, people have frequently volunteered such information as leads me to feel convinced that the English skylark is established among us— whether as yet in sufficient numbers to guard against casualties I cannot say. The summer before last we set free in the Bo tanical Gardens, near Melbourne, four nightin gales, purchased of a bird dealer, at a high rate, of course. Two we found could not fly. We had to ' recatch them, and they afterwards died, perhaps being injured in the process of recatching. One of those set free was seen and heard still in the gar dens by a gentleman well acquainted both with the song and appearance of the bird several months after they had been set fat liberty, and within a few days of the time I left the colony Dr. Mueller, the superintendent and Government botanist, had been assured by a respectable gentleman that he had just heard the note of the nightingale while rowing up the river past the gardens. So much for successes from very small begin nings ; now for the very encouraging form which these successes are apt to take. Past the city of Melbourne flows the river Yarra. It is rather a fine river, always flowing, even in the driest season, generally about 20 or 30 feet deep, quite fresh at the city, although, of course, a little " Thamesy" after it has received the washings . of that crowded place. Along the banks of the river upon highdays and holy days and upon our fine mornings and evenings spreads that patient and reflective portion of our population, young and old, which takes delight in the placid joys of fishing. While witnessing the zeal of these brethren of the angle I always felt grieved to think that they had not the slightest chance of catching anything of above a pound weight ; the only fish in the river, except eels, being a little " Mack fish," rarely reaching that weight, and a fish we call " herring,' which does not attain anything like the size of its saltwater namesake. After some little cogitation I determined to try to introduce into the Yarra the Murray River cod, described by Major Mitchell and others, and soon came to the conclusion that b tracing up the tributaries of both rivers should find a practicable road by which this little experiment could be worked out. There was no difficulty in the way. I sent up a couple of men and a horse and cart, and in a month I had about 60 cod and 40 of another fish, called " bream," turned alive and healthy into the Plenty River, which runs into the Yarra several miles above the town. Last summer these fish were seen in various directions, nearly as low as Melbonrne itself, and, better still, in the Yarra Yarra reservoir, a lake of 10 miles in circumference and 20 feet deep, just formed to supply the city with water—till now unsupplied with fish of any sort, and probably one of the finest nurseries in the world. Experienced anglers in the Yarra are already catching a small fish which has never been seen there before, and which, although the professor of natural history at our university pronounces it not the Murray cod, I am inclined to think may turn out to be the young of one of the kinds of fish I introduced. This little experiment being a good deal discussed in the colony, other people began to ask themselves whether the waters of their several localities were being turned to the best possible advantage. The municipal council of the great central diggings of Ballarat remembered that the great Lake Burrum beet, at the back of their township, was utterly un stocked. They secured the assistance of adjacent settlers—Mr. Learmonth and others—and had the • same fish carted across the ranges and turned into the lake. And soon after the inhabitants of the town of Colac, several score miles further to the southward, were stimulated to similar action, assem bled in public meeting, and subscribed £lOO to bring the Murray cod into the beautiful lake from which their township takes its name. Thus, it is the tendency of these experiments ever to ramify,-till the results exceed our most sanguine expectations, When I set about introducing the Murray cod into the Yarra, I confess that I never had a thought of Colac and Burrumbeet. I was perfectly satisfied with the success of my own expe riment, and have these all extra fel: my pains. If I can induce a few people here to do anything of this kind, the colony will be found quite prepared to do full justice to the effort. Upon the occasion of my having the honour of reading to the members of the Philosophical Institute of Melbourne a brief paper upon the introduction of the British song bird, an intelligent committee w as appointed to co , operate with me, and to watch over such experi ments. The Council of the Institute placed a sums of money at our disposal, and the Government im mediately built a large aviary, enclosing several trees, in the Botanical Gardens, for the furtherance of our objects. This has become one of the princi pal attractions of these beautiful gardens, and against the wires of this aviary our colonial chil dren flatten their little noses, with a delight, alas, known only to the child, as they make their first acquaintance with the lark, linnet, thrush, black bird, goldfinch, and nightingale, known to them as household words among their parents, but till now never known by sight. At the same time an association of a wider range has been formed for the prosecution of such experi ments, under the title of a Zoological Society. It has received the grant of a valuable track of land from Government, and has been voted £3,000 by the Legislature, with a special intimation that its prin cipal function is to be the introduction of new animals, not simply the provision of an agreeable and instructive promenade for the colonists. Now, if it were possible to depend upon success in these efforts from doings so small as those I have described, it would be unnecessary to trouble you upon the subject, or to appeal through you to that enormously wide circle which you have the privi lege of addressing daily. But in handling such subjects I have always enlarged most energetically upon the necessity for the amplest provision against all casualties, for the patient and persevering ela boration of an experiment - till either it is successful or till the end aimed at be proved to be literally impossible, so that we may dismiss the subject from our thoughts and devote our attention to some thing else. It is of no use to turn adrift a dozen pheasants in the woods, and to call that trying an experiment in the propor acceptation of the term. If we set deliberately about a task of supplementing Nature, we must imitate her in one of the most remarkable and beautiful of her attributes—profusion. If she desires to keep a par ticular fish in existence, she provides each several female with a roe of 10,000 eggs. As the swallow is not to become extinct, their gathering for their autumnal trip darkens the very sky, as your columns have lately informed us.' And so with us. If we are seriously desirous of extending among our fellow creatures the good - things furnished us by a benevolent Creator, we . must not only be thoughtful, painstaking, and enterprising, but per sistent, undaunted, and profuse. I feel sure that I need but give the hint I have given to secure the offer of assistance from many a wealthy landowner whose well-stocked preserves would easily afford even liberal drains for such a purpose as this, and to inoculate many with something of the same sen sations with which I see our beautiful game birds ranged upon a poulterer's 'shelves, apostrophising each one as I pass, " Ah, my fine fellow, would that you were strutting at this' moment in some snug galley of Australia, in the fulfilment of the duties of a graceful paternity, the noble founder of an aris tocracy of birds ! " Having last week brought this matter under the notice of the Colonial-office, I am happy to say that it was received in a style encouraging in the ex treme. Lord Carnarvon promises me not only to lend any assistance in his power in his official capacity, but to lay his private estates under con tribution to the cause. With but a few imitators, and a careful eye to variety , in our shipments, we might really do something effective in a very short time, and, still better, generate a movement which should rapidly populate even the most waste places of the earth. If I receive any encouragement, it will be easy to secure some place in London or the neighbourhood for the reception of birds or other animals till opportunities of shipment offer, and I can say from experience that the shipowners trading with the colonies will be found liberal enough in tenders of assistance. In what I have said I may haie laid myself open to the suspicion of being an enthusiastic sportsman who is desirous of furnishing himself with amuse ment at the expense of others, or a landed proprie tor whose property would be improved by the abundance of game on his estate. In justice to myself, therefore, I must be allowed to say that, not owning an acre of land in Australia, I could not supply a breakfast to a partridge ; I have not a tree upon which I could ask a pheasant to perch. I have not touched a fishing-rod for 20 years, and never shot a head of game in my life, except one quail, which flew away from me immediately after, rather refreshed, apparently, than injured by the slight stimulant which I had administered. I have no interest in the matter, except that of wishing to see the good things of the earth spread as rapidly as possible over every portion of its surface, and to find every reasonable effort made to multiply as far as can be the legitimate enjoyments of man kind.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD WILSON. 1, Southwick-crescent, Oct. 18. PENALTY OF SELLING A CIGAR ON A SUNDAY. At Wakefield, on Monday, Joseph Holdsworth, a grocer was fined 17s. fdr his wife selling a cigar in his shop on Sunday evening, though it was urged that he had an t m_ limited license to cell tobacco. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Oct. 19. GUILDHALL.—Lewis Zucker, a jeweller, of 322, Oxford-street, was brought up before Alderman Phillips, charged with falsifying a certificate trade account book, with intent to defraud his creditors. Mr. Bodkin, instructed by Mr. Sidney, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis attended on behalf of the bankrupt. The proceedings in bankruptcy were produced, as also a copy of the bankrupt's examination before Mr. Commissioner Evans on the 4th of Oct., 1858, the substance of which, as well as of the evidence given by witnesses who were called to speak to the date of the manufacture of the paper of which the account book in question was composed, will be gathered from Mr. Bodkin's address on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. Bodkin, upon their evidence, asked that the prisoner should be committed for trial under the 252 d section of the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act of 1849, which enacts " that if any bankrupt wil fully alters, falsifies, or destroys, any of his books or accounts, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanour." The prisoner had become bankrupt through, as he alleged, a robbery of a large sum of money, but whether such robbery ever took place was a question for further inquiry ; at all events, there was a large deficiency in the prisoner's estate. At his examination in bankruptcy he produced the book referred to, and although he denied the erasures, it would be perceived on carefully examin ing the dates that a figure "5" was written over an erasure, and in one place the traces of a figure " 8 " in 1858 are still perceptible, as it has not been thoroughly erased, and the bject of these erasures was to substitute an earlier date to give this book the character of having been in his possession, and that he kept his accounts regularly in it, from 1855 up to the date of his bankruptcy. It, however, ap peared that the paper of this very book was pur chased in Aug. last, and, what was material to re member, it was machine-made, and bears the im pressed name of Shaw and Sons, who never had any paper of that kind made until 1857. With re gard to the binding of the book, the witnesses have sworn that it is clumsily bound, and it was evident that the object of putting the paper into old covers was to give it the appearance of antiquity consistent with the date of the entries it contains. These were, however, facts fora jury to determine upon, and he (Mr. Bodkin) asked that on the evidence they had heard the prisoner should be committed for trial. Alderman Phillips—The only question I have to consider is that suggested by Mr. Bodkin,—ls the evidence sufficient to justify a committal ? I think it is, and I shall therefore send the case to a jury, but I will accept bail for the prisoner, himself in £3OO, and two sureties of £2OO each. Mr. Bodkin—l may also state, for the informa tion of Mr. Lewis, that it is very probable that the prisorter will also be indicted for perjury. The prisoner, who has not hitherto succeeded in obtaining bail, was then committed to Newgate to await his trial. CLERKENWELL—Mr. Carpenter, residing at 18, Clerkenwell-green, appeared before Mr. Corrie on a summons for refusing to pay to the Commis sioners of Police the sum of £l, for the services of a competent surveyor, who was required by them to survey a structure on Clerkenwell-green, and who after the completion of his survey certified to the commissioners that such structure was in a dangerous state, &c. The defendant said he did not owe the money. All he laid out in doing the work was 10s. or 12s. Besides he had had no notice from the court. Mr. Corrie—ls not the amount of the fee rather exorbitant when so small a sum only is required to put it in proper repair? Mr. Bennett Hayes said he assisted Mr. Reeves, the surveyor to the police, and surveyed the house in question. It often happened that a house not abso lutely in imminent danger required more examina tion than one that was. The commissioners had paid Mr. Reeves for the work done. After some discussion, Mr. Corrie (to defendant)—l think you had better make an arrangement and pay the half of the fee. The defendant, after some demur, paid the half fee, when Mr. Corrie said—lt had better be mentioned that I think the person who does the work should be the person paid. The parties then left the court. Mr. H. Bell, of 118, St. John-street-road, was summoned for a like amount as the last case, and agreed to pay it. WORSHIP-STREET.---lames King, about 30 years of age, and of respectable exterior, was charged before Mr. Hammill with feloniously pos sessing 79 pieces of spurious coin, namely, 20 forms and 59 shillings. James Brannan, formerly an inspector of the G division of police, stated that agreeably to instruc tions by the Mint authorities; he, with other officers, went on Saturday morning last to Church-street, Shoreditch, in quest of the prisoner. The capture was effected shortly afterwards, and Inspector Bry ant took from the prisoner's coat pocket a parcel containing coin named in the charge. Subsepiently witness and Bryant went into the skittle-ground of the Black Dog, in Church-street, and there disco vered four counterfeit half-crowns concealed in the " padding." The house in - question was frequented by the worst characters. Prisoner had been a thief from his childhood, and with his wife was sentenced to an imprisonment of 18 months for unlawfully possessing counterfeit coin in 1856. Mr. Bellamy, who prosecuted for the Mint, said that this fact made a second offence a felony. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. SOUTHWARK.—John Millington, a dentist, residing in Berwick-street, Soho, was further exa mined, charged with stabbing Alexander Hen derson, on the left temple, with a pair of sharp pointed scissors, used by surgeons and dentists. Mr. Solomon appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutor, who exhibited two punctured wounds on the left temple, said he was a. photogra phic artist, carrying on business at 156, High-st., Borough. On Saturday week last the prisoner came to his rooms and requested to have his por trait taken. He took two. -The best executed one he gave to the prisoner properly framed, and the other witness put in his pocket. The prisoner then got in a passion and demanded that. Witness told him he could not have it, and that he might rest assured it would not be placed at the door, and then he proceeded upstairs. The prisoner followed him and made use of threatening language, and after struggling with him to get the portrait he left the house. On Monday morning, the 11th, he came again and asked for the second portrait, and handed him a sovereign for it. Witness returned him the money, and told him it had been broken in the scuffle, and if he waited he would show him the pieces. The prisoner then became very violent, and suddenly stabbed him twice on the side of the left eye, with the sharp points of a pair of shears. He had suffered very severely from the wounds, but he did not wish to press the charge, as he had known the prisoner for some years. Mr. Burcham observed that the charge was one of such a serious nature that he could not deal with it. He should, therefore, send the prisoner for trial, but remand him for the evidence of the sur geon who dressed the wounds. WANDSWORTH.—Joseph Minus, an intelli gent-looking boy, about 15 years of age, was placed in the dock, before Mr. Ingham, charged with de serting from her Majesty's ship Waterloo, lying off Sheerness. -Sergeant Bocking, of the V division, said—ln consequence of information I received I went that morning to the Wandsworth House of Correction and apprehended the prisoner upon his being dis charged for deserting from her Majesty's ship THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS, The following letter has been addressed to the editor of The Times : Sir,—A short time since I brought under the notice of your readers a small flock of alpacas lately arrived in the neigkbourhood of London, and made a proposition to the Victorian colonists ;now resident in England to purchase them and present them to the colony, as a slight testimony of -what it has done for us. Mainly through the zeal and intelligent efforts of my friend, Mr. Tootal, late of Melbourne, who at once offered to act as honorary secretary, the necessary sum has been nearly raised, the animals have been purchased, and arrangements made for their shipment. They are to go out by the Goddess, now lying in the East India Docks, and it is expected that she will sail about the end of this month. As we have secured the services of a very competent man from the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park, who has been strongly recom mended, to take charge of these animals, the thought has occurred to me that an opportunity is afforded for further experiments of a similar character, and to which for several years I have been payingsome attention. The hearty warmth with which my views have been met wherever I have broached them encourages me to believe it possible that a movement might readily be organized which would be attended with the most interesting results, and I therefore venture to ventilate the subject in your übiquitous columns. The remarks I make are mainly addressed to the case of Australia, but it will be perceived that they are applicable to many other countries,—in some sort to all. The animals indigenous to Australia are rather insignificant i n a u tilit ar ian sense. We have the kangaroo, th e w ild don., emu, opossum, bandicot, and many oth ers , furnishing a little sport, an occa sional meal, and an interesting study to the physi ologist, but of little value for the practical purposes of every-day life. But while this is all that nature unassisted has done for us, what has she given us when her bounteousness has been supplemented by the efforts of man ? It is but the other day that we got the sheep • yet we already supply Great Britain with the chief portion of her finer wools. The first cow was imported within the memory of living man ; and now vast herds roam over millions of acres, from Wide Bay to South Australia, and good judges are beginning to ask whether the colonial cattle will not bear a favourable compari son with the English average. We have got the horse, unrivalled in the whole world for his powers of endurance ; for were the deeds of our grass-fed stock-horses but whispered within your well-kept English stables, the narrative would be roared down by a general chorus of incredulous horse-laughter. The " time" of our races would compare not very unfavourably with your own. And thus, with the dog, cat, pig, domestic fowl, duck, rabbit, pigeon, down to our old friends the common house rat and mouse, which, with their own amazing pertinacity, stick by us with a fidelity worthy of a better cause, and, multiplying exceedingly among us, give a home aspect to our colonial houses in their own in• genious and significant style. In short, Australia is highly favourable for the production and existence of living creatures—in many respects superior to England itself, which is no slight praise. This covering of a new country with new things, all imported, and. as a whole, all thriving, is a very brilliant and encouraging achievement. But, in stead of success leading to contentment and a dis inclination for further effort, the very brilliancy of our success hitherto should be a stimulus, I think, to still more energetic exertion ; and we should never rest till every country in the world has been effectively tested with every natural production for which it may be believed in any way suitable. How far by such means human happiness may be multiplied, how far commerce and civilization may be stimulated, furnishes a delicious dream to the philanthropist in which he may profitably revel, if he do not allow the yearnings of his heart entirely to preclude all recollections of his breeches pocket. iesident, as I have been, in a new and undeveloped country, and who has watched it almost from its earliest infancy, these considera tions present themselves in a very impressive form indeed. Why should the tables of our colonists not be supplied with an occasional hare or pheasant as well as yours ? Why should our alderman be baulked of his salmon cutlet, or slice of venison, more than your alderman ? Why should the heart of our ploughman not be gladdened by the song of the skylark ? And why should the daughter of Australia, as she lingers with her lover upon a moonlight evening,..be deprived of one more felicity —one more topic of conversation, in the nightingale perched in the neighbouring thicket P We do not know how many such things are capable of much more extended distribution than at present, and we never shall know unless we try. To show that much may be done is this way, and that the colony with which I am chiefly iden tified is in a frame of mind favourable to the de velopment of any experiments that may be made, I will state a few facts which, during my inquiries in this department, have come under my observa tion. Deer have long been established in Tasmania and New South Wales, and a wild herd, descended from a few head either deliberately turned out or escaped from enclosures,.is known to exist near Liverpool, occasional specimens falling to the bullet of the deer-stalker, and figuring in the butchers' shops in Sydney. Two or three pairs were some years since placed upon Philip Island in Western Port Bay; and when I last saw the gentleman who occupies it as a sheeprun they had increased into a pretty little herd of between 20 and 30. The pheasant has been permanently established in the north of New Zealand. It now abounds by thousands in the neighbourhood of Mongarrui, and is often brought down alive and sold by Maories in the town of Auckland. There were singular circumstances attending its introduction, which, as illustrating the ease with which some of these experiments may be carried to a successful issue, are worth narrating. Being in Auckland last January, I made it my business to hunt up Mr. Walter Brodie, fo whom the honour of their introduction is due, and from him I got the parti culars. Some years since Mr. Brodie, being on the eve of a voyage out, obtained a considerable num ber of pheasants, partridges, &c. to take with him. He landed nea r ly a ll i n safety, and turned his stock of these birds into an aviary upon his estate, in tending to breed from them and turn out their progeny into the woods when they became suffi ciently numerous to give a fair chance of success. No other pheasants had ever been introduced in that neighbourhood. It was in the earlier days of the settlement of New Zealand ; ships arriving were few and far between, and such a fact as this was easily attainable; and yet, to the unutterable astonishment of Mr. Brodie, a native one day brought him the headless body of an English phea sant which he had just rescued from a hawk. None had ever been missed from the aviary, none were missed then, and yet from that day pheasants have existed in the neighbourhood, and are there still. The Fates were less auspicious in the case:of the poor partridges, which one after another came to some untimely end, and the experiment in this case was unsuccessful. I have been assured, how ever, that they have been since introduced into the Canterbury settlement, and that good coveys are now flushed in the cornfields of that flourishing province. About the year 1847 a gentleman of a patriotic turn of mind turned seven English skylarks loose in the Barrabaal hills, a few miles to the westward of Geelong. They were the remains of a dozen with which he had left home, the rest having died on the passage. After a few years, finding no further notice taken of the experiment, I offered a reward of a few pounds to any one who would FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAY DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 10. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain James Robert Mann, R.E., to be Surveyor-General for the Island of Mauritius, and C. Wing, Esq., to be Collector of Cus toms for the said 'Blond. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John Scott Tucker, Esq., to be Civil Engineer for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 18. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, inclosing a copy of a French Imperial Decree prolonging, until the 30th September, 1859, the exemption from shippinm ' .dues on cargoes of grain, meal, rice, potatoe s, a nd dried vege tables. ABOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 18. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy. Council for Trade and Plantations have received informa tion, through her Majesty's Consul-General at Algiers, that the restrictions hitherto existing at the ports of Algeria, as to the tonnage of vessels allowed to carry goods upon which an import duty of 10 per cent. is levied, are hereafter to apply exclusively to vessels engaged in re-exportation. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 18. Tho Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Tangiers, report ing that the prohibition to export Slippers and Haicks (woollen sashes) from Morocco has been w _thdrawn. BOARD ,OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 18. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, in closing copy of a, French Imperial Decree prolonging, until the 30th September, 1869, the privilege allowed to foreign vessels to carry grain,, meal, rice, potatoes, and dried veget ables, between France and Algeria. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 19. MEMORANDUM.—The next competitive examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, will be held in London on the 3d January, 1859. The qualifications remain as heretofore ; and all gentle men who desire to obtain commissions in the Royal Artil lery or Royal Engi . neers, are required to pass through the course of instruction at the 'Royal Military Academy. For a prospecips and further information, the parents or guardians of the candidates should apply to the Military Secretary, at the Horse Guards. COMMISSION BY THE QUEEN. Ist West York Regiment of Militia—John Simpson, Esq., to be Payinaster. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. County of Stafford- 7 George.Briscoe, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. 2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En sign Frederick Clement Sneyd to be Lieutenant, vice Bnndley, deceased. King's Own. Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Robt. Augustus Warren, Esq., late Captain in the County Dublin Militia, to be Captain, vice Kitson, promoted. Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Lieutenant Edward Jeffcock to be Captain, vice Bromwich resigned; Lieutenant John Colbourn to be Captain, vice Frank Corbett, resigned. Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia--Henry Stanhope May, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Owen, promoted. Royal Glamorgan Light Wantry Militia—Ensign R. Fisher Evans to be Lieutenant; Ensign Henry Hammond Spencer to be Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, S EPT. 30. The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Edmund Cockburn, Bart., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Com mon Pleas at Westminster, has appointed John Richard Wood, of Woodbridge, N. the county of Suffolk, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married wo men, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re, coveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Suffolk. NOTICES TO MARINERS. AUSTRALIA—SOUTH COAST • Various alterations having been -made from time to time in the lights on the southern coast of Australia, the follow ing information respecting them has lately been published by the Department of Trade and Customs at Melbourne. Fixed Light on Gabo Island, Cape Howe. The fixed white light, shown from the lantern supported by a skeleton timber frame near the middle of Gabo Island, at 5t miles to the S.W. of Cape Howe, is eclipsed from S. by E. kE.to S. W. for about 2 miles seaward, by a small range of sand hills ; the light may be seen at a distance of 17 miles. A stone tower, to bear a fixed light of greater power than the above, is to be built on the south-east point of the island, due notice of which will be given. Revolving Light on Cape Otway. The revolving light, exhibited from the white stone tower on the extreme south-west of Cape Otway, shows a bright flash every minute, visible in clear weather at 24 miles. Mariners are reminded that a dangerous reef lies three quarters of a mile to the S.S.E. of the light tower. Revolving Light on Cape Willoughby. The revolving light at Cape Willoughby, the south-east extreme of Kangaroo Island, exhibits its greatest bililiancy every one and a half minutes, and illuminates an arc of the horizon, to the distance of 24 miles, from N. by W., a W., round easterly, to El. - W.4 W. Revolting Light on Cape Borda. Also, that the lighthouse erecting on Cape Borda, the north-west extreme of Kangaroo Island, would probably be completed in July, 1858, and would then exhibit a re volving light, showing a bright and red face alternately every half-minute. The tower is about 60 feet above the Cape, or about 510 feet above the sea level, and the light will be visible in clear weather at 30 miles. [The bearings are magnetic. Variation 51 deg. E. in 1858.] By command of their lordships, JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer. Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, London, Ist October, 1858. This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts : Australia, General Chart, No. 1,042; Bass Strait, No. 1,695; Australia, South Coast, Sheet 3, No. 1,061; and Gulfs of Saint Vincent and Skiencer, No. 2,389, Also Aus tralia Light Lists, published in September, 1858, Nos. 89 and 101. AUSTRALIA—SOUTH COAST ; PORT. PHILLIP. The following information respecting the alterations made from time to time in the lights at Port Phillip, has lately been published by the Department of Trade and Customs at Melbourne. Light Ships in West Channel. The upper light ship, at the north end of the west channel into Port Philip, is painted red, and has three masts ; the fore and main masts are each surmounted with a red ball. A bell is tolled during foggy weather. The light ship lying at the south-west end of Swan Spit is to be removed in a few months, and a light of the same character will then be exhibited from a lighthouse now being constructed on piles, near her present position., Lights in Geelong Harbour. in The light ship Geelong Harbour lies near the Bird Rock, at the eastern entrance of Ship Channel, and exhi bits a fixed white light, visible at seven miles. The vessel has one mast, surmounted with a ball; and is painted red. A bell is tolled during foggy weather. Tidal signals are exhibited on board, showing the height of water on the bar. Lights in Hobson Bay, Melbourne. The fixed light exhibited from Gellibrand Point shows red seaward from S.W. to S.E., and white the remainder of the circle. ~A fixed red light is exhibited from the end of Sandridge jetty; a fixed green light from the end of Sandridge rail way pier; and a fixed red light from the end of the old jeti;y at Williams Town. All three lights are visible sea ward at a distance of three miles. [All bearings are magnetic. Variation 51 deg. E. in 1858 . .] By command of their Lordships, JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer. Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, Oct. 1, 1858. This notice affects the Admiralty Plan of Port Phillip, No. 1,171; and Australia Lights List, published in Sept., 1858, Nos. 94, 95, 96, and 97. MEDITERRANEAN SEA—ISLAND OF MALTA. Fixed Lights, Valletta Harbour. The Superintendent of Ports at the Island of Malta has given notice, that on and after the Ist day of Nov., 1858, two fixed red vertical lights will be exhibited, at an eleva tion of 55 and 80 feet respectively above the level of the sea, from the white circular tower, 41 feet high, standing SS.E. I E. 23 yards within the north-west angle of Fort Ricasoli, as the entrance of Valletta great harbour. The lights will be visible in clear weather at a distance of 4 miles, and will illuminate seaward from E. N., round northerly and up the harbour, to S.W. by W. a W., or in the direction of the mark buoy off Senglea Point, when bearing S. E. they will lead just clear of the mark buoy off St. Elmo point ; and by keeping them in sight when when proceeding up the harbour, they will lead clear of St. Angelo and Senglea points. [All the bearings are magnetic. Variation ]3 l deg. W. in 1858.] By command of their Lordships. cam WASHINGTON', Hydrographer. Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, London, Oct. 4, 1858. This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts : Mediterranean Sea, General Chart, No. 2158 ; Maltese Islands, No. 194; and Valletta Harbours, No. 195. BANKRUPTS. --- - James Williams, grocer, Mountain Ash, Llanwonno, Glamorganshire, to surrender, Nov. 2 and 30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. John Metcalf and John Lilly, hosiers, Birmingham, Nov. 1 and 24, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. William Brown, build er , Whitehaven, Nov. 1, and Dec. 16, at twelve, at ie Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Stephen James Field, wine merchant, Railway-place, Fenchurch-street, Oct. 28, at eleven, and Nov. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles Lewis Wrenshall, musical teacher, B sp i firk r oo k iva e dte nh Gnth e ounaeo i n.. , Oct. 28 and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. • W i ll i am Wolf, baker, Eaton-terrace, Rotherhithe, Oct. 30, at twelve, and Dec. 3, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy- Robert Wright and George Elliott Wright, wharfingers, Leeds, Nov. 4 and 30, at eleven, at Court. debtsp ow d ePartiesorn Tuesday,Companyclaiming ( 2ciL t oi (Limited) ei Nov.t e e d r ) e n d ae irxt are to r in the attend e h e t nl oc precisely, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Robert Palmer, sen., and Robert'Pal • Stokesley, Yorkshire, Nov. 1 and 29, at mer, jun., scriveners, hevdeeivroaLnare,cedleds District District Court. George Montagu Evans, money scrivener, Farnham, Surrey, Nov. 1 at eleven, and Dec of Bankruptcy. . 6 at twelve, at the Court SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Richard Jeffreys. Mucldeston, leather merchant, Borrow stounness. George Murray Kaye, manufacturer, Glasgow. PILLS have be E en m used —j f — reel lr y [ADVERTISE ENT 1 0 b L y L 0 W millionsAY ' S OO f rig h T:N m f EanT beingsAND of :both sexes, and all ages, in every pert of the world, and while the public press has teemed with authenticated cases of extraordina 17 cures in a vast variety of diseases (such as indigestion, scorbutic eruptions and liver complaints), there is not on public record a single case in which their use has been attended with a bad effect. None when using Holloway's Ointinent and Pills need suffer the hope of cure to be counterbalanced by the fear of injury. They are peculiarly mild in their operation, aid .yet. they never fail to give immediate relief, and sooner .or later.to effect ft COM plete and pertuanent cure. . ' ATTEMPT AT CHILD MURDER. Yesterday (Tuesday) a woman of respectable ap pearance, named Elizabeth Ann Keel, the wife of a working man, and respectably connected, waa charged before the Bath magistrates with hav ing attempted to murder one of her 'children, a little girl fifteen months old, on the previous day. The painful circumstances were briefly de posed to as follows :—Mrs. Mary Dowse said she lived at No. 10, Galloway-buildings, and the pri soner occupied two parlours in the same house, with her husband and three children. About two o'clock on the previous afternoon witness went into the prisoner's parlour, as she was fre quently in the habit of doing, hen she heard a. splashing of water in the bedroom adjoining. She went into the bedroom, where she saw the prisoner holding her baby in a pan of water. It was a very large pan, and the prisoner was holding the child, who was dressed, beneath the water with both her hands. The witness asked prisoner what she was doing, and she replied, " I am going to drown the little —." The witness said, " Don't do it," and the prisoner then took the child out of the water and held it in her arms. The child was quite in sensible, and witness tore its clothes off, and wrapped it in a blanket, and sent for a doctor. She then held the child before the fire, but it was an hour before it revived. Two surgeons attended it, and there were now good prospects of its recovery. The witness appeared to be sober at the time, and witness was not aware that she was in the habit. of drinking. She had never noticed anything strange in her manner, but she was frequently very excited. Police-sergeant Barry deposed that about a quarter before six o'clock on Monday . evening he went to 10, Galloway-buildings, and in the front parlour he saw the prisoner, her husband, and Mr. Barrett, surgeon. The prisoner was in a.very excited state, and he said to her, " Mrs. Keel, what's the matter P" She replied. " I tried to drown my little girl. So help me God, I'll murder my three children and myself to-night." Witness said, "Do sit down, and be quiet. You are very excited." She repeated, with an adjuration, " I have made up my mind to do it, and I'll do it.'! She afterwards said, "My husband's father is the cause of all this." Witness considered that the prisoner had been drinking. The prisoner, who is a very interesting and mild looking woman, was remanded. Upon being taken from the dock she saw her husband, on which she burst into tears, and seizing his hand shook it fer vently, with an imploring look. COUNTRY MA.RIETS. LIVERPOOL—OcT. 19. At this day's market there was a small attendance of the trade, and the business done was quite insignificant, as holders generally asked a slight advance, which buyers re fused to pay. Flour, except American, which is scarce, and wanted, was difficult to move at late rates. Oats, with a slow sale, remained as on Friday, or id per 451 b lower than on Tuesday last, although there was a moderate retail demand for wheat. Oatmeal was held for about 6d per load advance, which checked sales. Barley and-peas neglected, and rather easier to buy. Egyptian beans may be quoted 6d to is per qr lower. Indian corn continues neglected, and to effect sales a decline of 6d per qr had to be submitted to. The weather has been broken and wet. RICHMOND-Oc-r. 16. There was a plentiful supply of grain to-day, and a fair business at the annexed prices :—White wheat, from 56 Od to 5s 6d per bushel; red,, 58 Od to 5s 6d; barley, 4s to 4s 6d per do. ; oats, 2s 9d to 4s ; beans, 6s to 6s 6d. LEEDS—OcT. 19. Wheat meets a limited demand at last week's prices. No alteration in the value of fine barley ; other qualities quite unsaleable excepting at ruinous prices. Oats and beans a dull sale, and rather lower. Averages for the week : Wheat . 3,104 qrs., at .44s Od 8ar1ey......... 788 ~ „ 35 3fd Oats 64 23 s 3d Rye -- 72 —s Od Beans 146 „ 44s 6d Peas Arrivals this week : Wheat 3,430 qrs. Oats Barley Beans .. 401 Rapeseed Linseed 405 BRISTOL—Ocr. 19. The market was dull, and the business transacted in all descriptions of grain manifested no improvement on the prices of Thursday last. SHEFFIELD—Ocr. 19. We had a fair supply of wheat, and trade was again brisk, millers buying freely. The best samples realised the full prices of last week. Beans less in demand, with a downward tendency. Barley, oats, and flour without change. White wheat, new, 168 to 20s Barley, grinding..29s to 33s Red do. lss to 17s Oats, old, ........253 to 34s Old white l6s to 21s New do 28s to 32s Red do. 15s to 18s Beans.. 18s to 20s Barley, malting.... 33s to 36s Peas.. 48s to 54s Millers' prices for flour—ls 6d, is Bd, and is 10d per 141 b. . Hay, 80s to 90s ; wheat stra to 40s; turnips, 16s to 20s per 30s to 40s ; oat straw, 35s ton. SUNDERLAND-OCT. 16. There has been a limited show of wheat to-day, which was soon sold at fully last week's prices. The following prices' were obtained : Wheat ..40s to 41. Oats.... 24s to 29s White . .43s to 47s Beans 43s to 478 Barley .278 to 31s Peas ... ,—stq —s Flour, 30s to 3 s ed per sack. NORWICH CATTLE—Ocr. 16. There was a good show of store beasts to-day, consisting of Scots, shorthorns, Irish, and a few Devons. Sales were dull. The selling price for Scots was 4s to 4s 6d; short horns, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Irish, 38 to 3s 6d per stone of 141bs. estimated weight whoa fat. Fat beasts firm at 7s to as 6d per stone. _ Sheep—Fat sheep, 8s to 8s 6d, prime lots 9s per stone. Pip—Good store pigs, 18s to 25s per head. Fat pork, 6s to 6s 6d, prime 6s 9d per stone. COURSE OF EXCHAGE.--:YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 .17k 11 17k Antwerp Brussels — 25 30 25. 35 Hamburgh - 13 71 13 7k Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1181 119 Vienna 10. 7 10 12 341 3 491 .1 491 49 29 90 29 95 Trieste Petersburgh Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 25 ,50 26 55 41 41 122 k 123 .123 123 Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — E.I. Co's bls. House Ms. 60d Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 23 Bombay ditto 2 23 Madras ditto 26 23 East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to the Bth inst. Bengal Madras £1,201 ö 0 0 0 0 Bombay £1,201 5 0 Foreign Gold in Bars (Stattaard) per oz. .S 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) )) 0 5 • BIRTHS. BALFOUR.—On the 16th inst., at Hatt House, Wilts, the wife of J. W. Balfour, Esq., late Captain 7th Dragoon Chiardi, of a daughter. ELWYN.—On the 19th inst., at Charterhouse, the wife of the Rev. Richard Elwyn, of a son. HANKEY.—On the 18th inst., at Wimbledon-common, the wife of Beaumont Harkey, Esq., of a daughter. HERAPATH.—On the 18th inst., at 19, Sheffield-terrace, Campden-hill, Kensington, the wife of Spencer Hera path, Esq., of a daughter. O'Corion.—On the 17th inst., at Cowes, Isle of Wight, the wife of C. H. O'Connor, Esq., Lieut. Royal Limerick Co. Regt., of a son. MARRIAGES. HOME—HALLETT.—On the. 19th inst., at St George's, Bloomsbury, Anthony Dickson Home, Esq„ M.D., V.C. Staff Surgeon of the Forces, to Jessie Elizabeth, s econd daughter of T. P. L. Hallett, Esq., barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's-inn. KNAPP—MAcxEmTE.—On the 19th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, William Knapp, Es 1., of he Wolverley, to Philadelphia, widow of the Rev. James Mackenzie, and youngest daughter of the late Sir Perci val Hart Dyke, Bart., of Lullingstone Castle, Kent. DIE A T H S. ARMSTRONG.- . —On the 16th inst., at Acrelands, near Lan caster, John Armstrong , Esq. , a Magistrate and Dep.- Lieut. l E t . o Upper Baker-street, Jas. Rh o d e s Bankes, Esq. GREEN.—On the 18 th inst., at 21, Middlesex-st r e e t, Ald f—ort:e the county, 17thy , 72 at B A gate, Levy Ephraim Green, aged 74. GOULD.—On the 17th inst., at 16, Holland-terrace, Ken., s i n gton, Mr. Joseph Gould, late of 8, Cleveland-row, St. James's, aged 57. GRIMES.—On the 16th inst., Mr. George Fralyng Grimes, of 44, High-street, Whitechapel, aged 41. HAWTRORNE.—On the 16th inst., George S. Hawthorne, Esq., M.D., of Liverpool, aged 65. RODNEY.—On the 14th inst., at Calais, the Hon. Anne Rodney, daughter of the late Admiral Lord Rodney, aged 83. LONDON : Printed and Published by KURD° YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The &m Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county Of kilddlegex,•Weduesday, October 20, 1868. • ci to ar grn 81a, raa aid am