The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-18 00:00:00

THE NAVY. A naval co urt-martial assembled yesterday on board her N tajesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, 'and! the presidency of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, t or the trial of Mr. John Moire, assist.- engineer of the second class, on a charge of drunkenr Less preferred, against him by his com raanding;officer. The court found the charge proved, and sentenced the; •prisoner to be dismissed his ship, and tc, be placed. •at the bottom of the list of second clasA assistants 'for the term of one year. Rear-Admiral Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., yester day visited P( )rtsmouth dockyard. The Harr:Ler, 17, screw, Commander Sir M. McGregor, E,ailed from Spithead yesterday after noon, for tbue Australian station ; wind, N.E. The Megasra screw troopship, Commander Hen derson, has. been placed in l Dock at Portsmouth, to clean bottom and complete slight repairs for further seltvice. The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gunnery ship at Portsmouth, yesterday steamed outside the harbour, and commenced a course of practice from one of Sir W. Armstrong's 100- pounder guns. The Glasgow, 51, screw frigate, building on No. 1 slip in Ports moutk yard, has a large number of hands engaged upon her in caulking her outside planking and. affixing her keel. Every exertion is being mach to bring her forward for launching at an early - period, but no date has yet been named. The Chanticleer, 17, screw, on the adjoining slip, is complete in her outside caulking, and is painted down to her water line. She will be launched during the present inancial year. The Dryad, 51, screw, sister vessel to the Glasgow, and the Royal Alfred, 91, screw, sister vessel .to the Duncan, are also progressing rapidly in Nos. 3 and 5 slips. The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, having had her valves overhauled, &c., was put out of No. 11 dock at Keyham steamyard yesterday (Monday), and moored in the South-basin. The screw steamship Hero, 90, Commodore Sey mour, was hauled yesterday (Monday) into No. 3 dock at Keyham steamyard, to be examined and cleaned, valves overhauled, &c. The screw steam gunvessel Nimble, 5, was hauled yesterday (Monday) from the lock in Keyham steamyard, into the basin, where she received her Griffith's propeller. The screw steam frigate Ariadne, 24, Captain Vansittart, is now alongside the coal depot in Hamoaze, receiving fuel. The sailing frigate Alarm, 24, in the Devonport dockyard fitting for a coal depot, will, on comple tion, be sent to Pembroke. TILE ARM. A return has been forwarded to the Horse Guards by Major-Gen. C. C. Hay, the Inspector- General at the School of Masketry at Hythe, noti fying the prizes which are awarded t• the troops according to their merit in shooting, which includes Royal Engineers, Royal Marine Light Infantry, and regiments of the Line. It appears that 107 non-commissioned officers and privates of various corps are to receive 3d. per day (one of these prizes being allowed to a regiment), 761 are to receive 2d. per day (one of these prizes only allowed to a com pany when at least 40 man have contended for it), and 2,332 are to receive ld. per day extra pay ; the latter prizes are allowed at the rate of 10 per cent. only of the number actually exercised, and in addi tion to the pay are to be decorated with distin guishing badges. The remaining 536, out of the total number of 3,636 men exercised with the rifle as marksmen are not recommended for prizes, there being 152 in excess of the number allowed by the military regulations :-21 because the applications for prizes were not sent in by the 71st Regiment; 37 are disqualified for having an incompetent know ledge of the theoretical principle of musketry ; 32 because their practice was conducted irregularly ; 7 are transferred to situations where their services could not be made available as marksmen ; 6 men's claims are not substantiated by registers of practice ; 7 were discharged ; 4 practised at short ranges in the second class ; 1 was in prison when he was re quired for examination ; 1 for making an alteration in a register not initiated by an officer ; 1 for prac tising without a knapsack; and 1 for misconduct when at practice. _ - THE HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY. The ancient and Hon. Artillery Company, of which his Royal Highness the Prince Consort is Captain-General and Colonel, last night celebrated the 250th anniversary of the revival of the regi ment by King James 1., by a banquet in Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's-square. The decorations were simple, but characteristic, consisting chiefly of military flags and banners, tastefully disposed in the orchestra and around the walls of the handsome hall. Immediately behind the chair were suspended the present colours of the regiment, the Queen's colour on the right, and the regimental colour, with its motto, "Anna pacis fulcra," on the left. At the lower end of the hall and on either side were ranged the ancient colours of the company. The hall was arranged for 450, six tables stretching at right angles from the top table the entire length of the hall. Lieut.-Col. Lord Colville presided, supported on the right by Major-General Lord Rokeby, K.C.8., Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, K.C.8., Alder man Copeland, M.P., Sheriff Lusk, Surgeon Brod hurst, Col. Palmer, Capt. Hall, H.A.C., the Rev. Thos. Hugo, chaplain, Mr. Tahourdin, secretary, Major Snell; and on the left by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Col. Lord Frederick Paulet, C. 8., Alderman Sir James Duke, M.P., Col. M'Murdo, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. H. Lindsay, Dr. Jeaffreson, Lieut.-Col. Hicks, L.V.R.8., Captain Hall, Royal London Militia, Capt. Potts, Capt. Field, Major Robinson. The company were all in military uniform. The dinner, supplied by Messrs. Willis, was first , rate in quality, but somewhat tardily served. II wag near 10 o'clock before the cloth was removed. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge were unable to attend in consequence of an investiture of the Garter at Windsor. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort sent a plentiful supply of venison. Grace before dinner was said by the Rev. the Chaplain. After the cloth was removed the vocalists in attendance—Messrs. Ransford, J. L. Hatton, IV. E. Ransford, and T. Young, assisted by Miss Rans ford and Mi s t M. W e ll s — sang " F or t h ese an d all 14 7 mercies," from the Laudi epi r itu a li, 1671. The CHAIRMAN, in rising, was received with loud and conflated applause. H e sa id,—l n a dd ress i ng an assembly su ch as I see before me, composed as it is chiefly of British soldiers and volunteers, I feel that the fist toast I have to propose needs no pre face from me. A t in "Health and happiness, a long life, and a long to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen." (Zond 'cheers.) The toast was drink vg i h t all the honours, and followed by the NatiOnai Anthem. , , The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next t oas t said " Health o f hi s R oyal —I now propose to you Highness the Prince Cons o rt , c aptain Ge nera l an d Colonel of the Artillery Company?, Highness t o (Loud ch eers .) I am desired by his Royal express t o you his great regret that he has not been abl e to a attend here this.evening,nd to assure the m em b ers of the Artillery Company that he still takes, as he always has taken, the greatest possible interest in your prosperity and we lfare. (Much applaus e , followed by Prince Albert's March.) The CHAIRMAN.—I now have to give you the toast of " His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." (Loud cheers.) We Volunteers are very proud to reckon his Royal Highness as a comrade. (Loud cheers.) The whole country rejoiced in his safe return from his voyage across the Atlantic, and the fine performance of his first public act—that of drawing closei the ties that ought to exist between the mother country and her children. (Loud cheers.) Glee.—" Blow, gentle gales." The CHAIRMAN—I have now to give you the toast of "The Navy, the Army, and the Volunteer Services of the Country"—(loud cheers)—and I beg to couple with the Navy Sir James Duke, who, although he-haa been Lord Mayor of London, com menced hickcareer in the Royal Navy;—(cheers)— with the Aztpy Lord Rokeby ; and with the Volunteers Colonel M‘lquectO and Colonel Hicks. (Cheers.) I have purposely joined those three services in one toast because I think it 's a fact very much overlooked in this country that ur army and navy are essentially Volunteers. (C is ers.) Unlike those vast Continental armies tha are maintained by forced conscription, the ranks of the army and navy are filled by voluntary enlistment. Our thoughts have naturally been turned towards our brave countrymen who are fighting our battles in China. (Cheers.) Let us hope that the last telegram we have received in this country is true; that a firm peace has been established, and that our army has left Pekin ; but let us also hope that if the army has left Pekin they have left behind, hanging on the gates of the city, those miscreants—if they be Mandarins all the better—who dared to torture our fellow countrymen. (Loud cheers.) And, further, gentlemen, for the sake of the pockets of those who remain at home, let us hope that the army has not left Pekin without having had most ample assu rances from his Majesty the Emperor of China that he will settle his little bill with the people of this country. (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours. Lord ROKEBY, in returning thanks for the army, said, as the result of his military experience he could say that both army and navy were all animated by the same spirit of devotion to the interests of the country. (Cheers.) He was fully sensible of the honour of having to return thanks for the noble profession to which he belonged. The noble chair min had referred to the services now being ren dered by the army in China in bringing the cam paign to a successful termination , which showed that they had not forfeited the high and honoura ble place they enjoyed in the estimation of their fel low countrymen. (Cheers.) He had many friends and comrades in China, as previously in the campaign in India, with whom he had corresponded, and he was happy to say that they might all be justly proud of the present condition of the British army. (Cheers.) It was second to none in the world— (cheers)—and never would be found to fall short of the just expectations of the country, whose honour and dignity it would ever maintain intact. (Cheers.) From the remarks he had recently made to the Volunteers in his own county some people seemed to think that he was disposed to decry the merits of the army in order to cry up those of the Volun teers. Nothing, however, could be further from his intention. But when he was speaking of the effici ency they had attained he very naturally stated what he sincerely felt, that it was impossible to over estimate the importance of the service the Volun teers of Great Britain had already rendered to the country. By coming forward as they had done they had strengthened the diplomacy and Govern ment of the country, and made it perfectly certain that this country, at all events, was safe. (Cheers.) He felt still more sensible of this when he spoke in the presence of such a company—the pioneers of the British Volunteer service. (Cheers.) When he reflected that this was the 250th anni versary, not of the formation but re-establishment of this corps, the senior of those noble regiments which he had the honour to command dating not so far back by 40 years, he naturally felt that the Hon: Artillery Company were the beacon lights which had taught the patriotic men of the country who were willing to devote themselves to its ser vice what road they should follow at any time of emergency. (Cheers.) He felt it a great honour to have his name associated with the army, and he begged again to offer the company his best thanks. (Cheers.) Sir JAMES DUKE acknowledged the compliment on the part of the navy. He felt assured that if they were no longer to boast of their wooden walls, if from the circumstances of the times they might have to build ships of iron instead of oak, the cha racter of the gallant tars who manned them would never change, and when their services were re quired to maintain the honour or interests of the country they would be as conspicuous for valour and success as in themost glorious annals of our his tory. He had great pleasure in being present as the guest of the honourable, ancient, and patriotic corps. (Cheers.) It must be a proud thing for the noble chairman their lieutenant-colonel to see so many comrades in military uniform, and he as representative of London could only say that they were equally respectable and honourable as citizens. He should always be proud of being vice-president of that honourable and ancient company. (Cheers.) Colonel M'MURDO, in rising to acknowledge the toast of the Volunteers of England, which had been so enthusiastically drunk by the most ancient Volunteer corps in the world, felt he was acting the part of a child speaking to its parent. The child was a very young-grown infant, and naturally very proud of its father. (Cheers.) It was a pleasing thing to see assembled in such num bers the representatives of so ancient a corps ; and it must be an answer to those who talk of us as not being a military nation (cheers) to think that the Volunteer element, the germ of the movement, though latent in the country for many years back, when our armies moved abroad or danger threatened abroad, was ready to expand into force to protect our shores. (Cheers.) That happened once before at the beginning of the cen tury; and now again the Volunteer element has expanded into force, not from fear of danger to our shores, but from the deliberate opinion expressed by the nation at large that it is necessary for the defence of this country. (Cheers.) Therefore, wherever our armies went carrying with them vic tory, civilisation, commerce, the Christian religion, wherever the Saxon tongue was spoken, they must still look back to the mother country, and to the Volunteers on whom its safety depended. (Cheers.) The great Volunteer movement was still progres sing; it was an institution of the country, and of its efficiency he was fully able to speak. In its ranks all that was noble, intelligent, and educated in the country was to be found. (Cheers.) It was only a week ago since he had to inspect a corps of highly educated men of course, because they were "the Devil's Own "—(a laugh) —and he mentioned them as an instance of what intelligence would do in the way of drill—he never saw a corps move as they did. (Cheers.) To prove the intelligence brought into the movement, he would tell them that when he had occasion to go recently to the north of England to an inspection of 5,000 men, he had met at dinner a gentleman who was by profes sion an engineer, and who was at the head of an artillery brigade. He mentioned that he had been at Malta with his family for their health, and had attached himself to the Royal Artillery. Having asked him whether he had not learned something from them, he received for reply that he did, and he thought he had taught them some thing too. Being a practical engineer and commanding engineers, it would be strange if he could not show them how, by the appliances of mechanics, they could economise both their time and their power. (Hear, hear.) He would only add that one of those famous guns that had fired at the longest range, 10,270 yards, was the gun of a Volunteer company, made in the Mer- Sey Iron Works. (Hear, hear.) Colonel HICKS on the part of the London Rifle Brigade, also returned thanks. Song, " The Soldier tired," by Miss Ransford. The CHAIRMAN—I now give you the " Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs, and prosperity to the com merce of the city of London." (Cheers.) The inhabitants of the city of London should congratu late themselves that in their new chief magistrate character,th ey have Ar tillery7,(gcebntleman of so eminent and upright a Compa ny guest, and have so ion ties and ourselves merchants and traders eers.) We members of the Hon. are glad to see him here as our g hopesnbtshi subsisted dt betweenhe frien friendly r c e i l i a i t c i o a n u s th t c h r a i that lonanfrgal London Oatdidze. (Cheers.) The cannot but feel ( tonal security that the existence m of ay a and around the city must impart additional Volunteers in a proud day to its prosperity and commerce. (cheers,) Th e LORD MAYOR said—lt is intrusted with the functions of the high for. o a r n d y er on in e the city of London to be present on an 8 oc casion like this. The toast you have drunk is the trade and commerce of the city of London connected with the public functionaries, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs. lam very proud to have to respond to .hat toast, for I feel that the trade and commerce of THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1860. our great country have formed the foundation of the exalted position in which our country now stands throughout the nations of the earth. (Cheers.) It is matter of history and of notoriety that the trade and commerce of our great country had their origin in the city of London. (Cheers.) We are essentially a commercial and industrial people; but we can tolerate no aggression. (Cheers.) We seek no conquests, but we are ready to defend our rights and avenge any insult or aggression, from whatever quarter it may come. (Cheers.) On this occasion, when the Sheriffs and Lord Mayor are here inviied as the honoured guests of this great company, we feel proud of the fact that the city of London has given birth to that which is the parent of the Vo lunteer system—(cheers)—that it was established at a time when there was no standing army—that London established this company, which became a standing army for the city ; and after so many ages have elapsed this is, indeed, a proud and happy celebration. (Cheers.) This is a subject on which I could dilate. The trade and commerce of our great country have been the founders of an im mense empire. We have gone abroad, not for the sake of aggression, but to establish trade. (Cheers.) The establisking of trade has led to our becoming the greatest empire on the face of the earth. It is owing to our trade and commerce that the British language is now spread over the whole surface of the globe, and it is from that that we may hope hereafter to see the establishment of our glorious religion. We may hope that what has taken place within a very short period may tend to enlighten one of the largest empires existing in the world. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN—I feel that it must be a subject of great regret to all present that his Royal High ness the Prince Consort has not been able to attend here this evening. (Cheers.) I assure you I wish extremely that either his Royal Highness or some other person more experienced than myself had occupied the chair on this occasion —(No, no, and cheers)—in order that more justice might have been done to the toast I am now about to propose —the continued prosperity of the Hon. Artillery Company. (Loud cheers.) Had this anniversary occurred in 1850—[A Voice—" Or in 1857."] — well, or in 1857, only three years ago, instead of in the present year, it is more than probable that it might have passed over without any special obser vance. But a great change has taken place within the last few years. I believe lam correct in say ing that in 1857 only two Volunteer corps existed in this country—the Victoria Rifles and the Artil lery Company—(cheers)--whereas in 1860 a Volun teer army, counting in its ranks some 150,000 effi cient soldiers, has sprung up. (Cheers.) Under these circumstances we cannot be astonished that the Hon. Artillery Company, proud of their ancient origin, determined te celebrate an anniversary that redounds so much to their distinction and credit as a body. (Cheers.) Perhaps I may be excused if I give you a very brief outline of the history of the Hon. Artillery Company. (Cheers.) I will say, in passing, that I am happy to think that my task is very much alleviated in consequenee of the leading article which appeared in the Times newspaper this morning—(loud cheers)—and which I hope you have all read. (Renewed cheers.) We are here to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the revival of the company by James 1., but we claim a more ancient origin. We are direct descendants of an armed body which existed in this city in the reign of Henry VIII. They peformed good service in the troubled times of Elizabeth, and did duty at 'El bury Fort at the time of the Spanish Armada. Even James I. calls them " His Ancient Artillery Company of London." So that we could not have been very young in those days. (Cheers.) From that period to the present the company has continued to exercise, under successive war rants from different Sovereigns, and has in variably been commanded either by the Sove reign or a Prince of Royal blood. (Cheers.) During the Civil War, in the reign of Charles I. and the Commonwealth, the company espoused the side of the Parliament. During the Commonwealth they were commanded by General Skippon, and they tended much by their gallantry at the first battle of Newbury to save the Parliamentary army from defeat. It was in 1638 that, after ,having per formed their military exercises with very great efficiency before the Lord Mayor and the civic authorities in Merchant Taylors'-hall, they received at their hands as a reward the lease of their present ground in Finsbury, which we have held ever since, and in 1640 they moved thither from their old exer cising ground. (Cheers.) At the restoration in 1660, James, Duke of York, afterwards James 11., became Captain General, and from that period to the end of the 18th century the company maintained its position as an exercising armed body. They were frequently called upon to assist in preserving the peace of the city, and on several occasions received the thanks of Parliament, an well as of the civic authorities. (Cheers.) In 1798 the possibility of an attempted invasion being anticipated, the com pany formed part of a force of 8,000 who, under command of Lord Harrington, was specially told off for the defence of the metropolis. (Cheers.) In 1799, on the 4th of June, the birthday of George 111., they were part of a force of 800 volunteers who were reviewed in Hyde Park by the King. Again, in 1803, before his Majesty, when 30,000 volunteers were present, the Artillery Company mustered over 1,000 strong. (Cheers.) On these occasions, as at the review before her Majesty last June—(cheers)—the Hon. Artillery Company took the place of precedence due to their rank on the right of the line. (Cheers.) In January last upon the death of Lieut.-Col. Fitzroy, whose premature end was much deplored by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and by none more than by his comrades in the Hon. Artillery Corn pany—(cheers)—her Majesty, on the recommenda tion of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, was pleased to appoint me to the vacant Lieutenant- Colonelcy. (Cheers.) At that time the company mustered 444, but I am proud to say the same spirit that has so strongly manifested itself through out the eoantry for the last year has not been want ing in the Hon. Artillery Company. (Cheers.) We have since that time increased our numbers by nearly 300 new members. (Cheers.) I am happy to think that we have also improved in military effi ciency. (Cheers.) Thanks to the spirit and effici ency of certain members of the company, we have now, in addition to our gun division, a very effi cient troop of horse artillery. The guns were furnished to us by the Government, but the horses and the equipments are the sole property of the members themselves. (Cheers.) I find that during the year 1860 to the present time there have been 124 musters of the regiment for drill and other military purposes, exclusive of musketry and recruit drill. I have now most imperfectly given you a slight sketch of the history . of the Hon. Artillery Company from the time of Henry VIII. to the pre sent day. I trust that every member of it considers, as I do, that it has an honourable and ancient cha racter which it is our duty to maintain. (Cheers.) To effect this, let all ranks, civil and military, unite in working together for the common good of the body. (Cheers.) For myself lam duly sensible of the importance of the command intrusted to me, and no efforts of mine shall be wanting to maintain the efficiency and credit of the corps. (Cheers.) I give you "Continued prosperity to the Hon. Artil lery Company." The toast was drunk with all the honours. The SECRETARY, Mr. Tahourdin, observed that, as the organ on this occasion of the regiment, he respectfully thanked his lordship and the noble and distinguished guests present, for the compli ment paid to the regiment by their presence, and their cordial language on the occasion. He had in tended to give an outline of their history ; but every successive speaker had anticipated him, and cut the ground of Some favourite topic from under him. Lord Rokeby led the van—Sir James Duke fol lowed. The Lord Mayor deprived him of the tell ing point that this company originated when no standing army existed, and he was driven to draw upon Mr. Highmore, the historian of the company, whose zeal led him to carry back the company to - - the times of David and Jonathan. In the 20th chapter of the First Book of Samuel, it was recorded that, after shooting the preconcerted signal of three arrows, Jonathan "gave his artillery to the lad, sad said, Carry it into the city." (A laugh.) He did not propose at that hour to deduce the genea logy of the regiment from the days of David. He would content himself with claiming an origin lost in the obscurity of antiquity, and:with the augury that, whenever the political Cadmus of a neigh bouring Empire, who had sown the dragon's teeth, and found them spring up an armed body, should venture to encounter the roused lion of England, shoulder to shoulder would be the word among the Volunteer armament of England, and his vaunted legions would be ruthlessly swept back and engulfed like the host of Pharaoh in our protecting seas. (Loud cheers.) Major ROBINSON proposed " The health of the President, Vice-President, and Treasurer." Alderman COPELAND, as treasurer, responded in feeling terms. Various other loyal toasts were given and an swered, and the company separated at a late hour. Mr. llarker was toastmaster. LAW INLELLIgENCE—Dec. 17. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Priva, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) HOOPER T. AVARDE. This was an action brought by Miss Hooper, for merly of Brighton, to recover damages for assaults, and on other counts against the defendant, Mr. Warde, a gentleman of fortune residing in Clop stock Park, Warwickshire, in the neighbourhood of Shakspeare's birth-place, St ra tf or d- on -A von . The declaration stated, Ist, that the defendant assaulted the plaintiff, cast her into prison, and there kept her for some time ; 2dly, that he on seve ral occasions, assaulted, beat, wounded, and ill treated her; and, idly, that the defendant converted to his use, and wrongfully dispossessed her of trinkets used by her for the decoration of her per son, that is to say, jewellery, and of books and wearing apparel of the value of £4OO and upwards. Plaintiff also sued the defendant in counts for money, comprised of money lent, money paid for him, and money on an account stated. To the Ist, 2d, and 3d of those counts the defen dant pleaded not guilty, and that the plaintiff first assaulted him, whereon he necessarily committed the alleged acts in self-defence. In another plea he said the goods mentioned by the plaintiff were his property ; as to the money count he pleaded not indebted; and as to the sth count, he pleaded that before the action was brought he had satisfied and discharged the plaintiff's claims. On those pleas the parties joined issue. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. Honeyman ap peared as counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Coleridge conducted the case for the defendant. Mr. James stated the case, and then called evi dence. Miss Hooper, a good-looking woman, apparently between 30 and 40 years of age, deposed that she is plaintiff in the action, and that the defendant, a gentleman of independent fortune, residing in the county of Warwick, had been separated, as she un derstood, about twelve years from his wife, who is still living. At the time, some years ago, that he became acquainted with plaintiff, she was living with her mother at Brighton. She first saw him one evening that she was waiting in the street, in expectation of meeting a young man with whom she was keeping company. Defendant addressed her and induced her to comply with his request to go with him to his seat in War wickshire, and live with him nominally as " nurse maid," to take care of his children by his wife. She consented, and she continued to live with him down to May, 1859. They lived together as husband and wife, in which latter character she passed. She had altogether seven children by him, and five of them are still living. She accompanied him to Paris, and one of the children was born in that city. The birth was noticed in Galignani's Messenger. When defendant first accosted her in Brighton, and ascer tained from her where she lived and obtained her permission to walk and converse with her, he told her that he was separated from his wife, and having let her into a knowledge of much of his domestic history, he engaged her, as stated, " nominally" for the purpose of taking care of his children, at £l6 a year. On their return to Warwickshire, defendant, who became jealous of her, treated her on several occasions with great unkindness. Her first improper intimacy with him arose after he had had an hyste rical fit. She was then his sole attendant. She after that lived with him openly as his wife, up to May, 1859, when his treatment of her became so brutal as to compel her to leave him. He on one occasion took gravy out of the dish and threw it over her, and he on another occasion seized a billiard cue, and beat her on the back and face with it, and hurt her. She told him ho should pay for it, and he knocked her down and cut her. His quarrels with her were frequent, and ho on one occasion locked up silver forks, and wished her to eat her dinner with a steel folk. She refused, and he then knocked her down. On another occasion that he used her with violence, her shoulder was dislocated. He on an other occasion wished her to sign some deed, or document, and she refused to execute it, and locked herself in her bedroom for safety. He sent for the police, and she said she would not open the door for £50,000. She had a case of pistols and a double barrelled gun loaded for her defence, in the room, and when the police and others attempted to take her she seized the double barrelled gun, and de clared she would shoot the first man who dared to approach her. She was threatened, if she did not go down and sign the document, that she would have handcuffs placed upon her. She, however, resisted, and the police, alarmed by the " double barrel," were afraid to act, (Laughter.) She re fused to sleep with defendant in consequence of an intimacy which she suspected existed between him and one of the servants. He ill-treated her because she refused, and with an archery bow which he had in his room, he struck her. She was obliged to have medical attendance. It was imputed by defen dant that one of the children did not belong to him, but she declared he was the father of the child. She would not have submitted to such repeated ill treatment, liut from a desire to remain with her children. Plaintiff further stated that the defendant on another occasion approached her in his dressing gown, with a eart•whip in his hand, and having upbraided her about the contents of some letters that he charged her with passing to some parties of whom he suspected her to be intriguing —a charge which she at the time denied, he used the whip violently on her. She threw herself on the ground and he then withdrew and returned into the house. She left his house the next day, and went to Stratford, and there took up her abode. In cross-examination, Mr. Hawkins elicited that the plaintiff had become addicted to drinking, and that she intrigued with a boy named Williams, little more than 14 years of age, who was first a sort of helper in the grounds, and who was after wards taken into the house for the alleged purpose of attending to the children's carriage. In re-examination by Mr. James, as to the man ner in which the intrigue between her and the boy Williams originated, the plaintiff gave her answers in a low and indistinct, and apparently embarrassed tone of voice, in which she was under stood to say that her intrigue and improper inti macy with the boy took place in compliance with the request of Mr. Warde, the defendant, The Lord Chief-Justice—Do you mean to say that the defendant, Mr. Warde, told you to allow the boy Wiliams to have improper intercourse with you? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice ( with a look of surprise) —" Yes." Where did it occur ? Plaintiff—ln the bedroom. The Lord Chief Justice—Where was Mr. Warde then ? Plaintiff—ln the room. Tho Lord Chief Justice—Was he in bed ? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice—What o'clock was i hen? Plaintiff—About six o'clock iu the evening. The Lord Chief Justice—What six o'clock in the evening ? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice—Was the room in dark ness ? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice—ls the boy Williams hero ? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice—Who brought him here ; has he been brought here by you ? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice—ls he in court ? Plaintiff—Yes. The Lord Chief Justice—Let the boy, Williams, leave the court. [Williams, who is a witness for the plaintiff, here left the court, and was ordered to be conveyed to a room and there detained.] Examination resumed by his lordship—Was it your habit to go to bed so early as six o'clock ? Plaintiff (embarrassed) did not distinctly answer. Lord Chief Justice—Was it Mr. Warde's habit to go, to bed so early P Plaintiff (evidently confused) did not distinctly reply. A Juror—She may, my lord, have been intexi cated, and perhaps may mistake the time. The Lord Chief Justice—Did you know that it was Williams that was in the room at the time ? Plaintiff—No, not then. Lord Chief Justice—And when did you discover that it was Williams ? Plaintiff—Afterwards. Lord Chief Justice—Was he undressed ? Plaintiff—No; he had his clothes on. Lord Chief Justice—And you say Mr. Warde told you to admit him to take liberties with you ? PI ain t iff—Yes. Lord Chief Justice—And that Mr. Warde was present, in the room or bed ? The plaintiff here became much embarrassed, and showing symptoms of fainting, by loss of colour and sinking in the witness-box, she was told by his lordship to be seated, and the further examinations and proceedings of the trial were ad journed till to-morrow morning (this day). The plaintiff was four hours under examination. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell and a Common Jury SMITH T. SMITH AND LIDDARD. This was a suit instituted by Mr. Thomas Brown ing Smith, M.D., praying for a dissolution of marriage with his wife, on the ground of her adultery with the co-respondent, and he also claimed damages. Mr. Cripps and Mr. M. Loyd were counsel for the petitioner; Dr. Spinks and Mr. Younge for the respondent; and Mr. Murphy aid the Hon. E. C. Leigh for the co-respondent. It appeared from the statement of counsel that Dr. Smith and his wife were married at Sparsolt, Hampshire, he being 35 and she 32 years old at the. time. Dr. Smith had resided at Bedford-street, and subsequently at 1, Berkeley-gardens, Kensington, where he practised his profession, and they con tinued to cohabit until about the middle of last year, during which time they had four children, the eldest of whom is 15 years old. Both respondents plead( d denial. In 1856 Dr. Smith received Mr. William Liddard, the co-respondent, into his house as a medi cal pupil, he being at the time 17 years of age, and he remained at Dr. Smith's until the spring of 1859, when he went to Germany in company with his mother, and took up his residence there, where he had been educated in the doctrines of the sect of Moravians. From the great disparity of years between Mrs. Smith and Mr. Liddard, neither the petitioner nor any of his family entertained any suspicion of impropriety on their parts until Mr. Liddard's return from Germany, when he called at Dr. Smith's. On ascertaining that Mrs. Smith was at home he sent her a note, and went into the draw ing -room. Mrs. Smith was in the parlour with her husband and children, but on receipt of the note she went to the drawing-room, and remained alone with Mr. Liddard for about half an hour, when she went up stairs to her bedroom, where she remained for the day, and it was noticed by one of the servants that she was in the greatest distress of mind. After Mrs. Smith left Mr. Liddard he had a short interview with Dr. Smith, and was seen running away from the house. Dr. Smith desired a female servant to go to his wife, and she remained with her that night. On the Ist of May, 1859, the day after .Mr. Liddard had called, Dr. Smith received from him the following letter : " 10, Clarendon-road, Notting-hill. " Sir,—l received your letter and the others. I feel that yoi are right, and you have indeed been trusting and con fiding in one who has acted as a serpent towards you—one who, allowing himself to be blinded by sin, has acted with out one particle of honour, and poisoned the happiness of his benefactor. Wo - ald that I had felt all that at the time ; hat I'll say no more, for you can only read it with contempt, as an attempt to deceive you—as some new lie. May He before whose throne we shall shortly have to appear and answer for our every thought and action, may He have mercy on one who has deserved none. May He also enable you to pity and forgive the unworthy sinner, however you hate the sin. "I, William Liddard, of No. 10, Clarendon-road, Not tiag London, acknowledge and confess that I hav e during about these last two years had at times criminal connexion with the wife of Dr. Browning Smith, who is at present living'at No. 1, Berkeley-gardens, Kensington, London. " May 10, 1859." " WILLIAM LIDDARD. On the same day Mrs. Smith wrote the follow ing letter to her husband : " 1, Berkeley gardens, Mor. day, May 10. " I am so completely overwhelmed with grief and shame that I know not how to address you. If you have ever known what it is to feel perfectly miserable, and to know that misery is entirely brought on by my own shameful be haviour to one of the kindest and best of husbands, you may imagine how - very, very unhappy I feel; and generous as I know you to be, still I cannot, dare not, hope you will forgive, but I mast kneel down to my Maker and to you to implore that you will do so, for mercy sake. I fear your good advice hitherto seems to have been thrown away on such a wicked person as I bave-been ' and how solemnly I promise, if ever I should be rest ore d to your affections, I believe I shall know how to value one so kind and good, for indeed I have been very unhappy, and richly deserve to feel so; and I would now give all I have to be allowed just to kiss your hand, for you cannot tell how unhappy and miserable I am. Do pray forgive lee." Another letter was also read from Mrs. Smith repeating her entreaties for forgiveness. Dr. James Clark, M.D., . Penton-street, Penton ville, proved the marriage, and stated that he had known Mr. and Mrs. Smith for years, and in 1850 he was on a visit at their house for some weeks. They appeared to live on very good terms, and Dr. Smith was very kind to his wife. He saw them fre quently in 1852, and he remembered seeing Wm. Liddard, and he appeared about 17 or 18. Dr. Smith was now 51, and Mrs. Smith was some years younger. On one occasion Mrs. Smith complained to him that Wm. Liddard bolted his door at night, and refused to open it when she asked him. Upon cross-examination he said that Liddard was, treated like one of the children of the family. The complaint about locking the door was a few mouths before Mrs. Smith left her husband. His impression was that she made the complaint because she was alarmed at his locking thd door. He be lieved that Mr. Smith was not present, but he would. not swear it. He could not swear what led to her saying it. They all sat up late at Mr. Smith's. He never saw Dr. Smith disqualified from attending patients, although he had seen him occasionally tipsy. (Laughter.) Mr. Lidtlard frequently attended. Dr. Smith's patients. Mrs. Smith indulged in the use of morphia and opium to great excess, but he never saw her carried to bed insensible. Dr. Smith lamented this habit, and spoke of its disastrous consequences to Mrs. Smith and himself. Mr. Liddard was in the habit of going to parties with Mrs. Smith without Dr. Smith. The latter had disposed of his practice at Kensington. He never' heard him express a wish to get rid of his wife in consequence of her habit. He and Dr. Smith occasionally smoked in Mrs. Smith's bedroom, but he was not aware that Lid dard ever did so. (Here witness identified the handwriting of the letters produced.) Hannah Stone deposed to Mrs. Smith's having described Mr. Liddard as an ill-natured fellow be cause he would not open his bedroom door to her the night before, when Dr. Smith was out. They had previously been talking about robbers. Mrs. Jane Browning Smith, sister of the peti tioner, said that Mrs. Smith said something which induced her to believe that she used to allow Lid dard to come into her room, and she remonstrated with her on the impropriety of her conduct, but, not suspecting anything criminal, she said nothing to her brother about it. Her brother never sanc tioned any familiarities between his wife and Mr. Liddard. Mrs. Laura Liddard, mother of the co-respondent, stated that she resided at 10, Clarendon-road, Not ting-hill, and that her son was about 22 years old. She had seen Mrs. Smith very rude to him, pinch him, and strike him indelicately. He was very cross to her, and said, "You had better mind wha you are about." She complained of his unkindness and abruptness. She said he was more like a great girl than a man, and had shown her her arms, which were bruised and pinched, for she said he would not take a joke. When witness mentioned the matter to him he told her she had better mind her own business, as she did not know what he had to put up with. In the summer of 1858 Dr. Smith suggested that Mrs. Smith should go to Mar gate with her son, and she and two of her children accompanied them there. They lodged in the same house. One morning she heard her son, who slept overhead, slam the door. She heard Mrs. Smith call to him to open the door, to which be replied two or three times " I shan't," and she heard him add " Put it under the door." She saw Mrs. Smith come down stairs, and she said " I only went up to carry him his shirt," but she had nothing in her hand at the time. She was dressed in her petticoat and shawl. In the spring of 1852 she went with her son to Germany, and while there he received a letter in Mrs. Smith's" hand writing, which he refused to read. Some time after her return, when Mrs. Smith had left her husband, she saw her at her sister's, and she said to her "A pretty thing Willie has been about," to which witness replied " Oh, it cannot be true." Mrs. Smith then said she wished she could die, and in the presence of her sister said she wanted to see her (witness's) son, and that she must give her his address. Some other evidence was adduced of a corrobo rative character, which closed the petitioner's case. No witnesses were called for the defence, and counsel having addressed the jury, the learned Judge summed up. The jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Smith had been guilty of the adultery, with damages of one farthing. Sir C. Cresswell made the rule nisi, dissolving ,he marriage. LATHAM V. LATHAM AND GETHIN. This was a petition of Geo. Latham, an engineer, praying for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-r e spondent, Sir Richard Gethin, an Irish baronet, and claiming damages. The respondents pleaded a denial. • Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Pritchard were counsel for the petitioner, and Dr. Swahey and Mr. Busby appeared for the respondents. It appeared shat Mr. Latham married his wife in 1849, anethat they had a family. They coha bited. in Lancashire and elsewhere until 1854, when he accepted an appointment in India as assistant engineer on the Madras Railway, at a salary of £soo,which was afterwards increased to £BOO a year. His wife was at the time far ad vanced in pregnancy, and he was obliged to leave her behind. About three months after his departure she gave birth to a child. She was at the time re siding at Marelin-cottage, Hounslow, and received monthly remittances of £l2 10a. from her husband, and she received also £lBO from the agents of the Madras Railway Company for the purpose of enabling her to proceed with her family to India, which she framed excuses to her husband for not doing. Some time after her confinement she a•iver tised for a lodger, and a gentleman took iler apart ments, under the name of Gray, at a rent of Bs. a week. This gentleman was the co-respondent, and he continued to reside with her for some time. An improper connexion was alleged to have been com menced and continued between them, and on the 2d Nov., 1856, she gave birth to a child, of which the co-respondent was the reputed father. It ap peared that the co-respondent had been an officer in a cavalry regiment. This improper connexion having come to the ears of the husband, he discon tinued her allowance, removed the children from the custody of the respondent, and adopted the pre sent proceedings. Witnesses were called in support, and it was deposed that Sir Richard Gethin was in the habit of sitting up late with Mrs. Latham ; that she had been seen in his room when not properly dressed ; and that she had stated that he had made her a present of a pair of garters. A letter from the respondent, admitting her guilt, was also produced. Mr. Bushby addressed the jury for tie co-respell,- dent, contending that there was nothing in the testimony adduced to criminate his client, or to entitle the petitioner to damages, as it appeared from his own showing that she surrendered her virtue on very easy terms. ' The jury returned a verdict for the petitioner, with £l5O damages. The learned judge suspended the decree until he considered the subject of alimony for which the counsel for the respondent applied. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, Dec. 17. TRIALS FOR WILFUL MURDER. Samuel Twigg, bricklayer, 33, was arraigned for the wilful murder of Mary Twigg, his wife, on the 25th of July, 1860, at Bilston. Mr. M‘Mahon and Mr. A. S. Hill were for the prosecution, and Mr. Motteram defended the pri soner. Samuel Twigg, the younger, aged 16, deposed that at about one o'clock in the morning of the 25th of July he heard his father knocking at the front door, and shouting, " Now, Polly, get up and loose me in." He heard his mother go down stairs, and then he heard also the voice of a strange man in the kitchen, and his mother running back. Afterwards he heard his father call to his mother to come down, but she refused, until " the strange man was gone." The prisoner then said, "If you don't come down and cook we some steaks, I'll cut her throat from ear to ear." He heard the man say he would go, and afterwards the door closed. He then went down and found his father lying on the screen. His mother followed him down and shut the door. Prisoner refused to go to bed, so they put a jacket under his head, took his shoes off, and put. a chair under his feet, and left him asleep. In about a quarter of an hour afterwards he heard the prisoner cry out, " Sam, get up, and get me a light; I want to go to bed." He asked his mother to go down, as he had to rise early in the morning to go to work. His mother went down, and he heard her poking the fire. While she was doing - so, prisoner said, " Gie us a kiss, Polly." Immediately after this he heard a clasp knife closed, and the prisoner say, " Now, I am satisfied," and his mother came to the bottom of the stairs and said, " Oh, Sam, I am stabbed." His mother then went out at the door. He went down immediately, and found his father lying on the screen. The deceased, it appeared from other evidence, had been stabbed in the left side of the abdomen, and died on the following night. When the deposition of the deceased was read over to him, the prisoner said—" I was drunk at the time; she was a very good' wife to me." Before the magis trates he said—" I was very helpless drunk indeed I had no occasion to set about her. She was a good wife to me." The Judge summed up the case as one of wilful murder. The jury after a brief deliberation returned a verdict of that nature. His lordship was about passing sentence of death, when the prisoner's mother shrieked out in the' gallery, and had to be removed. At the same time the prisoner fell upon his knees in the dock and began to shed tears. He was lifted up by the gaolers, and ceasing crying received the awful sentence of death in the usual form„ The unhappy criminal, as he was led out of the dock, found vent for his feelings in tears. The next prisoner charged with wilful murder was Ann Williams, aged 31, who had been com mitted for the murder of her infant child. Mr. M'Mahon prosecuted, and Mr. Scotland was instructed by the judge to watch the case for the prisoner. The evidence showed that about the end of last September the prisoner left her home at Willenhall, with her child in her arms very early in the morn ing. She was missed for some time, and the canal was Searched for her. Subsquently she was found at the house of a relative some few miles away, without her babe, and apparently of unsound mind. On being brought home, she said the child was in the canal. By one witness she seen carrying the child along the bank, and by two other witnesses she was seen the same morning standing on a bridge which crosses the canal, still with the child in her arms. After she had been on this, bridge she was seen to be without the child, whose body was sub sequently found in the canal not far from the bridge. The surgeon who was called in to see her when she was brought home was of opinion that the woman was insane. There was reason to believe that her insanity was occasioned by excessive nursing. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. His lordship asked on what ground ? The foreman did not seem able to give a satisfac tory reply ; but one of the twelve said they were not satisfied that the prisoner threw the child into the water. His lordship made no reply, and ordered the woman's discharge. Stephen Dickenson, 40, was then arraigned for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Dickenson, on the sth of August, 1860, at the borough of Newcastle undertLy me. Mr. A. S. Hill was instructed by his lordship to watch the case for the prisoner. The evidence showed that the prisoner was in sane, and that the deceased was his mother. He had been visited by a parish surgeon two or three days before, and instructions given for the removal beyond his reach of any cutting instruments. On the day in question his mother was taking him up medicine,, when on the top of the landing he met his mother and struck her on the head with a large wooden stand called a candle-block, that the pri soner had been accustomed to use when working► by night as a shoemaker. The judge stopped the case, and put it to the jury if it was necessary to proceed with it ? The jury found the prisoner guilty of wilful murder, committed when he was in a state of in- sanity. His lordship sentenced the prisoner to confine• moat during her Majesty's pleasure. • NORTHERN CIRCUIT--LivEtrooL, Dec. 17. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) WIFE MURDER IN LITERPOOL. Thomas Newsham, 38, was charged with the murder of his wife in Homer street, Liverpool, on the 18th of September last. It appeared from the evidence that the prisone r and his wife had lived together fo r som e time on tolerably friendly terms. On the da y o f the occur rence in question there was a quarrel bet ween the w parties, ►hen the deceased , being drunk, was heard to use very improper and p rovoki ng langua ge , which very much irritat ed her hus band. In th e course of the squabble i the prisoner used a k n if e u and stabbed his wife n the left side, the wound causing death. For the defence tely it he w w a a s s contended that there was no d e lib erate malice on the prisoners part, and found guilty o f m anslaughter, a n d sentenced to penal s ervitude for life. MURDER ON SHIPBOARD. A Norwegian seaman, na me d Henry Lawson, was triedforthe murder of Charles P. Wallace, boat swain of the American ship Lombard. On the 22d of August last, while the Lombard was lying in the Liverpool Docks , the pri soner we nt to hi s b e d and refused to work. This led to a fight between the prisoner and deceased, in the course of which the latter was stabbed by Lawson in the neck. The wound partially severed the windpipe, and the boatswain ultimately di e d on th e I s t o f S e pt. The jury slaughte r , and found the prisoner guilty of man- Mr. Justice Keating sentenced him to penal ser vitude for life. Mr. Justice Blackburn commenced trying civil cases in the Nisi Prius Court. The cause list is email, and the cases of little public interest. ATTEMPTED .MURD_ER NEAR SHEFELLYLP. At an early hour on Saturday morn blooded attempt w‘ts made to murder anassistant gamekeeper, named William Crookes, at th e village of Eccle'efield, near Sheffield. Crooks, who is a file cutter, cutter, lives at a lonely place known as the En g ine House, in the middleoof Smith Wood, Cowley Silly his dwelling having some years ago formed part d' the engine house of an old collier. The re is no other house witlh'n half a mile of the place. Crookee has a small smith 3 his house, for the purpose d told working at his trap e during a part of the day, e ' voting the remainder' of the day as also part of f the night to the preservat'ion of the game in the vond on behalf of an association of neighbouring gentry,- Ire has displayed consid erable activit y in his °cell pation of assistant keeper, and as a consequence has several times been atreatened by poachers in the locality. He had a very valuable dog shot Olt a short time ago. Crook es , got up to commen ce work at his files a little I.,ete.'re 4 o'clock at day morning, and continue, working until 20 minutes to 57when a gun wae fired at him throug h the window. The gun prove,rl to have been loade d with mixed shot, and the conte la,ts entered his rig ht cheek and shoulder, knocking , 1 11 m off his horsing oackwards upon the floor. Th'o'ugh dreadfullf stunned, Crookes was able to jump two dogs, kennelled outside the hease, but the animals failed to get upon the track of OW woold; b , e up and looee murderer, and Croolzee was himself obliged to retire to bed. The only ocarpants of the house ar,e self, wife, and four young - children ; and the Walt having jumped out of bed instantly the gun v ilw fired, at once ran to Ecclesfield, lonely and dark it was, to acquaint Inspector Ashley, of the 'We e Riding constabulary, with the diabolical outrage' The inspector hurried to the' place, accompanied bt Mr. Hawthorn, surgeon and found the poor fel lolf in the greatest agony. It wits found that the W ill " dow shutter was closed, but a wide crevice in the shutter had enabled the miscroa nt to see the position of his victim, and the charge was so large as to pierce a jagged hole an inch and a half in diamete r through the shutter and glass, the wadding of t he gun even passing through the hole. Around . tile hole the shutter is charred with the lame of the exploded powder, and even the clothes ..of Crooks have the appearance of being singed. Ii is clear , from the state of the shutter, that the gin vr el i fired with the muzzle close to the window , any ' consequently, not more than a yard from Cro oke ' himself, who sat close under the window. VI situation of the window is such as to offer great facilities for the perpetrlition of the intended wily der, being very low, and surrounded outside 1/ grassy soil, enabling the miscreant to move noise' lessly up. Crookes's eheok is completely rid' died with shot, and the vound on the shoulder is an extensive one, completely paralysing the arta , It is feared that a portion of the ,shot may even have reached some of the vital parts ; , and the poor mall lies in a very, dangerous state. 4. , collier, name? Joseph Ibbotson, living in the adja cent village Thorpe, has been apprehended on STU Ticion of air milting the outrage. (.OU.NTRY MARKETS. COLCHE ST ER —Dzo. 15. A moderate supply of wheat was brought into msl'ket tO day, and best samples realised is over former currynciesi with a firm trade. Fine barley in request for mait.ing, ' middling parcels a ready sale. New beans difficult of AO Old beans, maple, and hog peas as before. Wheat, white 6os to 68s beans, Mazagan..36s to .4/4 red 448 to 60s ! Middle & small 44s to b Barley 4os to 50s hite peas 48. to 6P I Oats 228 to 28s Grey,. 42s to 486 CHELMSFOR I )—DEc. 14. A fair show of wheat, in better condition, and buyer evinced more eagerness to purchase. Best wheats iii toler' able demand, and prices may be quoted at is above list s rates; inferior samples were at former quotations. Fi e malting barley in improved demand, and is dearer. In ferior sorts unaltered, with a dull trade. Wheat, white 42s to 62e 1 teas, Partridge .. 43e to 44 0 red 51s to 62e 1 White 43s t• 4 , 6 ,: Barley 33s to 42s j Boiling 43s to 4. 1 ' Chevalier ....36s to 45s ' Dun 39s to 4 -4 ' Grinding 31s to 37s Beans, Tick ....38s to 46 5 Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Tieits 39s to 49° Chevalier 64s to 69s , Mazagan... „ ~32s to 431 Oats 26s to 31s 1 NORTHAMPTON—DEC. 15. At this corn-market to-day wheat was in raiddling,T Ru ply, with a fair demand, prices ranging from 64s to 61' 'oh white, and 42s to 62s for red. In barley a good bumbles!, malting 40s to 445, grinding 32s to 35s per qr. Oats '¢ small supply, and prices as before—quoted at 24 a to No per 24 stone. Beans, old, 54s to 565; peas, 446 to Mk Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 725; flour, 33s to 34s PO amok KIRKALDY—DEC. 15. We had a moderate supply of barley to-day, small o f wheat, and large of oats, ,Sales ready, and prices were ~ over late rates. -- Wheat Barley Oats First.... 368 Od 31s (IJ 20. Od Second.. 56s Od 39s Od 265. Od Third .. 68s Od 42s Od 29s 6d THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 1?; Brazil and Cape Verde Jan. th j Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Dec. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Dee. Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29 Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. Dec. Cape of Good Hope, &c. j a m 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Dec. 1 9 Do (via Marseilles) Dec. 21 Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Dee. 19' India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Dec. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 27. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) Dec. 25. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 19. Lisbon .. 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Certific ate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. And r ew lire, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spa; rious and injuriou , imitations offered under a variety at false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by th e t high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 again ° Alfred Htoper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretence that Nevill has a patent for Arabiza Food and that J Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly fale2, No canister is genuine without th e name B a rry Du .13a." and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrap Per: Shopkeepers who attempt i mpos iti on i n one ar ti c l e rant' expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 1- I .f* 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s, 6d. ; 51b. Hs. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on rece i P" of Post-office eider by Barry Du Barry and Co. 77, Re'" cstirteat ; ty 3 , gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co:; Abbir4 60, Gracechureh-street ,• 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ov • bard-street e 3016i7Fdin45sbl,uryStrpanadve; Pavement ; d 6 p o w ,B lli is p h s o a p n sfa ci t e : . t ; Batty, 127, H tea-dealer s ; P etty, Wood, and Co., King William-street, y ; at High _Holborn : and all grocers BIRTHS. AITKEN.—On the 15th inst., at Wallington, the wife ()f the Rev. James Aitken, of a son. ITARCOURT.—On tke 14th inst., at 71, St. George's-squar e t Belgravia, Mrs. Harcourt, of a daughter. Pocunc—On the 15th inst., at Leicester, the wife of Lieut• Ralph George Pochin, R.N., of a son. ST. AUBTN.—On the 15th inst., at Pendraa, Cornwall, th• Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Lurxnr—HAßVEY.—On the 11th inst., at Stowmarket Church, George Lufkin, Esq., of the India-office, to Elizabeth Christiana, only child of the late John Oatlel Harvey. Esq.. of Stansfield Hall, Suffolk. SMITH—HANSLER.—On the 15th inst., at St. S a viour's, Maida-hill, Henry Clement Smith, Esq., of St. Leonard' s terrace, Maida-hill, to Josephine, only daughter of Copt Hensler, of Kensington, J.P. for Middlesex. DEATHS. ALLEN.—On the 15th inst., at 3, Craven-hill, Hyde-park, Ellen Allen, daughter of the late Joseph Allen, D.D., Lord Bishop of Ely, aged 42. BUTTON.—On the 10th inst., at Norwood, Hannah, relict of the late Captain Osmond Button, R.N. CLARK.—On the 16th inst., at 18, Giltspur-street, E.C., Bracy Clark, F.L.S., &c.,'aged 90. JERvis.—On the 12th inst., Mr. Francis P. Jervis, of 26, Edward-street, Portman-square, aged 28. MILLS.—On the 14th inst., at Botesdale, the Rev. John Mills, M.A., aged 52. WEBB.—On the 16th inst., at 12, Arlington-street, D. C. Webb, Esq., aged 64. WILLIAMC—On the 12th inst., at Bath, Major-Genera l W. Freke Williams, K.H., aged 68. L•NDON : Printed and rubliahed by MORD° YOUNG, of Ne. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Oine43, No. 112, Straildh in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Aliddleselc, Wueaday, Degnalor aB, MO. ~M Tha tion o Unsur . N, '141 1;. 1 Ch ar] Th 4 , s e e hl k t , dr e e !ty tiq 44 7 )1141,1(7; 14 ttio1 Is n( At tion Hi It wa ...,,, d•nc Cap