The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN OE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK; Dec. 12. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) At the sitting of the Court this morning, john Binney, found guilty some days ago of man slaughter in causing the death of his wife by striking her on the head with a sand hammer in a-dispute with her, in whielashetad seized the poker, was sentences' to penal servitude for seven years. Edward Gorman, found guilty of uttering a forged £5 Bank of England note, well knowing, it to be forged, at Leeds on the 15th of September 'Sot, was sentenced to penal servitude for five years. On swearing the jury one of the jurymen refused to take the oath, on the ground that he had con scientious scruples. His Lordship—What scruples ? Juryman—l consider it contrary to the Bible in several places. His Lordship—Do you object to take the oath ? Juryman—Yes, I do. 'His Lordship—Very well, then, you can leave the box ; but you must sit there (pointing below it) and remain every day till the end of the assizes. It would be very easy for any one, by stating that be had conscientious scruples, to eseape the duty of d juryman altogether. The juryman accordingly took the place assigned to him amid considerable amusement in court. 'John Finn, a militiaman belonging •to the 3d West York, was charged with the manslaughter of Manasseh Sheehy, at Hull, on the 23d of Septem ber last. - Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted, and Mr. T. Camp bell-Foster defended the prisoner. The deceased, who was an able seaman belonging to the Cornwallis, one of the vessels of the royal navy, stationed at Hull, having, together with some comrades, obtained 14 days' leave went from Hull to Sunderland. On the 3d of September he along with some others were, about 10 o'clock at night, in the George and Dragon publichouse there. The prisoner as well as some girls were also in that house at the same time. One of the girls said something insulting to the prisoner, on which he struck her three or four times, which when another of the women saw she immediately either threw the contents of a glass of rum 'and water in the pri soner'sTace and the glass after it, or using the glass as a weapon struck and cut the prisoner's fore head. This, in addition to the former matter, seemed to have excited him to an intense degree, and ceas ing his attack upon the first girl, he immediately began to kick the one who had thrown the glass at him. The unfortunate deceased, who up to that time had not interfered, and who was stated to have been quite sober, observed to the prisoner, " Thou art no man to kick a woman in that way, and she with liquor in her," whereupon prisoner retorted by asking the deceased if he had anything to do with the girl. The deceased answered merely " No," and prisoner made use of the observation, Stand clear," and unbuckling his waistbelt, and doubling it up so as to form a two-fold thong with the breast clasp dangling at the end of it, swung it round his head and struck deceased a most severe blow on the top of the skull with it. The latter immediately staggered backwards and fell into the arms of one of the women, and in consequence of blood flowing it was then discovered that deceased had received a wound on the head. This appeared at first to be little more than a deep prick or small stab, but deceased always afterwards complained of his head. He was, however, then put to bed, was brought from Sunderland to Hull on the following Monday very ill, was taken in a day or two, first into the " sick bay" of his ship, and subsequently transferred to the Admiralty Hospital at Hull. There he continued to get worse; partial paralysis supervened, then 'coma came on, and he lingered till the 22d, when he died. On a postmortem exami nation it was found that the wound involved frac ture or depression of e: small portion of the inner table of the skull, which, causing irritation and sub sequent inflammation, had produced a deposit of matter which, increasing, was apparently the sole cause to which deceased's death was attributable. Mr. Foster, for the defence, contended that the prisoner might not be the man who had struck the deceased, that there had been a general row in this low publichouse, in which the evidence showed that five or six other militiamen had taken off their belts ; and that the-testimony of the girls was not to berelied upon in this matter, as one or both of them were intoxicated at the time. After a careful summary from the learned judge, The jury returned a verdict of 'Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for 12 calendar months with hard labour. • Richard. Horsley, aged 23, was indicted for forg ing and uttering at Malton, in the North Riding, with intent to defraud Messrs. Bower, Rall, and Co., bankers at Malton, on the 15th August last. A second count charged Jane Hannah Horsley, Elizabeth Ballon, and Ellison Haigh, with comfort ing, harbouring, and maintainine , Richard Horsley, knowing that he had committeZfelony. Mr. Peyronet Thompson and Mr. Chewton ap• peared for the prosecution ; Mr. Price defended the prisoner Richard Horsley ; Mr. Blansi - rard defended the female prisoner Horsley ; and Mr. Campbell Foster appeared for the other two prisoners, Balton and Haigh. It appeared from the opening statement of the learned counsel that the pri,oner, Richard Horsley, had presented a cheque purporting to be drawn by his uncle, a farmer named Abbey, who kept a bank ing account at the East Riding flanking Company's Bank at Malton, on the 16th August last, for £l5O. A letter had been sent to the bank that morning, purporting to be written by Mr. Abbey, stating that his nephew would call with the cheque. The prisoner called, and having satisfied the cashier at the bank that he was Mr. Abbey's nephew, the cheque was cashed by givinc , to him £5O in Malton notes, and a draught en a London banker for £lOO, which the prisoner got cashed at a bank at Hull the same day. Almost immediately - after he got cash for this note, .a telegram was sent to the Hull bank desiring them not to cash it, and in consequence the prisoner was taken into custody at his own lodgings in Hull. His wife went out and took with her the greater portion of the money, and handed it to Mrs. Ballon to take care of for her; and Mrs. Bal lon, not liking the charge of it, and being about to leave home, sealed the money up in a box, and de sired her servant (the prisoner Haigh) to take the box to her mother's to take charge of it for Mrs. Hor sley. It was contended for the:prosecution that this act was done while the officers had the prisoner Richard Horsley in custody, and it hindered their tracing the robbery, and was the act of " harbour ing and maintaining" laid in the indictment. His Lordship put it to the learned counsel for the prosecuti m, whether he could maintain the charge against the prisoner Horsley's wife for " comforting, harbouring, and maintaining her husband." It was no offence in law. The learned counsel admitted that he could not maintain the charge against the prisoner Horsley's wife. Mr. Foster then submitted, on the learned coun sel's opening as against the other two female pri soners, there was no " personal" harbouring and maintaining, which alone could constitute the of, fence, and the offence charged was a joint act. His Lordship said he would hear the evidence. It was then proved that the cheque had been pre sented and paid ,at the bank, and - Mr. Abbey, a farmer, aged .75, proved that. the cheque was not written by him. On cross-examination by Mr. Price it appeared, however, that he had been very kind to this nephew, and - had told him ha should leave him his money, and that his nephew had asked him to let him have some .of it in his lifetime, as it would do him more good; that he had had a long conversation with him the day before the cheque was and from that conversation his nephew might have snnposed that he had authority to draw the chtquc. He had since authorised the bankers to charge him with the amount of it, and he now paid the cost of the pri soner's defence. After this evidence hiS Lordship a :Iced the learned counsel for the prosecution if he could carry the ease any further. Mr. Thompson admitted that he could not, and the prisoners were directed to be acquitted. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 13. • (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) Christopher Kelly was charged with uttering a forged Bank of England note for £5, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank or England and others. The - Hon. A. Liddell conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Torr the defence. The evidence for the prosecution consisted of proof of the passin by the p:isoner .of two forged notes. made from the same plate, within ten days, giving a fal:ie name nodi . ad&css, and of oth er eh-- e utnstances evincing. n. pnlity knowledge. guilty, and begged f o , Thb prisoner ). - vt:::7 foUnd mercy on Account. of his' wife and family. His lordship, in passing . sent nee, said it was his ixiinfal duty to disregard such appeals. The of fence of which the prisoner iyas convicted was of the wJrst kind of robbery, The sentence was six years' penal servitude. Stephen Doran, William `'Ford, and Joseph Walsh were indicted for fe'oninusly assaulting John Robinson, in the streets of Liverpool, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Aspinall was for the prosecution; Dr. 'Wheeler appeared for Walsh; and Mr. Scott for Doran and MeFord. The prosecutor was a police constable, who was inj nred in the execution of his duty between 12 and I o'clock of the morning of the 21st of August Inst. Onc c q she prisoners (Horan) was blind; another of them CaFord) a cripp:r., walking with a crutch. Evidence was given to the_ effect that the prose cutor had - desired a nuinber of them to disterse and go home. One of them answered that if he mile down the street " he would be a dead man." He walked after them as they moved on: and pushed one to make him go faster. He was immediately knocked down -by a blow on the head - from the cripple with his crutch. As he was falling the blind man, Doran, struck him with 'his stick, and while on the ground he was kicked in the neck by a third man, said to be Walsh. It was dark at the spot where the occurrence happened. A lamp there was not lighted on that night. 'The injuries received by the prosecutor were very severe, and he was for • some time in imminent danger, and still suffers from the effects of the violence used towards him. For M'Ford and Doran several witnesses were called to contradict the witnesses for the prosecu tion as to the part taken in the matter by those pri- son ers. Mr. Aspinall replied on this evidence. Doran and M'Ford were found guilty, and sen tenced to 10 years' penal servitude. Walsh was acquitted. POLICE INTELLIG.ENCE—Dee. 13. BOW-STREET. —John Lawley appeared •to answer an adjourned summons, charging him with wilfully misconducting himself in his employment as conductor of an omnibus, by refusing to stop the vehicle in order to allow a passenger to alight. • The facts of the case were stated in the report of the former examination, which appeared in our impression of Monday. The case was adjourned to allow defendant an opportunity of calling a witness. The witness was now in attendance, but his evidence only went to show that there was room in the om nibus for a passenger on each side. Mr. Jardine observed that this made very little difference. The defendant had no right to detain a passenger who wished to go out, and certainly no thing could excuse him in allowing the omnibus to go on at a rapid rate while Dr. Sall was hanging on by one hand. He understood that when Dr. Sall applied for the summons he was in a deplorable condition, from having been dragged through tho mad. It was a most dangerous proceeding, and might have cost Dr. Sall his life. The officer (Lush, A 198) said the conductor had pointed out to him the spot where he (the conductor) alleged that Dr. Sall first attempted to alight, which was fully 50 yards from the place where the omnibus pulled up ; but he (the witness) had seen Dr. Sall hanging on by one hand for a somewhat longer distance. Mr. Jardine said this was much too serious a case for the infliction of a. fine, which would probably be paid by the defendant's employers or by a sub scription among the men, and would thus become a mere nominal penalty. He considered that the least he could do consistently with justice was to send the defefidant to prison for 14 days. WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas Jones, a con victed thief, was charged with a brutal assault upon a young woman named Ellen Little ; John Cum mings, a coffeehouse-keeper-in the Kingsland-road, was charged with assaulting two of the police ; and a man named William Haynes, who refused his address, was charg,td with threatening to stab a policeman. _ _ _ All these assaults, together with another which is not worth repeating, arose out of the outrage the first prisoner was charged with,'and the substance of which was this,—Jones had 'for some time been living with the young woman Little as her hus batid, but abandoned her five weeks ago, leaving her with a child by him, and answerable for several debts, which appear to have induced a bad feeling on her part. This, however, did not seem to have influenced her on this occasion, when, while she was standing on the pavement in the Kingsland road, the prisoner, with a number of other men, issued from a publichouse, and, as she knew from his previous conduct to her that he would be sure to illuse her, as he had always done, she turned her face from him, to avoid receiving his blows there, and he immediately struck her down with , a violent blow on the side of her head, kicked her cruelly, as also others of his 'companions did, and pulled her along for several yards by the hair, till she became senseless and could recollect no more. This was all the complainant's statement, but a needle-woman named Evans deposed to seeing the prisoner kick her five or six times, and incite another woman to strike her, who did so ; and Frost and Gill, two officers, stated, the first that he heard the complainant "screaming awfully," and found her on the ground and the prisoner kicking her in the side and striking her on the back of the head ; and Gill stated that on his getting up he found the complainant almost naked to the waist, and covered with blood and dirt, and that while he was holding th© prisoner, whom he had succeeded in stopping after his escaping from Frost, he saw another man walk up to the complainant, and violently strike her head against a door-post, without the witness being able to prevent him. phis last Occurrence gave rise to the charge against Cummings, into whose house this cowardly fellow ran, and on Maveety, Sturgeon, and two other officers attempting to follow him into a back room he refused them entrance, and threatened to knock out their brains with a poker. Haynes, while Frost was taking the prisoner in the fourth case to the station, went up to the officer and threatehed to stab him, thrust his hand into his pocket, and withdrew it with something in it which glistened, but was overpowered and secured, offer ing any money to be liberated, though no knife was found upon him. Mr. Beard addressed the magistrate for the de fence in all the cases, saying the best he could for each of his clients, but Mr. Hammill commented severely upon such a series of lawless and brutal outrages, and sentenced Haynes to pay a penalty of 405., or one month in the House of Correction ; Cummings to pay a penalty of 15, or the same term of imprisonment in default ; and Jones to three months' hard labour, without the option of any penalty. THAMES.—Mr. W. H. Maitland, the secretary of the Royal Benevolent Society, of which Lord Viscount Raynham, 11/1.1 3 , is president, waited upon Mr. Selfe to make some explanation, in answer to the observations of the magistrate, who stated from the bench a few days since that the society was a mockery and a delusion, and that £l,OOO had been expended in distributing £236 in loans and gifts to the poor. It may be .necessary to state that since the ob servations of the magistrate were made public a let ter has appeared in the Times complaining of the management of the society; and that letter has been replied to by Lord Raynham. The statement made by Mr. Maitland yesterday was a recapitulation of the arguments. advanced by Lord Raynham, at whose request he attended to make an explanation. The magistrate had. com plained of the enormous outlay for the small bene fits obtained, and had taken as his authority the first year's balance-sheet of the society. A great number of expenses were necessarily incurred in the establishment of the society for advertisements, books,- furniture, stationery, and other things ; ex tra clerks were employed to make inquiries, and other preliminary costs were incurred. The new balance-sheet for the quarter ending July, 18,59, would show a vast decrease in the expenses, the office expenses being only £GI ss. 2d. The extra clerks, who were necessary during the first year of the society's operatione had been_ superseded, and many other economical arrangements carried out. A great loss had been:•sustained by the society in consequence of the misconduct of Captain Shep pard, the late secretary, who• absconded in March last, after he had cut, mutilated, or burnt every book connecteeewith the society, in consequence of which it was impossible -to ascertain whether the subscriptions and donations promised had all bccn paid up or not. Mr. Seife reiterated at great length his objections to the first year's report of the society, and 'said there was a great deal of sack to a very little bread. In addition to disbursements to the amount of 1.:777 Os. sd. for bestowing £236 6s. 4d. in loans and gifts to the poor, there was another extraordinary item, " £ll2 due on account of a public dinner." He was not aware until Monday there was a second balance-sheet. It was quite evident the first secre tary:was a very dishonest man. Mr. Maitland—No doubt of it, sir. I wish to point out to you that the objections which apply to the first year don't apply to the second, and that for an expenditure of £495, since I have been secre tary only £6l costs have been incurred. Mr. &Ile said he was perfectly astounded that two auditors should have put their names to the first report, and asked how it was that the dinner e u, o li.i s ills) t c.un l gt .ll ttioc al re l ii6i t a i i . , l3 : 3,. e ci ash for dinner . . tickets only at t: 1 always dinnerldeoaocdhtt,hialet paid Maitland °rldstieke L Mr.id it was the initiation dinn er o f ;he society, It was th e custom in England for charitable instituti ons t o i nv i te the public to a obtaia subscriptions and donations. Mr. Selfe said there were outstanding liabilities, according to the first report. , Mr. Maitland—WhiCh Lord Rayuham h as go. nerously paid, and the society is now making fa vourable progress. Mr. Selfe was very glad to hear it, and paid a very high compliment to Lord Raynham for his benevolence. He (Mr. Selfe) did not. want to set himself up as a censor, or to say anything un kindly, but the society was certainly somewhat preten bons. • ..Mr. Maitland said that an entirely new system or mana , ' , ement had been adopted, the accounts THE suw, LONDON,t 11 , VVED1kTESDAY EVENING, being attdited every week. An order was made by ,the committee requiring him (Mr. Maitland) -to balance his • accounts once a-week, to pay into the banker's each day any sum over £lO, which amount he was to retain for current expenses, and the working of the society had been reorganised, so as to reduce very considerably its expenditura and 1 increase its usefulness. Mr. Selfe was happy to find the society was on a better foundation. The best thing to do was to check the indiscriminate use of charitable funds, and prevent the benevolent being imposed upon. He did not wish to stop the flow of public bene volence, but he Was very desirous that the funds subscribed by the charitable should be properly applied. He should have preferred to see the second balance-sheet of the Royal Benevolent Society properly, audited, which had not been done. He would not, however, dispute its accuracy. The second report showed only a de ficiency of £66 by the misconduct and departure of Captain Sheppard. That did not explain away the complaint he had originally made, and which he was informed had found its way into the news papers, that £236 6s. 4d. had been disbursed in loans and gifts, and that the expenses for doing so were upwards of £l,OOO. Mr. Maitland said the preliminary expenses of the society should be borne in mind. Everything was now conducted with the strictest economy. The books were open to the subscribers, and any person could obtain a report who requested one. After some further conversation, the secretary thanked the magistrate for his courtesy and atten tion, and retired. ' • ..1 I thought it was imprudent. ' " You *lee to Will as he was about to leaVe ?" " mother ie - about to .send you away—she will not hear of mar riage." " , Then; after all, there-was • a question of marriage between you ?" "I never consented to such a step." "You said- to him—' My mother Will get rid of the child 9'" "I never said. that." " After the departure of Fetis, what took place ?" " I entertained doubts-that I was really enciente." "At the end of April your mother had no doubt, and what project did she form ?" " My mother felt certain that nothing would come of my situation. We, however, discussed the question asto the means of getting rid of the consequences of my fault. My mother said that if I had a miscarriage we might burn the embryo. But if in place of an embryo there be a child arrived at its full time ?' said I. Do not be disquieted about that,' said mamma, there will al ways be means of causing it to disappear." "That meant that dead or alive the child was to be burned?" " What I understood was that my mother would send it away." " That is what you say now, but you did not say so in your preliminary examina tions." " What I said was misunderstood." " You did not ask your mother what she would do if your child Was born alive ?" " I had not the idea of ques tioning my mother, because I was persuaded she meant to send the child away." " Your mother made you take violent exercise in order to produce femis carriage ?" "No, but because she thought that I was behind my time, and it was of my own accord that I rolled down the hill, and I did it in joke." " Did not your mother propose to you to roll down "a stair case ?" " She said, laughing, If you had a good tumble downstairs, perhaps you would be all right.' But I answered that by such a fall I should per haps kill myself, and she said that she was only jesting." " When your pains came on did not your mother take you to a dark, isolated chamber ?" " Yes ; and being persuaded that the child would be dead. she told me to make no noise. For if the child were dead, it was useless to let any one know, and so render herself liable to be suspected of a .crime which she would not have committed." Did you remark that the child to whom you gave birth moved P" " I thought for a moment that it moved." "Did not your mother remark that he was a large child?" "It was big, certainly, but I am not sure that.. it was born alive. It did not cry." "But if he moved he must have been born alive, and how did he die?" "He was still born, Sir." " Did you not say after your arrest that your mother had put her hand iu the child's mouth ?" " What I said was, that if she had killed the child she could only have done so in that way." Did you not say that you knew your mother meant to kill the child ?"' No, I knew, that she meant to cause the child to disappear, but that is not the s ame thing as killing it." The President then read extracts from her declarations after being arrested, for the purpose of showing that they were not in accord with her present statements, and that, there fore, she was not worthy of credit. She afterwards again energetically denied that she had ever thought of marrying Fetis, and, in answer to a reference to something he.had said, she exclaimed with disdain, " Such a man cannot be believed !" At this point the interrogatory; during which the girl had displayed remarkable energy, was sus pended ; ultimately shs was brought back, and the President said—" Tell us the manner in which the child was burnt." " I only khow," answered the prisoner, " what my mother told me r and she told me very little. Ido not knew if she had prepared beforehand a fire in the grate, nor how she. executed her project. It Was, I believe, .in a room by the side of that in which I was confined that the t urn ing took place. Firewood and faggots are always keptin a closet in that room." "We have reason to believe," said the President, "that the prepara tions for . the burning were made the day before the confinement ; and if so, there must have been the premeditated design to burn the child, whether alive or dead." " 1 can give no explanations on that point." " You appear to have always enter tained a certain degree of fear of your mother. Why, then, did you not communicate your situation to your father, who loves you ?" "My mother en tertained the' certainty that nething would come of my situation, and she led me to share her convic lion. I consequently had no need to confide in any one, my interest being tohave my fault kept secret." Madame Lemoine was then interrogated, and site said :—" I watched over my daughter as it was my duty to do.' I never observed any famili arities between her and the coachman, Fetis ; I should not have tolerated them. When I heard cf the reports about my daughter, I laid a complaint against some persons for calumniating her. I never entered into an understanding with my daughter, WhCn I learned, her situation, to represent that the coachman had dohe her violence. If my daughter on her preliminary examination said the contrary she is mistaken. I first heard the reports in Novem ber, and I questioned my daughter ; she denied that they were true, and as no alteration had taken place in her health I believed her." " Tell us," said the 'President, " what your daughter said to you after the discharge of Fetis." "Allow me, sir, not to re peat thosel details ; there are ;certain things which ought not to be required from a mother." " But I recommend you to say what they were." " It is 'very painful to repeat them; my daughter only said a few words, but they were terrible." " Tell us what your daughter said, since what she revealed to you, if true, was a crime-on the part of one of your eer rants." " It was to save my daughter's hon ou r that I said nothing about the matter." The President again pressed-the prisoner to say what the revelation was, and at last she, in great agitation, declared that her daughter had confessed that she had been subjected to violence by the coachman. She then, in answer to furthiar questions, protested that when she became aware that her daughter was enciente she might have thought of causing the consequences to disappear in the event of a miscarriage ; but. bursting into tears, she exclaimed, I never thought of committing a crime. She then denied that the violent exercise which she had caused the girl to take - had been intended to produce a miscarriage; she also denied that she had recommended her, to roll down a staircase, and said that the rolling doW n the hill was .accidental. She went on to assert that the confinement of the girl had taken place unex pectedly in the middle of the night, and she said that fact explained why she had not called in a doctor. "But, said the President, whynot have sent a servant for a doctor ?" " The servants slept in an other' part of the house, and besides I was anxious to save the honour of my daughter." " What pre parations did you make for her confinement?" " Ex case me, the details would be painful." "I insist on your answering." " I did what every mother would have (lane, and among other things T put a bed in the room." "And what happened ?" "A dead child . was born." ." And what did you do with it when you had condemned it in advance not to live ?" " Oh, Sirl what you now say deprive's me of the courage of stating what passed." " When a woman has the courage to throw into the fire the child of her daughter she ought to have the courage to state what she did." " I had 'the courage to do what was necessary to save the honour of my daughter." The prisoner afterwards, though with great 'repugnance, gave detailS of'the birth, and then said she was con vinced that the . child was dead, inasmuch as it did not move. " But often newly-born children do not move, though alive," said the President. " Ah, that is science, and I am not learned. The child had been lying motionless for some time before I pat it into the fire." " Did you not say to your daughter that the child was alive, and a very large one ?" " I did not say that it was alive, though I may have ' said it was large." " Your daughter said that the child moved—that she saw it move." " She could not have seen that, for lam sure it did not." " Why did you cast it into the fire?" " When I was certain that it was dead I had the honour of my daughter to protect, and I did not hesitate." " How did you light the fire ?" " There was already wood in the grate." " Give us details. of the 'burning." " I did so in my preliminary examination, and it is cruel to. ask me to repeat them." "Did the operation last long 2 " " I cannot tell." " Afterwards you had the courage to cast away the ashes of the burnt child of your daughter ?" " Yes,'l had the courage to do that. Why should T not have had the courage to carry to the end what I had commenced ?" "And 'you comp e ll e d your daughter to take a the w a d l a f; walk in a n the er town ?" " When a mother desires to save the honour of her daughter, she does' every thing except crime." Witnesses were then called. The first was Fads, the coachman, and he created great curiosity. "It was in 1856 that I entered the service of Madame Lemoine._ Shortly' after Mademoiselle Angelina began' remising with me whenever she found me in the rooms. did not then think it possible to marry her. In 1858, when 'she was 15, she remarked that she was old enough to marry, and I said Mademoi selle, I can recommend to you a good husband.' ' Whom,' asked she. ' Myself,' I answered ; and she observed, We shall see.' ' The man then went on to describe the liberties which the girl had taken with him, and how they had ended. He admitted that he had calculated that if she became enciente he might, notwithstanding the ,dilTerence 'in their positions, marry her. It was in January last she made known to him that she was enciento, and in that month unfavourable reports began tabe propa gated about her. She heard of those , reports, and said she was pleased with them rather than other wise, as they would facilitate a marriage. "At first," continued the man, " it was agreed that she should she d bst:, :hula,v.iNeyttrir,e, after...Tawiessaal drovepasdn was afraid; f a as • rr, ada3 m irialdi nwi e l:g t ieis, h lsihsat: e .aeote r : Inhlshetuoeoooranm‘uval, house e yi s o v nooiugui l i c i lr e ttapo r toutroio t stsc j o tdei doi t yc n N :r a cottae r . sa‘ r a,ol,oa n y.: nu i n e s pd:;:,: o ing s 11, Madame, it is right to tell you that Mademoiselle THE LEMOINE INFANTICIDE. (From Galignant"s Messenger.) We briefly mentioned on Saturday morning that the trial of Madame and Mademoiselle Lernoine, Of Chinon, had commenced the preceding day at Tours, the charge against them being the burning to death of the newly-born illegitimate child of the latter, the father being the coachman in the mother's ser vice, a young man named Fetis. The case was con tinued the next morning and yesterday, the inte rest, if possible, increasing as the proceedings went on. The court was each day crowded to excess, not only the principal inhabitants of the neighbouring country being present, but . the Prefect of the de. partment and the principal functionaries having seats in court. When the judges had taken their places the pri soners were introduced. Mademoiselle Lemoine entered first. She is rather below the middle size, has fine eyes and a good colour. She was dressed in black, and at first hid her face with her pocket handkerchief, sh&lding tears. Madame Lemoine folloWed ; she has also fine eyes, a high forehead, regular features, and black hair. The expression of her fate is somewhat haughty, and her bearing ladylike. She was handsomely dressed in dark silk, and had a veil arranged roand her face. • In answer to the usual questions, • Madame Lemoine said, in a somewhat strong voice, that her maiden name was Victoire Mingot ; that she is the wife of M. Lemoine, her age 43, and her birthplace and present residence Chinon. Mademoiselle Lemoine, in answer to similar ques tions, said that her Christian name is Angelina, her age rather more than 16, her birthplabe Chinon, and her residence with her mother. The indictnaent was then read, and stated these facts :—The elder prisoner belongs to a very respect able and wealthy family, one of the members of which, at the beginning of the century, belonged to the Legislative ASsembly, and another was a judge at the Tribunal of Chinon ; but in 1835, to the sur prise of her friends, she married a 'man of a sta tion 'lower than her own and without fortune. This marriage was not a happy one, and in 1851 she obtained a legal separation from' her husband, who then quitted Chinon, leaving her the task of educating her two children, a girl and a boy, and taking care of her own fortune. Angelina (the elder child) was idly brought up, and when she became old enough to understand what she read, manifested a passion for novels and other light works, and even contrived to get possession of the " Confessions de Marion Delorme." Her mother had her educated at home, but was rarely present at her lessons, and let her go out _as she liked, visiting the shops of work men, associating with the servants, and indulging in improper familiarities with them. - Before the age of 15, the boldness of her manners was made the subject of remark. About that time her mother had in her service as coachman a man named Fetis, and ' though he was completely illiterate, and not pre possessing in appearance, she (according to his ac count), often romped with him, and spoke familiarly to him, even in the presence of her mother; then she took liberties with him ; and at last, on the Ist of October, 1858, when her mother was absent at Tours, he at her express request went to her cham ber. The intercourse thug commenced continued afterwards, and she promised to marry him.; she ex pressed the desire to have a child, because then she said her mother could not refuse to let them marry. After awhile reports 'that an improper intimacy existed between the girl and the coachman beaame current' in the circle in which Madame Lemoine moved—the best -in the neighbourhood—and a priest, a friend of the family, mentioned them to the mother, but she took no further notice than to say that they were calumnies. The coachman, on his 'part, made no . secret that he was in the good graces of his young mistress. He announced that she would 'in the end marry him. He even talked of the allowance the mother would make them, the num ber orservants they would have, &c. The young lady having become enciente, the coachman formally demanded on: the 29th of January her hand in mar riage from her mother. Madame Lemoine, not knowing her daughter's state, thought he was jesting; but when he said that her daughter was encialite, she turned pale and gave him no an swer. The next day she paid him'his-wages and discharged him. She also discharged her eook, who must have suspected the daugEter's Slate. Just be fore the discharge was . given, Mademoiselle Le inoine said to the man, ," Mamma is going to dis . charge both you and Louise." " What ! " he said, " Maclaine will not let me marry you ? " "No ! mamma says she, will get rid of the child ! " • The indictment then went on to allege that, from this moment the intention of Madame Lemoine was to destroy the child ; and in proof it stated that while making her daughter wear dresses and crinoline calculated .to disguise her situation, she adopted measures destined in her . situation to produce a miscarriage=such as making the girl take very hot _bathe, long walks, gallop on donkeys, make violent efforts, and even fall down a steep hill ; nay, more, she actually proposed to the girl to roll down a staircase, but the latter refused from 'fear bf being killed. In spite of all t hese acts, hoWevet, Madeinoiaelle i Lemaine Was - on the 29th' of •Julfde livered of a child, her mother alone assisting her. The - in'dictment 'asserted that the cyld was born alive, and that Madame Lemoine was so struck by its size and healthy , appearanee that she cried "See how big it is ! " It then described how she thrust the little creature into a large fire in . the room, and held it therenntil burnt to. death. It ; added that though she denied that•the Child was.born alive, the daughter admitted that fact, and had remarked " The little thing only wanted to be allowed to lire." When the indictment had been read the elder prisoner was renioved, and Mademoiselle Lemoine wasiaterrogated: After admitting that she had been a great novel reader, . and that she admired Marion Delorme, the President asked " Did you not, shortly after you attained the age of fifteen. feel interest' in your mother's coachman, Fetis ? " I committed the imprudence," she said, "of allowing him' certain familiarities which I ought not to have done." " Was it not you who prac tised familiarities with him ?" " No, sir." " Wit nesses say that 'it was you who began romping with him, and who ended by allowing things to go farther." ".I admit that I did wrong in permitting him - certain familiarities,• and that is all." After the familiarities commenced, did yod not p:opose to Marry him ?" "'No, Sir." But in your preliminary examination you admitted that you did." " I was so agitated that 'I knew not what [ said." The President put several questions for the purpose of getting her to admit that she had promised the man marriage, but she persisted in denying that she had done so. " When 'did 3 our intimacy with `Fetis commence ?"- At the end of September." " How happens it that that intimacy arose, if there was no queStion 'of marriage be tween you ?" "It came from the famiiarities I' allowed him to take." " What were those familia ritiee ?" The accused returned no-answer. " Where did your intimacy first take place ?" "In the cellar; but I only yielded after a very long resist ance." '" Do you pretend that violence was used ?" " I do not say-that." " Why did you not mention what had taken place ?" "Because the man seemed repentant, and I feared that my mother would be very indignant." " Bnt, then, why did you continue your connexion ?" " Because I was afraid of him." " Fetis says that it began in your chamber." " No, it was in the cellar." " He pretends that it -.vas you who enticed•him into your chamber." " No, sir." " When did you find out that you were enciente !" not Fetis z. , dvise a :nether?" l.er,to ‘: ( l.: t e y c o a t u i s i e na l r N i v . as h a in f l ra p i! I sc t ad " In Docember.". " And why did yon not tell your thatal." him )d you to speak to your mother, and I would do neither—tha y tlie was a scoundrel. Then he said, I will ruin you, en ti Aft y e f l e a a v r a r t s a l d i e m poke e p t u o b c y . aud will f orce you to o i marry pie In t l; In t h o a t y(;11 proposed to m arry t h e ther " man ; be it so. What did your mother say after the demand of Fetis to marry you, when she learned the connexion you had .had with the man ?" " She said that he must be discharged, but I did not approve that, because I DECEMBER 14,, _ 28§9. . . Angelina t iour daughter: is T enciente by me, and. .that she wishes to marry me.' ' What you ask, Jeani' said- Madame, is not possible. Harness the -- horses instantly, and let us return to Chinon.' On our return I told Mademoiselle Angelina that her mother would Ala hear of our marriage, and said, Nowl haye done my part—do what you like.' "What afterwards'Passed. between you and Madame Lemoine P" asked the President. " Madame paid me 100 f., the amount due for wages, and said, Go to your room—pack up your things and be off!' I answered, Madame, I promised your daughter to marry her, and I will never fail in my word!" The man said this with such pomposity that loud laughter arose throughout the court, but it was checked by the President. " Before leaving the house did you not speak to Angelina ?" " Yes, to bid her fgrevvell, and she said to me, Poor Jean.! the matter has not turned out as we wished, but My mother says that she will get rid of the child." Louis; Laootte, cook to Madame Lemoine, de posed to familiarities between the coachman and the young lady. Dr. Danvau, chief surgeon of the Hospice de la Maternite at Paris, said that he had been charged-to examine some bones which had been found in a cellar at - Madame Lemoine's, and that among ,them was the frontal bone of an embryo. On comparing it with those of subjects preserved in the, museums at Paris, he had come to the con cldsibn that it might belong to one seven or eight months old ; it might also, however, be that of a child come to its full time. The doctor added, that though healthy childreri generally cry on being born, the absence of a cry is not a proof that a cild is not alive. Dr. Gendron of Chinon, deposed that he had been sent by the magistrates to examine the young lady when reports of what had occurred had reached them ; and that on that occasion Madame Lemoine, in answer to his questions, had admitted that her daughter had given birth to a child, and that she had burnt it. An old woman named Suard, formerly a servan in the Lemoine family, said she had communicated to Madame Lemoine the reports which were cur rent about her daughter. ." Yes," remarked Ma dame Lemoine,." she did so, but my daughter denied that they were true, and I fully believed her." The brother of Fetis and a musicmaster named Sorneau deposed that the coachman had revealed to.thenalis intimacy with the young lady. The musicmaster added that the mail had begun taking. lessons on the violin, but discontinued them be cause he said that as he was about to become rich by marrying Mademoiselle Angelina he had no need to learn how to play the fiddle. (Laughter.) The next witness was the tailor, named Lieubray, who attempted to commit suicide by discharging a pistol at his "head, but who - did not accomplish his purpose, ; he had, however, wounded himself rather seriously and was brought into the court in a chair. He deposed that he had observed familiarities be tween the young lady and Fetis, and that the lat ter had told him that she was enciente, and had even asked him to ‘present a .letter to her mother, asking her hand in marriage on that ground. The man said also that in his presence Mademoiselle Angelina had talked to Fetis of marrying him. Several other witnesses also deposed to having observed familiarities between Mademoiselle Le moine and the coachman. A man named Faucillon deposed to having seen Mademoiselle Lemoine, when in company with her mother, lie down on the side' of a 'Slope and roll to the bottom without stop ping. It could not have been an accident, for the young lady first took off her shawl and laid it aside, resuming it afterwards. The girl Itoehereau, who had bsenrervant with the two prisoners after the departuraof Fetis, declared that she was aware that her young mistress would before long give birth to a child, but when the accouchement took place everything poised so quietly that she know nothing of what had occurred. Hercule Guibaut, landed proprietor, deposed to the neglected-education given by the mother to Mademoiselle Lemoine, and being a friend of the • father's he had remonstrated with Madame Lenioine on the subject. On - the other hand, M. Laurent, musicmaster, and :Ct: Maupetit, professor of history, declared.that tlidyshad give.n lessons to the younger prisoner, and never saw anything in her manner or conduct that was not perfeetly correct. The President read several passages from the examination of Madame Lemoine, tending to prove her inflexible determination. Madame Lemoine replied—"l do not deny that I have a determined will, but the energy of which you speak leads to noble actions and not to crime." —The-examination of witnesses lasted the whole of the first two days, yesterday being denoted to the requisitory of the public prosecutor and to the pleadings, . The Ptiblic Prosecutor supported the indictment. After some obiervations on the enormity of the case, he proceeded to notice what he called the scandal ously negligent manner in which Madame Lemoine had brought up her daughter—allowing her to go out alone into the town, to frequent shops in which men were employed, to talk loosely, act boldly, and read immoral books. He also accused Madame Lemoine of not having given her daughter any religious education.' So negligent was she of her daughter that, even after she was informed of the reports that were current about her, she did not place any watch on her, and. the consequence was the relations between the girl and the coach man continued as before. The girl's conduct had been truly scandalous, and by it she had degraded herself even below her paramour. The learned gentleman then, passed in review the facts of the case, and .contended that when Madame Lemoine found she could not by the violent measures she had employed on her daughter produce a miscarriage, she had deliberately resolved on getting rid of the child" by burning, whether it were alive or dead. He described th horrible calm with which the crime was effected, and insisted that the child had been born:alive. He concluded by Pressing earnestly for a conviction of the mother, and by contending that the girl had clearly been her accomplice, and must be convicted also. M. Lachaud, i advocate for Madame Lemoine, be gan by tsaying that never had any woman such moral torture as she. She had seen her daughter, her pride and joy, dishonoured at the very outset of life by a scoundrel; and she and her daughter were now .called upon to answer for the life of a being which never existed. Even if, placing the honour of her daughter above every other conside ratios, sire : had committed a crime, she would merit profound pity, he had almost said respect. But he .should be able to show the jury that she had not committed, any crime. The learned gentleman then proceeded to contend that she had not neglected her daughter; the forward. conduct of the girl had been much exaggerated; and, lastly that she was one -of those exceptional characters whom it was impossihle even fora mother to divine. He next went on to denounce the coachman for having basely taken advantage of the extreme youth and inexperience of the girl, 4rid said that though perhaps in the eye of the law he could not be accused of having subjected her to : violence, he had certainly done so in the eye of God. He. expressed surprise that when :this man, so base and ignoble, had revealed to Madame Lemoine that her daughter was enceinte by him, she had not rushed on him add attempted to kill him. But Madame Le moine was able to control her indignation, and she questioned her daughter; Who could picture ade quately to himself the anxiety, sorrow, and anguish of those two unfortunate creatures—the daughter on her knees avowitv , that she was dishonoured, and the niother listening to her? The learned gentleman then entered into an elaborate review.of the facts which occurred subsequently, and con tended that the violent exercises • which Madame Lenioine had caused he daughter to take were not destined to produce a miscarriage ; that, though Madame Lemoine had undoubtedly resolved to keep her. daughter's frailty secret, she had never con ceived the horrible project of burning a living child and that what the daughter had said as to the being born alive was a mistak e , as th e child was certainly dead. He therefore must call on the judge to say that the indictment was not established. M. Seiiler afterwards pleaded on behalf of Mdlle. Lemoine, contending that, if any murder had been committed, she was not legally or morally respon sible, inasmuch as she at the time was in such a state as not to be aware of what was taking place. The Pregident then summed up the evidence, and the jury, late at night, retired to consider the ver dict. in half an hour they returned with a verdict of guilty against the mother, but with extenuating ciffuffistances, and of acquittal of the daughter. 151:be Court condemned the mother to 20 years' hard labour. IS CONSUMPTION INCURIBLE ? Invalids labouring Cqnsumptive Maladies, and families who have suabred the. r.tvap.;es of Consurriptio (and what family in the enipiro 'is there who has not to deplore a los•s.caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find a satisfactory answer to, the que.tion, ". Is Consumption In curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN, M.D., 3.5, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in the "Household Physician, " in numbers, one penny each by G. Burger, 10, uolywell-street, Strand. Prom Ito 9 now ready. [ADVERTISEAENT.] Holloway's Plll3 and Ointment.— Consumption' is almost invariably preceded by great debility, cough, loss of appetite and flushes. The alterative and tonic inibienc,o of Iloilo vay's invaluable remedies operates like a charm in subduing these formidable symptoms. A course of these purifyidg Pills should at once be co mmence d , an d at the same time Holloway's Ointment should be briskly rubbed at least twice a day over the back and chest. The Ointment is more effective when used after sponging - with warm- brine,:,,snel well; drying. The conjoint ci&ot of this treatment is marvellous. A change for the better is. ob served within a week, and the iinprovement steadily pro gresses. The appetite returns, the shortness ofbreath cefutes, d the iltirasSing cough soon vanishes altogether. CRIES FROM A CON VENT. (From the Downshire Protestant.) We copy from our contemporary, the Irish Times, the following. letter : "TO THE EDITOR OF THE IRISH TIMES. " November 2, 1859. " Sir,—l think it right to draw your attention, as a public journalist, to an occurrence of a most mysterious ind which took place a day or two ago. On the evening pf Sunday last,'at about seven o'clock, as I was passing the corner of the Baggot-street Convent, which looks hate Herbert -street, dreadful screams were heard coming from an open window of the nunnery. The screams proceeded from a female, - who ,was crying, Oh I mercy, mercy I they are murdering me.' 'Her figure appeared for a moment at the window, which was then closed by some one from 'behind ; and the remainder of this extraordinary and dread ful scene was hidden from view. "A lady and gentleman, accompanied by a little child, were passing at the time, and the child, turning to the gen tleman, saia, Oh, papa, they are murdering the poor woman.' The gentleman replied, It is very dreadful,' or words to that effect. " I haya heard, on good authority, that numerous dark cells have been made under this Baggot-street Convent (for what purpose I know not), and as the scene which I have described was, to say the very least of it, a most extraor dinary one, I trust to your calling the immediate attention of the authorities to the subject, as it is a case, at all events, demanding an immediate investigation. " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, " I enclose my card." " A PASSER-BT." Here, through this open window, tho reader gets a hasty glimpse of the horrors to which- these poor incar cerated women are subjected; in this individual shriek, in this piteous cry for mercy, he obtains a hint of the fear ful history of many a helpless victim. " Oh, mercy, mercy,'' shriek the poor creature in her agony ; the tones of her voice are borne to the passer-by for a moment, the convent window is closed, and there remains for tho poor suffer3r such mercy as that which extorted that fearful cry from her lips. And the passer-by, hearing those excruciating screams, looks up and shudders—that is all. The father says to his child, whose heart is wrung at the sound of mortal agony coming through that open convent window—." It is very dreadful," and he passes on. What more can . he do ? Those walls are sacred. No polluting foot must pass the convent doors. And, although the heart of manhood may swell to bursting at the sound of woman's woe, the agony must be endured ; the woman must suffer ; and no help, no word of solace or sympathy must reach her ears, for the hduho'wherein she is tormented, wounded, violated, murdered, is a "holy" house, a sacred retreat, a haven from the storms of the world ! The convent is situated in one of the most respectable quarters of Dublin, and holds within its walls a large num ber of those beguiled and entrapped unfortunates who are known as nuns. We state •n good authority that it is nothing unusual to hear the most appalling and heartrend ing cries passing out of the open casements of thistell uppri earth. Many persons have heard them again and again, women and men—the former with creeping flesh,latter with horror, disgust, indignation, and despair. where For a convent is the only place on ear th tl 4° a woman may be wronged with impunity, whey may be tortured without que.stin, her delicate frame where her moral nature may be violated, her.vforoeLuy instincts tra m pl e d upon, her very life sacrificed vl ..`inout the protection of any law, where she is ditpose3 . , to every infamy that the lic ence o f l us t may suggest, and unbounded and irresponsible power may carry into execution, no matter how or by what means. Surely this is a terrible state of affairs. Surely it is high time that some remedy were applied—high time that the Legislature saw to it, that a slavery worse than any that ever fettered the limbs and tortured the body of the negro was abolished; time that British eul?jects, for no crime whatever, should be released from a bondage more hateful than any upon earth, and time that it be ascertained whether there are not many hundreds and thousands of unwilling prisoners within convent walls and convent dungeons, cut off from the sweet air of heaven, and condemned against their will to life-long tortures and indignities. The poor women who enter these abodes of woe are either religious fanatics, to whom the odours of sanctity are more precious than life and liberty, or else they are women with blighted affections who,. having proved the falsity of earthly love seek for comfort in what they believe to be a heavenly. The former hope to elevate them - selves above the condition of our fallen huinanity ; hope by the practiceuf rigorous mortificatiOnS of the flash, to reach saintly spiritual altitudes, and believe that by trampling on the nature which God has given them, with all its appe tencies, aptitudes, and correlative functions they shall be able to reach a highet' life. Of course they are puffed up with ideas of self-righteousness : but their folly should not bring with it such terrible retribution as that which is in flicted by merciless and brutal priests. And the second class of victims, who have fallen into the fatal error of mistaking disappointment for religion, wounded vanity for saintly apti tudes, and petulance with the world for heavenly yearnings, and so have scornfully cast aside the duties which naturally devolve on women, and endeavour to take upon them the yoke of ",saints"—even these, fatal as is their mistake, should not be abandoned by the world, and left to the tender mercies of their tormentors. Sad and revolting scenes, dreadful cruelties, terrible tra gedies are enacted within the sealed walls of these convents, which would startle the public were their dungeons flung open to the light of day, and their doings exposed to public scrutiny. Occasional shrieks break on the outer air as indica tions of the life that is led - by those who dwell within ; but those who hear them can render no assistance, nor even offer the poor solace of a kindly word. The busy, cheerful, bustling, gossiping world outside has nothing whatever to do with the abominations, the secret woe, the shrinking pollution under the name of sanctity, the dark ness, the silence, and the death of the world within those convent walls. There is no law. for the poor persecuted victims who have once entered there. They cannot appeal to the:sym pathies of Britons, and say, with the slave, that an touch ing British soil they are free, for they are bor-nd body and soul in the most hateful and servile of al se:Jdome, and for them there is no deliverance. Is this to be for ever ? Are the cries of their great agony to go up to God day after day, and month after month, unregarded by men, while " liberal" statesmen en large on the "illiberality" of those who would inquire into the condition of these white slaves, and liberate those who are pining for the free air, and for that constitutional protection to which all civilised beings are entitled ? FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT WHITEHALL, DEC. 10. The Queen has been pleased, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to grant unto George Edward Adams, Barrister at-Law, the office of Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, vacant by the promotion of Edward Stephen Dendy, Esq. ) to the office of Chester Herald. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 12. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Mollison Cutler, Alexander Keith, Henry G. Pineo, William M'Keen, Richard A. M`Heffey, and John Holmes, to be Members,. of the Legislatiire Council of the Province of Nova Scotia. FORT;;IGN-OFFICE, EC . The Qdee ha&been pleased to approve of l3 Mr. Giacomo Pim as Consul, at Dublin for his Majesty the King of Sar dinia. • WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 13. 18th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Pemberton Hesketh to be Adjutant, vice Saunders, who resigns the Adjutantcy only. ' Royal Artillery —Assistant-Surgeon William Ramsay Steuart, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon; Assis tant-Surgeon Alexander Richmond, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon. Ist Regithent of Foot—Lieutenant Frederick J. Ponsonby Hill, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gregory, who re• tires. 6th Foot—Lieutenant Bentinek L. Cumberland, from the 75th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Allfrey, who exchanges; Ensign Frederick Helyar, from the 82d Foot, to be En sign , vice Merchant, who exchanges. Bth Foot—Ensign William Bannatyne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice H. E. Fitz Gerald, who retires. 12th Foot—Hamilton John Wallace, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hopper, who retires. 20th Foot—Captain Augustus Riversdale Warren to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Butler, who retires ; Lieutenant George Gethin to be Captain, by purchase, vice W arren ; E ns i gn Jas. Smyth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice. Gethin. 21st Foot—Lieutenant Robert Beatty Henderson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smelt, who retires ; Ensign James Browne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hen derson. 23d Foot—Ensign John Henry Tulloeh to be Lieutenant , by purchase, vice Lawrence, promoted ; Ensign Gerald George Liddell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gre gorie, promoted; Ensign Samuel William Ralph Sadler to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Knight, promoted. 25th Foot — Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Timbrell Allan, from the Met Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, 'without purcha - se ; Captain B enry Torrens Walker to be Major, without purchaso ; Major Mawdistly Gausson Best, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major; Cap tain George Skene Hallowes, from the 18th Foot, to be Captain, vice Walker ; Lieutenant John Richard Harvey, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieutenant John O'nea to be Captain, without purchase; Lieutenant John Wilkinson, from the 81st Foot, to bo Captain; without purchase; Lieutenant Henry Helsham, from the 53d Foot, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieutenant Arthur Sisson Cooper, from the 27th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieutenant 'Thomas Edward Gordon, from the 61st Foot, to be Captain, with out purchase ; Lieut. E. G. 'Horne from the 48th Foot, to be Captai n , w ith ou t purchase; Lieut. A. S. Cameron, from the - 72d Foot, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Magrath, from the 84th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase ; Lieutenant George Augustus Elliott, from the 33d Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice Harvey; Ensign Francis George Coleridge, from the 42d Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice O'llea ; Surgeon Charles Robert Robinson, from the Staff, to be Surgeon • Assistant-Surgeon James Gideon Creasy, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon; Assistant-Surgeon Edward Corrigan Markey, from the Staff, to be Assistant •Surgeon. 29th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Ross Wheeler to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet- Colonel Stewart, retired on full-pay; Captain Lindsay Farrington to be Maj Cir, without purchase., vice Wheeler ; Lieutenant John James Hood Gordon to be Captain, without purchase, vice Farrington. 41st Foot—Lieutenant Robert Enstace Maude to bo Cap • tain, by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires ; Ensign Montagu Thomas Ball Mitchell to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Maude. 52d Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Hope Graves to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Dick, deceased ; EnSign S. Lott Pidsley to be Lieutenant 'without purchase, vice Graves; Ensign Francis .Edward Dewier, from the 23d Foot, to be Ensign. vice ridsley. 07th Foot—Surgeon Jones Lamprey, 141.8., from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Parr, who exchanges. 69th Foot—Lieut. James Warren Hastings Anderson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Biggs, who retires; Ensign Pearson Thomas Beanies to b;Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anderson, 73d Foot—Ensign Archibald - . Collings Fall Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gibaut, promoted ; Sydenham Clitherow McGill, Gent., to be Ensign, by ' purchase, vice Armstrong. 76th Foot—Lieut. Lieut. Irving Stoning - Allfrey, from the 6th Foot, to bo Lieutenant, vice Cumberland, who ex changes. 76th_Foot—Ensign Edward Le Breton Butler to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Field, who retires. 82t1 Foot—Ensign Charles Henry , Merchant, from the 6th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Helyar, who exchanges. Bsth Foot—Surgeon Archibald Henry Fraser, from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Dunlop, Who exchanges. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Jose-ph Bourke to be `Lieutenant, by parchase, vice Mackenzie, promoted. HOSPITAL STAFF. • • - Surgeon John Dunlop, M.D., from the 88th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Fraser, who exchanges. - Surgeon Thomas Parr, from the 67th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Lamprey, who exchanges. Assistant-Surgeon William Skeen,.M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Peter Henry Roe, placed upon half pay. BREVET. Brevet-Major Gra3me Alex. Lockhart, 78th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Major. John Archibald Ballard, Bombay Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Captain George Lynedock Carmichael, 95th Foot, to be Major in the Army. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 8. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Adjutant John Frederick Hawkey to be Captain, vice Tirapson, de ceased; Second Lieutenant Arthur French to be First Lieutenant, vice Hawkey, promoted. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Middlesex—David Salomons, Esq., MY., Alderman of the city of London, to be Deputy-Lieute nant. The Essex Rifles Militia—Frederick Oldham Yeo to bo Lieutenant, vise Hugh Pearce Pearson. Kent Volunteer Rifles-sth Company—Edward Plum- , mer, Esq., to be Captain ; Henry George Austin, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Herbert Tritton Sankey, Gent., to be En sin, Kent Volunteer Rifles, 6th Company —George Austin, Esq., to be Captain ; Allen Fielding, Gent., to be Lieute• nant ; James Delmar, junr., Gent., to be Ensign; Charlesb: Holttum, Esq., to be Honorary Surgeon of the sth and 6t Companies. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia-- Charles Francis Browne, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Samuel ' S. Hire, promoted. 2d Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps—George Meek, Bab? to be Captain. 4th Company of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers —lira' Reynolds, Esq., to be Captain; Joseph Stringfellow, Gent., to be First Lieutenant. 13th Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Williani M'lnroy, Esq., to be Captain • George Bretherton. Barron, . Gent., to be Lieutenant; John Augustine Robinson) ° wit " to be Ensign. Ist East York Artillery Volunteers —Burlington Cool' pany—Bonjamin Blaydes Haworth, Esq., to be Captain; Edward Ridsdale Harding, Esq , to be First-Lieutenant ; Robert Crowe, Esq ,to be &icon's' Lieutenant. • to be Cambridgeshire Militia—Ensign George Ringo Lieutenant. Cisrard 4th Regiment of WestYorkMilitia—Lieutenant E Wilkes Waud to be Captain, vice James Ormerod worth, who retires. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Ex James Gillham, boot and•shoe manufacturer, William Iredale, horse dealer, Ranskill, Nottinghnir shire. eter. BANKRUPTS. Rol - Art Hockley, victualler, Crisp-street, Poplar. dames Beaty, draper, Longtown, Cumberland. William Forrester, iron merchant, Hanley , Staffordshire' Henry Harris, mantle manufacturer, Cheapside, City! Charles J3nes ' sail maker, Gloucester. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Hugh M‘Dougall, market gardener, Leith. Swan. and M'Kitterick, d-apers, Dumfries. John Kindness, baker, Aberdeen. James Forbes, corn merchant, Inverness. John M'Connechy, or M'Connechie, hotel keeper, Gla gow. COUNTRY MARX-ITS• LIVERPOOL—DEc. 13. The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise since Tue,sa% week have been insignificant. From foreign ports we ' - ij received 7,566 quarters of wheat, 6,266 qrs of beano, 7 rts qrs of peas, 8,732 comprisend 810 sacks of flour. The el t in the same time p 1,412 qrs of wheat, 130 q oats, 228 qrs peas, 1,078 qrs of Indian corn, 108 loadl,o_ oatmeal, and 2,276 sacks and 305 barrels of flour. 'e l l trade has been inactive during the week. We hay° wet and open weather. Prices of all articles are nue our We had a very fair attendance of millers and deale at rs market this morning, and little disposition to do built:ila; in wheat, which readily supported Tuesday's PT:i ces ' and oatmeal a slow sale. The amount of business traro; acted in Indian corn was limited, an d scarcely suppor?G the advance of 6d on the prices o f Tuesday. EgYPtil: beans gave way is per qr. Barley and peas Faltered: Flour in limited demand. BRISTOL—DEc. 13. At the market to-day there was a fair attendance, $1:1(1. the prices of barley and wheat remain una ltered; more quiry was found for most kinds of grain. SHEFFIELD—DE'. 13. The attendance at our corn exchang e was moderate ts *" day, We are tolerably supplied with wh eat, which illee ..,,, dull sale, and the few sales effected wer e at last Tueeds, prices. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial b hels . us .. White g 180 6d to 200 qi 9 9 )) . ...US 6d to liis Oa New red It ), • ..18s 6d to 19s 64 New white )2 If . 17s Od to 2,0 s gal • i6s 6(1 to 18* ~ . _ Beans /, 7, .**•.i.is Od to 508 ... Peas, per qr .... 0000000000000000000000000 ~,_ od to 35s tiai Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto , • , I, ............... ~,,,, n d t o 8 Oats 11 .............. •_.• .. 4 1 ' I ~ iod per ......... ` . 5 . 6 .1 04 3 od to lr 04 0, Millers' prices for flour—ls 6d, is Bd, an d "- 14113. ----- NEWCASTLEjJNDER-LYNE—DEc• 12. d A. limited show of wheat at market, which met a res f t demand; but wo make no alteration from h e quotatio ns of last week: Fine heavy barley in requ Bes 411" est ; inferior do ' seriptions aro neglected. Oats fully as cheap. small show, at ostremo rates. 511 Wheat .... 42s to 46s I Oats.. .........• 24 5 to 8 to 21 0 White do 48s to 52 s I Beans .......... 49 t°---. B ar l e y 29s to 44s I Ditto, old ........-" LEEDS—DEc. 13. The transactions in wheat and barley are without oll_ang in value, but a fair consump tive demand . O ats and bOr at no decline from last week. Averages for the wool: Wheat 3,546 qrs., at ••45s 100 P eas .... 10 ~ ' .. 40s Od Beans lB „ 4ss 2/d Barley.... ..... 2,7 46 ~ 3Bs Old O a t s 76 ~ ••••• • • •203 II d Rye 8• „ ........ 30s 0 Arrivals this week :--- Wheat ......... 6,975 go. Barley .... 839 71 Oats 516 Rapeseed Beans Linseed 478 —. Flour -- fIaCIB. • NORWICH CATTLEL-DEo. 12. Our market to day exhibited a fair show of story: att; comprising Scots, shorthorns, Devons, and-Irish. A 2 , clearance was effected, although there w as not a n umer° " - attendance. Scots, 5s to 5s 6d ; shorthorns, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; Irish , _,, 41/ to 4s 6d ; Dovons, 4s 6 d to 5s d (estimated weight Wh' fat). Fat,beasts e scarce, at 8s Od to 8s 6d per stone. A bri4 sal. ...„ Sheep—There - "were more sheep in the pens til""' ° late. HOggets and keeping sheep in alow.sale, at 10 loWer• 418, • Fat sheep, - 8s 6d to 9s Od per `stone, and all sold. . ‘ „A r , Picrs—A good supply. Store pigs 25s to 40a; fa' 7s Odto 8s 6d per stone. FOREIGN MAIL PACKBT LIST• na el tCh In the following t a bl e E s i gn ifi es th a t letters are 11 " r by evening mails from London, and 21 by morning 111 " - .., c r uuLug, Luaus IFOIII 1.401111011, lIMU-1.11. 1. 22. _ .......... .....---..`".---- € mai DESTINATIONS. Despatch Pur l ~°: ~ due. of Mails. Des u• -------- Australia, and Mauritius, via Southampton avana via New Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and II Canada, .f:c. (by Canadn. pckt.) Dec. pee. 2 1 3 4', E B , . Deo. 2 2 . D Ta e n c. , 1 1 2 9 , , 3 8 1 5..0.u.t.hain....p.... JaYsz.erdll4, C C h a l p i - n o e a ri :of p G en o a o n d g, H a o n p d e, Ascen sion, and St. Helena • Dec. J. pore, via Sotithampto S n in . g . a . -. Jan. 5, E E 1 S p o e u v t ° ll.alu llPar P t • . ,-. 111 :.,. :3, Ditto, .via. Marseilles xfl.— overdu e Liverpool. pee. 14 Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 20, M Southan* Dec . 10 , Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Dec Dec. o verdue ampton Dec. 26, 31 South .. arnp. Deo. 14 . Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buen os Ayres, p 2 2 0 6: 3 2 1 S .. o . . u India (Bombay), via South- t . ha .. ra..p... 0 , oleo. 19 India Jail. 5 ,,. and F. Islands . Jan. 9, 31 Southamp. o yerd— Lisbon, Vigo, and ll',porto Dec. 17, hi S tuthin3P. 13 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via pea Southampton Dec. 20, 31 Southall* De o. Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Jan. 2, M SouthazaP• ..- Newthundland Dec. 17, E Galwai •• • ' United States and British N Dee , 14 I, America (by British packet) Dec. 17, E LiverPa° •--- Ditto (by U. S. packet) est Coast of Africa, Ma- overdue W Liverpool. dcira, and Teneriffe Dec. 23 E West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, 3?aru, Grey- .. e ---'43' 16 ~ town. New Granada, &c. -- u'r• _....-- BIRTHS. CANNON.—On the 11th inst., at K ensin C.C.T., , terrace, the wife of Lieut. - Gener al Cannon, S. a ton. 117 a f Ordf Dawsorr.—On the 9th inst., at Charlesford, co. 1 gr. fifie wife of Captain IVestropP D awson, of a son and h or FoLEy.—On the 10th inst. , a t Chepstow-placer Barlila . the lady of Edward Foley , Es q ., of a son. fad RorEn.—On the 10th inst., at Croy don, the wife of Al G. Roper, Esq., of a da u g hter. , eon -garden! MARRIAGES. Coorr.R—BRA.DSIIAW.—On tho Bth inst., at Walthatagfair parish church, Richard, younovst son f Mr. R. Cul er ,.: of Chipping Ongar, Essex, tAlizabeth, eldest daug ''" of Mr. J. Bradshaw, of Waltharastow. ~,,,,,,,,, 44, HART—GALE.—At St. George-the -Martyr, Suu""---r,d.. James, only surviving son of Thomas Hart, Esq./ SClr..r -tor, Reigate, Surrey, to Catherine Anne, eldest daugw"- of the late John Gale, Berkhampstead. ETHS. ADBOTT.—On the 11th D inst A , Mr. John Abbott, of 61 1 : 41ke. c street, Portland-place, aged 55. ounTowN.—On the 11th inst., at 42, Charlotte-8401_171 Edilburgh the Countess Dowager of Courtowut Age" 34. ' 3fr. DODWELL.—OR the 11th inst., at 6, Stockwell Villa., _s., Goo. Dodwell, of the firm of Morley and Dodwell, of FR day-stree, aged 42. lIENDRIKS. t —On the 11th inst , at Lansdowne-circust South-Lambeth, Heaman Hendriks, Mons, Jamaica, aged 72. M'CAsKILL.—On the 2d inst., at Tunbridge-wells, An widow of the late Major-General Sir John IVliCasx K.C.B. Esq., forruurlY °I MILLS.—On the 12th inst., at 3, Hatcham-terrace, 14.,,Ti cross, Mr. James Mills, of the Britannia, BrewerY, NO Id age,d.69. JEssorr.—On the 12th inst., at Waltham AWAY) ' l°4l Jessopp, Esq., aged 73. _.........11 ci .vo LONDON : Printed and Published by Mr ILDO It° '. 12 ? of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su n OiliCe, :-02 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the 001110 Middlosez, Wednesday, December 14, 1869. 134 Th year! th ln, Ln e p after rati on the he -"-vo 4th pr