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ASSIZE INTELLIGENOE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoBit, Dec. 10. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Nearly' the whole of to-day was occupied' with the trial o'f cases the particulars of which are unfit for publicastion- Mary Arnt Addey, and 19, a good-looking, young woman, was :;_ndicted for the wilful murder of her female child , a--5t Huddersfield, in t he West Riding, eptember last. • on the 19th of Mr. Blanshar d and Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted ; and Mr. 'Maule clzfended the prisoner. It appears that the prisoner was engaged in the mill of Messrs. 1-lattersley, manufacturers, near Huddersfield. Fo'r' some time previous to the 19th September the pri_loner's shape had attracted the attention of sonic t. If her fellow workmen , -w and workwomen, also of Janet Sykes, a witnessho had on different occons made remarks o n the a moons subject to the prisoth r herself, who hadinva riably treated the ma tter jocularly. On the afternoon of the 16th .of September Sykes re marked to her " Thee :looks first-tate now," and on the morning of the 20th she met, prisoner coming to her work much later than usual,' and lookinc , very ill. It w as p roN ' ed by the evidence of the girl's own father that during that night she had_ left the house for the professed purpose of going to the petty; that her parents , aftev waiting a consi derable time, went out to seek her, an foUnd that she was not where she had led thea a l to expect. See re t u rned immediately afterwards, d coMplain that she was very unwell. The next' mo Crnin bo g„ in a field about 100 yards from the house hild'sbody was found, covered with blood and I b'earing all the marks of premature birth. The umbil calf ord ence was' torn, not tied ; but there were n o markt' oviol to account for death. The surgeon, howi,,ver, swore that he believed the girl t o have been rec'entlY de livered, and that the child had breathed. \ ‘ vas also attempted to be proved that a ch ild ' s cr y was heard near the spot where the body was found, just ai' the time when the girl had left the house, but this w:v 3 not satisfactorily shown. Mr. Manic addressed the jury for the prisoner ; he contended that it had not been provod with any degree of certainty that the girl was the mother of the child in question, or that there was any evidence whatever that the child had ever had an indepen dent existence ; or, finally, that it could be sho wn that even, if born ive, it had died a violent death. His Lordship put all these questions to the jury with much force and clearness, and the jury retired to consider their verdict. They returned into court after an absence of nearly two hours, and stated that:they had agreed to acquit the prisoner of the charge of murder, but requested further directions as to the charge of con cealment of birth included in the indictment. His Lordship Laid down the law on this point, and the jury, after a short consideration, acquitted the prisoner. • • MIDLAND CIii,CUIT.—NORTHAMPToN, lite .9. ...Martha Ann Lewis stood charged with having, , at thoparish of•Finedon, on the 17th of August last,' killed and murdered Ernest Wallington Lewis ; and further, with having at the same place and: on the same day killed:and murdered Lizzy Winifred May Lewis. She was also charged with both offences on the coroner's inquisition, and to, each charge pleaded not guilty. Mr. Maunsell conducted the prosecution ; the prix soner was defended. by Mr. O'Brien. ' The facts proved in support of both indictments were the same. It appeared, on the opening state ment of Mr. Maunsell and the, evidence adduced in support of the charges, that the prisoner was the mother of the two deceased children named in the indictment, the boy being two years . and eight months old,. and the girl, a baby of four or five months old. On. the 17th of August, about 6 o'clock in the evening, Warren Chapman, who worked with Joseph :Wallington, the prisoner's brother, on re turning home went,.in consequence of something he had heard, to look for the prisoner. On reaching a pond'of Mr. Mackworth Dolberes, he observed an apron with a pair of scissors tied. to it lying under utree upon the bank, and in the pond the body of the boy Ernest W. - Lewis, which he took out and found was lifeless. A man named Desborough coming by about the same time drew out the body of the !baby, which was also in the pond. Ephraim Lewis, the .prisoner's father-in-law, on going down towards the pond, met thoparish constable: Parker carrying the dead body of the boy towards F,inedon, . and went on towards the cottage of i ise Dolben, about 200 yards distant from the pond,. where he fonnd, the prisoner seated on the grass under some trees behind the cottage garden ' with her headbent down and her , arras. resting on her .lap. On being asked where her baby was she replied, They are both in the water ; I threw them in." Before the bodies of the children were found the prisoner's brother, who had gone to rook for her, had found her at the place already mentioned gazing towards the pond where Se: - ..Lreh was being, made. He asked her where the children were ; she answered " Lower down," and sat still, seeming dull and de jected. She was led to the cottage of a Mrs. Archer, where she remained some time in a state of uncon sciousness. ~ . It was eliched, in cross-examination of the wit-. 1 nesses for the prosecution, that up to within months of the day in question she had been of a calm, cheerful, and 'happy disposition, but •at that time a melancholy had come upon her, which had increased. after the birth of her' baby. She had left home without any apparent cause, as she had no quarrel with her husband, whom she said she loved. She had on one occasion, it appeared, attempted self destruction, and on another occasion, When found by"her brother in a lane 'to i.vhit , h she had wan dered, the dejection in which he found her induced him to remonstrate with her and dissuade her from attempting suicide. Mr. O'Brien addressed the jury for the defence, which he said the opening of the learned counsel for the prosecution must rilready have led the jury to anticipb.te was that the prisoner, who it' was proved had beena careful, fend, affectionate mother until that sad change of which they had heard had Clouded her mind, was not, at the time' when her children met their' deaths by her hand in such a state of mind as to be . responsible for her actions. No motive for the act was suggested on -the part of the prosecution. A number of witnesses were called who cOrroba rated the evidence of insanity alieacly'gi#en, among whom were the surgeon of the gaol and the surgeon of the Northamptonshire Lunatic Asylum, in whose care the prisoner had' been under a warrant from the Rothe Secretary: Both' gentlemen gave their opinion in the most deeided manner that the pri soner was not, on the day in question, in a state of mind to be accountable for her conduct: The learned Judge having summed up the evi dence,-the :pry returned a verdict of Not Guilty on the ground of insanity. A like verdict was returned upon` the second in dictment, and no evidence being offered on the toro ner's inquisitions, a verdict of Not Guilty was taken upon those charges. The.prisoner was ordered to be detained until her Majesty's pleasure should be known. John Byrne pleaded Not Guilty to a charge of wounding William Gent with intent to murder, and with 'minor intents. Mr. Merewether conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Cockle defended the prisoner, - • It appeared from the evidence that about a guar,- ter past 12 a.m., on the 13th of October,'John Byrne, son . of the prisoner, had gut into a conflict in Brook street, Daventry, and that the prisoner went 'to his assistance with a knife. A man named Marriott. remonstrated . with him, upon which - the prisoner struck at him and afterwards at Gent, who was in , 'the crowd near to prisoner's son, and wounded him in two places a little above and .below the region of the heart. • Mr. Cockle addressed the jury for the prisoner, and The Judge having summed np the evidence, the jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.— Sen tenced to 18 calendar month's' imprisonment, with hard labour. John Sewell, a boy nine years of _age, pleaded guilty to a charge of setting fire to msfitek of straw, the property of his master, at Clipston, on the 25th of July; and William Brown and Charles West to the charge of setting fire to a hovel, the property of Richard Scrivener of Cosgrove, on the 16th of August. . . The boy Sewell 'was sentenced to two Inonths'.', imprisonment and to he twice whipped, and Brown and - West, both full-grown men, each to lour years' penal ser v it u d e. • The Court rose at :eight o'clock. • . . 'l)r.cic.‘inr.a. 10. Mr. .Tastice Crompton too;: his - scat at 9 a.m. (3corcre White, chargal with the maut.ilanghter of Affi i\rbvnian, at Wollaston and George White with a idi ng and Ilraiker - 'anti 'Frederick a b e ttinz hind in that offence, all *pleaded "Not guilty." ' . Mr. Markham conducted the pioseention, and Mr.'Merewether watched the case ig inst the two Whites . . thr,t the death of IV7lnan resulted from ,a blOw given in' a' fair stand-up . fight between himself and George Wfiite, - in which the other two prisoners acted as seconds. Mr.Verewcther declined' addressing the jury, and the learned Judge having summed up , the jicy convicted all the prisoners. Gorge, White, having already been in - prison three months, was sentenced' to two calendar months' imprisonment. Edward Coe pleaded .not guilty ,to .a charge of - ...e.—.—;.--------- `—"-7 ' s t a ck of barley) the Property of settiter B l e s s t.O a Had 'loll Cave, at Des borough, oh Sept. 30. '.Henryf:dnduct ' Mr. Cave , -Idea. gone r was Ili:Ade. 'he evidence that one of tiis ed' the p rosecution ; the p riz it ap p e ared from 1.- 1.;„ granddaughter, and w i tnesse s, an old man , L_ ' l g from the el several others, who w e r e return... _ ot where the lingborough Rower-show, passed &h.. .. a. ctii , s tack in questi on was situate, and througu . _ ' in the stone fence. of a field adjoining the Aack yard saw a: man in dark clothes carrying a light a ,,a going towards the stack, which stood,some 50 distant from the lane in which the witnesseS stood. When first seen the man was 'about five yards frail:, them, and both the old man and his granddaughter, who by glimpses of the light saw the man who Parried it, believed it to have been the , prisoner, who was a near neighbour"of theirs, and whim' they knew well. The old man went to the house of one of his companions named Stratford, from which place the light was seen to advance towards ' the ' stack and disappear behind it. The granddarghter having - been home went with her mother to Stratford's, and while there distinctly saw • the prisoner's fdce look ing in at the window, and on seeing them The old e out he ran round a coiner and hid him s e lf, man, his.grandilaughter, and her mother returned home, and about an hour after were roused by an alarm of fire given by- a man who was' returning, about 2 o'clock, from Wellingborough.. Mr. lienrylreave' who was also roused at that tim4.‘byithe alarm . of fire; found, on reaching the spot where his barley stack had stood, that it was almost entirely consumed, and was burning on every side but that fronting the lane along which the witnesses had passed. Some evidence of menaces by the prisoner was given. The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the.jury, after deliberating an hour, returned a ver dict of guilty against the prisoner, who was sen tenced to eight years penal servitude OXFORD CIRCUIT —STAFFORD, Dec. 9. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justic&Willes.) Thomas Wilkes; 17, brick burner, was charged ti sith the wilful murder of John Reynolds on the Bth of October, 1859, at Sedgley. M r . F. MO.iahon and Mr. S. Hill appeared for t h e prosecution ; Mr. Motteram defended the pri soner. It appemsd from the evidence that on Saturday night, the Bth of October last, the prisoner was drinking with the deceased and several other men at a beershop kept by a man named Rudge, menat Sedgley. 'At about a quart er to 12 o'clockthe were all turned out, and the s ho p was shut, but as they had not had drink enoug four or five clubbed tog ether and h t s o a u b s n t satisfy subscribed d t hm o e d. each, and gave the money to a man named Cox to get five quarts_ of ale.. Cox went in company with the deceased man Reynolds; who had not sub scribed, and endeavoured to get the ale, but as he did not succeed he gave the money to the deceased, and the latter went back to the party, and returned ,each man his sixpence, with the exception of a man haired Beck. Beck, who was what the witnesses called " fresh," demanded his sixpence, but the de ceasedsaid he had not got it. The deeeased man then 'began to chaff Beck, and said he would give him 2s. for eighteenpence, or half-a-crown for 2s. He then proposed that Beek' should give him a sixpence, 'and he would give him a shilling in exchange, but as Beek had no money the prisoner, who was pre sent,-said he would give the deceased a sixpence and take the shilling, and make it all right with Beck. • Upon that, the prisoner took something from-his pocket which he gave the deceased, and the latter put it in his waistcoat-pocket ; but, in• stead of giving the prisoner a shilling, the deceased give him only a piece of gun-wadding about the size of a shilling.. The.prisoner then said he would not be made a fool of, and demanded the shilling several times, but he got no answer, till at length the deeeased used an insulting expression towards him. The prisoner then went away with one of the men, a distance variously stated by the witnesses .as from 5 to. 30 yards, and again returned to the de-' ceased and demanded his sixpence, saying several times, Toper, will you give me my sixpence ? The deeeased, who was - leaning against a wall, with his hands in his pockets, made nhanswer, and the pri soner_ stood for some time insisting on having his money back, till the deceased again nsed the same expression. The prisoner thereupon lifted up his right hand and struck the deceased a blow on' the left breast. :The deceased said, " What have you struck me with.'" The prisoner said " Nothing.' The deceased . said he v,'as a liar, and stepped forward as if - to strike the prisOner, but he fell down, on some gas pipe's; and. was taken up dead. One of the witnesses ' . named Harpur said the prisoner attempted to strike another blow as the deceased was falling ; and as he was advancing he knocked the prisoner down. The deceased was then taken hoine,and it was discovered that his death had been caused by a stab in the heart. The instrument had pierced the clothes of the deceased, and, pass ing.between the thirdmnd fourth ribs, had pene trated the pericardium of the heart, and entered three-quarters of an inch into the heart, and so caused immediate death. The prisoner, when charged with the murder, said he had only struck the deceased with a cinder, and denied that he had used any knife ; though ho admitted that he had a clasp knife, which he throw on to the top of a cupboard in his mother's house just before he went to bed. The knife was found on the top of the cupboard under some herbs, and, according to the evidence of the policeman who found it, it had marks of blood upon the haft. It appeared that_both the prisoner and the deceased were sober, though one witness said he was betwixt and be• tween, but several of the party were " fresh,", and, -according to one witness, just before the fatal blow was struck the man Beck had been knocked doWn by Harpur. Several ate the party were fighting men, and, as they had been drinking together for several hours, their account of the transaction was' not very consistent, one of the witnesses stating ‘ :tlaat•Reck was not knocked down till after the de- Ceaead - fell. It alSo appeared that some of the party had robbed an old woman's shop of some pig pud dings, which - they had eaten together. Mr. Motteiaria addressed theaiiry'for the prisoner,. and contended that, considering the 'provocation he had received, the prisoner could only be found guilty of manslaughter. Several' witnesses were called; who gave the pri soner a very g sad character. - Mr. Justice Willes, in summing up, explained to the jury the 'difference between murder and man slaughter, and left it to them to say whether the prisoner--was guilty of the one or the other. The jury found the prisoner -Guilty of man slaughter, and Mr. Justice Willes; after some observations on the enormity of the crime, said that, taking into Con sideration the prisoner's youth and the character he •had receiVed, the sentence Would' be 10 years' penal ''servitude. •1 Eliza Palmer, 43, was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury on the 25th of November, 1859, at Wolverhainpton. Mr. G. Browne appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Claydon defended the prisoner. The prisoner was a married woman, and was charged with wilful and cerrupt.perjury, alleged to have been committed before Mr. Leigh, the stipen diary magistrate --at Wolverhampon, on Oct. 25 last. She stated that a man named William Bratt, who had had some keys to mend for her husband, brought, them home about half-past five in the afternoon of 23;and that as he went Away she saw him take her husband's watch off a nail in his shop, put it 'into his right hand trousers ,pocket, and walk away. She immediately told her . husband what she had seen, and he followed the .ma:n, and, had him taken into custody, and carried before the magistrate. As the prisoner swore she had seen Bratt take the watch, he was committed, but in consequence of information which afterwards came to the knowledge of the magistrate, he was liberated on bail, and thi.3 charge was made. In order to prove the falsehood of the prisoner's evi dence the man Bratt was called, and swore that he did not take the watch; but on cross-examination he admitted that he had suffered for poaching and assault, and- about 12 years ago he had been charged with felony. A little boy, named Charles- Rigby', was called,. and stated that holived near the prisoner's house; and that a little before six o'clock on the night in question he went into Palmer's shop Mid stole the watch, and put it into the pigsty in the yard. The nexb day hefetched the watch and threw the case into the fire, and gavotheinside to IC.s mother. After this witness was examined it transpired that he -had been •breught-- -up •from prison to give evidence, having been committed upon the charge of stealing the watch, to take his thal at the next Sessions. Mr. Justice Wines said that if he had been aware , of this circumstance he would not hare allowed the ' boy to be examined. His Lord Ship gave directions that the boy - Should be liberated on bail, and said t.hastohmeecrniargthhterneetvitaco. ° wasbe polished. and it appeared when the Prisoner vas. she said sh e was so con ' given, with perjury confused she did not know what esr. said: Mr. for the prisoner, the prisoner's th a t that , that e e a%leenion-owi s _er to free.o s n e c t i. ' u s p eN b i y - d tl e i e n i c -o e, was . n false, i andt • showshow i rd the prosecution was trumped up in Bratt from-the charge. Several' witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. The jury found' the prisoner guilty. Mr. Justice Willes said-he had. no doubt the pri soner suspected the man, but not having evidence to THE ir SUN, LONDON!TMONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, - 1859. support the charge she fabricated the story which she had toll Ile must, therefore, sentence her to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. COSTS OF PROSECUTIONS. In a case of 'manslaughter tried at these assizes, and in. which an attorney, had been bound over by the coroner to prosecute, Mr. Justice Willes said he should not allow the attorney his eosts. The coro ner had no poWer to bind over an attorney to pro aecute, the attorney not being a witness before him. If the coroner were allowed to exercise such patron age it would lead to great abuse, as the coroner might appoint his owli partner and share the prc fits.. The practice was a bad one and ought to be repressed. His lordship said he would allow the costs out of pocket but nothing more. DECEMBER 10. Eliza Lee, 48, and Hannah . Evans, 17, were charged with a conspiracy to prevent:the due course of justice, by means of perjury, upon the trial of an indictment for felony against John Lee and. five others, at the last October Quarter Sessions for the county of . Stafford. Mr. Broughey and Mr. Jenkins appeared for the ' prosecution ; the prisoners were undefended. Mr. Broughey, in opening the case, stated that the present indictment arose out of a trial which took place at . the last quarter sessions for this county , when a man named John Lee and. five others were' ! chaTed with highway robbery. The prosecutor in that case, a miner named Moore, stated that about half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday night, the 20th of August last, he was knocked down in Dudley " Street, Bilston, by six men, and robbed of 14s. He •ithrilediately gave infortation to the police, and six men were apprehended. •Moore identified Lee and some of the others, and it was proved that they all. six had been seen together about the time of the robbery, and they were all convicted. Upon that: trial the two present defendants were examined. as witnesses one- the part of the prisoners, and their evidence went to show that Moore had not been robbed as he stated, but that he had been robbed in a brothel, and then turned out into, the street. The younger prisoner,, Hannah Evans, swot* that she was standing opposite a brothel in Dudley street, Bilston, and saw a man open the door of the brothel,. and heard him say" Turn the - out." A man who she said was the prosecutor, Moore, then came out and said. 'to a woman of the house " You have robbed me of 14s, or 165.; give me my billy-cock hat." It appeared that this Hannah Evans, who was quite a young girl, had just had a child by ono of the men who were on their trial. Eliza Lee, the prisoner, swore at the same trial that Moore had. proposed to her to compromise the charge and that she had heard him say to Smith, a police sergeant, "What am I to say ?" and that Smith answered " You must swear to the six, and stick stout to them." Several witnesses were now examined in support of the preSent charge of conspiracy and perjury, from whose testimony it chiefly appeared the elder prisoner, Eliza Lee, was the concoctor of all the per jury, and. had induced the girl, Hannah Evans, to come and swear to the story which she had invented for . her. Mr. Justice Willes summed up the evidence, and. pointed out to the jury that as the charge was one of conspiracy, the prisoners must both be acquitted or convicted. ' The jury found both Guilty, but recommended the younger prisoner to mercy. Mr. Justice Willes said it was quite clear that the elder prisoner, Eliza Lee, was a most dangerous per son, and sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour ; but as it was manifest the younger prisoner, Hannah Evans, was her dupe, his lord ship sentenced her to only six weeks' imprison ment, with hard labour. The trial of this case concluded these assizes. TILE ROYAL CBARTER. A painful incident in connection with the wreck of this ship occurred on Saturday, at Brompton Ce metery. Among the passengers lost were a whole family of the name of Pitcher, consisting of father and mother and two children, with their nurse. Mr. Pitcher Was brother of the eminent shipbuilder bearing his name at Northfleet. z He was formerly connected with Messrs. Dent's house in China, but had been for some years resident at Geelong, where, although 42 years of age, he had acquired a for tune, and was returning to England for retirement. His wife was 29 years of age, and his children re spectively' of the ages of three and one years. The eldest (a boy) was among the first to be washed on shore on the morning of the wreck, and had medical assistance been at hand his life it is stated might have been spared, for after being picked up the little fellow was observed to sigh and place his left hand convulsively across his breast. In such a terrible moment of excitement, however, nothing could be done for him on that bleak spot, and his spirit, perhaps mercifully, returned to the God who gave it: His remains were soon recognised by one of the saved passengers, and the body having been placed in a coffin was taken charge of by the Rev. S. R. Hughes, the humane and highly-respected incumbent of the Welsh village of Lianallgo. The body of Mrs. Pitcher came ashore at Moelfra, not far from the scene of the wreck, and although the remains had been in the water more than a month, her features were easily recognisable by compa rison with a photographic portrait in the possession of her relatives. Mr. Pitcher's remains were brought ashore by a fisherman in Bull Bay, a small creek about two miles west of Amlwich, at a con siderable distance from the wreck. When found the pockets of his trousers had been cut across and their contents abstracted, and nothing being ob served to lead to identification, the body was buried with two or three others, as those of persons un known. Subsequently it was ascertained from an article of clothing that the remains must have been those of Mr. Pitcher, and the body having been exhumed, was, together with those of Mrs. Pitcher and their little boy, placed in charge of Mr. Griffith Davies, of Bangor, who completed the necessary arrangements for their interment in one grave in the Brompton Cemetery, and brought the remains to London by the mail train on Saturday morning. The mourners assembled at the Victoria Hotel about one o'clock, at which hour the coffins were brought over from the Euston-station in two hearses. Those who followed, consisting almost exclusively of the relatives and friends of the de ceased lady and gentleman, occupied three mourning coaches. The only strangers were the Rev. S. R. Hughes, and the Rev. H. R. Hughes, brothers, and fellow-labourers in the two parishes of Llanaligo and Penrhoslligwy, adjoining the scene of the wreck, of whose truly Christian virtues since the occurrence of the awful catastrophe it is impossible to speak too highly. On the arrival of the funeral cortege at the cemetery, the bodies were removed into the chapel, where the Rev. S. R. Hughes read the service appointed for the burial of the dead in an impressive manner. At the proper period the remains were reconveyed to the ground, where they were interred together in a handsome double brick grave adjoining that of Sydney Lady Morgan. Each of the coffins bore brass plates, upon which were engraven the names of the de ceased persons, and the date on which their bodies had been cast ashore from the wreck of the Royal Charter. The funeral was conducted as privately as possible, and none of the circumstances having been allowed to transpire in the neighbourhood, the mourners were permitted to pay the last tribute of affection to the sufferers. without any molestation From the vulgar curiosity of a crowd. MINERAL RESOURCES OF AUSTRALIA (From the Soufh, Australian Adrc;•tiser.) " The whole province teams with mineral wealth, and, although from lack of coal we are unable at present to turn to advantage our rich iron ores, the loss is abundantly compensated in the marvellous' diffusion and extraordinary richness of our copper." The Burra Burra Company have declared two divi dends, each amounting to 100 per cent. en the capi tal stock of the company, payable the 3d of Decem; ber and the 3d. of March next respectively. Burra Burro. shares had advanced froni £146 - to £1.56. Copper is firm at £lO2 per ton ; wool (light) at 10d per lb. Draughts on London at 60 days' sight, 1 per cent Premium. The following are from Australian mining com panies :-- Bunr.A. BURRA.—Messrs. James Morrison and Co., agents of the Burra Burra Company, state that the half-yearly report for the meeting in Ade. laide, -on the 19th October, shows 6,591 tons of ore to have been produced during the last six months. Pure copper contained estimated to be from 22 to 23 per cent. The financial statements show a realised profit for the half year of £29,826, and after having paid the dividend on the 3d September there remained an available balance on the profit and Foss account of £57,436, to which would be added, on realisation of copper and ore on hand, £23,531 ; making together a gross profit of £80,967. " PORT PHILLIP AND COLONIAL.—The directors have received advices dated the 14th of October. The quantity of quartz crushed daring September was 1,882 tons, yielding 1,309 ,oz. of gold ; the amount received on Chines account was, for four weeks, '£2,904; expenditure for the same period, £1,636, leaving a profit of £1,268. " ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN COPPER.—A re mittance of £1,500 has been received, which, toge ther with £3,500 in hand, completes the sum re quired for the third dividend. " NORTH RIIINE.—The advices from the local committee of this company are dated Adelaide, Oct. 17. They state that there are 15S bags of ore now at the port for shipment by the Cleopatra. " KAPUNDA.—The directors have advices to the 17th of October. All the operations at the mines and smelting works were progressing satisfactorily. The new working in the 50-fathom level, reported in the last advices to have been commenced, were fully realising expectations. 30 tons of ore had already been raised, and the quality was so supe rior that the manager states that the men engaged (four in number), who had taken the pitch at the low rate of ls. Bd. in , the pound, would make fair wages. The site of the railway terminus at Ka punda had been fixed immediately adjoining the mine, and the line was expected to be open for traffic before the next season, so that the difficulty of carriage to the port would no longer exist. " DUN MOUNTAIN.—Report from the Manager, Dun Mountain Mines, Nelson, Sept. 20, 1859 : ' The deep edit level for chrome is still being driven in soft serpentine schist, at £5 per fathom. Its length 62 fathoms, consequently past the shaft; but as the strata in the shaft, as also the copper vein therein discovered, dip north-west, the level must be continued several fathoms to cat either the cop per vein or the chrome lode. Some water is coin ing 'from the end of the level. This level is 25 fathoms lower than the top of the shaft and 24 fathoms below the upper chrome level. In the north shaft, on the copper lode, a large quantity of mundic (iron pyrites) was found, which being analysed contained copper in considerable -per centage, and during the examination just made by Dr. Hochstetter he expressed his opinie,n that we should eventually find something wail worth our attention. We therefore continlle exploring this point, and the ground is becoming highly interest ing. We are preparing tb_b road for shipment of the chr.ime ore as directed.' "SCOTTISH AUSTRALIAN.--The directors have re ceived a communication, dated Sydney, Oct. 13, with the, mining foreman's report of operations at the Cape of Good Hope Mine up to Oct. 7. The mining Operntions have progressed stesdily. Six shafts have been opened. M'Callum's shaft was down 39ft. gin. Morehead's shaft was down 16ft. 10in, the lode was 26ft. wide, and the foot wall at that width had not yet been discovered. From this shaft there has been raised about 10 or 12 tons of ore, worth from £3O to £4O per ton. Young's shaft, Perry's shaft, north and south shafts were sunk to depths varying from 4to 13ft., and all looking well. There were 10 men and boys at work, and the total amoant of ore raised from all the shafts was about 18 tons, of an estimated average value of £35 per ton. " WORTHING.—The Worthing Mining Company received despatches dated Oct. 15. Captain Remfrey reports:—' rhe lode in the shaft has Considerably increased in yield and value for copper. Sampled and weighed, from Oft: 6in. sinking, 11 tons 8 cwt. of ore-143 per cent. of produce, exclusive of dredge work set apart for crushing:l fully expect, from tha present prospects of the lode, to return next month 18 tons otore, say from two fathoms' sinking, or from 9 to 10 tons per fathom of superior value. We have also raised during this month 8 tons 10 cwt. of car bonate from Win nin'S pitch, produce 81 ; and we are raising good ore from Tomkin's inze. I hope to have 20 tons of regulus before stopping the fur nace.' " BoN ACCORD.—The directors have received their usual monthly communication, dated Adelaide, Oct.. 13, with full particulars of the work done and progressing in erecting the engine-house and the various other buildings. The chairman of the com mittee writes The buildings on the mine are proceeding satisfactorily. My reports are now necessarily, confined to this subject; and we cannot expect to be in a position for recommencing actual mining operations before the new year. When the big engine gets to work we shall be able to sink and drive at a lower level, without the probability of being again overpowered by water before cutting ore. ". rE BARB.4.RITY IN FRANCE. -er The great topic of conversation in Paris is a trial which has just taken place at Rheims, which illus trates in the most painful manner the condition •of the French peasantry in the western provinces. The prisoners, a father and mother, named Defert, were indicted on a charge of brutally ill-uging their daughter, a girl of 17 • they were described as "proprietaires," and relatively well off. The acte d'accusation describes their fortune as relatively large, living in a house of their own, and farming their own ground. They have five children, the eldest, Mary Adelina, being about 17. It was a well-known fact that both man and wife treated their children with frightful 'severity ; they had been seen beating them' mercilessly in the fields, and to punish one Of his sons, a lad of 13, the father once threw him into the canal, and pulling him Out after a time, beat him with a stick until animation was restored. In the month of July last, however, the eldest daughter, Adelina, whose appearance of ill-health was ,ascribed to the systematic cruelty practised upon her, suddenly disappeared. A report immediately sprang up in the village that she had been murdered. This report came to the ears of the authorities, an investigation took place, and here is what it led to:—When the authorities pene trated into the house they found the girl Ade lina lying on a couch, in a state of such debility and emaciation that a physician was immediately ordered to see what was the matter with her. -What he discovered let the acte d'accusation describe : "The physician had discovered that Adelina was in a state of emaciation which denoted long and cruel sufferings. On the left side of the neck, on the hands, on the right elbow, on the thighs, were the marks of receni wounds, inflicted both by blunt and sharp instruments, by the reiterated contact with the flesh of some' substance in a state of combustion. On' the left cheek a strip of the skin had been torn off, about seven centimetres long by one broad. This, it was, subsequently ascertained, was the result of a cut from a heavy carter's whip, inflicted by her mother. But worse 'than all, the loins, the subvenal por tion of the back, the thighs, down to the very knees, were one mass of purulent matter. On other parts of the body, and among others on the subab dominal organ, no less than 18 scars of wounds were counted: The physician was puzzled to account for the peculiar appearance of these wounds and festers, which could only be explained by the constantly re peated combustion of the flesh. He subjected Ade lina to a treatment based upon that hypothesis, and found it answer, and, by dint of cross-questioning, she revealed the atrocious treatment she had been subjected to. I may add that her revelations were subsequently confirmed by the admissions of the prisoners. From the statements of Adelina it ap peared that she had been brought up in her grand father's house until she was eight years old, and from that the brutality she underwent commenced. She was employed in driving a plough, and flogged with a cart-horse whip when her strength gave way, There is ev id ence of this, as also of hr father having beaten her with a pitchfork. At th e coin ' mencement o f th e present year, however, the cruelty of her parents assumed• a .regular and systematic character, denoting premeditation. Every day— morning, aoon, and night—her father tied her up in a dark room used for 'breadmaking, and there used to flog her on her thighs and the lower part of her person with a martinet (cat-o'-nine•tails). There is evidence of her father having on one occasion tied her up by the wrists, so that her feet were fairly off the ground, and having previously lifted up her clothes, beat her with the. martinet on all parts of her person. There is evidence, moreover, that in the month of Maroh last, both her father and mother dragged her into a low, vaulted room behind the kitchen ; she was then stripped naked and securer lashed, face doWnWards i toe carpentering POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 10. WESTMINSTER.—TIiE EXTRAORDINARY CABE OF ADULTERY AND ROBBERY.--This case—Thos. Pethers, of 19, Stanley-street, Brompton, v. Emile Ponti—already detailed, was on Saturday brought to a close by the magistrate giving the following judgment, in which the leading facts if the case will be found : Mr. Arnold said that the prisoner Ponti was charged with larceny under a rule of law which de clared that if a married woman eloped with an adur terer, the latter was guilty of stealing the articles taken away froni the husband's house. The limit of the rule of law had never been properly or tho roughly defined, and must depend upon the circum stances with which the case was surrounded. There was such a unity of interest between husband and wife that the wife could not, in the eye of the law, steal the goods of her husband , and if she gave them to an ordinary person, even if such person knew it was not right to receive them, he could not be deemed g uilty of larceny. On the other hand,ithad been ruled not only that if an adulterer eloped with a man's wife, and took away property, he was guilty of stealing, but that if the adultery was contem plated, although it had never taken place, the elope-. 'tient being prevented, he was alike criminal. It had been laid down by an eminent legal authority, Mr. Justice Coleridge, that it was not necessary that the criminal purposes should be carried into effect to constitute a larceny, as it was sufficient if there was an intention to elope and live in adultery ; and the same authOrity .held that it was a larceny to steal her clothes, which werejust as much her husband's property. as her own ; but he did not suppose that Mr. Justice Coleridge could have meant that to ap ply to the clothes she was absolutely wearing at the time of her elopement, but her Wardrobe generally. In another case, heard before Lord Denman and Mr. Baron Parke, the Queen v. Rosenberg, another rule had been laid down—that the adulterer could not be convicted of larceny if the goods which were the subject of it were brought alone by his wife to the lodgings, and placed by her in the room in which the adultery was afterwards committed, merely upon evidence of their having been found there. After quoting more recent cases, he said he felt that there was considerable 'difficulty to apply the ordinary rules of law to this extraordinarily revolt ing case, one developing scenes of profligacy which he hoped for the good of society were very un common. There were. two points on which he en tertained great doubt. Firstly, whether the prisoner could legally be said to have committed adultery with this woman, whatever the fact morally might be ;' or, in other words, whether the prosecutor was in a situation to proceed against the prisoner as an adulterer ? and, secondly, whether the wife's wear ing apparel, Which was all, with the exception of 'a couple of towels that were carried away, could be considered his property ? • The prosecutor was steeped up to his lips in infamy, and he had not only connived at her profligacy arid induced her to follow it, but had 'lived on the wages of her prostitution. He had married her as a prostitute, she had con tinued a prostitute, and under such circumstances he much doubted whether the prosecutor could deal with Ponti as an adulterer. If an action had been brought in a superior court for erim. con. by the husband, it could not, 'under such a state of things, be sustained, nor could a divorce have' been ob tained had it been sought by the husband who was conniving at and encouraging his wife's adultery ; for although the husband had pretended that he knew nothing of her doings, there could be no doubt, from the whole - of the testimony, that he was a party to it, and lived upon the wages of her infamy. Such being the state of facts it would really seem that the prisoner could not be dealt with as an adul terer in common law. Further, there were no articles traced to his possession except her own wearing apparel, and that was purchased by herself or by her husband,. not from his purse; but from the' wages of her prostitution; and was not the likely sort of apparel to be worn by the wife of a shoe ' maker, but that in which she was to ply her infa mous calling, and a wife's wearing apparel bought by such means and for such a purpose, he could hardly think could be called his property. He. (the worthy magistrate) would not say .that a woman of Mrs. Pether's (alias Mrs. Hill) -aban doned character was to be. believed in all she said ; she had stood up in the witness-box to cover her self with shame and disgraces and .had unblush ingly proclaimed her own infamy, but parts of her statement were borne out by the testimony of other witnesses, while the assertion of her husband, that he did not have the money she received for her profligacy, was contradicted by various persons. He (Mr. Arnold) believed that he did receive the money, and that his real reason for objecting to the visits of Ponti to his wife was, that he could not, or did not pay as other men did. Ponti, in the course of the case, had been proved to have stopped gen tlemen at the door of Mrs; Pothers' house, and told them that she was a married woman—a circuit).- stance which, in his criminality with her, he ap peared to have been perfectly regardless of him self; but in thus addressing the gentlemen, there was no notion of morality on' his part; it was merely that he wished to keep the wretched woman to himself. There "was no direct evidence to shoW that Ponti was a party to the elopement, If Mrs. Pethers was to be -believed, she packed up her thilga herself while he was away, and followed him unexpectedly to his lodgings, and as there was not sufficient evidence against the accused to send him before :a jury. he was diZeharged. The 'decision was followed by a burst of applause • and' clapping of hands from A. very large auditory. .. Ponti inquired what redress he, had for, the false I mprisonment he 'had sustained: Its,lr. Arinold refused to give him any advice.' [AnvEtritSEmr.:lT.l=--ti , i , s's (Ilorninopathic Chemist) Coco i.—This esteemed p re p ara ti on i s sold bythe prin cipal grocers at ls. 6d, p,er lb., in 11b., M., and packets. Each packet is labelled " James Epps, Homcco.• patla chemist, Loudon," CAPTURE OF . A. SWINDLER. On Friday afternoon a stylish-looking man, oivine• as his name Arthur Walters, was brought before the magistrates on a charge of defrauding the tradesmen in the. town, of goods.. The Birming ham. Journal says :—" The prisoner has recently been figuring at Cheltenham, where, taking up his quarters at the Lamb Hotel, he assumed the title of Sir William Beddingfield. He was accompanied by a preposs-,essing young woman, whom he intro duced to the proprietors of the hotel as Lady Bed dingfield. The couple assumed and sustained the fashionable style of kraut ton, and their bill during their sojourn of one week at the Lamb amounted to the sum of £9 10s. Sir William . had reported that -- his uncle, recently deceased, had be queathed •to him large estates abroad, and that he and Lady Bddingfield were to Pro ceed to India on the 13th of the present Month. The scantiness of their wardrobe and the absence of ' packages at the hotel were accounted for by the statement that Lady Beddingfield had all her clothes packed for the voyage. During their stay at the Lamb Hotel the prisoner favoured many of the Cheltenham tradesmen with orders, and ob tained several packages of goods. When • the pair were about to depart, and on the presentation of their bill, the host of the Lamb was coolly told by the priAnier that he had no money, and , that a re mittance on account would be sent to him. He, however, succeeded in stopping the execution of some Cheltenham.extensive orders i n Of course thematter got wind, nnd the fashionable pair bolted. After leaving the Spa Sir William and lady. are understood to have walked five miles, put up at a roadside public-house, incurred a debt of ss. 6d., and then departed for Tewkesbury. The next in formation we have of the prisoner is that he came to this town late on Saturday night, the 26th ult., and presented himself at Corbett's Hotel, New street, where he gave the name of Howell, and he represented that lie had just arrived from Worces ter, and that on alighting at the station he had dis covered that he had lost his purse. his luggage he said would not come on until the following Monday, and being thus without money or luggage, and having been refused admission at one hotel where he had applied, he expressed a hope that Mr. Cor bett would kindly allow him to remain until Mon day, when he expected advices from Messrs. Hors fall and Son, of Liverpool, of which firm he was a representative. As though in corroboration of this assertion he took from his pocket-book a bill pur porting to be drawn by Mr. Copestake, merchant,. Liverpool, and on Mrs. Corbett- asking if he had any objection to allow her to detain the bill until he heard from his friends, he at once replied in the negative, and placed the document in her hands. Be remained at the hotel until Tuesday night, when he came in late, and expressed regret that he had not paid his bill, but that he had that morning received a cheque for £5O, which he had been unable to get cashed, as he had been very closely engaged with Mr. Horsfall in purchasing goods' at various manufactories in the town. He continued in the house until Thursday morning, when his bill was presented to him, but evading its payment he took his departure and did not return. On the day before, however, it appears he went to the ware house of Messrs. Barrs and Sons, Edmund-street, and asked to look at some low-priced umbrellas and . a selection was accordingly submitted to his in spection. He examined them, and said he would call the next morning. He did not keep his word, hilt 'on the Friday he again looked in, when he stated that he was the African agent of Messrs. C. Horsfall and Sou, of Liverpool, and after looking at some more umbrellas he wrote an order counter , signing his name as Howell, for a quantity in the name of Messrs. Horsfall, requesting that a few as patterns should be sent to him at Dingley's Hotel, Moor-street. Half a dozen were accordingly that afternoon forwarded to this address, and left there for him. On the following day he again Went to Messrs. Barrs' warehouse, and said thathe approved of the patterns, and that they were to send and take away, with the exception of one which he wished to retain as a pattern, and he then asked for and re ceived another for his own use, and which it was understood ho should pay for. He at the same time directed that two dozen more umbrellas at 13s. and 14s. each should be added to his former.order, the whole to be delivered to Messrs. Horsfall by the 12th January. The samples were sent for to the hotel the same afternoon, and five were returned. This formed the substance of one charge against the prisoner. Mr. Hawkins, managerfor Messrs. Barrs,' having deposed to the foregoing circum stances, Mr. G. 11. Horsfall, of the firm of C. Hors• fall and Son, merchants, Liverpool, was examined. He stated that he knew the prisoner by the name of Walker, and that he was in the employ of their firm some five or six years ago, and was with them for nearly three year:s when he was discharged. lie went out ter them to Africa as assistant to the supercargo, and afterwards as supercargo. He was not now in any way engaged as their agent, and ho had no authority to give the order then produced on their account. The prisoner, for whom Mr. Itsmmant attended to watch the case, when called upon for his reply to the char;,re at once admitted his guilt, but pleaded that ue had come to Bir mingham with no money in his pocket, and had no means of obtaining. any. He was then committed for trial at the sessions . . Had not the prisoner been thus opportunely detected there can be little doubt himmletr- of lie would have viciinikd other local tradesmen to a considerable extent, and for a while most pro bably, so doing business, with impunity. As regards th e plausible was his address and fro m Chelten ham, manner appear p o a u pme n ,a g arntdoh woman vlaiNo, who v i h fs accompanied o o unhodther r maiv‘.ito him, she wou ld , amarried yback to that p l ace, and a clergy Man having taken compassion on her, very kindly paid her fare to London, she having stated that her friends resided at Camberwell;' table ; red-hot coals were then taken from the fire and placed inside her thighs, close to the skin. The motive for this torture was to extort from her a confession of her having yielded up her virtue to one of her father's workmen. The pain caused by the burns extorted a confession from her, but as soon as she was set free, she recalled her admis sion, and protested her innocence. On the follow ing day these tortures were repeated, and then her mother, with a piece of linen steeped i n n it r i c ac id, washed the wounds caused by the lash and the hot coals. A week later the same thing again took place, the unnatural mother using aquafortis in lieu of nitric acid. On another occasion she was again tied down on the table, and the rhother seared the inside of her thighs and the lower part of her back with a red hot shovel—a glass of nitric acid was then slowly poured upon the wounds. But there is worse to come. For a long time Adelina had been made to sleep, or rather to use as a bed a deal box, provided with a lid, about a yard and a half long and half a yard (70 centimetres) broad. A thin lit ter of straw was the only substitute for a mattrass, and with the straw had been mixed thistles and nettles freshly gathered. On this she was forced to lie down, with her whole body in a fester from wounds. The lid was fastened down upon her leaving a narrow aperture for the air, and she was kept there for days together." The acte d'accusation describes another assault committed by these unnatural parents on their daughter, and the medical evidence proved it. It is utterly indescribable in English. The evidence fully corroborated the statements of the acte &accu sation, with the exception, however, of that of Ade lina herself, who, doubtless under the influence of terror at the sight of her father and mother, alleged that her previous depositions were untrue. The mother, who was examined, admitted that " she had only thrown a glassful of vitriol over h%•r thighs." Both husband and wife were sentenced to hard labour for life. THE CORK COUNUIL2IIAN AND THE SILVER CRADLE. The Cork papers report a speech delivered in the Council Chamber of that city in a style remarkable for originality. Upon the minutes of proceedings of last meeting being read, SHEEHAN started up and said—Mr. Mayor, my notice of motion ought to be the first on the list, sir, for I spoke about it long and merry ago. (Laughter.) MAYOR—But it is not the first. Mr. SHEEHAN—WeII, then, I'll bring it forward first, sir, because 'tis the fir s t thi ng we oug ht t o do. Mr. 'FLYN—'Tis not the first. Mr. SHEEHAN— n ris immaterial where 'tis, sir, so now Mr. O'Flyn, don't you be interrupting with yer d—d nonsense, Dinny_(laughter)_l don't want to flatter the Mayor at all, but four weeks be fore any one o'ye spoke of it, I spoke about the Silver Cradle. A long time before I la:kw the Mayor, and before he was in the council at all, I found charitable movements in him for many years. I hadn't the honour o' knowing him till I met him at the gars meetin' first, an' was intro duced to tiim by Mr. M'Ostrich at the gas, whie! i he joined, and which we saved 30 per cent. for the people. Now he joins everything that's a locomotive of his principles. (Shouts of laughter.) He do, indeed; and only for our lookin' for our locom o ti ve p r i nc iples, w hat 'ud become ov us ? (Laughter.) ',I hope the Harbour Board won't be thanked for not to look to our harbour, sir, an' mindin' our locomotive principles and our intherests in the harbour. (Much laughter.) I spoke out my mind about thim before, an' in doin' so I proposed, about two or three weeks ago, that we get up a silver cradle for Lady Arnott— (hear, and laughter)—and the raisin I done so, because she was the wife of a respectable an' charitable man, who was giving, before ever he was in the council at all, charity every Christmas— (hear, hear)—long before I ever seen him. (Loud -laughter.) Gentlemen, I had a great friendship for his kindness to the poor of every class and every re ligion; and,besides that, sir, here's the gentleman that gave Mrs.—Mrs.—Mm. Ryan, in Limerick— she ..ot a large one there. (Laughter.) I suppose, as much in one half-year as he gives, Mrs. Arnott gave thirty times more—(hear, and laughter) —and if he was not in the council at all, I think we really ought to pay him a compliment. (Hear, hear.) Now, here's .-C2,500 distributed to the poor and all kinds of religions by his means. Under these cirumstances, I do him the honour of proposing that we give a silver cradle to Lady Arnott, for she's a kind, hum ble-hearted being. (Laughter.) She is, and she has none of those pretended aristocratic airs about her that some of our daughters have sometimes. (Loud laughter, and cries of " Have they ?") They have, I assurre you ; and sometime s th e y don't know themselves or anybody else. (Renewed laughter.) She has no unfriendly feeling to her husband. ' (Shouts of laughter.) What the d—l are ye laughing at ? Sure ye know very well—we that's married men know very well— that our wives often differ with us. (Laugh ter.) Of pourse ye know well they do—in religion, sir, an' charity; But she is always, I'm tould, supporting him in the principles of a kind hearted lady. (Laughter.) I hope we'll give her a decent one, and one that will be the proper size, an' not one o' thim little things that I heard it was to be. The proposition was agreed to by acclamation. MAYOR—Gentlemen, I am afraid you have reek. oned without your host, for really this stranger that is come to Monkstown is said to be a thumper. (Laughter.) Mr. SHEEHAN—He's a son, too. I forgot to min tion that. (Much laughter, and cries of, "Is he, indeed ?") It ought to be a large one, that he could grow in, mind you. MAYOR—My wife says it would take more silver to cover him than would break the corporation. If you propose it according to Mr. Sheehan's dimen sions, I am afraid you will find yourselves in a ter sible state. Mr. SHEEHAN—Not at all. I propose that it be done in slap-up style. (Laughter.) VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. War-office- 7 Mr. E. G. P. Mayers has been ap pointed a temporary clerk, and passed his exami nation ; Mr. C. B. Griffeth has been appointed a temporary clerk, and passed his examination. The Admiralty—Mr. P. B. Smith has been appointed a temporary clerk, and passed his examination. Law Department—A puisue judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas has become vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Crowder. Charity Commission—Mr Lancelot Shadw ell has been appointed a third class clerk in London, and passed his examination. General Post-office—Mr. Richard Corser Owen has been 'appointed clerk at Chester, and passed his examination, Customs—Mr. E. A. West has been promoted frOm fourth to third-class clerk in the London Docks ; Mr. George Marshall has been promoted from fifth to fourth-class clerk in ditto ; Mr. R. F. Lalcon has been promoted from sixth to fifth-class clerk in ditto ; Mr. John Kilbride has been promoted from third to second-class tidewaiter in London. Inland Revenue De partment—Mr. Edward Allan Robertson has been appointed a clerk in the Comptroller-General's office, Edinburgh, and passed his examination. Stamps and Taxes Branch—Mr. W. H. Balderstone has been appointed a supernumerary surveyor of taxes in Scotland, and passed his examination ; Mr. T. Moore, assistant-surveyor of taxes for St. George's Hanover-square, London, has been promoted to be surveyor of taxes at Retford, Nottinghamshire. Ex cise Branch—Messrs. Rainsford, Davis, and Birtch nell, examiners, have been selected to officiate tem porarily in the Inland Revenue Laboratory, Somer- Set-house ; Mr. J. Vine, second clerk in Salop col lection, has been appointed officer of Salop third division, at his own req ues t. I re l an d—Th e follow ing gentlemen have been appointed clerks in the Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, and successfully passed their examinations :—Mr. James Magee, Mr. Daniel O'Connell Ray, Mr. Joseph Ramsay, Mr. Dani e l O'C onne ll , M r. J ames F ranc i s Swain°, Mr. John Rollin Wilby, Mr. Bernar Connor, Mr. Benjamin Downing, Mr. Sampson Courtenay M‘Watters, Mr. Thomas George Marsh, Mr. John Joseph Costello, Mr. Francis Alex. Fanning, Mr. Albert Nicholson, Mr. Samuel Tram, M'Carthy, Mr. William Nicholas, Mr. David Rogers, Mr. Edward Walsh, Mr. William Ward, Mr. Daniel Kirk. Ceylon--The Chief Justiceship of Ceylon has become vacant by the death of Sir Wm. Car penter Rowe.—Civil Service Gazette. Is CONSUMPTION INCURABLE ? Invalids labouring under Consumptive Maladies, and families who have suffered from the ravages of Consumption (and what family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a loss caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN, M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each by G. Berger, 13, Holywcll-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now ready. [AnvEnTisEmENT.]—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Consequences of Neglect.—ln our variable climate the larger proportion of diseases to which mankind is liable depends on the neglect or ineficient treatment of coughs, t Olds, influenza, and rheumatism. The prudent will pay attention to the first symptoms, which are removed at once by the use of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. In chest complaints, while taking his Pills, their effect is quickened, and increased by briskly rubbing his Ointment'on the back and breast twice a day for five minutes, or longer if conve nient. The friction causes the Ointment to penetrate the skin, whence it passes to ths lungs, and purifies the whole mass of blood, as it flows through those organs in its cir culation. SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS• The Abeille .I!edicale w , ports a case of croup lately cured in one of ti ie suburban communes of Paris Dr. Amussat, ii•om which it appears :-1. The' trachmotomy, prrformed before the stage of 85- phyxia has begun, presents a much mreater chano,,. of success than. when effected at a later li period ; That, therape u.tic agents, tonics, and esPeeial I extract of barb: and neutral perchloride of iron, Pr°- duce an excel lent effect in arresting the malad y after the oper a tion. In a case of a child three rill old 25 drops of the sol u ti on o f perchloride of iron in a tumbler of water may be administered in dose 1 of a tea-spa onful at a time every tea minutest The above a olution may also be mixed with eclnap, parts of the syrup of perchioride containing tii; parts of this latter for every 100 parts of si syrup.—M. Dumas, a f ew d a ys ago, product!. ofL'e fore the A cademy of S c i en ces a helmet Wade aluminiun:, for th e Ki ng o f D e nmark. The work manship, by MM. Del ac h au ssee and AloureY, was beautiful 3 b u t it was more rema rkable in a seten tific pointof view, from the fact that the metal °s it d had been successfully gilt by the received. a polish equal to that of silver; galvanic prosa and that the operation of soldering had succe ed,.. beyond expectation. The helmet weig hs •of grammtts ; it would weigh 1,700 if it we steel brass; its resist vice is inferior to that A• Yin plate, but superibr to that of brass.—g•Aca demytent of Brest, has addressed a paper to the e , y of Sciences, in which he treats of.noa e , %1. fences, arguing that however numerous an° vj „ to . served batteries erected on shore may be, theY, 1 1 , not - prevent either a landing or a bombardrnenb by ost steam fleet ; and that the only effectual defence consist of floating steam batteries, protecteu plates of soft iron, and armed with breech-load !.. 7 e guns, capable of firing 5 or 6 shots in the t io r.r. de in present use only fire one. The .Repo let— s oe . Chimie pure et appliquee announces that Dalt ow , employs citric acid with great success in Pl op ,' graphy instead of acetic accid in order to deive., al the image obtained by Taupenot's process t he luminatecl collodion). The compound he use c following; gallic acid, 30 grammes; pyrngaut c ( f 10 10 grammes ; citric (instead of acetic) a° l grammes ; rub in ,a porcelain mortar and il e „P ro ep dry . bottle. It is especially useful on a J_,, ° "" c iag owing to the small space it occupies ; the rou n d the liquid preserves its limpidity a long whi le ' ° tuber above doze is sufficient to develope a larg ° n- ro tcr of images. M. Draper recommends th e hio chloride of palladium for bringing out images with great force. After wash in g' hot? solucion of this substance be pour ed on the P. graph, and, according to the d egre e of con e n , sty tion of the solution, the shades w ill acq u ' , e " degree of intensity desired. photografet COUNTRY MAR%BTS• CAMBRIDGE—DEc. 10. Wither There was a fair supply of wheat, and, witli,,-t460; better demand in the trade, white moved off at 4 - A j o g ill red, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. There was not muctlneto,l9o barley to-day ; malting .42s to —s ; grinding , 0 per 30 stone. Oats at 20s to 26s for new; °k i °a-4 vr 3110 To s iOs old,ean in sli to m limited persupply,3B stonean a a; peas, p er 36 steno. NOTTINGHAM—DEC. 10. flar ]t e t , sod i t he ot We had a small attendance at to-day's ruar- -8 ; o n.v. - A - a supply of grain. An advance of ls per qu_ -- ; was maintained, with a rather steady demand w ids% Malting barley a fair supply, at former p . n ricet . ' - ovi , for m sorts a fair show, and heavy. Oats a sms' it, at , --- dull sale, at previous rates. Beans a small SUP ~ • s o, extreme prices of last week. .27 0 t° 34s White wheat, new, 48s to 52s Barley, cfrindOg• 29 to 9 fp Red do. ' 41s to 47s Oats, old, •• **** , t° , Old white s2s to 55s New do ....... . . ~,,, to 5 .*g to 46 1 Red do. 46s to 608 I Beaus.... • • •••' . .44s -- Barley, malting.— Super. flour, 35s to 39s ; fine, 31s to 3 3 8 per ' LEICESTER—DEC. 10. i s e a , There was a moderate supply of wheat t O- 11; to "; attendance, and a heavy sale. White w heat, ...,-f o r fill. —red, 40s to 44s per 36 stone; a very fair in(1 11 _ 111 „eir C barley, grinding, 27s to 308 ; malting, 388 to OA& 244; the oat trade was slow, at quotations ralagil l s os t° r 348 per 24 stone. Beans a moderate sale, at lit° per 38 stone. • ' 20 . Fine flour 31s 1 Seconds, 32s 1 Thirds , 30$ per NORWICH—DEC. 10. ao- i w Here, to-day, there as rather a fair A tte° 0 11 si t° vas trade, and an inactive market. There was a wheat, prices for both old and new were genfr v lY v wits 0 14 on former rates. The supply of malting oft r ,"t e snot . ' at fully the currencies of last market. In oals , 40 peas little or no chancre. , . 425 1° 40 4 Whitcwheat.,.. .47 6 s to 50s I Red wheat ....... . 3 400. 0 m Malting bar10y....42s to 48s I Chevalier barley'' 2400 Distilling do.. ...25s to 27s I Oats.. .......... Flour, 30s to 30s 6d per sack from the 51 YORZ—DEc. 10. - av A small show of wheat, with a fair salet. sca ea llB ospr rise on last market day. M a lti n g barley wo f° ply at former rates ; grinding qualities the tu if qy of the buyer. Beans wore at high prices, s gs business was transacted in oats, at former rate . 4so Wheat, red .42s to 46s Oats.'. • • ******* .44 0 Whitodo .46s to as Beans ......... • to Barley .30s to 411 Peas ......... ' Malt, 68s to 70i per qr. ; rye) 30s Per At our market SyTesAteMrdFaoyßwDhe—atDEC. t le al an is a f fl o tio - , on last week's prices, with a tolerable supplY• week fo_rnif demand, realising the extreme prices of last too D l '" qualities. In oats not much doing, and, late maintained. - Beans still in favour of the selle • r, DIIBLIN—uc. 9. . Our market was pretty well a ttended this es pc l 4o there was a moderate supply of eyerythinging wheat, and oats were in slow deman d, surnot nis;gitls rates. Barley at fully l a t e c urrencies, tile tared/ qualities ix request. I n di a n corn Nos u i• little doing. (1,,.19 i v 1 4 Do., new ..... 13 t°. o3 0 Bere ......... 20 , 0 to lb 6 Rapeseed ••• . ' 1 3 0 to l9 0 Oatmeal. .... 16 . 3 • Bakers' dour si • Indian corn • • s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 28 0 to B 0 0 Do., red 27 0 to 29 0 Do., new 21 0 to 24 0 Barley Oats Do., black l2 0 to 12 6 CORK—DEG. 9. • IP The following were the quotation s this JO,. lel. wheat, 23s 6d to 27s 03; white, 26s Od to 2880 a, 7 Od to lOs Od ; oats, 12s 6d to 13s 6d. • FOREIGN MAIL PACKE T Z tab tifies that letter o r a jog zer En the followin,?; table E ,signifies that ie. , — • " 7. ' by evening mails from London, and 3 1 by in°ralog t sesi . 10' port 0 1 dig' DESTINATIONS. D6Spatch h _........ Der i Australia and Mauritius, via 1: 4 0. Southampton Dec. 12, 31 Southanl is Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New , ' 1 INA ; r4 __of 3lails. ____PesP___st4 ' , -- -- 7 10 Liverpoo . , York Canada, .ac. (by Canadn. pckt ) Dec. Dec. 2 1 3 4', E LiverP •, 4 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- China, or t ‘ JO' ' v T;eVO O P _ Ron, and St. Helena Jan. 5, ~[- . ve , j 9 1 5 Penang, and Singa- f 011 19113. PO' pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 12, M Dec. ---• 311 ...... ;iip.... P t .:. 16 Honduras and Blewtields Peqs India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, Scollop. Dv'. via Southampton Dec.o M Southatap: pe,a. ec. ~, • Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South- OP' pea' ampton Dec. 12, IV Southa . .... Ditto, via Marseilles ' . Jan' 0 Lisbon. Brazils, Buenos Ayres and F. Islands ' J 9DI SoutbsniP• Do. an ' ' As OBI* ~,t Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Dec. 17 M- u ' 0 ...: Brlalta, Egypt, and Aden, ' v ia yea. 12, 31 SOlith an2P : . 04. 1 001.. v-- Southampton Dec. EMIN .... • • Jaii• Ditto, via Marseilles. 4.3.. utharnP• .... Mexico and Havana Tan. 2: .r .,,- - . 1 ,,,,,,y ...• . ~ Newfoundland lDee. 17, .11'1'—"- , D eo, / 7 United States and British N , ~, ~..i v rpoOx , - --- America (by British packet) Dec. 17, .., ' - %iv:OP , Ditto (by U. S. packet) .„ Dec. 1 4, E Sou. 0. 10 West Coast of Africa; Ma- °oh* V deira, and Teneriffe • • ~..,-.... • fa West India, California, Vene-I Pa" zuela, New ,Peru, Grey-I town, New Granada, ..t.e. .. 'Dec. 17, ________.---•"--- 31 SoUthatu,P. - - BIRTHS. CA.MERIDGE.—On the Sth inst., at ther 8-- FOAKES.—On tho dth inst., afgreybrid ,bridge, .0• owfe Middle Tempe, Thomas e w m i E f p , e 7 ;., o f o t f l; a e o a ß ke ev s . E. P• Cam IlAwinprx.—On the Gth inst ,at 26, -Dast,Cils ni ll daughter.sq. ' .o.:ol.),?fehr the Viscountess Hawarden, Prematurely, 0. $ 4103 w ife ` MILLER.—On the 6th inst. at 135, Piccaillr, ' Willia.l3,olnilltehr,eE9stqh.,inlis.;P.,., of a daughter' Vliriff TURTON the Lady Cecilia Turton, of a son. „ „ a ble/ th WEEY.—On the sth inst., at Hohne-park, mav"— Hon. Mrs. H. Wrey, of a daUghter. at Kilvingtou 11411, , 0 • MARRIAGg S.' OA BAIRD—HAY,—On the Bth inst., abtal.l3rielsltoen,2la.lrtar-03a1°11.fh.tili: on E fe s wß q ~ e, lot e lo f dne A ,B tuEedahaszutniandotdteherni Lothian. n.d the C l a a t atbßuse,dlrofAn:but %Inas. II: Y f of alto oarie Howrox—BßOKE.—On the Bth lust, at P''''' - t gig t 1.111.0 . rt0n, Esq., Commander Royal Navil ~,,o, Viri lli ji. Wow of Captain Charles Acton Broke, 11.°/' r.x.—On the 9th inst., at hi veers. . DEAT 11 5. 0 st. WI CA , C 73 o . ulthard Abbott ELTON.—On s terrace,. Kensington, George (intr:":111:15 ligi' t, I. ' COULTIE RD.—At A Sotaerse s residotret b ii % exp, 4' tiEsieq2. tdallgiunerdscto7t9t.a:F l House,oren d WOW: Court, °s lam Elton, Bart., of Clevedon A E b lt i o . : l , , Esq., second surviving son ef the late by' 0 04 t he II 36. • infant s on of Viscount and• Viscountess IlaWatao otor mbar, of HAwARDEN._On the 7th inst., Eustace guuts.tu.ar.t/ HAYMES.-011 the 29th Oct at Neentucb, 13 0 , t on tenant Arthur C.,Haymes.; Bth Hussars, 01'1,e,1 0. Arthur and Ellen Tlaynoes, of Leamington, kla„. so d q: LISIoND.—On the Ist inst., at sea, on board th° oll %. s l. Civ' Co.'s s. a. Indus, C am p bell Limond, Bscl.) 13 Service. yol ls o LONDON : Printed 114, and Published by MIJIIDO ..„0. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sol Oflior 1;0i of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, tile Mirldleigo, Monday} December 12, 1859. , - i i , t ; . 1 44 4i mph 1/4; , o 4 ji , .c . 1 P i til l 11 i 14 A, 411