The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-03 00:00:00

THE NAVY. More John Shepherd, Superintendent of Woolwic.d. Docks, yesterday received his official notice of promotion as Rear-Admiral of the Blue, consequent on the death of Admiral Lord Lyons, and is expected to be succeeded at Woolwich by . Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., Aide-de- Camp to the Queen. On Tuesday last the Locust steamvessel, Lieut. Commander Field, proceeded to Southend, and brought over Capt. Forbes's company of Royal Ar tillery, for garrison duty at Sheerness. In returning from this service, and when off the. Garrison-point, they observed a boat capsise, but notwithstanding every attempt to be the first boat to render assist ance, Capt. H. Harvey, Flag Captain of the Wa terloo (whose six-oared gig was returning from in specting the brig Childers, Commander W. Swin burn), succeeded in rescuing the capsised boat, when it was found that four Artillery officers were struggling in the water. Captain Harvey picked them all up and delivered them safely over to the Artillery boat's crew, who it appears were watch ing the little yacht managed by landsmen. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Admirals Martin, Sir Richard Dundas, and Milne, paid an official visit to Wo o l w i c h D oc ky ar d yesterday. The sea defences at Sheerness, which include five bastions, to enclose and protect the dockyard, bar racks, and stores, are undergoing extensive altera tions and improvements, and although scarcely two months have passed since their commencement rapid progress has been made. In the centre bas tion there are already built four extensive maga zines and two large buildings, with walls of im mense thickness, so placed as to act as traverses to cover the men and guns from the fire of an enemy. , Twenty-one guns of large calibre are to take the place of smaller guns removed. The other bastions are in a forward state also. Within the last fortnight buildings, earthworks, and walls have grown up with much rapidity. Several incorrect statements having recently ap peared relative to the alleged loss of her Majesty's ship Sappho, 12, Commander Fairfax Moresby, the Lords of the Admiralty, in order to allay the fears of the relatives and friends of the officers and men in that vessel, have directed Captain G. Goldsmith, C. 8., the Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, to investigate the accuracy or otherwise of statements which have been made public, and which have caused a great deal of uneasiness. The Sappho was commissioned in January, 1856, and immediately proceeded to the coast of Africa, where, after re maining for a short time, she was sent to join the squadron at the Cape of Good Hope. In the month of January, in the present year, she was directed to proceed from the Cap e of Good Hope to the Aus tralian station, and, in obedience to orders, imme diately sailed for that destination, since which nothing whatever has been heard of her. From inquiries made at Chatham it has been ascertained that a letter has been stated to have been received by a person at Stonehouse, to the alleged effect that the Sappho had been wrecked "on an island at some distance from the coast of Aus tralia," that a portion of the crew were lost, and that others had died on the island. The Lords of the Admiralty have caused the most search ing inquiries to be instituted relative to the alleged statements contained in this letter, but without any satisfactory result. The name of the person at Stonehouse who is stated to have re ceived the information has not been obtained, and from the fact that no name is given to the island on which the Sappho is alleged to have been wrecked, and that no confirmatory evidence has been received by any other persons, the Admiralty have written to say that they place no faith what ever in the existence of any such letter as that which is alleged to have been received. Captain Goldsmith has also written to the Secretary of the Admiralty, expressing his opinion that no reliance is to be placed on the statements which have been made public relative to the supposed wreck of the Sappho. It is, however, of no use disguising the fact that from the circumstance of the Sappho not having been heard of since January last very grave doubts are entertained as to the safety , of that ship. The following were the officers who sailed from the Cape of Good Hope in the Sappho—viz., Com mander F. Moresby ; Lieutenant F. P. Staples ; master, Mr. F. Wills ; surgeon, Mr. Wm. Evans ; and paymaster, Mr. T. J. Ley. The Childers, 12, Commander W. Swinburn, has arrived in har b our at Chatham, and is now lashed alongside the Hussar receiving hulk. The crew have commenced stripping her, removing her fit- , tings, and returning her stores into the dockyard previously to the vessel being paid offinto the ordi nary.. The Childers has been in commission nearly four years. The Cressy, Captain E. P. Halsted, will be put out of Ne. 1 dry dock at Sheerness on Monday, her leak having been discovered. Her officers and. crew are transferred to the dockyard barracks. Her Majesty's steam troopship Himalaya, Cora. J. Seccombe, steamed from Spithead into Ports mouth harbour yesterday, and lashed alongside the dockyard jetty to land the invalids and troops she brought from the Mediterranean, as reported yes terday. The men (military) all landed in admirable order under the inspection of Col. Conolly, Assist ant-Quartermaster-General of the south-west dis trict, and marched into temporary quarters at Cam bridge barracks. The women and children (350) of the 28th and 48th Regiments will land to-day, and be sent to their respective homes. Her Majesty's steam despatch gun vessel Pioneer 6, was taken into the old basin from the south jetty at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday to await her commission. Her Majesty's steam yacht Fairy, Mr. D. N. Welch, master, R.N., in charge, was undocked yes terday at Portsmouth, and is ready for the embar kation of the Queen and Court on 'Monday next. The Government steam mud-dredger, employed in clearing a space for moorings near the beach at Portsmouth, burst one of her boilers yesterday, and seriously injured several of the men at work in her one of whom was so badly hurt as to necessitate his immediate removal to the hospital; at the same time it is reported that the leading man or master is missing. An accident occurred on the night pre vious to a rigger in the dockyard, named Burnett, who fell into one of the docks and sustained severe injuries. The Fiery Cross freight-ship, Capt. Duncan, from the Thames for. Hong Kong and Canton, and the Suffolk, Capt. Martin, from Port-Phillip, put in at St. Helen's Roads, Spithead, windbound, on Wed nesday (wind in the Channel, W.N.W., strong breezes and heavy cross seal). Her Majesty s iron screw steam storeship Supply, late from the Mediterranean, was yesterday- hauled into basin at Woolwich, and commenced discharg ing her cargo, consisting of 100 tons of marble an tiquities from Boudroun-bay, and naval stores from Malta and Gibraltar. in addition she has brought 50 tons of relics from the ruins of Carthage. The most interesting portion of the relics from Boudroun is probably a wheel of the chariot and four horses said to have adorned the pyramid erected by Arte misia over the monument of Mausolus, in the capi tal city of Halicarnassus, one of the horses of which was brought home in the Gorgon. The Supply, in being towed into harbour by the Bustler, expe rienced considerable damage to her bulwarks from a head wind having caught her stern, and suddenly shifted her on to the side of the wharf. Several hawsers were broken, as well as her iron channels and chain plates; and the Bustler has lost her figurehead and bowsprit, &c. Mr. W. H. Leeck has been appointed midship man to the Liffey. THE The following medical officers attached to the establishment at Fort Pitt, Chatham, received or ders yesterday to h o ld th emse l ves i n readiness for foreign service:—Staff Assistant-Surgeon R. Woods, Staff Assistant-Surgeon C. J. Squire,Staff-Assistant- Surgeon G. S. Davie, M.D., Staff-Assistant-Surgeon F. C. Macfarlane Staff-Assistant-Surgeon T. Ram- Say,Staff-'tant-Surgeon W. K. Stewart, M.D., and Staff-Assistant-Surgeonhie St. John Killery. A telegra received at Nrooli,niviecslsiage was yesterday morning of State for War, Arsenal, from the Secretary s a e n s n t rncing the intention of their Royal Highnes at Due d'Aumale and the Comte de Paris to arriveeto the t h thc Royal Arsenal at half-past 12, on a visit departments. The heads of departments consequently. Assembled in the office of the select committneeiyosituated near the receivet their au principal entrance, in readine ss gust visitors on their arrival within the e thats After e waiting *a considerable time, and appearance, Royal Princes did not make their dispersed to their respective official duties, u t n h d e e y r tho impression that the visit was deferred. At half-past 1, however, H.R.H. the Comte de Paris, att ended by his private secretary, M. de Boismelon, and. Col. Sir H. Storks, K.C.8., secretary for mili tary correspondence, entered the Royal Arsenal front the railway station. Mr. Dean, the senior inspector of police at the gate, accordingly des patch ed speedy messengers to the various depart ment.;, when, in the course of a short interval, Col. Tulloh, Superintendent of the Royal Carriage De partment, arrived in the Dial-square; and after the cost(); nary formalities escorted his Royal Highness and wily towards the gun park, dotted with guns and mcrtars of, every description, together with number tuss piles and pyramids of shot, shell, and other w stores, covering an area of several acres. A 6-pound'er battery for field service in India was here dra w n up complete, consisting of six light gultio 12M. h owitzers, 61b., rockets, &c., ready for transport to Bengal, an inspection of which detained 1 his Royal Highness for some time.. Having been joined by Captain Gordon, Principal Military Storekeeper of the Arsenal ; Colonel Wilmot, Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories ; and Captain Boxer, Director of the Royal Laboratories, they examined the numerous Russian guns ranging around the entrance to the store-office, and, having received a detailed explanation of the huge 36-inch shells, which likewise stud the prin cipal thoroughfare, and which were destined for the use of the monster mortar, they proceeded to an inspection of the saddlery and harness stores. At 2 &clock they repaired to the Royal Standard Iron Gun . Foundry, and witnessed the entire pro cess of casting a 68-pounder gun. Their next visit was through the shell foundry, gun-boring mills, the paper and cartridge-bag factory, Royal Laboratory, brass-gun foundry and boring mills, &c.; and, finally, they made a lengthened inspec tion of the interesting departments which comprise the Royal carriage square—viz., the saddlery and harness shops, gun spongemakers', carpenters', and tin-workers' shops, smitheries, and brass workers', tin and zinc men's shops, gun carriage and plat form shops, wheelmakers', &c., and left for London by the 5 o'clock train. Mr. Miller, of the Storekeeper's Department in the Tower, is ordered to succeed Mr. Foster, chief clerk of the Military Store Department at Wool wich, appointed in charge at Sheerness. THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ CANAL. The subscription list to the Suez Canal is closed, and in a few days we shall probably be in a position to judge how far the general public of Europe are disposed to place faith in the data furnished by the projectors, whose deductions have been so hotly contested both in Parliament and by a portion of the English press. As a commercial enterprise, the scheme has been looked upon by some as a de lusion ; and as an engineering problem, one inca pable of solution. On the first point, our readers who have examined the figures set forth by the projectors are in a position to form their own opi nion, and conclusions drawn from those figures must of course vary, the elements of the calcula tion being to so great an extent guesses. As to the engineering. question, it is one on which they would naturally look to be enlightened by practical men. Now the most pertinacious opponents of the Canal have for the most part entrenched them selves behind vague generalities, and have contented themselves with denouncing it as an absurdity. Mr. Stephenson, who was the great authority for such an opinion amongst laymen might even now have spoken with some weight on this much vexed ques tion, had he not indited that unlucky letter to a distinguished contemporary, showing that on the most knotty point—the possibility of constructing a port at the northern or Pelusiac mouth of the canal, he was about as reliable an authority as an engineer would be who betook himself to the top of Prim rose-hill and there pronounced on the feasibility of constructing docks in Woolwich marshes. More over, if we remember rightly, this gentleman was equally convinced of the folly of trying to make certain docks in the Mersey, which have since played a very important part in our national com merce. Looking at the formidable array of names on the other side of the question, the balance of professional opinion leans most decidedly in that direction. Mr. Stephenson may be right after all, but, if so, he has only made a very successful guess. The opponents of the scheme have not adopted the most prac tical course, that of opposing th e data of the promoters by other data, and even in some in stances they have argued upon singularly incorrect bases. A few days ago we saw it stated that the proposed work was to be a canal 330 feet wide at the water line, 20 feet at the bottom below the level of the Mediterranean, and having sluice locks at either end 330 feet long by 70 feet wide, in order to obtain an additional depth of three or four feetof water. Now a reference to the Report of the Com mission charged with the settlement of the plan shows that the maximum width of the canal throughout the greater part of its length is to be 263 feet Ut the water line, the remaining portion, between the Bitter Lakes and Suez (121 miles), being 328 feet ; while the minimum depth is to be, not 20, but 21 feet four inches. The locks proposed would have raised the level, not 3 or 4 feet, but 4 feet 11 inches ; but theso locks are looked upon by the Commission as unnecessary, the head of water obtainable at the Bitter Lakes being more advan tageous and economical. Then as to the port at Tineh, the article to which we refer states that soundings taken in 1847 showed that a depth of 24 feet could only be obtained at five miles from the shore. We may reasonably ask who made those soundings, for a careful examination both of the bottom and of the coast, by the Inter national Commission in 1856, showed that a depth of more than 26 feet (8 metres) was found at 3,060 yards from the shore, or about a mile and three quarters. It is not in this manner that the question should be argued, nor is it consistent with reason to suppose that a project which proposes to expend so vast a sum in wages for labour, and for the culture and irrigation of that portion of Egypt which is traversed by the Canal, can be disadvan tageous to the country, because the undertaking may be a dead failure, and the French Govern ment may think it necessary to despatch an army to compel the Pacha [to reimburse to the deluded French shareholders the capital they have unwisely advanced. Such reasoning is neither prudent nor dignified, and begets in the minds of foreigners an opinion that we have some secret and sinister mo tive for opposing, per fas et nefas, the execution of M. de Lesseps' deeign. For our own parts, we have felt it a duty to weigh impartially the technical evidence on both sides, as to the possibility or remunerative charac ter of the undertaking, without pretending to de cide on matters which we do not consider as within our competence. At the same time we have ex pressed an opinion, which we still maintain, that England, so far from offering any hostility to the creation of this new Bosphorus, has a direct interest in its success. In fact, one . of the strongest arguments against the remunerative character of the undertaking, presented in the article we have alluded to, is that the navigation of the Red Sea is so perilous to sailing ships that the majority of them would still prefer the voyage round the Cape. If this be a literal fact, although it might make the English capitalist button up his pocket, it should cause the English merchant to look with the utmost gratifi cation on the progress of the undertaking. Our steam navy is incomparably the largest in the world, and we have facilities for augmenting and working it, such as no other country on the face of the globe possesses. Our steam communication with India is not only important at the present time, but is in creasing in extent, and, looking at the matter solely in a military point of view, we apprehend it would be easy to demonstrate that, had we subscribed the whole capital demanded, and had we never received a penny of profit from it, there would have been a vast pecuniary gain to the nation in the diminished cost of the Indian war. Far be it from us to blame those capitalists who may think that, after all, the most prudent course, where so many doubts have been raised, is to abstain from taking part in the enterprise. But we cannot but applaud those in dividuals who, having faith in the data placed be fore them, come forward with the funds for this great experiment, which, if successful, must be of the utmost importance to England, and will in all probability be at the same time of incalculable benefit to Egypt. It is something to have laboured for years, through good report and evil report, the latter being abundantly active, to perfect so gigantic a plan. If successful, M. de Lesseps will have earned an enviable name in history ; and if the project should prove a failure he will fail with that honour which attends a man who has devoted his whole life and energies to the execution of a work which he honestly believes to be a great step in social progress. He labours, it is true, at the outset, under one serious disadvantage ;. he is backed by no combination of great capitalists, and no well devised scheme of Bourse tactics. The undertaking is launched on its own merits, and we shall rejoice to find that the capital i has been sub scribed. Still more gratifying will tbe should the ultimate issue of this great undertaking falsify the prognostics of its opponents, and the problem which has occupied the minds of men for ages be successfully solved.—Daily News. THE LATE MILITARY lEQTJIRY RESPECTING THE WOOLWICH GAURISON CHAPLAIN.—The result of the courlof inquiry which investigated charges of intemperance made against the Rev. W. M. Wright, chaplain to the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, having been forwarded to his Royal Highness the General Commanding in Chief, the clergyman named has been entirely acquitted of the impu tations on his moral character, which were unsubstantiated by evidence. The Rev. W. M. Wright is about to leave Woolwich, and will succeed the Rev. J. Parsons as garri son chaplain at Chichester. Tito Rev. W. Hare, garrison chaplain at Dublin, will succeed the Rev. W. M. Wright at woolich ; and the Rev. J. Parsons has been appointed garrison chaplain at Dublin. [AnvEw risrmv. , ..r.]—Holloway's Pills are undeniably the finest medicine for dilapidated constitutions, disordered salutary liver, medicine, and indigestion.andt he good effects Thewonderful, produced effi c o a n c y pa l ie t n bi ts s suffering from the a b ove complaints, would appear incredible if not confirmed by daily proofs of the cures effected by them, and the permanent benefit derived f rom th e i r use. These invaluable pills soothe land strengthen the riervous s , the blood, regul a t e th e secretions, and In. irg purifyhe constitution. Disease flies before th em. Th ey yis o tex t , e are composed of vegetable extracts, unmixed with a grain of any mineral or noxious substance. Th e y may, there fore, be given with the utmost confidence, and with perfect sal, to delicate females a nd y oun g children . They can not o harm. • • - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1858, LAW INTELLIONCX..-.:Ded. 2. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and Comm - on Juries. WEBER V. WEBER AND PYNE. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Macqueen were counsel for the petitioner ; Dr. Swabey for the re spondent ; and Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. L. Temple for the corespondent. The Petitioner, Mr. *Weber, prayed for a dissolu tion of marriage on the ground of his wife's adul tery. The respondent and the corespondent denied the allegations of adultery. The petitioner became acqutinted with the re spondent in 1854, he being at the time employed in a commercial house at Liverpool at a salary of about £l2O per annum. The respondent, then Miss Emily Mary Ann Reade, had just left a boarding school, and was 17 or 18 years of age. As her mother objected to her marriage with the respondent she accompanied him to Gretna-green, where they were married in June, 1854. They returned to Liverpool, and were again married at St. Margaret's Church, Birkenhead, in the following August, They at first lived with the respondent's mother, who was then married to a Mr. Oakes, and afterwards took lodg ings in Ashton-street. They did not live together very happily, and on one occasion she left his house and stayed for a short time with her mother. In 1856 the firm to which Mr. Weber belonged stopped payment, and his mind became so much affected that he had to be confined for four months in a private asylum. When he came out his wife refused to receive him, and at last, in March, 1857, a deed of separation was drawn up, in pursuance of which he permitted her to live apart from him, and made her an allowance of £52 per annum. She was then living with her mother and the corespondent. Mr. Pyne, who is a commercial traveller, was an inmate of the same house as a lodger. It was alleged that an improper intimacy had sprung up between Mrs. Weber and Mr. Pyne, and that they occupied the same bedroom, first at a house in Boundary-lane, where her mother lived, in July and August, 1857, and afterwards at a house at Woburn-hill, to which the family had removed, in February and March, 1858. The petitioner is about 30 years of age. The first witness examined on the part of the petitioner was Mr. John Murray, who had married the parties at Gretna-green, and who said he had officiated there for the last 13 years. He described the manner in which the marriage was' effected. The lady and gentleman told him that they wished to be married. He told them to stand up, and in the presence of two witnesses asked them if they were single persons and free to marry. They each said that they were, and then told them to join hands. He said to the gentleman, "Do you take this woman to be your lawful wife, for better and for worse as long as God spares you to each other ?" The gentleman said, "I,do ; ' and he put the same question to the lady and received the same answer. A ring was then put on' her finger, and they declared themselves to be man and wife ac cording to the laws of Scotland before the witnesses. They then signed the marriage certificate and the register. That, he said, was the " whole concern," and the parties quitted Gretna-green after a stay of 20 minutes or half an hour. It was proved by Mr. Kinnear, a member of the Scotch bar, that this was a valid marriage according to the law of Scot land in, 1854. _ _ Evidence was given that in 1855 Mrs. Weber had been met in the streets of Liverpool in com pany with persons apparently of an equivocal cha racter, and that since the separation she had been seen in a room in the house of her mother, on one occasion in the company of Mr. Pyne, and on another occasion in that of a gentleman who was not recognised, under circumstances which could leave no doubt that she had been gailty of adultery. These circumstances were stated by the servant of a neighbour, who said they occurred in a parlour of Mrs. Oakes's house, and that she had witnessed them from her master's garden. The learned counsel for the respondents addressed the jury on behalf of their respective clients, point ing out the improbability that Mrs. Weber and Mr. Pyne would have committed the acts imputed to them in a room where they could be seen by wit nesses on the outside of the house, commenting upon the credibility of the witnesses who had been called to prove those acts, and contended that the evidence only showed that Mr. Pyne was a lodger in the house of Mrs. Oakes, and that Mrs. Weber was in the habit of occupying Mr. Pyne's bedroom when Mr. Pyne was absent. On the part of the respondents Mr. and Mrs. Oakes were examined, and stated that no improper intimacy had taken place between the respondent and the co-respondent. Mr. Leather, a medical man, stated that he had attended Mrs. Weber in March last for a complaint which rendered it highly improbable that she could then have intercourse with any person, and added that Mr. Weber had offered to pay his account for attending upon her if he would give evidence on his behalf. It was also proved that Mr. Weber occasionally visited and slept with his wife during her residence with her mother. The learned Judge having summed up, the jury found a verdict for the wife. that condition he sat down and, smoked a pipe. It also appeared that, uponthe premises being searched after this, the watch and other articles that were supposed to have been stolen were found Concealed about the prosecutor's cottage, but no article what ever had been actually removed. The jury upon hearing this evidence, without troubling his lordship to sum up, at once returned a verdict of not guilty. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WLNCHESTER, DEC. 2. The commission for holding the winter assizes for the county of Hants was opened in this city yesterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Byles. His Lordship then attended divine service at the cathe dral. This morning the court was opened for business. The calendar is perfectly shocking. There are forty prisoners for trial, but among them there are no less than eleven cases of rape and un natural offences. The learned Judge, in delivering his charge to the Grand Jury, observed, with reference to this particular class of offences, that they might perhaps in some degree be attributed to the crowded state of the dwelling-houses of the poor, where whole families were huddled together in one room, and there was no distinction between father and igh ter or between mother and son, or brother and sister. Those wh? assisted to prevent such a state of things not only did good during their lives, !but laid the foundation for immense benefits to arise in ages to come, when they should be no more. In well-regulated houses from whom did the child learn his first, his best, and most lasting lesson ? From his mother ; where the paternal home was the school of virtue, the temple of religion. Joseph Hibbert, Edward Cassidy, and Charles Nicholls were indicted for shooting at G. A. Smith, with intent to kill and murder him. Mr. Poulden prosecuted. On, the night of the 13th of August last Smith, in company of a policeman, was walking over his father's farm. They saw the three prisoners, who were privates in the 15th Regiment, rabbit shoot ing. Smith went up to them and requested them to go to his father, as they were trespassing. They consented, and gave up their fowling pieces. The father said he should summon them, and they went away, and about half-past 10 that night they came to the house of the father and asked for their muskets, which Smith refused to give up, upon which one of the three prisoners said they had a charge for him. They then went round to another part of the house one of the prisoners saying " Fix bayonets." Smith, fearing violence, went down from his bed room and fetched his gun ; on his return to the upper room a shot was fired. Smith was about to open the casement, when a bullet passed through a pane of glass, and close to his head. Upon that Smith fired in return, and two other shots were fired from without. Smith saw all the prisoners. One of the balls (rifle) penetrated a brick wall 31 inches. The sentry of the 15th Regiment and the colour-sergeant of the guard proved that about 11 o'clock the prisoners returned to the barracks, having several rounds of ball cartridge and two rifles in their possession. The next morning the prisoners were taken into custody,. They made several statements which materially differed, but Cassidy said he wished he had done more. Hibbert admitted having fired the shot at the window. Nicholls said as soon as he heard the noise of firing he fell down on his face. The jury found Hibbert and Cassidy guilty, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and acquitted Nicholls. The two former prisoners were then sentenced, Hibbert to four years' penal servitude, and Cassidy to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Emily Evans, Emma Walker, and Matilda Hughes were indicted for forging two receipts for £6 and £lO, with intent to defraud the trustees of the Portsmouth Savings' Bank. Mr. Poulden and Mr. Gunner conducted' the prosecution ; and Mr. Coleridge defended the pri soner Walker. It appeared that a person named Mary Ann Howard had deposited £l6 in the savings' bank at Portsmouth. She died some months since. Before her death she had married a person named M'Shaen. Mrs. Evans, the prisoner, was her sister, but the money had been deposited in the bank long before the marriage, and it remained in her original name. When Mary Ann Howard deposited the money she made her mark, stating that she could not write. On the 11th of May last Matilda Hughes went to the bank and gave notice to with draw the money of Howard, and made a mark to the notice stating that she was Mary Ann Howard. She afterwards went to the bank and obtained £6 and £lO in the name of May Ann Howard. After the discovery that the money had been withdrawn M'Shaen's attorney saw Hughes, who said she had been innocently drawn into it, and did not know she was doing wrong. She said she was a married woman. She knew Walker, with whom she dealt. Some short time before Walker said she was pressed for money , and 'Mrs. M'Shaen owed her £l6, and Evans asked Hughes if she would go to the savings'. bank and get the money, and said Mra: Howard was her sister, but that Hughes would not get into any trouble about it, as there was no such person as Mary Ann Howard in existence. - Evans gave her a book, and told her to go to the bank and say she was Mrs. Howard, and if they asked her to write her name she was to say that she could not write, and she was to make her mark. Accord ingly she went to the bank, gave in the book, and put her mark to a notice to withdraw the money. In some days afterwards, Mrs. Walker sent for Hughes again. Evans told her to go to the bank again and deliver.the book, and they would give her £l6. She went and obtained the money, and gave it to Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Evans was present, but had not awy of the money. When Mrs. Walker was taken up she said it was hard she should suffer for taking her own. Evans said she she had the other £lO, and she was only sorry she had not taken the lot of it, as it was her sister's money, and she had no business with it. Hughes afterwards said that what she had done she had done by the persuasion of Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Evans, who had told her she should not get into any trouble, and they had told her what she was to do. Mr. Coleridge, for Walker, urged that she had no intention to defraud an,y Q. Mrs. Walker alleged that Mrs. M'Shaen awed her £l6, and she thought upon her death she Waajustified in getting it from the savings-bank. 'Tse bank book was always kept by Mrs. Evans, the sister of Mrs. IWSlinen. - - The prisoner Evans stated that her sister told her to draw out some of the money and pay Mrs. Walker, and if anything happened, to her to take it all, and not let her husband have any of it. A witness, named Mrs. Nich Q l son , was called by Evans. She stated that she had heard Mrs. M'Shaen tell Evans that the money,that was in the bank was hers. The learned Judge having summed up the case, The jury found Walker and Evans guilty, and acquitted Hughes. The two prisoners were then sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFoAD, Dec. 1. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) ' George Wilton ' 28, clerk, was c h arge d w ith forging an order for the payment of £5O on the 16th of August, 1858, at - Walsall, with intent to defraud the Shropshire Banking Company, and also with uttering the same knowing it to be forged. _ Mr. Mottvram appeal ed for the prosecution ; Mr. Scotland and Mr. Holroyd defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that on the 16th of August last the prisoner and another went to Messrs. Duignan's bank at Walsall, and presented a letter of credit for £5O on the Oriental Bank at Melbourne, in Australia, in favour of " Robert Thomas." The clerk asked the prisoner whether he wished the Bank to collect it, and he said he did. He first said he lived at Birmingham, and then he gave his address at 32, Dog-pole, Wyle cop, Shrewsbury. The clerk saw that the letter of credit was endorsed with the name of " Robert Thomas," and he asked whether that was his name, and he said it was. The clerk said he would make inquiry about, it and if the prisoner would call again in a day or two heshould have an answer. He retained the letter of credit, and gave the prisoner a receipt for it. The letter of credit was drawn upon the (Mental Bank Corporation, Melbourne, in Australia, authorising that bank to " honour the draught of Mr. Robert Thomas for £50." The fact of the endorsement of the name of Robert Thomas excited suspicion, and on the same day the prisoner was taken into custody at Walsall and charged with stealing the letter of credit The prisoner at first said he had bought it of a person who owed him £2, but, upon his being searched, in his pocke.t -; book was found a letter of which the letter of credit ha: originally formed a part, and from which it had been cut. The letter was dated " July 31,1858, Eaton Constantine," and, it being shown to the pri soner, he then stated that a Miss Thomas had given him the letter to post to her brother, but he had failed to do so. The receipt for the letter of credit was also found upon the prisoner, who then gave his name as George 'Wilton, and said he was a clerk, but lived nowhere. Miss Thomas, the daugh ter of a farmer at Eaton Constantine, near Walsall, said she had a brother, Robert Thomas in Australia, from whom she had not heard for some time. She produced four letters, which she said she had re ceived from the prisoner, writing under the name of "W. Maitland," and that she afterwards saw him at Birmingham, when ho paid he would try to get her brother home. In consequence of what he said she paid £5O into the Shropshire Banking Compaßy i and wrote a letter to her brother Robert Thomas, in Australia, which, with the letter of credit attached, she sent to the •prisoner to take to her brother. From the comparison -of-the-hand- writing of the letters received she said she believed the endorsement of the name of "Robert Thomas" on the letter of credit was in the handwriting of the prisoner. If appeared that the letter of credit was issued. by the Union Bank of London, who were agents of the Oriental Bank, and was in the following form : " Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, London, July 28, 1858. " Original. —£50 (1,380)—On demand, pleise to honour the draught of Mr. Robert Thomas for £5O. Equivalent received here from the Shropshire Banking Company, Wellington. " Your most obedient servant, " (Signed by the Assistant Manager). " To the Oriental Bank Corporation, Melbourne." Evidence was given to show that, a ccor di ng t o banking practice in this country, a letter of credit in this form was usually paid on the simple endorse ment of the payee, but whether it would be so paid at Melbourne was not shown. According to the regular practice, on the presentation of the letter of credit at Melbourne, the bank there would take pains to ascertain the identity of the person credited and, in the terms of the letter of credit, would "honour the draught" of the party to the extent of the letter of credit. Mr. Scotland, upon this evidence, submitted tha . the endorsement was not shown to be an " order." After considerable discussion on this point, Mr. Baron Bramwell said he was sorry for it, if in other respects the prisoner was guilty. It was quite true that, if the bank at Melbourne chose to pay such a letter of credit on the simple endorse ment of the person credited, the latter could not afterwards oblige the bank to pay him a second time. But the letter of credit was directed to the Oriental Bank at Melbourne, who were to "honour the draught" of " Robert Thomas." His lordship thought the simple endorsement in this country was not an order, not being within the original man date; and he therefore directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, which they did accordingly. Mr. Baron Bramwell then suggested that the pri soner might be indicted for the misdemeanour of attempting to obtain money by false pretences, but .Mr. Motteram said the prosecutor was not dissa tisfied with the result of the prosecution ; and he did not wish to press the matter any further. As soon as the intelligence of the prisoner's ac quittal reached the hall, the prisoner's wife, a young woman of very respectable appearance, was so over come by the intelligence, that she fell down, and dropped her child from her arms. Restoratives were administered, but it was some time before she was in a state to be removed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 2. BOW-STREET.---Mary Anne Edge, the wife of a private soldier in the Grenadier Guards, was brought up, on a charge of threatening to commit suicide. On the evening of the 24th she was observed sitting on the steps of Westminster-bridge, by a man who sells fruit at the foot of the bridge. He asked her what she was about, and she replied that she was going to drown herself. He called the attention of the constable to the matter, and the prisoner - was taken to the station. She had been drinking. At the examination before the magis trate on the following day the husband, a soldier of excellent character, with two good conduct stripes, attended, and told a sad story of the misery produced by his wife's unfortunate habit of drinking. He did all in his power to keep a com fortable home for her, and it would, in fact, be as comfortable as could be desired if she would only attend to it ; but she was ruining him by her drunkenness. The children were growing up neglected, to say nothing of the probable influence of the bad example she was setting them. The sergeant also attended and spoke of Edge in the highest terms. While in the House of Detention on remand the prisoner bad seen the Rev. George Jepson, the chaplain, several times, and a letter had been received by Mr. Hall from the rev. gentleman, expressing his belief that his remonstrances had had a beneficial effect on her and that she was sincerely penitent. She had promised her husband, in Mr. Jepson's presence, that on her release she would go home and for the future abstain from drink, and do all in her power to restore comfort and happiness to her husband and children. Mr. Hall hoped she would do so, for if she per sisted in her present course it would result in her utter ruin. He trusted she would consider before it was too late how much sorrow and humiliation she had brought on herself and her husband, and might yet entail upon her children. If she would keep the promise she had made to Mr. Jep son she might yet make amends for all that she had done, and might henceforward be comfortable and happy with her husband. Relying on the promise he would discharge her, though she was liable to be sent for trial, and, on conviction, to be sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. 141 . ARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Edward Gordon Herbert. a boy ofls years of age, was charged with burglariously entering the premises of his em ployers, Messrs. George Barton, Kent, and Co., wholesale brush manufacturers, Great Marlborough street, and stealing therein £5l, their property. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Marlborough-street, ap peared for the.prosecution. Mr. Lewis opened the case with the following statement :—I appear on behalf of Messrs. Kent, brushmakers, of Great Marlborough -street. The prisoner is charged with stealing from their pre mises upwards of X5O. This is an important case inasmuch as others have been accused at this bar of stealing the money, the charge being supported only upon the evidence of the prisoner now at the bar. After detailing the burglary and loss of money, and the reward of £5O offered by the firm, Mr. Lewis went on to say that the boy gave evidence which induced Mr. Kent to have three persons in the employ of the house in whom he had hitherto placed the greatest confidence apprehended. This boy (the prisoner) then declared on oath that he overheard. Gale and another man talking about committing the robbery, and that being detected in listening to that conversation Gale told him he would give him a sovereign not to tell. The robbery was committed the next day, and when the police were sent for Gale, according to the prisoner's story, gave him a sovereign to say nothing. The prisoner's fa ther, having found out that his son was in possess sion of money, questioned him, and the boy told him the story which he afterwards repeated in court, and on which the three persons in Messrs. Kent's employ were apprehended. These men all denied the charge, and were afterwards dis charged, as the magistrate said, without a stain on their characters.. Sergeant Crocker having sus- picions watched the boy - , and a day or two ago saw him go to Hammersmith churchyard, dig up the ground and take something out. When the pri soner was taken into custody £7 in gold was found in his possession. William Ogden, clerk, said—l locked ulj the fac tory on the night of the •11th of Nov. I was in the habit of seeing the prisoner leave the premises, but did not see him leave on the night of the robbery. I locked up the drawer under the desk in which money was kept to pay wages with. There was £39 ls. in the drawer on the night of the robbery. I locked it up and took the key with me. Robert Conolly, another clerk, said, I locked up my desk on the night of the robbery and missed from it next morning X 5 ls. 6d. The desk had been broken open and was in the office. George Quick, in the employ of Messrs. Kent, locked his desk on the evening before ; at that time there was £5 19s. Bd. in money in the desk, which was also in the office, and he missed the amount the following morning. Thos. Edwards, a carman employed by the firm, said, the morning after the robbery he found the back premises and the factory door open. Saw several desks also open, and noticed a pair of pin cers lying on the floor. Sergeant Glass, 3 C.--On the 13th November I went to the premises of Messrs. Kent, where I saw two desks in the office which had been forced open, also a drawer open in another room. Was shown a chisel, which fitted the marks both on the desks and drawer. Also saw the ring part of the key broken off. The pincers were found near the door, and had evidently been used to turn the key. I examined the lock of the front door to see if a false key had been used to oven it, but found no marks. The desks appeared as if very little force had been required. The breaking open had evidently not been done by apractised hand. After the prisoner had made his statement to his father I took from him 145., which the prisoner said was part of the sove reign he had received from Gale to keep silence. He said that Gale was the porter, and pointed him out. This purse and cap were given by the father. I went yesterday to the prosecutors ; , where the prisoner was at work. I asked him where he had been, and he said to. Hammersmith. I asked what money he had on him, and he said none. I searched him and found in his pocket, tied up in a handker chief, seven sovereigns and 10s. in silver. He said he had got thatfrom a tombstone in Hammersmith churchyard, where he had put it the Sunday after the robbery, that Gale gave him that money when he gave the sovereign. In another pocket I found a piece of new sponge, identified by Messrs. Kent's foreman, I told prisoner I should take him inte lurnersmithl custody for the robbery, and he said heha d not doily it. After the charge had beenentercd tit `OW 4Nticua I accomp4nig tilCi Owner to ffi churchyard, and he pointed (lilt a tombstone from which bp h 4 Wien the money, showil pull] hole of three or four inphes dppth recently made. Sergeant Cit crO4cr i 0, accompanied the last witness and corroborated his evidence. Upon the apprehension of the three men, upon the prisoner's statement, I asked him if a sovereign was all Gale had given him, and he said it was. -Thomas Gale deposed that he never gave the pri soner a sovereign or any other sum, either before or since the robbery. Mr. G. B. Kent identified the sponge produced and found on the prisoner. The prisoner worked in the department where it was used, and bad con fessed it was their (Messsrs. Kent's) property. Sergeant Glass said, the prisoner told him the sponge had been given to him by another in the same employ. Mr. Bingham (to prisoner)—Do you wish to put any questions to the witnesses or say anything now to me? Prisoner—Yes, sir. lam guilty. Mr. Lewis said, the firm was exceedingly anxious the men accused by the prisoner should be cleared from the charge. Mr. Bingham said, there is now no imputation whatever on those men. Mr. Beadon never be lieved the boy's statement from the beginning. The pross will no doubt give currency to all you wish to say on behalf of the persons wrongfully accused. The prisoner was remanded for a week. THAMES.— George Collins, alias Lewis, aged 30, and George Wilkinson, alias Cyrus Knight, aged 28, who have been in custody since the 9th of November, were finally examined on the charge of stealing from Mr. J. T. Burke, a hat manufac turer, of Union-street, Southwark, on the last Derby day, a gold chronometer watch, originally manufactured by Mr. Arnold, in the Strand, for the Rev. Theodore Williams, vicar of Hendon, at a cost of 95 guineas. After hearing all the evidence, Mr. Yardley said he was not inclined to believe the prisoners were the persons who stole the watch, but they had been improperlydealing with it, and no doubt knew it was stolen or unlawfully ob tained. , The watch was a very heavy one, of great value, the very appeara nce o f w hi c h indicated it was stolen, and dragged from the person with great violence. When the prisoners were taken into custody they gave false accounts. There was no evidence that they stole the watch, but he should convict them of unlawful possession of the property, and sentence them to two months' im prisonment and hard labour.. SOUTHWARK.—James Atkinson, collector and traveller to Mr. John Walker, wholesale teadealer and grocer, 157, High-street, Southwark, was brought up for final examination, charged with embezzling various sums of money, amounting to nearly £lOO, the property of his employer. Additional evidence having been given in sup port of the charge, the prisoner was committed fbr trial. LAMBETH.—Henry Rudledge and Charlotte, his wife, were re-examined, the former on a charge of violating his daughter Kate, a girl between 14 and 15 years of age, and the latter with assisting him in the commission of the act. Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Shaen, solicitor to the Society for the Protection of Young Females, attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Wontner for the defence. Mr. Sleigh said he should not trouble his wor ship at any great length on that occasion, but he could not help saying that it was most fortunate for the ends of justice in the case that he had, in the discharge of a public duty, and in the exercise of his judgment on the former examination, given the wife of the prisoner into custody ; for upon her being searched a letter was found on her which would form a most important feature in the prose cution, as it fnrnished, in the handwriting of the wife, a perfect proof of the husband's guilt, as well as a corroboration of the testimony of the prosecu trix. The learned gentleman here read the follow ing extract from the letter in question :—" Remem ber lam not in a heathen country. Do not bring Kate with you. If I should return home I should like her to be treated as a daughter, and not as a wife." The following additional witnesses were then called : Mrs. Amelia Dallas, the searcher at the station house in Kennington-lane, said that after the charge was booked against the prisoner on the last day of examination she searched her, and found on her the papers produced. The prisoner was about to de stroy them by tearing them up, when witness asked her what they were, and she said only a letter, which she intended to give to her husband. Wit ness, however, told her she must take them from her, and she did so. The papers produced were the same. The Rev. Jeremiah Cotter, a Catholic priest, said he formerly belonged to St. George's Cathe dral, but on the 17th of October last he had been sent to take charge of the mission at Woolwich. About the end of that month the prosecutrix and her aunt, who were members of his congregation, called on him at his chapel, and the former com plained to him of the improper conduct of her father towards her. The aunt and the niece at once left Woolwich, and went to reside at the house of Mrs. Renville, in the London-road, close to St. George's Cathedral. Some days after, he thought it was the following Thursday, he (Dr. Cotter) met the male prisoner in the street in Woolwich, when he spoke to him, and asked about his daughter and her aunt. Re then told him his daughter had com plained of his unnatural and disgusting conduct towards her, upon which he became exceedingly excited, said it was a lie, and that he had been to Mr. Mayne to stop his daughter and her aunt at every station in the kingdom. He (Dr. Cotter) then told him that if he met him on the following afternoon he would take him to where his daughter and her aunt were, and he did so. On the even ing of Friday week he accompanied the prisoner from the cathedral to the house where his daughter was, and on seeing Mrs. Renville he told her the prisoner was the man belonging to the persons lodging there. Mrs. Renville upon this opened the door leading to the room where the daughter and the aunt were, and the prisoner at once went in there while he (Dr. Cotter) remained in conversa tion with Mrs. Renville. In about five minutes he heard a loud screaming, and on the door being opened he saw the male prisoner holding his daugh ter with his left hand and pressing her downwards, and the large knife or dagger produced on the former examination open in his right hand, and he appeared to be in a very excited state. On observing him the prisoner stretched out his right hand, in which he still held the knife, and exclaimed, " You see that I am going to kill her and myself too. At this moment the officer who was concealed in the house was called and rushed into the room, and a struggle took place between him and the prisoner, during which the latter managed to put the knife away. The officer requested further assistance, when he (Dr. Cotter) ran into the street, and seeing two policemen he requested their assistance, and the prisoner was secured. Mr. Norton—Dr. Cotter, did you observe the prisoner close the knife ? Dr. Cotter—l cannot say I did ; but I observed he placed his right hand behind his back. The witness further said that upon being made ac quainted with the nature of the prisoner's conduct he thought it of so shocking a description that its very publicity would do much mischief, and his object, therefore, was to have the daughter re moved from the scene of such shameful injury. Mr. Sleigh observed that the explanation was unnecessary, as there could not be the slightest doubt that the rev. gentleman had acted in every way as became a clergyman and a gentleman. The testimony of a surgeon who had examined the daughter terminated the case for the prosecution. Mr. Wontner observed that the charge was so serious that he felt it would be much better for him to have it sent before and tried by a jury, and therefore he (Mr. Wontner) should not offer any observations at present on the contradictory state of the evidence. With respect to the wife tile law was somewhat different, and ho should leave her in the hands of his Worship. Mr. Norton said he should send both prisoners to take their trial on the charge of rape. Mr. Sleigh was instructed to say that a second indictment for rape would be preferred again s t th e prisoner at the Old Bailey, in which a young woman, named Ellen Saltmarsh, who had been a short time in the service of the prisoner, would be the prosecutrix. 35 , described as a GREENWICII.—Chas. Land, draper, of 4, Church-street, Deptford, was b rought up for final exam ination, charged with committing a criminal assault upon Clara Susannah Emma Land, his own daughter, a ge d 10 years. The depositions were taken, an d the prisoner was fully committed for trial. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—Rarey's Horse and Cattle Improv ing Food is equally adapted to improve the stamina of ill conditioned Horses, Cnw o , B u ll ocks, Pigs. It ca no oxt r a expense, Calves, Sheep, and as it contains far more Aand better itourishment than its cost of lid. per feed sup li In (torn and hay; h ence ensures an actual saving in the keep. But its principal advantaps ar.s a groat improve ment in the digestive functisw, the stamina and general condition of 1141 17 lab:all. enabling them to perform far ume b ut get ing distressed. It imparts now vigour I A seek, debilitated, or old apparently wortv-out horses, and it puts rapidly the finest flesh ou eattle generally, and im proves the milk in eetwa, as it enables them to extr ac t th e ent ,t ) ,MalitilMialt out of everything they feed on. Rare pai vo., 77, Regent's Quad ran t, Picca.V.ly, London. cked in tins of about 90 feeds, £5 Hs,: iia casks of about 450 feeds, 505.; of about 1, 000 ecc,lo,, £5, being about ltd. per feed, AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BELL STEALING. At the Stratford police-court yesterday Samuel Tuttlebee, a general dealer; J. Ashton, a carpenter ; and W. Irvin, a carman, of East Ham, Essex, were placed at the bar before Joseph Somes, Esq., on a charge of stealing a large bell, valued at 2,000 guineas, the property of Alderman Finnis, of Wan stead-park, Essex, and the City of London. The bell, which is a splendid piece of oriental workmanship, is composed of various metals, chiefly the offerings of the Burmese people to their gods, and formerly belonged to one of their temples or places of worship, and was captured during the late Burmese war by a relative of the alderman, to whom it was presented. Edward R. Benmore, gardener in the service of Alderman Finnis, said that the bel was the pro perty of his master, and had been suspended to a yew tree on the lawn in the garden of the mansion. The bell was very valuable, and witness saw it quite safe on Monday last. On the following morning, about 8 o'clock, he went round the grounds and discovered that the bell had been taken away. Witness made a search and traced footsteps from the lawn to Wanstead Forest, where he believed the thieves had placed it in a cart and carried it away. Witness did not know the prisoners. Mr. West, brassfounder, of Backchurch-lane, at whose shop the bell was found by the police as it was being broken up, stated that the bell had been brought to him by Mr. Day, a large dealer in old metal. He agreed to give 91-d. per lb. for it. Mr. Day was accompanied by a man named Marks. Chas. Wm. Day, of Wellington-place, West India Docks, Poplar, stated that on Tuesday morning last the prisoner Tuttlebee came to his house and said he had a piece of metal for sale, something like a large bell, and weighing 14ewt. Witness told him that he could not buy a bell of that dimensions, but he would take it up to town to a person who would purchase it. Witness had not seen the bell at that time, but the prisoner said it was in a cart up the road. Witness told him to drive the cart to Spital fields Church. The prisoner. Irvin was driving the cart, and when. they.reached .Whitechapel witness saw Mr. Marks, - whom witness • stopped, and said " There is a man who is a dealer in metal at Vic toria Docks, whom I have known some time ' • he has some metal for sale." Th e b e ll was then taken to the house of Mr. Marks, where it was taken out by the prisoners Tuttlebee and Irvin. Mr. Marks exclaimed " 'Why, this is a rum bell. It is a foreign one." Tuttlebee then said "I want to get it settled." Witness told Tuttlebee that nothing could be done with the bell until it was broken up. He left for a short time, and when he returned he found that Tuttlebee had been trying to break up the bell; his hands were galled and blistered with the sledge hammer he had been using. Tuttlebee asked him eightpencelalfpenny a pound for the metal. Witness asked him where he had got the bell from ? and he said, " I know the party ; it is all right." He did not mention the name of any per son, but he said, " I have to pay for it when it is weighed." Magistrate—l think you ought to have used more discretion in the matter. Witness—l thought it was an old bell brought from India. Seargeat Copping stated that when he took Tuttlebee into custody, he said a man named Ash ton asked him to sell the bell for him, and that the cart belonged to Irvin, who lived on the Marsh at West Ham. He apprehended Irvin and Ashton (who tried to make his escape). Irvin stated that Ashton had employed him. A statement of Tuttlebee implicating the other two prisoners was handed in and read, and the prisoners were remanded till Saturday. COUNTRY MARKETS. BOSTON—DEc. 1. To-clay there was a moderate show of wheat in bad con dition. The best yellow samples made is under previous rates. Oats, beans, and peas in demand, and tending up wards. Wheat, white 448 to 468 Beans, Mazagan..-8 to —s red 38s to 39s Middle & small 42s to 505 Barley 2BB to 34s White peas 4os to 60a Oats 2os to 258 Grey.. 4OB to 608 Averages for the week : Wheat 7,924 qrs., at 41s ld 8ar1ey......... 481 „ 3os 4d Oats 478 ~ 22s Od Re Be y ans 353 „ 44s 9Odd Peas .... 126 „ sos Od BRISTOL—DEc. 2. The supply of English wheat at market to-day was far shorter than of late, and sold slowly at about last week's rates. Fine barleys maintain their values ; inferior malt ing and grinding rather easier to purchase. Oats meet with a better inquiry, at somewhatenhanced rates. Other articles unchanged. MANCHESTER—DEC. 2. The supply of wheat from the growers was good, and althoughan attempt was made to buy at a reduction, the farmers succeeded in obtaining last week's prices. Barley of fine quality maintained former rates ; indifferent sorts nearly unsaleable. Oats easier to buy. Them was very little alteration in beans. -DEC. 1. )-day, at last week's prices. Oats. met a better demand. Barley, grinding 30s to 323 Oats, old, .. —s to ---3 New do 30s to 324 Beans.. 44s to 483 Malt.. ...... 6Bs to 72s ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, DEC. 2. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Alfred Corder, 25, who pleaded guilty to an in dictment charging him with feloniously setting fire to a quantity of farm buildings and other property with intent to injure Thomas Hills Wood, and also to defraud the Sun Fire-office, was brought up for jui 'sent. T e prosecutor in this case is an extensive farmer at White Notley, in the neighbourhood of Brain tree, and it appeared that the prisoner was an entire stranger to him, and there appeared to be an utter absence of motive for the commission of so serious an offence. The fire in question took place in the night of the 19th Sept., and property to the amount of £4OO was totally destroyed. The moment the prisoner was taken into custody he admitted his guilt. Mr. Justice Wightman, in passing sentence, said it was difficult to understand what could have in duced the prisoner to commit so serious an offence, but, as a warning to others, he felt it to be his duty to order him to be kept in penal servitude for 15 years. tHenry Abbott, 31, who pleaded " Guilty," and Jas. Marsh, 35, were charged with a similar offence. Mr. Woollett conducted the prosecution. The prisoners, who appeared to be in a very dent i tute condition, went to the police-station at Witham, and asked for some relief; and finding that the super intendent was not there, and could not obtain what they required, it appeared that they at once pro ceeded to the farm-yard of Mr. Crump, a farmer at Witham, and deliberately set fire to a stack of wheat, valued at £l2O, the whole of which was consumed. The prisoners were both taken into custody upon the spot, and the evidence clearly established their guilt. They were sentenced to undergo penal servitude for 10 years. Christopher Ketteridge, 23, and Charles Barker, 32, were indicted for burgariously breaking into the dwelling-house of Samuel Richardson, and stealing a watch and other articles • and the indictment also charged the prisoners with assaulting and using personal violence to the prosecutor at the time of the commission of the robbery. Mr. Woollett prosecuted; Mr. Taylor defended the prisoners. The circumstances of the case were of rather a singular character. It appeared that the prosecutor was a labouring man, living in the neighbourhood of Saffron Waldon, and that on the 12th September he had been to the harvest spending, where he no doubt enjoyed himself to a considerable extent, and returned home about 1 o'clock in the morning. According to his evidence, upon his entering his cottage he saw the prisoner Barker standing in the lower part of the house, and the other man, Ket teridge—both of whom he was well acquainted with —standing on the top of the staircase ; and he said they both attacked him and beat him with a stick, and robbed him of his watch and other property. The prisoners, it appeared, were readily found after the transaction, and they denied all knowledge of the robbery, and declared that they were not near the prosecutor's house when it took place. Mr. Tayler, in his address to the jury for the de fence, declared that, according to his instructions, the prosecutor was in such a state of intoxication at the time the supposed robbery took place as not to know what he was about, and that he was under a complete delusion or description of nightmare, and that nothing of what he represented actually took place. He called as a witness a man named Gar wood, who lived in a cottage adjoining that of the prosecutor, and he stated that on the night in ques tion he heard him come home at a late hour, and for a very considerable time he appeared to be reel ing and falling about like a drunken man, and at length he made such a disturbance that he was in duced to get up and see what was the matter. He knocked at the cottage door of the prosecutor, and for some time he could not obtain any answer, and when he did come aconsiderable period elapsed before he could find the key, and nearly as long before he could place it in the keyhole and open the door. Upon his going in he found the prosecu tor nearly naked and dreadfully intoxicated. All the furniture was in confusion, and the prosecutor had placed chests and other articles upon his bed, while he himself was walking about naked, Upon his telling him to dress himself, the prosecutor put on his breeches the hind part before without ap pearing to know the mistake he had made, and in NEWAR A large supply jiwhe;ll Barley was quite as dear. Beans and peas unaltered. White wheat, new, 448 to 50s Red do. 4os to 42s Old white 42s to 47s Red do. • 38s to 41s Barley, malting 388 to 448 BIRMINGHAM—DEc. 2. - Wheat was dull at lath rates. Flour irregular. Good barley held for 6d advance, which checked b us i ness. Oats were dull, but not lower. Beans and peas were unaltered in value. LOUTH—DEc. 1. There was a fair supply of wheat from the farmers to day, and transactions were limited •at a reduction of is per qr. Not much doing in other sorts. Wheat ...37s to 40s Oats.... 23s to 26s White .42s to 434 Beans 388 to 40s Barley .33s to 35s Malt.. ..„—s to --s GLASGOW—DEG. 1. At our market to-day wheat was very quiet ; full prices were asked, but little business was done. Flour was un changed. Barley was more inquired for, at the decline of last week for Scotch ; nothing doing in foreign. Oats dull, and the turn cheaper. Beans and peas sold slowly, at late rates. EDINBURGH GRAIN—DEc. 1. *. There was a tolerable supply of grain at market. Sales were heavy, and prices at about late rates. Wheat on the top 6d down, average Os 2d down. Barley on the top Os 6d down average Os 3d up. Oats on the top O s 6d d own --average 2d up. Beans on the t o p O s 9d d own —average 8d up. Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat. Wheat (N). 0 0 0 0-12ths Barley 1 11 1 9-12ths Oats 1 2 2 11-12ths Beans f 2 1 0 6-12ths Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1096 qrs Sold 688 qrs 8ar1ey........2780 qrs S o l d 1747 qrs Oats .1441 qrs Sold 1205 qrs Beans 129 qrs Sold 129 qrs. CORK—DEC. 1. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 16s Od to 20s; white, 19s 6d to 22s 6(1; barley lls Od to lOs Od; oats, lls Od to 12s 9d. DERBY SMITHFIELD --Nov. 30. There was a good supply of fat beasts to-day, mostly of excellent quality, the attendarice of buyers was small, and the greater part wen t a w ry unsold. The pens were well filled with sheep, and high prices asked. A. good number of fat pigs, demand brisk, and . prices better. A very poor supply of fat calves. Beef old to 61d Veal bid to 7d Mutton . 6 1 -d to 7d Pork Lamb . . od to —d Rough fat, 4610 d per stone. Hides, 4d to Sid ; calf skins, .4id to hd. BIRTHS. Doncuas.--On the 27th ult., at Springwood-park, Kelso, Lady Scott Douglas, of a son. HALLEWELL.—On the 15th ult., at Malta, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Hallewell, Assistant Adjutant-Ge neral, of a daughter. PATTENSON.—On the Ist inst., at Biddenden, the wife of Captain Tylden Pattenson, of a son. PEAnsE. , --On the Ist inst., at Russell Farm, Herts, Mrs. Chas. Pearse, of a son. MARRIAGES. RoiliN soN — NurrEa.—O n the Ist inst., at Leamington, Mr. J. H. R o bi nson, of Dudley, son of J. W. R o bi nson , sq., of Leamington, to Susan, second daughter of the late James Nutter, Esq., of Leamington, formerly of Cambridge. WIIITE—BEi)GGOOD.—On the 30th ult., at St. John's, Upper Holloway, Th omas R . White,- sq., of Duerdin villas, Tollington-park, to Sophia Holt, youngest daugh ter of Thomas Bedggood, Esq., of Horusey-lane, High gate. _ _ DEATHS. BACON—On the 29th ult., at Clapham-rise, Mary, the last surviving daughter of the late John Bacon, Esq., R.A., aged 90. • BARNES.—On the 30th ult., at Southampton, Lady Geor , giana Catherine Barnes, widow of Michel Wm. Barnes, Esq., late of Reigate, Surrey, and second daughter of George William, 7th Earl of Coventry, aged 72. CU ST.—On the clOth ult., at her' residence in Hill-street, the Hon. Elizabeth Oust, daughter of the late Lord and Lady Brownlow, of Bolton House, Lancashire, aged 76. ... . DYSON.—On tie 30th Ult., at Cheltenham, on his way to Malvern, the Rev. Francis Dyson, aged 73. Onctinisr.—On the Ist inst., at Portland-terrace, Clap ham-road, Mr. Waving Charles Gilchrist, late of Percy house, South Lambeth, aged 36. KING.—On the Ist inst., at Oakbank, Surbiton-hill, Ber keley King, Esq., aged 68. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG., of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Preeinot of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Friday, December 3, 1858. duce( been priuc ROITIC `'thou Thou Act • 7, Ban THE The COMP MARI Comp. teed a saran ( dition Inn cident togeth Propo Comp; John Franc Sir AV 'ALF Sir W, Thom John John Sterva Sub: but it , bat be Von 4: Life Divisi at Chi the In the Li Div' Polici will p ' Four- Chrisl obtain FIT every Losi Comp ~\ 01 Lot nac trni Wit artd IV; .obti IrJ PUI lity, dray titeal item catal moth men' mod( eng,a, G= hove state, T1A.13 many the ft Price P 1 Per additi T 1 7, El Gv ON rr A ir Raw Of T Ne] lie Er Dy ani ant Co Col time teed on ti but i the : the 1114 Sur ten ord ani