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ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN NORTHERN Dec. 10. (Before Mr. Sustice Wightman.) Nearly the whole of to-day was occupied with the trial, ,ef cases the particulars of which are unfit for publict,,tion. Mary An n Addey, aged 19, a good-looking young woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female child, .at Huddersfield, in the West Riding, on the 19th of September last. Mr. Blanshar d and Mr. Wheelhouse prosecuted; and Mr. Manic a 'efended the prisoner. It appears that the prisoner was engage d inn he mill of Messrs. 11-sattersley, manufacturers , Huddersfield. For Lleme time previous to the 19th September the prisocer's shape had workmen d and e a ttention of some of her fellow workwomen, also of Ja net Sykes, a witness, who had on different occa.siolL3 made remarks on the subject to the prisoner Iterself, who had inva jocularly. On the riably treated the matte! afternoon of the 16th of September Sykes re afternoon first-rate now," marked to her I t " Thee, and on the morning of the 2klth she met prisoner coming to her work much latv than usual, and looking very ill. It was proved 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, after -waiting a consi derable time, went out to seek her, a nd found that she was not where she had led them to expect. She returned immediately afterwards, and complained that she was very unwell. The next inorning, in a field about 100 yards from the house, a child's body was found, covered with blood and bearing all the marks of premature birth. The umbilici xl cord was torn, not tied ; but there were no marks o f violenee to account for death. The surgeon, however, swore that he believed the g irl to have been rece n tly de livered, and that the child had breathed. It.was also attempted to be proved that a child's cry was 112ard near the spot where the body was found, just at the time when the girl had left the house, but this was not satisfactorily shown. Mr. Maule 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 shown that even, if born alive, it had died a violent death. Xis 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 CIRCUIT.—NORTHAMPTON, DEC 9. Martha Ann Lewis stood charged with having, at the parish 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 pri 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 Dolben's, he observed an apron with a pair of scissors tied to it lying under a tree 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 the parish constable Parker carrying the dead body of the boy towards Finedon, and went on towards the cottage, of Miss Dolben, about 200 yards distant from the pond, where he found the prisoner seated on the grass under some trees behind the cottage garden, with her head bent down and her arms 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 look for her, had found her at the place already •mentioned gazing towards the pond where search was being made. He asked her where the children were ; she answered " Lower down," and sat still, Exemilig 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 elicited, in cross-examination of the wit nesses for the prosecution, that up to within 12 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 which 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 eady have led the jury to anticipate was that the prisoner, who it was proved had been a careful, fond, 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 corrobo rated the evidence of insanity already given, 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 Home Secretary. Both gentlemen gave their opinion in the most decided 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 jury 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 coro 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 quar ter past 12 a.m., on the lath 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 j ury for the prisoner, and The Judge having summed up the evidence, the jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.—Sentenced to 18 calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labour. John Sewell, a boy nine years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of setting fire to a stac of straw, the property o f iis 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 'l6th of August. The-boy Sewell was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and to be twice whipped, and Brown and West, both full-grown men, each to four years' penal servitude. The Court rose at eight o'clock. DECEMOEP. 10. Mr..Justice.Cromptou took his seat. 9 a.m. George White, charged with the nittilsla:l. , %ter of Alfred 11Thymn.n, at Wollaston, and G, or , e - Walker 'and Frederick White with aiding and abetting . him in that offene; all pleaded ." Not Mr. Markham conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Merewether watehecrthe case against the two Whites. It apTheared that the death of Whyman resulted from a blow given in a fair stand-up light between himself and George White, in which the other two prisoners acted as seconds. Mr.. Merewether declined addressing the jury, and the learned Judge having summed up, the • iv. - ..y.convicted all the prisoners. .George White, having already been in. prison thrve months, was sentenced to two Calendar months' imprisonment. Edward Coe pleaded not guilty to a charge of ..... 5amp.........m... _ setting fire to a stack of barley, the property of Henry Haddon Cave, at Desborough, on Sept. 30. Mr. Cave conducted the, prosecution ; the pri soner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence that one of the witnesses, an old man, his granddaughter , and s everal others, who were returning from the Wel lingborough flower-shoW, passed the spot where the stack in question was situate, and through a gap in the stone fence of a field adjoining the stack yard saw a man in dark clothes carrying a light and going towards the stack, which stood some 50 yards distant from the lane in which the witnesses stood. When first seen the man was about five yards from them, and both the old man and his granddaughter, who by glimpses of the light saw the man who carried it, believed it to have been the prisoner, who was a near neighbour of theirs, and whom 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 granddaughter having been home went I with her mother to Stratford's, and while there distinctly saw the prisoner's face leok ing in at the window, and on seeing them come;out he ran round a corner and hid himself. The old man, his granddaughter, and her mother return - ed. 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. Henry H. Cave, who was also roused at that time by the. 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 a lon g 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—SemonD, Dec. 9. CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) Th o mas Wilkes, 17, brick burner, was charged with the wilful murder of John Reynolds on the Bth of October, 1859, at Sedgley. Mr. F. M'Mahon and Mr. S. Hill appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Motteram defended the pri soner. It appeared 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 heershop kept by a man named Rudge, at Sedgley. At about a quarter to 12 o'clock the men were all turned out, and the shop was shut, but as they had not had drink enough to satisfy them four or five clubbed together and subscribed 6d. 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 endeavodred to get the ale, but as he did not succeed ie 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 named Beck. Beck, who was what the witnesses called " fresh," demanded his sixpence, but the de ceased said he had not got it. The deceased 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 Beck' should give him a sixpence, and he would give him a shilling in exchange, but as Beck 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 ratter 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 deeeaged 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 deceased, who was leaning against a wall, with his hands in his pockets, made no answer, 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 2 " The prisoner said " Nothing.' The deceased said he was a liar, and stepped forward as if to strike the prisoner, but he fell' down, on some gas pipes, and . was taken up dead. One of the witnesses named Ilarpur said the prisoner attempted to strike another blow as the deceased was falling; and as he was adveucing he knocked the prisoner down. The deceased wag then taken home, 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 tho third and fourth ribs, had pcne tratcd 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 lie had only struck the deceased with a cinder, and denied that he had used any knife ; though he 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 of 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 that Reck was "lot knocked down till after the de ceased 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. Motteram addressed the jury 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 )od 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 enorinity 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. Eliza Palmer, 43, was charged with wilful and corrupt perjury on the 25th of November, 1859, at Wolverhampton. Mr. G. Browne appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Claydon defended the prisoner. The prisoner was a married woman, and was charged with wilful and corrupt 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 Brett, who had had.some keys to mend for her husband, brought them home about half-past five in the afternoon of Nov. 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 hor husband what she had. seen, and he followed the man, and had him taken ,into custody, and carried before the magistrate. As the prisoner swore she had seen Brett 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 this charge was made. In order to prove the falsehood of the prisoner's evi dence the man Brett was called, and swore that he did not take the watch ; but on cross-examination he admitted that he had suffered for poaching and aesault, and about 12 years ago he had been charged with felony. A little boy, named Charles Rigby, was called, and stated that he lived near the prisoner's house, and that a little before six o'clock on the night in question he went into Palmer's shop and stole the watch, and put it into the pigsty in the yard. The next day he fetched the watch and threw the case into the fire, and gave the inside to his mother. After this witness was examined it transpired that he had been brought up from prison to give evidence, having been committed upon the charge of stealing the watch, to take his trial at the next sessions. Mr. Justice Wines said that if he had been aware of this circumstance he would not have allowed the boy to be examined.. Il l s Lordship gave directions that the boy s h ou l d. b e lb that he ought not to he v epuenr i fi s t i e l.e d on bail, and said d. p me further evriidensoner was,Ta s Given, and it appeared that c lar F ed. with perjury she said she was So so confuse d she did n o t k now w h at she said. Mr. Claydon, for tho prisone r , contended that there was nothing t • show that the prisoer'sevi dence was false, and that the case now set up by the prosecution was trumped up in order to free 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 SI N, 4 LONDON! *MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, - 1859. support the charge ene / *abricated the story which 4 she had told. He must,,tl aerefore, sentence her to 12 months' imprisonment ; with hard labour. COSTS 01? ' PROSECUTIONS. In a case of mansla .ughter tried at these assizes, and in which an atter ney had been bound over by the coroner to proseci ite, Mr. Justice IVilles said he should not allow the attorney his costs. The corn - ner had no power t' o bind over an attorney to two secute, the attornr,y not being a witness before him. If the coroner wif ;re allowed to exeicise such patron age it would load to gt-eat abuse, as the coroner might appoint his own partner and share the pro fits. The practice was a bad one and ought to be repressed. His lordship said he would allow the costs out of pocket but nc ithing more. • DECEIT HER 10. Eliza Lee, 48, and Eannah Evans, 17, were charged with a conspiracy to prevent the due cenrse 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, statedthat 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' charged 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 immediately gave information 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 on the part of the prisoners, ard 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, swore 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 younggirl, 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 Wines 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 Wines said it was quite clear that the elder prigoner, 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. THE ROYAL CIIA.RTER. 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. f, 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 himtn 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 passengss, and the body having been placed in a coffin waraken charge of by the Rev. S. R. Hughes, the humane and highly-respected incumbent of the Welsh village of Llanallgo. 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, Llanallgo 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. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 10. WESTMINSTER.—THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ADULTERY AND ROBIIERY.—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 of 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 adul= terer, the latte'r. Was guilty of ,stealing the articles taken away from the husbands 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 pet son knew it. was not right to receive them, be could not be . deemed guilty of larceny. On the other hand, ithad been ruled not only that if an adulterer eloped with a man's wite, and took away property, he was guilty of stealing, but that if the adultery was coutcm ' plated, although it had never taken place, the elope ment 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 were just as much her husband's property as her own ; but .he did not suppose t hat Mr. Justice Coleridge could have meant that to ap ply to the clothes she was ahSOlutelY wearing at the , time of her elopement, but her wardrobe generally. 1 In another case, heardbefore Lord Denma n and Mr. 1 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 eases, 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 and 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 trim. 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 encouragidg 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. lle (the worthy magistrate) would not say that a woman of Mrs. Tether'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 disgrace, and had unblush ingly proclaimed her own infamy, but parts of her statement were borne oat 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; Tethers' house, and told them that she was a married woman—a circum 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. Petters was to be -believed, she packed up her things herself while he was away, and followed him unexpectedly to his lodgings, and as there was net sufficient evidence against the accused to send him before a jury, he was discharged. ' and cl apping .1 Ar decision pirnii n:guoliodr et I :rd % he ' a faw s unst f del o ads l t i f o ti.r.o s e. o v di ng e r c i l e,a_s b es y lhi:l a mer y b h u mai : ad ' s i t ,,fpao o edi f . aN : tuil p cidee p i. l tf a oa u rl y s s applause imprisonment he had sustained. [ADVERTISEMENT.)—Errs's (Homoeopathic Chemist) COCOA.—This esteemed preparation is sold by the prin cipal grocers at ls. 6d., par lb., in lib., lib., and packets. Mich packet is labelled " James Epps, Homo;:o • pathic chemist, Lonslo4!"._ MINERAL R . AUSTRALIA (F,on the South, Australian AdrePtim%) ".The whole province teems 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 (Effusion and extraordinary richness of cur copper." The Burra Burra Company have declared two divi dends, each amounting to 100 per cent. on the tal stock of the company, payable the :3d of Dccem: ber and the 3d of March next respectively. Burra Burra shares had advanced from £l4O to £156. Copper is firm at £lO2 per ton; wool (light) at 10d. per lb. Draughts on London at 60 days' sight, 1 1 , per cent premium. The following are from Australian mining com panies : "Btiltß.l. 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 linancial 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 loss 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 D 0,967. " 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 A oz. of gold; the amount received on Clones 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 153 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 oro 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 adit 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 eat either the cop per vein or the chrome lode. Some water is com 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 opinion that we should eventually find something well worth our attention. We therefore continue exploring this point, and the ground is becoming highly interest ing. We are preparing the road for shipment of the chrome ore as directed.' "SCOTTISH AUSTRALIAN.—The directors have re , ' ceived a communication, dated Sydney, Oct. 13, with the milling foreman's report of operations at the Cape of Good Hope Mine up to Oct. 7. The mining operations have progressed stesdily. Six shafts have been opened. M.Callum's shaft was down 39ft. 9in. 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 amount of ore raised from all the shafts was about 18 tons, of an estimated average value of £35 per ton. " WORTIIING.—The Worthing Mining Company received despatches dated Oct. 15. Captain Remfrey reports:—' The lode in the shaft has considerably increased in yield and value for copper. Sampled and weighed, from 9ft: 6in. sinking, 11 tons 8 cwt. of ore-141 per cent. of produce, exclusive of dredge work set apart for crushing.' I fully expect, from tha present prospects of the lode, to return next month 18 tolls of ore, say from two fathoms' sinking, or from 9 to 10 tolls p9r fathom of superior value. We have also raised during this month 8 tons 10 cwt. of car , bonate from Winnin's pitch, produce 81 ; and we are raising good ore from Tomkin's W inze. I hope to have 20 tons of regains before stopping the fur , n ace.' " 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.' " HORRIBLE B ARBARITY IN FRANCE. 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-using their daughter, a girl of 17 • they were described as "proprietaires," and relatively well oft. 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 cam© 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 describc. : " 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 recent 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 evidence of this, as also of her father having beaten her with a pitchfork. At the com mcneement of the present year, however, the cruelty of her parents assumed a regular and systematic character, denoting premeditation. Every day— morning, noon, and night—her father tied her up in a dark room used for breadmaking and there red 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 March last, bath her father and mother dragged hez into a low, vaulted room behind the kitch9a ; she was then stripped naked and seeurelyla.shed, face aownwaras ; to a carpentering table ; red-hot coals were then taken from the fire and placed inside her thighs, close to the skin. The mothe for this torture was to extoit her a confeion 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 the 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 in nitric acid, 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 mother 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 mattress, and with the straw hack 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 ace cracc . usatio' n 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 ode (1 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 her thighs." Both husband and wife were sentenced to hard labour for life. THE CORK COUNCILMAN AND TILE 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, Mr. 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. SIIEEIIAN—WeII, then, I'll bring it forward first, sir, because 'tis the first thing we ought to do. Mr. OTLYN—'Tie not the first. Mr. SIIEETIAN—'Tis 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 knew 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 gas mectin' first, an' was intro duced to him by Mr. M'Ostrich at the gas, which 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.) Ho do, indeed; and only for our lookin' for our locomotive principles, what 'ud become ov us ? (Laughter.) FI hope the Harbour Board won't be thanked for not to look to our harbour, sir, an' ntindin' 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 lone 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 ; and,besides that, sir, here's the gentleman that gave Mrs.—Mrs.—Mrs. Ryan, in Limerick— she got a large one there. (Laughter.) I suppose, as much in one half-year as ho gives, Mrs. Arnott gave thirty times more—(hear, and laughter) —and if ho was not in the council at all,l think we really ought to pay him a compliment. (Hear, hear.) Now, here's £2,500 d;stributed 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 sometimes they don't know themselves or anybody else. (Renewed laughter.) Sho 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 ua. (La.ugh ter) Of course ye know well they do—in religion, sir, an' charity. But she is alvvays, 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. MAYou—Gentlemen, I am afraid you have reck oned without your host, for really this stranger that is come to Monkstowu 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 yo j. MAYon—My wife says it would take more silver to cover him than would break the corporation. If you pre';,ose it according to Mr. Sheehan's dimen sionP,, I am afraid you will find yourselves in a ter 9fole state. Mr. SIIEEHAN--Not at all. I propose that it be done in slap-up style. (Laughter.) VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS' IN TILE CIVIL 'SERVICE. War-office—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 puisne 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. It. F. Lalcon has been promoted from sixth to fifth-class clerk in ditto ; Mr. John Kilbride has been promoted from third to second-class tideevaiter 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 request. Ireland—The 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. Daniel O'Connell, Mr. James Francis Swaine, Mr. John Rollin Wilby, Mr. Bernar Connor, Mr. Benjamin Downing, Mr. Sampson Courtenay Al‘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 Win. Car penter Rowe.—civil Service Gazette. Is CONSUMPTION INCURABLE P—lnvalids labouring under Consumptive Maladies, and families who have suffered frau the ravages of Consumptioe (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. DENrs CRONIN, M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each by G. Berger, 19, nolywell-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now ready. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —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, colds, influenza, and rheumatism. Tho 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 inking 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. This friction causes the 011itraont to - penetrate the skin, whence it passes to the lungs, and purities the whole mass of blood, as it flows through those organs iu its cir culation. SCIEN. .......•••••••'. IRGS. - - The tile: le Medicaie rqr)rts a case of cr ou p iat,l cured in one of the suburban communes of ruri; by Dr. Amussat, from which it appears :-1. 1 bat tracheotorny, performed before the stage of as phyxia has begun, presents a much greater chance. of success than when effected at a later period; 2. That, therapeutic agents, tonics, and eoPeola ll Y extract of bark and neutral perchloride of iron, pro' duco an excellent effect in arresting the msladY after the operation. In a case of a child three y.ears old . 25 drops of the solution of perchloride of iron in a tumbler of water may be administered in dose I of a tea-spoonful at a time every tea minutes. Ihe above solution may also be mixed with equa l parts of the syrup of perchloride containing. two parts of the latter for every 100 parts of s im p le syrup.—M. Dumas, a few days ago, prod uced be fore the . Academy of Sciences a helmet rnado,_ef aluminium for the King of Denmark. The worli- mansh . ip, by MM. Delachaussee and Mourey, Wa s beautiful ; but it was more remarkable in tific . point of view, from the fact that the metal litt.a received a polish equal to that of silver ; that it had been successfully gilt by the galvanic process! and that the operation of soldering had succeet,l.edo beyond expectation. The helmet weighs 40 e grammes ; it would weigh 1,700 if it were e', braes; its resistance is inferior to that of steel Irin plate, but superior to that of brass.—M. A. cent, of Brest, has addressed a p a p er to the Ma 40' demy of Sciences, in which h e treats ofcoast fences, arguing that however numerous d well served batteries erected on shore may be, they can': not prevent either a landing or a bombardment bust steam . fleet ; and that the only effectual defence in consist of floating steam batteries, protected .oi plates of soft iron, and armed with breech- loading_ in present . use only fire one. guns, capable of firing 5 or 6 shots in the time thee! Clunate pure et appliquce announces that M. Dave° _ p hoto employs citric acid with great success in develop° graphy instead of acetic accid in order to the image obtained by Taupenot's process (dry 1 1 : 0 luminated .. collodion). The compound he nee!" n following; gallic acid, 30 grammes; pyrogalli.c ale; 10 grammes ; citric (instead of acetic) acid , keep in grammes ; rub in a porcelain mortar and dry bottle. It is especially useful on The Repertoire eiee a joUrn.t liquid preserves its limpidity a long owing .. to the small space it occupies ; the reanell.ll6_ While, u m b e r a above doze is sufficient to develope a large nto ,. of images. M. Draper recommends the Pr",..i c chloride of palladium for bringing out phoogl.7 a images . with great force. After on s,ete solucion of this substance be poured on thol:"'n. Iv of con ce . Or graph, and, according to the degree tion of the solution, the sha des will acquire LIo I degree of intensity desired. _ CAPTURE OF A SWINDLER. On Friday afternoon a *Yifeh-looking man, giving as his name Arthur. Walters, was bronght before the magistrates on a charge of defrauding the tradesmen in the town 'of goods. The Binning hant 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 prepossessing young woman, whom he intro duced to the proprietors of the hotel as Lady Bed dingfield. The couple assumed and stistained.the_ fashionable style of haat ton, and their bill during their sojourn of one week at the Lamb amounted to the sum of £9 los. • • 4ir William had reported that his uncle, recently deceased, had. be queathed to' him large ,Cstates abroad, and that he and Lady Beddingfield were to pro ceed to India on the 6th of the present month. The scantiness of their wardrobe and the absence of packages at the hotel were accounted for by the fitatement 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 wet.? about to depart, and on the presentation of their bill, the host of the Lamb was coolly told by the prisoner that he had no money, and that a re ioittance on account would be sent to him. He, however, succeeded in stopping the execution of some extensive orders in Cheltenham. Of course the matter , get wind, and 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 he 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 ddmission 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. He 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, but 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 appri.ved 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 he should pay for. He at the same time directed that two dozen morn 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, .manager for Messrs. Barrs, having deposed to the foregoing circum stances, Mr. G. IL Horsfall, of the firm of C. Hors fall and Son, merchants, Liverpool, was examined. lie stated that he know 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 years, when he was discharged. Ho went out for them to Africa as assistant to the supercargo, and afterwards as supercargo. He was not now in any way engaged as their agent, and he had no authority' to give the order then produced on their account. ;The prisoner, for whom Mr. Ilemmant attended to watch the case, when called upon for his reply to the charge at once admitted his guilt, but pleaded' that he had come to Bir mingham with isomoney in his pocket, and had no means of obtaining any. lie was then committed for trial at the sessions., Had not the prisoner been thus opportunely eetected there can be little doubt _he would have vicimised other local tradesmen to a considerable extent, and for a while most pro bably, so plausible was his address and manner of doing business, with impunity. As regards the young woman who accompanied him from Chelten ham, and who is not married to him, she would appear to have found her way back to that placo, and a clergyman having taken compassion on her, very kindly paid her faro to London, she .having stated that her friends resided at Camberwell." COUIVTRY MABIRTS. Thero was a fair Cl CAMBRIDGEpIIyDoGfE;DeaZ.aItIOci., With raotheot. better demand in the trade, white moved off at 44s to .2 red, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. There was not much doing:, 28s to iA tO barley to-day ; malting .42s to —s ; griuding, per 30 stone. Oats at 20s to 26s for new old oats/ 3£410 s. Beans in limited supply and a good 8s to no r to 40s ; old, —s to —s per - 38 stone ; peas, 380 to 3 " ' 36 stone. NOTTINGHANI—Drc. 10. a a (sir wi‘dexi: W atrlltem e inm h agein ad a small attendance at to-day' s m aket, i til hest sorts a fair show, and supply of grain. An advance of is per quarto on r o°. 4 8 41s s t to o 5 4 2 7 s s White wheat pricesbtaaartiney maintained, sale, previous rates. Beans a sruall m 10 ,135 a tasahitnrNadvseruheapke.tpha. lveyyr,.satetoadfaoytrras deeenirsinaniailete'snias 0; t 1 :_ ? : o f ter i tuc i s : to S t° • g 216 St Red do. BOa:tlseyo'lr, i1 . a . d . 11:1 . • • • . 2 2 4 to PL Old white Red do. s2s to 558 New?do .......... 46s to 60s I Beans.. .........•44 4 8 :t t o ° 4 s li Barley, malting 36s to 45s I Beans, ne w. .... .. toe Super. flour, 358 to 39s ; fine, 318 to 33s per . 0 att T en h d er a e ne w e b 3 a 4 r s le v y e , r —red, 40s to 44s fair LEICESTER: — a D:ryc. 11. 44 t ° 48° ar. the oat t • frona t _ t ra de was slow, at quotations ranging 428 to 621 g24r;n a s : daoin a nnaeg rit ap o 2e d ßh7r e see r 3aans a t6vo t y e s3toos s anas u le p o. p l y wh of , ilt:ifliidtiryy,f: fin e, per 38 stone. Fine flour, 34s I Seconds, 32s Thirds, 30$ Pe r - to 4 25 ;mmodaeltriall; Here, to-day, there wheat,on trade, former • OreßWwaslCrHatiTeDr sacia,„:l•ro'sttendanancesueecto; arti‘pwtie.aafhluaittlillnoiat.oos4 wag fair currencies nehatige o . f last market. of 281 malting barleiea sata wheat. 47s to 50s In oats, 13 ' . c oo a rates. inactive ebtToi Thheeoml s d ar u and pkpelty.n ew T b.l‘erele was a sr, declin e g tpliltriied tr_0y....42s to 48s Chevalier barley•. •2543. t istilling do . ...25s io 27s I I ItOaetds..w.h.e.a. '''''''''' Flour, 30s to 30s 6d per sack from. di; • • • • - • --_ YORK — at a DEc: 10. 1 slir" a ir A. sm all show of wheat, with a fair sale', 0 ,,,51 0 the on last market day. Mal tin g barley viT 0 1 .. .„ 111 in fi to Ott ply at former rates ; grinding q ualities the t' in ori of the buyer. Beans were at high prices. s 1 64 business was transacted in oats, at former rate •. 2 to Wheat, red .42s to 46s Oats.... ........ . ts tO ...., 4 1 Whito do 455 to 505 Beans .......... • ......3 t° Barley .30s to 41s Peas ......... .. • :.. Malt, 68s to 70s per qr. ; rye, 30s per gi ..II• STAMFORD—DEc. le. li ' oo or:: At our market yesterday wheat wont at an aillbalei Pe on last week's prices, with a tolerable supply l c for ill: demand, realising the extreme prices of last We e r 0 bsivi qualities. In oats not much doing, and late ro e maintained. Beans still in favour of the seller. -4 ---- ÜBLIN—DE°. 9. . 5 nior niafro l Oi Our market wasp retty well attended this _ sne ct _ill there was a moderate supply of eTerything, ..v_,t.:friciaLn. wheat, and oats were in slow demand, supPor_tin alt rates. Barley at fully late currencies, the ti tta r t i er o, ifw" qualities in request. Indian corn was 11 j. little doing. e• 0. 6 . 19 • s. d. e. d. ii 0 1 46 Wheat, white 28 oto3o 0 Do., new ..... , 3 •to ~,, 0 Do., red 27 0t029 0 Bore . ........ 1 , :) oto 1; s 1 Do., new Barley ~,, 0 Oats Do., black l2 otol2 6 Indian corn • • Re i CORK—DEo. 9. i sj The following were the quotations this rl l 2, ba rlef. wheat, 23 to 27s 01; white, 26s Od to 289 u" , Od to 19s Od d oats, 12s Gd to 13s 6d. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET -11 at e l ei iesP .L• tJA1,J.44. , , a . In b tyhefol eveninglo i m n VI a s bflrecnEnporn " 6 -• *Te o 3isil DESTINATIONS. Despatch rt °f h .... L. 1 ....---' tie. signifies London, lails Dee Pal. ' --------- 22---- : ---------- Dee' Australia and Mauritius, ' via Southampton Dec. 12, , .. . .Ja n ' Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New ol• • P ee. 0 SoUtheMP' 1: ~, , we rpo_ •• -n e e. York Dec. 23, v , „ „.'-',,,,rp001• • "'' . Canada, tze. (by Canadn. pckt ) Dec. 14, -c. "-'''' - ‘ Jo. A Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- ;ictbtcyrs ate if,c,,nirolo. Devo pon ~ sion, and St. Helena Jan. 6, Deo . s China, Penang and Sing,a poye, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton Honduras and Blewfields - . - fil soutbaraP" ^ r Pec if s India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, ..... ' Ditto, via Marseilles via Southampton India (Bombay), via South ampton Ditto, via Marseilles ~ Jail' is Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos A e yr 0, Jan. col Southit; De' and F. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto INC. 17, 3 1 °fe ta s &Lana, Egypt, and Aden, via 0IP• • 1 Dee. 12, M South p, _ Southampton .......... . O' 1 51Dexitetoo,avnia Marseilles 2—,il ,autht urtp. ...- a 'Daenc.: 17, E Galic a l •'' ' 0 Newfoundland 1 D ec. United States aud British N. E L'verP ° '' '''' America (by British packet) Dec. 11, - ' thstaP• Ditto (by U. S. packet) •• . Dec. 1 4, Sou 1 0 Southall!: . over pco. 0 oh • Dec West Coast of Africa Ma- iL VerP ° deira, and Teneriffe ... West India, California, Vene- De• 16 zuela, Chili, Poru, Grey town, New Granada. &c. ~ ---- °llthanW. -..... fur BIRTIIB. Wal l lia CAMTITLIDaE.--On the Bth inst., at the Redly _on. well, the wife of the ev. E. P. Cambridge, ° ll ,' A OS F - E.—on thyreestFhoainksets., OAR.ES.—On tho 6th inst ti,V bridge, , a ey .., Surre3r, “ w i. the of Thomas E MILLI M'ddl T eft 1 e emple, of a dau ht r g e . HA , CO D°l 11 , A.RDEN.—On the Gth inst at 26, East ~,, , the Viscountess Hawardon, Prematurely, of e tb s ° o - 0 , • ifs of T William Miller, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. oireirt unToN.—On the 9th inst., at Eilvington 11°11' the Lady Cecilia Turton, of a son. h i r e, the WnEy.—On the sth inst., at Ilolmc-park, Day°o Hon. Mrs. 11. Prey, of a daughter. Eats'll.3,:erri:cbteeciii.i...:isw, • MARRIAGES. : D i tirdf BAIRD—HAY —0 Iton lan3.3° Air Esq., of • n the Bth inst., at I3e I us bello Auchmadden and Cambusdoon,_ to Ilsif ir' ./' new, eldest daughter of the late ItcaAdm of Belton, East'L • •se s Lothian. -a th Asrilli . HORTON-13i toxr..—On the Bth inst., at .ve. , Sol* Horton Esq., BA '• 9 Commander Royal NavY, t° .., a i End widow of Captain Charles .A.eton Broke, .13•°/ necrs. DEATTIS. o. St. 1 5 CA. - In.—On the 9th • t t his residence, -,, sg Abbott .t • ' ins :, a 1G ~ Cary 01, 73. s mace, h.ensingtOn, COrg L ? t ► l'• sowers° , COULTHARD.—At Burcott House, 'Wilts, Coulthard, Esq., aged 79. ' +lnd Iffillistil ELTON.—On the 2d ' ri • Euni — • Berl inst., at . mono , Elto the late Sir rsetr q., second surviving. son of t oca° ham Abra Elton, Bart of Clevedon Con , .! the aged 36. use" t IrAwRDN.—On the 7th inst., Eustace 3fountitret_. infant s on of Viscount and Viscountess llaw be; 0,0.., HAT3rEs.—On the 29th Oct., at Neemuch, III; son °I tenant Arthur C. Haynes, Bth I-lussars, e ,ed 0, ~ Arthur and Ellen Haymes, of LCartlingtol3, 3 .. 0. old v..; LntoND.—On the Ist inst., at sea, on board tlVoillgoi Cif/. Co.'s s. a. Indus, Campbell Limend, Esq./ Service. 1 40, LONDON d and Published by MV O° 00 . 11 0 ; : Printe No. 112, Stra nd, Pr:nter, at The Suo Obleefooto St r and, in the Product of ther 12, 1359. e Savoy , ill tile Islid dl eee z, Monday, Decemb '7l 1 , 1 11 , ' ;i4l .1! • ;, Ae t • 1 . 41 441