The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

THE EXECUTION OF OLD JOE BROWN. The Boston Journal contains the following tele graphic account of the execution of Brown at Charlestown : CHARLESTOWN, DEC. 2. The prisoner was brought nut of gaol at 11 o'clock. Before leaving he bade adieu to all his fellow-pri soners, and was very affectionate to all except Cook. He charged Cook with having deceived and misled him in relation to the support he was to receive from the slaves; He was led to believe that they were ripe for insurrection, and had found that his representations were false. Cook denied the charge, but made little reply. The prisoner then told the sheriff he was ready. His arms were pinioned, and with a black slouch hat on, and the same clothes he wore during the trial, he proceeded to the door, apparently calm and cheerful. As he came out, the six companies of infantry and one troop of horse, with Gen. Tallaferro and his entire staff, were deployed in front of the gaol, while an open waggon, with a pine box, in which was a fine oak coffin, was waiting for him. He looked round and spoke to several persons he recognised, and, walking down the steps, took a seat on the coffin box along with the gaoler, Avis. He looked with interest on the fine military dis play, but made no remark. The waggon moved off, flanked by two files of riflemen in close order. On reaching the field the military had already full possession of it. Pickets were stationed, and the citizens kept back at the . point of the bayonet from taking any posi tion but that assigned them. Through the determined persistence of Dr. Raw lings, of Frank Leslie's, the order excluding the press was partially rescinded, and they were as signed a position near the Major-General's Staff. The prisoner walked up the steps firmly, and was the first man on the gallows. Avis and Sheriff Campbell stood by his side, and after shaking hands and bidding an affectionate adieu he thanked them for their kindness. The cap was then put over his face, and the rope round his seek. Avis asked him to step forward on the trap. He replied, "You must lead me; I cannot see." The rope was adjusted, and the military order given—" Not ready yet." The soldiers marched, countermarched, and took position as if an enemy were in sight, and were thus occupied for nearly 10 minutes. The prisoner standing all the time, Avis inquired if he `was not tired. Brown said---‘` No, not tired ; but don't keep me waiting longer than necessary." He was swung off at 15 minutes past 11. A slight grasping of the hands and twitching of the muscles was seen, and then all was quiet. The body was several times examined, .and the pulse did not cease until 35 minutes had passed. The body was then cut down, placed in a coffin, and conveyed, under military escort, to the depot, where it was put in a car, to be carried to the Ferry, by a special train at four o'clock. All the arrangements were carried out with a precision and military strictness that was most annoying. - The general conviction everywhere entertained was that the excitement about the rescue was an egregious hoax. Brown executed an instrument empowering Sheriff Campbell to administer on all property of his i. the State, with directions to pay over the proceeds of the sale of the weapons, if recovered, to his widow and children. Sheriff Campbell bid the prisoner farewell in the cell, the latter returning thanks for the sheriff's kindness, and speaking of Captain Pate as a brave man. The prisoner wss then taken to the cell of Cope land and Green. He told them to stand up like men and r not betray their friends. He then handed them a quarter each, saying he had no more use for money, and bid them adieu. He then visited Cook and Coppie, who were chained together, and remarked to Cook," You have made false statements." Cook asked, " What do you mean ?" Brown answered, "Why, by stating that I sent you to Harper's Ferry." Cook replied—" Did you not tell me in Pittsburg to come to Harper's Ferry, and see if Forbes bad made any disclosures ?" Brown—" No, sir ; you know I protested against your coming." Cook replied—" Captain Brown, we remember differently," at the same time dropping his head. Brown then turned to Coppie, and said, " Coppie, you also made false statements, but I am glad to hear you have contradicted them. Stand up like a man." He also handed him a quarter. He shook both by the hand, and they parted. The prisoner was then taken to Stevens's cell and they kindly interchanged greetings. SteVens—" Good bve, Captain ; I know you are going to a better land." Brawn replied—" I know I am." Brown told him to bear up, and not betray his friends, giving him a quarter. He did not visit Hazlitt, as he has always per sisted in denying any knowledge of him. On his way to the scaffold a Mr. Sadler, an un dertaker, who was in the waggon with him, re marked—" Captain Brown, you are a game man." He answered, " Yes, I was so trained up. It was one of the lessons of my mother; but it is hard to part from friends, though newly made. This is a 'beautiful country; I never had the pleasure of see ing it before." On reaching the field where the gallows was erected, the prisoner said, " Why are none but mi litary allowed in the enclosure ? .1 am sorry citizens have been put out." On reaching the gallows he observed Mr. Hunter and Mayor Green standing near, to whom he said," Gentlemen, good bye," his voice not faltering. While on the scaffold Sheriff Campbell asked him if he would take d handkerchief to drop as a signal when he was ready. He replied, " No, Ido not want it, but do not detain me any longer than is absolutely necessary." ShOrtly after the execution, and while the body was being taken to the depot, great excitement was raised by the arrival of a horseman announcing that Wheatland, the late residence of George W. Tur ner, who was shot at Harper's Ferry, was on fire, and that the fire was extending to the farm and buildings of Mr. W. F. Turner. The, latter, who was in town, said that he had left home at 10 o'clock in the morning, and that se veral of his horses had died very suddenly, and also some of his sheep. He intended to have their sto machs analysed, as he believed them to hate been poisoned. The stock of Mr. Castleman and Mr. Myers, in the same neighbourhood, had also 'died very mysteriously. The excitement caused by this was very great. Colonel Davis had the Faquier cavalry in readiness to go out, and inquire into the truth of the report about the fire. The body of Brown arrived by the special train, and will be taken on by Mrs. Brown and friends direct to Albany. It is desired to avoid all public demonstration, and it is determined that the body shall not be visible anywhere on the route to North 'Elba, where it will be deposited in the family burying ground. Mrs. Brown speaks in the highest terms of the great kindness shown her by the citizens and authorities of the State. She is, of course, in great distress. She has most favourably impressed all who have met her as a woman of fine feeling and of great affection for her husband. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. CHARLESTOWN, DEC. 2. The interview between Brown and his wife yes terday lasted from four o'clock in the afternoon until eight o'clock in the evening, when General Taliaferro informed her that the period allowed her had elapsed and that she must prepare for departure to the Ferry. A carriage was again brought to the door, the military took possession of the square, and, with an escort of 20 mounted men, the cortege moved off, Captain Moore, of the Montgomery Guards, accompanying her. The interview was, I learn, not a very affecting one, rather of a practical character, with regard to the future of herself and children, and the arrange ment and settlement of business affairs. They seemed considerably affected when they first met, and Mrs. Brown was for a few moments quite overcome, but Brown was as firm as a rock, and she soon recovered her composure. There w'as an impression that the pr;sone- might possibly be furnished with a weapon .w or strychnine by his wife, and b e f ore the interview her person was searched by th e w if e o f the gaoler.e A strict watch was kept over them durin g time they were together. At the time ando the separation a T the t they both seemed fully self-possessed, Lig, especially r , ,n his part, emhibited cornymPsure, eitlier feigned or real, that vas surprisln learn from Captain Moore that she rather re pelled all attempts on his part to express sympathy with her under her afflictions. She resented the idea that Captain Brown had done anything to • deserve death or to attaint his name with dishonour, and declared that the ignominious character of the punishment that was about tobe inflicted upon him was as cruel as it was unjust. -She regarded him as a martyr in a righteous cause, and was proud to be the wife of such a man. The gallows, she said, had no terrors for her or him. She stated that she had not seen him since last Tune, about six months ago, and that they had been separated, with the exception of a few days, for nearlytwo years. They had, however, corresponded , and she had always felt a deep interest in the cause in which he was engaged. The character of the interview may be judged to some extent froni his conversation with Captain 'Moore, which took place previous to it. I learn , from Captain Avis, the gaoler, that the interview between the prisoner and his wife was characteristic of the man, and the directions given for the management and distribution of his propertv embraced all the minor details of his last will and testament. General Taliaferro was also present, and Captain Brown urged that his wife might be allowed to re main with him all nigt. To this the G ene ral re fused assent, allowin h g them but four hours. On first meeting they kissed and affectionately embraced, and Mrs. Brown shed a few tears, but immediately checked her feelings. They stood, em braced, and she sobbing, for nearly five minutes, and he was apparently unable to speak. The pri soner only gave way for a moment, and was soon calm and collected, and remained firm throughout the interview. At the close they shook hands, but did not embrace, and as they parted he said, " God bless you and the children.' Mrs. Brown replied, " God have mercy on you," and continued calm until she left the room, when she remained in tears a few moments, and then prepared to depart. The interview took place in the parlour of Capt. Avis, and the prisoner was free from manacles of any kind. They sat side by side on a sofa, and after discussing family matters proceeded to busi ness. He stated that he desired his property to pass entirely into her possession, and appeared to place full confidence in her ability to manage it properly for the benefit of his younger children. He requested her to remain at North Elba, New York, on her farm, where she now resides, and which belongs to her. He desired that his younger children should be educated, . and, if she could not obtain.facilities for their education at home to have them sent to a bearding school. He then gave directions, and dictated to She riff Campbell a will, which directed that all his property should go to his wife, with the' exception of a few presents and bequests which he made. To one of his sons he gave a double spy-glass, and to another a watch, while a third was directed to take a tombstone or monument that marks.the grave of his father at North Elba, and have his name, age, and the manner of his death, together with the cause for which he had suffered, cut upon it. He dire - as that it shall remain at North Elba as long as his family resides there. TO each of his children he bequeathed the sum of 50 dols., and to each of his daughters a Bible, to cost s.doLs., to be pur chased- out of +he money coming to him .from•his father's estate. He, also directed that a Bible, to cost' 3'dols:, shall be presented to each of his grand children, and that 50 dols. each be' paid to three persons whom he named, if they can be found, and if not, to their legal representatives. During the conversation Mrs. Brown asked him if he had . heard that Gerrit Smith-had become ins - and, and had been sent to the asylum at Utica. He replied that he had read it in the'paileis, and was sorry to hear it, but immediately changed the subject. The subject of the death of his two. sons was spoken of, and Mrs. Brown remarked that she had made some effort while at Harper's Ferry for the recovery of their bodies, to which object she said Col.. Barbour had kindly consented to give his assistance. Captain Brown remarked that he would also like the remains of the two Thompsons re moved if they could be found, but suggested that it would be best to take his body, with the bodies of his four sons, 'Mid get 'a pile . Of pine logs, and burn them altogether ; that it would be much better, and less expensive, to thus gather up all their ashes together, and take them to their final resting place. Sheriff Campbell told him that this-would. not be permitted within the State, and Mrs. Brown objected to the proposition altogether. The prisoner said that he contemplated his death with composure and calmness. It would undoubtedly be pleasant to live .longer; but, as it was the will of God he should close his 'career, he was content. It was doubtless best that he should be legally murdered fer the good of the cause, and he was• prepared to submit to his fate .without a murmur. Mrs. Brown becoming depressed at these remarks, he bid her cheer up, telling her that his spirit would soon be with her again, and that they would be reunited in Heaven. With regard to his execution,. he said that he desired no religious ceremonies, - either in the gaol or on the scaffold, from ministers who consent to approve of the enslavement of their fellow-creatures —that he would prefer rather to be accompanied to the scaffold by a dozen slave children and a good - old slave mother, with their appeal to God for blessings on his soul, than all the eloquence of the clergy of the commonwealth combined. During the past week several letters, contain ing checks and draughts, had been forwarded to him by his friends in different sections of the country. These he endorsed and made payable to his wife, Mary A. Brown (one of them was for 100 dols. and one for 50 dols.), and handed them to her. During the day the bells were tolled in many places in New England,. as well as in the other States. Immediately after prayers in each branch of the Legislature, a motion was made to adjourn, out of respect for Brown and the cause for which he suffered. A debate ensued in both branches upon the motions, both of which were rejected. ASSIZE I.NTELLIGEN;,E.' NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Youtc, Dec. 15. (Before. Mr. Justice Wightman.) Charles Nonnington, aged 18, was indicted for the wilful murder of Richard Broughton, at the borough of Leeds, on the 6 th of August last. Mr. Blanshard, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. Austin appeared for the , prosecution ; and Mr. Campbell Footer and Mr. Bruce" defended the prisoner. Mr. Blanshard, in opening the case for- the Crown, stated that' on 'Saturday, the 6th of August, Mr. Richard B t'onghton, - who lived near Roundhay, left his home about 20 minutes before five o'clock in'the afternoon to go to' Leeds. He went along a footpath through. several fields. He wore a watch with a key attached. by a riband. He returned home about 6 o'cl .ak very badly wounded. and with his clothes dirty. He was washed and tended by his wife, and Mr. •Hey, the surgeon, was called in and attended him professionally. The alext day Mr. Broughton died. A post mortem examination was made by Mr. Hey, and injuries were found which had, no doubt, caused his death. It appeared that he had been attacked on the road, on. a footpath leading from Roundhay to Leeds, at a place which he subsequently pointed out. He was knocked down, stunned, and robbed of his watch and riband, and received the very severe injuries of which he died. His blood was. sprinkled on the hedge, and was found on the road in a pool. Portion s of his hair were afterwards found lying about, and a few yards off a bludgeon was picked up, bloody, and with hair adhering to it. On recovering the poor man walked for some distance on his way to Leeds, but, finding how seriously he was hurt, he returned home to die. The prisoner was in Marsh-lane, at Leeds, at about eight o'clock on the morning of the 6th. Ho was then in company with another person. He left a shirt at Mrs. Whiteley's, and his companion left a bundle. The other man has not been identified, , but he came back for his bundle the same morning. Normanton returned for his shirt about six o'clock in the evening. He washed, put on his clean shirt over his dirty one, and went away. In the mean time he had been seen near the spot where the murder took place by several witnesses: . But the identification principally relied on was of another character. When Mr. Broughton returned home his watch was gone. After the prisoner returned to Leeds he. went to a person named Topham, a pawnbroker, and 'offered him a watch with a key attached by a riband, corresponding in description to Mr. Broughton':. He did not, hoWever, sell it there: Shortly afterwards some one who could not be sworn to pawned Mr. Broughton's watch at another pawnbroker's,. close by. That night the prisoner was shown to be possessed of a pawn ticket for a watch. Subsequently he found his way to Whitworth, near Castleford. At this place marks of blood were found upon him. And shortly after that time ho sold a pawnticket for Broughton's watch to Smales, a collier, from whom it was traced back, which led to the apprehension of the prisoner. • Mr. Sharper, of Leeds, proved the accuracy of the Various plans produced to assist the Court and jury to understand the frequent references to the locus in quo. Mr. English, chief constable of Leeds, produced a stout sick, a paWn ticket, and a watchamlkey, &c. Mr. C. l'ob,er requested this witness to produce the various bills that had been at times published, offering rewards for the apprehension of the pri- sone; and they were prodneed accordingly. • Mrs. Mary Broughton, widow of deceased, exa n mined—My hr.shand left our houSe at Roundhay-fur! Leeds, Which ij three miles off, at. 20 minutes to 5.' kle•had his wa t c h. Ti e wore it i n hi s t rouser s watch pbiodeek,eat n , d fastenedwith rot Turiiiimnnde cby n and a key o visible t therou riband. This is my h us b an d' s watch. i hour. Ile Was co vere d with blo e od ca . ifarinoem back h'ls head, ea and and his clothes we r e di r ty, as if he I been the ground. 'His watch w as gone , but he. had his broker., money. ; The long riband round his n ec k had been and part of it was left, Mr. Hey. came anhou ro r icen ' and a half afterwards, and my husband died between 1 and 2 o'clock the next day, Sunday. Cross-examined by Mr. Foster—My husband was, a healthy, active; strong man for his age. Mr. Hey, surgeon, of Roundhay, near Leeds, exa mined-1 found deceased nearly insensible, inca pable of giving rational answers. He had four or five wounds on the head, and had lost much blood. I saw him again next morning, and on Monday night I made a pest mortem examination. The skull TTIV7 SUN, ONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1859. was extensively fractured. Such a stick as the one produced might have prodoced the injuries: They could not have been caused by a fall. Any one of them mighthavebeen so caused, but not all of them. Death had been caused by those fractures. Thomas Kitchen, a boy, 14 years of age, exa mined—l was on the footpath from Leeds to Round hay on Saturday, between 5 and 6 o'clock. I passed through the "ginnel." I saw two men. I went on the path towards Roundhay. I saw an old man further on, near a stile. He was getting up from the ground. This was three fields from the ginnel, in the ox pasture. He was covered with blood from his head. He went towards Leeds. I and the boys with me accompanied him. He turned back when he got as far as Lupton 's-park, and we turned back with him. John Holder came up: On our way back we noticed blood on the ground and on the hedge where the old man had got up. We afterwards met - Wm. Barber. He. spoke to the old man who was with us. Cross-examined—lt was a fine warm afternoon-5 o'clock in August. There is a arti cricket field that near there. It is much frequented, pcularl yat time in the afternoon. We were going to bathe. Alfred Bell, examined—l joined the last witness in Lupton's-park. I saw an old man in the middle of the field, standing still and bleeding. I went with him towards Roundhay. I saw a man in a blue smock leaning over some rails about 50 yards off. I shouted to him. He turned round and ran away towards Mr. Smith's farm. Cross-examined — lt was a blue striped smock. The man could see Mr. Broughton, and when I called to him to come to me he ran away. He was a stoutish built man, with whiskers ; he appeared to be a young man. He had dark trousers. Rssexamined—He was at a junction of paths, at a frequented place. John Holder, milkman, examined—l met Barber at Lupton's-park at half-past five. I met the boys and Broughton, and helped him over the style. He showed me 2s, William Edward Barber, farmer at Roundhay, examined—l knew Broughton. About 20 minutes past five I met Broughton, Holder, and the boys. Thomas D'afton, examined—l hall be 14 next Houghton "feast." On one Saturday in August I heard of a murder. I went that morning at six o'clock to work at the colliery. I stayed till a quarter to seven. Charles Normington and another man came to the cabin at the colliery that day; they came together ; I left them there. The other man went away to where they had left their stuff, and then came back. I noticed that the prisoner had a stick. He said it would fell a chap on the way. I had the stick in my hand two or three times. I should know it v ° nin. This is it (the stick produced by English). He had it when he left the cabin. Cross-examined—The other man had a stuff coat- I knew the stick when I saw it at the Town-hall. I was quite sure of it then. I was almost sure then. I have now become quite sure of it. , I don't know what a hedgestake is. • Normington's stick was like a piece of wood in a hedge. William Joseph Topham, son of a pawnbroker at Leeds, - and assistant in the shop, swore that Nor mington came to his father's about 6 o'clock and asked for 10s. on a German silver watch. 'there was a black riband and a key attached to it. It was such a watch as that. Charles Richard Ashland, assistant to Mr. Barras, pawnbroker, proved having taken Broughton's watch in pledge for 4s. on the night of the 6th. The man who pledged the watch took away the ticket produced by English. Smales came to redeem the watch, and produced the ticket produced at the trial by English. James Barras confirmed his assistant's evidence, and identified the watch and ticket, and also the cheque-ticket or duplicate. When Smales pro d-aced the ticket which had been given to the man who , pledged the watch, this witness gave Smales into custody, and delivered the watch and duplicate'to the chief constable of Leeds. William Hoyland proved that on the 6th August the prisoner, in company with another man, offered him a pawn ticket for sale. On cross-examination it was proved that his companion had on a blue striped 811 - leek, trousers of fustian, light coloured and apparently newly washed. George Watkinson saw the prisoner with a pawn ticket. He said it was fora watch he hadpledged. Frank Magee, who was with the last witness when the prisoner showed him the ticket, confirmed his evidence; but on the duplicate being shown to him he declared his belief that . that was not the ticket which was that night in the possession of the prisoner. John Fawcett, a collier at Whitwood, proved that he saw, the prieoner on " t'Monday after Vrainy Sunday." The prisoner offered. a pawnticket for sale. He afterwards engaged in the service of the witness, who subsequently apprehended the pri soner in Sheffield. Cross-examined—He had clogs on with wooden soles, which laced up above the ankle. Bis own stockings were up on the fender to dry, and I lent him some of mine. Betsy Fawcett, wife of last witness, said-7-Nor mington came to Dixon's, with whom I lived, on Monday, the Bth, and from that time he lived there. He said he had been to pledge a watch at Topham's, or he had pledged it—l am not sure which. It was done on the Saturday for 4s. He left on Thursday morning, and before he went he said he had sold it to James Smales. On Tuesday, the night he came, he washed an old ,faded handkerchief. It was marked with red in more places than one. He said his nose had been bleeding, and it required washing. Cross-examined—This is the first time I have mentioned about his nose bleeding. It has come into my head since I was before the magistrates. Jane Dixon ' of Whitwood, with whom the two last witnesses lodged, swore to the blood stains on the handkerchief, and to similar stains on his shirt, which she boiled with soda and soap and water. There were stains of blood on the stockings between the clogs' top and trousers'" bottom. It was along the wrinkles of the stockings. • ' Cross-examined by Mr. Foster—The stains on the handkerchief were of a dark 'COlciiir, with casts of red. This is the first time I have ever said it was stained with blood. The shirt was hung openly in the room where the two Fawcetts slept. It was en a nail in the kitchen. • Eight people had access to that room. The spots on the shirt were reddish. This is the first time I have ever said they were spots of blood. I found his stockings in his clogs, and I put them back there. *I don't know whether the blood on his_ stockings came from the foot inside or not. James `Norseman saw the prisoner while living at Dixon's on the 9th of August. The prisoner showed him a pawn, ticket, and told him it was for a watch which had been " popped" on the Gth of August. James Smales proved that he saw the prisoner at Whitwood on the 9th of August. The pri soner sold him a pawntickot for a watch, which he said had cost 265. The witness afterwards took the same ticket to Barras, pawnbroker, at Leeds, and then was taken into custody. • Patrick Byrne proved the finding of the stick marked with blood and hair not far from the scene of the outraee• Robert Heaton, a watchmaker, identified the watch produced as being Mr. Broughton's. Stephen English, chief constable at Leeds, exa mined the ground , and saw the deceased before his death. He afterwards arrested the prisoner at 6heffielcl, who said at that time that he had not been at Leeds for four, months. The prisoner's statement, which has already ap peared in The Sun, was here read. Mr. Campbell Foster then addressed the jury for the prisoner. The learned Judge, in summing up, directed the jury that if they were of opinion that two persons were present at the attack on the deceased—and two persons had been spoken te—if both were con cerned in that attack, and the evidence led them tp that conclusion, then it was immaterial which was the hand that did . it, and both were equally , guilty. His lordship then with great care summed up the evidence. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of nearly half-an-hour returned with a verdict of Guilty. The Clerk of Arraigns called on the prisoner for judgment. The Crier of the Court made the usual formal proclamation for silence during sentence of death: The Judge arranged the black cap over his wig, and as he did so a loud hysterical scream was heard from the gallery. His lordship, then, with great solemnity, said—Charles Normington, the jury have found you guilty of a cruel murder, and a murder perpetrated for the 'basest of all possible motives, the mere lustof gain. The law of God and the law of man eqnally.require that your life should be the forfeit of your crime. It is an awful thing to think that one so young as you should have been so guilty s cr should now be called on to suffer such a penalty; but if your untimely fate should warn others from courses which may end in the same misery, one good result will at any rate follow from your suffering. It is not my duty, still less is it my inclination, to aggravate by any words of mine the misery and humiliation which you must now feel, especially as I fecl that I can hold out no hopes of ivicrey to you after the perpetration of a crime so dreadful. Let me, therefore, earnestly entreate gter natoce and n y s de o you secure to t earnesth o a s m t e y rp o c u rya r hr in h o ae u n : vd h e t bey ns sincere o whichnd riesp t ea h ne nied you on earth. His lordship then pronounced the extreme sentence of the l aw in th e usual form, amid te (It to o e repeatedbethe mother ot cries h e: f h r oa o fti m t the thilee a e galleryprisoner, is stated to of The prisoner is about 5 feet 3 or 4 inches a w woman t, and he looks younger a be in the calendar. He has no signs of heard, moustache, or whiskers ; he has light hair, with a tendency to curl behind, a full and almost womanly countenance. During the trial he remained very quiet, his hands were folded before him on the dock, and his chin rested almost immoveably on the upper rail in front of him. The- evidence seemed •to have no effect upon him, and yet his conduct did not seam to be caused by obstinacy or stupidity. There is certainly nothing about his appearance or behaviour to suggest the idea that he would be at all likely to commit any offence, much less of a crime of so deep a dye. Once only during the appeal to the jury by the learned counsel did he manifest any symptom of, emotion, but he very soon recovered himself, and paid the same quiet and apparently half-in - ,erested kind of attention which he had shown diming the whole proceedings. He broke awn at last, however, when the judge was pronouncing the sentence of death, and was led off weeping bitterl•. This case concluded the business of the assizes.. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOCESTER, DEC. 16. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) Ann Fowler, 33, silk weaver, was charged with the manslaughter of her child, Mary Ann Fowler, on the 30th of January, 1854, at Thornbury. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was a married woman, who, in the beginning of the year 1854, was living with her husband in a cottage at the Cross Ways, is the parish of Thornbury. She was now charged with causing the death of her little girl, wbo was about two Years of age, by omitting to give it necessary food, in consequence of which the child died on the 30th of January, 1854, in the workhorse of the Thornbury Union. The prisoner' and her husband absconded immedi ately on the death or the child, and she was not taken into custody until Monday last, when she was apprehended near Newport, in the county of Monmouth. The evidence now given showed that the prisoner's husband was an able-bodied man, but it did not appear whether he was in work, or that he had supplied the prisoner with necessaries for the use of herself and child. From the evidence of a next door neighbour, a Mrs. Thorne,' it appeared that in the early par; of January, 1854, she saw I the child, who was about two years old, in a very poorly and weak stave. The prisoner nursed the child, and continued doing so until its death, but it continued wasting away. Mrs. Thorne, finding that the prisoner had no broth to give the child, on one occasion gave her a pound of " lazarus," which was explained to mean a bit of pork bone, but the prisoner neglected to make any broth, and excused herself by saying she had no sauce pan. krs. Thorne also from time to time gave the child milk and arrowroot,of which it would take a little. A Mrs. Ball also gave the prisoner some milk, but she said the child would nqt take it. The prisoner and her husband used to quarrel, and on one occasion the child was seen with a black eye, and some of the skin scarred off the head, but this was caused by the husband. The prisoner, however, used to leave the childalone in the cottage for several hours, and on those occasions it was sometimes left in bed, or tied on a chair b?.fore the fire. At length, on the 21st of January, the relieving officer of the union and the medical officer went to the cottage, and finding the child in a wretched state, lying on some rags placed for a bed upon two chairs, the child and mother were taken to the union. The child was there nursed twice in the day by another pauper, and also twice at night, but though it seemed to improve for a short time, it died in a few days. On a post mortent examination it appeared that the various vital organs were small, and nearly empty and colourless, and as there was no appear ance of disease, the medical men attributed the death to want ("food. The child after death weighed only between 91b. and 1011%, instead of from 201 b. to 251 b, the ordinary weight of a healthy child of the sane age. Mr. Baron Channell summed up the evidence, and told the jury that if they believed the child died of starvation they must then consider whether the prisoner had the means of providing it with the necessary food. If she had the means, and the child died from her neglect, she would be guilty ; but if she had not the means she ought to be acquitted. Thejury found the prisoner not guilty. James Frebroy, 27, labourer, was charged with cutting and wounding Emma Mabbett, with intent to murder her, and in smother count with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, on the 29th October, 1856, at Almondsbury. Mr. Cripps appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner was undefended. _ It appeared that the prisoner had lived for about 18 months in the houseof a Mrs. Mabbett, a widow living at Almondsbury. In the same house the prosecutrix, Emma Mabbett, also lived, she being the widow of Mrs. Mabeett's son,- William Mab bett, who had died several years ago. It would seem that the prisoner hid formed an improper con nection with her, but at Michaelmas last the mother obliged him to leave the house. The pri-- Sdner became jealous in cmsequence of the prose-. cutrix having formed an acquaintance with a man named Mitchell, and threatened that her court ship should not last a fortnight. On the 29th of October last he went to her house, in the absence of her mother, and rushed in by forcing off the bolt of the door. He immediately took hold of the pro secutrix, and asked her to go upstairs. She asked, " What for ?" and 'he then took off his boots and forced her upstairs into her room. He pulled her about for a,ininute or two,und then said, " Turn round, there is a flea on your neck." She then saw that he had a razer in his hand, and struggled with him to save herself ; hilt received several cuts on her neck and face. Tie-prisoner then left her, and the prosecutrix crawled, to the window and gave an alarm, which brought some persons to her assistance, and she was taken to the infirmary. The surgeon stated that he fourd four severe cuts on her throat, near the windpipe, and one on the forehead. The wounds were of a dangerous character, but not so dangerous as those found on the prisoner, who was discovered in an upper room at the house of the pro secutrix with his throat cut and apparently in a dying state. He Elso was taken to the infirmary at Bristol, and had recovered, but still appeared in a languid state. 'When before the magistrates the prisoner made a statement to the effect that he had lived with the prisecutrix for several years till about two months previously, when she picked up another man, " which," the prisoner said, " drove me beyond myself." Mr. Baron Channell summed up the evidence..to the jury, and left it to them to say with which of the iutents charged in the indictment the prisoner inflicted the wounds. The jury found the prisoner " Guilty ". of wound- ' ing with intent to murder. . Mr. Baron Channell ordered sentence of death to be recorded, at the same time intimating that the sentence would not be carried into execution, but it would remain with her Majesty's advisers to decide as to the prisoner's fate. Peter Burston, 41; labourer, was charged with the manslaughter of Jane Jones, on the 13th of September, 1859, at Bristol. It appeared that on the evening of the 23d of July last the prisoner went to a public-house at Bristol named_ the Black Horse, where his wife was drinking, and had become intoxicated. The prisoner wanted his wife to go home, but the de ceased interposed to prevent it, and said she would show him how she would serve him if he was her husband. The deceased was ironing at the time, and held up the iron to his face, which so irritated the prisoner that he snatched up an iron from before the fire, and with it struck her a blow, on the left side. Another witness rather varied the story by saying that the prisoner was pulling Mrs. Jones's things about, and that she told him to leave off, end held up the fiat-iron towards the prisoner's face, but without touchin g him, and that he then took up the iron and struck her. The woman when struck,, cried out, " Oh! Peter, you've killed me," and fell down on a chair. The blow caused a bruise on the side, and the deceased was afterwards taken to the infirmary, where she remained some time. She was then brought home, and appeared to be getting better ; but in a few days she lost her speech and died. The evidence of the surgeon showed that when the deceased was first taken to the infirmary she had no bruise on her side, but she was suffering from pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs. At the end of August she left the in firmary, at her own request, but against the wishes of the surgeons, who thought it not safe. On a post-mortem examination the Bth and 9th ribs .were found to be broken, and at the fracture there was a small abscess. There was also a large deposit of pus on the surface of the brain and at its base, which the surgeon thought had been absorbed from the abscess at the fracture. The prisoner, in his defence, said the deceased struck him with the iron. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. • Mr. Baron Channell said that, independently of disposedthercc recommendation epnldssata lenientioriof t the e sentence,ju ry, heshould eh e have prisoner had received considerable provocatio n, a n d neNe intended to do any serious injury. then sentenced him to one week's imprisonment. t felt l . His Lordship • COLLISION IN HARWICH HARBOUR. —On Wed nesday a collision took place in Harwich harbour between the schooner Rover of Goole, and the smack Dili rom the gence of Harwich, the latter sinking in a few minutes f effects of the injuries she ha I sustained. A man named Bowen, one of the smack's crew, was drowned. • [AnvEnTisnmr.] --WT. Benson , Ludgate-hill, has just yr publfshed a new illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by post for two stamps). It should be read by all who are about buying a watch, as it contains prices andbuyi information as to—What watch to buy it ! and how to we it • - • • POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 16. MANSION-HOUSE—Edwin Boucher, described as a clerk, of 35, Brewer-street, Pimlico, wa s brought up on remand, charged with stealing two casks of carpenters' tools, value £5l, belonoing . tO Messrs. Heiniaarsh and Co., - merchants, 17, Law rence There had teen two previous exam:nations, in which it was deposed that the prisoner went to the pre! vises of the prosecutor during his absence, pre tending to have an appointment with him, and that ; immediately afterwards it was discovered that the two casks of tools had been removed. Subse que qtly it was-ascertained that tho goods bad been paw lied by the prisoner for £22, in the name of Hai n.mond, and the prosecutor, meeting him in Che apside, gave hitn into custody. The pawnbroker now produced a sample of the tools pledged with him, and also handed in a notice whicl had been served upon him by the solicitors of Mess: es. Sorby and Son, of Sheffield, manufacturers, that the goods were their. property, and requiring him :to deliver thorn. only to them or their order. Mr. Atkinson, the prosecutor, was examined and said.— -I bought the goods of Messrs. Sorby on credit for six months, according to the invoice produced, or 21 discount for cash. After the delivery of the gooc's they wrote me, and in consequence of that I sent them a bill for £5O at four months. In the letter enclosing the bill I told them that the goods had been stolen, and that one of the thieves was in, custody. ThQ bill was au accommodation bill. It was d rawn by a Mr. De Witt. of 14, Roll's-build ings,lFetter-lane, and was payable at Messrs. Sharpe and aiding's, bankers, Clement's-lane. The prisoner was present when Mr. De Witt gave me his accep tance. He had introduced me to Mr. De Witt, whom I had. seen only once before the time when he gave me his acceptance. The prisoner never had any business transactions with me, and I only knew him through meeting him at a luncheon house. I paid him no commission for getting me Mr. de Witt's ac ceptance, and he had no interest at all in the £5O bill. I bought the stamp myself. I gave Mr. De Witt no consideration for the acceptance. I had no intention of using it at the time, and should not have used it at all if Messrs. Sorby had not written to me as they did, I suppose - because some one had sent them a letter saying there was something wrong in the affair. I had the acceptance in my pocket three weeks before I used it. I had it, I believe, be- fore the, goods were delivered. Mr. De Witt gave me the bill in blank. I filled it up for £5O, because the stamp carried that amount. The bill is dated 6th December, and the goods were stolen on the 17th November. As I have said, the prisoner introduced me to Mr. De Witt. The Lord Mayor—Who is Mr. De Witt ? Prosecutor—He is a man who gets hiv living by accepting bills. I believe the bankers allow him to make use of their banks for that purpose. The Lord Mayor—Do you mean to say that Messrs. Sharpe and Olding allow any man to use their names in this way ? Mr. Goodman, chief clerk—Oh, it is quite impos sible. Prosecutor—However that may be, I know a gentleman who had one of his acceptances, and who went to th e bank on purpose to inquire about it. The LoiZd Mayor—Then is he a man of such copious means that he gives his acceptance in blank to gen tlemen he has seen only once before, and allows them to fill up at discretion ? Prosecutor—lt was so in my case. The Lord Mayor—And you gave him no conside ration—paid him nothing ? • Prosecutor—Nothing at all. The Lord Mayor—Well, really, it was very gene rous of him. Mr. Hope (the prisoner's solicitor)—Your name is Atkinson, you say, and your firm is that of Hein marsh and Co ? Prosecutor—Yes. Mr. Hope—Well, who is the Co. ? Prosecutor—Why, you see me here. Mr. Hope—Then you are Heinmarsh and the " Co." too Prosecutor—Yes, I am both. Mr. Hope—Then there is no Mr. Heinmarsh ? Prosecutor—Yes there is, but he is in Germany. Mr. Hope—How long is it since you saw him ? Prosecutor—About four months. Some witnesses were then called, who proved that a man named Gleed had been connected with the prisoner in removing and pawing the goods ;' and Mr. Hope contended that there was no ground at all for. detaining the prisoner longer in custody, after the prosecutor's admissions about the bill. An officer handed in a certificate of the prisoner's previons conviction and imprisonment for 12 months, for obtaining money by false pretences. The Lord Mayor said it was his impression that there had been collusion to obtain the goods among the three, the prisoner, Gleed, and the prosecutor, and that upon such eyidence no jury would convict, but as it was possible that something more might be proved, he should r gain remand the prisoner. Remanded accordingly. BOW-STREET.—Anne Smith, a woman of the town, was charged with robbing Mr. Edmund Wal lack of gold, in a house of ill-fame in George street, St.Giles's. Mr. Wallack, who described himself as a " ren tier," and fornierly a dramatic artist, staying tem porarily at an hotel in London, but permanently residing in Paris, deposed that at about 7 o'clock that morning he went to a brothel with the prisoner, whom he had met at a public-house. They remained there in bed for several hours. At 1 o'clock he counted his money in her presence. He had then 18 sovereigns, two half-sovereigns, and some silver. At half-past 2, having been asleep in the interval, he missed his money, and also a pair of red flannel drawers. The landlady and her daughter being called in, searched the room, and also searched the prisoner, on whom - they found his cigar-case and uotc-book, but no money. Mary Toole, the landlady's daughter, proved that the prisoner could not have left the room as the door was locked on the outside, and the key was in possession of the servant. There was.a folding door communicating with another room, but that door was also locked, and the key was down stairs. - The prosecutor observed that the prisoner, deny ing all knowledge of the money, said that she had taken the case and note-book to pay herself, as his money wits gone. It had been suggested that she might have swallowed the money. Mr. Hall said that was absurd. Could she have swallowed the drawers ? (A laugh.) It was im possible that she could have committed the robbery by herself. More probably some person had entered the room while she and the prosecutor were both fast asleep. However, he would send the case be fore a jury if Mr. Wallack wishe4l. it. Mr. Wallack thought it was - too much open to doubt. The prisoner was discharged. SOUTHWARK.—GROSS OUTRAGE ON A YOUNG WOMAN BY A CABMAN IN HIS CAL—John Pettitt, cab-driver, badge No. 13,737, 'of 5, South-mews, Manchester-square, and Charles William Taylor, coachman, of 18, Guildford-street, Berkeley•square, were brought before Mr. Combo, for final examina tion. charged, the former with criminally assaulting Louisa Davies in his cab, and the latter with aiding and abetting him in the commission of the offence. The - prisoners were first brought before Mr. Combo on Saturday, the 3d instant, but being un able to attend through the injuries the prosecutrix had received from Pettitts violence, they were remanded. Yesterday, however, she was able to attend, when - , Mr. Sheen, the solicitor and secretary of the Associate Institute for the Protection of Young Women, was present to prosecute ; and Mr. Her ring defended the prisoners. It appeared from the evidence of Broderick, 43 M, that about a quarter past three on the morning of Saturday, the 3d inst., he was on duty in Amelia street, Bermondsey, when he saw a cab drive past him, and the prisoner, Taylor, who was on the box, asked him if that was Amelia-street. Witness told him that it was, when the other man put his head out of the window and called to drive further. They then left the- street and - turned down Maze-pond. A few minutes afterwards he saw them drive into Thomas•street, from which there was no outlet, when the cab stopped and Pettitt got out. Witness went up to him and then he began looking on the ground. He asked him what he was looking for, when he replied, " Per a shilling I have dropped." Witness opened his lamp and examined the ground all abbot, but no shilling could be found, and he told him so. Pettitt then jumped into the cab again, and they drove off towards Guy's Hospital. Witness, s uspecting that something was wrong, followed the vehicle seine distance off his beat, and then he perceived the head of a female pro truding from one of the - windows. He 'imme diately ran up to the cab and looked at Taylor and told him he had no badge on, and asked him where it was. Ile made no observation, but pointed inside, when he saw Pettitt and the prosecutrix, the latter lying down insensible. He also perceived that Pettitt had a •badge on. He ordered the latter out, and then he saw that the fe male's dress was much disordered. He 'questioned Pettitt about her, when he told witness that she had attempted to drown herself, and he was taking her home to Amelia-street, Bermondsey. Witness told him that could not be true, as he had seen him a few minuted before in that street, and that he had followed the cab. Witness then took th em all to the station-house, and as soon as the female re covered she made the following Statement : —She said that she lived in the se rv i ce o f an Indian gen tleman at Hammersmith, and had the previous evening been a visit to her tnother's, in Amelia 3 street,`Bermondsey, which place she left at half-_ past ten to proceed home; that she went to Lon don-hridge, and finding the Hammersmith omnibus gone, got into a Paddington 1) ne, thinking of find ing the former at the Bank, but when she got there and alighted, the last Hammersmith omnibus had left, and that seeing the prisoner Pettitt there with his cab, she hailed him, and told him to drive to Hammersmith, as she was anxious to get home. She got inside the vehicle, and Pettitt drove her some distance and stopped,:when he got inside and engaged another man to drive them. They drove about in all directions, and Pettitt indecently as saulted her until she became insensibleAThe pro secutrix was perfectly sober at the time, and ap peared in great distress. Witness took her home to her mother's, where she has since remained, and the prisoners were locked up. Mr. Herring said that he had no wish to put any question to witness, as he had no doubt related the story told by the prosecutrix in her confusion, but he should be able to show that nearly the whole of it.was false. The prosecutrix was no stranger to men, and on the very night in question she ac comppnied a gentleman down Chancery-lane long beforb she got into the prisoner Pettitt's cab. He understood that her mother saw her into one of the Citizen omnibuses on Friday night, a little after ten o'clock, and told the conductor to put her 'down at the Bank, as she wanted to go to Hammersmith, recommending her to return to Amelia-street . if the Hammersmith omnibus was gone. What did the prosecutrix do ? Not act like a virtuous girl, as he should show. The omnibus she went in went to Paddington, and when it got to the Bank the conductor told her so, and that she had better get out, according to her mother's directions. She would not get out, but went as far as Holborn, where she alighted with a gentleman and walked arm in arm with him down Chancery-lane. He (Mr. Herring) had the con ductor here to prove these facts, and other witnesses, which would show that very little reliance could be placed on the prosecutrix's statement. Mr. Combe—You can't deny the fact of her being in the prisoner Pettitt's cab and the other man driving them. Mr. Herring said he could not, but that was a considerable time after she had been walking about Holborn and Chancery-lane with gentlemen. When she got into Pettitt's cab she told him to drive to Amelia-street, Bermondsey, which he had considerable trouble in finding, and then he did not know the number. Mr.' Combo—What have you to say about his employing another man to drive and then getting inside an indecently assaulting her. Pettitt pleaded guilty to that on the first examination. Mr. Herring could not deny that,'but no injury had been done. He called The conductor of the Paddington omnibus, who proved that she got into the omnibus, and instead of getting out at the Bank, she alighted with a gentleman at Holborn. The girl also admitted that. A consultation then took place between Mr. Sheen and Mr. Herring, when the former informed his worship that since the last examination he had fully inquired- into the case , and ascertained that some of the facts related by Mr. Herring were true. No actual rape had been committed, and the medical gentleman who examined her was in attendance if his worship wished him to be called. Mr. Combe said that after what he had heard and carefully inquired into, there was no reason to call him. Mr. Herring observed that before his worship gave judgment he wished to say a few words in Pettitt's behalf. Hitherto he had borne an irre prcachable character, and he hoped that would be taken into consideration, He had no right to get inside the cab with that unfortunate female, but he says he did not assault her. Mr. Combc—.He pleaded guilty to indecently as saulting her. Mr. Herring said that Pettitt says that he was desired by a gentleman to take care of her, and to convey her either to Hammersmith or to her mother's. In her state he preferred the latter, and got into the cab with her. - Mr. Combe—You must not persuade me to that. I have inquired into the case and will, if you like, hear all the wit nesses ; b ut I don't think such a course very edifying to the public morals. Mr. Herring did not wish such a course to take place. He would leave the matter in his worship's hands. Mr. Shaen also thought that, under the circum stances, such would be the better course. Mr. Combe said that as far as Pettitt was con cerned, his was a very bad case, and had it been otherwise, on the part of the girl's conduct, he should most certainly have sent him for trial. His conduct as a cab driver was very bad. He had a young woman for a fare, and instead of driving her as he ought, he engages another man, called a " Buck," to drive, and ;hen he got inside and drove about with her, according to his own account, more than two hours. When brought before him in the first instance he pleaded guilty of indecently as saulting her. It was not desirable that any fur ther evidence should be gone into, as it would not improve the morals of the public. He, however, could not pass this case over as an ordinary assault, but would deal with it under the Aggravated As saults Act, by sentencing him to three' months' hard labour in the House of Correction. With re gard to the other prisoner Taylor, he is what they call a " Buck," and must have known what the other man got into the cab for with the female. 11 F Mr. Herring assured his worsnip that Taylor was not a " Buck,' but a respectable coachman. Unfor tunately he knew-the other, and they met, when he was asked to drive. Mr. Combe said that made him a " Buck" in every sense of cab phraseology. He had neither licence nor badge, and was liable to be summoned by the police for that. Under all the circumstances in his case he should order him to enter into his recog nisonces for his good behaviour for six months, and he hoped it would be a warning to him for the future. WOOLWICH.—WiIIiam Thompson, a seaman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill on a charge of refusing to serve on board the sloop Forest Fairy. after duly signing articles, and receiving an ad vance note. John Ould, captain of the vessel, stated on Sa turday last he went to the Sailors' Home, in Wells street, St. George's East, and agreed with the pri soner, who signed articles for the voyage to St. Michael's. On arriving at Erith the prisoner had some dispute with the mate, and he refused to per form his duty, or proceed with the ship. The voy age was c onsequen tly delayed, and witness was compelled to return to London, and obtain a substi tute for the prisoner. Traill—Will you ship the prisoner again if he consents to perform his duties ? The Captain—No ; as he endeavoured to persuade the other hands to be as obstinate as himself.. The prisoner now stated that he was afraid to proceed with the vessel, as the mate had threatened to take his life, but this statement was denied by other witnesses. Mr; Traill committed him for 21 days' imprison ment. GREEN WIC 11.--EXTRAORDINARY APPLICA TION TO A AIAGISTRATE.—Mr. Rogers, one of the officers for the parish of Shadwell, applied to Mr. Traill for assistance under the following circum stances : Mr. Rogers stated that three weeks ago a man named Welsh was taken suddenly ill at Rother hithe, and was removed to Shadwell, where he im mediately afterwards died. Having no relatives, a body of the deceased's fellow-workmen, excavators, sub,3cribed a sum of 30s. among themselves for his funeral, which sum was paid over to Mr. Albion, an undertaker residing at Neptune-street, Rother hithe, who was engaged to superintend the in terment. The coffin was supplied by Mr. Albion, and the register of the death ob tained by him, but after this he had refused to proceed and carry out his duties as undertaker. The remains of the deceased were then kept in a house inhabited by a large number of persons, for a fortnight, when it became so offensive that, for the health of the inmates, it was removed to the dead house of Shadwell Church, where it was then lying, awaiting interment. He (Mr. Rogers) had since called upon Mr. Albion repeatedly, either to bury the deceased, or allow the parish to do so, by deli vering the registrar's certificate of death, but had been put off from time to time, and as the death had taken place now three weeks, it was necessary the body should be removed from the deadhouse and immediately buried. Mr. Train, on referring to the act of Parliament, said the law only empowered a magistrate to inter fere in cases where the registrar refused to give the requisite certificate as to death. Here the registrar, it appeared, had given the certificate, but, under the circumstances, he (nr. Rogers) had better ap ply to the registrar to give a second certificate. Mr. Rogers said he had applied to the registrar, who had declined to give a second certificate. Mr. Traill remarked that it was an act of great obstinacy, both on the part of The undertaker and the registrar; and the applicant could inform the registrar that he was bound to give the parish the certificate. 7 '.• Mr. Rogers thanked his worship for the, advice gives, and left the court. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN .RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on the above line lent :night, about half-past nine, near the Wolverton station. It ,appears that a passenger train ran into a goods train, but whether any lives have been lost has not yet been ascer tained. COUIVT_RY MABIRTS. LIVERPOOL—DEc. 16. We had a moderate attendance of millers and dealers at market this morning, and a fair disposition to do business in wheat, which readily supp orted last Friday's pricesats a . Flour in limited demand, but unal tered in value. O slow sale, and oatmeal a fair sale. The amount of business transacted in Indian corn was greater, and fully supported previous rates. Barley, beans, and peas gave way to slight extent. The market closed steady. WAKEFIELD—DEc. 16. The show of wheat was fair, an d there being but few last arrivals, the quotations remain abou t the same as a market. The business done in barley was limited, but easier in price. Oats, shelling, and other articles were all at previous prices. Flour dull. Wheat, per qr. Of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk, and Kent, white, old, 48s to 51s ; new , 48s to 51s ; ditto,red, old, 42s to 445; new, 42s to 44s ; Lincoln shire and -York shire white, new, 45s to 50s; red, 41s to 445. Averages for the week: Wheat 3,072 qrs., at ........ 46s 3J Peas s d . .... ~ ........ Beans ... 32 s ). Barley.... 779 ~ ........ 38s Od, Oats. 2O „ ........ 258. 31 Rye — ~ ........ -- 15 a EXETER—DEC. 16. The business to-day was dull at the following Prices :""" 31 Wheat, white 5s 9d to 68 Od Barley.. ...... 40 Od to 4s Ditto red 5s 3d to 5s 6d Oats I Flour, fine, 32s to 338 ; seconds, 30$ to 31s per sack. , • CATTLE. Owing to Wednesday last being Chr istmas fair dap or Y . the attendance was small, and the market was po supplied with stock, with little business do in g . Pork car cases in tolerable supply. Fat beef, p score,los to llsOd Ewes, per lb •• • • 6d ta 04 Pork carcases,do Ss 6d to 9sod Wethers, d 0.... • • Sheep, per lb. Rough fat, 4id per lb. 6 id to 0,1 BRISTOL SUGARDEC. 16. _,• All descriptions of sugar continue to m eet with a free s a l e here, both to the refiners and grocers, and prices have far - , ther improved 6d per cwt. Refiners' produce also has been in excellent demand, and stove - dried go ods have advanc, fullyls. Rum more inquired for, and so me Demeraras har been disposed of, chiefly at 2s. ld. per proof gallon. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE '4EINC. • Miles Opened . --ece 2---.. 1t Pti Railways. ~..-....-_, "-- 4055. 1859. 1858. 1859. -4 _._...,, - ---- .z -----X Ballymena and Portrnah... 35 35 -- -- Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 Belfast and Ballymena 65 Belfast and County Down 2O 1 65 7 1'51°93 ! 2, 1'426°9 :" Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June 32 32 2,45 v _,...6; Blyth and Tyne 2O 20 1,230 I 1:4, 5 540 6 4,,,a Bristol and Exeter 125 119 -,- 13,76° 12 ' vw 1981 1 Caledonian Ches.&ljolyhead(withMold) 941 24 4 231 Cockermouth & Workington 81 8 1 175 181 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 217 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 6 1 205 ,iy 205 Deeside l7 17 1, 316 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 56 I ' s°B 1,5 16 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1681 1 326 102 1 ' 17 Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kingst.) 40 1 401 , 75 8 6 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 ' ~ 06 1 83 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 3l i• „.„. • 801 ..,... ..... ~43 East Anglian 671 671 20 03 zoo , - E.Counties,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 489 -- East Kent l9l - - E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 105 Edinburgh and Glasgow 142 1 183 42 1 3 2 5 ;, 4: 26 ::::: : 2: : ::: .,...---34 0407n :,.. Edinburgh, Pertho& Dundee 78 78 . 249 4.- 7 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western 1831 Great Northern 283 283 1,673 -' 03 2 Great North of Scotand qrt.Southn. & Westn. l (lrind ) 226 2131 30,4 06 28,„ 5 ; Great Western 4 66 466 16 3 1 695 Hull and Holderness inverness & Aberdeen June. 55 55 20 1 317 Irish South-Eastern 2.51 251 369 -- Killarney Junction 4l 41 Lancaster and Carlisle (in --' ;8° Kendal and Windermere) 1 „„1 00 q 2 600 28 '98 Lane. • 99 Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 289 za 119 , 5 7 Limerick and Foynes 2 26 . 350 4 Llanelly 4 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5 5 , 14,423 0 14 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2231 WS • 749 . 1 7 14 0 L'derry and Enniskillen .._ 6O 60 857, ... 426 , Lond., Tilbury, & Southend. 45 4 5. 10,7E 5 14 818 Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh. 1 731 1 1 892 979 Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham oi . L in ~. 092 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 36, 483 .7.,,,, 70 Midland Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind: 177 177 1,480 Vat e Monkland 1* Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 4 4 52 2.102 7 . 89 44 3,172 1 361 Newcastle and Carnal° 7B , 78 .. A 1, 447 25 5:1 Newport,Aberg.,& Herefor 5 0 ou 5,5- 0 344 North British (in. Dalkeithd 154 149 North Devon \ 7 35 46 731551; 3 4 2, 8:: : ? : 3 i : 0 7 92 75 North-Eastern North London ' 9 9 7 41v f , , --- North Staffordshire 233 2 33 North-Western 46h 461 o 4,8 28 N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 1 0 t - 4,7-- t 187- Oxford, Wore., & Wolver lO2 94 195 1,901 Pee b les l Bl 181 2,083 2 704 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 2,818 '5O 3, 4 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 1,857 ' 2,416 Shrewsbury & Bing 291 29 1,, 3,00' ~ 617 Shrewsbury and Chested 4B " 1,8 55 ' 790 51 Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union ' • 2 2, 79 . t 1 5,547 South Devon • • ..., • 7 2 M 17, 60 . 6 ,136 South-Eastern 306 3°2 .,„ a 6,9 06 2,840 South Wales l7ll i ',„". 3, 337 7 ,087 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 '- 154 6,507 ' ~,,,42 19 1 Stockton and Darlington .. 1 19 4,5 18 i'93 Taff Vale 54 1,7 80 , 32 9 Ul s t er 52 52 544 1 42 5 Ulverstone and Lancaster . 19 19 1,3 76 .-1 Vale of Neath 251 25 1 -- 261 _ Warring - ton and Stockport. 1 0 26 3 1 05 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 1, 348 498 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall 271 27 1 3,728 493 39 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39 630 474 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 35 54 5 276 Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 325 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. 7 7 76 6 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. B3B 23, 707 Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 41,6 13 271 Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction 261 ;GU§ 1, 233 ~ ,,,d Buffalo and Lake Huron Detfoit and Milwaulde lB5 185 2,447 ;J57 Dutch Rhenish Grand Trunk of Canada BBO F,Z, 2,845 1, 04 Great Indian Peninsula 19 41 . - Z 2 2,167 ~ 69 . Great Luxembourg l2l .4' , 7,744 " ....- Great Western of Canada 345 294 3 43 9 Lombardo-Venetian 285 285 4,310 53* Lyons and Geneva 142 142 , A 8, 10,3 v i, Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 310 284 .... Maria Antonia 2l 60 6 Northern of France 602 574 743 0 243 ' Norwegian Trunk 44 44 7 '215 840 77, 9 1 1 40, Paris, Lyons; & Mediterrn 879 40,41 2 43,677 Paris and Orleans " • 922 9 22 46,579 330 Paris and Strasburg 1,032 1,016 482 1, 500 Royal_ Danish 69 69 68 1,36 0 16 ,10 Sambre and Meuse 6B - 81, 802 7/31 77 73 776 90,054 Southern of France 7 7 West Flanders W. and N.W. of Franc e 742 7. 527 36, _... 666 70 ,243 6 6,21! 43 ,67 , 330 1 ,500 16,1u -6! 7 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. ghe l En the following table E eiknifles that letters ar e deep tti. by evening mails from London, and 3110 morning nil''. _ by evening mails from London, and M 10 raorn.•.. 14 ( 11 30 4 ' DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port INf due. of Mails. 12t1)______—atah' Australia and Mauritius, via Jan . /°' Southampton Jan. 12, 31 Sontharap . Jam . 4- Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New n , 2S. York Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) Dec. 23, E E Cape of Good Hope, Ascen- I r 1 J ai/. • sion, and St. Helena Jan. 5, E Devoupo China, Penang, and Singa- Deo• 1° pore, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles lDec. 26, 31 . .... . ..... na p. 1 4 Gibraltar, via Southam p ton Dec. 20,111 SouthaniP• 1:1 0 0. 16. LLiivveerrppoool: .. ow--yerdo Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, • PeC i° via Southampton ' Ditto, via Marseilles o t Ditto, B y r i a a zils,n u e n India (Bombay), via South ampton Dep. ampton Dec. 2 2 0 6, , 31 E 5 .. 0 . u . th .. an 3 . P• Jan. 1: Dec. 27, 31 SouthaMlN . Do . 19 Marseillesos Ayres, Dec. 19 N ........... Lisbon. Ja 5 and P. Islands Jan. 9, 31 SouthanlP. D e o. 21 . Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Dec. 17, M SeuthanllN Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via De% I° ' Southampton Dec. 2 0 , 31 SonthaniP• De c. 15 Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Jan. 2 , DI SouthatalN *' ....• Newfbundland Dec. 17, E GalivaY •• • • ~, United States and British N 1 • De w . America (by British packet) Dec. 17, E LiverPoq • • Ditto (by U. S. packet) " West Coast of Africa, 31a- • JO' 1° Liver dcira, and Tenerife Dec. 23 B West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, &c. CURETON.—On the Sth E u l lt ß , atT BIRTHS. Neng lle " l." : lli r . the wife of Major Cureton . , the 12th Royal Lan ceh "' ° daughter. DENDY.—On the 14th inst., at Long - Cro ss, near Ch`—"llielP the wife of the Rev. A. Dendy, of a son. v A t img ROSE,—On the 14th inst., at Cambridge House!, the wifouf W. H. Rose, Esq., of Madras, of a us" - Gree n ' WESTALL.—On the 15th inst., at the Parsonage, virsi. stead-green, Halstead, Essex, the wife of the 11.°17' Westial, of a son. MARRIAGES. Sir HUNTLEY—DRURY.-011 the 15th inst., at TorquaY l .of Henry Vere Huntley, R. N., to Carolne, the d d aght e ` o f the late Rev. Henry D rur y , of Harrow, a n reet °r Fingest, Bucks. M London,Bl L r N ig E litn a , E n N C d T h Y s a; only daughter of George Henty, r — rlien o so 7 -3,g t ir h iom e 7e l : s l t E h aise i c is o, t , at the parish oh`! Esq.,r. th f l lO f e DEATH S. 13.1MFORD.--011. the 15th inst , at Apsley Villa, C lielteri l ham, Robert Bamford, Esq.,. J.P. for the counties CLARKE.—On the 11th inst., at Tourst,° Gloucester and Hereford, aged 67. lizabeth CIO* Clarke, Esq., late of Fenhan, in the counijyarc7eNs craftier: cuanichereTste:r.p.— berland. • Beds/ HALDANE.—On the 15th inst. , at Apsley Guise,e, L o n' George Haldane, of Lincoln's - in n and the Temp l don, barrister, aged 64. Hu:. Major-Gen. r. Hutt, C.B. -Gnthelstuhinst., 1n Albemarle-street, Julia, w ife LL e o h y es p ie — r. O sl a us t r h e, e itli3etkha•rirLitio, yadt,lvElasnqc.,hcesotnieriiilnredeetr, Roy ,n NASIL—On the 14th inst. , at Bedford, G. P. Nob,•t4l'o aged 74. SPItY.—On the sth ins t., Joseph Hume Spry 31.1)" °I , Bath, aged 81. ---------" gig LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRD O of No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t Ths Bun 01600,10.10 a Strand t ill the Precinct of the Savoy, in the ocalati Middlesex , Saturday,_ D ecember 11, 1859. P ij •.. or tn d toh LBY, k rid P,oa