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CREDIT FONCIER OF ENGLAND (LIMITED) ARE PREPARED TO RECEIVE APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE SHARES IN T HE BELGIAN PUBLIC *WORKS COM PANY (Limited). Capital £350,000, in 35,000 Shares, £lO each. Divided Into 25,000 A Preference Shares, £lO each (being the Shares now offered for subscription), and 10,000 B De ferred Shares, of £lO each. THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1866. No. 23,254. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 31,45. STODARE'S THEATRE OF MYSTERY, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. QT. GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL, Southwark.— •n cIIRISTMAS-DAY solemn PONTIFICAL MASS, at Eleven a.m., with Full Instrumental Accompaniment. Music—Gounod's Mass, Lutz's " Viderunt," " Adesti Fiades," &c. PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. ANNALS of a QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD. By GEORGE MAC DONALD, 24. A., •" WHO'S HE ?" "For the interest which is higher than rn?re amußemt-nt we turn this book again and again. It is a true and noble work-a novel pure and good and beautiful.—Daily News. fling and Blackett, 13, Great Mariborough-street. cricanS w iewaru actionS t other besides solely of the er and' what' overn desirea I just, some Df the moral and us for I cer )r the may u ntry selves 3Vin °e whole :ntral vould ~,p of rulue• N r o.►~~ SECRETARY. W. J. L. Heriot, Esq. PROSPECTUS. To be retained by the Bankers. h or dull. Oats v. at or al l bite , ,da d re r, top froo 46 3 to 64 13-1' Fig ° rues, ; pe r et u• Lt 1° but rent red , riot, ind -260 ind red label c•ver the cork. DIRECTORS. • The Right . Hon. Viscount Bury, Rutland-gate. Frederic Doulton, Esq., M.P., Metropolitan Board o works. Albert Grant, Esq., M.P., London. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Neville, Clarges-streot. John'irving Pascoe, Esq., Highbury New Park. Henry Pownall, Esq., Russell-square. Edward Warner, Esq., M.P., London. CONSULTING ENGINEER. J• W. Bazalgette, 0.E., Engineer-in-Chief to the Iletropolitan Board of Works. BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard Street, E.O. Souciront • : 1 L .„.ssrß. West and King, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansi on uonse, E.C. BROKERS. Francis Cope, Esq., 1, Angel-court, Throgmorton. Street, E.C. Messrs. Price and Dovot, 54, Threadneedle-street. E.C. OFFICES. St. Clement'i House, Clement's-lane, London, E.C. The object of thiq Company is to carry out the micas -Bi°nn granted by the Municipal Council of Brussels, in con cert with the authorities of the province of Brabant and the Belgian Government, for the drainage and coincident woProvements of the capital of Belgium. The magnitude and value of th-,se concessions will be understood by the fact that they include subsidies to be L'eceived by the Company in cash and Annuities, of the v alue together of 26,000,000 f., or .£1,040,000 sterling, Which have been voted by all the authorities and sanc tioned by the Crown. The original estimates for the principal part of these works were examined and verified by Mr. J. W. Bazdgette, .ilgineer-ln-Chief to the Metropolitan Board of Works of London, under the sanction of that body; and these esti mates have been further tested by months of minute and careful revision on the part of contractors and their respec tive engineer& It is intended that the whole of the works shall be com pleted within four years. The importance of-the undertaking is evidenced in the lwetraaed official debates in the Brussels Municipal Coun cil, and also in the Belgian Chambers and Senate on the subject, and by the special report thereon from Lord Reward de Walden, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, transmitted by the Earl of Clarendon, through Btr George Grey, to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in „.tendon, and recorded in their Minutes under date of 40, ay 18, 1866, an extract of which is annexed to the Prospectus. His Majesty the King of the Belgians has expressed his desire to inaugurate the works by laying the first stone in State ceremony, which is fixed to take place at Brussels on Wednesday, the 22nd of January next. It will be at once seen by this brief description of the c oncession that it is one of no ordinary character. The capital of the company is fixed at £350,000, in 6 5,000 shares of £lO each, divided into 25,000 A Prefer luxe Shares and 10,000 B Deferred Shares. The privileges attached to the respective share capital are as follows : The A Preference Shares are to be redeemed out of the assets of the Company, by -drawing by lot, and each share Paid off at £l5 per share, being a bonus of £5 per share ; t he drawings will take place on the following dates, On. the 22nd January, 1870, 6,250 shares, or £62,500, 71 1871 , 6 , 250 £62,500 , 1872, 6,250 „ £62,500 . , 1873, 6,250 „ £62,500, Total shares 25,000 or £250,000 Until so drawn and paid off, each share to bear interest tt the r a t e o f 8 p er cen t. p er an num, payable half-yearly, on ,t he Ist of January and Ist July in each year, for which 'oterest warrants will be attached to the shares. Reckoning the redemption at the dates and at the bonus ‘ bamed, the investment will pay subscribers a rate of in 'crest ne follows :—those shares which are drawn, and thus are To bo paid off on 22nd of January, 1870, .will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 244 per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1871, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 20i per cent. per annum. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1872, will have re ceived, a total interest and bonus of 18 per cent. per annum. ' The Directors do not pledge themselves to make an a l l otment to every applicant, nor to allot the whole of the s hares, it being their desire to place this small capital in t ee hands of bona fide investors. Those to be paid off on 22d January, 1873, will have re ceived a total interest and bonus of 164 per cent. per annum • The B Deferred Shares represent the Concessionaires' il terest in the Company. These shares will not ha en tl 'tied either to payment of any interest or capital until the I , W hole of the Preference Shares have received their capital L 'aek, with the interest and bonus before referred to ; there '`'re the Deferred Shares become practically and virtually guarantee to the Preference Shares. for Applications for shares may be made in the annexed el, which must be accompanied by the payment of £2 Per share deposit, without which no application will be eoasidered. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. TO the Directors of the Belgian Public Works Company (Limited). Gentlemen—Having paid to your Bankers b e i n g ssrs. Smith, of £2 and Smiths, the sum of -£ , a deposit per Share on A Preference Shares in the 4 aove Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that Il thuber, and I agree to accept such Shares, or any less Illimber yo u may allot to me on the terms of the Prospec s, and I agree to pay the deposit on allotment, and to ' 4 'Ru the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the , (), npany, as duly registered, when required. And I all linrise you to insert my name on the register of members of the shares allotted to me. Usual Signature Name in full Residence Protession Date December, 1866 The above is only a short extract from the detailed t roßNet us , which can be had, with copy of the letter of 40 British Minister in Brussels to Earl of Clarendon, on 4 PPlication to the Secretary at the offices of the Company. THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COM PANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVLN, that the LISTS of pPLICATION for SHARES in the above Company will dons,CLSED on FRIDAY NEXT, the 28th instant, for n '- and SATURDAY, the 29th instant, for Country "IVications. By order of the Board, W. J. L. HERIOT, Secretary. St. Clement's House, Clements-lane, E.C. pAU-DE-VlE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, oi J , 8s per .2al:on, is ry .uperio to recent i flportations t enmy e 9z.nae. r , e'unmended by the medical profession, and ex lv used ,n hospitals. In bottles, 3Ss. per dozen. or in e, c ase 39s , railway carriage pwl :.—HENRY BRETT and 4 ' 3 , Old Furn iyars ois tit lery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent , • t e . S E stablished 182 Q. Q.E 0 L 0 G Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC TION 4, to the Nw Edition ot "Ly ell's Air'llents of Geolog illustrate y" and facilitat, e the important study of 4 ,. 2 eralocy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10,20, 52 to 501 e n ' d ine _as ;' also single Specimens of Minerals, ito3ls, Fossils, I.„l,t l e7.ent Shells, G. :Woe-1,4 ‘lars. 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Last year no fewer ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected rom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,0d7, who have been sent away in five years. the new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of 6 to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Se3retary, Ar. Daniel Cooper, ';5, Queen •street.Cheaoside; or by Ilt - ssra Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. ern -r a o m ad i ) 1 . 1 thelmmediate FßE E o ° l n S i t i v 3 L l' the great gra Vo s r; way Terminus, King's-cross. 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St. Albyn, Mader, and Bury. Comedy by IT , lrry Sydney (the political Momus), Robert Fraser (Buffo Vocalist and Comedian—a great success), Mons. Peterson with his high'y trained troupe of Performing Dogs. EXTRA ATTRACTIONS during THIS WEEK. Great success of LES AMAZONES AU CHAMPAGNE DIVERTISSEMENT. Musical Director and Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans THP.I BOY AT MUG BY, a Musical Sketch, founded on Mr. Charles Dickens's Christmas Story, written by Mr. l'. Green, composed by. Mr. Lt. Coot e, personated by Mr. ROBT. FRA=ER, by permission of Charles Dickens, .Esq., will shortly be produced. WE ST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Sole Proprietors, SWEASEY and Holman). The most triumphant success ever attained in any Musical Establishment. Grand Selection from Auber's Opera of " MASANIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed. in costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat Corri. A new and original overture composed and arranged expressly for the above minstrels by Mr. H. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd, Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kettle King. Majilton as Messestophles ; and Pis Watkin, the Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class mers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and. Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI. Prices of admission ' Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Area, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office, between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every Evening at 7 o'clock, commencing at Half-past. 11MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. NEW EDI PIONS. —A Life-size Portrait-Model of the PRINCESS MARY OF CAMBRIDGE, a Marriage Gr..up of the PRINCESS HELENA and MINCE CHRISTIAN. Adolf, twice, Is. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a m. till dusk, and from 7 p.m. till to. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re decorated, are now OPEN EVERT EVENINO for Concert and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Loot CURTL Manager, G BENET. Admission to Promenade, One Shilling. Reserved Seats, Two Shillings. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Trains every 13.1. five minutes. MMETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Moorgate iTl, street Station. j[ET ft OP t )LITAN RAIL WAY—Aldersgate street Station. UETROPOLITAN RAlLWAY—Farringdon lu_ street Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Kine's-cross Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Gower-street StAton. - METROPOLITAN RAIL WAY Portland- J.Y. .. road S.ation. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY Regent circus Station (opposite the Polytechnic Institution, 283, Regent-strret). The M F Ti;OPi)LI IAN RAILWAY CO H SPECIAL OMNI RUSES to and from Pert— lant-road Station meet every Train. METROPOLITAN R AILWAY —Baker-street Station. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY Edgware -2Y JIL road Station. AfETROPOLITAN RAILWAY --Bishop's _ol road :Station. IVIE Ii TRO i r O t L es. ITAN RAILWAY—Trains every BIYLES FENTO . N, General Manager. METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN Et LWA II it Lill NIAS HOLIDAY 4.-14;xtra Trains between the City, Kin Cs-crogs, tiower- street, P,rt land-road, itezent-eircus, Baker-stnet, Etieware-r ad and Paddington, Hannermnith, Kensingt Shepherd's-bash, Notting-hid, and Wcstbourne-park. FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real Malt," 19s per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered to the trade for the sale of geno'na old s•drit, which is coming into universal consumption through England. For price liars apply at Offices, 14, Strand, London, W.C. Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1760. TIUN VILLE' S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, _ Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. "V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH "W fIISKY, BELFAST. London Otfl]es and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 18C , 8. Quotations on application. JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the world."—Loudon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.G., next the " Times." TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street, Cork, be to announce th it they t.re able to supply the trade with their celebrated Whiskies. in casks or cases, and to take orders in bon I an d for exportation, at their offices, 7, Printini , , - -hon-e-square, London, E.C.. the only house in the square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies brin ! the highest prices in the Australian and tithe. Colonial markets, as may b 3 observed by reference to the "Journal of Commerce of Victoria," by which it Will be teen that Their whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next best, and Is. 6d per gallon anti bs. 6d. i case over the lowest quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old mellow w? , isky in the finest condition, matured in sherry casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, sa, , plted on the most reasonable terms. THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866 . —Wh a t Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taeping to her Ca- lain, viz., winner of the race, having distanced .11 com petitors, as the AST I ti [MA TEA CONE I'ANY have in fariab y done in their c'toi e and sale of fine new season's teas, now selling at importer's prices. Warehouses-9, Great St. Helen's-chutehy,:rd. AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.- A CHINESE CADDY, containing l6lbs. of really good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or market town in En land, Ireland, scotland, or k% ales, oa re ceipt of 405., by PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City. E.C. TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-18, 6d , 25.. 2s. 6 t. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, L.m don. 8.C., are selling good and fine BLACK T EA. A price current post free. 40s worth carriage free to any railway t•tation or marker town in the United Kingdom.—Observe— Pirrwrs and Co. have no Agents or any connexion with any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for Siting up the TRAINING SHIP. £2,000 required. WM. WILLIAMS,. Secretary. Boys' Ref age, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. U OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing the COUNTRY HOME. £l,OOO required. WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Boys' Refuge. 8. Great Queen-street. W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The Committee a - re most anxious to provide for 400 boys. One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at 4a,00(-, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends have premised to pay for one boy each year. Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs. Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C. PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE, FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C. Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches. At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that they are homeless and starving. The Manager itc., receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each night numbers of young women, children, and orphans are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the work a sum of at least .£l,lOO more will be required. Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome, and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will be offered in your behalf. SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. D. Grirlow D.D, N.No. 22 Finsbury-eirour, E.C. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ART UNION.- A SPECIAL MEETING of the Shareholdet a will be held at the Office No. 30, John-street, Bedford-row. on THURSOAY, the 31 day of January, 1:367, for the I,ItAW ING of the SPECIAL LOTTERY. tISREWARD. —Whereas some evil-disposed Person or Persons did enter the premises of Mr. Cooper, Florist and Gardener, Balfour Cottage, Ful ham-fields, on the night of Saturday, the 24th, or the morning of Sunday, the 25th of November (ultimo), and did cruelly and feloniously OUT ASUNDER a living PIG, and nearly Sever the Head of a second living Pig, and did Wound other Pigs. This is to giveiNotiee, that whoever will give information to the undersigned, or at the Wal ham-green Police-station, leading to the punishment of the Offender or Offenders, shall, upon conviction, receive the above Reward. JOHN COLAM, Secretary. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 12, Pall-mall, Dec. 18, 1866. KIN AlLAN'SraifilikTicT l L7F . DUBLIN This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the )üblin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole- ome. Sold in Bottles, 88. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; 7 the Agents in the principal towns in England; or whcilasalA at - 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe tbn Red goal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinaban's LL Whisky." JfUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Aot of Parliament, 1830). 4, dIISSELL-STREET. COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. Prompt ADVANCES on all description of Security. Forms free on application by letter to EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES, and BUSINESSES. FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application. Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the n.onth at their AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES. 5, Agar-street, S:rand, W.C., and nearly opposite the Charing* Cross Railway Station. MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and who!esale of JOHN BUItGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. LUCERNE -MEWS a New Block (private the Mall, close to Ken-ing- • ton-pa Eirbt-class STABLES, coach-house and rooms ever, fitted up with every modern mewsr e-ga lo rd r e g n e s, tlemenn Notting-mill. only improvement, to be LEI'. on LEASE, direct from the free holder. For terms apply to Mtssrs. Swain and Son, the Lodge. ; or to Me6srs. Debenham, Tewson, ant Farmer, 80, Cheapside. NOTICE OF BONUS MEETING. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSUIIAACE SOCIETY, 13, St. aames's-square, London, S.W. An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL \ iEE fING of the Pro;_rie , ors and Persons assured in this Sodel y will be held at this Office, on THURSDAY, the third day 01 January next, at One o'clock preci,ely. for the pur v ose of declaring a BONUS out of the pr,fits arising from the general business during the five years ending June 30th last. GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. December 11, 180. r HE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON • AND GLOBE INSURANCE, COMPANY. Offices-1, Dale-street, Liverpool; 2o and 21, Poultry; 7, Cornhill, and Charing-cross, London. Invested Funds Fire Premiums received in 1865 739,33! Life Premiums received in 1865.. The following are a few of the advantages attaching to the Lite Policies of this Company: Moderate rates cl prem urn for all descriptions of insur ance. Fixed bonuses g. , aranteed by the numerous proprietary of an unlimited company. Whole-world 'cave granted on reasonable terms. Policies held as securities are not considered void by this Office, although the assured should Irave the prescribed limits, provided the holder inform the Office as soon as it comes to his kno sledge, and pays the adequate extra pre mium. Claims are payable thirty days after admission. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretaiy. B OYS' ATTIRE. BOYS' & HYAM and CO. BOYS' at 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST. B OYS' NEW STYLE OVERCOATS. BOYS' NEW STYLE REEFERS. 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Gentlemen's Clothing for Immediate Year. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRC UIT—MAIDSTONE, Dec. 20. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDER. Ann Lawrence, aged 29, described as a married woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Jere miah Lawrence, at Tunbridge, on the 14th of April last. The prisoner was also charged with feloniously wounding Walter llighams, with intent to murder Ern. Sergeant Parry was specially retained to prose cute, by the directions of the Tunbridge magis trates, with Mr. Willoughby. Mr. Ribton and Mr. Ormerod appeared for the defence. After the prisoner had pleaded not guilty a great many challenges were made by her counsel to the jury, for the purpose, as it was said, of obtaining a Maidstone jury, an impression being very prevalent that inhabitants of Maidstone were generally averse to the infliction of the punishment of death. Whe ther there are any. real grounds for this impression it would of course be impossible to say, but the re sult of the line adopted by the prisoner's counsel was that 10 of the jury were inhabitants of the town. Sergeant Parry, in his opening address, observed the case was one of a very painful and atrocious character, and one which at the same time involved some very extraordinary circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner was a married woman, and that she formerly lived with her husband at Tunbridge Wells, and that a man named Walter Highams, who was a market gardener and fruiterer, living at Town Mailing, used to visit them, and became on intimate terms with the prisoner. Highams was himself a married man, but it appeared that about two years before the month of April last he deserted his wife, and the prisoner left her husband, taking with her her child Jeremiah, the subject of the present charge. The prisoner and Highams cohabited together at several places, and at length took up their abode at No. 2, Ebury-cottages, Tunbridge Wells, where they remained until the 14th of April last. At this time a child had been born of which Highams was the father, and this child was about two months old. There seemed no doubt that the prisoner was jealous of her paramour, and that she suspected he was connected with another woman at Town Mai ling, and this frequently led to quarrels between them, and the prisoner frequently made use of threats of violence towards Highams ; and the sug gestion on the part of the prosecution was, that the dreadful crime was committed during a paroxysm of anger from jealousy. A day or two before the murder was committed the prisoner was sent to Lon don by Highams to purchase some carrots, and dur ing her absence he seemed to have gone to Town Mailing and remained there all night, and when the prisoner returned she reproached him with hav ing stayed away all night with another woman, and they had repeated quarels between this time and the following Saturday, when the murder was alleged to have been committed. The prisoner and Highams: went to bed at their usual time on the Saturday evening, the deceased child, who was four years old, sleeping at the foot of the bed, and the baby being in bed with the prisoner and Ilighams, and nothing particular seemed to have occcured until between 4 and 5 o'clock on the following morning, when Highams was awoke by finding the prisoner in the act of chopping at his head with a most for midable instrument called a billhook. He held up his hands to endeavour to protect himself, but the prisoner continued chopping at him until she ap peared to be exhausted, and then went downstairs. Ilighams went down soon afterwards, and the pri soner then renewed her attack upon him, but some persons came to his assistance, and the prisoner, who had thrown the billhook among some hop poles, was taken into custody. At this time it was not known that anything had been done to the child, but upon the police going upstairs to the bedroom they discovered the poor little boy Jeremiah with his head nearly severed from his boly by a razor, which was left in the wound. The prisoner, on being charged with the murder, denied that it was she who had committed it, and she asserted that it was her paramour (Highams) who had killed the child, and she said that it was on account of his having done so that she had made the attack upon him with the billhook, and she persisted in this state ment when she was taken before the magistrate, and this was the defence that was set up for her on the present occasion. The learned sergeant, in the course of his address, said there :was not the slightest doubt that a most foul and horrible mur der had been committed, and that the only ques tion for the jury would be, whether the prisoner or the man Highams was the guilty party. After some formal evidence had been given, Wal ter Highams, the person referred to, was examined. lie is an ordinary labouring-looking man about 45 years of age. He detailed the intimate connexion that existed between him and the prisoner, and said that they lived pretty comfortably togther down to the month of April ; but a day or two before the 14th of that month the prisoner was very angry with him for having stopped all night at Town Mailing, and she threatened that she would do him some vio lence, and they had a quarrel on 13th April. The deceased child, the baby, and witness and prisoner went to bed on Saturday night the 14th, and about 5 o'clock on the following morning he found the prisoner hadgot np and dressing herself. He asked her why she had got up so early, and she replied that she was so troubled in her mind that she could not sleep, and said she would get np and make her self a cup of tea. She left the room and he went to sleep, and he was awoke by receiving some violent blows on the head, and on looking up he saw the prisoner holding a bill-hook with both hands and chopping at his head with the instrument. He put up his hands to save his head, and the prisoner con tinued striking at him, and wounded him on bith hands, and she chopped off two of the fingers from his.right hand. While she was doing this she ex claimed, " I've killed one, and I'll finish killing you, and I will kill all three." While the prisoner was striking him he let the baby fall into the bed, and after a short time she went down stairs, taking th 3 bill-hook with her. Witness was very faint and weak from loss of blood, and after prisoner had gone he got out of bed and slid down the staircase, to the lower room and found the prisoner there, and she seized him by the hair and knocked his head against the wall, and again said she would kill him, and that she intended to kill all the three. Prisoner at this time struck him on the shoulders with the bill hook, and then went out of doors and threw it away, and some persons who had heard the alarm and cries of murder came to his assistance, and he was taken to the infirmaryat Tunbridge Wells, where he remained 14 weeks. At the time he left the bed room he was not aware that any injury had been inflicted upon the child Jeremiah. A razor was shown to him with which the child's throat had been cut, but he was not able to say whether it was his razor or not. He had a razor which was in a case iu a closet down stairs, but he had not used it for some time, and he was unable to say whether this was the same or not. In cross-examination this witness said he was a married man, and the prisoner had lived with him and his wife for some time before she was married, but he lost sight of her for several years after she was mar ried, and when they next became acquainted it was agreed between them that she should leave her hus band and be his wife, and that they should live together. At first the prisoner took a lodging for herself and the child Jeremiah at Greenwich, and he supported her, and used to go and see her once a fortnight. The prisoner's husband was aware she was living with him, but he did not know whether his own wife knew that the prisoner was living with him. He did not know what had become of his own wife, but he had heard that she was living at Maid- stone. He had searched for her, but had not been able to find her. The witness was then pressed as to whether he had not, when he was examined before the magistrate, omitted to say anything about the prisoner having - said that she was in so much trouble during the night that she could not sleep, and he said he was so " nigh killed" at the time that he hardly knew what he said. He also said he was not sure that be told the magistrate anything about the pri- soner saying that she had killed one and that she would kill all the three, but he declared that in point of fact she did make use of this expression. Witness likewise said that when he was originally examined he said that the razor was his, and he accounted for having any doubt upon that point now by saying that the prisoner bought the razor, and he had only used it twice, because it did not cut ; and although he be- lieved that the razor with which the child's throat had been cut was the same, he could not swear positively to it. He then said he knew a woman named Eagle ton, and he believed she had had a child by him, or it might be two. (A laugh.) Re-examined—The prisoner was aware of his connexion with this woman, and was very angry with him about it. She came to their house upon one occasion, and the prisoner and she quarrelled and fought. Evidence was then adduced to show that at the time the prisoner was taken into custody she made the following extraordinary statement : " That devil has killed my child, and I will have my revenge on him too. God is above the devil, and I have conquered the devil. He intended to kill me —he had the chopper upstairs, and intended to kill me, only I found it, and I got the master of the devil. I thought there was something up. I went to London yesterday, and he wanted me to stop all night ; and I thought then) was something up and came back the same night, and when I came back I found him with another woman, and I will have my revenge upon the devil for it." Evidence was then . adduced to show that at the time the discovery was made the front of the clothes of the prisoner was completely saturated with blood, while with regard to the man Ilighams there did not appear to be a larger quantity of blood upon his shirt, for he had nothing but that garment on at the time, than would be reasonably accounted for as having flowed from the wounds he had received upon his head. When the prisoner was committed by the magis trate all she said was, " t own to all except killing the child. I cannot own to that, because I did not do it." Mr. C. Daley, the house-surgeon at the infirmary at Tunbridge Wells, who had in his evidence in chief expressed a strong opinion that the marks of blood apparent upon the front of the dress .of the prisoner were caused in the way suggested by the prosecution, by the blood spurting from the arteries in the neck of the deceased child at the time the fatal injury was received, was cross-examined at consi derable length by Mr. Ribton upon the point. The effect of this did not appear, however, materially to shake the evidence given by this gentleman in chief, hut he contradicted the witness Highams in some particulars, and expressed a strong opinion that some of the wounds received by the latter were not inflicted while he was lying in bed as he had repre sented, and that one of them at all events had in all probability been inflicted while he and the prisoner were struggling in the middle of the room. Sergeant Parry made a temperate but forcible address to the jury in summing up the case for the prosecution, and after observing tk: , +: the case was altogether one of the most extraordiiary that had been brought before the consideration of a court of justice, he said that two things appeared to him to be perfectly clear, one of which was that a murder had been committed, and that the person who committed that murder must be either the prisoner or the man Highams. Against the prisoner, as it also appeared to him, there was an overwhelming mass of evi dence, and as against Highams there was nothing at all but the bare and utterly unsupported statement of the prisoner. In a case like the present it was of course impossible not to feel great sympathy for a woman in the position of the prisoner; but he and they and all concerned in the inquiry had a duty to perform which they were bound to carry out, and he felt therefore bound to remind them that the effect that would result from their acquitting the prisoner must necessarily be a belief that the crime was committed by the witness Hig hams. He argued that there was not a single cir cumstance in the case that would justify them in coming to this conclusion, and that there was an entire absence of anything like a motive on his part for the commission of such a dreadful crime. With regard to the prisoner, however, he was afraid that the evidence left no doubt that she was maddened by jealousy at .what she conceived to be the differ rence of her paramour towards her, and that under the influence of this feeling she destroyed the life of the child, intending at the same time, very pro bably, to have taken his life also if she had been able to do so. At this stage of the case the trial was adjourned. The Coal Trade. CHESTERFIELD, Wednesday. A very large and influential meeting of the non unionists was held in the Barrow-kill Schools on Tuesday evening last, when upwards of 800 persons were present. Mr. Markham occupied the chair. The CHAIRMAN, who, on rising, was received with loud cheers, said that he congratulated them most sincerely upon the great demonstration for the vin dication of their rights as Englishmen for the free dom and liberty of labour. (Cheers.) It was a source of the greatest possible satisfaction to him to find so large an increase in the numbers of the non union men, which amounted at that moment to 1,032, who were exclusively employed in connexion with the mineral department of the company. The promoters of that great movement were entitled to the praise and gratitude of :lli- -fellows-workmen hi coining forward, as he was cotiVinced that the move ment would ccufer au inestimable benefit on the working men of England. As the education and intelligence of the people extends I the non-union movement would be m Te fully appreciated ; it was to the working men of Staveley that the great move ment for the vindication of their rights as English men was especially due ; and to prevent the possi bility of any dispute as to originators of the move ment he had given instructions for a book to be pre pared, which would record the first and all subsequent meetings of the non-union men, and on the 31st of this month the names of every non-union man employed in the mineral department of the Staveley Company would be entered, and the book deposited in the Bri tish Museum. It had been a disgrace to the manufac turers and artisans of this country that they had per mitted locomotives to be manufactured in the centre of France, that had been brought to this country at considerable cost, and were now running upon the Great East Railway. The Belgian manufacturers had supplied large quantities of rails for the East Glou cestershire Railway, which were delivered at the port of Gloucester at a less price than they could be ob tained from an English manufacturer. During the past winter a large quantity of castings were re quired by the Leeds Corporation, which were com peted for by a Belgian firm, and it was stated by the Leeds papers that their tenderacwoemrewniytl,iiwn who few shillings of that of the Staveley pa obtained the order. These examples would serve to show, he said, how keen was the competition with foreigners. Dlany of the rules and regulations of the trade societies were, in his opinion, most unjust and detrimental to the interests of the working man. Their fundamental rules were to make every man equal ; the idle and industrious apprentices, as soon as they had completed their apprenticeships, were bound by the rules of many societies to receive the sameamount of wages as the skilful and experienced working-man, who, again, was restricted in his la bour and prevented from using his talent to the best advantage he could for the benefit of himself and family. In many trade societies they did not allow , the employer of labour to have more than one ap prentice for every seven workers ; the master se lected the apprentices, and it might so happen that not one working-man in twenty had the privilege of obtaining for his children employment in his own trade. Many families would, no doubt, wish to fol low the same employment as their fathers, but they were not allowed by their trade societies to do so. What he (the chairman) wanted to know was on what principle any society had a right to interfere with the liberties of the working-man's children. (Cheers.) If every trade society carried out the same rigid rule, and if the common labourers were to do so also throughout the country, and they had as much right to protect their own labour as the skilled artisan, what would be come of the population of the country, and how would it be employed? It had been stated that there were 1,200,000 paupers in this country, and if the development of trade societies were to extend, the paupers must increase in a much larger proportion. If a master was willing to give employment to the sons of one of his workmen, it was his (speaker's) opinion that it was the bounden duty of the father to assist his children, and not to conspire for his own personal benefit to defraud them of their rights and liberties as Englishmen. (Loud a pplause.) The rate of labour undoubtedly depended upon sup ply and demand ; if there was a superabundance of labour, wages were low ; but if, o n the contrar y , as was the case in that district, there was a great de mand for labour, wages steadily increased ; and this great principle could not be modified by the rules or regulations of any trade societies. The collies sea and ironworks of that district, he said, had been developed by the freedom and liberty of labour; and it was very important for the working men to clearly ascertain their relative position in that district as compared with Yorkshire, where the works were al most entirely under the dominien of the trades' unions. The population iu this immediate locality had in creased 60 per cent. within the last ten years, and the . wages paid at Staveley were higher than in any other colliery district in the kingdom. If they were not so, why, he asked, did men come from-Yorkshire, desirousrfcf for ra e us t ti : hnt er country, and onlfdaa 'Wales, nbtodo u crroea extricatingmminndam Yorkshire? from was contrary a r part e workmen weriefubinetitotienctoyrnserpts' eha i ea t neni h imdns etosahwettne. themselves d m vsas he sotobe a .tde t hf Staveley, trettoyeoßmr weourttoemhtm eiledtut remunerated er i ra f an remain ttneh great fact that men then workinf, in Yorkshire ba w c as kto a were o a f t the Staveley Trades' y a district where freedom and liberty of labour existed. Some of the delegates had endeavoured to incite the farm labourers to form a great combina tion, with the avowed intention of improving their condition. If such a combination were possible, the small farmers, who were the most industrial class of men in the country, would be compelled to convert all their arable land into grass land, and would, con sequently, only be able to employ one man where three are now employed, and the result would be that the price of labour would be still further re duced. Ile believed that all combinations were bad, and that it was desirable that fair and legitimate competition should exist in all trades, and then everything would take its own natural course, and find its own natural level. There had recently been a great combination of capitalists against labour in Staffordshire, and more recently in the North of England, and the result in both cases had been in jurious to the interest s o f b oth masters and men, and had caused immense s u ff er i ng among the work ing people. All disputes between masters and men should be settled upon a fair and equitable basis— but if trade societies combined among themselves to crush an individual employer of labour, they could not object..to masters forming a combination on a similar scale. It was to him a source of great satis faction that everything that science, skill, or capital . could command had been done to insure the safety_ of the mines, and to protect the lives of the work men. The company employed as consulting viewers two of the most experienced engineers in the coun try. They possessed in Mr. Campbell one of the most experienced practical men in the kingdom, whose great sagacity, experience, and unwearied attention had been devoted . to his bu r siness, and he (the chairman) belieVed that at the present mo ment there were no collieries in the kingdom that could be compared, in safety and efficiency, with those belonging to the Staveley Company. (Loud cheers.) No expense had been spared that con tributed in any way to the safety of the working man. " The company had recently expended a very large sum in an improved system of ventilation, and they were extending the same principles to some of their other collieries. In conclusion,LMr. Markham observed that it was by the merchants' weight the wages would be reduced 25 per cent., as the diffe rence in the weight was precisely one-fourth. It was hardly necessary for him to refer to the ques tion of - the weight of 28 cwt., which had been made use of by the delegates as a grievance against the Staveley Company, as it was well known to every working man at Staveley that he was paid for a given quantity, or a lot of 28 cwt. It was of course quite immaterial to the company whether they (the men) were paid by the merchants' weight or by the exceptional weight which had so long existed at Staveley. The weight of all the coal raised at the collieries was reduced in the office to the merchants weight, as it was a great fact, as previously stated when the union was first brought into the district, that during the past 12 months the Staveley Com pany paid the colliers for 23,793 tons more coa than sold. It could make no difference to the work ing man whether he was paid by 20, 25, or 30 cwt. so long as it was a bargain, and prices were paid upon a fixed quantity. The understanding with the colliers was that the draught of the scale should cover all deficiencies, inclusive of the colliers' coals, that are given to them without charge, the dirt and refuse picked out in clearing the coal, and the fuel required to feed the engines in working the pit. All the company required was to have as many tons of coal to sell as they paid for, and whatever the wages might be, this principle would always be adopted. It had been said there was a lock-out at Staveley, which was not a fact. They had exercised their right to give notice to a certain number of men, while on the other hand, a considerable number of Their workmen pact ; lire-) in their-notices, and left their employment in a proper manner. A lock-out had never taken place at these works, as he (the speaker) was totally opposed to them on principle, and he . made up his mind to work the collieries with those men who were desirous of foilowing their employ ment. The Staveley Company would never consent to employ union men, as they did not wish to be in constant war with their workpeople. FENIANISII IN NOTTINGHAM. Yesterday John Kearney, aged 26, au Irishman, living in Ferrars-street, St. Ann's Well-road, Not tingham (a private in the Robin Hood Rifles), was brought before the mayor and borough magistrates, at the police-court, Nottingham, charged with be ing concerned in the Fenian conspiracy. Mr. Chief constable Freeman said on Wednesday afternoon he went to the prisoner's house in Ferrar's-street, and said to the prisoner, " From a statement I have heard I believe you are connected with the Fen ians." Prisoner replied, " I know nothing about it—l am no Fenian." Witness then called Inspector Berring ton and Detective Atherton, and they then searched prisoner's house. The wife of the prisoner threw some papers into the fire, and witness snatched w something out of the fire, which proved to be a co p y of the Irish People newspaper. They then took him into custody. Thomas Roult, aged 18, said he had known the prisoner for about two months. Wit ness was an Irishman. He had been to the pri soner's house several times since November at Kear ney's invitation. He generally went with a man d ap S Their conversati on was genera ll y aboutea e Fee iP e s an h i e s r i d n . . Prisoner used t og i ve th em I r i s h p to read. On the 12th of De cem b er h e n n was at prisoner's house, and they took a walk up Derby-road. Prisoner asked witness if he would be sworn into the Irish army or Fenian Brother hood. Witness replied that he would. Prisoner then administered the oath to him in a passage, They were alone ; part of the oath was that " he should take up arms at a minute's notice, and fight against the British Government, and obey the com mands of the superior officers." Witness then kissed the Catholic Prayer-book, and said, "So help me God." Upon taking the oath prisoner asked witness "if he had clenched him now ?" and authorised him to swear in others as Feuians. He told him he could swear in Lockhart and Shepherd, two of his com panions, both of whom are Irish. Witness left the prisoner soon afterwards. He bad since been to the prisoner's house, and they had conversed freely about the prospects of Fenianism. Prisoner said that fighting would shortly commence in Ireland, and added that he had had a letter from Ireland, stating that Colonel Kelly was in that country. Prisoner was in the Robin Hood Volunteers, and advised witness to join, as by that means he could. be drilled and ready for action. Witness had not joined the Robin Hoods. Prisoner said to witness, the magazines." Ie c also oui d said, Fenian ranks, and then fight f or 6 , In case you do join , and we do garrison duty, we the can do greater harm than if we were sent to Ireland blowingnut over m to Iz n w P w b y e were the Irish republic." Prisoner told witness that the army was affected with Fenianism. Shepherd was generally with them during these conversations. Prisoner promised witness that if be could swear in nine men he would be made a sergeant and have the command of them. Prisoner, upon being cautioned by the bench, slid he knew nothing about it, adding that it was a conspiracy against him. In reply to several ques tions put by the prisoner, the witness Roult stated that when he was at the prisoner's house other publications bad been shown him besides those of a Fenian character. Witness had, however, soon a book of the circles of Fenianism iu Philadelphia and other places. The bench said that prisoner was in a serious position, and advised him to have legal assistance. The prisoner was then remanded. Mr. Hook, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr. E. Bond, scholar of St. John's College, Oxford, have been appointed to Yasterships at Radley College. Mr. Bond gained a first-class in Classics (Moderations) in Easter Term, 1864, and a first in Classics in the final schools in 1866.