The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

ASSIZE INFELLIGE' 'CE. IIOME CIRCVIT—MAIDsToNE, Dec. 21. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDER. The trial of Ann Lawrence for the murder of her child, Jeremiah Lawrence, at Tunbridge .wells, on the 14th of April, was proceeded with this morning. Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Willoughby con ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton and Mr. Ormerod the defence. In addition to the evidence for the prosecution which was reported yesterday, Dr. Davey was called. He said that the cut on the child's throat wps a deep, clean cut. It went back to the spine. The child was on its back. Two powerful jets of blood would come from the child's throat. Wit ness saw the prisoner's dress and the marks of blood on it. Probably the person who inflicted the wound would be covered with blood. Ile could not say whether the person's hand would be covered with blood. The person who did it inu,t have I . cen in a stooping or kneeling position. That would tend to deposit blood on the front of the upper part of the person who inflicted the wound. It would be arte rial blood. The marks on prisoner's dress would be consistent with the action of these jets of blood, and with a stooping or kneeling position. If the heart acted a second time there would be four jets of blood, two jets for each vessel. The hand that pressed the razor would be bloody. Witness exa mined the upper part of the bed. There was a very little blood on the pillow. The wall was slightly smeared with blood. There were marks of blood on the ceiling in the centre of the room. In wit ness's opinion, if the woman had attacked Highams with a billhook there would not have been these marks on her dress. He believed the blood on the ceilin came from the man's arm. No vessel was wounded in the man so as to produce such a spat tering of blood. There would not be such a flow of blood from the man's wound's. (A piece of flesh was shown to witness which corresponded with a wound on the third finger of the man's right hand.) His two fingers were taken off at the infirmary. Highams was at the infirmary 14 weeks. He had 13 wounds—four on his head, four on his shoulder, four on his right hand, and one on his left wrist. Cross-examined, he said—Highams lost blood. It was principally venous blood. He must have lost a great quantity of blood. If in contact with him the woman must have been smeared with blood. The appearances on the woman's clothes were not con sistent with the blood on them having come from Highams. The apron produced is spattered with blood as if from the nose of a watering pot. In witness's opinion the blood must have come from some large vessel. No vessel was injured on Highams' person to create such spattering of blood as was found here. The shirt of Highams was saturated with blood. Witness thought the blood on the apron did not come from Highams's wounds. All the appearances on the apron, except the pattern of it, were of blood or blood and water. The carotid artery when severed sends a jet of blood with great violence. Only one of Highams's wounds would send forth a jet of blood. The blood on the ceiling must have come from his hand. There might have been a small jet of blood from the wounds on his head. Witness could not undertake to swear that the blood from some jet in the veins of the man's head could not possibly have sprinkled some part of the woman's apron. The same as to the blood from his arm. Witness could not say whether there was any of the child's blood on Ilighams's shirt. It was so saturated with blood that he could not say, nor whether it was sprinkled before it was saturated. He could only see sprinklingof blood on the woman's dress indistinctly. now. He thought she might have been in close con tact with the man, and her dress appear as it was now produced. He must have been out of bed when the wound on the arm was inflicted. The prisoner's statement made before the magis trates was read. It was, "I own to all except killing the child. I cannot own to that, as I did not do it." Mr. Sergeant Parry last night summed up the case for the prosecution. Mr. Ribton now addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He proposed first to consider the case without reference to the evidence of Ilighams. The prisoner had left her husband at the solicitation of Ilighams, and had lived with him two years. This man, having a taste for illicit amours, was cohabiting with the prisoner at Tunbridge-wells, and at the same time visiting ano ther woman at Mailing. The prisoner's jealousy was excited by these visits to Mailing ; but she and Ilighams had slept together on Thursday night. On Saturday morning, about 15 or 20 minntes be fore six, cries of " Murder" were heard proceeding from the house in a man's and also in a woman's voice. Why should she have cried " Murder ?" Was it not at the moment that she attacked Highams on seeing that he had killed her child? She said afterwards that she had conquered the devil. The first thing she said to those who came was, " Send for there is murder." A s soon as for the police, the man came out she denounced him. "He has killed my child." She had said this all along. She had also said " One is dead, and the other will be soon ;" but this was only another mode of express ing the same idea. To one of the policemen sh e said "My child ! my child ! I want my child." This must have meant the murdered child, for sh e knew at the time that it was murdered. I n h er distraction she called, although she must call in vain. It was, in fact, the police who had decided which of these two persons, the prisoner orllighams, should be charged with the murder of the child. This was an example of the want of some high pub lic functionary to conduct capital prosecutions. The police could have foreseen what sort of evi dence Highams would give. His exculpation would be the inculpation of the prisoner. The prisoner's expression of intended ven geance against Ilighams would be very per tinent to the inquiry whether she wounded the man with intent to kill him, but they did not bear upon the question before the jury. The evidence of a witness on whose account the trial had been postponed from the summer assizes went to this point. The evidence of Dr. Davey was strong against the prisoner, but he relied on considerations, not of science, but of common sense, on which the jury could form an opinion as well as a doctor. Dr. Davey, however, would not venture to say on cross-examination that the spots of blood upon the woman's apron must have come from the , child, and could not have come from any other source. The only motive which the prosecution could assign for the murder of tile child by its mother was the mother's jealousy of Highams. Suppose Highams had died of his wounds without making any state ment, could the prisoner have been convicted with out his evidence? But consider now what that evi dence was? He said, in answer to the learned judge, that the first time he heard the child was dead was from the policeman in the next house; this was un true, for the prisoner had charged him with the mur der in front of the house, in the hearing of two wit nesses. It was remarkable that Highams, in his story, said nothing of the murder of the child. Yet if that story were true the child must have been lying with its throat cut when the prisoner attacked him, and he must have seen it. The question for the jury was not which of these two persons committed the mur der, but whether the evidence was sufficient to con vict the woman. Suppose the man were now upon his trial, and all th e evidence i given yesterday had been brought against him, torret ;ethe r with the evidence of the woman, what nvist hav e b een the result? it w ould have been urged agai ns t hi m that he was charged by the woman with this murder, and did not deny it, but only said " Yonf.,re,a dear woman" The woman would perhaps say that she r ose early to light a fire, that she was chopping wood, that she leeoel some cry or sound, rushed up stairs, found the child's throat cut, and attacked the man with the billhook. No doubt it would be difficult to assign an adequate motive for the man murdering the child ; but a woman would save her child's life even at the price of her own. The affection of the woman for her offspring was not the growth of habit or the product of civilisation, but it existed in the rudest age, in the wildest clime, and in the most untutored breast,— " The sturdy savage 'midst his clan, The rudest portraiture of man, Owns the still throb, and secret start, The hidden linpul..s.e of the heart." 1:14e woman had throughout told tile , - iguno *Gory. Be. fore the magistrate, alone and unaided, she charged the man with this murder. But the jury were not called upon to decide that the man was guilty ; the evidence was not sufficient to warrant them in say ing that the woman was guilty, and, if there was doubt in the case, she was entitled to the benefit of it. Mr. Baron Channell then proceeded to sum up the case. It was to be inferred from the evidence that the child was murdered in the morning and not over night ; and there was a strong inference that either the man or the woman murdered it. If the evidence led to the conclusion that the prisoner was guilty, it would be a fearful thing that she should be acquitted because an adequate motive could not be assigned for the crime. It would be desirable to endeavour to ascertain as nearly as possible the time when the child was murdered. It would be convenient, therefore, in the first place to refer to the evidence of the policeman May, who first saw the murdered child. At five or ten minutes past six he touched the child's face and it was warm. Referring to the other evidence, Mrs. Taylor, who lived next door, said that about 15 or 20 minutes before six she heard both a man and a woman cry " murder." Ilighams' account was that he was roused from sleep by blows of a billhook on t':c head, which the prisoner held in both hands. Did this explain her getting the better of him as she did? He said he did not hear of the death of the child until he went next door, but other witnesses said that the prisoner charged him with killing it in front of his own house. One witness said that to this charge he made no answer. Another wit ness said that he answered, " You are a dear woman." A policeman stated that he found in the bed a piece of skin, which appeared to have been cut from Highams' finger. In reference to:the evidence of Dr. Davey, it was to be observed that he drew rather a fine distinction. But he ad mitted that, if the shirt of Ilighams were soaked with, his, own blood, that might have obliterated the sprinkling of blood which would have come from the child if he killed it. There was no pos sibility of any other verdict than that of guilty or not guilty of wilful murder. The jury were not called upon to inquire into the prisoner's attack on Highams, except as throwing light upon the ques tion they had to decide. Upon the jury retiring, one of their number stated that he was under medical treatment, and requested that they might be conducted to a room in which there was a fire. Mr. Baron Channel' referred to the words of the oath of the officer in whose charge the jury were and said there was some doubt as to their construction, and he must decline to interfere. It appeared that the jury were to be taken to a room where there had been a fire. The jury retired about a quarter past 1 o'clock. Shortly after 4 o'clock the jury returned into court and give a verdict of guilty. Sentence of death was then passed in the usual form. James Fletcher was indicted for the wilful murder of James Boyle, at Gillingham, on the sth of Sep tember last. Mr. Poland and the Hon. E. Stanhope prose cuted ; Mr. Barrow, at the request of the learned Baron, undertook to defend the prisoner. The prisoner was a convict under sentence of penal servitude at Chatham. The deceased was an assis tant warder of the Convict prison. The prisoner struck him on the face with a hammer and caused his death. He said before the magistrate that he thought he would do this act, and get quit of life. Ile had been brought before the Governor of the prison for using foul language on the report of the deceased, and was sentenced to two days' solitary confinement on bread and water and to lose marks. On coming out he joined a gang of convicts who were breaking stones, and in the course of the after noon he, without any altercation:or previous warn ing, struck the deceased two or three blows on the face with the hammer which he used for breaking stones. Of these blows the deceased died. The jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was thereupon sentenced to death in the usual form. This case was tried while the jury, in the ease of Ann Lawrence, were deliberating, and immediately after sentence had been passed upon Fletcher the jury in Lawrence's case came into court and returned their verdict, and sentence was passed on her. Thus, within the space of a few minutes, two capital sen tences were passed. Miscellaneous American News. The Legislature of Virginia has met, and Governor Pierpont is the first Governor of any unrepresented State, to recommend the adoption of the Constitu tional Amendment, which he does fully and earnestly, urging it as the only remaining means of recon struction, and predicting a dismal political future for the South if it is persistently rejected. The finances of Virginia are in good condition, the re ceipts of the year giving a ba!ance of nearly a million dollars over the expenditures, to be appropriated to the payment of the State debt. The State has been quiet, the laws well enforced, and difficulties between the freedmen and whites few and unim portant. The Governor recommends just treatment and education of the freedmen and the promotion of the general industrial interests of the State. The Richmond papers are generally pleased with the Pre sident's Message, as is natural, but the TVhig is not quite satisfied that the President should recognise the fragmentary Congress as legal, and should refrain from threatening resistance to its usurpa tions. Among the interesting items from the Pacific coast we see that San Francisco has exchanged its volunteer fire department for a paid one; the United States Steamer Vanderbilt, that carried Queen Emma home, h as returned to San Francisco, bring ing E. M'Cook, United States Minister at Hawaii, as a passenger, who returns on account of his wife's health ; Colonel C. S. Bulkley, chief eng i n eer of expe di t i on, the Russian American telegraphic ar rived at Victoria on Monday, o n his way to San Fran cisco ; San Francisco continues to export large amounts of wheat both to New Y or k and Europe. The number of immigrants that arrived in New York in November was 16,900 ; and at Baltimore 1,048. Mr. Stanton, in his report on the War Depart ruent just delivered to Congress , says Under the Act of July 28, 1866, the regular army now comprises ten regiments, or 120 companies o f cavalry, 5 regiments, or 60 companies of artillery, and 45 regiments, or 450 companies of infantry ; of which 2 cavalry and 6 infantry regiments are com posed of coloured men, and 4 infantry regiments of men who were wounded in theline of their duty. One regiment of white cavalry had been fully recruited on the 15th of September; the other regiment, as signed to the Pacific coast, is very nearly completed. Forty-eight of the fifty-four companies required to convert into regiments the single battalions of the nine three-battalion regiments of the former orga nisation have been completed and sent to their regiments. The four veteran regiments have been assigned to districts where the men may be usefully employed in guarding storehouses and cemeteries, and on similar duties. The coloured regiments will be recruited, as far as possible, from the coloured volunteers still in service. The law authorises an assignment of 100 privates to a company as a maxi mum, 50 being the minimum, and the maximum strength of the army is thus placed at 75,382 rank and.file. The present strength of companies is fixed at 64 privates for cavalry, artillery, and infantry, and 122 privates for light batteries of artillery, making an aggregate strength of 54,302. As soon as the ranks shall be well filled it is designed to in crease the efficiency of the military force by raising the standard of qualifications." It appears from the annual report of the Ameri can Sec re t ary o f the N avy that the North Atlant i c squ adron, under Rear-Admiral Palmer, has had pleasant summer's cruisingat and around the fishing grounds on the north-eastern coast, after having taken a survey at the Antilles and other tropical latitudes. The fishery question, which it was feared might give rise to collisions on what has been claimed as British maritime ground, caused Admiral Palmer no anxiety whatever, for the Secretary says, ‘ liberal and conciliatory policy o f the British ‘rf h e Govern ment dissipated all apprehended difficulties." lbe Poston Ackertiser of December 5 Rap E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1866. " Our readers already know how flattering is the condition of our finances which Mr. M'Culloch has to report. Even a man of cooler temperament than the Secretary might be pardoned for a little effu sion of pride at the ample margin which the receipts of the Treasury now leave for the disposition of the Government, and at the surprising reduction of our national debt, begun before we ourselves realised that the debt had reached its height, and continued at a rate which contradicts all prediction and sur passes all hope. With his accounts in this pros perous condition, Mr. M'Culloch naturally gives his chief attention to the question which is the subject of so much debate—how specie payments can be resumed ? Although he has been known from the first as a believer in an early return to hard money, and as fully alive to the mischiefs of a depreciated currency, Mr. M'Culloch, if we remember rightly, has generally avoided using language of too posi tive tenour upon this subject. It is the more inte resting, therefore, to observe that he now declares his opinion that specie payments ' may be resumed, and ought to be resumed, as early as the Ist day of July, 1868 ;' while he hopes that by wise legislation and a prosperous condition of our productive in dustry ' this most desirable event may be brought about at a still earlier day.' The expedients by which Mr. M'Culloch proposes to restore the cur rency to a sound condition in the next 18 months are five in number. 1. He would compel all the national banks to redeem their bills in United States notes at the commercial centres, and if possible in New York, in order to insure uniformity of credit and a preparation for specie redemption. 2. He _ _ . would have the United States notes in circulation withdrawn as rapidly as is found prudent, believing that the reduction can be made at the rate of six millions per month for this fiscal year and ten mil lions per month for the next, while he would not permit the national bank circulation to be carried above three hundred millions. 3. He would have the internal revenue simplified and collected from as few articles as possible, the tariff revised and har monised with the internal taxes, raw materials re- lieved from burdens, and production in every way encouraged. 4. He would issue a new series cf bonds at five per cent., with principal and interest payable in Europe, to be exchanged for the bonds now held abroad, as a security less likely to be re turned in any temporary disturbance of the money market. And 5. He urges the speedy rehabilita tion of the Southern States, iu the belief that until then their productive powers will remain inactive, and the finances of the nation miss one of their chief supports. The Nation remarks that the report of the Secre tary of War naturally yields the first place in point of interest to that of the head of the Treasury De partment. Disbanding volunteers, of whom there are left in service only 11,043 men, white and coloured ; collecting, storing, or selling material of war ; recruiting the regular army, experimenting with arms, planning harbour and river improve ments and defences, and carrying on the Freed men's Bureau, have been the main business of the Department since May, 1865. Breech-load ing arms are in process of manufacture, and the Secretary declares his belief that in the altered Springfield rifle, with its metallic cartridge, we have a better arm with better ammunition than the Prus sians have in their needle-gun. In regard to the vexed question of the proportion which the number of white people fed by the Department bore and bears to the number of black people so dependent, we suppose the Secretary's word would be conclu sive if he were to speak with sufficient clearness. Up to May 30, 1866, the number of black people drawing rations seems to have been the greater ; on that day, the number of whites on the lists of desti tute persons having gradually increased, black paupers and white were equally numerous ; since June 30, 186 G, the two classes seem to have been growing smaller and to have been diminishing equally. The State, county, and pariah authorities, the Secretary says, have, with very few exceptions, failed to take on themselves the support of the poor, and throughout the South the Government supports, through the agency of the Freedmen's Bureau, over 20,000 people. Over 150,000 are in schools. In Postmaster-General Randall's, lovers of the curious will find more food than in any other of the yearly reports. For instance, he informs us that more than eight thousand soldiers' discharges got into the dead-letter office during the year ending June 30th. The whole number of dead letters was about four and a half millions. Foreign countries sent to the United States in that year 4,543,630 letters, and we sent abroad, chiefly to Europe, 4,886,916. As was expected, now that the rebel- lion is at an end and the mail has to be carried South again, the cost of carrying it brings the re venues of the department down below the expendi tures, the deficit last year being $965,093, and the estimated deficit of the current year being still greater. The money-order system and the system of free delivery in large towns will no doubt be con tinued in force as the Secretary recommends, for he proves them to be not only pleasant to the public, but on the whole profitable to the Government. General Grant, in a report to Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War of the United States, says : " Passing from civil war of the magnitude of that in which the United States has been engaged to Government through the courts, it has been deemed necessary to keep a military force in all the lately rebellious States, to insure the execution of law and to protect life and property against the acts of those who, as yet, will acknowledge no law but force. This class has proved to be much smaller than could have been expected after such a conflict. It has, however, been sufficiently formidable to justify the course which has been pursued. On the whole, the condition of the States that were in rebellion against the Government may be regarded as good enough to warrant the hope that but a short time will intervene before the bulk of the troops now occupying them can be sent to our growing territories, where they are so much needed." On the same subject General Sickles says :—" The most satisfactory progress seems to have been made during the past year in all that concerns the welfare of these States. A year ago civil authority did not exist. The duties of the exe cutive were in the hands of provisional function aries appointed by the President. These have been replaced by Governors elected by the people. The courts were all closed, and the administration of justice depended altogether on military tribunals. Now the courts are all open, and the jurisdiction of military tribunals, except on the sea islands, is con fined to persons in the military service, in cases arising under the Articles of War. The adminis- trat:on of municipalities, towns, and counties de volved upon military officers. The police of Charles ton, Columbia, Raleigh, and Wilmington was ex clusively military. The taxes imposed, the streets that were lighted, the licenses granted, and all the regulations of commerce and trade, were subject to military authority. Now the local magistrates and officials chosen by the people, or appointed accord ing to law, are discharging their ordinary duties. The police is almost exclusively municipal. All taxes, assessments, and cha rges o f every k i nd are levied by civil authorities, and a ll restr i ct i ons upon commerce, trade, and intercourse, other than those imposed by the laws, have ceased." From Pittsburgh we learn that one of the great failures is the glass trade. Amid the prevailing dullness, this business, almost alone, is exceedingly active. In window glass the manufacturers of that city are from one to two months behind their orders. The cost of production shows no diminution. There is not quite so much doing in fliut-glass, though the demand is good. The Pittsburgh Mining Journal remarks that about two-thirds of all the iron produced in Pennsylvania is manufactured in the Lehigh valley, around Beth lehem, amounting in :1864 to 215,000 tons, and likely to reach a similar amount in 1866. The con sumption of coal for the purpose is about 1,500 tons a-day. The stacks of furnaces are enormous huge double cones—rising 50 to 75 feet high, taking in the iron ore and the coal at the fiery gate on top, by the hundred tons, and pouring out the liquid metal at the bottom in Vesuvius streams. The opinion of the unconditional Unionists in the Southern States becomes more and more outspoken in favour of petitioning Congress to regard their States for the present as Territories, and by ena bling acts reorganise thorn as States on the basis of universal suffrage. The Southern Unionists are not in favour of universal amnesty. The Unionists of Texas were the first to take this position by abstain ing from taking part in the election of members of Congress. Those of Louisiana have numerously signed a petition to the same effect. In Arkansas a State Convention has been called to adopt the same platform, and the Unionists in Virginia and South Carolina are making public manifestations in the same direction. The Iron Age is pleased to see that Mr. M'Cul loch defends the system of national banking (which, however, he ignorantly attributes to Chief Justice Chase, the editor of the Age having been its original projector and given it to the public), but regret that after the lucid demonstration of Mr. Carey last winter, which convinced the majority of Congress, and induced that body to reverse its policy, be still clings to the exploded fallacy of a redundant currency. We have read with great disappointment his proposal to centralise the bank ing power of the country in the "Atlantic cities" of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia —or, if pos sible, in New York alone. We hope in future ar ticles to show the utter fallacy of his reasoning on both these topics. With reference to Southern railways, Mr. Stevens of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution for the ap pointment of a committee of five to report to the House, at next session, the past and present rela tions existing between the Federal Government and the railroads in the States lately in rebellion, the amount of money expended by the United States in constructing, repairing, equipping, and managing such roads, the amount now due by each of them to the Government, &c. ; also as to the proper course to be taken by the Government in relation to such railroads. The committee to have power to send for persons and papers, employ a clerk, and report progress at any time. Adopted. Mr. Stevens re marked that he did not desire to be placed himself on the committee, as he feared the climate of the South would prove rather warm for him. (Laughter.) In the opinion of the Nation Mr. Greeley's allo cution, published in the Tribune a week ago, before his departure for the West, and giving his views upon the various political topics now before the public, has evidently, to say the least, not increased his chance of the Senatorship. " The Universal Amnesty, Universal Suffrage Scheme," of which he seems disposed to make himself the apostle, and, if need be, the martyr, does not find favour with the public, and this formal advocacy of it on the solemn occasion of his commencing a long journey has re vived the memory of some strange plans produced by him not very long ago, both for the prosecution and for the termination of the war. In fact, the country is coming rapidly to the conclusion to which it has been for some time tending, and at which we have modestly, if not obscurely, hinted once or twice, that Mr. Greeley's extraordinary powers are those of an advocate, a conscientious one, we admit, but one whom it does not dc to entrust with the selection of his own causes. In Texas efforts are making to get :he dissatis fied negroes from South Carolina and Georgia to emigrate to the former State. Labourers are too few for the crop in the ground. The Texas crop is estimated at 200,000 bales. On the 11th inst. the yachts Henrietta, 203 tons, Mr. J. G. Bennett, jun., owner the Fleetwing, 204 tons, Mr. George A. Osgood, owner ; and the Vesta, 201 tons, owned by Mr. Pierre Lorlillard, started from New York for Cowes. Tie vessel that arrives first at that port will be enitled to th stakes of $90,000 as the winner of the race. A yacht race across the Atlantic is something new in the magnitude of its distance, but tie novelty of this trial of speed is increased by the period of the year chosen for the trial. The route across the Atlantic from New York to Great Britain is apt to be sufficiently boisterous in midsummer, but the weather is sure to test the seaworthiness of smal crafts in mid-winter. Winter is usaered in by strong gales, and winter passes into spring with tempests, while it is not uncommon for the interme diate period to be less boisterous. The time chosen, therefore, may not be so bad for this yacht race as might at first glance be supposed. Still ther6 are few others than Americans who would have entered into such a contest. A silk manufactory is to be established at San Jose, California. Twenty-five acres of ground have been given to the proprietors, upon which they pro pose at once to erect buildings for the manufactory and for the workmen. These will be mostly Ger man and French. The California papers urge the raising of mulberry trees and cocoons. It is proposed to hold a Convention of Coloured Soldiers and Sailors in Philadelphia on the Bth of January, 1867. It is to be composed of those men of colour who fought for the country during the war, and the object is to lay the claims of the race in a proper memorial before Congress. Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, has lost no time in making an endeavour to induce Congress to repu diate the action of last session, increasing the pay of members. And also to get a Bill before the House reducing the allowance for mileage, about which there was so much scandal during last Session. The will of the late Senator .Wright, of New Jersey, has been admitted to probate. The valua tion of the estate is $1.000,000, of which $600,000 is real estate and $400,000 personal property. All the property goes to his family, except $l,OOO left to the House of Prayer. The marriage of Bierstadt to Miss Rosalie Oborn puts to rest the statements that he was to wed Miss Kellogg, the prima donna. Mr. D. C. MTwen, recently connected with the press of New York, has become the private secretary to Governor Seward. The last romance of the late lamented Lincoln is to the effect that he once loved to distraction a Miss Herndon, of New Salem, Illinois, but was rejected, and went, for a time, insane over the disappoint ment. The present Mrs. Lincoln believes he got over it. Confederate Major- General Stewart was pardoned on November 28, at the intercession of Gen. Grant, General Charles G. Halpine, General Alexander J. Perry, of the Quartermaster's Department, Major- General Barber, General E. 0. C. Ord, Major- General James B. Ricketts, General J. C. M,Far ren, Major-General Frank Wheaton, General Morris S. Miller, and Major-General David Hun ter, approved by the Attorney-General of the United States. Whistler, an artist of rising reputation in Eng land, and whose picture called "On the Thames" is in the Artists' Fund Exhibition, is an American by birth. He is best known for his illustrations in various London periodicals, but his pictures are very favourably spoken of by English critics. Mr. and Mrs. Wed. W. Clarke and Miss H. Lilla Clarke have arrived at the Westminster Hotel, Paris, from the Langham Hotel, London. On the 22d of last May Mr. Clarke left New York, where he had achieved an immense fortune by enterprise and sagacity, and arrived in London on the 3d June. The family proceeded to Paris, explored Switzer land, roamed over Germany and Belgium, rested for a fortnight in London, and in the most delight ful month of the year penetrated to the extreme north of Scotland. Returning through the " Emerald Isle," they passed over the Welsh hill; and traversed all England. Mr. Clarke carries into travel the same indefatigable spirit which marked his career in commerce. After recruiting in the gay capital of sunny France, the family will pro ceed south to Marseilles and Nice, through Italy, and with the early spring bend their footsteps northwards by Vienna and Berlin, vh2 Holland and London, en route to Paris for the opening of the Exposition. We hail with satisfaction the spirit of travel developed by the American people, and more especially by the most generous and wealthy families. Nothing can more tend to increase the sentiment that already prevails very generally among European nations that Americans arc dis tinguished for a large-heartedness, an openness of purpose, and a princely liberality. By telegram from New York, dated Dec. 15, we hear that Congress has granted the suffrage to the negroes of the district of Columbia. An order has gone out for the consecration of the Venerable Archdeacon Bethune, D.D., as Bishop of Niagara, being Coadjutor-Bishop to the Bishop of Toronto, cum jure sweenionis, English and American Ordnance Compared. The largest Armstrong gun yet made has the same weight of metal, namely, 22 tons, as the 15-inch Rodman, or Dahlgren, gun, which is the heaviest gun in the American service. The English gun is made of welded coils of wrought• iron, and is rifled ; the American gun is made of cast-iron, and is a smooth-bore. A vessel which can carry the Rod man gun can carry the Armstrong gun. Which of these two guns is the more effective ? 1. Charge of Powder—Armstrong gun, 100 lbs. ; Rodman gun, 50 lbs. The powder used in the English gun is the best of powder; that used in the American gun is purposely prepared in such a manner that it shall burn slowly. 2. Initial Velocity—Armstrong gun, 1,420-1,460 feet per second, with 100 lbs. powder ani 580 lb. shot; Rodman gun, 1,-114 feet per second, with 50 lbs. powder and 450 lb. shot. The charge of powder which the Armstrong gun can bear being double what the American gun can endure, the initial velocity of the heavier English shot fired from a rifled gun is considerably greater than that of the lighter American shot fired from a smooth bore. Of course the range of the rifled gun is im mensely greater than that of the smooth-bore. 3. Accuracy—The Armstrong gun has shown an accuracy which no smooth-bore can approach. In ao2ries of firings made to determine the accuracy of the gun the lateral deviation of the 5801 b. shot at 4,000 yards varied from nothing. to a maximum of four yards. The charge of powder used was 701bs. There is some good evidence on record touching the accu racy, or rather want of accuracy, of the Rodman smooth-bores. In his elaborate report on the bom bardment of Fort Pulaski, General Gilmore states distinctly his conclusions as to the value of smooth bores for breaching purposes ; they are as follows : L At ranges less than 700 yards, light smooth bores are inferior to rifles ; while heavy smooth bores are advantageous either alone or in combina tion with rifles. 2. At ranges greater than 700 yards, rifled guns are superior to any smooth-bores. 3. For ranges over 1,000 yards, smooth-bores should be " scrupulously excluded." The reason for excluding smooth-bores from batteries at a dis tance from the object to be hit greater than 1,000 yards is that at such ranges it is impossible to hit anything with a shot from a smooth-bore gun. The immense superiority of the wrought-iron rifled gun, which can strike effectively a hostile ship, or a hostile battery, at a distance of 4,000 yards, over the cast-iron smooth-bore, which is absolutely use less at a range above 1,000 yards, is painfully apparent. 4. Work—ln order to give a distinct idea of the work of which the Armstrong gun is capable, it will be necessary to quote Captain Noble's description of the Hercules target, the strongest targest ever fired at Shoeburyness. The upper half of this target was faced with a wrought-iron plate 9 inches thick, and the lower half with a similar plate 8 inches thick. Behind both plates was a compact backing, consisting of 12-inch timber laid horizontally, and divided by four horizontal iron plates placed edge wise. This backing rested against a skin of two 3- inch plates. The whole of this structure was secured to iron ribs 10 inches deep, with vertical timber worked in between them. Behind the ribs were 18 inches of sold timber, confined by 7-inch iron ribs, inside all, and an iron skin. Exclusive of the 7- inch inside ribs this target was 4 feet thick. The Armstrong gun, firing 5801 b. shot of steelor chilled iron, with 100 lb. of powder, has repeatedly pene trated this target at a distance of 200 yards, and so effectually that portions of some of the shot passed completely through the target into the space behind it. In contrast with this fact, let us place the sig nificant fact, mentioned in the last note on ordnance and armour printed in the Nation (No. 70) that the American 15-inch gun was unable, in the fight of Mobile Bay, to pierce the sides of the Tennessee, protected by only 6 inches of iron and 30 inches of wood, al though the range was only 10 feet. This result is just what we should expect from the comparative charges of powder employed. It is easy to under stand that 100 lbs. of powder should do more than 50 lbs. Meanwhile, where h the Parrott gun, the only heavy American rifled gun, with its bursting charge of 10 lbs. of powder. Cap:Ain Noble proves conclusively, from the Eng lish tables of experimental firings, and from the cal culations he has based thereon, that the American 15-inch gun, firing 480 lb. steel shot (and we have no such efficient projectile), with 50 lb. charges, the heaviest the gun will bear, is incapable of piercing the Lord Warden target—a target which represents a wooden 'vessel, protected by one iron plate 4i inches thick, 161 inches of timber, and an inner skin 14 inches thick. This target is readily pierced at a range not exceeding 1,000 yards by an English wrought-iron, muzzle-loading, 9-inch rifled gun, weighing only 12 tons, and firing a steel shot of 221 lbs., with a charge of 44 lbs. of powder. Since the publication of Captain Noble's comprehensive report, a new set of experiments has shown that a target composed of 18 inches of solid teak, covered in front with a solid plate of iron 8 inches thick, and strengthed at the back by an inner skin of 4-inch iron, can be completely pierced by a 2501 b. shell of Palliser's chilled iron, fired with a charge of 44 lbs. of powder from a 9-inch wrought-iron rifled gun. This 9-inch gun, weighing about 12 tons, is there fore very much more effective than our 15-inch gun, which weighs 22 tons. The defenders of cast-iron guns have a theory that an enemy's vessel is to be best destroyed or disabled by firing against its sides shot which are unable to penetrate, but which will " rack," the vessel. Before the days of armour it was thought best to send shells into an enemy's vessel, there to kill men and dismount guns. It would have been better, according to this " racking" theory, to throw balls against, not through, the wooden walls, iu order to jar the sides of the vessel to pieces. The absurdity of the theory is manifest. It gives up all chances of destroying the propelling machinery, blowing up boilers and magazines, -and creating leaks below the water-line ; it abandons the idea of exploding shells among the enemy's crew and guns, and relies upon heavy concussions against the vessel's side. The reliance is a very feeble one. The Tennessee was hammered as thoroughly as any vessel could be, but not injured. Especially is this "racking" theory absurd when applied to ordnance in tended for forts which protect harbours or road steads. There certainly would be no time to " rack" a strong iron-clad to pieces while she was steaming by a fort, but she might very easily be " punched" with fatal effect. The opponents of rifled heavy guns have often asserted that these guns were soon disabled by usage —that the bore was " scoured out" by the hardened projectiles employed in them. There seems to be no foundation whatever for this assertion. The 6001 b. Armstrong gun has been fired more than 150 times without sustaining the least injury, or being perceptibly altered in any respect. This is explicitly stated by the officers who superintended the testing of the gun. The English have a very large number of rifled guns in service, and no cre dible complaint of their " scouring out" has ever been made. The question of the expediency of rifling heavy guns is, however, one entirely distinct from the question of the best material for guns— cast or wrought iron. Smooth-bores, to lire a round projectile, may be made of wrought iron, and such guns would be greatly more durable and more effec tive than smooth-bores made of cast iron ; it would simply be necessary that the gun shoull be built up of wrought-iron coils, around a hard core of steel or cast iron. The high cost of wrought-iron guns is sometimes urged as an argument for the use of cast iron. The question of expense, however, is the last one to be considered in an inquiry of this nature. On the day of battle, at the critical moment in preparation for which guns are made, an effective gun which sinks the enemy's ships is cheap whatever its cost ; while an impotent gun, which imperils the national honour or safety, is dear at any price. Captain Noble, moreover, maintains that the total cost of gun, carriage, and 100 rounds of ammunition, is very nearly the same for the 9-inch, 12-ton, wrought-iron, rifled English gun, and the 15-inch, 22-ton, cast iron, smooth-bore American gun. As we have seen above, the English gun is much the more effective of the two. Although the whole influence of our Goverume before and during the war, and even to the present moment, has been given for smooth-bore cast-iron ordnance, firing cast-iron projectiles, yet there is at least one high official who has perceived that the American ordnance is wholly unworthy of a nation which claims to be especially ingenious, practical, and alive to the progress of the mechanical arts. Indeed cast-iron ordnance has come to be called American ordnance, an unpleasant fact for any one who is sensitive for American reputation. We may congratulate ourselves, then, on the decided opinion expressed so long ago as the 25th of January, 1864, by Assistant Secretary Fox, in the. report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War—" My opinion is that we have got to come to wrought iron or steel guns, and abandon cast-iron."-771e Nation. SPIRI C OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—There is a return of confidence in Ire land as the precautions of the Government and the hostility of all respectable classes of society make even the temporary success of a Fenian outbreak entirely hopeless. It would seem as if the change of Government, the separation of the Legislature, and the agitation which prevailed during the autumn on the Reform question gave the leaders of the conspiracy hopes that they might find an op portunity of mischief during the present winter, and bring to their side a larger portion of the people than had favoured them a year ago. But they have reckoned in ignorance both of the spirit of the British Government, which in matters of Cud., kind knows no distinctions of party, and of the feelings of all in Ireland who have anything to lose. Whatever difference of opinion may prevail in England as to the merits of this or that states man, there is no party, no school of politicians, no section of the public who would refuse her Ma jesty's Ministers for the time being all necessary powers for maintaining the peace of Ireland. The Irish Government has taken measures to prevent the most deluded from fancying that a baud of Fenians eould hold any place in the island for 24 hours— the conspirators from America, who were gather ing again as if something was to be done, are once more seeking safety in flight; arms, ammunition, and Fenian fire are seized wherever a rigorous search enables the Government agents to discover them, and, though there are reports current of stores of arms which might have escaped the pe netration of the police, we must believe that any band of rebels which might appear in the country would be very indifferently armed. Although there can be no doubt that large numbers of the lower class of Irish, excited by the promises of the con spirators and by that love of change which belongs to their race, do in words profess a hostility to the British Government, yet there is a great distance between menace and insurrection, and a Fenian Commander-in-Chief must have obtained some very decided successes over the Queen's troops be fore he would find support from the peasantry of the country districts or .the workmen in the towns. In the meantime those who have an influence over the people, either by their station or character, show that they do not forget their duty. The lead ing people in many districts have organised means for maintaining the peace, and those who have been absent from their posts are in many cases re turning. An equally important and beneficial in fluence is exercised by the Catholic clergy, whose denunciation of the movement has been strenuous and sincere. They deserve the acknowledgments of the public for the good they are doing. The pastoral of Cardinal Cullen was a stern reproval of the preachers of Fenianism, and a serious warning to its dupes. A still more energetic denunciation of treason has been made by Dr. Fitzgerald, in a ser mon preached in the Catholic Cathedral of Limerick. After warning his hearers of the moral guilt of secret conspiracy, the preacher addressed to them the argument sufficient to put an end to Feni anism among any set of men who have common intelligence. He asked them plainly if they thought there was the slightest chance of success, even of partial success. Every one who has anything to lose, whether he be farmer, shopkeeper, or landed proprietor, would be banded together, as, in fact, men are now banding together, to put down what is really a conspiracy for general confiscation. When it came to the point of insurrection it would be shown how small a section of the people are really prepared to assail the Government of the country and to change by force the disposition of property. Even in 1798 there was a large loyal section in every class of society, and as for the insurrection of 1848 it has long passed into a byword. Has Fenianism any better recommendations to the majority of Irishmen than these movements, or any better chance of struggling with the forces arrayed against it ? Not only is the present con spiracy condemned by all Irishmen of sense and moral principle, but the strength of Great Britain is beyond all comparison greater than at any pre vious time. When we were in the crisis of the struggle with the French Republic we crushed Irish rebellion. How much more easily would the work be done now ! As Dr. Fitzgerald very truly tells his flock, England with her fleet could sweep every sea ; with her army she could overrun every corner of thelaud. She possesses boundless wealth ; she would exhaust all these resources, she would sacrifice her last man and spend her last shilling, rather than risk the possibility of Ireland becoming the basis of attack against her by a hostile Power. These things seem commonplace to Englishmen, because we can hardly conceive reasonable bAngs to whom they would not occur spontaneously. But among an unreflecting people like the Irish of Munster they need to be spoken, and they cannot be too often repeated in speech and writing. THE PRBSIDENT'S MESSAGE. The Times deems the Message worthy of atten tion as an illustration of character and as the utterance of a man who is the Chief Executive officer of the American nation, but it would be easy to overrate its importance as a State paper. One cannot imagine that the threat of impeachment, or even the instruction to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives to report the practice in cases of impeachment, will have any serious result. There is abupdant evidence, however, that Mr. Johnson will be almost powerless for good or evil during the rest of his term of office. Mr. Johnson is almost reduced to the position of a constitutional king, who may reign, but not govern, and his Message is something less than a royal speech, since it expresses nothing but his personal opinions, which his Legi,Slature has already vehemently repudiated. The Standard owns it may seem strange that Mr. Johnson should think it worth while to reiterate domestic advice so recently rejected ; to stand so firmly by a policy which seems to have so little chance of adoption. One must bear in mind, how ever, the peculiarity of the President's position. Of the entire nation a great majority are on his side. In the North he has for him a popular vote but little inferior to that of his opponents, and the South is wholly excluded from Congress. More over, the new Congress would not, under ordinary circumstances, meet till December 1, 1867. The present does not expire till March 4, 1867. So there is time for a popular reaction which, though it would not alter the character of Congress, would divide and dishearten the majority, and strengthen the President to resist it ; and such a reaction is not improbable. The ;tar declares that President Johnson, though not born in the purple, has exhibited during his brief tenure of power as much blindness ancrun teachable obstinacy as any Bourbon or Hapsburg whose fate history records. His Message is a re markable manifestation of utter incapacity to adapt opinion to circumstances. It is, in fact, a political fossil. The President is not, however, quite so blind as not to see that his policy is spurned by the mass of the people. He feels thathe has taken an unpo pular position ; but, instead of receding from it, he endeavours to cover it by adopting a tone towards foreign nations which will, he imagines, be flatter ing Co the national pride of America. Mr. John son's expressions of ill-concealed sympathy with the aims of the Fenians deserve the consideration of his admirers in this country, who are accustomed to denounce Congress and the Republican party as fosterers of the conspiracy. The fact that an at tack on Canada was intended merely as a diversion in aid of an Irish insurrection " necessarily modi fies," says the President, " the opinion we might otherwise have entertained in regard to an Lxpodi tion expressly prohibited by our neutrality laws." The Star does not greatly regard this, as the poli tical influence of the President has been annihi lated ; but the whole tone of the Message on this head should teach us to obliterate as soon as we can the feeling so universal in the United States that we have dealt unfairly and with a high hand in the matter of the Alabama claims. It might also lead us to reflect on the relation in which we stand to Ireland by showing how it may be a doubtful ques tion, to say the least, with foreign onlookers whe ther we are wholly in the right and Ireland wholly in the wrong. A fearful accident occurred during the journey of the Queen of Spain to Lisbon on Saturday last. The explorator-locomotive preceding the Royal train ran over the crowd assembled at the station of Daimiel, a few miles before reaching Ciudad Real. About 30 people were killed or wounded. It is reported that the Hotel du Louvre and the Grand hotel have determined to raise their prices during the Exhibition 50 per cent., and to insist on people dining or paying for their dinner. COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. Wheat is is per qr higher than on Friday last, anfi the trade has assumed a firmer tone, but sales are not pressed to any extent. B ar l e y me t with a slow trade, and prices in favour of buyers. Beans is lower. In oats there was no material alteration. LINCOLN.-FRIDAY. There was a fair quantity of wheat, and sales were made steadily at extreme rates. Barley of fine quality sold steadily at late rates, other sorts were rather lower in value. Oats a tolerable supply, and in fair demand at last week's quotations. About the usual supply of beans ; the trade was not active, and prices were rather against the seller. Peas were a middling show, at somewhat lower prices. liew white wheat, GOs to GBs ; new red, 54s to 60s per 3G stone. Barley for malting, 49s to 51s per qr ; grinding, 2Gs to 3Gs per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 3-Is. Beans, 48s to 505 per 38 stone. DERBY—FRIDAY. With a tolerable show of wheat, prices were the turn higher. Barley a fair trade supply, the demand ruled heavy at barely late rates. Oats were unchanged in value. Beans a moderate supply, and th e t ra d e s l ow at pr i ces in favour of the buyer. New white wheat, 62s to 66s ; old red, 56s to Gls per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 44s to 48s per qr. ; grinding, 37s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, now, 27s to 295; old, 29s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 525; new, 46s to 503 per 38 stone. L IVERP 0 OL.—FILIDAY. A moderate attendance at our market to-day, and there was a fair inquiry for wheat at former rates. Flour also was in fair request at Friday's rates. Indian corn un changed. Beans quiet. Malt dull. Oatmeal steady. Peas inactive. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. Our market to-day was only very moderately supplied with wheat, which changed hands at a slight improve ment on late rates. About the usual supply of barley : the demand was not active, and prices generally against the seller. New white wheat, 56s to 60s ; red do., 52s to 56s per 86 stone. Barley, malting, 42s to 48s; grinding, 34s to 383 per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 28s to 32s per 21 stone. Beans, 52s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. RIPON-FRIDAY. White wheat, 8s Od to 9s Od per bushel ; red, 6s 6d to 8s Oil; beans, 7s 3d to 7s 9d ; oats, 26s to 32s per qr ; barley, 34s to 42s Od. BRISTOL SUGAR.-FRIDAY. There has been a very fair demand for all kinds of raw and refined sugar this last week, and sales have been made at full prices. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. 5 . d. Lambert's W.Hartley 17 3 Original Hartlepool 21— 0 North Pelton Gas —. 14 3 South Hartlepool l9 Walls End Gosforth 17 9 East Hartlepool South Tanfield l5 0 Kelloe Pittington l7 0 Thornley 2O 6 Ships at market, 68—sold, 46. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--Last Evening• Amsterdam Short. 11 16 11 1 7 Ditto 3 Months. 11 18f 11 1 9 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 40 25 45 Brussels Hamburg — 13 81 13 9 Paris Short 25 15 25 221 Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 40 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1191 120 Vienna — 13 40 13 65 Trieste — 13 40 13 65 Petersburg!' - 291 30 ,„ Berlin. Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa — 27 15 27 25 Naples — 27 15 27 2 5 Palermo Messina • — 27 15 27 25 Lisbon Oporto — 511 511 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoc Deo. 20 . Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13 . Brazil and Cape Verde. by British 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Deo. 23. China. Penang. and Singapore, via Boat hampton Dec 23. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 28 IPaikland Islands Labraltar, via 6outliampton Deo. lt. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Dea. 2). Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton .....:1•DI)e Dec. Dec. 2 ece: 23 2 2 07 )1 Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 23. ilaurititui, via Southampton Ditto, via itarseil.ei... .Jan. ` 2 . lelvfoundland .Jan. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North Amerioa, by Bri tish packet. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton .. Ditto, via Cork • Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec. 1 . West Coat of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe „ Jan. 3. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) Dec. 29 Bahant,), via New York. Jan I ''• Cuba ald Mexico Bermuda, via Halifax ... : Jan. 10. The influence of the tendency " up-town" in New York is extending in art circles. The upper portion of the new building corner of Broadway andTwenty eighth-street is fitted up for studios, and will shortly be occupied by Messrs. Kennett, Lang, and Baker' In the Museum, corner of Thirtieth-street, artists are making arrangements for the winter. On the south-west corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteent h ' street a large and well-lighted gallery for the ea" hibition of pictures will shortly be opened by Messrs" Skinner and Somerville. I n th e upper s torey °' this building numerous artists are already estab lished in studios of moderate size, well adapted f or those who do not measure off their canvas by t he acre. Here Granville Perkins has set up his enSe i " ; convinced that New York is nearer the centre 0 ' art, than Jersey city. His last painting of South American scenery is not nearly completed, and he has decided not to send it to the Paris Exposition: t for which it was originally intended, but to pain it leisurely and in his best manner. Batman, an artist who spent several years in California and in other parts of the Pacific coast has also established himself in this building. Mr. Butman has in b .' studio a great number of sketches of the moun tain and seaboard scenery of the spots he visited. is now at work on a large illustration of the scenery of Oregon—the snow-capped Mount Hood, a 01 , 1- spicuous object in the distance. Mr. J. F. Fifth, a Hartford artist, has also ensconced himself here. h Mr. Fitch passed three years in Germany, wher e o f was the pupil of Zimmerman. He spent mos t , - b. the past summer in the Adirondacks, from wi l f ul he brought back a mass of materials in eaT e • studies of the grand mountains and stony broogio, Of S. Colman is at work upon a large picture of lit la , ti son river scenery, with a characteristic " janl steamers, canal boats, and other river craft. The lectures at the Peabody Institute, under toi b! new endowment, have already begun.rofess P Henry, Doctor Draper, and Professor Johnston, o Baltimore, are among the lecturers announced. Births. of DRURY u On the 15th inst., at Folkestone, the wife •L. Col. H. Drury, Madras Staff Corps, of a daughter- $. ELwEs—At Congham House, near Lynn, Norfolk, Ai rs " Elwes, of a son. v° 11°' LOWNDES —On the 20th inst., at 71, Sandgate-roa d, stone, the wife y of Captain Lowndes, of a sou. tb° MOUNSEY—On the 18th inst., at Knells, near Carlieleltr, wifo of Captain Mounsey, 71st Highland Light Joist' of a son. Marriages. s ur - Coltxrn TIM= —Oa the 20th iust, at St. 14.1arY'a,,,--t of minster Marshall, Dorset, Francis W. Cornish , - V7, j'Ata Eaton College, to Blanche, second daughter of iu" Hon. Win. Ritchie, Member of the Council of the vernor-General of ndia. NORMAN—COOTE—On the 20th inst. at St. Paul's , "-- bridge, Henry John, eldest son of IL N or man, J'sciZier Oakley, near Bromley, Kent, to Anne Hewitt' sli• daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Cuote, 18th Royal If' Deaths. -xl) al tb CUNLITTE—On the 20th inst , at Aston Park, i'„ru -iiff; E. W. Cunliffe, Esq., third son' of the late Sir F. v Bart. J 31P PARRY—On the 20th inst., at 22, Broadway, H. Parry, aged 61. Nif• SAMS - On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Rose, wife of R. Sams, of 1, St. James's-street, S.W. 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