The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. • His Highness Tokugawa Mimbutaiho, brother to the Tycoon, was expected to visit Aldershot yester day, to be present at a winter field day on Eelmoor Hill. The troops were in readiness—in fact, on the regimental parades, when a telegram was received at head quarters postponing the visit for a few days. The morning was very foggy and damp, though the day turned out a beautiful one, and his High ness might come on a good many December days without having so favourable a one as yesterday. The field day bhing countermanded, brigade parades for the infantry and route marching for the cavalry and horse ar,illery were continued for a time. The troops were all in quarters by 12 o'clock. The armour plated wood built frigate Royal Oak has returned her gins into store at Portsmouth, and is landing her other stores, preparatory to being paid out of her present term of commission. With her thin outer skin of armour-plating on the ordi nary wood-built side, the latter having no inner iron skin, and with bolt ends and nuts projecting on the gun-deck, the Royal Oak is only fit for service in a home port at a flag or coastguard ship, and for this kind of service she will moat likely be appropriated. Such a ship would not pay for conversion to carry a heavier armament, nor could she be made, under any •conditions of alterations or expenditure of money, fit to take her part in line of battle in a fleet of ironclads of the present day. Even the Royal Oak teaches us things, however, which should not be forgotten, as illustrative of our present system of naval maladministration. We may mention three instances in this wise :-1. Rifled guns with their carriages were sent out to Malta for the ship, to supersede the old-fashioned 8-inch smoothbores with which she sailed from England, but as no fittings were sent with the guns the ship returned to Eng land with her old smoothbores still on board. 2. The Lords of the Admiralty are so well posted up in all matters relating to the armament of the navy that on the arrival of the Royal Oak in Portsmouth harbour from the Mediterranean their lordships could not say whether 12-ton rifles or ordinary 68-pounder smoothbores were mounted in her bat teries ! They therefore telegraphed to Portsmouth for the necessary information. 3. As the captain of the Royal Oak is senior to the captain of the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth, no orders can be given by the latter officer to the former relative to the machinery and stores of the ship (as is the cap tain of the Steam Reserve's special duty) in the progress of the necessary preparations for paying out ,of commission. Fortunately, both Captain Chamberlain and the captain of the Royal Oak are officers who prefer the " gooi of the service," as it is somewhat pedantically phrased nowadays, to their own personal feelings, and therefore the difficulty may be got over. The naval administration of England is, to say the very least, full of strange anomalies. A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, for the trial of Joseph Bennett, a first-class boy, serving on board Her Majesty's paddle sloop Gladiator, Capt. D'O. D'Aplin, on a charge of striking at the master-at arms of that vessel with a cutlass. The court found the charge proved, and sentenced the lad to receive 48 lashes, and be afterwards imprisoned in Le►ves Gaol for two years with hard labour. The following is an extract from a private letter received by our Portsmouth correspondent from Montevideo, dated Oct. 29 : " Iler Majesty's ship Narcissus was at Montevideo on the 30th October, with the Nassau, Gleaner, and Spider ; the latter vessel returned from Maldonado on the 27th. At Buenos Ayres were the Linnet and Doterel. The war in Paraguay goes launching on as ever. The peace negotiations of Mr. Gould, Secretary of Lega tion and Lieut Michell, in her Majesty's ship Doterel, seem to have had no effect. Cholera has set in up the river." The following promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty Lieut. W. Neilson to the Pyladas ; Chas. W. G. Spring, midshipman, to the Liffey ; William Barton, navigating midshipman, to the Dana° ; Henry R. Johnston, navi gating-n.i•lshipman, to the Pyl ides ; Charles D. Lindsay, paymaster, to the Pylades ; William Rintoul, assistant paymaster, to the Pylades; Frederick James, asdstant paymaster, to the Cumberland ; Edward Armstrong, clerk, to the Pylades; Herbert E. Ridge, assistant-clerk, to the Pylades; Walt.. .r Fame], clerk, to the Danae ; Samuel Crooke, assistant-clerk, to the St. Vincent; Charles J. Hill, navigating-lieut., to the Royal Oak; Jesse Dixon' navigating-lieut , to the Pylados. PRESENTATION TO SIR BARTLE FRERE. A ceremony of somewhat novel character took place yesterday at Willis's Rooms—the presentation of an address from native Princes to the ex-Governor of Bombay, who doubtless thought that there was an end to all such honours when he bade farewell to the Presidency. Addresses of this complimentary kind are sometimes, as Lord Lyveden said, expres sive of a sense of favours to come; but in this in stance the value of the tribute cannot be depreciated by the imputation of unworthy motives. Sir Bartle Frere has finally given up the position in Bombay, which he held with so much credit to himself and advantage to the natives under his rule, and his work in India itself is probably done. The Princes of Kattywar, therefore, were not tempted by in terested considerations to pay their respects to an officer who no longer is placed in connection with their sovereignties. It was a spontaneous and an unexpected compliment to a distinguished member of that class of our countrymen in India which has well maintained the honour of this country in the eyes of great native potentates. It would be assuming too much familiarity on the part of the public with Indian affairs to suppose that they are acquainted with the services and career of Sir Bartle Frere, and, therefore, it is not likely that they know very much about the Princes of Kattywar. Nevertheless, they are rulers of no small renown or consequence in their own dominions, the members of a gallant race, ruling over a brave and warlike people, and fully compe tent to discriminate between good government and bad. These Princes and chiefs are, as a rule, tri butary to the Guicowar or to England, the former rights of the Peishwa now being vested in this country. Kattywar is in the province. of Guzerat— so much geographic knowledge was doubtless pos sessed by every one present at the ceremony yester day—but even the Anglo-Indians, except from the Bombay side of India, must have been indebted to Sir Bartle Frere's speech for much additional infor mation. The Princes who signed the address— about 20 in number—are sharing in that wonderful progress to which the ex-Governor referred yester day. They have not been insensible to the claims of education, and they are anxious to get a railway constructed through their part of the country—a project which has been talked of since the days of Lord Dalhousie. Even in a land which is proud of "long descents" the potentates of Kattywar are re spectable, for their families date back, as Sir Bartle Frere told his friends yesterday, to a period long anterior to the Crusades. The ancestors of some of the Princes who signed the address formed alliances with the Solymans. What the present rulers are doing may be judged from the general condition of the Western Presidency. The enterprise and spirit of the natives —especially of the Parsee community, .which uas largely ter.resented at the muting yes terday—have pacedllona:ay in the van of progrots i n L i di a . The irtnio-!; ! and rapid changes nhich it i;arile Frere i•poke of are ecitainly visible to a hug( r x;ent in his former seat of awho.ity than ekes h 1 As a!1 cl;,s es of Anglo-Indians awl na ive-z a tho iniprovement is greatly due to his j,":15 —to his courag,c and spirit and untiring energy. Tito ceremony yesterday ha , : a speci 11 s'gnificance in the proof it affords that the native ehkfs are not hostile to " innovations " if they are properly prepared for them, and that they respect a firm and wise ruler who will recom meia to them such reforms. The message from Kattywar has, therefore, more interest than ordi nary incidents of tlie kind. Many of the Anglo-Indians concerned in the actual government of India who happen to be now in London were present yesterday, and there were also several ladies in the room. The address was in troduced to the company by Lord Lyveden, in a speech of great cordiality and good feeling, in which the audience werereminied of the successful labours ant very marked services of Sir Bartle Frere iu the course of his long Indian experience. The Princes who signed the address, of course, were not pre sent, but they were represented by an agent, and every care had been taken that their letter should be put before the ex-Governor in a gratifying and arpropriate form. It was read, and received very warmly, and evidently gave peculiar pleasure to Sir Bartle Frere. The entire company, native and English, were stirred into real enthusiasm by a speech made by Mr. Dadabhoy Novrajee, who is a member of the Parsetjee family, and a man much respected. He praised Sir Bartle Frere so judi ciously for the works which he has done best, and pointed out the merits of our rule in India so shrewdly and faithfully, that when he had finished the applause was loud and earnest. Solong as just and upright men, he said, were sent to India as its rulers Great Britain would be loved and respected, and its rule would prove a blessing, as it had been in times past, no matter what might be said of minor defects and errors. The people of India needed, he thought, such men among them as Sir Bartle Frere to lead them from the immovable prejudices and inertness which long submission had engendered. The speaker continued in this strain for some little time, and then Mr. Bannockjee Cur setjee: made an admirable address. Sir Bartle Frere's reply to all these assurances of re spect and goodwill greatly interested the company, and doubtless it will afford equal plea sure to the Prince and chiefs of Kattywar. He accidentally gave a fitting commentary upon his own career when he remarked that the only right by which Englishmen held India was that which they were always willing to acknowledge —" the divine right of good government." In this expres sion, and also in remarks to the same purpose which fell from Mr. Dadabhoy Novrajee, the native gen tlemen present expressed their acquiescence by loud applause. The native speeches were certainly not the least striking feature of the meeting. Sir Bartle Frere was warmly congratulated by several speakers upon the post he now holds as member of the Council of India, and Lord Lyveden expressed somewhat significantly a hope that his recent knowledge of India—the India which exists to-day—would be of great use in that body. Finally, a vote of thanks was given to Lord Lyveden at the request of Col. Sykes, and upon that the company broke up. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBAO7 INSTI TUTION. Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chap man, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also present Admiral Sir George Sartorius, K.C.8., Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral NH - lardy, G. Lyall, Esq., Col. Palmer, Captain De St. Croix, W. 11. Harton, Esq., Col. Fitzroy Clayton, Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the institution, and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, rewards amounting to £595 were ordered to be given to the crews of the following lifeboats of the institution for their noble services in saving life during the late fearful g de : The lifeboat stationed at Poole, Dorset, saved 46 lives from the brig Contest, of Guernsey. The "Grocers'" lifeboat at Mundesley, Norfolk, rescued seven men from the brig George, of Sun &Hand, and the schooner, Restler, of Peterhead. One of the crew of this lifeboat had plunged into the boiling surf to snatch one poor fellow from an inevitable death. During the fearful storm of Sunday the lifeboat Princess of Wales, at Holyhead, was engaged throughout the night in her noble mission, and actually succeeded in rescuing 52 lives from six different wrecks, The Penarth lifeboat saved the crew of 11 men of the brig Marie, of Griefswald, Prussia. The Caister lifeboat, " The Birmingham No. 2," assisted by a steam-tug, brought the Norwegian schooner Polydera and her crew of five men safely into harbour. The Sheriugham lifeboat saved three persons from the schooner Hero. The Buckle lifeboat rescued the crew of four men of the sloop lichens, of Alloa, N. 13. The Donna Nook lifeboat brought ashore six men from the schooner Esk, of Montrose. The Pakefield lifeboat saved one man from the brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields. The Licensed Victualler lifeboat, stationed at Hunstanton, was the means of rescuing 16 men from the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg. The Lowestoft lifeboat also succeeded in saving two men from the brigantine Madora, of Yar mouth. The Yarmouth surf lifeboat brought into harbour the smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her crew of seven men. The Whitburn lifeboat rescued six men from the brig Jenny, of Whitby. The St. Ives lifeboat had brought ashore one man from a wrecked vessel ; the boat had made three attempts to rescue the shipwrecked crew. The Winterton lifeboat saved two men from the Sophia, of Colchester. The Skegness lifeboat, the Herbert Ingram, rescued two men from the Aunt, of Boston. The Sutton lifeboat, the Birmingham No. 1, saved seven men from the brig Clarinda, of Sunderland. The Por'trush life boat rescued, after two pre vious attempts, six men from the brigantine Virturius, of Liverpool. The Bradford lifeboat, at Ramsgate, brought the brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, and her crew of six men, into harbour, and likewise saved the crew of eight men of the brigantine Amor, of Elsfleth, mak ing a total of 198 lives rescued by the lifeboat of the institution during the recent heavy gales from different shipwrecks. The lifeboats of the institution at Newhaven, Porthdinllaen, Bembridge, Hasborough, Dover, Kessingham, and many other places, had also been out with the view of saving life. In some cases the vessels had happily got out of danger ; in others the lifeboats had arrived in time to see the ships in a thousand pieces and their crews drowned. Such a terrific gale has not been witnessed on our shores since the storm which wrecked the Royal Charter on the Anglesey Coast. Various rewards were granted to the crews of different shoreboats for saving life from shipwreck on our coasts. The committee expressed their deepest commisera tion with the families of the poor men who perished from the Gorleston beachmen's lifeboat on Tuesday morning last, on the occasion of the boat capsizing with a shipwrecked crew on board, and voted fifty guineas in aid of the fund now raising for the relief of the families of the deceased lifeboatmen. This is a salvage boat, belonging exclusively to the beach men, and in no way connected with the National Lifeboat Institution. It is the same boat that un happily capsized nearly two years since with a fatal loss of life. There is a fine self-righting life boat, belonging to the institution at Gorleston, but hitherto the beachmen have not made much use of it. The committee also expressed their deep sym pathy with the relatives of the suffers at St. Thomas, in the West Indies, during the late fearful hurri cane there. The committee decide d to form a lifeboat station at Milford haven. Titus Salt, jun., Esq., of Brad ford, hadlkrally contributed to the institution, the boat, and its equipment. Mrs. George Burgess had also pre,ented to the society the Stone!, tven lifeboat and its transporting carriage, B.z.t. It was reported that th.: late It. Hewett, EA., of 01 'gate, Morpeth, had left a legacy of 125, frte of duty, to the institu tion. It had just sent a new lifeboat to Grooms port, near Belfast; the cost of the boat had been placed at the disposal of the society by a benevolent lady (Mrs. D.) residing in Berkshire. It was stated that it was proposed to hold a bazaar in Exeter in the early part of next year in aid of the funds of the institution. A letter was read from M. Stan dish, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Police at Mel bourne, in which he asked to be supplied with two thousand copies of the instructions of the institution for the restoration of the apparently drowned. Ile stated that these instructions had already been issued in placard form to all the police stations iu that colony, and he was happy to state that the constables acting upon the instructions had re suscitated many persons who would oth rwise have TIM SUN, LONDOIC, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER , 6, 1867. per i s hed. We would suggest that a copy of these instructions might advantageously be placed in the hands of every policeman in the United Kingdom. Reports were read from Capt. J. R. Ward, KN., the inspector, and Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., the assistant-inspector of lifeboats to the society, on their recent visits to the coast. A very able report of a special committee, of which Admiral Ryder was the chairman, on the state of the lifeboats of the institution, was read and ap proved. Payments amounting to nearly £2,300 were ordered to be made on various lifeboat esta blishments, making a total of £29,650 expended by the institution on its 186 lifeboat stations during the eleven months of the present year. It had also, during the same period, contributed to the rescue of 1,027 lives from various wrecks, nearly 200 of which had been saved by its lifeboats during the recent heavy gales. Altogether this noble society had contributed from its establishment to the saving of 16,928 lives from shipwreck. It was stated that the pressure on the funds of the society in carrying on its great and national work was very heavy at the present time, and that during the past few days £2,700 of its funded property had been ordered to be sold out. It therefore hoped that the British public will strengthen the bands of the lifeboat society at this stormy period, when its lifeboats are engaged night and day in battling with the storms and in snatching our fellow-creatures from ship wreck. Sir Thomas Tobin, of Cork, sent the insti tution the first instalment of £lOO, being a contribu tion from the 24,000 persons whom he solicited to contribute towards the penny subscription lifeboat which Sir Thomas is now so zealously promoting. COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was held yesterday, at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor. (Alderman Allen) presided. THE NEW DEAD-MEAT MARKET AT SMITHFIELD. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR, the chairman of the Markets Improvement Committee, brought up a report from that committee, which embodied a report made by Mr. Horace Jones, the City architect, having re ference to the progress of the works of the proposed meat and poultry market, which is in course of erection upon the site of the ancient market at Smithfield. This report detailed the proceedings that had taken place at the building during the year, and the result appeared to be of a very satis factory character as to the progress of the works. Mr. Taylor said he was sure it would be most gratifying to the court to hear the report that was made by the architect, and he believed he might state that within 12 months of the present time the market would be in full operation. (Hear, hear.) He could also inform the court that applications bad already been made for more shops in the mar ket than they had to dispose of, and before the market was completed they should have a tenant for every shop that could be built. (Hear, hear.) The report was then formally agreed to. TIIE PROPOSED NEW CATTLE MARKET IN LONDON. The LORD MAYOR then said that the Remem brancer had a communication to make to the court, which was of considerable importance, and which it was considered advisable should be received with closed doors. Strangers were accordingly ordered to withdraw, and the court sat in deliberation with closed doors for nearly three hours. It was understood that the subject brought before it was the negotiations that had taken place between the officers of the corporation and the Government in reference to the bill pro posed to be brought in by the latter for the erection of a new market at the waterside for the slaughtering of foreign cattle. The Government, in the first instance, expressed their intention to place the building of the new market under the control of the Metropolitan Board of Works, but this course met with strenuous opposi tion at the hands of the corporation, who regarded it in the light of an unfair attack upon their ancient rights and privileges in reference to the question of markets in the metropolis. Various communica tions have taken place between the Markets Com mittee and the Lords of the Privy Council upon the subject, and it appears that the result is that the Government has col,sented to leave the erection of the new market entirely in the hands of the corpora tion, who very naturally feel somewhat elated at the triumph they have thus achieved. FENIAN MOVEMENTS. Shortly after noon on Thursday, Detective inspector Manton, of the Birmingham police force, in company with two other officers, one from London and one from Manchester, apprehended William Hogan, 38, residing at 19, Bradford-street, secretary to the United St. Patrick's Insurance Society, on a charge of conspiring against the Government of her Majesty, and also of purchasing a number of pistols for the attack upon the prison van at Manchester on the 18th of September. The prisoner was taken before Mr. C. R. Cope.—Mr. Glossop, chief of the Birmingham police, said the prisoner, in company with a man named Pherson, who is now in custody in Manchester, went to Mr. Hill's, in St. Mary's row, and bought a number of pistols, for which the prisoner paid. Those pistols were sent to Manchester. He asked that the prisoner might be remanded to Man chester.—The prisoner said the man told him that he was a hawker, and wanted the pistols to sell to sailors in Liver pool who were going to Abyssinia. He considered it very hard that he should be detained.—The prisoner was re manded, and conveyed in the afternoon to Manchester in charge of the officers. In the Dublin Fenian Commission Court, on Wednes day, four men who were lately found by the police in a public-house in Marlborough-street, armed with revolvers, and one of whom expressed regret that the promptitude of the constable who arrested him had prevented him from using his, pleaded guilty to an indictment for having arms in a proclaimed district, and were sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The robberies of arms in Cork are the subject of magis terial inquiry, but no clue has been found to lead to the discovery of the guilty parties. The Austrian bark Medea, from which six stand of arms were taken on Monday night, has been for some time undergoing repairs in the docks at Passage, after discharging a cargo of corn at Cork. The arms were stored in a small apartment, to which access could easily be obtained, at the stern of the ship. So stealthily was the robbery effected that a large mastiff, which was chained close to the deck-house door by which the parties had to pass, gave no alarm. The Passage police usually take charge of the arms in foreign ships, but in this instance they were not so well informed as the persons were who knew where to lay hands upon the muskets. Some uneasiness was at first excited by the robberies, but it appears to have since subsided. A young man named Molony, who had been " on tne run " for nine months to escape arrest under the Lord- Lieutenant's warrant on a charge of Fenianism, was cap tured on Wednesday at the railway terminus in Limerick, as he was about to start for Cork en route to America. He is a native of Corofin, county of Clare, and is sus pected of having been engaged in the rising of the sth of March last. He has been lodged in Ennis Gaol, 211 E ALTON MURDER. WINCHESTER, THURSDAY. (Before Mr. Justice MELLOR.) This morning Frederick Baker, 29 years of age, described as a clerk, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of Fanny Adams, at Alton, on the 24th of August last. The interest was intense, and the court was besieged with a crowd from an early hour. Mr. Bere and Mr. Bullen were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Carter de fended the prisoner. The prisoner looks younger than he is. He is a young man of middle height, and was mode rately well dressed. His head, borne erectly, and with a certain show of defiance, is not of an ordinary type. His face is pale and beardless ; but there was no particular expression of care or anxiety on his countenance. During the trial Baker was allowed to sit on a chair. He pleaded, in a faint voice, " Not guilty." Mr. Bere opened the case as one of the most horrible de scription. He went into a minute detail of the evidence he should produce. About one o'clock on Saturday, the 24th of ! igust, three little girls, Fanny Adams being one, were plaj dig in a field. The prisoner came up :Lo them, and talked to them, and then gave them some half pence. To Fanny Adams he gave a halfpenny, and he then took her up and carried he; away from the other two children, telling them to go home, and that was the last time Fanny Adams was seen alive. The prisoner had admitted that he was the person who gave the children the money. The two children went home, but Fanny Adams did not return. About half-past 5 o'clock inquiries were made about her, and the prisoner was asked ,what had become of the child, but he said he did not know. Suspicions at length became excited, and search was made in the place where the child was last seen with the prisoner, and about that spot parts of her body—her lungs, her legs, her heart, and other por tions—were found. The body was completely dismembered. That the child was murdered there could be no doubt, and then came the real question whether the prisoner was the Man who had committed that murder. No direct evidence of that fact could be given, but that part of the case would depend upon circumstantial evidence, and there would be such a chain of evidence surrounding him that it would be impossible for him to escape. At two o'clock he was seen with the child. He was seen afterwards leaning over a gate looking into the field. At that time the murder must have been completed. He was seen in Alton between two and three. About four o'clock the prisoner went into his master's kitchen, and had a conver sation with the cook, who gave him a letter for the post. Between five and six o'clock he was seen leaning over a gate, and a boy named Vince saw the prisoner doing something at the water, apparently washing his hands. Mrs. Adams then saw him and called him back, and he returned to her. She asked him what had become of her little girl ; he denied all knowledge of her, but said he had given her a halfpenny. He gave her his address and where he was to be found. There was nothing then suspicious in his conduct ; his hands were in his pockets. He then walked away. Near that spot two human eyes were found. The prisoner was in his master's office about six o'clock that evening, and a con versation then took place between him and his fellow clerk, Morris Biddle ; they went out together and did not return till eight o'clock. The prisoner was then very much excited, and said he had been accused of taking away a child, but he knew nothing about it. About eight o'clock that evening the murder was discovered, ansus picion fell upon the prisoner, and he was accused ofd t by some ' people, and he said " Never • it is a bad job for me then." He was taken into custody. Portions of his clothes were wet. Two knives were found upon him. After this his diary was looked at. It contained a state ment of the.work he had done in the office, and then, in his own handwriting, on the 24th of August, was this remarkable entry, Killed a young girl—it is fine and hot." He (Mr. Bere) thought he had detailed all the cir cumstances as they were connected with the prisoner, and if lie _proved them it would be clear to all reasonable men that he must have been the murderer. As to the motive of the prisoner, there could be no doubt what was the purpose of his taking the little child away, and that having efiected his purpose he had killed the child, as a stone covered with blood was found near the spot where some portions of the body were discovered, and he had a knife in his pocket by which he might have dismembered the body, which it was supposed he had done with a view of concealing the offence he had committed. The plan of the country was produced and proved. Minnie Warner, a child, 8 years of age, said : I knew little Fanny Adams. I went out walking with her on Saturday, after dinner. Lizzie Adams was with us. Fanny Adams was 9 years old. While we were at play, the pri soner came to us and said, " Ah, my little children, here you come again !" He played with us in the meadow, and gave me three halfpence. We went down towards the Hollow lane. He gave Fanny a halfpenny. He picked some black berries for us. He then told me and Lizzie to go home, and spend our halfpence ; he went down the Hollow with us. He lifted Fanny up in his arms a n d carr i e d h er up the Hollow. He said, " Come with me, and I will give you twopence more." Fanny cried, and wanted to go home. I saw him and Fanny go into the hop-ground. Lizzie and I went home and told mother. 1 saw the prisoner again that afternoon with Mrs. Gardiner. I had seen the prisoner on the Saturday before in the same meadow. Emma White was with me then, but not Fanny Adams. He talked to us then ;he told me to go round the Hollow with him, and then he told me to go home. Eliza White : My husband is a sawyer. I came home irom my work about two o'clock that day by the path through the hop-field. I saw a man with the three children, who were companions of my , little girl. He was loitering about. The children were at play. The prisoner is that man. I saw them between ten and fifteen minutes. I watched them. The man was smoking all the time. I saw the children run into the Hollow. The man looked about and followed them, and I lost sight of them. I heard one of the children cry out, but not as if in pain. It came from the Hollow. I then went home. Confirmatory evidence was given by William Awlwork and Elizabeth Warner, sister to the previous witness. George Noyce said : lam a shepherd. On the 24th 02 August I was in a field called Twelve Acres. About two minutes par' three I saw a man coming along the field near the hop-field.• When he saw me he put his hands under his jacket and walked away. The prisoner was that moan. He afterwards went towards the hop-ground. He bad on a black jacket and light trousers. Sarah Norris : I am cook to Mr. Clements, by whom the prisoner was employed as clerk. Shortly after four in the afternoon of the 24th of August I gave the prisoner a letter to post. There was nothing extrordinary in his appearance at that time. I saw him again at half-past six in the office. There was no one else in the office. I saw no marks of blood upon him. Alfred Vince (a very little boy)_: I remember the day Fanny Adams was killed. I saw rs. Gardiner talking to a man who was where people bathe. I had seen that man come out of the hollow and go to the water and wash his bands. He then saw me and ran after me, and I ran away. There was a gate between us. Harriet' Adams, the mother of Fanny Adams, deposes that she went with Mrs. Gardiner to look for the child. Saw a man come out of the Hollow-gate. Minnie Warner followed behind us. Mrs. Gardiner got up to the man first. She called him twice and asked kim to stop. He then came and met us. He was dressed in light trousers and dark coat and a tall hat. Mrs. Gardiner spoke to him, and asked him, " What have you done with the child you took away ?" He said he had not taken any child away. She said, " Did you not give some children some halfpence ? " He said, " Yes." Mrs. Gardiner said, " Here comes Minnie Warner." She came up, and Mrs. Gardiner asked her if that was the gentleman who gave her the halfpence. She said, " Yes." Mrs. Gardiner asked her how much he gave her. She said, " Three pennies." The prisoner said, " No, three half pence ;" and to the other two he had given a halfpenny each/ Mrs. Gardiner asked him his name. He said, " Never mind my name ;. you will find me at Clements's, at Alton." Mrs. Gardiner begged his pardon, and he went away towards the meadows, over a bridge, and the path comes out by the toll-gate kept by Mrs. Porter. Mrs. Gardiner corroborated this evidence. Morris Biddle, junior clerk with Mr. Clements, said : On Saturday, the 24th of August, I was at the office, and so was the prisoner in the morning. He seemed as if he had been drinking. At the office, in the evening, tlee prisoner said some women had accused him of taking away a child. He said he did not know anything about it, or he would have given them information. He said if the child was murdered be supposed he should be blamed for it. He said he thought he should go away on -Monday, and asked me if I would go with him. He said there was a case something like that at Guildford, but there the girl came back again. When the " boots " came in he said he was going away on Mon day, and the prisoner said they might as well go together. 1309 ts said he would not do for him, for lie could put his hand to anything. Ba'zer said he could go as a butcher. I went back to the (Bee. I heard something at the office, and I went and fetched Baker. I said, " Baker, they say you have murdered a child." He said, " Never, Morris ; it's a bad job for me -then." I said, We'll go to the office and see whether there's any truth in it." We then went to the office. A baker named Doggrell came. He said, " Where's Baker? They say be has been and mur dered a child." Baker said he was innocent, but it was a bad job for him. Soon after he was taken into custody by Chen y. I knew the prisoner kept a diary. The last entry is the 24th of August, in his writing. I was not out of the prisoner's company two minutes after we had been at the chemist's. I had gone out to see the place of the murder when I met Cheney. Trimming, the other clerk, was there. The prisoner was smoking in the office. I did not see him make an entry in the diary that evening. Mr. Trimming, the senior clerk, confirmed Biddle's statement. He added : I observed in the morning that he had been drinking. He had been excited all the evening. , T considered he was muddled with drink. A labourer named Gates deposed as to the finding u, the several parts of the body. The manner in which the body of the poor girl had been hacked to pieces was de tailed. W. Cheney, superintendent of police, said : I asked the prisoner if he had heard of the murder. He sal 1, "They say it's me, don't they ?" I said, "Yes, you are suspected." He said, " I am innocent, and I am willing to go where you like." He produced two knives, on one of which was a little blood. I said. " I must leave a constable with you." I went away and made further inquiries, and then I returned and took the prisoner into custody. He said he I was innocent, and that the halfpence pr.,ved nothing, as he was in the habit of giving children money when he was out for a walk. He had £1 Cs. I . ld. in his pocket. His left boot and sock and leg of the trousers were quite wet. I asked him how he accounted for that, and he said he was in the habit of stepping into the water when lie was out for a walk. There were spots on the trouser leg, which appeared to have been washed. There were stains of blood, on the wristbands of his shirt. He said he could not account for it. On the Monday I went to Mr. Clements's office, and with one of the keys found on the prisoner I opened his desk, and found the diary that was shown to the prisoner in his cell. He was asked if that was his handwriting, and he said it was : he did it after he saw the women, but he was intoxicated at the time. George Watkins, policeman, deposed that after Baker's clothes were taken off he said they had found some blood on his sleeve which he couldn't account for. The doctor seemed to think it was he, but as for his boots being wet that was nothing, as he was in the habit of walking in the dew and washing his boots even before going to the office. If the case were gone on with, he should be defended ,• and if he did not get off he must be hanged. That was all he intended to say about it. It.being now nearly six o'clock, and it being stated that Dr. Taylor was to be examined, Mr. Justice Mellor said that the better way would now ,1 De to adjourn the trial to the morning. MR. MELVILLE'S PICTURE. When the court reassembled a petition was pre sented from Mr. Alexander Melville, the artist, praying the court to make him some recompense for the loss he had sustained in reference to the picture painted by him and his wife, representing the pre sentation of the freedom of the City to his loyal Highness the Prince of Wales. Upon the motion of 1)r. SAUNDERS, and after a long discussion, the court agreed to present Mr. Melville with 300 guineas. TILE FERNDALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Upon the motion of Deputy JONES, the court unanimously agreed that the corporation should subscribe the sum of £250 in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the above calamity. TIIE PROPOSED COUNTY RATE FOR THE CITY. Mr. R. N. P 'muPs presented a petition of in habitants and ratepayers of the City of London, agreed to at a public meeting held at Salter's Hotel, Holborn-bridge, against the proposal to levy a county rate, and praying that the court will procure, if necessary, such an alteration in the law as shall effectually protect the citizens of London from the imposition of such a rate. The petition was referred to the Local Govern ment and Taxation Committee, and the court ad journed. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 5. In the Commission Court yesterday an applica tion was made to have John Walsh, a prisoner who is charged with firing at a Crown witness in Black — rock, admitted to bail, as the Crown had sent up no bill of indictment against him to the grand jury. An affidavit was made by the Crown solicitor to the effect that the Crown could not proceed in the ab sence of a material witness, John Devany, who is in London, giving evidence in the prosecution against " Colonel" Burke. The Court held that the Crown had made a case to bring the facts within the ex ception to the Habeas Corpus Act, and refused the application. Four men who were lately found by the police in a publichousein Marlborough-street, armed With re volvers, and one of whom expressed regret that the promptitude of the constable who arrested him had prevented him from using his, pleaded guilty to au indictment for having arms in a proclaimed dis trict, and were sentenced to 12 months' imprison ment. A case of garotting occurred at the suburb of Rathgar on Sunday evening. A lady, who had just left an omnibns and was proceeding home, was set upon within sight of her own house by a man who nearly choked her, and robbed her of all the money she bad. A labourer named Hogan was arrested, whom she believed to be the highwayman. He has been remanded for further examination. The recent murder of Mr. Waters, a respectable fAriner near Bally inalion, in the county of Longford, has excited deep sympathy in the locality. A sub scription list for a reward fund has been opened by the Farmers' Club, of which he was a member, to ail the Government in its efforts to discover the murderer. Tae shirt and coat of (fuin, the man wh) was arrestel on suspicion, have been found by the police concealed in Lis house. IADVERTISEMENT.I—IioIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-- With autumn come many discuses of the skin which de mand instant attention if the patient wish to be spared much annoyance through the winter. These remedies will be found most effective in repressing erysipelas and inflammations generally, and in healing up sore legs, wounds, and ulcerations in the kindest manner, without exciting pain or tending to weaken the - patient, which would infallibly increase his sufferings and retard his cure. Holloway's pills should be taken during this course of treatment, which they will make easier and more success ful at the same time. They will improve the appetite, and materially aid digestion, a matter of the most material im portance when lowering infi•mities afflict the weak, deli cate, or aged. LAW AND POLICE. THE BREADALBANE PEERA.GH CLAMS. —The claim of Mr. John Campbell, of Fort William, Inverness, to the dignities of Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, &c., was again before their lordships the Committee for Privileges on Thursday. It was a special sitting to take the evidence of a gentleman—Lieut. Donald Campbell, the brother of the claimant, who was very infirm, his health being in a pre carious state. His evidence, however, was not clear on the point of relationship, and their lordships refused to admit it. Several witnesses were then examined, who only spoke Gaelic, and whose evidence had to be received through an interpreter. The committee adjourned sine die before the claimant's case was concluded. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND Co.—ln the matter of Overend, Gurney, and Co., a case came before Vice-Chan cellor Maims, in which a Mr. Swan claimed for £26,545. Mr. Swan's case was that 0 verend, Gurney, and Co. were indebted to him under these circumstances :—Messrs. Cattley and Co., of St. Petersburg, drew bills for the amount of £26,545 on Overend, Gurney, and Co., who accepted the same. The bills were dishonoured at matu rity, as alleged, under protest, and were then taken up fJr the honour of the drawers, Messrs. Cattley and Co., who now claimed to be a creditor for that amount. The offi cial liquidator resisted the claim on the ground that there was no evidence to shew that Cattley and Co. were unable to pay the amount of the bills. The case ultimately stood over for the production of certain affidavits. SLANDER.—In a case in the Bail Court, " Copplestone v. Sissmore," the plaintiff was a respectable tradesman, carrying on the business of a greengrocer, and also that of a remover of furniture. The defendant is a retired sur geon of the Indian army, residing near the plaintiff. About the time of the removal of the furniture the de fendant lost his money, and in a moment of irritation he charged the plaintiff with having stolen from him twelve £5 notes. The defendant having intimated his in tention of withdrawing the imputation, the plaintiff con sented to a verdict of 25 ss. A verdict was therefore taken for that amount. arnEET OUTRAGE.—At the Middlesex Sessions, on Thurs day, Isaac Bentley was indicted for a street outrage and stealing a gold chain and locket, value 205., the property of a young lady named Emily Louisa Lewis, from her person. The prosecutrix, a respectable-looking young woman, said she was walking along Endell-street, Covent garden, when the prisoner rushed up to her and snatched her gold chain and locket from her neck. This occurred in the daylight. Prisoner was apprehended and given into custody. He was now found guilty, and sentenced to four months' hard labour. DAMAGES FOR AN ASSAULT.--At the Manchester As sizes two actions were brought against a man named Hall, an officer of a building society, one by a dealer in build ing materials named Peridy for assault, and the other by a Mrs. Parker, a widow, for slander. Mrs. Parker was a shareholder in Hall's building society, and some dispute having arisen as to the amount of her contributions she waited upon Hall in company with her friend Peridy, an old man. In the course of the altercation which ensued Hall called her a thief, liar, &c., and attacked Peridy and broke two of his ribs, as well as inflicting other injuries. The slander was denied, but the violence was admitted. The jury returned a verdict in the slander case for the defendant ; in the assault case for the plain tiff; damages, ATTEMPTED FRAUD BY A MINER. Peter or Patrick Bowling, a miner, has been tried before Sheriff Bell, at Dunfermline, on a charge of attempted fraud. The prisoner worked in the Prathouse Pit, where it is the prac tice for the colliers to attach to each ton of coal a string knotted in a peculiar manner to shew who is entitled to be credited with it on its arrival at the mouth of the pit. Bowling had removed the string of a miner named Archi bald, and attached his own to the tub, with the view of being credited with work he had not done. He was found guilty, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, in addition to the five weeks he had already undergone. This was said to be the first case of the kind adjudicated upon in Scotland. EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A BOY.-At the Win- chester Assizes, on Tuesday, two ploughmen, named Limburn and Bunday, were charged with causing bodily harm to a boy 12 years of age, named White. While ploughing in a field, the prisoners took hold of the boy and put him in the furrow, and " ploughed him in," covering him with the earth. He remained there whilo they made a turn. The prisoners then came back and drove the horses opposite to where the boy was, and turned them round, a-id in doing so one of the horses stepped upon the boy's right thigh and broke it. He was attended by two surgeons, and was laid up for thirteen weeks, and his leg was still weak. It was urged that the boy was put in the furrow for a joke, got sulky, refused to get up again, and sustained the injury by not gettin g out of the way. Prisoners received a good character from their employer. A verdict of not guilty was returned. ALLEGED ASSAULT ON A PEDESTRIAN. - At the Man chester Assizes, John Fleet, a pedestrian, sought to recover damages from Mr. Bellhouse, an engineer, for injuries received. The plaintiff was engaged in training for a match, and while running with his trainer along a public footpath was, according to his account, struck by the defendant, and so hurt by being driven against the wall that he has not been able to run so well as he could before, and has lost two out of three matches since he was hurt. For the defence it was stated that the plaintiff came into collision with the defendant, and fell against the wall. No blows were struck. The surgeon described the injury to have been very slight, and the jury found a verdict for the defendant. TIIE THIEVES' BAZAAR.— The Soltt,:iWark Cileves' bazaar case Was disposed of on Thursday at the Surrey Se,sions. The accused couple, James and Mary Johnson, who, it was proved, carried on the bazaar business under the guise of honest general dealers, were found guilty of the theft of which they were charged, and James r,ceived seven years' penal servitude and Mary twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. Numerous previous con victions were established against the male prisoner ; hence the disparity in the sentences. RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.—James Horley, tne possessor of a large quantity of property supposed to have been stolen, has been brought up on remand at the Mansion . House Police-court. It was stated that, in addition to the money and property discovered, a savings' bank book had been found in which stood £lBO to the credit of the prisoner. It was also mentioned that the prisoner was connected with two building socie ties. A hosier recognised some of the articles discovered as his, and stated that he had been robbed of between £6OO and £7OO worth of property. For the defence it was alleged that the goods were bought from time to time in Petticoat-lane. The prisoner was sentenced to four months', imprisonment with hard labour. DUCK-SHOOTING AL LOA G POINT. (From a Corresponden! of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.) A few years ago, very early one October morning, being deep in the land of dreams, methought Gabriel blew his trumpet, and playfully, like the addressal to the merry Swiss boy, bade me "arise" and walk up to the captain's office and settle. Says Ito myself, within myself, "I'm a dead man sure, and this is examination-day." Feeling, like the King of the Cannibal Islands, that I had " gone to kingdom come," I was wondering how things stood on the books, and if the account was all debit, how I should ever get it balanced, and whether when I'd been there ten thousand years on an antiseptic diet., I should have any less days to continue the proceeding. Not looking Lope . - fully at all at the prospect and the Plutonian shore, I was "made alive" to hurry and drop conjecture by Gabriel's de liberately punching me with his trumpet in the hindmost portion of my humanity. Feeling, naturally, that he was rather " crowding a mourner," I drew off and was just about to give Lim "one," when I awoke to find my friend endeavouring to convince me that a little more sleep or any more slumber was out of the question if I intended to get under weigh that morning. So I tumbled out, as th(33 , say aboard ship, and not being fully arrived at my senses, I could not help thinking that it was just as well for Gabriel that he did not catch that fel low intended for him on the portion of his celestial face divine which the poetic describers of pugilistic encounters beautifully term the "kisser," else he would have had hard work to have blown his own trumpet, and I could not but think, all things considered, that it was just as well I woke up; for he had trebly the advantage of me, being in his own element and having wings and a trumpet, and would probably have "sent me to grass," or elsewhere. With dressing and breakfast little Units, was lost, and I was soon on my winding way for Erie. 'T was pleasant to escape from the everlasting monotony of our Little Ped dington and the sound of bow-bells (Gannet's); to breathe an atmosphere of freedom for a few weeks, delivered from the coils of the serpent propriety, in whose embrace we all writhe and suffer tortures equal to Laocoon. This feeling of escape from the jaws of scandal—from the flowery, pekoe conversation of our Christian neigh bour, and ledger, and brokers, and butchers, gives a won derful energy to starting for " The wilderness, For a few days," even though the result may not be all our fancy painted it, and so we got quite easily and pleasantly over what is in itself by no means a pleasant journey. We rode by rail first to Buffalo, then to Caledonia, thence, over heavy roads in a lumber wagon, twenty-two miles to Port London, where we were to embark for Long Point—and now my story begins. We were three X., Y., Z. The first by no means the representative of an unknown quantity, as we used to con sider it at school, but a whole-souled, vigorous homo. The second, first of Christians, good fellows and shots, who has since been called to his long home, and whose genial, kindly manners and honesty of purpose were as attractive as his good-natured face. Lastly, myself, the Omega of the party. The only craft we could get was an abortion in model, viz., a wall-sided schooner boat, with a bluff bow, and run like a molasses hogshead, forty-odd feet long, and, about five feet beam ; her foremast was. stepped almost in the eyes of her mainmast, well aft, with a bowsprit three feet long; her sails were very narrow, with a good deal of hoist. She was decked over, with a trunk just high enough to sit in and largo enough to hold two, with standing room sufficiently spacious to admit the legs of the man at the helm. The tiller was made of iron, about a foot long, aud bent like the handle of a grindstone. Amidships she bad a hatch nearly ten feet long and almost the width of the boat, with no thing to hold it down in case the sea came over her. Iu this crazy craft, drawing very little water, ballasted with only a few wheelbarrows full of sand and our dun nage,—.which, luckily, was very heavy, and to which fact I attribute our salvation—we started. The wind was nearly aft, and being off shore we were not aware how hard it blew, and we left under all sail, but had hardly passed the entrance of the harbour when it was found necessary to douse the mainsail, and we be came aware that the breeze was more than fresh. • Soon we discovered that our Palinurus was a novice—a black smith by trade, and knew as much about a boat and her management as a hog does about the Apocalypse. He had been tempted by the devil, and the idea that she went cheap, to invest in her, and concluded that a man at the helm was all that could be required, were he blacksmith) horse-claauuter, or sailor. This son of Vulcan was soon brought to a realising sense of the fact that, if his ignorance had heretofore been bliss, 'twas by no means folly to avail himself of whatever wisdom and experience others might have, and, after going through as many changes of colour as a chameleon, he fairly funked and ceded his prerogative. 'Twas trust to luck and do the best you could, and it was, as Jack says, " blowing a funeral." There was no getting back, as the wind would have been "dead on end," and there was not a possibility of working her on the wind ; so we kept on, rolling gunwale under, and seeming every moment as if we should" turn turtle." The jib was stowed and we were under foresail alone, and too much of that ; but we could not reef it, there king no points. We were fairly in for it, with seeming chance of going to,leeward of the Point, into the middle of the lake, and our hopes for the future were about as good as those of the " three wise men of Gotham." We expected every moment;the sail would jibe over, and then good-bye to the mast, which would have been a highly agreeable kettle of fish, and the way she yawed about was a caution to the saltest kind of sinners. After two hours of this pleasant pastime, which seemed an eternity, we approached the land, and, as the wind canted a little, we could keep her up more, and the danger of going out into the expanse of waters thereby lessened. On we went, and soon saw that directly ahead of us was I% shoal, and the water most considerably lively upon it. There was nothing to do bnt " let her rip," and trust to the " little cherub that sits up aloft." I remember my doubtful feelings as to what was to be the result. Would she plump and knock her bottom out of her and the water broach•over us—would she roll over and consign us to " What's his name," under the waves, or would she drive over it ? Fate, and the fact that " those born to be hung will never be drowned," favoured us, and striking and twisting, and laying down to it and surging— " thump, bump, bump, thump, like the ghost in Don Gio vanni," we hammered over. _ _ _ In a short time we entered the creek that leads to the shanties, and as we could not get up with our ballyhoo we transferred the traps to punter's skiffs, and left the son of Mulciber to seek_his own salvation—who, for his sins, I pray, like his prototype, may ever go " pede claws." Like St. Paul, I have been in " perils by sea, in perils on land," but I never came so near, in my opinion, to losing the number of my mess as 1 did on that occasion. Arrived at the landing, we toted our traps into a clean, well-built, comfortabl e s h an t y, surroun d e d w ith b an k s o f black-walnut, with a table and stove in the centre of it. This shanty had been loaned to us by a gentleman who had built it, and we were comfortable as possible. There are several shanties at Long Point. One belongs to Harry —the redoubtable Harry, head of all things, and prime mover, caterer, centre, and king. The punters oc cupy one by themselves, and the surrounding ones have been built by those persons who have gone there habitually. I speak of several years ago'. I have heard lately that Long Point, or that portion of it where the shooting is, has been sold to a party of Canadian gentlemen, and as Harry was a squatter, probably things have changed. Long Point is a narrow peninsula, extending some 25 miles or more into the lake, quite remote from civilisation. In the bight, at the centre of which are the shanties, are extended fields of wild rice, stretching two miles or more towards the lake, and running several miles parallel to the land ; and it is to this resort that the ducks go for food. I don't know any place where there are so many varieties of clucks, and where they are in such fine condition. As it was late when we arrived, and the punters were off, we waited till next day before trying our luck, and contented ourselves with preparations. Betimes next morning we were astir, and each started under the guidance of his particular Moses to punt him to the promised spot. The worthy Ayres—estimable, good natured, and respectable—fell to my lot, and guns, decoys, ammunition-boxes, and lastly, not leastly in the eyes of a punter, whisky, being all aboard, we pushed off. The style of shooting is a charming one. A nice, long, stiff, but light punt, with a comfortable seat and plenty of room, floats you over different depths of water—sometimes very shoal, sometimes four or five feet deep—through these rice-fields to the edge of the fields and the lake, where, pushing the boat into a bunch of rice, you bide your time, after setting the decoys. _ _ All the way mallards, widgeon, and black ducks are getting up before you, and you have quite a number of shots before you get to your stand. Soon the birds begin to head for the feeding grounds, mil the sport and success vary according to the weather. If a still, sunny day, the flight is not so good as on a more windy ono. Towards night you leave the spot occupied during the day, and push n6arer home to await the night flight. _ . . - This conies on just about twilight, and the number of birds that whiz and whistle and whir above and around you is extraordinary. You toad and fire, and fire and load till darkness renders it but folly to continue any longer. Then comes the "pick up." Very many have fallen too far off to find, many wounded have skulked away, and so you must content yourself with those you are lucky enough to find in your immediate vicinity. The marking down and recollections of the punters are something extraordinary, and the amount of birds found greatly in advance of what one could believe possible. The result of our day's shooting was ninety-two birds to three boats, and the species were canvazsbacks (three wero got), red heads, American widgeon, blue-bills, grey ducks, black ducks, and mallards—and all in splendid condition. Next morning, though windy and raining, we started again; but after a few hours of drenching and discomfort, boat half full of water and guns wet, we concluded, if that was sport, we had as-lief -be miserable, and pushed home. In the night the wind increased to what at sea we should log as half a gale; and one unlucky schooner, laden with gunpowder, came ashore. The gentlemanly mate—brim ful of kindly feeling, generosity, and whisky—infringing slightly on the eighth commandment, which makes it so easy to give away what belongs to another, bestowed with a freedom truly lavish, eight or ten kegs upon the punters. These, with a wise precaution and for their safe keeping , were placed in their shanty, in pleasant proximity to the pipe smokers, and about four feet from a red hot stove. 1 shall never forget the look of dismay and alarm of "Y, ,, when ho discovered the locality of the combustible—an d really there was serious reason for contemplation. 'Twas no joke, after escaping Scylla the lake, to be blown to Gaily West by Charybdis the powder. The punterewere, in the words of the song, "a fine set of fellows," full of fun and spirits, animal and ardent, and: being alive to any proposition to " make dull care avaunt, ' acceded with readiness to the motion of one of their num her to explode a keg or two, and thus wake snakes, the echoes, and their sleeping neighbours. Accordingly, the next night, after we were snugly:ensconced in our bunks, dreaming of ducks, and geese, and swans, and were killing right and left, there came a peal as if the whole stack of artillery empyrean had exploded at once. What had taken place we did not know, but, concluding that precaution was the better part of valour, we turned out. These playful fellows were about to renew' the experi ment, delighted with the success of their first effort, but expostulation, in terms equally strong as polite, induced them to forego a repetition of tho amusement. So We turned in again.feeling strongly the necessity of the prayer to be "delivered from battle, and murder, and sudden death." The day after the blow the weather came in bright and pleasant, and we promised ourselves much sport, as every" thing was favourable. We took our positions and were, getting along famously—birds plenty and decoying wel l when our attention was drawn to a continuous loud shout ing about half a mile to leeward of us. At first we OP' posed it to be either skylarking or hailing some coraps nions by another boat, but it continued so long and was se peculiar that Ayres expressed his fears some accident bed occurred. As there were several boats nearer than our selves, we did not move down to learn the occasion of the uproar, but continued our shooting. In about half an hour we were informed by parties in one of the boats returning by our stand, that an awful accident had occurred. It seems that a Canadian gentleman and his punter were both shooting, standing up in their boat ; the gentlema n put his gun up t 3 shoot at some birds coming toward° them and following them, and fired just as the barrels came in line with the punter's head. The man was killed instantly, and half his head blown off. The horror of the thing, and the fact that we could a° longer enjoy our sport, stopped the day's proceedings, and we went back to the shanty, packed our ducks to be shiPlo' home, trusting they would arrive in good order—but faith in railroads is as foolish as in princes—and, after muc h delay, they arrived in a condition much " higher than 11 kite," and dispensing an aroma so unlike Araby that th e y were consigned to the dock. We stayed, after this, several days, with good lung attending our shooting, but were never free from the effe ° of the accident upon our minds. The unfortunate cause was our neighbour, and his condition was little better then a crazy man, and the poor punter's body lay in the boat 1° which he was killed, covered with a blanket, awaiting the arrival of the coroner. We left in a good, able boat belonging to Harry, and after a sail of eight miles arrived at Port William and started homeward. The shooting at Long Point is as g° ° as one can desire; tho manner of doing it pleasant a n d easy ; the variety of the birds vary, and their condition ce n i . hardly be excelled. What can a man wish for more ? have had some experience in the West and South, an also the Chesapeake, but Long Point is as good es a°?' and the purchasers or lessees have pitched their tents 1° pleasant places. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The following is an extract from a letter froul Colonel Merewether, just received by Sir Staffor d Northcote " We have just returned from a most interesting and important reconnaissance up the pass frn al Koomoglee to within five miles by road W I ; Senafee, a distance of 41 miles. There were se" very bad places in one part, but the road has been made now by the sappers easy for passage of cavalry' infantry, mules, and camels ; and it will, I tbinl' prove the chief line of route as leading at once t °6 good position on the highlands of Abyssinia in t, " O , direction we have to go, and to a spot within O s " reach. "To-morrow we start up the Haddes to exaruin e that, to as near as we can get to Tekonda, with °llt actually entering it, or compromising the inhabit ants by opening communications with them. " Sir 11,. Napier's excellent proclamation was s e nt out on the 6th inst., and I hope for the best resul t from it. Directly the ruler of Tigre, now Prin ce Kassai, a rebel against Theodorus, shows he inte ll ".,i acting in a friendly manner towards us, there vgi a be no impropriety in visiting both Tekonda O t Senafee; but until he does it would not be j est to the people of those places to make them run the lie; of encountering his disp.easure before we were iu position to protect them. suitably it I have been very vexed not to find a suit s plateau short of the Abyssinan highlands, bu t was misled by the richness of the Agametta plat e : west of Massowah, and have only now learn ; what no one seemed to have been able to tell of before, that, as you go south of the latitude if Massowah, the lower hills become more peat volcanic ; indeed, in some places entirely, en ti vegetation diminishes parri passu. The troops that have landed are, I am happysa to say, in excellent health and spirits. r ill e „ c r, Light Cavalry had been losing horses from l e i o rl but to-day on my Arrival here I was glad to to the disease disappearing. It was clearly cow i log the effects of the sea voyage from India, and l'" cooped up on board ship." A FEMALE MARKSMAN.—A Swiss journal ow. 0 , that a young woman named Anna Arnold, sister of 3131 :,.0 keeper at Willisaau (Lucerne), has just carried o ff the i 135 prize at a rifle-shooting competition of that town, 113 v made a white with every shot. v •AIV A FEMALE CUT TO PIECES ON A RAILN. - jo y On Tuesday a woman, supposed to be named Ann 01°1. 00 0 cook in a gentleman's family, having been out for 804 time on business, was returning home, at Streatham? 011 0 in order to do so had to cross the line at the station° ...of; had made scarcely three paces when one of the fast o ttire came along. The driver saw the danger the poor er °3 ;bis was in and attempted to stop the train, but he was 411 :i c iet to do so in time, and the buffer s t ru ck h er on the w oo l hurling her some distance. The wheels of the eng i o o to carriages then passed over her, literally cutting neriosea pieces. The mangled remains were gathered up and P in a room until the inquest is held. 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