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year, before harvest, and I asked him where Maria I Martin was ; he said she was all right enough, and he believed she was under Mr. Mathews's protec tion at that time. The letters were put in and read as follows : " London, Bull Inn, Leadenhall-street, " Thursday, Oct. Is, IS2I. " Thomas Martin—l am just arrived at London upon business respecting our family affairs, and am writing to you before I take the least refreshment, because I should he : in time for this night's post, as my stay in town will be very short, anxious to return again to her who is now my wif e , and with whom I shall be one of the happiest of men. I should have had her with me, but it was her wish to stay at our lodgings at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, which she described to you in her letter ; and n e feel astonished that you have not yet answered it, thinking illness must have been the cause. In that she gave you a full descrip tion of our marriage, and that Mr. Rowland was daddy, and Miss, bride's-maid; likewise told . you they came with WI as far as London, when we continued together very com fortable for three days, when we parted with the greatest regret. Maria and myself went on to the Isle of Wight, and they both returned home. I told Maria I should write to you directly I reached London, who is very anxious to hear from you, fearful some strange reason is the cause of your not writing; she requested that you would inclose Mr. Peter's letters in one of your own, should he write to you, that we may know better how to act. She is now mine, and I should wish to study for her comfort as well as my own. Let us know all respecting Mr. Peter, and if you can possibly write by return of post, direct for Mr. W. C. at the above Inn. Maria wished me to give her love to Nancy, and a kiss for her little boy, hoping every possible care is taken of him, and tell your wife to let Nancy have any of Maria's clothes she may think proper, for she says she have got so many they will only spoil, and make use of any she may like herself. In her letter she said a great deal about little Henry, who she feels anxious to hear about, and will take him to herself as soon as we can get a farm whereby we can gain a livelihood, which I shall do the first I can meet worth notice, for living without some business is very ex pensive, still provisions are reasonable in the Isle of Wight : I think cheaper than in any part of England. Thank God we are both well, hoping this will find you all the sane. We have both been on the water, and have had some sea sickness, which I consider have been very useful to us both. My cough I have lost entirely, which is a great con solation. In real truth I feel better than I ever did in my Site only in this short time. Maria told you in Ler letter Low ill I was for two days at Portsmouth, which is seven miles over the water to the Isle of Wight, making altogether ftS9 miles from Polstead. I would say more but time will not permit, therefore Maria unites with me for your wel fare, and may every blessing attend you. Mind you direct so Wm. M. C. at the Bull lnn, Leadenhall-street, London ; write to-morrow if you can, if not, write soon enough for b'atAirday's post, that I may get it on Sunday morning, when I shall return to Maria directly I receive it. En close Mr. Peter's letters, and let us know whether be has acknowledged little Henry. You must try and read my scribble, but I am afraid you will never make it out.—l remain, your well wisher, W. C. " P.S. I think you had better burn all letters, after taking the directions, that nobody may form the least idea of oar residence. Adieu. " To Thomas Martin, Polstead, near Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, with speed." The above letter was answered by Martin deny ing the receipt of any letter from his daughter, and thereupon he received the following:— " October 23, 1827. "Thomas Martin.--I received your letter this morn ing, which reached London yesterday; but letters are not delivered out on a Sunday here, that I discovered on making inquiry yesterday. However, I could not get through my business before this afternoon, and am going &min to Poets» mouth by this night's coach. I have been ibis Ai); to the General Post-office, making inquiry about the letter Maria sent to you, on the 30th of Septeinber, which you say never came to your hands. The Clerk of the Office traced the book back to the date it was wrote, and he said a letter directed as I told him to you never came through their office, which I think is very strange; however, I 'am de termined to find out how it was lost, if possible. But I must think of coming over the water to Portsmouth, which I will inquire about to-morrow, when I hope to find out the mystery. It is, I think, very odd that letters should be lost in this strange way—was it not for the discoveryof our residence, I certainly would indict the post-office; but I cannot do that without making our appearance at a Court Marshal, which would be very unpleasant to us both. You wish for us to come to Polstead, which we should be very h a ppy to do, but you are not aware of the danger. You may depend, if we ever fall into Mr. P.'s bands, the con sequence would be fatal—therefore, should be write to you, or should he come to Polstead, you must tell him you have not the least knowledge of us, but you think we are gone to some foreign part. I think, if you do not hear from him before long, you had better write and tell him you cannot support the child without some assistance, for we are gone you know not where. If you tell him you hear from us he will force you to say where we was; therefore I think it will be best not to acknowledge anything at all. I inclose one pound, and you shall hear from us again in a short time; this will not reach you before. Wednesday morning, as lam too late for this night's pat. You said your wife did not like to take any of Maria's clothes ; she said in her last letter that her old clothes were at their ser vice—l mean your wife and Nancy; but she shall write again as soon as possible. I must now bid you adieu ; the coach will start in about ten minutes. I have been so much employed all day, I could not write before. Believe me to be your well-wisher for your future welfare, W. M. C. " To Mr. Martin, Polstead, near Colchester (post-paid)." Peter Mathews, Esq., examined by Mr. KELLY— I reside in London, ma have relations at Polstead ; I knew Maria Martin, and also the prisoner, w. Corder; I knew Maria Martin for some years; I saw her the last time, I believe, on the,3lst August, 1826 ; I was at Polstead in July, 1627, and slits , Corder thrice; I conversed with him on the subject of Maria Martin ; I wished to see Corder, to make inquiry of him respecting a note which I had lost; it was a 51. Bank of England note; I put a variety of questions to h im respecting the .c o t e an d l e tt er , and he said he knew nothing of them ;,;‘ told him it tivas a letter which I had sent on the 3d of January, 1827, with a 51. note inclosed, aw l he d'aiett all knowledge of it ; I ha d a second i nterview,: with him, in consequence of a letter, tne prisoner brought to my sister's house; I have in my possesses a letter, which I received from the prisoner in August; I produce it; I believe it to be the prisoner's hand writing; I had a subsequent conversation with him eferring to this letter. Gardner the witness was recalled, and proved the letter to be the hand-writing of the prisoner. A few lines of the letter were read; it acknowledged Mr. Mathew's forbea - sance, in not prosecuting him for stealing the Si. note from the letter. Mr. Mathews continued -.4 produce another letter, which I received from the prisoner in August, 1827; it is in the band -writing of the goner. Sunday Afternoon, Aug. 26, 1827. Sin--In reply to your generous letter which reached me yesterday, I beg to inform you that I was i n d eed hum. cent of Maria Martin's residence at the time yOu requested me to forward the letter I took from Brandford, and will candidly confess that Maria has been with a disAant female relation of mine since the month of May. About five weeks ago they both went into Norfolk to visit some o f my kindred's friends. On Friday week I received a letter from my kindred, who informed me that Maria was some what indisposed, and that they were then in a village called Horingby, near Yarmouth. I returned an answer by the next post, and inclosed your letter for Maria, which I found reached her perfectly safe. As I took the Yarmouth coach last Wednesday from Ipswich Lamb Fair, and went to Horingby, when I was sorry to learn that Maria's indis• paeitiou Waa caused by a sere gathering on the back of her hand, which caused her great pain, and which prevented her from writing to you, as her fingers are at present -im movable; knowing you would be anxious to hear from her, I particularly wished her to write the first moment she found herself able, which she promised very faithfully to do. I gave her a particular account of our dialogue at Polstead Hall, not forgetting the remarkable kindness I experienced from you, which 1 shall 9ver most gratefully acknowledge, and likewise return you my most grateful thanks for your goodness in respect to the enterprise on my account when in London.l remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, " WM. CORDER. " P. S. I have already inclosed your letter for Maria, with my own, which I shall post with dais immediately, and beg permission to add, that I have fully determined to make Maria In) bride directly I can settle our family affairs, which will be about a month or six weeks' time.— Tell them Maria will continue with my kindred. In con cluding, if I can at any time render you any service what soever, I shall he most happy to oblige, as I am truly sen sible of your generosity. " For Peter Mathews, Esq., tenfield, near Wokingham, Berkshire." " Benfiehl, near Wokingham, 2d Sept. 1827. " Mr. Wm. Corder,—l received your letter on Tuesday last, and thank you for forwarding my two enclosures. 1 was so' ry to hear of the painful swelling upon the back of Maria's hand, and from not hearing from her I fear she is still suffering much pain from it. I will thank you to add the necessary direction to the enclosed, and forward it to her immediately. Let me know her full direction, that I may write to her if necessary without troubling you with the letter to forward for the future. From the postscript in your letter I am glad to find your willingness to make good your promise to Maria. I wish to be a friend to all, and with a sincere wish for her happiness awl future in terest, and with a friendly feeling for your own welfare, and for the sake of your worthy mother, who has recently suf fered such heavy affliction in her severe bereavement of your father and three children, I am desirous of giving you and Maria my friendly counsel upon the measure you have in contemplation. For the advantage, interest, and future happiness of all parties, my advice would be offered to you both ; and after I had, satisfactorily to my own mind, performed that kind duty, I should, with sincere good wishes for her happiness and your own, leave the matter to your own joint reflection and determination.—l am your's, &c., " P. MATHEWS." Mr: Mathews resumed—When I saw the prisoner in July, 1827, he said Maria was living somewhere in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth. I made a me morandum in my pocket-book of the evening—it was the :31st July. He connected Maria Martin's name with the 51. note. I left Polstead on the 9th of August, 1827. I had a conversation with the prisoner the 9th of Au g ust, about a letter which I had written the day before, and directed to Maria Martin. The prisoner said he really could not tell how to forward it by post, for he could not tell what direction to put on it. I told him I was afraid he was deceiving me, and I must insist upon his for warding it. He said he would forward it—he did not exactly know where she was, but it was some where in Yarmouth. I met the prisoner on the 19th of November afterwards, near Somerset-house. I asked him if he had forwarded a letter to Maria Martin, inclosed to him for her on the 2d of Sep tember? He told me that he had. I told him that I was surprised at not receiving any answer, or any letter at all from the young woman. He said either that he had, or he thought he had, written an an swer. I told him the only letter I had received was the one dated the 2Gth of August. I put it to the prisoner where Maria Martin then was. He said he had left her in the Isle of Wight. I told him that her father bad written to me once or twice, and that be was uneasy at not knowing where she was. He said that he had written and informed her father where she was. I asked him if he was married, and he said no, and he had not yet settled his family affairs, and assigned that as a reason for the delay and not having married her before. I can state posi tively to the 19th of November, because I was leaving town that day. James Lee, examined by Mr. ANDREWS—I am a police officer at Lambeth -street; on the 22d of April of this year, I went to Grove-house, Ealing, where the prisoner resided, at ten o'clock in the morning; I saw the prisoner, and told him I had a little busi ness with him ; he said, walk into the drawing room; I did so; arid told hini I was an officer from London, and came to apprehend him on a very se rious charge ; I told him he must consider himself My prisoner; he said very well; I said the charge was about a young woman of the name of Maria Martin, that he formerly kept company with; I said that 'she had been missing for a length of time, and strong suspicions were attached to him ; I said to " I believe you know such a person, a young woman you kept company with in Suffolk ?" he said no, he did not know such a person; I said, " did you never know such a person ?" he said no, and that I must have made a mistake, for he could not be the person I wanted; I' said, " no, I have not made a mistake—your name is Corder, and I am certain you are the person; I told him to recollect himself; I had asked him twice if lie knew such a person as Maria Martin, and I would ask him a third time; he replied that he had never known such a person ; I then took from his pocket a bunch of keys, and took him to the Red Lion at Ealing, and on the way I told him the kody of the young woman had been found in his barn; he made no remark then, and we proceeded to some distance, when he asked when was the young woman found? I told him on Saturday last ; he made no further reply ; I then left him at the Red Lion in custody, and re turned to his house • I saw Mrs. Corder and her brother, who shewc me into a .dressing-room ; I opened two writing desks with the keys the prisoner had given to me, and I Mr. BRODERiCK objected that the mere circum stance of the prisoner having given the witness :a bunch of keys, which opened some drawers, did not warrant the reception of evidence as to any property found in the house. . Mr. ANDREWS replied he would obviate the dif lied ty. Examination continued.—l had some conversa tion with the prisoner respecting some pistols I had found in, the house. As we were coming to Bury gaol, he said (to the best of my recollection) that he would make me a present of them. [The'pistols, in a black velvet bag, were then so . ner to hear tiagt6rsingtEighteeP'i pro duced, but immediately put by].-1 don't recollect that any' thing - had previously passe'd about the pistols ; lig told me he had bought them when he was 10 . years of age, at Ipswich ; this was when I N p vi o s si , t b i ri c. n n ginghitri to ' nury gaol at Polstead. I had then„beeft examined before the coroner, and my de was, reduced, to writing. I took the pri nioit s oh, : : t b i e o l,ea i na s ukt read over to him, and T m hi dressing-room n e e y I N v v e a r s ehaarnon m Eb b aagl e i r n . ogn a l ap found i nt h pistols.e Mr. ANDREWS again called for the production of the pistols, • Mr. BRODERWK objected, that it did not appear that the pistols were the prisoner's, or found in his house; for non constat that the house was the house of theprisoner, there being other persons, T tiDt.. -They werein my By the 0 ,, ,- room all the time the prisoner was there. The CHIEF B A RON--.. think T 1 I should be strainin g the point very far, if I rejected this evidence. . (The pistols were then produced.) Examination resumed—On th e 30th of April I found a sword there, which I had previou,ly taken from the nail on which it hung when I was formerly at the house. ' Robert Offord—l am a cutler, r esiding at Had leigh, in this county. Last year the prisoner called at my house; this was in the latter part of March or beginning of April, 1827. He brought a small sword, and said, " Mr. Offord, I have brought a small sword, which I wish to have ground as sharp , as a carving -knif e , f or th e use o f a carv i ng -kni . He wi.Thed to have it done, and be would call for it that night. He said he had got a cousin about mar fel rying in about a fortnight. , I think I should know it again. Lea was then recalled, and produced the sword he found in the house in which he had taken the prisoner. It was in a trunk in the dressing-room. Offord recalled—ldentified the sword as the one he had sharpened for Corder. (It was about two feet in length, crescent-shaped, and perfectly bright.) Offord's examination continued—l ground it up quite sharp. It took a good deal of labour to sharpen it up bright. The prisoner tool: it home the same evening. Cross-examined—l will not swear that this was not before. Christmas, 1825. I don't keep a job hook, and speak only from recollection. I was working by candle-light; and so I do at Christmas time. Re-examined—There are two or three stains which are now on the front and the side, which were not on it when I delivered it to the prisoner. 'There are two or three scratches on it. There is a spot or two on it at the back,and some elsewhere sear the point. I can't say if they were on it when I gave it back to Corder. George Gardner (looks at the s word.)---I have seen one like this in Mrs. Corder's house. Cross-examined.—There was an alarm that Mrs. Corder's house was about to be robbed, in the spring of 1827. I sat up all night, and this was in the house. There had been robberies in the place about the time, and the people armed for their protection. John Baalem.—l am the constable ofPolstead. knew the prisoner and Maria Martin. I had never a warrant to apprehend her. I never told th e pri soner that I had a warrant to apprehend her, or that I had a letter from Mr. Whitmore to apprehend her. The clothes which were on the body were given to me at the inquest. I have had them ever since, Cross-examined.---I had heard it reported in the place, that Maria Marten would be taken up for having, bastard children. I have known prisoner all his life, and never knew him out of temper. Henry Harcourt.—l am a gun.maker at Sudbury, and know the prisoner. In February, 1827, he came and brought me a pair of pistols to be repaired. I don't know if these (those which Lee produced) be they. They were percussion pistols, and so are these. Percussion pistols have been invented about seven or eight years. Cross-examined.—The prisoner and a young woman took them away. I did not know her. They called for them on the sth of March. Thomas Acres--I lived some time at Polstead. I recollect Stoke Fair in 1827. I know the Red Barn at Polstead, and the thistley lay there. I never went over that field with a pick-axe on my shoulder. Cross-examined—l don't know what I was doing at the time of Stoke Fair. I don't know that I worked with a pick-axe at all that year. 1 wore a velveteen jacket, and so did the prisoner. John Lawton—l am a surgeon. I was present when the Coroner's .Tury went to view the body found in the Red Barn on the 20th of April. It had not been disturbed, except that the earth had been removed from the top of it. It lay in the hole in the barn in which it had been buried. It was in the right hand bay of the barn. It was, in parts, much decomposed, parts more than others. From my examination of the body, I should have said it had been in the ground nine or ten months or more, had I known nothing of it. The stays, flannel pet ticoat, shift, a handkerchief round the neck, stock ings and garters, and high shoes, with portions of a leghorn bonnet trimmed with -black. (Produces a silk handkerchief.) This was found underneath her hips. This is the handkerchief I took off the neck. (The rest of the articles be mentioned, the wit ness produced; they were nearly indistinguish able as to material or form of article.) — There was part of the sleeve of a blue coat, and the body was in part of a sack. The right hand was on the right breast. She was quite crowded down close together. It was a female body, a full-grown young woman. I examined the face. It was in a very bad state, but there was an appearance of blood about it, particularly on the right side of it. tfound the green striped hand ! kerchief round her neck. It was tied in the usual ' way, but drawn extremely tight, so as to form a com plete groove round the neck. It was apparently done for the purpose, as if it had been pulled so by some person. It was sufficiently tight, that I should say it would have killed any one. It would have produced strangulation. The hand might pass be tween • the interior and the exterior folds of the handkerchief. There was in the neck an appear. ance of a stab, about an inch and a half in length; it was perpendicular. It extended deep into the neck. I cannot say what parts particularly were injured by it, the body was so putrid. There was a wen on the neck, about the middle of the neck, in front. There was the appearance of an injury having been done to the right eye, and the right side of the face. It appeared as if something had passed into the eye, deep into the orbit, injuring the bone and the nose. I think it was done in two ways; by something passing in at the left cheek, and then out at the right orbit; and there was a stab also. It appeared as if a ball had passed through the left cheek, removing the two last grinders. The brain was in such a state that it was impossible to make any thing out of it. I don't think a ball so passing through would, of itself, cause death; but with the strangulation, and the stab in the neck, would have been sufficient, with the ball, to produce death. The bone dividing the nostrils was quite broken, and driven quite out of its place, apparently by the ball which had passed through. I opened the chest,. but did not discover any myself. There was an adhesion of the lungs to the membrane which lines the ribs on the right side. This would, in life, cause inflammation, and she would have complained of cough with pain in the side. I found two small pieces of bone in the throat, which might have fallen through during the progress of decomposition.— They .were parts of the interior of the nose, as I should think. The left hand was separated from the body; it had the appearance of a skeleton hand, and would have been produced by decomposition. I should think that the injuries, without the handker chief, would not have caused death; possibly they might from inflammation. I have since seen the heart and the ribs. I have myself a portion of the head. The ribs and the heart were brought by Mr. Nairn, a surgeon, to my house. I then saw where something had penetrated between the fifth and sixth ribs, and there was a stab in the heart which corre sponded with the opening in the ribs. It appeared to have been done with a sharp instrument. That injury wonld,have been sufficient alone to produce death. I fonnd a corresponding mark on the shift; the opening in the shift corresponded in size with that of the ribs. I saw no mark on the stays; they,_ were too much decomposed to have seen the opening on them if there bad formerly been .one.. , I have looked at. the sword which has been produced, which appears to fit the wound through the ribs and the opening in the shift. I penetrated two or three inches. It passed down the wound to that extent. I found one part of the wound wide, and the other narrow, so as to correspond with the sword. The ribs were in a very tolerable state of preservation. It appeared as if the wound in the heart had been made by an instrument like this sword. I fitted it also into a wound in the spheroidal sinus. It penetrated into it about an inch. I have examined the wound in the head with a bullet. (On inquiry it turned out that no bullet had been found in the barn ; but the one spoken of was found in the black reticule containing the pistols.) The bullet fitted the hole. I think the ball was first fired before the stab. I saw some blood on the shift, the stays, the hand kerchief round the neck, the lawn handkerchief, and the silk handkerchief, and apparently on the bonnet. I don't recollect any part of a shawl. I took off the garters ; they were made of narrow white tape. In taking hold of one of the shoes the foot came off. The lower and upper jaw bad each a tooth out; but cannot say oa which side the left jaw, the one \on the right, I think, had been out a long time. I am able to distinguish between the cavity of a tooth extracted while living, and that of one falling out by decay. I have the bead here. (Jaw produced.) This is the jaw, and there are now two teeth gone, the one on the left I think has fallen out since death, the other has been out much longer. Cross-examined—l am 30 in October. I have practised 12 months for myself. I was six years with Mr. Mudd, of Oedding. I have never seen a body dissected which had been buried nine or ten months. I did not perceive the stab in the ribs, or the pistol bullet in the barn ; this was because I could not then clean the bones sufficiently to examine so minutely. There was flesh on the face, but greatly decom posed. In a wound made during life the edges gape open : one made after death gapes very little. I opened the chest and the abdomen in the barn ; when I opened the chest, I made myself one wound in the heart. lam positiVe this was not the wound I have spoken of. The one I made was in the right ventricle, upper part of it : the other was just at the apex of the heart between the right and left ven tricle. I saw no injury other than I have spoken of : none made by a spade. The weight of the body might have tightened the handkerchief round the neck in that way, if it had been raised up by the handkerchief after death. I took the shift from the body, but saw no mark in the shift at that time. I did not look for it till I had discovered the wound in the heart. The ribs, when brought to me, had the skin on. I should have made the observations I did with respect to the body if it had been taken from a grave in the church-yard. My judgment is formed from my own observations, unmixed with what I have heard since. I can speak with certainty that the ball came out at the eye, from the manner in which the bones are driven; the bones are very much shattered. At the barn, I did not with cer tainty know whether this had been done by a pistol tol-bullet, or was the effect of decomposition. Re-examined--I have seen the dissection of dead bodies for 15 years. I could distinguish between a wound inflicted on digging up the body, and one giver► many months before. I believe that none of the wounds that I saw were done at the digging up of the body. I did not very particularly examine the hips when the body was taken up. The groove round the neck, produced by the handkerchief, could not have been produced by the lifting up of the body by the external fold of the handkerchief at the dis covery of the body. It might have been produced by the lifting it up in that manner just as the person was dying. From the appearance this must have been occasioned at the period of the death of the person. After cleaning the bones, I could see the injury done to them better than I could before. I have no doubt it was done by a bullet at some time ' or other. Mr. ANDREWS then proposed to call another me dical witness, in order to corroborate the testimony of the preceding one. The LORD CHIEF BARON asked the Learned Counsel, whether, after the fatigue which they had all undergone during the day, he would proceed any further that night. He should conceive that the witness whom the Learned Gentleman had called would not be the only witness whom he would have occasion to call in support of his case. Mr. ANDREWS replied, that he certainly had other medical witnesses to call in confirmation of his case, and not only medical witnesses, but such others as were necessary to identify the different articles found on the body discovered in the barn, as articles of dress belonging to Maria Martin. The LORD CHIEF BARON said, that as that Was the case, he thought the hour had now arrived at which it would be expedient to adjourn the Court. It was quite evident the case could not finish that night. There were several witnesses, it appeared, to be examined on the part of the prosecution ; and after that there was, if he was rightly informed, (but of that he knew nothing) a defence of consider able length, to be delivered by the prisoner. After that it would be his duty to charge the Jury; and, to say nothing of other inconveniences to public justice, he must observe, that at the end of that timpl, he himself should scarcely be in a condition to make those remarks on the evidence which would naturally be expected from him. In a civil case, he might perhaps have been inclined to have proceeded with the trial to-night; but in a case of such solemn im portance to the prisoner at the bar, and of such great importance to the public in general, he could not presume to enter upon an analysis of the evidence, when they must all of them be so extremely fatigued. Under these circumstances he thought that they must adjourn till to-morrow morning. ' It was, of course, determined that this adjourn ment should take place. The crier then proceeded to swear in the different officers of the High Sheriff, each of whom had to remain during the night in at tendance upon a juror, to prevent all communication (except among themselves) on the subject of this trial, when one of the officers refused to wait all night upon any body. The crier immediately asked him whether he was not a hired officer of the High Sheriff, and whether he was not acting under his authority ? The man, not at the moment aware of the force of his answer, did not hesitate to reply in the affirmative; whereupon the crier informed him he had no choice; he must take the oath, or else submit to such fine as the Court, when informed of his conduct, might think proper to impose upon him. The officer instantly submitted, and was sworn. The prisoner, who had during the early part of the day maintained an air of indifference to his awful situation, there being generally a smile playing upon his features, although his eye had a heavy fixedness, occasionally convulsed with a sudden movement be traying, with' a character not to be mistaken, the emotion under which he laboured during the delivery of particular passages in the evidence, seemed to have lost a considerable part of his confidence to wards the close of the day. Much of this alteration may, perhaps, be attributable to the fatigue incident to his situation. The fact of the alteration was, however, too apparent to escape observation. His attention was intensely directed towards the surgeon during the whole of his examination. The adjournment took place at half-past six o'clock in the evening, and the termination of the trial may be expected about the same hour on Friday. The anxiety of the crowd outside during the day was almost unexampled. There were few ladies within the Court, the risk of the tremendous rush being perilous enough for the other sex, but the ex ternal stone basement of the windows, particularly that behind the Judge, was filled by ladies, whose curiosity throughout the day was not damped by the heavy showers of a thunder storm which fell in rapid succession, and pattered upon their umbrellas with a sound which once or twice interrupted the business of the Court. Several of the windows were broken by the pressure of the throng. Corder was carried to Court between the Gover nor of the prison and a single attendant, in a sort of tax-cart, out of which the prisoner jumped with great alacrity. There were some hisses from the crowd, but he was in a moment removed from their presence. It was remarked in the Court during the day, that he constantly used a small penknife, which he took from his waistcoat pocket, to mend his pencils while taking notes. His Counsel are to have a final consultation this night upon the form of his defence. MARCH OF INTELLECT IN THE 19TH CENTURY.—At the cricket match at Brighton last week, a rustic farmer, is conversation with a gentleman on the ground, told hitp, with all the sincerity of truth, that he had heard how th a t one P apta i n p ARRT h a d b een on a voyage to the North Pole, and had brought a piece of the Pole home with him, with which be had made a cricket- Lat.—Berkshire Chronicle. AN EXTRAORDINARY SKELETON.-M. KESSELS, Naturalist at Gand, has enriched the cabinet of Natural History there with the skeleton of an enormous whale. This specimen is 95 feet long by 18 feet high. When dissected, 20,000 kilogrammes of blubber, and 63,000 kilogrammes of flesh, were cut away. M. KES. SELS has succeeded in preserving the tail, with the skin,l blubber, and flesh u n di s t ur b e d ; ,it i s 22 f ee t roun d the' . ' edge. In the opinimi of many naturalists, among whom is' M. C U VIER, this fish could nut have been less than 900 or 1,000 years old, NEWS FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR. BULLETIN OF TNE ACTIVE ARMY, DATED JULY 14. BERLIN, AuG..l.—'—The adVanced posts of Lieut.- General Rudiger left Bazardjik on the 3d July, and proceeded on the road to Couzlidjeh, as far as the little river Uszenlia. On that day they perceived a carps of the enemy's cavalry, 6,000 strong, which, on the Ist was before Bazardjik, and on the approach of the Cossacks had retreated to Couzlidjeh. On the 11th July our advances proceeded to Couzlid jeh, and occupied that town. The enemy retired partly towards Schumla and part by Pravadi. Our advanced posts, consisting of two squadrons of hus sars of the Regiment of Alexander, and a division of the Regiment Prince of Orange (the latter was just going to relieve the two squadrons), met, on the 12th of July, with the enemy's outposts, drove them back, and pursued them to the village of Jassitepe, ten wersts from Couzlidjeh, where the enemy re ceived reinforcements and began to fire, while a strong detachment of them, passing unperceived through a valley, turned the right wing of the Hus sars, and attacked it vigorously, endeavouring to cut it off. This attempt failed. The Hussars joined the main body of the advanced posts, and were soon reinforced by the Achtyrsk Regiment of Hussars ar►d two pieces of cannon, on which the enemy was attacked and put to flight. We had four officers wounded, and 70 men killed or wounded. The loss of the enemy, through the vigorous at tack of our cavalry, and the good use made of our artillery, was much more considerable. According to the statement of the prisoners, the enemy's divi sion in this engagement was eight thousand strong. All the advanced posts of Lieut.-General Rudiger,' both cavalry and infantry, have received orders to stop at Couzlidjeh, and not to send any troops for ward farther than to the village of Jassitepe. To day the 9th division of infantry left this place, for Couzlidjeh, whither the Emperor, with the head quarters, will go to-morrow, and be followed by the 7th corps. According to the accounts from Gen. Roth, the 6th corps has passed the Danube at Hirchova, and is advancing towards Silistria, by way of Rassova, which its advanced posts had reached on the 11th of July. The division of our troops, under Lieutenant-General Kornilow, which besieges Ghiurgeve, had repulsed, on the 3d of July, a vigorous sally of the enemy, in a perfectly. satisfactory manner. The enemy had on the 2d of July, sent over a considerable body of cavalry from Roustchuk. On the following day, with 2,000, cavalry, 4,000 infantry, and seven pieces of ordnance,' he attacked our outposts at all points, endeavouring to outflank them. By the brave resistance of the battalion of the regiments Ekatherinenberg and To bolsk, and especially by the judicious operations of the horse artillery, the enemy was compelled to re treat, and pursued by the Cossacks and a division of dragoons, The enemy left eighty men on the field, besides the wounded that he carried off. We had ten wounded, and twenty horses killed or wounded. ST. PETERSBURGII, JULY 21.--His Majesty the Emperor was pleased to address a gracious rescript to Field Marshal Count Wittgenstein, expressing his satisfaction at the rapid success of the campaign; and sending him the insignia of St. Andrew in diamonds. HAGUE, AUG. s.—To-day, at noon, a salute of artillery announced to the inhabitants of this capital that her Royal Highness the Princess of the Nether lands had been happily delivered of a daughter. AMSTERDAM, A►rc. s.—Exchange on London, one month, 12 071 to 12 05 ; two months, 12. It was the intention of his Excellency the Lortn LIEUTENANT to have left Kingstown for Carling ford, on Monday, in his yacht the Pearl. The Noble Marquis did nut, however, proceed, nor do we believe any day is now positively fixed for the excursion. Business of importance detains Isis Excellency.—Dublin Hording Register. The carpet manufacture in Kilmarnock is so uncommonly brisk at present, that the hands are employed night and day,,,ope_half_of them. coigkneneing,wsk.at a 4. o'clock morning, and the other half going on at six o'clock evening. This extra demand is attributed to the stopping of the looms in Kidderminster, the weavers there having struck this considerable time for an advance of wales.— Glasgow Free Press. DINNER TO MR. O'CONNEL,L.—We are happy to perceive that the idea of giving a pliblic dinner to Mr. O'CoNNELL at the ensuing Assizes, has been enter tained in the most creditable manner by the friends of Civil and Religious Liberty in this great city and County; and that the forthcoming feast premises to be the highest and most spirit-stirring treat in its way since the glorious era of the Volunteers.—Cork Mercantile Chronicle.. A lady and gentleman were this week ob served, from a machine at Brighton, bathing both at the same time, and both undressed. The lady's tresses were long and beautiful. FIRE AT HEREFORD COLLEGE.-On Fri day last an adjourned inquest was held he the College, in this city, before JAMES EYRE, Esq., Coroner, and a re spectable Jury, to inquire into the cause of the death of Mr. JOHN CONSTABLE, who fell a victim to his exertions at the late fire. Verdict accordingly.—Hereford Journal. MUMMIES OV A CAT AND RAT.—On the sth inst., as the workmen were removing the tiles from some old cottages at Basingstoke, they discovered jammed in between the rafters the dried remains of a cat, with a rat in a similar state in its mouth. It appeared as though the cat had made a spring at the rat, and falling into the situation where found, was unable to extricate itself, and was consequently starved to death. Time has dried up the bodies of both animals like Egyptian mummies...-. Reading Mercury. Two actors speaking of a farce, different in opinion; one said " I don't think you know what, a, com-: plete farce is." " Yes, I do," replied the other, " your performance of Othello is a completefarce." " Did you argue withhim,Doctor ?" (Speak ing of a particular person). " No, Sir, I never conde scended to argue with him,—l pour my pickle-salmon tub upon him at once,—l drown him."—Parriana. LUCAS de HEERE, the painter, of Ghent, was the son of a female artist, less known, but not less clever, than her son. She is reported to have painted a picture, in which was seen a windmill, with the sails ex tended ; a miller laden with a sack ; on the terrace before the mill, a horse and cart; and on the high road near, numerous peasants; all most correctly delineated, 'and yet the whole could be covered and hidden by a grain of wheat. SHREWSBURY, AUG. 4.— JOSEPH PUGH and Josh Cox, who were convicted on Saturday of the murder of JAMES HARRISON, and JOHN STEVENTON, who was convicted on Friday of the murder ofJOHN HORTON, were executed this day at twelve o'clock. ROBERT CoX had been also ordered for execution, but in consequence of some information which has transpired respecting the rest of the gang, he has been respited for a week. Pocu and Cox acknowledged their guilt and the justice of their sen tence, and they all seemed very penitent. Upwards of five' thousand people attended to witness the execution.—The, Assizes closed here this day. ATROCIOUS'MURDER AND ROBBERY.--:- At the Tralee Assizes on Saturday, JOHN FlTzGxaaLn was indicted for the murder and robbery of MICHAVE CALLAGHAN, a boy of only twelve years of age. 'This. was a most atrocious case. The facts of the case as they appeared in evidence were purely circumstantial, but still' of such a nature as not to admit of the least doubt of die , guilt of the prisoner. The poor boy who lived at Iveragb, was sent on the 31st of January last, to Caherciveen, to sell a basket of potatoes, which he did for Bd., and was paid 6d. in silver and twopence in copper. On his return home, while crossing in a wherry, he met the pri soner, who lived within a quarter of a mile of him, and who asked him where he had been, and on the boy's answering him, the prisoner replied that he was worth killing. When they came out of the boat the prisoner ran before the boy, it was at this time closing on night, and in some time after they were both seen together in a field a short distance from the place where the body was disco vered the next morning, and the prisoner had a hold of de deceased, and was dragging him. It was with the rope which the deceased had to carry the basket that he was strangled. When the prisoner was taken into custody, he had sixpence in silver in his possession, and some tobacco, and he prevaricated several times in accounting how he came by the money. The shoes he had on were compared with the marks in the field where the murder was coin mitted, and they answered most particularly. The Jury, with little hesitation, found the prisoner guilty,and lie was sentenced for execution on Monday, (Aug. 4) and his body to lok. dissected and anatoluiled,-- Cork Constitution. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the .4loniteur, of Tuesday, Aug. 5.) NON-OFFICIAL FART. PARIS, AUG. 4.--For some weeks past the health of the Count de la Ferronnays was a subject of um , easiness to his numerous friends. The King, who takes a lively interest in this faithful and loyal ser. , vant, has been pleased to grant him leave of absence to take the mineral waters at Carlsbad, in Bohemia. His Excellency will set out on the 7th, and return towards the end of September. The official part of the Ilioniteur contains two Ordinances of the King; the first gives to M. de Reyneval, Ambassador of France to the Swiss. Con• federation, the rank of Minister of State, and Mem• ber of the Privy . Council. The second appoints him to perform the functions of Minister of Foreign Affairs during the absence of Count de la Ferronnays. (From the Constitutionnel.) PARIS, AUG. s.—Letters from our squadron in the Levant say, that the Officers there have heard with much regret the recall of Admiral Codrington. He has acquired the esteem of all the Officers of the French fleet; and the most perfect concord reigned in all the combined operations. Do the English Ministry, it is asked, wish to blame an action that met with applause in the greater part of Europe ? If there be any blame, however, it ought to fall on those who gave the instructions, which must have been similar to all the Admirals.' Who amongst thew would have dared to compromise hie country, if he had had the smallest doubt of the object of the Treaty of the eth July ? The Admirals regarded them selves as one, and the retirement of the English Ad miral, whose noble and frank conduct merits all praise, will afflict those who are interested in the fate of Greece. Nothing else is seen in this recall but an other mark of the new English Ministry's disappro bation of the battle of Navarin. The coldness with which it was received at the opening of the Parlia ment is remembered, and people ask, if Sir Edward's successor comes out with other instructions, will the harmony, which was produced by a uniformity of instruction, be of long duration ? The Chamber of Deputies has consented to a ha/ for expending 2,230,000 francs on improving the square of Louis XVI., and the Champs-Elysees and if this sum is well employed, it will make that quarter of Paris the admiration of all Europe. To secure this, however, a competition for plans must be excited, and those plans ought to be submitted to public criticism. - FRENCH Futsns.—Five per Cents. 106 f. 30c. ; Three per Cents. 72f. 35c. ; Neapolitan Renter, Falc. Cert. 76f. 25c. ; ditto, French Cert. 76f. ; Royal Spanish Loan' 72/f. ; Spanish Perpetual Annuities, 48if. ; H a) %ian Loan, 625 f. AMERICAN PAPERS. - (From the New York Daily Advertiser.) Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Havannalif to his correspondent in this city, dated July 3 : " The conversation of the whole city is directed to one topic—it engrosses all our present thoughts, and chills us with horror. The French packet trail' ing from,Vera Cruz to "Bordeaux, was attacked by pirates off the Colorado, about the beginning of May, and every soul on board, amounting to 83 io all, put to death. They consisted entirely of old Spaniards, who had with them their whole wealth, which is estimated in specie, plate, cochineal, indigo, &c. at a million of dollars. After completing the robbery they scuttled and sunk the packet. " The circumstances have been learnt from a fisher man, seized by the pirates to servo as a pilot. was landed upon an iminhabited quay; • and from thence taken by one of his Britannic Majesty's schooners. He mentions that there were seven , ' females and children on board, who, like the crew and males, were inhumanly butchered." The following extract of a letter from one-of the officers in the brig Niger, gives a particular account of the obstinate battle in which she was captured " Confinement to a small room and iron grating 9 is now m-y.-fato vyeb-Imanage-tcrkeep up my spirit', and occasionally -thick of - my friends in Buenos Ayres. Visits from the pretty sympathising and patriotic ladies of this place, 'together with boo and a good Havannah, occupy my leisure moments' Fortune —fickle fortune __on the 23d of March de clared against us. The managing of his Imperial Majesty's squadron on that day far surpassed the many cowardly manoeuvres of which you have been 'an eye-witness. For nearly three.hours the devoted Niger stood the brunt of their fire, occasionally within pistol shot. Every attempt we made to close and board was evaded even by their largest vessels. At 11. 30. we lay a complete wreck; not a brace i or sheet standing; - sails an d s p ars muc h cut; an d between awenty and thirty killed and wounded- The Wind dying away and nearly a calm, gave them a fine opportunity of playing upon us with their long guns, we only being able to 1 1 °' along before the wind, A brig now ventured t° get under our lee, and we all thought to have the pleasure of obliging one of them to surrender ere we fell into their hands. Boarders were called away , and every man ordered to prepare to leave the Niger , and fire her. We then bo-e up, and when getting within twice our length of her, grounded and stuck fast. Two of th e enem y, a few minutes after wards, shared the same f a t e . Th e w h o l e squa dron now boldly approached within grape-shot range, ex cept one or two who still manoeuvred cautiously One of their commanders observekafter the'engage meat, that he c commanded one of the most fortu nate vessels in the Imperial Navy; for yogi must know,' said he, a that she is called the Good Luck, and I can aver that during the whole of our hard fighting in the river, she has never received a shot or lost a man until this day.' Captain Coe replied, " that it must be for want of disposition in her com mander,' and bid him good morning. " They swept our poor fellows away for minutes together ; we could not get a gun to bear upon them, and indeed most of them were dismounted.-- Seeing that all further resistance was only sacrificing the crew, Captain Coe ordered the boats out, in tending to get the wounded on shore, and set fire to her. The boats were soon swamped by the enemy's fire; —one, however reached the shore.. Our ensign was again shot away, when the Captain, gave the painful order for it to be kept down, two guns to be fired down the hatchways, and then to cease firing. The enemy still kept up their fire," and,. when in the act of again hoisting our ensign, they ceased. " Our loss was severe— .68 prisoners fell into their hands. However, it cost them some blood. Forty .five wounded were sent to Colonia, 23 of whom were their own people ; but, such was the secrecy observed, we could not find out their correct loss Some of their vessels bent a fresh suit of sails, and appeared to have received considerable damage if' the spars and hull. " Not one of our seamen has entered the enemy's service,although flogged an d p u t i n d ou bl e irons. Th e yleferred a prison. An officer observed, after mustering them one day, and threatening them wit' worse treatment if they did not enter his. Majesty's Navy, that they were all a set of blackguards; and, in fact,' said he, you are not worthy to serve big Imperial Majesty.' NEW YORK, JULY 12.—Cormx.—The sales . oj the week do not exceed 1,000 bales—consisting of - Uplands and Alabamas, principally at 10 to 12 cents. PRICE OF STOCKS. Offer e d. Asked* United States' Sixes, 1814 ...1011 sales. , Ditto ditto, 1815 104 1041 Ditto Four and a half, 1831 99 Ditto Threes, B4 :51 Caaal Sixes, 1845 116 Ditto Fives, Ditto ditto Ohio Sixes, Ditto Fives, 1837 106 iio 1845 106 10 7 1 1850 186 2 4 1850 )00 , United States'Bank 1194 sdes. EXC [TANG E. 1 8 5. i11s on London, 60 d ays , 10 a 101 p rem . ; Ditto Fra 5 nce, The Danish and Hanoverian Ministers had in terviews with the Earl of AREADEFN yesterday at the Fo reign Office. u ~... 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