The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-27 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The Marlborough, 131, screw, Capt. W. H. Stew art, C. 8., at Portsmouth, will be placed in the steam Win to carry out her outfit, and as soon as possible afterwards will be admitted into dock, either Nos. '1 or 8, for examination and repairs below the water line. The admission of the ship into No. 7 dock must depend on the progress made towards com pleting its connection with No. 10, the two when completed forming the new entrance into the steam basin, and will also be capable of being thrown into one dock. It is in this dock that it is intended to place the Warrior on her arrival at Portsmouth from the Thames. The work of the dock has proceeded rapidly within the last few weeks, but the point of junction with the two docks has not yet been taken in hand. There appears to be some difficulty in de ciding upon the best method for effecting this, the floor of No. 7 being some feet less in depth than No. 10, and its sides being of more contracted pro portions. Portsmouth is singularly deficient in docks for our ships of war, the ships appearing to have outgrown the docks, all the latter now avail able only admitting vessels of light draught. As if to clinch this evil the invert at the entrance of each dock, not even excepting the new No. 10, is raised about five feet above the flooring of the dock itself, so that the most essential point in con nection with the formation of a dockdepth of water, is decreased as much as possible by the designers of the work. The original estimate for this work wa s £lOO,OOO, but £102,176 was voted for it before the publication of the estimates for the present year. The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead, and berthed alongside the Sultan hulk. The Cossack, 20, screw, Capt. R. Moorman, has removed her position from her hulk in Portsmouth harbour and berthed alongside the sheer jetty, where she is getting up her lower yards and ship ping her chain cables, &c. The Euryalus, 51, screw frigate, fitting 13) the steam ordinary in the steam basin at Portsmouth, has topmasts fidded and rigging battened down. The' Osborne, paddle, Admiralty yacht. Master Commander George H. K. Bower, will proceed to the measured mile to-day (Wednesday) to test bolers and machinery. She has been swung in Portsmouth harbour to ascertain the deviation of her compass. The Athanasia screw steamer was admitted into the Portsmouth Dockyard steam basin yesterday to discharge a cargo of machinery for the Chanti cleer, 17, screw corvette, from the manufactory of Messrs. Napier. The Trusty floating battery was yesterday taken into basin at Woolwich to be refitted for service. The screw steam tank vessel Wye, under conver sion for a storeship, for the transport of stores to the coast stations of Africa, was yesterday un docked, and the Zebra taken in her place. An order has been issued from the Admiralty that the entry of novices at all the ports shall be dis continued. This determination on the'part of their lordships is a wise one, as an unlimited supply of boys of the best character can be obtained as fast as they may be required. The boys may be longer before they are turned to any practical use than are the novices ; but the boys prove a far superior acquisition to the service than do the novices. By the new regulations just issued from the Ad miralty, one half of the annual sum awarded by their lordships to apprentices in the Royal dock yards, as scholarships for superior attainments, is to be given to the schoolmaster of the yard, for the - - - care bestowed by him on the apprentices' education. A scholarship of £2O per annum has just been awarded to J. Wildish, shipwright apprentiee at Chatham. and under the new regulations, £lO of this sum will be annually paid to the master of the dockyard school. The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded Mr. E. Stigant, one of the inspectors at Chatham Dock yard, a superannuation allowance of £95 15s. per annum. His Danish Majesty's screw frigate Sjvelland, 38 guns, Capt. Ipsen, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from St. Thomas's, which port she left on the Ist inst. No. men-of-war were at St. Thomas's when the frigate left. Fine weather had been ex perienced, accompanied with strong westerly winds, on the passage home, during which no vessels were spoken. The Sjvelland put into Spithead to fill up coal, and will proceed on as quickly as possible to Copenhagen, probably this evening. Capt. Ipsen and his officers will be introduced this morning, by the Royal Danish Consul at Portsmouth, Mr. A. L. Vanderberg, to the military and naval authori ties of the port and garrison. On the frigate's anchoring at Spithead she exchanged the usual honorary salutes with the ports and garrison. Mr. Francis H. Paird, Mr. William Francis Petre, and Mr. Leslie Augustus Royds Barrow have been nominated to naval cadetships. *The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—George G. Brodie, mid shipman to the Donegal ; Algernon H. Percy and Arthur 11. Froude, midshipmen, to the Cossack ; Henry Hosken, second master, to the Cockatrice ; Bernard F. Meyer, clerk, to the Bulldog ; and H. G. Dowman, assistant-clerk, to the Edgar. HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS ORDERED HOME. The following ships have been ordered home from the undermentioned station : Acorn, 12, Commander R. B. Pearse, from China. This ship, which was built at Plymouth in 1838, has been condemned, and is to be paid off at Hong Kong, and the commander, officers (except Mr. A. J. A. Parks, the master, and three warrant officers), and the ship's company are to take a passage to England in the Khersonese transport. The master and warrant officers will also leave as soon as the transfer of stores has been effected. Adventure, 2, troop ship, Commander Lacy, from China. She took her departure from Hong Kong for England on the 15th of January. Alert,l7, Commander W. Pearse, from the Pacific. Cambrian, 40, Capt. Nl' Cleverty, C. 8., from China. Cordelia, 11, Commander Hume (acting), from Australia. Cruiser, 17, Commander Bythesea, V.C., from China. She sailed from Hong Kong on Jan. 15. Cyclops, 6, Commander Pullen, from China. Esk, 21, Capt. Si r R. M'Clure, f rom Chi na. . Furious, 16, Capt. Oliver J. Jones. from China. Fury, 6, Commander Wilson, left Hong Kong for England on the 15th January. Ganges, 84, Capt. Fulford, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir Robert L. Baynes, K.C.8., left Val paraiso for England on the 18th January. Herald, 8, Capt. Henry M. Denham, from the Feejee Islands. H . h flyer ig , 21,Capt. William A. J. Heath, from China. Inflexible, 6, Commander Brooker, was to leave Singapore for the Cape of Good Hope and England on the 10th January. Iris, 26, Capt. Vernon, from the Australian station. Jasper, Lieut. Commander Pym, from North America. Lyra, 9, Commander Oldfield, from the Cape of Good Hope. Magicienne, 16, Capt. Commerell, V.C., from •China. Niger, 14, Capt. Peter Cracroft, from Australia. Nimrod, 6, arrived at Singapon, from Hong Kong on her way to England on the 9th January. Persian, 12, Commander Buckley, from the Cape of Good Hope': Plumper, 12, Captain Riehards, was to leave Vancouver's Island for England early in February. Pylades, 21, Captain De Courcy, was in Tobago Ilay, Panama, on the 23d ult., refitting for the 'voyages to England. Roebuck, 6, Commander Francis Marten, from Chin a . Sa mPson, 6, Captain Hand, C. 8., arrived at Singa pore on h er Sha way to England, on the Bth of January. the west r Nilooter, 8, Lieut. Commander Gibbons, from weohaast?cf Africa. Sparro from China. ,4, Commander John C. Byng, Vixen, 6, C o mmander Frederick W. Ri c ha r ds, g left Valparais o f or En don th e llth o f J anuar y, prior to which the following officers had joined her : —Lieutenants Ern es t 'ticG ( and John Eliot (acting) ; Assistant Sarg elot l t t in g ) ymon h d a lL been Carroll, M as acting surgeon.r. Robertsona ap pointed acting master, vice Ball, s ent to the hospital. GREETIN' Fou.- —ln days of old, when clareti in Scotland was not considered shil p it dri nk , two B lairds happened to ( line tog ether. When t he afternoo n shire had pretty far advan' ;ed, they wore j oined b y a neighbour clergyman, who four hi them sitting over their w i ne i paroxysm of tears. ;`What are you greetin' for, g „l e a .. men ; what for are you greetin' ?" said the reverent querist. "We are greetin', was the answer—" we are greetin', minister, atout the National Debt."—,Dundee Courier, THE ARMY. The Ist battalion of the Bth (King's Own) Re giment was yesterday inspected at Gosport by Lord William Paulet, C.B. After the usual salute the regiment broke into column and marched past in slow and quick time, and afterwards, wheeling into line, went through the manual, platoon, and bayonet exercises. A few other manceuvres followed, and the regiment then formed square, facing inwards, when Lord Paulet addressed them as follows : " The inspection being unusually early this year, I did not expect to find you as perfect as I might have done a little later in the season. I am, how ever, very much pleased with you and with what I have seen. You are one of the oldest and best regiments in the service, and with regard to conduct you have kept up the old name of the regiment. I know it myself, and have heard it from many others, that no regiment landing from foreign service has ever been quartered in Gosport which has gained so excellent a character as the Bth have done. In aeed, the inhabitants say that a better behaved or more respectable set of men have not been stationed among them since Gosport has been a military station, and that is saying a great deal considering you have lately returned from abroad, where it is well known, though, you did such good service. Colonel Haines—l am very much pleased, and shall make a favourable report to his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief." An investigation of regimental book, quarters, &c., concluded the inspection. The 2d Battalion, 11th Regiment (North Devon), was inspected by Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., on Tues day, on their barrack square, Portsea. After march ing past, and a few evolutions incidental to such occasions, his Lordship addressed the regiment in the following terms : " 2d Battalion of the 11th,—Yon have been under my notice for a long time, and I am truly gratified to find that the regiment is in such an efficient state. I must say you have surprised me, as I did not expect to find you in such a high state of discipline. You are remarkably steady. I consider great praise is due to Colonel Jenner and the officers of the battalion." A general inspection of the battalion of infantry at Chatham Garrison was made yesterday by Major- General Eyre, who was attended by his Aide-de- Camp, Lieut.-Col. Gordon, and Major Congreve, the Brigade-Major, Instructions have been issued to the various com manding officers at Chatham, directing the whole of the officers and men of the Indian depots avail able for duty at that garrison to be instructed in the practice of embarking and disembarking, pre paratory to being placed under orders to embark for India to join their respective service companies. The East India troops are also to be instructed in escalading operations, under the direction of the officers of their own corps who have previously gone through a course of escalading operations with the efficers and men of the Royal and Indian En gineers at Brompton. We have to announce the death of Major-Gen. D. A. Gibsone, which occurred on Friday last at an advanced age. The deceased entered the Royal Marines at an early age, and had seen considerable service. In 1804 he landed from the Thunderer and served on shore in Bearhaven-bay ; in 1811 he served on board the Safeguard mortar brig in a severe action with a division of Danish gun .boats off Anholt, on which occasion the vessel was en gaged for three hours and a-half, and 19 of her crew killed or wounded out of a complement of 29. In 1812 he was engaged at Cateria, on the north coast of Spain, and accompanied Captain Parke with two heavy guns intended for the army be sieging Burgos. In the two following years he served in the American War, and was present at the attack on Craney Island, taking of Hampton, defence of the lines of Chippewa, and on the other occasions on the Niagara frontier, where he was severely wounded. Gen. Vernon, C. 8., who died on the 22d inst., in the 82d year of his age, entered the army in 1798, and served the campaign of 1808 and 1809 in the Peninsula as a deputy-assistant-adjutant-general, and subsequently in the same capacity with the Duke of Wellington's army until June, 1811, and was present at the battle of Talavera. He served with the 2d battalion of the 66th at the surprise of a French division at Arroyo de Molino, and other operations, until the capture of Badajoz; with the Queen's at the reduction of the forts and battle of Salamanca, where ha was slightly wounded early in the day, and very severely at the close of the action, a ball having entered his breast and lodged near his heart, after tearing along two ribs. He followed the army again at the expiration of three weeks, and resumed the command of his regiment, with which he served in the various operations, preceding, during, and subsequent to the siege of Burgos. He had received the gold medal for Salamanca, and the silver war medal and one clasp for Talavera. A large number of persons visited the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, yesterday. The main object of those who were able to obtain tickets of admission was to gratify their curiosity by a sight of the Armstrong gun factories. This being the termina tion of the financial year, the room containing the whole of the Armstrong guns to be delivered over to the charge of the principal military storekeeper for issue to the army and navy, consisting of up wards of 100 in number, 60 of which were the 100- pounders for the navy, was thrown open. The perfect finish of the guns, their bright brass fittings and adjuncts, and the high polish of the materials, gave the room the appearance of a private museum. MURDER. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1861, A fearful crime was committed yesterday morning at the Militia Barracks, Kingston-upon-Thames. The victim was a fine young woman, only 20 years old, named Diana Wickens, and while asleep she was murdered by her step-sister, a married woman, the wife of a sergeant-major in the 3d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia, who while in that state nearly severed her head from her body, dividing the right carotid artery, the jugular vein, and the windpipe with a razor. It would seem that the husband of the wretched woman, who is highly respected by his officers, had left his bed about 7 o'clock in the morning, and gone out into the barrack-yard, leav ing his wife in her own bed and the unhappy deceased in an adjoining room, where she slept upon a temporary bed, made up for her upon a sofa, and his wife must have got up almost immediately, taken one of her husband's razors from the drawer in which it was kept, and then proceeded to the ad joining room, where the unhappy deceased was lying. There appears to be very little doubt that at the time she was asleep and lying on her left side, and while in that position the murderess in flicted a dreadful wound upon the right side of the neck, which was uppermost, thus causing the injuries above described. Instantaneous death would not appear to have been the result, for there is very little doubt that upon the first sensation of pain the poor creature raised one of her hands, and in so doing received a severe injury upon the fin gers. She then got out of bed and staggered for about six feet in to the adjoining room, where she fell dead, literally covered with blood. Dr. Cory and Mr. Sudlow Roots, surgeons at Kingston, the latter gentleman being surgeon to the police force, were speedily in attendance, but all human aid was, of course, unavailing. After committing the dread ful deed the wretched woman went out to the barrack yard, where she met a sergeant belonging to the regiment named Oates, to whom she at once stated that she had murdered her sister, and she then went to the pump and washed her hands, which were covered with blood. A constable belonging to the V division of police was then sent for, and the prisoner was taken to the police station, where the charge was entered by Mr. Armstrong, the inspector on duty. It may naturally be imagined that the occurrence created the most intense anxiety in the town, and, as is usual in such cases, there was a variety of rumours as to the cause of the dreadful occurrence, among which was one that the deed was committed through jealousy ; but, so far as the evidence which was given before the magistrates went, there does not appear to be any ground for such a supposition, and at present the motive for the commission of the dreadful crime appears to be entirely a mystery. At a sitting of the Borough Bench of Magistrates the prisoner was brought up for examination. Her name on the police sheet was stated to be Martha Bradish, 46 years of age, and she was charged with the wilful murder of Diana Wickens. The magis trates present were Mr. S. Grey, mayor of King ston ; Mr. S. Mason, Mr. F. Gould, Mr. E. Lowe, and Mr. E. H. Fricker. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Phillips, the clerk to the bench, conducted the prosecution ; and Mr. Guy, of the firm of Guy and Wilkinson, solicitors, of Kingston and West minster, appeared for the prisoner. The accused is a very tal;, powerful, and rather plain-looking woman. She appeared to be in dread ful distress of mind, and she repeatedly interrupted the proceedings by hysterical sobs and the most distressing ejaculations. She was seated at the end of the magistrates' table during the proceedings. Her husband. a very respectable-looking man, sat by her side all the 'time, his wretched wife clasping one of his hands tightly in hers during the whole period of the examination, and entreating him in agonised tones not to leave her. The Town-hall was crowded during the proceedings, and the deepest interest was manifested by every one present. The following evidence was adduced Alex. Oates am a sergeant in the 3d Royal Surrey Militia. This morning, about 7 o'clock, I was going towards the quarters of Sergt.-Major Bradish, the prisoner's husband, which are in the barrack yard, when I saw the prisoner come out from them very excited. She came up to me and said, " Come in, Sergeant Oates ; I have murdered my sister." I observed at this time that the prisoner's hands were covered with blood, and she went to the pump and washed them. Seeing her excited state, and knowing that her husband was not in his quarters, as I had observed him go out a minute or two before, I thought something had happened, and I went into the prisoner's room, and the first thing I saw was a young woman lying on the floor with her throat cut. I saw her limbs move and she was covered with blood. I immediately ran out and fetched the prisoner's husband and then went for a doctor, and when I came back the de ceased was quite dead. I did not know at this time who she was. In answer to questions put by Mr. Guy, the wit• ness said—When I first saw the prisoner she was only partially dressed, and the deceased had nothing on her but her chemise. Ido not think the pri soner's husband had left the house more than a minute when the prisoner came to me in the man ner I have stated. There were only two rooms occupied by the prisoner and her husband, one of which was ordinarily used as a sitting-room, but since the deceased has been there she slept in that room on a sofa. There was only a wooden partition between the two rooms. The deceased had only been with the prisoner and her husband a short time. The prisoner here wildly exclaimed, " Oh, it is not true ! it cannot be true :" Mr. Cory said—l am a surgeon, and reside in St. James's-road, Kingston. The last witness came to fetch me this morning, a few minutes after seven o'clock, and I accompanied him to the quarters of Sergeant-Major Bradish in the Militia Barracks. Upon entering the first room I saw the deceased lying dead on the ground. The prisoner here again exclaimed in a tone of agony, "Oh, no, no, no ! it cannot be true ! Oh God! oh God !" Witness continued—She was dead, but the flesh was quivering and she was quite warm. I observed a large wound on the right side of her neck, which completely divided the carotid artery, the jugular vein, and the windpipe, and on the ring finger of the right hand I also observed a lacerated wound. The prisoner was in the room, and when she saw me she said, " Oh God, doctor, if I had had your advice before this would never have happened." I looked about the room to see if I could fi n d an y instrument with which the injuries had been inflicted, and then asked the prisoner how s he had done it, and she took a razor from a drawer and handed it to me. It appeared to have been recently washed. The inspector, Mr. Armstrong, here handed to the witness a razor, which he identified as the same he had received from the prisoner. It was an ordi nary tortoiseshell handled razor,and appeared to be very sharp. While this was going on the prisoner again wildly exclaimed " No, no—yes—a dream, a dream." In cross-examination the witness said—l at tended the prisoner in June last for a diseased liver. She had been, I believe, in the West Indies, and this had caused the malady from which she was suffering. She was very ill at that time, but she recovered, and I advised her to keep herself quiet and free from excitement. When I saw her this morning she appeared to be in a state of dread ful excitement, her hands were cold, and her coun tenance was quite horror-stricken. She told me that she had taken the r .zor out of her husband's drawer. Ido not believe that the death of the de ceased was instantaneous, because it was evident that after the wound was inflicted she got out of bed and walked, or staggered, to the place where I saw her lying, which was five or six feet from the sofa. In my opinion the whole of the injuries to the neck were inflicted by one violent cut with a sharp instrument, such as a razor. A blunt instrument would not have done it. There was blood upon the sofa where the deceased had been lying. James Davidson, staff sergeant in the regiment, said—l know the prisoner and her husband. They occupy quarters in the barracks. I have seen a young woman with them lately, within the last fortnight. She was the same young woman referred to by the previous witnesses. and I believe that her name was Diana Wickens, and I have hoard the prisoner say that she was her step-sister. I went into the prisoner's room this morning when the alarm was given, and saw the young woman I have referred to lying on the ground with her throat cut. Her knees were bent up, and there was alarge pool of blood on the floor. She was not dead when I first saw her, but she died while I was in the room, In cross-examination the witness described the position of the two rooms, and said that there was a screen in the bedroom occupied by the prisoner and her husband, which would prevent any one lying in bed from seeing whether any one went out of the house or into the adjoining room. The deceased never spoke, and she appeared to him to be about 19 or 20 years old. The prisoner seemed to be dread fully excited, and he heard her say, "I have mur dered her," and immediately afterwards she said, " Oh, I didn't do it, I couldn't do it," and she ap peared to be hardly capable of knowing what she was doing. Elizabeth Baker, the wife of a police sergeant, proved that she searched the prisoner at the police station, and found some blood on her stockings, which was caused apparently by her having walked through blood on the floor with no shoes on. John Gunner, police constable 361 V, said--This morning, in consequence of information I received, / went to the Militia Barracks, and saw the body of the deceased lying dead. The prisoner was in the same room leaning on her husband's shoulder, and when she saw me she said, "I have cut that young woman's throat, and you must take me to the sta tion." After this I heard Dr. Cory ask how it had been done, and the prisoner gave him a razor. I found some articles of female apparel hanging upon the rail of the prisoner's bed, which I produce, and upon which there are stains of blood. The prisoner at this stage of the inquiry again exclaimed in a wild tone, " Oh, it i 3 not true! it is not true ! It cannot be—it is a tale of fiction, and not of reality. If it is true, pray for me, pray for me! Oh, let me retrace my steps to my home ! I am sure it cannot be !" In cross-examination the witness Gunner said he did not ask the prisoner if she had done it, but the moment he saw her he suspected it, from her wild appearance. She was crying and very excited, and appeared hardly to know what she was doing or saying. Inspector Armstronc , said—l was at the police station about 9 o'clock this morning, and I entered the charge against her upo n th e po li ce s h ee t. When the prisoner first saw me she said, " This is a shocking thing I have done." I imme diately cautioned her, and told her that whatever she said would be given in evidence against her, and I begged her not to speak, but to leave the case in the hands of her legal adviser. After I had given the prisoner this caution she said, " I must have been insane, or I could not have done it to a sister I loved so well." I again requested her not to say anything, but she repeated the observation that she must have been insane, or she should not have done it. Cross-examined—The prisoner at this time ap peared to be deeply afflicted, and exhibited the utmost horror and repugnance at what had taken place. _ . This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Guy addressed the Bench, and said he felt that the evidence against the unfortunate woman at the bar was such that the magistrate had no alter native but to commit her for trial. He should not even ask for a remand, but, on the contrary, he thought it would be the better course that she should be committed and removed as speedily as possible from the scene of horror. The prisoner was then formally ordered to stand committed to take her trial at the ensuing Summer Assizes for the county of Surrey. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WAnivicK, MARCH 26. MURDER.—REGINA V. WILLIAMS. The prisoner, William Williams, was indicted for the wilful murder of Ann Williams, at the hamlet of Grwyney, in the parish of Talfarth. Mr. Giffard appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. C. E. Coleridge, at the request of the learned judge, watched the case on behalf of the prisoner. From the opening statement it appeared that the deceased was aunt to the prisoner, and occupied a small farm about six miles from the place where the prisoner was in service. On the night of the murder (October 18) the prisoner went to the de ceased's house, taking his gun with hi m , a n d wa s kindly received by her. The other inmates of the house were the prisoner's sister, and a little boy, six years old, an illegitimate son of the de ceased. The next day the prisoner remained in the house till 3 o'clock, when he went out in com pany with his sister and the child, taking his gun with him. The deceased remained indoors picking wool before the fire. The prisoner turned back shortly after he left the house, and in a few moments Charlotte Williams, the sister, who had gone on for the cows, heard a scream. She ran to the house and met the prisoner coming out, who said, " Aunt has shot herself." She then saw her aunt on fire, and after putting out the fire discovered that she was shot dead in her chair. The prisoner subsequently, when arrested, and after being repeatedly cautioned, said " it was an accident ; that the gun had gone off as he was going out of the door ;" but subse quently, on two or three occasions he stated his determination to tell the truth, and said, when told that he was to attend the inquest, " he hoped they would not bully him, and that no one would talk to him." He added—" The truth I shall say ; I did the deed, I did it with all my heart ; I expected something after my grandfather's death. I com mitted this in consequence that I had no home ; my mother has baen a bad mother to me." He further said—" I sent a man to inquire of the man who made the will as to who the property was to go to after Anne Williams's (meaning the deceased) death, and that the man told him it was to be divided equally between his sister and himself. He stated to another witness that he did not shoot his aunt in the night, as his aim would not be so good and his sister was sleeping with her. From the appearance of the chair it would appear that the prisoner must have gone behind the deceased, put the muzzle through the staves of the back of the chair, and shot the deceased through the body. Upon the first witness, the prisoner's sister, being called, Mr. Coleridge objected to her being sworn, on the ground that she had no religious belief what ever. His Lordship directed her to be sworn on the noire dire, and she was examined by Mr. Cole ridge, and certainly bore out his view of her state ; but on cross-examination by Mr. Giffard she said that she believed there was a God and that he would punish her if she did wrong. His Lordship then allowed her examination to proceed. Several witnesses were called in support of the opening statement, and the facts were all substan tially proved. Mr. Coleridge cross-examined the witnesses very slightly, and in addressing the jury told them that he was not there to deny that the prisoner committed the crime, but that when he committed it he was mentally incapable of knowing the nature of the crime. He implored the jury to take his utterly neglected and scarcely human, con dition into consideration, and asked there, if they thought they could not conscientiously acquit on the grounds of insanity, at least to add that recom mendation which, coming from a jury rarely failed to at least save the life of the unhappy criminal. His Lordship summed up with great tninuteuess, reading over the whole of the evidence, and told the jury that no one could feel more for the prisoner than he did, but he could not help saying there was not the slightest evidence to support the learned counsel's theory of insanity. He added,that ev en. a man, who is proved to have a dise4F,ed m i n d an d who is :subject to delusions, if he is capable of knowing right from wrong, is still responsible for his actions. He instanced Lord Ferrer's case, and said that the same l aw app li e d to the highest and the lowest. At the conclusion of his Lordship' s a dd ress the jury retired, bq t returned in about 20 minutes. There was a dense silence in the court, which was densely crowded, and when the jury was asked if they had agreed, and answered " that they found the prisoner guilty,' " a perfect thrill of horror ran through the court, After a minute the jury added, " That they strongly recommended him to mercy on account of his youth." His Lordship then put on the black cap, and on the prisoner being asked whether he had anythirig to say why judgment of death should not be passed upon him, said, " He did not understand the case from beginning to end." His Lordship then addressed them in the follow ing 'words :—Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by the jury of the crime of murder on the clearest and most pregnant evidence. No one feels more compassion for you than I do. The jury have thought lit to recommend you to mercy, I will take cave that that recommendation is forwarded to the higheat quarter. I have no power myself to hold out any hope to you, The awful sentenoo of the law was then passed, and the sobs and commiseration of the women in court were most heartrending when the prisoner, who seemed totally unconscious of what was going on, said he wanted to see his mother. [ADVERTISEMENT].—Mothers an Nurses will find Du Barry's delicious Ravalenta Arabica Food admirably adapted to remove all disorders of stomach and bowels to which infants and children are at all times liable. It strengthens, nourishes, and is used with more advantage than Milk in rearing Infants. 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The 121 b. and 24113. .I:4nisters taro bent carriage free on receipt of Porttnalae order t y Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbit, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside; 63 and 150, Ox bard -street ; 330 a 4 Ad 44 Strand; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, insbary Pavement; Phillips and Co. tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street, city ; at 127 High Holborn and all grown, HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)_ 1 . _ In the week that ended last Saturday 1,214 deaths were registered, a number which is very nearly the same as that of the previous return. The average number of deaths as obtained from corre sponding weeks of ten previous years 1851-60, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,432, and the reduction of the mortality at the present time to the extent of 218 deaths in a week below the esti mated number is to be regarded as a very favour able indication of the state of the public health. The births of last week exceeded the deaths in the same period by 766. Seventy-five children, allof whom except 13 were under three years of age, died of whooping-cough, which at present is about twice as fatal as either scarlatina or measles. Four infants and one adult died of syphilitic disease. Twenty-six deaths occurred from cancer. Bronchitis was fatal in 121 cases, and pneumonia in 59 ; the corrected average for the former being 170, and that for the latter 108. Of 9 fatal malf orma ti ons 5 were cases spina bffida. Two infants were murdered. The deaths of 9 nona genarians, one of whom was 94 years old, 3 were 95, and 2 were 96 years, are recorded. Besides these t w h h e o re is a dieda c t en o t , e F n a a s r h ia io n h Fashion -street, _t str e ee w t, id s o t. w j o o f hn a ,s7H rp o e r n sl t e e y r_, Horsley down, on the 21st of March, at the age of 100 years. A o t f l a l la ß u o nd lls r - e b s u s i , Rolls-bui ldings, o m n on th th e s l , 6 a t i h ed of f M rom arc , h , , the son con tinuous exposure to cold an d d amp ever since birth; acute rheumatism (three wee k s ) . " At 9 Princess street, Marylebone, on the 2d M arc h , the daughter of a cab-driver, aged 21 months, died from " natural disease and want of sufficient nourishment ; no d e fault of parochial officers." (In ques t.) A man aged 64 years was suffocated in the Strand Work house " by swallowing an orange." Measles seems to prevail much in Kentish-town, where 5 children died from it. Five died from whooping-cough in the east sub district of Islington, and 5 in St. John's, Westminster. Last week the births of 991 boys and 989 girls, in all 1,980 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851.60 the average number was 1,741. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.375 in. The readings rose to 29'85 in. on Sunday, and fell to 2881 in. on Tuesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 41 . 3 deg., which is 0.6 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The thermometer in the shade fell to 31.8 deg., the lowest point in the week, on Sunday, and rose to its highest point 57.3 deg. on Saturday. The entire range in the week was therefore 25.5 deg. The mean daily range was 15.8 deg. The range on the last two days was about 20 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 2.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 94, complete saturation being representedby 100,which point was closely approached on Wedne s day and Saturday. The wind blew almost exclusively from W. and S.W. Rain fell on four days, but chiefly on Sunday and Wednesday, the total amount being 0.69 in. Showers of sleet, hail, and rain fell on the afternoon of Thursday. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 43.8 deg. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. Last flight a large and influenti a l mee ti ng was held in the Metropolitan-hall, " To consider the present state of the law affecting the celebration of marriages in Ireland, and to petition Parliament for such alterations therein as shall bring it into harmony with the interests of public morals and with the civil and religious rights of all classes of the community. The Rev. Dr. Millar, Vicar of Belfast, and the Rev. J. Macnaughton, appeared as a deputation from Belfast. The chair was taken by Mr. Alexander Hall. The general terms of the advertisement did nut convey the distinct object of the meeting, which was to petition Parliament for the removal of cer tain grievances which affect the Protestant Dissen ters of this country in connexion with the Marriage Law of 1844. The Yelverton case and the Bill of the Lord Chancellor to legalise mixed marriages performed by Roman Catholic priests have led to the movement. The Rev. Dr. MILLAR, who moved the first reso lution, contended that they should have the same law for all—even-handed justice for all who paid taxes—equal privileges and advantages for Methodists, Dissenters, and Churchmen ; all should be amalgamated as one people, all should sail in the same boat. The present state of the Marriage Law afforded great facilities for clandestine marriages. Certain forms calculated to ensure publicity were imposed on the clergy of the Established Church, but priests could marry the members of their own Church at any hour of the day or night, without any registration. He wanted one law for Protes tants and Roman Catholics. He felt for the disabili ties of his Wesleyan and Dissenting brethren ; and as a minister of one of the largest parishes in Ireland, profiting daily by the pri vileges he enjoyed as a clergyman of the Estab lished Church, he was willing to share the advantages with Dissenting ministers, and appeared therefore on that platform as a disinterested advocate on their behalf. The Rev. Dr. KIRKPATRICK, a Presbyterian Minister of high standing in this city, next ad dressed the meeting. He was glad to see the union of all denominations on that platform for the purpose of obtaining equal rights for all. The Marriage Law which was passed 15 or 16 years ago had been passed in a season of great public excitement, when there was a great deal of bitter feeling between the Established Church and the Presbyterians. But since that time education and the progress of enlightened opinion in the com munity had wrought a great change for the better, and the people of all classes were in a capacity to seek an improvement of the law upon sound prin ciples of civil and religious liberty. The Presby terians had privileges which the Wesleyans, Independents, and Baptists did not possess, and of which there was no reason that they should be deprived. While Episcopalian clergymen were free to marry all classes, Presbyterian ministers coud not marry unless one of the parties was a member of their own communion. Still they were better off than their Dissenting brethren. With the single restriction as to mixed marriages, Ro man Catholic priests enjoyed a freedom in this respect granted to no other denomination. They were met to discuss a great social question, of vast importance to the best interests of the country. They wanted to secure for all denominations legal validity for the marriage contract, with preliminary notices, publicity in the celebration, and correct registration. The Rev. Dr. URWICK, an Independent minister of 35 years' standing in Dublin, pointed out the evils of the Marriage Law of 1844. Before that time the state of the Marriage Law in Ireland was the worst possible. Any minister, whatever might be his creed or character—come from what quarter he might— could perform a valid marriage, without notice or record, in any place, at any hour of the day or night, This state of things led to the passing of an ' Act unworthy of the British Legislature, in viola lation of the principle of religious equality ; and he wanted to know what the Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyans had done to deserve the degrading brand. He stood there for liberty and equality— equal rights for all who bore true allegiance to the Throne. The Rev. T. SCOTT, of the Established Church, in seconding the resolution, expressed his concurrence in the views that had been presented by the pre vious speakers. The Rev. R. MASSAROON, who said that he had been a Wesleyan minister in Ireland for 50 years, could testify from his own experience as to the per nicious operation of the Marriage Law. By it the body to which he belonged had been degraded, oppressed, trodden down. Degrading, painful, awful results had flowed from the state of the law. Wesleyans could not be married by their own be loved ministers; they must be united in wedlock by the registrar, who noted on the register "Married by me." The minister might be present and sign the register, but only as a witness. If he performed the ceremony without the registrar he would be guilty of felony and be liable to be transported. On one occasion he went to the chapel with a highly respectable couple, persons of position in society, after due notice. The registrar was not there ; half-an-hour—an hour—an hour and a half passed, and no registrar. The lady blushed deeply, then became deadly pale. At length he (the minister) ran to the other side of the town for the functionary in question, who said that he had forgotten all about it. On another occasion the registrar died the day before a marriage, his son personated him, and wrote, " Married by me." The marriage being null and void ; the ceremony had to be repeated when the discovery was made. Mr. Massaroon indignantly complained that Wesleyans should be degraded by being obliged to have their marriages published in the poorhouse, which the present law required. Why should he who never troubled the Poor Law guardians be obliged to appeal in forma pauperis at the most dignified period of a man's life, when he was going to be married ? He felt that by the law they were degraded, especially when he con trasted the position of the Wesleyans with the pri vileged position of the Roman Catholic priests. As to the present Marriage Law, he would have it abolished. It was like an old Irish jaunting-car, the more you try to mend it the worse it gets. The most important speech of the night was delivered by the Rev. J. Macnaughton, who re presented the Presbyterians of Belfast as one of the deputation. He described the four modes of per forming the marriage ceremony recognised by the law—by the Episcopalians, who can marry all deno minations; by the Presbyterians, who can marry only when one or both of the parties are members of their own Church, and who must sign five or six documents, as if the Legislature wished to create facilities for blundering in their case ; by the regis trars, who marry not only infidels who object to any religious ceremony, but Wesleyans, Indepen dents, and Baptists, who object to the ceremonies of the Established Church and the Presbyterians ; and by the priests, who if the parties belong to their own church can marry without any restriction whatever. It was disgraceful to the Legislature to have passed such a law as the Act of 1844 ; but it was almost equally disgraceful to those by whom the degradation had been tamely endured. Why should they submit to have their names read out before the board of guardians ? It was a state of things which could not, which must not, be borne longer. Had the Independents and Baptists lost the spirit of freemen ? Where was the old Puritan blood that flowed in the veins of the heroic founders of their churches ? Why do they not agitate till they shake the country to its centre, till they obtain equal privileges with the rest of their fellow-citizens ? His own Scottish blood was fired at the thought of their de• . . gradation, and of the evils which the infamous marriage law inflicts upon society : It was a par tial enactment to meet certain evils, but inflicting other evils still greater. The Lord Chancellor's Bill, now before the House of Lords, is one of the same character. It is simply meant to legalise mixed marriages by Roman Catholic priests, brought in in consequence of the Yelverton case. But neither in that bill, nor in the Registration Bill of Mr. Card well, nor in the bill on the same subject brought in by Lord Naas and Mr. Whiteside, is there a single line designed to free Nonconformists from their galling and insulting disabilities. Friends as the Dissenters are of Liberal statesmen in England, re presented by so many able men in the House of Commons, he (Mr. Macnaughton) could not under stand how their dearest interests are neglected and overlooked. But if Parliament would not do them justice he advised them to go to the foot of the throne, and plead their cause with the Queen, who, as a wife and m o th er an d th e mos t exem pl ar y o f Sovereigns, must sympathise with their grievances. The meeting was addressed briefly by the Rev. Robertson Scott, Mr. Edwaid Wright ' LL.D., the Rev. John Manley, an d M r. George Foley. Resolutions in accordance with the tenour of the speeches were passed unanimously. The large assembly seemed to take a lively inte rest in the proceedings. [ApvcitTisEaq:NT. — Holloway's Pills.—Mistakes ren • dered Impossible.—Each box of these a d m i ra bl e Pill s i s env eloped in a sheet of printed directions, so plain and comprehensible that every one who reads must understand them. Nothing injurious to the human system enters into the composition of these Pills, which never weaken the feeblest frame. They never can be taken at a wrong t i me, nor can they ever cause mischief in any stage of a di s e as e. Public favour has placed beyond dis p ute t heir merits in curing moat on their inventor:mostdisorders,anc Hollowayhasbestosy s bestowed commensurate success ills cannot be surpassed fbr their safe and curative powers in all diseases of the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, head, and kidneys ; in fact, they regulate every corporeal lunch= COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A special Court of Common Council was holden yesterday at Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into consideration a report, presented on Thursday last from the Bridge-house Committee, which re commended that the present bridge at Blackfriars should be pulled down and a new one erected in its place. The subject was considered to be of too much importance to be thus summarily disposed of, and yesterday was consequently specially appointed for the consideration of the matter. The Right Hon, the Lord Mayor presided. It will be remembered that on the former occa sion it was stated that the committee, having regard to the fact that the London, Chatham, and 'Dover Railway Company were about to erect a bridge at a distance of 105 feet from the pre sent structure, which was proposed to have nine arches, but that this innocent description of bridge would not be erected if the Corporation came to the resolution of rebuilding Blackfriars-bridge upon another 'principle, and also that the expense of repairing the present defective pier would cost £40,000, and that it was probable that, if the em bankment of the river were to be carried out, the whole of the remaining piers would soon become defective, considered that, upon the whole, it would be better to erect a new bridge altogether, and this was the question now brought before the Court, and led to a lengthened discussion. Mr. HENRY WELLINGTON VALLANCE, Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee, moved, " That the Court should agree with the committee in their report, and that it be referred back to them to obtain designs for the construction of a new bridge, with estimates of the probable expense thereof, and of making temporary provision for the traffic, and lay the same before the honourable Court for their approbation." He said that the old bridge had cost the Corporation since 1840 an ave rage of £40,000 per annum to keep the bridge in repair, and that in 1852 Sir W. Cubitt and Mr. Brunell, engineers, were called to examine the bridge, and it was stated by them that owing to the inherent defects connected with the shallow foundation of the bridge, and to the very great, and probably now greater, lowering of the bed of the river, it was impossible to make what might be called an effectual repairing of the bridge, and that nothing short of building a new bridge would meet the necessities of the case. He said that he had been told that the cost of repairing one pier alone would amount to £39,000, and that it would be much the cheapest to build a new bridge at once, as the pro bability would be that if they thoroughly repaired the old bridge it would cost more than building a new one. He said that the Corporation need not be at the expense of it; neither would there be any necessity for extra taxation, as the funds of the Bridge House Estates were sufficient to meet the expense. He added that if the proposed embank ment of the Thames were carried out it would in crease the scour, and so wash the soil from the foundation of the bridge. Mr. Alderman ROSE seconded the motion, and said that as the expense of repairing the old bridge would be so great, he thought it would be most economic to build a Dew one. Mr. Alderman DAKIN said it was a question that required very careful consideration, and did not think Mr. Valiance had shown sufficient ground of urgency and despatch to call the Court together on such an unusual day, and said that in 1852 it was considered that a new bridge must be built at once, but the bed of the river had subsided very little since then, and the probability was that it had now finally settled, and the mischief already done would cease. He thought Mr. Valiance was mistaken when he said the funds of the Bridge House estates were sufficient to defray the expenses, and moved as an amendment " That the consideration of the question be deferred until some determination had been arrived at with regard to the embankment of the Thames, and the plans for carrying out the same were agreed to." Mr. Ross supported the original motion, and said it would be much better to build a new bridge at once than to be at the continual expense of sustain ing such a tottering structure as the old one. Mr. ROWE suggested that, although one of the conditions under which the London, Dover, and Chatham Railway were to build their bridge was, that it should be 105 feet from Blackfriars-bridge, he thought it would be very easy to obtain another Act of Parliament which might eraable the two bridges to be incorporated on the site of the present Blackfriars-bridge. He thought it would be ver- I , advantageous and worth the trial. Dr. ABRAHAM said he could not see the necessity for deferring the scheme. Mr. DE JERSEY thought that by agreeing to the report they would be sanctioning the immediate demolition of the old bridge. He thought it was a matter for serious consideration, and might be de ferred. He thought Mr. Valiance was acting very hastily, and that tha matter must go before Par ment, and could not go before the next session. He therefore supported the amendment. The amendment was then put and lost, and on a division being demanded, there were 72 for the motion and 47 for the amendment, the motion being carried by a majority of 25. Mr. DE JERSEY then moved, in the absence of Mr. Lowman Taylor, as a farther amendment, " That the further consideration of the report be adjourned, and that the committee be directed to obtain plans and estimates for a bridge in lieu of tk e present Black friars-bridge, should the commi:Ltee determine to carry o u t suc h propos i t i on, and - rebuild another one in it s pl ace, an d that premir,ms of 100 guineas and 50 guineas be offered for : the two ap proved plans, but the Court not pir:,aging themselves to adopt eitiler." The amendment was lost, and Mr. Alderman 5A1.0.3,10Ns moved, as a farther amendment, "To agree with the committee in their report, except in so much thereof as recommends that the present bridge be taken down and a new bridge erected in lieu thereof, and that the committee be, therefore, authorised to obtain by competition designs and estimates for the erection of a new bridge, the same to besubmitted to the Court for their consideration." This amendment was also negatived, and the Court adjourned. POLICE l ATELLIGENCE.—March 2G. WORSHIP -STREET.—THE "NINE HOURS" MOVEMENT.— Charles Huggins, 23, describing him self as a porter, and Joseph Chisnel, 30, a chair maker, were charged before Mr. Leigh with violently assaulting James Dunn, a carpenter. Mr. Vann, who attended for the complainant, stated the facts. Dunn was in full employment, and bad, while so engaged, been taunted by the defendants with respect to- the nine hours' move ment, and a threat to tell " Potter" of how he was engaged. In this instance there apparently had not been any direct act that would bring the defendants under the powers of the statute relative to the in timidation of workmen, and therefore they had only been charged with the assault, but it was one of a very aggravated character, and he (Mr. Vann) trusted that the magistrate would mark his sense of the same by his judgment on the perpetrators of it. Complainant, whose eyes were blackened and shirt collar and waistcoat soaked with blood, then said, upon oath, " I work for Mears, a builder in the Hackney -road. About three o'clock this morning I was on a job near there, when the defendants, whom I do nct know, came up and said, You are a nice nine hours' man. An other man was with them. One of them said, I'll tell Mr. Potter about you.' I made no reply. I dont't know Potter, and don't wish to see him. He is secretary, I believe, to the Trades' Union strike. I was sawing floor boards at the time this occurred. Defendants did not call me any name, but all three set on me. I was struck with some of the boards. I do not know who hit me. It caused the injuries you see, and I bled profusely. I am likely to lose my work. Defendants—We did not touch him and know nothing about the strike. We are of different trades to his. Mr. Hurlston—This is a misdemeanour, and in law all implicated aro equally guilty. Mr. Leigh—W as th ere a ny threat ? Complainant—Not any, sir. Robnet,lo3 N—l heard a great disturbance at Nicoll•square, and on reaching there saw defend ants standing as though waiting for some one to come out of a house—they appeared as waiting to strike. Complainant on seeing me came from a house; his features were quite covered with blood —they were really not distinguishable. He gave the defendants into custody. Mr. Leigh (to eomplainant)—At the time this occurred were you impressed with the belief that they were angry with you for working ? Complainant—l thought it was from what they had read in the newspapers. It was on my mind so, and I think so now. Huggins—You struck me on the head with a mallet. Complainant-4 do not deny it, but it was not until you attacked me. 0140.0 —You flung a piece of wood at me first. Ti). - ctt's how the bother began. Co mplainant —Nothing of the kind. Mr. Leigh —This man (complainant) has been considerably injured, and I am bound to tell you, that if the solicitor had proceeded against you for the intimidation, I should have dealt with the case under the powers of the 6th of George IV., whereby an imprisonment of three months would have been the result, accompanied by Lard labour. I now order you to pay the penalty attached to the com mission of violent assaults, viz., £5 each, or in default two months' imprisonment. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. COLLEGE OF ARMS, MARCH 2G. In reference to the order for a General Mourning for her lato Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, which was an nounced in the Gazette of thg 18th inst., These are to give notice, that it is not expected that the Public should appear in Mourning after Thursday, the 11th of April next. E. G. F. HOWARD, D.E.M. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 26. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General at Ham burg, enclosing a copy of a Decree, passed by the Senate of Bremen, abolishing from the Ist inst. the duties levied until that date upon goods in transit through the territory of Bremen, as also the export duties charged in lieu thereof. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Perthshire Rifle Volunteers--.lst Battalion— George Parris Salmon, Esq., late Major of the Bengal Artillery, to be Adjutant from Feb. 21, 1861. Cheshire Rifle Volunteers-sth Battalion—James Swe tenham, late Captain 54th Regiment, to be Adjutant, from July 27, 1860. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. sth Cheshire Artillery Volunteers-2d Battery—Lieu tenant Restel Ratsey Bevis to be Captain. 3d Battery — Andrew M'Nicol, Esq., to be Captain. Cheshire Rifle Volunteers-4th Company—George Tre vor Roper, Esq., 111.14., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 15th Company—John Woodward, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Davies, resigned. Bth Chmihire 'Effie Volunteers-3d Company—Lieute nant Thomas Antrobus, to be Captain; Ensign Albert Gray, to be Lieutenant ; John Wright, Gent., to be Ensign. MEMORANDA. sth Cheshire Artillery Volunteers—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to allow Captain William Laird to assume the title of Captain-Commandant. 11th Company Cheshire Rifle Volunteers—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Lieutenant Hugh Craig in the above Corps. 2d Somersetshire Artillery Volunteer Corps—William Henry Young, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Smith, resigned. Royal Gloucester Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry—Cor net Edmund Probyn to be Captain, vice Boevey, resigners Cornet the Right Hon. Ric lard, Lord Raglan, to be Lieu tenant, vice Bayly, deceased ; Granville Edwin LloYa Baker, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Lord Raglan, promoted ; Henry James Clifford, Gent., to be Cornet, vice ProbYr4 promoted. Dumbartonshire Artillery Volunteer Corps—M Com pany—The Rev. Andrew Gray to be Honorary Chaplain. 6th Company of Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteers—Willett. Lawrence Adye, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vier, Rawlins, re signed. '7th Bucks Rifle Volunteers—Thomas Newham, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon, 2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—En sign Francis Berry Featherstonhaugh to be Lieutenant, vice Lenthall, appointed to 99th Foot. 3d Hampshire Rifle Volunteer Corps—Charles Cutts. Burton to be Ensign, vice Wilson, resigned. nth Hampshire Rifle Volunteer Corps—Lieutenant Josiah Webb to be Captain, vice Bridge, resigned; En sign William Payne to be Lieutenant, vice Griffin, resigned; Ensign George Greetham Palmer to be Lieutenant, vice Webb, promoted ; William Grant to be Ensign, vice Payne, promoted ; George Absalom to be Ensign, vice Palmer, promoted. Ist Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain William Veall Greatl,am to be Adjutant. Royal Perthshire Rifle Militia—Lieutenant Thomas Watson Greig to, be Captain, vice Murdoch, resigned. Ist Forfarshire Artillery Volunteer Corps—John Kidd, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant. Ist Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps.—Assistant - Surgeon Robert Dawson Harting, M.D., to be Surgeon. Inns of Court Rifle Volunteer Corps—The Rev. William Thomson, D.D., to be Honorary Chaplain. 2d Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps—Alfred Har court, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Burt, promoted. 6th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps Charles Hog'nton, Esq., lately a Captain in the 73d Regiment Of Foot, to be Captain ; Henry Grissell, Esq., to be Captain. 3d Battalion of D er by s hi re Rifle Volunteers—Adjutant Walter Charles Edward Snow to serve with the rank Of Captain. 17th Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps—Thomas William Mercer, Gent., to be First Lieutenant; George Braidwood, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. 49th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps—The Reverend Samuel Bawtree Baird to be Honorary Chaplain. MEmonaNnum—East York Rifle Volunteers—First Bat talion—Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resig nation of the Commission held ,b 3' Henry Beilby. Lieutenant Charles BANKRUPTS. Philip Raphael, publican, Duke street, Aidgate. Thomas 'Wood, builder, C6chester. John King, saddler, New Alresford, Southampton. James Harden Gate;, builder, Manor-street, Clapham; John Manley, bexer, Liverpool. John Whittaker, spirit dealer, Wrexham. Minshull George Phillips, mercer, Newcastle-under" Lyme, 'Willia m Stroud Partrige, surgeon, Birmingham. oPichorgared Evans, flannelPryde,ship ch anlfa a m ndlerL c i t v ur eT r2 ool. .11 Tyddyn-y-paudi' Merionethshire. - • . James Booth, jun., worsted manufacturer, Brain l6 ' Yorkshire. Charles Kedman Jarvis, bookseller, Sheffield. Benjamin IvVillmott Gabriel, cotton spinner, Stockpor t ' William Barclay Stewart, cloth agent, Manchester. James King, cotton manufacturer, Shawforth, Lanca shire. Robert Snowdon, carver and gilder, Newcastle-on-Tyne. George Edward Parker, dealer in foreign goods, Moor gate-street, City. George Norman and George Bennett Norman, brass founders, Birmingham. Richard Field, sen., eon) dealer, Moreton-in-the-Marsh , Gloucestershire. Jonathan Craven, Stuff manufacturer, Birstal, Yorkshire' SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Camplxll and Co., slaters, Laurieston,. Glasgow. John Dour, - ; tas innkeeper, Cumnock. Alexani!,er Thomson, shoemaker, Kilmarnock. Johu Leask, merchant, Macduff, Banffshire. NP.',,haniel Grieve and Co. merchants, Banff; " • i '`, l j Sarah Leask, feuar in Macduff, Banffshire, 1„.,,,,r„, COUNTRY MARKETS. •", LEEDS—MkRcIi 26. an d Our market to-day was fairly attend e d by millers, a the trade in wheat was of a limited character. Fine 80, hall wheat must be noted at rather ab ove th e ra t es of V., week; inferior sorts still hang hoa%ily on h an d. Bane.' a slow sale. Beans and oats unaltered. NEWCASTLE-UNDER LYNE—MARCH 26. At this corn market there was a limited show of whea t • The trade was very firm, and prices were at the extra° rates of last week—white making 60s to 725, red 56° to 665. The demand for barley was limited, but at n° reduction in value. Oats were in steady request, with " fair sale, from 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans as befor e ? from 40s to 50s per qr. MELTON MOWBRAY—MARcH 26. There was a middling show of wheat to-day, which go at an advance on last week's rates for good description !. Barley more inquired for, at fully late rates. For oat! our quotations were sustained Prices :—White wheat, 5 4 _: Od to 60s Od ; red, 38s Od to 56s per 36 stone ; beaw, steady, but dear, at 40s to 54s for old ; new 40s per 38 at. I barley, 38s to 43s for malting, and 30s to 32s per qr. fo r grinding; oats, 32s to 35s Od per 24 stone, SLEAFORD--MARCH 25. The attendance was moderate to-day, with a very fair supply of wheat, at is advance on th e rates of the pr evious week. White wheat ruled at 58s to 645, red 50s:to 5t 3 per qr. Barley in rather small supply, 30s to 36s ; oats 1 0 steady demand, with high prices, at 248 to 345; be ans/ 44s to 58s; peas, —ste —s. • - NORWICH CATTLE. The show of store cattle to-day was good, but, therta being a small attendance, business was dull through° at barely last week's rates. At the close more than one' fourth remained unsold. Scots, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s Gd to 4s Irish, 3 1 : Od to 3s 6d ; Devons, 4s to 4s 6d (estimated weight wh en fat). Fat beastS a large show, and sales firm, at 8s Od to Ss 63 per 141 b. Sheep—There was a good supply of sheep in the per l2 ' Fat sheep, 98 Od to 9s 6d per stone ; prime, 10s Od t, Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 15 s t o 20 s; fat porxt 7s 6d to 8s Od per stone. Sg ° [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably gtavate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, ( 119 , appointment, and expense may be avoided by persoll; in indifferent health sending only their address to P . S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and the; will receive gratis and free by post the " INVALIDS' OW GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or co a p'nse, of perfect 'digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the resno'is of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complai , o 9f nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitatil: cough, asthma, consumption, drepsy, flatulency, dierril o, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, c °l n o, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruPt l° ,,, - i. hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, ti tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, srT P3- d sinking, fits, bronchitis,—"Unquestionably the safest j to health." BIRTHS. wif ° CHOLMELEX.—On the 23d inst., at Wimbledon, the f of Stephen Cholmeley, of Linooln's-inn, solicitor, ° son. Ilny.—On the 24th inst., at 33, Cadogau-place, the 11°11' Mrs. Hay, of a daughter. g g leV SALTER.—On the 24th inst., at Donnington Rectory, 4 the wife of the Rev. Peter King Salter, of a 0 11 -11 heir, • MARRIAGES. HARDY—STIEBEL.--OR the 21st inst., at St. Ja ni ° : Paddington, Captain Harmer Hardy, 18th Hussars, I3a of the late Simeon Hardy, Esq., of Cork, to Sigisuc a t.,%: S 1 ~ elder daughter of Samuel Stiebel, Esq., of 19 16— square, Hyde-park. INGLEFIELD—JOIINSTON.--011 the 25th inst., at Ch_relf: Francis H. Inglefield, Esq , Lieut. 38th Regt. fourth son of the late Admiral Inglefield, C. 8., to 10.,-,1 nah Moore, third daughter of Samuel Johnston, Esq - Liscard, Cheshire. DEATHS. BAGUR.—On the 23d inst., at 19, Coleshill.-strept, Baal' square, Chas. Bague, Esq. GIRSONE.—On the 22d inst., at Prinsted Lodge, X 111 .,4:1 worth, Major-General David Andersen Gibsone, 1 0, Marines L. 1., aged 79. T? ber t MORRIS.—On the 21 1 inst. , at Hammersmith, -Lo Morris, Esq., eldest son of the late Robert Morris, E'q'' M.P. for Gloucester. WHEELER.—On the 25 th inst. , at Kennington, Captain Cornelius wheeler, late 11.E.1.C., aged 88. LoNnoN : Printed and Published by 31.11RD0 YOUNG' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN 0 ffic,e, No. 112,Stranu in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the 'ounty bladlea Wednesday, Much 27, 1601.