The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-10 00:00:00

JOURNEY ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA. The subjoined article, which contains sone very inte resting particulars of Dr. Livingston's journey, we extract from the "Evangelical Magazine" : After a season of painful and protracted suspense, we have at length the gratification to announce the safe ar rival of Dr. Livingston at Tette, on the river Zambesi, within about 300 miles distance of Quillimane, his pro posed destination on the east coast of Africa. This heroic and indefatigable missionary traveller left St. Paul de Loanda, on the west coast, towards the close of 1854, and entered with characteristic ardour upon an undertaking more perilous and formidable than any of his previous journeys —that of penetrating an unexplored country occupied by barbarous tribes, and of reaching the east coast at the distance of more than 2,000 miles from his starting point. Proceeding from Cas 'lenge, in the province of Angola—the first important stage in his journey—early in 1855, Dr. Livingston arrived at Naliele, lat. 15 deg. 24 min. south, long. 23 deg. 6 min. east, in August of the same year : at Linyanti, on the river Chobe, in the October following, and at Tette, the last stage of the journey previous to reaching Quillimane, in the beginning of March of the pre sent year. _ . Having already surmounted the main obstacles to his reaching the east coast, our enterprising brother has, in fact, succeeded in solving a great geographical problem, and thus secured for himself a distinguished place in the esteem and gratitude of the scientific world. But, as Dr. Livingston well observes, " The end of the geographical fact is but the beginning of the missionary enterprise ;" • and no one is better able and disposed than himself to re gard this signal achievement as deriving its chief value from the cheering hope that, in the Providence of God, it may eventually open the way for introducing the arts of civilisation and the blessings of Christianity into the heart of that great continent, which for so many ages has been consigned to unmitigated barbarism. Two letters have been recently received from Dr. Living ston, the one from Linyanti, and the other, of later date, from Tette ; and in the belief that they will gratify the friends of missions, we now give extended extracts, de scriptive of the physical features and climate of this coun try traversed by Dr. Livingston, with notices of the abo rigines. _ _ While this narrative of the incidents of the journey can not fail to interest the friends of Africa, and in a great measure to allay anxiety on Dr. Livingston's account, we entertain the sanguine hope that we shall be able shortly to announce his safe arrival at Quillimane ; and, in that event, he may confidently be expected in this country within a few months from the present time. In conclusion, it behoves to add the expression of our devout gratitute to God for his signal mercy in preserving our beloved brother thus far on his journey, amidst the innumerable perils and hardships to which he has been ex posed, and in enabling him to exhibit before the wild chil dren of the desert those high principles of Christian truth fulness, self-sacrifice, and generosity, which prove in his experience, as they have ever done when fairly tested, more effectual than either the hand •f power or the arts of policy, to disarm opposition, and to conciliate esteem and confidence. The following are extrscts of a letter from Rev. Dr. Livingston to Rev. Dr. Tidman, dated Linyanti, on the river Chobe, Oct. 12, 1855 : " Dear Sir,—The excessive heat and dust which prevail previous to the commencement of the rainy season have prevented my departure from the town of Sekeletu, as I intended at the beginning of this month, in order to de scend the Leambye or Zambesi; and though often seized with sore longing for the end of this pilgrimage, the cer tainty that the present weather would soon lay me up with fever at a distance from friends, almost reconciles the mind to the delay. As I now possess considerable knowledge of the region to which I have devoted some years of toil, I will employ my present comparative leisure in penning a sort of report, which may enable you to fora a clear idea of intertropical Africa as a missionary field. " PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE COUNTRY. "It may be advantageous to take a glance at the physical features of the country first, in order to be able to appreciate the nature of the obstacles which will have to be surmounted by those whom God may honour to introduce Christianity into this large section of the heathen world. The remarks made for this purpose must be under stood as applying exclusively to the country between 18 deg. and 10 deg. S. latitude, and situated towards the centre of the continent. The region thus indicated 'may be described as an extensive plain, intersected in every direction by largo rivers, with their departing and re-en tering branches. They bear on their bosoms volumes of water, such as are totally unknown in the south, and never dry up, as the Orange and most other African rivers do. They appear as possessing two beds, one of inundation, and another cut out exactly like the Clyde above Bothwell Bridge. They overflow annually during the rainy season in the north, and then the beds of inundation—the I haughs or holms—are all flooded, though, as in the Bi rotse valley, they may be more than 20 miles broad. The main body of water flows in the now very deep low-water bed, but the rivers look more like chains of lakes than streams. The country between this and Shesheke was during the present year nearly all under water. The parts which remained dry are only a few feet above the general level, and canoes went regularly from Linyanti to Shesheke, the distance being in a straight line more than 120 miles. It was an unusually wet year, and the plains are not yet free from large patches of stagnant foul-swelling water, though we expect the rains of another season to be gin during the present month. The inundation, if I may judge from my own observation, is by no means partial, The exceptions are, where over-topping rocks form high banks, and there we have rapids and cataracts, which im pede navigation, and have probably always been the car riers to inland trade. When the supply of water from the north diminishes, the rivers are confine .l by the low water channels, and even at their lowest are deep enough to prevent invasion by enemies who cannot swim or manage canoes. Numerous lakes of considerable size are left on the lately flooded meadows by the retiring rivers, and these are either fringed with reeds or covered with mat rushes, papyrus plants, the Egyptian arum, the lotus, and other water-loving plants. They are always dry ing up, but never dry ere the next wet season begins. "The country over which the rivers never rise is rarely 200 feet higher than the holms ; more frequently it is under 100 feet. In many parts there are plains so level, the rain water stands for months together six or eight inches deep. We waded across some upwards of 20 miles broad, and fish, otters, and water-tortoises, appeared in numbers, and quite at home among the grass, bushes, and trees. These peculiarities result in a great measure from the form of that part of the continent to which our atten tion is directed. It appears to bo of a basin or trough form ; the hollow is much more elevated certainly than the sea, but it is considerably depressed in reference to two sides. I was led to the recognition of this fact by contem plating the Lotembua running in two and nearly opposite directions. Parting at the Lake Dilolo, the northern portion is discharged into the Casai, and thence into the Atlantic by the Congo. The southern half clisernbogues into the Leba, and thence into the Indian Ocean by the Zambesi. The boiling point of water showed this takes place at the highest part of the basin. It is a sort of par tition in it, and both north and south of it all the feeders of the great draining rivers flow from both eastern and western ridges towards the centre of the continent. The general direction of ranges of hills, and the stratification of the rocks dripping down towards a central basin now much filled Alp by eruptive rocks, I had noticed many years ago ; and information received from Arabs of two large shallow lakes within the eastern ridge makes me wonder I did not recognise what seems so self-evident now. I advance this view to yon now with the less diffidence, inasmuch as I have just ascertained, by the perusal of Sir R. Murchison before the Royal Geographical Society, that he promulgated the same idea so long ago as 1852, I can not imagine how he received the information ; but from his eminent scientific attainments it is certain to be from a reliable source, and as I reached the conclusion from inde pendent but very jog -trot obse;vation, the view of that gentleman is surely correct. " THE CLIMATE. "I may have dwelt too long on the foregoing topic, bat you will at once perceive it has a most important bearing on our missionary prospects. The great humidity produced by quick evaporation from such a vast expanse of water and marsh, the exuberant vegetation caused by fervid heat, and a perfect flood of light in a rich moist soil, and the pro digious amount of decaying vegetable matter annually ex posed after the inundations to the fervid rays of the torrid sun, with a flat surface often covered with forest, and little wind, except at one season of the year, all combine to ren der the climate far from salubrious for any portion of the human family. I really do not desire to deepen those dark colours in which the climate of certain parts of Africa has been portrayed ; but in dealing, even prospectively, w i t h that sacred thing, human life, it is necessary to be con scientiously explicit. Take the experience of the Blake lolo, who are composed of Basutas, Bakwains, and the Bamanguats. They came from a dry climate, than which there are few more salubrious in the world. They have not been 20 years in this quarter, but so groat has been the mortality among the men, that the tribe presents all the appearance of being destined, at no distant day, to extinction. I have heard Sebituane (Sebitane, his own people call him), and many others, complain of the number of children who have been cut off by fever. The Barotse, Batoka, Bashibca, &c., who belong to the true negro race, now constitute the body of the tribe; those who can boast of being pure Makololo are considered the aristocracy, and a mere handful. The negroes differ from the Bechuanas in being very prolific. Every village we entered in the north swarmed with children. This, perhaps, explains why, not withstanding all their wars, kidnapping, slave-selling, and mortality by fever, they are such an imperishable race. I supposed the mortality to be considerable among them, because many with whom we formed acquaintanceship in g oing north were in their graves when we returned ; but we sa w many aged men too. "Having given the dark aide of the picture first the im pression may have bee n produced that it can have no other . n Before deciding let me try and give the bright" phase a. fa i r l y . No one fleeing the country around Liuyauti or heath, Gould form an idea of what it becomes futile 4, 4 1.7 r 777:; THE SUN, LONDON, WED ti.ESDA_Y nVENiN G, SEP rif.; INI 10,_ 1,56. north. The southern portion is the least desirable of the whole, for when we go beyond the Barotse the land gradu all) becomes more lovely, until, in Londo (Lunde), we reach an exceedingly well watered, fruitful country. It is flat; bat the luxuriant loveliness of many a spot will re main in my imagination for ever. • "The fever is certainly the terror of this field. But it must ever be borne in mind that it is the only one. There are few other diseases. No consumption, nor scrofula, nor madness. Measles and small-pox paid a passing visit some 20 years ago. I hare seen but one well-marked case of hy drocephalus, three of epilepsy, but none of cholera, cancer, or hydrophobia, or delirium tremens, and many other diseases common in England. "The most common diseases are inflammation of different organs ; but neither these nor fever should form a barrier to missionary enterprise. I imagine they will not ; for those who wished to engage therein have never yet stipulated for a field in which death has absolutely no darts in his quiver. I hope I am not estimating the prospect of subjection to frequent attacks of fever too lightly ; for, should mission aries who are educated and sent out at great expense be cut; off as soon as they enter on their labours by causes which might have been foreseen and avoided, great losses would be sustained by both the Church and the world. But no decidedly unfavourable inference should be drawn from my personal experience in respect of fever. It is true I suffered severe attacks of the disease no fewer than 27 times in the space of twoand a-half years ; but this cannot be thought surprising when it is remembered that I slept, month after month, with only a little grass and a horse cloth between me and the ground, emitting so much mois ture—that I was exposed in comparative inaction to the het sun by day, in a temperature generally upwards of 90 deg. in the shade (fur my poor ox would never allow me to hold an umbrella)—that I was drenched with showers, often • making me deposit my watch in the arm-pit—the lower extremities wetted regularly two or three times every day by crossing marshy streams—and having food in the half journey north and half pasnage south purely native. No ulcer was actually formed ; but this I attributed to being occasionally able to procure a fowl and some maize. These constitute rather a pitiful hygiene, and few who fellow will have to endure the like. These privations, I beg you to observe, are not mentioned as if I considered therein the light of sacrifices —I think the word ought never to be mentioned in reference to anything we can do for Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor. But I supposed you could not well estimate my experience at its true value unless I stated the drawback to fair treatment of the animal economy with which I came Into collision. No unfavourable opinion surely can be formed from my experience as to what the experience of one less exposed to the vicissitudes of the weather and change of diet might be. Unless I mentioned the foregoing circumstance it might be supposed that I was speaking too lightly of a disease which has inspired, so much terror. " The fever may be said to commence at the latitude of Lake Ngami (20 deg. south), and extends to the equator, or beyond it. Bat from 8 deg. south latitude it generally assumes the intermittent or at least fatal form. The sequelea of this are enlargement of the spleen and great emaciation, which, after a considerable period, end fatally. Abundant warning is always given to seek cure by change of climate ; and wo have not far to go, for a few degrees of southing in troduce into the dry pure air of the desert,and every step in that direction is made in the very remarkably healthy tract termed the interior of Southern Africa. I have had the com plaint in its severest forms, and when checked by exposure during its course, vomiting of large quantities of blood en sued ; yet I am aware of no organic affection as the result. Indeed lam as well now as ever I was in my life. The greatest inconvenience I was submitted to was being less energetic, or quite useless, for long periods as a missionary. " One cause of the great mortality which prevails at certain times, and particularly at the period of the drying up of the inundation, is the want of prompt, though not heroic treatment. Neither doctors nor patients hurry themselves. Though his services may not have been asked till danger appears, the medical man must throw his dice 4 first, and spend hours of talking over that ; then, if it is late in the afternoon, he will go and dig the roots to-mor row, and even then stirs not till the sun is well up. The treatment, when once fairly in operation, is undoubtedly that best adapted to overcome the disease, fOr they set themselves assiduously to induce profuse and long-con tinued action of th• skin. By a combination of this, with simultaneous but gentle stimulation of the internal organs which, as well as the skin, have ceased exertion, I have found no difficulty in relieving, and ultimately curing, every case submitted to my care. My company of 27 per sons were often attacked (two of them being jaundiced, appeared as if affected by something of the West African remittent), but all were brought home in good health. With an equal number of Europeans it might have been otherwise. But I apprehend no great mortality among missionaries—men of education and prudence, who can, if they will, adopt proper hygienic preparations. ‘‘ THE INHABITANTS : THEIR NUMBERS, CHARACTER, AND ACCESSIBILITY TO CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE. "In regard to the people inhabiting this large and po pulous territory, it is difficult, in the absence 'of all nu• merieal data, to present a very precise idea. The tribes are large, but divided into a great number of villages. So thickly were these dotted over the country, that in travel lingin a straight line, in which we could rarely see more than a mile en each side, we often passed 10 or 12 hamlets in a single day. Occasionally, however, we marched 10 miles without seeing any. In no par:: of the south I have visited is such a population seen. Angola contains 600,000 souls, and Londa seemed more populous, and of larger ex tent than it. The Cape Colony, with 200,000 souls, pos sesses some hundreds of missionaries and other Christian instructors and schoolmasters, but it will bear no compa rison with Londa as a missionary field. The Makololo ter ritory has several tribes—Batoks, Batotse, Bashubca, Ban.. yeti, Matlotlora, &c., and there is no impediment to im mediate occupation by missionaries; and to such as aspire to the honour of being messengers of mercy to the actual heathen, there is no more inviting field in South Africa. I am not to be understood as meaning that any of these peo ple are anxious for the Gospel. They are quite unlike the intelligent inquiring race in the Punjaub, or the vivacious islanders in the Pacific. But there is not such callous indif ference to religious truth as I have seen elsewhere, nor yet that opposition which betokens progress in knowledge. But there is a large population, and we are quite sure, if the word of life is faithfully preached, in process of time many will believe. I repeat again, that I know of no im pediment to immediate efforts for their instruction. Every head man and chief in the country would be proud of the visit or residence of a white man. There is security generally for life and property. I left, by mis take, a pontoon in a village of Londa, and found it safe eighteen months afterwards. Some parcels sent by Mr. Moffatt, by means of Match°le, lay a whole year on an island in the Zambesi, near Mosioatuniya. It is true it was believed that they contained medi cine which might bewitch, but regular rogues aro seldom scared by such preservatives. The Balonda aro a friendly, industrious race, :and thousands of the Balobale find an asylum among them from the slave-dealing propensities of their chiefs. They seem to possess a more vivid conviction of their relation to the unseen world than any of the southern tribes. In the deep, dark forests near their vil lages wo always met with idols and places of prayer. The latter are spots about four feet broad, and 40 long, kept carefully clear of vegetation and falling leaves. Here, in the still darkness of the forest night, the worshipper, either male or female, comes alone and prays to the gods (Barimo) or spirits of departed relatives; and when an answer to the petition seems granted, meal or other food is sprinkled on the spot as a thanksgiving. "The Balonda extend to 8 deg. S. lat., and their para mount chief is always named Matiamvo. Thor are many subordinate chiefs, all nearly independent. The Balobale possess the same character, but are more warlika ; yet no prudent white man would be in the least danger among them. " It seems proper to refer to the Chiboque, Bashinje, and Bangaula, who treated us more scurvily than any I had previously met with in Africa. Sometimes they level led their guns at us, and seemed as if we must fight to prevent entire plunder and reduction to slavery. But I thank God we did them no harm, and no one need fear vengeance on our account. A few more visits on the same principle would render them as safe as all other tribes, concerning which it may be confidently stated, that if one behaves as a Christian and a gentleman he will invariably be treated as such. Con'zrary conduct will give rise to re marks and treatment of scorn. " LANGUAGES. " Reference has been made to the Barotse, Batoka, &c., as of the true negro race which occupies - the interior of the continent. By their subjection to the Makololo, they have acquired considerable knowledge of the Sichuana language. We have thus a very important field open in a tongue into which the whole of the Sacred Scriptures will, it is hoped, soon be translated. And the time necessary for learning and reducing the negro language may not be so barren as is usually the case. The Barotse, Batoka, B llonda and Ambonda dialect s ( or l anguage spo k en b y th e Angoleso), with those spoken in Luba and beyond, as also those of People on the east coast, are all undoubtedly cognate with the Bechuana tongue and Kafir. The very considerable number of words exactly alike or only slightly varied in their inflections, can only be explained on the hypothesis, for there has been no intercourse between those tribes, at least for centuries past. Each of the negro tribes readily , learns the language of the others. The Bechuanas, how ever, often fail to acquire that of the negroes, though living among them. Y e t my compan i ons acquired it in Angola as readily as I could a smattering of Portuguese, and failed entirely in tbelatter. The influence of the Sacred Scriptures in the true negro language will be immense. If we call the actual amount of conversion the direct results of missions, and the wide diffusion of better principles the indirect, I have no hesitation in as serting that the latter are of infinitely more im portance than the former. Ido not undervalue the im portanco of the conversion a n d sa l vation of the most abject it is of overw h elming worth to him ea our work o f w id e sow i ng of the p c r e e r a s o t u n r a e ily t h . a t ß b a r tr v t i h e e w s ng good seed, relatively to the harvest which will be reaped when all our heads are low, there can, I think, be no coin par-bons " It might be premature to contemplate the probability of any results from tho circulation of the edition of the Testament which was furnished to Park ; but the circum stances are somewhat similar, seeing that all the Arabs I have met with are able to road and write. We may accom plish that which he was not permitted to do. It will, at all events, be working in the right direction. OFENDIUS FOR TRADE AND FOR TEE ULTIMATE SPREAD OF CIVI- LISATION AND CHRISTIANITY. - • The African' are all deeply imbued with the spirit of trade. We found great difficulty in getting past many villages ; every artifice was employed to detain us, that we might pumhase our suppers from them. And, having finished all the game, they are entirely dependent on English calico for clothing. It is retailed to them by inches ; a small piece will purchase a slave. If they had the oppor tunity of a market they could raise on their rich soil abund ance of cotton, and zingoba beans for oil. I cannot say they were lazy, though they did seem to take the world easy. Their hair was elaborately curled ; many or their villages were models of neatness, and so were their gardens and huts. Many were inveterate musicians. The men who went with me to Londa, did so in order to open up a path for commerce, and without any hope of payment from me. Though compelled to part with their hard won earnings in that city for food,:on our way home I never heard a murmur. The report they gave of the expedition, both in public and private, and very kind expressions towards myself, were sufficienty flattering. A fresh party was despatched with ivory, under the guidance of an Arab from Zanzibar, and two days only given for preparation; and when they return, or even sooner, my companions are to start again. That their private opinions are in accordance with their public professions I have evidence'in the number of volunteers who offer themselves to the East with mo, knowing I have not wherewith to purchase food even. And they are not an enthusiastic race either ; there is not the least probability of any mere adventurer attaining much influence among them. If the movement now be;.un is not checked by some untoward event, the slave trade will certainly come to a natural termination in this quarter, our cruisers having ren dered slaves of so little value now on the coast. Commerce has the effect of speedily letting the tribes see their mutual dependence. It breaks up the sullen isolation of heathen. ism. It is so far good. But Christianity alone reaches the very centre of the wants of Africa and of the world. "Theoretically, I would pronounce the country about the forlis of the Leeba and Leeambye, or Kabompo, and the river of the Bashnkulompo, as a most desirable central point for the spread of civilisation and Christianity. And, unfortu n.stely, I must mar my report by saying I feel a difficulty as to taking my children there without their own intelligent coif-dedication. I can speak for my wife and myself only— we will go whoever remains behind.—Affectionately yours, (Signed) " DAVID LIVINGSTON." " Tette, or Nyungwe, on the River Zambesi, March 2, 1856. "My dear Sir,—Having by the mercy of God reached the furthest inland station of the Portuguese this morning, I gladly avail myself of an opportunity of sending to Quil limane to advise you that I am thus far on my way down the river. It will be gratifying to you to hear that I have been able to follow up, without swerving, my original plan of opening a way to the sax, both on the east and west coast, from a healthy locality in the interior of the continent. Not until two months ago was I aware of the existence of any salubrious point, though I now recollect a reference made thereto by Sebituane. "But now I can announcenot only a shorter path for our use, but a decidedly healthy locality. By this fine river flowing through a fertile country, we have water convey. ance to within one or two degrees of the Makololo—the only impedimenta I know of being one or two rapids (not catar acts), and the people in some parts being robbers. " The Portuguese have been amazingly kind. Here they are no loss so than in Angola • and much of it is owing, I believe, to my public-spirited friend, Mr. Duprat, at Cape Town, and to the Bishop of Angola. " The kind interest which many of my countrymen have shown in my work makes me feel deeply grateful, and rime what ashamed withal at having done so little to deserve it. . . . lam not so elated in having performed what has not to my knowledge been done before in traversing the continent, because the end of the geographical feat is but the beginning of the missionary enterprise. May God grant me life to do some more good to this poor Africa. " I have a report written for you, but it requires copying. I rest a few days here, because I have been on foot through a very rough, stony country, my oxen having all died by tsetse, and I was too poor to buy a canoe ; with one Icould have been here a month ago. I am in excellent health—no fever all the way from Linyanti.—Affectionately yours, "DAVID LIVINGS TON. " Rev. Dr. Tidman." LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 9. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. IN RE M'LEAN. There was a long discussion in this case as to the right of Mr. Sparkhall to prove against this estate. His Honour ultimately declined at present to admit the proof. IN R& J. G. PALMER. The bankrupt was a printer, of Savoy-street, Strand. This was his examination meeting. Messrs. Cooper and Stevens prepared the accounts, which commence January 1,1854, and end June 6,1856, showing—creditors, 5, 6551.; liabilities, 7031. ; creditors holding security, 931. ; capi tal at commencement, 8261. ; profits, 3,7801. ; good and doubtful debts, 1,024; property, 2,5851., ditto with cre ditors, 60/. ; trade expenses, 3,577/. ; house and per sonal, 9311. ; losses, 2, 123. Mr. Plews, on behalf of the assignees, did not oppose. Mr. Chidley supported. His Honour allowed the bankrupt to pass. of stupor. She had bruises about her bead, shoulders and hip, and marks indicating a criminal assault were also found upon her. Mr. Luff, the girl's fathti., *Ai dallea, and he deposed that though the prisotaei. had lived next door to him for fear years they had not been in the least intimate, and hie daughter had never shown the least symptom of hys. teria. She never had a fit in her life. Mr. Ribton, in his address to Mejury, urged tbatthere might be a great deal of falsehood mixed up with a little truth in this matter, to give the story the appearance of probability; that the girl might have gone voluntarily to the prisoner's house after having sent her sister out; and that she might have been suddenly seized with a hysteri cal fit, though she never ba I one before. She might, he submitted, have baVented the greater part of the story to screen herself from the blame of being there, and commented on the fact that there were persons who were present on the occasion, after Garrod got into the house, who had not been called on the part of the prose cution. lie said he should call those persons, and then if the jury entertained the least doubt upon the matter, they would give the prisoner the benefit of it. Mary Beasley deposed that ehe lived at No. 10, Mid dle Copenhagen -street. On the evening in question she saw the girl and the prisoner talking and chatting toge ther for an hour before the occurrence. She was laugh ing and lolling about the railings. Eliza Abraham, a married woman, stated that she was in Copenhagen -street at the time, and heard the screams. She saw the prisoner at the door of a house, and he asked her to go and help him with a female. She went in and found a female lying on the floor, between the front and back parlour. Mr. Garrod was there, and witness assisted him to get her into the front parlour. The prisoner went up to her, and said, "Emma, for for God's sake, say, have I done anything to you I" She replied, "No, you have not." He asked her that more than once, and she gave him the same answer. A doc• tor, Mr. Scott, was sent for. Apolicernan came in. When Mr. Scott came he gave her something in cold water. Witness went into the kitchen, and on the table she saw two plates, two knives, two tumblers, which had con tained drink of some sort, and some cheese, as if two persons had had supper. She asked Mr. Scott to examine th• girl, but he did not until he had been again asked to do so, and he then said there was nothing to indicate that violence bad been used. She bad seen persons in fits, and the symptoms resembled those the girl then ex -41110..1. 441 -,aa at the police-court, Due was Hot called as a witness. On the following morning she called to see how Miss Luff was. Susan Marshall, of 6, Copenhagen-street, stated that she assisted to undress Miss Luff and to get her to bed. While she was doing so she (prosecutrix) fell back, as if in hysterics, and knocked the back of her head against a chest of drawers (this was to account for the bruise). She observed nothing to indicate an assault. Robert Scott, F.R.C.S., deposed that he lived at Arundel•terrace, Barnsbury-road. He was sent for to see Miss Luff, whom he found in Carroll's parlour. She was, be considered, in hysterics. Two women and Mr. Carroll were there, but there was such a hubbub in the room that he could not say whether Carroll spoke to her or not, but he thought he asked her something about whether he had done anything to her and that she an swered no. Carroll, when a s k e d by him if he had given her anything, said she had taken two glasses of ale. He denied that he had given her spirits. Witness could not detect the smell of spirits in her breath, hut she night have taken spirits and he not have smelled it, as he took a great deal of snuff. He declined at first to examine her, as he thought there was no one there who could au thorise him to do so. He treated her for hysterics, and gave her doses of laudanum and sal volatile, after which he ordered her to be taken to bed. He had not seen her since. Her symptoms were precisely those of a person in a hysterical fit, and such fits might come on suddenly with young persons of the age of the prosecutrix, or from temper. If a drug had been administered, laudanum would not have been a proper remedy to give, as it would have increased rather than diminished the symptoms. If a drug had been administered to her, so as to produce immediate insensibility, she would not have recovered so soon. He attended the police-court, and, though it was known he was the medical man first called in, he was not examined as a witness on the second examina tion, but he was on the first. His evidence was not re turned on the depositions. He saw no indications of vio lence on the girl when he was called in. Cross-examined—l had attended Mr. Luff's family professionally for 3 years or thereabouts, and I also knew the prisoner as his family's medical adviser. I heard Mr. Billinghurst give his evidence before the magistrate, when he described the appearances he found on the girl. I have been 20 years in practice, and a few cases of poisoning have come under my notice. Ido not know of a drug which would produce the immediate insensibility spoken of by the prosecutrix. Prussic acid will, but of course it is fatal. Aconite will produce insensibility. I know Taylor's Jurisprudence—it is a work of authority. Tincture of aconite will produce insensibility, but there are no intervals of screaming, and the patient remains for a long time under its influence. Mr. Sleigh —Are not these the symptoms of tho ad ministering of aconite—flashing of fire from the eyes, giddiness in the head, and numbness of the extremities I Witness—Yes, they are. Mr. Sleigh—The very symptoms this girl has de. scribed. Mr. Garrod was recalled, and he denied that the pri soner asked the girl whether he had done anything wrong to her, in his presence or hearing. Mr. Sleigh then replied. Mr. Creasy very carefully and impartially summed up the evidence. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after a short consultation they agreed to a verdict of guilty on the second count. Mr. Creasy characterised it as a most vile and infa mous case, and sentenced the prisoner to ten month,' hard labour, This case occupied the court from ten in the morning until nearly six in the afternoon. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 9. BO WSTREET. Mors. P. Michael, professor of foreign literature, who had been remanded from Friday last on a charge of cri minal assault, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine. The defendant was surrounded by a number of lite rary and professional gentlemen, his personal friends, by whom Mr. Lewis, the solicitor, was engaged to conduct the defence. The complainant, Elizabeth Lyons, a delicate-looking girl, who lived in the service of Mr. Francis, printer, of 25, Museum-street, repeated her former statement, to the effect that the prisoner was a lodger in the house, occupying the second floor, that he returned home on Tuesday evening, the 2d inst., when she was alone in the house, and having desired her to take a candle into his room, took her up in his arms, carried her into the bed-room through the folding doors, and, using a filthy expression, forced her upon the bed and committed the offence. The girl was now subjected to a long and severe cross examination by Mr. Lewis. She stated that the defend ant, on entering the house, inquired if her mistress was at home, and she told him no. When he took her up in his arms they were in the front sitting room. She screamed and kicked him. Loud screams might be heard in the street. She might have scratched his eyes out, and now regretted that she did not do so. She did not like to scratch his face, it would have disfigured him so much. He held her upon the bed a quarter of an hour. She afterwards washed her face, but did not comb her hair, and make herself look as smart as ever. Would swear she did not comb her hair. Did not smooth down her dress. It was not rumpled. Her mistress came home about half-past nine. Did not tell her then, as she was poorly, and thought it would upset her. Did not tell her the first morning, not liking to do so till her master was gone. Took up a letter to Mr. Michel about nine o'clock, and laid it upon the table ; and afterwards took up his breakfast things. Did not speak to him. Abouta quarter to 11, when her mistress desired her to take up two eggs to him, she refused, stating that she could not wait upon that gentleman again, She then told Mrs. Francis what took place the previous night, and her mistress advised her to go home to her mother. She did so in the even ing, but could not find the heart to tell her mother, but said to her, " Mrs. Francis wants to speak to you, mother." On Friday morning her mother called on Mrs. Francis, who was the first to tell her. She ( com pl a i nan t) told it afterwards, and her mother said she would t a k e steps about it on Monday. But she returned two hours after with a policeman, and gave Mr. Michel into custody. Daring all the time between the Tuesday night and Friday morning she (complainant) con tinued to wait upon Mr. Michel, but never spoke to him about his ill-usage. Would swear that she was not in the habit of having young men to see her. Once, about a fortnight before this occur rence, a friend of hers, a boy about 16, walked home with her on Sunday evening. He was a cousin, named Tom Collins, and lived in Crane-court, Fleet -street. He was a printer, and she had been to see him. He walked home with her because it was late—a quarter to ten, and she feared her mistress would be angry. That was the only time he ever came with her to the house. She had not seen him since, she would swear. Mrs. Francis, complainant's mistress, confirmed the girl's statement relative to her absence on the night in question, the interview with the mother, &e. She made defendant's lotcl always, but saw nothing to excite sus picion. Cross -examined—She wag much shocked on bearing the girl's statement, and advised her to go home to her mother. Wzs not aware, if the girl told Ler directly she returned home the previous night, that it would have shocked her riore. She was ill, but not so ill as that. Examined th 4 girl's linen, but saw nothing. Recollected the complainant's coming home with a youth on the Sunday week previous, and she stated that it was her cousin. Thai was ten days before this occurrence. Allowed the girl to continue to wait on Mr. Michel, but kept watch mon her. By Mr. Jardine-51r. Michel only took breakfast at home, and %s out all day. He returned • on Wednes day, at about six, to dress, and then went out again. Her reason fir not taking up the matter was that she thought the Ks mother was thu fittest person to do so. Ellen Lyols, complainant's mother, a widow, stated that she liveds.t 5, Fulwood's-rents, Holborn, and had had one room forfive years. Her daughter never told her a word of wha the " beast" had done-, but desired her to call on Mrs. ?rancis, wishing her to tell it, which she did on Frida' morning. Cress•ekalAned—The girl has no young man acquaint ance. My hisband had a cousin named Mike Collins, a plasterer, bulhe was fifty, and never had a child. I can swear the chid has never had a young cousin named Tom Collins. (This witness had been out of court during the exatninaton of ber daughter.) Mr, Coati; the surgeon who examined the girl on Fri. • day last, svvere that she had been violated Within 04(36 04' Sou} dOel. rolloe-sergeant 4 1i stated Lhalie Sihirehend_eff tb6 defendant by direction of the girl's mother, tin Fridiiy afternoon: He found Mr. Michel sitting in his roOlii, engaged in writing. On stating the charge, Mr. Michel dAid, "I knO* nothitig Abotit it, but I will go with you." On reaching the street door, and seeitig the ton and her mother there, he said, "Oh, it's done to get money. it's a trick. I have heard of such tricks being played upon foreigners, and when I was a young man, 20 years k I had to pay for a similar case. Put I don't want any thing of that sort now, for lam a married man.' Wit. ness had since inquired about the character of the girl and her mother, and found they were very respectable. Mr. Lewis addressed the court for nearly an hour, urging the discrepancies in the girl's statement, and the suspicious story about the cousin Tom Collins, as proof that the charge was altogether a fabrication, probably to fix another's offence upon his client, who was a gentle man of great literary eminence and of irreproachable character. Mr. W. Turnbill, barrister, 3, Stone's-buildings ; Mr. Dudley Costello, and M. de Witt, each spoke in the highest terms of the defendant's moral excellence. The latter gentleman stated that he was one of the celebrities of France, a man of European reputation ; and neither of the witnesses had ever heard him utter an indecent expression. Mr. Jardine said—My impression is that this case must go before a jury. lam quite aware of the difficul ties of the case, but many of them may be accounted for by the extreme youth of the girl ; for inconsistencies of conduct in a child of 14 are not to be looked upon in the same light as those of a grown up person of 20. Some allowance must be made on this score. Still, looking at the case in all its bearings, I think it is one in which I ought to admit the defendant to bail. He must find two sureties in 2101. each, besides entering into his own re cognisance fcr 4001., to answer this charge at the ses sions. The bail was immediately . tendered, and the defendant, who cried bitterly towards the close of the inquiry, left the court with his friends. Emma Foreman and Cecilia E. Arnott were brought up for final examination on the charge of stealing a 201. note, &c., from Mr. Holdsworth's chambers in Clem ent's-inn. They were fully committed for trial. Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for Miss Arnett, begged that his client. who was under 16 years of age, might be spared the contamination of a gaol by being admitted to bail. Several gentlemen of the highest respectability, including one of the benchers •f the inn, having offered to bail her, Mr. Jardine said he should make no distinction in the case. got info the flyer at all, for such a hypothesis was fever /fele eticriegth. He (the coroner) did not suppose that people were Moto moral at Hampton-court than they were in the inetropolie, and be could assure the jney that it was a very common practice in London for persons 'p search dead. bodies under the pretext of endeavouring' te discover a card or some paper of address, and if any property was found it was applied to en improper use, and never found its way to the OWhtt Prin. If the decca,ed had 15/. in money upon his person at The time of his death, it was quite possible that it had bee❑ taken ceeeey by some one who afterwards i pushe , l the body into the watet; on the other hand, there had been no evidence to show that he had property about him at the period when fie died, and although the witness Jeffreys had told them that he saw the money when the deceased was drinking brandy with him, still there were numberless ways by which it might have been afterwards got rid of by the deceased himself. Having said thus much upon this part of the case, he (the Coro ner) would remind the jury that the first thing they had to determine was whether the man had destroyed him self. His (the Coroner's) own con - viction was that the man had died by tik own hand, that he discharged the pistol himself deliberately, and with a fixed determination to destroy his own life. Then, it might be said, why did not the shot go through the Guernsey shirt l In answer to that he would say that there were such things done by madmen when committing these rash acts that those pe- culiarities could not be accounted for. Every now and then a man would leave a ball-room, pull off his best clothes, and put on his worst to cut his throat. Another would carefully bleed himself in a washband basin, be cause Jae would not spoil the carpet or table cover. There was no accounting for this ; it was quite possible that this man had lifted up his shirt with one hand for the purpose of placing the pistol nearer the heart, with a view to a more certain death. He (the Coroner) there fore did not think that there was anything peculiar in that. There was another circumstance somewhat remark• able i❑ the man's conduct—namely, that he had left his waistcoat and watch at home, and Mrs. Arnold had stated that he had never done so before. It appeared to him (the Coroner) that the deceased had left his watch with a determination to commit suicide before his re• turn. It was a relief to one's mind that there had been no murder committed at all. He (the Coroner) could not, however, avoid reverting to the te4iinony of the witness Gray. That man had attempted to ac count for his time during the four days that the de ceased had been missed, but it would have been better if the evidence had been more clear ; still there was no reason whatever to impute murder in the case. Gray's attempt was very unsatisfactory, although he detailed his own movements, spoke of meeting his wife on the Satur day preceding the finding of the body, of giving her money,and stated that ho bad never been at Hampton Court at all. It could not be forgotten that it had been sworn in evidence that Gray said " Solomons should never take his wife to Australia with him again," and on that very day, July 26, two days before the body was found, he had said, in the hearing of several persons, that " Mrs. Solomons might consider herself a widow." A juror—But he denied it in evidence. Several witnesses—We heard him say the words. The Coroner—He remembered it being distinctly s worn to at the time; but all those things would go fDr nothing, unless there was other circumstances of an inculpatory nature to support them. Putting all these matters before them, his own conviction was, as he had already stated, that the deceased man had destroyed himself by a pistol discharged into the lungs, and which pistol he had on the night of the 21st in his possession. It had been proved that he was a man of a very violent temper, con stantly drinking brandy to excess, and being a greater part of his time in a state of frenzy—positively a made man. Having now made what observations he (the co roner) felt necessary, he had to tell the jury that they would have first to consider whether the deceased had died by the infliction of the wounds himself ; and secondly, what was his state of Blind when he so in flicted those wounds. If the jury should not think that the evidence warranted them in returning such a verdict, they would then consider whether those wounds had been inflicted by any other person. If they returi.ed a verdict that the deceased died by other hands than his own, then it might be that an imputation of the moat fearful nature would rest, perhaps, upon some person who might be entirely innocent of the deceased's death. The jury would have to consider and decide upon the whole of the evidence with the greatest nicet , and he would conclude by saying that he fully believed they would deliver their verdict perfectly unbiassed in that case. Upon the conclusion of the coroner's address, the jury retired to a private room for about twenty minutes, when they returned into court with a verdict to the affect that the jury were unanimously of opinion that the decease man, Lewis Solomons, had died in consequence of wounds caused by a pistol shot, but whether such wounds had been inflicted by himself or some other per son there was not sufficient evidence to show, The foreman expressed the admiration of the jury for the manner in which the police had aoted throughout the whole affair ; Inspector Rapsey and SergQant Churchill having travelled between Hampton Court and different parts of the metropolis nearly 500 miles in making inquiries about the matter. After the proceedings had judicially terminated, the police were obliged to interfere on behalf of the man Gray, to prevent the execution of summary vengeance upon him. It will be recollected that he deserted his own wife and six children, in order to cohabit with Mrs. Solomons during her husband's (the deceased's) stay in Australia, and he still resides with her, she having born him a child. His employer Mr. Green, the blue manufacturer of Garlick-hill, Thames street, has dis charged him on account of this disgraceful affair, as it was stated that the other workmen refused to stay in the same shop with him. He was escorted on the way to Twicksnbam by a policeman, amid the yells and execrations of the crowd who had gathered at the place. The matter is still an open question for any future in vestigation that may be necessary. A large number of persons were present during the whole of the proceed ings. HEALTH 01? LONDON. (From the Registrar-2,3neral's Report.) Eleven hundred deaths were registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday. The deaths of males were 552, those of females 548. As regards the total number, the present return differs little from those of the two previous weeks; and it the mortality produced by epidemic cholera in 1849 and 1854 be excluded from the average of corresponding weeks in the years 1846.55, it will appear that the rate of mortality which now rules approximates to the average rate at this season. As the births registered last week were 1,634, the excess of births over deaths was 534. Diarrhooa continuously decreases, the deaths from it in the week were 124, which is less than half of the number caused by this complaint about three weeks ago. Four deaths are referred to cholera ; three of these oc curred to infants ; the remaining case is returned as follows :—St. Margaret, Westminster, in the workhouse on Sept. 1, a man, aged 40 years, " Asiatic &mlera." He was in the last stage of disease when admitted. At 3, Tyro-place, C!erkenwell, a coppersmith died on the 30th ult., at the age of 18 years, of diarrhoea (28 d tys), gastroenteritis (18 days)." With reference to the h use in which the young man died, the medical attendan, re marks :—" There is a cesspool apparently under tse kitchen, with an untrapped drain in the court, which emit very offensive efilavi t, and the whole of the fam t y, with one exception, have suffered from the couva'rr, duri n g the past month." In two cases of scarlatiea out of the 29 which were fatal in the week, two men, aged respectively 36 and 45 years, were the sufferers. A child died of tetanus apparently idiopathic. Two women did at the age of 92 years, two women at 93, a man at 93, and a worian of more extraordinary longevity is stated to have attained the age of 106 year;. She died in the Marylebone workhouse on the 31st Aug., and Mr. Joceple, who registered her death, was in formed that she had been there 34 years, and that her son is now living, who is 84 years old. She had been formerly cook in a nobleman's family. Last week the births of 827 boys and 807 girls, in all 1,634 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the avenge number was 1,451. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.847 in. The mea n daily reading was above 30 in. on Wednesday and Thursday. The highest rending in the week occurred' on the former day, and was 30.17 deg. The mean tempera ture of the week was 57.5 deg., which is 1 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest reading occurred en Sun ,lay (31st Aug.), and was 74 deg. ; the lowest was 43.8 deg., and occurred on Wednesday. The highest reading in the sun was 93.5 deg. on Thursday. The mean de point temperature was 48.8 deg., and the difference be tween this and the mean temperature of the a'r was 8.7 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 62.7. The wind blew generally from the east on tee lest three days. The rain in the week was 0.09 in. It fell heavily on the night of Saturday. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 6. ZyinoticDiseases 273 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ........... 106 Diseases of the Heart and B lood-vess els ............. 41 Diseases of the Lung s and other Organs .... Re5pirati0n.................. .......................... 02 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs o fDigestion ............. ........................... 63 Diseases of the Kidney s, &e. 14 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, & c . Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations Premature Birth and De"oility 44 Atrophy 79 Old Age :•Aiddert l7 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 67 Causes not specified DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. spondiug week In the 1851. of 1855. Week. west Districts ...... 376,427 North Districts...... 490,396 Central Districts..... 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts Totals Males Females. 0000000 0 0000 .00 oo g 000000 60 • IP Oita' ta•,_ MI DDLESEX SESSIONS. Patrick Carroll, 35, who was described in the calen dar as a clerk of superior education, was indicted for unlawfully assaulting Emma Luff. The prosecutrix was a girl 15 years of age next De cember, but looking much older, the daughter of a col lector, residing at No. 2, George's-terrace, Copenhagen street, Islington, and the prisoner was stated to be a clerk in the General Post-office, in the receipt of a salary of 1601. a year. He lived next door to the girl's father. In her examination in chief the prosecutrix stated that the prisoner had lived next door neighbour to her father for about four years. Oa the evening of the 12th of August, at about italf.past eight o'clock, she saw him in the street. He was at his door, and she was in the area of her father's house. He told her that he had received a letter from his wife, who was in the country, and that he expected her home at the end of the week. At about half-past 0 the same night she went into the garden to take some clothes which had been washedfrom a line, and she saw the prisoner in his garden. He spoke to her, but at first she took no notice. He said, "Emma, here, I want to speak to you." She had some of the clothes on her arm then ; she took theta into the kitchen, and then returned to the garden, when she found the prisoner close to the wall. The ground on his side of the wall was lower than on hers, and she could but imperfectly see him. She went to speak to him, and stood upon a child's chair which was standing there. He asked her to stand higher if she could. There was a ladder on his side of the wall. He again asked her to stand higher, and she then knelt on the top of the dust-bin. The prisoner then got up the ladder, and when he got close to her, he put his arm round her waist, and said she was a nice girl. She told him to be ashamed of himself, as he was a married man. He had a glass in his hand, and asked her to drink out of it ; he did say what it was, but she could not recol lect the name. She refused to drink, and he then put the glass to hes mouth, and some of the liquid it contained, whatever it was, went down her throat. It had a very bitter taste. She did not swallow it willingly, but tried to force the glass away. Directly after she had swallowed it her feet became numb, fire seemed to flash from her eyes, her head whirled round, and she fell do wn heavily, her head coming in contact with something which caused a severe contusion. She became insens ible, and when she partially recover?d she found herself in a closet with the prisoner. He was then standing beetle her with a glass of water in his hand, some of which he dashed in her face. She again lost her senses, and when she came to she found herself on a bed in the prisoner's back parlour. She then struggled with him, at d the head-board of the bedstead fell out. (She here described the assault.) The next she remembered was ar ain finning herself in the closet, her sister, who was some years younger than herself, standing beside her. Sae made a noise, and be said if she did not stop it he woula poison her, and he tried to force a handkerchief into her mouth, but that was before she saw her sister. In cross-examination she said she did not have any supper that night—she did not go into the defendant's kitchen. Before she went into the garden she sent her sister out on an errand, to take some clothes to the mangle. She was on the dust-bin about a minute before he gave her the drink, and when he offered it to her she closed her teeth and tried to push him away. She could not tell how she got over the wall, except that she fell off the dust-bin. When her sister went out she shut the door after her, and expected to let her in again in a few minutes. She had never been subject to hysterical fits. She had sent her sister to the mangling woman's several times before that occasion. Anne Luff, the sister, stated that when the prosecutrix sent her with the clothes to the mangle she told her she would open the doer for her, and then they would wait up until their mother came home. When she got back she knocked at the door for an hoar, but no one answered, and she was then taken into the house No. 1, and a gen tleman got over the wall and let her into her father's house, No. 2. As she could not find her sister at home she went out again. The prisoner came to his drew, and she asked him if he had seen her sister. He said she Vas in the closet, and took ber there. She found her sister lying at full length on the floor. The prisoner had a glass in his hand, and wished witness to drink, and said her sister had had some. She would not, and be held her to prevent her going away. Her sister was screaming. Mr. Garrod came in. Cross-examined—She had never been sent with the mangling so late before. It was usual for her to take it of a morning. She had not taken the mangling for months before. Frederick Garrod, solicitor's clerk, of No.lo, Church street, Islington, stated that he was visiting ata friend's in George's-terrace on the occasion in question, and hear ing screams from the prisoner's house he proceeded there, and knocked several times at the door. The pri soner opened the door and opposed his entrance, but he and another person got in, and asked what was the cause of such screaming. He saw the girl lying in the passage. She seemed in great pain, her eyes were swollen, her hands were clenched, and there was a wildness about her which induced him to think she was in a fit. The witness took her up and placed her on a couch in the parlour. Carroll did not assist. His clothes were out of order. Witness told hire there were circumstances of sus picion in the matter, and that he thought he had at tempted an assault upon the girl, whose dress was disar ranged. The prisoner said he had only given her two glasses of ale, and that all of a sudden she fell into the state in which he had found her, she being subject to hysterical fits. Witness went into a back parlour, and there saw a bed tumbled about. This confirmed his sus picion, and he asked prisoner to say truly what he had given her, so that proper treatment might be resorted to to restore her to sensibility, and he then repeated that he had only given her two glasses of ale. When her eyes met the prisoner's she seemed to scream worse. She was removed to her father's house, and the prisoner was afterwardsgiven in charge. Mr. Scott, surgeon, attended her. Evidence was then given of the inability of a medical gentleman, Mr. Billinghurst, of Downham.road, who examined the girl, to attend to give evidence through illness, and accordingly his deposition was read. It stated that he was called on to see the prosecutrix at 5 o'clock on the following morning, when he found her in a Atato Eventually both the girls were admitted to bail. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A decently dressed woman, with a child, applied to Mr. Beadon for assist ance. Her husband had locked her out of his house, and had refused to receive or support her. He was in a good situation, earning good wages, but was of bad tem per and given to drink. In answer to questions from Mr. Beadon, the woman candidly admitted that there wore faults on both sides, that she was not one of the best of tempers, and that she had no objection to take i a glass of gin with any body. _ _ Mr. Beadon said the only advice he could give the woman was to apply to the parish authorities, wl• would look into the case, and if necessary take steps to compel the husband to allow her a reasonable mainten ance. After the woman bad left the court, the husband pre sented himself, and wished to know whether he was not justified in locking out a drunken wife, who pawned all his clothes and his children's clothes, sold his furniture, and spent the money, together with the greater part of his wages, which he gave her for the support of the family, in drink. He said he had been for many years in one situation, receiving 30s. a week, out of which sum he gave his wife every Saturday 255., or 275. 6cl. to pay the butcher, baker, and other people, but she spent the money among her companions, and ran up bills of 20s. and 40s. at a time. Me palled out a handful of dupli cates, and said the 52 duplicates he produced related to clothes and property pawned by his wife for drink. Mr. Beadon thought that the husband's difficulties were partly attributable to his own conduce in allowing matters to go on in such a way for a length of Cute. The husband said—She's got a young man that comes to see her when I'm out. I came home one day, and cotch'd 'em eating periwinkles. Mr. Beadon—l'm afraid that would not be evidence strong enough to prove criminality. Husband—But the frying pan was hot, and rye no doubt they'd just been having bacon and eggs. Mr. Beadon—Bacon and eggs won't help your case. Husband—Then I followed them out, and saw them sitting in Kensington-gardens, with their arms round each other's waists. Mr. Beadon —There may be something in that. But I can only give you this advice at present, to let your wife apply for relief to the parish ; the authorities will then decide whether it is a case in which they can inter fere ; and if they do interfere the evidence on both sides will come before me, and then I shall be able to come to some decision. The husband then left the court. THE HAMPTON COURT MYSTERY. ADJOURNED INVESTIGATION.-CONCLU SION OF THE CASE. Yesterday morning, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, accom panied by Mr. G. T. Brent, the deputy-coroner, resumed and concluded, at the Mitre Hotel, Hampton-court, the adjourned inquest upon the body of Lewis Solomons, the Australian gold digger, whose body was found in the river, near Thames Ditton, on the 28th of July last, under circumstances which have been already detailed to our reader.. As soon as the, jury had been reassembled, the Coro ner said that the Information which had been given to Inspector Rapsey respecting the deceased man having been seen on the night of the day on which he left home had turned out to be incorrect. It must have been on the Thursday previous. They bad therefore no further evidence with reference to that matter ; and he should proceed with the medical testimony in the case, with a view to bring the matter to a conclusion. The first witness called was Dr. Garrett, of Thames Ditton, who said that be made the first examination of the body on the 30th of July, but it was a very hasty and superficial one. He made a second post-mortem examination on the 25 h of August, after the body had been buried. He found nine shots in the lower part of the left lung, one in the diaphragm rend another in the in testines. The incisions in the heart, which on the first examination were thought to have been inflicted by some sharp instrument, had been ascertained to have been rents caused by the force of the explosion, and the shot had not traversed those rents. That was all the evidence be was able to offer. The Coroner said that the stomach and intestines had been sent to Mr. Rogers, of St. George's Hospital Medi cal School, with a view to discover by analysis whether any narcotic poison had been used that might have destroyed life, and that gentleman had reported that nothing of the kind was to be found. Under these circumstances and as the else at present stood, the jury were now in a position to proceeel to the con sideration of their verdict. The evidence was not so clear on many points as could have been wished, but they could not manufacture witnesses. There was great credit due to the inspector and sergeant of po lice for the very creditable way in which they had con ducted the case, and evidence had been forthcoming which was of some value. The jury must recollect that it bad been proved in evidence that the body was found oa Monday, the 28th July, in the River Thames, oppo site Thames Ditton. The first witness sailed was a wa terman, named Tegg, who saw that a hand was first seen appearing on the surface of the water, and then sinking, and afterwards the body of the deceased man, which has been proved to have been that of Levy Solomons. It appears that he was 34 years of age, and in theyear 1853 had gone to Australia on a mission for Mr. Davis, a china warehouseman, of Tottenham-court-road ; and he had returned to England between five and six weeks be fere his body had been found. There had been various parties before the jury as witnesses who had seen him. Both Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Ungley had said that he had slept at their houses. He was with his uncle, Mr. Ar nold, for one month, and both Mr. and Mrs. Arnold had said that he left their house on Thursday morning, the 24th July, and that was the last evidence they had had of him being seen alive. Where he bad been and what he bad been doing from that day until the day he had re ceived his fatal wound there was no evidence whatever. The witness Jeffreys bad been with him at a public house, where Solomons was calling for brandy and drink ing excessively. Immediately after leaving hie home on that Thursday morning he was seen to pull out a purse containing 15 or 16 sovereigns, and the disappearance of that money, coupled with the wounds on the body, had led to the impression that he had been murdered. If these wounds had been caused by stabs it would then have been quite clear that the deceased had lost his life by the hand of an assassin, for it would have been also quite clear that he could not have inflicted those wounds himself, as any one of the threnrnust have been mortal, and, after having inflicted one wound he could not have had the power to have inflicted the second. Dr. Garrett had discovered 11 shots in the lungs and intestines, and these were to be accounted for. Now, it appeared that the deceased was a man of very unfor tunate habits, as several witnesses had spoken to his drinking to very great excess. He was constantly dis playing a dagger and pistol, both of which had been taken from him by Mrs. Gray. Up to the 21st of July he had a pistol and large shot in his possession, and re marked when in company with another witness, to whom he showed it, "See, this is the way we colonists travel." His friend, having apprehensions of danger, asked kim to fire the pistol off, which he did. After this it had been shown that be had a powder flask and 20 shots with him. He had threatened to take away his own life, the life of his sister, and that of Mr. Davie, adding to that by further threatening to "make two widows at _ _ one shot." Mrs. Tyler had slated that the deceased had been at her house raving after brandy. He bad bitten a piece out of the tumbler which was before the jury, and chewed and masticated it so much that his mouth had bled, thereby showing beyond doubt that the man was not in a right state of mind. The man wag nothing else than a madman, and they could come to no other conclusion, at least he (the Coroner) thought not. Evi dence had been given that the deceased had died in con. sequence of the wounds which had been inflicted upo him in the heart. It was impossible to say what he might have done with his property between the time of his leaving home on the Thursday morning and his de stroying himself. On that point there was no evidence whatever. There had been no evidence to show what had become of him from Thurbday, the 24th July, up to the 28tb, the day his body had been found in the River Thames. He might have destroyed himself before he Country Itlarkets. L TVERPOOT/--SEPT. 9. There was a goon attendance to-d ay o f th e t ow n O ct veral millers fr om th e nor th of Ir f " country trade, and se land. New wheat met with a good demand, at a dell s on new Irish an d E ng li s h, of is 3d to is Gd. per 701L' is per 701bs on new Arue.*.ican. Old wheats, howel er ; owing to their previous depres, ion, cannot be quoted 11)(1 ; than 6d to 9d per 701bs lower, w.ith a better demand. Flo d scarce, and fully as dear. Oats and oatmeal in request, at is per load lower. ,/ , T.ew oatmeal, 35s tp etti ; per load. Barley, beans, and p aas the turn in favou r the buyer. Indian corn neglected,. avid to make sales al l ' dactiou of 3s to 4s per qr. had to be k tlb tnitted to. HULL—SEPT. 9. To-clay we had a fair show of new wheat, which, e firl !t on, was bought at GOs to 625, but the market warmed advanced, and 6to to 66s was paid at the closw. (" English hardly a sa,mple, and Foreign held at high rt t !„ / ' A slow retail sale ft >r all spring corn at late prices. 141 ."‘ seed cakes in improve inquiry, and 2s 6d per ton deg' s 8 I F. Wheat, English, red 63 to 70 Peas, grey and black -- Ditto white 66 to 74 Linseed, Black Sea... 54 10 0 Dautzic and Konigs- Ditto Potenburgh 45 10 berg - 0 Pomeranian and Ham- angel burgh Danish, Holstein, and I Memel , 4 40 1 for Too, I Lins.e., /inn 01 Os to 9110:001 'Ditto fine for. 81 Os 9% 0 , Ditto inf. for olos Od to II" Rapeseed OOl Os t• 0 01 1 1 Raps cakes —5 od to 13 01 ", Tares, I.7.nglish Ol. to Ditto f ore ig n ( Guano OOl Os SI to 111) : 1 Bones - Flour, per br l l ° . 311: Friesland 6O to 6rl Russian and Odessa 55 to 62 1 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian 27 to 29 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 36 to 40 Beans Ditto foreign Feas, white and yel 4O to 421 LEEDS The weather since our last I able for harvest. New wheat any large quantity, and the ti since Friday ; prices are ful Old is held firmly, but withot rather gives way in price. J 3( quoted. —SEPT. 9. has on the whole been favour t does not collie to h&B il ,ono of the trade has inir ° , / , Ily as high as on that of;; ut alteration in value. 13Ar1"LeIt eans and other articles as 0 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY . .im5terdam............ 11 16%, Gibraltar •••• • • •• 2 960 i Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Leghorn ...• •• •• •• „ k , 61 Rotterdam ............11 194 Genoa ...... ""„. Antwerp •• •• •• •• • • •• •• 25 47 yy Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Brussels .... •••••• • • • • 25 47 Y 4 Venice •••••••• • • •• •• •• 44 4 Elamburgh ............ 13 8 1 4 Naples •••• •• •• Altona •••••••••• • • • • • • I Palemio •• • • 25 35 Messina ... .•• Jos saris" •••• •••••••• Ditto, three months .. 25 67yy arseilles ..............25 70 Bourdeaux •• •• •• •• •• .• SV, Lisbon .. Oporto •• •••• •••• .„. Rio Janeiro..... • •••••• i Frankfort-on- Si sine 119% Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• Buenos Ayres ........ •*, .• New York,6o daye Sigh' ~.. Vleuna•••••••••••••••• 10 23 Trieste•••••••••••••••• 10 21 Petersburg ............ 371 Siadrid ••• •• .• •• •••• 40% Barcelona geNille...•••• •••••••••• Philadelphia .........• Paum or itrLLictc. ° 9 Foreign Gold in Bari £ 3 ' 7 O 0 Portugal Gold Coin .• 2 0 0 Mexican Dollars ...• u 0 0 New Dollars „, (3 Silver in bars LOCAL SHARE MA RjElligia• LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 9. rir . Aasc STOOK EXCHANGE.—The transactions in over,' - - „ i t4o tion of stock were dull, and prices are lower than'" day, with little or no business doing. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 9. STOWE EXOHANGE. —This market was dull again e t. 1 day, as regards railway shares, and prices stilt , vo te London and North-Westerns, 102 i 1024—Great "tilt Birmingham Guaranteed Stock, 74—Great Wester'', 65i— Eastern Counties, Bi. MANCHESTER, [SEPT. 9. a n STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was doing a 010°1. business, but prices are without change. Sheffieln' op isn° Great Western of Canada, 24Z—Leeds, 971—Ca1",. Doc° 26—Eastern Counties, 81—Midlands, 79i—E 3 "q 0 0 01( shire, 205 —Dovers, 22 3.l6—East Indian, 22i- - " 61. Pref. 8 prem. SZABORNB MAIL& (If 'Undies that the malls are sent from the General ri •,y the night—and M by the morning—despatch.) Day when made up In General Poet- Office, London.* From whit Port Dispittche ... ISyery Friday .... iLivorpool (Every Tuesday .. gouthamPte' 3 l LtyerPool '"' • •• a. ) 1 4th and 19th .... Lay e rpool: •• Dover •••-• 214 of the month 10th & 26th MI) •. 4th & 20th of mon. 17th of tbo month 9th of the month 9th of fie month Uncertain Plymouth .• Dover •• •• •• SouthamPlo Southamptcr Dover • Southampton •ionthanirtnr Various port. 9th of it. month 10th and 26th.... 1 4th and 20th stuw.,We,t.,ftYrh.t. !Id fc 17th of month 4th and 10th I ;oth and 26th.... Ith &20th of men., Irwtco daily .4 .. iouthamwon j Southampttnl Southamplor Dover .....• 0 , 1044-mpqn Dover rwtcc dat1y...... i 4, 7, 17, 20, 271fm. Dover .••• •• Southamptor 2nd & 17th of naon; Da 1v I2nd of the month' [Daily.... •• 17ta of the month. 4th t 20th of mon. 10th&26th of moth London ßDDps B° aloo, :u ti vi, Dover y,mt t eeh h hrroi u % p e. .h P . Bouthampl'a ISouthamptoe !Liverpool ....I Irv/Ice j2d of n - 0... 9tl'i if month 1 231 of month ..., 14, 10, 20, and 26.. Dover 20th of the month '2nd of the month— Daily.— ...... 2d ac :7thof month Twice a month Ditily.. ...... ..„ Sontherliptf v Dover Southamptol Various port Dover iouthasipto louthampt , Various port Dover Dover .. • • • iouthatap'Ot & 27th of mon. 3y private Every Saturday.. Doily ld V& 17th ofmonth, &th of mon. .... l. Litt) ui ionthamptei SV _ti_ Inc engagernenl of a. WtiO 7 f.7"_ Bla( A YC Ihrc Italy, &c., • flan. The the Contine LOND Works, Su NOTICE NARY AN the Offices c THURSO k The regiSt inclusive. GRAI NOTICE holders of ti Bate-street, Precisely. 2 1, Old B: GRE NO' treat west( is now OPE For partic tamed at th 4 Itailkngto GRE EX( eliding 15th ire issued t Great West( ILftl, thence Man, or to Prince of W Prom Lor Oxford to Loudon to dudno, Oxford to passenger boatdadno ea 'AY, sad Yr 'nutt compl( These ticket C a t R E. TOIT ,„".ales Rally nese Ticke OXford, or ter, to /toss / raven, and stOW, limn] From T. di ~ Le, Tourists' Woo direct' GREA NORTH I 'roin the da' Theft tick uro r d Bir Mt permts: Or returning ;Nal Oswest liirt the optic (0 London ei Shrewet From T. From 0 From II _From 11 These tick 41 (1 they do mon over an Passenger 1., ,„ . 4 rweti or V h ot thoFe p COUNT= I . I kmerica(byllrit.pack)N kmerica (by United B:s.' packet) ..........N tnierica (by U. States, packet) tnstralia (via Liver pool) ............ hf Mt° (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ............N tfrica (West Coast) ..N ..N ....M '3ahamas 3elgium ~.• •• ......N Brazil ..............7d 3uenos Ayres ........M •Jape of Good Hope ..N '.!ape of Good Hope ..N .:!nee do Verds ......N Coylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N Jhartael Isles .. ......N China . ;3onstantinople "Jenstantinople Cont. of Europe Zi & N tilgypt (see India) ?ranee ........ N 3ibraltar ..........M, arceee (see India) 4roytown atimburgh Savannah .......... M I aolland •• •• •• •• •• MI Efontidras ..........M India (viaSouthampt.)M (mils (via Marseilles)al lonian Isles (see India)! Ireland & NI Usben .............. Nj Ifadeira Aadeira Walta (see India) Aalta .....N Wituritlus (see India) Ifaurittus Mexico Kaples. ,r .• Now Granada .• New Zealand... ••• •• •• Papal 'Mato, Peninsula .• .• •• • • 111 Peru .• • • .. •• •• • • 1 4 .1 Port Natal .• .• ••N Tuscany .• )7eneznelg • N Van Diernen'sr,Pnd (se , Australia) %Yost Indies -- i an d 16 ,I.lbr 9 401:1'14.: i let iiii" A 1 10 14/1 Ist S IISI scee" V l i 0 lir on:1111: ' An d 16 # _......---- no When any of these dates fall o n a S un d ay, t h e ma- dIA • "( spatched on the followinl day, 7/lt the exceptlrn of the 1 1. 1 d ti ,;outbampton), and tho Malta, both or which will be &Ol t '. preceding day. ?sr will MALTA, Aug. 23.—Capt. Thomas Graves, bi° was stabbed by a boatman on Monday, exPi red morning at 8 a.m. A post.mortem examination wtio take place this evening at 5 p.m. There is, I re g r A e rn' say, a general f ear th a t th e governor w ill no t be hut, under so m e pl ea or o th er , w ill l e t t h e rn urdere i t S, , from bein g b ange d. It ap p ears t o h ave b een a nctol liberately-planned murder, the man h a ving fo r on° time past acted in an eccentric manner —shaving ° 7 l dc' side of his whiskers, allowing the other to growl 311 hid r., ing various thi ngs t o ma k e i t appear h e wag not rn e-eo senses, and such, we hear, is to be his plan of delscro The English, it is hoped, are not to be so pot Off. al p! have a firm, d e t e rmined, and clever chi e f secretal, if he is looked up to, to see that strict justice is don e ' 0 0 some example be not made, none will feel Bale from stiletto of the assassin. The letters from R uss i a conta i n l i ttle corn mercia l . n il ,;: telligance, attentio n b e i ng a b sor b ed b y the C o ronntri r i That ceremony havin g now t erm i nate d , some particu,,so' will probably soon t ransp i re w i t h regar d to th e con Yo , plated concessions for railways and other public o r „t A. large business is going on in all kinds of produce ; 0 , orices that must leave a large profit to the gro'"01 The shipments of wheat from the Sea of Azoff are l ' o f considerable, and France takes the greater portion them. —O4 BIRTHS. SF A UV. De g On the Bth inst., at Hampstead, the wife of I,lhur e Birch, Esq. On the sth inst. at Goldington Hall, near Bedford, tij° wife of 'Wm. K. Browne, Esq. ol' On the 7th i ns t., a t 1 , H y d e - par k-terrace, Cnraber-I I gate, the wife of Golliat Hatfeild, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the Bth inst., at G reen with Hospital, the wife of VP John Grant Stewart. On the 3d inst., at Nettleworth Hall, the wife of Colonel Fitz Herbert. MARRIED. On the Oth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square , nel Thomas M. Steele, C. 8., Coldstream Guards. eldest to of the late Major-General and Lady Elizabeth Steele'o, Isabella Charlotte, only daughter •f Edward FitzGe r° E O sq. " t ie, On the 9th inst., at Wantage, Berks, (ht. Mackoneeister Esq., of the Toner Temple, to Emma, youngest dauk;. • of the late Wm. Watkins, Esq., of Badby House, thamptonshire. DIED. Pooo On the 31st ult., Mr. John Hewitt, of Walthani•Or Herts, much respect6d, aged 66. On the 6th inst., Francis Pulson, Esq., of Lincoln barrister-at-law, aged 48. 01 On the 7th inst., at Lady Wootten's-green, rich a 1 son of Richard Parnell, Esq., of Canterball• „ t ic. On the Bth inst., Charles Brenchloy , Esq., of Den zn " hill, Camberwell, aged 73. , o bo On the 6th inst. Frank, the second son of the late o Skelton Esq., of ;he Bank of England, aged 35. 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