The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 20. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Creswell and a Special Jury.) GETHIN V. GETHIN (THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR INTER- VENING). The hearing of this extraordinary case was re sumed this day. Mr. Macaulay, Q.O , addressed the jury on behalf of the petitioner, Lady Gethin, who, he said, had proved a case of combined adultery and cruelty on the part of her husband when the case was tried before the Court. The Attorney-General had not laid before the jury even a faint outline of the facts connected with the petition which Lady Gethin had brought forward, and which, he contended, dissi pated the charge of any collusion between her and her husband. It appeared that Lady Gethin was the daughter of a highly-respectable family named Poley, who had formerly resided in Suffolk, and she was married in 1846. At that time her family con sisted of an aged mother, since deceased, a maiden sister, and her brother, Captain Poley; and the gentleman with whom she was accused of having committed adultery was an acquaintance of ten years' standing. That gentleman was an industri ous, but not a professional artist, which led to the frequent visits of Lady Gethin, in conjunction with the facts that his child and the children of Lady Gethin were acquaint& for some time. Lady Gethin lived with her husband untillBs3, and during that time she gave birth to the two children who are still living. Her husband proved to be a man of the most dissolute habits, and had run out his estate, retaining only a nominal property in Ire. land. He spent from time to time the money which Lady Gethin received, and was dependent on her family, whom he bullied, for the means of actual support. How he lived at present was unknown to his client ; but one fact was known, and that was, that he was as penniless a beggar as any in the street. If the Attorney-General had pursued his researches further he would have told the jury that taking into account the situation of Sir Richard Gethin, he not being pressed for the payment ofi costs, was not any proof of collusion on the part of Lady Gethin. Proceeding with the history of this unfortunate lady. It appeared that in 1853, in consequence of his systematic ill usage and immoral conduct, she was compelled to discard him from her society, since which period, with the exception of two occasions, she had lived, up till 1860, with her mother, whose house was her sole residence: The first of these occasions was dur ing the Russia war, when Sir Richard Gethin in formed her that he had obtained some situation in the Crimea, and expressed a wish to see her. She then joined him for a week at Calais, and on his return she again went to him at Southsea in 1856, but she was again forced to leave him. Lady Gethin contemplated obtaining a divorce years since, and in 1854 a case was submitted to that eminent civi lian, Dr. Addams, on her behalf, but he considered that she had condoned the misconduct of her hus band. By the temporary cohabitation of 1856 the acts previous to that period had been condoned, and could be revived only by subsequent misconduct ; and at the time when Sir Richard Gethin presented his petition, in June, 1859, to which she and Mr. Ellis both appeared, she was not in possession of facts to establish such revival. But shortly after wards the newspapers made her acquainted wiih:the fact that a suit had been tried in this court in which Sir Richard Gethin was the co-respondent. That was the case of Leatham v. Leatham and Gethin ; and it appeared that during the absence of the hus band, who was employed in India, Sir Richard Gethin had formed an immoral intercourse with his wife, and which resulted in his obtaining a divorce. Lady Gethin filed her petition, and, notwithstand ing the comments of the Attorney-General, it was not extraordinary she should adopt that proceeding, even though her husband had already commenced a suit for a divorce. With regard to the suit of Sir Richard Gethin, it was regarded by her family as an attempt on his part to extort money. The learned counsel then went in detail through the evidence adduced on behalf of the Crown, which, he con tended, though it might prove indiscretion on the part of Lady Gethin, utterly failed to establish her criminality. Mrs. Robinson, examinel by Dr. Spinks—l have been living for 32 years in the family of Lady Gethin. I know Mr. Ellis for about nine years. He visited Mrs. Poley when she was living at Hampton. Sir R. Gethin was intimate with him also. It was in 1855 that Mrs. Poley removed to Ladbroke square. I knew of Mr. Ellis living at Victoria-ter race, Notting -hill. I have called on him there fre quently, and was admitted by the servant or Miss Louisa Denny. I have gone out with him, Lady Gethin, and the children, and I have sometimes taken meals at his place. One of Lady Gethin's children is about eight, aad the other five years of age. In 1855 the health of :qrs. Polev was declining. The eldest boy almost always accom panied Lady Gethin in her visits to Mr. Ellis, and sometimes the younger boy also went with her. Sometimes the maid fetched one of the children from Mr. Ellis's while the other remained. L idy Gethin returned to Ladbroke-square at different times, and occasionally as late as 11 o'clock at night. The dinner-hour at Ladbroke-square was one o'clock, and Lady Gethin used to dine with the family at that hour. Lady Gethin occupied the top room at the front of the house, which looked towards the square, and not to Victoria-terrace, which was at the back of the house. Lady Gethin is about 35 years old. I have never seen any romping ou the part of Lady Gethin—it was not her character. She is merry, except when she is in tears at the recollec• tion of her husband's ill-treatment. In cross-examination by the Attorney-General the witness stated that Mrs. Poley and her family removed from Little Hampton to Albion-street, Bayswater-road, Cadogan-place, and thence to Lad broke-square. Mr. Ellis lived at Little Hampton when Mrs. Poley was staying there. Sir Richard Gethin and Lady Gethin were at Little Hampton at the same time, and Sir Richard Gethin appeared to be on good terms with Mr. Ellis. When Mr. Ellis was at Victoria-terrace he used to call at Lad broke-square, and Mrs. Poley saw him when she was well enough. By Mr. Mac - aulay—Captain Poley and all Lady Gethin's family were very friendly with Mr. Ellis. Capt. George Frederick Poley examined by Mr. Macaulay—Mr.Eliis was on familiar terms with myself and family previous to my mother removing to Ladbroke-square. I was frequently at my mother's at the latter place. I knew first of Mr. Ellis living in Victoria-terrace before the end of July. I called on him there frequently while he was occupying the room on the second floor. I used to call as frequently as two or three times a day, and Lady Gethin frequently went with me there. Mr. Ellis and I went out frequently together, the children accompanying us sometimes. Shortly be fore my marriage, in August, I occupied a bedroom behind that of my sister, Lady Gethin. I think it would be difficult t o di s ti ngu i s h any p ers o n a t the window of Mr. Ellis's from my mother's in Lad broke-square. Cross-examined by Sir F. Slade—l used to take my sister to. Mr. Ellis's, b u t no t i n t o hi s b e d room . I took her into the drawing-room, and sometimes went by myself into his bedroom. I remember call ing at his place one morning and being told he was in bed. Lady Gethin said, " What a lazy fellow he is," and I said, " I will pull or rouse him out of bed," and I went up to his bedroom. My atten tion was drawn to this circumstance by the speech of the Attorney-General yesterday. I then spoke to the solicitor of Lady Gethin. I never went with my sister to Mr. Ellis's but once while he was in sncreora. I have never seen my sister paint, but I _lave seen her draw. I have seen Mr. Ellis give lessons to children in drawing, but I never saw him give any lessons to Lady Gethin. I did not know Mr. Ellis before I was living at Little Hampton, and then he was introduced to me by Sir Richa r d Gethin. I am related to Mr. Ellis by marriage, but there was no previous relationship between us. Mr. Preston, sc i licitor for Lady Gethin, examined by Dr, have had the conduct of this suit from the commencement. In co nsequence of infor mation. Gethin, and hat lnade i nqu iries respecting Sir petition. I also ha a i la answe r .. prepared for his a petition on her behalf, and both proceedingsG E zra under the direction of counsel. Sir R. ordered to give further particulars, but I Ti d n was not ever remember having received them from There was to his petition was filed. The answer no ar rangement with Sir R. Gethin on my P art for the discontinuanc e of h is suit , and I instructedf counsel to take the n e cessar y steps on be ha lf Lady Gethin in respect to the suit. Si r ° Richard obtained leave to renew his petition, whi c h h e did not do. I succeeded in getting the petition ( H s _ missed with costs. We never got the costs, an d understood that he was utterly witnout money. I do not know of any condition not to press for costs if this suit of Lady Gethin's were n ot o pp osed, or if it were successful. Mr. Francis Ellis examined by Mr. Macaulay. — I was co-respondent in the suit of Sir Richard Gethin. I never authorised my sol i c itor not to exact costs in the event of that suit being with drawn. I was a widower, living at Little H ampton, when I made the acquaintance of the Poley family, and I was on intimate terms with Sir Richard Gethin. I was stopping with my brother at Brockley, in Hamrshire, before I went to Victoria terrace. I heard a portion of the evidence of Miss Louisa Dennys as to Lady Gethin having gone once into my bedroom. I was then up and dressed. When I occupied the one room it was my habit to have my breakfast there. I used generally to dine at an hotel in London. It was not true that Lady Gethin used to be at my dinner table except when I din e d Out. At my dinner table I used to have tea at one end of the room, for my child and Lady Gethin's children. It was not true that on any occasion Lady Gethin sat on my knee. She never had her legs in my lap, or her arms round my neck. I never had my arms round her waist. Caroline Wilson, the servant, had left Miss Dennys a few weeks before me. She left in Consequence of my complaints of her inattention, slovenliness, dirt, and rudeness. I complained of having lost a book while she was there. It was " Abercrombie on the Intel lectual Powers." Miss Dennys never told me that she said she saw Lady Gethin sitting on my knee. I gave Miss Dennys notice to quit. There never was any improper intercourse between me and Lady Gethin. It is untrue that I . ever kissed her. I held a commission the army, and afterwards a military post in her Majesty' household. As a rule my boy slept with me, except when I moved down stairs. Lady Gethin never drew in my bedroom. She was never in my bedroom except on the occasion I have alladed to. When I was leaving, Miss Dennys asked me to recommend her lodgers, and I said I certainly would as soon as she got her drains re paired, and the nasty smell of which I complained removed. Not a single word of dissatisfaction was expressed towards me by the Misses Dennys, and they pressed me to stop. I always made a point of going to church twice on Sundays while at Notting hill. I used to read the Lessons to Miss Dennys after I returned from evening service, but I never read prayers to her. I was lik e a b ro th er w ith Cap tain Poley . I continued on terms of intimate familiarity with Lady Gethin until Sir Richard Gethin made a charge against me. Cross-examined by Sir :F. Slade—l introduced myself to the Poley family at Little Hampton. I 1 had no business at Notting-hill. I wrote to Lady Gethin to take lodgings for me there. I never represented to Miss Dennys that she was my cousin. It is true that she went with me to the lodgings on my arrival, to show me the room. I gave her port wine on one occasion, when she was suffering from nervous head-ache, to which she was subject. It was on that occasion she was in my room, and she remained only about two minutes. I remember sending on one occa sion for a pill and dose for her. She dined several times with me while I was at Notting hill, but she did not make a practice of doing so three or four times a week. I dined about once a fortnight at Ladbroke-square. I had no other business at Victoria-terrace than to be in the company of Lady Gethin. She used some times to mend my shirts, and I used to put my linen out to air in her presence. Miss Dennys never said anything respecting the neigh bours talking about Lady Gethin being so much with me. This closed the whole of the evidence in the case, the hearing of which will be resumed to morrow (this day). ARCHES COURT. (Before Dr. Lushington.) "ESSAYS AND REVIEWS." THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY V. THE REV. DR. ROWLAND WILLIAMS, D D. Dr. Deane resumed his argument this morning with the indictment upon the Bth article, which was to the effect that the defendant had advisedly maintained and affirmed that in the bocks of the Old Testament, with the exception of one or two doubtful passages, there was n o e vidence of their being inspired, and no evidence of the progncstication of future persons and events. To meet this accusation he quoted Bishop Louth's " Preliminary Disserta tion," with the view of bringing Dr. Williams within the case referred t ) in " Heath v. Burder," that a man might not be punished to-clay for opi nions that had passed unnoticed and unchallenged by persons in authority in former ages, and also to show that criticism of the text was an open ques tion, and that the very text itse:f as we received it, and still more as the Hebrew original now was, was but a translation of other and older documents, and in many respects a faulty translation. They were, in fact, dealing with the translation of a translation, and the object of the prosecution was to fetter the true meaning of the original book, and the darkest ages of Popish tyranny could not have attempted to impose on the human understanding heavier fetters than this. To the same book he re ferred to the distinction between what was in the Church genuine, authentic, and canonical. Genuine was there defined to be that which was written by the person whose name it bore, " authentic, having authority r and a writing might be genuine though not authentic, or authentic though the word genuine could not be applied to it. Apccryphal seemed to be opposed to authentic—a writing, in fact, which was disallowed—and canonical was used in divinity to mean part of the canons or collections of writings of divine authority. With regard to the interpreta tion of the word " inspired," Dr. Hay said some men had held that every word of Scripture was inspired, and therefore the sacred writers were mere instruments. This Warburton called " organic inspiration," and "passionless machines" were the words used by De. Williams, and objected to as heretical. He should like to know how it could be heretical to speak of passionless machines, and not heretical to speak of organic inspiration. The passage quoted in the Bth article charged was asserted to be contrary to the 6th Article, which was, " Of the sufficiency of Holy Scriptures for salvation." Now, every article used in religion was not affirmative, but negative. This article was directed against a well-known existing error, but was not directed against all questions which might hereafter arise in the Church, and it was directed, as every commentator had agreed, against traditions introduced by the Church of Rome. The 7th Article was " Upon the Old Testament ;" and he could not find one single word in the passages extracted from Dr. Williams's essay which could be regarded as in any way opposed to that article. Warburton had written that the doctrine of future rewards and punishments was not at first known among the Jews, and in that article the 17th Article was not contravened, because the question raised was one which had not in that sense been considered by those who drew up or the Crown which ratified the articles. The Judge—Did I understand you distinctly to say that Dr. Williams has never denied the two senses of prophecy ? Dr. Deane said Dr. Williams had never denied the sense of prophecy in its fulfilment—that was in its secondary sense. And upon this point of the in spiration of prophecy he referred to the passage in St. Luke's Gospel, that it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, there being no prophecy in the Old Testament in which the rising on the fourth day was foretold. He did not throw theslightest doubt on the 24th chapter of St. Luke, but this only showed the danger of taking a passage which the Church had appointed to be read on a particular day, and holding that every word of that passage was to be judged in its literal sense, without any examination whether it was so written or not. In the same way there was no pro phecy known distinctly announcing that Christ should be called a Nazarene, and the Hebrew word which had been translated " Nazarene" might be, as had been affirmed, translated with the same accuracy a branch or flower. The Judge hoped it would not be for a moment understood that he was going to try these grave questions of divinity. Of course it was quite open to Dr. Deane to show that such and such opinions had been entertained, without reproof, in the Church by eminent divines ; and if the learned counsel showed that his client had only entertained the same opinions, it would bring him into the position in the case of " Burder v: Heath." Dr. Deane was certainly not going to ask the Court to pass judgment on any one of them ; but he desired to show that the opinions condemned in the case of Dr. Williams had been held even with ap probation by others before him. The 9th article charged Dr. Williams in the first place with " dis tinguishing the man David from the Book of David," and in bringing the latter as low as the reign of the Epiphanes the author only followed the admitted necessities of the case. But the whole passage quoted gave the explanation of the opinion not of Dr. Williams, but of Baron Bunsen, who dis tinguished the man David from the book. The date of the book, however, proved the position as serted, and surely a clergyman whose knowledge led him to that conclusion was not to be placed in the position that he must contradict his knowledge to be convicted of the grossest ignorance before his congregation, or must render himself liable to a charge of heresy. Dr. Williams, again, had never said that Jonah was not an historical person ; and , not only had he not said so, but had distinctly stated the contrary in his sermons. Another charge was that he had said that the Book of Jonah, in corporated in the Old Testament, was never written by him. He (Dr. Deane) could p ro d uce a flood of authorities th at in. another instance the book was npoetntwartietataehn b ao y u t l h d a r i i ) o e t rso i n whose name it t oo k. Th e been e n ti re l y wr itt en by Moses, for it contained" an accountofs hisa heretic death, and was the pEr son to ber a ega t e h r e o the B f w ho disputed that Moses w whole ? Nobody would contend thvaritt ook of Ruth was written by Ruth, and he would ask who wrote the Book of Job ? But Dr. Wil liams had never said that the Book of Jonah was not written by Jonah. Taking the 10th article, the indictment was misunderstood, miscited, and mis charged, and the opin ion ex p ressed was one that there was no authority whatever for. Dr. Williams had never said that the authority of Scripture was not binding upon the Church, nor n ot part had he said of theaidthat the Epistle to the Hebrews was gßounnstehne thought Church. What Holy S h e e r i h p a t d ur s e a s id an w d a s t u h c a h t Bbianrdoinn THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1861. the Epistle was not written by St. Paul, and in his' (Dr. Williams') own judgment it bore traces of being post academic. Dr. Arnold was admitted to holy arders after admitting that the authenticity of the Epistle to the Hebrews was an open question, and surely Dr. Williams was not a heretic by the opi nion he had expressed upon that Epistle, or upon the Second Epistle of Peter. Again, with regard to the Revelations of St. John, if every clergyman who gave an opinion as to the interpretation of the Revelations were prosecuted as a heretic, the Judge of the Court of Arches would be of all judges the most sitting and the most patient. The complaint of the 11th article was on account of the opinion that " the Deluge takes its place among geological phenomena, no longer a disturbance of law from which science shrinks, but a prolonged play of the forces of fire and water, rendering the primeval region of North Asia uninhabitable, and urging the natives to new abodes ;" but on reference to the book itself it would be seen that these opinions were again the opinions of the author; and not of the re viewer, and the same was the fact with regard to the descriptions quoted of the flight of the children of Israel from Egypt, and the passage of the Red Sea. But he had never heard that the present Dean of St. Paul's had ever been accused of being a heretic because upon this very particular of the flight from Egypt he had expressed an opinion similar to that of Baron Bunsen; and a miracle might surely not be less a miracle because the Almighty willed to bring it about by human means. But he would put to the Court these questions. Were the state ments of the Bible altogether so blasphemous that merely to cite them, abridge them, or review them was a crime that that Court would punish ? and were comments made by such a person as Baron Bunsen not to be noticed or reviewed by a clergy man of the Church of England P For whom was this review written ? If it had been written 100 years ago it would have been written in Latin ; but we have left off now the habit of bringing these difficult questions forward in what Gibbon described as the decencies of the dead language. Was it, then, at the time when such theories as these were started by Baron Bunsen, the greatest scholar, per haps, of his day, that a clergyman, for a book writ ten for the study of learned persons upon those theories, should be punished as a heretic ? Was the description of the Deluge itself so clear that no second interpretation could be given to it ? Where were " the windows of heaven" that " opened ?" Were " the fountains of the great deep" literally "broken up ?" This was the language of poetry. It did not shut out the researches of science, nor did science deny the operation of God's interference in bringing about the flood. The case of "Dr. Williams" is expected to be concluded to-morrow (Saturday). ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, Dec. 20. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) THE BILSTON MURDER. William Jones, 21, miner ; David Brandrick, 20, puddler ; Wm. Maddox, 28, puddler ; Thos. Jukes, 28, snufier maker; Samuel Bill, 26, puddler ; Hcze kiah Webb, 25, miner; and Tiles. Lilley, 24, potter, were charged with the wilful murder 01 John Ba gott, at Bilston, on the 29th September last. Mr. P. M.Mahon, Mr. Motteram, and Mr. A. S. Hill conducted the prosecution; Mr. Kenealy de fended Brandriele ; Mr. Cook Evans defended Mad dox ; Mr. W. J. Neale defended Jukes and Lilley ; Mr. Claydon defended Bill; and Mr. H. Matthews defended Webb. The prisoner Jones was undefended by counsel, but in the course of the trial he expressed a wish that the Court would assign him counsel. Mr. Baron Martin declined to interfere in that way, hut Mr. G. S. Griffiths volunteered his services, and with the sanction of the Court watched the case of that prisoner. Mr. I'. M'Mahon opened the facts of the case to the jury at considerable length ; and then, with the assistance of his junior counsel, called nearly 40 witnesses. From their evidence it appeared that the seven prisoners were all charged with being concerned in the murder of a Mr. John Bagott, a tailor, at M etals, in this county, who came by his death, at an early hour on the morning of Sunday, the 29th of September last, in the sitting room of his own house. At about 4 o'clock in the morning of that day it was discovered that the house of the deceased had been forcibly broken open and robbed, and when the police entered the sitting room of the house they found the deceased lying dead upon the floor, his face blackened as if with soot, and every indication of the house having been ransacked by burglars, When the body had been examined by the surgeons, they gave it as their opinion that the deceased had been suffocated by pressure upon his mouth and nostrils, or in other words, that he had been burked. The excitement occasioned by the discovery was very great, espicially in the town of Bilston, which has an unenviable notoriety for crime; hut great efforts were made by the police to discover the perpetrators of the deed, and suspicion having alighted on the seven prisoners, they. were all, in the course of a few days, lodged in prison upon the charge. The evidence now adduced, of which we propose:to give only an outline, established the fol lowing case : —A charwoman, named Eliza Rownes, stated that the deceased, who was a tailor and draper, lived in Church-street, Bilston, at a corner house, which had a side door in Stafford-street. The charwoman was a married woman, living at Bilston, but as the deceased was a bachelor, and kept no servant, she attended upon him during the day, and at night returned home, and slept at her husband's. The deceased was an eccentric man, and rather given to intoxication, which he usually indulged in at his own house. On Saturday, the 28th of September last, a commercial traveller called upon him at about eleven o'clock in the morning, and at one o'clock the deceased told the charwoman to mind the shop, as he was going out, but he would not be long away. It appeared he dined with the:commercial traveller at a publichouse in the neighbourhood, called the King's Arms, and continued drinking till about 6 o'clock, when he was brought home, leaning upon the arm of the com mercial traveller, in a state of intoxication. As he entered his sitting room at the back of the shop he fell down on the floor, and, not being able to attend to his business, he remained in his room till about 8 o'clock, but by that time he bad so far recovered his senses that he lighted the gas and assisted in serving customers till about 11 o'clock, when he closed the shutters, At 11 o'clock the charwoman fetched a pint of sixpenny ale, which he drank, and she also bought a bottle of port wine, two quarterns of whisky, and a joint of lamb for his Sunday's dinner, and at 20 minutes past 11 the deceased let the charwoman out at the side door, in Stafford street, and turned the key of the lock after her. The supper things were left ready, there being 20 oysters, and the wine and whisky on the table ; but the next day the wino was found upstairs, but the oysters and a portion of the whisky, as well as the ale, appeared to have been consumed. As the char woman left the house the deceased bade her " good night," and expressed his sorrow for the trouble he had given her that day. Nothing more was seen or heard of the deceased till about 4 o'clock in the morning, when the police received information that the house had probably been robbed. It appeared that a young woman named Elizabeth Beards lived with her father, William Beards, who had been a collector, at a small house in an entry in Stafford street, about 40 yards from the house of the deceased. She was sitting up on the Saturday night to let in her brother, who was out very late; and at about three o'clock in the morning she heard voices in the entry. One man said, " my eyes, they'll know me by my shoes." At about half-past three, she heard a man say " Bring the trousers and jackets," and another man said, " Hush, hush," and another man said " Come lower down." When she heard this she turned the handle of the door to disturb them, and the men went away. The young woman went up to her father, and told him what had occurred, and as she came down stairs her brother came to the door and called for a light. He then went out into the entry, and brought in three jackets and a pair of trousers, over which he saki he had stumbled, as he came down the entry. Just before he had got to the entry he had met three men, running down Staf ford-street from the direction of the house of the deceased ; but as the lamps at that hour (4 o'clock) had all been put out, and the town was in perfect darkness, it was impossible for him to know or to describe the men whom he had met. As soon as the Beards came to examine the clothes which the son had found in the entry, some one suggested that they must have been stolen from Mr. Bagott's shop, and the elder Beards immediately went to the police station at Bilston and gave information. Police-sergeant Smith obtained a light, and, accom panied by elder Beards, went to the house of the deceased. They found the side door closed but unfastened, and the back door, which led into the back yard, in the same state. A further examination showed that an entry had in the first instance been effected by breaking open the door of an ashhole in the side premises in Stafford-street. This led into an outer yard, from which an entry had teen made into a brevvhouse by breaking open the window and shutter; a door leading to the adjoining kitchen was also forced open, and also a door leading thence into an inner yard adjoining the house. A grat ing is this yard, under the sitting-room win dow, had been removed and "an entry effected by the coa l- cellar, from which some one had ascended into the house by ck c a ut b ti o n l c u e l hal ba staira. ti o cc or d a o t o t r b p o o t s o t i) () so f the ctoealp oSfmtibthe whensdteacteeadatehdathecutting away the e r_ founde entered gas still burn groeoamnt tered the sitting room but with a glimmering ligh t. There were the remains of the supper on the table, which he said' was strewed over with bottles. keys, and other things. He cxami:aeci ere, m evlehe the ehede e and found the deceased lying on the floor, portly on his back, and partly on his left side, his showlder against the end of the fender, and his head hanging over into the fender. The poker was lying with the handle upon the ground, and the square part resting upon the neck of the deceased. The hands and face of the deceased were quite black with soot or ashes. The policeman raised him up, and unfastened his stook and collet, and, as he did so, his head fell for ward. The body was still warm, and a surgeon was sent for, but when he arrived, at half-past four, he pronounced the unfortunate man to be quite dead, and he thought he had been dead about three-quar ters of an hour. When the deceased was first dis covered his waistcoat was all unbuttoned and the front of his trousers was down ; the two middle buttonholes in the fall had the appearance of being recently torn, and the sides of the fall had the same appearance. The suggestion made on the part of the prosecution was, that these appearances indi cated that a struggle had taken place with the deceased previous to his death, and that suffocation was caused by pressure upon his face, mouth, and nostrils by one of the prisoners (Jones), who was arrested the same night with black hands. After examining the lower part of the house the police sergeant went upstairs, and found a piece of cotton cloth smouldering on the carpet near the bed, in a room over the sitting-room. It had already burnt through the carpet to the boards, and if it had not been discovered as it was the bed would have soon been in a blaze. The deceased was in the habit of keeping all his doors locked, and the bedroom door was found forced open. There was a hatchet on the bed, which had been brought up from the coal cellar, where it was used to break the coals. The drawers had been forced, and a cash-box, which had been broken open, was found lying upon the floor. The burglars, however, had missed a £5-note and a gold watch, which they had turned over, but there was great uncertainty as to what articles had been stolen, as the charwoman was unable to state the extent of the robbery. She, however, spoke to the loss of some coats, a waistcoat, trousers, and pocket handkerchiefs, which had be longed to the deceased, and also to a set of studs, which he had bought about three weeks previously, and which she had placed in his bedroom. She also missed half-a-pound of moist sugar from the sitting room. A store-room on the first floor was also broken open, and bales of cloth were thrown about. The surgeon was examined as to the cause of death, and ho gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died of congestion of the lungs, produced by suffocation, and that that was caused by pressure upon his mouth and nostrils. There was an abrasion and a clot of blood at the back of his head, as if his head had been held down upon the floor, an indentation made by a fingernail on the top of his nose, a graze on the chin from which blood had flown, and his blackened face, the surgeon thought, showed that he bad been " burked" by pressure from a black hand. There were no bruises on the chest exter nally, but the lungs were found to be highly con gested. It appeared upon cross-examination that the liver was diseased, and was like " nutmeg," and the brain generally was in a softened state, but not so much so as to render the deceased liable to fall dead suddenly. The surgeon was a good deal pressed upon this point, and ultimated admitted that a per son diseased as the deceased was, and suffering from the effects of intoxication, might fall down suddenly, bat he expressed a very positive opinion that the deceased had not died from any other cause than suffocation. As soon as Police-sergeant Smith and Police-superintendent M'Crea had made all neces sary examination of the premises they proceeded to a place in Bilston called the Berry-yard, situate about 200 or 250 yards from the house of the deceased. This was a miserable place, where there were several brothels, the resort of prostitutes and other bad characters. On entering the yard at about five o'clock the same morning the police heard peesons runnng up and down the stairs of the firet house on the right hand side of the yard, and:they heard a woman crying. The door of the house was fastened, and the key had been taken out, but after waiting some time the police entered, and found the prisoner Jukes sitting on a couch, dressed as if he had just come in. It had been raining in the night, and Juke's boots were wet. They also took Lilley into custody in the same house, He was in bed with a woman upstairs, but his boots also were wet. The prisoner Bill was also taken in bed with a woman in a house on the oppsite side of the yard, and his boots also were wet, as if they had been recently worn. Both the houses where these prisoners lived and were taken were brothels. The police superintendent took the three prisoners, Jukes, Lilley, and Bill ; to the police station, and when he arrived there he found the prisoner Jones already in custody. It appeared that the prisoner Brandrick lived with his father and mother at a house near Daisy-bank railway bridge, and on the previous night (Saturday), at about 10 o'clock, a policeman named Harrison, who was on there, saw Brandrick go towards Bilston. The superintendent told Harrison to watch for his (Brandrick's) return home, and Harrison, acting on instructions, wont to Brandrick's house at half-past 2 o'clock on the Sunday morning, and opened the door, but finding there was no one there he went and watched for him near the bridge. At about a quarter to 4 o'clock he saw three men coming along the road from Bilston. He recognised Brand rick as one of the two foremost men, and the other man, who.had the appearance of the prisoner Mad dox, was carrying what appeared to be some new clothes under his arm. There was a third man walking about a yard or two behind them, whom:the policeman identified as the prisoner Jones. When the policeman saw the three men approach he made a rush at them, and Jones ran back, and the other two men on the road. The man who had the clothes threw them away. The policeman gave up the chase and took possession of the clothes, which turned' out to be a portion of the plunder which had been taken only a short time before from the house of the deceased. The policeman deposited the clothes in a barn, and again watched near Brandrick's house for about an hour and a quarter, and then lifted the latch and went into Brandrick's house. There was a candle on the table, which he lighted, and having searched the house, he found there was no one there but Brandrick's father and mother. As Harrison left Brandrick's house he met the prisoner Jones sauntering along the road from Bilston in the direction of Brandrick's house and took him into custody upon a charge of being con cerned, with two others, in stealing the clothes, which the policeman then got out of the barn. At that time Harrison was not aware of the burglary or the murder, and was about to take Jones to the station, down Stafford-street, past the house of the deceased ; but, when Jones got to the corner, he said he would not go that way, but he would go round by the Castle, as he wanted to get a glass of ale. The policeman indulged his prisoner so far, but he made no further request for ale. At the station Jones was searched, and in his jacket po c ket was found a new set of studs in a box, which were iden tified by the charwoman as the property of the de ceased, and which she said she had placed in his bedroom about three weeks before his death. The prisoner, Jones, was asked how he could account for the studs, and he said, "I don't know." Some money was also found in his pockets, consisting of three half-crowns, a sixpence, and sd. in copper. By this time the superinten dent had brought in Jukes, Lilley, and Bill to the station ; and, when he saw Jones, who was brought out of the cell for his inspection, he noticed that his hands were very black, with soot or ashes, as far as his wrists. The superinten dent observed to the prisoner Jones that his right hand was very black, to which he made no answer ; but the next time he was seen he had managed in some way to wash his right hand clean. The boots were taken from the feet of Jones and Jukes, and they were stated to correspond with traces on the ' lend to and from Brandrick's house ; and Jones's right boot was said to correspond with an impres sion on the ground at the entrance to the coal cellar. Jones's trousers also were made of fine cor duroy, and both the knees had been patched with a similar material; and several witnesses proved that they found impressions on the ground by the entrance to the cellar, which appeared to have been made by the prisoner's knees, and one in particular by the left knee, on which the patch had been sewed crossways. Evidence was given that at day light, but before 6 o'clock on the same morning, Brandrick was seen to enter his father's house, near the Daisy-bank railway bridge, and while there a man dressed like Maddox, with a flannel jacket and black bills cock hat, was seen standing outside the door. The same morning, at about 9 o'clock five silk pocket-handkerchiefs which had belonged to the deceased were found in a garden at the end of the road where Brandrick lived. On the same day Brandrick and Maddox were traced at several places, in each other's company, till the same night when they were at Birmingham. The witness celled to prove this latter fact was a man named 'Rowley. He was the cousin of Brandrick, and stated that Maddox came to his house on Sunday evening ; and then startled the counsel for the pro secution by swearing, in answer to questions by Brandrick's counsel, that Brandrick had been at his house since 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, in contradiction to a number of witnesses who had previously been examined. At this stage of the proceedings the trial was ad journed, and the jury locked up for the night. DECEMBER 20. At the sitting of the Court this day the trial of this case was resumed. The general evidence being now concluded, a great, number of witnesses were:now.'examined i with a view to show that the several prisoners were seen in company on the night previous to the murder. _ hOll2 murder. It appeared that on the Saturday Lag ut all the prisoners had been seen together, at the King's Arms publichouse, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock. The same prisoners, or some of them, had been seen at about 6 o'clock standing near the Berry-yard, a short distance from the King's Arms, at the time when the deceased was taken home from the King's Arms in a state of intoxication They were seen to watch him as be was taken home, and several witnesses stated that in the course of the evening they were seen loiter ing about the street in the front of the house, and peeping into the shop, up to the hour of 11 o'clock, when the shop was closed. This evidence, however, was not of so much importance as might in other circumstances have been expected, for it was well known that the deceased was an eccentric man, and in a state of intoxication in his shop, and it was only natural that idle people should be about the streets on a Saturday night, and should occupy themselves with watching the proceedings of the deceased man. It was, however, shown by the police that Maddox was out in the Berry-yard at past 12 o'clock, and some men and women of low character, living in the Berry-yard, gave evidence that they saw all the prisoners out at various hours of the night in company with one another. The evidence was brought to a close at 1 o'clock this day, and Mr. Baron Martin then interposed, and said he thought there was no evidence at all against Bill and Webb, and very slight evidence against Jukes and Lilley. His lordship said he could not say there was not some evidence against Jukes and Lilley, but it was very slight, and if the case went to the jury his lordship said he should not be satis fied with their conviction, and he should sum up very strongly in their favour. Mr. M'Mahon, on this intimation, withdrew from the prosecution as regards the four prisoners, Bill, Webb, Jukes, and Lilley. _ _ Mr. Neale was then instructed to lead the defence for the prisoner Jones, and addressed the jury at some length in favour of that prisoner. He con tended that there had been no sufficient examina tion as to the cause of death, and that there was some ground for believing that the deceased had not been murdered at all, but that death had been caused by some injury to the spinal cord, which had been only partially examined. The learned counsel then argued that there was no sufficient evidence to convict the prisoner, and made a solemn appeal to the jury to say he was not guilty. Mr. Cook Evans then addressed the jury for the prisoner Maddox, and contended, first, that death was consistent with natural causes, and that, there fore, the circumstantial evidence failed to show that any murder had been committed. He also contended there was no evidence to show that the prisoner Maddox had ever entered the house of the deceased or knew that anyone had entered it with the inten tion to commit a murder. There was no evidence that the prisoner Maddox had been seen with any of the stolen property. The utmost that the evi dence amounted to was, that a man dressed in a flannel jacket, and with a bi I lyeock hat, was seen on the high road soon after the burglary with Bran thick and Jones, and that the man so dressed threw away a bundle of clothes stolen from the house of the deceased. Mr. Kenealy addressed the jury for Brandrick, and contended there was not sufficient evidence that Brandrick was in Bilston on the night in ques !ion. No policeman, butonly prostitutes and brothel keepers, spoke to the fact. The learned counsel denied that the evidence of the policeman Harrison could be relied upon, when he said Brandrick was one of the three men whom he had seen on the road, nor could the evidence of the woman who said she had seen him at home be replied on. The evidence of Rowley clearly showed that the prisoner was at Birmingham by 3 o'clock on the morning of the burglary, and consequently it was impossible he could have had any part in the burglary, for he would not call it a murder. Mr. Baron Martin then summed up the evidence to the jury. His lordship said the first question was, whether there was any evidence to go to the jury. As to the prisoners Webb and Bill, his direction was that there was no evidence, and it would be their duty to say that they were not guilty, and with respect to the prisoners Jukes and Lilley, though there was some evidence, it was agreed by the coun sel for the prosecution that there was not sufficient evidence to convict, and it would, therefore, be their duty to say that they also were not guilty. The next question would be whether or not the deceased man had been murdered, and that would depend on the evidence of the police-sergeant Smith and the surgeon Larkin, which his lordship read over. The jury could not have any doubt that a burglary had been committed, and probably they would be of opinion that there was evidence on the premises that at least three men had entered the house, and it would be the duty of the jury, looking fairly at the evidence, to see whether the deceased had not been murdered by the burglars who had robbed the house. His lordship then proceeded to review and read over various parts of the evidence which tended to con nect the three prisoners with the offence. At 20 minutes past 7 o'clock the jury returned iato court, and found the three prisoners William Jones, David Brandrick, and W. Maddox guilty of mur der, and acquitted thb other four prisoners. Mr. Baron Martin said he entirely concurred in the verdict, and could hold out no hopes of mercy. His Lordship exhorted the prisoners to prepare for death, for he warned them that they would soon cease to live, and then pronounced upon them the awful sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoners were then removed. TILE DUEL BE7'WEEN CANNING AND LORD CASTLEREAGH. Unknown to Lord Castlereagh, without giving him the slightest reason to suspect its existence, a party had been formed in the Cabinet inimical to him, and the object of which was to get him removed from his position as Minis ter at War, and Lord Wellesley substituted in his room This was arranged by the whole Cabinet, with the excep tion of his lordship, as early as the 4th April, 1809. Mr. Canning then said that the views which he entertained regarding the future conduct of the war were so utterly at variance with those adopted and hitherto acted upon by Lord Castlereagh, that they could no longer, with advantage to the public service, form members of the sane Govern ment, and that one or other must be called upon to resign. He professed at the same time his own willingness to retire. The Duke of Portland, with his whole Ministry, seemed to have agreed in this opinion; but dreading the loss of the orato rical talents of Mr. Canning, they requested him to withhold his proffered resignation, and suggested the most profound secrey on the intended removal of Lord Castlereagh. This injunction was strictly obeyed, and Lord Castlereagh re mained in entire ignorance that his removal had been re solved on, although it was quite fixed, and the King's pleasure had been taken upon the subject. He continued in this state of ignorance till the beginning of September when NTr. Canning threatened, if the removal was any longer delayed, to resign himself. This brought matters to a crisis, and on the 7th September, the painful duty was devolved on Lord Camden of communicating to his early and dear friend. whom he had in a manner introduced into public life, the determination of the Cabinet to call upon him to resign. Ho did not, however, make him aware how long his removal had been resolved on, or that he had been allowed to conduct the war in Portugal, the Talavera campaign and Walcheren expedition, after his removal had been determined on. Lord Cas tlereagh, conceiving that the change had been resolved en merely to strengthen the Ministry by the sub stitution of ;some other person in his room, agreed to resign, but declined to accept the situation of President of the Council, which was pressed upon him by Lord Camden. So far all was well ; and, contrary to what might have been expected in the circumstances, this extraordinary secret in trigue had arrived at the desired result without having been discovered, or tho real motives of the proceedings suspected. But this lull in the political tempest was not of long dura tion. The story of the way in which it came out must be given in Mr. George Rose's words :—" It was not till Lord Castlereagh was shown the correspondence of Mr. Canning by Mr. Percival that he expressed any resentment or un pleasant feeling on the subject. It was from that he learned how early his removal had been consented to by his Ma jesty and his colleagues, and it was in that that he met with passages which induced him to challenge Mr. Canning—a proceeding which I still think, even admitting some mis conception on the part of Lord Castlereagh, his lordship was utterly unjustified in adopting, If he had determined to call out anyone, the Duke of Portland was the only de linquent to whom he should have resorted; and he had no motive whatever, but an anxious desire to reconcile matters in the best way he could, and, if possible, prevent any breach among the Ministers—constantly hoping that an ac commodation might be effected in some way or other, and at last thinking that his (Duke of Portland), own resigna tion could afford an opportunity for such an arrangement as might, to a certain extent at least, be satisfactory to Lord Castlereagh. That, however, was defeated by Mr. Canning urging a separate arrangement, as is proved by the extracts of the correspondence which I made from the papers Mr. Canning put into my hands on the 16th Sept." The re sult was that Lord Castlereagh, conceiving that the whole was an intrigue of Mr. Canning's to get him removed from office in order to facilitate his own advancement, and that he himself had been ill-used by being allowed so long and at so critical a juncture to retain the responsibility of office when his removal had been not only resolved on by the Cabinet, but submitted to his Majesty mad approved by him, sent Mr. Canning a challenge. The parties met and exchanged shots. Mr. Canning's fire did not take effect; but that of Lord Castlereagh inflicted a severe flesh wound on the thigh of his adversary, which fortunately did not prove mortal. Both parties, as a natural consequence, re signed their situations tip Cabinet : bud Wellesley I succeeded Mr. Canning as Foreign Minister, and Lord Liverpool undertook the arduous duties of Minister at War. '(, ) ) _FROAI TILE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING. PRAYERS FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY. At the Council-Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of December, 1861, present, Lord President, Duke of Somerset, Duke of Newcastle, Earl Russell, Lord Stanley of Alder ley, Sir George Grey, Bart., Sir George C. Lewis, Bart., Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Charles Villiers. Whereas in the Act of Uni:6rmity, which established the Liturgy of the Church of England, provision is made for such alterations in the Prayers for the Royal Family as from time to time shall become necessary, and be directed by lawful authority; it is thereupon this day ordered in Council, that in the Morning and Evening Prayers, in the Litany, and in all other parts of the Public Service, as well in the occasional offices as in the Book of Common Prayer, where the Royal Family is appointed to be narticularly prayed for, the words " The Prince Consort" be omitted. And it is further ordered, that no Edition of the Common. Prayer be from henceforth printed but with this amend ment ; and that in the meantime, and until copies < f such edition may be had, all parsons, vicars, and curates within this realm do(for the preventing of mistakes), with the pen correct and amend all such prayers in their Church Books, according to the foregoing direction. And for the better notice hereof, that this order be forthwith printed and pub lished and sent to the several parishes ; and that the right reverend the bishops do take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly. ARTHUR TIELPS. At the Council-Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of December, 1861, present—Lord President, Duke of Somer set, Duke of Newcastle, Earl Russell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir George Grey, Bart., Sir George C. Lewis, Bart., Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Charles Villiers. In pursuance of an act passed in the 10th year of her Majesty Queen Anne, and of another act passed in the 32d year of his Majesty King George the Third, wherein pro vision is made for praying for the Royal Family in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, it is hereby ordered in Council that henceforth every minister and preacher shall, in his respective church, congregation, or assembly pray in express words, " For her Most Sacred Majesty Queen Victoria, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Ft mily," of which all persons concerned are hereby re quired to take notice and govern themselves ace rdingly. ARTHUR HELPS. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 20. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade give notice that the Moniteur of the 19th instant contains a French Imperial Decree, adding the Custom-house of Strasbourg to those opened by the decree of the Ist October, 1861, for the importation of English and Belgian cotton and woollen yarns of all kinds. The same decree adds the Custom-houses of Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Valenciennes, Strasbourg, and Chambery to those opened by the decree of the 9th September, 1861, for the direct importation and clearance of English and Belgian tissues taxed ad valorem. WAR-OFFII E, PALL-MALL, DEC. 20. 24th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Pringle Taylor to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General the Hon. John Finch, C. 8., deceased. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. Computed from the Returns made in the week ending Dec. 17, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : per cwt. Muscovado, the produce of British America.. 23s 4d BANKRUPTS, Wm. Chilcott, commission agent, New-street, Kenning ton-road Spencer Kingsford, fancy trimming manufacturer, Mill street, Cheapside Lieut. Sydney H. Davies, late of Aldershot Georgiana Wright, schoolmistress, Brentwood Edwin Ombler, herbalist, Trinity• square, Tower-hill John Evenden, carrier, St. Mary Cray, Kent Samuel Granger, baker, Murray-street, Hoxton Harman M. Milton, stable-keeper, Union-street, Ken nington-road Woolf Hyam, auctioneer, Portsea John Howard, builder, High Wycombe George Russell, lodging-house keeper, Marylebone Charles Turner, publican, Penge, Surrey John Hapsey 'lade, painter, East Stonehouse, Devon Thomas Warhurst, grocer, Hadfield Peter Brewis, baker, Gateshead Wm. Goddington, dealer in breezes, Great Bridge. Staf fordshire John Powell, grocer, Oldbury, Worcester Henry Howell, beer seller, Westbrerawich Wm. Wall, tobacconist, Isle of Wight Linus Hancock, policeman, Halifax Henry Bradshaw Clark, labourer, Tuxford John Naylor, innkeeper, Warmfield Charles Scrimshire, shoemaker, Welford Joseph Wells, fishmonger, Worcester Charles Bradshaw, innkeeper, Ladbrooke John Ingram Lockhart, homeopathist, Clewer Daniel Folkes jun., cordwainer, Great Yarmouth David Leon Bensusan, ironmonger, St. Helens, Lanca shi• e John Bailey, grocer, Spennyraoor, Durham John Hudson, coal merchant, Bishop Wearmouth William Greaves, gun implement maker, Birmingham James Rogers, accountant, Bristol Frederick Berne, butcher, Toxteth-park, Liverpool George Bouskill, joiner, Edge -hill, Liverpool John Maxwell, farmer, Thorney, Cambridgeshire Henry Pribram, merchant, Nicholas-lane, City William Hyde, corn dealer, Speen, Berks George Britcher and Elizabeth Lucking, greengrocers Westminster-road Robert Beck, Great Castle-street, Oxford-market John 'Wood, farmer, Croydon 'William Glanville Boyes, dry cooper, Marylebone George Fisk, fish merchant, Great Yarmouth Samuel Smith, Eve-hill, Dudley John Sower, grocer, Deepfields, Staffordshire Joseph Simpson, cattle dealer, Groton, Suffolk Benjamin Buckle, tobacconist, Cheltenham Henry Serjeant, plumber, Messing, Essex William D . Rigbey, railway clerk, Stratford-upon-Avon William H. L. Funnell, chemist, Brighton John Dennis, shopkeeper, Hornsey Rees Morgan, assistant farmer, Brecknock Elizabeth Newby, carrier, Brecknock Joseph Marks, dealer in jewellery, Oxford John Care, jun., licensed victualler, Tudeley, Kent Richard Nicholson, commission agent, Mark-lane, City Richard Naughton, cowkeeper, New Compton-st., Soho Maria Brooks, coffee-house keeper, Manchester Joseph Carver, watchmaker, Coventry Peter Makin, farmer, Rumworth, Lancashire Thomas Dodd, miner, Ettingshall New Village, Stafford Joseph Dickin, carter, Bilston, Staffordshire John P. Bowen, grocer, Tettenhall, Staffordshire Geo. Tomlinson, innkeeper, Wolverhampton Harvey Butter, dyer, Wolverhampton Ann Ford, publican, Wolverhampton Geo. Larbuck, grocer, Wolverhampton Thos. H. Wheeler, grocer's assistant, Wolverhampton Julius A. Lowenthal and Robert Taylor, merchants, Little Tower-street Robert R. Lucas, professor of literature, Brighton Thomas R. Scott, Great Russell-street Wm, Mansfield, printer, Daleton Joseph Margetts, builder, Lower Tottenham John Stockbridge, cab driver, Kilburn John Eady, innkeeper, Daventry Winefred D. Blackman, milliner, Edgware-road Fredk. C. Maguire, iron trader, Camberwell John William Jewell, clerk, Gray's-inn-road Alban Hibberd, innkeeper, Tisbury, Wiltshire Francis Bint, farmer, Meriden, Warwickshire William Pell, farmer, Sla,wston, Leicestershire John James Hickling, lace finisher, Nottingham Ed win Aust and Eli Timson, masons, Corsham, Wilts Samuel Shipp, mason, Bilton, Gloucestershire Richard Powning, grocer, Saint Day, Cornwall Robert Nurcombe, shoemaker, Wiveliscombe, Somerset James Willis Gilbert, Saint Day, Cornwall John Crabb, farmer, Somersetshire Richard Hugo, Camborne, Cornwall Wm. Evans, carpenter, Gladestry, Radnorshire James Hole, labourer, Broad wood wiger, Devonshire Samuel Stepney, carver, Brighton Samuel Moore, labourer, Middleton, Suffolk George Moore, tailor, Withernwick, Yorkshire Robert Denman, publican, Hedensford, Staffordshire Edward Dixon, gunsmith, Hexham Charles Kyte, saddler, Portawood, Hants George Barker, publican, Swansea Edward Lloyd, collier, Blackwood, Monmouthshire Hannah Russell, laundress, Battersea-fields Thomas Colebrook, Maida-vale John Figg, shoemaker, Farnham, Surrey Joseph Ablett Pettit, jun., builder, Bildeston, Suffolk Thomas Johnson, builder, Northampton Edmund Impey, baker,Hague-street, Bethnal•green-road James Metcalfe Dobson, attorney, Abbey-gardens, Saint- John's-wood John Beszant, greengrocer, New-street, Portland-town John Sherard Coleman, St. Ann's-gardens, Kentish-town William Price Peake, commission agent, Old Bethnal green road James William Lunn Aldridge and William Osman, brewers, Old Kent-road SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Beveridge, waiter, Aberdeen William Lincolne, commission agent, Glasgow John Purves M'Watt, writer, Dunse, deceased Lachlan Grant, carrier, Grantown, Inverness-shire Thomas Gordon, writer, Glasgow Alexander Kirkland, civil engineer, Glasgow FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Jan. 18, 1 via Marseilles Jan. 12, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles —Dec. 27. Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton India (C al cu tta) , and Ceylon, via pi Southampton. aapeate.k.e. y C t DJ D ae e ne c .. . 11 1 08 9 .. .. via Marseilles Dec. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 26. —.via Marseilles Dec. 20. Li s bon Dec. 21, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles D ec. 20 . Newfoundland .. D ec . 25 . Oporto and Vigo • Dec. 21. U. S. and British N. America, Ey Brit. packet D ec. 25 . b by U an . Sa. k Canadian c W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe 3 Bahamas, via New York .......... Jan. 16. Mexico ~ All parts of `Vest Indies, incl u di ng Chili, Peri:, California,and British Col um bi a., i Dec. Dec.o 30.. W [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Hollows y's Pills.—Despondency, Low Spirits.—The misery occasioned by disordered diges tion is unfortunately felt by many, known to every one. Holloway's Pills should be taken to reset all in order; they dispel headache, biliousness, nausea, lowness of spirits, and similar symptoms which irdicate the presence of poi sonous matter or perverted action. A course of these in valuable purifying Pills never fails in removing the causes and consequences of these morbid signs without subjecting the sufferer to any disagreeable; restrictions of diet or ordinary pursuits. They strengthen the stomach and brace the nerves. Holloway's Pills are peculiarly adapted for renovating systems enfeebled by late hours, bard living, over anxiety, or any other excess which is known to debi litate and exhaust Oa hum= onstitutiou. , COUNZRY MARKL.2S. P WAKEFIELD- -iii, We have moderate arrivals of grain. The wheat trade more firm this week. To-day wheat was in steady demand, and the prices of last Friday fully maintained. Barley of fine quality meets a fair sale, at late rates. No change in other articles. LIVERPOOL-DEC. 20. A tolerably good attendance at our market to-day, and a fair sale was experienced for wheat, at a decline of Id to 2d per cental. Fl,,ur was in lair rf.,quest, pr.•.; vious quotations, Oats and oatmeal dilficuit 6,11 at. ia:-;; Tuesday's rates. Beans and peas at late rates. Indian, corn was in moderate demand. EXETER-DEC. 20. Wheat, white.. 7s 9d to fis 3d I Barley.. 4s Od to 4s 6ti Ditto new .0s Od to Os Od I Oats .. 3s Oa to 3s 3d Flour, fine, 46s to —s; seconds, 44s to —s per sack. CATTLE. Fat beef,p score, 10s0d to Ils Ewes, per lb ....6d to 61,1 Pork carcases,do lOs Od to lls Wethers, 61d to 7d Lambs, per lb —d to —d Fat calves, d 0... 7d to lid. Rough fat, 4d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—DEc. 20. The market for raw sugars has become more firm during the last few days, a2d the sales made have been at steady prices—Barbadoes, 358 to 38s; Demeraras, 37s to 425. Rums, Demerara and Leewards, have advanced ld to 2d per gallon. COAL MARKET-DEC. 20 [The funeral of the Prince Consort being appointed for Monday, 23d inst , there will not be any market.] - ,tricee of Coal per Ton at the close of the market a. d. Bower's West Hartley.ls 6 Walls End. Carway and Duffryn Malting _ s. d. 17 3 17 9 Do. - Anthracite.. 21 6 Eden 16 3 Carr's Hartley 15 6 Heugh Hall 16 3 Byass's Bebside West Hedley l6 0 Hartley .. .15 3 Whitworth ...15 0 Craighead Steam 14 0 Stewart's.... Wylam ..16 0 Frarawellgate 16 3 West Wylam l4 6 Hunwick ... 15 9 Davison's West Hart- R elloe ley ....15 Hastings Hartley ....15 Lambert's West Hart- 9 South Hartlepool..... 6 South Whitworth.... Ecuth Hetton .. .16 3 ~lo 0 .17 9 ley 15 'West Hartley 15 Tanfield Moor 13 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 Holywell 16 Huddle's West Hartley 15 .16 G .16 6 , .15 0 .16 a 16 G .16 0 0 Keiper Grange.... 2 Russel's Hetton 9 Durham 9 Gosforth 0 Shineliffe 9 Belmont Howard's West Hart ley Bate's West Hartley— 15 Grey's West Hartley 14 Bell's Primrose l4 Burnhope Gas 13 k\ alker Primrose 13 Acorn Close Byron •••• agwell Brsddyll' g Hetton.... Caradoc Trimdon Hartlepool . Riddell .16 3 .16 9 .17 9 .16 9 .16 6 .17 0 .16 0 North Pelton l5 Thornley .14 6 Walls End. Triindori Thornley... Tunstall Harton 210 ; soil, 173. .15 6 .16 3 .15 9 Cassop l6 9 Ships at market, RA IL WAY IN TE LLIGEA CE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Railways. Miles - - 1861. Ipened. Receipts. Ballymena and Pert Rush Belfast and N. Counties Belfast and County Down Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington Cork and Bandon Cork, Blaekrock, & Passage Cork and Youghal • • Cornwall Deeside Dublin & Belfast Junction Dublin and Drogheda Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun East Anglian E.Counties,Nrlk.,&E.Union Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western Great Northern Great North of Scotland qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) Great Western Inverness & Aberdeen June Irish South-Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis... Limerick and Foynes Llanelly Londen & North-Western London and Blackwall London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast London, Chat ham, & Dover Loud., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheflield, &Lincolnsh Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham Maryport and Carlisle Midland (incl. N.-Western) Midland G t. Wes tn. of Irind Monkland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal Newcastle and Carlisle North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) . . North Devon N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) North London North Staffordshire osw es try and Newton Rhymney St. Helen's Canal & Railway Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern Shrewsbury & Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union South Devon South-Eastern South Wales S. Yorkshire and River Dun Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale Ulster lilverstone and Lancaster Vale of Clwyd.. Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Harbr. West Midland .... W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt Whitehaven Junction Whitehaven & Furness Jun FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada Great Indian Peninsula Great Luxembourg Great Western of Canada Lyons and Geneva Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant Northern of Canada .. Northern of France Norwegian Trunk Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn Paris and Orleans Pernambuco _Royal Danish Sambre and Meuse 106 219 8 481 130 171 31 671 499 142 1831 330 329 783} 55 394 614 i 192 i 56 216} 3.5 789 9 246 19i 52 531 115 2 75 91 306 1711 118 181 1860. 125 usi _B4 401 130 171 67i 499 142 1831 330 58 329 395 k 190 35 764 9 246 19i 52 53} 115 188 1,0:12 256 1,530 1,676 1,541 1,753 639 1,047 890 23,696 6,316' 3,521 255 3,128 7,240 27,871 1,611 7,913 46,975 195 32,449 367 81,003 1,108 17,202 15,114 1,755 '9Ol 14,61 1,170 1,126 38,738 4,163 1,588 2,317 3,301 192 1,117 6,306 396 37,410 2,396 6,897 226 1003 1,6 M 1,410 1,648 584 1,195 82C 25,33& 6,011 3,415 220 1,405 7,939 28,676 1,418 7,890 46,573 754 1,844 3,246 3,793 1,872 '468 35,924 291 721 336 171 118 1141 54 549 80,940 1,180 16,513 11,705 87% 15,1,4 .992 1,314 40,38 a 4,114 1,672 2,981 3,675 775 2,869 17,254 7.122 6,117 8,807 4,570 1,744 :iB9 , 38,062 2,407 7,926 128 1,662 73' 2,026 3,08% 3,503 1,952 WO 3,004, 17,313 7,393 272 1,470 7,269 5,15 , 4 1,90% 753 12S 1,613 272 1,243 676 4, 92 685 4,745 954 48,331 958 45,753 '7OO 106,103 60,311 .950 89,146 51,612 1861. 1860. 1,780 532 1,427 5,610 15,601 1,912 .46 1,450 5,974 16,)10 1291 777 South Austrian. Southern of France Welland..... West Flanders W. and N.W. of France.... 831 42,281 763 36,144 APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following gentle men passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thursday, Dec. 19 :—David Rice, Charlbury, Oxon; Edward Gillett Gilbert, Bilston, Suffolk; Edward Humphry Ludgate-street; Benjamin Kemp, Horbury, Wakefield; 11 alter Leaf, Newman-street; Thos. Dane, Barrow-hill place ; Richard Purnell Tyley, Wells, Somerset ; Edward. Ellis, Fitzroy-square; Thos. John. Hugall, Westbourne - square. The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their first examination :—A. G. C. Mann, Evesham, Worcestershire; W. L. Mumford, Cornara Parva, Suffolk. BIRTHS. Frederc de Bernhardt, terrace, Esq., of a daughter. BERNHAR K DT e . B — si On gto S n a , tu th rd e a w yt if t e h o e f 2 lst inst. , at 7, Hornfo n - CLARK.—On the 20th inst., the wif e o f F . L e Gros Clark, Esq., of St. Thoznas's-street, Southwark, and Leo, Kent, of a son. GLEICHEN.—On the 20th inst., at Eaton-square, the Countess Gleichen, of a daughter. KNATeIiBuLL-HuciEssE.N.—On the 19th inst., at 12, John street, Berkeley-square, the wife of E. IL Knatehbull- Hugessen, Esq., 111. P., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BYRO N — SHERWOOD.—On the 19th inst., at St. Giles', Reading, Lionel Dawson Byron, Esq., to Amelia, widow of Edward Sherwood, Esq., late of Pangbourn, Berks. T URNER—DOERTNG.—On the 19th inst., at Walton-on- Thames, Francis Charles Turner, C a pt a i n 39th R eg t., son of the late Major General Turner, C. 8., Bombay Cavalry, to Emma Graciosa, second daughter of Edward Dee!ing, Esq,, The Hurst, Walton-on-Thames. DEATHS. BERTRAND.—At 3, Maida-hill, W., Mr. George Bertrand, aged 58. BuLT.—On the 19th inst., George Frederick Bull, Esq., late of 86, Cheapside, aged 58. COMMERFORD.—On the 20th inst., the wife of Nicholas IV. Cornmerford, Esq., of Carisbrooke Lodge, Highbury grove. GRIFFIN.—On the 18th inst., at his father's inure, Clew-, land-gardens, Alfred W. Griffin, Esq., aged 27. HARCOURT.—On the 19th inst., at Strawberry-hill, G kyugo Glanville Harcourt, Esq., M.P., of Nuneham Oxford, aged 77. DOORMAN.—On the 19th inst., at Haslar Hospital, James B. Moorman, Esq., Paymaster R.N., late of her Majes ty's ship Queen, aged 39. PEAD.—On the ISth inst., st Springfield Lodge, Worthing, Sussex, Robert George Pead, Esq., 16 years member of the Corporation of London for the Ward of Cheap, aged 70. LONDON : Printed and rublisbed by .11URDO YOUNG, of: No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Oi[ce, No. 112,StrAte4, n the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of kliddlcEe,* 4tvullay, Decelaler 21, 1861. 459 1,415 66,878 31,751 427 1,207 43,09 23,589