The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-21 00:00:00

TN; , 31 WAR IN VIRGINIA. ITront the Special Correspondent of the limes.) RIcHMoND, Jane 14. Riehmc ind, revisited at this moment by one who has been familiar with its inhabitants during their last two. years of agony, recalls feelings such as thos e which, according to the late Mr Rogers, ani' nate the breasts of very old men in their ghost lik a wanderings through the streets of London. " The West-end," said he, " seems to me one vast cemetery. Hardly a street but has in it a house once occupied by dear friends with whom I had daily intercourse; if I stopped and knocked now, who wo'ald know or take interest in me ? The streets to nth are peopled with shadows ; the city is as a city of the dead." How much more is this the case in little Richmond; peopledby a simple and affectionate co.mrc unity, looped together as it were by the ties of one large family. To me personally there is scarcely a street or corner which does not recall a friend—and in such times friendships seem firmer and warmer than in gala days—whose voice still rings in my ear, though now hushed for ever. Few of the English visitors who have in the last three years braved the difficulties of entering Secessia will have heard of " Jeb Stuart's" death without hearty regret. With some superficial and venial faults of harmless varsity, Gen. Stuart was the most credita ble impersonation of what is called in this country the Southern Cavalier. Fearless to a fault, singue .larly enduring of fatigue, never sick, never absent from duty, never daunted nor dispirited, he died as be' had lived, after baffling with 2,000 men the advance of thrice that number of horseman, the most cheerful of victims to a cause for which he would h ave g i ve n a thousand lives, His loss is bewailed by General Lee as that of a son. No such active or efficient agent in fathoming the designs and num bers of his enemy will be found by General Lee, let this war last as long as it may. It would be of small interest were I to recapitue late personal details about many other Southern Generals who have fallen since the commencement of May, and who to England are little more than names. But it will have been a satisfaction to many to learn that, upon the same plank road which upon May 2, 1863, witnessed the deathwound of Stone wall Jackson, General Longstreet, dangerously struck in the throat by a Southern bullet, escaped death upon May 6, 1864, although receiving, after three years of unparalleled exposure, his first hazardous wound. You will have learnt that upon the previous day two Confederate divisions—those of Roth and Wilicox—held their ground long and nobly against overwhelming numbers of their foe: They were to be relieved in the night ; and the men, worn down by exertion, looked for a brief re pose as they scanned their thin numbers, when, before the dawn of the 6th of May, heavy lines of the enemy, massed in the night, and following each other in quick succession, dashed upon] their en feebled ranks. They stood gallantly for a while; but at last, shrieking before the compact masses hurled upon them, they commenced a retreat, which from a walk grew into a run, from a run into a de moralised rout. At this moment there was advancing along the plank road the hardy corps which Long street has so long led. Into their leading files dashed, at headlong speed and in wild disarray, the broken ranks of Meth and Willcox, mingled with fieldpieces, ambulances, caissons, runaway horses, and shouting officers striving to bear up against the rout, but whirled along in its resistless current. Beside the road was Gen, Lee, irritated and excited beyond precedent, and eager to stem the torrent of flight by catching hold of any organised body of men and launching them in person against the head of the advancing stream. Upon this hurlyhurly of con fusion and alarm supervened at the most critical moment the unshrinking constancy of Gen. Long street and his corps. Riding up to General Lee, he said, " General, my men have seen such scenes before and will not be daunted; wait, and you shall see the enemy driven like chaff before the wind." Right nobly did his men, and especially Kershaw's division, verify their General's confident promise. The onward rush of Federals was stayed ; at their head fell General Wadsworth, gallantly sieiding his life for what he believed the holiest of causes; the Confederates swept forward irresistibly, and the ground on which Heth and Willcox had bivouacked passed again into their hands. At this moment, Longstreet, after brief consultation with General Lee, suggested a flank movement not dissimilar to that by which twelve months before the bloody day of Chancellorsville was decided by Jackson. It was commenced, the promise of the first movement was richly encouraging. Generals Longstreet and Jenkins rode in great glee with their Staff along the plank coal, when one of those unforeseen acci dents which are inseparable from war, and doubly hazardous with undisciplined troops, checked in an instant all laughter and merriment. A volley at short range, issuing from Mahone's brigade of Cone federates as they poured obliquely through the tangled undergrowth of the Wilderness, struck Longetreet's little party like a white squall ; Gen. Jenkins sprung high from his saddle and fell dead with a bullet through his brain ; Longstreet him• self lay stretched in the road pulseless and inani mate, and, as all thought, with but few minutes of life left in him. Instantly the flank movement was arrested. About an hour later, Longstreet, awak ing from his swoon, exclaimed to Dr. Cullen, "In another half hour, but for my wound, there would not have been a Yankee regiment standing and unbroken on the south of the Rapidan." It is not desirable that I should trace seriatim the military movements which have brought Generals Lee and Grant, locked in a kind of death-grapple, down from the bank of the Rapidan on May 3 to the bank of the James on Jun© 3. Most of your readers are familiar with the circular iron swing gate through which it is the custom of visitors to make their exit from the Zoological Gardens, and which stands opposite to the main entrance to the gardens. They will remember that at that gate there are four rotatory wings, revolving on the seine axis, which, as they swing round pass through the interstices of four other stationary wings, or fixed grates, which are attached immovably to the same axis as their re • volving brethren. Conceive the movable revolving wings to be the army of Gen. Grant, conceive the fixed gates to be the army of Gen. Lee, and you have a rough diagram of the tactics adopted by both armies in these battles. /t will be remembered that on May 3 Grant began to launch his mighty army across the Rapidan, and found himself con fronted by Gen. Lee on May 5 and 6 in the dense labyrinth of the Wilderness. Few students of milie tary history will fail to be struck by the resem pervious region of Vi rg i n i a bl anc e which this impervious bears to the gloomy and tangled glades which, on Dec. 3, 1300, witnessed the defeat by the French army of the Archduke John and his Austrians, and coupled for ever in a bracket of fame the names of Moreau and Hohenlinden. It is known to your readers that, thanks to the opportune arrival of Gen. Longstreet and his corps on the morning of the 6 th, the Federals were heavily countered in the Wilderness and driven back with terrific loss. But, nothing daunted, Gen. Grant set to work with characteristic energy to execute his prede termined Plan of advance. Making his with drawal from the front behind very heavy lines of skirmishers, he retired his right wing and swung it behind his centre and left, upon the morning of the 7th, towards SpottsyleaeL Court-ho He had already secured the only direct roads leading in, in that direction, and made sure that Lee would have to fall back in confusion or sub • nut to be cut off from Itichmond. But he did not count u s agacity of his opponent, w hi ch in these the rare hse recent battles, no less than at Chancellor sv ill e, has amounted to the intuition of military genius. Quickly pene trating his adversary's design, L ee began to r w i t h him for Spotsylvania Court-house, a pointe where several roads converge like the radii of a man's outatretc:led fingers, and possessing under the circumstances eminent military importance. The roads through the forest had, as I had said, been secured by Grant. Lee quickly set to work, and with his excellent corps of sappers and miners (a body of men whose need he had last year severely felt at Chancelionville, and which he has since called into existence and organised) cut a way through the trees and brushwood for his fieldpieces and caissons. The revolving shuttle of General Grant's right Wing Swung rapidly round upon its ami , 4, but with no other resnit than to find itself barred at Spotsylvania Court-house by the immovable grate presented by the right wing of General Lf':'s army. Slowly the two armies drew near to each other once more, but General Lee, well knowing h:s opponent's character, awaited with calmness, and behind the slight earthworks which are dignified in this coun try with the name of intrenchments, the onslaught of the Federals. After four days of heavy skir mishing, from the Bth to the 11th of May inclusive, the great shock of Grant's attack was delivered on the 12th. I question whether in the annals of modern history so frightful a slaughter has ever been inflicted by an army acting on the defensive upon its assailants. It has again and again been remarked in this war that there is but one way to get sustained energy of attack out of the Federals, and that is, to throw them in swiftly-succeeding lines, and treading close upon each other's heels, upon their enemy's guns, I know not in how many lines the hapless Federals—too often I fear blinded with whisky —were upon this bloody day thrown into the deadly hailstorm which smote them like a destroying angel, but the evidence that the slaughter of Ball's Bluff, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Murfrees boro', or Gettysburg was but as child's play come pared with the carnarge of Spotsylvania Court-house is ample and irresistible. Savage and csllous as Suwarrow, Grant drove his victims, line after line, upon the death-dealing volleys of their foe. At in tervals the smoke lifted, and disclosed a dead, dying, writhing mass of humanity, such as has not been witnessed before during this century, if I except the scene which on the morning of Sept. 8, 1812— the day after the hitherto bloodiest battle of civi lisation—was to be seen in front of the great redoubt of Borodino. It is not for me to estimate the damage which, between the commencement of his campaign and the close of the battle of the 12th, Grant's army sustained, for I have lived long enough in the neigh bourhood of Gen. Lee to share his unwillingness to guess at the loss inflicted upon his foe. That this loss isunprecedented is abundantly manifest from the mingled cry of pride and agony which has gone up from the Northern journals, and I am in a position to apprise them of the cost to the Confederates at which that loss was inflicted. The estimate of Gen. Lee, based upon the fullest returns from the medical directors of each corps, places his killed, wounded, and missing in the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court-house at 12,000 men, all told. If it be true, as is here generally supposed, that these two terrible battles have carried the Confederates over the slope of the dividing line which separates them from plenary independence, it may be said that— " Tan+se molls erat Romanam condere gentem." The interest of the campaign, so far as it has hitherto been conducted, culminated at Spotsyl- Yeti.% Court-house. Again, but not with such promptitude as after the battle of the Wilderness, Grant essayed his old flanking policy, and Lee was heard to exclaim, "Let him circle round where he likes he will in the end always find me before him.' Once more the armies faced each other to the south of the Pamunkey River, and Grant, who had sacri ficed thousands upon thousands of his men in reach. ing a position which M'Clellan gained in 1862 with the loss of a few hundreds, established incontrover tibly the sagacity of the latter General's strategy by selecting the White-house on the Pamunkey River, as the base of his farther operations against Richmond. It was not until the 3d of June that the armies came for the third time into important collision, in the neighbourhood of the old battlefields of 1862, near Cold Harbour, at a distance of not more than nine miles from Richmond. But it was abundantly evident that the fury of the storm had spent itself at Spotsylvania. The attack, it is true, was supported with the vigour such battles as Fredericsburg and Chancellorsviile had proved the Federals to possess, but there was about it little of the fierce ilan which Grant had at first breathed into his troops, and which they manifested in the battles at the commencement of May. It was repulsed with a facility which has led Northern journals to sneer at the loss acknowedged on that day by the Confederates, and which, as compared with the \damage inflicted upon and acknowledged by General Grant, seems hardly credible. It is forgotten that , almost for the first time in three years of war the IConfederates fought at Spotaylvania Court - house and Cold Harbour behind fieldworks. Nor can it be doubted that the callous ferocity of the Federal General's disposition, his reckless and lavish expen diture of life, his disregard of the unburied dead and the agonised wonnded, have begun latterly to tell upon the ardour of his men, and to estrange confidence and affection from breasts in which three weeks ago they abounded to overflowing. It is not necessary to say more about the effort of General Butler upon the south side of the J ames River than that it would probably have been much more formidable if conducted by a soldier. If, after the first landing of 40,000 Federals at the mouth of the Appomattox River, ordinary vigour had been manifested, it is difficult to see how Petersburg, dis tant some ten miles from the James River, could have been saved. As it was, ample time was given to General Beauregard to gather up a force from Charleston and Wilmington, and he had little diffi• culty in scattering Butler's forces to the winds in a well-planned night attack, which lacked little of compassing the utter annihilation of Butler. The attack which Grant has led has been the most per sistent, energetic, and intrepid onslaught which Lee has ever been called on to stem ; the attack of Butler upon Petersburg has exhibited neither ability nor courage in the General who planned it, neither spirit nor persistence in the troops which conducted it. I must confess myself at a loss when speaking of Confederate prospects in Northern Georgia. There is little to reassure those who contemplate the numerous retreats of General Johnston, without his striking a blow for the fine wheat district which he has surrendered, within three weeks of the hareest, to the enemy, to say nothing of the iron rolling mill s and Government works abandoned at Rome and on the Etowah river. It is possible that the ability and energy of General Sherman (who is here considered a more formidable antagonist than Grant) and the strength of his army may necessitate great prudence on the part of General Johnston ; but I have heard more than one complaint that the Confederate army of the West is larger and better appointed than any army intrusted since the commencement of the war to either of General Johnston's predecessors. Judg ing from present appearances, Atlanta, if preserved, will owe its salvation more to the distance which divides it from General Sherman's base at Chatta nooga than to the strenuous blows of its Confederate defenders. It is not necessary for me to say more about the trans-Mississippi department than that the Federal grasp upon Louisiana and Texas is now resolved into little more than the tenure of New Or leans, For the last ten days no aggressive movements have bees undertaken against either Richmond or Petersburg, and the rumour prevails that, although a force of not less than 220,000 men has been en• gaged in the operations conducted by Generals Grant and Butler, there is an urgent cry already for more men—to be poured, as seems probable, into that great abyss of slaughter which has already engulfed so many of their predecessors. Languid as is the interest of Europe in the details of the American war, it will be strange if, when the details of the Spring campaign of 1864 in Virginia become thoroughly known, the name of General Robert E. Lee is not inscribed upon the brightest rolls of military fame. It is seldom that full justice is rendered to military genius coincidently with the achievement of Lie victories which reveal it. It took years for England to understand and appreciate the sagacity and foresight which checked Massen a before the lines of Torres Vedras, and converted a momen tarymistake of Marmont into the rout of Salamanca. There are French books in existence which caw the light just after Marengo, and which, in spite of the Italian canopafge of 1796, deny to Napoleon the pos session of anything approaching to military genius. penetrati ng t everyln g design, and But if, as now seems probable, the whole campaign of Ge nera l Grant ends i n co nspicuous failu re , th e forethought which has unravelled which has anticipated his every move, the vigour and prudence which have so handled a vastly inferior army as to inflict at the cost of less than 15,000 men a loss upon the Federals of five or SIX times that number, and the moral qualities which have converted in every Scuthern 11114,' SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, JULY 21, 1864. breast esteem into love and love into enthusiastic devotion will conspire to make Robert R. Lee's memcry a possession which, in this land of hero worship, his country will cherish, as she cherishes and rejoices in her new-born and hardlyacquired freedom. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NOTTINGHA.NI JULY MEETING..-117EDNESDA.I. The Nottingham Nursery Plate (Handicap) of 100 soya, for 2.yr-olds ; winners extra. Half a mile straight. Mr Saxon's Bonnie Lass, 7st Olb Mr G. Angell's Attache, 7st 71b (Perry) 2 Mr C. Perry's Le Mexicain, 6st 121 b .. (G. Sayers) 3 Mr W. E. Jones's The Leader, 7st 81b Mr Walker's Frangipani colt, 7st 21b (Lawrence) Betting-5 to 4 agst The Leader, 2to 1 agst Bonnie Lass S to 1 agat Le Islexicain, 100 to 7 agst the Frangipani colt, 20 to 1 agat Attache. The Leader, who showed considerable temper in going to the post, broke away before the start was effected, and ran three-quarters of a mile before being pulled up. Imme diately the flag fell Bonnie Lasa and The Leader jumped away together, and ran in close company several lengths in front of the rest to the distance, where Bonnie Lass quitting The Leader, the latter was " eased," whereupon Attache, though possessing no earthly chance of winning, was " kid dingly" ridden home and finished six lengths in the rear.of Bonnio Lass; Le Mefficain was beaten a length from the second, and a similar distance divided the third and fourth ; a bad fifth. _ The Forest Plate of 50 Boys added to a Handicap of 6 sews each, for all ages ; winners extra. Five furlongs. Mr H. Bird's Regina, 3 yrs, 6at 71b.- (G. Sayers) 1 Lord Uxbridge's Erythia, 4 yrs, 7st 81b, cr. French) 2 Capt. Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (J Grirnshaw) 3 Mr Kellie's Hesper ,6 yrs, 9 st 71b (in. 51b ex ) (Ashmall) 4 Betting.. Even on Ossian % 7 to 2 agst Erythia, 4 to 1 agst llesper, 11 to 2 agst Regina. Erythia made play till approaching the distance, where the lot closed and half-way Regina took up the running, and won by half a length ; a neck separated the second and third, and half a length the third and fourth. The Bonney Park Stakes of 6 soya each, with 60 added, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and geldings, ,Bst -- - . 71b ; winners extra. T.Y.C. Mr Hodgman's Victorious, 9st lib (in. 61b ex.).. (Perry) 1 Mr J. Dawson's Kathleen Mavoureen, Bat 71b (Custance) 2 Mr Saxon's Bonnie Lass, Bst 71b (Midgley) 3 Betting-9 to 4on Victorious, who waited on Bonnie Lass into the straight ) where he came away and won by a neck; a length and a half separating the second and third. The Chesterfield Handicap of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for three-year - olds and upwards; winners extra. One mile and a half. • Lord Uxbridge's The Tyke, 3 yrs, Est .. (J. Grimshaw) 1 Mr Barber's The Clown, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Perry) 2 ' Mr George Angell's Dunkeld, 4 yrs, Oat 101 b .. (Loates) 3 Mr Savile's Privateer, 3 yrs, 6st 61b ('Morris) 4 Betting-7 to 4 eget Privateer, sto 2 each agst Dunkeld and The Clown, 5 to 1 agst The Tyke. Dunkeld made play to within half a mile from home, _ when Privateer took up the running, with The Clown at his girths, and the other two close up. At the distance Privateer was beaten, and The Clown and The Tyke quitted the other two, and after a severe race The Tyke won by a short head; fivo lengths separated the second and third, and a couple of lengths divided third and fourth. A Selling Handicap of 5 sow each, with £3O for all ages ; the winner to be sold for £5O. T.Y.C. Mr Etches's Flute, 3 y rs , 7st 101 b (Coates) 1 Mr George Angell's Signal, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Perry) 2 Mr Saunders's Belle of the Ball, 4 yrs, 8s( 1 (T. French) 3 Mr W. E. Jones's Atlas, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (E. Sharp) 4 Betting-2 to 1 agat Belle of the Ball, sto 2 agst Atlas, 3 to 1 agst Signal, 4 to 1 agst Fluke. Fluke made all the running and won by three lengths, two lengths separated the second and third, and Atlas was beaten off. Tho winner was not sold, but Mr C. Rayner bought Sig nal for 25 guineas. The Donnington Park Stakes of 5 sous each, for two and three-yr-olds, with 5J added; winners extra. Straight half mile. Mr Reldiff's Cranbury, 3 yrs, gat 31b (inc slb extra) (Pearson) w,o. The Grand Stand Stakes of 5 soya each, with 40 added, for all ages ; selling and other allowances. Half a mile. Mr Saxon's Inverness, 3 yrs (£2O), 7st 21b (J, Grimshaw) 1 Mr Crook's Dawdle, 3 yrs, £2O, 7st 2lb (E. Taylor) 2 Mr Mather's Astrea, 2 yrs, £2O, ost Sib (Holland) 3 Uaptain Machell's La Mexicain, 2 yrs, £2O, sst 111 b (G. Sayers) 4 Betting-2 to lon Inverness, who jumped away in front, made all the running, and won by a length and a half ; two lengths separated the second and third, and half a length third and fourth. The winner was sold to Mr Pedley for 110 guineas. lier Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for 3-yr-olds and up- ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—D - ERBY, July 20, CROWN COURT. (Before Mr Justice Keating.) Mary Dl'Morrow, a miserably-dressed, squalid-looking woman, about 60 years of age, and who appeared to be labouring under some distortion of the spine, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of John M'Morrow, her husband, at NorthWingfield, on the 9th inst., by setting fire to him. Mr Jessel and Mr Stephen conducted the prosecution ; and Mr Bristowe, who laboured under the disadvantage of being instructed by the prisoner herself from the dock, appeared to defend her. The deceased was a miner, of about GI years of age, and had for some time lived on bad terms with his wife, owing to a suspicion he entertained that she had attempted some four or five years ago to poison him by giving him a poison ous lotion to drink. On June 22 he went with her to Ches terfield to attend the funeral of an Irishman. They came home by train, both somewhat intoxicated, and quarrelling by the way, and got back to Wingfield about 8 o'clock. The dispute continued after they reached home, and both left the house, apparently for the purpose of going somewhere to get more drink, What transpired afterwards will be best gathered from the statements of the witnesses and the de• positions of the deceased taken a few days afterwards. The deposition, after stating the above facts, continued as follows: I returned home, where I found the prisoner sitting on a chair drunk. I told her to go to bed. She said she never would until she had cut her throat. I went out and told a neighbour, Mary Ganning, what she said. Sne came in and told the prisoner to go to bed, but I dont know what answer the prisoner gave. I then too off my coat and hung it up, and my hat also. I had then two shirts on, a waistcoat, a pair of trousers, boots, and stockings. I laid myself down upon the squab whereon there was only a pallet made of flock. (It appeared from a plan of the house produced in court that the squab stood on the left side of the fireplace.) About 1 o'clock I went to sleep, the prisoner being the only person in the room with me. I never woke until I felt the fire, which was burning my shirt sleeve and the calico on the back of my waistcoat. I jumped up and saw the prisoner running away upstairs. I called for assistance, and I then heard the prisoner upstairs laughing. The prisoner did not come downstairs till after the two lodgers, Edward Roff and another, whose name I do not know, who were in bed, came down stairs and attempted to put out the fire. Elizabeth Marriott—l live opposite the prisoner's house. On the night of June 22, about 12 o'clock, I heard the pri soner talking to two persons in the street, and go into the house. About an hour or an hour and a half afterwards I heard the deceased crying out "Mary, Mary, come Lack; come down stairs. You've run away. Come down and dout me. In the name of the Lord, is there no one in this house that will come down to dout me ?" I heard a woman say " I shall bo suffocated, ' and there was a great noise, but I could not distinguish any other words. Mary Garrick, a lodger in the prisoner's house, after corroborating the last witness as to the prisoner talking iu the street with two persons, said—After the prisoner came in I heard her speaking to her husband, but he gave no answer. Some time afterwards I perceived a smell of burn ing, and the prisoner came upstairs running and laughing. She pushed me as I lay in bed, and said, " Are you asleep?" I heard the deoeased calling out, " Come back Mary, and take the thing off my back." She said," No, you old rogue; for I've cooked your goose at last for your lies of me the last four years." He screeched, " Is there ever a man in the house to save me, for lam in flames of fire ?" She said he was only pretending—there was nothing the matter. I ran downstairs, and saw Roff and another man, both of whom were lodging in the house, tearing the shirts off the back of deceased. The deceased then called for a sheet to throw over his shoulders, and- we all went with him to the police man's, leaving the prisoner alone in the house. The same morning, some hours later, I saw the prisoner pull a coat from under the squab. The right sleeve was burnt, and not tho left. The deceased said, " Mary, the devil has blinded you this morning—you've burnt the wrong ;sleeve. The coat has got the right sleeve burnt, but it is my left arm, and not the right, that is injured." She sa.d, " Let us look at it." He refused, saying, " take care of this, for the gentlemen (magistrates) to see it. You shall not make away with this the same as you did the lotion, four or five years ago." She said, " You old murderer." He answered, " You're the murderer" He afterwards asked for a cup of water. The prisoner would not go for it, and I sent my lad to get some. When it came she took it up, drank some of the water and threw the rest on the floor. She said, " I wish yeu went away this morning." I said, " What for, Mary ?" She replied, "If you go away I will give you a good dress as a present." I said, "I want nothing at all of :you. Perhaps the gentleman would stop me.". She answered, " They durst not."l Cross-examined—The prisoner was very much in liquor when she came home from Chesterfield. When she came running upstairs she kept laughing all the while, and never gave over. She then smelt very strongly of liquor, but was not drunk. Edward Hoff, another of the lodgers—l was asleep in the house, and was aroused by cries of " Murder I" When I got downstairs I found the deceased lying on the floor and another lodger throwing water over him. The left arm of his shirts and the back of his waistcoat wore much burnt. I searched his pockets and found in them a tobacco box about half full of tobacco. I laid it on the table at the foot of the squab. There was a fire in the grate—not a very large one. I then wont with the rest to the policeman's. After we came back the prisoner raked the tobacco box from under the grate. The lodger who first came down to the assistance of the deceased was not called, as he had left the house the same morning, and could not be found. Dennis Gorman, a police constable—The deceased and the other witness came to my house about 3 o'clock in the morning. I went back with them and asked the deceased how he was burnt. He said that he bad gone to sleep on the squab, and when he was awoke by the burning he saw his wife run upstairs. Sho said she had been upstairs and in bed before she heard her husband cry out that he was on fire, that he was drunk, and that he must have fallen into the fire in his drunkenness. She was then raking the ashes from under the grate, In doing so she pulled out the tobacco box, and said, " See, here is your tobacco box. When you fell into the fire it must have fallen out." He said it had not, for Hoff had taken it out of his pocket after he was burnt, and had put it on the table. Hoff said, " Aye, that it was, .1 - ohn ; I took it out myself.' I examined the tobacco in the box—it was damp. There were no marks of fire on the squab or on the flock mattress, which the prisoner had taken upstairs. Richard Ronayne, inspector of police—l was at the house about 11 o'clock in the morning after the deceased was burnt. I asked the prisoner how long she had been in bed before she heard the cry of fire from her husband. She said she thought it was about an hour. The doctor who examined the deceased proved that he was much burnt on the back and left side. There were two small burns about the size of a fourpenny piece on the right hand. There were none on the right arm. The ribs and shoulder appeared to have been baked, as if the fire had smouldered there. The burns on the left arm and side were of a more superficial character. The deceased lingered till the 9th of this month when he died from the effects of the burns. Mr Bristowe, for the defence, contended that the facts of the case were consistent with the deceased having set him self on fire by accident. His deposition could not be relied on, for it was clear he was not in a state of sobriety when he returned from Chesterfield, and he should prove by two witnesses, whom he was going to call at the especial re quest of the prisoner, that the deceased was very drunk at 12 o'clock. It was, therefore, very improbable that his version of the transaction was sufficiently correct to be relied on, and by his death it was no longer possible to test it by cross-examination. The two persons who had been heard talking to the pri soner in the street at 11 or 12 o'clock were then called, and they both swore that they went into the house and saw the deceased, who was then very drunk, asleep on the squab with his clothes on. His lordship, in summing up, told the jury that the first question for them was whether the prisoner sot her husband on fire, and, if so, whether she did it wilfully or not. If they came to the conclusion that she did it and did it wil fully, the second question would be, did she do it with in tent to deprive her husband of life or to do him some griev ous bodily harm. If she did it with either intent, her crime amounted to murder. If, on the other hand, they thought she did it with intent to injure or annoy him, or to do any thing short of grievous bodily harm, they should find her guilty of manslaughter. The jury retired, and after a short absence returned into court with a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner was then sentenced to penal servitude for seven years. Royal Agricultural Show at Newcastle, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Wednesday. The number of paying visitors on Monday and Tuesday was 10,944, or 2,418 more than for the corresponding time last year ; and the receipts showed an increase of £274, surpassing the receipts at even the Battersea meeting. The number of halfcrowns taken to-day up to 1 o'clock has been satisfactory; and to-morrow and Friday are to be the days for the million, at an admittance fee of one shilling. If clnsters of " inquiring minds" (generally well dressed, with the newest graces of form and colour) gathered round the humming and whirring engines in the department of " machinery in motion," or perambulated the interesting stands of the imple ment makers, or inspected the show of fleeces and of butter in its neat little baskets, or glanced at the " miscellaneous" stalls (with a colony of bees in full bustle at their stirring trade) still larger numbers congregated about the prize animals, and formed eager circles round the spaces where, from time to time, classes of cattle were marched in succession, and the horses paced and pranced to admiration. To the half-score grand thoroughbreds, the poor show of hunter stallions, the good show of hunter brood mares, and the weak lot of agricultural horses (including, however, a few prime Suffolks), and of Drays (including Mr Strickland's grand "Lincolnshire"), we have already referred. The redeeming feature of the horse classes is to be found in the hunters competing for prizes offered by the liberal local cummittee. Mr Booth's ' " Beechwood," a great prize taker in his time, is a splendid bay with first-rate action, but fairly beaten on this occasion by Mr Frederick Graham's chest nut gelding the " Tyke." Among the 4yr olds, Mr Clark's " Sprig of Nobility" is especially ad mired, but followed close by Mr Norman's chestnut "Radical." That rarity a first-class roadster has hardly been brought out at the present show, but Mr Brown's " President Junior" and Mr Forster's " 3lultum in Parvo" are creditable specimens of a good useful sort. A pretty show of ponies attracts much attention Mr Norman's plucky little " Jack" and Mr Ord's " Little Stag" being special favourites. The pig show is much thronged as usual by con noisseurs of extreme fatness and marvellous pre cocity. The small black breed has come up well, Mr Sexton and Mr Stearn taking their accustomed places of honour. A good show of small white breed finds Messrs. Mangles and Stearn as well up as ever ; and in the fine class of large breed pigs we have some extraordinary specimens exhibited by Messrs Harrison and Weinman. The Berk shires are well represented and of good quality, Mr Stewart, Mr Tombs, Mr Druce, and Mr Sadler having some extremely fine animals, taking either prizes or commendations. If the Society could pride itself upon nothing else, it can certainly take credit for having induced great mechanical improvements in farm machinery by reason of the trial tests annually or triennially provided. Exception may be taken to the value of hasty dynamometrical experiments upon some field implements, but undoubtedly the power measuring contrivances of the consulting engi neer have taught the exhibitors many a lesson. Astonishing differences used to be found between one thrashing machine and another, between chaff engines, mills, crushers, in the amount of motive power wasted in the friction of the working parts, and now the same ordeal of exact testing is likely to give us further improvements in the important class of steam-tilling machinery. As the present trial of steam cultivators is likely to be the last for three years to come, the results of Monday's private experimenting at Benton are of considerable moment. In order co determine the amount of motive power required to drive each set of appa ratus the foLowing plan was adopted. Each engine in turn was set to haul aFowler three-furrow plough up to an anchorage placed about 170 yards off, and then back again. In order that the friction of the gear work upon the engine itself, between the crank-shaft and the rope drums, might be in cluded in the trial, the engine connecting rod was removed from the crank shaft, and the engine fly wheel was driven by a belt from an independent 14- horse engine placed for the purpose. This 14-horse engine was employed to work all the sets of appara tus in turn, being driven at one regular speed of about 130 revolutions per minute, and one of Mr Amos's rotary dynamometers was interposed between this engine and the engine under trial, in order to measure and record the amount of power given out. Then as the same plough (taking three furrows of 10 inches wide by 7 inches deep) was used for each set of machinery, the amount of motive power con sumed by each apparatus in performing precisely the same work was thus determined. It should be observed that all the sets of machinery had the advantage of the Fowler plough "slack gear," for tightening, and so partially supporting the tail or following rope. Of course, the rope, in so short a length of furrow, was well carried by rope-porters. The draught and strain due to Messrs Coleman and Morton's apparatus averaged 1993 lb ; and when the elements of distance travelled during the observation and the time run are brought into the calculation, the result comes out as 111 horse power engaged. But es their system is to haul two implements at once, and these never in work toward the anchored pulley, this does not represent the Itrue comparative mechanical efficiency of their ap- paratus. Messrs. Savory's angina, with two winding drums upon the boiler, was next under trial, The average draught and strain was 2,309 lb; and taking into account the distance and time about 201 horse-power was engaged. The average draught or strain for Mr. Fowler's Dingle 7-horse engine set was 1,996 lb; time and distance bringing the result to about 131 -horse power. Messrs. Howard's rope does not pass directly up and down the field, but round anchored pulleys at the corners of the plot, which, in this case, was so small (probably about three acres, with the above 170 Toads length of furrow) that the length of rope did not much vary from that needed by the other or direct system of hauling, and as the Fowler slack gear was used as well as Messrs. Howard's own compensation pulleys for the same purpose, this trial could not truly represent the usual working of the Bedford apparatus. The average draught or strain was 2,4091bs ; and, time and distance being reckoned, the result is about 15-horse power en gaged. Every precaution was taken to insure a per fectly fair and open testing of each set of machinery. Mr Fowler has won both the first and second prizes for the best application of steam power to the cultivation of the soil, the first prize for the best ditto adapted to small occupations, the first prize for the best plough for steam power, the first prize for the best cultivator for steam power, the prize for the best windlass" for a separate engine, and a high commendation for a rope-porter. Messrs. Howard have obtained the second prize for the small occupation apparatus, second prize for a steam plough, second prize for a steam cultivator, the prize for the best harrows for steam power, the et:coed prize for separate windlass, a high commen dation for a 2-furrow deep plough, and two commen dations for Norwegian steam power harrows, and a rope-porter. Messrs. Savory take the third prize for a windlass. Messrs. Aveling and Porter gain the prize for the best rope•porter, Messrs. Colmen and Morton take the second prize for a rope-porter, and a silver medal for the steam power cultivator. Mr. Steevens has a silver medal for his steam plough, and Messrs. Garrett are highly commended for their apparatus on Savory's principle. The dog show premises to be a success commer cially. There is a good display of hounds, a meri• torious collection of pots and toys, and a suffi ciently attra c ti ve a ddi t i o n of foreign dogs and curi ous canine oddities. The flower show, with the assistance of a good hand ,city draws a s h are o f company , an d visitors to the Tyne are welcomed with all sorts or other amuse. ulPlts for the evening. wards. Two miles. Mr 'W. TAnson's Caller Ou, Oat 121 b (Challoner) 1 Mr T. CH's Wildman, 3 yrs, Bet 31b (H Grimshaw) 2 Betting---4 to lon Caller Ou, who laid font or five lengths. in the rear until half a mile from home, when slio came away and won in a canter by four lengths. After the race 9 to 1 was several times taken about Stan ton for the Goodwood Stakes, The Portland Handicap Plat© of 50 soya, for all ages ; winners extra. One mile. .. Mr Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, Bst 31b..., (H Grimshaw) 1 Mr Barber's The Cutler, 5 yrs, 7st 81b (Challoner) 2 Mr W. E. Jones's Zeloo, 4 yrs, Bst 10lb ....(E. Shorn) 3 Mr Goodlass's Pretty Girl filly, 3 yrs, 6st 12lb Betting-2 to 1 agst Ossian, sto 2 agst Pretty Girl filly, 3 to 1 agst The Cutler, 5 to 1 apt Zeloo. Ossian and The Cutler ran in front throughout, the for mer winning by a length; Zeloo was a bad third; and the Pretty Girl filly, after losing the start, caught her oppo nents, but was finally beaten off. The Ruff)rd Abbey Stakes of 25 soya each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Sat 10Ib; fillies, Bst 61b; winners extra, with cer tain allowances. Half a mile. Lord Uxbridge's Jack Ketch, Sat 101 b „ (T. French) w.o. SO UTIIAMPTON RACES-WEDNESDAY. The Trial Stakes of 5 soya each, with 40 added ; weight for ag e ; selling allowances. One mile. Mr J. Ward's Knight Templar, 4 yrs (L 100), Bst 21b (Plumb) 1 Mr Whiteside's The Dodo, 4 yrs (£100), 88t 21b (Fordham) 2 Mr T, Read's Bosh, 5 yrs WM, Bst 71b.... (IL Clark) 3 Betfing—Even on Kight Templar, 6 to 4 agst The Dodo, 5 to 1 eget Bosh. The favourite made all the running, and won by a length, two lengths between second and third. The winner was not sold. The Cranbury Park Stakes of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 60 added, for 2-yr-olds; colts Set -101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; penal ties and allowances. T.Y.C. Captain Christie's The Grappler, Bst 51b ....(Fordham) 1 Lord Portsmouth's Sydraonton, Bst 71b...... (Hibbard) 2 Mr Night's Lovelace, Bst 21b (Salter) 3 Mr R. Kelso 's Filbert, Bet 51b (J. Goater) 4 Mr W. Day's Vedette colt, Oat (inc 41b es) (S. Adams) 5 Captain Gray's The Swift, 98t (in 41b ex) (S. Rogers) 6 Betting to 1 aget Sydmonton, 9 to 4 aget th e Gra p ,. pier, 6.t0 1 agst Lovelac e. Th e Swift and Filbert were first off, but a fter g oin g a —2 going a few strides g ave way to Lovelace, and the two favourities, who lay fin - -rent to the distance, where The Grappler drew away, and won by a length ; three lengths between second and third ; the others pulling up as they passed the post. The Innkeepers' Plate of 30 sous each, added to a Sweep stakes of 3 sou s each ; weight for age, &O. Ralf a mile. Marquis of Has tin g s' Attraction, 3 yrs 8,51 91b .. (Judd) 1 Mr Night's Guardsman, 3 yrs, Set 1211; ........ (Salter) 2 Captain W. H. Cooper's Anti-Macassar, 2 yrs, 78t 41b (Co Ib 3) 3 B ett i ng -3 to lon Att rac ti on , The following a lso ran :—Maud, The Plover, Sister to Signalman, Harcourt, and Rapid. An ti-M acassar , 10 to 1 aget any o t her. The favourite made all th e running; a nd won ;by eight lengths, four lengths between second an d 5 to 1 sgst third. 4, Maiden Two - ye a r -01 d Plato of 40 Bove ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Set 41b; Mr T. Read's St. Vin cent, (x 150), Bst Gib .• . • (Martin) 1 Mr Samuels' Biragne (£100), Sat 21b ........ (R. Clark) 2 Mr Guy's Stamford (t 100), 84t 21b ............ (Payne) 3 Mr A. Day's Delilah filly, (£100), 7st alb .• .. (Sadler) 4 selling allowances. C. Mr England's Lydia 1 hompson WOO), 7st 131b(Zanker) 5 Capt. W. H. Cooper's Duenne (X 100), 7st 131 b (Dowling) 6 Prince Soltykoff's Willi am th 3 F our th (L 100), Set 21b (Hibbard) 7 Betting-6 to 4on the Delilah filly, 7to 2 aget Duenna, 10 to agst any other. Won by two length—two lengths between second and third. The winner was claimed by Mr. Samuels. a selling and ot her allowances. One mile. The South We s t ern S ta k e s of 3 sous each, with 50 added ; weight for age, Mr Jefferson's C orse t, 3 yrs (E 3O ) , 7st slb .... (Arnold) 1 Mr J. Ward's li n i g h t T e mplar, 4 yrs (£10), Bst 81b Mr W. Day's (J. Plumb) Sat 71b ..... 2 ......... ............ - Vedette colt, 2 yrs (E3O), sst 31b (carried Noisy colt and Dareful also ran- Won by Betting-5 to on Spasms c olt, sto 2 agat Knight Tem plar. , a bad third. The winner wa s b o ught by Mr King for NO guineas. The Southampton Nursery Pl ato (Handicap) of 50 sous, for three-quarters of a length 2-yr-olds ; winners extra. T.Y.C. Mr H. Bridgman's Rosette, (h b), 7st 41b .. (S Adams) 1 Mr Meredyth's May, 7st 121 b (Payne) 2 Mr Samuel's Tilt, Sst Gib ......... 7 ...... (H. Clark) 3 The following also ran :—Marchioness, Ada, and De lilah filly. Betting-2 to 1 agst May, 3to 1 agst Rosette, sto 1 agst Ada, 10 to 1 apt any other. Won by half a length, a bad third ; Ada was left at the post. [ADVERTISEME NT 3 -11 o lloway's Pills.—Nervous Debi lity. —No part cf the human machine re q uires more watch ing than the nerv ous system - ' u p on itself. 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The learned Judges arrived here this morning, and Mr Baron Martin openod the commission—and after attendance at Divine Service ho proceeded to charge the grand jury, and then both he and Mr Justice Willes proceeded at once to try prisoners in order to make sure of getting through the business. The calendar is in point of number, and, with hardly an exception in point of gravity, rather light. There were only 22 cases, almost all of them of an ordinary cha racter, and of these the bills were thrown out in several cases. This was owing to the fact that the County Quar ter Sessions were held here the other day, and that on Monday the Brighton Quarter Sessions were held before Mr Locke, the Recorder, and a very larp number of cases (nearly 40) being disposed of by him on that day and on Tuesday, of course the result was considerably to lighten the calendar, and relieve the learned Judges at the assizes. CROWN COL RT. (Before Mr Justice 'Willes.) The first case tried before the learned Judge was one of some interest, on aaount of its bearing on a somewhat im portant question of criminal procedure which has been mooted lately, both in and out of Parliament, with respect to the propriety of allowing prisoners to be examined. Yes terday the point was mentioned at the Brighton Sessions before Mr Locke, the Recorder, a learned counsel observ ing, in the course his address on behalf of a prisoner,that it would have been well for her if her evidence could have been taken, as it would have established her innocence. The learned Recorder, in summing up the case, remarked upon this, and said that it must be borne in mind that if a prisoner was permitted to be examined upoa his 01713 be. half, he would be liable, of course, to be cross-examined, and further, that if prisoners permitted to be examined their not submitting to be examined would raise such an inference against them that practically the system would be compulsory, and the prisoner in every case would have to submit to examination, as in foreign countries —the objection to which, he added, was that in many cases a prisoner, from the influence of confinement and terror, and apprehension, would be betrayed either into statements, admissions, or denials, the effect of which might sometimes be to convict innocent parties. The present case afforded an illustration of this observation, and also of the obvious answer to it, for it presented, it will be seen, the re markable instance of a prisoner being acquitted of a serious offence, in spite of her own confession of it, the jury being of opinion that they could not safely rely upon it, An old woman named White, a charwoman, was indicted for maliciously setting fire to a dwelling-house of Mr Ro binson, at Fulborough, on 16th May last. Mr Hirst prosecuted; Mr Ribton was for the defence. The theory for the prosecution was, that the act arose out of revenge, on account of a quarrel with Mr Robinson. There was some circumstantial evidence, and a little boy spoke to seeing the woman on the night in question going down towards the house a short time before the fire broke out, which was about 9 o'clock at night. But the main piece of evidence was an alleged confession by the prisoner, in the gaol, to the prosecutor, in presence of the superinten dent of police, who took it down at the time, and both of whom swore to it. The confession was that she hoped ho would do all he could for her, and that ho would forgive her —that she did it without a thought. Mr Ribton, for the defence, ascribed this confession to the influence of terror and apprehension operating upon the mind of the prisoner, and leading her to avail herself of any means of escape, and look anxiously for any gleam of light which might break in upon her from any quarter. The jury during the progress of the learned counsel's ad dress interrnpted him by consulting together, and then in timated that they had made up their minds. The learned Judge said it would be better for them to hear the case out, The jury still hesitated, and then said that they were all of opinion in favour of the prisoner. The learned Judge observed that he thought that, upon the whole, was the safer verdict, as the only evidence against her consisted of the supposed confession which was evi dently made while she was in such a pucker of anxiety and alarm that it would probably bo unsafe to rely upon it so far as to convict her upon it. The verdict of not guilty was then taken, and the prisoner was discharged. The next also was rather an unusual kind of case. Four respectable looking men—three of them (named Cummins, Matthews, and Hide) evidently seamen or fishermen; the fourth, named Hughes, a tradesman of the town of East bourne—were jointly indicted for assaulting and beating ono Daniel Kegan, at that place. Mr Gates was for the prosecution ; Mr Ribton was for the fishermen ; Mr Hirst was for the other prisoner Hughes. The circumstances of the case certainly, as the learned counsel for the prosecution observed, were rather extraor ninary. The matter occurred only the other day—on Mon day, the 18th inst.—the day on which the Quarter Sessions ended, or otherwise the case might have been tried there. On that day the prosecutor, a hawker, was at Eastbourne, and was heard to say something about the fever which had driven the quality away from Eastbourne. This was in allu sion to the epidemic which prevailed in the place in the latter part of last year, and as to which, it may be remem bered, a correspondence took place at the time. The allu sion seems to have exasperated such of the townspeople as were present, including the prisoners, and they in the first instance actually hauled up the man before the police, upon what precise charge they probably had no idea. Of course the police declined to take cognisance of the charge, and the prisoners then unhappily resolved to take the law into their own hands, and they, or at all events the fishermen, pro ceeded to mob the hawker, and pursue him from place to place with much contumely and violence, pelting him with bad eggs, rubbing a wet swab over his face, and so forth. In the result the police rescued him, and this prosecution was instituted. The prisoner Hughes was present on the occasion, but it did not appear that he had taken any active part. Mr. Gates, in stating the case for the prosecution, observed that it arose out of the feeling excited by the rumours of the unfortunate epidemic of last year, of whioh, probably, the Court had heard. The case certainly was rather of an ex traordinary character, and the prosecution was instituted from no vindictive feeling, but entirely with a view to up hold the law. The learned Judge, interposing before witnesses were examined, said he conceived, of course, that such was the only object of the prosecution, and looking on the one hand at the depositions, and on the other hand at the respectable appearance of the prisoners, he could not help thinking jus tice might be satisfied by their frankly acknowledging that they were sorry for having broken the law and committed a breach of the peace, and then entering into their own re cognisances to keep it in future. lie remembered the ac count of the epidemic at Eastbourne, and regretted its occurrence at that most beautiful and charming place of resort, to which he cordially wished all credit and good fortune ; and he should be very sorry that several of its respectable inhabitants should be convicted and sentenced upon an indictment for a breach of the peace and an assault with violence. He had no doubt they were all sorry for it, and that, looking at their character and respectable appear ance, they were not likely to be guilty of such conduct again. Ho therefore threw out that the proper course to pursue was frankly to acknowledge their error, and then the matter might end there. Mr Ribton said he had already given very similar advice to his clients, the fishermen, and they now very gratefully acceded to it, proceeding as it did from the learned judge. He only desired to say on their behalf that they felt exas perated at the time, in consequence of reflections upon the health of their town, which might, they feared, inflict in jury upon it. Mr Hurst, on the part of his client Hughes, who he said was a respectable tradesman in the town, said that he denied having incited the men to any violence ; but still he must admit having been present on the occasion. and per haps might have used expressions which the .nen might have understood as incitement, though not so intended. Mr Justice Willes observed that, looking at the deposi tions, he imagined that to have been the case, and it must be remembered that the presence of a person in the position of a respectable tradesman on such an occasion, and his tacit sanction to a lawless proceeding, especially aided by expres sions showing some sympathy with it, must naturally tend to excite others to take part in it, and he would do wisely to adopt the same course as the others, Indeed all the pri soners had stood in some peril of an indictment for riot, upon which all who were present, even with only the tacit sanction of their presence, might have been found guilty. And it could not be supposed the interests of Eastbourne could be really promoted by such lawless proceedings. In the result, all the prisoners assented to the course pro posed, and were liberated on their own recognisances to keep the peace and come up for judgment if ever called upon; as they would not be, the learned judge observed, unless they were guilty of any renewal of a breach of the peace. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—DOIIOIIESTER, Wednesday. The commission for holding the assizes for the county of Dorset was opened in this town yesterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Byles, who afterwards went to church. This morning at half-past 10 the business of the assizes commenced, Mr Justice Byles presiding in the Crown Court, and Mr Justice Williams sitting at Nisi Prins. The business was light ; there were only five cases entered in the cause list, and there were but 11 prisoners for trial. CROWN COURT. Mr Justice Byles, in charging the grand jury, observed that there had been an Act of Parliament recently passed which enabled the judge, in the case of robbery accom panied by personal violence, to inflict the punishment of flogging. lie did not conceive it was any part of the duty of a judge to offer any opinion on the policy or impolicy of the enactment, but honestly to carry out the intention of the Legislature. On another circuit which he had gone that sentence had been awarded, and he hoped the result would be beneficial. At the same time, great discrimina tion was required. In some cases such a punishment might be very cruel upon a halt-starved or enfeebled mechanic. It must be left to the discretion of the judge. The subject of secondary punishment had become very important, for the best of all punishment, transportation, was at an end, Pri soners were sentenced to long periods of imprisonment ; the consequence would bo that every prison would be full and overflowing. There was no other county where upPn a large scale the employment of prisoners in the open air was adopted. They could not approach the borders of this county without seeing the magnificent works which had been constructed by the convicts. There was a vast num ber of public works which, if loft to private enterprise, would never be completed ; commercially it would be im possible. He could not help thinking it to be worthy of consideration whether such groat results might not bo ex tended to other portions of the kingdom. It was labour similar to that upon which convicts were employed if trans ported. It might be the means of creating a feeling of terror in every person, and was no waste of muscle or strength of the convicts, and no injustice was done to any one. This town had a peculiarity—it was planted with magnificent walks on all sides, for the benefit of everybody. They were not only ornamental, but salutary. It was with great regret he saw that they had been damaged, and that spoil had been committed. If anythin of that kind should come before the judge the offenders might depend upon it that they would be dealt with with the utmost severity. It was not private property—it was public property, and be longed chiefly to that portion of the public who had nothing else—the poor—their only means of enjoying tho light o' the sun and the beauty of the country. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr Justice Shee.) William James and Thomas Tideswell were indicted for stealing one ton of hay, the property of Thomas Nixon, , on the 19th of Janua r y l ast , at Cl ayton , in the parish of Trent ham. Mr Motteram was for the prosecution ; Mr Young do fended Tideswell. James was nut defended by counsel. On the 19th of January last the prisoners went to Mr Nixon's farm at Clayton, and arranged for a ton of hay to be delivered for them at the Black's Head beerhouse at Stoke, and to be paid for on delivery, At the time the pri- soners purchased the hay Tideswell represented that he kept the Black's Head, which siatement was proved to be false. On the 22d of January the hay was taken by prosecutor to a stable near the Black's Head, where he met the prisoners; the hay was then unloaded and put in the stable, and Tideswell kept the key. Tideswell then induced the prose cutor to walk with him for some distance, having preri ously given the key of the stable to a man named Green. Tideswell also left Green with instructions to sell the ha) while the prosecutor was out of the way. After an interval sufficient to enable the scheme to be carried out the prose cutor was got rid of, who, when he returned to the stable to I look after the hay, found that it and all the parties con cerned in the transaction had disappeared. The hay h ad not been paid for. The defence was that the facts showed a mere breach of contract, but his lordship told the PO' that if at the time the prisoners obtained the hay from % r Nixon on the false account of themselves which they ga /E ; they intended to deprive Mr Nixon of his hay by fraud an ' 1 without paying for it, and he never intended to part NO 11 the possession of his hay except on payment on delivery,' i t was larceny. The jury found the prisoners guilty, and added to tb eit verdict that they thought the case was greatly aggrava ted by their being so many other cases against the prise ne rS, and wished to suggest to his lordship the propriety of 0 138- ing a severe sentence. The learned Judge.—l fear, gentlemen, you have h Ora of other cases. The Foreman—We have, my lord. His Lordship said ho thought it desirable that anothe r charge should be gone into. The prisoners were then indicted for obtaining by rro° tlns of false pretences 7 tons of straw from Aston, at Penkri( lge, on the 2d of September last, and with a conspiracy to de" fraud the same of goods, and also with obtaining by false pretences and conspiring to defraud Wm. Cinn on the 13th of October last, of 3 tons 6 cwt. of straw, it" Bucknall, in Stoke-upon-Trent, and similar charges wets laid against them with respect to 17cwt. of hay, the pro perty of Bryan Ward, at Gayton, in Sandon, on the 14th 01 November last. The prisoners in each of the cases went to the respective prosecutors, and alleging that they wore the proprietors of a hay and straw warehouse, and adding to Aston's case, that James kept the Bird-in-Hand public house at Stoke, and in "Ward's case, that Tideswell did 13° , obtain from them the hay and straw mentioned in the in dictment, on promises of immediate payment—but the pay ment was avoided on various pretences, and their statemen t° with respect to themselves were proved to be false. The jury at once found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship then sentenced them to penal servitude for 3 years on the conviction for the larceny, and to 3 Y ears' penal servitude, to commence at the conclusion of the pre vious sentence, upon the second conviction. COUNTRY MARKETS. M ON MO U TH—T uEsDAY. The local markets have been fairly attended by buYer l and sellers during the last six or seven days, and prieef! especially for wheat, are a little firmer. Barley and ea"; in moderate request, and the business rather in favour sellers. The average quotations are as follows :-- 3s 91 I Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 9d 8ar1ey...... 3s 3d to ca Ditto red .Os Od to Os Od Oats ....... 2s 2d to 23 NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—TUESDAY. Farmers' wheat only in moderate supply this morning' and prices ruled firm at about the same as on Sarurdlq• Flour firm in price, but with less inquiry. Oats scarc e ' and rather dearer. Averages—Wheat, 41s 6d—barley, 26s 4d.—oats, 193 10d—beans, 35s 6d. MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY. Not much wheat at market to-day, and prices 2s highe'! —White wheat, 43s to 478; red, 40s to 44s per 36 BtoZ :Halting barley at 32s to 355 - per qr.; grinding, 27s to per 30 st. Oats, old, 24s to 28s; new, 20s to 238 Per st. ; beans, 36s to 408 per qr. HULL—TUESDAY. f At our market to-day there was a moderato s upply c o i , English wheat, which met a dull sale at is per qr fa 10 4 vance. In foreign there was also a poor sale at fully it week's prices. All kinds of spring corn met a good re° sale at rather improved rates. O d Wheat.... Old white....per qr 44s Od to 4 j Old red ii New white .. ~ Oa New red .... „ • Barley.... English malting 278 Od to 348 Od Grinding 2ss Od to 27 5 , a Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish Grinding to t o 3 3 n 3 1 3 1 : 00 a ct 28s Od to 0 ' oa Oats English', old Archangel and Riga, per st osl2ld to ,';'', ( l Friesland and Dutch ' oBl3d to 0a1,?F., Swedish and Danish osl2id to Osl,g Beans ....English, old, per qr 4os Od to 433 ea New pigeon 428 Od to 4-48 Od New tick. 4os Od to 42s u r _ a .. 3031 Od to 33 3 ' - ' 6 , 1 Egyptian Peas .. Foreign boilers ... 33s Od to 343 Od Grinding Tares ....Spring. --a Od to --$ Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 565 Od crushing ' 4os Od to 52$ o Linseed cakes (Hull) £B 15 0 to £ 9 ( I, 0 Foreign! 8 0 oto 9 n " 0 Rape cakes Bones 5 5 oto 510 COAL M 1110 es of Coal per Ton ai a. d. LitK ET. the close of the market. d a. Byass's Bebside West Hartley ..17 3 North Felton Gas 14 0 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Wylam 15 3 Walls End. Haswell .......... .... 19 ° Hetton .............. 19 ° Hartlepool ......... ..1 3 South Hartlepool... ••• 18 () Wharncliffe ....... ... 17 - 9 South Kelloe ......... 17 9 Heugh Ha 11.......... 17 Walla End. Gosforth l7 01 Tximdon Thornley l7 0 Ships at market 26; sold, 24. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. cr 16 Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton A ug ' 1.2. via Marseilles Aug' Arun and Cape Verde, by British packet. Aug. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena .NO' 2 9. China, Penang-, and Singapore, via Southampton.Auns, via Marseilles lJul Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton JuIY " Z India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Ag..O. via Marseilles July ‘ ,6, India (Bombay), via Southampton JuIY * Ol . via Marseilles Jail Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ally 0 1. via Marseilles jul9 ' 3. Newfoundland __. Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... by U.S. packet.... 0. All parts of West Indies, inclu b iin C g an C a n d i i l an i, California. and British Columbia. rpearuck,elt.JjualTy _ 29, A HORNED WOMAN.—Somebody who has e l l ; whereof he speaks writes from Larnaca , in t island of Cyprus, to the Observer, of this city, a n elab° r , t ' ati account of a woman living at Li account in Cyprus, Cho horns growing out of her head :—" I at once despatch. secret agent, and succeeded, after a few days, in obtaining a sight of this most wonderful cornigerous cr told me, viva voce, that she had suffered greatly from t . lll O affliction, and would never have revealed it but for a N ri° ,, ° x she had lately, when an old man with silvery hair an d I°Z e atUre• 5 13 , 0 flowing beard presented himself to her, leaning on a trot and warned her not to conceal it longer—that it was 111)- , God, ape tot; Theou, and that he would afflict her even in°i: if she concealed it any longer. She at once confeas e c i „ i . the priest, and then revealed her mysterious condition• has ono horn on the side of her head three or four inch long, and an inch in circumference, besides three o r 10" 6 cornicles on other parts of the head, one of which al° she broke off. It is now in possession of the French doe'll°o of this place. These horns are attached to the skin of • head, and not to the bone, resembling in texture and ape pearance the horns of a goat—not the silver ho rn cn "ad, Druze woman, but as much a part of her as her hair or 1180„ She has been visited by nearly all the consuls and ii2.to peans in this place, some of whom are making an e ffoo a s ecure her for exhibition in Europe." Another letter t t ci ia l ge ntleman of this city says that "one of the horns i s e i - at in size to an ordinary ram's horn," The Italian ccOt to Cyprus offered the woman one hundred thousand fran'" go to Paiis.—New York Evening Post. Births. 101 0 BuLLEn,—On the 12th inst.. at Chavenage, the gall. Yarde Buller, of a son. tr ot, FORBES.—On the 18th inst , at 46 , Upper Berkeley ter. Portman-square, Mrs. Kinloch Forbes, of a daug h 4 - HOWELL.—On the 20 th ins t . , a t Th 9 Hurst, West '9 sey, the wife of W. G. Howell, Esq,, of a son. WALEY.—On the 20th inst., at 17, Cambridge-road , - ton, Mrs. Jacob Waley, of a daughter. Marriages, e r R IMI NGTON—ABEUCROMBY.—At St. George's, J.•-.,„007 squar e, John Wilson Rimington, son of the late "" 0 , • Remington, Esq., of Brootohead Hall, Yorkshire, v, A. Adelaide , daughter of the late Sir R. jihereNta Bart. a t Cbr i d t TATTIIRSALT. , —GOODLIFFE.—On the 16th'inst., MY' Church, Highbury, John Tattersall, Esq., of Abe,r`,l,4 o park, Highbury, to Charlotte, fourth daughter of t"" F. M. Goodliffe, El., of the Admiralty. g Deaths. s prone, Duk - NE.—On the 17th inst., at Torquay, Thoma s Esq., aged 71 t 0 21 ' DAYIES.—On th e 19th i ns t Catherine, w ife of Lie u ' . Davies, of \Vithersdano louse, Wye, Kent. 0 C GLOAG.—On th e 18th i ns t., a t Hammersmith, Tliorn3 abed K. Gloag, E sq ., o f t h e Ad m i ra lty, S omer set lion sel lII ' 53. ti 0. MuNN.—On the 18th inst., at Canterbury, Captain Munn, 7th Royal Fusiliers, aged 29. Vol' TENNENT.—On the 15th inst., at Glengariff, Ba iri n nenf on board of hi s y ac ht, the St. Ursula, Hugh l e. -.. Esq., of Wellpark and Errol ---- os. London : Pr - lb:Jed and PrNished by WILLIAM ANI :Pi „ 10: of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tnn SUN Office fi Strand, in the Precinct of the Mavoy, 'n the Cow, patkaez.—Tharsday, July 21,1861. t l ~'` r Sa..