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A ,arc-~ 7 / 1 - / * e ,/ swinq f I ./~ ~_ V/' / r., - : 7 0 - 111 - .2 lrd ) *4ll vt; c ?"' 1k : 1, • „,, - ;„ vow , • e: • n • ? k w / - A, ; /11/4 ck, -•+ ow ' DI E 7-- lto' gßar r • '" -oz._ • -7 ) _e= _ eiILP r:: familiar with the gaol, frequent the lictelit,acarer-71r inghouse, and mail steamers on Oar forged or very ancient certificates c(tait'xitfel`44.A4.l -- _ k`;!•Vi C NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN. That the Ordinary Half -Yearly GENERAL MEETING of the SRA IR EGGED ERS of th- MAIN GEORGE' , HARBOUR COMPANY wii I be held at the OlVes of the Company, N. 1, Robert -street, Adelphi, tne city of Loud m, on , •A'l UR DA Y, the 28th Pelai nary inst., at Twelve o'clok precisely. R. WILBERFORCE B.1.1::D, Chairman. Dated this R. of February, 1863. :~ ~`"~e:-.tip A. rk+i HONGKONG, Jan. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPA7Ny. Four-and-a-Half pw r . ent. Preference Stock. The GREAT EASTER .6. RAILWAY CO AIPANY is pre pared to receive applicat .tans for sums of £lOl, or upwards, of the abov e Stock, bee if= g liper cent. per annum. I a fixed Preferential Interest of nterest c mmence '4 from the date of payment. Applications to b d made either personally .or by letter to the undersigned. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 13, 1863 N°. 22,036 . PRICE..... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., S T. 0 L A V E' S. Live for to-day ! To-morrow's light To -morrow's cares shalt bring to sight. Go sleep, like closing flowers at night, And Heaven thy morn will bless. Hurst and Blackett, t 3, Great Marlborough-street. Naval and Military Intelligence. INDIA AND CHINA. THE NAVY. By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we have re ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to the Bth of Jlnuary, Hongkong Ist of J4nuary, Melbourne 24th of December, Sydney 20th December, Adelaide the 26th of December, and from Brisbane (Queensland) the 18th December. J. 11. OWEN, Secretary. Eishopsgate " - Zerminus, February, 1863. "~; x , ~;; .; le iy e- Total 39s 330 260 --fi Total 111C' ) 310 ) 300 ) 25 0 ) 44 0 ) 400 . 18. . 12. 2 0 . se. 10. 13. O. 1 . 2. 28• wife over- field, cut.- rgetl, ,d Int nlet, pant ages! Dag" j o b°. aeon• Bel' abitt, ESq milo, ~ Le ll r 0 0" visht 1 K if go ountl , ROy A L NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATROIsTESS —Her Must Gracious Majesty the Queen. PREs ID EN T —Vice-Agmiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. cirAinmAs--Thos. Raring, Esq., M.P. F.R.S., V.P. DErtrs. A.inmAx— Thomas Chapman, ' Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginn'ng of the year IMO, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution, has expended £32,c()0 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments, the Coasts of Engr'and, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have I eeri instromental in rescuing the Crews of the follow ing Wrecked Vessels : 1f 0. Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. .. Ship Ann Mitchell, of Gl asgow Smae' John Bul4, of Yarmouth i Sc h r ioner Catherine, of Newry larque Niagara, of Shields .. . Barge of Teignmouth • • , .al-1g George and James, of London littrig Zephyr, of Whitby • • I Coble Honour, of Cullercoats • • S chooner Eliza, of North Shields .. Barque Oberon, of Liverpool .. hrgantine Nancy, of Teignmouth &m .. eek Wonder, of Teignmouth lirig . . . Scotia, of Sunderland • • • • Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole ... Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. Brig Ann, of Blyth • • •• • • Sloop Hope, of Dublin •• •• •• .. 3 Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. • • • • .. 5 „ Barque Vermont of Halifax, U.S. .. ••• • 1 ° Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon ••• • 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whifoy ••.. 5 Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .._ .. 3 Steam Dredge, at N ewb .a ~ - • • •• 9 Schooner Admiral Ho•Jd, Rochester .. .. 6 Schooner Susan and Is a b e lla, of D u ndee .. 3 • • 5 .. S chooner Rose, of Lynn .. • • Brig Prodrom a, of st , ,, o kton .. .. .. .. 11 Brig Eliza, of lifiddl eaborough .. .. .. 7 Brigantine Freia, o , Konigsberg. .. .. .. 6 Brigantine Diana , of Fredrikshamn 7 Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. .. 7 .. 3 .. 7 .. 15 .. 0 .. 2 210 Number of Wees saved by shore-boats and other means, for which the Institution has granted rewards i.n 18m ..455 1861. Brig LOve7.,y Nelly, of Seaham Brigantir,e Nugget, of Bideford .. • • •• • ......5 Schooner Prospect, of Berwick •• •• •• 6 S looP Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives • • • 3 Fishin g -b oat of Whit b urn •• •• • . . 8 • 4 Br ig Arethusa, of Blyth 8 Folio oner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo ••• • • }"O4, Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. .. .. .. 2 '4:atooner Villiam, of Morecambe .. • • • • 5 . . 4 S mack Gipsy, of N e w • •• •• •• 'Sc hooner ‘largaret Anne, of Preston •• •• 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. • • •• : Schooner William, of Liverpool .. •• • " '' I ngger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, Shields •• :: •••• ::. 8 83 Brig, Mayflower, of f Newcastle . .• • Scheoner Village Maid, of Fleetwood • • •• 4 Barque Guy Ala, of Glasow • • " .. — l O Brig Roman Empress, of Shields • • '' 1 9 Brig San Spied one, of Galaxide .• • • • • - 8 Schooner Brio du Vouga, of Viana .. .. French Brig La Je.une Marie Therese .. • • ,I? Ba rque Perseverr.nce, of Scarborough .. • . 4 • u Sch ooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater • • • Sch ooner Hortensi a , of Hanover •• • • • • 4 .. Ship Danube, of Belfast •• •• •• 4 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. • • •• 17 B rig St. Michel, of Marano .. -- .• • • 8 °Banish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved yes- . 1 sel and one of the crew) •• • • Schooner Htirrell, of Penzance (say . e . d vessel . an . d . 4 crew) •• •• '' . 1 Barque F•rederick. of London .. .. s ß e r h i g o ° A n n e r ii e, Betsy,of Plymouth Peterhead (s av e d (savedv e ssel and— vesselc r crew) 8 . ere - 2 L a rge Peace, of London • •• • •• • -tjAe•ger Saucy La ss , o f L owes t o ft • • • • F.....1ina1k Adventure, o f H arw i ch.. .. • • :: 111 P 0 ilot matter Whim, of Lowestoft .• • • '• 7 liarque Undaunted, ot Aberdeen .. • • -schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. • • :: 161 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast Brig Lively, Oi .. 1 Clay, Noi•folk :: ••• •.: .. Barque Hobert Watson, of Sunderland •• 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. • • 6 • Schooner Friends, ot of ..- 4 .. Schooner Eliza. Anne, of Dublin • • 5 •• •• •• Brig Content, of Sunderland . .. .. 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan . . ~ g Schoon.er 'Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. „ g nUraber of lives saved by shore-boats and other 288 - Means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1861 .• • • •• ..136 -421 Ec schooner o Be operir l ,n lo oee n f s a cs , a o Ar f nl ß iar e v d l o ' n ß 62 a . y 'Brig minrem, of wor ce, of Ipswich kington .. 4 Sch ooner Elizabeth B r i o . sisters, of svill Td. Hannah, of Newburgh Brigantine Matilda, of Y giockhOlm 4 Brig Jane. of North Shields 10 Schooner Liberty, of Dublin . .. 3 , Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) - Brig Trial, of Poole .. Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. Sloop William, of Liverpool .. Slow:, Elizabeth, of Teignmouth r , argue Cruz, of Oporto • • •• •• Barque Druid, of Sunderland Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved ves and crew) .. - Fishing. Bents of Millburn .. Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. .. 4 Ship nnie Hooner, of Baltimore, U. 5... 18 Schooner Rook, of Liv rpool Schooner Ceres, of Arbroath (saved yes. and crew) 5 Sloop Loftus, of Padstow 4 Schooner Ellen, of Liverpool (saved yes. and crew) 3 Ernac't Mary Elizabeth, of Padstow .. 3 Smack John, of Teignmoulh Schooner Osprey, of Fraser burgh .. 6 hoover James 1;avell, of Newcastle (saved ves sel and crew) 2 Schooner Champion, of Liverpool 10 Galiot Aremana, of Jaffa (assisted to save vessel and rew) .......... 6 Ship James Browne, of Philadelphia (assisted to say vessel and crew) • • • • • 15 Smack Co..l , tess of Lisburne, of Aberystwith .. 3 • Screw steamer Alice, of Leith • • •• •12 orque tirazii • of L d iverp ol Schooner Little Aze, ol Berwick 1 4 Schooner Sisters, of Wick .. .. • • •• 3 -134 0* IS 00 • Number of li ves Total saved by shore-boats and other 358 means, for which the Institution has granted rewaros in 1862 .. ..213 Total 18E0..455 SnaniAult' OE LIVES SAVED. I 186 1..424 t us 1 86?..571 Total .. 1, , 50 For these joint numero service in saving 1,450 lives from re i Shipwreck, the In s ti tution ha. granted n nards mounting to £1,502 125. 7d., in .ddition to 68 Silver Medals. The number 01 lives saved by the Life-boats . of the Society nd other means, s i nce its formation, is 12 800 ; tor' which services 82 Gold M e d a l s, 718 Silver Medals' and £16,480 in cash have been paid in r ewar d s. The Institu tion' has also expended .£67, 0° on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting -cart iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the _British public durino• the past few years, a support whi c h nits enab'ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet 0, 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom Deeply sensib`e, however, of the great responsibility that 8 On them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi h can only be effected by a large and pe manent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their Cou ntrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. ibThe Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con trutions : 0. d Rer Majesty the Queen annual 50 0 0 Ca mpbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. annual 5 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. . annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0 Cu rrie, Wm., 4th don 10 0 0 Erle, Lord Chief justice . . don. 10 10 0 ranshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 eirsvick, G. J., Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage . 250 0 0 liarvey, Rev.and.Mrs. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .• don. 15 15 0 • • • • •S •• Smith, Mrs. George, • Greenwich 3 0 0 ;thlroling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 20 0 Lady, Weston-super -Mare, collected by her a Yship 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Ere:by, L'ord annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Fuhscriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard,-treet ; Messrs. Coutte and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. 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If within seven days, the pile-driving as a Weir obstruc tion to the tide set be not removed, as militating in prin ciple against the embankment of the Thames—and its Weir. clearance for Ova-pisiculture and consequent Salmon run to its WINDRUSH fork-font L'Bourton on the Water, via Atkins * Swell. bowl of Stow's E Cutsdean Font. Action of trespass will have force on the first 500 marks fine enrolement ' Pat. 13, Ed. 1, m.l' in Exchequer Court against the papal Fishmongers' Walworth-PALL-guild fi assumption on Tyler's (murder, A.D. 1381—to sell and exa mine Royal monkfish, Whales, sturgeon, mer)maid &c., out side the stalls of City Stocksmarket, now Mansion-hs. scite under Crown-rota Escheat in O.S. data, 12 H. 7, 2 Car. 1699 by 1832-42-3 Act, in Canada's Quebec Fish Statute. (Signed) CHARLES ' CKERLEY, J. P. Born, Montague s Chamberlayne, of Ric. irs brother J. Holland's 3ty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4, Ne. 54 in Planta genestella O.S. Evesham's pollen fish-trust-14 J.t. PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Tnd. Chief, of 1842-3, as Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 20 yrs, no pay. " In ANSPACH River-set-font as of the Ratisbon Comer penny Ist tax by Confederate-Zollverein of Prussia's sole' resign on Wales'-christening at Windsor Castle—to Ame rica's Indian Germanicus -tax"—therein Pet, on Bulo, Pal merston, Labouchere's 2nd March, 1841, Toll-Customs Convention. A.s. — Neither the holding over 1862 office of CUBITT on the Wat Tyler fi protest tax as Warden of Mark xii.' under Walworth's Pall-cloak token-keys—' Sub annulo piscatoris' in Fisherman's ring of yr. 1381, or their Vintner's Portugal wine-landing agent Rose, M.P. for Southampton, on Tower Ordnance-office shift, for King John's illegal life-right (8d per ton on wine) cancelled in x' 1825—can be admitted, as 'lawful ordinances' on their Merman & Mermaid-armorial craft-mystery with 5.6 W. 4, c. 63, the State-meter Act, For Ova Fishery-park plant. Feb. 11, 1863. POLICE INTELLIGENCE--Feb. 12. HAMMERSMITH.—THE MURDER AT ACTON. —APPREHENSION OF THE WITNESS JANE LAKE. —Jutt before the closing of the Court Inspector Searle, of the T division, who has had the manage ment of the case of the murder of Police-constable Davey, at Petherton Villa, Acton, brought before Mr. Dayman the young woman Jane Lake, who gave important evidence against her affianced hus band Joseph Brooks, and charged her with being an accessory after the murder. Mr. Treherne conducted the case for the prosecu tion on behalf of the police, as in the case against the other prisoners. Mr. Martin said he would watch the case voluntarily for the poor girl, as he thought some one should defend her. Charlotte Walter, the wife of a labourer, living at No. 9, Chapel-place, Turnhatn-green, deposed to the effect that she knew the prisoner Jane Lake. She saw her on Wednesday, the 21st of Jan., the day after the other prisoners had been remanded. Witness was in bed, as she was ill, and the prisoner came to her room between ten and eleven o'clock. Witness said she was very sorry things had hap pened as they had, meaning the prisoner's disap pointment at not being married to Joseph Brooks in consequence of the charge against them. She told the prisoner that it was a good job she was not married to Joseph, for if she had she would have been dragged from him a week afterwards. The prisoner replied that it was. She called on witness in the evening of the day of the second re mand, and she asked the prisoner who it was that spoke about hitting the man on the head with the gun, and she said she did. She also said that they were not the words Joseph used. The witness then detailed the exact words the prisoner said Joseph used when he returned home with the gun, and they consisted of several bad expressions. The words were to the effect that if he had the man there he would strike him on the head with the butt-end of the gun. The prisoner here said it was false, but Mr. Mar tin requested her to remain silent. The witness added that on the morning after the first remand the prisoner told her that she pulled Joseph's hat to pieces and burnt it, and that they could not find it. She did not say where she burnt the hat. She also told witness that both Joseph and Isaac were out together on the Monday night (the night of the murder), and that they returned home together. She said that when Joseph re turned he was in a perspiration, and that she wiped his face with her apron and combed his hair. He trembled like a leaf, and she told him he must have done something wrong, and he replied, "No, my girl, not anything." She further said that Isaac was very restless, first sitting on one side of the fire and then on the other, and that he gave two or three groans. On Tuesday witness communicated to Sergeant Rogers as to the conversation with the prisoner, and she came to her and asked whether she had informed Inspector Searle what she had said about burning the hat, and she told her that she had. The prisoner then stated that what she had said was that she was going to burn the hat, not that she had burnt it. She cried very much. She had not spoken to witness since. Catherine Powell, the wife of a baker, living at 7, Chapel place, said she heard some of the conver sation. She was not in the room all the time on the first occasion the prisoner was there. Witness might have said that it was a bad job which had happened to the Brookses. The prisoner said it was, and that she was very sorry for it. Witness did not hear her say anything about the hat. The wit ness then corroborated the evidence of the other witness as to the statement of the prisoner about the other prisoners returning home on the Monday night, and wiping Joseph's Lace. The witness also confirmed that past of the conversation after the second remand, and added, that the prisoner said she did not like to make use of the expressions Joseph made in the court, and she thought the words she used were better. The witness Walter was recalled, and she said the prisoner did not state what kind of hat it was. Inspector Searle said ho was present at that court on the 27th of January, when the prisoner was examined against the two men. She stated that she had been sent by Joseph on the Monday night, in company with Isaac's wife, to Hammer smith, to redeem a gun. They took a piir of Joseph's trousers to redeem the gun. It was 20 minutes past 7 o'clock when they left Chapel-place, that they ran nearly all the way, and returned about 20 minutes to eight o'clock. They gave the gun to Joseph, who was dressed in his working clothes, and he went out with the gun, and returned with it about eight o'clock. Mr. Andrew, the clerk, referred to the minutes, and said that the prisoner in her evidence stated that Joseph was absent about 20 minutes, that they returned at 20 minutes to eight o'clock, and Joseph went out in a few minutes afterwards. Inspector Searle said the prisoner stated that Joseph went out alone, and that Isaac was at home the whole evening. She further said that when he returned with the gun, he laid it down and said, " God bless the man, if I had got him here I would hit him." She also identified the dark coat wit ness produced as Joseph's property. In cross-examination she said she thought the observations of Joseph referred to the man to whom he intended to sell the gun. Mr. Treherne said that was all the evidence he intended to lay before his worship that day, and he asked for a remand for her to be brought up with the other prisoners. Mr. Martin submitted that there was not a tittle of evidence against the prisoner. Mr. Dayman thought there was evidence as to the destruction of the hat after the charge had been made. Mr. Martin said the whole of the evidence con sisted of something she told two women. Dr. Dayman thought it was quite sufficient for a remind, as she had disposed of something which was supposed to have been worn by one of the parties, after the charge had been made. Mr. Treherne observed that at the time she gave evidence she was aware of the circumstance respect ing the hat. Mr. Dayman said that if the police had been aware of the circumstance at the time she gave evi dence, he should have thought it rather severe on their part to have taken her into custody, but it did not come to their knowledge until two days ago. The prisoner was then remanded until Saturday, to be brought up with the other prisoners. :THE BAR AND THE BENCIEL—A deputation of the Quebec Bar have represented to the Government that by reason of advanced age Chief Justice Bowen is no longer able to discharge the active duties of his office, and that thereby very great loss and inconvenience are constantly suffered. The Ministerial of gen at Quebec remarks that Chief Justice Bowen is not the only Canadian judge whom t h e infirmities of age should have warned into retirement uefore now. AFFIRMATION IN LIEU OF O ATH. --Yesterday a bill in the Commons was printed to substitute affirmations for oath for persons who are unwilling to be sworn, and for ethers who object from defect or want of religious know ledge. The latter class, as well as children, are to b e per mitted simply to make an . affirmation to speak th e truth, and are t'. be liable to pumahment for false statements. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, held his first Levee yesterday afternoon at the Admiralty, Whitehall, at which the undermen tioned officers attended :—Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington, Vice-Admiral Collier, Vice• Admiral Carter, Rear-Admiral Hallows, Capt. W. G, Luard, Capt. C. B. Hamilton, Capt. J. E. Commerall, Capt. S. Grenfell, Capt. C. C. Forsyth, Capt. S. G. Cress well, Capt. E.B. Rice, Capt. J. B. Marsh, Capt. W. J. S. Pullen, Capt. F.A,, Campbell, Capt. J. A. Paynter, Capt. C. O. Heyse, Commander A. B. Owen, Commander 11. Phelps, Commander P. H. Dyke, Commander the Hon. M. H. Nelson, Com mander W. Grabble, Commander Shaw, Commander W. H. Hood, Commander W. F. Ruxten,Comman der J. Ward (b), Commander E. Fisher, Lieut. G. D. Fitzroy, Lieut. J. Burgess, and Mr. J. N. De Vries. VALETTA, Feb. 7.—Her Majesty's screw frigate Liffey, 39, Capt. G, Parker, arrived on the 3d inst. from the Pirus and Kalanaki. The latter place was in rather a disturbed state, and the Queen, 74, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, was in consequence about to pay it a visit. The Liffey left Malta again on the 6th for Naples. Her Ma jesty's paddlewheel frigate Magicienne, 16, Captain his Serene Highness the Prince ..of Leiningen, arrived on the sth inst. from Carfki and Messina, and will leave at the end of next week for Naples. Site is to convey Prince Alfred to Marseilles, after his Royal Highness has passed his examination on the 16th inst. for a lieutenant. The Prince of Leiningen will go home on leave with Prince Alfred, to attend the marriage of the Prince of W a l es . The Magicienne will return immediately from Marseilles to Malta,in charge of the first-heut. The M eanee, screw line-of-battle ship, 60, Captain G. Wodehouse, left on the sth instant for Naples. She will refit at Baja before returning to Malta The Phoebe, screw frigate, 35, Captain T, 1). A. Fortescue, left on the 6th, for Corfu. The Tra falgar, screw line-of-battle ship, 70, Captain the Hon. T. Baillie, has been at Cephalonia. While at Argostoli she got aground, but she floated off again without sustaining damage. The Icarus, screw sloop, 11, Commander N. Salmon, V.C., is shortly expected home here from Corfu. The Tri dent, iron paddlewheel sloop, is also expected here from Constantinople, after visiting the different islands in the Archipelago, The Psyche, despatch vessel, paddle, 2, Lieut.-Com. Stern, left Malta to relieve the latter vessel, calling at Corfu on her way to Constantinople. Tne Chanticleer screw sloop, 17, Commander C. Stirling, had gone from Corfu to Dragomestri. The Foxhound, screw gunboat, 4, Commander the Hon. A. Hobart, has returned to the Pit - teas from visiting all the islands of the Archi pelago in search of pirates. She arrived at the Pi rmas on Jan. 25. Orders have been despatched for the Malacca, screw corvette, 17, Capt. G. Napier, now at Beyrout, to proceed to Alexandria, on a visit of ceremony after the death of the late Pasha of Egypt, and thence to return to the coast of Syria. Letters from Smyrna of Jan. 27 mention that her Majesty's steam sloop Pelican, 17, Commander P. Brock, has been ashore at Vourlah, and that in at tempting to get her off four lives were lost. The Pelican left Smyrna Jan. 20 on a cruise to Vourlah, for the purpose of practising and watering there. She was to have weighed anchor and returned to Smyrna in time to catch the mail of the 24th, but the wind having veered round to N.N.E. and fresh ened into a gale prevented her leaving. The wind afterwards moderated and went round to a point to the northward. It was then conceived practicable to weigh anchor and cast in shore, in doing which the ship touched the bank on the lee .bow to the southward of the watering-place, and hung on it. Sail was immediately shortened, the large kedge run out on the weather quarter, and the bower anchor laid out as soon as possible on the same quarter for heaving her off. Preparations were made to lay out the small bower at a greater angle on the quarter to secure her for the night if she did not come off by another trial astern. The first-lieute nant and master left in the pinnace to perform this service, the men working well and cheer fully. The night was very dark, and, owing to there being a heavy toss of a sea, the pinnace was buoyed with water casks to enable her to carry the anchor, and a cutter was srcur( d to windward of her as a breakwater and an additional support, the other cutter being also sent to attend on her in case of ac cident. As preparations were being made to clear away the cable prior to heaving the anchor clear, some one cut the lashings of the spar across the boats, and the pinnace immediate-1y commenced fill ing. The anchor was cleared away, the men were in the cutter, the lieutenant being the last to leave the pinnace when she swamped, and eras followed by the cutter, which it seems ret' ained attached to her by the b rw, the lashings there having been ne glected to be cut away. Some of the crew of tne attending boat instead of picking up the men threw teem their oars. Three men and a boy were drowned, the others were saved. When the ship went on shore the second-lieut. was sent to Smyrna for as sistance, and the next day the French despatch boat Mouette arrived and anchored on the Pelican's quarter, and with her assistance the vessel was floated at the first heave at 5.30 p.lll. She fortu nately sustained no material damage, having touched on a sandy bottom, and remained on an even keel, though it blew a double-reefed top sail breeze at times. After recovering anchors, boats, &c., and getting guns in, the Pelican returned to Smyrna, taking in tow a Turkish man-of-war brig, with the Turkish Governor of Smyrna on board, which had come to her assist ance on hearing of the accident. Great praise is due to Capt. Maurion, of the Mouette, for the readiness with which he hastened to the help of the Pelican, and the valuable assistance afforded by him, his officers, and men in getting her off. The Swedish corvette Nayaden left Malta on the 31st ult., for Leghorn. The large steam war-ram Hector, built and en gined by the Mes:rs. Napier, of Glasgow, made a trial of her engines on Wednesday, with a success that surpassed the most ardent expectation. She ran the distance between the lights in the Clyde -13.666 knots—in 58 minutes; being equal to 161 miles per hour—a speed about two miles per hour greater than that accomplished by the Black Prince. Her engines made sixty revolutions per minute, with twenty pounds pre6sure of steam. The arrival of the flotilla conveying the Princess Alexandra and suite at the Nore is to be made the occasion of a grand naval display, orders having been received at Chatham for the Formidable, 84, Capt. Luard, flagship of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., Commander-in- Chief; the Cumberland, 70, Capt. Thompson, guard ship of the Chatham steam reserve in the Medway; and the Leander, 51, 500 horse power, attached to the first division of the steam reserve, to proceed out to the Note on Thursday, March 5, to salute the steam vessel containing the illustriouit Princess on her arrival from the Continent. At present only the above ships have been detailed for this service, but it is expected that some others may also be se lected from the steam reserve, in order to make the display as imposing as possible. The Formidable and the Cumberland are both at present only jury rigged, but they will bi at once taken in hand in order to be ready for the occasion. The manoeuvring of two sailing line-of-battle ships under canvas at the Nore will be a novelty in these days of steam. Her Majesty's despatch vessel Caradoc, Lieut. Commander Wilkinson, before leaving Woolwich for her destination in the Mediterranean, ran down the measured mile in the liver on a trial of her engines. As a Government despatch boat her speed was considered very unsatisfactory, only realis ing about 10 knots per hour, or an average work ing speed calculated to attain, when on her being station, lor 8 knots at t he utmost. Before purchased by the Admiralty her speed was well known to reach 14 and 16 knots per hour. Now, when registered under Admiralty supervision and with new engines, her draught is made nearly double that whizh her builders designed her for, and her speed has been reduced nearly one half. When steaming at full speed in the Lower Hope, the Caradoe's cutter with 13 men in it was lowered with perfect ease by Commander Wilkinson in :a few seconds by means of Clifford's system of boat lowering. The Emerald, 34, screw frigate, Capt. A. Cum ming, has returned to Spithead from her anchorage off Osborne. On the 17th inst. she will go into Portsmouth harbour, and be placed in dock to pre pare for a series of experimental trials with various forms of screw propellers at the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Eight distinct trials of the screws were carried out with the Shannon frigate, but the closing trials with the Griffiths propeller were not commenced, owing to the Shannon's departure for the Mediterranean. The employment of another ship on the trials will, of course, render it necessary to repeat with the Emerald those carried out with the Shannon. The Admiralty paddle yacht Enchantress has undergone her water-pressure trial in the steam basin at Portsmouth with satisfactory results, pre vious to being finally accepted in her engineering department by the Government official from the hands of the contractors. In our notice of the speed trial of this vessel at the measured mile, in The Sun of the 7th inst., we omitted to state that her machinery was supplied by Messrs. John Penn and Son, of Greenwich. The Royal yachts Fairy, screw, Master-Com mander Welch, and Elfin, paddle, Master-Com mander Balliston, have been placed in No. 1 dock at Portsmouth, to undergo a thorough renovation, in readiness for further service after the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. One of the most important events yet connected with the construction of the Royal Sovereign turret ship, at Portsmouth, took place yesterday, when a commencement was made in clothing her with her armour, by getting two of her si-inch side armour plates in position in the lower tier on the star board side amidships, in readiness for bolting through. The plates, which were from the works of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, were bent by the hot process, drilled, and their edges and butts planed in the new workshop which has lately been erected for such purposes in Ports mouth Dockyard. The official inspection of the Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, has been made at Ports mouth by the military, naval, and medical authori ties, and the customary report forwarded to the Ad miralty. The heavy baggage of the 97th Regi ment will be sent on board to-morrow, the regi ment will leave its present quarters at Shorncliffe and embark on board the following morning, and the Himalaya will sail for the Cape of Good Hope, where the 97th are to be stationed, on Monday morning, giving the troops, women and children a clear day between embarking and sailing to settle down comfortably into their berths. The members of the United Service Club are about to give a complimentary banquet, at their Club house in Pall-mall, to Rear-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.8., in recognition of his meritorious services while Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and China. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander the Hon. H. W. Chetwynd, to be inspecting commander of the Coast Guard, vice Commander King, whose period of ser vice has expired; Lieut. E. W. Shirley, to the Vi gilant ; Lieut. the Hon. Albert D. S. Denison to the Asia; Lieut. S. F. L. P. Maclear, to the Excel lent; Richard C. Beale, paymaster, to the Vigilant ; S. A. Lodge, engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernu merary ; William Tempest, in the Fisgard, for the Bann, and George Murray, supernumerary in the Asia, are promoted to first class assist. engineers ; W. H. Brimfield, acting first class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ; J. A. Cawlay, second class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernumerary; A. M. Boumage, J. W. Haves, G. J. Weeks, W. T. Pover, and G. H. Barnes, acting second class assist.-engineers, to the Asia, as super numeraries; and S. J. Rock, acting second class assist.-engineer, to the Narcissus. The following appointment has been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieut., Jas, Mitchell. THE ARMY. Yesterday the time-expired men and disabled troops from the various regiments serving in the Mediterranean arrived at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. from Portsmouth, where they disem barked from her Majesty's screw iron troopship, Meg era, Commander S. H. Henderson. The troops included detachments of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers. 2d Battalion 6th Foot, and Ist and 2d battalion 9th Foot from Corfu ; Royal Engineers, 2d battalion 15th Regiment, Isc and 2d battalion 22d Regiment, 2d battalion 23d Royal 'Welsh Fusi leers, Ist battalion 25th King's owu Borderers, and the 4th battalion Rifle Brigade from Malta; Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Military Store, 2d battalion 2d Queen's Royals, 2d battalion 3d Buffs, 2d battalion 7th Royal Fusileers, and 2d battalion Bth (The King's) Regiment from Gibraltar. Oa the arrival of the detachment at Chatham they were medically inspected by the Staff at Fort Pitt, when those requiring treatment were admitted into hos pital, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's invalid establishment, to await being discharged or for warded to the various depots. Eight persons under sentence by Court-martial, who arrived in the INlegxra, were forwarded to the convict establish ment ordered by Government. The following appointments have been announced in the Royal Artillery :—Lieut.-Col. George Row landson, 3d Horse Brigade, to be Col. therein, vice Conran. To be Adjts.—Second Capt. G. B. Traill, 2d Horse Brigade; Second Capt. and Brevet-Major Thomas J. Maclachlan, 4th Horse Brigade ; Second Capt. F. R. Butt, 16th Brigade; Second Capt. John B. Hardy, 18th Brigade; Second Capt. H. Mowbray Cadell, 19th Brigade ; Second Capt. George Francis \i,rorsley, 21st Brigade ; Second Capt. P. Charles Anderson, 24th Brigade; Second Capt. Edward Simeon, 25th Brigade. Paymaster (with honorary rank of Capt.) Thomas C. Higginson, from the Ist battalion 16th Foot, to be Paymaster 4th Brigade, vice Griffiths, who exchanges. Resignation of Sir William Armstrong. Yesterday Sir 'William Armstrong sent in his re signation of the official position he has held for the last three or four years as ordnance engineer and superintendent of rifled ordnance construction to the War Department. This resignation was, we be lieve, as unexpected as it was unwelcome at the War-office. The causes assigned for the step are wholly unconnected with the forthcoming experi mental trials between the Armstrong and Whit worth guns, and Sir William only retires that be may attend more closely than his official duties per mittedk him to the extensive works of the E b lew e h ic as Ordnance Company, in the success of whichhitherto, so large an interest. That company continue to manufacture rifled or dna w t n r i c i e ) ;b:o s ( th is army and navy. Though the t i o n r the sir country but think William a valuable servant, ' ltr d a e c c t l o in r il f ' o g r , that h o e it h t as h e is on c s o u m a p e now ri t tie d Ordnanceordnance, to discharge the incompatible duties gineer. So long as he held this o of post his position was at best ambiguous, and the less scrupulous of his enemies strove to turn it to his disadvantage. In retiring he put an end to all controversy on this point, while he still continues to m anufacture his guns, and to put, them, as a pri vate maker, to the arbitratneut of public trial against the ordnance of other competitors. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Jan. 8. If I were asked what is at the present moment the most pressing of India's wants, I should say the want of timber. It is us difficult to realise this fact in a country one-third of which is supposed to be covered with forests as it was lately to believe that our E astern Empire is so under-populated as to render the immigration of Chinese and others desirable. But the want of wood is more and more felt every day, and the country is scoured by contractors eager to supply railways and other public works. Take the one item of railway sleepers. India is a country where damp, dry-rot, and white ants consume the best sleeper in six years. For the past ten years all over the country we have been busy in laying down new lines, and all attempts to use iron or stone sleepers have proved unsatisfactory. We have still nearly 2,000 miles to complete, besides the numerous feeders and branches which are being constructed. Creosoting has been tried, but it is doubtful if - that is of any advantage: ___ meat the railway might be open to within 12 miles of Delhi right from Calcutta, instead of only to Agra, if sleepers could be procured. And what will Government and the shareholders say to the cost of renewing the sleepers, which, on the Cal cutta and Delhi line alone, is estimated, at present prices, at £130,000 a year ? Except in Burrnah, where Lord Dalhousie strictly shut up the forests, so that now, under a good system of conservancy, they yield perennial supplies, we have cleared the forests away wherever we have gone. In deed, the old rules for grants of waste land insisted on a certain extent of clearing every year under pain of forfeiture, The result is that wood is not to be got in our own territories, unless in very in accessible places, and timber from the north of Europe begins tofigure largely in our imports. Not only so, but by clearing away trees, especially on the sloping ridges of hills, we have made the cli mate in some places rainless, and in others, because their is no belt of wood to catch and keep the periodical rain, the district has become barren, just as Palestine is, and from similar causes. With some degree of thoughtlessness, Lord Canning gave away to Sir Jung Bahadoo r, of Nepaul, our finest forests, which he has closely shut up as a hunting ground; and in another case, after the late Viceroy had promised a district, containing our next best forests, to a Mussulman chief for loyalty in 1857, he had to submit to the humiliation of asking it back when he found that there was no other well wooded tract in the North-Western Provinces. The waste land rules provide for the State reserving wastes covered with marketable timber or good as grazing grounds. Assam, where, under Lord Can ning's rules, there has been the greatest rush of capitalists to purchase land, is covered with small wood, which the Bengal Government will allow the settlers to clear away. If this is done on the ridges of the hills, as well as elsewhere, there is reason to fear that the physical character of the country will gradually deteriorate from the want of belts of forests to collect and utilize the periodical rains. All these considerations have left the Government of India seriously to consider how it may best con serve and extend the few timber tracts left, with out interfering with what is so desirable as the spread of settlers and the clearance of really un • healthy jungle in the plains. There is a conserva tor of forests in every province of India except Bengal, and one is now about to be appointed there. Dr. Brandis who has done so well during the last seven years in British Burmab, the country of the teak tree, is now in consultation with the Public Works Department as to a general system of con servancy fur all India. A roost deplorable story has just been made pub lic by a court-martial held at Mooltan. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Engineers, was stationed at Dera Ismail Khan, on the Punjab frontier. On the 25th of June last he was robbed of some silver plate,and suspected his servants. Not one would confess, even when sworn on the Koran, and the master took ad vantage of their superstitious belief to call in a Mus sulman priest, who administered to each the ordeal of rice. It is supposed that fear will eo influence the guilty person that be will not b e a bl e to c h ew a grain of rice. All the servants passed the test ex cept a table attendant named Munnoo Khan. He wis pronounced the thief accordingly, and urged to confess. He refused, and was tied up to a tree, where, when he had received a few blows with a cane, he began to abuse his master. Jackson—l take the statements in his own defence—very much irritated, himself gave the man 10 blows, when the cane spit, and he sent for switches, which were cut from:a neighbouring date -tree. He confesses that, with intervals of a few minutes, the man was flogged for three-quarters of an hour. The man re ceived at least 50 blows, when Jackson ordered the flogging to cease, and went into his house. Work men were repairing it, and their noise, he says, prevented him from being aware that the flogging was continued by one of his servants in his ab sence. Some neighbours saw the occurrence, and sent for Major Nicolls, the Deputy Commissioner, on whose arrival Munnoo Khan was released and sent to the hospital, where he died in 10 days. After much doubt as to how Jackson and one of his servants should be tried, be was brought before a court-martial, which sat at Moultan from the 12th to the 23d of December. Colonel Boyle, of her Majesty's 89th, presided; Mr. Scoble, a Bombay barrister, assisted the accused, and a military °fa cer in civil employment prosecuted. Jackson was tried on a charge of murder, under the Penal Code. His fate hinges on the medical evidence. In his defence he expresses deep contrition, declaring that he meant to do no more than to give the man a " sound thrashing" and turn him out of his service. The majority of the medical witnesses prove that the man was diseased from smoking a drug known as " churrus" and from bronchitis at the time he was flogged. Otherwise he was a healthy, muscular fellow, whom flogging with date switches for three-quarters of an hour at intervals would not have fatally affected. Others, again, considered the bronchitis the direct result of the flogging. I doubt if a court-martial is a fit tribunal to try such a case as this, or to decide so difficult a question on conflicting medical evidence. The case has excited great interest in India, not only because the accused is the near relative a a member of . the Governor-General's Council, initnbduiat.belctauissea, mistake,tln it is without a preced ent made and propagated by new-comers or casual visitors to India , to suppose that abusingA u g 1 o t h i e n d n i a a n t v e e re s! Th ose who r in the habit of beating o ar e guilty of this are young men ontheir first arrival, who are ig norant of the language, hot blooded, and irritated by the climate. They soon discover their mistake, for no servant will remain with a master who is harsh or unjust to him, while the natives are not slow to have recourse to the equal laws and courts for protection. Equally mistaken is the supposition that English gentlemen in India are in the habit of calling the natives " niggers." In all my experience I have never heard the expression, either in the interior or in the Presidency towns, from the mouth of any one who had 1:e. en six months in the country. Mutual respect and goodwill are essential between master and servant in India as well as elsewhere, and an ordinary amount of careful housekeeping will check the pilfering tendencies of the latter till they are no worse than those of English servants at least. New-corners, moreover, generally engage one of that disreputable class of menials, who, turned out of all respectable employment, and not lin" gemAt thlW m ' Peace continues to reign in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, but active preparations are on foot there for the intended attack on Nankin by Colonel Bur govine's force. As the Imperialists will have no aid from the Allies on this occasion, their success may be doubted. The Taepings are numerous and well equipped, and have materially strengthened the fortifications of Nankin, as has been ascertained very recently by the commander of the gunboat Bouncer. They are said to suffer from want of supplies within the city, but there is no confirma tion of the success claimed by the Imperialists, as reported by the last, mail. At Shanghai several murders among the Chinese have drawn attention to the disproportion between so large and mixed a population and the protecting power of the police of the settlement, as well as to the necessity of a more effective system of local government. The last problem is not one of easy solution Several questions connected with foreign trade in this country, in addition to those on which the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has taken action, are assuming important dimensions, and will require prompt settlement. By a decision of Mr. Bruce, goods sent from one treaty port to another, but transhipped at Hongkong, are treated as coming from a foreign port, although protected by a duty chop and fully identified. This decision particu larly affects the trade of Canton, whence a large proportion of exported goods is brought hero in steamers, and transferred to vessels on the berth for the several coast ports. The rapidly increasing preference of the Chinese for foreign bottoms, before Irotieedrm+ther abstiree elstlperi Gl revenue from the system of transhipment under very simple checks, renders it most desirable that so obstructive a decision should be reversed. The extent of the powers of the Foreign Com missioners of Customs and the area of their several jurisdictions require to be defined. British subjects in this country believe that, under the treaty of Nankin, the provisions of which are incorporated in the subsequent conventions, and under the Queen's Order in Council of June 13, 1853, they are entitled to the protection of the Consuls against irregular acts on the part of Chinese officials, equally as against other Chinese. In this view they claim consular investigation of all cases of seizure or con fiscation by the Customs' authorities whenever hard ship or injustice is alleged. The Consuls, however, refuse to entertain all such applications, acting, it is believed, under orders from her Majesty's Mini ster at Pekin ; and as the Supreme Court disclaims jurisdiction in appeal over the Consuls, there is apparently no remedy for aggrieved parties short of going to the-Privy Council. This state of things has just been exemplified by an argument before the Supreme Court in a case " Johnson v. Mid hurst." Again, the Foreign Commissioner at Foo chow has lately seized several foreign vessels at Keelang, a port in Formosa. Some at least of these vessels were there under license from the superin tendent (Chinese) of customs at Tamsin—the treaty port of the island—full dues having been paid to him, and the ship's papers deposited with him. The provisions of the treaty in clauses 9, 12, and 47 are contradictory. By the first two British subjects " are authorised to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior under passport . ." and "to build or open houses, ware houses,&c., whether at the ports or at other places," if they desire it, on making fair arrangements to acquire the land or buildings; but by the last Bri tish merchant vessels are " not entitled to resort to other than the ports of trade declared open by this treaty. They are not unlawfully to enter other ports of China . . ." and " any vessel violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government." No in-. terpretation of clause 47 can make the presence of foreign vessels, as at Keelang, in ports not open by treaty " unlawful," when in possession of a Govern ment pass granted under the circumstances detailed above ; for it can scarcely be argued that the onus of verifying the powers of Chinese officials lies on the unfortunate masters a vessels holding. their licences. The fact that, in the present instance, the seizure of the ships at Keelang was commuted to a fine, in nowise alters the merits of the particular case, or the principle at issue. Many points of difficulty must arise in the pre sent transition state of trade in China ; but they ought to be settled with more reference to the liberal spirit of the treaty than has hitherto prevailed at Pekin ; and representations from this aide might be materially furthered by the East India and China Association of London, but for the deep lethargy into which that very respectable but inert body has for some years fallen. Niugpo furnishes no news for this mail. The Tien-Wang was reported to have left Nankin in view of the Imperialist preparations for its attack ; but it is doubtful whether he has done so. Rumours of grave events come from Japan, but they are not to be relied on. The seizure of the Mikado, by the son of the last Regent murdered at Jeddo, and the violent death of the father of the Prince of Satsuma are reported, but not believed. The departure of the Daimios from Jeddo, however, continues, and it seems certain that there is strong political excitement among the governing classes of the country. Ex-Governor-General Laos, of Canton, has been appointed to the government of the Kwei-chow pro vince. The Russian steam frigate Bogatys, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Popoff, is now in the harbour. The Admiral proceeds to her to Singapore in a few days , an d, after a short stay there, will return to Chinese waters. Nothing further is known of the reported Russian offer to assist in putting down the rebellion. The French mail steamer Imperatrice left for Suez on the 26th ult. The London mails of Nov. 10 were received on the 24th per steamer China, and those outward will be despatched to•day at 2 p.m. by the steamer Malta. THE ALABAMA AND FLORIDA, CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.—NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The Escort, Whitmore, which arrived here last evening from Vera Cruz, reports that when off the south-west side of Cuba she was in company with a vessel supposed to be the Confederate steamer Alabama, which approached quite near a t ngh but kept away during the day. She was under the time. She dersai h aving her propeller hauled up, it blowing a gg any cap demonstration. tured and Amer burnt the Winward ( Advises from Havannah, dat ed the 2 4 th of January, stat e that the Confederate steamer finally left the escort without m aking m Florida, n from I , latanzas for Portland, with inanbrig), aale molasses, about four m il es off the former port on the 22d. Next morning the Florida burnt th e C orr i s A nn brig, of Mac hias, Philadelphia, for Cardenas, b e t ween Cayo ne d ro and Cayo Mono. She soon afte r ca pt ured two mor e brigs just out from Cardenas, one of which s h e b urnt, ad the other sunk. A schooner, which arrived at Havan nah on the 24th, reported having seen the Florida with the English flag flying, steering for the Bahamas. The Eagle, Adams, from Havannah, which arrived here yesterday, re ports having seen a largo body of smoke in the eastern edge of the horizon, supposed to be from a vessel on fire, 2Gth of January, at 10 30 a.m., in let. 30 N., 79 W, PAUPER DEPORTATION.—An extraordinary ease of pauper deportation, that will be probably noticed in Parliament, was the subject of investigation by the Board of Guardians at Westport hat week, Lord J.Browne, M.P., in the chair. The facts of the case were thus certi • fled by Dr. Johnston, the medical officer of the Union " Patrick Bourke, aged 73, who was admitted to the hospi tal un the Ist inst., labouring under chronic bronchitis, weak heart, and general debility, was removed from Leeds to Westport, by the Leeds Board of Guardians, in he very t inclement season. Immediately after his tadmissionithst n e d severe diarrhoea, under which he sank, on the 13th lust. the greatest care and attention, and diedt? such state I consider his removal at such a time an d in a n his death." The man in judicious, and calculated to haste alleged that he had resided 43 ylars in England, an d the last 7 years in one pa ri sh at Leeds. He stated that h e was taken out of a bed of sickness aad " hauled" off to a rail way station, that ho was shaken almost to death in a third-class carr iage, and that he would have died on th e open d ec k of the steamer if the sailors had not given him shelter. The investigation was held in consequence of a motion by one of th e guardians, Mr. Burke, solicitor, that the case be in quired into, " and that the Chief Secretary for Ireland, as one of the Poor Law Commissioners, be called on to pro secute for manslaughter all the parties concerned in the in human and improper treatment this pcor man had received and by Which he I,st his life." ...