The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

~ ~ ~~ IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 10.—STATE OF TIPPERARY.—The northern division of Tipperary is daily becoming more lisorganised by agrarian combinations. The accounts *eceivedibis morning are truly disheartening, and show adaring and desperation on the part the persons en ' 7,a6d;111- those confederacies, which prove how deeply seatga liAe source of the evil in the social system. occupiers to be a total alienation between the owners occupiers of the soil, and the law is altogether pa ralysed. Twelve or fifteen years ago the north division had been comparatively tranquil, whilst the southern portion of the country had been in a state borderinf; upon insurrection. Within that interval, North Tipperary has become the focus of disturbances, whilst the southern riding has been, to a great extent, tranquillised. This change and its causes were noticed and accounted for by Baron Pennefather, in a re markable address delivered by that learned and ex cellent judge at the last assizes of the southern riding, in which he is the owner of an extensive estate. That property has been, in the hands of its former proprietors, " a field of blood ;" but by a total change of system—by the practice of kindness and for bear,nce towards the tenantry—by treating them as human beings, sympathising for their wants, and en couragine; and rewarding their industry, Baron Penne f ither rendered his estate a pattern for order and tran quillity to the surrounding district. The landlords of the south have, many of them, improved their system, and the southern riding has ceased to be the scene of con stant violence and outrage. It is some such remedy as this that the north riding, now so frightfully disturbed, requires, and not martial law or insurrection Acts, which have been unavailingly tried for fifty years past, never producing a remedy ; but, en the contrary, always aggravating the disease. At this moment the police surveillance in North Tipperary could scarcely be exceeded under a coercion Act, yet such terrible proceedings occur as the following, detailed by the Tipperary Vindicator, a moderate and intelli gent journal, published in Nenagh : " ATTACK ON A POLICE PATROL.—It may not be generally known at a distance that the custom of police patrols at night, throughout a very wide district of country, is general in many parts of Tipperary, par ticulurly in the baronies of Upper and Lower Or mond, Owney, and Arra, Ikerrin, Ellogarty, and Killnemanagh. This custom has been observed for a considerable period, and even during the day on certain occasions, particularly during certain hours on Sunday, patrols are everywhere out, and the coun try, in fact, under a police surveillance, as strict, as rigid, and as vigilant, as though an insurrection Act were in active existence, and those parts in question of Tippe rary proclaimed. Sunday evening, so early as six o'clock, the Killoskully patrol, consisting of five sub-con stables, under Constable Patrick O'Hara, proceeded in the direction of Ballynahinch, where they went into a house in which they had reason, we believe, to suppose that suspicious characters were at the time located. Having left the house, they were fired at by a party of 'Terry Alts' who lay in wait apparently for them, and who exhibited a bold and reckless front. The police returned the fire, when a skirmish took place between them and their opponents, who again fired. One of the police, named Anthony Cullen, in the act of firing a shot which he discharged at one of the Terry Alts,' received a ball, which penetrated the left arm, and lodged in the right elbow. Shot succeeded shot on both sides, when the police at length routed their assailants, having ar rested one of them, taken a pistol from another, and found a gun and hat which were dropped by some of the party in a field. "HORRIBLE MURDER NEAR BORRISOKANE. —ln addition to the above, we regret deeply to add the account of a perpetration of a murder, under the most re volting circumstances, near to Borrisokane, on Mon day evening. The victim in this instance was a man of the name of Hogan. He had been in Por ttunna, we understand, during the day, disposing of corn, and was returning homewards leading his horse and car, when, at the gate of Kyle Park, he was waylaid and shot dead. The weapon, it is thought, was a blun derbuss, which must have been placed near the body of the unfortunate man, as his clothes were torn by the shot, and partially burned. Yesterday (Tuesday) morning, James Carroll, Esq., county coroner, pro ceeded to the scene of this foul and barbarous murder, and held an inquest on the remains of the murdered man. We have heard that Hogan was one of the pro secutors for the beating of Dr. and Mrs. Hobbs, at the last assizes for this county, for which two men of the name of Hogan were sentenced—the one to seven and the other to fourteen years' transportation. We have heard also that since that period Hogan, the prosecutor, has been protected by the police; but it would seem that the police were absent at the time he was thus waylaid and murdered." SUICIDE OF ALDERMAN HEARN. In reference to this lamentable occurrence, the Evening Mail says:—" We learn from a correspondent that the de ceased had been implicated in a case of defalcation to the extent of fourteen to sixteen thousand pounds, which has just been brought to light within the last few days." The Cork Reporter has the following on the same sub ject :—" A respectable gentleman, a resident of Clonmel, received a letter in this city this morning, acquainting him with the particulars of the double suicide of a gen tleman of that town and his nephew, yesterday. It ap pears that the bodies of both were discovered in a vat in a porter brewery, where they had lain for four hours, of course both dead, with two letters directed to friends, and a portion of their dresses in the apart ment. In anticipation of the particulars of this melan choly circumstance, which will no doubt be furnished by the local journals, we learn that there had been men tion made of the deceased having been largely, and it is presumed unsuccessfully, engaged in railway speculation, which it was said there was little doubt was the direct cause of the awful catastrophe. In the absence of further confirmatory information, we withhold the names of the parties, who are well known in commercial circles, but in a later impression we expect to be able to give the details circumstantially." THE MILITIA.--The Banner of Ulster, in reference to the current statements about the calling out of the militia, says, " We understand, from pretty good autho rity, that it has been the intention of Government, for some time past, to raise a certain number of militia regi ments by ballot, on lov establishments, say 250 private for an eight-company corps, for the purpose of supplying the regular army with volunteers, and doing away with the depOts, even though the war which we are now threatened with had never been mooted." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. SHEERNESS, DEC. 11.—The alterations of the fortifi cations at Garrison Point, so as to mount from sixty to seventy guns of the largest calibre, which have been impeded for some time, owing to the experiments re cently instituted at Woolwich, as to the best mode of pivoting the carriages of the guns, to determine whether cr not they ere to be secured to the masonry, are about to be recommenced with vigour, the result of the expe riments being in favour of fixing the platforms by pivots to the masonry, which must necessarily be strong to bear the recoil of such enormous guns as are now intended to be placed on all our fortifications. The ex cavations for the masonry on which the several travers ing platforms are to rest, are now being bedded with concrete, and the greater part of the stones are already n and ready to be laid do.a n. A cargo of granite blocks_ for the pivots have arrived to•day from London. The guns are daily arriving from Woolwich ; the 1 'flowing have arrived up to the present time., viz., tt eight•inch guns, 66 cwt. each, 9 feet long, or •• 68-pounders; 13 six-and-a-half inch guns, 56 cwt. each, 9 feet 6 inches long, or "56-pounders 4 six and a-half inch guns, 32 cwt. each, 6 feet 6 inches long, t)r long " 32-pounders ;" and 4 eight-inch guns, 98 cwt. ach, and 11 feet long A number of pivots have also fa-rived. The guns are to be mounted on traversing platforms, 16 feet long, and will be fired over the para pets, and pointed in any direction. The earth battery, with its deep fosse, firming opposite the dock-yard gate, progresses most rapidly. and when completed will be mounted with guns in a similar manner. The Elcctra, 18, Dido, 20, Snake, 16, and Ferret, 10 remain in dock under repair. The Dido's timbers have been found in a very defective state, as well as her plank leg. many of them being quite rotten. The Ferret's timbers are also in had coudttion, but not quite so bad as the Dido's. All are being rapidly refitted for imme diate commission. The Fearless steamer, second-master George Brockman. recently arrived from Woolwich to replace the Dwarf steam-tender, has been de teehed to the Chatham station, and is replaced here by the Wildfire steamer. The Bittern, 16, Commander Thomas Hope, progressea rapidly with her rigging and other fittings in the basin. She has her topmasts up, a-id will be all ataunt this week. A party of seamen from the flag-ship are assisting in her outfit, about forty men only having joined her. She will proceed to Spit- b -ad when fitted, and will doubtless pick up a crew there. The African, steamer, is in the North Camber, making good extensive defects which the sustained at Brighton. 1 he Fury, steam-sloop, building, is nearly complete ; the ways are laid for launching, but the tides will not serve till the latter end of the month. The 27th has l'"e" named, but it is probable that the launch will nut Coke place till the 29th or 30. h. The Sampson, steam frigate, Captain Thomas Henderson, is to have a com- Ik of 180 offi,:ers and wee ; and the Viper, brigan tine, Lieutenant Edward Gray, is to have a complement of 60 officers and men. Neither have yet hoisted the pennant. The Admiralty, with the view of still further encou raging seamen to remain in her Majesty's service, have r •centry issued an order increasing the pay of seamen or 4 ,,, tra riggers in the dockyards from 23. 6d. to 3s. per d em, with the understanding, as stated in the original coc der issued about fifteen months ago, that they joined the service afloat when their service s may be required. Admiralty also, by a recent order, have been pleased to allow boys who enter the service as engineers' ap prentices, to serve the last year of their time in the dock yards. PoutsmouTif, FRIDAY._.Rear-A dmiral Hyd e P arker has re-hoibted his flag on Latird the Victory, C aptain Mowbray having returned from leave. Che Daring, 12, Commander Matson, is in harbour re fitting with all dispatch. The Rodney and Superb are being caulked at Spit bead, as their coming into the harbour is at present tin es rtain. The Nelson, 120, has undergone a repair in the basin, arid will be docked to be co pp ere d as soon as p oss ible, to be ready as an advance ship. The Nelson was built in 1814, and although so old a vessel, has never been com missioned. The shape of her stern was altered a short time since at a great expense. The masts with which the Lizard iron -steamer, Lieut.- Commander Fylden, left Woolwich, having been found too heavy, have been taken out, and are to be replaced by throe light ones, such as have been found to answer OD well in the Fairy. The Scourge steam mortar ship, Commander Coffin, is her y rap este idly rd pay. reparing for sea . Lieut. W. Crawford joined At Spithead--The Rodney, aperb, Alarm, and Nautilus. THE K . PN, LONDON, MONPAYEVFI I DECEMBE R ING, 15, 1845. In Harbour—The St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, Fairy, Comet, Lizard, Echo (tug), and Daring. • In the Basin—The Nelson, Trincomalee, Scourge, Harlequin, and Bee. In Dock—The Prince Regent, Amphitrite, Rattler, Wanderer, and Childers. Building The Princess Royal, Royal Frederic. Leander, Arrogant, Dauntless, and Rifleman. The half-yearly examination of the students at the Royal Naval College has commenced. The following are the officers studying at this establishment : Captains—Jones, Giffard, Hon. G. Hastings, and Halsted. Commanders—Sullivan, Fisher, Ingram, Fishbourne, Helpman, and M'Cleverty. Lieutenants—Griffiths, Royer, Ryder, and Wood. Mates—Parish, West, Brandreth, Partridge, and Molyneux. Lieutenants of Marines for the Artillery Companies— Meade, Gell, Henry, Davis, and Baynes. Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright of Portsmouth Dockyard, and one of his assistants, are ordered to make a strict investigation into, and report to the Ad miralty the cause of the continued leak in the Daring, 12-gun brig, Commander H. J. Matson. She still leaks, but nothing of consequence; but she smells so offensively that some of her officers have beeu driven from thetr sleeping cabins. The smell proceeds from the lining of the vessel, and, it is said, was perceptible before she was filled with salt water at Plymouth. It is supposed to be occasioned by some shaving and sweep ings not properly cleansed out from between the timbers while building. In consequence of the increased number of contract workmen at Portsea, a chaplain is ordered to be pro vided to assist the incumbent of St. John's, in attending to their spiritual necessities. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 12. (Before Mr. Justice ERLE.) CHARGE OF MURDER BY POISONING.—Jane Windsor, aged 28, the wife of Richard Windsor, was charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Windsor, her stepson, at Easingwold, in the North Riding, on the 17th of July last, by giving him a quantity of arsenic. The poisoning was variously stated in the indictment, as administered in tea, in treacle, and in bread. Mr. Bliss, Mr. Matthews, and Mr. Blanshard were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Overend and Mr. Hardy appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Brass, in opening the case, stated that the pri soner and her husband were labouring people, and un ployed in the neigbourhood where the alleged offence was committed. The deceased was the stepson of the prisoner, and at the time of his death was about seven years of age. The boy's father and the prisoner had been married in the year 1843, and a portion of the evidence to be adduced would be to prove repeated acts of cruelty on the part of the prisoner towards the de ceased, as indicating her dislike of him. The poison was of a kind commonly known as " bug• poison," and it was supposed that the child had been killed by the ad ministering of a substance of that kind, some of which had, just before his death, been used about the house inhabited by the prisoner's family. Elizabeth Leekonby, widow, of Easingwold, deposed that on the 17th July she went to the prisoner's house, to ask if she and those that accompanied her were to go out to work. She sent the deceased for some cream. On the boy's return, he said, "Mother, you need not go to Mr. Gill's this morning ;" when she said as they were not going to work, she would give him some treacle and brimstone, as there was a very bad smell issued from his nose, which was at the time running very much. Wit nets did not see the bread, but afterwards saw it, and she then observed that it was of a dark colour. The prisoner gave the child some tea, and witness was confi dent it was sweetened with treacle, on account of what appeared at the bottom of the utensil she drank it from. There appeared to be about half a tea-spoonful of treacle to have been dissolved in the tea. Witness did not see any treacle put into the tea, but she judged from what she saw that the quantity specified by her was what had been administered to the deceased. She left the house whilst the prisoner mixed the draught, and some time afterwards the grandmother of the deceased wished her to go and see the boy. Witness did so, and she found deceased very ill and sick ; witness then asked if they had not sent for the doctor, to which the prisoner replied that she had sent for Mr. East dale, but he was not at home. Witness said they had better send for some one, as it might turn out a dangerous case. They sent for Mr. Scaife, but he not being at home, Mr. Wylie was sent for. The child at this time appeared to be very ill. The father and the mother were standing by. When Mr. Wylie attended the deceased was laid upon some chairs, but he was afterwards removed to a bed up stairs. The father was sent for, and whilst he was embracing the deceased, the latter threw himself back as though he was suffering much pain. Witness afterwards took deceased upon her knee, and he threw himself back as though he was dying. On the Saturday following she stated to the pri soner that reports were prevalent that poison had been found in the child's stomach by Mr. Scaife, when the prisoner said that she did not care what anybody said, nobody could prove that she had either purchased or administered any poison. Witness was present when the deceased died. The prisoner laid the deceased's legs straight, and said he might be there whilst she prepared her husband a cup of tea. Witness never saw the pri• soner use any sand. Cross-examined by Mr. OVEREND—Witness could not say how far the prisoner's house was from Mr. Gill's. The prisoner said that if the boy brought the cream they would not go to work. It was about ten o'clock when witness went to the grandmother's. The prisoner and the grandmother were on very good terms. Witness did not know who went for Mr. Scaife, but she believed that the prisoner went for him. Elizabeth Barker, the wife of Robert Barker, white smith, of Easingwold, deposed that she resided near the prisoner. On the 17th of July, the prisoner came to her house and said she was going to give the little boy some treacle and brimstone. About half an hour afterwards, the prisoner called at witness's shop and purchased some mint lozenges. The prisoner gave the deceased some lozenges, and she requested him to go up the yard, and said that the sickness with which he was then attacked would soon go off. He, however, soon returned on ac count of sickness, and the prisoner washed her hands with soft water, and again desired the deceased to run up the yard. The deceased vomited whilst this was going on, and witness held his head over a grate, when the mother washed away the vomit down a sink. Witness after wards removed the deceased into a chair in the house, and he felt very cold and in a state of perspiration. Sarah Terry came in, and the prisoner would have the father sent for. Sarah Terry's daughter went for him. This was about half-past ten, or from that time to eleven o'clock. The deceased asked for a drink of water, and witness gave him some marigold tea, after which he was purged. Witness next deposed to the surgeons being sent for, and also to some magnesia having been sent for, but deceased never partook of any. On the day on which the adjourned inquest was held the prisoner went into witness's house, when witness said, " Oh, Jane, why do you come into my house ? The sight of you will break my heart!" The prisoner said, " What have I done amiss ?" and witness answered that she was afraid she (the accused) was guilty of the crime. The prisoner responded that nobody could prove that she had ever had any poison, and that " she still cherished a hope that they would not hang her." The witness next deposed to the prisoner having asserted that whilst the boy was upon the chairs in the house, she must provide a clean shirt for the lad, "as there would be plenty to say if he was not supplied with one." About one o'clock on the day on which the deceased died, the prisoner said to her husband, who was fretting very much, that "he might be thankful the child was deal, for she was ; and that they should now live comfortable, as they had had nothing but dif fering and fratching over him." Cross-examined—The deceased was very sick whilst in the yard, anti witness had also observed the prisoner treat him with ordinary affection, and had never seer. her ill-treat him. Esther Mailey deposed that she kept a school, and knew where the prisoner lived. Witness knew the de ceased, who attended her school. He had been ill about to o months previous to his death, but had not been pre ventel from attending school. Between eight and nine o'clock on the morning in question, the prisoner called upon witness, and said that " she need not expect the deceased at school that day, ns she was going to give him some physic." She afterwards called upon witness and said she wanted the'deceased to take,some camomile- tea, which he refused, and she consequently wished wit ness to use her endeavours in causing him to take the medicine. Witness had seen prisoner beat th 3 deceased with a thick stick about a month before be died. She also deposed that she (witness) had heard the prisoner state that she had flogged the boy for going to his grand mother's, and that on the Bth of July the prisoner in formed her that her husband had beat her in conse- pence of her having previously flogged the de ceased. Subsequent to this period, the prisoner stated to witness that she had put Joseph (the deceased) to bed, " in order that she might keep her hands upon him," for what he bad done on the previous day. From this witness's testimony it also appeared that prisoner and her husband frequently quarrelled, upon some of which occasions she had asserted " there never would be a word if the lad was dead." About three-quarters of an hour after the death of the deceased, the prisoner remarked, " they should uow live comfortably, as they had never had a day's peace since they were married, on deceased's account," and did not appear at all concerned. About a week previous to deceased's death, witness heard prisoner say that she disliked her son (the deceased) worse than ever, on account of him telling so many falsehoods ; she, however, never heard her wish the boy dead, but proved that sbe invariably manifested a bad feeling towards him. Ann Williamson, wife of Williamson, of Easing wold, cartwright, was next examined, but gave no ad. ditional evidence in corroboration of the crime. Mary Sturdy stated that she was at the prisoner's h o e, and found the deceased vomiting. Witness sug gestedsur to the prisoner that she ought to send for a The ee lastreplied tim e thatshe shes saw w e n soende he thefr eo li w ee h . en app m e r a . r it ed ehe in rgtrGeailtl, o a sgolnic3i.tor, of Ea w Id deposed that he had some conversation with sin the prisoner on the day when the deceased expir e d, and he charged adregeeedhd. T her with e h av ing put arsenic in the tea g i ven to deceased. prisoners mother also charged h er w i th the murder, and said, " We must have blood for blood, but W aki i n n g th g o r r ea is t innocent." The prisoner at the time was m lamentation. Witness inquired when she had given the deceased, the treacle and brimstone, and she replied that she had administered it before breakfast. She protested her innocence of the crime or all knowledge of it. Sarah Remmer corroborated the evidence of some o f the previous witnesses.- Sarah Terry deposed that on the 17th of July she was at prisoner's house. The boy complained of his inside in the presence of the prisoner. Before he died she diu not appear to fret, but she did a short time after wards. _ _ Mr. NA , f tam . e ,sdale, surgeon, of Easingwold, who usually a. `tended the family, deposed that the day de ceased diet 1, and after t..is death, he went to the pri soner's house, in conseque):ce of hearing that he had been sent for. He went up stb.jrs by the invitation of ti;e prisoner, and when he was cowing down she said, p t ;ople say I have poisoned the child." Witness asked her if she haet given the child anything, and he under. stold her to say that she had given him some treacle and brimstone. Prisoner allowed witness to take it with him, and he placed it in his surgery. Cro se-examined—Witness had attended the child, and he had IJEZ2A struck with the prisoner's kindness and at tention to it, he knowing that she was the mother-in, law. V,Then he went to the house on the day in ques tion she appeared to be in great distress. Jane 'ft del, wife of Isaac Todd, of Easingwold, labourer, deposed that she was a neighbour of the prisoner's, and was callod, but her evidence wa:, not material. .„ . Mrs. Elizabeth Bearpark deposed that her father was the landlord of the hotise occupied by the prisoner, and that the prisoner, had stated about five or six weeks be fore the deceased's death that there were bugs in the house, and if something was not done at it she could not stay. Mr. Joseph Barker, father of last witness, proved the occupancy of the house in question by the prisoner and her husband, which commenced some time in May last. The house was stoved before they entered it. In conse quence of receiving sr:me information from his daughter, he went to the prisoner's house, and she told him she had got bugs in the house. Ho said there was Robert Reacher, who was used to such jobs, and he would send him. Witness afterwards saw Reacher, and directed him to go there. George Douthwaite, a druggist at Easingwold, deposed that he had frequently sold an article to Reacher for de stroying bugs, and that was composed of arsenic. The article commonly called mercury is arsenic. Henry Potter, apprentice to the last witness, proved that he had frequently sold arsenic to Reacher. He sold him, at different times, a pound of arsenic each time, in June last. Robert Reacher, wheelwright, of' Easingwold, deposed that on the 20th of June last he purchased some arsenic at the shop of Mr. Douthwaite, for the purpose of mix ing it with water and washing the house of the prisoner. He did so, and cautioned her not to let her boy go into the room for three or four days or a week, and she had better not go in herself till the room was cleaned out. He afterwards said to the boy " Now my little man, I hope they will not let thee sleep in that room for a few days," and stated that he should go on the follow ing night to clean the room out. He was going away when the prisoner said " Reacher, you have had a deal of trouble in coming down ; I will take the trouble and wash it off myself." He said " then what you do wash off you will promise me to dig a hole in the garden and bury it," and she said she would. He used a pound of arsenic on the occasion. He did not take particular no tice whether there was any sand on the floor. Cross-examined—He told the prisoner there was a whole pound, which was enough to poison a whole street. George Wood, butcher, of Easingwold, and a con stable there, searched the house of the prisoner on the 18th of July, but he found no arsenic on the premises ; he found some brimstone. He searched the person of the prisoner, and found nothing. He saw the deceased after death; when the prisoner was present. Witness said the child was poisoned, and some persons in the house said "No such thing." Witness went to the house last Wednesday, and he took a bosom and swept the back bed room up stairs. He collected a quantity of dirt, wrapped it up in a paper, brought it to York, and gave it to Mr. Barker and Mr. Procter, surgoons. Mr. Scaife, surgeon, of Easinga old, was summoned on the Friday to attend the inquest. He made a post mol tern examination of the body. From the appearances, exter nally and internally, witness was of opinion that inflana • mation of the stomach was the cause of death, and that such appearances as he saw are generally produced by arsenic taken internally. Mr. T. H. Barker, surgeon, and lecturer on chemistry at the York school of medicine, deposed that he made an analysis of the contents of the stomach of the de ceased as he received it from Mr. Scaife. Mr. Procter, surgeon and chemist, and Mr. Scaife, were present at the time. He described the tests which he applied to a portion of the stomach and its contents, after they had been boiled for a few minutes in distilled water; the result was that he detected the presence of arsenic. Mr. William Procter, assistant lecturer on chemistry at the York school of medicine, corroborated the evi dence of the last witness. He made subsequent exami nations of the contents, and detected arsenic combined with white sand. The sand was one-third in weight in proportion to the arsenic. The most common adultera tion of arsenic is with gypsum. Witness made an analy sis of the contents of the paper broughi l to him by Wood, the constable, and he found it to contain a great deal of dust, arsenic, and sand. He subjected them to the same tests which Mr. Barker had described. The sand he found in the paper appeared to be more like red sand. The sand he detected in the contents of the stomach ap peared to him to be Calais sand. Mr. OVEREND, for the prisoner, addressed the jury, and contended that the circumstantial evidence offered in this case was far short of sufficient to justtfy a conviction, and that such acts of harshness towards the child were not enough to show any such feeling of malice as would induce a person to commit so dreadful a cri me . The Learned Counsel concluded by calling a number of wit• nesses, who bore testimony to the uniform kindness of the prisoner's disposition. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, observcd that the tes timony which had been adduced on the part of the pro secution was entirely of a circumstantial character, but in such a case, where there were so many chains of evi dence all tending to one great point—that of the convic tion of the guilty party—it frequently happened to lead to a result more firm and conclusive than the evidence afforded by one or two witnesses. There were two ques tions which the jury would have to consider in this case ; first, whether the deceased had died from the effects pro duced by poison, and, secondly, whether the prisoner at the bar was the person who had administered the poison. It had been unquestionably proved in evidence that up wards of fifty grains of arsenic had been discovered in the stomachoi : the deceased, and consequently the first question was at once established. In regard to the other question, the facts of the case would require more atten tion and discrimination in the minds of the jury, but he hoped that they would be enabled to return such a ver dict as would be in entire coincidence with the testimony they had heard. His Lordship then proceeded to recapitulate the evidence, making suitable observations thereon. He ,also remarked that, from the statements which had been made by witnesses who had been called on the part of the de fence, that the prisoner had received the most une quivocal testimonials relative to her kindness of disposi tion and general character tip to the time of the present melancholy transaction. The Learned Judge concluded by saying, that should the jury appe ar p er f ec tl y con vinced that the guilt of the prisoner had been fully es tablished, then it was their duty, in justice to the pro seeution and to - the public at large, to record a verdict in accordance with that just conclusion. If, on the con- trary, any doubt should exist on the minds of the jury, they would then discharge their responsibilities by Lai lowing prisoner the benefit of such doubt. The jury retired for a few minutes, and on again en tering the Court, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Court rose at nine o'clock, the trial havir.g occa pied its attention for twelve hours. (More Mr. Baron PLATT.) Ge3rge Garton, a youth of 17, pleaded guilty to indictment charging him with having, r n the 22d of Oct. last, at Hull, feloniously forged a cheque upon the Hull Banking Company, with intent to defraud Benjamin M'Turk. Several individuals were called, who gave the prisoner a most unexceptionable character for honesty and general attention to business previous to the present occurrence. Senten.:e deferred. December 13. The Court was occupied with cases of no public in rest. POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE. GUILDHALL. Mr. Alderman Wilson gave the opinion of the Court upon a novel question which had been started, as to the right of a passenger by an omnibus to shift from the out • side to the inside without paying double fare. The conductor of one of Giles's Stratford and Chel sea omnibuses was summoned for demanding more than the legal fare from a gentleman named Cox, who rode from the Mile-end-road to St. Paul's. Being told the omnibus was full inside, he got upon the box, telling the conductor he should get inside as soon as there was room. A passenger alighted at the London Hospital, and Mr. Cox then got in, but was told by the conductor that be should require a fare for riding outside and one for riding inside, which two fares he paid. Mr. Alderman WiLsost said that, in the absence of any direct provision for this case in the Act of Parlia ment, he must be gcmerned by th e genera l po li cy o f t h e law. Omnibuses, like public-houses, were licensed to afford accommodation to the public. The publican was bound to open his house and afford accommodation to the traveller at any hour of th e n i g h t, and, in return, certain exclusive priv▪ ileges of se lli ng sp i r i ls, &c., were secured to hi▪ m. The omnibus proprietors had privileges accorded to them, and they were, in re turn, to afford certain accommodations to the public. One of the principles of the Metropolitan Carriage Act plainly was, that the convenience of the public was not to be sacrificed to the profit of the omnibus owner. The profit of the owner would be sonsulted by a ll ow i ng him to blow a horn and call his customers from afar, and by allowing him to wait at the top of every street, or to loiter on his journey till he had filled his carriage ; but the law did not allow the public convenience to be thus sacrificed to individual profit, and so he held in this case the right of a passenger to shift to any more con venient unoccupied seat inside or outside the omnibus was not to be fettered merely for the profit of the pro prietor. In the present case the legal fare for the half distance was fixed at sixpence. This was painted within tl.e omnibus, and to demand more than the legal fare was an offence by the statute ; and while the mere changing of a seat added nn weight to be carried, and did not diminish the number of seats to be let, he saw no ground for doubling the fare: Conductors were in the habit of asking gentlemen to ride outside to accommo date a lady, witho u t h av i ng over th e s i x pe n ce obtained by that accommodation, and the conductors must give as well as take accommodation. He saw nothing iu the Act to warrant him in deciding that a passeu ger was bound to keep to the first seat taken. He thought the passenger might shift to any better i unoccupied seat, and he ought not to b e kept out of t upon a speculation that somebody unknown might take it, which somebody might not be picked up at all. He did not mea n t o d ec id e th a t an outs id e passenge r might claim a single unoccupied place inside after a stranger had hailed the conductor and to the loss of that fare. If the proprietor had no other rnPP LIS to test the honesty diff!rent points of the jou,: thm outside passengers at his 6i;rvants but by counting y cw still he held this to be . nn IThient ground for exact in.- double fires hich was not the fact), feoni the pu'Jlic for a reasonable accom malation The fares were laid down, not as for travel lie 4 inside or outside, but for riding over a certain space, and the inside and outside fares being the same, he could not hold that two fares were legally chargeable on one person riding over th4t :space without leaving the omni bus for any purpose. Re decided that the conductor had demanded an illegal fare, but as it was a new case he would allow the o .'efenclant to pay the costs only, if he would promise 'not to repeat the offence. The deftrAent readily promised this, and was dis charged. Mr. Hodgson, the superintendent of the City police, then appeared to answer a complaint for neglecting to attend before the Magistrate on Monday last, being warned to do so by two inhabitants of Lambeth-hill, who were prepared with evidence against a disorderly house on that hill, and recriired the constable to be bound to prosecute the house, on that evidence, at the expense of the parish. ?dr. Hill, the ward clerk of Queen Lithe, said he did not press for a penalty, but to obtain a decision fur their future guidance. The statute of 25 George IL, c. 36, required that the constable to be bound should be the "constable of the parish or place, or other peace officer of the like nature." By the Police Act, the election of parish constables was suspended in the City, but all their powers were transferred to the City police. He consi dered, therefore, the chief officer of the police was the fittest person to be summoned to be bound, being the most likely to perform such a duty properly. It was said he should have summoned the beadle of the ward instead ; but it appeared that, from one of the Corpora tion blue books, a report of the Traders' Freedom Com mittee, that the ward beadle was not one of the con stables of the parish, but a servant of the Alderman. lle referred to an extract relating to the mode of conducting a wardmote in the time of Henry V., to show the duties of a beadle and of a constable. Mr. Alderman WILSON drew his attention to the wcird " place." Was not a ward a place, and a beadle an ~ ,tuner of a place of like nature to a constable ? Mr. Hill thought a constable of the City better an swered the description, and wh ere t h e pro,oer party had not prosecuted, it had been h e ld to be it .egal. The City Solicitor said the decisie:, that case was decidedly agai ns t Mr. Hill, for it showed why a con stable of the parish, an d no t o f t ' fle county or any other place, was the proper person be bound. It was be cause he was under the control of the overseers, and would incur no extravagant charges in conducting the prosecution. N ow th e pol i ce superintendent was not under that control of the overseers. Mr. Hill thought the City police better qualified to make the necessary inquiries. Mr. Ald.nnekm WILSON saw no reason for passing by the ward officer and going to the officer of the whole City. The local officer would be better with locality. and better able to say who were residents in the house and who were visitors. The 95 parishes in the City would have each an equal right to bind the superinten dent of the City police to prosecute bad houses, and he would have do time for his other duties. Mr. Hill said if the law cast the duty upon him ha must do it. Mr. Alderman WILSON decided that Mr. Hill had summoned the wrong officer, and dismissed the com plaint. - Mr. Farrar announced that the house objected to had been abandoned by the late occupant. The City Solicitor mentioned that he had taken an opinion on the question reined by Mr. Hill, and it coin ciciPd exut.l.y with that which had been given by the magistrate in the outset. Mr. Hill should have selected the beadle of the ward. PUBLIC DINNER AT CROYDON, AND PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO ME. BRYDGES. On Saturday evening Mr. Brydges, superintendent of the carriage department of the Brighton, Croydon, and Dover Railway, was entertained at a public dinner, at the Greyhound Inn, Croydon, by the working railway carriage-makers under his superintendence, at which they presented him with a very beautiful silver tea-ser vice, as a testimony of the esteem and respect in which they held him, and of the gratitude they felt for the kind and considerate treatment they had ever experienced at his hands. The room in which the entertainment was given, though a spacious apartment, was not capable of accommodating more than half the number of persons who sought admission; but about two hundred sat down to an excellent dinner in the principal room, and the re mainder were obliged to be content with dining in an adjoining room. Mr. Hall, the principal foreman under Mr. Brydges, presided at the entertainment, and he was supported on either side by the guests of the evening—Mr. Benjamin Cubitt, chief engineer of the locomotive department of the London, Ibighton, and Dover line ; Mr. Statham, late engineer of the line ; Mr. Samuda, the inventor of the atmospheric principle ; and a great number of other highly respectable gentlemen connected with railways. When the cloth was removed, and grace said, the usual loyal toasts were given, such as " The Queen," "Prince Albert," " The Queen Dowager," &c., and were responded to in a truly English spirit. The national anthem was sung very beautifully by one of the com pany ; and after every toast an appropriate song fol lowed, and all of them exhibited considerable taste and vocal power on the part of the singer. Immediately after the toast of " The Brighton, Croydon, and Dover Railway" was given, the service of plate was exhibited ; it consisted of several pieces, each of which was massive, and of exceedingly beautiful and chaste workmanship, and the value of the whole, including the trays, &c., was stored to be about 100/. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the health of Mr. Brydges, said—Gentlemen, in rising to propose the health of him whom we have all met this evening to pay a just tribute of honour, gratitude, and respect to, I du most unaffectedly declare that I never in my life felt my self placed in a position of greater embarrassment. Your kind feelings towards myself have induced you to call upon me to preside over this meeting, and the dis charge of that duty would have afforded me a great deal of pleasure indeed, because I, in common with all whom I now see around me, feel proud to express the happi ness it affords me in being one of those who have had the good fortune to work under the superintendence of Mr. Brydges.—(Cheers.) But I must say I regret you did not select some gentleman possessed of talent and ability equal to the task.—(Hear, hear.) However, I can only say that it affords me a great deal of gratifica tion to be one amongst such a party as this, and upon such an occasion as the present.—(Cheers.) We all know how grateful it is to our feelings to see merit re ceive the reward that is its just due.—(Cheers.) We have often experienced that pleasureable feeling ourselves, for we know that Mr. Brydges has never failed to do justice to the merits of those under his superintendence —(Cheers)—and therefore it is that we experience so much pleasure in evincing this evening, by a practical demonstration, how sincerely we appreciate his kindness to us upon all occasions. —(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I feel that I cannot do that justice to this subject which I know it deserves; but if I have failed, you will attribute the error to the head and not the heart.—(Cheers.) Tinder these circumstances, I shall at once proceed to read the address, by which we wish that the service of plate should be accompanied, for it speaks a hundred times more effectively your real feelings upon this occa sion than anything that could be said by me. The Chairman then read the following address : " TO HENRY BRYDGES, ESQ, " Esteemed Sir,—We have long looked forward to the present as a moment of high and honourable gratifica tion, when we shall come forward and present you with a manifestation of our gratitude and esteem. The energy and zeal you have evinced in support of the interests of the trade generally, and for the urbanity of manner and uniform courtesy and kindness you have shown upon all occasions towards the me m b ers thereof, and the more so especially for the friendly solicitude with which you have uniformly discharged your official duties towards all over whom you preside, are matters for which we feel deeply indebted. It may be truly said that your services were the labours of the heart—works, of all others, most deserving of distinction and reward. May you ever be enabled, as heretofore, to alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted, and long live to continue your watchful care to all who solace your care and support. In the name of the workmen of the carriage department of the Brighton, Croydon, and Dover Railway, we this day present you a testimonial of our esteem for your merits, with a hope that the blessing of Providence may vouchsafe to you many happy years to contemplate and enjoy it. (Signed on behalf of 334 subscribers) " WILLIABI HALL "JOSEPH BRIER " JOSEPH BINGHAM " December 13, 1845." " JOHN ROOTS. The CHAIRMAN having concluded reading the above, loud and long-continued cheering followed. When it had subsided, lie said—Gentlemen, having read that ad dress, little more remains for me to say, except to add that I cordially and heartily concur in every word contained in it—(Cheers.)—and that feeling, I am satisfied, is par ticipated in by every one in this room, and every man in your employment.—(Cheers.) They feel grateful to you for many reasons, and therefore they have testified that gratitude by this gift, which is one got up at their whole and sole instigation.—(Cheers.) I know I speak their sentiments, when I say that their experience of your kindness is not an experience of days or weeks, or months, but an experience of years, and the result of it is, that they have every reason to rejoice in having been so fortunate as to have been placed under the su perintendence of such a man.—(Loud cheers.) With those sentiments I give you, Gentlemen, the health of Mr. Brydges, and may he long live and enjoy it.—(Great cheering, followed by an appropriate song.) Mr. BRYDGES rose to return thanks. He said—Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen, I do assure you that my feelings upon the present occasion are such that lam quite overpowered by them, and therefore am unable to address you in the language I could wish.—(Hear.) I therefore trust you will be kind enough to excuse me if I fail to do justice to the honour you have done me, and take the will for the deed.—(Cheers.) As I knew I should not be equal to the task, I have committed a few sentiments to paper, and, with your permission, I VV3' read them. A Voice—You are a modest man, and we will ex cuse you.—(A laugh.) Mr. BRYDGES then proceeded to read his speech, which was to this effect :—That it was with feelings of the deepest emotion he rose to return his heartfelt thanks for the magnificent present, the kindness and good-nature of those around him, more than any real merit of his own, had prompted them to offer him— (Hear, hear)—and the value of the gift had been greatly enhanced by the too flattering terms of the address by which that beautiful present had been accompanied.— (Cheers.) In the discharge of his duties to that great Company to which they all belonged, he begged to as sure them that it was his most earnest desire to treat them all as men of great eminence and skill in the business, which he knew them to be, deserved to be treated. —(clear, hear.) In his intercourse with them he had endeavoured to impress upon them the utility of acting unitedly as one Common body for their general welfare ; and in the line of conduct he had chalked out for himself, be had always endeavoured to keep that ob ject in view, and he believed that the proceedings of this day gave a proof, if any were wanted, that so far he had been successful.—(Cheers.) lie 'could assure the car riage -makers that this beautiful and valuable testimonial of their regard for him would be treasured by him as it deserved, for he could not, as a man, regard it other wise than as a gift coming from a source which deserved to be highly valued and respected.—(Cheers.) He knew that his words failed to express what his heart felt upon the present occasion ; he would, therefore, conclude with what he had said, and give them a toast, which he expected they would receive with a full bumper ; it was, " Coach-making in all it branches." Mr. BINGHAM, foreman of the carriage department at Croydon, and who acted as vice-chairman, proposed the next toast, in a speech remarkable for its talent and humour. In proposing the toast which he was about to give, he would say, on his own behalf, as well as upon that of others, that if they did not speak well, at least they meant well.—(Cheers.) They were happy in as sembling there to testify their respect and attachment to the man who made them independent.—(Cheers.) He was happy to say, that in the different branches of their trade, they were regarded as hood men and better mechanics. He would contend for it that railway carriage makers were second to no other class of me charges in point of industry and intelligence ; and he was happy to say that they were also a class of men who would never submit to see their rights invaded.—(Loud ?}leers) They were a class of men who worked hard in their youth, who supported their seniors in their old age, and wh en t h ey were gone they were proud of the epitaph that said "He was a good old coachmaker."— (Cheers and laughter.) The coachmakers of this locality were making rapid improvements in their trade, and he trusted he was not boasting when he said they could challenge any ether coachmakers in the kingdom.— (Cheers.) Their motto, then, should be, " The coach makers for the railways, and the railways for the coach makers." —(Laughter and cheers.) He was happy to observe that foreigners came to this country to learn their trade, and English coachnsakers were now at a premium on the Continent.—(Cheers.) He concluded by Proposing the health of Mr. Cubitt. Mr. CUBITT expressed his thanks for the honour done 1 . 1 103. He wa s a t a l oss to k now w h y hi s name had b een introduced at all, for he did not deserve such a compli ment. He came to this dinner because it afforded him great pleasure to join in this compliment to Mr. Brydges. — (Heer.) Before he sat down he would take 1.-aveto Propose t h e h ea l t h of a gentleman present, to a hom the w old was much indebted for his endeavours to carry out the atmospheric principle—he meant Mr. Sammie.— (Loud cheers.) He felt assured that that gentleman had done much for the advancement of the trade of carriage makers, and he (Mr. Cubitt) had no doubt but that, through his means, locomotives would be at a discount by and by.—(Cheers.) Mr. SAMUDA expressed his thanks for the manner in which hi s h ea l t h h a d b een pro p ose d an d received, and the gratification it afforded to be of the party. He also bore testimony to the merits of Mr. Brydges, and said he had received very valuable co-operation from him in his efforts to complete the work he had endea voured to carry out. He concluded by proposing the health of the Chairman. The CHAIRMAN having responded in suitable terms, several other toasts followed, and the conviviality of the evening was prolonged to a late hour. A labourer's wife attended at the Droitwich Savings' Bank, on Tuesday, and deposited 101., which she Paid in silver fourpenny pieces, amounting to 6001-- Wor cestershire Gazette. HAMMERSMITH. A retired licensed victualler, named Wm. Bolton, living at Hammersmith, appeared before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting magistrate, to answer a summons for assault ing- his wife. The case disclosed circumstances which excited much disgust in all who heard the evidence. It appeared that the defendant and his wife had been married upwards of twenty years, during which period she had borne him nineteen children. Of late years defendant had treated his wife very unkindly, by beating her, and more parti cularly by cohabiting with a niece of his, who had lived with them from two years of age, and by whom he has had four children, the youngest of which is eight months old. The defendant denied most positively the truth of his wife's statement, declaring that he treated her with the greatest kindness, although she had continually robbed him ; that she was insane, and had been in no less than 16 madhouses, and he called two witnesses. One of the witnesses was his own son, a boy 14 years of age, who acknowledged that the niece had a child eight months old, and that she was living with his father. Mrs. Grant, a friend of the wife's, said, in answer to questions by the Magistrate, that the wife was not insane, but that a sense of the wrongs she had received had driven her to drink. Mr. CLIVE said, although the assault complained of was a slight one, he had determined on fining the de fendant in the full penalty of 51., and he would inflict a sirrilar fine every time that he appeared at that Court under the same circumstances. The defendant declared that he would not pay the money. He would appeal. - Mr. CLIVE said he then stood committed to the House of Correction for two calendar months. Defendant was then locked up. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MILL TARY SEMINARY. A public examination of the gentlemen cadets edu cated at this Institution took plase on Friday, the 12th inst., in the presence of the Chairman, Sir Henry Wil lock, ; the Deputy-Chairman, J. W. Hogg, Esq., M.P. ; and several members of the Court of Directors amd visitors. The class brought forward consisted of thirty-nine cadets, four of whom were selected for the engineers, viz. :—W. S. Oliphant, G. Chapman, H. W. Gulliver, B. Pollard. Twelve for the Artillery, viz. :—C. J. Barton, G. C. Nlellersh, A. 0. Mayne, the lion. Fergus Kennedy, A. Fraser, G. Dangerfield, T. B. Gibbard, H. M. Smith, A. H. Dawson, J. C. Wood, H. W. Lumsden, S. W. Dewe. Twenty. four for the Infantry, viz. :—W. B. Caste, J. D. Swayne, C. Baddeley, A. K. Comber, 11. B. Pearson, P. 0. Gibbes, R. Wallace, R. T. S. Lawrence, C. M. Longmore, G. Pickering, F. A. Dickine, R. C. Birch, F. Demole, E. A. Wilde, E. A. Rowlandson, W. C. Par sons, W. G. Farquhar, J. Yorke, T. E. Higginson, W. L. Webb, J. Burn, G. G. Murray, W. R. Gordon. After the reports had been read by Mr. T. R. Clerk, Chief of the Cadet Department, the Chairman presented the following prizes, viz.:—. FIRST CLASS. second, Hindostani ; first, Good C on d uct , Mathematic.s: Gentleman Cadet G. Chapman—First, W. S. Oliphant—Second, Mathematics ; second, For. tification; second, Good Conduct. H. W. Gullivcr—First, Fortification. G. I). Mellersh—Military Drawine• ~ The Hon. F. Kennedy—Military Surveying. W. G. Dangerfield—Civil Dr aw i ng. S. W. Dewg—Latin James C. Wood—First, Hindost an i ; G eology. U. Wallace—French. SECOND CLAS3. C. Adey—Fortification ; M ilitary Surveying ; and ,hird, Good Conduct. R. Roberts—Mathematics ; Fieneh. A. Garnett—Military Drawing. C. Xlll uu—Civil Drawing. R. Mallock—Hindostani. THIRD CLASS. C. Stewart—Fourth, Good Conduct. J. T. Hyde—Chemistry. COMBINATION AND STRIKE AMONG THE JOURNEY MEN BAKERS AT BELFAST.—It appears that the Belfast journeymen bakers have th aught fit, whilst the fear of dis tress is so pressing, to indulge in some combination tricks. The employers are ready to pay high wages ; but that will not be enough—they must submit to tyrannical dictation besides. The plan for the masters to take, in this case is, to dismiss all their men who belong to the combination, and set intelligent young men to work, who will very soon learn the business. In the meantime, the consumers, if made fully aware of the circumstances, would readily submit to some ir regularity, or put up with bread made in a less workmanlike style. Indeed, for that matter, people could easily make tieir own bread for a time, until new hands could be trained. It is rather too bad that there should be combination and die:- tation connected with a business which requires so very little skill and training. We understand the combination has already produ •ed outrage, so that we shall, most probably, have to recur to the subject —Northern Whig. The family of the Rev. C. D. lUD, of 12, f ans _ down-place, were plunged into the deepest grief last Friday morning, by a melancholy and fatal accident which befel his son, a fine boy about eight years of age. It appeared from the evidence given at the coroner's inquest, which was held on the following day, that the unfortunate child was playing in an ppper apartment at the back of the house, and that the window being open he looked out, overbalanced himself, and fell to the ground from a height of about forty feet. The cook, who saw him fall, immediately ran out and picked him up; but he died almost instantaneously. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." —Brighton Gazette. NEW MANURE.--The German papers give currency to the statement that M. Liebig, ,the celebrated professor of chemistry at the University of Giessen, has discovered a mineral substance which, when combined with guaco, will produce one of the most fertilizing manures known. It is added, that a joint-stock company, with a capital of 12 0,000/. sterling, composed, for the most part, of leading English capi talists, was, immediately on the discovery being made, formed for the purpose of carrying on, upon a large scale, the manu facture of the new com p oun d. DETERMINE D SUICIDE AT MATLOCK, \BATH.—An awful event, which caused great excitement in the quiet village of Matlock, Bath, occurred on Tuesday last. A man, named John Smedley, a spar and marble turner, was ob• served early in the morning sharpening a large knife for the purpose of killing a pig (as his family supposed), but on their going to make preparations they missed the deceased. After a little time his daughter went in search of him, and found his neckerchief on the bank of the river Derwent. Proceeding a little further, she discovered a large pool of blood under a rock that projects over the bank, and traces of blood to the avater's edge, which showed too plainly that Smedley had thrown himself into the river. Boats, drags, and assistance were immediately obtained, and the river dragged until night arrived, but without success. The search further Peter A p r k r o w rgwater,is put and top t r h e e . was resumed on the following morning, and in the course of a few hours the body was found; it had been taken by the stream down the " goat or mill trace" that supplies Mr. r i e g s 1 1 r e , as cottonstopp stopped b factoryythweh grateeel withthat vent sticks and rubbish going on to the wheel. The body was immediately taken home, and on examination by Mr. Ward, surgeon, it was found that deceased had inflicted a deep gash in his throat.—Derby Reporter. PRIZE EssAy.—We understand that the prize of 504 offered for the best essay on " The Office of 'the Ruling Elder," has been, by the arbiters (the Rev. Drs. Gordon, Hough, and ru St t hers) adjudged to the Rev. John Kerrow, D.P., Bridge of T e i t h,.....E dinburgh Witness. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MONTGOMERYSHIRE LINES. 1. Great North and South Wales and Worcester (with branch to Newtown) 2. Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales 3. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction 4. Radnorshire, Aberystwith, and Welsh Midland Junction 5. Shropshire Union and Canal 6. Worcester and Porthdynllaen. CARNARVONSHIRE LINES. 1. Chester and Holyhead (Extension to Mold, &c.) 2. Great Ormshead Harbour and Railway 3. London and Dublin Direct 4. London and Holyhead Direct 5. North Wales (Bangor and Porthdynllaen Deviations) 6. Port Madoc Harbour 7. Porthdynllaen Harbour 8. Worcester and Porthdynllaen (Great Western). ANGLESEY. I. Docks at llolyhead. THE COMING CHRISTMAS. I Coming events cast their shadows before. You will say, perhaps, that the sun, like other great folks, rarely comes to town at this time of the year, and his absence makes us all as shadowless as Peter Schlemit ; but the coming event of Christmas casts a most portentous shadow before, at Barry's temple of nick-nacks at the Egyptian-hall, where the pleasantest half-hour possible may be passed in inspecting all his recent importations from Paris. In going in, mind that you do not, inad vertently, that which Louis XL could not accomplish, —knock down Charles the Bold ; look at Jean Sans Pour, and him of Santillane, and other bronze statuettes, so admirably executed that you cannot suppress a secret desire that some one may send one or two of them as Christmas cadeaux ; and those charming little cassettes, half-desk half-dress in -case, in which, like Pandora's box, something good is always to be found at the bottom ; and then those millions of petits reins, all so ornamented that it is abso lutely necessary that the airy nothings should have a local habitation on your drawing-room table ; and those ' embossed pocket-books, and calendriers of all sorts, shapes, and bound sizes, in either velvet or morocco, for ladies of business habits, for since Lady Ayl es b ury h as set the fashion, hundreds of ladies are now given to " raillery." But, " basta cosi," let us cross Piccadilly, and stroll up Bond-street ; what a blaze of triumph, as the poet Bunn would say, attracts the eye in Doudney's shop; what grotesque waistcoats, what excruciating coats, what varied devices to make the human form divine appear symmetrical. What an odd idea it was for a tailor to settle in the wilhome Alexandrian Museum. Look in, and you will see Doudney over whelmed with business, and like Shakspeare's smith, with shears and measures in his hand. What admirable workmanship is displayed in those registered cloaks lying en the counter, and which the Count Circular lately announced as having had the honGur of gaining her Majesty's approbation. Beware, oye dress and mantua-makers, Doudney is galling your kibe, for he has already been sporting on your domains, and his well-lined carriage-cloak is already on the shoulders of many a dame who formerly shivered under your fairy like ifab , ics. And then there is another of these schneider, named Becker, in the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, 15, who is also making energetic efforts to eclipse his rivals in the French capital ; those who delight in a combination of elegance and comfort VI their attire, makes a point of enlisting the services of the skilful workman. A Frenchman is in his fashions as Sir Robert Peel is in his politics —to one thing constant never ; it would be, therefore, hope. less to enumerate the novelties at Becker's, but they are all to be commended for the good taste which he inva riably displays. And in that same city of Paris, in the Rue d'Alger, 13, there dwells a watchmaker, Capt, who has :assuredly the art, ad capt-andum vulgus, for every one speaks in the highest possible terms of his clocks and watches. He has attained the most unerring accu racy in chronometers, as several French naval captains have testified. His flat watches also perform their func tions with inconceivable precision ; and he will sell you a watch no thicker than a five-franc piece, which will keep time as well as the renowned horloge in the Bourse. The evening papers have of late been extolling the sys tem of book-keeping promulgated by Mr. Foster, whose establishment adjoins the entrance to King's College. Mr. Foster is knovtn to the mercantile world as the author of an invaluable code of instructions for mer chants' clerks, and others, who sit over the bulky ledger. His fame as a penman is, we believe, unrivalled ; and, it is said he is remarkably successful in imparting his art to his pupils. Many people think it fine to write badly, because Byron, Canning, and Voltaire wrote a bad hand. Even Hamlet says " I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair ;" but he afterwards found that his skill in writing did him , yeoman's service.—Post. LORD DRUISILANRIG AND THE PRIZE RING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—From a paragraph in Tuesday evening's Sun, I find that there is a dispute as to whether Caunt or Ben digo won the prize battle, and that thou san d s o f pounds are dependent on the verdict in the case of " Caunt v. Drumlanrig," being an action, as appears by your report, to recover from the stakeholder the wager or battle money deposited in his hands to abide the decision of the fight. Now, Sir, is there any reasonable man ex isting who for one moment can suppose that the Judges of the Court of Exchequer will suffer themselves to be made the umpires of the prize ring ? If there be, he will surely be disappointed ; for the instant it appears that the money sought to be recovered was a wager to decide the event of a contemplated breach of the peace, will the judges stop the trial. My opini.)n is, that any loser of a prize fight may bring an action against a stakeholder, and recover, not the whole stakes or battle-money, but simply his own deposit ; so if Caunt has taken this position, and seeks to recover 100/, and not the double deposit, he will most certainly recover his cash. Caunt will prove the deposit of a certain amount of money in the hands of Lord Drumlanrig do you suppose that the Court. will allow the defendant to prove that he has paid it away to a party who committed a breach of the public peace, and that in the committal of such offence the event terminated against the plaintiff, and_ that he paid away the money agreeably to the terms of the deposit ? The Court will be very likely not only to inform Lord Drumlanrig that he must repay the plaintiff the money deposited by him, but that his Lord ship has also rendered himself liable to an indictment for taking part in a breach of the peace by becoming stakeholder in a prize fight. Whichever position Caunt takes—viz., to recover the battle-money or simply his own deposit, you may rest assured that the event of the trial will not decide the bets on the prize fight between Caunt and Bendigo. The Court of Exchequer, I say again, will not allow itself to be made the umpire of the prize ring. Yours, &c., " LOMBARD-STREET TO A CHINA ORANGE." Ilfracombe, Dec. 11, 1845. SCILLY.—The barque John Esdale, reported last week wrecked on the Western Rocks, drove ashore on the Island of St. Agnes, notwithstanding the exertions of the pilots and boatmen to prevent this happening, and to get her to St. Mary's. The hull now lies on the rocks literally broken in pieces, and will be sold in a day or two for the benefit of those concerned. The next spring tide would carry all away. About seven thousand deals have been landed on St. Agnes, which is strewed with fragments of the wreck. The weather has been so boisterous that the master of the Seven Stones' Light Ship has not been able to get off since the Ist instant.— W est Briton. YARMOUTH.—TH E HERRING FISHBRY.--The sea son which is now drawing to a close has been, on the whole, one of the most successful which has been known for many years, and we trust the benefits of that success will be felt in the provision which the poor men employed therein have been enabled to make for their support during the winter months. One firm in this town employing eight boats h as realised an average of 41 lasts a boat, one realisine La lasts, and another 53 3 / 4 . The crew of one boat divides 2 - 80/., and the firm paid 1,7004 only for doles to the several crews, ex clusive of ferrying, victualling, store. &c. &c. Thi s l arge outlay at thi s season of the year affords' a timely relief to many families, who might ;,therwise have been compelled to endure the sharp pir,.things of want. We repeat the hope we expressed last week, that the facilities afforded by the railway for securing a profitable market for the proceeds of car fisheries will lead to a consolidation of their interests, which will greatly tend to the promotion of their prosperity. —Norf ,11‘ Chronicle. PRESENT FROM SIR J. E. TENNENT TO THE MUSEUM AT BELFAST. —We learn, with pleasure, that a letter has been received by the secretary of the Na tural History and Philosophical. Society of this town, from Sir James Emerson Tennent, stating that he has been on a tour through Upper Egypt, and that he has procured, in the neighbourhood of Thebes, two mummies for the museum in connexion with the above Society. Sir James states that he intends one of these as a permanent gift to the Museum, and the other to remain in it till claimed by his son, if he should, at a future period, visit Belfast. Our late representative speaks of a mummy cat, also, which he means to contribute towards the Society's collection of curiosities; and, last, not least, he mentions that he has brought down from Thebes the hand of the colossal statue of Amunoph 11. (horn B.C. 1580), which travellers used to remark at the south-west propylon of the Grand Temple of Karnak ; the four fingers of which are two feet five inches across, corresponding with a full length figure of 56 feet. The Pacha, in order to allow Sir James an opportunity of thus complimenting his former constituents, has permitted the exportation of this relic of art, together with the objects above specified ; and we expect soon to be enabled to an nounce their arrival at their destination.—Banner of Ulster, DEPOSITS WITH CLERKS OF THE PEACE. (From the Shrewsbury Chronicle.) The plans, sections, and other specifications of the fol lowing lines have been lodged with the Clerks of the Peace for the several counties : PLINTSHIRE LINES. 1. Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction and Mold Extension 2. Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llan gollen 3. Chester and Holyhead (tributary branches) 4. Chester and Birkenhead (widening and branches) 5. Liverpool, Birkenhead, Parkgate, and Holyhead Junction 6. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction 7. Mold Junction S. Shropshire Union 9. Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction 10. Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction. DENBIGHSHIRE LINES. 1. Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llan gollen 2. Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction and Mold Extension .. Chester and Holyhead (branches) -- d. London and Holyhead Direct 5. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction 6. North Wales Railway and Ormshead Harbour 7. North Wales Mineral (with branches) 8. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction 9. Trent Valley Continuation and Grand Junction 10. Wrexham, Xantwich, and Crewe Junction. CORONERS' INQUEST:'• On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Weleley, M.P., h e ' inquest at. the Champion, S4lisbury-street. Lies 1 1, i , on the boy of Fraecee Liiza It ale aged 23, ine a plasterer living at No. 14, Little Carlisle-strc e . t, had died from the effects of hydrophobia. ell Mary White exam i ne d—l resi d e d w ith deee o knew her well, and was present at her death, 101 °01 place at ten minutes af:er one on Wednesday 01° 01 last. She was taken seriously ill on Monday " i last, at tea time, and com pl a i ne d o f h er t h r oat, and 01 she could neither drink nor eat. She kept getting N 4 from that time, and contit ued to do so until she, t jo At times she was insen s ibl e , at others rational, an u it o she complained of p a i n i n t h e b ea d, an d in the btu arm. The dog bit her seven or e i g h t wee k s ago. ' Le t her own dog, which the deceased had taken ou t .T4 walk, and on her return s h e was a b out t o feed anc 1 ; 0 1 it up, when it flew at her. She was so much fright:rot that she fell backwards, and then the animal bit WO inflicting a deep wound, which way afterwards e.inter The dog had bitten several children. ilea ° Mr. Fi , zpatri c k, surgeon , exam i ne d—l was ea 01, attend the decea-ed a t quarter-past four on T h 4ol evening last. When I went in she exclaimed, " v , e iet throat, pray save me ; I canno t b reat h e ." I el g eef, doses of tincture of Indi am h emp every fifteen which gave her ease from the convulsive attacks• die d ever, she went on g ra d ua lly g e tt i ng worse , and s o) a state of collapse, after having laboured u nder ( f nervous excitement th a t th e s li g h tes t draught i p ip threw her into convulsive fits. I have opened th e m :) , and have found nothi ng w h a t ever to acco unt for .01 All the organs were pe r f ec tly h ea l t h y , an d there 1 10 congestion of the brain. I found no morbid ePP e 7„ ttis in the throat, except an enlargement of the base tongue. From the history of the case, I believe that L bit i died from the effects of a bite inflicted by some P animal. The CORONER—The fact admits of no doubt• bo s happy, however, to say th a t cases o f hydroPhe betel I much diminished in th e me t ro p o li s; an d this, rSeit ie; the first case I have had since the passing of tu e sts of Police Bill, preventing dogs from being used a. t he draught. I wish the Act was enforced throughout kingdom. Mr. Obie, the surgeon, here remarked that aft er n deceased had taken the tincture of Indian he te ot ee liquor used by tire Indians f u r th e p u rpose of int e dl ton, her irritability com p arat i ve l y cease d, could drink freely. The CORONER—I do not see that any blame a eceo et trricb e ' to a third party. The dog was the property ad do ol and has been, I understand, killed. I would : d oll every person that has a dog which becomes sou " s ed snappish, after having been all its life affection ate lks faithful, to kill it or ti e it u p unt il t h e cause of its sow change of temper be know:,. 0114. Verdict—" Died from the effects o f the disease hydrophobia." I On Saturday night, a t h a lf- past seven n'e- c ' ek ' 0) 0 Wm. Payne, the Co roner , an d a j ury , went '. e ti a, inquiry, in the board- room o f S t. Th omas ' s Bell J oel view of the b o dy o f J o h n L am b ert, age d 4 2 years, ate in the service of Sir John Rennie, whose prete ises situated in Hallend-street, Blackfriars-road. A y!: Stephen Colli e r, o f N o . 2, Angel-court, 13re-4:00" Stamford-street, deposed that the deceased w all o f tl' wright and engineer, and had been in the serviee to ttr above gentlema n f or severa l years. O n Tuescl,Vail ing, the 9th ult., d ecease d an d w i tness were eng7,;bsrs board a barge, moored o ff Si r J o h n R en nie's orb directing the shipment of three large dock-gat ee lf th e weighing about fiv e t ons . Th ey were lovvered.vt' obi means of a crane, and in getting the third one In eo i, vessel, it lodged on the deceased's foot. The ° T ad* stantly raised the ponderous mass of iron with e° ; / eJ l° able difficulty, and he was extricated, and enn v i -: ',oo° the above institution, where he was placed in bed, the care of the house-surgeon. Witness was (31 ( 10 11 1 that the occurrence was purely accidental. He H o f sunk, and died on Friday night from the effects - injuries. re of The Coroner remark e d on th e me l anc holy n fast' the case, after which th e j ury returne d a ver dict e cidental death." MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTIIEJ , MONTON.—On Friday n i g h t a hi g hl y res pectabl e „,"rik several of whom we re th e parochial officers of th e 5 tb of Edmonton, were impanelled before Mr. niggs; h ecir police station-house, Edmonton, to investigat e 000 0 ; .- cumstanccs connected with th e d eat h o f Emil): e e beej r. man, aged five month s , who is alleged to P e- ter' thrown by its mother, Eli za H untsman, i nto the Tlet, a running brook, nex t t h e A nge l , at Ed m ontoni the /i prisoner, who w as i n t h e custody of the police° onher' division, having been charged at the petty sessi on e ss pre own confession, with havin g d rowne d her child , w e tat' o sent during the inquiry, an d was suppor t e d by .0 ' ther the wife of a re s p ecta bl e tra d esman in the P Tel both of whom were accommodated with cbair s- the folf evidence of the discovery of the murder was t° lowing effect : 'th h er It appeared that th e accuse d h a d b een living ° A t o dd aunt, Mrs. Willis, at Lower Edmonton. On W e l t acei" afternoon, she called upon her cousin, Mrs' R h be / the daughter of M rs . Willi s . Sh e h a d h er c hild 11 ta ksi About half-past seven o'clock the deceased 1 w as away by its moth er , w h o went towards her /1 011 !, n u instead of doi ng so , s h e went in a contrar): 41;018;f: 11 '--- towards the brook, w hi c h i s a lonely spot, ' lane, where s h e t oo k off the bonnet and cap of th e r : 4 , 10 baby, which sh e pl ace d b y the side of a bridge Zuni; passes over the brook near which the body vifie „ c efel'i She reached home s h or tl y b e f ore eight o'clock, 11 " -- t h tb to her room. Scon aft er M rs. Stacey called o ' l o4 l deceased's day clothe s , an d h ear i ng that the prisone'boi. in her room, asked if she was putting the child t°,, sfyi Nlrs. Willis replied th a t she wasnot,. and observed , ea nt has not the child w ith h er . H as she not left it at m house ?" At this m omen t t h e a ccused came d o idt great agitation. Upon seein whom Mrs.. Stacey._s7,di " Where is your baby, Ellen ?" Accused eeclaf tt " Oh, my baby. There, there." She then fell lotted,hysterical fit. Upon being adted, after her r eee _ o te where the child was, she stated that it was in the :o y whore the bonnet and cap were. Upon being ts k 1. 0 custody by Sergeant H arr i son , on t h e c harge of F l e she observed, " I do not know how I came to do The jury, after a short consultation, returned aver of " Wilful murder." , MRS. TROLLOPE'S " ATTRACTIVE MAN: preface to this work, the author declares that she i-"'" f bet been guilty of personality in this or any other n ° ia o l ; writings, and that, though she has founded herself.,,,°•ol of vidual study, no one could sa that he was the °, 1.4 " s tb,, such or such a character. "This may be true lt s 2 t - yritAl Literary Gazette) in a particularly guarded sense; in l ; the exception of the superadded villainy of Vidal, 0t la sn A t. possible not to recognise in that impersonation the trsl ,,,ve features of a man who ought not, even in fiction, t i °, VOL his distinct lineaments so compounded with guilt. will Mrs. Trollope say to this accusation? Thong° to ' e leP" heard the name of the party alluded to, we prefer - •rol the discovery to the reader's sagacity. aUt i HADDON HALL. — Confessedly the most beO present book that has made its appearance this le eC!' " Haddon Hall," enriched by the numerous grace fu btle 6s ' lishments of George Cattermole. The work will, °l in the find its way into every boudoir and drawing room, With' kingdom. The Naval and Military Gazette observes, . 5 v: out the slightest mental reservation we pronounce tin far the by far the most elegant, by far the most splendid , b, , bo t 1 1 , 1 . 15 . most intrinsical'y valuable production of its class`, v flu A " appeared since we first admired the graceful beauttie annuals. Cattermole's designs are perfect gems °f, B „ —. ate w r i t . is hardly a plate in the volume which may not 7 1 h c° plated for hours without satiety. The literature 01 is happily in accordance with its pictorial illustratiarTobe, sisting of a successiotrof charming roman ti c novehiesej so' most popular writers of th e day, here and there reliev 103 heightened in effect by s na tches of delightful verli,e cordially congratulate the Baroness de Calabrella ou d sio; pearance of this volume, w hi c h nee d f ear no rivel;—no ou rf e j, cerely do we hope th a t f rom H a dd on Hall, the tim e-- ,.,(1 1 " . mansion of Rutland's noble house, we may 35 ," many a similar celebration of the birthday of its hei re i y. the MR. GOULBURN AND /US CONSTITVENTS.-"., cor event of an immediate dissolution of Parliament, it; to tb c fidently stated that an active opposition will be In u ih u ti e r ir re-election of the Right Honourable Henry G uth- sgs 'i9 " t Member for the University. The grounds of ofreu ce m - eret tl f the Right Honourable Gentleman are said to be ° l , l l s sus but in the head and front of them are placed ' Ol i port of the proposed union of the sees of Bangor. ; 5 ' IP' Asaph, the Unitarian Chapels Bill, the Jews' Disabihti` or A ll and the late endowment of Maynooth. On sonic onega sup' of these grounds, it is rumoured that many of his u , su ni an ° lt porters will decli ne vo ti ng f or t h e Right Hon. GOV— the approaching occasion.—Cambridge Chronicl , . bridg e STUPENDOUS BRIDGE AT RUNCORN.--Th e it Ilu : 71 from Aston Grange to Huyton, to cross the 7eferseY - ft "IS, corn, will be the greatest work of its kir , ", ) , in E u roll• s par zo consist of five wet arches, of 280 feet span, 1 0 _" e h Is of water mark at spring tio•,s, an d 168 ry o . l `,"n e feet feet span, and 51 feet high, making a total of 2, 4 ° - arches. Shrewsbury Chronicle. THE ."--, • 11 t1 1 , e , . 1 1 54 ;t; —Fire bills have been found by the Grand Jurv, 31 ' sent Yorkshire gaol delivery, against Thomas W heat i l Ub led ! engine -driver on the Midland Railway, for the rna us 'ij,e l ea s , l of Mr. Commissioner Boteler and policeman ' Stubbs °f acc t ' and the trials are fixed to be heard on Munw i l t bat Wheatley hi s s not y e t surrendirked, hut it is expected " 0' will deliver himself i n t o custody on Monday morning opening of the Court—Leeds Intelligences. BIRTHS. ices ter ' On the ilth inst., at Holkham, the Count ess of Le of a da:; , ghter. of 1116 f'.., n the 11th in s t., a t B ancro f t ' s H osp i ta l, the wif e Rev. R. Thomas, of a son. ___.-- MARRIED. t , or e' On the 13th o f J une, at S t. James ' s Ch urc h, lkfei,u ° to Port Philip, New South Wales, John Seals- Emma Collman, third daughter of J. Bowling, Hawnl ers r ies C" On the II th inst., at St. John's, Paddington , Ct o orly, Nelson, son of th e l a t e J o h n Wood Nelson, Esq., of llY"E'dyisru gardens, to Jane, daughter of the late Rev. George Cox, Rector of Hinxworth, Herts. lED. At 312, Regent- s t ree t, D Langhatn-place, on Saturu , k o ' f sir 13th inst., after a short illness, Mary, the beloved Wit° Benjamin he Smith, in her 55th year. R ush, On e 29th ult., at Foyers House, near Inverness b Augusta, the wife of Thotnas Broadwood, Esq., of l itlan Cr On awley, Sussex. the 21st ult., at Middle Chinnock, Crewkernet S Z e s t i setshire, Frances, w if e o f th e R ev . F. I'. Voules, ize that parish. ei? On the 2d inst., at Radnor-pla c e, Hyde-park, Janet relict of the late Parick Hadaway, Esq. aged 82. On the 10th inst., t at Ashford, Kent, , Sarah, whim* of the late Rev. Benjamin Davies, Rector of Newchurcb, Kent. 0 , On the 10th inst., Ann, wif e o f Ch ar l es L a w, Esq., Sorg of Artillery-place, Finsbury -square. VP" On the 10th inst., i n H art - street, Bl ooms bury, Frances, rflict of the late James ooper, ad 61. On the 11th inst., at Cambe rwe ll Charles Edward, young est son of the Robert Martindale. On the 11th inst., at Fitt!eworth, near Petworth, Suss B;( ' Ann, the wife of Mr. J. Salter. - - -- __, o f London: Printed and Published by - MURDO YOUN' i ' i y, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. + . • o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy - , in the Count! Middlesex, Monday, December 15, 1845. ... .4. ,X4IION AI A4AT L 44 kit t o of announce 1 kt,„L.,..; on ln the ' WtD NE < th t i u4GE (4 ,4 '...!! .. t .. 0 2.,.te , 11..k1 , A t "oubt A u piat , A We 1, y li cl th at A 1 ,,7 1 Yoi v is boot 11 1 , cl that - , Jol t i u , \r eq Iviho „ are re g It ° matt. se ua T s !Ile r him \v ile 'll3er,o,