The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

..AraW l f 4i lEots I#_Art, 1/4,44-1041 SUN OFFICE, Seven o'C!ock. BIRMINGHAM RACES—(This Day). (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SUTTON STEEPLECHASE, Wegton... ................................ May Day ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE Sting Forest gieen... Hopeless Star.. 3 Fourteen ran. NORTHAMPTON-MONDAY NIGHT. AnnivED.—Assayer, Tame Deer, Adamas, Skirmisher, Somerset, Amati, Jessie, Sir C11;n, Elcot's dam colt, Codrington, Lady St. Liz, Wentworth, Titnotington, Lord Nelson, Odd Trick, Jack the Giant Killer, Betel nut, Gemma di Vergy, Western Power, Madame Clic quot, Malacca, Olympus, Surrender, Strawberry, Heroine, Companion, Squire Watt, Gaudy, Saraband, Grand Duchess, Sister to Viscount, Speedwell colt (2 yrs), Threes, Greyling, Happy Land, Peter Flat, Bracken, Prince's Mixture, Stormsail, Vaulter, Her cules, Volatore, Spinet, Cumberland, Rohallion, Centu rion, St. Giles, Blue Rock, Porto Rico, Alonzo, Lawn, Fiction, Redemption, Bessie, Brabantia, and Borderer. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.) The following appointments were made at the Admi ralty this afternoon : Commander—W. H. Haswell to the Himalaya, vice Priest. Paymaster—H. H. Shanks (confirmed) to the Cen Surgeon—Dr. William Macleod to the Melville. Assistant-Surgeon—Edward T. Mortimer to the Helper. Masters' Assistants—Walter H. Worsfold to the Hes per, and Henry Sutton to the Rhadamanthua. LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening). At the Court at Buckinghath Palace, the 20th day of March, 1357, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Most Noble Charles Cecil John, Duke of Rutland, to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Leicester, the Eight Hon. William, Rail of Burlington, to be Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Lancaster, and William Thomas Spencer, Esq. (commonly called Viscount Milton), to be Lord Lieu tenant and Castes Rotnlorum of the West Riding of the county of York, they this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon a re presentation of theßight Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint Charles H. Alderson, Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law, late Schol ar o f T r i n it y Col lege, Oxford, and John Reynell Morell, Esq., to be two of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, and the Rev. Benja min James Binns, 8.A., late Principal of the Caernarvon Training College, to be ono of her Majesty's Assistant lA)ectors of Schools. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of March, 1857, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right Hon. James, Earl of Elgin an! Kincardine, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, biter! 20. This day had an audience of her Majesty —his Exce 1, ncy Ferukh Kban, Ambassador Extraordinary from his Majesty the Shah of Persia, to deliver his credentials, to which audience be was introduced by the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major. General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN; 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Thorley Bing. Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Moscow. WHITEHALL, MARCH 23. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Rii 4 ht Eon. Claas S. Lefevre, late Speaker of the House of Commons, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Vis count Everaley, of Heckfield, in the county o f South ampton. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Ma.norr 21. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee - of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Pads, trans mitting copies of two French Imperial Decrees, the first ail rnitting oil of ground nuts free of duty into French ports as a natural production of Algeria, and the second fixing the following import duties ripen the undermentioned articles : Ginger—Same duties as medicinal roots not specified. bladder—Foots, dry, in French ships, Bf.; in foreign ships, 10f.; ground or cut, 20f. per 100 kilos. Palm, Cocoa Nut, Illepe and Touloncouna Oils, if im ported in French ships from foreign sAtlements in the East Indies, 2f. tOc. per 11 , 0 BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL MARCH 21. The Lords Commi ss i oners c f Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations herebygive notice that, by virtue of a Treaty concluded on the 14th inat., between Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, France, Hanover, Mecklenhurgh Schwerin, Oldenburgh, the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, Sweden end Norway, and the Hanse Towns, on the cue part, and Denmark on the other part, Denmark has en gage.d l o open the Sound and to discontinue the levying of the Sound Dues, from and after the first of April next. Until, however, certain engagements of the Treaty to wards Denmark shall have been fulfilled by the contract ing parties, it has been a gree d th a t t h e Danish Govern. ment shall have the right to maintain a prxrisional state of things in the Sound, by taking* from vessels passing through, security for payment of the dues intended to be abolished, such security to be cancelled and discharged as soon as the country, by whose vessels it has been given, shall have fulfilled the said engagements. The owners and master s o f B r i t i s h vessels are therefore apprised - that although actual payment of the Sound dues will not b 3 required, yet until further notice it will be necessary for them to give security for the amount of such dues. This may be done by the master rending his papers either on shore or to .the guard ship, accompanied by a signed declaration, undertaking in case of the nonfultilment of the engagements aforesaid, to pay the amount of dues with which, according to his papers, he may be chargeable for the vessel and cargo. The particular attention of masters and owners is re quested to this notice, in order that they may not incur inconvenience or loss by neglecting the required formali ties. Notice is also hereby given, that from and after the Ist of April the Danish transit duties en all the roads and . canals which connect the North Sea and the Elbe with the Baltic will be reduced to the uniform rate of 16 skil lings, Danish currency, per s')Olbs. Danish, the exemptions which now exi s t on some o f th ose roads or canals, in favour cf certain enumerated articles of home or foreign produc tion, being extended to all of them. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. Ritle Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia— ' Walter Main waring Coynoy, Gent. to be Ensign, vi ce Banks W r i g ht , appo i nte d to 1 th Light Dragoons. North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieut. John Sherlock to be Captain, ;tee Lawson, resigned. [This Article is substituted fur that which appealed in the Gazette of the 17th March.] West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia =William Waring Gwillim Gent., to b e E ns i gn, v i ce T ownsend, ap pointed t o the Royale Regiment. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Henry Newman Kettle, grocer, Godalming, Surrey. William Attewell Wane, grocer, Highworth, Wilts. .BANKRUPTS. - Frank Rennison, merchant, Milk-street, Cheapside, to surrender April 7, *at two, and May 5, at twelve, at the Court cf Bankruptcy. Standeld, official assignee ; Moss, Moorgate-street, City. Edward Clark Lone, oil and drug merchant, Cullum street, City, April 2, at two, and May 8, at one, at theiCourt of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Ring and George, King-street, Cheapside. Richard Eaglet d, manufacturer, Wilsden, Bradford, April 21 and May 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hop e , o ffi c i a l assignee, Leeds • -Weatherhead and Barr, Keighley ; B on d aneßarwick, Leeds. William Popham Davis and James Davis, slate mei.. chants, Cardiff, April 6 and May 5, at eleven, at the Bris tol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Lovihond, Bridgewater ; Bevan and Gir]ing, Bristol. Robe r t C o ll ena, h op merchant, High Holborn, April 3, at half-past two, and April 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ; King awl G eorge, Ki ng -street, Cheapside. Samuel Atack, builder, Leeds, April 3, and May 1, a t eleven, at th e Leeds District Court. Young, official as signee, Leeds ; Dibb, Atkinson, and Piper, Leeds. Tilden, Ch r i stmas, coal- merchant, Chatham, March 13, at half-past eleven, and April 31, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, otifeial assgnee, Vasinghall-street ; Selby, Coleman-street. Thomas Atkinson, woollen manufacturer, Brearley, - Yorkshire, April 3 and May 1, at eleven a the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Holroyde, Son, and Cronhelm, You ng , official and Barwick, Leeds. 11,1 Edward Gray Brocklehurst, he manufacturer, Liver pool, April 3, and 21 at eleven, attire Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Tyrer, Li verpoel. George Davy Richardson, ironfounder, Carlisle, M arc h 31, at eleven, anal 8, at Maytwelve, at Newcastle- A N_rtrong ins npon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official the assignee New. castle-upon-Tyne; Wright, Carlisle ; Gray, and Monnsey, Staples-inn, London; Hoyle, ewcastle , upon-Tyne. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. A. and R. Dun, tinplate workers, Glasgow. John Barr, engineer, Glasgow. Thomas Simpson, baker, Grngemlnth COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. Amsterdam.. • .... 11 16 Gibraltar •• " " ;; Ditto, three month s .. 11 19 ' Leghorn •••• •• • • • 29 45 7 RRotterdamll 19 Genoa ...... .. • • ••„.• •‘' a" 5 ' - -Antwerp •..... 25 52% Milan . -Brasses • • •••• •• • ...... 25 52;4 Venice ..... •• .. .•.• •• • namburgh ............ 13 8 Napl es ... 43 •Altona •• •• •• •• •• • • Palermo ... • 130 Paris. •••• • • •••••••• •• •• 25 271 Messina .. • 13N Ditto, three months .. 25 70 Lisbon ..............25 72% O porto - ................ 52 Is Bourdeaus ..•• .. • • .... Pio Janeiro ...... ••.• • . Fr ankfort-on-Malno •• .. 119% 11 en o s New York,6o days' ;lila •• •• •• •• • • •... 10 29 Philadelphia Tric5t0........ •• • • .... 10 31 , PRICES OD BULLION, rlia oz. Petersburg 3714 I Foreign Gold i n Bars £3 17 10 Madrid ••• •• • • 49% , Portugal Gold Coin 00 0 'Cadiz ....... •• • • •..... 50 Mexican Dollars 8arce10na......... N ew D o ll ars Seville, • • .•• .. •• .. .• •• • • Sirver in bars • 0 0 0 to rion. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SCOTTISH CENTILA:L. The report of the directors of this company states that the balance of the 44 per cent, shares has been dis posed of at par, and the stook authorised to be created under the money bill of 1851 is now fully paid up. There have been issued 18,305 shares bearing 5 per cent. interest, amounting to 152,541/. ; and 11,695 shares bearing 44 per cent., to 97,4581. ; making together 250,0001. The expenditure on capital account during the half-year has been 21,8491. The works of the. Denny branch have been contracted for, and the contractors are bound to have it ready for traffic by the let December, 1857. The gross joint receipts for traffic under the agree ment with the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company amounted to 170,3611., of which the Scottish Central proportion, including tollage, is 77,2061., and the proportion of the working expenses 81,8581., leaving a balance of 45,347/., being 3,9731. more than at the cor responding period of last year. To this is added 1,1341. interest allowed on excess of plant, making 46,4811. From this is deducted 16,943/. for interest, law, taxa tion, and Parliamentary expenses, leaving 29,5387., being an increase of 2,9231. over the corresponding period of last year. The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 5, per cent. per annum, less income tax, on the consolidated stock, payable on the 6th of April, leaving a balance of 1,4881. To this is added 5,4151. from the last account, making 6,904/. as the surplus fund. The capital account shows that 1,804,103/. had been received, and 1,812,699/. expended, leaving a balance of 8,596/. against the company. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st of January showed that 78,3951. had been received, and 34,3541. ex pended, leaving a balance of 44,041/., out of this deduct 14,502/. for interest on loans and preference shares, leaving a balance of 29,539/. DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN. The report of the directors of this company states that the alteration of the gauge between Dui lin and Kings town is being rapidly proceeded with, and that, as soon as it is completed, and an uniform gauge established throughout, an increase in the traffic receipts over the Kingstown line may confidently be expected. With re ference to the subject of the directors' remuneration, it is stated that the usual charge of 4001. has been made for the half-year ending the 31st of August last, bnt for the following half-year, and for the future, it is considered that 2001. per annum will be a proper amount. Of the sum now available for distribution—namely, 12,3751., the board declare a dividend for the half-year of 4 per cent., free of income tax, on the paid-up capital of 305,0001., amounting to 12,2001., and carry forward the balance of 1571. to the next account. In conformity with the last half-yearly report, a call of 5 per cent, on the EX' tension capital will be made in August next. IRISH SOUTH-EASTERN. The directors of this company state that the arrange ments entered into with the Great Southern and Western Company for the working of their line have proved highly satisfactory, and enable them to declare a divi dend at the rata of 34 per cent, per annum, after the payment of which there will remain a sum of 4061., out of which they have placed 2001. in the depreciation fund, and carried 1061. to the credit of the next half.year. The capital account shose that since the formation of the company the sum of 234,5681, has hem received en shares, 29,1001. from the Public Works Loan Com missioners, and 9,200/, on the security of the com pany's bonds. BAGENALSTOWN AND WEXFORD. • The works on this line are progressing in a satisfac tory manner, and it is expected that the first division, to B , n - ris, will be opened for traffic in tin course of the pre sent year. RAILWAYS IN INDIA: Lieut.-Colonel Kennedy, in a report to the share holders of the Bombay and Baroda Railway .Company, calla attention to the advantages of a judicious mode of proceedings in carrying out railway undertakings, par ticularly in India. He complains of the delays to which the company has been suisjected in carrying out the con struction of a line from Bombay to Baroda. and Ahme dabad, a length of 335 miles, which might have been completed in two years, under the judicious arrange ments sanctioned by the directors of the company, and approved by the local authorities in India ; but, owing to a decision of the Home Government, the construe. tion of the best portion of the line from Bombay to Baroda, 180 miles in length, is to be delayed until after the section from Benda or Surat to Ahmedabad, 155 miles in length, is completed for traffic. The disadvan teges of this course, in a commercial point of view, are shown. The longer the works are kept on hand the larger will be the araount of debt against the company in the shape of interest, and the cost of the railway to the Government will be increased in proportion. If the com pany had been allowed to proceed with the whole line from 'Bombay to Ahmedabad (335 miles), it could have been completed in two or three years, and the charge for interest would have been paid off out of a moiety of the surplus earnings above 5 per cent in the course t f three or f :ur years from the openin g of the line, which is esti mated not to exceed a cost 06,0001. a-mile, including working stock and everything. He compares the posi tion of India, having an enormous population, fertile cultivated lands, valuable natural productioi s, fine archi tectural cities, and manufacturing communities, and the rental of the htncle flowing into the treasury as public revenue, with that of America in 1782, which was des titute of everything except expanse of waste territory and energy in the small population. The latter had advanced to great commercial rank in the world, while India had remained pretty nearly in the same position as when precession of it was obtained. He contrasts the progress made by India and the United States of America as exhibited in the cotton trade carried on between England and those countries respectively. The returns show that England imported in 1820 from America 89.909;17416. of slave-grown raw cotton, and from India 23,125,8251 b, of free-grown raw cotton ; and in 185.5, front America, 681,629,4241 b. cf slav e - grown raw cotton, and fr o m India 145,179,2661 b , showing an increase of 591,630,2501 b. in the weight of cotton im ported from America, and of 122,053,4411 b. imported from India, or about one-fifth of the American increase. England in 1820 exported to America manufactured cot ton to the value of 1,194,5311,, and to India to the value of 850,9061. ; while England in 1855 exported to Ame rica manufactured cotton to the value of 3,649,8621., and to India to the value of 6,532,4591., showing en increase in the value of manufactured cotton exported to America of 2,455,3311., and io the value exported to India of 5,681,5431, or more than double the increased purchases made from England by the American Statee. He re masks that cotton wool, a staple produce of India, is purchased front the slave owner in America, brought to Manchester for manufacture, and thence rent to India for sale. It was impossible for Indian produces to com pete with American producers, owing to the Indian Go vernment withholling from their subjects railway coxi. munication, which the American Government songht w1;11 all its power to supply. Th e fi rs t l ocomot i ve eng i ne exhibited on the Manchester Railway, in 1830, 'was the igral at once responded to throughout. England and the United States ; and before the first sod for an "ex perimental line" was cut in India there were 6,000 miles of railway open in England, and 8,856 in the United States of America. At present the length of railway opened for traffic in England is 8,297, in India 353 miles, and in the United States of America 26,000 miles. The maasures taken for the extension of rail ways in the United States of America are calculated to insure an annual increase of 2,000 miles, till the ag gregate mileage shall have reached 35,000 miles. The value of British iron exported to the United States in nine years, from 1847 to 1855 inclusive, amounted to 27,155,1531,, and from England to India in the same period since the commencement cf railway construction there were 3,840,230/. He states that 8,000 miles of railway constructed on well-selec'ed lines in India, although far short of the ultimate requirement, .would place that cour try in a very different commercial position from that which she at present occupies, and this might be effected in four years, for an investment of 48,000,000/., which ought under proper arrangements to give a return of 10 per cent. upon the outlay. The net rent of the land, now exceeding 13,000,000/. a-year, goes to the Government of India; in other countries the rent goes to land proprietors, from which class spring various capitalists. He maintains that the Government as the sole land proprietor there ought to execute the duties as well as enjoy the privileges of the three classes it represents—viz., Government, land proprietor, and capitalist. 8,000 miles of rail nay, costing 6,000/. per mile, woull on l y c h arge the lend revenue to the extent of 2,400,000/. annually, or under one-fifth of the present rent, supposing the entire dividends to be disbursed by Government; but that if a judicious and rapid principhs of construction were adopted the guarantee would be merely nominal. The public revenue would improve, and the industry of 152,000,000 of subjects would be promoted. He concludes by stating that the establish ment of a just and energetic Government of India, having as a chief object the development of her vast indus trial resources, ought to be the first question of British policy. The commercial and trading communities of England would readily understand how such a develop ment would act and react on their home industry, incom parably beyond all the other subjects that could possibly be imagined, and that it was difficult:to over-estimate the enormous effect upon home produce of transforming 152,000,000 of miserably poor customers rapid:y joto rich ones. [ADVERTISEMENT,—Jane Hallett, of Whitty Head, near Netherbury, Dorset, suffered for many years from a bad leg. From the knee to the ancle it had several wounds, so that she was unable to stand or move about the house. She tried a variety of means and applica tions, but without obtaining a cure. By the blessing of God and using only three pots of Poor Man's Friend, and taking three boxes of pill,, she was perfectly cured. Dr. Roberts's Poor Man's Friend, for wounds and erup tions of every description, is sold in pots, is. Id. and 2s. 9d. each. His Mike Antiscropbulx, for all im purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, is. lid., 2s. 9d., -is. 6d., 118., and 225. each, by all medicine vendors throughout the United Kingdom and Colonies. ENT,] __Holloway's Pill s Si ngu l ar l y E t E • carious for the Cure of Bile and Indigestion.—Daniel Dogherty, of Aghadoey, was so afflicted with indigestion and a disordered stomach that life had become quite a burthen to him. Re could scarcely digest any, kind of food; even bread alone would occasion faintness and olhev unpleasant feelings. He tried a variety of remedies without the wished-for relief, but a few &zee of Hollo= wa y's pills had a most miraculous effcet, for in a few weeks a perfect and most excellent care was effected by th e m.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world • at Professor Hollow/Ws Establiehments 244, , A, idell6luaindeiC New Yorky, Smy rna ; an d Constantinople;.,SAit.rasntad,DiLpso,ndon,andBo, M E, Muir, Malta. TIT E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ETENING, MARCH_ 24, 1857. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCP. gave it him. He went away, and shortly afterwards re. turned. He said be would bring tLe young man for us to see, but when he came back he said the young man would not come, and he bad brought the old one. An old man came with him and went into the room with him. The prisoner on the .56h of January appeared to be taken ill. He came from home, and said the witchcraft was en himself, and he bad had two very bad nights, and that it was Cotton who was doing it, and that if be did not go to Longton he should die. He seemed to be shivering, as I was. He wanted 3/. 10e. to go to Longton. He said that was to have the witchcraft taken off. When he came back he said he was obliged to get the super intendent of police to break his (Cotton's) door open, and that he (the prisoner) had been very ill at Longton, and obliged to have the doctor. He said it was thraush having had a contest with Cotton. He said he bad seen Cotton, and that the police went in with him, and that Cotton was very stubborn. On the fifth attack (on the Bth of February) I sent for the prisoner. When he came be said my mother had been to a man at Derby, that I must be two or three days, and he would try to beat hills without going to see him. Ile said my mother had been to Derby to see a man named Wilson to set the witchcraft on. On the 10th he saidhe must go to Derby, and I went with him as far as Burton. My wife went with him, and said she would go, as she was determined to see if ho (prisoner) was correct. I gave my wife ss. Oa his return he said he had had a contest with Wilson, but he had been very stubborn, and he would finish him in three days. (Laughter.) On the Bth of February the prisoner brought my breakfast into my room. He left the house shortly afterwards. I was taken very it after he had left with shooting pains in my chest and pains in my head. I was obliged to have it bathed with vinegar and water. On the 10th be came again, and on the 11th be brought my breakfast again. I felt the same symptoms as before. I sent for a surgeon, Mr. Higgins. I was very ill. My wife then fetched the prisoner, and when he came I asked him what was the reason I had been so ill, and had so many attacks. He said it was through Wilson dying, and I should be better new. I afterwards ordered the prisoner not to come on my premises—that was on the 17th of February. There had been a complaint by the servants. I was better be- fore the doctor came. Cross-examined by Mr. Skinner—ln four hours I was well. Ido not know whether Mr. Higgins is here, and that is as true as the rest I have said. Scotl tnd objected to the question in that form. Mr. Justice Willes said that was a common form. (Laughter.) the prisoner. We could not get the cheese to corns, and the dairymaid was an well. Sammons said the prisoner weuld cure it. The prisoner told us to turn the dairy maid away. We did that the same night, bat the cheese continued bad. On the 28th April I was very unwell. I had a great deal of shaking and pains, and so had the child too. The prisoner had been there on the 27th April. We beard knocks that night, but could not tell where. Another night, on the 28th, we bear] the cows all lament, and the herees prancing, the dog howling, and a many strange not es. There was some thing about 3 o'clock that was louder than the dog. The men were called up. I asked the men to drive it away. I beard it no more. In the morning I told the prisoner. He looked sleepy. He said be knew we shculd have an awful night, but he dursn't tell AS for fear of putting us in bad spirits. One night be took a knife and plate, and a -ked me and my husband to go into a room with him and he would show U 3 all our enemies ; but we were too 11l to go. He would not let Mrs. Copestake go with him. When he came out of the room there was a blueness over him. When he went in-he said it would be either death or gloryte him, and when be came out he said he had succeeded. He said it was his (prosecutor's) mother who had done it on us, and the brother on the stock. In bed one night (the Thursday night) after I was asleep I was snatched up in bed as straight as I am now, and I was shaken all to death. The prisoner was in our room sleeping there. We had no spare room. lie said he would stay with us a few days till we were better. I asked the prisoner what he was doing, and he lit the candle. •He got out of bed and lit the candle. I was very iii. -The prisoner came to the bed and brought my Bible. He said it had been with old Bull, of Yeaverley, aad that was why I was shaken so. (Sensation.) When I asked what he was doing he said nothing was the mat ter; I must go to sleep again. When the prisoner came to me I asked him to give me a little sip of brandy. I was better after that. He said his brother wanted the Bible to take to old Bull, and that was why I was shaken so. I had several attacks, all shaking.' I saw my husband pay the prisoner on the 27th, and also a week after. The witness confirmed the evidence of her husband about their going to the Froghall station, to see Arnold and another .man ; and also about their going to Burton to see the man Piimmer to free them ; and as to the prisoner's story about taking the police to break open Cotton's door at Lenten. She then gave an account of her going with the prisoner to Derby to see a man named Wilson. The prisoner left her at an inn, and returned in half an hour, and then accompanied her into the town, and painted out the house where the man lived. In a week the wit ness went to Derby again, to the house next door but one, and asked who lived in the house pointed out, but she was told that no person, named Wilson lived there. But she did not apply at the house itself. Crose-examined by Mr. Skinner—My child was seven months old when it died. It was nursed by me. It died of convulsions two days after the prismur brought me the Bible. Dr. Higgins attended the child. He is not here. The baby was a very stout baby till I knew the prisoner. My mother-in-law was not pleased at our marriage. I believe she wished that we might rot in bed, and that .nobody might come to help us. She said wetehould never do any good, and all the cheeses would tumble to pieces. Before we sent to Tunnieliff we could not make the cheese come. I engaged a dairymaid kern my mother. There was one cheese very bad before the prisoner came. The prisoner took four cheeses away. I don't know that four cheeses were bad. The dairy maid came before we sent to Tunnicliff. The dairymaid was ill and the calves had got "the boost" before the prisoner Caine.' We thought they were bewitched. The prisorer told me if I did not send the dairymaid away that night she would be a wanderer. I sent her to my mother's that night, before 6. She had been in a wild, queer way. My shakings lasted for two hours. There were like cats fighting in the room. I can't tell what shook me, whether it was a spirit or not. No man could shake me as I was shaken. (Laughter.) I went better after the prisoner lighted the candle. A little spirits (brandy) soothed me, and I went better. The yells were like unto a dog, but louder. The _yell wept away when my man (the carman) bid it go. He is not here to-day. We believed that we were bewitched from April, 1856, till February 11, 1857. I never take spirits, except when I have spasms. I did not see the fiery dog come into the house, but I saw the blaze. I saw our dog, and then a dog after it on fire. (Laughter.) I saw the blaze, but not the dog. Our do g th en sa t down on his hind legs, with his tongue out, and his paws hanging down. (Laughter.) It seemed dying. The girl, Ann Richard son, who saw the fire dog, is here. She said if I did not send the prisoner away, she would go. The prisoner was then dismissed, the day after I had been to Derby. On the 11th of February I wished my husband to make his will, but be wished me to tell the man to make haste, or be would not see him alive. We sent for Mr. Cope on the 11th, because we were so terrified. I cannot tell what was said, I was so terrified at seeing my husband so ill, and the noises together. My husband has brandy sometimes ; he is so troubled with the wind. (Laughter.) I take it for the spasms, and ho for the wind. (Laugh ter.) Brandy al ways relieves us. (Laughter.) I asked Mr. Cope for a sup of brandy, because we had none in the house. That night there was an awful shake at the door, and we said the Lord's Prayer. We went over to Mr. Cope's. I showed my tongue to Mr. Cope to see how parched up it was. He gave me one glass of neat gin. _I declined the water. TLe prisoner made this song and gave me 2s. towards having it printed. It cost 4s. I never heard it on the dulcimer. The prisoner's daugh ter was very bad while she was at our house. I never saw my husband its a white sheet. She was frightened at Mrs. Coates's and my husband was there. She had hysterics that night. Re examined by Mr. Macnamara,—The prisoner took away the four cheeses to bury them. El zabeth. Iltsketb, examined by Mr. Macnamara, said—l was in the per vice of prosecutor as nurse in 1856. I remember on one occasion in April the prisoner asked me for a plate and knife. lie took it into the house. I saw a blaze and a smoke in the room where he was. He made wocden crosses and stuck them over the doors. Cross-examined by Mr. Skinner—When he came out of the room he appeared as he did before. He worked regularly on the farm as a servant. Re-examined by Mr. Scotland—He was a good deal in the house, and slept there allthe time. Ann Richardson, examined by Mr. Scotland, said—l went into the prosecutor's service last New Year's-day. On the Bth of February my master was taken very ill. The prisoner took his breakfast to him that morning. He made the tea and took it with eggs and bacon up stairs. In about half an hour my master said he felt very poorly. He complained of his head and st omac h. r was taken ill the same day. The prisoner breakfasted with me. ' I had coffee: ' In about half an hour I felt poorly. I had pains in my head and stomach. I felt Auk. The prisoner went home a I was werse on the 11*, and nay master too. The ,prisouer came on the 10th and said I should be better after that day. They went to Derby. The next morning the prisoner made the breakfast and took it up. The same day the' prose cuter went out. He returned at 4in the ahernoon, and was taken very ill in his head and stomach.. The dog was very bad. The same night•the master was very and we heard something come into the yard like a car riage. Simething came in the passage like the wind. Toere was our dog and the shape of another dog after it all on fire. Our dog went'behiud the door in tee yard with his tongue out. I did not see what became of the fiery dog. (Laughter.) The prisoner on Sunday night a-ked me to make him some tea, I refused, because I thought he had dosed me or bewitched me. (Laughter.) I complained to my master, and after that the prisoner left on the 17th of February. Cross-examined by Ma Skinner—l had some words with the prisoner. My master and mistress had told me the prisoner had recommended them to send me away from my place. He had said he Lad found out some• thing about me and the cowman, and I gave him a bit of my mind. My master only took a meat spoonful of brandy when he was poorly. My master had had some drink on the 10th—some little. I don't know how a man looks when he has had some little—l leave that to your judgment how you look. (Laughter). Both the dogs came in together. I don't know what became of the " alive of the dog." I had never seen a " fire dog" be. fore. I saw it quite plainly. Only me and master's brother saw it. (Laught`er ) It came in at the door. I. followed it. It went behind the door that was shut. I could not think how the dog got through. (Laughter). I did not smell any brimstone. (Laughter.) Our dog sat behind the door with his tongue out. It seemed to me a quarter of a yard long. (Loud laughter.) John Andersen, examined by Mr. Macnarnara, said, —I am a police superintendent at Burton. There is a alio° called Bond-end, _but not Bond-etreet, at Burton. There is no person named Plimmer lives there. E'izabeth Charlesworth, examined by Mr. Scotland, said—l am a widow and the mother of the prosecutor. fie married in Dec., 1855. I left him in March, 1856. I have known the prisoner by eight, and seen him about. I have never said anything to him about bewitching or witchcraft. I have never attempted to do any injury. to my son 'by witchcraft. Ido not know anything of a, man named Arnold or Bull of Yeaverley, or Wilson or Plimmer at Burton, nor have I mentioned their namei to the prisoner, Cross-examined by Mr. §kinner—l was not dissatis fied with my son's marriage. I never said may son woald never do well, nor that he.would never make any the tee —it would all tumble in pieces. I did not care about the marriage. I left because I thought I would gav e place to her. I never threatermid the cheese. I had bad a few words about taking away the two little boys, My husband was ill eight months. By the Judge—l have lived eight years with my eon.. I managed the house for him. Ellis Crisp, a police inspector at Rugeley, apprehended the prisoner on the 25th of Feb. In this house he fettled a root (briony), some leaves, and the printed paper pro duced. Dr. Monkton, of Rugeley, examined by Mr. Sootlartel, said he had heard the evidence, and he could not farms any opinion of what had caused the symptoms, lie had formed an opinion on the evidence given before the) magistrates. Tho root is the white briony (hrionia ica). It has irritating properties. This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Skinner said it was laid down thatthe false .pre tence must be a false pretence of an existing faot ; but it was impossible that ,witchcraft could be an existitz fact, for it was now recognised by the law that witch craft could not exist. Mr. Justice said he was of opinion that the case cam e within the statute, but that if; on consulting Mr. Ju sae e Crowder, his lordship should be of a different opinion], he (Mr. Justice Willes) would reserve the point. Mr. Skinner then addressed the jury for the defendan t. He said this case illustrated an old saying, that one fo, )1 made many; an d th e worst that could 'be said again! t the prisoner was that he had accepted what the prosect tor bad said respect i ng him. It appeared the cheese ha d for several days been bad, and their man Sammons ha. d told them that it was bewitched. Bat where was Sarn tnons I Why was he not called f The proscoutoeft mother had denied what the preseentor had attributed OXFORD CIRCUIT, STAFFORD, Mar= 20. EICTRAORDINARY CASE. CnThribrAL COURT.--(Before Mr. Justice Willes.) James Tunnicliff, the keeper of a beershop, called the Royal Oak, at Thorney-lane, near Nevsborough, in this county, was charged with obtaining divers sums of money, amounting in all to about 301., from Thos. Charlesworth, ey false pretences—viz., by falsely pretending that the prosecutor (Thos. Charlesworth), his wife, child, cattle, horses, goods, and chattels were bewitched ; that his (Thos. Charlesworth's) mother had procured several per sons named (Bull and Cotton) to be put upon the spell and charm of witchcraft ; and that be (the prisoner) had the power to remove and free them from it. The indict ment, of course, negatived the various false pretences. The case has excited the greatest interest in this coun try, not only from the condition of the prosecutor, who is a substantial farmer, but also from the length of time the prisoner succeeded in keeping up hie absurd delu sion, and the substantial profit he derived from it. The court was densely crowded throughout the trial, the au dience including a considerable number of " witches." Mr. Scotland and Mr. Macnamara appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Skinner and Mr. Davis (instructed by Mr. George Palmer, of•Rugeley) defended the prisoner. Mr. Scotland, in opening the case, stated that it was one of a most extraordinary character, and probably the jury would learn for the first time that there were still living in this country those who believed in witchcraft, and that there were cunning and designing persons who were ready to take advantage of such credulity to turn it to their own profit. The learned counsel then proceeded to state the facts of the case as they were proved in evi dence, It appeared that the prosecutor's milk and cheese were spoiled, and the dairymaid was ill, and, the prose cutor not being able to account for it, he was led by his servant to believe that the cheese, &c., was bewitched, and to send for the prisoner to get rid of the bewitch ment. The prisoner came, and at once told the prosecu tor that he (the prosecutor), his wife, horses, cattle, cheese, and cheese-kettle—(laughter) —were bewitched, and ob tained 71, from him to cure them of the witchery. The prisoner succeeded in getting into the prosecutor's em ploy, and by working on his delusions he obtained various sums of money, amounting to nearly 301. Tho prosecutor and his wife and servants luffered at various times from illness of a peculiar nature, which there was reason to believe was brought on by drugs ad ministered by the prisoner. .The prisoner told the prose cutor that his mother had got three persons, named Bull, Cotten, and Wilson, to put the spell upon him and everything in the house. Ultimately the prosecutor's child died. Mr. Skinner here said he hoped. the learned counsel was not going to open a charge of murder, as that would prejudice the interests of the prisoner. Mr. Justice Willes said he understood the learned counsel introduced the matter in order to negative the defence which Mr. Skinner might probably set up, that the prisoner had the power which he pretended to possess. Mr. Scotland said he should prove that the prisoner had in his house certain roots and herbs, usual with per sons who pretended to witchcraft, though he did not suggest that the prisoner had made use of them. The learned counsel then proceeded to contend that it was absurd to suppose that there was such a thing as witch. craft, and said he should show that the prisoner must have known that what he attributed to witchcraft was the result of merely physical and natural causes. The learned counsel was about to contend that it was no de. fence to say that ordinary prud-nce might have protected the prosecutor from imposition. Mr. Justice \Vides said all the old cases were overruled. It was sufficient now if there be any false representa tion, which was sufficient to take anybody in, be he foo or be he wise. The following witnesses were then called Time. Charles worth, the prosecutor, a very respect able-looking young man, was examined by Mr. Macna mare. He said—l am a farmer, and live at Bromley Hurst, in this county. I was married at the end of 1855. My mother at that time was living with me, and left in the following February. She said she would take my two little brothers away from me, and I said she should not. There were some words between us, and she left. In April we could not get the cheese to turn, and the dairymaid (Catherine Charlesworth) was very ill. I could not account for the cheese not turning. At that time a man named T. Sammons was at work on my farm. In consequence of a conversation with him I went to the prisoner's house, on Saturday the 20th of April. He lived at Thorney-lane, about four miles from my house. He kept a beerhouse. I had known him 7or 8 years. My wife accompanied me. I saw the prisoner, and told him we could not got the cheese to curd, and the dairymaid was ill, and that Mrs. Wellatte and Sammons said it was bewitched—(laughter)—and that Sammons told me he was in the habit of stopping such things as witchcraft. He said he would come over in the morning, and he should be able to tell me what was the matter, and who had done it. He said he must tell his wife he was coming to look at seine calves, •r she would not let him come for that purpose—the stop ping the witchcraft. The next morning he canto into my house and saw me. When he came in he said all my cows tied up by the neck were bewitched. They gave the milk. He said two horses and myself were bewitched, my wife, the dairymaid, and the cheese-kettle. (Laugh ter.) He had not seen the cows nor the cheese-kettle. He said he could stop it by my paying 3s. 6d. for each of the cattle, 54. for mystic ss. for the dairymaid, and 54. for the cheese-kettle. (Laughter.) There were 27 cows tied by the neck. He wanted all the names of the cows put down. He said he could free my wife by taking one hit out of her dress. He said my mother had had a broad hand on me, and had only put her finger on her. He said it was my mother who had done it. I gave him all the names of the cows, and paid him the money, amount ing altogether to about Of. cc 71. He asked me to write a letter to a roan named Conway, in London, for a spell book; to set the cattle free. I wrote the letter, and he took it away. Ile said he must see the horses be fore he went. I went with him, and he laid his hands on them. He then left. He said the dairy maid must go away. The next day the dairymaid was no bettor, and the cheese was no better. (Laughter.) I went neil day and told him so. He said he would corns over the next morning and sea to it. I had two cups of ale. On my way borne I was took very ill. I had shooting pains in my chest, and my head was very bad. .When I got home I was taken .with shaking and shivering. The prisoner came the next day, and saw me in bed, between 8 and 12. He said I must get up and have a little brandy. He said he had been round by Utnezeter, or he would have been sooner. He said he did not think I should have been so bad, but I should soon be better. Isle did not say why I had been so bad. He said the reason was because he bad lead a contest with old Bull of Yeaverley, and he had beat him. He said my mother had done it, and she had set Bull on. The prisoner then remained several days at my house. I got but very little better. I continued poorly. My mother had been to my house on the pre vious Sunday. I mentioned that to the prisoner. He said she had put a curse on everything, and he must have more money to free all the young cattle. He charged me 3s. 6d. a-piece for all the sheep, stirks, and calves, and ss. for the goods and chattels. (Laughter.) I paid for 50 sheep, 12 stirks, 11 calves, and 12 pigs. I paid 3s. 6d. for the pigs. He charged me ss. for my baby. (Laughter.) I paid about 151, on this occasion. Cross-examination continued—Sammons is not here. lam 28. lam the owner of the farm, about 40 acres, My mother seemed to be offended at my marriage. She did not say that was why she left me. She went to live with my grandmother. She said I should not make any cheese, and it would all tumble to pieces. She came and said I should never do any good, and the cheese should all tumble to pieces. (Laughter.) I don't know whether she said she hoped I might lie in bed and rot, and nobody would come to help me. My wife or servants told me she said so. When my mother said that the cheese fell to pieces I recollect four of them fed to pieces. I did not know what to think of it. I almost think I went to Tunnicliff the day my mother left. My mother left on the 10th of iNfareh, 185 d. On that day her mes sage was brought to me. She returned and said the cheeses shoul I fail to pieces. Tie dairymaid was taken ill a few days before I went to the prisoner. He told me I must dismiss the dairymaid ; she must go off the place, or she would die, and I dismissed her accordingly. lie did not say I must dismiss her because she could not make cheese. When I went to the prisoner I told him I thought there was something wrong i that Mrs. Wil latts said I was b ew it c h e d. I did believe I was bewitched, or I should not have gone to the prisoner. Mrs. Willatts is a neighbour. She is as wise as her neighbours, for what I know. (Laughter.) Mr. Charleswortb, of Hike, end, my wife's father, had sent for a Mr. Harrison. He is a wizard. They are not like blackberries. (Laughter.) I am not a wizard myself. (Laughter.) I have said I wee afraid my father was in the same way as I was. lam right now, sir. (Laughter.) lam not bewitched now. I have not been bewitched. I have been dosed. I know Talbot. I saw him, and he said he woold have cured the witchcraft for me if he bad been sent for, and he would bave kicked Tunnicliff off the place soon. I thought my father was bewitched, because he was in a poor low way. I don't remember that he died of delirium tremens. He died eight or nine years ago. He used to get drunk sometimes. Sometimes I take something to drink. I get a little fresh sometimes, but not drunk. On the 10th Feb. I did not get drunk and lose my bat on the way home. Once I lost my hat. The wind blew it off. Sometimes I keep a bottle by my bedside. It contains brandy, or perhaps a little gin. Sometimes we have a little brandy and sometimes a little gin. My " missus " takes a little. (Laughter.) We take it if we are un well, sometimes two or three times in the night. I had upset my trap, but I was not drunk. The horse was frightened. I did not tell Mr. Hall, the prisoner's land lord, that the prisoner bad had neither money, cheese, nor bacon from me, hut was working regularly on the farm. Mr. Hall was going to give the prieoner notice, because he had heard these tales of witchcraft. This paper is in my handwriting. I wrote to contradict the reports in the Uttoxeter newspaper. The prisoner asked me to write it, and raid they would transport him if I did not. I said I would build a house for the prisoner. The prisoner said he had 1001. he should like to lay out. I don's recollect saying to Mr. E. Bannister that I never gave him money, cheese, or bacon. I have so, because the prisoner said if I said anythingabout money he would be transported for seven years. I should not have gone against the prisoner if I had not found him out. When the prisoner left on the 17th of Feb. I reckoned with the hous e, been he Royalr with k. my 1 brandy in my pocket. I had been very ill, and Mr. Higgins recommended me t have a little brandy. 1 never said to Edward Bannister I would sell my wife for a shilling. I have never been downright drunk in Ban arn'igdhatppthearmedy house. The new dairy air id, Ann Ri c h ar d son, told me Ban nister's presence. Mr. Cope h te h ha a re m ed e hotuo o s e e e be a hail of fi re a th ll a o t r m i fl y re d . og s h h a e d s g a o id ne o th er r e ou a g pp behind him. Some one said the house was all lighted by the fire. I was very ill. Mr. Cope came over to me on the 11th of February. I don't recollect felling him 1 was bewitched again. I don't remember his saying "Oh, nonsense !" He said the dog had had something given to her, and she would die. I did not say that the dog had had rabbits' entrails and had had too much. I did net say we had drunk all the brandy. My wife asked if he had any. I did not pour out what there was and drink it myself. Ido not recollect my wife saying to Cope that the house would have faden down just now if we had not said the Lord's Prayer, for there had been a noise like an earthquake. I don't undertake to say it was not said. I have two dogs. I was sober. We were not all drunk. I had only a little drop of ale, and Mr. Cope asked us to have some gin. My wife sent for a lawyer to make my will. That was the night I said my father was is the same way as myself. Mr. Harvey was by. Mr. Cope gave us some gin, and I and my wife took it neat. I had not told Cope six weeks before I wont to the prisoner that I had been bewitched and that I attributed it to my mother. I swear I was not drunk for several days before the 11th. I had a sup on the 10th—some brandy et Burton—with the prisoner. I did not throw my boot at the servant that night. Mr. Cope has not advised us to eat more and drink less, and we should be better. Nor did farmer Brown. Brown said I was a fool for going to Tunnicliff, and ought to kick him off the place, for he was doing the witchcraft. He did not say it was delirium tremens, and it 'would kill me if I continued drinking. I told Mr. Pott that when I was going to Tunnicliff'e I saw a wanderer on the road, and my garters came untied, and that I was be witched. (Laughter.) I don't know how they became untied. (Laughter.) I lost one calf before I went to Tunnicliff. Tunnicliff drenched two that were ill and cured them the first day he came to work. I don't be lieve in the witching now, not since my wife went to Derby, and found there was no man named Wilson. That was the 10th Feb. I did not tell farmer Pott a fortnight ago that I had got a lamb bewitched. Pott said the lamb was bewitched, 'and he had himself been bewitched several times. The prisoner has a daughter. She is subject to fits. I had not put on a white sheet and gone after her to the pump to frighten her. (The witness hesitated.) I may have done it to one of the servants sometimes. I have not done it to the girl in bed. I have heard her complain. I believe she had two or three fits at our house. She was subject to them before she came. One night my wife was shaken very badly with shivers, the same as I was. The prisoner worked with me as a labourer. He went home when he liked. He (Tunnicliff) gave roe this printed paper, and said he composed it. (It was some doggrel verses about witchcraft.) (This evidence was objected to, but after a long discus sion was admitted.) Shortly after this the prisoner came into my house as a servant. That was a few days after. He remained till the 7th of February in this year. During that time I bad five attacks of ill ness ; the symptoms were generally the same as at the first. When I was attacked the second time the prisoner said my mother bad been to a man at Longton, named Cotton, and she had set Cotten to do it. Ile said he must go and see Cotton, which I suppose he did. He afterwards told me he and his wife had been to see him, and it cost him 1/. I did not pay him that. He said Cotton had charged him 11. to show books against him. Ho said he (pri soner) had beaten him. On the third attack I conversed with the prisoner about it, and he said my mother had done it, and she bad been to a man at Badley Hedge_ and there were two working against me and my wife and baby,. that they we re p u tti ng w i tc h craft upon me. I and my wife went with him to see the man. We went to Freghall station. The prisoner said we must wait at the station while ho went to see Arnold. Be went to Badley Hedge, and then came back and said that Arnold lived at Kingsley. Before he left us at the station Is said my wife must not fear if she felt anything. He asked me for 103. to get admitted at Arnold's house, to show books with him. I gave it to him. He stayed away bout half-an-hour. He then said there had bees two at work, and that was why my wife was so bad. He said le could beat the other man without going to him. My wife was taken very ill, and likewise the baby. The symptoms were the same as I had had. She was Re-examined by Mr. Scotland—While prisoner was with me I had two pigs ill, and seven cows slipped their calves. taken with shivering and shaking. He said that thero were two working on us at that time, and that was the By a Juror—The cheeses fell to pieces in a fortnight after they were made. They cracked as they were on the floor. Sometimes they did not come well. I never had a cheese crack before. Elizabeth Charlesworh, examined by Mr. Seotland, said she was the wife of the prosecutor. There had been something the matter With the cheese before we went to reason my wife was so ill. On the fourth attack the prisoner said my mother had been to a man at Burton, named Plimmer, in Bond•street. Ho said he must go and see Plinmer. He wanted vs. to see Plimmer, I to her abdut the cheese. That showed the delusions under which the prosecutor himself was labouring before he went to the prisoner, and that he had induced the prisoner to believe what he himself represented to him. When the prisoner came to the house be advised the prosecutor to get rid of an incompetent dairymaid, and he cured the calves. Another dairymaid was engaged, and at length she was got rid of; and after that there was no complaint mat of the cheese, and the reason was that a cornpeteLt servant was employed. The pro secutor's child died of convulsions—an ordinary disease, but the doctor who attended the clod'] was not called. The reason probably was that he would have been able to prove that the prosecutor and his wife were sufferirg from delirium tremens, brought on by drinking habits. The scene in the bedroom was merely the effect of an hysterical fit and the spasms, which always came on when the brandy was wanted. Did the jury believe a word spoken by the girl Ann Richardson ebo.ut the " fieiy dog 'I" The only question was whether it was true that when the prisoner left and went through the account with the prosecutor he had worked out all the money he bad received from the prosecutor. The prisoner could not be called to give his version of the case, so that it rested entirely on the evidence of the prosecutor. He would therefore call Mr. Cape to %how the state in which the prosecutors were on the night when they went to his house, and he would cad upon them to say that no credit was to be givejs to their statements. • Samuel Cope, examined by Mr. Davis, said—l am a farmer, living within a few yards of the prosecutor's house. I was called to his house between 8 and 9 o'clock on the 11th February. The prosecutor and his wife were there and Miss Richardson. The prosecutor had the brandy bottle in one hand and the glass in the other. He asked me if I would have some brandy. Ho was' drunk. I said I would not have any, and he drank it himself. He asked me if I bad any brandy, and I said I had not. He said there was like 20 carriages coming in the yard. He then said he was so bewitched that he thought the house would have fallen on them. Mrs. Charlesworth said it would have fallen down if they had not said the Lord's Prayer. I saw nothing the matter. I saw the doefed with rabbits' entrails: The dog was afterwards in a bad state. The prosecutor and his wife came to my house. They said they durst not stop. She wanted to send for a lawyer to make his will. She said their mother had done it all. She said their mother's family were all given to witchcraft,' and were all bad ones. She showed me how her lips vh re parched. I said she had better give them a little gin and water. She took a glass of gin neat. The pi:o secutor came home shouting at all hours of the night. He bad been drinking all that week. • Cross-examined by Mr. Scotlsnd—l have been on good terms with the prosecutor. He bas bad words with me. Mrs. Charles worth was drunk when she came. She poured some gin down her husband's throat. Thorns Brown, another farmer, said that in May last he was requested by his mother to talk with the prose cutor. He did so, and told him iz was nothing but de lirium tremens, brought on by drink, and he would die. He told me positively that he had paid the prisoner no money except for wages. Cross-examined—l have known the prisoner for forty years as an hone,t man. It was a month or two be fore Christmas I spoke to the prosecutor. I saw him in bed with shiverings. It was like delirium tremens, which I have seen. . . Thomas Pott, another farmer, said the prosecutor had told him he and his wife . and his cattle were all be witched. He was drunk at the time. He said a wan derer had undone his garters. • James Wativ, a manservant, lodging at the Royal Oak, proved that on the 11th of February last he saw the prisoner go to bed at 8 o'clock, and that he left him in bed at 5 o'clock the next morning. Edwin Bannister, a saddler, proved that the prose cutor was often drunk, and that on one occasion he said he would sell his wife for 6 , 1. (Laughter.) He had seen the prisoner working on the farm. Tilis was the caselor the defence. ' Mr. Scotland having replied, Mr. Justice Wiles very carefully summed up the evi dence, and finally left it to the jut'y to say whether the defendant had made the false representations charged in the indictment, and whether he had thereby obtained any money from the prosecutor. There could be no doubt the prosecutor was a very weak and foolish, and perhaps drunken person, but he was still protected by the law. The main question was, whether the jury could believe the evidence given by the prosecutor and his wife. If they did, they must find the prisoner guilty ; if, not, they must acquit him. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Justice Willes, after conferring with Mr. Justice Crowder, maid that learned Judge entirely concurred with him in opinion that the pri oner had been properly convicted. -He had practised on the folly and weakness of the prosecutor and his wife, and thereby obtained from them as much as 221. Higi Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. SUBMARINE TELEG.RAPLIS; An interesting paper on submarine telegraphs, by Mr. Brett, was read before the Royal Institution on Friday evening—the Duke of Northumberland in the chair. The author commenced by stating that he should confine himself to a narrative of the part he Lad taken in the promotion of submarine te'egraphs, and of the difficultie3 he had had to encounter in submerging them, partie.nlarly in the IlleEerra nean. A mighty progress in science had led to the application of the power of electricity to telegraphic purposes, and the wide ocean had been spanned by this bond of intercourse. He disclaimed the merit of being the first to invent the submarine telegraph, but the idea occurred to him in 1845, when he and his brother registered a plan for uniting America with Europe ; and in the same year made a proposition to the Government to unite our colonies with the mother country ; but their offer not being accepted, they turned their atten'ion to the continent, and received such encouragement from Louis Napoleon that in 1850 an experimental telegraphic wiro was submerged between England and France. The author described the operation of laying it, and the excitement which attended the first opening of instantaneous communication between those coun tries. The day *after the line was laid it snapped asunder, but the possibility of communicating by a submarine telegraph having been established, it was not long before another and more permanent line was laid down. In 1853 the Doverand. Os send cable was submerged, in length about 70 miles. The depths encountered up to thistime had been, comparectively speaking, trifling, the deepest part of the British .Chancelnot exceeding 50 fae hems. The next trial was in the unknown depths of the Medit :Trap can. Coneeb • sions were granted to the author in 1854 by the French and Sardinian Governments to unite those countries with Africa, and the same year cables were successfully laid down between Piedmont and the island of Corsica, and between Corsica and Sar din;a—not, however, without many mishaps. He detailed some of them. The cable lay in the hold of a largo steamer, and before paying (but was passed several times round two large iron drums, to check its progress when necessary. 'For a tine all went on well, when suddenly the cable commenced run. nirig out with the utmost impetuosity, carrying everything before it, and causing the great?statarm for the safety of the men in the hold, about 20 in number, engaged in hauling it out. About a couple of miles• had run out before its flight could be arrested. When at length brought up by a sudden stop, it was • found that the insulation of the line had been impaired, consequently the injured portion bad to be recovered from the sea, and cut out, a difficult and laborious operation. The cause of the accident was the great weight of the length of cable in suspension when passing over a'deep hole in the bottom, of the•sea. The submarine cable for connectin g Sardinia with. Africa in length 150 miles, and weighing 1,200 tons, was manufactured the same year, but the author found it impossible to obtain, either in this country or in France, a steamer of sufficientsize tolay it, all being engaged in consequence of the war. A large sailing vessel, towed by steamers, was employed, which becoming unmanageable, lost her course, and th ere was not sufficient cable to reach land. Under these circumstances it was determined to sever it, when about 26 miles had been paid out, and save the re mainder for another attempt, which was made shortly afterwards from a steamer, and, with a longer cable. Every precaution was taken on this occasion; nevertheless, when about 60 miles bad beensubmerged, another of those sudden and alarm ing runs of the cable occurred, causing, as before, the utmost anxiety for the safety not only of the cable, but of the persons on board exposed to the violent action of the iron coil. Finding that the insulation of the cable was impaired by the ac cident, and that the injured portion could not be recovered from the sea at this end, to be cut out as before, it was decided to sever the cable, and re turn to Sardinia to recover it from the other end, which done the vessel steamed along under the ca ble until it reached the injured part, - when a fresh join was made. This operation was successfully carried out, and considerable progress made, when the vessel was driven out of is course by currents, and again there was not enough cable to reach land. Under these circumstances it was determined to buoy the end of the cable and telegraph to Eng land for more ; but while waiting the return of a steamer from Algiers, sent to p rocure a barge or lighter whereon to secure the cable, rough weather ca-me on, and a violent plunge of the vessel severel the cable, thus retarding for a time the completion of the enterprise, the difficulties of which are proved by the fact that depths of nearly two miles were encountered. The author concluded by al luding to the progress made in the preparations for laying the cable between England and America. It is intended to attach the depots of the 28d Welsh Fusiliers, 82d Regiment, 90th Light Infantry, and 93d Highlanders—the head-quarters of which are under orders to embark- for China—to the Provisional Bat talion, Chatham, as soon as rum can be provided fo them at that garrison. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES. It will be in the recollection of our readers that a select committee was appointed last session for the purpose of considering the present state of the public offices. The committee reported that it were most desirable for the public lorvice ' both at; re gards economy and efficiency in the transaction of business that there should be a concentration cif the public offices, and that such concentration should be effected in the immediate vicinity of Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament. Soon after this report was presented to the House of Commons the session closed, and the First Commissioner of Works, • act ing upon the substance of that report, issued no tices that specifications would be drawn up, in ac cordance with which surveyors, engineers, an d ar chitects might send in plans consisting of, firs t, bloJs plan for laying out the whole of the ground ,between the back of Richmond-terrace . ; the front of the Irish office and Downing-street on the north/ Great George-street and Westminster-hall on the south, the Thames on the east, and St. Jarnos's park on the west ' • secondly, a plan for ane w fo reign-office ; and, thirdly, a plan for a n ew w a; de partment, the sites of both of which were to be between Downing-street and Charles-street. T.nese specifications were accompanied with a map of the ground, which was to te dealt with in the 15, 1 .0 ck plans to be sent in. Various premiums were oaM red to competitors, and a competition was o p ene d to the whole world. A material item in the instruction sas regards the block plan was, that the site of W est mins ter-bridge should form aprincipal feature in any design to be sent in. The time allowed for com pleting these designs was limited as regards t;-gists resident within Great Britain to Friday, AI - arch 20, and as regards other artists the period was ea' tended to-the 4th April. All the designs we re ,to be sent to Westminster-hall. For the last few d aYe a person has been stationed there to receive. the plans, and as the clock struck 12 on Friday xii Ot t . the doors of the hall were clos e d. Th e sc h em e 0' open competition has teen thoroughly successful notwithstanding the opposition that was o ffore when the First Commissioner determined up an it. No less than 188 competitors have entered the. lists, some of whom, ibis believed, have sent in chasigns. for each of the prizes; and when the fru'as of foreign genius are received, the great hall, • which is to be the scene of these results of artistic skill, will be scarcely large enough to hold the pines- It is intended that there shall not be an p dis tinction as to place between the British an.d the foreign productions. They will be arranged indie* criminately, so that no favour may be HI) own to either the one or the other. As sc ma as the 4th of April has passed away, the plans al ready sent in, and those to be then received„ Nvul be opened, and within a fortnight afterwards it is expected that arrangements will be so completed that the public will be admitted to view this. inte resting exhibition of the talent of all nations. Cou'itry Markets. CHELMSFORD—MARon 20. The wheat trade to-day was somewhat dull, at barely 125 t week's prices. Barleys were scarce, and being in rev) col for seed must be quoted ls. dearer. All other things. nn altered in value. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. o ._ a. qr. 34 721 Oats, per qr 2t 36 new.... 37 71 Peas, Part r id ge 41 43 red, old 32 62 i White 39 46 new.... 32 62 Boiling 39 46 Barley 35 46 D an 37 39 Chevalier 40 54 I Beans, Tisk .35 3 , 9 Grinding 35 46 1 Harrow ticks 39 4 1 Malt 73 77 Mazagan 34 3 : Chevalier 75 79 1 Ditto, ne w _34 31 COLCHESTER—MARCH 21. A good supply of wheat, and only a limited business 'wall done, at rather lower prices. Barley not much i n quired fe• and prices wee liper qr. - lower ou all descriptions. 33, '" and peas at an advance of Is per qr. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat ' white, 60s to 6 64 red, 50s to 58s; barley, 41s t o 50 3 ; oa t s , 224 to 283 ; hev Mazagan, 34s to 364; middle and small, 36s to 445; puma white, 383 to 42s ; grey, 38s to 425. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c, in the port of London, from the following pi March 16 to 21, both, inclusive. ~ ).rt, fro, • ti 370 r 240 22 290 - 708 119 Colchester Harwich Leigh Mahlon KIRKO. 500 1601 250 To-day- we had fair Salcs not so brisk. Pri, chas3r. 23 92 6091 LDY-MARCH 21. 0 25 250 _ 992 1 1 ov nipp7ies of wheat, barloy, and oats• ;es generally in f'vour of the pur' Wheat. I Barley. f Oats. I Beans. First Second 523_ I ,0d 42s Od I 27s 01 Os Od Third 3os Od 331 01 I 201 Ud I Os 01 Oatmeal, 3G to 38s per bag of 2801 b . COAL MARKET.—MAAcH 23. Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market. 5. (3.) ,Walleend, to. Tanfield Moor Butos 13 01 0d• fiolywell ..... ........ ..... l5 e Hough Hall ~.16 . 3 Wallsend, &a. roes l7 6 South Hetton 17 3 Conndon Tees l5 -3 Northumberland . l4 9 Haswell 17 6 Riddell l4 .9 South Kelloe 1G 9 Belmont 15 6 Hartlepool l7 0 Mhlps et market... 16 I Sold l6 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAnca 23. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market is active, and prices about stationary. London and North Western, 104 A 4 -- * Eastern Counties, 108 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 100 — Ditto, 9/., 15-16 pm.—East Lancashire, 971 Midland, 811 —Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincoln, 3SA a—Grand Trunk of Canada, mg —South Eastern, 221 A a--North Eastern. Berwick Capital Stock, 21a— Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1i pm.—Whitehaven and Furness, 7 11-16.—Blackburna MANCHESTER, MARCH 23. STOCK EXCHANGE:--The market was moderately activet with rather an improvement on the current rates of Sa turday, closing strong.. Great Western of Canadrt, 26i — East Lancashire, 971 J —Lancashire and Yorkshire, pat Ditto, new 91., par—Midland. 82 14 x. d.—South Eastern, 22 7-113 x 384—Union Plate Glass, 25. BIRMINGHAM, 3IARoa 2:3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was doing a pretty fair, business to-day. 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